sequently attended the school of the American Artists' Association of New York, and for two years the Julian Academy, Paris, France. Returning to his native country, he opened a Studio in "the metropolis of the East, and since that time has played an. important part in the life of American art. As a painter, Mr. Curran has never adopted any particular line of art studies. He paints what comes in his way and appeals to his fancy. He is strong as a colorist, not fearing to attack the most difficult problems of light and shade. Many fine ideai pictures have come from his brush. Mr. Curran has been awarded the following prizes: The Clarke Prize ; the Hallgarten Prize at the Academy, New York ; the Carnegie Prize at the 1904 exhibition. of American Artists, New York, and the Corcoran Prize, 1905, Washington, D. C. His works also received honorable mention and medals at the Salon in Paris, and a medal, etc., at the St. Louis Exhibition. Mr. Curran was elected a member of the National Academy of Design, and is a member of the Salamagundi Society, the Lotus Club of New York, etc. He is also an instructor at the school of the American Artists' Society, and was employed by the American Art Directors of the late Paris Exposition as one of the judges to select the paintings for exhibition at this exposition, and to have charge of said exhibit. He also served in the same capacity at the Buffalo Exposition. Personally, Mr. Curran is a quiet, unobtrusive man, but one who thoroughly enjoys the social life of his friends, and is very popular among his fellows. His wife is a daughter of the Hon. Charles P. Wickham, of Norwalk, Ohio. They have twc sons and one daughter. Mr. Curran's father, the Hon. Ulysses T. Curran, is Judge of the Probate Court of Erie County, Ohio. Robert Walker Tayler, United States Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, and ex-Congressman from the Eighteenth Congressional District of Ohio, was born on the 26th of November, 1852, at Youngstown, Ohio. He is the son of Robert Walker Tayler, who was Auditor of the State of Ohio from 1860 to 1863, and First Comptroller of the United States Treasury from 1863 to 1878, a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 'His mother, Louisa Maria Woodbridge - 500 - Tayler, was born in Youngstown. Mr. Tayler is the great-great-grandson of Jonathan Edwards. He received his education in the public schools, at Georgetown College, District of Columbia, and Western Reserve College, at Hudson, Ohio, from which latter institution he graduated with the class of 1872, receiving the degree of A.B. Immediately upon leaving college, he accepted a position as teacher in the High School of Lisbon, holding same until 1873, when he was made Superintendent of Schools of that city. This position he filled until 1875. In the years of 1875 and 1876 Mr. Tayler was editor of the Buckeye State Newspaper, published at Lisbon. One year later Mr. Tayler was admitted to the bar,- and he immediately embarked in the practice of his profession. He started in public life at the age of twenty-seven, when, in 1880, he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Columbiana County, a position he held for two successive terms. In 1894 Mr. Tayler was elected to Congress, representing the Eighteenth Congressional District of Ohio. He was re-elected to the same position in 1896, 1898 and 1900, serving altogether from the 4th of March, 1895, to the 4th of March, 1903. In 1902 he was again nominated for Congress, but he declined, as he intended to resume the general practice of law. After the expiration of his fourth term, Mr. Tayler went to Youngstown, becoming a member of the firm of Arrel, McVey & Tayler, and practiced until January, 1905, when he was appointed United States Judge for the Northern District of Ohio. While a member of Congress, he was for the period of six years Chairman of the Committee on Elections, and in 1899 and 1900 he served as Chairman of the special committee on the case of Brigham H. Roberts, Representative-elect from Utah. In 1903 and 1904 he was counsel for the protestants in the case of Reed Smoot, Senator from Utah in the United States Senate. Judge Tayler was married to Miss Helen Vance on the 18th of May, 1876. He resides at Cleveland. Harrison Wilson, Of Sidney, Ohio, one of the Judges of the Second Circuit Court of Ohio, is a native of the Buckeye State. He was born on a farm near Cadiz, on the 15th of March, 1841. For several generations his ancestors lived in Virginia. His grandfather, Thomas Wilson, who served in the Revolutionary War for seven years and received wounds from which he never recovered, emigrated to Ohio when the father of Judge Wilson, Thomas Wilson, Jr., was only three years of age. The family settled in Jefferson County, on military lands granted to the grandfather for his patriotic services in 'behalf of the independence of the American colonies. Judge Wilson's mother, Mary Harper Wilson, who was related through her mother to the famous Jackson family of Virginia, died when her son was five years of age. When Judge Wilson was seven years old, the family moved to a farm in the adjoining county of Belmont, and the ensuing period of six years was passed in farm work and attending the district schools. At the age of thirteen his father placed him and his two brothers - 501 - in the Albany Manual Training School, Athens County, Ohio, and then removed to Iowa, where he passed the remaining years of his life, dying in 1876. Judge Wilson matriculated from the. Ohio University at: Athens, in which he completed three years of a college course, teaching each winter to support himself at college during the remainder of the year. At the close of hiS junior year he enlisted as a soldier, on the 21st of June, 1861. He was mustered in as a private in Company I, Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was appointed Corporal, arid: served in the ranks of his company in West Virginia, until the 7th of December of the same year, when he received an appointment as Second Lieutenant. He was assigned to the Twentieth Ohio Infantry, under its reorganization for three years' service. Continuing with this regiment until the close of the war, he was advanced from the lowest rank of commissioned Officer to the command of the regiment, without skipping an intermediate position. His promotions were successively to First Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel. For a period of nine months he also served. as Adjutant. Shirking no duty tasking no soft place's, he was in all of the engagements under General Grant from Fort Donaldson to Vickburg ; under Sherman from Chattanooga, and from Atlanta to the Sea.; through the Carolinas to Washington, and in the grand review which marked the overthrow of the rebellion. His bravery was attested to by the medal of honor conferred "for gallant services on the field" at the battle of Raymond. At the close of the war Colonel Wilson settled at Sidney and took up the study of law with the late Attorney General James Murray. He was admitted to the bar in 1873, and for six years thereafter was associated in partnership with General Murray, until the latter's death, in 1879. From that time until his election as Judge, in 1895, Colonel Wilson continued in the practice at Sidney. He built up a profitable business, with a large clientage. In 1895 he was chosen to the bench of the Second Circuit for the residue of the term of Judge Shauck, who had been promoted to the Supreme Bench. At the November election in 1896 he was re-elected for the full term, beginning on the 9th of February, ,I897. After the close of this term, having served with distinction, Judge Wilson was re-elected to a second term. Judge Wilson was a capable trial lawyer and a strong advocate before he became a Judge. Politically, he has always been a Republican. His personal popularity made. him an available candidate of his party for Congress, in 1878, and while not hoping for election, he was able to reduce the Democratic majority from 5,000 to 1,800. Judge Wilson is 'a member of the Ohio State Commandery of the Loyal Legion. He takes a lively. interest in affairs of the organization to perpetuate the history and memories of the war. Judge Wilson Was Married On the 1st of January, 1867, to Mary C. Fry, of Sidney., The union has been blessed with a family of eight children, James I. Allread, Judge of the Common Pleas Court of the Second Subdivision of the Second Judicial District of Ohio, is a native of Ohio. He was born on a farm near Arcanum, Darke County, on the 29th of September, 1858. His ancestors were pioneers and early settlers in Western Ohio. They came to that section of the State when it was but little less than a wilderness, and with their own labors succeeded in claiming the forest for the abode of man. Judge Allread early knew what it was to toil. He obtained his education in the public schools at Arcanum, and later attended the High School at Greenville, after which he read law in the office of the late Judge William Allen, at Greenville, 'was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of Ohio on the 6th of October, 188o, and immediately began the practice of his chosen profession in the city of Greenville. He was in the high tide of his career when he was appointed Circuit Judge by Governor McKinley, to fill the vacancy caused by the - 502 - election of Judge Shauck, of Montgomery County to the Supreme Bench: The term Judge Allread filled was from the 8th of February to the 16th of November, 1895, and in that time he became known among the best Judges of that circuit. At the Republican National Convention of 1892, at Minneapolis, and of 1896, at St. Louis, Judge Allread represented the Fourth Congressional District. In January, 1901, he was appointed Chief Clerk under Secretary of State Laylin, a place he occupied so creditably. On the 24th of April, 1902, he was nominated by acclamation for Judge of the Court of Common Pleas by the Republican Judicial Convention at Troy, for the Second Subdivision of the Second Judicial District, consisting of the counties of Darke, Miami, Champaign, Clark and Preble. The district was reliably Republican, and Judge Allread was elected in November, 1902, by a large majority. His term began on the 15th of May, 1903. On the 1st day of August, 1883, Judge Allread was married to Emma S. Roland and two children, Marie and Charles Harold, have been the result of the union. Judge All-read lives with his family at Greenville, Ohio. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Edgar Alonzo Belden, Of Hamilton, Ohio, Judge of the Common Pleas Court, was born on the 28th of November, 1855, in the city of Hamilton, Butler County, this State. He is the son of Samuel C. Belden, a manufacturer, and Mary Fitton Belden, both of whom were born in this country, the former being a native of Massachusetts and the latter a native of Ohio. He received his early education in the common schools of his home city, graduating from the Hamilton High School in 1872. In 1881, after years of preparatory study, Judge Belden was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of his chosen profession at Hamilton, gaining a high standing among his fellow practitioners. At the age of forty-six, he started in public life as a candidate for Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and was elected to that position in November, 1901, and on the 9th of February, 19o2, he assumed the duties of that office. He is a member of the bench of the - 503 - Second Ohio Judicial District. In political belief, Judge Belden has always been affiliated with the Republican party, and in 1884 he received the nomination for the office of Prosecuting Attorney of Butler County, but was defeated, the county being. overwhelmingly Democratic. In the fall of 1901, however, he. was elected to his present responsible position by a majority of 717, several of the Democratic candidates for other offices at the same election receiving majorities of over. 2,80o. On the 22d of May, 1888, Judge Belden was united in marriage, to Lizzie Potter, daughter of Mr. L. B. Potter, of Hamilton. Two children are the issue of this union, Horace and Lucia Belden. He and his family attend the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Hamilton, in which city they also. reside. Judge Milton Clark, Is a native of Warren County,. born on a farm near the Little Miami in Deerfield Township, on the 27th of October, 1848, the youngest son of Samuel and Ruth Crawford Clark. His father was an intelligent and thrifty farmer, and one of the most esteemed men in a community of more than average intelligence. Milton grew up on the farm, attended the country school, and to prepare himself for college, walked daily nearly three miles. to vIaineville Academy ; graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan University, 1873; taught school, and graduated at the Cincinnati Law School, 1875 ; had a law office in Cincinnati for four years ; removed to Lebanon in 1879, and practiced his profession, securing the respect of lawyers, judges and the public. Except a term as Town Councilman, was first elected to office in 1895 to fill a vacancy on the Common Pleas Bench ; was re-elected for full terms of this office in 1896 and 1901. The three times he received the endorsement of his own county for Judge' the name of no opposing candidate was presented, and it is believed that on each occasion he was the choice of the members of the bar, and he himself maintained that he would not accept a position on the bench against the wishes of the members of his own profession. In 1878 he was married to Miss Isabel Gordon. Judge and Mrs. Clark, with their two children, reside in a beautiful home, with spacious grounds, in the south part of Lebanon. Marcus G. Evans, Judge of the Common Pleas Court in the Third (Columbus) Subdivision of the Fifth Judicial District, was born in Frankfort, Ross County, Ohio, and educated in the common schools of that village. His ancestors on his paternal side were early pioneers, and settled in Highland County, Ohio, before the admission of the State into the Union. On his maternal side Judge Evans is of Huguenot descent, and his ancestors were closely connected with the early history of the nation, some of whom were soldiers and fought for the colonies in the War of the American Revolution. Judge Marcus G. Evans is the son of Dr. John - 504 - Baxter Evans and Lucinda (Wilson) 'Evans, and is the youngest of five children. After his course in the village school, Judge Evans entered the South Salem Academy, where he remained one year. He then entered Miami University for one year, arid, on account of Miami closing temporarily, matriculated at the University of Wooster, and there graduated in the Classical Course in 1877. The succeeding year he was Principal of the union schools at his native town of Frankfort. In addition to his duties as teacher, he studied law under the preceptorage of his. brother,. William Edgar Evans (afterwards Judge of the Court of Common Pleas), and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1879. He .at once began the practice of law at Chillicothe, and in 1885 was elected on the Republican ticket Prosecuting Attorney of Ross County, and re-elected in 1888. In 1892 Judge Evans was married to Miss Stella Margaret Nelson, of Columbus, at which time, with a view to seeking a wider field for his work, he moved to Columbus and began the practice of his profession. In 1893 Judge Evans was invited to, and did, deliver a course of lectures on commercial law, to, the Senior class of the Law Department of the Ohio State University, and in the years 18951896 he was appointed by. the Supreme Court on the commission to examine applicants for admission to the bar. The year following Judge Evans was appointed as one of the Republican members of the Board of. Elections of the city of Columbus, and served until February, 1902, when he. resigned. He was President of the Board for nearly three years immediately preceding the ;time of his retirement, and resigned from the Board in order to become a candidate for Common Pleas Judge. He was elected as such at the November election of 1902. Judge Evans has always been a conscientious and active working Republican. His active political work began in the Garfield campaign, in 1880. During this campaign he devoted most of his time in the councils of his party and on the stump in Southern Ohio. He was ardent in the work of the Ohio Republican League Clubs, and served as a representative of his district in the directory of the organization in the .years 1890-1891. Judge Evans in his fraternal relations is a member of the Masonic fraternity, a member of Mt. Vernon Commandery, K. T., of Columbus, and of the Columbus Lodge of Elks. Linn Walker Hull, Deceased, late Judge of the Sixth Ohio Judicial Circuit, was born on the 9th of April, 1856, on a farm in Perkins Township,- Erie ,County, Ohio, near the city of Sandusky. His parents, John Linn Hull and Angeline Walker Hull, were both natives of this country, the father coming from Washington County, Pennsylvania, and the mother from New York State. Both settled in Ohio at an early age, and continuously lived in the State until the time of their death. Mr. John Linn Hull, the father of Judge Hull, was one of the leading - 505 - farmers of the county, and was twice elected County Commissioner on the Republican ticket, when the county was Democratic. He was a member of the Board of Education of the township and a Township Trustee. The parents of Judge Hull's mother, Samuel Walker and wife, were pioneer settlers in Sandusky, and were two of the founders of the Congregational Church there in 1819. Judge Hull received his education in the district schools, the high school of Sandusky, the Oberlin College, Cornell University and the Cincinnati Law School, graduating from the latter institution in May, 1883, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. His admittance to the bar dates from June, 1883, when he immediately took up the practice of his profession. The first office to which he was elected on the Republican ticket, having always been an uncompromising Republican, was that of member of the Board of Education for the Second Ward, of the city of Sandusky, Ohio, serving a full term of two years. He was re-elected to that position, and during his incumbency of the second term was elected Common Pleas Judge in November, 1896. Three years later, in October, 1899, he resigned his position to accept an appointment as Circuit Judge, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge R. B. King, and, in November, 1900, he was elected to that responsible position to a full term of six years. Judge Hull has, since he became of age, always been an active worker in the Republican ranks, and has served his party often and faithfully. He received the nominations for Prosecuting Attorney for Erie County in 1885 and 1888, and, while he ran ahead of his ticket both times, he was defeated, owing to the county then being heavily Democratic. In the years of 1887, 1893, 1895 he was Chairman of the Republican Executive Committee of Erie County, resigning when nominated for Common Pleas Judge. He was a delegate from the Thirteenth Congressional District of Ohio to the Republican National Convention at St. Louis in 1896 that nominated McKinley. As a jurist, Judge Hull gained an enviable reputation for wise decisions, legal. knowledge and uprightness of character. Never has a word of reproach b een cast upon" him for any of his judicial acts. He was broad in his sympathies, and of a kind and gentle nature. In fraternal circles of the Masons and Elks Judge Hull was a prominent and popular factor. On the 18th of July, 1883, he was united in marriage to Mary Emily Hall, of Cincinnati. She died in August, 1887, leaving three daughters. Judge Hull died on the 27th of May, 1905. Frank H. Kerr, Judge of the Probate Court, of Jefferson County, Ohio, and a leading attorney of Steubenville, was born on the 5th of February, 1862, near Richtnond, Ohio. Richmondr, William E. Kerr, was a farmer and a native of Jefferson CountY,. Ohio,' while his mother, Mary A. Stoneman, was born at Leesville, Carr011 County, iCarrollame State. Judge Kerr is - 506 - of Scotch-Irish blood. His early life was spent on the farm on which he was born, and his boyhood days were passed in the pursuits and pleasures natural to one in that position of life. In the schools of Richmond and at Richmond College Judge Kerr received his education, but he did not graduate from college, owing to the fact that necessity compelled hint to earn his living by his own unaided efforts. Careful study, however, more than made up for the loss of his collegiate course. He studied law while Deputy Clerk of the court he is now the Judge of and was admitted to the bar on October 8, 1891, and became engaged in the practice of his profession. During all his active life Judge Kerr has been a staunch Republican. He was elected Judge of the Probate Court of Jefferson County, Ohio, in November, 1899, and entered upon the duties of that office on the 9th of February, 1900, and again in 1902 he was nominated and elected to the same office, which term will expire on the 8th of February, 1906. Judge Kerr is identified with many secret organizations. He is a member of the K. of P., I. O. O. F., and a Mason of all branches and degrees except the thirty-third degree. The Protestant faith embraces his religious principles, and he attends and is a member of the Second Presbyterian Church, of Steubenville, Ohio. Charles F. Malsbary, Of Cincinnati, Judge of the Probate Court, of Hamilton County, was born in 1857 in this county, in which he has been identified with the legal profession all his active life. Of German-English extraction his early life was spent on the farm of his father, Mr. Job Malsbary, where he acquired the sound and healthy constiution which later in life was of incalculable value to him in his struggle for success. The first rudiments of his education were obtained in the public schools of his native district, and he later attended the High School of Clermont County. Desiring to receive a collegiate education, he matriculated at the National Normal College, at Lebanon, Ohio, graduating from that seat of learning with honors. He then entered the Cincinnati Law School and graduated from there with the - 507 - class of 1889. This marked the commencement of his career as an attorney, which has been a very successful one.. Judge Malsbary is a jurist of more than ordinary ability, thoroughly grounded in the knowledge and details of his profession, of pleasing personality, and of broad human sympathies. His name is a synonym for probaty, honesty and ability. In political life Judge Malsbary has always taken a keen and active interest in the affairs of the great Republican party, and has rendered that party many valuable services, particularly by his public addresses during many campaigns. His style of oratory is effective. His arguments are plain, direct and convincing, and he has the power of making a deep and lasting impression upon his audiences.. The first political office held by Judge Malsbary was as census enumerator in Clermont County, in 1880. Ten years later he occupied the same position in Hamilton County. In the fall of 1904, after the death of Judge Nippert, Charles F. Malsbary was appointed Judge of the Probate Court of Hamilton County, Ohio, which position he holds to the entire satisfaction of the people and added honor to himself. He is a member of the. Blaine Club and of the Stamina Republican League, in both of which organizations he is recognized as a leading spirit. Judge Malsbary resides at Rossmoyne, a pretty suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. Ulysses L. Marvin, LL. D., Of Akron, Ohio, Judge of the Circuit. Court of the Eighth Ohio Circuit, was born on the 14th of March, 1839, at Stow, Summit County, Ohio. His father, Ulysses Marvin, was a native of Connecticut and of English ancestry. The Marvins settled in Connecticut in the early part of the seventeenth century. Judge Marvin's mother was Elizabeth Bradley, whose ancestors were also among the early English settlers of Connecticut. Young Marvin received his education in the public schools in the neighborhood of his home, until at the age of 13 he was sent to the Twinsburg Academy, where he remained for some time pursuing academic studies. He then entered the Franklin Institute, in which his scholastic education was finished. At the age of i6 he commenced teaching in a country school, and in 1861 and 1862 was Superintendent of the common schools at Kent, Portage County, Ohio. While engaged in that occupation he took up the preliminary study of law under H. B. Foster, whose influence and instructions were most helpful. According to the family traditions,, the Marvin men have either been clergymen or lawyers for many generations. In compliance with the wish of his father, Judge Marvin determined to enter upon the study of law in earnest, and to equip himself for practice with as little delay as possible. With that object in view he entered the office of Edgerton & Sanders, the former of whom was afterwards appointed Governor of the Territory of Montana, and the latter elected the first United States .Senator upon the admission of that Territory to Statehood. On he 2nd of May, 186o, Judge Marvin was admitted to the bar at Canton, Ohio, and began practicing his profession in partnership with Mr. Sanders. Shortly afterwards, upon the - 508 - outbreak of the Civil War, his law preceptor entered the Union Army and young Marvin commenced teaching school at Kent. In August, 1862, Judge Marvin enlisted as a private in the One Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteers. In 1864 he was promoted to the rank of Captain, and in the spring of 1865 was breveted Major, his .commission reading "for gallant and meritorious service." He was severely wounded before Richmond. on the 29th of September, 1864. Judge Marvin participated in all the engagements of his division during the sieges of Richmond and Petersburg. At the close of the war, in 1865, he was appointed Judge Advocate of. the district of Newborn, North Carolina, and remained in that service until the 4th of October, 1.865, by which time civil government had b.een established. Upon being mustered out of service he at once returned to his native State and commenced the practice of law in Portage County. In the fall of 1867 he removed to Akron,. where he formed a partnership with J. J. Hall, which continued until 1869, when he was elected Probate Judge, serving six years. He then formed a partnership with Mr. Foster and Charles A. Grant, the firm being Foster, Marvin & Grant. In 1883 he withdrew from that firm, .having been- appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Upon retiring ..from the Common Pleas Bench he formed a partnership with Mr. F. M. Atterholt. Judge Marvin retired when he was elected to his present position as Judge of the Circuit Court of Ohio, in 1894. To that position he was again elected in 1900. In the same year Kenyon College conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL. D. Judge Marvin, when in practice, enjoyed a large and lucrative business, having been engaged in many important cases.' He is a lawyer of ability and orator of note ; he has delivered a number of addresses and. made many political speeches. In politics he has always been a Republican and. manifested commendable interest in political affairs, taking such active part as his law practice and judicial positions would permit. He is the Senior Warden of the Vestry of the St. Pauls Protestant Episcopal Church, at Akron, and is an active member of the Loyal Legion and the G. A. R. H. B. Maynard, Attorney at law at Washington Court House, Ohio, and ex-Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. of the second division, of the Fifth Judicial District of. Ohio, ranks among the foremost lawyers of Fayette County. He was born in Massachusetts, but grew up to manhood in New Hampshire. After having obtained a thorough education Judge Maynard took up the study of law, was admitted to the bar in Vermont, and took up his profession. In 1854 he came to Ohio and settled. in WaShington Court House, where he has. been continuously engaged in the prosecution of his chosen profession. Judge Maynard has always been an enthusiastic Republican and a willing worker in the ranks of his party, taking an active interest in State, Judicial, Congressional and County nominating conventions. He always was an efficient member of the local Executive Committees, as well as a speaker on the issues of the day. For many years Judge  - 509 - Maynard has held a place on the City Council and also on the School Board ,of Washington Court House. In 1868-69, he filled the position of Prosecuting Attorney of Fayette County. After the expiration of his term he took up the general practice of law, in which he was engaged with marked success until 1894, when he was appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas to fill a vacancy made by the death of Judge Gregg. In the fall of the same year Judge Mayard was elected to the same office by a majority of 2,300 over Arch Mayo, of Chillicothe. Judge Maynard is the father of five sons, Herbert, John P., Walter, .Augustus and Horatio. Willis Seymour Metcalfe, Of Chardon, Judge of the Common Pleas Court, was born on the 26th of October, 1853, in the city in which he resides.. His parents, Eben Metcalfe and Lovisa Chapin Metcalfe, were both natives of Enfield, Connecticut. The father was a carpenter by trade, who, after working in that capacity for a number of years, engaged in the lumber business in New York prior to 185o, but, meeting with financial reverses, he left that State and settled in Ohio. He was a descendent of Michael Metcalfe, who settled at Dedham, Massachusetts, in the first half of the Seventeenth Century. The mother of Judge Metcalfe was a descendent of Deacon Samuel Chapin, one of the first settlers of Springfield, Massachusetts. Receiving hiS early education in the public schools of. Chardon, Judge Metcalfe. later took up the study of the law, was admitted to the 'bar before the Supreme Court of Ohio on the 14th of April, 1878, and commenced the practice of his chosen profession, in which he has become pre-eminently successful. His career as a public official started when at the age of 37 years he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Geauga County, a position he held for three successive terms, from 1891 to 1900. On the 4th of January, 1901, he was appointed by Governor Nash Judge of the Common Pleas Court to succeed Judge D. W. Canfield, deceased. In November of the same year he was elected to the same position. In politics Judge Metcalfe has always been a staunch Republican, and he is recognized as a leader of his party in his part of the State. On the 7th of February, 1884, he was married to Hattie Morton, and by that union he is the father of one daughter, Garda Metcalfe. Judge Metcalfe and his family are members of the First Congregational Church, of Chardon. Socially, he is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the I. O. O. F. Jacob Kreider Mower, Deceased, late udge of the Court of Common Pleas, of the Second Subdivision of the Second Ohio District, with headquarters located at Springfield, Ohio, was a man who commanded the utmost respect of the members of the Clarke County bar and the people of his district in general, Judge Mower was of German ancestry and a native of - 510 - Pennsylvania, born in Franklin County, that State. His parents were George Mower, a farmer, and Mary Kreider, both natives of Pennsylvania. He received his education it the Massillon High School, the Ohio Wesleyan University and the Ohio University, from which educational institution he was graduated in 1876 with the, degrees" of A. B. and A. M. Starting in public life at the age of 18 years as a teacher, he followed that profession for a number of years, carefully saving his earnings to obtain the necessary funds for a higher education, deciding to become a lawyer, to which profession, after careful preparation, he was admitted in 1856. After his admission to the bar he practiced law with marked success until 1900, when he was appointed by Governor Nash to fill the unexpired term of the late Judge John C. Miller, after the expiration of which he was elected to the same position. Judge Mower was a strong follower of Republican principles, but opposed to all machine methods in politics, and in favor of but one term of office. In 1868 he was elected City Solicitor of Springfield ; he was a member of the Ohio Legislature in 187o, 1871, and during his incumbency of that office belonged to the standing committees on Municipal Corporations and Public Works. In 1872 he was elected a member of the Springfield Board Of Education, which position he held until 1877, occupying the chair in that body. Judge Mower was a natural orator, and possessed all the qualities that are bound to make a man successful in everything he undertakes. He had strong intellectual endowments, clear conceptions and great powers of logic and analysis. As a lawyer he possessed unusual abilities, and as a man he was kind-hearted, public-spirited and charitable. He had a host of admirers and friends. His demise in the spring of 1905 caused sincere grief in the community in which Judge Mower had labored faithfully during all his active life. Felix G. Slone, Judge of the Common Pleas Court, Wilmington, Ohio, was born on the 28th Of July, 1826, at Goshen, Clermont County, Ohio. His father, William Slone, was a native of Ohio, born on the 19th of March, 1801, near the ,city of Cincinnati. His mother was a native Kentuckian. Judge Slone's early education was gained in the old-time district school until he reached the age of 19 years, when he entered the Friend's School at Martinsville, where he remained the greater part of three years, teaching during the winter months and thereby earning sufficient to allow him to continue his studies in the summer. He taught school until the autumn of 1853, when, after having studied law, he was admitted to the bar and practiced his profession until the commencement of the Civil War. Enlisting in the Union Army, in 1861, as a private, he was mustered out in 1863 as Captain of the Seventieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, having during the time of his service gained three commissions, that of Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, and, as mentioned above, Captain, which - 511 - position he later resigned. Upon. his return he settled at Georgetown, remaining there one year, and from there he permanently settled at Wilmington,-his present home,. forming a law partnership with Captain F. Hildebrandt. The firm flourished for nine years, when Captain Hildebrandt retired and was Succeeded by Hon. Levi Mills, under the firm name of Slone & Mills. At the end of ,tivo :years Lewis J. Walker, took the place of Mr: Mills, the firm then beComing Sldne & Walker.. succeeding Years this fifth. was actively engaged in busineSs, when Mr. Walker retired and J. C. Martin became the partner under the firm name of Slone & Martin. This firm was dissolved on the 14th of April, 1903, when Mr. Slone was appointed one of the Judgesof the Common Pleas Court for the Third Sub-division of the Second Judicial-District of Ohio. He was nominated on the Republican ticket, in 1903, to fill the unexpired term of his predecessor, without opposition, and was elected. In April of the following year he again received the nomination, this time for the full term of five years, and in the coming election he was re-elected by an increased majority. Judge Slone married Catharine Hodson on the 24th of August, 1848, and was the father of six children, all of whom died in infancy. His wife died on the 23rd of August, 1900, and on the 1st of, May, 1904, Judge Slone was united in marriage to Anna Hopkins. The Judge is a member of the I. O. O. F., G. A. R. and Elks. Caleb H. Norris, Of Marion, Ohio, Judge for the Third District of Ohio, was born on the 29th-of September, 1850,. in Marion County, Ohio, the son of Daniel NOrris and. Rosanna French Norris, the former being a native of Ohio and the latter of Virginia, now West Virginia. Judge Norris has a life-long Democrat, and for eight years was Prosecuting. Attorney of Marion County. In January 1885 he was appointed Common Pleas judge of the Second Subdivision , Tenth District, embracing the. counties of Marion, Crawford and Wyandotte, by Governor George Hoadty. Subsequently he was elected for three terms to the Common Pleas Bench and served continuously until the 9th. - 512 - of February, 1897, when he being elected Circuit Judge, became the incumbent of that distinguished position. Judge Norris served in that branch of the. Judiciary of the State ever since, his term expiring on the 9th of February, 1909. Judge Norris is closely identified with many industrial and banking enterprises in his home county. He is Vice President of the Norris & Christian Lime & Stone Co., Of Marion ; member of the Board of Directors of The Central Ohio Loan & Trust Co., and The Marion Telephone Company, and he is also connected. with other bank and manufacturing industries in his home city. JAMES C. TOBIAS, Judge of the Common Pleas Court, ranks among the foremost members of the bar of Bucyrus, Ohio, and Crawford County. After obtaining a thorough education and collegiate training, he took up the study of the law and was admitted to practice, at the age of twenty-one years. Judge Tobias is a staunch Democrat, who has served his party and the people quite satisfactorily. For six years he was Probate Judge, and he is serving now his second term as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, being re-elected to his second term without opposition. While serving in these judicial offices, Judge Tobias also served for fifteen years as member of the Board of Education of the city of Bucyrus, ten successive years of which he acted as President of that body. CHARLES S. REED, Of Sandusky, Ohio, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, First Subdivision of the First Judicial District of Ohio, was born at North Fairfield, Huron County, Ohio, in the year 1862, being a son of Dr. D. H. Reed, an honored citizen of Huron County, and a member of the Ohio Legislature from 1892 to 1896. He was educated at Oberlin and Ohio Wesleya&iversity, and after reading lof in the office of Kerman & Kennan at Norwalk, Ohio, he took the- law course at the University-of Michigan, Ann. Arbor. In the fall of 1884 the young map went to Kansas and settled at Fredonia, at which place he was admitted to practice as an attorney after an examination before the District Court in May, 1885. Shortly afterwards he was - 513 - admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Kansas, and he was later admitted to practice in the United States -Circuit and District Courts and in the United States Court of Appeals. Mr. Reed practiced law in Fredonia until the spring of 1897, and was counsel for .two important railroads—the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the St. Louis & San Francisco, with headquarters at Topeka. During his residence in Kansas, Mr. Reed was twice elected Prosecuting Attorney of his home county, in 1888 and 1890, which office he filled with honor to himself and his constituents alike. In the year 1896 he was a candidate for the office of State Senator 'on the Republican ticket, and though in that year the entire ticket was defeated, he ran ahead of his ticket throughout the district. Family ties prompted Mr. Reed's return to .his native State in the spring of 1897, and in March of that year he located at Sandusky, associating himself with Hon. Grayson Mills, ex-Common Pleas Judge, the firm style being Mills & Reed. He rapidly won his way as a practitioner at the Erie County bar. He showed himself thoroughly versed in the law, a ready and skillftil cross-examiner, fluent and graceful as an advocate, and possessing the faculty of presenting his arguments in a lucid and forceful manner. As a criminal lawyer, Mr. Reed achieved much distinction. In the fall of 1899 a vacancy was created on the Common Pleas Bench by the resignation of Judge Linn' Hull to accept an appointment as Circuit Judge in succession to judge E. B. King, -resigned. The nomination belonged to Erie County, according to the unwritten laws of politiCs. Mr. Reed had been an active party worker, but being a new man in the county, he had not been drawn into the factional fights which at that time were disrupting the local Republican party. He had demonstrated his undoubted fitness for the position, and in looking for a Man upon whom all could unite, the Republican party picked him out as the. Strongest .candidate to present to the Judicial Convention which had to nominate for the remainder of the term of Judge Hull. On the 5th of October he was unanimously and enthusiastically endorsed at a convention of the Republicans of Erie County, and the following day the Judicial Convention which met in Sandusky nominated him. The same day Governor Bushnell commissioned him as judge to fill the office until election, and he at once assumed the duties of the office. The general sentiment upon Mr. Reed's nomination is best summed up in the following extract from an editorial article in the Sandusky Register, the local Republican organ, the day following his nomination: "Mr. Reed has all the qualifications to fill the place with credit to himself, the bench and the bar. He is a clean-handed, honorable gentleman, a lawyer of experience and education, possesses a judicial mind, and with him on the bench all parties, lawyers, jurors and litigants, will have fair and courteous treatment." The above statement and prediction were justified in every particular. From the time he assumed the judicial ermine Judge Reed achieved a degree of success that was almost Phenomenal, and he demonstrated his peculiar fitness for the bench in a manner that won for him the unbounded confidence of all who had business in his court and the people at large. Two years later Judge Reed was renominated without opposition for the full term. and he, was re-elected by a vote which gave him a substantial majority over others on the ticket. The success which characterized his first term on the bench has continued to mark his judicial career. He is an untiring worker, is quick to grasp and decide the many points which come up in a law suit, and is an .expeditious trial judge. He commands the complete confidence of the lawyers who practice before him, and his associates on the bench hold him in high esteem. His decisions have stood the test. of the higher courts in a manner that has been highly gratifying to the Judge's friends. - 514 - Throughout his career on the bench Judge Reed has sustained an unsullied reputation. His motives have never been questioned in the slightest degree, and his official record, as well as his spotless personal character, place him in the front rank of Ohio's distinguished jurists. Judge Reed is still a young man, brimful of energy and happy in the possession of the confidence of an increasing circle of friends, who predict for him still greater honors in the future. Judge Reed was married in 1887 to Miss Nellie Baughman, daughter of Samuel Baughman, of Fredonia, Kansas,: and with their faMily of three children they reside in a handsome home which Judge Reed purchased shortly after he settled in Sandusky. David Ladd Rockwell, Of Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio, enjoys the distinction of being the youngest Probate Judge in Ohio. He was born on .the 11th of August, 1877, at Akron, Ohio, the son of David L. Rockwell and Mary E. Metlin Rockwell. His father was a distinguished lawyer in the northeastern part of the State. Judge Rockwell obtained. a very careful education in the public and High Schools of Ravenna and the Western Reserve Academy, at Hudson, Ohio, graduating from this institution with the class of 1897, after which he entered Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, and studied law with his uncle, Mr. O. S. Rockwell, of Kent,. Ohio. judge Rockwell has always been a faithful adherent of the principles of the Democratic party, with which party he became identified in early life. In 1900, at the age of twenty. two; Judge Rockwell was elected Mayor of Kent. Notwithstanding his youth he served with such distinction that he Was re-elected to a second term, in 1902. In the fall of the same year Judge Rockwell was elected to the bench of the Probate Court of Portage County. As a proof of his popularity it may be mentioned that the city of Kent, as well as the county of Portage, are considered Republican strongholds. Judge Rockwell has served his party also as Chairman of the Democratic County Executive Committee, and as a member of the Democratic State Central Committees. Socially, he is a member of the college fraternity, Alpha Delta Phi, a Mason, Elk, I. O. O. F., K. of P., K. O. T. M., and others. He also is Vice President of the City Banking Company of Kent, director of the Seneca Chain Company, and director and Vice President of the Kent Industrial Company. His residence is located at Ravenna, Ohio. Charles P. Wickham, Attorney at law at Norwalk, Ohio, was born in Norwalk on the 15th of September, 1836, and has kept his residence there continuously to the present time. His father, Frederick Wickham, who was for a number of years editor and publisher" of a newspaper at Norwalk, was a native of New York State, and his ancestors were among the early English - 515 - settlers of New England. His mother, Mrs. Eliza B. Preston Wickham, was born in New Hampshire, also of English descent. Mr. Wickham's education was obtained in the Norwalk Academy and his father's printing office, until he was eighteen years of age. He then devoted all his time for two years to newspaper work. In 1856 he entered the Cincinnati Law School and graduated' in 1858. Returning to Norwalk, he was admitted to the bar, at once commenced practice, and remained alone until 1877. From 1867 to 1871 he was Prosecuting Attorney. His first partnership was with the Honorable Samuel A. Wildman, now Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. His partnership continued until the spring of 1881, when Mr. Wickham was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He served on the bench until 1886, when he resigned to become a candidate for Congress. He was elected that year and re-elected two years later, serving as a member. of the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses. At the expiration of his second term he resumed practice with his son, Louis W. Wickham, at Norwalk, which partnership is in existence at this time. On the 1st of January, 1897, he established an office in Sandusky, forming a partnership with W. E. Guerin, Jr. Judge Wickham's practice is general in its character, and is most extensive in scope, embracing all the courts and reaching into all the counties of Northern Ohio. Judge Wickham is a lawyer of great force, and possesses marked ability. As a trial lawyer he occupies first rank in his profession. Gentle and kind in his nature, honorable in his dealings, he is greatly beloved by his friends, and enjoys the respect and confidence of the profession; as well as the people of his native town and county. In September, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Fifty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and was mustered out of service in 1865, at the close of the Civil War, as Lieutenant Colonel of the same regiment. For a time he was attached to the Army of the Potomac, and was engaged in many of its most heated battles. He was afterwards with the Army of the Cumberland, and later with Sherman in Georgia, and with him also in his March to the Sea and northward in the Carolina campaigns. While Major he was breveted Lieutenant Colonel by President Lincoln, his commission reading "for gallant and meritorious service in the Carolinas. In 1860 Judge Wickham married Emma J. Wildman, a sister of. Judge Wildman, his old partner, and by this union nine children have been born, six of whom are living, four sons and two daughters. Boston Grimm Young, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas at Marion, Ohio; was born on the 2d of February, 1850, in Washington County, Pennsylvania. His father, Steward Young, a farmer, emigrated from Ireland to this country at an early age, while his mother, Aurila Ward Young, was a native of New York State. The mother's ancestors were English; and came over to - 516 - this country several generations age. Judge Young's parents removed to Washington County, Illinois, and later to Iroquois County, that State, when their son was four years of age. Judge Young. obtained his education in the public schools of Illinois, at the Grand Prairie Seminary and at the Ohio Wesleyan University. He studied law under the preceptorship of the now Supreme Justice Davis, at Marion, and was admitted to the bar in 1877. Starting in public life at .the age of eighteen, he taught school for several terms, and after being admitted to the bar opened an office to practice his profession and later formed a partnership with J. C. Johnson, which continued for more than eight years. Subsequently, for two years, he was associated with Grant H. Mouser, present member of Congress. Judge Young is a charter member of the Marion Manufacturing Company, and has been a director of that institution for the past nine years. In political belief, the Judge is a staunch adherent of Democratic principles, and he has served his party in many capacities, on the stump as well as in the councils. In 1877 he was elected to the office of Prosecuting Attorney of Marion County, holding that position for two terms. During the sessions of the Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth General Assemblies, Judge Young was a member of the lower House of that body, serving with distinction and ability. He was elected to his first term in the Legislature in the fall of 1883. In 1899 he was elected to his present position of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. During his first term he served in such a satisfactory manner, that he was re-elected to a second term in the fall of 1904. In 1888, Judge Young was nominated by his party for Secretary of State, and in 1894 for Congress, but both times he was defeated with the rest of the Democratic ticket. Socially, the judge is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the Elks. During his incumbency of the legislative office, he secured-the passage of a bill "To provide that all liens upon realty should be taxed, as an interest in the realty should be released from taxation to the extent of the .indebtedness secured by liens upon it." Judge Young was married on the 15th of November, 1882, and he is the father of one son and one daughter. Roy L. Wildermuth, judge of Columbus, was born at New Lexington, Perry County, Ohio, on the 15th of February, 1876. He resided there until 1882, when he removed with his parents to Lancaster, Ohio. In 1889 his parents removed to Columbus, where he has resided since that time. He is a son of LaFayette Wildermuth, formerly of Fairfield County, Ohio, and Sarah E. Webster, of Chester, Pennsylvania. His early education was received in the public schools, and later at the Ohio State University, where he graduated in the year 1899. During the latter part of his University - 517 - course he was a law student in the office of Judge Thomas J. Duncan. He was admitted to the bar in 1899, and began the practice soon afterward. In 1901 he was appointed Assistant City Solicitor, and held that Office for two years. In 1903 he was nominated for the Police Judgeship, and was elected by the largest majority ever given a Democrat in a city election, running nearly 6,000 votes ahead of the head of the ticket. Judge Wildermuth is a Democrat in politics, and has several times served on the Executive Committees of the party. He is a man who places duty above party prejudice, and owes his success to the independent voters of the city. James B. Swing, Judge of the Common Pleas Court of the First District of Ohio, and one of the foremost members of the legal profession of Cincinnati, was born cn .the 15th of May, 1854, in Batavia, Clermont County, Ohio. His father was George Light -S Wing, and his mother Elizabeth Naylor Swing, and he comes from the illustrious family of Swings whose members have filled the bench of the Ohio and United States Courts for several generations. After going through the public schools of his native village, young Swii g entered Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana,. from where he graduated with honor. He at once began the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1877, opening an office in Batavia, and soon advancing to a 'leading position. That this position Was recognized was proven in 1881, when he received the Republican nomination to the position of Judge of the Probate Court, and was triumphantly elected. So satisfactorily did he serve the people of Clermont County during his incumbency that he was renominated and re-elected. At. the expiration of his second term of office, Judge Swing came to Cincinnati and formed "a partnership with Judge Howard Ferris, which partnership was `continued until Judge Ferris was chosen Probate Judge" of Hamilton County. Judge Swing then became associated with Mr. Frank R. Morse, a lawyer of high standing. In the fall of 1903, Judge Swing was nominated by the Republicans of Hamilton County to the - 518 - important office of Judge of the Common Pleas Court, and was elected by a tremendous majority. He is a faithful Republican, a man who has served his party often and comunity. He was one of the delegates to the National Republican Convention at Chicago which nominated President Harrison. Judge Swing's abilities and experience as .a lawyer and jurist are acknowledged, varied and extensive. As a general practitioner his success has been uniform. Personally, he is quiet and unassuming, and retains the' friendship of all those with whom he comes in contact. LaForrest R. Andrews, Attorney at law at Ironton, and one of the leading members of the bar of Lawrence County, was born on the 18th of September, 1865, in the county in which he has practiced since his admission to the bar in the year of 1893. His father, Lee Andrews, an engineer, was a native of the State of New Hampshire, while his mother, Delila Davidson Andrews; was born in Lawrence County. Attorney Andrews comes from good New England Stock, one of, his ancestors, Major Isaac Andrews, taking a prominent part in the American struggle for Independence, having served in Washington's army and being pro moted to the rank of Major for heroism shown on the field of battle. Mr. La Forrest R. Andrews was educated in the common schools of his home county, after which he .attended the Valparaiso (Indiana) Normal School, from which institution he graduated in the year of 1883. Later he studied law in the office. of Mr. John O. Yates, at Ironton, and he was, as mentioned abOve,, admitted to prac- tice before the Supreme Court of Ohio in 1893. immediately after his admission to practice he opened an office for himself, and since that time he has been pre-eminently successful. He is a lawyer of recognized ability, and he enjoys the esteem of a large clientage and of his fellow practitioners. In the fall of 1899, Mr. Andrews was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Lawrence County. He served one term, after the expiration of which he resumed the practice of his profession. Before his election to the office of Prosecuting Attorney he had served for one year as a Trustee in Bankruptcy. He is married since 1899, and is the father of one son. His offices are located at Fourth and Center Streets in the city of Ironton, Ohio. Mr. Andrews is a prominent member of the Elks, in which order he has a multitude of friends. Frank M. Atterholt, Of Akron, Ohio, one of the foremost attorneys of the northeastern part of Ohio, and recognized as an able and most successful promoter of large corporations and industrial enterprises, was born on the 19th of December, 1848, near New Lisbon, Columbiana County, Ohio. Mr. Atterholt was educated at the New Lisbon public arid High Schools, the National - 519 - Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and at Mt. Union College, from which institution he graduated in 1870. For many years he was a prominent teacher in the public schools of the State, and for a time was editor of the Columbiana Register. In 1879 he went to Akron, where he commenced the study of law in the office of Upson, Ford & Baird, and was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of Ohio on the 5th of October, 1880, entering into partnership with Judge U. L. Marvin, at the present time. Judge of the Circuit Court. He remained with Judge Marvin for a number of years, and later practiced under his own name. Mr. Atterholt is a man of commanding appearance, of affable manners, brilliant conceptions and wonderful executive ability. In politics he is a staunch Republican. He was formerly a member of the Board of Education and the City Board of School Examiners, and a trustee of Mt. Union College. He also was a Republican State Central Committeeman and Chairman of the County Executive Committee, and is a member of the Board of Trade. Mr. Atterholt has promoted many great enterprises, and is officially interested in a number of the most extensive business interests of the country. His wife, a former Miss Mary E. Baird, of Columbiana, Ohio, was one of the most talented and accomplished young ladies of that county. The wedding occurred on the 21st of December, 1872. Mr. Atterholt resides in an attractive home on East Market Street, Akron, Ohio. Henry Baer, Attorney at law at Cincinnati, Ohio, ranks among the best-known members of the Hamilton County bar. He is a son of the Queen City, born on the 29th of November, 1857, the son of Henry and Barbara (Humbert) Baer. His father, a native of Hessen, Germany, had emigrated to the United States about 1850. His mother was born in Bavaria. Young Baer enjoyed- the advantages of a thorough education in the schools of Cincinnati, after which he attended the well-known Cincinnati Law School, from which institution he graduated with the class of 1878, receiving the degree of L.B. He immediately opened an office and became engaged in the practice of his profession, in which he has obtained a high standing. Mr. Baer is a conscientious lawyer, of sound common sense and good judgment. He not only possesses the confidence of his clients, but also the esteem of his fellow practitioners. Mr. Baer is a faithful follower of Republican principles. He has served for two years as a member of the Board of Legislation of the city of Cincinnati. Socially, Mr. Baer is an Odd Fellow ; he also belongs to the Blaine Club, Cincinnati's crack political association, and is the attorney for the Helvetia Savings and Banking Company. In 1882 Mr. Baer was united in marriage with Catharine R. Tucker. Five children, two boys and three girls, have been the issue of their union. Mr. Baer lives with his family at No. 524 West Seventh Street. His offices are located in the Hulbert Block, Sixth and Vine Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio. - 520 - Charles Baird, Attorney at law at Akron, Ohio, was born in that city on the 25th of March, 1853, of Scotch parents. His father, Robert Baird, a blacksmith by trade, was born in the parish of Kineff, Kincardineshire, Scotland, and came to this country in 1843, settling in Akron. His mother, Helen Knox Moir, was born in Brechin, Forfarshire, Scotland. She came to Akron in 1846, where she was married to Robert Baird. Young Baird received his early education in the public schools of his native town. Passing through all the grades, he was graduated from the High School in 1872. He afterwards took a course in Latin and Greek at Buchtel College. On the 20th of June, 1888, the Board of Trustees of Buchtel College conferred upon Mr. Baird the honorary degree of Master of Arts. In August, 1873, Mr. Baird entered the office of UpSon & Ford and began the study of law, and on the 2d of November, 1875, was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of Ohio, at Columbus. Returning to Akron, he immediately formed a partnership with Hon. W. H. Upson, one of his preceptors, the firm of Upson & Ford having been dissolved and -Mr. Ford having left for an eighteen months' trip through Mexico. The partnership continued until Mr. Ford's return, when the firm became Upson, Ford & Baird. In March, 1883, this partnershiu was dissolved upon the appointment of Judge Upson to the office of Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. Mr. Baird continued in practice alone, Mr. Ford retiring- from practice. He was at this time Prosecuting Attorney of Summit County, having been elected first in 1880 and re-elected in 1882 for a three years' term, serving five years altogether. In 1891 he formed a partnership with E. F. Voris under the firm name of Baird & Voris. This firm was dissolved in 1895, since which time he has practiced alone. Mr. Baird has from the time of his admission to the bar been most active in the profession, enjoying a large practice of a general character. He is a lawyer of exceptional ability, and has long been recognized by the bar of Akron as one of its leaders. In recent years his practice has developed into an extensive corporation business. He has assisted in the organization of business corporations, among them the Diamond Match Company, the Portage Straw Board Company, the American Straw Board Company, the Goodrich Hard Rubber Company, American Hard Rubber Company, the National Sewer Pipe Company, American Sewer Pipe Company, of which he was the first President ; the Stirling Company, the Barberton Belt Line Company, the Neracher & Hill Sprinkler Company, at Warren ; General Fire Extinguisher Company of New York ; the National Coal Company, of which he is now President, and many others. In politics, Mr. Baird has always been a Republican, and in the early years of his practice took an active and lively interest in party affairs, but in recent years he has devoted all his time to the practice of his profession and the management of his extensive buSiness interests. On the loth of February, 1882, he married Lucy Allyn Voris, a daughter of General A. C. Voris, of Akron. Edward M. Ballard, A leading lawyer of Cincinnati, was born at Lexington, Missouri, on the 6th of February, 1872. Both parents were natives of this country, his father, Patrick Ballard, coming from West Virginia, and his mother, Cynthia (McClure) Ballard, being a resident of Ohio. The Ballard ancestry can be traced back in this country to the Revolutionary War, and the name is found on the roster of General Washington's army. Edward M. Ballard received his early education in the public schools of Delphi, Indiana, and is a graduate of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, from which institution he received his degree in June, 1891. Deciding to make the practice of law his profession, he entered the Cincinnati Law - 521 - School and took the complete course, graduating in May, 1893. He immediately commenced the practice of law after his matriculation, being then but twenty-one years of age, and has continued in that profession up to the present time. He is a firm believer in the principles of the Republican party, and took an active part in the National campaigns of 1896 and 1900. He is a fluent and forcible orator, and made many speeches during that time, many of which attracted considerable notice for their elegance of diction and peculiUniversitylness. For two years, from 1896 to 1900, he filled the position of Second Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of Hamilton County. He is a thirty-second-degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a Noble of Mystic Shrine, a member of Sons of Revolution ; Blaine Club, of which he is a director ; Stamina Republican League, and the Cincinnati Gymnasium. Mr. Ballrd resides at No. 236 McCormick Place, and has. offices at 603-605 Johnston Building, CincpositionOhio.  Scott Bonham, Attorney at law at Cincinnati, enjoys the distinction of being well and favorably known all over the State of Ohio. He is a native Ohioan, being born on the 25th of January, 1858, in Midway, Madison County. His parents, William J. and Letitia Hays Bonham, were natives of Fayette County, Ohio. The Bonhams are descendants from old Scotch-Irish stock, and the family has been in the United States for many generations. Mr. Bonham was educated in the village schools of Midway, in the Bloomingburg Institute, and at the Wesleyan UniverSity at Delaware; Ohio, from which institution of learning he graduated in 1882, receiving the degree of A.B. When but fifteen years of age, Mr. Bonham entered into the teaching profession, in which he remained for a period of four years. During this time he carefully husbanded his resources, and thereby paid his way through college. Immediately after his graduation he was made Principal of Schools at West Unity, Ohio, filling that pbsition during the years of 1882 and 1883. Possessing a natural aptitude for the profession of law, he decided to take up a course of legal studies, and consequently - 522 - entered the University of Virginia, where he studied for a period, after which he attended the Cincinnati Law School, graduating with the class of 1885, in which year the honorary degree of LL.D. was awarded him. During his term of studies in the Cincinnati Law School Mr. Bonham distinguished himself as an orator and debater.. He was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of Ohio on the 28th of May, 1885, and immediately opened an office at Cincinnati. In 1893. he was admitted to practice before the United States Courts. Since the commencement of his career as.an attorney, Mr. Bonham has always been regarded as a man of splendid attainments, capable of handling the most intricate cases, and one who has always been successful in his endeavors. He is a brilliant speaker, forceful and convincing in his arguments. A Republican all his active life, Mr. Bonham has taken a leading part in the political history of Ohio, and particularly in the city in which he resides, and has served his party as a delegate to .conventions, as well as a member of important committees. For three successive terms he was a member of the Cincinnati Board of Legilation, in which body his .services were acceptable in every way. During his third term of office he was President of the Board. Mr. Bonham is closely identified with the political clubs of the State ; he is a' member of. the Young Men's Blaine Club, and was for two terms President of the Republican League of Ohio, a consolidation of the most important Republican clubs of the Buckeye State. Mr. Bonham's offices are located in the Lincoln Inn Court, Cincinnati, Ohio. Jesse M. Brandt, Attorney at law at Cincinnati, and Justice of the Peace in the same city, was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, on the Toth of September, 1869. He is of German descent, his father being Mr. J. R. Brandt, a contractor and builder. Young Brandt was -educated in the public schools of Fairfield County and at the Ohio State University at Columbus. He subsequently took up the study of law at the Cincinnati Law School, from which institution he graduated in 1896, receiving a prize of $50 for the best oration. He was admitted to the bar in the same year, and immediately took up the practice of his profession, in which he has become eminently successful. Mr. Brandt is a lawyer of extraordinary ability, well grounded in all the questions pertaining to his profession. He is a Republican who has always taken an active interest in the affairs of his party. He was Secretary of the Republican Executive and Central Committees of his home county, and in the years of 1891 to 1893 served as a Township Clerk. He was elected Justice of the Peace in Hamilton County in the April election of 1900, and was re-elected fot a second term in 1963. Mr. Brandt has always' been a conscientious and painstaking official, and com- mands the respect of all the members of the Hamilton County bar, irrespective of party affiliations. Mr. Brandt is a member of the Blaine Club and of the Stamina Republican League. - 523 - George K. Browning, An eminent attorney of Zanesville, Ohio, was born on his father's farm in Hopewell Township, Muskingum County, on the 26th of March, 1860. His parents, James and Elizabeth Sheppard Browning, were natives of Virginia and descendants from the early settlers of that State. In 1856, the father brought his family to Ohio, settling on a farm in Muskingum County. Mr. George K. Browning, while working on his father's farm, attended the public schools when the opportunity presented itself, and thereby prepared himself to enter the Muskingum College at New Concord. His date of matriculation was in 1884, and he graduated from that seat of learning three years later, when he commenced the study of law with John W. King, of Zanesville, Ohio. Desiring to complete his legal studies, he entered the law department of Ann Arbor University, of Michigan, and graduated with the degree of L. B., in 1891. Returning to Zanesville, he read law for another year, was admitted to the bar, and at once commenced the practice of the profession in which he has made a name. In 1893 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Muskingum County, and during his incumbency handled many important cases to the satisfaction of his people. He was re-elected in 1896, serving until 1900, when he resumed the general practice of law, and became a partner of Judge King, founding the firm of King & Browning. This firm remained in existence until the death of Judge King, in 1903, when Mr. Browning took as a partner the son of the late Judge, the firm name becoming Browning & King. A Republican since twenty-two years of age, Mr. Browning has been ever active in politics, and has rendered his party signal services. He was Chairman of the Judicial Committee of the First Subdivision of the Eighth Common Pleas District for two years, and at the present writing is a member of that important body ; during the years of 1903-1904 he was Chairman of the Republican Central Committee, and in 1900-1901 he served as Chairman of the Executive Committee of Muskingum County. In 1904, Mr. Browning was a prominent candidate for Congress, and at the Republican Congressional Convention of his district would have received the nomination but for the petty jealousy of a former Congressman from the same district. On the 12th of March, 1896, Mr. Browning was united in marriage to Miss Helen M. Lewis, daughter of Henry Lewis, of Lansing, Michigan. He suffered the loss of his wife in July, 1903. Mr. Browning is a man who retains the friendship and esteem of all his fellow men who know him and appreciate his worth and ability. As a lawyer his reputation is established, and it is expected of him, that his future will be one of usefulness and success. John Eldridge Bruce, Of Cincinnati, Ohio, ranks among the foremost members of the bar of Hamilton County, Ohio. He was born in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, on the 1st of October, 1856. His parents were natives of the United States, the family's name being recorded in the history of this country for six generations. On his father's - 524 -