eleven years. He early in life espoused the principles of the Democratic party, and becoming actively engaged in the ranks of the Democrats of Hamilton and Butler County. In 1888 Mayor Bosch entered his political career, being elected a member of the Board of Education of Hamilton, a position he filled in a most satisfactory manner for four years. In 1893 he was elected Mayor of the city of Hamilton, and it speaks well for the ability, integrity and popularity of Mayor Bosch, that he was re-elected to that honorable position five successive times, a record probably not duplicated in the political history of Ohio. Mayor Bosch is a very busy man. He is interested in various commercial enterprises of Hamilton, and is constantly employed in attending to his various duties. He belongs to the following societies and orders : Elks, Royal Arcanum, A. O. U. W. and K. of P. In 1883 Mayor Bosch was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Schwab, and by this union he is the father of two daughters and one son. F. J. King, Mayor of the fast-growing city of Lorain, Lorain County, Ohio, was born on the 19th of July, 1843, in Avon Township, Lorain County, and is the son of Henry King, a farmer, and a pioneer settler of the Western Reserve, and Elizabeth Simmons, a native of England. Both parents emigrated to this country from Albion about 1834. Mr. F. J. King received his early education in the district schools of his native township, and attended Berea College for two years. He returned to the farm and worked there until he had reached the age of thirty-one. When he was but sixteen years of age he was engaged as teacher in the district schools of Lorain and Cuyahoga County, following that profession until after the outbreak of the Civil War, when he enlisted in the Union army in 1862, becoming a member of the Seventy - seventh Tennessee Infantry Regiment. Previous to that he had tried to enlist three times, but on account of physical disability was not accepted until the above mentioned date. He was detailed to the Quartermaster Department, and spent nearly all the time of his service there, and in 1864 was honorably discharged for disability contracted during his term of service. After leaving the army he again engaged in the profession of teaching and the occupation of farming, until be became thirty-one years of age, when he gave up farming and continuously taught until 1877. Then he removed to Lorain, and went into the grocery business, in which he was fairly successful until 1893, when he sold out and went into the employ of a publishing house, taking charge of a given territory, until 1900. In that year he was appointed member of the City Board of Equalization, and remained in that capacity until 1902, when he was elected Mayor of the city of Lorain. His first term expired in 1903, owing to the introduction of the new code governing the cities of Ohio, and he was again elected under that code in the spring election of the latter year. Mayor King is a convinced Democrat. It might be mentioned in passing that Mayor King was born in a log house - 475 - in Avon Township. At the time of his birth and until he left it, at the age of nine years, this tOwnship was a wilderness, and to-day it is one of the richest parts of Lorain County. In 1879 he was married to Ellen Lee, a cousin of Robert E. and Fitzhugh Lee. By this union he is the father of one daughter. J. H. LEONARD, Among the different State institutions of Ohio one of the most important is the Ohio State Reformatory, located at Mansfield, devoted to the punishment and correction of youthful criminals. As it is not only the inten tion of the State to punish its criminals of minor age for deeds committed, but also to reform them and make them useful and self-supporting members of society, it is of vital importance to have at the head of institutions of that kind men whose lives and precepts will act as an incentive towards the right, and who are able to direct the minds of the young into the proper channels. It is therefore easily understood that the office of Superintendent of that great institution is a very responsible one. It can be truthfully said, however, that Mr. J. H. Leonard is particularly adapted for that position. He is a man who combines executive ability with the thoroughness of an able educator. Before he was appointed by Governor Nash to his present position of trust, he was Principal of the Youngstown High Schools, and has in fact been connected with the educational interests of the State in different capacities all his active life. He is a man of broad knowledge, human sympathies and good common sense. While he is a strict disciplinarian, he always keeps in mind the fact that for each criminal there is the possibility of an honorable and useful future. He consequently combines justice with gentleness, and the results have proved that Mr. Leonard's methods are correct. Since his acceptance of his very responsible position there has never been the least criticism of the institution which has been entrusted to his care. Paul Schob, A well-known music engraver and printer at Cincinnati, Ohio, is a native of Zeitz, Great Duchy Saxony Meiningen, Germany, and was born on the 18th of January, 1868. He is the - 476 - son of Herman Schob, who was a well-known and prosperous innkeeper in the above mentioned city. At the age of thirteen years Mr. Paul Schob was apprenticed to a music engraver, where the boy learned the business in which in after years he has become very successful. In 1886 Mr. Schob left the Fatherland and emigrated to the United States, taking up the business of music engraver in Cincinnati. Thanks to his ability and executive talent, he now enjoys the distinction of having the largest business in his line in the United. States and Canada, and from his place of business, located on the corner of Fourth and Elm Streets, millions of sheet music are distributed to all parts of this and other countries. Mr. Schob is a member of the following societies and orders, in which he, is immensely popular : Masonic fraternity, Cincinnati Liederkranz, Cincinnati Turn-Verein ; and he is also a director of the Volunteer Bowling and Minstrel Club. In 1894 Mr. Schob was united in marriage to Miss Laura Motzkus. A visit to the establishment conducted by Mr. Schob will well repay anyone interested in his line of work. Levi Tucker Scofield, Architect, Sculptor and Engineer, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on the 9th of November, 1842, son of William and Mary (Coon) Scofield. His father settled at Cleveland as early as 1816, building the first house erected on Walnut Street. The name was originally spelled Schofield, but in the year 1852 William Schofield and his brothers decided to leave out the "h," though the letter is still used occasionally, especially in legal documents. Levi T. Scofield received his early education in the public schools of Cleveland, in which city he also first studied engineering and architecture. In 186o he removed to Cincinnati to continue his studies, but upon the outbreak of the Civil War he returned and enlisted in the First Regiment of Ohio Light Artillery. When his term expired he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the One Hundred and Third Ohio Infantry, from which rank he was promoted First Lieutenant in' February, 1863, and Captain in November, 1864. During his infantry service his engineering abilities were appreciated by his superior officers, and he was frequently assigned to engineering work. He participated in the pursuit of Kirby Smith in 1862 and of John Morgan in 1863 ; went with Burnside in his campaign across the Cumberland Mountains, and served at the siege of Knoxville, as well as at the repulse of Longstreet. From June, 1863, to June, 1865, Scofield's service was continuous as an engineer officer. He was in the battles of the Atlanta campaign and the campaign of Nashville ; took part in the pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River, and served in North Carolina early in 1865, being present at the capture of Raleigh and the surrender of General Johnson. After the establishment of peace he at first made his home in New York City, but soon returned to Cleveland, where he has resided up to the present time (1905). Since 1867 he - 477 - has engaged in the erection of many public buildings, such as the Cleveland High School (1878) ; the Athens and Columbus Asylums for the Insane (1869) ; the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home at Xenia, Ohio (1871) ; the Raleigh Penitentiary (1870) ; the Cleveland House of Correction (1867) ; the Mansfield Reformatory (1884), and the Schofield Building (190I). The Schofield Building, of which he is both architect and owner, is located on the corner of Euclid avenue and Erie Street, Cleveland, Ohio. It is fourteen stories in height; measures 210 feet to the top of the tower, contains 429 offices in thirteen stories, and has banks, stores, a machinery hall, and a coal depot in its first story and basement. The net cost of the structure was $600,000. One of his most celebrated works is the Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, standing in the Public Square of Cleveland, of which he was both architect and sculptor (1894). At its dedicatibn the principal speech was delivered by William McKinley, at that time Governor of Ohio. The procession on that occasion was one of the greatest and most comprehensive ever seen in the streets of Cleveland. The total cost of the monument was $314,500, of which amount $257,000 was paid by the county and $57,500 was contributed by the architect. The tax was distributed over fourteen years, and amounted to one and nine-tenths mills on every one hundred dollars of the taxable value of the property throughout the country. The esplanade is ioo feet square, the tablet room is 40 feet square, and the total height of the top of the crowning figure of Liberty is 125 feet. The building is of black Quincy granite, the shaft is of the same material, polished, and the esplanade is of red Medina stone. There are over mo tons of cast bronze in the statuary, doors, grills, etc., and the names of ten thousand soldiers are engraved on the tablets. Before this magnificent monument could be erected, more than two and one-half years of litigation had to be traversed. The Common Pleas and Circuit Courts enjoined the commission, but its members were twelve old veterans who "had never learned to know when they were licked," as Scofield puts it ; and they carried the fight first to the Supreme Court of the State, and then to the United States Court, in both of which the decisions of the lower courts were reversed. To the work of designing and building the monument Mr. Scofield devoted seven and one-half years without compensation, and when the co-operation of the County Commissioners was refused, he sacrificed his private fortune in order to defray expenses. Mr. Scofield is a member of the military orders of the Loyal Legion and the Grand Army of the Republic, and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He was married at Kingsville, Ohio, on the 26th of June, 1867, to Elizabeth C., daughter of Marshall and Sarah Wright, and has four sons and a daughter. His disposition is very kindly and affable, and some of his success is probably due to this fact. Yet with all his affability he is not by any means a man to be imposed upon, for his eyes penetrate to the motives in a man's mind; and while he is apparently unsuspecting, he is really judging his interviewer in the most generous but accurate manner. He possesses a keen sense of humor, and when relaxed from professional cares enters into the spirit of a joke with the greatest. enjoyment. Benevolence is one of his largest traits, and he shows it in all his dealings, whether in the bestowal of a slight favor or the granting of his support to a great philanthropic movement. His ideals are high, and his insight into the beauties of art clear and concise. He is a man of vigorous mental processes, grasping the most abstruse problems and reducing them to a basis of simplicity. Many of the most remarkable difficulties have been surmounted by his resolute self-reliance and indefatigable energy, and the unswerving faithfulness with which he is inseparably affiliated has permanently enriched every position occupied. The character of Levi T. Scofield, in all its details, is a matter for emulation of the youth of the land. - 478 - Herbert T. Mechling, City Auditor of Lancaster, Ohio, one of the foremost Democrats in his part of Ohio, was born on the 7th of October, 1861, at Greensburg, West Moreland County, Pennsylvania. His father, a native of Pennsylvania, the Rev. G. W. Mechling, D.D., is a descendant of Peter Mechling, who in 1726 left his Fatherland and settled in Philadelphia, joining the colony established in 1686 by the immortal Pastorius. His mother, Amanda Trimble Mechling, was a native of Columbus. Her ancestors had taken their abode in the American colonies prior to the Revolutionary War, and on both sides of his family member have fought on the battlefields of the War of Independence, the war with England in 1812, and the War of the Rebellion. When a 'boy of four years, Mr. Mechling came to Lancaster with his parents, and in that city he received his early education, carefully guarded and supervised by his father. He later attended Eastman College in Poughkeepsie, New York, graduating from the same in 1881 with the degree of M.A. At the age of twenty years Mr. Mechling started into active life as a bookkeeper in the Fairfield County Bank at Lancaster, remaining there for one year, when he resigned to accept a position with the firm of Simon Butler & Co., wholesale grocers at Columbus. This position he filled for six years, when he returned to Lancaster and became manager of the Allegheny Quarries, continuing there for five years. A staunch and uncompromising Democrat, Mr. Mechling has always taken an active part in the ranks of his party men, and has occupied many positions of trust with credit to himself and the people that honored him. He has filled the offices of Secretary of the Election Board and of the Sinking Fund Trustees, as well as that of Tax Commissioner. In 1895 Mr. M echling was elected City Clerk of Lancaster, and that his services were satisfactory was proven by the fact that he was re-elected to his position in 1897, again in 1899, and finally in 1901. At the expiration of his fourth term in office, his party selected him as its candidate for. City Auditor. His election was a foregone conclusion by reason of his great popularity and his reputation as a conservative, capable and thoroughly trustworthy representative of the people. For five years Mr. Mechling has been connected with the 0. N. G., and he is a member of the A. I. U. In 1892 he was married to Miss Anna Goetz, an accomplished young lady of Lancaster, and by that union he is the father of a boy and a girl. He resides at No. 513 North Columbus Street, and his offices are located in the City Hall of Lancaster. Charles Fleischmann, Deceased, whose name in connection with some of the most extensive manufacturing interests throughout the country has become almost a household word in America, was born - 479 - in a little town near Pesth, Hungary, Austria, on the 3d of November, 1835. He obtained his education in the schools of Vienna and Prague. When he reached the age of thirty-two years he emigrated to America, the Land of Promise. During his first years in America he was employed in factories in New York City, working mostly on machinery. After a few years' stay in the metropolis of the East, he came to Cincinnati, formed a partnership with James W. Gaff, and embarked in the manufacture of compressed yeast, which establishment was the first factory for the making of this commodity in this country. While the business at its inception was small and confined to a limited area of usefulness, it soon spread with a healthy growth, and year after year saw the firm develop until to-day the wagons bearing the name of Fleischmann are seen in every city and almost every hamlet of the United States and Canada. About the time of the establishment of this now tremendous enterprise, Mr. Fleischmann entered into the distilling business at Riverside, Cincinnati, in partnership with Mr. Gaff. This firm continued to exist until the death of that gentleman in 1879, when Charles Fleischmann and his brother Maximilian became sole proprietors. Mr. Charles Fleischmann was interested in many other industrial and banking enterprises, and was President of the Market National Bank from 1889 until his demise, in 1897. He was an ideal citizen, a man of limitless business capacities, public spirited and a philanthropist in the truest sense of the word. In political belief he was a Republican and held many positions of honor. He was twice elected State Senator on the Republican ticket (in 1880 and again in 1896) ; he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago which nominated James R. Garfield, and in 1884 when Blaine became the standard bearer of his party. In 1886 Mayor Amor Smith appointed Mr. Fleischmann a member of the Board of Fire Commissioners, a position which he held until 1890, when he resigned. During Governor Foraker's administration he was appointed by the Governor, in 1889, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Longview Insane Asylum, and later was re-appointed by McKinley. He also acted as a member of the staff of Governor McKinley. As a club man Mr. Fleischmann was well and favorably known, he being a member of all the important business, political and social clubs of the Queen City. He was very prominent in Masonic circles, being a thirty-second degree Mason and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. His marriage occurred in 1869, when Miss Henrietta Robertson, of New York, became his wife. Two sons, Julius and Max, and one daughter, the wife of Dr. Holmes, were the issue of this union. Mr. Fleischmann closed his earthly career in 1897, and was buried with high honors from the Scotch Rite Cathedral, followed to the grave by the leading citizens of the community in which he had so long and honorably lived. - 480 - Julius Fleischmann, Present Mayor of Cincinnati, is one of the youngest and busiest men who ever held that position in any great city of the United States. He was born on the 8th of June, 1872, in Riverside, now a part of the city of Cincinnati. His father, Senator Charles Fleischmann, was a leading manufacturer and capitalist in the city of his birth, and well known for his popularity, philanthropic spirit and good citizenship. With the exception of one year Julius Fleischmann's education was obtained in the public schools. He attended Hughes High School for three years, but was not graduated, leaving at the age of 15 years to take a preparatory course in the Franklin School. It was his intention at this time to attend some university, but after one year he abandoned this course and decided to enter his father':, business. He began his business career in 1889, starting at the very bottom. His position was simply that of a clerk with a salary of $3 a week. Gradually he worked himself through the different departments of the vast enterprise and secured an intimate knowledge of all the details of the business. When finally developed upon him to take absolute charge, he knew the business thoroughly. In the spring of 190o Mr. Fleischmann was elected Mayor of Cincinnati on the Republican ticket by a large majority for a term of three years. His administration of municipal affairs was so successful and popular that the Republican City Convention, which was held in February, 1903, and which was the largest city convention ever held in Cincinnati, unanimously tendered to Mayor Fleischmann a re-nomination for his high office, and despite the sacrifice to his great private interests he obeyed the enthusiastic call of his party and accepted the nomination. His opponent on the Democratic ticket was Hon. M. E. Ingalls, the President of the Big Four Railroad, and one of the most prominent citizens of the Queen City. After a most strenuous campaign he was triumphantly re-elected by a majority of over 16,000 votes. Mr. Julius Fleischmann is one of the youngest Mayors in the State of Ohio. He was an aid-de-camp on the staff of Governor McKinley, succeeding his father in that position in the spring of 1894, and occupied the same position on the staff of Governor Bushnell. Colonel Fleischmann has inherited the fine business instincts of his father, and on the death of his honored sire, with his brother Max, undertook the management of the great estate left by Senator Charles Fleischmann. Their interests are not only in Ohio, but in New York and other States, aggregating large investments. Mayor Fleischmann is not only the active head of all the Fleischmann interests, but holds many other responsible positions. He is at the head of the Illinois Vinegar Manufacturing Company, one of the largest concerns of its kind in the world ; he is President of the Market National Bank, in Cincinnati; President of the Cincinnati College of Music ; President of the Union Hay and Grain Company ; one of the - 481 - Governors of the Queen City Club ; a member of the Chamber of Commerce ; of the Manufacturers' Club ; the Business Men's Club ; the Commercial Club ; the Walnut Hills Business Men's Club ; Blaine Club ; Stamina Republican League. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Noble of the Mystic Shrine and he also belongs to the Royal Arcanum, K. of P., Elks and numerous other social organizations. He is Vice President of the C.,. N. & T. Railroad, the only quasi-public corporation with which he is connected, having sold all his stock in the Cincinnati Gas and Street Railway Companies upon being elected Mayor of Cincinnati. Mayor Fleischmann is well known throughout the country as a sportsman and his yacht, the "Hiawatha," is one of the prettiest boats in the Eastern waters. In his turf interests he was a close associate of W. C. Whitney, August Belmont and other noted Eastern horsemen. His stable was rated as one of the best in the country, and every spring he sent a division of his stable to Latonia, where he has established the Cincinnati Trophy for two-year-olds, a magnificent silver cup. Mayor Julius Fleischmann is one of the principal owners of the Cincinnati Baseball Club, a member of the New York and Atlantic Yacht Clubs, a life member of the Cincinnati Gymnasium and is an all round athlete. His chief delight is in driving and riding. Mayor Fleischmann was married on the 8th of April, 1893, to Miss Lillie Ackerland, one of his playmates of childhood. They have three children. Morgan Wood, A. B. ; A. M. ; S. T. D., formerly pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church, of Cleveland, Ohio, aiecturer of National reputation, was born on the 8th of August, 1867, at Freeport, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Rev. E. M. Wood, a Methodist minister, and Lillian Flitcraft Wood, both of whom were natives of Ohio and of English ancestry. Dr. Wood received his early education in the public and High Schools of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, after which he attended Mt. Union College, Alliance, Ohio ; Yale University, and finally the Boston School of Theology, graduating from those institutions of learning with the degrees of A. B., from Mt. Union ; A. M., from Yale, and S. T. D. from the Boston School of Theology. At the age of 21 years Dr. Wood started his public, career when he accepted a call as a missionary to the Sioux Indians, in South Dakota, and was among them at the time of the great Sioux uprising. Later he became the pastor of the Congregational Churches at Salem, New Hampshire ; New Orleans, Louisiana ; Bloomington, Illinois; Detroit Michigan, and Toronto, Canada. In 1899 Dr. Wood accepted the pastorship of the Plymouth Congregational Church, Cleveland, Ohio, and occupied the pulpit there until the 1st of November, 1904, when he resigned. During this period he became recognized as a man of broad views, with original conceptions both forceful and eloquent. While in Detroit, in 1895, he was appointed by Governor Pingree, of - 482 - Michigan, a member of the State Board of Corrections and Charities. Dr. Wood first attracted the attention of the country during the reform campaign, which led to the election of Governor Pingree in 1894, when he stumped the State of Michigan in the interest of that candidate. Since that time he has always taken a keen interest in the political affairs of the State and Nation, and has strong convictions and the power and will to express them when he thinks that his influence is needed for the betterment of the people. He is a Republican. In 1904 he again entered the political arena and participated in the Presidential campaign, making many brilliant speeches in Southern Indiana in favor of Theodore Roosevelt. Many flattering comments have been printed as to the ability and forcefulness of his oratory. At present Dr. Wood is a member of the Lyceum Lecture Bureau.. In 1888, he was united in marriage to Miss Ella Amblerton. Three daughters and one son are the issue of this union. Socially, Dr. Wood is a member and Chaplain of the Cleveland Grays, a Mason, Odd Fellow and a member of the Knights of Pythias. Henry P. Deuscher, Deceased, formerly one of the most prominent and progressive business men of Hamilton, Ohio, was born on the 21st of May, 1829, in the city of Baden, Germany. He was the son of Michael and Christina Scheurer Deuscher, who came to the United States when their son, Henry P., was but a child. They settled near Lancaster, Pa., and later removed to Trenton, Butler County, Ohio, where they bought some property and subsequently settled on a farm. At this time Henry P. Deuscher was 7 years old, and he was placed in the school of Trenton, where his early education was received. The early life of Mr. Deuscher was spent on the farm, and he was brought up as a farmer's boy, engaged in the ordinary pursuits which naturally follow. He toiled in the fields, working from early in the morning till late at night, and acquired the strong and rugged constitution which has fitted the farmer boy all over the world to the battle with life to the best possible advantage. His pursuits were healthy, clean and manly. From early youth he was intimately in touch with laborious endeavors and whatever of success he made in the world was due to the fact that by his own unaided efforts lie forced his way to the front. In the fullest sense of the word he was a self-made man. Starting in life as a farmer, he soon became embued with the ambition to occupy a more leading position in the affairs of men and toiled assiduously to fulfill that purpose. Leaving the farm he became employed as a laborer in a distillery at Collinsville, working there for some length of time, after which he came to Hamilton. In that city he engaged in the malting business in 1874, where he remained engaged in that business for a number of years meeting with splendid success. He finally founded the H. P. Deuscher Manufacturing Company, which, in the course of time, gained a National reputation, and which today is one of the largest manufacturing enterprises - 483 - in the city of Hamilton. Mr. Deuscher closed his earthly career on the loth of January, 1903, mourned by the whole community. During his active life he was a man with the power of an almost unlimited business capacity and splendid executive ability, broad in human sympathy, kind and generous and a model citizen. He was a Civil War veteran. In 1862 Mr. Deuscher recruited Company G, Thirty-eighth 0. V. I., and was made Captain of that company, with which he saw active service until honorably discharged. He was married on the 23rd of November, 1854, to Ellen Ball, and was the father of six daughters and a son, Frank, who died when he had reached the age of 25 years. Edward R. Thompson, Of Youngstown, Ohio, one of the most prominent architects in the northeastern part of the State, is a native Ohioan, born on the 25th of April, 1873, at Cleveland. He is the son of Mr. R. F. Thompson and Marie De Antagon Thompson. The profession in which Mr. Thompson is engaged is the same as that occupied by his father, who for many years was engaged as an architect in Youngstown. During the War of the Rebellion Mr. R. F. Thompson was a Union soldier and served with distinction during the whole period of thaz struggle. When but .7 years of age Mr. Edward R. Thompson came, with his parents to Youngstown and was placed in the common schools, where his early education commenced. Later he obtained an academic training, after which he entered his father's office and subsequently took a special course to better prepare himself for the architectural profession. In 1898 he formed a partnership with his father under the firm name of R. F. and E. R. Thompson. The firm soon became one of the foremost in the northeastern portion of Ohio. Mr. Edward R. Thompson is an architect of unquestioned ability and an artist of high rank. He has created the plans for many elegant residences and imposing structures, among which might be mentioned the National Bank Building, the Greek Catholic Church at Youngstown, Youngstown's new High School Building, Plymouth Congregational Church at Youngstown, Elks' Club at Warren, and many other important structures. He is Secretary and Treasurer of the Wilkins Leonard Hardware Company, a flourishing concern of Youngstown. In political belief Mr. Thompson is an ardent Republican, and for a number of years he has been a member of the Board of Education of Youngstown, of which body he was elected President in 1902. He has also served the Republican party in many other capacities, and was delegate and officer in county and Senatorial conventions, and also Secretary of one Congressional convention. He is President of the Oak School Alumni Association, a member of the Y. M. C. A., the Foraker and Montgomery Republican Clubs, K. of P., K. G. E., I. O. O. F., and Sons of Veterans. For a number of years Mr. Thompson was a member of the Fifth Regiment, O. N. G., and he is at present Adjutant of the Eighth Ohio Regiment. He resides in Youngstown, in which city he has a host of friends. Harry Rossel, President of the Council of Newark, Licking County, Ohio, and General Agent for the Consumers' Brewing Company, of that city, was born on the 13th of March, 1863, in the city mentioned, in which he has continuously lived up to the present writing. His father, George Rossel, was a native of Germany, coming to this country in 1860; his mother was a native Ohioan. Mr. Rossel received his early education in the public schools of Newark, and early in life learned the trade of molder, which occupation he followed for a number of years, working in the B. & O. Railroad shops at Newark. Later he became identified with the Consumers' Brewing Company, of that city, and is now a director and General Agent for that enterprise. Mr. Rossel's public career started in 1898, when he was elected Councilman - 484 - of Newark to serve two years. At the termination of that period he was re-elected to the same position in 190o, and again in 1902. When the new code for the Ohio municipalities went into effect he was elected President of the City Council, which position he now holds. During the years 1899, 1900 and 1901 Mr. Rossel was President of the Council. In political belief he is a Democrat. Socially, Mr. Rossel belongs to the K. of P., Elks, Eagles, Red Men of the World, Masons and several German beneficial societies. On the 12th of February, 1885, Mr. Rossel was united in marriage to Mary Fessler, and is the father of three children, Ralph, Harry and Helen. He and his family attend the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Rossel lives with his family at No. 6o Prospect street, Newark, Ohio. Charles K. Davis, Coal mine operator, of Glen Roy, Ohio, is a man who, by his own efforts, has attained an unusual degree of success, in working up, as he has, from a common laborer to that of President and director of some of the strongest operating companies in this State. He was born on the 21st of May, 1872, at Brownsport Furnace, Decatur County, Tennessee, and is the son of L. W. and Mary J. Burk Davis, both of whom were natives of the State of Ohio. When very young he came with his parents to Jackson County, Ohio, where he obtained his early education. He remained in school until he reached an age which would allow him to earn his own living, when he went to work in the mines as a coal miner. Acquiring much practical knowledge while employed in that occupation, he soon saw opportunities of putting his knowledge towards bettering his position in life and being successful in obtaining capital opened new coal mines, some of which proved very renumerative to the owners. As a proof of his ability he has been honored with the position of President and director of the Alma Coal Company, the Alma Cement Company, the Elk Fork Coal Company, all at Wellston, Ohio, and in each of which he is financially interested, as well as occupying the official position as mentioned above. In politics Mr. Davis is a Republican, but he has not entered into a political career, as all his time is taken up in the furthering of the large interests with which he is identified. His residence is at Indianapolis, Ind., and his office is located at Glen Roy, Ohio. His interests are both in Ohio and Indiana. On the 28th of June, 1893, he was united in marriage to Miss Alma B. Lucas. Joseph J. Pater, One of the leading Democrats of the Buckeye State and a man who has held many honorable positions of political trust, was born on the 9th of Aprl. 1853, in Hamilton, Ohio, the city in which he has always made his home. He is of German parentage, his father, Gerhard Pater, and mother, ary Pater, both emigrating to the United States from Germany. They first lived in Cincinnati and later removed to Hamilton. Mr. Joseph J. Pater - 485 - was educated in the St. Joseph's Parochial School, at Hamilton, and St. Mary's institute, of Dayton, from which college he graduated with high honors. He later took a classical course in Cincinnati to prepare himself for the medical profession. He read medicine with Dr. Dan Millikin, but later abandoned his studies in that science and took a position as teacher in St. Joseph's School, where he remained for five years. Since 1882, after leaving St. Joseph's School, he became identified with his brother-in-law, Joseph Schumaker, in a rheumatism cure (Angeline), which has been sold all over this country, Canada and parts of Europe. Mr. Pater is intensely interested in philanthropic and charitable work, and to his efforts is principally due the erection of Mercy Hospital, which was founded in 1892. He was the active Chairman of soliciting commitees which collected $2o,000. During the first ten years of its existence nearly two thousand patients, irrespective of creed, have benefited by the noble work of this institution. In politics Mr. Pater has always been connected with the Democratic party. He is a firm believer in the principles of Democracy, and has been honored with important positions by the people among whom he has so long resided. He was a member of the Hamilton Board of Water Works Trustees, and President of the Board of Control, of Butler County. In September, 1902, at the Democratic State Convention, held at Cedar Point, Ohio, Mr. Pater was nominated for the State Board of Public Works, but was defeated with the balance of the Democratic State ticket. He is a charter member of the Central States Water Works Association, and from 1901 to 1904 was President of that body. On the loth. of April, 1882, he was united in marriage to Miss Annie Endress, and by that union is the father of five children. Mr. Pater is a man of commanding appearance, of a jovial nature, broad-minded and liberal in his views, with splendid mental endowments, forcefulness of character and fluency of speech. He has often appeared in public as an orator. His residence and place of business are located at Hamilton, Ohio. Calvin Whitney, President of The A. B. Chase Company, of Norwalk, Ohio, manufacturers of high-grade pianos, is probably one of the best known men in his business in this country, being at the head of the famous company mentioned above for more than thirty years. This company was incorporated on the 1st of September, 1875, and has been in continuous operation since its organization, with no change, location, or management. "Perfection" is the motto, and every instrument manufactured has been as good as the choicest material and skilled artists could make it, and every one has borne the name "A. B. Chase." So uniform has been the high standard maintained that the full name, A. B. Chase, on the piano is a universally recognized guarantee of supreme excellency. The purchaser of every instrument made by this - 486 - celebrated firm can be assured that from whomever he may buy, or whatever the style he may select, he will obtain an instrument of unquestioned worth possessing a musical tone, which, for purity and power, is unsurpassed by any other piano, and a sympathetic touch and action that will be a constant delight, as well as a durability that is almost unlimited. Without attempting in detail to review the methods used in attaining this high standard of excellence, it will be found of interest to note a few of the forces that have operated so successfully to that end. Chief among those forces are correct and exalted ideals of piano music and its possibilities, with ability, laudable ambition and a determination to excell. At the inception of the enterprise skilled artists were secured as foremen for the head of each department, selected for their knowledge and technical ability from the best factories in America. They brought with them the most advanced ideas known in piano production where they were employed. The concrete knowledge gathered from the different factories gave The A. B. Chase Company an aggregation of knowledge and skill at the start not to be found in any other single factory, however progressive, resulting in their piano at once cum: ing to the front rank. To secure the best efforts, not only of the men at the head of each department, but of the men at the bench, the company offers a liberal system of prizes to their employees for suggestions of improvements on their pianos, regardless of cost. These prizes are open to every man in the factory. In this way every man is alert to discover every-possible plan for improving the piano, since a suggestion means ready money to himself, and, if the improvement is patentable, an interest in the patent besides. Every man to whose hands any part of the piano passes is obliged to report on its condition while in his care. Should he fail to make a correct report, or allow any defective workmanship or material to enter into the construction of any A. B. Chase piano, he is subject to summorary discharge from the services of the company. This enforced watchfulness on the part of every man in the factory makes it possible to give with every A. B. Chase piano an unlimited warranty for absolute excellency. While the company makes a great variety of regular styles, as is shown in their beautiful catalogues. they frequently make pianos with specially designed cases to match the furniture or finish of music rooms. There is often some nook or corner in which it is desirable to fit the piano, some style of architecture of the room or its furnishings, with which the instrument should harmonize. This may be new or old, plain or elaborate in design. The veneers, or wood used, may be selected by the one for whom the piano is built. The finish May be of any shade, style or quality desired. In short, the possibilities for gratifying individual taste in this direction are unlimited. This feature of The A. B. Chase Company's business is not new, but the growing demand for this class of work leads them to make a specialty in this direction from designs furnished by artists or architects. If desired, the company will submit designs for approval to harmonize with the architecture of rooms or furniture when photographs of the rooms or furnishings are sent to them. Necessarily, work of this kind calls for extra patterns in designing special cases for the piano, hence they cost more to manufacture. Close estimates, however, are given of the cost of any special design submitted, and a careful account is kept of the work done and charges made in accordance therewith. The time necessary to manufacture any such special piano depends entirely upon the amount of extra work called for in its construction. It is safe to estimate not less than six months for the construction of one of these specially designed instruments. For this reason, where homes are being built, it is well to place thc, order for special pianos from architects' designs when the contract for the house is given, so that the piano may be ready for its place when the home is complete. In consequence of the spirit which dominates The A. B. Chase Company, their pianos are found and appreciated in the very best homes in the land. It might be of interest to quote the following letter, - 487 - received from the late lamented William McKinley, who wrote as follows : "Mr. Calvin Whitney, President The A. B. Chase Company, Norwalk, Ohio. My dear Sir—It affords me pleasure to say that Mrs. McKinley and myself are delighted with the piano which we recently purchased form you. It is also much admired by our musical friends, and gives entire satisfaction to us in every particular. Yours sincerely, William McKinley." Floyd Locke Smith. There is no better known and more popular man in Scioto County, and, in fact, in the southern part of the State, than Colonel Floyd Locke Smith, Secretary of the Board of Trade of Portsmouth, Ohio. Mr. Smith was born on the 30th of June, 1845, in Portsmouth. His parents were Mr. Charles Stratten Smith and Mary G. (Locke) Smith. He obtained his education in the public schools of his native city until he was 15 years of age, when he for one year attended Prof. White Classical School. At the age of 16, in 1861, he entered into business life and engaged, in company with his father, in the milling business. On the 11th of August, 1862, Mr. Smith enlisted for three years in Company E, of the Eleventh O. V. I., and served until the loth of January, 1863, at Chattanooga, Tenn., when he was discharged on a surgeon's certificate for disability. He was with his regiment much of the time, part of it he was a clerk on General Crook's staff. After his discharge from the service he went into the Quartermaster Department at Cincinnati, where he remained until June; 1866, when he became Chief Clerk of the clothing, camp, garrison and equipage department. He afterward returned to Portsmouth, and, with his father, engaged in the manuracture of vinegar until 187o, when he engaged in the manufacturing of brown paper until February, 1872. At this time he began his career as an insurance agent in Portsmouth, which has proved to be a very successful one. Colonel Smith has organized many building associations and many companies. In 1879 he organized the present Central Union Telephone Company and built the exchange between Portsmouth and Ironton. He has been Secretary of many building associations, was director of the Farmers' National Bank for a number of years and for five years he was President of the Portsmouth Street Railroad and Light Company, prior to its present organization. Mr. Smith has always been an active working Republican. During the administration of Governor Foraker he was aid-de-camp, with the rank of Colonel, on the Governor's staff. For two years Colonel Smith served as a member of the Portsmouth School Board, and in 1899 he was Clerk of the Board of City Water Works. He was District Passenger Agent of the Cincinnati & Eastern Railroad Company and its successor for fifteen years, and was Manager of the Portsmouth Telephone Company for twenty years. He also served as clerk on steamboats for four years. Colonel Smith, who is a very busy man, has been, for a number of years, Secretary of the Portsmouth Board of Trade, of the Board of Underwriters and of - 488 - the Commercial Club. He also is Secretary of the Portsmouth Lodge, B. P. O. E., a thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner and an Odd Fellow. John Henry Sellers, General M anager of the Indian Run Milling Company of Glouster, Ohio, one of the best known business men in the Perry, Hocking, Adams and Jackson Counties coal fields, was born on the 1st of June, 1856, on a farm one mile north of Greenfield, Ohio. His parents, John Henry Sellers, Sr., and Julia An Wells-Sellers, were both natives of the State of Ohio. He received a very careful education, attending the public schools of his home district and Denison University, which seat of learning he entered at the age of 17, graduating in 1879 with the degree of A. B. The following year he started into business life in the capacity of messenger and assistant bookkeeper of the Citizens' Bank, at Greenfield, and here he applied himself to the banking business with such marked success that he was rapidly promoted, until, in 1884, he occupied the important and highly responsible position of cashier. Two years later he resigned his position, went to Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio, and started the first bank in that place, taking charge of the position of cashier. This bank was closed in October of the same year, and in its place was organized the First National Bank, with Mr. Sellers in the office of cashier. This bank has since then become an important factor in the business life of the rapid growing city of Wellston and Jackson County in general, and is, 'at the present writing, recognized as one of the strongest banking institutions in the southern part of Central Ohio. About two years ago M r. Sellers withdrew from his position to accept the general management of the Indian Run Mining Company, Glouster, Ohio, one of the largest mining companies in Ohio. He still has his residence in Wellston. On the 4th of March, 1881, Mr. Sellers was united in marriage to Miss A. A. Wood, an accomplished young lady of Lees. burg, Ohio. Two children, one son and one daughter, are the issue of this union. Mr. Sellers has various business interests in Wellston. He was Water Works Trustee of a period of three years, City School Examiner of his home city for ten years, and President of the Wellston Foundry Company. William V. McMaken, Brigadier General, 0. N. G., was born in New York City on the 11th of February, 1857. His grandfather, McMaken, was a pioneer Kentuckian, being born in a log cabin, and an early resident of Butler County, Ohio, besides being a soldier in the War of 1812. His father was born in Ohio, his 'mother in Connecticut, her maiden name being Munson. Grandfather Munson was a soldier in the War of the' Revolution. William Vance - 489 - McMaken came to Toledo, Ohio, with his parents in 1864. He was educated in the public schools and graduated from the Toledo High School in the class of 1874. He inherited the martial spirit, and when but a lad drilled some of his playmates with nothing more dangerous than broomsticks to serve as guns. After leaving school he was engaged as a clerk in mercantile business for a number of years, and is now a member of the firm of Fox & McMaken, real estate and insurance, 9 Spitzer Arcade, Toledo. The first military experience of General McMaken was in the organization of the famous Toledo Cadets in 1870, a company that held the high position of being one of the best drilled body of men in the country. It was prominent as such, and created a sensation upon the occasion of its appearance in Columbus, when the late William Allen was inaugurated Governor in January, 1874. It was also a feature at many other military demonstrations in the State and elsewhere. As soon as the members were of proper age they were mustered into the service of the Ohio National Guard. General McMaken remained in command of this company nineteen years, when he was elected Colonel of the Sixteenth Regiment, O. N. G., and commissioned on the 27th of June, 1897, by Governor Bushnell. He was Colonel of that regiment when the Spanish-American War broke out, and the regimental number was changed to the Sixth, being mustered into the service of the United States as such May 12, 1898. General McMaken's regiment served throughout the war, or thirteen months in all, four months of that time in Cuba, stationed a part of the time at Cienfuegos under Major General John C. Bates. During the latter portion of his term of service in Cuba, General McMaken served as Military Governor of the District of Trinidad by appointment of General Bates. The Sixth Regiment was mustered out of service at Augusta, Georgia, May 24, 1899, and General McMaken returned to his home in Toledo, and his command was immediately assigned to duty by Governor Bushnell as the Sixth Regiment. On the 5th of December, 1899, General McMaken was elected by the members of the First Brigade, O. N. G., and commissioned Brigadier General. General McMaken has had a wide and varied experience in the military service of the State. He was with his regiment At the Cincinnati Riots, and performed notable work in the Wheeling coal strike. When Governor Nash contemplated calling out the State troops to suppress the proposed prize fight at Cincinnati, General McMaken had been selected to command. He was with his brigade at the McKinley obsequies at Canton, in September, 1901, and commanded the provisional brigade that formed the special military escort on that occasion. General McMaken is recognized among the ardent Republicans of Toledo and Lucas County, and has been honored on several occasions by the voters of his party. He served two terms as Recorder of Lucas County and the same length of time as Treasurer, being in his second term when war was declared on Spain. In the spring of 1903, General McMaken was the Republican nominee - 490 - for Mayor of Toledo. In 1883 he was married to Miss Georgie Dorr, whose father was a prominent resident of Toledo, being an early settler, and Mayor of the city several years. They have two daughters, .Myra and Carrie. General McMaken is a thirty-second-degree Mason ; Past Exalted Ruler, Toledo No. 53, Elks ; a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and of Egbert Command, Spanish War Veterans. He is a representative citizen and soldier ; in both capacities he has served his State and country well. Frank L. Baird, Inspector of Oils for the First Ohio District, is one of the best known among the citizens of Toledo and Northwestern Ohio. He was born in Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio, on the 5th day of December, 1861, his parents removing to Toledo in 1867. Young Baird secured his education in the public schools of this city, and in 1877 started out to make his own way in the world. For the next ten years he was in the employ of various railroads, or until after the loth of April, 1887. For several years thereafter he managed a strictly union office, when he was appointed Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue under President Harrison, also serving two and a half years as Deputy County Clerk. On the 6th of June, 1898, he was appointed Cashier in the Internal Revenue Department of the Fourth Ohio District by Collector George P. Waldorf. On the 12th of April, 1900, he was appointed Inspector of Oils for the First Ohio District by Governor Nash, and reappointed for terms of two years each, on the 30th of April, 1902, and the 30th of April, 1904, by Governors Nash and Herrick, respectively. Mr. Baird has always been a strong adherent to the Republican faith, working unceasingly for the success of the party of his choice. Two years he was a member of the Lucas County Central Committee, and the Secretary of the organization for several campaigns. He was one of the first to suggest the organization of the famous Lincoln Club of Toledo, and was very active in securing the original membership of two hundred. Mr. Baird is a faithful, progressive citizen, and his friends are legion wherever he is known. His popularity is only measured by the wide circle of his acquaintances. On the iith of May, 1886, Mr. Baird married Miss Mary A., daughter of George L. Johnson, and they have three sons. Clinton B. Wilcox, Of Sandusky, President and Manager of The R. M. & C. B. Wilcox Co., of that city, is a native of Sandusky, born on the 11th of April, 1866. His father was a native Ohioan, and his mother a native of the State of New York. In early days his father resided in Cleveland, but removed to Sandusky in the '40's, where he established, with his brother, R. M. Wilcox, the mercantile business which still bears his name. This concern has been a family enterprise ever since its inception, steadily growing and broadening its field of operations, - 491 - until to-day it is one of the largest similar institutions in the State of Ohio. Mr. Clinton B. Wilcox received his early *education in the public schools of Sandusky, at the Western Reserve Academy at Hudson, Ohio; and the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. Immediately upon leaving college he started. into active business life, and he is now closely identified with many mercantile, financial and manufacturing institutions. He is Vice President and Director of the Sandusky Gas and Electric Company ; director of the Cedar Point improvement Company, director of the Commercial National Bank, director of the G. R. Butler Co., President and director of the Providence Hospital, and vestryman and Treasurer of Grace Episcopal Church, of Sandusky. He was Vice President and Treasurer of the Moss National Bank until its consolidation with the Second National Bank, .the coalition forming the Commercial National Bank, and was an incorporator and one of the first directors of the People's Electric Railroad. Major Wilcox is a former director of the Erie County Abstract Company and a former director and Treasurer of the Erie County Agricultural Society. In politics, Mr. Wilcox has taken such interest as is possible by a man whose time is nearly all taken up by the many interests mentioned above ; nevertheless, he occupies the position of trustee of the Toledo State Hospital, Governor Herrick appointing him to the same to succeed the late Governor Foster ; and he is State Central Committeeman of the Thirteenth Congressional District of Ohio. For several terms he was elected a member of the Board of Health of Sandusky, and also of the Board of Education of that city. It is hardly necessary to add, that his political belief is attached to the Republican party, and that there are undoubtedly great political honors in store for him. Major Wilcox has been connected with the National Guard of Ohio since the 17th of August, 1885, when he entered the ranks of the militia as a private. Step by step he has been advanced in that body, until to-day he holds the position of Major, and is on the staff of General W. V. McMaken, First Brigade, O. N. G. Socially, he belongs to the Masonic fraternity, Knights Templar, Royal Arcanum and Knights of the Maccabees. In 1887 he was married to Mary Bella Fuller, of Norwalk, Ohio. One daughter, Helen D. Wilcox, is the fruit of their union. Conrad Born, One of the representative business men of Columbus, Ohio, and the head of the well-known brewing firm of Born & Co. in the capital city of the Buckeye State, was born in Columbus on the 21st of September, 1844, and is the son of Conrad and Mary A. (Rickly) Born. His father was a native of Bavaria and his mother was born in Switierland. They came to this country in 1839. In 1841 they came to Columbus after having spent two years in New York. At the time of his death, Mr. Born was the oldest butcher in Columbus. He also dealt largely in real estate. In 1859 he built the brewery known as the firm of Born - 492 - & Co. Conrad Born, Jr., was educated in the public schools of Columbus, and has been connected with the brewery from its establishment to the present time, and it is due to his business qualifications and energy that his brewery has become one of the largest of its kind in Ohio. In 186o the subject of this sketch left Columbus and worked for four years in the large breweries of Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago, in order to gain a thorough, practical knowledge of the business. In June, 1869, Mr. Born was married to Miss Lena Moerlein, daughter of Mr. Christian Moerlein, a prominent brewer of Cincinnati. They have one son, Conrad Christian, who is now associated with his father in business. Mr. Born is also interested in a number .of industrial and banking institutions, and is well known in business circles all over the State. In the esteem of his fellow citizens he stands high. Mr. Born is a thirty-second-degree Mason, a member of the Mystic Shrine, the I. O. O. F., the B. P. O. E., the Columbus Maennerchor and of many other benevolent and fraternal organizations. He is also a stockholder and director in the Christian Moerlein Brewing Company, of Cincinnati. F. W. Schumacher, Of Columbus, Ohio, President of the Board of Trade of the capital city of the Buckeye State, and Vice President and Director of advertising of The Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company, is a German by birth, being born on the Island of Fehmarn, Holstein, Germany. He came to the United States with his parents and located in Waco, Texas, where his education was begun in the public schools of that city and finished at a government institution of note in Lubeck, Germany. Here he passed his examination of maturity, and two years later graduated from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, where he was awarded first honors and a gold medal for highest grades in all branches. Returning to Waco in 1884, he entered upon his career as manager of a large retail drug store. Five years later he was made Secretary-Treasurer of a large wholesale drug company in Waco, and in 1897 he came to Columbus to associate himself with The - 493 - Peruna Company. The marvelous development of The Peruna Company pictures the success of Mr. Schumacher as chief of its most essential department since he has made Columbus his home. In the early spring of 1904 Mr. Schumacher was elected President of the Columbus Board of Trade. Mr. Schumacher is married to Miss Maribel Hartman, a daughter of Dr. Hartman, President of The Peruna Company. They have two children, Maribel and Kathleen. Mr. Schumacher lives with his family at 750 East Broad street, Columbus, Ohio. Robert Hutchins Jeffrey, One of the most prominent manufacturers of Columbus, Ohio, was born on the 21St of December, 1873, in the capital city of the Buckeye State. He is the son of James A Jeffrey, banker and manufacturer, who was also a native Ohioan. His mother, Celia Clark Jeffrey, was born in New York and a descendant of a family which came from England and settled in Massachusetts in 1634. Members of this family have served with distinction in all the wars from the Revolution to the present time, and were prominently identified with the political life of that period. Mr. Jeffrey received his education both at home and abroad. He graduated from Williams College, Massachusetts, in 1895, studied for two years in Dresden, Germany, and also in the Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio. He is now the Vice President of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, of his home city, which institution he has been identified with for many years, working up from the factory, where he was employed in a laborious position, to the place he now holds. He has always taken an active interest in the affairs of his city, and at one time was director and President of the Columbus Board of Trade, it having at that time a membership of one thousand. In April, 1903, he was elected. Mayor of Columbus, Ohio, on the Republican ticket, and received the largest vote ever cast in that city for any candidate. He is a member of the following societies and orders : Chi Psi College Fraternity, Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity, Masons, I. O. O. F., Modern Woodmen of America, Arlington County Club, Columbus Country Club, President of Ohio Club of Columbus, Board of Trade, and Y. M. C. A. Mr. Jeffrey is a married man. His wife's maiden name was Alice Kilbourne, who was a daughter of Colonel James Kilbourne. Two sons have resulted from this union. Mr. Jeffrey is a member of the First Congregational Church. His residence is,located at No. 71 Winner Avenue, Columbus. Colonel James Kilbourne, One of the best-known Democrats of Ohio, comes of lineage distinguished in the early history of the State. His grandfather, Colonel James Kilbourne, was one of Ohio's earliest pioneers and among the first to represent his district in Congress. Colonel James Kilbourne - 494 - was born on the 9th of October, 1841, in the city of Columbus, Ohio. His father, Lincoln Kilbourne, was a leading merchant of his native city and well known for his popularity and good citizenship. Young Kilbourne attended Kenyon College, graduating therefrom in 1862, and two years later received the degree of Master of Arts. He was but fairly out of his school work when the War of the Rebellion broke out, and he enlisted as a private in the Eighty-fourth Ohio Volunteers, from which he was discharged, to accept a commission in the Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteers. He served with honor through the war, being promoted through the various grades to that of Captain and being breveted Major, Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel of United States Volunteers. For some time he was a member of the staffs of Generals Tuttle and McArthur. His war record is one of great gallantry and without a blot. At the close of the war Colonel Kilbourne resumed his studies, and in 1868 graduated from the law school of Harvard University. He was admitted to the bar, but his health being undermined by army service, he, on the advice of his physician, left the practice of his chosen profession and entered business with his father. A few years later he founded the Kilbourne & Jacobs Manufacturing Company, now the largest establishment of its kind in the world, and of which he has always been President and General Manager. Colonel Kilbourne has always taken a great deal of interest in the various organizations having for their purpose the upbuilding of his native city. He was a director and, in 1895, President Photo by Bakes, Columbus. O. of the Columbus Board of Trade., and he has been a director and President of the Columbus Club and of the Arlington Country Club. He is a director of the First National Bank and the Clinton-Hayden National Bank ; of the Columus, Hocking Valley and Toledo and of the Columbus, Cincinnati and Midland Railways, and of many business and social organizations. For ten years he was President of the Board of Trustees of the Columbus City Library, and has been President of the Kenyon College Association of Central Ohio, and President of the Central Ohio Harvard Club. He is a life member of the Ohio Archaeological Society, and President of the Old Northwest Geneological Society. He instituted the Columbus Children's Hospital, of which he was President for five years, when he declined to serve longer in that capacity. He is Vice President of the Columbus Neighborhood Guild Association and a member of the Board of Managers of the Associated Charities of Columbus. In political life he has always been a stalwart Democrat, prominent in the councils of his party, and often urged to accept a nomination. He acceded to the wishes of hi friends once, when, in 1901, he was made by acclamation the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio.. His popularity at home was such that he carried Franklin County by a majority of 2,300 in round numbers, being a gain of over 4,000 from the vote of the previous two years and he ran 17,000 ahead of the ticket in the State. He was a delegate from the Twelfth Ohio Congressional District to the Democratic National Convention, in 1892 and - 495 - 1896, and at the Democratic State Convention, in 1899, received 237 votes for nomination for Governor. In 1900 he was a delegate-at-large from Ohio to the National Democratic Convention at Kansas City, and Chairman of the Ohio delegation. He was appointed by Governor Campbell one of the Commissioners from Ohio to the Columbian Exposition at Chicago, but declined the honor on account of pressure of business affairs. Colonel Kilbourne is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and the Union Veteran Legion and the Loyal Legion. He has also thrice served as Vice President of the Society of the Army of Tennessee. He organized the Columbus Cuban League, and was President thereof. When the Spanish-American War broke out, he tendered his services and the services of three of his sons to the Government. Colonel Kilbourne is one of the largest employers of labor in Ohio, and his relations with his workmen have always been most friendly. He has never had a strike in his great establishment or a suit at law against him or his company, and never has the wage of a workman been reduced in his plants. His record in this regard is one of which any man might be proud. In 1898 he was appointed a member of the Ohio Centennial Commission and made its President. Colonel Kilbourne has for many years been a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and closely identified with church work. On the 5th of October, 1869, he married Anna B. Wright, the eldest daughter of General George B. Wright, and four children have been born to this union, three sons and one daughter. The Kilbourne home is located on East Town Street, Columbus, Ohio. David E. Hill, Deceased, of Akron, Ohio, whose name is perpetuated as the consolidator of the great sewer pipe industries of this country, was born on the 25th of May, 1825, at Gowanda, Cattaraugus County, New York. He was of English-Scotch ancestry. At the age of eighteen he left his native State and settled in Middlebury, which is now a part of Akron, Ohio. There he worked for several years in a machine shop, and with others became engaged in the manufacturing of the old-fashioned fire engines. From 1847 to 1849 Mr. Hill traveled for McMillan & Irish, manufacturers of woolen machinery, and in the spring of the latter year became interested in the manufacture of sewer pipe. His company, the Akron Sewer Pipe Company, was the pioneer of the large sewer pipe industry of the United States. This industry, as above mentioned, was founded in 1849, when the late Colonel Reuben McMillan, in connection with David E. Hill and Robert Foster, opened a pottery works under the firm name of Hill, Foster & Co. The inception of this enterprise was entirely owing to the experiments made by Mr. Hill, who, after careful tests, discovered that the clay of that part of the State was particularly adapted to the manufacture of sewer pipes. The concern flourished, and in 1851 Mr. Foster retired, and - 496 - was succeeded by Edwin H. and Calvin J. Merrill and Hezekiah Camp, the firm name being changed to Hill, Merrill & Co. This firm also engaged in the manufacture of the smaller sizes of sexangular water pipe, formed in molds, the orifice being bored out by machinery adapted to that purpose while the section was yet in the mold. About two years later, Messrs. Hill and Merrill invented improved patterns on the. rude machinery then in use, and a part of the plant was subsequently devoted to that branch of the business by the firm. In 1855, Hill, Merrill & Co. was succeeded by Merrill, Powers & Co. About 1858 the Merrill interests were withdrawn, and Mr. Hill again took an active interest in the business, the firm name changing to Hill, Powers & Co. A year later Mr. Hill and Mr. Frank Adams became the sole owners, and under their direction the business was greatly extended and the capacity of the works doubled. The business growing to large proportions, it was decided to form a stock company, and in 1868, with David E. Hill, Frank Adams, David L. King, Lorenzo B. Austin and Ozias Barber as stockholders, the Hill & Adams Sewer Pipe Company came into existence. Again the business was still further extended, and a splendid plant erected. The works of this company were the first of their kind west of New York and the second in the United States. The name of this company was later changed into The Akron Sewer Pipe Company, with Mr. Hill as one of the principal stockholders. In 1873 Mr. Hill organized the Hill Sewer Pipe Company, and became its President and General Manager. Seeing the great possibilities which would ensue if the sewer pipe industry was consolidated under one head, Mr. Hill, in 19oo, succeeded in incorporating under the name of The American Sewer Pipe Company practically all the large sewer pipe companies of the United States, and became its President. He died on the 5th of August, 1901. Mr. David E. Hill was a self-made man in the fullest sense of the word, and it was due to his own energy and native ability that he successfully rounded out a life of usefulness. He was an important figure in many large enterprises outside of his own field of endeavor, and was as well known in the financial circles of New York as he was in his home city and State. Being public spirited by nature, broad in his conceptions of the duties of a citizen, he occupied many local positions of trust and carefully guarded the interests of the people among whom he spent the greater part of his life. Owing to his many lovable qualities, he made friends, not alone with those in the higher walks of life, but as well among the large masses of the people, who hold his name in kind remembrance. Mr. Hill was married in 1848, and was the father of three children, one of whom, Mr. George R. Hill, survives, and continues in the affairs of the national enterprise founded by his father. Silas W. Hoffman, A leading real estate broker of Cincinnati, was born on the 6th of October, 1844, at Hoffman's Ferry, New York. His father, John Hoffman, a farmer, and owner of the ferry which took his name, was a native of Germany, and came to this country when but six weeks old. His mother was of German descent, and - 497 - a native of New York. The son, Silas W. Hoffman, was educated in New York, and attended the Albany Business College, where he completed a course of special studies to fit him for a commercial career. He started in public life at the age of twenty-one years as bookkeeper and cashier for the New York & Erie Railroad at Dunkirk, New York, later coming to Cincinnati, where he was employed by H. J. Montgomery, No. 73 Pearl Street, for one year. In 1870 he was appointed 'by Probate Judge Frank Hafer First Deputy of the Probate Court. After he had had charge of that position for nine months, he was elected City Auditor. He held this office for seven years. During his incumbency he issued all the bonds for the Southern Railroad. In the years 1869-187o he was a member of the Common Council from the old Seventeenth Ward. He also was a member of both the County and State Democratic Central_ Committees, being a Democrat all his active life. Socially, he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, being one of the originators in Cincinnati. In 1865 Mr. Hoffman married Amanda M. Thompson, by which union he is the father of two children—a son, now practicing law in Chicago, and a daughter, who is a writer of note. His present office is to be found at 603 First National Bank Building, and his residence at No. 309 Ludlow Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. Willis Fuller Sewall, A. B., Librarian of the Toledo Public Library, was born on the 12th of August, 1866, at Chesterville, Maine, in the neighborhood.of which town his ancestors have continuously lived since the beginning of the Seventeenth Century. His father, Howard Sewall, was engaged in the lumber business in that State, and was born in the same town. Florilla (Fuller) Sewall, the mother, was a native of Jay, Maine. The Sewall family is one which has been identified with the history of New England from the earliest days, the founder of the family emigrating from Coventry, England, in 1632, landing in Boston, Massachusetts. The great- grandfather of Mr. Willis Fuller Sewall was Dummer Sewall, a private in the Revolutionary Army, and whose oldest child was the first white child born in Chesterville, Maine, the family home. His great-great-grandfather, Colonel Dummer Sewall, was a surveyor at Bath, Maine, and prominent during the Revolutionary War. The Maine Sewalls are for the most part descended from John, a younger brother of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall, who figured prominently in the witchcraft trials. Willis Fuller Sewall received his early education in the town schools of his birthplace, and at the college preparatory schools ; Wilson Academy, Wilton, Maine, and Westbrook Seminary, Deering, Maine, graduating from the former in 1883 and the latter in 1886. After the termination of his preparatory studies he attended Tuft's College, at Medford, Massachusetts, and the New York State Library School, graduating from Tuft's College in 1890 with the degree of B.A. The age of twenty-four years found him instructor in French and - 498 - English composition and Assistant Librarian at Tuft's College. He afterwards became indexer to the New York State Commission in Lunacy, Albany, New York ; cataloguer of the Sauppe Collection of Classical Philology, at Bryn Mawr College Library ; Librarian, Wilmington (Delaware) Institute Free Library ; and cataloguer, Erolier Club Library, New York City. On the 3oth of October, 1894, he married Kate Louise Howe, of Albany, New York, by which union he is the father of one son, Howard Howe Sewall. In political belief fr. Sewall is a Republican. Edward Leonard Young, Editor, of Norwalk, Ohio, was born at New Haven, Huron County, Ohio, on the 19th day of January, 1864. He is the son of Morgan and Amelia House Young, both of whom were natives of this State. Mr. Young was one of eight children, born on a farm, all of whom were carefully reared by honorable and self-sacrificing parents. The education of Mr. Young was obtained entirely in the common schools of his birthplace. At the age of twenty-one years he started in life as local editor of the Norwalk (Ohio) "Chronicle," advancing to editor-in-chief at the age of twenty-five, and continuing in that position until July, 1892, when he was elected State Secretary of the Knights of the Maccabees, a fraternal insurance association. This position he still occupies, as well as that of Supreme Editor of the order, in charge of "The Bee Hive," the official organ of the society. He is also Secretary of the C. F. Jackson Co., Norwalk, Ohio, department stores in Norwalk and Findlay, Ohio ; director of the Citizens' Banking Company, and interested in The McCrillis Handle Company, The Hull Umbrella Company and The Miller Anchor Company, all of Norwalk, Ohio. From the foregoing it will be seen that Mr. Young is a busy man, with many interests to hold his attention ; nevertheless, he finds time to take an active interest in the following societies and orders : The Knights of the Maccabees, Royal Arcanum, Modern Woodmen, the Ben Hur, Protected Home Circle, Knights of Pythias and the Odd Fellows. He is President of the Ohio Fraternal League, and Past President of the National Fraternal Press Association. On the loth of March, 1884, he married Carrie M. Houfstater, and has one son by that union, Arthur Young, aged sixteen at time of this writing. The family attends the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which body the father early in life became affiliated. Charles C. Curran, Of New York City, who stands in the first rank of American painters, and enjoys a more than national .reputation, was born of Ohio parents, who were temporarily teaching school at Hartford, Kentucky. He graduated from the public High School of Sandusky, Ohio, after which he spent part of a year at the Cincinnati Art School. Mr. Curran sub- - 499 -