1200 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE ber, 1848. The father became a land owner in this country, owning an estate of 150 acres, and the son James remained in the parental home until his marriage, on the 31st of October, 1865, to Susan Shalliday, and he then began for himself on fifty-two acres of land which he had purchased. Mr. and Mrs. Copeland have become the parents of three sons and four daughters—Will, David, Bessie, Mary, Stella and Belle (twins), and Roy ; but, David, Stella and Belle are now deceased. The four living children are married, the eldest son, Will, living in Braceville; Trumbull county, Ohio, and Bessie, Mary and Roy are in Portage county. They also have six grandchildren—Harold, James and Margery Curtis, and Eva, Waldo and Kenneth Copeland. The daughter Mary is now Mrs. W. H. Loomis. In his political affiliations Mr. Copeland is a Republican, and he has held the office of justice of the, peace for six years. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a charter member of the Grange, and a member of and a deacon in the Congregational church. W. H. CONNOR, storekeeper for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad shops at Painesville, is a native son of that city, and was born there March 30, 1867; he is the son of Mark Connor, a former employe of the same company. Mark Connor came from Long Island to Painesville about 1857 ; he was employed for several years by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, formerly called Pittsburg & Western Railroad, serving as foreman in the maintenance of way department, supervisor of section men, etc., and at the time vessels were loaded and unloaded by hand, before the establishing of the dock company, he was foreman of this work, then of considerable importance. For some years before his death he was employed by the Painesville Gas Light & Coke Company. He died in 1888, at the age of fifty-eight. Mark Connor married Elizabeth Nestor, of Hudson, New Yofk ; she was born in Ireland and was left an orphan at the age of eighteen, by the death of her father, who was a cattle drover, and while shipping to England he was killed in a wreck in that country. Her mother had died a few days after reaching the United States. Three sisters were left, and Elizabeth lived with a family in Hudson, New York. She afterwards visited a sister who was married and had settled in Painesville, and was there married, having for merly met her husband in New York. She saw, when a girl, the first train to run on the track of the New York Central Railroad. She has been living at the same location for fifty years. Mark and Elizabeth (Nestor) Connor became the parents of ten children, of whom nine are living. W. H. Connor as a boy attended the public and Catholic schools, and at the age of thirteen entered the employ of the nursery firm of Storrs & Harrison Company, remaining with them for seven years. He then spent some time in the employ of Hill Clutch Company, manufacturers of a friction clutch, in the capacity of assistant superintendent of their works. For the past ten years Mr. Connor has been identified with railroads, beginning at Alleghany with the Pittsburg & Western road. Since September 1, 1904, he has been a resident of Painesville, identified with the Baltimore & Ohio road, of which he is now storekeeper, having three assistants in his office and ten outside men to handle material. The stock in his charge sometimes amounts to $88,000, and in one month he has issued as much as $44,00o worth of material, mostly for the use of the Painesville shops. Mr. Connor takes a keen interest in public affairs, and in 1905 was the registered nominee of the Democratic party for the office of county clerk, though the Republican sentiment in the county overbore him. He is a member of the Democratic county central committee, of which he was at one time secretary, and he is secretary of the central committee of Lake County Law Enforcement Association. He spent considerable time and energy to carry the county for the cause of temperance; the great efforts put forth in this direction have resulted in great benefit for the railroad employes, as well as many others. He is a member of St. Mary's Catholic church. Fraternally he is a mem.ber of the Knights of Columbus, of which he is deputy grand knight. Mr. Connor married, November 22, 1905, Anna Gaffney, of Painesville, and they are the parents of two children, Gertrude and Mark. WILLIS A. CARLTON.—Possessing a thorough knowledge of his chosen occupation, and carrying it on with both pleasure and profit, Willis A. Carlton is one of the foremost agriculturists of Lafayette township, Medina county. His farm, which is finely located, is highly improved, and has a substantial dwelling house, two good barns, and is well   HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1201 equipped with all the necessary modern machinery and appliances for successfully carrying on his chosen work. A son of the late William A. Carlton, he was born August 1, 1861, on the farm where he now resides, coming from thrifty New England ancestors, the founder of the Carlton family having settled in New England on coming to this country. Solomon Carlton, grandfather of Willis A., was born, in November, 1773, in Groton, Massachusetts, and there spent the early part of his life. About 1804 or 1805 he moved to Saint Lawrence county, New York, but not liking that part of the country remained there a comparatively short time. Coming in 1827 to Portage county, Ohio, he took up a tract of timbered land, erected a log house in the woods, and, having cleared a part of his purchase, was there employed in tilling the soil until his death, June 13, 1856. He married Nabby Haven, also a native of Groton, Massachusetts, and they reared five children—Solomon, Eri, William A., Rebecca and Betsy. William A. Carlton was born February 7, 1812, near Santa Cruz, on an island in the. St. Lawrence river, which was Canadian soil, and was a lad of about fifteen when they came to Ohio. He was a sturdy lad, and did his full share of cutting down the huge giants of the forest and assisting his parents in establishing a home in the wilds. In 1834 he bought 108 acres of forest covered land in Lafayette township, Medina county, paying three dollars and seventy-five cents an acre. The ensuing winter he cleared seven acres of the timber, which he planted in corn, in the meantime keeping bach- elor'shall, an irksome and unsatisfactory way of living. Taking unto himself a wife, therefore, he continued his labors, improving a good homestead, on Which he resided until his death, January 20, 1899. He married, November 11, 1836, one of his old schoolmates, Lydia A. Thomas, who was born in Adams township, Jefferson county, Ohio, a daughter of Benajah C. and Nabby (Sanger) Thomas, both natives of Connecticut, his birth having occurred in Roxbury, and hers in Norwich, the Thomas family being of Welsh descent, and the Sangers of French origin. She was one of a family of twelve children—eight sons and four daughters—eleven of whom grew to years of maturity. Mrs. William A. Carlton died March 4, 1885, fourteen years before the death of her husband. Their union was blessed by the birth of eleven children, as follows : Celia N. died in August, 1899; William E., living in Chatham township ; Charles A. died in the twenty-eighth year of his age, September 1, 1870; Franklin H. died January 9, 1885 ; Mary. L., wife of I. W. Gates, of Lodi ; George W., a farmer in Lafayette township ; Julius C., also a farmer in Lafayette township ; Eli S., engaged in agricultural pursuits, also of Lafayette township ; Marvin A., living in Chatham township ; Lydia A. died at the age of three months ; and Willis A., the subject of this sketch. The youngest member of the parental household, Willis A. Carlton received his elementary education in the district school, after which he attended high school one term. He subsequently taught school one winter, but at the death of his father turned his attention entirely to agriculture, buying out the interest of the remaining heirs in the home farm, which consists of 141 acres of choice land. Here Mr. Carlton is pursuing his independent occupation successfully, making a specialty of growing sheep for their wool, and likewise for market, producing a superior, quality of mutton. Mr. Carlton married, in 1886, Zildia Eaken, of Lafayette township, a, daughter of Abraham H. and Anna E. (Smith) Eaken. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Carlton, namely : C. Wayne ; Jesse L., died in infancy ; Letha Annitta ; Lillian A. ; Clayton Howard ; Floyd Hiram and Clarence Ward, who died in infancy. Mrs. Zildia Carlton died February 9, 1901, leaving an unblemished record as a devoted wife and mother, a sincere friend, and a conscientious, member of the United Brethren church. Mr., Carlton married second, February 14, 1904, Ella I. Knepper, of Westfield township, Medina county, a daughter of George and Alice (Harrington) Knepper, and they have two children, Forest Wayland Carlton and Genevieve Elizabeth. WILLIAM DECKER.-A farmer of well-known ability, William Decker, of Henrietta township, Lorain county, has had an extended experience in agricultural pursuits, and may well be considered an authority on this particular branch of industry. Born, August 20, 1875, on the farm where he now resides, he has performed his full share in bringing the estate to its present state of good cultivation, and is now reaping profitable harvests each season. His father, Emanuel Decker, was born in 1837, in Wurtemberg, Germany, and at the age 1202 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE of ten years came with his parents to this country, and for a number of years resided in Brighton, Ohio, where he learned the trade of a wagon maker. At the age of twenty years he bought a tract of timbered land in Henrietta township, and immediately began the pioneer labor of redeeming a homestead from the wilderness. Hopeful, courageous and persevering, he cleared a large part of the land, made. improvements of value, and here lived, a trustworthy and respected citizen, until his death. He married Elizabeth Winger, who was born in 1842, in Switzerland, and came with her parents to Henrietta township, Lorain county, in 1868. Six children blessed their union, namely : Frederick, born in .1872 ; Bertha, born in 1873; William, the subject of this brief biographical sketch ; Charles, born May 15, 1877, died in November, 1898 ; Lydia, born February 15, 1880, died October 25, 1895 and Lewis Arthur, born September 10, 1883: Succeeding to the ownership of the parental farm, William Decker is managing it with characteristic enterprise and success. He has continued the improvements already begun, each year adding to the value of his property. Faithfully performing his obligations as a loyal citizen, he has filled various official positions, having served as constable of the township, and, for ten years being road supervisor. Politically he is identified with the Republican party, and fraternally he belongs to the Henrietta Grange. Religiously he is a consistent member of the German Methodist church. GEORGE REICHARD BYERS stands at the head of a large industrial enterprise in Ravenna, and has built up a fine trade in the carriage business. His large repository, thirty by fifty feet in dimensions, was erected in 1891, and he keeps it constantly stocked with a large and well selected line of buggies and carriages. Mr. Byers was born in Milton township, Mahoning county, Ohio, August 4, 1847, a son of Frederick and Anna (Reichard) Byers, who were born in Guilford township, Franklin county, Pennsylvania; and he is a grandson of Frederick Byers, also from Franklin county, and of John Reichard. Mr. Byers continued on at the home farm until after the death of both his parents, attending both the district schools, and after his father's death he purchased, with his brother John, the old Byers farm and followed general farming and stock raising. In 1895 he also bought three acres of land just south of Ravenna, and thereon he built his home in 1897, and in the same year entered upon his successful career as a retail dealer in buggies. Previously, in 1891, his health had become so impaired that it was necessary to abandon the work of the farm, and he accordingly engaged in his present line of work. He has also been a school director. WILLIS J. BECKLEY.—Within the pages of this compilation will be found specific mention of citizens who stand representative in the various spheres of endeavor which touch the welfare and designate the civic status of the various communities of the fine old Western Reserve. One- who has here attained to marked precedence as a member of the bar of Portage county. and who is engaged in the active practice of his profession in his native city is Willis J., Beckley, known as one of the representative citizens of Ravenna. Willis John Beckley was born in Ravenna on the 6th of October, 1866, and is a scion, in the third generation, of a pioneer family whose name is honorably and prominently linked with the annals of Portage county. His father, Charles A. Beckley, likewise was a native of Ravenna, where he was born in the year 1844, and he was a son of Albert W. and Sarah (Root) Beckley, the former of whom was born in Berlin, Connecticut, and the latter of whom was a native of Rootstown, Ohio. In 1837 Albert W. Beckley came from Connecticut to Ohio and took up his residence in Ravenna, where he entered the employ of Cyrus Prentice, who was one of the prominent pioneer merchants of this section of the Western Reserve. In 1855 Mr. Beckley purchased the store and hardware business of his employer,. and he became one of the 'leading business men and influential citizens of Portage county. He continued to be identified with the general merchandise business in Ravenna for nearly two score of years and up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1889. Charles A. Beckley was reared to manhood in Ravenna, to whose common schools he was indebted for his early educational training. As a youth he became associated with his father's mercantile business, in which he was eventually accorded a partnership, and after the death of his father he continued the enterprise under his own name until he, too, was -called from the scene of life's endeavors, April 4, 1904. His estate still owns the business and the same is conducted under his name. The enterprise has thus been continued for more HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1203 than half a century without interruption, and the present commodious and attractive headquarters have been maintained for forty-three years. Charles A. Beckley was a man of sterling character, strong individuality, progressive ideas and utmost civic loyalty, and he was thus Swell equipped for leadership in local affairs. His name ever stood as a synonym of invincible integrity and honor, and he commanded the unqualified esteem of the community in which his entire life was passed and to the furtherance of whose interests he contributed in liberal measure. He served as a member of the city council and was otherwise prominent in public affairs of a local order. His political support was given to the Republican party. Mrs. Sarah (Root) Beckley, mother of Charles A. Beckley, was a daughter of David and Clarissa (Buell) Root. David Root was the first settler at Rootstown, Portage county, where he took up his residence in 1801, before the admission of Ohio to the Union. His brother, Ephraim Root, was the original owner of the land now constituting Rootstown township, which was named in honor of this old and influential family of the Western Reserve. Ephraim Root also became the owner of other extensive tracts of land in the Reserve and was one of the original members of the Connecticut Land Company, of which he was secretary for many years. Due record concerning this company is incorporated in the general historical department of this publication. In the year 1865 was solemnized the marriage of Charles A. Beckley to Miss Henrietta Brigham, who likewise was born in Ravenna, and who is a daughter of John S. and Frances (Barker) Brigham, who came from Vermont to the Western Reserve in an early day .and became pioneers of Portage county, where they passed the residue of their- lives. The Brigham family is of stanch English origin and was founded in New England in the colonial epoch of our national history. Mrs. Beckley survives her honored husband and, surrounded by a wide circle of cherished and devoted friends, she still maintains her home in Ravenna, where she has lived from the time of her birth. She was born in the year 1848, and has thus passed the sixty-first mile-stone on the journey of life. Of her three children, Willis J. is the eldest and is the only .son. His elder sister, Miss Sarah F. Beckley, is a successful and popular teacher in the public schools of Ravenna ; and the younger sister, Maude J., is the Wife of A. H. Webb, of Ravenna. Willis J. Beckley, whose name initiates this article, was reared to manhood in his native city, where he duly availed himself of the advantages of the public schools. He was graduated in the high school in 1883, and he was then matriculated in the literary department of the famous University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1889, and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. Thereafter he was a student in the law department of his alma mater for one year, at the expiration of which he returned to Ravenna, where he completed his law studies under effective preceptorship and where he was admitted to the bar of his native state on the 18th of June, 1891. He has since been engaged in the active practice of his profession in his native city, where he has gained distinctive success as a strong advocate and able counselor, and where as a citizen he has admirably upheld the prestige of the honored name which he bears. In 1898 Mr. Beckley was elected prosecuting attorney of Portage county, and his administration was so effective and satisfactory that he was chosen as his own successor in 1801, and served two consecutive terms, during which he rendered admirable service as a public prosecutor and appeared in connection with many important cases, as prosecuting attorney having charge of the state's interest in the Goss, Hickox and Vaughn murder trials. For several years he held the office of city solicitor. In politics he is arrayed as a stalwart advocate of the principles and policies for which the Republican party. stands sponsor, and in its cause he has rendered yeoman service in the various campaigns. In the Masonic fraternity he is affiliated with the lodge and chapter, having served as master of the lodge and high priest of the chapter, and is a frater in the commandery of Knights Templar in the city of Akron. He is a charter member of Ravenna Lodge, No. 1076, Benevolent ,and Protective Order of Elks, and had the distinction of serving as its first exalted ruler. In the year 1896 Mr. Beckley. was united in marriage to Miss Lora B. Geiger, daughter of the late Captain David and Hattie (Shurtz) Geiger, of Ravenna. No children have been born of this union. Mr. Beckley is essentially progressive and public-spirited as a citizen 1204 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE and has manifested a loyal interest in all that has tended to conserve the advancement and material prosperity of his native city. He is a stockholder in a number of manufacturing corporations in Ravenna and is the owner of valuable real estate in this city. HENRY J. KNAPP was born January 10, 1846, in Windsor, on his present place of residence, and is a son of Ely and Mabel E. (Grant) Knapp. His grandfather, Moses Knapp, was the first of the family .to locate in Ohio; He was born in 1783, in West Stockbridge, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and came to Cleveland from New York by boat, intending to land at Ashtabula, but the lake was so rough that the boat was landed in Cleveland. This was in 1808, and he settled in North Bloomfield, Trumbull county, Ohio, where he took.a farm in the woods. He married Laurina Elliott, and their children were : Elliott, served two terms as county surveyor of Trumbull county, now deceased ; Delight, deceased ; Ely ; and Horace, deceased. Ely Knapp was born January 1, 1815, in New York state, and died in California in 1892. Until his marriage he taught school. He married April 16, 1840, Mabel E. Grant, born February 12, 1822, died January 1, 1865, and they had children as follows : Ellen Mary, Julia L., Henry J.; Elliott M., Emily and Mabel C. When fifteen years, Henry J. Knapp tried to enlist and was rejected, but in 1862 he enlisted in Company H, Twenty-ninth Ohio ; he was 'discharged in May, 1865. He was wounded four times, and spent one year in a hospital: After the war he resumed his education, attending Orwell Academy. He was after the war first lieutenant of Company F, Eighth Ohio National Guards. Later Mr. Knapp turned his efforts in the direction of farming, and now owns ninety-two acres of land, which he has improved, and has some fine stock. He keeps Shropshire sheep, a few blooded Jersey cows, and also has white leg-horn chickens. Mr. Knapp is a Republican, and takes an active interest in local public affairs. He served formerly as a member of the State Police, served nine years consecutively as township trustee, and has also been school director and road supervisor. He and his wife are members of the Methodist church, and for twenty years he has served as church trustee: Both are also members of the Grange. Mr. Knapp is a member of Hartsgrove Lodge, No. 397, Ancient. Free and Accepted Masons, and served a year as chaplain. He belongs to C. A. Eddy Post, No. 558, Grand Army of the Republic, at Windsor, and has held every office in the post ; he served three years as commander, and is now chaplain. His wife is a member of C. A. Eddy Woman's Relief Corps, No. 164, and served nine years as secretary and one year as president. Mr. Knapp married Emily Sackett Landpfear, daughter of Chauncey and Sarah (Glad-ding) Sackett; born March 24, 1849. Her parents are given further mention under the sketch of Skene D. Sackett, found elsewhere in this work. Mr. Knapp and his wife have four daughters, namely : Eva L., married E. B. Alvord, and lives in Springfield, Massachusetts; Mabel E., married and lives in Middlefield, Geauga county, Ohio ; Elinor M., married Emory St. Clair, and lives in Springfield, Massachusetts ; and Ethel, unmarried, lives at Warren, Ohio. SKENE DOUGLAS SACKETT was born in 1765, in New Milford, Connecticut, and died in 1852, in Ashtabula county, Ohio. He, served during the latter part of the Revolution, enlisting at the age of fourteen years, in the Second Regiment of Connecticut, under the name of Skene Douglas, so his uncle could not have him discharged. He came to Painesville, Ohio, in 1801, and later moved to Mesopotamia township, Trumbull county, in 180. He married Hannah Saxton, and their children were: Gary, born February 7, 1789, died February 13, 1866, was a soldier in the -War of 1812, and married Julia Adams ; Polly, born December 25; 1791, died November, 1855 ; Elizabeth, born September 7, 1793, died before reaching ma- turity ; Marvin, born January 23, 1796, died in infancy ; Chauncey ; and Horace, born September 25, 1803, died March 22, 1870. Chauncey Sackett was born April 28, 1798, and died October 9, 1863. He was an expert carpenter and joiner, and his work was in great, demand on account of its neatness. He was very conscientious and painstaking in every piece of work he turned out. He was a strong Abolitionist, and his house was one of the 'stations of the "Underground Railway.” He was a highly respected citizen, and his death was widely mourned. Mr. Sackett married, October 23, 1828, Sarah Gladding, and they had children as follows : Hannah, horn October 3, 1831, died March 18, 1889; Orse- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1205 mus, born September 26, 1833, died June 10, 1882 ; MCherry, born May 13, 1840, lives in unerry Valley, Ohio, widow of Corvus J. Gray, a farmer, who died September 3, 1899 Lucy E., born October 31, 1845, married Leroy Simmons, and lives in Chicago, Illinois ; Fred G., born August 4, 1847, married Ida A. Hess, and lives in Robinson, Illinois ; Emily F., born March 24, 1849, marked. Henry J. Knapp; of Windsor township ; and Francis J., born September 1, 1856, married Maud Achor, is a traveling salesman, and lives in Cincinnati. Further mention is made of Emily F., in connection with the sketch of her husband, Henry J. Knapp, found elsewhere in this work. BUELL S. GILLETTE, an enterprising citizen and business man of Amherst, Ohio, is a native of Lorain county, born in Avon township July 20, 1848 ; he is a son of Gershom and Betsie (Moe) Gillette, natives of Connecticut, and grandson of Gershom Gillette, of Connecticut, and Averon and Eliza Moe, also of Connecticut. The Moe and Gillette families both came to Ohio among the pioneers, and took timber land in Lorain county. Gersham Gillette, Jr., was married in Avon township, and was employed several years in an ashery, manufacturing potash, etc. ; he was proprietor of a hotel at French Creek, Ohio, ten years, and at the death of his wife sold out and removed to Coldwater, Indiana, where he died in 1889. He and his wife were parents of five sons and four daughters, of whom Buell was the youngest child ; only one other still survives—Elida, Mrs. Frantz, of Oakland, California. When twelve years of age, Buell S. Gillette began working for a living, being first employed. three years near home, in a livery establishment ; he spent two years in the same kind of employment at Elyria, and then came to Amherst to live with a sister who had there started a millinery business. He remained with his sister three years and she then removed to California ; Mr. Gillette was employed in a hotel two years, then worked two years for" Mr. Barber, who at the ends of two years sold out to Mr. McNiel, who conducted the livery business four years and in turn sold his interest, Mr. Gillette retaining his position and working three years for the new proprietor. At the end of this time he decided to begin business on his own account, starting with only a horse, which he traded to good account, invested his money, and by excellent management and untiring industry came to have an establishment of his own. Since June, 1906, Mr. Gillette has his son, Jay B., as a partner, the firm name being B. S. Gillette & Son. The livery is located on Tenney street, and the buildings and fittings have been so improved that the establishment is the finest and largest of its kind in this section of Lorain county, the equipment consisting of several coaches, a funeral car, and all other accoutrements of a first-class livery business. Mr. Gillette is an energetic and enterprising man, and is indebted to his own efforts for his financial success. He had but a meager education in his early youth, but attended night school to make up the deficiency, and is an intelligent, public-spirited citizen. Politically he is a Democrat, and takes an active interest in public affairs. He married, December 31, 1879, Carrie P. Barney, born in Amherst township, Lorain county, daughter of Ormal and Eliza Ann (Crocker) Barney, natives of New England. Mr. Gillette and his wife became the parents of two children : Jay B., at home, and Clifford, born in 1889, died in 1898. Jay B. Gillette married, October 1, 1905, Cora Irma Sholton, of Brownhelm. WILLIAM N. COLLISTER.—A man of mechanical skill and ability, possessing excellent judgment and tact, William Collister is rendering his fellow citizens appreciated service as superintendent of the municipal light plant and waterworks at Painesville, Lake county. He is one of a. family of three children born to Nelson and Marion (Russell) Collister, namely : Mrs. Louisa C. Babcock, deceased ; George and William N. Nelson Collister was born on the Isle of Man in 1831, and at he age of ten in 1841, was brought by his parents to Painesville, Ohio, where he grew to man's estate. A natural machinist, he learned the blacksmth's trade, and carried o.n a substantial business for many years, being very popular with all classes of people. He was at one time a partner in the manufacturing firm of Coe & Anderson, which has since become the Coe Manufacturing Company, of Painesville. ORRIN B. COOK is the leading liveryman of Elyria, and he is a ntive son of Connecticut, born on the 9th of February, 1861, to Watson and Emma (Wells) Cook, also from that commonwealth. The family; home was 1206 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE at Bloomfield, near the city of Hartford, Watson Cook being a butcher and farmer there. The mother died at that home many years ago, in 1869, and the husband survived her until 1906, dying at the age of seventy-four years. Orrin B. Cook was reared in his native state of Connecticut, attending the common schools, and remaining on the home farm there until 1881; he in that year came to Elyria township, Lorain county, Ohio, joining an uncle and brother here, and for a time he was employed at the Lorain Brass Works and for five years was on a farm in Elyria township. In 1891 he came' to this city to take charge of the livery business of M. A. Pounds, and after conducting that business for fifteen years he, in 1906, embarked in the same vocation for himself, and he has met with flattering success, and is now the proprietor of the most popular livery barn in Elyria. Mr. Cook married Ella Warner, born in this city, a daughter of Charles E. Warner, and their three children are : Edith M., Florence L. and Ralph W. Mr. Cook is a member of Elyria Lodge of Eagles. MRS. MARY E. (LANGDON ) HARDY. —,A woman of culture and accomplishments, Mrs. Mary E. Hardy, widow of the late Lafayette R. Hardy, of Pierpont township, Ashtabula county, is held in high respect throughout the community in which she resides, being a kind and helpful friend and a genial companion. She was born, January 3, 1,847, in Spring township, Crawford county, Pennsylvania. Her mother dying when Mary E. Langdon was a little girl of ten years, she was well brought up by her father and relatives, receiving excellent educational training. She attended the Conneaut, Ohio, high school two years, and continued her studies one year in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attending the Chestnut Hill high school. Active and enterprising, she subsequently made good use of her talents, learning the trades of a hair dresser, milliner and dressmaker, and kept busily employed until her marriage, October 28, 1877, with Lafayette R. Hardy. Lafayette R. Hardy was born, March 25, 1842, in Ashtabula county, Ohio, and died on his farm, in Pierpont township, August 30, 1901. He came from New England ancestry, his grandfather, John Hardy, and his great-grandfather, Hans Hardy, having been born and bred in Vermont. His father, William Hardy, born June 6, 1800, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, came to Ohio in pioneer days, took up land in Ashtabula county, and from the dense wilderness reclaimed a good homestead, on which he resided, contented and happy, until his death, October 21, 1876. He married Olive Reed, who was born July 1, 1801, in Windsor, Massachusetts, and died in Ashtabula county, Ohio; August 5, 1860. Seven children were born to them, namely : Charlotte, born February 12, 1824, died in February, 1907 ; Betsey, born April 12, 1827, died November 25, 1903 ; Rhoda; born March 25, 1830, died May 11, 1905 ; William, born June 1, 1833, died August 12, 1907 ; George, born June 26, 1837, lives in Missouri ; Sophronia, born November 7, 1839, is the wife of George Aldrich, of Pierpont Center ; and Lafayette R. Never very robust, Lafayette R. Hardy never worked very much on the farm as a boy, but after leaving the Kingsville high school, where he completed his early education, he ran a livery stable for a while. He subsequently traveled extensively in the West for the benefit of his health, but never became physically strong, although he lived nearly three score years. He was an upright, honest man, highly respected by all who knew him, and his death was a loss to the community in which he lived. Mary Blanche, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Hardy, was born September 8, 1878. She was graduated from the Pierpont high school, and subsequently taught school twenty-three consecutive terms, being successful and popular in her professional work. She subsequently married Alonzo Anderson, and, is now living in Greenville, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Hardy is a member of the Pierpont Congregational church and takes an active interest in advancing its interests. CHARLES C. BYERS, the Owner and proprietor of Cherry Hill, one of the splendid residence estates in Portage county, started in life for himself at the age of nineteen years as a bridge builder. His first bridge building work was with the A. & G. W Railroad Company, now known as the Erie Company, but after one year in that occupation he traveled through Kansas and other western states, returning to Ravenna one year later and accepting the position of fireman on the A. G. W. Railroad. He continued in that capacity for six years, after which for seven years he was an engineer, and then, going to Virginia, served in the same capacity for the Ohio HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1207 River Railroad Company for seven years, and then, coming again to Ravenna, he, with his brother, John F., organized the John F. Byers Machine Works, which is now one of the largest industrial institutions in the city. Charles C. Byers is its largest stockholder, and is the vice president of the company, W. S. Krake .being its president, and Marvin Collins' its secretary, treasurer and general manager. Mr. Byers was a traveling salesman for the John F. Byers Machine Company for about ten -years, but since 1890 has lived practically retired from an active business life, his home being a modern brick residence located on a tract of thirty-three acres in the southern part of Ravenna. He is quite extensively interested in real estate, owning both city and farm property, and he is also an enthusiastic automobilist, having owned at different times -four machines. His home, popularly known as Cherry Hill, contains one hundred plum trees, many apple trees, but the cherry is its principal fruit. Mr. Byers was born at Frederick, Mahoning county, Ohio, May 13, 1850, a son of Frederick and Anna M. (Reichard) Byers, who were born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Frederick Byers, also from Franklin county, Pennsylvania, came to Mahoning county, Ohio, during an early period in its history, mid founded its town of Frederick. He, was a very prominent man in his day, and he died, in the year 1854. The maternal grandfather, John Reichard, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and, coming to Frederick, Ohio, spent the remainder of his life here, and died in 1854. Frederick Byers and Anna Reichard were married in Franklin county,, and after coming to Frederick, this state, Mr. Byers became an extensive dealer in horses and a large land holder, owning over four hundred acres in that county. But he sold his possessions there in the spring of 1859, and came to Ravenna township, and buying a farm just south of the city of Ravenna., he resumed his stock-raising interests and died there on the 4th of March, 1869, his wife surviving until May of 1887. Their five children were : Mary C., who died in 1877; John. F., deceased ; George R., of Ravenna ; Charles C. ; Hattie A., the wife of S. A. Trowbridge, of Cuyahoga Falls. Charles C. Byers married, on the 5th of December, 1872, Sadie A. Dawes, who was born in Atwater township, Portage county, October 24, 185o, a daughter of Harry and Vol. II-32 Sophia (Valentine) Dawes, both from the mother country of England. Coming to the United States, they located in Mahoning county, Ohio, in 1830, -and the father, a farmer, died there in 1865. His widow reared their nine children, and since 1898 she has made her home with them, having reached the age of ninety-two years. Mr. Byers is an independent political voter, and he is a member of the Masonic order at Ravenna and of the Knights Templar at Parkersburg, West Virginia. Previous to his marriage he had bought and furnished a home in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and he resided there until 1883, but in that year he sold his Meadville residence and moved to Parkersburg, West Virginia, which was his home for a year and a half. Since then he has maintained his residence in Ravenna. No children have been born of this union. ADOLPH FRIEDMAN.—One of the enterprising and popular business men of the younger generation in the thriving village of Mantua, Portage county, is Adolph Friedman, who has gained success through his own well directed efforts and is well entitled to representation in this publication. Mr. Friedman was born in Gyulahaz, Austro-Hungary, on the 25th of August, 1884, and is a son of William- and Rose Friedman, both natives of Austria, where the former was born in 1850. William Friedman came to America in 1892 and settled in Cleveland, his wife and children joining him in Cleveland in 1896. Adolph Friedman secured his early educational training in his native land and was a lad of twelve years at the time of accompanying his mother to the United States. In Cleveland he attended the public schools for three years, within which he familiarized himself with the English language. At the age of sixteen ,years he secured a position as clerk in a store in Cleveland, and later he, there conducted a cut-flower stand, in partnership with William Feniger. They were thus associated in business about one year and Mr. Friedman thereafter conducted a gents' furnishing business in the Ohio metropolis for about two years. At the expiration of this period he. removed to Orwell, Ashtabula county, Ohio, where he purchased a general merchandise store, which he successfully conducted for the ensuing four years, at the expiration of which in 1909, he removed to Mantua, where he bought the general store of C. H. Bowen, on 1208 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE Main street. Here he has built up a substantial enterprise and his well appointed establishment receives a representative patronage, as he has gained a reputation for fair and honorable dealing and for making every effort to cater to the demands of his trade. He is identified with the Masonic fraternity. On the 5th of August, 1907, Mr. Friedman was united in marriage to Miss Rose Dembitz, who was born in the city of Cleveland, on the 7th of April, 1883, being the only child of Henry and Hannah (Kretch) Dembitz, whose marriage was solemnized, in Cleveland, August 15, 1880. Her father was born in Hungary, February 23, 1853, and came to America in 1863. He served for a number of years in the United States army, having enlisted in the Third United States Cavalry in 1870, and having served under General Custer in the west, in 1873. He is a son of Emanuel and Helen (Klein) Dembitz, both natives of Hungary, where the former was born in the year 1811. He came to America in 1889 and settled in New York City. He died in 1898, and his wife passed away in 1856, in her native land. The paternal great-grandfather of Mrs. Friedman was Henry Dembitz, who passed his entire life in Hungary, as did also the maternal great-grandfather, Marcus Klein. Mr. and Mrs. Friedman have one child, Alvin, Who was born on the 13th of August, 1908. ROBERT C. CAMPBELL is farming one of the historic old places of Portage county, a place which his father cleared and improved many years ago, and the son is continuing the work with the same ability and success manifested by his father in pioneer days. Born on the loth of August, 1879, he is a son of Joel Curtis and .Louisa A. (Allison) Campbell, the father from Charlestown, Ohio, and the mother from Pennsylvania. His grandparents on the paternal side, Homer and Prudence Campbell; came here from Massachusetts and became large land owners, Homer Campbell having owned farms in both Charlestown and Edinburg townships. The son, Joel Curtis, however, shifted for himself from. the time he was a small boy, and as a youth of twenty-one he purchased his first farm of 190 acres, which is located along the old canal bed for a half mile. This farm is historic from the fact that here former President Garfield trod up and down the tow path during his early youth. One hundred and thirty acres of this original purchase yet remains in the Campbell name, and in. the years which have since come and gone, five mills, five store buildings, a blacksmith shop and a carpenter shop .have since been erected on the land, and the ruins of the old still yet lie in the creek bed. Joel C. Campbell cleared this place from its native growth of timber, and he lived and labored for the interests of his family and community for many years, and finally passed to his reward, rich in years of faithful service and duties well performed. Two children were born to Joel C. and Louisa Campbell—Robert C. and Richard T. Joel C. Campbell had married first, Harriet Long., by whom he had two children : Fred- J., and Sylvia, E., who was married 'to William Turnbull. Robert C. Campbell remained at home with his parents during their lives, and after their death inherited his farm in Charlestown township. His home is rich in relics, of his ancestors, and among these cherished possessions is the old family Bible issued in 1812. In politics he upholds the principles of his family, the Democratic, and he is also upholding the honored family name for good citizenship and worth of character. HENRY JOHN HAHN was born in Amherst township, Lorain county, Ohio, April 20, 1868, a son of John and Mary (Holtzhauer) Hahn. John Hahn was born in Kalkobst, Germany, and his wife was born in 'Hessen-Kassel, Germany. John Hahn's parents emigrated to America in 1838, coming in a sailing vessel to New York ; they settled in Amherst township, where they bought timber land, which they cleared and cultivated. John Hahn was born in 1837 and married in Amherst in 1864; his wife came to Amherst in 1862, when twenty-four years of age. They settled in Amherst, and he was employed in a stone quarry and was also a teamster. He purchased a farm in Elyria township, which he sold ten years later and bought a farm in Amherst township. He was killed by falling from a load of hay on December 4, 1903, and his wife died in November, 1900. They had four children, namely : Mary, Mrs. C. C. Stevenson, of Brownhelm township ; Henry J.; Charles, of Wellington, Ohio ; and Elizabeth, a teacher in Elyria, Ohio. Henry J. Hahn received his education in the public schools and remained with his parents until fourteen years of age, and afterward was employed at farm work for eight years. except for four months when he attended the HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1209 district school. He attended Oberlin Business College during the winter of 1892-3 and then worked about a year as clerk in a grocery store. For three: years he was employed in various capacities, and then he established himself in business in a general store at South Amherst, where he remained three years. At the end of that time he purchased fifty acres of the Sackett estate in the southern part of Amherst township ; he has improved and remodeled the buildings, and carries on general farming. Mr. Hahn is an enterprising, progressive farmer, and has been markedly successful; he raises some stock and keeps a dairy. He takes an active interest in local affairs, and politically is a Democrat. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Plato Lodge, No. 203, and of Hickory Tree Grange, of Amherst. Mr. Hahn married, November 23, 1898, Angie Remington, born in Amherst. township February 25, 1869 ; she was educated in the district school and spent one year at the high school of Geneva, Ohio. She is a daughter of John and Marie (Spencer) Remington, the former born in Amherst and his wife in Lagrange township. His parents were Henry and Matilda (Williams) Remington, the former a native of Connecticut and the latter of Massachusetts ; they came to Pittsfield township, Lorain county, Ohio, with two yoke of oxen and one horse, in 1822, starting in February and arriving in March. John Remington's wife was a daughter of Eliel and Angeline (Rockwood) ,Spencer, the former born in Genesee county, New York, and the latter in Jefferson county, New York ; he was born in and came to Lagrange township in 1830, .and she was born in 1814 and came to Lagrange township in 1826. Mr. Hahn and his wife have been blessed with children as follows : Harry John, born November 6, 1899 ; Fern Remington, May 20, 1903 ; Ralph Spencer, December 25, 1904 ; and Grace Louise, September 3, 1907. J. M. PLAISTED is a native of Lake county, having been born at Kirtland, February 9, 1839 ; he is the son of Roger and Susan (Andrews) Plaisted, who were both residents of Maine, and were married in that state. Soon after their marriage they removed to the Western Reserve, settling at Kirtland in 1832. Roger Plaisted was a mason by trade, and in the years 1832-3-4 helped build the Mormon Temple, which was completed in 1834. Later he purchased a farm near Kirtland, in the woods, on which he lived for forty years, working some at his trade: He was a good mechanic. In his later years he sold his farm and lived in the village of Kirtland. He did not care for public office, preferring to spend his time in the interest of his own business affairs. Upon coming to Lake county .he was not unfavorable to the Mormons, but after living among them and observing their beliefs and practices, he became bitterly opposed to their faith ; while he did not seek to annoy them in any way, when his indignation was aroused he fought against them. In the old Mormon Temple polygamy was preached, and this was very repugnant to many. He finally embraced the faith of spiritualism, and died in this belief. His death occurred in 1877, at the age of eighty-four, and his wife died in 1879, aged seventy-nine. They had three children, namely : Martha, became Mrs. Brooks, and resides in Kirtland; Joseph M. ; and William H., who was a farmer in Kirtland, and died in 1908, aged sixty-eight, leaving three children. His wife is also dead. Joseph M. Plaisted lived on the farm at South Kirtland with his parents about six years, and from his father learned the trade of mason. He also learned the trade of carpenter. He spent thirteen months, from August, 1863, to September, 1864, in the. United States navy, and he served in the United States gunboat Carondelet, on the Mississippi river, and took. part in several engagements. He served in the expedition under General Banks. After his time had expired he was wounded while in retreat down the river, and this has left him with a permanent lameness. After his discharge he returned to South Kirtland, where he again engaged in work at the mason's trade, which has since been his occupation. He is a contractor as well as mason, and erected the first large bank building at Willoughby, Ohio. However, he generally prefers working for other contractors. After the death of his parents he left his native town, and in March, 1889, settled in Painesville, which has since been his home. Mr. Plaisted follows the opinions of his father in being bitterly opposed to the practices of the Mormons. However, he can not embrace the faith of spiritualism, and is not a believer in the supernatural. He is well informed and a deep thinker, and his belief is that events come about through natural processes, that no great power is interfering with 1210 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE the natural course of nature and nature's laws. In political opinions he generally favors the Republican party, though he is able to see good in all parties, and prefers to do his own thinking and form his own opinions. However, he does not care for public office. He is a Mason, having been for forty-four years a member of the blue lodge. LEMUEL H. KIMBALL.-It may well be said that the patent of nobility which rested its honors and distinction in the person of the late Lemuel H. Kimball came from high authority, since it was based on fine character and marked ability. His life was marked by valuable and generous accomplishment along practical, productive lines, and his measure of success was large ; but greater than this was the intrinsic loyalty to principle, the deep human sympathy and the broad intellectuality that designated the man as he was. His career, as a business man and a citizen was such as to advance the welfare of others as well as himself, and he had a high sense of his stewardship, though at all times significantly free from ostentation. His was the reserve that indicates fine mental and moral fiber, and he wielded much influence in the community in which his entire life was passed, his death having occurred in his home in the village of Madison, Lake county, on the 23d of November, 1909. In usefulness, to the community he surpassed many another man who has attained to more publicity. Measured by the good he accomplished, his life was a benefaction, and its usefulness continues cumulative now that he has passed away, venerable in years and secure in the high regard of all who knew him. Lemuel Hastings Kimball came of stanch New England Puritan stock and was a scion of a family founded in America in the early colonial era. The lineage is traced in a direct way to Richard Kimball, who came from. Ipswich, Suffolk county, England, and settled at Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1634. In 1636 he removed to Ipswich, Massachusetts, named in honor of his old home in England, and there he continued to reside until his death, which occurred on the 22d of June, 1675. Records extant bear evidence that he was a sturdy Puritan, devout in his religious views and efforts, well-to-do according to the standard of the locality and period, and prominent and influential in the affairs of the new settlement. Lemuel H. Kimball was born in the old homestead of the family in Madison village, Lake county, Ohio, on the loth of January, 1833, and was a representative of the third generation of the family in this favored section of the Western Reserve, with whose history the name has been prominently and honorably linked for a consecutive period of nearly a century, implying that the family was among the earliest to make settlement in Lake county, whose development and upbuilding have been signally forwarded by the members of this well known family, as one generation has followed another on to the stage of life's activities. Abel Kimball, father of the subject of this memoir, was born in Rindge, New Hampshire, on the 18th of January, 1801, and about a decade later, in 1812, his parents removed from New England to the fine old Western Reserve of Ohio, settling in Madison township, Lake county, with Whose annals the name has been identified during the long intervening years. Here Abel Kimball was reared to manhood amidst the conditions and influences of the pioneer epoch, receiving such educational advantages as the locality afforded, and earl manifesting the most virile and generous attributes of character. Here he lived and labored for nearly seventy years, devoting his attention largely to agricultural pursuits and becoming a man of much prominence and influence in the community. His father, Lemuel Kimball, likewise had been a citizen of sterling character and marked influence, contributing his quota to the material and social development of the section in which he continued to reside until his death, as did also his wife. whose maiden name was Polly Cutler. General Abel Kimball, as he was familiarly known, was called upon to serve in many position, of public trust and responsibility and was well known throughout the Western Reserve as a man of distinctive ability and of impregnable integrity of character, so that he well merited, the unqualified confidence and esteem in which he was uniformly held. In the early history of the Western Reserve much attention was here paid to military affairs, the interest in the same being heightened by the war of 1812, which so closely touched this section, and General Kimball early became prominent in connection with the state militia, to which the greater proportion of the young men of the day belonged. "training days" being events of marked popular interest and local celebrity. As a young man General Kimball effected the organization of a militia company, of which he was chosen HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1211 commander, and through the regular rades of promotion he rose to the rank of brigadier general, which gave him the title by which he t‘ was known throughout the residue of his long and useful life. He served two terms as sheriff of Lake county and he also represented the county for three terms in the state legislature. He also gave valuable service of more local order, having been incumbent of. the offices of township trustee, real estate appraiser and justice of the peace, in Madison township, and p having served in the last mentioned capacity for several terms. He exerted much influence in connection with the promotion and carry, ing through of public and semi-public enter, prises that greatly conserved the progress of the Western Reserve. While a member of the legislature he obtained voluntarily, unsolicited by his constituents, the charter for the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula Railroad, whose line is now a part of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern system. He designated the incorporators of the same and was actively identified with ,the organization of the corn- pany, securing, subscriptions to its capital stock and also the right of way for the road. He presided at the meeting, in Cleveland, at which the company was formally organized, and he thereafter continued to serve as treasurer of the corporation until the infirmities of advancing years prompted his voluntary retirement from the office. General Kimball was a zealous supporter of every local measure and undertaking tending to advance the best interests of the community, giving a specially active support to religious and educational objects. In the home of his father was organized the first church in Madison township and he himself united with the second.church in the township on thesecond church, 1834, this being the Central Congregational church. About 1855, as the result of an injury that seemed slight at the time, but which developed into permanent spinal trouble, he lost the use of his legs, and he was confined to his chair during the last seventeen years of his life, bearing his affliction with fortitude and equanimity, born of a strong and faithful nature. He was summoned to the life eternal in July, 1880. On the 26th of September, 1830, General Kimball was united in marriage to Miss Philena Hastings, who was born at Greenfield, Massachusetts, June 13, 1800. She died in 1887. Lemuel H. Kimball was the first in order of birth and was the only child who grew to manhood. A brother, Addison Russell, died in infancy. In view of the migratory tendency of the average American of the. present day, there is special satisfaction in noting the more salient points in the 'career of one who found ample scope for the utilization of his powers and also eminent individual solace and gratification in remaining in the place of his birth continuously until he was called forward to the "land of the leal," nearly four score years later. This is true of Lemuel Hastings Kimball, to whom this sketch is dedicated and who was nearly seventy-seven years of age at the time of his demise. In his life and labors he set at naught all application of the scriptural aphorism that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country," 'for he fully upheld the prestige of the honored name that he bore, marked the passing years with good works and generous accomplishment in connection with the practical .affairs of life, and ever commanded the unequivocal confidence and esteem of the community in which he was born and reared and in which he was content to remain until he was summoned to his final reward. In view of. the conditions thus existing, it is most consistent, as well as gratifying, to be able to quote from an appreciative article published in a Madison paper at the time of his-demise, as these words give in a measure the estimate placed upon the man , by those to whom he .was best known : "As a loyal and public-spirited citizen Mr, Kimball has frequently been honored with positions of trust and usefulness, and in many, ways the community has felt the impress of his ideas and character. At the organization of the Exchange Bank of Madison, in 1875, he was elected its president, and he remained in that office continuously up to the time of his death. Thus for many years he has been closely identified with the business interests of Madison, in which the integrity of his character and his spirit of fairness have been a power felt by all. "No estimate of Mrpowerball's life would be complete that did not give large recognition of his relationship with the church. It was ever a matter of pride with him that the first church organized in Madison township was organized in the home of his grandfather, Lemuel Kimball, more than ninety-five years ago. This old homestead was the site of that in which he himself resided during the entire course of his life. Mr. Kimball united with the Central Congregational church on the 1st of April, 1855, and as clerk, trustee, Sunday-school superintendent and deacon he held some 1212 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE official position in this church during most of the fifty-four years of his membership. Surely no member could have been more loyal or had a deeper interest in the work and welfare of the church than did he. "With his marriage, at Madison, Ohio, on the 18th of October, 1866, to Miss Caroline Nash, of Hinsdale, Massachusetts, there began a home life that through more than forty years, broken only by her death, was almost ideal in its mutual sympathies and perfect confidence, while the generous hospitality of the home made it a bright spot in the memories of many, far and near. The first great sorrow came to the home a little more than five years ago, when the oldest son, Homer Nash Kimball, loved and honored by all, was taken away. Just three years later came another and greater trial, when the beloved wife and mother was called to the other world. These heavy bereavements were patiently and courageously borne; yet as time went on Mr. Kimball's heart was more and more reaching out to that other land, and when, after months of failing strength and constant pain, the summons came, it came to one who was asking to be taken home. Madison has lost in Mr. Kimball an upright business man, a public-spirited citizen, a sincere Christian gentleman, and a generous, helpful friend and neighbor." It may be said, by way of reversion to the earlier life of Mr. Kimball, that he was reared under the influences of the farm and that he never withdrew his allegiance from the great basic industry of agriculture, having had large farming interests at the time of his death. His education in a preliminary way was that afforded by the common schools, but this was broadened and amplified by wide reading and by active association with men and affairs. In politics Mr. Kimball was a stalwart supporter of the cause of the Republican party, and he served many years as a member of the board of education of Madison, taking a deep interest in popular education and in providing the best facilities available. Mrs. Caroline (Nash) Kimball, a woman of gentle and gracious personalky, was a daughter of Edward Taylor Nash and Charlotte (Frissell) Nash. Her father was a merchant at Hinsdale, Massachusetts, was a man of prominence and influence in his community, and continued his residence in Hinsdale until his death. In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Kimball, all having been born in the old family homestead in Madison : Homer Nash, who was born October 11, 1867, died August 31, 1904, as has already been noted in a preceding paragraph ; Abel was born December 19, 1869, Leila Helen was born March 16, 1873; Carl Russell was born July 3, 1876; and Elizabeth Seaton Kimball was born January II, 1880. All of the children were educated at Oberlin College. Carl R. Kimball was married to Miss Ethel Felice Sutton, of Saugatuck, Michigan, on the 30th of July, 1903, and the other children are not married, continuing to reside in the old homestead, endeared to them by the gracious memories and associations of the past. Abel and Carl R. are engaged in the hardware and plumbing business in Madison, under the firm name of Kimball Brothers, and are representative young business men of their native county. The two children of Carl R. and Ethel F. Kimball are : Warner Hastings Kimball, born June 24, 1904, and Caroline Elizabeth Kimball, born February 1, 1908. PORTER O. CLARK.—An enterprising, practical and progressive agriculturist of Medina county, Porter O. Clark is proprietor of one of the most attractive farms in the vicinity of Medina, and is here prosperously engaged in general farming and stock-raising, exercising great skill and good judgment in the management of his valuable property. A son of the late Cyrus E. Clark; he was born June 12, 1851, on the parental homestead, in Medina township, of pioneer stock. The branch of the Clark family from which he is descended was first represented in the United States by one, William Clark; who emigrated from England to this country, locating in Connecticut. In 1662, company with twenty-seven young men from Hartford, Windsor and Wethersfield, Connecticut, he founded the town of Haddam, in Middlesex county, Connecticut, becoming one of its original householders. He died in 1681, in Haddam, leaving four sons and five daughters, all of whom were born before his removal to Haddam. His property at his death was valued at £412. The line from the emigrant ancestor to the present generation is thus traced: William Clark (I) ; Sergeant John Clark (2) ; John Clark (3); Deacon Ebenezer Clark (4), Ebenezer Clark (5) ; Ebenezer Clark (6), born December 4, 1786, married Sally Sanford, who was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, October 6, 1792 came in 1838 to Medina HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1213 county, Ohio, settling on a farm, where they spent their remaining years, her death occurring in 186i, and his in 1867. Cyrus E. Clark was born February 22, 1819, in Litchfield county, Connecticut, and came with his parents to Medina county, Ohio, in 1838, being the third son in a family of six children. He became a farmer from choice, and was quite prominent for many years in public affairs, and being widely known throughout the Western Reserve. He died at his residence in Medina in 1904, honored and respected as a man and a citizen. He married, May 31, 1847, Harriet A. Oviatt, who was born in Washington township, Litchfield county, Connecticut, a daughter of John A. and Caroline (Mason) Oviatt, and a granddaughter of Elisha Mason, a soldier in the Revolutionary war, who drew a pension from the government for his brave services. Four children were born of their union, namely : Porter O., the subject of this brief sketch ; Fanny R. ; Arthur L., engaged in mercantile business in Winsted, Connecticut ; and Franklin J., living at home. Cyrus E. Clark was an active and successful farmer, living three miles northeast of Medina, his farm containing 18o acres of rich and arable land. The eldest child of the parental household, Porter O. Clark attended first the district schools, afterwards pursuing his studies for three years in the Medina high school, and later studying in Painesville Academy for six months. Returning to the farm., he assisted his father for two years, and then formed a partnership with him, which continued a number of years. Beginning life then for himself individually, Mr. Clark bought seventy acres of land in Medina township and managed that, at the same time continuing, to assist his father. In 1893 he bought, the original Clark homestead of sixty-five acres, and after the death of his father bought sixty acres more, and has since made other purchases, having now in his estate 195 acres of fertile land, well adapted for general .farming. Mr. Clark. is practical and progressive, and has made valuable improvements on his place, having erected, in 1901, his large barn, forty feet by seventy-two feet, with twenty-feet posts, and a basement nine feet in height, used for protecting stock in winter. Mr. Clark is extensively engaged in mixed farming, keeping a large number of work and carriage horses, cows and hogs, and each season raises abundant harvests of corn, hay and oats. He makes a specialty to some extent of dairying, milking a number of cows, and selling the products of his dairy in Cleveland. Mr. Clark married, in 1891, Alicia Witter, a daughter of William and Sarah (Huntley) Witter, early settlers of Medina county, and they have five children, namely : Arthur S., Howard C., Harriet E. Eleanor E., and May A. Politically a Republican, Mr. Clark has served a number of terms as township trustee, and as a member of the local school board. He and his family are members of the First Congregational church. JOHN J. SHREADER, of Ravenna township, Portage county, was born in Hesse Cassel, Germany, July 19, 1840, a son of John H. and Anna Barbara (Hammer) Shreader, also from Hesse Cassel. In the summer of 1846 the family set sail for the United States, and, locating in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the father worked as a weaver there until his death in 1898. His widow had died in April, 1874, at the home of her son John in Ravenna township, Portage county, Ohio. There were four children in their family, namely : Mary, now Mrs. Becker, a widow, living in Ravenna ; John J., mentioned below ; Conrad, who died in 1891 ; and Elizabeth, who was born on the ocean, and became the wife of Thomas Clearwater, of. Industry, Portage county, Ohio. John J. Shreader, when nine years of age, went with his mother to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and in the spring of 1851 the mother with all her children came via the canal to Ravenna, Ohio, where the son John began work at farming. Continuing that line of work until sixteen years of age, he was thereafter, until the winter of 1860, employed in a brick yard, while during that winter he attended grammar school in Ravenna. On the 17th of April, 1861, he enlisted in Cotter's Artillery at Ravenna, and, going to West Virginia, the command took part in its first engagement. On the 6th of September they were reorganized into Battery A, and commanded by Captain Goodspeed and later by Captain Scovill. After reorganization they were sent to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, under General Sherman, and Mr. Shreader also served under Rosecrans and others, taking part in thirty-six battles and engagements, including those of Shiloh, Stone River, Chickamauga, Dallas, the Atlanta campaign, and others of note. In September, 1861, his command was re- 1214 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE enlisted for three years, and they served until the close of the war, receiving their discharge on the 31st of July, 1865. During all that time Mr. Shreader was never wounded, and although taken prisoner at Stone River he was ,recaptured by his own men within ten minutes. He served three months in West Virginia under Cotter, and in the fall of 1861, after re-enlistment, was promoted to corporal. In the spring of 1862, at Pittsburg Landing, he was sent to a hospital, thence to Camp Denison, and then home. Joining the company at Stevenson, Alabama, he took part in the battles of Liberty Gap and Chickamauga, also skirmishes in eastern Tennessee, and on the 4th of October, 1864, was appointed a sergeant. Receiving a furlough while at Bridgeport, he rejoined his command at Pumpkin Vine Creek, and on the 6th of November, 1864, was promoted to quartermaster sergeant. After the close of his service in the Civil war Mr. Shreader returned to Ravenna, and learning the trade of a house painter followed that line of work. for about thirty years, both as a painter and contractor. Purchasing a farm of forty-five acres a mile and a half south of Ravenna, he moved to his property there in 1884, and has since been occupied in farming his place. On the 4th of July, 1866, he was unite in marriage to Charlotte E. Heeter, who was born in Ravenna township October 18, 1842., a daughter of George and Matilda (Sapp) Heeter, the father born in Pennsylvania and the mother in Indiana, and she is a granddaughter of John and Catherine Heeter, from Pennsylvania, and of Isaac and Rosanna (Wagner) Sapp, from Maryland, The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Shreader are : Charles, who died in infancy ; Albert J., of Ravenna, a prominent painting contractor ; Henry J., also of Ravenna ; and Alice, who was born June 11, 1880, and died on the 17th of July, 1908. Mr. Shreader, a Republican in politics, served as a member of the Ravenna city council and on its school board. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Encampment at Ravenna, of the Grand Army of the Republic, McIntosh Post, No. 327, and of the Disciple church. ELAM B. PAGE.-A lifelong resident of Ohio, Elam. B. Page was for many years identified with the development and advancement of its prosperity, and held a position among the successful farmers of Henrietta township, Lorain county. He was born November 13, 1841, in Willoughby, Lake county, Ohio, being the son of one of its pioneer settlers. His father, the late Harvey G. Page, was born in Hebron, Grafton county, New Hampshire, October 28, 1817, and was there reared and educated. He married Julia A. Fairchild in Willoughby, Ohio, September 26, 1839, who was born in Evansville, Indiana, October 1, 1819. After his marriage he resided a few years in Lake county, from there coming with his family to Lorain county. Finally locating in Henrietta township, he was here engaged. in tilling the soil, and also worked as a bricklayer and stone mason until his death, 1895. He was the father of five children, namely : Elam B.; Lafayette, who married Mary Crawford, was a locomotive engineer, and was killed by his engine near St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1869; Lydia Josephine, who died in 1896, and she had married Frank Bartlett, a traveling salesman; Sarah Jane, Mrs. Addison W. Griggs, of Wellington, Ohio; and George W., of Wellington, married Celia Johnson. Elam B. Page assisted his father in clearing a farm from the wilderness, working during his boyhood throughout the long vacations. He was a studious lad, fond of his books, and received good educational advantages. Succeeding to the occupation of his ancestors, he devoted his energies to farming and bridge building, which he continued until his death, May 19, 1905. Mr. Page married, February 24, 1870, Christiana A. Barhyte, who was born January 19, 1843, at Saratoga Springs, New York, a daughter of Richard and Rosella (Mapes) Barhyte, and they became the parents of four children, one of whom died. at birth, while three are living, namely : Frank E., born in 1873, married Lizzie E. Coates, and resides in Elyria ; Lulu A., born in September, 1876, married Omar C. Sanders, and resides in Henrietta ; and Jennie R., born February 28, 1879, resides with her mother. Politically, Mr. Page invariably supported the principles of the Democratic party, and socially, he was a member of the Henrietta Grange. HORACE ABBEY is an esteemed resident of Perry township, Lake county, where he is prosperously engaged in agricultural pursuits. He is a son of George Abbey, Jr.; and a grandson of George Abbey, Sr., who emigrated from England to the United States, becoming a pioneer settler of Leroy township, Ohio. HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1215 Mr. Abbey married Minnie Mosher, who was born in Lorain county, Ohio, in 1859, a daughter of brave old Hugh Mosher, the noted fifer, who came from a family distinguished for its patriotism, his father, Gideon Mosher, having been a veteran of the war of 1812, while his grandfather. Mosher, Mrs. Abbey's great-grandfather, was killed on the battlefield during the Revolutionary war. Hugh Mosher himself served a year in the Civil war, belonging to the One Hundred and Forty-third Ohio. Volunteer Infantry, from which he was honorably discharged' on account of ill health.. Hugh Mosher was born at Perry, Lake county, Ohio, January 29, 1819, and died at Brighton, Ohio, August 15, 1892, his death being noted in the papers throughout the country. He was the most celebrated and probably the best fifer in northern Ohio, and at his funeral his coffin was wreathed in the American. flag, upon which lay his fife, while above was hung the picture in which he appeared as fifer. This picture, the masterpiece of the famous artist, A. M. Willard. of Cleveland, entitled "The Spirit of '76," has three figures in the foreground, the drummer in the center being an almost perfect portrait of his father, Rev. Mr. Wil lard, a Baptist minister ; the boy drummer on his right was found in the person of Harry Devereaux, son, of General. J. H. Devereaux, an officer in the Civil war, while the fifer .on the left was, as previously mentioned, Hugh Mosher, whose picturesque figure stands for an exalted type of patriotism. HENRY B. KISHMAN, a successful business man of Vermilion, Ohio, was born in Black River township, Lorain county, July 17, 1848. He is a son of Adam and Martha (Claus) Kishman, the former a native of Hesse Castle, Germany, and the latter of Brownhelm township. Mrs. Kishman was a daughter of Adam and Catherine (Greenwald) Claus. Adam Kishman and his wife had six sons and six daughters, of whom Henry B. is the third child. Henry B. Kishman attended the' public school and spent a short time at Oberlin College. He took up the occupation of fisherman when eighteen years of age, and became a large dealer in fish. In this enterprise he has been very successful, and March I, 1909, the Kishman Fish Company was formed, being a stock company, with Mr. Kishman as president ; he is also manager of the Vermilion office. They have a branch office at Huron, of which Ed W. Kishman is manager ; he is also vice president. J. W. Nicholas, of Elyria, Ohio, is secretary and treasurer. They ship fish to all parts of the country, and do an enormous business. Henry B. Kishman has been the president of the Erie County Banking Company since January, 1909. Mr. Kishman remained with his parents until his marriage, and soon after built a house on a small portion of the home farm which his father gave him. He is an enterprising and public-spirited citizen, and stands well in the community. Mr. Kishman is a Democrat in political views, and has served as township trustee. He is a member of Vermilion Lodge,' No. 424, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Knights and Ladies of 'Security, of Brownhelm. On March, 15, 1883, Mr.. Kishman married Flora, daughter of Joshua and Harriet Phelps. She was born in Brownhelm township, and her parents were from Pennsylvania. Mr. Kishman and his wife became the parents of three /children, namely : Clarence, of Lorain, Ohio ; Harvey, who died at the age of ten and a half years ; and Lester, at home. WILLIAM N. COONS, D. O.—One of the most successful exponents of the beneficent system of osteopathy in the state of Ohio is Dr. William N. Coons, who- is engaged in the practice of his profession in the village of Medina, where he is the owner of Coons' Institute, a fine institution founded by him and equipped with the most approved apparatus and accessories for the treatment of the various disorders of humanity according to the tenets of the school of which he is so able a representative. Dr. Coons is a native of the state of Illinois, having been born on the parental farmstead, in La Salle county, on the 29th of March, 1867, and being a son of Nelson and Maria (Messermith) Coons, the former of whom was born near Freehold, New York, in the picturesque Catskill region, and the latter of whom was born in Indiana. Nelson Coons was one of the honored pioneers of La Salle county, Illinois, where he developed a fine .farm and where both he and his wife continued to reside until their death. She was summoned to the life eternal in 1900, and his death occurred in 1902. The father was a stanch advocate of the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor, being 1216 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE one of the influential citizens of his community and one who .ever commanded' uniform confidence and esteem. Dr. Coons was reared on the old homestead .farm, and his initial experiences in connection with the practical duties of life were those incidental to the work. of the farm. He was afforded the advantages of the public schools of his native county, and after leaving the same he was employed for seven years on what is now the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, and Illinois Central, where he held the position of operator and agent at various locations and for varying intervals. Upon resigning his position with the railroad company he went to Kirksville, Missouri, where he entered the American School of Osteopathy, in which celebrated institution, the parent of all others in the Union, he was graduated as a member of the class of 1899. He then located at Hiawatha county, Kansas, where he was successfully engaged in the practice of his profession until March, 1902, when he located in Medina, Ohio, where his exceptional ability as an exemplar of his effective school of practice has gained and retained to him a large and representative practice, which now extends throughout Medina and into adjoining counties, from which patients come to avail themselves of the privileges of his finely equipped institute, which was completed in 1905, at a cost of about $8,000. The building is a two-story structure. It has the best of sanitary facilities and the most modern osteopathic appliances, including electrical devices which are undoubtedly the best in the county. The doctor is a member of the American Association of Osteopathy and also of the Ohio Osteopathic Society. He is affiliated with Morning Star Lodge, No. 36, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is a stanch supporter of the cause of the Republican party, and is a citizen of much public spirit, enjoying marked popularity in the attractive little city with whose interests he has so thoroughly identified himself. In 1897 Dr. Coons was united in marriage to Miss Nettie Rector, of New Franklin, Missouri, and they have one daughter, Dale C. EDSON J. NORTON.—Noteworthy among the active and progressive agriculturists who are skilfully devoting their energies to the care and management of their land is Edson J. Norton, of Pierpont township, Ashtabula county, who evidently possesses a good understanding of the best ways of so conducting his chosen vocation as to secure the most profitable results. He is a son of the late Merritt Norton, and comes from substantial New England ancestry. His grandfather, Timothy Norton, born in Massachusetts about 1780, was an early settler of the Western Reserve, locating in Hartford township, Trumbull county, where his five children, Merritt, Hepsie, Nancy, Celestia and Luther, were born. Merritt Norton was born on the parental homestead in Hartford township, December 25, 1820. Succeeding to the occupation of his ancestors, he took up wild land when a young man, in Fowler township, Trumbull county, and was there employed in tilling the soil until his death, February 1, 1896. He married Diadama Cratchley, and to them eight children were born, as follows : Edson J., the special subject of this brief sketch ; Rosalina, wife of Charles Lamson, of whom a brief biographical notice appears elsewhere in this work ; Luther, born June 2, 1850, married Harriet Lamson, and died January 31, 1896, leaving two children ; Charlie, born in 1857, died in 1877 ; Lettie, born. April 1, 1859, married Harry Cowan, and died in 1879, leaving two children ; Emerson, born January 28, 1862, now living in Trumbull county, Ohio, married Cora Williams, and they have one daughter ; Allie, born February 9, 1872, living in Trumbull county, married Mary' Cole, and they have two children ; and Freddie, born in 1871, lived but twelve years. Born on the home farm in Fowler township, Trumbull county, September 10, 1846, Edson J. Norton was educated in the public schools, and as a boy became familiar with the various branches of agriculture. He is now successfully carrying on general farming, and dairying in Pierpont township, Ashtabula county, having a finely improved farm of seventy-six acres. Mr. Norton married, December 24, 1876, Theda Lamson, who was born April 25, 1852, a daughter of Willis and Nancy (Greenwood) Lamson: Their only child, Cyril C., born September 24, 1877, died February I, 1894. Mr. Norton is a Republican in politics, and both he and his wife are members of the Grange. Mr. Norton is an active member of the Congregational church, to which Mrs. Norton also belongs, and served as trustee for three years, while for six years Mrs. Norton was a teacher in the Sunday school.   HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1217 THE HON. FRANK JOSEPH KING is perhaps one of the best known citizens of Lorain, one of its pioneers and one of the best mayors the city has ever had. He was born on the old King farm in. Avon township, Lorain county, July 19, 1843, a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Simmons) King, both of whom were born in England. Henry King came to the United States in 1834, and purchased from the Connecticut Land Company the farm which has remained for so many years in the King name. He cleared the place of its dense growth of timber, erected a log cabin and shortly afterward married, and it was in that log cabin that his son Frank Joseph, the future mayor of Lorain, was born. When he was fourteen years of age his father died, and he continued attending the country schools for two more years. At that time he began teaching school, teaching for several years during the winter months and working on the farm during the summers, and during that time he saved a sufficient sum to enable him to pursue a course of two years in the Baldwin University at Berea, Ohio, he having rented a room and boarded himself while attending college. Returning home, he resumed his teaching and farm work until in. 1863 he entered the army, but after about eight months was discharged on account of ill health contracted while on duty. Again he resumed his teaching and farming, but in 1876 he left the farm and moved to Lorain, becoming one of the pioneers of this city. Until 1893 Mr. King was engaged in the grocery business here, and from that time until 1900 he devoted his attention to various business interests. In the year last mentioned he was made a member of the Board of Equalization of Lorain, and as such was requested by the Chamber of Commerce to go before the State Board of Equalization to secure a reduction in the city tax vote for Lorain. In 1902 he was elected the mayor of Lorain on the Democratic ticket, although this city is nominally Republican, and he was twice reelected. When he took charge of this office the city tax rate was thirty-seven and six-tenths mills on the dollar, city bonds drawing four and one-half per cent interest, but there were no demands on the market for the bonds and there was no money in the treasury, but he left the office with a tax rate of thirty-two and two-tenths mills, with a surplus in the treasury, short-term bonds selling at four and one-half per cent, bringing a premium, and long-term bonds at four per cent also bringing a premium. Public improvements generally were given an impetus under his administration, and he is conceded to be the best mayor Lorain has ever had, a disinterested worker and a valued official. After retiring from the position he traveled extensively in the Rocky mountains and over other parts of the country, but in the fall of 1909 he was again the Democratic candidate for the office of mayor, and was elected. Mr. King married Margaret Ellen Lee, a. member of the prominent old New England family of that name, her ancestors _coming to this country before the American Revolution, and she was of the ninth generation of the family born in the same house, built before the war of the Revolution, and yet occupied. She died October 24, 1894, at the age of forty-nine years, leaving a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, who married the Rev. F. W. Crowe, now pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Salineville, Ohio. ADAM F. COLEMAN, a well-known citizen of Ravenna township, was born in Greene township, Summit county, Ohio, January 21, 1855, and his father, Adam Coleman, was born at the same place April 24, 1822. He was a son of Jacob and Barbara (Emerick) Coleman, who were born in Union county, Pennsylvania, the former on January 6, 1784, and the latter on May 6, 1788. They were married in their native state of Pennsylvania, January 6, 1807, and some time between that year and 1811 they made the journey with team and wagon to what was then Stark county, Ohio, but which later formed a part of Summit county, where they were farming people during the remainder of their lives. Mr. Coleman dying on April 20, 1833, and his wife on April 8, 1860. Adam Coleman, their son, married in Summit county, Ohio, May 9, 1843, Sarah Heckman, who was born in Pike township, Stark county, this state, May 22, 1820, a daughter of Michael Heckman, from Pennsylvania. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Coleman took up their abode in Uniontown, Ohio, where he followed his trade of wagon-making for years, but the greater part of his life was spent on his farm. In 1881 he sold all of his property in Summit county, and coming to Ravenna township, in Portage county, bought the farm on which he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, Mr. Cole- 1218 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE man dying there on August 29, 1884, and his wife on April 1, 1902. Nine of their children died in infancy, and two lived to years of maturity-Adam and his sister Mary, the latter becoming the wife of B. F. Motz, of Ravenna township. Adam F. Coleman, the eighth born of their children, and the elder of the two living, was never away from his mother during her lifetime with the exception of two weeks, and after his marriage he resided on the home farm until the spring of 1899, when he purchased a forty-acre tract three miles southwest of Ravenna, and in addition he also owns eighty-five and three-fourths acres of the old Coleman farm which belonged to his parents. General farming and stock raising was his life's work, but in 1903 he rented his land and has since lived practically retired from a business life. He married, on January 31, 1878, Ella Christlieb, who was born in Noble county,' Indiana, March 21, 1857, a daughter of Abraham and Lydia (Horner) Christlieb, natives respectively of Stark county, Ohio, and of York county, Pennsylvania, the mother born on October 15, 1833, and she died on February 10, 1907. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Coleman was Jacob Christlieb. One daughter was born to bless the union of Mr. and Mrs. Coleman, Mary Almeda, who was born on January I, 1879, and became the wife of Norman N. Wise. They were married on February 12, 1899, and their only child died within seven days of its birth. They reside on her father's farm near Ravenna. Mr.. Coleman is an independent political voter. ALBERT GERSHON SHELDON on the paternal side traces his descent to the American founders, Isaac Sheldon, who came to this country from England in 1636. Thomas Sheldon is next in line of descent, and then comes two Isaacs, while in direct line springs Captain Ebenezer Sheldon, who was born in Suffield, Connecticut. Commissioned as captain in the Revolutionary army, he served as a minute man in the first regiment of Connecticut state troops. Among his sons was Gershon Sheldon, born January 4, 1788, in Suffield, Connecticut, and by his marriage to Roxanna. Russell, who was born March 1o, 1792, probably at Warrensville, Ohio, he had four children, but only one, Albert Russell Sheldon, lived, to years of maturity. Captain Ebenezer Sheldon was the founder of the family on the Western Reserve, whither he arrived on June 14, 1799, and together with Mr. and Mrs. Elias ,Harmon, he erected a log cabin. In the following year he returned to Connecticut for his family, and on the return journey, within a few miles of Warren, a terrific windstorm blew down the forest trees about them until they were obliged to chop their way out with axes. Albert Russell Sheldon was born March 22, 1815, on the farm which is the home farm of his son, Albert Gershon, and he married on October '28, .1840, in Streetsboro, Ohio, Cornelia Dow. She was born August 16, 1815, in Northampton, Massachusetts, and their marriage union was blessed by the birth of five children. Their son, Albert G. Sheldon, was born at his present home in Aurora township January 17, 1842, and in his youth he received a district school training and a course at Hiram College, which became famous through its connection with former president of the United States Garfield. Leaving college in 1861 Mr. Sheldon returned to his father's farm, and agriculture has since been his life's occupation. On December 5, 1864, in Aurora, he was married to Sarah Roxanna Harmon, who was born July 26, 1843, and they became the parents of two children, Amelia Minnie and Bessie. The elder daughter, born October 5, 1865, in the present Sheldon home, married on June 29, 1887, Arthur Byron Russell, who died October 1, 1896, leaving twins Maud Mary and Mae Minnie, born May 12, 1888. She married for her second husband, September 17, 1905, in, Aurora, Arthur Bentley Hurd, by whom she has two children, Arthur Bentley, born August 6, 1906, and Victor Sheldon, born April 12, 1909. Bessie, the second daughter of Albert G. Sheldon, was born November 11, 1867, and died on March 23, 1872. Mrs. Sheldon was called from this life on December 11, 187o, dying at the old Powell place in Mantua, and for his second wife Mr. Sheldon chose Olivia Hickox, whom he married January 1, 1874. She was born in Aurora December 5, 1847, a daughter of Samuel and Emily (Blair) Hickox, born respectively in Suffield, Connecticut, September 1o, I810, and in Aurora November 20, 1816. and their marriage was celebrated in Aurora on January 1, 1840. Their union was blessed by the birth of three sons and a daughter. Three children have also been born to Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon, Betsey Forward, Cornelia May and Albert Gershon, Jr. Betsey Forward, born September 7, 1874, married George HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1219 Francis Buell October 3, 1908, and has one son, Ralph G., born July 1o, 1909. Cornelia May, born May 28, 1876, married on October 8, 1894, Harry Mortimer Ford, and their three children are: Hattie Cornelia, born May 1, .1895 ; Mortimer Sheldon, April 26, ,1897, and Floyd Harry, December 12, 1899; Albert Gershon, Jr., born August 15, 1880, married, March 8, 1905, Elizabeth Velack, and their two children are Irene Ruth, born January 26, 1908, and Dorothy Cornelia, April 28, 1909. Mr. Sheldon in politics votes with the Democratic party. HENRY W. RIDDLE.—In the career of Henry Warner Riddle, whose name has been most prominently identified with the upbuilding of the industrial interests of the city of Ravenna, is shown that definite ambition and persistence which are the mind's inspiration. in the surmounting of obstacles—the vitalizing ideal that transforms dreams into deeds. He was the founder of what is now known as the Riddle Coach & Hearse Company, one of the important industrial concerns of the Western Reserve, and as a citizen and business man he has ever manifested the utmost loyalty and public spirit, the while he has .attained to distinctive success through his well ordered endeavors in connection with normal and beneficent lines of enterprise. Henry Warner Riddle was born in the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on the 8th of February, 1838, and is a son of Hugh and Elizabeth (Thornburg) Riddle. Hugh Riddle was born in the north of Ireland, and was a son of John H. and Mary (Thornburg) Riddle, both of whom were natives of Scotland and representatives of stanch old families of the land of "brown hills and shaggy wood." When he was five years of age his parents' immigrated to the United States, in 1805, and the family home was established in Pittsburg soon after the arrival in America. There Hugh Riddle was reared to manhood, receiving a 'common-school education and in. his youth serving a thorough apprenticeship at the trade of stone mason. His father was likewise a stone mason and eventually became a successful contractor and builder, and in the work of his trade "he assisted in the construction of many buildings and other structures in Pittsburg including the stone work of the Sixth street bridge. He also did some of the stone work on the old state penitentiary in Allegheny, now a part of the city of Pittsburg. Like his father, Hugh Riddle became a successful contractor in the work of his trade, and in course of time he built up a large and profitable. business in Pittsburg, where he continued to maintain his home until his death, as did also his wife. He attained to the age of seventy years and was a man of sterling character, so that he ever commanded uniform confidence and esteem. He was a Democrat in politics and he and his wife held membership in the First Presbyterian church. Elizabeth (Thornburg) Riddle, mother of Henry W. of this review, was born in the village of Clinton, about nineteen miles distant from the city of Pittsburg, and was a daughter of James Thornburg, who likewise was a native of Pennsylvania ; he was of Irish descent and was a scion of one of the sterling pioneer families of the old Keystone state. Hugh and Elizabeth (Thornburg) Riddle became the parents of four sons and four daughters, and six of the number attained to years of maturity. Henry W. Riddle, whose name initiates this review, was reared to maturity in his native city, to whose common schools he is indebted 'for his early educational training. When thirteen years of age he entered upon an apprenticeship to the trade of coach-making, and. he served four years, within which he became a specially skillful artisan in this line of work. For five years after the completion of his apprenticeship he was employed as a journeyman at his trade, and within this interval he held positions in the cities of New Orleans, Nashville, St Louis and Cincinnati. In the year 1861 Mr. Riddle took up his residence in Ravenna, with whose industrial and civic affairs he has continued to be intimately identified during all the long intervening years. Soon after his arrival he engaged in the manufacturing of coaches and hearses, beginning operations on a modest scale and directing. his energies with such ability and according to such correct business methods that the enterprise was soon established upon a substantial basis. He effected the organization of the Merts & Riddle Company, and under this title the business was successfully continued for a period of about thirty-two years, at the expiration of which: a reorganization took place, under the present title of the Riddle Coach & Hearse Company. He is president of this company and maintains, a general supervision of its executive affairs, as well as the practical operations of the plant, which is large and finely equipped, having the best of modern 1220 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE machinery and accessories for the facile prosecution of the manufacturing in all departments. The finest grade of work is turned out and the products of the concern are sold in all sections of the Union, thus contributing materially to the commercial prestige of Ravenna, in whose progress and prosperity Mr. Riddle has ever maintained a lively and helpful interest. He is a stockholder in the Ravenna National Bank, and is a member of its directorate. He has contributed in liberal measure to the material upbuilding of his home city, in which he has erected a number of substantial business blocks and dwelling houses of the better order. From the time of attaining to his legal majority to the present Mr. Riddle has been aligned as a stanch supporter of the principles and policies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor, and while he has never sought or desired public office he has given his support to all enterprises and measures tending to advance the civic and material welfare of the city which has so long represented his home and been the center of his interests. He is known and honored as one of the progressive and thoroughly representative business men of the fine old Western Reserve, and maintains .a secure hold upon the confidence and esteem of the community with whose interests he has been identified for nearly a half century. He And his wife hold membership in the Congre- gational church, and he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the degree of master Mason, besides which he holds membership in the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1865 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Riddle to Miss Emily H. Robinson, daughter of the late George Robinson, who was a prominent banker and influential citizen of Ravenna. Mr. and Mrs. Riddle have four children : Bessie is the wife of Frederick Pallsgraff, of Ravenna; Forman is now a resident of Mexico, where he is identified with the development of the rubber industry ; Amy H. is the wife of Hon. Carl Merrell, of Glens Falls, New York ; and Henry Warner, Jr., is associated with his father's business interests. EDITH M. ( HOOVER) TURNER.— The citizenship of Portage county, Ohio, includes the name of Edith M. Turner, whose home is in Edinburg township. She was born on October 30, 1883, a daughter of Hoseah and Mary (Cope) Hoover, she being one of their twelve children. They were native born son and daughter of the Buckeye state, and were married in August of 1859. Their daughter, Edith, remained with them until her marriage on August 17, 1901, to Harry Turner, and the one child of this union is a daughter, Ida. She is a member of the Ladies' Aid Society. CHARLES H. WILLYARD is a descendant of one of the first settlers to seek a home in Portage. county, and from the period of its earliest development down to the present time the name has been prominently associated with the agricultural interests of the county. In the early part of the year of 1800 Benjamin and Elizabeth (Eatinger) Willyard, natives of Pennsylvania, sought a home in the then new community of Portage county, and they were .among the very first to locate in Rootstown township. They were the paternal grandparents of Charles H., and just a few years later his maternal grandparents, the Welks, came to Ohio and located in Springfield township of Mahoning county. These families were later united by the marriage of Andrew Willyard and Susan Welk, who became the parents of Charles H. Willyard, and they were born respectively in Ravenna township, Portage county, Ohio, and in Pennsylvania, she having come with her parents to this state. After their marriage they located on a farm two and a half miles southwest of Ravenna, the land being then almost entirely covered with timber, but in time the large tracts of timber gave place to fertile and well tilled fields, and in time Mr. Willyard enlarged the boundaries of the farm until it contained about 167 acres, all well adapted to farming purposes with the exception of twenty acres of swamp land. A splendid residence was erected on the farm in 1869, and there Mrs. Willyard passed away in death in 1897, and her husband just one year later, in 1898. Of their children three sons and two daughters lived to years of maturity and are : Charles H., mentioned below ; Judson, whose home is in Jamestown, North Dakota; Clara, the wife. of Richard Deizman, of Bellingham, Washington ; Calvin, of the same place ; and Catherine, the wife of Perry Clark, of Ravenna township. Charles H. Willyard, who was born in Ravenna township, Portage . county, September 1, 1859, has always resided on the old Will- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1221 yard homestead in the township of his birth, and he now owns sixty-one acres of the home place and fifty-six acres of the old farm which belonged to his grandfather's estate, and he follows a general line of farming and stock-raising, raising Norman and Percheron horses. He has a fine large barn, forty by seventy-six feet; with an L twenty. by forty-two feet and eighteen foot posts, and he has also greatly remodeled the farm home. Mr. Willyard married on December 26, 1887, Ida Ihmsen, born in Pennsylvania, a daughter of Augustus and Dorcas (Bennett) Johnson, also from that state. The children of this union are: Earl Raymond, born September 8, 1888 ; Juanita and Zeta, twins, born August 5, 1890, and the latter died at the age of two years ; and Dorcas, born February 16, 1907. Mr. Willyard votes with .the Democracy, and he has ,served his township as a member of the school board. JAMES FAIRCHILD SMITH.—The emigration from New England to Ohio was quite general in the earlier part of the nineteenth century, Connecticut, especially, sending forth many of her most enterprising citizens to found homes for themselves and families in this new and unbroken country. Noteworthy among the number coming here during that period was James Fairchild Smith, who was born, January 19, 1801, in Waterbury, Connecticut, and there lived until eighteen years old. In March, 1819, in company with Mr. and Mrs. Levi Smith, David Holbrook, and John Pierson, he came to Ohio, traveling with horses and wagon to Albany, crossing the Hudson river on ice, then journeying with sled to Erie, from there coming 'to Painesville, Lake county, with a wagon, being twenty-four days in making the trip. The ensuing seven years James F. Smith lived in Kirtland with Elijah Smith, receiving scant wages for his 'labor. He subsequently worked five years in Grandison Newell's chair factory, after which he served an apprenticeship' at the cooper's trade with Rev. Elijah Ward, who lived near Willoughby. On marrying, he bought a farm. in Concord township, assuming a mortgage, which he and his young wife, who was a thrifty little housekeeper, versed in the domestic arts, and not at all afraid of work, soon paid off. Energetic and enterprising, he built a cooper's shop near his house; and at night, after the day's work in the field was well accomplished, or in the early morning, before the rising of the sun, the blows of his hammer could be heard as he fashioned barrels. Mr. Smith took great pride in constantly. adding to the improvements on his place, and a fence, "ten rails high, staked and capped," was one of the notable objects on his farm. He was successful as a stock raiser, his flock of 300 sheep proving a good source of revenue when the Civil war broke out. Mr. Smith married, in 1832, Caroline White, a daughter of John White, who, in 1822, emigrated from Granville, New York, to Kirtland, Ohio, with his family. Three children blessed their union, namely : James .Hanford ; Flora Ann ; and Mary Z., who died at the early age of nineteen years. Mrs. Smith died on the home farm, in Concord township, in 1873, but Mr. Smith lived until 1894, being tenderly cared for at the home of his son, James Hanford Smith. James Hanford Smith was engaged in agricultural pursuits during his active life, living either on the parental homestead or in Chardon township. He was a man of. many virtues and few vices, much respected for his kindly nature and genial disposition, and was ever ready to lighten life's troubles with a cheering story, or a tune on his loved violin. He died in 1896, and his widow, whose maiden name was Nancy J. Burr, still occupies the home farm, in Chardon township. Flora Ann Smith was educated in the public schools of Concord, living contentedly and happy at home until sixteen years old. Going then to Derby, Connecticut, to visit her grandmother, and her Aunt Mary Smith, she made the acquaintance of a most estimable young man, Frederick E. Colburn, of Ansonia, Connecticut, who wooed and won her, persuading her that Connecticut was a most pleasant place to live. She never lost her love, however, for ner old home in Concord, making frequent visits here to her friends and relatives. She died in 1904, leaving four children, namely: Ruby; Wife of W. W. Baldwin, of Florence, Italy ; Elizabeth, wife of Rev. E. T. Mathison ; Sylvester Colburn, of New Haven, Connecticut; and Fairchild Smith Colburn, now living on his grandfather's old home farm, in Concord, Ohio. Fairchild S. Colburn was married in March, 1903, to Josephine Doncaster, daughter of John W. Doncaster, of Leroy township. He is a thrifty farmer of this township and a descendant of English ancestors. Josephine Doncaster first married Furman Dunkle, who was 1222 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE accidentally killed on the railroad. Two children were born to them : Meldred and Emily, both at home with their mother. THOMAS KOHLER CASSIDY, M. D.—During many years the name of Cassidy has been associated with the medical profession. of Medina county, for here the father, Dr. James H. Cassidy, was a .skilled practitioner of the community for many years, and the son is upholding the prestige of the name in the profession. Dr. James H. Cassidy received his medical course at the old University of Wooster. in 1869, and coming to Sharon Center he practiced here for thirty-five years and died in 1905, one of the most valued of the early members of the medical profession in Medina county. He was also an honored veteran of the Civil war, having served with the One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry for three years in General Thomas' army: He was also with Sherman in the Tennessee campaign, and he was wounded in an engagement in North Carolina in 1865. His wife bore the maiden name of Arrathuca Case, and she was born in the old Case homestead, the most substantial landmark of Sharon Center. This old homestead also served as the birthplace of Thomas K. Cassidy on October 20, 1873, and adopting the profession of his father he has become his able successor in Medina county and the incumbent of his considerable and important practice. He was educated in the schools Of Sharon Center, and at Buchtel College, Akron, and prepared for his professional life in the Western Reserve University at Cleveland, where he graduated with the class of 1897 and with the degree of M. D. Since the period of his graduation he practiced at Sharon Center, and gained distinction in the line of his chosen calling. He married Miss Florence Beach, from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, a daughter of C. H. Beach, and they have a son, Blake B. Dr. Cassidy is a member of the Masonic order, and is also associated with the Medina County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. HON. THADDEUS W. FANCHER.—Distinguished not only for his personal worth and integrity, but for his able administration of public affairs in various official capacities, Hon. Thaddeus W. Fancher, ex-postmaster, and ex-mayor of the city of. Lorain, holds an assured position among the most esteemed and valued citizens of Lorain county. A son of William Fancher, he was born February 25, 1839, at Greenwich, Huron county, Ohio, coming from honored New England ancestry. His grandfather, Thaddeus Fancher, a native of Stamford, Connecticut, married Sally Mead, daughter of General Mead, of Revolutionary fame, and a descendant of a noted Connecticut family, and in the early part of the nineteenth century moved to New York state. In 1817 he came to Ohio on a prospecting tour, located land in Huron county, after which he went back to his New York home. In 1819, accompanied by his wife and seven children, he returned to Huron county, making the trip through the almost pathless woods with a wagon hauled by a yoke of oxen and a horse hitched to a buggy. In the pioneer labor of redeeming a. farm from the wilderness he was very successful, in the course of time becoming an extensive landholder and giving to each of his children a farm. William Fancher was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1811, and at eight years of age came with the family to Huron county, Ohio, where he assisted in clearing the land as soon as able to wield. an axe. He married Mary Vanscoy, a native of Geauga county, Ohio. In 1868 he moved with his family to Hillsdale county, Michigan, and there both he and his wife spent their remaining years, at death being buried in the Camden cemetery in that state. Brought up and educated in Huron county, Thaddeus W. Fancher settled in Michigan in 1862, and was there a resident for ten years. Returning to his native state in 1872, he located in Lorain, then a village known as Black River. During the next few years, while this enterprising place was rapidly growing in size and importance, he was actively engaged in contracting and building, subsequently carrying on a substantial hardware business. His ability becoming recognized, he was soon called upon to fill public offices, and has since held many responsible positions. He has always been a stanch Republican. Twenty years ago Mr. Fancher did all of the assessing for the city and township, and ten, years later was one of six members of the Decennial Board of Assessors, while at the present time, in 1910, he is a member and the president of the Board of Review of the city of Lorain. He has served as treasurer of both the city and the township, and for ten years he was a member of the Board of Education, serving as its president six years HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1223 of the time. Mr. Fancher has rendered the city excellent service as councilman, and in 1878 was elected mayor of Lorain. In 188o he was appointed, by President Garfield, postmaster at Lorain, and served faithfully until the first Cleveland administration. He was again made postmaster by 'President Harrison, and again went out of office as the second Cleveland administration came in. Again, for the third time, Mr. Fancher was made postmaster at Lorain, receiving his commission from President McKinley ; thus to him belongs the unique distinction of having been appointed to the same office by three different presidents of the United States. Mr. Fancher was one of the directorate of the Citizens' Savings and Banking Company of Lorain, and to him was delegated the task of settling up the affairs of that defunct institution. He has been a director of the Penfield Avenue savings Bank since its organization. He was raised to the degree of Master Mason soon after the age of twenty-one years in Floral Lodge, No.. 62, at Fitchville, Ohio, the lodge later, being moved to New London. After removing to Michigan he became a member of the lodge at Palo, that state, and was a charter member of the lodge at Carson City, Michigan. After removing to Ohio he became a member of King Solomon's Lodge at Elyria, and then became a charter member of Lorain Lodge, F. & A. M., at Lorain, of which he became the third master of the lodge. He took the Royal Arch degrees in Marshall Chapter at Elyria and subsequently became a charter member of Mystic Chapter at Lorain, becoming the second high priest. He is .a member of Cleveland Council, R. & S. M., Holyrood Cornmandery, Knights Templar, Lake Consistory and Al Koran Temple, Mystic Shrine. Mr. Fancher married Ermina G., daughter of Riley and Philena (Washburn) Griffin, the former of whom was born, in 1812; in Greene county, New York, and the latter in Ulster county, New York, in 1817. Mr. and Mrs: Fancher are the parents of two children, namely : Elvadore R., vice president of the Union National Bank of Cleveland ; and Millicent A., wife of Charles J. Tiffany, postmaster at Clyde, Ohio. WILLIAM EDWIN ARTMAN, of Wadsworth, Medina county, Ohio, was born April 14, 1852, in Turbot township, Northumberland county, Pennylvania, near what is known as the Follmer Evangelical Lutheran church. His father, Vol. II--33 Charles Artman, and mother, Anna Maria McKnight, were natives of the same township, whose parents originally emigrated to the United States from Germany and Scotland respectively during the latter part of the eighteenth century. Charles Artman's occupation was farming, supplemented in his younger days by teaching in the common schools of the township during the winter months, and his. entire life. was spent upon the land on which he located shortly after his marriage. A Democrat in politics, he was an uncompromising unionist and foe to slavery ; a stanch member of the Lutheran church and efficient officer, -and left his imprint upon the community as a man of integrity and, honor, a good citizen, a kind neighbor, and one who helped elevate his associates to a higher plane of living. At the age of twelve years William Edwin Artman, the subject of this sketch, left home and started out in the world for himself, by engaging with a farmer of the neighborhood to work for his board and clothes, and with whom he remained about three years, acquiring such education as could be obtained in the schools of the vicinity during the winter months, and.. following various occupations until the age of twenty-one, when he came to Ohio, locating in Akron. At this place he secured employment, and after a short time commenced attending a school of telegraphy in the evening, and upon completion of the course secured employment on what was then known as the Atlantic & Great Western Railway, continuing with the company through its many changes (until finally merged into the Erie Railway) for a period of fifteen years, as station agent and telegrapher at various points on the line, and acquiring in this time a practical and valuable training in the business virtues of promptness, reliability and integrity. During the year 1889 he severed his connection with the Erie Railway and identified himself with the Garfield Injector Company by purchasing an interest therein, was elected to the board of directors and made secretary and treasurer of the company. By untiring industry, ably assisted by the board of directors, he helped place the company upon a sound financial basis, and in a short time it became the leading industry of the village. It is now known as the Ohio Injector Company and enjoys the distinction of being the largest manufacturer of locomotive and steam. engine appliances in the state. Out of this establishment 1224 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE as a nucleus three large manufacturing plants have grown : the Ohio Match, Salt and Box-Board Company, with factories in Wadsworth, Rittman and Cleveland. In these companies he assisted in their organization, was a liberal contributor of time and money to each, and served on the board of directors and in an official capacity. They now have combined assets of =over three million dollars. In finance he is connected with the Wadsworth National and the Rittman Savings banks, both of which are growing institutions and enjoy the complete confidence of the public. For the betterment of conditions in the village and to assist the people in securing the benefits of modern improvements, and with rates as low as consistent with good and efficient service, he assisted in the organization of the Wadsworth Light and Water and Telephone companies, serving each of these at various times in an official capacity. In civic life the interests of the village at all times received his attention, continually contending for improvement of the streets, beautifying of the parks, elevation of the public schools and uncompromising hostility to the liquor traffic. Mr. Artman was married to Mary M., daughter of John and Lydia Kremer, of this village, April 19, 1879, and to this union one child was born, Mable Corine. She received her education at the Woman's College, Frederick, Maryland, and was married to L. O. Caine, of same city. To her and her husband one child has been born, William Artman Caine. Mr. Artman is a member of the board of regents of Heidelburg University, Tiffin, Ohio, and himself and wife are members of the Reformed church. They have done much to promote good morals and good citizenship, and by their efforts, morally and financially, hope to have helped make the world better for their having lived. WILLIAM L. CAMP has spent the greater part of his life in Portage county, Ohio, and during many years of this time has been identified with its agricultural life. He was born, however, in New Milford, Connecticut, December 17, 1835, a son of Lacy and Betsie (Bradshaw) Camp, also from that commonwealth, and a grandson on the maternal side of William and Lucy (Fairchild) Bradshaw. During the summer of 1837, only two years after the birth of their son William, Mr. and Mrs. Camp drove through from Connecticut to Portage county, Ohio, and located on the timber land of Rootstown township. There the husband and father cleared his farm and placed it under cultivation, and there he died on December 23, 1874, his wife surviving him and residing among her children until she, too, was called to the home beyond, dying in October of 1898. Their four children are as follows : Eliza A., who became the wife of L. B. Sanford, and both died in the year of 1905 ; Charlotte, who became the wife of Lloyd Hinman, and both are also deceased ; William L., mentioned below ; and David P., whose home is in Cortland, this state. When a boy of seventeen William L. Camp left the parental home and learned the carpenter's trade, and at the age of twenty-four he secured employment with the Atchison and Great Western Railroad Company, now the Erie Company, as a bridge builder, he having been one of. the first bridge builders in the company's employ, and as a foreman had charge of this line of their structural work. He had in his earlier life secured a good education in the district schools, with one term at Hiram. College. Continuing along the line of bridge building from 1861 until 1873 he then left the railroad to engage in agricultural pursuits, purchasing for that purpose ninety acres of land in Rootstown township, but he has since sold about twenty-five acres of the tract for town lots. Since purchasing this land he has torn down its old. buildings and erected in their place new, and modern ones, including a fine large residence of eleven rooms and a large bank barn thirty-six by sixty feet, with eighteen foot posts. He follows a general line of farming and the raising of Durham cattle. In January of 1866 Mr. Camp was married to Jennie Gledhill, who was born in Ravenna township, Portage county, a daughter of John Gledhill, from England. Mrs. Camp died in January of 1869, and on September 17, 1872, he was married to Mrs.. Celestia Francena (Peck) Stanley, who was born at Burton, Illinois, May 16, 1841, a daughter of Chauncey and Maria (Wood) Peck, born respectively in New York and in Missouri, and a granddaughter of Ezekiel and Electa (Buck) Peck, from New York, and of Henry and Esther (Cranmer) Wood: Mr. Camp votes with the Prohibition party and he has served Rootstown one term as a trustee. EDWARD B. HAUEISEN, a successful farmer of Henrietta township, Lorain county, and on   HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1225 of the county's, enterprising and public-spirited citizens, is a native of this county and township, born March 1, 1882; His father, Henry Haueisen, was born in Germany in 1849, and came to the United States when two years of age, with his parents. They located in Cleveland, Ohio, .where they spent the remainder of their lives. Henry Haueisen remained with his parents until twenty years of age, and then came to Lorain county and purchased a farm in Henrietta township ; here he lived until 1907, when he went to Connell, Washington, as a Minister of the German Methodist Episcopal church. He married Katherine Portman, who was born in Switzerland in 1851, and came to America in 1870, settling in Henrietta township, Lorain county. Edward Haueisen received his education in the public schools and took up farming as an occupation. He is a Republican in his political views, and takes an active interest in local public affairs. He is a member of the Henrietta Grange and belongs to the German Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Haueisen married, at Buffalo, April 17, 1900, Esther L. Portman ; they have no children. CHARLES DOLL, postmaster of Lorain, was born in Youngstown, Mahoning county, Ohio, September 24, 1864, and is a. son of Frederick and Rachel (Barth) Doll. Frederick Doll was born in Alsace, Germany, and came to the United States in the thirties and located in Mahoning county, Ohio, being for years connected with furnace work at Youngstown. He is now in his eighty-fourth year. His wife was born in Dresden, Ohio, and died August 28, 1876, at the age of thirty-eight years. In 1876 Charles Doll left Youngstown and went to make his home with an uncle at Petersburg, in Mahoning county, Ohio ; later he spent several years in Coshocton county, working on a farm and attending school. He then spent about a year at Massillon, Ohio, and in 1879 came, to Lorain and began working for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. In 1885 Mr. Doll enlisted in the regular United States Army, and was assigned to Company A, Seventeenth United States Regulars, stationed in the Dakotas guarding the Sioux Indians, prisoners of war. He took part in the battle of "Wounded Knee" and other engagements, and was discharged at Cheyenne, Wyoming, at the expiration of his time of enlistment. Returning to Lorain, he resumed work for the Baltimore & Ohio road, remaining with them a year. At the end of that time he was elected chief of police in Lorain, at the time the steel plant was being built and the town was filled with so many undesirable characters. He served as deputy sheriff under Sheriffs Ensign and Lord, and then became employed by the Lake Shore Electric Railway Company, purchasing rights-of-way for building their road. He spent two years in their employ, in different capacities., and brought out the first car when the road was completed. Mr. Doll has always taken great interest in municipal and county political matters, and is an ardent supporter of the principles of the Republican party. He was appointed assistant postmaster in Lorain in 1898, under President McKinley's administration, in which capacity he continued until March 12, 1909, when upon the death of Postmaster Bowman he received the appointment of postmaster, his appointment bearing date of May 14, 1909, for a full term. He has served as secretary of the Lorain City Republican Committee. Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order and is a Knight Templar in the order ; he also belongs to the Maccabees. He belongs to the Board of Commerce of Lorain, and is an enterprising, public-spirited citizen. Mr. Doll married Lucy Barth, of Chili, Coshocton county, and they have one daughter, Gladys Marie. HARRY W. POWERS, M. D., of South Amherst, Lorain county, is a physician and surgeon of active practice and substantial reputation in the prime of his natural and profess sional life. In each sense he is also a product of the Buckeye state. The doctor is a native of Trumbull county, born September 5, 1864, and is a son of Dr. Abram M. and Cynthia A. (Sherwin) Powers, the latter having been born in Braceville township, Trumbull county, and the father in Milton township, Mahoning county, Ohio, in 1837. The paternal grandparents of Dr. .Powers were also natives of Milton township, Grandfather James Powers serving as the first sheriff of Mahoning county after it had been set aside. from Trumbull. His wife was before marriage Miss Rebecca Windle. The maternal grandparents were William and Polly Sherwin, of Genesee county, New York. The Powers family is English, its American branch springing from three brothers who came to the United States, one of whom settled in western Pennsylvania at an early day and is the ancestor of the Western 1226 - THE HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE Reserve subdivision. Dr. Abram M. Powers, father of Dr. Harry W., began the practice of medicine at Lordstown, Ohio, in 1861, and on November 20, 1868, moved to Rootstown, Portage county, where he has since been enaged in successful professional work. He is the father of four children. Frank R., the first-born, died in 1904, Harry W. was the second born, Jessie is a resident of Rootstown, and John R. died as an infant. Harry W., the second child of the family, received his elementary education in the public schools of Rootstown, graduated from the Ravenna high school in 1884 and then left home to matriculate in the Cleveland Medical College at Cleveland, now the medical department of Western Reserve University, attending two years. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Wooster in 1886. Dr. Powers immediately commenced practice as his father's associate in Rootstown, but after about a year and a half, located at Deerfield, Portage county, where he remained four years, subsequently practicing the, same length of time at Washingtonville, Columbiana county, Ohio. In August, 1895, he located at South Amherst, and has continued there as its only practitioner, having served since 1905 as surgeon of the Ohio Quarry Company. He is an active member of the Lorain County Medical Society, Northeastern Ohio Eclectic Association, Ohio State Eclectic Association and the American Medical Association. As a citizen, Dr. Powers has ever taken a deep interest in the educational matters of the township, having long served on its board of education, for two years as president of that body. He has also been an active and prominent figure in the fraternities of the locality these many years, being at present identified with the Royal Arcanum, Modern Woodmen of America and Knights and Ladies of Security. The Doctor has been clerk of the local camp of the Modern Woodmen since 1904, and financial secretary of the Knights and 'Ladies of Security, South Amherst, since 1899. Dr. Powers was married 'November 29, 1883, to Miss Susie E. Greene, who was born in Rootstown and is a daughter of George .W. and Sarah (Berlin) Greene: Her paternal grandparents, Thomas and Elizabeth (Brooks) Greene, were natives of Nantucket, Massachusetts, where her father was also born. Her mother was a native of Washingtonville, Ohio. Mrs. Powers' maternal grandparents were John 1.Y. and Susan (Hoffman) Berlin, being natives of Pennsylvania of German parentage. The children born to Dr. Harry W. Powers and his wife were Alice M. a graduate from Oberlin Conservatory of M., in 191o, and now a teacher, chiefly of the piano and vocal music ; and Arthur M., an electrician ; Fred R., a student at Oberlin College ; and Ralph E., a storekeeper, the first arid last named being connected with the Ohio. Quarries Company at South. Amherst. LUCIAN ADAM WILT, who during many years has been identified with the business life of Kent, was born in Juniata county, Pennsylvania, June 14,- 1874, a son of Frederick and Mary (Dunn) Wilt, who were also from Juniata county, as was his maternal grandfather, William Dunn, a jeweler and civil engineer. Frederick Wilt was a Pennsylvania .farmer, and he died in that commonwealth in May of 1881. His widow resides in Alliance, Ohio. From the early age of eleven to sixteen years, Lucian A. Wilt worked on a farm near his boyhood's home ; was then in Vienna, Trumbull county, Ohio, on a farm for one year, and for six months was employed in a rolling mill at Niles, this state. He was eighteen months at Canal Dover, was for two years on a 'farm near Brimfield, spent a similar period at Talmage, this state, and then, coming to Kent in 1896, he worked for three years in the railroad shops. During the following year he was employed in a feed store, and in the fall of 1899 he embarked in the coal business, and since that time he has enlarged his business to include masons materials, plaster supplies, drain tile, sewer pipe and cement blocks. His is one of the leading industrial interests of the city. On the 5th of October, 1899, Mr. Wilt was married to Grace King, who was born in Mantua, Ohio, a daughter of Chester and Hattie (Bemis) King, born in Maryland and Ohio respectively. The children of this union are Ruth, Arthur, Edward and Donald. In politics Mr. Wilt endorses the principles of the Republican party. JAMES COOK—Well deserving of more than passing mention in a work of this character is James Cook, who represents one of the earlier settlers of Perry township, Joseph Cook, who came to this section of the Western Reserve from Essex county, New York, in 1833. Buying a tract of wild land on North Ridge, HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1227 Joseph Cook spent the remainder of his life in Perry township, following mostly his trade of a blacksmith. He was widely known throughout this locality, having built up an extensive patronage. He was very skilful and ingenious, being the first smith to adopt the "goose-neck shank," and acquired a wide reputation as the first maker of steel shoes. Many specimens of his handiwork are still in existence, being treasured as relics, among them being a hoe that kept its edge: He died in 1844, at the comparatively early age of forty-four years, of virulent cancer. He was an intense sufferer, having his leg amputated twice in, one day, and that without the use of anaesthetics, which were then unknown. Joseph Cook married Nancy Richmond, and at his death left six children, namely : J. W., deceased, succeeded to the ownership of the parental homestead ; James, whose name appears at the head of this sketch ; and four daughters, Susan, residing in the Sandwich Islands ; Cynthia, who died in California ; Emma, residing in California ; and Laura A., of Perry, Ohio. James Cook married Ann Wood, a daughter of Otis Wood, of Perry, and they have one son living, Willis W. James Parmly, the youngest son, died at the age of sixteen. .Mr. Cook is a member of the F. b& A. M. Temple Lodge, No. 21, Chapter No. 46 and Eagle Commandery No. 29, Knight Templar Masons of Painesville. ALMON G. LOWELL.—Standing prominent among the leading citizens of Pierpont township, Ashtabula county, is Almon G. Lowell, a keen, progressive business man, who served his country gallantly in the Civil war, and has since been actively identified with substantial industrial enterprises. A native of New Hampshire, he was born July 8, 1842, in the picturesque little town of Rindge, where, drawing health and strength from its invigorating breezes, he grew to a sturdy manhood. He comes from a family whose name stands among the first in honorable distinction in the early annals of New England, and takes pride and pleasure in tracing his ancestry back in a direct line to the year 1300. On August 19, 1861, Mr. Lowell enlisted in Company E, Fifth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, under command of Colonel Edward E. Cross, and took part in many engagements, at the battle of Cold Harbor, June 4, 1864, being so severely wounded that he was forced to remain in the hospital nine months. On October 19, 1864, he was honorably discharged from the service, and returned home. For many years Mr. Lowell was employed in the manufacture of pails, being foreman in the Warren Pail Factory four years ; a foreman in a pail factory in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he owns a fine residence, eight years ; and for four years was superintendent of the pail department in Louisville, Kentucky, where he installed a plant that cost a million of dollars, the plant being used for the manufacturing of pails and tobacco packages. Mr. Lowell now resides in Pierpont township, Ashtabula county, where he owns thirty acres of choice land. Mr. Lowell married April 7, 1868, at Beaver Center, Pennsylvania, Mrs. Mary Jane Smith, who was born August 27, 1836, a daughter of Frank Strong, who married Mrs. Hannah (Lunger) Hall; and widow of the late Frank Smith. Mr. Lowell is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and for forty years has belonged to the Grand Army of the Republic, at present being quartermaster of the Pierpont post, while his wife belongs to the Woman's Relief Corps, of which she was vice president for a year. He is also an Odd Fellow, and Mrs. Lowell was formerly a member of the Daughters of Rebekah. ELEAZER PAYNE CHAPMAN iS one of the oldest living residents, of Portage county, honored and revered wherever known. He was born in Rootstown township, Portage county, Ohio, many years ago, on March 27, 1827, to Nathan and Mary (Whitney) Chapman, the father from Tolland, Connecticut, born July 5, 1783, and the mother from Massachusetts, and she lived to the remarkable age of one hundred years lacking two months. Nathan and Mary Chapman, the grandparents o f Eleazer P. Chapman, drove with oxen, with one horse in the lead, from Connecticut to Portage county, Ohio, via Pittsburg, where their one horse fell over an embankment and was killed. Taking up their abode in Rootstown township in 1805 they secured a large tract of timber land, which Mr. Chapman attempted to clear and while engaged in the work a tree fell upon him and caused his death. Thus he was permitted to enjoy his new home only a few years. He had a family of seven sons and a daughter, to each of whom he gave a farm, and thus Nathan Chapman, the father of Eleazer, came into possession of 1228 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE his first farm, but this he traded soon afterward for another near by. In the clearing of his land and preparing it for cultivation he suffered all the hardships known to the true pioneer. This part of the country was then 'infested with wild beasts, and the nearest market place was on the Ohio river, from which they brought their flour, and when this commodity could not be obtained there they manufactured it in a pepper mill, and salt in those early days sold for seven cents a pound. Nathan Chapman had learned chairmaking, as early as 1801, and he worked at his trade while his sons conducted the farm. Nathan and Mary Chapman had twelve children, but only the following three are now living : Francis Horley, who was born June 29, 1820; and Fannie E., who was born April 3, 1824. Eleazer P. Chapman, the youngest of the three, resided at home until his marriage, and going to Clinton county, Michigan, when twenty-three years of age he secured .160 acres of land from the government, which he cleared of its timber and placed .under cultivation. Returning finally to Ohio he assisted his father on the farm for three years, and then going again to Michigan, he finished the clearing of his land and lived there for twelve years, when he sold and returned once more to the old Chapman .farm in Rootstown township and thereafter remained with his parents until their deaths. Then buying the interests of the other heirs in the farm of seventy acres, he has since added to this nucleus until he owned an estate of 204 acres, but he has since sold until he has left but ninety-two acres, but as fine farming land as lies in Rootstown township. While in Michigan, on .February 12, 1850, Mr. Chapman was married to Martha E. Baldwin, who was born in Batavia, Genesee. county, New York, March 3, 1830, a daughter of Charles and Sophronia (Crowell) Baldwin, from Hartford, Connecticut, and Genesee county, New York, respectively. Mrs. Chapman died on February 20, 1905, leaving one son,. Thaddeus Eleazer, who was born January 2, 186o, and is now the city engineer at Cleveland, Ohio. On September 26, 1906, Mr. Chapman married Lucy Ann Baldwin, a sister of his first wife and the widow of William W. Henderson. She has one daughter, May, the widow of Francis Gates and a resident of Detroit, Michigan. Mr. Chapman is a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church,. and has held all of its offices. GEORGE L. GLITSCH.—In the life record of George L. Glitsch are contained many valuable lessons of self help, showing what can be accomplished by the young men of this free country, though they have no capital with which to start out on life's journey. For many years he has been one of the leaders of the bar of Lorain County, an able lawyer and a leader in political circles. He was born at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1867, a son of Caspar and Anna Elizabeth (Hoffmann) Glitsch. The parents were both born in Laundenhausen, Grassherrzun, Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, where they were also married and from whence they came to the United States in 1848. They located at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where Caspar Glitsch died on July 24, 1883, at the age of sixty-three years, and his wife died there in 1893, when sixty-five years of age. George L. Glitsch received a public school education, but at the age Of twelve years he left school to work in the family market garden, and it was not until he was eighteen that he again took up his studies, and then he entered night school, working in the mills at Johnstown during the days. He continued his mill work until the age of twenty-five, and then entering the University of Michigan he took a special literary and law course and graduated from its law department with the class of 1895. In the same year he came to Lorain, was admitted to the bar in June of the same year and at once entered upon the active practice of the law. In the meantime Mr. Glitsch has won his way to a high standing in professional circles, and has been prominent in the public life of his city, serving as its city solicitor by appoint. ment and as its mayor in 1900, refusing a second term in that office. In 1898 and with W. B. Thompson they formed the Thompson & Glitsch legal firm, .which later became Thompson, Glitsch & Cinninger and is recognized as one of the strongest law firms in Lorain county. Mr. Glitsch is also the vice president of the National Bank of Commerce of Lorain, is the president of the Lorain Driving Park Association and is a member of the Board of Commerce. Ie is a Thirty-second degree Mason, and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Knights of Pythias. He married Amelia Hessellbein, who was born at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. AMOS COLEMAN FISK.—The Fisk family has been represented in the neighborhood of Ash- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1229 tabula since 1810, and have contributed their full share to the progress and development of the city. Amos C. Fisk was born in Ashtabula in 1823, and spent his entire life in his native city, where he died in 1891. He was a son of Amos and Mary (Hubbard) Fisk. Amos Fisk Was born May 26, 1780, at Wendell, Massachusetts, and in 1807 removed to Erie, Pennsylvania. He married, January 13, 1808, at Trenton, New York, Mary, daughter of Isaac and Ruth (Coleman) Hubbard, born at Middletown, Connecticut, August 26, 1789. Mr. and Mrs. Fisk removed to Ohio in 181o, settling at Ashtabula, and to them were horn eleven children, of whom four died in infancy. Mr: Fisk from the first took an active part in public affairs, and became an influential citizen. At one time he owned the land south of the North Park, where the present city is located, and besides carrying on a farm he was interested in mercantile business. He and his wife were greatly interested in the erection of schools and churches, and in 1825 the Baptist church was organized in a building erected by Mr. Fisk and donated to the society, with the land. This building stood in the southwest corner of North Park, and about 1858 the city wished to straighten the park, and purchased the church, giving in exchange land now occupied by the present Baptist church. Deacon Amos Fisk died in 1836, and his widow in 1872. In 1834 he erected the first brick residence in Ashtabula. Three of their sons grew to manhood, the oldest of whom, Isaac Hubbard, settled in Watertown, New York, where his children now reside. The second son was Amos Coleman, and the third Edward W. Edward W. Fisk was born in 1832, and married Mary Mygatt, of Canfield, Ohio, in 1860; he died in 1901. In 1859 he removed to Leetonia, where he engaged in coal mining until 1864, then returned to Ashtabula and engaged in flour business with his brother Amos C. Later he engaged in mercantile business at Ashtabula Harbor, and for eight years was collector of customs. His oldest son,. Dr. George Mygatt Fisk, lives at Madison, Wisconsin ; he served during President McKinley's first term as second secretary at the Embassy at Berlin. He was professor of economics at Tome Institute, Port Deposit, MarYland; and later held a similar position at the University of Illinois. The second son of Edward Fisk, Edward A., is employed in railroad work, and lives with his mother in Ashtabula. Amos Coleman Fisk was for many years a flour merchant of Ashtabula; and later became extensively interested in real estate. He was always interested in every movement for the growth, progress and improvement of his native city, and in the building of the railroads connecting Ashtabula with Pittsburg and lake ports. He was public-spirited and enterprising, and won the respect and esteem of all with whom he had any dealings, in a social or business way. In 1861 Mr. Fisk married Sarah L. Paine, of Royalston, Massachusetts, and they became the parents of one son, Amos Paine, born in 1874. They also adopted a daughter, Kitty C. Mrs. Fisk is a woman of culture and refinement, and lives on Park Place, in Ashtabula. The house occupied by the family for forty-five years is one of the old landmarks of the city, having been built by Russell Clark about 1836. JOHN MORTIMER TREAT, a farmer of Portage county, is a descendant of a long line of Treats who identified themselves for many generations with the progress and development of Connecticut. The family were connected with the Treat who was at one time governor of the state. John Mortimer Treat was born in his present residence, October 29, 1842, and is a son of Amos Mortimer and Harriet (Hatch) Treat. The name was formerly spelled Trott or Tratt, and Richard Treat, the progenitor of the family in America, was great-grandson of William Trott, of Staplegrove, England. Richard Treat was born about 1584, at Pitsminster, Somerset county, England, and died in 1669-70, at Wethersfield, Connecticut. His son Richard was born in 1623 in Pitsminster, and died about 1693. He was one of the first settlers in Wethersfield. His son, Lieutenant Thomas Treat, born December 12, 1668, in Wethersfield, died January 17, 1762 ; he was a training band lieutenant, and one of the incorporators of Glastonbury, Connecticut. Lieutenant Treat's son Thomas was born May 3, 1699, in Glastonbury, Connecticut, and he died January 15, 1780. Of his eleven children, Gershom, Treat was born September 15, 1740, in Glastonbury, Connecticut, and died in the same state.. His wife Jane died March 17, 1830, and is buried in Aurora. Gershom Treat was a soldier in the Revolution and enlisted April 21, 1777, in Captain Vine Elderkin's. Company, of Windham, Connecticut, in the regiment of Colnel Heman. Swift ; he took part in the battle of Germantown, October 4, 1777, 1230 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE and was discharged January 8, 1778. Gershom Treat's son, Amos Hall Treat, was born February 15, 1786, at Glastonbury, Connecticut ; he married Jane Stuart, of Portland, Connecticut, and they had two children. Amos Mortimer, father of John Mortimer Treat, was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut; March 13, 1813 ; he married Harriet M. Hatch, of Aurora, in 1841, and they had three children. He came to the Western Reserve in 1816, in company with his parents, with horses and a big wagon. The party consisted of his father, Amos Hall Treat, his .wife and two children, Sabrina Stuart, his sister-in-law, and Levi Stuart. They were on their way to Hudson, Ohio, and on being told in Cleveland that they could cut off much of the road by driving along the lake they did so, and the wagon wheels got caught in the rocks in the lake, so that the women and children of the party had to be taken ashore on the men's backs. Amos Hall Treat owned the property which is now the college campus of the Western Reserve College ; he was a lieutenant in the militia of Connecticut, and his commission was signed October 15, 1813, by the governor, John Cotton Smith. The document is now in Mr. Treat's possession and highly prized as a relic. John Mortimer Treat attended Samuel Bissell's school at Twinsburgh, Summit county, and later graduated at a Cleveland commercial college. He then spent three or four years in the mercantile business in company with father, at Bainbridge. In 1865 Mr. Treat removed to the farm he now occupies. He married January 16, 1866, at Bainbridge, Eunice Rudolph ; her father, Perry Rudolph, was born September 13, 1813, and married Caroline Ellenwood, September 10, 1834, at Hiram township. John Rudolph, grandfather of Eunice Rudolph, came from Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, and settled in Portage county, in 1805 ; Perry Rudolph and his family live at Sackett's Harbor, New York, and Mrs. Treat still has the teakettle in which her family made tea during the journey by wagon from Sackett's Harbor to the Western Reserve. Mr. and Mrs. Treat have three children, namely : Carrie Mercedes, Frank Mortimer and Lucretia Rudolph. Carrie M. married Dr. Frank E. Bard and has three children, namely : Norma Antoinette, Rudolph Treat and Malcomb Treat. Frank Mortimer married Carrie E. Gould and has no children. Lucretia R. Treat married Thomas C. Larter. They have two children, Donna M. and Mortimer Treat. CORY OSCAR PFILE.—As an industrious and thrifty farmer, thoroughly acquainted with his calling, Cory Pfile is an able assistant in maintaining the reputation of Portage county as a superior agricultural region, his farm, although a comparatively small one, being one of the best managed and most productive in Edinburg township. A son of the late John Pfile, he was born, September 11, 1869, in this township, and was here educated in the district schools. A native of Germany, John Pfile came to this country with his parents when a small boy, and grew to manhood on the farm which his father reclaimed from the wilderness. Taking upon himself the cares and responsibilities of a family man, he settled in Edinburg township, and was here industriously employed in tilling the soil until his death, June 30, 1884. He married Mary Boles, who was born and educated in Portage county. She survived him, dying February 24, 1886. They were the parents of seven children, five sons and two daughters, Cory, the subject of this brief sketch, being the fourth son in order of birth. Remaining on the homestead until after the death of his parents, Cory Pfile subsequently worked for wages for a short time, but after his marriage began. farming on his own account.. He has now a snug little estate of forty acres, pleasantly located in Edinburg township, and is carrying on general farming very successfully, receiving good returns in the quality and quantity of his crops for the labor expended. Mr. Pfile married June 24, 1889, Ada M. Payne, who was born October 13, 1870, a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Fawley) Payne. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Pfile, namely : Harry R. ; Alta I. died in infancy ; Fern L. ; Myrtle I.; Herbert P. died in childhood ; and Mary E. Mr. Pfile takes much interest in local affairs, and served one term as township trustee, being elected on the Democratic ticket, which he uniformly supports at the polls. A man of sterling integrity, upright in his dealings, Mr. Pfile is highly esteemed by his neighbors and friends, and is regarded by all as a useful and valuable member of the community. DR. A. M. POWERS is perhaps one of the oldest physicians of Portage county, and has been the loved family physician in many of the households of the early settlers as well as of those of its present residents. The son of a HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1231 physician, his first practice was in Lordstown, Trumbull county, Ohio, and following his professional connection with that village he attended the Western Reserve Medical College at Cleveland and from there matriculated in the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati. Returning then to the scene of his first professional labors, Lordstown, he continued there until November 1o, 1868, when he then established hims,elf in Rootstown, his future field of endeavor. Both his professional and business record are alike commendable, for in both relations he has been true to the trusts reposed in him and has shown himself worthy of public regard. Dr. Powers was born in Milton, Mahoning county, Ohio, January 28, 1837, a son of James and Rebecca (Windle) Powers, the father born in Youngstown September 11, 1809, and the mother in Newton township, Trumbull county, in 181o. The grandparents on the paternal side, Abram and Elizabeth (Woodworth) Powers, were from New Jersey, while the maternal grandfather, Francis Windle, was from. Chester county, Pennsylvania. He was one of the first to locate in Newton township, Trumbull county,. Ohio, traveling overland with an ox team in about the year 1800 and locating on the Mahoning river. The paternal family were among the earliest families of Youngstown. James Powers, rather of the doctor, entered upon his business career as a carpenter with his father, while later he was employed in a mercantile store at Vienna, Ohio, by a Mr. Cramer and at farm labor, and during his life time he became one of the prominent and influential men of his community. At Milton in 1832 he went into mercantile business which he continued until 1835, and then entered upon the study of medicine with Dr. Tracey Brunson at Newton. In 1846 he was elected the first sheriff of Mahoning county, and gave up his professional practice to take charge of the office, where he remained for two terms, and then returning to Milton turned his attention to farming and stock-raising. In 1861 he organized Company H, Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and went into service as its captain, but in 1863 he was honorably discharged on account of disability. Returning then to Youngstown he farmed on the old. home place until moving in 1871 to Rootstown. After tie death of his wife in 1882 he lived with his son, the doctor, and a daughter, Mrs. F. P. Chapman, of Ravenna, his death occurring at the former's home on February 3, 189o. He nad three children, but a daughter, Mary, died at the age of twenty-four years in 1864 . Dr. A. M. Powers, the only son in the above family, married on October 13, 1858, Cynthia A. Sherwin, who was born in Lordstown, Ohio, a daughter of William and Mary Sherwin, from Pennsylvania. The four children of that union are : Frank R., who was born on September 12, 1859, and died on November 5, 1903 ; Dr. H. W., who was born September 5, 1864, and is now a practicing physician at Amherst, this state ; Jessie A., born November 12, 1869, and at home with her father ; and John E., born September 10, 1874, and died June 25, 1875. The wife and mother is also deceased, dying on September 11, 1874, and on the loth of May 1876, the doctor married for his second wife Sarah L. Bingham, the widow idow of Frederick Barlow, to whom she was married November 24, 1864, and a daughter of Nathan and Eliza (McCann) Bingham, from Norwich, Connecticut, and from Erie, Pennsylvania, respectively. Mrs. Powers is a granddaughter of Asa and Hanna (Lord) Bingham, natives of Connecticut. Mrs. Powers passed from the district schools to the Talmage and Elsworth College, and after the completion. of her education she taught at Berlin for one term, and also at Talmage, Yale and Rootstown. She has been a member of the Congregational church since the age of eighteen years, while Dr. Powers has held membership relations with, the Methodist Episcopal denomination since September of 1855, and he, has served his church as president .of its board of trustees, and since 1864 as a. steward. During two years he served Rootstown township as treasurer, elected by the Democratic party, and he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Royal Arcanum at Ravenna. HON. WILLIAM B. THOMPSON.—Among Lorain's professional and business men none are more closely identified with its growth and best interests than the Hon. William B. Thompson, a man who has brought his thorough wisdom to bear not alone in professional paths, but also for the benefit of the city which has so long been his home and with whose interests he has been thoroughly identified. He is a lawyer of well known ability and a citizen of the highest standing. Mr. Thompson was born in Columbia. township, Lorain county, September 6, 1863, and 1232 - HISTORY OP THE WESTERN RESERVE the family for several generations have been residents of this community. He is a son of Samuel B. and Emular L. (Osborn) Thompson, and a grandson on the paternal side of John V. Thompson, a native of Connecticut, but one of the earliest settlers of Columbia township, Lorain county. The maternal grandfather was William B. Osborn, who was born in Columbia township, his father, A. P. Osborn, having come here from his native state of Connecticut in 1810. Samuel B. Thompson was born in Columbia township in 1836, and he has been a farmer there all his life, and is living at the present time, but his wife, born in Columbia township in 1837, died there in July of 1899. There were two sons in their family, and the elder, John B. Thompson, resides in Columbia township and is engaged in the real estate business in Cleveland. William B. Thompson, the younger son, was reared until his eleventh year on the home farm, his parents then moving to Berea in order to afford their sons better educational advantages, and William B., after finishing the high school course, entered Baldwin University of that city and graduated with its Class of 1885, and with the degree of Ph. B. After leaving college he spent about a year on the farm and in teaching school, and in 1886 he entered the law office of Judge, G. M. Barber at Cleveland, and a year later accepted a position in the office of Judge A. R. Webber in Elyria. In 1888 he was admitted to the bar, and in March of 1899 he located in Lorain and entered upon a successful career as an attorney and later as a man of large affairs. He was one of the three organizers, and the president since its organization, of the Penfield Avenue Savings Bank .of Lorain ; is the president of the Home Building Company of Lorain, the president of the Barrows Company of Lorain, and a director in the Cleveland, Columbus and Southwestern Electric Company, a director in the Black River Telephone Company and a director in the Lorain County Electric Railway Company, which runs from Elyria to Amherst and Lorain, and from Elyria to Grafton, running on the Green line, which Mr. Thompson helped to build. He is also a trustee of Baldwin University, president of the Tri-County Realty Company, with headquarters in Lorain, and he organized and incorporated the Lake Erie and Pittsburg' Railroad Company (steam) and is its attorney, and for five years its former vice-president. In April, 1890, he was elected the mayor of Lorain, and was returned to the office in 1892. Mr. Thompson continued alone in the practice of his profession until 1899, when George L Glitsch was admitted as a partner and the firm became Thompson & Glitsch, and a few years. later A. W. Cinninger came into the firm, the present style of which is Thompson, Glitsch &. Cinninger, and their practice is one of the largest and most lucrative in the county. Mr. Thompson married, December 17, 1890, Lulu, daughter of the late Rev. James L. Sanford, of Lorain, and their, two children are Helen Marie, and Robert William, aged respectively fifteen and six years. Mr. Thompson is a member of Lorain Lodge, No. 552,. F. & A. M., Mystic Chapter, No. 170, R. A. M., and the Council, R. & S. M. a member of Black River Lodge, No. 682, I. O. O. F., and the Lake Shore Encampment, No. 242; and a member of Woodland Lodge, No. 226,, Knights of Pythias. He was one of the corporators and became the first president of the old Chamber of Commerce, and when that body and the Board of Trade were consolidated, forming the Lorain Board of Commerce, he became the first vice-president of the latter. He is' a member of the First Methodist church, as is Mrs. Thompson. FREEMAN R. RAWDON, a prominent and successful farmer of Windsor township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, was born in that township,. February 7, 1833, and is a son of Daniel and. Amorett (Goddard) Rawdon. His grandfather, Samuel Rawdon, was born in 1774, in Tolland, Connecticut, and died in 1846. He came to Ohio in 1813, with an ox-team, and' settled in the northwest part of Windsor township, on a farm. He built a sawmill to run by water power. Samuel Rawdon married Abigail Winslow, born in 1774, died in 1867, and their children were : Stephen, deceased; Daniel ; Lydia, Mrs. Baker, deceased ; Wealthea, Mariva, Ariel, Ezra, and Roxie, the youngest, all deceased. Daniel Rawdon was born in Tolland, Connecticut, August 3, 1808, and died March 31, 1899. He came to Ohio with his parents when four years of age. He became a farmer and was also a great hunter, and sold some of his game. He killed over six hundred deer, as well as elks, bears, wolves, etc. He was highly esteemed by his neighbors, had a multitude of friends, and was called "Uncle" by nearly all who knew him. He served as road supervisor and school director, and two or three. HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1233 terms as township trustee. Mr. Rawdon married Amorett Goddard, born in 1805, died in 1851, and their children were : Rosanna, born in 1831, died unmarried, in 1872 ; Freeman R. ; Jeduthan, born in 1837, died unmarried in 1860, was a musician ; and Rodelia, born in 1839, died in 1906, unmarried. Freeman R. Rawdon attended school in his native 'township and later worked on his father's farm. He worked fourteen years in a shingle mill, and also worked in a sawmill, carrying on his farm at the same time. He put in a circular saw in a mill and ran it, and owned. half interest in Hartsgrove Township Mill, but sold it many years ago. He used to buy and clear land, clearing it and using the lumber in his mill. He now owns 300 acres of land, and carries on general farming. He takes great interest in public affairs, and is affiliated with the Republican party. He is a member of Windsor Lodge, No. 329, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has been through the chairs and is now past grand ; he is also a member of the Encampment, and has passed through the chairs, and has served many years as treasurer of the Encampment and. the subordinate lodge. His wife is a member of the Rebekah Lodge of Windsor, of which she has served as treasurer. Mr. Rawdon married, in 1872, Josephine, daughter of Selden and Sally Ann (Howes) Pound, born December 1, 1838, and they have one son, George. George Rawdon was born November 19, 1873, and lives at home. He married May Baker. He has been. engaged in mercantile business, has worked at farming, and at present is handling real estate. He is a member of Hartsgrove Lodge, A. F. & A. M. He also belongs to Windsor Lodge, No. 329, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and to the Encampment, having passed through the chairs in both. He is a Republican in politics and has served four years as township clerk. He is a young man of enterprise and ambition, and is well liked. and popular. He has had good business training, and his future is promising. EDWARD BURR, of Concord township, whose residence is on the old girdled road, which was built in 1798, situated five and one-half miles southeast of Painesville, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, January 7, 1843. He is a son of David 'and Mariette (Rowley) Burr, bath natives of Connecticut. David Burr was a shoemaker, and came to Concord in 1849, there following his trade on his farm at the corners. He did custom work, securing the same from Cleveland, and his two sons also worked in the shop. David Burr died at Concord about 1898, over eighty years of age. His father, Roswell Burr, came to Ohio before 1849, and lived in Chardon, Geauga county. He also was a shoemaker, and lived to be over eighty years of age. David Burr's wife died before her husband. They had four sons and one daughter, and the oldest son, Charles, married and lived in Connecticut. The others are : John, a shoemaker, living in Chardon; Edward ; Fred, was a farmer and lived on the old homestead, but when going 'down hill one day he was instantly killed, his head being run over by a loaded wagon ; and Eulalia, married Carlos Baker, who died, and she lives on the old plank road in Concord. Edward Burr enlisted in the Union Army,. August 12, 1862, in Company D, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served to the close. of the war with this' company. He took part. in the battles of Dumfries, Ringold, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, and also in the Gettysburg. campaign. He was discharged with his regiment, after the Grand Review at Washington. At the close of the war Mr. Burr returned to the trade of shoemaker, first with his father,, and later in company with his brother John, at Montville. Fite afterward worked in stone. quarries and helped in building bridges, working on a great many stone and brick bridges,. on almost every one along Big Creek. He also worked on the Chardon road at teaming and helped on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,. from Painesville to Chardon, and trestle work on the grade ; he was dredging and ballasting. three or four years. - In 1874 he secured his present farm of ninety-four and one-half acres,. which has since been his residence, and where he has successfully carried on general farming. He is well known for enterprise and. thrift, and is a patriotic, public-spirited citizen.. Mr. Burr married, April 26, 1866, Martha, daughter of Jesse and Lucy (Curtis) Emerson, born in Chardon township, Geauga county, near her present home. Jesse Emerson was born in Painesville, September 17, 1812, and his daughter Martha was twenty years of age. at the time of her marriage. Mr. Burr and his wife had four children, namely.: Cora, married Clarence Thayer, of Painesville ; Charlie, married Clara Little, of Perry, and works in a grocery. store in Painesville ; Ruby, married Louie Rust, who works in the Nickle Plate 1234 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE Milling Company ; and Mattie, living at home. Mrs. Burr is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. STEPHEN PETER HARTZELL, a real estate and insurance dealer in Wadsworth, a member of the firm of Allen & Hartzell, was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, December 1, 1857, a son of Samuel and Lydia (Heller) Hartzell, the father a weaver by trade. The son attended first the schools of Windgap, Pennsylvania, later was in school in the vicinity of Wadsworth, and he completed his educational training in the Mennonite College. He first came to Ohio in 1877, when he located at Norton, but three months later he came to Wadsworth, and from here in 188o he went to Akron to engage in the bookbinding business. During one year from 1888, he was engaged in the grocery business, after which he resumed work along his former line, continuing as a book binder from 1889 to 1902, and then elected the secretary of the Board of Underwriters for the city of Akron he served in that position for two years. He was then appointed, through the civil service of the federal government, to a position in the book binding department of the government printing office: Following the termination of that position in 1907 Mr. Hartzell embarked .in the real estate business in the city of Washington, and on the 1st of June, 1908, returned to Wadsworth. He has served as member of the board of education of Akron from April, 1899, to April, 1901 ; during his term he was instrumental in establishing free night schools for the city of Akron. He married Miss Cora F. Kremer, o f this city, and they have one son, Leslie K. Mr. Hartzell is a member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity. JOHN G. WIEGA ND, although a resident of Amherst township and of the United States for less than nineteen years, has proven his substantial German ability, and has but lately purchased a good farm, upon which he is living and to whose cultivation and improvement he is devoting himself with spirit and determination. He is a native of Hesse-Cassel, Germany, born July 13, 1865, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Gesberg) Wiegand. His father is a wagon maker and is still busy at his trade in Germany. In 1891 Mr. Wiegand came to this country, settling first at South Amherst, where he was employed for several years by the Cleveland Stone Company. Ambitious for a more independent career, however, he rented a farm of some fifty acres from the James Nicholl estate on North Ridge, and made such a success of his venture that he in 1910 purchased the property. Mr. Wiegand is a citizen of integrity and morality, having been connected since boyhood with the Evangelical Lutheran church, to which he also owes 'his education in the parochial schools. His wife, Mary Grant Cham- bers, whom he married on March 7, 1904, is a Scotch lady, who was born in Dundee and emigrated to Amherst township during the year of his own coming, 1891, and made her home with her aunt, the late Mrs. James Nicholl, Sr., remaining with that lady until the death of Mrs. Nicholl. EUGENE J. NORTON.-- A practical and prosperous agriculturist of Lake county, Eugene J. Norton displays much ability and skill in his chosen work, his farm, pleasantly located one mile southeast of Perry village, being in an excellent state of cultivation, furnished with good buildings and plenty of machinery of the most approved kinds for successfully carrying on his labors. A son of Nelson Norton, he was born July 10, 1849, in Perry, on what is now the Lake Shore right-of-way, near Lane Station. His grandfather, Joseph Norton, a native of Massachusetts, was one of the pioneer settlers of Perry. Soon after the close of the War of 1812, in which he served as a soldier, Joseph Norton, with either six or seven brothers, migrated from Massachusetts to Portage county, Ohio, where all made permanent settlements,. Joseph, however, being the only one to remain in Perry: He subsequently bought land near the part through which the Nickle Plate Railway now passes, and improved a farm. He afterwards lived on the Stuber farm until after the death of his wife, when he removed to Jefferson, Ashtabula county, where he resided until his death, June 1, 1875, at the venerable age of eighty-two years. He married Paulina Crooks, a native of Massachusetts. Nelson Norton was born in Aurora, Portage county, Ohio, December 24, 1819, and came with his parents to Perry in 1828. He assisted his father, as soon as old enough, in clearing a homestead from the wilderness, and after his marriage settled at Lane Station. where he resided until 1856. Coming then to Perry, he bought land on the Narrows road, HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1235 and at once began its improvement, each year adding much to its value. In 1870 he built the brick. residence now standing upon it, and was there engaged in his free and independent occupation until his death, November 19, 1888. He married Maria E. Baldwin, who was born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, April 25, 1819, and died on the home farm, in Perry, Ohio, February, 1887. Her father, Jehiel Baldwin, came with his family from western Massachusetts to Perry, Ohio, in 1836, and lived for a short time on the South Ridge road, but later settling near Lane Station. Early in 1861 he sold his farm and removed to the Narrows road, where, in April of that year, his death occurred at the age of seventy-three years. He also served in the War of 1812. His wife, whose maiden name was Margaret Sackett, went West after his death, but returned to Perry after a few months' absence, and died in 1876, in Ohio. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Norton, namely : Octavia P. died at the age of nine years ; Marion died when seven years old ; Eugene J., the subject of this sketch ; Remus died at the age of three years, he and his two older sisters dying within a period of eight days ; Olivia, for many years a successful teacher in the Lake county schools, died in 1891; and Camilla, who was book-keeper, and for a while an assistant in the Lake Shore accountants' office, in Cleveland; married George E. Bates, of Goldfield, Nevada. After leaving the district school, Eugene J. Norton entered Oberlin College, where he completed his early education. Choosing for his life work the occupation to which he was reared, he has met with signal success. In 1900 he assumed possession of his present estate, known as the Haskell farm, and is here carrying on mixed husbandry with satisfactory results. He is a man of undoubted enterprise and energy, and when younger was busily employed for twelve or thirteen years in running a threshing machine, and, for two seasons operated a saw mill. From 1902 until 1906, four years, Mr. Norton rendered good service as road supervisor, and in 1908, and again in 1909, was appointed to the same office, and given full control of all of the public highways of the township. Mr. Norton married, February 26, 1874, Emma L. Graves, who was born in England and came to Ohio with her parents, David and Elizabeth (Rollings) Graves, when about a year old. Mr. and Mrs. Norton have two children, namely : Nelson D., born December 31, 1875, living at home ; and Maud L., born June 25, 188o, also at home. Politically Mr. Norton is an uncompromising Republican ; religiously he is a member of the Baptist church, and fraternally he belongs to the Independent . Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has passed all of the chairs. WILLIAM E. MILLER—The late William E. Miller, who died at his home in the city of Elyria, Lorain county, Ohio, on the 27th of April, 1909, was a man who left a definite impress upon the industrial and civic history of the Western Reserve. His career illustrates in a marked degree the power of concentrating the resources of the entire man and lifting Chem into the sphere of high achievement of supplementing splendid natural endowments with close application, impregnable integrity and untiring tenacity of purpose. Along the manifold lines in which he directed his fine energies and abilities, both as a business man and as a loyal and public-spirited citizen, he made of success not an accident but a logical result. Not yet has sufficient time elapsed since he was called from the scene of his prolific labors to enable us to gain a clear perspective of his life and thereby determine the ultimate value of his services ; but even a cursory review must reveal much of the man as he stood forth a noble type of the world's workers, making his life count for good in all its relations. For nearly forty years he was closely identified with the industrial and business interests of Lorain county, and it might well be said that none has done ,more to promote the progress of the city and the county than this honored citizen. William E. Miller was born at' Constableville, New York, on the nth of August, 1839, a son of Edwin Miller, a farmer of that state, of stanch English extraction. The paternal grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and the grandfather on the mother's side was named David Eells. Mr. Miller, of this sketch, spent the first fifteen years of his life on the home farm in Lewis county, New York, and, although his education within the walls of the school house was very limited, at that age he commenced to take deep draughts of the more valuable knowledge which comes. from contact and struggles with the world. From the age of fifteen to eighteen he had his earliest experiences with the mercantile world in his native state, but in 1857 located in Cleve- 1236 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE land, Ohio, where, for sixteen years, his business progress was pronounced and continuous. In the spring of 1873 he assumed the management of the Grafton (Ohio) Stone Company, and thus became first identified with the progress of Lorain. county. In the meantime, Mr. Miller had married, but his family remained in the old New York home until 1874, when they rejoined him at Elyria. Mr. Miller's administration of the affairs of the Grafton Stone Company were energetic, sagacious and progressive, and through his efforts the enterprise was developed into one of the important industrial concerns of the Western Reserve. Upon the absorption of this company by the Cleveland Stone Company, in 1899, Mr. Miller bought an interest in the Shelby Tube Company and thus became connected with the important manufacture of seamless steel tubing. In Iwo. several manufactories in that line formed a combination, without abandoning their distinctive organizations. Among these was the Shelby Tube Company, of which Mr. Miller became president in 1901, retaining the efficient management of its affairs until the entire combination was absorbed by the United States Steel Corporation. At a later date Mr. Miller organized the Elyria Iron and Steel Company, was consulted in the erection of its fine plant just south of the city, and at the time of his death had a silent, though influential interest in the company. The concern now represents one of the well managed and important industries of the Western Reserve, and in connection with its upbuilding Mr. Miller largely defined its early policies which brought it to substantial success. Broad-minded, loyal and public-spirited as a citizen, Mr. Miller did not hedge himself in with matters of individual business, but found much satisfaction in giving his co-operation to measures of public moment. This spirit prompted him to accept the presidency of the Lorain County Agricultural Society at a time when its affairs were in a deplorable condition. He carefully made a canvass of the situation, consulted ways and means, and finally outlined the thorough business policy under which the society was rehabilitated, its property holdings made secure and its operations rendered effective and profitable. The society is now free from indebtedness and its annual fairs are a source of much profit and satisfaction to the people of the county. Mr. Miller had various capitalistic interests aside from those already mentioned, and it may be noted that he was a director of the National Bank of Elyria. His energy was unflagging, his enthusiasm unquenchable, his foresight remarkable, and such movements as enjoyed his influence and co-operation were uniformly successful. His personality was one free from ostentation, for he placed a true value on men and affairs, and was tolerant and really generous in his association with "all sorts and conditions of men." Thus he drew to himself inviolable friendships, and in Lorain county his death was attended with a sense of personal bereavement. In short, his nature was strong and true, and his character, as well as his acts, earned him the full measure of all the esteem and honor which were ever accorded him. In 1862 Mr. Miller wedded Miss Mary F. Stacy, who was born in Utica, New York, daughter of William Stacy, an old and honored merchant of that city, and his wife, nee Catherine Foster. Both were natives of New York state, the father of Ogdensburg and the mother of New Hartford. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Miller, as follows : William Stacy ; Jennie H., who is Mrs. Frank E. Stewart, of Pittsburg ; Frederic Stuart; Mayme E., now Mrs. James N. Cooke, of Pittsburg; and Katrine, at home. Mrs. Miller still 'maintains her home at Elyria, in whose social circles she is a welcome participant. Her two sons, William S. and Fred S., have assumed their father's prominence both in connection with the. Grafton Stone Company and the Elyria Iron and Steel Company. William Stacy Miller, the elder son, is president of the Elyria Iron and Steel Company, and was born at Constableville, New York, on the 9th of April, 1863. He completed the public school and the high school courses at Elyria, and in 1894 initiated his business career by becoming secretary of the Grafton Stone Company. Later, he was elected vice president and treasurer of the Shelby Tube Company, retaining this connection until the business was absorbed by the United States Steel Corporation in 1900. In 1903 he became president of the Elyria Iron and Steel Company, in the organization and incorporation of which he was associated with his father and other substantial capitalists. He has since continued the executive head of this corporation, with whose development he has thus been identified from the start and to whose success he has made large contributions. Mr. HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1237 Miller's wife was formerly Miss Kate Wackerhagen, of Albany,. New York, and they have one child, Winifred Miller.. Frederic Stuart Miller,. the younger son, who is manager of the Grafton Stone Company, was born in Constableville, New York, on the 21st of April, 1868. He was educated both in public schools and under private tutors, and has been identified with his present line of business since his twentieth year. When he was twenty-three years of age he became a commercial traveler for the Grafton Stone Company, and in 1893, manager and secretary. Mr. Miller held this dual office until 1899, when the company was absorbed by the Cleveland Stone Company, and he has since acted as manager of the Grafton branch of the combination, which retains the old name of Grafton Stone Company. The local head of the concern is one of the most active and enterprising business men of the county, and his integrity of purpose is as stanch as his ability. He is a director of the Elyria Iron and Steel Company, the Eastern Heights Lana Company and the National Bank of Elyria, and a valued member of the Chamber of Commerce, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Country Club and other organizations. In 1893 Mr. Miller was united in marriage to Miss Anna Stevens, of Elyria, daughter of George W. Stevens; who was for many years in the service of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have no children. CHARLES H. WALKER.— On both sides of the family Charles H. Walker, the well-known farmer of Amherst township, Lorain county, represents fine pioneer stock of the Western Reserve, drawn from the Empire and the, Green Mountain states. The paternal grandparents, Henry and Charlotte Walker, were natives of New York, the former securing a tract of land on a 100-year lease which is included in the present site of Philadelphia, and in which the heirs of to-day, still hold an interest. Later, but. yet at a very early day, Ira and Lucy Smith, the maternal grandparents of Charles H., commenced to play a part in the 'history. of the Western Reserve. The former obtained a large tract through the Connecticut Land Company in Amherst township, married after coming to the Western Reserve and for years before his death was engaged in cutting away the forest and cultivating his land. It was While. clearing away the timber for Middle Ridge road that he was crushed to death by the falling of a tree. His wife passed away in Huntington. township, Lorain county. In the founding of their homestead she had clone her full share, as was customary with the splendid women of her day. She was buried in the Cleveland Street cemetery at Amherst. Charles H. Walker was barn in Amherst township January 18, 1853, and is a son of William and Leapha (Smith) Walker, born respectively in, New York and Vermont. Their marriage occurred at Amherst, about 1847, after which they resided with Grandfather Walker for some time, and then came into possession of the Smith homestead, where Charles H. now resides:. There the father died in March, 1867, his widow residing on the homestead for ten years thereafter, when she moved to the village of Amherst, where she passed away December 24, 1904. At the time of her death she was living with her daughter, Zulima, who is now Mrs. Amos V. Kent, of Toledo, Ohio. She was also the Mother of William, who is himself deceased. Mrs. William Walker married for her second husband, Henry Osborne, to :whom she bore a daughter Maud, now Mrs. Jewett Wright, of Port Huron, Michigan. Mr. Walker, of this sketch, resided at home until his first marriage, in 1877, afterward re- siding on a part of the home place until, he purchased his mother's interest .and became. sole proprietor of the property. He continued to farm until he was thirty-five years of age,. when he entered the employ of the Cleveland Stone Quarry No. 6, as a blacksmith, and was thus engaged for thirteen years. With this exception he has been continuously engaged as a farmer and gardener of Amherst township. On May 5, 1877, Mr. Walker .married Miss Elizabeth Hofner, a native of Amherst township, and she died January 9, 1892, the mother of Bertha, deceased at the age of thirteen years. The second marriage was to Mrs. Margaret (Hofner) Cliff, widow of William Cliff, daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Cook) Hofner and a sister of his first wife. The son of this union, Russell W., was born October 25, 1895. MOSES WORTHING BEEDE is justly both a prominent and a popular man in Ashtabula county, where he is and has been for many years president of the Soldiers' Relief Commission, and has served as a member of the Republican central committee and of the 1238 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE county's first jury commission. For years he has been a leading man in reform politics, as he has put forth every effort to conquer the saloon element and to elect good men to office. Before the Civil war he belonged to the Black String Society, which was organized to protect and assist fugitive slaves. He was also among those who actively resisted the United States marshal and prevented his taking John Brown Jr. to testify against John Brown. He became a Mason at twenty-four and has taken the chapter degree ; is also a member of the Giddings Post G. A. R. at Jefferson. In his own township of Lenox, his executive ability, his public spirit and his useful services to the town have long made him a leader ; he has been president of the school board and is at present a township trustee,'having served twenty years in that capacity. He was first elected in 1869, and since that time he has been instrumental in making the following improvements : Building the town hall ; establishing public watering-places ; causing to be surveyed two acres of unclaimed land, which had been reserved for township purposes by the original owner of Lenox, Mr. Rockwell ; erecting the township vault ; and buying additional land for cemeteries, which have been improved in the past few years until they are now among the most beautiful country • cemeteries to be found. In early colonial times there landed on the New England coast the first of his ancestors to seek the New World. This one came from France, probably from Alsace-Lorraine. He pronounced his name Beede, but it has since been Anglicized. Except that some were Quakers, little is known of the family until the latter part of the eighteenth century, when Thomas Beede was born. He graduated from Harvard College in the Class of 1798 and numbered among his classmates the distinguished Channing, Tuckerman, Judge Story and Stephen Longfellow. Thomas Beede, who was the third minister of the first church of Wilton, New Hampshire, and who, from 1818-1825, served his state legislature as chaplain, was throughout his ministry one of New Hampshire's most noted clergymen. His ordination sermon was preached by Rev. William Emerson, of. Boston, the father of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thomas Beede's nephew, Caleb Sleeper Beede, the father of Moses W., was born in 1805 in Vermont. When very young he was left an orphan, and, although obliged to support himself, he determined to secure a thorough education. One means which he took to reach this goal was to associate himself with several 'other young men, and hire a teacher of Greek, a language in which he became proficient. Endowed with a keen, intellect and an insatiable desire for learning, he habitually spent one-half of the night in study. Until his voice failed, he was a minister of the gospel in a New England Methodist Episcopal conference, but after that misfortune he became a contractor and builder until his removal in 1849 to Ohio. There he engaged in the lumber business and in farming. His death was caused in 1877 by a wound which he had received while serving in the. Union army. Mary Worthing, his wife, a woman loved by every one, was of English descent. In the twelfth century her ancestors were enlisted in the English army, while those living in the colonies at the time of the Revolution volunteered and fought for the American cause. Among them were her grandfathers, Major Theophilus Sanborn and Lieutenant Samuel Northen ; also her great-grandfather, Captain David Sleeper, who, as soon as he learned of the battle of Lexington, marshaled his command and marched to Boston to volunteer for the defense of that town. Caleb Sleeper and Mary Worthing Beede had nine children, of whom Moses Worthing Beede was the fifth. He was born at Bristol, New Hampshire, August 28, 1839, and when he was ten years old left his home in the beautiful "Switzerland of America" to come to the Western Reserve. Three years later his father's family moved to Lenox, Ohio, where he has ever since made his home. Although he did not receive a 'collegiate education, by ceaseless study, observation and thought he subjected his mind to practically much the same training that it would have received from a university course. His mental ability is extraordinary and varied, as he is a deep thinker along the lines of science, archeology, history, philosophy and religion—subjects in which he is particularly interested, and in which he would have made his force felt in the intellectual world had his opportunities been greater. At Lincoln's first call for troops, in April, 1861, Moses Beede enlisted for three months in Company D, Nineteenth Ohio Infantry. He served under Generals McClelland and Rosecrans in the campaign of 1861, in West Virginia, and fought in the battle of Rich Mountain. After his discharge he volunteered again, but was rejected on account of physical disability. He was, however, appointed by Governor Tod to serve as first lieutenant of the state militia, subject to the call of the presi- HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1239 dent. At this time he began manufacturing lumber and boat oars, furnishing many of the oars that were used on the Mississippi river by the government during the war. About fifteen years-later he opened up a factory for the manufacture of sucker rods and connecting rods, used in oil-wells, and still owns a half interest in such a factory at Jefferson, although he has now retired to private life. In 1863 Mr. Beede married Miss Eliza Henderson, a member of the Henderson family of Austinburg, a woman of more than ordinary mind and culture ; but he lost his wife in September, 1874. She left a son and daughter. George Owen Beede, who received his education at New Lyme Institute under the noted educator, Jacob Tuckerman, is his father's partner in the sucker rod factory in Jefferson, where he resides, and where his wife, who was Miss May Loomis, has always lived. His sister, Bernice Gertrude, who is a gifted musician and a graduate of New Lyme Institute, is the wife of Leonard Worcester Jr., formerly of Leadville, Colorado, but at present of Chihuahua, Mexico. In July, 1876, was solemnized Mr. Beede's marriage to Mrs. Harlow Watson, a widow of refinement and of charming personal appearance. Of New England stock and of English descent, she was the daughter of Amos Curtis, of Augusta, Illinois. A few years later her daughter, Nettie Louise Watson, married Birney A. French, of Lenox. Mr. and Mrs. Beede have two daughters : Martha Frances, a high .school teacher, is a graduate of the Jefferson high school, of Grand River Institute and of Oberlin College. Lulu Edith, the younger, attended the same preparatory schools as her sister and spent three years studying art and music at Oberlin. College. A leader in church work and in society, she possesses a good voice and is a skillful artist. Mr. Beede and his entire family are members of the Congregational church. For twelve years he acted as church trustee, and for twenty superintended the Sunday school. No other man of his income has done more for the support of the church and every other worthy object. Whenever circumstances have permitted, he has traveled, visiting, places of historic or scenic interest in the East, West, North and South. He was the first white man to climb Mount Massive, the highest mountain in Colorado, which he ascended in July, 1875 from at that time he began the monument of stones upon its summit to which each suc- Vol: II-34 ceeding traveler has added a stone. In his travels, he has always made interesting additions of minerals and curios to his collection, which is considered one of the best private collections of its kind to be found in northeastern Ohio. Travel appeals to him particularly because his refined tastes render him keenly appreciative of what is beautiful in art, in literature and in nature, and responsive to nobility and genius in his fellowmen. Mr. Beede is a man of strong convictions, fearless in the denunciation of wrong, who, when the need of action has arisen, has incurred personal danger for the enforcement of right principles. THE WEBSTER FAMILY, of Wellington, descends in direct line from Governor John Webster, of Connecticut and Massachusetts. Governor Webster. and his wife Agnes emigrated from Warwickshire, England, to the colony of Massachusetts Bay in 1633, and in the following year of 1634 he was made a freeman. In 1636, with Rev. Hooker's party, he moved across to Hartford, Connecticut, being one of the first settlers there, and from the formation of the constitution of the new colony he was elected to office, first as magistrate or judge, next as lieutenant governor, and in 1656 as governor of the colony, serving fifth in that office, and remaining its incumbent one year. Governor Webster afterward became involved in quite an extensive church controversy which sprang up in the First church society at Hartford, and in consequence he and fifty-eight other members of that society withdrew from the church and moved from the colony to Massachusetts, purchasing a large tract of land on the Connecticut river at Hadley, where they —or the most of them—settled in 1659. There John Webster was in 166o appointed one of the judges or commissioners of the court, and there he died on the 5th of April, 1661. A monument was erected to his Memory there by his descendant, Noah Webster, LL. D., of world-wide fame. Two of the sons of John Webster—Thomas and William—accompanied him to Massachusetts, but his other two sons—Robert and Matthew—remained in Connecticut. Thomas Webster, son of Governor John, Webster, was next in direct line of descent to Edward F. Webster, of Wellington. He married Abigail Alexander, and their fourth child and second son was John, of the third generation. John Webster married first, Elizabeth 1240 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE and after her death Grace Loomis, and moved to Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1699, becoming one of the first settlers there. His fourth child and third son by his first marriage was Thomas, of the fourth generation. Thomas Webster married Lydia Lyman and moved to Bolton, Connecticut, in 1751. Their seventh child and fifth son was David, of the fifth generation. David Webster married Mary Wilcox, and their third child and first son was David, of the sixth generation. David Webster married Hannah Post, and among their children was William W. Webster, who when a young man moved to Illinois, where he married, and where he died, and there his descendants still reside. Russel Bidwell Webster, of the seventh generation, was the second child and first son of David and Hannah Webster. He was born April 25, 1799, at Otis, Massachusetts, was reared on his father's farm, and attended the common schools, completing his education at the academy at Lenox, Massachusetts. In 182o he made the journey on foot from Otis to Wellington, carrying a fifty-pound pack on his back. 'He was a man of remarkable physical endurance. During the last days of his journey to Wellington he walked forty miles in. a snow storm, with snow nearly a foot deep at the close of day. Arriving here he bought a farm of 100 acres, cleared it and erected a log building thereon. But before doing a day's work in the work of clearing he interested himself in the establishing of regular or stated religious meetings in the neighborhood. He was not a church man himself, but his early religious teachings had been so thoroughly instilled that he could not endure the idea of the settlement being without some religious organization and a suitable observance of the Sabbath. This incident tends to show the moral and religious fiber of the young men of the east who came into the new west to make their homes in the then wilderness, though many of them, like Mr. Webster, were not church members at the time of their coming. Russel Webster's purpose in coming to the Western Reserve was not only for the purpose of building himself a home, but also to blaze the way for his father and the family. Betsey, the eldest child of David Webster, married Josiah B. Manley, and in about 1822 they joined her brother Russel in Wellington, And Mr. Manley's. was the first death to occur in the neighborhood. In 1823 David and Hannah Webster. the parents. and their sons. Oliver and William, and their daughter Mary, joined the others in Wellington. Oliver married Melissa Babcock, and their children were: Amelia, unmarried ; Emerson, who moved to Colorado and died there unmarried ; Emmerjane, who married Charles H. Bowers and resides in Wellington ; Henry W., who married first, Delia Cannon, and after her death Florence Brown; and they reside in Oberlin village, Lorain . county ; Philena, who died ,unmarried ; and Alonzo D., who lives at the old farm near. Wellington; yet unmarried. Mary R. Webster married Almanza Hamlin. Three children were born to them : David, Henry B. and Arthur, all dead .but Henry B., who now resides in Wellington. David Webster, the father, .was an active church member in Massachusetts, but strange as it may seem it was not until they came into the woods of Ohio that his wife or children joined the church. In 1824 Russel B. Webster returned to Massachusetts and married Orpha Hunter, born at Otis, of that state, November 26, 1799, and in the spring of 1825 he brought his bride to Wellington, with all their household goods loaded on a wagon drawn by oxen. Mr. E. F. Webster, of Wellington, has in his possession two old mirrors brought by his father and grandfather from Massachusetts, also the old Webster Bible which. was printed in 1712. David Webster died at the age of ninety-six years, and his wife Hannah when eighty-four years o f age, and all of their children are deceased. Russel B. Webster moved with his wife from the farm to Wellington in 1870, and resided with their son Edward until their death's, Russel dying on the 31st of January, 1881, and his wife Orpha on the 2d of April, 1882. Russel B. 'Webster built the first frame house in Wellington, and in the early days of the history .of this commuhity he was one of its most active citizens, a man of powerful physical ability, of splendid endurance, of the most sterling character and of strong convictions. He was very active in church work in those days, and was all in all a perfect type of the old time Puritan. Nine children were born into his family. Samuel H., the eldest, was born September 5; 1825. Moving to Shelbyville, Illinois,, he established himself in the general mercantile business and became a prominent and influential citizen. He was especially active and influential during the Civil war period, a great force and aid to the government in those troubleome times.. He died on the l0th of July, 1905, and his wife died HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1241 on the 12th of September, 1898. He had married, on the 21st of January, 1856, Lucy A. Jagger, and their children are Charles M., Mary L., Lucy Bell; Leverett S. and Ada, Lucy Belle, being deceased. Charles M. and Leverett S: are now prominent business men in Shelbyville. E. Bidwell Webster, born April 1, 1827, married, on January 21, 1854, Lucy Billings. He was a civil engineer, and died in Wellington on September 7, 1856. His wife died on the 7th of September, 1857, an infant daughter, born after her husband's death, having previously died. M. Leander Webster, born January 27, 1829, married on May 31, 1882, Emma J. Windell. He located in Shelbyville, Illinois, and enlisting in the Civil war in 1861 he was commissioned captain of a company of the Seventh Regiment, Illinois Cavalry, and he served three years with distinction and unusual bravery. He was severely wounded by a sabre cut in the head, this wound eventually causing his death. He moved to Iowa late in life, and he died there on the 4th of May, 1900. David Philander Webster, born November 5, 1830, died on May 9, 1832. Philander R. Webster, born February 10, 1833, married on April 15, 1862, Eleanor M. Bryant. He was commissioned captain of an Illinois company during .the Civil war, and he died on the 14th of April, 1884, as the result of injuries received during his service. He had no children. William W. Webster, born November 26, 1835, married on February 4, 1873, Mary I. Bryan. He went to Colorado in 1859, and became very prominent there. He was made the president of the upper. house of the first territorial legislature, and later was chairman of the committee having charge of the matter of admitting Colorado territory into the Union as a state. In that convention an historical incident occurred, which, though seemingly of small importance at the time, had a bearing of great weight on history then in the making. The committee had their arrangements complete and the date set for the admission of the territory as a state fixed for the first of the next year, January 1, 1877, when Mr. Webster grasped the idea that that date would prevent the participation of the new state in the then impending presidential election. The matter was brought by him to the attention of the committee and met with instant response and the date brought forward. Colorado voted, and gave to Hayes her electoral vote, which gave him a majority in the election college and made him president of the United States. Mr. Webster was a successful 'man of affairs in Colorado, but after a time, owing to the ill health of his family, he moved to Pasadena, California, where he is now residing. Their children are Eva, Mabel and Wilton. Elvira Loret, born January 4, 1838, died on the 16th of December, 1840, as the result of an accident. Edward F. Webster was the eighth child born to Russel and Orpha Webster. Leveret F. Webster was born December 3, 1842, and died on the 29th of January, 1861, his death also occurring from an accident. Edward F. Webster was born on the 24th of April, 184o. On the 26th of August, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company H, Second Regimentof Ohio Cavalry, and he was made the corporal of his company. After one year's service with the Second Regiment he was transferred to the Twenty-fifth Independent Ohio Battery, which was made up of details of the Second Regiment, and Mr. Webster became the fifth corporal of the battery, later became its first sergeant, subsequently its first lieutenant, and during the last year of the war he served on the staff of Major General J. J. Reynolds, as chief ordnance officer of the department of Arkansas. He re-enlisted as a veteran at Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 4, 1864, previous to his last promotion, and was discharged from the service on the 12th of December, 1865, after serving at the front over four years, and successively under Generals Schofield, Blount, Herron, Davidson, Steele and Reynolds. Returning from the war he in the spring of 1868 engaged with the firm of Starr & Horr, cheese manufacturers, and one year later was made a partner in the business, the firm then becoming Horr, Warner & Company. This was for many years the largest cheese manufacturing concern in the west, the company operating at one time (including those operated by a branch house) as many as twenty-five factories. This firm acquired vegetable farms at Lodi, Creston and Orrville, Ohio, taking in W. R. Wean as a partner, the farm department being conducted under the firm name of Wean, Horr, Warner & Company, but the cheese department was continued under the name of Horr, Warner & Company as before. In 1897, however, the two were consolidated and incorporated under the corporate name of the Horr-Warner Company, as it still continues, Mr. Webster being. the president of the corporation. The HorrWarner Company conducts the largest busi- 1242 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE ness in its line in the entire United States.. Mr. Webster has for many year taken an active part in the affairs of Wellington, and for twenty-four years he was continuously a member of its board of education, and was for fifteen years of that time the board's president. He has been a trustee of the Wellington public library since 1896, and for some years the president of the board. He has been a member of the First Congregational church since 1868, and he is also a member of the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion. Mr. Webster married Flora Ladd on December 3, 1870. She was born at Danville, Vermont, on the 18th of May, 1846, a daughter 'of Edward and Sophia (Gooking) Ladd. There have been three children of this union, but Florence, the first born, her birth occurring on April 24, 1873, died on the l0th of February, 1887. Leveret F., born on the 8th of January, 1875, is yet at the parental home. Edward F. Webster, Jr., born January 1, 1877, married on January 11, 1906, Ora Mae Foote, and he died on the 16th of September, 1906. ALBION MORRIS DYER, curator of the Western Reserve Historical Society, was born at Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, January 16, 1858. He was the youngest son of Elbridge Gerry Dyer, a pioneer manufacturer, who came from his birthplace in Saco, Maine, about the year 1840, settled at Columbus, and removed in 1847 to Hamilton, where he built up a plant on the water power there for the manufacture of stoves, engines, saw mills and threshing machines. The family was established in America by William Dyer, a first settler of Hingham, Massachusetts, who located in York county in 1665, being one of the original settlers in that part of Maine. His mother was the daughter of the Rev. William Teyer, a Welsh preacher and farmer. She was born in 1825, at Amlwch, Anglesea Isle, North Wales, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. She came with her parents to Ohio in 1829, and settled with many of their countrymen at Radnor, Delaware county, Ohio. Mr. Dyer was raised at Hamilton, where he attended the public school. He prepared for college at Dayton, Ohio, and graduated at Madison University (now Colgate) in the Class of 1884, with the degree of A. B., and received the post-graduate degree of A. M: from the Western Reserve University in 1906. He was a journalist for many years, but retiring in 1904, was placed in charge of the Historical Society, of which he is a life member. He is engaged in historical and bibliographical research and study in the special field of Ohio history. Mr. Dyer married Efla Maria Dunham, daughter of Truman and Angeline Eliza (Griswold) Dunham, June 23, 1886, at the home of her grandfather, Giles Oliver Griswold, of Warren, Ohio. She was born at No. 44 Cheshire street (now East Nineteenth street), Cleveland, January 21, 1864, being a descendant on both sides of early settlers of Massachusetts and Connecticut. She was raised in Cleveland, attended the Rockwell Street School, the Central High School and Cooper Seminary, Dayton. There are four children : Elbridge Griswold Dyer, born May 15, 1887; Sydney Dunham Dyer, born January 13, 1889 ; Dorothy Dyer, born June 17, 1890, and Truman Dunham Dyer, January 26, 1896. The family residence is at No. 1903 East Seventy-third street, Cleveland. WILLIAM T. WEST.—Within two days of four score years and four, on June 13, 1899, William T. West passed away, after a severe sickness of several weeks, and passed from those scenes which had fixed his personality in Sandusky as one of its leading citizens.. His life culminated in two grand results—the greatness of his practical works and the ennobling influences of his character. His charities were performed out of the goodness of his heart, and he was sincerely grateful that he was so often enabled to assist his fellows; but he seemed to consider it little short of an insult to imply by word or action that he looked for even the simple word reward of "well done." Sandusky will long search for one who was more truly helpful or more ruggedly honest than William T. West. He was of New England stock, Abel West, his grandfather, having been born in Vernon, Connecticut, in the month of May, 1747. He was attending church when a messenger announced that the British were in sight off New London. He promptly shouldered his fowling piece and took his stand with the other patriots to wing any red-coat who might set foot on Connecticut soil. Later General Trumbull detailed him to collect provisions for Washington's army, and he sold his farm to give his entire time to that work. He died at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1836, having moved thither in 1800. His son Abel bought an eighty-acre farm near that place, earned a good livelihood from it HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1243 and became influential in his locality, in 1842 being sent to the legislature. He married Miss Matilda Thompson and died in February, 1871, father of seven children, three of the sons coming to Ohio. The eldest, Professor Charles E. West, was born in 1809, graduated from Union College in 1832, and for many, years was at the head of the Brooklyn Heights Seminary., Brooklyn, New York ; A. K. and T. D. West located in Sandusky, and at different times were in business with William T. A. K. West came to Sandusky in 1837 and died here in 188o, at the age of sixty-three; T. D. located in the city in 1850, and became well known both as a merchant and a citizen of public affairs. The only son still living is Gilbert West, an extensive property holder at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. William T. West was born on the home farm at Washington Mountain, near Pittsfield, June 15, 1815, and in his boyhood and youth learned the trades of brick-making and cabinet-making. The latter was his stand-by for many years, and in 1835 he commenced his westward migrations by going to Albany, New York, where he entered a cabinet shop. His first. contract was for thirty tables to be used by the state legislators, and he made them so honestly that it is said they are still in use. With the oncoming of the panic of 1837 he determined to venture still westward, either to Cincinnati or Columbus, where he had friends. He reached Buffalo, where by mistake his bag- gage was placed aboard the Sandusky boat. The young man discovered the mistake just as the boat was leaving the dock; but although he jumped into the water, overtook his baggage and explained the situation, the captain insisted on continuing the trip to Sandusky. Thus :force of circumstances made Mr. West a resident of that community. Mr. West first opened a cabinet shop on Water street ; two years later sold his business and was about to leave Sandusky when his brother, A. K. West, suggested they engage in general merchandise. They remained associated not only in that enterprise until 1880, or the death of the latter, but in various other large and successful ventures. The combination was considered ideal, William T. being aggressive and resourceful, and A. K., economical, cool and conservative. In 1848 they erected the West House, which was long the finest hotel in northern Ohio, and considered so much in advance of the local requirements that the scoffers called it West's Folly. But it paid its builder and proprietor, and, was of advantage to Sandusky in calling general attention to its enterprise. Strictly speaking, the building was originally erected for business purposes and was not really converted into a hotel until 1858, or the year of the state fair. Mr. West bought fine furniture and other equipments in New York, and during the fair season it accommodated more than 2,000 guests and put the "Hotel Folly" on its financial feet. Afterward he spent large sums of money in altering and refurnishing it. He built the Mahala block and many other buildings. Early in the Civil war he went to Washington, Secured the contract and erected for the government the famous Johnson's Island prison, where thousands of Confederate prisoners were later confined. He was also president of the first steamboat company organized in Sandusky. One of the most remarkable features of Mr. West's building achievements was that he never employed an architect, but, although not technically educated, designed his own buildings with the skill of a veteran. Mr. West attended Grace Episcopal church and for twenty years was director of the choir. In his earlier manhood he had .a voice of remarkable richness and of such range that he could sing either tenor or bass, and taught many classes in vocal music. In 1845 he married Miss Lydia Mahala Todd, their union being the first celebrated in Grace church proper. His married life was most happy. At his death there were present at his bedside his wife ; two sons, William G. and George C. West ; two daughters, Mrs. Carrie West Jordan and Mrs. C. L. Hubbard, and his brother, Gilbert West, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. WILLIAM NORRIS LITTLE, one of the leading and substantial citizens of Lorain, Ohio, was born in Wallaceburg, county of Kent, Canada, August 2, 1866. He is a son of Daniel and Sophia (Drulard) Little. Daniel Little's father was George Little, a native of 'Pennsylvania ; the town of Littleton, West Virginia, was named in honor of the family. They were of Scotch-Irish descent. George Little was born in Pennsylvania, and when a boy went with his father, James Little, to Canada ; George Little lived in Canada the remainder of his life, and died there in 1874, at the age of eighty-one years. As a young man he took part in the war of 1812, on the side of the English, being known as a United Empire Loyalist. William N. Little, his grandson, has 1244 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE in his possession the gun carried by George Little. He married Margaret McCollum, a Scotchwoman, who was among the settlers brought by Lord Selkirk to Canada from Scotland. Daniel Little was born in Canada in 1825, and died in 1880; his wife was born on the River Thames, in the county of Kent, near Chatham, in 1831, and died in x886. Her father was a farmer and lumberman. The boyhood of William Norris Little was passed in Canada, and he was educated in his native town. At the age of thirteen years he began working in a local stave mill, receiving twenty-five cents a day. He learned telegraphy and spent about a year and a half at that occupation, and later became clerk in a general store in his native town. Subsequently he . became a traveling salesman with a Toronto firm, remaining in their employ about three years. In 1891 Mr. Little came to the United States, locating in Lorain, and traveled for the boot and shoe firm of George W. Cady & Company, of Cleveland, ten years, after which he engaged in real estate operations. He has dealt largely in land around Lorain, and helped organize the Home Building Company, of which he now serves as treasurer. He is also a director in the Northeastern Ohio Real Estate Company, which owns the postoffice, Century building, the Flemish building and many other fine buildings, erected upon improved property sold to them by Mr. Little. He is president of the Board of Commerce, one of the largest organizations of its kind in the state, and president of the Real Estate Exchange. He is a director in the Rapid Account File Company and a trustee of the Stang Estate. Mr. Little reorganized the Lorain Board of Commerce, known as the Board of Trade, and the Chamber of Commerce, which were consolidated ; he was one of the prime movers in the consolidation. He is a keen judge of real estate, also of other business possibilities, and is a keen, enterprising man of affairs. He has been a most useful citizen of Lorain, and as such is universally esteemed. Mr. Little married Hattie E., daughter of Orlando and Mary Allen, born at Bothwell, Canada. Her grandfather was an officer in the British army, and emigrated to Canada; he was a son 'of Sir Simon Allen, of England. Mr. and Mrs. Little have two children, Rowe Gilmour and Ethel Norrine. HENRY W. INGERSOLL is prominently known as one of the leading members of the Lorain county bar. He was born on the old Ingersoll farm in Grafton township, Lorain county, the same farm which was also the birthplace of his father and for many years the home of his grandfather, and he yet owns this ancestral estate. He is a son of George M. arid Mary (Preston) Ingersoll, a grandson of William Ingersoll and a great-grandson of Major William Ingersoll who came from Lee, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, to Lorain county, Ohio, in the year of 1816, and was the first member of the family to settle upon the ancestral farm in Grafton township: From the public schools of Elyria Henry W. Ingersoll entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and pursued part of its literary course and its full law course and graduated with its class of 1885. He began the practice of law at Elyria in 1886, in partnership with Lester McLean, but the firm of McLean and Ingersoll was dissolved in 1891 at the time Mr. McLean moved to. Denver, Colorado. The present law firm of Ingersoll and Stetson was organized in July of 1903. Mr. Ingersoll is the president of the Cadillac Veneer Company of Cadillac, Michigan, is the first vice president of The Elyria. Savings and Banking Company, the president of The Elyria Savings and Loan. Company, and he is the secretary of various other corporations and during the past fifteen years has been one of the trustees of the Elyria Library. He is one of the representative citizens of Elyria and one of its most capable lawyers. He married May Belle Hamilton, who was born in Berea, Ohio, a daughter of Leonard G. and Cassandria M. Hamilton. A daughter and a son have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ingersoll, Mary Cassandria and Henry Walter Ingersoll. Mr. Ingersoll is a member of King Solomon Lodge, F. & A. M., Marshall Chapter, R. A. M., and Elyria Council, R. & S. M. He procured the site for the present Masonic Temple and gave the charter for the Masonic Temple Company and was the first president of the organization and was very active in its affairs from its organization. He is a member of the First Congregational church for more than thirty years and has held several offices in the society and has served as superintendent of. the Sunday school. HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1245 STEPHEN B. PARSONS, long identified with the agricultural interests of Rootstown township and one of the township's native sons, born on the 12th of February, 1851, is a son of John S. and Lucy S. (Wolcott) Parsons, both from Hampton, Massachusetts, and he is a grandson of Jonathan Parsons and Stephen Wolcott. John S. Parsons and Lucy S. Wolcott were married in Massachusetts, and in 1831 they came to Portage county, Ohio, and located on land belonging to his uncle. He and his brother Chauncey were given this farm if they would improve it, which they did, each receiving 150 acres, and John S. Parsons not only cleared and improved his tract but also added to its boundaries until it in time included 200 acres, and there he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives and died. Mr. Parsons returned to Massachusetts on a visit after. his first eight years here. Of his children, two are now living, and the daughter is Lucy, the wife of J. W. Seymour, of Rootstown township. Stephen B. Parsons remained at home with his parents as long as they lived, and becoming the owner of the homestead by purchase and inheritance he has been engaged in general agricultural pursuits and dairying, keeping on an average about twenty-five cows. He has served his township as a trustee many years, and was one term a real estate assessor. He votes with the Republican party, and is a member of the Royal Arcanum. On the 27th of September, 1871, Mr. Parsons was united in marriage to Ellen M. Reed, who was also born in Rootstown township, a daughter of Otis and Melissa (Spelman) Reed: Their children are : Fannie R., the wife of O. B. Yarion, John S. and Arthur O., all in Rootstown township ; and Charles, whose home is in Alliance, this state. Mr. Parsons and his family are members of the Congregational church. JAMES HENRY STEVENS is a prominent and successful farmer of Portage county, and resides on the farm which was his birthplace. He was born August 31, 1862, and is a son of William Wallace and Catherine (Hutchinson) Stevens. He is grandson of Jude Stevens and great-grandson of John Stevens, of Chester, Massachusetts. Jude Stevens was born July 31, 1788, in Chester, Massachusetts, and married July 13, 1815, at Chester, Polly T. Ayres, born in Chester, December 10, 1788. He had seven children and came to the West- ern Reserve in 1833, with his family. One of his sons, Henry Homer, born December 20, 1823, in Chester, Massachusetts, died October 22, 1904, and is further mentioned elsewhere in this work. The only living child of this union is Permelia Sophia, the youngest, who was married June 8, 1854, to James A. Alcorn, by whom she had no children. She lives with her nephew, James H. Stevens. William Wallace Stevens was born October 9, 1821, in Chester, Massachusetts, and was twelve years of age when he came west with his parents. He married, in Mantua, Catherine, daughter of Orin Hutchinson, and they had six children, only two of whom survive, James H. and Mary Ellen. The latter married Frank E. Dilley, April 20, 1905, and they have one child, William Stevens Dilley, born December 10, 1906. Mr. Stevens came west with his parents by way of the Erie canal, and crossed the lake from Cleveland. They purchased a farm at Kirkland and later traded farms with John Johnson, a Mormon, who wanted to get near the Mormon Temple. The present home of James H. Stevens was said to be the place where the Mormon Bible was written by Joseph Smith, and from this house Mr. Smith was taken and tarred and feathered in the back yard ; Sidney Rigdon was treated similarly at the same time. James Henry Stevens attended the district schools of Hiram, attended Garrettsville high school, and then spent two years at Hiram College, while President. Hinsdale officiated in that institution. Returning home, he took up farming, which has since been his. occupation.. He married in Mantua, November 21, 1883, Jennie . Burnett, born January 12, 1860. DR. SETH EUGENE MILLER, coroner of Lorain county, was born in Spencer, Medina county, Ohio, January 17, 1871. The family was established in the Western Reserve by his grandfather, John Miller, who came to Medina county from Washington county, Pennsylvania, at an early date. He settled at Homerville. His son, also John Miller, was born in Pennsylvania June 2, 1840, and came west with his parents when about two years of age. He married Candace Oakley, who was born in Spencer township, Medina county, a daughter of Joseph Oakley, of an old family in the county. John Miller has been a farmer all his life, and now lives retired at Spencer. Dr. Miller was reared on a farm, and after attending the district school entered high 1246 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE school, from which he graduated. He attended college at Hillsdale, Michigan, and graduated from Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, with the class of 1896. He first practiced his profession in Savannah, Ashland county, Ohio, where he remained a few months and then removed to Kipton, Lorain county, where he remained in successful practice for ten years. While .there he was elected to the office of county coroner, and subsequently located in Lorain. In 1908 he was re-elected. He ably and acceptably fulfills the duties of his office, and when not so engaged spends his time in general practice. He has won the confidence and esteem of all who know him, and is one of the prominent and public-spirited citizens of Lorain. He belongs to the county and state medical societies. Fraternally Dr. Miller is a member of Oberlin Lodge, No. 38o, Ancient Free and. Accepted Masons, and Holman Lodge, No. 619, Knights of Pythias, of Lorain. Dr. Miller married Mary Sibyl Stroup, of Spencer, Ohio, daughter of Jackson Stroup, and they are the parents of two children, Ralph G., born April 3o, 1897, and Ruth S., born April 5, 1900. MRS. CLARA (WHITTLESEY) GOSS, widow of the late Ambrose S. Goss, of Edinburg, Portage county, Ohio, is a native born resident of this place, her birth having occurred September 8, 1847. She is a daughter of Randolph Whittlesey, who spent the greater part of his life in this vicinity, and granddaughter of John and Sallie Whittlesey, early pioneer settlers of the Western Reserve. John Whittlesey came from Connecticut to Portage county about 1806, bringing with him his wife and children. Taking up 100 acres of unbroken land, he began the arduous task of redeeming a farm from the wilderness. Erecting a house and barn, he placed sufficient land under cultivation to support himself and family, and continued his residence here until his death. To him and his wife, who cheerfully shared with him all the privations and trials of life in a new country, four children were born, namely : Randolph, Chauncey, John and Nancy. Randolph Whittlesey was born in Walling' ford, Connecticut, in 1799, and when seven years of age came with his parents to Portage county, driving across the country with teams, oftentimes following a pathway made by blazed trees. On arriving at man's estate, he bought land, cleared and improved a homestead in Atwater township, and here carried on general farming during his active life, being numbered among the successful agriculturists of the community. His wife, whose maiden name was Clarissa Mansfield, was born in 1800, at Wallingford, Connecticut. She bore him five children, namely : Patrick ; Edgar; Friend ; Randall R., who lives on the farm wrested by his father from the forest ; and Clara, now Mrs. Goss. Clara Goss was given excellent educational advantages, after leaving the district school continuing her studies at higher institutions of learning in both Atwater and Hiram. On December 22, 1875, she married Ambrose S. Goss, who was born September II, 1832, in Fall River, Massachusetts. His parents, Daniel and Margaret Goss, emigrated from Scotland to Massachusetts, and after living a few years in Fall River came to Ohio, locating in Cincinnati, where they spent many years. Ambrose Goss embarked upon .a mercantile career in preference to any other, at the time of his marriage opening a store of general merchandise in Edinburg. Possessing rare business ability and judgment, he built up a thriving and lucrative trade, which he continued until 1891, when ill health forced him to retire from active pursuits; having been in the business for thirty-five years. He lived, however, until death relieved. him from his sufferings, on October 23, 1203. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Goss, namely : Leonard W., residing in Manhattan, Kansas ; Ernest died when ten years of age ; and Wilbur C., a mechanical engineer, lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Domestic in her tastes, Mrs. Goss, although living 'alone since the death of her husband, thoroughly enjoys her home life with its daily round of duties and its quiet pleasures. In her religious faith she is a Congregationalist, belonging to the church of that denomination. CHARLES M. FENN, proprietor of a fine livery and stables at Medina, is a native of that city, and has long been influential in its public affairs. He was born April 9, 1859, to Merriman and Elizabeth (Morgan) Fenn, his father being a native of York township, Medina county, and a pioneer farmer of that place. He resided for a few years in Iowa, and was there drowned accidently. The paternal grandfather, Charles Fenn, was also an early settler of Medina county. Estelle, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merriman Fenn, married A. HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1247 Van Valkenburg, and resides in Chesterfield, Ohio; After the death of the father, the widow returned to Medina county, and resided with her father-in-law. Our subject, Charles M. Fenn, was out seven months old when his father met his death. He was left with his grandfather when his mother went to Michigan, where she married a Mr. Clark, to whom she bore a son, Homer Clark,. and she herself passed away while residing in Michigan, in 1862. When Charles M. Fenn, of this sketch, left the Rublic schools of Medina, at the age of sixteen, he devoted himself solely to farming interests ; but, after a few years, he commenced to deal in horses and cattle, in connection with more independent work, on the farm, and gradually became established in the livery and feed business at Medina. Subsequently adding the sale of horses to his city enterprise, he is now the proprietor of a very complete -establishment. His building is 120 by 4o feet in dimensions, the horses occupying the basement. Above are his offices and storage rooms for his large display of hacks, buggies, surreys :and other vehicles demanded by the traveling public, or maintained by his regular patrons. In the busy season he keeps from a dozen to eighteen horses to accommodate his transient trade, which extends over the city and far into the surrounding country. Mr. Fenn's interest in the general affairs of his native city began many years ago and has never slackened, his service of three terms in the municipal council proving that he possesses a full knowledge of Its needs and ability to further its interests. He is also an active participant in the work of the secret and benevolent orders, being a member -of Comet Lodge No. 6o, Knights of Pythias, rand Morning Star Lodge No. 26, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1885 Mr. Fenn married Miss Lucy M. Wightman, of Medina, daughter of J. L. and Clara (Bissell) Wightman, old and respected settlers of the county. The children of this union are Ceylon W., Sidney M., Clara E. and Percy C. Fenn. WILLIAM FOBES MIXER, who occupies a beautiful country homestead one mile north of Painesville, on the Grand river, is the owner of a portion of what was known in pioneer limes as the Sessions farm. This ancestral place, so closely associated with the honorable activities of two of the substantial pioneer families of Lake county and the Reserve, lies oh a noble rise of land and looks across and down a valley of great beauty and fertility. The family home is a commodious residence of colonial style, standing in the shade of huge maples and surrounded by spacious lawns, which stretch out to beautiful and picturesque Grand river, on one side, and to a grand old forest of twenty acres on the other. Altogether the Mixer homestead has justly been called the handsomest country estate in a region of handsome s farms. Mr. and Mrs. William F. Mixer, the representatives in this section of the Reserve of the honored family name, are most active in the advancement of desirable movements and institutions, and, have earned universal respect. Mr. Mixer is a son of Phineas and Emily Mixer, and was born on the old Fobes farm in Painesville, October 25, 1862. He graduated from the local high school in 1882, after which he engaged in farming on the place where he was born and which he operates. On December 6, 1899, he married Miss Christine Jacobs, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Jacobs, his wife, who was born at Sandusky, Ohio, January 13, 1875, coming to Painesville with her parents in 1890. Both her father and mother were born in Germany, the former in Alsace, July 25; 1839. When twenty-one years of age he emigrated to the United States, and soon afterward enlisted at Sandusky in Company H, One Hundred and Seventh Ohio Infantry, serving four years in the Civil war. He is still living in Sandusky. His wife (nee Elizabeth Appel) was a native of Baden, born March 26, 1838 ; in 1852 came to America with her father, two sisters and two brothers, and located at Sandusky, where, after the war, she married Mr. Jacobs. She died at Painesville August 7, 1900. Mr. and Mrs.. William. F. Mixer are the parents of a daughter, Gertrude; who was born November 19, 1901, in the house where her father was born and which has sheltered four generations of the two. families—William Fobes, maternal grandfather of Mr. Mixer ; Emily (Fobes) Mixer, his mother ; himself, and his daughter Gertrude. Phineas Mixer, great-grandfather of William F., was born at Norridge, Massachusetts, February 3, 1756 ; was a Revolutionary soldier, and after the war married Abigail Fobes. They had five children, and Phineas, the youngest, was ten years of age when he brought his family to the Western Reserve in 1805. He had bought 390 acres of the Connecticut Land Company and, finding no roads 1248 - HISTORY OF. THE WESTERN RESERVE west of Buffalo, in order to reach his destination was obliged to follow the winding beach of Lake Erie. He finally located his tract one mile west of Madison Dock, his nearest neighbors (barring Indians and wild beasts) being five miles away. A few years afterward a road was opened between Buffalo and Cleveland, and Phineas Mixer ( 1) bought ninety-three acres on the South Ridge, near Unionville, two miles east of Madison, and there built a log tavern, which he conducted with the postoffice. This farm, now rightly known as the Old Homestead, has been the home of five generations of the Mixer family, its present owner being Don Barns, whose daughter Mary is a great-great-granddaughter of Phineas Mixer Sr., who died there November 3, 1821, aged sixty-five years. Phineas Mixer. Jr., grandfather of William F., was born at Norridge, Massachusetts, in the year 1795, and about 1821 married Dorcas Catlin Woodworth, at Unionville, Ohio. The Woodworths were descendants of John Rodgers, a Protestant. preacher of London who in 1555, during the reign of Blood; Queen Mary, shared the fiery fate of Latimer and Ridley. Dorcas Woodworth was a native of South Hadley, Massachusetts, born in July, 1797, and after her marriage to Phineas Mixer resided at Unionville until her death, in September, 1853. Her husband died on the old Mixer homestead at that place when eighty-six years of age. William Fobes, maternal grandfather of William F. Mixer, was born at Norridge, Massachusetts, February 11, 1793 ; married Olive Webster and, coming to Ohio, settled at Kingsville. In the spring of 1836, with his wife, four daughters and a son, he moved to Painesville, having bought of Carter Foote what was known as the Sessions farm of 206 acres, lying on the Grand river one mile north of that town. This farm, as a whole, has never been out of the hands of relatives since it was settled by Mr. Sessions, who was a relative of the Fobes family. Mr. Sessions had sold the property to Carter Foote, whose wife was Emily Fobes, daughter of Lemuel Fobes, the latter being a cousin of Grandfather Fobes. The family of Lemuel Fobes was the second to locate at Painesville, coming all the way from Massachusetts in their own conveyance, and the daughter Emily was the first white child born in the township. Grandfather William Fobes died July 30, 1860, and his wife, born February 13, 1794, died July 10, 1867. Phineas Mixer, father of William Fobes Mixer, was born at Unionville, Ohio, on the 18th of October, 1828. He graduated from William's College in 1855, and from Lane's Seminary in 1858, and on July 2, 1861, married Emily Fobes, daughter of William and Olive (Webster) Fobes. The wife and mother was born at Kingsville, Ohio, March 30, 1829, and came to Painesville when seven years of age. At her death, April 7, 1906, she had spent seventy years of her peaceful and Christian life in the home to which she came in her childhood. HENRY FRANCIS ARNDT, a well known citizen of public affairs, residing in Amherst, Lorain county, is a native, of the city where he has such ,a substantial standing, born on the 4th of December, 1860. He comes of parents of strong characters and remarkable experiences, and takes a just pride in both. His father, John Ludwig Arndt, was born in. Prussia and as secretary of a society of revolutionists of 1849 was imprisoned by the royal government. The dungeon in which he was confined was so small that he could neither stand upright or lie at full length. Fortunately for the continuance of his life, he escaped from confinement after fifteen months of terrible suffering, his first wife dying while he was imprisoned. The revolutionary exile reached New York in safety, where he engaged in the practice of medicine and in preaching. While thus engaged in Camden, New Jersey, he married Miss Catherine Grau, a native of Hoboken, but at the time of her marriage was a resident of Camden. She was a lady of education, strong character and warm affection. About 1857 they located in Cleveland, where Mr. Arndt continued his practice in medicine and his ministrations in the Methodist church, and two years afterward moved to Amherst, where the husband also followed his double professional life. During the Civil war he became most zealous and prominent in the Union cause, not only supporting it from the pulpit but becoming very active as a recruiter of volunteers. His zeal so earned him the enmity of the Copperhead element that he was assaulted by his enemies in the fall of 1864, and received injuries from which he died in the spring of the following year. After his death his widow, who had been his brave and enthusiastic assistant in all his work and who had become especially interested in his medical labors, went to Cleveland, there pursued a four HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE - 1249 years' medical course, and returning to Amherst practiced her profession in that place until her death in July, 1886. Five children were born of John Arndt's second marriage, viz : John J., who is a resident of Cleveland ; Anthony, who died at the age of five years ; Henry F., of this sketch ; Louise, who died at Coronado, California, as the wife of C. A. Westenberg ; and Dr. George Arndt, a surgeon of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. There were two sons by the first marriage. Max died at the age of ten years. Professor H. R. Arndt is a physician of San Francisco, interested in a large sanitarium, and connected with the faculty of a medical college, as well as interested in an extensive publishing business. In the fall of 1868, when eight years of age, Henry F. was placed on a farm at Henrietta, Ohio ; a year later went to live with a family in Birmingham, Erie county, Ohio, and remained with the latter until he was twelve, when he returned to Amherst. In 1876 he located at Oberlin, not to enter the college but to learn the carpenters' trade, and after he had mastered it applied himself to it in his native place until the winter of 1878, when he located at Mayville, New York. On July 24, 1880, he married, at Jamestown, New York, Miss Ella May Baker, of Chautauqua, New York. She was born May 15, 1865, at State Line, Pennsylvania, daughter of Stephen and Violetta (See) Baker, natives of Watts Flats, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Arndt have had five children, as follows : Katherine May, Inez Violetta, Leona Rebecca, a son that died in infancy, and Georgianna Henrietta. Katherine May is wife of Harry Newton, of Amherst, and they have two children, Robert Henry and Doris Yetive. After his marriage Mr. Arndt settled at West Salamanca, New York, where he became associated with his father-in-law in the contracting business for some time, 'next locating in Toledo during the winter and spring of 1882, and, returning to Amherst, where, until 1886, he engaged in various lines of contracting. In that year he became identified with the Cleveland Stone Company, taking charge of the construction work in most of its quarries. Since that time he has been engaged in that line, with headquarters at Amherst, where he has also become prominent in other business fields and active in city and county legislation. In 1897 he was instrunental in starting the co-operative store which has been such a success in Amherst. Always an active Republican, Mr. Arndt has served for two terms as a member of the city council, during which he was chairman of the lighting committee when the municipal plant was installed. On July 13, 1909, he was appointed commissioner of Lorain county to fill a vacancy, his term expiring in 1911. He is also a strong and popular figure in the fraternities, being a member of Stonington Lodge, No. 503, A. F. and A. M..; Plato Lodge, No. 203, I. O. O. F., of which he is a past grand ; and of the Modern Woodmen of America. HARLOW CASE STAHL—As president and Treasurer of the Ohio Cultivator Company, one the foremost manufacturing corporations of the Western Reserve, Harlow Case Stahl, of Bellevue, is a prominent factor in promoting and advancing the industrial growth and prosperity of this part of Huron county. A man of excellent business qualifications and training, he possesses great financial and executive ability, and by his persistent energy end wise forethought has been instrumental in building up a business that extends far to the southward and westward, the company of which he is at the head having plants in many cities of prominence. A son of Jacob B. Stahl, he was born February 12, 1849, in Sandusky county, Ohio, on a farm lying two miles south of Fremont. John Stahl, his grandfather, was born in Strassbourg, Alsace, Germany, in 1773. Reared to agricultural pursuits, he was there engaged in farming until 1834, when, accompanied by his wife and three of his five children, he came to America, and in Buffalo, New York, joined his two older sons, who had previously located in that city. Buying a small farm, he resided there a year, and then sold out and came to Ohio, locating near Florence, Erie county, where he spent the remainder of his life, dying at the age of four score years. His wife, whose maiden name was Barbara, was born in Alsace, Germany, in 1777, and died in Erie county, Ohio, at the ,advanced age of eighty-nine years. They were the parents of five children—one daughter and four sons, the names of the sons being John, Jacob B., Philip and Christian. Jacob B. Stahl was born February 10, 1814, in Strasbourg, Germany, and was there educated in the public schools, after which he learned the cooper's trade. In 1832 he came with his brother John to this country, landing in New York City after an ocean voyage of sixty-three days. Going then, by way of the