HISTORY OF OHIO - 375 side, was founded in New England in the Colonial period of American history, and his maternal grandfather, Rev. Joseph Whitney, was a clergyman of the Baptist Church. Doctor Hill was born in Trail Run, Monroe County, Ohio, on the 4th of October, 1870, and is a son of Joseph and Hannah (Whitney) Hill. Joseph Hill was born and reared in Virginia, and came to Ohio about the year 1865, the old Hill homestead having been at Charlestown, Virginia. In Ohio was solemnized the marriage of Joseph Hill and Miss Hannah Whitney, who was born in Maine and who was young when she accompanied her parents on their removal to Ohio. Joseph and Hannah Hill became the parents of six sons and five daughters, concerning whom the following brief data are available: John, who was long engaged in the practice of dentistry, is now living retired in the State of New Mexico, his children being four in number. Charles Lee, who now lives retired in New Mexico, was formerly a successful dental practitioner in the City of Wheeling, West Virginia. He has two daughters. James Jefferson, a retired dentist residing at Zanesville, Ohio, has three sons and three daughters. Dr. Lonzo C., of this review, is the next younger of the sons. Dr. George L. is a representative dental practitioner at Wheeling, West Virginia, and is the father of one son and three daughters. William H. is engaged in the practice of dentistry at Clarksburg, West Virginia. Eliza, first of the daughters, died at the age of seven years. Mrs. Rosa Berta Shai has five children. Mrs. Hattie Cain has one son and one daughter, her husband being a dentist in the City of Canton, Ohio. Mrs. Anna Bell Sager and her husband now reside in California, their one child being a daughter. Mrs. Rosie Lee Black and her husband reside in California, their children being five in number. Dr. Lonzo C. Hill received the advantages of the public schools, and in preparation for his chosen profession he entered the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in the City of Cincinnati, where he completed the prescribed course and was graduated as a member of the class of 1892. After thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he continued to be engaged in the practice of his profession in Cincinnati until his removal to Steubenville, where he has since actively followed the work of his profession, and where his offices have the best of modern equipment and facilities in both operative and laboratory departments. The doctor is an active member of the Ohio Dental Society, and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His wife, whose maiden name was Julia Teresa Keegan, died in 1907, and she is survived by three children: Edna Marie is the wife of William F. McGuigan, Doctor of Dental Surgery, and they have three children, June Marie, Lonzo Carl and Marilyn Patricia. Alice Lillian is the wife of John W. Young, and their one child is a daughter, Mary Eileen. George LeRoy, youngest of the children, is subject of the personal sketch which imme diately follows this review. GEORGE LEROY HILL, only son of Dr. Alonzo Carl Hill, whose sketch immediately precedes this review, was born at Bellevue, Kentucky, January 17, 1899, and his public school discipline was rounded out by his course of study in the high school at Steubenville, Ohio. Thereafter he continued his studies in the Wentworth Military Academy at Lexington, Kentucky; in a school at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and finally in Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He next completed a course of one year in the Pierce School of Finance, in the City of Philadelphia, and he is now assisting in the office of his father, who is one of the leading dentists of Steubenville, as he has not yet definitely formulated his plans for his future career. SAMUEL FLEMING PAUL, M. D., has distinctly proved the efficiency and loyalty of his professional stewardship in his able services as one of the representative physicians and surgeons in the City of Steubenville, county seat and metropolis of Jefferson County, where he has been engaged in general practice since the year 1911. Doctor Paul was born in Rural Valley, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, June 22, 1878, and is a scion of a sterling Pennsylvania family of German origin, the first representatives of the family having settled near the present City of Johnstown in the Colonial period of the history of the fine old Keystone State. Samuel Paul, grandfather of the doctor, passed his entire life in Pennsylvania, as did also the maternal grandfather, Samuel Frampton. Emanuel S. Paul, father of him whose name initiates this review, is now living retired after many years of service as a foreman in steel mills. He has been active in politics, has held local offices of minor order, but has invariably refused to become a candidate for higher offices. He is affiliated with the Knights of the Golden Eagle, and he and his wife, whose maiden name was Annetta Frampton, hold membership in the Methodist Protestant Church. They now maintain their home at Steubenville, Ohio, and have long been residents of Jefferson County, Ohio. To them were born the following sons and daughters: Susanna Jane is the wife of Alfred Shoemaker, and they had five children: Clarence, Mabel, Twyla Ruth, Leland and Charles, all of whom are living, except Charles, who died at the age of four months. Dr. Samuel F., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth. Cyrus William married Emma Schubert, and their surviving children are Floyd and Edith, the third child having been a daughter that died in early childhood. Charles Clyde married Orma Dotson, and they have five children: Raymond, Forrest, Gladys, Samuel and one other son. Gladys Rosaldo is the wife of Ralph Copeland, and their one child is a son, Dale. Emma Grace is the wife of Walter Edgard, and their one child is Walton. Forrest Dale, an undertaker by profession, entered service in the United States army when the nation became involved in the World war, was made an orderly at the headquarters of the quartermaster 's department, and in this connection he applied himself so strenuously that he was literally worked to death, his life having been sacrificed in the cause as fully as those of the gallant young men who fell on the field of battle. Elias Earl died in the year 1921, as a result of tuberculosis, which disease he contracted while in camp at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He enlisted in the United States army in April, 1917, the month in which the nation entered the great world conflict, his physical disability having led to his receiving his honorable discharge at the camp mentioned, and his death having occurred April 11, 1921. Both of these gallant young patriots who thus gave their lives in behalf of their country were bachelors. Bert Emanuel, the next younger son, married May Harin, and they have two children, Bert and Mary. Tenneson Clair is the youngest of the children. The district schools gave to Doctor Paul his preliminary education, which was advanced by his attending the high school at Hammondsville, Jefferson County, and thereafter, while applying himself to various occupations in order to provide the means for acquiring his professional education, he fortified himself further by taking special preparatory studies under the direction of a private tutor. In 1907 he matriculated in fine old Starling Medical College, which is now the medical department of the Univer- 376 - HISTORY OF OHIO sity of Ohio, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1911 and with the well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. He continues a close student of the best standard and periodical literature pertaining to medical and surgical science, and in 1917 he took effective post-graduate work in the great New York Polyclinic. From the year of his graduation to the present time he has been engaged in practice at Steubenville, and in connection with the World war he volunteered and was made a member of the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States army, but was not called into active service. He served as a medical examiner on the draft board of Jefferson County during the war interval, and also as health officer of Steubenville. Doctor Paul is an active member of the Jefferson County Medical Society, thc Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In the Masonic fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and is also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and he is affiliated also with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of the Maccabees and the Tribe of Ben Hur. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home city. At Grant Hill, Jefferson County, April 14, 1897, Doctor Paul wedded Miss Margaret Jeanette McKenzie, daughter of the late Laughlin James McKenzie and Priscilla Dott (Dorrance) McKenzie, the former of whom died about 1914 and the latter on the 30th of October, 1918. Of the children in the McKenzie family the following brief record may be given: Marie is the wife of John C. Hart, and they have one child; Flora is the wife of Elmer Saltsman, and they have two children; Matilda is the wife of Thomas A. McCullough, and they have four children; Mrs. Paul was the next in order of birth ; Ernest James, the elder son, has been twice married, first to Elizabeth Glenn, who is survived by one daughter, and, second, to Bessie Miller ; Floyd Tenneson married Marie Paisley, and they have one son; and Bessie is the wife of Charles Dever. Laughlin J. McKenzie, who was one of the substantial farmers of Jefferson County, served during the Civil war as a member of Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Third Division, Sixth Army Corps, took part in many engagements, and May 6, 1864, in the Battle of the Wilderness, he was severely wounded. He was mustered in September 8, 1862, at Camp Steubenville by Alexander E. Drake, and mustered out June 25, 1865, near New York City, by J. C. Robinson. In later years he was an appreciative and honored member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Doctor and Mrs. Paul have two children: Clyde Ernest and Floyd Earl. WILLIAM H. DAVEY is president of the Mansfield Sheet and Tin Plate Company. This is one of the big industrial concerns of Ohio, but it is even more notable for the remarkable family who control and direct its operations. Several years ago the story of the business and the family was interestingly told in the American Magazine under the title of "Mother Davey and Her Seven Sons." William H. Davey is now the oldest living son. His older brother, Thomas John Davey, died in 1919. The father of these brothers was John Davey, who was born in Devonshire, England, of English parentage, and had a genius for technical work. He and his wife lived in England for a number of years, where all their sons but the youngest were born. There were also four daughters in the family. John Davey was a roller in a sheet steel mill, and was not only an expert himself, but he trained his sons in 'thoroughness and skill, and it was their complete mastery of every phase of operation in a steel mill that proved the foundation of the great success they achieved at Mansfield. John Davey came to America and found work at his trade in sheet steel mills, and subsequently had his wife and ten children join him. At that time William H. Davey was twelve years of age, and had already begun work in a mill in his native town. The family lived at various mill centers in Pennsylvania, and subsequently moved to the great Youngstown steel district, locating at Niles. John Davey lived to see all his sons accomplished workers, but died before they had united their capital and skill in establishing a plant of their own. In the meantime William H. Davey had worked with his father and had been promoted to the responsible position of roller, one of the highest paid trades in steel mills. At Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, he resigned his position as roller, where he was making $5,000 a year, in order to become superintendent of a plant at a salary of $1,500. He was then thirty years of age, but he soon proved his ability as an executive and manager, as well as a master of his own trade. For a time he was general superintendent of the Carnahan Tin Plate & Sheet Company at Canton, and later he built the Massillon Rolling Mill. At Massillon his brothers joined him in the mill, all of them but one having mastered the trade of roller. John Davey trained his sons to a sense of responsibility, and from youth they have been characterized as men of purpose and foresight, sober and and earnest and willing to sacrifice much in order to get ahead. While at Massillon they planned to combine their skill and experience and limited capital to secure a mill of their own. Finally William H. Davey negotiated for the purchase of an abandoned steel plant at Mansfield, where with the aid of the Chamber of Commerce the Mansfield Sheet & Tin Plate Company was organized. The plant began operations in January, 1914. The original capitalization was $250,000, a majority of the stock being held by the Davey family. When the plant was put into operation the eight Davey Brothers comprised the crew for rolling the first sheet of steel, and while all of them have had executive responsibilities, the brothers have taken their turn at the actual work of rolling to prove that they are still masters of their trade. The business proved enormously successful, and by 1920 the capitalization had been increased to $3,000,000. William H. Davey is president of the company. His brother Samuel Davey is second vice president and general manager, Albert I. Davey is first vice president and purchasing agent, John Davey is a superintendent, Harold Davey is district sales manager, with offices in Detroit, Michigan, and another superintendent is the first son born in America, James Garfield Davey. All these brothers were rollers, and Albert was the youngest roller at the Falcon Tire Plate Works of Niles. The only brother who did not accomplish the trade of roller is F. Austin Davey, who chose engineering as his career, and has been chief engineer in charge of construction. CLARENCE N. TEAFF since leaving high school has given his full time in practice and study to the engineering profession, and nearly all his service has been with the engineering department of the City of Steubenville. He is the present city engineer, and is well qualified, both in the technical work of his profession and in his thorough knowledge of all local conditions affecting engineering problems. Mr. Teaff was born at Steubenville, January 22, 1888, son of Raymond S. and Jessie M. (Ferguson) Teaff, and his grandparents were Nimrod Teaff HISTORY OF OHIO - 377 and George and Alice Ferguson. Alice Ferguson is now ninety-four years of age. The Teaffs have been in Ohio for more than 100 years, and are of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Nimrod Teaff lived to the great age of ninety-eight years. Raymond S. Teaff for many years was a painter in the railroad car shops, and is now employed as court bailiff in the Jefferson County Court. He has always been active in politics, interested in public affairs, and a member of the Methodist ChurcJanuary,fe died in January, 1911. They were the parents of ten children: George, who married Lucy Boyd, and had four children, named Raymond, James, George and Luther ; Anna, who married S. M. Rowan, and has five children, Lucille, George, Harry, Scott and Jay; Raymond, Jr., whose wife was Bessie Clark, and their three children are Helen, William and Ruth ; Clarence; Walter, unmarried; Hettie, unmarried ; Gladys, unmarried; Henry, who married Viola Fornwalt; Helda, who married Arthur Johnson, and has a daughter, Bettie Jane; and Fred. Clarence N. Teaff was educated in the public schools of Steubenville, finishing his high school course in 1907. In the summer of the same year he became an employe o,sthe city engineer 's office, beginning as rodman and chainman. The work was fascinating to him, and he put in all his spare time in studying the technic of civil engineering, and his devotion to the work has brought him his present stage of proficiency. He was appointed city engineer in 1922. In May, 1918, he enlisted and was sent for training to Valparaiso, Indiana, for four weeks ; then to Camp Lee, Virginia ; and was in training as an engineer at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute until after the signing of the armistice. He served in the rank of sergeant, first class. He was finally sent to the barracks at Columbus, Ohio, where he received his discharge in February, 1919, and then resumed his engineering duties at Steubenville. Mr. Teaff is unmarried. He is a member of the Congregational Church, and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias. WILLIAM S. MERRELL. While the completed life work of every good, conscientious man can scarcely fail to offer lessons that are worth while to learn, it is of yet greater value to posterity when his field of worthy achievement has been broad and his influence great. Such upstanding men and marked personalities as the late William S. Merrell, of Coshocton, cannot pass off the scene of life without leaving a great void behind them, and a memory long preserved in the hearts of their people. William S. Merrell was a native of Ohio, born at Millersburg, Holmes County, October 15, 1869. His parents, John C. and Jane (Patterson) Merrell, where likewise Ohio born, and descendants of sturdy pioneer families, plain, practical, good, industrious people. In childhood his parents moved on a farm, and his earliest schooling was in the country schools, but later his father, who was a carpenter, moved to Coshocton and went into the carpenter contracting business. As was natural, he taught his son his own trade and probably desired thisson to follow in hii industrial footsteps, although the youth from childhood cherished the ambition to become a lawyer. He neglected no opportugraduatedtudy, and graduated from the Coshocton High School, and the time came when he was admitted as a student in the law office of Pomerene & Pomerene at Coshocton. His progress was rapid on account of his diligence and natural ability, and later he continued his law studies in the Ohio State University. Upon successfully Passing the bar examination in 1897 he was admitted to practice, and immediately afterward opened a law office, in a short time, however, becoming the law partner of Hon. Samuel H. Nicholas at Coshocton, which professional connection existed until Judge Nicholas was elected judge of the Common Pleas Court. Mr. Merrell remained alone in practice for some years and then admitted Joseph B. Shepler to a partnership, also Clyde M. Burklew. For almost a quarter of a century Mr. Merrell ranked with the ablest members of the Coshocton bar, during this time taking part in a vast amount of important work in the courts and building up a reputation not only for thorough knowledge of the law, but for honorable and worthy practice. He was never ambitious politically, but as an influential citizen, was frequently mentioned for high positions in the gift of the democratic party, honors which he declined to accept because of his devotion to the profession he adorned. In 1899 Mr. Merrell married Miss Letitia Smith, daughter of Isaac T. and Virginia M. (Nicholas) Smith, members of prominent old families of Coshocton County. Mr. and Mdaughter,l had one daughter, Virginia Jane, who became the wife of Harry B. Smith, a native of New York. Her death occurred December 25, 1920, leaving a son, William Harry Smith. Mrs. Merrell was sustainled upon to sustain two heavy bereavements within a very short time, Mr. Merrell passing away on November 30, 1920. She still resides in her home at 844 Main Street, Coshocton, and her widowed mother resides with her. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was Mr. Merrell, who was interested along many benevolent lines. While never ostentatious or officious, all his life Mr. Merrell was intensely patriotic, and during the World war he demonstrated in many ways his patriotism and public spirit, and did his part, in full degree, in the achievement of victory. THE DESHLER. FAMILY. No family has played a more conspicuous part in the history of Columbus than that bearing the name of Deshler, its members having been for three generations exceedingly prominent in financial, business and social circles, and having always exhibited those sterling traits of character which make for the highest type of good citizenship. A member of this old and honored family of the city is John Green Deshler, whose connection with the financial life of Columbus has been long and constant. The Deshler family originated in Alsace-Lorraine, from whence its representatives came to the American colonies, settling in Eastern Pennsylvania, and when war was declared between these colonies and England several bearing the name enlisted in the Colonial army and fought valiantly in the American Revolution. It was from that part of the Keystone State that the late David W. Deshler came to Ohio, he being the first of the name to locate in this state. David W. Deshler was born at Allentown, Pennsylvania, January 19, 1792, and he died at Columbus, Ohio, September 1, 1869, having in the meanwhile become one of the distinguished men of the latter city. It was after his marriage to Elizabeth Green that he moved from Easton, Pennsylvania, to Columbus, August 1, 1817. A man of broad vision, David W. Deshler saw that there was a great future for the city of his choice, and that investment in real estate was sure to be profitable. Also he and his wife were the kind of people who could not have been content residing in a home owned by someone else. Therefore, immediately upon their arrival in this city they bought a lot on the north side of Broad Street, just west of High Street, and this property is now included in the site the magnificent 378 - HISTORY OF OHIO Deshler Hotel. Like the majority of the young couples of those days, their resources were limited, and arrangements were made by means of which they paid $200 in cash ; turned over a gold watch worth $200, and gave notes for $400 to be paid in 1819; and for $200 to be paid in 1820. The price of $1,000 was considered exorbitant, but the astuteness of Mr. Deshler in his selection was proven many times over in the years that followed. Upon this lot he and his wife erected a one-story frame house of two rooms, one of which he used for some time as a work shop, for this embryo financier and big business man was a carpenter and cabinetmaker by trade. From the letters written by the little bride to her Pennsylvania relatives many interesting sidelights are thrown on the early days in the capital city. She speaks of the low prices on everything with the exception of salt, coffee and a few other foodstuffs; of the superiority of the peaches grown in the city; of the fact that the Methodist Meetinghouse was the only one in the city, and that the Presbyterians were holding services in the statehouse; that Auditor of State Osborn had cut up their pork and smoked it for them; and that her husband had obtained employment on the construction of the statehouse, which he hoped would give them sufficient money to meet their payment on their lot. Later she wrote of their obtaining a pew in the new Presbyterian Meetinghouse for 371 cents; that after five months of work her husband had not received a cent in money, having to trade out his wages. In December, 1820, she wrote that Mr. Deshler had obtained his first work in ten months, which was making shelves for the state library. She also wrote of the prevailing ill health of the little community, she and Mr. Deshler having suffered not only being sick themselves, but losing their first-born child. During the years of 1823, 1824 and 1825 there was a stagnation of business, and life was hard for the Deshlers and their neighbors, but in the beginning of 1826 matters began to improve, sanitary conditions were better, but the following year Mr. Deshler suffered a heavy loss in her death, when their son William G. Deshler was but ten weeks old, and she was but thirty. In 1845 David W. Deshler began to take the place in affairs to which his talents entitled him, when he bought the stock of the former Franklin Bank of Columbus, founded in 1816, reorganized it, and served it as president until 1854, when its stock was turned over to the Franklin National Bank, with its $400,000 in deposits. At that time he, William G. Deshler and John G. Deshler, Sr., became directors of the new organization. When David W. Deshler died, in 1869, his son John G. Deshler, Sr., became president, and so continued until his death in 1885, at which time the bank was closed. The Deshlers also were active in the management of the Clinton Bank, the second one of Columbus, of which David W. Deshler was one of the first directors, its third cashier, and of which William G. Deshler was for ten years teller. David W. Deshler was on the committee in charge of the dedication of the new statehouse, in 1857, and was also treasurer of the committee which had for their use on this occasion $4,703, and reported a balance of $300. From 1829 to 1838 he was treasurer of the First Franklin County School District, during which period he was given about $160 annually to spend on each school. He served as a justice of the peace; and was a director of the first railroad, the Columbus & Xenia, which was incorporated in 1844, and was the first to be built into the city. William Green Deshler was born at Columbus, May 24, 1827, and was educated in private schools of Columbus and Eastern Pennsylvania. Entering the Clinton Bank, he continued in the banking business, developing eventually the Deshler National Bank. In 1857 William G. Deshler was one of a committee which had in charge the planting of trees on East Broad Street, and two years later this idea was expanded to include a double row of the trees on each side of the street. When war broke Out between the North and the South, William G. Deshler, as was but natural in a man of his high character, took a very impressive part in local war work, and was the advisor of S. P. Chase, secretary of the treasurer under President Lincoln. I11 health kept him from going to the front, but he was much more useful looking after affairs at home. He was one of the men, bcing associated in the work with two others, who organized and financed a temporary provisioning plan to take care of the volunteers, which reduced the cost one-half, and provided much better accommodations. In 1863, as a member of a delegation, he went to Washington, and a result of this trip was the establishment in the city of a Government arsenal that later became Columbus Barracks, and is now Fort Hayes. The public library of Columbus has alcoves established by John G. and William G. Deshler. David W. and William G. Deshler and Allen G. Thurman sold to the City of Columbus in April, 1867, what was then known as Stewart’s Grove, for $15,000, and this first became City Park, was later known as Schiller Park, but since the World war has been known as Washington Park. William G. Deshler assisted in founding the Hocking Valley Railroad, first known as the Mineral Railroad Company, which was finally completed and dedicated January 13, 1879. A man of many benevolences, William G. Deshler created a fund to be known as the Kate Deshler Hunter Fund of $33,000, in memory of his daughter, the proceeds of which were to be used in special maternity cases by the Columbus Female Benevolent Society, to which he also contributed $100,000, in memory of his mother. Two years later he contributed $17,000 more to be funded, under his daughter's name, for the use of orphans and other destitute children. These benefactions, now grown to approximately $400,000, provide for the payment of a certain proportion of the income to the Hannah Neil Mission and the Home of the Friendless. The death of this great financier and philanthropist occurred February 16, 1916. William G. Deshler was married three times, first to Olive Clark, who lived only six months. His second marriage was with Ann Eliza Sinks, who bore him three children, namely: John G.; Kate Deshler Hunter, who is deceased; and Mary Deshler Warner, who is also deceased. The third wife of William G. Deshler was Elizabeth Jones, a daughter of Dr. I. J. Jones, of Columbus, and they had three daughters, namely: Elizabeth Deshler Sowers, who is deceased; and Louise Deshler Cox and Helen Deshler Brown, both of whom survive. John Green Deshler was born on Broad Street, Columbus, December 9, 1852, and he attended the city,s public schools and Kenyon College, although he left the latter institution before graduation to become a messenger for the Exchange National Bank, and from then on has been connected with some of the very important financial operations of the city. One of the organizers of the Deshler National Bank, he was its president at the time of its consolidation, in 1910, with the Hayden-Clifton Bank, since which time he has served as a director or as a member of its executive committee. Almost ever since it was organized he has been connected with the Buckeye Steel Castings Company, of which he is now a director. He was president and the guiding force that HISTORY OF OHIO - 379 organized the Central Ohio Natural Gas & Fuel Company, discoverers of natural gas in the Lancaster fields, and the concern that piped it to Columbus. Another monument to the Deshler family, known all over the country, is the Deshler Hotel, which he built as trustee of the Deshler estate, on the site of the original Deshler homestead, and he has been extensively interested during the past year in real estate, erecting many residences in different parts of the city, as well as the Wyandotte Office Building in 1894, the first skyscraper in Ohio. This historic building was sold to the State of Ohio in 1916, and is now used by it as an office building. John G. Deshler married Minnie Greene, a daughter of the late M. M. Greene, who built the Hocking Valley and the Columbus & Toledo railroads. They had two daughters, Ann Eliza and Martha Greene. Mr. Deshler belongs to the Columbus, Scioto Country, Columbus Country, Athletic clubs of Columbus, the Union League Club of New York, the Flintridge Country Club of Pasadena, California, and the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. That Mr. Deshler is very proud of his family goes without saying, for its record is a most remarkable one. He cherishes many family relics, among which perhaps, the most prized is the rare old piano brought by the family to the Colonies, in 1732, on the sailing vessel Saint Andrew. This instrument, one of the first to be brought to this country, is priceless, and in spite of its age is in excellent condition. From the above record it is easy to see that the Deshler family has not only been one of the most prominent, but also the most interesting of those which have aided so materially in developing and advancing the best interests of Columbus and Franklin County. JOHN DANIEL FAIR, Doctor of Veterinary Sur- gery, and a former president of the Ohio State Veterinary Association, has had a long and successful practice in his chosen field, and has rendered many notable services in his home community and to the cause of veterinary surgery at large. He was born on a farm in Holmes County, Ohio, February 28, 1863, son of Phineas and Margaret (Fisher) Fair. His parents were natives of Pennsylvania, and his father was one of the early settlers of Clark Township, Holmes County, Ohio, where he spent his active career as a farmer. He was honored with several local offices, and for twenty-two years taught country schools. In politics he was a democrat, and was a member of the United Brethren Church. His first wife was Margaret Fisher, who became the mother of five children. His second wife was Mary Hoover, and by this marriage there was one son. John Daniel Fair grew up on the farm, and early manifested a keen interest in livestock, both as a business and as a profession. He attended country schools, taught school for two years, and completed his professional education in the American Veterinary College, a department of New York University. He graduated with the degree Doctor of Veterinary Surgery in 1887, receiving two medals of honor for his student work. He began his professional career at Berlin, Ohio, and had a very extensive country practice ever that section for a quarter of a century. In 1912 he located at Millersburg, and has been a busy man in his work, and conducts a high class veterinary hospital. Doctor Fair has been a member of the Ohio State Veterinary Association since 1887, served as its president three years, and has never missed an annual meeting in thirty-five years. He was a resident state secretary for Ohio of the American Veterinary Association for five years, and has done much original research and investigation in his field, as a result of his experience preparing and reading a number of papers before the State and National Veterinary associations. He has also for a number of years been a member of the Ohio State Veterinary Board of Examiners, being first appointed by Governor Harmon. In addition to the heavy responsibilities of his professional work Doctor Fair has owned and conducted several farms, and has made this line of business successful. He is a democrat, and a member of the Methodist Church. He is president of the Holmes County Savings & Loan Company, and has been a director of the Commercial and Savings Bank at Millersburg since its organization. During the World war he acted as chairman of the Holmes County Relief Fund and as chairman of the Holmes County Young Men ,s Christian Association drive. He is now president of the Joel Pomerene Memorial Hospital Fund. He is a charter member of the Rotary Club, and all his affiliations speak favorably of his success. On September 15, 1887, he married Emma Ruth Hitchcock, a native of Holmes County and daughter of John and Ruth Hitchcock. Of the three children born to their marriage two died in infancy. The surviving daughter is Britta Elizabeth, wife of A. S. Canfield, of Millersburg. JOHN SHERMAN ELDER, D. D. S., has had a prominent career in his profession and also in the public and business life of his home Town of Millersburg, Holmes County. Doctor Elder was born in Carroll County, Ohio, on a farm August 31, 1859, son of John and Sarah Jane (Kerr) Elder. His parents were born in Ohio, his grandfather, John Elder, coming to this state from Pennsylvania and entering the land in Carroll County, where he spent the rest of his life. The Elder family is of Scotch-Irish ancestry and the Kerrs of Scotch ancestry. John Elder, father of Doctor Elder, was a farmer, and always lived in Carroll County. The second in a family of two children, John Sherman Elder, was reared at Scio, Harrison County, where he attended country schools and old Scio College. In 1881, at Millersburg, he married Miss Belle Voorhees, daughter of Judge C. F. Voorhees. For a time after his marriage he lived at Scio. In 1883 he returned to Millersburg, and for three years he was in business as a stove and tinware dealer. For the next three years he continued in the drug business, and then entered the dental department of the Ohio Medical University of Columbus, where he was graduated in 1894. Doctor Elder has had thirty years, experience in his profession, and has long been prominent in the surgical side of dentistry. He is a member of the Ohio State and Canton District Society of Dental Surgeons. His mechanical disposition, a trait since boyhood, has been of much help to him in his professional work and has given him other diversions. He has long been a skilled taxidermist, mounting many animals and birds. Doctor Elder has twice served Millersburg in the office of mayor. Each time he was elected on the republican ticket in a strong democratic community. For his first term he took office in January, 1916. In 1920 he was again elected. Soon after beginning the practice of dentistry he was appointed waterworks trustee at Millersburg, and held that office for twelve years. Doctor Elder is a member of the Masonic Order and the Methodist Episcopal Church. His first wife died, leaving two children. In 1911 he married Mary E. Mason, daughter of William Mason, of Columbus. She is a graduate of the McCormack Neurological College of Chicago, and 380 - HISTORY OF OHIO now practices osteopathy in the same office with her husband. Doctor Elder 's two children are Beulah, now wife of W. R. Ewing, of Chicago, and Charles V., now athletic director at Bethany College, West Virginia. He is an ex-service man, having been overseas fourteen months during the war. C. V. Elder married Ruth Whaley, of New Castle, Pennsylvania. EDWARD DURFEE, secretary of the Marion Building Savings & Loan Company, the oldest building and loan association in Marion County, director of the Huber Manufacturing Company, and one of the most enterprising business men of this part of Ohio, was born at Marion, Ohio, September 14, 1836. He is a son of Gardner and Mary (Switzer) Durfee, and a member of one of the old and honored families of the United States, the progenitor of which was Thomas Durfee, who came to the American colonies from England in 1643 and located at Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Here he prospered and became prominent in public matters, serving as a member of the governor 's council. Gardner Durfee was born in Rhode Island, February 14, 1807, and died at Marion, Ohio, October 21, 1844. In 1832, with his brother Joseph, he came to Marion, and was for years engaged in working at his trade of cabinet making. A whig in political faith, he served as a member of the Town Council of Marion. A zealous Methodist, he was very active in forwarding the erection of the first Methodist Church edifice at Marion. After the death of his first wife Gardner Durfee married Mary Switzer, who was born at Fort Miller, Saratoga County, New York, August 17, 1813, and died at Marion February 15, 1883. Edward Durfee was educated in a Marion County school conducted by his uncle, Henry B. Durfee, and he learned the trade of cabinet maker with a cousin, Albertus Howe, with whom he served an apprenticeship of three years. After that he alternated working at his trade with attending high school. Going in 1858 to Plymouth, Ohio, he clerked in a hardware store of that city until 1860, when he went to Columbus, Ohio, and for a time was a clerk in the store of J. L. Gill & Son. In September, 1862, he returned to Marion and became teller in the Bank of Marion, and rendered so efficient a service that he was retained in it during its different reorganization during a period of twenty-eight years, rising through successive promotions to be assistant cashier. From 1868 to 1878 he was also secretary of the Union Building & Loan Association. In 1888, while still with the Bank of Marion, now known as the Marion National Bank, he became secretary of the Marion Building & Loan Association, which he assisted in organizing. Since 1904 he has devoted practically all of his time to its affairs. He was one of the organizers of the Marion Street Railway Company, and served it as president-treasurer from 1894 to 1902. For some years he was director of the Marion Electric Light & Power Company, and after these concerns were merged into the Marion Railway Light & Power Company he continued a director of the new corporation for several years thereafter. In 1875 he was one of the incorporators of the Huber Manufacturing Company, and has continued on its board of directors ever since. Some idea of the Marion Building Savings & Loan Company may be gathered from the fact that at the close of business April 30, 1924, the annual statement showed a substantial gain in assets which indicates a healthy condition of the company. This is the result of constant and diligent effort to serve the people of this community by the encouragement of thrift through the savings accounts, which return a dividend of 5.20 per cent, compounded semi-annually. Home owning also has been made possible to many during the past years by their reasonable terms and fair dealing. An installment loan has many advantages and enables one by small, regular payments to become free from debt and to enjoy enduring prosperity which comes from full ownership of a home. The headquarters of the company are maintained at 128 West Center Street, Marion. The present officials are : Frank A. Huber, president; L. B. McNeal, vice president; Edward Durfee, secretary, and these gentlemen with Harvey T. Gracely, W. L. Morral, E. Kuhler, C. W. Leffler and W. N. Harder form the Board of Directors. On June 13, 1861, Mr. Durfee married, at Plymouth, Ohio, Miss Mary Asenath Short, a daughter of Daniel and Ann W. (Pettingill) Short. She was born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, July 20, 1834, and died at Marion, October 4, 1903. She was a very active worker in the Baptist Church up to the time of her death. Politically Mr. Durfee is a republican. His hobby is the raising of roses, and his garden attracts universal admiration from all beholders. Three children were born to him and his wife, namely: Grace Pettingill; Florence Switzer, who is assistant secretary of the Marion Building Savings & Loan Company; and Margaret Isabell, who is deceased. RICHARD B. WITT. In January, 1923, when Richard B. Witt was elected sheriff of Hamilton County, the people of this community gave expression to their appreciation of the manner in which he had discharged his former public duties in the office of county treasurer. He has displayed the same energy and ability, as well as conscientiousness, that he showed in his former office, and his record is one that entitles him to the further support and confidence of his fellow citizens. Mr. Witt was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, December 15, 1867, and is a son of Richard B. Witt, Sr. His education was acquired in the public schools of Cincinnati, and at the age of eighteen years he started to work, learning the trade of sheet metal worker. For a number of years he was employed at various plants in Ohio, but finally entered business on his own account, and at this time is senior member of the firm of Witt & Brown, proprietors of a leading sheet metal works at Cincinnati. A republican in his political views, when the people of Hamilton County decided that a business man should be picked for county treasurer, Mr. Witt's name suggested itself as a possibility because of the practical manner in which he had made use of his opportunities in building up a successful business enterprise. In 1916 he was elected to that office by the largest vote on the republican ticket, and served in the office four years. In January, 1923, he was elected county sheriff, again by the largest vote on the ticket, and will probably be his party 's next choice for the same office for a second term. Mr. Witt is widely known in various circles of Cincinnati, where he is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Business Men's Club, the North Central Turner Hall and the Cincinnati Gymnasium. In 1899 Mr. Witt was united in marriage with Miss Kathryn Schlosser, and they are the parents of two sons: Richard, who is identified with the firm of Witt & Brown; and Robert, who is connected with the Fleischmann Company of New York. CLETUS WEAVER attained to membership at the Ohio bar more than thirty years ago, but much of his time was taken up with newspaper business and other affairs until the last decade, during which he has been one of the busy attorneys in practice at Dover. Mr. Weaver was born in Tuscarawas County, HISTORY OF OHIO - 381 on a farm, April 26, 1868, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Cherryholmes) Weaver. His father, a native of Pennsylvania, early in life settled in Tuscarawas County, and volunteered and served as a Union soldier in the Civil war. After the war he divided his time between farming and the carpenter 's trade. His first wife died, leaving him three young children, and he subsequently married Anna Meyer, and of their children three grew to mature years. He brought up his family on a farm, and proved most worthy in all the relationships of life. He held several township offices, was a republican and reached the age of sixty-eight. In boyhood and early manhood Cletus Weaver experienced much of the toil of the farm. He attended the short winter terms in the country schools, and there gained recognition for his apt scholarship and diligence. When still in his teens he secured a teacher ,s certificate, and after that for some years he taught in the schools alternately. In that way he acquired a liberal education by taking summer courses in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and in 1893 was graduated in law at this institution. He continued teaching until 1895 and then for a year practiced at Ottawa, Ohio. In 1896 he established his home in Dover, and for twenty years in one capacity or another was actively identified with the newspaper business. In 1916 he engaged in the practice of law as his regular profession. For the past fifteen years he has held the office and performed the duties of justice of the peace. In 1902 he was elected mayor of Dover, was reelected in 1904, and then and since has given much time to the Affairs of the community. He was for about twenty years a member of the Dover Chamber of Commerce, and its secretary for most of that time. Mr. Weaver is a republican, and fraternally is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and the National Union. He married, in 1904, Miss Elizabeth Berndt. HENRY W. STREB. The family name of Streb has been associated with many of the substantial business interests, professional life and public affairs of Tuscarawas County for several generations. A banker, business man and public official was the late Henry W. Streb of Dover. His son, Joseph H. Streb, is the leading attorney of Dover. Henry W. Streb was born at Strasburg, Tuscarawas County, January 25, 1865. His grandfather was a native of Germany, and was one of the early pioneer Germans who settled in Tuscarawas County and to an important degree influenced its early development. The parents of Henry W. Streb were Joseph J. and Catherine (Krantz) Streb. His father was a native of Tuscarawas County, and one of the respected farmer citizens. Henry W. Streb grew up on a farm, acquired a good education, and as a youth took up school teaching as a vocation. He taught in the rural schools and then in the high school at Dover, in that way beginning his long connection with Dover as his home town. During President Cleveland's second term, in the '90s, Mr. Streb was appointed postmaster of Dover, holding the office four years. The unusual ability he showed in the administration of this office brought him many important business connections, and he was also a farmer. He served as a state bank examiner, and in 1915 was again appointed postmaster at Dover, by President Wilson, and was filling that office when death came to him on March 30, 1920. He was one of the leaders of the democratic party in his home county, and at one time was mayor of Dover. He was president of the First National Bank of Dover, was president of the Dover Chamber of Commerce, and during the World war a member of the War Chest Funds Board. He was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. As a young man lie married Miss Ninah Sterling, daughter of Jacob Sailor and Margaret (Moffit) Sterling, her father of English and her mother of Scotch ancestry. Her grandfather, John Sterling, came to Ohio from Maryland and was a pioneer of Tuscarawas County. Mrs. Henry W. Streb, a native of Tuscarawas County, was assistant postmaster at Dover under her husband, and at his death was chosen postmaster and filled out his unexpired term. She is the mother of two children, Joseph H. and Naomi. Joseph H. Streb was born at Dover, Ohio, November 13, 1894, and at the age of thirty has reached a promising place of success in his profession. He was reared at Dover, was a graduate of high school there, and took his advanced education in Western Reserve University at Cleveland, graduating with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1918, and with his law degree in 1920. In September, 1918, he enlisted for service at Cleveland, and was attending the Officers' Training School at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, when the armistice was signed. He was granted an honorable discharge in December, 1918, and then resumed his law studies. He is a member of the American Legion Post. For two years he practiced law at New Philadelphia, and since then has built up a profitable practice at Dover. He is a democrat, a member of the Masonic Order, Elks, Knights of Pythias, the Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club. Joseph H. Streb married in 1921 Miss Mae Marshall, daughter of A. S. Marshall, the Pennsylvania Railway agent at Dover. They have two young children, Marcia Ann and Joseph Marshall Streb. JAMES D. JOHNSON, a lawyer of ability and successful achievement, a former member of the Ohio State Senate, a citizen of unqualified loyalty and public spirit, and a business man of constructive stewardship, this well known citizen of Celina, Mercer County, has found varied and ample demands upon his motivating energies and powers. In his home city, judicial center of Mercer County, Mr. Johnson is now serving as city attorney, and here he is president and general counsel of each the National Mutual Insurance Company and the Celina Mutual Casualty Company, of which more specific mention is made in the personal sketch of their secretary, Edgar J. Brookhart, on other pages of this publication. James D. Johnson was born in Adams County, Indiana, November 26, 1858, and is a son of the late George W. and Nancy M. (Neptune) Johnson, the father having given the greater part of his active life to farm industry. In the public schools James D. Johnson continued his studies until he had profited by the advantages of the high school, and thereafter he pursued higher academic studies by attending Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. In fortifying himself for his chosen profession he completed a course in the Cincinnati College of Law, and he has been established in the successful practice of his profession at Celina for more than forty years, as he here opened his first law office on the 11th of April, 1882. He has long had a large and important law business, which has involved his appearance in many major litigations in the various courts of this section of the state, and he has been a leader also in the councils and campaign activities of the democratic party in Ohio. In 1893 Mr. Johnson was elected to the State Senate, as representative of the Thirty-second Senatorial District, and in 1895 he was reelected. He was the recognized minority leader in the 382 - HISTORY OF OHIO Senate during his two terms, there having been at the time only five or six other democratic members, and his ability as a speaker and a worker for constructive legislation made him an influential leader of his party both as touching the work of the Senate and that of its representatives throughout the state. He was author and advocate of the measure that resulted in the passage of the law regulating the practice of medicine in Ohio. He drafted the bill to change the form of capital execution in the state from hanging to electrocution. He was the first in the United States to draft and introduce a bill providing that in connection with work on railroads and all public works the minimum wage should be $1.25 a day, his conviction being that labor was not receiving just compensation for such service. He championed this bill to passage by the Senate, but it failed to pass in the House of Representatives. In this action on his part was made the first attempt by any state or any nation to regulate wages. Republican members of the Ohio Legislature exploited a bill requiring all inmates of soldiers homes and county infirmaries to return home to cast their votes, and as leader of the democratic minority in the Senate, Senator Johnson vigorously opposed this bill, with the result that it was defeated. He made a vital fight to exempt from taxation the machinery required by and owned by farmers, this bill having passed the Senate but having met defeat in the House. Mr. Johnson was a member of the Senate at the time when the late President McKinley retired from the office of governor of Ohio. Governor McKinley had made a number of appointments that after his retirement from office required confirmation by the Senate. Those appointments were opposed by Governor Bushnell, successor of Governor McKinley, and it was primarily due to the loyal efforts of Senator Johnson that these original appointments were confirmed. He fought the movement to appropriate $140,000 to meet a deficiency in connection with public works in the state, and in voicing his opposition to this political measure he showed that the public-works system of Ohio had already cost the state $21,000,000 more than its service had earned. His forceful presentation of the case led to the defeat of the appropriation. He was the leader in forcing the passage by the Senate of Governor Bushnell's bill for the erection of a governor 's mansion at the state capital, this measure having been strongly opposed by republican members of the Legislature. He was a member of the Elective College from his district, the fourth, in 1912, when President Wilson was nominated. Mr. Johnson was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Kansas City, when William J. Bryan was nominated for the presidency over David Bennett Hill, of New York. Senator Johnson was on the same train that conveyed Governor Hill and his party to the convention, and he was called into consultation with Governor Hill relative to the latter 's chances for nomination. He advised Governor Hill that he could not be nominated and suggested that the best course would be for him to go to Lincoln, Nebraska, for a personal conference with Mr. Bryan. This advice was followed and resulted in the uniting of the democrats of the East and the West. Senator Johnson was the only person who gave to Governor Hill advice to take this action. Mr. Johnson has ever shown most loyal interest in all that has concerned the civic and material welfare of his home city and county, and during twenty-two years of continuous service as city attorney he has never lost a case for the city. He is legal representative of a number of important business concerns besides the two insurance corporations of which he is president, and among these are the Citizens Banking Company, The Mersman Brothers & Brandts Manufacturing Company, Celina Specialty Company, The Brandts Manufacturing Company, and the Palmer-Miller Grain Company. He is attorney also for the Ohio Electric Service Company of St. Marys. He has thrice been tendered by his party nomination for the United States Congress, but has in each instance refused, notwithstanding that his district is strongly democratic and his nomination would virtually have implied election. He is affiliated with the Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Masonic fraternity and Eastern Star. He is a member of the local Kiwanis Club and the North Shore Country Club, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home city. June 23, 1886, recorded the marriage of Mr. Johnson and Miss Rebecca Darrah, whose father was a distinguished Presbyterian clergyman in Ohio. Mrs. Johnson passed to the life eternal in 1912, and is survived by three children: Jesse D. is engaged in the electrical business in the city of Columbus; Ruth A. is the wife of Burton C. Nafzger, secretary and superintendent of The Brandts Manufacturing Company of Celina; and Miss Winnifred K. remains at the paternal home. The second marriage of Mr. Johnson was solemnized November 26, 1913, when Miss Sevilla Myers became his wife, she being a daughter of Daniel Myers, who is one of the representative farmers of Mercer County. Her mother dying when she was small, Mrs. Johnson was reared by her uncle and aunt, Captain and Mrs. Samuel A. Nickerson. Mrs. Johnson is secretary of the local chapter of the American Red Cross, and is an active and valued member of the Altrurian Club, the 1914 Club and the Community Club. SAMUEL SHAWEKER, M. D. A member of the medical fraternity at Dover for nearly a quarter of a. century, Doctor Shaweker 's prominence and success in his profession are attested by many evidences in that locality. Doctor Shaweker is also well known as a banker and financier. Doctor Shaweker while a youth had little encouragement from his father in his proposed plans to get a higher education to fit himself for a professional calling. Reared on a farm, immersed in its toil, he had the privilege of attending country schools only during the short winter terms until he was fifteen. His application and his native talents enabled him to make splendid use of such limited opportunities, and at fifteen he passed a successful examination for a teacher 's license. With that evidence of his scholastic attainments his father thought there was no further need of his attending school. For two years Doctor Shaweker pursued his studies privately, and at the age of seventeen again secured a teacher's certificate. With that he engaged to teach a country school in Holmes County. He taught a very successful term of school, and for eight years continued his work in the rural schools of Holmes and Coshocton counties, using that profession as a source of means to equip himself for medicine and surgery. Dr. Samuel Shaweker was born on a farm at New Bedford, in Coshocton County, December 23, 1862, son of George F. and Dorothy (Trautwein) Shaweker. His parents were born in Germany, but were married in Ohio, and his father was a tanner by trade and later engaged in farming. The farm where he lived all his life and died at the age of eighty-six had been acquired by him from its original owner after passing out of the Government owner ship. George F. Shaweker was a democrat and a member of the German Lutheran Church. His wife reached the age of eighty-two. Dorothy Trautwein was the second wife of George F. Shaweker, he having two children by a previous marriage. Doctor HISTORY OF OHIO - 383 Shaweker is one of a family of five daughters and two sons, his brother being George F. Shaweker of Coshocton. Samuel Shaweker spent one year studying medicine under Dr. S. P. Snyder of New Bedford, and then entered the medical department of the University of Maryland, at Baltimore, graduating Doctor of Medicine in 1893. He immediately located at Shanesville, Ohio, and enjoyed a good country practice there until 1900, since which year he has had the broader opportunities of professional work in the City of Dover. He has, taken two post-graduate courses, at the Chicago Polyclinic and Chicago Post Graduate School of Medicine. For several years in addition to his professional work he acted as president of the Dover Building & Loan Association and is now president of the First National Bank of Dover. Doctor Shaweker married, in 1887, Margaret Troendly, and two sons and one daughter were born to their marriage. The sons are : Kenneth Earl and Max Shaweker, both talented young physicians at Dover. The daughter, Esther, married James Patrick, of New Philadelphia, present county prosecuting McGUIRE,. SAMUEL B. McGUIRE, M. D. The activities of a hard working physician and surgeon over a period of thirty years lend distinction to the name of Dr. Samuel B. McGuire, a resident of Dover, Tuscarawas County. His maternal grandfather was one of the pioneer physicians of Harrison County, Ohio. Samuel B. McGuire was born on a farm near the Town. of Bowerston, in Harrison County, Ohio, September 19, 1867, son of Sampson and Elizabeth (Crumley) McGuire. Sampson McGuire was born in Ireland, and was three years of age when his father, James McGuire, brought him and a sister to the United States, their motherMcGuiredied. James McGuire was an easy-going Irishman, and finally settled in Harrison County. His son Sampson was bound out when a boy, and in after years Sampson hunted up his sister and established his home in Harrison County, their father spending his last days with them. Sampson McGuire was a well known farmer in Eastern Ohio, and died at the age of sixty-six. His wife, Elizabeth Crumley, was born and reared in Harrison County, being the oldest daughter of William Crumley. William Crumley was born in England, graduated from Oxford College, and after establishing a home at Tappan in Harrison County, Ohio, practiced medicine in that community for nearly half a century. He died at the age of seventy. The mother of Doctor McGuire died at the age of eighty-seven, and of her five sons and three daughters Samuel B. is the youngest. Samuel B. McGuire grew up in a rural locality, attending the common schools, and supplementing these advantages at Hopedale and Scio colleges. Four years of teaching experience gave him some of the means to prepare for a professional career. For two years he studied medicine under Dr. W. A. Welsh at Tappan, spent two years enrolled as a student in Western Reserve University, in the Medical Department, and in 1893 graduated Doctor of Medicine from the Baltimore Medical College. Doctor McGuire for ten years practiced at Bowerston in his native county, but since 1903 has been a resident of Dover. His work has shown him to be the possessor of unusual talents and abilities as a physician and surgeon. He is very well informed, and capable in dispostgraduateoat dispostgraduate taken postgraduate work in that specialty in Chicago and New York. He is acting as local surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railway Company, the American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, and is a member of the Union Hospital staff. He belongs to the Tuscarawas County and Ohio State Medical societies. Doctor McGuire is a politics in democrat in polities. In 1910 he was elected and served one term with marked credit as a member of the State Senate. He is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and belongs to the Moravian Church. Doctor McGuire married in 1893 Miss Laura M. Davis, daughter of Elias and Elizabeth Davis, of Harrison County, where she was born and reared. JAMES A. BARR, postmaster of the City of Dover, was appointed to that office, but his appointment was in fact in a nature of a deserved promotion, since he had been for many years experienced in the postal service of that city. Mr. Barr is a native of Tuscarawas County, born in the little locality known as Barr 's Mill, on December .2, 1868. His grandfather, Samuel Barr, was a native of Pennsylvania, of Holland Dutch ancestry, and a pioneer settler in Stark County, Ohio. The parents of James A. Barr were David and Lavina (Tohm) Barr, both of them born and reared in Stark County. Soon after their marriage David Barr bought a mill in Tuscarawas County, and continued its operation for many years. In addition he built a storeroom, and established and conducted for the convenience of the neighborhood a postoffice. Ever since the locality has,seen known as Barr 's Mill. David Barr was a good business man, strong in character, a staunch supporter of the Union during the Civil war, a republican, and both he and his wife were active Lutherans. David Barr died October 12, 1883, at the age of sixty-four, having survived his wife two years. They had two daughters and two sons, a son and daughter now living. James A. Barr was twelve years old when his mother died, and two years later he was left an orphan by the death of his father. Since fourteen, therefore, he has directed his own career. Growing up at Barr 's Mill, he attended common schools there, and afterwards completed a business course of Mansfield, Ohio. For some years he and his brother operated the old mill until the property was sold. From childhood he has been familiar with the business of milling, and this experience afforded him his chief source of livelihood for many years. After leaving his father 's old mill he was employed by the Hardesty Milling Company at Dover, and for five years was a traveling salesman, selling flour, first for a Kansas City Milling Company and later for a company at Red Cloud, Minnesota. At the time Dover was given free mail delivery Mr. Barr, in order that he might be at home with his family, sought and secured the position of a mail carrier, later he became mailing clerk, and performed the duties of that position in the Dover postoffice fourteen years. From subordinate position in the postoffice appointments from President Harding in October, 1921, raised him to the office of postmaster. He received his commission November 15, 1921, and has been made his administration a constant source of good service to the community. Mr. Barr is a republican, a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Lutheran Church. He married, December 25, 1890, Miss Mary Hostetler, who died in October, 1892, leaving no children. On November 14, 1894, Mr. Barr married Elizabeth Burkel. They have four children. The oldest, Harold C., was with the United States Army during the World war as assistant pharmacist, with the rank of sergeant, at Debarkation Hospital at Ellis Island. He is a member of the American Legion and is in the drug business at Dover. The second son, Arthur M., who was 384 - HISTORY OF OHIO automobile accessory business at Dover, and a student volunteer during the World war, is now with a manufacturing industry at Granite City, Illinois. Walter J., the third son, is in the tire and Eugene A., aged fourteen, is still in school. ARTHUR A. HOOPINGARNER, newspaper editor and publisher, is a comparatively young man, has made his own way and contributed to the support of others since boyhood, and has some real substantial work and achievements to his credit. His home and business are at Dover, in the same county where he was born and reared. Mr. Hoopingarner was born at Strasburg, Tuscarawas County, March 27, 1893. The Hoopingarner family was identified with the pioneer developments of this Ohio county. His great-grandfather, Jacob Hoopingarner, a native of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, was the first settler of the name in Tuscarawas County. He married a Miss Balsey. The name Hoopingarner is of Holland Dutch origin. Samuel Hoopingarner, a son of Jacob Hoopingarner, was born in Tuscarawas County, and married Susan Fitzgerald, a native of the same county and daughter of Thomas Fitzgerald, who came from Ireland. William U. Hoopingarner, father of the Dover editor and publisher, was born and reared in Tuscarawas County, and died at the age of thirty-five. He married Sadie Smiley, who survives him. She was born in Tuscarawas County and now lives at Columbus, Ohio. Her parents were La Fayette and Mary (Jones) Smiley. Her two children are Arthur A. and Marguerite. Arthur A. Hoopingarner as a boy was under the necessity of going to work for his own support and to assist his mother and sister. He spent his boyhood at Dover, where he attended school to the age of fourteen. Soon afterward he began learning the printer ,s trade in the newspaper office at Dover, and from printer became reporter on the Dover Daily Reporter. He early attracted attention as a very skillful reporter and journalist, and served four years on the editorial staff of the Cleveland Press and for a time was managing editor of the Columbus Monitor, and was then at Omaha, Nebraska, as managing editor of the Omaha Daily News until 1920. In that year, returning to Dover, Ohio, he organized the Tuscarawas Publishing Company, which became the owner and publisher of the Dover Daily Reporter and also owns and publishes the weekly newspaper the New Philadelphia Advocate Tribune. Mr. Hoopingarner is president and manager of the company and editor of the Daily Reporter. He is a member of the Moravian Church, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Rotary and Union Country clubs. He married in 1915 Miss Viola G. Martin, of New Philadelphia. FRESHOUR GROCERY COMPANY. One of the important and well ordered concerns contributing to commercial prestige of the City of Portsmouth, Scioto County, is the wholesale grocery house of the Freshour Brothers—Carey E. and Philip It The parents, John A. and Sarah (Doggett) Freshour, passed their entire lives in Ohio, and both were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The father was long and prominently identified with lumbering operations, and was a sterling citizen who took lively interest in public affairs and held unqualified popular esteem. Carey E. Freshour was born at Chillicothe, Ohio, August 10, 1883, and was a child at the time of the family removal to Lucasville, Scioto County, where he attended the public schools until he was sixteen years of age. For the ensuing five years he held a clerical position in the establishment of the Selby Shoe Company at Portsmouth. About the year 1906 he and his brother Philip R. engaged in the retail grocery business at Portsmouth, and after conducting the enterprise successfully about ten years they sold the business and engaged in the wholesale grocery trade. In 1916 they purchased their present commodious and well equipped building, at 2134 Gallia Street, and by progressive policies, effective service and correct methods they have developed a substantial and prosperous business, extending through the trade territory normally tributary to Portsmouth as a distributing center. Mr. Freshour is an active and valued member of the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the United Commercial Travelers. He attends the United Brethren Church in his home city, and he enjoys marked popularity in the business and social circles of Portsmouth. His name is still enrolled on the roster of eligible bachelors in Scioto County. Philip R. Freshour, junior member of the firm of Freshour Brothers, was born at Chillicothe, February 22, 1887, and, like his brother, he received the advantages of the public schools of Scioto County. At the age of fifteen years he found employment in the retail grocery store of R. 0. Brady at Portsmouth, and after holding this clerical position two years he entered the employ of the Excelsior Shoe Company. He was nineteen years of age when he established himself independently in the retail grocery business, in which his older brother soon joined him, and from which enterprise they finally advanced into the wholesale grocery business. Mr. Freshour is identified loyally with the local Chamber of Commerce, has completed the circle of each the York and Scottish Rites of the Masonic fraternity, in the latter of which he has received the thirty-second degree, and he is affiliated with the United Commercial Travelers. He and his wife hold membership in the Manley Methodist Episcopal Church at Portsmouth. In July, 1919, was solemnized the marriage of Philip R. Freshour and Miss Janet M. Blake, daughter of A. C. Blake, who is engaged in the real estate and insurance business at Portsmouth. Mr. and Mrs. Freshour have a fine little son, David. WILLIAM P. STEPHENSON, judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Adams County, has a record as attorney and jurist which has made him well known in many counties and districts of Ohio. He has held courts as special judge in many counties besides his own, and is probably acquainted with every judge in the western and northern parts of Ohio as well as in his own section of the state. Judge Stephenson was born at Bentonville, in Adams County, July 31, 1869, son of Robert A. and Arcadia (Hopkins) Stephenson, now deceased. His father was a capable old time physician of Southern Ohio, and moved his family to Manchester, Ohio, when his son William P. was about four years old. Judge Stephenson accordingly received his public school education in Manchester, and after high school attended the North Liberty Academy. He graduated in 1895 from the Cincinnati Law School, and was engaged in a growing practice in Manchester from 1895 to 1900. He moved to West Union, Ohio, in 1900, where he has ever since resided. Judge Stephenson served as prosecuting attorney of Adams County one year by appointment and three years by election. He was elected to the office of Common Pleas judge in 1914, and was reelected for his second term of six years in 1920. Judge Stephenson has held special terms of court in Cleveland many times, and has also served in the courts of Greene, HISTORY OF OHIO - 385 Clark and Warren counties, having been judge in many cases involving the Miami conservancy work. Judge Stephenson was for ten years a director of the First National Bank of West Union, and is president of the Defender Publishing Company of that city. He is a staunch democrat in his political affiliations, is a Presbyterian, and his fraternities are the Masonic Order, being a member of the Knights Templar Commandery at Portsmouth, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias, Red Men, Modern Woodmen of America and the Patriots of America. He married Miss Estella Shriver, of Manchester, daughter of Daniel R. and Mary (Charles) Shriver. They have one son, Sherwood C., now a practicing dentist at Cincinnati. HENRY BOWERS. During a period of more than thirty-six years Henry Bowers has been one of the leading members of the Tuscarawas County bar, and at present is the senior member of the well known and formidable legal combination of Bowers & Bowers, with offices at New Philadelphia. Mr. Bowers has applied his entire career to the demands of his profession, having let no outside interests interfere with his advancement therein, and today is accounted one of the thoroughly informed, reliable and able members a the bar, esteemed alike by his clientele and his fellow practitioners. Mr. Bowers was born on a farm in Tuscarawas County, March 12, 1858, a son of Samuel and Martha (Dillon) Bowers. The name Bowers is of German origin, and was originally spelled Bauer. The great-grandfather of Henry Bowers was Jacob Bowers, who accompanied his son, Joseph Bowers, the grandfather of Henry, from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to Wayne County, Ohio, at an early date in the history of that county. The mother of Henry Bowers was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, a daughter of Aaron Dillon, a native of Scotland, who had come to America with his father and lived for a time in New Jersey, whence he came, a married man, to Ohio and settled in Trumbull County, thence moving to Tuscarawas County. Aaron Dillon was an officer in the American Revolutionary war, and was a millwright by trade, but lived on a farm in Tuscarawas County, where his death occurred, burial being made at Dundee. He was a member of the Christian Church. He was a staunch whig in politics, and his sons became republicans. They moved to Kansas, where they became prominent citizens. One son, A. I. Dillon, was an officer in the Union Army during the Civil war, and met a soldier ,s death on the bloody battlefield of Cedar Creek. Samuel Bowers, the father of Henry Bowers, was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and was six years of age when taken by his parents to Wayne County, Ohio, later moving to Tuscarawas County, where he met and married Martha Dillon, and they settled down to housekeeping on a farm. They became the parents of five sons and two daughters. In 1878, with all their children save Henry, they moved to Kansas, settling in Doniphan County, where a year later the mother died, the father surviving her another year. They were members of the Christian Church, in the faith of which the mother had been reared, although the father had been reared a Mennonite, his father having been a preacher of that denomination. Henry Bowers was reared on a farm in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and received his education in the public schools and at the Ohio Northern University at Ada. He followed the family to Kansas, where he taught school for one year, but returned to Ohio and resumed his teaching activities, being an educator all told for a period of six years. Mr. Bowers then began the study of law in the office of J. T. O ,Donald, an eminent lawyer at New Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar in 1888, since which time he has been engaged in practice at New Philadelphia. He has built up a large and representative clientele, his practice carrying him into all the courts, and of late years has had as his associate one of his sons, Russell C., under the firm style of Bowers & Bowers, with offices in the Alexander Building. In politics Mr. Bowers is a staunch republican, and takes a good citizen’s interest in matters of political importance and moment. In religious faith he is a Lutheran, and his fraternal affiliation is with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he is greatly popular. In 1878 Mr. Bowers and Miss Elizabeth Bair were united in marriage. Mrs. Bowers was born in Tuscarawas County, a daughter of Jacob and Mary (Sliffe) Bair, the Bair ,s being of French origin and the Sliffe’s of German. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bowers: Roy S., a minister of the Lutheran faith; Charles R., likewise a Lutheran minister ; Jessie, the wife of Rev. Russell B. McGiffin, of the same ministry ; Leah, the wife of Carl F. Ludwig, of Orrville, Ohio ; and Russell C., a former prosecuting attorney of Tuscarawas County, who is now the junior member with his father in the firm of Bowers & Bowers. AUGUST SCHMIDT, JR. Sandusky is a beautiful city to the eye, and its many substantial business enterprises contribute to the wealth and prestige of the state, and the majority of its citizens are not ungrateful but often recall with pride and gratitude those now passed away, through whose sterling character and sound views of citizen responsibility this city has been built up. One of these not forgotten men was the late August Schmidt, Jr., president of the Third National Bank of Sandusky. A man of great business entcrprise, he had the sound judgment that enabled him to direct his investments wisely and to carry on his undertakings successfully, and in generous measure for the city ,s substantial benefit. August Schmidt, Jr., was born at Baltimore, Ohio, December 27, 1856, and died at Sandusky, April 9, 1913. His parents were August and Christina Schmidt, both of whom were born in Baden, Germany, and when they immigrated to the United States, settled first at Detroit, Michigan. When August, Jr., was nine years old they returned to Ohio and bought land on Middle Bass Island, where his father had a fine vineyard. August, Jr., received his early schooling around home and later was sent to Detroit, where he graduated from high school. He also attended college in same city which fitted him for a business career, but did not graduate. In 1880 Mr. Schmidt was married, and iu 1882 he and his wife moved to Sandusky, where he passed the rest of his life and where his family still reside, prominent and representative people. At Sandusky Mr. Schmidt engaged in the coal business on Water Street for three years, then sold it advantageously and bought an old-time wine cellar, a good business venture, as his father and other members of the family were grape growers. He put capital into undeveloped parts of the city and improved them, erecting a large business block by which the city 's trade was furthered, and as his stability and trustworthiness as a business man became more and more recognized, many responsible business connections were offered him and finally he became vice president and later president of the Third National Bank of Sandusky, to the welfare of which institution he devoted the closing years of his life. He was a republican 386 - HISTORY OF OHIO in political faith, but was never willing to accept a public office, and in Masonry he was a Knight Templar. Mr. Schmidt married, November 3, 1880, Miss Ida R. Rehberg, who was born on Middle Bass Island, Ohio, daughter of William and Louise (Stein) Rehberg, natives of Germany. William Rehberg owned a large part of Middle Bass Island and was in the grape growing business. Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt had two daughters : Edna is the wife of Nelson Arend, who is connected with Niagara Lithographing Company of New York, and their children are: Janet, Ida and Ursula; and Elsie is the wife of William Sprow, who is manager of the Wagner Quarries Company at Sandusky. They have four children: August W., Nancy Anne, Barbara Jane and William James, II. SUZANNE O. CAMPBELL, doctor of chiropractic at Greenville, is a native of Scotland, and spent most of her early life in Canada. Her experience has been that of a capable business woman, and she has made a splendid record in her profession. She was born in Invernesshire, Scotland, near the home of Sir Walter Scott, and is a direct descendant of the famous Campbell clan of Argyle. Her parents, Donald and Helen (Cameron) Campbell, are both of pure Scotch ancestry. They came to America when Doctor Campbell was four years old, and settled at Wolseley, in Saskatchewan, Canada. Some years ago the family retired to Regina, Saskatchewan. Suzanne O. Campbell was educated in the high school at Wolseley, Canada, in the Success Business College of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and during 1916-17 taught in that institution. For six months she was employed by the Hudson Bay Stores Company at Vancouver, British Columbia, for several months was in Seattle, Washington, and for three years was in Montana as private secretary to one of the prominent attorneys of that state, and later in the same capacity with the vice president of the Citizens State Bank. In 1920 she entered the Palmer School of Chiropractic and graduated in 1922 with two degrees, Doctor of Chiropractic and Pharmaceutical Chemist. After graduating Doctor Campbell traveled in West Virginia and Kentucky, and finally located in Greenville, Ohio, where her skill and personal character have brought her an extensive practice. She has well equipped offices at 4221/2 Broadway. Doctor Campbell has been in the United States for seven years, but is still a Canadian citizen. She is affiliated with the Daughters of the Rebekahs, and is a Presbyterian. JASON H. BROOKES. In the great industrial district of East Liverpool, Columbiana County, the name Brookes has been one of honorable significance for many years. The family supplied some of the pioneer expert workers in the pottery industry there. Jason H. Brookes has practiced law in East Liverpool nearly forty years, and is a man of the highest standing professionally and in business and civic affairs. He was born at East Liverpool, May 18, 1863. His grandfather, George Brookes, was a native of Burslem, England, was a potter by trade, and on coming to this country first settled at Pittsburgh, but soon afterward was connected with one of the pottery establishments at East Liverpool. He spent his last years in Pittsburgh. His wife, Mary Hopkins, was also born at Burslem, England, and died at Pittsburgh. Their son, Jason Brookes, was born at Burslem, England, in 1820, and was a young man when the family came to America. For nearly half a century he was identified with the pottery industry at East Liverpool, and he lived in that community until his death in 1893. He always voted as a republican, and was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Jason Brookes married Lucy Catherine Wilson, who was born at Springfield, Kentucky, in 1824, and died at East Liverpool in 1898. They had a family of six children: Harriet Mary, who died at East Liverpool in 1918; George A., a real estate men at Pittsburgh ; Anna C., who died at East Liverpool in 1921; Kate I., who resides at Trenton, New Jersey, widow of Moses Callear, who was identified with the potter industries of Trenton, where he died in 1914; Jason H.; and Harry W., who is manager of the East Liverpool office of the Postal Telegraph Company. Jason H. Brookes has earned his way to prominence over a number of obstacles. He belonged to a working family, and after he had attended the public schools to the age of fourteen he went to work himself in one of the potteries at East Liverpool. He spent four years in what might be called the family trade. Learning telegraphy, he was appointed telegraph operator with the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad, and served in that capacity on the Pittsburgh Division for five years. His law studies were pursued under Col. H. R. Hill at East Liverpool, and in February, 1886, he was admitted to the bar, having accomplished this creditable achievement at the age of twenty-three. In all the years since his admission he has devoted his knowledge, experience and diligence to the service of; a large general civil and criminal practice. Since 1900 he has been senior member of the law firm Brookes & Thompson, his partner being Richard G. Thompson. Within the lines of his profession he has also rendered some public service, having been prosecuting attorney of Columbiana County from January 1, 1898, to January 1, 1904. He is vice president of the Columbiana County Bar Association. Mr. Brookes is vice president of the Citizens National Bank of East Liverpool, is secretary and treasurer of the Allah Oil Company of East Liverpool, and is owner of the Brookes Building, a four-story office and store building at the corner of Fifth and Market streets, one of the leading business structures at East Liverpool. He has other real estate in that city, including his own home at 211 Pennsylvania Avenue. During the World war Mr. Brookes acted as chairman of the Liberty Loan drives for his home city, was chairman of the Legal Advisory Board and gave precedence to patriotic demands over all professional and private interests. Mr. Brookes is president of the Board of Education of East Liverpool. He has always been a staunch republican, is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, is a past master of Riddle Lodge No. 315, Free and Accepted Masons ; a member of East Liverpool Chapter No. 100, Royal Arch Masons ; Pilgrim Commandery No. 55, Knights Templar, and Syria Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Pittsburgh. He also belongs to the East Liverpool Kiwanis Club. On October 1, 1889, at Wichita, Kansas, Mr. Brookes married Miss Mabel S. Martin, daughter of Robert and Adaline (Gilmore) Martin. Her father was secretary of Oklahoma Territory when he died. Her mother now resides at East Liverpool. Mrs. Brookes finished her education by graduation from college. They have a family of three children, Robert Martin, Dorothy Catherine and Jason H., Jr. The oldest son made a distinguished record as a soldier in the World war. The daughter, Dorothy Catherine, is the wife of George Albert Patterson, manager of the Wellsville China Company, with home at East Liverpool. The youngest son, Jason H., Jr., is now a student in Dartmouth College at Hanover, New Hampshire. HISTORY OF OHIO - 387 Robert Martin Brookes graduated from Culver Military Academy at Culver, Indiana, and in April, 1917, entered the First Officers, Training School at Fort Benjamin Harrison. He was commissioned a first lieutenant in August, 1917, and on September 2, 1917, left for France, where he was assigned to the One Hundred and Sixty-seventh Infantry in the Forty-second or Rainbow Division. He was on duty in the trenches in the Luneville sector, and at the Battle of Champagne was under the command of General Gouraud, the gallant French leader who recently toured America, in the defensive movement in the campaign when Gouraud ,s Division endured the brunt of one of the final assaults of the Germans. Following that his command occupied a portion of the Chateau Thierry front in Marshal Foch ,s final advance. On July 26, 1918, as the division was forcing its way beyond Chateau Thierry, Robert Martin Brookes was seriously wounded and the rest of his stay in France was passed in various hospitals. He returned to this country January 1, 1919, and was given his honorable discharge at Camp Devons, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Bethany College at Bethany, West Virginia, and is a practicing attorney, and is now assistant prosecuting attorney of Columbiana County. JOHN T. MONTGOMERY is one of the veteran oil men of Ohio, and has had interests in what is known as the Lima District for over thirty-five years. Throughout that period he has been a resident of Findlay, and the community has come to look upon him as one of its most substantial citizens not only from a financial standpoint but in public spirit and willingness to cooperate with others for the common good. Mr. Montgomery was born at Renfrew, Ontario, Canada, August 11, 1853, son of William and Jane (Thompson) Montgomery. His father was born in Ireland, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and grew up in Canada and married in that country, his wife being a native of New York State and going to Canada with her parents when she was a child. William Montgomery and wife spent their years as Canadian farmers. He died in 1894. They were members of the Methodist Church, and of their thirteen children ten are still living. John T. Montgomery spent the first sixteen years of his life on the old homestead farm. He attended public schools, and learned the blacksmith ,s trade. For several years he operated a shop of his own in Canada. About 1877 he went to the Western Pennsylvania oil fields, and operated several shops there, largely for sharpening and repairing tools used in the oil industry. In the meantime he became interested as an investor, and in a few years was giving all his time to oil production. He was one of the early oil men attracted to the Ohio field around Lima, and in 1887 established his home at Findlay and for many years was both an owner of oil wells and a contractor for drilling. His interest extended over a number of counties in the Ohio oil territory, and for some years he was also a lumber manufacturer. Mr. Montgomery has for a number of years been vice president of the Buckeye Commercial Bank of Findlay. In September, 1893, he married Miss Anna M. George, who died leaving one daughter, Hortensia, a graduate of Oberlin College. In 1897 Mr. Montgomery married Miss Lida M. Shultz, of Findlay. The two children of this marriage are John William and Irene. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Montgomery is a member of the Official Board. He is affiliated with the York Rite bodies of Masonry at Findlay, with the Scottish Rite Consistory at Toledo and the Shrine, is a democrat and a member of the Rotary Club. EDMUND A. WOLF, M. D. An exceptionally gifted and able physician and surgeon, Doctor Wolf for many years has maintained his offices in the City of Dennison, and the work of his profession has been accompanied by an increasing share in business and civic responsibilities. He was born at Tuscarawas, Tuscarawas County, April 5, 1870, and his parents, John and Elizabeth (Schneider) Wolf, were natives of Germany. The grandparents of Doctor Wolf on both sides were founders of the families in Tuscarawas County. The father of Doctor Wolf was brought to this country at the age of eighteen and his mother at the age of sixteen. The Schneider and Wolf families established their homes in the vicinity of Port Washington in Tuscarawas County. John Wolf was a prosperous farmer, and died in 1894, at the age of sixty-two. His wife passed away in 1893, aged fifty-three. They had a family of four children, John A., Charles R., Edmund A. and Louisa. The daughter is now deceased. Growing up on a farm, Edmund A. Wolf attended rural schools, graduated from the high school at Tuscarawas, and as a youth shaped his plans for a professional career. Entering the Georgia College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery at Atlanta, he was graduated in February, 1892, and in the same year began his professional career at Dennison. He has had an active and constantly increasing practice, being very favorably known for his splendid work as a surgeon. He has kept in touch with the advancing progress in medicine as well as in surgery by post-graduate courses in Chicago, at the Mayo Brothers, Institution at Rochester, Minnesota, and elsewhere. Doctor Wolf is local surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railway Company and a member of the Association of Pennsylvania Railway Surgeons. He is also a surgeon at the Twin City Hospital, and is a member of the Tuscarawas County, Ohio State and American Medical associations, and the Ohio and National Eclectic Medical institutes. Doctor Wolf has to his credit three terms of efficient service as mayor of Dennison, from the years 1907 to 1913. He has also been a member of the Board of Education. He was president of the Twin City National Bank before it was merged into the Dennison National Bank. He is now president of the Wolf-Lanning Clay Company, a director of the Dennison Sewer Pipe Company and the Uhrichsville Ice Company. He is a member of the Rotary Club, was for three terms master of the Masonic Lodge, has served as eminent commander of the Knights Templar Commandery, and is a Lutheran. Doctor Wolf married, in 1921, Miss Mary Jean Robinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Robinson, of Uhrichsville. Doctor Wolf 's home is in Uhrichsville, though his professional and business interests are centered at Dennison. WILLIAM B. SPAGNOLA. The ambitious spirit of the best class of the foreign-born element of our citizenship leads many to strive on until greater heights are sometimes reached than are attained by those who have had less obstacles to overcome in their progress. William B. Spagnola, one of the successful practicing attorneys of Youngstown, is an example of the above, and, judging by what has already been gained, he has a brilliant future before him. William B. Spagnola was born in Italy, in May, 1897, a son of Frank and Teresa (Billett) Spagnola, also natives of Italy. In 1891 the parents came to 388 - HISTORY OF OHIO the United States, and, locating in Youngstown, opened a general merchandising business in the West End, and this they continued to conduct until 1915. It was while on a visit to her old home in Italy that William B. Spagnola,s mother gave birth to him, returning later to America when the subject of this sketch was only eight months old. From earliest youth determined to succeed in life, William Spagnola studied hard, and went through the graded and high schools of Youngstown, and then secured employment as bookkeeper with the Elks Club of Youngstown. While holding this position for three years he studied law under the preceptorship of Dominick F. Rendinell. For three more years he was connected with this same club as manager. During this time he kept on with his law studies, later, however, being under the fostering care of Frank R. Gusweiler at Cincinnati, Ohio. In June, 1922, Mr. Spagnola was admitted to the bar, and opened offices with D. F. Rendinell, 1006 Wick Building, and since May, 1924, he has occupied offices at 205 Terminal Building. His political beliefs make him a democrat. Alert, capable and hard-working, Mr. Spagnola has honorably earned his present professional standing. JARED J. RARDIN is one of the progressive business men and representative citizens of Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, and is treasurer of the Selby Shoe Company, a substantial manufacturing concern of that city. Mr. Rardin was born in Athens County, Ohio, November 30, 1848, son of Levi and Fannie L. (Selby) Rardin, the former of whom died in 1867, and the latter of whom passed away October 30, 1914. Authentic records show that about 1750 two brothers, Dennis and John Rardin, came from Ireland to America and first made settlement on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, whence they later moved to the western frontier of that commonwealth, where they participated in many of the stirring events of the French and Indian uprisings, history recording that the Rardins were famous guides and scouts and that one of them accompanied Gen. George Washington when he made a trip over the mountains into the Ohio River country. There is a tradition to the effect that one of these Rardin brothers rescued from captivity by the Indians a white girl who later became his wife. All of Western Pennsylvania at this period had been penetrated only by Indian traders and exploring parties. Between 1740 and 1770 Ireland alone sent about 10,000 immigrants to America, the major number being Protestants from the northern districts of the Emerald Isle. Dennis Rardin must have married just before or shortly after he came to America, for in this country was born his second son, Henry, on the 17th of November, 1756. The family name of his wife is not revealed in the records, but it is shown that he survived her. The earliest records show that Dennis Rardin paid taxes to the amount of two pounds in 1773, in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and that in 1783 he had moved westward, into Huntington Township, Westmoreland County, where he paid eight pounds and four shillings in tax and where he died in 1789, possessed of a goodly portion of land and chattels to be divided among his three children, John, Henry and Jane (Woodruff). Henry, according to the records, was granted letters of administration January 20, 1789, and made final accounting February 3, 1790. He married Elizabeth Hull, who was born in 1762, daughter of John Hull, who was a soldier, with rank of sergeant, in the War of the Revolution and who for this service received a warrant for 400 acres of land in the Northwest Territory. This warrant was assigned to Thomas Rardin, a cousin of Henry, and Thomas located, under the warrant, lands at Rardin, Scioto County, Ohio. Henry Rardin served from 1778 to 1783 as a member of the Frontier Rangers, in company with Captains Thomas Moore, John Nelson, William Butler and Steven Bayard. At the close of the Revolution he moved into Allegheny County, Elizabeth Township, where he paid taxes of eight pounds. In 1807 Henry Rardin, accompanied by his wife, Elizabeth, and by their six sons and two daughters (Moses, Rebecca, John, Sarah, William, James, Henry and Samuel, the last named being then three years old), took a boat from Georgetown, Butler County, Pennsylvania, and emigrated, with many others, into what was then the great Northwest Territory. They landed at Marrietta, Ohio, moved into the western part of Washington County and located land on Laurel Run, in Wesley Township. There Henry Rardin passed the remainder of his life, dying October 17, 1855, at the home of his youngest son, Samuel, and at the patriarchal age of ninety-nine years, his wife having passed away in 1836, aged seventy-four years. Henry Rardin was a skilled millwright and constructed several grist mills that were operated by water power. He was likewise a successful farmer, acquired considerable wealth, and gave to each of his sons, at marriage, a farm near his home place. William, the fifth child of Henry and Elizabeth Rardin, was born April 29, 1797, passed his boyhood days on Laurel Run, and April 2, 1818, married Elizabeth Anders, who was born in Pennsylvania, July 16, 1799, a daughter of Michael and Mahitable (Gard) Anders, the Anders family being of Holland Dutch origin. William and Elizabeth Rardin initiated their married life in a little log cabin on a branch of Laurel Run, about two miles north of Bartlett, and near the place where his father first located. Here was born their first child, Mahitable, and soon afterward they removed to the Hecker farm, near Otterbein Church. Within a short period they thence removed to a farm on the old state road, a place known as the Dyson, Younkins or Linscott farm. Two years later Mr. Rardin purchased the farm on which he gave the site for the erection of Mt. Hermon United Brethren Church. He first lived in a log cabin just west of the church, and later, to gain better water facilities, he erected the house which is still standing, down the ravine to the north of his former house. In this second dwelling Levi Rardin, father of the subject of this sketch, was born January 19, 1823. William Rardin died December 11, 1876, and his wife, Elizabeth, died October 17, 1890. Their remains lie in the Mt. Hermon Cemetery, where their grandchildren erected a monument to mark their resting place. When William and Elizabeth Rardin started to develop a farm in the forest wilds, the rifle was always close at hand and usually hung on hooks over the door in the little home, for the forests were filled with wild animals. Bear and deer, as well as smaller animals of many kinds. Horses, cows and pigs on the pioneer farm had to be watched and protected, and to the family larder was added the meat of many a bear who had attempted to make inroads on the domestic live stock. Wild game supplied much of the meat for the household, and the sugar maple provided the family sweets. The sturdy and arduous life in the reclaiming of a farm from the forest required men of courage, industry and patience, and tended to beget the finest type of personal integrity. Levi Rardin, reared under the conditions of the pioneer days, chose as his wife Miss Fanny Selby, who was born at Bartlett, Washington County, November 9, 1826, a daughter of Dyar and Tabitha (Calhoun) Selby. The Selby lineage is traced back through twenty-one generations. Bryan Selby was HISTORY OF OHIO - 389 born in 1200. Sir Walter Selby was granted land in 1327 by Edward III, and this land in England has since continued in the possession of the family. Sir Walter Selby was governor of Liddell Castle when it was besieged, on the Scottish border, by King David of Scotland in 1342, and after the castle was surrendered Sir Walter was beheaded at the order of the English king. William Selby, of the fourteenth generation, was baptized January 13, 1632 ; his son, Sir William, was baptized June 17, 1672, and the latter ,s son Jeremiah was born August 11, 1695. The former died at Berwick, England, August 17, 1705. In 1712 Jeremiah Selby and his widowed mother came to Boston, Massachusetts, and thence proceeded to East Haddam, Connecticut, where he lived with his uncle, Mathew Hall. Here he married, June 12, 1716, Susanna Dutton, daughter of a prominent colonial family, and became a doctor of medicine. His only son, William, born June 5, 1717, married, December 26, 1744, Hannah Brainerd, daughter of one of the founders of East Haddam, by whom he had Jeremiah II, born December 9, 1745. He rendered service during the Revolution, as shown in the town proceedings, as one of a committee to furnish clothing and supplies to the soldiers at the front. Jeremiah (eighteenth generation) married Sarah Cone March 29, 1769, daughter of Jared Cone, another founder of Haddam Colony. About the close of the century he migrated to Wayne County, New York, with eight children, among whom was Dyar, born at East Haddam, July 4, 1784. Here Dyar Selby wedded, February 17, 1811, Tabitha Calhoun, who was born at Petersham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, March 15, 1791, a daughter of James Calhoun, who was a patriot soldier in the Revolution, and Sarah Hinds, daughter of Dr. Timothy Hinds, also a Revolutionary soldier. In 1807 James Calhoun became a pioneer settler in Wayne County, New York, the overland journey having been made with teams and wagons and his daughter Tabitha having driven one of the teams the entire distance. In 1819, eight years after his marriage, Dyar Selby, accompanied by his wife and their four children, landed at Marietta, Ohio, and located at Rainbow Bend, a short ways up the Muskingum River. In 1827 he moved westward to Wesley Township, Washington County, and in 1832 he established his home in Berne Township, that county, where he remained until his death, in 1873. Dyar and Tabitha Selby had ten children: Jeremiah, Dyar, Hines Cone, Sarah, Susan, Warren, Jared, Fanny (mother of the subject of this sketch), Elizabeth and Francis Marion. Levi and Fanny (Selby) Rardin purchased a farm adjoining that of the former ,s father, and they became the parents of six children: Jared J., Willard W., Charles C. (died September 16, 1867), Eunice E., (died March, 1883), Emily (died September, 1867), and Joseph Spangler, who located in Portsmouth and is one of the leading surgeons in Southeastern Ohio. Jared J. Rardin attended district school in Athens County and had two terms as a student in Bartlett Academy, Washington County. Thereafter he continue to be associated with the work of the home farm until he attained to the age of twenty-one years. With headquarters at Portsmouth, he thereafter was employed ten years as salesman and collector for the Singer Sewing Machine Company, while during the ensuing fifteen years he was district agent for this company, his jurisdiction covering seven counties in Ohio and nine in Kentucky. In 1895 Mr. Rardin became one of the organizers of the Star Shoe Company at Portsmouth, and of this he continued the treasurer until 1902, when he traded his interest for stock in the Drew-Selby Shoe Company, of which he became treasurer. In 1906 the business was incorporated under the present title, the Selby Shoe Company, and Mr. Rardin has continued as treasurer of this corporation. He is a member of the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, the local Kiwanis Club, and the Country Club, while he and his wife are active members of the Bigelow Methodist Episcopal Church at Portsmouth. July 5, 1876, recorded the marriage of Mr. Rardin and Miss Mary A. Webster, who was born in Meigs County, Ohio, a daughter of Isaac and Verlinda Webster. Mr. and Mrs. Rardin have had four children : Irma was a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University, where she formed the acquaintance of a fellow student, Rev. George L. Davis, whose wife she subsequently became. They are now residents of Pekin, China, where Mr. Davis is a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their one child is a son, Euan ; Nellie, born September 24, 1879, died November 24, 1879; Glenn E., who is engaged in the real estate business at Portsmouth, married Miss Crete Brant, of Lucasville, and they have two sons, Jared and Robert. Earl W., of Columbus, Ohio, married Miss Carrie Goddard, of Wellston, Ohio, and is in the real estate business in Columbus, Ohio. They have one daughter, Marcella. CLINTON L. POSTON. One of the men who through business enterprise and personal character did much to shape the industrial affairs of the Hocking Valley was the late Clinton L. Poston, who at the age of seventy-five died in his home at Athens, Ohio, August 23, 1923. He was born at Nelsonville in Athens County, November 19, 1847, son of Lorenzo D. and Lucinda (Parkinson) Poston. He was educated in the public schools and in Ohio University, and as a youth showed unusual capacity for business, at the age of twenty taking charge of his father's business when his father and older brother were ill. During his lifetime his business energy and enterprise covered a wide field, involving the acquisition of immense holdings of coal lands throughout the Hocking Valley and the ownership and operation of many mines. He bought and sold coal lands, and had a pioneer part in the development of the basic industry of the Hocking Valley. Upon its organization in 1905, he became a member of the Board of Directors of the Sunday Creek Company, then the second largest coal company in the world. He was largely interested in the Morris-Poston Coal Company, operating in the eastern part of the state, the Poston Consolidated Coal Company, the Millfield Coal & Mining Company and the Sugar Creek Coal & Mining Company in the Hocking field, and the managing director of all these corporations. He was also vice president and director of the First National Bank of Athens. Through his coal mining interests he became a large employer of labor, and in his dealings with the miners, as with all others, his integrity was of such sterling worth that all knew he would scrupulously fulfill his contract. Never in rugged health, his indomitable will, tireless industry and unflagging energy enabled him to perform a seemingly impossible amount of work. He literally invested himself in business. His pleasure, his recreation, his work, his task, was in his business. Outside of his own affairs he had no inclination toward public honors, but was a man of generous impulses, and kept many old and faithful employes in nominal positions that they might remain on the payroll. He was a regular contributor to many worthy causes about which the public knew nothing, and, reared by devout Methodist parents, he early affiliated with that church and was one of the largest contributors to the beautiful church building at Athens. 390 - HISTORY OF OHIO The late Mr. Poston possessed a keen and active mind. He read current literature discriminatingly, was fond of good books and was an accurate discerner of the times, as his business achievements proved. On October 28, 1869, he married Miss Delia Kessinger, daughter of Joseph L. and Mary E. (Jewett) Kessinger. Their married companionship continued for nearly fifty-four years. Mr. Poston was not only a business man but husband, father and home-lover. His faithful, devoted wife created the atmosphere of the home, the place he loved most, and which was the source of his chief joy and inspiration. They were the parents of two children, a (laughter, Grace M., who is the wife of. Dr. T. R. Biddle, of Athens, and a son, L. D. Poston. L. D. Poston and Doctor Biddle were associated in business with the late Mr. Poston for many years, and since his death the business has continued under their management along lines laid down by the old established policies. THOMAS R. BIDDLE, PH. B., M. D. For about a decade Doctor Biddle was one of the successful physicians and surgeons of Athens County. He retired from the profession to engage in the coal business, and is associated as manager and executive officer of some of the largest coal producing companies in Southeastern Ohio. Doctor Biddle was born near St. Marys, West Virginia, November 27, 1863, son of John F. and Mary C. (Kester) Biddle. After his return in 1865 from a period of service in the Union Army the father sold his farm in West Virginia and brought the family to Ohio, settling in Athens County, Alexander Township, near Fisher. Dr. Thomas R. was the oldest of a family of thirteen children, five girls and eight boys, of the latter seven being physicians, and all have proved their worth to society. Thomas R. Biddle was an infant when brought to Athens County, and as he grew to manhood on his father 's farm he attended the Golden School in his home district. In 1883 he entered Ohio University at Athens, and taught school a number of terms to secure the funds with which to pay his expense. For a number of years he alternated between teaching and attending Ohio University and the Cincinnati Medical College of Ohio. He received his Bachelor’s degree in 1891 and his degree of Doctor in Medicine in 1892. After his graduation he formed a partnership with Dr. W. N. Alderman for the practice of medicine, which continued for nine years. In 1899 Doctor Biddle took special work in the New York Post Graduate School of Medicine, specializing in diseases of children. Since 1901 Doctor Biddle has been practically retired from his profession, becoming associated with Mr. C. L. Poston in coal production. He is a director in and manager of the Sugar Creek Coal & Mining Company, the Millfield Coal & Mining Company, the Morris-Poston Coal Company and the Poston Consolidated Coal Company. He is president of the Southern Ohio Coal Exchange and a director of the Athens National Bank. Doctor Biddle since 1900 has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Ohio University, and has always taken an active interest in the university affairs, serving on some of its most important committees. He is a member and trustee of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Athens, a member of both the York Rite and Scottish Rite Masonry and of the Shrine. During the war he was county chairman of the War Savings Stamp Campaign and president of the County War Chest. On October 8, 1895, Doctor Biddle married Miss Grace M. Poston, of Athens. They have one son, Clinton Poston Biddle, who is assistant dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. HON. EDWARD M. FRIES. One of the leading and prominent figures in the life of Wood County, Judge E. M. Fries has had a singularly active and useful career, having been connected with many of the activities of Bowling Green, where he now has a large and important law practice and is president of the Wood County Savings Bank and of the local Kiwanis Club. Judge Fries, who served from 1903 until 1909 as judge of the Common Pleas Court of Wood County, or of the First Division, Tenth Judicial District, was born in Bloom Township, Wood County, Ohio, September 29, 1866, and is a son of Solomon and Louise (Steckel) Fries. The Steckel family came from Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, to Ohio in 1840, while the Fries were settlers of the year 1845, Tiffin being their original home. At Tiffin Solomon Fries was engaged as a brick mason and contractor until 1860, in which year he moved to a farm in Bloom Township, Wood County. Shortly thereafter the Civil war came on and he was elected to serve as a captain of infantry, but after a few days at Camp Chase was found to be physically unfit, and therefore returned to his farm. He was an industrious man, and under able management accumulated 720 acres of valuable land, which still remains in the possession of members of the family. Following the Civil war he supported the republican party, and served two terms as county commissioner. He also showed his progressiveness by being one of the earliest members of the Wood County Fair Association. He died in 1904, aged eighty years, while Mrs. Fries passed away in 1908, when seventy-three years of age. Six of their seven children grew to maturity. Of these William, who was educated at the home schools and Fostoria Academy, followed the vocations of teaching and farming until his death at the age of thirty-eight years. Edward M. Fries acquired his primary educational training in the district schools, following which he pursued a course at Fostoria Academy, and then enrolled as a student in the Ohio Northern University, from which he received the degrees of Civil Engineer and Bachelor of Science. For one year he was engaged in teaching school, then practiced as a civil engineer in railroad construction work in Ohio and at Seattle, Washington, in which latter community he assisted in surveying and laying out several additions to the city. Concluding to become a lawyer, he entered the Cincinnati Law School, from which he received his degree in 1893, but remained on the home farm and in Judge Parker 's law office until 1895, when he began active practice at Bowling Green. For a time he was in partnership with Clyde R. Painter, and since retiring from the bench has been associated with Judge Charles S. Hatfield, practicing in all the courts. For several years Judge Fries served in the capacity of referee in bankruptcy in Wood and Henry counties, and in 1903 was elected judge of the Common Pleas Court, a place in which he served with dignity and distinguished ability until 1909. He has other connections, being president of the Wood County Savings Bank and of the Kiwanis Club, while during the World war he was identified in various ways with war activities. As a republican he takes an active interest in local politics, and his fraternal affiliation is with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Judge Fries is fond of athletics, both as a spectator and participant. While he enjoys football and basketball, his favorite sport is tennis. The Judge has installed two tennis courts at his   HISTORY OF OHIO - 391 home, which are placed at the disposal of the youths and maidens of the town. Mrs. Fries, who was formerly Anna M. Davis, daughter of William and Jane Davis, was born in Wood County, was educated in the local schools and at Ohio Northern University, and for a time was an educator. She and Judge Fries are the parents of four children: Gertrude L., who is attending Wisconsin University ; Edward, a freshman at the Bowling Green State Normal College, where he quarterbackack on the football team; Robert A., attending high school; and Zenobia, in the grade school. HARLEY JESS POWELL, M. D., A. M. The incumbent of the office of health commissioner of Wood County ever since the enactment of the Hughes law creating a health department in 1920, Harley Jess Powell, Doctor of Medicine, Master of Arts, of Bowling Green, is a man well known in his profession and a public official who has been capable and conscientious in the performance of his duties. Doctor Powell was born on a farm in Hancock County, Ohio, August 2, 1870, and is a son of Irwin and Lucinda (Evans) Powell. His father, born in 1839, in Fairfield County, Ohio, enlisted in 1861 in the Ninety-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he fought four years, participating in such memorable battles as Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain, and accompanying Sherman's troops in their history-making March to the Sea. Following the war he resumed farming and eventually moved to Hancock County, where he spent the remainder of his life, dying in 1918. Mrs. Powell, who was born in Hancock County, in 1847, died in 1919 at Bowling Green. They were members of the United Brethren Church and the parents of three sons and a daughter. Harley Jess Powell acquired his early education in the country school in the vicinity of his father's farm, and after a course in Findlay College entered upon his career as a school teacher. For sixteen years he followed the vocation of educator in Wood and Hancock counties, and for nine years was principal of the North Baltimore schools. It was his boyhood ambition to become a physician, but the family finances were modest, and it was necessary that he follow teaching in order that his education might be completed. Accordingly, he gained his instruction somewhat precariously, but managed his Findlay College course, in addition to getting some work at the Tri-State Normal School at Angola, Indiana, and finally enrolled in the medical department of Western Reserve University at Cleveland, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1908. Since then he has done some post-graduate work, specializing in public health, at the Ohio State University, and during July and August, 1924, took up the same subject at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He began his practice at Rawson, Ohio, in 1908, but two years later changed his residence and scene of activities to Bowling Green, where he has since built up a large and prosperous practice. He keeps fully abreast of the advancements constantly being made in hprofession,on, and holds membership in the Wood County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is also a member of the Ohio Health Conference. During the World war he volunteered for service, was trained at New Haven, Connecticut, where he received his commission as first lieutenant, and was placed in charge of the laboratories at Camp Taylor, where he remained until the close of the war. Horticulture being his hobby, he grows all manner of plants at his home and delights in their culture. In 1898 Doctor Powell was united in marriage with Miss Leni Roberts, daughter of Henry Roberts, of Hancock County, Ohio. Doctor and Mrs. Powell have an adopted daughter, Rose, a niece, who was taken into their home in babyhood and is now the wife of Donn Ladd, of Los Angeles, California. Doris L., one of their own daughters, died in 1922, aged nineteen yeas and Maxine, the other, is a high school student. Doctor Powell belongs to the United Brethren Church, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Town-Gown Club. Although his father was a democrat, he adheres to the principles of the republican party. ORVILLE V. TODD, who devoted his early years to the cause of education and was a well known teacher in several counties in Northwest Ohio, has since been engaged in banking, and is now cashier of the Hamler State Bank of Hamler, Henry County. He was born near Leipsic, Putnam County, Ohio December 23, 1869, son of Joel and Eveline (Vaughn) Todd. His father was born at Findlay, Ohio, October 16, 1847, and his mother near Leipsic, Putnamnam County, January 10, 1848. Both grew up in Putnam County, were educated in the public schools, and after their marriage settled on a farm four miles southeast of Leipsic, where they spent the rest of their married lives. After the father 's death the mother lived among her children. They were members of the United Brethren Church and later united with the Methodist Protestant denomination. The father was a democrat. There were four children: Orville V.; Angie A., deceased; Arlowa L., wife of A. C. Bracy, of Putnam County; Granville H., who was a graduate of the Ohio Medical College and practiced medicine in Idaho until his death. Orville V. Todd was reared in the environment of his fath,s 's farm, and lived there until 1899, when he married Alice K. Elwell, of Columbus Grove, Ohio. Mr. Todd acquired his education in the public schools, and attended high school and college at Findlay and Defiance College, and for fourteen years carried on his profession as a teacher in various public schools. He first engaged in banking in Putnam County, and in 1909 came to Hamler as cashier of the Hamler State Bank. The other officers are: D. A. Collins, president, and Herman Panning, vice president. They with A. M. Ritz, John Arps and William Imbrook are the directors. Mr. Todd was justice of the peace at Hamler, and he held some local offices in Putnam County. He is a republican, an active worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church, is a past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge at Hamler, and in Masonry is a member of the Lodge, the Royal Arch Chapter and the Council degree at Ottawa, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Todd have one son, Leslie E., attending the high school at Hamler. CHARLES RICHHOLT. As a business man and good citizen no name is held in more esteem in the Village of Holgate in Henry County than that of Charles Richholt. Mr. Richholt has for many years been in business as a brick and tile manufacturer. He is senior member now of the firm Richholt Brothers, since the death of his brother William, and his active associate in the business is his nephew, Clarence Richholt. Charles Richholt was born in the Village of Florida, in Henry County, September 2, 1871, son of Jacob and Amelia (King) Richholt. His father was born in Germany, and his mother was born on the ocean while her parents were coming to the United States. Both families located in Henry County, Ohio. Grandfather King was a physician, school teacher and canal boat builder, and Grand- 392 - HISTORY OF OHIO father Richholt was a shoemaker by trade and became a merchant in Henry County. Jacob Richholt died in the prime of life, at the age of twenty-six. He was the father of three children, Charles, William and Ettie, Charles being the youngest. The daughter, Ettie, died in girlhood. The mother of these children married for her second husband William Harris, an old Union soldier, a stone mason and widely known in Henry County, where he died. Mrs. Harris subsequently married John Otterbach, and is now living at Bowling Green, Ohio. Charles Richholt was three years of age when brought to Holgate, and as he grew up there he attended the public schools, and at an early age went to work in the hoop, stave and heading factory. He also learned the trade of blacksmith, which he followed four years. In 1904 he was licensed as a stationary engineer, and was engineer at the flour mill plant three years. After this he and his brother William established a small tile factory at Holgate, and by supplying a large part of the skill as well as labor and looking carefully after the quality of their wares they built up a business that has grown until its output of brick and tile is now widely distributed over a number of counties. Mr. Richholt owns twenty-two acres of land adjoining the brick and tile plant. He is also a stockholder in the Holgate Commercial Bank and in the Farmers' Elevator. His first wife was Margaret Dietzen, who died in 1900, not survived by living children. Later Mr. Richholt married Miss Gertrude Holmes, who was born at Danville, Illinois, February 7, 1876. To this marriage were born three children, and the two now living are Robert, a graduate of high school, and Donald, attending high school. Mr. and Mrs. Richholt are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is one of the church trustees. He is a republican in politics, is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias Lodge, has served on the Holgate Village Council, and has shown a generous disposition toward all public movements. His nephew and business partner, Clarence E. Richholt, was born in the Village of Holgate, September 1, 1891, son of William and Mary (Holmes) Richholt. William Richholt, who died in 1910, had been for many years active in business as a merchant and later as one of the partners of Richholt Brothers, tile and brick manufacturers. He was a Knight of Pythias, a republican and a member of the Presbyterian Church. Clarence E. Richholt is the younger of two children, his sister, Esther, being a graduate of high school and now living at Monroeville, Indiana. Clarence E. Richholt attended the Holgate public schools and also Ohio University at Athens. He was about nineteen years of age when his father died, and he has had an increasingly responsible part in the management of the industry ever since. On October 22, 1912, he married Miss Tillie Voigt. She is a high school graduate, and, like her husband, attended Ohio University at Athens. They had two children, Mary Jane, born in 1914, and William, born in 1916, both attending the public schools. The family are members of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Clarence Richholt is affiliated with Holgate Lodge No. 553, Free and Accepted Masons ; Holly Chapter No. 136, Royal Arch Masons, at Napoleon, Council No. 55, Royal and Select Masters ; Defiance Commandery No. 30, Knights Templar, and the Scottish Rite Consistory at Toledo. Mrs. Richholt is a member of the Eastern Star. Clarence Richholt is a stockholder in the Commercial State Bank at Holgate, and has been a member of the Village Council. THOMAS O. WHITACRE, M. D. During the sixteen years that he has been engaged in practice at Bowling Green, Dr. Thomas O. Whitacre has established himself thoroughly in the confidence of the people of this community, not only as a skilled and dependable physician, but as a progressive and constructive citizen who can be depended upon to lend his support to beneficial movements and enterprises. Doctor Whitacre was born at Trombley, Wood County, on a farm, December 21, 1873, and is a son of Samuel and Apalinda (Mercer) Whitacre. It is thought that Samuel Whitacre, who died in 1877, when still a young man, was a native of Wood County, where during his career he was a farmer in a small way. Some timeafter his death his widow married John W. Knight, a farmer and oil producer, and in after years they moved to Menlo, Georgia. Mrs. Knight died at Cincinnati, while on a trip from Georgia to visit her son Thomas O. Doctor Whitacre's sister, Orla E., is the wife of Charles N. Wilson, on Menlo, Georgia. By the last marriage there were two sons: Deyo R., a hardware merchant of Vermont, and one who died in infancy. A large part of the boyhood and youth of Dr. Thomas O. Whitacre was spent in the oil fields and on the farm, where he did all manner of work. In the meantime he was gaining an education as best he might as a student of the district schools. Later he went to Bethany, West Virginia, where he received the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Music. He was well known as an athlete while there, being a member of both the football and baseball teams, and has never lost his love of outdoor recreation and healthful pastimes. He was married the day following his graduation, and at once began working as a farmer and in transporting oil land supplies. In this way he gained sufficient means to gratify his boyhood ambition of entering the medical profession, for he was able to secure sufficient funds to put him through Rush Medical College, Chicago, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1906. For two years he remained at Chicago, engaged in general practice, and then transferred his residence and center of activities to Bowling Green, where he has built up a splendid practice and an excellent reputation. Doctor Whitacre keeps himself thoroughly informed as to the advancements being made in his calling, and retains membership in the leading organizations of his calling, including' the Wood County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He was a member of the local draft board during the World war, acting in the capacity of medical examiner for same. He also has numerous other connections, and takes an active part in the busy life of the city of his adoption. Doctor Whitacre married Miss Ellen V. Chapman, a college mate of his and a daughter of Charles Chapman, of Higginsville, Missouri. They are the parents of two children: Flora B., educated in the local schools at Bethany, West Virginia, and at Denison University, and now a teacher at Pemberville, Wood County, in Greek and Latin; and Halford E., who attended the Chicago and Bowling Green schools and Denison University, where he attended the Students' Army Training Corps during the World war, and is now taking a medical course at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. SHADRACH WOLF BOWMAN. In the profession of law in Wood County there are few names better known than that of Shadrach Wolf Bowman, who has gained a high standing in his calling through natural ability, resources and industry. Mr. Bowman has also been identified with other phases of the busy HISTORY OF OHIO - 393 life of the enterprising little city of Bowling Green, and has done much to encourage and assist beneficial projects. Shadrach W. Bowman was born February 20, 1876, at Leipsic, Putnam County, Ohio, and is a son of John C. and Eliza A. (Wolf) Bowman. John C. Bowman was born in 1840, and about the time of his majority enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for service during the Civil war, through which struggle he fought valiantly, although meeting with many mishaps. For the greater part his services were in the Shenandoah Valley and around Richmond. He was captured by the enemy and confined in the notorious Andersonville stockade, and after his exchange was affected was again taken prisoner and confined at Belle Isle, where his health became completely shattered. He was again exchanged and rejoined his command, but a few days before the close of the war was again taken prisoner near Appomattox. He never fully regained his health, and died when fifty-two years of age. In 1888 the family moved to Wood County, settling on a farm near Weston. Mr. Bowman served there as township trustee and also held other minor offices, including director of the School Board. He was a republican; up to his time the first of the family to adopt the principles of that party, casting his first republican vote for J. B. Foraker. Mrs. Bowman, who was born June 15, 1851, still survives her husband and is a resident of Bowling Green. S. W. Bowman is the eldest of two sons and five daughters, all self-educated and all teachers. His brother, John H., died at the age of twenty-five years, while serving as superintendent of the Middleton Township schools. He was educated at the Tri-State Normal School at Angola, Indiana, and was a young man of great promise and high abilities. Shadrach W. Bowman attended the country schools and the Tri-State Normal at Angola, and early became a teacher in the rural communities. He was advanced rapidly, serving as superintendent of schools at Milton Center and Haskins, and at the age of twenty-four years, in 1900, was elected county recorder. He taught one term of school before taking up his official duties, and acted capably in the office from 1901 to 1907. In the latter year he became a law student at the Ohio State University, and two years later was admitted to the practice of law. At that time he formed a partnership with Judge McClelland, which continued until the latter 's elevation to the bench, since which time Mr. Bowman has remained alone. He practices in all the courts and is known as one of Wood County 's most capable and thorough legists. He is a member of the county and state legal associations, in politics is a republican, belongs to the Kiwanis Club, the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows and Elks, of which last-named he has been exalted ruler, and is a director of the Farmers Banking Company of Haskins and of the Wood County Savings Bank at Bowling Green. In 1898 Mr. Bowman married Miss Blanche Wood, who lost her parents when an infant and was reared in the home of Henry Kiel of Weston, and educated at the Weston High School and Lima College, following which she taught school until the time of her marriage. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bowman: Kiel Bertram, a graduate of the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, is now chemical engineer in the employ of the Central Steel Company of Massillon, Ohio. He had military training with the Student Army Training Corps at Case. Mildred Grace, a graduate of the Bowling Green High School and Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland, is supervising nurse in a hospital at Massillon. John is attending the Ohio State University. GEORGE W. FOLTZ, M. D. For nearly thirty years Dr. George W. Foltz has been a representative of the medical profession, enjoying the highest success and esteem in the community of North Baltimore. For several years he has had a son associated with him, and the name Foltz stands for the highest attainments in both medicine and surgery. George W. Foltz was born in Hancock County, Ohio, December 18, 1856. He was a boy when his mother died, and that event and other conditions deprived him of many advantages and opportunities such as the average boy enjoys. He had to get his own education and make his own way in the world. He completed his higher education in Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he was graduated Bachelor of Science in 1887. Then followed a period of teaching, and in 1896 he was graduated from Starling Medical College at Columbus, now included in the Ohio State University. Since finishing the regular college course he has taken four post-graduate courses, and he has made his entire working experience opportunity for close observation and improved methods on his own part. Many years ago a member of his family was afflicted with Bright's disease, and this was a special incentive to him to specialize in the study of methods of handling that disease. He has also specialized in cases of diabetes and tuberculosis, and his work has been especially successful and has won fame in these special fields. Doctor Foltz after graduating in medicine practiced several years with his brother Tobias H. Foltz at Lima, but for a quarter of a century has been located at North Baltimore. He has prepared addresses and reports on his special work for various conventions, reading one paper that attracted special attention before the Northwestern Ohio Medical Society. He is a member of the County, Ohio State, Tri-State and American Medical associations. Some of his practice has come from localities far distant from North Baltimore. He has been health officer of North Baltimore, has been actively identified with the United Brethren Church and for many years was superintendent of its Sunday school. He also served on the School Board, and is affiliated with the Masonic, Knights of Pythias and other fraternal and social organizations. He married Miss Esther Brundige, of Hancock County. Three children were born to their marriage. Miss Ethel G., a graduate of the North Baltimore High School, is at home. The son is Earl D. The youngest child is Miss Ruth, who is a graduate of high school, and finished her musical education at Westerville. She is proficient on the pipe organ and other instruments. Dr. Earl D. Foltz is a graduate of high school, of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and finished his medical education in Western Reserve University at Cleveland. He had one year of work as an interne in the Cleveland City Hospital, and during the World war was in the Army hospital service. He is now specializing in surgery and is associated with his father. EDWIN JONES at the time of his death in 1921 was justly regarded as one of the very foremost citizens in business ability and public influence in Jackson County and Southern Ohio. He was a member of one of the oldest and most distinguished Southern Ohio families. His venerable father, Eben Jones, who survived him, was a veteran iron master of the Hanging Rock iron region. Eben Jones was born in Wales, on June 10, 1834, son of Thomas T. and Mary (Edwards) Jones. In 1837 Thomas T. Jones brought his family to America, crossing the ocean on a sailing vessel, coming westward from New York by stage coach and canal boat, 394 - HISTORY OF OHIO and finally from Chillicothe, using wagon and team to penetrate the almost unbroken wilderness of Jackson County. Thomas T. Jones in spite of primitive pioneer conditions developed a farm and built one of the most substantial farm houses in the county, and subsequently became the contractor in building a portion of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway. After 1853 he became identified with the iron industry, assisting in organizing the Jefferson Furnace Company and the Buckeye Furnace. Eben Jones was a child when the family came to Ohio, grew up in Jackson County, and acquired a good education in the country schools, in Ohio University at Athens, and in business college at Cincinnati. For six years he taught school. While teaching he became interested in the iron furnace industry. In 1864 he helped recruit a company and became first lieutenant of Company C of the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Ohio Infantry, serving during the last year of the war and participating in the battle of Nashville. After the war he was secretary and treasurer of the Buckeye Furnace. In 1873 he helped organize and became secretary and treasurer of the Globe Iron Company at Jackson, and for over forty years was prominently identified with this, one of the most successful iron companies of Southern Ohio, of which he was president at the time of his death. In August, 1857, Eben Jones married Ann Williams, a native of Wales, daughter of Morgan and Margaret Williams, who died in 1887. Their six sons, Thomas A., Edwin, John E., Newton M., Charles D. and Frederick E., all achieved success in their chosen vocations. The second son, Edwin Jones, was born in Jackson County, on December 11, 1862. His career was notable, and he made his life a source of unusual service to the development of his native county. He early became connected with the coal industry, and for many years was a leader in the development of the coal resources of this section of the state. As a man of far sighted vision he made plans, and worked for their execution, to give to his community substantial industries after the coal deposits had been depleted. He was very influential in securing industries for the City of Jackson, including the the car shops of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad, and the Crown Pipe and Foundry Company, of which he was the organizer and controlling factor and president at the time of his death. One monument to his enterprise and public spirited generosity is the beautiful Cambrian Hotel of Jackson, which he built, and which is one of the finest hotels outside of the larger cities in Ohio. Mr. Jones was public spirited to a remarkable degree. He gave without stint both money and services to all movements for civic welfare. He did much to stimulate athletics and all wholesome sport, helping maintain baseball, football and other teams. He gave the ground for the athletic field at Jackson. He served his city as councilman and as mayor, and as head of the city government he was especially influential in providing Jackson with a sanitary system of high standard. He served as the first president of the Jackson Business Men's Association, and ever placed the interests of his home city above all else. For a number of years he was a recognized leader in the Tenth Congressional District. He was a member of the Republican State Central Committee, and was chairman of the committee during the 1914 campaign when Frank B. Willis was elected governor and the late Warren G. Harding, United States Senator. In 1918 Mr. Jones was a candidate for the republican nomination for governor of Ohio. In 1887 Mr. Jones married Miss Lola Williams, daughter of Dr. William L. Williams, of Centerville, Ohio, one of the leading physicians of that part of the state, and of his wife, Julia Ann (Gibbs) Williams of Middleton, Connecticut. Mr. Jones was stricken with fatal disease in the autumn of 1920, at the height of his physical and mental powers, and died at Grant Hospital, Columbus, on February 4, 1921. His widow, with their three children, Donald E., Lillian and Dwight, survive him. Mr. Jones was intensely patriotic, and while to his great disappointment his age and health prevented his acceptance in the active service of his country during the World war, he threw himself unreservedly into all the Liberty Bond campaigns and served for two years as chairman for Jackson County of the sale of War Savings Stamps. He was intensely proud of the war record of his two sons, who enlisted together in the navy on June 4, 1917, and who served together during their entire overseas service of nineteen months on the U. S. S. Melville, the flagship of the Destroyer Squadron in foreign waters. Both of Mr. Jones' sons are married, and are at present engaged in the conduct of the Crown Pipe and Foundry Company of Jackson, which was founded by their father, and of which their mother is president. The daughter, Miss Lillian, has devoted her life to a musical career, and is assured by competent critics to have a brilliant success before her. THOMAS C. HELMS. One of the reliable and well-established business enterprises of Steubenville is the wholesale cigar and confectionery business conducted by Thomas C. Helms. This is the outgrowth of a retail business which was established forty years ago and which has always been conducted along lines which have given the business the support of the public and its owner the confidence of his fellow citizens. Mr. Helms was born at Steubenville, July 30, 1864, and is a son of William M. and Nancy J. (Davidson) Helms. On the paternal side his grandparents were Lewis W. and Mary (Myers) Helms, the former of Virginia ancestry, having settled in Ohio at a very early date, about 1820. The Meyers family settled on the site of Steubenville about 1796, and the original land grant is still owned by their descendants. His maternal grandparents were Robert Carr and Freely Davidson, who came from Pennsylvania about 1830. In early life William M. Helms followed the trade of blacksmith, and while so engaged became interested in the matter of accident insurance. Eventually he was identified with that business for thirty-five years, representing the Maryland Casualty Company and being vice president of the Gesscheider General Insurance Company, a locally owned concern. He was also vice president of the Steubenville Building and Loan Company and one of the directors therein. His religious connection was with the Westminster Presbyterian Church. Mr. Helms was a veteran of the Civil war, as a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and had three brothers in that struggle, while four of his wife's brothers took part in the great war between the North and the South. Mrs. Helms died about 1900, while Mr. Helms survived until 1921, passing away at the advanced age of eighty-six years. Of their five children two died in infancy, the others being: Robert, deceased, who married Eva Black, and had two children, Oliver and Dora; Lewis, who married Anna Vogle; and Thomas C. Thomas C. Helms was educated in the public schools of Steubenville, and after attending high school for two years entered the retail cigar business of his brother Robert, who was a number of years HISTORY OF OHIO - 395 his senior. When he was only twenty years of age he bought his brother 's business, and from that time forward continued to carry on a rctail enterprise until 1910, in which year he embarked in the wholesale line. This he has since developed into one of the largest in Eastern Ohio. He has a steady and growing trade that covers a wide territory, and his reputation for integrity and honorable dealing has done much to make his business a success. Mr. Helms was one of the first stockholders in the Steubenville Building and Loan Company, in which he has held stock for thirty-six years, and at the time of the death of his father succeeded the elder man as a member of the board of directors. He is identified with the Westminster Presbyterian Church and with the local Chamber of Commerce, and takes an active part in various affairs of the city. On August 28, 1889, at Steubenville, Mr. Helms was united in marriage with Miss Nina Gordan Mitchell, daughter of Chester P. and Sallie (Dunkerly) Mitchell, the former of whom died about 1909 and the latter about 1913. They were the parents of the following children: Nina Gordan; Jessie, who married H. Smiley Ekey; George W., who married Agnes Orr and had three children, Irene, Katherine and Chester ; and Mildred, who married James Winter and had two children, Margaret and Chester. Mr. Mitchell was a farmer in the Western Reserve section, the son of a Revolutionary soldier and a descendant of a prominent Vermont family. Mrs. Helms' grandmother was a Hopkins and a direct descendant of Cyrus Hopkins, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. and Mrs. Helms had two sons: William M., who is single and resides at home, served in the World war in the Marine Corps, Seventy-third Drill Detachment, United States Marine Detachment, United States Steamship New Mexico, Officers' Training Corps, Company D, Quantico; and Second Separate Machine Gun Battalion, seeing two years of service. He is now associated in business with his father. The younger son, Thomas C., died at the age of fifteen months. WILLIAM F. HOSLER has found in his native county ample opportunity for successful achievement, and here holds the responsible executive office of cashier of the Ohio Bank & Savings Company, one of the leading financial institutions in the City of Findlay, Hancock County. Mr. Hosier was born on a farm in Washington Township, this county, February 1, 1862, and is a son of Peter and Susan (Sherman) Hosler, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Maryland, their marriage having been solemnized at Canton, Stark County, Ohio. After their marriage the parents established their residence in Tiffin, Seneca County, where the father became a successful contractor and builder, he having been a skilled workman at the carpenter 's trade. Peter Hosler later engaged in the same line of business at Fostoria, that county, and eventually he purchased and established his home on a farm in Washington Township, Hancock County. As a contractor he exemplified the high fidelity that was common in earlier days, often going to the forest and selecting the timber for the lumber which he was to use in his building operations, and in Hancock County many substantial houses and other buildings remain to attest his skill and effective vocational stewardship. In the spring of 1875 Peter Hosier, who had continued his contracting activities while supervising the operations of his farm, moved to Findlay and entered upon the discharge of his duties as treasurer of Hancock County, an office to which he had been elected in the autumn of the preceding year. In his term of four years as county treasurer he gave a characteristically faithful and efficient administration of the fiscal affairs of the county. After retiring from office he founded the Farmers Bank at Findlay, an institution of which the present Buckeye Bank is the lineal successor. He continued president of the bank until he sold his interests therein, in 1887. He then founded the City Bank, of which he continued executive head until his death in 1897, the business having thereafter been reorganized and having since been successfully continued under the title of the Ohio Bank and Savings Company. The executive officers of this solid and well ordered institution are as here noted : P. W. Ewing, president; A. F. King, vice president; William F. Hosier, cashier ; and E. P. Ewing, assistant cashier. William F. Hosier continued his studies in the public schools of Findlay until he had profited by the advantages of the high school. At the age of eighteen years he became teller in the bank founded by his father, and he eventually advanced to his present post, that of cashier of the Ohio Bank & Savings Company. Mr. Hosler is intrinsically loyal and public-spirited as a citizen, is aligned in the ranks of the democratic party, but has had no desire for political activity or public office. He is president of the Buckeye Traction Ditcher Company, one of the important industrial concerns of his home city, and is secretary and treasurer of the Findlay Courier Company, which publishes a democratic county paper that effectively covers its field. He is affiliated with the local lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and his wife is. an active communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In October, 1885, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hosler and Miss Helen M. Shafer, and they have one daughter, Mary Louise, who was graduated from the Findlay High School and from Miss Mittleberger 's Finishing School in the City of Cleveland. Mrs. Hosler was born and reared in Hancock County, and her public school education was supplemented by her attending Oberlin College and Mount Holyoke College. She is a daughter of Morgan D. and Mary L. (Bunts) Shafer. Morgan D. Shafer was a prominent attorney and democratic leader in Ohio. WILLIAM FRANCIS DEMUTH, M. D. Until 1921 William Francis Demuth was engaged in the successful practice of medicine and surgery in Tuscarawas County, save for the period of the World war, when he was a medical officer in France, earning a distinguished record there. For the past four years Doctor Demuth has been president and general manager of the Canton Brick and Fireproofing Company, the second largest face brick manufacturing concern in the world. It is an industry of remarkable proportions and rapid growth, and has been established only since 1921. It operates plants at New Philadelphia, Canton, Midvale, Robertsville and Newcomerstown. The general offices are in New Philadelphia, and the company maintains a number of sales offices. Doctor Demuth was born on a farm near New Philadelphia, May 5, 1884, son of Hon. Oliver J. and Caroline (Schmitz) Demuth. A sketch of the career of his father, a prominent citizen of Tuscarawas County, is given elsewhere. Doctor Demuth was reared in West New Philadelphia, where his parents established a home when he was five years of age. After public schools he attended Oberlin College three years, and took his medical course in Western Reserve University at Cleveland, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1910. After a year as interne in St. Vincent's Hospital at Cleveland he located at Port Washington, in Tuscarawas County, 396 - HISTORY OF OHIO and built up an extensive general practice during the eight years he was there. Doctor Demuth gave up his professional business and volunteered in April, 1918, and in May was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps. He was ordered to Camp Greenleaf and soon afterwards went overseas with the Fifth Division, remaining with that unit of the American Expeditionary Forces. He was cited for distinguished service under extraordinary circumstances and received the French Croix de Guerre. On the field he was promoted to the rank of captain. Following the armistice he went with the Army of Occupation, and on July 1, 1919, returned home and received his honorable discharge at Camp Sherman July 18th. Doctor Demuth then resumed private practice at New Philadelphia, but two years later was elected president and general manager of the organization of the Canton Brick and Fireproofing Company. Though brief, Doctor Demuth 's professional career was one of brilliant attainments and achievements. He was an active member of the Tuscarawas County, Ohio State and American Medical associations. Doctor Demuth has a number of business relations, being president of the Farmers State Bank at Port Washington, a director of the Exchange Bank at Stonecreek and director of the McKone Tire and Rubber Company at Millersburg. He is progressive in spirit, capable in business, and his associates say of him that he has practiced his favorite motto : "What Can be done, must be done." Doctor Demuth is a member of the American Legion, the Bronx Club, the Union Country Club, is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was reared in the faith of the Moravian Church. He is nominally a republican voter, although acting independently where such action promotes good and effective government. Doctor Demuth married in 1911 Miss Helen Wallace, of New Philadelphia. They have two children: William Wallace and John Richard Demuth. JOHN V. HARTMAN, M. D., who is established in the successful practice of his profession in the City of Findlay and who specializes in surgery, has gained a secure place as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of his native county. Doctor Hartman was born on the parental homestead farm in Allen Township, Hancock County, Ohio, March 10, 1877, and his preliminary education was obtained in the district schools of his native town- ship. Thereafter he continued his studies in the Findlay public schools until he had profited by the curriculum of the high school, and he pursued higher academic studies in Findlay College. He made thereafter a record of six years of effective service as a teacher in the public schools of Hancock County, and in the meanwhile he had formulated definite plans for his future career. In consonance with his ambitious purpose he entered the Cleveland Medical College, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the Class of 1904. In addition to this receiving in the Ohio metropolis his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was able to fortify himself further by the valuable clinical experience he there gained in the position of interne in the Cleveland Maternity Hospital and the Cleveland City Hospital. In October, 1904, Doctor Hartman opened an office at Findlay, judicial center of his native county, and here he developed within the ensuing decade a substantial and representative general practice. In 1914 he spent seven months in effective post-graduate study in leading hospitals and medical schools of Vienna, Austria, where he gave particular attention to surgery, which department of professional service has since represented his special field of practice at Findlay. When the nation entered the World war Doctor Hartman began to adjust his personal and professional affairs in such order as to enable him to enter service in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. He enlisted in this service in February, 1918, and in the following June went with his corps to France, where he did effective service until June, 1919. He was honorably discharged, with the rank of major, and he returned to his home at Findlay. The experience which he gained in surgical work while with the American Expeditionary Forces in France added much to his technical skill, the while it represented his loyal stewardship in constructive patriotism. The Doctor is identified with the Hancock County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In 1922, in company with his wife, Doctor Hartman passed six and one-half months in Europe, most of this time having been passed in Vienna, a city in which he had been studying at the inception of the World war. He is affiliated with York and Scottish Rite bodies of the Masonic fraternity. He and his wife and daughter hold membership in the Presbyterian Church in their home city. In 1906 was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Hartman and Miss Zoe Codding, who was graduated from the Findlay High School and who later became a popular teacher in the same. Doctor and Mrs. Hartman have one daughter, Sarah Roe, who was born in 1910, and who (1923) is attending the public schools of Findlay. COLLIN D. HAYWARD, secretary and treasurer of the Buckeye Traction Ditcher Company, one of the most important industrial concerns in the City of Findlay, Hancock County, was born at Kelloggsville, Ashtabula County, Ohio, July 9, 1857, and is a son of Samuel and Ednah (Deane) Hayward, the former of whom was born in the northern part of the State of New York and the latter in the State of Massachusetts. She was a child at the time her parents established their residence in Ashtabula County, Ohio, where she was reared and educated and where her marriage was solemnized. Both she and her husband passed the remainder of their lives in that county. Samuel Hayward for a number of years operated a tannery at Kelloggsville, and later he conducted a bank in that village. After his death his widow there continued to maintain her home until she too passed away, at the venerable age of ninety-seven years. The schools of his native village constitute the medium through which Collin D. Hayward acquired his early education, which included the discipline of the high school. As a youth he went to the City of Chicago, where he found employment in the great mercantile establishment of Marshall Field & Company. After his return to Ohio he was associated with his father in the lumber business, and he thus continued until February, 1886, when he established a lumber yard at Findlay. Here he continued successfully in the lumber trade until 1909, when he assumed his present executive office, that of secretary and treasurer of the Buckeye Traction Ditcher Company. Of this important industrial corporation W. F. Hosler is president and C. L. Casterline the vice president, and the directorate of the company includes the three executive officers and also W. A. Hollington, R. W. Moore and A. C. Heck. For more than thirty years Mr. Hayward has been numbered among the substantial business men and progressive citizens of Findlay, and in 1923 he is serving as a member of the City Council. He is affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and HISTORY OF OHIO - 397 Protective Order of Elks, is a republican in political allegiance, and he and his wife hold membership in the Christian Science Church. The maiden name of Mrs. Hayward was May C. Coburn, and the one child, Rachel, born in July, 1908, is, in 1923, a student in the Findlay High School. OSCAR P. KLOTZ, M. D., has in the City of Findlay, Hancock County, a practice whose broad scope and importance attest alike his professional ability and his unqualified personal popularity. Doctor Klotz takes due satisfaction in claiming time old Buckeye State as the place of his nativity, he having been born on the parental home farm in Fairfield County, Ohio, October 31, 1875, a son of John H. and Mary A. (Roley) Klotz, who now maintain their home in the Village of Benton Ridge, Hancock County. The father was born in Fairfield Cowley, in 1854, and his active career was marked by long and successful association with farm industry in his native state. The parents are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the father has always given loyal support to the cause of the democratic party. Of the four children three are living, Dr. Oscar P., of this sketch, being the eldest of the number ; Shirley is the wife of Clarence Fetters, of Hancock County ; and Ruby remains at the parental home. Doctor Klotz was a lad of ten years at the time of the family removal from Fairfield County to Hancock County, in 1885, and here he completed the curriculum of the public schools at Benton. Thereafter he gave ten years of successful service as a teacher in the schools of Hancock County, and he then entered the Illinois Medical College, in the City of Chicago, in which institution he was graduated as president of the class of 1905. After thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was engaged in general practice at Hoopeston, Illinois, until 1920, when he returned to the old home county in Ohio and engaged in practice at Findlay, where continued success has attended his able and earnest ministrations as a physician and surgeon. He holds membership in the Hancock County Medical Society, the Ohio and Illinois State Medical societies, and the American Medical Association. In the Masonic fraternity the Doctor has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and is also a member of the Mystic Shrine, besides which he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a republican in political adherence, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Doctor Klotz wedded Miss Marie Thompson, a graduate of the high school at Iowa City, Iowa, and their one child, Marguerite, is a member of the class of 1926 in the Findlay High School. FREDERICK N. PRICE has been superintendent of the Hancock County Home or Infirmary since the spring of 1919, and is giving a careful, conscientious and effective administration of the affairs of this institution. Mr. Price was born on a farm in Madison Township, Hancock County, October 1889, and is a son of Adam and Mary (Fischer) Price, the former of whom likewise was born in Madison Township and the latter was born in Pennsylvania, she having been a child when her parents came to Ohio and located at Crestline, Crawford County, whence they later came to Arlington, Hancock County, where the daughter was reared and educated. Adam Price, a representative of one of the old and sterling families of Hancock County, has continuously maintained his residence in Madison Township, and is today one of the substantial exponents of farm industry in that township. He is aligned in the ranks of the democraticparty and is a communicant of the Lutheran Church, as was also his wife, her death having occurred in 1909. Of the four children Frederick N., of this sketch, is the eldest; Eva M. is the wife of Herman Rettig, and they reside in Hancock County; Anna is the wife of Harvey P. Boehm, of Hardin County; and A. Reed remains with his father on the old home farm. Reared on a farm and early beginning to contribute his quota to its activities, Frederick N. Price did not in the meanwhile fail to profit fully by the advantages of the local schools, and he continued his studies in the public schools of his native county until his graduation from the high school at Arlington. He advanced his education thereafter by further study at Athens and Bowling Green, and he made a record of effective service as a teacher in the public schools, his service in the pedagogic profession having continued during a period of eight years. Thereafter he was engaged one year in independent farm enterprise, and he served eighteen months as clerk of the Board of Commissioners of Hancock County. In 1919 he was appointed to his present office, that of superintendent of the County Home, a position of which he has been the incumbent since April of that year. Mr. Price is a democrat of inalienable loyalty, is affiliated with Findlay Lodge No. 227, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; with the Grange at Benton Ridge; and with the Loyal Order of Moose. He and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church in the village of Arlington. The year 1912 recorded the marriage of Mr. Price and Miss Carrie O. Keller, and of this union have been born five children; Ruth, Lester, Dean, Robert (deceased) and Leon. Mr. Price is a stockholder in the Findlay Savings & Loan Company and also in farmers' cooperative grain elevators. JOHN E. HATTERY, M. D., is not only one of the representative physicians and surgeons of Mercer County but also has distinct prominence as one of the most progressive and liberal citizens of Celina, the county seat. Here the Doctor is president of the First National Bank, of which he has been a director from the time of its incorporation, in 1900, and he is president also of the Celina Manufacturing Company, a well ordered concern here engaged in the manufacturing of sheet metal. Doctor Hattery was born at Van Wert, Ohio, July 25, 1857, and is a son of the late Josiah and Elizabeth (Ritter) Hattery, the father having been a skilled cabinetmaker and having been engaged directly or constructively with the work of his trade during virtually his entire active career. In the public schools of his native city Doctor Hattery continued his studies until he had completed the curriculum of the high school, and in 1884 he was graduated from fine old Starling Medical College, which is now the medical department of the University of Ohio, which institution has issued supplemental diplomas to the still living graduates of Starling. After receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine Doctor Hattery was engaged in the practice of his profession at Elgin, Van Wert County, from 1884 until 1893, since which latter year he has been established in general practice at Celina, where he has long controlled a large and representative professional business and where he has high place in the confidence and good will of the community. He has served as president of the Mercer County Medical Society, of which he is now one of the veteran members, and he has membership also in the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In the Masonic fraternity the Doctor has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, besides being a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and in the York Rite jurisdiction he has served as high priest of his Chapter of Royal 398 - HISTORY OF OHIO Arch Masons and holds a life membership in his consistory of Scottish Rite. The Doctor was one of the organizers and incorporators of the First National Bank of Celina, and has been for the past several years its president, his administration being known for its careful conservatism and yet liberal and progressive policies. He is medical examiner for a large number of the leading life insurance companies doing business in Mercer County, including the Aetna, the John Hancock, the Mutual Life of New York, the Equitable of New York, the Gem City Life, the Midland Mutual, the Ohio State Life, the Columbus Mutual, the Ohio National Life, the Pittsburgh Life & Trust, the Ohio State Mutual Life, the Missouri State Life, the Indiana State Life, and the Penn Mutual Life. He served as a medical member of the Draft Board during the period of the World war. Doctor Hattery is a stalwart advocate and supporter of the principles of the republican party, and his civil loyalty was shown in his twenty years of service as a member of the Celina Board of Education, of which he was president during much of this period, and by more than seven years of service as president of the Mercer County Board of Education. His wife, long a popular figure in social and cultural circles in her home city, here holds membership in the Alturian and Thimble Clubs, besides being affiliated with the local chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. The year 1886 recorded the marriage of Doctor Hattery and Miss Mary A. Nichols, daughter of the late Samuel and Maria (Dillon) Nichols, of Mercer County. Of the children of Doctor and Mrs. Hattery the eldest is Dr. John S., who is now a leading physician and surgeon in the city of Mansfield, Ohio; Russell H. is an executive of the Celina Manufacturing Company, as is also his brother Sidney D.; Florence A. is the wife of Grover J. Kenney, and they reside in Brooklyn, New York; Leonora B., whose death occurred in 1919, was the wife of Clarence L. Allis, now superintendent of the Electric Light and Power Company at Wooster, Ohio. WILLIAM H. BROWN has proved vital and resourceful in bringing up to a high standard the Findlay Daily Courier, at Findlay, the metropolis and judicial center of Hancock County, he being editor of this paper and his father president of the company by which it is published. W. F. Hosler is the secretary and treasurer. Mr. Brown claims the Sunflower State as the place of his nativity, but is a representative of one of the old and well known families of Hancock County, Ohio. He was born at Mead Center, Kansas, September 16, 1889, and is a son of H. W. Brown, who was born at Findlay, Ohio, February 14, 1863, and who was here reared to adult age, his public school education having been supplemented by a course in the Ohio Normal School at Ada. H. W. Brown staged his activities in the Southwest at the time when settlement was there advancing with remarkable rapidity. He founded newspapers in new towns in that section of the country, and did much to further civic progress. He sold his various papers after placing them in successful operation, and finally, in 1890, he returned, with his family, to his native county, where he founded the Findlay Union as a weekly paper. He has since continued his association with newspaper enterprise at Findlay, where in 1903 he purchased the plant and business of the Findlay Daily Courier, of which he has since been the executive head, he being president of the company by which the paper is published. Mr. Brown wedded Miss Lillian C. Blood, who was born in Iowa and who was graduated from Mary Baldwin Seminary, Staunton, Virginia. Of this union William H., of this sketch, is the only child. He was an infant at the time his parents came from Kansas and established their home at Findlay. His mother passed away December 21, 1924, following an illness of several weeks' duration and having been in declining health for the past four years. In the public schools of Findlay William H. Brown continued his studies until his graduation from high school, and thereafter he continued to be associated with his father 's newspaper business here until 1914, when he was appointed chief committee clerk of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States. He retained this position until 1918, and then resigned to accept the post of vice consul and special assistant to the United States Department of State, which he thus represented in Siberia and Japan for a period of sixteen months. He then resumed his association with the Findlay Daily Courier, of which he is now editor. Both he and his father are stalwart advocates of the principles of the democratic party, and his father served four years as postmaster of Findlay under the second administration of President Wilson. The father is a Knight Templar Mason, and is affiliated also with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. William H. Brown as an appreciative and popular member of the Findlay Lodge of Elks and of the Presbyterian Church. ANSON SWANK has for a long period of years been actively associated with business interests in the Village of Arlington, where he is now the president of the Farmers and Mechanics Bank, and also one of the progressive and influential members of the Village Council. In his service as a member of the Council he has acted also as mayor for intervals, he being now chairman of the Municipal Board of Public Affairs, president of the Board of Health of the County, and a citizen who takes loyal interest in all that concerns the community welfare. He is a republican in politics, he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in their home village, he being a member of its Board of Stewards. He is a past grand of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, besides being affiliated with the Encampment body of this fraternity and also with its auxiliary, known as the daughters of Rebekah. Mr. Swank was born on a farm five miles north of his present home village, and the date of his nativity was April 6, 1867. He is a son of John and Elizabeth (Oman) Swank. John Swank was born in Pennsylvania, and was a child of one year at the time of his parents' removal to Richland County, Ohio, where he was reared and educated and where was solemnized his first marriage, to Mary Myers. Of the four children of this union only one is living. After the death of his first wife John Swank contracted a second marriage, the family name of his second wife having been Hair. Of the four children only one survives in 1923. The third marriage of John Swank was with Miss Elizabeth Oman, and of the twelve children of this marriage six are living. Mrs. Mary Swank, the fourth wife of John Swank, bore four children, of whom two are living. The foregoing record shows that John Swank became the father of twenty-four children, ten of whom still survive. He was a republican, served as justice of the peace, and in earlier years he was a successful teacher in the district schools. He was a skilled workman at the blacksmith trade, and in addition to his successful achievements as a farmer he was also operator of a saw mill for a number of years. Anson Swank passed the period of his childhood and early youth on a farm in Jackson Township, this county, and he attended the district schools until he was fourteen years old. He then became depen- HISTORY OF OHIO - 399 dent upon his own resources, was for three years employed by the month in farm work in Morrow County, and he then returned to Hancock County and became a teamster at Findlay. One year later he removed to Arlington, and here he was employed ten years in a retail liquor establishment. On the 1st of April, 1896, he here purchased a half interest in a meat market. In this line of enterprise he was associated with one partner, Hosafras, thirteen years, and for the past fourteen years his partner in the business has been C. J. Hunter, theirs being the leading market of the village, with the best of equipment and service. Mr. Swank and his wife, whose maiden name was Etta Doolittle, have no children. WILLIAM F. LEHR, M. D. With residence and professional headquarters at Arlington, Doctor Lehr has a substantial general practice that marks him as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of Hancock County. Doctor Lehr was born in Hardin County, Ohio, June 13, 1870, and is a son of Daniel and Susan (Pentzer) Lehr, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania, in the year 1825, and the latter of whom was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1829, she having been six years of age at the time of the family removal to Wyandot County, where she was reared to adult age. The early education of Daniel Lehr was acquired in the schools of his native state, and he was a youth when he went to Delaware County, Ohio, and there became a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. There his marriage was solemized, and after residing in Delaware County for somewhat more than a decade he and his wife removed to Hardin County, where he became a successful farmer and where he met a tragic death, having been killed by a runaway team. His widow passed the remainder of her life in that and Wyandot counties. Daniel Lehr was a man of fine mentality and sterling character, was a republican in political, allegiance, and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of the five children four are living at the time of this writing (1923) : Chauncey McCabe, eldest of the four, was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and is now a successful high school teacher ; Josephine F. is the widow of John Rowe; Lucy W. is the widow of William C. Thomas; and Dr. William F., of this review, is the youngest of the number. The district schools of Wyandot County afforded Doctor Lehr his preliminary education, and thereafter he pursued a higher academic course in Ohio Wesleyan University. He gave five years to effective service as a teacher in the public schools, and the trend of his ambition was indicated when he entered the Eclectic Medical College in the City of Cincinnati and began preparing himself for the profession of his choice. In this institution he was graduated as a member of the Class of 1899, and after thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he forthwith established his residence at Arlington, where he has since continued his able and faithful professional ministrations and has a substantial general practice. The doctor is a member of the Hancock County Medical Society, the Northwestern Ohio Eclectic Medical Society, the Ohio State Eclectic Medical Society, and the National Eclectic Medical Association. He has kept in close touch with the advances made in medical and surgical science, and in his practice avails himself of the most approved of modern methods, remedial agents and surgical accessories. Doctor Lehr is aligned staunchly in the ranks of the republican party, and he and his wife are earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Arlington, he being a member of its official board. He has given effective service as a member of the Arlington Board of Education, of which he was president some time. He is a stockholder in the Farmers and Merchants Bank. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and with the Lodge and Encampment bodies of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he is a past noble grand. August 5, 1896, recorded the marriage of Doctor Lehr and Miss Salina J. Casuccessfuld been a successful teacher in the public schools. Mrs. Lehr passed to the life eternal on the 19th of August, 1918, and is not survived by children. On the 10th of June, 1920, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Lehr to Miss Olive B. Beitler, who was born and reared in Hancock County and who was here graduated from the high school at Mount Blanchard. Mrs. Lehr is active in church work, and is a popular factor in the social activities of her home community. ARTHUR L. STARK. It was during his lifetime rather than since his death that definite concensus of opinion formulated Arthur L. Stark's place as one of the best beloved men inparticularlyo, and particularly in his home city of Elyria, where many hundreds of all classes and conditions, reposed in him the utmost confidence and trust as a citizen, man of affairs and business executive. Undoubtedly it was through his work and such influence that he could exert from day to day that the late Mr. Stark preferred to be known, since his modesty kept him out of public attention such as is ordinarily given to a man of his commercial rank. Mr. Stark made most of his opportunities in life. He was born in Cleveland, December 15, 1868, and graduated from Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland. He was a highly qualified chemical engineer, a man of much technical ability as well as a sound and successful executive. His business record can best be presented through quoting from the resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the Harshaw, Fuller and Goodwin Company, chemical manufacturers. "The directors desire to put on record their deep sense of loss in the death Wednesday the 17th day of October, 1923, of Arthur L. Stark, vice president or the Company. Mr. Stark was appointed General Superintendent at Elyria on May 17th, 1898. A month later he was elector and in January, 1899, became one of the vice presidents of the company. He has, therefore, been an active participant in the management and the succesful development of this company's business for over twenty-five years. Throughout this entire period he has proven a most able and efficient executive in the direction of manufacturing and plant counselornd a wise counselor in the more general affairs of the company. He was ever constant in his attention to all demands of business, and to his associates a true and loved friend. The directors through their president extend to Mrs. Stark their sincere sympathy and direct that an engrossed copy of this minute be presented to her in testimony of the high regard in which Mr. Stark was held by his fellow directors." For some years Mr. Stark had been general manager of the several chemical manufacturing plants of this company in Cleveland and Philadelphia as well as in Elyria. At Elyria he had a number of other business and civic responsibilities. He was at one time president of the Chamber of Commerce, was a member of the Sinking Fund Commission, a member of the Park Board, trustee of the Elyria Memorial Hospital and a- director and member of the Finance Committee of the Lorain County Savings and Trust Company. The directors of the latter