1450 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE ing, and accordingly made arrangements to work for Daniel M. Fisher, receiving $15 per month and board in the summer season, and in the winter receiving only his board and the privilege of attending school. Entering then the employ of Baldwin, Laundon & Nelson, merchants, as a clerk, he received $75 and board the first year, and so pleased were they with his services that they gave him $150 and board the second year and raised his salary each succeeding year. Mr. Wurst remained with that firm until it sold out, five years later, when he continued with its successors, Hannan & Obitts, for four years more. On October 2, 1875, Mr. Wurst and Henry M. Andress bought out the grocery and crockery department of Hannan & Obitts, which they conducted together under the firm name of Andress & Wurst for about six months, when Mr. Wurst purchased his partner's interest and continued successfully at the old stand for five years. Purchasing then the frame building on West Broad street which stood on the site of what is now the Wurst block, he moved in his stock of goods and conducted the business there for five years,. when the store was destroyed by fire in 1885. He immediately rebuilt, completing the Wurst block, constructed of brick, and continued the mercantile business until 1892, While in the grocery business Mr. Wurst was engaged to some extent in real estate transactions, and since 1892 has made that his chief business, having in the time erected upwards of 130 residences, fifty of which he still owns. He is one of the owners of the Andwur Hotel property, which he twice helped to remodel and enlarge, and was one of the incorporators of the Elyria block, but had sold his interest before it was burned in 1909. Mr. Wurst was one of the builders of the handsome Lorain block, the largest store and office block in the city of Lorain, and was also one of the builders of the Kent block in Lorain, and is part owner of the Chapman block in that city. He is one of three owners of the tract of 165 acres known as the Lorain Realty Company's addition to the city of Lorain. Mr. Wurst is financially interested in banking institutions both in Elyria and in Lorain, being 'treasurer of the Elyria Savings & Loan Company, director, of the Elyria Savings Deposit Bank & Trust Company and the Penfield Avenue Savings Bank at Lorain, and was one of the incorporators of the Perry-Fay Manufacturing Company, of Elyria. He belongs to the Elyria Chamber of Commerce and is a director of the Elyria Telephone Company. He is vice-president and director of the Fay Stocking Company, of which he was the prime mover in its organization, and is president of the Ohio Nursery & Supply Company. In November, 1909, Mr. Wurst was elected, without his solicitation, a member of the board of appraisers of real property, which met in January, 1910, for the revision of the valuation of real property for taxation purposes in the city of Elyria. Mr. Wurst was chosen chairman of the board. His politics are Republican. On November 27, 1873, Mr. Wurst was .united in marriage with Ella J. Robson, who was born in Ridgeville, Lorain county, Ohio, a daughter of John and Sarah (Tong) Robson, natives of England. Mr. and Mrs. Wurst have two sons, Earl H. Wurst, general agent of the Angle Dial Scale Company, with headquarters at Springfield, Illinois, and Charles J., a jeweler of Elyria. Earl H. Wurst married Ella M. Hirsching, of Elyria, and they have two children, Gertrude V. and Nellie L. Charles J. Wurst married Mabel L. Quayle, of Elyria. SERENO E. HALL, justice of the peace, in Orwell, was born in Charleston, Portage county, Ohio, May 22, 1835, son of Smith and Angeline (Miller) Hall, the former of Massachusetts and the latter of Connecticut. Smith Hall came to Ohio in 1812, with his parents, Joel and Mary (Smith) Hall. He served in the War of 1812, and settled at Charleston, on unimproved land. He had a good location, but died soon after settling in Ohio, from heart disease ; his widow survived him three or four years. Smith Hall was the oldest of twelve children and upon him devolved the care of the family after his father's death. When about of age he married Angeline, eldest daughter of Joseph Miller, who came from New Lyme, Connecticut, in August, 1811, when she was four years old. After his death his wife married Nelson Hyde, of Vienna, Trumbull county, and died there when past ninety years old. Smith Hall built a saw mill in Charleston in 182o, though he was but twenty years old, and this he carried on until 1860, when the dam went out. He shipped lumber to Columbus on the Ohio and Pennsylvania Canal ; he would hire a boat, ship the lumber and deliver fine whitewood at Columbus for only six dollars HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1451 per thousand. He also had a local trade until the canal was built, and would saw for one-half share, as there was then very little money in circulation in that section. The lumber sold in Columbus furnished about the only source from which he was able to obtain cash to pay help. During the forty years he had the mill he cleared a three hundred acre farm. After 1860 he carried on farming, raised sheep and had a dairy ; he became one of the most successful men in Portage county. He was not active in public affairs, and lived on his farm until the death of his wife ; he died in May, 1875, at the age of seventy-five years. After his marriage Mr. Hall took two of his brothers to rear, and set them up in business ; both became carpenters. Of the eight children of Smith Hall, seven lived to maturity. One son, Colonel Albert S. Hall, or Brigadier-General Hall, became captain in the Twenty-fourth Ohio three months' men. He raised the One Hundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry as colonel, led his regiment into battle at Perryville, and came out in command of the entire division. He commanded a brigade from that time until his death, in 1863. He was shot in the head at. Shiloh and lay on the battlefield five hours, but resumed his command. When fitting his men for the march with Sherman to the Sea, he was taken with typhoid fever and died. His commission of Brigadier-General came after his death. At the time he was thirty-three years of age. Another son, Joseph, served in the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry through the war, was shot in the foot at Missionary Ridge. He died at Ravenna, Ohio, aged sixty-eight years. Traverse A.,. another son, also served in the Civil war, in the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Volunteer Infantry through the war until September, 1865. He was second lieutenant ; he spent two years in the recruiting office ; his health is shattered as a result of his service, and he now lives in Orwell. There were three daughters, Julia, Helen and Temperance, besides an infant, who died unnamed. Helen. married Elihu Stedman and died in California; Temperance died at the .age of ten years, and Julia, who died in California, married Charles Clark. Mr. Clark invented a folding carriage top, and a machine to cut screw threads on augur tips, which before had been filed by hand. He also died .in California. Sereno E. Hall remained at the old home farm until he enlisted, July 19, 1861, in the Second Ohio Cavalry, under Colonel Double day. He served until discharged for cerebro spinal meningitis, and his service was mainly west of the Mississippi. In January, 1862, he went to Missouri and to Kansas after Quantrell, the famous bushwhacker. At one time, after he had chased Quantrell fifteen miles and found where he had taken refuge in a house, Mr. Hall immediately demanded his surrender ; he was told to go to a considerably warmer climate, and, seeing no better way, they set fire to the house and burned it to the ground, and when they examined the ashes with the full expectation of finding the bones of the scoundrel, found only a hole leading from the cellar, through which he had made his escape. When serving under General Blunt at Cow Skin Prairie, Doubleday's command captured the arms of thirty thousand hostile Indians. While fighting the Indians at close range the Federal troops set up such a yell as scared the Indians so that they each set out by himself to escape. One hundred and thirteen white officers were captured and the Osage Indians pursued the other fleeing Indians for many days. The troops followed the Indians into their territory and finally a treaty of peace was signed. At one time S. E. Hall, being orderly, was sent out in command of seventy mounted men and chased McCullough and Van Dorn to Lone Jack ; he kept after them, going into Arkansas, and while on this raid Mr. Hall was injured in the spine, so that his discharge took place December 29, 1862. When he returned home after his .discharge Mr. Hall weighed only eighty pounds, and had spent some months at Fort Scott, not being able to ride. He came part of the way on government wagons, .and hired a spring wagon part of the way to reach Leavenworth, and there dropsy set in, so it took him another month to recuperate sufficiently to continue his journey. He engaged in boot and shoe trade, and in April, 1865, came to Orwell, where he conducted a shop twenty years. He was elected justice of the peace in 1893, and his time expires in 1912. He has also been notary most of the time. He is a real guardian of the peace, and does the legal work of the village, preferring when possible to settle cases out of court. In political views he is a Republican. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and joined the local lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows, instituted in 1872, passed through the chairs and served many years as treasurer. Later he became 1452 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE financial secretary, and he has served as an officer in the lodge for nearly forty years. He is a man of fine character and is universally respected and esteemed. Mr. Hall married, September 1, 1857, Sarah Cowles, of Chardon, Geauga county, daughter of Elliott and Louisa (King) Cowles, who was his schoolmate at Hiram College. At this time he was a schoolmate and room-mate of Garfield, and remained a student after Garfield became president of the school. A. S. Hall, his brother, was formerly engaged to the girl who afterward became Mrs. Garfield, but her father would not approve of the, marriage, insisting that his daughter's husband should be a minister in the Disciples church, and A. S. Hall was intending to' study law. Mr. and Mrs. Hall have two children, one son and one daughter : Edith NI., wife of E. G. Howard, a photographer of Orwell, and Elliott B., cashier of the Orwell Banking Company. PERRY S. WILLIAMS is and has been for some years the general manager of the Republican Printing Company, publishers of the Evening Telegram and the Elyria Republican, the latter, founded in 1829, being the oldest paper now published in Lorain county, if not in the entire Western Reserve. Mr. Williams became the editor and manager of the Republican in 'g00, continuing with this publication until March, 1907, when the competitive paper, the Reporter, went into the hands of a receiver. Mr. Williams bid the property in at receiver's sale for his company, and combined the weekly Reporter with. the Republican, continuing the daily under the new name of the Evening Telegram. This was one of the most important moves in the history of the press of Lorain county, and it was conceived and brought to successful issue by Mr. Williams, who has also been prominent in the political life of Lorain county for a number of years. His political activities began in 'g00, when he was chosen president of the First Voters' Club of Elyria, the only active Republican club of the city at that time. Several years later he was chosen secretary of the Republican County Executive Committee, serving for two terms. In May of 1902 he was elected treasurer of the city of Elyria, which office he held until January 1, 1910, when he was commissioned by President Taft to act as supervisor of census for the Thirteenth Ohio district, comprising seven counties. Mr. Williams is a native of Toledo, Ohio, but his school days were spent in Elyria, where he graduated from the Elyria High School with the class of 1895. He is the son of R. H. and Lucy (Stearns) Williams, the father of Welsh descent, while the Stearns family, originally of Vermont, were among the earliest of the pioneer settlers of Lorain and Cuyahoga counties. Mr. Williams is a member of the Elyria Country Club, the Masonic and Elks fraternities, Chamber of Commerce and other well known social and civic organizations. WILLIAM F. REES, incumbent of the office of assistant treasurer of the Society for Savings in the city of Cleveland, of which old and substantial institution definite mention is made on other pages of this publication, is a native of the city which is now his home and has here gained precedence as an able and progressive business man and loyal citizen. Mr. Rees was born in Cleveland on the 22d of March, 1859, and is a son of John H. and Elvira (Warner) Rees. His father was born in the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and was reared and educated in the old Keystone state, whence he came to Cleveland in the '50s and became identified, with the local office of the Western Transportation Company, with whose interests he continued to be connected for many years, in an executive capacity. At the inception of the Civil war he manifested his intrinsic loyalty and patriotism by tendering his services in defense of the Union, in response to President Lincoln's first call for volunteers. He enlisted as a private in the First Ohio Volunteer Artillery, with which he proceeded to the front, in the command of General Barnett, and he participated in many of the important engagements marking the progress of the great internecine conflict between the states of the North and the South. He continued with his regiment as a valiant and faithful soldier until 1867, when he received his honorable discharge. In after years he manifested his abiding interest in his old comrades by retaining membership in the Grand Army of the Republic. After the close of his military career he returned to Cleveland. He died at the age of sixty years and his wife passed to the life eternal when sixty-five years of age. Of their three children two are now living. The father was a Republican in his political allegiance, and both he and his wife held membership in the St. Paul Episcopal church. Mrs. Rees was a daughter of Warham J. Warner, who was HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1453 one of the prominent contractors and builders of Cleveland for many years and who was a citizen of distinctive influence in the community, where he continued to reside until his demise. William F. Rees was reared to maturity in Cleveland, where he duly availed himself of the advantages of the public schools. After completing a course in the high school he began reading law in the office and under the preceptorship of Myron R. Keith, and to this work he devoted his attention for about two years, after which he passed about one year on a cattle ranch in Colorado. At the expiration of this period he returned to his native city, where, in 1880, he assumed the position of bookkeeper in the counting rooms of the Society for Savings, with which great institution he has continued to be, identified during the long intervening period of more than a quarter of a century, and in which he has gained promotion through his own proven ability and his fidelity to the duties assigned to him in the various positions of which he has been incumbent. He held the office of paying teller for twenty-five years, and since 1898 he has been assistant treasurer of the institution, in which position he has further demonstrated his excellent executive and administrative ability. He is now the third oldest in point of continuous service of all those connected with this fine corporation in an executive capacity, and he is well known in local business circles, in which he is accorded uniform confidence and esteem. In politics Mr. Rees is arrayed as a stanch supporter of the cause of the Republican party and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. He holds membership in the Hermit Club and other social organizations in his native city, and was a valued and popular member of the Cleveland Grays, of which fine military organization he was commander for a period of four years. The organization is a part of the state militia and is subject to active duty upon the call of the governor at any time. Mr. Rees is interested in various industrial enterprises in Cleveland, and also has important business interests in Cuba. In the year 1883 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Rees to Miss Abbie Champney, a daughter of Nathan Champney, long known as one of the representative citizens of Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Rees have two daughters—Julia E. and Mildred D., who are prominent and popular in the social life of their home city. STEPHEN S. THOMAS.—One of the most prominent citizens, leading Republicans and best known agriculturists of Palmyra township, Portage county, Stephen S. Thomas has also the honor to have been born in the township whose interests he has done so much to further, bn New Year's day of 1843. He is of that substantial Welsh stock to which the Western Reserve is greatly indebted, his parents, David S. and Ann (Williams) Thomas, being natives of Carmarthenshire, Wales. In 1839 the latter sailed for the port of New York and, after landing there, continued westward by canal to Buffalo ; thence by lake boat to Cleveland. They finally purchased forty-four acres of timber land in Paimyra township, which they cleared, cultivated and improved as a farm and a homestead for the remainder of their lives. Of their ten children three are still alive, and four were born in Wales. Hannah is now Mrs. Thomas E. Thomas, a widow and resident of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and Ann, Mrs. David Hammond, of Rosendale, that state, has also lost her husband. Stephen S. Thomas resided with his parents until August 8, 1861, when he enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland. He served under Generals Schofield and Sherman, participated in eleven hard fought battles and numerous skirmishes. On August 6, 1864, in a charge at Utoy creek, before Atlanta, he was wounded in the right side and all that saved his life were an old leather pocketbook and a bone comb, by which the bullet was deflected. Mr. Thomas was honorably discharged from the service June 30, 1865, and after spending six months at home went to Wisconsin, where he spent his summers farming and his winters lumbering. During his industrious residence of four years in that state he saved seventeen hundred dollars, with which he returned to Palmyra township and bought ninety-seven acres of improved land, adjoining the paternal place. Later he purchased ninety acres of the home farm, and although he has sold forty acres Still retains a fine estate of one hundred and forty-seven acres, which he devotes to general farming and the raising of sheep, cattle, horses and hogs. Sixty acres of. his homestead property are timber and pasture. His buildings, implements and machinery are all modern, and his up-to-date methods are also indications of the well posted and scientific agriculturist of the day. 1454 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE Mr. Thomas married, October 30, 1871, Miss Elizabeth Lloyd, born in. north Wales and a daughter of Rev. John and Jane Lloyd. The children born to them have been as follows : John, a retail grocer of Oklahoma City ; Laura E., now Mrs. Frank Barkley, who lives in Ravenna, Ohio ; Anna, Mrs. Fred D. Jones, of Palmyra township ; Foster W., of Oklahoma City, also in the grocery business ; Edna and Charles, who live at home, and Arthur, who died at the age of eight years. The mother of this family died March 30, 1900. It should be' added that Mr. Thomas himself has long been influential in the public affairs of the township, having served for thirteen years as a trustee. For nearly forty years he has also been a leader in Congregational church work, having been a deacon of the local body since 1876. In politics Mr. Thomas is a Republican, and his fraternal connections are with the Grand Army of the Republic and the Foresters of America. WILLARD M. BAKER.—As sheriff of Lake county, Willard M. Baker well represents the law-abiding and honorable element in his section of the Western Reserve, and his entire career as a railroad and a business man also entitles him to stand as an official who is personally typical of its industrial and commercial interests. He is a native of Leroy township, that county, born January 29, 1858, and is a son of Stephen and Lucetta (Mason) Baker, formerly of Lanesboro, Massachusetts. Mr. Baker spent his boyhood on his father's farm about six Miles southeast of Painesville, and the country property of fifty acres which he now owns 'includes the 'homestead of those early days. He has continued his connection with the paternal place,' and long had active charge of it, although he spent fourteen years (during the winter months) as trainman for the Lake Shore road. Mr. Baker also became prominent in the development of several of the most important institutions of 'Leroy, assisting in the construction of its telephone system and afterward serving as president of the operating company, as well as aiding in the organization of the Leroy Creamery Company and the first year thereafter acting as its auditor and general salesman. In fraternal matters he is well known as an active member of Prebble Rock Lodge, of Thompson, I. O. O. F., and Modern Woodmen of America, Painesville lodge. Sheriff Baker's stanch Republicanism, or his broad usefulness to the party and the public, have never been questioned. Upon numerous occasions he has served as a delegate to various conventions, and creditably held such township offices as clerk and assessor before his friends and political supporters insisted that he "go up higher." As a result of the fall election of 1908, he therefore. assumed the duties of the shrievalty on the 4th of January, 1909, and it is the general verdict that he has fulfilled every expectation. When he began his duties the new jail and sheriff's residence had been in use but a few weeks, and it was under the guidance of his good sense and taste that the finishing touches were placed upon them. His official home is up-to-date and he is giving the people of Lake county an up-to-date administration. On November 29, 1879, Mr. Baker married Miss Rerie M., daughter of Charles Lace, a farmer of Concord township, Lake county, whose family established itself at Leroy in 1826 and thereby became enrolled among the pioneers of the Reserve. Mr. and Mrs. Baker are the parents of the following: Blanche, who married John Hoyes, a Concord township farmer; Bertrand, who married Maud Eggleston and conducts the old farm ; and Lucetta, Lillian and Willard, who still live with their parents. DR. OLNEY BENTON MONOSMITH, specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat and a prominent member of his profession in Lorain, Ohio, is a native of the Western Reserve, born May 27, 1871, at Pittsfield, Lorain county. He is a son of Thomas Benton and Emily (Rounds) Monosmith, the former a native of Wayne county, Ohio, the latter of Medina county, Ohio. Thomas B. Monosmith's father was a Pennsylvania Dutchman, and came from the Keystone state to Ohio at an early date, settling in Wayne county. The Rounds family are of Puritan stock, and came west from Massachusetts. Olney Rounds, the father of Emily, was a pioneer of Medina county. When Thomas B. Monosmith married he and his wife moved into Lorain county, and he built a cheese factory at Pittsfield, which he operated four years, and then had charge of a cheese factory in the town of Medina for about eight years. He then engaged in the lumber business at Bay City, Michigan, where he continued twelve years. In 1895 he suffered financial loss in the panic, and since HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1455 then has been engaged in the manufacture of vending machines. He and his wife now reside at Bay City, Michigan. Olney B. Monosmith attended school in Medina until twelve years old, and later attended the high school at Bay City, Michigan. He served his preceptorship course under Dr. E. D. Sullivan, a graduate of McGill University, of Toronto, Canada, in Bay City, Michigan, spending most of this period in St. Mary's Hospital, in Bay City, of which institution Dr. 'Sullivan was surgeon-in-chief. In 1890 he matriculated in the medical department of the University of Illinois, where he was graduated with the class of 1893. After graduating he spent one year and a half in Chicago, devoting most of his time to work on eye, ear, nose and throat diseases. On January 1, 1896, as Dr. Monosmith located in Lorain, and since 1900 has made a specialty of the eye, ear, nose and throat. giving them his entire time and attention. In 1896 he took a course along these lines at the Chicago Post Graduate School, and in 1898 took a course at the Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College. In 1900 he took a course in the New York Post Graduate School, and in 1902 a course in the Philadelphia Polyclinic. In 1905 Dr. Monosmith took a private course with Professor J. Halinger, of Chicago, on diseases of the ear. He has contributed to medical science a nasal speculum, an instrument for examining the nasal cavities, given to the profession in 1900. This instrument has become known and used all over the world, and is a great blessing to the human race. In 1902 he invented an eye speculum, an instrument for holding the lids of the eye open for performing an operation, especially useful in magnet operations ; this instrument was first exhibited at the convention , of the American Medical Association in Boston, in 1903, and is now in general use throughout the civilized world. Dr. Monosmith next devised an nucleating knife for the removal of the eyeball ; previous to the invention of this the operation was performed entirely with scissors. He next directed his attention to the invention of what became known as the "paddle knife," for opening the drumhead of the ear without danger of penetrating the brain or the large blood vessel of the neck ; this he presented to the Ohio State Medical Association in 1906. The first three of these inventions are found listed in every catalogue of surgical instruments for use in operations on the organs mentioned above, and the last named invention is very well known and widely used. In 1910 Dr. Monosmith devised .a full set of instruments for enucleating the tonsils. In 1908 Dr. Monosmith assisted in the translation of Bezold's text book on Otology, a classic volume on the ear. He stands very high in his profession, and has been a member of the medical staff of St. Joseph's Charity Hospital of Lorain since its organization in 1898, during which time he has served as secretary of the staff. He is also a member of the staff of Elyria Memorial Hospital. He is a member of the Lorain County Medical Society, of which he served one term as president, and is also a member of the Ohio Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He also belongs to the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otology. Since he first became interested in the study of medicine Dr. Monosmith has always been eager to learn all he could of the science, and has kept up with the march of the times, always striving to live up to his great natural gifts and ability in the profession. He is a genial and friendly man socially, and belongs to the Masonic order and to the Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of the Business Men's Association and the American Insurance Union Society. Dr. Monosmith married, in 1901, Fanny, daughter of Frank Church, a native of Lorain, and they have two children, Lois Elain and Lola. They are members of the Episcopal church. ANDREW SQUIRE, a leading attorney of the Cleveland bar, is a native of Mantua, Portage county, Ohio, born on October 21, 1850, and is a son of Andrew Jackson and Martha (Wilmot) Squire. The earliest genealogical tracings of his family point to a substantial Scotch and English ancestry, were later identified with the founding of the pioneer New England communities, and in 1812 various members migrated to Portage county, Ohio, and were associated with the establishment of the young commonwealth. Andrew J., the father, was born in 1815, became a physician, in 1863 located at Hiram and practiced there for many years. Both he and his wife were natives of 'Portage county, the latter dying at Hiram June 10, 1896, at the age of sixty-six years. After attending a district school until he was eleven years of age, Andrew Squire was sent to the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, at Hiram, and two years later the family lo- 1456 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE cated at that place. The son continued his studies in the institute until 1866, when he acceded to his father's wishes by going to Cleveland to attend medical lectures. Finding the profession of law more to his liking, however, he was allowed to abandon medicine and devote himself to Blackstone and Bouvier. In 1872, after graduating from Hiram College, he entered the law offices of Cadwell & Marvin, and the state supreme court, sitting at Columbus, December 3, 1873, admitted him to practice. The next year Mr. Cadwell was elected to the bench of the court of common pleas, and Mr. Marvin formed a partnership with Mr. Squire, which continued until January 1, 1878. At that time the firm was Marvin, Hart & Squire, Alphonso Hart, lieutenant governor of Ohio, having been admitted into the co-partnership. Upon the date named Mr. Squire refired to associate himself with E. J. Estep, and in 1882 Judge Moses R. Dickey, of Mansfield, became the second member of the strong and popular firm of. Estep, Dickey & Squire. On January I, 1890, Mr. Squire withdrew and, with Judge William B. Sanders (who resigned from the bench) and James H. Dempsey, formed the present firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. He has always been a firm Republican and was a delegate to the St. Louis convention which nominated McKinley for president in 1896. Mr. Squire has been long prominent in the educational, commercial, financial and civic affairs of Cleveland. He is a trustee of the Western Reserve University, as well as of Hiram College; is a director in the Bank of Commerce. Citizens' Savings & Trust Company, Cleveland Stone Company, Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad, Case Library and other corporations, and is a member of the Cleveland Sinking Fund Commission and a trustee of the Garfield Memorial Association. In Masonry he has reached the thirty-third degree, and he is also a member of the Union, Country, Roadside, Yacht and Tippecanoe Clubs of Cleveland, and of the University Clubs, both of Cleveland and New York. Mr. Squire has been twice married. Miss Ella Mott became his first wife in 1873, Carl A. being the surviving issue of this union. On June 24, 1896, Mr. Squire wedded Mrs. Eleanor Seymour Sea, daughter of Belden Seymour, of Cleveland. In his general bearing and his social,. business and professional relations, Mr. Squire has the distinct stamp of a man of balance and fine practical judgment, as well as one of polish, geniality, keenness and alertness. It is these somewhat diverse qualities which are so well united in his personality that give him his power before courts, juries and the public at large. CHARLES E. FISHER, the substantial and well-known farmer of Palmyra township, Portage county, is a native of Deerfield township, that county, born June 30, 1857. His parents, Cornelius and Alice (Olmstead) Fisher, and his grandparents, William and Sophia (Simonds) Fisher, were all born in Palmyra township, so that the family has been identified with the progress of this portion of the Western Reserve for many years. To add to the force of this statement, it may be mentioned that of his maternal grandparents, Ebenezer and Laura. (Gilbert) Olmstead, his grandmother was also a native of Palmyra township. He is the elder of the two children born to his parents, his sister Amy being Mrs. William H. Brode, of Ravenna. Mr. Fisher, of this sketch was educated in the district and select schools of Palmyra township and has resided at Whippoorwill Hill, in Palmyra township, since he was three years of age. He learned the stone cutter's trade under his father and his uncle, C. S. Olmstead. Not long after his marriage Mr. Fisher purchased a portion of the Buckley farm, adjoining the family homestead, and this has since been his residence. He has engaged both in general farming and stock raising, interspersing his agricultural labors with his work as a skilled mason, until 1909, since which time he has solely devoted himself to the operation and improvement of the home farm. He is identified with Paris Tent, No. 355, of Wayland, K. O. T. M., but otherwise remained unassociated with the work of the secret and benevolent societies. In politics a Democrat, he has faith fully voted but has had no aspirations for public advancement. In March, 1879, Mr. Fisher married Miss Sallie Phillips, born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1858, and a daughter of Professor John A. and Elizabeth (Evans) Phillips. The children born of this union were as follows : Grace, now Mrs. Everett Evans, who resides on the old Fisher farm, and. Hal A. and Burl O., who reside at home—the latter taking a course in veterinary surgery. Mr. Fisher's first wife died in November, 1888, and in March, 1891, he married Miss Frances Osborne, a native of Newton Falls, Ohio, daugh- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1457 ter of James and Julia (Hall) Osborne, her father being born in Milton township, Mahoning county, and her mother in Palmyra township, Portage county. The two children of the second union are Georgia and Anna, living at home. GEORGE A. CLARK, one of the foremost citizens of Lorain, Ohio, and head of the Clark Jewelry Company was born at Bellevue, Huron county, Ohio, July 15, 1861, and is a son of Joseph and Mary (Hempstead) Clark. They were natives of Suffolk and London, England, respectively, were married in London, and ,came to the United :States in the spring of 1852, locating at Bellevue. Joseph Clark died September 25, 1883, at the age of fifty-six years, and his widow died in 1905, aged seventy-six. George A. Clark was reared in Bellevue, where he received his education, after which he learned the jewelry business and the watchmaker's trade. He first engaged in business for himself in a small way in 1880 in Vermilion, Ohio, and in January of the following year located in Lorain. At first he engaged in business in Lorain with a very small capital, occupying one corner of the clothing store of T. R. Bowen, located on Broadway, having one window and about twenty feet back. Thirteen months later he moved across the street and occupied a store with W. A. Jewitt, druggist, and two years later occupied this entire store, where he remained three years. Then, in company with Mr. Jewitt, he established himself in a room in the Wagner block, at the corner of Broadway and East Erie avenue. Five years later Mr. Clark purchased f ortyfour feet front at 3x4. Broadway and removed there, with Mr. Jewitt ; the latter afterward' moved away, leaving Mr: Clark in full possession. In the summer of 1909 Mr. Clark entirely remodeled both the exterior and interior of his store, fitting it expressly for a jewelry store. In April, 1909, the business was incorporated as the George A. Clark Company, with Mr. Clark as treasurer and general manager. Mr. Clark has been paying close attention to his business interests for a number of years, and is an expert in his line. He has met with success, and has built up a good trade. For many years Mr. Clark has been prominent in the Republican interests in Lorain, 'and has figured conspicuously in public affairs. He is a member of the public service board of Lorain, and belongs to the Board of Commerce. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and of the Knights of Pythias. In the former he has become a Knight Templar. Mr. Clark married Mary S. Pike, who was born in Vermilion, Ohio, and they have three children, Frank, F. Corrine and Gertrude C. ROBERT T. LLOYD.—When the state of Ohio was but six years of age, and only nine years after Connecticut had relinquished all claims to the Western Reserve, a hardy young man of Massachusetts named John Lloyd mounted his horse in his cultured home community and commenced his long, wearing and dangerous journey toward the virtual wilderness between the Great Lakes and the Ohio river. He was the advance guard of a prolific and honored family whose members have especially contributed to the prosperity and good standing of the Western Reserve, both through the advancement of its agricultural interests and its professional activities. Further, they brought with them the moral stamina of their New England ancestors, to the great and lasting good of the communities in which they located. Returning to John Lloyd, the original pioneer of the Western Reserve, it is recorded that he first purchased 1,000 acres of land of the Dwight land owners and after 600 acres in Bristol, Morgan county, southeastern Ohio, eventually becoming one of the most extensive land owners of his day. After some years he brought his wife and family to the state, which thereafter he considered his permanent home, both southern and northern Ohio (but particularly the latter) witnessing the worthy labors of his descendants in after years. The three children of John Lloyd, all born in Massachusetts, were Thomas, Roxanna and Leicester. Thomas served as a colonel in the Ohio state militia, and died at Wickliffe, Lake county, as the result of a fall from his horse. Roxanna married Joel Smith and they became the parents of four children. For several years after their marriage they resided at Bristol, Morgan county, but not long afterward sold their property and settled in Kentucky. Leicester Lloyd, the father of Robert T., was born in Blandford, Massachusetts, on the 2d day of March, 1798, receiving his early education at that place and completing it at Williams College, Williamstown, that state. Afterward he taught school for a time, became 1458 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE a seaman, studied law, and was admitted to the bar. Although he practiced for a short time, his active temperament induced him to enter the stirring field of western pioneering. Coming to the Western Reserve, he located on 500 acres of land near Wickliffe, Lake county— this fine tract being a gift from his father—and was there engaged in farming Until his death, November 14, 1875. Leicester Lloyd also became a prominent citizen in many respects, the activity and talents which he displayed in the furtherance of the state militia finally advancing him to the rank of general. On February 15, 1821, at Fort Ann, New York, he married Miss Sarah Osborn. His wife was a native of Blandford, Massachusetts, where she was born December 18, 1798, and died at Wickliffe, Ohio, mother of the following : Theodore John, born in Willoughby, Lake county, April 8, 1822, died in the western part of Ohio, where he settled in early life and married Miss Mary Eddy ; Charles Smith, who was born August 17, 1824, settled in Wisconsin and married ; Elizabeth Roxanna, born March 15, 1827, who married Franklin Knapp, of Geneva, and died in 1904; Mary Ann, born July 10, 1829, who died in Ashtabula county, unmarried ; Sarah Almira, who was born April 26, 1831, and became the wife of a Mr. Hurlbut, of Iowa ; Robert Thompson, whose sketch follows ; Leicester Hamilton, born December 23, 1835, who married Mary E, Strong; George Lewis, born August 9, 1838, married and a resident. of Wisconsin ; and Harriet- Lucinda, who Was born January 3, 1843, and married John Ferguson, of Madison, Ohio. Robert T. Lloyd was born on the parental homestead in Wickliffe, Lake county, March 24, 1833, obtained his elementary education in the district schools, and supplemented his earlier studies by a course at the Kirtland Academy. A few winters of his early manhood were spent as a lumberman in the Wisconsin camps, and later he located 15,000 acres of land in south Georgia. For some time after his marriage to Miss Rose M. Myers, in 1868, Mr. Lloyd resided in Wickliffe, thence coming to Harpersfield township, where he purchased the farm, upon which he still resides. He has been successfully and continuously engaged in agricultural pursuits, and his judicious and tasteful improvements of the place have transformed it into a comfortable, attractive and valuable country estate. JOHN CORYDON HUTCHINS. — Trumbull county and the Western Reserve are indebted for much of their substantial progress and high civic standing to three generations of the Hutchins family, whose careers have formed vital elements in the history of northern Ohio. Samuel Hutchins, grandfather of John C. in 1798 accompanied a surveying party from Connecticut, located at Vienna, and the solemnization of his marriage was the first wedding between white people in Trumbull county. His son, John Hutchins, was born in that county in 1812, married Miss Rhoda M. Andrews, and became the father of John Corydon. As a young man he moved from Vienna to Warren, there studying law with Governor Tod and subsequently becoming a member of the firm of Tod, Hoffman & Hutchins. For many years he practiced his profession throughout the Western Reserve, attaining high rank both in his profession and in the. affairs of the state and nation. His valued public service included terms in the Ohio legislature and the congress of the United States, and as a representative in the national body from the district embracing Trumbull and Ashtabula counties he ably guarded his constituents' interests at that critical period in the country's history just before the war of the Rebellion and for some years afterward. John C. Hutchins was born at Warren in 1840, and received his education in the public schools of that place, at Oberlin College and the. Albany Law School. His service as a Union soldier, however, preceded the completion of his professional studies. In the summer of 1861 he became a member of the Second Ohio cavalry, and was successfully promoted to be second lieutenant, first lieutenant and act-. ing captain. A severe accident compelled his resignation in 1863, and upon the restoration of his health he commenced the study of the law in his father's office at Warren. He became a student at the Albany Law School in 1865, in the following year took his degree of bachelor of laws, and was immediately admitted to practice by the New York court of appeals. He then returned to Ohio, was admitted to the bar at Canfield, and commenced practice at Youngstown in partnership with General Sanderson. Locating at Cleveland in 1868, Mr. Hutchins formed a partnership with his father and judge Ingersoll, under the firm name of Hutchins & Ingersoll, subsequently becoming the junior member of John and J. C. HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1459 Hutchins. In 1877 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Cuyahoga county, and after serving his term of two years resumed general practice as a member of the firm of Hutchins, Campbell & Johnson. He began his fine judicial career in 1883 by his election to the bench of the municipal court, and after serving thus four years took up private practice alone. In 1892 he was elected judge of the court of common pleas of Cuyahoga county, but resigned in 1895 to accept the postmaster-ship of Cleveland, retiring therefrom in the fall of 1899 to resume the general practice of his profession, which has not since been interrupted. Quite early in his residence at Cleveland he also became interested and active in various public matters of a municipal nature. At one time he was a member of the board of education and was identified with the public library board for thirteen years, seven of which he was its president. It is needless to say that his professional practice has embraced many of the leading cases which have been brought to trial in both the civil and criminal courts, and that no member of the bar has earned a higher or a broader reputation for successful issues' earned by strictly honorable means. Judge Hutchins, is a man of fine presence and a fluent and forcible speaker, who is much sought on public occasions not connected with the court room. Possessed of a very retentive memory, he has also the pleasing faculty of applying knowledge at the proper time and place. He is a member of the Loyal Legion and in 1897 was elected junior vice-commander of the Ohio commandery, his talents as a speaker and his hearty comradeship making him one of its most prominent and popular members. In short, although a profound lawyer and a deep student of general literature and history, the judge is a most companionable man, and has hosts of warm friends as well as earnest admirers, a considerable class of the latter being those who still survive as the associates of his earnest and ambitious boyhood days in Trumbull county. HOWARD HURON KING, for many years a leader in the agricultural and civic progress of Hiram township, Portage county, inherits his stable and able traits from a fine old Vermont family. It has been assisting to create the history of the township and county since 1836, when the grandfather, John King, started with his children for the wilderness which then held sway over northwestern Pennsylvania and northern Ohio. He had been a lumberman in the Green mountains; was a native of Vermont and had married Celesta Miles at Shaftsbury, Bennington county, that state. As to the origin of the family, it may be added that England was its first authenticated home, and its American forbears were "Mayflower" pilgrims. The good wife of John King died in Vermont, and it was therefore only his children that he loaded into his farm wagon, drawn by a team of sturdy Morgan horses, and started for his far distant destination (as distances were measured in the thirties). The family spent the first night at Troy, New York, its older members being thrown into a panic by the temporary disappearance of young David, then three years of age, whose infantile longing for his Vermont home had prompted him to turn his face and footsteps toward the Green Mountains. But the ambitious baby was captured before he had gone far and the family proceeded westward, crossing the Hudson on a flatboat propelled by Indians, and continuing their land trip through central and western New York and northwestern Pennsylvania to the Western Reserve. Stopping for a short time at Painesville, Lake county, Ohio, the pioneer of the King family drove slowly and carefully through the forests, with deer, wild turkeys and wolves plentiful around him, and after three days of anxious journeying reached his destination in what is now Hiram township, Portage county. The little runaway. David, who had been born in Vermont May 29, 1833, was reared in the locality, with his two brothers, and became so attached to the country that he never evinced a second inclination to wander away, either to his Vermont home or elsewhere. He has become one of the most prosperous farmers and most substantial citizens of the county, being closely and prominently identified with all Grange movements, a Mason of honorable standing and for many years one of the most active and able members of the school board. On the Fourth of July, 1855, he celebrated his marriage with Miss Lucy Jane Everitt, who was born September 25, 1832, daughter of Asa and Nancy (Wintersteen) Everitt. The children of this union are Howard H., of this sketch, and Florence A. King. Howard Huron King was born November 26, 1858, within half a mile of his present homestead in Hiram township, just over the line in Mantua township. After attending dis- 1460 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE trict school near his present home and select school at Mantua Station, he gave his entire attention to his father's farm interests. After his marriage he purchased his present farm and homestead and has since devoted himself to its improvement and to his citizen duties. The latter, in his estimation, include faithful service to the public, as indicated by the wishes of his associates. Like his father, he has long been a member of the school board, the combined service of the two covering half a century, and is also active in the work of the local grange. On November I2, 1889, Mr. King married Miss Corrie V. Mason, daughter of john G. and Emily (Allyn) Mason, of Hiram, this county. Their six children were as follows : Blanche Emily, born December 30, 1890, who died at Hiram October 9, 1901; Hazel Lucy, who was born January 25, 1893.; Ethel Mabel, born February 16, 1895 ; Forrest Mason, born March 21, 1897; Laura May, born May 27, 1900, and Allyn Everitt, born December 12, 1902. All of the foregoing were born on the family homestead now occupied. Mrs. King was born at Hiram March 20, 1858, to the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Mason, which occurred August 7, 1856, at Nelson Lodges, Ohio. Three children were born to this union. Mrs. King's father, who was ,born, at Hiram, in 1832, died at that place April 27, 1902; her mother is still living. Both sides of the family are of English origin and the Allyns were early settlers of Connecticut. The first of the Masons to locate in the Western Reserve was Carnot, the grandfather of Mrs. King, who was one of the pioneers of Hiram. CORNELIUS FISHER.—The late Cornelius Fisher was long a prominent figure in the agricultural progress of southeastern Portage county and was also identified with the stone construction of many of the highways of the locality. He was a faithful and capable worker in whatever he undertook, and his record as a husband, father and citizen is unblemished. Little more can be said to the credit of any American. Mr. Fisher was a native of Palmyra township, Portage county, born July 16, 1831, son of William and Sophia (Simonds) Fisher—the father and mother both being Pennsylvanians. The paternal grandparents were Zachariah and Margaret (McDaniel) Fisher, respectively of Pennsylvania and Virginia, and the maternal grandparents, Nicholas and Susanna (Cackler) Simonds, both of the Keystone state. Grandfather Simonds was the first to drive across the mountains with ox teams and settle in Palmyra township, where he purchased 400 acres of timber land from the Connecticut Land Company. Later the Fisher grandparents traveled by ox team from Pennsylvania and located on a farm adjoining the Simonds family. The next important step in the history of the families was their union through the marriage of William Fisher and Sophia Simonds, and the location of the former on a portion of his father's home place. Their son Cornelius resided with his parents until he was fifteen years of age, when he commenced to work for himself as a farm hand in Ohio and Pennsylvania. He was thus engaged until his marriage in 1853, when he rented a farm in Deerfield township, operated it for a time, and then purchased a portion of his father-in-law's place, which was unimproved. Upon this land he erected a residence and convenient barns and besides working and improving his farm engaged in stone construction work on county highways. In .a word, he was a faithful, industrious man, who never hesitated to assume any kind of work provided it was honorable. In 1865 he disposed of his property in Palmyra township and bought a farm in Paris township, which was his homestead until 1874, when he became. the owner of 107 acres of the old Olmstead homestead, which had then been in possession of his wife's family for sixty-eight years. This, then, became the Fisher homestead, upon which Cornelius died on November 20, 1905. Since his decease his widow has resided with her children in Portage county. On November 6, 1853, Mr. Fisher married Miss Alice Olmstead, who was born in Palmyra township April 14, 1837, and is a daughter of Ebenezer and Laura Ann (Gilbert) Olmstead. Her father was a native of Litchfield county, Connecticut, and her mother, of that township, and of her grandparents, William Sweet Olmstead was a native of New York and Anna (Wanzer) Olmstead was of Litchfield county, Connecticut. The maternal grandparents, Charles, and Amelia. (Batterson) Gilbert, were both natives of Connecticut, and in 1806, when they settled in Palmyra township, they were among the first to locate in 'what was then the wilderness of the Western Reserve. In 1826 the Olmsteads came to Portage county and settled at Rootstown. After living there two years, William S. Olm- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1461 stead bought a tract of more than 300 acres of land, which he skilfully improved and made a homestead until the time of his death. After the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Ebenezer Olmstead the parents ,lived on the old homestead until 1874, when they retired to Ravenna to quietly spend the remainder of their lives ___ the father dying December 8, 1882, and the mother in February, 1897. It was a portion of this fine .old place which Cornelius Fisher purchased in the year of the Olmsteads' retirement to Ravenna. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Fisher, viz : Charles E., a resident of Palmyra township, and Amy E., who married William H. Brode, a Ravenna machinist, and is the mother of Henry C. Stump, a son by a former marriage. EDWARD C. ESSEX, chief of the Lorain fire department and one of the best-known fire chiefs in the state, was born in Penfield township, Lorain county, Ohio, September 26, 1868. He is a son of Simon and Catherine (Lee) Essex ; the father was born in Germany and died in 1875, and the mother, who was born in Wayne county, Ohio, died in 1877. Chief Essex lived on a farm in Penfield township until 1881, attending the district school during the winters. He came to Lorain city and began an apprenticeship as brass finisher and pattern maker with the Joel Hayden Brass Works, and in 1887 removed to Cleveland and there worked at his trade for nine months. Returning to Lorain, he re-entered the employ of the Joel Hayden Brass Works, which was changed to United Brass Company and later to the Lorain Manufacturing Company. He continued with this company thirteen years, and spent three years in business on his own account, as the Essex Manufacturing Company, which he sold to a firm in Detroit, Michigan, and entered the employ of the National Vapor Stove Manufacturing Company, where he remained eight years as tool maker. Chief Essex has been identified with the fire department of Lorain for over twenty-seven years, being an honorary charter member (as he joined before coming of age), and has held the position of chief over fourteen years. In 1906 he devoted his entire attention to the interests of the department, which has since been his sole occupation, and since then has drawn full pay for his services. Under his management the department has been built up from two volunteer companies to seven fire department houses and twenty-three head .of horses, with twenty-one regular firemen and one hundred volunteers. He is a member of the Lorain County Volunteer Firemen's Association, also of the Ohio Fire Chiefs' Association, and of the International Fire Chiefs' Association. He stands high in the estimation of the citizens of Lorain, and his many years' experience in the fire department renders his-services valuable in the capacity in which he serves. He is enterprising and ambitious, and takes an active interest in the cause of progress. Mr. Essex married Jessie B., daughter of Walter S. Rose, born in Lorain, and they have three children, namely : Myrle Edna, Kenneth Malcolm and Catherine Louise. HORACE E. MATTESON.—A man of sterling integrity and worth, possessing eminent business qualifications and, ability, Horace E. Matteson, late of Seville, was for many years intimately associated with the leading interests of this part of Medina county, and was widely known and highly respected. A son of Cyrus Matteson, he was born, October 11, 1826, in Tompkins county, New York, and died in Seville, Ohio, April 25, 1904. Cyrus Matteson, a native of New York state, came with his family to Medina county, Ohio, in 1836, settling in the midst of the green woods. A man of indomitable resolution and perseverance, he cleared over two hundred acres of forest land, improved a good farm, and was there employed in mixed husbandry until his death in 1870, his. homestead in Litchfield township being then one of the best in that part of the county. He married Catherine Maydale, also a native of New York state, and they became the parents of nine children. She survived him a number of years, passing away in 1887. The fourth child born to his parents, Horace E. Matteson received his rudimentary education in the district schools, completing his early studies in the Seville Academy. In his eighteenth year he began teaching and taught several winter terms in the country. When the Ohio Farmers' Insurance Company was organized he became its agent, and had the honor of writing, in 1849, the first application of this old and reliable company. With this company Mr. Matteson was connected for more than four decades, being one of its most popular and successful agents. Taking the agency of Mahoning county in 1865, he was 1462 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE   there engaged in the insurance business for seventeen years, having his headquarters at Seville. Mr. Matteson then engaged in the clothing business, also carrying on merchant tailoring, and built up a very prosperous business, which he conducted until 1887, when he turned it over to his son, Clifford B. Matteson, thenceforward living retired. Mr. Matteson married, in 1852, Mary Hulburt, who was born in Westfield township, Medina county, where her parents, Halsey and Betsey (Moses) Hulburt settled after their marriage in 1831, coming from Litchfield county, Connecticut, to Ohio. Five children were born to the union of Mr. and Mrs. Matteson, namely : Ida M., widow of Loren S. Saner, of Chicago, Illinois ; Charles F. an insurance agent, who succeeded his father, and lives in Youngstown ; Claude L., engaged in the lumber, furniture and undertaking business in Seville ; Clifford, a dry goods and clothing merchant of Seville ; Halsey H., a professor in a Chicago high school ; Mary I., wife of Hollis Wilbur, now of Japan, foreign advisor to the secretaries there of the Young Men's Christian Association ; and David Madole, a prominent dentist of Clinton, Michigan. Mrs. Mary I. Wilbur is a member and the chaplain of the Jonathan Dayton Chapter, D. A. R. Mrs. Matteson, a bright and active woman, with mental faculties undimmed, still occupies the homestead in Seville, and in the substantial frame house in which she has lived so many years delights to entertain her children and grandchildren. She is a woman of gentle and genial ways' and manners and is held in high esteem by a large circle of warm friends and acquaintances. DEREATH R. HOLCOMB.-A skillful and thrifty farmer, keeping well abreast of the times, Dereath R. Holcomb is actively identified with the development and growth of the agricultural interests of Perry township, Lake county, and holds an assured position among its respected and valued citizens. He was born December 18, 1845, in Leroy township, Lake county, a son of Marcus Holcomb. He comes of honored New England ancestry, his grandfather, Joel Holcomb, having been born and bred in Granby, Hartford county, Connecticut. Joel Holcomb, born in 1760, was an ardent patriot and in 1778, when but eighteen years old, enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, for eight months serving under Colonel Samuel Wylly, and was afterward connected with the Connecticut militia during the struggle for independence. He subsequently lived a short time in Massachusetts, from there going to Onondaga county, New York. In 1820, accompanied by his family and the family of his son-in-law, Elisha Patch, he came to Ohio, making the removal with ox teams, his daughters, Fanny and Nancy, walking the entire distance. Purchasing a tract of timbered land in Leroy township, Lake county, he began the improvement of a homestead, laboring with true pioneer grit and courage. He cleared a good farm, on which he spent his last years, dying in 1847. He was a man of influence and prominence, and as one of the participants in the Revolutionary war was buried with military honors, a large concourse of people gathering at his funeral, his body being laid to rest in the Paine Hollow cemetery. He married Sarah Warner, and to them five children were born, as follows : Sally married Elisha Patch, and spent her last years in Leroy township ; Seymour, who served in Brown's army, at Buffalo, during the War of 1812, died in middle life, in Leroy township ; Fanny married James Wright, and died in the same locality ; Nancy married Abel Washburn, and settled in La 'Crosse, Wisconsin, and Marcus. Marcus Holcomb, born April 20, 1802, in Granby, Connecticut, was eighteen years old when he came with the family to Lake county. He was an earnest worker, performing his full share in clearing the parental homestead. He subsequently worked in the old Railroad and Concord furnaces, which he helped build. He was a man of great physical strength, an expert woodsman, and he and his friend, Samuel Taylor, always received extra pay as wood choppers. Buying land in Leroy township, he improved a farm from forest, and lived there until 1852, when he settled on the River road, in Perry township. In 1861 he moved to Painesville, and in 1864 assumed possession of the present Holcomb homestead at Lane village, in Perry township. Here he carried on farming many years, in the meantime selling off all of his land excepting the Lane farm of T0o acres. He died July 24, 1880, after living retired from active pursuits for a few seasons. In his earlier years he was a Whig, but after the formation of the Republican party was one of the supporters of its principles. On February 27, 1833, he married lovisa Brooks, who was born in Bennington, Vermont, in May, 1807, and came in 1815 to Lake county with her father, David. Brooks, who HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1463 settled on the South Ridge road, a mile west of Madison, and there cleared a farm on which he spent the remainder of his life. She died October 29, 1883, and was buried: beside her husband in Painesville cemetery. She reared three children, namely : Delorma, a retired farmer, and merchant, lives in Madison, Ohio ; Lidora, who married Walter Palmer, a merchant in Painesville, died in 1909 ; and Dereath R. In 1864 Dereath R. Holcomb came with his parents to the present homestead, which he managed at first for his father. He labored with energy to improve the land, and has since come into possession of the place. As a general farmer he is carrying on a substantial business, each year raising abundant harvests of the crops common to this region. He has 100 acres of rich and fertile land, with improvements of an excellent character. The house, which is in a good condition, was built by the original owner of the property, Moses Baker. On May 20, 1869, Mr. Holcomb married Emma Champion, a daughter of Joel and Jemima (Gardner) Champion. She died in early life, leaving one child, Frances, wife of L. E. Winchell, of. Painesville, an employe of the American Express Company. Mr. Holcomb married second, April 14, 1897, Lucy. Breed, who was born in Titusville, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Amos Breed, of Perry. township. Politically Mr. Holcomb is a Democrat, but has .never been an aspirant for official honors. WILLIAM KEAN.—A thriving and well-to-do agriculturist of Portage county, William Kean is the owner of a well-appointed and well-managed farm in Deerfield township, where he is numbered among the enterprising and active business men who have so largely contributed towards its. industrial development. A son of Robert and Ann (McArthur) Kean, he was born January 22, 1830, in Sterling-shire, Scotland, where he grew to manhood. From the age of ten years William Kean has been self supporting. Leaving home at that time he worked on various farms, remaining in his native land until 1850, when, with the laudable desire of bettering his condition, he sailed for New York, being thirty-two days in crossing the ocean. Immediately starting westward he came by Canal to Buffalo, thence by a lake boat to Cleveland, from there traveling by stage to Palmyra, Portage county. Vol. III-13 After working out as ,a farm hand for two years, Mr. Kean bought a tract of land in that vicinity, and on his farm of seventy acres was successfully employed in tilling the soil for thirty years. A vein of coal being discovered on his land, he sold it at an advantage to coal operators in 1888. At once locating in Deerfield township, Mr. Kean bought his present estate of eighty acres, and was here actively engaged in agricultural pursuits for nearly a score of years, managing his farm himself. In 1907 he took a trip to Scotland, his old home, and while away was so seriously injured by breaking the ligaments of his right leg as to permanently incapacitate him for manual labor, although his .physical health is otherwise good. Mr. Kean married on June 15, 1851, Catherine Fram, who was born in Edinburghshire, Scotland, and came with her parents, Robert and Agnes (Meek) Fram, to Palmyra, Ohio, where they spent the remainder of their lives, engaged in farming. The golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Kean was fittingly celebrated June 15, 1901.. Mrs. Kean died in March of 1902, leaving no children, and a grand-niece, whose maiden name was Anna Drake, has since lived with Mr. Kean. Miss Drake married, February 18, 1903, William Helsel, and they have three children, Catherine, Thelma and Ralph. Politically Mr. Kean supports the principles of the Republican party by voice and vote, and religiously he is a member of the Presbyterian church. CHARLES W. DAVIS, a well-known citizen. of Lorain, Ohio, and an extensive dealer in real estate, was born on a farm in Harrison county, native of Virginia and the latter of Harrison county, Ohio. The grandfather, Presley Davis, was also a native of Virginia, who came to Coshocton county, Ohio, about 185o. James H. Davis was born in 1844, and his wife in 1845 ; they are living in Harrison county. Her father, Pasco Eslick, was a native of Ohio and a pioneer of Harrison county. Presley Davis served in the Civil war, and died while in service. His son, James H. Davis, served in Company. F, Fifty-first Ohio regiment of volunteer infantry, going out in 1861, when but seventeen years of age, and he returned in 1865. He is a stonecutter by trade, and is now farming on the old homestead, which he owns and which was the birthplace of his wife, also of Charles W., their son. To them three children, were born, as follows: 1464 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE Charles W., Mary Myrtie, who married F. M. Wallace, of Halloway, Ohio, an engineer in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, and Ella Dill, who married Louis Patterson, a school teacher, and resides at Tappan, Harrison county, Ohio. Charles W. Davis was reared on a farm and attended the district school. When about fifteen years of age he removed to Dennison, Ohio, where he remained three years and then lived about five years in Des Moines, Iowa, during which time he was employed as a traveling salesman. In 1898 he located in Lorain, and went to work in the plant of the American Shipbuilding Company, as foreman of the boilermaking department. He left their employ in 1905 and engaged in real estate business on his own account. He has become prominent in local affairs, and served one year in the city council, two years as township trustee, and still serves in the latter capacity. In 1909 he was appointed a member of the board of election by Secretary of State Thompson for a term of two years. He has paid close attention to his business interests, and has attained success in his financial enterprises. He is a man of keen business judgment and is also a public-spirited citizen. Fraternally Mr. Davis is a member of Holman Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the Board of Commerce. In 1897 Mr. Davis married Minnie B., daughter of George and Sarah. (Vermillion) Phillips, born in Harrison county, and to them have been born two children, James Presley and Mary Elizabeth. George Phillips, father of Mrs. Davis, was a farmer and resided in Harrison county, where his death occurred on the farm where he was born. Mrs. Phillips survived her husband three years, and died at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Davis at Lorain. Nine children were born to them, seven of whom are now living, as follows : Melville, McClelland, William, Mary, Martha, Emma, Minnie (who is Mrs. Davis), Oma and Bertha. CALVIN SPERRY.—One of the representative agriculturists and honored citizens of Lorain county is Calvin. Sperry, who is the owner of the fine old homestead farm ,which was the place of his birth and who is a scion of one of the sterling old families of the Western Reserve, with whose history the name has been, identified for nearly a century. Thus there is eminent consistency in according to Mr. Sperry marked consideration in this history, which has to do with the Western Reserve and its people. Calvin Sperry was born in Vermilion township, Erie county, Ohio, on June 20, 1852, and is a son of Philo and Louisa (Williams) Sperry, both natives of the state of New York, where the former was born on June 25, 1815, and the latter on September 7, 1818. Philo Sperry was born at Auburn, Cayuga county, New York, and when he was three years of age, in 1818, his parents, Wheeler and Bettie (Grover) Sperry, came to, Painesville, Ohio, and settled on a farm which is now an integral part of the city of Painesville, where they passed the residue of' their lives. They were persons of the highest integrity and honor, and were well fitted to endure the vicissitudes of the pioneer epoch in this section, where. they lived and labored to .goodly ends and contrib- uted their share to civic and industrial development and upbuilding. Both. Wheeler and Hettie (Grover) Sperry were natives of, the. old Empire state, and the former was born in the vicinity of Auburn, Cayuga county, where he was reared to manhood. Philo Sperry was reared under the conditions and influences of the pioneer days in Painesville,- Lake county, and contributed his quota to the reclamation and other work of the home farm, the while his educational advantages were those afforded in the common schools of the locality and period. In his youth he lekned the trade of iron moulder, at which he was employed for a number of years at the Huron Iron Company furnace, two miles south of Vermilion village, Erie county, where his marriage to. Miss Louisa Williams was solemnized on February 18, 1840. In 1857 he purchased ninety-six acres of land in Vermilion township and an adjoining tract of twenty acres in Brownhelm township. Later he secured an additional thirty acres in Vermilion township, thus becoming the owner of an aggregate of 146 acres of most arable and productive land. He long held prestige as one of the industrious and progressive farmers and stockgrowers of the county, and his well-directed labors resulted in the development of one of the fine farm properties of this favored section of the state. He continued to reside on his homestead until his death, which occurred on May 22, 1890, and no citizen of the county has ever held a more secure place in popular confidence and esteem. There was naught of equivocation or indirectness in his course throughout his long and useful life HISTORY OF THE WESTERN, RESERVE - 1465 and his name merits an enduring place on the roll of the honored pioneer citizens Of Lorain county and of the historic old Western. Reserve. His first wife died on February 24, :1858, at the age of forty years, and he later married Miss Harriet Ball, who was born in Erie county, Ohio, on November 24, 1820, and who is now deceased—died April 22, 1898. Mr. Sperry was a stanch supporter of the cause of the Republican party, with which he united at the time of its organization, and he was a zealous and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as also were both of his wives. Six children were born of the first marriage and two of the second, and con-: cerning them the following brief record is :given : Adelaide, who was born on April 23, 1841 became the wife of Howard Beardsley, and her death occurred in Arkansas City, Kansas, on March 24, 1900; Francis, who was born May 7, 1843, died on March 17, 1872 ; Cornelia, who was born June 19, 1845, became the wife of Louis U. Todd,. of Vermilion, Ohio, where her death occurred on Noveinber 9, 1888 ; Samuel, who was born September 22, 1848, died August 24,1850; Lucina, who was born May 8, 1850, is the wife of Joseph Allen, of Greenwich, Huron county, Ohio, and Calvin, the youngest of the children of the first marriage, is the immediate subject of this sketch ; Hattie G., who was born April 27, 1861, became the wife of Frederick Truxell, of Peru, Ohio, and is now deceased, and Philo B., who was born October 3, 1865, and lived just seventeen days. Calvin Sperry was reared to the sturdy and invigorating discipline of the home farm and continued to be associated in its work and management until the time of his marriage. In the meanwhile he had been afforded excellent educational advantages. After completing the curriculum of the district schools, he continued his studies in a select school, at Berlin Heights, presided over by Professor Job Fish, a popular and successful teacher and one well known in educational circles of this section at that time. Later he attended Oberlin College for one term. After his marriage Mr. Sperry erected a house on the portion of his father's farm located in Brownhelm township, and he has continued to reside on the fine old homestead during the intervening years, marked by worthy accomplishment on his part. After the death of his honored father he purchased the interests of the other heirs, and thus came into possession of the well-improved homestead of 146 acres that has been his place of abode from the time of his birth. All of the farm is located in Vermilion township except the twenty acres in Brownhelm township. . Essentially progressive in the handling of his farm, Mr. Sperry has availed himself of the best modern facilities and has been very. successful in the carrying on of his operations as a . farmer and as a breeder and grower of high-grade cattle, horses, hogs and sheep. He is one of the substantial citizens of his native County; where he commands unqualified confidence and esteem, and he has other capitalistic interests aside from those represented in his valuable farm property. He is associated with his elder son, Philo A., in the mercantile business at Huron; Erie county, where they Shave a well-equipped establishment in which are handled hardware, paints and groceries. The enterprise is conducted under the firm name of P.. A. Sperry & Co., and the son has the active management of the same. As a citizen Mr. Sperry has ever stood exponent of progressive ideas and marked public spirit, and though he has never sought the honors. or emoluments of political office he is, found. arrayed as a stalwart supporter of the cause of the Republican party. 'Both he and his wife hold membership in Brownhelm Grange,. Patrons of Husbandry, in whose affairs they take a deep interest. Both are numbered among the valued and earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Axtel, Ohio, in which he has been a trustee since 1898 and of which Mrs. Sperry has been a steward since 1888. It may be noted that Mr. Sperry's eldest brother, the late Francis Sperry, was a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war. He enlisted in Company K, Twenty-third Ohio volunteer infantry, on May 23, 1861, and continued in the service until the close of the war. He participated in many of the important battles marking the progress of the great internecine: conflict and received his honorable discharge in July,' 1865. As has already been stated in this context, he died in 1872. On May 27, 1875, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Sperry to Miss. Anna Marie Hull,. who was born in Brownhelm township, Lorain county, on December 17, 1854, and who is a daughter of John Adam and Mary Ann (Nuhn) Hull, the former of whom was born at Roken, sess soutra, Hesse-Cassel, Germany, on January 17, 1824, and the latter of whom was 1466 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE born at Erzebach, Germany, on January 15, 1826. John Adam Hull was a son of Adam and Anna Barbara (Holstein) Hull, both of whom were likewise natives of Roken, sess soutra, Hesse-Cassel, Germany, where the former was born on November 8, 1793, and the latter on July 4 of the same year. They came with their children to America in 1836, and in 1838 they took up their residence in Ohio, where the father died on May 20, 1866, and the mother on September 22, 1884. Mrs. Mary A. (Nuhn) Hull was a daughter of Bartol and Catherine Nuhn, both natives of Germany, whence they emigrated to the United States in an early day. Both passed the closing years of their lives in Lorain county, Ohio, where the father died July 16, 1871, at the age of eighty-one years and ten months, and where the mother was summoned to eternal rest on September 5, 1864, at the age of seventy-one years and eight months. Both were earnest Christians and their lives were lived in harmony with the faith they professed. John Adam Hull, who now resides with his daughter, Mrs. Mapes, in the village of Vermilion, Erie county, is in his eighty-sixth year (1910) and is well preserved in both mental and physical faculties. His cherished and devoted wife passed away. on July 14, 1893, and concerning their five children the following data are consistently incorporated in this sketch : Emeline, who was born on September 13, 1851, is the widow of Charles Naegele, and resides in the village of Vermilion, Erie county ; Henry J., who was born February 11, 1853, married Miss Nina Grover, and they reside in Huron, Erie county; Anna Marie is the wife of the subject of this sketch ; John, who was born December 25, 1857, married Miss Anna Englebry and they reside in Brownhelm township, and Anna Catherine, who was born November 9, 1861, is the wife of George Mapes, and they reside in Vermilion. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Sperry are : Louisa Mary, who was born February 19, 1876, was married, on May I, 1895, to Reverend Edgar H. Warner,, who is a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church and who is now pastor of the Brooklyn Memorial church, in the city of Cleveland, Ohio ; Philo Adam, who was born on April 21, 1877, was married, on July 11, 1900, to Miss Alta Cleveland, of Huron, Erie county, where he is now engaged in business, as has already been noted in this sketch, and he and his wife are both members of the Presbyterian church, Huron : Everett Lewis, who was born November 13, 1880, is a mail clerk on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad, resides in the city of Cleveland and is a member of the Methodist church ; Nena Gertrude, who was born April 5, 1882, was married, on May 29, 1906, to Edward G. Cooper, and they reside in the city of Lorain, Ohio, and both are members of the Methodist church at Lorain; Bessie Anna, who was born September 10, 1884, was married on August 19, 1908, to Arthur P. Cook and they reside in the city of Oberlin, Ohio, both being members of the Methodist church at Oberlin, and Ena Grace, who was born on March 27, 1887, and remains at the parental home, is also a member of the Methodist church. The children of Calvin Sperry and his wife are all strong upholders of 'the temperance cause, as are also the sons-in-law. CHARLES MCCLAVE.-Prominent among the foremost agriculturists of Huron county is Charles McClave, of New London, who is living on the farm where his birth occurred June 21, 1859. He is widely known, not only in Olio but throughout the country, for his success in assisting the development and advancement of the poultry industry, which is already enormous in its. proportions, being one of the most important and valuable of any branch of agriculture. He is a son of the late Chester McClave and grandson of James McClave, one of the earlier pioneer settlers of New London. His great-grandfather, William McClave, was born in 1750, of Scotch parentage, and spent his last years in the Genesee valley, New York, dying June 22, 1803. His wife, Maria, born in 1752, died June 3, 1828. She was the mother of ten children, namely : John ; Esther, who died in infancy ; Mary, Michael H., Charles, Esther, James, Catherine, Elizabeth and Margaret. James McClave was born in 1785 in York, Livingston county, New York. Reared on a farm, he followed agricultural pursuits in .his native state until 1831, when, wishing to take advantage of cheaper lands on the frontier, he started with his family westward. Packing all of his worldly goods into two wagons, drawn by four horses, and his family into a one-horse wagon, he traveled for two weeks, camping and cooking by the wayside, oftentimes following a trail marked by blazed trees. This whole section of country was then a wilderness, through which the wild beasts roamed at will, HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1467 their only human companions being the dusky. Indians, who had not yet fled before the advancing steps of civilization. He bought one hundred and seventy-five acres of land one mile south of New London, Huron county. There were three log houses on the place and small patches of land had been cleared, the remainder of the tract being a dense forest. There were then no roads in the township, but beside the trail there was a well with a sweep, which' was used to draw the water, and later, when the road was laid out, it covered the well. The family lived in one of the log cabins until Mr. McClave cut and hewed timber to build a frame house, which is still the family home, being now occupied by one of his granddaughters and her mother. For many years the lake towns were the nearest markets, everything being transported by teams. Mr.. McClave devoted his time to clearing his land and tilling the soil, being quite successful. After the death of his wife he spent a part of his time in Michigan with a son, and died there in 1867. His body was brought back here for burial beside that of his wife. The maiden name of the wife of James McClave was Polly Rickitson, who was born in Livingston county, New York, and died in New London, Ohio, February 28, 1858. To her and her husband nine' children were born, namely : Julia Ann ; William ; John ; Michael H. ; Ransom ; James ; Chester ; Charles ; and a son, a twin brother of Charles, who died in infancy. Chester McClave was born, December 19, 1825, in the town of York, Livingston county,. New. York, and as a child of five years came With his parents to Huron county. Growing up in New London, on the home farm, he assisted his father in its improvement as soon as he was old enough, and after the death of his parents bought the interests of the remaining heirs on the old homestead. Here he continued as a tiller of the soil until his death, December 12, 1893: He married, in 1856, Matilda White, who was born in Ruggles, in what is now Ashland county, Ohio, a daughter of Robert White. Her grandfather, Charles White, who married Sarah Washburn, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and for his' services therein was awarded a tract of land in New York state, and the land is now occupied by one of his descendants. Robert White was born near Seneca Falls, New York, living there until after his marriage. Coming then with his family to Ohio, he settled in that part of Ruggles now included in Ashland county, buying a tract of land there. He followed farming to some extent, but worked at his trade of a tailor most of the time. About 1840 he visited in Michigan, and on the return trip, while crossing the Maumee river, broke through' the ice and was drowned. His wife, Charity. Daen, was born in Cayuga County. She survived him many years, dying at the McClave homestead, at the age of eighty-six years. Mr. and Mrs. Chester McClaire reared two children, namely : Ida Maria, residing with her mother on the homestead, and Charles Robert. Educated in the public schools, Charles McClave began when young to assist in the care of the home farm, while thin employed developing' what seemed an inherent love 0f poultry and birds. When fourteen years old he purchased four Plymouth Rock chickens and embarked in the poultry business, being the second Ohioan to engage in the business on an extensive scale. Beginning on a modest capital, he gradually enlarged his operations and has now one of the largest poultry yards in. the United States. Mr. McClave has handled seventy-five distinct breeds of poultry, and has exhibited his stock at various large fairs, expositions and poultry exhibitions, and can, without any doubt, show more ribbons and awards than any other poultry breeder. At the St. Louis Exposition he was awarded seventy-six ribbons, and for good will and services rendered has a bronze medal presented him by the president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. At the World's Fair, held in Chicago in 1893, Mr. McClave was awarded sixty-five ribbons, and at the Pan-American Exposition received sixty-seven ribbons. He has twenty-five large pieces of silver received as special prizes, and a gold medal won at Syracuse, New York, for the best display of poultry, also many other gold, silver and bronze medals. Mr. McClave has exhibited his stock in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Hagerstown, Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cleveland, Columbus, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Toronto. In October, 1892, Charles McClave received the appointment as superintendent and purchasing agent by the World's Columbian Exposition of water fowl for the lagoons and waterways of the World's Fair grounds. On March I, 1903, Mr. McClave went to Chicago and began the 'work of collecting and placing on the waters the six hundred head of domestic and foreign water fowl which were purchased in Europe and America. This collection in- 1468 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE cluded many rare varieties of European and Australian swan, Southern pelicans, European widgeon, wild and domestic varieties of both geese and ducks and other rare water fowl. These water fowl were for ornamental purposes and to enliven the waterways of the Columbian Exposition. Thousands of people who visited the exposition during 1903 will remember the water fowl, which was .the largest collection ever placed on the waters of any of our world's fairs or expositions. Mr. McClave had entire charge of this department during the exposition and sale of the same after the close For more than twenty years Mr. McClave has been one of the leading expert poultry judges of the United States. His entire time during the poultry exhibition season is taken judging at the leading poultry shows all over the country from New York to San Francisco and from Washington, District of Columbia, to Portland, Oregon. So great are his services sought for in this line of work that his engagements are made one year and more in advance for his entire time during the show season. He holds a license from the American Poultry Association to judge all standard varieties of chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks. He devotes twenty-five acres of his large farm to poultry, having the largest and best equipped poultry yards in the country. At the time of his marriage he built a house on the homestead, near the one in which he was born so that his entire life has been spent on the home farm. Mr. McClave married, in 1884, Nettie Beattie. She was born in Butler, Richland county, Ohio, a daughter of John 'and Isabella (Thom) Beattie, natives of Aberdeen, Scotland. She died April 12, 1894, leaving two children, Carey B. and Maude. Mr. McClave married second, in October, 1896, Lucy Copland, who was also born in Butler, Ohio. Her father, Samuel Copland, was a native of Aberdeen, .Scotland, and married Mary. Dancer, who was born in Butler township, Ohio, a daughter of Jesse Dancer. Mr. Dancer was born in Steubenville, Ohio, of German parents. He married Rachel Wright, who was born in Maryland and came with her parents to Ohio, the removal being made with ox teams. The journey through the wilderness was a hard one, the path being at times followed by means of blazed trees. By his second marriage Mr. McClave has two children also, namely : Charles Howard and Eugene Woodburn. Mr. McClave is a man of recognized financial and executive ability, and was one of the organizers of the Savings and Loan Banking Company, of New London, of which he was made the first vice-president and in January, 1909, was elected president of the institution. He is an ex-president of the American Poultry Association and president of the Ohio branch of that organization. He is a steadfast Republican in politics, and for nine years. served as township trustee. He is active in the party, and has been a delegate to numerous county arid state conventions. Mrs. McClave is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, toward the support of which they contribute generously. THADDEUS F. WOODMAN, one of Youngs-town's prominent business men, is a native of the Empire state, and when an infant of a year was brought by his parents to Ohio. He came to Youngstown in 1869 and engaged in the mercantile business until ,1888, when he moved to Chicago and became secretary and treasurer of the Lakeside Nail Company, whose plant was located at Hammond, Indiana. Later Mr. Woodman became president of that concern, but in 1903 sold his interests and returned to Youngstown, Ohio. He is a director of the Mahoning National Bank, the Ohio Iron & Steel Company, Orient Coke Company, Tide Water Coal Company and other corporations. Mr. Woodman is a member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, the Youngstown Club and the Mahoning Golf Club, and is a social favorite as well as a successful and honorable man of business. ANTHONY B. CALVIN.—One of the distinguished jurists practicing at the bar of Youngstown is found in the person of Anthony B. Calvin, for five years the judge of the criminal court. He is a native son 0f Ohio, born at Greenford, in Mahoning county, on the 13th of March, 1877, to the marriage union of. Luther B. and Leah (Wisler) Calvin. The paternal family were among the pioneers of Mahoning county, while the Wislers were early settlers of Columbiana county and were farming people. The boyhood days of Anthony B. Calvin were passed on his father's farm in Green township, Mahoning county, attending meanwhile the district schools and later the high school; and this training was supplemented by attendance at the Northeastern Ohio Normal College at Canfield, from which he was graduated in 1897 with the degree of Bachelor of HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1469 Arts. With this splendid training to serve as a foundation he began reading law with the Hon. J. R. Johnston, a prominent lawyer of Youngstown, who had retired from the common pleas bench, and he completed his legal training in the State University at Columbus and graduated from its law department in June, 1900, receiving the degree of LL. B. He was admitted before the supreme court at Columbus in the same year, 1900, and returning then to Youngstown he formed a partnership with Judge J. R. Johnston, and this relationship continued until Mr. Calvin in 1905 became the judge of the criminal court. He remained the incumbent of that office until January, Iw0, a period of five years, at which time he was not a candidate for re-election and he resumed his law practice. He was a member of the city council for two terms, four years in all, and during that time he was the vice-president of the body and assisted in carrying out several important improvements. Mr. Calvin has attained prestige and success at the bench and bar of Youngstown and has been identified with many interests which have subserved the material prosperity of his city. He is a member of the Masons, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Knights of Pythias and Elks fraternities, is a member of the board of trustees of the Northeastern Ohio Normal College and in politics is a Republican. His present law office in the New Wick building is well equipped for a thorough and successful law practice. Mr. Calvin on the 9th of September, 1908, married Miss Fern U. Umstead, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Umstead, well-to-do people of North Jackson, Ohio. Mrs. Calvin was educated at Wooster, Ohio, and is a woman of strong personality and captivating manner. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin reside at 1904 Market street, Youngstown, Ohio. LUCIUS E. COCHRAN.—Holding a conspicuous position among the foremost men of the Western Reserve is Lucius E. Cochran, whose official connection with many of the more important business interests of Youngstown renders him eminently worthy of the title of a "captain of industry." He is a man of strong personality, forceful and practical, and his judgment is relied upon and his utterances have weight in those circles where the material progress of the city is concerned. A son of Robert and Nancy (Humason) Cochran, who reared four sons and three daughters, he was born, June 12, 1842, in Delaware county, Ohio, but was brought up in Logan county, where his father was for many years engaged in agricultural pursuits. His grandfather, George H. Cochran, was a pioneer settler of Trumbull county, Ohio. A merchant by occupation, he began his career in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, but in 1816 came to the Western Reserve, and for many years was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Vienna, where he operated a general store. To him and his wife six children were born and reared. After leaving the district schools, Lucius E. Cochran completed his studies at a commercial school in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he subsequently began life on his own account as clerk in a general store. Coming from there to Youngstown, Ohio, Mr. Cochran, in 1862, became bookkeeper for the firm of Andrews & Hitchcock, continuing thus employed until 1867, when he became a member of the mercantile firm of Andrews Brothers & Company, of Haselton, a suburb of Youngstown. In 1880 three large firms, Andrews Brothers, Andrews Brothers & Company and the Niles Iron Company, were merged into a corporation under the name of the Andrews Brothers Company, and Mr. Cochran had the distinction of being elected president and treasurer of this large business combination. This position, which involves immense personal responsibility, he has since filled most satisfactorily, and in addition has been officially connected with various other corporations of great importance. For some time he was president of both the Youngstown Car Manufacturing Company and the Youngstown Bridge Company, and is now president of the Youngstown Iron and Steel Roofing Company, of the Youngstown Pressed Steel Company, of the Mahoning Motor Car Company, of the G. M. McKelvey Company, of the Edwin Bell Company, a cooperage firm of which he was one of the founders, and of the Mahoning Valley Water Company. Mr. Cochran is likewise vice-president of the Commercial National Bank and of the Morris Hardware Company ; a director of the Youngstown Carriage and Wagon Company, a director of the Ohio Steel Company, of which he was a founder; a director of the Pittsburg, Cleveland and Toledo Railway Company, and was an originator of both the Mahoning & Shenango Dock Company and of the Mahoning Ore Company, which he formerly served as vice-president. Mr. Cochran, it is needless to say, has reached his high position in busi- 1470 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE ness circles by his own efforts, his natural aptitude and business genius winning him a high place in the world of manufacture and finance. Mr. Cochran married, in 1868, Mary Isabella Brownlee, daughter of John and Leah (Powers) Brownlee, and into their home two children have been born, namely : Robert B., deceased, and Chauncey A. Chauncey A. Cochran, inheriting much of the business ability and tact of his father, is now secretary of the Youngstown Iron and Steel Roofing Company, and also of the Youngstown Pressed Steel Company. He married Sarah E. Davis, daughter of the late John R. Davis, of Youngstown, and they have a pleasant home at No. 680 Bryson street, Youngstown. Politically Mr. Cochran is a straightforward Republican, and during his residence at Haselton served twenty-two years as postmaster, being first appointed to the position by President Grant. Fraternally he stands high in Masonic circles, having taken. the thirty-third degree. Religiously both Mr.. and Mrs. Cochran are valued members of the Memorial Presbyterian church of Youngstown.   JAMES MARVIN is prominently numbered among the agriculturists of Ashtabula county, and he was born in this county, a half a mile south of Andover Center, on the 16th of March, 1824, a son of Sylvanus and Fear (Smith) Marvin, both from Sandersfield, Massachusetts. The Marvin family came to this state with ox teams during an early period in its history, rand their first home was located a little farther south than the birthplace of James. Sylvanus, Sr., the grandfather of James, died when the latter was a boy of sixteen. Three of his sons, Sylvanus, Jr., Daniel and Lyman, raised families in Andover ; but Daniel finally moved to Michigan, and Lyman disappeared and no trace of him was ever found. His two children still live in Andover. Sylvanus Marvin, Jr., at the time of his marriage located on the farm which became the birthplace of his son James, afterward clearing the land and placing it under a good state of cultivation. He stated out for himself at the age of twenty-one, with an ax as his worldly possession, and he was obliged to borrow the suit of clothes in which he was married. He bought thirty acres of land here, but, unable to obtain work, he went to Virginia and secured employment in a new canal then being built, and in this way made enough money to pay for his land. He then moved into a log cabin, and with the passing years he added to his land possessions until he became the owner of 1,40o acres, and he was also quite extensively engaged in the raising of cattle. He died on his farm home in 1874, when he had attained the age of seventy-four years, and his wife passed away at the age of sixty-five. They had five children, but two died in childhood, and the three who reached mature years are : James ; Jeanette; the widow of George Brooks and a resident of Cleveland ; and Mary Jane, who married Derias Sweet and died at the age of seventy. When he had reached the age of twenty-one James Marvin took charge of a branch store at Espyville belonging to his cousin, Mars Cotton, and himself. But the branch store not proving successful, Mr. Marvin returned to the farm, which .he worked in partnership with his father, and in this way paid off the indebtedness incurred while in charge of the store, amounting to about $1,200 ; and this association between father and son was continued for about nineteen years. Later the son received title to the farm, his share amounting to about 800 acres out of the original 1,400 acres, and he now owns over 1,100 acres. His home farm contains 150 acres, splendidly improved, and he is quite extensively engaged in the stock business, buying young cattle and feeding for the market. He is engaged in both general farming and dairying, and his farm is splendidly improved for both purposes, including silos, feed grinders and other conveniences. At the age of twenty-five, Mr. Marvin was married to Mary E. Lynn, from Espyville, Pennsylvania, his marriage occurring after he left the store there, and the wife died in May. of 1903, after many years of happy married life. They became the parents of four children, namely : Lydia Sylvania, the wife of William Brown, a carpenter in Andover ; Edna, the wife of Homer French, a liveryman in that city ; Clinton J., a farmer, of Andover ; and George L., on the home farm. He married Chloe Campbell and they have a son, James Wendel Marvin, aged five years. Mr. Marvin, of this review, attended the Universalist church in former years, but in later years his religious home has been with the Methodists, and he has served his church as .a trustee and contributed largely to the building of the new house of worship. He has always been a Republican since the organization of HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1471 that party, but voted with the Whig party before that. HOWARD B. HILLS, M. D.—Occupying his proper place among the leading physicians and surgeons of Mahoning county is Howard B. Hills, M. D., ear, eye, nose and throat specialist, of Youngstown. A son of the late Townsend Hills, he was born, June 29, 1849, in Cincinnati, of New England ancestry. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Townsend Hills came with his parents to Hamilton county, Ohio, in 1816, a lad of eight years, his birth having occurred in 1808. Educated in the pioneer schools of that county, he subsequently engaged in business for himself in Cincinnati, and became one of the prominent manufacturers of that city, likewise identifying himself with other prominent industries. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Cochran, survives him, arid now, in the eighty-seventh year of her age, is living in Plainfield, New Jersey. Having completed his education in Cincinnati, Howard B. Hills read medicine, and in 1888 was graduated from the Pulte Medical College at Cincinnati. There, after spending two years in a hospital, he began the practice of his profession. In 1891 Dr. Hills located in Youngstown. In 1881 he married Alice S., the daughter of George A. and Fidelia C. Smith, of Cincinnati. Doctor and Mrs. Hills have two children, namely : George T., an artist in New York city, and Harry C., junior member of the law firm of Williams & Hills, of Youngstown. The Doctor is a member of the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Mahoning County Medical Society, National Association of United States Pension Examining Surgeons, United States Pension Examining Board, and fraternally he is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Both he and Mrs. Hills are members of St. John's, Episcopal church. JAMES WILBERT DEETRICK, the generl Superintendent of the Republic Iron and Steel Company, one of the Splendid industrial concerns lending prestige to the city of Youngstown, Mahoning county, is to be consistently designated as one of the representative business men of this city, where he has won advancement through his. own ability and well, directed energies. Mr. Deetrick is a scion of one of the old and honored families of Pennsylvania and the lineage is traced back to stanch Holland Dutch origin. The name which he bears has been identified with the annals of the old Keystone state since the colonial epoch of our national history, and he himself finds a due measure of gratification in referring to that fine old commonwealth as the place of his nativity. He was born at Middlesex, Butler county, Pennsylvania, in November, 1870, and is a son of Dr. John and Elizabeth M. (Parks) Deetrick, the former of whom was born in Allegheny county, that state, on the 7th of March, 1844, and the latter of whom was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, on the 5th of April, 1848. Dr. John Deetrick; long honored as one of the able representatives of the medical profession in the city of Youngstown, was afforded the advantages of the schools of the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,, and after completing the curriculum of the high school he began the study of medicine under the able preceptorship of Dr. Thomas C. Wallace, of Allegheny, that state. Later he completed a course in the Homeopathic Medical College in St. Louis, Missouri, from which institution he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine in .1870. Later he completed a thorough post-graduate course in the Hahnemann Homeopathic Medical College in the city of Chicago, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1878. In 1882 Dr. Deetrick took up his residence in Youngstown, Ohio, where he continued in practice until his demise and where he gained marked precedence as one of the able physicians and surgeons of the Western Reserve. He was a man of fine intellectual and professional attainments, was a frequent and valued contributor to leading medical periodicals, and his sterling attributes of character gained to him the inviolable confidence and esteem of all classes and conditions of men. He was a loyal and public-spirited citizen, was a stanch advocate of the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor, and both he and his wife were earnest and zealous members of the Presbyterian church. On the 8th of November, 1869, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Deetrick to Miss Elizabeth M. Parks, of Butler county, Pennsylvania. She was one of the seven children of the late James Parks, whose death occurred in 1890. Dr. and Mrs. Deetrick became the parents of two children, of whom the, subject 1472 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE of this review is the elder ; Anna Viola is now the wife Of William M. Duncan and resides in Cleveland. Dr. Deetrick, after a life of signal usefulness and honor, passed to his reward on the 12th of June, 1907. James W. Deetrick secured his rudimentary education in the public schools, and was about twelve years of .age at the time of the family removal to Youngstown, Ohio, where he was reared to maturity and where he continued his educational work until he had completed the curriculum of the high school, besides which he had the gracious environment and influences of a home of distinctive culture and refinement. At the age of twenty years Mr. Deetrick entered the employ of the Youngstown Steel Company, with which he continued to be thus identified until 1895, in the autumn of which year he secured a position with the Mahoning Valley Iron Company, for which he became chemist, having received thorough. and practical training in this important department of the work. He continued in the employ of that company until 1899, when there came further and merited recognition of his technical and executive ability, in that he was tendered the position of superintendent of the extensive plant of the Republic Iron and Steel Company, of which responsible office he has since continued the efficient, zealous and valeued incumbent. The plants over which he is placed in charge are located in Youngstown, New Castle and Sharon, Pennsylvania, and Birmingham, Alabama, and employment is given to an average of six thousand men. The principal products of this great manufacturing, institution are merchant bars, and the corporation has many other plants in addition to the ones in Youngstown. In politics Mr. Deetrick is found arrayed as a stalwart supporter of the cause of the Republican party ; he is affiliated with Youngstown Lodge, No. 55, Benevolent nd Protective Order of Elks, and he and his wife are members of the Episcopal church. On the 27th of August, 1897, Mr. Deetrick was united in marriage to Miss Mildred G. Ward, daughter of James D. Ward, of Niles, this state, and they have two children—Alice E. and John W. THE VINDICATOR, YOUNGSTOWN.—Conspicuous among the leading journals of Ohio stands the Vindicator, the always Democratic Vindicator, which from a small beginning in July of 1869 is today one of the best known papers in the entire state. Though in existence fewer than forty years it has had an eventful history. Beginning its career in the name of the Mahoning Vindicator, . it was organized and put into operation by J. H. Odell, now deceased. After the little paper had been in existence about six months Mark Sharkey became associated with Mr. Odell, but retired in August of 1870, While Mr. Odell retired from the paper in September of 1873 and was succeeded by 0. P. Wharton, an old compositor in the office. Next Mr. Odell and William A. Edwards bought the paper, Mr. Odell taking editorial charge in April, 1874, but in February. of 1875 the plant was purchased by S. L. Everett. Colonel W. L. Brown, noted in New York journalism and politics but now numbered with the dead, purchased the paper from Mr. Everett in July, 1875, and continued its publication until succeeded by the Hon. Charles N. Vallandigham and John H. Clarke in April, 188o, 0. P. Shaffer and 0. P. Wharton continuing on the editorial staff during Colonel Brown's management. Judge L. D. Thoman purchased the Hon. Vallandigham's interest in April of 1.881, subsequent to which the paper was published and edited by Thoman and Clarke until they sold out to Dr. Thomas Patton, who came from Newark to Youngstown and alone conducted the business and penned the editorials. For a brief period the paper was in the hands of J. A. Caldwell, who with Charles Underwood also issued an experimental daily. It was after the death of Dr. Patton that the Hon. William F. Maag, one of the representative journalists of Ohio, bought the plant at the administrator's sale in November, 1887. Very soon after this Mr. Maag formed a partnership with John M. Webb, a Democratic journalist of the old school, and the firm of Webb & Maag was later succeeded by The Vindicator Printing Com pany, organized September 3, 1889, with a capital of twenty thousand dollars and with the following. officers : President, John M Webb vice-president; E. M. Wilson ; secretary, John H. Clarke, and treasurer and general manager, William F. Maag. The first regular daily Vindicator, a folio, was published September 23, 1889. Mr. Webb was the managing editor, William B. Dawson was associate editor and Mr. Maag was then, as ever since, the head of the business department. Mr. Webb died on the 21st of February, 1893, a short time before the block now HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1473 occupied by the paper was completed, and his funeral services, attended by a large concourse of acquaintances and friends, were conducted in the incompleted building. Mr. Webb's immediate successor. was C. H. Wayne, and he in turn was succeeded as editor-in-chief by William B. Dawson, who died. in 1903,, the editorial chair then being taken by F. A. Doug.. las, by whom it is still retained. The first notable step in advance in business was made in 1893. On the 1st of May of that year the Vindicator plant, with new equipment, including an eight-page perfecting press, published the first issue of the paper in the new building, the southwest corner of Boardman and Phelps streets, a substantial three and a half story structure of brick and stone, and from then until now the Vindicator has made rapid . progress and was among the first to install Mergenthaler linotypes, of which it now has eight, and among them machines provided with the very latest improvements. About five years. ago the eight-page perfecting press was superseded by the most modern twenty-four page perfecting color-printing and folding machine, with a capacity of twenty-four thousand folded papers in an hour. There are semi-weekly, Sunday and daily editions, the daily being a paper of never fewer . than twelve pages, frequently sixteen and at least on one day—Friday--twenty-four; there are thirty-two pages in the Sunday issue. These facts indicate the metropolitan character of the paper. This- journal in business enterprise and influence is surpassed by no other paper in a city the size of Youngstown. The officers of .The Vindicator Printing Company are : John H. Clarke, president; William F. Maag, Jr., vice-president ; Henry. W. Smith, secretary, and William F. Maag, treasurer and general manager.. In the Vindicator Block and controlled by the Vindicator Printing Company are .an up-to-date job department, a book bindery, the Arc Engraving Company and the Vindicator with its semi-weekly, daily and Sunday editions. To house all these a four-story addition, doubling the floor space in the original building, has just been erected. In fourteen years Youngstown has made, remarkable progress in many directions and in a large number of enterprises, but in none has progress been more uniform, more rapid and more conspicuous than in the concerns controlled by The Vindicator Printing Company. William Frederick Maag, manager of the Youngstown Vindicator, was born in Ebingen, in the state of Wurtemburg, southern Germany, February 28, 1850. He attended the Ebingen schools, and at the age of fourteen was apprenticed to a printer ; the full term of apprenticeship was four years, but he left at the end of three years to come to America. In 1867, directly after his arrival in the United States, he went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he secured a place on a German paper, the Daily Herold. Shortly afterward he went to Watertown, Wisconsin, which had become the home of a great many Germans, and while employed on a paper there he met Miss Elizabeth Ducasse, who in 1872 became his wife. In 1875, after four years with the Indiana Staats-Zeitung in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Mr. Maag came to Youngstown, which has ever since been his home. Upon his arrival he bought the Youngstown Rundschau, a weekly German newspaper which he still conducts. Until 1887 his experience had been only in the German field, but the Youngstown Vindicator being for sale in that year he bought it, published it for a year by himself and then entered into partnership with the late John M. Webb, Mr. Webb acting as editor and Mr. Maag having charge of the business side. A year later, in 1889, Mr. Maag undertook the publication of the Daily Vindicator and organized the stock company of which he has from the beginning been business manager and treasurer. Though actively interested in the affairs of the city he did not hold political office until 1901, when he was nominated by the Democratic party for state representative and was elected by the substantial majority of 643, though the remainder of the ticket was Republican. He served but one term. His chief care has always been the Vindicator, which under his direction has become one of the leading papers of the state. RUNDSCHAU, YOUNGSTOWN.—For a third of a century the Youngstown Rundschau has been the only German newspaper published in the territory between Cleveland and Pittsburg, and during all but one year of that time it has been under the same control. Established in the summer of 1874 by Henry Gentz, the Rundschau appeared for the first time on August 1 of that year, with Rudolph Wilbrandt as editor and manager. In July of the next year William F. Maag bought it, the first issue under his charge coming out just twelve months after the initial number. The paper 1474 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE was then a small folio with sheets about half the present size, but two years later the number of pages was doubled, and as time went on and circulation and interest in the paper grew with the coming of more Germans to this territory the size was gradually increased until after being issued every week for thirty-three years it now contains sixteen pages of the regular newspaper size. It is set almost wholly by machine. Since Mr. Maag took over the Vindicator the two papers have had offices together. The aim of the Rundschau is to give. all the important general and local news of the week, to print weekly letters from various parts of Germany and from places in the vicinity of Youngstown and to publish good and entertaining literature. In politics it is independent. In its editorial charge have been found the well-known names of Fred Riederer, Gustav Schill, Emil Braun, A. Sparkuhl, Frederick Oertly, Otto Glus, Theodore Schuele and the present editor, Theodore Lange. William F. Maag has been the manager since the paper came into his possession. The Rundschaw has attained to considerable influence through being the only German paper in the territory where large numbers of Germans .have settled, but its greatest service has probably consisted in maintaining among the Germans- in this country interest in the language and thought and customs of he Fatherland. COLONEL GEORGE TURNER, of Geneva, Ashtabula county, was born in Montville, Connecticut, August 12, 1794, and came to the New Connecticut, or Western Reserve, about the year 1820-21,, locating at Jefferson, the seat Of the newly erected county of Ashtabula. He was a young man of charming manners and personal appearance, and was accomplished in music, penmanship and drawing. While a. resident of Jefferson he assisted Quintus F. Atkins in the auditor's office, and while discharging the duties of deputy auditor surveyed and prepared a set of township maps; which are preserved in the archives of the county and are beautiful specimens of his handicraft. In January, 1822, he married Emily, the eldest daughter of Quintus F. Atkins. Previously he had purchased of his father-in-law a farm located at the north and south of Indian creek, now become famous as the possible outlet of the projected Lake Erie canal. To this remote spot he brought his young wife and here he made his home for more than forty years, and reared sons and daughters ; here also they dispensed that open hospitality for which their home was noted, and here centered much of the social life of that sparsely settled locality. Mr. Turner received his title by being appointed colonel of the First regiment of state militia, and the writer well remembers the elaborate uniform, with epaulets and cocked hat, with sword and sash, that was worn by Colonel Turner and donned only for general training days. He always retained the title, although he took no part in the training for several years before the militia was merged into the "National Guards." Mr. Turner was a skilled mechanic and a man of inventive genius. Quick to observe the natural resources at his command, he soon set to work to utilize the advantages offered by the little stream which watered his farm. By building a dam he created a large, deep pond, and about 1825 he erected the first saw mill in this part of the county. This offered to the widely scattered settlers the possession of greater comforts and luxuries unknown before. The forests began to fall away before the woodman's ax, and framed houses and barns took the place of the universal log cabin ; new settlers came with growing families ; schools and churches were installed, and life began to grow in interest throughout the wilderness bordering on the lake shore. The products of this mill not needed in making homes, together with great quantities of cordwood, were drawn to the bank of the lake and loaded by flat-boats onto sailing vessels. These in fair weather anchored near the shore to receive their cargoes. It was a busy life on these occasions, and day and night the work went on until the loading was completed ; or perhaps a sudden storm interrupted the work and the sailing vessels betook themselves to deeper water, to return when the storm was over. To aid this traffic and also in the stone and limestone trade, which was: growing around the islands in Sandusky Bay, Mr. Turner, in company with Makepeace Fitch, who also owned a landing or shipping place, built a boat of thirty tons burthen, near the mill, called the "Geneva," and launched it into the creek. The floodgates of the mill were opened and with the aid of neighbors and many yoke of. oxen it was drawn to deeper water at the mouth of the creek, where it was fitted with a mast and sails. While only a sloop, it was a brave little vessel and HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1475 did valiant and profitable service for its owners. This was undoubtedly the first boat built for commercial purposes on the shores of Lake Erie, in Geneva, but not by any means the last. Mr. Turner's two sons, Horatio and Matthew, were growing to manhood and each was learning the art of seamanship on the Great Lakes and looking forward to something more than the command of a sloop. About 1845 a new mill was built in a more accessible location. The old dam was strengthened and raised ; a canal or race was built from the pond to the new mill, and new machinery and, later, a gang saw and steam power were added—the first in the county. Now all kinds of building material are made, even ship planking and timbers, lath and shingles. In all of these improvements Colonel Turner was the busy and energetic promoter. In 1846-7, in partnership with Eleakim Roberts, a capitalist, and James Mills, a merchant, both of Unionville, he built a schooner named the "Philena Mills." She was laid on the flats east of the mouth of Indian creek, where there was then ample room for sheds and vessel, tut which was years ago claimed by the encroaching waters of the lake: This was a vessel of 270 tons burthen and then one of the largest sailing vessels on the lakes. Mr. Turner's oldest son, Horatio, commanded this vessel, and in later years commanded a ship owned by himself and brother, sailing from San Francisco to the Sandwich and Society islands. The following year another vessel was built on the same spot, named the "George R. Roberts," and financed by Colonel Turner and Lemuel Barber, of Chicago, formerly of Unionville. The "Roberts" was modeled and rigged under direction of Matthew, Mr. Turner's second son, who had original ideas of construction, and she proved one of the fastest and safest sailing vessels afloat. Matthew sailed her as captain until the close of the season of 1849, when, being seized by the California gold fever, he left the lakes for the mines. In time he owned ships of his own, sailing to nearly all the ports of commercial importance in the world, and on a trip from Amur river he brought to San Francisco the first cargo of codfish to reach that port, and thus directed attention to the possibilities of trade with the Asiatic coast. Later Captain Turner established shipyards at Benecia, on San Francisco bay, where he became famous as a builder of fast sailing yachts and coast trading vessels. His elder brother was associated with him, and thus they carried on the line of work on the Pacific coast that their father had begun on the. Atlantic and on the shores of the great inland seas. These brothers lived in San Francisco from its very beginning, and died there in the years 1906 and 1909, respectively. In all, 228 seagoing vessels were designed, modeled and built by Captain Turner between the years 1868 and 1905. Colonel Turner continued his business on the lake shore until 1853-4, when he left his farm, which he afterward sold, and removed to the village of Geneva, where he spent the remaining years of his life. When' eighty-eight years of age he visited his sons in California and made a sea voyage with his son Horatio to Honolulu, and was said to have been the oldest white man to have visited the Sandwich islands. After a winter spent in San Francisco he longed to return to his old home, which he did, much changed in health and vigor. From that time his strength and faculties declined until his death, June 18, 1884. Mr. Turner's genial disposition endeared him to all who knew him. He was widely known for his adventurous spirit, his intelligence and generosity. He sought no notoriety, but was of all men most modest in his pretentions. In this respect his sons were like him. He was also distinguished by some oddities of speech and manner which became memorable reminiscences of his character, but he was never known to do an unkind act to any. person. In passing he left sons and daughters and many grandchildren who are filling useful and responsible positions. Only one grandchild bears his name,. Captain Louis H. Turner, of San Francisco. CHARLES F. MATTESON is the well-known agent of the Ohio Farmers' Insurance Company. During the twenty-five years which cover the period of his residence in Youngstown he has become widely known to its citizens and those of Mahoning county, and he enjoys an enviable position in the business circles. He was born in the village of Seville in Medina county, Ohio, June 21,, 1856, the eldest son of Horace E. and Mary (Hulburt) Matteson. Horace Matteson, born in the year of 1826, was the first business representative of the Ohio Farmers' Insurance Company, he having continued as their agent from 1848 until 1881, and in the latter year he turned over the business to his successor, his son Charles. Mrs. Matteson is yet living and a 1476 -HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE resident of Seville. She is one of the honored early pioneers of that community, and she is well informed in its history and in the history of the early families of Medina county. She is yet enjoying good health, active and alert for one of her years, and she is loved and revered in the community in which she has so long resided. Charles F. Matteson was reared in his native village of Seville, and after the completion of his school training there he entered upon a clerkship in his father's store, and after the senior Mr. Matteson became agent for the Ohio Farmers' Insurance Company he assisted him in the office and remained with him until becoming his successor. And following that, event he established his residence in Canfield, Mahoning county, but soon afterward moved to Youngstown, and here he has since represented his company in an able and businesslike manner and has also been engaged in the real estate business. Mr. Matteson enjoys, perhaps, a larger acquaintance in Mahoning county than any other person residing in Youngstown. He is vice-president Of the Las Tunas Citrus Fruit Company of Cuba; and his son, Clark H. Matteson, is the present superintendent of that company and is located in Cuba. This fruit farm is in Orienta of that country and is composed of eleven hundred acres, four hundred, acres of which are devoted to the growing of grape fruit. Clark H. Matteson is the general manager 0f the estate. He is the only child born of his father's first marriage, to Florance M. Stone, from Seville. Mr. Matteson Sr., married for his second wife Miss Fidelia Ripple, of Youngstown. Her father, George Ripple, was an early resident and a much respected citizen of Mahoning county. Charles F. Matteson is a member of the Youngstown Lodge of Odd Fellows, No,. 403, in which he has held all of the offices, and he is also. a member of the Camp and Canton and a past grand of the order. Both and his wife are members of the Westminster Presbyterian church. FRANK H. RAY.—The extensive business interests of Youngstown and Mahoning county place Frank H. Ray among the leaders in their industrial circles. He is the vice-president of the Central Store Company, of Youngstown, one of the largest mercantile institutions of northeastern .Ohio, and he also descends from A long and substantial line of pioneers of this section of the state. He was born 'at Boardman in Mahoning county, Ohio, December 3, 1852, the eldest son of William and Marietta (Austin) Ray, the father having been born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, in 1825, and the mother in Boardman, Mahoning county, in 1831. William Ray, the father, was a son of William Ray, who was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish extraction, his parents having come to this country from the north of Ireland. The father of Frank H. Ray died in the year of 1872, but his wife survived him for many years, dying in 1903. She was a daughter of Harmon Williams Austin and Charlotte Austin. Harmon W. Austin was born in Wallingford, New Haven county, Connecticut, in 1804. He made the trip from Connecticut to Ohio by selling combs and Yankee notions of various kinds. He finally settled in Boardman, Mahoning county. After locating in Mahoning county he engaged in the manufacture of both harness and brooms, which he sold to the settlers, and also when his stock would accumulate to a sufficient extent he would load his brooms and harness on a boat on the Ohio river and take them to New Orleans for disposal. He died suddenly in the year of 1851, being survived by his wife. Mrs. Marietta Austin Ray was a granddaughter of Charlotte and Joseph Bishop, who after their marriage at Snow Hill, Maryland, made the journey to Ohio on horseback, through the, dense forest and wilderness. They stopped with relatives not far from Youngstown until they could build their own little log cabin in the same neighborhood. They were among the earliest of the pioneers in this community, and the first years of their residence were fraught with dangers and hardships. They saw the dense forests gradually disappear and give place to flourishing farms and homes, and they performed their full share in this transformation. Joseph Bishop lived to the age of ninety-seven, and his wife was eighty-eight at the time of her death. Frank H. Ray received his primary education in the public schools of Poland and later attended Poland Seminary. After leaving the .schoolroom he was variously engaged, for a time clerking in a store, and although that occupation proved very congenial to his tastes he was influenced by his father to leave the store and learn the carpenter's trade, for at that time it was common for all boys to take up some trade. But after completing his ap- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1477 prenticeship the young. lad returned to the store, and by saving his money he was soon able to start in business for himself in a small way. After disposing of that business he became a salesman on the road for a wholesale house, and proved eminently successful in that position. His ambition was to become one of the best salesmen of his house on the road, and believing that if he proved successful for others he could be successful in business for himself he in 1897 became the manager of the Valley Store, which after a time was closed out, and in 1904 with others Mr. Ray was instrumental in organizing the Central Store Company, of Youngstown. Although the business was started in a small way it has rapidly grown in proportions until it has developed into The Central Store Company, one of the largest corporations of its kind in the Mahoning valley. It was incorporated in 1904. It now occupies a fireproof brick and concrete business building having a frontage of seventy-seven feet on East Federal street and 150 feet on South Champion street, containing four floors and a basement. The officers of the company are : James A. Campbell, president Frank H. Ray, vice-president, and Myron E. Dennison, secretary and treasurer. The business is splendidly organized and under the direction of Mr. Ray, with a large corps of efficient clerks representing the different departments of the store and the various floors. Mr. Ray has been twice married, wedding first Mary Elizabeth Dennison, of Youngstown, a daughter of William and Elizabeth P. Dennison, and the two daughters born to the union are Helen Austin and Mary McMaster. Both are graduates of well-known institutions. The younger graduated from the Chicago Kindergarten College and the Rayen high school, and she is now teaching in the public schools of Chicago, Illinois. The older daughter is the wife of P. C. Warren., of that city. In 1897 Mr. Ray married Miss.- Gabrielle Lightner, of Youngstown. The Ray home is an attractive residence in Youngstown. Mr. Ray is a lover of dogs ad the rod and gun, and he obtains much real enjoyment and exercise from fishing and hunting. CHAUNCY A. COCHRAN is one of the prominent young business men of Youngstown, and he is the secretary of the Youngstown Iron and Steel Roofing Company. He is one of the native born sons of this city. His father,. Lucius E. Cochran, is one of the most prominent of Youngslown's business men. He was born in Delaware county, Ohio, June 12, 1842, a son of Robert and Nancy (Humason) Cochran, and Robert was a son of George H. Cochran, a merchant of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, who transferred his mercantile interests to Vienna, Ohio, in 1816. Robert Cochran was a farmer; and he spent the greater part of his life in Logan county, Ohio. In 1862 Lucius E. Cochran, after pursuing a commercial course in Pittsburg, became a bookkeeper for the firm of Andrews & Hitchcock, of Youngstown, and five years later was made a member of the manufacturing firm. of Andrews Brothers & Company, of Haselton, ad following the consolidation of that firm with the Niles Iron Company in 1880 Mr. Cochran was made the first president ad treasurer of the new concern. He has extensive interests in various manufactories and ranks among the foremost men of business in the Mahoning valley. In 1868 Mr. Cochran married Mary Isabella Brownlee, a daughter of John and Leah (Powers) Brownlee, ad two sons were born into their household, but Robert B., the elder, died at the age of thirty-two years. Chauncy A. Cochran was educated in the public schools of Youngstown and in the Peekskill Military Academy at Peekskill, New York, of which he is a graduate. After attaining manhood's estate he became associated with his father in the manufacturing business and is now the secretary of the Youngstown Iron and Steel Roofing Company, his father being the president and the chief stockholder in the industry. Mr. Cochran, Jr., married Sarah E. Davis, a daughter of the late Hon. John R. Davis, for many years prominent both in the public and business life of Mahoning county. Mr. Davis was educated at Western University, Pittsburg, and for three years after leaving college served as private secre- tary to the Hon. A. Howells,. United States consul at Cardiff, Wales, and upon returning to his native country in 1864 he enlisted in the 155th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served with his command until the close of the Civil war. On January 1, 1867, he married Maria S. Richards, born in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, and following his marriage he was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Youngstown until elected the sheriff of Mahoning county in 1872, and he was re-elected to that position in 1874. On retiring from office on the 1st of January, 1877, he embarked in the real estate and insurance business, thus con- 1478 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE tinuing until his death on February 13, 1900. His sons, John R. and Ralph G. Davis, have since conducted the business under the firm name of John R. Davis' Sons. The Hon. John R. Davis was elected a member of the general assembly of Ohio in 1889, and re-elected in 1891. Four sons and a daughter survive him. Mr. and Mrs. Chauncy A. Cochran have two children, Lucius D. and Esther Marie. The family home is at 680 Bryson street. Mr. and Mrs. Cochran are members of the Memorial Presbyterian church of Youngstown. Mr. Cochran is also a member of the Republican party, of the Masonic fraternity and of the leading clubs of the city. HUGH L. MCELROY.—The name of Hugh Lytle. McElroy is synonymous with the mercantile life of Youngstown, and he has won a reputation in business which extends throughout Ohio. He is the president and general manager of the H. L. McElroy Company at Youngstown, the largest house furnishing company in the retail line in the entire state of Ohio. Mr. McElroy is the organizer as well as the president and manager of this large industrial concern, and the store at Youngstown is one of sixteen others of its kind located at different points in the United States. The H. L. McElroy Company was incorporated with a capital stock of ten thousand dollars, which was later increased to twenty-five thousand and in 1901 to seventy-five thousand dollars. The Youngstown store occupies an acre and one-half of floor space, and, as above stated, is the largest retail furniture establishment in Ohio. The business is enormous and employment is given to an army of assistants. Mr. McElroy devotes his entire time to looking after the affairs of the Youngs- town store. He occupies a high place in commercial circles and is a prominent member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, having been one of the prime movers in 'the organization of that body, and was a member of its first board of directors. He is also a member of the Foraker Club and of the Youngstown Club. The founder of the McElroy family in America was James McElroy, great-great-grandfather of the Youngstown merchant. He was born in the north of Ireland, and on emigrating to America settled in Pennsylvania. His son, the Hon. James McElroy, the second, was born in that state in 1811 and resided many years at West Fairfield. He was a prominent citizen and a member of the Pennsylvania legislature. William B. McElroy, a son of the Hon. James and the father of Hugh L. McElroy, was born in Pennsylvania in 1841. In early manhood he moved to Iowa and became prominently identified with the interests of that state. He served four years in the Civil war with distinction, enlisting as a private and rising in rank to adjutant in the Fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, under General Philip Sheridan, and he was seriously wounded on four occasions. At the battle of the Wilderness he was captured by the enemy, and in making his escape five minutes later he was very seriously wounded. He participated in many of the hard-fought battles of the war and was present at the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Court House. Immediately after his return from the war he married, Jane G. Lytle, a native of Pennsylvania and a daughter of Hugh Lytle, and Mr. and Mrs. McElroy then moved west and located on a valuable farm in Linn county, which Mr. McElroy operated and where he died in 1889. His widow still survives him and resides with the youngest son at Tacoma, Washington. Of their eight children—Hugh L., James I., Edward H., Harry A., William B. John A., Ralph G. and Susan M.—the first born is the only one living east of the Mississippi river. Hugh L. McElroy was born November 19, 1866, at Fairfax in Linn county, Iowa, and he attended school there and completed his education at Monmouth College in Illinois. When but a lad of seventeen he began teaching school, and after following that occupation for two years he accepted a clerkship in a store at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, remaining there eighteen months, and there he gained the experience which served as a stepping stone to higher things. In the. early winter of 1888 he came to Youngstown, and for three years afterward was with the firm of J. N. Euwers & Son, as manager of their carpet department, and after the death of his uncle, Frank Lytle, he entered into partnership in the furniture business with his uncle's widow, the business relation continuing for two years under the firm style of Lytle & McElroy. Prior to accepting a responsible position with a large mercantile establishment at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Mr. McElroy was connected for a short time with the E. M. McGillan Company at Youngstown. He remained HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1479 in Pittsburg for almost three years in charge of the carpet and upholstering department at Kauffman's, the largest store of its kind there, and then returned to Youngstown in 1896, and it was with the intention of establishing in this city the largest general furniture and house furnishing business that Mr. McElroy selected Youngstown as his field of endeavor, and in this purpose he has succeeded far beyond his expectations. He has always participated actively in public affairs and has been an important factor in Republican politics, working more, however, for his friends than for himself. He has served as chairman of the Republican city committee. He is also prominent in the fraternal order of Knights of Pythias, a past chancellor commander and for ten years a member of the board of trustees. He is a past exalted ruler of Youngstown Lodge, No. 55, B. P. O. E., and has been for two years district deputy grand exalted ruler for northeastern Ohio. For many years he has also been an Odd Fellow, and he belongs to the Tabernacle Presbyterian church and is chairman of its board of trustees. At Niles, Ohio, on the 20th of June, 1894, Mr. McElroy was married to Anna Benedict, who was born in the same house as was the late lamented President William McKinley, and she is a daughter of the late James S. Benedict, who died in 18c-)5. WILLIAM G. STORRS, former vice-president and general manager of the nursery firm of Storrs & Harrison Company, Painesville, was born in Cortland county, New York, January 19, 1840. Jesse Storrs, his father. and the founder of this large industry, was a native of New Hampshire and was born in 1808. When a boy he went with his father to Cortland county, New York, and there, after reaching his majority, started a small nursery, working at it in the .summer and teaching school in the winter. Thus he continued for twenty years In 1853 he sold his farm and nursery, and the following year came to Lake county, Ohio. Here he bought seventy-five acres of land and on a portion of it started in a small way the nursery which is now the largest horticultural and floricultural nursery farm in the United States. Mr. Storrs was a man of untiring energy, and to his early efforts in connection with this establishment is largely due its wonderful success. His active and useful career was terminated by his death at Painesville in March, 1881. His worthy com- Vol. III-14 panion, whose maiden name was Harriet Gates and who was a native of Connecticut, survived him several years, her death occurring at the age of eighty-five years. Both were prominent members of the Congregational church. Mr. Storrs was a deacon in the church for many years. Of their nine children, only one, Willis P., whose sketch follows this, survives at this writing, 1909. William G. Storrs was educated at the high school of Painesville. When he was fourteen years of age he and his brother Horatio drove through from New York to Lake county, Ohio, coming three months in advance of the rest of the family and bringing with them two bushels of apple seed with which to start the nursery. Here William G. spent his youth, assisting his father and helping to develop their new enterprise, and was just merging into manhood when the great Civil war burst upon the country. August 22, 1861, he enlisted in Company G, Second Ohio Cavalry, and served until September 17, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. The early part of his war service was in the western army, at Fort Scott and through the Indian Territory. He returned to Ohio in December, 1862, and recruited through the winter at Columbus, Ohio. Leaving Camp Chase, April 6, 1863, he went to Kentucky and joined the Army of the Cumberland, operating through that state until fall, when he went with Burnside to east Tennessee, being among those first to occupy Knoxville. Later they were engaged with Longstreet's forces in Virginia, during which time, for lack of supplies, they suffered many hardships. These brave soldiers slept on the ground when the thermometer marked zero. In January, 1864, his regiment veteranized and he came home on a thirty-day furlough, and in April was with Grant's Army of the Potomac, and in May was with Grant's army in the Battle of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania and Cold Harbor, crossing the James river June 17. Until January 17 the brave men slept at night with their clothes on and 'never unsaddled their horses. In August, Mr. Storrs become blind from the effects of erysipelas and was taken from the field hospital to New York city, from whence he was transferred to Willits Point, Long Island. He requested that he might be brought to Cleveland, but the local authorities refused to comply with, his request, and it was not until after he had written a personal letter to Secretary Stanton that he was moved to Cleveland. After his re- 1480 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE covery he joined his regiment, in December, 1864, and continued in service until the close of the war. He was present at Lee's surrender, after which he went to Washington, and from there to. St Louis, Missouri. He remained at St. Louis and at Springfield, Missouri, until the date of his discharge. Mr. Storrs was married September 2, 1868, to Mary E. Post, of Painesville. To this union were born four children : Mary, Henrietta, Sarah, and Eugenia. He was an active Republican and was several years a member of the county committee and controlled as many votes as any other man in the county. He never sought office for himself, but was a hard worker for his party. He was a trustee of the Congregational church many years. He died October 22, 1901, aged sixty-one. His widow resides on the farm and is still associated with the firm of which her husband was a member. WILLIS P. STORRS, of Painesville, who in 1906 retired from his active participation of fifty years in the development of the great nursery business of the Storrs & Harrison Company, is the son of the founder of an establishment which so far leads the industries of Lake county that it employs more men than all of its other manufactories combined, and is among the most prominent of its kind in the world. Not a few have contributed to the growth of this mammoth in business and commerce, but it has received its uninterrupted infusion of life blood from representatives of the Storrs and Harrison families from the first, and no source from which it has drawn vitality and upbuilding elements proved more constant and prolific than its able partner of recent years, Willis P. Storrs. The Storrs & Harrison Company presents one of the unique features in American industrial history, as its development to its present mammoth proportions has consisted in a natural growth without the stimulation of outside capital and mainly through the reinvestment of its own profits. In this remarkable financial achievement the Storrs and the Harrisons are also the chief agencies. Mr. Storrs, of this sketch, is a native of Marathon, New York, born on the 19th of January, 1840, and is a son of Jesse and Harriet (Gates) Storrs. His father was a New Hampshire than, born in Concord, and when a young man moved to Marathon, where he engaged in the growing of nursery stock. In 1854 he transferred his business to Lake county, Ohio, purchasing sixty acres of land two miles east of Painesville and at first, with the assistance of his three sons, cultivating ten acres of this tract. About four years later the elder Mr. Storrs formed a partnership in the propagation of nursery stock with J. J. Harrison, who had already established a similar enterprise even on a smaller scale. They were both industrious, enterprising, and thorough masters of the business, and by 1881 the .enterprise has grown to such proportions that it was deemed advisable to incorporate the firm. In that year the change was therefore effected and, under the style of the Storrs & Harrison Company, Mr. Harrison was elected president of the reorganized concern, with Jesse Storrs as chief advisory partner, and his two sons, William G. and Willis P., active associates. The founder of the business died in 1882, in his seventy-seventh year, with a handsome competency and universally honored in the community in which he had been so large a figure for more than a quarter of a century. His widow survived him four years. Of the nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Storrs, four reached maturity. Emeline G. married Omar Griswold, a farmer, of Little Mountain, Ohio, and died at the age of thirty-one ; William G. and Willis P., twins, the former having died in 1901 ; and Horatio, who enlisted in the Tenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he became corporal, was captured, and died in Salisbury prison, North Carolina, at the age of thirty-four. Willis P. Storrs was fourteen years of age when his parents moved to Lake county, and, with his twin brother, William G., faithfully assisted his father in the cultivation of his nursery farm. He served two years in the Civil war as a member of Company F, Eighty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, after which he .gave all the energies and abilities of his manhood to the advancement of the Storrs-Harrison enterprise, until his retirement from the triumphant business in 1906. He resides in a pleasant home on the old farm, comfortably occupied in the care and promotion of his financial and business interests, which are large and growing. In 1868 he married Miss Elizabeth A. Ogden, daughter of David Ogden, a sawmill operator of Thompson, Geauga county, Ohio, and a native of Saratoga county, New York. They have become the parents of two children, Jay D., who is identified with the nursery business, and Harriet B., who is at HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1481 home. Mrs. Storrs is a member of the Baptist church. Withdrawn from participation in its active management, Mr. Storrs still takes a deep interest and pride in the standing and progress :of the company in which he was so long a leader. At the present time J. J. Harrison holds the office of president, although the active business of the company is conducted through Robert George, general manager ; J. H. Dayton, secretary, and W. C. Harrison, treasurer. Its scope has been expanded so as to embrace seeds and flowers as well as nursery stock. At the time of the incorporation of the firm as a company in 1881 the capital stock was fixed at $150,000. After some years Robert George and J. H. Dayton, former employees, became stockholders and, as heretofore noted, participate in the active management of the house which they have so faithfully assisted to establish and push forward. The great plant of the Storrs & Harrison Company as it stands today presents a striking contrast to the little ten-acre nursery in 1854. Nov fifteen hundred acres of land are devoted to the tree nursery proper, while forty-four greenhouses, having one hundred and fifty thousand square feet of glass, are more especially utilized for the propagation of seeds and flowers. Some two hundred persons are regularly employed, and in the active season of cultivating, packing and shipping, this force is doubled. The annual payroll is about $200,000. Sales are made in both retail and wholesale quantities, a spur of the Lake Shore railroad passing through the grounds and supplying ready shipping facilities. For maintaining the proper temperature of the greenhouses and in other heating necessities, the company's coal bill is $3,000 yearly, and more than twice that amount for lumber and packing material. For years the business has virtually been developed through the mails, and the company now distributes three hundred and fifty thousand handsome catalogs throughout the world every year, expending therefor $10,000 annually for postage, and the postage paid on seeds and plants shipped through the mail would bring it up to $40,000 annually. The handling of this vast mail has placed the Painesville post-office in the second class, its receipts from the Storrs & Harrison Company being about one-half of the total. In short, as may readily be deduced, the great industry is both an honor and a public benefit to the city, as well as a monument to. the perseverance and abilities of its projectors and promoters. GEORGE A. MCCREADY was actively engaged in business in Youngstown for nearly a quarter of a century and here he is known and honored as a citizen of sterling character and as one who has gained success ad independence through his own honest and earnest endeavors. He is now living virtually retired and is the owner of valuable real estate in Youngstown, to which he gives his supervision, thus finding sufficient demand upon his time and attention. He built up a successful retail grocery business in Youngstown and upon his entire career as an active and enterprising business man there rests no blot or shadow, as fairness and integrity have characterized his life in all its relations. Mr. McCready reverts to the old Keystone state of the Union as the place of his nativity, having been born at New Bedford, Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, on the 26th of September, 1844, and being a son of William W. and Elizabeth (McCord) McCready, both of whom were born and reared in Pennsylvania, where they passed their entire lives, secure in the high regard of all who knew them. Both were of stanch Scottish ancestry. William W. McCready was a carpenter and wagonmaker by trade, and to the work of these vocations he devoted his attention, with a due measure of success, throughout his active business career. He was a Republican in politics having aligned himself with the "grand old party" at the time of its organization. He died in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1894, when about seventy-five years of age, and, his loved and devoted wife was seventy-nine years of age at the time of her demise, in 1900. Both were consistent and zealous members of the Presbyterian church. George A. McCready was afforded the advantages of the common schools of his native village, and as a youth he was employed by stock buyers to go East with stock overland; there being no railroad facilities for shipping at that time. In the summer months sheep and cattle was taken to Harrisburg and Philadelphia and in the winter time horses. In 1884 he took up his residence in Youngstown, the attractive capital city of Mahoning county, Ohio, where he established himself in the retail grocery business in the same year, at the corner of Bryson and Scott streets, where he, built up a large and prosperous trade and se- 1482 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE cured the support of a representative and appreciative patronage. His careful consideration of the demands of his customers and his inflexible policy of fair and honorable dealings gained to him the high esteem of all who had recourse to his large and well-equipped establishment, and he has thus found himself favored with the stanch friendship of many of the representative citizen's of the city in which he has so long maintained his home and in whose progress and material prosperity he has shown an abiding interest. He disposed of his stock and business in 1903, but retains in his possession the substantial. building, which was erected by him fourteen years ago. It is a two-story frame structure, twenty-two by fifty-five feet in dimensions, the lower floor being utilized for business purposes and the upper being arranged into flats for residence use. Mr. McCready is also the owner of other well-improved realty in Youngstown, including his attractive residence, property on Bryson street. It was the Portion of Mr. McCready to render loyal service in the cause of the Union in the Civil war. In 1863 he enlisted as a private in Battery A; First Pennsylvania Light Artillery, which command was assigned to the Army of the James, and with which he participated in a number of the important battles marking the progress of the great fratricidal conflict, as well as in numerous skirmishes and minor engagements. He took part in the siege of Petersburg and was actively engaged in the battles of Seven Pines, Fair Oaks and Fort Harrison. He continued in active duty with his command until the close of the war and made an admirable record as a loyal and gallant soldier. He was mustered out at Harrisburg, 'and received his honorable discharge on the 25th of July, 1865. In politics Mr. McCready is a stalwart supporter of the principles and policies of the Republican party, but he has never desired. or held public office. He and his wife hold membership in the First Presbyterian church in their home city. On the 12th of November, 1882, Mr. McCready was united in marriage to Miss Lena Siegfried, who was born and reared at Greenville, Pennsylvania, and who is a daughter of Conrad and Elizabeth (Bishoff) Siegfried, who passed. their entire lives in the Keystone state. FRANK W. POWERS.—Numbered among the representative business men and distinguished popular citizens of Youngstown, Ohio, is Frank W. Powers, who is a scion of One of the oldest and most honored pioneer families of the historic old Western Reserve. The founder of the family in Ohio was Abraham Powers, who was intimately associated with John Young, the founder of Youngstown, in the making of preliminary surveys and the upbuilding of the town and who built the first grist mill in the Mahoning valley, known as Lantermans Falls. He was at that time, 1797 a resident of Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and in 1801 he removed to Youngstown and settled on what is known .as the Salts Spring road. Data available fail to determine the exact place and date of his birth, but the records show that the oldest son, Abraham, married Betsey Woodruff and likewise settled on the Salts Spring road. It is a matter to be greatly regretted that the family records were destroyed in a fire that obliterated the. homestead of Milton Powers about the year 1902. Milton Powers, the son of Abraham. (2nd) lived on what is familiarly known as Powers' Hill, now West Mahoning avenue. He was born in Mahoning county on the 14th of October, 1811, and was reared to manhood under the conditions and influence of the early pioneer epoch. On the 14th of February, 1841, was solemnized the marriage of Milton Powers to Miss Lucy Silliman, of Fowler, Trumbull county, Ohio. She was a daughter of Abijah and Naomi Silliman, who came from Connecticut to the fine old Western Reserve of that state about the year 1810, and who purchased from the Connecticut Land Company a tract of land in the vicinity .of the present village of Fowler, where they passed the residue of their lives and where Mr. Silliman reclaimed a farm from the wilderness. Milton Powers .was for many years one of the representative agriculturists and stock growers of Mahoning county: He also built up an extensive business in connection with the buying and shipping of horses and cattle, which he drove through to the eastern markets before any railroads had been established in the Mahoning valley. He later became the executive head of the Powers Coal Company, which operated a mine on the old Powers homestead. He died at Powers Hill on Christmas day of the year 1885 and his cherished and devoted wife was summoned to the life eternal March 3, 1893. Of their HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1483 eleven children, only two are now living: Emma, who is now the wife of Frank P. Wick, a representative business man of Youngstown, and Frank W., who is the youngest of the family and who is the immediate subject of this review. Frank W. Powers was born in the old family homestead in Youngstown on the 8th of June, 1860, and the public schools of this city afforded him his early educational advantages. As a youth he became associated with his father in various business enterprises and he is now established in a substantial real estate and coal business, in the latter branch of which enterprise his operations are exclusively of the wholesale order. He represents the Keystone Coal and Coke Company, of Pittsburg and Greensburg, Pennsylvania, which has an annual output of four million tons of gas and steam coal and one million tons of coke. In the real estate field Mr. Powers' operations are of wide scope and importance, and he prides himself on being able to .offer realty that has been in the possession of the family for more than a century. Owing to this fact no restrictions are required and the last acquisition deed to properties thus controlled was secured in 1860. Mr. Powers takes a deep interest in all that touches the welfare of his home city and also in the history of the fine old Western Reserve, with which the family name has been so long and prominently identified. In politics he gives his support to the Republican party. Mr. Powers' family are of old Presbyterian stock. He is identified with various civic and fraternal organizations of representative character. On the 29th of June, 1882, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Powers to Miss Lide M. Ward, who was born and reared in Niles, Ohio, and who is a daughter of Duncan and Pamelia Ward. Mr. and Mrs. Powers have three children--Charles, aged twenty-seven ; Helen, twenty-two, and Laura, nineteen. HARRY J. STAMBAUGH.—He whose name initiates this article is numbered among the essentially representative business men of Youngstown. Mahoning county, and is a member of one of the old and honored families of the Western Reserve, the name having been long and prominently identified with the annals of Mahoning county. Mr. Stambaugh is a native of Girard, Ohio, where he was born on the 9th of November, 1861, and here he is now secretary and treasurer of the William Tod Company ad where he has other business interests of important order. He is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (McCartney) Stambaugh. Jacob Stambaugh has long been a resident of Youngstown, where he is now living virtually retired after having been for many years actively and prominently identified with the coal mining industry. He was born at Briar Hill, Mahoning county, Ohio, on the 7th of May, 1835, and is a son of John and Sarah (Beven) Stambaugh; who came from Hamilton county, Pennsylvania., to Ohio in 1825 and ,who are numbered among the pioneers of Mahoning county. They settled at a Place. locally known as Sugar Hill, a name which was applied. by reason of the fact that in the early days a large maple-sugar camp was there maintained each season. Here they passed the residue of their lives and became the parents of twelve children, all of whom attained to years of maturity. Jacob Stambaugh was reared under the conditions and influences of the pioneer epoch and his educational opportunities were those. afforded in the common schools of the locality and period. In 1864 he tendered his services in defense of the Union by enlisting in Company E, 171st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he assisted in repelling the famous Morgan raid.. In 1858 was solemnized the marriage of Jacob Stambaugh to Miss Elizabeth McCartney, a daughter of George and Amanda McCartney, of Weathersfield, Trumbull county, Ohio. They became the parents of four children : George F., who is engaged in the coal business at Youngstown ; Harry J., who is the immediate subject of this sketch ; Joseph K., who is a civil engineer by profession and who resides in. Youngstown, and Elizabeth, who is now the wife of George D. Hughes. The father is a stanch Republican in his political proclivites and is. a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church. 'They are held in unqualified esteem in the community which has so long represented their home and are among the most popular pioneer. citizens of Youngstown. Harry J. Stanbaugh was afforded the advantages of the public schools 0f Youngstown and was graduated in the high school as a member of the class of 1881. He then went to Akron, Ohio. where he entered the employ of the Lake View Coal Company. In 1887 1484 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE he went to Cuyahoga Falls, with the Falls River and Machine Company, as. secretary, with whom he remained until 1905, when he returned to Youngstown and entered the employ of the William Tod Company, which is engaged in the manufacture of engines, as secretary and treasurer of the company. He is also secretary of the Columbiana Foundry Company, at Columbiana, Ohio, and has other commercial and industrial interests of importance. In politics Mr. Stambaugh gives a stanch allegiance to the cause of the Republican party, and both he and his wife are zealous members of the Episcopal church, in whose work they have taken an active part. He is a member of the Mahoning Golf Club and is an enthusiast in the gallant sport of the links. On the 23rd of March 1887, Mr. Stambaugh was united. in marriage to Miss Cecelia R.. Long, a daughter of Jeremiah and Mary A. Long, well known citizens of Akron, this state. Mr. and Mrs. . Stambaugh have three children—Harry J., Jr., Cecelia L. and Jery Long. Harry J., Jr., is now engaged with the William Tod Company as mechanical engineer; Miss Cecelia L., who remains at the parental home,,, is a graduate of the Youngstown high school, and the, younger son is now a student. in Rayen high school, of this city. The family is prominent in connection with the best social activities of Youngstown, where it enjoys. unalloyed popularity. FREDERICK B. REBMAN, M. D.—As a leading representative of the medical profession in the historical old Western Reserve; Dr. Rebman is well worthy of consideration in this historical compilation. In his profession he has realized the value of concentration and is a specialist in neurology and the treatment of diseases of the eye. He is engaged .in active practice in the city of Youngstown, Mahoning county, where he has built up a large and successful business. Dr. Rebman claims the old Keystone state of the Union as the place of his nativity, having been born in Montour county, near the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 28th of July, 187i, and being the son of John and Amy (Seckler) Rebman. The father died in 1902 and the mother is living in Danville, Pennsylvania. The Doctor is indebted to the public schools of Danville and Philadelphia for his early educational discipline, which included a course in the high school, and after leaving school he secured employment in the optical establishment of H. C. Herman, of Williamsport, formerly of Queen & Company, of Philadelphia. In January, 1906, he located in. Youngstown, where he continued his studies. while in active practice. In 1903 he attended and was graduated from the McCormick Neurological College, in the city of Chicago, from which he received the degree of Doctor of Neurology. He forthwith continued in the practice of his chosen profession in Youngstown, where he has gained a clientage of a distinctively representative order. He is an able exemplar of his school of practice, which has no recourse to the materia medica and which, as a matter of course, implies the ad ministration of no pharmaceutical remedial agents whatever. For a period of four years he was a member of the executive board of the American Association of Opticians and in 1908-9 he was president of the Independent Association of Doctors of America. In politics the doctor is a stanch supporter of the principles and policies of the Independent party. His wife is a member of the Episcopal Church. In the time-honored Masonic fraternity he holds affiliation with Hillman Lodge, No. 481, Free and Accepted Masons Youngstown Chapter, No. 93, Royal Arch Masons, and St. John's Commadery, No. 20, Knights Templars. He is also identified with the local organizations of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Independent Order. of Odd Fellows. His office is located in the Stambaugh building and his home is at 63 Warren avenue. On November 18, 1895, Dr. Rebman was united in marriage to Miss Anna Harris, daughter of John and Elizabeth Harris, of Danville, Pennsylvania, and no children have been born of this union. CHARLES M. POWER.—One of the important industrial concerns of the Western Reserve, and one .which is contributing its quota to the commercial prestige of this favored section of the old Buckeye state, is the Seneca Chain Company, whose finely equipped plant is located in the city of Kent, Portage county, and of which corporation Mr. Power is the secretary and manager. He is numbered among the alert and progressive "captain's of industry" in the fine old Reserve, and as a citizen and business man is well entitled to consideration in this historical compilation, which has recognition of the various forces and personalities HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1485 which have contributed to the upbuilding and progress of the region to whose exploitation it is dedicated. Mr. Power was bornin Franklin, Pennsylvania, on the 2d of February, 1868, and is a son of George R. and Mary (Shelley) Power, the former of whom was long identified with the affairs of the Erie Railroad, with which he was identified until the time of his death. He was born and reared in the old Keystone state, as was also his wife, who still maintains her home in Franklin. Charles M.. Power gained his early educational discipline in the public schools of his native place, where. he completed the curriculum of the high school nd thereafter took a course in the Buffalo Business College, at Buffalo, New York. His business career, initiated when he was nineteen years of age, has been one of signal activity and marked by much initiative power and executive ability. For a number of years he was in the employ of the Standard Oil Company, and later he held the office of secretary of the Railway Speed Recorder Company, of Kent, Ohio, for a period of seventeen years. In 1887 he took up his residence in Kent, Ohio where he has since mained his home atid. where he has. held the dual office of secretary and manager of the Seneca Chain Company since 1904. He has the personal management not only of the company's factory in Kent, but also Of the large plant owned by the corporation in the city of Mansfield, Ohio. He is a stockholder in the company and also in the Independent Tack Company, whose, excellent plant is located in Kent, and of this latter corporation he is treasurer. His progressive spirit has led him into prominence in connection with industrial enterprises, and in addition .to the connection already 'noted he is also a stockholder and director of the Kent Machine Company. The factories with which Mr. Power is identified as manager of the Seneca Chain Company now gives employment to an average force of seven hundred operatives, and when he assumed his present executive offices with the concern the number employed did not exceed seventy men. It is largely due and accredit to his effective administration that the industry has been within a remarkably brief period built up to the status of the largest and most important of its kind in the Union. As a citizen Mr. Power is essentially loyal and public-spirited, and he takes a deep interest in all that contributes to the civic and material advancement of his attractive little home city of Kent. He has served as a member of the city council and the board of education, and was one of those most influential in securing to Kent its fine public library building with its splendid equipment. He is vice-president of the board of trustees of the library and is active in the administration of its affairs. In politics he gives a stalwart allegiance to the Republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Congregational church. He is affiliated with the Kent lodge and chapter of the Masonic fraternity, with the cornmandery of the Knights Templar in the city of Akron, and with Al Koran Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. Cleveland. He also holds membership in S., Lodge of the Benevlent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1890 Mr. Power was united in marriage to Miss Nina L. Howard, who died in 1903 and who is survived by one daughter, Marie. In 1904 Mr. Power was united in marriage to Miss Addie M. Fowler, daughter of Ezra Fowler, a representative citizen of Kent, where Mrs. Power is a prominent and popular figure in social affairs. JUDGE SAMUEL COWLES, the main portion of whose life was a part of the history of jurisprudence of the city of San Francisco and the state of California, was a native of Austinburg, Ashtabula county. He left the Western Reserve when nearly thirty years of age and established himself on the Pacific coast in the early fifties, when the judicial and civic institutions of the Golden state were in their formatory stage. Born on March 21, 1823, his father, Dr. E. W. Cowles, was long a medical practitioner of Cleveland, and he had two brothers of great prominence in the journalistic world—Edwin Cowles, founder and editor of the Cleveland Leader, and Alfred Cowles, one of the founders and many years business manager of the Chicago Tribune. His grandfather, Rev. Giles Hooker Cowles, D. D., had been pastor of the Congregational church in Bristol, Connecticut, when he migrated to Austinburg with his wife and eight children, and became a settled clergyman at that point. His old parsonage is still occupied by his descendants. His wife, Sallie White, was a lineal descendant of Peregrine White, who was born while the "Mayflower" was lying in Plyinouth harbor, and was the first white native of New England. Judge Cowles traced his direct ancestry to John Cole, who, 1486 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE six generations before his own, emigrated from the west of .England and settled in Massachusetts during 1635. It is said that the family name was changed to Cowles to distinguish it from. the family of John Cole, of Hartford, who was a contemporary of the Massachusetts John Cole. The early education of Judge Cowles was received at Grand River Institute, Austinburg, and his later training at the Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio. In 1844 he commenced the study of law in Cleveland with Andrews, Foote and Hoyt, and completed with S.. B. and F. J. Prentiss. In 1847 he was admitted to the bar, formed successive partnerships with Lorin Prentiss and E. B. Mastick, and in 1852 migrated to San Francisco with the latter, who was his lifelong friend. His first position in that city was that of deputy clerk of the supreme court of California ; he served as police judge from 1860 to 1863 and as county judge from the latter year until 1868, when he returned for a visit to the eastern states. The same year he resumed his professional career in practice by forming a partnership with Albert N. Brown, a rising young lawyer of San Francisco, this connection continuing , until Judge Cowles' death, November 17, 1880. At the time he was also president of the Savings and Loan Society, popularly known as the Clay Street Bank, of which institution he had been legal adviser for some , years and to whose head he had been elected in 1879. The judge had been married in 1849 to Miss Anna Louise Wooster, and his wife ad little son came to' San Francisco to reside in 1855. Six other children were born afterward, five of whom, with the widow, survived him. Judge Cowles came to San Francisco a young man full of ambition and qualified by education and natural gifts to enter into professional. competition with the ablest members of his calling. He was not only an able practitioner and a faithful and safe counsellor, but an urbane man who gained many fast friends in all classes of society. This combination of strong qualities, especially in a new and informal community, by the year 1860 had made him one of the leading practitioners of the state. His integrity and firm-. ness of character also singled him out in the reforming political condition of San Francisco as a most desirable man to preside over the municipal police department, where he was not only the regulator of the city's peace, but one of the three cQmmissioners to select the police force. The direct consequence of his very successful discharge of these duties was his election to the county judgeship, and he presided over that court with marked ability, discretion and judgment for four years. Nothing then prevented his continuance in office except his desire for private life and professional practice. The following is a fitting, an. appreciative and a truthful epitome of Judge Cowles' life, from an intimate and an authoritative source : Judge Cowles performed a vast amount of Tabor in the humanitarian societies of his city, so unostentatiously that the beneficiaries frequently never knew their benefactor, and the public prints had little or no opportunity to gather them as a matter of news. He was a fearless man, full of enthusiasm for justice, purity and manliness. He had strong American convictions ; he believed in liberty . and equality, in law and order, and in the purity of the courts and the ballot box. He brought these principles into a community in which for several years they were trifled with and often trampled under foot. Indeed, it was as much. as a man's life was worth to maintain and express them ; but he did not hesitate to' do either. In the great social purification, which occurred in 1856 and following years, he was an earnest and efficient worker. He gloried in those days. It was a delight with him in later years to rehearse the grand story. He was a positive man, an honest man, a Christian man. His sterling character commanded the respect of all classes of his fellows, the friendship of his associates in the law and the love of his intimates. An able jurist, an eminent citizen, a faithful friend, a devoted husband, a tender and loving father—his memory will always sweeten the lives of. those who know him. "He locked his lips too close to speak a lie, He washed his hands too white to take a bribe." BIRDSEY S. METCALF.—The Metcalf family comprise some of the earliest and the stanchest pioneers of the 'Western Reserve, and the old homestead at Ashtabula, occupied by the widow of the late Birdsey S. Metcalf, represents one of the most picturesque and interesting of local historic landmarks. This was the birthplace of Mr. Metcalf, August 16, 1816, his parents being John and Clarissa (Sweet) Metcalf. The former was the first of the HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1487 family to settle in the Western Reserve and was one of the first government mail cdntractors of the region. He was a pioneer of great ability and worth of character, his characteristics, as well as those of other early representatives, being described in the biography of Chauncey Metcalf, elsewhere published Among the most valued possessions which Mrs. Birdsey S. Metcalf possesses are various letters and autobiographies which relate to the first members of the family who came into the wilderness of the Western Reserve in the first years of the nineteenth century. Some of them date back to 1805, but, although the documents are yellow with age, they. refuse to fall apart, both paper and ink being silent but effective testimonials to the honest material and manufacture of those days. The Sweets, Who .comprise the maternal side of the Metcalf family, were large property owners at and near Ashtabula, and the present home of Mrs. Metcalf is a portion of their old homestead. It was here that her husband was born and reared, his thorough education including the not-unusual accomplishment of his times, precise and beautiful penmanship. In early life he taught school. in connection with his farming, and at a still later period was a clerk on various steamers of the great lakes, following the last named avocation for fully twenty years. During that period he engaged competent superintendents of his farm ; afterward he was engaged in the hotel business at East Village, and all his interests were managed with sound business judgment and profitable results. For many years before his death he retired with a large competency and at his death left a good estate, free of incumbrance. He was quiet, modest and affable, popular and highly respected, but never ambitious for public advancement. In politics he was a Republican. Mr. Metcalf was thrice married, and by his first wife (nee Samantha Cheney) had one child, Birdsey Metcalf, now many years deceased. Mrs. Samantha Metcalf died in childbirth, and Mr. Metcalf's second wife was Eliza A. Hall, daughter of Valerias and Betsey (Kendall). Hall, who settled in the Western Reserve in 1817. Mr. Hall was born. April 8, 1796, and in the year mentioned came to the Reserve with a brother, Stephen. The family were of old New York stock. Valerias Hall was a manufacturer of hats all his life. He married Betsey Kendall, a Massachusetts woman of English ancestry who migrated to the Reserve with a sister in 1817,, and for many years taught school in the vicinity of Ashtabula; in fact, Mr. Metcalf was one of her pupils. Mr. and Mrs. Hall were the parents of six children, as follows : Orator K. Hall, whose death occurred in San Francisco; Orin Boutwell, who died in Michigan; Edwin, who passed .away at Pullman, Illinois ; Eliza A., the second wife of Mr. Metcalf, who died July 7, 1864 ; Emma C., who 'was born December 16, 1830, and Henry, born November 3, 1836, who is a resident of Ashtabula. The father of this family died April 7, 1868, and the mother, December 1, 1889. By his second marriage Mr. Metcalf, became the father of w two children: George, who died at the age of ten years, and Clara, born March 15, 1859, who married R. W. Calvin, an Ashtabula lawyer. Mr. Metcalf s third marriage was to Miss Emma C. Hall, a sister of his second wife, and one child was also born to their union Charles Ezra, who was drowned June 7, 1887, at the age of fifteen years and seven months. His death, in the strength, buoyancy and bright hopefulness of youth left deep scars in the hearts of his loving parents which never were Healed ; and, although years had passed, the pain in the mother's heart was still sharp when she was called upon to meet the death of a thoughtful and affectionate husband. JAMES T. KILE is an agriculturist in Richmond township and one of the survivors of the Civil war. Leonard Kile, his father, born at Lewis, in the state of New York, September 17, 1803, came to Andover, in Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1847, making the journey by canal boat to Buffalo, and thence to Conneaut, and he was accompanied on this trip by his wife and their eleven children. He was by trade a blacksmith, but after coming to this state he engaged in the lumber business and later erected a saw mill. He married in his native state, March 2, 1826, Susanna Thompson, who was born October 30, 1802, and they became the parents of the following children: Hannah, who was born January 9, 1827, married George Baldwin and died February 14, 1892 ; Juliet, born March 15, 1828, married Horace Delno and died January 12, 1857; Robert. born December 29, 1829, married a Miss Wilson and died July 29, 1901 ; Leonard, born March 26, 1832, married a Miss Ralya and died January 9. 1907 ; Jame's T., born at Lewis, New .York, October 27, 1833, is men- 1488 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE tioned below ; Hiram, born June 12, 1835, never married and died June 29, 1862, from wounds received in the Civil war, and the Grand Army post at Andover Was named in his honor ; Susan, born March 2, 1837, never married, and died July 26, 1855 Salem, born January 28, 1839, . married Miss Caroline Heath . and lives in Akron, Ohio ; Elizabeth, born July 9, 1841, married M. V. Blanchard and lives in Nebraska; Mary Jane, born February 15, 1843, married RoadCooly and lives in Nebraska ; and Edson, born December 8, 1846, married Della Barr, who lives in Orwell, and he died in 1896. James T. Kile enlisted, September 3, 1864, in Company D, One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteers, entering the ranks as a sergeant, and with the exception of three months spent in the hospital on account of a fever, he continued as an active soldier until the close of the struggle. He is now a member of Hiram Kile Post, G. A. R. at Andover, which was named in honor of his brother, who laid down his life for his country's cause. Mr. Kile married on June 17, 1857, Jane N. Turner who was born June 7, 1836, a daughter of James W. and Nancy, (Keen) Turner, the father born in November, 1799, and died in April, 1865, and. the mother, also born in 1799, died on August 27, 1842. The children born to. James and Jaborn onare ; Frank, who was born-on August 26, 1858, married Dolly Clute and lives at Struthers, in Mahoning county; Hiram, born April 3, 1862 married Lizzie. Cadwell and is engaged in. the lumber business in Akron ; Fred E., born October 20, 1865, married May Akens, now deceased, and he is also a Lumberman at Akron ; and Ray L., born June 24, 1867,died on April 27, 1907, in Cuba. Mrs. Kile is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. CHARLES E. AINGER.-The name of Charles E. Ainger is recorded on the pages of the official history of Ashtabula as the postmaster of Andover, he having assumed charge of that office on January 1, 1901. Since that time the business of the office has more than doubled, the rural free delivery has been established, and five assistants are now required to transact its business. Mr. Ainger gives his personal attention to the office, and has proved a valuable public official. He was born on the Ainger farm, near Andover, March 25, 1861, and he remained at home until twenty-two years of age and attended Jefferson Institute. He was engaged in the hardware and agricultural implement business at Andover until appointed to his present position. On January 19, 1884, he married Lenore Andrews, who died on December 9, 1905, and on June 19, 1909, he wedded Mrs. Fannie Breslyn, from Pittsburg. Mr. Ainger. has a daughter, Almira, the wife of J. G. Cook, an electrician in Ashtabula. Mr. Ainger is a Knight Templar Mason, a member of Cache Commandery at Conneaut. HENRY HARRISON HUNT, who is living at his homestead two miles west of Conneaut, on the North Ridge road, was born on the old Hunt farm in the southwest corner of Conneaut township, August 28, 1839, a son of Horace and Sophronia (Durkee) Hunt. Th21mother was born September 2I, 1802, at Hampton, Connecticut, and was a daughter of John and Sarah (Parkhurst). Durkee, while John Durkee, her father, was a son of Captain Benjamin Durkee, a Revolutionary soldier and the commander of Fort Trumbull at New London, Connecticut. His company roster is now in the possession of hs grandson, Henry H. Hunt. Horace Hunt was. born in Tunbridge, Orange county, Vermont, October 31, 1798, a son on Daniel and Hannah (Miller) Hunt. Daniel Hunt, also from Connecticut, was a soldier under Washington in the Revolutionary war, and he died in Vermont when more than eighty years of age. Four of his eleven children came to Vermont, and the family included Simeon, who was a resident of Waterford, Pennsylvania; Nelson, of La Salle, Illinois, and the four who came to this state : Clark, Horace, Fanny and Polly. Fanny became the wife of Rufus Hatch, and they located in Monroe township, Ashtabula county, Ohio. They reared a large family of children, but all are now deceased. Polly became the wife of Kent Bicknell, who died in Vermont, and she afterward lived with her brother Clark as his housekeeper until her death at the age of eighty-three years. These four members of the Hunt family two sons and two daughters came to Ohio about the year 1834. The two sons bought land together, but after five or six years. they divided t8tract, each receiving 11ii8 acres, and they both spent the remained of their lives on the land which they first selected, Clark, who never married, dying at the age of 1488 -nty-five years: His farm was HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1489 sold some forty years ago. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. Horace Hunt lived and died on the farm which he selected on first coming to Ohio. He did masonry work in connection with his agriculture and he was a public-spirited man, interested in all worthy enterprises; and he served as captain of militia of Vermont, thus acquiring the title which remained with him during the residue of his life. He was well posted in political matters and was a believer in spiritualism, dying in that faith on the 9th of March, 1878. He had married at Tunbridge, Vermont, December 23, 1830, Sophronia Durkee, mentioned above, and she died on the 24th of February, 1895. She remained on the homestead farm after the death of her husband, but the last three or four years of her life were spent with her son Henry, and she died in her ninety-third year. Their family numbered five sons, and the first born was Charles, a resident of Brooklyn, New York. He was an editor for some years at Girard, Pennsylvania, and for twenty years, dating from 1864, was a proofreader with the New York Tribune. He also served for many years in the same capacity on "Johnson's Cyclopedia" and other historical and law works. John, the second born son, is a farmer and fruit grower in Benzie county, Michigan. Franklin died on the old homestead at the age of twenty-one years. George spent his life mainly on this same farm, but he died on a place one mile south of Conneaut, where he had lived for a few years. Henry H. Hunt continued at home with his parents until the age of seventeen, and then entered upon an apprenticeship as a printer, with the old weekly Reporter at Conneaut, which was under the management of D. C. Allen, serving three years in the capacity of "devil" and one year in another department. Mr. Allen was also the first regular postmaster at Conneaut, and young Hunt was made his assistant, entering upon his duties as assistant postmaster on the 1st of April, 1861, and he served in that capacity for two years. Then, during a similar period, he was a deputy under J. C. A. Bushnell, auditor at Jefferson, and was then made a clerk in the quartermaster's department at Camp Nelson, Kentucky. In this capacity he assisted in purchasing the munitions of war for the Army of the Cumberland until about the close of the war. In 1867 Mr. Hunt published a daily paper at Petroleum Center, Pennsylvania, in connection with C. G. Griffey, also from Conneaut, but after one year Mr. Hunt sold his interest in the paper,. and for three terms thereafter served as a township assessor. In 1869 he was made the deputy county auditor under W. H. Crowell, and remained in that capacity until made census enumerator in 1870 for the northeastern part of Ashtabula county, and remained in that office for one season. In 1873 he was appointed by General Garfield as a postal clerk over the J. & F. Railroad, and remained eleven years in that capacity, resigning in 1884. On April 30, 1888, at the old Hunt farm, he was married to Agnes E. Howard, a daughter of George W. and Sarah Howard, who lived on an adjoining farm. At this time Mr. Hunt took possession of the parental farm, and also cared for his mother during the remainder of her life. In 1893 he bought his present home, ad moved thereto in 1894. The marriage union of Mr. and Mrs. Hunt has been blessed by the birth of three children—Harrison, Althea and Helen. Harrison is a student at Alleghany College, and both he and his sister are graduates of the Conneaut high school, and Helen is now a student at that institution. The family is connected with the Unitarian Society at Conneaut, although Mr. Hunt is a Spiritualist in belief. He is an active Republican, and has served as a delegate to county, district and state conventions. AUGUSTUS H. BACON was born March 30, 1845, and is a son of David A. and Laura (Grant) Bacon. His grandfather,' Chozens Bacon, was born in Windsor, Connecticut, about 1776, and died in 1847. He came to Palmyra, Portage county, Ohio, in 1800, with a team, and there engaged in farming. He married a Miss Thompson, the first white female born in the Western Reserve, and their children were : David A. ; Lucius, who died in Michigan ; Jarvis, who contracted sickness while engaged in transporting slaves from the South to' the North, and died from the effect ; Harris, who died in Iowa, and Florilla, born in 1815, married Orville K. Nye (deceased) and lives in Iowa. David A. Bacon was born December 16, 1805, in Palmyra, Ohio, and died in 1887. He was a carpenter by trade, and became a farmer, owning several farms. He lived in Trumbull township forty years ad was bullied there. He was a strong abolitionist, and was a conductor in the "Underground Railway" system. He married Laura Grant, born in 1490 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE 1800, and their children were : Clarinda, born in 1831, died in 1859, the wife of Erland Morgan ; Clarissa, born in 1834, married John A. Bower ; Charlotte, born in 1836, died in 1900, unmarried ; Laura E., born in 1839, married T. W. Jackson, and lives in Geneva ; David A.; who died at the age of four, born in 1840, and Augustus H. Augustus H. Bacon attended school in Trumbull and at Painesville. Ohio. He ran away from home and enlisted in the Twenty-ninth Ohio, Company A, in 1862, and three weeks later his father found him and brought him home. In 1864 he again enlisted in the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Ohio, Company C, and served until the .end of the war. In 1873 Mr. Bacon began collecting in Philadelphia for the Cleveland Lightning Rod Company, and worked at it two seasons ; he next engaged in life insurance, and spent six years working for the United States Company of New York, and then worked several years in the hardware business in southern Michigan, and for five years owned hardware stores at LeRoy, New York, ad several other places. For the past eighteen years Mr. Bacon has been handling wholesale whips, and his territory covers the Western Reserve and some outside. He has taken the following degrees in Masonry: Master Mason. in Hartsgrove Lodge, No. 397 ; Grand River Chapter, No. 104 ; Conneaut Council, No. 40; Columbian Commandery, No. 52, Ashtabula Al Koran Temple, Oasis of Cleveland. He and his wife. are members of Lily Chapter, No. 21, Eastern Star, of which he was the first patron. He also belongs to C. Brainerd Post, of Trumbull, Grand Army of the Republic, in which he takes much interest. Mr. Bacon is an able salesman, and his success has been gained by industry and good business principles. He has the confidence of his customers and also of his employers, and is conscientious and upright in all his dealings. Mr. Bacon married, in 1867, Victoria C. Leslie, born December i6, 1853, daughter of William and Selina (Eckman) Leslie, both deceased. Mr. Bacon and his wife have one daughter, Austa Lenora, born December 25, 1874, in Trumbull township. She married J. B. Blackmer, assistant superintendent of the Cleveland Furnace Company, at Cleveland, Ohio, where they reside, and they have one daughter; Agnes. Lenora, born December 16, 1898. FRANK W. PARKER, of Hartsgrove Center, was born May 9, 1859, in Ohio, and is a son of Joseph and Annis (Barber) Parker. His great-grandfather, Jonathan Parker, a soldier in the Revolution, and his grandfather are mentioned at length in connection with the sketch of Zera Cook Parker, found elsewhere in this work. Joseph Parker was born in 1818, in Windsor township, Ashtabula county, and became a farmer and cheese maker in Portage county. He married (first) Miss Morris, and his children were : Alice, Mrs. Thompson, lives at Chagrin Falls, Ohio ; and Ellen, married Charles Farmer and lives at Auburn, Ohio. Joseph Parker married (second) Annis Barber, who, had children as follows : Frank W.; Hattie, married Sidney Cook and lives in Orwell ; Will married Lulu Barnard, lives in Cleveland and works in a sawmill ; and Lettie lives in Cleveland, the wife of Gustavus Barnard. Frank W. Parker attended school at Streetsboro, and after leaving school began working in a cheese factory, which work he has since continued. He spent fourteen years in the factory at Orwell, ad for the past ten years has been in the factory at Hartsgrove Center, where he is now occupied. He is an expert at his trade, and his patrons have always been well satisfied with the product turned out by him. He is stockholder and director in the Orwell Bank. Mr. Parker served several years as school director and one year as township treasurer. He is a member of Orwell Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has passed through the chairs. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Parker married, in 1884, Florence, daughter of Charles and Eliza (Wingate) Harbaugh, both deceased ; she was born January 23, 1860. They have one child, Verne H., born April 26, 1892. MRS. CHARLOTTE: (ASHTON ) SMITH. -- A lifelong resident of Huron county and the representative of an honored pioneer family, Mrs. Charlotte A. Smith was born, September 19, 1837, in Lyme township, a daughter of Thomas and Mary Ashton. She comes of English ancestry, her grandfather, Edward Ashton, having emigrated from England to this country. Edward Ashton spent the larger part of his life in his native land, coming from there to Ohio in 1831. He located in Peru HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1491 township, and on a tract of timbered land. that he bought erected a log house ad began the improvement. of a farm. He made but little progress, however, his death occurring there the following year, just as he had passed the seventieth anniversary .of his birth. His wife, whose maiden name was Margaret Boles, Survived him, passing away in 1863, at the age of eighty-four years. She reared, seven children, namely : James, Thomas, John, Edward, Margaret, Jane and Mary. Thomas Ashton was born, December 25, 1810, in Lancashire, England, and was there bred and educated. In 1831 he came with the family to the United States, being seven weeks in crossing the Atlantic in a sailing vessel. He assisted in clearing the land purchased by his father, remaining at home until his marriage. Locating then in Lyme township, Huron county, he bought partly improved land, upon which a frame house had been erected, one of the very few then in the township, and in addition a fine orchard of apple, cherry and peach trees was growing. Continuing the improvements already inaugurated, he was there busily employed in general farming until his death, June 2, 1879. He married, in July, 1836, Mary Edgar, who was born in Somersetshire, England, March 19, .1815, a daughter of Joseph and Charlotte (Kirby) Edgar. Mrs. Charlotte Edgar died in England, and after her death Joseph Edgar came to Ohio, arriving in 1831, and settled in Lyme township, where he purchased the farm on which he lived until his death, in the meantime having married again. His children, all by his first marriage, were Mary, who married Thomas Ashton ; George, Philip and Daniel. Mrs. Ashton, the oldest child, attained the .venerable age of ninety-one years, passing away April 14, 1906. She reared three children, namely : Charlotte, now Mrs. Smith ; Ruth A.; who married Russell Prentice and died December 30, 1907, and. Henry E. Mrs. Smith received excellent educational advantages in the public schools, and for two years was engaged in teaching. At the age of nineteen years. she married Welding Egle Smith, who was born in Plymouth, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, which was also the birthplace of his father, Francis J. Smith. His grandfather, John Smith, born in Connecticut, of English ancestors, was a pioneer settler of Plymouth, Pennsylvania. He was a, man of great energy and enterprise, decidedly, progressive in spirit, and he and his brother were the first to introduce hard coal to heat houses, making the first grates ever used and introducing them to their neighbors, showing them how to use them. He died in Pennsylvania at a comparatively early age. Francis J. Smith came ,as a young man to Huron county, Ohio, and having established a plow factory at North Monroeville, operated it a few years. Going from here to Put-in-Bay, he bought land, established a vineyard and was there successfully employed in raising grapes and making wine until his death, in September, 1865. He was twice married, his first wife having been the mother of Welding E. Smith. His second wife survived him and subsequently died in Santa Barbara, California. But three years old when his mother died, Welding, E. Smith came with his father to Ohio at the age of fourteen and was associated with him in the manufacture of plows, finally succeeding to the business, which he continued alone for ten years. He then sold out, but a year later established another plow factory, which he conducted for a while. Then, in company with his son, he established a bending factory, with which he was connected during the remainder of his active life. He died at his summer home, in Put-in-Bay, July 9, 1900. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Smith has occupied her pleasant home in Monroeville. She has three children living, namely : Walter Ashton, Hiram E. and Charles Lewis. Walter Ashton, a, prominent resident of Oberlin, Kansas, married Julia McGrew May 10, 1893, at Hildreth, Nebraska, and they have three children, Marion Ashton, Lucile Evelyn and. Corinne Alice. He is an ardent Episcopalian and is building a church, at his own expense, in Oberlin, Kansas, and dedicated in memory of his mother. Hiram E., who operates a bending factory in Galion, Ohio, married Hattie Fish, and they have two children. Walter Buckingham and Dortohy Edgar. Charles Lewis, of Monroeville, a tile manufacturer, married Emma Zorn, and they have one child, Grace Evelyn. Six of Mrs. Smith's children have passed to the higher life, namely : Sheldon, who married Bessie Brown, died, leaving a child, Earle Sheldon ; Mary E., who died fifteen months after her marriage with Dr. Richard Clippinger, was graduated from Hillside College, after which she took a post-graduate course at Ann Arbor, and was subsequently a teacher in a high school for ten years, the last four years of the time being in Toledo ; Mabel Caroline, born July 27, 1872, died February 5, 1884 ; Lottie Augusta, born August 6, 1877, died February 1492 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE 9, 1884 ; Allison Henry, born January 18, 1861, Died January 1, 1895, and Francis Draper, born April 26, 1862, was last heard from in the state of Washington and is supposed to be "deceased. Mrs. Smith is a consistent and valued member of the Epiicopal church, and has brought up her family in the same religious belief. DR. VINE HALL TUTTLE is a respected and well-known physician and surgeon of Orwell township, Ashtabula county, who was born in Geneva, Ohio, on the 3rd of December, 18 His parents were Daniel and Adeline (Bowers) Tuttle and he was the only child of their marriage. The father; who at different times was proprietor of a bus line and of a small dairy farm, is a man of practical and honest character, but of modest ambition, who has played his good part in the world and now resides in Geneva, Ohio. It was in the schools of that place that Vine. H. received his early education, but his ambition looked far beyond the possibilities of the small home farm. By determination and careful management he was able to attend the Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis, from which he graduated in 1894 with his professional degree. The succeeding year was spent in a dispensary of that city, after which he located in Orwell township as the professional associate Dr. C. T. Grover. Both in that connection and as an independent practitioner he has won a substantial reputation for professional skill, and as a citizen is a strong influence for good. On June 25, 1900, Dr. Tuttle married Miss Bessie Brown, of Dorset, Ohio, and they have one child, Mildred, born January 6, 1904, who is at home attending school. THOMAS G. BRIGGS represents one of the first families to seek a home in Medina county, and through all the many years that have intervened since their settlement in the Western Reserve the members of this pioneer family have been conspicuously identified with the history of this community. Daniel G. Briggs the father of Thomas G., was born at East Bloomfield in Ontario county, New York October 13, 1818, a son of Thomas and Abigail (Gregg) Briggs, the father from Massachusetts and of Scotch-Irish descent, and the mother from. New Hampshire and ' of an English family. Daniel G. was one of their ten children, namely, Louisa, Alinda, Daniel G., Abiql, George, Silas, Benjamin, John, Warren and Maria. Two of the daughters married in June of 1834, about the time the family started on their westward journey, Louisa wedding Washington Crane and Alinda married Barnabus Crane. The family, with the exception of these two married daughters, started in 1834 for what was then the far west, their destination being Chicago, Illinois, and, shipping their household goods by boat, the family, with their live stock and sufficient provisions, started on an overland journey. Arriving at :Chicago, they found their goods already there, but almost worthless on account of a leaking in the vessel, and further, they found what they had selected as their future home was but a swampy wilderness on the shore of the lake, with old Fort Dearborn the sole sign of human habitation, and malignant fevers and malaria prevailing. Completely discouraged by this dreary outlook and the loss of his household effects, Thomas Briggs sold his horses and Outfit for passage money as far as Cleveland, Ohio, where his two daughters and their husbands had already located, and thus was established the Briggs family in Medina county. The country about Sharon Center at that time. was solidly covered with timber, and Daniel G. Briggs assisted his father in clearing the land. and preparing their home, and in time married Rhoda Ann Pratt. . His life's span has covered more than. the years allotted to man, but they had been years of purposes well directed, years of loyalty to his family and community, and now, in the evening of his long and useful life, he is enjoying the respect and reverence of all who. know him. The home which he originally built was destroyed by fire and his present edifice is a substantial and modern one and contains many pieces of furniture valued for their antiquity and for their associa, tions of other days, and the famous, row of pines extending for a mile on either side of the avenue 'which they form, like soldiers on dress parade, are famous landmarks in this section of the county. These trees were planted by the Briggs family and their neighbors many years ago, and they have grown to be mighty pines and form a connecting link between the primitive past and the progressive future. Mr. Briggs has traveled much and is familiar with both the past and present conditions of the country between Chicago and his present home, the road over which he traveled when but a mere boy, and where he experienced almost his first disappointment in life's activities and for a short time the hard- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1493 ships and privations which existed in the dismal swamp about old Fort Dearborn. Thomas G. Briggs, a son of this revered old pioneer of Medina county, was born in Sharon township April 2, 1841, and his educational training was received in the district schools of his home community and in the township high school, and his home has always been on the old Briggs farmstead and where he is now one of the foremost agriculturists of Sharon township. He married in his earlier life Mary C. Crane, from their present locality in Sharon township, and she is a daughter of another of the community's honored pioneer residents and farmers, Joseph W. Crane. The four children which have blessed this marriage union are : Herbert B., C. Lee, Ward D. and Edith. The eldest son, Herbert B. Briggs, is an architect in Cleveland, a member of the firm of Briggs & Nelson, while C. Lee Briggs, the second son, is a contractor in Akron. The youngest son, Ward D. carries on the farm. Mr. Briggs has been identified with the Grange Society since 1873. In politics he is independent and supports the man rather than the party. The family are members of the Universalist faith and attend the church at Sharon Center, which was built by their forefathers in 1851. ROY W. BARNARD, a leading farmer of Windsor township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, was born in that township July 28, 1874, and is a son of William and Harriet (Goddard) Barnard. His grandfather, Moses Barnard, Jr., was born April 5, 1798, in Connecticut, and died. February 1, 1847, in Ohio. He came to Ohio in 1813, with his father, Moses Barnard. Moses Barnard, Sr., was a Revolutionary soldier, and is buried here in Windsor. Moses, Barnard, Jr., settled in Windsor township, in the wilderness, and married Jemima Norris, born January 13, 1776, and their children were : Lorinda, born April 18, 1821, died November 22, 1884, married (first)' Henry Payne, deceased, and (second) Shipley Eddy, deceased ; William ; Edward, born January 21, 1827, died in 1895, unmarried ; Leverett, born August 13, 1832, died; unmarried, Feb' ruary 17, 1864, was a captain in the Union army ; and Hamilton, born July 11, 1836, married Emma Morehouse, and they live in Trumbull county, Ohio. Edward Barnard was a soldier on the Confederate side, in the Sixtieth Kentucky regiment, came home after the war, and removed south, where he died. William Barnard was born November 10. 1823, in Windsor township, and died January 19, 1897. He was' quite prominent in public affairs, served three years as county commissioner and about fourteen years as justice of the peace. In the latter capacity he settled many estates in 'Windsor township. He also served as township trustee and school director. He was a prominent and active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a constant attendant of the meetings and services. He was a member of the Windsor Independent Order of Odd Fellows, No. 329, and its encampment, passed the chairs in both and was an active member for many years. He was a member of the famous "Squirrel Hunters" organization, and was a member of a shooting club, whose other members were : Elzer Rawdon, Edwin Rawdon, Lester Moffatt, two Church brothers and one other. They agreed to attend each other's funerals as long as any of them were alive, and were very close friends. They gathered annually at the home of Mr. Barnard and spent three or four days shooting at a target. Mr. Barnard was very fond of hunting, in which sport he was very proficient. He married, December 5, 1857, Harriet Goddard, who was born December 25, 1832, and still lives in Windsor township. Their children were : Charles L., born April 7, 1866, is a great hunter, runs a grist mill, married Sarah Reynolds and lives in Windsor township ; Grace, bole November 19, 1870, married J. S. Matson, county surveyor, and lives in. Ashtabula ; and Roy W. Roy W. Barnard attended school at Orwell and a business college at Oberlin. He spent two years as a clerk in a store, and later bought out A. W. Green, who had a hardware and general merchandise store at Windsor, and the firm became Kinney & Barnard. He owned the building where Mr. Flagg now has a store, and was in business a year and a half. He. then traveled two years for the Ford Lighting Company, of Garrettsville, Ohio, and since then has been engaged in farming. He rents from his mother 100 acres of land, and in the last two years has put in three, carloads of tile. He has a dairy of twelve cows and raises White Leghorn poultry, keeping 150 hens. He also raises hogs and has kept thirty-five this year. He. is actively interested in public affairs and in political views is a Democrat. He served one term as notary public.. He pays close attention to the business of carrying on his farm, and conducts all his transactions in an able manner. 1494 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE Mr. Barnard married Zelma Rawdon, born June 3, 1879, given further mention in connection with the sketch of Eugene Rawdon, contained elsewhere in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Barnard have no children. He is a member of Windsor Lodge, No. 329, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, has filled the chairs, and has also filled the chairs of the Encampment, to which he belongs. He and his wife are members of the Rebekah Lodge, and she has filled. its offices. MICHAEL CONKLE.—Prominent among the leading citizens of Bellevue is Michael Conkle, who has for many years been an important figure in the real estate affairs of the city, having been actively identified with the transfer of many valuable pieces of property. A native of the Keystone state, he was born, November 26, 1847, in Greensburg, Westmoreland county, where he lived until ten years old. His father, Daniel Conkle, was born in Pennsylvania, and there Michael Conkle, his father, spent his entire life. He was of German parentage. Reared on a farm, Daniel Conkle engaged in agricultural pursuits from early manhood. Coming in 1857 to Ohio, he bought land in Holmes county, and was there a tiller of the soil the remainder of his active years. When ready to retire he moved to Barrs Tuscarawas county, where his death' occurredat the venerable age of eighty-seven years. He was twice married. He married first Eve Kline, who was born in Germany and came to America with her parents in childhood. She died May 3, 1849, leaving three children, namely : Sarah Ann, Elizabeth and Michael. The only son born of his father's first marriage, Michael Conkle began at the age of sixteen years to learn the tanner's trade, serving an apprenticeship of three years. Soon after completing his trade he established a tannery at Bloomfield, Ohio, and conducted it until 1883. Locating then in Bellevue he began carpentering, but soon drifted into the real estate business and has continued until the present time. He has been associated with many extensive deals in realty, having purchased several large tracts of land which he has platted and upon which he has built, subsequently selling at an advantage. In addition to this substantial business, Mr. Conkle is engaged in slate roofing, building and moving buildings, an industry that has proved remunerative. Mr. Conkle married first, in April, 1868, Sarah Elizabeth Asire, who was born in Bloomfield, Coshocton county, Ohio, a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Conrad) Asire, and a granddaughter of Jacob and Mary (Lowe) Conrad. Leonard Asire, Mrs. Conkle's brother, executed with a steel pen a family tree, on which appears the names of more than eight hundred lineal descendants of Jacob and Mary (Lowe) Conrad, the tree being now in Mr. Conkle's possession. Henry and Elizabeth (Conrad) Asire came from Pennsylvania, their native state, to Ohio, settling first in Coshocton county, but spending their later years in Holmes county. Mrs. Sarah E. Conkle died in February, 1889, leaving five children, namely : David Irvine, Ida Elizabeth, Joseph Allen, Vernie Ella and Harley A. David I. married Edna Mellon, and they have three children, Paul, Christine and Dwight Harley. Ida E., wife of Wilson Walters, has three children, Raymond, .Irene and Viola. Joseph A. married Maggie Sliffe, and they have three children, Evelyn, Herbert James and Mervin S. Vernie E. married D. Durst Ruhle. Harley A. married Alma C. Porr. Mr. Conkle married for his second wife, December 20, 1892, Mrs. Elizabeth (Porr) Hogmire, a native of Stark county, Ohio. Her parents, Charles and Elizabeth (Kuhn) Porr, were born, reared and married in Germany. Soon after their marriage they emigrated to this country, locating in Ohio, where he was first employed as a shoemaker, but was after--wards engaged in farming. Both he and his wife spent the last years of their lives in Marshall, Michigan. Mrs. Conkle married, first, Charles Hogmire, who was born in Michigan, a son of 'Frank and Catherine Hogmire. By her first marriage she had two sons, one of whom, Earl W. Hogmire, was killed in a railway accident at the age of twenty years. Her other son, Fred Hogmire, is married and lives in Tekonsha, Michigan. WILLIAM J. HALL has been identified with the interests of Ashtabula county throughout his lire, and during many years has been prominent in the agricultural and public life of Richmond township. Harry Hall, his father, born in the state of New York in 1823, came from Syracuse, that state, to Ohio in 1855 and established his home at Williamsfield in Ashtabula county. But after five years he returned to Syracuse, and his death occurred there in 1896." While in this state he was interested in farming, but in New York was a HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1495 real estate dealer. He married Lucinda Turner, born in Pierpont, Ohio, in 1827, and she died in 1897, the year following her husband's death. Their children are : William J., who was born September I, 1857; Linda, born September 24, 1859, married M. H. Prince, and lives in San Diego, California ; and Arie, born February 13, 1861, married E. E. Lee, and they live in Richmond township. William J. Hall received his educational training in the district schools of Pierpont, and leaving the school room he worked at farm labor until his marriage to Electa Hartson, who was born February 19, 1859, a daughter of John and Lucinda (Oatman) Hartson. John. Hartson, born January 18, 1824, is now living at Leon in Ashtabula county, but his wife, who was born February 6, 1824, died on the 27th of August, 1908. Two children have blessed the marriage union of Mr. and Mrs. Hall, namely : Glenn, who was born January 20, 1890, and Howard; born May 14, 1895. Gladys, born March 28, 1904, is also a member of this household. Mr. Hall is a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity, Ridgley Lodge, No. 716, of Andover, and he is a Republican in politics and prominent in the political life of his community. During twelve years he has served his township as a trustee, and during two terms has been a member of the executive committee of the county, organized to fix the time of elections, etc. He has also served for two terms as a committeeman, and has been a member of the school board. He is a general as well as a dairy farmer, and breeds Holstein cattle. His estate of 154 acres is splendidly improved, and he is one of the progressive business men and public spirited citizens of the community. THOMAS EVERINGIM.,—Noteworthy among the successful agriculturists of Huron county is Thomas Everingim, who by diligent labor has accumulated a competency and is now living in Monroeville, retired from active pursuits, reaping the reward of his many years of persistent toil and enjoying the respect and esteem of his neighbors and friends. A native of Ohio, he was born, April 10, 1837, on a farm near Shelby, Richland county. His father, Peter Everingim, and his grandfather, Ezekiel Everingim, were born and brought up in New Jersey. His great-grandfather, Ezekiel Everingim, served under Washington in the. Revolutionary war, suffering all the hardships and privations of soldier life, and he died Vol. III-15 soon after the close of the war. Ezekiel Everingim, his grandfather, learned the trade of a millwright in his native state, and in 1819 came with his family to Ohio, then the "far West," becoming one of the first settlers of Richland county. Following his trade throughout his active life, he built many of the early mills of the Reserve, and spent his last years at the home of his son Peter in Lyme township, Huron county, passing away July 30, 1849. Born in Newark, New Jersey, June 10, 1809, Peter Everingim was but a boy when he was brought to Ohio, and was here reared amid pioneer scenes. Settlers were then few and far between, and the farmers used to haul their surplus products from Richland to the lake settlements with ox teams. Sandusky was the nearest market place until the canal was extended to Milan. Working with his father, he learned the carpenter's trade and lived in Richland county until 1838, when he settled in Lyme township, Huron county. In that township he bought prairie land, while just across the line in Sherman township he purchased timbered land. Building a substantial hewed log house, he devoted his time to improving his land and tilling the soil. He was very successful, and bought land in Peru township and in Kosciusko county, Indiana. In 1852 he sold his Lyme township property and bought 178 acres in Ridgefield township, and occupied it a number of years. Locating then in. Monroeville, he purchased a comfortable home, and there resided until his death, in 1888, aged nearly four score years. His wife, whose maiden name was Jane Champion, was born in Pennsylvania, but was brought by her parents to Richland county, Ohio, when a child. She died in 1888, leaving seven children, namely : Alfred, John, William, Elizabeth A., Thomas, James S. and Charles T. When his parents removed to Huron county Thomas Everingim was but a year old. The land was in its original wildness, bears, deer, wolves and smaller animals roamed at will. He attended first the district school at Lyme and later at Standersburg, receiving a prac tical education. As a youth he assisted his father on the farm, and while yet a young man began dealing in, stock. Succeeding to the ownership of te homestead, he raised grain and fed stock, and for a number of years shipped cattle, sheep and hogs to Cleveland, Buffalo and New York city ; also bought wool, carrying on an extensive and lucrative 1496 - HISTORY OF THE 'WESTERN RESERVE business in this line until 1901. In 1901 Mr. Everingim purchased an attractive house in Monroeville, where he is now living' retired from active business, enjoying the comforts of life. Mr. Everingim married, in 1875, Josephine A. Rutherford, who was born in Peru township, Huron county, Ohio, a daughter of James Rutherford. Her grandfather, John Rutherford, was born in New York city, but soon after his marriage moved to Lansingburg, New York, where he was engaged in the pork packing business the remainder of his life. James Rutherford was born in Lansingburg, New York, and was there engaged in business with his father for a time. Coming from there to Ohio, he was a pioneer of Lyme township, where he bought a tract of prairie land, at the same time buying timbered land in Sherman township. Building a house, he lived in Lyme township a few years, and then sold and bought a timber tract in Peru township, cleared a space, and in it built the log house in which Mrs. Everingim was born. He improved a part of the land, built a frame house, and at the end of a few years sold out and removed to Ridgefield township, where he bought a farm, on which he lived some time. Removing from there to Monroeville, he lived here retired until his death, spending his last days with Mr. Mild Mrs. Everingim, passing away at the advanced age, of ninety-three years. His wife, whose maidens name was Abby Raver, died at the age of sixty-four years. She reared nine children, namely "Charles, Mary, Catherine, John, Sarah, Lewis, William, Josephine A. and Eliza. Politically Mr. Everingim is a stanch supporter of the principles of the Democratic party, and has served as township trustee of Ridgefield township for fifteen years. Religiously Mr. and Mrs: Everingim are faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal church. LLEWELLYN MONROE CORNWELL.-A man of strong individuality, energetic and capable, Llewellyn M. Cornwell, late of Jefferson, was for many years an active and valued citizen of Ashtabula county, and one of the foremost in advancing its mercantile and industrial interests. A native of this county, he was born April 2, 1849, in Cherry Valley. His father, a farmer by occupation, died at the age of sixty-five years, in Cherry Valley. His mother, whose maiden name was Susan Cornell, died in 1863. From the age of fourteen years, Llewellyn M. Cornwell was practically self-supporting, working for various people, as his services might be required. After his marriage, when twenty-one years old, he was engaged in agricultural pursuits in Cherry Valley for a while, at the same time being employed in peddling meat throughout the southern part of the county.. Being subsequently struck by a falling tree while in the woods; he was quite seriously injured, and, heeding the advice of his ather, opened a store in Cherry Valley, and was there engaged in mercantile pursuits for about fifteen years, meeting with much success as a general merchant. Selling out in 1889, Mr. Cornwell moved to Jefferson, in order to give his son educational and social advantages, and for a number of years carried on a substantial business, selling real estate for himself and others, shipping stock, and buying and selling farming properties. Mr. Cornwell was very 'prominent in public affairs, serving faithfully in various offices. For many years he was trustee of Cherry Valley township ; also of Jefferson township ; was .real estate assessor ; a member of the village council ; and was likewise one of the directors of the Jefferson Banking Company. Fraternally he was active in the Masonic Order, belonging .to the Blue Lodge ; to the Cache Commandery at Conneaut, K. T. ; and to the Al Koran Shrine, of Cleveland. As a .man and a citizen, he was held in high respect, and his death, October 1, 1907, was a distinct kiss to the community. Mr. Cornwell married first, June 28, 1870, Mary Scoville, of .Cherry Valley, an orphan about his own age. She died in March, 1894. Two sons were born of their union, namely : Fonn, who died in infancy ; and Claude C., who was born November 5, 1879, and died October 13, 1901. He was a brilliant scholar and a noted athlete. He was graduated froth the Jefferson Institute with the Class of 1898, and the .same year won a gold medal in the County Oratorical Association's contest. Subsequently entering the literary and law departments of the University of Michigan, he continued his studies there until his death, which was caused by typhoid fever. Mr. Cornwell married. second, May 29, 1895, Maggie M. Mills, of Austinburg township, Ashtabula county,• a daughter. of Lewis J. and Maryette (Webber) Mills, and their only child, Frank Mills Cornwell, was born June 16, 1897. HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1497 HENRY. MILLER.—An enterprising, practical and progressive agriculturist of Huron county, Henry Miller is successfully engaged in general farming and is president of the Miller Hay Company, of Monroeville, Ohio, in the management of his valuable property exercising great skill and good judgment. A native of Ohio, he was born, January 1, 1859, in Ridgefield township, Huron county, of thrifty German ancestry, his .father, William Miller, Jr., and his grandfather, William Miller, Sr., having been born in the province of Baden, Germany. William Miller, Sr., spent the earlier part of his life in Germany, following the tailor's trade in Baden. Coming with. his family to America in 1851, he was employed in tailoring in Sandusky, Ohio, for a number of years, after which he spent a time in Huron county. Going back, howeVer, to Sandusky, he was there a resident until his death, at the venerable age of eighty-two years. His wife, a native of Baden, attained the age of eighty-three years. Their children, nine in number, all came to this country, their names being as follows : Charles, William, Anthony, Christina, Mena, Emma, Angeline, Bena and Sarah. William Miller, Jr., was reared and educated in the Fatherland, living there until eighteen years of age. Of a venturesome spirit and wishing to test for himself the advantages given a poor man in this country, he then came to New York, the voyage, made in a sailing vessel, taking a number of weeks. Locating in Sandusky, Ohio, he worked at the carpenter's trade for a few months, enter- ing the employ of a contractor, who subsequently failed, and he received nothing except a few tools for his work. The following spring he rented land, and as an agriculturist met with such good success that he continued a tiller of the soil the remainder of his life. In 1863 he bought 115 acres of land in Groton township. Erie county, and in addition to farming bought and shipped hay and corn husks. As his means increased he bought other real estate, in due course of time acquiring title to 479 -acres, the greater part of which was improved. He spent the last years of his life of seventy-two years on his farm in Groton township. William Miller, Jr., was twice mar-. ried. He married first Philipena Ohlemacher, who was born in Germany and came to this country with her parents when fourteen years old. She died in 1863. leaving three children, William, Henry and Charles. He married for his second wife Jane Gross, who was .born in Sandusky county, Ohio, coming from Pennsylvania German ancestry. She died in 1906, leaving nine children, namely : Clara, Emma, Rosa, Flora, Lydia, Lawrence, Rudolph, Frank and Chauncey. Acquiring a practical common-school education in the public schools, Henry Miller was reared to habits of industry, and while assisting in the care of the home farm obtained a valuable knowledge of the different branches of agriculture. On attaining his majority he began farming for himself on the parental homestead, which he managed until 1893. Removing 'then to a farm near Monroeville, he remained there until 1907, when he assumed possession of his present farm, which is within the corporate limits of Monroeville. It contains ninety acres of rich and productive land, and as a general farmer Mr. Miller is meeting with fine success, and is also making money in shipping hay and grain. Mr. Miller married, February 22, 1892, Elizabeth Strecker, and they have one son, Clarence Miller. Mrs. Miller's father, Jacob Strecker, a native of Germany, was a pioneer of Groton township, Erie county, where she was born. Politically Mr. Miller is a Democrat, and religiously he is a member of the German Lutheran church. GUST HESS.—Many of the most prosperous and worthy citizens of the Western Reserve are of foreign birth and ancestry and have inherited the characteristics of their people. Among these the Germans are especially noted for their industry, enterprise and thrift, and Gust Hess, a prominent business man of Monroeville, Huron county,. is an excellent repre sentative of this class. A son of the late Frederick Hess, he was born in Schonbach, province of Baden, Germany, August 27, 1849, but was reared and educated in Ohio. Frederick Hess was born in Baden, Germany, and remained in the Fatherland for a few years after his marriage. In 1851, accompanied by his wife and their two children, he emigrated to the United States, being several weeks crossing the ocean in a sailing vessel. Coming directly to Ohio, he was employed as a carpenter in the railway shops in Sandusky, where he got a good start in life, but did not live long enough to accumulate any property, his death occurring in 1853. He married Josephine Hauser., who at his death was left a 1498 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE widow in a strange land with three small children, Barbara, Gust and Mary, to bring up and educate. A child of two years when he came to this country, Gust Hess has no personal knowledge of his native land. After the death of his father his widowed mother moved first to Havana, Ohio, thence to Standardburg, and from there going to Reedtown. In each of these places he made the best of his opportunities to secure an education, but his advantages were necessarily limited. At the age of twelve years he began to learn the hatter's trade with H. L. Wilson, who sold his establishment a year later. He then began an apprenticeship at the trade of a tinsmith, entering the employ of R. G. Martin and receiving $50 the first year for his work, $75 the second year and. $100 the third year. After completing his apprenticeship, Mr. Hess worked as a journeyman for a time. In' 1875, in company with his brother William, he opened a store in Norwalk, Ohio, putting in a stock of tinware, stoves, etc., and continued in business until 1879. Coming th,en to Monroeville, Mr. Hess purchased Ben Bauman's hardware store, stock and good will, and carried on a substantial trade in that line until 1903., when the business was incorporated under the name of the Hess Hardware Company, with Mr. Hess as a leading stockholder. He., does not give his personal attention .to the management of the business, however, but is busily and profitably engaged in the manufacture of cement shingles and other cement products. On May 3, 1875, Mr. Hess married Emma Urlau, a native of Bellevue, Huron county, Ohio, being a daughter of Robert Urlau. Her grandfather, Christian Urlau, was born in Saxony., but settled in early manhood in Baden, Germany, where he followed the trade of printer and bookbinder during the remainder of his life. Robert Urlau was born in Munzingen, Baden, and there learned the cooper's trade. At. the age of twenty-three years he set sail for America, and after a voyage of fifty-three clays landed in New York. Coming from there to the Western Reserve he located in Norwalk, where he was first employed as a maltster and later as a groceryman, continuing there five years. Coming then to Monroeville, he was here similarly, employed the remainder of his active life, passing away in July, 1899; aged seventy-four years. Mr. Urlau married Christina Cipfel, who was born in Kirchhoffen, Baden, Germany, and died in Monroeville, Ohio, at the age of seventy-nine years. She reared three children, as follows : Mary ; Emma, wife of Mr. Hess, and Henry, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Hess are, the parents of seven children, namely : Robert, who married Laura Philips, of Ft. Wayne, Indiana ; Roman ; Henrietta, widow of Harry M. Goodwin, hag one child, Harry M.; Mamie, wife of Ralph S. Powley, has one son, Robert Urlau ;, Elizabeth ; Josephine, wife of Clarence H. Cipfel ; and Charles. The family occupy one of the many pleasant homes of Monroeville, it being located on one of the leading thoroughfares of the city, and in it they take pleasure in entertaining their friends. JAY BRIGGS HILLIARD.—Prominent among the business men of Wadsworth is numbered Mr. Jay Briggs Hilliard, the president of the Hilliard & Curry Company, furniture dealers and undertakers, and this is one of the largest corporations of its kind in the, city. Mr. Hilliard was born on a farm near Wadsworth in Medina county, October 10, 1869, and this old homestead had been cleared of its timber by his ,grandfather, Robert Hilliard. He is a son of Henry H. and Adele (Pardee) Hilliard, the paternal family being of old Massachusetts stock who trace their origin to William the Conqueror, while the Pardee family is of French descent, and they came to Ohio from the commonwealth of New York. Mrs. Hilliard is a granddaughter of Judge Pardee, and William Pardee was her father. Jay B. Hilliard received his elementary education in the schools of his home vicinity, this being later supplemented by a course at the Wadsworth normal, and his first business experience was on the farm with his father. Leaving the homestead he entered upon a clerkship in the store of C. S. Danneley in Wadsworth, and later began learning telegraphy in the local office of the Erie railroad there, under the instructions of the agent, G. S. Ilger. Becoming proficient in this art he was able to enter the railroad service when but eighteen years of age as a substitute and extra operator at various stations on the road, and he remained in the service of the company for twelve years. At this time the partnership ,with E. S. Curry was formed, he becoming the secretary of the firm. They carry a large and well-selected line of furniture of all kinds, and as undertakers their skill has become known throughout this community. Mr. Hilliard has become the president of the corpo- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1499 ration, which is incorporated. Although yet young in years, he has been faVored with municipal and township offices, having served his township two terms as its clerk, and during a similar period was the clerk of the village of Wadsworth. He is both a Mason and an Odd Fellow, being thus prominently identified with the fraternal life of his city. By his marriage to Miss Nola Pinkerton, of Apple Creek, in Wayne county, Ohio, and a daughter of J. B. Pinkerton, now residing at Wadsworth, he has six children, Frank C., Claude P., Harry P., Robert J., Benjamin and Ivan. He is a member of the Lutheran church. EDWIN PRENTISS.-A hale and hearty man, bearing with ease and dignity his burden of four score and three years, Edwin Prentiss has been an important factor in aiding the growth and development of Huron county, being more especially interested in advancing the material welfare of Monroeville, which has been his home for nearly thirty years. A native of New York, he was born, February 7, 1826, in Avon, Livingston county, a son of Jonathan Prentiss, a prominent pioneer of this part of the Western . ReserVe. His grandfather. Samuel Prentiss, a natiVe of New London, Connecticut, served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Leaving his New England home, he lived for a number of years in Chenango county, New York, from there coming to Huron county, Ohio, where he resided until his death, at the age of ninety years. His wife, whose maiden name was Grace Turner, was born in New London, Connecticut, and died in Monroeville, Ohio, at the remarkable age of one hundred and one years, seVen months and five days. She reared four sons and one daughter. Jonathan Prentiss was born in New London, Connecticut, in 1796, and was there brought up and married. Migrating with his family to Livingston county, New York, he operated two farms in Avon, and at one time managed a hotel in that place: In 1833, with his wife and four children, he started westward with hired teams, driving as far as Rochester, New York. There he embarked on a canal boat to Buffalo, thence by the lake to Huron, and from there with hired teams to Lyme township, Huron county. In company with his cousin, George Turner, he bought 200 acres of land in that township, a part of the place, on which stood two houses and a barn, being improVed. The country roundabout was then thinly populated, and deer and other kinds of game were plentiful, supplying the family larders with an abundance of venison and other meats. Selling his interest in the farm at the end of two years, he was engaged for about two years in breaking prairie, using four pairs of oxen and a pair of horses in the work. He then bought back the farm that he had sold, and later purchased 100 acres of adjoining land. There were at that time no railroads in the state, the principal markets being Milan and Sandusky. On one occasion a merchant in Jackson, Michigan, had bought goods for his store, and had them shipped by way of the lake. The lake froze, and the boat could get no farther than Cleveland, and Mr. Jonathan Prentiss, with his horse team, drew some of the goods to Jackson. After being successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits for a number of years he removed to Monroeville, and here liVed retired from active pursuits until his death in 1884. Jonathan Prentiss was twice married. He married first Mary Fitch, who was born in Connecticut and died in New York in 1828, leaving four children, Mary, John, Edwin and Lucy. To his second marriage five children were born. Seven years of age when he came with the family to Ohio, Edwin Prentiss remembers well the incidents of the journey and the primitive life of the pioneers, who suffered untold privations and hardships in their efforts to obtain homes where their children and their descendants might enjoy the comforts, even the luxuries, of life without the labor and toil that marked their pathway. He atteded the pioneer school of his district, where the teacher received a dollar a week salary and boarded herself. Norwalk and Bellevue were then mere hamlets, and even at a much later date the township officers were meagerly paid, the trustees in 1860 receiving, respectively, $10, $12 and $15. Begininng life for himself as a farmer, he rented land, and the first year put in 155 acres of corn and a few acres of potatoes ad tobacco. He sold his corn in Milan for thirty-eight cents a bushel. Subsequently Mr. Prentiss went with his brother-in-law to Michigan, and bought 540 acres of timber land lying ten miles from Detroit. Renting a nearby farm, he had the wood cut and teamed to Detroit, continuing there a year. Returning then t0 Huron county, or what was then Erie county, he resumed his agricultural labors. Since 1880 Mr. Prentiss has resided in Monroeville, practically retired, but being very active he takes great interest in the management of his 200 acres of land near the city,