1050 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO J. ADOLPH BADEN. When fourteen years of age J. Adolph Baden was left an orphan. After that he had to shift for :himself and show what sort of mettle he was made of. The prosperity he has earned by his efforts, and now represented in a fine farm home in Monroe Township of Henry County, indicates that he was not only possessed of fundamental character, but had all the energy and ambition necessary to carry out any program upon which he embarked. When he was nineteen years of age in 1882 Mr. Baden came to the United States. The voyage was made on a steamship from Bremen to New York City. Some days later he arrived in Napoleon. Beyond the work of his hands he had nothing to recommend him to the community, but he soon proved his ability as a farm worker and was employed among the farmers of Adams Township of Defiance County and Napoleon Township of Henry County. Out of his hard-earned savings he accumulated enough to take him back to Germany in 1888. There he spent two months. The birthplace of Mr. Baden was in Hanover, Germany. Born August 15, 1863, he is a son of Fred and Anna Baden. His father died in 1876 at the age of fifty-eight and his mother in 1877, aged fifty. They were farming people and members of the Lutheran Church. Of their seven children, J. Adolph and his brother William alone came to the United States. After his visit back to Germany Mr. Baden returned to the United States accompanied by his brother William. William afterwards married Minnie Bunk, and they now live in Flatrock Township of Henry County and have been prospered in their material affairs and have a family of one son and five daughters. Mr. Adolph Baden again resumed his employment in Defiance and Henry counties very much on the same plan that he had first worked, but finally rented land in Flatrock Township and laid the foundation of his prosperity there during the twelve years he lived on other men's. land. In 1900 he moved to Monroe Township of Henry County and bought fifty-nine acres in section 22. This is good land, and under his management has grown the best of staple crops, including a considerable acreage of sugar beets. Mr. Baden now has all the equipment and comforts of a good rural home. He has a barn 36 by 60 feet, with other houses for grain and machinery, and his home is a seven-room residence with a summer kitchen attached. For his success and prosperity Mr. Baden gives much credit to his good and capable wife. His first marriage was to Sophia 'Miller, who died in the prime of life. The children of that union are : Emma, wife of Albert Gerken, a farmer in Monroe 'Township, and the mother of one son, Loren; Erna, wife of Arthur Bramen, a farmer in Monroe Township, and they have one daughter; Carl, who is unmarried; and Albert, still at home. For his present wife Mr. Baden was married in Monroe Township to Mrs. Mary (Spoering) Copenhauer. She was born in Hanover, August 26, 1876, and when six years of age was brought to America by her parents,' Henry and Mary (Flocke) Spoering, who settled in Marion Township of Henry County, where her father leased some land for several years, afterwards moved to Richfield Township and finally bought a place in Bartlow Township, where he and his wife still reside and are still active, he being seventy-two and his wife sixty-two years of age. In the Spoering family were eleven children, three sons and eight daughters, eight of whom are married and all of these but one have children. By their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Baden have three children : Arthur, Ernest and August. Mrs. Baden also had three children by her first marriage to David Copenhauer, who died eleven years ago. One of these children, Regina, died at the age of one year. The other two, both living with Mr. and Mrs. Baden are Elvena and Emil, both at home and in school. The family are members of the Lutheran Church, and Mr. Baden has served on the official board and for five years as treasurer. He votes the democratic. ticket. ISAAC LEWIS SLOAN has spent a number of years in business affairs at Grelton, in Henry County. His name is synonymous with business integrity, and while providing well for his own family he has been able to render a valuable service through his business connections with the community. His family is of old New England stock. His grandfather, Isaac Sloan, was born either in New York State or in Massachusetts. His wife's name was Rachel Wilson. After their marriage they lived for several years in Bedford County, Pennsylvania,, on a farm. Later they went to Maryland, and from there came to Ohio, locating in Seneca 'Township of Seneca County. They were pioneers in that district, and established a home in the midst of HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1051 the wilderness. In that locality they lived out their long and useful lives, dying when well upwards of four score years of age. People of great piety, devoted to the Methodist Church, they reared and educated their son Isaiah for the Methodist ministry. This son Isaiah afterwards went out to California and established the first Methodist Episcopal Church in that state. Some years later he was killed while riding a burro down a steep mountain path. One of their sons, David, is living at Tiffin, Ohio, and is married. and has a family. Their son Lewis enlisted in the Union army during the Civil war, was captured in a battle and sent to the Confederate prison at Andersonville, and while confined there was starved to death. Isaac Sloan, Jr., father of Lewis Sloan, was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, in 1839, was reared in Maryland, and died in Seneca County, Ohio, December 18, 1866. When he died his son Lewis, his only child, was thirty-three days old. Lewis was born November 15, 1866. The mother of Lewis Sloan had been a teacher before her marriage, and after the early death of her husband came in 1868, when Lewis was two years of age, to Henry County, locating near the old home of her parents in Damascus Township. There she resumed teaching as a means of support for herself and her only child, and she followed that vocation in Henry County until she was fifty-two years of age. Owing to ill health she gave up the work, having spent thirty-six years altogether in the profession. The last fifteen years of her life were spent in comfort, though as an anvalid, in the home of her son Lewis, where she died April 9, 1914. She was born August 4, 1846. Her maiden name was Rachel Blair. She was the youngest child of William and Margaret (Davidson) Blair. The Blairs came to Henry County from Seneca County, where Mrs. Sloan was born, and the parents spent their last years in Damascus Township. Mr. Sloan's mother taught four terms of school in Seneca County, ten in Lucas County, and forty-six in Henry County. Her teaching in this county was done in the townships of Harrison, Monroe, Damascus and Richfield. Part of his own education Mr. Lewis Sloan acquired under the instruction of his mother. s soon as his strength permitted he began doing for himself, and as a result of early experience graduated into the business of lumber dealing at Grelton. For years he has been one of the main factors in the development of that town, which originally was surrounded by a vast swamp covered with heavy timber. He has made money, and has employed it usefully and wisely. Some years ago he built an elevator at Grelton, and conducted it five years until it was burned, after which he rebuilt and now for many years has been the, leading hay and grain merchant of that section. He is also an extensive dealer in real estate and has handled. many of the transactions involving some of the best farming land in Monroe Township. He and his family occupy a very pleasant* seven-room house at Grelton. In his home village Mr. Sloan married Miss Martha Springer. Mrs. Sloan was born in Wood County, Ohio, April 17, 1870, but .was reared and educated in Henry County at Grelton. They are the proud parents of eight children. Loie B. is the wife of Bert Snyder of Napoleon, and . is the mother of four children, Claude, Ruth, Margaret and Mildred. Dovie M., who was a teacher before her marriage, is the wife of Fred Smith of Marion, Ohio, and they have a son Maynard. Walter B. is twenty-three years of age and for the past five years has been engaged in teaching. Audrey G. is well educated and is a teacher in Henry County. Landon A., aged sixteen, has completed the work of the local schools and is at home. Paul. and Pauline, twins, were born December 18, 1902, and are both now students in the high school. Virgil E. is the youngest and is in the grade schools. Mr. Sloan is a Knight of Pythias, Odd Fellow and a democrat. CHARLES LUKENS, M. D. A physician and surgeon of twenty-three years' experience, Doctor Lukens since June, 1900, has been in active practice at Toledo, but his practice is now limited to the eye, ear, nose and throat. Doctor Lukens is a member of the staff of Flower Hospital, Toledo. He was secretary of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Section of Ohio State Medical Association during 1913 and 1914, and was chairman of that section in 1915. In 1899-1900 he was resident surgeon at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. He is a member of the Academy of Medicine of Toledo and Lucas County, and was graduated in medicine in 1892 from Starling Medical College at Columbus. Dr. Charles Lukens is the only son and child of the late John. Fawcett and Louisa 1052 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO (Swartz) Lukens, and was born at West Mansfield, Ohio, February 10, 1869. Doctor Lukens graduated Bachelor of Letters from the Central Ohio College in 1887, an institution of which his father at one time was president of the board of trustees. One of the notable characters of the community around Mansfield, Ohio, was the late John F. Lukens, who was born in Warren County, Ohio, January 7, 1824, and who died at West Mansfield August 20, 1903. His first American ancestor was Jan Lucken who came from Holland to America in 1683, and being a Quaker in religion, identified himself with the colonizing under the auspices of the Penns in Pennsylvania. He was one of the first thirteen settlers of Germantown, now a part of Philadelphia. Jan Lucken and wife, Gaynor, both came to this country to escape religious persecution and enjoyed the personal friendship of the Penns. For a century and a half their descendants were active Quakers, and consequently few of the names appear in the annals of war. The name became anglicized to Lukens about 1751. The parents of the late John F. Lukens were Joseph and Elizabeth (Fawcett) Lukens, who were married in 1819 in Virginia, moved to Ohio in 1822 and settled in Logan County of this state in 1833. A son of poor parents and surrounded by the circumstances of pioneer days, John F. Lukens was nevertheless a student all his life, and at the age of twenty-four was qualified to teach. He subsequently pursued the study of classics under a private tutor in Bellefontaine. His efforts as an educator included help in organizing and work as a lecturer in the Logan County Teachers' Institute, of which he was at the time secretary. In the course of his long career he was a successful farmer, an educator, a civil engineer and surveyor, an inventor and practical scientist, and was especially prominent as a successful maple sugar maker. His exhibit of maple sugar and syrup at the World 's Fair in Chicago was awarded the diploma and medal for excellence. He originated many inventions, but he had only one patented under his own name, that being an attachment for a gate. His bent toward study and culture was a dominant trait throughout his life, and in later years he had a special library building constructed for his use in study and writing. Until about twenty-five years before his death he followed his profession as surveyor and civil engineer, and afterwards retired to his farm and was largely concerned with scientific agriculture. About two years before his death he and his wife removed from their farm into West Mansfield. He had many of the characteristics of the old Quaker stock. He was a lover of freedom, and was an abolitionist before the war. He would also suffer imposition rather than resort to the law in settling difficulties. He was first a whig and afterwards a republican. He possessed a very independent mind, and this had many manifestations. He cared little for personal appearances, and it was very natural that he should pass for an eccentric, being really understood by but few intimate friends. He cared little for money, and what he had was the result of frugal habits and the appreciation in value of land. In reply to the suggestion of his friends that he accept opportunities for the judicious increase of his investments he frequently replied : "I don't live to make money." On January 1, 1863, John F. Lukens married Louisa Keturah Swartz. Mrs. Lukens, a daughter of Martha and Hannah (Southcard) Swartz, was born near Alliance in Stark County, Ohio, January 10, 1828, and died at West Mansfield, December 5, 1910, at the age of eighty-two years ten months and twenty-five days. Her people were Methodists, and she was a lifelong Christian and always identified with that church. She, too, was of poor parentage, and largely by her own efforts educated herself, taught school, and in 1862 was graduated from Mount Union College. She was the last of her family and she was well fitted by character and disposition for association with John F. Lukens, since simplicity and unworldliness were as prominent traits of her character as of his own. Doctor Lukens is a Scottish Rite and Knight Templar Mason, and a Shriner, being affiliated with Sanford Ti. Collins Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. He is a member of the Inverness Club and the Toledo Automobile Club, and his chief recreations are golf and motoring. He is a member of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. On September 27, 1893, at East Liberty, Ohio, he married Lotta Painter, daughter of Alfred Painter and wife, who were early settlers at Logan County, Ohio, where both are still living. Mrs. Lukens was born at East Liberty, Ohio, and has always been devoted to the interests of her home and children. The children are two in number : John Alfred Lukens, a member of the class of 1916 in the Scott High School at Toledo ; and Ruth Lotta Lukens, attending the grade school. HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1053 REV. EDWIN WILLIAM TODD, curate of Trinity Episcopal Church of Toledo, was ordained five years ago, and has already made his mark as a worker and minister of unusual talents and attainments. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, January 18, 1886, a son of Thomas D. and Emma (Klewer) Todd. Rev. Mr. Todd is the oldest of three children. His two sisters are Dorothy Elizabeth, at home with her parents in Chicago; and Marie Edna, now Mrs. Rodney Ryan of Chicago. All were born in that city. Edwin W. Todd received his early education in Chicago, graduating from the Lake View High School in 1904. In 1907 he graduated from the Lewis Institute of Chicago. From 1899 to 1902 he was soprano soloist in the boys' choir of St. Peter's Episcopal Church at Chicago. He was a' choir boy until his voice changed. The Rector of St. Peter's Church at that time was Frank Du Moulin, who then was about the same age that Rev. Mr. Todd is now. There grew up an intimacy of friendship between the older and younger man, and Dr. Du Moulin, now bishop of the Toledo Diocese, and Rev. Mr. Todd have always been close friends. They came to Toledo at the same time, and Mr. Todd also served under Bishop Du Moulin when the latter was Dean of the Cleveland Cathedral. The influence of Bishop Du Moulin was a strong factor in directing Mr. Todd's choice of a vocation and his early studies. From Chicago he entered Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio, and was graduated from the theological department in 1911. As is the custom in the Episcopal Church he was given his first experience in a country parish, and was rector of Christ Church at Huron, Ohio, for about a. year. He then went to Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland as curate under Dean Du Moulin, where he remained fifteen months, and was then appointed curate or assistant rector of Trinity Church of Toledo, where he has been located since January 1, 1914. He already has heavy responsibilities as a church man, and his qualifications point to a service in some of the large churches of his denomination. Recently Mr. Todd offered his services as chaplain in case of war with Mexico. On July 21, 1910, at Chicago he married Miss Jeanne Beatrice May, daughter of William H. and Galena (Brand) May. Mrs. Todd was a young girl when her mother died, and her father, a Chicago broker and banker resides at Edgewater, Chicago. Mrs. Todd was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, but grew up in Chicago, was educated there, and is a graduate of the Visitation Academy at Evanston and of the Misses Annabell School for Girls. Mr. and Mrs. Todd have one daughter, June Bexley, who was born in Chicago. DAVID ROSS LOCKE. For the benefit and instruction of a younger generation it might be necessary to explain what all well informed people of thirty or fifty years have tested as a current coin of knowledge. David Ross Locke was the Ohio journalist who, under the literary name of "Petroleum V. Nasby," was a mighty factor in molding opinion and creating history during the period of the Civil war. Abraham Lincoln in the White House read and chuckled over the humor and appreciated the fine philosophy of the Nasby letters. The Nasby letters were among the current documents of the Civil war time that stirred people to right thinking and decisive action. While it could hardly be claimed that their influence was as great as "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and one or two other vital human documents of that period, any collection of writings which did most to influence and excite to action the people of the North from 1850 until the close of the Civil war would include the writings of Petroleum V. Nasby. As Petroleum V. Nasby, Mr. Locke was known to the world at large. A much smaller circle of those who knew him personally and not as a literary character identified him with a Northwest Ohio editor, and one institution which stands as the permanent memorial of his career is the Toledo Blade. David Ross Locke was a great editor, writer and publicist, and Toledo probably esteems him greatest among all its former citizens. Mr. Locke's character was one of strongly marked individuality, and as an intimate friend said of him, he was a child of the people, he had eaten the bread of poverty, and in his eleventh year he started out without fortune beyond that of his own talent, to battle with the world and carve out a career. When opportunity came he was ready to seize it. He had talent and courage and an unusually effective manner of using his mental endowments. Having been acquainted with poverty in his youth, it is said that he never forgot his early struggles, and a few days before his death he said to a friend that he "always believed in giving every man a chance." Perhaps the most dominating characteristic was his thorough sincerity. He had no sympathy with men not actuated by 1054 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO sincere motives. He was a hard worker and a practical believer in the adage that "there is no excellence without labor." He worked hard himself, demanded the utmost of others, though this did not interfere with the exercise of an active sympathy and a tendency to credit each man as he deserved. He had many of the rugged characteristics and the simplicity of the man whom he afterwards came to admire and praise so unstintingly, the great Illinois rail-splitter and President. David Ross Locke was born at Vestal, Broome County, New York, September 20, 1833. His father, Nathaniel Reed Locke; died in Lucas County, Ohio, when nearly a century old, having outlived his son. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. He became an abolitionist before that organization existed, and when the doctrines had a strange and faraway sound to American people. He was always ready to maintain his beliefs and advocate them boldly. Thus from him the late David R. Locke acquired a strong feeling for liberty and a determined opposition to everything that was not true republicanism. Both the father and son possessed in equal amount a decision of character that made them invincible in any undertaking, no matter what the difficulties might be. When David Ross Locke was ten years of age he left home and was regularly apprenticed to the publisher of the Courtland Democrat for a period of seven years. In the office of that paper, though busied with innumerable details that might have seemed petty, he was led by an unconquerable ambition to higher things, and he learned the printing trade as he did everything else, with a thoroughness that made him a master. He attended school only a few years. In a printing shop he found his great university. He had an acquaintance and knowledge of books and literature such as very few men of his time possessed. Those who were not familiar with the struggles of his early life imagined him to be university trained. Others who were more familiar with his early experiences could never understand what had given him his extensive acquaintance with men and books. After finishing his apprenticeship he became a real journeyman in the actual sense of that term and passed several years as a journeyman printer, wandering about the country, first working in one office and then another. In that time he visited nearly every large city in America, earning his living by his trade as printer or reporter, and with little desire to make money. beyond the bare necessities and expenses. Early in life he showed great powers of observation. In these years of wandering he spent some time in the southern states, and what he saw there of industrial and economic and social conditions confirmed the strong anti-slavery sentiment which he had acquired from his father. He came to hate, with a hatred bred of experience and close knowledge, everything connected with the institution of slavery. At Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, he became reporter and then assistant editor on the Pittsburg Chronicle. This was about his last experience as a journeyman printer. He soon afterward joined his fortunes with a friend, James G. Robinson, and the two went to Plymouth, Ohio, and started the Advertiser. The Plymouth Advertiser is still in existence, and is a paper that takes great pride in having been founded by the renowned Petroleum V. Nasby. The Advertiser was started in 1852. For two years these young men, rich in nothing but their brains and capacity for hard work, and starting with only $42 in capital, labored night and day at an enterprise that seemed almost as hopeless as anything that could be undertaken. They bought a second-hand outfit, they edited the paper, they set the type, they did the press work, and, in fact, they performed all the menial details of a small country newspaper. They were earnest, hard working, sober young men, who gained and kept the confi- dence of the public and won, a deserved success. When they sold out at the end of two years they had $1,000 to be divided between them. That seemed like a large amount of money in those days, and besides this comparative wealth they had also acquired good business credit and many friends. It was during those months of hard work in Plymouth that David Locke met and married Miss Martha Bodine, the faithful wife of his youth, the mother of his three sons and the devoted companion and comforter of his later days. In 1856 Mr. Locke started the Journal in Bucyrus, Ohio. It was in Bucyrus that he began winning the reputation which later on placed him among the chief literary men of the Civil war epoch of American history. He wrote a series of stories, one for each week, for six years. Some of these stories had weird and pathetic features, others were tragic and startling, but all were illustrative of certain social phases. The scenes were laid in Bucyrus, and the surrounding country. HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1055 They contained realistic descriptions of scenery and names were given unflinchingly. Though the incidents related were illogical and improbable, there was just enough truth at the bottom of each story to excite not only interest but a great deal of criticism and feeling. But the interest in these stories was not confined to local readers. They had such a strength due to their realism, and were so full of incident and adventure that they were widely copied, and were republished in some of the leading newspapers of the day and even carried across the ocean into English papers and occasionally were translated into French and German. One of the more popular of these tales had its scene in a Pennsylvania mining town. It was so similar in incident and character to Tennyson's Enoch Arden, which appeared some years later, as to afford scarcely a doubt that the Locke story was the real basis for the great poet's much admired work. In the meantime Mr. Locke was successively and successfully identified with several other Ohio newspapers, including the Mansfield Herald and the Bellefontaine Republican. During the first year of the Civil war he was editor and proprietor of a weekly paper called the Jeffersonian, published at Findlay, Ohio. His labors there were a repetition of those already described as done upon the Advertiser at Plymouth. " If there is any grade of poverty," he once said, " from which there is no further defense, editing a paper in a sparsely settled country is that grade. I was on that grade, and well on to the further end of it, too, when running the Jeffersonian in Findlay. I set my own type, carried my paper from the stage office on my shoulder, worked off the issue on a rusty old hand press and wrote or scissored out of exchanges everything the sheet contained." As to how the Nasby letters came to be written, Mr. Locke told in after years the story in substance as follows: About the time the war broke out he heard of a paper being circulated for signatures petitioning the Legislature to prohibit negroes from coming into the state and asking for legislation to remove all the colored population the state then contained. This petition was being circulated in Findlay by a shiftless, worthless fellow named Levi Flenner. The few negroes then in Findlay were hard working, law abiding men, and to remove them and leave Levi there was an inconsistency that was startling but strangely enough was not apparent to a great many who signed the petition. One night, in a drug store, where people were gathered as is the custom in country towns, Mr. Locke met Levi, who had the paper in his pocket. He read the petition aloud with comments, and as he read he interpolated his own remarks. Then and there he was inspired by the paradox of the situation, and made up his mind to write the Nasby letters. That week, under the signature of "Rev. Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby" a letter purporting to come from an ignorant and penniless Kentucky democrat, who was devoted to free whiskey and the perpetuation of slavery, and who desired to be postmaster, was published the first Nasby letter. Thus commenced the most remarkable series of satires upon public men and measures that were ever written. It was the development of this character which brought about the long series of Nasby letters, and these in turn gave distinction and peculiar vitality to the Toledo Blade, of which Mr. Locke soon became editor. At the close of the war George S. Boutwell said in a speech at Cooper Union, that the crushing of the Rebellion could be credited to three forces, "the army, the navy and the Nasby letters." Before these letters had reached their highest degree of popularity Mr. Locke raised a full company of recruits in Findlay to go to the front, and he sent to Columbus for a commission as captain This was emphatically refused by the governor upon the ground that the would-be soldier could do more at home fighting with his pen through his paper than upon the field of battle. Thus he never became a soldier in the ranks, though perhaps no brigadier general in the army accomplished so much in behalf of the integrity of the Union as this quiet Ohio editor. Later he sent a substitute into the army, a matter to which he often facetiously alluded, without mentioning the circumstance just related of the official command that he remain at home. The popularity of the Nasby letters created a demand for the appearance of their author upon the lecture platform. He lectured in all the principal cities of the North, and though not a master of oratory, as he often himself declared, he never failed to draw a crowded house and to evoke a prolonged pause. In Philadelphia, whence he came before the assembled thousands, he was accompanied and introduced by Anna Dickinson, then a young girl who was electrifying audiences everywhere by her wonderful eloquence. 1056 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO The appearance of the two together called forth the wildest enthusiasm, and it was some time before quiet could be restored to allow the lecturer to proceed. One of the striking phases of Mr. Locke's character was his determination not to accept any public office. Few men finding themselves in a position to command so much would have refused what the world in general would regard as brilliant opportunities. As author of the Nasby letters he was in a position to ask for some of the most conspicuous public places. President Lincoln offered to appoint Mr. Locke to office, and later President Grant urged him to accept a foreign mission, either to St. Petersburg or Berlin, but both offers were declined. Mr. Locke had not the slightest desire for public office of any kind, and he was not to be swerved in his determination by any consideration, whatever its source. His greatest ambition was to build up a family newspaper that should circulate in every state from Maine to Georgia and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. In October, 1865, Mr. Locke removed to Toledo and took editorial charge of the Blade, which was then a fairly prosperous daily, the property of A. D. Pelton. The weekly as it is now had no existence then, though there was a weekly issue more for the publishing of the county advertisements than anything else, and with a circulation of about 1,000. On this basis Mr. Locke began the work of establishing a paper which should have a national circulation. He labored with all his might first as a salaried editor and then as part and finally as sole proprietor. During the first few years he did a great amount of editorial writing, equal to what two ordinary persons might accomplish, though in later years his part in the Weekly Blade was of a different character, but none the less vitally connected with its prosperity. In 1871 Mr. Locke removed to New York City and became managing editor of the Evening Mail, though still maintaining his connection with the Blade. Several years afterwards he returned to Ohio. It was in the Weekly Blade that Mr. Locke saw the dreams of his early manhood and his highest ambitions fulfilled. Of the power that the Weekly Blade has exercised on public opinion throughout America it is not necessary to speak. Gradually Mr. Locke withdrew from all save a general supervision over the Weekly Blade, and during the last five years of his life he wrote nothing for its columns save occasionally a Nasby letter and a few tem perance articles over his own signature. Continued overwork had made such inroads into his fine constitution that he found it necessary to take life somewhat leisurely. His time in his later years was spent principally in promoting large business interests and in advancing the welfare of the city which was his home and with which his name and fortunes are most closely identified. While much of his life was devoted to practical affairs which have their chief significance in the immediate undertaking and in the time for which they were planned, Mr. Locke never gave up his work as a writer and he won for himself an enduring place in American literature because of the vital influence his writings had over a critical period of American history, and some of his things will be read and appreciated by coming generations. He wrote several successful plays, a number of books and pamphlets, many poems, and a list of his more important publications are : "Divers Views, Opinions and Prophecies of Yours Truly" (Cincinnati, 1865) ; "Swingin' Round the Cirkle" (Boston, 1866) ; " Ekkoes from Kentucky " (1867) ; " The Moral History of America's Life Struggle" (1872) ; " The Struggles of P. V. Nasby" (1873) ; " The Morals of Abou ben Adhem," or "Eastern Fruit in Western Dishes" (1875) ; "A Paper City," a novel, being the history of a western land circulation (1878) ; "Hannah Jane," a poem, and "Nasby in Exile" (1882). It was in the spring of 1881 that Mr. Locke went to Europe, accompanied by his son Robinson, and the two traveled almost two years through Great Britain and Ireland, France and Germany, Switzerland and Belgium, returning home only once during the time. Mr. Locke recorded his impressions of these countries in a series of letters to the Blade under the title "Nasby in Exile." He made no attempt to describe scenery or buildings and works of art, for he said that this had been done before, but he was deeply interested in the men and women of the different countries, in their mode of living, their industries, their customs and habits, and he tried faithfully to put on paper what he saw. These letters were afterwards collected and put in book form under the same title, and while the work was classed in the same category as to humor with "Innocents Abroad," it contained much information upon different topics of unquestionable value. After his return from Europe Mr. Locke spent most of his time in Toledo. He built a HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1057 beautiful home, in which he gathered together a large library and many fine works of art, and settled down there to enjoy himself with his family. His life in. Toledo was interrupted by only an occasional journey to the East, and in home and its pleasures he found the ideal fruitage of a long life. He died at his home in the City of Toledo, February 15, 1888. WILLIAM E. CORDILL. By the death of William E. Cordill, January 31, 1917, Toledo lost one of its most public spirited citizens. His high professional standing as a lawyer, his active work in local politics and his vigorous co-operation with many of the more important movements and institutions of the city, made. him one of Toledo's best known men. He practiced law in that city more than twenty years, and throughout that time was a member of the firm of Ray & Cordill, which in point of continuous existence is one of the oldest law firms of the city. The firm has its offices at 439 Ohio Building. A native of Indiana and born on a farm, William E. Cordill first saw the light of day August 15, 1869, at South Whitley, Indiana. His parents were William and Martha (Norris) Cordill, the former a native of Tennessee and the latter of Ohio. They were married in Indiana, and the father followed farming actively until the last five years of his life, during which he lived retired. He died at South Whitley in 1877 at the age of fifty-six. The mother afterwards came to Toledo and died there in 1909, but she is laid to rest beside her husband at South Whitley. Beside William E. there were two daughters ; Anna, who died at the age of thirty-six in 1887 was the wife of Thomas J. Twinning of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Elizabeth, who died in South Whitley, Indiana, in 1891, aged thirty-six, was the wife of Dunel Doll. William E. Cordill after acquiring a district school education entered what is now Valparaiso University at Valparaiso, Indiana. He first took the commercial course bookkeeping and stenography, but soon decided that he would find his permanent career in the law, and therefore prosecuted his studies in that line at Valparaiso until graduated LL. B. in 1894. He was admitted to the bar of Indiana and Ohio in 1894 and in the same year located in Toledo, and in the fall joined Mr. Ray in practice. This firm has always had an important share of the general prac tice at Toledo, and has represented cases in all the local, state and federal courts. Throughout his residence at Toledo Mr. Cordill made himself a factor in politics. Former Mayor Carl H. Keller appointed him a member of the Civil Service Commission of Toledo on January 1, 1914, and he became president of the commission and continued in office until January 1, 1915. At the republican primaries August 11, 1914, he was nominated for Congress, to represent the Ninth Congressional District, but in the campaign was defeated by the present congressman, General Isaac R. Sherwood. Mr. Cordill headed the campaign organization which elected Carl Keller as Toledo's mayor, but in the recent campaign in 1915 he gave his support to former Police Chief Murphey, though that candidate was defeated by the present mayor, Charles M. Milroy. Mr. Cordill was a hard working church member, belonging to the Riverside Baptist Church, of which he was a deacon, and he was superintendent of its Sunday School. His wife is also prominent in church work, is president of the Woman's Society, and president of the Riverside Union Women's Christian Temperance Union. Mr. Cordill was an enthusiastic golfer, a member of the Toledo Golf Club. He belonged to the Toledo Commerce Club and was affiliated with Barton Smith Lodge No. 613, Free and Accepted Masons ; Concordia Lodge of the Knights of Pythias and Wapakoneta Lodge No. 38, Independent Order of ,Odd Fellows. On November 27, 1895, he married Miss Emily C. Ward, who was born in England but when a year old was brought to America by her parents, the late Rev. Phillip J. Ward and wife. Her father was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Toledo for four years, and went from Toledo to Los Angeles, California, where he was pastor of the Baptist Church and where he died in 1904. Mrs. Ward, his widow, is now living in Toledo at the Monticello. Mrs. Cordill was educated in the high schools of Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Cordill have been born four children. Emily R. graduated from the Waite High School with the class of 1915 and is now taking the three year course leading to a diploma as graduate nurse at the Robinwood Hospital ; Annie is a member of the class of 1917 in the Waite High School. The two younger children are Ward E. and Rachel. All the children were born in Toledo. 1058 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO GEORGE B. RICABY for the past six or seven years has been closely associated with E. H. Close in the management of one of the largest real estate firms of Toledo and Northwest Ohio. Mr. Ricaby is now vice president of The E. H. Close Realty Company, and is active manager of the rental department and manages all the central or down town real estate handled by the firm. Those who are in a position to know say that Mr. Ricaby, for a man of his years, understands the real estate situation in Toledo in all its aspects and details. He has the great faculty of tireless energy and is a thorough business man from the beginning to the end of every business day. He has had a very active career, and before engaging in real estate had some more or less fortunate experience as a newspaper man. He was born in Montague, Muskegon County, Michigan, November 24, 1884, a son of Liam H. Ricaby, the well known jeweler and optician of Toledo. His mother's maiden name was Mary E. Bell. His grandfather William Ricaby was an old time jeweler at St. Joseph, Michigan, and had seen active service as a Union soldier during the Civil war. William H. Ricaby was born in Kentucky while his wife was a native of Canada, and they were married at Benton Harbor, Michigan. The senior Mr. Ricaby has been a jeweler and optician all his active career, having learned his trade under his father at St. Joseph, Michigan. He was reared and educated in that city, and started in business for himself at Montague; Michigan, about 1880. That was his home for nine years, after which he moved his stock to Belding, Michigan, and was in business in that town for several years. .After that he was in St. Joseph, Michigan, for three years, and after selling out he moved to Toledo in 1900 and soon afterward opened a jewelry and optician business. He now has a splendid location at 501 Madison Avenue in the New Northern National Bank Building. William H. Ricaby and wife had two daughters and a son, but both daughters are deceased, one of them dying in infancy and the other when about nine years old. George B. Ricaby received his early education in the public schools of Benton Harbor, Michigan, graduating in 1903 at the age of eighteen, and soon afterward becoming a newspaper reporter. After six months, when only nineteen years of age, he entered newspaper business on his own resources, and was probably the youngest editor and publisher of a newspaper in the United States at that time. It was at Galien, Michigan, that he made his debut as publisher of a weekly paper known as The Galien Advocate. He was active head of this journal for about a year, but owned it nearly two years before selling out. He then bought a daily at Benton Harbor called The Review, changing its name to the Twin City Blade, which he sold after about six months. He found more experience than profit in newspaper work and in 1905 he came to Toledo and became associated with Mr. E. H. Close, who at that time was with The George E. Pomeroy Company. Mr. Ricaby became manager of the rental department of the company, and when Mr. Close established The E. H. Close Realty Company in 1909 Mr. Ricaby went with him, and about a year ago reached his present position as vice president of the company. Mr. Ricaby is a member of the Toledo Club, Toledo Yacht Club, Toledo Commerce Club, Toledo Automobile Club, Toledo Real Estate Board, and for recreation is fond of all forms of outdoor life. He is a charter member of Barton Smith Lodge No 613, Free and Accepted Masons, and also belongs to Toledo Chapter Royal Arch Masons. On July 25, 1915, at Detroit, he married Miss Violet Isabella Corbett of Detroit. REV. ERHARDT FREDERICK WUNDERLICH, father of the well known business man, A. F. Wunderlich, was a notable figure in the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years. He was distinguished as being the founder of Methodism in Saxony, Germany, and besides his active pastorage in several Ohio churches, his name is especially associated with Northern Ohio as having been one of the founders of the Baldwin-Wallace University, a Methodist College, at Berea, Ohio. He was a trustee and president of the board of trustees of that institution until his death. He was born in Saxony, Germany, and was liberally educated in the universities in preparation for the ministry of the Lutheran Church. About 1857, however, with a college mate, he came to the United States. Their plan was at that time to engage in the brewing business in this country. They sought a location in Virginia, but in a short time the partner became homesick and returned to Germany, leaving Erhardt Wunderlich alone. He then went to an uncle who was living in Dayton, Ohio, and soon afterwards became HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1059 converted to the Methodist Episcopal Church. A zealous convert of this denomination, he later returned to Saxony, Germany, and set about with undaunted courage and determination to establish Methodism in Saxony. It required all the resources of his religious fervor to succeed in the work. A dozen times he was arrested, had to overcome almost countless difficulties, was beset with discouragements and obstacles of every kind, but in the end he succeeded in his mission, and Saxony now has a number of Methodist Episcopal churches, and Reverend Mr. Wunderlich 's name is inscribed on their edifices as the founder. While in Saxony Mr. Wunderlich married, and his work having been accomplished there, he returned to the United States. Many years later he was invited to attend the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Methodism in Saxony. His expenses were to be paid by the Salton churches and the Conference in America had decided to send him as its delegate. He was to have left in April, but as the result of constant work and hard study he died in February of the same year. After returning to America, Reverend Mr. Wunderlich was a preacher in the Methodist churches of Cincinnati, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Toledo, Evansville, Indiana, and Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and his death occurred at Pittsburg. During much of this time he served as a presiding elder. Mrs. Wunderlich died in Almond, Wisconsin, at the home of her daughter Clara., wife of Rev. Carl Ludwig, who was at that time pastor of the church at Almond. Reverend Mr. Wunderlich and his wife are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery at Cleveland. They are the parents of four sons and two daughters, all of whom are living. The sons, Adolph and Herman, reside in Toledo. Dr. Edwin J. is a resident of Louisville, Kentucky, and Walter F. lives in Evansville, Indiana. The daughter, Anna, is now the wife of Louis Gunther at Evansville, Indiana. Clara is the wife of Rev. Carl Ludwig, who is now a Methodist minister at Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. ADOLPH FREDERICK WUNDERLICH is president and general manager of the Reliable Laundry and Dry Cleaning Company, one of the largest institutions of its kind in the Middle West. This concern, in its plant, equipment, organization and service is a monument to the remarkable business enterprise of a young man who worked his way through. college—he has, by the way, an A. B. degree—and with a peculiar genius for business made good in everything he undertook, but found his real work and opportunity for business service when he took hold of a dilapidated laundry in Toledo. Any one who remembers the business when he first took hold of it has a particular admiration for the magnificent plant of which he is now the head. Mr. Wunderlich has the faculty of doing those duties which are first at hand, and at the same time has a guiding ambition and ideal for a larger and better achievement, as he goes along. A brief outline of his career will suggest much that is encouraging and wholesome in individual life. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, March 28, 1873, a son of the late Rev. Erhardt Frederick and Amelia M. (Meinhart) Wunderlich, both of whom are natives of Saxony, Germany, and his father was the founder of Methodism in Saxony, his name appearing in connection with many of the churches of that denomination in that country. Reference to his career will be found in other paragraphs. As the son of a minister, A. F. Wunderlich was reared and received his education in the public schools of different cities where his father was. located. He also attended the Baldwin-Wallace University, a Methodist college, at Berea, Ohio. His father was one of the founders of this institution and a president of the board of trustees at the time of his death. In 1898 Mr. Wunderlich graduated Bachelor of Arts from the college. At that time he intended to take up law studies, and he also studied medicine one year, but found that neither profession would realize his best talents, which were in a peculiar degree inclined toward business affairs. Like many "young men, he had very limited means when he entered Baldwin-Wallace University and every Saturday he went to Cleveland and clerked for the old E. R. Holland-Dutton Company, a firm located where the big May Company store now is. He also picked up laundry, wrote insurance, sold books during the summer, and when he graduated and left the university in 1898 he had not a dollar nor did he owe a dollar, and hence he came out just even so far as his finances went, but had an abundant wealth of experience and knowledge, which he soon turned to good advantage. Coming to Toledo in 1898. Mr. Wunderlich spent about three years in the hat department 1060 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO of Mockett's on Summit Street. His next connection was with David Robison, Jr., & Sons, while that firm was located on the corner on the ground floor of the Spitzer Building. He was in the real estate and insurance department of this concern about two years, before the Robisons built the Ohio Building. Then he made the really important move of his career. He bought the old rattle-trap Marion Laundry at Monroe and Twenty-second streets. It was a small plant, had inferior equipment, and the business had practically no "good will" among its assets. However, it only awaited the regenerating influence of a man of real enterprise, and that is what Mr. Wunderlich was. He changed the name to the Reliable Laundry. Under that title he conducted it for six years. At the end of that time it was one of the most prosperous concerns of- the kind in Toledo, and in 1911 he was able to build the structure at the corner of Monroe and Tenth streets, a solid, well lighted, sanitary three-story building, with equipment not excelled by any establishment of the kind in this section of the West. At that time he also added a dry cleaning department, and the business is now known as the Reliable Laundry and Dry Cleaning Company. While Mr. Wunderlich is president and manager, his wife, Mrs. Wunderlich, is treasurer of the company. At the present time the payroll of the company aggregates about $75,000 a year, and in the various departments are employed about 125 people. Mr. Wunderlich has made a constant study of methods and machinery connected with laundry work and dry cleaning, and the finest class of work and service is emphasized in every department. The company has both automobile and wagon delivery, and the service now extends over a wide area around Toledo. This vigorous Toledo business man is well known in social and civic circles. He is a Scottish Rite and York Rite Mason and a member of all the Masonic bodies of Toledo, including Sanford L. Collins Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Toledo Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Toledo Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Toledo Commandery, Knights Templar ; Toledo Consistory ; Zenobia Temple of the Mystic Shrine ; and 0-Ton-La Grotto. He also belongs to the Toledo Automobile Club, the Toledo Lodge of Elks, the Toledo Commerce Club, the Toledo Club, Maumee River Yacht Club, and politically is a republican. In the line of his business he is a mem ber of the Ohio State and National Laundry Men's Association, and of the Ohio State and National Dry Cleaners' and Dyers' Association. He and his wife are active in St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Wunderlich finds his chief recreation from business in automobiling, and especially in long tours with his car. On September 4, 1902, he married Miss Caroline Louise Weeber, daughter of John C. and Mary A. (Grossenbacher) Weeber. Her father, who was born in Germany and is now deceased, was for many years in the hardware business on Cherry Street in Toledo. Her mother was born in Toledo and is still living. Mrs. Wunderlich is a native of Toledo, graduated from the Central High School, and is a thorough business woman. She is a member of the Woman's Educational Club, Eurydice Club, the King's Daughters, and devotes much time to church affairs. NOLAN BOGGS. Senior member of the law firm of Boggs, D 'Alton and Nowicki, Nolan Boggs after his admission to the bar in 1910 quickly found a place of usefulness and prominence in the Toledo bar. He was born in Ohio July 4, 1888, and is a son of Milton and Mary (King) Boggs, both of whom are now living in Douglas Farm Addition, a suburb of Toledo, in Wood County. Before moving to Wood County his father served as a township trustee in Harris Township of Ottawa County. Milton Boggs, who has followed farming all his active career, was born at Elmore, Ohio, while his wife was born at Kingsway, Ohio, a place named after her father, George W. King. Milton Boggs and wife were married at Elmore, and Nolan is their only child. Mr. Boggs' great-grandfather Boggs came to America about 1820 from Kilkenny, Ireland. He was shipwrecked off the coast of Nova Scotia, but after landing came to Ohio and took up a grant of land near Elmore, his title being signed by President John Q. Adams in 1825. On that old home farm he lived until his death. Nolan Boggs graduated from the Elmore High School in 1907 and took his degree LL. B. from Toledo University in 1909. During 1909-10 he took a special course in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. In his early career he did court reporting, and in 1910 was admitted to the bar at Columbus. He studied law while working as a stenographer for Lyman W. Wachenheimer, at that time HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1061 prosecuting attorney of Lucas County. Mr. Boggs began practice alone in Frank Mulholland's law office at Toledo, but after .a year formed a partnership with John C. D 'Alton, the present prosecuting attorney of Lucas County. The firm of Boggs and D 'Alton continued four years, and in 1915 Frank S. Novicki came in as a partner, making the firm as above stated. Mr. Boggs is now serving as assistant prosecuting attorney under his partner John C. D 'Alton. Politically he is a republican. He is a member of the Toledo Bar Association, of the National Union,, and is on the Board of Elders of the Presbyterian Church at East Toledo. He is a director of the Doherty Lime and Stone Company, a Toledo corporation with plant at Luckey, Ohio. On June 26, 1912, Mr. Boggs married Miss Sarah L. MacPhie. She came to America twelve years ago from Nairn, Scotland, where she was educated. Her parents are John and Isabella (Wilson) MacPhie, now residents of Toledo. To their marriage was born one son, Howard Wilson Boggs, born at Toledo December 10, 1913. JOHN W. HIETT. Toledo lost one of the important factors in its modern destiny by the death of John W. Hiett in 1894 at the age of seventy, years. Mr. Hiett's greatest work was probably as a Christian educator, and in that and in the broad philanthropy with which the name is associated his wife, Mrs. Hiett, whose death occurred quite recently, was his most effective coadjutor. Mr. and Mrs. Hiett together stood in the front rank of civic and charitable workers in Toledo for about half a century. The late John W. Hiett was born in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in what is now the splendid fruit growing district of Jefferson County on November 11, 1844. His parents were George and Lydia Hiett, who were Quaker people and the Quaker faith characterized a number of generations of ancestors. The Hiett family came from England nearly 200 years ago, and were pioneers in the Shenandoah Valley. From early days they were actively identified with every cause having in view the promotion of sound morals, justice and good government. They were among the organizers of the first anti-whiskey and anti-slavery societies in Virginia. They supported the reforms of temperance and abolition at a time when little progress had been made in those directions and when Vol. II-26 it required moral and often-time physical courage to declare and avow their principles. When the late John W. Hiett was a child his family removed to Ohio and settled near Tiffin in Seneca County. There le spent some of the formative years of his childhood and youth, and his environment was practically a dense forest, and he saw much of the difficulties and privations of existence on the frontier. Like other children who grew up in this environment he had a very limited education. However, when he was fifteen years of age, the family returned to the old home in Virginia, where there were better school opportunities. After attending and graduating from Jefferson Academy in Virginia, John W. Hiett became a teacher. In 1847 he had the distinction of opening the second free school in the State of Virginia. Returning to Ohio in 1851 he spent some time in Oberlin College, and was then appointed superintendent of public schools at Fremont, Sandusky County. The career of such a man as John W. Hiett brings home the fact how very young the free public school system is in this country. It is popularly supposed that free school education has been a fundamental in American life from the beginning, though that is not true in the modern sense of what a free public school means. Until the decade of the '50s practically all the schools in Ohio as well as in other states were supported by arbitrary contributions or by some fixed agreement among the patrons, and were largely what has been known as "subscription schools." John W. Hiett as superintendent of schools at Fremont organized the system of graded schools in that place. He subsequently was a student and a teacher in the Normal Department of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and afterwards for ten years was a trustee of that institution. He was also superintendent of the public schools of Delaware. In 1860, assisted by Mrs. Hiett as preceptress, he opened the Elm Grove Normal School at Maumee. After one year this was changed to the Central Ohio Conference Seminary. In 1864 Mr. Hiett's health failed, and he moved to Toledo and thence forward till his death thirty years later was chiefly identified with this city. He became one of the proprietors of the Toledo Commercial, though his activities extended to various other lines and to a large circle of people he was best known as a dealer in real estate. 1062 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO It is essentially true that the late Mr. Hiett was prominently identified with nearly every movement having for its object the building up of Toledo. For some time he served as secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers Exchange. He had the ability and the interest which enabled him to render a valuable service in gathering and arranging facts and statistics bearing upon the advantages and development of the city. From early youth he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, having chosen that faith in spite of the fact that his parents were loyal Quakers. He was both active and prominent in the church and rendered valuable service for a number of years in its educational affairs and almost to the end of his life was a teacher in Sunday School. He was a member of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church of Toledo, and was long one of the instructors in its Sunday School classes. The first general conference of this church to which laymen were admitted as delegates was that held at Brooklyn, New York, in 1872. Mr. Hiett was one of these lay-delegates, and in 1876 he was again a member of the general conference at its meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1861 he was awarded the honorary degree Master of Arts by Baldwin University at Berea, Ohio. On August 3, 1858, Mr. Hiett married Miss Mary E. Beecham. She was born in Plymouth, Ohio, January 14, 1835, a daughter of Joseph and Mary Beecham, who were among the very early English settlers in Ohio. Mrs. Hiett came to Toledo in 1864 with her husband, and was a resident of the city for nearly half a century. She died at the home of her daughter at 2211 Parkwood Avenue June 1, 1913. She was at that time seventy-eight years of age. Some of her work has already been referred to, and it can be further said that she was a directing factor in much of the important local charitable and church work during the many years of her residence at Toledo. She was one of the foremost members of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, and for several years she directed the work of the Maternity Hospital and .the Flower Home for Girls, and was a director of the Adams Street Mission. She was also well known for her participation in the work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hiett are survived by three children : Irving B. Hiett ; Oliver N. Hiett and Ella F. Hiett, all of Toledo. IRVING B. HIETT. Certainly no name has been more closely associated with real estate affairs in Toledo during the last thirty years than that of Irving B. Hiett, head of The Irving B. Hiett Company, real estate, loans and insurance, with offices on the ground floor of the Nicholas Building. Mr. Hiett, who is a son of the late John W. and Mary E. (Beecham) Hiett, reference to whom is made on other pages, proclaimed himself to the public as a real estate operator when he was only twenty-one years of age. In him exists apparently a perfect balance of all qualities necessary for the successful real estate man—keen judgment, enterprise, courage without rashness, and accurate knowledge of local con; ditions based upon long experience. The Irving B. Hiett Company was organized and incorporated in 1907 with a capital stock of $200,000, for the purpose of handling real estate, insurance and rentals, and the company confines its operations entirely to Toledo. It handles all kinds of property, and Mr. Hiett personally and his friends have figured in many of the most important real estate transactions in Toledo during the last thirty years. 'In 1888 he owned personally the grounds upon which the magnificent office buildings, the Nicholas, the LaSalle and the Koch now stand. This indicates the high class character of his business record. During the year 1915 just passed the company promoted such additions as Parkwood, Collingwood and Spottwood. Altogether the firm has handled sixty or more subdivisions. During its past history it has also constructed over 6,000 houses. Some years ago when the Wabash Railway Company was seeking an entrance to Toledo the company turned over to Mr. Hiett's concern the business of getting a right of way across the city. This was a tremendous task, but accomplished successfully, and ninety per cent of the negotiations were handled through the Hiett firm. The company recently laid out the 160 acres comprised in Beverly Place, to be placed on the market in 1916, and the firm also handle at the present time Acme Place and Copland Heights. The company also owns and operates in connection with its other business The Erie Paint & Paper Company and The Swan Creek Lumber & Supply Company. Mr. Hiett himself is also interested in The Investors Realty Company, The Realty Trust. Company, The Monroe Building- Company, The Reserve Building Company, The Buckeye Realty HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1063 Company, The Combined Realty Company and The Allied Realty Company. No Toledo citizen has been more active than Mr. Hiett in those organizations of real estate men which wield such powerful influence in this line of business. He helped organize the Toledo Real Estate Board and was it first president, is a member and has been vice president of The National Association of Real Estate Exchanges and is a member of the Ohio Association of Real Estate Exchanges. Irving B. Hiett was born at Maumee, Ohio, October 8, 1862, was educated in the public schools of Toledo, graduating from the Central High School with the class of 1880. During the next two years he was an employe of The Blade Printing & Paper Company of Toledo. As a young high school boy and a beginner he was put at various tasks, and worked successively as office boy, stock clerk and cashier. His father was in the real estate business, and from him he acquired his first practical experience in that line. After about a year, in 1883, at the age of twenty-one he opened his own office in the Boody House Block on St. Clair Street. That was the beginning of his prosperous and very useful and influential career as a real estate factor in Toledo. In 1906 owing to increase of business he moved to larger quarters in the Nicholas Building, selecting spacious offices on the ground floor fronting Madison Avenue. The firm was then known as Irving B. Hiett & Company, and in the following year occurred the reorganization and incorporation. Mr. Hiett was a member and vice president of the old Chamber of Commerce, which organization was succeeded by the present Commerce Club. He was also one of the five charter members of the Rotary Club. He is a member of the First Congregational Church of Toledo and finds his chief recreation in the ancient and honorable game of golf. On December 8, 1886, Mr. Hiett married Miss Gertrude Boake of Toledo. She was born in Lebanon, Ohio, and was educated in the public schools of Toledo. Mr. and Mrs. Hiett's three ehildren, all natives of Toledo, are Donald F., Nellie G. and Irving B., Jr. Donald attended the Toledo public schools, the Asheville Preparatory School in the South, finishing in Cornell University, and is now associated with his father in business. The daughter Nellie after leaving the Toledo schools pursued a course in Ogontz School for Girls and finished in Miss Finch's School in New York. Irving B. Jr., is now in the primary grades of the public schools. FRANCIS MARION DOTSON of Toledo has made a noteworthy record as a lawyer and in banking and business affairs. His offices in Toledo are in the Spitzer Building, and in recent years he has confined his practice almost entirely to corporation and business law. In former years he practiced for a time in Nebraska, and while there he assisted in founding what is now the law department of the University of Nebraska. He is also president of the German Banking Company of Lindsey in Sandusky County. He was born November 2, 1861, and the farm on which he first saw the light of day, in Shawnee Township of Allen County, Ohio, is now partly occupied by the Village of Hume. His parents were Samuel and Hester Ann (Bowsher) Dotson, the father a native of Ohio and of English descent, and the mother a native of Ross County, Ohio, and of German ancestry. The parents were married in Allen County, after that lived for a time in Ross County, and returning to Allen County lived there until 1869, when they moved to Auglaize County, locating on a farm four miles north of Wapakoneta, which was their home until 1880. They next moved to the Town of Cridersville, in Auglaize County, and about that time Francis M. Dotson began his career as a teacher in the district schools of Allen County, where altogether he taught about seven years. About 1891 the parents returned to the old homestead at the Town of Hume and lived there the rest of their lives. The father passed away in 1900 at the age of sixty-eight, and the mother in 1914, aged eighty-four. Samuel Dotson was a farmer most of his life, but for a time was in the furniture business at Cridersville until his health failed. He lost his health, due to disabilities incurred by his service in the Civil war. He went out as a private in Company G of the Eighty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and afterwards served as orderly sergeant. For three years he was in the army of Tennessee under General Sherman, and was mustered out and given an honorable discharge at the close of the war. In the family were nine children, one of whom died in infancy, and the eight who grew up all married, and seven are still living. Mentioned in order of age they are : Mrs. D. T. Barton, of Cridersville, Ohio ; Rufus M., of Lima ; Mrs. Isaac P. McClure, who died in 1064 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO December, 1911; Francis M. ; Mrs. E. A. Spees, of Lima ; Mrs. A. V. Cawood, of Robinson; Illinois; Mrs. William Reed, of Fort worth, Texas ; and J. A. Dotson, who occupies the old home at Hume, Ohio. Francis Marion Dotson spent his early life on a farm, attended the common schools of Auglaize County, and it is an interesting fact that the district school which he attended graduated, in a period of two years, seventeen students who became teachers, and probably no other district school in Ohio could surpass such a record. Mr. Dotson also attended the Northern Ohio University at Ada, where he took the scientific course, but both before and afterwards he taught school, as already mentioned, in Allen County. With the class of 1887 he graduated LL. B. from the law department of the University at Ada, and for the following year was dean of the law department there. He resigned that position to go to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he was admitted to the Nebraska bar in 1888. For a time he was associated in law practice in Nebraska with Charles G. Dawes, who afterwards became comptroller of the currency under President McKinley and for the past fifteen years has been one of the most prominent bankers of Chicago. While at Lincoln, Mr. Dotson, with another attorney, Mr. Smith, organized a law class of twenty-five students from the various law offices in Lincoln, and they conducted this class under the name Central Law School. Two years later this was formally adopted as a department of the State University, and thus he had an important part in creating the present University 'Law School in ,Nebraska. Returning from Nebraska to Lima, Mr. Dotson was admitted to the Ohio bar and became associated in practice with Ira A. Longsworth under the firm name of Longsworth & Dotson. He remained at Lima until April, 1892, and has since been in active practice at Toledo, and has had no partnership relations since locating in this city. As already stated, he gave his attention to general practice for a number of years, but now devotes his time almost entirely to real estate and corporation law. In 1907 Mr. Dotson organized and has. since been president of the German Banking Company of Lindsey, which is capitalized at $15,000. August Heileman is vice president and A. C. Frank is cashier of this institution. At the present time Mr. Dotson is also financially and otherwise interested in a new enterprise being pro moted at Chicago, he and two other parties controlling the business. They have organ ized for the purpose of manufacturing what is called " The Pneumatic Concrete Mixer," a machine that is both a mixer and conveyor, all the power being supplied by either compressed air or steam. It is an invention which promises a great deal of usefulness, and it is fully protected both by patent or patents pending. In politics Mr. Dotson is a republican takes his share of party duties and responsibilities, but the only office for which he ever became a candidate was when he ran for the Legislature in Lima. In 1914 and 1915 he was a member of the Toledo City Council and was the attorney who framed the Dotson Street Railway franchise that was defeated at the election of 1915. The district was strongly democratic, and he was defeated, but he had the satisfaction of reducing the normal democratic majority by 1,300 votes. This was partly due to the fact that in his younger days he had taught school for several years in that section and had a very strong hold on popular confidence. Mr. Dotson is a member and elder in the East Side Presbyterian Church. He is one of the charter members of the Toledo Commerce Club, and is now chairman of the City Cleanliness Committee and on the Workhouse Farm Committee. He also belongs to the East Side Research Club, the Toledo Young Men's Christian Association and the Lucas County Bar Association. His principal recreation is the game of golf. Mr. Dotson and family reside at 2772 Monroe Street. His first wife was Miss Marguerite Nungester, who died in Toledo in 1894. Their daughter Hazel Marguerite, who was born in Toledo, was educated in the local schools and the Northfield Seminary at Northfield, Massachusetts, and is now at home. On August 20, 1895, Mr. Dotson married at Garrett, Indiana, Miss Ellen Grace Whitlock. Mrs. Dotson was born in Steuben County, Indiana, was educated at Garrett, and she is the mother of two daughters, both of whom were born in Toledo. Helen Ruth, the older, graduated from the Scott High School at Toledo in the class of 1915 and is now a student in the State University of California at Berkeley. Marian Constance is still a student in the public schools in Toledo. CHARLES W. MOOTS, M. D., F. A. C. S. The medical profession of Northwest Ohio knows HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1065 Dr. Charles W. Moots as a surgeon of exceptional skill and attainment, and his work in that branch of the general profession of medicine has brought him membership as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. For the past ten years Dr. Moots has been active in his profession at Toledo, with offices in the Nicholas Building. His has been a career of consecutive advancement, and not little of the inspiration to success came from his early environment on an Ohio farm. He was born in Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio, June 26, 1869, a son of Conrad and Eleanor (Strayer) Moots. His father was a native of Pennsylvania and his mother of Maryland and they were married in Bellefontaine, Ohio. Conrad Moots was a substantial farmer, having settled in Ohio quite early in his career. During the dark days of the Civil war he went out with an Ohio regiment as a private, and was in active service during the last year of the struggle. He was in the lain Division of Grant's Army during the magnificent campaign around Richmond which finally brought about the surrender of Lee's forces at Appomattox. Conrad Moots died in Logan County, Ohio, in 1903, at the age of eighty-one, and his widow passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fleetwood Carr, near Bellefontaine, in 1913, also aged eighty-one. The father was a man of quiet disposition, hard working, :thrifty, and strictly honorable in all his relations. He was the recipient at the hands of his fellow citizens of several township offices, though he never sought such honors. In the family were four sons and three daughters, with Dr. Moots as the youngest. The older children are : Rev. Thomas C. Moots, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and an active member of the Central Illinois. Conference, who died in July, 1916 ; Mrs. John L. Summer of Marysville, Ohio ; D. S. Moots, a grocer at Bellefontaine ; Mrs. Milton McKinnon of Bellefontaine ; Mrs. Luther Horn of Bellefontaine ; Mrs. Fleetwood Carr of Bellefontaine. Dr. Charles W. Moots is the only doctor in the family, and his name is, also distinguished by being the only Moots in the American Medical directory, which includes the names of practically every physician and surgeon of recognized standing practicing in the United States. In the early career of Doctor Moots he found an excellent lesson showing the productive value of a small amount of money. His paternal grandparents were Charles and Elizabeth Moots, who came at an early day and settled near DeGraff in Logan County, Ohio. Doctor Moots was named for his grandfather, and at his birth grandfather gave his namesake a present of a small sum of money. This money was kept by the father of Doctor Moots until the latter was old enough to be entrusted with its keeping and use. The trust fund was not large in itself but use and wise application made it worth more than many hundreds of dollars would have done to many other boys. In time the little talent given him by his grandfather had increased and multiplied many fold, and the proceeds were wisely used so that Doctor Moots educated himself in schools and colleges with his own money, and his education involved no expense upon his parents. As a boy he attended the public schools at DeGraff, Ohio, graduated from the DeGraff High School, and took his collegiate studies in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he was graduated Bachelor of Science. This was followed by the medical course at the University of Cincinnati, where he graduated M. D. with the class of 1895. After beginning practice he spent several months at different times in post-graduate studies in Chicago and New York City, and for six months was a resident student at Vienna, Austria. Twenty years ago Doctor Moots began practice at the little town of Jackson Center in Shelby County, Ohio. In three years he was ready for a larger field, sold out a promising practice, and moved to Delphos, where he remained in practice until his removal to Toledo on October 1, 1905. More and more in recent years Doctor Moots has restricted his practice until he now limits his work to abdominal and pelvic surgery. Within a year after his removal to Toledo he was made professor of anatomy in the medical department of the Toledo University and held that position until the university closed in 1914. He is now gynecologist at the Flower Hospital of Toledo and assisted in organizing that splendid institution. If there is one thing more than another for which Doctor Moots deserves special credit as a citizen it was his leadership and vigorous advocacy in originating the Toledo movement for certified milk. It is largely due to his energy that this movement was successful, beginning in 1908, and the result have proved a blessing to the welfare of children's lilies in this city. Doctor Moots was chairman of the Health and Sanitation Committee of the To- 1066 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO ledo Commerce Club for two years. In politics he is a republican. He is a member of .all the York Rite bodies in Masonry at Toledo, including the Knight Templar Commandery and the Mystic Shrine. Doctor Moots' special recreation is music. He is a member of the Academy of Medicine of Toledo and Lucas County, of which he was president in 1912, to the Northwestern Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society, of which he is now councilor from the Fourth District of Ohio, to the American Medical Association and the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He and his wife are active members of the Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church at Toledo. On January 3, 1895, Doctor Moots married Miss Margaret White Hill, daughter of Rev. Caleb and Elizabeth (Cratty) Hill. Her father was for many years an active Methodist minister, was stationed at East Toledo at one time and at many other towns in Northwest Ohio, and he died in 1904 at Prospect, Ohio, where he had lived after retiring from his active duties. His widow is still living at Prospect. Mrs. Moots was born at Mount Victory, Ohio, and was educated at Delaware, Ohio. She is an active member of the Sorosis Club of Toledo. W. FRANK MAXWELL, M. D. For several years before coming to Toledo Doctor Maxwell was an assistant superintendent in the Michigan Asylum for the Insane at Ionia. He had previously gained a thorough education in medicine and surgery, and his unusual opportunities for experience and his individual attainments have been the chief factors in his success since locating in Toledo. He enjoys an excellent practice and has some of the more influential connections in a professional way. His offices are in the Nicholas Building and his home at 407 Rockingham Street. He is a native of Ohio, and was born at the old Town of Cardington in Morrow County, May 31, 1875. William Frank Maxwell, is a son of Robert R. and Catherine Iris (Jones) Maxwell. The father was born in Cardington while the mother was born in West Virginia. They became acquainted while both were attending school at the National Normal University in Lebanon, Ohio. They were married at the home of the bride in Smithton, Doddridge County, West Virginia. The mother came of a prominent old family of West Virginia. After leaving the Normal and his marriage Robert R. Maxwell taught school for nearly three years, and then settled down to his regular business as a farmer. He is now living retired. There were three children in the family : Rev. Robert P. Maxwell, who finished his education in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, is now a traveling missionary worker, located in Texas. The second in age is Doctor Maxwell of Toledo. Arle is an employe of the Los Angeles Traction Company at Los Angeles, California. All the children were born in Cardington, Ohio, and received a part of their education there. Doctor Maxwell after attending the public schools of his home town entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. His early inclinations and talents seemed to predestine him for a career as a musician. He studied both music and literary courses at Ohio Wesleyan and at Oberlin College, and spent four years as a student of vocal and instrumental music, and was also well trained in theory, harmony and composition, and there are few amateurs in Toledo who possess a better grounded knowledge of music as an art than Doctor Maxwell. He would probably have kept on and graduated in music and continued his studies abroad had it not been for an accident to his knee. This required medical attention for some time, and the accident was apparently the circumstance which turned him from the career of a musician to the profession of a physician. While his own case was being treated he became deeply interested in medicine as a science and determined to pursue the study preparatory to active work in the profession. In 1901 he entered the University of Michigan in the Homeopathic School, and was graduated M. D. with the class of 1905. Soon after his graduation he went to Ionia, Michigan, as an interne in the hospital for the dangerous and criminal insane, and in six months, such was his ability and proficiency, that he was promoted to assistant superintendent. He continued to fill that post of responsibility for three years before he resigned. After leaving Ionia Doctor Maxwell took post-graduate work in the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, and then in the fall of 1909 established his home and office in Toledo. While he has a general practice, his services are especially valued at a gynecologist and obstetrician. He is a member of the staff of the Toledo Hospital and was a member of the surgical staff in 1915, and has served on both the medical and obstetrical staff at the institution. HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1067 He is medical examiner for the National Union and the Equitable Life Insurance Company of Iowa, is a member of the Academy of Medicine of Lucas County, of the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, of the Ohio State and the Northwestern Ohio Homeopathic Medical societies, the Toledo Homeopathic Club and the American Institute of Homeopathy. In politics Doctor Maxwell votes for the best man regardless of whether he is republican, democrat or prohibition. He is now affiliated with Barton Smith Lodge No. 613, Free and Accepted Masons, at Toledo, and took his first degrees in Masonry in 1907 in Ionia Lodge No. 36, Free and Accepted Masons. From that lodge he demitted to Toledo in 1913. He is also a member of the Toledo Commerce Club, and belongs to the Phi Alpha Gamma college fraternity. His chief recreation is found in automobiling. On February 15, 1915, Doctor Maxwell married Miss Marian Deborah Seiders, daughter of C. A. and Edith (Sams) Seiders, her father being a well known attorney of Toledo. Mrs. Maxwell was born at Paulding, Ohio, was educated in the public schools of that town and at Toledo, in the Art Schools in Cleveland and New York City. As a woman of culture she is actively identified with much of Toledo social life and is president of the Toledo Garden Club and a member of the Educational Club and the Athena Art Club. Both Doctor Maxwell and wife are members of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. CALVIN BARKER is a veteran Toledo business man. Though he recently passed his eighty-second birthday, he exemplifies the truth of the philosophy that man is only as old as he feels. Many men twenty years his junior have not the forcefulness and energy to put into the execution of important plans that Mr. Barker daily furnishes to the business routine of the Barker, Frost & Chapman Company, real estate and general insurance. This is one of the oldest and most reliable insurance firms in Northwest Ohio. Mr. Barker, who has been an important figure in business circles at Toledo for over sixty years, entered the general insurance business in 1878. Since then he has made a constant study of general insurance and from the foundation up has built a business and agency of great prestige and value. During the first year Mr. Barker had his offices in the old Fort Industry Block at the corner of Monroe and Summit streets. At the end of that time he was joined by the late L. W. Frost, making the firm Barker & Frost. Their offices were at 411 Madison Avenue. . In 1894 Louis L. D. Chapman was admitted to the firm, and the offices continued in the same location. On March 1, 1910, the company moved to spacious offices on the second floor of the Nicholas Building, but on March 1, 1913, they occupied their present position on Madison Avenue, the ground floor of the building opposite the Nicholas Building. This firm represents over eighteen fire insurance companies, including some of the oldest and strongest both in America and in foreign countries. They are also agents for life, accident, burglary, plate glass, automobile, steam boiler and marine insurance and for surety bonds. Mr. Barker is president of the company ; John D. Nolen, vice president ; Louis L. D. Chapman, secretary and treasurer. Calvin Barker was born on Staten Island, New York, in 1834. His father, Capt. John Barker, was born at Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1799. The parents of Captain John were encamped at Lexington during the siege of Boston in the Revolutionary war, and both his father and other members of the family proved valiant defenders of the American independence. The old Barker homestead at Sudbury is still owned by members of the original family. Around that venerable place, where the Barkers located in the earliest years of the eighteenth century, gathered the "associations and traditions of the family for more than two centuries. Capt. John Barker, who died at Factoryville, Staten Island, New York, April 27, 1863, in his sixty-fourth year, was for more than forty years superintendent of the Staten Island Dyeing and Printing establishment. Reared and educated in his native state, on August 1, 1850, Calvin Barker entered as clerk.in a wholesale dry goods house on Hanover Square, New York City, this being the wholesale section of New York City in those days, no, wholesale business having been done above Wall Street. He was twenty-two years of age when he came to Toledo in 1857, the same year that the republican party had its first presidential campaign. Toledo then had a population of barely 7,000. He at once entered upon an active career in local commerce, becoming managing partner of the firm of W. H. Ketcham & Company. Much of the push and energy that has always distinguished him became manifest at the begin- 1068 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO ning of his career in Toledo, and about ten years later, in 1866, he engaged in the wholesale and retail millinery business and helped to make Toledo a wholesale center. From that in 1878 he turned to the line of business which has now occupied him for nearly forty years. From 1879 Mr. Barker was closely associated with the late Lewis W. Frost until the death of Mr. Frost on November 17, 1911. Since then the old firm name has still been retained, and as the Barker, Frost & Chapman Company it is known in insurance circles far beyond the immediate boundaries of Toledo. In the meantime Mr. Barker became identified with other business enterprises and has acquired extensive real estate holdings both in and around Toledo. His public spirit has been displayed on more than one occasion when he has given his influence and means to some worthy improvement and more than once he has assured the success of some such undertaking. During the Civil war he was a member of the finance committee of the Third Ward of Toledo, and was foremost in the organization work in looking after the interests of the departing soldiers and performing duties such as are now the province of the Red Cross Society. At the close of hostilities this committee had in its treasury approximately $5,000 unexpended, and this became the nucleus of the fund that built the present Memorial Building on Adams Street. Mr. Barker, who confidently anticipates that he will live to be a hundred, is an example of right living. He has always been industrious, had good physical development to begin with, and has been temperate in all things, and with a reasonable degree of activity has pursued a constant purpose in life, and to a greater degree than most men has accomplished what he set out to perform. In December, 1856, the same year he came to Toledo, Mr. Barker married Miss Mary A. White, daughter of Rev. Samuel White of Staten Island, New York. The only son of their marriage was John S. Barker, who was connected with a New York life • insurance company. He died December 29, 1915. Mrs. Barker died at Toledo, March 24, 1410. On April 26, 1916, at East Orange, New Jersey, Mr. Barker married a sister of his first wife, Mrs. Frances J. Viot, who for a number of years resided in Toledo but for some time before her marriage had made her home in and about New York. BERNHARD BECKER. A Toledo architect of more than, thirty years active experience, Bernhard Becker's work can readily be recognized by its distinctive outlines and many examples of it might be pointed out in Toledo and elsewhere. One of the more conspicuous buildings which he planned is the Elks Club at Toledo. He is also architect for one of the five branch Carnegie libraries of Toledo, and has given the plans and supervision to a great many residences and business and public structures in the city. He was born in Altsdorf, Rhenish Prussia, November 3, 1858, a son of Nicholaus and Catherine (Bier) Becker. Both parents are now deceased. His father was for many years an active stone contractor in Germany. When fifteen years of age Bernhard Becker came to the United States. After private instructions for three years he took up the study of architecture under the late Carl Salon, one of the prominent early architects of Toledo. He laid a thorough technical foundation in the profession under that master, and remained in his employ for three years. He then spent two years with other Toledo architects, at the end of which time he entered a partnership with E. 0. Fallis. They were together for twelve years, from 1881 to 1893. Then followed a period in which Mr. Becker practiced alone and later was associated for some years with Arthur E. Hitchcock. Since dissolving partnership with Mr. Hitchcock Mr. Becker has been alone in his profession, and his offices are in the Gardner Building. On every side he is accounted one of the foremost members of the profession in Toledo. In 1884 he married Miss Louisa M. Heinl of Toledo.. To their marriage were born two children, Karl and Myrtle. Mr. Becker is affiliated with Toledo Lodge No. 523 Benvolent and Protective Order of Elks, with the Knights of Pythias, with the National Union. and with the Toledo Commerce Club. BYRON WILLIS DAWLEY, M. S., M. D. On coming to Toledo to take up practice in 1900, Doctor Dawley brought with him an experience of ten years and a thorough equipment and high standing in professional circles. In the past fifteen years at Toledo he has gained rank as one of the leading surgeons as well as physicians of Northwestern Ohio. Probably 90 per cent of his practice is in surgery, and his services are largely preferred in abdominal operations. While pre-eminently a surgeon, HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1069 he is a very prominent figure in homeopathic circles, being an active member of the Toledo, Ohio State and Northwestern Ohio Homeopathic Medical associations, and the American Institute of Homeopathy, and has held offices in all these organizations. At one time he was president of the Ohio State and of the Northwestern Ohio societies. Doctor Dawley was for eight years Surgeon on the staff of the Toledo Hospital, and for two years of that term, 1908-09, was chief of the surgical staff. He is assistant surgeon of the Toledo, Monroe & Detroit Electric Railway, and is local examiner for the Providence Life Insurance Company. Doctor Dawley comes of an old established New York State family. He was born in Oswego County, New York, February 28, 1863, his father having been a farmer in Mexico Township of that county. His parents, Amos and Mary Jane (Leslie) Dawley were both born in Mexico Township of Oswego County, the father on December 10, 1833, and the mother in 1838. Amos Dawley lived the quiet routine of a New York State farmer and was eighty-four years of age when he passed away. The mother of his children lived to be only thirty-one, and he married a second time. Amos Dawley was a very active democrat in his time, and had a great deal to do to keep up the organization of his party, since he lived in a normal republican district. He never sought office for himself ; he was not that type of man. Doctor Dawley's paternal great-grandfather was Samuel Dawley, who was born in England and came to America when a young man, locating at that time in Oswego County, where he spent the rest of his days. Grandfather Dawley, whose name was also Samuel, married Mary Ann Prindle. Both were born in New York State, and the boundaries of that state compassed their entire lives. Doctor Dawley's maternal grandparents were James and Elizabeth Leslie, who were both born in Dublin, Ireland, and from there came to the United States and secured Government land in Oswego County; New York, where their subsequent years were spent. Doctor Dawley's mother died in 1871. Frederick J., his oldest brother, is a contractor residing in British Columbia, and also conducts a farm, on which he raises fine horses, cattle and chickens. Doctor Dawley's next younger brother is Eugene, who lives in Mexico, New York, and was fortunate in gold mining, and the brother David died at the age of five years. Reared on his father's farm, Doctor Dawley acquired an education in the public schools of Oswego County, and also attended there the State Academy at Mexico. This academy gives a preparatory course for such colleges as Yale and Harvard. Graduating from the Academy with the class of 1883, he then successfully passed a special examination by the Board of Regents of the New York State University at Albany. With these credentials he was admitted as a student to the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, where he graduated Master of Arts with the class of 1888. In the fall of the same year he-entered the medical department of Kentucky University at Louisville, and remained there until graduating M. D. in the regular course in the spring of 1891. Doctor Dawley has been in active practice since 1891, having first located at Bainbridge in Ross County, Ohio. Here his abilities were soon recognized and he had a promising practice and continued it until 1896. In that year he entered the Hahnemann Medical College at Chicago, where he completed his course in 1897, but remained to do postgraduate work in the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College. From 1897 to 1900 Doctor Dawley practiced medicine at Chillicothe, Ohio, and then in order to find a broader field for his profession he removed to Toledo, where his important and influential connections professionally have already been mentioned. During 1914-15 Doctor Dawley had . built at 2012 Jefferson Avenue in Toledo the Fairview Flats, of which he is the owner and where he has his home. Fraternally he is affiliated with Toledo Lodge No. 53 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, with the Toledo Commerce Club, the Toledo Yacht Club, the Homeopathic Club of Toledo, with William Tell Lodge No. 105, Knights of Pythias Order. He is also a member of the Toledo Automobile Club, and in automobiling and in hunting and fishing he finds his usual recreation. Besides he owns a fine pear orchard at Atascadero, California, where he is building a typical California home. He takes a great deal of pride in his California estate and spends a part of each year in the Far West. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Toledo. His offices are in the Wayne Building. On October 15, 1891, soon after beginning his practice, Doctor Dawley married Cordelia Coffman, of Washington Courthouse, Ohio, 1070 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Stragley) Coffman. The parents were for many years well known residents of Fayette County, Ohio. Mrs. Dawley was born in Fayette County and completed her education in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, of which Doctor Dawley is also an alumnus. Mrs. Dawley takes a prominent part in women's club circles in Toledo. JAY K. SECOR. At the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Superior Street in Toledo stands one of the visible monuments to the enterprise of the Secor family of Toledo. This is the handsome and modern hostelry, the Secor Hotel, one of the finest hotels in Northwest Ohio and the best in the City of Toledo. Ten stories high, absolutely fireproof, and with every feature of the most up-to-date hotel, it is built of brick and stone and is one of Toledo's most attractive buildings in the business section. The hotel is conducted and managed by the Wallick brothers. This hotel was named in honor of Jay K. Secor, who was very prominent in promoting the enterprise, and who is president of the company that built and owns the structure. The hotel was opened to the public August 1, 1908. A son and the only surviving child of the late James Secor, whose prominence as a Toledo business man and citizen has been described in other paragraphs, Jay K. Secor was born in Toledo, April 28,. 1872. He and his family reside at the Secor residence, 2035 Collingwood Avenue, which is also the home of his mother, Mrs. Charlotte A. (Steele) Secor. Jay K. Secor attended the public schools of Toledo and spent two years in Phillips Andover Academy in Massachusetts, one of the leading preparatory schools of the Bast. He began his individual business career with the Northern National Bank, with which he was connected in various capacities for seven years. For about eighteen months he was in the oil business, but for the greater part of the past fifteen years has been associated with James Brown Bell under the firm name of Secor & Bell. This firm, whose offices are on the ground floor of the Gardner Building, are members of the New York Stock Exchange and have influential connections both East and West as dealers in municipal, corporation and railroad bonds, in stock and grain, and handle many important securities and financial transactions both in Toledo and elsewhere. Mr. Secor's business interests have been rapidly growing for the past twenty years. Among other connections he is president of the Citizens Ice and Cold Storage Company, vice president and director of the Northern National Bank, is a director of the W. L. Milner Company, Toledo's largest department store. In politics he is a republican, but not a politician. He is a member of the Toledo Club, Toledo Country Club, Toledo Commerce Club, Castalia Fishing Club of Ohio, Erie Shooting Club, National Golf Club of Ohio, Dartmouth Salmon Fishing Club of Quebec and Ohio Society of New York. On his twenty-sixth birthday, April 28, 1898, Mr. Secor married Miss Mary Young Barnes, daughter of C. W. Barnes of Colorado, in which state Mrs. Secor was born. They are the parents of four children : James Jay, George Barnes, Virginia and Jay K., Jr. LYNNEL LECKY REED. At least one native son of Toledo has reached a conspicuous place in the realm of musical art. Lynnel Reed, whose name for a number of years has had a special significance as a brilliant young violinist, is a son of the late Dr. Calvin H. Reed, who for nearly half a century was among Toledo's ablest physicians. Mr. Reed was born at Toledo, August 17, 1877, was educated in the Toledo public schools, graduating from the high school in 1896, and since boyhood has been a student of music. His earliest tastes were for that art, and he has made a special study of the violin and of the theory of music, and has devoted all his years toward the attainment of a creditable proficiency and excellence and has won the praise of some of the best known masters of the art as well as the appreciation of thousands who have heard his work as a virtuoso. In 1898 Lynnel Reed went abroad and spent three years in the Royal Conservatory at Liege, Belgium, under the instruction of Ovide Musin. Musin, along with Ysaye, Thomson, Marsick, Marteau and other celebrated violinists, were pupils of the great teacher Leonard. Writing at Liege in October, 1901, Ovide Musin, referring to Mr. Reed's three years of study, said : "During this time he has not only made himself acquainted with both the ancient and modern masters, but has interpreted them classically with a beautiful tone and a very distinguished style. I am convinced that as an executant and above all as a teacher of the violin, he will be one of the good HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1071 representatives of the art of violin playing." Not only as a performer but also as a composer Mr. Reed is making a name in the circles of higher musical art. He recently performed in Toledo his new composition for the violin, "Romance," which he dedicated to Edouard Dethier of Liege, a fellow student. He also studied under some of the well known masters in America and took a post-graduate theoretical course in the Institute of Musical Art of New York City, of which Frank Damrosch is director. Mr. Reed is also author of a "Berceuse." After his return to the United States he located for ten years in New York City, where he played with the Russian Symphony Orchestra, and he has had orchestral experience under some of the best known conductors, including Radoux, Debevre, Pierne, Altschuler, Safonoff and Victor Herbert. During summer seasons he was leader of an orchestra of his own at some of the better known watering places of the East and in the winter of 1910 played an engagement at Bermuda. Returning to his native city in September, 1911, Mr. Reed has since been teaching and doing concert work, and has a studio in the Zenobia Building. He has given a number of recitals in Toledo, and he is a member of the Zenobia Shriners Band, composed of the best musicians of Toledo. Mr. Reed is a member of Barton Smith Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Toledo Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Toledo Commandery, Knights Templar, and Zenobia Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and also belongs to the Sons of the American Revolution. While a musician and a man of creditable standing in his art, he has an unusual breadth of interest and is extremely fond of outdoor life in general and of golf in particular. ALONZO HOMES. A business man of wide experience and successful record, who has been identified with Toledo for the past twenty years, Mr. Hoiles during all this time has concentrated his interests in the field of real estate and is regarded as a specialist in realty values, more particularly in downtown property. It was his qualifications and experience that recently caused him to be selected by the Palmer-Blair Company as their Toledo specialist in central business property investments, improvements, sales and time leases. Mr. Hoiles is a clean-cut business man, thoroughly honest and reliable, and anything he says in regard to real estate may be depended upon. He was born near Prairie Depot in Wood County, Ohio, November 26, 1865, a son of Thomas and Harriet (Winnie) Hoiles, both of whom are now deceased. His father's people were Quakers, while the Winnies were New York Yankees. In the paternal line .Mr. Hoiles' ancestors were pioneers and early settlers in Stark County, Ohio. The Winnies were early settlers in Mecosta County, Michigan, having located thirty-five miles north of Mount Pleasant in the days when most of the population in that region consisted of Indians. Thomas Hoiles was born in Stark County, Ohio, and his wife in Bellevue, Sandusky County, Ohio. They were married in Sandusky County, lived for a few years in Wood County, and had their homes in various localities in Sandusky, Stark and Wood counties, and finally located in Mecosta County, Michigan, where they both died. Thomas Hoiles was a farmer by occupation. During the last year of the Civil war he enlisted and served as a private in the One Hundred and Sixty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Captain Hathaway, and was present in several skirmishes. He was interested in the Grand Army of the Republic and a member of posts in the different counties where he lived. He and his wife were Methodists. Alonzo is the older of two children, and his sister Miona, widow of Fred Ashley, now lives with her brother in Toledo. Alonzo Hoiles attended public school until he was about sixteen years of age, his schooling having come from district schools both in Wood County, Ohio, and in Michigan. His parents were not wealthy and he early found it necessary to depend upon his own energy, and on leaving school he went into the lumber woods of Northern Michigan. He finally became connected with the Chattenden & Kinney firm of Mount Pleasant, and served for a time as their inspector of lumber in the mill. Subsequently he made a visit to Ohio, and realized an opportunity for disposing of lumber in this state. He had 1,000,000 feet of lumber shipped to him at Rising Sun, Ohio, and he handled it all on commission. This lumber was composed of odds and ends, but in the three years spent at Rising Sun he sold it all, and his success greatly encouraged him for his next step in the business world. In the spring of 1896 Mr. Hoiles moved to Toledo and engaged in the real estate business in charge of sales and rental department for the I. H. Detwiler Company. For a number of years he remained with that company 1072 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO and later became manager of the sales department for the firm of Close & Pomeroy. When Mr. Close organized the firm of E. H. Close Realty Company, Mr. Hoiles took charge of the sales department and later was made general manager of all outside development work. Mr. Hoiles remained actively identified with the Close company until December, 1915, when he took charge of the real estate department of the Ohio Savings Bank & Trust Company. In making a public announcement as to the engagement of Mr. Hoiles to have charge of the sale and leasing for long term of centrally located Toledo property, the Ohio Savings Bank & Trust Company called attention to his experience and ability in the following language : "Mr. Hoiles has had twenty years of experience in Toledo real estate and is recognized as an authority on values. During his connection with the E. H. Close Company, from the organization of that company up to the present time, Mr. Hoiles handled the buying of a very large amount of Toledo property, including the twelve hundred acre Ottawa Hills tract. While his experience covers every branch of real estate, he has particularly specialized in downtown property, making many purchases for corporations and for railroad companies in securing right of way. His valuations of property have formed the basis for extensive loans by banks and other investors. In securing the services of Mr. Hoiles the Ohio Savings Bank & Trust Company believes that its real estate department will be especially well able to serve investors and property owners who are interested particularly in centrally located real estate in this city." On April 19, 1916, Mr. Hoiles resigned from the Ohio Savings Bank & Trust Company to become the real estate specialist of the Palmer-Blair Company. There is probably no one in the city whose judgment is more authoritative as an appraiser and adviser in matters pertaining to investment in central business property. Besides his work as already described, he negotiated much of the right of way used by the Willys-Overland plant, the Hocking Valley Railroad, the Shore Line and other large corporations. Politically he is a republican, and is a member of the Toledo Commerce Club, Toledo Real Fstate Board and Toledo Automobile Club. He and his wife attend the St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church and both were reared as Methodists. Mrs. Hoiles is a home loving woman and finds her chief interest there. On September 27, 1890, he married Miss Carrie O. Bierly, daughter of Henry B. and Lean (Reed) Bierly of Wood County, Ohio. Her father is a retired farmer now living at Rising Sun, Ohio, where her mother died at the old home farm near that town, after which the father sold out and moved into Rising Sun. Mrs. Hoiles was born on the old homestead near Rising Sun, and finished her education in the high school at Bowling Green. From the time she was about sixteen she taught school in districts around Rising Sun for some seven years. Her father is of Pennsylvania Dutch stock, while her mother was of German descent and was born near Sioux City, Iowa. MANFRED MILTON STOPHLET, A. I. A. As an architect Mr. Stophlet has one of the leading positions in his profession in Toledo, and has built up a large practice in the city and surrounding territory. By his consistent work his patrons have come to appreciate and rely upon his technical and artistic judgment and thus his name has come to figure as architect in many of the notable structures erected in Northwest Ohio in recent years. He is the second son of the late John Walpole and Lizzie (Underhill) Stophlet of Toledo, reference to whom is made on other pages. Mr. Stophlet was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, June 20, 1877, and that city was the home of both his father and grandfather. After his early education in the Fort Wayne public schools and at Toledo he spent three years in the Toledo High and Manual Training schools, and then, his ambition having already been fixed on architecture, he was employed for three years in practical work in the office of Harry W. Wachter. This was followed by a special course in architecture in Columbia University at New York City. Returning to Toledo in 1901, Mr. Stophlet was successively in the offices and associated with Harry W. Wachter, E. O. Fallis, Bacon & Huber and George S. Mills, well known architects of the city. Since May, 1909, Mr. Stophlet has had an individual practice as architect, and at that date opened his offices in the Nasby Building, where he still remains. Many commissions have been given to him to act as architect in the past eight years. Perhaps most noteworthy should be mentioned his work as architect of the Flower Hospital and its group of splendid buildings. He has a life contract with that institution, and a similar contract for designing buildings for Defiance HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1073 College at Defiance. He was also architect for the Masonic Temple at Defiance and for a number of churches, business structures and residences in Toledo. He designed the passenger stations at Cadillac and Owosso, Michigan, for the Ann Arbor Railroad. Every few weeks there is mentioned in the public press some new building which he has been called upon to design, and recently he drew plans for the erection of a fine bank building at Sylvania, and he also designed the Dime Savings Bank Building of Toledo. Mr. Stophlet is a member of the Toledo Commerce Club, the Toledo Traveling Men's Association, is a life member of the Maumee River Yacht Club, is a member of the Toledo Yacht Club, the Toledo Club, Toledo Automobile Club and the Toledo Golf Club. While he gained most of his recreation in automobiling and golf, he is also fond of hunting and boating, and is affiliated with the American Institute of Architects. He is a member of the Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church. Prominent in Masonry, he is affiliated with and is past master of Rubicon Lodge No. 237, Free and Accepted Masons; is past high priest of Fort Meigs Chapter No. 29, Royal Arch Masons ; a member of Toledo Council No. 33, Royal and Select Masters ; Toledo Commandery of the Knights Templar ; Zenobia Temple of the Mystic Shrine ; and O-Ton-LaGrotto No. 40. He also belongs to the Elks lodge. On July 3, 1902, Mr. Stophlet married Miss Agnes Ruth Tower of Toledo, daughter of the late Benjamin • Tower, who for many years was connected with the Wabash Railroad and who died at Toledo in January, 1908. Her mother, Hattie (Miller) Tower, now resides at Cleveland. Mrs. Stophlet was born in Toledo, graduated from the Toledo Normal Training School, and for eight years prior to her marriage was one of the popular teachers in the city schools. She gave up her position as principal of the Broadway School at the time of her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Stophlet have three children : Robert Tower, Richard Boynton and Dorothy Elizabeth, all born in Toledo. GEN. JOHN W. FULLER. In the late Gen. John W. Fuller, who died March 12, 1891, Toledo had one of its most distinguished characters, one whose citizenship and attainments were not merely local, but national. He was one of the finest officers of the Union army during the Civil war, and rose almost from the ranks by merit and efficiency to the post of brigadier general of volunteers and after the close of the war was brevetted major general. During the greater portion of his long life his home was in Toledo. He became prominently identified with that city's business affairs,, and served! the city well whether as a private in the ranks or in some public capacity. No native American surpassed him in loyalty and steadfast devotion to his adopted country. John W. Fuller was born at Cambridge, England, July 28, 1826. At the age of seven, in 1833 he was brought to the United States. His father, a minister of the Baptist Church, was a graduate of Cambridge University, and after coming to America settled at Utica, New York. In that city General Fuller spent his boyhood and early manhood. Most of his education was directed under the personal supervision of his cultured father. Both before and after the war General Fuller was for many years identified with the book selling and publishing business. Along that line he built up a very profitable establishment, but in 1859 his store was destroyed by fire. Soon afterward he moved to Toledo, Ohio, and was soon re-established in the book trade both as a dealer and publisher. His house took a front rank in that line of business among the publishing houses of the Middle West. It was from this quiet routine of business 'that he was called into the strenuous arena of civil warfare. At the very outbreak of the war he promptly tendered his services to his home state. Governor Dennison early in the war appointed General Charles W. Hill as brigadier general of the Ohio troops, and General Hill selected Mr. Fuller as his chief of staff. His first service was in one of the early campaigns in West, Virginia. While he was at' Grafton engaged in drilling raw recruits, influences,unknown to him, were working for his first important promotion. General T. J. Cram of the regular army, wrote to Adjutant General C. P. Buckingham, the following words : "There is a young man at Grafton by the name of John W. Fuller who knows more about- military matters, the drilling of men, etc., than any one I have yet met in the service, and I hope that you will recommend him to Governor Dennison as the colonel of the next Ohio regiment sent to the field." As this recommendation was made entirely without Mr. Fuller's knowledge, he was naturally surprised when a telegram came to him from the adjutant 1074 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO general of Ohio ordering him to report at Columbus to take command of the 27th Ohio Infantry. Within two weeks Colonel Fuller had selected from a disorganized mass of two thousand men the material for his new regiment. The 27th Ohio was mustered in August 18, 1861, for three years, and two days later started for St. Louis. In the campaign of 1861-62 which drove the rebel forces out of Southern Missouri, Colonel Fuller took an active part. In February, 1862, he joined the Union forces under Gen. John Pope, engaged in the reduction of New Madrid and Island No. 10 along the Mississippi. During that campaign his individual bravery and the superior efficiency with which he handled his men drew forth many commendations from his higher officers. Though still with the rank of colonel, he was not long afterward assigned to the command of the Ohio brigade, composed of the Twenty-seventh, Thirty-ninth, Forty-third and Sixty-third Ohio regiments. He led this brigade in the hotly contested battle of Iuka, Mississippi, in September, 1862, and in the following month again distinguished himself in the battle of Corinth. Here he checked the charge of the enemy, broke the Confederate lines, and his services received the personal thanks of General Rosecrans, in the presence of the entire brigade. From that time forward he was almost constantly in service on some of the great campaigns and in many of the most important battles which resulted in driving a wedge through the heart of the Confederacy. In December, 1862, General Fuller defeated the famous Confederate cavalryman Forrest in the action at Parker's Cross Roads, Tennessee. He then had command of the post at Memphis until October, 1863. During the winter of 1863-64 his brigade was engaged in guarding the Nashville & Decatur Railroad, and during that time, their first term of enlistment having expired, the Twenty-seventh Ohio re-enlisted and enjoyed their veteran furlough. In the spring of 1864 the Ohio Brigade was assigned to the Army of the Tennessee as the First Brigade, Fourth Division, Sixteenth Corps. General Fuller bore a very active part in that splendid campaign which marked the advance from Chattanooga to Atlanta. He was present at the battles of Dallas, Snake Creek Gap, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain and Nickajack Creek. On the morning of July 22d, while the Sixteenth Corps, under the command of General Dodge, was moving to the extreme left to extend the lines still further about the City of Atlanta, it encountered General Hardee's Confederate Corps, which had made a detour the preceding night with a view to attacking General McPherson in the rear. Thus it came about that General Fuller's Division commenced the historic battle of Atlanta. In the engagement that followed the first attack, it became necessary for Fuller's Division to change front while under fire in order to repel a charge from the rear. In executing this movement the column gave way. Seeing the crisis, General Fuller seized the flag of the Twenty-seventh and advancing toward the enemy indicated with his sword where he wanted the new line formed. His example was contagious. With a cheer the Twenty-seventh Ohio swung into line, the other regiments of the brigade and division quickly following, and the day was saved. It was his valor and the steady courage which he exhibited in an emergency which brought Colonel Fuller his promotion to brigadier general. After fighting at Ezra Church and Jonesboro, his brigade was transferred to the Seventeenth Corps under General Blair, as the First Brigade, First Division. Thence followed the famous march to the sea under General Sherman. After the fall of Savannah in December, 1864, there ensued the campaign through the Carolinas. General Fuller's command distinguished itself at the Salkehatchie River, Cheraw and numerous other engagements. It was present at the surrender of General Johnston's forces in Carolina, in North Carolina and then went on with Sherman's victorious army through Richmond to Washington, District of Columbia. After the Grand Review at Washington the old Twenty-seventh Ohio was mustered out. On March 13, 1865, General Fuller was brevetted major general of volunteers "for gallant and meritorious services." On the 15th of August he resigned his commission, and returned to Toledo. While most of his subsequent career was one of business and mercantile activity, he was honored in 1874 by President Grant in the appointment as Collector of the Port of Toledo, and was reappointed by President Hayes. He held the office until 1881. For many years General Fuller was senior member of the wholesale boot and shoe house of Fuller, Childs & Company, whose establishment on Summit Street was one of the most important in the wholesale district. At the time of his death he was