side the family originally came from Scotland, and on his mother's from England. Mr. Bruce received his education at the Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio, graduating from that institution in 1876. After leaving college he taught school for two years, at the same time studying law with E. P. Bradstreet. He came to Cincinnati in September, 1879, where he finished his legal training. Being admitted to the bar in May, 1879, he immediately opened an office, associating himself with Judge H. C. Whitman, later forming a partnership with E. P. Bradstreet, and afterward becoming a member of the firm of Bramwell & Bruce. Mr. Bruce is recognized as one of the leading corporation lawyers in the State, and is connected with many business corporations as director, Secretary or Treasurer. He is a director of the well-known firm, The J. A. Fay & Egan Co., of Cincinnati. In political belief, Mr. Bruce is a staunch Democrat, and during both of President Cleveland's terms was Assistant United States Attorney. In 1883 he was elected to the State Legislature, serving one term of office. He also was a member of the Council of College Hill, in which village he for the last thirteen years has held the honorable position of Mayor. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, a Shriner and Knight Templar ; of the college fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta ; the Business Men's Club, and Duckworth Club, in which latter celebrated organization he occupied the office of Vice President for a number of years. Mr. Bruce is President of the Mercantile Library. On the 12th of December, 1883, he was married to Miss Alice S. Knowlton, and by that union he is the father of one son and one daughter. His law office is located in the Mascnic Temple, Cincinnati, and his residence, in College Hill. Robert Allen Calvert, Attorney at law at Portsmouth, Ohio, is one of the best-known members of the Scioto County bar. He is of English extraction, his parents being of the good and sturdy stock that has contributed so much to the civilization and energy of American life. His father, Mr. George Washington Calvert, a native of Fairfax County, Virginia, was born near the site of the Bull Run Battlefield, in 1805, and came to Ohio in 1812 with his mother and two brothers, where they located oh a farm in Scioto County. The mother of Robert Allen Calvert, Mrs. Emma (Hoskinson) Calvert, was a daughter of a soldier in the War of the Revolution. Mr. R. A. Calvert was born on the 17th of June, 1837, on a farm in Scioto County. He spent his early youth on the farm, and received the rudiments of an education in the common schools of the county, but, more fortunate than most boys reared on a farm, he subsequently had the advantages of an education more extended than than acquired at the district schools. After a course in these schools Mr. Calvert entered Wittenberg College, at Springfield, Ohio, from which institution he graduated. He then entered actively into business life. For four years he - 525 - was engaged in the grocery business with his brother, Frank W.; he then became the sole owner of the store and continued in the business for three years more. He finally took Up the study of law in the office of the late John W. Collings, at Portsmouth, Ohio. Being admitted to the bar in West Union, Ohio, on October 8, 1868, Mr. Calvert immediately started into the general practice of law, in which he achieved a high standing. In 1872 Mr. Calvert was elected Probate Judge of Scioto County on the Republican ticket, and re-elected in 1875, serving in all six years. After the close of his second term Judge Cal. vert resumed the practice of his chosen profession. Judge Calvert is a man of conservative temperament, considerate judgment and affable manners and stands high in the esteem of his fellow practitioners. He is a Republican who has always' taken an active part in the affairs of his, party. Newton Chalker, Of Southington, Trumbull County, Ohio, whose picture, at the age of 66, accompanies this article, is another example of that large class of successful men in America who began life in the most limited circumstances, and struggled against poverty in acquiring an education, and, by self-reliance and energy, ultimately achieved wealth, influence and independence. He is the third son of James Jr. and Eliza Hyde Chalker, and was born in Southington, Trumbull County, Ohio, September 12, 1842. The early years of his life .were passed on his father's farm in his .native township assisting in the farm work, except when attending the short winter and summer terms of the country public school of the district in which he lived. At the age of 14 years he began to attend the Western Reserve Seminary, at West Farmington, Ohio. At the age of 16, after an attendance of three and one-half terms at that institution he begin teaching the winter term of nearby country schools, teaching,in the townships of Graceville; Southington and Champion in his native county, and in Parkman, in Geauga County, and also in the township of Litchfield, in the State of Michigan. In the spring of the year 1862 he quit school and enlisted in Company B, Eighty-seventh Regiment, in our late war against disunion and slavery. He was in the battle of Harper's Ferry, Virginia, which began on the 13th and terminated on the 15th of September, of that year. In that battle the Union forces numbered .15,000, and were under command of Coloned Dixon S. Miles. The Rebel forces were under command of General "Stonewall." Jackson, and numbered three times as many. After three days hard fighting the Union forces surrendered and 13,500 of them were taken prisoners, the others being cavalrymen, made their escape. These prisoners were soon paroled and sent back North. Later in the same year, by reason of the expiration of the term of enlistment, this regiment was mustered out of service and Mr. Chalker returned to his home. In the spring of 1863 - 526 - Mr. Chalker entered Allegheny College, at Meadville, . Pennsylvania, and the therefrom in June, 1866, receiving the. degree of Bachelor of Arts, and later the degree of Master of Arts. The. year 1866-1867 he was Principal of Dixon Seminary, at Dixon, Illinois, and the following year he was Superintendent of the public schools at Darlington, Wisconsin. In September, 1868, he entered the law school at Albany, New York, and graduated therefrom the following year and was admitted to practice at the bar of that State. After passing a few months in a law office in New York City he located in Cameron, Missouri, and there began the practice of his profession in the autumn of 1869. He remained in Cameron nearly five years, but not realizing his expectation which he had entertained of the West, he returned, in 1874., to Ohio, and on the 14th day of August, of that year, he located in the city of Akron, in that State, and there resumed the practice of his profession. In addition to his profession Mr. Chalker engaged in various other branches of business. For. a time he owned and managed a farm in his native township ; he was a charter member, and, for a long time, a director of the People's Savings Bank, of Akron ; he was also a charter member of the Savings Banks of Barberton, Ohio. He has also dealt quite extensively in real estate, purchasing various tracts in Akron,. subdividing them into residence lots, building dwelling houses on many of them and selling out to individual purchasers ; also making extensive purchases in the Island of Cuba. In the year 1893 Mr. Chalker practically retired from the practice of law and his other .business, and devoted several years thereafter to travel, visiting nearly every State and Territory of his own country, also Canada and. Mexico. In June, .1895, he started on a tour abroad and visited the chief places of interest in Ireland, Scotland; France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Palestine, Egypt, India, Birmah, Malay, China, Japan and the Sandwich Islands, making a complete tour aroun d the world in one year. In politics Mr. Chalker is a Republican. He has been Commander of Buckley Post, Grand Army of the Republic, with headquarters at Akron. Ohio. James Harlan Cleveland, Attorney at law, at Cincinnati, Ohio, is among the best known members of the Hamilton County bar. He is a native of the. State of Kentucky, a son of Francis L. and Laura Harlan Cleveland, and was born in the Capital City of the Bluegrass State on the 21st of January, 1865, Mr. Cleveland received his early education in the schools of his home city, after which he attended Princeton College, New Jersey, graduating with the class of 1885. After his graduation he immediately went to Europe and matriculated at the University at Berlin, Germany, where he followed his studies for one year: Returning to his native land, he became a student in the Columbian Law School, at Washington, D. C., from which institution he graduated in 1888. On the 29th of February, of that year, he was appointed Assistant District Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, from which position he - 527 - resigned on the 3d of November, 1889, forming. a law partnership with Hon. C. B. Matthews, under the firm name of Matthews & Cleveland. On the 28th of March, 1894, he was commissioned United States District Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, and after the expiration of his term of office, having served with distinction, he again took up the general practice of law and achieved a high standing. Politically, Mr.. Cleveland is one of the pillars of Democracy in Southern Ohio, and he has served his party often 'and faith. fully. He was a delegate to numerous party conventions, and in July, 1904, represented his party in St. Louis at the Democratic National Convention. He is a member and ex-President of the famous Duckworth Club, of Cincinnati, as well as of several social organizations. As a lawyer he stands high in the esteem of his fellow practitioners, and in all his career he has never done one act which a possible enemy might use against him. Mr.' Cleveland Was married in Washington, D. C., on the 5th of June, 1888, to Miss Grace Matthews, daughter of the late Stanley Matthews, Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Benjamin Rush Cowen, Clerk of the United States District and Circuit Court, for the Southern District of Ohio, was born in Morrfield, Harrison County, Ohio, on the 15th of AuguSt, 1831. His father, Benjamin Sprague Cowen, was for many years presiding Judge of the. Court of Common Pleas, and was elected to Congress in 1840. General Cowen spent his boyhood, and< until he was 26 years of age, in St. Clairsville, Ohio, where, in the classical institute of that place, he obtained his education. He served an apprenticeship at the printing business, and worked at that business, and, at the same time, pursued a regular course in the study of medicine. From 1848 to 1857 he was the editor and proprietor of the "Belmont Chronicle," a weekly papers published at St. Clairsville. For three years after that period he was engaged in mercantile and real estate business at Bellaire, Ohio. In 1860 he was elected Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives, and in October, 1861, he was elected Secretary of State, of Ohio, on the ticket with Governor Tod. This position he resigned in May 1862, and went to the field. Besides serving as Chief Clerk in 1866 and 1861, he was Engineer-in-Chief on the staff of Governor Dennison, with the rank of Colonel. In April, 1861, on the breaking out of the Civil War, he enlisted in the Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Regiment for three months' service, and in May, of that year, was appointed First Lieutenant and assigned to duty as Assistant Commissary of Subsistence. In June; of the same year, he was appointed additional paymaster in the army by President Lincoln. General Cowen served in that capacity in the Army of the Potomac, in the Shenandoah and Kanawha Valleys, and elsewhere in West Virgina, until January, 1864, when he took a leave of absence without pay, and was appointed Adjutant General of Ohio by Governor Brough, filling that office during the terms of Governors Brough, - 528 - Anderson and Cox, and until January, 1868. In 1865 he was breveted Brigadier General of volunteers by President Johnson for organizing and sending out the "hundred-days men" of Ohio. General Cowen is a staunch Republican. His first entrance into politics was an an anti-slavery Whig, and he edited a newspaper for four years before he became a voter. His first vote was cast for the last Whig candidate for the Presidency, General Winfield Scott, and he voted for the first Republican candidate, John C. Fremont, and for all succeeding Republican candidates. General Cowen was a delegate. to the National Republican Conventions of 1856 and 1868, and was Secretary of the latter. He was Chairman of the State Republican Executive Commitee in 1865, 1866 and 1867, and a member of the National Republican Committee from 1866 to 1876. In 1867 he was a candidate for the nomination for Governor, and was defeated in the convention by General Hayes by ten votes only on the last ballot. He was then tendered the nomination for Lieutenant Governor by the same convention, but declined it. General Cowen was appointed Supervisior of Internal Revenue for the District of California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah in 1869, and transferred thence to the Southern District of Ohio in 187o. From 1871 to 1877 he was Assistant Secretary of the Interior Department under President Grant. In 1871 he was appointed Commissioner to appraise the lands in the Indian Territory, west of the ninety-sixth meridian, and in 1872 he was a Commissioner to visit Sitting Bull's Indians in Montana. In 1873 General Cowen was a Commissioner to survey and appraise certain Indian reservations in California, and in September, 1874, he was a commissioner, associated with the late Admiral Rodgers, to investigate and report on the race troubles in New Orleans, and wrote the report of that commission afterwards, and in March and April, 1875, he was Commissioner to investigate 'the Mormon troubles in Utah. In 188o General Cowen returned to the newspaper business, becoming editor of the "Ohio State Journal," at Columbus, and served in that capacity till November, 1884, when he was appointed Clerk of. the United States District and Circuit Courts of the Southern District of Ohio, which positicn he still holds. General Cowen stands high in the esteem of is fellow citizens. He is a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Loyal Legion, of the Fred Jones Post, G. A. R., and of the Cincinnati Literary Club. In 1876 he declined an election as Commander of the G. A. R. of Ohio. Jerome D. Creed, Of Cincinnati, attorney at law, was born in the Queen City on the 9th of September, 1854. He is the son of D. K. and Mary Ring Creed, and received a very careful education, attending the public schools of Cincinnati, as well as St. Xavier College, and taking a special business course at Nelson's Business College, of Cincinnati, where he became an expert bookkeeper. The business of bookkeeping, however, did not harmonize with the aspirations of Mr. Creed, consequently he began the study of law, entering the office of J. G. and H. Douglas. Hon. Alexander Long was later his preceptor in his chosen profession, and - 529 - from him particularly he gathered sufficient knowledge to warrant him in opening an office under his own name after his admission to the bar before the Supreme Court of Ohio in the spring of 1880. From that time Mr. Creed has constantly been engaged in his profession, and has gained as clients the leading business men of the city, as well as large corporations. He has a wide experience in the settlement of estates, and has engaged in num erous 'extensive litigations. His professional knowledge has been devoted particularly to commercial and real estate law, and he has acquired a reputation in tax cases in which he has been exceptionally successful. The records of the courts repeatedly !bear his name as assignee and receiver. In politics Mr. Creed is a Democrat, and has been elected by his party to the office of Mayor of the village of Mt. Airy, in which community he has also acted as Councilman and member of the School Board. Mr. Creed is a member of the St. Xavier's Alumni Association. His office is located in the Allen Building, corner Fifth and Main Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio. D. R. Crissinger, Of Marion, Ohio, an attorney of more than local fame and a Democrat who is a leader in his party's councils, was born on the 10th day of December, 1860, in Tully Township, Marion County, Ohio. He is of Dutch-German ancestry, his father's people having come across the ocean from Holland in 1775, taking part in George Washington's memorial campaign at Valley Forge during the Revolutionary War. Mr. Crissinger's father, John Crissinger, a. native of Ohio, was a well known lumber dealer ; his mother, Margaret Ganshorn, came from the famous old university town, Heidelberg. Mr. Crissinger received a careful training in the public schools of Caledonia, Ohio, at Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, and at the Cincinnati Law-School, from which institution he graduated, and was admitted to the bar at the age of 26 years. Immediately after his admission to the bar he commenced the practice of his profession, becoming associated with the Hon. W. Z. Davis, now Chief Justice of the State of Ohio, under the firm name of Davis & Crissinger. This partnership continued until he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Marion County, to which office he was re-elected. Completing his second term as Prosecutor he was elected City Solicitor of Marion, and during his third term as such formed a partnership with Hon. John A. Wolford under the firm name of Wolford & Crissinger. This partnership lasted until- the death of Mr. Wolford in the fall of 1898. In the spring of 190o. he formed the present law partnership with Hon. Fred E: Guthery, as Crissinger & Guthery, which has become one of the foremost law firms in Central Ohio. In 1904 Mr. Crissinger received the nomination for Congress on the Democratic ticket in the Thirteenth Ohio District, but owing to the National Republican landslide was defeated by a small majority, although he run many hundred ahead cf his own ticket. This - 530 - defeat was no reflection upon his popularity, but rather a tribute to President Roosevelt. In 1905 he was appoiachievementer of the State Bar Examiners' Committee for the term of five years. Socially, Mr. Crissinger is a Mason, an Elk, a K. of P. and a Shriner. Mr. Crissinger is a married man, and the father of one daughter. Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney at law at Columbus, Ohio. It is not an easy matter to condense the story or life or achieVement into a single paragraph. For the sake of brevity much that goes to round out and complete the ordinary biography must necessarily be omitted. The subject of this sketch was born in Washington Court House, in Fayette County, Ohio, on the 26th of January, 1860. He availed himself of the educational advantages afforded by the public schools of his native city, and later entered the law department of the University of Michigan, from which he graduated in 1881. After being admittediSo the bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio he began the practice of law at Washington ourt House. His success at the bar and his increasing business rendered it necessary for him to open an office in Columbus, Ohio, to which he has now transferred his entire practice, and where he now enjoys a large and lucrative business. He is counsel Chairman of large insurance companies, railroads and other corporations. In politics Mr. Daugherty has always been an active, aggressive Republican, and by his work through the party organization, as well as by his services upon the stump, has contributed in no small degree. to the success of that party in the State. He was Chairman of the State Executive Committee in. 1898, and his work in that campaign stamped him as one of the most successful political organizers in the State. He was elected to the General Assembly in 1889, and served on the Judicary and Corporation Committees. He was re-elected in 1891, and, besides important committee work, was chosen permanent Chairman of the Republican House caucus. He was also honored with the Chairmanship of the caucus that decided the Speakership, upon which hinged the election of a United States Senator. In 1893 he was Chairman of the State Republican. Convention which nominated McKinley for Governor. In 1897 he was Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee. In 1888 he was a candidate. for the Congressional nomination in his district, but was defeated on the 250th ballot by three. votes. In 1900 Mr. Daugherty was a candidate for Governor of the State of Ohio, and, after one of the most memorable campaigns in the history of the party, he was defeated by Governor Nash on the second ballot by a very close vote, Mr. Nash having secured the support of such powerful leaders as Senator Hanna and George B. Cox. In addition to his professional and political achievements, Mr. Daugherty is connected with many large business enterprises, and has attained an enviable position as a man of - 531 - affairs. In 1904 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago, which nominated Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Mr. Daugherty's family consists of his wife and two children, Miss Emily B. and Master Draper M. Charles T. Dumont, Justice of the Peace, Millcreek Township, Hamilton County, and a practicing attorney of Cincinnati, was born on the 17th of June, 1852, at Vevay, Indiana. He is of French descent on his father's side, and in Swiss-French ancestry on his mother's. His father, John J. Dumont, was engaged in the boiler and engineering business at Vevay. His mother's maiden name was Eliza L. Siebenthal. He traces his ancestry back for several generations in this country, his great grandfather Phillips being a celebrated scout in the Revolutionary -War and an intimate friend of Daniel Boone, the famous frontiersman. His mother's father was the first Sheriff of Switzerland County, Indiana. Mr. Charles T. Dumont received his- education in the public schools of Cincinnati and Indianapolis. His advent in public life occurred on the 9th of February, 1884, when he was appointed Restoration Clerk in the. Probate Court under Judge Goebel. For six years Mr. Dumont served during Judge Goebel's incumbency, and later for a period of -four years under Judge Howard Ferris. While engaged in that capacity he read law and for one year attended the Y. M. C. A. Law School, being admitted to the bar on the 5th of December, 1895. Squire Dumont has always been a staunch Republican and has served his party faithfully. He was appointed a member of the Board of Education to fill the unexpired term of Henry Mack, and later was elected to that position .for one term, in 1886, representing the First Ward of Cincinnati. During his incumbency of his present position, Squire Dumont acted as Coroner for two days, during the absence of Coroner Dr. Schwab. His election as Justice of the Peace occurred in April, 1899, and his re-election in 1902. It can truthfully be said that he made an efficient and impartial Justice. Socially, Squire Dumont is a leading member of the Blaine Club, and is Grand Chaplain of the Royal Arcanum in the State of Ohio ; he also is a member of the Supreme Circle of the Protected Home Circle, and of the Ancient Essenic Order. Justice Dumont is a man liked by all who come in personal contact with him, and it is conceded even by his political enemies that he is fair, conscientious and has a splendid intuition, as well as legal knowledge for the just decisions of questions which come before him. In March, 1875, he was united in marriage to Miss Katie Wilkerson, who died in 1895, leaving three children. In April, 1898, he married Bertha B. Reeder, his present wife, and by this union he is the father of two bright children. One son, Theodore Leclerc Dumont, is now serving his country in the United States Navy. The law office of Justice Dumont is located in the Lincoln Inn Court Building, Cincinnati, while his official office is to be found at 1914 Williams Avenue, Norwood, Ohio. - 532 - William F. Eltzroth, Lawyer, Lebanon, Ohio, is a native of Warren County, Ohio, and was born on his father's farm in Hamilton Township, December 28, 1846, the youngest son of Daniel and Hannah (Shepley) Eltzroth, both of whom were natives of the same county. The surname is rarely met with and is of German origin. Valentine and Susannah Eltzroth, great-greatgrand-parents of William F., emigrated from Germany about the middle of the Eighteenth Century and settled in Frederick County Maryland, where their son, Francis, was born June 4, 1762. Francis was a youthful soldier in the revolution ; married Catherine Oswalt, and, in 1802, emigrated to Warren County, Ohio, and purchased the whole of Military Survey 3791, consisting of 200 acres, on which he resided until his death, and a portion of which is still owned by his descendants. Francis and Catherine were the parents of ten children, five sons and five daughters, seven of whom were born in Maryland, and three in Ohio. Of these, Jonas married Catherine Morgan and was the father of ten children, who lived to maturity, married and reared families, the eldest of whom was Daniel, father of William F. After attending the common schools William F. entered Miami University, where he was graduated in 1869, receiving the mathematical honors of his class. After leaving college he was engaged for a while in teaching and land surveying, and then studied law in the office of A. G. McBurney, at Lebanon. He was admitted to the bar in April, 1873, and at once commenced the practice of his profession at Lebanon, where he has ever since continued. In April, 1876, he was elected Mayor of Lebanon and served in that office two terms ; in 1885 he was elected a member of the Ohio Senate as a Democrat and served a full term, and while in the Legislature was a member of the Judiciary Committee. In 1902 he was appointed a Trustee of Miami University, and he takes great interest in the promotion and welfare of his alma mater. He is a director of the Lebanon National Bank ; has served several years as a member of the Town Council, and, as a citizen and a municipal officer, has always been found on the side of public improvement. Since retiring from the State Senate in 1887 Mr. Eltzroth has not sought any political office, but has devoted himself assiduously to his professional duties. His practice has been large and lucrative ; he has often been selected to act in responsible fiduciary capacities, and probably no lawyer of his county, if, indeed, any citizen, has been called to administer so many large estates. His legal business, the trusts committed to his charge, and the industrial enterprises in which he is interested, make him one of the busiest of men. On September 24th, 1878, he was married to Miss Nellie B. Wilson, of Sandy Hill, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Eltzroth are active members of the Presbyterian Church. They have a beauti- - 533 - ful home in one of the pleasantest parts of Lebanon. Their only child, Clara C., is a recent graduate of Vassar. EDWIN DEWITT ERSKINE, A leading attorney in the city of Steubenville, Ohio, was born on the 29th of January, 1870, at East .Springfield, Jefferson County, Ohio. He is of Irish descent on. his father's side, his mother's people having lived for three generations in. Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Erskine was educated in the district school of his native county, at Mt. Union College, and is a graduate of the law college of the Ohio State University, at Columbus., Ohio. At the age of 18 years he commenced teaching school, which vocation he followed for four years, after which he began the study of law, commencing to practice in 1895. He is at present practicing his profession in the city of Steubenville, where he has a lucrative practice. In politics Mr. Erskine is an ardent Republican, and is a member of the Republican County Central Committee. Socially, Mr. Erskine is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar, an Elk and a K. of P. He is President of the King Lubricator and .Brass Supply Company, of Steubenville, a flourishing enterprise of that community. On the 3oth of October, 1900, he was united in marriage to Miss Lucy Matlack, an estimable young lady of Steubenville. Notwithstanding his youth Mr. Erskine is recognized as an able, well-read and rising lawyer, who enjoys the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens, and he undoubtedly has a brilliant career before him, both in his profession and politics. His office is located at 317 Market street, Steubenville, Ohio. Otis H. Fisk, One of the most prominent members of the younger element of the Hamilton County bar, has the proud distinction of having receivedhis education hot only in one of the leading universities of the United States, but also in the most celebrated institutions of learning in the old world. He was born in Covington, Kentucky, on the 5th of March, 1870. His father, Mr. Charles H. Fisk, a well-known Covington attorney, gave to his son every - 534 - opportunity to obtain a thorough education, and after a course in the schools of his native city and some preparatory studies in the schools of Cincinnati, he was. sent to the University of Yale, from which famous institution Mr. Fisk. graduated in 1892 with the degree of B. A. After his graduation, in order to round out his mental training, Mr. Fisk crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and for four years attended the Universities of Berlin, Leipsic and Heidelberg, where he took. up the studies of. phylosophy and taw. In 1895 he received at Heidelberg the title of Doctor of Phylosophy, and in the year following from the same institution the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence. Returning to America in 1899, he, after brilliantly passing an examination, was admitted to the bar. Since that time he has been continuously engaged in the practice of his profession. His offices are located in. the St. Paul Building, Cincinnati. Mr. Fisk is a thirty-second degree Mason. He was married to Miss Helen W. Pogue on the 5th of June, 1901. He lives with his family on Walnut Hills, a suburb of Cincinnati. Harry Frease, Attorney at law, of Canton, Ohio, one of the well-known lawyers of the Northeastern part of the State, was born at Canton, Stark County, Ohio, on the 5th of January, 1865. His father, Joseph Frease, is a prominent attorney at law, and ex-Common Pleas and District Judge. His mother, Sarah Hays Belden Frease, was the daughter of the late Common Pleas and District Judge and United States District Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, George W. Belden, a man whose name is closely identified with the history of the bench and bar of Ohio. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in about 1833, and after serving as Prosecuting Attorney for Stark County, Ohio, was elected by the Legislature as Common Pleas Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, and served for a period of seven years, from 1837 to 1844. This was under the first Constitution of Ohio. He was elected under the Constitution of 1851 a District and Common Pleas Judge of the Ninth Judicial District of Ohio, and -served from 1852 to '1855, when he resigned and resumed the practice of law. Two years later, in 1857, without being a candidate, he was appointed United States District Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio by President Buchanan, and served four years. In the line of duties as United States District Afton. ney he successfully prosecuted the "Oberlin Rescuers" under the Federal Fugitive Slave Law. The noted cases of Ex-parte Bushnell and Ex-parte Langston were carried to the Supreme Court of Ohio on habeas corpus by the defendent prisoners, where the Federal laws were held to be constitutional, although the five Judges were Republicans. (9. Ohio State reports, page 77). Colonel Frease's father, Joseph- Frease, was admitted to the bar - 535 - of Ohio in 1851. From 1856 to 1858 he served as Prosecuting Attorney of Stark County, and from 1867. to 1877 as Common Pleas judge for the Ninth Judicial District of Ohio. Since then and until the present writing he has been a practicing attorney at Canton. He was partner to Judge Belden from 1856 to 1867, the firm name being Belden & Frease. When the late President William McKinley came to Canton at the close of the Civil War, he entered the office of judge Belden as a partner in. place of Judge Frease, the firm name being changed into Belden & McKinley, and so continued until the death of Judge Belden. President McKinley's law practice before he went to Congress in 1877 was almost entirely in the courts presided over by Judge Frease. Colonel Harry Frease received, his early education in the public schools and High School of Canton, Ohio. He never attended any other school or college, but took a special course in anatomy and dissection in the Western Reserve Medical College, at Cleveland during the winters of 1889 and 1890. At the age of 16 years he started in business life as chainman in the Engineering Corps of the Cleveland, Canton, Coshocton and Straitsville Railroad, now the Cleveland-Zanesville division of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad, and in three weeks was promoted to be transitman, continuing as instrument man and draftsman until the 19th of February, 1884. From that time until June, of the same year, he served as chief draftsman for the Ohio Railway., now -the Northern Ohio Railroad. He then entered the firm of Frease Brothers, and later of Frease & Reed, engineers, at Canton, Ohio, remaining there until 1890. From i888 to 1892 he served as Chief Engineer of the Valley Railway, now the C., T. & V. divis ion of the B: & O. Railroad, and in that position he developed the location of the Akron and Chicago Junction Division of the B. & O. Railroad in , 1890, and also the route of the Canton & East Liverpool Railway, now the B. & 0. franchise, in 1895. For many years Colonel Frease has been identified with Ohio military affairs. He was an original member of the Canton Cadets as private in 1876, and from then to 1884 was promoted to noncommissioned officer and First Lieutenant of the company. From 1884 to 1885 he was First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the Canton Independent Battalion of Infantry, and from 1885 to 1890 Captain, commanding Company C, of the battalion. He was Captain, commanding Company I, of the Eighth Regiment of Infantry, Ohio National Guard, for a term of five years, from the loth of May, 1892, to the loth of May, 1897. During the memorable campaign of 1896, which resulted in the election of Major McKinley to the Presidency, Colonel Frease was "Major," commanding the "Canton Troop," a mounted citizen organization, which received and escorted visiting delegations, and organized and directed the various parades during that campaign. As Chief of Staff of the Chief Marshal, Colonel Frease organized and directed the street arrangements for the reception of the remains and the funeral and obsequies and procession, when the late President McKinley was !buried at Canton on the 18th and 19th of September, 1901. Colonel Frease is at present engaged in the practice of law with his father, Judge Frease, the firm name being Frease& Frease. He was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Ohio on the 4th of May, 1886, and to practice in the United States Circuit Court, Northern District of Ohio, on the 23rd of April, 1902. He is engaged in the practice of law since 1900, and gives special attention to patent law, railroad law and corporation law. He is a solicitor of patents in the United States Patent Office and a right of way attorney for the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company. He was formerly an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Colonel Frease has been, and is, closely associated with many business enterprises of his locality. From 1892 to 1893 he was Secretary and Treasurer, from 1893 to 1895, Superintendent, and from 1896 to 1899, Treasurer of the Canton Stoneware Company, engaged in - 536 - coal and clay mining and the manufacture of stoneware, brick and other clay products. He is a. director of The Repository Printing Company, of Canton, Ohio, and a .director of The Canton & East Liverpool Railway Company. On the 19th of July, 1900, he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel and Chief Commissary of Division, Ohio, National Guard, by Major General Charles Dick, commanding. Colonel Frease was married at Clearfield, Pennsylvania, on the 24th of March, 1898, to Katherina Marie Smith, daughter of Hurxthal W. Smith. Two sons have been the issue of their union. Colonel Frease attends, with his family, St. Paul's Episcopal Church; of which Mrs. Frease is a communicant. His residence is located at 130 West Lake street, and his office in the Central Savings Bank Building, Canton, Ohio. Theodore K. Funk, Attorney at law, at Portsmouth, Ohio, enjoys the distinction of being one of the most prominent lawyers in Southern Ohio. He first saw the light of day on the 30th of January, 1848, on a farm in Champaign County, Ohio. His father was Mr. Jacob Funk, a native of Champaign County, where he lived until 1897, to the advanced age of 82 years. He was a farmer and quite prominent in the early politics of Ohio. Mr. Funk's mother was Sarah (Long) Funk, who is still living at the old homestead. Mr. Funk acquired a good education at the district schools of his home county, and at the Collegiate Institute, at Urbana, Ohio. In the fall of 1866 he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, from which institution he graduated in 1871, after taking a classical course. He finally studied law in the office of Judge William Lawrence, at Bellefontaine, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of Ohio in 1873, since which time he has been continuously engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1884 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Scioto County on the Republican ticket by a majority of 931 votes. At the close of his first term, having served with distinction, he was re-elected to a second term by the increased majority of 1,223 votes. In 1892 Mr. Funk represented his Congressional District as Presidential Elector and cast his vote for Benjamin Harrison. The year following he was a candidate for Congress in his district to fill the unexpired term of General' Enoch, of Ironton, and again in 1894, and though he received the support of his county, he failed to receive the nomination in, both cases. In 1874 Mr. Funk was married to Miss Emma Kinney, daughter of Peter Kinney, first Colonel of the Fifty-sixth O. V. I. Five children are the issue of this union. Mr. Funk has always been a staunch supporter of the principles of the Republican party, and always ready to serve his party when called upon. In many campaigns he has rendered conspicuous services as a political speaker, and his arguments were not only forceful and direct, but also convincing. In his profession he has been remarkably successful, and - 537 - enjoys a most lucrative practice. He is one of the 'prominent leaders of the Scioto aunty bar, and enjoys the well-earned reputation of being one of the most successful criminal lawyers in Southern Ohio. His abilities and experience as a lawyer are acknowledged, varied and extensive, and he is admirably equipped for the career he has chosen for himself. Florien Giauque, Of Cincinnati, attorney at law and author, is a native Buckeye. He was born on the 11th of May, 1843, near Berlin, Holmes County. His parents, Augustus and Sophia (Guillaume) Giauque, were born of good families in the canton of Berne, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. They came, when young, early in the. nineteenth century to the United States, and settled in Holmes County. When Florien was a boy of six years his father left Holmes County and settled with his family in Fredericksburg, Wayne County, where he spent most of his boyhood, and where he attended the public schools and academy. While he was still a youth both parents died, and he had to struggle for his own livelihood. In 1861, shortly after his mother's death, he went to Vermillion Institute, at Hayesville, Ashland County, Ohio, for the purpose of continuing his education. The entire fortune he possessed he carried in his pockets. It consisted of the sum of twenty dollars, which he had earned making railroad ties. With this as a capital, and supplemented by a determination to acquire a collegiate education, he began a course in the Institute. He literally worked his way through college, paying all of his bills and graduating out of debt. While he was yet student, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Second Regiment, O. V. I., serving in the armies of Generals Buell, Rosecrans, Sherman and' Thomas till the conclusion of the Civil War. Having received an honorable discharge, he resumed his studies at the Vermillion Institute, becoming both a. pupil and a teacher. From here he went to Kenyon College, at Gambier Ohio, entering the Freshman class in 1866, and graduating With high honors three years later, crowding a four years' course in three. Soon after graduation he was examined for a teacher's certificate by the State Board of Examiners, and received the 'best certificate in a class of twenty-seven students. In September of the same year he became Principal of the public schools of Glendale, Ohio, which position he held until 1875, when he declined further election. During his career as Superintendent he became a student of law, with the late Justice Stanley Matthews as preceptor. The year he ceased his services as a teacher he began the practice of the law in Cincinnati after having been admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of Ohio. In 1880, Mr. Giauque formed a partnership with Mr. Henry B. McClure. This firm still exists, and has become one of the most prominent and' successful law firms of Hamilton County. As an author, especially of law books, Mr. Giauque enjoys a national reputation. There is probably no lawyer in Ohio who is the author and compiler of as many law books as is - 538 - Mr. Giauque. His principal works are "Revised Statutes of Ohio" (seven editions and various supplements thereto) ; Raff's Guide for Executors, etc., two volumes, 1879 ; Ohio Election Laws, 1879-01 ; United States Election and Naturalization Laws, 1879-01 ; Manual for Guardians and Trustees, six editions, 2881 ; Dower and Curtesy Tables, two editions, 1882; Manual for Assignees, six editions, 1882 ; Law of Roads, Ditches, Bridges and Watercourses, 1885 ; Notary's and Conveyancer's Manual, two editions, 1888 ; Manual for Constables, Marshals, etc., five editions, 1891 ; Settlement of Descendant Estates, six editions, 1893 ; Present Value Tables (for value of dower, damages; etc.), two editions, 189.4; Road and Bridge Laws of Ohio, 1894; Drainage Laws of Ohio, 1896. He is also a frequent contributor to various periodicals on scientific and popular subjects, and, because of his numerous works a sketch of Mr. Giauque's life appears in Allibone's "Dictionary of Authors." In 1872 Kenyon College conferred upon Mr. Giauque the degree of A.M., and in 1898 he Was honored by the same institution of learning with the honorary degree of LL.D. In November, 1884, Mr. Giauque was married to Mary, a daughter of William H. Miller, a lawyer of Hamilton, Ohio, also grand-daughter of John Woods, for many years the leading lawyer of Butler County, Ohio, an active member of Congress, and Auditor of the State of Ohio. Mr. Giauque resides at Glendale, Ohio. John Henry Goeke, Was born at Minster, Ohio, on the 28th of October, 1869 ; his father was Mathias Goeke and his mother Dina Goeke, both having been lifelong residents of the village of Minster, and his ancestors being among the early pioneers of Ohio. Mr. Goeke attended school in his early years in his native town and at Celina, Ohio, completing his education at Pio Nono College near Milwaukee, Wis., graduating from that institution in 1888. After graduating and returning home, he was appointed Probate Clerk under Probate Judge Benjamin Linzee. While acting in this capacity he began the study of law, and having pursued the same for one year, he entered the law school at Cincinnati and graduated with high average in 1891. After his admission to the bar of Ohio he formed a partnership with W. T. Mooney at St. Mary's, Ohio. This partnership continued until dissolved by the election of Mr. Mooney to the Judicial bench in 1892. One year thereafter Mr. Goeke entered into partnership with Anthony Culliton, of the same place, and the firm continued to practice law until 1896, when Charles L. Smith was taken into the firm, and for three years the firm of Goeke, Culliton & Smith was foremost in the litigation that came to the courts from the entire western part of Auglaize County, portion of Mercer County, and even a part of the State of Indiana. In 1893 Mr. Goeke was elected City Solicitor at St. Marys, and upon expiration of term was re-elected. In 1894 and 1897 he was successfully elected to the - 539 - important office of Prosecutor. During the latter part of 1897 he formed a partnership with Samuel A. Hoskins, of Wapakoneta,' Ohio, and that firm is now doing an extensive business. Harvey D. Goulder, Attorney at law at Cleveland, Ohio, and one of the foremost admiralty lawyers of the United States, was born in 1853, in the city of Cleveland. He is the son of Christopher and Barbara (Freeland) Goulder, who early located in the Forest City. His mother was a native of Scotland, and came to the United States with her parents, and to Cleveland in 1836, and died there in 1887. The father was of English birth, and crossed the. Atlantic at an early age, settling in Detroit, Michigan, from which city he removed to Cleveland in the early '30's, making his home in that city until his death in 1894. He was one of the early lake navigators, and throughout his life was connected with maritime ventures. The son, Harvey D. Goulder, attended the public schools, where he received, the rudiments of his education, and graduated from Central High School in 1869. Already he had become a sailor, having inherited his father's love for the water. After his graduation he devoted his attention to law, and studied in the office of Tyler & Dennison. Desiring to acquire commercial experience, he entered the employ of Alcott, Horton & Co. as entry clerk for a period of two years. Subsequently he continued the study of laws under direction of John E. Cary, a leading admiralty attorney, and was admitted to the bar in 1875. Immediately he began practice, and his progress has been steady. Engaged in the general practice of law, he has given much attention to marine and insurance law, and has been connected with nearly all the important cases which have been tried in the districts bordering upon the Great Lakes during the last two decades, in the particular lines of maritime and insurance law, being considered one of the ablest men of the country, and an authority often called upon in cases requiring technical knowledge. He is interested in large enterprises. As general counsel of the Lake Carriers Association, he has charge of various matters connected with the lake waterways, the improvement of harbors, etc. He is public spirited, was for a number of years Vice President of the Cleveland Board of Trade, director and then President of the Chamber of Commerce of that city and interested in many business concerns. The daughter of Rev. J. E. Rankin, Mary F., is his wife. Rey. Rankin, his father-in-law, was formerly pastor of the First Congregationalist Church of Washington, D. C., and President of Howard University, of. that city. Mr. Goulder is a Republican from the ground up, and his advice has often been heard in the councils of his party. In his profession, in business and in civic matters he is accorded conservative, sound and of valuable judgment. He was a candidate for Mayor of the city of Cleveland in 1903, but suffered defeat with the balance of the ticket. - 540 - James Wood Halfhill, One of the leading attorneys of Lima, Ohio, can be counted among the most influential Republicans in the western part of the State. He is a member of the fourth generation of the family in America, its original representative coming from Germany. Moses Halfhill, the father of James W. Halfhill, was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio with his parents in the early '30's, locating near Apple Creek, Wayne County. Finishing his studies so far as the district schools would permit, Moses Halfhill engaged in the carpenter's trade, and thus found means to continue his education at Delaware College, Ohio. In 1845 he purchased a farm in Morrow County, but removed some years later to Mercer County, where he died in 1876. In February, 1860, he married Eleanor Maria, daughter of James Harvey Wood, of Essex County, New York, a representative of an original English family, whose name is a part of American history, James Harvey Wood being the son of a soldier in the War of 1812 and grandson of a veteran of the Revolutionary War. Eleanor Maria Wood was an educated woman, and for seven years prior to her marriage was a teacher in the union schools of St. Marys, Ohio. She discharged with great credit the duty of rearing and educating her children, who were left fatherless at an early age. To Mr. and Mrs. Moses Halfhill were born four children, James Wood being the oldest. The latter attended the union schools at Mercer, and in 1881 matriculated at the Ohio Normal University at Ada, from which institution he graduated in 1884. Immediately after he entered the law office of that eminent lawyer, Judge W. H. West, at Bellefontaine, under whose preceptorship he remained until October, 1886. He then entered the Cincinnati Law School, from which he graduated, and was admitted to practice in May, 1887. Coming at once to Lima, Ohio, he formed a partnership with Hon. J. C. Ridenour, which still continues and is considered the most prominent law firm in that thriving city. Mr. Halfhill early became active in political work, and he has always been an energetic, active, working Republican. While still at college he was sent as a delegate from Hardin County to the convention at Cleveland, held to nominate State officers and delegates-at-large to the succeeding national convention, and devoted himself energetically to furthering the interests of James G. Blaine as the party's candidate for President. He has since been a delegate to numerous State, district and county conventions, and has been an active supporter of the party's. candidate in every political campaign. In 1889 he was elected City Solicitor, his popularity changing the nominal Democratic majority of 30o to a Republican majority of 24o. Two years later he was re-elected by a majority of 1,25o votes. Ever since Mr. Halfhill came to Lima, in 1887, his name has been . interwoven with the history of Republicanism in Allen County - 541 - and Northwestern Ohio. At that time the county was considered hopelessly Democratic, and against 1,400. majority the local Republicans had no heart to contend. They wanted a leader—one to inspire and cheer them, and they found Such. a man in Mr. Halfhill. He had the dash, the magnetism, the force, and withal the cool, clear head which comprehended the situation at a glance, and .soon rallied the demoralized Republicans about him- and organized them for effective work. And he was successful!. The first autumn he was in Lima the county elected its first Republican Representative to the General Assembly. Since then Mr. Halfhill has been. a member of nearly every County and City Committee. He has served the party with fidelity as a delegate, active, partisan and public speaker. He is a born organizer and a speaker of more than ordinary ability. Of commanding appearance, he possesses all the qualities of a leader of men. Polished, cultured, cordial, with a kind word and a pleasant greeting for everybody, he makes friends at sight. As a lawyer, Mr. Halfhill stands high in his chosen profession. He has always been a diligent student, both in. the law and the field of literature. On the 23d of September, 1896, Mr. Halfhill was united in marriage to Miss Cora A. Miller, the accomplished daughter of Rev. I. J. Miller, pastor of the Spring 'Street Lutheran Church, of Lima, and he counts this union his chief good fortune. James. Wocd Halfhill, Jr., a promising son; born on the 23d of October; 1897, is the only child of this union. Socially, Mr. Halfhill is a member of the K. of P., Elk and Masonic orders ; has always been an active member of the Board of Trade of his city, and he has extensive property and business interests in Lima, Ohio, where his residence and office are located. Frank Rufus Herrick, Of Cleveland, Ohio, is cne of the leading attorneys of the Forest City. His. parents were Gamaliel E. Herrick and Ursula Andrews Herrick, the latter being a daughter of the late Judge Sherlock J. Andrews. He enjoys a lucrative practice in his chosen profession, and is a member of the well-known law firm, Herrick & Hopkins, with offices at No. 830 Cuyahoga Building, Cleveland, Ohio. The ancestors of the Herrick family were prominent in New England in early days, several of whom were Governors of the State of Connecticut, others being leading physicians and lawyers in that part of the country. Mr. Herrick. is a native Ohioan, and was born on the 26th of April, 1865, at Cleveland. He received his early education in the grammar schools of his home city, and prepared: for college with Professor Isaac Bridgeman. Entering Yale University, class of 1888, he graduated from that famous institution of learning with the degree of B.A., afterward taking a special course of study at the Harvard Law School. In 1890 he started the practice of 'law, and since that time has been continuously occupied in that profession. On the 7th of October, 1891, he was married to Josephine Pomeroy, of Auburn, N. Y., the - 542 - daughter of Hon. Theodore M. Pomeroy. Three ,children are the result of this union, as follows : Theodore Pomeroy Herrick, Sherlock Andrews Herrick, and Josephine. Ursula Herrick. The family attends the First Presbyterian. Church. Mr. Herrick takes an active part in the social life of Cleveland, and is a member of the Country Club, University Club and the Cleveland Chamber of commerce. Timothy S. Hogan, Attorney at law at Wellston, Ohio, is recognized to be one of the reading representatives of the bar of Jackson County, Ohio. He is the son of Patrick Hogan and Margaret (Courtney) Hogan, and was born at Washington Township, Jackson County, on the nth of June, 1864. His parents were natives of County Kerry, Ireland, where their ancestors had been peasants about the Lakes of Killarney for many generations. Mr. Hogan was educated in the public schools of his home county, and received private instructions from Rev. John Larkin, who was a graduate of Maynooth College, Dublin. He subsequently attended the Ohio Normal University at Ada, the Ohio State University at Columbus, and the Ohio University at Athens, graduating from the Ohio Normal University and the Ohio University at Athens. Mr. Hogan received the degree of A.B. at the Ohio Normal University and the ..degree. of B.Ph. at the Ohio University. Returning to his home city, Mr. Hogan took up the profession of teaching, and served as Superintendent of the public schools of Wellston, Ohio, from 1887 to 1895. He is now one of the most successful lawyers of Southeastern Ohio, and is the local attorney for The Wellston & Jackson Belt Railway Company and The Hocking Valley Railway Company, for both cement companies operating in Wellston, The First National Bank of Wellston, The Bank, of Wellston; and practically for all the large coal companies operating in Jackson County. He has been on one side or the other of nearly all the corporation cases tried in Jackson County in the past few years, and assisting in the defense of important corporation cases in the Federal Courts of Ohio and West Virginia; among the companies being The Davis Coal & Coke Co., of Elkins; West Virginia, of which Henry G. Davis, the late Democratic nominee for Vice President, is the President. Mr. Hogan is also interested in The Bank of Wellston. A lifelong, enthusiastic Democrat, Mr. Hogan has rendered his party many important services. He has held numerous appointive positions in, connection with the city administration in Wellston, and in 1896 was a candidate for Congress from the Tenth Ohio District, receiving the largest vote any Democrat ever received in that district, about 19,000 votes, but. was defeated by Hon. L. J. Fenton, whose majority was greatly reduced. Socially, Mr. Hogan is a member of the Knights of Columbus and The .Ancient Order. of Hibernians, of which latter organization 'he has been for •the past four-years State President. On the .9th of June, 1891, he was married to Mary E. Collins, of Washington - 543 - C. H., Ohio, at that place. Four children are the issue of their union : Nellie, who died on the 7th of December, born in April, 1892 ; Edward P., aged ten years ; John S., aged eight, and. Charlotte A., aged six, the last three living. Mr. Hogan and his family are members of the Roman Catholic Church, and belong to St. Peter and Paul's Congregation, Wellston, O. Evan H. Hopkins, Dean of the Law College of the Western Reserve University, of Cleveland, Ohio, and a lawyer of unquestioned ability, was born on the 4th .of November, 1864, at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He is the son of David and Mary (Jeffries) Hopkins, both of whom were natives of Wales, England, who emigrated to this country when respectively being four- and three years of age. The parents came to Cleveland in 1874, in which city their son, Evan H., was educated in the common schools, after having attended the schools at Alliance, Ohio. He later entered the Western Reserve Academy and Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University, from which institution he graduated in 1889, with the degree of A.B. In 1892 he was honored with the degree of LL.B., given to him by Harvard Law School, where he had completed his studies of law. Admitted to the bar in 1891, he opened an office _in the following year with F. C. McMillan, with whom he was associated for one year. In 1893 Mr. Hopkins formed -a partnership with Mr. F. B. Herrick, with offices in the Cuyahoga Building, Cleveland,. Ohio. Mr. Hopkins became Registrar and Professor of Law in the Law School of the Western Reserve University . After holding this position for three years with eminent success, he was elevated to the Deanship of that Well-known institution, in 1895. The distinguished gentleman is a self-made man, and by his own exertion when a boy and youth gained the necessary funds by arduous labor in the shops and mills of Cleveland to pay his way through college. From 1892 to 1898 he was a. member of the Cleveland Public Library Board, and from 1893 to -1898 Was Secretary of that Board. From 1900 to 1901 he was a member of the Cleveland Park Commission. In political belief, Mr. Hopkins is a Republican, and has served his party in many capacities. As a lawyer, Mr. Hopkins stands high in his profession, and is considered able,' thorough and practical, with Tare executive ability. In 1892 he was joined in marriage to Francis Shain, by which Union he is the father of four girls. Conrad L. Hotze, Attorney at law at Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 1839, near Mayence on the Rhine, Germany. He attended school from his sixth to his fifteenth year French and English were his favorite studies, in which later on, after the death of his parents, he perfected himself during a two years' residence in Paris. In the summer of 186o he came to the United States on a visit t6 his brother, who resided in Little Rock, Arkansas, and has remained in - 544 - this country since. In 1865 he became a teacher in the Hughes High School at Cincinnati, which he left in 1867 and became a teacher of Physics and Chemistry in the Central High School in Cleveland. While so engaged, he recognized the importance of introducing the elements of science into the higher grades of the grammar schools, and with that end in view, published "First Lesson in Physiology," two elementary text-books for the use of teacher and pupil of those classes. In 1878 Mr. Hotze was admitted to the Ohio bar, resigned his position in the schools and became a lawyer. He enjoys a lucrative practice in the city of Cleveland. His wife was the oldest daughter of the late Judge J. B. Stallo, of Cincinnati. In 1889 Mr. Hotze had the misfortune of losing her by death. Charles J. Hunt, Corporation Counsel of the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, is one of the most popular members of the Hamilton County Bar. He is a product of Hamilton County; being born on the 18th of November, 1858. His father, Dr. James J. Hunt, was a well-known and highly respected physician. Ali. Charles J. Hunt received his early education in the public schools of Cincinnati, graduated from Woodward High School and -entered the Cincinnati Law School. After graduating from that school and his admission to the bar of Ohio, Mr. Hunt traveled for a period of three years through Central America as the legal representative of a mining company. He returned to the Queen City in 1883 and became, attached to the office of Matthews, Ramsey & Matthews, where he obtained the finishing touches of a thorough legal training. He practiced by himself until 1887, when he established a partnership with Mr. W. L. Granger. In, 1894 Mr. Outcalt 'became a member of the firm, and the latter was known tinder the name of Outcalt, Granger & Hunt until 1897, when Mr. Hunt retired. The following three years he practiced under his own name. In. 1906 he was elected Corporation Counsel of Cincinnati, and it may justly be claimed, that. he always discharged the duties of his office to the general satisfaction' and in the interest of the people of Cincinnati. The result was that Mr. Hunt was re-elected to a second term by an increased majority. In - 545 - political belief, Mr. Hunt is a staunch Republican, and .has rendered his party many valuable services. He is a man of high intellect and of sound judgment, a forceful speaker, and a painstaking and conscientious lawyer, Who enjoys the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens. Socially, he is a member of I he Masonic fraternity, of the. Blaine. Club, the Stamina Republican League, and of the Cincinnati Business Men's Club. He is married, and lives with his family on. Madison Road. His offices are located in the City Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio. Samuel M. Hunter, Newark; ex-Judge of the Common Pleas Court, is a native of Ohio. He was born at Cadiz, in Harrison County, on the 21st of February, 1838. His parents were Joseph R. and Letitia McFadden Hunter, the former a native of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and the latter of the County of Caven, Ireland. His mother came to. America when a child, with her parents, who . located in Harrison County, Ohio. His paternal ancestors came from the north of Ireland to America in the early history of the country, settling first in Virginia and removing to Pennsylvania about 1780, on account of having to pay tithes. His great-grandfather, Cyrus Hunter, was an ensign in the command of Colonel Archibald Lochery , a part of General George Rodger Clark's expedition into the Northwest Territory in 1781, and which succeeded in wresting that section from the British and Indians, and saving it to Virginia and the colonies. This command, when going down the Ohio to join General Clark, were lured ashore by the British and Indians near the mouth of what is now called Lochery's Creek, and captured, killed and imprisoned. Cyrus Hunter was never after heard from, and was probably slain by the British and Indians, or carried into captivity, where he died. The grandfather of Judge Hunter came to Ohio in 1815 and located in Wayne County, upon a tract of land, where he reared his family and resided until death. Judge Hunter's father located in Cadiz in early manhood and followed the trade of a cabinet maker The primary education of our subject was received in the public schools of Cadiz,' and, fortunately for him, they were excellent. His father had not the means to send him to college, but he had the advantage of a course in higher mathematics privately, under the eminent instructor, Professor Brinkerhoff, of Franklin College, and a course of classic, studies under the tuition of Rev. Henry Davis, a celebrated Presbyterian divine of Cadiz. He first engaged in teaching, an avocation that has been the stepping stone to many high positions in the legal profession. He then learned the printing trade, but later abandoned that for the law. His legal studies began in the office of J. M.. Estep, of Cadiz, one of the oldest attorneys of Eastern Ohio. After the usual course he was admitted to the bar in 1863. In 1862, prior to his admission to the bar, he enlisted in Company A, Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, served for some months in - 546 - West Virginia and was mustered out in 1863. He began the practice of law at Cambridge, Ohio, immediately after leaving the army, but removed to Newark in February, 1864, continuing the practice there. In 1866 he was elected City Solicitor of Newark, an office he held for five years by successive re-election. In 1871 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Licking County, serving in this position for two terms, from 1872 to 1876. In the fall of the latter year he was elected to the Common Pleas Bench, in the First Subdivision of the Sixth Judicial District. He was re-elected in 1881, retiring from the bench in 1886, after a service of ten years. He then resumed the practice of law. In 1894 he was nominated on the Democratic ticket for Judge of the Circuit Court, Fifth Judicial District, but was defeated with his party. As a lawyer,. Judge Hunter ranks as one of the ablest and most successful at the Licking County Bar. He has a tremendous capacity for work, and spares no pains in the preparation of his cases. His honesty and integrity are undisputed, and he is relied upon as being a safe and conservative counsellor. There are but few men in the profession anywhere who have more public confidence than has Judge Hunter. Said one of the best-known lawyers at the Newark bar : "Judge Hunter has made a very creditable record in his chosen profession. He has risen from the bottom to the front rank of practicing attorneys at this bar, by his own ability, perseverance and industry. As a lawyer he gained the reputation early in his career of being earnest, fearless and independent, characteristics that have grown with his growth and strengthened with his strength. He proved himself well fitted for the bench by ten years of successful work. He made 'a very satisfactory Judge.. He has read law understandingly. and his judgment was almost unerring. Another feature- of his work on the bench was the celerity with which he arrived at the pith of any question. He avoided all circumlocution; and came straight to the point in a direct and concise manner that left his meaning clear both to the jury and to the members of the bar. "He is of energetic disposition, plain and direct in his speech. He was well qualified for the bench, but perhaps not as patient as he should have been, when he thought time was being wasted ; but at the bar his mind was clear, logical and forcible. He has the esteem of his professional brethren and the respect of the entire community." Judge Hunter in politics has always been affiliated with the. Democratic party, from boyhood. Ever since leaving the bench he has been in the active and successful practice of the law in all its branches. On the 14th day of June, 1887, he was admitted to practice in the Federal Courts of Ohio, and on the 29th day of October, 1891, he was admitted, to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States. He is one of the public spirited citizens of his county and State, and has taken an active interest in developing its industrial resources. He is Vice President and counsel of The Edward H. Everett Company, one of the largest glass manufacturers in the world. He is President of The Advocate Printing Company, publishers of the daily and weekly "Advocate," the leading paper in his city and county. He is director and President of The Franklin Bank Company, the oldest financial institution in the county. He is a member of the Masonic Order and a Knight. Templar ; also of the Improved Order of Red Men, and of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was married in 1872 to Miss Iva Robbins, daughter of the late Willis Robbins, at the time of his death being senior member of. the above bank. Judge and Mrs. Hunter have three daughters, Helen, Ethel and Louise, and one son, Robbins. Francis Bacon James, Who occupies a high position among the members of the Cincinnati bar, was born in Cincinnati on the loth of June, 1864, and spent a part of his youth with relatives in Natchez, - 547 - Mississippi. He graduated from Woodward High School in 1882, and from the law school of Cincinnati College in "taking first prize for examination, with an average of 96.6 per cent, outranking the second man 4.5 per, cent. For the first three years after his admission to the bar; he practiced alone ; for the next three years was senior member of the firm of James & Cook, and since 1892 has been a member of the firm of Jones & James, of which Mr. Rankin D. Jones is the senior member. Mr. James is a member of the International Law Association ; American, Ohio State and Cincinnati Bar Associations, and is the Ohio member of the Committee on Uniform Laws of the American Bar Association, member of the Committee on Legal Education of the Ohio State Bar Association, Chairman of the Committee on Commercial Law of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, a delegate from the American Bar Association to the International Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at St. Louis, and is Assistant General Counsel of the Ohio State Board of Commerce. In 1889 he was the nominee of the Democratic party for Corporation Counsel, and for four years served as a member of the Union Board of Cincinnati High. Schools, during the last year of his term being President of the Board. The gymnasiums and the department of domestic science in the *High Schools of the city are the fruits of his special labor. In politics he was a Democrat until the nomination of Mr. W. J. Bryan for the Presidency, since which time he has been a Republican and in full accord with the policies of the. Republican party, especially those of President Roosevelt. In 1902 Governor Nash appointed Mr. James a member of the Ohio State ..Board of Uniform State Laws, and Governor Herrick has just reappointed him. The Cincinnati College of Dental Surgery claims him as the President of its Board of Trustees, and he was an instructor in the law school of Cincinnati College, and is now an instructor in the law department of the University of Cincinnati and has been since its consolidation with the former school, his work as a lecturer covering a period of eleven years. "The Ohio Law of. Opinion Evidence" and "A Collection of Cases on the Construction of Statutes" constitute his legal literary work, and his published public addresses cover : "Manual Training High Schools," "Torrens System of Land Titles," "Municipal Government," "Ohio Municipal Code," "Merit System," "Negotiable Instrument Code," "Codification of Branches of Commercial Law" and "Uniform Laws Governing Warehouse Receipts." Mr. James' practice of the law covers the widest possible range of subjects. He won his spurs and a national reputation as a lawyer in the case of Kraus vs. Peebles (1893), 58 Federal Rep. 585, which involved the well-known Pepper trade-mark and label for distillery bottling of whiskey. Mr. James has practiced in almost every kind of Court in the United States, including the Supreme Court, and in the diamond smuggling case of Keck - 548 - vs. United States (1899), 172 U. S. 434, he had the unique experience of presenting it to that court on five different occasions, three times on oral argument, once on brief without oral argument, and once upon a petition for rehearing, finally winning out by a vote of five to four. This protracted litigation was finally ended after a contest of nearly six years by securing the quashing of the new indictment charging his client with importing contrary to law. Hon. James M. Beck, as Assistant Attorney General of the United States, and one of the most brilliant lawyers of Philadelphia, represented the Government throughout this remarkable case, which had more hearings before the Supreme Court than any other case in the history of that great tribunal. Mr. James is married, and live's in a handsome colonial residence on East Walnut Hills, where he entertained Sir Frederick Pollock, the noted English lawyer, on the occasion of the latter's visit to Cincinnati.  E. G. JOHNSON, The above is a fair likeness of E. G. Johnson, senior member of the firm of E. G. & Hale C. Johnson, lawyers, doing business at Elyria, Ohio. He has never done anything worth mentionng, except that he is the grandfather of the two most interesting characters in the above group, Margery and Dorothy Mudge. George Dudley Jones, Attorney at law at Columbus, Ohio, was born on the 25th of May, 1854, in Madison County, Ohio. He was the son of John C. and Sarah A. Taylor Jones, both of whom were natives of this country, the father being born in Tennessee and the mother in Virginia. Both of his parents are deceased. While his parents were of Southern 'birth, they were of the ultra-type of ante-bellum abolitionists, and were connected with the "Underground Railroad" operations of those days.' His father was a farmer, and held important county offices during lives his active life. He was originally, a Whig and in later years a Republican, and a man of strong intellect and marked characteristics. Mr. Jones' great-grandfather came - 549 -