HISTORY OF OHIO - 75 tative Mansfield concern he continued his alliance until he promoted and organized the company of which he is now the executive head and the success of which has been primarily due to his able management and progressive policies. Mr. Allerding is a valued member of the local Kiwanis Club, is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he and his wife are zealous communicants of St. Peter ,s Catholic Church. Mr. Allerding wedded Miss Mary Baker Jones of Mount Vernon, and they have an adopted son, Robert Nicholas Allerding. N. O. WEAMER is proprietor of the Southern Hotel of Mansfield, a house of public entertainment that has been justly celebrated and has served to make Mansfield a favorite way station in the journeys of commercial travelers and others. Mr. Weamer is a native of Ohio, born close to the Indiana state line and near Union City, Indiana. When he first came to Mansfield he acted as steward in the Vanhof Hotel, and for the last ten years has had the active management of the Southern. A former proprietor of the Southern was Colonel Andrews, a popular landlord, who was finally succeeded by his son-in-law, P. C. Berry. Upon the death of Mr. Berry his widow carried on the hotel until Mr. Weamer became proprietor. For three generations the corner of South Park and South Main Street has been the site of a public house. Colonel Andrews rebuilt and enlarged until the structure reached its present dimensions. The Southern now has accommodations for 100 guests. For many years its dining room was celebrated for first class meals, and the hotel continued on the American plan at the request of its many regular customers until the march of events necessitated conversion to the European basis, a transition made in 1923. Mr. Weamer is not only the youngest landlord of any high class hotel in Ohio, but is richly endowed with those personal traits so much appreciated by the traveling public. Guests have found the Southern a veritable home. Besides the Southern, he is also proprietor of the Central Hotel at Galion, A. L. Blakeley being the manager. The Southern hotel is now (1924) undergoing a complete rehabilitation, and additional fifty rooms are to be added. Mrs. Weamer was formerly Ruth Bissman, daughter of the well known wholesale grocer, William H. Bissman. EDWIN G. SLOUGH, for nearly twenty years secretary of the Mansfield Chamber of Commerce, in that official capacity made the Chamber one of the livest organizations of its kind in Northern Ohio. Mr. Slough is an enthusiast, capable of inspiring others, and the business men who are members of the Chamber of Commerce give him much credit for the notable program of achievement that was carried out under the auspices of the Chamber in recent years. A recent report of the Chamber of Commerce shows that since 1908, through the direct instrumentality of the Chamber, sixteen, new institutions have been located in Mansfield and many others have come in incidentally, more than doubling the industrial activity of the city in a period of fifteen years. THE SHELBY DAILY GLOBE, published in the vital little City of Shelby, Richland County, is a newspaper that covers its field most effectively and in its functions has well justified the confidence of its founders in the action which they took in establishing it. From a modest inceptiOn the paper has been brought up to a high standard, its value is recognized, it receives a representative advertising patronage, and has developed a large and appreciative circulation. J. C. Stambaugh, publisher of the Shelby Daily Globe, is a native son of Shelby, and here his initial independent venture as a representative of the " art preservative of all arts" was made when he became associated with C. S. Moore in conducting a small job-printing office. The two young men were ambitious and believing that here was offered a field for successful service in the establishing of a daily paper, the year 1900 recorded their debut as publishers of the Daily Globe, the -first issue of which came forth from the press on the 24th of April of that year. The publishers used at the beginning the facilities of their job office, and at the inception. the Globe was a little folio edition 8 by 12 inches in page dimensions. The entire working outfit and investment did not represent more than a few hundred dollars, but the paper met with favorable reception and its growth has been substantial and consecutive. The Globe specialized in the giving of community news in a clean and effective way, its general news department is comprehensive and well directed, and it is. a vital force in furthering the interests of Shelby and the territory tributary thereto. The Shelby Daily Globe, with the best of modern letterpress and makeup, is now a six-column paper of eight pages, and its metropolitan appearance would make it a credit to a city of much larger population than Shelby. The Globe now goes forth to 2,200 regular subscribers, aside from its daily street sales and sales in local news stands, and the modern plant from which it is issued now represents an investment in excess of $50,000. In the establishment is retained an efficient corps of ten employes. The Globe is independent in politics, and its policy is one of progressiveness and loyalty in advancing the best interests of Shelby and Richland County and in supporting good men for local political and general public offices. Mr. Moore continued his association with the business until 1920 when he retired, 'and since that time Mr. Stambaugh has continued as publisher of the paper which he aided in founding and which he has made to justify its existence in the fullest sense. R. L. Casta has been the efficient editor of the Globe since its beginning in 1900. John C. Stambaugh was born and reared at Shelby and here received the advantages of the public schools. His connection with the printer ,s trade ultimately led to his establishing the paper of which he is now the publisher. He wedded Miss Flo M. Horner, of Shelby, and they have a winsome little daughter, Jane. Mr. Stambaugh is a son of S. F. Stambaugh, who has been established in the real estate and insurance business at Shelby for fully half a century. JAMES H. KNAPP. It has been the privilege of James H. Knapp, president of the Republic Banking Company, and a prominent farmer of Scipio Township, Seneca County, to realize many of his worthy ambitions and through the exercise of good judgment and business sagacity to wrest from his opportunities financial and general success. Although now past eighty years, when most men would be willing to retire on their laurels, his active brain and bodily energy keep him a participating factor in the life of the community, where he is widely known and highly respected. Mr. Knapp was born July 12, 1842, in Putnam County, New York, and is a son of Gilbert and Cynthia (Chase) Knapp, and a grandson of Wright Knapp, also a native of New YOrk State. Gilbert Knapp was born in Putnam County January 7, 1820, and was reared on a farm. He carried on farming, lime burning and brick making until 1848, when he came to Erie County, Ohio, and settled on a farm on which he spent the remaining years of his life, dying in 1894. He was a Quaker in his religious faith, and a repub- 76 - HISTORY OF OHIO lican in politics. Mrs. Knapp, who was born in New York June 6, 1820, was a member of the Baptist Church, in the faith of which she died in 1910. There were three sons in the family of this worthy couple: James H., John T. and Cyrus C., the two latter being deceased. James H. Knapp was reared on farms in Putnam County, New York, and Erie County, Ohio, and secured his education in the district schools, this being supplemented by attendance at Eastman,s Commercial College. On May 2, 1864, he enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until the close of the war. On his return from military service Mr. Knapp located in Erie County, where he worked on a farm for about five years, but in 1870 took up his permanent residence in Seneca County, where he is now the owner of a' handsome property known as Rock Run Ranch, a tract of 335 acres which includes all the latest improvements and is highly productive. In 1906 Mr. Knapp assisted in the organization of the Republic Banking Company, of which he has since ben the president, his associate officials being : R. D. Straub, vice president ; William M. Baker, secretary-treasurer ; E. B. Straub, cashier; and Ressie M. Robertson, assistant cashier. Mr. Knapp was a member of the Farmers Bureau and of the executive committee of the Farmers Insurance Commission in 1922-23. Fraternally he is a thirty-second degree Mason in the Valley of Toledo. Politically he supports the principles of the republican party, and despite the fact that Seneca County was heavily democratic at the time, was elected a member of the board of county commissioners for one term. Mr. Knapp is a broad minded man, thoroughly progressive, well posted on current events, and entertaining sensible opinions on questions of public interest. On October 12, 1870, Mr. Knapp married Mrs. Joanna S. Crissel, of Seneca County, who was born in New York and educated in the public schools and the academy at Republic, and who at the time of her marriage was living on the old Crissel homestead in Seneca County. She died August 13, 1914, the mother of two sons, Daniel B. and Fred, both deceased. On April 22, 1915, Mr. Knapp married Mrs. Helen M. Heath, who was born in Scipio Township, Seneca County, August 31, 1846. She spent four years in New York, finishing her education. On December 1, 1869, she married the late Edward E. Heath, a tinner by trade, and for three years a Union soldier during the Civil war. They had no children. CHARLES E. MORRIS, who is one of the leading representatives of the real estate business at Shelby, has made his influence extend far aside from his individual business operations, as is evident from the fact that he has served continuously since 1915 as mayor of his home city. This statement bears its own significance in indicating the admirable administration he has given as chief executive of the municipal government of Shelby, and also in defining his unqualified personal popularity in his native county. Mr. Morris was born on a farm in Richland County, Ohio, October 26, 1869, and is a son of Gidion B. Morris, who was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, in 1845, and who was a child of two years at the time of the family removal to Ohio in 1847. His father, Benjamin Morris, became one of the substantial farmers of Richland County, where he passed the remainder of his life. Gidion B. Morris gave his active life to the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, was the owner of an excellent farm estate in Butler Township, Richland County, and was sixty-three years of age at the time of his death. His wife, whose maiden name was Eliza J. Ulrich, was born and reared in Richland County, a daughter of the late John Ulrich, who was a farmer in Weller Township. Mrs. Morris survived her husband several years. Charles E. Morris early began to participate in the productive activities of the home farm, on which he remained until he was seventeen years old, his educational advantages in the meanwhile having been those of the public schools. On leaving the farm he went to the City of Mansfield, where he remained until 1895, associated. with business affairs, and he was engaged in the retail grocery business at Shelby during the next nine years. Since 1904 he has here been established in the general real estate business, in which his operations have been of important order and involve the handling of both urban and farm properties. In 1915 Mr. Morris was elected mayor of the Village of Shelby, and he continued the incumbent of this office until the village received its city charter in 1922, when he became the first mayor of the new city, even as he had been the last mayor or president of the village. His administration has been ordered on careful business principles, his financial policy has been one of wise economy, and he has been a potent influence in ridding his home city of its burden of indebtedness, Shelby’s exchequer now showing a substantial balance on the right side of its ledger. Shelby’s popular mayor is found aligned in the ranks of the republican party, and he is a member of the county board of election supervisors. Mr. Morris wedded Miss Lamintie Fickes, who likewise was born and reared in Richland County, and they have three daughters: Iva is the widow of .George Noland and is now a member of the parental home circle; Martha is the wife of George W. Armstrong, of Chicago, Illinois; and Kathryn is (1923) a student in Wooster College. THE CITIZENS BANK OF SHELBY is a Richland County, institution whose success and broad influence have fully justified the confidence and faith of its promoters and organizers, and its history has been one marked by consecutive advancement. The influence of this bank has been large in connection with the general civic and industrial progress of the fine little City of Shelby during the last thirty years. The Citizens Bank of Shelby was organized in the year 1893, at a time when general financial depression was in evidence in all parts of the United States. The bank was incorporated on the 22d of May of that year, with a capital stock of $60,000, and the original executive corps was as here designated : W. W. Skiles, president; H. W. Hildebrant, vice president; D. V. Wherry, cashier ; and Hugh G. Hildebrant, assistant cashier. In addition to the president and vice president the original directorate included also Herbert Mickey, Jacob Garnhart, Roger Heath, Edwin Mansfield and David Cummings. Of the early stage in the history of this institution the following statements have been written: " The growth of the bank at first was slow, for Shelby itself was just beginning to grow, the Tube Works having here been established three years previously. It took just seven years for the bank to double its business." In the passing years the growth of the Citizens Bank has been one of splendid order. Since 1910 operations have been based upon a capital stock of $100,000, and the total resources of the bank, at the time of this writing, in the spring of 1924, are $1,500,000, while deposits are fully $1,350,000—figures that bear their own significance. The modern and well equipped bank building as erected in 1911. Of the original board of directors only one is now living, Judge Edwin Mansfield. W. W. Skiles continued as president of the bank from its incorporation until his death, and he was representative of this district in the United States Congress at the time of his death. HISTORY OF OHIO - 77 He was succeeded in the presidency by Roger Heath, whose successor was the late Hiram W. Hildebrant, to whom a memoir is dedicated in the following sketch. Mr. Hildebrant resigned his position as president of a few months prior to his death, which occurred in November, 1919, and he was succeeded by his son, Hugh G., the present incumbent. The bank has membership in the Federal Reserve Banking System, and its affairs are ordered along conservative lines. Hugh G. Hildebrant has been an executive officer of the bank from the time of its inception, and has been a resourceful factor in the development and upbuilding of its substantial business. In the office of cashier D. V. Wherry was succeeded by Hugh G. Hildebrant, whose successor was C. C. Bloomfield. Henry Wentz, secretary of the Mutual Plate Glass Insurance Company of Shelby, has likewise been prominent in ordering and directing the policies of the Citizens Bank, of which he continues a director, the other members of the directorate at the time of this writing being : Edwin Mansfield, L. A. Portner, E. W. Wiggins, I. Hollenbaugh, W. W. VanHorn, B. F. Long, R. C. Skiles, H. G. Hildebrant and C. C. Bloomfield. Mr. Hildebrant on September 16, 1896, married Miss Nellie Barkdull, of Shelby, daughter of Luther W. Barkdull, one of the successful manufacturers and merchants of Shelby. His wife 's maiden name was Margaretta Sutter, daughter of Samuel Sutter, one of the early pioneers and representative men of his time. Mr. and Mrs. Hildebrant have two children, E. Donald and Dorothy B. HIRAM W. HILDEBRANT was a man of whose character and achievement were moulded and governed by fine personal stewardship and high conceptions of individual responsibility as a citizen and man of affairs. He played a large part in the advancement of his home City of Shelby. He was an orphan boy when he came to this county and entered the home of one of his aunts, and his own ability and efforts were the medium through which he won substantial material success, the while he ever had secure place in the confidence and good will of his fellow men. He was one of the honored and influential citizens of Richland County at the time of his death, in 1919, and only a few months prior to his demise he resigned the office of president of the Citizens Bank of Shelby, of which his son, Hugh G., is now the chief executive, a specific record concerning this bank being given in the preceding sketch. Mr. Hildebrant was born in the vicinity of Lockport, New York, and was an orphan lad of nine years when he came to the home of his aunt in Richland County, Ohio, as noted above. Here he profited fully from the advantages afforded in the common schools of the period, as is evidenced by his having given several years of successful service as a teacher in the schools of this locality. For a time he was a commercial salesman, but he soon turned his attention to the insurance business at Shelby. He became one of the foremost representatives of this line of enterprise in Richland County, and he was actively concerned in the organization of the Mutual Plate Glass Insurance Company of Shelby, of which he served as president some time. His appreciation of his home town was shown in civic liberality and progressiveness, and his influence and cooperation were given in support of measures and enterprises that contributed much to civic and material progress here. He was one of the organizers and original directors of the Citizens Bank of Shelby, and, as previously noted in this context, he retired from the presidency of this institution only a few months prior to his death, impaired health having led to this action on his part. E. J. MERRILL is distinctly one of the most loyal, liberal and progressive citizens and business men of his native City of Ironton, Lawrence County, where he is giving (1923) a most able administration as president of the Chamber of Commerce, and where he is president and general manager of the E. J. Merrill Drug Company, one of the important wholesale concerns of the Lawrence County metropolis. Mr. Merrill is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of Southern Ohio. He is a grandson of James M. and Lydia (Murphy) Merrill, and the former 's father was the pioneer settler in Ohio, he having left his native State of New Hampshire and proceeded to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whence, in 1819, he came down. the Ohio River on the flat-boat which he had constructed for the purpose, and finally landed on the site of the present town of Wheelersburg, Scioto County. The maternal grandfather of the subject of this review was born and reared in Germany, and came to the United States about the year 1850, the remainder of his life having been passed in Ohio. E. J. Merrill was born at Ironton, on the 23d of September, 1870, and is a son of the late William S. and. Amelia L. Merrill, who passed their entire lives in Ohio, save that the father served as a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war. William S. Merrill was made captain of Company K, Second West Virginia Cavalry, his father having been a member of the same company. Captain Merrill continued in service during the entire period of the war, and took part in many engagements, including several major battles. In one engagement he was severely wounded and left for dead, on the battlefield. Upon regaining consciousness he managed to crawl back to the Union lines, was placed in a hospital, and finally recovered and rejoined his command. At the time when he was wounded his father was retreating with the command, and in crossing a bridge the structure gave way and precipitated him to the stream below, with his horse on top of him, but he managed to extricate himself. Capt. William S. Merrill was the first superintendent of the Ironton plant of the Kelley Nail & Iron Company, the plant itself having been built and equipped under his supervision and he having continued as superintendent until his death. No citizen of Ironton had more secure place in popular confidence and esteem that did Captain Merrill. He served two terms as county sheriff, 1868-72, and under the administration of President Harrison he held the position of doorkeeper of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress. He was influential in the affairs of the Grand Army of the Republic, and was a deacon in the First Congregational Church of Ironton. E. J. Merrill was but fourteen years of age at the time of his graduation from the Ironton High School, and he still figures as the youngest person to have ever been thus graduated from this school. While still attending school, he found employment in a local drug store, and after completing his high-school course he became a clerk in the establishment of the BallWarfield Drug Company. Upon the death of Mr. Warfield, in November, 1901, Mr. Merrill assumed entire charge of the business of this company, and under his supervision the enterprise was develOped to include also a wholesale department, he having in the meanwhile acquired an interest in the business. In" April, 1921, he purchased the controlling interest and effected a reorganization, under the present corporate title of the E. J. Merrill Drug Company. The capital stock was increased from $60,000 to $200,000, and he has since continued president and general manager of this corporation, which controls a substantial wholesale and retail business. He has taken most vital interest in the work of the Ironton Chamber of Com- 78 - HISTORY OF OHIO merce, and is president of the organization at the time of this writing, in the summer of 1923. He is president also of the Ironton & Russell Bridge Company; is vice president of the Ironton City Building & Loan Company; is president of the Diamond Lumber Company; and is a director of each of the Citizens National Savings Bank, the Ironton Hotel Company and the local Rotary Club. Mr. Merrill is a staunch advocate of the principles of the republican party, and his civic loyalty was shown in a distinctive way during the period of his service as a member of the city council. He is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and with the Cincinnati Chapter of the Loyal Legion. He and his wife are members of the First Congregational Church of Ironton, and he is a member of its board of trustees. In the period of our national participation in the World. war Mr. Merrill lent himself to patriotic service, with characteristic energy and resourcefulness. He was chairman of the Lawrence County food administration, a member of the county fuel board, and as a four-minute speaker and a leader he played a large part in advancing the drives that caused Lawrence County to go "way over the top" and above its quota in subscriptions to the various government war loans, as well as in support of Red Cross service and other patriotic agencies. At Hamilton, Ohio, on the 13th of June, 1894, Mr. Merrill wedded Miss Mary Elizabeth Savage, daughter of the late Charles E. Savage, of Maysville, Kentucky, he having been an engineer by vocation. The widowed mother of Mrs. Merrill now resides in the State of Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Merrill have no children. ROY I. LEWIS. The year 1923 finds Professor Lewis rendering most effective pedagogic and executive administration as superintendent of the public schools of Shelby, which city ranks next to Mansfield in population and importance in Richland County. The splendid work which Professor Lewis has here done and is continuing to do is the more gratifying to note by reason of the fact that he is a native son of Richland County and a scion of one of its sterling pioneer families. Roy I. Lewis was born on the parental homestead farm in Springfield Township, Richland County, and in this county likewise was born his father, John D., the year of whose nativity was 1846. John F. Lewis, grandfather of him whose name introduces this review, was born and reared in Richland County, where the family was founded in the early pioneer days, and he became a man of exceptionally broad intellectual ken, his' higher education having been acquired largely through self-discipline and he having been one of the popular and successful early-day school teachers in his native county. He was a good Latin scholar, and his Latin books, as well as other volumes which he prized, are now in the possession of his grandson, R. I., of this sketch, who finds gratification in reverting to his study of Latin under` the effective direction of his honored grandsire. John F. Lewis became well known through this section of Ohio as a successful salesman of agricultural implements, and he was one of the honored and well known citizens of his native county at tip time of his death, which occurred when he was eighty-three years of age. In the public schools of his native county R. I. Lewis continued his studies until he had completed the curriculum of the high school, and he then entered Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1912 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He has since done a large amount of well ordered post-graduate work, and in 1923 he received the degree of Master of Arts from Columbia University in New York City. Professor Lewis was eighteen years of age when he initiated his career in the pedagogic profession, and for five years he was engaged in teaching in the public schools of Illinois,—principally in the position of superintendent of schools, from 1912 to 1917. In the latter year he returned to his native county and assumed the position of principal of the Shelby High School. Of this post he continued the incumbent four years, and he was then advanced to his present office, that of superintendent of the admirable public schools of Shelby. Professor Lewis is direct and practical in his policies and methods as touching educational work, and an enthusiast in his profession he shows his loyal stewardship in his careful and successful efforts to fit boys and girls properly to assume their parts in the world 's work and service. The Shelby schools have been brought to a high standard. Its high school is accredited, so that its graduates are eligible for admission to higher instit tutions of learning in Ohio without formal examination. The school buildings and their equipment and facilities are excellent, and the service of the schools is of the best modern standard in all departments. The corps of teachers now aggregates more than forty, the enrollment in the high school is 350 students, and the average annual class graduated from high school numbers more than sixty. A general survey of the educational advantages of the city and county is more clearly a part of the historical section of this publication, so that details are not demanded in this personal sketch. Professor Lewis married Miss Grace Au, who likewise was born and reared in Richland dounty, and they have one son, Gerald. P. W. FREDERICK is proprietor of the Mansfield-Ohio Business College, the composite title indicating the consolidation of a school he founded here more than a quarter of a century ago, and another school, the Ohio Business College, one of the pioneer institutions of business education in the Middle West. Thousands have owed a debt to these institutions for some of the training which has made them successful in business and in personal life and character. The institution is a movement to the live men who gave the best of their lives in the interests of the school and its pupils. The founder of the Ohio Business College was the late Joseph W. Sharp, who was born in York County, Pennsylvania, in 1838. His great-grandfather, James Sharp, came from Ireland to this country about 1753, locating on a farm in York County Pennsylvania. He and his descendants were affiliated with the Quaker Church or Society of Friends. His son John was born in York County in 1753, and toward the close of his long life moved to Ohio and died in Knox County. He was a surveyor and astronomer, and some of his mathematical ability undoubtedly descended to his grandson. His son, John, Jr., was born in 1801, and in 1840 moved with his family to a farm in what is now Morrow County, and he lived there until his death in 1865. Joseph W. Sharp was two years of age when brought to Ohio. He was educated in the common schools, in Oberlin College, and subsequently took degrees in old Chicago University. He began as a teacher of business methods and science in 1866, when he established a business college at Delaware, Ohio. He conducted that school on a high plane for twenty years, graduating nearly 2,500 students. In 1884 he moved to Mansfield and opened the Ohio Business College, and continued its active head until he retired when venerable in years. He was an excellent and efficient teacher, thoroughly imbued with the import- HISTORY OF OHIO - 79 ance of a business training, and few men did more in that line. He was an expert accountant, frequently employed by banks and other institutions for auditing. Joseph W. Sharp was one of the pioneer Ohio leaders in the prohibition cause. He was a member of the editorial staff of the state prohibition organ, and was twice a candidate for lieutenant-governor on the prohibition ticket, and served for many years as chairman of the state executive committee. He was a personal friend of St. John Neal Dow and many other leading phohibitionists of that day. While of Quaker ancestry, he was a member of the Methodist Church. He married Elizabeth A. Kelley, and his only surviving child was W. Way Sharp. In 1904, after the death of Professor Sharp, the Ohio Business College and the Mansfield Business College were consolidated as the Mansfield-Ohio Business College. In 1912- the institution was incorporated. Three years later P. W. Frederick became sole owner and then surrendered the charter and has since conducted it as a private institution. The college has accommodations for 100 students, and its facilities have been improved to meet the new and stringent demand of business for thoroughly trained workers. The college maintains an excellent faculty, and its graduates have made favorable accounts of themselves and of their school in all classes of business and in many states of the Union. It is said there is not a business house in Mansfield that has not had some one in its office force or management who attended the school, and there is a steady demand by local business and industries for the services of practically all those trained in the college. P. W. Frederick was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, October 19, 1865. His grandfather, John C. Frederick, was a native of Germany, and coming to the United States as a young man settled in Coshocton County and was a pioneer. John G. Frederick, father of P. W. Frederick, married Amy Curran. Mr. Frederick was educated in the schools of Coshocton, and attended some of the best business colleges of the day at Delaware and Columbus. He became a teacher in the Zanesville Business College, soon bought an interest, and remained there for two years. In September, 1897, he founded the Mansfield Business College, having for about a year been a teacher in Professor Sharp’s Ohio Business College. In June, 1895, Mr. Frederick married Miss May Lauck, of Zanesville. They had one son, J. Lowell, now deceased. Mr. Frederick is a Methodist. He has proved one of the valuable citizens of Mansfield, interested in its religious, educational and social affairs. He is a man of great earnestness, and his high ideals have had much to do with making the Mansfield-Ohio Business College one of the leading institutions of its kind. As a youth he was impressed with the value of education, and has regarded the teaching profession as the highest calling, worthy of his best efforts and all of his talents. ROBERT MCDONOUGH has the distinction not only of having been mayor of his native town of Plymouth, Richland County, but also of being a representative of one of the old and honored pioneer families of this county. He was born at Plymouth on the 6th of October, 1858, and is a son of the late Robert McDonough, who was born in Virginia in the year 1812, the family, of Scotch lineage, having been founded in the Old Dominion state in the early Colonial period of our national history. Robert McDonough, Sr., was a boy at the time of the family removal from Virginia to Richland County, Ohio, about the year 1820, and his father, John McDonough, became one of the early settlers in the neighborhood of Plymouth, which was then known as Paris and which was a town of no insignificant importance in the pioneer days. Several of the main roads of travel in that period passed through the little Town of Paris, which had several taverns or inns for the entertainment of the traveling public, and which was a place of importance in connection with traffic on the old-time stage routes and overland freighting with teams and wagons. In that period Paris was one of the most vital towns in this section of the state. Robert McDonough, Sr., as a youth learned the trade of cabinetmaker at Mansfield, and at the age of twenty-one years he established his residence at Plymouth, or Paris, which was then at the height of its pioneer-day prosperity. The Village of Paris was founded in 1813, but its village charter under this name was not obtained until 1823, the present name of Plymouth having been adopted in 1838. For a few years Robert McDonough, Sr., here followed his trade of cabinetmaker, and in 1833 he here established himself in the general merchandise business, of which he continued a leading representative until his death, in 1873, besides which he was a prominent figure in local banking enterprises. He was three times married, the maiden name of his third wife, whom he wedded in 1854, having been Artemisia Drennan and she having passed her entire life at Plymouth, where she died in 1908, at the venerable age of eighty-two years. Of this union Robert McDonough, Jr., subject of this sketch, was born, and he is now the only survivor of his father 's eight children, most of whom died from tuberculosis. John D., one of the sons, was known to have been in San Francisco at the time of the great earthquake and fire that devastated that city, and is supposed to have lost his life in that disaster, as none of the family have since had any news concerning him. The former mayor of Plymouth is indebted to the public schools of this place for his early education, and while he is now virtually retired from active business he made a record of eleven years of effective service as a traveling commercial salesman. He has been actively concerned in the ordering of the municipal government of Plymouth for the past thirteen years as a member of the city council and as mayor, in which latter office he served three terms. He has been the advocate of progressive movements in municipal affairs, and has strongly supported the street paving work and other public improvements. In his native county his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances, and he is distinctly one of the popular and influential citizens of his native place. Mr. McDonough chose as his wife one of the fair daughters of this town, Miss Belle Hoffman, who was here born and reared and who is a daughter of the late George W. Hoffman, who was here engaged in the jewelry business for many years and who also served as postmaster. Mr. and Mrs. McDonough have two sons, George R., who is manager of a men,s furnishing-goods store in the City of San Francisco, California; and S. C., who is an automobile sales-manager of the Jordan Motor Company in the City of Cleveland, Ohio. EUGENE P. WILLIS. Though his home the greater part of his life has been in Lawrence County, Eugene P. Willis is well known both in Ohio and West Virginia. For many years he was active in railroad service, and has also held local and state offices. Mr. Willis was born at South Point, Lawrence County, Ohio, January 18, 1879, son of John Wesley and Eva (Boothe) Willis. He represents an old and prominent ancestral line. There were two brothers' in one branch of the Willis family in New England, and one of them, the ancestor of Mr. Willis, moved to 80 - HISTORY OF OHIO Virginia. From this branch of the family is also descended. United States Senator Frank B. Willis, and the senator and the father of Eugene P. Willis were close friends. One of his ancestors, his great-grandfather, Joshua Willis, was a pioneer of Southern Ohio, and when 104 years of age walked the distance of fourteen miles to Ironton. The paternal grandparents of Mr. Willis were Elza and Elizabeth (Ward) Willis. His grandparents on his mother ,s side were Isaac and Martha (Whitehead) Boothe. The Boothes went from Pennsylvania to Virginia and from the latter state came to Ohio. John Wesley Willis, who died June 2, 1920, was a soldier in the Civil war, in Company H of the Ninth West Virginia infantry. He went into the army very young, and was a drum corps fifer. For many years he engaged in school teaching, later became a farmer and for twenty years held the office of postmaster of Rockwood, now Chesapeake, Ohio, though he would never accept any other political office. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His wife is still living, and Eugene P. is the oldest of their seven children, the others being: Olney Carl, deceased; Edith Alice who married L. H. Kelley; Edgar Hayes, deceased; Bertha Ruth, deceased; John Tracey and Lloyd Russell. Eugene P. Willis attended public schools at Rockwood, now known as Chesapeake, including the high school, and for three years engaged in teaching. Ho finished his education in Ohio University at Athens. but did not remain to graduate. Taking up railroad ing, he was for two years in the train service with the Kanawha & Michigan Railroad, and then became associated with his uncle S. W. Boothe, in the mercantile business at Ironton, Ohio. After two years there he resumed railroading as chief clerk in the transportation department with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company at Hinton, West Virginia, and continued so for six years. In 1913 Mr. Willis was appointed to a position in the auditing department in the office of the state tax commissioner of West Virginia at Charleston, and was in that office for eight years. After his father ,s death, in 1920, he returned to Ohio and engaged in business as a general merchant at Chesapeake in Lawrence County, where he is conducting a profitable business. Mr. Willis, who is unmarried, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is affiliated with the Masonic order, being master of the first veil in the Royal Arch Chapter, is a Knight Templar and member of the Scottish Rite Consistory, the Mystic Shrine, the Grotto and Eastern Star. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, Uniformed Rank, a life member of the Elks, and is affiliated with the Knights of the Golden Eagle, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Junior Order United American Mechanics, and Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. JOE C. HARTLINE is the active executive of the office and business of The City Loan & Savings Company in the City of Mansfield, Richland County. This important corporation, which exercises most benignant functions in connection with civic and financial affairs, maintains offices and has substantial business in about twenty different Ohio cities, with home office in Lima, Ohio. The Mansfield branch has proved of distinct value to the community. The corporation bases its operations upon ample capital and effective executive control, and its reputation constitutes its best business asset. The Mansfield headquarters, in charge of Mr. Hartline, are in the Southern Hotel Building, on South Main Street, and the concern constitutes a valuable addition to the financial institutions of this city. Mr. Hartline was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where his great-grandfather, Peter Hartline, settled in the early pioneer days, and his son Joseph, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, carried forward effectively the farm enterprise which had there been instituted by his father. Frank Hartline, father of Joe C., has long been a successful breeder and exhibitor of fine red polled cattle, is a charter member of the International Live Stock Show at Chicago, and served (1923) as mayor of Strasburg, Tuscarawas County. Joe C. Hartline was reared and educated in his native county, and at the age of twenty-one years found employment in connection with coal-mining operations. For a time thereafter he was engaged in mercantile business at Strasburg, and later he became a successful automobile dealer at Lima, where he was specially prominent in advocating and supporting the good roads movement. He is an active worker in the ranks of the republican party, is a valued member of the Optimist Club of Mansfield, a director of the Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the United Commercial Travelers. In the Masonic fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He has had charge of the business of the City Loan & Savings Company at Mansfield from the time this branch was established, and he is one of the substantial and progressive business men of this city. Mr. Hartline married, first, Miss Aurelia Blaser, of Winesburg, Ohio, who died leaving two children, Hazel Marguerite and Aurelia Loretta. He married for his second wife, Miss Flora Emma Styer, of Marietta, Ohio, she being a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of that section of the state. To this union two children were born, Bernice Naomi and Evelyn Gertrude. W. A. WEHINGER is a member of the firm Wehinger Brothers, brick and tile manufacturers, doing an extensive business with several plants in Northern Ohio. The firm were pioneers in the utilization of the clay products of Richland County on a commercial scale. W. A. Wehinger is active manager of the large plant near Mansfield. The firm began their operations in Auglaize County in 1900, and in 1901 established the plant at Mansfield. The Mansfield plant started with twelve workmen and an output of 10,000 bricks a day. The output is now regularly 40,000 bricks a day, with thirty-seven employes and a payroll of between $900 and $1,000 per week. The plant is located on a sixty-two acre tract three miles north of Mansfield, with ample railroad trackage. This acreage is underlaid with shale that produces a very high grade brick adapted to hard usuage, but most of the output is faced brick. The Wehinger Brothers have installed a most modern outfit, with steam power and all the facilities for efficient production. Three-fourths of the output is faced brick, and it is shipped to Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia, and a large part to the local trade. Recently the company filled a single order of 2,000,000 bricks for Detroit. The business started with $50,000 invested, and now $225,000 are required to carry on the business. W. A. Wehinger and his brother, F. J. Wehinger, both grew up in the atmosphere of a brick making plant in Auglaize County. They are sons of Anton and Alalonia (Lenhart) Wehinger. The father, a native of Germany, was brought to Ohio, when eight years of age. He spent his active career as a brick maker and is now living in Putnam County. W. A. and F. J. Wehinger and their brother, A. H. Wehinger, own a plant in Putnam County, the chief production of which is drain tile. W. A. Wehinger married Antonette Craft, of Auglaize County. They have six children: Orville, Bernice, Floyd, Willette, Martha and Agnes. HISTORY OF OHIO - 81 WILLIAM W. KNECHT represents an Old family of Crawford County, and is a carpenter by trade, an occupation which was followed both by his father and grandfather. For a number of years Mr. Knecht has been one of the leading general contractors at Bucyrus. He was born on a farm in Crawford County, June 1, 1879, son of John and Mary (Youngman) Knecht, the former a native of Crawford County and the latter of Pickaway County. His grandfather, Frederick Knecht, was a native of Germany, came to the United States when young, and for many years lived in Crawford County, where he was a carpenter and cabinet maker. John Knecht learned the same trade, and was in business both as a carpenter and contractor in Bucyrus. He was a democrat in politics. Of his five children only two are now living, the daughter Anna being the wife of L. A. Miller of Bucyrus. William W. Knecht grew up in Bucyrus, attended public school there, and after completing his education he worked at several different occupations but eventually served his apprenticeship as a carpenter, and during the past fifteen years has been head of an organization capable of handling the largest contracts in the way of building and other construction. January 1, 1900, Mr. Knecht married Miss Ada Zimmerman, who was reared in Bucyrus. Their one daughter is Ruth, born February 28, 1901, a graduate of the Bucyrus High School and who also spent two years in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. She is now the wife of Robert Heil, a teacher in the Junior High School. Mr. and Mrs. Knecht are members of the German Lutheran Church. He is affiliated with Bucyrus Lodge of Masons and Junior Order of United American Mechanics. LT.-COL. ABRAHAM HENRY DUNN, M. D. With pronounced abilities In the field of surgery, Colonel Dunn was an army surgeon in the great war, attached to the British army and later had charge of an American hospital, and since returning to this country while chiefly a consultation surgeon, has continued his duties with the government through the United States Veterans' Bureau and holds a reserve commission as lieutenant-colonel with the army. He has been unusually successful in handling both the technical and administrative problems connected with rehabilitation of disabled soldiers at Chillicothe, where he was in charge of the hospital at Camp Sherman until July, 1924. Doctor Dunn was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1883, son of Belmont and Anna (Brill) Dunn. His mother lives at West Philadelphia. Belmont Dunn, who died in 1897, was a physician at West Philadelphia,. and was long interested in the public health movement, serving on the Pennsylvania State Board of Health. He was an Elk and a member of St. Paul,s Episcopal Church. There were three children, one daughter dying in infancy. The son, David, was the second child, and Abraham Henry, the oldest. Doctor Dunn attended public schools in Philadelphia, leaving high school in his third year to take the work of the preparatory school of Brown's College, in medicine. He graduated in 1906 in medicine and surgery from the Medico-Chirurgic School of Philadelphia, now the Post Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania, and for two years after his interneship was engaged in general practice. For three and one-half years, beginning with his appointment in 1909, he was a government surgeon with the department of the interior. For another three and one-half year period he was in California associated with the eminent American surgeon, Dr. Henry Parker Newman. After this he sustained an injury of his left hand, compelling him to utilize his time in post graduate work in surgery without active practice. Doctor Dunn established his home in Chillicothe in 1916, and was engaged in private practice, limiting his attention to surgery until he enlisted for the war. He was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps August 11, 1917, and, going to Washington D. C., sailed for overseas on September 7, landing in England and was assigned to duty with British army hospitals at Birmingham until January, 1918. He then accompanied a general hospital contingent of the British forces to France and had an interesting service. Then he was assigned with Kitchner 's Division (Thirty-seventh Division British Expeditionary Forces). While with the British he was sent to Egypt on a six weeks' trip on detached service in February, 1918. In August, 1918, he was returned to the American Army Medical Corps, and at Coure Cheverney, France, organized American Hospital No. 87, with 600 beds. He had charge of this hospital, which was located between St. Agnon and Blois, at the same time doing the major surgery. On September 7, 1918, he was promoted to captain, in the spring of 1919, before leaving France, was advanced to the rank of major in the Medical Corps, and after the war, he was given the rank of lieutena ntcolonel in the Medical Officers Reserve Corps. On his return to the United States he resumed his surgical practice and was made surgeon at Camp Sherman. He was the first medical officer in charge of the organization and equipment of the new hospital in course of construction at Camp Sherman, which will have provisions for 425 beds. Doctor Dunn has applied his talents with unceasing energy to the arduous and responsible work of a medical officer in charge of disabled veterans. In October, 1921, he organized the medical work of the United States Vocational School No. 1, and Hospital 87 at the same location, heading both and doing the surgery. He was cited for promotion to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Army Medical Corps before sailing from France. July 18, 1906, at Philadelphia, Doctor Dunn married Miss Fannie Carlin, daughter of Arthur and Orinnie Carlin. Her father is a merchant, a stove wholesaler and has an interest in a truck manufacturing concern. Doctor Dunn is a member of St. Paul,s Episcopal Church, plays golf at the Chillicothe Country Club, is a Scottish Rite Mason and Elk, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. In his profession he is a member of the Ross County Academy, of Medicine, Ohio State and American Medical associations and Columbus Academy of Medicine. He has written on numerous surgical subjects, some of the most notable ones being : "Gall Bladder Disturbances," "Appendicitis" and "Post-War Rehabilitation Surgery." WILLIAM M. JEFFERYS is one of the prominent iron masters of Southern Ohio in the Hanging Rock iron region, where he has been actively identified with one of the oldest blast furnaces in that section, the plant of the Hanging Rock Iron Company at the village of Hanging Rock. He is superintendent of this plant. The furnace was started in the early days of iron making in Ohio. In 1900 the present cOmpany purchased the property from the Means-Kyle Company, and it was in July, 1901, that Mr. Jefferys came to the plant as its superintendent. He was born at Grafton, West Virginia, November 27, 1868, son of Philip and Margaret (Brookover) Jefferys and grandson Of Thomas and Elizabeth Jefferys and of Abraham and Anna Jane Brookover. The Jefferys came from England and settled in Vir 82 - HISTORY OF OHIO ginia, coming with two of the Brookovers. Phillip J efferys and his wife were both born in the State of West Virginia, and he died in 1878 and his wife, in 1888. He was in the railroad business, and for many years a railroad superintendent. He was also interested in prohibition and was a deacon of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The family consisted of six children: Emily, deceased, Carrie, Oscar, Lucy, William M. and Claude, all of whom are married. William M. Jefferys acquired his early education in the public schools at .Fairmont, West Virginia. Leaving high school after finishing the course at the age of sixteen, he went to work in a flour mill at Martinsville, West Virginia, and remained with that industry seven years. Leaving there, he came to Ohio and for one year worked in the Dayton Car Works at Dayton. He learned the blast furnace and iron business with the Tonawanda Iron and Steel Company at Tonawanda, New York. He became engineer and assistant superintendent of the plant, and was identified with that industry in an executive capacity for fourteen years. It was on leaving Tonawanda that Mr. Jefferys came to Hanging Rock as superintendent of the local iron company in 1901. He has interested himself in local affairs, being a member of the Rotary Club, the Masonic Lodge and Elks. In. September, 1906, at Ironton, he married Miss Florence Hudson, daughter of James and Mary Hudson. Her father was during his lifetime a man of great influence at Hanging Rock, was interested in politics, and for many years served as mayor of the village. He and his family were prominent members of St. Lawrence Catholic Church at Ironton. There were eight children in the Hudson family, Arthur P., Elizabeth, Eleanor, Florence, Anna, Richard, Thomas and James, but the last named died in infancy. WALTER WILLIAM BAUER is a native of Scioto County, and as a young man he was identified with school work for several years, an has made a particularly successful record as a contractor, bulkier and real estate man at Portsmouth. He was born at South Webster, Scioto County, January 7, 1885, son of Adam and Mary A. (Haverner) Bauer. His grandfather was Henry Bauer, who came to Ohio when Adam was eighteen months old. Gilbert Haverner, the maternal grandfather, was a native of Germany and married a Miss Lamb. Adam and Mary Bauer are still living in Scioto County. Adam Bauer has been a farmer and stock raiser, and has devoted his active attention to his business, his home and his membership in the United Brethren Church. Walter William Bauer, who is unmarried, was reared on his father 's farm at South Webster, attended district schools there, and subsequently was a student for two terms in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and spent one term and two summers attending Ohio University at Athens. After the completion of his first term at Athens he began teaching, and for four years he had charge of district schools in his home county and for three years was a teacher in the grade schools at Portsmouth. Mr. Bauer engaged in the building business in 1912. He did a great deal of contracting at Ports- mouth and over the county, and in 1917 he broadened his sphere of efforts to real estate and insurance. He has since continued the building of homes as part of his real estate program, and his business is now mainly real estate, in which he is rated as one of the leaders in Portsmouth. Mr. Bauer was registered during the World war, but his class was not called to active duty. He is one of the trustees of the Second Presbyterian Church and a leader in church work. Fraternally he is an Elk, and is a republican voter. LOUIS P. CRANSTON. In the progress and development that has marked sanitary science in the past twenty years in relation to food products, great and salutary changes have been brought about in the production and handling of milk, that greatest of all health builders, one that is a necessity as well as an indispensable luxury. It is not necessary to recall the old days of ignorant carelessness whereby this life giving fluid was more often a menace than benefit The proper handling of milk, however, was a problem about which many intelligent, progressive farmers and stockmen in Ohio concerned themselves long before legislative action placed the present sanitary laws on the statute books. Perhaps no one man in Scioto County had clearer vision on the subject or had more to do with arousing public sentiment than the late James J. Cranston, who was one of the organizers and subsequently sole owner of the Pure Milk Company at Portsmouth, which is one of the most important enterprises of its kind in Southern Ohio. It is under the able management of Louis P. Cranston, one of Portsmouth's substantial men of affairs. Louis P. Cranston was born at Wheelersburg, Scioto County, Ohio, November 4, 1885, the only son of James J. and Addie M. (Merrill) Cranston, both natives of Ohio. His paternal grandparents were Jeremiah and Abigail (Deutramont) Cranston, natives of New York, and undoubtedly of English and French ancestry. It is a matter of family history that the first Cranstons who reached Ohio from New York came down the river on a raft, sturdy, resourceful people whose virtues and characteristics have been inherited. The maternal grandparents of Mr. Cranston were John P. and Julia (Moore) Merrill, substantial farming people long well and favorably known in Scioto County. James J. Cranston was a man of progressive spirit and business enterprise. For a number of years he owned and operated a woolen mill at Wheeiersburg, Ohio, and after disposing of that property engaged in agricultural pursuits in Scioto County. As indicated above, he was an intelligent, well-informed man, and his judgment on many questions was respected throughout the county. In 1904, in association with two others, William Fuhs and John Miller, he organized the Pure Milk Company of Portsmouth, an enterprise that was destined to long outlive him and continue to reflect credit on his business judgment and public spirit. Shortly after the organization of the company Mr. Cranston purchased the Fuhs interest, and the Miller interest was bought by a Mr. Rardin, from whom Mr. Cranston subsequently acquired it, and as sole owner continued to conduct and develop the business until the time of his death in 1915. His widow, Mrs. Addie M. (Merrill) Cranston then became the sole owner of the business, and so continues. Louis P. Cranston was educated in the public schools of Wheelersburg, Ohio, where he completed his high school course in 1902. He returned then to the home farm, and two years later, on the organization of the Pure Milk Company, became his father's assistant and thus may be said to have practically grown up in the business, with which he has been identified ever since. Upon the death of his father he became manager of the business for his mother, and not only because of his thorough familiarity with every detail but mainly because he possesses energy and initiative of his own, he has met with notable success. The Pure Milk Company of Portsmouth and its pure products have an established reputation in Southern Ohio. Mrs. Cranston's plant at Portsmouth HISTORY OF OHIO - 83 is thoroughly modern, and all the equipments are of the latest improved style. The business is continued according to the old standards of excellence in product and honesty in management that were as foundation stones in the beginning. Although not notably active in a political sense, Mr. Cranston shirks no public responsibility and is a highly useful citizen. He is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Kiwanis .Club. During the World war he did not serve in the military only because his class, although ready, was not called. He is a Knight Templar Mason and a Shriner, and belongs also to the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Cranston is not married, his home being with his mother at Portsmouth, where both have many social connections. HOMER M. EDWARDS has been established in the practice of his profession in his native City of Ironton, Lawrence County, since 1911, and has a record that places him well to the front among the representative members of the bar in this part of Ohio. Mr. Edwards was born at Ironton on the 1st of July, 1884, and on both paternal and maternal sides he is a scion of sterling pioneer stock in the Buckeye State, the original representatives of the Edwards' family in this state having come from North Carolina about the year 1820. The paternal grandparents of the subject of this review were William and Jane (Arthur) Edwards. William Edwards was killed while the Civil war was in progress, he having met a tragic death shortly after the beginning of the war. He was an ardent supporter of the Union cause during the war, and was virtually assassinated by a southern sympathizer whose enmity he had incurred, this man having thrown a rock which struck Mr. Edwards in the back of his head, which was crushed, his death occurring a few hours later. James Allen, maternal great-grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was born in 1768, and was an honored pioneer citizen of Ohio at the time of his death, in 1839. He came to Ohio from Virginia about the year 1817. William and Lucretia Allen, maternal grandparents of Homer M. Edwards, continued their residence in Southern Ohio until the time of their death. Homer M. Edwards is a son of Meredith and Sarah Elizabeth (Allen) Edwards, the latter being deceased and the former still a. resident of Lawrence County. Meredith Edwards was born at South Point, this county, June 10, 1852, and his activities in former years included successful farm industry and the ownership and operation of two coal mines. He has figured as one of the honored and influential citizens of his native county, gave more than twenty years of service as a member of the school board, and has served in other local offices of public trust, including two years as superintendent of the county infirmary. Homer M. Edwards was graduated from the high school at Coal Grove, Lawrence County, in 1900, and thereafter he devoted ten years to specially effective service as a teacher in the public schools. He was for some time the principal of the Ironton schools, and for three terms he was a member of the Lawrence County Board of School Examiners. He was private secretary to Senator Willis two years, while the senator was governor of Ohio. In 1908 Mr. Edwards was graduated from the University of Lebanon, Ohio, with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, and thereafter he completed the curriculum of the law department of Ohio Northern University at Ada, in which he was graduated in 1911, his admission to the Ohio bar having been virtually coincident with his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In 1911 he opened an office at Ironton, and this city has since continued the central stage of his successful professional activities, which have involved his appearance in important cases in the various courts and established his reputation as a resourceful trial lawyer and well fortified counselor. In the World war period he served on the draft board of Lawrence County, and was a four-minute speaker in furthering the local patriotic campaigns in support of the government loans, Red Cross work, etc. Simultaneously he was striving to enter military service, and finally, August 22, 1918, he succeeded in this laudable ambition. He was sent to Camp Taylor, Kentucky, for training, but there suffered an attack of influenza, from which he had not yet recovered at the time when the armistice brought the war to a close. He received his honorable discharge November 30, 1918, and then resumed the active practice of his profession at Ironton. Since the close of the war he has given two years of effective service as prosecuting attorney of Lawrence County. Since his retirement from this office he has given his undivided attention to his substantial and important individual law business. His political allegiance is given tO the republican party. He is a Knight Templar and Shrine Mason, is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and at present Grand Chief of the Knights of the Golden Eagle of the State of Ohio. He is an active member of the Ironton Chamber of Commerce. He and his wife hold membership in the Baptist Church. At Ashland, Kentucky, on the 28th of May, 1914, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Edwards and Miss Pansy B. Winter, who was born and reared in this state, as were also her parents, Lawton B. and Mary (Freeman) Winter. The mother still resides here, Mr. Winter being deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards have one son, Homer M., Jr. JOHN T. CALLAHAN represents a family that settled in Jackson County, Ohio, in very early pioneer times. Mr. Callahan for thirty-five years was in the monumental business at Gallipolis, and the product of his plant he shipped over Southern Ohio and into several adjoining states. He was born on a farm in Jackson County, Ohio, in 1854, son of William J. and Sarah (Strain) Callahan. His father spent all his life on the farm where he was born. His grandfather, John Callahan, with his parents came to Ohio in 1803 from Bath County, Virginia. His great-grandfather was of Protestant faith and came from Ireland to America about 1792. William J. Callahan was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, serving on the official board and as a steward. He and his wife have a large family of children: Jennie, Mrs. Susan Hayes; America, deceased; Mrs. Elizabeth Stephenson, deceased; John T; Julia; Peters; Mrs. Sarah Iron, deceased; Emma, deceased; William S; and Oscar P; who lost his life in an automobile accident at Columbus in 1922. John T. Callahan was reared on a farm, attended district schools, and after leaving school until he was about thirty years of age his experience was that of a farmer. He was then in Indiana, and for a time was engaged in the tile business. About 1889 he took up the monumental and cut stone industry, and specialized in the manufacture, sale and distribution of tombstones and the erection Of mausoleums. It is probable that his business was the largest of its kind in Southern Ohio. His sales covered the entire state, and he also shipped work to Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Indiana. In March, 1924, he sold the business and retired to private life. Mr. Callahan married Miss Minnie Evans, daughter of Evan and Sarah (Cherrington) Evans, both of 84 - HISTORY OF OHIO Welsh ancestry, and prominently known in Jackson County, Ohio. Her father was a very active member of the Methodist Church. Mr. Callahan has been president of the official board of Grace Methodist Church of Gallipolis for the past fifteen years. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Junior Order United American Mechanics, and the United Commercial Travelers. Politically Mr. Callahan is a democrat and is now serving as chairman of the county central committee. PATRICK JOHN CARROLL. One of Ohio's ablest figures in industrial affairs was the late Patrick John Carroll, of Bucyrus, who began his career as a boy apprentice in a foundry, and until the end of his life remained a toiler and worker, though a comparatively short period of years put him into executive responsibilities and eventually he founded and built up the largest single industry in the city of Bucyrus and became an executive in several of Ohio 's leading industrial companies. He was born at Urbana, Ohio, January 20, 1861, and he died at Bucyrus on his fifty-fifth birthday anniversary, January 20, 1916. Only a man of tremendous energy and exceptional ability could accomplish so much in such a comparatively brief span of years. His parents, Patrick Berry and Mary (Coomy) Carroll, came from Cork, Ireland, about 1848. When Patrick J. Carroll• was two years of age his parents moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he was educated in the Brothers School. At the age of fourteen he became a moulder,s helper of the Brass Foundry and Machine Company. In 1882, at the age of twenty-one, he came to Bucyrus and found work at his trade with the Bucyrus Steam Shovel & Dredge Works. He also was employed as a moulder at Oil City, Pennsylvania, and Shelby, Ohio. He then resumed his former position with the Bucyrus Steam Shovel & Dredge Works, and held the position of foreman when the company moved its plant to Milwaukee. In 1892 he bought the foundry and machine works of the Campbell Frog & Crossing Company, and changed this name to the Carroll Foundry & Machine Works. This was the industry in which his energies were tendered and in which he took the greatest pride. He made of it the chief industrial organization of Bucyrus, and developed the grey iron foundry until it was not excelled by any similar plant in the state. The Carroll Company manufactures the Ohio locomotive crane, which for years has been extensively used in nearly all the railway shop yards and other industrial plants. He also secured the cast iron contracts from the Toledo & Ohio Central Railway Company. Its growing business soon made the original plant too small, and in 1898 he bought the plant of the Gibbony Radiator Company at North Bucyrus, where the Carroll Foundry & Machine Works was reestablished on a larger scale. Besides being president of the Carroll Foundry and Machine Works Mr. Carroll was president of the Bucyrus Steel Casting Company, of the Ohio Locomotive Crane Company, of the Bucyrus Rubber Company and the Brokensword Stone Company; was vice president of the Bucyrus Lumber Company, the Bucyrus Light & Power Company, and the First National Bank of Bucyrus, and was a director in the Bucyrus City Bank. Many of his investments took the form of real estate in his home city and at other places. Mr. Carroll represented the old type of the industrial manager, one who had come up from the ranks, and always maintained, as far as possible, the intimate association of worker with worker. This no doubt was responsible for the fact that he never had any strikes or labor troubles. Mr. Carroll was a Catholic, was a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and his favorite recreation was fishing. February 18, 1896, he married Miss Phoebe Strawbridge, daughter of John Strawbridge, an engineer of Bucyrus. Mrs. Carroll survives, and there are three children: Robert S.; Edith Eleanor, who finished her education in Simmons College at Boston; and John Carroll, now a student of law in the University of Michigan. Robert S. Carroll, the oldest child, is manager of the estate of P. J. Carroll. He was born at Bucyrus, March 4, 1897, was educated in the local schools and in the University of Notre Dame at South Bend, Indiana, and was attending Ohio State University at Columbus when his father died. He immediately left school to lend his aid in carrying on his father's many business enterprises, and is now a director in the Carroll Foundry & Machine Works, the First National Bank of Bucyrus, the Bucyrus Rubber Company and of several other local organizations. He is unmarried and lives with his mother. He is a Catholic, belongs to the Phi Delta Theta college fraternity, the Knights of Columbus and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. WILLIAM BUCK is a native of Ohio, and the important work of his early manhood was teaching and school administration. He has been a member of the bar for a number of years, and since 1916 has been engaged in a general law practice at Germantown in Montgomery County. He was born at West Alexandria, Ohio, December 7, 1871, the son of George and Barbara Buck. Mr. Buck acquired a public school education in his native town, and after that relied upon his own resources to get him the educational equipment he desired. He attended Capital University at Columbus, Ohio, and did most of his school work in Preble County, serving three years as school superintendent in Monroe Township, and seven years as principal of the Eaton High School. At Eaton he studied law under E. P. Vaughn, was admitted to the bar, but from 1904 to 1916 his time was taken up with his duties as an officer of the revenue department of the federal government. Mr. Buck in 1916 established his law office and home at Germantown, and has built up an extensive practice there. In the fall of 1917 he was elected mayor of Germantown, and held that office two terms. He is a member of Boliver Lodge of Masons at Eaton, the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Alexandria, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Germantown, and is a trustee of the Lutheran Church. He married, August 25, 1898, Miss Mina E. Trone, daughter of Jacob and Mary Trone, of West Manchester, Ohio. She is a graduate of the high school there, and is active in social and club life at Germantown, being a member of the Eastern Star, the Pythian Sisters, the Twentieth Century Club, and is a teacher in the Sunday School of the Lutheran Church. Mr. and Mrs. Buck have two children, Pr. Marcus A., who is a graduate in dental surgery from Ohio State University and is practicing at Germantown, and John Buck, a member of the Junior Class of Northwestern University Medical School at Chicago. COL. FRANK C. GERLACH, present postmaster of the City of Wooster, is a veteran of two wars, enlisting as a private in the Ohio National Guard thirty years ago. In the great war while in France and Belgium he served as lieutenant-colonel and colonel of the One Hundred Forty-sixth Infantry. Colonel Gerlach was born at Wooster, Ohio, April HISTORY OF OHIO - 85 29, 1870, one of the four children of Frank C. and Johanna M. (Kaltwasser) Gerlach. His parents were born at Wetzlar, Germany, and were married after they came to the United States. His father for many years was in the retail meat business at Wooster. Both parents are now deceased. Frank C. Gerlach as a boy attended the public schools of Wooster, and from school went to work in a drug store. In 1891, at the age of twenty-one, was graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. As a registered pharmacist he was for several years connected with the John Zimmerman Drug Company of Wooster, and then engaged in the drug business on his own account. He has been successful in business, and is esteemed for his business integrity and good citizenship as well as his record as a soldier. In 1894 he enlisted as private in Company D of the Eighth Regiment of Ohio National Guard. He was promoted to captain of the company, and when the Spanish-American war came on in 1898 he commanded his company during its service in Cuba, including the siege of Santiago. After that war he continued an officer in the National Guard, and when America entered the World war he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the One Hundred Forty-sixth Infantry. He was with that regiment in training at Camp Sheridan in Montgomery, Alabama, and later at Camp Lee, Virginia, where the regiment was recruited to full war strength. In June, 1918, the regiment was ordered overseas, landing at Brest and then proceeded to Bourmont for intensive training before being sent to the front lines. The regiment was part of the Thirty-seventh Division. Its first duty was in the Baccarat sector, which, while considered a quiet sector, was really exposed to much enemy activity, so that the Thirty-seventh Division participated in a number of minor engagements. Colonel Gerlach and his command. participated in one of the greatest battles of the war, that of the Argonne Forest, and subsequently held a portion of the line near Verdun. From there they were ordered to Belgium, and just before leaving for that front Lieutenant-colonel Gerlach was transferred to the One Hundred Forty-fifth Infantry of the same brigade. In Belgium his regiment participated with the French and Belgian forces along the Escaut River, and in that campaign he was promoted to the rank of colonel. After the signing of the armistice Colonel Gerlach remained in France, being returned to the One Hundred Forty-sixth Regiment, and returning to the United States, was mustered out April 13, 1919. Colonel Gerlach was one of Ohio’s soldiers cited in military orders and awarded the Belgian war cross, the French croix de guerre and the American distinguished service medal. He had been home only a few months when he was appointed postmaster of Wooster, on February 24, 1920. Colonel Gerlach is a member of the Ohio Legion of Foreign Wars. He organized the first post of the American Legion at Wooster and became its first commander. In 1922-23 he was president of the Thirty-seventh Division Veterans Association, and for the preceding year had been president of the One Hundred Forty-sixth Infantry Veterans Association. Colonel Gerlach organized the Camp of Spanish-American War Veterans at Wooster and he served as its first corn. mander. He is a director of the Wayne Building & Loan Company and the Citizens National Bank, and is vice president of the Wooster Board of Trade. He is president of the Wayne. County Council of Boy Scouts of America, is a member of the Rotary Club, a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a democrat in politics, and. a member of the Lutheran Church. Colonel Gerlach married in 1902 Miss Florence M. McClarran, of Wooster, who was born and reared in that city, daughter of Harry McOlarran, who for many years was active in the grocery business. Mrs. Gerlach has two children, Mary and Harry. RALPH HATHAWAY. Among the educators of Seneca County who by instruction, precept and example have contributed to the advancement of this community, Ralph Hathaway, superintendent of schools at Bloomville, is worthy of mention. Since entering upon his independent career he has devoted himself to educational work, and there are few more efficient or popular instructors in this part of the state. Mr. Hathaway was born on a farm in Reed Township, Seneca County, and is a son of Henry and Arvilla (Desire) Hathaway. Henry Hathaway was born in 1828, the first white male child to be born in Scipio Township, Seneca County, while Mrs. Hathaway was born in Reed Township, in 1845. Mrs. Hathaway was a woman of excellent intellectual attainments and advanced education, having attended the district schools and Republic Academy, from the latter of which she received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Her husband had attended the same academy. Following their marriage they settled on a farm in Reed Township, and there they continued to make their home. Mr. Hathaway at the time of his death was the oldest living Mason in Attica Lodge in point of years and membership. A republican in politics, he held several township offices, and always proved himself honorable and conscientious in the discharge of his duties. He and Mrs. Hathaway had three children: Ralph, of this notice ; a sister who died at the age of ten years; and a brother who died when forty-four years of age. The last named was a graduate of Green Spring Academy and a teacher, and afterward a farmer. A prominent republican in politics, he served for some years as a member of the County Board of Education, and was president thereof at the time of his death. Ralph Hathaway was reared on the home farm and was given good educational advantages, attending first the local schools, then Miami University and Lima College. He received his degree of Bachelor of Philosophy from Heidelberg University and the degree of Master of Arts from Ohio State University. Upon the completion of his education Mr. Hathaway took up teaching, and for a time was an instructor at Heidelberg Academy and did normal work for two years. After school work at various points, in 1914 he was made superintendent of schools at Bloomville, which position he now occupies, and in which he has done much to aid the cause of education and to better the standards and system in this locality. Mr. Hathaway is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and teacher of the Men’s Bible Class. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias ; to Eden Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; and to the Order of the Eastern Star, of which he is a past worthy patron and Mrs. Hathaway, past worthy matron. In politics he is a republican. Mr. Hathaway married Miss Winifred Kentfield, of Carey, Wyandotte County, Ohio, and to this union there have been born three children: Bernice, Dwight and Marjorie. PERRY AUGUSTUS JIVIDEN, M. D. In Meigs County, where he was born and reared, Dr. Perry Augustus Jividen has for more than twenty years been an honored and skillful physician and surgeon, with an extensive practice both in town and country. His home is at Rutland. Doctor Jividen was born on his father's farm in Lebanon Township of Meigs County, January 30, 1876, son of Elias and Viola (Webster) Jividen. His father, who died in July, 1911, at the age of 86 - HISTORY OF OHIO sixty-five, volunteered when only sixteen years of age for service in the Union army at the time of the Civil war, joining the Thirteenth West Virginia Infantry on the Union side. He was in the thick of many battles in the Shenandoah Valley and other sections of Virginia. Soon after the war he moved to Meigs County, Ohio, and in his mature career proved a very able business man and a citizen. He was in the timber and tan bark business, and subsequently a practical farmer and live stock dealer, owning 500 acres of land. He served as chairman of the Meigs County Republican Executive Committee, was honored with a number of township and county offices, and was on the county board of agriculture. He was one of the organizers of the Racine Bank in his home community. His fraternal affiliations were with the Masonic order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Elias Jividen married Viola Webster, of Lebanon Township, Meigs County, daughter of Abraham Webster. She is now a resident of Columbus. There are four children: Jasper Finley, a farmer at Racine; Charles Alva, who operates the ferry boat at Mason City; Clara Frances, widow of Alva Gaylord and living at Columbus; and Perry Augustus. Doctor Jividen, the youngest child of his parents, grew up on the farm, attended the country schools near his home, and at the age of seventeen became a student in Carleton College at Syracuse. He taught three terms of school in his home district, and began the study of medicine in the office of Doctor Ryan at Long Bottom. He then entered Starling Medical College, now the medical department of Ohio State University at Columbus, and was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1902. After graduating lie practiced at Dexter until 1909, and since then has been established at Rutland. He is a member of the County, Ohio State and American Medical associations, and has rendered civic service in addition to the faithful work of his profession. He is financially interested in the Mutual National Bank of Middleport and the Racine Home Bank. He is a former member of the Rutland Town council and School Board. In politics lie votes as a republican, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias order. Doctor Jividen married Miss Blanch Dye, daughter of Thomas F. Dye, of Downington, Ohio. They were married in 1903, and have one daughter, Mary Frances, born in 1911. Mrs. Jividen is a member of the Methodist Church. WILLIS E. HAINES grew up in the village of LeRoy in Medina County, the home for three-quarters of a century of the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company. This business is the central institution of the town, and, like nearly every one else there, Mr. Haines on reaching manhood entered the service of the company. He has remained with it in increasing responsibilities and for a number of years has been secretary of the organization. The history of the company is sketched elsewhere. Willis E. Haines was born at Bryan, in Williams County, Ohio, May 16, 1860, only child of Thomas W. and Urania M. (Daniels) Haines. His mother was born in Portage County, Ohio, of an old family there. Thomas W. Haines was born in New Jersey, came to Ohio when a young man, and was a shoemaker by trade. He located at LeRoy in 1869, and lived there until his death. Willis E. Haines was reared and educated in the public schools of LeRoy, and after leaving high school he taught for a brief time. In 1881, at the age of twenty-one, he went to work for the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company, and in later years was appointed assistant secretary, and since 1909 has filled the office of secretary. He has been a member of the Board of Directors for many years. Mr. Haines is a member of the Universalist Church. He is a Knight Templar and Thirty-second Degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1885 he married Miss Bertha E. Reynolds. They have two children, Harold A. and Harriet. Harold is an ex-service man, serving in the chemical warfare division, and was overseas. He is now head of the statistical department of the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company. DANIEL C. JONES, one of the representative members of the bar of Lawrence County, is established in successful general practice at Ironton, the county seat. Mr. Jones was born at Oak Hill, Jackson County, Ohio, December 18, 1878, and is a son of Evan C. and Margaret (Parry) Jones, both now deceased, the lineage on both sides tracing back to staunch Welch origin, Evan C. Jones was a son of Evan and Elizabeth Jones, who were born in Wales and who came to the United States and settled on a farm near Oak Hill, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Margaret (Parry) Jones was a daughter of David and Susan Parry, the former of whom was born in the United States, of Welch parentage, and the latter of whom was a native of Wales. Evan C. Jones was a gallant soldier of the Union during virtually the entire period of the Civil war, lie having been a member of the First Ohio Heavy Artillery. He became a skilled civil and mining engineer, and served as county surveyor of Jackson County, Ohio. He became a pioneer in Rice County, Kansas, where likewise he served as county surveyor, and he eventually returned to Jackson County, Ohio, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. Of the five children the subject of this sketch is the eldest, lie being the only son. One of the daughters is deceased. Daniel C. Jones was graduated from the high school at Jackson as a member of the class of 1898, and in 1902 he was graduated from the University of Ohio, with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. He thereafter completed the curriculum of the law department of the same institution, from which he received in 1905 his degree of Bachelor of Laws, with virtually coincident admission to the bar of his native state. In December of the same year he became associated in practice with A. R. Johnson at Ironton, and in 1909 the two formed a professional partnership under the title of Johnson & Jones, this firm being one of the foremost at the bar of Lawrence County and controlling a large and representative practice. Mr. Jones is aligned loyally in the ranks of the republican party. He is a valued member of the Ironton Chamber of Commerce and the local Rotary Club and in the Masonic fraternity he is affiliated with the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council of the York Rite, and Knights Templars in his home city. He is a member also of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, besides being affiliated with the Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the Phi Delta Phi, and the Phi Beta Kappa college fraternities. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. June 17, 1908, recorded the marriage of Mr. Jones and Miss Marguerite Blanche Jones, daughter of E. T. and Julia A. Jones, of Jackson, this state. E. T. Jones was a pioneer in the charcoal industry in Jackson County, and he served as sheriff of that county, his election having attested his popularity, since he was a democrat and was elected in a strong republican county. He was educated at Ohio University at Athens, Ohio. He took specially deep interest in educational matters and served for a quarter of a century as a member of the City Board of Edu- HISTORY OF OHIO - 87 cation of Jackson, Ohio, where he was a citizen of prominence and influence and a business man who achieved large success. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Jones have one child, Helen Kathlyn. ROBERT ELLIS SHELTON, D. D. S., has been established in the successful practice of his profession in the City of Portsmouth since 1921, and is one of the able and popular dental practitioners in Scioto County. Doctor Shelton was born in Adams County, Ohio, May 22, 1883, and he is the youngest of the fine family of twelve children (all living) born to Thomas Jefferson Shelton and Mary (Dragoo) Shelton, both likewise natives of the old Buckeye State. The loved mother died in the spring of 1923, and the venerable father, now eighty-four years of age (1923), still resides in Adams County. He is a son of William and Bettie (Cochran) Shelton, both of Irish lineage, William Shelton having come to Ohio from Virginia. Samuel Dragoo, maternal grandfather of the Doctor, likewise was a scion of staunch Irish stock, the family name of his wife having been Day. Thomas Jefferson Shelton gave the greater part of his active career to farm industry, in which he gained substantial success. He has ever been a stalwart advocate of the principles of the republican party, has been influential in public affairs in his county, and has given effective and loyal service as a member of the Board of County Commissioners. He is a past master of his Masonic Blue Lodge, and his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian Church, of which his wife likewise was an earnest member. The childhood and early youth of Doctor Shelton were passed on the home farm, and his public school discipline included that of the high school at Manchester, in his native county. In preparation for his chosen profession he thereafter entered the department of dentistry of the Ohio State Medical College in the City of Cincinnati, and from this institution he received his degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery upon his graduation as a member of the class of 1909. For the ensuing ten years he was established in practice at Manchester, Adams County, and in 1921 he moved to Portsmouth, which city has since continued the stage of his successful professional activities, his practice being of substantial and representative order. The Doctor is an active member of the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, is aligned in the ranks of the republican party, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and he maintains membership in the Presbyterian Church. December 6, 1911, recorded the marriage of Doctor Shelton and Miss Bertha Himes, who was born and reared in Kentucky and whose death occurred in 1921. Mrs. Shelton was a daughter of Pal and Queen (Truesdale) Himes, both natives of Kentucky, which state the father represented as a valiant soldier of the Confederacy in the Civil war. Doctor Shelton has two children: Mary Katherine and Thomas Himes. MELVIN DAVID HARTINGER, a doctor of dental surgery who has been giving a highly qualified service in that profession in Meigs County for a quarter of a century, is a professional man at Pomeroy, and is also known as owner and developer of one of the finest fruit farms in this section of Ohio. Doctor Hartinger was born at Middleport, Meigs County, May 22, 1875, a son of Dr. Daniel Skinner and Hannah E. (Jacobs) Hartinger. The Hartinger family came from Germany to America in Colonial times. The grandfather was William B. Hartinger, who was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, and spent most of his active life as a farmer in Meigs County, where he died at the age of seventy-eight. He was an original republican in politics. His wife was Phoebe Skinner, and they had a family of three sons and three daughters. The only one now living is Doctor Daniel S. The son of William M. Hartinger was a druggist at Middleport, and died at the age of sixty-nine. In the Civil war he saw active service all through the struggle with the Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, participating in many battles, including Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain and the engagements on the march to the sea. He served as treasurer of the county, and was a member of the school board and city council. The other son, Isaac Wesley Hartinger, was also a veteran in the Ninety-second Ohio Infantry, and was killed in the battle of Missionary Ridge on December 24, 1863. Dr. Daniel Skinner Hartinger was born on a farm three miles northwest of Middleport, January 19, 1847. He attended country schools in Rutland Township, the Middleport High School, had an experience as a teacher in country schools for two terms, worked on a farm and on steamboats on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. D. C. Rathburne. For six years he was employed in his brother 's drug store, that being a valuable experience in teaching him pharmacy and the compounding of medicines. For one term he was. able to attend Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, and was then given a temporary license to practice medicine. In this way he was able to complete his course at Cincinnati, where he graduated in 1876. However, for fully half a century he has been in practice at Middleport. In that time he has ridden thousands of miles on horseback, his range of practice covering not only this section of Ohio, but portions of West Virginia. He has always been very fond of horses, and kept a number of good ones in his stables long after the advent of the automobile. His practice is now office consultation except when his old friends demand his presence at their bedside. He has served on the pension board for thirty years, and is a member of the Universalist Church. At the time of the Civil war he started for the army whenever opportunity permitted his slipping away from home, but his father brought him back every time. He has been a Mason for forty years and is charter member of the Knights of Pythias. Doctor Daniel S. Hartinger married in 1870, Miss Hannah Jacobs daughter of David R. Jacobs. She was born in Meigs County. Three ,sons were born to their marriage. Melvin David Hartinger attended school at Middleport, and subsequently entered the Ohio Dental College at Cincinnati, where he was graduated April 6, 1898. He practiced at Middleport for nearly twenty years, but since 1916 his home and offices have been in Pomeroy. He has kept in touch with the rapidly advancing knowledge and methods in dental surgery, and has achieved a distinctly gratifying success in his profession. Largely as a diversion, Doctor Hartinger in 1911 established what he then called the Hillsdale Fruit Farm. He had personal supervision of the property until 1920, and was directly responsible for the foundation work that has made the farm a show place among horticultural enterprises in Southern Ohio. Since 1920, however, James Titus, a graduate of the State University Horticultural Department, has been in charge. In order to give it a more individual name the business is now known as the Hartinger Fruit Farm. The farm has fifty acres of apple trees producing the delicious Stayman winesaps, King David and other splendid commercial varieties of the apple, and peaches are ripening in the orchards from early in the season until October. Doctor Hartinger has always confessed to a strong love for fine horses, and at one time gave much attention to the raising of horses. He and his mother were 88 - HISTORY OF OHIO at one time joint owners of a prosperous dairy business, maintaining an exceptionally fine herd of Jersey cows. Doctor Hartinger was the first president of the Kiwanis clubs of Pomeroy and Middleport. The following year he was elected president of the Meigs County Good Roads Association. As a boy he played baseball and later managed the team. In 1911 he served as president of the Pomeroy and Middleport Baseball Club. This club was a member of the Mountain State League, operating under the National Baseball League rules. This was the first professional baseball ever played in the Pomeroy Bend. The following teams composed the league : Charleston, Huntington, Ashland, Cattlesburg, Pomeroy-Middleport, Montgomery and Parkersburg. After a hard fought battle Pomeroy-Middleport won the pennant. In 1912 Doctor Hartinger was elected vice president of the league, but about mid-season several of the teams became dissatisfied and the league disbanded. This was a great disappointment to the lovers of good sport, for never before or since has there been such an exhibition of the great American game in this section. As a financial proposition the venture was a failure, but for those who loved the sport it was a great success. Doctor Hartinger is an independent in politics, is a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias and Elks. Doctor Hartinger married in 1902 Miss Edith Lust, daughter of William Lust, of Pomeroy, Ohio. LUCIEN M. DOTY. In naming the men who are identified with the great shoe industry of Ohio no list would be complete that did not contain the name of Lucien M. Doty, secretary and sales manager of the Selby Shoe Company of Portsmouth, Scioto County. With the exception of four years at the start of his career, when he was employed as a telegraph operator, he has been identified with this line of business all his life, and in the attainment of the office which he now holds has worked his way up from a humble capacity to one in which he is recognized as a force in the industry which he represents. Mr. Doty was born October 14, 1876, at Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, and is a son of Theodore and Martha (Weaver) Doty, being descended from ancestors from New England, whence .came his great-grandfather to Ohio. Theodore Doty was born October 26, 1844, in Ross County, Ohio, a son of John M. and Sarah H. (Jones) Doty, the former a well-known and influential democratic politician of his day and locality. Until the age of fifteen years Theodore Doty attended the public schools of Chillicothe, and then was variously occupied until reaching the age of twenty-one years, when he secured employment with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad COmpany. He remained in the employ of this company until 1888, when he located at Portsmouth and became freight agent of the Scioto Valley Railway Company, later holding the same position with the Norfolk & Western Railway. In 1893 he became president and one of the Board of Directors of the Scioto Fire Brick Company of Sciotoville, Ohio, and for two years, from 1890 to 1892, was president of the Scioto County Agricultural Society. From 1896 to 1901 he served as president of the Board of Trade, was a member of the City Council in 1896 and 1897, and in 1898 and 1899 was a member of the City Board of Education. In 1893 and 1894 he was president of the Garfield Club. Mr. Doty was reared a democrat, but when he became of age became a republican of pronounced type, and was active in political circles while living at Chillicothe. On coming to Portsmouth he at once became identified with the affairs of his party, and for a number of years acted as a member of the Republican Executive Committee. Fraternally Mr. Doty was a Mason, and past eminent commander of Calvary Commandery, Knights Templar ; in addition to which he was past exalted ruler of the Elks Lodge at Portsmouth. In all enterprises for the public good he has always been ready to do his share, and while he is now retired from active affairs still takes an interest in civic matters. Mr. Doty married Miss Martha E. Weaver, July 9, 1868, and she is now deceased, having been the mother of six children ; Frank, Harry, Lucien, Charles, Elizabeth and Edith. Lucien M. Doty attended the public schools of Chillicothe until his parents moved to Portsmouth in 1888, at which time he began attending the schools of the latter city. After two years in the high school he went to work for the Norfolk & Western Railroad Company as a telegraph operator and in station work, and continued as a railroader for four years. Next he joined the Heer Shoe Company, with which he remained until that company sold out its interests. His next connection was with the Murphy Company, handling shoes as a jobber, but in 1905 he resigned and joined his present company, the Selby Shoe Company. Mr. Doty commenced with this concern as a clerk and general office worker, and gradually worked his way upward until becoming secretary of the company in 1918. He still retains this position and has done much to contribute to the success of the company. Mr. Doty is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Country Club, and as a fraternalist is a Scottish Rite and Knight Templar Mason and an Elk. With his family he belongs to the First Presbyterian Church. When he can spare the time from his business duties Mr. Doty indulges his liking for the pastimes of golf and fishing. He takes an active interest in civic affairs, and during the World war was prominently identified with all the activities engaged in by the local organizations. On September 29, 1910, at Portsmouth, Mr. Doty was united in marriage with Mrs. Murial (Evans) Larew, daughter of Nelson W. and Elizabeth (Henderson) Evans, Ohio people, the latter of whom survives. The late Nelson W. Evans was one of the leading attorneys, as well as a historian, being the author of the History of Scioto County, published in 1903, which is most complete in every respect. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Doty : Gladys, Lucien M., Jr., Drayton and Elizabeth, all at home. JOHN F. TAYLOR, president of the Universal Motor Company of Portsmouth, Ohio, is a native of Pennsylvania, his birth occurring in Susquehanna County on February 10, 1878. His parents are Leslie and Elizabeth (Landon) Taylor, the former being now deceased, but the latter is still living with her daughter, Mrs. George L. Pake, of Waverly, Ohio. The paternal grandfather of John F. was born in Pennsylvania, the maternal grandfather was born in Ohio. Leslie Taylor was a prominent bridge contractor and builder on the railroads in Western Kansas and Missouri. John F. Taylor received a liberal education in the public schools of Emporia, Kansas, and elsewhere, and was prepared for the strenuous duties of life upon the death of his father while he was a boy. He came to Rarden soon afterward and began work for his uncle, Lafayette Taylor, in the lumber business. At that time Lafayette Taylor was one of the leading and conspicuous business operators of the county. He owned a tract of valuable timber land and was the owner and operator of several saw mills, besides a large general store, a capacious stone quarry and was the head of the Taylor Cooperage Company. The big store was where John F. was assigned work and responsibility. So earnest were his efforts and so masterly his management that he soon acquired a one-half interest in the establishment. In 1914 he accepted the Ford agency for the disposal of cars HISTORY OF OHIO - 89 for Harden and vicinity, and the following year moved to Portsmouth and organized the Universal Motor Company and soon had a large and profitable business. In 1917 he acquired the entire holdings of the Universal Motor Company. Soon afterward he sold his interest in the store at Rarden and began to devote his entire time to the rapidly growing business of the Universal Motor Company. So prosperous and promising became their operations that in 1922 he purchased one of the best and most conspicuous corners in the business section of Portsmouth and has erected thereon the most complete, best equipped and arranged and the handiest repair garage probably in the state and perhaps in the whole country. Many who have seen and used it are firm in their declarations that it is superior to any in the country. So widely were its merits advertised that the " Motor World" of New York sent one of its representatives to Portsmouth to examine it, with the result that the magazine gave it a full front-page write-up with elaborate illustrations. On October 19, 1898, John F. Taylor was united in marriage with Miss Romie E., daughter of Dugal and Violet (Journey) Steward. Mrs. Taylor died November 9, 1922, at Portsmouth. They had two children, Mary Stewart and Helen Elizabeth. Her mother is living, but the father is deceased. He was a stone dealer on a large scale, owned a quarry, and, was associated with the uncle of Mr. Taylor in the stone business. He was an Odd Fellow and a prominent and reputable citizen. John F. Taylor is a member of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, a Knight Templar, a Scottish Rite and a Shriner. LEWIS C. PEEL. One of the old established and reliable business establishments of Portsmouth is that operating as the Peel Storage Company, of which the president and founder is Lewis C. Peel. This business has been in operation since 1900, but Mr. Peel's advent in the City of Portsmouth antedated that year by more than a decade, as his arrival occurred in 1889, when, still a youth, he embarked upon a career that has been one of constant advancement honorably acquired. Mr. Peel was born March 19, 1871, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Clark) Peel. The Peel family is a notable one in the history of England, and Mr. Peel is a direct descendant of Sir Robert Peel, an English statesman, son of Sir Robert Peel, a wealthy manufacturer. Sir Robert Peel, the younger, was born in 1788, and studied at Harrow and Oxford. When just twenty-one years of age he entered Parliament, and thenceforth the sphere of his exertions and triumphs was in the House of Commons. In 1811 he was made under secretary for the colonies, and in 1812, when only twenty-four years of age, was given the very responsible position of chief secretary for Ireland. In 1822 he became home secretary, and in 1828 joined the ministry of the Duke of Wellington. He became prime minister in 1841, as the head of a protectionist government, and later becoming convinced of the value of free trade, became determined to carry its principles into practice. After the repeal of the Corn Laws and other measures in the same spirit he resigned office to a party to whom his later opinions legitimately belonged, in the summer of 1846. He died in 1850, of internal injuries caused by a fall from a horse. On his mother 's side, Mr. Peel is a grandson of Capt. Luke Clark, an officer of the Union army during the Civil war. Samuel Peel, the father of Lewis C. Peel, was born in England, and in 1865 came to the United States and settled at Cincinnati, where he established himself in business as a. dyer. He continued as a resident of that city until his early death in 1873, when his son was only two years of age. Mrs. Peel, a native of Indiana, is also deceased. The public schools of Cincinnati furnished Lewis C. Peel with his educational training, but his educational advantages were somewhat prescribed, inasmuch as owing to his father ,s death he was called upon to work at the age of fourteen years. His first employment was in a furniture store at Cincinnati, where he worked for four years, and after securing some experience decided to embark in business on his own account. Accordingly, in 1889, when eighteen years old, he came to Portsmouth and started a modest furniture establishment. This he built up to sizable proportions, and in 1900 went into the storage warehouse and general transfer and truck business. He now has the largest storage warehouse in the city, and handles all manner of merchandise, doing a general forwarding business. This enterprise has been built up gradually from small beginnings to one of general importance to the city as a commercial asset, through industry, good management, honorable dealing and fair representation. Mr. Peel has established an excellent standing for himself in business circles, one that is well merited because of the manner. in which he has conducted his activities. He belongs to the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce and fraternally is affiliated with the Fraternal Order of Eagles, while his religious connection is with the Presbyterian Church. On November 18, 1891, at Portsmouth, Ohio, Mr. Peel was united in marriage with Miss Mary Agnew, a daughter of Capt. John and Mary (Bobb) Agnew, natives of Kentucky, who are both deceased, a granddaughter of Samuel and Jane (Wilkins) Agnew, and a member of one of the old and prominent families of Kentucky. She is also connected with the well-known Wilson family of West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Peel are the parents of one son, Ralph, now connected with the shipping department of the Whittaker-Glessner Steel Company of Portsmouth, who served during the World war as a first sergeant in the Quartermaster 's Department, Hospital Corps. He married Miss Grace Adams, of Portsmouth, and they are the parents of two daughters, Marilan and Betty Lew. WILLIAM S. HART, M. D. While a physician by education and profession, Doctor Hart, of Pomeroy, Meigs County, is perhaps better known in that section because of his extended public service as county auditor, a post of duty in which he served four terms. Doctor Hart was born on a farm in Lodi Township, Athens County, October 15, 1865, and was an infant when his parents moved to Meigs County. His father, David Hart, was a native of New Jersey, and his mother, Barbara (Wetheral) Hart, was born in Pennsylvania. Both had been married before, and Barbara Wetheral at the time of her marriage to David Hart was the widow of Robert Shaw. David Hart had fourteen children by his first marriage and six by his second wife. David Hart spent his active career as a farmer and during the sixteen years he lived at Pomeroy he was a butcher and justice of the peace. After leaving Pomeroy he established his home on a farm in Scipio Township of Meigs County. He was a very prosperous citizen and active in the United Brethren Church. David Hart died in 1895 at the age of eighty, and his wife, Barbara, passed away aged seventy. The sons of David Hart by his first marriage were Aaron, Daniel, James, Peter, Philip and John, and there were two sons of the second marriage: Frank, a farmer, who died in 1921, and Dr. William S. William S. Hart acquired a common school education, and at the age of seventeen began teaching. He taught through a period of eight years, using his 90 - HISTORY OF OHIO vacation periods and his earnings to advance his education, attending the Pageville Academy and the Jerseyville Seminary, and he also began the study of medicine in Doctor Blakely ,s office. Besides teaching he also did farm work as a means toward accumulating the capital needed to put into medical school. He graduated in March, 1891, from the Columbus Medical College, and then for about twelve years was engaged in private practice at Dyesville in Meigs County. In 1902 he became deputy auditor of Meigs County, serving in that capacity until 1908, when he was elected auditor, serving four years, from 1909. During 1914-15 he was assistant to the district assessor, and then was again elected auditor, holding that office until March, 1923. During a portion of his term as county auditor the present Governor Donahey was state auditor. Doctor Hart has always been deeply interested in politics, attending numerous county and state conventions as a delegate. His chief business responsibilities at present are as secretary and manager of the Valley Standard Credit Company. Doctor Hart married, on September 2, 1890, Miss Blanche Tewksbury. Her father is Aaron Tewksbury, a veteran of the Civil war and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Doctor and Mrs. Hart have four children: Elsa, bookkeeper and cashier for the New York Clothing Company at Pomeroy ; Edna B., wife of H. E. Cooper, an automobile dealer at Pomeroy and Middleport; Audrey L., wife of Dr. E. F. Maag, of Middleport; and William L., a student in high school. Doctor Hart is a republican, is past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias, a member of the Masonic order, and is active in the Methodist Episcopal Church, having formerly been a teacher in the Sunday school. FLOYD ELMER STEARNES. Of all the arts none is productive of so much genuine pleasure as music, and those who adequately interpret the masters are benefactors of the human race as well as artists of the highest culture. One of the men whose lives have been given to this art, and who has attained to distinction in it is Floyd Elmer Stearnes, leader of the Excelsior Band and for many years president of the River City Band. He was born at Portsmouth, October 23, 1879, a son of Frederick A. and Anna M. (Saufferer) Stearnes, the former now deceased. Frederick A. Stearnes was born in Bavaria, Germany, as was his father, and was eleven years old when his parents brought him to the United States. When war broke out between the North and the South Frederick A. Stearnes enlisted in the Union army, as did so many of his countrymen, and, being a musician, served as bugler of the One Hundred and Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Subsequently he became a major of the Home Guards, and was always called Major thereafter. During his military service he was wounded. In addition to following his calling of musician he worked at his trade of barbering. His father, the grandfather of Floyd Elmer Stearnes, was also a musician, and taught that art in Bavaria, so that Mr. Stearnes, of this notice, inherits his musical talent. The Portsmouth public schools gave Mr.- Stearnes his literary training, but he left school at the age of fifteen years and went to work in the Selby-Drew shoe factory, where he remained for eight years. Leaving that concern, he established a news agency, and through it handled all the daily and other papers and magazines, and for four years successfully conducted this business, and then, selling at a profit, opened a music store and handled pianos and musical instruments. During all of his mature years he has been connected with musical matters, and during much of the time was leader and manager of the old Excelsior Band. He was one of the organizers of the American Federation of Musicians, and for fifteen years was its president. Mr. Stearnes is a member of the River City Band and for twenty years was its president. During the late war he was active in war work. On January 1, 1905, Mr. Stearnes married Bessie E. Fout, a daughter of Levi and Jane Fout, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectively, the former of whom is deceased, but the latter is living. Mr. and Mrs. Stearnes have four children: Marjorie Jean, Ruth Evelyn, Robert Louis and Richard Clayton. Mr. Stearnes is a Mason, having been advanced through the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery, and he also belongs to the Knights of Pythias, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce and the American Federation of Musicians, and is very active in all movements in behalf of the advancement of the city. His father was likewise prominent in the civic life of Portsmouth, and he, too, belonged to the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias, and he was also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Stearnes is the man to whom everyone goes in Portsmouth for music for all occasions, and they are never disappointed, for he can furnish it, and always of the highest class. SAMUEL ANSELM SKELTON, Of Portsmouth, has had a busy ten-year program since he was admitted to the bar. He has been city solicitor, and while still holding that office served nearly two years in the World war. He is now prosecuting attorney of Scioto County. His father was the late Capt. James Skelton an honored veteran of the Civil war. Capt. James Skelton was of old Virginia ancestry, and was born in Vernon Township, Scioto County, December 30, 1836, son of John and Minerva (Sperry) Skelton, and grandson of Samuel Skelton, who came to Southern Ohio from Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia. The Skelton name has been prominent in Virginia history for many generations. Samuel Skelton married Francis Wilson. Capt. James Skelton was reared in Scioto County, attended the common schools, and as a young man of eighteen went to work at farming and also was employed at the Empire Pine Grove and Junior Furnaces. On July 19, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company F of the Twenty-seventh Ohio Infantry, was soon made fourth sergeant and later first sergeant, and on June 27, 1864, promoter to sergeant-major. Soon afterward he was commissioned second lieutenant, and on the same day he lost his right leg in the battle of Kenesaw Mountain. After several months in the hospital he received his honorable discharge, February 14, 1865, having been promoted to the rank of captain in recognition of his brave S and meritorious conduct. He was in many of the battles of the Mississippi Valley, including New Madrid, Island No. 10, Hamburg Landing, the siege and battle of Corinth, Parkers Cross Roads, and in all the engagements during the slow advance from Chattanooga to Kenesaw Mountain, where he was wounded. After the war Captain Skelton became a merchant at Powellsville for a year or so, and then conducted a hotel and drug store at Wheelersburg, and also served as postmaster. In October, 1868, he was elected county auditor of Scioto County, and was reelected in 1870, his second term being extended ten months by act of the Legislature. Captain Skelton in 1875 purchased the old horse-car street railway at Portsmouth, and Operated that public utility for eight years. In 1877 he was elected a commissioner HISTORY OF OHIO - 91 of Scioto County, serving one term, but before its expiration he was appointed United States gauger, and filled that post of duty with the internal revenue department for ten years. On retiring from office he turned his attention to the real estate business, with A. T. Holcomb as a partner. He did more real estate development and laying out of town additions than any other individual. Captain Skelton was a man of varied resources and interests. Perhaps his chief diversion was the raising of blooded stock. He had some of the best horses in this section of the country, and always was represented on the Grand Circuit. His stock farm had a private race track for training his horses. For a number of years he was in the City Council of Portsmouth, representing either the Fourth or the Third Wards. While he was on the council the first street paving- was done. In 1900 he represented the Seventh Senatorial District on the Board of Equalization. Several terms he was a member of the Republican County Executive Committee and for two terms chairman of the Congressional Committee of the Tenth District. He was an alternate in several national conventions and did some very effective work in the campaign of 1896. Captain Skelton had a great many admirers in Scioto County, and all of them united in praise of his utter fearlessness, his splendid qualities as a soldier, and his old army comrades say that but for his wound he would have reached a high rank before the end of the war. If he had ever set up a coat of arms his motto would have been "Never Say Die." He was energetic, public spirited, far seeing, and his enterprise redounded to the welfare of the entire community. He was always young in actions, and never too old. He was the soul of honor, and ever acted according to the right as he saw it. On May 16, 1868, Captain Skelton married Mary 0. Remy, daughter of Thomas Remy. To this marriage were born five children: Berry, deceased; William W., of Scioto County ; Charles F., of Montana; James, of Chicago; and Fannie, wife of John DeLotelle, of Dayton, Ohio. On April 2, 1884, Captain Skelton married Mary E. Knittel, who is still living and is of German ancestry. She is the mother of four children, John R., Samuel Anselm, Dessie and Grace L. Samuel Anselm Skelton was born at Portsmouth June 14, 1892. He acquired his early education in the graded schools in New Boston, and graduated from the Portsmouth High School in 1910. For six months was also a student in Ohio State University, and then finished his law course in the Cincinnati Law School, graduating Bachelor of Laws in 1913. He was admitted to the bar in June of the same year, and his time and energies were taken up with a growing general practice until the fall of 1915. At that date he was elected city solicitor. On August 27, 1917, while active in the campaign for reelection, he entered the Second Officers, Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and at the close of the training was commissioned second lieutenant. While at the Officers, Training Camp he received word of his reelection as city solicitor. He was assigned to duty in Company D of the Fourth Infantry, and November 27, 1917, went to Camp Dodge, Iowa, with the Forty-second Infantry Regiment. In March, 1918, he was assigned to duty at Philadelphia, at the Cramp Ship Yards, and June, 1918, became an instructor of the Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg, New York. While at Plattsburg he was commissioned first lieutenant. In September, 1918, he was transferred to Lehigh University at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, as camp adjutant and professor of military science, and on November 23, 1918, became commanding officer of the Students' Army Training Corps at Penn College at Gettysburg. He remained on duty there until granted his discharge, February 19, 1919. Mr. Skelton soon afterward returned tO Portsmouth, and on April 1 resumed his duties as city solicitor, and in the fall of 1919, was elected for a third term in that office. In November, 1922, he was elected prosecuting attorney of the county. May 14, 1921, at Portsmouth, he married Miss Charlotte Dupuy, daughter of Thomas J. and Sarah (Hicks) Dupuy, both Ohio people and living at Portsmouth. Her father is active in business as a worker and also a stockholder and director in the Excelsior Shoe Company of Portsmouth, and is a Royal Arch and Knight Templar Mason. Mr. and Mrs. Skelton have one son, Samuel Anselm, Jr. They are members of the Second Presbyterian Church. Mr. Skel- • ton is a Mason, Knight of Pythias, has held all the chairs and is a past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a member of the Sons of Veterans, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Modern Woodmen of America and the American Legion Post. He also belongs to the County and State Bar assOciations, the Portsmouth Country Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and in college was president of the chapter of the Phi Alpha Delta. R. ANSLEY MILLER. A general building contractor at Middleport, the work of Mr. Miller is found in evidence throughout the district of country known as the Bend in Meigs County and over the Ohio River in sections of West Virginia. He is also a dealer in building material. A very prosperous business man and leader in civic affairs. Mr. Miller started his career at the age of twelve years digging coal in this section of Ohio. He was born at Syracuse, Meigs County, November 2, 1877, son of David C. and Elizabeth (White) Miller. His father came from Scotland in 1860, having been a coal miner in his native land. For the first four years he worked in the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania, and then moved to Pomeroy, Ohio, and continued his work as a miner here. For many years his home was at Syracuse. He died in 1903, at the age of sixty-eight. He became a republican in politics after acquiring American citizenship. David Miller married Elizabeth White, who was born in Delaware. They were members of the Presbyterian Church. Their family consisted of three sons and four daughters. One son, David, is a manufacturer of patterns at Cleveland. Montrose was a miner and died at Syracuse at the age of twenty-two. R. Ansley Miller was reared at Syracuse, attended the common schools there, and when he was twelve years of age took his place beside his father in the coal mines. He was in the mines until he was nineteen, when he became a carpenter, and as a journeyman he worked at his trade in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and at McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and on returning to Syracuse continued working for others in the mines, helping build houses and mine tipples in the Pomeroy Bend. Gradually he began taking small contracts, and during the past fifteen years he has handled most of the important building work in the Bend district. His most recent important contract was the Masonic Temple at Middleport. He also erected the Pure Oil Salt Plant at Bell, West Virginia, and another salt plant at Mason City, West Virginia, the plant of the Brocalsa Chemical Company, the high and graded schoolhouses at Middleport, the Syracuse Methodist Episcopal Church and a number of other buildings. During a portion of 1918-19, P. L. Clifton was his partner, but otherwise he has been in business alone. Mr. Miller began dealing in lumber and building supplies in 1907, and now operates a modern planing plant in connection with his lumber yard. He is a 92 - HISTORY director in the Williams Cup Company, a director in the Mutual National Bank of Middleport and vice president of the Brocalsa Chemical Company. At all times he has put his services at the disposal of the community, and has been prominent in various movements. He is active in the good roads federation, is a member of the National Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis Club, and was chairman of the local republican central committee in the campaign of 1922. All his employes are members of the Red Cross. Before coming to Middleport he was a member of the Syracuse school board for twelve years, and for eight years was chief of the Volunteer Fire Department of Middleport. He is affiliated with the Elks, the Junior Order United American Mechanics and the Knights of Pythias, and he and his family are Methodists. Mr. Miller married in 1902 Miss Ethel Chase, daughter of David Chase. They have one son, David Chase Miller, now attending Culver Military Academy in Indiana, where he is preparing for entrance to Cornell University. Mr. Miller is a member of all the Masonic bodies in the York and Scottish Rites. THOMAS CARLYLE BEATTY, former judge of the Probate Court at Portsmouth, has been in law practice in Scioto County for nearly thirty years, and the record of his life includes a number of honors and distinctions, marking special service. Judge Beatty was born in Scioto County, December 7, 1868, and is a son of Robert and Armina (Reme) Beatty. The Beattys came to Ohio from Pennsylvania in 1830. Judge Beatty had a Revolutionary ancestor. His paternal grandparents were Reinhard and Mary (Taylor) Beatty. His mother was a daughter of Thomas Reme, of French ancestry. Armina Reme had three brothers who were soldiers in the Civil war. Robert Beatty, father of Judge Beatty, is one of the -most interesting old time citizens of Scioto County. He is still living, at the advanced age of eighty-three. He has a service record of four years as a Union soldier, a member of the First Ohio Cavalry. He was under General Thomas during much of the time. He was in the battles of Stone River, Kenesaw Mountain, Chickamauga and numerous others. He was once captured and for a time held a prisoner at Atlanta, made his escape and was recaptured, and was about to be sent to Libby Prison when he was exchanged. About two years after the war he married and settled on the farm in Scioto County, and continued farming and working in the mines until he had reared and provided for his family and finally retired under the burden of years. He reared ten children, and outlived all but two of them. Robert Beatty has been a man of great vigor, and probably never knew the meaning of fear. That quality was demonstrated while he was a soldier, and many times in civil life. He would never accept any public office. He was successful in a business way, and he always carried considerable money with him. When in his eightieth year and while living alone, as he still does at his farm, a robber entered his unlocked door and robbed him of about $1,000. He has always enjoyed the companionship of the old soldiers. Thomas Carlyle Beatty grew up on his father's farm, and combined his schooling with hard work. He attended district schools three months each year, and then worked on the .farm and in the mines with his father. Much of his early education was supplemented by study at home at night. When he was nineteen he was given a teacher's certificate, and during the next seven years he alternated between the teaching of school and study of law. His preceptor in law studies was Judge Theodore Funk. Mr. Beatty was admitted to the bar by examination in 1894, and since that year has been in general practice at Portsmouth. He filled the office of city attorney for five years, from 1901 to 1906, and his service as judge of the Probate Court continued for eight years, from 1909 to 1917. During the late war he assisted on the draft board and was also one of the four-minute speakers of the county. Judge Beatty is a member of the Portsmouth City Bar Association, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Eagles, and is a member of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. In February, 1896, at Portsmouth, he married Miss Margaret Apple, daughter of Theodore and Mary (Brant) Apple. Her father came from Germany in 1854 an settled in Scioto County and became one of the substantial farmers of this locality. Judge and Mrs. Beatty have three children, Charles E., Howard Holcomb and Louise. Charles E. is a dentist by profession, and during the World war was a first lieutenant in the Dental Corps and had charge of dental work at Camp Sherman. He married Mary Hunter, of Columbus, Ohio. The daughter, Louise, is the wife of William Henderson, and they reside at Cincinnati, where he is pursuing his medical studies. HARRY M. DUNHAM. The distinction of being the youngest county sheriff in Ohio belongs to Harry M. Dunham of Portsmouth, Scioto County. Mr. Dunham was not yet twenty-eight years of age when he assumed the duties of that responsible position in January, 1923. His career has been an interesting one, marking the progress of a poor boy through hard work and fidelity to every interest. He was born at Piketon in Pike County, Ohio April 2, 1895, son of Jacob V. and Sarah (Foster; Dunham. The Dunhams are an old Virginia family. The founder of the family in Southern Ohio was Benajah Dunham, who was born in Virginia about 1785. In April, 1813, he married Eliza Mayner, and shortly afterward they came West and settled at Piketon, Ohio. They were the parents of Vincent Dunham, who was born about 1816. Vincent DuDunhamas the father of Jacob Dunham, who with his wife, Mary, were the grandparents of the Scioto County sheriff. The latter's, maternal grandparents were Isaac and Elizabeth Foster. Mrs. Sarah Foster Dun, ham is now living at Portsmouth. The late Jacob V. Dunham was in the meat market and cattle business at Piketon. He enlisted for service in the Union army at the time of the Civil war, but being only fifteen years of age his mother protested to the army authorities and they sent him home. He was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His death occurred in 1909. Harry M. Dunham was only fourteen when his father died, and his public school education was ended soon afterward and his career has ever since been one of steady reliance on his own initiative and effort. After coming to Portsmouth, which was in 1911, he worked for the Selby Shoe Company until the early part of 1916. Mr. Dunham was then appointed a member of the City Police Department but left that service in May, 1918, and went to work for the Solvay Coke Company. In 1919 he was appointed deputy sheriff of Scioto County, and continued until April, 1921, when he was made clerk of the Municipal Court. He resigned that office in the fall of 1922 to become a candidate for sheriff, and received a substantial majority at the polls in November. In January, 1923, he was inaugurated, and since taking charge of the office he has proved by the vigor and courage of his administration that he possesses all the qualities deserving of the confidence and support he received. He believes in the vigorous enforcement of the law, and at the same time is a man with so many friends and of such social charm HISTORY OF OHIO - 93 that his influence and prestige win more respect for the law than would any stern display of force. Mr. Dunham married in 1913 Miss Emma A. Johnson, daughter of William and Nancy (McCleese) Johnson. Her parents are farming people living in Carter County, Kentucky. The two children of Sheriff and Mrs. Dunham are Jacob A. and Pauline. Mr. Dunham is a Methodist, and fraternally is 'affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Woodmen of the World, the Tribe of Ben Hur, the Improved Order of Red Men, the Junior Order United American Mechanics and the Eagles. In politics he is a republican. MAJ. ORMSBY KESELRING, D. D. S. Few of the dental practitioners of Ohio can boast of more varied or valuable experience than Maj. Ormsby Keselring, D. D. S., of Portsmouth, Scioto County, who gained his title in the great World war through meritorious service in the line of his calling and who has made no less a splendid record during the days of peace that have followed as a capable and thoroughly learned practitioner. Doctor Keselring was born March 16, 1889, at Lewisburg, Ohio, and is a son of Frank and Belle (Everson) Kesselring, natives of Ohio, who still reside at Lewisburg, where they are highly esteemed by a wide circle of friends and are active members of the Reformed Church. Frank Keselring carried on a general tobacco business, buying, selling and raising, and is the owner and operator of a tobacco warehouse at Lewisburg. Fraternally he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in former years was very active, in that body, having passed all the chairs in his lodge. Ormsby Keselring received his early education in the public schools of Lewisburg, Ohio, where lie was graduated from the high school in 1908. For three years thereafter he taught in the public schools of the county, then enrolling as a student at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, from the dental department of which institution he was graduated in 1914 with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. At that time he began practice at Dayton, Ohio, where he was in the possession of a goodly clientele when the United States entered the World war. Doctor Keselring immediately enlisted for service in the Medical Corps as a dental surgeon, and was called into active service September 8, 1917, going to Camp Sherman, Ohio, where he received his first lieutenant,s commission. He remained at that camp, in charge of the dental work, until June, 1918, in the meantime, in March, 1918, having been commissioned captain. In June, 1918, he went to Camp Mills, and on the 12th of that month sailed from Hoboken with the Three Hundred Twenty-fourth Field Artillery of the Eighty-third Division, landing at Liverpool and going thence to Le Havre, France, where he remained for a time at Rest Camps Nos. 1 and 2. He was then sent to Bain de Bretagne, France, where he remained for six weeks in charge of all dental work, following which lie went to Coetquidan, France, and remained for a month in the training camp! We was next transferred to LeMans,. where he had a very large class under his supervision, this being the point from which the troops were sent to the front for replacement work after examination, in addition to being a classification and transfer camp. Here at one time he had six assistants, and in one month they examined over 79,000 men as to the condition of their teeth, working all day and far into the night. After the signing Of the armistice Doctor Keselring was sent to a forwarding camp, where he was engaged ..in debouching and evacuation work, and there, in February, 1919, received his commission as major. He arrived at Brest, July 5, 1919, whence he sailed for the United States, arriving at Boston seven days later, and then went successively to Camp Davis, Camp Dix and Camp Sherman, at the last named of which he was honorably discharged August 1, 1919. He first returned to Lewisburg, but shortly thereafter came to. Portsmouth, where he again opened up an office, and is now a member of the dental surgery firm of Coffman and Keselring. While there are numerous Keselrings in Virginia and nearby states, Major Keselring is the first of the family to have joined the Masons, in which he has attained to the thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite. He is also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and holds membership in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the College Greek dental fraternity of Psi Omega. He belongs to one of the old and honored families of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and is a grandson of Jonathan and Mary (Klinger) Keselring. On March 23, 1918, at Dayton, Ohio, Major Keselring was united in marriage with Miss Miriam Mowery, daughter of Isaac and Lucy (Bright) Mowery, natives of Ohio, both of whom are living at Dayton, where Mr. Mowery is connected with the National Cash Register Company. Mr. Mowery has been a lifelong member of the United Brethren Church, in the work of which he is active. HON. CHARLES E. PEOPLES, judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the Ninth Judicial District, has earned many distinctions in the law and public affairs in Meigs County. His career has been one of intensive self effort directed to high and laudable ends, and he is easily one of the outstanding men in Southeastern Ohio today. Judge Peoples was born in Orange Township, Meigs County, May 15, 1857, son of Addison and Huldah (Merritt) Peoples. Addison Peoples, who was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1833, was a miller by trade, his father, Robert Peoples, having followed the same vocation. Robert Peoples was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, December 2, 1802, and on his mother ,s side was a descendant of the Griffins, one of the prominent early families of Pennsylvania. Peebles was an old family name in Ireland, and when one branch of the family came to America they changed the spelling to Peoples. Addison Peoples died in 1866, when his son Charles was nine years of age. The mother had died in 1863, and subsequently Addison Peoples married Hannah Biggs. Charles E. Peoples accompanied his stepmother after his father ,s death to Bedford Township, Meigs County, and lived with the Biggs family during his boyhood. He attended school there, did work as a farmer boy, and at the age of twenty became a teacher, doing work in the rural schools of Meigs and Athens counties for a period of ten years. He was also industriously advancing his own education by attending a select school six or eight weeks in the fall of each year, and in 1884, after his marriage, he was a student in the National Normal University at Lebanon. Some of the most valuable training he had in these years was his active work in the literary society, where he distinguished himself as a debater. He was studying law at home, and after completing his course Senator Cal Welch of Athens certified for him and he was admitted to the bar. Judge Peoples has been a constant student of his profession through all the years. His first associate in law practice was C. D. Hopkins, now of Athens. They were together for about a year, and subsequently for three years he was in practice with H. C. Fish. Since 1908 his son, Emmett W. Peoples, who was educated at Ohio State University, and who was admitted to the bar in 1907, 94 - HISTORY OF OHIO has been in practice with his father at Pomeroy. Another son is E. M. Peoples, now a prominent business man, in the tent and awning business in Huntington, West Virginia. He was appointed a clerk in the adjutant general ,s office of Ohio by Governor Harmon, and during the Cox administration he served as assistant adjutant general of the state. Judge Peoples married Ann Cowan, daughter of George and Diademia (Jones) Cowan, of Bedford Township, Meigs County. They were schoolmates, and she spent a year in the National Normal University with him after their marriage. She was a teacher for ten years. Mrs. Peoples died in January,. 1917. The first official honor given Judge Peoples was election as a justice of the peace of Bedford Township. He was chosen at the age of twenty-three, serving from 1880 to 1883. In 1890 he was elected prosecuting attorney, being the only democrat on the county ticket elected that year. He served two and one-half years as prosecutor, resigning to accept appointment as postmaster of Pomeroy. He was appointed by President Cleveland, and held the office four years. In the meantime, in 1892, without his solicitation or consent, he was nominated for Congress against C. H. Grosvenor, and in this republican stronghold was defeated by only 2,600 votes. He was again a nominee for Congress in 1898. He was elected judge of the Ninth Common Pleas District in 1910. This district comprises the counties of Meigs, Gallia, Vinton, Hocking and Fairfield. In this election Judge Peoples defeated Judge Joseph P. Bradbury by 2,300 votes. Judge Bradbury, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, had carried the district in the previous election by 3,500 votes. Judge Peoples was chairman of the democratic central committee from 1890 for several years, and was a regular attendant as delegate at democratic state conventions from 1890 until conventions were practically superseded by primaries. Judge Peoples was a delegate to the national convention that nominated Judge Parker, and was in the national convention at Denver, representing the Philippine Islands. He was in the Philippines from June, 1907, to June, 1908, being associated in law practice at Manila with his stepbrother, C. W. O'Brien, who had gone out to the Philippines with the first contingent of American teachers, and while on the Island read law and was admitted to the bar. Judge Peoples was accompanied by his wife on this trip to the Philippines. From 1889 for thirty years Judge Peoples published the Pomeroy Democrat. For twenty-five years Mrs. Peoples had charge of the circulation, and read the proof on the paper. Judge Peoples is president and a director of the Meigs County Savings & Loan Company. He is a member and elder of the Disciples Church, and for a number of years conducted the men,s Bible class of that church at Middleport. He is a member of the Kiwanis Club. BENJAMIN F. PRINCE, Ph. D., is distinguished among Ohio educators on account of his long service to Wittenberg College at Springfield, which he has served in teaching and other capacities continuously since 1866, a record probably unsurpassed by any school man in the state. Doctor Prince was born at Westville, Champaign County, seven miles from Urbana, December 12, 1840, son of William and Sarah (Nauman) Prince. He is a descendant of John Henry Prince, who came from the palatinate region of Germany, arriving in this country September 26, 1749. Doctor Prince's first American ancestor in the maternal line was John G. Nauman, who arrived in this country August 21, 1750. The Prince family lived in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia for a number of years, and from there a branch of the family came into Ohio about 1809, and the Naumans settled in Champaign County in 1805. Doctor Prince, paternal grandparents were Adam and Eve Prince, the former a soldier in the War of 1812. The maternal grandparents were John Christian and Mary Magdalene (Zimmerman) Nauman. Doctor Prince was only seven years of age when his father died, in 1848. He had spent his life as a farmer. Sarah (Nauman) Prince died in January, 1881. Both parents were devoted Lutherans. They had a family of six children : Mary, who married Reinhard Snapp and had four children; David N.1 who served three years and three months in the Forty-second Ohio Infantry under General Garfield and others in the Civil war, married Mary Jones and became the father of five children; Peter W., who married Mary Browning and had four children; Elizabeth, who married John Wiant, and had three children; Benjamin F.; and Lydia, who married Emanuel Rogers and had four children. Benjamin F. Prince grew up in the country, attended district schools, and as a youth entered the preparatory school of Wittenberg College at Springfield, an institution that was established a few years after his birth. He graduated Bachelor of Arts from the college in 1865, received his Master of Arts degree in 1868, and in 1891 his scholarship and his long service brought him the degree Doctor of Philosophy. He began teaching at Wittenberg in 1866 as instructor in Latin, Greek and Algebra, subsequently held the chair of history and for the past quarter of a century has been connected with the faculty as professor of history and political science. He is now vice president of the college. Doctor Prince married, August 3, 1869, Miss Ellen Sanderson, daughter of John P. and Ellen (Keyser) Sanderson. Her father, who died in 1864, was a colonel in the regular army, and during the Civil war for a time was assistant to Simon G. Cameron, secretary of war, and at the time of his death was provost marshal of Missouri. Doctor Prince lost his wife by death February 17, 1911. They have four children: Miss Gracella ; Miss Flora ; Walter M.; and Mabel, who is the wife of Dr. John C. Easton, a specialist of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and has two children, Ellen and Sarah. Doctor Prince is a Phi Kappa Psi, member of the Ohio Archaeological Society, the American Economic Association, National Geographic Society, was for many years president of the Clark County Historical Society, was editor of the book, "Centennial of Springfield," published in 1901, was editor of "Springfield and Clark County," published in 1922, and is a member of the American Historical Association. Ile is a Lutheran, a republican, and is president of the Springfield Building & Loan Company. HARLEY L. HERRICK. The value of public utilities to any community is unquestioned, in fact no place can lay claim to any measure of public spirit or progressiveness until it has had installed in its midst those adjuncts to a modern life. Galion is one of the smaller cities of Ohio which has recognized the fact and taken proper measures to provide for its citizens public utilities of a high class, and their proper operation is assured by the capability of the superintendence of them, Harley L. Herrick, a man exceptionally well qualified for his work, and one who has the welfare of the city at heart. Harley L. Herrick was born at Newton Falls, Trumble County, Ohio, February 15, 1885, a son of Calvin L. and Nellie O. (Clark) Herrick. Calvin Herrick was born at Leroy, Ohio, in April, 1856, while his wife was born at Tallmadge, Ohio, in March of that same year. After their marriage they went to Akron, Ohio, where he became superintendent of HISTORY OF OHIO - 95 the Thomas Lumber Company, and held that position for some years. Later he was with the Falls Lumber Company of Cuyahoga Falls for fifteen years, but is now living retired from active participation in any business affairs. He is a member of the Congregational Church, and has held an official position with it. Three of his sons are now living, namely : Harley L., whose name heads this review; Carlton C., who is assistant credit manager for the Kirk Lumber Company, Akron, Ohio; and Ford F., who is proprietor of the Akron Auto Break Service Garage of Akron, Ohio. Harley L. Herrick was reared at Cuyahoga Falls, and attended its public schools through the high school course, and was graduated from the latter. He had been given special training in engineering, and for three years was in the experimental department of the International Harvester Company, following which he spent seven years in the employ of the State of Ohio as vocational instructor and three years as chief engineer at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home at Xenia. During the World war he was director of mechanics and engineering at Wilberforce University. Following the close of the war he returned to his work for the state, but April 1, 1922, came to Galion as superintendent of the public utilities of this city. While at Xenia, where his work for the state occupied him, he formed many connections, and was a vestryman of Christ Episcopal Church, and its treasurer. He is a Mason and has advanced in that order through the chapter and council, and also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In politics he is a democrat. An earnest, steadfast and capable man, Mr. Herrick has always faithfully discharged the duties involved in any position he has accepted, and is giving the people of Galion a splendid service 'and earning their confidence and respect. THOMAS H. B. CLUTTER, M. D. For many years Dr. Thomas H. B. Clutter was one of the skilled and resourceful physicians and surgeons of Crestline and Crawford County, but he is now living in honorable retirement, feeling that he has earned his present leisure, for his labors were heavy and included service in a professional capacity during the late war, and he holds his honorable discharge from the medical service, which he prizes very highly. Doctor Clutter also has the distinction of having been the first man of his profession to volunteer in Crawford County. Doctor Clutter was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, August 2, 1841, a son of John P. and Margaret (Andrews) Clutter, both of whom were born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where they were reared, married and began their married life. The Clutters are Dutch, the forbears of the family having come to New York in 1635. The paternal great-grandfather of Doctor Clutter, John Clutter, served in the American Revolution and crossed the Delaware River with General Washington on Christmas night and helped capture Trenton. His grandfather, John Clutter, was also in the Revolutionary army. The maternal grandfather was also a soldier of that mighty conflict. Soon after the Revolutionary war the Clutters and several families came to Washington County, Pennsylvania. This was before that section of the state was surveyed. John Clutter and wife, grandparents of Doctor Clutter, had the following children: Jacob, Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, Patterson, Christopher, Nancy, Abigail, Martha, Eunice, Lavina and Hannah. The Doctor's maternal grandparents had children as follows: John, William, James, Robert, Ruth and Deborah, twins; Anna and Margaret. The Doctor's brothers were James, Samuel, John and Robert. Growing up on the farm occupied by his father and grandfather, Doctor Clutter attended the village schools and remained at home until in March, 1861, when he came to Crestline and entered a drug store, where he learned to be a pharmacist, and was engaged in that calling for six years. He then read medicine and was graduated from Starling Medical College in 1869, and entered at once upon the practice of his profession at Leesville. After nineteen years of practice at Leesville he came to Crestline and entered into partnership with Dr. C. W. Jenner, whom he later bought out, and for the subsequent thirty-five years practiced alone. Doctor Clutter was noted for his skill in obstetrical cases, and was the attending physician at the birth of over 3,300 babies. Doctor Clutter married Joanna Day, who was a former schoolmate during childhood. She died without leaving children. He was married second to Ida Mapes, of Bucyrus, Ohio, who was born at Newcastle, Pennsylvania. She, too, died without issue. As his third wife Doctor Clutter married Margaret P. Jackson, who was born and reared at Crestline. Doctor Clutter belongs to Crestline Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Crestline Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of which he was high priest for four years; Mansfield Commandery No. 21, Knights Templar, and he is also a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner. He and his wife belong to the Eastern Star. Active as a democrat, he has served on the school board. When the First National Bank of Crestline was organized Doctor Clutter was one of the prime movers in this work, and he was one of its first directors. He is on record as one of the 100 persons who contributed $100 for the erection of the Masonic Home at Springfield, Ohio. Churches and benevolent institutions receive his generous support, and in every way possible he has aided in the advancement of his home city and county, and is properly recognized as one of the leading men of this region. GEORGE REA, mechanical engineer of the Brocalsa Chemical Company at Pomeroy, has had a wide and extended experience in the industries of this section of Ohio, and for a number of years was connected with the river transportation interests. His grandfather, Robert Rea, came from Scotland, was an expert tool maker, and he conducted a shop that made the tools used in drilling the first salt and oil wells in this section of Ohio. Robert Rea was a big hearted, liberal and high minded citizen, and though he made a fortune he gave most of it away, always taking care of some of those in need. He had a son, Robert, Jr., who was a Union soldier in an Ohio regiment. The. Rea tool shop was located at Minersville in Meigs County. David Rea, father of George Rea, worked in his father's shop for a number of years. Robert Rea died in 1872. David Rea finally gave up the tool making industry and turned his attention to coal mining. He retired about 1908, and died in June. 1923. He married Ida Williamson, who now lives at Minersville. Her father, Capt. George Williamson, was a noted river captain, in the early days making many trips to New Orleans with flat boats and subsequently owned and commanded steam boats on the river. David Rea and wife had the following children: Robert Edward, and Ohio River pilot living at Pittsburgh ; George; Morgan; Ernest, who is foreman in the J. M. Crawford machine plant; Minnie, wife of E. G. Morgan, general manager of the Eaton Telephone Company at Eaton ; and Ethel, wife of James Hood, a boat builder at Pomeroy. George Rea was born at Minersville in 1882, attended his first school there, and subsequently, while in Pittsburgh, attended night school. His first 96 - HISTORY OF OHIO employment was in the coal mines operated by the Glendale Salt Works, and for three years his wages were only 40 cents a day. This money he used to buy his parents a home to live in. On going to Pittsburgh he worked in a rolling mill, then as stoker on steamboats, and finally became chief engineer on steamboats plying on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Through all the years of his mature life Mr. Rea has been a student, and has acquired a liberal and technical education by courses with the International Correspondence Schools and the Alexander Hamilton Institute and he graduated in 1923 from the Hays School of Combustion. From the age of seventeen until 1912 he was connected with river transportation interests. In 1912 he became superintendent of the salt plant at Mason, West Virginia, being employed by the Ohio River Salt Company, and he came to Pomeroy as a mechanical engineer for the Brocalsa Chemical Company. The founder and president of the Brocalsa Chemical Company is Elmer Hyson Holmes. Mr. Rea married Margaret Thomas, daughter of William H. and Anna Thomas. She died February 7, 1923, her death being mourned because of her character both in her home and as a worker in the community, particularly in church and Sunday school. Mr. and Mrs. Rea had two children, Margaretta, born in 1910, and George W., born in 1917. Mr. Rea is affiliated with the Masonic order and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. CHARLES E. TRIMBLE, M. D., one of the representative physicians and surgeons of Crawford County, has been established in the general practice of his profession at Crestline from the year of his graduation in Starling Medical College, which is now the medical department of the University of Ohio, at Columbus. In the passing years he has built up a large practice, and his able professional stewardship and sterling character mark him as one of the leading physicians of his home county. Doctor Trimble was born on a farm in Richland County, Ohio, November 15, 1863, and is a son of James S. and Lucinda A. (Murphy) Trimble, both likewise natives of Richland County, where the former of whom was born February 2, 1826, and the latter on the 8th of November, 1825, dates showing the respective families were there founded in the pioneer days. The early education of James S. Trimble included a course in the academy at Ashland, and as a young man he did successful service as a teacher in the rural schools. After his marriage he established his home on a farm in Springfield Township, Richland County, and he continued as one of the representative farmers and substantial and honored citizens of his native county until his death, June 13, 1913, at the venerable age of eighty-seven years, his wife having passed away February 16, 1903, about four months prior to the seventy-eighth anniversary of her birth. Of the nine children only three are living at the time of this writing, in the spring of 1923, William L. being a representative farmer in the old home township of Springfield, Richland County; Dr. Charles E. being the immediate subject of this review; and Della being the wife of William Brook, a farmer in Springfield Township, Richland County. The invigorating influences and discipline of the home farm compassed the boyhood and early youth of Dr. Charles E. Trimble, and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages of the public schools of his native county. He advanced his education by a course in the Northwestern Ohio Normal University at Ada, and before initiating his preparation for his chosen profession he made an excellent record as a teacher in the district schools, principally in Rich- land County. His academic or literary education was supplemented by his attending Western Reserve University at Cleveland, and thereafter he was matriculated in Starling Medical College, Columbus, in which historic institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1890 and with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In the same year he established his residence at Crestline, and here he has continued in the successful practice of his profession during the intervening years. He is an active and influential member of the Crawford County Medical Society, and is identified also with the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Doctor Trimble is found loyally aligned in the ranks of the republican party, he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church, and in the time-honored Masonic fraternity he has received the Thirty-second Degree of the Scottish Rite, in the Consistory at Columbus. He is actively affiliated with the York Rite organizations, and has gained also the title of Noble in the Mystic Shrine, besides which he is an appreciative member of Bucyrus Lodge No. 156, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The Doctor is a liberal and progressive citizen, and in his home city is a stockholder in the Farmers & Citizens Bank and the Burth Plow Works, besides having other capitalistic investments. February 22, 1888, recorded the marriage of Doctor Trimble and Miss Cora A. Condit, who likewise was born and reared in the old Buckeye State. Doctor and Mrs. Trimble have two children. Cecil is the wife of William F. Miller. Starling F., a graduate. of the Crestline High School, as is also his sister, represented Ohio in the nation's military service in the World war period, and is now postmaster of Crestline. MARTIN W. MILLER maintains his home at Crestline, Crawford County, but still continues his active alliance with farm industry in this county. Mr. Miller was born on the parental homestead farm in Sandusky Township, Richland County, Ohio, near Blooming Grove, and the date of his nativity was February 2, 1857. He is a son of Christopher and Elizabeth (Hirth) Miller, both natives of Germany, where the former was born February 10, 1835, and the latter on the 15th of March, 1834. Christopher Miller was a lad of seven years when he accompanied his parents on their immigration to the United States, and the family home was established, in 1842, on a pioneer farm two miles south of Blooming Grove, Richland County, where he was reared to maturity and where he passed the remainder of his useful and worthy life, a substantial representative of farm enterprise. His wife was a child when her parents came to this country and settled in Ohio, her marriage having been solemnized in Richland County, where her death occurred on the old home farm that was long the stage of earnest activities in supervising the household affairs and in carefully rearing her children. Both she and her husband were earnest members of the Reformed Church, and Mr. Miller was a democrat in political allegiance. Of the five children Martin W., of this review, is the eldest; Julia Ann is deceased ; John is a prosperous farmer in Richland County; George is deceased ; and Sarah, the wife of Charles Krepps, likewise is deceased. Martin W. Miller has never had occasion to regret the sturdy and invigorating discipline that came to him in connection with the activities of the old home farm during the period of his boyhood and youth, and the experience proved of enduring value in connection with his later independent operations as an agriculturist and stock-grower. He profited fully by the advantages of the local schools, and supplemented this education by attending the Northwestern Ohio HISTORY OF OHIO - 97 Normal University at Ada. He put his attainments to practical test by two terms of service as a successful teacher in the district schools, and after his marriage he was continuously engaged in active farm enterprise until 1915, when they left the farm and moved to Crestline, their present home. Mr. Miller still gives a general supervision to his fine farm estate of 235 acres, situated in Crawford and Richland counties. At Crestline he is a director of the Farmers & Citizens Bank, and a director of the Richland Equity & Mutual Fire Insurance Company at Shelby. A staunch advocate and supporter of the principles of the democratic party, Mr. Miller has been influential in community affairs and has been called to various offices of public trust. While residing on his farm he served as justice of the peace, township treasurer, assessor and trustee, and was for fifteen consecutive years president of the school board of his district. He and his wife are active and zealous members of the Reformed Church. As a young man Mr. Miller wedded Miss Emma Louisa Eichhorn, who was born in Jackson Township, Crawford County, on the 10th of April, 1862, a daughter of the late Frederick and Christena (Seiber) Eichhorn, her father having been born in Baden, Germany, June 15, 1815, and having long been one of the substantial farmers and highly respected citizens of Crawford County, Ohio. In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Miller : Carl C. holds a clerical position in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; William F., a graduate of high school, taught three terms of district school, and he is now manager of the grain elevator at Crestline; Albert D., a machinist, was in overseas service with the American Expeditionary Forces in France in the late World war ; Christena I. was graduated from high school and thereafter made an excellent record as a teacher in the public schools, she being now a stenographer in the Crestline offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Laura May is the wife of C. A. Whittaker ; Howard remains at the parental home; and John C., now employed in the City of Cleveland, there attended the celebrated Case School of Applied Science, he having previously been graduated from high school. RICHARD HOLCKER, senior member of the firm of R. & H. Holcker, which conducts one of the leading hardware establishments at Crestline, Crawford County, is one of the live business men and loyal and liberal citizens of this thriving little Ohio city, where through his own ability and well directed efforts he has achieved substantial success. He is a director in the First National Bank and the Crestline Building & Loan Association, and is a stockholder in the Burch Plow Works and other local concerns at Crestline. Mr. Holcker was born in the fair province of Alsenz, Germany, October 26, 1866, and is a son of George and Elizabeth (Hübsch) Holcker, who continued their residence in their native land, where the father was a machinist by trade and vocation, until 1903. In that year they joined their sons at Crestline, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives, both having been earnest members of the Reformed Church. Of the ten children only one is deceased, and of the survivors all are residents of the United States, except Hugo, who remains in his native land. Richard Holcker attended school in his native province until he was fourteen years of age, when he entered upon an apprenticeship to the machinist's trade, in which he became a skilled workman. In 1887, shortly after attaining to his legal majority, he came to the United States, and in view of the abundant success that has attended him since he established his residence in Ohio it is interesting to record that he was compelled to borrow ten dollars to partly defray his expenses in making the trip from New York City to Crestline. Here he was employed in a machine shop for six years, and lie and his brother Herman then purchased a small stock of hardware and engaged independently in business. In 1913 they erected the modern building in which their now large and well ordered hardware business is conducted, and they are numbered among the popular and representative business men of their adopted city. Richard Holcker has proved a most loyal and appreciative American citizen, and in politics he maintains an independent attitude, his support being given to men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment. His wife is an active member of the Reformed Church at Crestline, and he contributes liberally to its support. Mrs. Holcker, whose maiden name was Catherine Gehrisch, was born in Germany, in 1873, .and was a young woman when she came to the United States and established her residence in Crestline, where her marriage was solemnized. Mr. and Mrs. Holcker have three children, all of whom are (1923) attending the public schools of Crestline, namely: Frederick, Magdalene and Hugo. JOSEPH T. MICKLETHWAIT, before taking up the practice of the law, completed a very thorough and careful education, and his mental equipment, his great energy and natural qualifications have brought him a place of eminence as an attorney of. Southern Ohio. His home is at Portsmouth, and as a corporation lawyer he has few peers in this part of the state. Mr. Micklethwait was born at Portsmouth, February 5, 1879, son of William R. and Abigail (Dever) Micklethwait. His grandfather, Joseph Micklethwait, came to the United States about 1830, possibly as early as 1828, and was a pioneer in Ohio. He married Barbara Funk, a native of Ohio and member of an old Revolutionary family. One of her ancestors was in the troops when Washington reviewed them at the close of the war for independence. Her father, Martin Funk, married Elizabeth Studebaker. Joseph T. Micklethwait’s maternal grandfather was William Dever, who married Louisa McDowell. The Devers have been long identified with with this section of Ohio. William R. Micklethwait and wife are both living. He is a retired farmer and dairyman, and for many years was one of the most substantial men of Scioto County. He served as treasurer of Clay Township, and for over fifty years was an active member and also on the Official Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Joseph T. Micklethwait spent his boyhood on his father ,s place in the country in Clay Township, land that is now included in the city limits of Portsmouth. He attended the district school there and afterwards the Portsmouth High School. He left before graduating and then took the full commercial course in the Portsmouth Business College, graduating in 1896. Following that came three years of study in the Ohio University of Athens, and he took his law course in Western Reserve University at Cleveland. He was graduated Bachelor of Laws in June, 1903, and by examination was admitted to the bar on the 11th of June and at Once opened his office at Portsmouth. While Mr. Micklethwait for some years engaged in general practice, his time and abilities have been more and more centered on corporation law, and he has the reputation of doing more in that line than any other attorney in Scioto County. He is a 98 - HISTORY OF OHIO recognized expert in organization, reorganization and capitalization phases of corporation practice. Mr. Micklethwait has also done his share of official work in connection with his profession. He was prosecuting attorney of Scioto County from 1914 to 1918, and during the war period was legal adviser for the draft board, a four minute speaker and assisted in all the patriotic campaigns. December 27, 1914, at Dubois, Pennsylvania, Mr. Micklethwait married Miss Virginia Hildinger, daughter of John and Jennie (Trip) Hildinger, both now deceased. Her father was a commission merchant at McKeesport, Pennsylvania, was a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner and active in the Lutheran Church. Mr. Micklethwait is a member of the Scioto County Bar Association, and is a Royal Arch, Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason. In politics he is a republican. MARCELLUS N. ROBERTS. From almost pioneer times until the present the name Roberts has been prominently identified with the agricultural industry in Crawford County. As a family they have been noted for large land holdings and extensive operations as cultivators of the soil and raisers and dealers in live stock. One of the family is Marcellus N. Roberts, now a retired resident of Bucyrus, with home at 570 South Walnut Street. He was born on his father ,s farm in Dallas Township of Crawford County, May 9, 1866, son of Wesley and Elizabeth (Newson) Roberts. His mother was a native of Morrow County, Ohio. His father, born in Pennsylvania, came to Crawford County when a child with his parents, the family locating in Whetstone Township. He was reared there, and out of his individual industry and energy became one of the largest land holders in this section of the state, having at one time 2,000 acres. He used the land largely as a basis for live stock operation. Wesley Roberts died in 1904, surviving his wife several years. He was a republican in politics and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of his six children four are living : Charles, a garage proprietor at Bucyrus; William A., a farmer living at Bucyrus; Marcellus N.; and Ida, wife of Harry Keil, of Cleveland. Marcellus N. Roberts spent many years of his life at the old homestead in Dallas Township. As a boy he attended the common schools of that locality and was actively associated with his father for many years. Finally his father divided his estate, giving each child a farm, and Mr. Roberts thus became established independently as a farmer and stock man. He carried on extensive operations for a number of years as a buyer and shipper of live stock. He still owns two farms, one of eighty acres in Dallas Township, and one of 100 acres in Marion County. He is a stockholder in the Farmers and Citizens Bank at Bucyrus. Mr. Roberts, first wife was Adeline Wise, who died after they had been married about fifteen years. In 1907 he married Miss Bertha Worick, a native of Whetstone Township, Crawford County, and daughter of John Worick. Mrs. Roberts is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he has always voted as a republican. HENRY E. BORMUTH, who is successfully engaged in the general contracting business at Crestline, Crawford County, is one of the substantial business men and popular citizens of his native city and county, he having formerly been a valued member of the board of county commissioners. Mr. Bormuth was born at Crestline July 13, 1865, and is the elder of the two surviving members of a family of three children, his sister, Mary, being the wife of James Franklin, a prosperous farmer in Jackson Township, this county. Mr. Bormuth is a sop of George and Barbara (Arnold) Bormuth, both of whom were born and reared in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, where their marriage was solemnized. George Bormuth was born in the year 1832, and in his native province he secured his early education and also learned the trade of cooper. He was about eighteen years of age when he came to the United States, in the early ,50s, and established his residence at Crestline, where his young wife joined him about three years later. He here continued to be employed as a section foreman on the Pennsylvania Railroad until 1880, and thereafter he was successfully established in the hotel business at Crestline, where he and his wife continued to reside until their death, both having been earnest communicants of the German Lutheran Church and his political support having been given to the democratic party. The public schools of Crawford County were the medium through which Henry E. Bormuth acquired his youthful education, and in the meanwhile he gained practical experience in farm enterprise in Jackson Township. At the age of eighteen years he initiated an apprenticeship to the barber ,s trade, and eventually he owned and successfully conducted a barber shop at Crestline. Later he found a broader field of enterprise by engaging in the general contracting business, of which he has long been a prominent and successful representative in his native county. Mr. Bormuth has been active, in the local councils and campaign affairs of the democratic party, and he served as a member of the board of county commissioners from 1909 to 1913. He is a member of the board of education at Crestline, and as a member of the waterworks board of the municipal government he was for a number of years superintendent of the local water plant and system. In connection with his contracting business he is a manufacturer of grave vaults of cement construction. He is a director of the Weaver Brothers Company, which owns and operates a grain elevator at Crestline, is a director of Crestline Publishing Company, is president of the Crestline Floral Company, and a director in the Schill Brothers Company, besides being a stockholder in the First National Bank of Crestline. Mr. Bormuth is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Maccabees and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He and his wife are active members of the German Reformed Church in their home city. The year 1887 recorded the marriage of Mr. Bormuth and Miss Margaret L. Frick, and the children of this union are three in number: Ivan E., associated with his father in the contracting business; Miss Louise who graduated as a nurse in the Gant Hospital at Columbus, Ohio, and is now on the public-health staff of nurses in Cleveland; and Henry W., who resides at Crestline and is with the National Cash Register Company. LEONARD L. SUTTON. The banking interests of a community are necessarily among the most important, for financial stability must be the foundation stone upon which all reliable enterprises are erected. The men who control and conserve the money of a community must possess qualities beyond the ordinary. Public confidence must be with them, and they must use sagacity and foresight in their operations. A citizen who has been connected with the banking interests of Attica, Ohio, for some years, and who has done much in the effective upbuilding HISTORY OF OHIO - 99 of this community along additional lines is Leonard L. Sutton, president of the Sutton State Bank. Mr. Sutton was born in Reed Township, Seneca County, Ohio, December 5, 1863, and is a son of Lester and Emmeline (Rundell) Sutton. Mrs. Lester Sutton, who was born March 10, 1835, died February 7, 1901. Lester Sutton was born at Hornellsville, New York, July 13, 1836, was educated primarily in the public schools of his native place, and at the age of seventeen years came to Republic, Ohio, where he attended the Republic Academy. He became a teacher in the public schools, and while thus engaged became a student of law. After studying for a time under the preceptorship of Col. Leander Stein he was admitted to the bar in 1865 and opened an office at Attica, where he continued in a successful practice until his death, May 20, 1909. In 1878 Mr. Sutton established a private bank, Originally known as the Lester Sutton Banking House. In 1903 he admitted his two sons, the name of the institution at that time being changed to Lester Sutton & Sons, bankers. This style continued until February 12, 1915, when it became the Sutton State Bank, with the following officers: Leonard L. Sutton, president; John Schottler, vice president; Charles C. Sutton, cashier, and the board of directors includes the above three gentlemen, with W. L. Fritz and C. M. Link. The capital stock is $40,000. Leonard L. Sutton received his early education in the public schools of Attica, and this was supplemented by a course at Denison University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts as a -member of the class of 1889. He was then variously employed until 1903, at which time he became identified with the bank, and in 1915 was elected its president, when. it secured a state charter. This is one of the sound and reliable institutions of Seneca County and bears an excellent reputation: On June 26, 1895, Mr. Sutton was united in marriage with Miss Gertrude Wilhelm, who was reared on a farm in Seneca County, and to this union there have been born three sons: John H., a graduate of Denison University, Doctor of Philosophy, had a second lieutenant 's commission during the World war, and now resides at Dayton, Ohio. Corwin, a graduate of the same university with the same degree, is now located at Attica; Russell is completing his education at Denison University. Mr. and Mrs. Sutton and. their sons are members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Sutton is a past master of Attica Lodge No. 367, Free and Accepted, and belongs to the chapter at Willard, hio, and the council at Tiffin, this state. He is a republican in his political attitude. CHRISTIAN M. LINK. A creditable utilization of opportunity is found in the success of Christian M. Link, who for a number of years has been engaged in business at Attica, Seneca County, as a buyer and shipper of livestock and hay, and of whom it may be freely said is the architect of his own fortunes. A man of sound judgment and reliability, he has also served his community ably in public office, and for the past twenty-years has been treasurer of Venice Township. Mr. Link was born on a farm in Seneca County, September 26, 1864, and is a son of J. W. and Mary .A. (Friedley) Link. His father was born on shipboard on the Atlantic Ocean, five days before the ship made port at New York City, whence his parents, natives of Wurttemberg, Germany, came to Columbiana County, Ohio. The family resided there for a time, and the grandfather continued farming until his death, which Occurred when his son J. W. was five years of age. He left his widow with a farm of 240 acres, located principally in the woods, and not entirely paid for. She, with the help Of her family, cleared the land of timber and debt. J. W. Link remained on the home place, and when he came of age received 100 acres of the land. He took his mother to live with him, and she resided at his home until her demise. J. W. and Mary (Friedley) Link were the parents of seven children, of whom five are living in 1923 : J. J., who is an agriculturist of Venice Township, Seneca County; Christian M.; Sarah, the wife of William Stall, of Scipio Township, Seneca County; Ella, the wife of Samuel D. Smetz, of Huron County, this state ; and Amanda, the wife of E. T. Smetz, of Newport, Oregon. Christian M. Link was reared on the home farm and as a lad attended the district schools of the home community and the public school at Ada, Ohio. While working on the farm during the summer months he taught school for six winters, and then returned to Ada and took a commercial course, graduating as the second best scholar in a large class. At that time he established himself in the creamery and cold storage business at Attica, but disposed of his interests therein shortly afterward, and for the next two years devoted himself exclusively to agricultural pursuits. Returning then to Attica, he founded his present business, as a buyer and shipper of livestock and hay, in which he has achieved a large and well-merited success. Mr. Link holds an interest in 430 acres of valuable land in the vicinity of his home and owns two business blocks at Attica. He is likewise a member of the board of directors of the Sutton State Bank of that place. A democrat in politics, he takes an active interest in public affairs, and for twenty years has been treasurer of Venice Township. Fraternally he is affiliated with Willard Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On March 26, 1893, Mr. Link married Miss Malinda J. Hiser, of Crawford County, Ohio, and to this union there have been born five children: George W., a graduate of the Attica High School, is now associated with his father in business. He served twenty-one and one-half months in the motor supply department during the World war, saw thirteen months of service in France, and returned with the rank of corporal. Hobart K., a graduate of high school, is also associated with his father in business. He served in the Aviation Corps during the World war, and on his return married Miss Garland Pankhast. Ivettie A., a graduate of high school, taught school for three winters, and is now the wife of Dowe S. Armitage; Mary, a graduate of high school, is now attending Heidelberg University, at Tiffin, and Doris, who graduated from high school is also attending Heidelberg University. ERNST FRED MAAG, M. D., is an accomplished physician and surgeon at Middleport, Meigs County. He was born in Meigs County, earned his way through university and medical school, and had a broad and thorough hospital training and experience before engaging in private practice. Doctor Maag was born at Minersville, Meigs County, April 13, 1893, son of John Jacob and Margaret (Herrmann) Maag. His parents came from Switzerland to the United States and located in Meigs County during the '80s. His father had received considerable training as a chemical engineer in Switzerland, and in this country he used his technical knowledge to advantage in salt plants. For a number of years he was with the John E. Williams salt plant and subsequently at chemical plants at Mason City, West Virginia, and with the Koehler Salt Company at Pomeroy. He served twelve years as president of the board of education of Minersville district, and he and his wife were members of the German Evangelical Church. He died in December,