HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2075 his associations with the lumber business, but in 1897 went to the untraveled regions of Alaska. He was attracted by the discovery of gold in the Klondike and probably has as much first hand information concerning that .country as any other resident of Toledo. As a mining prospector he walked and followed dog trains over thousands of miles of Alaska scenery and visited every promising gold field in that country. After three years of that arduous northern life Mr. Green returned to the United States, spent a short time at Seattle, Washington, then returned east. In 1901 Mr. Green came to Toledo and has been a resident of that city for the past fifteen years. Upon the organization of The Belcher-Stine Lumber Company he became their traveling salesman and sold their lumber over a large territory for three years. In 1910 Mr. Green became identified with The Long-Bell Lumber Company. The Long-Bell Lumber Company has its business headquarters at Kansas City, Missouri, owns large numbers of mills and vast tracts of pine and hardwood all over the Southwest, and is one of the largest lumber corporations in the United States today. Mr. Green was on the road for this company three years and in 1913 was given his present responsible position as sales agent for the Toledo territory, with offices in the Spitzer Building. He has the general oversight of the distribution of The Long-Bell Lumber Company 's products over the greater portion of Northwestern Ohio, Eastern Michigan, and Western Ontario, the sales in this territory being supervised from the Toledo office. Mr. Green is an interested member of the Toledo Commerce Club, Fellows Craft Club of Detroit, Michigan, and belongs to the Union Association of Lumber and Sash and Door Salesmen, and the Michigan Association of Traveling Lumber and Sash and Door Salesmen. The family are members of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Toledo. Ohio. Mr. Green married Miss Beatrice Robertson, of Kansas City, Missouri, and they are the parents of two children, Mary B. E. and Charles W., Jr. WALTER F. SHAW, who has been identified with educational work at Bowling Green for many years, is one of the best known school men in Ohio, since his work in connection with the Department of Public Instruction calls him into service as an inspector of high schools over a large part of the state. About half of each year Mr. Shaw spends as a regular instructor in the State Normal at Bowling Green, and from September to February travels over the state as a school inspector. In 1905 Mr. Shaw became principal of the Bowling Green High School and in 1911 was elected superintendent of the city schools. He held that position until 1914, when he was appointed to his present relationship with the State Normal. Mr. Shaw is a native of Morrow County, Ohio, and a member of one of the oldest and best known families in and around Cardington. He was born February 29, 1884, and grew up at Cardington, graduating from high school in 1900. He soon afterward entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, where he received his A. B. degree in 1905. He has been a constant student during his school work and in 1910 was awarded the Master of Arts degree by the Ohio Wesleyan and has since taken post-graduate work in the University of Chicago. Mr. Shaw is a son of Frank Shaw, who was born near Cardington, Ohio, and grew up in a district where the Shaw family located in pioneer times. Frank Shaw, whose full name is Lewis Francis Shaw, is a son of Henry John and Caroline (Lewis) Shaw, a grandson of John and Pamelia (Messenger) Shaw, and a great-grandson of John and Elizabeth (Brown) Shaw. The Shaw family is of Scotch descent and for many generations were identified with the Quaker Church. The Shaws were identified with the very early settlement of Morrow County. John Shaw, Sr., great-great-grandfather of Professor Shaw, came from Chester County, Pennsylvania. He bought 400 acres of military land in the extreme north side of what is now Westfield Township in Morrow County and abutting on the Greenville Treaty line. With his wife and family, consisting of four sons and four daughters, he started in the spring of 1804 to locate. They arrived at a settlement on the Whetstone, the first settlement made in Delaware County, and there learned that his land was twenty miles farther north. He remained in Delaware County for four years. In the spring of 1808 he proposed to his son Jonathan to give him his choice of 100 of the 400 acres if he would at Once settle there. Jonathan 'selected the northern part of the tract, a beautiful situation on a small stream since known as Shaw Creek. A space was cleared, and a cabin erected about sixteen feet square, with puncheon door and puncheon floor. In the fall of 1808 John Shaw, Sr., 2076 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO accompanied by his other sons, Joseph, Benjamin T. and John, Jr., with his four daughters and son-in-law, Isaac Welch, occupied the rest of the 400 acres. Since that time for more than a century the Shaws have been identified with Morrow County. Mr. Frank Shaw for many years has been a pharmacist and conducts a store at Cardington. He is also one of the extensive growers of ginseng and yellow root in Ohio. He has about ten acres under cultivation, and has developed a large business in that line. Frank Shaw married for his first wife Jeanette Welch, of another well known family of Morrow County. She was a daughter of Enos and Mary (Curl) Welch, and a granddaughter of George and Maria (Himrod) Welch. George Welch came from New York State with his parents when he was three months old in 1803, locating in Ohio about a year after it became a state. George Welch's wife was of Pennsylvania Dutch stock. Mrs. Jeanette (Welch) Shaw died at Cardington when in middle life, Walter F. being her only child. Since then Mr. Frank Shaw has married Gillian Lloyd White, of an old Virginia family. Her great-grandfather, George E. Lloyd, Sr., was a native of Virginia and at the age of seventeen enlisted for service in the Revolutionary war as a member of Captain Barry's Company, Eighth Virginia Line, commanded by Col. Peter Muhlenburg. In the White lineage she is descended from an ancestor who came to America about 1622, living for a time at Salisbury, Connecticut, and later moving to Dutchess County, New York. Her grandfather, William White, was a soldier of the War of 1812 and in 1830 located in Lincoln Township of Morrow County. Mr. Frank Shaw has been prominent in local republican politics and was a delegate to the Chicago National Convention which nominated Charles E. Hughes. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias Order. Walter F. Shaw married at Delaware, Ohio, in 1907, Miss Mary Shultz. She was born in Richwood, Union County, Ohio, a daughter of Rev. James W. and Emma J. (Flesher) Shultz. Rev. Mr. Shultz was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. After the death of the father the family removed to Delaware, Ohio, where Mrs. Shaw was educated in Ohio Wesleyan and for several years before her marriage taught school. They have one daughter, Marjorie Helen, born January 29, 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Bowling Green and he is affiliated with the Masonic order being a member of Wood County Lodge No 112, Free and Accepted Masons, Crystal Chapter No. 157, Royal Arch Masons, of Bowling Green, and Fostoria Chapter No. 90, Royal and Select Masters. He is a member also of Kenneth Lodge No. 158, Knights of Pythias of Bowling Green. He belongs to the Phi Delta Theta college society and in politics is a republican. JOHN V. NEWTON is a Toledo man whose record reveals many reasons for his substantial and influential positions in the city. Toledo has been his home for nearly forty years. Mr. Newton was born October 19, 1850, in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada, a son of Richard and Mary Elizabeth (Van Tassel) Newton. He was born neither in wealth nor in poverty and had difficulties to overcome even in securing ,adequate preparation for his career. He spent a number of winter terms attending district schools, working on the farm in the summer, was a student in a commercial school two winters, then graduating, and later he entered Toronto University and spent one year as a student of medicine. At that point he gave up the idea of becoming a physician and determined upon the study of veterinary surgery. Mr. Newton is a graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College. In the meantime, at the age of twenty-one, he had left home and for four years was connected with a manufacturing business. When he came to Toledo in 1878 he was an absolute stranger to the community but rapidly acquired recognition in his profession. As a veterinary he has long ranked as a leader, and a number of years ago established the Newton Horse and Dog Hospital at 619 Walnut Street. This institution was supplied with every appliance which science has devised for the comfort and care of injured and diseased horses and dogs. Doctor Newton is still at the head of the establishment, though Dr. Reuben Hilton has active charge, with Dr. Charles Petteys as assistant. When the Ohio Veterinary Medical Association was organized, a third of a century ago, its members bestowed upon Doctor Newton an appropriate honor in electing him their first president. For many years Doctor Newton owned a fine stock farm at West Toledo, known as the Newton Home. He was the first man who had the enterprise to bring high class horses into the county as a means of raising the standard of stock. In this di- HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2077 rection he accomplished a great deal, for which he is entitled to high praise. For many years he had some of the finest stock that could be found over a wide territory, but as since disposed of his interests and is not now the owner of a single horse. To his profession Doctor Newton has devoted himself with a singularity and concentration of purose and energy that accounts for the high rank he has enjoyed. He has always been a student, has kept abreast of the times, and in saying that it should not be forgotten that he is almost equally well informed on the affairs of the day. As a matter of fact Doctor Newton's career is associated with Toledo in many ways. He has been a director of the Toledo Humane Society since its organization more than thirty years ago, and for a long time was a director in the Lucas County Fair Association and active in its management. Many citizens of Lucas County know him best through his public record. In 1894 he was elected county commissioner and he held that office during the erection of the new courthouse and county jail. In 1899 he was chosen county sheriff, being re-elected in 1901, and was the first sheriff to occupy the new jail. In 1912 Doctor Newton became treasurer of Lucas County, filling that office one term. Doctor Newton served on the jury commission of Lucas County for the year 1916, together with James C. Staunton, and many compliments were received for the way in which their duties were performed. Very few citizens of Toledo or Lucas County have had the honor of being elected to four different county offices, and it all goes to prove the esteem in which he is held by his fellow citizens. While Doctor Newton has always been a republican, he followed Roosevelt into the progressive movement and was elected county treasurer on that ticket. Politics and public affairs in general have always drawn heavily upon his time and interests. In a business way Doctor Newton is also president of the Wyman Mining Company, a $1,000,000 corporation, located at San Javier in Sonora, Mexico. This is the only mining company that has continued operations during all the revolutionary troubles in the republic. It was organized by the late Ben F. Wade of Toledo. Doctor Newton is a charter member of Toledo Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and for many years has been a Mason, having attained the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite and the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of Oak Council of the National Union, the Toledo Commerce Club, the Exchange Club, and the Toledo Yacht Club. He is a member of Trinity Episcopal Church. In 1872 he married Miss Sabra Ketcheson, who died in March, 1900. In 1901 Doctor Newton married Mrs. Elizabeth E. Harris. He has a fine family of sons and daughters. His son, Edward, lives in Chicago. His daughter, Sabra, married A. L. Hoffman and has one son. Maude E. is the wife of H. H. Hillman, living in Hollywood, California, and is the mother of two sons and two daughters. John C., who is married, has two children and lives in Toledo, is looked upon as the successor to his father in political affairs. He served two terms as county sheriff, from 1909 to 1913, and has served as director of public safety in the cabinet of Mayor Charles M. Milroy during his entire administration. John C. Newton was a Spanish-American war soldier and was also deputy sheriff under his father, serving as deputy nine years in all. Doctor Newton has a stepson, W. R. Harris, who is married and lives in Monroe, Michigan, and has one daughter. AMOS KELLER. When Crawford County starts to enroll her men who have done well in every situation in life in which they have found themselves, and who have brought credit and honor to the beloved old county through their achievements, one of the foremost names will be Amos Keller, a prominent citizen in many directions and now serving on the bench, filling his second term as judge of the Probate Court. Judge Keller was born in Sandusky Township, Crawford County, Ohio, February 27, 1864. His parents were Philip and Hannah (Stucker) Keller, both of whom were born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Amos Keller grew to manhood on his father 's farm and was given district school advantages that might have satisfied many country youths but apparently only whetted his appetite for a far more liberal education. At first he studied privately and in thus endeavoring to increase his knowledge and develop his natural talents had the example of his father before him. Philip Keller was a learned man and had acquired a knowledge of literature, law and theology through wide reading. He was so well posted on the law that his neighbors would come from miles distant to consult him and his sound advice saved 2078 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO many from an expensive law suit. He was an earnest Christian and his family remember how well he could explain Bible texts as he gathered them around the fireside in the old home on many evenings, and his knowledge seemed inexhaustible. Amos was impressed by his father's wisdom and determined to become an educated man himself. In this he succeeded, but it was entirely through his own efforts. Mr. Keller was but a youth when he began to teach school and for nineteen years he continued in the schoolroom during the winter seasons, working on the farm in the summers, and finally was fortunate enough to come under the tutorship, in the scientific course, of the distinguished Professor Churchill of Oberlin College. As opportunity offered, he applied himself to the study of law and during his life has read copiously along this line, as well as others, and with enlightened understanding far beyond the ordinary, is well qualified for the important place he fills in judicial circles. Judge Keller was one of the original founders and organizers of the Farmers and Citizens Bank of Bucyrus, of which he is vice president. This banking institution, with resources of over $1,000,000, is one of the soundest in the state and Judge Keller 's name is one of its best guarantees. In 1895 Judge Keller was married to Miss Maudesta H. Carrothers, who was born at Tiro, Crawford County, Ohio. Her parents were James and Sarah (Cole) Carrothers. Mr. Carrothers still resides at Tiro and is one of the substantial men of that section and the owner of much real estate. Judge and Mrs. Keller have four children, namely : Constance, who is serving as deputy' probate judge ; John, who is employed in a motor manufacturing plant at Bucyrus ; Warren, who is learning the plumbing trade; and Philip, who is yet in school. Miss Constance is a graduate of the Bliss Business College, Columbus, Ohio, and at present is applying herself to the study of law, through a course in a correspondence school. She is an unusually talented and capable young lady. Judge Keller and his family are members of the German Reformed Church and for many years he has taught a class in the Sunday school. Although nominally a democrat, Judge Keller has been identified very prominently with organizations which, in his judgment, have come closer to the people and in some ways have been more representative. He has studied public problems closely and to some extent has been very sympathetic to the cause of labor and in two campaigns traveled through the congressional district, speaking as an advocate of the, people's party and was sent as a delegate to Cincinnati to represent both the people and labor interests. In 1912 Judge Keller was elected to the Probate Bench and the value placed on his knowledge and integrity was shown by his reelection in 1916. He is identified with two fraternal organizations, the Maccabees and the Eagles. SUTTON P. KANEL is proprietor of one of the most complete men's furnishing goods and clothing establishments in the City of Findlay, located at 232 South Main Street. If there is anything Mr. Kanel does not know about the clothing business his intimate associates have never discovered it. He has been in that line of work practically since boyhood, and long study and experience have made him a master judge of values and also a master in the art of pleasing and accommodating the public. Mr. Kanel was early thrown upon his own resources, and has battled his way through life to success. He was born at Kenton, Ohio, September 5, 1873. When he was eighteen months old his mother died. His father, John Kanel, was a native of Germany and had participated in the German Revolution of 1848. After becoming an American citizen he showed his loyalty to his adopted country by serving with a regiment of Ohio volunteers during the Civil war. He was in the great battles of Missionary Ridge, Chickamauga, Stone River and other battles in the South. Mr. Kanel's mother was of Swiss stock. Sutton P. Kanel for about three years attended the public schools in Kenton, Ohio. He then went to live with his grandparents in Big Lick Township of Hancock County, and was there eight years. After their deaths he went to live with Mr: and Mrs. Joseph Ropp, and the time spent with them is perhaps the nearest home life in Mr. Kanel's memory. In the meantime he had very little opportunity to attend the country schools. At the age of sixteen he began working for neighboring farmers at monthly wages, and at seventeen he entered the Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he took the commercial course and for two semesters pursued the normal course. Mr. Kanel's first experience in mercantile HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2079 lines was at Frankfort, Indiana, where he began working in the clothing store of Rudolph Shonfield for $3.50 a week. He did what was asked of him and a great deal more for those wages, and remained altogether for six years in Frankfort, Alexandria and at Muncie, Indiana. He then returned to Hancock County and worked on a farm to recover his health, after which he went back to Muncie, Indiana, and was again in the clothing business for a year in the firm of A. I. Friend. r two years he was with the Keller-Brycer mpany, clothing merchants at Muncie, put one summer with Bryce Brothers at Columbus, Ohio, and three years with Meyer, Englehard & Company at Bucyrus, Ohio. Returning to Findlay in 1902 Mr. Kanel took employment with the National Clothing Company as salesman, buyer and general all around man, and was associated with that firm for ten years. Another year he was with I. J. Shatz in the same line, until the business was discontinued. Having in the meantime in addition to his wealth of experience saved his money Mr. Kanel was then in a position to start for himself, and at 232 South Main Street, his present location, he opened a complete stock of clothing, haberdashery, hats, and other's men's furnishing goods. In certain articles he has the largest and best stock in Hancock and adjoining counties, and hiS patrons came from all over this section of Northwest Ohio. In 1902 Mr. Kanel married Miss Mabel Marks, daughter of Charles M. and Jennie Marks. They have two children : Marian Frances, born February 28, 1910 ; and Ilene, born in. May, 1915. Mr. Kanel is a. democrat in politics, is a member of the First Church of God, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Masonic order. He also belongs to the Maccabees. His successful position in business and social affairs at Findlay is due to hard work, a constant and consistent attention to the duty that lay nearest him, and he has never depended upon others for influence or for favors which he could not repay. EX-GOVERNOR CHARLES FOSTER was born in Seneca Township, Seneca County, Ohio, April 12, 1828. His parents were natives of Massachusetts, coming to Ohio in 1827, and locating at Rome. now known as Fostoria, in 1832, where Charles W. Foster, the father, began business as a country merchant. His son Charles had but few educational advantages aside from the ordinary village school. He attended the Norwalk, Ohio, Seminary for nine months, and because of general sickness in the family he had to become assistant and, at the age of fifteen, manager of his father's store. At eighteen, he made all the necessary purchases of goods for the store in the markets of Eastern cities and was continued ever afterward as purchasing agent for the firm. Previous to 1879, Charles Foster was never a candidate for any office except one or two minor local positions, but that year he was persuaded to take the republican nomination for Congress. Although in a democratic district, he was elected by a majority of 776 over Edward Dickinson, who had been elected previously in the same district by 1,645 majority. In 1872 he was re-elected by 726 over Rush R. Sloane, Greeley republican and democrat. In 1874 he was re-elected with 150 majority over a very popular democrat, George E. Seney, although the state went democratic by over 17,000 in thirteen of the twenty districts. In 1876 he was again elected by a majority of 281 over his Bourbon competitor. The democratic legislature then redistricted the state, putting Mr. Foster into a district which at the previous election gave 4,547 democratic majority, and contained but one republican county. Mr. Foster was again renominated but was defeated, cutting down the adverse majority, however, to 1,225. In 1879 he was elected governor over Gen. Thomas Ewing, of Fairfield County, and in 1881 over John W. Bookwalter, of Clarke. His administration of state affairs is regarded as a model. After the death of William Windom, in 1891, Governor Foster was appointed secretary of the treasury by President Benjamin Harrison, and was an exceptionally able cabinet officer. He died in 1904. GEORGE W. HARTMAN, now living retired in Bowling Green, is one of the oldest native sons in this part of Wood County, and his family has been identified with this region since it was almost an uncleared wilderness. Mr. Hartman is a veteran Union soldier, and has applied himself with success to many undertakings in the course of his long and active career. His father, Jacob Hartman, was born in one of the Rhine provinces of Germany in 1808 and was of old German stock of Lutheran affiliations. Jacob Hartman learned the trade of shoemaker in his native land, and when still young he and a neighbor set out from 2080 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO Germany and after a voyage of many weeks on a sailing vessel arrived in New York City. There the two young men became separated and Jacob Hartman soon came West to Perrysburg, Ohio. He located there in the early '30s, when all Northern Ohio was new and with few towns or other evidences of civilization. He brought with him to Perrysburg $38 and this he invested in leather and set up a shop for the making and repairing of boots and shoes. A year later some friends who lived in Center Township near Bowling Green induced him to come to that then incipient village, promising they would put up a hewed log house for his accommodation. A cobbler was greatly needed in the community, and Jacob Hartman accepted the proposition of his friends, agreeing to do shoemaking to pay for the home. He bought nine acres of land, on which the cabin was erected. This was part of the original site of Bowling Green, but subsequently the village was moved a mile north in order to have higher ground. Jacob Hartman, however, remained at his original place and in a few years he gave up shoemaking as a trade to devote himself to farming. He bought forty acres of additional land, later bought six acres, and then another tract of forty acres, and in the course of time had ninety-five acres under cultivation and improvement. Nearly all of this was under cultivation and marked by substantial improvements before his death. He first built a large stone house and later a brick dwelling, and with these comforts he spent his .last years, dying in 1891. He was a hard working man and a very valuable citizen every way. Politically he was a republican and was always true to the church in which he was reared. He married Margaret Litzenburger, who was born in Germany in 1814 but grew up in the State of Indiana, where her people located when they came from Germany. She died at the old home in 1896. She was a faithful member of the Lutheran Church. Of their eight children, all grew up, six married and five are still living. George W. was the fourth son and fifth child. George W. Hartman was born on the original nine acres owned by his father now located just outside the corporation limits of Bowling Green on May 26, 1841. The first nine years of his life were spent in the hewed log cabin of his father, and after that he lived in the stone house with which his father replaced the original cabin. After getting his education in the public schools of Bowling Green Mr. Hartman applied himself to the business of farming and in the course of years he bee recognized as one of the best farmers and stock raisers in Wood County. His first purchase on his own account was forty acres, and after improving that he made other purchases until at one time he owned 420 acres. Of this he bequeathed 120 acres to his son. All of the land was under cultivation and has been divided into several farms, each with a substantial equipment of buildings. In 1863, at the age of twenty-two, Mr. Hartman answered the call of patriotism and enlisted in Company H of the Sixty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was with Union armies in the eastern field of action and saw some of the hardest fighting of th war, including the engagements at Halve Hill, Fort Gregg, the siege of Petersburg, and in many battles around Richmond. Part of the time he was on detailed duty, but never sought a commission. He escaped unhurt and for many years has enjoyed the companion. ship and esteem of his old comrades as a member of Wiley Post No. 46, Grand Army of the Republic, in which he has held several of the offices. In 1902 Mr. Hartman retired from the active responsibilities of farming and moving to Bowling Green bought a fine property at 303 South Main Street, at the head of Pearl Street Here he has a modern home of ten rooms, and it is a most pleasant and comfortable environment in which to spend his declinng years. Mr. Hartman has always affiliated with the republican party. In this county and township he married for his first wife Barbara A. Apel. She was born in Medina County, but after the age of five was reared in Washington Township of Wood County. She was a daughter of John and Margaret Apel, both natives of German and coming to the United States when unmarried. They were married in Ohio an spent their industrious years as farmers in Medina and Wood counties. They were members of the Lutheran Church and they died when quite old. By his first wife Mr. Hart. man had four children : John, who died at the age of twenty-two after graduating from the Bowling Green High School ; Agatha, who died at the age of six months ; Walter, who is elsewhere referred to in this publication; and Irene, wife of Alva George, a farmer near Bowling Green and the mother of three children, Marvin, Howard and Lester. For his second wife Mr. Hartman HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2081 Mrs. Emma Blyth. She was born near Waterloo, Ontario, fifty years ago and is of English and Irish stock, a daughter of Sidney and Mary (Kern) McMahan. Both her parents were born in Canada and her father died there. His widow afterwards spent a number of years in the United States and she died while visiting at Niagara Falls, her death coming suddenly. The McMahans were members of the Methodist Church. She married for her first husband in Ontario, Canada, Thomas Blyth. He was born in that province of Scotch ancestry and was a capable mechanic. He died at Waterloo at the age of twenty-three. Mrs. Blyth with her only son, David R., then removed to Detroit, where her son grew up and is now a jeweler. He married Harriet Gelette. Mrs. Hartman is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. LEWIS SELLE. One of the most successful business careers ever worked out in Seneca County has been that of Mr. Lewis Selle. When he was fourteen years of age his father died and after that he became the main dependence of his widowed mother and his sisters. He contributed the results of his hard work to their support for a number of years. His chief success in a business way was as a merchant. As a youth, however, he had learned the tinner's trade and was employed as a practical tinner for twenty-five years. He then opened a small stock of men's furnishing goods and gradually developed a merchant tailoring business and a large stock of clothing and other wearing apparel for men. Mr. Selle has been continuously in the same location now for thirty-two years and has a splendid business and a fine reputation. Some years ago he took in K. W. Gunder as a partner. His store is only one of numerous business interests at present. He is vice president of the Tiffin. Consolidated Telephone Company and is a director in the City National Bank. For a number of years he was in the pottery business and was actively connected with the National Machinery Company, having been its president for four years. He was the oldest member of that firm and still holds the position of chairman of the board managers. It was largely Mr. Selle's energy and ability that put that business on its feet. He was also interested in the nail works. He is a part owner of the Grand Opera House of Tiffin, which he helped build. Among other property he has a well improved farm of 115 acres east of Tiffin. All of this success represents his individual labor and effective management. He never had any money given him and has depended upon his own resources. Mr. Selle was born in Bavaria, Germany, in May, 1845, a son of William and Lenora Selle. His parents were also Bavarians. They came to the United States in 1852 and after spending one winter in the country moved to Tiffin. William Selle was a stone mason by trade and before his death had been able to provide quite liberally for his family. He was a democrat in politics and he and his wife were members of the Second Reformed Church of Tiffin. Of their four children only two are now living, Lewis being the older. His sister is Mrs. John Wagner, a widow living at Fostoria, Ohio. Mr. Lewis Selle had a limited and somewhat irregular education in the local schools. Hard work was his portion from early years and he has been rewarded not only with large business success but also with high standing in the community. He has served on the county visiting board and also as a member of the board of safety of Tiffin. Politically he is a democrat, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife attend the Reformed Church. He was married in 1913 to M. Amy Lowmaster. She was born in Newark, Ohio, daughter of Henry Lowmaster, a painter at Tiffin. DANIEL W. REDDIN, M. D. Perhaps no other citizen of North Baltimore has come in closer contact with the realities and adventures of life than Doctor Reddin. As a boy he spent several years in the far West, was a farmer, a cow puncher, a student and a homesteader out in the wilderness. Over thirty years ago he settled in North Baltimore as a practitioner of medicine and for years he enacted the role of a true pioneer doctor, riding and driving over almost impassable roads through all kinds of weather to his patients who lived in the black swamp region. His has been a life of devoted service to the profession, but it has also been amply rewarded in a business way. His love of an active life in all its phases is doubtless an inheritance from his father, whose career was a most romantic one. His father, Thomas Reddin, was born in Dartmouth, England, in 1808. He inherited a strong intellect, was carefully educated, and learned the art of decorator. On coming to America he was employed in carrying out some of the decorative designing on the build- 2082 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO ings of Girard College at Philadelphia. His craving for adventure led him to the seafaring occupation and for several years he was captain of a vessel and sailed to many of the ports of the civilized world. He was still young when he came to the United States, and his spirit of adventure was still unquenched. During the early '30s he was attracted to the struggles of Texas for independence and joined the American patriotic forces in the far Southwest and was part of Colonel Fannin's historic command which surrendered to the Mexican President Santa Anna at the battle of Goliad. The Fannin massacre is a vivid chapter in American history. On a fatal Palm Sunday the prisoners were started away from their point of detention with the understanding that they were to be paroled. After going a short distance the Mexicans ambuscaded them and from the deadly slaughter that ensued only a few got away alive. Thomas Reddin was one of the few that survived the fate that was in store, and he and his comrades broke away from the lines and managed to escape the shower of bullets. He afterward fought under Gen. Sam Houston in the battle of San Jacinto, where the whole Mexican army was either captured or annihilated. After this experience in helping Texas win her independence he went East to Pennsylvania and subsequently fought in the Mexican war. He was also in the navy during the Civil war, on the Union side. In 1846 he married Catherine Braucht, who was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, April 16, 1828. She. was of a splendid old Pennsylvania family and was a woman of very beautiful characteristics of heart and mind. Her father, David Braucht, was a prosperous Pennsylvanian who married a Miss McAlister of Scotch ancestry. Her family were identified with the banking and business interests of Philadelphia. David Braucht served in the War of 1812, while Ms father was a Revolutionary patriot. During the Mexican war Thomas Reddin's wife came up the Mississippi River from New Orleans, her husband having enlisted for the Mexican service in that city. She came via Cincinnati and journeyed to Hancock County, Ohio, where she remained until she was joined by her husband, who later developed a farm there, where he spent his last days. It was in Hancock County, Ohio, that Dr. Daniel W. Reddin was born January 24, 1860. At the age of fourteen he left home and became self supporting. The age of sixteen found him in the far West, where he worked for railroads, on cattle ranches, and for several years traveled all over the cattle country of the Western States and territories. Many nights he slept on the prairie under a blanket, and he came to know all that vivid and interesting life of the West and the great plains which is now a story that is told. Some of his experience was in the Northwest, in old Dakota Territory, and when that territory was admitted to the Union as a free state he preempted a claim of a quarter section of land near Huron, South Dakota. That claim was then far from civilization and the nearest habitation to his cabin was four miles distant He paid $200 for land that is now worth from $60 to $75 an acre. This period in his life, with all its hardships and incidents, is one that Doctor Reddin likes to recall. Doctor Reddin had previously returned to Ohio and equipped himself for the broader responsibilities that awaited him. He was educated in Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and Valparaiso University at Valparaiso, Indiana. In 1881 he completed his course in the department of medicine and surgery of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and later located for practice at Findlay, Ohio. In 1886 he located at North Baltimore, from which city he has since directed his varied interests and affairs. Doctor Reddin has been a close student of his profession and has taken post-graduate work in New. York City and has read and studied and utilized every opportunity for increased service. When he located at North Baltimore the village was hardly out of the swamps and the surround. ing country was for a large part of the ye, almost inaccessible. It was almost impossible for a vehicle to get over the roads, and he usually rode horseback and not infrequently it occured that he had to tie his horse an make the rest of his journey to some distant house on foot. Doctor Reddin is a physician in good standing, is a member of the Wood County Medical Society, Northwest Ohio Medical Society, Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Besides his large medical practice he has acquired many interests in local affairs. He cleared up and improved a 160 acre tract of land, which is now one of the finest farms in the entire county, well drained and improved with model buildings. Its management and its crops have furnished him a delightful recre- HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2083 ation from other duties. He has improved and sold several other farms. For several years he held the office of vice president of the Hardy Banking Company and since 1911 has been its president, succeeding D. W. Murphy, the first president of that bank. Doctor Reddin is a prominent Mason, a member of the Blue Lodge at North Baltimore and Knight Templar Commandery at Findlay and the Scottish Rite bodies at Toledo. On December 28, 1886, Doctor Reddin married Ella Lochhead, of Keokuk, Iowa. She died January 7, 1888. Her final illness was brought on during the fire which swept North Baltimore and destroyed Doctor Reddin's home, medical library and much other valuable property. For his present wife Doctor Reddin married at Tiffin, Ohio, Miss Eugenia B. Bachman, who was born at Tiffin March 21, 1870. Her father, G. W. Bachman, was a prominent lawyer and politician of Tiffin, Ohio. He was mayor of the City of Tiffin two terms and president of the board of education. He also served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Seneca County. Mrs. Reddin was educated in the Tiffin public schools and Heidelberg College and is a woman of culture and of wide experience as an educator. She was a teacher in high schools and did her last work in that capacity in the Fostoria High School. Airs. Reddin is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and several literary and social clubs. She is the mother of three children, the youngest, Theodore, dying in infancy. The other two are very capable young men and have received every advantage at home and in school to enable them to make the most of their ambitions and talents. Daniel W., Jr., is a graduate of the North Baltimore High School and has finished the junior year at Heidelberg University at Tiffin, Ohio. He is now serving in the Medical Reserve Corps Ambulance, No. 4, United States Army, of Cleveland, Ohio. George B., the younger son, is now seventeen. He is a member of the North Baltimore High school, class of 1918, and is also interested in military matters, being a member of the Boy Scouts organization, and the North Baltimore Rifles. HON. GRANT E. MOUSER, present judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Marion County, has been a leader in the bar for over a quarter of a century and one of the prominent men in the republican party of Northwest Ohio. He is former congressman from the Thirteenth Ohio District. Judge Mouser was born at LaRue, Ohio, September 11, 1868, a son of Dr. Justice A. and Sarah (DeLong) Mouser. His grandfather, Isaac Mouser, was a native of Virginia and an early settler in Marion County, Ohio. Many of the family attained to professional distinction. Judge Mouser's father was for many years one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Marion County. Three of his brothers became lawyers and gained successful positions in their profession in different parts of the Middle and Far West. Judge Mouser's maternal grandfather was a pioneer in Hardin County, Ohio. Doctor Mouser and wife had nine children : Ambrose, who became a physician ; George, now deceased, who was a lawyer ; Lloyd, who died while a student of medicine ; Howard, who also took up the law ; Maude, who married William F. Kniffin ; May, who married Frank Holland ; Roy, who became a resident of Lincoln, Nebraska; Harold, a prominent physician of Marion ; and Grant E. Judge Mouser was educated in the public schools of Marion County, attended the Ohio Northern University at Ada two years, studied law in the office of Charles C. Fisher at. Marion, and in 1890 graduated from the Cincinnati Law College with the degree LL. B. He has been in active practice at Marion since 1890. Judge Mouser was elected prosecuting attorney of Marion County in the fall of 1893 and served three years. He was a local leader in republican affairs from the time he reached manhood and gradually his name became better known all over Northwest Ohio. In 1904 he was elected from the Thirteenth Ohio District to Congress and re-elected in 1906, serving in the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth congresses. All that time he carried the heavy burdens of a large law practice, as member of the firm Mouser & Quigley, until elected to the Bench of the Court of Common Pleas, where he is now rendering a splendid service. Judge Mouser is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Elks, is a republican and a member of the Presbyterian Church. November 28, 1892, he married Miss Della E. Ridgeway of Marion County. They have three children : Helena M., Grant E. and Annabel. JOHN FANGBONER. Soon after the close of the Civil war, in which he had taken a spirited 2084 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO and effective part as a gallant and fighting soldier of the Union, John Fangboner came to Northwest Ohio and for upwards of half a century has been identified with the business and civic welfare of Fremont City and Sandusky County. He has become well to do and influential, though at the start he had little more than any of his contemporaries, except a determined purpose and a persistence which has enabled. him to realize many of the cherished plans and ideals of his younger years. Mr. Fangboner was born at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, June 3, .1846. His parents were James and Christina (Illick) Fangboner. James Fangboner was born in New Jersey in 1809, and was married in Pennsylvania, his wife, being a native of Easton that state. James Fangboner when a young man came west and traveled with a companion on foot as far west as White Pigeon, Michigan, which at that time was an important town and the center of the United States Land Office, but is now almost an unknown village. However, he returned to Pennsylvania, and became a farmer and also learned the wagon maker's trade. He was a very skillful mechanic and through hard work he provided well for his family and left an honored name. He became a republican upon the organization of that party and held various minor offices. He was active in the Lutheran Church. He and his wife had seven children, and the three now living are : Mrs. Anna Kaufman and Mrs. A. E. Sleifer, both of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania ; and John. John Fangboner grew up in Pennsylvania, had a district school education, and when a little past sixteen years of age he enlisted in 1863 in Company K of the Fifty-first Pennsylvania Infantry. He was with that regiment in all its campaigns, marches and battles until the war was over. He took part with it in the battle of the 'Wilderness and on the second day of that tremendous fight was wounded in the right knee. He spent three months in the hospital recovering, and once more took his place in the ranks and fought wherever duty called him until Appomattox and the close of the long struggle. At the end of the war Mr. Fangboner became clerk in a country store. He also did farming for a time. In 1868 he came to Ohio and located in Sandusky County. He did business as a farmer and also as .a livestock dealer on a limited scale and in 1887 removed to the City of Fremont, where he engaged in the grain, hay and livestock business on a larger scale. He has shipped stock by the train load and in all the years he has done business he has continued to enjoy the confidence of all his customers and his integrity is as thoroughly recognized as his success and good judgment. At times he has fed cattle extensively, and he owns a good farm of 109 acres which is chiefly used for that purpose. In 1877. Mr. Fangboner married Miss Mary Emma Faller, who was born in Fremont. They have three children : Irvin T., in the grain and hay business at Bellevue, Ohio; Myrtella, wife of G. A. Hoot, of Fremont; and James Raymond, a business associate of his father. Mrs. Fangboner is an active member of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Fangboner has always taken an active interest in his comrades of the war and joins heartily in the Grand Army of the Republic and its affairs. In politics he is a republican and in 1893 was elected on that ticket county auditor of Sandusky County. This county was then strongly democratic and his election was a direct testimonial to his individual worth and popularity. He also served on the city council of Fremont and in several other offices and in many ways has made that city's interests his own. His business profits he has invested in Fremont real estate, and he is also one of the city's bankers, being vice president of the First National Bank and a stockholder in the Colonial and Croghan banks. He was one of the incorporators of the Stock Yards at Cleveland and is still financially interested in that enterprise. CHARLES DIRR. A native of Henry County, Charles Dirr has spent practically all his life within the limits of Pleasant Township, and in that time has acquired those things most appreciated by a man of industry and ambition. He has several fine farms, has that degree of material prosperity which frees him from worry as to the future, and while nominally classed as a retired farmer, he is really pursuing a very energetic program of action and supervision on his home place at the Village of Pleasant Bend. Mr. Dirr was born March 5, 1853, on the old Ridge road 1 ½ miles west of New Bavaria in Pleasant Township. Much might be said concerning the experiences and the character and activities of his parents and other members of the Dirr family in Henry County. However, that story has been partly told at HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2085 least on other pages. Charles Dirr is a son of Henry and Catherine (Gardner) Dirr. Both were born in Germany. They came to America when practically the only method of crossing the ocean was on vessels propelled by wind and with sails. They came when they were young people with their respective parents. They grew tip at Akron and at Cleveland, but finally both the Dirr and Gardner families located as pioneers in Pleasant Township of Henry County. Henry Dirr and Catherine Gardner were hard working people from early youth. Neither was above hard work when it furnished an honorable means of livelihood. They worked on the canal and boarded the men employed on the canal. Thus they made their beginning as homemakers, and having acquired a tract of land they also applied themselves to its clearing and cultivation. They lived with the comforts of a log cabin, and a very primitive abode it was. The logs were unhewn, laid together by notches at the end, there was a puncheon floor, the roof of clapboards was tied on, and the mud and stick chimney rose at one side of the building. What cooking was not done by the open fireplace was taken care of by the bake oven which stood outside the door. Henry and Catherine Dirr lived long and useful lives, and were among the most honored and respected citizens of their community. It was in the old home of his parents that Charles Dirr spent his boyhood days. He learned the lessons taught in the district schools, and became proficient in those arts and crafts which were a part of the equipment of all the old time farmers. .He began earning money for himself when still young, and finally with some assistance from his father and in partnership with his brother Andrew he bought 120 acres of land. It was only partly improved, and the brothers worked it for several years. After Charles Dirr married he sold his interests to his brother Andrew, and then bought eighty acres in section 29, and twenty acres in section 28 of Pleasant Township. He went to that farm as his home in September, 1885. A number of years later he bought eighty acres of section 31 and in 1907 acquired a seventy-acre farm in section 21, known as the old Fred Demland farm, the home of Mrs. Charles Dirr when she was a girl. About nine years after he had made his first purchase of 100 acres Mr. Charles Dirr bought a tract of 144 acres in section 29 close Vol. III--48 by the limits of the Village of Pleasant Bend. That is now his place of residence. He retired from the management of his several farms to this home in November, 1914. It is a profitable and well managed small farm, and gives him all the interests and occupation he desires. Since coming to the place he has erected a fine barn 34 by 46 feet and he and his wife have a very comfortable seven-room cottage home. Mr. Dirr in the meantime put substantial farm buildings on all his different places and his farming methods have shown a high degree of progressiveness at every turn. He has been willing to accept the lessons of experience as learned by others as well as by himself and his prosperity can be credited to this quality perhaps as much as to his solid business ability and judgment. An incident might be told illustrating his progressiveness. Mr. Dirr had the distinction of purchasing the first automobile in this section of Henry County. It was a Ford car, bearing the company's number 501. It was a one cylinder model of the type which can be remembered, though it is perhaps better to forget it. Mr. Dirr took a great deal of pleasure in this car, though at the same time he aroused the ire of his neighbors, and many of them expressed their opinions rather vigorously and forcefully to the effect they hoped he would break his neck or run into the ditch, and in passing wagons it not infrequently occurred that the drivers would actually force Mr. Dirr and his car very close to the ditch. Mr. Dirr comments upon this experience chiefly because many of those very men who took so much exception to his pioneering as an automobilist have since become devotees of the auto car and have acquired all the manners of the up to date motorist. Mr. Dirr was married in Pleasant Township at the old home of the bride's father to Miss Cornelia Demland. Mrs. Dirr was born on the old homestead November 29, 1863, a daughter of Fred and Sarah (Stephens) Demland. Her father was born in one of the lowland provinces of Germany and her mother was a native of the Province of Alsace. Her mother when two years of age was brought to America by her parents, who located at Buffalo, New York. Her father was twenty-two when he came to this country and was also accompanied by his parents. The Demlands at once made settlement in Pleasant Township of Henry County, and Sarah Stephens also came to the county when she was seven years of age. Fred and Sarah Demland were mar- 2086 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO ried in Henry County and then located on seventy acres in section 21 of Pleasant Township. There they spent their years profitably and usefully, and the mother died August 1, 1906, and the father on November 4, 1907. The mother was seventy-four and the father seventy-two when they passed away. They were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics Fred Demland was a very decided republican and the same is true of the Dirr family, including Mr. Charles. Mr. and Mrs. Dirr take a very active interest in the Methodist Episcopal Church and have done so for many years. They have contributed liberally to church movements and causes, Mrs. Dirr has been a worker in the Sunday school and a teacher for six years, and Mr. Dirr has followed the office of trustee in the church for twenty-years. They are the parents of three children, Clarence, Roy and Elsie. Clarence, who was born April 14, 1886, grew up in Pleasant Township, completed his education in the local schools, and is now profitably engaged in farming his mother's old home, the Demland farm. He married Hattie Smith of Defiance County where she was born and reared. Roy was born September 20, 1888, and has also found his niche in the world of usefulness as a farmer and is occupying one of his father's places in Pleasant Township. He married Anna Sauer of Pleasant Township. She is a well educated and cultured young woman, and for three years before her marriage was a successful teacher. The daughter Elsie was born November 12, 1902, and has had the advantages of the country schools. STANLEY A. GRZEZINSKI. While one of the youngest members of the Toledo bar, Stanley A. Grzezinski has a record of much worthy accomplishment in his profession, and even more in the field of good citizenship. He is a recognized leader among the Polish people of that city. He was born at Toledo October 18, 1887, a son of Michael and Julianna (Prelinska) Grzezinski. His parents were born in one of the Polish districts of Germany, and came to America as young people. After arriving in New York they made their way West to Toledo, and there in that city they met and married. They were married in St. Mary's Church, or rather in the basement of the later church edifice. They began housekeeping in Toledo forty-three years ago, and were among the highly respected Polish people of the city. For the past thirty-eight years the Grzezinski family has resided at 145 Dexter Street. At that home the beloved mother of the family passed away September 21, 1915. She was a noble woman, devoted to her family, and her memory will always be blessed. The last twelve years of her life she was an invalid. Michael Grzezinski, who is still living, is a retired building contractor, having given up active business in 1913. He is a democrat, while his son Stanley is a republican. Stanley was the next to the youngest in a family of ten children, eight of whom are still living, four sons and four daughters. Two sons died in infancy. Reared in his native city, and receiving his primary education in St. Hedwig's parochial school, Stanley Grzezinski did his first work as a wage earner as cash boy for the LaSalle and Koch Company. He was with them three years under Louie Eppstein, who was at. that time manager of the furniture department. The opportunities that had much to do with his real career came to him during the following three years when he was working under Karl Hardee for the National Supply Company. During part of that period he was a desk clerk. The company frequently sent him with vouchers to their attorney, Mr. Ira Taber, a well known Toledo lawyer whose career is traced on other pages. While waiting in Mr. Taber 's law office young Grzezinski was attracted to the law books, and from casual glimpses within their covers his interest deepened into appreciation and eventually a determination to study law and become an attorney. On leaving the National Supply Company he studied regularly with Mr. Taber for a year, and then entered the Ohio Northern University Law Department at Ada under Dean S. P. Axline, now deceased. While he was in law school the ex-governor of Ohio, Mr. Frank B. Willis, was one of the instructors. In June, 1911, he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, afterwards pursued post-graduate courses for six months, and was admitted in December, 1911, to the Ohio bar. Shortly afterwards he began the practice of law at Toledo, and has since acquired very substantial clientage, having two office one in the Ohio Building, with the firm Hankison and Deeds and another at 29 Lagrange Street. A large number of Polish people, both in Toledo and in Lucas Coun have entrusted their legal affairs to Grzezinski. He has made himself a factor in the HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2087 among his own people, and is very influential in politics. He took a specially active part in Governor Willis' campaign. In the fall of 1915 he was an unsuccessful candidate for judge of the city courts. Outside of his profession his activities extend to many business, civic, fraternal and benevolent enterprises. He is president and director of the Polonia Clothing and Shoe Company, which was one of the first corporations he organized after admission to the bar. It is a prosperous concern, and is situated in one of the finest buildings on 'Lagrange Street. He is a trustee of the Polish Falcons, and has done much important work for the home of that organization. In February, 1915, he made a campaign and collected $2,400 for the benefit of the Falcons, and bought the land on which a $10,000 home is to be built at the corner of Moss and Fellows Avenue. He is also secretary and a director of the Toledo Polish Commerce Club in the Lagrange Street district. St. Michael's Society, of which he is secretary of the executive board, is one of the most prosperous benevolent organizations in Toledo, having more than $15,000 in its treasury. During the European war Mr. Grzezinski has taken a foremost part in raising funds for the relief of Polish war sufferers. He is secretary of the Polish War Relief Fund, and this organization in June, 1915, produced the play Chimes of Normandy at the Valentine Theatre, an entertainment that netted $2,500 for war sufferers in Poland. He was also a delegate to the Northwestern Ohio Section of the Polish National Alliance in its convention at Schnectady, New York. This Alliance has a membership of 125,000 in America, and more than $125,000 a year was subscribed to the suffering people of Poland. Mr. Grzezinski is first vice president of the Federation of Catholic Parishes of Toledo, and has attended their national convention in Baltimore and New York. He is a member of Toledo Lodge No. 53, Benevolent and Protective Order of. Elks. Other Polish organizations with which he is affiliated are the Casimir Pulaski Society and the Polish National Alliance, and he is a member of St. Hedwig's Catholic Church, belongs to the Toledo Commerce Club, to the Toledo Bar Association, 'and is a member of the Delta Theta Phi National Law Fraternity. He is a member of the Oriole Pleasure Club, a Polish organization for young men of Polish descent born in America. Mr. Grzezinski was one of the organizers of the Ohio Polish Savings and Building Association which is a credit to his efforts. This is a newly organized industry in the Polish settlement. WILLIAM H. DILLERY, former mayor of Arcadia, Hancock County, has been a business man in that section of the state for over forty years. He was formerly extensively engaged in lumbering and manufactured great quantities of the hardwood timber 'of Northwest Ohio. Various other business interests have claimed his time and attention, and in the leisure afforded by financial independence he has been able to give much of his time to public affairs. He was born on his father 's farm a mile east of Arcadia in February, 1852, a son of Joseph and Catherine (Peters) Dillery. His father was born near Frankfort-on-the-Rhine, Germany, and was brought to America by his parents when eight years of age. They lived in Baltimore for a time and subsequently went West to Steubenville, Ohio, where he remained two years and then removed to Hancock County. His chief business was as a timber man, and he had the first sawmill in the vicinity of Arcadia. He owned several different farms, and for a number of years was prosperously engaged as a merchant. He did not retire from active business until 1900, and at his death in 1913 he was ninety years of age. His wife had passed away in 1871. William H. Dillery, who was the oldest son in a family of three sons and four daughters, attended the Findlay public schools and spent 91e winters of 1872 and 1873 in Eastman's Commercial College at Poughkeepsie, New York. On returning home he and his brother, George W., bought their father 'a sawmill and conducted it for twenty years under the name Dillery Brothers. They not only worked up the local supply of hardwood timber but also bought saw logs from a territory sixty miles around the mill. After the timber had been dressed in the mill it was shipped and distributed over a number of the eastern states. After selling his interests as a sawmill man, Mr. Dillery became agent for the Page Woven Wire Fence Company and sold the product of this company all over Hancock County for a period of twenty years. He then retired from business, but in a short time found leisure incompatible with his Wive tastes and largely as a diversion he took the position of station agent at Arcadia for the .T. F. & F. Railroad. Mr. Dillery is a stock- 2088 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO holder in the Arcadia Bank and Savings Company and owns considerable local real estate. On October 23, 1873, at the beginning of his business career, he married Lucy Bowman, daughter of John W. and Anna (Eicher) Bowman, of Arcadia. Mr. and Mrs. Dillery have three daughters and one son. Zettie is now Mrs. J. F. Wheland, of Arcadia, and they are the parents of three vigorous young sons, Ivan Wayne, Karl and Reed. Stella married John Hoffman and they reside in Chicago and have a family of two daughters and two sons, Robert, Richard, Catherine and Lucy. Leone married J. C. O'Neil, of Toledo, and their family consists of one son and three daughters, Miriam, Barbara, Ardinelle and James. Mr. Dillery 's only son is William Ralph, still unmarried and employed as an electrician in Chicago. In politics Mr. Dillery is a republican in national affairs but acts independently in local matters. He served three terms of one year each as local clerk, and for a period of sixteen years was town treasurer. He gave a capable administration to the municipal affairs of Arcadia during his two terms as mayor, but resigned the office on account of his business interests. He is an attendant of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Arcadia and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. EDWARD DRUMMOND LIBBEY. A history of Northwest Ohio would be incomplete without a sketch of Edward Drummond Libbey, one of its truly great business men and public spirited citizens. One of the pioneers in the business world, he has helped make Toledo one of the important industrial centers of the United States. Through his public spirit he has established in Toledo the greatest art museum now existing in any American city of its size, which promises to make Toledo one of the great art centers of the United States. His career has been a constant and steadying influence in Toledo business and civic and artistic life for upwards of a third of a century. Primarily his name is associated with glass manufacture, particularly cut glass. Two generations of the family have been identified with the development of this industry. It is said that the story of cut glass in the United States began with Deming Jarvis, the pioneer glass manufacturer of New England. Deming Jarvis was senior member of Jarvis & Commeraise, glass importers and manufacturers, with a factory located in South Boston. In 1850 this firm took into its employ as confidential clerk William L. Libbey. William L. Libbey was born in 1827 and died in 1883, a son of Israel and Mary Libbey. He remained with the firm of Jarvis & Commeraise only five years until 1855, when Mr. Jarvis sold the plant to the former clerk, and it was successfully conducted for ten years by William L. Libbey. At the end of that time he concentrated all his attention to the manufacture of glassware. A successful business was built up, but he sold in 1870 and took the position of general manager of the New England Glass Company at East Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1880 he bought the entire business and at that time took in his son Edward as a partner. Edward Drummond Libbey was born at Chelsea, Massachusetts, April 17, 1854, son of William L. and Julia M. (Miller) Libbey. He acquired his early education in the public schools of Boston and later attended lectures at Boston University. In 1874 at the age of twenty he was given an interest in his father's glass business, It was by a most strenuous apprenticeship that he was fitted for executive responsibility. He performed the most trivial of office duties and filled nearly all the clerical positions in order to learn every dctail. On the death of his father in 1883 he succeeded as sole proprietor of the business and it went forward in the same successful manner under his leadership. It was the discovery of natural gas in Northwestern Ohio, and consequent cheap, fuel to manufacturers, that brought Mr. Libbey to Toledo. He moved his business to tip, city in 1888 and incorporated it as The Libbey Glass Company. This is now one of Toledo's most noted industries. This city has the largest cut glass factory in the world in the Libbey Glass Company, and is also the home of the largest plate glass plant. For these distinctions the city and its citizens are indebted to the enterprise of Mr. Libbey, who was the pioneer in this special industry. Under normal business conditions the company employs several hundred men. While an incidental line of manufacture is the making of bulbs for incandescent lights, the solid fame of the Libbey plants rests upon its cut glass. No other nation has excelled America in the -cutting of glass into intricate and beautiful designs, and among cut glass manufac- HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2089 turers the Libbey Glass Company stands deservedly at the head. It is a business with a great record of success and of progressive ideals, and the excellence of the Libbey product is unmistakable under whatever conditions it is tested. At the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 the Libbey Glass Company erected at a cost of more than $100,000 a beautiful building in which the art of making and cutting glass was carried on in all its branches. That beautiful and practical exhibition probably did more than anything else to familiarize the world with this art and secure its just appreciation. What the Libbey Company did then was the culminating effort of almost a century of steady progress in glass cutting, but the progress has continued uninterruptedly throughout the subsequent twenty-five years. Again, at the World's Fair in St. Louis, more than ten years later, the Libbey cut glass was prominent as an attraction and as a sharer in the awards. From the time the business was incorporated at Toledo to the present Mr. Libbey has been president of the company, and has not yet felt justified in withdrawing from the management of his vast enterprise. A number of years ago he turned his attention to a problem and in helping forward its solution has practically revolutionized glass manufacture. This has keen brought about by the manufacture of automatic machinery for the making of glassware, particularly the ware which must be "blown," and for that for generations the only method was the old hand and lung practice. Mr. Libbey has done much to introduce to the trade the Owens machine, which blows glass automatically. Mr. Libbey was president of the Toledo Glass Company, a corporation established by him in 1894, and in 1903 he organized the Owens Bottle Machine Company, an Ohio corporation. This company secured an exclusive license from the Toledo Glass Company for the United States for the manufacture of machines and machine-made bottles. Since then the company has introduced the bottle machines into many of the largest plants in the United States. The Owens machine has been one of America's most wonderful inventions and in its success has almost rivaled Standard Oil in the returns to the original investors. Until recently Mr. Libbey was president of the Owens European Bottle Machine Company, which was organized in 1905. This company purchased from the. Toledo Glass Company all European rights for the Owens Bottle Machine, but a few years ago these rights were sold to a syndicate of European bottle manufacturers. Mr. Libbey is also president of the Northwestern Ohio Bottle Company and the Owens West Virginia Bottle Company. He is identified with still another organization that is one of the most familiar trade names in America, the Macbeth-Evans Glass Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of which he is vice president. With this brief exposition of his business interests and achievements, it remains to state what Mr. Libbey has done for his home city apart from the stimulation and establishment of business and industrial well being. There is no reason to doubt the assertion that has been made that he has done as much for Toledo as any resident who ever lived here. It is not merely a diversion but a sincere interest which has made him always a lover of art. That interest has taken its chief direction in his benefactions in establishing the Toledo Museum of Art. On May 29, 1909, he and his wife Florence (Scott) Libbey conveyed by deed to the trustees of the museum seven lots and all the buildings thereon. This place was the homestead of the late Maurice A. Scott, father of Mrs. Libbey, and situated in the Scottwood Addition to the city. The terms of the deed are that the trustees hold the same for fifty years, erect thereon a museum for the advancement and display of works of art, and after the lapse of the stated time the trustees may do with the property as they may desire. In addition to this gift Mr. Libbey purchased 100. feet on the west side of the new museum property on Monroe Street, extending 400 feet to Grove Place, thus giving the museum a total frontage on Monroe Street of 500 feet and the same on Grove. Place. This acquisition was purchased for the purpose of protecting the museum from any future encroachment on the part of unsympathetic property owners who might erect unsightly buildings close to the beautiful museum structure. The Toledo Museum of Art was incorporated in 1901 and Mr. Libbey has always been the president of the institution. Upon the ground a magnificent structure has been erected through the benefactions of Mr. Libbey and thousands of other Toledo citizens, which is praised by critics everywhere. Mr. and Mrs. Libbey have presented many beautiful paintings and other works of art to the museum and their bene- 2090 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO factions in its behalf never cease. In 1916 an endowment fund of $600,000 was raised among Toledo citizens for the Museum of Art, even children contributing their pennies, and to this fund Mr. Libbey was the largest donor. He has also promised to almost double the size of the present building. Altogether, his benefactions to this institution will approximate $1,000,000. A few years ago Mr. Libbey was elected for one term to the Board of Education by an almost unprecedented vote, a signal proof of his popularity. To this work he gave his time unstintingly) was honored with the presidency of the board, but declined a re-election. Mr. Libbey is a member of the Union League Club of Chicago, the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh and the Toledo Club of Toledo. CLARKE N. WILDER is one of the able and widely experienced newspaper men of Sandusky County, and is now manager of the Fremont Daily Messenger. He has been connected with the Messenger for the past eight years and prior to that was in the newspaper business at Clyde. He has been a hard worker since early youth and has seldom allowed opportunities to be wasted. He was born at Clyde, Ohio, October :23, 1876, son of N. T. and Sarah A. (Nettleton) Wilder. His father was both a farmer and merchant and died in Sandusky County November 12, 1909. Mr. Clarke N. Wilder started life with a public school education acquired at Clyde. He was still a boy when he began acquiring business experience, part of the time in his father's store as a grocery clerk and a number of summer seasons he spent working on a farm. In 1895, at the age of nineteen, he went to Toledo and for four years was in the employ of the E. P. Breckenridge Company of that city. From Toledo he returned to Sandusky County and spent two years on his father's farm in Green Creek Township. In January, 1903, he bought a half interest in the Clyde Democrat. The Democrat was established April 2, 1899, by W. 0. Kenan and T. L. Hunt. In August of that year Mr. Hunt sold his interest to S. B. Sturtevant and in December of the same year Mr. Kenan became sole proprietor. In January, 1905, Mr. Wilder acquired all the interests in the paper, and published it successfully for four years. He gave it a large circulation and built up its patronage and business to a successful point. While living in Clyde Mr. Wilder was one of the incorporators of the Clyde Kraut Company. On August 29, 1909, having sold the Democrat to B. F. Jackson, he removed from Clyde to Fremont, and was actively connected with the Daily Messenger in different capacities until he became its business manager on December 29, 1916. The Messenger now has a circulation of 2,600 and is one of the most influential newspapers of Sandusky County. It is published daily and semi-weekly. Mr. Wilder is a progressive democrat and has taken much interest in politics and has done much to assist his party in local campaigns. Outside of newspaper work his special enthusiasm is music, and he has been connected with the bands both at Clyde and at Fremont. He was married September 17, 1901, to Miss Helen Lytle Snyder. She is a daughter of Merritt and Susan (Bowland) Snyder, both now deceased. Her father was long a prominent attorney at Fremont. GEORGE E. SCHROTH. A former judge of the Court of Common Pleas and a member of the bar at Tiffin for over thirty years, Judge Schroth has largely made his own way in the world, has found and utilized his opportunities to an exceptional degree of success and has been alike prominent in the law, politics and business. Among the many business interests that claim his attention aside from his private practice, he is president of the Sterling Grinding Wheel Company, a corporation with $100,000 capital. Its products are shipped all over the world. He is also vice president of the City National Bank of Tiffin and is a director and secretary of the Allen Motor Company of Fostoria. This company, with a capital of $1,500,000, has built up a business until it now sells 5,000 cars annually. Judge Schroth was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 7, 1863, and is a son of Frederick and Catherine (Biehler) Schroth. His father was a native of Wuertemberg and his mother of Alsace-Lorraine. The paternal grandparents spent all their lives in Germany. His maternal grandparents were Andrew and Catherine Biehler, who brought their family from Alsace-Lorraine, and located on a farm near Tiffin. Frederick Schroth was born in 1836 and died in 1880 and his wife was born in 1840 and died in 1876. They were married in Cincinnati. Frederick Schroth had come to America in 1850 and for many years was engaged in the market business at Cincinnati. HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2091 He was a republican and a member of the German Reformed Church. Of his four children three are still living : George E. ; Andrew, court bailiff at Tiffin ; Henry, who died at Fostoria in 1916; and Ida, wife of Michael Hoffman, who is connected with the daily market at Cincinnati. Judge Schroth acquired his education as opportunity offered at Cincinnati, Tiffin and Ada. Between the ages of sixteen and twenty-three he taught school several months every year and in the meantime had articled himself 'to the study of law under J. K. Rohn at Tiffin. He was admitted to the bar in May, 1886, and at once took up active practice at Tiffin. Since then he has been admitted to practice in all the courts, both state and Federal. From 1887 to 1890 Judge Schroth was county school examiner of Seneca County. In 1890 he was elected prosecuting attorney on the republican ticket, an election which in a democratic community was a strong testimonial to his qualifications and his individual popularity. In 1893 he was re-elected and served two terms. From 1888 to 1890 Judge Schroth was secretary of the Agricultural Society. There has never been a time in his career when he has not been keenly interested in politics and in public affairs and his name is associated with many places of responsibility. From 1898 to 1903 he served as referee in bankruptcy to the Federal Court. In the fall of 1902 he was elected common pleas judge and filled that office creditably until 1909, when he retired from the bench and resumed private practice. Judge Schroth was married in August, 1889, to Rose Wolfe, who was born on a farm just north of Tiffin.. They have two children, Catherine and George, Jr. The son is now laying the foundation of a business career as an employe with a manufacturing company. Mrs. Schroth belongs to the Methodist Protestant Church. Judge Schroth has attained the Knight Templar degree in Masonry and also belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. J. ALVIN TAYLOR is one of the younger business men of Findlay and is successfully established as a jeweler and optometrist at 211 South Main Street. He began learning the jeweler's trade when a mere boy, and has depended for his success upon hard work, no favors and those principles of business practice which have been justified by generations of experience, including straightforward and honest dealings and a rendering of adequate service for all the profits gained. Mr. Taylor was born at Greenbank, West Virginia, son of W. L. and Mary A. Taylor. His father has been in the jewelry business at Elkins and vicinity in West Virginia for forty years and is still alive and active. Mr. Taylor's grandfather, Ludy Taylor, came from County Clare, Ireland, and located in West Virginia, many years ago. Mr. Taylor's maternal grandfather was a Confederate soldier and was killed in the battle of Beverly, West Virginia, during the war between the states. When J. Alvin Taylor was twelve years of age his parents removed to Franklin, West Virginia, where he completed his education in the high school. At the age of thirteen he began learning the jewelry business with his father and continued in his store until 1909. On leaving home he worked as a journeyman jeweler at different places and in 1912 arrived at Findlay, where he continued as a journeyman jeweler for a year or so. In April, 1914, he employed his modest capital and his extensive experience in starting a business of his own. He has a good stock, has a growing patronage and also has an excellent practice as an optometrist. Mr. Taylor was married December 10, 1913, to Miss Ethel Marie Peet, daughter of William A. and Malinda (Montague) Peet, an old and well known family of Findlay. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are members of the Methodist Church. He is affiliated with the lodge of Masons and in politics is a' republican. RUSS JACKSON CHRISTY. There is hardly a household in America which does not know the "Christy bread knife." In some homes the Christy knife has been hanging by the bread bucket for thirty years, an implement always ready for use and practically indispensable. It is one of those things that is accepted as a matter of course, and yet has served to lighten the burdens of the world, has made work easier, and deserves to rank among those inventions by which America has expressed its greatest genius. Every invention, great or small, has its birth in the germ of an idea. The idea is the important thing. There are perhaps millions of people who know the Christy bread knife, recognize that some one had the idea upon which the invention was based, but are unfamiliar with the personality of the man who conceived it all. This man lives in Fremont, Ohio. With all 2092 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO the success that has come from his invention, he is a plain and unassuming gentleman and has come to prominence and influence through strenuous exertions and by a gradual rise from conditions near to poverty. This Northwest Ohio man whose name is a household word, though the majority of those who use it are unfamiliar with his personality or with his career, was born at Clyde, Ohio, February 10, 1862, son of John and Elizabeth Christy. His father was born in New York State and his mother in Pennsylvania. They were early settlers in Sandusky County, and arrived when only two houses marked the site of the present City of Fremont. Their children are : Jennie, wife of Charles W. Barnaby, of New York City; Charles J., of Fremont; Stella, wife of Samuel Nusly, of Canton, Ohio ; Willard C., of Oberlin, Ohio ; and Russ J. John Christy was a cooper by trade. For a number of years he worked at that steadily and while an industrious man he never attained a position of complete financial independence and his earnings were largely expended in keeping up his home and giving limited advantages to his children. He died November 5, 1897, while his widow survived him until October 10, 1908. Russ Jackson Christy inherited from his father a taste for mechanical pursuits. He had a limited education in the common schools, but never went to college. His first regular occupation was in the Buckeye Engine Company's Works at Salem, Ohio. There he learned the trade of tool maker and the trade of machinist. From Salem he went to Sandusky, and became tool maker for the firm of Barney & Kilby, machinists. Throughout his early experience he kept his mind alert and was not satisfied with a merely routine perfection and skill. He knew that a mechanic as long as he worked for others must be content with a very moderate wage. He realized that in order to make a distinctive success he must specialize his skill so as to produce something distinctive so that the world would come to him for his product. While working in the machine shop at Sandusky the idea came to him of an improved bread knife. He had often noticed the difficulty of cutting fresh bread with an ordinary knife. To give a better cutting edge for that purpose he conceived the scalloped edge, and during his leisure hours he made a knife which exemplified that idea. He put the knife to test and with perfect success, and tried it under every condition until he had proved beyond all question that it was immensely superior to any other implement of the kind. He then had the invention patented. Many inventors die poor, merely because they have not the courage of their convictions and the persistence to carry their idea into commercial success. Mr. Christy had business ability as well as fertility of ideas. His first knives were manufactured by hand at Sandusky. They were sold as rapidly as they could be turned out, and their fame spread by word of mouth and by demonstration of their merit. Mr. Christy realized that the business could not be hampered and handicapped by the slow process of hand manufacture. He then patented a machine which would manufacture knives in large quantities. About that time Mr. Christy removed to Fremont, and it has since been his home and the home of the industry. The first building for his plant was a wooden structure 15 feet wide and 80 feet long. The machinery was installed and the Christy knives wersuc soon being produced in large numbers, though not enough to supply the growing demand. Then came a brick addition, two stories high and 30 by 50 feet. This too soon became inadequate. In constructing a larger factory a rather unique plan was employed. The new plant was 30 by 85 feet, was built of brick, and its walls arose around and surrounding the original plant, so that the business of manufacturing was interrupted for only one day, when the change was made from the smaller to the larger quarters. However excellent an invention may be, a growing business demands capital far in advance of the revenues. The manufacture of the Christy bread knife has met and ovsucrcome many obstacles in this way, and only the hard work and frequent self denial of Mr. Christy has brought eventual success. The factory was twice completely destroyed by fire, once on December 10, 1902, and again April 23, 1910. Each time larger and better buildings replaced the old. There has always been a uniform price and policy for the sale and distribution of the Christy knives. At first they were sold in sets of three and a uniform price everywhere charged. The plan of selling and the price has always been the same. At the present time besides the large annual output of Christy knives, the firm is making two brands of safety razors, both sold by the Simmons Hardware Company of St. Louis, the largest dealers in hardware in the world. HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2093 They bear the well known Simmons brand of "Keen-Kutter." One of the safety razors is known as the Enders brand, named in honor of Col. William Enders, then secretary of the Simmons Hardware Company. These razors were originated and patented by Mr. Christy. A number of years ago the manufacturing success of the business was assured. Through ot Mr. Christy has contributed to Fremont one of its most stable and profitable industries, and has helped make the fame of that city known throughout the world. He has of course acquired many other substantial interests, and is now president of the Colonial Savings Bank and Trust Company of Fremont. Mr. Christy was married January 11, 1887, to Miss Amelia E. Myers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Myers, a prominent family of Sandusky. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Christy. Fay Amelia is the wife of H. B. Bigelow, of Columbus, Ohio, and they have twin daughters, Amelia Elizabeth and Mary Helen, both of whom were born on their grandfather. Christy's fiftieth birthday. Arthur Christy, the oldest son, is now assistant manager and treasurer of the Fremont Stove Company. It was Mr. Christy, Sr., who a number of years ago organized the Fremont Stove Company in addition to his other manufacturing interests. This firm manufactures over 100 different sizes in styles and types of stoves. The business grew, and the necessity of increasing the factory made it wise to build a second plant, which was located at Wyandotte, a suburb of the City of Detroit. Arthur Christy was married in November, 1912, to Miss Ethel Hirt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. U. Hirt of Fremont. They have two children, a daughter, Jane Ethel, and a son, Russ J. the second. Daniel Lamar Christy, the third child, is now in the cutlery plant with his father, and he married Elise Bowman of Little Rock, Arkansas. Clyde K., is managing a 300 acre farm for his father in Sandusky County and is operating a dairy in connection with his agricultural pursuits. MARTIN WINTER. At no time in the history of the United States has the importance of the agriculturist been so greatly appreciated as since the entry of our country on the side of democracy in the greatest war of all times. Always an honorable occupation, its importance in the national life has been dwarfed by the greater interest attached to the professions and manufacturing. With the growth of the cities, however, which so greatly drained the rural communities of their youth, the farmer is again coming into his own. The most fervid appeal has been sent out by our Government to the farmers, urging them to increase by all means the production of food stuffs, as otherwise the world must face famine. It is only a just appreciation of the man who tills the soil that the farmer is again coming into his own, and that his importance in the national life is once more appreciated. Always the backbone of the American nation, the farming population deserves far more credit than it has received in the last few decades. It has been found that he is just as essential even during war times as the man behind the giver—for armies must be fed. Martin Winter came of a family of agriculturalists and lived on a farm all his life. He was born near New Washington, Crawford County, Ohio, on the 18th of August, 1839, and passed away on the farm that he had occupied for more than half a century, about three miles northwest of Nevada, Wyandot County, Ohio, on the 17th of February, 1913. He came of the sturdy German stock which immigrated to the new republic in the first half of the last century and had so much to do with its upbuilding, and especially with the development of Northwest Ohio. His parents were Martin Winter and Catherine (Rang) Winter, both of whom were born in Germany, but came here in their early maturity. His education consisted of attendance at the public schools near the place where he was born, and afterwards in Wyandot County, whither the family had removed before he reached manhood. The father of our subject died while Martin Winter was still in his teens, and as the oldest of a numerous family he felt it his duty to remain at home several years after he became of age, realizing that his help was needed in the care and support of his widowed mother and the younger children, and yielding such service willingly and with self-sacrifice.. A younger brother was Adam Winter, father of Nevin O. Winter, editor of the history, and a sketch of whom appears elsewhere. He was married in October, 1863, to Mary Sigler, the daughter of William and Rosanna Sigler, a neighboring family. They lived together happily for a period lacking only a few months of half a century, always having lived on the same farm. The wife survived 2094 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO three years longer and died October 8, 1916. She was a woman to whom home and children meant everything, and she devoted her entire life to her husband and the lives that had been entrusted to her. She was a member of the Church of God and lived in that communion. To them were born seven children, five sons and two daughters, all of whom still survive and all live within a radius of three miles of the old family homestead. The names of the sons are : William A., Frank, John, Bert and Alpha, and the two daughters are Ella and Carrie. All of the boys are the heads of families and follow the father's occupation, and all are the owners of farms of their own and are classed among the most substantial farmers of Wyandot County, one of the best agricultural counties in Northwest Ohio, excepting the youngest son, Alpha, who is successfully engaged in business in Nevada. The daughter, Carrie, is the wife of William Ulrich, who is also engaged in farming. In the community in which he lived none stood higher in the estimation of his fellow citizens for high character and personal integrity than Martin Winter. His life was open and blameless, and his word was as good as his bond. Quiet and unassuming, yet he took an active interest in every movement looking to the good and advancement of the community. Although independent in local matters, yet he generally followed the principles of the democratic party in national affairs. In boyhood he became a member of the Lutheran Church and remained faithful to that faith and lived the life of a follower of the Master. W. A. MACGEORGE came into Northwest Ohio a number of years ago, when the oil boom was at its height, and was connected with the work of the oil fields all over this section of the state. Since retiring from the oil industry he has resided at Van Buren, Ohio, and is now head of the firm W. A. MacGeorge & Son, general merchants in that town. Mr. MacGeorge is a son of Warren and Elizabeth (Wallace) MacGeorge. His father was born in Scotland, where his people were peasant farmers. When he was a child he came with his parents and with a brother and three sisters to America. The family located in the State of Maine on a farm. His parents spent the rest of their years there and all their children except Warren went west to California during the Redwood craze. The other children all died in California. Warren MacGeorge was reared and educated in the country schools of Maine, and lie was married in that state to Elizabeth Wallace. They became the parents of five sons and three daughters. The family finally removed to McKean County, Pennsylvania, where Warren MacGeorge found employment in the oil fields. He died there at the age of fifty-four. W. A. MacGeorge attended school only in the winter time and from an early age began working to support the family. When he was only fourteen he took a man's job at a man's wages as clerk and general utility man in the old pioneer country stare of Sheehan & Holt at Red Rock . in McKean County, Pennsylvania. He served that firm faithfully for eight years and built the foundation of his business experience. With the true Scotch thrift he was careful of his earnings and was finally able to open a store of own at Red Rock. After three years he sold out and twenty-three years ago he came to Findlay, Ohio, when that city was the center of the oil industry in Northwest Ohio. Mr. MacGeorge continued working in the oil fields all over this part of the state as a tool dresser and driller and finally retired from the business in April, 1914, when with his son Wesley he bought the general store at Van Buren. They have made a success of their merchandising in this locality. In 1884 Mr. MacGeorge married Nellie A. Hatfield, daughter of Samuel T. and Mary (McMurray) Hatfield. Both the McMurray and Hatfield families are pioneer Scotch stock of McKean County, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. MacGeorge have two children : Elmer W. and Hazel B. Elmer is now thirty-two years of age and an active young business man. Hazel B. married J. A. Poole and has one child, Robert. Mr. MacGeorge and family are members of the United Brethren Church. Politically he is a republican. REV. F. S. LEGOWSKI is one of the younger priests of the Catholic Church in Northwest Ohio, and for a man of his age his attainments and his achievements are exceptional. He recently accomplished the organization of the new church at Fremont, and has built up a large congregation there and has both the church and school in a flourishing condition. Father Legowski was born in Toledo October 21, 1889. He is a son of Louis and HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2095 Catherine (Rozanski) Legowski, both of whom were born in Prussian Poland and were of old Polish stock. The grandfather, Stanislaus Legowski, spent his life as a Polish farmer. Louis Legowski and his wife after their marriage came to the United States in 1872, having left the old country for religious reasons. They lived in New York State and in 1874 came to Toledo, where Mr. Legowski acquired a small farm. He cultivated his land for a time, subsequently developed it in lots and sold it for building purposes. He became a democrats an American citizen and he died in 1904. His good wife is still living in Toledo. Of their eight children five are alive., and Father Legowski was the sixth in order of birth. Father Legowski attended the St. Hedwig Parochial School in Toledo, and in early life his career was destined for the priesthood. He continued his education in SS. Cyril and Methodius college at Detroit, where he finished his studies in 1907. He was prepared for the ministry in St: Mary's Seminary at Baltimore, Maryland, where he was graduated in 1912 and ordained on the first of June of that year. His active work as a priest covers a brief period of five years. He was first connected with St. Anthony's Parish in Toledo, being there two years, and for one year had the church at Marblehead near Sandusky. In 1916 Father Legowski came to Fremont for the purpose of organizing the new parish, and the parish is now St. Casimir's Catholic Church, with a membership of 112 families and still growing. He also has a. parochial school with fifty pupils. While perhaps his most important work has been as an organizer, Father Legowski is a man of versatile gifts and a broad range of intellectual activities. At one time he was editor of the Catholic Courier in Toledo, has contributed many articles to the Ecclesiastical Review and has also appeared on the lecture platform. He is a member of Council No. 591 of the Knights of Columbus and in politics is a democrat. EMILY S. BOUTON. It is no disparagement of those classic authors whose works have been read for a century or more, and will continue to elevate and uplift humanity for generations to come, when it is stated that the writings which have the greatest direct influence upon modern life and times are the products of certain live and virile personalities working through the columns of the newspapers and periodical press. It is the broad and general appeal, the constant and almost daily hammering upon the character and intelligence of men and women who come into contact with literature only through the daily newspaper, that constitutes the biggest literary force and value of today. Thus while the so-called standard authors may have a loyal following of a few thousand, these other writers have influenced men and women by tens of thousands day after day and week after week for a long period of years. The City of Toledo takes special pride in having one of these writers, and one who has been well designated as "a woman of the century." Emily S. Bouton is a name that has more direct significance to the thousands who read the columns of the Toledo Daily Blade forty years ago than do many names of much larger political, and official distinction since then. Without attempting to analyze Miss Bouton's work and the varied extent of her usefulness in the newspaper field, it is appropriate to include some facts about her life and experience in this "History of Northwest Ohio." Miss Bouton was born at New Canaan, Connecticut, a daughter of Daniel Webb and Almina (St. John) Bouton. Through her father her ancestry goes back to a distinguished French Huguenot, Nicholas Bouton, Baron Montague de Naton, one of whose sons, Noel, became marshal of France, while another, John, came to the United States and founded the family in America. There were Connecticut soldiers of that name who fought gallantly in the Revolutionary war. Miss Bouton in the maternal line is of English descent. While she was still a child her father removed to Sandusky, Ohio, and she was graduated from the public schools there at an early age. When only fourteen she taught in a primary school at Sandusky. She was valedictorian of her graduating class in the Sandusky High School. She then became as-. sistant high school teacher in Milan, Ohio, later at Tiffin, was in the Toledo High School, and for two years taught literature in the Central High School of Chicago. Her health being impaired, she spent some time in California in recuperation, and in 1879 returned to Toledo and became special editorial writer for the Toledo Blade. Some years ago, while she was still actively connected with the Toledo Blade, a critic and 2096 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO admirer of Miss Bouton wrote as follows : "As literary and household editor of the Blade since 1879 she has, beside endearing herself to /her thousands of feminine readers, made a mark of distinction as a woman journalist. Miss Bouton fills many columns of the Daily and Weekly Blade and her work beside the several departments over which she presides includes the writing of special articles and editorial matter. Her style of diction is easy, pleasing, and to the minds of her feminine readers, especially, seems to convey an idea of her personality. She is also an author, having written books on topics pertaining to the home circle, favorite ones to her, and in these she has achieved success. In these years of her journalistic work she has talked week after week to the same thousands of women—has shown them how to live, how to improve their condition, how to beautify themselves and their homes, until the relation between writer and readers has grown to intimate friendship. To all the precepts with which her home talks have been replete she has added practice, and lived on the lines she has laid out for those who look to her for advice." Naturally Miss Bouton has been aligned with those movements which have reflected the progressive thought and action of modern women. She has also worked in societies advocating religious freedom, and was one of the founders and supporters of the Industrial Home for Working Girls at Toledo. In recent years she has been widely heard as a lecturer upon literary subjects and their influence upon great movements for humanity 's good. In the realm of authorship the book which had the widest circulation and appreciation was "Health and Beauty" and she is also author of "Social Etiquette," "Life's Gateways," "The Life Joyful." Miss Bouton is a member of the Toledo Suffrage Society, the Toledo Woman's Association, the Ohio Newspaper. Association, the Sorosis and the Toledo Writers' Club, and is an honorary member of the Educational Club of Toledo, the Woman's Club of Wauseon and the Emerson Class of Toledo. BURTIS H. URSCHEL is treasurer and manager of the Universal Manufacturing Company of Bowling Green, one of Northwest Ohio's greatest and most successful industries. He is also president of the Urschel Drop Forge Company, an auxiliary corporation with the Universal Company, both plants being at Bowling Green. The Universal Manufacturing Company was established and incorporated in 1907 with a capital stock of $200,000. Jacob W. Urschel, father of Burtis H., is president, Burtis H. is treasurer and manager, and Clyde V. Urschel is secretary and purchasing agent. In 1913 the Urschels perfected and patented a standard universal joint now used in the manufacture of all trucks, automobiles and tractors. It is said that these joints are used by fully 67 per cent of all the higher class motor propelled vehicles, costing more than $1,000 each. With these joints as the principal product the company has developed its industry by remarkable strides in recent years, and the product is now distributed all over the United States and foreign countries. The Urschel Drop Forge Company was organized to work in conjunction with the Universal Company. It was organized and incorporated in June, 1916, and the principal of- ficials are the same as of the Universal Com- pany. The Universal Company are also manu- facturers of the Standard bolt threading machines, which are extensively used in railroad and machine shops all over the country. It has a capital of $100,000. These two corporations employ about 225 expert workmen, and they have done much to make Bowling Green an important manufacturing center in Northwest Ohio. The business is growing daily and the present plants are taxed to the limit of their capacities. Jacob W. Urschel, president of the Universal Manufacturing Company, was born in Stark County, Ohio, March 6, 1845, a son of Daniel and Barbara (Zintsmaster) Urschel, both of whom were natives of Germany. After their marriage in the old country they came to the United States in 1834 and located on a farm of 160 acres in Stark County, Ohio. They were honest, hard-working German people and their thrift brought them soon into easy circumstances. Daniel Urschel died there in 1887 and his wife in 1885. They had brought with them to America three children, and seven more were born in Stark County, Ohio. Jacob W. Urschel grew up on the old homestead in Stark County, and at the age of nineteen began learning the tanner's trade. He gave three years to his apprenticeship in Stark County, and then followed his trade in Lucas County, Ohio, at the Village of Monclova. In 1876 he took his family out to Kansas, where he bought and improved 140 acres of land. After selling this he went to Topeka HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2097 and followed the butcher's trade and subsequently returned to Lucas County, Ohio. In that county he farmed sixty acres of land for sux years, but in 1890 sold out and removed to Wood County. Here he took eighty-three aces and developed it into a splendid agricultural proposition and improved it with splendid buildings. This farm was located in Middleton Township. Subsequently Jacob W. Urschel became interested in the lime and cement industry. By 1895 he and his associates were turning out 80,000 barrels annually and later he acquired important interests in the Sugar Ridge Stone and Lime Company, and for many years was the active and moving spirit in that corporation. It was from this industry that the present large business at Bowling Green was developed. On April 4, 1872, Jacob W. Urschel married Helen I. Van Fleet, who was born in Waterville, Ohio, November 10, 1847. Their first child, Charles, was born July 10, 1874, and died in infancy. Cora, born February 4, 1876, was formerly a teacher in the Bowling Green schools. The next in age is Burtis H. Clyde V., who was born October 20, 1880, was liberally educated both in literary and scientific courses and is now secretary of the Universal Manufacturing Company. Clyde married Hazel Kontz, who was born in Perrysburg, Ohio. Jacob W. Urschel and all his family are active member of the Presbyterian Church. Politically they are republicans in national affairs and prohibitionists in local politics. The Urschel family were actively identified with the Sugar Ridge Stone & Lime Company from 1890 until 1907. They then organized in Toledo the Universal Manufacturing Company, had it incorporated in that city, and located their plant at Bowling Green as a result of special inducements held out to them by the live commercial men of this city. Burtis H. Urschel was born at Topeka, Kansas, June 30, 1878, but has spent most of his life in Wood County, Ohio. He received his education in this county, and studied mechanical engineering, and as an engineer in cement industries traveled widely over the East. For a time he was connected with the great Edison plants in the East and also extended his travels into Canada. After this journeyman experience he entered business with his father. His brother Clyde in addition to his public school advantages studied engineering and mechanics in Case School of Applied Science of Cleveland, Ohio, and is a master mechanic and a member of the Society of American Engineers. He also belongs to the Lodge and Chapter of Masons and the Knights of Pythias. Burtis H. Urschel was married in Wood County to Orpha Wolf, daughter of George and Matilda Wolf, old time residents of Wood County. Airs. Urschel was educated at Fostoria College and taught school before her marriage. They have three children : Harold, Kenneth and Helen. All these children are in the high school and Harold is now a member of the senior class. The family are active in the Presbyterian Church, Mr. Urschel being a member of the Session and for several years has been superintendent of the Sunday school. He was formerly a Sunday school superintendent of the Rosewood Avenue Church in Toledo. He helped organize the Bowling Green Council of the Boy Scouts and is its president. D. R. CANFIELD, M. D. Since beginning, practice in Perrysburg of Wood County Doctor Canfield has well earned the trust and confidence of a large circle of patrons, and is now accounted one of the ablest physicians in that part of the state. He has known the people of Wood County and they have known him since childhood. He was born at Scotch Ridge in Wood County, a son of Lafayette Canfield, who was born in Hamburg, New York, and came to Milan in Erie County, Ohio, in 1853 and settled in Wood County in 1858. He was a carpenter by trade, but followed farming in Wood County. Both he and his wife are now deceased. Their children were : Anson, a farmer at Jerry City, Ohio ; Allen, a physician at Toledo ; John M., principal of the John E. Gunckel School in Toledo; Llewellyn L., superintendent of music in the public schools of Delaware, Ohio ; and Julia, a graduate nurse of the Buffalo General Hospital and now a resident of Perrysburg. The youngest in the family, Doctor D. R. Canfield, attended the common schools until he was sixteen. Later he took a course of five months in the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso. He had only $89 to pay his expenses at that school and at the end of five months had to return for lack of further funds. He soon took a teacher's examination and was granted a license, and thereafter for ten years gave his best energies to the instruction of the young people of this section of Ohio. His last place was 2098 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO as principal of the high school at Whitehouse in Lucas County. In the meantime he took up the study of medicine and ,while in the Toledo Medical College spent his summers teaching music in order to defray his expenses. He graduated M. D. in 1907 and on January 1, 1908, opened his office in Perrysburg, where he has since built up a good general practice. He is a member of the Wood County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society. Doctor Canfield served two terms as coroner of Wood County He is a republican, a member of the Methodist Church, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He and his wife are the parents of six children. Doctor Canfield has always been much interested in general literature and history, especially local history, and has written a number of articles on historical and other subjects. He has also written some fiction, though as a writer is not so well known in that field as on historical themes. ARTHUR A. CUNNINGHAM is one of Tiffin's wealthiest and most influential citizens, though he began life practically at the bottom of the ladder and has climbed by his own exertions and intelligence. He represents an old and honored name of Seneca County. He was born at Tiffin January 26, 1857, a son of George W. and Mary A. (Keller) Cunningham. The Cunninghams have been identified with the milling industry for several generations. His grandfather was a native of the famous Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and both the grandfather and great-grandfather had mills there. There is a large farm of 652 acres in the fertile region of the Shenandoah Valley still owned by the Cunningham family and which has never been out of the family name since the deed was given by the old colonial governor, Lord Fairfax. Mr. Cunningham's maternal grandfather, Levi Keller, was a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, moved from there to Lancaster, Ohio, and finally to Seneca County, where he located on a farm. For a time he served as sheriff of Seneca County. George W. Cunningham was born in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia June 23, 1823, and took up the miller's trade under his father. In 1843 he located in Seneca County and about 1859 he built the first mill at Tiffin, known as the Clifton Mill. That mill continued grinding flour and other grain until it was washed away by flood in 1913. George W. Cunningham continued the operation of this plant until 1877, when he became involved in a business failure which seriously affected the fortunes of himself and of his family. Arthur A. Cunningham was just twenty years of age at that time and his father's failure made it necessary for him to start his career practically without capital and dependent upon his own exertions. George W. Cunningham was a widely known and influential citizen of Seneca County, where he died May 18, 1893. He was married in 1855 to Miss Mary Keller, who was born in Seneca County in 1821 and died May 8, 1911. There were four children : Arthur A. ; Mrs. Ella M. Myers, widow of E. B. Myers, who died in 1910 ; Frank, who was born in 1862 and is now a resident of Chicago ; and Courtney, born in March, 1864, and secretary of the Sneath-Cunningham Company. The mother of these children was a member of the Episcopal Church. George W. Cunningham was a democrat in politics and served on the school board and in other city offices. Arthur A. Cunningham graduated from the Tiffin High School in 1873 and then entered his father's mill. In 1878 he became associated with Col. S. H. Hunt of Upper Sandusky in the grain business. In 1884 Colonel Hunt retired and Mr. Cunningham conducted the business alone until 1890. In 1891 he and R. D. Sneath formed a firm under the name Sneath & Cunningham and broadened their operations as grain merchants. In 1905 the Sneath-Cunningham Company was incorporated with a capital stock of $200,000. At that time they took in a number of their old employes. The firm of Sneath-Cunningham Company has grown rapidly and is now one of the largest grain and feed houses in Ohio, owning and operating about fifty elevators in different parts of the state. Mr. Cunningham is president of the company, Ralph D. Sneath is vice president and treasurer, and Courtney Cunningham is secretary. Mr. Cunningham is also president of the Tiffin Telephone Company and of the Citizens Building & Loan Company, is vice president of the Tiffin Savings Bank, a director of the Commercial National Bank and his association with any business enterprise is regarded as one of its strongest assets. He is a member of the Cemetery Board, of the Tiffin Chamber of Commerce, and has attained the thirty-third honorary degree in Scottish Rite Masonry. He is independent in politics. Mr. Cunningham has long been identified with HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 2099 Masonry, and attained the thirty-second degree in 1888. He was given the supreme thirty-third degree in 1910. His membership is in Tiffin Lodge, No. 77, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; De Molay Commandery, No. 9, Knights Templar ; Zenobia Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Toledo. On July 7, 1881, he married Miss Minnie B. Holt. Mrs. Cunningham was born at Tiffin August 22, 1856, and she and her husband wcre graduates in the same class from the Tiffin High School. Her parents were William and Belle (Flenner) Holt. Mrs. Cunningham is an active member of the Trinity Episcopal Church. BARTON SMITH. For over forty years Barton Smith has practiced law with success and honor in Toledo. In Masonry he has constantly reached out into broader fields until he is today the most eminent Mason in America, if not in the world. This great and ancient order has deemed it fitting to bestow upon him the highest offices and greatest distinctions within its power—all of which have been most worthily bestowed. He was born on a farm at Channahon in Will County, Illinois, June 2, 1852, the oldest in a family of ten children. His father was a progressive, public spirited farmer and stock dealer and died in Will County in 1894. His mother, a native of Indiana, went to live in Will County in 1832,, and at the time of her death was the oldest continuous resident of that Illinois county. Barton Smith graduated in the literary department of the University of Michigan in 1872. After a year spent on his father's farm he returned to Ann Arbor and finished the course of the law school in 1875. It was upon the advice of the late Judge Cooley, one of America's greatest lawyers and jurists and a former instructor in the University of Michigan, that Barton Smith came to Toledo in the year of his graduation. Here he formed a partnership with Frederick L. Geddes, which lasted until July, 1881. He then became a member of the firm Baker, Smith & Baker. This partnership continued until the death of its senior member, William Baker, one of Toledo's oldest lawyers, in November, 1894, following which the title was Smith & Baker, the younger member being Rufus H. Baker. A few rears ago Erwin R. Effler and Maurice Allen were admitted to the firm. The title of this important legal combination is now Smith, Baker, Mier & Allen. It is today the oldest law firm in the City of Toledo, having been in continuous existence for thirty-six years. The offices are in the building known as the Smith & Baker Building. From the very beginning of his professional career Mr. Smith displayed unusual ability as a lawyer and a business man. A prominent attorney analyzed his qualities as follows : "He possesses the clearest and most analytical mind of any man of his age that I have met. He is great in the solution of intricate legal questions, involving philosophical study. He has a peculiarly logical mind and is a great student of the authorities. He is very popular and successful. He is an intense man, earnest, self-sacrificing in his duties ; thorough, working out every detail and examining every authority, even at the sacrifice of his health. He is very strong before a jury, a fascinating speaker—logical, clear, pointed and impressive, always courteous toward opposing counsel. He is a man of spotless character. I know no man who is his superior in personal integrity and none who has a higher sense of professional honor." More than this it would be difficult to add, though friends also appreciate his many sided nature. Mr. Smith is a connoisseur of painting and architecture, and those who know him best know him as a most lovable character. In his long and active career as a lawyer Mr. Smith has been connected with much important litigation. He has been counsel for large corporations, including the business of the Connecticut Mutual Insurance Company, the Milburn Wagon Company, the Toledo Blade Company and the Sun Company. As a matter of history it should not be forgotten that he was counsel for the city in the City Pipe Line litigation, a prolonged case in which he was successful. Another important public service was in sustaining the validity of the legislation under which the present splendid filtration plant which Toledo now enjoys was constructed. Also when the consolidation of street railways began in Toledo, Mr. Smith was engaged as attorney. The importance of this litigation was enhanced by the fact that it involved real legal pioneering in Ohio. The very best legal talent was employed on both sides. Mr. Smith continued to direct the legal affairs of the street railway interests for thirty-two years, carrying it through a number of changes and consolidations until the present comprehensive system was evolved. His conduct of these legal matters won for him the respect and admiration