HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE BY HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON H. G. CUTLER Editor of the Lewis Publishing Company And a staff of Leading Citizens collaborated on the Counties and Biographies ILLUSTRATED VOL. III 1910 THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO NEW YORK History of the Western Reserve. HON. JAMES C. JOHNSON was the son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Crabtree) Johnson. His father and mother were natives of Allegheny county, Maryland, where they were married and resided for -some years and where an elder brother and sister of the subject of this sketch were born. They came to Ohio in 1802, before Ohio had arrived at the dignity of statehood, the father driving a wagon conveying their scanty belongings and the mother traveling on horseback with the children over the mountains of West Virginia, then still a part of the "Old Dominion." It was before the days of bridges, and they forded the Ohio river, the young mother performing- this feat on horseback. with a child in her arms. Tradition says that she crossed the. Ohio three times in this manner. The family settled in Jefferson county, Ohio, near Wintersville, about six miles from Steubenville, the county seat. Here James Crabtree Johnson was born on December 8, 1818. His boyhood was passed on a farm among the hills of old Jefferson. Be got a little schooling from some of the wandering pedagogues who "kept school" wherever sufficient patronage might be had among the scattered settlers of the frontier. In 1828 the family moved to Medina county, the wagon again transporting their belongings, except the few head of stock which were driven by the boys, the mother again: making the migration on horseback. They were six days in making the journey, now made in as many hours, and settled on a farm belonging to Major Dorsey, a' local magnate of some importance in those days, on the old Turnpike about a mile north of the present village of Seville.. Young James C. attended school the winter following his advent on the Western Reserve in a log schoolhouse on the Center road, about a half mile east of the Turnpike. It was the private subscription school then in vogue, as the common school system, now almost as much in the course of natural events as the return of the season, had not yet come into existence. Mr. Johnson now owns the farm on which was the site of this little frontier schoolhouse and for many years lived in a house situated on almost the exact location of the old log schoolhouse. The next winter he began school in a log house on what was then known as Blackman's Run, a short distance northwest of his home, but after ten days of school the future president of an insurance company had his first experience of a "fire loss" in the burning of the log school house, which ended his literary training for the winter. In the following year a Dr. Mills opened a school in the village, probably to supplement the precarious income of a doctor in this then thinly settled community, and under his instruction young Johnson acquired the rudiments of a common school education in the intervals when he could be spared from burning brush and the usual duties of a boy on a farm in the process of "clearing up." His next teacher was a minister named Osborne, who gave him some instruction in Latin, which he afterward pursued with a great deal of interest under the instruction of Rev. Varnum Noyes, then and for many years the pastor of the Presbyterian church at Seville. In those days the classics, especially the Latin, were the most important part of higher education. He soon* considered himself sufficiently proficient to begin the study of law, which he pursued in the office of Canfield and Camp, of Medina, then one of the most prominent legal firms in .the county. He was admitted to the bar in 184o, and the same year cast his first vote for Martin VanBuren for president in the famous "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" campaign. Though his first vote was lost in the defeat of his candidate, he did not lose his interest in politics, which in those days played a more important role in the life of an ambitious lawyer than at present. His growing reputation in his profession and his political activity Vol. III-1 - 1271 - 1272 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE resulted in his election to the lower house of the general assembly of 1848-9. On this legislature devolved the duty of electing a successor to Hon. William Allen, then United States senator from Ohio and afterwards governor, whose senatorial term would expire March 4, 1849. He was the candidate of his party for re-election and Hon. B. F. Wade, afterwards senator and acting vice president, was the candidate of the Whigs. The numerical strength of the Whigs and Democrats was so evenly balanced in this legislature that three Free Soilers held the balance of power and had a candidate of their own, Hon. Salmon P. Chase, afterwards secretary of the treasury and chief justice of the United States supreme court. The three lonely Free Soilers stood by their guns, however, and after many fruitless ballots saw their candidate elected by the aid of the Democratic votes. By 'a singular coincidence Democrats were elected secretary of state of the state and to other state offices then filled by election by the legislature, enabling the Democrats to retain control of the state. The casual observer noting the singular results might be led to the conclusion that political "Deals" were not the discovery of the present generation, were it not that such things could not have been countenanced in the "Good old times." The following year Philip Thompson, a Free Soiler, was elected, but in the fall of 185o Mr. Johnson was again returned to the lower house. In 1851 the present constitution was -adopted, extending the term of members of the legislature to two years, and he received the first two-year term under the new constitution from Medina county. His previous service seemed to have commended him to his fellow members, as he was elected speaker of the house. It was an important session, as upon this legislature devolved the adjustment of the statute law of the state to the new order of things created by the new constitution. Among other important legislation was the enactment of the new code of civil procedure, establishing the form of court procedure now in use. This was Mr. Johnson's last public service in an elective office, the Democratic party becoming permanently in the minority in the county with the rise of the Republican party. He devoted himself to business and professional interests, becoming largely interested in farming. He did not, however, lose his interest in politics, though no longer an officeholder, but was active and influential in the councils of his party in state as well as local politics. At the annual meeting of 1867 he was elected a director of the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company of Leroy, and on October 5, 1870, became the president of the company, which office he has held continuously ever since. Outside his personal affairs the business of this company has been the principal object of his attention ever since. He has attended every meeting of the board of directors and presided at every annual meeting of the company since, with the exception of the annual meeting of 1908-9, at which time he was disabled by being thrown from his buggy by his horse becoming frightened at an automobile, breaking his collar bone. During his administration he has seen the company grow from a comparatively small local farmers' company to an organization with assets of more than $2,500,000, whose operations cover the states of Indiana and Ohio. On December 8, 1909, his ninety-first birthday, the company's agents complimented him on the anniversary by writing new business on applications and daily reports bearing his pho- tograph, the premiums on which amounted to more than $8,000. The reports of the business were mailed to him directly instead of to the company's office, and substantially all arriving the same day made it a record day for mail receipts at his farm, as well as a reminder of the loyalty and esteem of the company's agency and field force and his associates in the management. For a number of years he was by appointment of the governor, a trustee of the Northern Ohio Asylum for the Insane at Newburgh, Ohio. With this exception his attention has been substantially all given to the business of fire insurance and the management of his landed property. He has not been in the active practice of his profession for some years, though he still continues the advisor of his neigiabors in most of their legal matters, though in a neighborly rather than professional way. While Mr. Johnson always enjoyed social intercourse, and his business and political associations brought him an extended experience both at the state capitol and elsewhere, he never married. His mother looked after his domestic affairs until her death in the early '70s. Since her death some of his tenants have kept house for him at his farm. With the exception of his eyesight, which has failed him largely in the last few years, he continues ac- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1273 Eve mentally and physically, taking a lively interest in all that goes on around him. He is a member of the local Grange and meets with it regularly and takes part in the discussion of all questions of interest to his fellow members. Mr. Johnson as a lawyer was distinguished for his keen analysis of questions presented. His professional opinions as well as those on subjects outside of the law were the result of reflection and his keen analytical mind grasped every detail of the subject. He was a man of principles rather than precedents. While making no pretensions to oratory, his clear apprehension of a controversy in all its bearings and understanding of the principles involved made him always an effective and convincing speaker and a dangerous opponent in the trial of a case. As a counsellor he was always conservative and safe, and tended to discourage rather than promote litigation. His standard of professional ethics was always high. It did not permit him to directly or indirectly solicit the 'business of the rich, or decline the employment of the poor man who could not pay a fee. Confidence in his ability and integrity has for half a century made him the unofficial arbiter of his neighbors' disputes. Many a promising lawsuit has been nipped in the bud when the would be litigant heard that "Squire Johnson's" opinion was adverse. In the professional sense Mr. Johnson never was a politician. He was never interested in public office for its own sake for himself or 'friends. But in the sense of an intelligent interest in important public policies and in the effort to promote the adoption of what he believed to be for the public welfare, he always was and is now an ardent politician. Positive in his convictions, he never sought popularity by attempting to occupy an equivocal position. His popularity and influence in his community have been due to his positive qualities, never to any neutral or colorless stand on matters of public interest. While never affiliated with any organized church, his respect for and sympathy with Christian doctrine and practice in the broad sense has never been doubted. Taking him all in all, his life, modestly yet vigorously and above all sincerely lived, has been potent for good to all who came within his influence. OLIVE SOPHIA (WHITNEY) WILCOX was born March 7, 1842, in Mantua, Ohio, and is a daughter of Silas B. and Mariva (Carleton) Whitney. Silas Whitney was born in Seneca, Ontario county, New York, June 26, 1808, and was married in Mantua in 1831, to Mariva Carleton, born in Stafford, Tolland county, Connecticut, and who came with her parents to Mantua when she was four years old. To Mr. and Mrs. Whitney one other daughter was born, February 26, 1832, Juliana Whitney, who was twice married, and died September 1, 1902. Silas Whitney died November 18, 1883, and his wife May 19, 1879. The Carleton family, being the one from which the poet, Will Carleton, descended, is an ancient one, dating from the time of William the Conqueror. Baldwin de Carleton, of Carleton Hall, England, in Cumberland, took part in the battle of Hastings in 1066, and his descendants occupied Carleton Hall for 600 years. The branch of the family who emigrated to America was known as the Carletons of Oxfordshire, England, and can trace their family back for twenty-eight generations. Edward Carleton, of England, came. to America and settled in Rowley, Massachusetts, in 1639 ; in 1646 he returned with his family to England, there to remain. Edward Carleton was a son of Sir Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester. The son of Edward was Richard. Richard's son, Captain Caleb Carleton,. born in Stafford, Connecticut, married Margaret Day. He came to Mantua, Ohio, in 1814, bringing his seven children with him. He gained his title in service in the Revolutionary war. His son, Elias Carleton, the grandfather of Mrs. Wilcox, of this sketch, was born in Stafford, Connecticut, in 1789, and married Olive Johnson, also born in Stafford, February 8, 1790. They were married in Stafford in 1811, and had four children, and one of them—Mariva—married Silas B. Whitney, above mentioned. Elias Carleton died October I1, 1871, and his widow died October 13, 1877. Olive S. Whitney attended the district school at Mantua, two terms, later attended school in Hiram, and in 1859 went to Hiram College, then known as the Eclectic Institute ; at that time President Garfield was principal and Almeda Booth was lady principal. Olive S. Whitney was married May 19, 1862, to Dr. S. K. Wilcox, of Mantua, Portage county, Ohio, and they had no children.. He was born in Chester, Massachusetts, August 4, 1824, and died September 5, 1904, and is buried at Mantua. He was a son of Ralph Wilcox, born in Connecticut, who married Bettie M. Nooney, and they came to the Western Reserve in 1830, and set- 1274 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE tied in Mantua.. Mrs. Wilcox, on the maternal side, is a descendant of Jonathan Johnson, of Stafford, Connecticut, who married Hannah Orcutt, .a relative of Governor Orcutt, of that state, and their family consisted of ten daughters and three sons. Mrs. Wilcox has been a resident of Hiram township over sixty years. JOHN E. PLATO, a prominent citizen of Amherst, was born in Hanover, Germany, November 11, 1848, a son of John and Wilhelmina (Bodman) Plato, both natives of Germany. The father was a professional musician in Germany ; he came with his family to the United States in 1857, and spent a short time in New York, after which they located in Vermilion, Ohio. A few months later they removed to Amherst and settled on a farm. Three years later they moved to the village of Amherst, where the father died in 189o, at the age of seventy-five years ; his widow died in 1907, aged eighty-two years. They had four children, mentioned in connection with the article on Henry A. Plato, found elsewhere in this work. John E. Plato lived with his parents until he was twenty-three years of age, and then went into the grocery business with his brother Henry in Amherst, and later they also. had an interest in a hardware business. In 1897 the brothers dissolved partnership, and John Plato continued. in the hardware business five years longer, and then sold out to his brother-in-law. He then started into clothing and gents furnishing business, and March, 1909, took his son, John A., into partnership with him. Mr. Plato has for years been one of the leading business men of the town, and he is one of the organizers of the Amherst Banking Company, of which he has always been a director, and of which he was elected president in 1905, having since served in that capacity. Mr. Plato is a man of good education and when a young boy attended Catholic parochial schools in New York City. He is a Democrat, and has served many years as a member of the Amherst council. He belongs to the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association and to the Knights of Columbus of Elyria; Ohio. On November 27, 1877, Mr. Plato married Elizabeth N. daughter of Peter and Matilda (Holdefid) N., born in Wisconsin. They became the parents of five children, namely : Lenora, wife of Albert C. Walsh, of Amherst ; Agnes M., wife of William Baker, Jr., of Amherst ; John A. and Henry L., of Amherst ; and Ruth, also at home. JAMES F. STRENICK, attorney and assistant city solicitor of Lorain, was born at West Salem, Wayne county, Ohio, July 5, 1879. He is a son of James and Amanda J. (Royer) Strenick, the former born at New London, Canada, and the .latter at Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio. The father came to Ohio in 1861, locating first at Polk, Ohio, and removing thence to West Salem. He was married at Polk, Ohio, and both he and his wife now reside at West Salem. James F. Strenick was reared in his native town, and graduated from the high school in that place in 1894. He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1903. He was admitted to the bar in Ohio in December, 1902, before the date of his graduation, and began practice in July, 1903, in Lorain. He met with pleasing success, and stands high in his profession. He was appointed to his present position in 1908. Mr. Strenick was elected, January 1, 1908 to the office of treasurer of Black River township, and still holds that office. Fraternally he is affiliated with West Salem Lodge, No. 298, F. & A. M., and with Oriental Chapter, R. A. M., at West Salem, and he is a member of the Independent Order of Foresters and the North American Union. In political views he is a Republican. Mr. Strenick married Arline Mellen, who was born April 5, 1874, at Angola, Indiana, a daughter of Charles A. Mellen, and they have one daughter, Helen. Mr. Strenick enjoys the confidence of his fellow townsmen and is universally esteemed and respected. GEORGE P. VAN ORMAN.—Ashtabula county has been the home of George P. Van Orman for many years, but he was born in Painesville, Ohio, August 25, 1836, the eldest son of Lyman S. and Mary (Falkenburg) Van Orman. Lyman S. Van Orman came from Canada when a young man to Painesville, where he followed his trade of a hatter, and also in Chardon. His father had lived for some years in the states, but eventually returned to Canada, and several of his daughters married Canadian officials. In 1854 or 1855 Lyman S. Van Orman came to Rock Creek and accepted employment with the firm of Randall, Cook & Company, who conducted a HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1275 large store and tannery here. Mr. Van Orman was principally engaged in obtaining wool for them in exchange for pelts, and he continued with the firm for many years, or until they eventually retired from the business. He spent the remainder of his life at Rock Creek and died in 1873, when he had attained the age of sixty-two years. At Painesville he had wedded Mary Falkenburg, whose father, Charles Falkenburg, was a farmer for some time in Monmouth county, New Jersey, and also owned a coasting vessel which plied between the cities of Philadelphia and New York, while in 1797 he served as lieutenant in the state militia. After a time he sold his old home to his brother, whose sons still reside there, and they are among the wealthy citizens of New Jersey, and during the war of 1812 he came to Ohio and settled in Lake county, a few miles south of Painesville, and he afterward lived at Concord with his son Samuel, and died when past eighty years of age. His sons were Brown, Asa, James and Samuel, and he also had three daughters, Harriet, Nancy and Mary. Mary was one or two years older than her husband, but she survived him for more than thirty years, and was past ninety at the time of her death. Lyman S. and Mary Van Orman reared to maturity two sons, George P. and Howard, and the younger being a resident of Rock Creek. George P. Van Orman was a young man of eighteen when he became a resident of Rock Creek, and for a time he was employed by the same firm as his father, Randall, Cook & Company, but subsequently learning the carpenter's trade he worked at that occupation for some years, and in 1883 he started a saw mill. This mill has continued in operation during all the intervening years, and Mr. Van Orman continued as its promoter for thirty-six years, or until April of 1909, when he sold his interest to his son and Ira Brown. He resides on his farm near Rock Creek. Mr. Van Orman married first, in the fall of 1858, Lydia A. Covell, a daughter of Silas and Eunice Covell, who first secured the farm where Mr. Van Orman now lives. Mrs. Van Orman died in 1880, leaving six children : Carlton, a resident of Rock Creek ; Stanley, who operates a mill there ; Alice, the wife of Allen Clark and a resident of Rome township ; May, the wife of James Latimer, of Youngstown ; Lyman, a policeman in Cleveland, who was quartermaster sergeant in Company E, Thirty-fifth Michi gan Infantry, in the Spanish-American war ; and George, a traveling salesman. In 1882 Mr. Van Orman wedded Villa Covell, a niece of his first wife and a daughter of Elijah and Salina (Bunnell) Covell. The four sons of this union are Lee, whose home is in Rock Creek ; Clair, a student in the Ohio State University ; Ellison and Gerald. Mr. Van Orman has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1861, and is now affiliated with Grand River Chapter, No. 104. In 1861 he enlisted in Company D, Nineteenth Ohio Infantry, for three months' service, and on the 7th of November, 1862, he again enlisted, this time in Company E, Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, being transferred from that to the Veteran Reserve Corps. He was mustered out June 26, 1865, as sergeant and returned home. Silas and Eunice (Latimer) Covell, the parents of Mr. Van Orman's first wife, were married in Connecticut, but came to Ohio during their early lives, and the farm which they secured in those early days is now the home of Mr. Van Orman. Silas Covell became a wealthy citizen, and the house which he built is still standing, and there he died in about the year 1853, while his wife survived him about twelve years and passed away about 1865. Their children were : Herman, who was born in 1818, never married, and died at the age of seventy-three years ; Elijah, a carpenter, married Salina Bunnell, of Jefferson, and lived and died at Rock Creek, passing away at the age of seventy-three years ; Mills was for many years president of the Rock Creek Bank, and he died at the age of seventy-six years ; Alfred lived for many years in Trumbull township, Ashtabula county, and died at the age of eighty-one years ; Eunice married Harvey Wilbur and lived in New York for twenty-five years, but returned to Rock Creek and died there ; Ward died at Rock Creek at the age of seventy-two ; Harvey served as a major of the Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil war, two terms as a county sheriff, and was a prominent local politician ; and Lydia, who became the first wife of Mr. Van. Orman. Elijah Covell, the second son and child of Silas Covell, married; as above stated, Salina Bunnell, and she died at the age of sixty-two years. They had three children : Villa, who became Mrs. Van Orman; Selden, a resident of Niles, Ohio ; and Edith, who married Elson Wornald And lives in Conneautville, Pennsylvania. 1276 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE HON. GRANDISON N. TUTTLE.—Forty-one years ago, when Grandison N. Tuttle was elected probate judge by the voters of Lake county, Painesville welcomed an able, honest and scholarly member of the profession, and a stalwart man as well, to the ranks of her representative citizenship, and, although he was untried in the delicate and exacting duties of the judiciary, the community gauged him as one to be trusted to meet every matter which should come before him with impartiality, legal wisdom and manly candor. The expectations regarding this tall, strong, sympathetic and yet balanced young judge of thirty-two were more than realized by the profession and the public of Lake county during the three terms of his service as probate judge; and it is not too much to add that there is no bench within the province of the judiciary whose occupant is closer to the hearts of his fellows, or which calls for the exercise of a broader judgment and a more varied knowledge of the law, than that before which are brought those many matters of life and death embraced in the comprehensive term Probate. Judge Tuttle has the distinction of being the first in the county to be entrusted with such duties and responsibilities for more than two terms. In his politics he remained a Republican from the time of his majority, which he attained two years after the formation of the party, until 1876, when he abandoned that organization because of his disbelief in the soundness of its position on the questions of finance, capital and labor. Two years before he had refused to support General Garfield for Congress, convinced, as he was, that Gar-field's official acts had not tended to promote the best interests of the people. The year 1876 saw him an ardent supporter of Peter Cooper, Greenback candidate for the Presidency—that giant of great heart, great mind and great works, whom his bitterest political enemies revered and loved. This was the first chapter in a long course of political action which has marked Judge Tuttle as a leader of absolute independence absolutely ignoring personal advantage, whose conduct has never been influenced by intellectual pride, but rather by moral conviction. With this as his mainspring of action, he has been quite content to be called erratic by those who have consistently supported the strongest party with their eyes firmly fixed on the luscious, glittering plums of office. From 1876 to 1888 Judge Tuttle supported either the Greenback or Union Labor party. In 1878 he was a candidate for Congress of the former organization, running ahead of his ticket, but naturally failing of an election. He received the full vote of the Union Labor party for the state supreme bench in 1884, and in 1891 was honored with the united support of the Prohibition, Democratic and Populist parties for judge of the common pleas court. Since 1888 the judge has been an uncompromising Prohibitionist, his congressional candidacy in 1892 bringing to him more than the full support of his party. He is unable to see the practical advantages of temperance which falls short of prohibition, and further holds that the saloon must be crushed, both as a menace to manhood and the state, before monopolies can be overthrown and industrial conditions be improved. During later years Judge Tuttle has been a stanch admirer and an eloquent champion of William J. Bryan, and takes no greater pride in any one phase of his political career than in his successful efforts to induce the Springfield convention of 1896 to support the great commoner for the presidency. It is needless to add that he is one of the most outspoken and insistent members of the party who advocate the late movement to again bring the Prohibition element of the county to the presidential support of Mr. Bryan. Grandison Newell Tuttle is a native of Concord township, Lake county, and was born March 20, 1837. He is of good English and New England stock, his family being transplanted from the old to the new world in 1635. The wife of Jonathan Edwards was of this family, which also numbers among its con- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1277 nections Governor English, of Connecticut. John Tuttle, the grandfather of the judge, moved from that state to Massachusetts in 1759. He was a carpenter by trade, and a soldier in the French and Indian war. The grandfather, Joseph, was a native of Lebanon, Connecticut ; passed his boyhood and early manhood in Massachusetts, and soon Of Sunderland, that to Louisa Mack, of Sunderland,•that state, migrated to Oneida county, New York. Mrs. Louisa Little died without issue, about fourteen years after her marriage. Her sister was the mother of Joseph Smith, and after the latter became distinguished as a Mormon leader she located with him at Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Tuttle married for his second wife Hannah Messenger, of Simsbury, Connecticut, and in 1807 migrated with hi& family to Palmyra, Portage county. His son ( Joseph, Jr.) was then a boy of eleven. This boy became the father of Judge Tuttle, and while he was living in Concord township Joseph Smith's mother made several attempts to interest him in the family and in the mysteries and advantages of Mormonism—but all to no avail. He abhorred Mormonism and had no sympathy with any of its advocates. When Joseph Tuttle, the grandfather, made his tiresome journey from New York to the Western Reserve, in 1807, he enjoyed, as the means of transportation for himself and family, two yoke of oxen, a span of horses and a wagon. Forty-eight days were spent before the Western wilds were penetrated, west of Buffalo the country being sofollowveled that the party chose to folloW the winding beach of the lake rather than risk its hidden dangers of wild beasts and Indians. Two years of the privations incident to the country so discouraged Mr. Tuttle that in 1809 he sold his farm in Portage county and returned to New York, where he died in 1816. His second wife had passed away four years before, and the family, of which Joseph, Jr., was the eldest, were thus deprived of both parents. The orphans made their home for several years with their maternal grandparents, the Messengers, who in 1817, although then far advanced in life, moved to Concord township, Lake county, and there settled with their grandson, Joseph Tuttle, on a farm of 120 acres. A small log cabin was erected and occupied by the young man and his grandparents until 1820, when Mr. Tuttle was able to erect a more pretentious residence. On January 2, 1823, he wedded Mary Adams, widow of Martin Adams, Jr., and daughter of Moses and Mary Kibbee, of Barkhamstead, Connecticut, and ten years later erected a frame house which he occupied until his death, April 20, 1884. This was the birthplace of Judge Tuttle, who is the youngest of four sons. A daughter (Mrs. Harriet A. Kibbee), who was the youngest of the children, died in Painesville, March 19, 1887. Judge Tuttle was reared on his father's farm, and obtained the schooling and training usual to a boy in his circumstances until he had passed his eighteenth birthday. In the fall of 1855 he attended Orwell Academy for a term, and during the succeeding four years alternated between teaching and attending academy and select schools. He entered the State and Union Law College at Cleveland in April, 1861; graduated therefrom in June, 1862, and was soon afterward admitted to the bar of the state and United States courts. Another year of teaching followed, and in the fall of 1863 he commenced practice at Willoughby, his native county, where he remained until his elevation to the probate bench in 1869. On December 24, 1861, Judge Tuttle married Miss Lizzie A. Wilder, of Willoughby, daughter of Joel D. and Clarinda A. Wilder, and a native of Vernon, New York. Four children were born of their union : Carlos G., who died March 1, 1875, aged seven years ; Martin A., born March 12, 1869, a graduate of Adelbert College, and his father's associate in practice ; Mary C., born February 7, 1875 and Walter S., who was born March 15, 1877. 1278 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE WILLIAM H. HANNOLD.—Among the many prominent and successful agriculturists now living in Portage county who claim their nativity within its borders, stands William H. Hannold, for many years a well known business man of Rootstown township. He was born in Edinburg township, October 15, 1845, to Joseph and Catherine (Huffman) Hannold, from New Jersey and Pennsylvania respectively, and he is a grandson of John and Rachael (McWain) Hannold and William and Christena (Mauny) Huffman. John Hannold was an ocean sailor and he was married in New Jersey, and the maternal grandparents were from Pennsylvania. In the latter com monwealth Joseph Hannold and Catherine Huffman were married, and coming to Stark county, Ohio, they soon afterward located in Edinburg township, Portage county, and after eight years sold their land there and Mr. Hannold came with his father-in-law to Rootstown township. He bought the shares of the remaining heirs in the latter's estate, and lived here until his death in 1880. His wife had died in 1865. William H. Hannold was their only child, and he has always made his home on the old Hannold estate here, attending meanwhile the graded schools and Mt. Union College one year. He came into possession of the farm of sixty-eight acres at his father's death, and he is extensively engaged in general farming and stock-raising, raising Shorthorn cattle, horses and sheep. He married, in October of 1869, Mary Chittenden, who was born in Randolph township, a daughter of John and Sarah (Filly) Chittenden. Their three children are : Curtis L., married first, Winifred Evans, and second, Nina Sewal, and resides in Brewster county, Texas ; Elva G., wife of Frank Gunder; of Edinburg, Ohio ; Cora A., wife of Edward Robb, of Alliance, this state. The wife and mother died October 28, 1899, and for his second wife Mr. Hannold married, on March 19, 1903, Ada Huffer, born in Columbiana county, this state. The one child of this union is Grace E., born May 29, 1905. Mr. Hannold has been a member of the Christian church since 1865. He votes with the Prohibition party, and he has served, his township two terms as a trustee. JOHN DRURY.—In the annals of Huron county no more worthy representative of the agricultural community can be found than John Drury, who has spent his entire life in Lyme township, and is now successfully en gaged in agricultural pursuits. on the homestead where his birth occurred, March 7, 1847. His father, Deacon Jonathan Maynard Drury, was born in Worthington, Hampshire county, Massachusetts, February 24, 1809, while his grandfather, John Drury, and his great-grandfather, Jonathan Drury, were both lifelong residents of Massachusetts. John Drury, a farmer by occupation, and an esteemed citizen of Worthington, Massachusetts, married a Miss Maynard, who died at the birth of her son, Jonathan Maynard. Jonathan Maynard Drury was taken by his grandparents on the paternal side when an infant, and was brought up in Hampshire county, Massachusetts. Soon after his marriage, desirous of making a permanent settlement in life, he came to Huron county, Ohio, .on a prospecting tour, and evidently formed a favorable opinion of the place, for the next year, in 1838, he came here with his family. Starting from Worthington with a team, he drove to Albany, from there going on the Erie canal to Buffalo, thence on Lake Erie to Huron, this state, from that port coming to Lyme township with teams. His means being limited, he rented land for a time, but subsequently bought sixty-four acres, which now adjoin the city of Bellevue. Assuming possession of the log house that stood upon the place, he began farming in earnest, and soon was enabled to put up a good frame barn, and in 1856 or 1857 he built a substantial brick house. An energetic, resolute man, he improved a. valuable farm, adding to its size by purchase until he had 110 acres in his home estate. Here he carried on general farming successfully until his death, August 13, 1897. He was highly esteemed throughout the community, and was a faithful member of the Lyme Congregational church, which he served as deacon many years. Deacon Jonathan M. Drury married first, March 17, 1836, Abigail Maynard Knowlton, who was born in New fane, Vermont, of Revolutionary stock, her Grandfather Knowlton having served with the "Knowlton Rangers" in the struggle of the colonies for independence. Her father, Benjamin Knowlton, born August 3, 1782, a farmer by occupation, died at a good old age. He married Olive Stone, who was born July 12, 1781. The first wife of Deacon Jonathan M. Drury died May 8, 1847, leaving three children, as follows : Ellen Maria ; Caroline Tryphena ; and John, the. sub- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE- 1279 ject of this brief biographical sketch. Deacon J. M. Drury married for his second wife, Mrs. Clarissa Barnard Wrisley, who was born in Shelburne, Massachusetts, August 12, 1810, and died in Lyme township, December 20, 1887. Of this marriage one son was born, Myron Maynard Drury, a business man in Chicago, Illinois, residing in Evanston, Illinois. He married Ida Osborn and they have four children : Walter M., Louise, Burton E., and Allen B. By her former marriage Mrs. Clarissa Drury had two sons : George A. (now deceased) and Allen B. Wrisley, both prominent soap manufacturers of Chicago, where they started in business in 1861-2. John Drury received his education in the public and high schools of Bellevue, later completing his studies in Oberlin. He subsequently taught school two terms, but has since been engaged in agricultural pursuits. Succeeding to the ownership of the home estate, he has met with great success in its management, each season reaping profitable harvests. Mr. Drury has been twice married. He married first, in 1870, Ida M. Cowle, who was born September 12, 1846, in Bellevue, Ohio, a daughter of John and Ann (Ford) Cowle, natives of Devonshire, England. She died February 4, 1887. By this union there was one child, Edith Ellen, who was born May 27, 1873, and died August 16, 1873. John Drury married second Mrs. Josephine (Wright) Nims, who was born in Groton township, Erie county, a daughter of John and Betsey (Ford) Wright. John Wright was the founder of the Wright Banking Company of Bellevue, and its president until his death. He also had the distinction of being the largest land owner in this section of the state. Both of John Drury's wives were granddaughters of the late Mrs. Mary Ford, who came to this country from England in 1833 with her husband and eight children—three sons and five daughters—and located in Groton, Erie county. The husband died a few weeks after their arrival here, leaving Mrs. Ford with her family of small children. But, being a woman of rare ability and tact, she took possession of a large farm and successfully carried it on, improving it amid the difficulties and privations of that pioneer day. She gave all of her children a good education and taught them to live exemplary lives. All grew to maturity, married and left families worthy of this much esteemed woman. William Nims, first husband of Mrs. Drury, was born in Groton township, a son of Worthington and Betsey, (Barnard) Nims, and died September 16, 1882. By her first marriage Mrs. Drury had one child, Walter Worthington Nims, a farmer in Lyme township, at Strong's Ridge, who married Mame L. Newton and has one child, Marion Nims, born January 1, 1909. Mr. and Mrs. Drury are members of the Lyme Congregational church, in which both are active workers. Mrs. Drury has been a teacher in the Sunday school for upwards of twenty-five years, while he was superintendent for fifteen years. He succeeded his father as deacon of the church, has served as trustee, and for more than a quarter of a century has been clerk. Looking back over his past life, which has been filled with earnest endeavor, no greater praise can be given than by saying he is a worthy son of an esteemed father. JOHN SHILLIDAY.—Worthy of note in this biographical volume is John Shilliday, a representative agriculturist of Edinburg, Portage county, and one who has met with excellent success in his chosen vocation. He is a man of energy, enterprise and sound judgment, showing both skill and wisdom in conducting his business. A native of Canfield, Mahoning county, Ohio, he was born December 22, 1858, coming from substantial Irish ancestry. His parents, Alexander and Mary (Bingham) Shilliday, emigrated from Ireland to this country, locating first in Canfield, Ohio, from there moving to Atwater, Portage county, and later settling permanently in Edinburg, where they bought zoo acres of land, from which they improved a good farm. Trained to agricultural pursuits while a boy, John Shilliday lived with his parents until becoming of age. Being entirely dependent upon his efforts for a livelihood, he then sought employment as a farm laborer, and for nineteen consecutive years worked by the year for Mr. Anthony Reed. He was a hard-working young man, and, having been reared to habits of economy and prudence, he saved his earnings, and soon after his marriage bought the farm which he now owns and occupies. It contains 155 acres of land, which he cultivates successfully, the rich soil responding readily and satisfactorily to his methods employed in general farming. On March 1, 1905, Mr. Shilliday married Maggie Cullison, and they have one son, Everett P. Shilliday, born August 2, 1906. Polit- 1280 -HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE ically Mr. Shilliday is a Republican, and religiously he is a member, and a trustee, of the Congregational church. FREDERICK EUGENE GRIFFIN, one of the best known agriculturists and stock raisers of Lorain county, former county commissioner and successful business man, is a descendant in paternal lines of sturdy Scotch ancestry, this branch of the family tracing their line to one of three brothers who came from Scotland in colonial days and settled in New York. Morris Griffin, the grandfather of the gentleman whose name introduces this review, was born in Dutchess county, New York, and followed the occupation of farmer, and there died in x827. He married Maria, daughter of Samuel Brownell. Her father was a native of New York and followed droving, between that city and the west ; he died in Wyoming county, New York, at the age of ninety years. After the death of Morris Griffin, in 1828, his widow married, in 1834, Paul Nichols, who later died in Cayuga county, after which she came to live with her son, Frederick A. Griffin, in Amherst township. Mrs. Nichols lived to the advanced age "of eighty-two years, and died in Michigan in 1887. Frederick A. Griffin, father of Frederick E., was born, in Dutchess county, New York, March 5, 1824, and was reared in part in Cayuga and in part in Dutchess county. He received but a meagre education, but made the most of his opportunities. He. was the only child of his parents and found it necessary to begin working at the age of twelve years. He lived on a farm in Cayuga county until 1844, when, at the age of twenty years, he came to the Western Reserve, locating in Amherst township, Lorain county, and there worked on different farms until the time of his marriage. After his marriage he rented a farm in Amherst township for three years, when he removed to Erie county, remaining there until 1852, when he settled on 160 acres of wild land in Russia township, Lorain county, and cleared the land, successfully carrying on farming until 1878, when he located in Elyria and there lived retired for thirty years. He had previously purchased other lands in Amherst and Russia townships, and his holdings were quite large. In October, 1907, Mr. Griffin purchased a farm near his sons, and there resided until his death, December 19, 1909. He was independent in politics and a strong advocate of temperance princi ples. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Elyria.. On September 4, 1846, Mr. Griffin was married in Ridgeville, Lorain county, to Miss Bethia L. Jenne, born April 27, 1829, a native of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, daughter of Ansel and Elizabeth (Brown) Jenne, who came from Cayuga county, New York, to the Western Reserve in 1818, settling first in Orange, Cuyahoga county, and in Amherst in 1841. Two sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Griffin, as follows : Frederick E., born October 15, 1847, and Charles B., born May 13, 1855, who married Mary Gawn and is a farmer in Amherst township. Frederick Eugene Griffin was born in Amherst township, Lorain county, October 15, 1847, and attended in his boyhood and early youth the public schools of his township, and was reared to farming, which has been his life work. He resided with his parents until shortly after his marriage, when he bought thirty-six acres adjoining his father's farm, to which he added from time to time as he was able, and now owns 110 acres, part of which is located in Russia township. Mr. Griffin has followed farming in general lines, and is a well known and successful breeder of Wilkes and Hambletonian breeds of horses and Shropshire Downs registered sheep. He is up-to-date and enterprising, and has long been associated with the Lorain County and Wellington Agricultural Societies, and has held all the important offices in both. He is now vice-president of the Lorain County Agricultural Society and superintendent of the horse department of the Wellington Agricultural Society. He is a member of Oberlin Lodge, No. 380, F. and A. M., and of the Patrons of Husbandry of Oberlin. He is a member of the Congregational church of Amherst, and has for many years served as trustee. In political views Mr. Grill; fin is a stanch Republican, and has long taken a deep and active interest in the success of the party. He has served as township committeeman and member of the county central committee ; in 1893 he was elected county commissioner, taking office on January 1, 1894, and he served seven years continuously. He is prominent in local affairs, and is a friend to progress and improvement. Mr. Griffin married, December 6, 1868, Emma Bassett, born in Russia township, April 26, 1847, daughter of Charles and Emma (Parsons) Bassett and granddaughter of Nathan and Sarah (Standish) Bassett. Her father HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE- 1281 was born in Chili, Monroe county, New York, March 10, 1820, and the mother in Wiltshire, England, July 28, 1819. He was a direct descendant of Miles Standish, and his mother's ancestral line went back to the Mayflower passengers who came to Massachusetts in 1620. He was the second and younger son of Nathan and Sarah (Bridgewater) Bassett, who came to Russia township in 1834. The frame house he erected still stands. Nathan Bassett was a man of strong vitality and possessed mental powers above the average ; in his younger days he spent seven years on the ocean, in the service of the East India Company. Mrs. Charles Bassett died December 20, 1901, and he resides with his youngest son, Harvey L., in Oberlin. Mr. Griffin and his wife became the parents of one son, Allen E., born April 7, 1870, now book-keeper for the Garford Company at Elyria. He married Helen Eskert, and they have two children, Carroll E. and Frances E. JAMES NICHOLL.-A strong and noble character was that of the late James Nicholl, whose death occurred at his home in Amherst, Lorain county, Ohio, on July 26, 1909, when was thus taken from the community one who had there lived from his childhood days and who held an inviolable place in the confidence and affectionate regard of all classes and conditions of men. He exerted an emphatic influence in connection with business and civic affairs during the course of a long and significantly successful career and he gained prestige as one of the essentially representative business men of the historic old Western Reserve. His success in temporal affairs was the direct result of his individual ability and application, and he ever stood exemplar of that integrity of purpose which figures as the plumb of character and constitutes the metewand of popular approbation and esteem. As a citizen of the best type and as a man honored and valued in all the varied relations of life it is most consonant that he be accorded a tribute in this publication devoted to the Western Reserve and its people. James Nicholl was born at Drummondsville, province of Ontario, Canada, on September 15, 1855, and is a son of James and Jane (Lawson) Nicholl. A memoir to his father appears on other pages of this volume, and in view of this fact further review of the family history is not demanded in the present connection. James Nicholl was a child of four years at the time of the family removal from Canada to Brownhelm, Lorain county, Ohio, where his father became superintendent of the now famous stone quarries of Brownhelm and Amherst. The subject of this memoir gained his early educational discipline in the public schools of Brownhelm and later supplemented tnis training by a course of study in St. Catherine's Academy, at St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada. At an early age Mr. Nicholl initiated his association with the practical duties and responsibilities of life, finding employment in connection with the work of the quarries, with whose operation his father was identified in an executive capacity, as already noted. Of his connection with this line of industry the following pertinent statements have been written "He became skillful in not a few of its departments and familiar with all its details, and for many years he was a valuable assistant in the mechanical development of the quarries, having been thus engaged until some of them became foremost in extent and output, as well as in equipment, among the great sandstone quarries of the world. He also had a part in the merging of the several stone companies with the Cleveland Stone Company, in which he became, a stockholder and of which he was one of the active and valued superintendents for a number of years prior to his death, having been incumbent of this administrative office at the time when he was summoned to the life eternal." Continuing to draw from the same source of information, there is found a deep human note that shows how strongly the man appealed to the regard and esteem of his fellow men, and the words, with but slight paraphrase, are well worthy of perpetuation in this article : "As an officer he was valued by the company and esteemed and respected and loved by his men. He was affable to all and approachable to everyone. None had a deeper appreciation of the dignity of honest toil and endeavor and none placed truer valuations upon men and affairs. The humblest workman addressed him as 'Jim' and talked with him as freely and as familiarly as with his companion in toil. In his journeys from quarry to quarry no vacant seat in his automobile was refused to a workman, no matter how stained with the dust of labor. During his illness his men inquired in a friendly way concerning him at the first ; then, as the weeks wore on, they became anxious and solicitous, as they feared that 'Jim' would never be among them again. They recalled many of his kindnesses, spoke appreciatively of his worth as a man among   1282 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE them and affectionately of him as a friend. The news of his death was received by them in silence. It seemed that every man had to feel the solemnity of a personal loss before speaking of or even changing his occupation." And all of this is true in the business and social community. in which he had many important relations. There were few who had not, at some time or other, had some business transaction with him. He was a member of several of the fratdnal societies of the town and at his funeral his brethren were present, bearing the insignia of mourning- in token of their sorrow. Though not formally a 'member of any church Mr. Nicholl had a deep reverence for the spiritual verities and for more than ten years prior to his demise he served as a member of the board of trustees of the Congregational church in Amherst, having been president of the board at the time of his death. In token of respect the quarries ceased all operations at the time of the funeral services, and the doors of the local business houses were closed. His work well done, a good man had passed, forward to the "land of the leal," and to those nearest and dearest to him comes a measure of consolation and compensation 'in having so closely touched a life and character marked by splendid and simple nobility. Mr. Nicholl was a man of broad mental ken and of insistent public spirit, so that he ever showed a deep and helpful interest in all that touched the welfare of the community.; He was signally true to all civic duties, and served as trustee of Amherst township and as a member of the board of education of Amherst. He was never drawn into the arena of "practical politics," but gave a stanch allegiance to the cause for which the Republican party stands sponsor. In addition to being a director of the Cleveland Stone Company, he was also a member of the directorate of the Elyria Savings & Banking Company and of the American Chicle Company, of New York City. Mr. Nicholl was essentially tolerant and kindly in his relations with his fellow men, and his generosity and deep human sympathy found exemplification in innumerable deeds of unostentatious charity and benevolence, known only to himself and the recipients of his largess and sympathy. He "remembered those who were forgotten," and many are they who thus hold his name in reverent memory in the community which so long represented the scene of his labors as one of the world's noble army of productive workers. He achieved large and generous success and left to his family a large estate, but he held at all times a deep sense of his stewardship, realized the duties and responsibilities that success imposes, and he will be best remembered for the noble thoughts and noble deeds which designated the man himself. He never had aught of desire to enter the white light of publicity or personal notoriety, and his deepest interests were centered in the sacred precincts of a home whose relations were of the most idyllic character and in which bereavement finds its chief solace in the gracious memories that there abide. Mr. Nicholl was an appreciative member of the time-honored Masonic fraternity, in which his affiliations were with Stonington Lodge, No. 503, Free and Accepted Masons ; Marshall Chapter, No. 47, Royal Arch Masons ; Elyria Council, No. 86, Royal and Select Masters ; Elyria Commandery, No. 60, Knights Templars ; and Al Koran Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, in the city of Cleveland. He was also identified with the local organizations of the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of the Maccabees, and not only were these various fraternal orders numerously represented at his funeral, but each of the several bodies passed pertinent resolutions of sorrow, respect and sympathy. The preamble and resolutions passed by Stonington Lodge, No. 503, Free and Accepted Masons, are here reproduced : WHEREAS, The all wise Father of mercy and truth has in his wisdom called home our esteemed brother, James Nicholl, that we ac- knowledge the dispensation of his providence as one of loss, submitting to the divine will, knowing all his ways are just, and that we sustain the loss of a worthy brother. Resolved, That we extend our sympathy to family and friends in this hour of sadness, commending them to the Father above. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be printed in the Amherst Reporter and a copy sent to the bereaved family. The following tribute is likewise worthy of perpetuation in this brief memoir : WHEREAS, It is with heartfelt sorrow that the members of Phoenix Tent, No. 42, Knights of the Maccabees, of Amherst, are called upon to mourn the loss of our brother and a charter member, James Nicholl, whom our Heavenly Father in his infinite wisdom has taken from our midst, therefore be it Resolved, That we do deeply mourn his un- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1283 timely death and extend our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved relatives in this their hour of great bereavement, and be it further Resolved, That in memory of our departed brother our charter be draped in mourning for a period of thirty days, and that these resolutions be entered on our records. And be it further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the bereaved relatives and also to the Amherst Reporter for publication. The Amherst Reporter gave the following appreciative estimate after the remains of Mr. Nicholl had been laid to rest in the Cleveland street cemetery, at Amherst : "The tribute paid last Wednesday by the people of Amherst and vicinity to the memory of the late James Nicholl was a sincere expression of their regard for him. His whole life has been spent here in Amherst ; he knew everybody and everybody knew him. Anyone could come to him with his troubles and get a satisfactory answer. One of the noticeable things in connection with his life,—and, in fact, with regard to the whole Nicholl family,—was his loyalty to the village of Amherst. This was his home town, and, no matter how attractive might be life in the city, the town of Amherst was good enough for him. Men, women, boys, girls and children were all on speaking terms with him and he was approachable on all occasions. This spirit was manifest at the funeral, where, in the arrangements that had been made, men from the quarries were selected to assist in carrying out the obsequies,—truehearted men who had grown up in Amherst." It is scarcely necessary to say, in view of what has preceded, that in the home circle the true nobility of Mr. Nicholl found its apotheosis. Thus at this time there can be no desire to lift the gracious curtain that veils the privacy of every true home, the only reference to the domestic life of the honored subject of this memoir being in the briefest statement of pertinent facts. On July 3, 1876, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Nicholl to Miss Ella Jane Hutton, who was born and reared in Amherst, being a daughter of the late James and Mercy (Cobb) Hutton, of this place, the former of whom was born in England and the latter in the state of Massachusetts. Mrs. Nicholl is a woman of gracious personality and has made the appointments and refinements of her home keep pace with the growing prosperity of her. husband as the years passed, all the while taking a prominent part ,in the best social activities of the community. Concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholl the following brief data are entered : Albert H. is a representative young business man of Amherst ; James R., who is identified with the Amherst interests of the Cleveland Stone Company, married Miss Mabel White and they have one son, James ; Jessie M. is the wife of Henry Wesbecher, of Amherst, and they have two cnildren,Dorothy N. and Joseph H. ; Harry, who married Miss Grace Stiwald, holds a responsible position with the Guardian Savings & Trust Company, of Cleveland ; Dorothy J. died on May 7, 1898, at the age o f three months ; and Russell K. DAVID H. AIKEN.-It has been given Mr. Aiken to attain success and prestige as one of the representative members of the bar of his native county, and he is now established in the practice of his profession in Lorain, where he is recognized as a liberal and progressive citizen and where he has various capitalistic interests of important order. He is one of the able representatives of the younger generation of the bar of the historic old Western Reserve, and this fact is the more gratifying to note .when it is stated that he is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of this favored section of the Buckeye state. Mr. Aiken was born on the parental farmstead in Black River township, Lorain county, Ohio, on the 16th of December, 1872, and is a son of Irad O. and Rose F. (Case) Aiken. The father was born in the state of Wisconsin, in 1842, and was a son of William H. and Hannah (Porter) Aiken, the former of whom was born in Connecticut, a son of Irad O. Aiken (1st), who was likewise born in Connecticut, a representative of a family of English lineage, that was founded in New England in the early colonial era of our national history. Irad O. Aiken (1st) became the founder of the family in the Western Reserve, where he took up his abode in the pioneer days, and his son, William H., was a boy at the time of the family removal to the wilds of Ohio and settlement. in Cuyahoga county, whence they later removed to Amherst township, Lorain county, where .Irad O. Aiken and his wife passed the residue of their lives. William H. Aiken was reared to manhood in Lorain county, and there was eventually solemnized his marriage to Miss Hannah Porter, 1284 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE daughter of Richard Porter, another of the sterling pioneers of the Western Reserve. He removed to the state of Wisconsin, where he remained about two years, within which his son, Irad O., father of the subject of this review, was born, and he then returned with his family to Lorain county, purchasing a farm in Black River township, where both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, secure in the high esteem of all who knew them. Irad O. Aiken, father of him whose name initiates this review, was reared and educated in Black River township, and there 'his entire active career was one of close and successful identification with. the great basic industry of agriculture. He improved one of the valuable farms of Lorain county, was a man of prominence and influence in his township, and was one of the highly esteemed citizens of the county; where he continued to reside until his death, in September, 1907, at the age of sixty-five years. He was a Republican in his political proclivities. He attended the Methodist church, of which his wife is a member and his long been identified as a zealous worker. She now resides on a farm near Lorain, Ohio.. David H. was their only child. Mrs. Rose F. (Case) Aiken, mother of the subject of this sketch, was born in Amherst township, Lorain county, Ohio, in the year .1848, and ,,her parents were numbered among the. honored pioneers. of that township, whither they immigrated from the state of Connecticut. David H. Aiken passed his ,boyhood and early youth on the old home farm in Black River township, and his preliminary education was' secured in the, district school near his home, while he early began to aid in the work of the farm. After completing the curriculum of the local school he continued his studies in the high school in the village of Amherst, and was graduated as a member of the class of 1892. He thereafter took a special course of study in Adelbert College,. in the city of Cleveland, and after leaving this institution he was Matriculated in the law department of Western Reserve University; in the same city. He completed the prescribed technical course and was graduated as a member of the class of 1894, duly receiving his well earned degree of Bachelor Of Laws and being admitted to the bar of his native state in June of the same year. In initiating the practical work of his chosen profession Mr. Aiken located in the attractive and thriving little city of Lorain, where he ecame a member of the law firm of Johnston, Leonard & Aiken, in which his associates were Charles W. Johnston and James H. Leonard. This alliance continued for one year, and since that time Mr. Aiken has conducted an individual practice of general order. He has well proved his powers as a trial lawyer and a well fortified counselor, and his clientage is of representative order, drawn to him by reason of his ability and his personal popularity. He is a member of the Lorain Board of Commerce, of which he was vice-president in 1909, and he is also vice-president of the Penfield Avenue Savings Bank and of the Wood Lumber Company, on Penfield avenue. In politics Mr. Aiken 'is arrayed as a stalwart supporter of the principles and policies' for which the Republican party stands sponsor ; his religious views are in harmony with the tenets of the Congregational church, and in the time-honored Masonic fraternity he has attained to the thirty-second degree in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in which connection he is identified with the Lake Erie Consistory in the city of Cleveland. His York Rite affiliations are in his home city and include membership in Holy Rood Commandery, Knights Templar. In 1897 Mr. Aiken was united in marriage to Miss Ruby B. Rogers, who was born and reared in Willoughby, Lake county, Ohio, a daughter of Leona Rogers. Mr. and Mrs. Aiken have one child—Mildred B. CARLOS COOLIDGE.—Numbered among the highly respected and valued citizens of Lake county is Carlos Coolidge, who was born on the homestead which he now owns and occupies, in 1833, being a son of Jonathan Coolidge, a pioneer settler of Perry township. He comes of substantial New England stock, where his grandfather, James D. Coolidge, won the distinction of shipping the first bale of hops sent from the United States to England. Jonathan Coolidge was born and bred in Boxboro, Massachusetts, and there learned the trade of a cloth dresser. With the restless spirit still characteristic of the youthful Americans, he started westward with his family a few years after his marriage, in search of a favorable place in which to make a permanent location. He lived for a while in Cattaraugus county, New York, from there coming, in 1828, to Perry township, Lake county, where he took up land, improved a comfortable HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1285 homestead, on which he resided until his death, in 1876, at the venerable age of eighty-three years. He was a man of much force of character, and became influential in public affairs, serving as wreck master, notary public and coroner, and being one of the promoters of the Lake County. Agricultural Society. Jonathan Coolidge married, in 1816, Sarah Slocum, of Vermont, and they became the parents of six sons and four daughters, of whom two children survive, namely : Carlos, the subject of this brief sketch ; and Mrs. O. H. Perry, of Perry township. Carlos Coolidge succeeded to the occupation of the parental farm of thirty acres, and has here been successfully .employed in agricultural pursuits during his active career, being also a carpenter by trade. He married, in 1860, Lucy Clark, of Geauga county, whose parents were natives of Massachusetts, as were their ancestors for several generations. Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge have two sons and one daughter. His son Jared is bringing up in his pleasant home two girls, one five years old and the other seven, taken from the St. Clair House in Cleveland. ELI WEBB is numbered among the honored pioneer residents of Portage county and among those who have developed this community to one of the richest agricultural sections of the commonwealth. Although many years of his life have been spent in Shalersville township and he is one of the largest land- -holders, his birth occurred in Columbiana county, this state, December 18, 1825. He is a son of Edward and Polly (Davidson) Webb, and a grandson on the maternal side of Phineas Davidson. Edward Webb, the paternal grandfather, was from Ireland, and he died soon after his marriage, his widow subsequently wedding a Mr. Charlton, and she lived near Alliance, Ohio. Edward Webb and Polly Davidson, born respectively in Hagerstown, Maryland, and in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, were married in the latter commonwealth, and subsequently became residents of Salem, this state, from whence they came to Shalersville township, in Portage county, in 1834. Mr. Webb was a miller, blacksmith and farmer, and although he became a land owner here, he in time sold his property and moved. to Michigan, spending the remainder of his life there. Eli Webb, the third born of his parents' five sons and three daughters, remained in the parental home until his marriage, and in 1857 he bought ninety-four and a half acres of land in Shalersville township. This formed the nucleus to his present large estate, for he has kept adding to his original purchase until the Webb farm at the present time contains 346 acres of rich and fertile land. He married, on the 22d of April, 1850, Mary A. Price, born in Franklin township to John and Elizabeth (Wells) Price, the father from Wales and the mother from Wellsville, Ohio. Mrs. Webb died on the 4th of November, 1884, the mother of these children : Wellington M. and Manley, both Shalersville township agriculturists ; Lilly L., the wife of Herbert Coats, in Troy township, Geauga county, Ohio ; Alta M., her father's housekeeper, is the wife of F. L. Dorflinger, and ,has two children, Frank Wellington and Hazel Tina ; and Clara A. wife of Will D. Hudson, of Ravenna township, has one son, Webb Hudson. Mr. Webb is perhaps one cif the best known of the early pioneers of this portion of Portage county, and his name is traced on the pages of its agricultural history. MARTIN GROSS.—Beginning life for himself with no other capital than a quick, active brain, willing hands and a courageous heart, Martin Gross has steadily climbed the ladder of progress, and now, as head of the Gross Lumber Company, of Bellevue, Huron county, holds a position of note among the capable and successful business men of the Western Reserve. He was born July I, 1843, in Oberneisen, province of Nassau, Germany, which was likewise the place of birth of his father, William Gross. A lifelong resident of Germany, Willean Gross learned the trade of a weaver when young, and followed it in his native city during his active life. He died at the venerable age of eighty-nine years, having lived a long and useful life. His wife, whose maiden name was Katherine Fitz, spent her entire life of four score years in Oberneisen, and there reared her five children, namely : John, William, Elizabeth, Katherine and Martin. John, the oldest child, served during the Civil war in the Second United States Infantry, and is now retired at Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. William, the second son, is now a resident of Bellevue, Ohio, Attending school in the fatherland, Martin Gross subsequently there served an apprenticeship of three years at the cabinet maker's trade. 1286 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE In 1860, ambitious to see more of the world, he emigrated to the United States, landing in New York City, from there going to Rochester, New York, on his arrival finding his capital diminished to the small sum of twenty-five cents. Seeking a boarding place, he found a lady who was sufficiently interested in him to secure him a position at his trade. He remained there six months, receiving four dollars and a half a week wages, and then came to Bellevue, Ohio, arriving here with seventy-five cents in his pocket, his fortune having trebled itself in that brief time. Not finding work at his trade, he entered the employ of a farmer, and was engaged in tilling the soil until August 9, 1862, when he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Going to Cleveland, Mr. Gross went from there with the regiment to Kentucky, thence to Delaware, Ohio, and subsequently accompanying his comrades to Fairfax Court House, Virginia, remaining in that place until the battle of Fredericksburg, when his regiment formed the rear guard of the Union army. Going then into winter quarters at Brooks Station, he remained there until spring, when an active campaign was begun. At the battle of Chancellorsville, Mr. Gross was severely wounded, and after being in the hospital six months was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, and with it took part in various campaigns and engagements, including the battle of Fort Stevens. He was subsequently on duty in Washington D. C., for many months, and often saw President Lincoln, and has a vivid recollection of the intense excitement throughout the city the night 'that he was shot, Mr. Gross being at the theater at the time of the shooting. Mr. Gross was subsequently on guard at the office -of President Johnson, and, one day when he was pacing back and forth in the rain, Mr. Johnson called out of the window and told him to go under the portico. An army officer, making his appearance, asked why he was there. "By order of the president," he replied. .On June 29, 1865, he was honorably discharged from the service, having spent nearly three years in the army. Returning then to Bellevue, Mr. Gross began life anew, and for two years was employed at his trade. In 1867, in company with John S. Wise, he opened a furniture manufactory and store, and continued the business .until 1881, when the partnership was dissolved. Embarking then in the lumber business, Mr. Gross has met with signal success, building up an extensive and profitable trade. In 1898 the Gross Lumber Company was organized, with Mr. Gross as president, and is doing an immense business, its lumber yard being one of the best equipped of any on the line of the Nickel Plate Railroad. In 1866 Mr. Gross married Henrietta Engel, who was born in Bellevue, Ohio, where her father, Christian Engel, was an early settler, coming here from Germany, his native country. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Gross, namely : Louisa, Lizzie, Minnie, Katie, William G., Martin F., and Charles A. Louisa, wife of T. F. Mularky, has three children, Norma, Ruth and Agnes. Lizzie, wife of W. Kramer, has three children, Karl, Ellen and Florence. Minnie married Gus Josenhans, and they have one child, George. Katie, wife of J. Briehl, has three children, Martin, Charles and Joseph. William G. married Estella Cooley. Martin F. married Etta Brickman, and they have one son, Paul. Charles A. married Mamie Long. Mr. Gross cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln, while in the army, but since 1872 has been identified with the Democratic party. He has been prominent in public affairs, having served as trustee of Lyme township for twenty years, as treasurer of the township five years, and as a member of the Bellevue City Council three terms. He is a director in the Bellevue Savings Bank and a stockholder in various concerns. Fraternally he belongs to the C. C. Gambier Post, No. 33, G. A. R., and to the Masonic order ; to Bellevue Lodge, No. 123, I. O. O. F. ; to the Eden Encampment ; and both he and his wife are members of the Daughters of Rebekah. Religiously Mr. and Mrs. Gross are conscientious members of the German Lutheran church, and have reared their children in the same faith. COMMODORE WILLIAM R. HUNTINGTON, one of the well known citizens of Elyria, descends on the paternal side from an honored English family. His great-grandfather, William Huntington, was an admiral of the British navy, and his grandfather, Hugh Huntington, was a professor of theology in Preston College, England. John Huntington, the father of Commodore William R., was born in the city of Preston, England, March 8, 1832, and there on December 25, 1852, he married Jane Beck, who was born in Accrington of that country October 15," 1832. In the year following their marriage HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1287 they came to the United States and settled in Cleveland, Ohio, .where John Huntington became an influential citizen. He was one of the organizers of the Standard Oil Company, one of the largest stockholders of the Cleveland Stone Company and was a large owner of lake vessels. From 1859 until 1873 he was a member of the Cleveland city council, and he was prominent in the Masonic fraternity, a member of the thirty-second degree, a Knight Templar and a Shriner, and he died on the loth of January, 1893, his wife having passed away April 8, 1882. William R. Huntington, born in Cleveland, Ohio, September 3, 1857, graduated from the Cleveland high school and the Spencerian Business College of that city, and in 1878 he was appointed deputy treasurer of Cuyahoga county, his services continuing until 1882. At that time he acquired an interest in the McIntosh-Huntington Hardware Company, of Cleveland, but this he relinquished in 1884 to look after his outside interests. Three years later he entered active business again and continued for five years. He came to Elyria in 1896, and at that time he again practically retired from active business pursuits, although at present he is connected with the F. B. Stearns Company, manufacturers of high grade automobiles, and is also a director in the Elyria Telephone Company and a stockholder in the Hygienic Ice Company, of Elyria. He was for six years fish and game commissioner of Ohio, under the administrations of Governors Campbell, McKinley and Bushnell ; was commodore of the Inter-Lake Yachting Association in 1901, this association comprising all the yacht clubs on the Great Lakes ; and is at the present time and has been for three years commodore of the Sandusky Yacht Club. He is a Shriner, a Knight Templar and a Thirty-second degree Mason, is a life member and was four times exalted ruler of the local lodge of Elks, and is a member of the Knights of Pythias and Maccabees fraternities and of the United Commercial Travelers. Commodore Huntington married, January 22, 1884, Mary E. Baldwin, from. Houston, Texas, born there June 19, 1864, and `a daughter, Lillian Elizabeth, was born to them on the 19th of May, 1895.   BENJAMIN TAYLOR.-With the closing of the first decade of the twentieth century, 100 years will represent the period during which the Taylor family name has been identified Vol. III-2 with the history of Portage county, and the subject of this review, one of the honored citizens and progressive agriculturists of Hiram township, now owns and resides upon his fine farm which was secured by his father in the year 1810, at which time this now favored section of the Western Reserve was practically a sylvan wilderness. Representatives of this sterling family have contributed materially to the civic and industrial development of Portage county, and it is most consistent that in this publication due consideration be accorded the family. Benjamin Taylor was born on his present homestead, in Hiram township, on the 12th of September, 1853, and is a son of Elisha and Aurilla (Dyke) Taylor, the former of whom was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on the 1st of April, 1792, and the latter in Vermont, on the 14th of April, 1812. Elisha Taylor was summoned to the life eternal on the 22d of August, 1875, and his wife passed away on the 6th of November, 1895, at the venerable age of eighty-three years. Their marriage was solemnized at Shalersville, Portage county, Ohio, on the 9th of February, 1842. Elisha Taylor came to the Western Reserve in 1810, when about eighteen years of age, and in that year he settled on the farm now owned by Benjamin Taylor. He found Cleveland a pioneer hamlet of a few log houses, and much of the site of the present populous and beautiful city was then a veritable swamp. From Cleveland he made his way on foot to his destination in Portage county, and he carried on his back a feather bed, which he had brought from the east. In the early days he was compelled to go to Cleveland for salt and other necessities, and for the salt he paid at the rate of fifteen dollars a barrel. His various commodities were transported to his home on his back, and on one occasion he thus bore a log chain and nine drag-teeth, weighing forty-three pounds in all. A part of this ancient chain is still in the possession of his son, the subject of this sketch. When Elisha Taylor located in Hiram township there were only eleven families settled within its borders, and the only highways were the trails marked by blazed trees. After locating in Ohio he made three trips on foot to his old home in the east. He was a son of Baldwin Taylor, who removed from Maryland to Hartford, Connecticut, in which state he passed the residue of his life Elisha Taylor reclaimed his farm from the forest, and here he and his wife passed the 1288 -HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE remainder of their lives, secure in the respect and esteem of all who knew them. They became the parents of three children, of whom two are living. Benjamin Taylor was afforded the advantages of the district schools of Hiram township, and continued his studies during the winter terms until he was seventeen years of age. He has devoted his entire active career to farming and stock-growing and has remained continuously on the fine old homestead, of which he has been the owner since a boy. He is a loyal and liberal citizen, and while he has never sought public office he gives a stanch support to the principles and policies of the Republican party. On the 26th of May, 1875, Mr. Taylor was united in marriage to Miss Ida Bennett, of Hiram, who was born at Troy, Geauga county, Ohio, on the 7th of October, 1857, a daughter of Daniel and Maroa (Rose) Bennett, the former of whom was born in the state of New York and the latter in Geauga county. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are : Frank Elisha, the eldest son, was born November 17, 1876, and on the loth of December, 1896, in Hiram township, he married Miss Libby Bennett, who was born in the state of New York, and they have had three children-Florence, born October 27, 1902 ; Alice, born January 14, 1905 ; and Leola, who was born July 12, 1907, and died November 3o, 1908. Thurston Taylor was born September 16, 1878, and, December 24, 1902, he married Miss Vera Taylor, of Bainbridge, Ohio, and they have one child, Olive Gertrude, born July 1, 1905 ; Arlie Ezra Taylor was born March 7, 1883, and on the 5th of September, 1906, he married Miss Violet Rose, of Burton, Ohio ; Elta Glenn Taylor, born October 13, 1884, married Miss Amelia Kaizer, of Berea, Ohio, on the 21st of September, 1907, and they have one child, Jessie Aurelia, born March 24, 1908 ; Charles Taylor, born June 3o, 1886, now lives in Washington state ; and Carl Sidney was born October 27, 1892. JOSEPH RICHARDSON MILLER, son of James and Mary Ann (Young) Miller, was born in Winlaton, county Durham, England, January 14, 1843, at which place James Miller owned and operated an iron foundry. In 1845 he cam.e to the United States and located at Philadelphia, and later at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, remaining until 1850, when he went to Cleveland; Ohio, where he died soon after. Mr. and Mrs. Miller had six children, two of whom died in infancy ; the others are : Ellen, who married Charles Folsom and died in Minnesota in 1859 ; William J., of Cleveland, Ohio ; Joseph R. and Jane B., who reside in Amherst. Joseph R. Miller lived with his mother until fifteen years of age, when he began learning the blacksmith trade with James Gawn, of North Amherst ; after spending two years in this position he conducted the shop two years on his own account. Shortly after the beginning of the Civil war he enlisted for service in the Fifteenth Ohio Battery, but was not accepted, and afterwards spent six months at Oberlin Academy. He then removed to Norwalk, Ohio, where he worked at his trade two years, afterward returning to Amherst, where, in April, 1863, he married Vandelia S. Warner, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Warner, and went to live on his father-in-law's farm (which farm he afterwards purchased and has owned and operated ever since). His wife died eighteen months later, leaving no children. In 1878 he married (second). Helen Adaline Monger, daughter of Joel and Sarah (Dean) Monger, of Vermont, who came to Amherst when she was an infant. Mrs. Miller died October 26, 1907. To this union were born seven children, namely : Joseph R., of Pittsburg, married Edna More ; Mary A., William A., at home ; Jane H., married S. D. France, of New York City ; Norman B. and Gamaliel R., at home ; and Helen, who died in infancy. CLARENCE E. VAN DEUSEN, A. B., LL. B. Prominent among the leading attorneys of Lorain county is Clarence E. Van Deusen, A. B., L.L. B., a broad-minded, cultured man of high mental attainments, who has achieved deserved success both as an educator and as a lawyer, and is now actively engaged in the practice of law in the city of Lorain. He was born June 18, 1878, at Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio, where his grandfather, Rush L. Van Deusen, was a pioneer settler, and which was likewise the birthplace of his father, N. L. Van Deusen. The descendant of a Dutch family of note, Rush L. Van Deusen was born in New York state, and there spent his early years. Migrating when young to the Western Reserve, he took up a large tract of land in Medina county, and in the years that ensued contributed his full share towards advancing the growth and prosperity of that part of Ohio. HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1289 Succeeding to the free and independent occupation to which he was born and bred, N. L. Van Deusen has spent his entire life in Medina county, where he is now extensively engaged in agricultural and horticultural pursuits, having a well improved farm and an .extensive nursery. He married Emma G. Barber, who was born in Lakewood, Ohio, a daughter of John Barber. Receiving better educational advantages than most of the farmers' sons of his day, Clarence E. Van Deusen received his diploma at the Hinckley high school in 1893, and in 1896 was graduated from the academic department of Baldwin University, in Berea, Ohio, where, four years later, he completed the classical course, receiving the degree of A. B. in 1900. Still pursuing his studies, he was graduated from the Cleveland Law School in 1903, with the degree of LL. B., and at the same time was admitted to the Ohio bar. Mr. Van Deusen immediately located in Lorain and began the practice of his profession. The following year, however, he accepted the chair of mathematics in the Central State Normal School in Pennsylvania, and filled the position with great credit to himself and to the pleas-tire of all concerned. In 1904 Mr. Van Deusen returned to Lorain, and for a time was -secretary, treasurer and lecturer in the Lorain Business College, but has since devoted his time and energies to his legal work. On September 2, 1909, Mr. Van Deusen married Margaret C. Richards, a teacher in the Lorain city schools. CHARLES ANDREW HOWELL, a prominent farmer and citizen of Nelson. township, Portage county, is fully worthy of a place in a history of the Western Reserve, both because of his honorable standing and the pioneer character of his ancestry, as well as the leading identification of his wife's family with the early development of that section of northern Ohio. Mr. Howell himself was born in Nelson August 22, 1843, and comes of good New England patriotic stock, his great-grandfather serving in the Revolutionary army. His father, John Howell, was a native of Belleville, New Jersey, born September 15, 1806, and on June 3o, 1833, he married Catherine Wakely, a daughter of John Wakely. In 1836 he brought his family to the Western Reserve, journeying by way of the Erie canal to Buffalo, thence by Lake Erie to Fairport (now Painesville), and thence by stage to Nelson. He established a homestead upon which he and his wife spent their remaining years, the father dying July 10, 1874, and the mother, March 9, 1879. Both are buried in the Nelson cemetery, as the faithful and honored parents of nine children. John Howell was a shoemaker and worked at his trade at Nelson Center for about thirty years. Charles A. was reared on the old Nelson township, and on December 3o, 1874, a few months after his father's death, married Edna Cathaline Wright, daughter of the late Lyman Thomas and granddaughter o f Jabez Wright, pioneers of Portage county, the latter coming to Nelson township when a man past middle age, about a year before the arrival of the Howells. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Howell was born in the present family home November I, 1887, and on November 18, 1908, she married Archie Leroy Lewis, of Nelson, born February 8, 1886. Mrs. Howell was born July 8, 1856, at Independence, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, about ten miles south of Cleveland, and was brought by her parents to her present home when but two months old. She received her education in Nelson Center, passing through both the district and high schools, and her marriage to Mr. Howell occurred at Ravenna, Ohio, when she was only eighteen years of age. Jabez Wright, her grandfather, who was of Welsh ancestry, was born in 1776, and in 1814, after his marriage to Miss Polly Hamilton, left his Massachusetts home and, with his family, resided in New York for a period of about twenty-one years. They then started for the Western Reserve, traveling by way of the Erie canal to Buffalo, thence to. Painesville and (by the old Warsaw stage road) to Nelson Center. Taking up land in the township, he cultivated and improved the farm on which both he and his wife died—the latter, January 20, 1852, and the former, June 24, 1863—both being laid to rest in the rural cemetery at Nelson. Their five children were reared in Nelson township. Lyman Thomas Wright, Mrs. Howell's father, was born in Tolland, Hampden county, Massachusetts, March io, 181o, and came with the family to Nelson township in 1835. He succeeded to the occupation in which he was reared, and was engaged in tilling the soil in that part of Portage county until his death, June 29, 1883. He married Miss Olive Elizabeth Alford, daughter of Levi and Edna (Conant) Alford, pioneers of this part of the county. She was born January 8, 1815, and 1290 -HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE had the distinction o f being the first white female child born in Windham township. The parents of Levi Alford were Elijah and Olive Alford, and Mrs. Edna Conant Alford was a daughter of Thatcher and Elizabeth Conant. Mrs. Howell's mother died on the home farm in Nelson township, September 14, 1896, being buried beside her husband at Nelson Center. The first white child born in Nelson township was Harmon Mills, whose birth occurred on the farm now owned and occupied by Mrs. Howell. The foregoing conclusively indicates that the Wrights have a strong claim to prominence in any history of the Western Reserve dealing with Portage county. DR. WILLIAM E. WHEATLEY, official surgeon for the National Tube Company,, of Lorain, and one of the most brilliant representatives of his profession in that section of the state, is a native of Gloucestershire, England, although he has been a resident of the Western Reserve since early childhood. He was born July 13, 1871, and is a son of William and L. C. S. A. (Collins) Wheatley, natives of Broadway, Worcestershire, England. William Wheatley and his family came to the United States in 1873, settling in Cleveland, Ohio, where the parents now reside. Dr. Wheatley there spent his boyhood and attended the public and high schools. Later he attended the medical department of the Western Reserve University, where he graduated with the class of 1894, after which he immediately entered Charity Hospital in Cleveland as interne. He remained there until October, 1895, when he began private practice in Cleveland. In 1898 Dr. Wheatley became house surgeon in Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland, which post he filled until May, 1899, and then spent another year in private practice. In 1900 Dr. Wheatley received the appointment to the position now held by him. The National Tube Company employs 10,000 workmen, and he and his assistants give them medical and surgical attention when they' need it. Aside from his duties in this connection he is surgeon for the Lorain Hospital and consulting surgeon at the Memorial Hospital in Elyria, and also has a large private practice in surgery exclusively. He stands very high in his profession, and his advice is widely sought in difficult cases. He is a member of the County, State and American medical societies. In 1901 Dr. Wheatley went abroad and spent six months in study in the hospitals of Vienna, Austria, renowned throughout the world. Fraternally he belongs to Woodward Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Holyrood Commandery and Lake Erie Consistory, and is also a member of the Knights of Pythias. He is a director of the City Bank Company of Lorain. Dr. Wheatley married in September, 1902, Anna, daughter of Watkins Y. Williams, former superintendent of the Bessemer department of the National Tube Company, and they have three children, Anna Allyne, six years of. age ; William Edgar, Jr., four years old ; and Aldyhe, aged two and a half years. LUTHER ANDREW REED was born in Franklin township, Portage county, August 11, 1844, and his life thus far on its journey has been. identified with this county and its interests. His parents, James H. and Tursey (Scranton) Reed, the latter a daughter of Joseph Scranton, also had their nativity in Portage county, and after their marriage they located in Franklin township, near Brady Lake, where the Scrantons owned a great deal of land, and they subsequently lived and died there. Luther A. Reed was the sixth born of their six sons and six daughters, and he continued in the parental home until enlisting for the Civil war on February 24, 1865. He became a member of Company I, One Hundred and Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the Army of the Tennessee, and he continued with his command until the following September, when the war closed and he returned to his home. He still continued on his father's homestead three years after his marriage, and then moving to Kent was for fourteen years engaged in the grocery, produce and feed business there. Then selling that industry he with M. G. Norton opened a roller skating rink in Greenville, Pennsylvania, but two years later he disposed of his interest in that business and returned to his father's farm, and after three years there bought sixty acres of land on the southern line of Shalersville township and has since devoted his attention to his farming pursuits. He has served two years each as president and vice president of the Portage County Horticultural Society. Mrs. Reed bore the maiden name of Lucretia Kendice, and they were married on October 21, 1869. She was born in Ravenna township, a daughter of John and Sarah (Rinehart) Kendice, the father from Germany and the mother from Indiana. Their children are Lena G., the wife of F. W. Clemens, of HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1291 Ravenna township, and Clifford, of the city of Ravenna. Mr. Reed in politics supports the principles of the Republican party. FRANK A. KNAPP.—Prominent among the active and progressive business men of Bellevue is Frank A. Knapp, president and general manager of the local telephone company, and vice president of the First National Bank of Bellevue, in which he is also a director, and one of the directorate of the Ohio State Life Insurance Company of America. A son of the late Frank Knapp, he was born, March 29, 1865, in Michelfeld, Germany, where the early days of his childhood were spent. Born in Kapel Rodex, Germany, Frank Knapp learned the trade of a tailor when young. He subsequently entered the German army, in which he served six years, from 1865 until 1871, covering the period of the Franco-Prussian war. In 1871, accompanied by his wife and children, he emigrated to the United States, and until his death, at the age of sixty.. four years, was engaged in the tailoring busiess in Bellevue, Ohio. His wife, Christina chween, was born in Michelfeld, Germany, and died in Bellevue, Ohio, at the age of forty-nine years, leaving two sons, namely : John, residing in Portland, Oregon ; and Frank A., the subject of this brief sketch. Acquiring his education in the public schools of Bellevue, Frank A. Knapp began life as a wage-earner when but thirteen years old, entering the drygoods establishment of Smith & Green, remaining until the dissolution of the firm, fifteen months later. He then accepted a position as clerk with the firm of Hilbish, Harsch & Co., which was soon changed to Harsch. Leinbaugh & Wolfrom, with which he was connected twelve years. Forming a copartnership then with Fred Wolfrom., Mr. Knapp succeeded to the business of his former employers, becoming junior member of the firm of Wolfrom & Knapp. Selling his interest in the firm at the end of six years, he, with C. R. Callaghan, organized the Bellevue Home Telephone Company, one of the most beneficial enterprises ever promoted in the city. Beginning on a modest scale, with but few subscribers, the company rapidly increased its business, each week establishing communication with more residences and more business houses, and after a time purchased the line of the Huron Telephone Company. Encouraged by its great ,success, the company then bought anH consolidated the telephone lines of Huron, Erie, Seneca and Crawford counties, and when the new company was organized under its present name of the Local Telephone Company, Mr. Knapp was made its president and general manager. Under his able management the company has met with almost phenomenal success, new telephones being constantly installed, and its miles of wires extended throughout the Reserve, communication being established in villages, cities and towns, proving a boon to the farming communities as well as to the larger and more populous places. Mr. Knapp married, in 1889, Lena C. Sutter, who was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, a daughter of Rev. J. J. and Magdalena (Hoffman) Sutter. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Knapp, namely : Magdalena, Stella, Winnifred, Alice and Frances. A stanch Republican in politics, Mr. Knapp has filled many positions of trust and responsibility, having been clerk of Lyme township ; a member of the city council ; a trustee of the public library ; and was postmaster from 1902 until 1908, when he resigned in order to devote his entire time to the development and promotion of his telephone business. HERBERT MARSHALL DOOLITTLE, of Painesville, is a member of the widely known hard. ware firm of Doolittle Brothers Company, and one of the substantial men of that city.̊ He represents a family which is first anciently identified with England, then with the early colonial history of New England and lastly with the pioneer times of the Western Reserve. The surname of the family had its origin in Normandy and was not known in England until after the conquest of 1066. The Anglicised spelling endeavored to imitate the pronunciation of the ancient Norman, among its early forms being De :Dolieta and DieLitell. When the family name was introduced to New England by Abraham, in 164o, it had been modified to Dowlittell. In the year named Abraham Dowlittell arrived at either Plymouth or Salem, Massachusetts, and then journeyed through the wilderness of southern New England until he reached the settlement of New Haven. He had married Joane Allen, daughter of James Allen, of Kempston, Bedfordshire, England, and after he fixed, the family home at the Connecticut town he became a man of public consequence. He was chosen a deputy to the general colonial assembly which met at Hartford, serving thus for seven terms ; served as selectman of his home town for many consecutive years, and 1292 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE was long engaged in details of local and colonial government. Mr. Dowlittell married as his second wife, in 1663, Abigail Moss, daughter of. John Moss, who died at New Haven in 1707, at the remarkable age of 107 years. Abraham Dowlittell has other claims to local prominence, as he was one of the founders of the town of Wallingford in 1672 ; was one of the committee to fix the boundary between the two towns on the west side of the river, and in King Philip's war of 1675 served as sergeant and as a member of the colonial vigilance committee. He is buried at Wallingford and his grave is marked by a rough field stone about a foot high and a few inches thick, upon which are inscribed the initials of the deceased, age, date of death, etc. Tracing the family line through seven generations many names of prominence are found in every honorable calling, but want of space brings the writer to Joel Doolittle, grandfather of H. Marshall, who was a leading member of the Vermont bar and for several years a judge. of the state supreme court. John Titus Doolittle, his son, was born at Middlebury, that state, on November 13, 1811, graduated in the college at that place, class of 1834, and studied law in his father's office. He moved to Painesville, Lake county, in 1837 ; there married Miss Ann M. Marshall, a. native of Colebrook, Connecticut ; held: the office of city magistrate for twenty-seven years, and died, after a long and honorable career, on August 12, 1871. -Mrs. John T. Doolittle was a woman of more than ordinary culture and retained to the last, in a remarkable degree, her youthfDoolittle,y of spirits. H. Marshall Doolittle' son of J. T. Doolittle, was born in Painesville, November, 1853. Since 1871 he has been engaged in the iron and hardware business, being in Cleveland many years with the firm of Cleveland, Brown & Co. and later with the Bowen-Fuller Company as secretary. In 1899 the Doolittle Bros. purchased the hardware business of C. O. Child in Painesville and in 1904 the business was incorporated under the style of The Doolittle Bros. Company and for years has been recognized as a leader in the mercantile field of Lake county. Mr. Doolittle's wife was formerly Miss Bella Irene Pratt, also a native of Painesville, daughter of Pliny Pratt, an early resident of that city. They have one child, Marshall Charles, now (109) thirteen years of age. Charles Edward Doolittle, the eldest son of John T. Doolittle, served in the Civil war in the One Hundred and Fifth Regiment, Company D. For thirty years he has been a resident of Hamilton, Canada, where he is a man of prominence in the iron business, being vice president of the Hamilton Steel & Iron Company. He married Miss Juliet Wilcox, daughter of Aaron Wilcox, a prominent banker of Painesville,. Ohio. Their family consisted of four children : Juliet W., Charles M., Wilcox and Elsie. Robert Eugene Doolittle, brother of the foregoing and partner in the Doolittle Brothers Company, was born in Painesville, December 1, 1851, and married Miss Alice S. Andrus, at Elyria, January 8, 1873. They have two sons. —Charles Henry, connected with the railway mail service at Cleveland, and Harold Medoris, a professor on the faculty of Baylor University, Dallas, Texas. The daughter, Mary Edith; died in 1883 when four years of age. A sister,. Mary Edith Doolittle, who was born at Painesville April 17, 1859, was married at that place in 1890 to Isaac K. Pierson, who was killed in Honduras in July, 1908, being thrown from a horse while on a surveying trip. Mark R. Doolittle, an uncle of the Doolittle brothers, was an old settler and a highly honored character of Painesville. He was born at Middlebury, Vermont, August 30, 1834; came to Painesville in 1845 and on September 4, 1847, married Miss Alta Parsons Briggs, a native of Erie county, New York, and a lady of much culture. For a number of years Mr. Doolittle was one of the proprietors of the Painesville Telegraph, and after thepostmasterf Harrison was appointed postniaster, holding that office four years. His wife died on December 21, 1908, and five months later he passed to the better life. The deceased was an Qdd Fellow for more than half a century, and his fueral was largely attended by members of that fraternity, as well as by hisSEPHr numerous and warm friends. JOSEPH J. RICE, one of the venerable and most highly respected citizens of Amherst township, a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Uhlry) Rice, was born in Westmoreland, county, Pennsylvania, September 17, 1828, and was brought by his parents to the farm on which he now resides when he was six months old. His father, Joseph Rice, was a son of John Rice, of Pennsylvania, of French descent. Joseph Rice and his wife were both natives of Pennsylvania, and in 1829 drove to Lorain county, settling in Amherst township, on sixty acres of wild timber land. He died in 1835, and his widow HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1293 lived thirty-five years longer on the homestead. They had four children, namely : Henry, who died in Wisconsin ; Peter, who died in Oberlin, Ohio ; Samuel B., who died in California ; and Joseph J. Joseph J. Rice has lived on his present farm since he was a year old, and has always worked on it since he was old enough to do so. In 1849 he took a trip through the middle western states, spending about a year away from home, and then returned. His share of the homestead was about fifteen acres, and he purchased the remainder from his brothers ; he kept adding to his land as he was able, and now owns between 15o and 200 acres. Aside from some fifty acres of timber land, the farm is all under cultivation. In 1836 his brothers, Henry and Peter, established a foundry for the manufacture of plows and other agricultural implements, one of the very first to be located in that portion of the state. In 1849 he went into partnership with the others, and a few years later purchased their interest, since which time he has carried on the enterprise independently. His honest made Rice plow has won a well established reputation throughout .the country. Since the location of stone quarries in the region, Mr. Rice has made many castings for the work of quarrying. He is an enterprising, industrious farmer and business man, and has met with great success in all his enterprises. He takes an active interest in political matters, and is an adherent of the Republican party. Mr. Rice completed his home in 1871. Mr. Rice married, October 29, 1857, Emily Josephine Cook, born in Delaware county, New York, February 4, 1839, daughter of Lewis R. and Erneline (Remington) Cook, also of Delaware county ; her grandparents, Joseph Cook, and Daniel and Nancy (Rich) Remington, were from Vermont. Lewis R. Cook and his wife came to Norwalk, Ohio, in 1844. He was a farmer and carpenter, and subsequently moved to Amherst township, where he lived on a farm until his death, November 10, 1878 ; his widow died June 24, 1894. Mr. Rice and his Wife have three sons, namely : Arthur J. of Amherst township ; Virgil E., of Oberlin, Ohio, a florist ; and Tracy J., a musician, of Cleveland. All of the sons received their education at Oberlin, and are valued and esteemed citizens. CARRIE CHASE DAVIS, M. D., of Sandusky, is one of the leading women practitioners of the Western Reserve and she is also prominent as a woman suffragist of the west. She was born at Castalia, Ohio, August 13, 1863, and is a daughter of Thomas Robert and Sarah Alin (Chase) Davis. Her father was a native of New York, born February 14, 1824, and became well known as a leading farmer and stock raiser near Sandusky. He was also one of the period, his home being one of the best known stations on the Underground Railway between the States and Canada. He was a highly educated man, a student of Oberlin College and a Congregationalist of earnest convictions and wide influence. The Chases who are of the maternal side of the Doctor's family are of ancient English origin. The first to emigrate to America was William Chase, born about 1595, who accompanied Governor Winthrop to Massachusetts in 1630, and settled at Yarmouth. Various facts connected with his life in this country are obtained from the town and church records on file in Hartford, Connecticut. Among other interesting items is an account of a singular malady which affected his wife, Mary Chase, which Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has described in one of his characteristic letters, as well as her restoration to health. As described in the original account : "She had a paralitik humor which fell into her backbone so she could not stir her body, but as she was lifted. It filled her with great torture, and caused her backbone to go out of joint and bunch out. From the beginning to the end of which infirmity she lay four and a half years ; and a great part of the time she was a sad spectacle of pain and misery. But it pleased God to raise her again, and she bore children after it." The details regarding the life of Mrs. William Chase are incomplete. It is known that she came from England with her husband, bore him a number of children and died at Yarmouth, Massachusetts, in 1659.   William Chase, son of the original American emigrant, was born in England about 1622, and came to Yarmouth with his parents. From him the direct line of descent is through John Chase (III), Isaac Chase (IV), Isaac Chase (V), Obadiah Chase (VI), ,Elvin Chase (VII) and Henry Nichols Chase (VI II) to Sarah Ann Chase, the mother of Dr. Davis. Of those John, Isaac (IV) and Isaac (V) were born and died at Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Obadiah Chase, mentioned above, served in the French and Indian war, the records showing that on May 1, 1760, he passed muster for the company commanded by Captain 1294 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE   Richard Reas, of Dutchess county, New York ; also that he served in the Revolutionary war as a member of the Seventh Regiment militia, from that county, commanded by Colonel Henry Ludenton. Henry Nichols Chase was born at Kent, New York, March 3o, 1818, and died at Rockwell Mill, Sandusky county, Ohio, July 31, 1867. He was maternal grandfather to Dr. Davis and one ,of the most substantial citizens of that part of the Western Reserve, owning one of the first mills operated by water power near Castalia. He married Mary (Chapman) Waller on June 6, 1840, his wife being born April 14, 1809, and died at Attica, Ohio, February 22, 1856. Sarah Ann Chase, the eldest of their three children, was born near Castalia, Ohio, September 13, 1841, and by her marriage to Thomas Robert Davis, October 20, 1859, became the mother of two children, of whom Dr. Davis was the elder. The other daughter, May Davis, a physician, was born at Castalia, April 5, 1866, and married Arthur Benoni Baker at Wa-Keeney, Kansas, May 8, 1888. They are the parents of four children. Mr. Baker has for twenty years been assistant superintendent of the National Zoological Park at Washington, D. C. The institution sent him in 1909 to British East, Africa on an expedition, where he met ex-President Roosevelt, and from where he brought back many kinds of wild animals for the zoo. He is a widely known scientific man. The Davis family left Ohio in 1868, settling at Bloomington, Illinois, so that the daughters could have good school advantages. The mother died in that city and the father took the girls to Missouri, where they grew up at Unionville, Putnam county. Each taught country school, later attended a normal institute and became successful in the educational field. At a still later date they removed to Kansas, where the girls homesteaded a tract of government land. Dr. Davis received her education as a teacher at Stansberry, Missouri, and the State Normal School at Emporia, Kansas, after which she pursued a course in the medical department of Howard University, Washington, D. C. She taught school until 1893, but after her graduation in medicine in 1899 commenced practice at Sandusky. Her professional education was thorough and practical, and included not only medical lectures but experience as a resident physician in the Philadelphia Lying In Charity Hospital. For the past decade she has steadily progressed) professionally, and has also become widely recognized as a champion of women's rights, especially in the matter of obtaining the privilege of suffrage. Dr. Davis is a leading member of the Erie County Medical Society, of which she has been secretary, and is also actively identified with the Ohio State and the American Medical Associations. Her prominence as a suffragist is further indicated by the fact that for a number of years she held the position of recording secretary of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association. She is president of the Civic Club of Sandusky, as well as a member of the board of managers of the Rest Room, and from the records which have already been given of her family it is plainly evident why she has been admitted to the Daughters of the American Revolution. Dr. Davis is a member of the Congregational church, and enjoys a broad and high standing in the social, moral and religious circles of the city. EDWARD A. DOUGLAS.—The exacting duties of the office of county recorder of Lorain county are at the present time judiciously entrusted to Edward A. Douglas, whose administration has been efficient in every respect, so that he has not been denied the full measure of popular commendation. He is one of the popular young men of Lorain county and has won official preferment through his own sterling character and executive ability. Edward A. Douglas was born at Derry, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, on Feb-. ruary 1, 1870, and is a son of James A. and Lydia A. (Blair) Douglas, both of whom were likewise born in the old Keystone state. The father was a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, having enlisted in the Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and having also been assigned to the cavalry and artillery arms of the service. After the war he was in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and while thus engaged he was killed in an accident, in 1872. His widow is now residing at Indiana, Pennsylvania. The subject of this review attended the public schools of his native state until he was twelve years of age, and thereafter he attended the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' school at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, until he had attained to the age of sixteen years, when he began to learn the art of telegraphy, in which he became a skilled operator. In 1895 Mr. Douglas came to Ohio and located at Lorain, where he secured a position with the predecessor of the present National Tube Company. He held a responsible HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE- 1295 position with that company until July 31, 1909, when he resigned the incumbency of chief clerk of the steel department. Upon his retirement from this position the men of his department gave evidence of their esteem and regard by presenting to him a very handsome gold watch. In November, 1908, as the regular candidate on the Republican ticket, Mr. Douglas was elected recorder of Lorain county, for a term of two years. He assumed the duties of the office on September 1, 1909, after the resignation of his position with the National Tube Company. He is a member of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce, is identified with various fraternal and social organizations, and is well known to the people of the county in which he has maintained his home for nearly a decade and a half. On October 18, 1898, Mr. Douglas was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Grace Boyden, daughter of Henry T. Boyden, one of the venerable and honored citizens of Elyria. HIRAM L. DODGE has long been one of the most influential residents of this section of Ashtabula county, and he also claims the honor of being a representative of one of the earliest and best known of the pioneer families of the county. He was born in Dodgeville in New Lyme township, January 11, 1831, a son of Jeremiah and Harriet (Jackson) Dodge, and a grandson on the paternal side of Eusebius Dodge. The last named was one of a company of ninety who traded their homes at Lyme, Connecticut, for land here, and they named their new location in honor of their old home. Eusebius Dodge received 1,200 acres of land here and $1,200 in money in exchange for his Connecticut land, and his brother Edward C. settled two miles west of him in Rome township, the present home of his son Jeremiah. The name of Dodgeville was soon given to this community, and the town of Brownsville, one mile further east, was for a time in strong competition. Lake & Carpenter started a store at Dodgeville about 1827, which was purchased in the following year by Jeremiah Dodge, and it has since remained in the Dodge family. Eusebius Dodge's father was a Revolutionary soldier, and Eusebius was a soldier of the war of 1812. and they died in Rome township, the father when eighty-one or eighty-two years old, and they are both buried in the New Lyme cemetery. Jeremiah Dodge became in time one of the most prominent cattle dealers of Ashtabula county. He was the first to introduce Durham cattle here, and in the early days he took a drove of work oxen, containing from 100 to 125 head, to Detroit, Michigan, to supply the new arrivals there. He also drove stock over the mountains to Philadelphia and New York, and he exhibited extensively at local and state fairs.. He also became quite well known as a breeder of sheep, and by subsequent purchases he became the owner of 1,200 acres of land, the old homestead thereon having recently burned. During the early days of his mercantile venture Mr. Dodge hauled goods with ox teams from Pittsburg, and in the later years of his life he turned the store over to his sons, John and Calvin. He also owned and operated for many years a water power saw-mill, with a capacity of 2,000 feet a day, and he was a director of the Farmers Bank at Ashtabula. In politics he was first a Whig and later a Democrat. He was called to his final rest when just past his eightieth year, and his wife died six years later, when eighty-five years of 'age. They reared a family of three sons and five daughters, namely : John, who died at the age of seventy-five years ; Calvin, who died at the age of sixty-nine ; Hiram L., mentioned below ; Lucinda, who married Harry Wilcox ; Nancy, the wife of J. H. Baldwin ; Joannah, who married A. R. Beckwith, and she is the only one of the daughters now living, her home being in Jefferson ; Temperance, who married Perry Hyde ; and Olive, who married Edward Betts, of Ashtabula. When advancing age caused the retirement of Jeremiah Dodge from mercantile pursuits and the taking over of the business by his two sons, Hiram L. Dodge began clerking for his brothers, and about the year of 1860 bought the store, conducting it for four years in association with his brother-in-law, A. R. Beckwith, while during the past seven years it has been in charge of others, but Mr. Dodge still owns the store. In earlier years black salts was one of the principal features of this business, his father having employed four teams constantly to haul the ashes for its manufacture. After a time the manufacture of cheese became the leading department of the business, and the store is yet a great center for cheese and butter. Mr. Dodge now owns from 600 to 700 acres of land in Ashtabula county, and although closely allied with his extensive business interests he has also taken a prominent part in public affairs and served his township as a treasurer for twenty-seven years and for 1296 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE thirty years was treasurer of New Lyme Institute. He married on October 27, 1860, Mary Westcott, a daughter of Rufus and Anna (Richmond) Westcott, and .a granddaughter on the maternal side of the Rev. Edmund Richmond, a Baptist minister, who traded his property at Otsego, New York, for land in Rome township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, and coming here later moved to Sheffield township, where he died at the age of eighty-one years. He preached for many years in the church at Sheffield, and now lies buried there. Three sons of Rev. Richmond, Judah L., Charles and Cyrus, also became ministers of the Gospel in the Baptist church, and of his other children : David went to Missouri ; Edmund died in the west ; and Susan is the widow of Richmond Dodge, and she is the only surviving member of this family and lives at Dodgeville. To Mr. H. L. Dodge and his wife have been born three sons : Warren, a lumber dealer in Ashtabula ; Charles, a state bank examiner and a resident of Conneaut ; and Jay, who is in business with his brother Warren in Ashtabula. Mr. Dodge has long been associated with the Masonic fraternity, and for thirty years served as the treasurer of Symbol Lodge of that order. LUMAN T. NELSON.—An extensive and progressive agriculturist, and a man of solid worth, Luman T. Nelson is successfully engaged in his pleasant vocation on one of the most desirable farming estates Shalersville township. It contains 156 acres of fertile land under excellent cultivation, and, With its .substantial set of buildings and their neat and tasteful surroundings, invariably attracts the attention of the passer-by, and indicates to what good purpose the proprietor has employed his time and means. He was born in Shalersville township, Portage county, September 16, 1842. He is the descendant of a New England family of stability and worth, his father, William Nelson, and his grandparents, William and Elizabeth (Tuttle) Nelson, having been born in Massachusetts. The birth of William Nelson, Jr., occurred in Zoar, Franklin county, Massachusetts, in 1804, that of his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Tuttle, occurring in the same year, and in the same place. There they were brought up and educated, and there were united in marriage. In 1831 they came to Ohio, driving with teams the first few miles, then traveling by the Erie canal to Buffalo, and from that point by a Lake Erie steamboat to Cleveland, thence by team to Portage county. Locating in Shalersville township, William Nelson bought ninety-three acres of land, one of which was cleared, and on which a log house. had been erected. Succeeding well in his pioneer labors, he reclaimed a homestead from the forest, and on it both, he and his faithful helpmate and companion spent their remaining years, her death occurring in 1862, and his in 1866. They reared two children, namely : William, who died in Cleveland in 1889 ; and Luman T., the subject of this sketch. Brought up on the home farm, Luman T. Nelson was educated in Shalersville township, attending the public school and academy. He assisted his father in .clearing and improving the land, and after. the death of his parents bought out his brother's interest in the homestead property. Continuing his agricultural labors, Mr. Nelson made a specialty of dairying, for a number of years manufacturing cheese, but later selling his milk, to creameries. Mr. Nelson sold the parental homestead several years ago, and purchased his present farm, which lies on the opposite side of the road from the old place, and has here made improvements of great value. In 1885 he erected, on a natural elevation of ground, his large and conveniently arranged residence, which is surrounded by beautiful shade and ornamental trees, and, with-its spacious and beautiful lawn, presents to the eye a picture of comfort and luxury. He has also made .other improvements, including the erection of a fine barn. He manages his farm in a systematic manner, using the most approved modern methods known in agricultural circles, and in the gathering in of bountiful harvests each season is amply repaid for his work. Mr. Nelson married, October 4, 1866, Olive H. Carlton, who was born in Shalersville township, a daughter of William and Emeline (Stull) Carlton, natives of Trumbull county, Ohio. Her grandfather, Peter Carlton, was born in Monmouth county, New Jersey, and his wife, whose name before marriage was Mary Dunlap, was born in Liberty township, Trumbull county, Ohio. Two children' were born of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson, namely : William C., who died in June, 1901; and Grace, of Ravenna, Ohio. In his political affiliations Mr. Nelson. is, independent, HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1297 voting with the courage of his convictions regardless of party prejudices. He has never been an office seeker, but for three terms served as township trustee. WILLIAM BOLENBOCKER. - Among the prosperous and enterprising merchants of Bellevue, Huron county, the name of William Bolenbocker may well be mentioned, his hardware establishment being one of the best stocked and best patronized in the city. He was born January 2, 1860, in Lyme township, this county, a son of Charles Bolenbocker, coming on both sides of the house of excellent German ancestry. Charles Bolenbocker was born in Germany, where his parents were lifelong residents, although four of their children emigrated to America, Philip, Henry and Charles locating in Lyme township, while Dorothy, who married Gideon Lepley, lived in Thompson township, Huron county, Ohio. Charles Bolenbocker learned the trade of a blacksmith in the Fatherland, after completing his apprenticeship worked at his trade, as the German law requires, in different places, and in each place received a certificate of good workmanship and good character. After coming to Ohio, he followed his trade in various localities, even going as far west as Kansas. He finally settled permanently in Lyme township, where he purchased a small tract of wild land. Clearing an opening, he built a log house, and began the improvement of a homestead. He was quite successful, and as time passed added to his original acreage by purchase, becoming owner of 200 acres of land, the greater part of which he put in a good state of cultivation. He erected a substantial brick house, and all of the buildings requisite for carrying on farming, and there was employed in tilling the soil until his death, at the age of fifty-three years. His wife, whose maiden name was Katherine Mench, was born in Germany, and came to this country with her parents in childhood. She died at the age of forty-seven years, leaving six children, as follows : Jacob, Charles, Mrs. Dorothy Loew, Mrs. Caroline Bemlower, Henry and William. After leaving the district school, William Bolenbocker further advanced his education by an attendance at the State Normal school, in Milan. Beginning his active career as a farmer, he continued in agricultural pursuits until 1689, when he started west, visiting while on his trip Denver, Salt Lake City, Ta coma, Seattle and other places of importance and interest, being away from home seven. months. He was afterwards employed as a mercantile clerk in Norwalk, Ohio, for a time, and subsequently was similarly engaged in a hardware store in Bellevue until 1903. Mr.. Bolenbocker then purchased an old and long-established business in Bellevue, and has since carried on an extensive and lucrative trade in hardware, keeping a complete stock of all kinds of hardware and shelf ware, including stoves, cutlery, etc. Mr. Bolenbocker married, November 11, 1889, Sarah Parker, who was born near London, England, a daughter of John and Sarah Parker, who came to the United States with their family, locating in Milan, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Bolenbocker are the parents of three children, namely : Donald, Bernice and. Parker. Politically Mr. Bolenbocker is an earnest advocate of the principles of the Dem ocratic party, and is now serving as a member of the city council. He has also served acceptably to all concerned as president, and as clerk, of the local school board. Fraternally he belongs to the Alta Lodge No. 206,. K. of P., and religiously both Mr. and Mrs. Bolenbocker are consistent and worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal church. HENRY C. RANNEY, for many years a prominent attorney at the Cleveland (Ohio) bar, now retired, was born at Freedom, Portage county, June 29, 1829, his parents being Elijah and Levanna (Larcomb) Ranney. His father, who was a merchant, died in 1836 and Henry C. was taken into the family of his uncle, Rufus P. Ranney, a lawyer at Jefferson, Ohio, and subsequently one of the justices of the Ohio supreme court. He attended school, read law with his uncle,' vas admitted to the bar in 1852 and began practice at Warren. Three years later he became associated with another uncle, John L. Ranney, of Ravenna, and the partnership thus-formed continued until the latter's death in 1866. At the beginning of the war President Lincoln appointed him to the position of assist ant adjutant general of volunteers, with the rank of captain and he was assigned to duty on the staff of General E. B. Tyler, commanding, the First Brigade, Third Division, Fifth Army Corps, and ordered to Virginia. He was with his command in numerous minor engagements and the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, in both of which he received honorable mention in General Tyler's reports. 1298 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE After two years of military duty he resigned, returned to Ravenna and resumed his law practice. Upon the death of his uncle and law partner already mentioned, Mr. Ranney continued his law practice alone until 1872, when he went to Cleveland, forming a partnership with his uncle, Rufus P. Ranney, and his nephew John. The two young men were later associated with Henry McKinney, under the firm name of Ranney & McKinney. John Ranney and Judge McKinney withdrew from the firm in 1890 and Judge R. P. Ranney died in 1894. Henry C. had no associate for a time, but later he and Clifford W. Fuller were partners. His health having become affected by too close application: to his professional duties, in 1880 he took an extended foreign trip and in 1884 he again visited Europe, on which occasion he paid considerable attention to the art galleries of the old world. The knowledge of art thus acquired came into good play when, after his return to his native land, he was elected president of the Western Reserve School of Design, Cleveland. His association With this school marked him as a suitable trustee for the Huntington, Hurlbut and Kelly estates, both of which made, large bequests to the erection of an art gallery. in Cleveland, of which Mr. Ranney is president. During the days of his active labors few attorneys in northern Ohio had a higher standing at the bar than Henry C. Ranney. He never ceased to be a student of the law, was always an indomitable worker, a forcible and earnest advocate and a careful and judicious adviser. Although he has retired from active practice he still has enough to occupy his mind and time. He is trustee of the John Huntington Benevolent Trust, the Society of Savings and the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust ; a member of the State Board of Charities ; a director of the Guardian Savings and Trust Company, the Cleveland Stone Company, the Continental Sugar Company, the Cleveland and Mahoning Valley Railway, the Citizens' Savings and Trust Company, the Buckeye Fish Company and the Cleveland and Pittsburg. Railway ; and is vice president of the American Surety Company. He was one of the founders of the Western Reserve School of Design, and is a life officer in the Case Library, where he has done excellent service as one of the trustees. He is also a life member of the Chamber of Commerce ; a Thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine ; a member of the Army and Navy Post No. 167, Grand Army of the Republic ; a companion of the Loyal Legion, in which he was senior vice commander in 1903-4 ; belongs to several of the leading social and literary clubs of Cleveland ; the American, Ohio State and Cleveland Bar Associations ; is senior warden of St. Paul's Episcopal church and one of the. trustees of the diocese of Ohio. In politics, Mr. Ranney is a Democrat of the Jacksonian type, although he has never been an active politician. His cheerful and sympathetic nature has won him a host of friends, among whom are the younger members of the bar ; for he has never forgotten that he was once a young and struggling barrister himself. Mr. Ranney has received many tokens of these friendships, but he possesses none that he prizes so highly as a handsome silver set, engraved with military designs, which was presented to him by his brigade upon the occasion of his resignation from the army in 1864. Mr. Ranney was married on September 19, 1853, to Miss Helen Burgess, of Ravenna, and six daughters and a son were born to this union. Mrs. Ranney was a true helpmate in every way, sharing his joys and his sorrows', rearing his children and keeping up with his steps as he advanced. She was a splendid specimen of womanhood. During his entire life Mr. Ranney has been a man of temperate habits, and young men of the present generation can find in this, and his industry, examples worthy of their emulation. JOHN COSTLEY.—One of the oldest citizens of the town of Edinburg, Portage county, and a well-known farmer, John Costley has spent his active years in this vicinity, and while aiding the development of its rich agricultural resources has been enabled to accumulate a fair share of this world's goods. He was born December 18, 1830, in Ireland. Robert Costley, father of John, emigrated from Ireland, the place of his birth, in early manhood, and for some time after his marriage with Jane Henderson, also a native of Ireland, lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When that terrible epidemic, the Asiatic cholera swept down upon that fair city, he fled with his family, coming to Portage county, and locating in Edinburg. Settlers, were then few and far between, and the forests were filled with game of all kinds, furnishing in part the food of the people of those days. Buying fifty acres of wooded land, he cleared HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1299 a space in the wilderness and built a log house for the family residence, and here resided until his death. He married Jane Henderson, a native of the Emerald Isle, and they became the parents of seven children, five of whom are living, namely.: John, the subject of this sketch ; Louisa and Jennie, of San Diego, California ; Samuel, of Kent, Portage county ; and Carrie, living in Deerfield, Portage county. Two have passed to the life beyond, Hill and I Ienderson. Educated in the district schools of Deerfield, John Costley assisted his father in the pioneer labor of improving a homestead, to the ownership of which he succeeded on the death of his parents, for whom he tenderly cared during the closing years of their lives. He has increased its original acreage, having now too acres in his farm, which ranks with the best in the neighborhood. Mr. Costley has been twice married. He married first Julia Booth, who died April 17, 1892. He married second, May 18, 1894, Clara Young. By his first marriage, Mr. Costley had three daughters, namely : Carrie, Mary and Minnie. Carrie and Minnie, who were educated at Ravenna and Painesville, are now matrons at the Industrial School in Adrian, Michigan. Mr. Costley belongs to the Republican party, and at all times upholds its principles. He is active in public matters, and has filled all of the offices within the gift of his fellow-townsmen, and has served as juryman. JOSEPH WESBECHER owns one of the largest and most complete .hardware stores in this portion of the Western Reserve and has thus enrolled his name among the leaders of the financial interests of Amherst and Lorain county. He was born in Baden, Germany, February 25, 1852, a son of Aloes and Martha (Melcher) Wesbecher, also from that country. They were farming people of Muggensturn, and spent their lives there. As a young man of seventeen years Joseph Wesbecher came to the United States and to Youngstown, Ohio, and after spending six months on a farm near that city he went to Crestline, this state, and learned the tinner's trade, spending three years there. He then spent six months at work at his trade in Cleveland, and coming then to Amherst he was for four years in the employ of J. Stahl. At the close of that period and in company with Charles Cook he purchased Mr. Stahl's hardware and tin busi ness, and four years later he and Messrs. Henry A. and John E. Plato bought Mr. Cook's interest, the business being conducted under the latter management for twenty years or until Mr. Wesbecher bought the interest of his partners and has since conducted the business alone. His store is stocked with a complete and splendidly selected stock of hardware and tinware, and he is now at the head of one of the largest houses of its kind in the county. He was one of the organizers and is a director of the Amherst German Bank Company. In November of 1879 Mr. Wesbecher was married to Matilda Plato, born in Hanover, Germany, and their six children are: Henry A., a resident of Amherst ; Eda, the wife of Emmet Lahiff, of the same place ; Carl A., whose home is in Los Angeles, California; Leo, of the city of New York ; and Frank and Lucille, at home with their parents. Mr. Wesbecher is a member of the Catholic church and of the Democratic party. ROBERT P. ROBERTS.-A skilled machinist and a mechanical engineer of note, Robert P. Roberts, superintendent of the Lorain City Water Works, is successfully filling a position of great responsibility by his thorough mastery of his calling and his fidelity to his trusts, winning the approval not only of those immediately associated with the administration of municipal affairs but of the general public. A native of England, he was born, November 14, 1866, in Warwickshire, where the first five years of his life were spent. His parents, Thomas M. and Diana (Lamp-sett) Roberts, emigrated to America in 1872, and spent the remainder of their lives in Canada, the mother dying in 1875, when but thirty-six years of age, while the father, who survived her, passed away in 1896, at the age of seventy-two years. In 1885 Robert P. Roberts left the Canadian home farm, and for five years was employed on the Great Lakes. Locating then in Cleveland, Ohio, he mastered the machinist and engineering trade while in the employ of the Cleveland Ship Building Company, and when that concern came to Lorain he came also. Here he was foreman for that company and its successor, the American Shipbuilding Company, for eleven years. Mr. Roberts subsequently spent eighteen months with the Thew Automatic Shovel Company. In 1905 he was appointed superintendent of the Lo- 1300 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE rain Water Works, and has since been actively and faithfully engaged in the discharge of the duties devolving upon him in this capacity. Fraternally Mr. Roberts is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Knights of Pythias. He likewise belongs to the Board of Commerce. He married Minnie George, of Cleveland, Ohio, and to them two children have been born, Mildred Esther and Mary Alice. O. O. HAUSCH, M. D.—One of the most .active and successful physicians of Lake -county is Dr. O. O. Hausch, who is enjoying a large and lucrative practice in Perry, where, by his skill, genial manners and kindly courtesy, he has endeared himself to all classes of people. He comes of German ancestry, and is of pioneer stock, his father, Jacob Hausch, and his grandfather, Joseph Hausch, having been born and bred in Germany and served in the German army, and as retired officers drew royalties, or pensions, from the German government. Joseph Hausch immigrated to this .country, locating in Geauga county, Ohio, and was subsequently killed by the fall of a heavy timber at the raising of a barn on the Lou Keener farm. Jacob Hausch immigrated to the United States, when young, in 1833, and lived first in Baltimore, Maryland. From there he came to Thompson, Geauga county, where he married Lois E. Curtiss, who bore him twelve children. Soon after his marriage; he took up a tract of heavily timbered land in Trumbull, Ashtabula county, settling there when the country was in its original wildness. Money was scarce in those days, settlers were few in number and far between, and the people depended largely upon the products of the land, or the fruits of the chase, for their living. Jacob Hausch was a carpenter by trade, and he built the first dwelling of the family, it being a rudely constructed log cabin, around which during bad storms the snow drifted so deep that he had to dig it out. The house was burned after the family had occupied it a few years, and they then moved into the granary, which was about twenty feet by twenty feet, and in the course of three or four years he built a substantial story and a half house, containing fourteen rooms, and a woodshed, one of the most pretentious structures in the town. After his preparation for college, O. O. Hausch entered the Cleveland Medical College, from which he was graduated March 25, 1891, with the degree of M. D. The previous day, March 24, 1891, Dr. Hausch had taken one of the most important steps of his life, having married Gertrude Church, of Cleveland. One son and two daughters have blessed the union of Dr. and Mrs. Hausch, namely : Winfred, Nina and Genevieve. REV. SAMUEL R. FRAZIER, D. D.—For many years the honored subject of this review was engaged in active work as a clergyman of the United Presbyterian church, and for nearly a quarter of a century he held the pastorate of the church of this denomination in the city of Youngstown, where he still maintains his home and where he is now living virtually for such services as he accords as clerk of the board of education. He is one of the venerable and honored citizens of this section of the Western Reserve. His life has been one of signal consecration to the uplifting of his fellow men. He has been a prominent factor in the work of the United Presbyterian church and is still active in connection with the general affairs of its organization. He is still called upon at frequent intervals to exercise his pastoral functions as a supply clergyman in different churches, and he is known as a man of high intellectual attainments and great ability as a public speaker. His career has been an eventful one, marked by effective services in a foreign land, as well as by generous and fruitful labors in the work of the ministry. Rev. Samuel R. Frazier was born in St. Clairsville, Belmont county, Ohio, on the 23d of February, 1845, and is a son of James and Jane (Giffen) Frazier, who were numbered among the early settlers of the county. His parents continued to reside in the old Buckeye state until their death, and his father was a miller by vocation. The subject of this review gained his early educational training in the common schools, and supplemented this by a course of study in the Franklin College at New Athens, Ohio, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1861 and from which he. received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Soon afterwards he showed his loyalty to the Union and to the cause of humanity by going to the south as a member of the Christian Commission, assigned to such services with the Union army. He was attaché to the corn mander General Sherman for some time and accompanied that gallant commander on that ever memorable march from Atlanta to the sea. He returned to Ohio after the close of HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1301 the war and forthwith entered the theological seminary of the United Presbyterian church at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1865. His first definite pastorate was at Monroe, near the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was formally ordained to the ministry of the United Presbyterian church. There he remained for a period of six years, at the ex. piration of which he accepted a call to the Third United Presbyterian church of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He retained this charge until 1879, when he went. to Tokio, Japan, where for the ensuing eighteen months he was acting secretary of the American legation. He also was for nine months an instructor in the English department of the University of Tokio. Under the administration of President Arthur he was appointed the official interpreter of the American legation. He recalls with pleasure that he was thus identified with the legation, at the time of General Ulysses S. Grant's visit to Japan on his tour around the world. In 1882 Dr. Frazier returned from the orient to Ohio and established his home in Youngstown, where he became pastor of the First United Presbyterian church. He continued as the loved and valued pastor of this church. consecutively until 1907, when he resigned, feeling that the heavy responsibilities of the position were overtaxing his strength. Franklin College, at New Athens, Ohio, conferred upon Dr. Frazier the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts and Doctor of Divinity, and he received also the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Westminster College at Wilmington, Pennsylvania. Further academic honors were accorded .him by Curry University, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, which granted him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The doctor was a delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian council which met at Glasgow, Scotland. After the close of its session he made an extended tour through Europe, visiting the principal points of historic and picturesque interest. His services have been much in demand on the lecture platform and his first secular lecture was delivered at Chautauqua, New York, where it attracted much favorable attention. Dr. Frazier has been president of the Humane Society of Youngstown from the time of its organization and is also a member and director of the Glenwood Children's Home. On the 1st of January, 1910, he was elected &tic of the board of education of Youngstown, and in this position he is giving most effective service, as he has ever maintained deep interest in educational work and has distinctive administrative ability. In politics he accords a stanch allegiance to the Republican party and keeps in close touch with the questions and issues of the day. Dr. Frazier has been twice married. In June, 1867, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Lucy Bingham, daughter of Hon. John A. Bingham, of Cadiz, Ohio. Her father represented the eighteenth district of Ohio in congress for the long period of eighteen years, and for twelve years was American ambassador to Japan, having been appointed to this position by President Grant. Mrs. Frazier was summoned to the life eternal in 1878, and is survived by a son and daughter : James H., who is now a member of the editorial staff of the New York World, and Jessie B., who died in 1908. On the 14th of February, 1884, Dr. Frazier was united in marriage to Miss Matilda Sands, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, a sister of Rev. John D. Sands, D. D., of that city, and of Dr. R. M. Sands, a leading physician of the same city. JOHN T. BEECHER.—The bar of Sandusky has for many years recorded upon its roll of membership the name of Beecher, including both father and son, but now after a long and successful period of representation here the latter, John T. Beecher, has withdrawn from the profession and is now living quietly retired in the city of his birth—Sandusky. Lucas S. Beecher, the father, came to this city in 1828. having previously prepared himself for the legal profession, and here he formed a partnership with Elutheros Cook for the practice of law, and as time passed he had many different associates, including John F. Campbell, Pitt Cooke, Cuyler Leonard and lastly his son, John. The association between father and son was formed in 1853 and continued until the death of the former in 1882, both winning a place of prominence at the bar of Sandusky. John T. Beecher was born in Sandusky on July 23, 1831, to Lucas S. and janett W. (Turk) Beecher, and after a training in the city high school lie entered Kenyon College in Knox county. Ohio, where he remained for some time. Returning then to Sandusky he began practice here with his father, and after the latter's death he formed a partnership with Judge Thomas P. Finefrock, of 1302 -HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE Fremont, with whom he was associated for about four years. From the close of that period until within about five years ago Mr. Beecher was alone in the practice of law, and he finally retired from the profession on account of failing health. He was the city solicitor from 1879 until 1880, and for many years he has been one of the active Democratic workers of Erie county, but he supported Lincoln in his race for the presidency. Mr. Beecher was married on September 18, 1861, to Miss Maria H. Sprague, a daughter of Nehemiah Sprague, from Lyons, New York. Three children were born of this union, but one died at the age of seven. The only son, Lucas J. Beecher, is connected with the Toledo Blade as staff correspondent, and the daughter is the wife of Merritt S. Wilcox and a resident of Sandusky. HARRY NORRIS DONALDSON, D. D. well known and popular resident of Bellevue, Harry N. Donaldson is one of the leading dentists of Huron county, and as a citizen of influence and prominence takes great interest in local affairs, although his energies are especially devoted to the making of a decided success in his profession. He was born June 1, 1869, in Mount Pleasant township, Washington county, Pennsylvania, on the farm adjoining the homestead on which his father, Robert Donaldson, and his grandfather, Isaac Donaldson, first opened their eyes to the light of this world. His great grandfather, Jacob Donaldson, who was born in Ireland, of Scotch ancestry, immigrated to America when young, locating in Washington county, Pennsylvania. Buying a tract of heavily timbered land in Mount Pleasant township, he hewed a farm from the dense forest, and there resided until his death. Born on the original homestead, Isaac Donaldson was engaged in agricultural pursuits in Washington county during his entire life. He there married Sarah Maxwell, a native of the same county, and they reared three children, Jacob and Robert, and a daughter named Hannah. Brought up as a farmer's son, Robert Donaldson became a tiller of the soil from choice, and at the time of his marriage settled on a tract of land that his father had previously purchased, it being one that adjoined the parental homestead. He and his fair bride began housekeeping in the small lob house standing on the place, and in that humble abode their two older children were born. Continuing the improvements already inaugurated, he improved a large part of the land, erected a commodious brick house, a frame barn, and other necessary buildings, and is now living there retired from active pursuits, being a venerable man of seventy-nine years. He was twice married. He married first Rachel Vance Walker, who was born in Cross Creek township, a daughter of John Norris and Anna (Vance) Walker, of that township. She died at the age of thirty-nine years, leaving six children, namely : Frank W., Flora May, Anna Vance, Sarah Maxwell, Charles Isaac and Harry Norris. He subsequently 'married for his second wife Hettie Byers. Receiving his elementary education in his native county, Harry N. Donaldson attended first the district school, afterwards the Buffalo Academy. Haying decided upon a professional career, he subsequently began the study of dentistry, and in 1891 was graduated from the Pennsylvania' College of. Dental Surgery with the degree of D. D. S. Coming immediately. to Huron county in search of a favorable location, Dr. Donaldson has since been successfully employed in his profession at Bellevue, where he has a large and constantly increasing. practice. He has ever evinced a warm interest in municipal matters, aiding the establishment of beneficial enterprises of all kinds, and has never shirked the responsibilities of public offices, having been elected mayor of the city in 1905, and re-elected to the same position. in 1907. He has also served four terms on the board of education by election. Dr. Donaldson married first, in 1892, Minnie Wade, who was born in Champaign county, Ohio, a daughter of Lewis and Mary Wade. She died November 4, 1905, leaving two children, Robert and Mildred. The d0ctor married second, in 1907, Emma May Barb, who was born in Mosheim, Tennessee, daughter of Rev. James C. Barb, a Lutheran minister. Dr. Donaldson is an active and valued member of the Democratic party, and has served as delegate to county and state conventions. Religiously he is a member of the Congregational church. Fraternally he belongs to Bellevue Lodge, No. 1,013, B. P. O. E. ; to Bellevue Lodge, No. 273, F. & A. M. ; to Bellevue Chapter, No. 113, R. A. M., and M. W. A. of Fremont. BURR P. SCRIBNER.—A prominent and successful agriculturist and stockman of Lake HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1303 county, Burr P. Scribner is the owner of a well-appointed and well-managed farm in Leroy township, where he is numbered among the enterprising business men who are contributing toward the development of the industrial interests of their community. A son of Harrison Scribner, he was born October 4, 1847, in Leroy township, about one and one-half miles northeast of his present home. He comes of New England ancestry, and is of pioneer descent, his grandfather, Joseph Scribner, having been a comparatively early settler of this part of the state. Leaving his New England horse about 1834, Joseph Scribner started westward with his family, journeying overland with teams, at the end of twenty-two days arriving in Leroy township. Taking up a tract of land that was still in its virgin wildness, he cleared and improved a homestead, on which he was engaged in tilling the soil until his death, April 20, 1861, at the age of sixty-four years. His wife, whose maiden name was Judith Stevens, survived him, passing away in 1878, aged seventy-five years. They were the parents of two sons, namely : Harrison, and Daniel, formerly a resident of Leroy and Painesville, now deceased. Benjamin. Scribner, who lived for many years in Leroy township, was a brother of Joseph Scribner, and came here at about the same time that he did, and, singular to say, died the same year. Harrison Scribner was born September 17, 1822, in Sutton, New Hampshire, and was about twelve years old when he came with his parents to Ohio. He assisted in the pioneer labor of clearing a farm from the forest, and at the death of his parents succeeded to the ownership of the home farm, on which he spent the remainder of his life, passing away in 1887. He married Caroline Bates, who was born in Tompkins, Delaware county, New York, and as a child moved with her parents to Michigan, where her father died. Her widowed mother then came east to Lake county, and here Caroline, then about fourteen years old, was married. She spent her last years with her only child, Burr P., dying January, 1904, at the venerable age of eighty-two years. Educated in the district schools, Burr P. Scribner subsequently assisted his father on the farm, remaining at home until his marriage. Buying then the old Gurdon Chadwick farm, his present farm, which he bought from Samuel Northard, he began its improvement, adding each year to that already inaugurated, Vol. III-3 and now has a large part of its 103 acres under a good state of cultivation. He also owns the old homestead of his parents, containing eighty-one acres, and as a general farmer is exceedingly prosperous, He pays much attention to the raising of graded stock, being more especially interested in horses and keeping a number of fine roadsters. Mr. Scribner has owned many trotters, one of which, William Wallace Scribner, which he sold when two years old, had a record of 2 :06 1/4 . He often drives his horses for sport at matinee races, winning good records on the turf. He recently sold a tract „if land formerly belonging to his grandfather, the first belonging to the family that has been disposed of. Mr. Scribner married first, in 1872, Ella A. Weed, who was born in Leroy township August 10, 1851, a daughter of Sidney and Ann A. Weed. She died April 5, 1896, leaving three children, namely : Flora, wife of Grant Quiggle, a farmer in Hampden, Geauga county ; Alice, wife of J. E. French, living on the old homestead ; and Emma, wife of Arthur Lee Roath, who is engaged in agricultural pursuits in Thompson, Geauga county. All of these children are living within a short distance of their father. Mr. Scribner married second, January 22, Pm, Mrs. Frances Roath, widow of Isaac Roath, and a daughter of Harvey Murphy. She was born in Thompson, Geauga county, February 3, 1847. Harvey Murphy was born in Locke, Cayuga county, New York, and was there educated. In 1846 he came to Ohio to marry Lucinda Murphy, a relative, with whom he had fallen in love, wooed and won on a previous visit to this state. He settled in Thompson, Geauga county, and there his wife died when their only child, Frances, now Mrs. Scribner, was nineteen years of age. Harvey Murphy subsequently married for his second wife Melissa Roath, a daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Pike) Roath, who came to Thompson, Ohio, from New England. Mr. Murphy died on the home farm in Thompson, at the advanced age of eighty-one years, but his widow, Mrs. Melissa Murphy, still occupies the homestead. Frances Murphy married for her first husband, in 1866, Isaac Roath, who was half-brother of her step-mother, Mrs. Melissa (Roath) Murphy. Isaac Roath died in 1900, aged fifty-six years, leaving two children, namely : Harvey Delos Roath, of Leroy township ; and Arthur Lee Roath, who married Mr. Scribner's youngest daughter, Emma, as above mentioned. 1304 -HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE CLINTON A. PHELPS.—Incumbent of the office of county commissioner and numbered among the representative business men of the village of Madison, Lake county, Clinton A. Phelps finds satisfaction in the fact that he is a native son of the fine old Western Reserve, within whose borders the family was founded in the early pioneer epoch—in fact, within the decade which marked the admission of Ohio to the Union. Mr. Phelps was born in Thompson township, Geauga county, Ohio, on the 26th of September, 1856, and is a son of Abel W. and Sarah A. (Brotzman) Phelps. Abel West Phelps is likewise a native of Thompson township, where he was born in the year 1825, and he is now living in the village of Madison, Lake county, at the venerable age of eighty-five years. He is a son of Abel and Eleanor (West) Phelps, who came from Bradford county, Pennsylvania, to Ohio at the close of the war of 1812, making the trip along the shore of Lake Erie with an ox team and wagon, by means of which the little stock of household necessities was transported. En route the family passed the night sleeping under the protection of the wagon box. In Thompson township Abel Phelps erected his little log house, in which the family's belongings were installed, and there he developed a farm from the forest, being a man of sturdy constitution and sterling character and living a "godly, righteous and sober life," which was prolonged to the age of eighty-eight years.. His devoted wife and helpmeet preceded him to eternal rest by a number of years. Abel West Phelps was reared to maturity. in Geauga county, where his educational advantages were limited to the primitive pioneer schools, customarily maintained on the subscription plan. Upon attaining to years of maturity he engaged in farming on his own responsibility, becoming the owner of a place near the old homestead of his father, and there developing a valuable property. In Thompson township was solemnized his marriage to Miss Sarah A. Brotzman, who was born in eastern Pennsylvania, whence her parents, who were of stanch "Pennsylvania Dutch" stock, came to Ohio and located in Geauga county when she was a child. She died in 1885. She was a devout member of the Congregational church. In politics Mr. Phelps gives his allegiance to the Republican party. He finally sold his old home farm in Geauga county and removed to Ellsworth county, Kansas, where he took up a government claim, upon which he remained until he had proved his title to the property. He eventually sold this farm and returned to Ohio, and he now resides with his younger daughter, in the village of Madison. Abel W. and Sarah A. Phelps became the parents of four children : Emma M. is the wife of Isaac McKean, of Burlington, Bradford county, Pennsylvania ; Clinton A., of this sketch, was the second in order of birth ; John C. is a successful farmer in Ellsworth county, Kansas, where he has maintained his home since 1887; and Lillian E. is the wife of Harlan P. Gill, who has been associated with the subject of this review in the grocery and meat business in Madison. Clinton A. Phelps was reared to maturity on the old homestead which was the place of his birth, and he remained with his parents until the time of his marriage. His early educational training was secured in the district schools of Geauga county, and he supplemented this discipline by a course of study in the Grand River Institute, at Austinburg, Ashtabula county, an institution conducted by Professor John T. Tuckerman, an able and popular educator. At the age of twenty years Mr. Phelps put his scholastic attainments to practical test and utilization by engaging to teach the winter term of school in his home district, and thereafter he devoted his attention to the work of the pedagogic profession for about fifteen winters, having taught in the schools of both Geauga and Lake counties, Ohio, and also in Ellsworth county, Kansas,. whither he went in the spring of 1887. He remained in that state for two and one-half years, and during the summer seasons .devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. He then returned to Ohio and located on a small farm in Madison township, Lake county, where he made a specialty of fruit-growing, having twenty acres devoted to grapes alone. He, continued to reside on this farm for eleven years, and during this entire period was incumbent of the office of road overseer. In 1903 he removed to the village of Madison; where he purchased his present attractive home and where he was engaged in the grocery .and meat business in company with his brother-in-law, Harlan P. Gill, under the firm name of Gill & Phelps, until January, 1909. They had a well appointed store and a representative patronage, but were burned out in January, 1909. In politics Mr. Phelps is a stanch advocate HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1305 of the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor, and he has aided materially in the promotion of its interests in his home county. In the fall of 1906 Mr. Phelps was elected to the office of county commissioner, and at the expiration of his term of two years he was chosen as his own successor, in the election of 1908. He entered upon the discharge of the duties of this important local office in September, 1907, and within his incumbency of the office much important county work has been accomplished, including the completion of the fine court-house in Painesville and the furnishing of the same. He has been active in the supervision of the county affairs in his official capacity, and his labors have not only been zealous and effective but have met with unqualified approval on the part of the people of the county, in which he is well known and held in high regard as a citizen of integrity and marked public spirit. He and his wife are members of the Congregational church, and he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of .Odd Fellows and the Knights of the Maccabees, in the Madison tent of which last organization he has passed all of the official chairs. On the 8th of March, 1883, Mr. Phelps was unite! in marriage to Miss Emma A. Malin, .daughter of Henry and Calista (Warren) Malin, honored residents of Thompson township, Geauga county, where they still maintain their home, the father being a retired blacksmith. Mrs. Phelps was born and reared in Thompson township and, she and her husband were playmates in childhood. Mr. and Mrs. Phelps have one daughter, Mabel C., who is the wife of Harry Leroy Harmon, of Canton, Ohio. THOMAS A. CONWAY, mayor of Elyria, is a leader of the Lorain county bar, one of the strongest Democrats in the Western Reserve, and an able, energetic and reliable citizen who is in the prime of middle age. Born at Olmsted Falls, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, on the 19th of June, 1864, he is a son of Patrick and Jane (Calahan) Conway, natives of Ireland, and they were married in Cleveland in 1862. The couple afterward moved to a small farm which the husband had purchased near Olmsted Falls, where they lived until the spring of 1865, then going with their infant son and daughter to Wood county, Ohio. The family resided in that section of the state until 1883, when they located in Henry county, where the parents still live. Thomas A. attended district school and the Grand Rapids high school in Wood county, after which he taught for eight winter terms, commencing with 1885. During the summers of 1886, 1887, 1888 and 1889 he was a student at the Ohio Normal School at Ada, and in the fall of 1890 commenced reading law with Judge John V. Cuff, of Napoleon, Ohio. Having been admitted to the bar in October, 1893, he opened an office at that place, buying the practice of his preceptor, who had been elected probate judge of Henry county. Mr. Conway was a rising practitioner at Napoleon until 1903, when he was elected prosecuting attor ney of Henry county, serving one term of three years. In September, 1907, he moved to Elyria and formed a professional partnership with Harry A. Pounds, city solicitor, under the firm name of Conway & Pounds, which still continues. In 1908 Mr. Conway received the Democratic nomination for' prosecuting attorney of Lorain county and, although he entered what was considered a hopeless contest, he so carried the political warfare into his opponent's territory that he ran 1,100 ahead of his ticket. The late Thomas Folger, who was the only Democrat elected mayor of Elyria since the Civil war, was nominated for the mayoralty in 1909, but died about two weeks before the election. Mr. Conway had developed such surprising strength in his campaign for prosecuting attorney that, about ten days before the election, the Democrats nominated him for mayor, and after a whirlwind campaign he was elected by twenty votes, overcoming a majority of 1,037 given to Taft for president in 1908. At the same election which seated Mr. Conway in the mayor's chair, the Republican candidate for city treasurer was elected by more than 1,100 majority. The mayor is a member of the Catholic church and is deputy grand knight of the local lodge of the Knights of Columbus. On June 8, 1897, Mr. Conway was married, at Ada, Ohio, to Miss Stella J. Owens, who was born at Bluffton, Ohio, and is a daughter of Henry P. and Elizabeth (Alerding) Owens, both of that place. Their children are Owen Thomas, Charles Bernard, Esther Elizabeth and Dorothy Estella Conway.               JOHN GARD, of Loftin chief clerk in the Shape mill office of the National Tube Com- 1306 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE pany and president of the city Board of Public Service of Lorain, is a native of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where he was born February 2, 1870. His father, James Gard, and his mother, Caroline- Williams, were both natives of Cornwall, England. They were married in their . native country and came to the United States about 1853, locating at Johnstown ; both are now deceased. James Gard and one of his sons, Andrew, lost their lives in the terrible catastrophe of the Johnstown flood. John Gard was reared in Johnstown and educated in the common and high schools. In 1889 he began to work for the iron and steel concern known as the Johnson Company, which moved from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, to Lorain, Ohio, in 1895, and is now owned by the National Tube Company. When- they located in Lorain Mr. Gard came with them, and has now been identified with these people, though under two names, for a period of more than twenty years, and during this time has been promoted from time to time, beginning in a minor office position, to his present post of responsibility. He is a conscientious and industrious employe, and has at heart the interest of his employers. Mr. Gard has taken an active interest in public affairs in Lorain. In 1904 he was elected a member of the school board for a period of .four years, taking the office January 1905, but after serving one year, resigned on account of being elected. a member of the Board of Public Service, taking office in January, 1906, and in November, 1907, he was reelected. In January, 1908, he was chosen president of the board. He is a member of the blue lodge, chapter and council of the Masonic Order, and is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the Board of Commerce of Lorain. Mr. Gard married Clara A., daughter of Lawrence Kalb, who was born at Danbury, Ohio, and they have one son, John, aged seven years. DR. ABEL G. RATHBONE is one among the best known members of the medical profession in Ashtabula county, and his birthplace was New Lyme on the 12th of August, 1837, born to the marriage union of Erastus and Alice (Latimer) Rathbone. He was one of their six children, the others being: Albert I., who died in California ; Edwin, a resident of Rome, Ohio, and John, Jeanette and Leonora, who died in Rock Creek, this state. The father of this family was born in Salem, Connecticut, in 1800, and in 1830 he became a resident of New Lyme, Ohio. Dr. Rathbone entered professional life as a teacher, having taught during several winters, and he also read medicine under the preceptor-ship of Dr. Porter Kee. Going to Kentucky in 1859 as a teacher, he also attended medical lectures, while during the winter of 18601 he attended lectures in Cincinnati, Ohio; and in the following year in the University of Buffalo. With this excellent preparation he . entered upon the active practice of his chosen profession at New Lyme, Ohio, and has ever since continued at the front as a medical practitioner, his work being mainly office practice. During twenty-five years he has also conducted a drug store. He is a member of the Ashtabula County Medical Society and of the Masonic fraternity, and is a stanch and true member of the Republican party, and since age has conferred upon him the right of franchise he' has voted for each of its presidential candidates with the exception of Lincoln, 'whose election occurred during his stay in Kentucky, a splendid record in the interests of Republicanism. Dr. Rathbone married in 1859, Finette P. Watson, a daughter of Harvey Watson, of Rock Creek, and three daughters have been born. of this union. Alice J., the eldest, is the wife of Alexander T. Switzer, of Mansfield, Ohio ; Belle was formerly a teacher, and she is now the wife of Ward H. Nye, superintendent of the public schools at Billings, Montana, but, formerly superintendent of schools at Oberlin, this state. May Belle is the wife of C. Will Day, who was a professor of music, and at present is a resident of Tucson, Arizona, but formerly a teacher in New Lyme Institute. Mrs. Day is also a teacher of music, and was formerly connected, with the Conservatory of Music at Little Rock, Arkansas. BENTLEY F. CRANE was born in Shalersville township April 30, 1836, and he represents one of the oldest families of Portage county. It was founded here by his paternal grandparents, Belden and Aseneth Crane, in the early and formative period. With Belden Crane's brother Simeon they left Salisbury, Connecticut,- their native state, with ox team, a lead horse and a cow, and locating first near Canfield in Mahoning county, Ohio, they cleared land there, set out an orchard, and otherwise HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1307 made preparations for a home, but being obliged to sell their possessions there they came on to Shalersville township, in Portage county, where they again settled in the woods and started anew to carve out a home in a new and unsettled region. They were the second family to locate in this township, and here they reared their family and became prominent and representative citizens. Among their children was Frederick Crane, who was born in their old home in Connecticut, and he married in his early manhood Sarah W. Hanks, who left Vermont, where she was born, at the age of fifteen years to live with a sister in Portage county, and having received a good education she taught school for seventy-five cents a week and boarded around among the patrons of the school. On even this small wage she saved enough money to purchase a few articles with which to begin housekeeping, and after their marriage the young couple began life for themselves on a farm belonging to his father in Shalersville township, but after a few years his mother died and they then went to the old Crane homestead and lived with his father, there spending the remainder of their lives, the husband passing away at the age of forty-five years, in 1845, and the widow lived on until she had reached the age of ninety-two years, dying in the year of 1901. Their four children are : Ashley, whose home is in Shalersville ; Bentley F., the subject of this review ; Frances, the widow of Martin Smith and a residenf of Akron, this state ; and. Rolland, whose home is in Massillon, Ohio. With his brother Ashley, Bentley F. Crane conducted the farms belonging to their father, numbering in all about 216 acres, and finally purchasing the interests of the other heirs in the property he has kept adding to his real estate interests until he now owns an estate of over boo acres, all of which lies in one body, with the exception of eighty-seven and a half acres, but all is located within Shalersville township, while seventy-five acres is devoted to a maple sugar orchard. Mr. Crane follows a general line of farming and conducts a large dairy, shipping his milk to Cleveland. By his marriage, in October of 1859, to Sarah Houpt, from Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Philip Houpt, also from that state, he has had two children, a son and a daughter. The elder, Harry Z., resided on his father's farm until his death, on June 21, 1908. He had married Cordie Coit, a daughter of Royal B. and Julia (Ross) Coit, and their four children are : Royal, who lives with his mother and conducts the homestead farm, and Austin, Verdie and Paul, also ,with their mother. The daughter of Mr. Crane, Nellie, is the wife of Charles Hurd, and they live in Mantua, Ohio. Mrs. Crane died on the 14th of January, 1891, and since then the husband has resided alone. He votes with the Republican party. GEORGE W. RITTER.-A native son of the Western Reserve, Mr. Ritter has gained prestige as one of the able younger members of its bar, and he is engaged in the successful practice of his profession in the city of Sandusky, Erie county, where he has well, appointed offices in the Sloane building. George William Ritter was born in the village of Vermilion, Erie county, Ohio, on the 30th of June, 1886, and is a son of John and Louise (Hauth) Ritter, both of whom were born and reared in Germany, where they were educated and where their marriage was solemnized. John Ritter was born in the province of Westphalia, Ger many, on the 24th of November, 1850, and his wife was born in Baden, on the 25th of March, 1860. The father was afforded the advantages of the excellent schools of his native land, and served the requisite period in the German army. In the fatherland also he learned the trade of tailor, which he there followed until 1881, when he came to America and took up his residence in Vermilion county, Ohio, where he has since been engaged in business as a merchant tailor and where he is held in unqualified esteem as a citizen. He was a, Republican in politics and both he and his wife are zealous and devout members of the German Evangelical church. John Ritter died October 19, 1903. George W. Ritter is indebted to the public schools of his native town for his early educational discipline, and was graduated in the Vermilion high school as a member of the class of 1902. Thereafter he continued his academic studies in Baldwin University, at Berea, Ohio, and he then entered the Cleveland Law School, in the city of Cleveland, in which excellent institution he completed the prescribed technical course and was graduated on the 7th of June, 1906, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bar of the state of Ohio on the 18th of December, 1907, and was admitted to practice in the United States courts on the 23d of March, 1909. He gained his education mainly through 1308 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE his own efforts, as he earned the funds to defray the expenses of his college training, deriving the requisite income principally through his work in making fish nets. He has been engaged in the active work of his profession in Sandusky from the time of his graduation, and here he has proved himself well fortified in the minutia of the science of jurisprudence and in the practical application of the same as an effective advocate and counselor. He is a member of the Ohio Bar Association and has the confidence and esteem of his professional confreres. In politics Mr. Ritter is found aligned as a stanch supporter of the cause of the Republican party, and when but twenty-one years of age he was the candidate of his party for the office of mayor of Vermilion, his native town, but was defeated, though, as he facetiously states, he cast his first vote on an official ballot supporting himself. Mr. Ritter is affiliated with Ely Lodge, No. 424, Free and Accepted Masons, and Vermilion Tent, No. 19, Knights of the Maccabees of the World. He is commander of F. W. Stevens Tent, No. 1,296, K. O. T. M. M. ; member of the Sunyendeand Club, and a member of the board of trustees of the Sandusky Business Men's Association. He is a bachelor. CHARLES SUMNER PUTNAM, of Conneaut, born" in the township of Stockton, Chautauqua county, New York, May 27, 1859, is one of the prominent business and public men of Ashtabula county, having been a. leader in the newspaper field, as well as given noteworthy service to both the state and national governments. He is directly descended from John Putnam, who emigrated from England with his three sons and settled in Massachusetts early in the seventeenth century. Although General Israel Putnam sprang from a collateral branch, Charles S. has an almost equally famous ancestor in the person of General Rufus Putnam, a Revolutionary officer of distinction, and the founder of Marietta, Ohio. Captain Andrew Putnam, a near relative of the latter, moved from Massachusetts and finally settled in Chautauqua county, New York, in 1817. His entire family of twelve boys and one girl accompanied him at that time to what was a forest wilderness of western New York. Newell, the eldest son (grandfather of Charles S.), cleared and improved most of his farm of one hundred acres, situated near the original family homestead, and resided there for more than forty years. Then, retiring from active work, he disposed of the property to his son Welcome, and removed to Conneaut, Ohio, living twenty years near the home of his daughter, the wife of Rev. O. T. Wyman. At the death of his wife, in 1887, Newell Putnam returned to Chautauqua county, whither Mr. and Mrs. Wyman had moved, and again made his home with his daughter. Two years prior to his demise he again removed with her to Norwich, New York, where he remained until his death, at the advanced age of ninety-five years. The deceased was an industrious, thorough and successful farmer, a man of strict, even stern, morality, a teetotaler, and a member of the Baptist church. He was also a stanch patriot, being a soldier in the war of 1812 and a participant in the battle of Lundy's Lane. Welcome, the father of Charles S. Putnam, was born and reared on the old farm in Stockton, Chautauqua county, and also died there in October, 1872, aged fifty-two years. He was a sturdy pillar of the Methodist church, well educated, intelligent and public-spirited. From the date of organization of the Republican party, in 1856, he was one of its most ardent members in Chautauqua county, and his unbounded admiration for its. great Massachusetts leader, Charles Sumner, was the cause of, bestowing the name upon his son. Welcome Putnam married Mrs. Maria L. (Flagg) Putnam, and, besides the son mentioned, became the father of a daughter, -May V., who was born in 1861, and married W. B. Horton, an insurance agent of Jamestown, New York. The mother died in March, 1892, at the age of 'seventy years, her characteristics of great energy and intense devotion to the cause of the Meth0dist church being lightened by a cheerfulness and sunny kindness which gave her broad and remarkable influence. Mrs. Welcome Putnam was twice married, her first husband being James Putnam, cousin of Welcome, by whom she had one son, Edgar P., of Jamestown, New York. The latter made a fine record for bravery as a Union soldier, being promoted from the ranks to major and honored with a congressional medal of honor for distinguished gallantry on the battlefield. He was with the Army of the Potomac all through his service of about four years, serving for a time on General Sheridan's staff. After the war he was employed on the government surveys in northern Minnesota and invested in pine lands, which even- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1309 tually netted him a small fortune. In 1873 he returned to his former home in Stockton and soon moved his own and his mother's family to Jamestown, New York, where he, after several years in the drug business, became postmaster and later county clerk of Chautauqua county. He is now a prominent Republican and citizen of that city, superintendent of its public parks, a director in its leading banks, and owner of several valuable business blocks. Charles S. finished his education in the Jamestown union high school and in 1876, at the age of seventeen, settled at Conneaut, the residence of his grandparents. He there became a printer in the office of the Conneaut Reporter, and on March 8, 1878, married Laura E. Stone, (laughter of E. A. and Eliza-A. Stone, and the children of their union are as follows : Eppie May, born June 3, 1879, now registry clerk in the postoffice; and Walter E., horn February 14, 1886, now manager of the Conneaut Printing Company, publishing the Conneaut News-Herald. Mrs. Putnam was born June 23, 1858, and is a lady of culture and high moral character, devoted to her family and home rather than to social life. She is a member of the Eastern Star. In the fall of 1878, in company with his brother-in-law, L. V. Stone, he established the Conneaut Express. In the following year Mr. Stone sold his interest to G. P. Foster, of Geneva, Ohio, where the publication of that paper was continued, with Mr. Putnam as editor and manager. After a long illness, the latter disposed of his interest, and with restored health, located at Cleveland, where he followed his trade as a printer for a year. In 1882 he returned to Conneaut, purchased a half interest in the Reporter, with J. P. Rieg. and the two continued its publication until 1889. During the last year of this partnerhip he held the state office of warden of Lake Erie, his enforcement of the fishing laws being both vigorous and, at times, most exciting. He resigned the .office after one year's experience. During 1888-89 he was also in the newspaper advertising business. In 1890 he was appointed special census agent, assigned to the work of collecting statistics relative to farms, homes and mortgages. At its conclusion he was transferred to a clerkship in the census bureau at Washington, but resigned in June, 1892, to establish himself at Conneaut in the furniture and undertaking business, with John Smith, who, in June, 1893, sold his interest to C. H. Simonds, of Jefferson, Ohio. Under the firm name of Putnam & Simonds, the business was continued until March, 1900, when he sold his interest. July 1, 1899, he became, by appointment of President McKinley, postmaster of Conneaut, which position he still occupies on the date of this publication, and is now serving his third term in that office. Soon after becoming postmaster, he was instrumental in securing the erection of one of the finest buildings, with best equipment for postoffice purposes, outside of the federal buildings, on the Western Reserve, and he is now working, with good prospects of success, toward securing the erection of a public postoffice building by the government. One year after taking office he had secured city free delivery, this service beginning simultaneously with the removal of the office into its new building, in July, 1900. In March; 1904, he secured rural free delivery for the entire territory around Conneaut. Four routes were established, which superseded and abolished eight small post-offices. During the period of his incumbency the Conneaut postoffice has trebled its business and receipts. He started in office with four employes; now he has supervision over twenty-five regular and substitute employes. Mr. Putnam is a member of the Colonial Club, the Masonic and Elks lodges, and is affiliated with the fraternal insurance orders of Royal Arcanum, National Union and American Insurance Union. MAURICE A. KNIGHT, manager of the A. J. Weeks Chemical and Stoneware Company, of Akron, was born at Tidioute, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1883. He is a son of Dr. C. M. and May (Acomb) Knight. His father has been professor of chemistry and physics at Buchtel College for thirty-five years. The Knight family emigrated' from England to Massachusetts soon after the colony was established at Plymouth, and were patriots. Mr. Knight's great-great-grandfather was a soldier under Washington at Valley Forge, and his great-grandfather was a soldier in the war of 1812. The original homestead in Vermont has always been occupied by some descendant of the family. Maurice A. Knight attended the public schools of Akron until he reached his fourteenth year and prepared for college at Buchtel Academy ; entering Buchtel College in 1902 and graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Science four years later. Through his entire student life he was a guide and classmate of a younger brother, Hal Knight, having de- 1310 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE layed entering upon school duties until his younger brother was old enough to accompany him. During the last years of his college course he gave special attention to the scientific study of the chemical and geological formation of clay deposits, and chose for a graduating thesis "The Chemical Analysis of the Typical Clays of Summit County, Ohio." Even then he had decided to give his life to the shaping and burning of clay into various useful articles. On leaving college he entered the factory of A. J. Weeks and began at the bottom to learn the business. He was fortunate in having Mr. Weeks for a teacher in the practical side of the business, for he is a veteran in the service and knows the coarse pottery business from "A to Z." Mr. Knight has excellent judgment and is successful in handling men, and, aided by his thorough scientific training, gives promise of attaining prominence in his chosen field of work. He is a member of the college fraternity, Phi Kappa Epsilon, and still takes interest in college athletics, and has been an officer of the Alumni Association. Mr. Knight married Lulu L. Weeks, the daughter of his employer, on June 4, 1907, Mrs. Knight was a college classmate and brings to tneir attractive home a rare taste in literature and music. They have one son, named for his father, Maurice A. Knight, Jr. RICHARD GARLICK.—Among the native sons of the Western Reserve who have -here gained such prestige as to merit the title of captain of industry is Richard Garlick, a well known and essentially representative citizen and business man of Youngstown, where he is actively identified with many important industrial and financial concerns which contribute materially to the precedence of the city, the county and the fine old Western Reserve. He gives the major part of his time and attention to his executive duties in connection with the affairs of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, of which he is treasurer. On other pages of this publication is entered a review of the career of his honored father, Henry M. Garlick, so that a repetition of the data there incorporated is not demanded in the present article. Richard Garlick was born in the city of Youngstown, Mahoning county, Ohio, on the 2d of November, 1871, and to the public schools of that city he is indebted for his early educational training, which included a course in the Rayen high school, after which he continued his studies for two years in historic old Yale University. Upon his return to Youngstown he became identified with the operations of the Lloyd Booth Company, engaged in the manufacture of rolling mill machinery, and with this concern he was connected consecutively until 1900, when he assumed the office of treasurer of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, one of the important corporations identified with the iron manufacturing industry in this section of the state. Of this position he has since remained the efficient and popular incumbent, and he is also a member of the directorate of the Dollar Savings and Trust Company and the First National Bank of Youngstown a director of the American Belting Company, of this city;, president of the Concrete Stone and Sand Company, of Youngstown, and a stockholder in several other important corporations of a local order. He is a prominent and valued member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce and is in full sympathy with the high civic ideals of this organization, which has done much to promote the industrial upbuilding of his native city. Not only as a business man but also as a loyal and progressive citizen has Mr. Garlick maintained a deep interest in all that has tended to conserve the general welfare of the community, and he is held. in unqualified esteem in the city that has represented his home from the time of his nativity to the present. In politics Mr. Garlick gives his allegiance to the Republican party. He and his wife hold membership in the First Presbyterian church and are popular in the best social activities of the community and he is a member of the Youngstown Club, a representative social organization. On the 25th of April, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Garlick to Miss Mary Holmes Wells, who was born and reared in Youngstown, and who is a daughter of the late Thomas H. Wells, a representative citizen of Mahoning county.. JACOB PHILE, a prominent farmer of Portage county, was born in Mahoning county, Ohio, January 3, 1826, and is a son of Peter and Magdalene Phile, both natives of Germany, who immigrated to the United States and settled in Mahoning county, first purchasing but thirty-seven acres of land. Later they removed to Edinburg, where they purchased 115 acres. Jacob Phile was educated in the public HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1311 schools, and then helped in the work of his father's farm. His father died when he was about twenty-one years of age, and he then left home, working for farmers until he had saved enough money to start farming for himself on 111 acres. He has been successful in the conduct of his affairs, and has won the respect and esteem of the community. He has served some time as township trustee, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Phile married, May 7, 1850, Susan Colwell, and they have been blessed with seven children, namely : Amelia, Wallace, Dwight, Lorinda, .Albert, Charles and Hattie. Mr. Phile has the unusual honor of thirteen grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. FRANK J. FRANK, city auditor of Lorain, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, January 8, 1871, and is a son of Michael Frank, a native of Germany, who came to the United States in 1865, locating in Louisville. The family moved to Fremont. Ohio, in 1872, and it was in the latter city that Frank was reared and received his education. In 1885 he entered a drug store in Fremont, as an apprentice, and four years later went to Norwalk, Ohio, and spent one year in a drug store. Mr. Frank has been identified with Lorain since 1890, and first began work in the drug store of W. A. Jewett; in 1892 he purchased the business, which he successfully conducted ten years, and then sold his interests. He entered the receiving department of the National Tube Corn-.- pany, where he remained until January 1, 1908, being at that time elected to his present position of auditor for the city of Lorain. He is a keen business man, and enterprising and up-to-date in his methods and ideas. He is a member of the Board. of Commerce, of which he is a director. Fraternally he belongs to the Knights of Pythias and Maccabees. He. is a member of the Business Men's Club. Mr. Frank married Belle M., daughter of George Butts, of Elyria, Ohio, where she was born. Her father was a descendant of an old New York family, and moved from Michigan to Ohio. • THOMAS C. LEITER, D. D. S.—In the death of Dr. Thomas Chalmers Leiter at his home in Wadsworth on the 9th of March, 1910, there passed away one of the most distinguished representatives of the dental profession in Medina county, and whose influence in connection with business affairs was most potent. He was essentially a representative citizen of the Western Reserve, was a man of exalted character, and ever commanded the unequivocal confidence and affectionate regard of those with whom he came in contact. He was a scion of one of the sterling pioneer families of the Western Reserve, and within its confines practically his entire life was passed. The paternal grandparents of Dr. Leiter were Jacob and Margaret (Beck) Leiter, both of whom were born at Leitersburg, Maryland. where they accumulated a good property and where they reared a large family of children. namely : David, John, Jacob, George, Felix, Samuel B., Henry, Abraham, Mary, Anna and Catherine. The children received the solicitous care of their honored parents, who by precept and example inculcated those principles of right and justice that ever represent the plumb of character. It was a matter of unbounded satisfaction to the parents that all of their children became staunch church members, some of them having united with the Lutheran church and others with the Reformed church. Two of the sons, George and Samuel B., became clergymen, and the former completed a divinity course at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The honored father was finally summoned to eternal rest, but not until he had seen his children comfortably settled in life. After his demise his widow and children disposed of their home at Leitersburg and removed to Ohio, which was then considered the far West. In 1835 they made their advent into Mansfield, Ohio, and soon they established comfortable homes. Two of the sons, David and John, located on farms near Lucas, and others of the sons learned and followed productive trades. Henry established himself in the drug business, with which he continued to be identified until the memorable discovery of gold in California, when he went to that state, where he died soon afterward. George and Samuel B. were assigned by the boards of their respective churches to take up missionary work in Ohio, and they found a generous field for labor in Richland and adjoining counties. The Rev. Samuel B. Leiter, father of the subject of this memoir, was born in Washington county, Maryland, on the 19th of April, 1809, and was there reared to maturity near the village of Leitersburg, which was named in honor of the family of which he was a Member. He received good educational ad- 1312 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE   vantages of a preliminary order and prepared for the ministry of the Reformed church by a course of study in a theological institution of that church in York, Pennsylvania, and through training under the tutorship of the learned Dr. Meyer. In 1835 he was licensed to preach by the Maryland classis, and at Hagerstown, Maryland, in November of the same year he was .ordained to the ministry of the Reformed church. It was soon after this that he came to Ohio, where he was assigned work by the board of missions of his church, and he located at Mansfield, where he maintained his home for nine years. He then removed to Rome, Richland county, where he continued his labors for the ensuing five years, and the long period of eighteen years there-. after he passed at Navarre, Stark county, Ohio. In April, 1868, he removed to Wadsworth, Medina county, Ohio, and here he continued in the active work of his noble calling for many years, his last pastorate having been that of Emmanuel church. He was a man of high scholarship and of great ability as a speaker. He received from Heidelberg College, at Tiffin, this state, the degree of Doctor of Divinity. The life of a pioneer clergyman was by no means one of sybaritic order, but Rev. Dr. Leiter was among the brave band of young men who willingly sacrificed many comforts and encountered vicissitudes and hardships in order to carry the gospel to the pioneer communities and to minister to those in affliction or distress. It may well be said that the present generation is reaping the fruits of the good seed sown by those faithful servants of the great Master. As a young man Rev. Samuel B. Leiter was united in marriage to Miss Eliza R. Warner, who was native of Stark county, Ohio, and was a daughter of George and Rebecca (Howenstine) Wainer, both of whom were born and reared in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. George Warner owned and conducted extensive iron works and was also identified with other important industrial enterprises in the village of Loudan, Franklin county, Pennsylvania. He finally disposed of all his interests. in the old Keystone state. and set forth to establish a new home in Ohio. After a. long and tiresome journey, the family finally arrived in Stark county, Ohio, in 1824. At a point about ten miles west of the city of Canton, that county, Mr. Warner purchased seven hundred acres of most fertile and productive land, to,, the reclamation of which he at once turned his attention with all of energy and determination. He brought a considerable amount of his land under cultivation, but was not spared to continue the development of his property. He died in middle life, leaving his widow and nine children to face the problems and strenuous labors of life in the pioneer district. The daughter, Eliza R., was born on the 13th of January, 1825, being the youngest of nine children. and the only one of the number born in Ohio. At the age of twelve years she accompanied her sister, Mrs. Chapman, to Virginia, but eight months later she returned to Navarre, Ohio. Her guardian, Charles Poe, placed her in the care of Dr. Hopkins and his wife, who conducted a school for young ladies at Canton, and she later entered a seminary conducted by Dr. and- Mrs. Beatty. In the autumn of 1839 the Rev. I. M. Goshorn and his wife opened a school for young ladies in Stark county, and Miss Warner, who was anxious to continue her school work near' her borne, entered that institution, in which she continued her higher academic studies for one year. Soon afterward was solemnized her marriage to Rev. Samuel B. Leiter.   Thomas C. Leiter, to whom this memoir is dedicated, was born on the old Leiter homestead near Navarre, Stark county, Ohio, on the 19th of March, 1859, and he was a child at the time of his parents' removal from Stark county to Wadsworth, Medina county, in which village he was reared to manhood and received his early educational training, which included a course in the high school. After leaving the local schools Dr. Leiter entered the dental department of the celebrated University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, in which he completed the prescribed technical course and was graduated as a member of the class of 1880, duly receiving the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. He initiated the active practice of his profession at Monroe, Michigan, but shortly afterward he returned to Wadsworth, Ohio, where he continued to be identified with the practice of his chosen profession during the remainder of his. life. He achieved a high reputation and large measure of success in connection with his profession, which represents both a science and a mechanical art. Dr. Leiter was a man of distinctive business acumen and initiative, and this led him to identify himself with various industrial and HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1313 business enterprises of wide scope and importance. He was one of the organizers of the Wadsworth Salt Company, of which he was treasurer as well as a member of the directorate at the time of his death. He was one of the organizers of the First National .Bank of Wadsworth and was a member of its board of directors at the time of his death. He was also one of the organizers of the Wadsworth Milling Company, but he finally disposed of his interest in that corporation. No citizen exemplified more insistent public spirit and progressiveness, and none has contributed more materially to the civic and business development of the thriving little town of Wadsworth. His entire life was marked by inflexible integrity and honor, and his gracious and genial personality won to him the high regard of all with whom he came in contact in the various circles of life. Dr. Leiter was well fortified in his opinions as to matters of public policy and was one of the leaders in the councils of the Democratic party in his home county. He was called upon to serve in various local offices of public trust, and in 1892 was candidate for presidential elector for the twentieth district of Ohio, but was defeated, owing to the fact that the Democratic party was much in the minority in this district. He was a devout member of the Reformed church, as is also his wife, and in a fraternal way was affiliated with the Royal Arcanum. On the 16th of December, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Leiter to Miss Ida May Detwiler, who was born at Jamestown, California, and who is a daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Neterauer) Detweiler, who are now residents of Wadsworth, Medina county. Mrs. Leiter is a woman of gracious presence and advanced education, having attended both Heidelberg College, in Tiffin, Ohio, and Oberlin College, at Oberlin, this state. Dr. and Mrs. Leiter had no children. In conclusion of this brief tribute to the memory of one of the noble and honored citizens of the Western Reserve, are given, with slight paraphrase, extracts from an article that appeared in The Christian World of March 26, 1910: "In the passing of Dr. Thomas Chalmers Leiter, Trinity Reformed church of Wadsworth loses a faithful member and Wadsworth a valued and highly respected citizen. ,It will be many a long day before one is raised up to fill the large place he occupied in the religious, social and commercial circles in which he moved. A man of commanding personality, he was also pleasant in his address, gentle in spirit, thoughtful in his relations with others; sympathetic, kindly and loving in his home—in fact, his were rare qualities in a man. His. father was the late Rev. S. B. Leiter, whose name is familiar to the older generation of Reformed ministers. and a household name in this and surrounding communities. The spiritual atmosphere of the manse and the influence of godly parents made up in large part the environment in which Dr. Leiter's deep piety and religious sympathies and clear spiritual vision were fostered, and which shone so splendidly in his life and were a revelation to his pastor in the few and brief visits that were allowed him with Dr. Leiter during his short and fatal illness. "His life was woven into the very life of the community. By all he was considered as one needed here. But God in his infinite wisdom had other plans and purposes for him, and so took him. He united with the Reformed church many years ago, having been catechised and confirmed by the sainted Rev. S. G. Goss, D. D. Dr. Goss also officiated at his marriage with Miss Ida May Detweiler in December of 1886. Mrs. Leiter and many other near relations, among whom are his sister, Mrs. J. B. Colby, and her daughter, Mrs. Mabel C. Yeomans, and a nephew, Dr. F. W. Boyer, all of Wadsworth, survive. Besides these, four sisters—Mrs. Lutz, Mrs. Yost, Mrs. McCormack and Mrs. Foster—reside in distant cities. On the 18th of February, 1910, Dr. Leiter was stricken with appendicitis. An operation had been successfully performed. Assisted by skilled physicians and nurses, and by the constant care and prayers of a tender wife and friends, nature seemed to be bringing about his sure recovery. But on Wednesday morning, March 9, just as the dawn was lighting up the eastern sky, with scarcely a warning to the watchers, his spirit went home to God. The funeral was conducted from Trinity Reformed church on Saturday afternoon, March 12, the pastor, Rev. G. T. N. Beam, officiating, and being assisted by the Rev. J. A. Keller, D. D., and by the Rev. Mr. Ruff, of the Methodist Episcopal church. A very large congregation assembled to mourn with the friends and to do honor to him whom they all loved." 1314 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE MILTON B. HOSKIN.—The name of Hoskin is inseparably identified with the history of Shalersville township from its early and formative period to latter day progress and prosperity, and Milton B. Hoskin, in the third generation from the founder, is now one of its most prominent agriculturists. John and Louie (Malory) Hoskin, his grandparents, drove through from their native state of Connecticut to Shalersville township, Portage county, Ohio, as early as 1814, and, locating just east of Shalersville Center, they bought from the Connecticut Land Company a farm there of about 160 acres. The land was then covered with timber, with no roads leading thereto, and with others of the brave and honored pioneers of this community John Hoskin was obliged to clear his farm and prepare it for purposes of cultivation. He and his wife spent the remainder of their lives on this place. Among their children was a son, Cyrus, who was born in Connecticut, and for .his first wife he married Myranda Dye, and their only son and child, Vestley, died at the age of four years. He married for his second wife, Naomi Isaac, from Erie, Pennsylvania, where she was married, and afterward she went with her husband to his farm. just opposite his father's homestead, and there they lived and labored for many years, the husband and father dying there in 1883, and the wife in 1898. They had two sons, Eugene I. and Milton B., both in Shalersville township. Milton B. Hoskin was born in this township April 6, 1846, and his entire life has been spent on the farm where he now lives. In March of 1883 he bought his brother's interest in his father's homestead, a valuable and well improved tract of 172 acres, and he is engaged in general farming and dairying, while in addition, he also has a large maple sugar camp. He married, on the l0th of 'May, 1871, Ann Spray, also from Shalersville township, and her parents, Charles and Mary (Sterling) Spray, were from England and Scotland respectively. The only son and, child of this union is Plimon C. Hoskin, whose home is in Garrettsville. He married a Miss Daniels, and they have a daughter, Ruth. Milton B. Hoskin in politics supports the principles of the Republican party. WILLIAM EUGENE GUERIN, JR.—An able representative of the legal profession in the historic old Western Reserve is William, E. Guerin, who is engaged in the practice of his profession in the city of Sandusky, where he is a member of the law firm of King, Guerin & Ramsey, in which his confreres are Edmund B. King and Russell K. Ramsey. William Eugene Guerin, Jr., was born at Fort Scott, Kansas, on the 24th of November, 1871, and is a son of William E. and Martha (Reynolds) Guerin. His father was born at Reynolds-burg, Franklin county, Ohio, and his mother at Delaware, Ohio. The father, William Estell Guerin, was born on the 29th of March, 1849, and became one of the pioneers of Bourbon county, Kansas. His political allegiance was given to the Republican party, and he served as a member of the state senate of Kansas from 1869 to 1871. He Was a man of prominence and influence in the Sunflower commonwealth, and there his vocation was that of attorney at law. He is now a resident of Seattle, Washington. The mother of the subject of this review is a daughter of Richard W. and Amanda (Bixby) Reynolds, the former of whom. was born in Wales and died in the city of Delaware, Ohio, in 1907, at the venerable age of eighty-nine years ; his wife died in 1904, at the age of eighty years. The genealogy of the Guerin family is traced back to stanch French-Huguenot origin, and the founder of the family in America settled in historic- old Elizabethtown, Union county, New Jersey, after having been compelled to leave his native land owing to the religious persecutions incidental to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. When William E. Guerin, Jr., was a child his parents returned from Kansas to Ohio and took up their residence in Columbus, the capital city of the state. There he gained his preliminary educational discipline in the public schools, after which he continued higher 'academic studies in the University of Ohio, in the same city. Later he entered the law department of Cornell University, at Ithaca, New York, which he left in 1893. He was shortly afterward admitted to the bar of Ohio, and from 1893 to 1895 he was engaged in the work of his profession in the city of Columbus. He then removed to Sandusky, where he has since been engaged in the general practice of law and where he has gained prestige and success as an able trial lawyer and well fortified counselor. His firm has a large and representative clientage and takes rank among the leading law concerns' of this section of the Western Reserve. Mr. Guerin is a stalwart advocate of the principles and policies for which the Repub- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1315 lican party stands sponsor, and in 1902-3 he reresented Erie county in the seventy-fifth general assembly of the legislature of Ohio. He has completed the circle of York and Scottish Rite Masonry, in which time-honored fraternity he has attained to the thirty-second degree< of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in Which he is identified with the consistory in Cleveland. He also holds membership in the adjunct organization, the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and is a member of the Chi Psi college fraternity. From 1883 to 1889 he held membership in the Fourteentn Regiment of the Ohio National Guard. In the city of Columbus, Ohio, on the 7th of March, 1895, Mr. Guerin was united in marriage to Miss Alice Town Greenleaf, a daughter of Albert C. and Maria (Snowden) Greenleaf, of Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Guerin have one daughter, Mary Bancroft Guerin, who was born in the city of Columbus in 1897. LYSANDER MONROE BANCROFT - A lifelong resident of Nelson township. Portage county, and one of its leading agriculturists, Lysander M. Bancroft is familiarly known as owner of one of the finest homesteads within its limits, and as one of its most highly esteemed citizens. A son of Barnos Bancroft, he was born on the farm where he now resides, August 12, 1845, of early pioneer stock, his great-grandparents, John and Grace Bancroft, and his grandfather, John M. Bancroft, having settled in the Western Reserve in the earlier part of the nineteenth century, probably about 1811, coming here from Massachusetts. The family originated in England, where the name was spelled Bancra ft, and among the descendants of the emigrant ancestor of the American family of Bancrofts were some that attained prominence, one of whom was the historian, George Bancroft. John M. Bancroft was born, reared and married in Massachusetts, the maiden name of his wife having been Hannah King. Coming to the Western Reserve with his family in 1811, he bought land lying about three-fourths of a mile east of Nelson Center, and on the farm that he cleared and improved spent his remaining years, both he and his wife rounding out a full period of life. They were the parents of four children. Barnos Bancroft was born May 4, 1807, in Granville. Massachusetts, and at the age of four years came with his parents to Nelson township, where he spent his remaining years, dying April 11, 1871. During the three score and more years that he resided here, he witnessed many wonderful transformations in the country roundabout, the pathless forests giving way before the axe of the pioneer, and as one of the industrious and progressive farmers of the township contributed his full share towards developing its agricultural resources. He married, in Southington, Trumbull county, Ohio, Anna Chalker, their marriage being solemnized March a7, 1834. She was born in Southington, March 16, 1815, and died March 31, 1896, on the home farm, her body being buried beside that of her husband, in the family lot in the Nelson cemetery. One of a family of six children, Lysander M. Bancroft was given exceptional educational advantages, after completing his studies in the academy of Nelson township taking a course at the Eclectic Institute in Hiram during the time that H. W. Everest was the acting principal, Garfield, the principal, being away, and subsequently entering the Western Reserve Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1865. Desirous then of taking up the occupation to which he was bred, Mr. Bancroft has since been busily and profitably employed in agricultural pursuits on the homestead where his birth occurred, in its management meeting with well merited success. On October 22, 1878, in Ridgeville, Ohio, Mr. Bancroft was united in marriage with Celia E. Eldred, who was born in that place, January. 14, 1849, a daughter of Francis Eldred. Mr. Eldred was born August 24, 1805, in German, Chenango county, New York, and died May 23, 1886, in Ridgeville, Ohio. He married, February 22, 1831, Adaline Thompson, who was born April 5, 1810, in Charleston, Portage county, and she died October 23, 1869, in Ridgeville, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Eldred reared four children, two sons and two daughters. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft, namely : -Clarence Burdette, born October 27, 1879 ; and Newton Algie, born September 14, 1881. Newton A. Bancroft, now a resident of Braceville township, married, October 8, 1907, Lola Carr, of Newton Falls, Ohio, and they have one child, Dorothy, born January 18, 1909. Mrs. Lysander M. Bancroft died at the family home December 25, 1905. THE PEPOON FAMILY, which was among the first to be established at Painesville and in the 1316 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE Western Reserve, was planted in America as a result of the Huguenot persecutions, which drove so many refugees to this country. A branch of the family took root in New England, Joseph Pepoon, of that line, being born in Colchester, Connecticut, August 2, 1749. His wife, known before her marriage as Eunice Ayers, was born December 7, 1762. In the spring of 1802 the husband and father first came to the site of Painesville, having exchanged his farm in Hebron, Connecticut, for 500 acres in that part of the Western Reserve, and also bought i,000 acres at New Line, Ohio. During the summer of that year he commenced to clear the land at Painesville, but returned to his Connecticut home in the fall, leaving a Mr. Root in charge of the western enterprise. In the spring of 1803 Joseph Pepoon returned to Ohio, but did not move his family thither until the fall. When they arrived at Buffalo they found there was no road further west, so they followed the lake shore, fording each river at its mouth. When they reached a point opposite Harpersfield they heard that there was a road from that place to Painesville ; so they struggled up to that small settlement, cutting down trees to clear a wagon path, only to find the report false. The party was thus forced to take again to the beach, and Painesville (or what was then in existence) was finally reached. One of the attractions which drew the family to that ' place was Captain Skinner's first wife, who was a sister of Mrs. Joseph Pepoon. Then, like most farmers, he wanted more land than he could afford in Connecticut ; so braved the west, where it was plentiful and cheap. He died when sixty years of age and was buried in the first Painesville cemetery, being a Baptist in his religious faith. At the time of the family migration the son, Benjamin Pepoon, was five years of age, having been born in Hebron, June 9, 1799. The subsequent narrative is told in the words of his eldest daughter, Julia C., as follows : "Soon after the Congregational church was organized (in 1810, I believe), my grandmother joined it, and the same day had all her five children baptized, the eldest being Silas, aged nineteen, and the youngest, Augustus, about ten years old. My father was converted when a young man, but I do not know the date of his joining the church. He was always interested in its affairs and was a faithful attendant of its services as long as he was able. When a helpless invalid he often wished that he could attend, especially prayer meeting, as in his early life he often had neighborhood meetings at his house. All the education he had was obtained at public and select schools, although at one time he taught in Mentor and had as high as 100 pupils in his classes. In so large an establishment he was obliged to have three or four evening sessions during the week—an evening for spelling, on which an essay was read by everyone present ; an evening for penmanship, etc." Benjamin Pepoon also gave each of his children an opportunity to acquire a good education, willingly spending to the limit of his means for that purpose. He was also very much interested in Sunday school work, and was superintendent of the first Sabbath school organized by the Congregationalists, who founded the first regular church at Painesville. Not only did all. moral reforms meet with his earnest support, but his private life was a model of virtue and tern perance. He never drank intoxicants in any form, and when a teacher cut off his tea and coffee, because he thought he could not mend his pens as skilfully when he used such stimulants. He was a pioneer in the anti-slavery cause, voting for Birney, the presidential candidate of the. Liberty party in 1840. The account of his daughter says further: "Father kept a station of the Underground Railroad, notwithstanding the risk of a heavy fine and imprisonment. He would keep the runaway slaves concealed. in the hay-loft and provide them with food, until some vessel was due at Fairport whose captain .was willing to help them to liberty. Then he would take them in his large farm wagon, concealing them with blankets and hay, and land them on the boat that would take them to Canada and freedom. He was opposed to secret societies, especially to Masonry, believing that the oaths said to be taken in the last three degrees would be directly opposed to all good government. Although father was a man who never sacrificed his principles to policy, but persisted in what he believed to be his duty, he never sued anyone, and was never sued himself. At his death he was within three weeks of eightyseven years. His mind failed as his body weakened, but he would look up to one with-such a beaming smile, and he was so peaceful and happy, that it was a pleasure to care for him. Like many other aged people he thought that he was away from home, and used occasionally to ask mother if she would not take him home that day. On May 26, 1886, he went to his true Home, not made by hands or human hearts." HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1317 To the above account it may be added that Benjamin Pepoon was married three times, his dirst wife being Charlotte Gillette, a sister of the first wife of W. L. Perkins. From this union there were two children—a son, who died in infancy, and Julia Charlotte, who graduated from Oberlin College in 1857 and lived to the age of seventy-six years, dying at Walla Walla, Washington, May 21, 1909. The mother died when this daughter was only ten months old. Mr. Pepoon married as his second wife, Miss Jane Lawrence, and the three sons of this union were One who died in infancy ; Edward Pason, who is now a resident of San Diego, California ; and Lawrence Tompkins, who died as a soldier of the Civil war. Benjamin Pepoon's third wife was Miss Eliza Ann Hollister, who survived her husband twelve years. Four children were born of this marriage. The first-born died in her second year. The second, Albert Cornelius, graduated from the Painesville high school in 1871, and completed his law course in 1876. He then conducted his father's farm a few years, practiced law in Painesville, and for a short time was business manager of the Telegraph. His death occurred in Walla Walla on the 21st of December, 1908. The third child born to Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Pepoon was Eliza Nancy, who died a month after her graduation from the Painesville high school, in 1873. The youngest daughter, Helen Abby, is now professor of Latin at Whitman College, Walla Walla. The final resting place for the bodies of all those mentioned who have passed on to the life beyond will be found in beautiful Evergreen cemetery, very near the spot where lies the body of Mr. Benjamin Pepoon's lifeiong friend, Mr. C. C. Jennings, and now that of the much-beloved and mourned General J. S. Casement. Besides Benjamin Pepoon, the following were born to Joseph and Eunice (Ayres) Pepoon, all of whom were natives of Connecticut, but reached maturity in Painesville : Silas, born in 1792; Nancy, in 1794; Joseph A., in 1797, and Augustus I, in 1801. Three sons and one daughter of Silas Pepoon are living in the western states; a daughter of Joseph A. at Chagrin Falls, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, as well as a son who resides in Kansas; and of Augustus, one daughter in Nebraska and a son in Illinois. JOHN MCKELVEY, of Sandusky, traces descent to illustrious ancestry. The first American ancestor on the paternal side of whom there is record is William McKelvey, the great-grandfather of John, and who resided in Chester county, Pennsylvania, prior to the American Revolution. William McKelvey, a son of William, the great-grandfather, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1760, and was of Scotch-Irish descent. His ancestors were Scotch Presbyterians, or Dissenters, and one member of the family, John McKelvey, was executed for adherence to his religious belief. Subsequently an ancestor of William, with others members of the family, emigrated to America and located in Philadelphia and Chester counties, Pennsylvania. At the age of sixteen William McKelvey enlisted in Captain Gibbs' company of the First Chester County Militia Regiment of Foot, commanded by Colonel Hannum, which entered the service on June 18, 1777. On page 78, volume 14, Pennsylvania Archives, is the statement that William McKelvey answered to his name at roll call June 24, 1777, and that the regiment was mustered into the United States service July 11, 1777. The records of the U. S. Pension Office show that William McKelvey was for six years in active service during the Revolution and that he lost a leg in battle while in service. He gave all he could—six years' service and one leg —to the cause of American independence. Few gave more and survived the war, though many may have attained greater applause and honor. After the close of the war he married Mary Toppings and located in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where they resided until 1804, when they moved to Palmyra township, Portage county, Ohio, from there to Trumbull county in 1807, and thence to what is now Greenfield township, Huron county, in the spring of 1815, and to Plymouth township, Richland county, in 1819, where he died in 184o, his wife, Mary, having died some years prior to his death. They had twelve children, nine born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and three in Portage and Trumbull counties, Ohio. One of this number, the fourth, was Mathew.   Mathew McKelvey was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1794. He came with his parents to Greenfield township, Huron county, in 1815, where he married Nancy Adams on March 27, 1818. He 1318 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE had resided in Sandusky a year prior to his marriage, and located in this city immediately thereafter, engaging in mercantile pursuits, and was connected with the first store started here after the war of 1812. There had been, in 1811, a small store opened in a log building, ten by twenty feet, by a Mr. Garrison, for trading with the Indians, but it was abandoned after the war of 1812 was declared. Soon after his marriage he erected a larger frame building in Sandusky for a store room, and therein continued the mercantile business until 1825, when he moved to Plymouth, Huron county, where he erected the second frame building in that locality and conducted a general mercantile business therein until 1840. He was elected a commissioner of Huron county in 1829, serving to 1831. In 1830 he erected a suitable building, secured competent teachers and established a "School for Young Ladies," which is believed to have been the second female seminary in the state of Ohio, the first having been established in Steubenville, in 1829, by Dr. Charles Baety, a man of Scotch-Irish descent. Mathew McKelvey died in Greenfield township March 18, 1853, and his wife, Nancy Adams, died in Blanchard township, Hardin county, Ohio, January 27, 1842. They had ten children, seven daughters and three sons, the youngest of the number being John, the subject of this review. Mathew McKelvey continuing in the same religious belief of his ancestors, was for some years a Presbyterian, but after his marriage he and his Wife Nancy, with sixteen others, organized the First Congregational church of Greenfield township, Huron county, Ohio. Mathew McKelvey, as the records show, served as clerk in effecting the organization. In politics he was an active Supporter of the Whig party, but preferred to remain in private life, having at one time declined a nomination for Congress. But, as before mentioned, he did consent to serve one term as a commissioner of Huron county. The ancestry of Nancy Adams, wife of Mathew McKelvey, includes Robert, Jacob, John, Joel, Bildad and Nancy Adams. Robert Adams and wife, Elinor Wilmot, came from Denvonshire, England, to Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1635, thence to Salem in 1638, and to Newbury in 1640, where he died October 12, 1682, aged eighty-one years. His wife, Elinor, died June 12, 1677. In religion they were Congregationalists. They had nine children, the youngest being Jacob, born September 13, 1651. He married, on April 7, 1677, Anna Allen, daughter of Nicholas Allen, of Dorchester, Massachusetts. She was born January 3, 1658. They moved from Newbury. to Suffield, then in Massachusetts but now in Connecticut, in 1681, where he was the most prominent of early settlers, being often chosen to important positions. He was a member of the general court of the colony, then held in Boston, from 1711 to 1714, and again in 1717. He died in Boston suddenly in November, 1717, while attending to his duties as a member of the general court from Suffield. They had eight children, the youngest being John, who was born in Suffield June 18, 1694, and married, on July 26, 1722, Abigail Roe, daughter 'of Peter and Sarah (Remington) Roe. They had five children, he fourth being Joel, who was born in Suffield, Connecticut, December 20, 1729. He held a lieutenant's commission under the English crown, and was wounded in battle at Lake George in 1755. On July 16, 1761, he married Mrs. Elizabeth Fowler, a widow whose maiden name was Elizabeth Emerson. Though comfortably situated and over forty-five years of age when the war for independence began, he not only entered the service himself, but freed all his able-bodied slaves so that they could also become soldiers. To his credit it should be said that although a slaveholder prior to the Revolution, thereafter both he and his descendants were anti-slavery advocates as long as slavery existed in the United States. On page 423, volume 15, Colonial Records of Connecticut, in the proceedings of June, 1776, it is stated that Joel Adams was by the assembly established ensign in the Second Company of the First Battalion. Also, on page 485, volume 1, Records of the State of. Connecticut, in the Proceedings of the Assembly in January, 1778, it is stated that Joel Adams was established lieutenant of the Second Company of Suffield in the First Regiment of the state. After the close of the Revolution, with his family, he moved from Suffield, Connecticut, to Marlboro;. in Windham county, Vermont, where he died in 1820. His Wife also died there, both living to be over ninety years of age. They had six children, three sons and three daughters. Two of the sons were twins. The first born was named Bildad ; the other, because of his patience in waiting 'for his brother to make the first exit,. was called Job. They were born in Suffield, Connecticut, April 3, 1773. Bildad married Mary Haines in 1793, and in the early spring of 1815 they moved from Wind- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1319 ham county, Vermont, to what is now Greenfield township, Huron county, Ohio. Being prominent with the pioneers of that locality, he materially assisted in the organization of the Connecticut Fire Lands into the county of Huron, and was elected one of the first three commissioners of that county in 1816, and was re-elected for several terms, serving until a short time prior to his death, in the fall of 1826. His wife, Mary Haines, died September 7, 1822. He served as cavalryman in the war of 1812-14. They had eleven children, three sons and eight daughters, one of the daughters being Nancy, born in Marlboro, Vermont, July 30, 1798. She accompanied her parents in their removal from there to Greenfield township, Huron county, Ohio, in 1815, and she taught the first school in Peru township in 1816, which was one of the first in Huron county. She was married to Mathew McKelvey on March 27, 1818. Her ancestry for five generations to Robert Adams, the head of the family in the United States, is above given with information respecting each generation, but a more complete list, giving, with few exceptions, only the names of each generation back to the third century, is as follows: Woden or Odin, Roman Othimus, was king of north Europe in the third century. The descendants of him and his wife, Frea, are as follows: Beldig or Balder, wife Nama, daughter of Gewan; Branlius or Brands; Frodigarius or Frothgar; Wigger; Gewesius or Gerwisch; Effa or Esta; Effa ; Eliseus; Cerdic, first king of West Saxons; Kenric or Cynric; Cheanlin; Cuthrom ; Cuth ; Chelwald ; Keused ; Ingalls ; Eoppa; Easa ; Alkmund; Egbert, wife Redburga; Ethelwolf, wife Osburga, daughter of slac the Thane; Alfred the Great, king of ngland; Edward the Elder, king of England; Princess Ei Egiva, second husband Henry de Vermandois; Agnes de Vermandois, husband Charles, Duke of Loraine; Wigines, Duke of Loraine; Baldric Teutonicus, wife the daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare; Nicholas de Boschaville de Clara of Castle Martel, wife the daughter of Henatus the Dane; William de Martel, Earl of Guerena, wife the daughter of Rofe de Fosta, the Dane; William, Earl of Warrena and Surrey, wife the Princess Gundred, daughter of William the Conqueror, King of England; Lady ith de Warrena, husband, Girard Gournai; ugh de Gournai, wife Lady Julia Dampartin ; Anslem de Gournai; Lord John Vol. III-4 Gourney; Elizabeth Gourney, husband Lord John Ab Adams, son of Ab Adams. Nancy Adams was of the twentieth generation in descent from her earliest ancestor in the Adams line of whom there. is record. The ancestor was Ab Adams of the Marches of Wales, a sort of petty king. The descent from Ab Adams to Nancy Adams and son, John McKelvey, is as follows Sir John Lord Ab Adams, wife Lady Elizabeth Gourney; Sir Thomas; William; Sir John, wife Jane Inge ; Thomas; Sir John, wife Milicent Basille; Sir John Ab Adams, alias Adams, thereafter the Ab being dropped, wife Clara Powell; Roger Adams, wife Jane 1320 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE Ellyott; Thomas, wife Marie Upton; John, wife Jane Ronnelegh; John, wife Catherine Stebbing; John, wife Margaret Squire; Richard, Wife Margaret; Robert, wife Elizabeth Shadow ; Robert, wife Eleanor Wilmot ; Jacob, .wife Anna Ellen ; John, wife Abigail Rowe; Joel, wife Elizabeth Fowler, widow, maiden, name. Elizabeth Emerson; Bildad, wife Mary Haynes; Nancy. Adams, husband Mathew McKelvey ; John McKelvey, wife Jane Rowland Huntington. Thus we find that John McKelvey was twenty-one generations in descent from Ab Adams, of the March Gourney of Beviston and Tidenham, Gloucestershire, England; twenty-six generations from William the Conqueror, King of England; thirty generations from Charles, Duke of Loraine, son. of the King of France ; thirty-two generations from Edward, King of England, and thirty-three from Alfred the Great, King, of England; fortysix generations from Cerdic, the first King of the West Saxons and fifty-six from Woden, King of North Europe in the third century. The arms and crest borne by the Adams family are described as : Arms, argent on a cross gules, five mullets or. Crest,. out of a ducal coronet a demi . lion. Motto, Loyal 'att. Mort.' A motto commonly Used by this branch of the Adams family is: "Aspire, Persevere and Indulge Not". Still another : "Sub Cruce Veritas." John McKelvey,: the youngest of ten children, was born in Plymouth, Huron county, Ohio, February 8, 1835. His mother having died before he was seven years of age, it became necessary for him to. live in various families, part of the time in the country and part of the time in the village of Plymouth. For that reason his early education was limited to winter schools in the country and such schools as were at that time carried on in small towns or villages. The last of the seven older children having died in July, 1842, there were then only the younger three of the ten children left, and those three are now still living on March 10, 1910 Mrs. Martha McKelvey Lovell, aged Seventy-nine, on Fine View Farm, in Greenfield township, Huron county, Ohio ; Mathew McKelvey, aged seventy-seven, in Tiffin, Ohio; and John McKelvey, aged seventy-five, in Sandusky, Ohio. A very remarkable circumstance that the older seven should all die young and the younger three live to attain the above stated ages. When about twelve years of age, John left a family with whom he had lived for several years on. a farm and went to live in the family of Thomas Mickay, who. resided and kept a general store in Shelby, Ohio. While there his time was divided ; part of the time he was in school and part of the time' he 'served as clerk in the store. Later, after the death of. his father, March, 1853, he came to Sandusky, Ohio, and served as a clerk in the general store of W. T. and A. K. West 'till the fall of the same year, when, having decided that it would be best to discontinue in that line of business and secure a better education, he left the store and went in the country and taught a winter school; which closed in March, 1854, when he went to Oberlin, with the intention of taking a college course. The Oberlin College vacations then were during the winter, so the students could teach winter schools. He spent between two and three years as a student at Oberlin, within which; time he taught schools during two winter vacations. Ill health prevented carrying out his intention to complete the college course, so he came to Sandusky, where he was for some time engaged in the produce commission business. In 1861 he purchased land and planted the third Catawba grape vineyard in the vicinity of Sandusky, -and subsequently purchased several other tracts of land and planted more vineyards in the vicinity of Sandusky and on the peninsula north of Sandusky.. Bay, opposite the city. He organized the: Sandusky Tool Company, which for many years has been the most extensive and successful factory in the city of Sandusky. He at one time controlled the company. He also became 'interested in the ;wholesale ice business and erected at Sandusky the largest ice house buildings on the Great Lakes. He was also largely interested in real estate, owning many tracts of land, which he platted and made additions to. the city of Sandusky. Having for many years entertained the belief that there should be a railway from Sandusky to Columbus, in 1889 lie secured four others, including .his son, John Jay McKelvey, of New York, and brother-in-law, Henry C. Huntington, to join him in securing a charter for such a road, calling it the Sandusky and Columbus; Lake Erie and Southern' Short Line Railway Company. He subsequen discontinued, the Lake Erie and Southern, and it was constructed under the name of The Sandusky and Columbus Short. Line Railway Company. He served as president of the HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1321 company until 1893, when he retired, intending to discontinue all business excepting personal matters, with the view of devoting a considerable time to travel. In that way, retired, he spent about ten years, when, at the solicitation of his son, John J. McKelvey, he joined in the purchase of the Toledo Fire and Marine Insurance Company and transferred it from Toledo to Sandusky and assumed the management in such manner as not to prevent more or less continuance of foreign travel. He has continued in such management up to the present time. Prior to the organization of the Republican party in 1855, although not old enough to vote, he was in sympathy with the Abolition party ; in fact, was connected with the Underground Railroad, and for several years before he was of age to vote he continued to assist runaway slaves to get to Canada. There was a mulatto blacksmith residing in Sandusky by the name of Reynolds, who always received notice when runaways were coming, and would go to the sympathizers and secure the necessary sum to have them taken in a sailboat from Sandusky across the lake to Canada. He, John McKelvey, and his brother Mathew were regular contributors to that cause. The first candidate of the Republican party in Ohio was Salmon P. Chase for governor in 1855. Though not of age to vote himself, he worked to secure others to vote for Chase. In 1856 he had the satisfaction of casting his first vote for John C. Fremont for president. Four years before, in 1852, although but seventeen years of age, he worked to secure votes for John P. Hale for president, not with a view to his election, but to make as good showing as practicable. He never held a political office and never desired any such position. He entertained the view that there is truth in the saying that "The Post of Honor is the private station." He never was member of any military company of association. lie was always opposed to war, believing that all difficulties between nations should be settled by arbitration rather than by war, but that in defense of personal rights and independence against tyranny, revolutionary war may sometimes be not only necessary but obligatory. From an early age he entertained the belief and was an advocate of equal rights and privilege to all, irrespective of sex or color. He is a member of two patriotic societies, the Sons of the American Revolution and the Founders and Patriots of America. He has served as a member of the board of managers of the Western Reserve Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, also in the same capacity in the Ohio State Society. He is a life member of the Fire Lands Historical Society, and has served for several years and is at the present time historian for Erie county. He is a member of the Old Northwest Historical Society, its principal office being at Columbus, Ohio, and has been for some time honorary vice-president for the state of Ohio. He is not a member of any secret society. He has traveled quite extensively and knows well his own country, having viewed all the natural scenery and matters of material interest in the United States. On the 26th of June, 1861, Mr. McKelvey married Jane Rowland Huntington, daughter of Apollos and Deborah Rowland Huntington, and from ancestry as follows : Simon, Christopher, John, John, John, Elisha, Apollos. Simon Huntington and wife, :Margaret Baret, and children sailed for America in 1633. He died on board the ship and was consigned to the ocean. His widow, Mar garet, and three sons arrived in America in 1633. One of the sons was Christopher, who married, on October 7, 1652, Ruth, Rockwell, daughter of William Rockwell, a prominent man of Windsor, Connecticut. Among their ten children was the son John, born March 15, 1666, in Norwich, Connecticut. He married, on December 7, 1686, Abigal Lathrop, daughter of Samuel Lathrop, and granddaughter of the Rev. John Lathrop, who preached the first Congregational sermon in London, England, and who, for non-conformity, being the preacher in the first Congregational church organized in London, was imprisoned for two years. After his release, in 1634, he came to America and became the first minister of Scituate. John and Abigal Huntington had five children, among whom was a son John, born in Norwich, July 4, 1691, married, on April 16, 1723, Thankful Warner, of Windham, Connecticut, and they had six children. One was John, born in Tolland, Connecticut, February 22, 1726, and he married Mehitabel Steel. Among their twelve children was Elisha, born December 17, 1754, and who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He married Esther Ladd in 1785, and among their ten children was Apollos, born May 14, 1798. He married for his second wife Deborah Rowland, on November 3, 1836, and their two children were both born in Brownville, Jefferson county, New 1322 -HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE York : Jane Rowland, on the 8th of August, 1837, and Henry C., November 21, 1841. Henry C. Huntington died on the 11th of December, 1905, in Sandusky, Ohio, where he had been prominent as a wholesale and retail Merchant and as a manufacturer. He was a member of the Congregational church, and for about thirty years was superintendent of the Sunday school connected with that church. Apollos Huntington, the father of Jane and Henry, was a merchant in Brownville, New York, but in the spring of 1852 he moved his family from there to Sandusky, Ohio, where he died on the 28th of September, 1882, and his wife, Deborah, died on the 24th of March, 1885. Soon after her arrival in Sandusky, Jane Rowland entered the city high school, and she graduated therefrom in 1856 and was afterward a teacher in the city school until. a short time prior to her marriage to John McKelvey, on June 26, 1861. Their six children were all born in Sandusky. Janet Huntington McKelvey, born April 2, 1862, graduated from the Sandusky high school in 1879, and from the classical course of Oberlin College in 1883, receiving at that time the degree of A. B., and subsequently the degree of A. M. On July 27, 1886, she married a college classmate, Rev. Clarence F. Swift, - son of Henry O. and Angelina (Haynes) Swift, born in Oberlin, Ohio, July 27, 1861. They now reside in Fall River, Massachusetts, where he is pastor of the Central Congregational church. He has served as pastor of Congregational churches in Saratoga Springs, New York ; Lansing, Michigan, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has received degrees of A. M. and D. D. They have three children : Dorothy Rowland, born November 22, 1890, in Saratoga Springs, now in Oberlin College ; Helen McKelvey, born September 30, 1892, in Saratoga Springs ; and Janet Haynes, born March 14, 1906. John Jay McKelvey, born May 24, 1863, graduated from .Sandusky high school in 1880, from Oberlin College in 1884, and from Harvard University, law department, in 1887, receiving degree of LL. B., cum laude, also degree of A. M. He located in New York City immediately after leaving Harvard University, and has been engaged in the practice of law in that city to the present time. He was one of the founders and the first editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law Review, and is the author of two books, one on "Common Law Practice," and one "McKelvey on Evidence," which are used by students in law schools, also by practicing lawyers. Soon after graduation from the law school he married, July 12, 1887, Mary Clark Mattocks, of Cleveland, Ohio, a graduate of Oberlin College, -class of 1885. They have four children : Mary Alice, born May 20, 1889, now in ,Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia ; Constance, born February 19, 1891 ; Ruth, born April 8, 1893 ; and Jane, born September 29, 1902. The McKelvey residence, "Bonnie Brae," is on the Hudson river at Spuyten Duyvil, in the City of New York. Alice Rowland McKelvey, born- April 25, 1867, married, June 15, 1892, James F. Melville Milne, born in Sandusky, January 22, 1861. He was graduated from the Sandusky high school in 1880, and took the chemistry and pharmacy course. of study in the Michigan University. He was a lieutenant and adjutant of the Sixth Ohio Regiment, serving in the Spanish war. He is at present postmaster of the city of Sandusky. Mrs. Milne was graduated from the Sandusky high school in 1885, and was thereafter a student in Oberlin College, but because of ill health did not complete the ,college course. They have three children : Jane Huntington Milne, born August 22, 1893; Francis Rowland Milne, born May 1, 1896; and Martha McKelvey Milne, born April 12, 1898, all born in Sandusky, Ohio. Jennie Adams McKelvey, born January 22, 1873, died April 8, 1876, Charles Sumner McKelvey, born. January 3, 1875, died August 17, 1875. Ralph Huntington McKelvey, born December 7, 1877, was graduated from the Sandusky High School in 1896. His college course included his freshman or first year in the Ohio State University, his sophomore or second year in Oberlin College, his junior or third year in the Ohio State University, and his senior or fourth year in Leland Stanford University, California, to the month of March, and thereafter in Oberlin College, from which he was graduated in 1901, having taken more than the regular course. he went to the City of New York with the intention of taking a law course in connection with his brother, J. J. McKelvey, but became interested in insurance and assisted in organizing two fire insurance companies, the Lumber Insurance Company of New York and the Adirondack Fire Insurance Company. He was made secretary and manager of the two companies, and holds those positions at the present time. On July 15, 1903, he married Helen A. Fairchild daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Charles Fairchild HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1323 of New York City. They have two children, Ralph Fairchild McKelvey, born July 5, 1904, and Helen Fairchild McKelvey, born February to, 1906. Their residence is in Spuyten Duyvil, New York City. lRVING H. GRISWOLD was born on a farm near Elyria, Ohio, November 26, 1869, and moved to Elyria when six years old, where he attended the public schools. From the fall of 1888 until July 1, 1890, he was employed in the freight department of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Company at Elyria. In July, 189o, Mr. Griswold received an appointment as clerk in the interior department in Washington, D. C. and remained until October, 1893. While there he entered the law department of the Columbian University and carried on the studies—also attending to his office duties—graduating in June, 1893. In October of that year Mr. Griswold returned to Elyria, entering the law office of lion. E. G. Johnson. He was admitted to the bar at Columbus, Ohio, in December, and in the fall of 1894 opened an office for himself. The same year he was elected clerk of the Lorain county board of deputy state supervisors of election, which office he held until 1899. In 1895 he was elected secretary and treasure of the Lorain county Republican executive committee, and served as such during the years 1895, 1896 and 1897. After Mr. McKin!ey's election as president Mr. Griswold became a candidate for the office of postmaster of Elyria and secured the appointment, taking charge March 1, 1898, being probably one of the youngest second class postmasters in the United States. He was re-appointed by President Roosevelt and held the office eight years and months, during which time he became interested in the independent telephone field and has since given the same his attention, in Connection with other manufacturing and commercial interests. Mr. Griswold has large interests outside of his native city. The field of his activitiesis principally in the east, his headquarters being at Albany, New York. He is cne of the original directors of the Elyria Savings and Banking Company, also one of the organizers and directors of The Dean Electric Company, and vice-president of The Republican Printing Company of Elyria. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce ; a Knight Templar and Mystic Shriner of the Masonic order ; a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and a member of the Lawyers Club of New York City and the Fort Orange Club of Albany, New York. On January 31, 1894, Mr. Griswold was united in marriage to Georgianna I. White, of New York City, and to them has been born one daughter, Geraldine. Mr. Griswold is unquestionably one of the best known citizens of Lorain county, as well as one of the most successful business men. Although much of his time is spent in other places, he takes great interest in the welfare and growth of Elyria. The Griswold family is of remote German ancestry, the name being originally spelled Griswolde, and they first settled in England with the Prince of Orange. In England they became prominent in Warwickshire, which was the location of their family seat, in Kenilworth. In 1639 two brothers removed to America—Edward and Matthew Griswold—who settled in Connecticut. The former became the progenitor of the family above mentioned. The great-grandfather of Irving H. Griswold was Elijah, a native of Connecticut. His son, Edson A., was also born in Connecticut and came to the Western Reserve in 1832, settling in Elyria township, and there became the father of Captain A. O. Griswold, who spent his boyhood in his native township. During the Civil war he commanded a company of the One Hundred and Eighth Ohio Regiment of Volunteer Infantry. Subsequent to the war he became connected with the Lake Shore Railroad, and for some years held a government position at Washington and later was employed at Lakeside, Ohio, during the summer months. His death occurred in Elyria, December 25, 1909, at the age of seventy years. Irving H. Griswold is the son of Captain Arthur O. Griswold and Maria V. (Cook) Griswold. J. POWELL JONES.—A talented and accomplished musician, J. Powell Jones, of Painesville, is widely and favorably known throughout this section of the state as an artist in his profession of superior ability, and for his eminent success as a musical director. For several years he has been connected with the Cleveland public schools and in 1907 was made chief supervisor of music in the city schools. A native of Wales, he was born, June 28, 1853, in Glamorganshire, being the oldest of a family of six children. His father, Edward Powell Jones, a famous architect and builder, was a graduate of Queen's College, in Bristol, England. 1324 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE Immigrating to the United States, Mr. Jones landed in New York City October 14, 1881, and came immediately to Youngstown, Ohio, where for awhile he followed the blacksmith's trade. Subsequently, in company with D. O. Evans, he was the first in this country to publish Welsh music with English words adapted thereto. His musical talent becoming known, Mr. Jones was made director of the Youngstown Harmonic Society, which in a musical contest held on Christmas day, 1883, captured all the prizes, amounting to $917, and also was awarded two gold medals. Taking up his residence in Painesville, Mr. Jones was made director of music in the public schools in April, 1887, and has since led the Painesville Vocal Society, consisting of from sixty to one hundred members, in fourteen different contests, on one occasion only failing to secure prizes. The most notable victory scored by this organization was at the Glee contest at the World's Fair, in Chicago, in 1893, when this society was awarded the main prize of $500 and given. a gold medal valued at $50, that being one of the only two gold medals ever struck off for singing, although two silver medals were made from the same die. Under the leadership of Mr. Jones this society took a gold medal at Cleveland for the best rendering of the glee "Daybreak." The Painesville Vocal Society is the only choir that has been denied entry for contests on account of its proficiency since the; introduction of the Welsh festival known as the Esteddfod into this country in 1853. In 1892 Mr. Jones organized, and has since maintained and kept in good training, a boy choir for the St. James Episcopal church, employing during its seventeen years of existence not less than two hundred boys in its constant change of voice and music. In 1901 Mr. Jones was appointed director of music in the Cleveland high schools, and in 1907 was made chief supervisor of music- for the entire system of the Cleveland public schools, a position that he is ably and satisfactorily filling at the present time. On December 26, 1874, in Wales, Mr. Jones married Jane Hogg, a direct descendant of James Hogg, the Scotch poet, familiarly known as "The Ettrick Shepherd," who was to Scotland what' Tom ,Moore was to Ireland. GEORGE W. MARVIN is one of Shalersville township's pioneer farmers and representative citizens, and he was born February 20, 1844, in Hartsgrove, Ashtabula county, Ohio, a son of John and Sarah (Baker) Marvin, who .were born in Vermont, the father in the year of 1795, and the mother had been formerly married to a Mr. Cobb. .Soon after their marriage, which was celebrated in the New England states, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin .came to Shalersville township, but having the misfortune to lose three children. in death in a short time after their arrival, they became dissatisfied here and went to Newbury, in Geauga county, where Mr. Marvin became the proprietor of a hotel. Going from there to Hartsgrove township, in Ashtabula county, they bought the farm on which they spent the remainder of their lives,. the wife dying in: the year of 1865 and the husband in 1872. Three of their children lived to years of maturity; and the two daughters are: Mary, the wife of V. R. Phillips, of Ashtabula, this state,. and Loenza, the wife of Harvey Sutton, of Union City, Pennsylvania. George W. Marvin, the second born of the three children, enlisted on the 14th of September, 1863, in the Second Ohio Heavy. Artillery, Company I, and was assigned 'to the Army of the Cumberland under General Stoneman. During his army career he had the unique experience of voting at Knoxville, Tennessee, for Lincoln under point .of bayonet. He took part in the siege of Knoxville; in the second battle of Bull Run and in numerous skirmishes, and while in Tennessee was Wounded in a railroad wreck, receiving injuries in the head, hip and ankle. Receiving his discharge on the 23d of May, 1865, by order of the war department, he returned home, and following his marriage he farmed on rented land in Ravenna township for six years. Coming then to Shalersville township he bought the nucleus of his present farm from his brother-in-law, a tract of ninety-nine acres, and he now owns an estate of one hundred and fifty-two acres in one body and thirty-three acres south of Peck's Corners. He has constructed numerous buildings which add greatly to the value of his farm, has planted a splendid orchard and also a large sugar camp: Mr. Marvin married on the 30th of November, 1869, Ellen Tuttle, who was born in Shalersville township to Eli and Mary (Nelson) Tuttle, who drove from their native state of Vermont to Shalersville township, Portage county, Ohio, with ox teams.' The children of this union are : Sarah, the wife of Dennis HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1325 Kirtland, of Ravenna ; Nora, wife of Elmer Roosa, of Shalersville township ; Sidney, of Freedom township ; and John, at home with his parents. r. Marvin votes with the Republican party, and he has served two terms as a township trustee and as a member of the school hoard. I le is identified with McIntosh Post, G. A. R., No. 327, of Ravenna. On August to, 1903, Mr. Marvin started from Cleveland for an extended trip through the West, going through St. Louis, Missouri, to Denver, Pike's Peak, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City and on to San Francisco, California, where he spent ten (lays. Going then down the coast to Los Angeles, he spent a similar period there, in the meantime making a trip to Catalina Island and other points of interest, and returning by the Southern Pacific route through New Mexico, Arizona, through the Grand Canon and on to his home in Shalersville township. This is one of the finest trips known on the American continent, and Mr. Marvin was thus permitted to view the principal points of interest in his country. JOHN R. CAMPBELL, who has for twenty-five years been a successful teacher in the schools of Ohio, was born at Campbellsport, August 26, 1864, and is a son of Edward H. and Mary E. ( Woods) Campbell, both natives of Connecticut. Ile received his education in the public schools and the Northeastern Ohio Normal College, taking the degree of B. S. at the latter institution. Ile had taught some time in district schools before his graduation, since which time he has been connected with high schools. Mr. Campbell is a Republican in politics and has help! the office of township justice of the peace. Ile is a member of the United Brethren church, in which he has been a class leader, and is superintendent of the Sunday School. lie resides at present with his parents, but is to erect a home for himself on a farm of eighty-five acres situated in Edinburg township. He is an enterprising citizen, taking a keen interest in public affairs and highly respected in the community. CHAUNCEY H. STOCKING.—Holding a place of prominence and influence among the foremost citizens of the Western Reserve is Chauncey H. Stocking, county commissioner of Lake county, and a leading general contractor of Painesville. His high standing in the corn, munity has been attained first and foremost by reason of his useful works ably performed and his strong. and honorable. character, and secondly because he has behind' him the good and decided influence of a fine New England family whose members assisted in :the sowing of the first seeds of industry and education from which has sprung the well matured life of the Western Reserve. He comes of a family of mechanics and patriots, of western pioneers and of brave, able and. intelligent Christian men and women, and he has fully sustained all the characteristics of his ancestry. The Stocking family is represented in the Western Reserve today 'by A. M., C. H. and A. N. Stocking, of Lake county, and George W. and W. Wallace Stocking; of Ashtabula county. Of these, three are sons of the late, William H. Stocking, one of the fine and stirring figures of his day, who appears in numerous important epochs of the history of northern Ohio ; Albert M., the oldest, is a carpenter and farmer of Painesville ; William Wallace is a mill operator and timber dealer at Geneva, Ohio, and Chauncey H., of' this sketch, has already been mentioned. The father was a school teacher in life, when very young having been brought by his parents from the ancestral home in Connecticut. He also studied for the ministry, but ill health compelled him to abandon his professional hopes and ambitions and adopt mechanical pursuits. His abilities in this direction raised him to the dignity of a building contractor. William H. Stocking also. became an influential character in the Western Reserve in many other fields than that of mechanics and business. Early becoming interested in the military affairs of his locality he was commissioned first lieutenant in the First Regiment, First Brigade, Twenty-first Division, of state troops, on the l0th of August, 1839, and served as such for some time. Chauncey H. Stocking has the original commission. As an opponent of slavery he made such a noteworthy record that in 1852 he was selected one of the delegates to the national convention which nominated John P. Hale to the presidency. Afterward he was recognized as one of the leading Republicans of the Reserve. He was earnest, honest and aggressive in whatever movement he espoused or opposed. Illustrative of this strong character trait is the part he took in opposing the divine pretensions of Joseph. Smith; when he was the prophet of Mormonism at Kirtland; Ohio. It was Mr.' Stocking who skillfully sawed the plank by 1326 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE which Elder Sm was submerged when he planned to "walk upon the water." The ingenious exposer of the trickery, the brave hater of all shams, died at Painesville on the 20th of October, 1897. The old-world origin of the Stocking family was in England, and George Stocking, who was born in Suffolk in 1582 and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1633, is its new world progenitor. This American ancestor joined a colony of Too, led by Rev. Thomas Hooker, and traveled afoot to the Connecticut river in 1636, his being one of the first families to settle on the site of Hartford. His son, Samuel, who came to America with his father, proved to be a citizen of public ambition and talents, and served in the Connecticut assemblies of 1658, 1659, 1665, 1669, 1674, 1677 and 1681. George1681on of the foregoing, was born in 1664 and located at East Middletown in um. His immediate male descendant, George, operated a grist in Middle Haddam; was commissioned captain of militia in 1752, and was one of the alert patriots in the Lexington alarm. The son of the captain, also George, was born in 1708 ; moved to Glastonbury, Connecticut, in 1770 and served in the Revolutionary war with the rank of sergeant. Although not killed on the field of action, nevertheless both he and his three sons sacrificed their lives to the patriot cause, for they were all killed in the. explosion of a powder mill in their home town, August 23, 1777, being at the time engaged in the manufacture of war material for the colonial troops. George Stocking H. left a son, Elisha, who was born April 8, 1770; was first a school teacher and later a miller. Next in direct line of . descent was Chester Stocking, the representative of the family who prepared the way for those who were to so worthily follow his bold venture into the Wilds of the Western Reserve: He was born at Glastonbury, Connecticut, February 9, 1792, and when young apprenticed to the blacksmith's trade. In 1814, then the father of three small children, he placed his wife, family and domestic goods in a large wagon drawn by one horse and a yoke of oxen, and started for what is now the site of Madison, Lake county. When he arrived and located on the Middle Ridge, he found that only .four families had preceded him—the Bartrams, Johnsons, Millers and Potters. The circumstantial evidence that the head of the family brought with him only the necessities is the fact that, in place of a table, for three years the meals were served on a simple chest, and that whitewood chips were long used as plates. Corn meal was the staple food, and as there were at first no mills nearer than Ashtabula the grain was ground in the burned hollow of a stump, the pestle being a stone suspended from a bent sapling. In these early days all business transactions were on the barter basis—one bushel. of corn for a pound of nails, six bushels for one yard of calico, etc. Other difficulties also stood in the way of providing the family with food and clothing ; for instance, Chester Stocking and his family liked mutton, but while carrying a quarter through the woods at night he was followed by a bear who also had an appetite for meat, and he succeeded in landing it where it justly belonged only by a lively use of his legs. In his capacity as a blacksmith Mr. Stocking shod the first horse and .the first ox in Madison, and forged the iron for the first bridge thrown across Grand river. He spent the later years of his life as a sailor on Lake Erie, reached the rank of mate, but spent his last days with his son, William H., of Madison (father of Chauncey H.). On November 3, 1810, Chester Stocking married. Miss Cl rissa Lee, also a native of Glastonbury, Con necticut, and they became the parents of large family, of whom Wells and William resided in Madison for most of their lives, George was a resident of Rochester; Minnesota, Lester E. of Valley Falls, Kansas, Henry of Booneville, Indiana, and Horace of Topeka, Kansas ; Hermit died. in 1832, Louisa A. in 1845 and Jabin S. in 1872, while Chester, a Civil war soldier, was killed during Hood's raid to Naville, Tennessee. Chauncey H. Stocking came to Painesville in 1882. Having learned the carpenter's trade with his father, in 1887 he became a building contractor and subsequently a general contractor, in which business he is still engaged. In politics he is Republican and was a mmember of tembernesville council in 1890-91, and chairman of the Republican central committee in 1900. In 1901 he was elected county commissioner, taking the office in September, 1902, and serving seven years, during which time he was one year vice-president, one secretary, and two years president of the Ohio Association of County Commissioners. Mr. Stocking married, in 1882, Miss Jessie Anruther, of Ashtabula county. She died in 1907, leaving the fallowing children : William A., an architect in Cleveland ; Mavret E., now in college ; and HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1327 Alice E., in Painesville high school. In 1909 Mr. Stocking married his second wife, who was Mrs. Lillian V. Livingston, of Hancock county, Ohio. Fraternally he is a member of the F. & A. M. of Painesville, and also the Elks. He was also a member of the I. O. O. F. and served as district deputy grand master. In the Y. M. C. A. he was a trustee for twelve years. He belongs to the Congregational church of Painesville. for nine years being one of Its trustees. HARRY A. POST, whose specialty as proprietor of the Ohio Manufacturing Company is making of sheet steel equipment for factories, is still enrolled as among the younger class of business men in Lake county, as he is among the most dependable. He is the third of the five children and the oldest of the three sons born to Augustus Warren Post and his wife, and a grandson of Daniel Post, a native of Islip. Long Island, who at a very early date settled on the beautiful North. Ridge, near the present world-renowned nurseries and greenhouses of the Storrs and Harrison Company. Mr. Post himself was born at Painesville August 31, 1869, and at the age of nineteen obtained his first business employment as bookkeeper for a Chicago house. But after a year of that experience he concluded that his prospects would he improved by obtaining such a commercial education that he could promptly take advantage of any "openings" around him. He therefore took such a course in a Painevile institution, with stenography as the basis of his training, and when he returned to Chicago to accept another position found that hi:. qualifications ensured him a higher grade of work at the commencement. In 1890, however, with good prospects for a young man of his age, he was forced by a slow-fever to return to his home in Painesville. He entered the employ of the Geauga Foundry and Manufacturing Company in the following year, applying the first of his salary to reimburse his friend and patron, General J. S. Casement, who had assisted him to secure his business college training. He continued with the Geauga concern until 1903, when the business was sold and the factory dismantled. In 1904 Mr. Post purchased the brick building and site and installed machinery for the manufacture of sheet steel. He has employed none but the most expert labor from the first, which, with his business ability and determination, accounts for the establishment and encouraging growth of the Ohio Manufacturing Company. ALBERT V. HAGEMAN, treasurer and manager of the Black River Telephone Company, of Lorain, was ,born in Black River township October 12, 1871. He is a son of Conrad Hageman, who was a native of Germany, and came to the United States in 1845, locating in Black River township. He there followed the occupation of farming, and is now living retired from active life. Albert V. Hageman was reared on a farm and received his education in the common schools and Oberlin Business College. He left the farm in 1890 and began work as shipping clerk for the Cleveland Stone Company, of Amherst. In 1894 Mr. Hageman began working for the Lorain Savings & Banking Company, where he remained until 1905. He was cashier the last five years, and then the company sold out to the Cleveland Trust Company. In 1905 Mr. Hagernan became the first manager of the Cleveland Trust Company, which bought out the company for whom he had previously worked, and where he remained until October, 1907, since which time he has devoted his time and energies to the interests of the telephone company and to real estate. He has extensive interests outside of these enterprises, and was one of the organizers of the Cleveland Life Insurance Company and is a director of the Hoffman Heater Company, Limited. He is also secretary and treasurer of the Lorain Supply Company. He is a director of the North Electric Company, of Cleveland, a member of the Board of Commerce of Lorain, and director in the Citizens Home & Savings Association, of Lorain. He is a Republican in politics. Mr. Hageman is a keen and enterprising man of affairs, and has a thorough knowledge of modern business methods and principles, attaining success and prestige in all of his undertakings. Mr. Hageman married Eleanor M. Cunningham, of Clyde, Ohio. He is a Knight Templar Mason, and is also a member of the Knights of Pythias. BURRITT J. TINKER was born March 27, 1847, in Rome, Ohio, and is a son of Samuel and Samantha (Rockwell) Tinker. Samuel Tinker was born in Old Lyme, Connecticut in 1811, and came to Rome, Ohio, with his 1328 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE father, Lynds Tinker, and settled where Alvin Tinker now lives, in Rome. Samuel Tinker later bought 248 acres of land, where his son Orlando now resides, and there carried on a large dairy farm. He and his wife had children, as follows : Lynds, residing in Jefferson ; Burritt, of Rome ; Emmy, of Michigan ; Orlando, of Rome ; and Archie, of Saybrook, Ohio. Samuel Tinker was one of the agents of the "Underground Railway" system of assisting slaves to escape, before the Civil war. He was a Republican and a member of the Disciple church. He died in 1893 and his wife in 1888 in Rome. Orlando St. John Tinker was born August 27, 1853, in Rome, on the farm he how occupies. He attended the high school at Orwell, and has always lived on a farm and carried on dairy business. He married Cora Allen, and their children are : Chester, of Youngstown, Ohio ; Bessie, of Ashtabula ; Blanche, living with her parents ; and Pearl, born February 28, 1892. Orlando Tinker owns property in Ashtabula,. and has just completed one of the best barns in the vicinity ; he has a farm of 101 acres. Burritt J. Tinker was educated at the Grand River Institute, of Austinburg, Ohio, and has since been engaged in training and racing horses. He has owned a number of stables, but most of the horses have been trained for others.. He has placed seventy-five horses in the list, and even as a boy he used to ride in the races himself. He has spent twenty years in the breeding business and has won a national reputation for his horses In 1876 Burritt Tinker and his family drove through to Kansas, spending seven weeks on the way ; he spent eleven years in that state in stock business, and then removed to Denver, where he spent some years. He married Lizzie Andrews, of Trumbull, Ohio, and they had one child, Clayton, who lives in Denver. He married Dora Sheppard, and they have two children, both boys. Mrs. Tinker died in Denver, and her husband returned to Rome, Ohio. He married (second) June 4, 1908, Eunice Evans Fitch, widow of James Fitch, and daughter of Hiram and Eliza (Allen) Evans. Hiram Evans and his wife had four children, namely : Eunice ; Birney, born May 8, 1844, died single when soldier in the company of John Brown, Jr. ; John, born in 1848, married Mary Fowler, has three children and lives in Rome ; and Walter, born May 2, 1856, married Ida Peck, has two children, and lives in Rome. Eunice Evans was born June 21, 1842, attended Grand River Institute, and afterwards taught school. Her first husband, James Fitch, was a dairyman, and owned the present home of Mr. Tinker, 173 acres. By her first marriage she had one child, Edith. Hiram Evans, the father of Mrs. Tinker, came from New York with his parents, Daniel and Mary (Simpson) Evans, who were the parents of four daughters and six sons. He and his father located in Rome, on about 140 acres of land. Hiram's father, Daniel Evans, was a soldier in the war of 1812, before he removed to Ohio ; Hiram was a soldier in the Civil war, enlisting in September, 1864, in Company C, One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Through ancestors further removed, Eunice Tinker is entitled to join the Daughters of American Revolution. Hiram Evans was a Republican, had served as trustee. He belonged to the Grand Army of the Republic. He died February 9, 1905, and his wife died October 27, 1900. Mr. Tinker is a Republican in political views, has served as constable in Rome and deputy sheriff in Kansas. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has a large circle of friends. He is still engaged in breeding trotting and other, horses, and has a fine, modern stable, which he conducts in a business-like, able manner. HERBERT M. STANTON, of Shalersville township, was born in Streetsboro township of Portage county November 13, 1849, a son of Merrill Stanton, one of the early pioneer farmers of Portage county. He was born in Chester, Hamilton county, Massachusetts, January 1820, a son of Asher and Lucy (Wait) Stanton, also from that state. Coming to Streetsboro township in Portage county, Ohio, in the fall of 1831 Asher Stanton worked on a farm there, where his death subsequently occurred. Merrill Stanton married in Aurora township of Portage county Amelia Avery, who was born there in 1823, a daughter of Rubin and Corinna (Lewis) Avery, from New York. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Stanton located in Streetsboro township, but after four years there went to Cuyahoga county, in this state, where Mr. Stanton bought a farm. After living there ten years they sold their property and in 1858 located in- Aurora township, Portage county, from whence in 1861 they removed to Streetsboro township and came into possession of the HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1329 Stanton homestead there. There Mr. Stanton died on February 23, 1881, and his wife on June 7, 1896, after becoming the parents of three children: Emma, who died on April 15, 1889, the wife of Chauncey Taylor ; Herbert M., of this review ; and Arthur, on the homestead farm in Streetsboro township. Herber M. Stanton as a young man of seventeen and after a common and high school training began working out by the month for others, thus continuing until his marriage, when he became a renter, and in 1882 he bought a small farm in Streetsboro township, but sold that property in 1890 and bought another farm in the same township. In 1903 he moved to his present homestead in the southwest corner of Shalersville township, 118 acres of which are located in that township and thirty-five acres in Streetsboro township. This was formerly the Bentley farm, Mrs. Stanton's mother's old home, and Mr. Stanton purchased the interests of its heirs and is quite extensively engaged in general farming and the raising of sheep. He married on December 25, 1871, Dorcas Bentley, who was born in Shalersville township, a daughter of Griffin and Mary (Smith) Bentley, he from Cuyahoga county and she from Lake county, Ohio. Her grandparents were Caleb and Anna ( Griffin ) Bentley. from Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and Garrett B. and Dorcas ( Hotchkiss) Smith, from the Sate of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Stanton have had two children, Florence. born May 15, 1879, died on June 8, 1903, and Merrill, born February 26, 1882, died March 16, 1907. Mr. Stanton is an independent Democrat in his political affiliations and he has served Shalersville township as a trustee. REV. ANDREW WILLSON, D.D., of Ravenna, is a widely known, able and beloved pioneer of the Universalist faith in the Western Reserve and the state of Ohio. His ancestry is a mixture of Irish, Scotch and .English blood, and his parents were strict Calvinists. As Mr. Willson expresses the cause of his change in the very foundation of his religious belief : "I was fed on the Longer and Shorter Catechism: but that did not satisfy me, . and I ought and found a more hopeful and inspiring interpretation of Christianity." In the early period of his fifty years' of ministerial and missionary work his experience, like other pioneer supporters of his faith, was one largely of theological warfare; but; fortunately, he is a man not only of firm convictions and strong will, but of vigorous physical constitution, so that he was able to endure the strain of mental combat, as well as the actual burden" of the wearing and continuous labors imposed upon all pioneers. Believing, also,. that his strength and health were .God-given gifts he has carefully preserved them for the best performance of the duties which have come into his life. For many years he preached two sermons in Ravenna, besides traveling sixteen miles to hold an afternoon service. Altogether he has organized eight churches, built four edi-: fices, welcomed 725 persons to church fellowship, and officiated at 1,187 marriages and 2,033 funerals. Besides so well and faithfully. performing his work as a pastor, Dr. Willson; has been secretary of the Western Reserve Association of Universalists since 1864, and he was the prime factor in the establishment of Buchtel College, at Akron; Ohio, one of the leading educational institutions of the denomination in the country.   Dr. Willson is a native of North Shenango township, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, and was born June 30, 1835. His great-grandfather, Hugh Willson, emigrated from the north of Ireland to South Carolina about forty years before the. Revolutionary war.' The grandfather, Hugh Willson II., was born, in that state about 1750, and married Isabella McKeever, a native of Ireland, who was some two years his junior. The McKeever family settled in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, at a very early day, and there Isabella married Hugh Willson about 1775. Seven children were born of this union, of whom Andrew; William, Hugh (father of Dr. Willson), Thomas and Nellie (Mrs. Fitzpatrick) lived to marry and have families of from six to fourteen children. Hugh Willson, the father, was born in Lancaster county, October 8, 1878, and married Hannah Allen, a native of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, born May 13, 1790. When she was eleven years of age she accompanied her father on horseback to North Shenango township, and in the following year: (1802) Hugh Willson, then a young man of twenty-two, also moved to that locality from Lancaster county. Their marriage occurred February 8, 1810. In his early manhood Hugh Willson III was a cooper; but soon after coming to Crawford county engaged in farming and followed that avocation for the remainder of his life. Although his education was meager.; he was .a great reader, carefully considered 1330 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE what he read and was really a deep thinker and a man of remarkable knowledge and intelligence. In politics he was a Democrat, and in his religious belief an old school Presbyterian. His wife's grandparents, George and Mary (Collins) Allen, emigrated from the north of Ireland about 1750 and settled in New Jersey, the Collins family being of English origin. Mrs. Hugh Willson's parents (the doctor's maternal grandparents) were Moses and Mary Collins (Whittaker) Allen, and they had fourteen children, of whom eleven reached maturity and became the fathers and' mothers of families. Dr. Willson is the youngest of eleven children born to Hugh and Hannah (Allen) Willson, and he is the only survivor of that generation. His father died at the age of seventy-seven, his mother at eighty-seven, a brother at eighty-eight and two sisters at eighty-seven and ninety-one, respectively ; so that it is a natural inference that one of the family characteristics is .longevity and remarkable vitality. Dr. Willson inherited a strong constitution, but when he was a few months old a severe attack of scarlet fever so nearly destroyed it that the attending physicians prophesied an early death.. But strict temperance in every phase of his life and a conscientious observance of the laws of health completely conquered all the early tendencies toward permanent weakness. After obtaining all possible training from the district schools of North Shenango, the youth pursued courses at the Kingsville Academy- and Allegheny College (Meadville, Pennsylvania), his higher studies being completed only at the expense of hard work as a teacher and a farmer. The ambition of his earlier years was to be a lawyer, and he was, in fact, nearly prepared for the bar, when he became so absorbed in religious matters that he was irresistibly turned to the ministry. As a pupil of Rev. Kosciusko McArthur and Rev. Charles L. Shipman, he was prepared for the Universalist ministry. The latter, an intimate friend of Hon. Ben Wade, was a strong anti-slavery advocate, and an able man of extensive acquaintance in northeast Ohio. Dr. Willson first preached in a school house near Conneaut Lake, November 20, 1859 ; began his S regular pastoral work at Willoughby, Ohio, in April, 1860, and was ordained in September of that year. He remained in charge of the society at Willoughby until May, 1866; then organized a church at Kent, Portage county, Ohio, and after serving as its pastor for ten years resigned to become secretary and financial secretary of Buchtel College, Akron. In 1867 he had presented to the Ohio Universalist convention paper in favor of a denominational institute of a theological character, and when Buchtel College was finally organized in 1872 he was chosen a trustee, having since continuously performed the duties of that position. He has also served as secretary and part of the time as financial secretary of the institution, from January 1, 1876, to July I, 1878 ; has been secretary of the board of Portage county visitors since its organization in May, 1892, and in June, 1900, Buchtel College honored him with the degree of D. D. as an evidence of the estimation in which he was held as a man, a scholar and a faithful worker in the cause of Universalism. In March, 1877, Dr. Willson organized a church at Ravenna, settled there in July, and remained as pastor until July, 1898. Since May, 1866, he has also been pastor of a church at Brimfield, Ohio, and is still a leading figure in the general activities of the denomination, both religious and educational. Outside of his church he has taken a deep interest in the progress and history of that section of the Western Reserve in which his extended labors have fallen. In 1873 he was one of the organizers and secretary of the Pioneer Associa tion of Portage and Summit counties ; has been a director ever since, and is now president-an historian for Portage county. His fraterna relations are with Masonry and Odd Fellowship. On February 18, 1862, Dr. Willson mar: tied Miss A. Sturtevant, daughter of Luman and Hannah (Allen) Sturtevant, at the home of the bride's parents in Springboro, Crawford county. Mrs. Willson, who died July 16, 1883, was educated at Edinboro, Erie county, and at Willoughby Collegiate Institute, Lake county, Ohio, teaching very successfully for several years before her marriage. She was a fine scholar, very energetic and had high ideals of life, her Christian patience and fortitude triumphantly meeting the test of many years of ill health. On October 7, 1884, Dr. Willson married his present wife, Miss Frances A. Doty, daughter of. Horace S. and Lucy (Bassett) Doty. Her parents came from Litchfield, Connecticut, to Ravenna, in 1836, and Mrs. Willson's home has always been in that city. FRANKLIN ROGERS R0ss, M. D., of Sandusky, is a self-made man in the highest sense of the word ; for, while he has reached a high station in the respect and popularity of the HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1331 people of Sandusky, both as physician and man, and his progress has been accomplished solely through his own strength and abilities, his advancement has not been gained at the cost of others struggling along his pathway. In fact, his thoughtfulness for others, especially those who have claims of kinship, is one of his leading traits—somewhat unusual in those who fight the good fight against the uncharitable world all alone. Like others in his class, it may also be added that, with an assured standing in the community, he does not now lack for warm and assertive friends and supporters. Dr. Ross was born February to, 1876, and is a son of Leander Newton and Mary (Marlatt) Ross, the father of Scotch-Irish stock and the mother of English ancestry. His grandparents were among the earliest settlers of Muskingum, Tuscarawas county, whither they came and took up land in 1820. Leander Ross, the father, was a good farmer and a stanch Democrat, whose record embraces faithful service in the Union army under Grant. The children of his family were Jane, Violus, William ; Franklin Rogers, of this sketch, and Bell and Rose (twins). Franklin R. received only a grammar school education; worked, at various times, in the railroad and pipe shops, and gradually educated himself in his profession. Not only this was accomplished, but throughout the many years of his work he maintained two invalid sisters. On December 9, 1904, Dr. Ross married Miss Myrtle Benner, whose father, Robert Benner, is a prominent citizen of Tuscarawas county, who has served as its commissioner for two terms. Dr. Ross is an active member of the knights of Pythias and the Eagles, through which he performs his benevolent and fraternal work, without formal religious connections. His wife, however, is a member of the Methodist church. CHARLES F. LANE.—One of the representative business men and honored citizens of the attractive little city of Berea, Cuyahoga county, is he whose name initiates this review. He has been actively engaged in the mercantile business here for nearly a quarter of a century, within which period he has built up a successful enterprise as a drygoods dealer, besides which he has other business interests of important order,—all representing the diametrical results of his own well directed efforts, as he initiated his independent business career in a most modest way. He is a loyal and public-spirited citizen and has been an influential figure in local affairs of a public order, besides which he has served as a member of the state legislature. Charles Fremont Lane was born at Swanton, Fulton county, Ohio, on February 27, 1856, and is a son of Warren and Eleanor (Rooks) Lane, the former of whom was born in the state of Vermont, in 1806, and the latter of whom was a native of the state of New York. Both families were founded in America in the colonial era of our national history. Warren Lane was reared and educated in the old Green Mountain state, and upon coming to the west he located first in Summit county, Ohio, where he remained for several years, and he then numbered himself among the pioneers of Fulton county, Ohio. He was one of the early merchants of the village of Swanton, that county, where he maintained his home until 1857, at which time he located in Berea, Cuyahoga county, where he was engaged in the mercantile business until 1862 . He answered to the call of his country and served in the war of the Rebellion until discharged on account of disability. He passed away in 1877, at the age of seventy-one years, secure in the esteem of the community and known as a man of impregnable integrity and honor. The maiden name of his first wife was Mary Seymour and they became the parents of one son, now deceased, who served in the same company in war as his father. After the death of his first wife Warren Lane married Miss Eleanor Rooks, whose death occurred in 1906. They became the parents of five children, namely : Mary, deceased; Anna Cora, who is the wife of John E. Asling, of Berea; Edward Eugene, who likewise resides in this village ; Warren J., who died in the state of Illinois ; and Charles F., who is the immediate subject of this review. Their adopted son, Frank M. Lane, is a prominent and successful manufacturer of Memphis, Tennessee. The parents were zealous members of the Methodist church, and in politics the father was a supporter of the cause of the Republican party. Charles F. Lane is indebted to the public schools of Berea for his early educational discipline, and later he was for a time a student in the public schools of Cleveland. He then began his service as a clerk, and continued to be employed in a clerical capacity, for various concerns, for a period of about ten years. In 1886 he engaged in the drygoods business in 1332 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE Berea, and based his initial operations upon a capital of less than $500. He adopted the wise policy of conducting business along conservative lines, beginning on a modest scale and exercising the utmost care .in every detail, so that he was enabled to avoid indebtedness and yet to expand the business gradually by normal means. He thus established a credit, and his policy has been from the beginning that of discounting his bills and not extending his credit for more than a nominal period. To his patrons he has given the best of service and the most courteous attention, and this has enabled him to build up a large and prosperous business that his finely equipped store now ranks with the best of such mercantile establishments in towns of the same comparative population as that of Berea. As he has increased his financial resources Mr. Lane has made judicious investments in real estate, besides other applications of his surplus capital. He owns his own store building, which is a substantial brick structure two stories in height, and in 1907, he completed his attractive and commodious brick residence, modern in all its appointments and recognized as one of the finest homes in Berea as well as a center of gracious hospitality. Mr. Lane is a stockholder in the Southwestern & Columbus Street Railway, and is vice president of the Citizens' Telephone Company, of his home town. In politics Mr. Lane has ever accorded an uncompromising allegiance to the Republican party, and. he has been called upon to serve in various local offices of minor order. He was for .several years a valued member of the board of education, in which he was president. He is liberal, progressive and public-spirited, and has ever shown himself ready to aid in the promotion of measures and enterprises, advanced for the general good of the community. In 1900 he was elected mayor of his home town. In 1904 he was elected to represent Cuyahoga county in the state legislature, and in. this office he made an admirable record, serving on several important committees, including one relating to county affairs, and having been chairman of the committee on mines and mining. He was the nominee of his party for a second term, but met defeat with the rest of the party ticket, which was headed by Myron T. Herrick as candidate for governor. Mr, Lane is a member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he is affiliated with Berea Lodge, No. 384, Free and Accepted Masons,' and Berea Chapter, No. 134, Royal Arch Masons, and he is also identified with the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias. Both he and his wife enjoy unqualified popularity in the social circles of their home village. On March 17, 1878, Mr. Lane was united in marriage to Miss Delia M. Wheller, who was born and reared in Columbia, Lorain county, Ohio, a daughter of the late James H. Wheller, who was a prominent and honored citizen of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Lane have one son, Charles Warren, who was born on January 22, 1896, and who is a member of the Sophomore class in the Berea high school. COLONEL WILBUR S. POLE, a prominent real estate dealer of Lorain, was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, October 27, 1867. He received his education in the public and state military schools of his native state, and in 1884 was appointed deputy county treasurer of his native county. Two years later he entered the city engineering department of Hagerstown, and in 1888 located at Roanoke, Virginia, in which city he engaged in the real estate business, and he filled the offices of justice of the peace, police justice and deputy coroner. In January, 1895, Mr. Pole located in Lorain, continuing in the real estate business, in which line he has operated since on a large scale. He represents some of the strongest lad companies of Lorain, and in 1908 opened up what is known as Pole's first and second additions. to Lorain, which comprise altogether 211 lots; the. 181 lots contained in the first division were sold within fourteen clays from the time of the opening of the addition. He also opened the following suburban allotments between Lorain and Elyria : Wilbur Heights, 75 acres, 300 lots ; Inter-urban, 42 acres, 42 lots ; and Leona Heights, 139 acres, 615 lots. In the fall of 1908 Colonel Pole purchased two local insurance agencies, comprising eleven companies and covering all lines of insurance, making his real estate ands, insurance business oene nethe largest in Lorain county. In 1906-7 Colonel Pole made two trips to Porto Rico as a representative of American capitalists and purchased the iron interests of the island, a very large transaction. However, the shipping of ore has not yet begun, owing to inadequate shipping facilities. Colonel Pole takes an active interest in the business growth and prosperity of Lorain, and served five years as vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, during which time in that capacity he conducted all the correspond- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1333 ence of the organization, and made several trips to Washington, as a result of which the United States government stationed a life saying station at Lorain. lie has expert knowledge and experience in the line of real estate, and in consideration of this he was appointed as a member of the County Board of Equalization, on which he served three years ; he also served on the Board of Examiners of county commissioners' reports. Colonel Pole served in the volunteer militia ten years, resigning from the same with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He commanded Company A, Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment from Lorain county, during the Spanish-American war and served with distinction. He is a member of the Naval and Military Order of Spanish Veterans (an officers' society), a companion in the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of Foreign Wars (also an officers' society), and a member of the United Spanish War Veterans. He organized and served as the first commander of Major Woodworth Camp of the last named society, which was afterward transferred to Elyria from Lorain, (as Elyria was the county seat), for the sake of convenience. He is a Democrat in political faith and a member of the county and city Democratic executive committee. In Lorain Colonel Pole has taken a prominent part in affairs, and is a member of the Board of Commerce, being chairman of its river and harbor committee, and a member of the Business Men's Club, serving one term as president of the latter. He belongs to the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, of which he is vestryman, and he served as treasurer of the building fund at the time the present church was built. In November, 1890, Colonel Pole married Miss Emma Antrim, of Augusta county, Virginia, and they have one daughter, Helen Antrim. CHARLES R. DOOLITTI.E.—The substantial and well-to-do citizens of Portage county have no more worthy representative than Charles R. Doolittle; who occupies a position of prominence among the progressive and thorough going farmers who are so ably conducting the agricultural interests of Streetsboro township. A man of keen foresight and sterling integrity, he is held in high regard throughout the community in which he has so long fulfilled the obligations of a faithful citizen and neighbor. He has the distinction of being. a native and to the manner born, his birth having occurred in this township, August 31, 1837. He is a son of Albert Doolittle, who spent the larger part of his life in Portage county, and grandson of Benjamin Doolittle, one of the earlier pioneers of this part of Ohio. Benjamin Doolittle, a native of Connecticut, spent a part of his early life in Pennsylvania. He was one of the forty-eight members of the Connecticut Land Company that came, to Portage county as land seekers during the first quarter of the nineteenth century. He had the township of Burton, in Geauga county, and a portion of Poland township, set off, for him. The country was then in its pristine wildness, game of all kind being plentiful, and he shot many a wild turkey in those days. He was bitten by a rattlesnake, and had the fever and ague, but notwithstanding all of the discomforts and trials which he endured, he went back to his Pennsylvania home for his family, whom he brought to Portage county in 1825. On his land in Streetsboro township, he built a double log house, and two years later built a large two-story frame house and was there engaged in tilling the soil during the remainder of his active life. After the death of his wife, Fanny Ward, who was born in Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, he made his home with his children, dying, at the age of seventy-six years, in 1848, in Elyria, Ohio. Albert Doolittle was born in New Milford, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, in 1807, and came with the family to Portage county, Ohio, in 1825. He was a stonemason by trade, and also a farmer, residing on a farm in the eastern part of Streetsboro until his death, in 1885. He followed contracting in addition to tilling the soil, and assisted in the construction of the Maumee canal, and of several railways. He married Alamanda Burroughs, who was born in Shalersville, Portage county, Ohio, in 1819, and died in Streetsboro, Ohio, in 1900. She came of New England stock, her father, Simon Burroughs, having been born in New Hampshire, while her grandfather, Joel Burroughs, was a native of Vermont. Joel Burroughs served as soldier in the Revolutionary war, and, with two of his brothers, took an active part in the battle of Bunker Hill, on June 17, 1775. About 1817 Simon Burroughs followed the tide of emigration to Ohio, coming by way of Buffalo and Cleveland to Shalersville, in the midst of a dense wilderness. Several years. later, he disposed of his land in that vicinity, and from land that he bought in 1334 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RSERVE Streetsboro improved a farm on which he spent his remaining years, passing away in 1864. He married Lucy Green, a native of Vermont. Of the union of Albert and Alamanda (Burroughs) Doolittle, four children were born, as follows : Charles R., the subject of this sketch ; Augusta, who married N. S. Olin, died in 1901 ; Horace A., living on the parental homestead ; and Lucy A., who died in 1885, married Charles E. Harmon. Brought up in pioneer days, Charles R. Doolittle attended the district and select schools of Streetsboro township, subsequently continuing his studies at the Kent high school. Until twenty-six years of age, he resided with his parents, for awhile assisting his father in the building of railroads. Turning his attention then to agricultural pursuits, he bought a farm in Streetsboro township, and managed it successfully for six years, when he sold it, and bought another lying a little farther east in the same township. This farm, which he still owns, contains 226 acres of good land, being one of the most desirable pieces of property in that part of the township. In 1884 Mr. Doolittle bought out the heirs of his father-inlaw, the late Samuel Olin, of Streetsboro township, and moved to his present farm, which contains 220 acres of land, the greater part of which he has placed under a high state of cultivation. Mr. Doolittle is a man of great enterprise, and in 1870, with his father and several other stockholders, organized the cheese factory, of which, since 1899, he has been the sole proprietor. He pays much attention to dairying, regarding it an important branch of agriculture, and raises thoroughbred Holstein cattle, keeping a magnificent bull of that breed at the head of his herd. Since 1893 Mr. Doolittle has been one of the directors of the Second National Bank of Ravenna, Ohio. On February 10, 1864, Mr. Doolittle married Adelaide E. Olin, who was born in Streetsboro township, a daughter of Samuel Olin. Samuel Olin was born, July 1, 1793, in Shaftsbury, Vermont, and worked for and with his father until becoming of age. Going then to Oneida county, New York, he married for his first wife his cousin, Betsey Green, their union being solemnized in 1815. She was born April 9, 1797, a daughter of Jesse Green, and died April 1, 1831, having borne him eight children. On January 16, 1832, he married for his second wife, in Castile, New York, Mercy Seymour, the mother of Mrs. Doolittle. On February 28, 1839, Mr. Olin packed his household goods, and with three wagons drawn by good horses, started across the country for Ohio. Locating in Streetsboro township, Portage county, he made this his permanent home, residing here until his death, November 22, 1874. During his first season here, Mr. Olin built from brick manufactured by himself and brother the house known as "Olin's Inn," which he conducted as a tavern for eleven years. He was a clear-headed, intelligent business man, wise in his investments, and accumulated much wealth, at the time of his death having title to more than boo acres of valuable land. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Doolittle, namely : Clarence S., carrying on the farm which his grandfather, Olin, first moved to ; May O., who died in 188o, aged nine years and ten months ; and Mettie A., wife of James F. Fenton, who resides in the house with Mr. Doolittle, and manages the farm. Politically Mr. Doolittle is a stanch Republican, and cast his first presidential vote, in 1860, for Abraham Lincoln. Following in the footsteps of his grandfather Doolittle, who was the first justice of peace in Streetsboro township, and of his father, who was its first constable, he has willingly and faithfully filled township offices, for thirteen years serving as infirmary director. CAPTAIN LEANDER REEVE.—One of the most prominent of the men whose life records have graced the history of Ashtabula county is found in the personnel of Captain Leander Reeve, a valiant soldier, a former legislator of ability and a true and tried public official. He traces his descent through many generations to Israel Reeve, who tradition says came to America from France. This Israel Reeve was a weaver and prominent in the early political history of the United States. His children included Captain Luther Reeve, a Revolutionary war hero. Captain Luther Reeve was born at Southold on Long Island in 1760, and at the age of sixteen was in the New York militia. He was later transferred to the Connecticut line and fought throughout the entire war of the Revolution, entering the ranks as a private and receiving his discharge as an officer. He fought in the historic battles of Long Island, Monmouth and Danbury, also in many others, and his home after returning from the war was on a farm in Connecticut until about 1823, when he came to New Lyme, Ohio. Captain Luther Reeve died on December 13, 1843 HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1335 and his wife Anna on November 27, 1844. He had married on January 3i, 1785, Anna Pearson, of Lyme, Connecticut, and their children were: Benjamin, born February 23, 1787, married Martha Sill, had six children, lived in New Lyme, Ohio, and and died December 13, 1879; Rumsey is mentioned below Serepta, born June 13, 1792, married Elija Brown, had five children and lived in Brownville, Ohio ; Polly, born April 5, 1795, married Abner Gee, had three children and died December 24, 1849; Hannibal, born January 9, 1797, married Eliza Latimer and had seven children ; Ann or Nancy, born October 1, 1799, married George Babcock and had eight children. Ramsey Reeve, one of the children of Captain Luther Reeve, was horn April 18, 1779, in Lyme, Connecticut, and was a self educated man. He received but three months of schooling but afterward taught school in Connecticut. Moving westward with his family in the fall of 1821 he located at New Lyme, Ohio, buying there eighty acres of land, and before his death he increased his landed possessions to 300 acres. In the log cabin which he first erected he lived for five years to a clay and then moved into his frame dwelling. He was a charter member of the Christian church, and with his wife behind him on the same horse he rode to "meeting." He was a strong anti-slavery man and Abolitionist, and his home was a depot on the "underground railroad" during the troublesum times preceding the Civil war. He died in 1863, on May 8, and his wife Mary Ann, followed him to the heme beyond on May 30, 1880. Rumsey Reeve had married Mary Ann Baldwin in Connecticut on November 8, 1815, and they became the parents of the following children: James B., who was captain of the Thirty-second Iowa Infantry during the Civil war, married Adeline Riggs and they had eleven children ; Henry Luther married Mary Randall, had four children and lived in New Lyme, Ohio; John Rumsey married Sarah Carter, had four children, later wedded Cynthia Carter and lived in Rome ; Leonidas married Sophia Knowles, had four children, and lived in Ashtabula county, in Colebrook township ; Hezekiah married Lamira Peck, by whom he had five children, married of his second wife Julia Wescott Hawkins and lived in New Lyme; Leander C. is mentioned below ; Flavius J. married Mary Alderman, had eight children, and their home was in New Lyme; Marie Antoinette married J. S. Peck, had six children and lived in New Lyme ; Vol. Ill-5 Arthur Tappan served as colonel of the Seventh Kansas Cavalry, Company K, and lived in Iowa ; and William Henry served during the war in the same company as :his brother Arthur, and died in the army. Captain Leander Constantine Reeve was born September 6, 1828, in New Lyme, and after a training in the Jefferson graded schools. he taught school for a short time and worked on his father's farm until he attained the age of twenty-one. On the 2d of August, 1864, he enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, entering the ranks as a second lieutenant and receiving his discharge as a captain. For a month he was a recruiting officer, and his services were with the Army of the Cumberland under General Schofield. Returning from the war he took up the work of the farm at Rome, and has since been engaged in general agricultural pursuits and dairying. But he has in the meantime become prominent in the local Republican party, and has served as a justice of the peace or as township clerk during the most of his life, and in 1889 he was elected to represent Ashtabula county in the state legislature and was re-elected to the same position in 1891. His term as a legislator was characterized by the utmost fidelity to duty, and he introduced the first bill for the abolishment of capital punishment, but this bill met defeat. Captain Reeve married in New Lyme on January 22, 1851, Harriet E. Peck, who was born November 13, 1827, a daughter of Samuel G. and Nancy (Canfield) Peck, and their children are : Arthur L., who was born January 31, 1852, married Jane Stineman, had three children, Effie, Amelia and Newton, the last named dying in infancy, and the wife died May 24, 1900,. and Mr. Reeve lives with his parents in Rome ; Asher, born July 24, 1854,. married Sadie Marsh, by whom he has a son, Arthur C., and lives in Crestline, Crawford county,, Ohio ; Amelia, born June 9, 1857, married Newton Chapin, by whom, she has three children, Annie died in infancy, Louise and Rose, and they also live on her father's farm ; Rose Anne, born November 23, 1858, married Dr. W. O. Ellsworth, of Austinburg, and their four, children are all deceased, and the mother also, she dying February 4, 1896; and Mary Baldwin, born June 23, 1867, has never married and lives with her parents. Captain and Mrs. Reeve have lived to celebrate the golden anniversary of their marriage, and 1336 - HISTORY OF THE. WESTERN RESERVE their lives have been abundantly blessed. Captain Reeve is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and the present chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution at Rome was named in honor of his grandfather, Ltither Reeve. Captain Reeve is a member of the Grange, and also his wife and his daughter, the latter being secretary. Both he and his wife are church members. P. J. MORRISSEY.—As superintendent of the Central Stone Company, of Berea, Cuyahoga county, Mr. Morrissey has direct supervision of some of the largest and most important stone quarries to be found in the middle west, and an idea of the responsibilities devolving upon him may be gained from the mere statement that the company with which he is identified gives employment to fully 2,000 persons. Mr. Morrissey has gained this noteworthy precedence through his own ability and well directed efforts and is known as an able executive and administrative officer. P. J. Morrissey was born in Ireland and is a son of Thomas Morrissey, who immigrated from the Emerald Isle to America when his son was one year old. The father had received excellent educational advantages in his native land and was a man of distinctive culture. His wife survived him by several years. They were devout communicants of the Catholic church and were persons of sterling worth of character.. The subject of this review gained his early educational discipline in the schools of the thriving little city in which he now maintains his home, and later he went to New York City, where he attended school for some time. When but a lad he found employment about the famous stone quarries of Berea, and with his line of industry he has been concerned during his entire active career. He has now been continuously in the harness for nearly half a century, and his advancement has been through the various grades and departments of service,—advancement won by his fidelity and ability. He now has the general supervision of the several quarries operated by the Central Stone Company, and he is known as a careful disciplinarian and as a man who retains the unqualified confidence and respect of the many men working under his supervision. The extensive enterprise now controlled by the Central Stone Company had its initiation in the year 1854, and the quarries were operated upon a modest scale for a number of years, under varying ownership and management. In 1881 the present company was organized and was forthwith incorporated with a capital stock of $3,000,000. The officers of the corporation are as here noted : George H. Wellington, president ; E. A. Merrill, secretary and treasurer ; and P. J. Morrissey, superintendent. The fine quarries owned and operated by the company are among the largest in the Union, and the deposit is of remarkable depth, integrity and superiority of quality The operations are conducted upon a large scale, and the mechanical equipment and general accessories are of the best modern type. The facilities for the. sawing of the stone are of especial excellence, and the products of the quarries are utilized for general building purposes, the construction of sidewalks, and general architectural work. The company con trols a substantial export business, especiall in Germany and Belgium, and the reputatio of the Berea quarries is one which extends into all sections of the United States. Mr. Morrissey is one of the heavy stockholders of the company, and while he has other important interests, he gives to this concern the major. portion of his time and attention, as he has continuously done for many years. He and his family are communicants of the Catholic church ; and he is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus. He is well known as one of the representative business men of Berea, where he is held in uniform, confidence and esteems. Mr. Morrissey was united in marriage to Miss Mary McGann, who was born in the city of Louisville, Kentucky, a daughter of John McGann, an honored business man of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Morrissey have three children, namely : Nellie, Josephine and J. Leo. CHARLES F. SUDRO, one of Elyria's well-known citizens, was born in MecklenbergSchwerin, Germany, March 18, 1848, and is a son of Frederick and Mary (Kritzel) Sudro. He came with his parents to America in the winter of 1852 ; there were two older children, a son and daughter, who were born and died in Germany. After their removal to America. Mr. Sudro and his wife had children as follows : Louis, deceased ; Frederick H., of Elyria, interested in the telephone business; Seigfried ; Mary, who married J. E. Woodruff, of Elyria ; all were born in Elyria. Frederick Sudro worked at various occupations by the day until after the war, working as stone- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1337 mason, and in a quarry. lie died December 19, 1881, and his wife died September 9, 1900. After acquiring his education in the public school, Charles F. Sudro went to work on a farm in Carlisle township, at first for his board and clothes, and in his twelfth year was also to receive a sheep and a colt. He spent the summers on a farm and the winters in factory work in Elyria, until he reached the age of eighteen and then for two seasons worked in a brick yard. In his nineteenth year he moved west, where he spent two years, driving part of the time, and he lost his left arm in a threshing machine in . Minnesota. Returning to Elyria in 1870, he began work in the yards of the Michigan Southern railroad, where he remained nine years. He then engaged in the hotel business, conducting what was known as the "Morgaren House," on Washington avenue, near the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern tracks, and the next year sold his interest and removed to Damascus, Ohio, and thence to Salem. In the latter place he became a member of the city police force, and later returned to Elyria to take a similar position ; a year leater be was elected to the post of marshal, which he filled two years. He was re-elected and served another year and then resigned. He engaged in the retail liquor business, which he carried on two years and then for three years conducted a wholesale bottling business. Selling out this business, for two years he carried on billiard and pool rooms he sold this out and purchased property at 544-6 West Broad street, where he conducted a saloon from 1891 until 1898, when he sold out. In 1895 Mr. Sudro built the substantial two-story brick business block on his property on West Broad street which he now owns. He has been living retired from active business since 1898. In 1901, Mr. Sudro became head inspector for the city on all paving and public works, which position he held until the fall of 1907, when he was elected a member of the Public Service Board, a position he now holds. In his work for the city Mr. Sudro has shown that strict regard for the best principles of business that were exercised in all his private connections, and his energetic, conscientious work has been widely appreciated by the city. Fraterbally he is a member of the Royal Arcanum. Mr. Sudro married (first) Jennie Taylor, who was born and reared in Columbiana county, Ohio. She died in 1905, leaving two children, Nora M., born in Damascus, Ohio, January 9, 1878, married M. G. Wilder, and Frank M. Sudro, born September 9, 1881, in Salem, Ohio, is an electrician, now in the West. Mr. Sudro married (second) Mary Geist, of Brownhelm, Lorain county, Ohio. ELISHA M. PIERCE, one of the foremost citizens of Lorain, was born at York, Medina county, Ohio, June 26, 1845. His father, Thompson Pierce, was a native of Peru, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and was a son of Levi Pierce, also a native of that place. Colonel Levi Pierce, with his wife and two sons, Thompson and Emery, came to the Western Reserve in 1836, settling in Medina county, where they became successful farmers and prominent citizens. Thompson Pierce married Harriet Little, native of Peru, Massachusetts, daughter of Samuel Little, who came to Medina county, Ohio, at about the same time as the Pierce family. Elisha M. Pierce received his education in public and private schools in Medina county and Oberlin College. He began work as telegraph operator in York, going thence to Uhrichsville, Ohio, as station agent for the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railroad Company. In the spring of 1880 he came to Lorain to take charge of the Tuscarawas Valley Coal Company, having charge of both office and shipping departments. In 1882 he returned io railroad work and took charge of the terminals of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railroad Company, including both office and docks, and in this capacity he remained until 1907. Mr. Pierce is actively interested in the growth and welfare of Lorain. He helped organize the Lorain Savings and Banking. Company, and served as president of the institution until 1905. In the latter part of that year the Lorain Banking Company was organized, and he was elected its secretary and treasurer, although he did not assume the active duties until April 1, 1907. He was elected assistant secretary and treasurer of the Thew Automatic Shovel Company in 1908, and at the next annual meeting of the directors, in February, 1909, was elected secretary and treasurer. He is one of the promoters and organizers of the Black River Telephone Company, and has been its president since the organization. He has been agent for the trustee of the Black River Land. Company since 1887, and has been director of the Chamber of Com- 1338 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE merce since its organization and its president. He is president of Lorain Library Association, and is president of the Lorain and Elyria Young Men's Christian Association, having served on the board since 1900. For six years he was president of the Lorain School Board, and was for eight years a member of the city council and for several years president of that body. Mr. Pierce has been twice married, first, to Almira Penfield, who died in 1887, leaving two daughters, Marian and Inez. His second wife was Mary Penfield, sister of his first wife. They were daughters of Samuel Penfield, a native of New York state. He came as a boy to Lorain county with his father, who was the first settler of Penfield township, Lorain county, and after whom it was named. Mr. Pierce is an active worker in the cause of progress and improvement, and stands ready to help along any enterprise that appears worthy of his assistance, financially or otherwise. He has been a useful and public-spirited citizen of Lorain, and his qualities are appreciated by his fellow townsmen. MERRITT C. PRICE.—Numbered among the prosperous agriculturists of Portage county is Merritt C. Price, who is actively engaged in his free and independent occupation in Shalersville township. Endowed by nature with three of the characteristics pre-eminent in all true Americans, those of energy, pluck and resolute determination, he has steadily climbed the ladder of success, and may be considered in every sense implied by the term a self-made man. A native of Ohio, he was born, April 21, 1866, in Shalersville township, and here acquired his early education, attending the district schools. At the age of fourteen years, Merritt C. Price began life as a wage-earner, and has since been dependent entirely upon his own exertions. Industrious and thrifty, he had ere . many years accumulated sufficient money to warrant him in assuming the care of a household, and on January 28, 1891, married Mary E. Hudson, who was born in Shalersville, Portage county, which was likewise the birth place of her parents, Edward and Mary (Tuttle) Hudson. The eight years following his marriage Mr. Price was successfully engaged in general farming and dairying on the Weaver farm in Shalersville township. He then rented the Calvin Price farm of one hundred and eighteen acres for two year's, and at the expiration of the rental, in 1906, purchased the estate, which he has since managed with both profit and pleasure. Twenty-five acres of the farm is timber land, while the other ninety-three acres are under good cultivation, each season yielding him excellent crops. Mr. and Mrs. Price have two children, namely : Charles Emmett and Loeta Alverta: In politics Mr. Price supports the principles' of the Republican party and for three years has served as township trustee and for six years was a member of the local school board. Fraternally he belongs to Mantua Lodge, F. & A. M., and to Mantua Camp, M. W. A. JUDGE JAMES W. ROBERTS.—Noteworthy among the leading citizens of the Western Reserve is Judge James W. Roberts, of Jefferson, who is widely known as a wise and impartial dispenser of justice, and enjoys the reputation of being one of the best judges the district ever had. Coming on the paternal side of excellent Welsh ancestry, he was born August 3, 1858, in Kinsman; Trumbull county, a son of the late Lorenzo W. Roberts, and grandson of Hazen-Roberts, who settled as a farmer in Madison township, Lake county, Ohio, in 1834. Lorenzo W. Roberts was born, in April, 1833, in St. Albans, Vermont, and as an infant was brought by his parents to Lake county; where he grew to man's estate. He learned the blacksmith's trade when young, and followed that occupation the greater part of his active life, living the greater part of the time in Kinsman, Ohio. During the Civil war he offered his services to his country, enlisting, in 1862, in the Tenth Ohio Cavalry, was made sergeant of his company, and served for three years. On April 14, 1865, the day that Lincoln was killed, he was wounded by a ball in the left leg, being one of the very last of the soldiers to receive injury from the enemy, and the day following, April 15, he was honorably discharged. Returning to his old home, he remained there until 1873, when he moved to Jamestown, Pennsylvania, where he resided six years. Again taking up his residence in Kinsman, Trumbull county, he continued his residence in that city until his death, January 25, 1905. In 1857 Lorenzo W. Roberts married Mary J. Waid, a daughter of Alexander and Ellen Waid, both natives of Trumbull. county. Alexander Waid enlisted from that County as a soldier during the War of 1812, and serve HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1339 bravely in several engagements, doing credit to the sturdy and patriotic Scotch-Irish ancestry from which he was descended. Fitted for the bar when a young man, J. W. blurts, in partnership with Messrs. Northway and Perry, located in Jefferson in 1897, and after. the death of Mr. Northway, a year later, continued the practice of his profession most suceessfully until August, 1905, when he was appointed to the Common Pleas bench by Governor Herrick, receiving his commission the third day of that month, and at the November election following was elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Theodore Hall. In 1906 he was re-elected to the same position, and is serving with credit to himself and to the honor of his constituents, be and Judge Reynolds being the judges in the three counties, Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga, which form the third subdivision of the Ninth Common Pleas Judicial district. Judge Roberts married, May 24, 1883, Clara C. Brockway, who was born in Jamestown, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Germish and Caroline (Harriett) Brockway, and they are the parents of three children, namely : Ethel E., a stenographer in Cleveland ; and Burke B., who graduated from the Case School of Applied Science with the Class of 1909, when but twenty-one years of age, and in a five-year combined course he graduated from both the Western Reserve and Case Colleges and is now in the employ of the Van Dorn Company, of Cleveland ; and Mary Caroline, now in high school. CUSTER SNYDER, a prominent attorney of Lorain, was born in Scio, Harrison county, Ohio. January 26, 1872. His father, Dr. Daniel J. Snyder, was born in Holmes county, Ohio. in 1841, son of John Snyder, a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He was a descendant in direct line of Simon Snyder, one of the earlier governors of Pennsylvania, and later became one of the pioneers of Holmes county, Ohio. Daniel J. Snyder married Mary E. Custer, daughter of Dr. William W. Custer, one of the first physicians to practice in Harrison county, Ohio, and first cousin of General George A. Custer, who was born and reared within a few miles of the birthplace of the subject of this sketch. Her mother was Frances E. Phelps, a relative of Daniel Webster, whose parents were early settlers in the Western Reserve. They came from Massachusetts to Buffalo. thence by boat to Cleveland and located at Kent, Portage county, among the pioneers. Daniel J. Snyder and his wife were married in Harrison county, Ohio, shortly after his return from the army, and located at Scio, where he practiced. medicine until the time of his death in 1904. Dr. Snyder was recognized as one of the leading physicians and surgeons of this section, and for a number of years was official surgeon for the. Panhandle division of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was the author of numerous articles on surgery and medicine and a prominent member of the leading medical societies. The widow, who is still living, divides her time between the old home at Scio and with her son in Lorain. Custer Snyder was reared in Scio and received his early education in the public schools at that place. He entered the collegiate department of Scio College at the age of fifteen, and when eighteen accepted a position in the public schools of Piatt county, Illinois, where he taught for one year. His father having been appointed physician in charge of the female department of the State Hospital for the Insane at Columbus by Governor. Campbell during his absence, on his return to Ohio he entered the sophomore class of the Ohio State University, which he attended for two years. Returning to Scio he graduated from the college there the following year, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Having again received the offer of a position in the schools of Illinois, he returned there and spent the following two years teaching. On his return he entered the office of a leading Cincinnati law firm and the following fall entered the Cincinnati Law School, then in charge of ex-Governor Jacob D. Cox, with whom Mr. Snyder became a, great favorite on account of his high class standing and relationship to General Custer, whom General Cox had known and admired in the army. The following summer the old law school was absorbed by the University of Cincinnati, and the junior class, of which Mr. Snyder was president, becoming dissatisfied with the new management and course of study, withdrew, and with one or two exceptions entered the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He graduated from the law department of this university in 1899, and was admitted to the practice of law in Michigan and Ohio the same year. On his return to Harrison county he was appointed receiver of a newspaper at Cadiz, Ohio, and acted as man- 1340 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE ager and editor of the paper until it was sold several months later. In the fall of 1900 Mr. Snyder located in Lorain and engaged in the practice of his profession. He has built up a good clientele and has the confidence and esteem of all with whom he has dealings. Politically he is a Democrat and has taken an active part in the politics of the county and municipality, having served almost continuously as secretary of the Democra,tic Executive Committee, and was for a number of years secretary of the County Board of Elections. For two and one-half years he held the position of city auditor of Lorain, and at the present time is city solicitor of that city, being the first Democrat to be elected to that office. Mr. Snyder is a member of the Board of Commerce and takes an active part in all matters pertaining to the city's welfare. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias. In 1900 Mr. Snyder was married to Beatrice B. Heath, daughter of Porter Heath, one of the leading citizens of Piatt county, Illinois, where she was born. Mrs. Snyder was educated in the University of Illinois and is a prominent member of Lorain Sorosis and is actively identified with the civic improvement and social settlement movements in the city. They have two sons, Custer Heath and Daniel Porter. MYRON T. HERRICK.—For fifteen years president of the Society for Savings of Cleveland, Colonel Myron T. Herrick has enjoyed a remarkable financial career in which rapid advancement and substantial progress have, been synonymous terms. The dangers of early maturity, which have been so often pointed out by the philosophers, have never materialized in his case. In 1886, following an active and bright career in the law, he organized the Euclid Avenue National Bank, and though then only in his thirty-second year evinced marked ability as a financier. In 1894 he was chosen to the presidency of the Society for Savings, then the largest bank in the West, and at the time of assuming the heavy responsibilities of that trust he had not reached his fortieth year. His progress since, in finances, property development and public affairs, has marked him as one of the most versatile and progressive citizens of Cleveland. Colonel Herrick was born in Huntington, Lorain county, Ohio, October 9, 1854, both of his great-grandfathers being Revolutionary soldiers. His grandfather, Timothy, was a pioneer of that county, coming from Watertown, New York, where Timothy R.. (the father of Myron T.) was born in 1828. In 1837 the elder Timothy settled on 'his land claim in Lorain county, which had been granted him by the government for his services in the war of 1812. Myron T. was reared in the vicinity of the old farm, attending the district school at Huntington, the Union school at Wellington and colleges at Oberlin and Delaware. While attending college in his seventeenth year he taught school for a time. He did not graduate from either institution, and before attaining his majority spent some time in traveling through Indian territory, New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas. The results of his inspection, as published in the eastern press, contained much practical information of value to those seeking homes in the Southwest. In 1875 Colonel Herrick located at Clevland for the purpose of reading law, entering the office of his relatives, G. E: and J. F. Herrick. In 1878 he was admitted to the bar, and although he at once entered active practice he soon became interested in financial matters and in June, 1886, by his organization of the Euclid Avenue National Bank, he embarked in his career as a banker. In the following September he was chosen secretary and treasurer of the Society for Savings, resigning from the directorate of the Euclid Avenue institution to accept the position. He discharged its duties with marked satisfaction for eight years, and in January, 1894, upon the death of Samuel Mather, the president, became the head of the society, his formal election occurring February 3 following. At that time the bank had 50,000 depositors and $25,000,000 in deposits, and Colonel Herrick's election to the head of this great institution was by unanimous vote of its trustees. A leading city paper mentioned this as "an honor which has been conferred on perhaps not to exceed three or four men since time began, or money to circulate," and that the "significant feature of the matter is that nobody is surprised at the selection made. On the contrary, it seems to the fifty thousand depositors and the public to be the natural and the proper thing to be done." Colonel Herrick and his associates in the banking business also erected the Arcade building, extending from Euclid avenue to Superior street and considered one of the finest structures of the kind in the country, and he personally became part owner in HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1341 the Cuyahoga, one of the largest office buildings in Cleveland. He is also interested in several manufactories and in valuable real estate. Colonel Herrick's prominence as a Republican and a citizen of public affairs commenced in 1885, when he was elected city councilman a term of one year. In 1886 he was for two years and in 1888 was selected as a delegate from the Cleveland district to the national Republican convention. He also served two terms on the state executive committee, and in 1889 was appointed by Governor Forakcr as the Ohio commissioner to the Centennial at New York, commemorative of the one hundredth anniversary of the inauguration of George Washington as president of the United States. In 1892 he was selected as a presidential elector-at-large for Ohio, and in the same year was appointed a member of Governor McKinley's staff, with the rank of colonel. He had been identified with the Cleveland militia for fourteen years, so that tment was not purely a mark of personal friendship ; he had been a member of the Cleveland Grays from 1876 to 1879 and of the First Cleveland Troop from the latter year in 1890. In March, 1894, on account of pressing business duties Colonel Herrick was obliged to resign his position on the gubernatorial staff. Colonel Herrick was married on June 30, 1880, to Miss Caroline M. Parmely, of Dayton. Ohio, and they have one son, Parmely Webb Herrick. JOHN BRODBECK.—A man of mechanical ingenuity and ability, John Brodbeck is carrying on a substantial business as a builder and condutor tractor in Cleveland, while working at his trade assisting in the upbuilding of the city. A son of Frederick Brodbeck, he was born, September 15, 1845, in Medina county, Ohio, coming on both sides of the house of thrifty German ancestry. His Grandfather Brodbeck was a large, well proportioned man, and on account of his fine physique was made one of the King's Guards. Frederick Brodbeck was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, in 1799, and there lived until after his marriage with Christine Annaman. In 1833, or the following year, he and his wife came to America, settling first in Canada, where he worked a while, receiving six dollars a month wages. Coming from there to Ohio, be lived first in Cleveland, then moved to Liverpool, Medina county, locating there at least seventy-five years ago. When he settled in Cleveland it was a small hamlet, with but few houses, those being mostly on the west side of the present city, and land was very cheap, bringing but five dollars a square. He bought fifty acres of wild land, cleared an opening, and in the log cabin which was the first home of the family, his son John was born. He had a hard struggle to make both ends meet during his earlier residence in Liverpool, both he and his wife enduring all the hardships and privations of frontier life. Indeed, the people of this day and generation little realize what. they owe to those brave spirits of old, who first uprooted the trees, ploughed the sod, and made a broad track for the advance of civilization. Educated in the district schools of his native county, John Brodbeck was well trained in the many branches of agriculture while young, and for a short time was employed in farming on the old homestead. Wishing, however, to turn his mechanical talents to some use, he went to Cincinnati, where, for about seven months he worked at the carpenter's trade with his brother-in-law. He afterwards followed that trade. in Cleveland, Ohio, until the panic of 1873, when he went to Lake county to assume possession of his farm of one hundred and fifty acres, which was located about three miles from Kirkland . Flats. At the end of seven years Mr. Brodbeck sold his farm, returned to Cleveland, where he has since been prosperously employed as a .contractor and builder. Mr. Brodbeck married first, in May, 1871, in Cleveland, Ohio, Amelia Snyder, who at her death, August 20, 1885, left one child, Mabel Augusta, born March 11, 1872. On April 20, 1892, in Cleveland, this daughter married Edward Streich, and their only child, Homer John Streich, was born January 7, 1894. Mr. Brodbeck married second, March 14, 1888, in Cleveland, Harriet Hunkin, who. was born at Chagrin Falls, January 27, 1856, a daughter of James Hunkin. Mr. Hunkin was born in Devonshire, England, in 1812, and was there married, in 1839, to Thirza Fowler. In 1854 he and his wife immigrated to America, and by way of Montreal came directly to Ohio, locating in Cleveland, where they lived for eighteen months, from there going to Chagrin Falls, where they settled permanently. Mr. and Mrs. Brodbeck , have one child, Horace John Brodbeck, whose birth occurred September 10, 1896. 1342 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE HOWARD BURROUGHS.—A life-long resident of Portage county, and one of the best known and most highly respected agriculturists of his community, Howard Burroughs was born, December 13, 183o, in Shalersville township, a son of Simon Burroughs, a pioneer of that place. He now owns and occupies a well appointed farm in Streetsboro township, where he is passing the twilight years of his long and useful life in ease and comfort. His paternal grandfather, a native of New Hampshire, married a Miss Messer, who was born in the same state. Patriotic and brave, he served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and while in the army contracted a disease that proved fatal. This grandfather, Joel Burroughs, had a brother Daniel, who came to Portage county in 1810, took up a tract of wild land in Shalersville township, and from the timber reclaimed a homestead. Daniel Burroughs had three sons, Greenwood, A. C. K. and Horace, and a daughter, Mrs. William Coleman. Simon Burroughs made his way on foot from Alstead, New Hampshire, his birthplace, to Shalersville township in 1816, coming by way of Buffalo, which had a short time before been burned by the British. He visited first with his uncle, Daniel Burroughs, for a short time, and soon secured title to one hundred acres of land that was still in its primitive condition. He cleared ten acres of it, sowing it to wheat, in the meantime boarding at the home of Colonel Mason, and paying two dollars a week for his board. In 1818 he walked back to Vermont, where he married his old sweet-heart, Lucy Green, who was born in Woodstock, Vermont, a daughter of Amasa and _____ (Dudley) Green. After his marriage he and his bride, accompanied by Joel Thompson and wife, started in a wagon drawn by two yoke of oxen for their home in Shalersville township, Ohio, arriving at their point of destination after a tedious journey of forty-five days. On arriving home they cut the wagon in two, making two two-wheeled carts, one of which, with a yoke of oxen, each of the men took as his own. Simon Burroughs and wife lived on their original purchase for seventeen years, and then sold out and came to Streetsboro township, where they bought a tract of timbered land, from which they improved the homestead, on which they spent their remaining days, his death occurring in 1864 and hers in 1872. They were the parents of six children, four sons and. two daughters, and of these three children are now living, a follows : Howard, of this sketch ; Henry, o Ravenna, Ohio and George, of Shalersville township. Spending the days of his boyhood on the home farm, Howard Burroughs acquired a practical common school knowledge of books and subsequently learned the trade of a carpenter and joiner, which he followed for awhile. After his marriage he lived for a few months with his parents, and then, in October, 1859, assumed possession of the original fifty acres of his present farm in Streetsboro township. Energetic, enterprising and persevering, he met with good results as a farmer, and has since purchased adjoining land, having now a farm of one hundred "and ten acres, we improved and judiciously Cultivated, on whit ne is carrying on general farming and dairing in a satisfactory manner, his son Fred having the responsibility of its management. Mr. Burroughs married, Marsh 10, 1859, Sophronia Bliss, who was born in Charlestown township, Portage county, Ohio. Her father Daniel Bliss, Jr., a son of Daniel, Sr., and Anna (Spofford) Bliss, was born in Conneticut, and married Matilda Morris, who was born in New York state, a daughter of Jeremiah Morris. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs, namely : Harry, of Streetsboro township ; Cora, wife of Charles Straight, also of Streetsboro township; Lura, who married Charles Wise, died October 4, 1906, leaving three children : Rilla, wife of Otis Green, of Franklin township ; and Fred, living on the home farm. In politics Mr. Burroughs is a faithful adherent of the Democratic party, and for three terms rendered excellent service as township trustee. GEORGE A. BRAKEMAN, now of Anderson, Indiana, where he is engaged in the manufacture of glass, was known in Painesville, Lake county, as one of its leading architects and builders. His business and profession were there conducted with great success for many years, and as a man and a citizen he stamped his individuality upon the community as sterling and pure. Mr. Brakeman is a native of Leroy, Lake county, born on the 31st of May 1852, and is a son of Gerry and Mary (Williams) Brakeman. The Brakemans were among the early pioneers of Leroy township who settled on the Old Girdled road, the first public thoroughfare surveyed on the Western Reserve (1896). For many years they were HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1343 among the best known people of that locality and the large family farm was both a historical landmark and a central point for the direction of travelers. Gerry Brakeman, the father of George A., conducted the old homestead until the Civil war period. At the commencement of the war in May or June, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and the son well remembers his father's enlistment as the first time George ever saw railroad cars was when they took the soldiers away from Painesville. Gerry Brakeman was wounded May 4, 1863, at the battle of Chancellorsville, and lost his life at Marietta, Georgia. being shot by a sharpshooter while chopping down a tree. The ball cut off a part of a wooden penholder and the corner of a diary book. Mr. Brakeman had been detailed to a pioneer cove building and pontoon bridges. He used to preach to the soldiers and all the boys called him "Dad." While Mr. Brakeman was in the army his wife was in very poor health and her son George recalls how she used to gather her four children around a kitchen chair and the prayers she sent up with tears streaming down her cheeks have never been forgotten by her children, though at the time too young to understand. In 1847 Gerry Brakeman married Miss Mary Williams, who was the daughter of Heman Williams, a pioneer miller. to whom an over-toll for his services would have been an abomination. Mr. Williams was also a well known jay preacher of the Methodist church, for whose rugged, Christian character the old settler; had great admiration and affection. DAVID W. THOMAS.—Of the generations of those who have figured conspicuously in connection with the development of the city of Akron there are few who will live longer and have a warmer place in the memory of its people than the late Colonel David W. Thomas, who died at his home in this city on the 31st of January, 1905. He was a native son of the Western Reserve, responded to the inspiration of his environment, and became one of its representative business men and influential citizens. It was his to render to his country the loyal service of a gallant soldier and officer in the Civil war, and in all the relations of life he was signally true to the high principles which dominated his individuality. He was not forgotten in the distribution of our common heritage of faults and foibles, but he was kind, thoughtful of others, true to his friends, loved humanity, and did well his part in a long career of activity and usefulness. Colonel Thomas was born at Millersburg, Holmes county, Ohio, on the gth of March, 1841, and was a son of George H. Thomas, who continued his residence in Ohio until his death. When Colonel Thomas was about four years of age, in 1845, his parents removed to Akron, which was then an obscure village, and in the schools of this place he received. his early educational training, which was later broadened into symmetrical proportions through his wide reading, self-discipline and active association with men and affairs.. At the age of sixteen years he went to the village of Tallmadge, Summit county, where he learned the trade of carriage-blacksmithing, in the shop of the firm of Oviatt & Sperry. He continued in the work of his trade until there came the call of higher duty. His youthful patriotism was roused to responsive protest when the rebel . guns thundered against old Fort Sumter, and he was among those who responded to President Lincoln's first call for volunteers. In April, 1861, when but twenty years of age, he enlisted, in the three months' service, as a private in Company G, Nineteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he proceeded to the front and with which he participated in the battle of Rich Hill and minor engagements. He received his honorable discharge at the expiration of his term, but in October, 1861, only a few months later, he re-enlisted for a term of three years. At this time he became a private in. Company H, Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this gallant command he participated in many of the notable engagements that marked the progress of the great conflict between the North and the South, including the battles of Winchester, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. At Chancellorsville he was slightly wounded by a fragment of shell, but was not long incapacitated for active duty. After the battle of Gettysburg his regiment went to New York City to assist in quelling the draft riots, and from the national metropolis it returned to the scene of action in Tennessee, where it, took part in the engagements at Wauhatchie and Lookout Mountain. In December, 1863, with the other members of his regiment, Colonel Thomas re-enlisted as a veteran, and the command was with Sherman's forces in the Atlanta campaign and the ever memorable march from that 1344 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE city to the sea. Promoted through the regular grades, in recognition of gallant and meritorious service, Colonel Thomas was assigned to the post of honor as captain of Company A of his regiment, a preferment which came to him in the city of Savannah, Georgia. In this office he continued to serve until the close of the war, and as such he was mustered out, at Louisville, Kentucky, on the 22d of June, 1865. He received his honorable discharge shortly afterward, upon returning to Ohio. After the close of his signally meritorious service as a brave and loyal soldier of the Union, Colonel Thomas returned to Akron, where he was thereafter associated with his father in the lumber and building business until the death of the latter, in 1872. He then allied himself with Charles Miller, R. N. Kratz and others, in the same line of enterprise, with which he continued to be prominently identified until his death, at which time he was president of the Thomas Lumber & Building Company, which was organized in 1887. He attained to a large measure of success in his business operations and contributed materially to the industrial and civic progress of the city and county which represented his home during practically his entire life. Animated by deep public spirit and placing a true valuation upon men and affairs, he was a citizen whose influence ever counted for good, and the sterling integrity of his character retained to him the inviolable confidence and esteem of all with whom he came in contact. He was unswerving in his allegiance to the Republican party and did great service in its cause, though never seeking public office. He was a most zealous and valued member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and his unqualified popularity among his old comrades in arms was significantly shown at the annual encampment of the Ohio department of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1880, when he was elected department commander. He was long and prominently identified with the Ohio National Guard, in which, in 1876, he was elected colonel of the Ninth Regiment, which was later consolidated with the Eighth Regiment. On the 11th of September, 1868, Colonel Thomas was united in marriage to Miss Alice Hale, who passed to the life eternal on the 4th of January, 1880, and who is survived by four children—George H., James A., Frank and Elizabeth. On the 18th of December, 1884, was solemnized the marriage of Colonel Thomas to Mrs. Isabella (Webster) Gage, widow of Alden Gage and a daughter of the late Charles Webster, who was the founder of the Webster, Camp & Lane Machine Company, of Akron, and long numbered among the most prominent and influential business men and honored citizens of this city. Mrs. Thomas survives her honored husband and continues to reside in Akron. She has here passed the major portion of her life, is a member of one of the old and distinguished families of the Western Reserve, and is identified with the religious and social activities of the community in which her interests and affections are centered through long and grateful association. Colonel Thomas was a member of the Loyal Legion, Army and Navy Club, and was active in Masonry. EDWARD C. HUNT was born in Richwood, Union county, Ohio. October 18, 1865, and in 1878 he became a resident of Cleveland and has since made his home in this city. He married in 1886 and he has three children. The parents of Mr. Hunt were probably of Irish and German descent, and they were born in Delaware county, Ohio. The senior Mr. Hunt was a well known stock grower and dealer there, and with others organized and built the Cleveland Union Stock Yards, and was interested in that enterprise during the remainder of his life. He was a prominent business man and useful citizen, and his death occurred in the year of 1884. A. H. BABCOCK.—The late Hon. Allison H. Babcock was one of the prominent men of Lorain, his home for over thirty-five years—years of close identification with its business and public interests. years largely devoted to the public good. He was a native son of Michigan, born at Dundee, that state, on September 15, 1843, and came of good New England stock. His parents, the late Rev. Daniel A. and Harriet (Dubois) Babcock, were both born in the state of New York, but moved from there to Dundee, Monroe county, Michigan, in an early day, becoming pioneers of that section of the state. Daniel A. Babcock was a minister of the Baptist denomination. The Hon. Allison H. Babcock was reared at Dundee and received his educational training in its common schools. In 1861, when but eighteen years of age, he volunteered for service in the Civil war, enlisting in Company F, First Regiment, Engineers and Mechanics Corps, for three years or during the war, and HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1345 by participated in the battles of Mill Springs, Kentucky Champion Hills and Stone River, and was also on the historic "march to the sea" with General Sherman. Receiving his honorable discharge at Atlanta, Georgia, in 1864. Babcock returned home and pursued a business course in Oberlin College, engaging then in mercantile pursuits in Michigan. In 1873 be became a citizen of Lorain and one of its grovery merchants, continuing in that vocation until 1889. In that year Mr. Babcock was elected the mayor of Lorain and in 1892, after an interim of a few years, was again elected to that office. lie was prominently identified with the fraternal organizations of his city and was for fifteen years the state treasurer of the K. O. T. M., and previously had served for several years as the local finance keeper of the order. Mr. Babcock took a very keen interest in Masonry and in the latter years of his life devoted a great deal of his time to Masonic work. He was high priest of the local lodge of Royal Arch Masons at the time of his death and was also a member of the Knights of Pythias order. He was a trustee of the Lorain Children's Home, a director of the Penfield Avenue Savings Bank and was largely Interested in Lorain real estate. Mr. Babcock married, in 1868, Mary S. Hill, born in Lorain county and now residing in Lorain, a daughter of Uriah and Sarah Hill, early pioneers of Lorain county, near Oberlin. The three children horn of this union were: Sadie L., A. H. Babcock, Jr., and Grace E. Babcock, who died in 1881, at the age of ten years. Mr. Babcock passed from this life on the 12th of September, 1906, his widow, son and daughter surviving him. In memory long lives, and the good he has done will long live after him. Allison H. Babcock, Jr., was born in Lorain, Ohio, January 21, 1874. and after a, public school training he on the 21st of January, 1899, engaged in the insurance business and established what has since become the leading fire insurance and real estate business in Lorain county. He began this vocation by representing on company, but he now represents many of the best companies throughout the land and carries fire insurance of the majority of the largest interests in the city of Lorain. In 1905 the business was incorporated as the A. H. Babcock Company, of which he is president and manager, and since that time it has absorbed another agency and its stockholders are found among the influential residents of high financial standing of the city and community. Mr. Babcock is a director and member of the executive board of the Wood Lumber Company of Lorain ; a director and member of the finance committee of the Penfield Savings Bank of Lorain, and president of the Standard Hardware Company of Lorain. He was elected the treasurer of the city of Lorain in 1902 and has since been re-elected three times, and during this time, when the Citizens Banking Company failed with $35,000 of the city's funds on deposit, he saved the amount for the city, making the deficit from his own pocket, just before the expiration of his term of office, January 11, 1910. Fraternally Mr. Babcock is a Knight Templar Mason, affiliating with Elyria Commandery, and a member of Al Koran Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and Woodmen of the World. He is a member of the Lorain Board of Commerce. Mr. Babcock married Minnie S. Mead, born in Cleveland, Ohio, a daughter of James and Amanda Mead. Their three children are Mildred D., Floyd E. and Leota Amanda Babcock. CHARLES BENTLEY.—Living on an attractive and pleasantly located farm in Streetsboro township is Charles Bentley, one of the many enterprising men engaged in agricultural pursuits in Portage county, who bring to their calling good business methods and excellent judgment and are meeting with well merited success as tillers of the soil. A son of the late Charles Bentley, Sr., he was born, April 18, 1843, in Winchester, Connecticut, coming from substantial colonial stock. Charles Bentley, Sr., a son of George Bentley, was born in Stonington, Connecticut, and was there reared and educated. Shortly after his marriage, about 1833, he came with his bride to Portage county, Ohio, and after some consideration bought 212 acres of heavily timbered land in Streetsboro township. He was an industrious and energetic man and cleared and put under cultivation a goodly number of acres of his land, on which he raised profitable crops. He married, in 1833, Clarina Brunson, who was born in Winchester, Connecticut, a , daughter of Salmon P. Brunson. In the fall of 1842 he and his wife returned to Connecticut and spent a year in their native state. Coming back then to their home in Streetsboro in 1843, both spent the remaining years of their lives on the homestead, Charles Bentley, Sr., dying in 1848 and his widow in 1346 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE 1887. Three children blessed their union, namely : Luette P. ; 'Charles, of this brief biographical sketch ; and Edwin S., who died in Cleveland, Ohio, in February, 1903. Luette P. Bentley is a woman of culture and refinement, widely known in the educational circles of this section of the Union. She was graduated from the Lake Erie Seminary, in Painesville, Ohio, in 1865, and very soon after receiving her diploma accepted a position in that institution as a teacher. A short time later she was promoted to the position of assistant principal and when the institution was changed to Lake Erie College Miss Bentley was made the dean, a position which she has since filled most ably and satisfactorily. With the exception of a few years, from 1887 until 1894, when he was engaged in the real estate business in Denver, Colorado, Charles Bentley has lived on the parental homestead, which is now owned by himself and sister. Like her, he received excellent educational advantages, after leaving the district school taking a course of study at Talmadge College, in Summit county, Ohio, afterwards taking a commercial course at Eastman's Business College, in Poughkeepsie, New York. He is a systematic farmer, well versed in agriculture, and is carrying on general farming very successfully. For some years he was interested in dairying, but in 1902 sold his dairy and now confines himself to the raising of young stock for market. ROBERT GARRETT.—For many years the late Robert Garrett was an honored resident of Leroy township, where he was actively engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was an upright, honest man and a worthy representative of those courageous pioneers who settled in the county in the days of its infancy, and assisted in redeeming from the wilderness a portion of this beautiful country. He was born, September 24, 1803, on the Isle of Man, and there grew to manhood and learned the shoemaker's trade. Emigrating to America in 1827, he came directly to Leroy township, joining his brother John, who had settled here a few years earlier. Robert Garrett worked at his trade for a time, both in Tiffin and in Painesville. With the money that he saved he bought, in 1838, a tract of wild land in Leroy township, cleared a space in the dense forest, and built a part of the house now on the place. Laboring diligently, he cleared a good farm, which is still included in the present Garrett estate, and was here profitably employed in tilling the soil until his death, July 13, 1886, at the advanced age of eighty-three years. Mr. Garrett was twice married. He married first, August 28, 1844, Almira Calkins, who was born in Painesville, Ohio. She died on the home farm in 1866, leaving no children. Mr. Garrett married second, in 1866, Isabella (Davidson) Fraser, daughter of William and Isabel (Blackadder) Davidson, natives of Rosslyn, Scotland. After coming with his family to America, Mr. Davidson was engaged in business in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was a powder manufacturer. Mrs. Isabella Garrett survived herhusband, dying January 30, 1894. Two children were born of their union, namely : Helen ; and Belle, who died in childhood. Helen, born on the home farm, May 22, 1867, married, May 19, 1893, Harvey Delos Roath: Mr. Roath was born, January 13, 1868, in Thompson, Geauga county, Ohio, being a son of the present wife of Burr P. Scribner, of whom a brief sketch appears elsewhere in this work. Mr. Roath carries on the of old Garrett farm with excellent results, making a special feature of dairying, keeping on an average ten cows, from which he supplies regular customers with a superior grade of butter. He also owns a farm in Madison township. Mr. and Mrs. Roath have four children namely : Isabelle, Esther, Howard and Hubert. Politically Mr. Roath is a Republican and has served as township trustee, and as a member of the Board of Education. Mr. and Mrs.. Garrett were valued members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Garrett's second wife had two children by her former marriage when she married Robert Garrett, namely : Will and May Fraser. They remained on the old farm and grew to manhood and womanhood, loved and respected by Mr. Garrett as his own children, Will Fraser learned the machinist trade and now resides in Cleveland and manufactures special machinery. He married, in 1886, Mary P. Spargo, attorney of Cleveland. May Fraser learned the dressmaker's trade and until her death, which occurred December 3, 1908, she was known for her worth. and sterling good qualities and respected and loved by all who knew her. WILLIA M S. MCKINNON.—A strong and noble character was that of the late William Stranchon McKinnon, who exerted a potent HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1347 influence in connection with industrial and civic affairs in the city of Ashtabula during the course of a long and successful career. He gained success through his individual ability and application and ever stood exemplar of that integrity of purpose which figures as the plumb of character. He was one of the representative business men of Ashtabula, being the founder and head of the McKinnon Iron Works Company, whose plant is located at Ashtabula Harbor, and was prominent in other local interests of distinctive importance. He rendered loyal and able service in positions of high public trust and responsibility, and was incumbent of the office of treasurer of the state of Ohio at the time of his death, which occurred at his home, in Ashtabula, on Tuesday morning, November 17, 1908 William S. McKinnon was born at Owen Sound, Province of Ontario, Canada, on the 19th of December, 1852, and was a son of Rev. John McKinnon, who was a native of the state of New York and of Scotch parentage. Rev. John McKinnon was a clergyman of the Presbyterian church, a man of marked intellectual ability, and he gave his service to the work of the ministry during practically his entire active career. His labors were principally in the Dominion of Canada, where for many years he held a pastoral charge at Owen Sound Ontario. In his native place the subject of this memoir received his early educational training, and he had also the advantages offered in a home of distinctive culture and refinement. Before he had attained the age of twenty years Mr. McKinnon came from Canada to Ohio and located in the city of Cleveland. He had previously served a thorough apprenticeship at the machinist's trade in his native city, and his ability and integrity of purpose soon gained for him recognition and advancement. He had not long been a resident of Cleveland when he was made chief engineer in the plant of the Briton Iron & Steel Company. He had the strong sinews of initiative and determination, and the force of his character marked him as ineligible for continued obscurity. After leaving the service of the company just mentioned he held a responsible position with the Globe Iron Works Compay, of Cleveland, with which he continued to be identified until April, 1880, when he took up his residence in Ashtabula Harbor, where, in association with a partner, he established the McKinnon Iron Works. Not long afterward he purchased his partner's interest in the enterprise, and later his brother, D. J. McKinnon, was associated with him in the prosecution of the industry for a few years. In 1889 he assumed the full ownership of the business, which he built up to large and substantial proportions. This industry he continued to conduct individually until the spring of 1908, when the business was organized as a stock company, being then incorporated under the laws of the state as the McKinnon Iron Works Company. Of this company Mr. McKinnon held the dual office of president and general manager until lie was summoned from the scene of life's mortal endeavors. He was also president of the Ashtabula Water Works Company and the Marine National Bank, of Ashtabula, besides being a stockholder and director in the Ashtabula Rapid Transit Company and several other concerns of representative order. He was a business man of marked ability and won his success through worthy means. Never a seeker of public office, Mr. McKinnon accepted the same only when he felt that civic duty and responsibility obligated him to subordinate his own wishes and interests to the public good, and in no position of trust to which he was called did he fail to accomplish much in the direction noted. His political support was given to the Republican party, and he was well fortified in his opinions as to matters of public polity. He was for several terms a valued member of the city council of Ashtabula and for one term was mayor of the city, in which position he gave a most admirable administration of the municipal government. He was also a member of the board of education for a number of years. He represented Ashtabula county in the state legislature for three terms, during the last of which he served as speaker of the house of representatives   In 1903 Mr. McKinnon was elected state treasurer. He handled the fiscal affairs of the commonwealth with the ability and discrimination of a thorough business man, and at the expiration of his first term he was elected his own successor. He was the incumbent of the office at the time of his death. His second term would have expired on the I ith of January, 1909. Mr. McKinnon was a devout and earnest member of the Second Congregational church, in the various departments of whose work he was long an active factor. He was superintendent of the union Sunday school for a number of years—up to the time when his official duties necessitated his absence from Ashta- 1348 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE bula Harbor. He was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His funeral was held on the Thursday following his death, and was attended by the leading officials of the state as well as by many other representative citizens of Ohio.. The various state offices were closed on the afternoon of the funeral, as were also the business houses of Ashtabula, and other marks of respect and bereavement were in evidence on every side. Of him the Ashtabula Beacon-Record of November 17, 1908, the date of his demise, spoke as follows : "Socially, morally and in a business way, Mr. McKinnon was known by his friends as all that constitutes a man. The many positions of importance and trust that had been conferred upon him attested the confidence which the public placed in him. In his home circle he was a devoted and indulgent husband and father." Dominated by the highest principles was the course of Mr. McKinnon's life in all its relations, and his benevolences and charities were ever unostentatious and admirably placed. He well knew the springs of human thought and action and thus was ever kindly and tolerant in his judgment and ever ready to lend a helping hand to those in affliction or distress. His name was a synonym for character and worth. On the 2d of April, 1878, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McKinnon to Miss Jane Octavia Porter, of Brampton, Province of Ontario, Canada, who survives him, as do also four sons and one daughter, namely : Herbert A., Harland S., William H., Leslie T. and Lorna Isabelle. It is scarcely necessary to say, in view of what has preceded, that in the sacred precincts of his home the true nobility of the man found its apotheosis. To those nearest and dearest to him comes not alone the deepest sense of loss and bereavement, but also the compensation of having thus touched so loyal, noble and generous a character. Mrs. McKinnon retains her residence in Ashtabula, in whose social life she has long been a gracious figure. In conclusion of this brief memoir is consistently given reproduction of an editorial appearing in an Ashtabula paper at the time of the death of Mr. McKinnon : "The death of Hon. William S. McKinnon, which it was earnestly hoped would be long delayed, has brought genuine grief to multitudes. His career was long interwoven with the history of Ashtabula, and in more recent years with that of the state of Ohio. His activities were diversified and largely made for the upbuilding and strengthening of the. better interests of the city, which he ever had at heart. As a member and officer of the legislature and as the custodian of the funds of the Commonwealth, he disclosed exceptional qualifications, and future historians will show, what those close to him always recognized, that his record was one of highest honor. It was his misfortune to be holding the position of state treasurer at the time when certain combinations, political and financial, were determined on gaining control of the public monies, and the. managers of which, in their scheming, were ready to resort to any means, however despicable, to accomplish their purpose. Fake investigations, distorted facts, false representations, were sensationally employed to poison and prejudice the minds of the voters to effect the choice of the combination's candidate as his successor. Naturally it was a hard and cruel blow to Mr. McKinnon, owing to his serious physical complications and to his sensitiveness to anything that might reflect upon his ability or uprig.htness, and all the more so when he had the consciousness that no wrong had been done and no loss had been incurred for the state. Not a few are disposed to attribute the hastening of Mr. McKinnon's demise to these sinister influences. "The story of the life of William S. McKinnon is similar to that of many who have attained eminence in the United States. It is a record of the climbing of the ladder by genuine worth, ability, purpose, efficiency, determination and persistency. Let high tribute be paid to his memory." AZARIAH S. ROOT.—The able and popular librarian of Oberlin College, one of the old and admirable educational institutions of the Western Reserve, located at Oberlin, Lorain county, is also for the present year chairman of the executive committee of the college and is prominently identified with its adininistrative affairs, the while he holds a secure place in the confidence and regard of the student body. Azariah Smith Root, A. M., was born in Middlefield, Hampshire county, Massachusetts, on February 3, 1862, and is a scion of old and honored families of New England, where was cradled so much of. our national history. He is a direct descendant of Thomas Root, who settled at Farmington, Connecticut, in HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1349 1638, and is also a lineal descendant from John Howland, who came to America on the first voyage of the "Mayflower," and from Michael Metcalf, who came to the New World from England in 1636. Three of his great-grandfathers were arrayed as patriot soldiers in the Continental line in the war of the Revolution and his paternal grand father, Captain Solomon Root, served as captain of a company in the war of 1812. Solomon F. Root, the father of Professor Root, was likewise a native of Middlefield, Massachusetts, and he now resides in the city of Boston, venerable in years but well preserved in both mental and physical faculties. His wife, whose maiden name was Anna Smith, was a daughter of Samuel Smith, of Middlefield, Massachusetts, and a direct descendant of Matthew Smith, who settled in East Haddam, Connecticut, in 1638. Professor Root, the immediate subject of this review, received his earlier educational discipline in the schools of Middlefield, Hinsdale and Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and in 1878, when sixteen years of age, he came to Ohio and was matriculated in Oberlin College, in which he completed the classical course and was graduated as a member of the class of In 1884, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1884-5 he studied law in the law department of Boston University and in 1886-87 in the law school of Harvard University. In 1887 he was appointed librarian of his alma mater, Oberlin College, and in 1890 he was made incumbent of the chair of bibliography in this institution. In 1893 he became a member of the prudential committee of the college, and of this for the current year he is chairman. In 1898-9 Professor Root passed fourteen months in foreign travel, and within this period he did post-graduate work in historic old Goettengen University, in Germany. In 1887 he received from Oberlin College the degree of Master of Arts. He is, in 1909, president of the Bibliographical Society of America ; is a member and a former president of the Ohio Library Association ; is a valued member of the American Library Association, in which he has served as a member of the committee on library training since 1905; is a member of the Guttenburg Gesselschaft, of Mainz, Germany, whose American list of members does not exceed twenty persons; is president of the Oberlin Alumni Magazine Association ; is president of the Cleveland Congregational Club; and is a member of the board of trustees of the First Congregational church of Oberlin. Professor Root has also served as president of the board of education of Oberlin since 1904, as a member of the local board of health since two, and is a director of the Oberlin Kindergarten Training School. Further relationships indicating his vital interest in all phases of local activity are those implied in his being a director of the Oberlin Mutual Benefit Association and also of the Oberlin Telephone Company. He is a man not only of high intellectual attainments but also of marked executive and administrative ability, and as a citizen of the beautiful little college city he has impregnable fortification in popular confidence and esteem. He has done much to further the advancement and general welfare of his alma mater and is one of the valued members of its faculty and its executive committee. In politics he is an Independent and takes a loyal interest in the questions and issues of the hour. On April 30, 1887, was solemnized the marriage of Professor Root to Miss Anna M. Metcalf, of Elyria, Lorain county, Ohio, and they have two children,—Francis M., born September 24, 1889; and Marion M., born January 2, 1896. ARTHUR STANTON.—Having by years of training acquired a wide knowledge of, and an abiding faith in agriculture, many of the most progressive citizens of Portage county have chosen for their life work the occupation so largely followed by the early pioneers of Ohio. Among the number thus successfully employed is Arthur Stanton, a well-known and prosperous farmer of Streetsboro township. He was born, March 15, 1853, in Solon, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and received his early education in the common schools. His parents, Merrill and Amelia (Avery) Stanton, reared three children, namely : Herbert M., of Streetsboro township ; Emma, wife of Chaney Taylor, of Aurora township ; and Arthur,. of this brief biographical sketch. Neither of the parents are living, the death of the father having occurred in 1881, and that of the mother in 1894. For a number of years previous to the death of his father, Arthur Stanton had assisted in the care of the old homestead in Streetsboro township, obtaining in the meantime valuable experience in agricultural operations. Subsequently purchasing the interest of the other heirs in the parental acres, he has since resided