2000 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO of his parents. He grew up in Seneca County, attended the public schools at Melmore and in 1895 graduated from Heidelberg College at Tiffin. He then entered the Ohio Medical University, now the medical department of the Ohio State University at Columbus, and was .graduated M. D. in 1898. After two years of practical experience in the Wyoming General Hospital at Rock Springs, Wyoming, he returned to Tiffin in 1900, and built up a large and successful practice as a general physician. Doctor Chamberlain married in 1906 Eleta McCall, a native of Tiffin. Her father, Hugh McCall, was for many years connected with the electric light plant in Tiffin. Two children have been born to their marriage : Evelyn Jane and Elizabeth May, both now attending school. Doctor Chamberlain and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. He is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and also belongs to the Mystic Shrine. In politics he votes as a republican. MRS. FRANCES D. JERMAIN was born at Ann Arbor, Michigan. She was the daughter of the eminent Presbyterian clergyman, William David Page, and her girlhood was spent in Ann Arbor and Monroe, Michigan. After her marriage to Sylvanus Pierson Jermain she made her home in Adrian, Michigan, and later in Chillicothe, Ohio, until the death of her husband in that city, when she moved to Toledo, Ohio, with her six young children. She was the mother of' eight children, two of whom died in infancy. In 1884 she was appointed librarian of the Toledo Public Library, a position she held for nearly twenty-five years or practically until the time of her death. During this time of devotion to her important public duties she also found time to prepare a work requiring great research and correspondence with some of the most eminent scholars of Europe and which is entitled "In the Path of the Alphabet." This work her family has had published and widely circulated as a fitting memorial to her. Her knowledge of books was remarkable and with all of her deep and versatile learning her domestic nature lost, nothing of its pre-eminence, as was so beautifully developed in the rearing of a large family of children. She was highly skilled in all of the domestic arts. Her public duties never interfered with her home life, and the long years of her devotion to her children found its reward in the faithfulness of the children, to whom she was the ideal of everything womanly and beautiful. She died in the full strength of her mental powers, only putting her pen down a few days before her death and retaining her interest in her home life to the very last. Toledo's distinguished citizen, the late William H. Maher, paid her the following tribute : "It will be very hard to realize that our friend, Mrs. Jermain, has said to us her final 'good-night.' I say our friend advisedly, for she was friendly to all who came within the circle of her influence, and who is here who was outside or beyond that ? What,. woman of Toledo has radiated for forty years past such helpful, kindly, courteous, refining atmosphere, and where was one whose heart was so full of love and sympathy and honest desire to be helpful to every one who came near her ? I know of no other. Most of her friends of the younger generation will not remember a time when she was not the gentle, helpful, cultured manager of our city library. Some of us can go farther back and testify to the wonderful change made in that room when she became the ruling power. She did not handle books as if they were merchandise, but as if each was a sensitive soul. And her knowledge of them was not a superficial one and of their titles only—she knew the books themselves, and was exceedingly happy in characterizing them in a few brief sentences. "I loved to listen to Mrs. Jermain's voice, always so gentle, and to watch the ease with which exactly the right word dropped from her lips. And she wrote just as she talked—easy, graceful, illuminating. My first acquaintance with her came from my reading some pleasant sketches she wrote for the old Commercial. It was a pity that she wrote so rarely in later years. "What a brave woman she was! She had to be father and mother to a family of small children, and nobly did she fulfill the dual part. Her children are the living evidence of her loving ability and care and of refining influence. Her memory will be sweet as that of a gentle saint who bore burdens quietly and prayerfully ; whose sympathy was always ready and genuine, whose influence was spiritually and in intellectually uplifting. Her last good night would be sad to recall, if that was the end of all, but it loses its sting when we remember that in some brighter clime she is waiting to bid us a bright good morning." HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2001 The following token of appreciation was written by Mr. Harvey Scriber upon the occasion of Mrs. Jermain's death : "Last night Mrs. Frances D. Jermain fell into the sleep that knows no waking as peacefully and sweetly as she had lived. No man or woman who has lived in Toledo had a larger acquaintance or more devoted friends than Airs. Jermain. I was a member of the board at the time she was elected librarian, in 1884, and continued as such for many years, and during all that time never heard any but the kindliest expressions by patrons of the library for Mrs. Jermain. She was an indefatigable worker, read all the books pertaining to libraries and library work, kept up with the reports from the different libraries of the country, and noted and availed herself of the suggestions made by the leading librarians of this and the old countries. She was an ideal librarian. I doubt if there was a better informed person anywhere on books and historical characters than Mrs. Jermain. She was a living encyclopedia. When patrons of the library asked her about a country, the Philippine Islands, for instance, or an historical event of character, she would refer them instantly to the book that gave the best information, and frequently would tell them all they wanted to know. She prepared the catalogue of the books of the library, containing at that time some 50,000 volumes—a work that was admirable for its classification and the facility it afforded for information. She suggested and carried out the project for the juvenile library and the present open-shelf system. "Always at her post, patiently and intelligently performing her duties with so much grace and winning courtesy, she won the heartfelt affection of the librarians, the trustees and the public. She can render an account of her life that her family and friends will always remember with pride. Her death was sweet and beautiful as her life. May flights of angels sing her to rest.' " The memory of her service as librarian of the Toledo Public Library has, in 1917, received at the hands of the Board of Trustees the Toledo Public Library a most beautiful and fitting recognition in the naming of the North Branch Library, built from the Caregie fund, The Frances D. Jermain Library. The beautiful memorial building stands at the corner of Galena and Superior streets, opposite Riverside Park. The action of the trustees has received the general and grateful appreciation of the people of Toledo, who admired and loved her. SYLVANUS PIERSON JERMAIN. There are some men whose names have had a wider newspaper publicity, but none who have worked more enthusiastically and more effectively for institutions and improvements that are vitally related to the lasting welfare of the people in Toledo than Sylvanus Pierson Jermain, who already in his lifetime has been called father of Toledo's park and boulevard system." It is a title the earning of which is an enviable distinction and the more so because Toledo's magnificent parks, playgrounds and boulevards will have a constantly increasing value to all the generations yet unborn. Mr. Jermain is one of Toledo's leading business men and with few exceptions has rendered his public service in the capacity of a private citizen. A native of Adrian, Michigan, he has lived in Toledo since 1871. For many years he has been treasurer of The Woolson Spice Company, one of the world's largest coffee and spice houses. While he has had an interesting personal career and has attained a high position in the business world, the activities in which the general public is chiefly interested are those that connect him with Toledo's material improvements. In proportion to his opportunities and his position in the business world Mr. Jermain began, exerting a quiet influence in civic and municipal affairs many years ago. He never sought any public office and has rather worked with semi-public organizations for the promotion of some definite plan of civic betterment and welfare. More and more with the passing years his opinion has been sought, his judgment utilized, and the confidence reposed in him has become one of the strongest factors in the civic life of the city. Upon him more than any other; individual was placed the responsibility for the campaign and its successful conclusion which gave public approval to Toledo's present park and boulevard system, comprising- 1,500 acres. This achievement, when taken in connection with twenty-five years of continuous labor for municipal betterments of that class, have caused Mr. Jermain to be recognized as the father of the park and boulevard system. With the fruition of his efforts and his expectations in the realization of his long cherished dream of an adequate park system, Mr. Jermain felt justified in accepting a position 2002 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO tendered him by the late beloved Golden Rule mayor, Samuel Al. Jones, as a member of the Board of Park Commissioners. Mr. Jermain served four terms as president of that board. There could be nothing but praise for the justice of the action taken by the park commission in October, 1915, when the large park tract of 124 acres joining Ottawa Park and formerly known as the White City Park, was renamed Jermain Park in honor of the former president of the Park Board. Now that they are fresh in memory, it is well to recall for the benefit of future times some of the various public works which Mr. Jermain has originated or has strongly influenced. These are briefly summarized as follows : The original Manufacturers Association and its outcome, the Chamber of Commerce, in 1897, now called The Toledo Commerce Club ; the movement for the more scientific burning of soft coal and smoke prevention ; the agitation which resulted, in the placing of telephone, telegraph and other wires underground in the business district ; the ordinance for cheaper municipal lighting; the proper granting of public franchises ; the improvement of fire department equipment, new engine houses and the establishment of high pressure water mains in the business district ; the equipping in 1899 of Toledo's first children's playground ; the establishment in 1898 of one of America's first public golf courses in Ottawa Park ; the organization of the Inverness Country Club and the Ohio Golf Association, of each of which he served several terms as president ; the authorship of the Ohio Park Law of 1907. Mr. Jermain was not content merely with the laying out of large areas for the public use and benefit, but has kept up a sustained interest in the proper utilization of such pleasure grounds. He is active in the annual Children's Play Festival in Toledo parks, popularly known as "romping day," when the character Trophy, presented by Mrs. Russell Sage, receives each year its honor roll. In 1909 Mr. Jermain was appointed a member of the Committee on State Laws of the Playground Association of America. In 1913 he was appointed and served on the commission for a new city hall for Toledo. While much of his work has been accomplished by direct participation in the various movements mentioned, Mr. Jermain has also done much through writings in the local newspapers that would serve to form and clarify public opinion and bring about practical results. He is a student of municipal and social problems not from the narrow partisan standpoint, but always with a view to practical concrete results combined with a broad and high idelism. Mr. Jermain is a trustee of the John Jermain Library at Sag Harbor, Long Island an institution endowed by Mrs. Russell Sage. The chief outlet from the pressure of heavy business and civic responsibilities Mr. Jermain has found through the game of golf. He is known as one of Toledo's true and original devotees of this ancient sport, and is known in golfing circles all over America. In January, 1914, he was elected a director the Western Golf Association, in 1916 he was elected president of the Central Golf Association, and has done a great deal to popularize the sport not only among the well-to-do but the general public in Toledo. Just recently he has established a public golf course in view Park. Mr. Jermain is an honorary life member of the Inverness Club of Toledo, and is the only life member of that organization. He was elected a life member in 1913 and the election was attended with considerable ceremony and the celebration of Mr. Jermain's many services in behalf of the Inverness Club and the sport of golf in general. He is also an honorary member of the Toledo Yacht Club belongs to the Toledo Commerce Club. F. LEE ROUSE has hid his home and headquarters at Bowling Green for the past twenty years and is recognized as one 'of the foremost operators in the oil fields of this section of Ohio, though his activities have covered practically all the oil producing states of the Middle West. He has been a producer in Indiana, Illinois and Oklahoma and also in Kentucky. His chief interests at this time are centered in Liberty, Portage and Plain townships of Wood County. He has been also instrumental in developing many valuable oil wells, and in his experience he is better satisfied with the Liberty Township field than with any other. The wells here average about 1,600 feet in depth. This is part of the North Lima oil pool. Mr. Rouse states that in earlier years it was not customary to drill so deep for oil, owing to the prejudice that existed among oil men against wells being flooded with water. This handicap has since been overcome and it is now possible to sink the drill as far as need be until passing the oil sands. The great Trenton rock in this section of Ohio is reached at a' depth of from HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2003 1,200 to 1,380 feet. No drill has ever pierced this Trenton stratum in this section of Ohio. The drill has gone down at times through seven hundred feet of the rock. Mr. Rouse's experience has been a most varied one. He has figured in all branches of the productive industry and has drilled wells in many counties of Ohio and in most of the oil producing states. He is now head of an oil company, with headquarters at Pittsburg, which is drilling wells in Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana and Oklahoma. During the past twenty-five years Mr. Rouse has been connected with the sinking of about 1,000 oil wells. Mr. Rouse represents an old and solid family of Wood County, being a son of Saud and arriet (Parker) Rouse. His parents came hen young from New York to the vicinity of Monroeville in Huron County, Ohio, and they grew up and married there. In 1847 they removed to Wood County and were pioneers in the wilderness district of this section. Just before the outbreak of the Civil war they moved to Wisconsin, where the father was gaged in the lumber industry. He had reoved from Wood County because his enterprise as a farmer was unable to cope with the high waters which prevailed over so much of is swampy district. F. Lee Rouse was born while his parents lived at Belle Plaine in Wisconsin on September 7, 1871. In 1876 the family went to the golden shores of California, locating on a farm in the Salinas Valley in Monterey County. There his father and mother spent the rest of their years, the former dying at the age of eighty-six and the mother at seventy-six. They were splendid people, respected and beloved by all who enjoyed the pleasure of their acquaintance, and were devout Christians. They were active in the Congregational Church and the father was a democrat in politics. F. Lee was one of a family of two daughters and seven sons, most of whom are living and married. Mr. Rouse was well educated in the public schools of California. He had a varied experience in different parts of the country but about twenty-five years ago returned to Wood County and was soon identified with the oil industry. After a few years he drilled his first well at Mermill in Portage Township of Wood County, and that was the beginning of an active career which has brought him unusual success and prestige as an oil operator. With his Pennsylvania partner he now owns about 100 wells in Wood County. In Kentucky Mr. Rouse married Miss Mattie Phelps. She was born in Mercer County, that state, in 1874, and was reared in a good home and received a good literary and musical education. Her parents are Dr. John Abner and Frances A. (French) Phelps, also natives of Mercer County, Kentucky, and of Virginia parentage. Doctor Phelps and wife have spent their active lives in Mercer County, where he has been a successful physician. He. is now eighty-six and his wife seventy-six and they are well preserved physically and mentally. Mr. and Mrs. Rouse are the parents of three children : Ogden G., born April 15, 1900, in Bowling Green, is a member of the Bowling Green High School class of 1918. Virginia Shirley was born November 4, 1905, and is now in the grammar schools, while Florence Maxine, the youngest, was born July 28, 1908, and is in the forth grade of the public schools. The mother and her son are members of the Christian Church while Mr. Rouse and his daughters belong to the United Brethren denomination. He is affiliated with Lodge No. 818 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Bowling Green and is a democrat in politics. For the past ten years he has been a member of the city council, representing the Second Ward. EDWARD E. HULL. The days of the pioneers are passed but the physical and mental qualities which distinguished them and enabled them to make a success and redeem this western world from the wilderness are as much in demand now as they ever were. The present day pioneers may not have to endure the same hardships which their forefathers did in making homes in the West, but they must exercise the same kind of thrift, hard. work, and perhaps an even greater degree of intelligent and careful management in order to acquire homes for themselves and push forward the work of civilization. Though he is in the third generation since the pioneers of his family came to Ohio, Edward E. Hull has been guided in his own career by the same thrifty qualities which enabled his father and grandfather to perform useful tasks in their generations. Mr. Hull is a farmer who lives in Richfield Township. His home place of forty acres is in section 9 of that township. It is fine land, all under 2004 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO the plow and well drained and fenced. Among improvements are a barn 40x60 feet, corncrib and granary, and a substantial eight-room house which lie erected in 1898. In order to acquire this forty acres of land Mr. Hull cleared up a tract of 160 acres and since early years he has been acquainted with hard work as a key to unlock the door to prosperity. Besides his home place of forty acres he owns sixty acres and another tract of eighty acres all in the same section, though not adjoining. Each of these tracts is developed as an individual farm, and is improved with substantial buildings. Of the entire 180 acres he has it all cleared except a small portion. Mr. Hull is a believer in machinery, and lightens the burdens of himself and his co-workers by the introduction of the latest types of farming implements. He came to Henry County in 1898, and since that year has been able to effect the generous prosperity which has been briefly noted. He was born in Seneca County, Ohio, October 8, 1874, and was reared and educated there and resided there until he came to Henry County. He is of English ancestry. His grandparents were Isaac and Mary Hull, who in the early years of the last century established homes in the Venice community of- Seneca County, and living among the Indians and with wild game and dense forests on every side they endured the privations and applied themselves to the tasks of making a new home. This was a prominent family in that part of Seneca County, along Honey Creek, and there the grandparents spent their last years in the comfortable circumstances which were the reward of their early trials. Grandfather Hull died when about eighty years of age, and his wife survived him to a still greater age. They were members of the Dunkard Church and in politics he was a whig and republican. About third or fourth in their family of seven children was Silas Hull. He was born in Seneca County in 1848, and was reared on the old homestead at Honey Creek. He married Anna Rogers, who was born in the same community in 1850, a daughter of John and Eliza Rogers, who were natives of Ohio and had established pioneer homes three miles south of Honey Creek, where they likewise cleared a home out of the wilderness, and died there when quite old. John Rogers was a republican of very strong partisan allegiance, and it is said that he kept the American flag floating from his home at every public occasion. After Silas Hull and wife were married they located near Honey Creek, improve a fine home of eighty acres, and are still living there vigorous and active and not yet showing many evidences of declining years. They are members of the Methodist Church and he is a republican. A brief reference to their children is as follows : Perry now lives in Mississippi and by his marriage to Bell Lames has three children. The second in age is Edward E. Eva, who was educated in Seneca County, married Jesse Baldwin, who was born in Bloom Township of Senaca County in 1879, and. he and his wife nosy live on one of Mr. Hull's farms in Richfield Township of Henry County ; their children are Raymond and Burdett, the former a high school student and the latter in the seventh grade. Clement, the next oldest child of Silas L., was born in Seneca County, is now farming in Bloom Township there, and by his marriage to Mary Galster has a daughter Emma. Jennie died at the age of five years. Charles, who. is a molder by trade and lives in Toledo, married Margaret Williams of that city. Fay is the wife of Robert Beals and lives in Bloomville in Seneca County, Virginia married Warren Walters, a grist miller of Bloomville, and they have a son Paul. In 1898 in, his native township and county Edward E. Hull married Miss Millie Smith. She was born in Venice Township of Seneca County in 1872 and was reared and educated there. Her parents were David and Fannie (Myers) Smith, both natives of Seneca County, where they died when about middle age. Mrs. Hull has a sister, Elizabeth, now the wife of Bert Fisher, a Seneca County farmer, and they have three children, one son and two daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hull have three children: Knowlton, who has completed his public school con and is at home ; Lloyd, twelve years of age and in the eighth, grade ; and Geraldean, aged seven. As a voter Mr. Hull has regularly supported the republican policies and candidates for over twenty years. FRANCIS JOSEPH COLLINGWOOD is more than an active business man of Findlay and is a promoter of the broad public welfare. He is head and active manager of the firm Collingwood & Edwards, motor car distributors and accessories. Having succeeded in realizing some of his early ideals and ambitions in HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2005 business, he has never neglected an opportunity to render service in some way or other to the city in which he lives and in which he takes special pride. Mr. Collingwood was born at Florence in Erie County, Ohio, in 1872, a son of William Henry and Mary A. (Humiston) Collingood. His father was a contractor. The family is of English stock, and Grandfather William Collingwood came to America and located in York, Pennsylvania. F. J. Collingwood grew up in the country district of Erie County, attended school at Florence and is a graduate of the high school at Wakeman in Huron County. From an early age he manifested special inclination for things of a mechanical nature. The finer workmanship of the trained hand has been his special line. In the course of his active life time Mr. Collingwood has invented and proved several devices that have proved adaptable to different industries. As a youth he served an apprenticeship at the jeweler's trade at Norwalk, and put in three years learning watch making and engraving. After that he bought a general store at Florence, conducted it three years, and for two years of that time served as postmaster. On leaving his business at Florence Mr. Collingwood became identified with the C. F. Jackson Company in their store at Norwalk. He was manager and buyer of the jewelry department and also had an interest in the local store. He remained there five years, and in 1903 removed to Findlay, where he became identified with the local branch of the same company. Here he had charge of the jewelry department, afterward became assistant general manager of the entire store, which is the largest commercial enterprise at Findlay, and finally bought the auto sales department of the Jackson Company. Associated with him in this purchase was E. C. Edwards, and that resulted in the organization of the present firm of Collingwood and Edwards, handling different lines of motor cars and automobile accessories. The firm has without doubt the best equipped accessory and automobile parts store in Northwest Ohio. Their store has frequently been mentioned as a model in trade papers. The business is thoroughly systematized according to Mr. Collingwood's original ideas on that score. Only recently they built a new sales room of concrete. The firm are local agents for the Ford, Dodge Brothers and Reo cars. Mr. Collingwood is a man of many inter- Vol III-43 ests. He is a lover of birds, especially the wild song birds, and for a number of years .has viewed with alarm the rapidly decreasing numbers of these songsters and has exercised every possible influence toward conserving a class of the feathered species that are exceedingly valuable to the agricultural interests of the country. Recently he inaugurated a unique campaign in Findlay with practical results that should do much to encourage and protect the song birds in that locality. He gave $75 in prizes to those who entered the contest known as the Bird-House Building Contest, and called upon all the boys of the community to enter in competition. Other citizens became interested in the plan and also donated funds, until about $300 were distributed with the award of the prizes. Mr. Collingwood received many letters of commendation from such people as Henry Ford, Mr. Burrows, the naturalist, and Gene Stratton Porter, the noted writer, besides many of the leading newspapers all over the country made special mention of the contest. Mr. Collingwood is a graduate Doctor of Optics. He also studied law for three years, not for a profession, but to fit himself better in a business way. In 1915 he served as vice president of the city council and is a representative to the council from the Third Ward. He helped to organize the original Findlay Automobile Club, and after interest in it died out he reorganized the club and gave it new life. He is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the Masonic lodge, was treasurer of the Elks Home Association of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge and Uniform Rank. As a young man Mr. Collingwood put in two years as a fireman on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway. He was quite ambitious to make a success in railroading, but he finally gave up his position on account of his mother constantly worrying over his welfare. Mr. Collingwood is probably one of the leading coin collectors in Northwest Ohio, and in the course of many years has gathered a collection of coins of rare interest and value. This interest also extends to pioneer relics, and he has acquired a number of articles associated with Revolutionary V times, also aboriginal-relics in the shape of Indian implements, both of a domestic nature and also those used in times of warfare. Mr. Collingwood and family reside in one of the fine homes of Findlay, He was mar- 2006 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO ried to Jennie J. Kenyon, daughter of A. P. and Helen (Arnold) Kenyon, of Florence, Ohio. They were married in 1897 and are the parents of three children : Norma, Marion and Raymond. JAMES M. STAFFORD was one of the hard working, thrifty and enterprising agricultural citizens of Wood County and his name and record stand for all that is honest and of good report in the community. Mr. Stafford was born in Hancock County, Ohio, April 17, 1862, and died on his farm in Wood County July 2, 1898, when only thirty-six years of age. His parents were Nathan and Marinda (McCracken) Stafford. They were of Scotch ancestry. They went west as young people, were married probably in Nebraska, and soon afterward returned to Ohio and began farming in Hancock County. Some of their children were born there, and they finally located a substantial farm, on which the father spent his last years. His widow then came to Bowling Green and died at the home of her younger daughter, now Mrs. John Brewer, when not yet seventy years of age. They were active members of the United Brethren Church for many years and the father was a republican and filled the office of county commissioner. Most of their children are still living, married and have families. James M. Stafford grew up on his father's farm and was content with a district school education. He married Miss Laura B. Powell. Mrs. Stafford, whose home is now in Bowling Green, was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, October 30, 1860. When she was a child she came to Liberty Township of Wood County with her parents, George and Sarah (Beaty) Powell, both natives of Ohio, and of Pennsylvania parentage. They grew up and were married in Fairfield County, Ohio, starting life as farmers. All the six Powell children were born in Fairfield County, namely : John W., who was a farmer and a member of the United Brethren Church and died leaving a family of children ; Martha J., wife of L. D. Smaltz, a Hancock County farmer ; Silas H., deceased, is survived by his widow, Libby (Fellows) Powell, who resides in Bowling Green and has a son, Chauncey. Alonzo B. is now retired in Bowling Green and is the father of several children ; Chester died leaving no children ; and the youngest is Mrs. Stafford. Her parents located on a farm in Liberty Township in 1872. Some years later they removed to Bowling Green and had a home on South Main Street, where Mrs. Stafford’s mother died April 27, 1893, at the age of seventy-five. Her father then returned to the Liberty Township homestead and resided with his son Silas H. until his death on January 27, 1894, at the age of seventy-five. Both were active members of the United Brethren Church and he was a republican. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Stafford went to farming near the old Powell homestead, and they developed a substantial place of 160 acres, and though Mr. Stafford died quite young he had his farm improved with good buildings. He and his wife were both industrious and frugal and they made ample provisions for the future. A year after Mr. Stafford's death his widow left the farm and removed to Bowling Green, purchasing a large modern home at 125 South Church Street, where she still resides. Of the three children born to their marriage the youngest died in infancy. Glenna graduated from the Bowling Green High School in 1912, subsequently took work in the Tiffin Normal School and Bowling Green Normal, and is now a successful teacher in the public schools. James DeWitt, the only son, is a graduate of the Bowling Green High School, spent two years in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and was a student in the agricultural course of the State University when he enlisted in the United States marine corps. Mrs. Stafford and her family are members of the Methodist Church. HARRY WISIDLING is one of the oldest merchants of Tiffin in point of continuous experience, having had a drug business in that city for forty-five years. The regard and esteem of a large body of citizens are paid him for his strict business ability and honor and he is one of the truly representative citizens of Seneca County. He was born near Cassel, Germany, March 14, 1852, a son of John and Elizabeth (Gerhold) Weidling. Both parents were natives of Cassel, born in the year 1822, and the mother died in 1860. John Weidling spent is life in Germany as a farmer, and for a number of years filled the office of mayor in his home town. He and his wife were members of the Lutheran Church. Of their eight children four are still living : Carl, a retired merchant at Topeka, Kansas ; Chris, who is living retired in Germany ; Harry ; and Mrs. Katie Peninroth, who with her husband lives on a farm in Iowa. HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2007 Harry Weidling was fourteen years of age when he came to the United States and he had not a penny nor any possessions when he landed except the clothes on his back. He had acquired some education in Germany and afterwards for two terms he was a student in Heidelberg College at Tiffin. His first location was in Iowa, where he worked as opportunity afforded, and in April, 1869, he arrived at Tiffin and was soon employed as clerk in a bookstore. From that he went into a drug store, and finally bought the business and has been continuously proprietor of a store in his present location for forty-five years. On May 8, 1877, Mr. Weidling married Matilda L. Emich, who was born in Tiffin, daughter of Philip A. Emich, one of the early and prominent notary publics of Tiffin, also one of the pioneer business men of this city and for many years a book and stationery merchant. Mr. and Mrs. Weidling have two children. Carl Philip was educated in the public schools and later in the law department of the Ohio State University at Columbus, and is now successfully practicing law at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and also publishes a newspaper, The Herald, at that town. Elizabeth M. is a talented musician, a graduate of the College of Music at Cincinnati, and also of the Heidelberg College Conservatory. For a number of years she has taught vocal music in Tiffin. The family are members of the Second Reformed Church. Mr. Weidling has been a life long democrat. EMIL WEBER. When a great business house selects its corps of assistants, it is a matter of considerable concern that only men of intelligence and integrity be chosen, and this, also, is the attitude of governments. There is usually a wide choice, but for their representatives in every capacity they want the very best. Hence, an appointive government position carries with it an element of honor that makes it acceptable to almost any citizen, especially to one who has done his full duty as such. That every one does not possess administrative qualities is very true, and hc-rein often lies the difference between satisfactory and unsatisfactory public service. When Emil Weber, a representative business man of Wauseon, Ohio, was appointed postmaster in 1914, many of his fellow citizens, irrespective of party, in various ways testified and voiced` their approval, and during the four years that he has continued in office have had occasion to recognize the worth of an honest, painstaking, courteous and capable official. Emil Weber was born in 1876, at his father's home in Wauseon, Fulton County, Ohio. The father, a native of Switzerland, accompanied his parents to the United States in his boyhood. They located first in the City of New York, removing then to Toledo, Ohio, where the boy grew to manhood and learned the jeweler 's trade, subsequently owning a shop of his own in that city. For many years lie was a resident of Wauseon, carrying on the same business and enjoying extensive patronage. He was a man of quiet tastes but an expert in his trade, in this line living fully up to the professional reputation of his countrymen. He took no active part in political matters and never accepted any public office, but he was a most worthy citizen and was a prominent member of the Church of Christ. Emil Weber had public school advantages in his native place and then learned the jeweler's trade with his father, and as he had a natural taste for the same, became very proficient and after his father's death took charge of the business and continued it until 1912, when he was appointed postmaster of Wauseon. He has always been identified with the democratic party and has served on the County Central Committee and frequently as a delegate to conventions. From 1911 to 1914 he served as assistant clerk of the Invalid Pension Committee at Washington, D. C. In 1898 Mr. Weber married Miss Gertrude Hoy, and he and wife have four children : Mary, Joseph, Pauline and Virginia. The family attend the Christian Science Church. TONY WEASEL, of Richfield Township, Henry County, has had a wide and varied experience as a farmer in several states of the Middle West. He came to Ohio from Illinois, and is the proprietor of one of the fine country homes in that attractive district of Richfield Township. He is of German ancestry. His parents were Philip and Magdalena (Bricker) Weasel, both natives of Wuertemberg, Germany. Both were quite young when they came with their respective parents from Hamburg to New York, and the sailing vessel in which they crossed the ocean was seventy-two days in making the voyage. Both the Bricker and Weasel families settled in St. Joseph County, Indiana. That now prosperous and wealthy-county was almost a wilderness in many por- 2008 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO tions, and these two families did much toward the development and clearing some of the wild lands in the vicinity of South Bend. The Weasel farm was about three miles from that city. Mr. Weasel's grandparents on both sides spent the rest of their lives in St. Joseph County, and all of them were past eighty years of age when they died. The family were all loyal Catholics. Philip Weasel after his marriage settled on a farm in St. Joseph County, but a little later went out to Iowa. Their first two children were born in that state. They then returned to Indiana and located on a farm in Ripley County, where eight other children were born. There Philip Weasel died June 16, 1882, at the age of fifty-eight years. His widow is still living, being now eighty-two years of age, and in very feeble health. She lives with some of her children in Illinois. Both parents have been life-long Catholics and Philip Weasel was a democrat. Eight of his children are still living. Mr. Tony Weasel, who is the only one of his family in Ohio, was born in Ripley County, Indiana, February 6, 1871. When he was seventeen years of age he left home. having in the meantime secured such education as was supplied by the local schools, and went out to Champaign County, Illinois. Like many ambitious young men, he was attracted to the territory. of Oklahoma during its early days, and while living there married Miss Effie Ward. Mrs. Weasel was born in the State of Kansas, February 9, 1880, and was ten years of age when her parents took her to Oklahoma. She is a daughter of Thomas and Rachael (Campbell) Ward, who now live retired at Tologa, in Dewey County, Oklahoma, her father at the age of seventy-five and her, mother at sixty-eight. Both her parents were born in Ohio, and her father made a creditable record as a soldier in the Civil war with an Ohio regiment. He was in many a hard fought battle, and was in the great campaign beginning at Chickamauga and ending with the fall of Atlanta. He and his wife are both Protestants in religion. After his marriage Mr. Tony Weasel continued to live in Oklahoma for six years, and he then returned to Champaign County, Illinois, and conducted a first-class farm of eighty acres in Sodom Township. in that county until the spring of 1912. In that year, seeking better lands, he removed to Henry County and has since been one of the progressive farmers and citizens of Richfield Township. Since coming to Henry County he has acquired 160 acres of land, all of it now under cultivation and producing abundant crops. Mr. Weasel is a hard worker, a good manager and keeps his land and his buildings in the best state of improvement For the storage of his crops and the use of his stock he has a fine barn 42x72 feet. His home is a nine-room house. Mr. and Mrs. Weasel have the following children : George, Frank, Jesse, Louise, Peter, Margaret and Tony, Jr. The son, George, who married Grace Couch, is now managing the Thompson farm in Henry County, and is a very thrifty young agriculturist. The other children are still at home, and Peter, Margaret and Tony are still in school. The family are members of the Catholic Church, and Mr. Weasel is a democrat. FINDLAY PUBLIC LIBRARY. The beginning of a public library system in Findlay w an association supported by regular membership fees and donations, the funds of which were employed to establish a collection of books and secure their circulation among the membership. Out of this grew the present Findlay Public Library, which was organized January 27, 1890. The members of the first library board were C. B. Metcalf, president; W. D. McCaughey, J. R. Kagy, W. H. Wagner, S. W. Miller and N. M. Adams. The librarian elected at the time was Miss Nelle Baker. The Hancock County commissioners granted for the use of the library the southeast doubt basement room of the courthouse. The present library had its inception with the nucleus of 900 books obtained from the old library association. At the beginning a small fee was charged for the privilege of borrowing books. The system of free distribution of books to the public was not inaugurated until January, 1905. In order to meet the growing demands of the library additional room was secured from the commissioners, but now with a collection of 13,000 volumes the quarters are heavily overtaxed and it will be a matter of only a few years before a separate library building will be provided, with increased facilities and service. With all the handicaps imposed upon the present services through lack of a building, the library is none the less efficiently conducted and during it circulated 46,240 books. While it is essentially a city library, its HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2009 service is not limited entirely to Findlay. Its patrons and users are located throughout Hancock County and especially the surrounding towns of McComb, Van Buren and Arlingn draw upon the library. An excellent refrence collection is maintained. The reveues for the support of the library are raised ntirely within the City of Findlay. Miss Raker was succeeded as librarian in 902 by Miss Mary B. Morrison, who has now .en at the head of the library for fifteen ears, with Miss EllaMaxwell as assistant. The resent board of trustees consists of S. H. McLeod, president ; W. S. Neeley, secretary ; Mrs. George W. Ross, Mrs. G. F. Pendleton, Prof. C. T. Fox and Dr. N. L. MacLachlan. Miss Morrison, the librarian, is granddaughter of the pioneer lawyer of Findlay, John H. Morrison, who was among the first lawyers to open an office in the city in 1836. He died in 1854. He was a capable lawyer and a man of splendid natural gifts. Miss Morrison is a daughter of Philemon B. and Rebecca (Reed) Morrison, of Findlay. She was educated in the Findlay grammar and high schools, and took the full four years course in Oberlin College, where she was graduated. After leaving college she served two years as reporter on the Findlay Daily Courier prior to entering upon her present duties as librarian. She is of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Miss Morrison is a member of the Thursday Conversational Club, the Ohio Library Association and the First Presbyterian Church. WILLIAM J. HUTTON. During his lifetime William J. Hutton was a man of distinctive personality and of most capable business judgment and ability, and left an honored name in Wood County, where his years from early childhood until his death were chiefly spent. Mr. Hutton was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, February 16, 1845. He was in his sixty-fourth year when his death occurred at his home, 206 Leahman Street in Bowling Green, in October, 1908. His parents, William and Elizabeth (McKee) Hutton, were early settlers in Guernsey County. In 1847, with their two children, William and Louisa, they came to Wood County, locating in Henry Township, when that district was sparsely improved and when much of the country around North Baltimore was a complete wilderness. Here the father worked hard to clear up a home and, like other pioneers, spent a busy but quiet life and he died at a very old age. He had buried two wives, the mother of William being about sixty when she passed away, and an active member of the United Brethren Church. The father was a republican in politics. Their living children are : Mrs. Nancy J. Zimmerman, of Bowling Green ; Mrs. Louisa Hoot, wife of Benjamin Hoot, of Findlay, Ohio; and Mrs. Serena Reynolds, wife of Edward Reynolds, of Fostoria, Ohio. William J. Hutton grew up on his father's farm in Wood County. He early learned the trade of carpenter and combined that with farming on his place of eighty acres in Plain Township for a number of years. That farm, which bears every evidence of having been well cleared and substantially improved, is still owned by Mrs. Hutton. Twenty-two years ago Mr. and Mrs. Hutton removed to Bowling Green and bought their home at 206 Leahman Street. From that time forward Mr. Hutton employed himself at his trade as a carpenter. He was a skillful mechanic and prospered in his work. Outside of his business he was known as a quiet and domestic man and his activities were chiefly expressed through his interest in the United Brethren Church, which he served as class leader and superintendent of the Sunday school. Politically he was a republican. Mr. Hutton married in Hancock County, Ohio, Miss Laura J. Weisel. She was born in Allen Township of that county August 20, 1847, and was reared and educated there on a farm. She is a daughter of Isaac and Jane (Dorsey) Weisel, both natives of Pennsylvania, from which state they came in early days with their children, Oliver and Mary, both of whom are now deceased, to Allen Township in Hancock County. At that time the forest was filled with wild game and there were practically no roads except the blazed trails. The Weisel family endured patiently all the experiences and hardships necessary to prepare a home in such a district. For some years their nearest market town was Perrysburg and they went there to get their grist ground. Mrs. Hutton's parents spent their last years in comfort on their farm and each of them died within a week of each other, in the year 1881. They were active members of the Christian Church and Mr. Weisel was a democrat. Mrs. Hutton is the mother of two children. Her only. son, Dr. Charles Hutton, is a graduate physician from the Chicago Medical College and is also a pharmacist, being a partner with Fred Adams in a store at Bowling Green. Doctor Hutton married Miss Alla Rawling, who comes from Illinois. The daughter, Frieda, is a graduate of the Bowl- 2010 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO ing Green High School, now lives with her mother and is a bookkeeper with the Eberly shoe store at Bowling Green. Mrs. Hutton and her daughter are active members of the United Brethren Church. HENRY J. JOHNSTON, M. D., is the only physician now in practice at Tontogany in Wood County. During his ten years residence there he has acquired a splendid reputation as a successful physician and surgeon and enjoys the esteem of a large community. Doctor Johnston was born at Haskins, Ohio, May 3, 1876. His grandfather, John Johnston, was born at Hartford, Connecticut. He was a gardener by trade or profession and for a number of years was employed by one of the noted Pierpont family of Hartford. From Connecticut he came to Ohio and located near Haskins on Hull Prairie. There he bought some raw land and in course of time had developed a good homestead. He died there when an old man. He was of Scotch ancestry and he married a girl of Irish stock, Maria Anderson. She also lived to a good old age. They were regular members of the Presbyterian Church, and were a fine old couple whose characteristics are inherited by their descendants. They had three sons and one daughter. The only one now living is John R. of New York City. James Johnston, the second son and child, and father of Doctor Johnston, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1843. He was a boy when he came with his parents to Ohio and he grew up at Haskins, finishing his education in the Maumee High School. He was still at home when the war broke out, and he enlisted in the One Hundred and Eleventh Ohio Infantry. The commander of this regiment was Colonel Sherwood, now general, and Congressman I. R. Sherwood of Toledo. As a soldier he was exposed to much hardship, soon contracted rheumatism, as a result of which disease he was discharged. He then returned to Haskins and some years later established a hardware store in that. town. That was his business the rest of his active years and he died in February, 1907. In the community where he spent his life he married Henrietta Crook. She was born in Hull Prairie in 1844, and is still living at Haskins, aged seventy-four. She is a member of the Baptist Church. Her husband was a rock-ribbed republican in politics. Mrs, James Johnston was educated in the local schools and at a ladies' seminary at Kalamazoo, Mich igan. Her parents came from Pennsylvania and were of English stock, being early settlers on Hull Prairie, where they were farmers and where they spent the rest of the days. Dr. Henry J. Johnston grew up in Haskins, was graduated from the Haskins High School, and for three years was a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war in April, 1898, he enlisted as a private in Company L of the Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He accompanied the regiment to the training ground at Chickamauga, Tennessee, and w soon detached and given a place in the med cal department of the United States arm He accompanied the General Miles expeditio to Porto Rico and was a member of the H pital Corps until his discharge on Februa 18, 1899, having been in active service near! a year. With the training he had received in the medical department of the army he returned home and at once entered the Toledo Medical College, from which he graduated M. D. in April, 1900. Doctor Johnston practiced med- icine at his home town of Haskins for seven years, but in 1907 removed to Tontogany and succeeded Dr. Benjamin F. Davis, one of the old time physicians of that communi Since then Doctor Johnston has acquired large general practice throughout this sectio of Wood County and has made his influen felt in community affairs. He is a member o the various medical associations, including th American Medical Association, and is affiliated with Waterville Lodge of Masons and in poli- tics is a republican, though always declining any hint of official participation in local affairs. Besides his own home Doctor Johnston is joint owner with Mr. Fray Robertson of the office building in which he has his medical offices. They built a large garage 40 by 160 feet and Mr. Robertson has the management of the garage. Doctor Johnston married at Plymouth, Ohio, Miss Mary LaDow, who was born at Plymouth thirty-five years ago and was reared and educated there. She also attended the Woman's College at Wooster, Ohio. The have one living son, LaDow, born September 9, 1903. He is a bright student and is now in the freshman class in the high school. C. J. YINGLING is one of the veteran hi ness men and merchants of Tiffin, with which city he has been actively identified for over HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO – 2011 forty years. He began his career back in Maryland, his native state, where his people were prominent as merchants and bankers and manufacturers. Mr. Yingling was born at Baltimore, Maryland, October 26, 1847, a son of Joshua and Margaret (Shriver) Yingling. Both parents were born at Westminster, Maryland, the father in 1812 and the mother in 1814, and they died when almost the same age, the father in 1881 and the mother in 1880. They were married at Westminster. The grandfather, Jacob Yingling, was also a native of Maryland and a tanner by trade. The maternal grandfather Isaac Shriver, a native of Westminster, was a tanner and subsequently became president of the Bank of Westminster and a very successful man. Joshua Yingling followed the dry goods business at Westminster for many years and for the last two years of his life was interested in a canning industry. He was very public spirited and showed a keen interest in everything that concerned the public welfare. He began voting as an old line whig and from that went into the republican party. He always took much interest in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he was a member for many years, and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Protestant Church. They had eight children, and the four now living are : George S., who practiced medicine and also was in the life insurance business and is now living retired in Florida ; Mary, who lives at Baltimore, Maryland, widow of Dr. J. G. Keller; C. J. Yingling; and Dr. William 'A. Yingling of Emporia, Kansas. When C. J. Yingling was a ear. old his parents removed from Baltimore to Westminster, Maryland, and in that town he spent his early years. He attended the public schools and when quite young became teller in the First National Bank of Westminster. He took that position in 1865 and remained with the bank almost four years. The conconfiningupation proved detrimental to his health and in recuperating he spent about six months traveling in the West, chiefly in Iowa. Returning to Westminster; he lived there about four years and was in the dry goods business. Mr. Yingling came to Tiffin in 1872. Two years later he entered the dry goods business on a small scale, and has since developed one of the finest stores in this part of Northwest Ohio. While his mercantile business requires most of his time and attention he is also president of the National Building and Loan Association, a director in the Webster Manufacturing Company, a director of the Tiffin National Bank and has numerous other business connections. On October 26,. 1875, he married Mary E. Rudisel, of Taneytown, Maryland. They have two children : Tobias Rudisel Yingling, of Tiffin, Ohio ; and Charles Shriver Yingling, clerk for his father. Mr. and Mrs. Yingling are members of the Methodist Protestant Church. He is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Mason and in politics a republican. In a public way he has served on the school board two terms. ROMAIN A. TAYLOR. Lucas County, and particularly that splendid agricultural community in Spencer Township, lost a splendid and upright citizen in the death of Romain A. Taylor on April 3, 1915. Mr. Taylor represented one of the very old and substantial families of Lucas County, and he himself was a good business man and farmer and took a very active part in county affairs. He was born in Spencer Township August 10, 1855, and died at the age of sixty. His father, William Taylor, was born near Williamsport in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, January 9, 1810. In 1834 he arrived in Lucas County, Ohio, and as a pioneer acquired 160 .acr-acresland in Spencer Township direct from the government. That was the scene and stage of his early endeavors, and with growing success he acquired additional land until he was the owner of many hundreds of acres. Soon after coming to Lucas County William Taylor established two sawmills, and for many years was actively engaged in lumbering and lumber manufacture. His wealth and influence grew apace, and at one time he was one of the most prosperous and prominent men of his section of the state. He also filled various places of public trust and responsibility, was for many years county commissioner and served as town treasurer from 1860 to 1872. He married Mary Corson, and they had the following children : Two sons who died in infancy ; Robert W., who died in 1881; Eliza, who died in 1873, married William R. Cole ; Harriett, who died in 1877, married James C. Vaughn ; Mary J., deceased, married M. T. Cole ; Theresa married Harrison Farner and lives in Toledo ; Lucretia, deceased, was the wife of P. 0. Van Fleet ; Addie married Edward Wall and lives in Swanton Township. The late R. A. Taylor was well educated in 2012 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO the local schools, but from early boyhood preferred a life of open air activity and of business. When a young man he went to Toledo and for several years was engaged in railroading. At that time his father owned a block of stock in the old Narrow Gauge Road, now the Clover Leaf System. On February 3, 1883, Mr. Taylor married Amanda Van Aken, who was born in Milford, Pike County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Anthony and Mary (Lord) Van Aken, who settled in Richfield Township of Lucas County in 1865. Mrs. Taylor since the death of her husband has continued to live on the old homestead a mile and a quarter west of Sharples Corners in Spencer Township, and being a woman of excellent business judgment is overseeing the operations of the farm and carrying on her business affairs with success. Mrs. Taylor was one of a large family of children : Simeon Lord, who died in infancy ; Madison, a resident of Eaton Rapids, Michigan ; Rowena, living at Byron, Michigan, the widow' of T. J. Smith ; Mercedes, wife of George W. Sterling, superintendent of the Boys National Home at Washington ; Mrs. Taylor;. Emma, wife of Herbert M. Weed, of. Bellevue, Michigan; Mary, Mrs. Charles Zieg- ler, of Spencer Township ; and Henry, who died in infancy. For many years R. A. Taylor was engaged in farming on his place in Spencer Township, and he was also called to fill various public offices. He was a stanch republican. He served as trustee, town treasurer, as deputy sheriff for a number of years and was actively affiliated with Swanton Lodge Free and Accepted Masons. The children of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Taylor were : Clyde, who died at the age of four years and five months ; Flossie, wife of Ernest Keough, and they have a daughter, Romaina Lucile ; Hazel, who died at the age of four years and ten months; and William Romaine, who superintends the home farm for his mother. KNOTT REID occupies the old homestead formerly owned by his father in section 8 of Damascus Township of Henry County. This old homestead has been the center of the activities of the Reid family since early pioneer days. It is located on the east side of Turkey Foot Creek, and not only did the early Reids and their relatives put some of the first improvements on the land and redeem it from the wilderness, but they were and have been first and foremost in all the civic enterprise of that community. The old farm now owned by Knott Reid was only a part of six tracts entered in the very early days by William Rankin, a brother- in-law of Thomas Reid, father of Knott Reid. Both these men came from Scotland. Thomas Reid was born near the home of Robert Burns in Ayrshire, Scotland, about 1812. The Reids were prominent people in that section of Scotland. His father James died in that country, and Thomas grew up there, married his first wife, and she died leaving him three children. These children were named James, Thomas, Jr., and Jessie. Jessie, who now lives at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, is the widow of Ed Crockett, and she has a family of four sons and two daughters. James Reid saw active service as a Union soldier during the Civil war, and died in 1896 in Geauga County, Ohio, leaving a family of two sons and daughter, and his wife is now deceased. Thomas, Jr., died a young man in Damascus Township of Henry County. The first member of the Reid family to come to America was Mathew Reid, a brother of Thomas Reid. He arrived in 1831, and acting under a commission from his brother Thomas he bought a large estate in Damascus Township of Henry County. These lands were nearly all located along Turkey Foot Creek. In 1839 Thomas Reid, his widowed mother and other children, and William Rankin, came to the United States, making the voyage in a sailing vessel. After six weeks they landed in New York, thence proceeded .up the. Hudson River and the Erie Canal to Buffalo, and by lake boat to Toledo. From Toledo after many difficulties they arrived in Damascus Township. It should be remembered that they arrived here more than three-quarters of a century ago. Few people had yet chosen Henry County as their homes. The woods were dense,. the swamps were forbidding to prospective settlers, and the fewei people who did live here all put up with the inconveniences of log cabins, lack of markets, and an almost total absence of those civilizing institutions of the church and school. Thomas Reid and his brother-in-law, W Liam Rankin, has acquired several hund of acres along and around Turkey Foot Creek. They were able to do little with the land agriculturally for several years, but with the assistance of a Mr. Lane, they built the first mill in all that part of the country for grinding grist and sawing lumber. This mill was HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2013 located near the mouth of the creek, and it roved one of the most valuable and useful institutions to the early inhabitants of Henry County. The mother of Thomas Reid died in Henry County some years after the family arrived and when eighty years of age. She was buried along the banks of the romantic Maumee River. Mathew Reid, who had married in Scotland, also lived in the Turkey Foot community and he and his wife died when past middle years, leaving no children. After coming to America Thomas Reid married Almira Crockett, of an old and prominent Henry County family elsewhere referred to. She was born in the State of Maine and ad come to Henry. County when a young woman. Thomas and wife lived busy and useful lives. Besides the operation of a mill he cleared up a large part of his land holdings and acquired 400 acres in one body and made investments in lands elsewhere in the flinty. He was one of the strong, upright and influential citizens in the early days of enry County. He died in 1877 and was survived by his widow until 1895. Both were members of the Presbyterian Church. To the marriage of Thomas Reid and Almira Crockett were born the following children : Mary, who is the wife of Frank A. Jenning ; Knott; William, who owns a hundred acres of fine farming land in Damsacus Township, and married Jennie Fast of Harrison Township and has a family of children ; Charles, who lives in Damascus Township, married Myrtie Myers and has sons and daughters ; dwin, also a resident of Damascus Township, married for his first wife Miss Shepard, who became the mother of one son Bruce, and he married for his second wife Miss Essing, who is also deceased; Agnes is the wife of Irvin Myers, a farmer of Damascus Township, and they have a family of children. Thus it is of one of the oldest and most influential families of Henry County that Knott Reid is representative. He was born on the old homestead he now owns on November 9, 1858. His years have been spent actively and usefully there and as a boy he attended the local schools. He has made good use of his means and opportunities, has built up a splendid country home, has his land well improved, has substantial buildings, and for a number of years has specialized in the growing of thoroughbred Shorthorn cattle. His farm comprises 137 acres. In 1879 in his home township Mr. Reid married Emma Pratt. She was born in Wood County, Ohio, February 22, 1859, and when she was four years of age her parents Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Pratt died and she was reared to young womanhood by the family of Judson Emery. The Pratts were among the earliest pioneers along the Maumee River. Her grandfather, William Pratt, and his father settled' 31/2 miles from Perrysburg at a time when there were practically no other settlements along that section of the valley. Mrs. Reid was the only child of her parents. She is the mother of four sons. Guy, who completed his education in Oxford College, has for a number of years been a teacher and he still calls his parents' home his own. Mathew, who also completed his education at Oxford College is now in business at Napoleon and by his marriage to Nellie Robinson of Freedom Township has a daughter, Thelma. Harold is a farmer near Maumee, Ohio, and has one son, Jackson, by his marriage to Lottie Davis. Arthur, who is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, is connected with the Barberton Manufacturing Company near Akron. Mr. Reid in political matters has usually supported the democratic party, and his sons are of similar political faith. JOHN WILLIAM HARMON BEACH, M. D. For nearly a score of years actively engaged in the practice of medicine at Arlington in Hancock County, Doctor Beach has met with unquestioned success in his chosen work and well deserves the reputation which he has won. He has not been contented with mediocrity in his professional work, however remunerative his practice may have been, and has aimed at the highest possible perfection. Doctor Beach is descended from one of the old and prominent families of German people in Northwest Ohio. His ancestors were soldiers in the Napoleonic wars in Europe. His grandfather, Reinhardt T. Beach, was born on the border line between France and Germany in 1805. When twenty-five years of age he came to this country and first located at Sandusky, Ohio, and soon afterwards took up Government land near Crestline. On the old homestead in Vernon Township of Crawford County, Frederick Beach, father of Doctor Beach, was born November 7, 1837, and was the third white child born in that township. He became one of Crawford County's successful and widely known men. In the HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2013 located near the mouth of the creek, and it roved one of the most valuable and useful institutions to the early inhabitants of Henry County. The mother of Thomas Reid died in Henry County some years after the family arrived and when eighty years of age. She was buried along the banks of the romantic Maumee River. Mathew Reid, who had married in Scotland, also lived in the Turkey Foot community and he and his wife died when past middle years, leaving no children. After coming to America Thomas Reid married Almira Crockett, of an old and prominent Henry County family elsewhere referred to. She was born in the State of Maine and had come to Henry County when a young woman. Thomas and wife lived busy and useful lives. Besides the operation of a mill he cleared up a large part of his land holdings and acquired 400 acres in one body and made investments in lands elsewhere in the county. He was one 'of the strong, upright and influential citizens in the early days of Henry County. He died in 1877 and was survived by his widow until 1895. Both were members of the Presbyterian Church. To the marriage of Thomas Reid and Almira Crockett were born the following children : Mary, who is the wife of Frank A. Jenning ; Knott; William, who owns a hundred acres of fine farming land in Damsacus Township and married Jennie Fast of Harrison Township and has a family of children ; Charles, who lives in Damascus Township, married Myrtie Myers and has sons and daughters ; Edwin, also a resident of Damascus Township, married for his first wife Miss Shepard, who became the mother of one son Bruce, and he married for his second. wife Miss Essing, who is also deceased ; Agnes is the wife of Irvin Myers, a farmer of Damascus Township, and they have a family of children. Thus it is of one of the oldest and most influential families of Henry County that Knott Reid is representative. He was born on the old homestead he now owns on November 9, 1858. His years have been spent actively and usefully there and as a boy he attended the local schools. He has made good use of his means and opportunities, has built up a splendid country home, has his land well improved, has substantial buildings, and for a number of years has specialized in the growing of thoroughbred Shortorn cattle. His farm comprises 137 acres. In 1879 in his home township Mr. Reid married Emma Pratt. She was born in Wood County, Ohio, February 22, 1859, and when she was four years of age her parents Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Pratt died and she was reared to young womanhood by the family of Judson Emery. The Pratts were among the earliest pioneers along the Maumee River. Her grandfather, William Pratt, and his father settled 31/2 miles from Perrysburg at a time when there were practically no other settlements along that section of the valley. Mrs. Reid was the only child of her parents. She is the mother of four sons. Guy, who completed his education in Oxford College, has for a number of years been a teacher and he still calls his parents' home his own. Mathew, who also completed his education at Oxford College is now in business at Napoleon and by his marriage to Nellie Robinson of Freedom Township has a daughter, Thelma. Harold is a farmer near Maumee, Ohio, and has one son, Jackson, by his marriage to Lottie Davis. Arthur, who is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, is connected with the Barberton Manufacturing Company near Akron. Mr. Reid in polittical matters has usually supported the democratic party, and his sons are of similar political faith. JOHN WILLIAM HARMON BEACH, M. D. For nearly a score of years actively engaged in the practice of medicine at Arlington in Hancock County, Doctor Beach has met with unquestioned success in his chosen work and well deserves the reputation which he has won. He has not been contented with mediocrity in his professional work, however remunerative his practice may have been, and has aimed at the highest possible perfection. Doctor Beach is descended from one of the old and prominent families of German people in Northwest Ohio. His ancestors were soldiers in the Napoleonic wars in Europe. His grandfather, Reinhardt T. Beach, was born on the border line between France and Germany in 1805. When twenty-five years of age he came to this country and first located at Sandusky, Ohio, and soon afterwards took up Government land near Crestline. On the old homestead in Vernon Township of Crawford County, Frederick Beach, father of Doctor Beach, was born November 7, 1837, and was the third white child born in that township. He became one of Crawford County's successful and widely known men. In the 2014 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO early days he did cabinet-making, and his labors involved the fashioning of coffins as they were needed and he also made chairs and other articles of furniture. He lived on a farm, and during the period of the Civil war was employed as a buyer of cattle for the Union army. He afterwards attained wide note as a successful breeder and raiser of blooded Shire and Clydesdale horses. He sold his stock all over the country. He continued active in this business until 1906. Frederick Beach married Margaret Feick in 1867. Of their ten children, Doctor Beach was the third. There were four daughters and six sons and eighf are still living, three of whom are graduates of medicine. Charles died one year after graduating. Cornelius, the youngest, is practicing in Columbus, Ohio. Doctor Beach was born December 6, 1872, and spent his early life on a Crawford County farm in Vernon Township, attended the country schools there and was a student two years in the Crestline High School and for another two years in the Gregory Normal School, at Crestline, where he took the classical course. In 1895 Doctor Beach entered the Fort Wayne Medical College, where lie was graduated M. D. in 1898. He at once selected as his place of practice Arlington in Hancock County, and has been in the general practice of medicine there for nineteen years. His services extend all over Hancock and adjoining counties. More and more he has specialized in internal medicine, with some surgery, and is an expert in the former department. Doctor Beach took post-graduate work in June, 1908, under Emil G. Beck at Beck's Hospital, and has also attended the famous Murphy clinics at Chicago. He is a member in high standing of the Hancock County, the Tri-State and the Ohio Medical societies and the American Medical Association. When he began practice at Arlington he was appointed township physician and served one year. He was for two years a member of the City Board of Health, finally resigning the responsibilities of that office. Doctor Beach is affiliated with the Mount Blanchard Lodge of Masons, with the Royal Arch Chapter of Findlay, Ohio, and is also an Odd Fellow. He is an independent democrat and a member of the German Reformed Church. In 1900 Doctor Beach married Miss Florence N. Riegle. daughter of P. A. and Marietta (Wardwell) Riegle of Arlington, and the union was blessed with one daughter who died in infancy. P. A. Riegle was a farmer and breeder of Rambouilette sheep, which won the gold medal at the World's Fair, Paris also at St. Louis. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Beach, David Wardwell, who died November 9, 1915, had attained the remarkable age of one hundred and three years. He was the first contractor and builder in Madison Township of Hancock County. HON. RICHARD A. BEATTY of Bowling Green former state senator, is widely known in Northwest Ohio and in several other states on account of his prominent associations with the oil industry. Since early boyhood he has been identified in some way or other with oil operations, beginning back in Western Pennsylvania, where he was born. Mr. Beatty was first elected a member of the State Senate in 1905, taking office January 5, 1906, and serving six years. He represented in the Senate the five counties of Woood, Henry, Fulton, Putnam and Hancock. During that time he distinguished himself by his leadership in the legislative program and especially by the constructive work he did in behalf of various state institutions and affairs and the capable manner in which he safeguarded the integrity of the state's fiscal management. He was chairman of the banks and banking committee, member of the finance committee, chairman of the public works committee, and on the mining, fees and salaries, and during his second term was a member of seven committees, on five of which he had had a place during his first term. It was due to Senator Beatty that the bill was passed through the Senate abolishing the fee system and placing all county offices on a strictly salary basis. This eliminated one of the most pregnant sources of graft, and he introduced the graft resolution and was chairman of that committee, which investigated the state graft among officials and led to the indictment of three and conviction of two. Senator Beatty introduced the bill to establish the State Normal School at Bowling Green and one in the eastern pa of the state. This bill was No. 8 on the Senate calendar during the first session, and encountered almost constant opposition, but Senator Beatty succeeded in keeping it from oblivioau and during the second session it was the last bill to be put through. He also secured the passage of the banks and banking bill known as the Thomas Bill. Mr. Beatty is an expert accountant, and his training and experience in HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2015 that line served him well during his senatorial term. He uncovered many loose and inefficient systems in the conduct of state affairs, and his work was especially valuable in placing the banking institutions of the state on a sound basis and ridding the business of some unscrupulous characters. For years Senator Beatty has figured as a leaer in the temperance and, prohibition movement both in his home state and in the nation at large. He concerned himself actively with the temperance program in the Senate, and had much to do with securing the passage of the Atkins and Rose bills. Another measure for which he deserves credit is the passing of the bill appropriating $30,000 for the construction of the Fort Meigs Monument and the purchase of Camp Perry, considered one of the finest rifle ranges in the world. Another was the bill providing for the reorganization of the state militia and the appropriation for the Sixth Regiment Armory at Bowling Green. Throughout his six years in the State Senate Mr. Beatty was continually busy with something that was important and conc-cted directly with the welfare of the state and its larger institutions. He also served in the Constitutional Convention, and there impressed his ability upon some of the articles which are written into the fundamental law of the state. Mr. Beatty is a man of collegiate education and is also what might be called a man of large affairs. He was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, in 1859, and practically grew up in the oil business. He had considerable experience in the oil fields of Western Pennsylvania before he came to Bowling Green in 1895. He arrived in Northwest Ohio when the oil producing industry was at its height. He was himself active in the production side of the business and for many years has conducted a successful oil brokerage business. It would be a conservative estimate to place the deals which he has handled at a value of $15,000,000. As an oil man his reputation is by no means confined to Ohio. He has taken an active part in the development of some of the pioneer oil fields of Kentucky, owning an interest in the Irving and the Knox County pools in that state. The better to look after his oil interests outside of Ohio, he maintains an office at Winchester, Kentucky, and another at Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Formerly he owned a large amount of oil property in Oklahoma. His father, William A. Beatty, was a successful oil operator in Butler County, Pennsylvania. William A. Beatty was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1822 and was of prominent Scotch ancestry. He was liberally educated in Edinburgh College, and studied law at London. Grandfather Richard Beatty was a gallant soldier of the English Empire, fought under the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, where he commanded a division as a major general. During his army service he lost an arm and a leg, and was subsequently granted by the King of England an estate at Belfast, Ireland, where he lived for many years and where he died in 1830, when past fifty. Many of his descendants and kinsmen were English soldiers. A son and a son-in-law lost their lives at Lucknow during the Indian rebellion. When a boy William A. Beatty came to America, locating first at Quebec. He afterwards moved to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He was a man of high scholastic attainments and is said to have compiled an arithmetic for use in the Irish schools. In Pittsburg he married Mary Ann Coulter, who was born near Belfast, Ireland, in 1826 and was of a long line of Irish merchants. She came to the United States when a young woman. After their marriage William A. Beatty and wife located on a farm at White Oak Springs in Butler County, not far from the City of Franklin. Their home was a fine one and among other features it possessed eleven springs. William A. Beatty and wife lived there for many years, and after oil was discovered he did considerable development work. He never lost his zest for travel and in later years he went to nearly every corner of the earth and his death occurred in South Africa about 1884. Senator Beatty married his first wife in Pennsylvania, Minerva Cassidy. She was a native of Pennsylvania. She and her husband lived some years at Bradford, that state, and she died four months after they came to Bowling Green. She was then thirty-eight years of age. The one child of this union is Ada M., who was educated in the Bowling Green High School and studied music in Oberlin College and for three years was under the instruction of the noted Professor Sherwood of Chicago. She is now the wife of E. M. Rose of Cleveland and they have a son, Edward. Mr. Beatty r married his second wife at Princeton, Indiana. Her maiden name was Rose McClurkin. She was born at Princeton, Indiana, was educated there, in the Woman's 2016 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO College at Oxford, Ohio, and also at Weston. She took her final degree in the University of Michigan. Mrs. Beatty is a woman of thorough culture, of wide reading and acquaintance with the world's best works of art and literature. For some years before her marriage she was a teacher of languages and ancient history at Madison, Wisconsin, and Princeton, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Beatty have one daughter, Gene Virginia, now seven years of age. Through inheritance and under capable training she has manifested some remarkable intellectual talents. She is already a student of the languages and history and quite well informed on current events and has a library of her own consisting of 100 volumes or more. Bowling Green is a city of beautiful homes, and among them one of the best in point of architectural design and solid comforts is that of Mr. and Mrs. Beatty. It is a large brick residence on an elevation on North Grove Street and adds much to the distinction of that locality as a residence center. Mr. Beatty has filled all the offices in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is prominent in Masonry and was eminent grand commander six years of the Knights of St. John and Malta being a delegate to the World's Grand Lodge. Mr. and Mrs. Beatty are prominent members of the Presbyterian Church. She is chairman of the King's Daughters of Wood County, is active. in the local suffrage movement and more recently has given much of her time and social leadership to the American Red Cross. WILLIAM H. KILDOW. It is said that when William H. Kildow came to Tiffin he possessed as a business asset his ability as an expert cigar maker and a reputation for square dealing, which enabled him to get the best of credit. Any one acquainted with the personnel of Tiffin 's business community today knows his standing and position among the well-to-do and substantial citizens. He has built up a splendid industry as a cigar manufacturer and is also one of the bankers of the city. Mr. Kildow was born at Bethesda in Belmont County, Ohio, March 25, 1868, a son of T. M. and Martha (McPherson) Kildow. His grandfather was Adam Kildow. T. M. Kildow was born in Belmont County, Ohio, December 30, 1845, and is still living, at the age of seventy-two. As a boy he enlisted and served in the Sixty-ninth Ohio Infantry as a private and was with his regiment, faithfully performing his duties as a soldier, three years and nine months. He afterwards became cigar manufacturer, and built up a considerable business. He was a republican and he and his wife were.active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Ile first married Martha McPherson, who was born in Belmont County in 1845 and died in 1881. They had five children and the four now living are: William H. ; C. A. .Kildow, formerly in the cigar business at Bethesda, where he still resides ; Neva, living with her father ; and Mrs. William Bolon, whose husband has a cigar business at Bethesda. T. M. Kildow married for his second wife Ella McMillan. Their four children were named Blaine, Glynn, Ola and Laverna. William H. Kildow attended the public schools of his native town and learned cigar making under his father. For a time lie traveled on the road and in the spring of 1892 he arrived at Tiffin. Here he established a cigar shop in a small way and did most of the making of cigars with his own hands. He soon employed other help and from time to time expanded the scope and capacity of his plant until he had an industry employing 250 persons. His plant now employs about 100 workmen, and is one of the important industries of the city. Mr. Kildow erected for its headquarters a large three-story brick building located in the center of the Tiffin business district. Mr. Kildow is also president of the Savings Bank of Tiffin, but gives most of his time to his cigar factory. He is a director in the Telephone Company and a member of the board of directors of the Commercial Bank. The late Tom Connors of Tiffin left $100,000 to be distributed for charitable purposes and Sir. Kildow is one of the five commissioners or trustees of that fund. On January 16, 1900, he married Lalla Uberroth, who was born in Seneca Coun a daughter of Dr. Adam S. Uberroth. father was for many years a physic at New Regal in Seneca County and man of high attainments in the professi Mr. and Mrs. Kildow have three childr Monroe, William and Martha. Martha is n six years of age. Monroe and William both Attending military school, at Lind Kentucky. Mrs. Kildow is an active mein of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Kildow is republican, a Knight Templar and thi second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a mein of the Mystic Shrine and also belongs HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2017 Lodge No. 94 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and to the Knights of Pyhias. E. C. WISMAN, D. V. S. Though long active in behalf of his friends in the democratic arty in Williams County, Doctor Wisman never sought any official honors for himself, but in 1915 was prevailed upon to accept the post office at Bryan, and his appointment as postmaster dates from April 1st of that year. He is giving a very careful and competent administration of this office, and every one of his many friends and the patrons of the office in general are extremely gratified that this honor has been shown him. Born in Superior Township of Williams County, Ohio, December 14, 1871, a son of he late James and Hannah (McHenry) Wisman, Doctor Wisman spent his early life on a farm, was educated in the district schools, and having a special fondness for livestock and their handling he determined to become a veterinary surgeon. In 1893 he entered one of the best institutions for acquiring that profession in America, the Toronto Veterinary College, where he was graduated with his degree in 1895. He soon afterward passed the state board examination at Columbus, and was in active practice of his profession at Bryan from the spring of 1895 until he entered upon the duties of his present office twenty years later. Doctor Wisman married Leona Gilcher, a daughter of Peter Gilcher. She was educated in the district schools of Williams County. They have one daughter, Edith, born July 26, 1901, and now in the second year of the Bryan High School. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church, and Doctor Wisman is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and with the National Union. J. G. STEINKAMP. The New Ottawa County Telephone Company of which J. G. Steinkamp is general manager, has its main offices in Elmore, where Mr. Steinkamp has long been one of the leaders in business and civic affairs. The other executive officers of The New Ottawa County Telephone Company are : Emery Thierwechter, president, of Oak Harbor; Taylor Puller of Clyde, vice president; Homer Metzgar of Clyde, secretary ; J. A. Gossman of Elmore, treasurer; and F. H. Williams, auditor. This is one of the most flourishing and efficient independent telephone systems in Northern Ohio, and now covers with its local exchanges all of Ottawa County. The local exchanges are located at Curtice, Elmore, Genoa, Millbury, Oak Harbor, Pemberville, Prairie Depot, Port Clinton, Put-In-Bay and Woodville. Its business is largely a growth and consolidation covering a period of about fifteen years. November 1, 1900, The Ottawa County Telephone Company was organized and soon afterwards a single line was built from Oak Harbor to Elmore. The first addition was the purchasing of the Oak Harbor exchange, bringing in ninety-six telephones. In 1902 there was a reorganization and at. that time The New Ottawa County Telephone Company was born. Subsequently the company purchased the Port Clinton and Put-InBay exchanges, including over 900 telephones. In 19.10 the Eastwood exchange with its 415 phones was added. In August, 1915, the company had 3,287 telephones over the county. The capital stock of the company is $250,000 and over $200,000 of stock issues have been made. There are about sixty persons employed in various capacities in the main offices and the local exchanges. Recently there was erected at Oak Harbor an exchange building fireproof, of concrete block, 25x50 feet. The company's general manager, John George Steinkamp, is a business man from the ground up. He was born in Sandusky County, Ohio, April 22, 1864, a son of Frederick and Margaret (Kerbel) Steinkamp. His father was a farmer, and both parents were born in Germany and came to Sandusky County, Ohio, in 1830. John G. Steinkamp as a boy had the stimulating atmosphere and environment of a farmer's son. He attended the public schools, and in 1880, at the age of sixteen, came to Elmore, with which city his fortunes have since been indentified. For two years he was clerk in a drug store and in 1882 he engaged in the drug business on his own account. In 1894 he went with the Elmore Manufacturing Company at Clyde as a clerk, in which capacity he remained until 1900. For the last twenty years he has been well known all over Ottawa County. In 1900 he served as first assistant sergeant at arms in the House of Representatives at Columbus. In the same year he took a prominent part in organizing the original Ottawa County Telephone Company, and as general manager of the new company deserves more credit probably than anyone else for the constructive progress of this business. His influence and judgment have also been 2018 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO sought in other business affairs. He was one of the organizers and is first vice president of The First National Bank of Elmore. He is general manager of the Sandusky Telephone Company at Sandusky. For six years Mr. Steinkamp served as mayor of Elmore and has also given service as a member of the city council and as township clerk and member of the school board. In 1886 he married Miss Mattie Bullimer of Elmore. She is a daughter of Thomas and Maria Bullimer. Fraternally Mr. Steinkamp is active in Masonry, having attained the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite, and is also a Knight of Pythias. JOEL S. BRIGHAM is one of the ablest authorities in Ohio on the subject of intensive agriculture. He has demonstrated that practice thoroughly as a business, has made a splendid success and has built up an important institution at Bowling Green, and for many years his services have been sought as an instructor and lecturer all over the State of Ohio. Mr. Brigham has for seventeen years been an institute lecturer in the extension department of the Ohio State University. In that capacity he has traveled through every county of the state, and his name is without doubt one of the best known in agricultural circles in Ohio. His business at Bowling Green is handled under the firm name of J. S. Brigham & Son. This business is now operated on a large scale. Besides the extensive hot house he has eighty-eight acres of farm land specially adapted 'to the growing of vegetables and varied farm crops. The headquarters are on the west side of Bowling Green, part of the land being within the corporation limits. There is a group of substantial structures in addition to the hot house, which has 25,000 square feet under glass. This house is 92 by 170 feet in dimensions. Close by is a five acre plot of ground specially reserved for vegetables in addition to a farm of eighty-five acres. The land is sandy loam and is especially adapted to the growing of melons and vegetables. In the hot house Mr. Brigham raises each year from three to five crops of lettuce and also a large amount of tomatoes. He has under glass less than an acre of ground, but in the past year he produced 614 bushels of tomatoes alone. Since 1895 Mr. Brigham has been engaged in this industry on a constantly increasing scale. Nearly all this time his location has been on Pearl Street and for the past eight years the business has been under the name of J. S. Brigham & Son. About ninety cent of the products are sold in Bow' Green. They grow. usually five acres of cantaloupes and muskmelons, five acres of sweet corn, a similar amount of potatoes and about 6,000 early and 20,000 late cabbage. Besides the tomatoes raised under glass they place each year about eight acres in that crop They also have thirty acres in corn, fifteen acres in oats, six acres of meadowland. For about ten years Mr. Brigham did his gardening on rented land. It was his succes with rented land that enabled him to come to his present location and buy a run down farm. Many people refer to this as "Brigham’s Folly." Part of the secret of his success has been thorough and methodical fertilization. The first year he had the land on the west side he spread 800 loads of stable manure and regularly since he ha& put from 3 to 500 loads every year upon the land. He has also employed a great deal of commercial fertilizer, chiefly the phosphates and other minerals. He employs irrigation for his greenhouse, having installed the Skinner overhead spraying system. The plant is thoroughly lighted by electricity and the business goes on throughout the year. Mr. Brigham's son now has his home on the farm, while he resides in the city of Bowling Green. Mr. Brigham has been a market gardener for thirty-two years, but prior to that had a very active experience in different parts of the country. He was born in Medina County, Ohio, October 8, 1850, a son of Winfield and Mary (White) Brigham. His parents were natives of New York State, his father of Otsego County and his mother of Madison County. They married at Fredonia in Chautauqua County. Grandfather Joel Brigham was a native of Springfield, Massachuset and of old Plymouth Rock stock. Winfield Brigham after his marriage moved to Medina County, Ohio, and in 1853 went to Fulton County, where his wife, the mother of Joel S., died at the age of forty-seven. Winfield Brigham spent his last years in the home o his son at Bowling Green and died there April 17, 1907, at the age of ninety-three. Joel S. Brigham was reared and educated in Ohio and in early life went west to Nebraska, where he put in nine years, and from there went to Texas and had a strenuous experience of five years as a cattleman and cowboy. He herded cattle on the plains of Texas and also through Indian Territory. HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2019 While in Texas he met and married Miss Carrie A. Bryant. She was born and reared in New York State, and was on a visit in Texas when she met Mr. Brigham. Mr. Brigham's brother, Col. Joseph H. Brigham, twelve years his senior, was a gallant soldier in the Civil war, being colonel of the Sixty-ninth Ohio Infantry. After the war he became prominent in national affairs and served as assistant secretary of agriculture under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt. He died when still in office, during Roosevelt's administration. Mr. and Mrs. Brigham's children are J. Winfield, Stella, Helen and Haven. J. Winfield was born while his parents lived in Texas and is now actively associated with his father in the gardening industry. He married Orma Schanwaker of Bowling Green and they have two children, Robert and Richard. The daughter Stella is now the wife of Arthur W. Chapman, a farmer near Bowling Green, and their three sons are named Joel S., Chester and Albert. Helen is the wife of Chester M. Apel of ,Clarence, Michigan, and they have a daughter, Lucile. The son Haven is still at home and a student in the Ohio State University. Mr. Brigham and his wife are active members and have filled various offices in the Ohio State Grange of Patrons of Husbandry. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. THOMAS D. PHILPOTT. The energy and determination which the various members of the Philpott family have applied to their vocations as farmers in Henry County are characteristic of their English origin. While Mr. Thomas D. Philpott, of Damascus Township, is a native of Ohio, some of his older brothers and his parents and grandparents and all the earlier generations were substantial and thrifty people of County Kent, England. They belonged to the agricultural class, and the grandparents on both sides lived and died in England. George and Jane (Sockins) Philpott, parents of Thomas D., were both natives of County Kent. George was born December 29, 1819, and his wife in January, 1821, and they grew up and .married there. Jane Sockins was a daughter of William and _____ (Baker) Sockins, the former of whom died in 1882 and the latter at the age of seventy-two. The Sockins family were very well to do English farming people, active workers in the Established Church, and William Sockins long held an official place on the church board. During the Napoleonic wars from 1812 to 1815, he served as a member of the Home Guard. George Philpott and wife were married in their native county in 1845. Four children were born to them while they lived in England : William S., James, who died at the age of one year, John and George, Jr. Then the little family left England, coming to the United States by way of sailing vessel and arriving in New York City after a voyage of six weeks and three days. Their destination was Ohio. They came to this state up the Hudson River as far as Albany, by train to Buffalo, and there embarked on a steamboat which nearly foundered on account of the roughness of the lake, but eventually they landed at Sandusky and from there proceeded by the Sandusky River and by wagons as far as Castoria. After a brief stop at that place they drove into the Black Swamp region of Wood County and located in the wilds of what is now Weston Township. They went to that section because George Philpott's sister Mary and her husband, Reuben Simmons, had located there two years previously. The country was all new, and besides the ordinary conditions of pioneer existence the early settlers had to contend with such troublesome pests as rattlesnakes, turtles and various wild animals. The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway line was just being graded through that section of Wood County. George Philpott worked at railroad construction, and his wages enabled the family to get along until he could get a farm cleared up. The Simmons family spent all their lives in that section of Wood County. After several years George Philpott removed to Grand Rapids Township in Wood County, living as a-tenant farmer, and from there in 1870 he came to Damascus Township of Henry County and bought 160 acres known as the David Hockman farm. That place was the scene of his active labors for many years. His good wife died there July 10, 1889, and after her death he retired and lived among his children until he too was called to his reward on Christmas day of 1894. He was buried three days later, on his seventy-fifth birthday. He and his wife were very active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church after they came to America, and he nearly always held some official place in his church, and both he and his wife were charter members and organizers of the church in Weston Township of Wood County. Politi- 2020 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO tally George Philpott as an American citizen aligned himself with the republican party. After they came to this country the following children were born : Austin, who is married and has a family and lives in Delaware, Ohio ; Rosetta J., wife of Frank Garster, living on a farm west of McClure, has one living son ; Stephen A. has a family and is engaged in the transfer buSiness at Salida, Colorado. The youngest of all this family was Thomas D. Philpott. He was born in Plain Township of Wood County, Ohio, February 8, 1861. Most of his youth was spent in Henry County, and he gained an education from the public schools. After his marriage in 1887 he started life by purchasing forty acres in section, 34 of Damascus Township. That has been his home ever since, now for nearly thirty years. He has cleared up the land from the brush and the woods, has fenced it, has drained all the low places, and among other improvements has a good orchard of fifty fruit trees. His stock and grain barn is 36 by 50 feet, and he and his family live in a comfortable seven-room house. In Damascus Township December 28, 1887, he married Miss Marietta Anthony. She was a loyal wife, a devoted mother, and. found her pleasure in doing good and in performing unselfish acts for her family and for all those about her. She was especially interested in the various societies and activities of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was one of the charter members of that organization. Mrs. Philpott was born in Damascus Township October 26, 1864, and the close of her life came in the vicinity where she was born and reared on August 3, 1915. She had been taken ill and had been moved to the Toledo Hospital, where her death occurred. Her parents were Daniel and Mary A. (Quaintance) Anthony. Her father was born in Pennsylvania, and met and married his wife in Crawford County, where she was born. In 1860 they came to Henry County, and her mother died in Damascus Township on the Anthony farm in 1872, at the age of thirty-two. Mr. Anthony was twice married after that, and with his third wife he now lives in Findlay, Ohio. There were five children by his first marriage and four by the third. Mr. Philpott properly takes pride in his family of children. Edith was graduated in 1911 as a trained nurse from the Flower Hospital at Cleveland, and is now' the wife of Bruce Reid, a, farmer in Damascus Township, and they have two sons, Robert Bruce and Eugene P. Frances M., who graduated from high school in 1908, completed her course as a trained nurse in the Deaconess Nurse Training School at Grand Rapids, Michigan, with the class of 1913, and is now in training at the Sibley Hospital of Washington, D. C., under the 'auspices of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Charles Walden, the oldest son, is a graduate of the McClure High School and is now taking a course in agriculture in the Ohio State University. Jessie G. graduated from high school in 1915 and is still at home with her father. Thomas L. died when one year old. Kenneth D. is still pursuing his studies in the grammar school. All the family are members of the McClure Methodist Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Philpott is trustee. Politically he is a republican. ERNEST C. ROCKWOOD, now living retired in Bowling Green, was for many years successfully engaged in the business of farming in Wood County, and still owns and superintends his productive place in Plain Township. The business has prospered through his management, and the fruits of his work are a home and happy family and a generous esteem paid him by his fellow citizens. Mr. Rockwood is a member of one of the old and fine families of Wood County. He was born in Plain Township June 11, 1875. His grandparents were Giles C. and Laura (Wad) Rockwood. His grandfather was born in Jefferson County, New York, August 9, 1819, and the grandmother was born in Rutland, Vermont, February 19, 1819. They were married in Lorain County, Ohio, May 23, 1845. Some years later they moved to the Black Swamp region of Wood County locating on the Sand Ridge Road in Plain Township. They secured a part of the Carr estate, built and established a home, and lived there in prosperity and comfort the rest of their days. Giles C. Rockwood died in March, 1913, and his wife in February, 1911. They were members of the Spiritualist Church and the grandfather Rockwood was a republican but later changed his politics to the democratic party. Hoyt Rockwood, the first son and second child of Giles C; Rockwood and wife, was born at Penfield, Ohio, November 26, 1848, and grew up on the old farm in Wood County. His -death occurred October' 24, 1877, at the age of twenty-nine. Though death came to him early he had accomplished much and was one of the leading young farmers of the HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2021 county. On July 4, 1872, he married Lucia H. Miehe, who was born in Toledo in 1853 and died December 12, 1877, just six weeks after her husband. She was the mother of two children, William and Ernest. William died July 3, 1893, at the age of twenty-one years eight months and seven days, just after completing his education in the city high school. Ernest C. Rockwood was two years old when is parents died and he grew up in the home of his grandparents. He was educated in the district schools and since leaving school has applied himself successfully to the business of farming. His farm comprises ninety acres, ten acres being in native timber. The rest of it is well improved with good buildings and is one of the most valuable places in Wood County. As a farmer Mr. Rockwood pursues the rotation principle of cropping, and has kept up the fertility of the soil by this method rather than by the use of commercial fertilizers. His plan of rotation has been successively corn, oats, wheat and clover. His principal live stock has been hogs. Part of his farm is now under lease for oil development and there are six producing oil wells. On leaving the farm and taking up his home in Bowling Green, Mr. Rockwood bought a comfortable place of nine rooms at 316 South Main Street, where he and his family now reside. On October 3, 1896, at Charlotte, Michigan, he married Miss Pearl Wack. She was born at Charlotte, Michigan, June 9, 1878, and was reared and educated there. She is a daughter of Leander and ,Viola (Morris) Wack. Her father was born in Lorain County and her mother in Morrow County, Ohio. They were married at Hastings, Michigan, in 1876, and the father spent the rest of his active career as a farmer in that section of Michigan. He died June 12, 1916. During the later part of the Civil war he was a Union soldier, but escaped wounds or capture. He was active in the Grand Army of the Republic and was a republican in politics. Mrs. Wack is now living at Bowling Green, at the age of sixty-nine, and is still well preserved for a. woman of her years. She is active in the Congregational Church. The Wack children were : Harold and Eugene, of Chicago, both married ; Mrs. Rockwood; Mary, wife of Benjamin Faust, of Battle Creek; Michigan, and the mother of eight sons and daughters ; and Marshia, the wife of Guy Sikes, of Battle Creek, and they have a son and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Rockwood are the parents of two children : Lucia A., born July 1, 1898; is now a member of the Vol. III-44 class of 1918 in the Bowling Green High School, and Gerald William, born October 18, 1902, is still in the grade schools. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Mr. Rockwood is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in politics is a republican. FRANK T. DORE. Of the names that are most prominently associated with the activities of the Seneca County bar during the past two or three decades that of Dore has special significance. Undoubtedly one of the ablest lawyers in all this section of Ohio was the late William H. Dore, who died at Tiffin after many years of practice on April 7, 1914. His partner and associate during many years was his brother, Frank T. Dore, who now continues the exceptionally large volume of practice formerly handled by both of them. Frank T. Dore, while devoted to the law to the exclusion of most of the other interests which usually claim the attention of the successful lawyer, consented to enter politics and was elected and served as a member of the State Senate in 1911-12. The family has been identified with Tiffin for over fifty years. Frank T. Dore was born at Tiffin July 9, 1874, a son of John and Catherine (Breslin) Dore. Both parents were born in County Kerry, Ireland, and the preceding generations all spent their lives in that country with the exception of the maternal grandmother. John Dore died in 1885 and his wife, who was born February 22, 1837, is still living. They were married at Tiffin. John Dore came to Tiffin in 1852, was at first a laboring man, and finally invested his careful savings in a small store and had developed it as a flourishing business before his death. He and his wife were Catholics and he reared his family in. the same faith. Politically he was a democrat and at one time represented his ward in the city council of Tiffin. Of their ten children six are living : Mary, at home ; R. L., assistant general agent of the Clover Leaf Railway, with headquarters at St. Louis ; Mrs. Edward Flynn, wife of a plumber at Tiffin ; Frank T. ; Charles G., in the auditing department of the Overland Automobile Company at Toledo ; and Mrs. E. P. Simon, whose husband is connected with Secor and Bell of Toledo. Frank T. Dore was educated in the public schools at Tiffin, graduating from high school in 1892. He took up the study of law under his brother William, who had already at- 2022 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO tained an eminent place at the bar, and was admitted to practice in October, 1895. He at once became an associate with his brother and the partnership was broken only by the death of the elder Dore nearly twenty years later. Mr. Dore was married November 16, 1910, to Miss Katherine Boos, a native of Huntington, Indiana. Mrs. Dore finished her education in St. Mary's College at Notre Dame, Indiana. Two children have been born to their marriage : Frank, Jr., born in 1912, and Richard, born in August, 1914. The family are members of St. Mary's Catholic Church at Tiffin. Mr. Dore is a member of the Knights of Columbus and has served as exalted ruler of Lodge No. 94, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Politically he is a democrat and was elected on that ticket to the State Senate. G. SCOTT ROOS. To the duties and responsibilities of the office of county treasurer of Fulton County the people have called one of the practical farmers, wide-awake business men and public spirited citizens in the person of G. Scott Roos. Mr. Roos is a native of Fulton County and was born in Chesterfield Township on October 18, 1875. It was in that locality that his parents, George W. and Elizabeth (Tunison) Roos, spent so many years of their quiet and industrious lives. His father was born at Tarrytown, New York, and his mother in the same state, but they were married in Fulton County, Ohio. His father died January 22, 1908, and his mother now resides at Wauseon. The only son of his parents, G. Scott Roos grew up in the wholesome atmosphere of the farm. He attended the country schools, and also the Morency High School. As soon as his strength permitted he took an active share in the labors of the farm, and after his father's death he took entire charge, and he was known as a successful and progressive farmer before his name was widely associated as a capable official. Mr. Roos still owns 180 acres in Chesterfield Township. In 1894 he married Miss Ora B. Stutsman, who was born in Fulton County October 7, 1876, a daughter of C. H. Stutsman. Mr. and Mrs. Roos have been engaged in homemaking for over twenty years, and in that time five children were born into their household. Those now living are : George S., in high school ; Harold S., in school; Eloise and Eveline. The family are members of the Christian Church, and Mr. Roos has served as elder and deacon. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of the Knights of Pythias and of the Grange, and both he and his wife are connected with the Order of Rebekahs and the Pythian Sisters. He is a past master of the local Grange. In politics Mr. Roos is a republican and has accepted many opportunities to serve his party. While living on the farm he served as township trustee and as a member of the School Board of Chesterfield Township. After his election to the office of county treasurer he removed his home into Wauseon, where he now resides. JOHN H. LINCOLN is one of that group of enterprising business men who have not only carried the responsibilities of one of the most substantial towns of Northwest Ohio but have done, much to make Bowling Green a center of continuing enlarging influence and prosperity. Mr. Lincoln is cashier of the Wood County Savings Bank Company, a position he has filled since 1912, and deserves much of the credit for its magnificent growth and its substantial resources. He is also president of the Bowling Green Commercial Club, of which he was one ,of the founders. The Wood County Savings Bank Company was organized in' 1900. Its authorized capital was $80,000 and the paid in capital was $40,000. In 1908 the capital was increased to $50,000, the authorized capital being doubled. The first president of this bank was Myron L. Case, 'and he was' succeeded by Mr. E. M. Fries. The first cashier was J. AV. Underwood. The only two directors who have seen continuous service from the incorporation of the bank are Dr. J. C. Lincoln and Dr. W. M. Tuner. The present officers and directors of the bank are E. M. Fries, W. M. Tuller, J. H. Lincoln, S. R. Case, Frank Kabig, J. C. Lincoln, N. R. Harrington, William R. Hopper, C. B. Eberly, A. C. McDonald and E. 0. Sargent. According to a statement issued in the spring of 1917 the bank has total resources of $1,632,263.47. The bank maintains surplus and a fund of undivided profits more than, the capital stock, and these are the items most suggestive of the bank's substantial character. The deposits now aggregate over $1,500,000. John H. Lincoln was born in Bowling Green January 3, 1874. He was educated in the local schools and in 1897 graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Be- HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2023 fore going to that school and afterwards he was associated with his father in the management of the Lincoln Drug Business at Bowling Green and was active in that work until he became connected with the bank. The Bowling Green Commercial Club, of which he is now president, was incorporated in 1910, and he was the first president, the office he has held to the present time. Mr. Lincoln takes an active interest in everything concerning the welfare and improvement of Bowling Green. He is also treasurer of the executive committee of the Wood County Republican Organization. He is one of the leading members of the Bowling Green Lodge of Elks, is a member of Wood County Lodge of Masons, and Chapter No. 157 at Bowling Green. His father, Dr. J. C. Lincoln, now seventy-three years of age, is prominent both as a business man and as a physician at Bowling Green, where he has been in active practice since 1872. He founded and for many years conducted a drug business in connection with his practice. The Lincoln family are all members of the Presbyterian Church. John H. Lincoln was married in Wood County to Miss Effie DeHart, who was born in Wood County. They have two children : Josephine and Virginia, both attending school. SAMUEL S. BAKER. For a period of years going back beyond the recollection of most of the old residents, the name Baker has had a prominent and influential place in business affairs at Findlay. A son of the pioneer merchant, Samuel S. Baker has had an extensive experience in various lines of enterprise, including newspaper work, and is now senior partner of Baker & Hasler, proprietors of the Model Steam Laundry on South Main Street. A native of Hancock .County, Samuel S. Baker was born at Findlay October 28, 1862, a son of K. S. and Sarah M. (Peck) Baker. His father was one of the oldest and best known merchants of Findlay, was in the boot and shoe business, also a leather and hide dealer, and he constructed the Turner Block, a well known structure in the business district. The Bakers are of English stock and have been identified with this country for generations. One of the family connections on that side was Ethan Allen, the heroic leader of the Green Mountain Boys in the Revolution. Mr. Baker through his mother is a grandson of Samuel Peck, a pioneer Presbyterian minister and the first of his denomination to preach in Hancock County. Samuel Peck had come to this part of Northwest Ohio across the country in the days before railroads, driving an ox team. Samuel S. Baker attended the public schools at Findlay, including the high school, and at the age of eighteen found work and steady employment with his father in the boot and shoe business. That employment continued for two years, then he satisfied his zest for adventure and had a year of far western experience. This year he spent in Butte City, Montana, then the largest mining town in the world, and rendezvous for outlaw and law breaking characters from every section of the world. Mr. Baker is too busy a man to indulge in reminiscence freely, but his intimate friends have heard some interesting stories from his lips concerning his experience in the Far West. After returning to Findlay Mr. Baker remained only a short time and then returned to Cincinnati to work for his uncle, Capt. George Crawford, who was an extensive lumber merchant in that city and in Kentucky. For a year Mr. Baker worked as a lumber grader. On returning to Findlay he took up work as a newspaper man with the Jeffersonian, then edited by J. H. Balsey. For twelve years he was connected with that journal in various capacities and was finally its general manager. After leaving the Jeffersonian Mr. Baker bought the Findlay Steam Laundry and had the management of that as the sole proprietor until March, 1913. Failing health then compelled him to give up business for a time and in recuperating he traveled a year in Canada. After returning to Findlay Mr. Baker became associated with Mr. Hasler in 1914, and together they established a new laundry, The Model Steam Laundry. They installed every appliance necessary for the highest grade work, soon had a large business in their immediate locality, and by hard work and enterprise they now have a custom extending over most of the counties of Northwest Ohio. Mr. Baker married Ella Stark, daughter of Jacob and Louise (Hershey) Stark. The Starks were an old family, of Wayne County, Ohio. Mrs. Baker's father was a Union soldier, served two terms as auditor of Wayne County, and was long identified with politics in that locality and was one of the most popular men in the county. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have one son, Jacob Stark Baker, who was born in 1899 and is now doing his share in the laundry business with his father. Mrs. 2024 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO Baker is a member of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Baker is a republican in national affairs and is strictly independent. in local matters. His only fraternal connection is with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. HUGH HUGHES. This is a name which has a distinctive place in the pioneer annals of Wood County. The Hughes family has been identified with this section of the state since the forests were first cleared and the task of improvement begun in the making of farms, homes, towns and industries. While Mr. Hugh Hughes was not an actual participant in those early pioneer toils, he has spent about 'sixty years here, and a few years ago he retired from his excellent farm near Bowling Green to live in a comfortable home in that city, at 129 Reed Street. Mr. Hughes was born at Milan, Ohio, October 23, 1855, a son of James and Anna (Evan) Hughes. His parents were both natives of England, his father of Scotch ancestry and his mother of Welsh. They grew up and married in England and began life as farmers. The children born in England were Sarah Ann, James, Harriet and Rose. In 1853 this little family party set sail from London and after a voyage of three months landed in New York City. From there they came west to Ohio, locating at Abbots Bridge in Erie County, then a new community. On arriving here James Hughes was robbed of all his money the first night. About 1858 the parents of James Hughes, James and Sarah (Batchelor) Hughes, followed him to the United States and .secured sixty acres of land in Washington Township of Wood County.. The grandfather cleared up and drained the land and made a good home, in which he lived until his death, at the age of seventy-five, while his widow survived until the age of ninety-two. Both were active members of the Episcopal Church, and grandfather Hughes was a republican. In 1856, when Hugh Hughes was but an infant his parents left their home in Erie County and, came to Wood County. His father was induced to make this change through the influence of Mr. Perry Root. James Hughes located in Plain. Township and began clearing up part of the Root farm. He soon recognized the great opportunities that were in store for a man of industry and willingness to work and he invested his meager capital in forty acres of land. After clearing this up he bought 120 acres more, went through the same process on that land, subsequently bought 135 acres and finally another tract of 40 acres.. All of this he lived to see thoroughly cleared, drained and converted into rich and productive farms. James Hughes besides his industry was distinguished for his progressive spirit. He was very practical and in many ways conservative, but he had the judgment which enabled him to discern the good in new things, particularly advanced improvements in farm machinery. Thus it was that he usually bought the first piece of machinery in his section. He introduced the first sewing machine, the first reaper, the first mower, the first self-binder, and his success as a farmer and business man shows that his judgment was seldom misplaced. James Hughes was born -July 26, 1819, and died December 30, 1898. His wife was born November 8;1839, and died January 26, 1895. Mr. Hugh Hughes was the first of his parents' children born in Ohio. He was the sixth in order of birth of eighteen children, seven sons and eleven daughters, all of whom grew up and six of the sons and three of the daughters are still living. Mr. Hughes grew up on his father's farm and from an early age became inured to hard work. His father was known as the most energetic man in the county, and for many years he worked regularly from sixteen to eighteen hours a day. Though small in stature, he was exceedingly muscular and was a bundle of nervous energy. Thus Hugh Hughes was well trained for a life of industry and has made his success as a farmer and is now enjoying the comforts and fruits of well spent years. He still owns his farm property near Bowling Green. On May 24, 1876, in Toledo, he married Miss Catherine McCauley. Mrs. Hughes was born in Perrysburg, Ohio, February 19, 1856, and was reared and educated there. Opportunities for the education of women were not abundant during her youth, but her determined ambiion enabled her to master many subjects which were not taught in the schools she attended. She is a' daughter of Michael and Mary (Sheridan) McCauley. Her parents were natives of Ireland, where they married, and were of Catholic ancestry. After their marriage they immediately set out for the United States, and for a time lived at Boston, Massachusetts, with his relatives and from there came to Perrysburg, Ohio. Some years later they moved to Columbia County, Wisconsin, where her father was a farmer eight years, and then returned to