250 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY He had no sooner emerged from the kindergarten than he became interested in the subject of geology. One who knew him well, writing the story of his life, said : "The gravel on the streets, the lumps of coal in his father's grate, the chalk with which he ciphered on the blackboard, possessed an unusual interest for him. The whys and wherefores of things swayed his young mind. When but eight years of age he began making a collection of minerals and fossils, and with a single book as his incentive, he not only classified his specimens and labeled them scientifically but could talk so intelligently on the subject that he astonished those of riper years whose information on things geological was considerable. In his collection of specimens he was an enthusiast, and not satisfied merely with what the Miami valley afforded, made excursions to other parts of the state, and visited a number of professional geologists and noted collectors. He was also in correspondence with collectors in other states and by exchange of specimens and purchase of others he secured a large and valuable collection. But the feature which gave especial value to his collection was the successful effort of a descriptive catalogue of every specimen in his cabinet, so systematized that at a moment's notice he could lay his hand upon any one and read in it, as it were, a chapter in geological history not so readily obtainable from books. The catalogue bespeaks for him an order of mind especially adapted to scientific investigation." It was found early in his life that his tastes were in a direction that would cause him to remain much indoors with little outdoor life or exercise, and his parents realized that this would be detrimental to the health of a growing boy. It became a matter of considerable moment, therefore, and of no little solicitude, to provide an expedient wherewith to provoke outdoor activity and thereby lessen the demand upon his mental energy while developing his physical powers. Even his geological researches were carried on more through correspondence than through actual research for specimens. The question, therefore, of the best method of continuing his education was debated at the home fireside and it was at last decided to send him to Cooper Institute, where consideration for his state of health, his disinclination to outdoor exercises and the peculiar bent of his mind would be had and where also a choice of studies would be allowed. For two years he continued in that school, Professor and Mrs. Robert manifesting their sympathy with the boy's unusual bent of mind and leading him gently, without burdening him, in the direction which furnished the strongest and best incentive to intellectual endeavor. It was while he was in that school that his taste for geological research somewhat abated and his interest in literature and history was awakened. He read with increasing interest the works of George Eliot, Walter Scott, Plutarch's Lives and Gibbon's Rome. To such works he devoted all of the time not actually required by his studies, and it was characteristic of him that at all times he had a book stored away in a corner of each room that he might take it up if by any chance he had a few moments' leisure while in that room. When the Cooper Academy was discontinued, after he had remained there for two years, he entered the grammar schools of Dayton and eventually passed on to the high school. In the meantime other forces were entering into the life and development of the boy. His parents were continually studying out methods to increase his DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 253 outdoor activity and at length his father suggested the raising of fine breeds of poultry. The project was received with favor by the son and soon all arrangements were made for the care of the fowls. He entered upon this, however, not merely as the average person "raises chickens," but took up the subject from the scientific standpoint and regarded it as a chapter in natural history, enabling him to make valuable contributions to agricultural literature. By skill, thought, application and his characteristic thoroughness he soon became a leader and teacher and brought to his task also common sense in the adoption of eminently practical means. He at once subscribed for ten or twelve poultry magazines, from which he learned the names of different breeds and their characteristics and also the names and place of abode of the principal poultry raisers all over the Union. He used every available source to study the history of. the domestic fowl, especially those of the finest breed, and his labors resulted in raising a large flock of the rarest and costliest fowls known to the breeders of fine chickens. Poultry raising proved not only a source of amusement and healthful outdoor recreation but also a source of profit as well, and his flock soon became so large that his father's premises were no longer adequate and he formed a partnership with a farmer where more spacious accommodations could be secured. Boy though he was, he wrote various valuable articles for the agricultural press and the Miami Valley Poultry Association, in convention at Middletown, Ohio, elected him its secretary. The writer of his memoir says : "It was not a little amusing to see the astonishment depicted on the faces of those who for the first time were introduced to their secretary and found that his breeches had not grown below his knees." Such, however, was the confidence reposed in him by the association that they entrusted to him the entire management of the Montgomery county poultry exhibit held in Dayton in June, 1888, and for which he prepared an elaborate catalogue, premium lists, also had the supervision of the printing, rented the building and with geometric precision diyided it off into compartments for the exhibitors. As he became known in connection with his poultry-raising interests his correspondence became so great that it encroached upon his hours of rest, so that after two years his parents prevailed upon him to resign his secretaryship and go east for a visit. Throughout almost his entire life he had spent the summer months in the home of his aunt and uncle, Dr. and Mrs. E. G. Sumner, near Willimantic, Connecticut. There he spent much time out of doors and was interested in everything relating to the locality. Referring to those visits Dr. Sumner wrote : "He always had some prominent subject upon which he seemed intensely interested. In his early boyhood when he visited me he was greatly interested in learning all about fish and fishing (as there is a fine lake abounding in fish near my home) and when I would go about with him his joy amounted sometimes to enthusiasm. I recall one summer when poultry engaged his interest and was his theme and I listened with interest and astonishment when he rehearsed what he knew about poultry. At the age of thirteen he left my house alone, visited prominent poultrymen in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and having visited Providence and Boston and other New England towns and cities, after an absence of about a week, he came back, reported a pleasant trip and related 254 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY his interviews with the most prominent poultrymen of New England, which both interested and astonished me." Photography at one time claimed the attention of Charley Solomon. In early boyhood he had given some manifestation of an artistic taste and had done considerable sketching. On being presented with a photographic outfit by his uncle during one of his summer visits in Willimantic, he brought the same thoroughness and research and investigation to the new interest, took up the study of books on photographic chemistry, on the nature and properties of light, on the laws of spherical and chromatic aberration in lenses, on practical manipulation and minor treatises, and in fact on every phase of the art. He put his knowledge to the test in the use of his camera with the result that his pictures were not only photographically excellent but the composition was equally true, displaying artistic taste in an eminent degree. He was heard to say that the development of a negative had for him a wonderful fascination ; he looked upon it as a kind of creation, calling into existence something which had no existence before or at least a latent image which could not be seen by any intensification of lens power. However, he regarded photography merely as an adjunct to art and it led him to resume sketching in which he manifested ability in his early boyhood. His portfolio became rapidly filled with curious designs, drawings, mechanical, architectual and ornamental, and so great was the skill that he manifested that his father employed for him a teacher of architecture, under whose direction he made rapid progress. Mr. Farini, his teacher, said of him : "Charley's perceptive faculties were wonderfully quick and he had a faculty which very few artists have—of finishing what he began. Had he lived, architecture and engineering would have been Charley's life vocation. To learn, to labor and to acquire were the dominant features of his character." He especially excelled in drawing maps, not only in copying, reducing or enlarging, but also in making original drawings from descriptions such as are given by missionaries in foreign lands of their travels, preaching stations, schools, dispensaries and other institutions in which locality forms an important part. In connection with his art studies he became much interested in the various processes of newspaper illustrations and gathered much information on the subject by correspondence with practical engravers, stereotypers and electrotypers. He investigated the subject of photoengraving and photo-lithographing, and it was a source of interest to him to make a sketch upon a block of wood and then engrave it. Procuring a set of engraver's tools he began work in earnest and soon succeeded in making a presentable cut for a newspaper illustration. Ere long, he made the cuts from which to illustrate the articles which he wrote for the poultry journals. In this, as in all other pursuits, his hungry mind reached out for still broader information which he gained from such books as Ruskin's Modern Painters and others of a, similar character. His last and perhaps lest effort in drawing and designing was an elaborate decorative frieze for the parlor and dining room of his father's residence. His contributions to the press and letters which he wrote to different journals also displayed, use of English that fell little short of marked literary ability and the letters especially were filled with references that indicate that he was familiar with the history as well as the topography of the country and showed, moreover, his artistic appreciation of all of the beauties of nature. DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 255 "It is a fact," says the author of his memoir, "that even among those who knew Charley best—his own parents, his relatives, his schoolmates and his school teachers—there is not one of them that can recall a period in the boy's life when in his thoughts, his activities or his aspirations he betrayed the mere boy. In all these he was in advance of his age ; the man seems to have crowded his childish body and the body in return proceeded slowly to accommodate the expanding brain—the man. Everything in nature, in art, in science, in social life, in religion that had for its end the cultivating, the ennobling and the refining of human nature found in him an ardent patron. Even in the political arena he was not merely an interested spectator but an enthusiastic participant. To many it would appear incredible that a boy, two presidential terms this side of his first vote, should have caught so accurately and so discriminatingly the issue between the two great political parties, and, moreover, to have the assurance and the courage to discuss these issues with men whose first vote dates back to the Lincoln campaign." However, he took up the study of the tariff and other vital questions before the people and carefully culled from the press the best thoughts of the best writers and best speakers on the issues of the campaign of 1888. He studied the questions from both the republican and democratic standpoint, nor was he unmindful of those side lights thrown upon the problems by the labor party and the prohibition party. His scrapbook was filled with the carefully thought out utterances of the leaders of the various movements which were shaping the political history of the country at that time and he was a fervent believer in the correctness and righteousness of the policy of the republican party. His mind was filled with statistics and facts which would haye been an enrichment to the speeches of many a so-called statesman in public addresses during the campaign. All these various lines were claiming the attention of Charley Solomon during his school days and through the periods of vacation and never for a moment did he neglect the duties that were assigned him in connection with the public school course which he was pursuing after the close of the Cooper Academy. His love of the best writings was manifest in his perusal of the translated works of Schiller, and Goethe, and he also read such technical works as Rosengarden's Hand-Book of Architecture, Combs' Lectures on Moral Philosophy, Whateley's Moral Science and others of the same nature. His advent in the high school was an era of moment for him. It opened a new vista to him for his text-books there were more in harmony with his mental cravings and mental grasp. He pursued with avidity his advanced mathematical studies and was greatly interested in the study of German, in which he displayed marked progress. His mind reaching out to other phases that touched directly or indirectly upon school work, it occurred to him that a useful book to furnish a guide to students seeking to enter college might be compiled from the catalogues of each and by summarizing the distinctive features of each, might help the student make a judicious selection. After maturing his plan he entered upon correspondence with Harper Brothers of New York in relation to the publication of such a work. While far in advance of boys of his own age in his intellectual development, he had nothing of that peculiarity which is the characteristic of the bookworm for his interests were too broad, his nature too deep and his disposition 256 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY 'COUNTY too lovable to shut him out from human companionship. The appreciation and esteem in which he was uniformly held by his classmates and teachers was attested by the draping of his vacant desk in crape and supplying it with fresh flowers. every day until the end of the berm. Ere he was laid to rest both his classmates and roommates sent to his parents resolutions beautifully executed on parchment as a token of their appreciation for the good qualities of their friend and companion and of their sympathy for the bereaved father and mother. In the spring before he passed on to the eternal home Charley Solomon expressed to one of his friends his intention of uniting with the Baptist church before the close of the year. His parents were members of that denomination and he had been reared in an atmosphere of Christian culture. Placing one's membership in a church, however, is but the outward and public expression of an inward belief, and throughout his entire life Charley Solomon had manifested the Christlike spirit in his loyalty to truth and justice, in his consideration for and love of others. He was always a faithful attendant at the Sabbath-school, prepared the lesson for the first day of the week with the same thoroughness with which he qualified for his recitations in the public schools. That religious questions were awakening his deep interest was indicated by the fact that in the library which he collected there were a number of volumes upon Unitarianism. His youthful summer vacations were spent in New England, where that doctrine largely obtains, and gradually the refining and aesthetic culture usually found in Unitarian societies exercised an influence upon him and impressed his mind. For Christianity is not merely a belief but the living of that belief and though but a boy in years, his life measured up to the full standard of high and honorable manhood and righteous purpose in his relations with young and old, rich and poor. "A boy dutiful and obedient to his parents. reverential and loving to his mother, docile and respectful in his relation with teachers, diligent in his studies, .a devoted and true friend to his classmates ; a student of religion, an earnest and sincere inquirer after truth, and above all, having a sincere desire and aim for a useful and true life, these sum up his moral and religious character." As the clouds with startling rapidity may overshadow the sun and bring blackness where but a moment before there was vivid light, so came the news of the death of Charley Solomon to Dayton, to his friends and most of all to his parents. On the afternoon of the last day of May when nature seemed at her brightest and best in the springtime freshness and coloring, he was preparing to finish Saturday, his day of recreation, by a swim in the Miami river. From the bath house he ventured into the main channel, but the water was very cold and deep, his body tired and warm, and before he reached the float upon which were other youthful bathers, cramps ensued and speech failed him so that he could not even call to his companions. They saw his plight, however, and attempted to rescue him, one reaching him and starting with him for the float. But Charley's grasp upon his companion relaxed ere they reached the float, and he passed to his death. On the 3d of June, 1890, he was laid to rest, flowers, music and the presence and sympathy of friends doing everything possible to assuage the grief of the parents. With a firm belief. in the immortality of the DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 257 soul, the father and mother must feel as James Whitcomb Riley has so beautifully expressed it : I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. . . . He is just away ! With a cheery smile and a wave of the hand He has wandered into an unknown land, And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there. And you-0 you, who the wildest yearn For the old-time step and the glad return,— Think of him faring on, as dear In the love of There as the love of Here ; Think of him still as the same, I say : He is not dead—he is just away ! JUDGE JOHN ROEHM. Judge John Roehm was born in Dayton January 29, 1871, and during his youthful days mastered the branches of learning taught in the public school, his course being continued until 1889, when he was graduated from the Central high school. Believing that he, would find the practice of law a congenial pursuit and one which would yield good financial returns for a capable service, he began preparing for the profession as a law student in the office of W. A. Hallanan. On the 3d of March, 1892, he was admitted to the bar and has since continuously engaged in practice in Dayton, his connection with the profession here covering seventeen years. As a result of his ability he has enjoyed a good clientage and has figured in connection with important work in the courts, winning many verdicts favorable to his clients. Judge Roehm is also well known by reason of his activity in lines of municipal progress and improvement. In 1894 he was elected clerk of the board of education and so served for one year while the board was democratic. In April, 1898, he was elected police judge of Dayton and filled the position for a term of three years. It was during this period that the labor troubles occurred and it was this that caused his defeat when a candidate for a second term. He has always taken an active interest in supporting the democracy and was a delegate to the state convention which nominated John M. Pattison for governor. He has also been a member of Montgomery county central committee and of the city central committee of the democratic party. 258 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY On the 13th of June, 1899, in Dayton, Mr. Roehm was married to Miss Amelia S. Reiss. He is a member of the Dayton Gymnastic Club and of the Turngeneinde, and takes a keen interest in athletic sports and has at all times used his influence to further the promotion of compulsory physical education in the public schools. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias. He is popular with his associates in these organizations and withal has a wide circle of warm friends in his native city. LUCIUS O. MILLER. Lucius O. Miller of Dayton, general church treasurer of the United Brethren church of the United States, is a native son of Ohio, his birth having occurred in St. Johns, Auglaize county, April 19, 1856. His grandfather, Daniel Miller, was a native of Maryland and in his boyhood days went with his parents to Fairfield county, Ohio, the family being there established during the pioneer epoch in the history of this state. Daniel Miller followed the occupation of farming as a life work. His son, the Rev. Daniel R. Miller, was born on the old home farm in Fairfield county, June 13, 1835, and in 180obecame actively identified with the ministry of the United Brethren church. He has since devoted his time and energies to the work of upbuilding the denomination in all of its varied activities for the promotion of the cause of Christianity, and his influence has been of no restricted order. He is now a resident of Bloomdale, Ohio. As the father's ministerial labors called him to various points, Lucius 0. Miller was reared in different towns where he attended the public schools until 1873, when he entered Otterbein University at Westerville, Ohio, remaining for three years a student in that institution. He afterward entered the Farmers Bank at Marion, Ohio, in the capacity of bookkeeper, occupying that position for three years, when he became bookkeeper in a wholesale men's furnishing goods house at West Liberty, Ohio. He was for two years employed there and on the 15th of August, 1881, came to Dayton where he entered the United Brethren publishing house as shipping and bill clerk. His enterprise, diligence and capability won him promotion to the position of cashier on the 1st of January, 1882, and served in that capacity until the 1st of July, 1905, when he assumed the duties of the general church treasurer to which he had been elected by the general conference of the United Brethren church for a term of four years. He is a man of good business ability, manifesting keen insight as well as capable control and moreover his industry is unflagging and his resolution unfaltering, In this capacity he has charge of the finances of the home missions, foreign missions, general Sunday-school, general conference expense, the Union Biblical Seminary, ministerial education and church erection. On the 6th of September, 1877, Mr. Miller was married in Westerville, Ohio, to Miss Lida J. Haywood, a daughter of John and Sylvia (Carpenter) Haywood, the former professor of mathematics in Otterbein University. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Miller have been born six children: John Daniel. Miller ; Sylvia Grace, the DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 259 wife of Richard Campion ; Winton Leroy ; Lucius Haywood ; Edna Elaine ; and Marjory Mae. In his political views Mr. Miller is a republican, interested in the growth and success of his party because of his belief in its principles, yet without aspiration for political preferment. He has served as a member of the board of education and at all times is interested in intellectual progress. He is a member of the Present Day Club of Dayton and of the United Brethren church, manifesting active support of all the different branches of church work. Alert and energetic, with a thorough preliminary business training, he is well qualified for the complex and onerous duties which devolve upon him in his present connection. JOEL OHIO SHOUP. Joel Ohio Shoup is identified with various business enterprises, all of which proving profitable coerces of income because of the keen business discernment and unfaltering diligence manifested in their control. He is now a member of the firm of Shoup & Heeter, conducting a leaf tobacco business ; of the firm of Shoup & Company, general contractors ; and of the Edgemont Building Association, of which he is the president. He was born July 15, 1859, at Davenport, Iowa, during the temporary residence of his parents there. His education was acquired in the public schools of Dayton. After completing his literary course he began reading. law and acted as the first law librarian of the county court, which position he filled for ten years. He then organized the Dayton Paper Novelty Company and continued at its head for two years, after which he sold out and was elected county recorder. He filled that position for two terms or for six years, during which time he most capably discharged the duties of the office, his record winning him high encomiums. He next turned his attention to the hotel business, in which he was engaged with Torrence Huffman, as proprietor of the Beckel Hotel from 1887 until 1900, and in the meantime he had extended his efforts into other fields of labor, being a man of keen discernment and of resourceful business ability. He joined D. M. Heeter in the leaf tobacco business under the firm style of Shoup & Heeter, which association has since been profitably maintained. In 1901 he organized the firm of J. O. Shoup & Company, general contractors in reenforced concrete and street paving. He was one of the organizers and is now the president of the Edgemont Building Association, is a director of the Dayton Ice Manufacturing & Cold Storage Company and a director and one of the organizers of the Home Telephone Company. His interests have long been varied and important and their successful control is unmistakable evidence of his business ability and indefatigable energy. Mr. Shoup was married in 1886 to Miss Carrie L. Bunstine, a native of Montgomery county and a daughter of Jacob Bunstine, a manufacturer. They now have one child, Dorothy, and they also lost one child, Marian. Mr. Shoup is a member of the original Dayton Club and also one of the members of the Dayton Golf Club. In Masonry he has attained high rank, having taken the degrees 260 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY of the Knights Templar Commandery and of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to Christ Episcopal church, and his is a well rounded character which ex. eludes none of those interests or activities that mark the development of strong and upright manhood. CALVIN HAGAR LYON. Dayton is one of the important centers of the iron and steel trade in America, and it is in this field that Calvin Hagar Lyon puts forth his activity, having been closely associated with business interests of this character for more than three decades. He was born near Chaplin, Connecticut; on the 26th of February, 1845, his youthful days being spent on the home farm to the age of twelve years, when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Newton, Massachusetts, and his education, begun in the district schools, was there continued until he had completed the high-school course. At the age of seventeen, however, he put aside his text-books and in 1862 accompanied the family on their removal westward to Middletown, Ohio. Two years later the family home was established at Indianapolis, Indiana, where Calvin Hagar Lyon remained until April, 1864, and then at the age of nineteen years he responded to his country's call for further military aid, enlisting as a private of Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until mustered out one hundred days later at Camp Morton, Indianapolis. During the period of his military service he was in Stephenson, Alabama, and participated in several skirmishes with General Wheeler's men. When his term of enlistment had expired Mr. Lyon returned to the north and in 1865 came to Dayton, thus entering upon his business career here at the age of twenty years. He was first employed as a clerk in the grocery store of John F. Edgar, with whom he continued for a year, when he became shipping clerk in the wholesale grocery house of Comer & Brown. When another year had passed he was made book-keeper in that establishment and so continued for ten years, when he resigned his position on account of his health. Joining his brother, E. B. Lyon, he_ began the manufacture of trunk material and to that business devoted his energies for several years, but recognizing the field for profitable labor in connection with the steel and iron industry, he turned his attention to that line, wherein he has since operated, and has furnished the iron and steel work in most of the large buildings in Dayton and other cities. His interests are important and extensive, bringing him into close association with trade relations of this character, while his capable management, keen business discernment and unwearied industry have established his place in the foremost ranks of the trade. In 1867 Mr. Lyon was united in marriage in Middletown, Ohio, to Miss Mary Chenoweth, and they now have a son, Howard C., and a daughter, Agnes L., who is the wife of Robert E. Kline. Mr. Lyon votes with the republican party, to which he has given his endorsement since age conferred upon him the right of franchise, but, while local advancement and national progress are ques- DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 263 tions clear to his heart, he has not sought to participate in governmental affairs as an official. He belongs to Old Guard Post, G. A. R., and to the First United Brethren church, in which for twenty-eight years he acted as organist. Throughout his life his love of music has been one of his dominant traits, contributing much to his own happiness and to the pleasure of others. There is in his life, aside from the strong and forceful qualities which have been dominant in his business career, a marked strain of sentiment as manifest in his love of art and his appreciation of the true, the good and the beautiful. ALBERT M. MUMMA. Albert M. Mumma is a worthy representative of the agricultural interests of Montgomery county, owning and operating a well improved farm of one hundred and sixty-five acres in Madison township, situated one mile east of Trotwood and about six miles northwest of Dayton. The property is known as the David Cripe farm. Our subject was born on the old Mumma farm, on the Salem pike, in Harrison township, Montgomery county, on the 4th of June, 1872, his parents being Jacob and Susan (Kleppinger) Mumma. The paternal grandfather, Jacob Mumma, who was a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, journeyed to this part of the country by wagon, settling on a tract of four hundred acres, which he cleared of the timber. He built a log- cabin, in which he made his home for a number of years and experienced all of the hardships and privations of life on the frontier. Later he erected a large brick house, making the bricks himself, and therein resided until the time of his demise, his remains being interred in the Woodland cemetery at Dayton, Ohio. Jacob Mumma, the father of our subject, was born on the farm which the grandfather had secured on his arriyal here and after attaining man's estate became one of the pioneer fruit growers of this section, shipping to all parts of the country and meeting with gratifying and well merited success in his undertakings. in his boyhood clays Albert M. Mumma attended the Fairview school in Harrison and later went to Fort McKinley, where he completed his education. Throughout the period of his attendance at school he also assisted his father in the cultivation of the old homestead farm, thus early becoming familiar with the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. To this occupation he has given his time and energies throughout his active business career and is well known and highly esteemed throughout the community as a most progressive, enterprising and substantial citizen. He finds a ready market for his products in Dayton and has two tenants residing on the farm. On the 6th of December, 1894, Mr. Mumma was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary Catharine Miller, of Madison township, the second child of Jacob F. and Anna (Cripe) Miller. Her paternal grandparents, Daniel and Catharine Miller, were of German descent and came to this county from Pennsylvania. Her maternal grandparents were David and Mary (Ullery) Cripe. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Mumma have been born five children, namely : Arthur Russell, Clarence Elliott, 264 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY Lawson Everett and Naomi Mabel, all of whom are attending school ; and Ruth Irene. Mrs. Mumma belongs to the German Baptist church, in the work of which she takes an active and helpful interest. Mr. Mumma finds his chief source of recreation and pleasure in motoring and is the owner of a fine Buick forty horse-power machine. Both he and his wife are well and favorably known throughout the county in which their entire lives have been passed and have an extensive circle of friends in Dayton. ALBERT B. SHAUCK. Albert B. Shauck, prominent in educational circles, is the founder and proprietor of the College & Teachers Preparatory School, which he has conducted since 1891, and the efficient work of this institution is attested by the high standing of the graduates who have entered various colleges and universities in the country. He was born on a farm in Morrow county, Ohio, November 14, 185o, and was reared in the usual manner of farm lads to the age of eighteen years, assisting in the work of the fields through the summer months and attending the district school in the winter seasons. In 1874 he was graduated from Otterbein University at Westerville, Ohio, and soon after entered upon active connection with educational work, becoming a teacher in the schools of Franklin county, Ohio, in 1876. He there taught until the fall of 1877, when he came to Dayton and accepted the position of principal of the third district school, where he remained to the entire satisfaction of the general public until 1891, when, seeing the need for special preparation for college work on the part of many young men, he gave up his position in connection with the public schools and established a college preparatory school, which he has since successfully conducted. Various branches are here taught necessary to qualify one for college entrance examination and the work is thorough and systematic, Mr. Shauck having secured an able corps of assistants. The patronage which is accorded him indicates that his school is meeting a need in educational development. The graduates from the College & Teachers Preparatory School, which is located at No. 17 East Third street, are admitted to college throughout the United States upon Professor Shauck's certificate of graduation and without examination. Many of the superintendents and teachers of the state owe their success to the professional training received while attending this school. In 1879 in Dayton was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Shauck and Miss Anna Miller. Unto them have been born two daughters and a son : Alice Louise, the wife of Hubert M. Kline, of this city ; Katharine M. ; and Robert W. Shauck. The parents occupy an enviable position in social circles where intelligence is regarded as a necessary attribute to agreeableness. In his political views Mr. Shauck is a stalwart republican and a valued member of the Garfield Club. He belongs to the First United Brethren church and his influence and labors are an active force for moral, intellectual and social progress in this city. He is dean of the faculty of the Association Institute, which is DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 265 the night college of the Young Men's Christian Association of Dayton and which, during the school year of 1908-9 had forty-eight teachers and an enrollment of between seven and eight hundred scholars. There are more than one hundred colleges throughout the United States which will accept credits for work completed in this institute. Professor Shauck created the department of English and formulated the course of study in that branch, having complete charge of the department since it was founded. The course that he has laid out has been closely followed by other schools doing similar work throughout the country, thus indicating that the institute has been taken as a standard in this as in many other respects. For sixteen years Professor Shauck served on the board of city examiners and in this connection labored for high standards that the work of the schools might be promoted in breadth and efficiency. He is also a trustee of Otterbein University and of the Bonebrake Theological Seminary of Dayton. A lover of music, his deep interest therein is manifested in the fact that he is now serving as president of the Philharmonic Society of Dayton, which was organized in 1874 and is one of the ,best and most proficient musical organizations in the United States. It is also next to the oldest in this country. The nature of his interests at once indicates that association with Professor Shauck means expansion and elevation. EDWARD J. BUNDENTHAL. Edward J. Bundenthal, of the firm of Heller & Bundenthal, general insurance agents of Dayton, was born in this city, July 9, 1869. He has resided here throughout his entire life and has been more or less actively connected with public interests. His education was acquired in the public and parochial schools but he put aside his text-books at an early age and began earning his living by selling papers. He afterward worked in printing offices and partly learned the trade during four years spent in that way. At the end of that time, he secured a situation in a grocery store, where he continued for four years when, thinking to find more congenial and profitable employment he began selling insurance' and in 1898 formed a partnership with Charles H. Heller in general insurance lines This connection has now been maintained for eleven years and the firm has met with excellent success, controlling a considerable volume of business. They represent some of the best known of the old-line insurance companies and bath gentlemen are thoroughly familiar with the insurance business in all of its varied departments and branches. Aside from his interest in the firm Mr. Bundenthal is a director in the Permanent Building & Savings Association. Somewhat active in public affairs, he is a member of the board of deputy state supervisors of .elections and served on the city board of election in 1903. He is quite active in municipal affairs, cooperating in many movements which are a matter of civic virtue and civic pride. Everything relative to the welfare and upbuilding of the city awakens his interest and if his judgment sanctions a movement he gives to it his earnest endorsement and cooperation. His political 266 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY allegiance has always been given to the democracy since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. On the 3oth of June, 1891, Mr. Bundenthal was united in marriage, in Dayton, to Miss Rosa A. Selz, a daughter of Charles Selz of this city. They have many friends here and their attractive home is a most hospitable one. Fraternally, Mr. Bundenthal is connected with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, while his religious faith is that of the Lutheran church. He has never sought to establish himself elsewhere than in his native city where his life history is an open book that all may read. Starting out at an early age, he has worked steadily upward in his business undertakings, reaching a place of affluence by reason of his unremitting diligence and determined purpose. CHARLES H. LUKASWITZ. Charles H. Lukaswitz, known in the commercial interests of Dayton as president of The Baker Company, wholesale liquor dealers, was born in this city June 30, 1873, and was here reared and educated. He was provided with liberal advantages for intellectual progress and is .a graduate of St. Mary's Institute of the class of 1891 and also from Miami Commercial College of Dayton of the class of 1893. On completing the latter course he became an employe of The Baker Company and that he was trustworthy, diligent and efficient is indicated by the fact that through successive promotions from time to time he has reached his present position at the head of the enterprise, having been elected to the presidency in 1895. He is therefore giving his energies at the present time to the administration of the affairs of the company and in the control and expansion of the trade he displays strong business qualities and forceful enterprise. On the loth of July, 1903, in Dayton, Mr. Lukaswitz was married to Miss Ida S. Sherer, a daughter of M. J. Sherer, an architect. He is connected with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and has attained substantial success in business through close application and intelligently directed effort that have brought him from a comparatively humble position to a place in which he controls extensive trade interests. LEE WARREN JAMES. Lee Warren James, a member of the well known law firm of Rowe, Shuey, Mathews & James, of Dayton, does not need introduction to the readers of this volume, for the firm occupies a foremost place in the ranks of the legal fraternity, enjoying the most extensive and important clientage. Mr. James was born in Montgomery county, September 12, 1877, upon the home farm where his parents continued to reside until 1881. In that year they removed to Dayton, so that he was largely reared in this city. At the usual age he was sent as a pupil to the public schools and, mastering the different branches that, constituted the curricu- DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 267 lum, he completed the course by graduation from the Steele high school with the class of 1896. Already he had determind upon the practice of law as a life work, and to this end began studying in the office and under the direction of O. M. Gottschall. His preliminary reading was thorough and enabled him to successfully pass the required examination for admission to the bar in June, 1900. In January of that year he had entered the law office of Rowe & Shuey, the partners being the first mentioned members of the present law firm. Mr. James continued in the office as assistant in their law practice until April 1, 1907, when his ability and merit led to his admission to the firm under the style of Rowe, Shuey, Mathews & James. Their law business is of the most important character, covering various departments of practice in which the different members of the firm are well versed. Mr. James is proving- himself worthy of the position which was accorded him on his admission to the bar and, diligent and careful in the preparation of cases, he is continually promoting his efficiency through experience and further study. On the 30th of April, 1901, Mr. James was married in Dayton to Miss N. Edith Tyrrell, an.d they have two sons, Tom Warren and Robert Lee. He gives his political support to the democratic party and is active in politics, but without desire for office as a reward for party fealty. JAMES HAYS, M. D. With ability that is the outcome of a wise use of his time and talents and of a thorough mastery of scientific principles in the line of his profession, Dr. James Hays now occupies a distinguished position as representative of the medical fraternity of Dayton. He was born on a farm in Brown county, Ohio, in 1838, and was there reared to the age of seventeen years, alternating his time between the work of the fields and the duties of the school-room as he pursued his studies in the district school. Determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work he afterward entered the Eclectic Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio, and was graduated in 186o. He then located for practice in Russellville, Ohio, where he remained for six years and for five years he was a member of the medical fraternity at Casstown, Ohio, but seeking a broader field of labor he came to Dayton in 1871 and has since practiced continuously in this city. His ability has brought him into prominent professional relations and his close conformity to a high standard of professional ethics has won him the high esteem of his brethren of the medical fraternity. Dr. Hays was married first in Russellville, Ohio, in 1861, to Miss Sarah Wilkins, who died in Dayton in 1885. In 1887 he was again married, his second union being with Jennie M. Beale. Dr. Hays had two children by his first marriage, of whom one daughter died in infancy. The son, Doremus A. Hays, survives, and is now located in Evanston, Illinois. He was born in 1864 and was graduated from the Central high-school of Dayton, while later he pursued a preparatory course in Roberts school of this city. His more specifically literary training was obtained in Ohio Wesleyan College of Delaware, Ohio, from which 268 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY he was graduated in 1889. He is now professor of theology at Garrett Theological Seminary at Evanston, Illinois. After leaving the Ohio Wesleyan College at Delaware he entered the theological department of the Boston University, from which he was graduated on the completion of the regular course and he also spent a year in Leipsic. He was married in 1889 at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, to Miss Hester Juvenal, and they have one son, James J., who is now (19o9) a student in Harvard University. Dr. Hays is a man whom to know is to respect and esteem. His life has been guided by high principles and actuated by worthy motives. Strictly temperate at all times and a believer in the cause of temperance, he gives his political allegiance to the prohibition party. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Raper Methodist Episcopal church of Dayton and he is now serving on the official board. In professional connections he is a member of the National Eclectic Medical Society, the State Eclectic Medical Society, and at the present writing, in 1909, is the president of Montgomery County Eclectic Society. He has held to high ideals in all private, public and professional relations and well merits the unqualified honor and respect which are given him. THOMAS M. PEXTON. Thomas M. Pexton, vice president of the West Side Building & Loan Company, of Dayton, in which connection his labors are an effective force in the improvement and upbuilding of the city, was born in Westmoreland, in central New York, July 6, 1846, and in the paternal line is of English descent. His great-grandfather was a gentleman farmer of England and a man of considerable wealth. His grandfather, John Pexton, was born in that country in the eighteenth century and came to America early in the nineteenth century, settling in Westmoreland, New York, where he spent his remaining days. Thomas Pexton, the father of our subject, was likewise a native of England and accompanied his parents on their emigration to the new world, the family home being established in Westmoreland, Oneida county, New York. There he was reared and spent his remaining days. In early life he learned the butcher's trade, which he followed for a long period. He married Miss Ann Wishart, a native of England, and they became the parents of five sons and three daughters. Thomas M. Pexton, whose name introduces this review, remained in the place of his nativity until twenty-five years of age, when, thinking, that he might have better business opportunities at a point further west, he removed to Crestline, Ohio, and afterward spent a few months in Marietta, this state. The year 1872 witnessed his arrival in Dayton and he entered the Dayton Malleable Iron Company as a molder. He was thus employed for about twelve or thirteen years, rising to the position of foreman, in which capacity he served for about eight years. On the expiration of that period he entered the services of the Ohio Rake Company as foreman of the foundry and also became one of the stockholders of the company. For nineteen years he was closely associated with that enterprise as foreman of the foundry and his capable control of the. work DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 271 done in the shops was an important factor in the suCcess of the business. In 1903 he left that position upon his election to the board of public service, for which office he was chosen as the republican candidate. That he served capably during his first term is indicated by the fact that he was re-elected for a second term. Since his retirement from the office he has devoted his attention to various interests and is now vice president of the West Side Building & Loan Company. Mr. Pexton was married in Iowa Falls, Iowa, to Miss Elizabeth Haydock, and they are well known socially in Dayton, where they.have many.war•m friends. Mr. Pexton belongs to the Fourth Presbyterian church, of which he is a director. Ile is also identified with the Knights of Pythias. His life has been one of intense activity since he started out on his own account and through the passing years he has eagerly availed himself of every opportunity for working his way upward, recognizing the fact that success lies in the individual and not in his environment. JAMES B. SHANNON. James B. Shannon is conducting a general mercantile establishment in West Carrollton, this being the largest general store in Montgomery county. Since becoming connected with the enterprise Mr. Shannon has continually extended its scope, conducting his affairs along modern business lines and accomplishing substantial results. One of Pennsylvania's native sons, he was born in Lewiston, Mifflin county, April 19, 1852, his parents being John and ..Angel•ine (Major) Shannon. The paternal grandparents were John and Elizabeth Shannon, the latter more commonly known as Betsy. John and Angeline Shannon were both natives of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, and the father was a liveryman, who became one of the prominent citizens of Lewiston, Pennsylvania. He had three children : Isaac, who was born of his first marriage ; and James and Mary, who were children of the 'second marriage. Mrs. Angeline Shannon was also married twice and by her second husband, Robert Burns, had a family of three children : Robert W., Martha and Nannie J. James B. Shannon acquired his education in the schools of his native town and while still a resident of Pennsylvania carried on general farming. He became one of the land owners of that state and remained there until the 1st of June, 1889, when his possessions were all swept away through the ever memorable, flood of that date. He was, therefore, compelled to make. a new start in the world and with his family he traveled . westward to Montgomery county, Ohio, where he again resumed the occupation of farming and within a few years he had gained a comfortable competence and after moving to Ohio he became identified with mercantile .pursuits. The store of which he is now proprietor was organized in March, 1894, under the name of the Friend Mercantile Company, of which Mr. Shannon became general manager. In 1902 he purchased the store and has since been sole owner. He carries a large and well selected line of goods and does everything in his power to place these before the public in an attractive line. His tasteful arrangement of his store, his reasonable prices 272 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY and his fair dealing have brought to him a constantly increasing patronage and his business is now very gratifying and desirable. On the 22d of September, 1876, Mr. Shannon was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Smoker, a daughter of Felix and Margaret (Kiefer) Smoker. They had one child, Robert W., who died in infancy. Mr. Shannon socially is connected with the Odd Fellows, belonging to West Carrollton Lodge. Although a democrat in politics, he often votes independent of party ties, supporting the men whom he believes best qualified for office. He has acceptably served as school director for ten years and filled the office of treasurer of West Carrollton the same length of time. His energies, however, are largely concentrated upon his business affairs and in connection with general merchandising he is now associated with the La Sieba Cigar Company and the West Carrollton Real Estate Association. He is likewise the president of the Home Savings & Building Association and he has the Bell Telephone Exchange in the store. He is a man of resolute spirit who carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes. He allows no obstacles to bar his path if they can be overcome by persistent and earnest effort and his straightforward business methods have gained his a firm hold upon the trust and regard of his fellow citizens. JACOB D. MOSKOWITZ. Among the men of foreign birth who have become important factors in the business life an development of Dayton is numbered Jacob D. Moskowitz, a man of strength of character and well defined purpose who has sought his success in the legitimate lines of trade and has won prosperity through the careful and wise use of his opportunities. He is today president of the North Dayton Store Company, an important position to which he has attained, not by reason of any fortunate combination of circumstances or because his environment has been peculiarly favorable, but because he has realized that indefatigable labor is the basis of all desirable prosperity. A native of Hungary, he was born on the 12th of March, 1867, and came to America, July 1, 1884, at the age of seventeen years, locating in Maine. Subsequently he removed to Pennsylvania but afterward returned to the Pine Tree state and then went to different places, being located at various points until 1899, when he came to Dayton. Here he has remained continuously since and his worth is widely acknowledged as a factor in the busi ness life of the city. He first entered the employ of the Dayton Malleable Iron Company, with which he remained for about seven years in charge of foreign labor. He was then with the Barney & Smith Car Company in the same capacity and still acts in that position to the company. In the meantime he has extended his efforts to other lines, his business ability and initiative spirit being manifest thereby. He founded the North Dayton Colony in 1896 and is still at its head, while in 1907 on the organization of the North Dayton Store Company he was made its president. His business ability is pronounced and has led him into important relations. He allows no obstacles to brook his path that can be DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 273 overcome by determined energy and as the years have gone by he has achieved success that is most creditable. In 1891 Mr. Moskowitz was married, at Deshler, Ohio, to Miss Sallie Baer, and they have four children, Jeanette, Leah, Josephine, Virginia Emma and Simon Benjamin. Mr. Moskowitz belongs to the Jewish temple. He votes with the republican party, but has no aspiration for office. His business interests have fully claimed his time and attention since he came to American as a young man at the age of seventeen years. He had no friends to assist him nor did he depend upon any outside aid or influence but persistently and energetically sought his success, knowing that in time earnest and well directed effort can accomplish any task. His record should serve to inspire and encourage other young men of foreign birth who seek the opportunities of the new world. He has won his advancement in honorable lines and is now well known in the business circles of the city. IRA CRAWFORD. Ira Crawford, attorney at law of Dayton, his native city, was born January 28, 1867. He was a grandson of Archibald Crawford and son of Zeba and Anna M. (Seely) Crawford, of Dayton. The father was born in this city in 1833 and was prominently known in business circles, serving for a decade as cashier of the Fourth National Bank, which position he occupied until two years prior to his death, which occurred in 1900. His widow survived him until December, 1907. The family of this worthy couple numbered eight children, but six died in infancy, the surviving members being Ira and Eva Crawford. Reared in the paternal home, Ira Crawford mastered the branches that constituted the public-school curriculum in Dayton, and then entered Denison University, at Granville, Ohio, from which he was graduated as an alumnus of 1888. He then returned to Dayton and in 1891 entered the Ohio State University, at Columbus, for the study of law, being graduated from the law department with the class of 1893. Immediately afterward he returned to his native city and the same year became a member of the law firm of Gottschall, Brown & Crawford, which relation was maintained until 1896, when Mr. Brown went upon the bench. The firm then continued at Gottschall & Crawford until 1898, when L. F. Lembert and W. S. McConnaughey entered the firm. This association was dissolyed December 31, 1902, since which time Mr. Crawford has practiced alone and his ability is attested in the extensive clientage accorded him. His power as a lawyer lies not so much in brilliant flights of oratory as in his keen logic and clear utterances, together with an accurate and correct application of legal principles. He never neglects to give a thorough preparation, and he enjoys the respect of his professional brethren as well as the general public by reason of his close conformity to professional ethics. In 1894 Mr. Crawford was married, in Dayton, to Miss Erminie P. Gilbert, a daughter of Philip E. Gilbert, and they have one son, Ira, born in 1904. Mr. Crawford belongs to the Beta Theta Phi and to the Linden Avenue Baptist 274 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY church. He endorses republican principles at the polls but is not an active worker in party ranks. His influence, however, is always found on the side of municipal progress and of those movements which tend to uplift the individual as well as advance the interests of the community. GEORGE V. NAUERTH. George V. Nauerth, of Harrison township, Montgomery county, Ohio, who has his home on Catalpa drive, is one of Dayton's prominent attorneys and was at one time in partnership with Thomas O. Lowe. Though his name is not as widely known as that of the Globe-Wernicke Company which he organized, the results of the patents he held in connection with this firm have found a reception throughout the whole country. He is a man, also, with an enviable breadth of culture, even for one of his profession, and the law is generally held to be the resort of men with minds keen for the attainment of the niceties of thought which only an education of breadth and depth can impart. George V. Nauerth is the son of John and Louisia Nauerth. The father came from Rhenish Bavaria, Germany, to Cincinnati in 1831. In that city he received his education, learned the baker's trade and started in the bakery business, but later he came to Dayton, where he pursued his trade for a time and then opened up a wholesale grocery house in a building opposite the city hall. In this building he conducted his operations until his death in 1881. His father, Peter Nauerth, came to this country after his son had been here some time. He was a retired farmer and passed the remaining days of his life with his son. George V. Nauerth was born in Dayton, January 29, 1844, the second son in a family of eight children. His older brother, John Nauerth, lives in Dayton. His sister, Louise E., is the wife of George W. Stieg, now living in Kansas City. Georgiana married Frederick Lang. Caroline is the wife of David B. Martin, general passenger manager of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, living in Baltimore. Mr. Nauerth received his early education in the schools of Dayton, and then went to Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. His sojourn here was one of honor; he was one of the youngest students when he entered, being only fifteen years old, and he was graduated with second honors in his class. In 1862 he entered the University of Heidelberg, where he took a course in Roman law, and the next year, that of 1863-64, he attended the University of Paris, studying Roman law and the code of Napoleon. From there he went to the Cincinnati Law School, where he was graduated and admitted to the bar. In 1865 he returned to the city of his birth, where he took up the practice of his profession, and four years subsequently was elected prosecuting attorney for Montgomery county, in which capacity he served two years. In 1881 he gave up the practice of law and went to Cincinnati, where he established the Globe-Wernicke Company, being the founder of the firm and president for five years and the holder of the patents. Ten years later, in 1891, he went to Chicago, devoting his talents and qualifications to the intricacies of patent law. After six years, however, he re-