350 - HISTORY OF OHIO County; Sarah Elvida, wife of L. F. Dickason, of Marion County, Ohio; and Sheridan W. Mattox. He was later married to Jennette Wilson, to whom Minnie May was born, the wife of Albert Roux, of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Doctor Mattox grew up on his father 's farm, attended country schools, the high school at Agosta in Marion County, the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and took a course of the commercial department of the University of Kentucky at Lexington. Doctor Mattox taught school four years, and in 1893 he began the study of medicine in the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, where he was graduated in 1896. Soon after qualifying for the profession he began the practice of medicine in Marion County. In 1901 he took advanced courses at Chicago, in 1903 was a student in the Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Infirmary, and also pursued special work in the Knapp School in New York City. After this he returned to Marion, on January 1, 1904. He continued general work and specialized in the eye, ear, nose and throat. On July 4, 1918, he entered the medical department of the World war as a first lieutenant and received training as a medical officer at Camp Greenleaf and was stationed at the Base Hospital at Camp Upton, New York, until he was honorably discharged. He is a member of the American Legion and the State and National Eclectic Medical associations and the Marion County and State Regular associations. Doctor Mattox married, October 27, 1897, Florence Iona Smith. She was born at Marion, daughter of James K. Smith, a farmer of Marion County. Mary Beaver, her mother, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. They have one daughter, Genevieve Lillian, born January 18, 1899, who graduated from the Marion High School in 1917 and continued her education at the Ohio University at Athens, Ohio, and graduated June, 1921. She later specialized at the Columbia University of New York. She is now a teacher in the Marietta High School. Doctor Mattox is a republican in politics, a member of the Epworth Methodist Church, and fraternally is affiliated with Marion Lodge No. 70, Free and Accepted Masons; Marion Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Marion Council, Royal and Select Masters; and at Dayton is a member of the Scottish Rite Consistory and Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to Wayside Lodge No. 864 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. EDWARD M. WRIGHT, M. D. Representing a family that has been in Coshocton County for three generations, Doctor Wright for over a quarter of a century has practiced medicine and surgery in Coshocton. He was born on a farm in Jackson Township, Coshocton County, October 20, 1872. His paternal grandparents were William H. and Emily (Croy) Wright, the former a native of Pennsylvania, from which state he came to Ohio and settled in Coshocton County. Benjamin Franklin Wright, father of Doctor Wright, was born in Virginia Township, Coshocton County, July 23; 1851, and devoted a long and useful career to farming. He died in 1921, at the age of seventy. His wife, Martha McCoy, was born in Coshocton County, January 28, 1856, daughter of William and Catherine (Johnson) McCoy, also natives of Ohio. The marriage of Benjamin Franklin Wright and Martha McCoy occurred November 9, 1871. They reared the following children: Edward M., Earl L., Harry G., Myrtle A., Lavailla, Catherine and Benson F. Benjamin F. Wright was a member of the Masonic Order, was a Baptist, and he and his wife were devout in the Baptist faith. Edward M. Wright like his brothers and sisters grew up on a farm. He attended the rural schools, subsequently finished high school and for two years of his early life was engaged in teaching. His medical studies were begun under Dr. M. H. Hennel of Coshocton, and from his office he entered the Eclectic Medical Institute, now the Eclectic Medical College, of Cincinnati. He graduated in 1896 with second honors in a class of fifty-two. The first work of his profession was done at Tiverton, Coshocton County, but later he moved to Warsaw in the same county, remaining in practice there for eighteen years, and since 1917 his office and home have been in Coshocton. Doctor Wright has had some unusual opportunities in his own practice, and has also attended post-graduate schools and clinics to improve his professional qualifications. He did work in a post-graduate school in Chicago in 1906, at a post-graduate school in New York in 1910-1913, also in the New York Polyclinic in 1920, in the Massachusetts General Hospital, and in 1924 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and again at Chicago. Since 1906, while not abandoning altogether the general practice of medicine and surgery, he has been a recognized specialist in the diseases of women and children. Doctor Wright is a member of the Coshocton County Medical Society,.the Ohio State Medical Association, the Ohio State Eclectic and the National Eclectic Medical societies. He is a republican, a member of the Church of Christ at Coshocton, and is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner. Within the limits of his profession he has found satisfaction for his ambition, to be of service to his fellowmen. The only official office he ever held was that of coroner of Coshocton County, a post he filled two years. Doctor Wright married in 1897 Miss Edith Day, of Tiverton. They have two children, Paul Day and Howard E. Wright. CHARLES MARION NELDON, M. D. In his ten years of busy service in the fundamentals of general practice Doctor Neldon on that sound foundation has built up a reputation as a specialist in the eye, ear, nose and throat that has made him known not only in his home city of Coshocton but all over that section of Ohio. Charles M. Neldon was born in Coshocton County, near Warsaw, April 19, 1874. His grandparents, Samuel and Jane (Stewart) Neldon, were natives of Pennsylvania and early settlers at Coshocton. Uriah J. Neldon, father of Doctor Neldon, was born in Coshocton County, and spent his active life as a farmer. He met and married an Illinois girl, Hattie Beeler, who, however, was born in Coshocton County. They were married in 1873, and then returned to Coshocton County and spent the rest of their years on a farm. Uriah Neldon died in 1923, at the age of seventy-six, and his wife passed away in 1914, at the age of sixty-four. They were members of the Methodist Church and Uriah Neldon was a democrat. They reared five children, all of whom are living. Doctor Neldon grew up on a farm, attended the rural schools and the West Bedford High School, and after that depended upon his own exertions to gain the profession of his choice. Seven years were spent in teaching, an occupation that furnished him most of the money required for his medical education. He began his studies under Dr. M. H. Hennel of Coshocton, and then entered the Eclectic Medical College at Cincinnati, where he graduated in 1901. Since graduating he has practiced at Coshocton, engaging in a general practice until 1912, since which year he has devoted practically his entire time to his work as a specialist. His training outside of his own practice in this field has been the result of many HISTORY OF OHIO - 351 post-graduate courses and periods of attendance at clinics and hospitals in some of the most famous medical centers in the world. He has done this work in fourteen different hospitals in New York, Chicago, New Orleans, London, Vienna and elsewhere. He and Mrs. Neldon were in Vienna when the World war broke out in 1914, and encountered considerable difficulty in getting back to London before sailing for the United States. Doctor Neldon is a member of the Coshocton State and National Eclectic Medical associations. He married in 1896 Miss Lucretia May Squire, of Coshocton. She was born in that Ohio city, daughter of James S. and Annie (Shedeker) Squire, likewise natives of Coshocton County. They have one daughter, Betty Irene. Doctor and Mrs. Neldon are members of the Church of Christ, and he is a teacher in the Sunday school. He is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, an Odd Fellow, and Mrs. Nelson belongs to the Eastern Star, the Rebekahs, and the Court of the Ladies of the driental Shrine of North America. Doctor Neldon is a democrat, and a member of the Rotary Club and other civic organizations. THOMAS W. LEAR, M. D. Three decades of his life and experience Doctor Lear has devoted, to the practice of medicine and surgery, for nearly a quarter of a century in his native city of Coshocton, where his name is significant of some of the best abilities of his profession. Doctor Lear was born at Coshocton, February 22, 1871, son of Henry Lear, a native of England, and Sarah Louise (Marshall) Lear, who was born in Maryland, where they were married. Their home was established in Coshocton in the early days, on a farm close to town. Henry Lear for many years was a coal operator, but for the last twelve years of his life lived retired. He died at the age of eighty-four, in June, 1924, his wife passing away at the age of eighty-two. There is a family of four sons and five daughters who are still living. Doctor Lear attended the public schools of Coshocton, graduating from high school in 1890. Then for two years he spent his time as a rural school teacher, and he enjoyed his first advantages and inspiration under a well known preceptor of Coshocton, Dr. M. H. Hennel. His formal studies were pursued in the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, where he was graduated in 1894. After graduating he practiced a year at Warsaw, four years at Wills Creek, and since 1900 at Coshocton. Doctor Lear pursued a postgraduate course at Chicago, and is a specialist with all the equipment for X-ray and electro-therapeutics, a special field he occupies in addition to his general practice. Doctor Lear is a member of the Coshocton County and Ohio State Medical societies, the Ohio State and National Eclectic Medical associations, is a republican, and his served two terms as county coroner. He is a member of the Methodist Church. He married in 1895 Miss Lulu Trovinger, of Coshocton. There were three children born to their marriage, Louise, Harold and Marjorie. The son Harold graduated from medical college in May of 1924, then becoming associated with his father in practice. During the World war the son served with the rank of second lieutenant at Fort Worth, Texas. EDITH D. BURRELLE has the distinction of being the first woman ever elected to county office in Coshocton. While her duties are as clerk of court, she possesses qualifications based upon long service as a deputy in the courthouse, and she also has the advantage of knowing and being known by practically all of the residents of Coshocton County, where her family has lived for four generations. Her great-grandfather, Samuel Burrelle, a native of Virginia, came to Coshocton in pioneer days and settled in Bethlehem Township. Her grandfather, Samuel C. Burrelle, a native of Coshocton County, was for two terms county treasurer. Samuel C. Burrelle married Susan Miller. Thomas H. Burrelle, father of the clerk of court, was born in Coshocton County, March 31, 1845, and spent his early life as a farmer. Subsequently for a number of years he was a sewer contractor and is now a retired resident of Coshocton. In politics he has always been identified with the democratic party, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church, while his wife is a Baptist. Thomas H. Burrelle married Alwilda Darling, who was born in Coshocton County, October 12, 1849, a daughter of Thomas and Demmie (Butler) Darling. They were born in Virginia and were among the early settlers of Jefferson Township, Coshocton County. Edith D. Burrelle, one of the seven children of her parents, was born at Coshocton, September 20, 1887. She was well educated in the public schools and in business college, and has spent ten years in the courthouse at Coshocton. For eight years she was deputy clerk of the courts, and in 1922 was nom: mated as a candidate for clerk of the County Court, in the democratic primaries. At the regular election she was given a majority of votes and entered upon her first term of two years in 1923. She has proved capable in the routine of administration of this office, and also possesses qualities of alertness and quick thinking that have proved advantageous in handling matters outside of the routine. WILLIAM H. MCCLINTON is a citizen who has been identified with Steubenville since boyhood, has made a name and reputation in his business affairs, and for many years has been president of the National Exchange Bank of Steubenville. He was born in Allegheny City, now part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 24, 1852, son of John and Margaret (Nesbit) McClinton. His grandfather was William McClinton and his great-grandfather, Nathaniel McClinton, came from Ireland to America. The McClintons made settlement on both sides of the Ohio River, two miles below the City of Pittsburgh. The family has been in Steubenville since 1859. The maternal grandparents were William and Rosanna (Hamilton) Nesbit, who also came from the North of Ireland. Margaret (Nesbit) McClinton died January. 14, 1910. John McClinton, who died May, 1882, was a manufacturer of cut nails in the old Jefferson Iron Works. He never accepted a public office. though keenly interested in matters of public interest. He and his wife had five children: William H.; Anna M.; John E., who married Mary Miller and died leaving two children, named Margaret and Agnes; Samuel N., who married. Carrie Hull; and Charles F. William H. McClinton attended public schools in Steubenville, took his high school course in the Grove Academy, and his first work in a nail factory. He mastered all branches of the business and in time became general manager of the nail works at Steubenville. Altogether he spent about twenty-five years in the nail industry. While general manager of the factory he became a director in the National Exchange Bank, and in 1896 was elected its president. He has guided that institution through all the years since then, and is head of one of the most substantial financial institutions in Jefferson County. Mr. McClinton married at Steubenville, October 4, 1876, Miss Mary Caldwell, who died February 15, 1924, when they had been married nearly fifty years. Her parents were Hugh and Catherine (McLeish) Caldwell. Mrs. McClinton had a brother, Edward, 352 - HISTORY OF OHIO who is married and has three sons, named Roy, Hugh and Donald. Of the three children of Mr. and Mrs. McClinton the oldest is Charles C., who married Mabel McConnell, and has three children, named John McConnell, William H. and Mary A. The second son, Donald Nesbit, married Katherine Kane, their children being Donald M., Robert and Richard, twins, and Mary K. The only daughter, Margaret N., is the wife of Frank A. Fickes, and is the mother of Frank A., Jr., and Mary Caldwell. Mr. McClinton is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, belongs to the Steubenville Country Club and Chamber of Commerce, and in Masonry is affiliated with the Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Council, Knights Templar. Commandery, and has taken eighteen degrees in the Scottish Rite. DEWITT CLINTON WESTFALL, D. O., was one of the pioneers in his profession in Ohio, his abilities and high-minded character having done much to gain favor and recognition for this modern branch of the healing art. Doctor Westfall has practiced. osteopathy in Ohio for over twenty years, and for most of that time his home has been in Coshocton. He represents a pioneer family of American lineage, and was born on a farm in Wabash County in Southern Illinois, March 19, 1868, son of Milton and Elizabeth (Knowles) Westfall. His grandfather, Hiram Westfall, was of old Virginia stock, was born in Upshur County, in what is now West Virginia, of German lineage, while his wife, a Miss Jones, was of Welsh ancestry. Hiram Westfall was one of the early settlers in the great Northwest Territory, in what is now the State of Indiana, and was one of the original settlers at Corydon, the first capital of the territory of Indiana. In an upstairs room in his story and a half residence the first Territorial Legislature of Indiana was organized, with William Henry Harrison, then territorial governor, presiding. General Harrison and Hiram Westfall were close and intimate friends. Subsequently Hiram Westfall moved to Gibson County, Indiana, settling near Owensville. He and his wife reared eight sons and two daughters. Milton Westfall was born in Gibson County, Indiana, September 29, 1829, was reared there and married Elizabeth Knowles, who was born near the town of Owensville in that county, May 28, 1823. Her parents were Ephraim and Mary (Kimball) Knowles, the former of English and the latter of Irish descent. After their marriage Milton Westfall and his wife lived at the home of his parents, taking care of them in 'their declining years. He suffered a sunstroke in 1868, and being disqualified for farming he learned the shoemakers' trade. He followed this several years in Illinois, then for about a year lived on the farm, following which he built and operated a hotel at Browns, Illinois, for eighteen years. His last days were spent in retirement at Findlay, Ohio, where he passed away April 5, 1910, at the age of eighty-one. He became a staunch republican, and he and his wife were members of the United Brethren Church. They had four children, Theodore Marshall Westfall, a doctor of osteopathy at Ashtabula, Ohio; Elmer Ellsworth Westfall, also an osteopath, of Mount Pleasant, Iowa; DeWitt Clinton Westfall; and Bertha Pearl, of Findlay, Ohio, widow of Oliver Hartman. DeWitt Clinton Westfall spent his early years at Grayville and Browns, Illinois, attending some schools there. His higher education was continued in Westfield College in Illinois, following which he entered the ministry of the United Brethren Church. Five years of his labors for his church in Northwestern Illinois brought about a serious breakdown in health, and when he abandoned the ministry he pursued a course of osteopathic treatments at Kirksville, Missouri, which was so successful that he. determined to study and take up the profession of osteopathy. He was graduated in 1901 from the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, and at once moved to Findlay, Ohio, where in a short time he gained a splendid and prosperous practice, but overwork brought about a nervous breakdown, and following a period of recuperation Doctor Westfall located at Coshocton, in 1911. Since then he has continued in active practice. He has been honored with the office of president of the Ohio State Osteopathic Association and has served on the State Osteopathic Board of Examiners. Doctor Westfall has been a member of the City Council at Coshocton, he is a republican, a member of the Presbyterian Church, is a Knight Templar Mason and a Rotarian. On May 12, 1887, he married Miss Anna E. Johnson, who was born in Edwards County, Illinois, daughter of Eugene and Mary (Vyse) Johnson. Doctor and Mrs. Westfall have two sons. The older, Eugene Raymond, is now in the life insurance business at Coshocton. He married Louise Rose, and their four children are Jane Knowles, Betty Ann, Thomas Clinton and David Milton Westfall. The second son is Kenneth Milton Westfall, who served with the rank of second lieutenant in the American Army at Camp Sherman during the World war. He is a graduate of the American. School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, and is now associated with his father in practice at Coshocton. WILLIAM C. FREW, M. D. For almost forty years the community of Coshocton was fortunate in having available the skill and ability of one of the leading surgeons in that section of Ohio, the late Dr. William C. Frew, who possessed unusual natural qualifications as well as the acquired training in his chosen field. Doctor Frew was born at Coshocton, October 31, 1843, and spent his long and useful life in that community, where he died April 2, 1909, at the age of sixty-six. He was a descendant of an old American family. About 1773 John, James and Alexander Frew immigrated from County Antrim, Ireland, to America, and crossing the Alleghany Mountains settled at Fort Pitt, now Pittsburgh. Of these brothers John Frew married Rachael Glover in Ireland. Their son, Alexander Frew, was about ten years of age when his parents came to America, and in 1794 Alexander Frew married Mary Hopkins and settled in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Their son, John Frew, who was born in Washington County, February 15, 1797, married Sophia Clark, and in 1823 moved to Ohio, settling at Coshocton. The Frew family have been identified with Coshocton and vicinity for a century. John Frew became editor of the first newspaper published here. Probably on account of some connection with the local military service he was always known as Major Frew. His success in business and his connection with public affairs made him a man of unusual prominence and esteem. Major Frew and his wife reared five daughters and one son. The son, Dr. William C. Frew, was the youngest of the children, and grew up at Coshocton. He served as a Union soldier in the Civil war, and in 1866 graduated from the University Of Michigan. In 1869 he completed his course in the .Long Island Medical College of New York, and for nearly two years was an interne in Bellevue Hospital, New York. This training was more than usually thorough for the physicians and surgeons of the time. In 1870 he took up his work as a private practitioner at Coshocton, and devoted his time and ability to this calling until his death, nearly forty years later. While he had a large practice in medicine and surgery, he found time to HISTORY OF OHIO - 353 serve the cause of education, in which he was particularly interested. For many years he was a member of the city school board, and part of the time president of the board. He was always a republican in politics. Doctor Frew married, in 1877, Eliza V. Hackinson, She was born at Coshocton, July 12, 1842, and died in September, 1918. Her parents were Robert M. and Ann R. (Lewis) Hackinson, her father of Irish and her mother of Welsh descent. John R. Frew, only son of the late Dr. William C. Frew, is a resident of Coshocton, and is well versed in two professional callings, the law and civil engineering. He was born in Coshocton, November 18, 1880, was educated, like his father, in the University of Michigan, and continued his schooling in the University of New York and Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, where he completed his civil engineering course. His engineering experience included several years in old Mexico and the Isthmus of Panama, where he was an employe of the government in connection with the Panama Railroad Company. He was also connected with the General Electric Company at Fort Wayne, Indiana, and from June, 1917, until after the close of the World war, was connected with the 'United States Shipping Board. Mr. Frew in 1912 graduated in law from the Ohio State University and practiced his profession until his service with the United States Shipping Board. After his World war service he returned to Coshocton. In November, 1920, he was elected county surveyor of Coshocton County, serving a term of two years He is a republican in politics. His offices are in the Frew Building at Coshocton. WILLIAM H. HASKINS. One of the able business men and highly respected citizens of Coshocton is William H. Haskins, widely known in Ohio and for years actively identified with important interests and organizations here and elsewhere largely connected with the great coal industry. William H. Haskins was born in the mining town of Pine Grove, Ohio, October 29, 1874, the oldest of a family of seven sons and one daughter born to George S. and Eliza J. (Rowe) Haskins. His father was born in Gallia County, Ohio, a coal miner all his life, and his mother was a native of Lawrence County, Kentucky. In 1891 they moved to Hocking County, Ohio. They were estimable people, hard working and highly respected. William H. Haskins had but limited school opportunities in his youth, being but nine years old when he accompanied his father into the mines, and for the next sixteen years in this way assisted in supporting the family. He was a thoughtful, observant youth, however, and in the hardships of daily life, soon saw many ways in which many of these could be ameliorated, early recognizing the value of education in any successful campaign. Therefore as soon as able he placed himself under private teachers and profited by their instruction, and at the same time pursued so quiet and wholesome a life that he gained the confidence and respect of his mine brothers. This feeling was evidenced when, in 1897, he was elected vice president of the Ohio Mine Workers, a position he filled for two years, when he became president of the organization and served as such for seven years. In 1899 Mr. Haskin came to Coshocton, where he has maintained his home ever since. After retiring from the presidency of the Ohio Mine Workers organization he entered the employ of the Northwestern Fuel Company of St. Paul, Minnesota, and for the greater part of the next five years was on the road superintending the loading of coal on boats at ports on Lake Erie. This position he resigned in 1911, when elected secretary of the Central Ohio Coal Operators' Association, his offices being at Coshocton. But poorly equipped in youth for handling the important business responsibilities that have come to him, he faced them with courage and has borne them with trustworthy efficiency. Mr. Haskins married, in 1896, Miss Ella M. Hill, who was born at Zaleski, Vinton County, Ohio. They attend and support the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Haskins is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Noble of the Mystic Shrine and a member of Alladin Temple at Columbus. Since the age of twenty-one he has been a member of the order of Knights of Pythias. Politically he has always been affiliated with the republican party, not as a possible office holder, but as an upright citizen maintaining principles that seem to him to be right. HON. WILLIAM A. KEHNAST. One of the oldest and most honored business men in the City of Defiance is William A. Kehnast. He had been in this country only a few years when the Civil war came on, and he showed his patriotism by enlisting and serving in the Union army, though then only a boy. The years since the war has marked a steady progress in his position as a business man and citizen of Defiance. He was born at Mohrenbach, Thuringen, Germany, March 17, 1847, son of Christian and Henrietta (Haneisen) Kehnast. His parents spent all their lives in Germany. There were four sons and one daughter, and two of them are still living. One son, August, came to the United States in 1854. He was a Union soldier in the Civil war for three years, and died at Defiance. William A. Kehnast was educated in his native land and had seven years schooling there. When he was thirteen in 1860, he came to the United States and joined his brother in Erie County, New York, near the city of Buffalo. He attended school there for a time and worked for his brother on the farm. In 1861 the brothers moved to Florida, Henry County, Ohio, and William A. Kehnast assisted in working the land that was leased by his brother. In May, 1861, he became clerk in a grocery store in the village of Florida, getting his board and clothes for this work. Later he was in a grocery store at Napoleon, and in 1862 moved to Defiance, where he continued clerking in a grocery store until 1863. In that year, then aged sixteen, William A. Kehnast enlisted in Company E of the Ninth Ohio Cavalry. He was in service until the close of the war, nearly two years later. The war over, he returned to Defiance and found employment in the same grocery establishment where he had clerked before going into the army. Then in 1867, at the age of twenty, he embarked his modest capital in a business of his own, and continued it until 1870. Then he engaged in the hardware business, and was a hardware merchant at Defiance until 1915. He is now president of the Defiance Wholesale Grocery Company, but to a large extent is retired from the heavy responsibilities he once served. He is former president and a director in the Defiance Box Company and has various financial interests and investments. Mr. Kehnast served as president of the Defiance Board of Education, and at the time of the World war was president of the Draft and Exemption boards in Defiance County. Mr. Kehnast married Miss Jennie Kniss, who was born in Defiance, and died in 1878. In 1887 he married Lizzie Sauer. Mr. Kehnast has two children by his first marriage: Nellie, a graduate of high school and widow of Godfrey Watkins, of Defiance and Minnie, a graduate of high school and the wife of Isaac Savage, of Detroit, Michigan. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, Mrs. Kehnast being a member of the Reformed Church. He is affiliated with all 354 - HISTORY OF OHIO the bodies of York Rite Masonry in Defiance, and is a past eminent commander of Defiance Commandery No. 30, Knights Templar. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner. He is a member of the Golf Club, the Defiance Club, and as a democrat has represented Defiance County in the State Legislature, was president of the City Council, and is a former city treasurer. He is a member of the Rotary Club of Defiance and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and is a past commander of Bishop Post No. 22., Department of Ohio. Mr. Kehnast has been an extensive traveler both in the United States and in Europe. He has crossed the Atlantic Ocean nineteen times, and visited the battlefields of Belgium and France in 1920 and he also spent six weeks on a cruise all through the West Indies and four weeks on a trip in Old Mexico. JOHN D. GARDNER is a prominent young attorney of the Steubenville bar. He graduated from law college at the age of twenty-one, and for ten years has been building up a reputation as a very able lawyer with an extensive practice in corporation law. Mr. Gardner was born at Milford, Michigan, January 12, 1891, son of A. G. and Eva (Dunham) Gardner. His grandparents were M. D. and Sarah (Griswold) Gardner, who moved from New York State to Michigan. The maternal grandparents were John W. and Mary Dunham. The Dunhams were of old New England stock. James Fenimore Cooper in his novel, "Deer Slayer," has Eva Dunham as a character. A. G. Gardner has for many years been in the railroad service, and in early life was freight agent for the old Flint & Pere Marquette Railway in Michigan, and since coming to Steubenville has been an employe of the Pennsylvania Railway Company. He is a Presbyterian, and a member of the Masonic Lodge. His wife, Eva Dunham, died in .1910. They had two sons, M. Lloyd and John D., M. Lloyd married Mary Foregraves, their two children being Mae Evelyn and Billie. John D. Gardner attended public school at Tyrone, Michigan, and for several years lived with his grandfather on a farm, attending country schools. Two years were spent in the public schools at Toledo and then he accompanied his parents to Dillonvale in Jefferson County, Ohio. He continued his education in the Mount Pleasant High School and in Scio College, where he graduated in an academic course in 1909. Mr. Gardner pursued his law course in the Northwestern University at Chicago, graduating with the Bachelor of Laws degree in June, 1912. He remained for six months gaining metropolitan experience with the law offices of Thurman, Hume & Kennedy in Chicago. Another six months were spent in the law offices of his uncle, M. L. Dunham, at Grand Rapids, Michigan, and then for some time he was at Dillonvale. On opening an office in Steubenville, he was alone for a time and since then has been associated with J. C. Bigger in one of the leading law firms in Jefferson County. In the fall of 1910 he was a candidate for prosecuting attorney of Jefferson County. Mr. Gardner has handled legal matters for several corporations. He is general counsel for the United Mine Workers of Ohio over portions of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. A case that brought him more than ordinary prominence was his service as chief counsel in the defense of 266 members of the United Mine Workers indicted for murder at Cliftonville, West Virginia. During the World war he acted as a member of the Legal Advisory Board and had a permanent part in the various drives. Mr. Gardner married in May, 1915, at Toledo, Ohio, Miss Alma Grace Budd, daughter of Peter and Mary Budd. Her father is a contractor and builder and a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. In the Budd family were three sons and five daughters; William E.; Arthur C., who married Hattie Grove and has a son, Grove; Lillie; Rose, who married Harry Nichols ; George ; Emma, who is married and has a daughter, Alice; Mabel; and Mrs. Gardner. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner have a daughter, Dorothy, born in April, 1917. Mr. Gardner is one of the trustees of the Congregational Church, is a member of the County and Ohio State Bar associations, and has fraternal affiliations with the Knights of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Redmen, Moose and Maccabees, and is a member of the Steubenville Country Club. JONATHAN S. HARE, who is established in the practice of law at Dennison, is not only one of the representative younger members of the bar of Tuscarawas County, but has further honored his native commonwealth by the service which he accorded in connection with the nation,s participation in the World war. Mr. Hare was born at Upper Sandusky, judicial center of Wyandot County, Ohio, December 19, 1888, and in the same county were born his parents, Jay A. and Harriet (Hedges) Hare, his paternal grandfather, Jonathan S. Hare, in whose honor he was named, having been born in Pennsylvania, in 1828, of Holland Dutch ancestry. The original spelling of the family patronymic was Heer. Jonathan S. Hare, Sr., was a pioneer settler in Wyandot County, Ohio, where he became a substantial exponent of farm industry and a citizen of prominence and influence. He was a staunch democrat, and he served two terms as county treasurer. He was sixty-eight years of age at the time of his death. Warren, the elder of his two sons, died at the age of twenty-eight years, and the daughters were four in number. Jay A. Hare, younger of the two sons, was reared on the old home farm. He was born at Carey, Wyandot County, May 6, 1860. At the age of ten years he moved to Upper Sandusky, where for many years he was successfully engaged in the real estate business. He is one of the influential figures in the local councils of the democratic party, and like his father, gave two terms of service as treasurer of Wyandot County. His wife, now deceased, was a daughter of Wesley Hedges, prominently concerned as a pioneer in the Ohio wool industry and long an honored citizen of Wyandot County. Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Hare became the parents of three children, all of whom are living. Jonathan S. Hare, immediate subject of this sketch, was graduated in the Upper Sandusky High School as a member of the class of 1908, and in 1912 he was graduated from the Ohio State University, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He forthwith entered the law department of the university, and in the same he was graduated as a member of the class of 1915, his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws having been forthwith followed by his admission to the Ohio bar, July 1, 1915. He engaged in practice at Upper Sandusky, and when the nation became formally identified with the World war, in April, 1917, Mr. Hare promptly subordinated all personal interests to enter patriotic service. His earlier service was in vigorous and effective support of local patriotic movements, and May 30, 1917, he delivered the memorial address at Upper Sandusky, besides which he made effective speeches in advancing local drives in support of the Government War Loans, Red Cross Work, etc. On the 11th of May, 1918, in the City of Cincinnati, Mr. Hare enlisted in the United States Navy, and he was forthwith sent to the Great Lakes Naval Training Sta- HISTORY OF OHIO - 355 tion near Chicago, where he continued his service until the armistice brought the war to a close. He gained his release from service on the 11th of February, 1919, but was retained on the membership role of the Naval Reserve Corps until June, 1922, when he received his honorable discharge. His work at the Great Lakes Station consisted in making out allotment papers for dependents, the making of affidavits, and the checking of men for overseas duty. It may be here noted that Mr. Hare had previously had three years of service in the Ohio National Guard, he having enlisted December 14, 1914, in Company C, Fourth Infantry Regiment, and having received his honorable discharge therefrom at the expiration of his three years' term of enlistment. After his release from the naval service Mr. Hare returned to Upper Sandusky, with the intention of resuming the practice of his profession. However, he found a demand for his service in connection with work for returned soldiers and assisting in the release from service of other soldiers, he having neither asked for nor received any compensation for his service in this connection—a work which demanded the major part of his time and attention. He became also chairman of the Salvation Army Drive in Wyan-dot County, and also organized and became the first commander of Wyandot Post No. 225, American Legion, at Tipper Sandusky, he having secured the first eighty-five members for this organization. On the 27th of June, 1921, Mr. Hare established his residence at Dennison, where he has since been associated with Brooklyn Bridge in the practice of law. In 1923 he was elected commander of William J. Linehan Post of the American Legion at Dennison, and in November, 1923, he was elected city solicitor. Mr. Hare is a stalwart supporter of the cause of the democratic party, holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, has received the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite of the Masonic fraternity, besides being a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and he is affiliated with Acacia fraternity of the Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio. CUSTER E. BELL, doctor of chiropractic at Steubenville, is one of the very successful men of his profession in Eastern Ohio, has a large practice, and has his offices in the finest office building in Steubenville. He was born in Jefferson County, November 17, 1894, son of Francis P. and Amelia E. (Tipton) Bell. His mother is living. His father, who died in 1905, was a farmer and a man of extensive interests and affairs in Jefferson County. He was not in politics for his own advantage, but was active in behalf of the Government and his friends, and his advice was held in the highest esteem by all. In early life he taught school for several years. The school district near his old home was named for him. He and his wife had a large family of children, briefly noted as follows: Minnie, deceased; George, who married Clara Shield and died at the age of twenty-two, leaving one daughter, Georgia; Daisy, who married J. E. Mansfield and had four children, Floyd, Mildred, Beatrice and Dorothy; Francis, who married Callie Fife, their three children being Francis, Alma and Florence; Lena, who has a daughter, Grace; Miles E., who married Martha Strickler and has two sons, Olen and James; Samuel J., who married Mayme Bates; Kathlyn, who married E. D. Taggert and has three children, named Floyd, Texas and Joseph; Jessie, wife of Russell Naylor and mother of a son, Wayne; and Dr. Custer E. Custer E. Bell attended district school, the Dewitt High School, and on leaving high school took up the work and study of electrical engineering, continuing until his health failed He was restored to health by adjustments from a chiropractor, and this interested him in the profession so that he entered the Palmer School of Chiropractic at Davenport, Iowa, taking the full course and graduating in 1917. For six months he practiced at Newport, Kentucky, and since then has represented his profession in Steubenville. Doctor Bell while in school at Davenport, Iowa, met Miss Ceressa Rae, who was likewise a student there. They were married at Cincinnati, September 29, 1915. Her father, Samuel Rae, is in the confectionery business. Mrs. Bell completed the regular course at Davenport and has had special training. She received her early education at Springfield, Illinois. The two children of Doctor and Mrs. Bell are Wylma Evelyn and Kenneth Eugene. Doctor Bell was a Baptist, but is now a Congregationalist, and his wife is a member of the Congregational Church. He is affiliated with the college fraternity Delta Sigma Chi, with the Universal Chiropractic Association, the Knights of Pythias, and also the Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan. He belongs to the Young Men’s Christian Association and the new international order known as the Y. S. Men 's Club. He is also a member of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce. B. J. EMERY, who for over thirty-four years has practiced dentistry in Defiance, is a son of a physician and member of a family that has been prominent in Northwestern Ohio for many years. He was born at Ridgeville Corners, in Henry County, Ohio, August 11, 1867, son of Dr. R. G. and Emily E. (Palmer) Emery. His father was born in Carroll County, Ohio, in 1825, and graduated in medicine at the Cleveland Medical School, now the medical department of Western Reserve University. For a great many years he carried the burdens of a large country practice as a physician, making his home at Ridgeville Corners and later at Florida, both villages in Henry County. He served as a Union soldier in the Civil war, was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, was a republican in politics and a member of the Masonic Lodge. There are two sons living, W. G. Emery and B. J. Emery, both dentists, the former located at Fostoria, Ohio. Dr. B. J. Emery was reared in Henry County, attended the public schools there, including high school, and later entered the Cincinnati Dental College, where he was graduated with the Doctor of Dental Surgery degree in 1890. Since 1891 he has practiced his profession at Defiance. In addition to his work as a dentist, Doctor Emery is one of the directors of the First National Bank of Defiance, is also vice president of the Defiance Home Savings & Loan Company and the Northwestern Telephone Company. He married Miss Lillian D. Edwards, the eldest daughter of the late W. W. Edwards, of Leipsic, Ohio. Mrs. Emery is a graduate of the Leipsic High School, and finished her education in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. Doctor and Mrs. Emery have two sons: Bartlett E., a graduate of the Defiance High School and the Ohio Wesleyan University and of the Harvard Law School, and is now practicing law in Toledo. He married May 3, 1924, Mildred B. Swatzbaugh, of Toledo, Ohio. Robert W., who graduated from high school, from Culver Military Academy in Indiana, and from Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, is now a student at Harvard College. He married, December 20, 1923, Edna M. Papenhagen, of Defiance, Ohio. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Doctor Emery is on the official board of the church, is a past eminent commander of the Knights Templar, 356 - HISTORY OF OHIO and a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason at Toledo. He has served as prelate of Defiance Commandery for a number of year. As a republican he had the unique honor of being twice elected to represent Defiance County in the Ohio Legislature and to date is the only republican ever elected to the Ohio General Assembly from Defiance County. He served eight years as a member of the School Board and is a Rotarian. PLYMOUTH ADVERTISER. One of the oldest newspapers in the state with a consecutive history is the Plymouth Advertiser of Plymouth, Richland County, whose editor and proprietor is J. Hampton. This paper was established in 1851 by E. H. Sanford under the name Plymouth Journal. Plymouth was then a very small village. It passed in 1853 to the ownership of H. M. Wooster, and from him went to the firm of Robinson & Locke, who changed the name to the Plymouth Advertiser. The Advertiser has always taken a great deal of pride in the fact that David R. Locke was for two struggling years occupied with the fortunes of this little paper. David. R. Locke 's permanent memorial in Ohio journalism is the Toledo Blade, and his permanent fame in American history is the result of his writings under the nom de plume, Petroleum V. Nasby. The Plymouth Advertiser is a weekly publication issued every Thursday, and has a circulation of 1,100, going to most of the homes in Northern Richland and Southern Huron counties. It was formerly a republican but is now an independent paper. Robinson & Locke sold the Advertiser in 1859 to A. H. Balsley, and in January, 1864, J. M. Beelman became its owner and later took in his brother, J. Frank Beelman, and from 1876 the latter conducted it as proprietor and editor until the next transfer of ownership to the Davis Brothers. From Davis Brothers Mr. Jack Hampton bought the paper in 1920. Jack Hampton was born in the Town of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in 1891, of old Southern and Confederate parentage. As a boy of ten he started to learn the printing trade, and his experience has been continuous in the trade and profession since then. He has many of those natural qualifications which make the real editor and newspaper man. He came to Ohio September 1, 1920. It has been his policy to run a clean paper, and much of his success is due to his strict adherence to the motto, "Be Sincere." He has a modern plant and office, and also owns his own home in Plymouth. He married Miss Mary G. Hagan of West Virginia. They have three children, one son and two daughters. WILLIAM WHITE KEIFER, son of Gen. J. Warren Keifer, the distinguished citizen of Springfield whose career is sketched elsewhere, has for many years been associated with his honored father in the practice of law, and has a son in the same profession, making three successive generations represented in one law firm. William White Keifer was born at Springfield, May 24, 1866, second of the four children of his parents. As a boy he attended public schools, Antioch College and Ohio State University at Columbus, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1886 and in 1888 graduated from the Cincinnati School of Law. Soon afterward he engaged in practice at Springfield with his father, and they have been together in a general law practice for over thirty-five years. On June 13, 1894, at Springfield, he married Miss Martha Steele, daughter of Marshfield and Martha (Lehman) Steele. Her father, who died in 1898, was a well known Springfield business man. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Keifer are Horace S., William W., Jr., Martha and Penelope. Martha graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree form Wells College in 1923, and is now taking post-graduate work in philosophy at Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore. Horace S. on May 7, 1917, entered the Officers' Training School at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry, Eighty-third Division, and from Fort Benjamin Harrison continued his training at Camp Sherman, sailed from Hoboken in June, 1918, and soon after landing in France his regiment was sent, the only one from the American Expeditionary Forces, to the Italian front during the campaign against the Austrians. He was on active duty there until the armistice. Horace S. Keifer married Margaret Merickel of Toledo. He graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree from William College in 1917, finished his law course at Ohio State University in 1922, and is now associated in practice at the office of his father and grandfather. He was elected Representative to the General Assembly of Ohio from Clark County in 1924. William W. Keifer, Jr., graduated from Williams College in January, 1918, and in that year entered training at Camp Devens, Massachusetts, was commissioned a second lieutenant, was assigned duty at Camp Taylor with the Eight Hundred and First Pioneer Infantry, and went overseas during the last months of the war. He lives at Dayton, Ohio, and by his marriage to Virginia Paine, of Massachusetts, has a daughter, Nancy. Mr. Keifer and family are members of the Covenant Presbyterian Church. He belongs to the County, State and American Bar associations, and is a Mason. L. H. CADOT. A merchant at South Webster, for many years has been one of the most progressive leaders in the rural and agricultural affairs of Scioto County. He was born in Jackson County, Ohio, April 16, 1867, son of James and Mary Ann (McQuality) Cadot. His parents are now deceased, his mother a native of Jackson County and his father of Scioto County. James Cadot was one of the soldiers from this section of Ohio in the Union Army throughout the period of the Civil war. He went into service as a lieutenant in the First Ohio Heavy Artillery, and came out with the rank of captain. In civil life he was a farmer and carpenter, and interested himself in the progress of his home community, serving on the Township Board of Vernon Township and helped organize the first school in the township and was one of the trustees. His children were: Miss Cora, who was born the day Lincoln was inaugurated President, and has been active in politics at Portsmouth ; Effie ; L. H.; and Helen, who are married. L. H. Cadot was educated in the common schools at Chapins Mill, and left school to assist his father in the operation of the home farm. Later he became an independent farmer, and that was his vocation until 1921. His progressive methods made him successful in farming, and he has always been ready to enlist his energies and influence in matters effecting the welfare of his home locality and county. He has been prominent in the Grange, serving as president of the local Grange, and holding other offices. He was one of the farmers who cooperated faithfully with the county agent. For years he was a member of the School Board and trustee of his township, has served as a county commissioner, and in politics is a republican. When Mr. Cadot sold his farm in 1921 he moved to South Webster, and has since conducted the leading general merchandise store of that place. In November, 1890, he married Miss Mary Boren, daughter of James and Mary Jane Boren, now de- HISTORY OF OHIO - 357 ceased. At her death Mrs. Cadot left five children: Darleane, Claudius C., Esther, Marie and Alma. The second wife of Mr. Cadot was Miss Eva Hanes, daughter of Samuel L. and Sarah (Know1s) Hanes. She was the oldest of their five children, the others being Nettie, Eliza, John and William, all married. By his second marriage Mr. Cadot has two children, Madeline and Arthur. His son Claudius is an ex-service man of the World war, spending two years in the army. He was on the front line of battle in France sixty-one days, and was gassed. Mr. Cadot is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has filled all the chairs in the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias and has been a delegate to the Grand Lodge, and is also a member of the Eagles. J. HOWARD SHANKS is one of the prominent representatives of the automobile trade in Jefferson County, at whose judicial center and metropolis, the City of Steubenville, he is president of the Steubenville Buick Company, authorized agents in this district for the celebrated Buick automobiles. Mr. Shanks was born at Steubenville, in September, 1880, and is the youngest in a family of four children, of whom two are deceased, the first born having been a daughter who died in infancy, and the second, Gertrude, having died at the age of fifteen years, of typhoid fever. George H., the other surviving child, married Olive McCoy, and their one child is a daughter, Mary Elizabeth. The father, the late Archibald Shanks, whose death occurred in 1904, had conducted on Market Street one of the leading retail grocery stores of Steubenville, and was a citiizen who had secure place in popular confidence and esteem. He was an active member of the United Presbyterian Church, as is also his widow, who still maintains her home in Steubenville, her maiden name having been Elizabeth Miller, and she being now (1924) seventy-two years of age. Mrs. Shanks was born in Ireland, where she was reared and educated, and at Steubenville, Ohio, she became acquainted with Archibald Shanks, whose wife she became, he likewise having been born and reared in the fair old Emerald Isle, where his parents remained until their death. After completing his studies in the public schools of Steubenville, J. Howard Shanks entered Muskingum College, in which institution he continued his studies three years. For six years thereafter he was a successful and popular traveling salesman for the S. A. Weller Pottery Company of Zanesville, and he then engaged independently in the retail grocery business in Steubenville. He developed a substantial and prosperous business, and after making an advantageous sale of the same eight years later he effected the organization of the Steubenville Buick Company, of which he has since continued the president and general manager. This company handles all Buick business in this section, has a well equipped establishment, with full lines of supplies and accessories, and with garage and repair facilities of the most approved modern order. The liberal and progressive policies which Mr. Shanks has brought to bear in his executive direction of this enterprise have resulted in the continuous and substantial expansion of the business, and he has secure vantage place as one of the vital and successful business men of the younger generation in his native city. He is an active member of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and holds membership in the United Presbyterian Church. He is still to be listed as one of the eligible young bachelors of Steubenville, and here he resides with with his widowed mother in the family homestead. JOHN T. GIBBONS, M. D., graduated from the medical department of the University of Ohio as a member of the class of 1915, and in the following year he initiated the practice of his profession at Celina, judicial center of Mercer County. The succeeding year brought to him a call to a broader service along professional lines when the nation became involved in the great World war. While a student in the university he had served as sergeant in the Medical Corps of the Ohio National Guard, with assignment to the Fourth Regiment of Infantry, and this experience proved of value to him when, in 1917, he enlisted for service in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. At Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, he gained his commission as a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps, and thence he was transferred to Camp Sherman, Ohio. In June, 1918, he entered overseas service, in command of 151 men, constituting the Three Hundred and Thirtieth Ambulance Company, and with this organization he was in active service both in France and Switzerland. He remained overseas some little time after the armistice brought the war to a close, and after his return to the United States he was mustered out, with attendant honorable discharge, on the 17th of February, 1919. He now holds appointment and commission as captain in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army. Doctor Gibbons was born in Vinton County, Ohio, May 11, 1888, and is a son of George W. and Rose Ann (Collins) Gibbons, the latter of whom is deceased. George W. Gibbons was long numbered among the representative exponents of farm industry in Vinton County, and there he gave sixteen years of service as postmaster in the village of New Plymouth. In the high school of McArthur, judicial center of his native county, Doctor Gibbons was graduated in the year 1905, and thereafter he was for some time a student in the literary or academic department of the University of Ohio. He gave four years of successful service as a teacher in the public schools, and then entered the medical department of the University of Ohio, from which, as noted in the opening paragraph of this review, he was graduated as a member of the class of 1915. After the close of his World war service Doctor Gibbons resumed the active practice of his profession in the City of Celina, and here he has built up a specially substantial and representative general practice. At 117 East Fayette Street he erected a modern office building of ten rooms, and this is used exclusively by him, its appointments and equipment being of the most approved order. He has also just completed the erection of a modern home next door to his office building. Both structures are of the same type of architecture. Doctor Gibbons is one of the popular and influential members of the Mercer County Medical Society, of which he served as vice president in the year 1923, and he has membership also in the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In post-graduate lines the Doctor has attended the celbrated Mayo Brothers, Clinics at Rochester, Minnesota, and has done special work in anesthesia under the direction of Doctor McKesson of Toledo, Ohio. At Celina he is serving as medical examiner for the Ohio State Life Insurance Company, the Travelers Life Insurance Company, the New York Life Insurance Company, the Gem City (Michigan) Mutual Life Insurance Company, the People’s Life Insurance Company, the Bankers Life Insurance Company, the Life Extension Institute, the Catholic Knights of Ohio, the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, and 358 - HISTORY OF OHIO the Midland and the New England Mutual Life Insurance companies. In the Masonic fraternity Doctor Gibbons has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and he is also affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and the Knights of the Maccabees. February 26, 1919, recorded the marriage of Doctor Gibbons and Miss Ruth C. Crampton, daughter of Ira E. and Lacey Crampton, who maintain their home at Celina, where the father is the executive head of the Crampton Canning Company. After completing a course in the Celina High School Mrs. Gibbons attended Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. She is active and popular in club and social affairs in her home county and state. Doctor and Mrs. Gibbons have two children, Rose Ann and John C. BRIG.-GEN. ED WARD SIGERFOOS was the highest ranking officer of the American Expeditionary Forces killed in the World war. He was mortally wounded at the front September 29, 1918, and died in the base hospital eight days afterward. He is properly ranked as one of the famous Ohioans of his generation. His old home community was in Darke County, though he was born in Miami County, December 14, 1868. His father, George W. Sigerfoos, was born in 1825, in Maryland, was taken to Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1834, and in early life was a farmer and school teacher and subsequently a brick maker. He became a merchant, and in 1872 established a business at Arcanum in Darke County, where he was engaged until his death, on October 16, 1875. He married in 1850 Nancy Shanck, who was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1830. Of the children of George Sigerfoos and wife three, including Edward, gained distinction as educators. Miss Arabella, whose home is at Arcanum, graduated from the Michigan State Normal College and taught in Ohio and also in California. A son, Charles P. Sigerfoos, the older brother of Edward, was a graduate of the class of 1889 from the Ohio State University, and for a quarter of a century has been professor of zoology at the University of Minnesota. Edward Sigerfoos attended public schools until he was sixteen, and in the fall of 1885 accompanied his older brother, Charles, to Ohio State University, spending two years in the preparatory school and graduating with the class of 1891. He took a lively interest in all phases of student life, distinguishing himself in his class rooms, becoming editor in chief of the "Lantern," took a prominent part in the literary society and won honors on the platform, and began his military career on the campus by becoming the captain of a company in the University Battalion, winning the prize sword for the best drilled company, and later a medal in a state contest at Portsmouth. With such thoroughness of preparation it was not difficult for him to gain admission to the United States Army, which he did in less than two months after his graduation. On August 1, 1891, he was appointed second lieutenant of the Fifth United States Infantry. He did not find army life inconsistent with his serious habits of study, and while at Fort Leavenworth he achieved the title of "Honor Graduate" of the United States Infantry and Cavalry School in 1895. During the Christmas holidays of that year he married Miss Opal Robeson, of Greenville. In April, 1898, he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, and four months later was sent to Cuba, where he served for more than a year as commissary under Gen. Leonard Wood. The war with Spain afforded him still further experience beyond the immediate boundaries of the United States, for he spent the next four years in the Philippines, and was commissioned a captain February 2, 1901, and made an adjutant the following September. In 1905 Captain Sigerfoos was detailed to serve as professor of military science and tactics at the University of Minnesota, where his brother was professor of zoology. During his four years in this institution Edward Sigerfoos not only gained an enviable reputation as a teacher and commandant of University Cadets, but also found time for his self-improvement by completing the regular and postgraduate courses in law, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1908 and that of Master of Laws in 1909. In 1915 he graduated highest in the class in the War College at Washington, though the youngest officer in the class. He remained there a year as a professor of war games, and then was given a taste of active service with Pershing on the Mexican border, after which he was sent to China. Meantime, he was acquitting himself with unfailing credit in every duty to which he was assigned, and was earning his promotions through major to colonel. As command- ant of the American Forces he was in charge of the Red Cross Relief during the floods at Tien-tsin. Colonel Sigerfoos was recalled from China soon after America entered the World war, and after a few months was sent to France and put in charge of a group of army schools at Langres. It was in the course of this duty that he several times went to the front. He had just been detailed in command of the Fifty-sixth Infantry Brigade at Mount Blainville in the Argonne Drive, and was wounded, dying October 7, 1918. He had been promoted to brigadier-general on the basis of a citation from Brig.-Gen. H. A. Smith, commanding the army schools. General Smith's citation read as follows : "I recommend that Col. Edward Sigerfoos, infantry, be promoted to be brigadier-general. Colonel Sigerfoos is a graduate of Ohio State University, is a polished and cultured man, and an officer of character and decision. He took charge of the Army School of the Line last May, and has made a great success of this school, which up to that time had been a failure. I believe that Colonel Sigerfoos merits this promotion." One of his classmates at the university wrote of him: "There was little of the traditional army officer about him and much that belongs to the newer type. He consistently maintained and strengthened the Christian character which he possessed in youth. I never heard him use a word unfitted for the presence of wife or daughter. He was an abstainer, even of tobacco; and in his room at Langres I saw three things in prominent places: A picture of wife, daughter and son, the Bible and an American flag. To them he gave full devotion and from them he received the inspiration of a life that was strong, true and useful." General Sigerfoos was survived by his wife and two children, Grace and Edward. The daughter, Grace, attended the University of Minnesota for a time, but graduated from the University of Michigan, class of 1923. After General Sigerfoos went to France his wife returned to her old home in Ohio, at Greenville, to live with her parents, but at present lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. THEODORE DODD, M. D., has recognized precedence as one of the leading physicians and surgeons in his native County of Jefferson, at whose judicial center, the City of Steubenville, he has been established in the successful general practice of his profession for more than fifteen years, the while he has made it HISTORY OF OHIO - 359 an insistent policy to keep abreast of the advances made in medical and surgical science, both by continuous study and research and through the medium of well ordered post-graduate courses. On his father’s farm in Cross Creek Township, Jefferson County, Doctor Dodd was born January 23, 1867, and is a son of James Blair Dodd and Elizabeth (McLaren)Dodd, the former of whom died in 1907 in her eightieth year, and the latter of whom passed away in 1914, at the venerable age of eighty-seven years. Of the three children Dr. Theodore Dodd is the second born; David married Blanche McDevitt, and they became the parents of three children; Elizabeth is the wife of Charles Oliver. James B. Dodd was born in that part of Virginia that now comprises West Virginia, and received good educational advantages, including those of Bethany College at Bethany, West Virginia. He was there a student when he formed the acquaintance of Miss Elizabeth McLaren, who was attending a seminary at Middletown, that state, and this acquaintanceship resulted in their marriage in the later ‘50s. James B. Dodd was a son of David Dodd, and both of his parents passed their entire lives in the historic Old Dominion State, the family name of the mother having been Curtiss. The paternal great-grandfather of Doctor Dodd was born and reared in Ireland, and upon coming to America he settled in Virginia, which commonwealth continued to be his place of residence until his death. Mrs. Elizabeth (McLaren) Dodd was born in Scotland and came to the United States in 1845, in company with her father, who had previously been a sailor on ocean vessels and who established the family home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. James B. Dodd and his wife were persons of much intellectuality, and their home was known for its gracious hospitality, as well as for culture and refined atmosphere. Mr. Dodd was long numbered among the substantial representatives of farm industry in Jefferson County, where he and his wife established their home when they were young folk, and both were zealous members of the Church of Christ, in which he gave earnest service as an elder. The environment and discipline of the home farm compassed the boyhood and early youth of Doctor Dodd, and after attending the district schools he continued his higher studies in turn at Scio College and Mount Union College. He made a record of fifteen years of successful service as a teacher in the public schools of Ohio, his initial work having been in the district schools, in which he taught four years. For six years he was a teacher in the graded school at Bloomfield, Jefferson County; he was principal of the public schools of Richmond, this county, two years; and for three years he was principal of the high school at Mingo Junction, likewise in Jefferson County. Thus virtually all of his characteristically earnest and successful work as a teacher was staged in his native county, even as have been his able ministrations as a physician and surgeon. Following the trend of his well formed ambition and purpose, Doctor Dodd finally entered the medical department of Purdue University, which institution has its seat at Lafayette, Indiana, with its medical school at Indianapolis, and he was graduated as a member of the class of 1907. Since thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he has been continuously engaged in general practice at Steubenville, and his professional business is one of broad scope and representative order. The doctor has fine ethical loyalty and professional stewardship, and makes his vocation a mission of human kindliness and helpfulness, with sympathy translated into service and with a personality that makes him always the persona grata in the sickroom. In his native county it is not overreaching the mark to state that his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances. He has taken post-graduate work in leading clinics in the City of Philadelphia and also in the great New York Polyclinic, in the national metropolis. In the World war period he served as medical examiner for the Draft Board of Jefferson County, besides doing all in his power to advance other patriotic service and activities in his home county and city. He is an influential member of the Jefferson County Medical Society, and is identified also with the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is a member of the staff of physicians and surgeons of the Ohio Valley Hospital in Steubenville, is a member of the Steubenville Automobile Club, and he and his wife are members of the Church of Christ. May 13, 1913, recorded the marriage of Doctor Dodd and Miss Bessie C. Jones, who is a graduate nurse and who has thus been able greatly to assist her husband in his arduous professional work. Mrs. Dodd is a daughter of Albert Jones, who has long been engaged in the retail grocery business at St. Marys, West Virginia, his wife having died more than thirty years ago, and the two other children of the family being Walter and Brady, each of whom is married and has children. Doctor and Mrs. Dodd have three children: Verne, Theodore and Hugh C. NATHAN A. MCCOY, SR., is a veteran in the public service of the City of Columbus, being superintendent of the street cleaning, garbage and refuse collection department. He was born in Columbus, October 22, 1871, son of Alfred McCoy, contracting decorator, locating in Columbus in 1864 after a service as a Union soldier with an Illinois regiment in the Civil war. He died about two years ago. His wife was Elizabeth J. Rhoades, daughter of Henry M. Rhoades, who was a farmer and mill worker. Elizabeth McCoy is now past eighty years of age. Nathan A. McCoy, Sr., was reared and educated at Columbus, and during 1905-06 served as an inspector of the waterworks department. On January 15, 1912, he was made superintendent of the street cleaning department under Mayor George Karb. He has had charge of this service ever since, and due to a recent consolidation of three departments into one, he now supervises the activities of a force of about 275 men. A complete revolution in methods has occurred since he took charge of the office. All the sweeping is now done by motor, and many other changes made to improve the efficiency of this vital department. Mr. McCoy is a member of the National Association of Sanitation. He has been prominent in the democratic party, being a member of the Democratic Central Committee seventeen years and its chairman during several campaigns. He is treasurer of the County Democratic Club. He belongs to the Elks, the Hound Club, and the Spanish War Veterans. During the Spanish-American war he became a lieutenant in Company F of the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and subsequently was promoted to captain. Prior to this promotion he served as active quartermaster and commissary officer in the District of Cayey, Porto Rico, under command of General Fred D. Grant. During the World war he sold $35,000 worth of Liberty Bonds to his force in the street cleaning department. Mr. McCoy married Miss Mary Grace Abblichon, of Columbus. Their four children are Nathan A., Jr., Elizabeth Jane, Walter C. and Robert W. THOMAS W. VANCE. Few men in Jefferson County are better known or have a wider circle of loyal 360 - HISTORY OF OHIO friends than Thomas W. Vance, who has here been called to various offices of public trust, has given service of faithful efficiency, and now holds the position of chief deputy auditor of the county. As one of the popular and representative citizens of the county he well merits recognition in this history of the Buckeye State. Mr. Vance was born in Smith Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, September 5, 1855, and is a son of John Stockton Vance and Emily Hutchison (Jerome) Vance, the former having been a son of William and Hannah (Patterson) Vance, who passed their entire lives in the old Keystone State, where the family was founded more than a century ago. Three brothers became the original representatives of the Vance family in America, one having settled in Virginia, one in Tennessee, and one, the ancestor of the subject of this review, having established his home in Pennsylvania. In later generations the family name has been one of prominence in various other states of the Union, including Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. John Stockton Vance was venerable in years at the time of his death, which occurred in February, 1905, he having been a substantial farmer and honored citizen of Washington County, Pennsylvania. His political support was given to the republican party, and both he and his wife, whose death occurred in June, 1895, were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. Of their fine family of eleven children nine attained to adult age, namely: Caroline, William O., Charles J., Thomas W., Joseph G., John F., Francis B., Viola V. and Mary G. In his boyhood and early youth Thomas W. Vance had due fellowship with the activities of the home farm, the while he profited by the advantages of the district schools of his native county. Thereafter he completed a thorough commercial course in the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York, and he has been a resident of Steubenville, Ohio, since he was a youth of twenty-two years. He came to this city in July, 1878, and among his earlier activities here were the buying and shipping of wool and the rendering of expert service in the auditing of books for business concerns. He gained secure place in popular confidence and esteem in the county of his adoption, and this was distinctly signalized when in 1890 he was elected county recorder, an office in which he gave a careful and effective administration and of which he continued the incumbent until 1897. He then became collector for the water department of the city government, and his service in this capacity continued ten years, at the expiration of which, in 1908, he accepted a clerkship in the Union Deposit Bank, with which he was thus connected four years. From 1912 to 1923 Mr. Vance gave his attention to the real estate business, and was concerned in the buying and selling of many city and farm properties. In 1923 he was appointed chief deputy auditor of Jefferson County, the office of which he is the valued incumbent at the time of this writing, besides which he continues in an appreciable degree his real estate operations. He and his wife have a pleasant home at 527 North Third Street, and both hold membership in the Presbyterian Church, as did also his first wife. In the York Rite of the Masonic fraternity the maximum affiliation of Mr. Vance is with the Steubenville Commandery of Knights Templar, and in the Scottish Rite he has received the thirty-second degree, besides being a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and a member of the Masonic Veterans, Association of Pennsylvania. He has never wavered in loyalty to the republican party, and in a local way has been active in the advancing of its cause. August 21, 1883, recorded the marriage of Mr. Vance and Miss Mary E. Finigan, a daughter of the late Robert Finigan, of Jefferson County, and she was summoned to the life eternal October 27, 1891. Of the children of this union the eldest is Nina M., who is the wife of Jay S. Paisley and the mother of four children—Mary Katherine, Nina Margaret, Emery Vance and Ann Jane. Frederick E., next in order of birth, is the subject of an individual sketch on other pages of this work. Miss Anna E. holds the responsible position of assistant secretary of the Steubenville Building & Loan Association, a position she has held for the past fourteen years. She remains at the paternal home. John Stockton, youngest of the children, sacrificed his life in as distinct a way as those who fell on the field of battle in the World war, he having entered the United States Army in August, 1918, and having been stationed at Camp Lee, Virginia, when he was attacked by the prevailing epidemic of influenza, which there resulted in his death on the 6th of October, 1918, about one month prior to the close of the great war in which he was preparing to serve when called to the stage of conflict. The second marriage of Mr. Vance was solemnized December 5, 1905, when Mrs. Emma Wanenmacher became his wife. They have no children. LEE BERTON PETERSON, D. D. S., is a native of Jefferson County, where his family was identified with the pioneer settlements, and for a quarter of a century has been engaged in a successful practice, most of the time at Steubenville. Doctor Peterson was born at Bergholz, Jefferson County, March 21, 1877. His Peterson ancestors came to the United States from Wales, but an earlier generation had settled in Wales from Sweden. The founder of the family in Eastern Ohio was the great-great-grandfather of Doctor Peterson, Thomas Peterson, who came about 1779 and acquired about one thousand acres of land on the present site of Bergholz. He is buried in the cemetery there, a stone bearing 1819 as the date of his death. The grandparents of Doctor Peterson were John and Hannah (Miller) Peterson, Colonel John having served in the War of 1812. Daniel M. Peterson, father of Doctor Peterson, was a farmer and for many years proprietor of a general mercantile store at Bergholz, and finally retired and lived in Steubenville, where he died in October, 1921. He was the youngest of his parents, family, and had a brother in the Civil war. He was an active member of the United Presbyterian Church. Daniel M. Peterson married Hannah M. (Dorrance) who died in March, 1905. Her father was Samuel Dorrance, and her mother, a McMaster, both representatives of the Scotch-Irish ancestry. The four children of Daniel M. Peterson and wife were: Gammel, who married Laura Neil, and had four children, named Gilbert, Clyde. Harry and Howard; Dr. J. G., of Zanesville, Ohio, who married Wilmer Carlson, and has three children: Margaret, wife of Dr. H. H. Erskine, of Steubenville; and Lee Berton. Lee Berton Peterson was reared at Bergholz, attended district school there and the Bergholz Academy. After finishing the course at the academy in 1895 he began the study of dentistry, and took a course at the Ohio State University of Columbus, graduating with the degree Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1898. Doctor Peterson was for two years in practice at Smithfield, and since then has been in Steubenville. He does a large business in the profession, and employs three assistants in his offices. During the World war he was a member of the War Board in the county, and acted in every drive and campaign. He is former president of the Ohio Den- HISTORY OF OHIO - 361 tal Association and a member of the National Dental Society. He is a trustee of Muskingum College, a director of the Steubenville Young Men's Christian Association, director of the Steubenville Mortgage Company, belongs to the Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the Steubenville Country Club, and is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. Doctor Peterson is an elder in the United Presbyterian Church, and for twelve years was superintendent of its Sunday school. He married at Steubenville, December 11, 1902, Miss Lucy Worthington McGee, who was left an orphan when a small child. She is a representative. of the old New England name of Worthington. One member of this family was Col. A. S. Worthington, secretary to Edwin Stanton during the Civil war and took all the testimony in the trial of President Johnson. Mrs. Peterson's father was a railroad conductor, and was a Mason and Methodist. He had three brothers: Maurice, who married Lena Hayes ; Benjamin D. McGee, who holds the rank of commander in the United States Navy and is now at the Navy Yard at Norfolk, Virginia, and is married and has two children, Ann and Jean; and Fred B. McGee. The three children of Doctor and Mrs. Peterson are Howard Worthington, Lee Berton, Jr., and Daniel M. Howard Worthington, born in 1904, is a graduate of the Steubenville High School and a member of the class of 1926 in the Dental Department of the Ohio State University at Columbus. J. WYLIE SANDERS is one of the vital and successful representatives of the automobile business in the City of Steubenville, Jefferson County, and represented his native county in the national military service at the time of the World war. Mr. Sanders was born on a farm in Jefferson County, August 12, 1896, and in this county his parents, John C. and Annie B. (Shane) Sanders, still maintains their home, the father having been a successful farmer and gardener and having owned and operated a threshing machine, besides having been a contractor in road grading. The parents are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Winterville. Of the children the eldest is Albert C., who married Beulah Burns, their one child being a son, Eugene. Eva is the wife of Stewart McCoy, and they have three children: Gayle, Eunice and Annise, who are twins. Frederick P. married Lucile McCoy, and their children are Maurice and Frederick. J. Wylie, of this review, was the next in order of birth. Austin married Mary George, and they have a daughter, Geraldine. Floyd and Cecil remain at the parental home. The lineage of the Sanders family is of sterling Scotch-Irish origin, and the first representatives of the family in Ohio came from Pennsylvania. The grandparents of the subject of this sketch were Thomas and Mary Jane (Carr) Sanders. Mrs. Annie B. (Shane) Sanders was born in Pennsylvania, and was young when she accompanied her parents on their removal from that state to Ohio. The district schools of Jefferson County gave to J. Wylie Sanders his fundamental education, which was advanced by his attending the Steubenville High School and by a partial course in Bethany College. He was an ambitious and self-reliant youth when he established himself in the automobile garage and repair business at Steubenville, and from a modest inception he has built up one of the leading enterprises of this kind in this city, with a repair department with the best of facilities for all phases of work, besides which he has become local agent for the Chandler and Cleveland automobiles. His brother Frederick P. has recently become associated with him in the business. On the 5th of September, 1918, Mr. Sanders entered service in the United States Army, in preparation for active military duty in the great World war. At Camp Sherman, near Chillicothe, Ohio, he was assigned to service at the headquarters of the cavalry arm of the Ninety-fifth Division, and after the armistice brought the war to a close he remained at Camp Sherman until he received his honorable discharge, December 15, 1918. He is affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees, and he and his wife hold membership in the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Steubenville. May 28, 1919, recorded the marriage of Mr. Sanders and Miss Margaret Harris, second of the children of William and Anna Harris, who are well known residents of Jefferson County. The other children of the Harris family are: Anna (Mrs. John Floyd), Helen (Mrs. John Martin), Elizabeth, Walter and Robert. Mr. and Mrs. Sanders have a fine little son, Roland William. WILLIAM FOSTNAUGHT has practiced law at Van Wert for eighteen years, and by his individual attainments has added to the record of a justly distinguished family in this section of Ohio. The Fostnaughts have been in Ohio since the wilderness days of the Northwest Territory. They are of remote German ancestry. There was an Adam Fostnaught, whose son, John Fostnaught, a native of Pennsylvania, founded the family in Ohio, settling in Fairfield County, where he did the work of a pioneer in clearing up a farm. His son, Wendell Fostnaught, was born in Fairfield County, and died when comparatively young at Circleville, Ohio. His wife was Sarah Wright, a native of Fairfield County, daughter of James Wright and granddaughter of David Wright, both natives of Pennsylvania. David Wright was an officer in the American army during the war for independence, and his sword is still pre- served by his descendants. This Revolutionary soldier came to Ohio and was one of the earliest settlers of Fairfield County. Both he and his son James followed farming, and the latter improved two farms in Fairfield County. Both spent their last days in Franklin County. After the death of Wendell Fostnaught his widow married William Ward in 1838. They moved to Allen County, Ohio, and for nine years made their home in a log cabin. They finally returned to Fairfield County, where they lived out their lives. James Fostnaught, a son of Wendell Fostnaught, and father of William Fostnaught, the attorney, was born in a log cabin in Clear Creek Township of Fairfield County, November 2, 1835, and was a small child when his father died. He spent his early life in Allen County, attending a primitive frontier school, and when not in school he assisted his stepfather on the farm. When he left home to begin work for himself he received thirteen dollars a month as a farm hand. Later he rented a farm in Fairfield County, and from 1862 to 1868 lived in Seneca County. It was in 1868 that he established his home in Van Wert County, buying land in Willshire Township. He continued farming there until 1881, and then moved to the City of Van Wert, and was an honored resident of that community until his death on Nevember 6, 1918, at the venerable age of eighty-three. In 1859 James Fostnaught married Matilda Ruse, who was born in Franklin County, Ohio, in 1837, daughter of Emanuel and Mary (Marks) Ruse. Her father was a native of Virginia, of German ancestry, and as a young man moved to Franklin County, Ohio. His wife, Mary Marks, was a daughter of Christian 362 - HISTORY OF OHIO Marks, a native of Alsace and who followed the great Napoleon as a soldier, participating in the battle of Austerlitz and in the invasion of Russia. After the exile of Napoleon he came to the United States and spent his last days on a farm in Franklin County. The six children of Mr. and Mrs. James Fostnaught were Perry, Timothy, Peter, Mary, James and William. Mary, the only daughter, is the widow of H. J. Wilson, formerly a hardware merchant at Van Wert. All the sons at some time or another have been identified with educational work as teachers. Perry, Timothy and James are now associated in the real estate business at Van Wert. Perry served as superintendent of schools at Convoy, at Scott, Ohio City and elsewhere. Timothy was a school superintendent at Ohio City and Scott. Peter had charge of the schools at Grover Hill, Latty and Wren, was district superintendent of Van Wert County, and is now retired after forty years' active work in the public schools of Ohio. The son James taught school for several years, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1906, and has since had a busy law practice. The combined service of the five brothers in public schools was about ninety years. William Fostnaught was born on the home farm in Wiltshire Township of Van Wert County, March 16, 1877, and was about four years of age when the family moved to Van Wert, the county seat. He was educated in the public schools there, graduating from high school in 1895. For several years he taught school, both in the country districts and at Van Wert, and at the same time was carrying on his law studies under W. S. Johnson. He was admitted to the bar in 1906, and for some time has had one of the largest individual practices in the county. Mr. Fostnaught is the owner of 124 acres in Van Wert County, Ohio, together with considerable real estate in the City of Van Wert. In 1922 he was a democratic candidate for Common Pleas judge of Van Wert County, and in a county with a normal majority of 1,200 republicans he was defeated by only 215 votes. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. HARRY P: BOYER is one of the successful representatives of the newspaper and job printing business in his native county of Jefferson, where he is the owner of the job printing plant under the firm name of Boyer Printing Company. He is one of the most liberal and progressive citizens and business men of the thriving little City of Toronto, and is a scion of one of the sterling pioneer families of this section of the Buckeye State. Mr. Boyer was born at Steubenville, judicial center of Jefferson County, January 10, 1872, and is a son of Intrepid Morse Boyer and Mary Ann (Corbett) Boyer, the former of whom still resides at Steubenville, where the death of the devoted wife and mother occurred May 22, 1912. Intrepid Morse Boyer was born October 16, 1838, his wife was born December 29, 1839, and their marriage was solemnized December 29, 1862. Concerning the children of this union the following brief data are consistently entered here : Jennie Olivia was born December 10, 1863; Charles Alfred was born March 17, 1866, and his death occurred August 27, 1922; Mary Eva was born March 16, 1868; Lillie was born May 24, 1870, and her death occurred on the 31st of the following December ; Harry P., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Jessie Corbett was born September 25, 1875; and William D. was born May 29, 1880. Intrepid M. Boyer was born and reared in Ohio, and is a son of John and Elizabeth Boyer. The first representatives of the Boyer family in Ohio moved to this state from Pennsylvania, and the lineage of the family traces back to Holland Dutch origin. Intrepid M. Boyer most fully justified his first personal name in his gallant service in defense of the Union in the Civil war. He became a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with the same he served until severe illness resulted in his honorable discharge. After recuperating he enlisted again, and after serving on the gunboat Lexington until the vessel was disabled and thus placed out of commission, he made another enlistment, under which he continued in service until the close of the war. He is now one of the venerable and honored citizens of Steubenville, where for many years he followed the tinning business and where he is now living retired. He is one of the veteran members of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic. His wife was a daughter of John and Jane Corbett, the first American representatives of the Corbett family having come from Ireland. In the public schools of Steubenville Harry P. Boyer continued his studies until the close of his sophomore year in the high school, and he then initiated his alliance with the "art preservative of all arts" by entering upon an apprenticeship in the office of the old Steubenville Herald, under the control of P. B. Conn and Joseph Doyle. He was thus engaged several years, and in the meanwhile gained a comprehensive knowledge of the various details of the printing and newspaper business—a discipline that has consistently been termed the equivalent of a liberal education. He further fortified himself through service in printing establishments at Pittsburgh and other large cities, and after his return to Steubenville he was for a time associated with Sprague & Connahan, which later became the H. C. Cook Company, in the job printing business. In 1908 he severed this alliance and purchased an interest in the Toronto Tribune, of which he had control for thirteen years, the while his progressive policies brought the Tribune up to a high standard, with prestige as one of the leading newspapers published in Jefferson County. During the entire period of his residence at Toronto Mr. Boyer has shown lively and loyal interest in all that concerns the civic and material welfare of the community, and several years ago gave effective service as president of the Toronto Board of Trade. He was a member of the Executive War Board of Jefferson County in the period of the World war, and had much of leadership in all local patriotic service and work. He is a republican in politics, but has invariably refused to become a candidate for political office. He is not only a Knight Templar Mason, but has also received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He has passed the official chairs in various Masonic bodies with which he is affiliated, and is thus a past master of his lodge of ancient-craft Masonry, besides which he is a member of the Ohio State Masonic Body of Deliberation, the same being comprised of past officers of the great fraternity. His Masonic connections include his membership also in the Order of the Eastern Star, and he has affiliation also with the Sons of Veterans and the Knights of Pythias, and is an active member of the Kiwanis Club. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Protestant Church at Toronto. At Steubenville, on the 21st of April, 1896, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Boyer and Miss Sarah E. Knowles, daughter of John and Margaret (Anderson) Knowles, both now deceased. Of the nine children in the Knowles family the eldest was James, deceased, survived by his widow, whose maiden name was Jessie Horner, and also by three children. Annie is the wife of Allison Beckley, and they have four children. Lou is the deceased wife of Russell Jamison, and they had three children. Mrs. Boyer was the next in order of birth. Thomas married Sarah Collins, HISTORY OF OHIO - 363 and they have two children. Isabel is the wife of George Smith. George married and has one child. Albert married Cora Miller, and they had several children. Fannie is the wife of Charles Westlake, and they have two children. Charles married Petura Campbell, and they have children. The father of Mrs. Boyer was a young man when he came from his native Ireland to the United States, and soon afterward the Civil war was precipitated. His loyalty to the land of his adoption was shown by his prompt enlistment in the Regular Army of the United States, and he was assigned to the First Cavalry Regiment, United States of America. With this command he served under the dashing Gen. George Custer, who later met his death in a conflict with the Western Indians—an engagement known in history as the Custer massacre—and it was given Mr. Knowles to take part in many engagements and to prove himself a valiant and faithful soldier. He was finally captured, and for some time was held as a prisoner of war in old Andersonville Prison. Mr. and Mrs. Boyer have but one child, Miss Clara Stewart Boyer, who is an efficient principal in the public schools of Toronto and a popular figure in the representative social life of this community. HARRY A. BELL. The practice of law in growing volume, including both court work and office counsel, has engaged Harry A. Bell at Steubenville for a quarter of a century, a community that judges him one of the most substantial citizens and successful men. He was born in Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, September 19, 1871, son of Robert and Sarah J. (Moore) Bell, and grandson of John and Nancy Bell and Edward and Amelia Moore. The Bells came to Ohio from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Robert Bell died April 16, 1910. He gave his life to his home and family and the management of a farm. He was a Baptist. Sarah J. Bell died May 24, 1924. He and his wife had six children: Dr. Oscar E.; Harry A.; William A., who married Carrie B. Cole, and has three children, named Clark, Countess and Gladys; Howard M., who married Bessie O. Nation, and has one child, Agyle; Gertrude M., who married Ross Gottshal, their three children being Maynard, Roxie and Justin; and Tracey V., who married Ott Master and has a daughter, Vera B. Harry A. Bell spent his boyhood on the farm, attended district school, took an academic course in Hopedale Normal College, and at Columbus was a member of the class of 1898 in the Ohio State University Law School. Before graduating he took the bar examination, was admitted March 11, 1898, and at once engaged in practice at Steubenville. Besides his regular attendance in all the local courts he has handled cases in the various Federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Bell served as judge of the Probate Court of Jefferson County from 1912 to 1915, and is a member of the Democratic State Central Committee. During the war he was a member of the Legal Advisory Board in 1917-18. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of the County and State Bar associations. He married Myrtle E. Piersol, of Flushing, Ohio, daughter of Joseph G. and Rebecca H. (Leighty) Piersol. Her parents came to Ohio from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and afterward returned to Fayette County, while her maternal grandparents, Stephen and Lyda Leighty, were also early residents of Ohio. Mrs. Bell,s father, Joseph G. Piersol, died in December, 1911. She is the oldest in a family of five children. Her brother William married Elizabeth Cunnard, and has three children, the oldest, Mary, being married and the mother of Ralph and Ruth, while the other two are Smith and Pearl. Stella Piersol married Ross Essington, their two children being Joseph and James C. James S. Piersol,s first wife was Myrtle Kirk, by which union there were two children, Esther and Mildred. Lyda Piersol married John Wagner and has four children, Mary, Myrtle, Marie and Juanita. Mr. and Mrs. Bell are the parents of one son, Robert Piersol Bell. CHARLES JAMES MCCONNELL. By reason of the extent of his interests, Charles James McConnell is recognized as one of the foremost citizens of Steubenville, where he has been a resident for nearly a half century. His career is typical of those of other reliant, industrious and persistent men who have fought their way through obstacles to ultimate position and prosperity, and forms an interesting chapter in the business history of this enterprising Ohio community. Mr. McConnell was born May 28, 1853, in Hancock County, West Virginia, and is a son of James and Eliza J. (Wilson) McConnell and a grandson of James and Jennie McConnell. His father, during a rather varied career, was variously employed. For a time he worked as a stationary engineer, and then took his family to Toronto, Ohio, where he was the incumbent of several city positions, including that of city commissioner. Both he and his worthy wife had been born in Ireland, where they were married, coming to this country about 1850 and first settling in Jefferson County, Ohio, then moving into Hancock County, West Virginia, and subsequently returning to Toronto, Jefferson County, where Mr. McConnell died about 1906 and Mrs. McConnell, about 1914. They were originally Presbyterians in religious faith, but later adopted the faith of the Methodist Protestant Church. Mr. McConnell was a Mason. There were twelve children in the family, of whom nine are living: Eliza Jane, Charles James, John W., Ella, Amanda (deceased), Robert, Maria (1) (who died when one year old), Maria (2) (who died at the age of eighteen years), Anna, William, Wesley and Isa- bell. Of the living all are married with the exception of William. Charles James McConnell attended a district school in Hancock County, West Virginia, and an academy at Toronto, Ohio, which was taught by a minister. At the age of eighteen years he completed his studies and began to work at whatever honorable employment he could find, including common laboring, as he was without a trade. Eventually he was stricken with a severe case of typhoid fever, and after a slow recovery his health was so impaired that he was unable to continue hard work and accordingly pursued a course at Duff ,s Commercial College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Returning home in 1870, he went to work as a clerk in the store of his uncle, and later he and his father bought his uncle's interests and conducted the store under the name of James McConnell & Son for five years. In 1875 Mr. McConnell came to Steubenville and became a clerk in the clothing store of May & Howerter, who dissolved partnership two years later and the firm became Wm. May, afterwards changed to May & Brothers, with whom Mr. McConnell remained until 1882, at which time he engaged in business on his own account, when he formed a partnership with a Mr. Foreman. The firm of Foreman & McConnell continued in business until 1890, when Mr. Foreman died. In the meantime, in 1888, the firm had purchased the property at 330 Market Street where the business was located. In the fall of 1890 Mr. McConnell bought out the heirs of Mr. Foreman and continued in business, until he retired from all active participation in the clothing business in 1919. 364 - HISTORY OF OHIO He sold out to his two sons, Paul and Harry, and a Mr. Phillips, who had been employed by the firm for some ten or twelve years. In 1919 Mr. McConnell became one of the administrators for the estate of Mary Emma Watson, the property being valued at that time at $60,000. So successfully did he handle this estate that in 1924, when he made his final report to the court and received his release, they were able to turn over to the beneficiaries more than $200,000. In 1896 Mr. McConnell was one of the organizers of the Jefferson Building & Savings Company, of which he is now president, this having grown to a concern of $3,000,000 assets during the past twenty-eight years. He is also a director in the National Exchange Bank, the oldest bank of Steubenville; one of the appraisers of property for the city; a director in the Peerless Clay Company of Toronto and a director and treasurer of the Walla Walla Orchard Company of the State of Washington, and has numerous other interests. His religious connection is with the Methodist Protestant Church, and fraternally he has been identified with Lodge No. 1, Knights of Pythias, since 1885. On September 28, 1876, Mr. McConnell was united in marriage with Mary E. Sloan, of what was then Sloans Station, which later was changed to Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio, and a daughter of David A. and Jane (Hood) Sloan, the former a well known agriculturist. The Sloans were the pioneer family of Jefferson County, and owned a large acreage there, most of which was located on or near the present site of the Town of Toronto. In 1879 the family held a reunion, at which there were five generations present. David A. and Jane Sloan had the following children: William E.; Mary E.; Mrs. McConnell, who died August 5, 1922; James; John O.; and Grace, who died at the age of six years. Two sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. McConnell: Harry S., a sketch of whose career will appear elsewhere in this work; and Paul Brown, one of the proprietors of the clothing business of which his father was the head for so many years. JAY S. PAISLEY, of Steubenville, has practiced law there for a quarter of a century, and is also president of the Steubenville Gazette, one of the influential newspapers of this section of the Ohio valley. Mr. Paisley was born at Irondale, Jefferson County, Ohio, September 22, 1876, son of James E. and Catherine (McLean) Paisley. The Paisley family is of Scotch ancestry and came to America about 1803. His grandfather was Samuel Paisley. James E. Paisley is now eighty years of age, and still active. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the Union Army for service in the Civil war as a member of the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Infantry. He became sergeant and participated in a number of battles, including the Wilderness and Cedar Creek. After his return from the army he married, took up the study of law, and for many years has served as justice of the peace at Irondale. He is a republican, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, is a trustee of the Methodist Church, a member of the Masonic Lodge and the County Bar Association. His wife, Catherine, died in 1882, leaving two children, Jay S. and Alena, who is the wife of Warren Menough and has five children, named, John, Catherine, Donald, James C. and Charles. Mr. Paisley married the second time, in 1884, Rebecca Beard, and to them were born three children: Wilma, who married Charles McFadden, of Irondale; Robert B., a business man of Irondale; and James O., who is in the railroad service at Irondale. Jay S. Paisley attended public schools at Iron-dale, finishing his high school course there in 1895. He took the scientific and law courses in the Ohio Northern University of Ada, and finished his law studies in Ohio State University at Columbus, where he was graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1899. Mr. Paisley began practice in the office of Gov. R. G. Richards, and was elected and served two terms, beginning 1908, as prosecuting attorney of Jefferson County. His law practice has brought him in connection with many of the important cases tried in the local and district courts. He received the republican nomination for judge of the Common Pleas Court and was elected, taking office the first of the year 1925. Some years ago he became connected with the Steubenville Gazette, and he gave a part of his time to the management of the paper. Mr. Paisley is a member of the County and State Bar associations, a member of the United Presbyterian Church, and fraternally is a Knight Templar Mason, also a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Sons of Veterans, Redmen, and is a member of the Kiwanis Club and the Chamber of Commerce. He married at Steubenville in March, 1907, Miss Nina Vance, a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Finnegan) Vance. Her father is in the real estate business at Steubenville, and served two terms as county recorder. He has been prominent in republican circles, and is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and a Presbyterian. Mrs. Paisley is the oldest of four children, the others being: Anna; Earl, who married Miss Barton, of Barton, Ohio, and has a daughter, Jane; John, who died of the influenza at Camp Lee while a soldier in the World war. Mr. and Mrs. Paisley have four children, named Mary Katherine, Margaret, Vance and Jane. ROBERT SHERRARD HILL. Among the prominent retired citizens of Steubenville, now living in comfortable circumstances as a result of many years of active labor, one who is widely known and greatly respected is Robert Sherrard Hill, for thirty-five years an active and successful agriculturist of Jefferson County. Mr. Hill has spent his entire life in this county, having been born on a farm near Steubenville, October 4, 1858, a son of Joseph Welsh and Mary Ann (Sherrard) Hill. The ancestry of Mr. Hill contains some interesting names identified with the early history of the country. His paternal grandfather was Robert Hill, who was born February 15, 1761, at Hillsborough, Ireland, and accompanied his parents to America in 1768, the family settling in Washington County, Pennsylvania. On April 12, 1806, he came to Steubenville Township, Jefferson County, where he purchased a large tract of land from Joseph W. Dorsey, paying therefor $5 per acre. In 1790 he 'married in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Rosemond Welsh, who was born in Maryland and moved to Washington County with her parents, John and Eleanor (Hill) Welsh. The grandmother of Mary Mears Hill, Mary Boggs, married Edward Menager, born at Gallipolis, Ohio. His father was Claudius Romain Menager, of royal blood from Normandy, France, who came to the United States in 1790 and settled at Alexandria, Virginia. General La Fayette attended his wedding at Pittsburgh when he married Mary Bobine. She was the only survivor of a noble family in France which was wiped out during the French Revolution, escaping with some five hundred others who took vessels and escaped to the United States. The father of Mary Boggs was William Boggs, a Revolutionary soldier, whose mother was born at the Argyle house of the Duke of Argyle, Inverary Castle. Joseph Welsh Hill, the father of Robert S. Hill, was born June 1, 1811, and followed farming throughout a long and useful career, his death occurring HISTORY OF OHIO - 365 February 22, 1877. He was a man of standing in his community, was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and for a number of years served as a member of the School Board. His wife, who was born March 26, 1817, died in 1893. They were the parents of five children: Rosemond C., who is single; Elizabeth J., single; Martha S., who married Dr. David R. Kerr, of the Presbyterian ministry, for thirteen years president of Bellview College, and had six children, William H., Fred, deceased, Mary S., David, Jr., Julia and Robert; Mary who married Jesse M. Bennett, of Mount Pleasant ; and Robert Sherrard. Robert Sherrard Hill attended district school and the Steubenville High School, and after his graduation from the latter returned to the home farm, of which he took charge. For thirty-five years he tilled the fertile fields and also bred Percheron horses and Merino sheep, and the 551 acres were cultivated and utilized in a way that displayed his good management and ability as a husbandman. Some of this land has since been converted into coal mines, bringing Mr. Hill a handsome revenue. For the past several years he has lived at Steubenville, where he has a pleasant home and a wide circle of appreciative friends. On June 30, 1885, at Steubenville, Mr. Hill married Miss Mary Mears, daughter of Thomas and Henrietta (Menager) Mears, the former of whom was born August 12, 1831, and died in October, 1887, and the latter, of old Virginia, born September 22, 1833, died January 24, 1892. She was born near Point Pleasant, where Lord Ashburton settled the treaty, and married Mr. Mears October 22, 1857. They had five children: James, who died in infancy ; William S., who married Ella B. Moore, and had three children, Thomas V., Victoria Ella and Wilbert Kenneth; Edward M., who died single April 5, 1900; Mary; and Henrietta, who died June 4, 1870. Mr. Mears was born in Gurtanewry House, County Derry, Ireland, and came to the United States in 1850, settling at Pittsburgh, whence he came to Steubenville and became a man of considerable wealth. He was active in politics and wielded some influence in the community. Out West at the time of the completion of the Union Pacific Railway, he was with the party that drove the golden spike signifying the completion of the great project. To Mr. and Mrs. Hill there have been born the following children: Henrietta M., who married W. L. Hogarth and had three children, William L., Jr., Robert Ernest and Donald; Mary S., who married Robert W. Watson and has two children, Robert H., Jr., and Mary Mears Hill Watson; Nancy Mears, who married Clay D. Housel and has one child, Mildred ; Laura Mears, who married Charles T. Buehler and has one child, Wilma ; and Anna Virginia, who married Edward Atwood Hill, and had three children, Robert S. II, Kathleen, who died in 1918, and Wood Ramsey. The family belongs to the Westminster Presbyterian Church. MARSHALL ALEXANDER SMITH, president of the Smith Agricultural Chemical Company, and an active business man of Columbus for nearly thirty years, is a native of Ohio, and inherits some of the sturdy virtues and rugged character of the old New England stock found in his forebears, who were among the earliest pioneers of Delaware and adjoining counties in this state. His ancestry possesses general historic interest, and is unusually rich in Revolutionary records. Mr. Smith was born near Sunbury, in Delaware County, May 23, 1869, son of Marshall Black and Elvira Abbie (Thrall) Smith. Mr. Smith is descended in direct line from Nehemiah Smith, the first of this family in America, who was born at Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, about 1605. His coat of arms showed : Arms-Barry of six, ermine and gules, a lion rampant, ducally crowned sable. CrestAnheraldic tiger passant; argent, wounded on the shoulder, gules. Nehemiah Smith made application to be admitted as freeman at Plymouth, Massachusetts, March 6, 1637. His wife, Anne Bourne, was of aristocratic lineage. Later he moved to Stratford, Connecticut, and was the largest land owner of any of the first settlers. He was a minister of the Gospel and died in 1686. Another ancestor in the paternal line was David Smith, who was born near Wilkes-Barre in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, in 1770. In 1779, following the terrible massacre of the inhabitants of this valley by the British and Indians, David Smith with two other children was carried away in captivity and kept for six months. David Smith married Sarah Murphy and early in the following century came to Ohio, settling near Galena, in Delaware County, where he died in 1845. A number of other prominent characters in the early history of New England are included in the ancestry of Mr. Smith, in both the paternal and maternal lines. One of them was John Howland of the Mayflower, and another, Peter Brown, one of the signers of the Mayflower compact of 1620. His mother 's ancestor, William Thrall, came to Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1630, on the ship Mary and John. Others are: Richard Mather, the ancestor of the famous Cotton Mather; Thomas Chase, the forebear of Salmon P. Chase, and other distinguished Americans of this name; Robert Holmes, the progenitor of the Stonington Holmes family for whom the town of Stonington, Connecticut, was named; Obediah Gore, the progenitor of Captain Obediah Gore of Norwich, Connecticut, a prominent military figure in the Colonial wars; Samuel Sherman (early spelling Shermon), the ancestor of a long line of notable Americans; and a large number of members of these families who took part in the American Revolutionary war. James Smith, son of David, and grandfather of Marshall A., was for many years the leading business man of Sunbury. He married Melissa Black, whose name introduces another interesting record of ancestral connections. Melissa Black was a daughter of Marshall and Polly (Gardner) Black. Her grandfather, Isaac Black, was born in Berkshire, Massachusetts, in 1745, and was one of the pioneer New England settlers of Delaware County, Ohio. He died at Cheshire in that county in 1826. Isaac Black married Mehitable Brown, whose father died in the Revolutionary war. Their son, Marshall Black, married Polly Gardner, daughter of Stewart and Lydia (Ames) Gardner, whose ancestors came over in the Mayflower. Marshall Black, his wife and children moved from Genesee County, New York, to Springfield, Ohio, and a few months later, in December, 1817, removed to the Yankee settlement at Cheshire, Delaware County. Marshall Black Smith, father of the Columbus business man, was born at Sunbury, near Galena, in Delaware County, in 1837, and died at his home at Westerville, Ohio, October 8, 1900. For many years he was a prominent merchant and banker at Sunbury and Westerville. In 1861 he married Miss Elvira Abbie Thrall, who is still living. She is a direct descendant in the eighth generation from William Thrall, who founded the Thrall family in America, coming, as previously noted, from England in 1630. The Thralls were among the first families of Granville, Massachusetts. Elvira Abbie Thrall is also a descendant of the tenth generation from Rev. Richard Mather of Massachusetts, father of Increase Mather and grandfather of Cotton Mather. Through 366 - HISTORY OF OHIO the Thralls he is also a descendant of Peter Brown of the Mayflower. Elvira Abbie Thrall's parents were William Cooley and Mary Chase (West) Thrall. Her great-grandfather, Captain William Cooley, commanded a company in John Moseby's Regiment of Massachusetts Militia in the Revolution, fought under Washington at White Plains, and was wounded November 16, 1776. Samuel Thrall, Sr., grandfather of William Cooley Thrall, was staff quartermaster in Colonel Robinson's Third New Hampshire Regiment in the Revolution and was later made captain of his company. His son, Samuel Thrall, Jr., was a private in several Massachusetts Regiments. Mrs. Elvira Abbie Smith had other Revolutionary ancestors in the West and Chase families of Massachusetts. Elvira Abbie Thrall was reared and educated at Granville, Licking County, Ohio, a town founded by her ancestors, the Thralls and Cooleys and their associates, and named in honor of their ancestral home town of Granville, Massachusetts. Granville in its modern history, is a center of education and high moral influences, reflecting some of the fine character and the spirit of its New England founder. Mrs. Elvira Smith finished her education in Granville Female College. For many years she has been recognized as an authority on the genealogy and general history of Granville. Marshall Alexander Smith spent the first thirteen years of his life on his father 's farm near Sunbury. The family then moved to that village, where he continued his education in the public schools. As a youth he went to work in his father’s mercantile establishment at Sunbury. Mr. Smith with his three brothers moved to Columbus in 1895, and soon afterward started the manufacture of commercial fertilizer and sulphuric acid. Later the industry was incorporated under the name of the Smith Agricultural Chemical Company, with Marshall A. as president. The company maintains a branch plant at Indianapolis. This is one of the important and essential industries of Ohio. Mr. Smith is former president of Benjamin Franklin Chapter at Columbus of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and was made president of the Ohio Society, Sons of the American Revolution, at the annual meeting held April 20, 1924, at Toledo, Ohio. He is a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. He served by enlistment in the Ohio National Guards, Company C, Fourteenth Regiment, 1886-1889, and by appointment was a member of the Columbus War Industrial Board during the World war with Germany. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge, the Elks, the Scioto Country Club, the Columbus Country Club and the Columbus Athletic Club. He married at Columbus, October 16, 1893, Cora M. Smith, of an unrelated branch of the Smith family. She was born in Delaware County, near her husband’s birthplace, daughter of Newton and Lunette (Sherman) Smith. Her father moved to Ohio when a boy from Pennsylvania. The four children of Mr. and Mrs. Smith are : Harold Albert, Hurtha M., wife of Frank Rankin Schwartz, Marjorie Elvira and Adrienne Lunette Smith. VINCENT N. PENN is an engineer by profession, having had a wide diversity of experience in railroad, highway and other lines of construction. He is at present county engineer of Jefferson County. Mr. Penn’s great-grandfather came from England and is said to have been from the same family as William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania. The father of the Steubenville engineer was James A. Penn, who served as a soldier in the Civil war. Vincent N. Penn was born at Hopedale, Harrison County, Ohio, September 1, 1877, son of J. A. and Virginia (Nation) Penn. His mother is now living at Jewett, Ohio. J. A. Penn, who died in 1921, was a tinner and roofer at Hopedale, was active in local affairs and was affiliated with the Independent. Order of Odd Fellows and the Methodist Episcopal Church. His children were : Virginia, who married Everet Hicks; Frank, who married Grace Speer and has three children, named Ethel, Harold and Frances; and Arthur, who married Bessie Hines and has two daughters. Vincent N. Penn attended public schools at Hopedale, and continued his education in the Hopedale Normal, leaving there at the age of eighteen. About that time W. A. Hammel, as head of a party of engineers on railroad location and construction, needed an assistant to fill a temporary vacancy, and this was the opportunity accepted' by V. N. Penn. He became interested in surveying and engineering, and under the direction of Mr. Hammel was given opportunities to study and gain a practical knowledge of the profession. He remained with Mr. Hammel five years, getting such proficiency that he was promoted to increased responsibilities. During that time he did work for the Pennsylvania, Wabash and other railways. For three years he was in the engineering department of the Pittsburgh, Sawmet & Northern Railway. Mr. Penn in 1911 located at Steubenville, spending two years in work for the county and two years as deputy engineer. Since then he has been with the county engineering department. During the World war he was connected with the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, assisting in construction work to enable that company to handle its war contracts. Then for one year and six months he was with the engineering department of the Pennsylvania Railway, and for a year and a half was located at Pittsburgh. In 1919 Mr. Penn returned to Steubenville as deputy county surveyor, and in September, 1922, was elected county surveyor and engineer. He is also resident state engineer for this district, having charge of all road and bridge work under the auspices of the State Highway Department. Mr. Penn married at Steubenville, July 4, 1903, Miss Golda Whitten, daughter of William and Mary (Tipton) Whitten. Her father is a builder and carpenter. There were eight children in the Whitten family. Mr. and Mrs. Penn have two daughters, Mary and Vincetta. The family are members of the Christian Church. GUY W. JACOBS. Among the many important industries that help to make Steubenville a city of modern progress its great refrigerating plants must be noted, and none of these are more thoroughly equipped or scientifically operated than that of the Steubenville Ice Company, of which Guy W. Jacobs, graduated refrigerating engineer, is general manager. Mr. Jacobs was born at Center Hall, Center County, Pennsylvania, December 18, 1888, a son of Dr. William A. and Lizzie M. (Moser) Jacobs, and a grandson of George A. Jacobs and of Daniel Moser, early settlers and substantial people of Adams and Center counties, Pennsylvania. Dr. William A. Jacobs at the time of his death, August 16, 1899, was a physician of prominence. He spent his early life on his father ,s farm, and was a schoolboy when the Civil war came on and was but sixteen years old when he enlisted, the youngest member of the famous One Hundred and Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry. He was twice wounded and for gallantry was made corporal of his company. After the war he studied medicine and became widely known in his profession. He married Lizzie M. Moser, who still survives, and all three of their children are HISTORY OF OHIO - 367 living: William Leslie, Guy W. and Margaret Elizabeth. Doctor Jacobs was a members of the Lutheran Church. Guy W. Jacobs attended the public schools and was graduated from the Center Hall High School in the class of 1906. He then entered the Pennsylvania State College, and was graduated in 1910, Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineer, having specialized in refrigeration. He then became associated with the York Manufacturing Company of York, Pennsylvania, where he had charge of construction work and testing until 1917, when he came to the Steubenville Ice Company as manager and superintendent. Mr. Jacobs is an expert in a branch of his profession that is not yet overcrowded. Mr. Jacobs married, June 1, 1917, Miss Fan Earl Robertson, of San Antonio, Texas. Her parents are deceased, but a brother, Ross Robertson, survives and has a daughter, Mary Leona. Mr. Robertson is in the oil business at Wichita Falls, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs have two children: Frances Elizabeth and Guy W., Jr. They are members of the Methodist Protestant Church. Mr. Jacobs is a thirty-second degree Mason. He belongs to the American Society of Refrigerating Engineers and to other scientific bodies, and is a member of the Steubenville Country Club and the Steubenville Rotary Club, having been president of the latter organization during the year 1923. FRANK W. FEIST. Not the least in importance among the confections which add variety to mankind’s cuisine, while at the same time being of great food value, is the delicacy which bears the trade name of ice cream, and which is coming more and more into popular favor with the passing of the years. The buying public is demanding the best and purest quality, and not all companies, perhaps, offer such a superior article as the Telling Ice Cream Company of Steubenville, Ohio, of which concern Frank W. Feist is manager. Mr. Feist is well known to the citizens of this city, not only as a capable and reliable business man, but also as a public official, having served ably in the office of mayor for four years. Mr. Feist was born at Steubenville, June 19, 1884, and is a son of Peter W. and Sallie M (Bailey) Feist, residents of Steubenville, where they are held in high esteem and are members of the Presbyterian Church. Peter W. Feist was in the ice cream manufacturing business for many years, controlled the business at one time, and owned his own plant, but is now living in comfortable retirement. He and his worthy wife are the parents of three children: Howard, who married Margaret Walker ; Lillian, who is unmarried; and Frank W. Frank W. Feist attended the public and high schools of Steubenville, being graduated from the latter in 1901, and then took a commercial course at the Steubenville Business College. His first experience in the business world was with a wholesale grocery establishment, with which he acted as general office and store man for two years. Next he entered the ice cream business with his father, with whom he remained for fourteen years. At this time he entered politics and was elected and served as mayor for four years, 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1921. When he retired from the mayoralty he became manager of the Telling Ice Cream Company, a concern with which he has since been identified. As one of the active and leading men of the city he has found time from his business duties to assist in forwarding measures for the benefit of the community. During the World war period he was in Class 4 and was not called into the service, but was active in assisting war-time enterprises and movements, especially as a member of the County War Board. With his family he belongs to the Presbyterian Church. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and Noble of the Mystic Shrine, an Elk and a Pythian, and holds membership in the Kiwanis Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Steubenville Country Club and the Automobile Club. On November 27, 1911, Mr. Feist married Miss Anna Belle Galbraith, of Jefferson County. Mr. Feist comes of excellent stock. His great-grandfather was with Napoleon in France, while his paternal grandparents, Aloysius and Susan Feist, came from Germany. His maternal grandparents, Samuel and Nancy Bailey, were natives of Ireland, on the trip to America from which country the mother of Mrs. Bailey died and was buried at sea. ANDREW SQUIRE recently rounded out a full half-century in the practice of law at Cleveland. In the field of business and corporation law his success has been unqualified. Since 1890 he has been senior member of the firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, one of the oldest continuous law partnerships in Cleveland. The golden anniversary of his admission to the Cleveland bar was not allowed to pass unnoticed, and on December 3, 1923, he was the guest of honor at a banquet attended by members of the Cleveland Bar Association and also by many leaders in Cleveland,s political, social and industrial life. The embossed testimonial given him by the Association at that time reads as follows: "Upon the completion of fifty years of continuous and active practice of his profession as a member of the bar of Cuyahoga County, the Cleveland Bar Association presents to Mr. Andrew Squire this sincere testimonial of appreciation of those services and that character and that conduct with which he has generously honored the profession which honors him. "May his steadfast adherence to those principles which here made him leading lawyer and leading citizen—beloved by his fellowmen—be an inspiration to all who would achieve real success." In the course of the evening many other tributes were paid the veteran attorney, and one that expressed what his old associates felt was a letter from Chief Justice Taft, who wrote: "I have known and loved Mr. Squire for many, many years, longer, perhaps, than he and I are willing to admit. His sense of justice, his sweetness, his serenity, his great abilities, his sense of public duty, his personal charm and his love for his fellowmen are such that I do not wonder that his associates at the bar wish to give this testimony to their high appreciation of his eminent professional and personal qualities as one of the great leaders of the bar of Ohio and Cleveland. "I am very sure that this evidence of the affection of the fellow members of his profession will delight his heart, and the more so because of his modesty and the gratified surprise he will feel at your expressions of deep respect and warm affection. It is a source of keen regret that I cannot be with you to take part in this most deserved tribute to half a century of useful professional community and patriotic service." Mr. Squire was born at Mantua, Portage County, Ohio, October 21, 1850, son of Dr. Andrew Jackson and Martha (Wilmot) Squire. He is of New England ancestry. Andrew Jackson Squire was born in Ohio in 1815, and practiced medicine for many years in Portage County. As a youth Andrew Squire purposed to follow the same profession as his father, and for a time he studied medicine until he became convinced that his talents primarily prepared him for the law. He attended the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute at Hiram, and after a period of professional study in Cleveland, he entered Hiram College, where he grad- 368 - HISTORY OF OHIO uated Bachelor of Arts in 1872. From Hiram College he went immediately to Cleveland, carrying with him letters from James A. Garfield, then Congressman, and Burke A. Hinsdale, president of the College. He did the duties of clerk and janitor in the law office of Andrew J. Marvin and Darius Cadwell, at the same time studying law, and in December, 1873, was admitted to the bar. After Mr. Cadwell went on the bench he became associated in partnership with Andrew J. Marvin. He had several other eminent Cleveland attorneys as associates. He and Judge William B. Sanders and James H. Dempsey, established the firm of Squire, Sanders and Dempsey on January 1, 1890. The successful practice of the law has brought him all the achievements and honors craved by a worthy ambition, and he has been only a layman in politics. Nevertheless he has been a creative, progressive force in the life of Cleveland. His sound advice and his power of harmonizing and bringing together masterful personalities and large interests have been an important factor in the business advancement of his city. He has made for peace not for strife, for progress, not for obstruction. His work has been constructive, not destructive. Mr. Squire is a director of the Union Trust Company, the Cleveland Stone Company, of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad of which he is president, and has had numerous other business interests. During the World war he served as a member of the Mayor's Advisory War Committee. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at St. Louis in 1896. He is a trustee of Hiram College and Western Reserve University and a director of the Case Library. He has attained the supreme honorary thirty-third degree in Scottish Rite Masonry. In 1909 he was president of the Country Club of Cleveland, and is a member of the Union and the University clubs of that city, and the University Club of New York. On June 24, 1896, Mr. Squire married Mrs. Eleanor Seymour Sea, daughter of Belden Seymour of Cleveland. Mrs. Squire was regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the time of the Spanish-American war and was active in the war relief measures officially sponsored by the Daughters of the American Revolution. JAMES CARL BIGGER has practiced law at Steubenville for over thirty years. The work he has done in his profession and the spirit of helpfulness he has manifested toward all worthy causes have brought him a reputation and esteem extending throughout this section of eastern Ohio. Mr. Bigger was born at Frankfort Springs, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, May 23, 1863, son of Thomas and Mary Thompson (Nicholson) Bigger. The Bigger family at one time had its seat near the Village of Bigger in Scotland, then moved from Scotland to the North of Ireland, their home being near the Giant Causeway. From Ireland one branch of the family came to the United States. James Bigger, grandfather of the Steubenville attorney, was a soldier in the War of 1812. He married Mary Bigert. Their son, Thomas Bigger, who died in 1911, was a farmer and stockraiser in Pennsylvania, and maintained a very quiet interest in politics, using his influence to assist his brother, who was quite Prominent in the political life of that day. Thomas Bigger was a member of the United Presbyterian Church. His wife, Mary Thompson Nicholson, who died in 1914, was the daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Stuart) Nicholson. Thomas Nicholson was a whig in politics, and served as cashier to the state treasurer of Pennsylvania through five consecutive changes in the chief of that office. Thomas Bigger and wife had a family of three children. Ellis N., who died in 1902, married Della Caughey and had a son, John C. The daughter, Inez Bigger, became the wife of David M. Strouss. James Carl Bigger attended his first schools at Frankfort Springs, including the academy there, continued his education at Beaver High School, and had a commercial course in accounting at the Curry College at Pittsburgh. Soon after coming to Steubenville he read law with J. M. Cook, later judge of the Circuit Court of this district. He took his examination and was admitted to the bar on March 3, 1892, at Columbus, and in the same year began the general practice of the law at Steubenville, which he has continued to the present time. He served as city solicitor for two terms, from 1899 to 1902. During the World war Mr. Bigger participated in the daily local drives. He has never married. He is a member of the United Presbyterian Church, is a member of the County Bar Society, belongs to the Masonic Lodge and is a past exalted ruler of the Elks. FRANK ALBERT HAWKINS, mayor of the City of Steubenville, has lived in that community of eastern Ohio all his life. For many years he was in the railroad service, and has filled some of the most important offices in the county and city governments. He was born at Steubenville, August 2, 1881, son of Frank and Jane (Bradbury) Hawkins, and grandson of William B. and Lucretia Hawkins. The first generation of the Hawkins family in America lived in Maryland, and in 1803 they came to Ohio, being among the early settlers of Jefferson County. Frank Hawkins, who died in 1914, was a contract plasterer for many years. He served as a soldier in the Civil war, being a non-commissioned officer in Company G of the Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. For years he was very active in the Grand Army of the Republic, and also served several years as a captain in the Ohio National Guard. Much of his time was likewise given to politics, and he was appointed state deputy in the state treasurer ,a office. His wife died in 1916. Their five children were : Mary, who married Charles Wickline and has a son, Frank H.; Miss Jessie; James W.; Arnie, deceased; and Frank Albert. Frank Albert Hawkins attended the public schools at Steubenville, finishing his high school work in 1899. For seventeen years he was in the service of the Pan Handle Railroad Company, beginning as clerk in the freight office. He rose to the position of chief rate clerk at Steubenville. His first public honors were bestowed upon him while he was still in the railroad service. He was elected for two terms as a member of the City Council, for the years 1912-13-14-15, but resigned before the expiration of his second term. In the fall of 1916 he was elected clerk of the court of Jefferson County, and served in that office two full terms. In the fall of 1921 he was elected mayor of Steubenville, and was reelected in 1923. He has given a vigorous administration of the laws and ordinances, and has put the full force of his official power into the enforcement of the liquor laws and other measures to preserve decency and good order in this city. Under his administration has occurred the most extensive program for civic improvement that was ever put on for completion in the history of the city, includes the paving of city streets, new lighting system, loop system for electric lines, improved waterworks and new municipal building. During the World war Mr. Hawkins served as a member of the Local War Board. At the time of the Spanish-American war he was too young to be accepted as a volunteer in his home locality, and accordingly he and two friends ran away, hoping to HISTORY OF OHIO - 369 get into the army elsewhere, but they were arrested at Pittsburgh and sent home. Mr. Hawkins is a past commander of the Sons of Veterans Post. He is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias and now deputy grand chancellor for Jefferson County. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, an Elk and a member of the Riverview Country Club. He married at Steubenville, April 15, 1902, Miss Clara E. Zimerman, daughter of Edwin T. and Caroline (Leo) Zimerman. Her mother is living, and her father, who died in 1914, was for many years a nailer in the steel or nail works, and was very much interested in politics, serving for many years as chief of police of Steubenville, dying while on the police department. He was a Knight of Pythias, a member of the German Society of Turners and the German Lutheran Church. Mrs. Hawkins is the youngest of three children, the others being: Wilbur, who married Anna Selah and has a son, Wilbur ; Harry, who married Lucy Nolan, and their seven children were Ruth, Esther, Charles, Louise, Anna, Dorothy and Earl, who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins have four children: Naomi, born in 1903, a teacher in the city schools; Mary Virginia, born in 1904, likewise a teacher at Steubenville; Edwin, born in 1908, a student in high school; and Edith, born in 1917. SAMUEL C. SELAH. Many years of progressive effort have brought the rewards of successful position and popular esteem to Samuel C. Selah, who for a number of successive terms has been honored with the office of county recorder of Jefferson County. He was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, September 9, 1872. His grandparents were Charles and Ann (Tyson) Selah. Ann Tyson was descended from some of the Holland Dutch who came to New York when it was New Amsterdam. His parents were Josiah and Harriet (Cotton) Selah. The latter is still living. Josiah Selah, who died February 11, 1917, was a Union soldier in the Civil war with the Thirty-third Pennsylvania Infantry under General Miles in the Second Corps, and in one battle was slightly wounded in the shoulder. After the war he affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, and was much interested in politics. He followed the trade of nailer in the Mingo Nail Factory when that plant was devoted to the production of the old-fashioned cut nails. He served as city marshal of Steubenville and as a member of the Board of Education, and was a captain in the National Guard of Pennsylvania. His church was the Methodist. There were five children, Samuel C. being the oldest. Annie married Wilbur H. Zimerman and has a son, Wilbur, Jr., living in Philadelphia. The next child is Miss Edith. Mary died when twelve years old. Tyson married H. R. Swearingen. Samuel C. Selah spent most of his boyhood at Steubenville, but his educational advantages ended when he was ten years old. For a time he worked in the nail factory with his father, and continued that occupation until 1886, when the plant began to manufacture the wire nails. Following that he took up sign painting in Steubenville, which trade he followed until 1898 and then, removing to New Castle, Pennsylvania, worked during the winter in the steel plant, where he was badly crippled in an accident in the elevator, and after recovering he engaged in the grocery business at Steubenville, his father-in-law being his partner. He continued an active associate in the firm for eleven years. In the fall of 1914 Mr. Selah was elected county recorder and was reelected in 1916-1918-1820-1922 and in 1924 had no opposition for reelection. He is still a competent official, handling all matters connected with the recorder 's office with every degree of satisfaction to all concerned. He is a Knight of Pythias and a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Selah married, February 6, 1900, at Steubenville, Miss Edith Coates, daughter of John and Frances (Gardner) Coates. Her mother is living. John Coates, who died November 11, 1918, was a nailer in the nail factory and later in the grocery business with his son-in-law, and was an active Methodist. In the Coates family were the following children: Mrs. Selah, the oldest; Harry, deceased ; Edna, who married Herbert Burnes and has six children; Irene, who married Ed B. Lockwood and has three children, named Dorothy, Jean and Betty ; Gardner, deceased; Leland R., who married Elizabeth Hileman, and they have two children, Mary Elizabeth and Richard Roy, Mr. and Mrs. Selah have one child, Gerald, who married Julia Farrar and has a daughter, Martha Virginia. WILLIAM R. ALBAN has been one of the leaders of the Steubenville bar for twenty years or more, is a former prosecuting attorney, and is descended from families that in all the generations have played worthy parts in their respective communities. His great-grandfather, George Alban, was a member of General Washington's guard and staff during the Revolution, was a resident of Winchester, Virginia, but in 1797 came to Ohio, being the first settler off of the Ohio River in Island Creek Township of Jefferson County. His son, George Alban, Jr., was prominent in local affairs, and married Nancy Cox in December, 1825. The Cox family came into Ohio in 1818 from the Virginia country back of Wheeling. The maternal ancestry of the Steubenville attorney consisted of members of the Warden family, who came to the United States from Ireland about 1830. John Warden was the father of Samuel Warden, who married Sarah Abraham. William R. Alban was born on a farm in Jefferson County, October 10, 1864, and his father was John Alban and his mother, Margaret Warder, the latter a daughter of Samuel and Sarah Warden, above mentioned. Margaret Warden Alban died in 1917, while John Alban passed away in 1902, having spent an active life as a farmer. He was a Methodist. There were five children: George W. married Lizzie Young, and their daughter, Ola, is the wife of Lloyd L. Sapp, there being two Sapp children, a son, Lloyd L., Jr., and a daughter. Henry Allen Alban married Annie Kirk and has three children: Clarence, Elliott and William. The third child is William R. Alban. Samuel Alban died in 1895. John M. married Etta Brainard, and they have a married daughter, Annie. William R. Alban attended district school, completed his literary education in Scio College, and before and after attending college, engaged in teaching. This was the profession of his earlier years, until finally he entered the Ohio State University at Columbus, taking the law course. He was graduated in law in 1893, and in the same year engaged in practice at Steubenville. Mr. Alban served six years as prosecuting attorney of Jefferson County, from January 1, 1903, to 1909. His practice is of a general nature, although more and more he has been engaged in corporation practice. He handled no cases on the criminal side of the docket. Mr. Alban was a member of the Legal Advisory Board and active in the prosecution of all war measures. He married at Steubenville, December 24, 1895, Miss Laura A. McWha, daughter of George and Amelia McWha. Her mother died in 1915 and her father, who died in 1890, was a farmer and a republican. Mrs. Alban was the only child of her parents. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Alban are Ethel 370 - HISTORY OF OHIO and Frederick Warden. Ethel is the wife of John Edson Peterson, and they have a son, Beverly. Mr. Alban is a member of the Hamlin Methodist Episcopal Church, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Kiwanis Club, Chamber of Commerce, County, State and American Bar associations. BLAINE D. CARTER. One of the oldest chiefs of police in the smaller cities of Ohio is Blaine D. Carter of Steubenville. Mr. Carter was appointed to his present position in March, 1917, by the civil service route, and in office has set a standard of official conduct that may be studied with profit by all interested in good government in municipal affairs. Mr. Carter was born at Steubenville, April 30, 1884, son of George W. and Emma (Mentor) Carter, and a grandson of David and Hannah (Dawson) Carter and John and Margaret (Rice) Mentor. David Carter came to Ohio from Loudoun County, Virginia, and his wife, from Morgantown, West Virginia. David Carter in the latter part of his life was engaged in the hotel business. John Mentor was a native of Switzerland, and came to the United States at about twenty years of age and engaged in the coal business. David Carter had five sons who were Union soldiers in the Civil war : William H., a color bearer of his regiment, who was killed at the battle of Antietam; James K., who lost his life at Vicksburg ; John D. and Albert W., who went to the war and came home uninjured; and Joseph, who was captured and spent twenty-one months in Andersonville prison, but finally returned, recovered his health and some years later went to Alaska. George W. Carter, who died February 22, 1913, was always active in public affairs, and was an iron worker, spending much of his time in mills ht Steubenville. He was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church. His wife, Emma Mentor, died February 18, 1923. They had three children, Blaine being the oldest. Miss Hannah Virginia is chief clerk in the county auditor 's office at Steubenville, and the youngest child, Miss Laura, is assistant to her sister. Blaine D. Carter attended the grade and high schools at Steubenville, and then engaged in the iron and steel trade, being a boilermaker and also did steel construction work. While working at his trade he manifested a keen interest in local politics, and in March, 1916, was called by popular vote to the office of chief of police. He has been continuously reelected. However, his continuous service in the office has not been due to politics or to his constant favor with party bosses. He has pursued what he has regarded as the right policy, regardless of results, and for that reason has again and again incurred the opposition of his former friends and supporters. At the same time he has gained the esteem of the law abiding element in the community and several times has been elected to office despite the opposition of newspapers and political leaders. Few men have such strength of character to withstand the pressure that at times has been brought to bear upon him. Mr. Carter married at Steubenville, September 16, 1918, Miss Martha Lucher, and her father was a railway man. They have two children, Blaine D. and George W. Mr. Carter is a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, and his fraternal affiliations are with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias and the Eagles. JOHN F. MCFADDEN, JR. Not inaptly has a newspaper office been called a great training school. In very many other lines of responsible business will be found men in authority who owe much to journalistic training in its various branches. A well known business man of Steubenville who has enjoyed this advantage is John F. McFadden, secretary and manager of the Steubenville Automobile Club, who for more than a decade was manager of the Steubenville Gazette. Mr. McFadden was born at Columbus, Ohio, January 9, 1887, being of Revolutionary stock and corning of old-settled families that have long been identified with America ,s best interests. He is the only son of John F. and Laura B. (Sampson) McFadden, and has one sister, Frances, who is the wife of F. B. Carey, of Lockport, New York, and they have one daughter, Clara Elizabeth Carey. The parents of Mr. McFadden were born in Ohio, to which state the McFaddens had come in 1831 from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where they had settled in 1820 upon coming from Coote Hill, County Cavan, Ireland. The great-grandfather, Samuel McFadden, was the Ohio pioneer. The grandparents were Henry S. and Frances (Poore) McFadden, the latter being a descendant of the historic Poore family that came to America in 1635. The grandparents on the maternal side were James and Mary (McDonald) Sampson, and it is through the McDonald strain that John F. McFadden may lay claim to a Revolutionary ancestor. John F. McFadden, the elder, was reared and educated for the law at Columbus, Ohio, where he engaged in the practice of his profession for some time and then removed to Buffalo, New York, at a later date returning to Ohio and entering journalistic work, at present being a member of the editorial staff of the Herald-Star at Steubenville. John F. McFadden, Jr., received his early educational training in the public schools of Columbus, and in 1903 was graduated from the high school at Buffalo, New York. For a short time afterward he was connected with a wholesale business house in that city, and then went into newspaper work in the office of the Buffalo Courier, where he continued until 1907, when he came to Steubenville and joined the Gazette force, his uncle, Henry H. McFadden, being the owner of that journal. He remained with the Gazette as its manager until his uncle sold it in 1919. In 1920 Mr. McFadden became assistant secretary of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce, remaining with that organization until 1922, when he assumed the secretaryship of the Steubenville Automobile Club, which is now the largest organization in eastern Ohio. Mr. McFadden married at Steubenville, February 22, 1911, Miss Gladys Jones, of Smithfield, Ohio, only child of Charles and Edna (Scott) Jones. The father of Mrs. McFadden died December 1, 1899, having long been a leading merchant at Smithfield. Mr. and Mrs. McFadden have three children: Ruth, born September 17, 1912; Jane, born September 24, 1917; and Nancy, born May 24, 1920. Mr. McFadden was reared in the Presbyterian Church, as was his wife. In political sentiment he is a democrat. He is a member of the Steubenville Country Club and of the Chamber of Commerce. ERNEST LINWOOD FINLEY. The professional associates of Ernest Linwood Finley unreservedly place him among the capable and industrious members of the Steubenville bar, where he has practiced long and ably. His practice has been largely of a corporation character, a field in which he has gained something more than a local reputation, and while he has been busily occupied with his large and constantly growing clientele he has also reserved time for the public service, having formerly been for sixteen years United States commissioner for the Eastern Division of the Southern District of Ohio. HISTORY OF OHIO - 371 Mr. Finley was born August 24, 1868, at Zanesfield, Logan County, Ohio, a son of Dr. Emmett and Amanda (Hanna) Finley, and a grandson of Dr. Robert Finley, who immigrated to the United States in 1822, at the age of nineteen years, after a course in Dublin College, and settled at Mount Pleasant, where he practiced his profession until his death at the age of sixty-three years. He married Angeline Hamilton, a daughter of Dr. William Hamilton, of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania. The Hanna family was founded in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1796, when James Hanna settled at Warrenton. The maternal grandparents of Mr. Finley were James and Margaret Hanna, both of whom died in 1858. Dr. Emmett Finley graduated from the Ohio State Medical College in 1862, following which he entered the Medical Corps and saw service during the Civil war in the hospital at Alexandria, Virginia. He later settled permanently at Mount Pleasant, where he followed his profession with honor and success until his death July 14, 1911. He was active in all public matters, and was a member of the School Board and a director of the local bank. He and his wife, who died in October, 1891, were the parents of three children: Ernest Linwood ; Pauline, who married Floyd Daugherty and had two children, William and Robert; and Lillie S., who married James T. Koch, and had one child, Margaret. Ernest Linwood Finley graduated from the Mount Pleasant High School in 1886, and then pursued an academic course at Wooster College, from which he was graduated in 1891 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. During 1892 and 1893 he attended the University at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and, although he did not complete his law course and graduate, he took his examination for the bar and was admitted in 1894. At that time he commenced practice in association with Gov. R. G. Richards, at that time judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He has since engaged in a general practice, barring criminal cases, his clientele being principally of a corporation character, and he is local counsel for the New York Central Railroad, several villages, coal companies and banks. During the late war he was chairman of No. 2 Advisory Board. He belongs to the State and County Bar associations and at one time was president of the law library of the latter. Mr. Finley belongs to the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Chamber of Commerce and to the Steubenville Country Club, and his religious connection is with the Westminster Presbyterian Church. He is a great admirer of all forms of healthful sports, particularly baseball and football, and practices what he preaches in keeping himself fit by a great deal of walking. On October 31, 1901, at Mount Pleasant, Mr. Finley was united in marriage with Miss Julia B. White, daughter of James A. and Marcia A. White, the former of whom died January 26, 1924, and the latter in July, 1921. Early in life Mr. White became a school teacher, and for thirty years was principal of the school at Mount Pleasant, but in his later years applied himself to the life insurance business. He and his wife had the following children: William, who married Anna B. Comley, and they have three children, Miriam, Richard and Mary; Julia B.; Kyle A.; and Elizabeth, who married Charles S. Thatcher, and has one child, Helen. Mr. and Mrs. Finley are the parents of two children: Louise, a Bachelor of Arts graduate of Wilson College at Chambersburg, and Katherine R., who is attending the Steubenville High School. WILLIAM HOWARD BOYD has by his ability and his excellent professional stewardship gained high rank at the bar of his native state, and his reputation as a lawyer and publicist has transcended mere local limitations. He has been established in the practice of his profession in the City of Cleveland for thirty-three years. Mr. Boyd was born in Londonderry Township, Guernsey County, Ohio, on the 11th of August, 1864, and is a son of George W. and Mary A. (Campbell) Boyd. Mr. Boyd passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the homestead farm of his parents, in Guernsey County, and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages of the district schools. His public school education was so effectively advanced that he proved his eligibility for pedagogic service and gave four years to successful work as a teacher, principally in the schools of his native county. Thereafter he read law under effective private preceptorship, and in June, 1887, he was admitted to the bar. The year 1890 recorded his establishing a law office in Cleveland, where he proved his technical powers in his profession and built up a substantial law business. He continued in individual practice until 1908, when he became a member of the representative law firm of Westenhaver, Boyd, Rudolph & Brooks. In 1913 the firm name became Westenhaver, Boyd & Brooks. A subsequent change, in 1917, gave to the firm the title of Boyd & Brooks, and since October of that year the firm, one of the strongest in the Ohio metropolis, has been Boyd, Cannon, Brooks & Wickham. While still a resident of Guernsey County Mr. Boyd served as clerk of the Village and Township of Flushing, and in the period of 1897-9 he was assistant director of law for the City of Cleveland. In 1905 he was made the republican nominee for mayor of Cleveland, and the debates in which he participated, in the ensuing campaign, with his democratic opponent, the late Tom L. Johnson, has established an historical record in connection with such municipal campaigns, the Johnson-Boyd debates having gained wide celebrity. Mr. Boyd was a Roosevelt delegate to the Republican State Convention of Ohio in 1912, and was selected as one of the "Ohio Big Four" to represent the Buckeye State as Roosevelt delegates to the Republican National Convention of that year in Chicago. In the primary elections of 1920 he was specially active in promoting the candidacy of General Leonard Wood for the presidency of the United States, and was a delegate at large to the Republican National Convention of that year. Mr. Boyd holds active membership in the Cleveland, the Ohio State and the American Bar associations, and is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and the Cleveland Athletic Club. He has, as may be inferred from preceding statements, been a leader in the councils and campaign activities of the republican party in Ohio. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a member of the Euclid Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. September 7, 1892, recorded the marriage of Mr. Boyd and Miss Anna Maud Judkins, of Flushing, Guernsey County, and she passed to the life eternal on the 23rd of September, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd became the parents of two daughters, Mildred A. and Mary G., both of whom survived the mother, but the death of Mildred A. occurred about three years later, on the 22d of January, 1911. ROSS D. STONE, who has been giving effective service as justice of the peace in the city of Steubenville, judicial center of Jefferson County, since 1921, was born on his father 's farm in Cross Creek Township, this county, January 17, 1876. He was seven years old at the time of his mother's death, in 1883, and was a lad of ten years when he was doubly 372 - HISTORY OF OHIO orphaned by the death of his father in 1886. He was the second in order of birth in a family of three children, the eldest of whom, Minnie A., is the wife of Ulysses Grant Johnson and the mother of one child, John S. Edward M., youngest of the children, is still listed as an eligible bachelor. Mr. Stone is a son of John R. and Matilda (Deters) Stone, both of whom passed their entire lives in Ohio, the former having been a son of William D. and Louise (McCoy) Stone, and a grandson of one of the sterling pioneers of Cross Creek Township, Jefferson County. The lineage of the Stone family traces to staunch Scotch-Irish origin. The maternal grandparents of the subject of this review were John E. and Matilda (Rickey) Deters. John R. Stone held prestige as one of the substantial exponents of farm industry in Jefferson County, and also developed a prosperous business in the buying and shipping of grain. He gave three years and three months of loyal service as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war, in which he was a member of the Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a command which, by reason of its being known for its special gallantry in many a sanguinary conflict, became known as the "Bloody Ninety-eighth." In later years Mr. Stone vitalized his association with his former comrades in arms by retaining active affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. He and his wife were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. The early education of Ross D. Stone was acquired in the district schools, which he continued to attend until he was sixteen years of age, and in the meanwhile he had gained a goodly experience in the varied details of farm industry. He continued his alliance with farm enterprise in his native county until he was twenty years old, and thereafter he served two years as deputy sheriff of the county under Sheriff Potter. He devoted the ensuing three years to a contracting business, mainly in road grading, and he next had charge of dynamiting work in connection with railroad tunnel construction. He then became a salesman for the great Chicago packing concern of Armour & Company, and traveled from the branch quarters established at Steubenville, where he later had charge of the shipping department. He continued his alliance with Armour & Company fifteen years, and in this period amplified his practical experience by passing two years in the herding of beef cattle in Kansas and Oklahoma, where he made a record that gave him title to due honors as a skilled cowboy. He finally left the service of Armour & Company, and since 1921 has retained at Steubenville the office of justice of the peace, in which he is giving a very effective and satisfactory administration. His political allegiance is given to the republican party; he and his wife hold membership in the Christian Church. He is affiliated with the local organizations of the Sons of Veterans and Knights of the Maccabees, and he is an active member of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce, the Steubenville Automobile Club and the Jefferson County Game Association, of which he is the executive head. Esquire Stone is specially appreciative of outdoor life, and in the summer and other consistent seasons for such diversion, he and his family have many a pleasant week-end entertainment in camping out. September 8, 1917, recorded the marriage of Mr. Stone and Miss Doris E. Kriter, eldest of the five children of William and Retta Kriter, the latter of whom still resides in Steubenville. William Kriter was a carpenter by trade and vocation, and his death occurred when his daughter, Doris E. (Mrs. Stone), was but twelve years old, she having then assumed charge of the home and the care of the younger children while the devoted mother found employment to support the family. Zelma, the next younger of the children, is the wife of John Allen, and they have two children, George and Doris. Earl, who married Miss Madge Reese, represented Jefferson County in the nation’s military service in the World war period. Margaret is the wife of Frederick A. Beach, and they have one daughter, Bettie. Miss Inez, youngest of the children, is (1924) chief operator in the office of the Cleveland Telephone Company in the city of Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Stone have three children, Virginia M., Robert and Ross D., Jr. AUGUST L. BECKER. The vital city of Steubenville, judicial center of Jefferson County, has its fiscal affairs under effective administration at the time of this writing, in the summer of 1924, for August L. Becker, city treasurer, is not only an efficient executive but also has and manifests the loyalty of a native son of the city which he is thus serving, his birth having occurred at Steubenville, October 15, 1886. His father, the late August Becker, whose death occurred in 1904, operated at Steubenville a flour mill, to the management of which he continued to give his attention fully twenty-five years, and in this city his widow still maintains her home. The maiden name of Mrs. Becker was Dora Slater, and she was born and reared in Ohio. August Becker was born in Germany, where he received his youthful education, and it was about the year 1871 when he came to the United States and established his residence in Steubenville. Prior to initiating his independent business career in this city he here found employment for some time in the old Jefferson Iron Works. His religious faith was that of the Lutheran Church. He was a sterling citizen who commanded unqualified popular esteem in the community, and was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. August and Dora (Slater) Becker became the parents of six children, one son having died in infancy ; Miss Emma, eldest of the children, remains with her widowed mother, as does also Miss Dorothy, the next younger ; August L., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Edward married Thelma King, and they have one child; Marie is the wife of Carl Bower, and their one child is a son, Carl, Jr. Steubenville's present city treasurer here attended the public schools until he was thirteen years old, and his broader education has been that received through self-discipline and through the medium of practical experience. At the age of thirteen years he found employment in a local bakery. He next became an employe of the Adams Express Company, his connection with which here continued until he enlisted in the United States army. After two years and three months of military service he received his honorable discharge from the army, owing to an injury he had received in one of his arms while in service. Upon his return to Steubenville he became a salesman for the local branch of Armour & Company, the great Chicago meat packing concern, and he continued in the employ of this corporation ten years. In 1920 Mr. Becker was elected city treasurer, as candidate on the republican ticket, and the high estimate placed upon his administration was shown in his reelection at the expiration of his first term. The physical disability resulting from the injury which he received while in the army made him ineligible for service in the World war, but he found divers means for the constructive expression of his patriotism. He is a candidate for reelection to the office of city treasurer in the autumn of 1924, and this is virtually tantamount to his reelection. Mr. Becker is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, including the Dramatic Order of Knights of Khorassan, and also with the local organizations of HISTORY OF OHIO - 373 the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, the Improved Order of Red Men, the Loyal Order of Moose, and the United Commercial Travelers, Association. He and his wife are active members of the Second United Presbyterian Church in their home city. November 28, 1913, recorded the marriage of Mr. Becker and Miss Elma J. England, daughter of the late David England, who was long engaged in business as a contractor and builder in Jefferson County and who held for a quarter of a century the office of justice of the peace in his home village of Winterville, where his death occurred in 1920, and where his widow likewise passed away before the close of that year, both having been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Besides Mrs. Becker there were three other children in the England family—Clyde, Fred and William, the last named having died at the age of twenty-one years. Clyde is a bachelor, and Fred, the family name of whose wife was Grimm, has two children. Mr. and Mrs. Becker have three children: William, Maurice and Robert. JOHN EDWARD FAY, the efficient superintendent of the Ohio Valley Hospital at Steubenville, judicial center of Jefferson County, has had broad and varied experience in hospital service and administration, and under his supervision the Ohio Valley Hospital is giving the maximum of efficiency in all departments of its important community service. Mr. Fay was born at Rockville, Connecticut, April 26, 1867, and is the only representative of the immediate family circle to have left the East. His father, William Bond Fay, was born and reared in Ireland, and upon coming to the United States settled first at Willimantic, Connecticut, whence he later removed to Rockville, that state, where he passed the remainder of his life, his death having occurred in 1880, and his widow, whose maiden name was Hannah Kane, having passed away in 1888. Both were devoted communicants of the Catholic Church. Of the children the eldest is Andrew J., who was born in 1861. He married Margaret O,Leary, and their four living children are Walter, Loretta, Margaret and Helen. The oldest of the children was Allen, who died at the age of eighteen years. Thomas, the second son, married Katherine Clark, and their one child is a son, Norman. John E., of this review, was the next in order of birth. Sarah is the widow of Frank Tierney, deceased. After having profited by the advantages of public schools in his native city John E. Fay completed a course in a business college at Hartford, Connecticut, and as an accountant he then took a position in the auditing department of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, with which important corporation he continued his association twelve years in its offices at East Hartford and New York City. Upon his retirement from railroad service he assumed the position of assistant superintendent of the Hartford General Hospital in the City of Hartford, Connecticut, where he thus continued his effective service twelve years, he having passed the following year as an executive in Ellis Hospital at Schenectady, New York. He then accepted the office of superintendent of a hospital at New Britain, Connecticut, and after three years' retention of this position he came, in 1922, to Ohio and assumed his present executive position, that of superintendent of the Ohio Valley Hospital. His administrative policies are vigorous and progressive, and besides handling the business affairs of the institution with careful discrimination he is constantly alert in bringing the general service of this well equipped hospital up to the highest possible standard. Mr. Fay is an active member of the Ohio Hospital Association and also of the American Hospital Association. He and his wife are communicants of the Catholic Church, and he is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Foresters, and the St. Bernard 's Temperance Society. At Newington, Connecticut, on the 7th of January, 19] 9, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Fay and Miss Lucy Quinlan, who was at the time a skilled and popular nurse in Hartford Hospital. Mrs. Fay was born and reared in Connecticut, and is the youngest of the four children born to Patrick and Margaret Quinlan, the former of whom is deceased and the latter of whom still resides in Connecticut. Ann Frances, eldest of the four children, is a trained nurse and is following her profession in the city of Hartford; Margaret remains with her widowed mother ; and Nellie is the wife of John McGrath, a prosperous Connecticut farmer, their children being five in number : Lucy, Bettie, Donald, William and Ann Frances. Mr. and Mrs. Fay have two children, Margaret and Ann Frances. ROLAND ST. CLAIR KELSEY bears the distinction of being the youngest county superintendent of schools in the State of Ohio. He began his career as an educator at the early age of seventeen, and has accomplished a great deal of service and earned on the merits of his ability his promotion to the responsibility he now enjoys. He is superintendent of the Department of Public Instruction of Highland County, with his home in Hillsboro. Mr. Kelsey was born at Levanna, Ohio, July 4, 1895. His grandfather, Henry Clay Kelsey, spent all of his life in that community, where he was born in 1843 and died in 1902. William Stratton Kelsey, father of the county school superintendent, was born at Levanna, Ohio, January 19, 1867, and is still living at the place where he was born. He has given a number of years to the contracting business, and until recently was a deputy state building inspector. His wife, Anna Laura Chapman, was born at Levanna, Ohio, February 9, 1867. Roland St. Clair Kelsey was given his middle name in honor of Gen. Arthur St. Clair. He grew up in a rural community in Southern Ohio, attended grammar school at Levanna and later, in 1912, graduated from the Ripley High School. He was then sixteen years of age, and from that time forward, taught school as well as attended winter and summer sessions in schools and colleges to advance his own higher education. When he taught his first school at the age of seventeen, many of his pupils were older than he. While teaching he attended the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and subsequently attended Wilmington College, where. he graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1921. His service record as a teacher includes three years of work, 1912-1915, in the elementary schools of Brown County, in 1915-1918 he was superintendent of the Aberdeen public schools, and in 1918-1919 acted as superintendent of a Smith-Hughes school in Marion County, Ohio. From there he was called to the superintendency of the high school at Bath, Ohio, Summit County, where he remained from 1919 to 1920, and from 1920 to February, 1923, he was superintendent of the Lynchburg High School. Since 1923 he has been superintendent of the schools of Highland County. Mr. Kelsey has a reputation of having great moral courage, being absolutely fearless to carry into execution the dictates of his conscience. He will uphold and defend whatever he thinks is right regardless of how the outcome may effect his personal fortune. As a public servant he is faithful to his clientele and commands the respect and confidence of a large circle of friends, not all of whom are school people. 374 - HISTORY OF OHIO Mr. Kelsey is a member of the Christian Church. He married at Rainsboro, Ohio, December 24, 1919, Miss Rosalie Copeland, who was born near Rainsboro, June 11, 1900, and was educated in the common and high schools there, later attending Wilmington Col- lege. In 1918-1919 she taught at New Petersburg, Ohio, and was a teacher in the schools of Rainsboro in 1919-1920. Mr. and Mrs. Kelsey have one child, Jewel Jean, born at Lynchburg, Ohio, October 25, 1920. MAJOR VAN A. SNIDER, judge of the Probate Court of Lancaster, is one of the ablest jurists of Ohio, and a man whose integrity and sound judgment are proverbial. He was born in Walnut Township, Fairfield County, Ohio, October 27, 1869, a son of Rev. Absalom and Effie Ellen (Trovinger) Snider, the former of whom for fifty-four years was active in ministerial work in the United Brethren denomination in Fairfield, Licking, Franklin, Marion and other counties in central Ohio. His death occurred January 24, 1920, but the mother survives. They had eight children, namely: Charlotta, who is deceased ; George C., who married Matilda Quigley, has three children, Absalom Brock, Harry Andrew and Flora Ellen, Alice Matilda, deceased; Judge Snider, who was the third in order of birth; Andrew J., who married Mary Hunt and has four children, Paul J. and Perry E., twins, Helen L. and Mary W.; Ida Jane, who married Weston Laughbaum, has two children, Martha E. and Stanley S.; Effie Elizabeth, who married Cicero Zachman, has six children, Arthur S., Richard S., Katherine E., Harold L., Elizabeth C. and Mildred J.; Alice Rebecca, who married Edwin C. Gayman, has three children, Lowell W., Malcolm A. and Elvin E.; and Fred B., who married Florence Estella Creasap, has one child, Van William. The ancestors of Judge Snider located in the American colonies at an early day. His parental grandparents were early natives of Fairfield County, Ohio. His great-grandfather George Frederick Snider, Jr., was born October 17, 1781, at Walker, Baltimore County, Maryland. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, came to Ohio about 1815 and settled on the Refugee Lands northwest of Millersport, Fairfield County, Ohio. He reared a family of two boys and eight girls. His father or grandfather, George Frederick Schneider, came to America with his wife and three children from Rumbach, District of Wegelburg, in 1753 and settled in Baltimore County, Maryland. The Trovinger family is also an old one, and the maternal grandfather of Judge Snider, Christopher Trovinger, was born in Washington County, Maryland, February 23, 1808, a son of Samuel Trovinger, and grandson of Christopher Trovinger, a native of Calico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. During the American Revolution he was engaged in manufacturing blankets for the soldiers of the Colonial forces. He and his wife had ten children. The father of Christopher Trovinger (I) was Adam Trovinger, who came to America from Holland about the year 1765. Samuel Trovinger married 'Rebecca Gorden, a Quaker, July 22, 1801, in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. They had ten children, and in 1812, when their son Christopher (II), the fourth child, was four years old, they moved to Walnut Township, Fairfield County, Ohio. With the outbreak of the second war with England Samuel Trovinger enlisted, and served as a corporal in Capt. Peter Lamb's Company, which was recruited in the northeastern part of Fairfield County, Ohio. Christopher Trovinger (II) married Jane Lyle, April 2, 1835. They had ten children. Judge Snider attended the local district schools, the Canal Winchester and Baltimore High schools, and the Basil Normal and Teachers' Training School. With the completion of these courses he began teaching school, and remained in the educational field for two years. Appointed then deputy sheriff of Fairfield County, he served as such for three years. Deciding upon a professional career, he then took up the study of law under the preceptorship of Judge John G. Reeves, and was admitted to the bar October 16, 1896, and began the practice of his calling at Lancaster, Ohio. He was admitted to practice in the United States District and Circuit Courts February 9, 1900, and the Supreme Court of the United States March 5, 1909. In 1909 he was elected city solicitor of Lancaster, and held the office for two terms, making so fine a record that he was recognized as the logical candidate for the office of judge of Probate Court of Fairfield County, and was elected to it in 1920 for a four-year term, and is the present candidate to succeed himself. He is also judge of the Juvenile Court, to which he devotes much of his time. For eighteen years he belonged to the Ohio National Guards, enlisted in the ranks, rising until he became major of the Seventh Ohio regiment. When war was declared with the Central Powers he was mustered into the Regular Army as major of his regiment, and was with the Thirty-seventh Division. He attended and graduated from the First Field Officers' School held at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, was instructor-inspector in field work and gas defense at Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Alabama ; Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas; and Camp Wadsworth, Spartensburg, South Carolina, his period of service extending over eighteen months, at the close of which he was honorably discharged. Judge Snider also served for four years on the personal military staff of Governor Harmon. In 1912 he was a delegate from the Eleventh Congressional District of Ohio to the Democratic National Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, that nominated Woodrow Wilson for the presidency. On June 10, 1897, Judge Snider married Cora Alice Holland, a daughter of Judge E. F. Holland, for seven years judge of the Probate Court. He was a Civil war veteran and marched with Sherman "From Atlanta to the Sea." He died. May 9, 1915. His widow, whose maiden name was Mary Ann Jones, died August 3, 1924. Mrs. Snider was their only child. Judge and Mrs. Snider have two children: Mary Vaneta and Effie Miriam. Judge Snider belongs to the United Brethren Church and his wife, to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, and belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he is a past exalted ruler ; to the Knights of Pythias, of which he is a past chancellor commander ; to the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce and the Lancaster Kiwanis Club. He is a trustee of the Lancaster City Public Library, president of the Fairfield County Historical Society and a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. LONZO CARI, HILL, D. D. S., has been established in the successful practice of his profession in the City of Steubenville since 1914, and the scope and character of his clientage indicates the high popular estimate placed upon him in this community. The Hill family of the present day is notable for the number of dentists which it can claim in a direct and collateral way. With brothers and their sons and sons-in-law, the Hill family is now represented by a goodly corps of thirty-six dentists. He whose name initiates this paragraph can claim kinship with the gallant cavaliers of Virginia and the sturdy pioneer stock of New England. The Hill family was early founded in Virginia, and in various generations has been one of no minor prominence in the historic Old Dominion. The Whitney family, of which the doctor is a representative on the maternal