HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1125 1896, when he sold out and went to Europe. He has visited in Europe a number of times, partly for pleasure and recreation and also for the purpose of buying goods. The firm at Saginaw was Daudt, Watson & Company. In establishing his business at Toledo Mr. Daudt was at first associated with a partner under the name Hassenzahl & Daudt until 1885. He then bought out the interests of his partner. At one time the business was incorporated, but they finally gave up their charter and he and his brother Ferdinand now own the entire establishment. In 1895 he opened a branch store in Cleveland, conducting it under their name. This store was located on Euclid Avenue, opposite the Holland House. It was sold in 1904. In 1908 the firm opened a branch in Detroit on Woodward Avenue, and that is still a profitable department of their main house at Toledo. As vice president and director of the Union Savings Bank Mr. Daudt is closely identified with the financial affairs of Toledo, and altogether he is a business man of broad principles and one of the most progressive factors in the citizenship of Toledo. He is a member of the Toledo Club, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Maennerchor, Toledo Commercial Club, Toledo Yacht Club, German Pioneer Society. He is still hard working, and finds in his business his chief recreation. On June 2, 1886, Mr. Daudt married Miss Bertha Bruere of St. Charles, Missouri. They were married at St. Charles, where Mrs. Daudt was a member of a very prominent old family. The day of his marriage is the more easily remembered by the fact that on that same day Grover Cleveland, then President of the United States, married Miss Folsom. Mrs. Daudt was born and educated in St. Charles, Missouri, and she also attended a cyoung ladies' college in Stuttgart, Germany, for several years. She is the daughter of the late Hon. Theodore Bruere, a prominent attorney and president of St. Charles Savings Bank. He died about 1905, and her mailer died in 1911. Mrs. Daudt is an active member of the Woman's Club of Toledo. They are the parents of two sons: Ralph B., born at Toledo December 7, 1887, graduated from the Central High School, spent four years in Cornell University and one year in Colorado University at Boulder, and is now chief engineer with A. Bentley & Son, the largest general contractors of Toledo. The son Theodore, who was born in Toledo, attended the Caskedille School in Ithaca, New Vol. II—30 York, for a short time was a student in Cornell University and spent two years in the university at Boulder, Colorado. He is now actively associated with his father in business. CHARLES EDWIN TUCKER. Though the greater part of his business career was spent elsewhere, the late Charles Edwin Tucker became well and prominently known in Toledo, where he lived for about fourteen years until his death, which occurred on June 12, 1914. Mrs. Tucker and two sons and a daughter are living in Toledo. One of the sons is a physician and the other a lawyer and business man. Of old colonial ancestry, Charles Edwin Tucker was born at Bath, Maine, December 26, 1848, and was in his sixty-eighth year when he passed away. He was the third of five children, three sons and two daughters, whose parents were George W. and Mary A. (Reed) Tucker, both natives of Maine, where they spent their lives. The maternal grandparents Reed, lived to be respectively ninety-two and ninety-five years of age, and grandfather Reed was a veteran of the War of 1812. George W. Tucker was a brick manufacturer and conducted a brick yard for many years in Bath, this yard having been established by his father before him. Educated in his native city, Charles Edwin Tucker graduated from the Bath High School in 1865, and later entered the university at Canton in Northern New York, where he was graduated in the theological department with the class of 1869. He soon entered the ministry of the Universalist Church, and continued active in that profession for nearly fifteen years. His first charge was at Marblehead, Massachusetts, where he was located two years, and he then accepted a call to Biddeford, Maine, where he was pastor three years. He then had charge of a church at New Haven, Connecticut, two years, spent another five years at Titusville, Pennsylvania, and two years at Aurora, Illinois. After that he retired from the ministry altogether. While located at Titusville he became interested in the oil industry along with his family physician, Dr. J. L. Dunn. He was particularly identified with the manufacture, wholesaling and retailing of nitro-glycerin. After he left the pulpit he gave all his time to this business until his death. When the field at Bradford, Pennsylvania, was opened he located there, and for twenty years was an active figure in the Pennsylvania oil fields, and was also prominent in the development of 1126 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO oil fields in Indiana, Ohio and Illinois, and at the time of his death was interested in the fields of Illinois and of Wood County, Ohio. About 1890 he moved to Jamestown, New York, where for five years he was engaged in the manufacture of ladies' and children's shoes. In 1895 he resumed his active connection with the oil industry at Bradford, and in 1900 came to Toledo, which city remained his home until his death. In October, 1909, he was elected secretary of The Permanent Construction Company, builders of mausoleums, a position he held until his death and which his son, Sol D., now holds. The funeral services over Charles E. Tucker were held in the mausoleum on Manhattan Boulevard, and he was laid to rest in the magnificent structure erected by his company. Politically the late Mr. Tucker was a prohibitionist. On March 4, 1873, he was made a Mason at Biddeford, Maine, and retained his membership in that lodge until his death. He was also a Royal Arch Mason, and a member of the Toledo Commerce Club. Mr. Tucker was married December 16, 1874, to Miss Mary D. Drullard. They were married in Buffalo, where her father, Solomon Drullard, was for many years general agent of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. He was connected with those lines when they were under the control of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, and a warm friendship existed between Commodore Vanderbilt and Mr. Drullard. Mrs. Tucker and three children survive the late Charles E. Tucker. These children are : Dr. Edwin D., Mrs. Lee S. Gordon, and Sol D., all of Toledo. Mrs. Tucker was born and educated in Buffalo, and graduated from the Buffalo Seminary. She is a woman of many accomplishments and has been a splendid home maker. One of her children, Charles M., died at Bradford, Pennsylvania, March 29, 1908, leaving a wife and two children. The three living children received their early education in the Clinton Liberal Institute, and both sons also attended a military academy. Dr. Edwin D. Tucker graduated from the Western University of Pennsylvania with the class of 1902. When the Spanish-American war broke out in 1898 he was pursuing his studies in the university and withdrew to enlist in the Sixteenth Pennsylvania Infantry, and was later transferred to the regular army at Chickamauga, serving as hospital steward until the cessation of hostilities. In 1905 he began the practice of medicine in Toledo, and has since become very successful, being a specialist in diseases of the skin. SOL DRULLARD TUCKER has for ten years been an active member of the Toledo Bar, and has also extended his interests to various business lines, being now secretary of The Permanent Construction Company, with which his father, the late Charles E. Tucker, was identified in the same capacity until his death. Mr. Tucker's mother is still living in Toledo. The youngest of their four children, Sol Drullard Tucker, was born at Aurora, Illinois, December 22, 1880. At the time of his birth his father was pastor of a Universalist Church in Aurora, but soon afterwards resigned and returned East, and became actively identified with the oil industry. Sol D. Tucker received his elementary schooling at the Clinton Liberal Institute and Military Academy of New York, where he attended three years, then was a student in the Cayuga Lake Military Academy of New York, and afterwards of the New York Military Academy at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, where he graduated in 1899. The following year he completed the course in the Cornell University Preparatory School at Ithaca. During his early education Mr. Tucker had definitely formulated his plans and his ambition to become a lawyer. On graduation from the school at Ithaca in 1900 he entered the law department of the University of Michigan in the fall of the same year, and remained until he received his degree Bachelor of Laws in June, 1903. During his senior year he was secretary of his class. Admitted to the Michigan bar at Lansing soon after graduation, he was admitted in 1905 to the Ohio bar and in that year began practice at Toledo. His offices are in the Ohio Building. His thorough preparation and his natural abilities soon secured him a satisfactory practice, and he enjoys a high position among Toledo lawyers. When his father died in 1914 Mr. Tucker assumed the position of secretary of The Permanent Construction Company as his father's successor, and is also general manager of that concern, which is widely known as builders of mausoleums. This company built the magnificent Toledo Mausoleum on Manhattan Boulevard. Mr. Tucker is proprietor of the New Columbia Garage at 316 Columbus Street, and has perfected that as a garage of adequate, prompt, and skillful service and of moderate charges. Mr. Tucker is a member of the Toledo Com- HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1127 merce Club, the Toledo Automobile Club, the Toledo Yacht Club, the Riverside Yacht Club, the Loyal Order of Moose, Sanford L. Collins Lodge No. 396, Free and Accepted Masons, belongs to the American Insurance Union, and is republican in politics. On March 19, 1915, he married Miss Adeline Whitlock, of New York City. BARFIELD B. GRANTHAM. It is given to every man to work out his own destiny. There may be obstructions and handicaps, but in the majority of cases it is absolutely true that each person is the master of his fate. Such is the philosophy, based on individual experience, of Barfield B. Grantham, president and owner of The Grantham Realty Company of Toledo. Mr. Grantham's position as a constructive force in Toledo real estate circles is too well assured to require any mention. Aside from his many activities in development work in and about this city, the chief interest of his career is the effective manner in which he has unrolled his destiny which began in the North Carolina hills and pine forests as an orphan boy, practically friendless and without money and with only the resources of his native intellect and ambition to guide him upwards. Some twenty or twenty-five years ago as a young boy Mr. Grantham was working in the turpentine districts of North Carolina and also as a common laborer on a railroad. In 1913 he returned to his old home in North Carolina, going back as a prosperous, cleancut, vigorous type of the modern American business man. In the spring of 1894, at the age of nineteen, Mr. Grantham left the old South, where his previous activities had been confined, and started for Racine, Wisconsin. He arrived in the City of Toledo May 21st of that year. He never completed his journey. Soon afterwards he was working on the farm of Thomas Chandler, who at that time lived at Riga in Lenawee County, Michigan, a few miles northwest of Toledo. While on that farm his acquaintance with Miss Nama R. Chandler, the daughter of his employer, ripened into a respect and affection which afterwards culminated in their marriage. He remained on the Chandler Farm two years. Then coming to Toledo, he became connected with the bicycle business as an employee of two of the large factories then located in Toledo. He next established a company of his own for the manufacture of certain bicycle parts. The bicycle craze was then on the wane, and that and other reasons caused the company to fail after a year. Mr. Grantham then applied himself to various other lines of employment, was for a time a life insurance solicitor, also a collector for a publishing company, and experimented with one thing or another until he entered the employ of the I. H. Detwiler Company. For nearly five years he worked industriously for that firm, and in that time mastered the details of the real estate, rental and insurance business. Such was his preparation for his present career as one of Toledo's foremost real estate men. He next became a member of the firm of Hoiles & Grantham, with offices in the Gardner Building. Mr. Grantham's offices are still in that building. The partnership lasted but eleven months. Since then Mr. Grantham has been practically alone in business. He conducted business under his individual name until December 1, 1913, at which date the Grantham Realty Company was incorporated, though he is himself owner of all its stock and the sole executive head. His specialty is in buying and selling real estate and the development of subdivision property. He himself is the owner of considerable valuable realty in the city and the surrounding country and also in Maumee, in which city he has had his home since 1908. In the fall of 1913 Mr. Grantham plotted "Woodrow Park," located on Collingwood Avenue and Manhattan Boulevard. There are forty-eight lots in this addition, all of which are practically sold. In plotting this subdivision he was the originator in Toledo of "Homesits," a name he gave to the lots and which indicates a distinction that is worth regarding. It was the first plotting in the city where the lots were not all square cornered. Instead the lots in Woodrow Addition were laid out for the convenience of the buyer and home builder. The size was not quoted in the usual real estate terms of say 70x120 feet, but the dimensions and shape were governed by the lay of the land and the desires of the home builder, so that the ground is effectively adapted to the style and contour of the building. Thus the lots in the Woodrow Park have a great variety of frontage, depth, width and shape, and from these characteristics the name "Homesits" was derived as denoting an irregular shaped piece of land. At the present time The Grantham Realty Company is plotting seventy acres adjoining the Inverness Club, which is to be developed as a first class suburban property under the 1128 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO name "Inverness Place." He is also plotting sixty acres adjoining the Gladiola Farm at Sylvania, at the intersection of Monroe Street and the Treumainsville Road. This will be known as "Sylvan Side." Another plot now being developed is ninety-five acres at Maumee, inside the corporation, known as "Fort Miami Addition." Mr. Grantham, though his family has been identified with America for a number of generations, is almost a pure blooded Scotchman. He was born in Sampson County, North Carolina, August 27, 1875, a son of Needham and Molly (Porter) Grantham. His father was born in Wayne County, North Carolina, and was descended from a long line of Scotch ancestors, while the mother was of Scotch parentage. The Grantham family reached North Carolina at such an early date that one of the townships of Wayne County is now known as Grantham Township. When B. B. Grantham was born his father was at that time in his seventy-second year. Mr. Grantham's maternal grandmother lacked only a few weeks of celebrating her one hundred first birthday, and thus longevity has been more or less a characteristic of all the generations. This centenarian grandmother was the mother of fourteen children. When Barfield B. Grantham was a little past four years of age both his parents died, within three weeks of each, other. They left six children, all of whom are living, namely : Mrs. Silas Hood, Hiram, Mrs. Henry Thornton and Mrs. Thomas Thornton, all of whom live in North Carolina ; and Barfield and John, both of Toledo. After the death of the parents the children were scattered and grew up in separate homes. Until he was eleven years of age B. B. Grantham lived with his uncle Fred Grantham, and after the death of the latter he was thrown upon his own resources, and has since then shifted for himself. He started out with only a thin dime to represent his capital, and since then no help was given him and he never sought aid in his struggle for advancement from poverty. He soon developed a great fund of self-reliance, and one indication of this is that at the age of fifteen he borrowed money to buy tools and employ men for opening a turpentine farm in North Carolina. This he conducted for one season, then sold out, and became a track layer for a railroad company. He continued that work for about eighteen months, and then went to Richmond, Virginia, where he became an employee in a carriage factory. In addition to his duties with that concern he was also employed by a lumber company as superintendent of the cutting and hauling of timber to the mills. Such constitutes a brief recital of his experiences prior to his removal to Toledo in 1894. Mr. Grantham is active in the Toledo Real Estate Board, and during 1914 was vice president and in 1915 was a trustee and a member of the valuation committee. He is a democrat in politics, is affiliated with Fort Industry Lodge No. 630, Free and Accepted Masons, at Toledo, and Fort Meigs Chapter No. 29, Royal Arch Masons. He also belongs to the Toledo Commerce Club. In moral as well as business situations Mr. Grantham has always been guided by the Golden Rule. On November 26, 1902, he married Miss Nama R. Chandler. Her parents, Thomas and Rosellen (Comstock) Chandler, now live at Sylvania, Ohio. Her father was born in. England and is now retired, .and recently passed his eightieth birthday. He was an active farmer in Michigan until 1900. Mrs. Grantham's mother was a member of the noted Comstock family, which came from New England, and took such a prominent part in the settlement and development of Southern Michigan. Mrs. Chandler, the mother of Mrs. Grantham, died September 10, 1902. Mrs. Grantham is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They are the parents of three children, all born in Toledo and named Lloyd, Rosellen and Frederick Barfield. HERBERT SIMON HIRSHBERG, librarian of the Toledo Public Library since December, 1914, is a graduate of Harvard University and has had a long and varied experience in library work, covering a period of fourteen years. At one time a librarian was a custodian of books, and not infrequently exercised a grudging jealousy of their use and handling. The custody and safekeeping of books are perhaps the least important of the modern librarian's functions. Since coming to Toledo Mr. Hirshberg has been zealously working to encourage the patronage of the Toledo Library and its various branches, and has been planning new extensions of the library service, so as to bring the institution within closest contact to the daily life and intellectual needs of Toledo citizens. Mr. Hirshberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts, July 7, 1879, a son of Simon and HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1129 Eva (Warschauer) Hirshberg. His father was a wholesale boot and shoe merchant. Educated in the public schools of Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts, graduating from the Brookline High School in 1896, he continued his higher education in Harvard College where he was graduated A. B. in the class of 1900. On leaving college he spent two years in business, and then became a private tutor. In 1902, after attending summer school for library training at Amherst College, he entered the Boston Public Library service. In 1903 he became a student of library science in the New York State Library School at Albany, where he was graduated Bachelor of Library Science in 1905. In the meantime he served as assistant in the New York State Library, and for a few months was also engaged in reorganizing the Morse Institute Library at Natick, Massachusetts. During 1905-1906 he was the Librarian of Congress, Washington, in the Music Division ; was in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburg as librarian of Mount Washington Branch, 19061908 ; and from 1908 to 1914 was reference librarian in the Cleveland Public Library. During 1902-1903 he was member of the faculty of Simmons College Library School at Boston, and held a similar position in the Western Reserve Library School at Cleveland from 1907 to 1914. Mr. Hirshberg has been vice president of the Ohio Library Association since 1912. He is a member of the Council of American Library Association, 1915-1920. Politically he is independent, and in religion was brought up in the Jewish faith. He is a member of the Toledo Commerce Club and the Toledo Tennis Club. At Meadville, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1910, Mr. Hirshberg married Blanche A. L. Lowe, daughter of Frank and Estella Lowe. WHITMAN ALBERT BOARDMAN. Few men of thirty years have seen more of life, whether in business or politics, and are today carrying heavier responsibilities than Whitman Albert Boardman, secretary, treasurer and manager of The East Side Iron Elevator Company of Toledo. This in itself is one of the large industries of Toledo, having been incorporated in 1895, and having a capital stock of $150,000. The business offices are in the Second National Bank Building. Besides Mr. Boardman the other executive officers are James Hodge, president, and E. Claude Edwards, vice president. Mr. Boardman is a son of Avery W. and Fannie May (Funk) Boardman, both of whom are living retired in Toledo and are highly respected people. A sketch of Avery W. Boardman is found on other pages. Whitman Albert Boardman was born in Toledo December 7, 1886, the fourth in a family of five children, all of whom are still living. He received his early education in the Toledo public schools, and on leaving school started west to get rid of some wild oats he had on hand and to see the country. It was the same fever which has time and again seized so many American boys and has given them experience if nothing else. Young Boardman's first trip ended on a farm in Missouri, where he worked seven months. This farm was owned by hiS uncle in Shelby County. Returning to Toledo, he then saw the need of a further education and took the course of the Davis Business College. His father had been a successful railroad man and the son also had his experience in that line. He was employed on the Clover Leaf between Toledo and St. Louis for a short time, and from St. Louis went to Denver and from there to a ranch at Morrison, Colorado. He seldom remained long in any one place, and was almost constantly "roughing it." He was at Greeley and Boulder, Colorado, at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and from there drifted west to the Pacific Coast. Until the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 he was employed on the Leland Stanford University ranch at Vina, California. Then for six months he was with the McCloud River Railway and Lumber Company in California. His father expressed a need for him at home, and he returned to Toledo, where his father at that time was secretary and manager of The East Side Iron Elevator Company. His first work in Toledo was as grain sampler for the Toledo Produce Exchange under the inspection department, and he then became an employe of The East Side Iron Elevator Company as bookkeeper, from that was promoted to assistant manager, and when on January 1, 1914, his father left the business to become director of the public service of Toledo, the son succeeded him as secretary and manager. Since then Mr. Boardman has successfully looked after the general details of this business, and in 1916 was also made its treasurer. He is an active member of the Toledo Produce Exchange and Toledo Commerce Club.. 1130 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO Fraternally he is affiliated with Stanford L. Collins Lodge No. 396 Free and Accepted Masons at Toledo, Toledo Chapter Royal Arch Masons, Toledo Council Royal and Select Masons, St. Omer Commandery of the Knights Templar, of which he was senior warden in 1915, and Zenobia Temple of the 'Mystic Shrine. He and his family are members of Washington Street Congregational Church. His recreation is politics. He probably inherited his taste for political action from his father, who is a recognized authority on political affairs in Toledo and Lucas County. In 1914 Mr. Boardman was director of the Lucas County Republican League, and took an active part in the election of former mayor Carl Keller. Later Mr. Boardman's views on municipal administration did not meet with favor by Mayor Keller, who ousted his former campaign adviser and this created no little commotion in city politics, a situation which is well known by all newspaper readers of the city and vicinity. Mr. Boardman has been called a born politician and he stands for the fine principles and ideals which have made his father prominent in the same field. On April 12, 1909, Mr. Boardman married Miss Onlee Marie Bird, who was born in Elkhart, Indiana, and was educated in that city and at Toledo. She completed the domestic science course in the Scott High School of Toledo. She is a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. George M. Bird of Toledo, both of whom are now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Boardman have one daughter, Helen Marie, who was born in Toledo. JUDGE IRWIN I. MILLARD. For twelve consecutive years from February, 1891, to February, 1903, the late Judge Millard administered the office of probate judge of Lucas County. With Judge Millard on the probate bench the community had the satisfaction of knowing that one of its most sacred judicial functions was being discharged with a degree of human and technical understanding that rarely comes to the public service. The county knew that all it had to do in order to have its widows and orphans guarded by the state in their hour of need was to reelect Judge Millard at the end of every term. For forty years he had been a member of the bar of Northwest Ohio. He possessed a fine mind, a large heart, and utilized to a singular degree those opportunities for service that falls to the lot of every man occupying a similar station in affairs. In the words of a committee of his former associates of the bench and bar of Lucas County, the people of his section of Ohio might well keep in mind the example of his life, career and character, as showing the influence of an honorable man, an honest lawyer, and 't. good citizen. Irwin I. Millard was born in Richland County, Ohio, December 9, 1838, and died in Toledo December 24, 1907, after a very brief illness. He was a descendant of the sixth generation from Thomas Millard, who came to America from Birmingham, England, in 1681. This ancestor came over in the same fleet of ships, but not on the same vessel, which brought as their most distinguished passenger William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania and the City of Philadelphia. He was in the company which established Philadelphia, and that was the home of the Millards for several generations. It is noteworthy that there was a Thomas in every successive generation of the family except among the children of the late Judge Millard. Judge Millard's grandparents were Rev. Thomas and Hannah Millard. The former was a Methodist circuit rider who performed his mission as a minister in early Ohio and acquired a tract of government land in Crawford County of that state. He was an intimate friend of the noted Peter Cartwright. Rev. Thomas Millard and wife are buried on a portion of the ground which they took up from the government many years ago. Judge Millard's parents were Joseph and Molly (Immel) Millard. His father was a native of Chester County, Pennsylvania, and having learned the miller's trade for a number of years operated a flouring mill at Lodi, Ohio. He was a prosperous business man in that community until his death in 1857. Both he and his wife are buried in Crawford County. The youngest of three brothers, Judge Millard spent his boyhood and early youth in Wayne County, Ohio, and while there attended the public schools and also took a course of studies in the. Fredericksburg Academy, beginning his studies there at the age of seventeen and for the next three years teaching during a portion of each year. Not long after the beginning of the Civil war on August 11, 1861, he enlisted in Company I of the 15th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served in that regiment under Col. Moses Dickey with the Army of the Ohio, being stationed most of the time in and about HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1131 Bowling Green, Kentucky. The privations and exposures of a soldier's life proved too much for his health, which was always delicate, and in 1862 by order of the regimental surgeon he was mustered out on account of physical disability so serious as for a time to place his life in danger. Returning home to Crawford County and after recuperating, he resumed his work as school teacher at Weilersville. Judge Millard came to Toledo in 1863. Here he was soon offered a position as clerk in the recorder's office and was deputy recorder for one year. Later he became bookkeeper for Alonzo Goddard, consignee of the Erie Railroad line of steamboats and the Miami and Erie Canal line in Toledo. His tastes and ambition leading him to the law, he entered the office of Bissell & Gorrill, and continued as a student with that Toledo firm until the spring of 1867, when he was admitted to the bar and at once entered upon a partnership with his former preceptor. Of his subsequent career as a lawyer and public official the best statement and appreciation can perhaps be found in the tribute of a committee of the Bar Association as drawn up after Judge Millard's death. "From that time (1867) until 1891 he continued in the active practice of the law. The firm with which he was connected for many years had a leading business at the Lucas County bar. Few litigations of any importance were carried on without their assistance on one side or the other. Irvin I. Millard was an active member of the firm, and by his ability, industry and character gained a high reputation as a lawyer, while as a citizen and as a man no one stood higher. So greatly had he secured the esteem of his fellow citizens that in the fall of 1891 by a very large majority he was elected probate* judge of Lucas County. To this office he was re-elected three times, making a continuous service of twelve years, a length of service unequaled in this county. To say that Judge Millard performed the duties of his office to the satisfaction of the people is only to say what everyone knows. The probate judge is the adviser of the widow and the orphan. His court is continually open for business of people of all classes and degrees approaching that tribunal or expecting to have the privilege of audience with the presiding judge. "Judge Millard as probate judge was always courteous and Attentive and to those seeking advice or counsel with reference to estates or other matters in his court he was always kind and sympathetic and ready to advise. Not only was he an impartial and careful adviser, counsellor and friend, but as a judge required to pass on important controversies and questions of law and fact he showed conspicuous ability. While on the bench he was called upon to decide many important matters of law involving new and close questions. His opinions in such and infact all cases calling for statement of reasons from the bench were models of judicial clearness and reasoning. It was very rare that any decision of Judge Millard was reversed. "It is safe to say that no man in Lucas County ever retired from the probate bench more universally esteemed than Irwin I. Millard. The regard of this community for his memory was shown by the universal expression of sorrow at his death and the great outpouring of people at his funeral." On March 12, 1863, Judge Millard married Miss Mary Catherine Keller of Wellersville, Ohio, daughter of George and Susannah (Meyers) Keller. She was born in Crawford County in September, 1843, and died June 25, 1894. Seven children were born of this marriage : Irwin G., George W., Edna G. (now Mrs. John Ehni), Clara M., Fred J., Ralph B., Edith B., all of whom live at Toledo. Clara M. Millard is an attorney at law and at the time of her admission to the Bar of Ohio was the first woman to receive that honor in Northwest Ohio. She is now a deputy in the probate judge's office at Toledo and has held that position for twenty years. There are also six grandchildren : Irwin W. Millard, John Millard Ehni, Mrs. Irwina Beaver, wife of Samuel Evans Beaver. Georgia G. Millard, Mary Catherine Millard and Phyllis Millard. The family now takes particular pride in a great-grandson of the late Judge Millard, whose name is William Irwin Beaver. CHARLES K. FRIEDMAN. The work and service by which Mr. Friedman has been most closely identified and has become best known in the City of Toledo has been performed as a very able attorney. He has been an active member of the Toledo bar more than twenty years. For a number of years he has been senior member of the firm of Friedman, Foster & Dixon, whose offices are in the Ohio Building. His professional activities have been largely confined to the city where he was born on 1132 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO January 14, 1873. Charles Knox Friedman is a son of Morris and Fannie (Tyroler) Friedman, who settled in Toledo prior to the Civil war, having lived previously in New York. Morris Friedman was a manufacturer. Charles K. Friedman graduated from the Toledo High School and the Manual Training School in 1890 and soon afterwards entered the University of Michigan. In 1893 that institution gave him the degree LL.B. and he received the degree of Master of Laws in 1894. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1894, and at once began practice in his native city. For three years he was alone, and then the firm of Seney, Johnson & Friedman was organized. The senior member, Henry W. Seney, had left the Circuit Court bench to take up practice in this partnership. Curtis T. Johnson, the second member of the firm, afterwards was elected for several terms to the bench of the Common Pleas Court of Lucas County. The firm of Friedman, Foster & Dixon, of which Mr. Friedman has been a member for several years, handles a splendid volume of general litigation in all the courts. In a business way Mr. Friedman is president of the Yondota Realty Company, is secretary and director of the Chasmor Realty Company, and of the H. M. & R. Shoe Company. In an earlier part of his career he served nine years as assistant city solicitor of Toledo. Mr. Friedman has been largely interested in business realty and in a number of country tracts. In politics he is a republican. He belongs to the following Masonic bodies : Rubicon Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Toledo Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and DeWitt Clinton Consistory, Ancient Arabic Scottish Right. He is past chancellor of Harrison Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, a member of the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, of the Toledo Commerce Club and of the Toledo and Ohio State Bar associations. In church association he is president of the Collingwood Avenue Temple. On June 1, 1898, at Toledo, he married Miss Nuna R. Landman, daughter of Isaac and Jennie Landman. Mrs. Friedman was born at Toledo June 16, 1873; and received a liberal education in the local schools. They are the parents of two children : Stanley M. Friedman, born November 6, 1899 and James I. Friedman, born October 15, 1904. JOHN SHEATS was one of the sterling citizens of Henry County. The old homestead on which he died, March 1, 1904, is located in section twenty-two of Harrison Township. There Mrs. Sheats and some of her children still reside. A life of long and honorable activity was contained within the seventy-eight years vouchsafed to Mr. Sheats. He was born in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, October 17, 1826. His father, John Sheats, was born in Pennsylvania, was a farmer, and spent his last years near Tiffin, Ohio, where he was comparatively young when he died. The late John Sheats was still a boy when his parents moved to Tiffin, Ohio, and there he grew up. He made his choice of a wife from his own community, in fact Mrs. Sheats attended the same school at the same time. Her maiden name was Mary A. Snyder. She was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, June 11, 1834, and is near eighty-three years of age. When she was a small child her parents moved to Ohio and when she was still under nine years they located in Tiffin, Ohio. Her parents were George and Elizabeth (Beck) Snyder, both natives of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and of old Pennsylvania Dutch stock, originating in Holland. George and Elizabeth Snyder some years after their marriage moved to Seneca County, Ohio. That was in the late '40s. Following them came the respective parents of both George and Elizabeth Snyder. All these various families located on farms not far from Tiffin. George Snyder's parents were Philip and Elizabeth (Lutz) Snyder, and his wife's parents were George and Elizabeth (Bernard) Lutz. Philip Snyder died when past eighty and George Lutz died at the age of eighty-four from cholera which was then epidemic in that section of Ohio. His wife followed him several years later. All these worthy people were devout members of the Dutch Reform Church, and politically the male members were voters of the whig ticket and afterwards republicans. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Sheats lived in Seneca County on a farm until the birth of five children, also lived for five years in Wood County, and in 1868 moved to Henry County. In the course of his long and industrious career John Sheats acquired 120 acres of land there, and Mrs. Sheats still owns sixty acres of this, some of the best land in Harrison Township. It is improved with excellent barn, home and other buildings, and the Sheats household has always been a center of vigorous activity, of good influences, and of excellent family traits. All the surviving members of the family are active members of the Sharon Methodist Episcopal Church, HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1133 which is not far from their home. Politically the late Mr. Sheats was a republican. A brief record of the children is as follows : Frank, who is married; Edwin, who is married, and both have families; Alice is the widow of Edward Murphy of Henry County, who died November 15, 1902, and left one daughter. Esther R. is the widow of Alton Saul of Henry County, and at his death, March 5, 1913, he left two children, Edna A. and Zola L. Mrs. Saul married for her second husband Emory Woodward, and they all reside in Toledo. George died October 22, 1912, leaving a widow but no children. Mella, wife of Thomas Bowles, living in the State of Oregon and they are the parents of three daughters. Linda and William, twins, both of whom are married and live in Harrison Township. Lula, who was born in Wood County while her parents lived there, she is the wife of Leonard Hoy, of Montpelier, Indiana, their children being six in number. Charles, born in Henry County, lives in Ashtabula County and is married and has six children. Vernon, who was born in Harrison Township, died at the age of one year. COL. HUDSON FITCH. Strangers in Toledo often comment admiringly upon the trim, erect military figure of a man who wears a khaki uniform and goes about with the alert bearing and vigor of a true soldier and shows all the zest and enthusiasm of a man between fifty and sixty years. It is not without considerable surprise that they on inquiry learn that this is Col. Hudson Fitch, a man now past seventy, and with a record as a gallant soldier in the Civil war. In fact he is one of the youngest of the old veterans of that struggle, and in spite of forty years' continuous official responsibility in railroad affairs carries the burden of years and business with no signs of diminishing strength or zeal. Born at Olmsted Falls, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, January 12, 1846, Colonel Fitch is a son of Smith W. and Mary S. (Fitch) Fitch. His parents were first cousins and represented some of the early families settled in the Western Reserve of Ohio. Four Fitch brothers came from Connecticut about eighty-five or ninety years ago, establishing homes in the Western Reserve and bearing their part as pioneers in clearing up a portion of the wilderness. Colonel Fitch traces his ancestry back in an unbroken line to the year 1636, when his Fitch ancestry came from England and settled in Connecticut. The last royal governor of that colony was a Fitch. The early environment of Colonel Fitch was a farm and in those years he drank deeply of the spirit and enthusiasm of life at their source. He attended the public schools of Cuyahoga County, and was a boy of about fifteen when the war broke out. On December 28, 1863, he enlisted as a private in the 125th Ohio Infantry. Though less than eighteen years of age, he was soon afterwards made a sergeant, and his faithful performance of duty led to his promotion to the rank of first sergeant and later to second lieutenant. He followed the fortunes of his regiment in the Atlanta campaign until captured at Atlanta. As a prisoner of war he spent a time in Andersonville and in other southern prisons, and on being exchanged rejoined his regiment and was with it until mustered out at Camp Irwin in Texas in September, 1865. His promotions were on the basis of merit, and though still under age when he returned from the war he had earned all the glory and privileges of the true soldier. For many years he has been a prominent member of Volunteer Post No. 175, Grand Army of the Republic, at Toledo, has always taken an active interest in military affairs, and again and again has been honored on military and public .occasions. He was commander of the last Memorial day parade in Toledo in 1916. Before entering the army he had been clerk and bookkeeper in a general store, and after the war he resumed his place in that occupation. In 1875, more than forty years, ago, he entered the general offices of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad- at Cleveland. He was a clerk with that company until October, 1880, and then became associated with the Toledo & Ohio Central Railway. In January, 1881, when the headquarters of that road were removed from Columbus to Toledo he became a resident of Toledo and that city has been his home now for thirty-five years. In railroad work as in military service Colonel Fitch's conduct has been characterized by an intelligent and conscientious discharge of. the duties assigned him and this faithfulness brought him to the position of traffic manager of the Toledo & Ohio Central and the Zanesville & Western Railroad, an office he filled until the sale of the road to the New York Central interests. A spirit of disinterested service has been the mark of Colonel Fitch's activities as related to the public welfare. He is a repub- 1134 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO lican in national politics but broad minded and liberal in local affairs, and has really been associated with every movement for the upbuilding and progress of his home city. In Masonry he is affiliated with Rubicon Lodge No. 237, Free and Accepted Masons, with Toledo Commandery No. 7, Knights Templar, of which he is now eminent past commander, and with the Scottish Rite Consistory of the thirty-second degree. He has always been extremely fond of outdoor life and sports, and is particularly a lover of horses. For many years he has kept a fine saddle horse, and finds his keenest pleasure in riding about the parks and boulevards and the country highways surrounding Toledo. It is difficult for Colonel Fitch to pass a horse on the street without going up and petting him. For years Colonel Fitch's street dress has .been a khaki suit of military cut, and that garb heightens the military character of his figure, which is still erect for all his seventy years and he is a man nearly six feet in height, splendidly proportioned physically and of such bearing as to give denial to his real years. For a long time he has spent his vacations in the West, riding about with cowboys, sleeping on the ground, at night, and otherwise roughing it, and from this experience has drawn in new life and vigor. On November 11, 1868, Colonel Fitch married Miss Mary Odell of Twinsburg, Summit County, Ohio. Mrs. Fitch was born in Summit County, and lived for a number of years in Cleveland before her marriage. She was educated in Cleveland, and she and Colonel Fitch were married there. They now reside in the Chesbrough Dwellings and both have hosts of friends among Toledo's best people. Colonel Fitch has taken a great deal of pleasure in assisting in drilling the First Battalion of Toledo Commandery No. 7, Knights Templar, of Toledo. HON. FRANK B. NILES, present collector for the treasury department in the Tenth Internal Revenue District of Ohio, has had an active and honorable business career covering a period of thirty years. He was born at Urbana, Ohio, November 22, 1866, and was christened Francis Bailey Niles. Of his distinguished father the late Henry Thayer Niles a character sketch has already been written. The mother of Mr. Niles was Gertrude Venuxem James, a daughter of John Hough James, who was a lawyer of high standing, one of the founders of Urbana University, a member of the State Senate, originator and builder of the first railroad in Ohio, and closely identified with various other public work. Mr. Niles' mother was a granddaughter of Francis Bailey, who was proprietor and editor of Freeman's Journal at Philadelphia during the revolutionary period. This journal had as its motto " Open to all parties and influenced by none." Levi James, great-grandfather on the maternal side of Frank B. Niles, was a Virginian with extensive business interests. He was part owner of the first line of Mississippi River steamboats. In Masonry he. was especially prominent, and was master of Alexandria Lodge when Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson and Madison and other of the eminent fathers of our country were also affiliated with that lodge. As stated elsewhere Mr. Niles' great-grandfather Niles was a minister, Judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont, trustee of Dartmouth College, a congressman at large, a presidential elector, and prepared the Dartmouth College case for Daniel Webster. It was the grandfather of this early judge and minister who was a member of the first graduating class from Harvard University. Coming of a long line of antecedents who I were college bred and professional men, Frank B. Niles also began life with superior advantages. He was graduated from Urbana University in June, 1886, and soon afterwards found congenial occupation as a manager of the extensive farming lands owned by the family. The Niles family has extensive holdings even yet along the bay shore of Maumee Bay, a few miles east and north of Toledo. Mr. Frank B. Niles has been chiefly engaged in handling this valuable property. Mr. Niles was continuously identified with farming until elected a member of the State Legislature in 1897. Besides his service in the Legislature he was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson as collector of the Internal Revenue of the Tenth District of Ohio, an office to which he now gives his close attention. Mr. Niles has always been a progressive democrat, and is one of the active workers in that party. He is a member of Toledo Lodge of Elks No. 53, and his church associations are with the Church of the New Jerusalem. He has never married. With an abundance of executive ability, with the courtesy of the high bred gentleman, he has always enjoyed the friendship of the prominent men of Northern HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1135 Ohio, and his present office is a well merited distinction. GEN. CHARLES L. YOUNG. When, on the 17th of September, 1913, death set its seal upon the mortal life of General Charles Luther Young, there passed forward a noble, gallant and loyal soul from its incarnate vehicle, and Ohio lost a man who had dignified and honored the state by his large and worthy achievement, by his exalted character and by that gentle simplicity that ever marks the truly great heart and great mind. A publication of this nature exercises its supreme function when it takes cognizance, through proper memorial tribute, of the life and labors of so distinguished a citizen as the late General Young, to whose name special honor shall ever attach by reason of the splendid service which he gave as a gallant soldier and officer of the Union during the dark and climacteric period of the Civil war. In the "piping times of peace" he manifested the same loyalty and high ideals that thus prompted him to go forth in defense of the nation's integrity, and, all in all, he was a gracious, noble personality whose memory shall long be Cherished and venerated in the city and state in which he so long maintained his home; his residence in Ohio having compassed a period of nearly half a century. Gen. Charles Luther Young was born in the City of Albany, New York, on the 23rd of November, 1838, and thus his death occurred about one month prior to the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth. He was a son of Eli and Eleanor (Thomas) Young, the. former of sterling Holland Dutch lineage and the latter of Welsh descent. Eli Young was born at Caughnawaga, Montgomery County, New York, a scion of one of the sterling Dutch families that was founded in America and in the Empire State in the very early colonial period of our national history. The mother of General Young was born at Albany, the fair capital city of New York, at a time when it was still lacking in all metropolitan pretensions. The home of the Young family was maintained at Albany until the inception of the Civil war, when removal was made to the City of Buffalo, where Eli Young thereafter lived retired until his death, in 1876, at which time he was seventy years of age, his widow surviving him by a number of years. General Young, whose father was in substantial financial circumstances, was afforded excellent educational advantages in his youth. He attended different educational institutions in his native state and his more advanced scholastic training was obtained principally in Albany Academy and in the Classical Institute conducted in the same city by Prof. Charles H. Anthony, a man of high scholastic attainments. In this latter institution General Young was graduated, and early in life he formulated definite plans for his future career, but from his intention to prepare himself for the legal profession he was deflected when there came to him the call to higher duty, with the precipitation of the Civil war. After having given all of loyal and gallant service as a soldier of the Union he was compelled to abandon his ambition for the profession noted, as he had received injuries that rendered it imperative for him to seek other than sedentary vocation. In April, 1861, when but twenty-two years of age, General Young, as a zouave cadet, found it possible to render his initial service to the Union, by acting as guard for recruits that were being mobilized in his native city. In the following month, assisted by Hon. J. K. Porter, LL. D., he took an active part in recruiting men for the celebrated Excelsior Brigade that was commanded by General Sickles. On the 13th of June, 1861, he was commissioned first lieutenant and was assigned to the First Regiment of the Excelsior Brigade. In the preliminary way may be given the following quotations from a previously published record concerning his military career : "He became an officer of General Sickles' Staff, and through McCellan's Peninsular Campaign served on the staff of General Joe Hooker. After the battle of Williamsburg he was promoted to captain, dated from May 6, 1862. On the 28th of July, 1862, on the field, he was recommended for major; by Generals Sickles, Hooker and Taylor, after the Peninsular campaign. In recommending him for promotion General Hooker wrote as follows : Captain Young, late of my staff, has been in all the engagements with his command, and has been distinguished for good conduct and gallantry. He is an excellent officer and in all respects deserving of your favorable consideration. He is a young officer, but with his present experience, is qualified to fill a Majority in any regiment.' "In Pope's Virginia campaign (1862) he commanded his regiment, which participated in the memorable battles of Bristoe Station, Groveton, Bull Run and Chantilly, and he was 1136 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO probably the youngest officer in command of a regiment. After this campaign General Sickles announced this gallant young officer as assistant inspector general in the Third Army Corps. In the battle of Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863, while engaged in executing an order from the corps commander, General Sickles, General Young was struck near the jugular vein by a piece of shell, which severed the external carotid artery, and at the time he was supposed to be fatally wounded, being so listed in the official report. The details of the service which led to his receiving this dangerous wound are worthy of being noted at this juncture. On May 2d, at Chancellorsville, after the line of the Eleventh Corps broke and the Second Division of the Third Army Corps, under General Berry, pressed forward in the line of battle, General Sickles ordered Major Young to remain with General Berry and report the situation. Upon General Berry's suggestion, Major Young passed along the entire line of battle, directing that breastworks be thrown up. So when, on the morning of the 3d of May, General Stonewall Jackson threw his exultant and almost irresistible legions against Hooker's old division, he found an artificial wall, together with a living one, more than a match for his splendid generalship. It was here that General Berry lost his life. After conveying this news to General Sickles and while riding back over the field with an order to General Whipple, commander of the Third Division, Third Army Corps, General Young received the terrible wound that so nearly terminated his life. "In response to a general order for all officers to return to the front, when the Gettysburg campaign opened, General Young, with an unhealed wound, was again in the field. He was again disabled in the spring of 1864, in the Wilderness campaign, but did not leave the field. He was with his command in all the battles in which it engaged, including those of Grant's campaign of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg and other historic engagements. On the staffs of General Hooker, Sickles, William R. Brewster and other commanders, General Young served with characteristic fidelity and efficiency,—as aide-de-camp, as provost marshal, as assistant adjutant general, and as assistant inspector general. He was in the inspector general's department of General Hancock's Second Army Corps. At Spottsylvania, on the 12th of May, 1864, in response to a call for volun teers, on the part of General J. H. Hobart Ward, Assistant Inspector General Young and Assistant Adjutant General Ayers, of General Mott's staff, galloped upon the breastworks at the historic 'bloody angle.' These were the only volunteers, and only Generals Ward and Young returned, Ayers having fallen, riddled with bullets. After the close of the war General Young was commissioned and brevetted lieutenant colonel, 'for gallant and meritorious services during the war of the Rebellion.' " So germane to the military career of General Young in the Civil war was his later service in connection with military affairs in Ohio that mention of the same may consistently be made before passing to data pertaining to his business activities after the war. On the 14th of January, 1878, General Young was appointed quartermaster general and commissary general of subsistence on the staff of Governor R. M. Bishop, with the rank of brigadier general, this preferment having been given with the consent of the Ohio Senate. He accompanied the Governor on his official visit to the Dominion Exposition of Canada, and until the close of his life he con-. tinued to take a deep interest in the Ohio National Guard, the while his interest in his old comrades in arms was a dominating element in his makeup. This was signally reinforced and demonstrated during his efficient service as superintendent of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, at Xenia, a position of which he was the zealous incumbent from 1890 until 1904, all wards of the institution within his regime holding his name in reverent affection. On the 9th of January, 1880, General Young received from his comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, from the Ohio National Guard and other fellow citizens, a general-officer's sword, belt and sash of splendid material and workmanship and with appropriate inscription. Upon the death of General Hooker the family presented to General Young the sword and sash worn by that distinguished officer throughout the Civil war, the presentation being made as a memento to him as a former staff officer of "Fighting Joe." General Young was an active, appreciative and honored member of Forsyth Post, No. 15, Grand Army of the Republic, and later became affiliated with Toledo Post, No. 107. In this noble fraternal order he served on the staff of Commander in Chief Enshaw, of the Department of Ohio, 1879. In 1880 he was a HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1137 member of the national council of administration of the Grand Army of the Republic ; in 1881 he was elected senior vice-commander in chief of the National Encampment of the order, and subsequently he was a financial and property trustee of Forsyth Post. The military prestige of General Young was further indicated by his affiliation with the following named and distinguished organization : Third Army Corps Union, Second Corps Club, Society of the Army of the Potomac, Society of the Army of West Virginia, and Ohio Cornmandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, of which commandery he was a charter member. The General served also as vice-president of the Toledo Soldiers & Memorial Association as a director of the Gettysburg Battlefield Association, and was an honorary member of the Ohio National Guard Officers' Association, and an honorary member of the Continental Guards of New Orleans, Louisiana. After the close of the war General Young was engaged in business in Buffalo, New York, from 1866 to 1869, in which latter year he came to Ohio and established his residence in the City of Toledo, as representative of the extensive lumber firm of Sears, Holland & Company, which was founded in 1835. He was manager of the firm's business in Toledo until 1873, when, upon the death of F. P. Sears, the Toledo branch was reorganized under the title of Nelson Holland & Company, General Young becoming the resident partner and manager. In 1884 the plant of the firm was destroyed by fire, and the business was then transferred to the firm of Young & Miller, of which General Young continued the senior member during the years that the enterprise was continued, his associate in the firm having been George A. Miller. Mention has already been made of the fact that in 1904 General Young retired from the office of superintendent of the Ohio Soldiers & Sailors' Orphans' Home, at Xenia, and thereafter he lived retired at his home in the City of Toledo until his death. General Young was a patriot of the highest type, and as a citizen he was most progressive and public-spirited-. He accorded unwavering allegiance to the Democratic party and was repeatedly importuned to accept public office, but he manifested no ambition along this line. In 1883 he consented, however, to become his party's candidate for the office of mayor of Toledo, and though he ran against great odds his personal popularity in the city was significantly shown when the returns on the election were made, for he was defeated by only eighty-seven votes out of a total of about 10,000 cast. He was one of the first to serve, and that with marked efficiency, as a member of the board of park commissioners of Toledo, and this was the only public office he held within the long period of his residence in this city. He was widely known and held in the highest honor throughout the State of Ohio, and when he passed away an entire metropolitan community manifested a sense of loss and bereavement, while tributes of sorrow and honor came from men of distinction in this and other states. In the Masonic fraternity the General continued until his death his affiliation with DeMolay Lodge, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, in the City of Buffalo, New York. In January, 1871, was solemnized the marriage of General Young to Miss Cora M. Day, daughter of Dr. Albert Day, who was a representative physician and surgeon in the City of Boston, Massachusetts. The ancestors of Mrs. Young were among the more prominent families of New England. Her maternal grandfather, General Jotham Moulton, commanded the Eastern Division of the Continental troops in the war of the Revolution at the battle of Bunker Hill. His grandfather, Colonel Jeremiah Moulton, was in command at the reduction of Norridgewock, Maine, in 1724, and participated in the siege of Louisburg, in 1744. Dr. Albert Day, the father of Mrs. Young, was not only an eminent physician of Boston but also represented that city as a member of the Massachusetts Legislature. At the time of the Civil war Mrs. Young assisted in the establishing of the first "Contraband" School in Boston, the same being opened for the instruction of negro children, and she continued her gratuitous work for this institution until impaired health compelled her retirement. In Toledo, Ohio, Mrs. Young has been actively identified with various charitable and benevolent activities, including the Home for the Friendless and the Adams Street Mission. In former years she was specially active and influential in Forsyth Post Auxiliary Society and Woman's Relief Corps, No. 1, and had the distinction of serving as national senior vice-president of the Woman's Relief Corp, an auxiliary of the Grand Army of the Republic. Of the two children who survive the honored father the elder is Dr. Nelson Young, who is serving as assistant superintendent of the Ohio State 1138 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO Hospital for the Insane, at Toledo, and who is individually mentioned on other pages of this work. The widowed daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Cunningham, with whom. Mrs. Young maintains her home, resides in the City of Brooklyn, New York. BURTON ODELL GAMBLE. It would not be possible to compress in a simple sentence all the distinctions associated with B. 0. Gamble in the automobile business at Toledo. He has really made more automobile history in Toledo than any other individual. He sold the first car. That was about seventeen years ago. He also sold the first makes of two or three other automobiles in this city. However, Mr. Gamble is notable not alone for what he has done in the past. He is still in the lead as one of the most enterprising automobile dealers and distributors in Northwest Ohio. He is sole owner of the Gamble Motor Car Company, and its splendid establishment at 1211-1215 Madison Avenue is known to all motorists in this section of Ohio. The company distributes over twenty-two counties the Hudson, Pierce-Arrow, Peerless and Dort automobiles. It also maintains a complete service station and the company supplies to the trade some of the finest and most expensive cars as well as some of the most satisfactory of the cheaper grades. There are a good many reasons that might be found to explain Mr. Gamble's success as an automobile dealer. These would be found chiefly in his vigorous personality and in a really natural endowment of salesmanship, developed and trained of course by long experience. An interesting story is told of his success in selling bicycles when that vehicle was at the height of its popularity. While on Catawba Island he had made the friendship of Alvin Peters, who owned the Viking Manufacturing Company, which made the Viking bicycle, and who was a man of considerable influence. Mr. Peters felt that young Gamble was too good a man to be wasting his energies in the country and strongly advised him to take employment with the firm. That was in the fall of 1896. Mr. Gamble had previously confined his activities to the rural district of Ottawa County, and while he had made considerable success in growing fruit and running a summer resort, he showed few outward signs of that knack and polish of a typical traveling salesman. The manager of the Viking Company very reluctantly sent him out on the road with bicycle samples but without the slightest confidence that he could make good. In fact the manager had some doubt as' to whether the rural youth would know how to get on or off a train or register at a hotel. It may be that he had some idea that he was a party to a practical joke. Anyhow, young Gamble started out, making his first stop at Fort Wayne, Indiana, from there going to LaPorte and Chicago as far west as Minneapolis, north to Duluth, and south to Cincinnati. It was a three months' trip, and took up the greater part of the winter of 1896-7. He reported regularly to the company at Toledo, but had not the slightest notion whether *he was doing well or not. He was too busy to go into any calculations as to his own success, and when he reached the home office at Toledo he was rather bewildered to find a little gathering of some seventeen road salesmen who stared at him with a frank admiration which he could hardly understand. In fact he was the center of attraction and as it were the cynosure of all eyes. Naturally some explanation was required and the news was gently broken to him that he had in three months made sales twice as great in quantity and value as any other man on the force, and the company had arranged that the other salesmen should all be present to greet the young genius of salesmanship on his return. While the keynote of success is usually found in individual personality and energy, an important factor is always a good family heritage. Mr. Gamble is member of a rather remarkable family group. He is past forty-five years of age, his parents are living, and not only that but all his brothers and sisters and all their descendants are alive, and there has not been a death in the family in all the generations beginning with Mr. Gamble's father and mother. Burton Odell Gamble was born on Catawba Island in Ottawa County, Ohio, April 27, 1870, a son of Joseph M. and Amanda (Rogers) Gamble. His father was born in Missouri, but when a child was taken to Ottawa County where he grew up and he is now a well known commission merchant at Toledo, and for the past twenty-five years has been a dealer in produce at No. 5 Washington Street. Joseph M. Gamble's brother, Col. James W. Gamble, is now past ninety years of age, and still lives on Catawba Island. The mother was born in Seneca County, Ohio, but she too was reared on Catawba Island. HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1139 Joseph M. Gamble and wife have twelve children, six sons and six daughters, all of whom are now married, and there are twelve grandchildren, six grandsons and six granddaughters, and six great-grandchildren, three boys and three girls. This is truly an interesting family group, not only for the fact that there has not been a single death, but also for the equal division between the sexes which has been maintained in all the generations. Mr. B. 0. Gamble is the second of the children, and his brothers and sisters are : Mrs. Jacob B. Leach of Toledo; Mrs. John Kettle-son of Port Clinton, Ohio; Mrs. Harry Wideman of Port Clinton; Mrs. Harley Rounds of Port Clinton ; James B., who is manager of the service department in the Gamble Motor Car Company ; R. W. of Toledo ; H. C. of Detroit; Mrs. Perry M. Bacon of Toledo ; Mrs. Al Krause of Toledo ; George R. of Toledo ; and C. W. of Toledo. All the children were born on Catawba Island but for many years the parents have lived in Toledo. Burton O. Gamble has been making his own way since he was seventeen years of age. He received his education in the public schools of Catawba Island, graduated from high school there with the class of 1895. After leaving school he found work on a fruit farm, and gained experience in gathering grapes and peaches and in making the wine for which Catawba Island is noted. At the present time Mr. Gamble owns a twenty-eight acre fruit farm, growing grapes and peaches, and maintaining a wine cellar. At one time he made about 2.000 gallons of wine every year. Later he bought from his uncle a general store on Catawba Island. Under one roof he kept a stock of everything needed to supply a general country trade, and also furnished quarters for the postoffice, the telegraph office, the telephone exchange. He was interested in that business for about five years, two years as sole proprietor and three years with Mr. A. J. Owen, under the firm name of Gamble & Owen. Selling out his store, Mr. Gamble next continued his partnership with Mr. Owen in conducting a summer resort on Catawba Island known as "Owen Cottage," Gamble & Owen as proprietors. They managed this for about four years, .until their hotel was burned in 1898. The cottage would accommodate about a hundred guests, and it was filled up throughout the summer seasons, principally with guests from Toledo, and many of them stayed for two months at a time. Mr. Gamble owned one of the first bicycles on Catawba Island. In those years he had few equals as a bicycle racer. In a single fall in racing contests he won seventeen bicycles, and it was this experience which undoubtedly helped him materially in the epoch making trip he took in 1898 as a bicycle salesman. After he had returned in 1899, he went into business with E. G. Eager under the firm name of E. G. Eager & Company on Superior Street, handling bicycles and bicycle sundries. He continued with Mr. Eager about two years and then started the automobile business. In August, 1899, Mr. Gamble sold the first horseless carriage in Toledo. It was a Mobile steamer, made at Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson, and the purchaser was the late Peter Gendron. It was the first automobile ever sold in this section of the country. Mr. Gamble handled the Mobile ear several years. In 1900 he took the Winton agency and sold a few Winton phaetons during that year and in 1901. He next took on the Waverly Electrics, and has the distinction of selling the first electric car in Toledo to the late John Huebner of the Buckeye Brewery. For a time he handled the single cylinder Oldsmobiles, later the Columbia Electrics and the Baker Electrics, and during 1902-03 he sold a number of Winton touring cars. In 1905 he handled the Pope car, which was made in Toledo, and sold that make until the company went out of business. For one season he handled the Chalmers cars. In 1908 he began selling the Peerless and the Pierce-Arrow. The first purchaser of a Peerless car in this seotion was Clarence Brown, one of Toledo's prominent attorneys. Mr. Gamble has sold several hundred Pierce-Arrow cars since taking the agency. He also sold the highest priced car ever brought to Toledo to A. M. Woolson, president of the Woolson Spice Company. of Toledo. Mr. Woolson paid $10,260 for an American Mercedes. The Gamble Motor Car Company has been at its present location on Madison Avenue since 1908. Previously he was at 1012 Madison Avenue, where a special building was erected for him in 1903 by the heirs of the late John Pray. When it was opened this was the finest equipped garage and service station anywhere in the country. It was a building 50 by 100 feet, three stories with elevators, and also basement. The Gamble Motor Car Company had its home there until it moved to the present location. 1140 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO Mr. Gamble is a director of the Toledo Auto Show Company and member of the Lincoln Highway Association, the Toledo Commerce Club, the Toledo Club, the Toledo Automobile Club, the Cleveland Athletic Club of Cleveland, and the Detroit Athletic Club of Detroit, and he is a typically outdoor man, finding his pleasure in automobiling and in "roughing it." He is also affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Toledo Young Men's Christian Association and the Toledo Museum of Art. On May 12, 1900, Mr. Gamble married Miss Lulu R. Freeman of Fremont, Ohio, a daughter of Calvin A. and Ella (Russell) Freeman, both now deceased. Mrs. Gamble was born at Fremont and was educated there, being a graduate of the high school. She also studied music and is an accomplished vocalist. Mrs. Gamble is a member of the Collingwood Avenue Presbyterian Church, is an active member of the Woman's Club, the Shakespeare Club, the Toledo Museum of Art and the Toledo Young Women's Christian Association. WILLIAM A. MEEKER. One of the most interesting and best known families of Henry County is that represented by the late William A. Meeker and by his widow Mrs. Meeker, who still occupies the old homestead in Napoleon Township. Mrs. Meeker belongs to the noted Gunn family, one of the oldest and most prominent in this section of Northwest Ohio. Both the Meekers and Gunns have been identified with the growth and progress of this section of the state for upwards of a century, and many of the members bearing those names have done a great deal toward the upbuilding and advancement of their community. The late William A. Meeker had a very successful career which was terminated with his death at his home in Napoleon Township March 15, 1911. He was then nearly eighty years of age. He was born in Butler County, Ohio, July 24, 1831. His parents Chalon and Mary (Ammons) Meeker were natives respectively of New Jersey and 'Ohio. About 1836 they moved from Butler County to Ottawa County and established themselves as pioneers in that new district of Northwest Ohio. Chalon Meeker was a very thrifty farmer and stock raiser, and one of the pioneer stock drovers in this section of Northwest Ohio. In the early days he drove stock overland across the country as far as New York City, taking his herds from Butler County and later from Ottawa County. He was active to the last and died in the harness at the age of seventy-three. He was twice married, and his second wife became his bride only a few weeks before his death. He had lost his first wife some years before. She was the mother of nine children, and the only one of these still living is Mrs. Amanda McKay of Illinois. The late William A. Meeker, the oldest son of the family, grew up and succeeded to the business of his father for a few years. In 1873 he moved to Napoleon Township in. Henry County and bought 165 acres, where he lived and where he developed a very complete and valuable property. That was his home until his death. He was a man of sound principles, energetic, foresighted, shrewd, capable in business transactions, loyal to his country, and devoted to the best interests of his home and family and neighborhood. When a young man he lost the sight of one eye and this deficiency alone kept him out of the Union army, since he volunteered early in the war, and when deprived of the privilege of serving in the ranks he gave liberally of his means and influence toward the preservation of the Union. He was always a republican after the formation of that party. In 1870 in Napoleon Township at the home of the .bride Mr. Meeker married Miss Eliza Gunn. She was born at the home where she was married. Her birthplace was the old Gunn homestead in Napoleon Township, and there she first saw the light of day October 14, 1846. She was reared and educated in that community and is a woman of fine culture, very capable as a business manager, as has been proved since the management of the estate was left to her following her husband's death, and she is a splendid representative of old pioneer stock in that section of Ohio. She was the oldest of nine children, the others being George, Lucian, Helen, Florence, Augusta, Landon, Charles and Cyrus, all of whom grew up and married and became heads of families, while she and her three brothers Charles, Landon and Lucian are still living. The parents of these children were Elliott H. and Elizabeth (Cover) Gunn, who were married in 1845. Elliott Gunn was born in Damascus, Henry County, Ohio, December 5, 1818, and was one of the first white children born there. His parents were Charles and Elizabeth Gunn, both natives of New York State, Charles being of Scotch parentage, and they led the way of the pioneers into Henry County, locating near the Maumee River near Damascus. Charles HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1141 Gunn was a trader among the Indians, and had the distinction of being the first justice of the peace elected when Henry County was organized, and the first marriage ceremony performed in the county was included in his record of official duties. This pioneer died when in the prime of life in 1832, his wife having passed away two weeks before. Elizabeth Cover, mother of Mrs. Meeker, was born in Perry County, Ohio, August 16, 1827, and when a small child was taken by her parents to Ottawa County, where she lived until her marriage. After that she lived in Henry County and there as a bride took up the burdens of pioneering in the wilds of Napoleon township. She lived in a log cabin, and in lieu of a door they hung a quilt over the opening to keep the weather out. It was a typical log cabin, with a clapboard roof, in the midst of the timber, through which the wolves roved at will, and there was abundance of wild game to provide for the table. The bears were still numerous in the forest when Mr. and Mrs. Gunn established their home in Henry County. After many years of hard work they improved their 120 acres into a splendid farm, and reared all their children there. Elliott Gunn died on the old homestead September 22, 1890, while his wife passed away March 25, 1893. He was a republican, but was a quiet reserved man, and while a good neighbor, and much loved and respected in his neighborhood, he never sought official honors. Mrs. Meeker became the mother of three children, but George E. and Miley both died in infancy. Her only living child is Dr. Lawson A., who was born February 19,' 1874. After graduating from the graded schools ,and spending four years in the public 'schools of Napoleon, he attended Rush Medical College at Chicago two years and in 1897 graduated M. D. from the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville. For a time he had valuable experience in the hospitals maintained by the Wabash Railway Company, afterwards was in private practice two years at Grelton, Ohio, and has since been in practice at Holgate, where he enjoys a large clientage. Dr. Meeker married Ima Boulton of Henry County. Their three children are : Daphne in the eighth grade ; Ruth in the seventh grade, and Elliot in the third grade of the public schools. Mrs. Meeker is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and both she and her husband became identified with that church many years ago. Vol. II-31 JOHN HUDDLE. For more than a half a century John Huddle has been helping to make history in Henry County, and so well has he directed his energies that he is now the possessor of a large and valuable property, as well as of the esteem and confidence of the people of Napoleon Township, among whom he has lived and labored for so many years. He has led a simple, active and methodical life, and his busy hands have manipulated the constructive implements of the agriculturist. He has been spared to witness and participate in the transformation of this part of the state from a wild country into a fertile and prosperous farming district and has borne his full share of the labor connected with its development and advancement. John Huddle was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, October 10, 1837, and is a son of Daniel and Barbara (Beery) Huddle. On both sides of the family he comes of good old Swiss stock, and his paternal ancestors on locating in America first settled in Pennsylvania, from whence they migrated to Virginia. In the latter state was born his grandfather, George Huddle, who moved as a young man to Ohio, locating in Hocking County, where they settled down to agricultural pursuits and continued to be engaged therein during the remaining years of their lives, the grandfather dying when seventy-two and the grandmother when not quite so old. They were buried on their farm in Ohio. These sturdy old pioneer settlers were of the sterling stock which formed the solid foundation upon which the prosperity of the state has been built, honest, God-fearing people who did their daily duty and lived in peace and quietude among their neighbors, reared their families and assisted in the development of their community. Daniel Huddle was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, in 1809. When still a young lad, less than fourteen years old he left the home farm and removed to Lancaster County, Ohio. When ready to embark upon 'an enterprise of his own he chose farming as the medium through which to gain his worldly success. By 1834 he was prepared to found a home of his own, and in that year was united in marriage with Miss Barbara Beery, a young lady of Fairfield County, Ohio. She was born in 1813, and was al' of Swiss descent. Her grandfather, Nicholas Beery, was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, of Pennsylvania parents and Swiss grandparents. As a young man Nicholas Beery came to Lancaster County, Ohio, and there 1142 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO entered a whole section Of Government land during the administration of President John Quincy Adams. There he passed his life in the clearing and development of a farm, and died when in advanced years. Among his children was Abraham Beery, who was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, and lived and died on the farm which his father had entered from the government, passing away at the age of seventy-two years. He married Catherine Fash, who was born at Reading, Pennsylvania, and who died when past eighty years of age. The Beery 's were faithful and devoted members of the River Brethren Church, in the faith of which Mrs. Huddle was reared, as was also her husband, although .as they broadened and developed in later years they attended other religious services. Daniel Huddle, following in the footsteps of his ancestors, was a supporter of the principles of the whig party, and with the formation of the republican organization joined its ranks. Mr. and Mrs. Huddle were hard-working and industrious farming people, admired and respected by their neighbors, kindly, charitable and honorable. The former died in 1867, when fifty-eight years of age, while the latter passed away in 1864, aged fifty-one years. At that time they were the owners of a good property which came to them as a reward for their years of faithful toil. John Huddle grew to a vigorous young manhood in his native county, where he was substantially instructed in farming while receiving a good education in the public schools of his day and locality. He was still single when he left the parental roof and removed to Crawford County, Ohio, but there met and married Miss Catherine Shoemaker, a native of that county. It is interesting to note that Mrs. Huddle's birthday occurs just three days after that of her husband. Her parents, David and Susanna (Errett) Shoemaker, were natives of Pennsylvania, and her maternal grandfather was a missionary to Ohio from the Keystone state. David Shoemaker and his wife migrated from Pennsylvania to Crawford County with their family at a very early day, and here Mr. Shoemaker entered several hundred acres of land, a part of which is now Mr. Huddle's homestead, other parts included in a Napoleon, another part the County Fair Grounds, and still other parts in townships adjoining Napoleon. Returning to Crawford County, Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker rounded out long and useful lives and passed away in advanced years. They were known as thrifty and industrious agriculturists and as worthy, Christian people who had the respect and esteem of their friends and neighbors. Mr. Huddle settled on the farm which he now occupies in 1861. At that time the land was wild and uncultivated, and his first home was a small log cabin, but as the years passed and his improved finances permitted he erected new buildings, cultivated his land, and developed it into one of the really valuable properties of the township. Here he now raises bumper crops of grain and also grows good livestock. The modern, well-furnished home and capacious barns are due to his success and forethought and the place generally bears the impress of the large and liberal personality of its owner. In recent years, when induced to shift in part the burden of responsibility onto younger shoulders, he was fortunate in having capable and ambitious sons, who had readily responded to his training and shared his progressiveness and wide-awake tendencies. Mr. and Mrs. Huddle are consistent members of the Evangelical Church, to the movements of which they have always contributed liberally. They have been the parents of the following children : Rev. William W., a pastor of the Evangelical Church now stationed at Lancaster, has been married twice and has no children ; Cora, unmarried, formerly a teacher in the public schools, now at home caring for her parents ; Samuel, who died in infancy ; Daniel, a farmer of Harrison township, married Irene Travis, who died at the age of twenty-three years, leaving one son, Howard G., a graduate of Napoleon High School, aged nineteen years and a student of wireless telegraphy, who has made his home with his grandparents for a number of years; Ora, manager of his father's farming interests, married first Verda Pontius, who died after the birth of two children, Ray V. and Gale L., who are graduates of Napoleon High School and the former of Defiance College, and Mr. Huddle married for his second wife Adelia Pontius, a sister of the first Mrs. Huddle, and they have two children,—Fred and Elizabeth ; and John, a farmer residing seven miles east of Battle Creek, Michigan, married Effie Beisheim, and has a son, Noel John. Mr. Huddle is a republican in his political views and although now nearing his eightieth birthday still takes an active and intelligent interest in public affairs of moment. He has HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1143 always supported movements which have been promoted to benefit his community and its people and has freely given of his services when they have been required. A companionable and well posted man, observing the world from a wide range, he retains his faith in the goodness of mankind and in the existence of opportunity for all who earnestly seek it. HON. O'BRIEN O'DONNELL. As judge of the Probate and Juvenile Court of Lucas County Hon. Mr. O'Donnell fills a place of distinction and important public service in Toledo. He has been identified with the bar of this city nearly two decades, and has been on the probate bench for more than six years. His record of service classifies him as a fine type of the modern judge. He does not represent the stern justice that inflicts penalties without discretion or discrimination, but rather believes and acts so that, with due respect for the welfare of society, the individual wrongdoer may be set on the road to reformation. This important characteristic of his work has been especially prominent as judge of the Juvenile Court, and Judge O'Donnell has been frequently commended in Toledo and elsewhere for his service in inaugurating the "Big Brother" movement as a factor in the conservation and reformation of misguided and unfortunate youth. In a branch of the judiciary that is comparatively new in modern civil government, and one that requires for its effective working the finest balance of judgment and character, Judge O'Donnell has performed a service of inestimable benefit to the present and future generations, and has given his court a high standing throughout the country. Born in St. Clair County, Michigan, Judge O'Donnell is a son of Patrick O'Donnell, a prosperous Michigan farmer, and a grandson of John O'Donnell, who was born in Ireland and subsequently became a pioneer settler in Wayne County, Michigan, whence he removed to St. Clair County. In Ireland he had followed agricultural pursuits, and was identified with the same line of work in the United States. Patrick O'Donnell married Honora O'Donnell, who was of the same name, was a native of Ireland, but was descended from a different family, her parents having been English and Irish. She came to Michigan when about thirteen years of age. and that state was her permanent home. She passed away in Kent County, Michigan, in 1905. As a boy Judge O'Donnell lived in St. Clair County on a farm, gained his elementary education in the district schools, and subsequently entered the Detroit College of Law, where he was graduated. He gained admission to the bars both of Michigan and Ohio, and was admitted to practice in the United States Court of Detroit and in the Federal District Court at Toledo. For several years his practice was done first in Port Huron and later in Detroit, but in the spring of 1896 he moved his home and office permanently to Toledo. In a few years he had succeeded in building up a large and profitable general practice. As a lawyer he possessed not only unusual keenness of insight but also a thorough diligence and capacity for unraveling all the difficulties and complications of the most tedious litigation, and on the basis of those qualities he was entrusted with an increasing amount of important and complicated cases. He continued actively in private practice until February, 1909, when he entered upon his duties as judge of probate for Lucas County, to which position he was elected as a candidate upon the independent ticket. Under the laws of Ohio the probate judge of Lucas County is ex-officio the judge of the Juvenile Court for the City of Toledo. In order to supplement the agencies established by law and to carry out some of his high ideals for the reformation of young boys who were daily brought into his court, Judge O'Donnell inaugurated in Toledo the "Big Brother" movement. As a result delinquent boys in the majority of cases instead of being remanded to some institution are placed under a sort of parole and under the individual guardianship of responsible persons who have voluntarily assumed their share of civic obligations and whose duty it is to faithfully endeavor to give the lads a chance of life and guide them towards real manhood. Naturally, as judge of the Juvenile Court, Mr. O'Donnell is the official head of this system, and his own personality has had much to do with its successful working. He has shown a wonderful sympathy with so-called incorrigible youths of the City of Toledo, and no one understands better the depth of a boy's nature or can read more clearly the mysteries of their heart and mind. To his work he has brought a high enthusiasm and an unselfish purpose which has contributed probably more than anything else to the admirable record which he has made. His duties in the Probate Court are arduous 1144 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO and exacting, and are performed with punctilious care, so that it is generally understood that the interests of widows and orphans are safely entrusted when in the keeping of Judge O'Donnell. In spite of the incessant demands upon his time and strength by reason of his official duties, Judge 0 'Donnell really regards his position as a privilege and an opportunity and is employing all the gifts and talents of a high minded man for the sake of a great public benefit. Judge O'Donnell is also known as an eloquent public speaker, and always has something worth saying and something which is worth remembering. In fact, Judge O'Donnell is one of the men best fitted to speak on social conditions that prevail in Toledo, since for the past six or seven years he has daily been brought into contact with the classes and masses, and well understands "how the other half live." Quite recently, in an interview with a reporter of a local paper, he gave an interesting and instructive turn to the discussion over the burning question of "preparedness." He emphasized the necessity of taking such measures as would spare the children of the United States for their duties as citizens. " There is only one way to see that this can be accomplished," said he, "and that is by seeing that the children are given the proper attention and rearing in their childhood days. Guns, powder, shells, ships, aeroplanes, and other implements of war may be necessary in a policy of preparedness," he continued, "but they must all be operated by human beings, and no ill-fed, half-starved, undeveloped child, grown into an imitation of a real man, has the capacity for such work." In politics he is a democrat on national issues, but has always been independent in local matters, and is primarily devoted to the highest welfare of his own city, regardless of partnership. Judge O'Donnell was reelected probate judge and began his second four-year term in February, 1913. He is a member of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, is a member of the Knights of Columbus, belongs to the Young Men's Christian Association, the Knights of the Modern Maccabees, the Inverness Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Lucas County Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association. He makes his home at the Monticello, at the corner of Michigan Street and Jefferson Avenue, where he has a suite furnished with every bachelor comfort. EUGENE L. DAVIS. One of the most progressive farmers and stockmen of Henry County, Eugene L. Davis has been a resident of this locality only since 1912, but during this time has shown his ready adaptability and resolute initiative, and is now the owner of a handsome property. After a thorough experience in Illinois, Mr. Davis took up his residence in Napoleon Township, Henry County, and resided thereon until the spring of 1917, at which time he removed to his present home, in Barlow Township. He is steadily improving this place, which bids fair to become one of the most valuable in the southeastern part of the county. Eugene L. Davis was born on a farm on Wheeling Creek, near the City of Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, December 13, 1873, and is a son of Silas and Mary (Davis) Davis. His paternal grandfather was Albert Davis, who was probably born in the South, but who was taken young to that part of Virginia which afterward became West Virginia, and there passed his life in agricultural pursuits, dying when in advanced years. He married a West Virginia lady of German parentage, who also attained old age. They were members of the Presbyterian Church, and the grandfather was first a whig and later a republican in his political views. The maternal grandfather of Eugene L. Davis was Allen Davis, a Virginian, who passed his life in the vicinity of his birth and for many years was a tollgate keeper on the old Wheeling National Turnpike. He was twice married, and his first wife, the mother of Mrs. Mary J. Davis, died when the latter was still a child. Silas Davis, father of Eugene L. Davis, was born in (West) Virginia, where he was reared and educated and where he has always been engaged in farming. Although now nearly eighty years of age, he is still hale and hearty and continues in the active management of his business affairs. He is a republican in politics, and while he has not courted public preferment, has wielded some influence in his community as a substantial citizen of worth and intelligence. Mrs. Davis died at the old home in December, 1911, aged seventy-three years, in the faith of the Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Davis is a member. They were the parents of four children who are still living, namely : Harry, who is a resident of West Virginia, is married and has one child, —Hannibal ; Lucy, who is the wife of Mitchell Winters, a sawmill man and farmer near the old West Virginia. home, and has two daugh- HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1145 ters,—Mary and Wilma ; Julia, who is the wife of Joseph McCausland of Elm Grove, West Virginia, the operator of a successful coffee and peanut roasting establishment at Wheeling ; and Eugene L. Eugene L. Davis was educated in the public schools of his native locality and grew to manhood on his father's farm. At the age of twenty-one years he decided to commence operations on his own account, and, feeling that the country to the West offered better opportunities for a young man of ambition and energy, struck out for Illinois, where he had his first independent experience as the operator of a farm. He began operations in a modest way in Peoria County, that state, but through hard and well-directed work soon placed his finances on a sound footing, and was married and established a home. In February, 1912, he recognized and grasped an opportunity to better himself by coming to Henry County, Ohio, where he settled on a farm in section twenty-five, Napoleon Township, and this he developed into a valuable and highly cultivated property. In 1916 he traded this land for his present farm in Barlow Township, although he did not move to his new home until the spring of 1917. This farm, lying near Deshler, is in the heart of a rich farming community, not so far from the Portage River, and consists of 160 acres each in sections 29 and 30. Here is found an elm soil with a good clay subsoil, on which the staple crops raised are corn, wheat and oats, while the usual farm truck can be grown in great abundance. Mr. Davis feeds the greater part of what he grows to his fine livestock, growing a good grade of cattle, horses and hogs, for which he finds a ready and remunerative market. lie is considered a practical farmer, thoroughly informed as to soil and climatic conditions, and a comprehensive knowledge of the use of modern methods and farm machinery. His operations have always been indicative of his progressive spirit. Mr. Davis has a comfortable and commodious frame house, and a stock and grain barn 40x80 feet, with substantial outbuildings and good equipment. Mr. Davis was married in Peoria County, Illinois, to Miss Edna Slocum, who was born in that county in 1878 and there reared and educated. She is a daughter of John C. and Margaret (Bailey) Slocum, who both died in Illinois when past three score years of age. They were pioneers of Peoria County and strong Presbyterians, Mr. Slocum having been for years an elder in that church. He was a republican in political affiliation. To Mr. and Mrs. Davis there have been born two children : Carl, who died at the age of three years, and Evelyn Pauline, born July 5, 1909. Mr. and Mrs. Davis are members of the Presbyterian Church. He is fraternally connected with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows apd was past grand of his lodge in the latter order while a resident of Illinois. GEORGE H. JAHN. There is hardly a better known man in Henry County than George H. Jahn. Mr. Jahn spent a number of years in his earlier life on the sea, coming from a race of seafaring people along the coast surrounding the North and Baltic seas in Europe. He finally settled down to the quiet routine of farming in Henry County and now has a most attractive estate in section 22 of Napoleon Township, close to the city of that name and situated along the Miami canal overlooking the Maumee River and valley. Mr. Jahn became most widely known over Henry County through his capable service as a public official. He was twice elected as city marshal of Napoleon, and at the end of his second term he was nominated and elected sheriff of Henry County. That was in 1902, and he filled the office most creditably for two terms, four years. He is of German ancestry. His grandfather Simon Jahn was born in Schleswig-Holstein, in what is now the German Empire, and spent his life there. He owned and for many years operated a mill driven by wind power. That was his vocation, and after a career of usefulness he died at the age of seventy-two, having survived his wife, who was a native of the same province. Their four sons and two daughters also spent their lives in Germany, and all but one of them married and all are now deceased. George H. Jahn Sr., was born in Schleswig-Holstein in 1810. As he grew up he learned the milling trade from his father, but failing health finally sent him to sea, and from a man before the mast he rose to command a vessel for Petersen & Company sailing on the Baltic and North seas. He sailed out of the port of Heiligenhafen. Later he became master and owner of a vessel, and built up a small fortune. Finally, after a shipwreck and exposure to the elements for six days, he lost his health and lived retired at his birthplace until his death at the age of sixty-five. He 1146 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO was a man of strong character, was universally esteemed, and gave many of his traits and characteristics to his children. He married a neighbor girl, Miss Dorothy Timmermann, who like her husband was of old German Lutheran stock. She died at the age of sixty-seven in 1885. In their family were six sons and two daughters. Those still living are Herman, Mathias, Julius, George H. and Mrs. Dorothy Brookwalt, all of whom are married except Mathias. The. oldest child was George, whose name was subsequently given to the youngest of the family, the subject of this sketch. George and his brother Ferdinand were both sailors, the former a seaman and the latter a mate, and both were lost at sea when young. George H. Jahn was born in Schleswig-Holstein December 13, 1863, and was reared and educated in his native province. His family being seafaring people he naturally took to the same vocation, and altogether spent eleven years- on seagoing vessels. In 1880 he came to the United States, on the steamer Cimbria from Hamburg, and for nine years sailed on coastwise vessels from the ports of New York and Boston. In 1889 he went west to Iowa, where for two years he operated an engine, having learned that trade while on a steamship. For more than a quarter of a century Mr. Jahn has lived in Henry County, Ohio, and has busied himself with the management of a farm and with his various business and official duties. His present farm comprises 130 acres situated in sections 22 and 23 and he has managed his property with unusual thoroughness and has laid the foundation for a substantial success as a farmer. He put up all the buildings, and raises some excellent stock. At Napoleon he married Miss. Flora Saggers, who was born in Henry County in 1869, and received her education in the City of Napoleon. Her parents were Andrew J. and Elizabeth (Overhultz) Saggers, both natives of Union County, Ohio, and after their marriage settling in Henry County, where they lived out their useful and honorable lives and died when quite old people. Mr. and Mrs. Jahn are the parents of three children. Eva married Lowell Packard, and has a daughter Marjorie. Elizabeth, still at home, completed her education in the Napoleon High School. Clarence is now seventeen years of age, and still at home. SAMUEL RENNER WILLIAMS is a native of Northwest Ohio, has spent his career in several counties as a teacher, lawyer and business man, and since 1913 has been a resident of Toledo. Samuel R. Williams was born October 10, 1867, at West Baltimore, Preble County, Ohio. His grandfather, Samuel A. Williams, a native of Wales, came to this country in 1830, lived for a time near Roanoke, Virginia, and afterwards moved to Montgomery County, Ohio, where for many years he was a prominent merchant. Dr. James Madison Williams, father of Samuel R., was born in Fincastle, Virginia, December 11, 1842. In 1869 he graduated from the Ohio Eclectic College of Cincinnati, and thereafter spent a quarter of a century in successful practice at Hollansburg in Darke County, Ohio, where he died June 15, 1894. Doctor Williams was married March 3, 1863, to Harriet Emily Renner. Spending his youth at Hollansburg in Darke County, Samuel R. Williams attended the public schools there, and made such good use of his early opportunities that he was qualified to take up work as a teacher. He taught his first term in the spring of 1884 at the age of seventeen. Later while teaching he read law in the offices of Allread & Bickel, a prominent firm of attorneys at Greenville, Ohio. Mr. Williams was admitted to the Ohio bar June 7, 1894. In the preceding February, J. M. Bickel, having been elected probate judge of Darke County, retired from the firm of Allread & Bickel, and Mr. Williams upon admission to the bar formed a partnership with Judge James I. Allread. This partnership was not interrupted until Governor McKinley appointed Mr. Allread to the circuit bench. In January, 1905, Mr. Williams moved to Findlay, Ohio, where farming a partnership with John J. Cole and Ralph D. Cole, he practiced in the firm of Cole, Williams & Cole for about eight years. In January, 1913, Mr. Williams gave up the practice of law and moved to Toledo, Ohio, where he engaged in the business of buying and selling investments. In July, 1913, together with Mr. Charles C. Truax, Toledo, Ohio; Mr. Harry E. Wetherill, Toledo, Ohio; Mr. Charles L. Grimm, Newville, Pennsylvania ; Mr. John T. Loweth. Chicago, Illinois, and Mr. John H. Hirzel. Detroit. Michigan, incorporated the United Grocers Corporation with a capital of Sixteen Million, Five Hun- HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1147 dred Thousand ($16,500,000.00) Dollars. This corporation having been formed for the purpose of producing, manufacturing, and distributing food merchandise, packed and sold under its private trade marked brand, "Un-Gro-Co," and operating branch distributing plants throughout the country. The idea of the corporation being to place its capital stock largely with retail merchants throughout the country, thus creating a mutuality of interest between the corporation and retail merchants handling its private trade marked brand of food merchandise, thereby insuring a wide distribution of its products at a very nominal sale and advertising cost. The United Grocers Corporation has been very successful in the placing of its capital stock, as well as its trade marked brands of food merchandise upon the market and while it has only passed its third year of operation, it already has hundreds of real, live, active retail merchants throughout the country who are very energetic in placing its goods upon the market, at a handsome profit to both the retail merchant and the corporation, as well as a reduced cost to the consumer. The success of the United Grocers Corporation during its limited period of operation being so phenomenal, it is reasonable to assume that this corporation in the near future will be a controlling factor in the production, manufacture and distribution of food products. Until recent years Mr. Williams took a quite active part in democratic politics in Ohio, being a member of central and executive committees, and often taking part in speaking tours throughout the various districts. He is a member of the Toledo Commerce Club, and fraternally is affiliated with the Masons, the Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Red Men and the Modern Woodmen of America. His church home is the Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church at the corner of Parkwood and Delaware avenues. On December 16, 1908, at Toledo, he married Jessie E. Skeldon, daughter of Charles E. and Eliza Skeldon. Children, Guy R., Don I., Dale C., and James R. WILLIAM H. ULRICH. One of the very interesting old homesteads around Napoleon is the Lingel farm on the south bank of the Maumee River, which formerly comprised 148 acres, twenty-eight acres of which is situated within the city limits of Napoleon. Of the undivided portion of this old homestead William H. Ulrich and wife are now proprietors and owners. Ten acres of this fine farm is still in native timber, including a number of hard maple trees that have yielded their sap for the making of maple sugar and other products for more than seventy years. The entire farm was at one time heavily covered with fine trees, beach, black walnut, white ash, white oak and other scattering varieties. The original eighty acres of this farm was taken up from the Government by Mrs. Ulrich's grandfather, Henry Weaver. He came to Henry County from Middletown, Butler County, Ohio, traveling by way of the canal as far as Napoleon. When he took up the land Napoleon was a village of only a few houses and all the surrounding country was in the midst of the heavy woods. Henry Weaver gave this land to his daughter Margaret, who afterwards married Edward Lingel. Edward Lingel was a tanner in Butler County, Ohio, and after his marriage, in 1848, he came up and took possession of the wild farm in Henry County, building a log cabin and in other ways making the typical start towards developing a tract of new land. Later he built a second house of hewn logs, and in 1861 put up the large brick residence of seventeen rooms, which at that time was the largest house in the entire county. Edward Lingel was a very prosperous farmer and business man and died at the old hometsead in 1877. He was born June 21, 1818. His wife was born January 16, 1824, and died June 10, 1892. Both were members of the English Lutheran Church, and he was a very ardent democrat. He served Henry County as commissioner and also as infirmary director. During his residence on the old farm he increased its area to 148 acres. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lingel had a son and four daughters. The son, Thomas, the only one of the children born in Butler County, Ohio, died after his marriage, and his one daughter, Mary, died at the age of seven years. The living children are : Ellen, the widow of Joseph Lingel, and their only child is now deceased, Mrs. Lingel ,making her home with her sister, Mrs. Ulrich ; Dora is the wife of David Sager of Napoleon, and they have a family of one son and five daughters. Ida Lingel was born in Henry County on the old homestead, was reared and educated there, and in 1878 married William H. Ulrich. Mr. Ulrich was born in Wayne County, Ohio, 1148 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO six miles west of Wooster on June 5, 1855. He was reared in that county, as a farmer boy, being the son of Jacob Ulrich and a brother of Adam J. Ulrich of Napoleon, and further details concerning the family will be found in the sketch of the latter which appears on other pages. In November, 1873, Mr. Ulrich came to Napoleon, and entered upon an apprenticeship to learn the trade of baker and confectioner. He was employed by the Lange brothers for some time until the confining nature of the work made inroads upon his health, and obliged him to go west. In 1878 he returned to marry the girl he had left behind, and for the first year they lived as tenants on Mrs. Ulrich's mother's farm. After that they lived in Wayne County, Ohio. until March, 1891, when they returned to the old Lingel farm. After the death of Mrs. Lingel, the estate was divided and by several transactions Mr. and Mrs. Ulrich bought out the interests of the other heirs and acquired eighty-eight acres of the original 148. Since then Mr. Ulrich has applied all his energies to the farming of his splendid property, and has made an unusual success of the business. In a number of seasons he has raised crops which almost reached the maximum of production, with 40 bushels of wheat, 70 bushels of oats and even a larger yield of corn per acre. He has also added various improvements, including a fine bank barn 40 by 84 feet. He has done much feeding and shipping of live stock. Mr. and Mrs. Ulrich are parents of the following children : David E., who is a tenant farmer on the old homestead, and by his marriage to Bertha Long, who came from Pennsylvania, has two children, Margaret and Armon, who are respectively in the sixth and fourth grades of the public schools; M. Mabel, who is a graduate of the Napoleon High School, married Frederick LeSeueur, who is a very able young man and is now superintendent of the postoffice at Toledo, their children being Frederick Jr., and Thomas.; Ross C. is a farmer and dairyman at Peachbottom, Pennsylvania, and is married ; Mary C. is a meinber of the class of 1917 in the Napoleon High School, where the other living children also received their education. There are three deceased children ; Frederick, who died at the age of one year; Paul, who was accidentally drowned in the Maumee River at the age of eleven ; and Gretchen, who died in 1904, aged seven years. Mr. and . Mrs. Ulrich were formerly identified with the Evangelical Church, but later for many years have been members and workers in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Mr. Ulrich being a member of the board of the church. He is a prohibitionist by principle. THOMAS B. HAYES. One of the well remembered citizens of Henry County, was the late Thomas B. Hayes, who enjoyed a large prosperity as a farmer here and in other parts of Ohio, and his descendants are still represented in Northwest Ohio, his daughter, Belle Hayes, being a resident of Napoleon. Thomas B. Hayes was born on the Virginia side of the Potomac River near Washington in 1831, and was of southern stock and ancestry, his uncle having been a Virginia slave holder. When Thomas Hayes was a boy the father died, and at the age of sixteen he came with his widowed mother and other members of the family to Knox County, Ohio. His mother died in that county. He grew up as a farmer and it was by farming that he acquired most of his prosperity. While still living in Knox County Thomas B. Hayes married Hannah Zollars, who was born in Knox County and was twelve years his junior. Her parents were Pennsylvania German people, Frederick and Anna (Whitmore) Zollars, who moved to Stark County, Ohio, and afterwards to Knox County, where they lived many years, but finally moved out to Macon County, Illinois, where they died when very old, her father at the age of eighty-seven and her mother aged ninety-five and a half years. Of the Zollars children one son, John, was a prominent farmer of Macon County, Illinois. Another son, Allen, became well known as a lawyer at Fort Wayne, Indiana, and finally was elevated to a seat on the Supreme Court Bench of Indiana. Judge Zollars' brother Fred was also a well known lawyer of Fort Wayne. After their marriage Thomas B. Hayes and wife settled down to farming inKnox County, and it was in that locality that all their children were born. Their oldest son, Fred, now lives in the West and is a miner in Utah, where he has a family. Angie first married Thomas Casteel and is now the widow of A. F. Corey and lives in Napoleon, and the mother of three children. Legand is a resident of Toledo and has a daughter Ruth, now Mrs. Bowers. Ella is the wife of Harry Bender of Chicago, and they have a son, Earl M., who lives in California. Ira is married and lives HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1149 in Toledo. Miss Belle Hayes was born in 1860, and was nine years of age when her parents came to Henry County and bought a farm of eighty acres in Harrison Township. This original farm was subsequently increased to 160 acres, and there her parents spent the rest of their active and prosperous years. Her father died there in 1894. His widow subsequently moved to the home of her daughter Belle, at 1035 North Perry Street, and passed away September 2, 1913, at the age of eighty-four. Thomas B. Hayes was an active repub- lican and he held the minor offices of the township. Miss Belle Hayes was reared and educated in Henry County and for four terms was a successful and popular teacher. In later years she has given her time to the management of her business affairs, and besides other property she owns her comfortable home at 1035 North Perry Street. WALTER J. URBANSKI is one of the most progressive young Polish merchants of Toledo, and nearly all his experiences in business affairs during the past quarter of a century have netted him good results. He is now proprietor of The Walter J. Urbanski & Company store on LaGrange Street with its splendid stock of house furnishing goods, hardware and stoves, that being one of the chief supply centers for the trade of the Polish district of the city. He was born in the Province of Posen in Poland, August 9, 1877, a son of Anthony and Anna (Biegala) Urbanski. Both parents were born and reared in Poland, and his father was a farmer, owning about' 150 acres in the old country, though an acre of ground there is not so large as an American acre. He also conducted a familiar type of store in Poland, a combination grocery and saloon. This was in the Village of Perckowo. In March, 1891, the little family left Poland and arrived in Baltimore, Maryland, and from there went direct to Toledo. Anthony Urbanski followed different lines of work as a laborer in America, and died in Toledo in the fall of 1911. His widow is still living in that city. They were members of St. Hedwig's Polish Catholic Church, and he was a member of St. Valentine's Society in that church. In the family were seven sons and one daughter : Walter J., the oldest ; Joseph W., a second in age and referred to elsewhere ; Anthony, who died at the age of five years ; Michael W., proprietor of a liquor store on LaGrange Street ; John A., who was ordained a priest of the Catholic Church at Toledo June 17, 1916 ; Lewis, a clerk in his brother's store ; Sylvester, who graduated from St. John's College of Toledo in 1916 and is preparing himself to be a lawyer ; Lottie, the youngest and only daughter, is still at home with her mother. The three youngest children were born in Toledo, and all the others in Poland. Fourteen years of age when he came to America, Walter J. Urbanski had in the meantime attended school in his native province, and after coming to Toledo he acquired a knowledge of the English language and of some higher studies in a night school. He was also a student in the Tri-State Business College, when that school was located on Madison Avenue in Toledo. However, much of his real education has come by observation and practical experience, and no one has been more assiduous in assimilating and adapting his knowledge, from whatever source it comes, for his purposes and needs. He is a broad minded and progressive and thorough American. Prior to his entrance into business for himself, he worked in several different factories at Toledo. His constant aim at that time was to save a part of his earnings so as to be able to make an independent venture when the opportunity arrived, and he became an adept in the theory and practice of thrift and in time had a small capital which justified him in starting on his own account. His first venture was the opening of a stock of dry goods, notions, clothing, boots and shoes, at the corner of Central Avenue and LaGrange Street. He was associated with his brother, Joseph W., in that enterprise under the name Urbanski Brothers. They were together for about three years. Walter was then about twenty-seven and Joseph past twenty-five. At the end of three years their store was burned, and that proved a. heavy loss to them and terminated the partnership of the brothers. For about six months following the burning of his store Walter Urbanski traveled on the road buying job lots of cigars and selling them to retail merchants in Detroit. He then engaged in the saloon business, first at the corner of Summit and Cherry streets, where he was located about a year, and on selling out that place opened a saloon on Junction Avenue, which he conducted for about six