HISTORY OF OHIO - 425 he has built up a large practice, and become a prominent factor in civic life. For a number of years he was a trustee of the Lima State Hospital. During President Cleveland's second administration he was pension examiner for his district at Roundhead. Doctor Neville was married to Theodora North, who was torn in Champaign County, Ohio. She is a daughter of Orrin N ortn, born in Champaign County, while his wife, Sarah Diana Cline, was born in Auglaize County, Ohio. Orrin North was engaged in business for many years, and he also just as successfully managed a large farming property. A student, during his leisure moments he read law, although he never practiced. While a public-spirited man, he avoided politics, although several times he did consent to serve as treasurer of his home community to safeguard the taxpayers' interests. The genealogy of the North family in America was compiled by Dexter North, of Washington City, and was published in 1921. The progenitor in America was John North, who sailed from London in a ship named Susan and Ellen, with some forty other passengers, and at that time he was about twenty years old. The party of voyagers arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, April 26, 1635. For a few years thereafter John North remained in Massachusetts, and then, probably in 1646, moved to Connecticut, his name appearing in the records of Hartford County. in 1652. He acquired land at Farmington, Connecticut, where he died in either 1691 or 1692, at the age of seventy-six years, leaving to his heirs an estate that was large for those times. Many illustrious names appear among his descendants, a number of -them being clergymen, lawyers and physicians, among whom may be mentioned Lieut. Isaac North, Junior, who served as a second lieutenant in the Connecticut militia during the American Revolution. Abel North, the great-grandfather of Mrs. Neville, was born in Connecticut, and his son, Lyman North, the grandfather of Mrs. Neville, was born near Hartford, Con- necticut. He married Lucy Coles, also a native of Connecticut. Mrs. Neville takes an active part in different women societies, is a member of the Woman's Literary Club, the Woman's Musical Club, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Carl H. Neville was graduated from the Lima High School, and thereafter took a preparatory course in the Tennessee Military Institute, from which he was graduated in 1914. For the succeeding three years he was at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he took the scientific course, his intention at that time being to fit himself for the practice of medicine. However, changing his plans, he took up the study of law, and entering the law department of Ohio Northern University, he took the full legal course and was admitted to the bar in 1920. He became a partner of H. O. Bentley, under the firm name of Bentley & Neville, and they enjoy a large and lucrative practice. During the late war Mr. Neville enlisted, and took his training at Camp Sherman, Illinois, where he was at the time the armistice was signed, and he was soon thereafter honorably discharged from the service. In March, 1922, Mr. Neville married Miss Julia Taylor, a daughter of Eugene and Agnes Taylor, of Toledo, Ohio. LE ROY MCMICHAEL, a general contractor of Bucyrus, has also devoted many years to farming, and he owns land which was acquired by the Me• Michaels family in the pioneer times of Crawford County. Mr. McMichaels was born on a farm in Whetstone Township of that county, September 19, 1874, son of John A. and Mary A. (Trimble) McMichael. His father was born in Liberty Township of Crawford County, March 27, 1842, was reared and educated there, and as a young man enlisted in Company E of the one Hundred First Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served tor two and one-half years in the defense of the Union. After the war he returned home, married and settled on the farm where he was born. He was a man of pro,mmence, a successful farmer, active in republican politics and affairs, and at one time was president of the Crawford County Mutual Insuranee and Fair Association. He was a member of the Keller Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and was a liberal supporter of the English Lutheran Church, of which his wife was a member. John A. McMichael died in April, 1901, and his widow survived until January 10, 1919. They had a family of nine children, and seven are living: Eugene T., John L., Ernest W., Le Roy, Bessie, James G., and Oren A., all residents of Crawford County except James, whose home is in Cleveland. Le Roy McMichael was reared on the old farm in Whetstone Township, was educated in country schools, and from the age of nineteen devoted his energy to farming. He remained with his father until the latter 's death. In 1903, twenty years ago, Mr. McMichael took up contract work, and managed his farm operations at the same time until 1916, in which year he removed to Bucyrus. He has handled contracts for numerous large construction enterprises in this vicinity. He still owns a farm of 270 acres in Whetstone Township. May 19, 1898, Mr. McMichael married Miss Daisy Beck. They have three sons: Ralph E., of Bucyrus; Harold G., who graduated from high school in 1922 and is now a student in Denison University, and Maurice, attending high school at Bucyrus. Mr. McMichael is a stockholder in the Farmers and Citizens Bank at Bucyrus, is a member of the Farm Bureau and a republican in politics. He is affiliated with the Elks Lodge and with the Fraternal Order of Eagles. DOHRMAN JAMES SINCLAIR, banker, manufacturer, capitalist, and philanthropist, was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, July 29, 1860. He came from Revolutionary stock, his grandfather, Arnold Henry Dohrman, having rendered such valuable service to his country that Congress gave him the first grant of land made by the United States, consisting of 4,000 acres, comprising the present whole Town of Uhrichsville, part of Dennison, and contiguous territory south. Mr. Sinclair was the son of Thomas and Katherine Dohrman Sinclair. In 1862 the family moved back to Steubenville, where he attended the public schools, and later the Old Steubenville Academy. At the age of fourteen Dohrman Sinclair entered the Union Deposit Bank, a private banking house of his uncle, Horatio G. Garrett. He studied law under Capt. W. A. Walden. For thirty-five years he was the dominant factor in the affairs of the Union Deposit Bank until its incorporation as the Union Savings Bank & Trust Company of Steubenville, Ohio. Dohrman Sinclair was instantly killed by a fast train in the yards of La Belle Iron Works on August 6, 1915, just a few days before the new ten-story Sinclair Building, a monument to his memory, foresight and progressiveness was opened to the public. He was the chief figure in the Board of Trade, in fact he had the reputation of being the Chamber of Commerce. His untiring efforts in inducing industries to locate in Steubenville district brought The La Belle Iron Works, now a part of the Wheeling Steel Corporation. The Pope Tin Plate Company, now a part of the Weirton steel Company, The Follansbee Brothers Company, and the Weirton Steel Company, as well as many similar manufacturing plants to this section. He built roads, bridges and street car lines 426 - HISTORY OF OHIO in all directions from Steubenville, thereby increasing enormously the business activity and prosperity of the city he loved. Mr. Sinclair 's generosity to the sick or needy was universal, knowing no color or creed. For thirty years he sent hundreds of baskets to the poor anonomously at Christmas time, and his hand was ever ready to help those in distress. He was always an important factor in the republican party, although he never ran for office. Dohrman James Sinclair was married November 19, 1884, to Mary, daughter of William B. Donaldson, of Steubenville, Ohio. They had five children: Marie, deceased, wife of Harry Fay Grant, oil operator of Franklin, Pennsylvania; Wilma, wife of Garrett Benjamin LeVan, vice president and general manager of La Belle Iron Works, now retired; Frank Dohrman, vice president and cashier of the Union Savings Bank & Trust Company; Dohrman James, Jr., a student at Dartmouth College, and Katherine, at school in Washington, D. C. During Mr. Sinclair 's very active life he held the following positions: Cashier Union Deposit Bank; president and director of the Union Savings Bank & Trust Company; treasurer and director of the La Belle Iron Works; vice president and director of the Pope Tin Plate Company; president and director of the Union Clay Manufacturing Company; vice president and director of the Jefferson Glass Company; treasurer and director of the Central Sewer Pipe & Supply Company; president of the board of trustees of the Union Cemetery Association; vice president of the Ohio Valley Improvement Association; president of the Ohio River Sewer Pipe Company; vice president of the Foco Oil Company; president and director of the Steubenville Pottery Company; director of the Brook County Coal Company; director of the Steubenville Bridge Company; director of the Tri-State Traction Company; director of the Steubenville-WellsburgWeirton Railway Company; director of the Steubenville Traction & Light Company; director of the Columbia Fire Brick Company; director of the Myers, Clay Manufacturing Company; director of the Erwin & Robinson Company; director of the Steubenville Improvement Company; director of the Moore Land Company; president of the Steubenville Board of Trade; president of the Board of Control of Steubenville; vice president and director of the Chamber of Commerce; chairman of the Water Works Commission of Steubenville, Ohio; a member of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress; member of the Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania; member of the Board of Trustees and chairman of the Building Committee of the Ohio Valley Hospital Association; member of the Steubenville Lodge No. 1, Knights of Pythias; a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; a member of the Ohio Society of New York; member of the Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; member Fort Henry Club, Wheeling, West Virginia; member of Steubenville Country Club; Spruce Creek Rod and Gun Club; a member Cheat River Fishing Club; and a member of the Wintersville Grange. FREDERICK E. VANCE. Substantial resources and careful and progressive administration mark the Union Savings Bank & Trust Company at Steubenville, Jefferson County, as one of the important financial fiduciary institutions in this section of Ohio, and of the same the efficient and popular secretary is Frederick E. Vance, whose loyalty to Steubenville is that of a native son, for in this city he was born on the 26th of September, 1885. He is a son of Thomas W. and Mary E. (Finigan) Vance, the former of whom is now chief deputy auditor of Jefferson County, and the latter is deceased. Of the four children the eldest is Nina M., who is the wife of Jay S. Paisley, and whose four children are Mary Katherine, Margaret, Vance and Jane. Frederick E., of this review, was the next in order of birth. Miss Anna E. remains at the paternal home. John S., who entered in August, 1918, the nation's military service in connection with the World war, was in training at Camp Lee, Virginia, when he became one of the victims of the terrible influenza epidemic of that year, his death having occurred at that army camp on the 6th of October, 1918. Thomas W. Vance was born and reared in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and is a scion of a family whose name has been identified with American annals since the Colonial period in our national history. The first American representatives of the Vance family were three brothers, one of whom settled in Pennsylvania, one in Virginia and one in Tennessee, the ancestor of Thomas W. Vance having been the brother who thus early established his residence in the old Keystone State. Mr. Vance continued his residence in Pennsylvania until July, 1878, when he established his permanent home at Steubenville, Ohio. Here he gave his attention for a number of years to the buying and shipping of wool, and in 1890 he was elected county recorder, an office in which he served six years, 1891-97. During the ensuing ten years he was city water collector of Steubenville, and he passed the next four years as bookkeeper in the Union Deposit Bank. He then turned his attention to the real estate business, with which he continued his connection until he assumed his present position, that of chief deputy auditor of Jefferson County. In the Masonic fraternity his maximum York Rite affiliation is with the local Commandery of Knights Templars, and in the Scottish Rite he has received the thirty-second degree, besides which he is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is an earnest member of the Presbyterian Church, as was also his wife. His parents, John S. and Emily (Jerome) Vance, passed their entire lives in Pennsylvania. Frederick E. Vance attended the Steubenville public schools until his graduation from the high school as a member of the class of 1902, and for seven years thereafter he held the position of paymaster for the Aeme Glass Works. During the next three years he was associated with the Central Building Supply Company, and in 1912 he assumed the position of individual-account bookkeeper in the Union Bank, from which post he was advanced to that of secretary, a position that he has continued to retain since the reorganization of the institution in 1915 under the present title, the Union Savings Bank & Trust Company. Mr. Vance was loyal and liberal in the furthering of patriotic activities in Jefferson County during the period of American participation in the World war, and under registration for military service he was given assignment to class 4, with the result that he was not called into active service, owing to the armistice bringing the war to a close. He is a member of Steubenville Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, has membership in the River View Country Club, and he and his wife are members of Westminster Presbyterian Church. January 27, 1921, recorded the marriage of Mr. Vance and Miss Beatrice Barton, whose parents, William S. and Jane (Cope) Barton, still reside in Barton, Ohio, Mr. Barton being a skilled civil engineer and having done a large amount of important work in his profession, including surveying and other engineering service for the United States govern. ment. Of the other children of the Barton family it may here be recorded that Robert C. married Elfrieda Mohr; Blanche died in infancy; Jesse M. married Elizabeth Mittenger, and they have one child, Jesse M., Jr.; and Charles H. is still listed on the roster of eligible young bachelors in Barton, Ohio. Mr. and HISTORY OF OHIO - 427 Mrs. Vance find the attractions of their home greatly enhanced by the presence of their winsome daughter, Mary Jane. A personal sketch of Thomas W. Vance, father of the subject of this review, is given elsewhere in this publication. DR. HOMER B. WILLIAMS. In 1911 the first appropriation was made to the Ohio State Normal College at Bowling Green, and in the following year, when Dr. Homer B. Williams took charge, giving part-time service to the college, a snag of a peach tree stood on the ground now occupied by the main building. Since that time this institution has grown and developed remarkably and the greater part of its success must be accredited to the capable and energetic management and supervision of its president. Doctor Williams was born on his father 's farm at Mount Ephriam, Noble County, Ohio, October 16, 1865, and is a son of John Baldridge and Mary A. (Secrest) Williams, the latter belonging to an old and honored Virginia family. The Williams family originated in New England, whence early members moved to Washington County, Pennsylvania. The second Joe Williams, the great-uncle of Doctor Williams, was a well-known river man, and the old steamboat "Joe Williams" was named in his honor. The brother of Doctor Williams, Theodore C. Williams, went from college to LaPlata, Missouri, where he was superintendent of schools, being called then to Castleton, North Dakota, where he filled a like position until his death, aged thirty-four years. Doctor Williams' mother still survives, aged seventy-nine. John B. Williams was a son of Rev. Jonathan Williams, a pioneer minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. While he had few educational advantages, he was a close student, and was well informed on a wide range of subjects. From him Doctor Williams and his only brother received inspiration, as they did from the Bible and their mother, the latter being a great reader who can still render whole pages of McGuffey 's Fifth Reader word for word. The Williams family, as noted, were river people, and for a number of years operated on the Ohio River, having come to the Buckeye State with the second contingent of settlers from Pennsylvania. John B. Williams, however, gave his attention to agricultural pursuits, and although a quiet, modest man, took a deep interest in the' affairs of his community. He died at the age of sixty-six years, and is survived by his widow, who still retains the old home farm in Noble County, but makes her home with her only son. The early education of Homer B. Williams was acquired at home, following which he attended Ohio Northern University, Baldwin-Wallace College, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and Columbia University, Master of Arts. He later had conferred upon him honorary degrees by Ohio Northern University and Miami University. He was but fifteen years of age when he passed the teacher 's examination, and at seventeen was a teacher in the rural districts, continuing to be thus occupied from 1885 to 1888. He was then made superintendent of schools at Caldwell, remaining from 1888 to 1892, and his next post was at Kenton, continuing until 1894. During the next four years he was superintendent of the Cambridge schools and from 1898 to 1913, of the Sandusky schools. During 1913 and 1914 he attended Columbia University, and in May 1914, began to give all his time to his present position. Doctor Williams is a widely informed man, and, being a pleasing speaker, his voice is often heard from the lecture platform. His standing in his profession is high, and from 1904 to 1909 he was a member of the Ohio Board of School Examiners, in addition to which he has served as president of the Ohio Teachers' Association. Fraternally he holds membership in the Masonic Blue Lodge and Chapter of Bowling Green and the Council and Commandery at Sandusky. With his family he belongs to the Methodist Church. On June 12, 1890, Doctor -Williams married Cora Belle Brewer of Marion, Ohio, and to this union there were born four children : Lloyd B., a graduate of Ohio State University, now engaged in farming at Morral, Marion County; John L., a resident of Columbus, educated at Carnegie Tech and the motor school at Detroit, who was on the battle line in France during the World war as a member of the motor service; Elbert H., a graduate of Ohio State University, now employed by Swift & Company, Chicago ; and Mary E., who is taking a domestic science course in the Normal College. OWEN MORGAN PHILLIPS. The Youngstown Telegram is the permanent successor of a long lineage of newspaper publications at Youngstown, dating back more than seventy years. Under the name of the Telegram its history covers nearly forty years, and in this time the Telegram has kept pace with the rapid development of Youngstown into one of the largest and most important industrial cities of Ohio. For nearly thirty years Owen Morgan Phillips has been identified with the fortunes of the Telegram, and has served that newspaper in almost every capacity in the business department. He is now its vice president and business manager. Mr. Phillips was born at Hubbard, Ohio, July 24, 1880, son of Benjamin B. and Mary B. (Morgan) Phillips. His parents were born in Wales, and all his grandparents, David and Margaret (Edwards) Phillips, and David and Jane (Bowen) Morgan, came to Ohio and established homes at Hubbard in 1865. The grandfathers followed the occupation of farming. Benjamin B. Phillips was a salesman, and died in 1919, his wife passing away in 1918. Owen Morgan Phillips since the age of two years has lived at Youngstown. He attended the grammar schools, spent two years in the Rayen High School, and at the age of sixteen, in 1896, began his working service for the Youngstown Telegram. He was successively clerk, bookkeeper, assistant advertising manager, advertising manager, and for some years past has been business manager and also vice president of the publishing company. Mr. Phillips married, March 3, 1915, Miss Nell Cadwallader, daughter of Harry L. and Charlotte (Dowe) Cadwallader, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They have two children, Mary Jane and William Blaine Phillips. Mr. Phillips is a member of the Masonic Order, the Youngstown Club, and Youngstown Country Club. GROVER C. BUXTON is one of the younger members of Ohio's contingent of men who have carried out successful careers in the city of Chicago. He is one of the active members of the Ohio Society of Chicago, and is head of a prosperous business of that city. Mr. Buxton was born near Coshocton, in Coshocton County, April 3, 1885, son of Jacob W. and Allie B. (Fry) Buxton. Both parents represented Ohio families of pioneer stock. His grandfather was Washington Buxton. Mr. Buxton's uncle, the late Rev. Dr. E. 0. Buxton, who died in July, 1922, was one of the most distinguished figures in the Methodist ministry in Ohio. He was pastor of many prominent churches, at Cleveland, Cincinnati, Youngstown, and was pastor of the late President McKinley 's church at Canton, and preached the funeral service over the martyred president. This sermon was one of the most masterly efforts of the kind, and portions of it were published in nearly every large newspaper in the country. 428 - HISTORY OF OHIO Grover C. Buxton spent his early life on the home farm in Coshocton County. He attended public schools at Coshocton, and for five years was a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. He graduated with the class of 1911. He has kept up an active interest in his alma mater, and at the present time is secretary of the Alumni Association in Chicago of the Ohio Wesleyan University. This association comprises about 300 members. For two years after his university career Mr. Buxton traveled for the Townsend-Townsend Company of New York, marble and granite dealers. For several years he was with the firm Lewis E. Myers & Company of Valparaiso, Indiana, as division manager, and in 1921 he became president of the Buxton-Westerman Company of Chicago, a $100,000 corporation, extensive distributors of educational and religious specialties. The company has offices at 36 South State Street in Chicago, and it has become a pros- perous business under the skillful management and business acumen of Mr. Buxton. In addition to his membership in the Ohio Society of Chicago and the Ohio Wesleyan Alumni Association there, he is a member of the Chicago Rotary Club, the Hamilton Club, the Canadian Club, the Birchwood Country Club and is one of the directors of the Michicago Field Club. Mr. Buxton married in 1913 Ethel Marguerite Hoffman, of Delaware, Ohio, a classmate in college. A son, Grover C., Jr. was born December 13, 1918. On October 4, 1924, Mr. Buxton again married, the bride being Ida K. Ward, of Chicago. THOMAS STEWART BRUSH. One of the most prominent names in newspaper ownership and publication in Ohio today is that of Brush. Thomas Stewart Brush is actively associated with the newspaper business as general manager of the East Liverpool Review-Tribune, which paper is owned by his father, Louis H. Brush. Louis H. Brush is owner of an important group of Ohio newspapers. His name came into particular notice in 1923, when he and associates acquired the Marion Star, the paper formerly owned by President Harding. Louis H. Brush was born at Mount Union, Stark County, Ohio, in 1871. His father, Herbert Brush, was born at Alliance, in Stark County, in 1834, and spent his life in that community, where for many years he was a professor in Mount Union College. He died at Alliance in 1884. His wife, Amelia Brush, was born at Nelson Ledges, Ohio, in 1835, and is now living in venerable years at Canton. Louis H. Brush graduated from Mount Union College with the Bachelor of Arts degree, was married at Youngstown, and for many years has been a resident of Salem, Columbiana County. In 1895 he acquired the Salem News, his first successful newspaper enterprise. In 1901 he bought the Liverpool Review, acquired the East Liverpool Tribune in 1920, and in 1923 was associated with Roy D. Moore in the purchase of the Marion Star and the Marion Tribune. He is now president of the companies publishing all these papers. Louis H. Brush is an active republican, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a Knight Templar Mason, being a member of the Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine of Cleveland. He is vice president of the Ohio Mutual Insurance Company. In his earlier years he served as a first lieutenant in the Ohio National Guard. Louis H. Brush married Maude S. Stewart, who was born at Youngstown, in 1873. Their only child is Thomas Stewart Brush, who was born at Salem, in Columbiana County, July 12, 1896. He grew up in his native town, finishing his high school education there. He attended one of the most famous preparatory schools in the East, Phillips-Andover Academy, at Andover, Massachusetts, where he took the four year course and graduated in 1915. He followed this with two years in the University of Michigan, where he was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity. Mr. Brush in 1917 went to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and for one year was in the service of the Oklahoma Petroleum and Gasoline Company. In May, 1918, he enlisted, being sent to the Great Lakes Training Station, and in September, 1918, to Pelham Bay, New York, where he was assigned duty with the Naval Auxiliary Reserves. He held the rank of first class petty officer in the signal service. He received his honorable discharge at Cleveland, December 1, 1918, and immediately took the responsibilities of general manager of the Evening Review at East Liverpool, and since January 1, 1920, has been general manager of the combined papers. This is the leading paper of Columbiana County, republican in politics, and has an extensive circulation over Columbiana County and also across the river in Hancock County, West Virginia. The publishing plant and office is at 408 Washington Street. Mr. Brush is a republican, is a member of the East Liverpool Episcopal Church, the Salem Lodge of Masons, the East Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club. He owns a good home at 822 Orchard Grove Avenue, East Liverpool. Mr. Brush married at Newburyport, Massachusetts, June 26, 1920, Miss Katharine L. Ingham, daughter of Charles S. and Clara (Northrup) Ingham, residents of Newburyport. Her father, who has the degree Doctor of Philosophy, is principal of Dummer Academy of Newburyport, this being the oldest preparatory academy in the United States. Mrs. Brush is a graduate of the Centenary Collegiate Institute of Hackettstown, New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Brush have one son, Thomas S., Jr., born February 8, 1922. ALBERT MENGERINK is a member of the firm Mengerink Brothers, contractors and dealers in builders' supplies, the largest firm of its kind and doing the most extensive business in the City of Napoleon, Henry County. Mr. Mengerink was born on his father 's farm in Napoleon Township of Henry County, May 17, 1885, son of Engbert and Sarah (Crocker) Mengerink. His father was born in Holland, in 1846, was reared and educated there, and at the age of twenty-one he came to America and located at Cleveland, where he engaged in manual labor. At Cleveland he married Sarah Crocker, who was born in England and was brought to Cleveland by her parents. After their marriage they moved to Henry County and located on a farm in Napoleon Township, where they have spent their industrious lives and are now living retired. The mother is a member of the Evangelical Church and the father is an independent republican. They had five children: Alice, wife of David Snyder, of McClure, Ohio; Albert; Ernest, a farmer in Napoleon Township; Bertha, wife of Henry Travis, of Napoleon; and Edward, who is the junior member of the firm Mengerink Brothers, contractors. Albert Mengerink was reared on a farm, attended the district schools, and after leaving school worked at day wages on contract and public work. When he was twenty-four he began contracting for himself, and he and his brother started with 'a capital of less than $450. They have made a record of prompt. ness and efficiency in carrying out all their contracts, and their business has steadily grown until it now involves a large amount of invested capital, stock and equipment. Mr. Mengerink married Miss Bessie Musser, who died in 1919, survived by seven children: Hazel, Ruth, HISTORY OF OHIO - 429 James, Frances, Cecil, Myrtle and Carson. Subsequently Mr. Mengerink married Mamie Mumford, who was born in Pennsylvania. By her former marriage she has one son, Byron Mumford. Mr. Mengerink is a member of the Evangelical Church and is on the building committee handling the construction of a new parsonage for the church. He is affiliated with Napoleon Lodge of Masons, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Moose, and is a republican. His home is at 704 Washington Street in Napoleon. MISS KATHRYNE WESTFALL. In the various lines of activity in which women now engage—and there are few indeed from which they are excluded—perhaps one for which they are best equipped is that which has to do with stenographic work. In this field the fair sex seem to be superior to her supposedly stronger brother, and this particularly applies where the matter under consideration is that of court stenography. . In this connection mention may be made of the accurate and rapid work of Miss Kathryne Westfall, court stenographer of Carroll County, and a member of families of English origin which have been known and honored for many years in Ohio. Miss Westfall was born June 16, 1882, in Washington Township, Carroll County, and is a daughter of Levi and Elizabeth (Baxter) Westfall, and a granddaughter on her mother 's side of William and Catherine (Albaugh) Baxter, who came from Kentucky to Ohio at an early day. Her paternal grandfather was Levi Westfall, who married Sarah Cameron, and her great-grandfather was Capt. Levi West-fall, an officer of the Colonial army during the War of the Revolution. Her father, likewise named Levi Westfall, who still survives in Carroll County at the advanced age of eighty-eight years, has passed his life as a general farmer, and is now living in comfortable retirement, respected and esteemed by the people among whom he has resided. During the Civil war he was a member of Company A, Thirty-second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was captured by the enemy at Harper 'a Ferry, but was later exchanged. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the Methodist Episcopal Church. A grateful government pays him a pension for the services which he rendered during the long struggle between the North and the South. He and his worthy wife, who died in 1923, were the parents of seven children: William A., who married Matilda Werle and has four children, Gladys, Earl, Dorothy and Billie; Alva L., who married Myrtle Johnson and has one child, Elizabeth; Kathryne, of this review; Mark G., who married Josephine Davis ; Mary E. who mar- ried L. C. Moreland and has one child, Charles ; Samuel D., who married Mary Bumgartner and has one child, Thomas C.; and Lydia Ruth, who died at the age of three years. Kathryne Westfall attended the district school in the neighborhood of the home farm, following which she went to Mount Union and pursued a normal course. Her first employment was that of schoolteacher, which she followed for four years, but a career as an educator did not appeal to her and she therefore took a course in stenography and bookkeeping at Mount Union and Canton. This enabled her to secure a position with the Carrollton Pottery Company, in the general offices of which concern she spent seven years, this being followed by one and one-half years with another pottery company. Miss West-fall then had her first experience as court stenographer, holding this position two and one-half years, at the end of which time she became deputy auditor of Carroll County. After spending five years in this capacity, in December, 1923, she was again appointed court stenographer, by Judge McCoy, of the Court of Common Pleas, and this position she has since retained. Miss Westfall is an expert in her line, and her ability, faithful performance of duty and accuracy have been favorably commented upon on numerous occasions by court and counsel. Miss Westfall is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She belongs to the Eastern Star and to the White Shrine at Canton, in which she has numerous appreciative friends. A. C. CURTISS, a graduate in veterinary medicine, practiced his profession a number of years in his native state of Michigan, and then became a resident of Wauseon, Ohio, employed as a veterinary inspector by the United States Bureau of Animal Industry. He is now veterinary inspector for the City of Detroit, Michigan, where he has been since February 10, 1924. Doctor Curtiss was born in Michigan, June 15, 1884. He was reared on a farm in Grand Traverse County, acquired his early education in the public schools, and graduated in 1911 from the Grand Rapids Veterinary College with the degree Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. He practiced seven and one-half years in Michigan, and in October, 1918, became identified with the Bureau of Animal Industry as an inspector, and was located at Wauseon from October 23 of that year until he assumed his present office. He became well known and active in local citizenship in Fulton County. Doctor Curtiss married Miss Lillian Robb, who is a graduate of the public schools of Wauseon. He is a member of the United States Live Stock Association, the Michigan State Veterinary Association, and the American Veterinary Association. He and his wife are members of the first Christian Church at Wauseon. He is affiliated with Lodge No. 349 of the Masonic Order of Wauseon, the Knights of Pythias Lodge there, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Evart, Michigan. He is a past grand of the Rebekahs, and Mrs. Curtiss is a member of the Rebekahs and Pythian Sisters. In polities Doctor Curtiss votes as a republican. CLYDE WILLIAM OSBORNE. This is one of the prominent names in the legal profession and public affairs of Youngstown. Mr. Osborne practiced law with some of the leading law firms of the city, and is the present law director of Youngstown. He was born in Paris Township of Portage County, Ohio, September 18, 1881, son of Edwin L. and Elizabeth (Reese) Osborne, natives of the same township and county. The great-grandfather, Aaron Osborne, was one of the first white settlers in Mahoning County. The paternal grandparents were Amos and Hannah (Wynans) Osborne, both natives of Mahoning County, the former of Canfield Township and the latter of Milton Township. The maternal grandparents were Evan and Margaret (Jones) Reese, who were born in Wales. Evan Reese was a coal miner, while Amos Osborne was a farmer. Edwin L. Osborne spent his active career as a carpenter and farmer, and died in 1909. His widow now lives at Youngstown. They had four children: Clyde William; Marcus A., of Youngstown; Ruth, Mrs. William G. Lewis, of Youngstown; and Alice, Mrs. Samuel Mango, of Niles, Ohio. Clyde William Osborne was reared on a farm, attended district schools and had three years of study in the high school at Newton Falls. He graduated in 1905 from the school at Hubbard, Ohio, and for a time was principal of the commercial department of the Hall Business College. In the meantime he diligently pursued the study of law, and in December, 1906, was admitted to the bar. He began practice at Youngstown, and has been an honored member of 430 - HISTORY OF OHIO the bar there for eighteen years. For two !ears he was associated with David G. Jenkins, and upon the election of Mr. Jenkins in 1909 as city solicitor, Mr. Osborne was appointed first assistant solicitor. He resigned that office in February, 1911, to become associated with the prominent Youngstown law firm of Arrel, Wilson, Harrington & DeFord. Five years later the firm was reorganized under the name of Harrington, DeFord, Heim & Osborne. On January 1, 1920, Mr. Osborne retired from this firm to become associated with the law partnership of Anderson, Lamb and Osborne. From this he also retired on January 1, 1923, to become associated with the firm of Osborne, Armstrong & George. On January 1, 1924, he took the responsible post of law director of the City of Youngstown. Mr. Osborne married in 1902 Miss Jennie Jones, who was born at Hubbard, Ohio, in December, 1882, daughter of Edward H. and Sarah (Parry) Jones. Her parents were both born in Wales. Mr. and Mrs. Osborne have two daughters, Elizabeth, born September 4, 1905, and Mildred, born September 21, 1908. Mr. Osborne is a republican. He is junior steward in the Masonic Lodge, is a member of the Royal Arch Chapter and Council, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Lodge No. 55 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, St. David Society, and the Poland Country Club. HENRY J. PFEIFFER, manager of the Grand Opera House at Kenton, has become well known in his native city through varied activities in business, and for a number of years in the Kenton postoffice. Mr. Pfeiffer was born in Kenton, September 12, 1882, son of John H. and Alice J. Dickson Pfeiffer. His parents were both born in Hardin County, and his father died in June, 1907. There were six children: Henry J.; Frank B., who graduated from high school and is now a resident of Peoria, Illinois; Cleo, wife of J. M. McCoy, of Kansas City, Missouri; Carl F., who, had a high school education and married Odelia Dughman, of Kenton; Walter H., who is married and living in Chicago, and Eva Rachel. Henry J. Pfeiffer grew up in Kenton, graduated from high school, and for several years was an employee of the Kenton Hardware Company as shipping clerk, and later as foreman. For a time he conducted an electrical business, but sold out to become an employe of the Kenton postoffice, and was in the postal service for ten years. Since leaving the post-office he has been giving his time to the theatrical business as manager of the Grand Opera House, and also has other business interests in that city. Mr. Pfeiffer married Miss Mabel Russell, daughter of Adam Russell, and graduate of the Kenton High School. They have two children, John H., who graduated from high school and is now in his second year in Ohio State University, and Pauline, in the junior year of high school. His family are members of the German Lutheran Church, and Mr. Pfeiffer is Sunday School treasurer. He is a republican, and is affiliated with Lachan Lodge No. 154 of the Masonic Order. JOHN WOOD, of Georgetown, Brown County, is the namesake of his father, the late John Wood, founder of the John Wood Insurance Agency, a business that has been in continuous existence and increasing prosperity for more than forty years. John Wood, Sr., was a man of exceptional prominence in Brown County, not only in a business way, but as a public official. For two terms he held the office of county sheriff. He married Louise Noel, now deceased. Their son, John Wood, was born at St. Martins, Brown County, Ohio, July 27, 1884. His early advantages were liberal, and he attended public schools, graduating from the Georgetown High School in 1900, and during 1905-06-07 attended Miami University. The death of his father in 1908 called him home to take charge of the insurance agency and he has been the active manager ever since and is sole owner. Before he went to college and while he was still attending public schools he was associated and became familiar with the insurance business under his father, and that has been the chief scope of his activity and experience ever since. He handles a general insurance and surety bond business, and represents among other companies the Aetna of Hartford, Connecticut. Mr. Wood is an active democrat, served several years as chairman of the County Central Committee and was a delegate to the national convention at New York in 1924. Mr. Wood is a member of the Catholic Church, and is unmarried. ALVIN C. MITCHEL is prominently known in Southern Ohio as a newspaper man and editor, and particularly as editor and publisher of the Georgetown Gazette, the official paper of the republican party in Brown County. Mr. Mitchel was born near Manchester, Adams County, Ohio, March 25, 1890, son of Martin and Audra (Everton) Mitchel. His parents are substantial farming people in the southern part of the state. His grandfather Everton served four years with the Seventieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and his grandfather Mitchel was with the One Hundred Eighty-second Ohio Volunteers on the Union side in the Civil war. Alvin C. Mitchel attended public schools in Adams County, including the Manchester High School, and taught in his native county during the years 190910-11. His apprenticeship at the printing trade was served in the office of the Manchester Signal, a paper with which he was connected for seven years. In 1918 he became editor and manager of the Adams County Record, and from that in the spring of 1920 removed to Blanchester and was associated in business with Lieutenant Governor Clarence J. Brown until May, 1922. At that date he took the editorial chair of the Milford Record, and on January 1, 1923, became owner and editor of the Georgetown Gazette. The Georgetown Gazette is one of the old and influential papers of Southern Ohio, having been founded in 1878, and being now in its forty-sixth year. There was practically no interruption to its regular publication until the summer of 1922, when the property was sold to 0. C. Young and L. B. Pabst, who after an intermission of several months started its republication in November, 1922. A little later Mr. Mitchel bought it and became its editor and owner on January 1, 1923. Mr. Mitchel is himself a staunch republican. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for several years taught a class in the Methodist Protestant Church at Manchester. He married Miss Minnie Bowman at Manchester, May 11, 1911. Her parents were Joseph and Jane (Jenkins) Bowman, both now deceased. Her father was a farmer. Mrs. Mitchel is the youngest in a family of twelve children. The two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchel are Audra Jane, born in 1914, and Mary Catherine, born in 1917. EDWARD C. KUNTZ is an efficient and popular local railroad official at Leipsic, Putnam County, where he is joint station agent for the Baltimore & Ohio and the New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate) railroads at Leipsic Junction. Mr. Kuntz was born at Leipsic, his present home town, and the date of his nativity was July 25, 1883. He is a son of Lewis W. and Emma (Wine- HISTORY OF OHIO - 431 land) Kuntz, the former of whom passed his entire life in the Leipsic district of Putnam County, and the latter of whom was born at Van Buren, Hancock County, this state. Lewis W. Kuntz was reared and educated at Leipsie, and at the time of his death was one of the successful merchants in this attractive little city, where he was engaged in the general merchandise business. He was a republican, served as a member of the Village Council, and he also held various other local offices of minor order. He was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and was a past chancellor of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias at the time .of his death, besides having served as lieutenant in the Uniformed Rank body of this fraternity. He is survived by his wife and their five children, of whom the subject of this review is the only son. Edward C. Kuntz is indebted to the public schools of Leipsic for his early education, which included the curriculum of the high school, and after leaving school he was employed two years in his father 's store. He then initiated, in the capacity of car checker, his association with railroad operations, and the best evidence of his fidelity and the efficiency of his service is that afforded in his gradual advancement to the present important and responsible position. He has been in railway service since the year 1904. Mr. Kuntz is a republican in his political proclivities, he and his family hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Leipsic, and in the time-honored Masonic fraternity he is a past master of Leipsic Lodge No. 548, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, besides being affiliated also with Ottawa Chapter No. 115, Royal Arch Masons, and Putnam Council No. 69, Royal and Select Masons. He is a stockholder in the Leipsic Banking Company. In August, 1907, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Kuntz and Miss •Bessie Sherard, who was born in Blanchard Township, Putnam County, and who is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. Mr. and Mrs. Kuntz have two sons, William E., who was born in the year 1917, and James Eugene, who was born in 1919. JOHN G. BELKNAP, judge of the Probate Court of Jefferson County, is a member of recognized attainments in his profession and in civic affairs, and in his career he has brought honor upon one of the oldest family names in Eastern Ohio. Judge Belknap was born at Sherrodsville, in Carroll County, Ohio; August 3, 1883, son of James L. and Elsie (Barrick) Belknap and grandson of Austin and Mary Ann (Roby) Belknap. His great-grandfather Belknap was one of the earliest settlers in Jefferson County, coming overland from Massachusetts with wagon and team about 1794. Belknap is an old and conspicuous name in American history, and some of the family were in the War of the Revolution. Austin Belknap during the Civil war was engaged in recruiting work. James L. Belknap, who died in 1923, was a farmer and stock raiser, and very much interested in the affairs of his home community, holding some local offices. He was an official member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Perhaps his dominant characteristic was his great devotion to his family. His wife, Elsie Barrack, who is still living, is a daughter of Henry and Mary (Eick) Barrack, who were prominent people in the Sherrodsville community. The Barricks came from Vermont, about 1803. Henry Barrick was a farmer and banker, a very prominent man in his section. Judge John G. Belknap, only child of his parents, grew up at Sherrodsville, where he attended grammar and high schools, and continued his higher education in old Selo College, where he graduated Bachelor of Science in 1904. He studied law at Ohio Northern University at Ada while present United States Senator Frank Willis was instructor in the law department. Judge Belknap has ever since been a warm friend and admirer of this Ohio statesman. He graduated in law in 1908 and in the same year engaged in general practice at Steubenville. In the fall of 1912. came his first election to the office of judge of probate, and he is now serving his third consecutive term in that office. Judge Belknap married, October 4, 1911, Miss Bessie Pletcher, of Stubenville, daughter of Harvey and Ada H. (Cloman) Pletcher, being the only child of these parents. Mrs. Belknap is a talented musician, a graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and at present the soprano soloist at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Steubenville. Her father, who died several years ago, was a specialty salesman, and a very active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, serving on the Official Board and in the Sunday School. Mrs. Belknap's maternal uncle, Col. Sidney Cloman, of the United States Army, earned many distinctions as a military man. He was for some years in the diplomatic service of the United States, being at the Court of St. James and in other foreign countries. Soon after the close of the Spanish-American war, in which he participated, he was sent to the Taw Taw Island, about the extreme island of the Philippine group, commanding American soldiers in subduing the natives of that island. These Islanders were about the only pirates left at the time. Colonel Cloman was engaged in this dangerous task about three years before he finally got the islanders under full control. He has since written a book, "Myself and the Moros," published by Doubleday, Page and Company. Judge and Mrs. Belknap have one daughter, Elsie Louise, born in 1915. He is on the Official Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church, belongs to the County, State and American Bar associations, and is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Elks, Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Judge Belknap is a former president of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce, and now one of its directors. He belongs to the Rotary Club, plays golf at the Country Club and has a number of substantial business connections, being a director in the Vulcan Coal Company of Ohio, a director in the Swiss By Product Company of West Virginia, and a director in the Union Savings Bank and Trust Company. JOHN A. WILLO is one of Youngstown's prominent younger attorneys, a man of brilliant talent and exceptional education and scholarship, and has made a forceful record as a lawyer and citizen. He was born at Youngstown March 25, 1890, son of Michael and Lena (Roth) Willo. His parents were born in Czeeho-Slovakia and became residents of Youngstown in 1883. Michael Willo is a well known financier, being president of the Youngstown State Bank. John A. Willo began his education in St. Joseph Parochial Schools, took his preparatory course in the Canisius Academy at Buffalo, New York, then continued in Holy Cross College at Worcester, Massachusetts, and in 1912 graduated in the classical course with the Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgetown University, near Washington. He studied law in Columbia University at New York City, graduating Bachelor of Laws in June, 1914. Mr. Willo engaged in the practice of law at Youngstown in August, 1914, and in ten years has made a substantial reputation. In addition to a general practice he is a director of the Youngstown State Bank, of the Youngstown Savings & Loan Company and the Mutual Mortgage Company. 432 - HISTORY OF OHIO On April 11, 1912, he married Miss Veronica DorothyO'Brien, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, daughter of Daniel and Joanna (Lynch) O'Brien. Her parents were born at Beacon, near Boston. Mr. Willo is a member of Sts. Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church. He was one of the founders and the first dean of the Delta Theta Phi fraternity in his law school, this being the general law fraternity of which Chief Justice White, Chief Justice Taft and President Coolidge are members. He is honorary president of the Slova-American political .federation of the Mahoning Valley and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. HOMER. C. COOK is proprietor of the H. C. Cook Printing and Binding Company at Steubenville, the largest and best equipped commercial printing establishment in Eastern Ohio. Mr. Cook has been one of the busy and influential men of Steubenville for many years, and is a son of the late. John M. Cook, one of Eastern Ohio 's most distinguished lawyers and jurists. John M. Cook was born in Nottinghamshire, England, March 6, 1843, son of DaVid and Margaret Cook, who on coming to the United States first lived at Burlington, New Jersey, where Margaret Cook died when her son John M. was about ten years of age. The father then moved his family to Allegheny, Pennsylvania. About that, time John M. Cook went to work for a Mr. Gallagher in a shipping and warehousing company. He made himself so proficient that he was given entire charge of the business. In addition he utilized his spare time to prepare himself for a broader career, studying and reading preparatory to the profession of the law. In January, 1869, he went to Cleveland, having been admitted to the bar in 1868. In the spring of 1869 he opened a law office at East Liverpool, Ohio, and in the fall of 1872 became associated in practice with General Riley at Steubenville. Later he was a partner of J. H. S. Trainer. A republican, he was elected prosecuting attorney in 1880, holding the office two terms, after which he refused further political honors in order that he might devote his time to his extensive private practice. In many respects he was the ablest attorney of Eastern Ohio, and had exceptional powers as a speaker, possessing a wonderful vocabu- lary and unsurpassed eloquence. In the later years of his life he accepted the office of judge of the Circuit Court of the Seventh Judicial District of Ohio, and was still serving on the bench when his death occurred July 10, 1910, at the age of sixty-seven. Special memorial services in commemoration of his career were held by the Bench and Bar of the state. Judge Cook married Elizabeth Little, who died September 10, 1919. She was a daughter of James S. and Mary S. Little. Of the three children of Judge and Mrs. Cook, Homer C. is the oldest. The two daughters are Miss Mary G. and Ida. Ida married W. H. Nider, and her two children are Elizabeth and Mary Kale. Homer C. Cook was born at Steubenville, November 11, 1875. He attended public schools there, graduating from high school June 21, 1894. He was next sent to a private preparatory school in Philadelphia, and had one year in Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania. On leaving college Mr. Cook became a bookkeeper with the Union Deposit Bank of Steubenville, now the Union Savings and Trust Bank. He went with this bank in June, 1897, and remained in its service for eight years, being promoted to the position of teller. Mr. Cook in 1905 bought the business of the Carnahan Printing Company, which had been established thirty years before, in 1875. He changed the name to the H. C. Cook Printing and Binding Company, and is sole owner of this splendid business. There is no concern of its kind east of Columbus better equipped and doing a larger general commercial printing business. Mr. Cook has given liberally of his time to the promotion of the causes identified with the city 's advancement and welfare. During the World war he was captain of one of the War Board teams. Steubenville and Jefferson County had the most perfect auxiliary war organization in the State of Ohio. This War Board handled every problem and matter affecting the relation between the community and the general government. The board had an active membership of 743 selected men, divided into teams, each one with a captain in charge, so that all localities of the county were thoroughly covered. The organization was so systematized that immediate action could be had on every matter requiring it. The board handled the campaigns for the sale of the Liberty and Victory Loan Bonds, and it never required more than two days to put every drive over. Mr. Cook is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and belongs to the Elks, the college fraternity Delta Tau Delta, is a member of the Rotary Club, the Country Club, is president of the Steubenville Tennis Association, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. His church is the Westminster Presbyterian. On October 24, 1899, at Steubenville, he married Miss Margaret C. Hagan, daughter of Jonathan and Margaret (Halstead) Hagan. Her mother died in April, 1922, and her father died in 1890. He was an active official member of the Methodist Church, and a Knight Templar And thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. Mrs. Cook was one of six children. Her brother Calvin H. married Mary Barrick and lives in Seattle, Washington. Her brother W. E. and her sister Mary are deceased. Frances is the wife of Charles F. Widner, and their children are Beatrice and Mrs. Arthur Sidden. Miss Helen Hagan is social reporter for the Steubenville Harold-Star. John Marshall Cook, oldest child of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Cook, was a youth of singular great promise and talent. He died May 8, 1921, at the age of nineteen, and when within thirty days of the date of graduation from the Mercersburg Preparatory School at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. He had a splendid record in all the schools he attended, in the scholastic as well as in other activities. He was captain of the tennis team, an all around athlete, had been chosen speaker for the commencement program and was a member of the honor roll. The members of his class have since his death erected a memorial fountain on the campus. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cook is Margaret Halstead, now attending school at Birmingham, Penn- sylvania, and preparing for Smith College in Massa- chusetts. The son, Homer Calvin, is in the Choates School in Connecticut, and is the focal golf champion at Steubenville, having carried off the honors at the Country Club Tournament in 1923. GEORGE AUSTIN FERGUSON, M. D., is one of the loyal and representative physicians and surgeons of the younger generation in Jefferson County, and is established in successful general practice in the fine little City of Toronto, where he has maintained his home since 1914. The Doctor was in oversees service as a member of the Medical Corps of the United States Army in the World war. Doctor Ferguson claims the old Green Mountain State as the place of his nativity and is a representative of sterling old Colonial families of New England, the Ferguson family, of Scotch lineage, having been HISTORY OF OHIO - 433 established in Vermont for many generations, and the ancestral lines of the Doctor touch also the How and Dustin families of New England. He is thus-eligible for membership in the Dustin Society of Massachusetts, which specially honors the name and memory of Hannah Dustin, who won fame in connection with the War of the Revolution. The paternal grandfather of Doctor Ferguson was George Ferguson and the maternal grandfather was Austin Howe. Doctor Ferguson was born at Lindenville, Vermont, July 13, 1890, and there his parents, George Frank and Dora (Howe) Ferguson, still maintain their home, the father being a detective in the service of the Boston & Maine Railroad. George F. Ferguson is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife hold membership in the Universalist Church. In the high school of his native town Doctor Ferguson was graduated as a member of the class of 1908, and in preparation for his chosen profession he entered the medical department of the University of Vermont, at Burlington. In this institution he was graduated in 1912, and after thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was able to gain *valuable clinical experience in one year of service as an interne in the William Backus Hospital at Norwich, Connecticut. In 1914 he came to Ohio and established his permanent residence at Toronto, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession save for the period of his World war service. Prior to the nation's formal entrance into the World war Doctor Ferguson had become a member of the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army, and in July, 1917, he was called into active service. At Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, he remained six weeks, with commission as first lieutenant in the Medical Corps, and while stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, he gained his commission as captain. He remained at the latter camp eight months, and was then transferred to Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, and assigned to service as surgeon of the Three Hundred and Ninth Field Signal Battalion, attached to the Eighty-fourth Division of the United States Army. With this command he sailed from Hoboken, New Jersey, in September, 1918, and first landed in Glasgow, Scotland, whence he proceeded with his command to Southampton and thence across the channel to Cherbourg, France. There a division of the Eighty-fourth Division was effected, and the doctor was sent to the base camp hospital at the headquarters of General Leggett, at Bar-sur-Aube, one of the ancient towns of France. The doctor was made chief of staff and remained with Camp Hospital No. 42 during his entire period of service oversees, he having entered service with this unit before the voyage to the stage of conflict, and having returned with the same to the United States, the command having left Versailles in the latter part of May, 1919, and having in due course landed in the port of New York City, whence it was sent to Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa, where its members were mustered out in June of that year. Doctor Ferguson was constantly on the alert in caring for wounded and ill soldiers during the entire period of his service abroad, and while his executive duties as chief of staff kept him much of the time at headquarters, he was always prepared to make prompt response when called to other points of service. He has continued as a member of the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army since his retirement from active duty. Upon the close of his service in connection with the great world conflict Doctor Ferguson returned to Toronto, and here he has since continued in the active practice of his profession, with secure place in the confidence and esteem of the community. At Burlington, Vermont, on the 5th of November, 1913, Doctor Ferguson was united in marriage with Miss Agnes McMahon, daughter of Dr. Henry P. and Catherine (Shanley) McMahon, the former of whom died in 1911 and the latter was killed in an automobile accident in the City of Chicago, Illinois, in 1923. The other two children of the McMahon family are George, who married Miss Bertha T. Tenis, of Chicago, and Alice, who is the wife of John Whelan, their four children being Marion, Leonard, John, Jr., and Arthur. Doctor and Mrs. Ferguson have no children. WILLIAM LOUIS HITCHCOCK, a past master of the fire brick industry, is the executive head of The Portsmouth Refractories Company, Portsmouth, Ohio. His home has been in Southern Ohio since early boyhood. He was born at Muscatine, Iowa, December 12, 1866, son of Charles and Alma (Lee) Hitchcock. When he was seven years of age his father died, and the widowed mother soon afterward brought her family to Sciotoville, Ohio. There William L. Hitchcock grew up, attending the common schools and was only twelve years of age when necessity forced him into a money earning occupation. At that time he began employment in the fire brick works at Sciotoville. Experience gave him acquaintance with and mastery of all the processes of fire brick manufacture. He served in every capacity from cleanup worker to superintendent of three yards, the Sciotoville Fire Brick Compdny, the Webster Fire Brick Company and the Blast Furnace Tire Brick Company. By the age of thirty-six he was a recognized master of the industry. His knowledge extends from the mines and the pits where the crude clay is obtained to the executive and business offices where the finished product is sold. His has been a routine of hard work, marked by conspicuous generalship and executive capacity. Mr. William L. Hitchcock, as president of The Portsmouth Refractories Company, is head of one of the largest fire brick plants in the entire country, and much of its growth and development has been due to his superior sagacity and business ability. In 1885 Mr. Hitchcock married Miss Lily Purdy, and they have had a most happy married companionship of forty years, during which time six children have been born to their union, namely, Mrs. W. S. Hamilton, Lompoc, California ; Mr. Morris K. Hitchcock, Portsmouth, Ohio ; Mr. W. B. Hitchcock, Portsmouth, Ohio ; Mr. L. L. Hitchcock, Portsmouth, Ohio ; Mrs. Walter Head, Portsmouth, Ohio, and William L. Hitchcock, Jr., at home. He is a Knight Templar and has affiliations with the Portsmouth Country Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Bigelow Methodist Church. Both are active in church and participate in the club and social life of their community. Their son, W. Ben Hitchcock, one of the prominent younger business men of Portsmouth and a valued assistant executive to his father in the brick industry, was born at Sciotoville, May 18, 1891. He acquired his early education in the public schools of Portsmouth and attending the Portsmouth High School. Already he has shown much interest in his father 's business, had spent some vacation time in practical work at the yards and in the offices, and after high school enrolled himself regularly in the school of experience to master every phase of the business in the same way his father had done. He went into the clay mines with pick, spade and shovel, and has mastered every successive phase of the requirements in brick manufacture, including the right clay, freedom from objectionable substitutes, suitable moisture, handling at all stages, moulding is the yard, burning or firing with the right heat, heat. and surroundings for the proper length of time, successful cooling to avoid 434 - HISTORY OF OHIO chips and cracks. Much of the clay used by the companies comes from underground mines or open pits in the states of Kentucky and Ohio. Mr. W. Ben Hitchcock is an active executive under his father in the ownership and operations of The Portsmouth Refractories Company. He is a Knights Templar and Shriner, and has affiliations with the Portsmouth Country Club, the Exchange Club of Portsmouth, the Chamber of Commerce and the Second Presbyterian .Church. Mr. Hitchcock married August 29, 1916, at Portsmouth, Miss Jessie Lee Mueller; of Henderson, Kentucky, daughter of George R. and Pauline (Swope) Mueller. HOWARD M. SIMS. A young Columbus man whose early career gives promise .of achievement that will rank him as one of the ablest men in American finance is Howard M. Sims, now chief national bank examiner of the Federal Reserve District No. 7, with headquarters at Chicago. Mr. Sims was born at Columbus, in 1890, son of Nelson and Isaqueena (Halm) Sims. His paternal grandparents were Simeon and Susannah (Seagrave) Sims, early residents of Muskingum County, Ohio. Nelson Sims was born in Muskingum County, in 1846, and has been a resident of Columbus since 1862. For thirty-five years he was one of the city's shoe merchants, and from 1899 to 1903 he held the office of county treasurer of Franklin County. He has been active in the republican party, and for many years was a member of the Ohio State Agricultural Society, which held the state fairs in Columbus. His home is at 805 East Broad Street, Columbus. Howard M. Sims was liberally educated, attending the grammar and high schools of Columbus and the Ohio State University. As a boy his mind was set on banking as a career, and throughout his university course he was using his opportunities to prepare and train him for his chosen career. After finishing his education he gained his fundamental experience with the City National Bank of Columbus, beginning as messenger. He left the City National to become a state bank examiner of Ohio, and in 1921, under the Governor Davis administration, was made assistant superintendent of banks. The national comptroller of the currency, D. R. Crissinger, selected Mr. Sims, after he had been assistant superintendent of Ohio banks for six months, as chief national bank examiner for the Federal Reserve District No. 9. He held that office for eighteen months, his headquarters being at Minneapolis and his work was among the banks of the northwestern states. On February 1, 1923, he was transferred to Chicago as chief national bank examiner for Federal Reserve District No. 7, including the states of Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana. Mr. Sims' Chicago offices are in the Federal Reserve Bank Building. THOMAS JEFFERSON HOLMES. The bond of fellowship based primarily upon nativity in Ohio is particularly strong in the Ohio Society of Chicago, one of the most flourishing organizations of its kind. Among the native Ohio sons who have found their destinies and their working careers in Chicago is Thomas Jefferson Holmes, who has been an active member of the Ohio Society of Chicago there since its inception. He has been a resident of Chicago forty years, and has earned many of the distinctions given to able members of the legal profession. Mr. Holmes at the annual meeting of the Ohio Society of Chicago in December, 1923, was honored by being elected president. Of the various state societies represented in Chicago the Ohio is probably without rival. in effective loyalty to and representation of the native state. Its membership includes a large number of prominent Chicago men. The society is not merely a club, but it is carrying out systematically a program of definite achievement. It was under Mr. Holmes' leadership that a great memorial meeting for the late President Harding was held in Medinah Temple, the use of this temple for this purpose having been obtained through Mr. Holmes ' personal influence with the officials of the Shrine. At this meeting a fund was raised and contributed to the Harding Memorial Project. During Mr. Holmes ' administration work of every branch of the society was vigorously prosecuted, and the society is now at one of the most prosperous and interesting periods of its career. Many new members have been added within the past year. Thomas Jefferson Holmes was born at West Union, in Adams County, Ohio, in 1860, son of John and Elizabeth (Traber) Holmes. This is one of the oldest families in Southern Ohio, the ancestors of Mr. Holmes having located in Adams County about the year 1798. Some members of the family have lived there ever since. In 1869 John Holmes moved with his family to Mercer County, Illinois, near Aledo. From the age of nine Thomas J. Holmes spent his boyhood and youth in that Illinois community, attending the local schools. He finished his literary education at the University of Illinois, where he was a student from 1880 to 1882. Going to Chicago, he entered the Union College of Law, now the Law School of Northwestern University, and was graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1885. Since his admission to the bar he has practised in Chicago, and for many years has enjoyed a high position at the Chicago bar. He has served as treasurer of the Chicago Bar Association and president of the Chicago Law Institute. He was assistant corporation counsel of the City of Chicago in 1895-97 and Master in Chancery in the Circuit Court of Cook County from 1903 to 1905. One of his hobbies has been good citizenship, and he has made many addresses on this subject as well as having contributed articles for various publications. He is a member of the Hamilton Club and the Flossmoor Country Club, and is a republican. He is a Knight Templar in the York Rite and a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, being a life member of both the Council and the Commandery, and belongs to the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Holmes married Miss Grace Blood, of Henry, Illinois, January 12, 1892. The three children born of their marriage were Devoe, Thomas J., Jr. and Grace G. Miss Grace is a student in the University of Chicago. The daughter Devoe married Harold Willard, of Baltimore, son of Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Willard are both deceased and left two children. The grandchildren of Mr. Holmes reside with Daniel Willard in Baltimore. The son, Thomas J., is a lieutenant of the Twelfth United States Field Artillery at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, having graduated from West Point Military Academy in June, 1924. CAREY W. RHODES. A native Ohioan, reared and educated in this state, Carey W. Rhodes soon after his admission to the bar moved to Chicago, where for over a quarter of a century he has been associated with the work of a law firm that probably represents the widest range of distinctive legal talent in the Middle West. He is one of the prominent members of the Ohio Society of Chicago. Mr. Rhodes was born near West Union, Adams County, Ohio, September 3, 1869, and his parents, Eli F. and Martha Jane (Mahaffey) Rhodes, were also born in this state. Carey W. Rhodes as a boy determined to qualify for a professional career. Beyond the common schools he had to depend upon HISTORY OF OHIO - 435 himself for the opportunities of a higher education. He attended the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and the Ohio Northern University at Ada, his higher education being accomplished during the intervals of school teaching. He also attended Ohio State University at Columbus. He taught school for a time in Fayette County, and read law at the county seat, Washington Court House, where he was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1896. Two weeks later in the same year, a plain Buckeye youth, he went to Chicago and began service as a law clerk in the law firm with which he has been identified ever since. In Chicago he completed his legal education by graduating from the Kent Law School of that city. The law firm of which he has been for some years an associate member is that of Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt. This firm or its individual members and former eminent members have for thirty years or more been retained as counsel in a large part of the noteworthy causes in Chicago courts, and as corporation lawyers they represent a large number of industrial, transportation and other large business organizations. The work of Mr. Rhodes has been largely taken up with corporation law and the settlement of large estates. In the course of this work he has visited nearly every state in the Union. His individual efforts and marked talent have brought him a place of real prominence at the bar of a great city. Besides being one of the most enthusiastic members of the Ohio Society of Chicago, Mr. Rhodes is a member of the Hamilton Club, is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Edgewater Golf Club. He married Miss Nellie L. Robbins, of Greenfield, Ohio. His offices are at 208 South La Salle Street, Chicago. EDGAR J. BROOKHART. In the attractive little City of Celina, the judicial center of Mercer County, are established two substantial and well ordered insurance corporations that have contributed definitely to the prestige of Ohio in this special and important field of business enterprise. Of each of these corporations, the National Mutual Insurance Company and the Celina Mutual Casualty Company, Edgar J. Brookhart is the efficient secretary, and his progressive administration in this connection has been potent in the development of the business of each of the companies. Mr. Brookhart, who is a lawyer by profession but whose time is now largely demanded by his executive duties as secretary of the two insurance corporations, was born and reared in Mercer County, the date of his nativity having been August 8, 1881, and he is a son of Jacob C. and Sarah M. (Upton) Brookhart. He was graduated from the high school at Mendon, this county, and thereafter completed a course in the law department of Ohio Northern University at Ada, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1903. After thus receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws he was admitted to the bar of his native state and engaged in the practice of law at Celina. He made a record of successful professional achievement, and also served, for some time as referee in bankruptcy. In 1914 Mr. Brookhart directed his energies to the organizing of the National Mutual Insurance Company, of which he has since continued the secretary, and in February, 1920, he organized also the Celina Mutual Casualty Company, of which likewise he is the secretary. The National Mutual Insurance Company, offering fire insurance indemnity along general lines, was organized September 24, 1914, and has had a " safe, sound and steady growth." Its total admitted cash assets, as shown in its eighteenth semi-annual statement, December 31, 1923, are $347,638.64, and its total liabilities are given as $220,215.19. The company carries full legal reserves, and its record has been one of splendid growth. The personnel of the official corps of this company is as here designated : O. F. Rentzsch, president ; A. W. Parsons, vice president; D. M. Brookhart, treasurer ; and E. J. Brookhart, secretary. The directorate includes these officers and one other member, Charles Montgomery, assistant secretary and treasurer. The Celina Mutual Casualty Company, whose functions include full insurance coverage on automobiles, was organized February 23, 1920, and this corporation likewise has demonstrated in its service its worthiness as touching public support, with the result that its already substantial business shows a constantly cumulative tendency. Its statement of December 31, 1923, gives its total admitted cash assets as $152,699.53, and its net cash surplus as $11,833.77. The executive officers of the company are the same as those of the National Mutual Insurance Company, but F. U. Brookhart is the one other member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Brookhart represents his companies as a member of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, the Federation of Mutual Fire Insurance Companies, and the National Association of Mutual Automotive Insurance Companies. Of the last named association Mr. Brookhart was the organizer and the first president. In the time-honored Masonic fraternity Mr. Brook-hart has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, besides being a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and in his connection with the great fraternity he is serving (1924) as district lecturer of the Fourth Ohio District. He is vice president of the Kiwanis Club of Celina, is a member and national councilor of the United States Chamber of Commerce, is secretary of the Board of Trustees of Ohio Northern University, is an active member of the North Shore Golf Club, and at Celina he and his wife are members of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Brookhart, a popular leader in social and cultural circles in her home community, took both classical and musical courses in Ohio Northern University, and in Celina she has membership in the Alturian Club, the Community Club and the 1914 Club. December 25, 1902, recorded the marriage of Mr. Brookhart and Miss Dora Montgomery, daughter of Dr. West Montgomery, a leading physician and surgeon at Ada, Ohio. EDWIN DELOS WEARY. While the ties of birthplace and native state are strong upon most men, the fact of having been born in Ohio is a distinction seldom lost sight of by any who can claim that honor. While he was born in Ohio and gained the early training in the line of business in which he has since become prominent in his native city, Edwin Delos Weary has achieved his greatest success during the forty years he has been a resident of Chicago. Mr. Weary is one of the former presidents of the Ohio Society of Chicago. He was born in Akron, December 25, 1855, son of Simon B. and Eliza (Frank) Weary. He acquired a public school education in his native city and attended a technical school in Cleveland, and as a youth he went to work in the woodworking mill of Weary, Snyder & Wilcox Manufacturing Company at Akron. The head of this business was his father, Simon B. Weary. Mr. Weary 's first employment was carrying shavings, and subsequently he was employed in all branches and in every department, and by the time he was twenty-one was general foreman of the works. In 1876 he went West, and for several years was connected with the Hallack & Howard Com- 436 - HISTORY OF OHIO pany in Denver, and in 1882 became a resident of Chicago. In Chicago he was made designer for A. H. Andrews & Company, office and school furniture manufacturers. Subsequently he was promoted to manager of the cabinet department of that company, but in 1892 resigned and began the business of which he is now, president, Weary & Alford Company, architects and constructors of bank buildings. He has achieved well deserved fame as a designer and contractor of fine interiors, and the firm of Weary & Alford Company is now reputed to be the largest in America devoted exclusively to designing, building and equipping the finer bank structures. Mr. Weary in addition to his duties as president and treasurer of Weary & Alford Company is president of the Athey Company, metal weather strip manufacturers, senior member of Weary & Beck, tile and mosaic contractors, and has served as president of the National Weather Strip Manufacturers' Association. He was one of the original members of the Ohio Society of Chicago, and •was elected president of that society in 1916. Mr. Weary has found one of his diversions in writing and composing poetry. A number of his poems have been set to music and several of them are included in the song book used by the Ohio Society of Chicago. One of them, entitled "Ohio," has been set to music by D. D. Lash and adopted as the official song of the society. Mr. Weary has also written a number of articles for trade journals and magazines on technical and constructional subjects in his chosen field. Mr. Weary is a member of the famous Chicago Club known as "The Bugs," of which he is a past "Big Bug." The membership of this club is limited to 100, and is composed of active Chicago business and professional men. Its social functions are decidedly of a Bohemian nature and are often enlivened by costuming and picturesque burlesque. Mr. Weary is also a member of the Union League, South Shore Country, Midlothian Country and Chicago Motor clubs of Chicago, Chicago Athletic Association, the Denver Club of Denver, the Family Club of San Francisco and Los Angeles Athletic Club. On May 20, 1885, he married Miss Zella Redman, of Wooster, Ohio. They have three children, Edwin Frank, Leslie Albert and Rollin Delos. Mr. Weary and family reside at 5620 Blackstone Avenue, and his offices are at 1923 Calumet Avenue in Chicago. WILLIAM S. BUNDY. A younger representative of a family that has been one of distinction in Ohio public affairs for several generations, William S. Bundy qualified for the law about the time America entered the war, served with the Navy during that period, and then took up private practice. He is a resident of Columbus, where he is performing his duties as a member of the Ohio Civil Service Commission. Mr. Bundy was born at Norwood, in Hamilton County, Ohio, December 25, 1893, son of W. E. and Eva (Leedom) Bundy. Both his great-grandfather, H. S. Bundy and his grandfather, John P. Leedom, represented the old Tenth Ohio District in Congress, H. S. Bundy was one of the foremost men of influence in his day in Southern Ohio. He was born in 1817, and was one of the leaders in the original republican party. He was elected to Congress in 1864 and later was elected for several other terms. His daughter Julia became the wife of the late Governor Joseph Benson Foraker. The only son of H. S. Bundy was William S. Bundy, who died in 1867, his death being the result of a wound received while a Union soldier. William E. Bundy, father of the young Columbus attorney and grandson of H. S. Bundy, was born on the site of the City of Welleton in Jackson County, Ohio, October 4, 1866. He was reared and educated by his grandfather, H. S. Bundy, and graduated in law in 1890. He practiced law at Cincinnati, with home at Norwood in Hamilton County, and was United States district attorney at the time of his death in 1903. William S. Bundy was ten years of age when his father died. He was born at Norwood, and in 1904 his mother moved to Los Angeles, California. During the three years he spent in dalifornia he attended school. In the latter part of 1906, returning to Ohio, he soon entered Culver Military Academy in Indiana, and finished his literary education in Ohio University at Athens, where he was graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1914. Subsequently he studied law in the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1917. In the latter part of 1917 Mr. Bundy volunteered for duty in the Navy at Washington, and' was assigned to the Bureau of Naval Intelligence at Norfolk, with the rank of Master of Arms, first class. He performed this service until December, 1918. After his discharge Mr. Bundy practiced law at Akron for a year or so.. During the national campaign of 1920 he made speeches throughout the state for the republican state and national ticket under the auspices of the State Republican Executive Committee. His active leadership in the republican party is in line with the history of his family for several generations. Upon the election of Hon. Harry L. Davis as governor, Mr. Bundy became executive clerk in the governor 's office at Columbus in January, 1921, and performed those duties until December 15, 1922. At that date, having been appointed a member of the Ohio Civil Service Commission, he took up the duties of his new office. Mr. Bundy married Miss Marie Baldwin, of Bellefontaine, Ohio. They have one daughter, Julia Marie, born July 22, 1922. WILLIAM E. SWIFT, JR. One of Ohio's native sons who have achieved business prominence in the City of Chicago is William E. Swift, Jr., assistant secretary of the Farmers National Life Insurance Company. Mr. Swift was born at Columbus, in 1897, and his parents, William E. and Margaret (Lee) Swift, were also born in the same city. William E. Swift, Sr., was well known in Columbus, where for fifteen years he was connected with the City Fire Department, and was captain of one of the units of the city fire fighting forces. In 1913 he removed with his family to Chicago, and is now in the retail cigar business in that city. William E. Swift, Jr.' received his early education in the public schools of Columbus and completed his schooling in Chicago. In 1915, when he was sixteen years old, he entered the offices of the Farmers National Life Insurance Company of Chicago as an office boy. Industry and intelligent application to his duties, supplemented by his natural talent and ambition, have brought him rapidly to successive responsibilities until he is now assistant secretary, an important honor for a young man of twenty-six. The Farmers National Life Insurance Company, as its name indicates, has' its business mostly in the rural districts, its principal territory covering the middle .western states. The president of the company is Mr. John M. Stahl, nationally known as an agricultural writer and journalist and thoroughly familiar with agricultural conditions and problems. The company occupies its own building at 3401 Michigan Avenue. Mr. Swift is an active member of the Ohio Society of Chicago. CHARLES A. ATKINSON spent his early life in Southern Ohio, and earned his first success as a lawyer HISTORY OF OHIO - 437 there. Mr. Atkinson for many years has been vice president and general counsel of the Federal Life Insurance Company of Chicago, ever since its organization on February 10, 1900. He was born at Webster, in Scioto County, Ohio, on February 9, 1852, son of Lewis A. and Amanda (Long) Atkinson. His father was a native of Gallia County, Ohio. He was active in the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church until the time of the Civil war. He became a private in the Ninety-first Ohio Infantry, and subsequently was promoted to lieutenant and then to captain. At the last battle in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia he was disabled by a bullet wound. While he recovered in some measure the wound eventually was the direct cause of his death in 1882. While he was not in the active ministry during the years following the war, he retained his connection with the church. He became widely known over several counties in Southern Ohio, and in his community it was estimated that he married at least 500 young couples. When Charles A. Atkinson was a year old, in 1853, the family moved to Jackson, in Jackson County. He grew up there, attended the public schools, and in 1874 graduated from Ohio University at Athens. Mr. Atkinson studied law under one of the foremost lawyers in Southern Ohio in his day, Judge Hastings, at Jackson. Mr. Atkinson was admitted to the bar in the Centennial year 1876, and in the same year was elected prosecuting attorney of Jackson County and by reelection in 1878 held that office four years. He continued the general practice of law in Jackson County for a number of years. From 1886 to 1898 Mr. Atkinson practiced law at Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1897 he was appointed a special United States district attorney, and while handling the work assigned to him in that capacity he made his headquarters at Rock Island, Illinois. Mr. Atkinson resigned in the latter part of 1899, and then became associated with the founders and organizers of the Federal Life Insurance Company. This company began business in February, 1900, and Mr. Atkinson has had his home in Chicago since that date. As vice president and general counsel he has contributed in an important measure to the great financial stability and prosperity of the Federal Life. He is a member of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel, an organization composed of more than one hundred members who are general counsel of the leading Legal Reserve Life Insurance Companies of the country. He is also a member of the Legal Section of the American Life Convention, which is an organization composed of over 140 of the leading members of the Legal Reserve Life Insurance Companies of the United States. In his younger years in Ohio Mr. Atkinson was a leader in the public and political affairs of his section of the state. As a member of the Republican State Executive Committee he enjoyed the friendship and confidence of many of the foremost republicans of that day, including President McKinley, and his opinion and judgment were frequently sought in the councils of the party. Mr. Atkinson is a Knight Templar, Mason and Shriner. He was elected president of the Ohio Society of Chicago in 1922. This society has a membership of over 300 former Ohions living in Chicago, all of them successful men and many of them prominent citizens of their adopted city. JOSEPH C. BREITENSTEIN. It seldom occurs that a young lawyer recently admitted to practice comes face to face with responsibilities and meets them with the ability and skill of a veteran attorney. This was the exceptional experience of Joseph C. Breitenstein, who within a few months after his admission to the bar was appointed United States assistant district attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. He was in that office throughout the period of the World war and afterwards, and his name is justly distinguished for the efficiency and skill with which he handled cases as the legal representative of the United States. Mr. Breitenstein is a native of Ohio, born at Canton, July 30, 1884, son of Louis and Mary A. (Shane) Breitenstein. As a boy he attended St. Peter 's Catholic School at Canton. He finished his classical education in 1910, when he received the Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Francis College, now Quincy College, at Quincy, Illinois. Subsequently, in 1911, he was made private secretary to United States Senator Atlee Pomerene, serving in that capacity from 1911 until May, 1915. His duties took him to Washington, and while there he studied law in Georgetown University, where he was graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1914. He was admitted to the bar of the State of Ohio and of the District of Columbia, in 1915, and subsequently was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court. In the same month that he resigned as private secretary to Senator Pomerene, Mr. Breitenstein was appointed by Attorney General Gregory as United States assistant district attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. His headquarters were at Cleveland and Toledo, though his duties re' dired his time over the district and occasionally in other states. Mr. Breitenstein resigned as United States assistant district attorney November 15, 1922, and on the same day was appointed special United States assistant district attorney to complete the famous case of the government against Louis and Abe Auerbach for violation of the liquor laws and other cases in the United States District Court at Cleveland. Mr. Breitenstein was engaged in this special litigation until March 15, 1923. Then, after nearly eight years of continuous service for the government in a legal capacity, he opened offices for the private practice of law at Cleveland, with offices in the Guardian Building, and is now a member of the law firm of Wertz & Breitenstein, with offices in the Union Trust Building, Cleveland, Ohio. While United States assistant district attorney Mr. Breitenstein never lost a case for the government, and during his incumbency in this office he handled more cases for the government than any other person who held that office for the Northern District of Ohio since the establishment of the government. It was this brilliant and resourceful United States assistant district attorney who developed the evidence and prosecuted the case for the government against Eugene V. Debs for obstructing the government in the prosecution of the war. It was by far the most famous of all the government's war cases in that category, and, as is well known, Debs was sent to the Atlanta Penitentiary after his conviction. He also handled the so called Ruthenberg case during the World war, in which a conviction was had for violation of the draft laws. However, the work in the United States district attorney 's Office for which Mr. Breitenstein achieved his greatest reputation was as a counsellor to the officers of the government of the United States in the Northern District of Ohio. As a legal counsel for the officers of the United States he was the legal advisor of the United States internal revenue collectors in Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio, and their deputies, as well as postmasters and postoffice inspectors, secret service men, prohibition officers, narcotic officers, the U. S. marshal and his deputies, immigration officers, steamboat inspectors, income tax agents and income tax inspectors, the U. S. Shipping Board, agents of the Department of Justice, U. S. customs officers, in fact, officials of all the departments of the govern- 438 - HISTORY OF OHIO ment. He was the constant advisor of the revenue collectors and income tax officers from the early days of the income tax laws and aided them in solving the many new and intricate questions of law with which those officers of the government were daily confronted in the administration of the income tax and revenue laws of the United States. Many of the cases which he handled in the District Court of the United States and which were later affirmed by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit at Cincinnati and the Supreme Court of the United States established precedent and are of great value to the United States in subsequent cases, for instance: Previous to Mr. Breitenstein 's appointment as United States assistant district attorney for the Northern District of Ohio there had been practically no decisions upon the conspiracy statute of the United States in this circuit, and the decided cases in United States courts throughout the country were few in number. In the celebrated Rudner case, in which there were eighteen defendants, Mr. Breitenstein prepared and tried a case involving a continuous conspiracy, and this case is cited in nearly every conspiracy case tried in the United States. It was one of the early cases involving a conspiracy to violate the National Prohibition Act and was cited with approval in the so-called Remus case, as well as in the many other conspiracy cases prosecuted by the United States. It was Mr. Breitenstein who prepared and conducted, on behalf of the United States, the so-called MoeBaron case at Cleveland, the case of the United States vs. Cecil Kerns, et. al., at Toledo, and the case of United States vs. Louis and Abe Auerbach, et. al., at Cleveland, Ohio, all of which involved a violation of the conspiracy section of the criminal code of the United States in connection with the National Prohibition Act. These cases involved many intricate questions of law, and some of them were carried to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincinnati, where they were affirmed and later affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Breitenstein during his term of office as United States assistant district attorney handled many important cases involving violation of Section 215 of the Criminal Code of the United States, known as the section prohibiting the use of the United States mails to defraud. Among the cases of this character which he handled was the ease entitled United States vs. John J. Shea et. al., which was tried at Toledo, Ohio, before Hon. John M. Killits, United States district judge, and later affirmed. by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States. He also conducted, on behalf of the government, the so-called Glass Casket case at Toledo, Ohio, and has achieved the reputation as an expert in this difficult branch of the law. The courts all over the country have since followed the precedent established by him in the cases mentioned above. All cases handled by Mr. Breitenstein which were carried to the United States Circuit Court and the Supreme Court of the United States were decided in favor of the government. On account of his unusual experience in federal courts and the executive departments of the government at Washington Mr. Breitenstein is looked upon as a specialist in federal law and procedure, and is called by many lawyers to handle cases for them in the district courts of the United States throughout the country as well as the United States Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States. While he is engaged in the general practice of the law, most of his time is devoted to federal practice and in the practice of corporation law, being counsel and director in a number of corporations and financial institutions. Ever since his graduation, and in fact during his college days, Mr. Breitenstein has been interested in public questions, and for many years was intimately associated with United States Senator Atlee Pomerene in all of his political campaigns. In 1916 he was secretary of the Democratic State Executive Committee for the State of Ohio and managed the campaign in Ohio in that year for Woodrow Wilson for reelection as President of the United States, and Atlee Pomerene and James M. Cox, who were candidates for reelection in that year to the offices of United States senator and governor of Ohio, respectively. In that year as the campaign manager for Senator Atlee Pomerene he accomplished what was considered an almost insuperable task in bringing about the reelection of United States Senator Atlee Pomerene over Myron T. Herrick, former governor of Ohio and former ambassador of the United States to the Republic of France, the republican candidate for United States senator in that year. Because of his political activity he has a wide acquaintance with public men in Ohio and in the various states of the United States and public officials in Washington, and is a well known figure in politics in Ohio as well as in the nation. He is an eloquent and forceful public speaker. He has been admitted to practice before all of the Courts of Record of the State of Ohio, of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio and other districts in the United States, and the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit at Cincinnati, Ohio, the Suprethe Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, and the executive departments of the United States at Washington, D. C. He is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Citizens League of Cleveland, the Cleveland Athletic Club and Sleepy Hollow Country Club, a member of Canton (Ohio) Council of Knights of Columbus and a member of the Cuyahoga County Bar Association, Stark County Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. MAURICE MOODY. As railway official, land agent, financier and banker probably no one citizen more completely impressed his individuality and the influence of his activities upon the twin cities of Dennison and Uhrichsville with the degree that did the late Maurice Moody. He was a resident of that locality for more than three score and ten years. His death occurred January 23, 1923, aged seventy-five. In addition to his many responsibilities in business his career was strictly characterized as a long life well lived, and made happy and strengthened daily by the blessed companionship in the home and fearless faith in the eternal life. He was born at the Village of New Market, in Harrison County, Ohio, July 20, 1847, son of Thomas and Rachel (Hutchinson) Moody. Three years later his parents moved to a stage coach station a short distance from Selo, where his father followed his trade of blacksmith, looking after the horses used with the coaches. In 1852 the family removed to Uhrichsville, living successively on South Water Street and at the corner of Main and Second streets, and Maurice Moody came to manhood in the home at the northeast corner of Third and Uhrich. He finished his public school education at Uhrichsville in 1863, and then taught a term of school, clerked in the George Goodman clothing store, and in 1864 became clerk in the provost marshal's office, which had been moved from New Philadelphia to Uhrichsville. After the end of the war he closed up the business of that office at Barnesville. Mr. Moody had some official responsibility in the HISTORY OF OHIO - 439 railway service for nearly forty years. His first work was in the oil room of the Steubenville & Indiana Railroad, which subsequently became a part of the railway system. After six months he was made night storekeeper, and six months later advanced to day storekeeper. In 1868, less than two years after his first employment, he was made chief clerk to the master mechanic, D. P. Denmead. From the date of that appointment until 1903, in addition to many other business duties, he held the office of chief clerk to the master mechanic at Dennison. In 1875 he was made chief clerk to the superintendent at Dennison, and subsequently was made chief clerk to the two division superintendents there. When these positions were consolidated under E. B. Taylor, who later became the vice president of the Pennsylvania, the office of the superintendent was moved to Pittsburgh, Mr. Moody declining to remove to that city in order to look after his duties with the Dennison Land Company. At that time he resumed his former position as chief clerk to the master mechanic. The Dennison Land Company owned practically all the land upon which the City of Dennison is situated. Its owners were men of national prominence, including Edgar Thompson, later president of the Pennsylvania Railway; Thomas A. Scott, who became vice president of the Pennsylvania Railway; Hugh Jewett, president of the Erie Railroad; his brother, Thomas Jewett, who became president of the P. C. C. & St. L. Railroad ; Judge McIlvaine; William Dennison, war governor of Ohio; Mr. Clement, a railway capitalist of Cincinnati ; a New York firm of lawyers, Green & Alexander, the latter who became president of the Equitable Life Insurance Company; and Col. George McCook, of Steubenville, member of the famous fighting McCook family. Mr. Moody handled most of the business as local agent to Colonel McCook, and at the death of Colonel McCook in 1878 succeeded to his place and on the death of Governor Dennison in 1879, bought the governor 's interests in the company. Later he and E. B. Taylor and C. D. Street, local master mechanic for the Continental Railway, acquired the interests of the Land Company, and eventually Mr. Moody became its sole owner. Mr. Street was a brother-in-law of Robert Pitcairn, banking official in charge of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Pittsburgh and points west. These men had much to do with inaugurating measures that started Dennison on a permanent program of building and growth. Mr. Moody in 1872 established the Dennison Building & Loan Company, on the so-called terminating plan, which automatically passed out of existence in ten years. He served as its secretary, and about 1884, after the termination of the first company, he organized the Dennison and Uhrichsville Building & Loan Company, becoming its secretary and treasurer, with C. B. Street as president. This has made a record as one of the oldest and most prosperous building and loan associations in the state, and Mr. Moody was its president for many years. Mr. Moody and Mr. Street in 1888 became stockholders in the Delaware Company with other railway officials. This company built the local waterworks at Dennison, and Mr. Moody was its first secretary and later for many years president of the Dennison Water Supply Company. In the real estate business he laid out in 1887 Thornwood Park. He was vice president of the Dennison Sewer Pipe Company, was president of the Bowling Coal & Mining Company, and a director of the Dennison Foundry & Machine Company. For some years he was interested in the local press, buying a half interest in the Tuscarawas Chronicle about 1880, and retained an interest until about 1894. In 1895 he became associated with I. E. Demuth and T. A. Latto in the Union Bank at Uhrichsville. The Union Bank was founded by George Johnson in 1874, and upon the retirement of Mr. Johnson in 1893 the management was turned over to I. E. Demuth, cashier, and T. A. Latto, a merchant. Mr. Moody on joining them became president of the bank, with Mr. Latto as vice president and Mr. Demuth as cashier, and his son, E. D. Moody, as assistant cashier. ifith the failure in November, 1895, of the Farmers & Merchants Bank, and in duly, 1896, of the Dennison Deposit Bank, the Union Bank was the only one left in business in the twin cities. In 1897 Mr. Moody, with his two associates, Latto and Demuth, established the Merchants & Mechanics Bank in Dennison, with E. D. Moody as the executive in charge. This became the Dennison National Bank in 1903, and the late Mr. Moody was president from its founding. On the death of I. E. Demuth in 1903, the former cashier of the Union Bank, Mr. Moody resigned from the post he had so long held as chief clerk to the master mechanic in order to give all of his personal time to his banking responsibilities, and continued until his retirement, July 1, 1922. The late Mr. Moody was actuated by a splendid public spirit and sense of moral obligation in his community. He was a Unitarian or Universalist in his religious beliefs, but had no home church because these denominations were not represented in the twin cities. However, he gave liberally to the building and upkeep of other churches. He was a leader in the temperance movement, helping make Uhrichsville dry the first time in 1885. On June 6, 1871, he married Clara J. Keepers. Her father, William V. Keepers, was the first mayor of Uhrichsville. At the time of his marriage Mr. Moody built and moved into the house at 514 E. Third Street, Uhrichsville, Ohio, where he resided until his death more than half a century later. He is survived by his wife, two sons and four grandchildren. His son Edwin Denmead Moody is now president of the Dennison National Bank, while the son William V. Moody is president of the Union Bank of Uhrichsville. WILLIAM CRITTENDEN MOONEY. The largest and strongest banking house of Monroe County and one of the most vigorous financial organizations in Southeastern Ohio is the Monroe Bank, a state bank, which has just completed fifty years of consecutive progress. This bank has had three presidents, grandfather, father and son, William Crittenden Mooney representing the third generation and the third president. The bank has capital of $50,000, surplus of $100,000, and aggregate resources of $1,600,000. The banking house is one of the best equipped in this section of Ohio, and the bank owns the entire four-story building, thS three upper floors being used for offices. The first president of this bank was Col. Samuel Lewis Mooney, who was born at Captina, in Belmont County, Ohio, June 14, 1830. He acquired a public school education, and at the age of sixteen went to work as clerk in a general store at Armstrongs Mills. From there he moved to Beallsville, and with his brother-in-law, J. W. Armstrong, was in business as a merchant for twelve years, from 1850 to 1862. In 1862 Colonel Mooney established his home at Woodsfield, where he continued his active business career. It was in 1874 that he organized and became president of the Monroe Bank, which opened for business March 4, 1874. Colonel Mooney was president of this institution over forty years until he lost his life in an automobile accident on April 2, 1916. Colonel Mooney was easily one of the most prominent and influential citizens Monroe County ever had. He built and was president of the Ohio River and 440 - HISTORY OF OHIO Western Railroad, a line 112 miles long between Bellaire and Zanesville. He sold this property in 1912 to the Pennsylvania Railway. He owned extensive farm interests in Monroe County, and was president of the International Coal Company, owning 25,000 acres of coal lands in Belmont County. He was a close friend of William McKinley and served as colonel on the staff of Mr. McKinley when the latter was governor. He was one of the organizers of Woodsfield Lodge No. 377, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was a member of the First Methodist Church, and was one of Ohio 's presidential electors in 1904. William Crittenden Mooney, Sr., son of the late Col. Samuel L. Mooney, was born at Beallsville, Ohio June 15, 1855, and died in New York City, July 24, 1918. He was a boy when his parents located at Woodsfield in 1862. He acquired his education there, and as a youth worked two years as a bookkeeper with the firm of Taylor & Armstrong at Bellaire. On December 24, 1874, when the Monroe Bank was opened with his father as president, he became one of its employes, being then nineteen years old. In 1878 he was elected cashier of the bank, in 1898 became vice president and general manager, and in 1916, on the death of his father, was elected president, and held that office until his death two years later. He possessed many of the able characteristics of his father, both in business and in public affairs. One of the leading republicans in his section of the state, he was elected and served as a member of Congress, representing the Sixteenth Ohio District, from March, 1915, to March, 1917. He was a member of the building committee during the construction of the Monroe County Courthouse, was president and treasurer of the Monroe County Agricultural Society, was vice president and treasurer of the. Ohio River and Western Railway from its organization in 1874 until it was sold in 1912 to the Pennsylvania System. He was president of the Ohio Oil Producers Association, and was a director in the Ohio State Fire Insurance Company, the First National Bank of Columbus, the International Coal Company and in the Burkett Manufacturing Company of Columbus. He was always ready with work or other assistance in movements to benefit his town and county. He was a member of the School Board and was on the building committee during the erection of the public school building and courthouse at Woodsfield. He also served on the building committee and was otherwise active in membership in the First Methodist Episcopal Church. He was affiliated with Woods-field Lodge No. 377, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The later William C. Mooney was also distinguished by his strong love for fine horses. He owned the famous Donna Clay and Early Don, the fastest full brother and sister on record in the time. His wife was Elizabeth Davenport, who is still living at Woodsfield. Their son, William Crittenden Mooney, was born at Woodsfield, October 7, 1884, being third in a family of six children, consisting of four boys and two girls. He availed himself of the liberal educational opportunities offered, attending the Woodsfield High School, Ohio State University and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1907 from Yale University, where on his scholarship record was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa. While in high school he acquired practical knowledge of banking by work during vacations and at other times in the Monroe Bank. In 1909 he was made cashier, his father at that time being vice president and his grandfather, president. When his father was removed from the presidency by death in 1918 the son was admirably qualified to become president of this old and honored financial institution, and has carefully guided its destiny since then. He has served as secretary and president of Group Seven of the Ohio State Bankers Association, and as president of the Monroe County Bankers Asso: ciation. During. the World war he was chairman of the War Savings Stamp campaign and active in other patriotic movements. Mr. Mooney is a republican, a member of the Kiwanis Club, the Methodist Episcopal Church, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a past master of Woodsfield Lodge No. 189 of Masons. On June 10, 1913, he married Miss Lorena Beard, of Woodsfield, where she was born and reared, daughter of John Beard, a retired carpenter and contractor. Mrs. Mooney is active in church and club circles. They have two daughters, Mary Elizabeth and Martha. Mr. Mooney is chairman of the Monroe County Good Roads Federation, of which he was one of the organizers, and is treasurer of the Monroe County Fair Association. EDWARD SMITH PARSONS. The president of Marietta College since June 1, 1919, has been Edward Smith Parsons, a man of exceptional accomplishments in the field of education, a scholar and writer as well as an administrator. Doctor Parsons was born at Brooklyn, New York, August 9, 1863, of old American ancestry. The Parsons family for several generations had their home at Wiscasset, Maine. They were of a hearty sea-faring race. His great-grandfather, Capt. Josiah Parsons, was a sea captain and fought with the American colonists at the Battle of Bunker Hill in the Revolution. The grandfather was Capt. Josiah Parsons, Jr., a sea captain and ship owner. He was a part owner in the vessel that brought the Andrew Carnegie family to the United States. Charles H. Parsons, father of Doctor Parsons, was born at Wiscasset, Maine, and died in 1905, at the age of seventy-nine. He became a manufacturer, and spent many years in business in New York, being a director of the South Brooklyn Savings Institution, a charter member of the Pilgrim Congregational Church of Brooklyn and associated in an official capacity with the American Home Missionary Society. He was a republican in politics. Charles H. Parsons married Esther Smith, who died in 1889, in her seventy-fourth year. She was a daughter of Col. Ashbel Smith, of Hanover, New Hampshire, a farmer. She was a niece of Hon. Cyrus P. Smith, the first mayor of Brooklyn. Timothy Smith, one of the ancestors of the family, moved from Old Hadley, Massachusetts, to Hanover, New Hampshire, and was one of the donors of the land on which Dartmouth College was built. Timothy Smith was a descendant of Lieut. Samuel Smith, a noted New Englander in Colonial times. Sophia Smith, another descendant of Lieutenant Samuel, was the founder of Smith College, and still another descendant of Lieutenant Smith was Mary Lyon, a founder of Mount Holyoke College. Charles H. Parsons and his wife had four children, one daughter dying in infancy. The oldest son, Charles A., was associated in business with his father, and died at the age of twenty-eight. Frank H. Parsons, a graduate of Amherst College in the class of 1881, of the Columbia Law School in 1884, has practiced law in New York City for forty years, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Dime Savings Bank, a director of the Title Guarantee Company of New York and a member for many years of the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Young Men 's Christian Association. Edward Smith Parsons was reared in Brooklyn, graduating in 1879 from the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute. Like other members of the family, including his own sons, he is an alumnus of Amherst College. He graduated Bachelor of Arts HISTORY OF OHIO - 441 in 1883, Master of Arts in 1886 and in 1903 Amherst conferred on him the honorary degree Doctor of the Humanities. He was a student in Columbia University in 1883-84 and graduated in 1887 from the Yale Divinity School with the Bachelor of Divinity degree. Doctor Parsons has always been an advocate of the thorough and systematic training of the body. While in school he spent his summers on his uncle 's farm at Pepperell, Massachusetts, and while in college participated in athletics, being pitcher for his class baseball team at Amherst, and played tennis, and in later years has continued outdoor pursuits in mountain climbing and hiking. He made four trips to Europe, two for pleasure and two for study. He spent his vacations abroad in 1886 and 1895, and during 1900-01 was in Switzerland, Lausanne, and Oxford, England, for special studies, and during 1912-13 was at the University at Munich and also in Italy. Ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1883, Doctor Parsons was pastor of the First Congregational Church at Greeley, Colorado, from 1888 until 1892. In 1892 he took the chair of English in Colorado College at Colorado Springs, serving in that capacity until 1917. In the meantime from 1898 to 1916 he was vice president of the college and was dean from 1901 to 1917. During the period of the World war Doctor Parsons from 1917 to 1919 was associate secretary of the War Personnel Board of the National War Work Council of the Young Men's Christian Association in New York. While still in this service he was called to his present post as president of Marietta College. His first war service was as Young Men 's Christian Association educational director at Camp Meade. While in Colorado Doctor Parsons was one of the founders and the first president of the Rocky Mountain faculty athletic conference. He married at Cleveland, December 4, 1889, Miss Mary Augusta Ingersoll, daughter of George Lyman and Kate (Talcott) Ingersoll. Mrs. Parsons was born in Cleveland. They are the parents of five talented children. The oldest, Charles E., graduated from Amherst College in 1913, took his medical degree in the Johns Hopkins University Medical College in 1919, had one year of interne experience in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, two years at the Roosevelt Hospital in New York, and after close association with the famous Doctor Grenfell is now head of the Notre Dame Memorial Hospital at Twillingate in New Foundland. The older daughter, Esther Parsons, secretary to her father, attended Cutler Academy in Colorado Springs and the Miss Capen School. The second daughter, Elizabeth Ingersoll Parsons, graduated from Vassar College in 1917, and is doing graduate work at Johns Hopkins University. Edward S. Parsons, Jr., is a graduate of Amherst and is now general manager of the Miami Coal Company in Cincinnati. The youngest child, Talcott Parsons, graduated from Amherst College last June and is now a student at the London (England) School of Economics. Doctor Parsons is a member of the scholarship honorary fraternity Phi Beta Kappa, the Chi Psi social fraternity. He is a firm believer in the principles of the League of Nations, and during his career as an educator has been a contributor of articles to magazines and newspapers and is the author of " The Social Message of Jesus," published in 1911, and the editor of an edition of Milton's Minor Poems, published in 1900. WILLIAM ELMER RADCLIFF, M. D. One of the most competent physicians and surgeons of Noble. County is Dr. William Elmer Radcliff of Caldwell. Doctor Radcliff has had eighteen years of successful experience. His professional success is the more creditable for the fact that he had to work and pay all the expenses of his advanced schooling, both college and medical school. He was born in Noble County, September 7, 1874. His grandfather, David Radcliff, came from County Down, Ireland, where he was born, and settled in Ohio at the age of seventeen. He was a pioneer, and entered government land in Olive Township of Noble County, making eventually an excellent farm. He was a member of the Masonic Order, and both he and his son William were members of the Universalist Church. William: Radcliff, who was born in Olive Township of Noble County, followed farming and stock raising during his active career, and was one of the prominent citizens. He died in January, 1917, aged seventy-eight. His fraternal affiliation was with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His wife, Eliza Sriver, was born in Noble County, where her parents settled on coming from Pennsylvania. Second in a family of three children, William Elmer Radcliff determined when a boy what his permanent vocation should be, but a number of years elapsed before he could realize his ambition. He put in a number of seasons as a practical farmer. He was educated in public schools, attended the Southern Iowa Normal School at Bloomfield, Iowa, where he was graduated with the degree Bachelor of Didactics, but had taught before, graduating and while engaged in farming. He taught for a time at Savannah, Iowa, then in Ohio, and did his first year 's medical work in Starling Medical College at Columbus. He was graduated Doctor of Medicine from the medical department of Purdue University in 1906, and during his last year was interne in the college infirmary. Doctor Radcliff after graduating practiced at Edinburg, Indiana, until 1907, when, returning to Ohio, he conducted a successful practice at Rennersville, in Morgan County, until 1912. Since that year his home has been in Caldwell. He does a general practice, but has been particularly successful in obstetrics. He is a member of the Noble County Medical Society, the Ohio State and American Medical associations, and has served four years as county coroner. Doctor Radcliff is a man of varied interests, being a lover of horses, takes pleasure in hunting and fishing, and is prominent in Masonry, being a past master of Sharon Lodge No. 136, Free and Accepted Masons, past high priest of Cumberland Chapter No. 116, Royal Arch Masons, past thrice illustrious master of Cumberland Council, Royal and Select Masons, is a member of Cambridge Commandery No. 47, Knights Templar, is actively interested in the work of the Lodge of Perfection and the Rose Croix Chapter, the Scottish Rite bodies at Cambridge, and is a member of Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite of Columbus. He also belongs to Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a past chancellor commander of Caldwell Lodge No. 280, Knights of Pythias. Doctor Radcliff is a democrat. He married, August 31, 1899, Miss Mary Elizabeth Raney, daughter of Dr. Zachariah V. and Eliza (Conn) Raney, both now deceased, her father a native of Noble County and her mother of Morgan County. Doctor Raney, who died in October, 1917, aged seventy-eight, was a pioneer dentist at Logan, Ohio. Mrs. Radcliff is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Their only child, Greeley, died in 1918. JOHN S. H. PATTON, clerk of courts of Jefferson County, 1921 to 1925, has been a lifelong resident of Steubenville, and his character and ability have commended him in every position of responsibility he has held. Born at Steubenville, Ohio, February 26, 1889, 442 - HISTORY OF OHIO he is the son of Robert and Irene G. (Hunter) Patton. The Patton family came from Belmont County, Ohio, where they 'were among th6 first settlers. They also are numbered with the first settlers of the State of Maryland. Robert Patton was connected with the Old Jefferson Iron Works in the operating department. He was killed at a railroad crossing in Steubenville, Ohio, December 3, 1889. His widow, Irene G. Lytle, was remarried and is still living. Samuel D. Hunter, grandfather of Irene G. (Hunter) Lytle, was a distinguished pioneer of Jefferson County, serving as sheriff of the county in 1844, and later as probate judge. Her father, Thomas C. Hunter, was a soldier in the One Hundred Fifty- seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil war. The Hunters came from Old Virginia, where they were early settlers. Several of them fought during the Revolutionary war under George Washington. In the early part of the nineteenth century Samuel D. Hunter, son of Henry Hunter and one of a large family, had stage coaches running from Baltimore, Maryland, to Wheeling, West Virginia. He later came to Wheeling and then to Steubenville, Ohio, where he remained one of the leading citizens until his death. His three sons all served during the War of the Rebellion. Thomas C. Hunter, the grandfather of John S. H. Patton, was prominent in the city welfare. He served several terms in the Council of said city, and also during his time was the leading painting contractor. Thomas C. Hunter's wife was Mary G. Gamble, daughter of William Gamble and Martha Work. The Gambles were Scotch and the. Works were Irish. The Gambles were residents of Pittsburgh during the War of 1812, and William Gamble served in said war, the ancestors of the Hunters and Gambles serving during all the wars of this country. John S. H. Patton is the youngest of four children, and was nine months old when his father was killed. The older children are Louella; Thomas C., who married Margaret Schoef, and has five children, named Irene, Joseph, Robert, Mary and Betty; and Robert W., who is a veteran of the World war, having been in Company L, Three Hundred Fifteenth Infantry, Seventy-ninth Division, and while on the battle front was gassed November 10, 1918, the day before the armistice. John S. H. Patton attended the public schools at Steubenville, where he graduated from high school in 1908. For several months he was clerk in the offices of the Carnegie Mill at Mingo Junction, Ohio. For over eleven years prior to becoming a candidate for clerk of courts of Jefferson County, Ohio, he was clerk in the Steubenville postoffice. He was nominated for clerk of courts on the republican ticket August 10, 1920, and in November, 1920, was elected to said office. He has given four years of very capable service to the county. He is unmarried, making his home with his mother. Mr. Patton is a United Presbyterian, Knight Templar, Shriner and Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias, Sons of Veterans, Modern Woodmen • of America, Redmen and Kiwanis Club. He is prominent politically and socially, and has been identified with all branches of amateur and professional athletics in Southern Ohio and West Virginia. He is a member of the National Board of Basket Ball Officials, also of the Ohio Conference Board of Football Officials, a division of the Central Board. For the past fifteen years he has officiated in many important professional school and college games. GILES M. BRATTAIN, M. D. For a third of a century Dr. Giles M. Brattain has performed the duties of a capable physician and surgeon in the community of Antwerp in Paulding County. He is one of the most highly esteemed citizens in that section of Ohio. Doctor Brattain was born in Logan County, Ohio, October 7, 1863, son of Ralph L. and Aurelia (Hubbard) Brattain. His father was born in Logan County, in 1831, and his mother in Portage County, in 1840. She died in 1884. Her father was a Methodist minister. Ralph L. Brattain, who died in 1921, grew up on a farm, but for many years was in business as a merchant in Logan County. He was a democrat in politics. There were three children: G. E., deceased; W. B., a practicing attorney at Paulding, Ohio ; and Dr. Giles M. Dr. Giles M. Brattain was reared in the small town of Ridgeway, where he completed his public school course. As a youth he followed various lines of employment, earning his own way, and subsequently entered the Columbus Medical College, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1890. In the same year, shortly after his graduation, he chose the Town of Antwerp in Paulding County as the scene of his professional endeavor, and has earnestly and efficiently served that community ever since. He has kept his abilities and experience in line with advanced methods, and took special courses in surgery in the New York Polyclinic. He is local railway surgeon at Antwerp, and is a member of the American Medical Association. June 30, 1901, Doctor Brattain married Bertie A. Frank, who was born at Fraziersburg, Ohio, and is a graduate of the high school at Columbus. Doctor and Mrs. Brattain have had two children. The daughter, Elizabeth A., who graduated from the Antwerp High School, was the wife of Charles Kigar, of Fort Wayne, Indiana. She died at the home of her parents May 7, 1924. The son, Ralph O., is now located at Salt Lake City, a salesman for the Wayne Oil Tank and Pump Company. He married Gretta Taylor, of Moberly, Missouri. Doctor Brattain has five children. Doctor Brattain served one term as coroner of Paulding County: He is a democrat, and is affiliated with Antwerp Lodge No. 335, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. EMMONS R. BOOTH, of Cincinnati, is perhaps the best known osteopathic physician in the Middle West. His career has been one of notable distinction in two fields, school work and osteopathy, and he was among the early graduates of the original school of osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri. Doctor Booth was born in Franklin County, Indiana, March 4, 1851, son of Ebenezer and Margaret (Sering) Booth. His father was a contractor and builder, and died in 1857, while the mother reached the age of seventy-five. Emmons R. Booth was six years of age when his father died. Most of his early education he acquired through his own efforts. He attended public schools in Indiana, a college at Hartsville, Indiana, and in 1874 graduated from the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio. He received the degree Doctor of Philosophy from Wooster University. For a quarter of a century his time was almost fully engaged in school work. He was principal of the high school at Sedalia, Missouri, until 1879, was superintendent of schools at Kirkwood, Missouri, until 1884, and then became a teacher in the Manual Training School of Washington University, at St. Louis, remaining there until 1888. Coming to Cincinnati, he was for ten years principal of the Technical School of Cincinnati. In June, 1900, he graduated from the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri. Doctor Booth has been associated with three important educational movements: With the eminent Prof. Alfred HISTORY OF OHIO - 443 Holbrook, president of the National Normal University, who established the pioneer all year school in America, a policy since adopted by nearly. every university in the United States; second, was one of the first to advocate and teach manual training, a department of education now found in every first grade high school in the country; and third, his association with Dr. A. T. Still, founder of osteopathy. Doctor Booth is author of the History of Osteopathy, the first edition of which was published in 1904, followed by a second edition, and then by the Memorial Edition in 1924, a beautiful volume of about eight hundred pages. He has also contributed many articles to educational and osteopathic publications. Doctor Booth while in school work was president of the Missouri State Teachers' Association, was president of the Southwestern Ohio Teachers' Association, and president of the Industrial and Manual Training Section of the National Educational Association. He served as president of the American Osteopathic Association in 1901-02, and in addition is a member and former president and secretary of the Society of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of Cincinnati, has been president of the Ohio State Osteopathic Society, and for fifteen years was on the osteopathic examining committee of the medical board in the State of Ohio. Doctor. Booth is a Master Mason, a member of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club, the School Masters' Club, and several civic organizations. He is an elder in the Pleasant Ridge Presbyterian Church, which was organized October 16, 1790, two of his grandparents being among the eight original members. For many years Doctor Booth has been official historian for this church. Doctor Booth's first wife was Clara V. Van Fleet, who died in 1879. The two children by this marriage were: Mary, the deceased wife of Robert C. Me. Conaughy, of Cincinnati; and Clarence, who died in infancy. The three children born to Mr. and Mrs. McConaughy were: Francis B., a Cincinnati attorney; Mary Alice, a student in the Osteopathic College at Lbs Angeles; and Robert C., attending the Walnut Hill High School. In 1883, Doctor Booth married Miss Mary A. Mermod, of St. Louis, daughter of Augustus S. Mermod, who was a member of the noted jewelry house of Mermod, Jaecard and King of St. Louis, one of the oldest and most noted institutions of the kind in the Middle West. Mrs. Booth was educated in Lindenwood College at St. Charles, Missouri. She died in 1916. Doctor Booth 's only son is Robert M. Booth, an electrical engineer at Cincinnati. This son married Miss Rose Sherwood, of Cincinnati, granddaughter of the late Colonel Finch. The two children of their marriage are Robert M., Jr., born in 1912, and Rose Mary, born in 1916. CHARLES R. MORRIS, D. D. S. Exceptional technical skill in all departments and phases of his chosen vocation admirably fortify Doctor Morris for the successful practice of his profession, and in addition to this he has an office with the most modern of equipment and facilities, so , that, with his personal popularity, he has naturally developed a large and representative practice in the City of Steubenville and, gained rank as one of the leading dental practitioners of Jefferson County. Doctor Morris was born at Lore City, Guernsey County, Ohio, December 11, 1885, and is the only child of Albert and Belle (Clark) Morris, the former of whom died about the year 1899 and the latter is still living, she being a daughter of the late Robert Clark, and of lineage tracing back to staunch Irish origin. Albert Morris passed his entire life in Ohio, and was a son of James Morris. The first Ohio representatives of the Morris family came to this state from Virginia. Albert Morris was for many years engaged in the mercantile business at Lore City, was one of the honored and influential citizens of Guernsey County, and while he never consented to become a candidate for political office, he was an active worker in behalf of the cause of the republican party, and served for some time as a member of its State Central Committee in Ohio. He was a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and while in service was incapacitated by a severe attack of typhoid fever, the effects of which confined him to a hospital for more than a year. He ever retained a deep interest in his old comrades and signified this in his appreciative affiliations with the Grand Army of the Republic. He was an earnest member of the Presbyterian Church, as is also his widow. Doctor Morris supplemented the discipline of the public schools of his native village by attending the high school at Caldwell, Noble County, in which he was graduated in 1904. During the ensuing period of about three years he was employed in a drug store at Caldwell, and he then initiated the study of dentistry, his preparation for his chosen profession having culminated in his graduation in a leading dental college of Ohio in the year 1910. After thus receiving his 'degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery he was engaged in practice at Scio, Harrison County, from 1910 to 1921, since which latter year he has been established in practice at Steubenville, where he has developed a fine practice whose scope and importance indicate popular appreciation of his distinctive professional ability. The doctor is a member of the Ohio Dental Association, is a stalwart in the camp of the republican party, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, including the local Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, of which his wife likewise is a member, and in the Knights of Pythias his affiliation is extended also to the Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church. . At Caldwell, Noble County, on the 7th of October, 1909, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Morris and Miss Clara Acomb, daughter of Rev. William S. and Margaret (Hamilton) Acomb, her father being a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Morris is the third in a family of six children, and the others are Ida, Howard, Elizabeth, James and Bradford. Of the brothers and sisters of Mrs. Morris the only other who is married at the time of this writing, in the summer of 1924, is Bradford, who wedded Edna Quick, their children being one son and one daughter. Doctor and Mrs. Morris have two children, Margaret I. and William A., and the daughter is now a student in the Steubenville High School. E. W. HOFFMAN. One of the oldest business enterprises of Defiance is the furniture and undertaking establishments that has been conducted by members of the Hoffman family through two generations. The active head of the business today is E. W. Hoffman. He is a son of the late William G. Hoffman. William G. Hoffman was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, February 15, 1830, and was educated in the schools in his native country. He came to the United States in 1854, having learned the cabinet making trade after a thorough apprenticeship in Germany. On December 1, 1856, at Edgerton, Ohio, he married Catherine Koerner. She was born in Marbach, Germany, October 4, 1826, and Came to the United States in 1841. For a short time she was in New York City, then at Adrian, Michigan, where she first met William G. Hoffman, and they were married at the residence of her brother. In 1859 William G. Hoffman moved to Defiance, locating at his home on Perry Street, where they remained until 444 - HISTORY OF OHIO their death. In Defiance William G. Hoffman engaged in the furniture business, and for twenty-five years he was associated in partnership with Christian Geiger. When this partnership was dissolved Mr. Geiger took the wholesale department and Mr. Hoffman the retail furniture store. During his later years he associated with him his sons. He was one of the upright and honest business men of the community. He was a very active worker in the German Methodist Church, and in politics a republican. There were the following children in the family : Catherine, wife of Henry Serther, of Defiance; Bertha, wife of William Martin, of Defiance; Charles C., connected with the Defiance Machine Works, who married Alice Ketterring, of Defiance ; E. W.; and Miss Gertrude, who lives with her brother E. W. Hoffman, who occupy the old home in Defiance. E. W. Hoffman was born in Defiance, September 4, 1866. He has spent all his life in the home where he was born. He is a graduate of the public schools, and at the age of sixteen he began work in his father 's furniture store. Since then he has been given a license as an embalmer, and he was a partner in the firm before his father 's death. Mr. Hoffman took all the degrees in Scottish Rite Masonry, including the thirty-second, before he was twenty-two years of age, and at one time was the youngest Scottish Rite Mason in Ohio. He is also a York Rite Mason, and a member of the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In polities he is a republican. Mr. Hoffman devotes much of his time to the management and supervision of one of the finest farms in Defiance County, a 240 acre place near the county seat. He has a herd of fine cattle, and has made this country estate a model stock farm. CARL HAMILTON SMITH, who for twelve years has been judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Jefferson County, began the practice of law at Steubenville in 1903 and has therefore given more than half of his professional career to the responsibilities of the bench. Judge Smith was born at East Liverpool, Ohio, July 28, 1875, son of John and Margaret (Berry) Smith and grandson of Robert and Fannie (Vance) Smith. His grandfather on his mother 's side was John Berry, whose father, a native of Ireland, came to the United States and settled in Washington County, Pennsylvania about 1770. For many years he held the office Of justice of peace and when George Washington apReared before him in a land ejectment suit, the justice finding the evidence such that he ruled against the great patriot and father of his country. Judge Smith had some ancestors who were in the War of the Revolution, and they have been substantial and worthy people both in Pennsylvania and during their residence in Ohio. His father, John Smith, who died in 1914, was a farmer, and was very active in church matters, being an elder in the United Presbyterian denomination. Judge Smith's mother, Margaret Berry, died in 1918. The children of the family 'were: Robert P. who married Rose Young and had two children, P., and Sarah ; Nina, who died in infancy ; John B. who died in 1896; Herbert V., who married Clara B., their children being Vance and Robert; Nellie G., who died in 1922; and Carl Hamilton. Carl Hamilton Smith acquired much of his early education in district schools, attended high school at Empire in Jefferson County for two years, and took his college work in Westminster College at New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, where he graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1900. His law studies were begun under Hon. E. E. Erskine of Steubenville, and later he entered the law department of Western Reserve University at Cleveland, graduating in 1903. In that same year he established his law office at Steubenville, and was a member of the law firm Erskine & Smith until lie went on the bench. In that fall of 1912 lie was elected for his first term of six years as judge of the Court of Commor Pleas, and in 1918 was reelected. He has proved himself at all times a just and upright judge, clean minded and considerate in all his deciiions, and where his jurisdiction under the law is definite has been thoroughly courageous and straightforward in his applications of the law. With admirable promptness he has handled a number of cases of law violation in the county. During the World war he acted as treasurer of the Jefferson County War Board, which had charge of all auxiliary war matters. Judge Smith married January 9, 1907, at Elyria, Ohio, Miss Bessie M. Crowther, who died August 29, 1909. Her father, Edgar C. Crowther, who died February 1, 1924, was in the steel business, was a member of the Masonic Order and the Baptist Church. Mrs. Smith was next to the youngest in a family of four children. Her two brothers are Charles E. and Joseph, both married. Her sister is Mrs. P. H. Mcquillet. Judge Smith has a daughter, Bessie, now in Birmingham School. Birmingham, Pennsylvania. The family are members of the United Presbyterian Church. Judge Smith is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, is a member of the Elks and Knights of Pythias, belongs to the Rotary Club, the Country Club, and the Ohio State, County and American Bar associations. DANIEL P. COLL has been actively identified with a varied business program in Jackson for over a third of a century representing one of the old and honored families of Jackson County. He is an ice manufacturer, owning and operating the Jackson Ice & Fuel Company. Mr. Coll was born in Jackson County, July 31, 1867, son of Patrick and Susan (Carr) Coll. Patrick Coll, a native of Ireland, at the age of eighteen came to the United States with his five brothers and one sister. He was the only one to come to Ohio, the others remaining in the vicinity of Philadelphia. Patrick Coll was a well known resident of Jackson County and for some years was in the grocery business. He died in 1884 at the age of fifty-nine while his wife Susan (Carr) Coll died in 1915, aged eighty-four.. The oldest of their children, Anna, married Daniel Crossin and died June 1, 1923, at the age of sixty-eight; she had a large family of ten children whose names are: Henry, William, Hugh, Daniel, John, Mamie, Margaret, Susan, Sadie and Helen. The son, Steven Coll, married Anna Farley and of their five children three are living, Patrick, James and Anna. Mary Coll became the wife of William Fogarty and she died November 12, 1923, aged sixty-one ; of her seven children, four are living, William, Howard, Susie and Marie. Daniel P. Coll, youngest child of his parents, was educated in the Jackson public schools. At the age of seventeen he began working in a flour mill, remaining there about three years and since then ha? followed a varied program of business activities. It was in 1911 that he bought a modern artificial ice plant, now operated as the Jackson Ice & Fuel Company, with a service supplying a large part of the ice used in Jackson and surrounding towns. Mr. Coll in 1906 engaged in the automobile supply business, being one of the pioneers in that line in Southern Ohio. This business he continued until 1917 when he sold it to his son, Dan, Jr., who still continues it. HISTORY OF OHIO - 445 Mr. Coll's first wife was Eliza Basquill, daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth Basquill. She was born April 9, 1869, and died December 23, 1901, aged thirty-two. In 1904 Mr. Coll married Mary Karrigan, daughter of Patrick and Mary Karrigan of Portsmouth. Mr. Coll's children by his first marriage were: Daniel P., Jr., Grace, Leo and Elizabeth. The s)n Leo married Louisa Hess and has a daughter, Marie Francis. Grace Coll married George G. Thomas. Daniel P. Coll, Jr., who married Anna Maude Jones, was with the aviation corps during the World war, being in training at Selfridge field at Mount Clemens, Michigan. The three children by Mr. Coll's second marriage are: Mary, Margaret and Maurice Coll. The family are members of the Catholic Church. Mr. Coll is a Knight of Columbus and Elk and his son Daniel and Leo belong to the same fraternities. He is also affiliated with the United Commercial Travelers. HOWARD LITT is proprietor of funeral parlors and private ambulance service at Dayton and is an ex-service man, prominently identified with American Legion work. He was born at Dayton in 1892, son of G. O. and Mary C. (Howard) Litt. As a boy he attended the grammar and high schools of his native city, continued his education in Miami Business College at Dayton, and subsequently attended the University of Wisconsin. His experience in the undertaking profession began in 1909 at Dayton. While at the University of Wisconsin he worked evenings and nights for local undertakers. He graduated in 1915 from Worshams College of Embalming at Chicago, and is a licensed embalmer under the laws of Wisconsin and Ohio. In addition to his facilities and equipment as a funeral director, Mr. Litt operates the only exclusive ambulance service in Dayton. He has a car constructed and equipped as a result of his individual experience and observation. His two years' army services provided him witH ample observations of ambulance facilities and he also visited all of the leading cities, Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh and others to study the ambulance service. His ambulance is used exclusively to convey patients from home to hospital, or from hospitals to homes, and not in emergency cases. His hobby is quick and. dependable service, absolute comfort, and all patients carried by his ambulance are fully insured against accidents. His motto is "One Minute May Save a Human Life." Mr. Litt in 1917 enlisted and while overseas in France was in charge of the death record corps, being stationed at many points in the war trouble area. He received his honorable discharge in 1919 and then returned to Dayton and resumed his undertaking business, subsequently adding this special ambulance. Mr. Litt is unmarried. He is a Catholic. Is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and in the American Legion has exerted his influence to secure from the government better care for the bodies of ex-service men who died in soldiers' homes and hospitals. HARRY EATON is proprietor of the Peoples Real Estate & Insurance Company at Middleton and in this has perfected an organization for expert service in the handling of town and country real estate and general insurance. Mr. Eaton was born March 12, 1899, at Franklin, Ohio, son of Charles and Alflata Eaton, of Franklin, where his mother is still living. His father was well known in real estate circles in the Miami Valley and died in 1919. Harry Eaton. attended the high school at Franklin and after completing his education became junior member in the partnership of Eaton & Eaton, with a real estate office at Middletown. His father was the senior member of the firm. This business was continued under the original title until 1923 when it was succeeded by the Peoples Real Estate Company. The company does a general brokerage business in farm and city property and represents a large number of the leading old line fire insurance companies. Mr. Eaton is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Knights of Pythias, served for four years as a trustee of the Middletown Real Estate Board and as a member of the Butler County, Ohio State and National Real Estate associations. He is an active Methodist and at Franklin was a teacher in the Sunday Sehool, assistant Sunday School superintendent, and had general charge of the social activities of the Sunday School of the Methodist Church. Mr. Eaton, who is unmarried, was a volunteer at the time of the World war for service in the navy but the armistice was signed before he was called. He is a member of the Fish and Game Protective Association of Middletown. EDMOND H. MOORE. One of Ohio's prominent lawyers and distinguished public men is Edmond H. Moore, of Cleveland, who is a native of the state and a descendant of one of the pioneer families of the Western Reserve. His grandfather, William Moore, came to Ohio from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1810 and settled at Milton in Mahoning County, where Alexander F., his son, and father of Edmond H., was born and reared. Alexander F. Moore read law in Canfield, the first county seat of Mahoning County, and for many years practiced his profession at Canfield, Ottawa and Youngstown. As an able lawyer and brilliant orator he ranked among the prominent members of the Ohio bar of his time. He was a leading democrat of his community, and his party honored him with election as mayor of Canfield. He married Elizabeth Van Dalsen, who bore him two children. Edmond H. Moore was born in Milton, Mahoning County, on October 16, 1862. He was graduated from Rayen. High School, Youngstown, in 1879, taught school for a number of years, during which time he also studied law in his father 's office, and was admitted to the bar in 1884. He engaged in the practice of his profession at Youngstown in 1891, later became senior member of the law firm of Moore, Barnum & Hammond of that city, and so continued until 1922, in which year he moved to Cleveland, and at the present time is senior member of the strong law firm of Moore, Mahon, Miller & Moore, with offices in the Union Trust Building. While Mr. Moore has won state-wide distinction in his profession, it has been in the domain of political affairs that he has gained nation-wide prominence. He was elected on the democratic ticket mayor of Youngstown in 1896 and reelected in 1898. He was appointed state superintendent of insurance of Ohio in May, 1911, and served with credit alike to the state and himself until he resigned in February, 1914, to return to his profession. In 1912 he became a member of the Democratic National Committee from Ohio, and continued a member of that organization until 1920, when he resigned in order that he might devote all of his time to his profession. However, in 1924, he accepted reelection as a member of the Democratic National Committee. In November, 1890, Mr. Moore was united in marriage with Emma McKinney, of Petersburg, Ohio, who died in 1903, leaving two sons, Harold T. and Mark E., both of whom saw overseas military duty during the World war, the older son as a lieutenant of Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Ma- 446 - HISTORY OF OHIO chine Gun Battalion, U. S. A., in the Argonne Forest, France, and in Belgium, the younger son as a sergeant in the Sixtieth Heavy Coast Artillery, U. S. A., in the campaigns of Saint Mihiel and the Argonne Forest, France, and both are engaged in the practice of law, associated with their father. On November 9, 1905, Mr. Moore married Martha Reznor, who died on August 26, 1918, without issue. HOMER EDSON is president of the Edson and Wise Company, real estate, at Middletown. This is one of the most complete business service organizations for real estate in Southern Ohio. The company has all the facilities of capital, experience and technical skill for home-building operations and they also do a general brokerage business, buying and selling securities, making loans, conduct a general insurance agency, including fire, life and accident, and in the various departments of the business can be transacted or obtained every service needed by the real estate owner. The company has about fifty employes. Homer Edson of this company was born in 1892, son of Charles E. and Estella (Runyan) Edson, of Middletown. His father for many years was a prominent real estate dealer. Homer Edson was educated in the Middletown High School, and has taken special training in real estate and mortgage loan work. He is a veteran of the World war, having entered service at the time America joined in the struggle with the central powers. He was appointed to the rank of major and assigned to Red Cross work at Camp Devons, Massachusetts. He remained as field director there until the close of the war. Mr. Edson has the honor of having been elected a school director of Middletown, November 6, 1923, by the largest vote ever cast for a school director. He is a Royal Arch and Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, is president of the Middletown Boy Scouts, and a member of the Middletown Civic Association, the First Presbyterian Church, and is teacher of the Men's Bible Class of the Methodist Church. He is a member of the executive committee of both the County and State Sunday School associations, and has lectured in many counties of the state on Sunday school work. On August 13, 1917, Mr. Edson married Miss Ruth Kline, of Denton, Texas. She finished her education in the Texas College of Industrial Arts at Denton. They have one child, Bettie Edson, born in 1918. GEORGE M. GRAY. One of the able business men of Coshocton, who has been a leader in the hardware line in this city for more than thirty years, is George M. Gray, president of the Gray Hardware Company, and secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Ohio Hardware Mutual Insurance Company, which he was instrumental in founding, and also president of the National Retail Hardware Association representing more than 22,000 hardware men in America. Mr. Gray was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, eldest son of Thomas D. and Margaret (Venatti) Gray, the latter of whom survives and resides at West Lafayette, Ohio. His father, who is now deceased, was a small farmer and later was a soldier in the Union army in the Civil war. The small family income during Mr. Gray's boyhood, made it necessary that he should add to it by his efforts, and thus his school privileges were limited before he was far advanced in his studies. When fourteen years of age he left home to support himself, and through his industry and thrift as a farm hand for a few seasons, was able not only to substantially remember the little home group, but to go to Pittsburgh and secure a clerkship in a bookstore and, what he valued very highly, an opportunity to attend night school. From Pittsburgh, Mr. Gray went to Clayville, Pennsylvania, where he became a clerk in a hardware store, and afterward, in connection with others, bought the store, where he continued for a time, in the meanwhile acquiring a valuable amount of business experience. He had long cherished a desire to come to Ohio, and later took advantage of the opportunity to sell his business interest at Clayville, coming then to Zanesville, where he conducted a hardware business of his own for bne year. In 1890, impelled by a sound business sense that has never led him astray, he removed his business interests to Coshocton, where in the succeeding years, he has built up name and fame for a large enterprise. As president of the Gray Hardware Company, he has many special interests and owns two thoroughly stocked stores, one at Coshocton and the other at West Lafayette. In addition to his successful career as a hardware merchant, he has been, for years, prominently identified with the Ohio Hardware Mutual Insurance Company, which came about through his organization, on October 9, 1902, and which has been developed into one of the large financial bodies of the insurance world. This company as designed at first, merely carried insurance risks on hardware merchandise, kindred lines and dwellings, but has been extended to other high class merchandise in preferred risks, as to fire, tornado, use of occupancy, automobiles and theft. It is a mutual company and now carries insured risks that amount to $30,000,000 Coshocton is the home of the company but it is doing business all over the United States, with branch offices in many cities. Mr. Gray as secretary, treasurer and general manager, maintains his offices in the fine residence that formerly was his home in that desirable section of the city. In 1899, Mr. Gray was married in Pennsylvania, to Miss Adelle Douglas Gourley, and they have three children: Mary G., Gourley G. and Margaret. The family belongs to the Presbyterian Church, in which Mr. Gray is a ruling elder. In political life he has always been a republican, and is now serving as chairman of the Coshocton County Republican Executive Committee. He is an uncompromising advocate of national prohibition, and is ever ready to lend his influence in support of law and order and for the benefit of the country at large. In the hardware trade the country over, Mr. Gray's name is held in high regard, an honorable, trustworthy representative of the organization. He served as secretary of the Ohio State Hardware Association, and at present is president of the National Retail Hardware Association, by virtue of which office he is a member of the Hardware Retailers' National Council. He enjoys such recreations as golf and horseback riding, and takes no small degree of pleasure in his herd of thoroughbred Jersey cattle. WILLIAM H. HOUGHTON. One of the outstanding features of the industrial life of Marion is the large plant of the Houghton Sulky Company, of which William H. Houghton is president. This company produces the original Faber Sulky, famous the world over for being the lightest, strongest and safest constructed sulky known to the science of engineering. The company was founded in 1904, and from its inception has been prosperous, much of its present condition being due to the energy, efficiency and foresight .of its president, who had always controlled its policies. William H. Houghton was born in Wayne County, Ohio, November 19, 1864. The common schools educated him, and he worked at the carpenter trade until 1884, but in that year went into the lumber business at Dalton, Ohio, transferring these interests in 1 890 to Harriman, Tennessee. In 1892 he returned HISTORY OF OHIO - 447 to Dalton and embarked in the manufacture of carriages and circus wagons, in which he was achieving a name for reliability when his business was wiped out by a disastrous fire in 1895, and he then began his connection with Marion. For a year he was superintendent of the National Wagon Company, and then founded the Houghton Buggy Company. In 1897 he formed a copartnership with the late T. J. McMurray, that became in 1901 the Houghton-Merkel Company. The business was further developed in 1904, becoming then the Houghton Sulky Company, and this concern bought the business, patterns, forms, patents and good will of the Faber Sulky Company of Rochester, New York, who originated, patented and made the Faber Sulky. In 1914 the business was capitalized at $100,000. The original location of the plant was on Lincoln Avenue, in the building now occupied by the Murdock Dishwashing Company, but sometime later the company bought the building on the west side of North State Street between Mill Street and the Erie Railroad, and this is the present home of the concern. Almost immediately shipments were made abroad, and until the outbreak of the World war this branch of the business assumed large proportions. With the entry of this country into the war production dropped off, as the majority of the skilled workmen were detailed by the Government for work on aeroplane production. With the return to normalcy, however, the business has made rapid strides forward, especially in its exporting trade. Shipments are now being made to Canada, Austria, England, Australia, Germany, France, New Zealand, Scotland, Russia, Mexico, Wales, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, H611and, Norway, Chili, Vladivostok, Argentina, and through forwarding agents in New York to other foreign points. A large force of skilled workmen are employed in the Marion plant. Associated with President Houghton in this company are: Hoke Donithen, vice president; Frank Foster, secretary, and M. C. Cheney. These officials with 0. I. Clevenger, F. W. Warner and H. T. Myers form the Board of Directors. Some of the famous drivers using Houghton-Faber sulkies, most of them to the exclusion of any other make, are: Geers, McDonald, Edman, Murphy, Egan, Cox, Ray, Palin, Valentine, Pitman, Hyde, Leese, Erskine, McMahon, Perry, Childs, Stokes, Fleming, Brusie, Morrison, Thomas, McDevitt, Johnson, Rodney, Post, Miller, Whitehead, Dickerson, Loomis, Hedrick, McKay, Lacey, Mallow, Crozier, Erwin, Fleming, Myers, Gray, McOarr, Martin, White, Snow, McGrath, Hodson, Perry, Taylor, Cowdery, Dean, Murray, Sunderlin, Hayes, Nickerson and Pottle, nearly all of whom have been tutored by Mr. Houghton. In addition to the sulkies the Houghton Sulky Company manufactures auto bodies, phonograph and radio eon-sole bodies. For several years Mr. Houghton was president of the Marion Savings Bank, but his duties in connection with the company he founded have become too onerous for him to devote much attention to any other line, so he resigned his financial responsibilities. On November 29, 1889, Mr. Houghton married. Miss Clara I. Schultz, of Dalton, Ohio. Mrs. Houghton is a daughter of Martin Schultz, of Dalton. Mr. and Mrs. Houghton have three children, namely: Ellis M., who married Harriet Snyder, of Wooster, Ohio, has two children, and is a realtor of Cleveland, Ohio ; Helen, who is the wife of Frank Foster, sales manager and secretary of the Houghton Sulky Company; and Dorothy, who is at home. Mr. Houghton is a republican. He belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and to the Marion Club. The Presbyterian Church holds hie membership. A man of unusual business ability, he has forged ahead and, in spite of some reverses, succeeded beyond the ordinary run and added to the prestige of his city in bringing it to the attention of the world through the superiority of the products of his plant. COL. EDWARD STRODE THACHER, JR. An old and prominent name in Ohio is Thaeher, dating back to early Ohio history, but dating much farther back in American history. It has been notable in both professional and military life, and a military man of the present day who worthily bears it is Col. Edward Strode Thaeher, Jr., of Columbus, colonel of the Ohio National Guard Artillery, who served overseas with marked distinction during the World war. Colonel Thacher was born at Columbus, Ohio, in 1887, a son of Edward Strode and Margaret (McGinnis) Thacher. The Thacher and Strode families belonged originally to England, and early family records disclose that one of the eminent jurists who imposed the death sentence on King Charles the First was Sir Edward Strode, of this family connection. Apparently the first to bear the Thacher name in American history was Rev. Anthony Thaeher, a clergyman of the Episcopal Church, who came from Great Britain to New England in 1635, spent his life there and left descendants, many of whom became distinguished in the colonial troubles, the Revolutionary war, the War of 1812, and in the Mexican and Civil wars, without present mention being made of the World war. In 1830, the great-grandfather of Colonel Thacher, Dr. N. W. Thaeher, moved from New London, Connecticut, to Ohio and established himself in the practice of medicine in the capital city, Chillicothe. He married Nancy Bedinger Van Swearingen, a daughter of Col. James Van Swearingen, a United States military officer who drew the plans for and built Fort Dearborn, now Chicago, long a landmark of Western civilization on the shores of Lake Michigan. The maternal grandfather of Colonel Thaeher was an infantry officer in the Union Army throughout the Civil war. Colonel Thacher was seventeen years old when, after successfully passing the required educational, moral and physical tests, he received his appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, spent two years of rigid military discipline there and then resigned in order to enter the United States Army. He did not enter the army at that time, but later joined the Ohio National Guard, enlisting in this organization as a private in Cavalry Troop B, of which he subsequently became captain, through well merited promotion. He went to the Mexican border with this state body in 1916, when he was transferred to the Seventeenth Cavalry, United States Regular Array, and with this regiment served as second lieutenant of Troop H during the border service. When the United States became involved in the World war Colonel Thacher assisted in organizing the Third Ohio Field Artillery, later designated as the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Field Artillery, with which he was prominently identified through a perilous period. He was commissioned major of this organization, and trained it at Camp Sheridan, Alabama, and prior to leaving his own country, attended and was graduated from the Officers Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. In May, 1918, Colonel Thacher went overseas as major of the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Field Artillery, which had been made a part of the Thirty-seventh Division, and took part in the great offensives of the summer and fall of 1918. Following the signing of the armistice with Germany he was transferred to the Ninetieth Division, Three Hundred and Forty-fifth Field Artillery, and went with that command to the Rhine, as a part of the Army of 448 - HISTORY OF OHIO Occupation. He acted also as assistant military commander of Trier, Germany. In the summer of 1919 Colonel Thacher returned home and was honorably discharged, soon thereafter being made lieutenant-colonel and, later, colonel in the Ohio National Guard Artillery, and has the same rank in the United States Army Officers Reserve Corps. Since returning from France Colonel Thaeher has been active in several engineering projects of importance, and at the present time fills a position as engineer for the Ohio State Auditor 's Department. He has always maintained his home in his native city, and resides at 26 Auburn Avenue Columbus. Colonel Thacher married Virginia Dent Van Swearingen, of Circleville Ohio. Colonel and Mrs. Thaeher have a family of three daughters and two sons : Virginia, Edward Strode, III, Ann, John and Margaret. The family belongs to the Episcopal Church. E. O. FAIRCHILD, superintendent of the public schools of Deshler, has been identified with the local schools there for fifteen years, and both here and elsewhere has earned a splendid record of a high minded educator and leader in educational affairs. Mr. Fairchild was born at Findlay, Ohio, June 30, 1878, son of E. L and Deborah (Mayer) Fairchild. His father was born in Fairfield County, in 1840, and his mother in Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 1845. She is now living at Deshler. E. L. Fairchild was reared on a farm, had a public school education, and for a time in early youth worked on a canal boat and also did farm labor. He married in Hancock County, Ohio, where his wife had taught public schools. In May, 1880, they moved to Henry County and settled on a farm near Deshler, where he spent the rest of his active life. This farm is still owned by his descendants. The mother is an active member of the United Brethren Church. E. L. Fairchild was a democrat, but in later years supported the republican ticket. There were two children, Ola and E. O. Ola is a teacher in the Deshler public schools. E. O. Fairchild while a boy on the farm attended the public schools of Deshler, graduating from high school, and began his teaching career in rural districts. He continued his education in the Tri-State Normal College at Angola, Indiana, and is a Bachelor .of Arts degree graduate of Defiance College, Ohio. He also attended for a time Ohio State University, and he keeps in touch with improved methods in school administration by membership in various educational organizations. Mr. Fairehild came to Deshler in 1908 as principal of the public schools, and on the death of the superintendent in 1915 he was elected to take charge of the entire system of this growing and prosperous town. Mr. Fairchild married Miss Grace Hudson, of Bradford, Pennsylvania. Their two children are Evaline and Ernestine, both attending high school at Deshler. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church, Mr. Fairchild being an elder and superintendent of the Sunday school. He is affiliated with Sycamore Lodge No. 520, Free and Accepted Masons; Deshler Chapter No. 201, Royal Arch Masons; Putnam Council No. 69, Royal and Select Masters; Findlay Commandery, Knights Templar; Zenobia Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Toledo. He is a republican in politics, and from 1914 to 1920 served as a member of the County Board of School Examiners. THE WILLIS FAMILY OF DELAWARE COUNTY is one whose name has been prominently and worthily identified with the annals of American history from the early Colonial period, and the family has been established in Delaware County, Ohio, for ninety years. About four miles distant from historic Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, was established the original home of the Willis family. The material for this ancient dwelling was brought, ready framed, from England, and arrived on the second or third vessel to arrive in this country after the original voyage of the "Mayflower." The house was erected at Kingston, Massachusetts, and was well supplied with furnishings brought likewise from England, records, as well as many family heirlooms, showing that both in England and Massachusetts the Willis family had been one of appreciable wealth and influence. The original member of the Willis family to come to Ohio and settled in Delaware County was Buckley H. Willis, whose wife was Susan Bartlett, whose mother was born in the historic and storied old wayside inn at Sudbury, Massachusetts. Buckley H. Willis was reared in the old Bay State; there his marriage occurred and thence, after living for a time in Vermont, in 1834, he came with his family to Ohio and settled in Delaware County. Mr. Willis was of a verile type of manhood, not afraid to face the hardships of pioneer life. He lived to attain the age of ninety-six years in Delaware County, most of the time as an active farmer, working vigorously on a farm himself until he was well past ninety years of age. He attained some measure of distinction in Concord Township, because, for a number of years, his was the only abolition vote cast in that township. When the republican party was organized he immediately identified himself with it, and was an influential factor in the organization of the new party in his home county. Ten children were born to Buckley H. Willis and his wife. These in order were: Cornelia, who became Mrs. Cutler, of Columbus; Brainard, who resided on a farm near Belle Point, Delaware County, until his death at the age of ninety-two years in 1922; Jay B., father of Frank B., United State Senator, a farmer of Delaware County; Plynn, a physician residing near Ostrander, Delaware County; Emily, Henry, a farmer residing near Hyattsville; Rollin K. and Frank A., whose sketches appear hereafter; Elbridge R., who became a distinguished minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and now resides in California; and John B., who was assistant editor of the Christian Science Monitor and now resides in Massachusetts. Of these sons four served in the armies of the Union throughout the War of the Rebellion; not one of them was ever compelled to enter a hospital as a patient at any time, a splendid tribute to the type of manhood of the family. Rollin K. Willis, who now resides in Delaware, Ohio, was born on the old homestead farm in Delaware County, September 26, 1843, and there he was reared to adult age. At the age of eighteen years he went forth as a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil War, he having been a musician in the band of the Forty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until the close of the war. He has in his possession a piece of his regimental flag he aided in saving at Fort Donelson, where he and others of his command were captured, the flag of the regiment having by them been buried in the Confederate prison and having eventually been brought home with the regiment. Mr. Willis participated in many engagements and lived up to the full tension of the great conflict. In February, 1868, Rollin K. Willis wedded Alice Elizabeth, daughter of Miner P. and Orilla G. Tone, who came from New Hampshire and settled in Delaware County, Ohio, Mr. Tone having been one of the specially successful sheep growers of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Willis became the parents of four -children. Roy, now deceased, married Pearl Crumb, and they have one child, Dorothy. Myrtle became the wife of James Morse, of Boston, and HISTORY OF OHIO - 449 they had four children, Myrtle, Alice, Grace and Eunice. Mr. Morse is now deceased. Rolla married Ethel Bovey, and they have three sons, Wilbur, Paul and Vernon. Grace, youngest of the children, died in California. Mrs. Willis died some years ago, and later he married Miss Mayme Harter. Mr. and Mrs. Willis are active members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic. Frank A. Willis was born on a pioneer farm in Delaware County, September 28, 1846. His youth was spent on this farm, in the work of which he assisted during the summer seasons, while he attended the winter terms of school until he was fourteen years old. In his native county he continued as a successful and prominent exponent of farm industry until 1913, since which year he has maintained his home at Delaware, the county seat. April 25, 1867, recorded his marriage to Mary E. Berlet, who likewise was born on a farm in Delaware County, and who is a daughter of Frederick and Margaret Berlet. Mr. and Mrs. Willis have one child, Nellie, who is the wife of Myron Champion, of Delaware. Mr. and Mrs. Willis are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is a stalwart republican in politics. Jay B. Willis, the father of Senator Willis, was born at Dorset, Vermont, and remembered distinctly the trip made by his father and mother and their children' over the Old Erie Canal to their new home in Ohio, where, on January 24, 1856, he married Lavina Buell. Shortly before the Civil war they journeyed by wagon to Western Iowa and Missouri, but after two years there, preferring Ohio, they returned to Delaware County and continued to reside there until their death. They reared three sons: Buell, a farmer of Lewis Center, Delaware County ; Lloyd, a prominent real estate man of Chicago, Illinois; and Frank Bartlett, who was named after his uncle, Frank A., of whom specific mention has been made in this context. A daughter, Dottie, died in 1877, at the age of two years. Frank Bartlett Willis, forty-fifth Governor of Ohio and present United States Senator, has through his character, achievement and service signally honored the family name. He spent his youth on the farm, attended and taught country school, attended the high school at Galena and then became a student at Ohio Northern University, Ada, Hardin County, Ohio. It was in connection with his choice of Ohio Northern that he first evidenced that spirit of independence and ability to stand on his own feet, which has been the characteristic of his life. Refusing the proffered financial assistance of his parents, the future Governor made his own way through college, and at the same time earned an enviable record for scholarship. Following his graduation and a post-graduate course in law he became an instructor in the law department of his Alma Mater, where he taught for several years, not only becoming thoroughly familiar with the laws of the land, but also building up a large circle of friends 'among men who have been destined to play a considerable part in public affairs throughout the state. In '1906 he was admitted to the bar. As a young man Mr. Willis became interested in politics, and in 1896 stumped the state for William McKinley. In 1899 he was nominated as the republican candidate for representative from Hardin County. The county was democratic, and its representative at the time in the Legislature belonged to that party. Mr. Willis rode from house to house on a bicycle, making a most thorough personal canvass of the country. Mr. Willis played an important part in the Legislature, in which he served two terms. He attained distinction through his connection with the reform of tax measures in Ohio. The Willis Tax Law, compelling home and foreign corporations to pay a certain per cent on their capital stock into the treasury annually, is still one of the fundamental features of the taxation system of his state. In 1910 Mr. Willis was elected to Congress from the Eighth Ohio District, which was composed of Champaign, Delaware, Hardin, Hancock, Logan and Union counties, defeating Thomas C. Mahon by a vote of 21,030 to 19,519. In 1912 he was one of the three Ohio republican Congressman returned to their seats, receiving a plurality of 1,414 over Hon. W. W. Durbin, of Kenton, although his district gave the democratic candidate for Governor a plurality of 4,967. In Congress Mr. Willis quickly achieved distinction. He won a reputation for independence, great industry and ability to take care of himself in debate. He jumped from obscurity to national fame in a single day by a speech he made in the House of Representatives on the Arizona-New Mexico Statehood Bill. The Willis voice, one of his assets, quickly became known in the House. It is a big, booming voice, rich, rotund, with a touch of middle-western nasal twang creeping into it now and then. Apparently without effort its owner can fill almost any auditorium in which he speaks. Throughout his Congressional career and representing a great wool producing district Mr. Willis always occupied a prominent part in the fight for the continuance of a protective tariff policy, and particularly of a tariff on wool. As the son of a soldier he labored faithfully in the interest of the veterans of our wars. He was elected Governor of Ohio in 1914, serving two years. In 1920 he was elected to the United States Senate to succeed Senator Warren G. Harding, who on the same day was elected President of the United States. On the resignation of Senator Harding in January, 1921, Senator Willis, through appointment by Governor Davis, took his seat in the Senate a few. weeks in advance of the date on which he began his elected term. His ability to see clearly into the heart of problems early won him membership on four important committees of the Senate—foreign relations, immigration, territories and insular possessions, and commerce. In 1924 he became chairman of the Committee on Territories. Senator Willis has spoken in almost every historic spot in America. In 1916 he presented the name of Hon. Theodore E. Burton for President, and in 1920 the name of Hon. Warren G. Harding. In the estimate of many men the speech he made nominating Mr. Harding is the only one ever delivered to a Republican National Convention which actually helped the candidate in whose behalf it was made. His expression, "Say, boys and girls, let's nominate Harding," uttered spontaneously, caught the convention and aroused it to a pitch of enthusiasm not hitherto reached during the nominating speeches. The Senator's wife was Allie Dustin, whose father and mother are prominent residents of Galena in Delaware County, Ohio. They were married July 19, 1894, and have one daughter, Helen. The family home is maintained in Delaware, Ohio. CHARLES SEEMANN, SR., of the law firm of Seemann & Seemann of Canton, is one of the older members of the legal profession in Stark County, and has been continuously in practice for nearly forty years. His abilities have won him a succession of important clients and cases in both the civil and criminal courts. He was born in Carroll County, Ohio, August 19, 1858, grew up as a farm boy, and had a country