- 375 - Mr. Thomas thorough business training and general experience as a manufacturer make him well fitted to represent his district in Congress. In an industrial way he has the advantage of long practice and in the iron business he has had ample opportunity to note the needs and importance of the great lake .ports located at Ashtabula and Conneaut within his district. Add to these the fact that he is in close touch with agricultural pursuits, and you find in Mr. Thomas a man ably equipped for a successful career in Congress and a worthy successor to the noted men who have preceded him from the "Old Nineteenth." Capell L. Weems, Member of Congress from the Sixteenth Ohio District, was born on the 7th of July, 1860, at Whigville, Noble County, Ohio. He is the son of David L. and Hester A. Weems, who are still living at Summerfield, in that county. Mr. Weems got a common school and academic education and began teaching school at sixteen, and taught and superintended village schools until he went to practicing law in the spring of 1883. While teaching school Mr. Weems had studied law under the tutorship of Dalzell & McGinnis at Caldwell, Noble County, and was admitted to the bar in October, 1881, before the Supreme Court of Ohio. He formed a partnership at Caldwell with J. M. McGinnis, and practiced until his removal from that county. In 1884, Mr. Weems was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Noble County, and served three years. Before the expiration of his term he was nominated and elected Representative from Noble County in the lower House of the General Assembly of Ohio. He was a member of the Judiciary Committee and also a member of the special joint committee of the two Houses which sat during the interval between the two sessions and prepared the constitutional amendments which were voted on by the people of Ohio in 1889. He removed to St. Clairsville, the county seat of Belmont County, on the 1st of May, 189o, and was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Belmont County in 1893 and re-elected in 1896, serving six years. In 1903 Mr. Weems was nominated and elected to Congress in the Sixteenth Ohio District, to fill out the unexpired term of one year and six months, caused by the resignation of Hon. J. J. Gill. On the 31st of March, 1904, Mr. Weems was nominated by the Republican convention of the district as its candidate for the Fifty-ninth District, and elected in the fall by, an increased majority. He was married to Mary B. Nay, at Caldwell, in 1883. They have three children. Mr. Weems is a Mason; a member of the K. of P. and an Elk. Warren G. Harding, Publisher of the "Star," Marion, Ohio.—But few men in Ohio public life have made the rapid stride in general favor and esteem that has marked the career of Hon. Warren G. Harding, of Marion, Lieutenant Governor of Ohio. One of the leading Republican editors of Ohio, and a member of the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth General Assemblies, he is already at the front in party thought and leadership, and other honors await his beck and call. In his capacity as Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, Mr. Harding was presiding officer of the Senate of the Seventy-sixth General Assembly, and in all the sessions of the last three Legislatures he was among the men who dictated policies on questions of interest to the State, and he was always consulted on matters of party action, when his experience and good judgment brought about the best results. Lieutenant Governor Harding is a native of Morrow County, born at Corsica on the 2d of November, 1865, and secured his education at the old Ohio Central College, at Iberia. In 1882 he taught school and afterwards began the study of the profession of law, but being enamored to the newspaper business, became a - 376 - writer for the press, and purchased the Marion Star, a progressive daily newspaper. It was a hard struggle to place the property on its financial feet, but the indomitable perseverance of Mr. Harding won the fight, and it is now a splendid paying investment. Warren G. Harding entered public life in the summer of 1899, when he was nominated Senator from the Thirteenth District, composed of the counties of Logan, Union, Marion and Hardin, and was elected by a big majority. As a member of the General Assembly he took high rank as a debater and legislator. His speeches in behalf of the reorganization of the city government of Cincinnati, and later to establish a new municipal code for the cities and villages of Ohio, were examples of earnest and logical debate. In that Senate he was Chairman of the Committee on Printing and member of many other important committees. In 1901, Senator Harding broke the one-term rule of the Thirteenth District that had been in vogue for a half century. His services had been so valuable to the people that they insisted upon his making a second race. There was no opposition in the district, and he was re-elected by an increased majority. In the Seventy-fifth General Assembly he was at once given the leadership of the Republican majority of the Senate, and remained unchallenged in that position until the close of the session. He was Chairman of the Committee on Insurance and a member of the Committees on Claims, Common Schools, Federal Relations, Finance, Military Affairs, Taxation, Universities and Colleges, Banks, and Building and Loan Associations. His eloquence brought him the honor of presenting the name of Senator J. B. Foraker for a second election to the United States Senate, and adding his eulogy to the memory of the martyred President McKinley at the services held by the joint Houses, on the 29th of January, 1902. At the Republican State Convention, in June, 1903, in Columbus, Senator Harding was nominated by acclamation for the office of Lieutenant Governor, and his election followed in November of the same year after a most strenuous campaign, in which Senator Harding, in company of United States Senator Hanna and the nominee for Governor, Myron T. Herrick, stumped the State. The writer of this sketch had the pleasure of listening to Mr. Harding at the tremendous Republican mass meeting held in Music Hall, Cincinnati, during the campaign of 1903, and it is his opinion that a more gifted orator has seldom been heard anywhere in this country than Warren G. Harding. His style of delivery is forcible, his arguments are convincing, his impromptu wit is unfailing and his statistical knowledge and memory are wonderful. The growth of Lieutenant Governor Harding has been healthy and steady in the good will of the people of Ohio, and a long and brilliant future is hoped for him. He was married to Florence M. Kling, a highly educated and accomplished lady, and a fitting helpmate of her distinguished husband. - 377 - John A. Caldwell, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the First District of Ohio, is one of the most popular and best known citizens of Cincinnati. He was born on the 1st day of April, 1852, in Fair Haven, Preble County, Ohio, and received a common school education in his native village, supplemented by a course in mathematics and in Latin. In 1876 he graduated from the Cincinnati Law School, and taught school during the fall and winter of 1877, and in the spring of 1878 entered upon the practice of law in Cincinnati. Judge Caldwell was elected Prosecuting Attorney in 1881 and reelected in 1883. In 1885, Judge Fitzgerald, a man of great popularity, defeated Judge Caldwell for Police Judge of Cincinnati, but in 1887 he, in turn, defeated Judge Fitzgerald for the same office. But before he completed his term as Police Judge he was elected to represent the Second Ohio District in Congress, and was re-elected in 1890 and 1892. As Congressman from the Second District, he was conspicuous as an advocate of all measures to protect the workingmen and afford justice and relief to the soldiers. He strongly advocated the eight-hour bill, under the provision of which Government contractors are prevented from forcing their men to work more than eight hours a day. He is the author of the bill to prevent the desecration of the American flag, and also of the anti-lottery bill. Judge Caldwell made the favorable report that secured the enactment of the Car Coupler law, requiring all railroad companies to adopt safety couplers on all trains engaged in interstate commerce, and 'advocated the re-classification of the various postal employees, under which all railway postal clerks and letter carriers are now working. Against the employment of convict labor on Government contracts Judge Caldwell took a firm stand, and he also was the author of a bill to require all prison-made goods, of whatever character, to be stamped, so as to show where and in what prison they were manufactured. While he was serving his third term in Congress he was unanimously elected Chairman of the Congressional Campaign Committee. When it became necessary to Republican success in Cincinnati that the party select as its candidate for Mayor the strongest possible man before the people, Judge Caldwell was nominated to head the municipal ticket, in 1893, and he patriotically put aside his Congressional career, and was elected Mayor of Cincinnati. In 1899 Judge Caldwell was elected Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, and, in 1901, Judge of the Common Pleas Court of the First Ohio District. Judge Caldwell lives with his family in Cumminsville, Cincinnati. - 378 - Harry L. Gordon, Ex-Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, and President of the Council of the city of Cincinnati, was born in the village of Metamora, Franklin County, Indiana, on the 27th of August, 1860. He attended the public schools during the winter months and worked on the farm during the summer until he was eighteen years of age, when he left his country home for college. His college education was obtained in the Normal College at. Ladoga, Indiana, and De Pauw University, at Greencastle, Indiana, from which university he was graduated with honors in 1882, receiving the degree of B. Ph. Three years later he received the honorary degree of A. M. He studied law with the firm of McDonald, Butler & Mason, in Indianapolis, Indiana, and was the chief clerk in that office from 1882 to 1887. In January, 1887, he removed to Wichita, Kan., where he resided for ten years. While a resident of Kansas he was Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, City Solicitor and a member of the Kansas State Senate. Immediately upon taking up his residence in Cincinnati he engaged actively in the practice of law, and in April, 1899, he was appointed a member of the Board of Supervisors of said city and in the following year was elected President of the Board, which position he held until April 1, 1903. He was appointed Lieutenant Governor by Governor George K. Nash to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Carl L. Nippert, on the 26th day of June, 1902, and at the special session of the Legislature which convened in August, 1902, he presided over the Senate in a manner which won for him the esteem and confidence of all with whom he came in contact. In the spring of 1903 he was elected President of the Cincinnati City Council. Mr. Gordon has always been an ardent and enthusiastic Republican, having participated in almost every campaign since he graduated from college. He is a Scottish Rite Mason, Knight Templar and a member of the Mystic Shrine, and belongs to the leading clubs and business organizations of Cincinnati. He was married on the 10th of April, 1892, to Esther L. Langtree, of Aurora, Indiana, and has one son, Harry L. Gordon, Jr. Few men have risen more rapidly in political affairs in the State of Ohio than has Mr. Gordon, and he is to-day recognized as one of the potent factors not only in the affairs of the city wherein he resides, but throughout the entire State as well. Asahel W. Jones, Attorney at law at Youngstown, Ohio, ex-Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, was born at Johnstonville, Trumbull County, Ohio, on the 18th of September, 1835. His father, William P. Jones, was born in Hartford, Trumbull County, where his grandfather had removed - 379 - from Barkhamstead, Connecticut, in 1801. General Jones' mother was Mary J. Bond, born at Avon Springs, New York, on the 26th of February, 1816, and emigrated to Hartford in 1833. On his father's side he is of Welsh descent and on his mother's of English or Irish. General Jones' ancestors settled in Connecticut in 1635, but fifteen years after the landing of the Mayflower, and the old homestead is to-day occupied by a lineal descendant of the family. Like all farmers' boys, General Jones received the rudiments of education in the district school, as farm work and opportunities offered. When about twelve years old he commenced to attend the Western Reserve Academy at West Farmington, Trumbull County, from which institution he graduated. Afterwards he entered Kingsville Academy, Ashtabula County. After leaving that seat of learning he read law with Curtiss & Smith, at Warren, Ohio, and on the 27th of September, 1859, he was admitted to the bar of Ohio. For several years he practiced in Warren, removing to Youngstown, in 1864, where he has been located ever since. General Jones filled the office of Prosecuting Attorney of Mahoning County for two terms, the first by appointment to fill a vacancy, and the second by election. For more than a quarter of a century he has been regarded one of the leading lawyers of Northern Ohio ; he is thoroughly grounded in legal principles, and few lawyers in Ohio are better able to expound the law. Many years ago he began the practice, in Mahoning County, of demanding from corporations adequate compensation for injuries inflicted on employees and others by the negligence of officials. His exceptional eloquence wrung from juries large verdicts, and his thorough knowledge of the law enabled him to sustain them in all the courts. So phenomenal was his success in the class of cases mentioned, that Mahoning County soon became the Mecca where all sufferers from corporation negligence in Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania went to have their wounds healed. Under his leadership and tutelage the bar of Mahoning County has become the terror of railroad and other corporations. But General Jones' successes have by no means been confined to damage cases. He has figured on one side or the other of every class of cases tried in his judicial district within the past thirty years. His practice in the District and Circuit Courts of the United States is large and lucrative. In a number of important cases he has appeared before the Supreme Court of the United States, and there, as elsewhere, proved himself equal to any emergency, and entitled to rank among the great lawyers of the country. General Jones is interested in many important industrial and banking enterprises, and has given a large share of his attention to them. He is considered as one of the Republican leaders in the State. In connection with Judge Tripp, of Columbiana County, he represented the Seventeenth Ohio Congressional District in the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1880. In 1884-1885 he was President of the Ohio State Bar Association, succeeding General Durbin Ward. In 1886 he was appointed by - 380 - Governor Foraker on his military staff as Judge Advocate General, with the rank of Brigadier General, and was re-appointed in 1888. At the Republican State Convention held in Columbus on the 25th and 26th of June, 1889, he was one of the prominent candidates for the nomination for Governor. He received the third highest vote on the first ballot. In 1895 General Jones was elected Lieutenant Governor, and re-elected in 1897. The General is of commanding appearance, and with his massive head and broad shoulders would attract attention everywhere. As an orator he bears out the impression given by his splendid physique, his blows falling like those of a sledge hammer, clinching every point as he proceeds. As a political speaker, he has but few equals and no superiors, and his services have been much in demand in political campaigns. As a man and a citizen, General Jones is deservedly popular. Possessed of a frank and hearty demeanor, he is the personification of genial good nature. He is known and regarded as one of Youngstown's most enterprising citizens, a friend of progress and improvements, socially, morally and educationally. General Jones is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity and St. John's Commandery, Knights Templar, of Youngstown. Robert P. Kennedy, Was born at Bellefontaine, Ohio, on the 23d of January, 1840; and was educated in the public schools and in the East. At the beginning of the War. of 1861, he was attending school in the East, and hastened home to join one of the first companies enlisted for the service. The first company enlisted in Logan County started for Camp Chase on Tuesday suc - ceeding the firing upon Ft. Sumter, and went into the three months' service. On the follow:- ing day Captain Israel Canby, First Lieutenant C. W. Fisher and Second Lieutenant Robt. P. Kennedy began the organization, of the second company, which became Company F, Twenty-third Ohio, the first three-years regiment. The company was enlisted for three months, but before it got into camp President Lincoln 'issued his call for three-year troops and it became a three-year company in a three-year regiment. This regiment became one of the most distinguished in the service, numbering among its officers Rosecrans, Hayes, Canby, Matthews, McKinley and others. After the war he studied law with Judge Wm. H. -West and the Hon. James Walker, and entered into partnership with them in the practice of the law in Bellefontaine, which partnership continued until 1878, when he was appointed Collector of Internal. Revenue by President Hayes. In 1885 he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, taking his seat in January, 1886, and served as such until March, 1887; when he resigned to take a seat in Congress, to which he had been elected in the fall of 1886. He was re-elected to Congress in 1888, and served in the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses. In 1899 President McKinley appointed him President of the Insular Commission to investigate and report upon the conditions existing in Cuba and Porto Rico, and to formulate a code of laws for Porto Rico. He has always been an ardent Republican, and has been heard on the stump in every campaign since 1867, and has been in nearly every State from Maine to the Dakotas. He now resides in Bellefontaine. In 1862 he married Maria Lewis Fordner, the third daughter of General Isaac S. Fordner, who died in January, 1893, and in September, 1894, he married Mrs. Emma C. :Mendenhall, the daughter of Hon. Calvin Cowgill, of Hobart, Indiana. The war record of the subject of this sketch, as furnished by the War Department, is as follows : Entered into the service as Second Lieutenant of Company F, Twenty-third Ohio Infantry, June 1, 1861; promoted to Second Lieutenant of Company A, April - 381 - 13, 1862 ; left Camp Chase for Benwood, West Virginia, on the 25th of July, 1861 ; thence to West Virginia., July 28, 1861 ; remained on duty at Weston, Sutton, Summerville and Glennville, West Virginia, until September, 1861.; appointed Assistant Adjutant General of the First Brigade of the Kanawha Division, serving as such from August, -1861, to September, 1862 ; battle of Carnifax Ferry, September 10, 1861; to Little Sewell Mountain, September 15, 1861, and to New River, October, 1861; action at Cotton Mountain, November 12. and 13 ; at Fayette Courthouse until December 1, 1861.; Raleigh Courthouse, December 31, 1861, to April 1, 1862; action at Bliveston, February 8, 1862; expedition to Blue Stone River, February 1o. and 12 ; advance on Princeton, April 22. to May 1.; action at Clark Hollow, May 1862 ; action at Princeton, May 8, 1862 ; Giles Courthouse, May 10, 1862 ; Flat Top Mountain, July 5, 1862 ; Pock's Ferry, August 6, 1862 ; movement at Washington, D. C., August 15 and 24; battle of Bull Run Bridge, August 27, 1862; assigned to duty as Assistant Adjutant General of the Second Kanawha Division on the staff of Colonel E. P. Scammon, Ninth Corps of Army of the Potomac, October, 1862 ; engagement at Monocacy Bridge, Maryland, September 12, 1862 ; :engagement at Frederick, Maryland, September 12, 1862 ; engagement at Middletown, Maryland, September 13, 1862 ; battle of South . Mountain, Maryland, September 14, 1862 ; battle at Antietam, Maryland, September 16. and 17, 1862 ; commissioned Captain and .Assistant Adjutant General of United States Volunteers and assigned to duty with Brigadier General George Crook, commanding Second Kanawha Division, Ninth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac; movement to West Virginia, October 23. to November 14, 1862 ; operation in West Virginia, November, 1862, to January, 1863; transferred with General George Crook to the Army of the Cumberland, Nashville, Tennessee, January, 1863; on duty as Adjutant General, Third Brigade, Fourth Division, Four teenth Corps, on staff of General George Crock until June, 1863 ; assigned to duty as Adjutant General of the Second Division of Cavalry, Army of the Cumberland, on staff of General George Crook and General Kenner Garrard from June, 1863, to September, 1864, participating in scouting to Rome, Georgia, March 24 and 25, 1863 ; reconnaisance to McMinnville, April. Is and 14, 1863; Middle Tennessee and Tallahama campaigns, June 23 to July 7, 1363 ; Hoover's Gap, June .25 to '28; 1863 ; Shelbyville, June 27 ; battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, September 1.8- to 21; 1863; Thompson's Gap, Cumberland Mountains, October 3, 1863; McMinnville, October 4, 1863 ; Farmington, October 7, 1863 ; operations against guerrillas from Shelbyville, Tennessee, to. Rome, Georgia, October to December ; raid on Bragg's fortification, November 22. to 28, 1863;. reconnaisance to Dalton, Georgia, February 23 to 28, 1864 ; promoted to Major and Assistant-Adjutant General of United States Volunteers, April 13; '1864; Atlanta campaign, May. to September, 1864; operations against Dalton, Georgia, May 5 to i3; battle of Resaca, May 13 to 15; near Rome, Georgia, May 15, 1864; Arundel Creek and Floyd Springs, May 16; 1864.; engagement at Kingston, Georgia, May 18; battles about Dallas, New Hope Church, Pumpkin. Vine Creek and Altoona Hills, May 25 to June 4; Big Shanty, June 9; operations. against. Pine and Kenesaw Mountains, June x to 3 ; McAfee's Cross Roads, . June z x ; Moonday Creek, June 15 to 19; Lattimer's Mills. and Power Springs, June. 20 ; near Marietta, Georgia, June 23 to July 3; operations on line of Chattahochie River, July 5 to 17; raid to Covington, Georgia, July 27 to 31; Lattimer's July 27; engagement at Flat Rock, .Georgia, July 28 ; siege of Atlanta, Georgia, August 1 to 15; engagement at Decatur, August 5; raid around Atlanta, August 18 to 20; Jonesboro, August 19 and 20; Lovejoy Station, August 2o; battle, of Jonesboro, August 31. to September t; retired from duty as Adjutant General with Second Cavalry, Division of the Army of the Cumberland, and ordered to report to Major General George Crook, in the Shenandoah Valley as Adjutant General and Chief of Staff of the Army of West Vir- - 382 - ginia ; battle of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864 ; breveted Lieutenant Colonel United States Volunteers, .November 17, 1864; on duty in the Shenandoah Valley until February, 1865 ; when he was assigned to duty as Adjutant General of the Middle Military Division on the staff of Major General Winfield Scott Hancock ; appointed Colonel of the One Hundred and Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteers, April 13, 1865 ; on duty with regiment at Winchester, Virginia, until July, and garrison duty at Baltimore and Forts Henry and Delaware until September, 1865; breveted Brigadier. General of United States Volunteers; mustered out of service and honorably discharged, September 22, 1865. During his service as Adjutant. General and Chief of Staff,.Army of West Virginia,. he had as one of his assistants William McKniley. Before leaving the Army of the Cumberland, in 1864, he was invited by Major General George H. Thomas, commanding that army, to become a member of his staff as Chief of Cavalry of the Army of the Cumberland. The assignment of general officer of the regular army by. the War Department to this position interfered with this proffered honor by General Thomas and almost immediately thereafter he was, by special order of General Grant, upon the request of Major General Crook, transferred to the Army of West Virginia, as Chief of Staff of that army. In 1862, at the battle of Antietam, by the fortunes of war, he was in temporary command of a portion of the left wing of the army, and upon the review of that army by President Lincoln, on the battle-field at Antietam, he was called to the front and presented to President Lincoln as "the youngest commander in the Army of the Potomac." Elbert Leroy Lampson, Of Jefferson, ex-Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, is a native of the county in which he makes his home. He was born on the 30th of July, 1852, at Windsor, Ashtabula County, and is the son of Chester Lampson, a farmer, and Emerette Griswold Lampson, both of whom were native Americans, the former being born in this State and the latter in New Hampshire. Mr. Elbert L. Lampson received his education in the district schools, after which he attended the Orwell Academy, the Grand River Institute at Austinburg, Ohio, and the law department of the Michigan University, graduating from the Grand River Institute in 1875, and from the latter in 1878. At the age of twenty-five he started in public life as. County School. Examiner of Ashtabula County, which position he filled for eight consecutive years. In 1883 he purchased the Jefferson Gazette, a newspaper now owned by E. C. and R. D. Lampson. Mr. Lampson has always been a staunch. Republican and has served the party of his choice in many capacities. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National. Convention, representing the Nineteenth Congressional District, and in 1900 he was Reader in the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia, which nominated President. McKinley for his second term of office, and also in the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1904. In 1885 Mr. Lampson was elected to - 383 - the lower House of the. General Assembly of Ohio. He represented his constituents and the people in general in such a satisfactory manner that he was re-elected two years later by an increased majority. In 1889 he was nominated by the Republican State Convention as Lieutenant Governor, and while he was elected to that position in the following election, he was unseated shortly after the organization of the Senate of the Sixty-ninth General Assembly by the Democratic majority for political purposes. While he was a member of the House, Mr. Lampson, in 1888, was elected Speaker of that body, serving in that position for a period of two years. In 1891 he was elected to the Senate of the. Seventieth General Assembly and was chosen President pro tem of the Senate. Mr. Lampson is the author of the Ohio Automatic Coupler and Air Brake law and of various amendments to the Australian Ballot law; as well as of the original resolution adopted by the Republican State Convention for biennial sessions of the Legislature, and of numerous amendments to the statutes of the State. In 1895 Mr. Lampson was appointed to his present position as Reader in the House of Representatives of the National Congress. He has made speeches in' four National campaigns and in ten States (including Missouri in 1904) under the National Republican Committee. In passing, it should. be mentioned that in the Congressional Convention of 1898 for over forty ballots he had the solid support of the Ashtabula delegates, and that he gave his support on the forty-seventh ballot to General Charles Dick, which resulted, in the election of that gentleman to Congress. On the Toth of May, 1904, he was a candidate to succeed General Dick ,at the convention, held at Warren, Ohio, and led off, every ballot until the eighteenth, and only lacked four votes of a nomination. Socially, Mr. Lampson is a member of different branches of the Masonic fraternity and of the Sons of the American Revolution. His grandfather, Ebenezer Lampson, was a soldier in the War of the Revolu- tion, having enlisted in Connecticut. He came to Ohio- in 1809. Mr. Lampson is financially interested in the Pennsylvania & Ohio Electric Railway Company and the Jefferson Banking Company, at Jefferson, Ohio. On the 5th of August, 1875, he was united in marriage to Mary L. Hurlburt, of Hart's Grove, Ohio, daughter of E. G. Hurlburt. Four children—E. C. Lampson, L. V. Lampson, Lillian D. Lampson Anthony, and Clara M. Lampson —are the issue of their union. His son, E. C. Lampson, married Pearle May Evans, and they have two children,. a daughter named Elizabeth Corolynn, and a son named Elbert 'Wellington Lampson. His daughter Lillian married Gould R. Anthony, of Scotland, Conn., a Congregational minister. Mr. Lampson resides with his family in a pleasant home in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio. Rees G. Richards, Of Steubenville, Ohio, Common Pleas Judge of the Third Subdivision, Eighth District of Ohio, was born near Swansea, Wales, on the 22d of July, 1842, and lived there until he had reached the age of ten years, when his parents emigrated to America. and settled in the province of Ontario, Canada, from where they moved later to Tioga County; Pennsylvania. Young Richards studied diligently after reaching America, intending to take a thorough educational course, but on the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion he enlisted in defense of the Union, in Company G, Forty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was promoted to Sergeant, and at the battle of South Mountain, in September, 1862, was made Captain for "gallantry on the field." He was wounded on several occasions and was confined in a hospital in a critical condition for several weeks, but always reported for duty:as soon as he could do so. THe was Captured in front of Petersburg, and, after experiencing the horrors of the rebel prison hells for several months, in company, with two :other officers, escaped on the 17th of February and reached the Union lines on the .16th of March, 1865. Reporting for duty, he was made Inspector on General Curtin's staff: The war ending, Mr. - 384 - Richards returned home, removed to Youngstown, Ohio., and engaged in mercantile pursuits. Later he studied law and was admitted to the bar of Ohio. He removed from Youngstown to Irondale, Ohio, and in 1873, and again in 1875, was elected to the House of Representatives in the General Assembly,. representing Jefferson County with marked success. In 1879, Judge Richards was, sent to the Senate. In 1881 he was chosen Lieutenant Governor, and he could have had the nomination again in 1883 .had he been willing, to accept. After leaving 'the halls of legislature, Judge Richards engaged in the practice of the legal profession until he was elected to the Common Pleas bench. Judge Richards has always been an active, working Republican, serving as well in the councils of his party as on the stump in political campaign. He is a convincing, forceful and eloquent speaker, and all subjects touched upon by him are capably and thoroughly handled. As a member of the State Board of Arbitration he rendered signal service. Judge Richards is a man of broad human sympathies, and takes a ,keen interest in all movements for the benefit of the people. He is a lover and patron of the fine arts, and has materially assisted many worthy institutions. FRANK EDGAR SCOBEY, During the Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth General Assemblies, Chief Clerk of the Senate, was born in Miami County, Ohio, on the 27th of February, 1864. He is the son of William Scobey and Martha J. (Vandeveer) Scobey, well-known and highly respected people in that section of the State. The elder Scobey was a gallant, soldier during the Rebellion, serving with credit in the Eleventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry., The grandfather, John Scobey, was an old settler in Miami County Mr. Frank Edgar Scobey was educated in the public schools of Troy, and early took an active part in the Republican politics of Miami County, serving as chairman of the committee and contributing to the annual increase in the _size of the Republican majority rolled up in that county. In 1897 he entered the race for the Republican nomination for Sheriff, and won The prize from, seven opponents. He was - 385 - elected by a large majority. So satisfactory were his services to the people, that two years later he had no opposition for either the nomination or election, and retired from that office in January, 1902. At the organization of the Senate of the Seventy-fifth General Assembly he was the Republican majority candidate for the Chief Clerkship, an honor to which he was elected. Having served with distinction, he was re-elected to the same position in 1904; During the sessions, of the General Assemblies he took a high rank as a popular and efficient official, having the good will of everybody. His management of the place was without criticism, and he set high the mark by which similar officials will hereafter be judged. In 1889, Mr. Scobey was married to Miss Mary Barringer, of Miami County. Mr. Scobey is an Elk, .Knight Templar, K. of P., Odd Fellow and a member of the Royal Arcanum. John P. Maynard, Civil Engineer of Washington C. H., Ohio, is a man well known O. over the State. He is a native of Ohio, born on the iith of February, 1861. His father, Judge H. B. Maynard, a distinguished lawyer, was born in Massachusetts and came to Ohio in 1854, where he took up the practice .of law at Washington C. H. Young Maynard obtained a thorough education in the. common schools and High School of his native city and the Ohio. State University at Columbus. After a course in the Engineering Department of the O. S. U., Mr. Maynard started into business life as civil engineer and became active in the construction of railroads in the South and Southwest. For a long time Mr. Maynard has been connected with the Ohio National Guards, serving for fourteen years in the Sixth and Fourteenth Regiments. Captain Maynard has always been an active worker in the ranks of the Republican party, and has served his party in many capacities, but never held any elective offices. In 1900 Captain Maynard was appointed to the office of Assistant Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives and was re-appointed to the same position in the Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth General Assemblies. After the death of 'Chief Clerk Burgess L. McElroy, Captain Maynard performed hiS duties as active Chief Clerk. He is a man of splendid physique, affable manners, and has a multitude of friends. His home is in Washington, C. H. Captain Maynard is still a member in good standing of the International. Brotherhood of Confirmed Bachelors, of the Columbus Glee Club, the K. of P., and the Maynard Division, U. R: K. of P., of Washington C. H. Lionel S. Pardee, Attorney at law at Akron, Ohio, is an active and aggressive exponent of the principles of the Republican party in Summit County and well known in the northeastern part of the State. He was born on the 28th day of August, 1865, in Wadsworth, Medina County, but the removal of his parents to Akron, when he was but eight years of age, led to his being - 386 - educated in the public schools of this, city, which has since 'been his home. Mr. Pardee entered into the employment of the Adams Express Company in his early years, but soon concluded to study law. For this purpose he entered the well reputed Cincinnati Law School, from which institution he graduated in 1892, being admitted to the bar the same year. He immediately entered into the practice of his chosen profession at Akron, and in his profes-. sional experience has been connected with some of the most important cases in Summit County. In addition to his practice, Mr. Pardee has found time to take an active interest in the politics of his local district. When the Senate of the Seventy-fourth General Assembly was organized, Mr. Pardee was chosen Sergeant-atArms. During the session of the next Legislature, Mr. Pardee served as one of the Clerks of the Senate, while the Senate of the Seventy-sixth General Assembly reinstated him into his former position as Sergeant-at-Arms. Mr. Pardee is an able lawyer, a man of sound judgment, unassuming manners and of commanding appearance. As a matter of fact; it may be stated that he has a multitude of friends all over the State. F. B. Archer, Of Bellaire, was born in Bellaire, Pultney Township, on the l0th of May, 1858. His father, Rudolph W. Archer, died when he was but five months old. His mother is still living at the good old age of eighty-four years. His parents were among the early settlers of Pultney Township. His father, had quite a reputation as a singer, and taught vocal music in the surrounding country. After the death of his father, leaving the mother with six children depending on her for support, the future of the boy did not look promising, and as a consequence the educational advantages afforded him were meager. At the early age of twelve years the boy went to work in the glass factory in Bellaire, and by the time he was seventeen years of age he had finished his apprenticeship at the trade, commanding the wages of a master tradesman in the business. His fellow workmen put him in .positions of trust and responsibility in their craft organization. In 1885 he left the factory to engage in the stationery and insurance business. Two years prior he had been elected - 387 - to the office of Treasurer of Pultney Township, serving two terms in this office, and this served to introduce him to the political field of activity. He served two terms as a member of the Bellaire City Council, two years as President of that body. He was elected Treasurer of Belmont County in 1889 and was re-elected for a second term two years later, leading his ticket each time. He was a candidate for State Treasurer at the .Zanesville Convention in 1895, but was defeated for the nomination largely by reason of geographical consideration in the make-up of the ticket. Senator Archer has served his party twice as the Chairman of the Republican County Executive Committee, and had the honor each time of increasing the party majority in the county. He has always been, and still is, an active member of that organization in the campaigns. Of recent years he has been engaged in the general contracting business. He has an interesting family of four boys and one girl; the boys, two of whom are voters, and like their father are ardent Republicans, one of them being a member of the County Central Committee. Senator Archer was elected to the Seventy-fourth General Assembly of Ohio in 1899 and re-elected two years later, each time receiving the nomination by acclamation. This unusual honor was but the natural expression of the confidence of his constituents in his ability to look out for the interests of both, as partizans and citizens, of the joint Twentieth—Twentysecond Senatorial District. He was elected President pro tern of the Seventy-fifth Senate, and upon the resignation of Lieutenant Governor Nippert, succeeded to the Lieutenant Governorship by reason of succession, serving until Governor Nash appointed H. L. Gordon to the place. He has always been an ardent admirer of Senator Foraker, and naturally was the leader of his friends in the Senate. He was a member of the following committees in the Senate: Finance, Municipal Corporations No. I, Railroads and Telegraphs, Labor, Sanitary Laws and Regulations, State Buildings, Taxation. In addition to his duties on these committees, he was Chairman of two important committees, those of Public Works and Public Lands, and Manufactures and Commerce. A glance at these important committee assignments is an indication of the activity with which the Senator from the joint Senatorial District entered on his duties in the Ohio Senate. He was appointed as a member of the Conference Committee that had the final settlement of the new municipal' code. He -entered into the duties of this committee with his usual zeal and energy, and did not miss a session of the committee, which sat daily for two weeks. He is still a young man, active in the work of the Republican party. William Vincent Blake, State Senator from the Twentieth and Twenty-second Districts, comprising the counties of Columbiana., Jefferson, Belmont and Harrison, in the Seventy-third' General Assembly, is a man well known and well liked in the eastern part of Ohio. Senator Blake is a native of England, born in Chesterfield on the 28th of October, 1845. His father, Mr. George Blake, was a manufacturing potter, as had been his ancestors for more than two hundred years. It was therefore natural that William Vincent became an adept of the art—for an art it was with the Blakes, not a trade. As soon as he left the grammar school of Chesterfield, at the early age of nine years, he entered the workshop of his father as an apprentice: Senator Blake followed his vocation until he had reached the age of twenty-three years in England, when, in 1868, he emigrated to the United States and settled in Trenton, N. J. In 1889 Mr. Blake came to East Liverpool and accepted a position as "thrower" in the well-known pottery of Knowles, Taylor & Knowles. Soon the Senator became known as an artist in his busi- - 388 - ness, a potter of the good old school. He despises the use of molds and other modern appliances in the manufacturing of pottery ware, but from a bit of clay thrown on the old- fashioned potter's wheel he fashions and forms pieces of art, such as all the modern machinery can never produce. Senator Blake made that beautiful vase which was exhibited by Knowles, Taylor & Knowles at the Columbian Exposition in 1893, and attracted the admiration of hundreds of thousands of visitors and secured for his firm a gold medal. At home the Senator is very popular and prominent, especially in labor circles. During the great strike at East Liverpool he was a member of the Advisory Board. In 1897 Mr. Blake was elected to the State Senate by a plurality of 4,916 votes, and during the session he was an ardent and able advocate of all legislation tending to better the condition of all laboring classes. He also secured the passage of the Fair Ground Bill and some very important school measures. Senator Blake has always been a staunch and earnest Republican. During the campaign of 1896, when Major McKinley was candidate for President of the United States, Senator Blake headed a delegation of potters who went to call on Major McKinley at Canton. On that occasion he made a speech. which attracted considerable attention at the time among workmen everywhere. In 1900 President McKinley appointed Senator Blake one of the Appraisers of Indian Photo by Baker, Columbus, o. Lands, and in this capacity the Senator visited Indian Territory and for ten months was among the Creek, Choctaw and Cherokee Nations. During the session of the Seventy-fifth General Assembly, Senator Blake was one of the clerks of the Senate, and he occupied the position of Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms in the Senate of the Seventy-sixth General Assembly. At the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia in 1900 he served as Sergeant-atArms. Senator Blake has been married since 1872, and has nine children, six sons and three daughters. One of his sons, George T. Blake, served in Cuba during the late Spanish-American War, and is at present clerk in the office of Adjutant General Critchfield. Socially, Senator Blake is a member of the Royal Arcanum and an Elk. The Senator, whose home is in East Liverpool, is a man of splendid character, sound judgment and pleasant personality. He has a multitude of friends. Rev. James Gillespy Carson, D.D., Of Xenia, Ohio, was born near Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee, on the 11th of February, 1833. His parents were Rev. David Carson, originally from Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and Jane W. Gillespy, of Blount County, Tennessee. His father having been elected Professor of Church History and Hermeneutics in the Associate Presbyterian Theological Seminary, then located at Canonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania, removed to that place in 1834, where the subject of this sketch was brought up and - 389 - educated in the common schools, Jefferson College and the A. P. Theological Seminary. He was graduated at jefferson College on the 7th of August; 1849, in a class. of fifty-four members, after which he taught for three years, first in a common school for nine months in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, then in 'a select classical school in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, during the summer of 1850, and afterwards in a classical academy at Hookstown, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, from November, 185o, until April, 1852. He entered the seminary at Canonsburg (now the United Presbyterian Seminary of Xenia, Ohio), where he was graduated March, 1855. He was licensed to preach the Gospel by the Presbytery of Chartiers of the Associate Presbyterian (now the United Presbyterian) Church of North America, on the 22d of June, 1855, and was settled as pastor of the congregation of South Buffalo (now Claysville), Washington County,. Pennsylvania: In October, 1856, he removed to the U. P. Congregation of Canonsburg (now: Greenside Avenue), Pennsylvania, where he remained until November, 1869, when he acceoted a call from the Second U. P. Congregation of Xenia, Ohio, in. which he was installed on the 1st of December, 1869, and of which congregation. he remained as pastor until the 1st of September, 1962. In 1873 he was elected Professor of Homiletics and. Pastoral Theology in the U. P. Theological Seminary at Xenia, which office he continued to fill in connection, with his pastoral charge until 1888, when, finding the double burden too heavy to bear; he resigned and gavehis whole time ti) his pastorate. In 1875 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the U. P. College at Monmouth, Illinois. He was married to Mary Houston Clarkson., daughter of Rev: Thomas B. Clarkson, of Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, on the 1st of October, 1856, who died on the 21st of March, 1894. Rev. Carson was selected State Senator from the Fifth and .Sixth District in November, 1903. George H. Chamberlain, Attorney-at-law at Elyria, Ohio, is a man well known in the historic Western Reserve. He was born on a farm in Lorain County on the 21st of June, 1862. His early education was obtained in the district schools of his native county. At the age of seventeen he went to Oberlin College to pursue his studies, teaching school during the winter months to pay his expenses through college. In the fall: of '1884 he entered the law 'office of E. G. Johnson, at Elyria, Ohio, and was' admitted. to the .bar before the Supreme Court of Ohio in June, 1887, when he immediately took up the practice of the law. Since that time, With the exception of six years, from 1889 to 1895; when he lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he has continued to practice in Elyria: Mr. Chamberlain is a descendant from good old Vermont and New York State stock, and is a lifelong, enthusiastic Republican. Early in life he became interested - 390 - in all political and patriotic events. Recognizing the ability and long years of faithful service in the interests of the Republican party, that party, as a proof of its appreciation, nominated him to the Senate of the Severity-fifth General Assembly in the fall of 1901. His triumphant election followed. In a district nominally Republican by 3,000 votes he received a majority of 3,800. Having served with distinction, always true to his constituents and the people of the State of Ohio in. general, he was nominated by acclamation for a second term, and on the organization of the Senate of the Seventy-sixth General Assembly, he was elected President pro tem of that body, receiving the unanimous vote of both Republicans and Democrats. After the death of Congressman Skiles, Mr. Chamberlain was prominently mentioned as a candidate for Congress, but failed by a few votes, to receive the nomination. Mr. Chamberlain is a lawyer of high standing, wide experience and good common sense, who enjoys the confidence and respect of his clients' and fellow practitioners. He is a married man and father of seven children. He is a trustee and member of the Official Board of the M. E. Church and a Superintendent of the Sunday School. He is prominently identified with the business and social life of his home city, and is a member of the Elyria Board of Education. Renick W. Dunlap, Of Kingston, Pickaway County, Ohio, a member of the State Senate in the Seventy-sixth General Assembly; was born on the 21st of October, 1872, on a farm near Kingston. He obtained his early education in the district schools. At the age of fifteen he entered the public school at Kingston: In 1890 he matriculated at the Ohio State University in the second year of the preparatory class, graduating with his class in 1895, and receiving the degree of B. S. in Agriculture. Returning the following fall to his. Alma Mater, he took three months of post graduate work in animal mechanics. On completing his collegiate course he received some flattering offers to enter professional life as a teacher in agriculture, and if his liking for the farm at the end of his college life had been the same as at the beginning of it, he certainly would have accepted the offer, but his intention when he entered college was to devote his future life to the study and practice of medicine ; but after completing the preparatory course in agriculture he found that there was more to farming than he had ever anticipated, and he concluded to finish the agricultural course, knowing that he could obtain a satisfactory position as teacher, if he did not care to return to the farm after the completion of his studies. However, the knowledge he obtained of the possibilities of scientific farming made him eager to return to the farm, and he has never regretted the step he took. He thought that if a person who had comparatively no education and business training could make a living at farming, surely a person who was well educated and who; - 391 - recognized business principles could make more than a living. That he was right was proven; for he became recognized as a thoroughly competent, successful farmer, and was made Secretary of the Local Farmers' Institute for three years and occupied the position of President of the same institute for a like period. He has been. State Lecturer of the Farmers' Institute for four years. At the present writing he is President of the township School Board. In political belief, Senator Dunlap is a staunch Republican, and always a worker from the first year he became a voter. He was made Central Committeeman of his township, which position he has held ever since. Never a Republican vote is left at home in his township if it is possible to get it out. He has also been a member of the County Executive Committee for ten years, being Treasurer of the same for three years. He first came before the attention of the people for political honors when he was a candidate in 1901, for Representative from Pickaway County, but was. defeated by only the usual Democratic majority, although one faction of his party fought him bitterly. This campaign proved him to be an energetic, fearless, honorable young man, and in 1903 his party nominated him for State Senator from the Tenth Senatorial District. He was elected with the handsome majority of 2,500 votes, which marked an. epoch in Republican history of Pickaway County, he being the first Republican ever elected from that county to the State Legislature. Upon entering the Senate, he was made Chairman of the Agricultural Committee in that distinguished body, and during its session he introduced in the Legislature several important bills. The one which attracted the most attention is Senate Bill No. 18, regulating the sale and manufacture of commercial feed stuffs. He also is the author of Bill No. 97, to promote forestry in Ohio, and Senate Bill No. 138, to regulate the sale and manufacture of renovated butter, as well as other bills of minor importance. He has been Master of the Local Grange No. 160 for the past three years, and has been a delegate to the State Grange on three occasions. During his college career he was made President of the Townsend Literary Society and was elected Arbor Day orator for his class during his junior year. He was a member of the University Senate and took an active interest in the college sports, being a member of the Athletic Board and Treasurer of same, and captain and manager of the football team during his last year in college. He attended the graduate school of agriculture at the Ohio State University, at Columbus, Ohio, in 1902. This school was one of national importance, and in it some of the most important subjects of agriculture were discussed. Mr. Dunlap is yet a young man, but he has won the confidence and approval of his fellow men, and his future is not uncertain. - 392 - John Eugene Harding, Of Middletown, Ohio, member of the Senate of the Seventy-sixth General Assembly from the Second-Fourth District, was born in Excello, Ohio, on the 27th of June, 1877. lie is of English-German extraction, his father, A. E. Harding, was a native of Surrey, England, while his mother, Mrs. Christine ,(Bridge) Harding, was born in Pennsylvania of German parentage. Senator Harding's father was engaged in the manufacture of writing paper, and organized and owned the Harding Paper Company. His son obtained a thorough education in the Amanda public schools, the Pennsylvania Military College, at Chester, Pennsylvania, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, from which institution he graduated in 190o, with the degree of LL.D. Senator Harding is engaged in general :business in Middletown, and is interested in several different industrial enterprises. He is a staunch supporter of Republican principles. In the fall of 1903 he was elected to the State Senate, in which he served with distinction. While serving in the Senate he was a member of the standing committees on Finance, Banks and Sayings Societies, Universities and Colleges, Fees and Salaries, County Affairs, Villages, Commercial Corporations, Claims, Manufacture and Commerce. Senator Harding is .a man of splendid physique, affable manners, sound judgment and good common sense. He enjoyed the distinction of being the .youngest member of the Senate of the Seventy-sixth. General Assembly. He lives at Excello, Ohio, while his offices are located at Middletown, Ohio. William S. Harris, Member of the Senate of the Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth General Assemblies from the Twenty-fourth—Twenty-sixth Districts, is a man of wide experience in legislative matters, of sound judgment and good common sense. His Senatorial District comprises the counties of Ashtabula, Lake, Geauga, Summit and Portage, in the extreme northeastern portion of the State of Ohio. Senator Harris is a product of the Buckeye State, born at Saybrook, Ashtabula County, on the 14th of February, 1846, the son of Rufus Harris and Louisa B. Simonds, natives of New York and Vermont. Senator Harris received his education in the district schools of his home township, after which he attended Grand River Institute, Austinburg, Ohio. He then took up farming as a vocation, being of the third generation of his family that lived on the farm where he now resides. His grandparents came to Saybrook as early as' 1818, when the historic Western Reserve was still sparely settled. Senator 'Harris is a faithful and enthusiastic Republican, and has always taken an active interest in the affairs of his party. In November, 1893, he was elected to the Seventy-first General Assembly, and - re-elected in 1895, so that he came to the Senate in 1902 with - 393 - four years' valuable experience in. the lower House. While a member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Harris was a member of the standing committees on County Affairs and Taxation, and introduced (in 1896) a Local Option Bill and other measures. As a member of the Senate he belonged to the Committees on Agriculture, Taxation, Common Schools, Privileges and Elections, and was Chairman of the important Finance Committee. He introduced, among other bills, a measure for the reconstruction of the Ohio canals. After the death of the lamented Marcus A. Hanna, when Charles Dick was elected to the place of his distinguished predecessor in the United States Senate, Senator Harris delivered a masterful speech in the Senate, nominating General Dick to his high office. Senator Harris was married to Miss Harriet M. Walker at Saybrook, Ohio, on the 24th of January, 1878. Orla E. Harrison, A striking instance of the influence of the young man in politics, and what can be accomplished by an unselfish devotion to public duty is shown in the career of Hon. O. E. Harrison, of Greenville, Darke County, Ohio, one of the youngest members of the Senate of the Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth General Assemblies. He had a grasp of State affairs not surpassed by any of his colleagues, and his influence was always directed toward the enactment of good laws. He had much to do with framing the laws known as the taxation scheme of the Nash Administration, and the school code of the Seventy-sixth- General Assembly. The popularity of Senator Harrison before the people was shown in the success of his campaigns for the Senate, he twice carrying a district always before Democratic by big majorities. Senator Harrison is a Darke County product, born there in 1873. He received his education in the public schools of Greenville and the National Normal University, graduating from the last-named institution with the degree of Bachelor of Science. For five years after graduation he taught school with great success, afterward serving as Principal of the Franklin High School. He read law with Judge James I. Allread in Greenville, - 394 - and was admitted to the bar in 1897, becoming 'a member of the law firm of Allread, Teegardin & Harrison, one of the leading legal firms in Greenville. Senator Harrison has always taken a great interest in public affairs, serving for some time as the Secretary of the Darke County Agricultural Society. He is Past Chancellor Commander of Lodge 1'(o. 161, Knights of Pythias; of Greenville, and is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1898 he was married to Miss Virginia Eidson, daughter of the late Frank. M. Eidson. While .a member of the Senate of two General Assemblies, Senator Harrison was Chairman and member of a number of very important standing committees, and at all times he was diligent and faithful in the public's service, and his constituents were pleased with the record he made as their servant. Mr. Harrison is special counsel to the Attorney General of Ohio at the present time. Lewis M. Hosea, Judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, is a representative of one, of the pioneer families of Ohio, and a prominent member of the bar of Hamilton County. On his father's side he is of French Huguenot extraction, his ancestors settling in North Carolina about 1698. Shortly, prior to the Revolution they removed to Boston, Mass., where Robert Hosea, father of judge Hosea, was born in 1811. His grandfather brought his family across the mountains to Chillicothe about 1820, where Major Hosea's father was educated with Governor William Allen, the elder Pendletons, Waddells, and others since well known. The family removed to Cincinnati in the '30's, and the father owned and operated various steam-. boats on Western and Southern waters. In 1844 he established the wholesale grocery house of Hosea & .Frazer, for many years the leading business of its kind in. the West. The mother Of Major Hosea was of English ancestry, and descended from Sir William Blackstone. Her immediate ancestors came from Maine to Chillicothe, Ohio, and lived for a time in Alabama. In removing to' Cincinnati, the parents of Major Hosea, being conscientiously opposed to slavery, brought with them several slaves whom they freed and who remained until death family pensioners; In 1861 the elder Hosea. was Chairman of the Citizens' Committee to welcome and protect Mr. Lincoln, who spoke in Cincinnati on his way .to Washington. Judge Hosea was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on the 16th of December, 1842, .during the temporary sojourn of his parents at that place. They returned to Cincinnati. when he was six months old, and he has always lived there. In April, 1861, while a student at- Antioch College, Greene County, Ohio, he enlisted under the first call of President Lincoln, as a private in the Sixth Ohio Volunteers, but was soon commissioned as Lieutenant and later as Captain in the regular army, and served throughout the war in the field, participating in all the battles of the Army of the - 395 - Cumberland, from Shiloh to Nashville, receiving official personal mention for gallantry in the battles of Perryville, Kentucky, and Chickamauga, Georgia. After the battles of Franklin and Nashville, he served, with General James H. Wilson in the cavalry campaign resulting in the capture of Jeff Davis, and was commissioned Major by brevet "-for gallantry at the battles of Selma and Georgia." In May, 1865, Major Hosea was sent through the Confederate lines as a despatch bearer to report results of the campaign to Generals Grant and Sherman, the incident being mentioned by General Sherman in his memoirs and by General Cox in his posthumous book. He resigned from the military service in December, 1865. Judge Hosea has always been a Republican, and cast his first vote for the immortal Lincoln in 1864. In 1870 he was Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of Hamilton County by appointment of the Court of Common Pleas, but afterwards declined all tenders for office until nominated for State Senator in 1901. After his retirement from the army Major Hosea graduated from the Cincinnati Law School, and entered upon the practice of his profession in 1.868. He has in later years been principally engaged in practice in the Federal Courts and the United States Supreme Court, and as consulting counsel for manufacturing firms and corporations. He was for many years a director of the Ohio Mechanics' Institute and Chairman of its department of science and arts ; he was. Commissioner of the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Miami Medical College, and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement Of Science. In 1902 Major Hosea was Commander of the Loyal Legion of Ohio, also Commander of Encampment No. 41 of the Union Veteran Legion, and is now a member of Jon es Post, G. A. R., and of Avon Lodge, F. & A. M. Upon taking his seat as Senator from Hamilton County at the opening of the Seventy-fifth General Assembly, Major Hosea at once took a leading position among his colleagues. Having .spent some time abroad in the study of internal improvements and other questions of public interest, he opposed the abandonment of the canals and introduced the resolution providing for the public debate in joint session, that settled the attitude of. the State in regard to these waterways. He was also Chairman of the joint committees that prepared the McKinley Memorial Program in the House on the 29th of January, 1902, and one of the speakers on that occasion. In the Senate, Major Hosea was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and did excellent service, besides serving as a member on a number of other important committees. In April, 1903, Major Hosea was elected Judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati by a large majority. Lewis B. Houck, Attorney-at-law at Mount Vernon, Ohio, and member of the Senate of the Seventy-sixth General Assembly, representing the Seventeenth—Twenty-eighth joint district in that body, was born on the '19th day of April, 1867, at Bladensburg, Jackson Township, Knox County, Ohio. He is the son of Washington Houck, a leading merchant and pioneer citizen of Knox County, who came to Ghio in 1822 from Pennsylvania, his native State. The village of Bladensburg was laid out by him, and he later filled all local positions of trust in the community of which he was the founder. He was the organizer of and an Elder in the Disciple Church, the first in the State, and which was founded in the above mentioned community in 1822. A man of a most kindly nature, coupled with indomitable will and energy, he easily held the foremost place in the affection of the people. Senator Lewis B. Houck received his early education in the country schools and the Normal School at Martinsburg. Later he entered Oberlin College at Oberlin, Ohio. The early age of fifteen finds him teaching school, and at the age of twenty he became Superintendent of Schools at Bladensburg, which position h.e held for three years. He was appointed School Examiner of Knox - 396 - County in 1888, and held that position for a period of nine years, during which time he was the youngest Examiner in the State. He was Clerk of Jackson Township from 1889 to 1895; member of the City Council from the Second Ward, Mount Vernon, from 1897 to 1903, and President of that body from 1901 to 1903. In the fall of the latter year he was elected to the position of State Senator, an office he filled with marked success. In political 'belief, Senator Houck is a Democrat, and is one of the most able and convincing orators of his party in the central part of the State. In many campaigns he has served his party faithfully, as well on the stump as in its councils. He took his seat in the Senate of the Seventy-sixth General Assembly when that body was organized, and he soon became the recognized leader of the Democratic minority. His ability and energy was evidenced during the whole session of the Legislature, and he took an active interest in all the measures before that body. He introduced the following bills, all of which became laws : A marriage law, providing what persons shall be permitted to marry and the qualifications necessary to obtain a license ; defining duties of Chiefs of Police, and their compensations ; to provide for the payment of actual expenses of persons bitten or injured by mad dogs ; to provide for a uniform system for the recording of real estate left by descent ; to provide for a record of wills devising real estate, as well as being the author of seven other bills of minor importance. He was a member of the following standing committees : Enrollment (Chairman), Common Schools, Colleges and Universities, Judiciary, Labor, Printing and Claims. Socially, Senator Houck is a member of many fraternal circles—a Mason, Knight Templar, K. of P., I. O. O. F., Royal Arcanum, K. G. E. and Red Men. On many occasions he has represented those orders in the Grand bodies. In the truest sense of the word he is a self-made man, as all the honors shown him have been received by his own efforts. On the 12th of December, 1894, Senator Houck was united in marriage to Arla B. Nicholls, and is the father of one child, Daniel Houck. Senator Houck is not a member of any church, but is a firm believer in the Christian doctrines and teachings of the Disciple Church as instilled in him by his parents. He resides in one of the finest residences in Mount Vernon, and has law offices located at 111 South Main Street, that city. Oran F. Hypes, A prominent business man of Springfield, Ohio, member of the House of Representatives of the Seventy-fifth General Assembly and State Senator in the Seventy-sixth General Assembly of Ohio, is a native of the State in which he resides. He was born on the 18th of December, 1862, in the city of Xenia, Ohio. His father, Samuel Henry Hypes, was also a native of Xenia, where the family had removed from Virginia. The paternal ancestors hailed from Bingen on the Rhine, emigrated to a farm near the Natural Bridge, Virginia, - 397 - prior to the American Revolution, in which they took an active and honorable part. They were religious people, and identified with early Methodism. His mother,, Hannah Van Brocklin Hypes, of Oneida, New York, was in her maiden days a teacher, having been educated at the Genesee (New york) Academy. Her parents Were Garrett Van Brocklin, a native of. Holland, and Regina Cooper, the latter being related to Peter Cooper and J. Fenimore Cooper. Mr; Oran F. Hypes received his education in the public schools of Xenia, Ohio, graduating from High School with the class of 1879. He holds the degree of A. B. In the same year he became associated in the hat business at Xenia with Captain Nelson A. Fulton, removing to Springfield in 1883, where shortly afterward he began business on his own account. He has ever since been actively identified with the business interests of that city. Mr. Hypes 'has served officially with the Board of Trade and Commercial Club, and is a charter member and Vice President of the latter organization. He is a director of the Y. M. C. A. and President of the Board of Trustees of the Clark County Children's Home. Mr. Hypes comes from Whig-Republican ancestry, his own Republican affiliation and service beginning before he had reached the voting age. With him Republicanism is a living issue. He believes not only in talking Republican doctrine, but in placing it into practical operation by assisting to arouse a voting interest among his people. In the fall of 1901 he was elected a member of the House of the Seventy-fifth General Assembly, representing Clarke County in a vigorous, business like way. He was Chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Lands; a member of thee Insurance Committee, and Secretary of the. Taxation Committee that formulated- and made into laws the important taxation legislation of that Assembly. At the extraordinary session. Mr. Hypes was appointed by Speaker McKinnon: a member of the Special Code Committee to report a municipal code to the House. His services were of the most satisfactory character to the people. The result was that in 1903 Mr. Hypes was nominated and elected State Senator, representing the counties of Clarke, Champaign and Madison in the upper House of the Seventy-sixth' General Assembly. In the Senate he served as Chairman of the Committee of Privileges and, Elections ; he was Secretary of the Committee on Finance, and a member of the Committees on Claims, City Affairs, Banks and Banking, Roads and Highways, Insurance and Geological Survey. He also served on the Conference Committee reporting the new school code. Among the bills he introduced, and which became laws, are the following : Hypes General Election Law, amendments to taxation laws and school laws, a law providing penalty for impersonating officers, and other laws of general import ; likewise, measures of more direct interest to Springfield. Shortly after reaching his majority, Senator Hypes identified himself with the Masonic Order, where, in later years, he was chosen to serve as Master of Anthony Lodge, F. & A. M., - 398 - as Thrice Illustrious Master of Springfield Council, No. 17, R. & S. M., and as Eminent . Commander of Palestine Commandery, No. 33, Knights Templar. On the loth of September, 1889, Senator Hypes was married to Miss Jessie B. Johnson, of Springfield, Ohio. Two children are the issue of that marriage, Dorothy and Douglas Van Brocklin Hypes. The Hypes family attends High Street M. E. Church at Springfield, Ohio. J. Edward Hurst, One of the leading citizens of New Philadelphia and Tuscarawas County,. is a native Ohioan, born on the ist of December, 1866, on a farm near New Philadelphia. When a child he removed with his parents to Clay. County, Illinois, where they resided for a period of six years, thence returning to Ohio and locating on a farm in Franklin Township, Tuscarawas .County, living there until he was twenty-one years of age. Mr. Hurst received his education in the common schools of Tuscarawas County and the New Philadelphia Normal School. He then taught school for a period of four years, and since 1894 he has been engaged in the insurance and real estate business in New Philadelphia. His parents, Frederick .Hurst and Rose Ann Haney Hurst; were natives of Switzerland, emigrating to this country in the '50's and locating in Tuscarawas County, where they married on the 13th of January, 1866. Eight children, six .sons and two daughters were the issue of their .union, of which J. E. Hurst was the eldest. Frederick Hurst served in the War of the Rebellion as a member of the One Hundred and Sixty-first and One Hundred and Eighty-fifth. Regiments, 0. V. I. Senator Hurst has always been a Democrat, taking an active interest in politics. In February, 1891, he was appointed by Judge J. H. Mitchell Deputy Clerk of the Probate Court of Tuscarawas County, retiring three years later, Judge Mitchell having been defeated for a second term. In 1895 Senator Hurst was nominated for Representative and defeated with the entire Democratic ticket in the Republican landslide of that year. In the spring of 1899 he was elected from a Strong Republican ward to serve as member of the City Council of New Philadelphia, but declined a renomination. In the same year he was nominated on the first ballot by the Senatorial Convention held at Coshocton, for State Senator for the Eighteenth-Nineteenth joint district, though there were four other candidates in the field, and elected by a handsome majority. He was renominated by the Senatorial Convention held at Newcomerstown, on the loth of August, 1901, and re-elected, leading the ticket by 215 votes. His defeated opponent, Mr. Taylor, of Cambridge, Ohio, contested the election, but Mr. Hurst was allowed to retain his seat by the unanimous vote of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections. The one-term rule had been in force in the district ever since its establishment, but it remained for Senator Hurst's popularity to break it. In the Sev- - 399 -