1250 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO Thomas Mulcahy had the usual training of an Ohio farm boy. He attended the public schools, and at the age of eighteen began teaching, and was soon active in public affairs in his home county of Union. Seven years later he took up the study of law with J. H. Kinkade of Marysville, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in 1899. From the beginning he has enjoyed a good practice and is one of the successful attorneys of the Henry County bar. Since casting his first vote he has wielded a considerable influence in democratic politics. die has served as delegate to county, congressional and state conventions and was an alternate delegate to the Baltimore convention of 1912 which nominated Woodrow Wilson for president. His public service indicates his prominence in politics. Mr. Mulcahy belongs to no fraternal order. He is a member of the Catholic Church. CHARLES C. FREASE. There is hardly any name more closely associated with the larger interests of Henry County than that of Frease. As a family the people of that name have lived in Henry County more than sixty-five years. As farmers, business men and in other capacities they have accumulated and successfully managed a large amount of property, and Mr. Charles C. Frease, while a member of the Henry County bar for more than a quarter of a century, has found his time more occupied by handling his business affairs than in the regular channels of his profession. Born at Napoleon April 17, 1866, Charles C. Frease is a son of John and Mary (Wyatt) Frease. His mother was born in Stark County, Ohio, in 1821, and the father was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, January 14, 1821. They were married in Stark County, Ohio, in 1840, the grandparents, John and Jane (Field) Frease, having moved to that section of Ohio when John, Jr., was a boy. About 1850, ten years after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. John Frease moved to Henry County and located at the Village of Florida in Flat Rock Township. For some years he was engaged in the dry goods business there and early in 1864 moved to Napoleon where he continued in the dry goods trade with his brother, Jacob Frease, these brothers having been associated also at Florida. Jacob Frease passed away about 1866, and a few years later John Frease became identified with the boot and shoe business with his son Walter. Besides his work as merchant he was a man of unusual judgment and foresight in handling real estate and in trading, and he did much to develop the various properties that came under his control. In 1870 he built the Frease Block on Washington Street opposite the courthouse, and he bought and sold other property. extensively. In 1884 he purchased the fine old Governor Scott house, and that still remains in the family. His buying and selling also extended to farm lands, and the family estate now comprises over 600 acres in Henry County. John Frease became one of the wealthy men of his section. While a strong republican he never sought office and he lived a life of usefulness and honor and was paid many tributes of respect at his death in 1904. His wife passed away in 1907, and both had reached the age of eighty-four. They had lived together for sixty-four years. They were adherents of the Lutheran Church. Of their children two died in infancy. The daughter, Clara, married Wallace Blair and he is now deceased. The son, Walter W., who was born in 1852 and died in 1883, never married. Cyrus O., born December 21, 1859, is one of the prominent farmers of Henry County ; he married Alice M. Weaver, who was born at Florida in Henry County April 28, 1864, and their only daughter, Helen, born June 22, 1889, is the wife of Leroy Higgins of Napoleon, and to this union there was born a daughter, Elouise, on August 18, 1914. Mrs. Cyrus 0. Frease was for twenty-two years, from 1882, actively engaged in the millinery business at Napoleon. Another daughter, Amelia M., now lives with her sister. Charles C. Frease, the youngest of the family, was educated in the grammar and high schools of Napoleon, and in 1890 graduated from the Cincinnati Law School. He was admitted to the bar, has built up a substantial practice, but for many years has found all his time and energies required by the management of his extensive business affairs. In 1893 he was married at Mount Gilead, Morrow County, to Miss Ethel M. Miller, who was born in that locality September 6, 1873, a daughter of Martin and Mary E. (Smith) Miller, who are now living at Toledo. Her father has been a carpenter, contractor and builder, is a republican and he and his wife have for many years been active in the Baptist Church. Mrs. Frease was born and educated in Morrow County. Mr. and Mrs. Frease have two children : Austin, born February 24, 1899, is a member of the high school class of 1917 ; the son, Raymond, was born December 19, 1906, HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1251 and is now in the sixth grade of the public schools. The family attend the Presbyterian Church. JOHN F. SPENGLER. The activities by which John F. Spengler has made himself a useful factor in the world and in the community where he lives are farming. He has his home a mile and a half southwest of Sharples Corners in Spencer Township of Lucas County. His prosperity has been a matter of hard work, of constant intelligence in administering his affairs, and by a perseverance through difficulties and through bad years and good years. Mr. Spengler was born northwest of Wauseon in Fulton County, Ohio. His parents were Herman and Mary (Meister) Spengler. Both his parents were born in Switzerland. The Spenglers came to this country in 1847, while the Meisters were very early arrivals in Northwestern Ohio, Mr. Spengler's mother coming with her parents in 1834. They made their first destination Wayne County, Ohio, arriving there by water. They drove across the country by wagon to Fulton County. Most of the immigrants from the old world at that time brought with them only a few personal belongings and possessions. The Meister family, however, shipped a wagon made in Switzerland. It was in this wagon that they drove as far as Maumee. There they spent the first winter, and while there suffered much sickness and two of the sons of the family died. In order to secure coffins for their burial the old wagon box was chopped to pieces. At that time, more than eighty years ago, there was no road from Maumee into Wauseon in Fulton County. Mary Meister's father and two other men chopped trees out so that a wagon could get through. After the marriage of Herman Spengler and wife they located on a farm northwest of Wauseon and spent the rest of their days there. Mrs. Spengler is still living. Herman Spengler died in 1908. John F. Spengler remained at his father's home until he was twenty-one. After working out for two years he returned to the homestead and stayed there until he was twenty-six, when he married. For two years he lived in Henry County, Ohio, and then came to Lucas County, where he bought fifty acres in Spencer Township four miles northeast of Swanton. Since then he has bought and sold considerable other land, and his farm now comprises seventy well tilled acres. His prosperity comes from general farming. Among improvements he has a splendid silo, and he and his family drive about the country in a large automobile. He still feeds some stock and formerly had a dairy with as many as twenty-five cows, and still milks about a dozen cows. Mr. Spengler married Lydia Weber of Fulton County, daughter of Michael Weber, one of the old settlers there. Her grandfather, George Weber, came from Switzerland and settled in Ohio about 1846. Mrs. Spengler died a number of years ago, and is survived by seven children : Arnold M., who is connected with the Traction Company of Portland, Oregon, married Arvilla Harrington of Swanton, Ohio, and has one child, Audrey Marie ; Nora M. is the wife of Charles Beal, employed by the Toledo Machinery & Tool Company at Toledo, and their child is Helen Eleanor; Emma I. B., Sarah A., John W., Julia L. and Ella M., twins. In 1909 Mr. Spengler married a sister of his first wife, Sarah Weber. There are two children by this union, Cora M. and Woodrow Wilson. Mr. Spengler now takes a rather independent stand in politics, and formerly was identified with the democratic party. He now leans largely toward republican principles. In his home community he has served as township trustee and constable. ERNEST SPENGLER. There are few citizens of Henry County more widely known over the country at large than Ernest Spengler of Napoleon. Mr. Spengler has been selling goods, chiefly grocery merchandise, for about thirty-five years. Though most of his life has been spent in America, he is a native of Germany, and has been especially prominent and influential among the German people of Henry County, a large proportion of whom know and esteem him and buy their goods from him. His prosperity is due not only to the possession of genial characteristics as a citizen, but also to the fact that long experience and integrity as a merchant have enabled him to participate the wants of the trade and supply it with the best commodities to be found. The Spengler grocery house at Napoleon is the oldest established house of that line in the city. His store is located on Perry Street, and on that one site there has been conducted a grocery business since the breaking out of the Civil war. The first proprietor was Henry E. Cary who was succeeded by Mr. 1252 - TORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO Kohler, and he in turn by William Spengler in 1892. In 1896 the firm title became Spengler Brothers, and since 1903 Ernest Spengler has been sole proprietor. He has a fine store and completely stocked with a line of staple and standard merchandise. The store is 24x100 feet. Ernest Spengler was born in Northern Prussia, Germany, in 1865, and is of old German ancestry, his grandparents on both sides having spent their lives on farms in Prussia. The family were Lutherans and Mr. Spengler still adheres to that faith. The parents of Ernest Spengler were William and Augusta (Torge) Spengler, who many years ago brought their family by sailing vessel from Hamburg to New York, being forty-nine days on board the vessel. From there they came to Defiance, Ohio, and a year later located at Florida in Henry County, where' William Spengler followed his business as a merchant tailor until his death in 1880 at the age of fifty-seven. His widow later returned to Defiance and died in the home of her oldest son William at the age of seventy-seven. Of their children should be mentioned the following: Augusta, wife of George Carman, who lives at Defiance and has a son and two daughters ; Mary, wife of Randolph Jaqua, a Henry County farmer, and they have two sons and one daughter ; next in age is Ernest Spengler ; Herman, a former grocery merchant of Napoleon ; William, who died unmarried, was a merchant at Napoleon from 1887 until 1904, and he lived in Defiance from 1905 until his death, March 20, 1914. Ernest Spengler grew up in Henry County, received a public school education, and was only fifteen years of age when he gained his first experience in selling goods, and has been continuously identified with mercantile interests to the present time. He was married in Napoleon to Miss Rose Hornung, who was born in Napoleon and is now forty-nine years of age. She received her education in Napoleon and is of German parentage. Her parents came to the United States about the close of the Civil war, and spent the rest of their lives here. Mr. and Mrs. Spengler have two children. Otto H. who was born in Napoloen July 25, 1890, attended the city high school and in 1914 graduated from the Ohio State University and was admitted to the Ohio bar in June of that year and is now in practice at Toledo. Lillian, who was born August 25, '1897, is still at home and attending the local schools. Mr. and Mrs. Spengler are active members of the Lutheran Church and in politics he is a democrat. THEODORE B. HINE, who died at his home in Toledo March 24, 1904, had for nearly thirty years been a factor in business affairs in that city. He represented the fine old New England stock that came out of Connecticut in the early years of the last century and established homes in the wilderness of Northern Ohio, particularly in that section of the Western Reserve, known as the Connecticut Fire Lands. There is ,a large relationship of the Hines still living in that part of Ohio, and no family has enjoyed better and more varied distinctions in the useful service and attainments of its members. Born in the Village of Berlin Heights, Ohio, July 25, 1829, Theodore B. Hine was reared in Erie County, and in September, 1851, married Lovina Reynolds. After his marriage he lived a time in Cleveland, but returning to Berlifi Heights became identified with the lumber business and also as a manufacturer of cider vinegar. In 1875 he moved to Toledo where, in the meantime having prospered, he invested extensively in city real estate and also continued the vinegar business until 1903. The last year of his life he spent practically retired. He is remembered as a man of sterling integrity, of quiet and amiable temper, of sound judgment in business affairs, and possessed the faculty of making and retaining friends and in all his years enjoyed the high esteem of those most closely associated with him. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Oliver N. Hiett. of Toledo. There were also six grandchildren, the children of G. W. Close of Berlin Heights and Toledo and of C. L. Buckingham of New York. SYLVESTER SIDNEY SMITH. A native son of Lucas County, from the time he reached young manhood until recently, Sylvester Sidney Smith was an active and useful factor in farming and in civic and community life in Northwest Ohio. Mr. Smith is the type of man who is almost instinctively trusted by his fellows, has proved his ability to carry his own burdens in life and also help others, and now at the age of three score and ten has a large and broad outlook on life and can well be satisfied with the accomplishments of the past. HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1253 He was born at Waterville in Lucas County January 26, 1846. He is now living retired on his fine farm on the Keeler or Central Avenue road at the west side of Sylvania Township. His parents were Oren and Hannah (Seeley) Smith. As his father was a native of Massachusetts and his mother of Connecticut, Mr. Smith might well be called a representative of true Yankee stock. His parents were married in New York State, and about 1833 his father made his first trip to Lucas County, remaining for a short time at Maumee and Waterville. A few years later he again brought his family west, this time going to DeKalb County, Indiana, but in a short while returned to Ohio and established a permanent home at Waterville. There the father passed away in 1884. He was a carpenter by trade and followed that occupation a few years after moving to Waterville, and then became a farmer. He and his wife had a large number of children, but the only ones now living in Lucas County are William, eighty-two years of age, and Sylvester S., who was next to the youngest in the family. Starting life with the equivalent of a common school education, Sylvester S. Smith has found in farming a congenial and profitable occupation. He lived at the old home farm until 1873, having operated it on his own account for three years, and then moved to Wood. County, Ohio, where he rented land and farmed for eleven years. In 1885 Mr. Smith bought the place he now owns on Central Avenue Road near the Richfield Township line. There he has 160 acres, and in improvements and cultivation it stands as one of the best farms in the community. It should be stated that when Mr. Smith took possession, only three acres were cleared, and thus his labor and management have added something of lasting value to this section of Lucas County. For the past twelve years Mr. Smith has been retired from the active responsibilities of farming, and for several years his son Charles operated the farm, until moving to a place of his own, and at the present time Mr. Smith's grandson, Roy Becker, is active manager. In 1871 at Sylvania Mr. Smith married Hattie Mason, who was reared in Lucas County, a daughter of Gardner Mason. Her grandfather was one of the pioneer settlers of Monroe County, Michigan, going there when Gardner Mason was a child. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have the following children: Vol. II-3 8 Mina, who is the wire of Elmer Deline and lives at Adrian, Michigan ; Charles, who married Lena Miller, and is now an independent farmer in Richfield 'Township ; Blanche, who is now deceased and who married George Becker, and her son Roy Becker is now in active charge of Mr. Smith's farm ; Maud E., who married .George Becker and is living at Prairie Depot in Wood County, Ohio. Mr.. Smith has one great-granddaughter, this being Ariel Blanche Becker, a daughter of Roy and Lucy (Utz) Becker. During his active years Mr. Smith has taken a part of considerable prominence in local republican politics. While living in Wood County he served as township trustee and a member of the school board, and in Sylvania he has served on the school board, as township trustee, on the board of elections and is now presiding judge of his precinct. Liberal and helpful in any matter of the public welfare, he has spent a great deal of time in forwarding some movements of local benefit, and there should be remembered his part in securing the construction of the stone paved highway along Central Avenue. He circulated the petition and did much of the preliminary work in getting the paving started. That was twenty-eight years ago. Mr. Smith is affiliated with Sylvania Lodge No. 287, Free and Accepted Masons, and was a charter member and is a past master of Wakeman Lodge at Waterville. HON. ORVILLE SANFORD BRUMBACK. Long ecognized as one of the barders not only of the Toledo bgr but also the bar of the state, Mr. Brumback has been in active practice in that city fully thirty-five years. To him the law has always been a profession, not an occupation or trade, and he early dedicated himself to the priesthood of justice and in many ways has helped to maintain the rigorous ideals and ethics of one of the most important of human professions. While notably successful in the handling of a great volume of important practice, he has been actuated not so much by an ambition to accumulate wealth as by a wholesome desire to render honorable service for the down-trodden and oppressed. Only once did Mr. Brumback step aside from his profession to enter the arena of practical politics, although throughout his career he has been loyally devoted to the best civic welfare of his home city and state. The one occasion is an interesting chapter in Ohio 1254 - TORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO political history and even has national significance. In 1885 he became candidate for representative to the Ohio Legislature. There was at that time impending an exciting contest for a United States senatorship, the rival .candidates being John Sherman and John R. McLean of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Both these men were political giants in Ohio at that time, and the fight for legislative control was proportionately close and bitter. For several years Lucas County had been in the habit of returning democratic majorities, and it was expected that its quota of members in the Legislature would continue of the same political faith. Mr. Brumback entered the campaign as a republican and with characteristic energy made a clean cut fight for the election. To the surprise of many it was found that he had run far ahead of his ticket and was elected, although the other republican candidates for the Legislature were defeated. The vital feature of his election was in the fact that the republicans had a majority in the Legislature of only one upon joint ballot. Thus Senator Sherman was returned to Congress, whereas had Mr. Brumback been defeated John R. McLean would have represented the state in the Senate. The significance of this election can be traced still further to a result which is still important in our national life. It was during his succeeding term in the Senate that Senator Sherman secured the passage of the celebrated Sherman-Anti Trust Law, a measure which is one of the most fundamental principles of our national economics. That was also the year the Cincinnati election frauds were perpetrated, .and Mr. Brumback was appointed on the special committee of the Legislature to investigate those frauds, and his work in the committee gained him quite a reputation over the state. He served the two years of his elective term, 1885-86, in the Legislature and declined a renomination, in order that he might give his full time and energy to his legal career. A native of Ohio, Orville Sanford Brumback was born on a farm near Delaware December 2, 1855, a son of John Sanford and Ellen (Purmort) Brumback. The first American Brumback (formerly spelled Brumbock) emigrated from Germany and settled in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in 1760. Mr. Brumback's mother was of English-French descent and her lineage includes the eminent jurist Chancellor Walworth. In 1860 John S. Brumback left his farm and moved his fam ily to Van Wert, Ohio, where he established himself in the dry goods business and subsequently became prominent as a banker, being president of the Van Wert National Bank. He was a highly influential and successful citizen of Van Wert and the entire community mourned his death in 1897. The little City of Van Wert has an important monument to his honorable career. In his will, which was drawn by his son Orville, he requested that his heirs carry out plans for building and donating a public library to the City of Van Wert, and though this request was made optional, all his heirs entered into the plan with enthusiasm and constructed a splendid fireproof stone library, which stands in one of the parks of the little city and is the pride of all local citizens. The people of Van Wert take the more pride in this valuable philanthropy because it was one of the pioneer libraries erected by private means in the state, and was established before Mr. Carnegie had undertaken his nation wide scheme of library building. Van Wert is still the home of Mrs. John S. Brumback, now eighty-four years of age. She is a woman of the highest culture and refinement and it was largely through her counsel and faithful co-operation that her husband was able to attain his successful position in financial affairs. Reared in a home of culture and with the atmosphere of worthy ideals created by his father and mother, Orville S. Brumback was exceedingly well trained for the responsibilities of a mature career. His father spared no expense in educating him, and after finishing his preparatory work in the Van Wert schools at the age of sixteen, he entered Wooster University for the classical course. He spent two years there and then in order to assimilate some of the advantages of an Eastern university he entered the junior Ass of Princeton where, though in competition with a larger student body, he maintained the same high standard of excellence in scholarship. During his senior year he was one of the ten chosen out of a class of 130 to deliver commencement day orations, and this distinction was the more notable because he was one of the few. Western men in the class and had been in Princeton for only two years of his collegiate work. He graduated in 1877, A. B. and subsequently was granted the degree of Master of Arts by the same institution. On his return to Van Wert Mr. Brumback became a law student in the office of Colonel I. M. Alexander, then one of the most promi- HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1255 vent Ohio lawyers and a gentleman of the old school. In a short time he had convinced himself that the legal profession was the one best adapted for his inclinations and abilities, and in the fall of 1877 he entered the law department of the University of Michigan, where in June, 1879, he was graduated LL. B. The following winter he passed the bar examination and was admitted to practice in Ohio. He soon afterwards came to Toledo and was employed as an assistant in the office of Dodge & Raymond, then one of the largest legal firms in Northwest Ohio. Such association was valuable training for any competent young man beginning his legal career, and with this practical experience Mr. Brumback in 1880 hung out his shingle as an individual attorney. While his practice during the last thirty-five years has brought him into all the courts and in all manner of causes he has more and more concentrated on corporation litigation. On January 1, 1894, he and Hon. Frank Hurd and Charles A. Thatcher organized the firm of Hurd, Brumback and Thatcher. Mr. Hurd died in 1896 and the surviving partners, .out of respect for their honored colleague, continued the firm under its old name until they dissolved partnership. in November 1901. Since then Mr. Brumback has been alone in practice, and his office from June 1, 3907, until 1911 was in the Nicholas Building, since which time he has been located in the Spitzer Building. In matters of politics Mr. Brumback has been a steadfast republican, and has been identified with the prominent Toledo Clubs. He is a member of the Masonic Order and belongs to the First Congregational Church. While a student at Wooster he became a member of the local chapter of the Sigma Chi, and since leaving college and university has kept in close touch with college men and college affairs largely through his association with this order. He has proved a valuable friend to many young college men, and often says he has renewed his own youth in such associations. He has been honored with the office of Grand Consul in the national body of the fraternity and also as Grand Trustee of the order. For several years Mr. Brumback was trustee and president of the board of the Toledo Public Library. On August 20, 1881, Mr. Brumback married Miss Jennie Carey, daughter of Simeon B. Carey, who is a wholesale hardware dealer of Minneapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Brumback enjoy a beautiful home at 1603 Madison Avenue, Toledo. To their marriage were born two daughters, Blanche Carey, the elder, was graduated from Miss Smead's School for Girls in Toledo, and from Vassar College in the class of 1906, and on September 16, 1906, married Lyman Spitzer, second son of Adelbert L. Spitzer, the prominent banker and business man of Toledo. They have two daughters, Lydia Carey Spitzer and Luette Ruth Spitzer. Mr. Brumback's younger daughter, Lydia Ellen, is also a graduate of the Smead School for Girls and finished her education in the Castle School at Tarrytown on the Hudson. June 1, 1910, she married Horace E. Allen, 'eldest son of Dr. Horace N. Allen, former minister from the United States to Korea, and one of Toledo's most distinguished citizens. They have one son, Horace Ethan Allen, Jr. FRANK INGERSOLL KING is a Toledo man with a business reputation not confined to his home city nor even to Northwestern Ohio. For over thirty years he has been closely identified with the grain and seed business, acid while his firm has a clientage second to none among those around the Great Lakes, his unique contribution to the grain business has been as a writer of the daily market reports under the title "Our Boy Solomon." So far as known Mr. King is the only writer who has ever succeeded in imparting a real interest and literary flavor to the dull and tedious subjects of markets beyond the mere record of crops and statistics. The trade letters of "Our Boy Solomon" are published in many daily papers, and the readers are by no means confined to those whose business leads them to consult the market news. The oldest house in Toledo to engage in the handling of grain and clover seed is that of C. A. King & Company, which was founded in 1846, and has had a continuous and steadily prosperous existence of seventy years. C. A. King died in 1893. Frank I. King was a son of the late Frederic and Catherine King, and was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in May, 1860. He was six years old when he lost his father. At the age of twelve he began to be self supporting, and had considerable experience as a newsboy, an early association which explains his later helpfulness in connection with the Newsboys Building at Toledo. He came to Toledo as a baby, attended high school and was president of his class. On leaving school he entered the office of 1256 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO his uncle C. A. King, and began his grain career. Six years later, in 1883, he was admitted to membership in the firm and ten years after that, on the death of his uncle, succeeded to the control of this large and widely known grain house of Toledo. Besides the executive responsibilities involved in his connection with this firm, he has indulged his literary tastes and imaginative faculties in the writing of the daily reports which have not been an inconsiderable factor in the success of C. A. King & Company. Someone has given a good description of these reports as follows : "Written in terse, epigrammatic and forceful style, they fairly bubble over with good humor, good sense and good business logic, and are read religiously and trusted implicitly by hundreds and hundreds of men who look upon ' our Boy Solomon' as an old and valuable friend." Mr. King during his long and active career in Toledo has served as president of the city council, of the Produce Exchange and Chamber of Commerce, and is now a trustee of the Newsboys' Association, a director of the Second National Bank, and is actively associated with other public institutions. He has been elected president of the Produce Exchange three times. In 1894 he became one of the organizers of the Chamber of Commerce and was elected president. In 1884, about the beginning of his business career, Mr. King was elected a member of the city council, and was re-elected in 1886 without opposition. He served four consecutive years as president of that body. He was presidential elector in 1908, and has declined all other political honors. He has long been noted for his generosity and interest in young people and was one of the original projectors of the Newsboys Building. In that connection he worked with the late John Gunckel, the newsboys' friend of Toledo. Toledo has the distinction of having the first newsboys building erected in the United States. Mr. King is still a trustee of that institution. He is also a member of the Toledo, the Country, the Yacht, the Inverness clubs. In 1882 Mr. King married Miss Jennie S. Collins. Mrs. King, who died at her home in Toledo July 9, 1914, was a woman of many rare and beautiful traits of character. She was especially devoted to her home and family, and although fond of travel, her happiest years were spent with her husband and children and her intimate friends. She had accomplished much in a charitable way. She was an active member of the old First Congregational Church, and in that service and in a widely extended though little known charity she found constant opportunity to do good. Mrs. King was survived by four children : Miriam, now Mrs. Thomas P. Day ; Fred G. King ; Adelaide, now Mrs. George Wallace, and Kate Locke, who in June, 1916, married Walter M. Braun of Toledo. JOHN G. TAYLOR. One of the business corporations that lend distinction to this county, particularly in the districts outside Toledo, is the Lucas County Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company. The treasurer of this organization for the past seven years has been John G. Taylor, who is a prominent farmer of Richfield Township and is now living retired on his farm in that locality. Mr. Taylor was one of those especially active in the organization of the Fire Insurance Company, and served as one of its directors for eight years prior to taking his present office as treasurer. The company was organized in 1892 and now has more than six million dollars insurance in force. The old Taylor homestead in Richfield Township is a place that has been continuously under the management and ownership of one family for more than sixty-four years. It was there that John G. Taylor was born December 2, 1852. His parents were James and Ann (Northcott) Taylor, who were born, reared and married at Holsworth, Devonshire, England. They left England in 1852, arriving in Toledo May 19 of that year, and soon established their home in the eastern part of Richfield Township, where they developed a farm and found a sphere of usefulness as workers and congenial society as neighbors. James Taylor died on the old farm in 1899, but his widow lived until. August 30, 1916, dying at the age of eighty-seven. When the Taylor family came to that locality in 1852 their farm was completely in the woods, and in clearing it up and putting it under cultivation they contributed their share to the general progress and improvement of Lucas County. James and Ann Taylor had the following children : John G., Prudence Ann, who was born July 18, 1856, and is now Mrs. W. A. Pardee, living in Toledo and the mother of one son ; William James, who was born December 16, 1860, and occupies the old Taylor homestead, and by his marriage to Nellie Smith has three daughters and one son ; Fannie Catherine, who died in HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1257 Toledo in 1915, married M. D. Hubbell and was survived by one daughter. John G. Taylor grew up in Lucas County, gained his education in the local schools, and lived at home until his marriage and in the spring of 1876 moved to Wood County, where for three years he farmed in partnership with S. S. Smith, also a well known resident of Lucas County. Both he and Mr. Smith had been recently married, and the two young couples occupied parts of the same house, which was nothing more than a board shack with board roof. In 1879 Mr. Taylor moved to his present farm, close to the place where he was born, and was active in its management until his son took active charge. Mr. Taylor then moved to Toledo for a time, but was dissatisfied, and then built a new home across the road from the old place which is now occupied by his son and has since lived retired. Besides the business which he handles as treasurer of the insurance company he has been quite active in local affairs, has served as supervisor, justice of the peace and township trustee, and for twenty-three years has been treasurer of Sylvania Lodge, Free & Accepted Masons. Politically he is a republican. On July 4, 1875, Mr. Taylor married Georgianna Ironsides, a daughter of John and Emily (Watson) Ironsides. Both their parents were born and reared in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and after coming to America were married at Painesville, Ohio. They then settled in Springfield Township of Lucas County, renting a farm near Holland. Both are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor had two children, Clarence J. and Claude. Claude died at the age of five months. Clarence J. received his early education in the common schools, passed the examination and secured a teacher's certificate, but never carried out his purpose to teach. He had a special fondness for farming life, and his father made him a proposition to remain and run the home place, and in that work .he has found congenial and profitable employment. He married Lina Hendrickson, and is the father of two children : Hazel, born in 1902, and Jean, born in 1910. CARL B. SPITZER has found ample opportunity to exercise his talents as a financier, and business man in Toledo, and besides the large interests with which he is identified and which have been associated with the family name of Spitzer for a great many years, he is also a leader in other progressive movements, and in September, 1915, was given a high compliment by his business associates when he was elected president of the Toledo Commerce Club, an organization with nearly four thousand members, and representing practically all the commercial power and influence of the City of Toledo. A son of Adelbert L. Spitzer, to whom reference is made on other pages, Carl B. Spitzer was born at Amherst, Ohio, February 7, 1877. He was given the best of training and advantages for a career of usefulness, and after graduating from Toledo High School in 1894 and from Phillips-Andover in 1895, he entered Yale University, where he was graduated A. B. in 1899. While at Yale he was especially active in athletic circles. Since leaving college Mr. Spitzer has been identified with the financial enterprises and organizations bearing the Spitzer name, and is an expert in the handling of high grade investment securities. He is a member of the firm of Spitzer, Rorick & Company, handling government, municipal and corporation bonds, and one of the oldest and best known firms of the kind in the United States. He is also vice president of the Spitzer-Rorick Trust & Savings Bank, which though only five years old has resources of more than two million dollars. Besides his position as president of the Toledo Commerce Club, he is a member of the Toledo Club and the Country Club, is vice president of the Federation of Charities is a trustee of the Toledo Museum of Art, and has interested himself directly in many important civic and social movements, including playgrounds, civic centers and others. Under the auspices of the Art Museum he has had charge of the garden campaign for the last three years. He is a member of the National Institute of Social Science. His church is the First Congregational. He was married to Edna Josephine Brown, on September 14, 1904. Her father Mr. Calvin Brown is a Civil war veteran, and is now president of the Library Board of the Toledo Public Library. Mr. and Mrs. Spitzer have four daughters : Jane, Nancy, Suzanne and Sarah. Besides their Toledo residence they have a summer home with seven acres of ground just across the river from the Toledo Country Club. 158 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO DANIEL C. BROWN. On September 15, 1914, President Wilson appointed Mr. Brown postmaster of Napoleon for the regular term of four years. This is a second class office, and besides the postmaster the staff includes an assistant postmaster, three clerks, four city carriers, and ten rural carriers. A large bulk of the business handled through the office is rural mail, and it is one of the important centers in Northwest Ohio for the distribution of mail to farming districts. Mr. Brown succeeded in the office W. A. Ritter, who is a landscape gardener of Napoleon. Daniel C. Brown first came to Henry County more than forty years ago, and has spent the greater part of the succeeding years in the county. For thirteen years he served as a member of the city council at Napoleon, being president of the council most of the time, and chairman of the Finance Committee. From 1891 for six years and eight months he filled the office of county clerk, and after retiring from the office became deputy clerk for one term. As a democrat he was a member of the County Democratic Executive Committee for about twenty years. In 1910 he was appointed a member of the Board of Trustees for the. State Normal School at Bowling Green, and he served as secretary of the board until he took up his present duties as postmaster of Napoleon. Daniel C. Brown was born in Clayton, Michigan, March 18, 1855. He was reared there and at Adrian, Michigan, and gained a fair education. He first came to Henry County in 1872. For fifteen years he was engaged in the general dry-goods business at Napoleon. His grandfather Daniel Brown was born in Holland of Dutch stock, was an early settler at Clayton, Michigan, his mother's father, Peter Herring, was born in Holland and was an early settler in Lenawee County, Michigan, where he and his wife spent their remaining years. Jolly Brown, father of the Napoleon postmaster, was born in New Jersey, took up the railroad business, and while serving the Lake Shore line was accidentally killed in 1858, being then in the prime of life. His widow married a second time, and died about 1871. She was a member of the Congregational Church in Adrian. Daniel C. Brown is the only one now living of his father's three children. His sister Lydia died young, and his brother Lafayette at the age of sixteen enlisted in Company B of the Sixteenth Mich igan Volunteer Infantry and was killed in battle at Athens, Alabama. He was about seventeen years of age when he lost his life as a sacrifice to the country and was buried on the field of battle. Daniel C. Brown was married in Henry County to Miss Samantha M. Woodward of Liberty Center, where she was born in November, 1854. Reared and given an excellent education, Mrs. Brown for a number of years was engaged in school teaching until her marriage. Her parents were Ward and Fidelia A. (Young) Woodward who grew up and married in New York, and afterwards settled in Liberty Township of Henry County, where they spent nearly all their lives on a farm. Her father died when past eighty and her mother past the age of seventy. They were members of the Universalist Church and the father was a democrat. The first child born in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Brown was Grover A., who graduated from the Napoleon High School at the age of seventeen and at the age of twenty-one graduated from the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, and is now connected with the Edison Electric Company in California. He married Mabel Hunter of Toledo. D. W. Brown, the second son, finished his literary training in the Napoleon High School, completed a course as a piano tuner at s musical school in Detroit, Michigan, and after following his profession for several years has now turned to another line of business in Napoleon, and is proprietor of an ice cream parlor. Mr. Brown is past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Napoleon, and in Masonry is affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons and Royal Arch Chapter at Napoleon, being past high priest of the Chapter and with Defiance Commandery of the Knights Templar at Defiance and with the Valley of Toledo Consistory Scottish Rite., Both his sons have also taken the Masonic degrees to and including the thirty-second degree. Mrs. Brown is a member of the Presbyterian Church. HENRY E. BURNHAM. At the age of seventy-five, men who have retained their faculties and profited by their experiences. are apt to look across life and not into it, and they see mostly the fair shore of their childhood from which they have constantly receded rather than the bridge which connects it and of which they have been one of the HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1259 builders. But it is in proportion as they have builded wisely and been in accord with the changing tide of affairs that their satisfaction is great or otherwise, and it is thus a pleasure to know one who has lived so long and gathered so much of interest as has Henry E. Burnham. Mr. Burnham is a member of the retired colony of Sylvania, where he has resided since 1893, and where he has been the incumbent of various political offices of importance. Henry E. Burnham was born at Berlin, Erie County, Ohio, December 10, 1841, and is a son of Ellsworth and Maria (Walker) Burnham, both of whom passed away at Saginaw, Michigan, whence they had followed their son. They were farming people of worth and substance, honest and honorable in their engagements in life, and Christians who lived their faith daily. Reared amid such favoring influences, Henry E. Burnham grew to sturdy young manhood. His early education was secured in the public schools of his native locality, and he was then sent to Baldwin University to further prepare himself for his battles with life. However, at this time the great Civil war came on to arouse the patriotic spirit of youth, and finally, finding that he could not keep his mind on his studies when his companions were marching away to the front, and that he was therefore getting little good out of his school work, he left college in 1861, and in August of the following year succeeded in enlisting in Company G, 101st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The youth was willing and faithful, brave and courageous, willing to cheerfully do his part as a unit of the great Union Army, but while the spirit was willing the flesh was weak and after several months of campaigning Mr. Burnham was given hiss honorable discharge because of disability. He now had lost all desire for further schooling. He had seen something of the world and felt himself capable of holding his own, and accordingly started to farm in the vicinity of his birthplace. There he remained, carrying on operations with a measure of success, until 1869, in which year he went to Saginaw, Michigan, and entered upon a career that carried him into various lines of endeavor. After one year at Saginaw, he removed to Angola, Indiana, where he was connected with a lumber business for nine years, then returned to Saginaw, where he followed milling for about two years. His next vocation was that of railroad- ing, which occupied his attention for six years, and at the end of that time he became connected with a wholesale grocery business, by which he was employed for about five years. In June, 1893, he went to Washington, District of Columbia, but on October 1 of the same year came to Sylvania, where he has since lived retired from business cares. Since coming to Sylvania, Mr. Burnham has discharged his duties as an individual and as a citizen with unvarying fidelity. He has been identified with all movements tending to promote the best interests of his locality, and has made an irreproachable record as a man of strict probity and pure motives. A republican in politics, he has served as a member of the Sylvania City Council and in minor offices, and during his three terms as mayor many movements were launched and carried through that have been of the utmost benefit to the community. Fraternally, he is a Mason, belonging to the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Council. He is a member of Page Post No. 471, of Sylvania, Ohio, in which he has served as commander for several years. In 1865, after his return from the war, Mr. Burnham was married at Berlin, Ohio, to Miss Mary G. Hopkins, who was born there, a daughter of John M. Hopkins. Mrs. Burnham died April 8, 1894, and October 8, 1895, Mr. Burnham was again married, being united with Mrs. Celestia J. Pomroy, the widow of Joseph W. Pomroy of Sylvania. She was born at West Toledo, Ohio, a daughter of Charles Phillips, who died when she was a small child, and she subsequently was brought by her mother to Sylvania, where until her first marriage she made her home with her maternal grandfather Hawes, who was an early settler of this city. It had always been Mrs. Burnham's desire to do something for the city in which the greater part of her life had been spent, and when her will was made she donated to the city ten building lots. After her death these lots were laid out as a public park, and improved and beautified, and on these grounds Sylvania's new waterworks are now being erected. FRED LANGE, JR., whose present home is at 523 High Street in the City of Napoleon, is not yet fifty-five years of age and yet recently he retired from the active responsibilities of a very active farming career, and has an ample competence for all future needs. He represents the solid and thrifty stock of this section of Ohio, has improved his own opportu- 1260 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO nities through life, and stands as one of the foremost men of his home locality. His fine farm, where he concentrated his efforts for over thirty years, is situated in section 30 of Napoleon Township, and on that he was born September 12, 1862. His father, Fred Lange, Sr., was a native of Hanover, Germany, of an old family of that kingdom, and he came to the United States when a young man. He made the journey in a sailing vessel, and after reaching Ohio settled at Okalona, or rather where the village of that name now stands. There he worked long and hard to improve his tract of wild land, and eventually saw himself and family well situated, and his own career came to a close on his farm in 1870. Fred Lange, Sr., married a Miss Schulty. Both the Lange and Schulty families receive consideration on other pages of this publication, and further repetition concerning them is not necessary. The youngest son of the family and with a brother and two sisters still living, Fred Lange, Jr., grew up on the old farm, early participated in its labors, and acquired a good education in his home township. After reaching his majority he began his active career as a farmer on eighty acres of land. He improved that, and still owns it. It has a fine group of improvements, including a large ten-room house and a barn 36x82 feet. All his land is under cultivation and besides that farm he owns another eighty acres in the same section, which has improvements of a seven-room house and a barn 44x74 feet. From his farm Mr. Lange retired in April, 1916, to his home in the City of Napoleon. Besides his landed interest he is a director in the German Fire Insurance Company. In Napoleon Township May 19, 1888, Mr. Lange married Miss Sophia Varnke. Mrs. Lange was born in Hanover, Germany, April 26, 1863, and her parents spent their lives there. About the time she reached the age of twenty-one she left the Port of Bremen, crossed the ocean to Baltimore and thence came to Henry County. Mrs. Lange is the mother of three sons. Ferdinand, who lives on one of his father's farmers, married Minnie Schultz of Adams Township, Defiance County. Alvin operates the home farm for his father, and married Mary Lange, who was born in Germany. Theodore is now twenty-one years of age and is still at home. All the family are members of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church, while Mr. Lange is a democrat in polities. LOUIS W. SCHULTZ earned a generous share of esteem and honor in Henry County by nearly ten years of efficient and painstaking public service. Since giving up his official place in the community he has become one of the leading business men of Napoleon. Born in Ridgeville Township of Henry County, January 1, 1882, he grew up on a farm, had a common school education, supplemented afterwards by correspondence courses, and early showed a capacity for doing things well. It was this faculty which commended him to the confidence of the community when at the age of twenty-four he was called from the farm and appointed county superintendent of the County Infirmary. He filled this office from 1906 until 1911, for a period of five years. Then on September 1, 1911, he succeeded to the still more important public responsibility of county treasurer, and in that place he served two successive terms. On retiring from the office September 1, 1915, he left this county department in a state of organization such as it had rarely attained. A few weeks after leaving the county treasurer's office, Mr. Schultz was one of the organizers in November, 1915, of the Reliable Furniture Company, which has a fine store at 111 Washington Street, a two-story building 20x132 feet and stocked with a complete outfit of high class merchandise. There is also an undertaking and embalming department and the company conducts a similar establishment at Ridgeville, where it has a store of two stories and basement 22x70 feet. There is a licensed embalmer at each store and they have two hearses, one for each place, and an automobile hearse serving both localities equally. Mr. Schultz has recently completed his studies and passed the examination and has been admitted as a licensed embalmer. His long tenure of a county office indicates his popularity among the citizens, and he is equally progressive and enterprising as a business man, and is in every respect a liberal and broad gauge citizen. He comes of a family of German ancestry and is a son of C. Fred and Dorothy (Yeddecke) Schultz. His father was born in Prussia and his mother in Bavaria, and they were married in the old country, where two of their children were born, Fred C. and a daughter that died in infancy. In the early '70s the family left Bremen, some weeks later arrived at New York City, and thence went into the interior and located at Pettysville in Fulton County, Ohio. There the father found HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1261 employment in sawmills for three years, and after that he located on a farm in Ridgeville Township of Henry County, where he and his good wife have since made their home. He is now seventy-five and she is seventy-six and both are still active. They are members of the Lutheran Church and he is a democrat. After they came to this country the following children were born : Minnie, who is the wife of George Dickman, a farmer in Adams Township of Defiance County, and they have three daughters and three sons ; Charles, who died in infancy ; Frederica, who died at the age of sixteen ; William, who died when twelve years of age ; Louis W. ; and Emma, who died in infancy. Louis W. Schultz was married in Henry County to Miss Augusta Wesche, who was born in Henry County in October, 1882. Her parents were Daniel and Frederica (Martin) Wesche, both natives of Prussia, but they did not become acquainted until after coming to the United States and locating in Henry County. Mr. Wesche took up farming in Ridgeville Township, and there his good wife died twenty-two years ago at the age of forty-five. Mr. Wesche is still living at the age of seventy-six, and takes considerable part in the management of the old homestead. He and his wife and family were all Lutherans and he is a democrat. Mr. and Mrs. Schultz have three children : Delbert E., born May 25, 1906 ; Donald L., born June 3, 1912 ; and Valetta A., born in October, 1915. Mr. and Mrs. Schultz are members of St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Napoleon and he has been one of the trustees of the church for a number of years. Politically he is a democrat and was elected on that ticket to the county offices in which he served so well and creditably. JEROME B. LATHROP. It is now more than eighty years since the Lathrop family was first established in Lucas County. Jerome B. Lathrop is one of the sturdy representatives of this family in the third generation, and has lived a live of extreme activity as a farmer and business man. He has now turned over the responsibilities of farming to his sons, and is giving most of his time to the management of the elevator at Berkey in Richfield Township. Mr. Lathrop was born in Richfield Township, and is a son of Azro and Betsy (Becker) Lathrop. Members of the Becker family settled in Fulton County near Metamora about 1835, but subsequently moved north into Southern Michigan. Azro Lathrop was the oldest of five children, the other four being Clark, Lucien, William and Susan, whose father was Aruna Lathrop. Aruna Lathrop was one of three brothers, the other two being Lucien and Pliny, who settled in Richfield Township of Lucas County as early as 1833. All became prominent participants in pioneer affairs there and in many ways left the impress of their influence upon their respective communities. Lucien subsequently retired to Sylvania, where he died, but the other two spent their last days on their farm. Azro and Betsey (Becker) Lathrop were the parents of five children : Hattie, wife of O. H. Churchill, who lives just across the state line in Michigan ; Jerome B.; Emma and Clara, both living on the old homestead ; and David. By his first marriage Azro Lathrop had two children, Ella and Ambie. Jerome B. Lathrop has a fine farm at the edge of Berkey, and operated it under his personal supervision until 1912. Since then his son has managed the farm. Mr. Lathrop in 1909 became proprietor of the elevator at Berkey and has made that a medium of important market service to the surrounding community. In 1915 Mr. Lathrop erected a fine brick residence, which is one of the best in that section of Richfield Township. Mr. Lathrop married Emma Atwell and they have two children : Loyd, who married Hazel Rice of Lenawee County, Michigan ; and Joyce, who is still at home. Mr. Lathrop is a democrat, and served as assessor in his home township for ten years. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. JAMES W. HANNA. Nearly all his life James W. Hanna has been a resident of Henry County. His has been a career of prosperity, whether as business man or public official, and his name is known and esteemed throughout that section of Northwest Ohio. Of his definite accomplishment one that should be specially mentioned is that he founded the village o McClure in Henry County. For a number of years his home has been in Napoleon, and he is now serving as mayor of that city. He was elected in 1915, and took possession of the office in 1916. For many years he has been engaged in the real estate business, and his operations have covered the entire Henry County. In 1890 Mr. Hanna was elected county re- 1262 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO corder, and served two consecutive terms. For nine years he was a member of the city council and was president of the board one term. It was in 1883 that he laid out and organized and secured the incorporation of the Village of McClure, and became its first mayor, an office which he filled for a number of years. His early life was spent in Damascus Township, and he served as clerk and justice of the peace there, having been first elected to the office of clerk when he was twenty-one years of age. James W. Hanna was born in Damascus Township July 12, 1851, grew up and received his education there and also attended a select school at Grand Rapids, Ohio, taught by Professor Wright. Mr. Hanna also had some experience as a teacher in earlier years. He comes of substantial Scotch ancestry. His grandfather, John Hanna, was born in Scotland, and was an uncle of the late Senator Mark Hanna. John Hanna came to the United States with five brothers, most of whom located in Pennsylvania or in Virginia. John Hanna and his father acquired land at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and spent his life there. After coming to this country John Hanna married Louise Clendennen, who was born in North Ireland and came to America about the same time as the Hannas. John and Louise Hanna had the following children : David ; Samuel ; Andrew ; John ; James ; Polly, who became the wife of Louis Donnelly ; and Eliza, who became the wife of William Wolkop of Millersburg, Ohio. All the sons became successful men and some of them spent most of their lives at Millersburg, Ohio. David Hanna, father of James W., was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, but came at an early day to Holmes County, Ohio, where he married Elizabeth McClain. She was born in Holmes County, daughter of Robert and Rachel (Barton) McClain. Her parents were born in Jefferson County, Ohio, but spent most of their years in Holmes County. The McClains were of Scotch-Irish stock. David Hanna learned the printer's trade in the office of the Holmes County Farmer, and later came to Damascus Township, Henry County, finished an apprenticeship at Columbus and for several years was foreman for the Statesman's Manual. Failing health caused his return to Damascus Township, where he located on an eighty acre farm and in addition to Sits management and cultivation he taught for twenty-three years in one school district in that locality. He took an active part in political affairs, filled the office of justice of the peace until he was succeeded by his son James, and was a very influential leader in the republican party. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and he was a lay preacher. In the early generation of the Hanna family the church faith was that of the Seceder Presbyterian, later United Presbyterian, and a number of the family subsequently became Methodists. James W. Hanna was one of eight children. Four of them died young. His brother William A. died at Napoleon in 1912 at the age of fifty-four, leaving one daughter. His brother D. Frank lives in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and has a son named Alva. The brother Edward A. lives at Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and has one daughter named Loreta. James W. Hanna was married at Millersburg in Holmes County, Ohio, to Lucy V. Teisher. She was born in Holmes County in 1857, a daughter of Joshua and Louisa (Miller) Teisher. The Teishers were Maryland people and the family were slaveholders in the vicinity of Hagerstown in early days. Joshua Teisher was married in Maryland and brought his wife to Holmes County, Ohio. He was a carpenter contractor, lived in Iowa for several years, but died in Holmes County. His widow is still living at the age of seventy-nine and makes her home in Toledo. Joshua Teisher was a democrat and he and his wife were members of the Episcopal Church. Mrs. Hanna is also faithful to the church in which she was reared and Mr. Hanna attends it with her. Mr. and Mrs. Hanna had a daughter named Helen Louise, who was born at McClure in Henry County and died December 8, 1914, at the age of thirty-one. She was liberally educated, graduating from the Napoleon High School and finished a course in violin and vocal music at Vigo, Indiana. She became a singer of more than local note and was a highly cultured young woman and her death was generally lamented. She became the wife of Fred W. Gillette of Chicago, who survives her. Mr. and Mrs. Hanna's only living child is Ortez Clay, now thirty-four years of age. He was born in McClure, Henry County, was educated there and in the Napoleon High School, and for some years has been active manager of his father's farm of 211 acres in Napoleon Township. He is making a special success as a stock breeder and has a herd of HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1263 thoroughbred Jerseys and some Poland White hogs. He is also a fancier of Wyandotte chickens. The son married Mattie J. Brayer of Henry County and their son, James Brayer Hanna, is now eleven years of age. Mr. Hanna and his son are both democrats, and the former has been chairman of the county committee and has taken an active part as a delegate to local and state conventions. LEWIS KENT MAXWELL, M. D. A physician and surgeon whose experience covers more than a third of a century and who for the past twenty-five years has been in active practice at Toledo, Dr. Maxwell is one of the most prominent representatives of the homeopathic school of Northwestern Ohio, and his skill and experience in surgery have brought him a specially high standing in his profession. He was born near Cardington, Morrow County, Ohio, May 27, 1857, a son of Meigs Lewis and Margaret Ann (McMillen) Maxwell. He inherits the fine stock and characteristics of an ancestry that goes back in both lines to old Scotland. The Maxwells originated in Northumberland County, England, about the close of the tenth century. From England they removed to Scotland about the time of the Norman conquest by William the Conqueror, and men of the name are said to have fought with Wallace and Bruce in the border wars between England and Scotland. Members of the f amily came to America about 1700, settling in New Jersey. A number of Maxwell brothers came to America at the same time. In the Cathedral churchyard at Glasgow, Scotland, a number of the old Maxwell names are found on the various monuments. The first American ancestor of Dr. Maxwell concerning whom there is definite information was Robert Maxwell, who removed from New Jersey to East Nottingham Township in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He died there in the latter part of November, 1792. He married Rebecca S. Estlack. Thomas Maxwell, son of these parents, married Jane Lewis in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and moved to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he died about 1796. He had made preparation to settle in what is now West Virginia, had gone on several journeys to that district, and on his last trip had reached the Village of Morgantown on the Monongahela River, where all trace of him was lost. He had considerable money in his pos session, and it is supposed that he either fell into the river or was robbed and murdered. Robert Maxwell, grandfather of Dr. Maxwell, was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1791, and in 1799 moved to West Virginia with his mother. In 1831 he took his family from West Virginia to Cardington, Morrow County, Ohio, where he died February 4, 1884, when almost ninety-three years of age. On going to Morrow County he bought from the government about twenty-two quarter sections of land, and was long prominent as a farmer and business man. In the early days he operated a string of freighting wagons between Clarksburg, West Virginia, and Baltimore, Maryland, each wagon being drawn by four or six horses. Grandfather Robert Maxwell and wife had nine children, seven of whom lived to rear families : Rebecca. H., who is now living at Oskaloosa, Iowa, at the age of ninety-six, and at the present writing is in a hospital at Keokuk with a broken hip, but is in good health and in a fair way to recovery, and though the oldest of the children will be the last one to die ; she married Joseph LeFevre. Caroline, who died in Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1913, when past eighty years of age, married Dr. Benjamin F. McMillen. Frances, who died at Cardington, Ohio, during the '50s, married Rev. William Boggs. Thomas Maxwell, who died in Iowa in the '60s, married Jeannette George of Morrow County, Ohio. Mary M., who died at Cardington, Ohio, in 1910 at the age of eighty-seven, married Alexander Ireland. Emma, who died about 1885 near San Francisco, California, married Sylvanus Payne. Meigs Lewis is the father of Dr. Maxwell and is mentioned below. Corydon and Amy, the younger children of Grandfather Robert, died in infancy. Meigs Lewis Maxwell was born in Harrison County, West Virginia, near Jane Lew, a village named for his Grandmother Jane Lewis. He was born there July 19, 1823, and died at Cardington, Ohio, April 27, 1916. He was brought to Ohio in October, 1831, when eight years of age. He spent his active career as a farmer and stock dealer and finally retired when about seventy. He spent his last years in the home of his son, Robert R. The Maxwells are still prominent in West Virginia and large land holders there. Judge Edwin Maxwell was the first republican to materially reduce a democratic majority in that state, and in his race for governor lost the election by a very narrow margin. Dr. Maxwell's mother, Margaret Ann Mc- 1264 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO Millen, was born September 21, 1821, in what is now Morrow County, Ohio. She died at Cardington November 16, 1866. She was the daughter of John McMillen, who was born January 5, 1776, in Londonderry, Ireland, and died February 12, 1857, in Mahaska County, Iowa. He was buried in Bedwell cemetery at Rose Hill, Iowa, being the first Free Mason to find interment in that county of Iowa. He was a farmer, schoolteacher and followed other occupations. John McMillen was married March 28, 1803, to Miss Margaret Hopkins, who was born February 12, 1780, in Waterford, Ireland, and died November 13, 1863, in Mahaska County, Iowa, and was laid to rest beside her husband. This couple were married across the Irish Sea at a Gretna Green, and soon after their marriage in 1804 they came to America, settling in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. On April 6, 1811, John McMillen was naturalized. The McMillens were of a Scotch Protestant family, and the ancestry goes back to the days of John Knox. After coming to this country John McMillen enlisted in the American army at the beginning of the War of 1812 and served under General Harrison during the years 1812-13. He was one of the men who assisted in the building of Fort Meigs in Ohio. For his military service he received in 1852 a land warrant for eighty ,acres, and in the following year e placed that in Keokuk County, Iowa. It was registered in the Land Office at Iowa City. Both John McMillen and his wife are buried in the Bedwell cemetery at Rose Hill. The McMillen children were : Matilda J., who was born February 16, 1804, at Pittsburg, married William Brown, and died at Rose Hill in Mahaska County, Iowa ; James C., who was born in Pittsburg August 30, 1810, and is now deceased ; Dr. Abram S., who was born in Pittsburg September 29, 1812, and died at Sunbury, Ohio, about 1865 ; Alexander, born October 10, 1815, died in Texas in 1837 ; William H., born December 10, 1817 ; Dr. Benjamin Franklin, born November 13, 1819, and died in Oskaloosa, Iowa ; Margaret Ann, mother of Dr. Maxwell, who was born September 21, 1821, and died in 1866, being the youngest of the family. Dr. Maxwell was one of the following children : Winfield Scott, who was born October 9, 1847, and resides at Mountain View, California ; Robert Rienzi, born October 27, 1849, and now living at Cardington, Ohio ; John Franklin, born March 12, 1851, and died in Clark County, Ohio, at the age of forty ; Frances Emma, born November 4; 1852, and died October 9, 1855 ; Amy Jane, born September 19, 1854, married Leander W. Smith and died in February, 1883 ; Dr. Lewis K., who is next in order of birth ; Mary Ellen, born December 17, 1858, the wife of David Orr of Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio ; Thomas Jefferson, born October 24, 1860, and died October 5, 1863 ; Margaret Rebecca, wife of Benjamin Franklin Jones of Smithtown, West Virginia. All these children were born on the farm near Cardington, Ohio. After the death of his first wife Meigs L. Maxwell married, on August 25, 1867, at Cardington Miss Samantha M. Oliver, who was born in the same locality and died there October 9, 1877. She was the mother of three children : Allen Oliver, born July 16, 1868, and a resident of Columbus, Ohio ; Mina Luella, born June 17, 1870, and living at Columbus ; and Charles Wilbur, born April 1, 1872, and living at Marion, Ohio. These three children were also born at the old home near Cardington. On August 20, 1879, the father again married Miss Maria Jane Tucker of Shelby, Ohio. She died January 29, 1911, leaving no children. Dr. Maxwell comes of a family which has furnished a number of successful men to the medical profession. His uncles, Abram and Benjamin F. McMillen, were physicians, as were their cousins, Dr. Corydon Boyd Ireland, Dr. Redmond Payne, Dr. Eugene Payne, Dr. Clyde Payne and Dr. John McMillen. Dr. Maxwell's wife has a brother who is a physician, and his own brother, Dr. John F. Maxwell, furnishes another name to the profession. Dr. Maxwell spent his early youth on the old farm in Morrow County. He lived there until he was married, and received his early education in the district schools and also the high school at Cardington and Mount Gilead. In carrying out his plans to become a physician he attended his first course of lectures in the University of Michigan in the winter of 1880-81. That was soon after the homeopathic department was established in the Michigan University. In order to obtain the better clinical facilities of a large city he entered the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital Medical College, from which he was graduated M. D. in March, 1883. Since then he has taken postgraduate work in the New York Post-Graduate College and in the various hospitals of this country and abroad. In April,. 1883, Dr. Maxwell located for HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1265 practice at Caledonia in Marion County, Ohio, where he remained until November, 1891. During a large part of that time he was leading physician of the town, and as his practice entailed a great deal of physical hardship in driving and riding about the country, his health suffered so that he was finally obliged to sell out. On leaving Caledonia in November, 1891, he spent six months in recuperating and also in attending courses at the Post-Graduate School at New York. On March 22, 1892, Dr. Maxwell arrived in Toledo and opened his first office at 2208 Monroe Street, across from his present home on Twenty-second Street. For a number of years he has had HS office in the Nicholas Building, where he is now located. More and more his time has been taken up by surgical work. He was the first homeopathic surgeon in this section of Ohio to perform a successful operation of hysterectomy. He specializes in general surgery, is a member of the gynecological staff of the Toledo Hospital, and for years has been the chief surgeon in the Homeopathic Hospital of Toledo. He is a member of the Northwestern Ohio . Homeopathic Society, the Ohio State Homeopathic Medical Society, the American Institute of Homeopathy, the Lucas County Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, and the National Association of Surgeons and Gynecologists. He has been chief of the staff for a number of years at the Toledo Hospital, and he performed the first surgical operation in that hospital. He has served as president and secretary of the Northwestern Homeopathic Medical Society and has been president of the Ohio Homeopathic Medical Society. Politically he is independent and gives his support to the best man. He is a member of the Toledo Commerce Club and belongs to St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. On March 24, 1879, he married Miss Mary Claypool. They were married in Cardington at the parsonage of the Methodist minister, Rev. W. B. Farrah. Mrs. Maxwell was born on a farm in Morrow County, and while growing up there first became acquainted with Dr. Maxwell. Her parents were Jacob and Martha (McGonigal) Claypool of Westfield, Morrow County. Mrs. Maxwell was liberally educated, attending the Cardington High School and the Ohio Wesleyan University of Delaware. Besides looking after the interests of her home she has been prominent socially and in church affairs of Toledo, is a member of the educational club and belongs to the Ladies' Aid and King's Daughters Society of her church. Both her parents were farmers of English and Irish descent and they died at Ashley, Ohio. Mrs. Maxwell traces her ancestry on the Claypool side to the wife of Oliver Cromwell. Mrs. Maxwell was one of the following children : Dr. Albert Claypool, of Toledo; Chesley K., of Minneapolis, Minnesota ; Ada C., wife of Frank J. Baker, an attorney of Colorado Springs, Colorado ; Nancy, wife of Addison J. Silverwood of Norfolk, Virginia ; Mrs. Maxwell ; Bertrand A." of Carleton, Michigan ; and one son that died in infancy. Doctor and Mrs. Maxwell have two sons : Vernon Claypool and Clarence Kent. Vernon C., who was born in New Holland, Fayette County, Ohio, January 21, 1880, graduated in 1900 from the Central High School of Toledo, and then spent two years in the Ohio State University in the engineering course, being obliged to leave the university on account of failing eyesight. He is now city salesman in the electrical supply house of W. G. Nagle at Toledo. Vernon C. married Miss Florence Ford, daughter of Daniel E. and Elizabeth Ford. At her death on December 13, 1914, she left two children, the grandchildren of Doctor Maxwell, Ford Lewis, born October 13, 1904, and Maxine Vernice, born December 8, 1910. Clarence Kent Maxwell, the youngest son, was born in Caledonia, Ohio, March 31, 1885, was educated in the Toledo public schools and Oberlin College at Oberlin, and is now a bond salesman. THOMAS GIBBS. One of the oldest farmers of Lucas County of whom this volume furnishes a record is the most venerable and cordially esteemed gentleman whose name heads this article, Thomas Gibbs, who is now living in honest retirement at Sylvania. It can also be truthfully said of him that, during his active career, he was a typical representative of the best and highest class in the agricultural element of the population of this locality. Intelligent, practical, systematic, diligent, persevering and provident in his farming operations, he was absolutely just in his dealings with all who had transactions with him, and his career as a farmer reflected credit upon that vocation. Mr. Gibbs was born at Preston, Kent, England, in 1836, and is a son of Thomas and Ann (Barnett) Gibbs. He came of an honor- 1266 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO able family in moderate circumstances, and in his youth secured a common school education, which did not progress beyond his thirteenth year. At that time, feeling that better opportunities awaited him in the United States than could be found in his native land, he left England's shares in his sixteenth year alone and finally landed in America, with but small means with which to give him his start. He was possessed of resource and initiative, however, and had a quick eye to recognize opportunities and to make the most of them. Making his way to Cleveland, Ohio, he soon found himself established in the milk business, an enterprise which he soon built up to good proportions. By 1856, only four years after he had arrived in this country, Mr. Gibbs found himself in possession of sufficient means with which to return to England and marry the lady of his choice. He spent little time in England after his marriage, however, for in the spring of 1857, eager to return to the scene of his former business success, he came back to America and again located at Cleveland. That city continued to be the scene of his activities until 1863, but business had fallen off during the war, and in that year he went to Mentor, Ohio, where he secured employment with the Cleveland & Pennsylvania Railroad, in cutting timber for engines. In this way he came into contact with many who had been to the front or who were going, and finally he yielded to the lure of the war and in November, 1864, enlisted as a private in Company H, Thirty-second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The regiment rendezvoused in camp at Columbus, where it was equipped and drilled, and after two weeks was sent to Nashville, where it came up in time to take part in the last battle of Nashville, one of the most terrific of the entire war, where the Confederate General Hood attacked the Union troops. After three days of sanguine fighting the wearers of the Gray were driven off and the victorious Northerns followed them into Alabama and practically annihilated what had once been a great army. Mr. Gibbs received his honorable discharge July 31, 1865, the war having closed, and returned to Mentor, where he remained for one year. In 1866 Mr. Gibbs came to Lucas County, crossed the state line into Michigan, and there, in Whitford Township, Monroe County, established himself upon a farm. For twenty years he applied himself assiduously to the development of a good property, and at the end of that time was able to retire from active life and to begin to enjoy the comforts which his years of labor had earned for him. Since that time his second son, Frederick James, has conducted operations on the homestead. Mr. Gibbs has never lost his love for flowers, and at his comfortable and attractive home he maintains a wonderful garden, the appearance of which speaks eloquently for the care that is bestowed upon it. Although he is eighty years of age, Mr. Gibbs does all his own work in the garden, but this is nothing remarkable in the light of the other achievements of this octogenarian who will not admit the approach of old age. In 1912, when he was seventy-six years of age, he took a trip to the land of his birth, and made the trip alone, spending all Hummer. After viewing the various points of interest in England, he traveled leisurely through France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Scotland and Ireland, and then returned to his home in the fall. He is now awaiting the close of the great European war, that he may make another trip to visit the various great battlefields. Mr. Gibbs is a republican in national issues, but has independent leanings, and in local affairs generally gives his support to the men and measures which he believes will be for the best interests of his community, irrespective of party lines. He has served his city in a number of local offices, has been a member of the school board and of the city council, and at all times has tried to do his full share as a citizen in promoting Sylvania 's best interests. Mr. Gibbs' religious affiliation is with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and to use his own words, has filled every office from "exhorter down to janitor." For thirty-five continuous years he acted in the capacity of superintendent, and for over thirty years was recording steward. Mr. Gibbs was married in England, in 1856, to Miss Susanna Pittman, daughter of Albert Pittman, of Wordensborough, County Kent, England, who died in 1911, leaving the following children : Thomas B., farming near New Boston, Michigan, married and has three living children ; Frederick James, retired, who makes his home at Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio, and has one married daughter ; William Henry, who is engaged in farming near Adrian, Michigan, married and has four children ; and Julia Susanna, wife of A. R. Chandler, a prominent hardware dealer and banker of Sylvania, with one son. HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1267 JOSEPH OROSZ. Of the men of Hungarian birth and nationality who made their homes and business careers in Toledo, one of the most prominent and best remembered was the late Joseph Orosz, who died in that city March 11, 1913, at the age of forty-three. He spent nearly all his years in Toledo, and besides a large retail business as grocer and meat dealer at 2126 Consaul Street, he was successful in his various real estate investments and was especially influential among his people in the city. He was born in Nagy Ida Abauy, Hungaria, March 19, 1870. His father was the first of the family to come to America, but soon returned to his native land, and died there in 1907. The mother came to this country in 1904 and died in Cleveland, Ohio, in December, 1915. Joseph Orosz received his early training in the schools of his native land, and set out for America at the age of thirteen. Though very young he was keen, alert, thrifty and industrious, and readily adapted himself to American life and customs and was a sincere and patriotic citizen of the United States. He was one of the most progressive of Toledo's Hungarian population. For six years he conducted a grocery and meat market combined on Front Street, and later built the Joseph Orosz place at the corner of Consaul and Burger streets. That building he occupied with a grocery and market and saloon for the last eight years of his life. He also owned considerable Toledo real estate in the vicinity of his business, and owned several houses which he rented. He was a liberal contributor and active member of St. Stephen's Catholic Church and was church treasurer at the time of his death and had done much toward the erection of the magnificent church edifice. He also helped build the Greek Catholic Church of Toledo, and was especially interested in St. Michael's Society and St. Stephen's Society and was also a member of St. Mary's Society. Fraternally he was identified with the Knights of the Modern- Maccabees and with the Woodmen of the World, and belonged to the Retail Grocers and Butchers Association of Toledo. His prominence as a business man and citizen made is early death seem like a calamity among his people, and a great concourse of friends and acquaintances followed his remains to their last resting place in Calvary Cemetery. The Hungarian papers of Cleveland published an extensive notice of his death and career as also did the local papers of Toledo. In St. Stephen's Catholic Church of Toledo January 19, 1903, Mr. Orosz married Miss Mary Csvercsko. Mrs. Orosz was born in the same locality of Hungary as her husband, and the two families were on intimate terms there. She was three years of age when Joseph Orosz left Hungary for America, and she came to the United States at the age of twenty-two. After arriving in Toledo she married. Mrs. Orosz is a very progressive woman: capable as a business manager, and for a year after her husband's death continued the store and business. She owns considerable property on the East Side, including the business block erected by Mr. Orosz before his death, and in 1914 she erected as a family home one of the finest modern brick residences in that locality of Toledo. Mrs. Orosz has always given the best of her energies to her home and family, but is also widely known in Toledo social circles. She is the mother of five children : Joseph, who is now thirteen years of age and has special talent as a musician ; Mary ; Victoria ; Frank ; Edward. All the children were born in Toledo and are receiving their education in St. Stephen's parochial school. JAMES MELVIN. Of the old and well remembered merchants of Toledo, one of the most prominent was the late James Melvin, whose large clothing store was a landmark in the shopping district of that city for fully thirty-five years. A successful business man, he displayed much public spirit in civic' affairs, was a kindly and highly esteemed associate and friend. His death, which occurred June 23, 1906, closed a career of substantial achievement and good citizenship. In ancestry he represented some of the finest elements of American stock. He was born at the historic old town of Concord, Massachusetts, December 20, 1826. He was a direct descendant of those Melvins who came to New England soon after the Mayflower brought its first cargo of passengers to the rock bound coast. In all the generations the Melvins have been imbued with patriotism and a sturdy loyalty not only to country but to the highest ideals of private and public life. Some of his ancestors fought with the colonies in the war for independence against England. Two of these in particular were his grandfathers, Amos Melvin and Jacob Farrar, who were minute men in Concord on 1268 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO the night that Paul Revere made his famous ride of warning from Boston throughout the surrounding country. On the following day Amos Melvin and Jacob Farrar stood in the ranks of those embattled farmers, who "fired the shot heard 'round the world." James Melvin grew up in his Massachusetts home, and with the same spirit which had animated his forefathers he enlisted in 1861 at the first call for troops to put down the rebellion. In April of that year he became a member of the famous Sixth Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry, and served for three months. Later he re-enlisted in the Thirty-third Massachusetts Infantry, and was with that regiment in all its marches, campaigns and battles for a period of two years. He was finally discharged on account of a serious disability and returned home to Massachusetts, where after recovering his health he resumed the peaceful vocation of civil life. Mr. Melvin came to Toledo in 1870. He at once opened a stock of men's and boys' clothing at a location now 231 Summit Street, under the name "Boston Square Dealing Store." He was a fine type of the New England business man. He was scrupulous in all his dealings, careful in his management, and the name by which his store went was well exemplified in every transaction. In time he made his establishment one of the chief centers of the clothing trade in Toledo and vicinity. Later under the name of the James Melvin Clothing Company it grew to be one of the most exclusive stores of the kind in the city. As a citizen he served as alderman one term and for two terms as a member of the Board of Education, of which he was president. Whatever his relations, whether in business, public or home life, his name stood for integrity and purity, and while he gained a commendable financial success it was as a result of methods which have stood the test of the world in all generations. He was an active member of Forsyth Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Toledo, and had charge of the relief fund for old soldiers' families in Grand Army of the Republic work for many years. The Toledo Post was arranged from members of the Forsyth Post of which he was a member. He was also a member of Anthony Wayne Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, and a member of Rubicon Lodge No. 237 Free and Accepted Masons, of which he was treasurer for many years. From the time of its organization he was identified with the Unitarian Church and for many years served as treasurer of the church board. Mr. Melvin is survived by Mrs. Melvin and two daughters. His widow now resides with her daughter in Maumee, Ohio. The daughters are : Mrs. John Alan Hamilton of Buffalo, New York, and Mrs. Clifford Taft Hanson of Maumee, Ohio. GEORGE P. DOLPH. That farming may be made one of the most satisfying and agreeable occupations of life, that good judgment, perseverance and industry may transform an individual's hopes into realities, and that honesty and straightforward dealing are among the most useful of human assets, are facts emphasized in the life of George P. Dolph, now a retired citizen of Sylvania, in the vicinity of which thriving Lucas County community he has resided for something like three score years. A successful agriculturist, Mr. Dolph has also been prominently identified with civic activities and in this direction has exerted an influence second to none of the upbuilders of his locality. Mr. Dolph was born at Palmyra, New York, February 8, 1834, and is a son of Abda and Pamelia (Porter) Dolph, farming people of the Empire state. In 1837 the family moved to Ashtabula County, Ohio, where the father continued to be engaged as a tiller of the soil until 1845, when he continued further to the West and on April 12th arrived at Sylvania. Here he purchased a farm just south of the town and continued to carry on farming, becoming a substantial husbandman and a prominent man in his locality. Finally, in his declining years, he left the country and moved to Sylvania to make his home at his son's residence, and there his death occurred when he was well advanced in years, Mrs. Dolph having passed away some time previously. George P. Dolph was given a good education in the district schools of Ashtabula and Lucas counties, and passed his boyhood and youth on the home farm, where he worked until reaching the age of twenty years. At that time he established himself in the milk business in the City of Toledo, but was not satisfied with this enterprise and after one year disposed of his interests and entered the employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, at Sylvania. The call of the farm was too strong, however, and after three or four years of railroading he gathered together his savings and invested them in a HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1269 small firm in Whitford Township, Monroe County, Michigan, just across the state line from Sylvania. There he continued his operations until 1861, in that year returning to Sylvania, but after one year in town again. located on the farm and for a period of twenty-seven years continued to add to his' holdings and to improve and cultivate his land with great success. Mr. Dolph was a practical farmer who was able to recognize the worth of new ideas and methods and also possessed of the ability to apply them to his own labors and benefit thereby, and thus through hard work, intelligently directed, he was able to accumulate a property and retire to the enjoyment of material comforts when he was still in the prime of life. In 1889 he took up his residence at Sylvania and rented his property, which he still owns. Mr. Dolph was married in 1859 to Miss Lucy Lewis, who was born at Vienna, Monroe County, Michigan, a daughter of Charles Lewis, a farmer of that county. Mrs. Dolph died in 1909, at the age of seventy-five years, having been the mother of two children : Abda Charles and Maud. Mr. Dolph is a republican in his political views and at various times has been elected on his party's ticket to positions of public importance. While residing on the farm he acted in a number of local offices in his township, being a member of the school board for a period of twelve years, and since coming to Sylvania to make his permanent residence has occupied a like position and has also been a member of the city council. His public service has been of a nature calculated to establish him firmly in the confidence of his fellow-citizens, and at all times he has endeavored to work faithfully for the best interests of his community. He has long been a faithful member of the Congregational Church, the movements of which he has supported liberally, and since 1857 has been a member of the Masonic fraternity. Abda Charles Dolph, son of George P. Dolph, was born in 1863, in Whitford Township, Monroe County, Michigan, and received his education in the district schools of his native county and the Sylvania High School. He remained on the home farm until 1895, but after having been manager of the homestead for eleven years came to Sylvania, where he established himself in the undertaking business, in which he is still engaged. He has a modern, well equipped establishment and has developed a good business through honorable dealing, and is looked upon as one Vol II-39 of the substantial business men of the town. He was married at Erie, Michigan, in 1883, to Miss Mary Vincent, who was born at Monroe, Michigan. They have no children. Mr. Dolph is a republican in political matters, and like his father has been called to public office, having served on the school board, as a member of the city council and as mayor for one term. He is an Odd Fellow and stands high in Masonry, having attained to the thirty-second degree and the Mystic Shrine. Maud Dolph, daughter of George P. Dolph, married Albert R. Miles, of Whitford Township, Monroe County, Michigan, and died in 1909, leaving one daughter : Lucy. The latter was married first to William Bunting, who was accidentally killed a few months later while working as a trainman on the Toledo. & Northwestern Electric Line. Later she was married to Valentine Howley, a tonsorialist of Toledo, and they have one son, George Richard, who was born November 12, 1914. GEORGE BELL ORWIG. A member of the Toledo bar thirty years, George B. Orwig is one of the high-minded lawyers of Northwest Ohio, and has enjoyed all the better distinctions and rewards that go with a successful place in the profession. He was born at Pemberville, Ohio, November 10, 1861, a son of Dr. Samuel Abner and Martha (Black) Orwig and is descended from Godfrey Orwig, who founded Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania. Godfrey and two of his sons served in the American Revolution. Dr. Samuel A. Orwig was a graduate of the Western Reserve Medical College at Cleveland, and spent his active career in the general practice of medicine. George B. Orwig attended the public. schools at Bellevue, Ohio, and was a student of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. Upon leaving college he taught district school for several winters, and in the meantime studied law, first in the office of Hamilton & Ford and later with George H. Beckwith. While a man of varied interests Mr. Orwig has steadily devoted himself to his profession, and more or less active in politics, having always been a republican, and in 1914 he was a prominent candidate for election to the Common Pleas Bench. He has been elected four times in succession and without opposition as president of the Toledo Bar Association, an office he still holds. He was the first Toledo lawyer to be thus signally honored. For many years Mr. Orwig has been identi- 1270 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO fled with the National Union, and has been financial secretary of Nasby Council since its organization on February 28, 1888, and is the oldest officer in the order in point of service. He is a charter member of the Toledo Commerce Club and of the Toledo Museum of Art. He was one of the organizers and has served as president of the Toledo Shakespeare Association. Another interest to which he has given much of his time is the Toledo Civic Music League, of which he is now president, and of which he was one of the organizers. The principal purpose of this league is to bring the best music to Toledo at lowest prices. He has been a member of the First Congregational Church at Toledo since 1885, and is active in the men's various church organizations. On February 11, 1891, at Toledo Mr. Orwig married Miss Mary Bell Eldridge, a daughter of John E. and Margretta B. Eldridge. For five years prior to her marriage Mrs. Orwig was a teacher in the Toledo High School. They have one living child, Florence Bell Orwig, who is now a member of the class of 1918 at the University of Michigan and belongs to the Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority. Two of Mr. and Mrs. Orwig's children, Lawrence and Margretta, died in infancy. FRANK L. MULHOLLAND, a prominent Toledo attorney, was born at Disco, Michigan, April 20, 1875, a son of Rev. Robert N. and Alice M. (Oatrander) Mulholland. He was educated in the public schools of Michigan, in Albion College, and in the Detroit College of Law, graduating from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1899 with the degree LL. B. In the summer of 1899 he was admitted to the Michigan bar and to the bar of Ohio in the fall of the same year. Coming to Toledo, he opened an office in the Spitzer Building with Judge David R. Austin, a partnership that continued for about three years. He was then alone in practice until forming his present partnership with Mr. Charles Hartmann, with offices at 1311-1318 Nicholas Building. Mr. Mulholland is engaged in the general practice of law. During his life in Toledo he has identified himself with many of the organizations that represent the best social qualities and civic enterprise of the city. He has held the position of president of the Lincoln Republican Club. of the Toledo Commerce Club, of the Toledo Rotary Club, of the International As sociation of Rotary Clubs, is an ex-trustee of Toledo University, is a member of the Toledo Art Museum, a director of the Toledo Zoological Society, a member of the advisory council of the National Highway Association, and served as a commissioner to the Anglo-American Exposition held in London in 1913. He is a member of the Delta Tau Delta college fraternity, of the Inverness Country Club, the Toledo Club, the Toledo Yacht Club, Toledo Lodge of Elks, of the Knights of Pythias, Rubicon Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Fort Meigs Chapter Royal Arch Masons, St. Omar Commandery Knights Templar of the thirty-second degree Scottish Rite, and of Zenobia Temple of the Mystic Shrine. In politics he is a republican. September 19, 1900, Mr. Mulholland married Maude M. Rutter of Mt. Clemens, Michigan. They have three children : Clarence M., Marion M. and Margaret C. GEORGE KNAGGS. On the River Road in Lucas County near Maumee and not far from the Children's Home is a splendid old mansion which is a center of as many historic associations with this section of Ohio as any other place that could be named. It is now owned and occupied by Miss Antoinette Knaggs, a daughter of its builder, the late George Knaggs. George Knaggs represented one of the first families who settled in what is now Northwestern Ohio, and was prominently identified with the making of history in and around Detroit from the time of the English Conquest. His grandfather, who was also named George Knaggs, was a, native of England. He married Rachel Sly, a native of the same country and of Holland and English stock. After coming to America they lived for some years in Philadelphia. It was in the early year 1760 that George Knaggs came out to the Northwestern frontier and located on the Maumee River near what later became the site of Fort Miami. At that time Detroit was the only settlement of consequence in all the country surrounding Lake Erie. Only a short time had passed since the English captured Quebec and won dominion over the great Empire of New France. George Knaggs was thus almost a solitary resident along the Maumee, and afterwards moved to Detroit. His home on the Maumee was near the stockade which later' became known as Fort Miami. The family records say that his son James was born at HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1271 Roche Le Boeuf. In that early settlement on the Maumee was born the children of George and Rachael Knaggs as follows : Whitmore, born in 1760 ; George, born in 1765 ; Elizabeth, born in 1772 ; Thomas, Rebecca, James and William. Mrs. Rachael Knaggs was a woman of brilliant mind and unusual character. She supervised the education of all her sons, and though they were reared on the extreme frontier they had a culture surpassing that given many sons born and reared in cities and older communities. Whitmore Knaggs, oldest son of George Knaggs, was the father of the late George Knaggs. He was married in Detroit to Josette, daughter of Pierre des comptes LaBadie. Her family was connected with the nobility of France, and afterwards was prominent in the early history of Quebec and Montreal. LaBadie was especially conspicuous in the early history of Detroit, to which settlement he had moved with his family from Quebec. Whitmore Knaggs after the Americans conquered the Northwest and took possession of Detroit and the surrounding country became an Indian agent. He had exceptional qualifications for such a post of responsibility. He had grown up and had known the Indians from childhood and they had complete confidence in his integrity and his counsel. In fact one of the tribes adopted him, and in 1783 they gave him four thousand acres of their land. The original deed to this tract was lost, and in 1795 the Indians issued a second deed bearing.the signatures of all their chiefs. This land was on the west back of the Maumee River above the present City of Toledo. Subsequently the United States Government objected to so much land being held by one individual, and some of it was transferred to others, though the bulk was divided between the three living sons of Whitmore KnaggsGeorge, John and James. For many years Whitmore Knaggs was a resident of Detroit. In the fall of 1812 official business called him to Washington. As part of his journey,lay through British Territory he secured a passport or parole from the British authorities. He returned to the West in January, 1813, by way of the Maumee River. Here he found everything desolated by the Indians, who had immediately taken the war path at the beginning of the War of 1812. He proceeded as far as the River Raisin (Monroe) where his mother and brother James lived. There he found General Winchester with his Kentucky militiamen. During the visit that followed at the home of his brother James, Whitmore Knaggs had the misfortune of witnessing the massacre of the inhabitants by the forces under General Proctor and Tecumseh. However, he succeeded in escaping and was proceeding down the river in company with General Winchester when a band of six or eight wounded Indians came upon them. The Indians took the two white men prisoners. The two chiefs in the band recognized Knaggs, and his presence there was all that saved the entire party from being scalped. Even so it was necessary for one of the chiefs to get the white men sheltered behind some horses in order that they might not be killed or wounded by the tomahawks that the red men were swinging and throwing. They were then escorted to Proctor's headquarters. That commander showed them every indignity, handcuffing them and carrying them to Quebec, the headquarters of the British army. On account of his influence over the Indians the British authorities sought every pretext for getting Whitmore Knaggs out of the way. He was charged with having broken his parole and with having participated in the battle of the River Raisin. Contradicting such charges were the explicit statements from General Winchester, who was also at that time in prison at Quebec, and also Mr. Knaggs' emphatic denials on his own part. Nevertheless he was kept a prisoner of war in Quebec until the general exchange of prisoners between the American and British forces in 1814. The children of Whitmore Knaggs and his accomplished French wife were : Whitmore, George, John, James and Elizabeth. All these children were born and reared in Detroit. The late George Knaggs at the age of sixteen came to the Maumee River and began supervising the erection of a house below old Fort Miami and not far from Rocky Bar. This house was designed as a fur trading post in connection with his father's business. When this task was accomplished George Knaggs returned to Detroit and attended St. Thomas College and also at West Point. For a time 'he was clerk in the employ of Henry I. Hunt at Detroit. About 1821 George Knaggs was again at Fort Miami but soon returned to Detroit, where he married Matilda Lee. She was born in Pennyan, New York, a daughter of Doctor Lee, who was of the old Lee family of Virginia and was an early Detroit physician. 1272 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO In 1824 George Knaggs brought his bride to Fort Miami and began the erection of a fine home. This was completed the following, year and thereafter he lived there permanently. The house stood on the river bank in the rear of the present Children's Home. It is one of those fine old homes that possessed the dignity and beautiful simplicity of our old colonial architecture, and such as are found only very infrequently now. It was finished in mahogany and other fine woods, and a beautiful taste prevailed throughout. In 1916 Miss Antoinette Knaggs, daughter of George Knaggs, removed this fine old home and reestablished it on its present site north of River Road and just above the Children's Home. It stands there as one of the very fine houses along that beautiful avenue. The late George Knaggs had some very extensive property holdings. Besides his tract of land on the Maumee he owned 900 acres on the east side of that river and also land in Manhattan and in the City of Toledo at what is now Collingwood and Ashland and Collingwood and Cherry streets. George Knaggs by his first wife Matilda, had one son, George Henry, who died when a few months old. The mother of this child died in 1849. In 1850 he married Laura Bosley. She was born in Geneseo, New York, a daughter of John Bosley. John Bosley was a son of Edmund Bosley of Bosley Mills, New York, the family having been noted in the early days as extensive mill owners in New York State. The Bosleys originated in the State of Maryland. John Bosley came west and owned mills at Fremont and later at Perrysburg, Ohio. George Knaggs by his second marriage had one child, Antoinette, who still maintains the fine old home erected by her father and carries on the traditions of this notable historic family in Northwest Ohio. JOHN CORYDON JONES, for many years a leading member of the Lucas County bar and otherwise well known for his service in the legislature and in other important capacities, was appointed deputy oil inspector of the State of Ohio in July, 1915, and has since removed his family from Sylvania to Toledo, where he has his official headquarters with offices in the Ohio Building. Mr. Jones is nearly sixty years of age, having been born in Milford Township, Knox County, Ohio, April 9, 1857, and has filled those years since early youth with a variety of performance and experience such as to make him deservedly prominent among his fellow citizens. His father, Basil Jones, who was born in Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, November 7, 1826, lived retired for fifteen years at St. Louisville in Licking County, Ohio, where he died at the advanced age of eighty-five years. His wife was Isabelle (Evans) Jones, who was born in Newton Township of Licking County in 1835, and died August 19, 1858, when her son John C. was about eighteen months of age. The latter spent his boyhood in Licking County, attended the public schools there, and made such a diligent use of his opportunities that in 1874, at the age of seventeen, he was granted a teacher's certificate and began teaching his first term of school in Licking County. For a number of years his chief work was done in the educational field. He would teach in the winter and during the spring and fall terms would attend an advanced course of study in the normal school at Utica in Licking County. He was graduated from that normal school June 3, 1881, and for the following four years continued teaching in Licking County. In the fall of 1886 he was elected superintendent of the public schools of Sylvania, and that brought him to Lucas County, where he has now resided continuously for thirty years. During the five years he spent as superintendent of schools at Sylvania Mr. Jones was applying himself to the study of law. One of his instructors was Gen. J. Kent Hamilton of Toledo, and he also studied under the late J. D. Ford of Toledo. After examination before the Supreme Court at Columbus he was admitted to the Ohio bar October 5, 1892. Until his recent removal to Toledo Mr. Jones was in practice at Sylvania, though he became well known in the courts of this entire section of the state. He was also associated with Judge L. W. Morris at Toledo. He was a man of mature years and experience when he began the practice of law, and brought to the profession more than a theoretical knowledge of jurisprudence. Careful, painstaking and conscientious, with a knowledge of the law and how to apply it, he has naturally enjoyed both a splendid practice and a position prestige in his profession. Ever since he reached his majority Mr. Jones has been a loyal republican, and has assisted in bringing about many republican triumphs in Lucas County. In November, 1901, he was elected to the House of Repre- HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO - 1273 sentatives and two years later was re-elected. At the second election he received the highest vote given any candidate on the victorious republican ticket. That liberal support of his candidacy tells better than anything else the personal esteem which he had won and the confidence reposed in him by people of all parties. He served with credit and distinction in the 75th and 76th General Assemblies, 1902-1906, and at the present writing, 1916, he is again a candidate for the State Legislature. In the fall of 1907 the people of Sylvania elected him their mayor for a term of two years. He was chosen on the republican ticket. Later President William H. Taft appointed him postmaster of Sylvania and he held that office four years and two months. Though he taught his last term of school more than twenty years ago Mr. Jones has never relaxed his deep interest in educational affairs, and for ten years was a member of the Lucas County Board of School Examiners and for six years president of the Board of Education at Sylvania. Soon after his appointment as deputy oil inspector Mr. Jones and family removed to Toledo. He is a member of Sylvania Lodge No. 287 Free and Accepted Masons ; to the Eastern Star Chapter at Sylvania, and for two terms he was master of his lodge and also secretary and held other chairs. He and his family are members of the Christian Church of Toledo. On Christmas Eve, 1885, Mr. Jones was happily married to Miss Addie M. Harris, a daughter of Perry A. and Elizabeth (Myers) Harris of St. Louisville, Licking County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have an interesting family. Of their seven children, the second born, Hattie B., died December 9, 1891, at the age of two years. The others, all living, are : Waite D., of Toledo ; Bessie B. wife of S. J. Storer, assistant cashier of The Farmers & Merchants Bank of Sylvania ; Lucile E., wife of George L. Bowen of Toledo ; John C., Jr., of Toledo; Ea Isabelle and Avalene H., both at home. HON. CLEMENT D. CARPENTER. By the sudden death of Clement D. Carpenter at his home in Toledo January 12, 1916, the local bar lost one of its oldest and best known members. Mr. Carpenter was one of the founders of the law department of St. John's University at Toledo, was an active member of the Ohio bar more than forty years, and was distinguished by his broad knowledge of his profession and of world affairs and by his capable service in public life. He was a political associate and a close personal friend of Brand Whitlock and Congressman I. R. Sherwood. He was in his sixty-seventh year when he died. After the funeral services in Toledo at his home at 432 Prescott Street his body was taken for burial to Blissfield, Michigan, where Mr. Carpenter was born, March 23, 1848. His father was Hon. Joel Carpenter, now deceased, who was a native of New York State and was for many. years a prominent lawyer and politician at Blissfield, Michigan, where he died, January 22, 1891. Mr. Carpenter's mother was Minerva (Mead) Carpenter, a daughter of Hon. Darius Mead of Blissfield. She was born at Lanesboro, Massachusetts, and died March 12, 1853. All her three children are now deceased, Clement D. Carpenter having been the oldest. As a boy he attended the public schools of Blissfield, the high school at Ypsilanti, Michigan, graduating with the class of 1865, and for two years he was a student in the literary department of Adrian College at Adrian, Michigan. .Mr. Carpenter was graduated LL. B. from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1872, and soon afterward was admitted to the Ohio bar and began practice in Toledo. During the next forty odd years he acquired a substantial position as a lawyer of sound learning and ability, and in his later years was associated in practice with Judge J. A. Barber, Judge Lindley W. Morris, and J. Harrington Boyd. Mr. Carpenter spent several years abroad and pursued his studies in Paris and Berlin and his broad culture enabled him to associate on terms of equality with many of the foremost men of the country. In the early part of his career he was a republican, and during the administration of President Arthur in the early '80s was appointed secretary to the American Legation to Chili, and spent two years in that South American country. After his return to Toledo he became aligned with the democratic party, and was especially loyal to its great figures, Jefferson, Jackson, Tilden and Cleveland. It is said that through all his local political battles he retained the good will of the various political factions and was a man well entitled to the respect and esteem of his professional and political associates. In 1897 Mr. Carpenter was appointed official reporter 1274 - HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO in the Common Pleas court by Judge Barber and held that position for ten years until he resigned in 1907. Mr. Carpenter was a member of Sanford L. Collins Lodge No. 396 Free and Accepted Masons and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Toledo. On June 30, 1876, he married Miss Georgiana Florence Savage of Blissfield, Michigan. She died September 27, 1905. On December 14, 1912, Mr. Carpenter married Maud Paine De Forest, daughter of the late John G. and Mary (Sherman) Paine, pioneers of Toledo, who have separate mention on other pages. Mrs. Carpenter still keeps the old home at 432 Prescott Street. JOHN A. SMITH is a citizen of Maumee whose civic efforts there deserve long to be remembered. He has been closely identified with municipal affairs for the past thirty years and much that is progressive and permanent in Maumee's improvement can be credited to his leadership and influence. He was first elected a member of the city council in 1887, being re-elected and serving until 1891, when he became city marshal and was twice re-elected to that office, serving six years altogether. In 1899 he was elected mayor, and was twice given the honor of reelection, serving altogether six years and nine months. In 1909 Mr. Smith was again chosen mayor and filled that office with credit and ability four more years. In the meantime he had spent many years also in the offices of justice of the peace and constable. It was the peculiar efficiency and vigor of his public service that called him again and again to such positions of public trust. When he was first elected mayor of Maumee they did not have a foot of stone walks or sewers, and he brought about the inauguration of that class of public improvements. It was during his term as mayor that the first electric lighting was secured. When the plant was first constructed the city's contract called for fifteen street lights, and at the present time there are eighty such lights. Mr. Smith is a native of Maumee, where he was born July 26, 1855, a son of John and Christina (Burtscher) Smith. His mother was born and reared in the Kingdom of Bavaria. John Smith was born October 28, 1816, in Prussia, where the family name was originally spelled Schmidt. John Schmidt was six months old when his father died, and he was sixteen when his mother passed away. Thus left an orphan, he soon after came to America, and in 1841 was living at Tiffin, Ohio, where he was married August 15, 1841. His home was in Tiffin until 1848, after which he lived in Maumee until his death on April 5, 1903, at the age of eighty-eight. He was a carpenter by trade, and followed that as his regular occupation throughout his active career in Maumee. His wife passed away March 2, 1880, .at the age of fifty-nine, the mother of nine children, three of whom are still living, namely : Catherine, wife of Nicholas Rippinger of Maumee ; John A. ; and Phillip, who is unmarried. In the forty years since he attained man's estate, John A. Smith has occupied himself with activity in various lines of business, and a number of years ago he erected a sawmill at Maumee and carried on the lumber and sawmill business for several years. He is now living retired both from business and official activities. He is a republican, and a member of the Catholic church. In 1877 at Maumee he married Lydia Ann Coder, a daughter of Levi Coder. Mrs. Smith died October 30, 1910. To their marriage were born five children : William Levi, who died in 1879 at the age of five months; Rosabelle Frances, wife of Frank Binder, an employe of the Lake Shore Railway Company at Toledo, and they have a daughter named Ruth ; Lillian Veronica, wife of Lee Pressgrave, a resident of Maumee ; George J., who lives at home with his father and is manager of the drug department of Milner's department store at Toledo ; and Lawrence, who died in 1898, at the age of six years. JOHN GEORGE PAINE. A notable figure in Toledo's business and civic circles was removed with the death of John George Paine on January 23, 1909. His name and career deserve a memorial with Toledo's pioneers, since he had been identified with that city for more than fifty years and all the time engaged in some line of business activity. In public service he was identified in the early days with the old volunteer fire department of Toledo and was the first paid chief of the regular department. John G. Paine was born in England and when a year old his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Paine, came to America. Mr. Paine established himself in business at Toledo at the age of twenty—conducting a fancy goods and notions store. Later he built a very extensive enterprise as a dealer in hair goods, and that was the business which engaged his