400 - HISTORY OF OHIO company after his death paid Mr. Stark a tribute as "one who constantly kept before him the best interests of this bank, discharging his duties with integrity and fairness, always in a manly manner and gave to all matters submitted to him keen, careful business judgment. We extend to the bereaved widow and to the members of his family our appreciation of his character and ability and express to them our deep and sincere sympathy in the loss which they, and we, have sustained." Mrs. Stark since his death has continued to reside in her old home at 232 East Avenue in Elyria. His brother Edgar is also a resident of Elyria, while another brother, Charles, has his home in Cincinnati. JAMES M. BRIGHT, who resides in the Village of Vanlue, Hancock County, is the owner of a fine farm of 200 acres, in one body, and gives his general supervision to the operations of the farm, which is maintained in a high stage of productiveness. He is one of the progressive representatives of modern farm industry in his native county, and his well improved farm estate is situated in Amanda Township, not far distant from Vanlue. On his father's farm in Big Lick Township, this county, James M. Bright was born July 28, 1874, a son of William and Mary A. (Jaqua) Bright, the former of whom is now living retired in the City of Findlay, and the latter of whom died in the year 1903. The father was born in Hancock County, January 15, 1836, and the mother was born in Seneca County, on the 4th of January, 1836. These dates indicate that the respective families were founded in Ohio in the pioneer days. William Bright proved a most successful exponent of farm enterprise and was long numbered among the influential citizens of Big Lick Township. He remained on his home farm until the death of his loved wife, and then removed to the county seat, where he resides in a pleasant home on West Sandusky Street, one of the venerable and honored native sons of Hancock County. Mr. Bright is a staunch democrat, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and is a member of the United Brethren Church, as was also his wife. Of the fine family of eleven children all but two are living at the time of this writing, in 1923: J. C. resides in the City of Findlay; Ella is the widow of William Cole and maintains her home at Findlay; Elizabeth is the wife of H. T. Roberts, of that city; Ida M. and her husband, A. L. Peters, reside on the old home farm of her father; Andrew J. is a resident of Findlay; Lettie is the wife of A. J. Stahl, a farmer in Marion Township; James M., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Charles C. is a resident of Homedale, Idaho; and Lawrence L. remains at the paternal home. The old home farm continued the abiding place of James M. Bright until the time of his marriage, and in the meanwhile he gained the practical experience that fortified him for his subsequent farm operations of independent order. He profited by the advantages of the district schools and was for two years a student in the Tri-State Normal School at Angola, Indiana. He put his acquirements to practical test by becoming a teacher in the district schools, and he continued his successful work in the pedagogic profession six years, since which time he has concentrated his activities in the forwarding of agricultural and live stock industry in his native county. He has never been deflected from a line of loyal allegiance to the democratic party, and his interest in community affairs has always been constructive. He has had no ambition for public office, but has given effective service as township assessor and township trustee. He and his wife are active members of the United Brethren Church. In the time honored Masonic fraternity .he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and he is affiliated also with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. Both he and his wife are members of the Grange, the Order of the Eastern Star and the Pythian Sisters. Mrs. Bright likewise received the advantage of the Tri-State Normal School, Angola, Indiana, and had been a successful and popular teacher prior to her marriage. Her maiden name was Mabel M. Anglin, and she was born and reared in Kosciusko County, Indiana. Of the seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Bright the eldest is Erman, who was graduated from the high school and who remains at the parental home; Mildred was graduated from Vanlue High School and the Ohio Normal University at Ada, and she is now a popular teacher in the public schools of Vanlue; Leone was graduated from the Vanlue High School and is now (1923) a student in Findlay College; James and Marjorie are attending the Vanlue High School; Donald is in the graded school of the home village; and Mary Ellen is the youngest member of the gracious home circle. R. D. TURNER, now serving his second term as probate judge of Hardin County, has earned high esteem and notable reputation in that section of Ohio, where for many years he was an educator, business man and public official. Judge Turner was born on a farm in Marion Township, September 4, 1869, son of Monterville and Elizabeth (Nichols) Turner. His father was born in Auglaize Township of Allen County, Ohio, May 2, 1845, while the mother was born in Huntsville, Logan County, Ohio, April 5, 1842. The grandfather of Judge Turner was John Turner, who came to Hardin County from the vicinity of Clarksburg, West Virginia, and was a pioneer settler in this part of Ohio, securing a section of Government land. He lived here until 1868, when lie moved to Allen County, and died there the next year. Monterville Turner was one of a family of six children, grew up in Hardin County, attended public schools, and his wife was one of the popular teachers of her time. Both were active members of the Baptist Church, and he was a deacon in the church and was a republican in politics. Their children were: R. D. Turner ; Leila B., wife of F. L. Baker, of Freville, New York; J. E. Turner, a veterinary surgeon, living in Columbus; Lovey E., wife of E. N. Lowenan, of Ada, Ohio; and E. E. Turner, who died at the age of fifteen. R. D. Turner grew up on his father 's farm, attended the common schools, and subsequently completed his higher education in the Ohio Northern University and in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. In the meantime he taught school, and subsequently was a traveling commercial salesman until 1915, when he was first elected probate judge. In 1920 he was reelected, and has given a most careful administration to the important duties and responsibilities of his office. Judge Turner married Bertha M. Young. They have four children: Dean, a graduate of high school, and who was in the county surveyor's office, was trained in home camps during the World war, and now lives at Wellston, Ohio; Harold is a graduate of high school; Dana E. is a graduate of high school, and is a deputy in Judge Turner 's office; and Richard is in the third year of high school. Judge Turner is a member of the Methodist Church, on the Official Board, and for thirty years taught a Sunday school class. He is the worshipful master of Lodge No. 154 of the Masonic Order, belongs to Scioto Chapter No. 119, Royal Arch Masons, is a member of the Elks Lodge at Kenton, the Eastern Star Chapter, and is a republican in politics. HISTORY OF OHIO - 401 FLOYD A. JOHNSTON has been a lawyer engaged in general practice at Springfield for over twenty years, and in his chosen work has proved to be the possessor of sound talents, industry and other qualifications needed for success in the law. He was born in Madison County, Ohio, September 15, 1875, son of Henry B. and Emma (Troud) Johnston. The Johnston family is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and settled in Pennsylvania in 1700. His ancestor, Henry Johnston, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and he also had other ancestors in that war, among them his great-great-grandfather Porter. His great-grandfather, William Johnston, was born in Monongahela County, Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in 1808, settling in Madison County. His grandfather, George M. Johnston, was born in Madison County, Ohio, in 1813. Floyd A. Johnston's mother, Emma Troud, died November 21, 1921, and was a daughter of John and Amelia (Porter) Troud. The Porters had settled in Virginia about 1621 and from that colony moved to Maryland and from there to Ohio. John Troud came from Saxony, Germany, about 1850 and settled in Madison County. Henry B. Johnston has been a farmer during his active career, a member of the Grange, but has never sought public honors. There were two children, Floyd and Cora A., the latter being the wife of Byron Snyder and the mother of three children, named Esther, Henry and Audry. Floyd A. Johnston grew up on his father 's farm, attended district schools, and took both the academic and law courses at the Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he graduated with the Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws degrees. He received his law degree in 1902. He was admitted to the bar by examination in December, 1901, and soon after graduating he located at Springfield, and won his early reputation at the bar in that city. For a number of years he has given much attention to the law of corporations and contracts. During the World war Mr. Johnston was a member of the Legal Advisory Board, and in January, 1920, was made United States commissioner. He has served on the board of sinking fund trustees for Springfield, is a democrat in politics, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is a thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner, and a member of the American Mechanics, Junior Order of Knights of Pythias, and the Springfield Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Johnston married, June 14, 1901, Miss Mabel Gore, of Newton Falls, Ohio, daughter of M. R. and Myra (Fowler) Gore, both deceased. Her father was a dentist, and died in 1919, being affiliated with the Masonic order and Knights of Pythias. Mrs. Johnston has a sister, Vanchie, who married Frank E. Mattes, and they have two children, Milton and Mildred. The two children of Mr. Johnston are Myra E. and Robert F., who are both attending school. WILLIAM FREDERIC GARVER is a native son of Holmes County, in his early life was a well-known teacher, and for a quarter of a century has been engaged in the practice of law at Millersburg. He was born on a farm near Killbuck, in Holmes County, September 17, 1864, son of William C. and Anna B. (Frey) Garver. His father was born in Maryland, in 1824, son of Christian and Elizabeth (Hinkle) Garver, and the Garvers were an old family in Maryland. The father of Christian Garver was killed in the battle of Monmouth during the Revolutionary war. Christion Garver served as a soldier in the War of 1812. The mother of the Millersburg attorney was born in Germany in 1825, and in 1837 was brought with her mother and other children to the United States, the family locating in Coshocton County, Ohio. She was married to William C. Garver, and subsequently they settled in Holmes County, west of Killbuck. William C. Garver died in 1906, and his wife passed away in 1889. Each had been married previously, and the children of her own marriage were three in number, one son and two daughters. William C. Garver was a democrat in politics, and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Church. William Frederic Garver was reared on a farm, attended country school, and subsequently continued his education in the Millersburg Normal School and the Ohio Northern University at Ada. When he was only fifteen years of age he taught his first term of school. After that he continued teaching through fourteen winter terms, mostly in country districts, but did his last work as an educator as principal of the schools at Berlin, Ohio. In the meantime he studied law with Judge W. S. Hanna, of Millersburg, completing his legal education with six months in the Ohio State University. On March 12, 1896, he was admitted to the bar, and his work as a lawyer has been continuous since that date at Millersburg. Mr. Garver is a democrat. He was for seven years school examiner, for six years prosecuting attorney, and for five years a member of the village council. Over the state at large he is best known through his service in both houses of the Legislature. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1915 to 1919. In 1922 he was elected a member of the State Senate, representing the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twenty-eighth districts. During his first term in the House he was secretary of the judiciary committee, and in the second term was chairman. In the Senate he became minority floor leader, and has had a conservative and influential part in some of the modern legislation. He was largely responsible for the passage of a bill giving justices of the peace final jurisdiction in peace warrant cases and permitting justices to serve summonses in adjoining counties; also a bill giving the widow or widower, whose children all died after the death of husband or wife, the same inheritance in the deceased husband or wife's property as each would have had if no children had been born; and another bill providing for the better administration of the school lands of the state, which has already brought into the state treasury at least $500,000 more than the old law would have brought. On November 4, 1924, he was reelected to the State Senate and again chosen floor leader. Mr. Garver is a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is active in the Methodist Church and for five years was superintendent of the Sunday school. He married in 1888 Miss Florence Patterson, who died in 1892, leaving a daughter, Elfie, now Mrs. Guy Pyers. In 1897 Mr. Garver married Miss Lulu McCulloch. WYLIE M. JACKSON, manager of the Farmers' Elevator at Holgate, has himself been a factor in the agricultural and business life of this section of Ohio since early manhood, and is a son of one of the most remarkably successful farmers of that rich and prosperous district of the great Maumee Valley known as Henry County. His father is Willis Jackson, proprietor of the beautiful Maple Lodge farm and homestead in Harrison Township. The Jackson family is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and the founder of the branch in Ohio was Joseph Jackson, who was born in Pennsylvania, about 1794, and was a pioneer settler in Seneca County, Ohio, acquiring Government land. His son, Noah Jackson, born in Pennsylvania, in 1820, was 402 - HISTORY OF OHIO reared in Seneca County, Ohio, and about 1848 secured a tract of land in Harrison Township, Henry County. This farm was covered with woods and brush, and the first improvement was a log cabin, and it was due to the many years of thrift and industry of Noah Jackson that a high producing farm was made and a substantial residence and other improvements supplied. Noah Jackson died at the old homestead in 1889. He was a staunch republican in politics. His wife, Mary Shively, was born in 1822 and died in 1900. Willis Jackson was born at the old homestead in Harrison Township, September 15, 1856, and still owns and occpuies Maple Lodge, the name of this country home. His farm contains about 200 acres, including some of the black alluvial soil for which Henry County is famous. He is a republican, a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Methodist Church. Willis Jackson married Jennie Hoppes, who was born in Seneca County, April 29, 1858, and was nine years of age when her parents, August and Lydia (Gooding) Hoppes, settled in Seneca County. Willis Jackson and wife became the parents of six children: Wylie M.; Dick C., a farmer at the old homestead; Bessie, who died when nine years of age; Della, who married Walter Warner, and is now deceased ; Mary, wife of Burt Richard; and Atlee, an electrical engineer by profession, now engaged in farming and dairying near Napoleon. Wylie M. Jackson was born at Grelton in Henry County, February 22, 1881, and was reared on his father 's farm. He attended the public schools, also the Tri-State Normal College at Angola, Indiana, and the Davis Business College. In 1915 he became manager of the Farmers' Elevator at Holgate, and his thorough business ability and his wide acquaintance among the farmers and grain producers of this section have had much to do with the continued prosperity of the elevator company. Mr. Jackson married Miss Virginia Underwood, of Caledonia, Ohio, a graduate of high school. They have three children, Willis E., Nelda E., and James M. Mrs. Jackson is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Fraternally he is affiliated with Holgate Lodge No. 552, Free and Accepted Masons; Holly Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Defiance Commandery No. 30, Knights Templar, and the Scottish Rite Consistory of the Valley of Toledo. A republican in politics, he has served as a member of the village council. ELMER MCCLAIN, a lawyer, of Lima, is of Scotch, Swiss and Dutch ancestry. The Highland Scottish Clan of MacQuillean (" Sons of Saint John") inhabited the Isle of Mull off the West Coast of Scotland. The founder of the Clan was "Robert of the Battle Axe," who lived about 1250 A. D. This Clan supported Robert Bruce and the Stuarts during the long, bitter conflicts between Scotland and England. Mr. McClain's grandparents were all pioneers of Northwestern Ohio. During the summer of 1828 James McDonel came northward through Western Ohio seeking out a promising place for settlement. On the way he stopped at Piqua Town, which was then the seat of the United States District Land Office. There, according to cherished family tradition, the pioneer made the acquaintance of a Shawnee Indian Chief who volunteered to show him a desirable location and conducted him to a tract which now comprises the central part of the city of Lima and advised him to enter it. McDonel Addition and McDonel Street in Lima were named for this pioneer. Nancy Ann McDonel, Mr. McClain's paternal grandmother, was born in the family homestead on this tract. The well which James McDonel dug in his dooryard is the oldest well in the city and is now enclosed in a large building erected on the site of the homestead at the northwest corner of Market and McDonel streets. David McClain, Elmer McClain 's paternal grandfather, was reared on a farm just north of Lima, which was entered by David 's father, James McClain, in 1834. David's grandfather, Robert McClain, was an immigrant from the north of Ireland. Elmer McClain's maternal great-grandfather was John Casper Zurmehly, a member of the Swiss landed gentry who was disinherited for marrying Susanna Schafner, a peasant girl. Shortly after the Napoleonic wars the couple immigrated from Schingnach, Province of Argan, Switzerland. After a sea voyage of three months' duration they landed at Philadelphia, where they bound themselves out for three years and six months to pay their passage money, which amounted to $117.10. For three years they served their master, William Thompson, of Thompsontown, Pennsylvania, who then cancelled the contract and gave them the use of a cow for the winter as a reward for their faithful service. The son of these Swiss immigrants, Samuel Zurmehly, married Catherine Book and settled upon a farm southwest of Lima, which is now occupied by industrial plants. Elmer McClain is the son of Lonzo McClain and Ida Bells Zurmehly and was born in Shawnee Township, Allen County, Ohio, October 26, 1883, on the farm which he has christened Runnymede and which he now occupies as his home. He attended the country schools, Lima High School, Ohio Northern University, Adelbert College, Oberlin College, and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1909. While pursuing studies in these institutions he was, as his finances required, from time to time farm laborer, carpenter, janitor, solicitor and teacher. During the four years of college work he remained at home one year in the absence of his brother Howard at Ohio State University and was for two years principal of the high school at West Newton, Indiana. This high school was commissioned by the state as a first class high school during his principalship. He studied law for three years at the Law School of Western Reserve University, where he was assistant law librarian. He was an honor man of his law class and was made a member of the Order of the Coif, an honorary law fraternity. Since 1912 he has practiced law in Lima except for nearly two years of military service in the World war, in which he volunteered for training in May, 1917. He served in the Army Transport Service as first lieutenant and was transport quartermaster on two freight ships, the Wabash and the Coronodo, plying between the United States and France. In 1908 he married Miss Rebecca Lonsford, who was the daughter of Mrs. Myrtle Elizabeth Harrod. Her father, Reuben Lonsford, died when she was four years old. She was a victim of the epidemic of influenza in December, 1918, at Passaic, New Jersey, while her husband was on duty with his ship in France. A son, Robert, was born in 1911. Elmer McClain was one of the founders of the progressive party in Ohio in 1911. He managed the campaign in Northwestern Ohio for the adoption of the progressive provisions of the 1912 State Constitution of Ohio. He was director of public service of Lima during 1920 and 1921, doing much to prepare the way for the succeeding commission manager form of city government. He was a member of the "Committee of 200" which espoused the adoption of that form of city government. In 1920 he married Miss Mildred Jacobs, the daughter of S. R. and Cora L. Jacobs, of Elida. They have one daughter, Marguerite Marie, born in 1921. THOMAS A. JENKINS, of Ironton, Lawrence County, is the present (1924) representative of the Seventh and Eighth District of Ohio in the State HISTORY OF OHIO - 403 Senate, to which office he was elected in the autumn of 1922. In the fall election of 1924 he was nominated and elected to Congress as a representative from the Tenth Ohio Congressional District, receiving the largest vote ever given any congressman in the history of this district. He will assume his congressional duties on March 4, 1925. Mr. Jenkins previously served four years as prosecuting attorney of Lawrence County, his term in this position expiring in 1920, and for ten years he was United States commissioner for Lawrence County. Mr. Jenkins is not only one of the representative members of the Lawrence County bar and a prominent figure in the political affairs of this part of the state, but he is also interested in various business enterprises in his home city, he being here a director of the Home Building & Loan Association and also of the Standard Lumber Company. He holds membership in the Lawrence County Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association. His political allegiance is given to the republican party. He is an active member of the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Knights of the Golden Eagle, in which last mentioned fraternity he is the supreme officer of its national organization in the United States. His continued and constructive interest in farm industry is indicated in his affiliation with the Grange. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Thomas A. Jenkins was born in Jackson County, Ohio, October 28, 1880, and is a son of Samuel E. and Ann (Harris) Jenkins, who were born and reared in Wales, where their marriage was solemnized and where they continued to reside until 1870, when, with their four children, they came to the United States and made settlement in Jackson County, Ohio. Samuel E. Jenkins had been identified with mining operations in his native land, and after coming to Ohio he was for a number of years identified with coal mining, but the major occupation which he here followed was that of farming, in which he gained some measure of success and with which he continued his allegiance until his death. He was a loyal citizen who took specially deep interest in educational affairs in his community, and he was a deacon in the Congregational Church. Of the fine family of thirteen children Senator Jenkins, of this review, was the eleventh in order of birth, all but the first four of the number having been born in the United States. Reared on the home farm and afforded the advantages of the district schools, Thomas A. Jenkins thereafter completed a course in the high school at Oak Hill, in which he was graduated when seventeen years of age. He put his acquirements to practical test in four years of successful service as a teacher in the district schools and two years as a high school instructor. In preparation for his chosen profession he entered the law department of Ohio State University, his graduation in which was as a member of the class of 1907, his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws being forthwith followed by his admission to the bar of his native state and the initiation of active practice in the City of Ironton. Here he has long controlled a large and representative law business, and of his admirable service in public offices adequate mention has been made in the initial paragraph of this review. In the World war period Mr. Jenkins was instant in patriotic service, he having been one of the four-minute men whose speeches aided in the furtherance of the local campaigns in support of the governmental war loans, as well as Red Cross service and other patriotic agencies. He was a member of the War Administration Board of Lawrence County, and made a determined but fruitless effort to enter active overseas service with the American Expeditionary Forces. January 19, 1909, at Oak Hill, Jackson County, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Jenkins and Miss Mabel Wynne, daughter of the late David Wynne, who was a prominent banker and influential citizen of Jackson County. His widow, Mrs. Mary (Jones) Wynne, resides with her daughter, Mrs. Jenkins. Senator and Mrs. Jenkins have no children. EDWARD D. BAILEY was in the railroad business for a number of years, but, like many others, eventually returned to the occupation of his early youth and has found permanent satisfaction in the life and career of a farmer. His home is in Clermont County, near the Ohio River at Bethel. Before coming to Ohio he was a farmer in Maryland. He was born near Hagerstown, in that state, January 24, 1869, son of William H. and Sarah Bailey. His father spent his life on a Maryland farm. Edward D. Bailey was educated in the public schools in Maryland, including the high school at Hagerstown, and when he left the farm he entered the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company, for a time as section foreman, then as station agent, and following the completion of a course in the telegraph school at Vicksburg, became also a telegraph operator. For a number of years he was with the Baltimore & Ohio in different capacities and at different stations. Resigning, he went out to California, and for a number of years was employed in the service of the Southern Pacific Railway. Seeing no future in railroad work, and tiring of its monotony, Mr. Bailey eventually returned to Maryland and took charge of his father's farm near Hagerstown. Both parents died soon afterwards, and as their only child, he fell heir to the homestead. Its care and management furnished him his business until 1918, when, selling his Maryland property, he came to Ohio. The first year was spent in Hamilton County, after which he moved to Clermont County and bought 200 acres in Washington Township. His time and energy have been fully taken up with improving this land and making it into a profitable farm. Mr. Bailey is one of the popular and influential citizens of the county. He is active in the Grange, member of the Masonic Lodge and Baptist Church and is a republican. He married at Los Angeles, California, in 1890, Miss Bettie Simms, daughter of Louis and Bettie Simms. Her father at the time of his death was a traveling salesman. Mrs. Bailey was educated in schools in Los Angeles. She is a member of the Baptist Church. R. EMIL SUMNEY. At Steubenville, Ohio, coal interests are very important factors in the business world, and with competition keen, the responsibility of able management of large coal properties is one of business concern. One of the experienced coal men of this city who has been more or less identified with this line of work since he left school is R. Emil Sumney, manager for the Bernice Coal Company, handling the output of the Bernice Coal Mine, a valuable property owner by S. W. Scott, a capitalist of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mr. Sumney was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, April 29, 1886, the youngest born in a large family, according to present day standards, all of whom survive and are well placed in life. His parents were Isaac and Elizabeth (Foster) Sumney. His father was probably born in Washington County, and was a son of David and Nancy Sumney. Two of his brothers served in the Union army during the Civil war, one as a physician and surgeon, and the other in the ranks. Isaac Sumney was a shoemaker 404 - HISTORY OF OHIO by trade, but was practically retired at the time of his death, May 31, 1912. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and a trustee of the same. He married Elizabeth Foster, who still survives, a daughter of Benjamin Foster, and they had the following children: Frank F., who married Elizabeth Lawson and they had three children, Weir, Janet and Ruth; Grace, who married S. H. Wolf, and they had two children, Grace and Lloyd; Alice, who married B. H. Cannon, and they had three children, Albert, Thomas and Betty; Gertrude, who is the wife of S. W. Scott, and they have three children, Bernice, Samuel and Betty; Harriet, who is the wife of B. Gamble; and R. Emil. R. Emil Sumney was educated in the public schools of Washington County, had one year in high school, then went to work for the Ellsworth Collieries Company at Ellsworth, Pennsylvania, and for five years was assistant purchasing agent for that company. From there he went, in the same capacity, to the Union Coal and Coke Company at Marianna, Pennsylvania, and upon leaving there, became assistant purchasing agent for two years for the B. J. Du Val Hardware Company, in all these big business enterprises, proving equal, to every responsibility placed upon him. In 1923 he came to the Bernice Coal Company at Steubenville as manager. In Washington County, in April, 1913, Mr. Sumney married Miss Anna M. Smiley, a daughter of James and Jennie Smiley. The brothers and sisters of Mrs. Sumney were: Cora, who married W. L. Reed, and they had three children; Byron; John, who married Blanch Singer, and they had two children; Chalmers; Robert, who married Blanch Deens, and they had four children; Russell, who married Garnet Greenly, and they had two children; Alvin, who married Zelda Timley, and they had one child; and Joseph who is married and has children. The mother of the above family is living, but the father died in 1910. He was a well known farmer in Washington County. Mr. and Mrs. Sumney have two children: Herbert Allen and Raymond Emil. Mr. Sumney and his family belong to the Fairview Presbyterian Church in Washington County. He has never been very active in politics, but has been a recognized good citizen wherever he has lived. During the World war he was registered but never called into service. J. T. MILLER, present county auditor of Defiance County, has lived all his life in that county, and has been a successful farmer and leader in the agricultural movement. He was born on a farm in Milford Township, June 11, 1869, son of Henry and Mary (Strols) Miller. His father was a native of Virginia, and on coming North first settled in DeKalb County, Indiana. He took up the ministry of the Methodist Church, but later engaged in merchandising. He moved to Edgerton, Ohio, and in 1866 located at Defiance, where he followed farming and died May 10, 1870. His wife was a native of DeKalb County, Indiana, and was widely known as a successful school teacher both in Indiana and Ohio. She taught a total of sixty-four terms of school. There were three children: Esilla, wife of Joseph Back, of Henry County, Ohio; David, of Madison, Wisconsin; and J. T. Miller. J. T. Miller was only an infant when his father died. He grew up on a farm, attended the common schools, and completed a normal and business course at Fayette, Ohio. He then engaged in farming, and in connection with farming his place in Milford Township he built up an extensive business as a hay and grain shipper. Mr. Miller married Miss Nora Fitzcharles, who was also born in Milford Township of Defiance County. They have four children: Welty, a graduate of high school; Thurlow, who was a soldier in the World war and is now a farmer in Trumbull County, Ohio; Mary, who attended high school and it at home; and Lawrence, who is married, and is a farmer of Trumbull County, Ohio. Mr. Miller is affiliated with the Edgerton Lodge of Masons and Defiance Lodge of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He has always been active in democratic politics. He was at first appointed county auditor to finish out the term of Roger Doe. In the fall of 1918 he was elected for a regular two-year term, and the term was extended a year and five months. In 1922 he was reelected for a four year term, and his present service in the court house expires in March, 1927. Mr. Miller is a member of the Farm Bureau of Defiance County. His first wife died in 1910 and he subsequently married Blanche Tanner Buck, of Logansport, Indiana, and a native of Union County, Ohio. CHARLES BURTON KING, vice president and general manager of the Marion Steam Shovel Company, is one of the forceful industrial leaders in Northern Ohio. He has an international reputation as a mechanical engineer. Mr. King was inventor of the first shovel for excavation purposes, each movement of which is separately and independently electrically operated and controlled. Representing one of the pioneer families of Ohio, and born at what was then known as Kings Mills in Richland Township of Marion County, he is a grandson of Titus King. Titus King, of English descent, was born November 24, 1793, near Rutland, Vermont, and at the age of fourteen was an apprentice in a woolen factory, finishing the trade at the age of twenty-one. After a short time of employment near Rutland he came in a one-horse wagon overland to Ohio in 1817, settling at Lancaster, where he built a water power woolen mill. This burning down, he moved to the town of Delaware, where he established a mill in partnership with Mr. Allen. His interests in this were sold in 1830, at which time he came to Richland Township, Marion County, investing in eighty acres of virgin forest land on the Whetstone River including a splendid water power site for a mill. At this site he built a sawmill and woolen mill known as King's Mill. His sawmill converted into lumber great quantities of the black walnut logs, then part of the native forest, and many of the earlier homes in Marion were made from timber sawed at King,s Mill. Titus King married Margaret Storm on September 11, 1822. She was born at Delaware, Ohio, June 17, 1806, her father being one of the first settlers of Delaware County. She died at the age of fifty-nine. George Theodore King, father of the Marion Industrial leader, was born in a cabin in the old mill yard fo King’s Mill, March 4, 1832, and reached the age of fifty-one, having spent his active career in operation of the mill and the farm established by his father. On April 7, 1853, he married Margaret Barnhart, who died at the age of sixty-eight. Her father, Martin Barnhart, was born January 11, 1794, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and from 1851 to 1857 was a commissioner of Marion County. Charles Burton King was born in Marion County, January 25, 1875. Living during his boyhood in a somewhat remote rural district, his higher educational opportunities were limited to the scope of his own ambitions and efforts. Before attaining his majority he attended as a student for three years the Ohio Wesleyan University. Early manifesting a talent for mechanical work, his ambition was naturally directed toward a career as a mechanical engineer. When twenty years old, in 1895, he went to work for the Marion Steam Shovel Company, beginning in the shops. HISTORY OF OHIO - 405 While his brother, George W. King, was president of the company, the younger brother was obliged to earn his own promotion without official interference. Those were busy years, involving toil during the day and study at night, as a result of which he completed a correspondence college course in mechanical engineering. He remained in the routine work of the shops for eighteen months, after which he was assigned duties in the field construction, consisting of the erection of excavating machinery and supervision of operation. At periods between these duties he would return to work in the shops. From the shops eventually he was transferred to the engineering department, and more and more of his time was given to this department until after 1902 it absorbed practically all of his attention. The great value of his service to the Marion Steam Shovel Company has been his work as an experimental engineer. In 1902 he designed what is known as their Model 60, which gained a world-wide reputation, particularly through its use in different sections of the Panama Canal. This model marked a new epoch in the manufacture of steam shovels, and represented the second epoch or phase of progress in the machinery made by the Marion Steam Shovel Company. He has also designed many systems of labor saving facilities for use in the shops. Perhaps the most distinctive achievement associated with the name of Charles Burton King was the designing of the first perfected electrically driven shovel. The point of superiority of this shovel is that in operation it possesses the same elasticity found in the steam driven machine, while obviously it has many features of superior advantage and mobility over any of the older types of steam shovel. Mr. King has also designed many other machines contributing toward the revolution of excavating methods and labor saving devices. Mr. King became a director in the Marion Steam Shovel Company, February 12, 1909, was made chief engineer, January 11, 1910, assistant general manager, January 13, 1914, vice president and assistant general manager, January 15, 1914, and vice president and general manager, January 23, 1917. He is financially interested in a number of Marion industries, being a director of the Marion Packing Company, a stockholder in the Marion Stockyards and the National City Bank & Trust Company; also a stockholder in the Sunlight & Ohio Valley Coal Company of Indiana. Mr. King is also a director of the Marion Chamber of Commerce, president of the local Employers Association, director of the Ohio Manufacturers Association; also a member of the National Association of Manufacturers and Chairman of one of the important committees of this organization. Mindful of the difficulties which beset him in his boyhood in acquiring a technical education, Mr. King some years ago established an industrial school for the benefit of employes who are especially ambitious. He was the prime mover and is president of the organization that built and is now operating the Harding Hotel, a one hundred and fifty room model hostelry in Marion. Just after the close of the World war he served on the reconstruction committee of the National Association of Manufacturers, and in 1923 represented the Marion Chamber of Commerce at the National Chamber of Commerce. He was appointed general chairman of the committee to raise funds from the industrial interests in Marion County, and became one of the incorporators of the Harding Memorial Association, being a member of its executive committee and board of trustees. Mr. King is a former president of the Marion Club, member of the Marion Country Club, the Rotary Club, and is a York and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He belongs to the Columbus Athletic Association and is former president and organizer and still active in the Central Ohio Manufacturers, Association. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and has written and contributed many papers on problems in mechanics and industry. During the World war lie acted as the fuel commissioner of the Third District under the United States Fuel Commission. Mr. King is a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, is a republican, and a member of the Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church. His recreations are golf, fishing and hunting. Mr. King married, November 30, 1898, Miss Ethel Liggett, of Chicago. GUY E. KERSH is a native of Putnam County, is one of the popular citizens and business men of Ottawa, and has built up the largest general insurance agency in the county. He was born on a farm in Blanchard Township, October 18, 1894, son of William A. and Clarinda Kersh, his father a native of Seneca County and his mother of Putnam County. They were reared and educated in Putnam County, and after their marriage settled on a farm in Ottawa Township and subsequently bought a farm in Blanchard Township. William A. Kersh became a prosperous farmer, but for some years has lived at Mishawaka, Indiana, where he is doing church evangelistic work. There were six children: Oril A., of Ottawa; Elizabeth, widow of Melvin Buckland; Roy, a farmer on the old homestead; Ralph C., connected with the Studebaker Motor Company at South Bend; Mabel, wife of Clyde Frantz, of Gilboa, Ohio; and Guy E. Guy E. Kersh grew up on the old farm in Blanchard Township, but after the age of eleven moved to Ottawa and attended the public schools of Ottawa. He is a graduate of the Ottawa High School and of the Ottawa Business College, and prior to taking his business course, clerked in the Ottawa Postoffice. For several. years he was a stenographer in a law office, and in the meantime, in 1916, began writing insurance and since January, 1918, has been in the insurance business for himself. The insurance agency occupies an office on the ground floor in a building two doors east of the postoffice. On July 15, 1916, Mr. Kersh married Theo Z. Hall, a graduate of the Ottawa High School and Ottawa Business College, and for three years before her marriage bookkeeper in the Ottawa Gazette office. They had three children : Martha Jane, born in 1917; Gerald E., born in 1922 and died in 1923, and Rosemary, born in 1923 and died in the same year. Mr. Kersh and family are members of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of Ottawa, and he is one of the church trustees. He is a past master of Ottawa Lodge No. 325, Free and Accepted Masons, is a past high priest of Ottawa Chapter No. 115, Royal Arch Masons; thrice illustrious master of Putnam Council No. 69, Royal and Select Masters, and is a member of the Ottawa Chapter No. 28 of the Order of the Eastern Star of which Mrs. Kersh is a past worthy matron. He is also affiliated with Blanchard Lodge No. 284, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. For two years he held the office of justice of the peace in Ottawa Township. He has a commission as first lieutenant in the Ohio National Guard, assigned to Wagon Company 123, Thirty-seventh Division Train, Quartermaster Corps, Ottawa, Ohio. FRAZER E. WILSON, local historian of Greenville and Darke County, was born at Ansonia (then Dallas), Darke County, Ohio, September 10, 1871, and is the son of Augustus N. and Sarah C. (Niswonger) Wilson. From the best data at hand it seems that this branch of the Wilson family is of Quaker origin, tracing descent from one Steven Wilson, a carpenter of Cumberland County, England, who came over about 1688, A. D., and settled in the original Quaker com- 406 - HISTORY OF OHIO munity in the valley of the Delaware River near Trenton, New Jersey. His certificate from the Friends in England is recorded in full on the records of the Chesterfield monthly meeting in the southern part of Trenton. Steven soon crossed to the west side of the Delaware and settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, where he was employed in erecting Quaker meeting houses. Here he married one Sarah Baker, the daughter of an influential Quaker family. He soon became firmly established in this community and served in the Provincial Assembly. Here the family remained for several generations with varying fortunes until about 1820 when one Thomas Wilson, then a young unmarried man, left for the budding state of Ohio, walking from Philadelphia to Zanesville, Ohio. Later he conducted a flatboat load of goods down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans, and walked back to Cincinnati, Ohio. Thomas finally settled in Preble County, where he married Elizabeth Leas, the daughter of a prosperous pioneer farmer. Augustus N. Wilson was the sixth son of this union, being born in 1842. He served nearly four years in Company E, Sixty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and participated in Sherman ,s march to the sea. After teaching for a short time in rural schools he followed the bent of his natural inclinations and engaged in mercantile pursuits in a small way with two of his brothers. In 1873 he came to Greenville, Ohio, and soon made valuable connections with practical business men who helped him to build up a prosperous business in dry goods and carpets. In 1880 his firm completed the commodious three-story brick business room on Broadway, near Third Street, which has since continued to be one of the best trading centers in the county seat. Besides conducting an active and prosperous business Mr. Wilson raised a family of seven children and served in various official capacities, notably as a member of the City Board of Education, president of the Board of Trustees of the Dayton State Hospital and mayor of Greenville. He was active both physically and mentally, and for thirty years never missed his annual fall hunting trip to the wilds of various states. He died in 1923, commanding the respect of the community for his active and useful life. Frazer E. Wilson, third in a family of seven surviving children, was educated in the public schools of Greenville and was graduated from high school in 1893. He later attended Ohio Wesleyan University and Oberlin College. In 1892 he became a member of the firm of A. N. Wilson & Sons, and has given some thirty years to this business, which, since 1920, has been reorganized and conducted as a corporation, known as the Economy Store Company, of which he is now president. While in high school Mr. Wilson manifested great interest in the study of natural science, particularly geology and related subjects, and later developed a strong liking for the study of ethnology, archaeology and local history. In 1894 he compiled a book dealing with the military campaigns of St. Clair and Wayne in the wilds of the old Northwest Territory and the resulting treaty of Greenville. This book, which he later revised under the title "The Peace of Mad Anthony," received high commendation as a literary production and was placed in many of the best city and university libraries of the country. In 1914 Mr. Wilson compiled a comprehensive history of Darke County, which is recognized as a standard of authority in his community and state. Mr. Wilson was one of the founders of the public museum in 1901 and has served on the Board of Curators since that time. He was a charter member of the Greenville Historical Society and is now its secretary. In recognition of his contributions to local history and various historical articles published in the Quarterly, he was made a life member of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society in 1907. Although not a politician, in the common conception of that term, he has served as city treasurer, clerk of the City Board of Education, and is now president of the City Council, being elected on the republican ticket in a democratic community. Socially he is a member of the local Kiwanis Club, and has served as chairman of its civic affairs committee. In spite of these various activities Mr. Wilson is vitally interested in church life. Although raised in a liberal atmosphere and being inclined to a broad interpretation of the Scriptures, Mr. Wilson has been actively associated with church work for nearly thirty years. Through marriage he became connected with the Reformed Church, and has served in various offices in the church, being now an elder, superintendent of the Bible School and teacher of the Men,s Class. Church history and theological subjects are subjects of intense interest to him. Mr. Wilson married at Greenville, Ohio, June 7, 1904, Miss Pearle Larimer, oldest daughter of John Wright and Caroline (Mowen) Larimer. The Larimer family is of Scotch-Irish descent. Isaac Larimer, Mrs. Wilson ,s great-grandfather, settled in Fairfield County, Ohio, with the pioneers. Enlisting for the War of 1812, he served as an ensign in Captain George Sanderson ,s Company of Ohio Militia. He was taken prisoner at the capture of Detroit but was allowed to retain his sword, which is still in the possession of the family. His son Isaac, born in 1808, represented his district in the Ohio Legislature for two terms. He married October 9, 1838, Margaret Ray. Their son, John Wright Larimer, father of Mrs. Wilson, was born near Lexington, Perry County, Ohio, June 24, 1846. He was a soldier in the Civil war, serving in Company B, Seventeenth Ohio Infantry, and participated in Sherman,s march to the sea. In 1865 he settled in Darke County, and on November 12, 1872, married Miss Margaret Mowen, daughter of David and Sarah (Hartle) Mowen. Mrs. Wilson was the first child of her parents and was born September 8, 1873. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Wilson have three children : John Larimer, born October 13, 1905, now a student in Ohio State University; Wayne Alden, born November 29, 1908, now a student in the Greenville High School; and Miriam, born March 30, 1912, now a pupil in the seventh grade of the Greenville schools. WILLIAM FREDERICK MAAG. If anyone is entitled to a veteran ,s distinction in Ohio Journalism it is William Frederick Maag, deceased, who rounded out a half century of service to the newspaper profession and business at Youngstown. For many years Mr. Maag was the publisher of the Youngstown Vindicator. The Vindicator was established in 1869, half a dozen years before Mr. Maag arrived in Youngstown. It has survived its early day struggles and for more than half a century has continued publication without change of name or merger or consolidation. The Vindicator is a real institution among Ohio newspapers, and its influence has always been greater than the interest it nominally represents. It has been the organ of the minority democratic party. William F. Maag was born in Ebingen, Wurttemberg, Germany, February, 28, 1850, son of Johannes and Catherine Maag. He acquired a common school education, at the age of fourteen began a four years apprenticeship at the printing trade, when seventeen he came to the United States, and from that time until his death gave an uninterrupted service as printer or publisher. He worked on the Daily Herald at Milwaukee, on a newspaper at Watertown, Wisconsin, spent four years with the Indiana Staats Zeitung at Fort Wayne, and in 1875 arrived in Youngstown. HISTORY OF OHIO - 407 He bought in that year a German language newspaper that had been established in 1874, the Weekly Rundschau. This periodical he continued in connection with his other periodicals until 1917, when it was discontinued. In December, 1887, Mr. Maag attended a Court sale of the plant of the Youngstown Vindicator. The building in which the Vindicator had been published was visited by fire, and the continued destiny of the Vindicator, which had survived nearly twenty years of checkered fashion, lay in the hands of William F. Maag entirely, who happened to be present at the time of the public sale and was the only bidder for the property, though he had not come there for that purpose and he had to secure financial backing to reestablish the Vindicator. A stock company was organized in 1888 to assume ownership, the organization being completed in September, 1889, when the Vindicator Printing Company took control, with John M. Webb, a veteran newspaper man, as president, W. M. Wilson as vice president, John H. Clarke as secretary and William F. Maag as treasurer and general manager. A few weeks later the Vindicator became a daily, and it has been published continuously for thirty-five years. Mr. Webb died in 1893, and with the withdrawal of other early members Mr. Maag for a number of years continued as the responsible manager and publisher of the paper. Mr. Maag also had a considerable influence in politics and civic affairs. He was elected on the democratic ticket to the State Legislature in 1901, and during the following session was a member of the committee on railroads and public printing. In 1912 he was presidential elector during Wilson's first campaign. At the time of the World war he was a mcmber of the original draft board number one at Youngstown, and personally and through the Vindicator he exerted a sound and effective influence in behalf of the government and at all times kept the Vindicator up to the highest standards of civic loyalty, clean politics and community welfare. Mr. Maag was a trustee of the Glenwood Children's Home from the time of its organization. He was treasurer of the Arc Engraving Company. He was a Knight Templar and Thirty-second Degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He married at Fort Wayne, Indiana, Miss Elizabeth DuCasse, of Watertown, Wisconsin. She died in 1909, the mother of six children. Three of them died when young: Eda Irene, Mathilda and Carl. The three surviving children are: Alma, wife of William O. Brown, manager of the Vindicator; William F., Jr., editor of the Vindicator ; and Arthur DuCasse, editor of the Sunday Vindicator. HERBERT R. HARRINGTON. The First National Bank of Logan was organized in 1863, soon after the National Banking Act was passed. It is one of the old and substantial financial institutions of Southeastern Ohio. For more than half of its existence it has enjoyed the able services of Herbert R. Harrington, who in 1892 went to work in the bank as bookkeeper. He was promoted to cashier, vice president and since January 1, 1923, has been president. Mr. Harrington was born January 14, 1870, and is a member of a prominent family. Two of his brothers have earned high distinction in the field of journalism, and their names appear in the American Who ,s Who. His parents were Frank and Margaret (Walker) Harrington. Mrs. Margaret Harrington now resides at Columbus, at the age of seventy-five. Frank Harrington, who died in 1917, at the age of eighty-five, was for many years a druggist in Logan and was a director of the First National Bank. He was a native of Lorain, Ohio, moved from this state to Michigan, and then to Missouri, and on leaving that state located at Logan, Ohio. He was in Missouri during the Civil war time, and served as a Union soldier with a regiment of Missouri cavalry. He also enrolled as a republican voter in Missouri at a time when it required real courage to declare for that party. He was appointed and served as postmaster of Plattsburg, the county seat of Clinton County, Missouri. He was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Logan and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In the family were five sons and one daughter. John W., the oldest son, was born at Plattsburg, Missouri, in 1868, and has been engaged in newspaper work since 1890, having been connected with the Cleveland Leader and later the New York Tribune, and for many years with the New York Herald. He is author of a number of juvenile books and magazine articles. His home is in New York City. The son Marshall Harrington is a Presbyterian minister at Trenton, New Jersey. Harry Franklin Harrington, who was born at Logan in 1882, is a graduate of Columbia University, and began his newspaper work with the Ohio State Journal at Columbus; was a member of the faculty at Ohio State University and has been a professor of journalism in several institutions, including the University of Kansas, and since 1921 has been director of the Medill School of Journalism of Northwestern University at Chicago. The fourth son, E. W. Harrington, is a druggist at Columbus. The daughter, Evaline, is a teacher in Columbus schools. Herbert R. Harrington was educated in Ohio, attending Wooster University, and graduated with the Bachelor of Philosophy degree at Cornell University in 1892. Soon after leaving the university he entered the service of the First National Bank. Mr. Harrington has used his influence effectively as a public spirited citizen in Logan. He has served as president of the school board, as library trustee, and during the World war was a participant in all patriotic activities, being chairman of Liberty Loan drives in the county. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, superintendent of the Sunday School, is a Royal Arch Mason and member of the Grotto, a Knight of Pythias and a republican in politics. He married Miss Jeanette Truesdell, daughter of R. B. Truesdell, of Binghamton, New York. They have three children. The son, Roland B., is with the Empire Oil and Gas Company at Okmulgee, Oklahoma. The daughter Margaret W. is the wife of E. R. Raymond, who is county farm agent at Newark, Ohio. The youngest child, Jeanette T., is attending the high school at Logan. JOHN W. CROOKS, whose death occurred in June, 1924, was the vice president of the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company, a notable organization sketched on other pages. Mr. Crooks had been identified with the insurance business in Ohio for over twenty years, his work making him well known throughout the state. He was born in Noble County, Ohio, October 25, 1872, one of the eight children of Rev. Nathan and Nancy E. (Clark) Crooks. His mother was born and reared in Morgan County, Ohio, where her people were early settlers. His grandfather, John Crooks, was born in Noble County, of Pennsylvania ancestry. Rev. Nathan Crooks, also a native of Noble County, was a Baptist minister, and served his church in his native county and vicinity for many years. John W. Crooks was liberally educated, graduating from Marietta College in 1897. His early experience was in the newspaper business, and in 1900 he was appointed by Governor Nash as chief examiner in the Ohio State Insurance Department. His ten years in this office brought him exceptional op- 408 - HISTORY OF OHIO portunities for competent knowledge of the insurance business, and when he left his position with the state in 1910 he engaged in business for himself as an insurance examiner and accountant. Soon afterwards he was called in his professional capacity to Le Roy, Medina County, as insurance examiner and accountant for the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company, and with his exceptional qualifications he contributed in a notable measure to the growth and development of this company during the past twelve or thirteen years. In 1919 the company created a new office, that of vice president, to which Mr. Crooks was elected as the first incumbent. After that he made his home at Le Roy, moving there from Columbus. He also was treasurer of the company as well as vice president. Mr. Crooks in early years was a leader in the republican party in his home county. He married in 1898 Miss Lida A. Moore, of Marietta. Her father, R. T. Moore, was a Union soldier in the Civil war and for many years .prominent in the affairs of Marietta. CARL GOEHRING, A. B., M. D., who is now established in the practice of his profession in the city of Steubenville, has had exceptional advantages and experience in fortifying himself for his chosen vocation. In addition to being a skillful surgeon he has gained no minor prestige as a bacteriologist, pathologist and diagnostician. In the practice of his profession he is now associated with Dr. Reed Cranmer, his brother-in-law, and they are representative young physicians and surgeons of Jefferson County. Doctor Goehring was born at Grand Island, Nebraska, March 17, 1890, and in that city still reside his parents, Richard and Pauline (Wagner) Goehring, both of whom are of German ancestry. Richard Goehring was born in the Kingdom of Saxony, Germany, where he was reared and educated, he having been twenty-one years of age when he came to the United States and engaged in farm enterprise near the city of Detroit, Michigan, from whence he later removed as one of the pioneers to Nebraska, where he has since maintained his home. At Grand Island, that state, he is a leading representative of the wholesale and retail lumber as well as realty and banking business, and an honored and influential citizen. He served ten years as a member of the City Council and has likewise been a member of the County Board of Supervisors. In the high schools of his native city Doctor Goehring was graduated as a member of the class of 1909, and thereafter he completed a literary or academic course in the great University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1913 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Two years later he received from the medical department of this university his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He next gave a year of service as an interne in St. Francis Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and there he thereafter specialized in pathology and bacteriology at Mercy Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. When the nation became involved in the World war Doctor Goehring promptly volunteered for service in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, and while in charge of laboratory service at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, he received commission as captain in the Medical Corps. After there remaining about one year he accompanied the Fourth Battalion of the Twenty-second Engineer Corps to France, his command having embarked at Hoboken, New Jersey, and landed in the port of Liverpool, England. From Southampton the Battalion crossed to LeHavre, France, and proceeded to the St. Mihiel sector. Doctor Goehring found almost constant demand for his service during the entire period of his remaining with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, where he continued on duty until after the armistice brought the war to a close. After being returned to the United States he received his honorable discharge July 3, 1919. During the ensuing two years he was the pathologist and bacteriologist to St. Francis Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in which institution he had previously served as interne. He next held for three years membership on the surgical staff of the great and far-famed Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minnesota. He then, in December, 1923, established his residence at Steubenville, Ohio, where he has since been successfully engaged in the practice of his profession, and where he is specializing in surgery and surgical-diagnosis. He is a member of the Jefferson County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Doctor Goehring gives his political allegiance to the republican party, in the Masonic fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and he is affiliated also with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the American Legion, and the Nu Sigma Nu college fraternity. On the 18th of June, 1921, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Goehring and Miss Eliza Erskine Cranmer, daughter of the late Dr. Harry Cranmer and Nina Erskine Cranmer. Doctor Cranmer, of English Quaker descent traced to pre-Revolutionary times, was a prominent physician and surgeon of Portage County, Ohio. Mrs. Nina Cranmer 's ancestry is traced to the Scottish Erskine Clan. Mrs. Goehring was born in Bergholz, Jefferson County. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 1914 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and after doing graduate work at Columbia, New York, and in the University of Chicago she completed her Master of Arts degree at the University of Michigan. For seven years she occupied a position in the history department of the Wells High School, Steubenville, Ohio. THEODORE A. SHERMAN was reared and educated at Deshler in Henry County, both he and his wife are graduates from the high school there, and for over twenty years he has been active in local business affairs. He is the present postmaster of the city. He was born at Deshler January 2, 1882, son of Frederick M. and Ruth A. (Ames) Sherman. His mother is still living at Deshler. His father died in 1914. He was a native of Pennsylvania, had a public school education, and for a number of years was on the road as a traveling salesman. He was also in the grain elevator business, and for eight years he held the office of postmaster at Deshler. He was a republican, and the family were Methodists. Of ten children four daughters and two sons are now living,: Nettie, wife of E. R. Lisle, a lumberman at Deshler; Ida, wife of Charles Flick, of Deshler ; Clara, wife of Howard Young, agent of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway; Lillian, wife of Britton Butts, of Toledo, a passenger brakeman with the Baltimore & Ohio ; Irvin F., of Henry County; and Theodore A. Theodore A. Sherman was reared at Deshler, attending the public schools and was graduated from high school in 1901. After that he spent a year in business college at Toledo, and took up railroading as a brakeman with the Baltimore & Ohio. After five years in the same service he engaged in the bakery business at Deshler, and gave his personal supervision to his growing business for ten years. After passing the civil service examination he was appointed postmaster at Deshler, and was reappointed to that office by the late President Harding. Mr. Sherman married Miss Alice May Lose, who is also a graduate of the Deshler High School with the class of 1901. Eight children were born to their HISTORY OF OHIO - 409 marriage and six are now living. The oldest, Fred M., has the distinction of being the only graduate of the Deshler High School whose parents are also graduates. The other children are Dudley L., William and Elizabeth, all attending the public schools at Deshler, and Bettie Jane and Mary Jane, twins. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Sherman is affiliated with Sycamore Lodge No. 520, Free and Accepted Masons, and is also a member of the Royal Arch Chapter and Ottawa Council. LEO D. BASHORE, D. V. S., is one of the leading representatives of his profession in Paulding County, and is established in practice at Paulding, the county seat. His birth occurred on a farm three miles west of this attractive little Ohio city, on the 12th of September, 1888. The Doctor is a son of David Townsend Bashore and Esther (Reams) Bashore, the former of whom was born in Adams County, this state, in 1861, and the latter of whom was born at Ada, Hardin County, in 1866. David T. Bashore was a lad of eight years at the time of the family removal to Paulding County, and the home was established on a farm three miles west of Paulding, where he was reared to manhood, his educational advantages having been those of the public schools. After his marriage he continued his residence on the old home farm until 1902, when he became identified with oil-production industry in Wells County, Indiana, with headquarters at McNatt. He there continued to be employed as a pumper in the oil fields until 1912, when he established his residence at Paulding. Here he remained until his death in 1921, and here his widow still maintains her home. Mr. Bashore was a democrat in political adherency, was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was an active member of the Christian Church, as is also his widow. Of the five children the first died in infancy; Claude, a graduate of high school and also of the Conservatory of Music at Marion, Indiana, is now a resident of Grand Rapids, Michigan ; Leo D., of this review was the next in order of birth; Carl D. was graduated from the high school at Warren, Indiana, and the Cincinnati Veterinary College, he being now engaged in the practice of his profession at Monroeville, Huron County; Blanche B. is a graduate of the high school at Paulding and here remains with her widowed mother. The public schools of Ohio and Indiana afforded Dr. Leo D. Bashore his early education, and he is a graduate of the high school at Warren, Indiana. He then returned with his parents to Paulding County, and in consonance with his ambition he entered the Cincinnati Veterinary College, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1914. Upon thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Veterinary Surgery he engaged in practice at Paulding, where he has since continued his successful service in his profession, with a substantial and profitable practice. The Doctor gives his political allegiance to the democratic party, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife hold membership in the Christian Church. December 25, 1916, recorded the marriage of Doctor Bashore and Miss Margaret Parent, and they have two children, Virginia Lee, born November 12, 1920, and David Bruce, born November 23, 1921. GUY BRYSON, D. D. S., has found in his native city of Celina, judicial center of Mercer County, an inviting field for the successful practice of his profession, and his technical skill and personal popularity have both figured as constructive forces in his building up of a substantial and representative practice. Doctor Bryson was born at Celina on the 21st of January, 1882, and is a son of the late Eli Bryson, whose death here occurred, he having been prominently identified with lumber and oil operations in this section of the state. The widowed mother, Mrs. Sarah (Shields) Bryson, still resides at Celina. In the public schools of his native city Doctor Bryson continued his studies until his graduation from high school in 1897, and finally he followed the course of his ambition and entered the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in the city of Cincinnati, where he completed the prescribed curriculum and was graduated as a member of the class of 1902. After receiving his degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery he was associated in practice with Dr. C. C. Scott in the city of Dayton until 1905, since which year he has been established in independent practive at Celina. He is affiliated with the Psi Omega fraternity of the dental college, and has membership in the Mercer County Dental Society, the Northwest Ohio Dental Society, the Ohio State Dental Society and the National Dental Society. In the Masonic fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and he is affiliated also with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In his home city he is a member of the Kiwanis Club, and he is also a popular member of the North Shore Golf Club. His attractive and admirably equipped dental offices are established at 117 East Fayette Street. The Doctor is a republican in political allegiance, and attends and supports the local Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his wife is a member. The year 1909 recorded the marriage of Doctor Bryson and Miss Minnie Silzman, of St. Marys, Ohio, where she was reared and educated, she having there been graduated from the high school. Mrs. Bryson is a popular figure in the representative social activities of Celina, and her home is known for its gracious hospitality. WINFIELD M. MCGINNIS is one of the outstanding figures in civic and business affairs of Middle Point in Van Wert County. He spent a number of years as a teacher, later was engaged in banking, and is now proprietor of a coal and building material business. He was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1872, son of Bartlett and Louisa (Poling) McGinnis. His father was born in Fairfield County, in 1838, and his mother was born in 1837 and is now eighty-six years of age. After their marriage they settled on a farm in Fairfield County, where the father carried on agricultural pursuits and for many years was a live stock auctioneer. In 1882 he moved to Van Wert County, and continued farming and auctioneering here until he retired. He is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a republican in politics. At Lancaster, Ohio, he enlisted for service in the Civil war, and followed the flag in many campaigns. Of seven children, six are still living: Emerson W., a farmer in Van Wert County; Ida, wife of William Ashbaugh, of Van Wert County; Ada E., wife of G. W. Davis; Charles, a farmer in Van Wert County ; Winfield M.; and Daisy, wife of Harvey Grant, a farmer in Paulding County. Winfield M. McGinnis was about nine years old when the family came to Van Wert County, and here he attended the public schools, graduating from the Payne High School and subsequently received his Bachelor of Science degree after a full college course. In his career as teacher he became principal of schools at Middle Point, and when he resigned his work in the schoolroom he organized the Middle Point Banking Company. Mr. McGinnis was cashier of this institution for seventeen years. He is still a stockholder in 410 - HISTORY OF OHIO the bank, but now gives his time and attention to his coal and building material business. He married Miss Julia A. Kesler, and they have four children: Dorothy E., a graduate of the Van Wert High School and of the normal course in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, is the wife of M. G. Pugh. Bertrand W. and Beatrice L., are both seniors in the Delphos High School. The youngest child is Robert. The family are active members of the Methodist Church. Mr. McGinnis is an independent in politics and is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias Lodge. Among other interests he owns a fine farm of 130 acres near Middle Point. RUSSELL P. PRICE, present director of public safety in the City of Steubenville, is an expert accountant, and before taking public office, had a long experience in the iron and steel business. He was born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 24, 1887, son of David and Hannah (Mathews) Price, residents of Steubenville. They were born and married in Wales, and coming to the United States in 1886, located in Pittsburgh, where David Price acquired American citizenship. In the old country he was an expert in rolling copper, and it was his skill in that trade that attracted him to the United States. At the present time he is foreman in the Falcon Steel Company and the Follansbee Company. He is prominent in the Masonic Order, having attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite, is a member of the Shrine and is also an Odd Fellow. He and his wife have three children; Russell P.; Glenn, who is married and has a son, David; and Edwin. Russell P. Price attended schools in Pittsburgh, and in Steubenville completed his full course in the Steubenville Business College in 1905. He went to work in the La Belle Iron Works, bccoming a foreman in the mills, and at the same time continued his education by attending night school until he was proficient in all branches of commercial accounting. Altogether Mr. Price was with the La Belle Iron Works nearly eighteen years. In 1918 he was elected city auditor, an office he held two years. During the World war, in addition to his duties as city auditor, he helped, perform essential war work by acting as foreman at the Iron Mills. After leaving the office of city auditor he resumed a place in the mills until January, 1922, when he became director of public safety. Mr. Price married at Pittsburgh, September 14, 1908, Miss Annie Segar, of Rochester, New York. Her father was a stonecutter, and both her parents died during her early infancy. She was reared by her grandmother. Mrs. Price had three brothers, Adam and John, both deceased, and Edward, a resident of California. Mr. and Mrs. Price are members of the Westminster Presbyterian Church. He is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Eagles and the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce. JOHN S. GRAHAM has been a figure in Licking County, in the Granville community, for many years, grew up there, had been a farmer and stockman, banker, member of the Legislature and is the present mayor of Granville. He was born in Center County, Pennsylvania, January 16, 1864, son of John S. and Hannah (Hayes) Graham, both natives of Center County, Pennsylvania, while the grandparents Graham came from Scotland. The parents of Hannah Hayes were born in Pennsylvania. John S. Graham, of Granville, was a baby when his parents came to Ohio and settled on a farm in Licking County. He attended public schools there, and as a young man engaged in farming and stock raising, and still has large interests in those lands. From the farm his activity extended to commercial affairs in town, and in 1903 he was one of the founders of the Granville Bank, becoming one of its first directors and for the past twelve years has been its president. Mr. Graham is now serving his second term as mayor of Granville. For about a year he has given considerable time to his duties as manager of the Granville Co-operative Company, doing a general warehouse business, buying and selling farm supplies and builders supplies. Mr. Graham was elected and represented Licking County in the Eighty-first and Eighty-third General Assemblies of Ohio. He was a member of the Board of Education of McKane Township ten years, was for six years one of the county commissioners, and during the World war, having a son at the front, he was spurred to unremitting efforts in behalf of the success of all patriotic causes and campaigns, being a member of the Licking County War Work Committee. He is a member of the Grange, is a republican, is president of the Board of Trustees of the Methodist Church, and was elected a delegate to the World's Conference of Methodists. Mr. Graham has also some financial interests in oil and gas wells. He married at Springfield, Ohio, October 4, 1888, Miss Minnie K. Deardorff, daughter of General John and Elizabeth (Pettigrew) Deardorff, of Springfield. Her father was a soldier of distinction in the Union Army during the Civil war. Mrs. Graham is a member of the Daughters of Veterans, has been very active in literary and musical clubs and church affairs at Granville, and is president of the Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Graham have two sons, Paul B. and Hayes D. Graham. The son Paul was educated in Denison University and in Ohio Wesleyan University, and is now established in a successful contracting business at Grand Rapids, Michigan. He married Myrtle Lovell, of Newark, Ohio. Hayes D. Graham attended Denison University and Ohio Wesleyan University, and married Oleta Spellman, member of one of the early and prominent families of Licking County. Hayes D. Graham is now engaged in farming on a place adjoining Granville. Hayes D. Graham in May, 1917, enlisted for service in the World war, being trained at Camp Perry, then at Mineola and went to France in October, 1917, with a regiment of infantry commanded by Colonel Hough in the Forty-second or Rainbow Division. In the spring of 1918 he was commissioned a second lieutenant, was put with the Twenty-ninth Division, and while on the field of battle was made first lieutenant. He served as liaison officer of his regiment, and was on active duty in several sectors, being once slightly gassed. In the great battle of the Argonne he was on duty thirty-five days without once taking off his clothes, and in the last fight of that engagement he was with an outfit of 228 men who went into action and only sixty-eight of whom came out alive. He is an active member of the American Legion. HERMAN A. SPANGLER, who recently retired from the office of postmaster of Defiance, was for a number of years in the grain business and has had a close relationship with the commercial and civic affairs of his home city and county. He was born in Henry County, Ohio, November 21, 1874, son of John and Isabelle (Tuttle) Spangler. His father was a native of Scheffhousen, Switzerland, and was eight years of age when his parents came to the United States and located in Fulton County, Ohio. Later he moved to Defiance County, was married there, his wife being a native of Defiance, and somewhat later he bought a flouring mill and operated it at Florida in Henry County for ten years. Returning to Defiance County, he occupied and operated his farm the rest of his life. He served as director of Defiance County Infirmary, and was a well known member of the democratic HISTORY OF OHIO - 411 party. In the family were three sons and four daughters, six of whom are still living. Herman A. Spangler spent his boyhood days on the farm in Defiance County, attended the district schools and spent one year in Defiance College. In the fall of 1897 he went to work for his brother in the grain business at Defiance. In the spring of 1898 he volunteered and became a member of Company M of the Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He went to Cuba with this regiment in January, 1899, and was on duty on the Island four months, until April 27, 1899, when the regiment returned home. He was mustered out in June, 1899, and returning to Defiance, acquired a half interest in the grain business with his brother. This partnership was continued profitably until 1906, when the plant was burned. He then organized the Farmers Grain Company, taking over three grain elevators, and was general superintendent of the business until 1913, when he sold out. During 1913-14 Mr. Spangler was employed in the tax commisioner 's office, and on March 3, 1915, President Wilson appointed him postmaster of Defiance. He administered this office for eight years and five months, until August 5, 1923, having charge of the office throughout the period of the World war, with its many extra duties. He is a director in the Automatic Screw Machine Company of Defiance, and has a number of other business interests. Mr. Spangler married Miss Laura M. Boston. They are members of St. John's Reformed Church. He is affiliated with Omega Lodge No. 546, Free and Accepted Masons, Chapter No. 80, Royal Arch Masons, Occonoxee Council No. 55, Royal and Select Masters, Defiance Commandery No. 30, Knights Templar, and he is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a democrat in politics, and is a member of the Exchange Club. KINSEY C. EVANS, M. D., finds in Paulding County an attractive field for his effective professional ministrations, maintains his residence in the attractive village of Payne, and has a substantial and representative practice of general order. He has here been engaged in practice since the summer of 1910, and he is an active member of the Paulding County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Doctor Evans was born at Fort Wayne, Indiana, on the 11th of May, 1882, and is a son of Bennett B. and Della (Conklin) Evans. Judge John K. Evans, grandfather of the Doctor, was born in the State of New York and was a young man when he established his residence at Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he studied law and where he eventually became one of the leading members of the bar of Allen County, besides serving as judge of the County Court. Bennett B. Evans was reared and educated at Fort Wayne, his early education having included attendance in a college there maintained under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he and his wife still maintain their home at Fort Wayne, where he has been a prominent merchant and also identified with other lines of business enterprise. He is a republican in political adherency, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife, who was born in Steuben County, Indiana, are zealous members of the Reformed Church. Of the five children Dr. Kinsey C., of this review, is the elder of the two survivors, and Catherine is the wife of Dr. Robert R. Gillis, who is engaged in the practice of dentistry at Hammond, Indiana. Mrs. Gillis attended the Tri-State Normal School at Angola, Indiana, and was a successful teacher in the Fort Wayne schools prior to her marriage. In the public schools of Fort Wayne Doctor Evans continued his studies until his graduation from high school, and in preparation for his chosen profession he completed the prescribed course in the Indiana School of Medicine, which is now the medical department of Purdue University. In this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1906, and after thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was for four years engaged in practice at Edgerton, Indiana. He then, in July, 1910, came to Payne, Ohio, where he has since continued his successful professional work, the scope of his practice indicating alike his professional ability and his unqualified personal popularity. Doctor Evans takes loyal interest in community affairs, and has given effective service as a member and the president of the Board of Education at Payne. His political support is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Reformed Church. In the York Rite of the Masonic fraternity Doctor Evans is affiliated with Payne Lodge No. 580, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a past master, with the Paulding Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, with the Council of Royal and Select Masters and with the Commandery of Knights Templars at Van Wert. In the Scottish Rite he has received the thirty-second degree, and he is a member of the Mystic Shrine and the Order of the Eastern Star, in which latter he is a past patron and his wife a past worthy matron. In his native city of Fort Wayne he retains affiliation with the lodges of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Doctor Evans wedded Miss Nellie L. Brady, of Fort Wayne, and they have two daughters, Dorothy V. and Katherine E., both of whom are students in the public schools of Payne, the elder daughter being in high school (1923). GEORGE R. BEVAN is a well known citizen of Bucyrus, and has already achieved prominence in his profession as a mechanical engineer. He holds that official rank with the Toledo & Ohio Central Railroad, with headquarters at Bucyrus. He was born in this Ohio city, January 5, 1890, son of John S. and Mary (Voltz) Bevan, both natives of Crawford County. His grandfather, Reece Bevan, was a native of England, came to the United States when a boy, and established the old Bevan homestead a half a mile east of Bucyrus. He was a carpenter by trade. John S. Bevan was reared in Crawford County, and became an apprentice with the Rohr Planing Mills of Bucyrus, and subsequently was promoted to superintendent, the position he holds today. He and his wife are members of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, and he is prominent in Masonry, being a past master of the lodge, past high priest of the Royal Arch Chapter and past thrice illustrious master of the Council. He has been quite active in republican politics. John S. Bevan and wife have three children: George R.; Mamie, wife of Leonard Eice of Lancaster, New York; and John S., a machinist with the Toledo & Ohio Central Railroad. George R. Bevan was reared in Bucyrus, attended the grammar and high schools there, and completed a course in mechanical engineering with the International Correspondence School. For seven years he was in the employ of the American Clay Machinery Company, beginning as draftsman and subsequently was promoted to assistant engineer. Leaving that industry, he went with the Ohio Locomotive Train Company as a designer, and then came into the service of the Toledo & Ohio Central, being designer for two years, then draftsman and assistant engineer, and from that was promoted to his present duties as mechanical engineer. October 16, 1909, Mr. Bevan married Miss Cleva Metcalf. They have one daughter, Roberta, born 412 - HISTORY OF OHIO August 12, 1912, now attending the public schools of Bucyrus. The family are members of St. Paul,s Lutheran Church. Mr. Bevan is a member of Bucyrus Lodge No. 139, Free and Accepted Masons, the Royal Arch Chapter, the Scioto Valley Consistory of the Scottish Rite and the Eastern Star. Hc is a republican. CARSAR W. SUNSERI, M. D. Not alone by his personal achievements in the medical fraternity is Dr. Carsar W. Sunseri eminent, but by reason of his connection with a distinguished and illustrious family whose members have been prominent in various walks of life for many years both in the United States and Italy. His own position is firmly established at Steubenville, where he has been engaged in the practice of surgery and general medicine since 1919, and where he bids fair to maintain the splendid family record which is his heritage. Doctor Sunseri was born November 11, 1895, at New Orleans, Louisiana, and is a son of Dr. Frank and Nancy (Giorgi) Sunseri. His paternal grandparents were Salvado and Margaret Sunseri, now deceased, the former of whom was at the head of an important canning enterprise, whilc his maternal grandparents were General and Mary Giorgi, who still survive, the former having been formerly a high officer in the Italian army and a man of much prominence. An uncle of Doctor Sunseri likewise holds the rank of general in the Italian army, and thc family is one of much wealth and distinction. Dr. Frank Sunseri was born, reared and educated in Italy, where he received a training that brought forth the best of his splendid talent as a surgeon. He rose rapidly in his profession, gradually gaining a national reputation, and finally, for invaluable services rendered, he was knighted by the King of Italy and became one of the King's courtiers. Eventually he came to the United States and settled at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he practiced as a surgeon for twenty-five years, even adding to the reputation which he had established in his native land. He and Mrs. Sunseri are now living at Los Angeles, California, and Doctor Sunseri has practically retired, although he occasionally accepts a difficult ease. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Knight Templar. He and Mrs. Sunseri have the following children: Salvador, who married Florence Hershey and has one child, Virginia ; Albert, who is unmarried ; Margaret, who married Michael Sunseri and has six children, Salvador, Margaret, Irene, Orlando, Frank and Marie; Mary, who married Samuel Catauzaro and has one child, Pauline; Clarinda, who is single; and Dr. Carsar W. After attending the public schools of Pittsburgh, Carsar W. Sunseri pursued a course at DuQuesne University, of the same city, acquiring the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He next enrolled as a student in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1919, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and at once began the practice of general medicine and surgery at Steubenville. He has since been successful in building up one of the leading practices of the city, and has attained a high place in his calling. He is a member of the staff of both hospitals, Gills and Ohio Valley, and during the World war, while attending Jefferson Medical College, was a member of the Medical Reserve Corps in the Student Officers, Camp. Doctor Sunseri is a member of the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Jefferson County Medical Society and the Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) Medical Society. He also holds membership in the Phi Rho Sigma college fraternity, the Knights of Pythias, the American Legion and the Chamber of Commerce. As a progressive citizen he has always been ready to give his unreserved support to beneficial civic movements. Doctor Sunseri was united in marriage at Steubenville, January 21, 1921, with Miss Martha Elydo Crawford, a daughter of John and Margaret (Rauscher) Crawford. Mr. Crawford, who is engaged in the lumber business at St. Mary, Pennsylvania, where he is a man of affairs is the father of eight children. Doctor and Mrs. Sunseri are the parents of one child; Nancy Margaret, who was born in 1923. FRANK R. LUNN is a graduate bachelor of veterinary medicine of the State University, and for over ten years has been in practice at Payne in Paulding County, except for the three years he was with the army during the Mexican border troubles and during the World war. Doctor Lunn was born in Franklin County, Ohio January 7, 1887, son of B. U. and Ella (Rankin) Lunn. His father was born in Iowa, in October, 1854, and in the following year his parents left the West and returned to Ohio, locating in Franklin County. He grew up and married Ella Rankin, who was born in Franklin County, in July, 1867. Both were well educated, he having a high school training while she is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware and comes of a prominent family of Methodists, several of whom were ministers of the Gospel. B. U. Lunn and wife lived on their farm in Franklin County until 1898, and then moved to the vicinity of Columbus, where he has since been engaged in the dairy business, with a large dairy company. Both are members of the Methodist Church, and he is an independent in politics and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. They have five children: Dr. Frank R.; Enid W., who is a graduate of Ohio State University and now has charge of the domestic science department of the State Board of Education; Margaret, a graduate of high school and continuing her studies in Ohio State University; Mary, who graduated in home economics at Ohio State University and is now teacher in a school maintained by the Methodist Church in the City of Mexico; and Kenneth, an employe of the American Express Company at Columbus. Frank R. Lunn spent the first fourteen years of his life on his father's farm. He attended high school at Columbus, and then entered Ohio State University, where he graduated with the degree Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1912. In the same year he came to Paulding County and located at Payne, and soon had an extensive practice. He became a member of the Ohio National Guard, and when his regiment was called to duty on the Mexican border in 1916 he accompanied it and remained there until 1917. When America entered the war with the central powers he was assigned to duty first at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, and then at Fort Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis, where he acted as an instructor at the first Officers' Training School. He was then sent to Camp Sheridan at Montgomery, Alabama, where he assisted in the organization of the Thirty-seventh Division. In March, 1918, he was transferred to Camp Gordon, Georgia, as division veterinarian of the Eighty-second Division. This division embarked for overseas April 25, 1918, and he was on duty overseas from May 7, 1918, until June 19, 1919. He then returned to the United States and in July, 1919, was given his honorable discharge, after three years of military duty. Doctor Lunn at once returned to Payne and resumed his professional work here; In adddition to his practice he is a dealer in feed and is manager of the Sherman-White Produce Company. His character and abilities have brought him further honors, and after a term or so on the Town Council he was HISTORY OF OHIO - 413 elected mayor of Payne, and is filling that office at the present time. Doctor Lunn married Miss Cora R. Lewis. They have five children: Lewis R., Edward L., Henry J., Mary Jane and Margaret Ella. Mrs. Lunn is a member of the Christian Church, while he belongs to the church of his parents, the Methodist. In Masonry he is affiliated with Flat Rock Lodge No. 580, Free and Accepted Masons, and the Scottish Rite Consistory and Shrine at Dayton, and is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and is a democrat in politics. CARL P. DUNIFON is one of the prominent younger members of the bar of Van Wert County, and is serving his second term as prosecuting attorney. He was born at Van Wert, February 25, 1897, son of W. D. and Elizabeth (Perry) Dunifon. His parents were also natives of Van Wert County, his father born in 1869 and his mother in 1875, in Ridge Township. Both were reared on farms and were well educated. The mother taught school for a time. She died in 1908, the mother of two sons, W. Dale and Carl P. W. Dale is a graduate of the local high school, of the Cincinnati Law School, and is now second assistant attorney in the attorney-general,s office at Columbus. He married Grace Gerard. The second wife of W. D. Dunifon was Minnie Woodruff. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and in politics is a republican. For a number of years he has been a leader in his party in Van Wert County, being chairman of the Republican Campaign Committee and served as deputy dairy and food commisioner, and was also assistant clerk of the House of Representatives. Carl P. Dunifon graduated from the Van Wert High School, and acquired his legal education in Ohio Northern University at Ada. After his admission to the bar he served one term as city solicitor of Van Wert, and in the fall of 1920 was elected prosecuting attorney and reelected in 1922. He married Miss Ida Juillerat, a graduate of the Van Wert High School. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Dunifon takes an active part in the young men,s class. He is affiliated with Van Wert Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and is an officer in the Elks Lodge. He is a republican, and is president of the M. B. A. insurance organization. JOHN MOORE has given most of his active years to the milling industry, either manufacturing lumber or flour, but in recent years has built up a very prosperous industry at Greenfield as an ice manufacturer. He was born at Lexington, Kentucky, August 24, 1867, son of Samuel Moore, who was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, March 12, 1818. The grandfather was born in 1780, and died at the age of sixty, in 1840, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The grandmother was Martha Eckman, who was born in 1785 and died in 1870, at the age of eighty-five. Samuel Moore was for many years engaged in the milling industry. He was a personal friend of Stonewall Jackson, son of the great Confederate Commander. Religiously he was a member of the Quaker Church. He died in 1908, at the venerable age of ninety years and is buried at Lexington, Kentucky. Samuel Moore married Sally J. Simms, who was born at Harrison County, Kentucky, in 1838 and died in 1918 at Eustis, Florida, age eighty years. John Moore was one of six children, and all of them received their early advantages from a private teacher or governess who came to their home to teach. When he was eighteen years of age he went to work to assist in paying off a security debt of $18,000 contracted by his father. He devoted twelve years to the task of clearing the financial shadow from the family. Most of the time he operated a hardwood sawmill and grist mill. In 1895 he and his father formed a partnership in the saw milling business at Paynes Depot, Kentucky, but his interest was sold to his father in 1900. In 1903 Mr. Moore became a salesman for the International Harvester Company, with headquarters at Cincinnati, and in 1904 he and S. M. Long of Shelbyville, Kentucky, established the Climax Milling Company. In 1911, selling out his interests to Mr. Long, Mr. Moore came to Greenfield, arriving here with a reputation as a sound business man but was practically without capital. At that time he organized and promoted the local Ice and Cold Storage Plant, and has since become the sole owner of the business, which is operated under the name of the Greenfield Ice and Coal Company. The plant has a capacity of thirty-three tons of ice daily, with 2,000 tons storage capacity. The water used in the ice plant is pumped from wells that have a larger daily capacity than the town water works. The company operates five large motor trucks during the summer season, distributing ice to thirty-six sub-stations and nearby towns. Mr. Moore is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Eagles, and for several years was a member of the National Millers, Association. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and is a democrat. He married Miss Alice Foree, who was born in Georgetown, Kentucky, April 27, 1876, and finished her education in Georgetown College. She is a member of the Country Club and the Presbyterian Church. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Moore : Ina Havon, born at Shelbyville, Kentucky, June 20, 1905, a member of the class of 1925 in the McClain High School at Greenfield, and Margaret Foree, who was born at Shelbyville, Kentucky, July 10, 1910, and is now in the Junior High School at Greenfield. MARION OTTO JULIEN, a newspaper publisher and editor at Newcomerstown, acquired the first technical elements of knowledge concerning the printing business when he was twelve years of age. His father is a veteran printer and newspaper man, and the two associated together or as individuals have favorably impressed their names and careers on Ohio journalism. Marion Otto Julien was born at Caldwell, Ohio, September 8, 1876, only son and child of Marion Cassius and Virginia (Schreiber) Julien. The mother died in 1889. M. C. Julien subsequently married Calista Williams, who was a teacher in the schools of Lancaster, Ohio. She is still living. There are no children of this union. Marion Cassius Julien was born at Keosauqua, Iowa, August 31, 1851. When he was eight years of age his father died. His mother subsequently returned to her parental home in Washington County, Ohio. There M. C. Julien spent some of his boyhood years, and at Caldwell, Ohio, learned the trade of printer. He had a journeyman's experience in the printing and newspaper business, and in 1889 bought the Index, a weekly paper at Newcomerstown. He sold his interest in 1895, but a year later he and the late Prof. John T. Duff again acquired the property. Professor Duff soon afterward became sole proprietor, and M. C. Julien moved to California. Marion Otto Julien in the meantime had completed a public school education. He was thirteen years of age when his father located at Newcomerstown, and in the meantime had begun his expe- 414 - HISTORY OF OHIO rience as a printer and was associated with his father 's newspaper at Newcomerstown. In 1900 he bought the News that had been established in Newcomerstown in 1895. After he acquired this paper his father returned from California and joined him in the publication and editing of the News, and continued his active connection therewith until his recent retirement. The paper and the job printing business in connection with it is now owned and directed by the incorporated firm of The News Printing Company, with M. O. Julien as editor and manager. The News is an independent paper in politics, though Mr. Julien himself is a republican. He is a veteran of the Spanish-American war, having served as sergeant in Company N of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. While always busy with his printing and newspaper business, he has rendered some public service, having been a member of the Board of Public Affairs for Newcomerstown and is director of the Home Building & Loan Company. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and is a member of the Presbyterian Church. M. O. Julien married in 1901 Miss Anna Kennedy. They have a son, Max Kennedy Julien. OTTO MERLE CONLEY, Doctor of Chiropractic at Gallipolis, qualified for that profession after leaving the army on account of disability. He is a native of Ohio, and came to Gallia County from the northwestern part of the state. He was born in Paulding County, Ohio, January 15, 1890, son of Ransom and Clara (Russler) Conley. His mother, who is living, is a daughter of Joseph and Julia Russler. Ransom Conley, who died in 1919, was a tile manufacturer at Harpster, Ohio, and one of the successful business men and influential citizens of that locality, where he served for many years as justice of peace. He was a Methodist and a member of the Maccabees. In the family were eleven children, including: Asa R. whose four children are by his first wife, Mabel Wilmuth, and he and his second wife, Gladys, have no children; Roy E. married Margaret Barth and has a daughter, Helen; Clarence R. married and has children; Dr. Otto Merle is the next in age; Orlando married Rosa Lamb; Joseph is married; Nina, Julia, wife of Ralph Witner; and Cecil, unmarried. Otto Merle attended the grammar and high schools at Harpster, Ohio, and for some time was on the road as a traveling salesman. At Lansing, Michigan, he entered the plant of the Reo Automobile Company, learning the machinist's trade, which he followed four years. On July 25, 1918, he enlisted, and was sent to Grayling, Michigan. About a month later he was disabled and on being reported with 100 per cent disability, was discharged and under the auspices of the government entered the Chiropractic College at Fort Wayne, Indiana. He graduated in 1919, and for the past five years has been engaged in practice at Gallipolis. He has prospered, and has also educated his two brothers. Doctor Conley married at Newtonville, Michigan, in June, 1918, Miss Alma Schad. Her father was a traveling salesman, and there were four children, John, Frank, Bertha and Mrs. Conley. Doctor and Mrs. Conley have one daughter, Merle Clayton. They were members of the Methodist Church, and he is affiliated with the American Legion. JAMES S. BORDEN. The career of James S. Bordon is one in which the youth starting out in life handicapped in one or another way may glean much encouragement. Mr. Borden entered life with little equipment save that of an education of none too complete a character, and as a further obstacle to his progress met with an injury which prohibited him from participation in certain lines of activity. Notwithstanding these obstructions he has gone courageously forward, steadily advancing, and today occupies an honored place in the business life of Carrollton, as well as the position of treasurer of Carroll County. Mr. Borden was born July 21, 1884, at Salineville, Columbiana County, Ohio, and is a son of John W. and Nancy Elizabeth (Crumbley) Borden, and descended on both sides from old and honored English families. His paternal grandparents were 'Robert and Nancy Borden. John W. Borden, who followed the occupation of a coal miner throughout his life, died in 1912, his worthy wife following him to the grave in 1916. They were the parents of ten children: Robert, who married Eileen Simpson and has three children, Winona, Harold and an infant; Arthur, who is unmarried; Orville, who died at the age of four years; John W., who married Ella Duke and has five children: Nellie, who married Emmett Telson, and has three children, Ray, James and Ernest; James S., of this review; Samuel, who died at the age of six years; Minnie, who married Port C. Morrow, and has two children, Glennon and Garnella; Elva, who married Lambert Myron, and has five children; and Joseph Edgar, who died at the age of five years. James S. Borden acquired his education as a lad in the district school in the vicinity of his home, and when only fourteen years of age followed the example of the other boys of his community, in companionship with his father, and began the rough, hard, dangerous life of the coal miner. This he followed until reaching the age of twenty-one years, at which time, in an accident in the mine in which he was working, his leg was badly injured, and he was forced to seek a different means of livelihood. In the meantime, in an effort to better his knowledge and condition, he had taken a course in electrical engineering from the National Correspondence School of Scranton, Pennsylvania, but when he sought new employment he found a quiet life the preferable one and accordingly invested his small savings in a general store business at Salineville. During the four years that he was located at that place he made his business pay, and subsequently went to Oneida, where he likewise remained for four years. Seeking a broader field of activity, he then came to Carrollton and established a like business, which he conducted for seven years. Making friends readily, he soon had not only built up a good business, but also had secured some influence in public matters, and when he became a candidate for the office of county treasurer of Carroll County he disposed of his mercantile interests. This occurred in August, 1922, in the fall of which year he was elected to the county treasurer's office for a full term of two years. He has discharged his duties in a faithful manner and has gained the confidence and good will of the people of the County of Carroll, who now have full faith in his integrity and ability. Mr. Borden belongs to the Church of Christ and as a fraternalist holds membership in the Independent Order a Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. During the World war he was secretary of the Food Price Commission. In November, 1910, at Salineville, Mr. Borden was united in marriage with Miss Nettie Gertrude Backin, a daughter of James and Zella (Scott) Backin, the latter of whom survives. Mr. Backin was a lifelong agriculturist and also took an interest in public affairs, holding the office of deputy sheriff of Columbiana County at the time of his death. Mr. and Mrs. Backin were the parents of five children: Nettie Gertrude, now Mrs. Borden; Charles, who is married; Della, who married John Gould and has had two children, Donald, deceased, and John H.; Earl, HISTORY OF OHIO - 415 who married Bessie Wired; Laura, who married Charles Baxton and had one child, Rex. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Borden: Kenneth L., Virginia and Carl. HARRY A. MCCLANAHAN has been established in the practice of law at Lancaster, Ohio, since 1923, and is one of the representative younger members of the bar of Fairfield County. Mr. McClanahan was born at Corning, Perry County, Ohio, January 7, 1898, and he was still a boy at the time of the family removal to Lancaster, where his parents, Jacob H. and Hattie (Nelson) McClanahan, still maintain their home, the father, now virtually retired from active business, being still the owner of a restaurant in Lancaster, the establishment being now in charge of his son Melvin. Blanche, the first born of the five children, is deceased; Melvin is manager of the restaurant business owned by his father, the maiden name of his wife having been Hazel Starret and their two children being daughters, Ruth and Marjorie; Harry A., of this review, was the next in order of birth; and Helen and Isabel are at the parental home, Helen being, in 1924, a senior in the Lancaster High School and Isabel is a freshman. Harry A. McClanahan was graduated from the Lancaster High School as a member of the class of 1917, and thereafter he was for two years a student in Ohio Northern University at Ada. His ambition has ever been one of resourceful action; and by his own efforts he provided the means for acquiring his higher academic and also his professional education. After his arts and science course at Ohio Northern University he went to Georgetown, District of Columbia, where he attended the law department of Georgetown University one year. He then transferred to the National University of Law, Washington, D. C., and in this institution he was graduated in 1922, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Mr. McClanahan had no plethora of leisure during the period of his residence in the District of Columbia, for while there pursuing his studies he found employment during the days and attended the evening session of the law school. His first service in Washington was in the capacity of bookkeeper in the postoffice department of the government, and six months later, by reason of his knowledge of law, he was appointed claim examiner in the United States Veteran Bureau. In July, 1922, after his graduation from law school, he was transferred to the legal department of this bureau, his entire period of service with the bureau having covered three years. In September, 1923, he resigned his position and returned to Lancaster, where he opened an office and where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. He has already proved his powers as a vigorous and resourceful trial lawyer and well fortified counselor, and his ability, as conjoined with his secure place in popular confidence and good will, assures his consecutive advancement in the work of his chosen vocation. He is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Delta Theta Phi college fraternity. Mr. McClanahan is a World war veteran. THOMAS ROCK is one of the active younger members of the Steubenville bar, possessed of qualifications that have put him rapidly to the front in his chosen profession. He was born at Dillonvale, Ohio, December 2, 1897, son of Paul and Giovanna Rock. His grandparents were born in Italy. Paul Rock came to the United States from Italy in 1886, bringing his wife. He first located in Western Pennsylvania and subsequently moved to Steubenville, and he followed the occupation of coal miner until his death. He was a devout Catholic. His widow is still living. They had three children, Thomas being the youngest. The daughter Mary is married and has a family of six children. The other daughter, Frances, married James La Rosa, their two children being Dominick and Paul. Thomas Rock attended public school at Rayland, Ohio, and after graduating from high school entered Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he took the preparatory and law courses, graduating in law in 1920. He was examined and admitted to the bar the same year, and at once engaged in practice at Steubenville. He has formed no partnership, and has had a satisfactory volume of business in general law practice. Mr. Rock endeavored to enlist during the World war, but was too young to be accepted for military service. He is unmarried, is a member of the County Lawyers' Association, the Knights of Pythias, the Delta Theta Phi college fraternity, and is a Catholic. SIMON PETER WISE, M. D., was a charter member of the Ohio State Board of Health and served as its president for two terms. He was the first president of the State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis at Mount Vernon, Ohio, and served until all state institutions were placed under one management. Dr. Simon Peter Wise was a very able physician and surgeon whose field of work in his profession was Holmes County, though his influence on the various medical organizations extended over a much wider area. Doctor Wise, who died at Millersburg, July 27, 1914, was born at Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, November 25, 1848. His grandparents were Frederick and Betriah (Bloukenhorn) Wise. Frederick Wise was a lieutenant under Napoleon, serving in the ill fated Russian campaign, and was taken prisoner at Moscow. After the death of his wife in Germany he brought his family of six children to America in 1829, first locating in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and afterwards removing to Lebanon County. He followed the trade of baker, and died in 1871. John D. Wise, father of the late Doctor Wise, was born in Wittenberg, Germany, May 12, 1822, was seven years of age when brought to the United States, and acquired a good education in both English and German. He learned the baker 's trade, followed it for several years, and in 1844 married Harriet Schroeder, a native of Burks County, Pennsylvania. In 1856 they came from Pennsylvania to Holmes County, Ohio, where John D. Wise purchased a farm in German Township. His wife died on the farm in 1870. In 1874 John D. Wise and his son, A. M. Wise, engaged in the general mercantile business at Walnut Creek, in Holmes County. He was postmaster there, and held other offices. He was a democrat in politics, and a member of the Lutheran Church. Simon Peter Wise was eight years old when he came to Holmes County. He grew up on the farm, attended the common schools, and at the age of seventeen began teaching. Teaching gave him the funds to complete his higher education. He began to study under Dr. F. J. Guittard of New Bedford, and attended medical lectures in the Charity Hospital at Cleveland, and was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at New York. After his graduation he practiced steadily at Millersburg until his death. For a time he was associated with Dr. Joel Pomerene, one of the able members of his profession. After a partnership of six years with Doctor Pomerene, Doctor Wise continued his practice alone, and later associated with himself his son, Dr. Ralph C. Wise. He was a member of the Ohio State Board of Health for a number of years, having been honored with the office of president for two terms. He was a member of the Northeastern Ohio Mcdical Association, the Ohio State Medical Association, American Medical Association, American Public 416 - HISTORY OF OHIO Health Association, the Conference of the State Board of Health, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the Association of Life Insurance Examiners. For several years he served on the Board of Pension Examiners, and was local surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railway and the Baltimore & Ohio Railway. He also held the office of coroner of Holmes County. A deep student of his profession and a man of literary gifts, lie wrote a number of papers for medical conventions, most of them published in America and sonic in Europe. In 1890 he wrote an article on " The Contagiousness of Consumption," in which article he laid down almost the identical rules for the prevention of tuberculosis that are taken today, and it was largely through this article and others that he was appointed the first president of the State Sanatorium at Mount Vernon, Ohio. He served as a member of the school board in his home town and took quite an active interest in educational matters. He wrote several articles on the school system, some of which caused wide comment. He was a democrat and a member of the Christian Church. Doctor Wise married in 1874 Miss Mary Cherry-holmes, a daughter of Jacob and Ellen (Korns) Cherryholmes, of Millersburg. Her parents moved to Holmes County from Coshocton County, Ohio. Mrs. Wise continued to make her home at Millersburg. She was the mother of four children: Dr. Ralph C. Wise, now at Mansfield, Ohio; Clifford C. Wise, an attorney at Cleveland; Florence Ellen, wife of Ralph E. Hecker, of Cleveland; and Miss Ida E., at home. JOHN DAVISON, for many years a professor in the Ohio Northern University, was born at West Newton, Allen County, Ohio, July 22, 1858, son of Amaziah and Eliza J. (Nye) Davison. He took his Bachelor of Science degree at the Ohio Northern in 1889, the Master of Science degree in 1892, the Master of Literature degree in 1902 and the Doctor of Pedagogy in 1912 from the same institution. From 1895 to 1900 he was professor of literature in Lima College, and from 1900 to 1905 held a similar chair in the Ohio Northern. The following ten years he was superintendent of public schools in Lima, and returned to the Ohio Northern as vice president and dean of the College of Education. He is a member of the Teachers' Northwestern Ohio Association, the Ohio State Teachers' Association, the National Educational Association, Allen County Historical Society, and is author of American Literature, published in 1904, English Literature, published in 1905, and has delivered more than 3,000 lectures on literary and kindred subjects. He married Clara E. Hay, of West Newton, March 24, 1886. CLARK WELLS CHAMBERLAIN, A. B., PH. D., who is the president of his alma mater, Denison University, at Granville, Licking County, has gained high reputation as an educator, physicist, author and college executive, and in his career of achievement has signally honored Ohio, the state of his nativity. Doctor Chamberlain was born at Litchfield, Medina County, Ohio, on the 29th of October, 1870, and is a son of Wells Alexander Chamberlain and Cynthia (Aldrich) Chamberlain. The doctor is a scion of the third generation of the Chamberlain family in Ohio, to which state his grandfather, John Chamberlain, who was a successful teacher, came from the State of New York, this action having been prompted largely by his desire to find wider opportunity for advancing his service in behalf of the cause of temperance. In this connection it is interesting to record that his son Wells Alexander Chamberlain likewise became a leader in temperance work, he having been one of a small group of men who met at Oberlin, Ohio, and became founders of the Anti-Saloon League, this having become a national organization of great influence and power. Wells A. Chamberlain was a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war as a member of Company F, Twelfth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The preliminary education of Dr. Clark W. Chamberlain was acquired in the public schools, and in 1894 he was graduated from Denison University, the institution of which he is now the president, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was a graduate student in and a Fellow of the University of Chicago, 1897-1900, and at Columbia University, New York City, 1908-1911, he having received from this institution in 1910 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. In the period of 1894-1897 he was instructor in mathematics and physics in Western Reserve Academy; in 1900-1901 he was professor of physics and astronomy at Colby College, in the State of Maine; and he then returned to Denison University, where he held the chair of physics until 1908, when he assumed a similar professorship at Vassar College. The doctor remained at Vassar from 1908 until 1913, in which latter year he was called to his present academic and executive office, that of president of Denison University. Here his administration has been one of able and constructive order, and under his regime the scholastic and material interests of the institution have been advanced in a significant degree. In connection with his scientific attainments and achievements Doctor Chamberlain received a silver medal at the Jamestown Exposition in Virginia in 1907. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the National Institute of Social Sciences, and is recognized as one of the representative physicists of the United States. In his brief personal sketch appearing in the work entitled "American Men of Science" his name is marked with the asterisk or star, a mark there used to designate with special emphasis those students of and research workers in the natural and exact sciences whose work has been of major importance. This marking appears in connection without about 1,000 of more than 4,000 names appearing in that publication, and Doctor Chamberlain was one of about 150 men to be thus honored in the domain of the science of physics. Doctor Chamberlain is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and the Phi Gamma Delta College fraternities, is a republican in political allegiance, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Baptist Church. The doctor has made many contributions to standard and periodical literature of science, especially in his articles published in the "Physical Review." On the 27th of December, 1900, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Chamberlain and Miss Jessie Isabel Husted, of Norwalk, Ohio, and they have four children: Jbhn Husted, Margaret Aldrich, Stuart Hay and Elizabeth Clark. GEORGE HARRISON MOREHOUSE is one of the younger men in the industrial life of the thriving City of Greenfield, being the executive head of two of the companies that swell the industrial output of the town and make its name known from coast to coast. Mr. Morehouse was born at Sparta, Morrow County, Ohio, February 21, 1890. His grandfather, Edgar Morehouse, was born in the State of New York, was a carpenter and builder, and spent his brief career in Morrow County, Ohio, where he died in 1865, at the age of thirty-one. His wife, Rachel Doty, was born in Morrow County, and died at the age of seventy-four, being buried at Marengo HISTORY OF OHIO - 417 in Morrow County. Their son, George Washington Morehouse, was born at Kankakee, Illinois, in 1859, and, becoming a physician, practiced for many years at Sparta in Morrow County and at Delaware, Ohio, where he died at the age of sixty-one. Doctor Morehouse married Luella Catherine Harrison, a native of Morrow County. She was born in 1863, and was educated in the public and normal schools at Ada and is a resident of Delaware. Her father, George Smith Harrison, was a native of Morrow County, and died at the age of eighty-three, being buried at Fargo in Morrow County. George S. Harrison married Eliza Ann Hunt, a native of Morrow County, who died in 1905. George Harrison Morehouse was reared in Morrow County, attending the high schools at Mount Gilead. He was graduated from high school in 1907, and continued his higher education in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, where he received the Bachelor of Science degree in 1911. He was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. After coming out of college he took up business, and is now manager of the Springo Suspender Company of Greenfield. This industry was established in 1913, and manufactures suspenders. The first year 's business amounted to $100,000, and in 1920 the volume of business amounted to a total of $200,000. Mr. Morehouse is also manager of the J. A. Harps Manufacturing Company, manufacturing a special product known as "Never Fail Oil Can," which is sold all over the United States. This business was started in 1902, the first year the volume reaching $50,000, while in 1920 it reached a business of $350,000. During the World war Mr. Morehouse served as second lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth Field Artillery, and had five months of overseas experience in France. He is a republican, is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is a member of the Greenfield Rotary Club and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He is a director of the Greenfield Masonic Temple Company and is a past exalted ruler of Greenfield Lodge of Elks. He married Miss Ruth Mae Harps, March 18, 1913, at Greenfield. She was educated in the public schools at Greenfield, and 1911 graduated from the Lady Jane Gray Private School at Binghampton, New York. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. JOHN F. EMANS, a member of the Lima bar, has been in the active practice of law here for seventeen years, an interval covering a most important period in the city 's history. During these years Mr. Emans, professionally and otherwise, has always been found a supporter of law and order, and a hearty promoter of movements for the general welfare. John F. Emans was born at Mendon, Mercer County, Ohio, February 29, 1876, a son of Christopher R. and Jennie (Sutton) Emans, and a grandson of John Emans and Levi Sutton, both of whom came early to Ohio from Pennsylvania and became large landowners and reputable citizens of Putnam County. The old farm of John Emans is the present site of the Putnam County Infirmary. Christopher R. Emans was born in Putnam County, Ohio, and grew to manhood there. In 1874 he moved with his wife to Mercer County, buying a farm north of Mendon, but disposed of it three years later and purchased another farm situated but one mile north, near the Gross School, in order to provide better school privileges for his seven children, of whom John F. was the second born and eldest son. Mr. Emans operated this farm as long as he was active, and since retiring has resided at Mendon. John F. Emans attended the public schools until he was seventeen years old, when, despite his youth, he secured a certificate and began to teach school, a profession for which he seemed well qualified, and one to which he several times later returned. After about two years of teaching he spent three years as a student in the Mendon High School and then took a summer course in the Normal School and taught during the winter. A course in the Tri-State Normal College in Indiana followed, his leisure time being taken up with law study under Hon. Charles M. Godfrey, an able lawyer and state Senator. Mr. Emans then entered the Ohio Northern University at Ada, from which he was graduated in 1903, with the Bachelor of Pedagogy degree, and in 1905 was graduated from the law department of the university, and the same year was admitted to the Ohio bar. Mr. Emans, however, did not immediately enter into practice, in fact he returned to his first profession and taught school for the next two years. In 1907 he established himself in the law at Lima, at first alone, but later in partnership with H. E. Garling. The law firm of Emans & Garling continued for three years and then was dissolved, with mutual good will, and since then Mr. Emans has been alone in practice. He maintains his offices in the Opera House Building at Lima, and in addition to attending to a large practice, does a very satisfactory abstract business. Mr. Emans married, October 26, 1900, Miss Estella Custer, who belongs to the same old Mercer County family of that name to which also belonged the heroic General Custer of Indian warfare fame. Mr. and Mrs. Emans have one son, Erin Emerson, who is a student in the law department of the Ohio Northern University. Mr. Emans has never been particularly active in political life, his preference being professional, but he has settled convictions, and testifies to them when occasion demands. He is a member of the Allen County Bar Association, and belongs to the Masonic fraternity. Both he and wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church at Lima. THEO. DAMAN. As lawyer, judge, banker and business man Hon. Theo. Daman has been a conspicuous figure in the City of Napoleon for thirty years. He is still engaged in the general practice of law, and is an officer in a number of business corporations. Theo. Daman was born in Montra, Shelby County, Ohio, October 25, 1872, the oldest son of Louis and Anna (Schnoor) Dammann. His father was born in the Provinz of Hanover, Germany, came to America when a youth, graduated from the Theological Seminary of Capital University at Columbus, Ohio, and engaged in the ministry of the Lutheran Church. After occupying several pastorates in Ohio and Michigan he accepted the call of St. Paul's Lutheran Parish and moved to Napoleon in 1881. His pastoral activities at St. Paul's covered a period of thirty-five years of faithful service, and at his retirement from the ministry he was the oldest pastor in continuous service in Napoleon. He was widely known in Lutheran Church circles, and died July 30, 1920, at the age of seventy-eight years. His wife, born in Holstein, Germany, also came to America when young. She and her husband were married in Shelby County, Ohio, and reared a family of seven children, of whom two are now living. Albert Daman, the younger son, is cashier of the Napoleon State Bank. Theo. Daman attended the public schools of Napoleon, where he has lived since he was nine years of age. Subsequently he further pursued his studies in Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, under such notable schoolmen as Doctor Lehr, Doctor Darst, Professor Workman and the present United States Senator Simeon D. Fess. Judge Daman also was a 418 - HISTORY OF OHIO student at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, under the venerable Dr. M. Loy. Upon completion of his schooling he followed for a time the trade of printer. Later he studied law, and in 1895 was admitted to the bar. He was engaged in the practice of law for ten years, until 1905, when he was elected judge of the Probate Court of Henry County, Ohio; at the time of his election he was the youngest probate judge in the state. He served seven years, until 1913, and thoroughly reorganized his office from the standpoint of efficiency. His excellent work attracted state-wide attention, and his fellow judges honored him by electing him secretary of the Probate Judges' Association of Ohio. In the year 1909 he became one of the founders of the Napoleon State Bank, and in 1913, upon retiring from the bench, he was elected president of that institution and remained its chief officer for five years. In addition to his law practice he is treasurer of the Napoleon Products Company, of which he was one of the organizers, and secretary of the Cash Coal & Coke Company, operating plants at Napoleon and Bryan, Ohio. Judge Daman adheres to the old-fashioned civic principles that it is the duty of every loyal citizen to give something of his time and ability to the civic welfare of his home community. He served four years as a trustee of the Carnegie Public Library. He was a member of the first Board of Trustees of the Samuel M. Heller Memorial Hospital, and supervised the building and equipment of that institution. For a period of ten years he served as a member and president of the Board of Public Affairs, being largely instrumental in the construction of the city 's water-purification plant, and in putting the municipal water and light plant on a paying basis. On February 14, 1906, Judge Daman was united in marriage with Miss Nellie Brown, who was born and reared and educated in Napoleon, and before her marriage was official court stenographer of the Third Judicial District of Ohio. One child blessed the union, Miss Clara-Ellen, born July 18, 1908, and now attending the Napoleon High School. Mrs. Daman died August 21, 1916. Judge Daman is a democrat in polities, and is a member of the Lutheran Church. CLETUS E. DITMER, of Greenville, Ohio, telegraph operator, joint employe of the Cincinnati Northern and Pennsylvania railways, is a native son of Darke County, and has manifested a great' interest in the study and preservation of the history of that section of the state. Mr. Ditmer was born near Pittsburgh, in Darke County, April 10, 1887, son of Jacob F. and Hettie E. (Surber) Ditmer. His mother was the daughter of Andrew J. and Susanna (Bower) Surber, natives of Virginia and Pennsylvania. Jacob F. Ditmer spent his active life as a farmer and contractor and builder. All the ancestors of Mr. Ditmer were farmers. His grandfather, John Ditmer, was born in 1834 and his great-grandfather, George Ditmer, Sr., in 1813, be was one of the pioneers of Monroe Township, Darke County. George Ditmer, Sr., his grandfather, Frederick Ditmer, was a Revolutionary soldier, and was a member of the Provincial Regiment of Pennsylvania. During one of the engagements of the war he with two other brothers were standing together in consultation, when all of a sudden the one in the center was instantly killed by a cannon ball and his body torn to fragments. This scene presented a horrible and sickening sight to the other two surviving brothers. Cletus E. Ditmer attended public school, and since the close of his school days, with the exception of about four years in the insurance business, has been continuously in the services of the Cincinnati Northern and Pennsylvania Railway companies. He married Miss Celia Hinkle, daughter of Clark Hinkle, one of Darke County's highly respected citizens. He served as a Union soldier in the Civil war, in the Ninety-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and took an active part in all the engagements of his regiment, numbering twenty-seven. Mr. Ditmer is affiliated with the Loyal Order of Moose, and is local chairman of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers of the Cincinnati Northern Division, Big Four Railway (New York Central Lines), having served in this capacity during the past five years. He was a charter member of the old Darke County Historical Society, and is trustee of the Greenville Historical Society. He probably has the best selection of autographed letters in Ohio, these being letters in the personal handwritings of prominent Americans from George Washington to Calvin Coolidge. He has a large selection of histories and other documents reflecting the life and annals of his home state and the Old Northwest Territory. He possesses one of the rarest selections of personal war letters of Generals Anthony Wayne, St. Clair, Greene and others pertaining to the Revolutionary war and the Northwest Territory. He is considered an authority on Generals Wayne and St. Clair and the early Indian wars following the Revolutionary war in the Old Northwest Territory. He was chosen by the pageant director from the membership of the Greenville Historical Society, to play the important roll, Gen. Anthony Wayne, in the Historical Pathway of Progress, under the auspices of the American Legion. This was staged in the center field of the Great Darke County Fair Grounds on July 3 and 4, 1924. This pageant showed the early life of Greenville and vicinity from the Redmen to the present day, and it is estimated that between ten and fifteen thousand persons witnessed this great pageant, one of the largest ever held in Ohio. HON. CHARLES J. THOMPSON. An editor and publisher at Defiance for many years, former postmaster, Charles J. Thompson is now in his fourth consecutive term as representative of the Fifth Ohio District in Congress. He has become one of the influential members of the Ohio delegation at Washington. Mr. Thompson was born at Wapakoneta, Ohio, February 24, 1862, son of James and Emily (Sallada) Thompson. Much of his early education he had to acquire through his own efforts. He attended high school, and during 1881-82 was a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. He learned the printer's trade, and was employed as editor on the Herald at Anderson, Indiana, during the Blaine and Logan campaign of 1884. From 1885 to 1889 he was cashier and bookkeeper of the Wapakoneta Wheel Works. Mr. Thompson in 1889 bought the Defiance Weekly Express, and in 1894 established a daily edition and continued the publication for thirteen years. During 1893-94 he was a member of the Republican State Central Committee, being on the committee when William McKinley was governor of Ohio. He became a close personal friend of such notable Ohio men as Foraker, McKinley and Hanna. When Mr. McKinley was elected president Mr. Thompson was appointed postmaster of Defiance, on May 10, 1898, and he held that office consecutively for seventeen years, under Roosevelt and Taft. While he was postmaster he was instrumental in securing the influence of Senators Foraker and Dick in obtaining appropriations for the postoffice building at Defiance, and it is now one of the most beautiful Federal buildings in the state. In 1918 Mr. Thompson was elected to HISTORY OF OHIO - 419 represent the Fifth Ohio District in Congress, and has been four times reelected, serving in the Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses. In the Sixty-seventh Congress lie was made a member of the committee on agriculture. On November 16, 1886, Mr. Thompson married Miss Cora Anna Craig, of Wapakoneta. She died December 1, 1923. They were the parents of four sons: Lewis B., a graduate of Defiance College; Fred S., who graduated from Defiance College and from Case School of Applied Science of Cleveland, has the degree Chemical Engineer and is now with the Cleveland headquarters of the General Electric Company; Lieut. Samuel C. Thompson is a graduate of Miami University at Oxford, Ohio; and Charles J., Jr., is a graduate of Defiance High School and clerk in the Defiance postoffice. Mr. Thompson is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a Knight Templar, thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a Shriner. He is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias, and is a past exalted ruler of the Elks, and former District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler. He is a member of the Defiance Club, and is a past president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and a member of the Knights of the Maccabees. ISAAC PUTNAM, of Van Wert, is one of a notable family, remarkable for the fact that all the children, six sons and two daughters living, are in the contracting business, the husbands of the two daughters following that line. The father of these children was also a contractor. During the past twenty years a large part of the modern road building in Van Wert, Ohio, has been handled by members of this family, working together or individually. Isaac Putnam was born on a farm in Liberty Township of Van Wert County, April 12, 1885, son of Solomon and Mary (Brubaker) Putnam. His mother, still living, was born in Liberty Township, July 26, 1860. His father was born in Mercer County, Ohio, March 12, 1858, was reared and educated there, and after his marriage located on a farm in Van Wert County. While' engaged in farming he began contracting on a modest scale, and about twenty years ago, in 1903, took some contracts for road building from the Erie Stone Company, and he gradually extended his business, taking in his sons, and was active in that work until his death in 1923. He was a republican, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Van Wert, and the United Brethren Church. Altogether there were nine children, and the eight now living are: Peter, of New Haven, Indiana, who married Gertrude Williams; Isaac; N. B. Putnam, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, who married sins Shingledecker ; Arthur, of Marion, Indiana, who married Edna Davis; Sherman, of Van Wert, who married Hazel Fouty; Edgar, of Van Wert, who married Elsie Smith; Bertha, wife of Peter Shingledecker; and Ella, wife of Homer Frysinger, of Rockford, Ohio. Isaac Putnam spent the first twenty-one years of his life on the homestead farm. He was educated in the public schools, and at the age of nineteen went to work for his father in the contracting business. The Putnam family have built the Lincoln Highway across the counties of Van Wert and Paulding except one mile of that famous thoroughfare. Mr. Isaac Putnam married Clennie M. Switzer, eldest daughter of William and Ada Switzer. They have one daughter, Virginia, born August 16, 1918, and has given a home to one orphan, Miss Edith Glen. They are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Van Wert, and fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In politics he votes as a republican. JOSEPH N. STEPHENSON has given fully a third of a century to the profession of educator in Ohio. A third of that time has been devoted to his duties as superintendent of the Ripley High School in Brown County, a high school which he himself attended when a boy. This is a consolidated school with fourteen teachers, including the superintendent, there being four instructors in the high school. Twenty-two were graduated from the high school in 1924, and the total enrollment in the high school and grades is 378. Mr. Stephenson is a native of Ripley, Ohio, son of Thomas and Elmira (Wiles) Stephenson, both now deceased. His father was a farmer, and Joseph N. grew up in a rural district, attending public schools at Ripley and graduating from high school in 1888. Since then he has been teaching, and from time to time has supplemented his own education by courses in various universities, including Ohio University, the National Normal University, Miami University and the Ohio Northern University. In 1902 he graduated from Draughan's Business College. His early experience was teaching in rural schools, and following that he was superintendent of schools at Aberdeen and Higginsport, Ohio. For the past eleven years he has been in charge of the schools at Ripley. Mr. Stephenson is also a director of the Ripley Building and Loan Company. He is a Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. DANIEL WEBSTER SHUMAKER, M. D. Graduated in medicine in 1898, Doctor Shumaker for a number of years was engaged in general practice. His abilities early distinguished him in surgery and his attainments brought him early recognition in election as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Doctor Shumaker for a number of years has had his home and professional headquarters at Dover, Tuscarawas County. He was born in Holmes County, Ohio, March 19, 1870, son of Frederick and Elizabeth (Lembrecht) Shumaker, both natives of Tuscarawas County. His grandfather, also Frederick Shumaker, was born in the Rhine country of Germany, and coming to the United States in 1832, at the age of twenty-five, became a pioneer settler in Tuscarawas County. Elizabeth Lembrecht was a daughter of Daniel Lembrecht, a native of Alsace-Lorraine, of French ancestry. Daniel Lembrecht came to the United States in 1833 and settled in Tuscarawas County. He became a staunch republican upon the organization of that party, and did much to support the Union cause during the Civil war. The father of Doctor Shumaker pursued his calling as a farmer in the town of Baltic, and died at his home there in 1891, at the age of sixty-one. His widow passed away in 1905, aged seventy-one. Frederick Shumaker besides farming was a school teacher and stone mason contractor, and built many stone bridges and homes in Tuscarawas County. Eighth in a family of thirteen children, Daniel Webster Shumaker was reared in a rural community, and after the advantages of home and neighboring schools had to depend upon himself for his higher education and training. He graduated from the Baltic High School in 1888. For seven years he gave most of his time to teaching. After graduating in 1894 from Scio College he served a year as superintendent of the public schools at Wilmot, Ohio. He pursued his medical course at the Ohio Medical University, now the medical department of the Ohio State University, and was graduated in 1898. For two years he practiced at Sugar 'Creek and five years at Bedford, Ohio, and in 1907, following a course in the Chicago Post Graduate School of Medicine, he located at Dover. Since 420 - HISTORY OF OHIO then his practice has been limited to surgery. It was in 1914 that he was made a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, not long after the college was organized. Doctor Shumaker is also a member of the Tuscarawas County and Ohio State Medical societies and is a Fellow of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine. During the World war he volunteered his services to the Medical Department of the United States Army, and was placed on the volunteer service list, but was not called to active duty. He is a republican, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Knights of Honor, and is a Lutheran. Doctor Shumaker married in 1893 Miss Catherine Garver, who died in 1907, the mother of three daughters: Melba N., a graduate with the Bachelor of Arts degree from the Western Reserve University, now the wife of Howard Walter, of New Philadelphia; Hazel I., wife of Rowland Thomas, of New Philadelphia; and Miss Florence A. In 1920 Doctor Shumaker married Mrs. Matie McCullough. They have a son, Daniel Webster Shumaker, Jr. ISAAC N. HEMMINGER, editor in chief and business manager of the Findlay Morning Republican in the City of Findlay, Hancock County, has proved himself one of the able, resourceful and successful newspaper men of his native state. He was born on a farm in Allen Township, Hancock County, Ohio, January 30, 1868, and is a son of Ephraim M. and Rosetta (Weisel) Hemminger. Ephraim M. Hemminger was born in Stark County, Ohio, a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of that county, and his higher education was obtained in Otterbein College, which is now one of the well ordered universities of Ohio. He gave a number of years to effective service as a teacher in the public schools, but the major portion of his active career was marked by his close and effective association with farm industry. He was one of the substantial and honored citizens of Hancock County at the time of his death. His political allegiance was given to the republican party, and both he and his wife were zealous members of the United Brethren Church. The early environment and discipline of Isaac N. Hemminger were those of the home farm, and after receiving the advantages of the public schools he entered Findlay College. In this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1890 and with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, to which in 1893 was added that of Master of Philosophy. He forthwith became associated with the newspaper business in the capacity of city editor of the Findlay Morning Republican. He retained this position two years, at the expiration of which he purchased the plant and business of the Bluffton News, at Bluffton, Allen County. He continued as editor and publisher of this weekly paper eight years, and he then sold the business and purchased a one-third interest in the Findlay Morning Republican, of which he became business manager and of which he is now editor in chief and business manager. Mr. Hemminger has done much to bring the Republican up to high standard as one of the well ordered and influential daily newspapers in the Ohio field, and has been specially insistent in his efforts to make the paper a worthy exponent of the varied interests of the Ohio constituent district which it represents and in which it has a large circulation. Through his paper he has been influential also in the advancing of the cause of the republican party. The Findlay Morning Republican is published by the Findlay Publishing Company, of which Mr. Hemminger is president, his son, R. Lowell, being its vice president, John D. Snyder being its secretary, and the president being likewise its treasurer, the directorate of the company including also Lloyd N. Hemminger and Mrs. Grace Wormley. Mr. Hemminger is one of the liberal and progressive citizens of his home city and native county and is a trustee of his alma mater, Findlay College. November 6, 1890, recorded the marriage of Mr. Hemminger and Miss Elizabeth Burrell, and they have three children : R. Lowell, who is vice president of the Findlay Publishing Company, as already noted, is also managing editor of the Findlay Morning Republican. He is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Lloyd N., a graduate of Columbia Military Academy, at Columbia, Tennessee, is assistant business and advertising manager of the Findlay Morning Republican, and Sarah E. is a member of the class of 1926 in the Findlay High School. The religious affiliation of the family is with the Methodist Episcopal Church. GEORGE E. OREBAUGH, M. D., physician and surgeon of Norwood, is one of the highly skilled and resourceful men of his profession now practicing in Hamilton County, and one who enjoys the full confidence of the people of this region. He was born at Hillsboro, Ohio, July 25, 1871, a son of John M. and Maggie (Wilkins) Orebaugh, the latter of whom is still living, but the former died about seven years ago, having been up to the time of his demise a popular educator. After completing his courses in the Lynchburg High School Doctor Orebaugh took up the study of medicine at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, from which he was graduated in 1898. In 1908 he took post-graduate work in medicine at the University of New York. While he is engaged in a general practice, he specializes in rectal surgery, in which he took special courses at New York City and Chicago. His practice in his specialty now extends as far as Cleveland, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Louisville, Kentucky, and Indianapolis, Indiana, and he is fast becoming a national figure in this line. Formerly he was physician for a number of the larger corporations at Norwood and Cincinnati, but has severed these connections owing to the increase in his practice in rectal surgery. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, and has been advanced through the different bodies of the York Rite as well, and belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America. Professionally he maintains membership with the Academy of Medicine and the Ohio State Medical Society. He is examiner for a number of the larger insurance companies. At different times he has contributed papers to the leading medical journals relative to special cases which have come under his care, which are a valuable addition to medical literature. The Methodist Episcopal Church holds his membership. Doctor Orebaugh married at Norwood, in 1922, Miss Hazel Sicler, a daughter of Jacob and Eva L. Sicler. Mr. Sicler died many years ago, but Mrs. Sicler has been for a long period a prominent teacher of the public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. Orebaugh was graduated from the Norwood High School, and further pursued her studics at Cincinnati. She is very active socially, as well as in the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which she, too, is a member. OSCAR L. TEAGARDEN, manager of the cost department of the Sears-Nichols Canning Company of Chillicothe, the largest canning industry in Ohio, was in the World war and is present commander of the American Legion Post at Chillicothe. He was born at Wheeling, West Virginia, February 24, 1892, son of Jefferson Davis and Ida L. (Ash) Teagarden, and grandson of Samuel and Anna (Batten) Teagarden and of Samuel and Harriet Ash. HISTORY OF OHIO - 421 The Teagarden family is of German ancestry and settled in Virginia prior to the Revolutionary war. The Ash family came from Ireland in the early part of the last century and located at Littleton, West Virginia. Jefferson D. Teagarden, who died May 5, 1920, was a West Virginia farmer and coal buyer, and very active in public affairs. He was affiliated with the Masonic Order and Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Christian Church. His widow is still living in West Virginia. They had five children: Arlie, wife of Joseph Harrington; Ross, who is married; Oscar L.; Goldie, wife of Charles Stoneking; and Miss Oressa. Oscar L. Teagarden attended the public schools in Wheeling, graduated from high school in 1907, and subsequently entered Marietta College, Ohio, taking the business course and graduating in 1912. For eight years he was an employe of the Wheeling Canning Company at Wheeling, and became manager of the order department. He gave up his business connections and enlisted May 31, 1917, being trained at Camp Lee, Virginia, where he was sergeant in the Depot Brigade, Quartermaster 's Department, and subsequently was transferred to the Eighth Battalion of Infantry as regimental sergeant-major in the headquarters company. He was there from August, 1917, to December, 1918, and received his honorable discharge December 5. After leaving the army he resumed his work with the Canning Company at Wheeling. His thorough knowledge of the business department of the canning industry brought him the offer to come to Chillicothe, where in May, 1920, he entered upon his duties as manager of the cost department of the Sears-Nichols Company, an industry that has been in existence for over forty years and has specialized in the packing of the highest grades of vegetables in tin and glass, the products of the company being sold and distributed wherever the finest of groceries are sold. Mr. Teagarden married, July 18, 1917, at Wheeling, West Virginia, Miss Alma Nolan, daughter of Lawrence and Elizabeth (Farmer) Nolan. Her father was a chemist for the National Tube Company of the United States Steel Corporation, and Catholic in religion. In the Nolan family are thirteen children, all living, named Emma, Anna, May, Elizabeth, Loretta, Josephine, Alma, Julia, Edna, Margaret, Agnes, Lawrence and Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. Teagarden have one son, Oscar L., Jr. Mr. Teagarden since coming to Chillicothe has been honored with election as commander of Ross County Post No. 62 of the American Legion. He is a member of the Kiwanis Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Christian Church. CLIFTON G. STREAM, who became the republican candidate for sheriff of Knox County in 1924, has for many years been a resident of Mount Vernon, and is well known in business as well as in politics. He was born near Newark, in Licking County, Ohio, son of Oliver and Catherine (James) Stream, who still reside at Newark. Clifton G. Stream was the seventh in a family of nine children, and grew up on a farm, receiving his early education in country schools. On leaving the farm he worked in the War-ley Store Company of Newark, learning his trade as a brass and metal polisher. He was with that firm ten years, from there moving to Mount Vernon. He became connected with the C. and G. Cooper Company, giving them nine years time. He left them when he bought an automobile bus line, which he still operates between Mount Vernon, Howard and Danville. He uses three large up-to-date passenger cars, and has made it one of the best examples of motor service in this section of Ohio. Mr. Stream also owns his home at 701 West Sugar Street. In 1920 he was republican candidate, for sheriff. In 1924 he gained the republican nomination after a contest with five other aspirants. He is affiliated with the Loyal Order of Moose, and he and his wife are members of the Church of Christ. Mr. Stream married, in 1904, Miss Goldie Lane, of Newark, daughter of William H. and Jennie (Mummau) Lane. They have one son, Thornley, born in 1906, who graduated in 1924 from the Mount Vernon High School, and is now employed by the Jewel Creamery Company. EDWARD H. COST has been the efficient and popular local manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company 's offices in the City of Mansfield since 1918, and for fourteen years prior to being assigned to this place he had been in the service of the same company at Xenia, this state. His advancement has been the result of faithful and efficient service with this great corporation, and he is a most popular executive in his present post, in connection with which is retained a corps of ten employes. Mr. Cost has identified himself fully and loyally with the interests of his home city, is a member of the Mansfield Board of Education, and is secretary of the Richland County Republican Club, besides having served as secretary of the local Kiwanis Club, in the affairs of which he continues to have deep interest. MRS. D. HARRY HAMMER. Born in Ohio, but many years ago transplanted to Chicago, Mrs. D. Harry Hammer has cherished her affection for her native state, and her accomplishments as an art collector, as a writer and speaker have brought her distinction that make her one of the most noted of Ohio's native daughters. Her maiden name was Mary Amaryllis Bower. He was born in Pike County, but was reared near Athens, in Athens County, Ohio. Her parents were Moses and Delitha (Rew) Bower. Mrs. Hammer was educated in the Miller Seminary at Guysville, and Russell Carpenter of Athens County. Mr. Carpenter was a veteran of the Civil war. He had enlisted at the age of sixteen, his size enabling him to pass inspection at eighteen, the minimum age for enlist- ment. He was promoted to and attained the rank of captain in the Eighteenth Ohio Infantry. He served nearly five years, throughout the war period, and when he was discharged in 1865 he had just reached the age of twenty-one. By her first marriage Mrs. Hammer had one daughter, Mrs. Maud Freshel, now living at Boston, Massachusetts. Mrs. Hammer came to Chicago in 1874. Subsequently she was married to D. Harry Hammer, who died in 1904. Mr. Hammer was a prominent Chicago lawyer, served several years as an alderman, was a justice of the peace, and held various positions in public affairs. He made a considerable fortune in real estate. Mrs. Hammer for a number of years has occupied a beautiful home at 3903 Lake Park Avenue, Chicago. By her marriage to Mr. Hammer she has a son and a daughter : D. Harry Hammer II, in the bond business in Chicago, and Hazel Harry, wife of Lucius Humphreys, of Denver Colorado. Her son was a naval volunteer in the World war and rose to the rank of lieutenant, and still maintains his connection with the navy. For many years Mrs. Hammer has been a conspicuous figure in society and club life in Chicago and a leader in worthy civic affairs. She organized and was the first president of the Mothers' Relief Association. She is the former president of the Illinois Colony Club, which had over twelve hundred 422 - HISTORY OF OHIO members. She is a past president of the Dames of the Loyal Legion of Illinois; president of the Poetry Lovers of America; president of the Andoka Philanthropic .Club, member of the Illinois Woman's Press Association; a member of the Woman's Athletic Club, the Chicago Woman's Club, and president of the Colonial Coverlet Guild of America. Mrs. Hammer organized in 1914 the Chicago Society of Ohio Women, and was elected its first president. She held that office for three years, and in May, 1923, was again elected president of this notable organization, which includes about two hundred and twenty-five members, all of them natives of the great State of Ohio. Mrs. Hammer for many years has been an extensive writer, writing on a great variety of subjects, mainly matters connected with art and civic affairs. She possesses a style that is very individual, and that style, combined with her keen sense of humor, also gives power to her work as a public speaker. In February, 1920, when the Chicago Society of Ohio Women gave a reception in Chicago to Senator and Mrs. Harding, Mrs. Hammer introduced the Senator to a Chicago audience as " our next President," a prediction full verified in the following November election. However, the object of her greatest and most sustained enthusiasm has been the collection of art objects, and the world of art and art critics have paid her some of the highest compliments for her collections of etchings, cartoons, posters, brass, bric-abrac. She became interested in collecting many years ago. She and Mr. Hammer spent some ten years in England, with numerous visits and excursions to all the capitals and interesting places of Europe, India and Asia. Since then her travels have included all the principal cities of America. In all her journeying she has kept a watchful and eager eye for the objects cherished by the collector. The result is that her home in Chicago has treasures that make it the mecca for art lovers. Perhaps the most notable feature of her art treasures is her collection of cartoons of Uncle Sam. She began collecting these in 1897, and the Spanish-American war of the following year, with the numerous representations of Uncle Sam in the newspapers, gave her a splendid start. In her researches she discovered that the picture of Uncle Sam had its beginning in 1842, with a drawing of "Brother Jonathan" in London Punch, of which she secured a copy. She also found that the first delineation in America, of "Uncle Sam" as the world has since known him appeared in " The Lantern," in New York, in 1852. Through the aid of clipping bureaus and thoughtful friends she has continued this collection of Uncle Sam cartoons until they now number almost 40,000, all mounted, classified and indexed, and covering all periods of American history since 1852. This is in itself a rare and notable gallery. Her collections of cartoons of a general nature include those of such great artists as Sir John Tenniel of London (including cartoons of almost the entire history of the Victorian reign), and of such great American cartoonists as Nast, Keppler, Wales, Bellew, and such moderns as Homer Davenport, McCutcheon, Gibson, Carey Orr and others. Through her interest and work as a collector Mrs. Hammer has found personal friends in many of the modern artists, and for a number of years they have been sending her the originals of their cartoons. Beginning in 1914, she made a' collection of cartoons of the World war, comprising from two to eleven for each day from August, 1914, to 1920, and these afford a graphic history of that long struggle. It is said that from these a graphic history of the great struggle could be written. Her collection of etchings numbers about 500, and include examples by all the great artists of the world. One of the rarest and most treasured is one by Bartolozzi after Cipriani. Other artists represented in her etchings are Rembrandt, Albrecht Durer, Whistler and Seymour Haden. It has been pronounced one of the finest private collections of etchings in the world. As a collector of brass Mrs. Hammer has specialized in bells. These are suggestive of romance and essential in every part of the world, and they aggregate in number about 300. As Mrs. Hammer herself has expressed it, her bells would "chime around the world." She has cow bells, camel bells, sheep bells, church bells, from Ceylon, Benares, Mandalay, Syria, Thibet and the southern coast of Asia Minor, Italy, France, England and other countries, including a marriage bell used in connection with a wedding ceremony in India. Her collection of brass, said to be the largest in the Middle West, includes brass lamps, candle sticks, braziers from Turkey and other parts of the Orient, and other objects of art in brass gathered from every part of the globe, including Russian urns and samovars, Circassian wine jugs, Japanese garden lamps. Mrs. Hammer has collected about 100 tobeys (ale mugs), gathered for the most part in. England. She also has collcted a number of Colonial bed spreads, and one department of her gallery which cannot be noted in detail is a collection of posters. VAN DEVENDER WELLS, manager of the Imperial Ice Cream Company at Steubenville, is one of the enterprising younger men who have added themselves to the business and civic community of this Eastern Ohio city. He is a native of West Virginia and represents families of Colonial ancestry. He was born at Elizabeth, West Virginia, February 22, 1891 son of Albert and Louise (Van Devender) Wells. His mother is living. His father, who died November 22, 1910, was a man of unusual activity, participating in business and public affairs. He was in the timber and lumber business for many years, being a logging contractor as well as a manufacturer. He took an active part in the Baptist Church, serving as a trustee of his home denomination, and was a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. He and his wife had two sons and three daughters. The son Charles A., with his wife, Connie, has three sons, named Charles A., Jr., Norwood and William. Carrie married C. L. McCarty, and is living in Columbus, Ohio ; Nellie, who is the wife of William H. Herrmans, has a family of children named William, Edgar, Wells, Sarah Louise, Helen, Nell. Gene and Bettie Ann. The youngest daughter, Clyda, married Fred I. Blue. Van Devender Wells attended public school at Parkersburg, West Virginia, graduating from high" school in 1910, and for two years continued his education in Broadus Institute, West Virginia. On taking up business he became a produce dealer at Parkersburg, but after a year sold out and then became purchasing agent for Swift & Company's produce department at Cincinnati. After a year he came to Steubenville, and has been manager of the Imperial Ice Cream Company since January, 1922. He married at Oakland, Maryland, October 8, 1913, Miss Virginia Smith, daughter of A. Hunter Smith and Leonora (Kight) Smith, of Parkersburg. She was the only child of her parents. Her father was professor of mathematics in the Virginia Military Institute, and after resigning took up the insurance business and is now retired. He represents an old Virginia family. The Smiths were of the Epis- HISTORY OF OHIO - 423 copal Church and her great-grandfather established the church of that denomination at Parkersburg and his body rests under a vault in the new church. The Smiths were of Revolutionary war stock. Mr. and Mrs. Wells have three children: Van Devender, Jr., Louise and Marjorie. They are members of the Episcopal Church, and Mr. Wells is affiliated with the Chamber of Commerce, Century Club and United Commercial Travelers. During the World war he was registered and put in class four. BENJAMIN SNIVELY MOWER. In Benjamin Snively Motter, one of the able younger members of the bar at Lima, a name is perpetuated in the city 's legal history that has long been known and honored here. Mr. Motter is a member of the prominent law firm of Goeke & Motter, and is a member of the County, State and American Bar associations. Benjamin Snively Motter was born at Lima, Ohio, January 20, 1893, only son of Isaac Snively and Harriet Amelia (Weily) Motter, and grandson of Isaac Motter, who was born and lived in Maryland. His father was the pioneer of the Motter family in that state, where he acquired much land, one of his purchases being known as Ringold Manor. His son Isaac inherited that properly and improved it, and it is yet owned by his descendants. Isaac Motter married Mary Snively, of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, a member of a very old and prominent family in Pennsylvania, of Swiss extraction. Her father was a politician of note and served in the Pennsylvania Legislature. Isaac Snively Motter, so well and favorably known at Lima for many years, was born at Williamsport, Washington County, Maryland, in 1852, and died at Lima, Ohio, March 21, 1907. He was a man of scholarship and intellectual strength. Private tutors directed his studies in early years, after which he spent five years as a student in Roanoke College, Virginia, from which institution he was graduated in 1872. Making choice of the law as a profession, he began study in the office of his uncle, Judge William Motter, at Hagerstown, and later under the supervision of Col. George Schley, of the same family to which the distinguished Admiral Schley of the United States Navy belonged. In 1877 he was admitted to the bar and became a member of the law firm of Schley & Motter at Hagerstown, where he continued until 1881, when he came to Lima. A short time afterward he formed a law partnership in this city with William Leonard MacKenzie, under the firm name of Motter & MacKenzie, which became one of the leading law firms at Lima. In 1887 Mr. Motter was elected prosecuting attorney of Allen County and served for six years. Of pleasing personality and with the gift of oratory, Mr. Motter was as convincing in the political field as at the bar, and in 1894, as chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of the County, conducted successfully one of the most important campaigns in the political history of the county. Isaac Snively Motter married at Lima, November 18, 1886, Harriet Amelia Weily, daughter of John H. and Catherine (Fisher) Weily. They had but one child, Benjamin S. Motter. They were life long and consistent members of the Lutheran Church. In fraternal life Mr. Motter was both a Mason and Odd Fellow. Benjamin Snively Motter attended the public schools at Lima prior to entering the Miami Military School at Germantown, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1912. Ann Arbor, Michigan, came next, and his Bachelor of Arts degree was secured from the university in 1916, and his graduation from the law school came two years later. In 1918 he was admitted to the Ohio bar. He opened a law office at Lima and practiced alone until 1920, when he became junior partner with Hon. J. Henry Goeke, in the law firm of Goeke & Motter, and not alone inherited tendency has been a factor in his professional success, but natural talent, thorough preparation and conscientious professional devotion have brought him public confidence as well as substantial reward. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. FRANK R. BELL was one of Hancock County's soldiers in the World war, and before going into the army and since he has been identified with road building, and is now assistant division engineer of the State Highway Department, located at Findlay. Mr. Bell was born at Findlay, May 31, 1894. He represents an old Ohio family. His great-grandfather, Jack Bell, was born in Fairfield County. His grandfather, Alfred Bell, was also a native of Fairfield County and an early settler in Hancock County. Marion Bell was born near Mt. Blanchard, in Hancock County, November 23, 1856, was reared on a farm, and as a young man he was employed for a time by a horse trader, and through all his active years has been more or less closely identified with the business of buying herds and is still active in that work at Findlay. In 1891 he married Sarah E. Ake, daughter of Grundy Ake. She was born in Bedford, Pennsylvania, but was reared in Ohio. Marion Bell is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Knights of Pythias, is a Republican, and his wife is a member of the First Lutheran Church. Frank R. Bell, only child of his parents, has a half sister, the child of his father 's first marriage, Eva, now the wife of Tolvos F. Bock, living in Los Angeles, California. Frank R. Bell was reared in Findlay, was educated in the grammar and high schools and in Findlay College, and as a youth he had two years' experience in road building. Early in the period of America's participation in the World war he enlisted and served with the Thirty-seventh Division, made up of Ohio troops. He was overseas nearly a year, and after his return he was for a short time an employe of the National Supply Company and then joined the Dorsey Construction Company in road building. Governor Davis appointed him assistant division engineer of the State Highway Department and he continues to serve in that capacity. Mr. Bell, who is unmarried, is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, is a Mason, Knight of Pythias and Elks, and in politics is a republican. DANA D. LIVINGSTON is a Columbus business man, a contractor and builder, a carpenter in his early years, and by a thorough knowledge of the building art and the faculty of organizing and executing contracts has become one of the successful men in his line in the city. Mr. Livingston was born at Delaware, Ohio, in 1884, son of E. W. and Mary Susannah (Young) Livingston. His parents were born in Ohio. His father was a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and for a number of years enjoyed a high place in educational circles. He was a professor in various colleges and schools. In 1890 he moved with his family to Columbus, where he engaged in the real estate business. Dana D. Livingston has lived at Columbus since early childhood, and finished his public school education there. He began learning the carpenter's trade when a boy, and was employed for several years as a journeyman, at first taking modest contracts, while within his ability and financial resources he has found his business growing rapidly in recent years 424 - HISTORY OF OHIO so that he has contributed an important share to the modern upbuilding of Columbus. Among the more prominent structures erected by him in late years are the Third Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, the American Educational Press Building, the store of the J. M. Caren Company, the building occupied by the W. H. Conklin Company on Grant Avenue and the Ralston Building at 42 East Gay Street. Mr. Livingston has made a conspicuous financial success in the handling of down town business property, both as an owner and dealer. He has a spacious country home with forty-five acres of land on the Sunbury Pike, immediately northeast of Columbus. Mr. Livingston married Miss Blanch Edna Plimmer. Her father was a native of England, came to Columbus as a youth, and for many years was one of the prominent contractors and builders of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Livingston have two children, Robert Dana and Doris Jean. JOHN CHARLES SCHUTZBACH, M. D. During the more than thirty-three years he has been in practice Dr. John Charles Schutzbach, of Strasburg, has ministered to the people of this vicinity, and while doing so has not only won appreciation as a skilled physician and surgeon, but also the friendship and respect of his fellow citizens. For several years he served as secretary of the State Bank at Strasburg, and for the past five years has been its president, so that he is one of the best known men of Tuscarawas County. Doctor Schutzbach was born at New Bedford, Coshocton County, Ohio, February 17, 1869, a son of Francis X. and Rachel (Holderbaum) Schutzbach. Francis X. Schutzbach was born in Germany, but came to the United States when he was sixteen years old, and here learned the trade of a painter. He married a native of Coshocton County, in which her parents settled upon coming from Pennsylvania to Ohio, and they spent their married life at New Bedford. Growing up at New Bedford, Doctor Schutzbach attended the local schools, and then for two years was a school teacher. In this way he earned the money with which to begin his medical studies. For two terms he attended medical lectures in the Wooster Medical College, Cleveland, Ohio, and then entered the Columbus Medical College, since merged into the Ohio State University, and from this institution received his degree of Doctor of Medicine in March, 1891. On April 1 of that same year he located at Strasburg, where he has since been engaged in an active practice, and built up a very large connection. He is a member of the Tuscarawas County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. In politics he is a republican. His church connections are those he maintains with the First Lutheran Church at Strasburg. Fraternally he is a Knight Templar Mason, a Woodman, Maccabee, and has been a Knight of Pythias for years. In 1892 Doctor Schutzbach married Althea Burky, a native of Tuscarawas County, and they have three daughters: Gertrude, who was graduated from the Ohio State University, taught languages for some years, and is now the wife of B. C. Miller, of Painesville, Ohio ; Edith, who was graduated from the Cleveland Art School, is now teaching art at Elyria, Ohio; and Lucile, who is a junior in Wooster College. WILLIAM S. SNOOK is one of the very best known citizens of Hancock County, where for many years he was successfully engaged in educational work, and for nearly twenty years has been an able member of the Findlay bar. He is the present city solicitor of Findlay. Mr. Snook was born in Ridge Township, Wyandot County, Ohio, December 27, 1870, son of William and Nancy (Starr) Snook. His father was born in Perry County, Ohio, September 13, 1825, and his mother, in Fairfield County, in 1833. They were married in Hancock County, then located there, spent some years in Wyandot County, and then returned to Hancock, and in 1877 located in the Village of Vanlue, where they spent the rest of their years. The mothei died there in 1910. William Snook was a carpenter by trade, and did a great deal of work in the country and in towns in Hancock and Wyandot counties. He and his wife were very active and devout members of the United Brethren Church, and he was a republican. He served as a member of the Council of the Village of Vanlue. In the family were eight sons and one daughter : Marion, a minister of the Congregational Church at Greenwich, Ohio; J. J., agent for the Big Four Railroad Company at Vanlue; Frank, a farmer in Hancock County; George W., a retired farmer at Vanlue; Lindsay, city auditor of Norwalk, Ohio; James L., a Hancock County farmer ; Wilda, wife of Salem Walters, of Vanlue; William S.; and Logan A., who graduated from the University of Michigan and died at Sandusky, Ohio, in 1902. William S. Snook was a boy when his parents located at Vanlue, and was reared in that village, graduating from the high school in 1888. For twelve years he was one of the able educators in this section of Ohio, and during that time he served as superintendent of schools at Dupont and at two other villages. Mr. Snook took his law course in the University of Michigan, graduating Bachelor of Laws in 1905. For about four years he was engaged in practice at Sandusky, and since then has been at Findlay. For four years he was associated in partnership with Judge John D. Snyder, and since then has carried on an extensive private practice alone. Mr. Snook was elected city solicitor in 1921 for the two year term ending January 1, 1924. He is a republican in politics. Mr. Snook married Dora E. Platts, a graduate of high school and of the Ewing College of Music at Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. They had two children, William K. and Caroline E. Mr. Snook and family are members of the First Lutheran Church at Findlay, and he is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias and a member of the Order of Moose. CARL H. NEVILLE. Although one of the more recent additions to the bar of Lima, Carl H. Neville has won the confidence of the public and the respect of his fellow practitioners, and is recognized as an able attorney and splendid citizen. He was born at Roundhead, Hardin County, Ohio, July 31, 1896, a son of Wesley L. Neville, grandson of John S. Neville, and great-grandson of Samuel and Marie (Murphy) Neville, of Virginia, who in 1837 came to Ohio by wagon and settled at Bellefontaine, where he worked at his trade as a saddler. Subsequently Samuel Neville moved to Roundhead, Hardin County. His son, John S. Neville, was born in Virginia, and became a physician. After beginning his practice he was at Saint Johns, Auglaize County, Ohio, until 1875, when he moved to Roundhead, Hardin County. There his wife, who was formerly Miss Mary J. Dinehart, a native of Shelby County, Ohio, died in 1895, and there he died in 1906, having continued in active practice until his death. Wesley L. Neville was born at Saint Johns, Auglaize County, Ohio. Following the completion of his public school education he attended the Normal University at Ada, Ohio, and subsequently became a student of Sterling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1891. Entering upon a general practice at Roundhead, he remained there until 1906, when he came to Lima, and here