700 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY Harshman, well known in this county. This union has been blessed with five children : Virginia : Susan, the wife of Dr. H. Lyons Hunt, of New York; Josephine; Alice, the wife of Dr. W. C. Tobey, of Pyrmont, Ohio; and Warner, who is still attending school and is taking a course that looks to a commercial career. The family are members of the Episcopal church of Dayton and are intimately identified with its work. Mr. Miller is a respected member of the community where he lives and in whose welfare he takes an especially deep interest. He served one year on the board of education, but on account of his other business had to resign, although much interested in educational matters. His record as a soldier is a constant inspiration to youths with whom he comes in contact so frequently. His duties as manager of the Harshman Improvement Company are not slight, yet they are assumed and fulfilled with ability and to the satisfaction of all concerned. GUSTAVE A. HOCHWALT, M. D. Dr. Gustave A. Hochwalt, who since 1895 has continuously engaged in the practice of medicine in Dayton and is visiting physician to St. Elizabeth's hospital, was born May 13, 1872, in the city which is now his home but, as the name indicates, is of German lineage. His father, George Hochwalt, was a native of Germany and after coming to this country was married to Theressa Lothammer, a native of Canton, Ohio. His maternal grandfather served 'under General La Fayette in the Revolutionary war. For a long period George Hochwalt was one of the most successful shoe merchants of Dayton. He carried on business along well defined lines of trade, sought success through honorable methods and earnest effort to please his customers and in the course of years had gained a competence sufficient to permit him to retire from the cares of active life in 189o. His remaining days were then spent in honorable retirement until his death, which occurred April 25, 1894. His widow still survives and yet makes her home in Dayton. They were parents of four sons and two daughters: Edward, a resident of Dayton ; Charles C., of Cleveland ; Emma, the wife of Frank Burkhardt ; Anna, deceased ; Albert, of Dayton ; and Gustave A. The Hochwalt family are all devout Catholics and Dr. Hochwalt was sent as a, pupil to the Brothers school of St. Mary's in Dayton, from which he was graduated in his eighteenth year. He took up the study of medicine with Dr. George Goodhue as his preceptor and after thus reading for two years he matriculated in the Starling Medical College of Columbus in 1892, devoting three years to faithful study. He received his diploma in 1895 and thus well equipped for his chosen calling returned to Dayton, since which time he has been an active representative of the profession in this city. His practice has steadily grown as the years have gone by and the results which attend his efforts are the manifestation of his thorough understanding of the laws of health and the principles of medicine. In 1899 he was appointed by the board of health the first city bacteriologist of Dayton and so served until 1906. In 1899 he was made visiting physician of St. Elizabeth's hospital and has so continued to the present time. In 1898 he became pa- DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 703 theologist to the Miami Valley Hospital and thus continued until 1906, when he resigned. In 1898 he pursued a post-graduate course in the New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital, particularly for the study of clinical microscopy and pathology, and he has always been a close student of the profession, interested in everything that tends to bring to man the key to the complex mystery which we call life. He belongs to the Montgomery County Medical Society, the Ohio Medical Society and the American Medical Association and thus keeps in close touch with the onward progress of the profession. On the 17th of October, 1900, Dr. Hochwalt was married in Dayton to Miss Erma Gondert and they have two children, William Richard and Aida. In his political views Dr. Hochwalt is a democrat but is not active in the work of the party. He is a member of the Catholic church, in which he was reared, and is interested in all that pertains to the progress of the city along material, intellectual and moral lines. Until recently the Doctor took a great interest in musical affairs, being the leading tenor in a number of church choirs in Dayton, and was a member of the Phil Harmonic Concert. He also had the honor of singing a solo with Watkin Mills, of London. He has served on the board of trustees of the. Dayton Astronomical Society. CHARLES W. SHOCK. Charles W. Shock, who has been closely identified with educational interests of Montgomery county for several years, is also clerk of Jefferson township, in which position he has served since January 1, 1905. He was born on a farm in Jefferson township, this county, April 27, 1881, a son of Beniah and Rhoda A. (Wineland) Shock. The grandfather of our subject, Jonas Shock, was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1805, and came to Jefferson township, Montgomery county, with his parents when but six years of age. He cast in his lot with the early settlers here and became one of the pioneer farmers of this district. His son Beniah Shock was here born on the 25th of April, 1837, and was here reared and married, devoting his life also to the occupation of farming. In his family were two sons and two daughters, namely : Winona, born in 1866; Ira Lee, born in 1868 ; Amy C., born in 1873 ; and Charles W., of this review. The family were all members of the German Baptist Brethren church and were well known and prominent in the community. Charles W. Shock, whose name introduces this review, was reared upon his father's farm and during the days of his boyhood and youth attended the common schools in the acquirement of his early training. He later attended the Trotwood high school, in Madison township, from which he was graduated with the class of 1899 ; he also had the advantage of a course of bookkeeping and business training at the Miami Commercial College in Dayton, Ohio. Thus well equipped, he took up the profession of teaching, at which work he has since been engaged during the winter seasons. In 1902 he began teaching in Jackson township, where he remained for two terms, and then came to Jefferson township, where he has followed the profession for five years. He is a very good instructor, imparting 704 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY clearly and readily to others the information he has himself acquired. He has never ceased to be a student, however, but he is constantly broadening and extending his information by wide reading and research. Mr. Shock is also a notary public, having been commissioned to this office by Governor Andrew L. Harris on February 19, 1907, and by the great care, skill and judgment which he exercises in the execution of deeds, mortgages, affidavits, etc., which he has executed, he has gained the entire confidence of the many persons who have intrusted such work to him. On the 19th of October, 1902, Mr. Shock was united in marriage to Miss Anna May Fryer, a daughter of Frederick and Carrie (Carson) Fryer, and unto them have been born three children, namely : Ross, born in 1903 ; Zana May, born in 1904; and Frieda Catherine, born in 1908. Mr. Shock has not allied himself with any secret or fraternal order, preferring the companionship to be found at his own fireside. He gives his political support to the republican party and on this ticket has been called to the office of township clerk, his election occurring in 1904, in which capacity he is still serving. He is loyal and public spirited in his citizenship, and at all times he is keenly appreciative of the responsibilities that devolve upon him in both his professional and public capacities, performing all duties that come to him with a faithfulness and conscientiousness that have gained for him the hearty endorsement of his fellowmen, while his own personal qualities are such as win the respect and confidence of all with whom he has been associated. JOHN RICHARD MANN. The characteristic feature of the latter part of the nineteenth and the opening years of the twentieth century lies in the way in which man has combined scientific principles and natural resources in inventions to meet the needs and demands of our modern civilization. Only a few years ago ice was unknown save as was produced through the natural freezing processes. Today in all of the warmer latitudes and in many of the northern cities as well the ice plant is a common feature and it is to a kindred line of manufacture that John Richard Mann is now giving his attention as the president of the Dayton Ice Machine Company, controlling one of the important manufacturing interests of the city. Since he entered business life the passing years have chronicled his continued advancement and for twelve years he has been associated with the productive industries of Dayton. He was born in London, Ontario, Canada, January 19, 1867, and in his infancy was taken by his parents to Brantford, Ontario, where he was reared, pursuing his education in the public schools. He also attended the Woodstock College, a school near Brantford conducted under the auspices of the Baptist church. After putting aside his text-books he returned to Brantford, where he entered his father's lumberyard, being there engaged for sixteen years, first as employe and later as a member of the firm. In 1890 he went to Sarnia, Ontario, where he was engaged in the fuel business on his own account until 1897 when he crossed the border into the United States, knowing that he would find greater DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 705 competition here but also that advancement is more quickly secured on this side the division line. Making his way to Dayton he began the manufacture of cordage and twine and was so engaged until 1896 when he sold out and in 1907 became interested in his present business. He now has a well equipped plant for the manufacture of ice machines and has already built up a substantial trade which makes his enterprise one of growing importance. In 1889 occurred the marriage of Mr. Mann and Miss Batie Lowes, a daughter of the late Dr. J. E. Lowes. The wedding was celebrated in Brantford, Ontario, and to them have been horn three children : Batie Lorienne, Joseph L., and John Edwin. Mr. and Mrs. Mann have won many friends during the period of their residence in Dayton, their good qualities gaining for them the high regard of those with whom they have been associated. They attend the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Mann gives his political support to the republican party. He found in the conditions of this city a good basis for business progress and has constantly promoted his trade interests through his diligence and capable management. W. W. HETZLER, M. D. W. W. Hetzler, one of the prominent physicians of Germantown, Ohio, was born near Lewisburg, Ohio, April 9, 1852, and is the son of Daniel and Eliza (Francis) Hetzler. The great-grandfather on the father's side came to Ohio from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and was one of the early settlers of Butler county in 1800. He accomplished the journey from the old home to the new by wagon over the mountains, and when he arrived had to clear the ground before he could begin its cultivation. His son George Hetzler was born near Brown's Run, Butler county, and became one of the largest land owners and farmers there. His fields extended into Montgomery county, so that the latter county claimed him as one of her citizens, and in her affairs he took a prominent part. He died on the old Hetzler homestead in Butler county at the advanced age of ninety-six years. Of his union with a Miss Trapp was born Daniel Hetzler, the father of Dr. W. W. Hetzler. His birthplace was the old Hetzler homestead near the Oxford road, about four miles southwest of Germantown. He became a farmer and died in 1898 at the age of eighty-three, his wife still surviving him at the age of eighty-seven. W. W. Hetzler received his early education in the school of district No. 11. In 1872 he went to Otterbein University, and three years later to Oxford, where he took a normal course under the guidance of Professor Bishop. Subsequently he entered the Ohio Medical College, receiving his degree in 1884. Upon graduation he went to Union City, where he began to practice his profession, coming later to Germantown, which has been the scene of his labors ever since. Here he has built up an extensive practice and enjoys the unwavering confidence of a large number of people. On the 11th of February, 1886, Dr. Hetzler was united in marriage to Miss Addie A. Clapp, of Union City. She is the daughter of Daniel and Matilda (Wenger) Clapp. Her father is.a farmer and general merchant of Union City, 706 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY where he also conducts a large hardware business. Three children have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Hetzler. The eldest, Earl F., was graduated from the high school and is now a teacher there. Glenn R. has followed in his brother's footsteps. Marie is still in school. The family are members of the United Brethren church and are closely identified with all its work, social and religious. Mrs. Hetzler is president of the local Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and for a number of years has been very prominent in this organization. The extent of Dr. Hetzler's practice has left him little time for other concerns and is perhaps the best reward for his devotion to the good of his patients and constituents. Their welfare he considers his first interest, and he is ever unremitting in his efforts to promote it. In his professional activities he is both conscientious and intelligent, and his opinions are held in respect and confidence by those who have come in contact with him. DANIEL W. IDDINGS. Daniel W. Iddings, capably serving in the position of law librarian in Dayton, was born April 14, 1879, in this city, and is a representative of one of the old and well known families here. His great-grandfather, Benjamin Iddings, was a resident of Montgomery county while the grandfather, Daniel W. Iddings, was born in this county and within its borders spent his entire life, his activity and ability bringing him into prominence in various relations. He became a leading lawyer of Dayton and was also an influential factor in movements and measures contributing to the progress and prosperity of this city. He did not a little toward molding public thought and action as editor of one of the papers here, and for twenty years he was president of the councils of Dayton and for many years was registrar in bankruptcy. Honored with the highest position within the gift of his fellow townsmen, he served so capably during his first term as mayor that he was reelected and for two years administered the affairs of the city in a most businesslike manner, his efforts being resultant factors in promoting municipal welfare. Charles Dickens Iddings, the father of Daniel W. Iddings, was born in Dayton in 1851 and after carefully pursuing the study of law was admitted to the bar and continued in active practice up to the time of his death. His legal learning, his correct application of the principles of law and his thoroughness in the preparation of cases combined to make him one of the strong advocates before the courts, while his ability as a counselor was also widely recognized. He married Miss Belle A. Sheets and unto them were born three sons, Daniel W., Andrew S. and Roscoe C., all residents of Dayton. Here the death of the father occurred in January, 1899. The foregoing record indicates clearly that Daniel W. Iddings is descended from one of the most prominent as well as one of the oldest families of Dayton and he is fortunate in that his lines of life have been cast in harmony with an honorable ancestral record. He was largely educated in private schools, spending most of the time in the select school taught by Professor G. C. Deaver. His DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 707 father died just about the time he finished his course there and was ready for Yale. This of necessity changing his plans, he left school at the age of seventeen years and became court page to Hon. O. B. Brown, judge of the common pleas court, in which position he remained for two and a half years. He was then unanimously elected to the office of librarian of the law library of Dayton which at that time contained forty-five hundred volumes housed in two rooms. Since that time frequent additions have been made to the library until four rooms are now required to contain the thirteen thousand volumes belonging therein. Mr. Iddings has thorough knowledge of the contents of the library so that his work is of great assistance to the lawyers who seek information upon given points in some of these volumes. Devoting his time whenever opportunity is offered to the study of law, he was himself admitted to the bar in June, 1905. He is, moreover, treasurer of the Montgomery County Mutual Fire Insurance Company, which has always been managed by the Iddings family, and is a director and officer in several other important business corporations. Mr. Iddings' fondness for scientific investigation and for advanced knowledge in various lines is indicated in the fact that he is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London and of. the American Geographical Society of New York, while with the National Geographic Society at Washington he also holds membership. These honors were conferred upon him in recognition of his exploration work and emigration study in western Canada and his writings upon the subject for prominent English and American publications. He is not unappreciative of the social amenities of life, as is indicated in his membership in the Dayton City Club and the Dayton Country Club Company, acting as secretary-treasurer of the latter for ten years. He is also secretary of the District Tuberculosis Hospital. Furthermore he is keenly alive to the needs of religious teaching and is an active and helpful member of the Third Street Presbyterian church. Regarding doctrinal points as secondary to the unity of christian people, he has been very active in the brotherhood movement which is one of the most helpful signs of the religious world of the present day and has been instrumental in consolidating a number of the men's clubs in the various churches in this city and is now president of the Federated Church Brotherhood of Dayton and also president of the Union Presbyterian Brotherhood. His fidelity to duty as he sees it and the exalted principles which govern him in his relations to the vital interests of society have gained for him the respect of all men while his never failing courtesy and frank, genial manner have won him many friends. CHARLES SWOPE. Charles Swope, engaged in agricultural interests in Jefferson township, Montgomery county, was born here July 24, 1862, and is the oldest in a family of six children born to Adam and Catherine (Stoner) Swope, the others being Alfred, Anna, Ella, Dora and Ida. He spent his boyhood days under the parental roof, acquiring his education in the common schools of the neighborhood, and at the same time assisting his father in the work of the fields. After laying aside his 708 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY text-books, however, and thinking to find other pursuits more congenial than farming, he began learning the carpenter's trade, which he followed for some time. That he possessed ability in this direction and a thorough understanding of the work in all of its details, is indicated by the fact that for a number of years he was employed as a cabinetmaker by the Barney & Smith Car Company of Dayton, and during this period his labors proved of a most satisfactory character. Subsequently, however, he returned to the farm and has since been engaged in agricultural pursuits in Jefferson township, this county, superintending a farm of two hundred and seventy-five acres, which he has brought under a good state of cultivation, the fields, in return for the care and attention expended upon them, yielding substantial annual crops. Mr. Swope was married on the l0th of February, 1884, to Miss Alice C. Hyer, a daughter of Enoch and Mary (Keen) Hyer, and unto them were born three children, namely : Addah, born June 7, 1885 ; Ammon, born September 2, 1886 ; and Charles Marshall, born October 23, 1901. Mr. and Mrs. Swope are both members of the Brethren church, in the work of which they are actively and helpfully interested, while Mr. Swope is acting as one of the deacons of the church. He is also the president of the Jefferson township school board, of which he has been a member for seven years, the cause of education finding in him a stalwart champion. He gives his political allegiance to the republican party but is not an aspirant for office, preferring to concentrate his entire time and attention upon his personal affairs. He is loyal, however, in his citizenship, exerting his influence in support of all measures which tend toward the material, intellectual and moral welfare and growth of the community. Having passed his entire life in this portion of the county, his acquaintance is extensive and the fact that he is most respected where best known indicates that his life has at all times been an honorable and upright one. ORION S. NICHOLAS. Orion S. Nicholas, who is the proprietor and sole owner of the Nicholas Stock Farm of seventy-five acres on the River road, about three miles from the courthouse, is also controlling a tract of seven hundred acres which he cultivates in a variety of crops. He was born on the 30th of March, 1865, on the farm that is his home, known as the Nicholas homestead, and is the son of Joseph H. and Eliza Jane (Mooney) Nicholas. Joseph Nicholas' grandfather came from England to this country and was of good old Puritan stock. His later years he passed in this county and when death called him he was buried in Greencastle cemetery. Seventy-three was the length of the span of years allotted to him, which was completed about thirty-five years ago. Abraham Nicholas, his son, came to this region from the east and was one of the first settlers in this part of the county. His son Joseph, the father of our subject, was born and reared on the farm adjoining that upon which Orion S. Nicholas now lives. For many years he was identified with farming interests, but for a time he engaged in the lumber business in Dayton, on Mound street. In this latter venture he was more than moderately suc- DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 711 cessful, having, when he retired from active life, worked up a large trade. The last years of his life he passed in his home on South Broadway, where he died. Orion S. Nicholas has passed almost his entire life in Harrison township. He was educated in the country schools here, and during his youth worked on the farm at the same time that he pursued his studies. On completing his schooling his father resigned the care of his land to him and the business connected with it, and about a year ago he came into possession of the entire estate. Both as a general farmer and as a raiser of fine stock he has won considerable success. The stock business was started about fifteen years ago and is now one of the largest in this part of the state. There are five buildings which Mr. Nicholas uses for his stock and which afford him room for the boarding of horses from the city. He engages largely in the buying and selling of stock, his negotiations embracing transactions of considerable importance. In February, 1886, Mr. Nicholas married Miss Amanda E. Heiser, the daughter of George Heiser, who was a prominent farmer of this county and lived near his son-in-law. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas : Joseph, who has finished his school course and is assisting his father in the work of the farm and looks forward to following in his footsteps ; Amy, living at home ; Silas and Wilson, who are still attending school ; and Orion, Jr., and Helen, both small children, gladdening the home with their play. The family belong to the United Brethren church of the township, and are very active in all its work. Mr. Nicholas, despite his many hours of hard labor finds time to be one of the prominent members of the Dayton Lodge, No. 58, B. P. 0. E., which he joined a number of years ago. He is regular in his attendance at the meetings and is always ready and eager to assume any responsibility or take any part either in the work of the lodge or in its social diversions. He has made an enviable reputation for himself as a man of honor in all his dealings with his fellowmen, and is widely respected in the community where so many of his years have been passed. EDWARD B. DOAN, M. D. Dr. Edward B. Doan, a physician of West Carrollton, Ohio,. was born in Monroe county, this state, and is the son of Rev. J. H. and Mary (Reid) Doan. His paternal grandfather, William Doan, whose wife was Miss Aseneta Hampton before her marriage, came with his father Daniel Doan, to this state from Pennsylvania. Rev. J. H. Doan was reared in Athens county and attended the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, after which he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has always been a member of the Pittsburg and East Ohio conferences though for the past twenty years he has been superannuated. In the years of his activity this state was the scene of his ministerial labors, but he has now given up the most of his ministerial labors and lives in retirement. He is now living in West Carrollton at the age of eighty-one years, while his wife is seventy-six, and both are enjoying good health. Edward B. Doan began the education that stretched over many years and was obtained from many schools, at the public institution of instruction at New Athens, 712 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY Ohio. From there he went to Caldwell, to Newport, New Matamoras and to Bealsville, all in Ohio. He began his college work at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, where he remained two years. At the end of that period he took a trip west and entered the Nebraska State University at Lincoln. After a year's study there, he enrolled in the medical school at Cotner, Nebraska, and completed the work of the freshman year. From there he went to Utica, where he made his home for about two years, after which he went to Cleveland, where he entered the Cleveland Homeopathic School, from which he was graduated in April, 1899. The following July he came to West Carrollton, where he has followed his profession ever since, and into whose communal life he has fully entered. On the 27th of October, 1903, Dr. Doan was united in marriage to Miss Amy Newell, the daughter of Henry L. and Belle (McCauley) Newell, now living in West Carrollton. Henry L. Newell is the manager and secretary of the American Envelope Factory and is one of West Carrollton's prominent citizens. Three sons have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Doan :. Edward N., Roscius C. and John Henry. The family attend the Methodist Episcopal church of West Carrollton, of which Dr. Doan is a prominent member, for he is one of the official board, and is also secretary and recording steward. Dr. Doan has affiliations with several fraternal organizations, and is a member of several societies that look to furthering the cause of his profession. He belongs to the Miamisburg lodge of the knights of Pythias, and to the West Carrollton lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. During his college days he joined the Alpha Gamma Delta Fraternity, and in the reunions of his fraternal brothers revives the memories of those former days. He is a member of the Dayton Homeopathic Medical Society, Homeopathic Medical Society of Ohio and American Institute of Homeopathy. In the practice of his profession Dr. Doan has been very successful ; and his opinion is regarded highly among those in whose midst he works. He is a man who has the power to make and retain strong friends, who are loyal in their support of him and wish him all good fortune. DAVID D. BOSLER. David D. Bosler, one of the firm of Bosler & Hertz, is a young business man of Dayton, where for the past fifteen years he has been in business with different concerns. He was born in this city, at the corner of Dintaert and May streets, July 6, 1874, the son of Marcus and Sarah (Bliler) Bosler. His grandfather, also named Marcus, came to Ohio from Pennsylvania, his native state, and settled near Wooster, on a farm which he himself cleared. He became a prominent agriculturist and lived to an advanced age. Marcus Bosler, Jr., came from Union county, Pennsylvania, when a young man. He received the greater part of his education in that state, and after his advent to Ohio learned the mason's trade and became a stone and brick contractor, being one of the early stone workers of Dayton. He died July 11, 1881, and was buried at Woodland. David D. Bosler was the youngest of four children, Emma L., Matilda J. and Marcus W., being his older sisters and brother. He attended the grammar DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 713 and high schools of Dayton, and two years after finishing his education entered upon his business career. At first he had the ordinary experiences of a young man in the employ of another, but soon he entered into partnership with E. Hertz and established the present firm, where he has a field for the exercise of his enterprising spirit. Of this same energy and spirit he gives liberally to the Reformed church, whose members know him for a man ever ready to lend a hand in church affairs. Mr. Bosler's has been a quiet life ; the place of his birth has remained his home to the present, but he has the elements of success in his make-up, and the business he has established deserves to prosper. E. A. PARROTT. In the fall of 1828 Thomas Parrott emigrated from Hamburg, South Carolina, to Dayton, bringing with him two families of negroes—his farm slaves—for whom he sought a free state. He established his home in this city and his son Edwin A. Parrott was born November 30, 1830, at the southeast corner of Second and Perry streets. At that date the little house, which was afterward torn down to make way for the home of Preserved Smith, was the last on West Second except the cabin of Aaron, Judge Holt's negro man, which stood about where Houston Lowe's home is now to be seen. Edwin A. Parrott began his education when four years of age under the direction of Miss Crane, who conducted a primary school in the "Session House," where the manse of the First Presbyterian church now stands. A little later he was a pupil in the school of Edward Varian, conducted in the basement of the Episcopal church on Jefferson street, replaced by Clegg's block. From the Varian school he was transferred to that of Colonel Collins Wright in the old academy at corner Fourth and Williamson, while later he continued his studies in the school of E. E. Barney, held in the basement of the Baptist church, on the present site of the Home Telephone building. He began the study of the ancient languages there under Frederick Snyder, afterward a distinguished Baptist minister. In 1845 he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, and was graduated four years later. In the fall of that year he began to read law in the office of Hart & Craighead, and after a year thus passed entered the Dane Law school of the Harvard University. Before completing his course, however, he gave up his studies to embark in business with his father and as T. Parrott & Son was for many years engaged in the manufacture of linseed oil. In 1870 E. A. Parrott became connected with the Malleable Iron Company, which had recently been organized, and as its president for twelve years brought to it a large and profitable, business. He sold his interest in 1882 and has since then lived quietly in his country place near the city. In 1854 Mr. Parrott visited Kansas and became much interested in the effort to make it a free state. On his return home he was very active in the organization of the Anti-Nebraska party and as a delegate from this county attended the first state convention. In 1859 he was nominated by the republicans for state representative. For a term of years Montgomery county had been democratic, but 714 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY in 1859 the republican candidate was elected by a small majority. Representative Parrott in his legislative career was identified with thirteen members of the house and senate that constituted the conservative element as distinguished from the radicals in the legislature, headed by Governor Chase. Mr. Parrott was put up as a candidate for speaker against the choice of the governor. He was defeated but was soon elected speaker pro tern and in the organization of the committees was made chairman of that on federal relations.. This was a very important committee at that time. During the session Representative Parrott introduced and carried through the house a joint resolution inviting the Kentucky legislature and its guest the legislature of Tennessee to visit Columbus as guests of the state of Ohio, and as chairman of the house contingent with Senator James A. Garfield as chairman of the senate committee bore the invitation to Louisville. It was delivered and accepted at a banquet given by the citizens of Louisville, at which both the Ohio legislators spoke. The progress of these legislatures to Columbus and the receptions along the way were marked with patriotic speeches from the southerners, most of whom, alas, within a twelvemonth were in arms against the flag to which they were then declaring their devotion. On behalf of the conservative element in the legislature Mr. Parrott opened up correspondence with Mr. Lincoln, who had spoken at Dayton during his campaign of 1859, for permission to use his name as a candidate for the presidency against Senator Chase. None of these conservatives were elected delegates to the Chicago convention, but nevertheless, were there and active in behalf of Mr. Lincoln and, undoubtedly, influenced the final vote of Ohio, which nominated him. At the adjourned session of 1861 Mr. Parrott introduced the resolution inviting President-Elect Lincoln to visit Columbus on his way to Washington and was chairman of the house committee that met Mr. Lincoln at Indianapolis and acted as his escort to Columbus. During this session Mr. Parrott and his conservative confreres opposed both the uncompromising resolutions of the radicals and those of the democrats, impeaching the good faith of the north and succeeded in passing the resolution under which Ohio was represented at the peace congress and in giving control of the delegation to the conservative element. But the gun that was fired on Fort Sumter blew away the conservatism of Mr. Parrott and on Monday morning, the 15th of April, 1861, before the meeting of the house he went to the governor's office and, announcing his purpose to resign his seat, offered his services in any capacity under the president's call for troops. Colonel Parrott comes from fighting stock. One of his ancestors on the paternal side was wounded in the Swamp Fight in King Philip's war. Another was in the company that defended the bridge at Salem against the detachment of British sent to seize the powder and another, Captain Joseph Flint, was killed at Saratoga, while Captain Abner Parrott, grandfather of the Colonel, was commissioned by the Boston committee in April, 1781, as commander of the brigantine Dolphin, a privateer out of the port of. Salem. On the maternal side the ancestry of Colonel Parrott was represented by a captain and quartermaster in the colonial army, a lieutenant in the Fifth Maryland Volunteers and a brigadier general for the eastern shore of Maryland. Colonel Parrott began his military career as fourth corporal in the First Ohio Militia Regiment, Colonel Edward King commanding. He was later commissioned lieutenant and adjutant and.at the breaking DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 715 out of the Civil war was major of the regiment. Under orders from Governor Dennison he went to Dayton, April 15, 1861, to assist in recruiting from the militia regiment and on Tuesday afternoon returned to Columbus with three full companies. On the night of the 17th he left for Washington in charge of two thousand men, organized in companies only. These troops were subsequently formed into the First aid Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry and Major Parrott was elected lieutenant colonel of the First. The term of enlistment expired July 17, but the men waived their right to be discharged on that date and served for a week longer, taking part in the battle of Bull Run on the 21st of that month. On the reenlistment of the First Ohio on the 17th of August for three years Governor Dennison appointed a young lieutenant from the regular army as colonel, whereupon Lieutenant Colonel Parrott tendered his resignation, but at the protest of all the company officers and at the urgent solicitation of the governor withdrew it and went to the field with the regiment. In the following February he was promoted colonel and for some months was in command of a brigade in Johnson's division. In April, 1863, at the special request of Brigadier General Fry, United States pro marshal, Colonel Parrott was detailed as his assistant for the state of Ohio with headquarters at Columbus. He served in that capacity until February, 1864, when the death of his father made it necessary that one of the four sons should leave the service to take charge of the estate and, as the colonel had been a partner in his father's business, it was thought best that he should make the sacrifice and, accordingly, he resigned February 14, 1864. In 1865 Colonel Parrott was- again elected to the legislature and was chosen speaker of the house. He did not approve the radical reconstruction measures and thought President Johnson was aiming to carry out Mr. Lincoln's plans and so, being out of sympathy with his party, Colonel Parrott did not seek a renomination. He took part in the convention, however, which nominated Horace Greeley in 1872 and entered actively in the campaign work in support of that ticket. Four years later the nomination of his old friend, Governor Hayes, drew him back to the regular republican party and he took an active part in the campaign. Colonel Parrott was married in February, 1866, to the eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Thomas and of their children four survive. Their only son is professor of English literature in Princeton University. PETER A. KEMPER, M. D. Peter A. Kemper, one of the younger physicians of Germantown, Ohio, was born May 31, 1876, in Churchville, Lewis county, West Virginia, and is the son of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Rebecca (Musser) Kemper. So far as known the family emigrated from Germany to Virginia in the latter part of the sixteenth century. The Doctor's grandfather, Reuben Allen Kemper, married Miss Rosie Hitt, who bore him twelve children. He was a farmer, a Baptist minister and a mechanic, and was the first of his family to come to Virginia from West 716 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY Virginia. He was a man who, though he had to make his own way in the world, attained a good-sized fortune ; large enough in fact to enable him to leave each of his large family one hundred acres of fine farm land. Alexander Hamilton Kemper was born and reared in Lewis county, West Virginia, and became a general farmer and landowner and takes an active part in all public affairs. Of the fourteen children born to himself and wife all but one daughter, Mayme, are living. The others are : Peter A., R. K.; Emma B., Sarah, Odessa, Delphi, John R., Lillian M., Esta, Willa, James, Claude and Virgie H. Ralph K. is a graduate of the Ohio School of Dental Surgery of Cincinnati and now lives and practices in Germantown. Peter A. Kemper received his early education at the district schools of Lewis county, West Virginia. From there he went to the Broaddus Classic and Scientific Institute at Clarksburg, West Virginia, where he pursued a classical course. Upon graduation he engaged in teaching for a period of three years, having had previously some experience in this profession, and later he entered a medical college at Cincinnati. From this school he received a medical degree in 1903, whereupon he returned to West Virginia, being engaged in practice at French Creek for a year and a half, and at Vandalia for two years. He then came to Germantown in 1906, where he has since resided, and where he has built up a good practice. On the 16th of March, 1904, Dr. Kemper was married to Miss Laurs Gertrude Hefner, the daughter of Henry J. and Rhoda (Gould) Hefner. Her father was a farmer and stockman and one of the prominent citizens of French Creek, West Virginia, taking an active part in local affairs and evincing much public spirit. Two children, a son and a daughter, Harold and Frieda Virginia, have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Kemper. Although his professional duties require the larger share of Dr. Kemper's time he is yet able to attend many of the meetings of the Masons, among whom he is an active worker, and of the Modern Woodmen. In his college days he was initiated into the Tau Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and in the occasional meetings of the alumni chapter finds much diversion and enjoyment. Through his membership in the Ohio State Eclectic Society he keeps abreast of his profession and acquainted with the efforts and work of his fellow physicians. The best years of his life are still ahead of him, and as preparation for them he has laid a substantial present, with the good-will of the people among whom he has practiced, given in return for faithful services and a skill in the mastery of a difficult profession. JACOB BENNER, SR. Jacob Benner, Sr., one of Montgomery county's oldest farmers, owns and lives upon eighty-five acres of land, excellently adapted to farming, situated on the Centerville road, about one and a half miles from Miamisburg in an easterly direction. He is the son of Jacob and Polly (Gebhart) Benner. The former was the first of this large family to come to this locality: He came from Maryland, which was the birthplace and the lifelong home of his father, DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 719 who was also named Jacob, and drove across the mountains to Ohio, settling on the old Kline farm, about three miles east of our subject's home. He faced successfully the many hardships that confronted the settlers of those early days, and when his life's work was over the country was the better for his having lived. His children were Philip and Valentine, both deceased ; Jacob, of this review ; Alfred, deceased ; and a daughter who died in infancy. Jacob Benner, Sr., was born in this county and is now one of its oldest men. From the schools here he received all that they could give him in the way of education, and from his father he learned the value of hard work, which has ever been one of his distinguishing characteristics through his long life. Self-made he may truly be called, for upon his own efforts alone did his advancement in life depend, and by them has he attained to his present position and been enabled to transmit a noble legacy to his children. On the 31st of October, 1852, Mr. Benner was united in the holy bonds of wedlock to Miss Lusetta Leiss, who was the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Dubbs) Leiss, well known among the farmers of this county. She died on the 1st of March, 1909. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Benner. namely, Ebon, Elwood J., Hortense, Navy and Blanch. Elwood J. is the virtual manager of his father's farm and lives thereon with his family. He received his education in the school of district No. 7, and from his youngest days helped his father in the work on the farm. After attaining his majority he traveled for about two years, carrying a line of general merchandise. On the 3d of September, 1896, he was married to Miss Carrie McWinnie, the daughter of Mason and Mary (Phillips) McWinnie. Two children, Jacob and Mary Lusetta, have since been born to him. Mr. Benner, Sr., with the rest of his household, belongs to the Lutheran church and during his long life has ever been a credit to its teachings. As one of the oldest citizens of this county, he holds an enviable record, not alone, for longevity but usefulness, strong character, and the other qualities that go toward making a man indispensable to a community. It is to be hoped that the years of his influence may not soon be curtailed. REV. PROFESSOR F. W. E. PESCHAU, D. D. The Peschau family has had its home in the city of Clansthal-Zellerfield, on the Hartz mountains, in the kingdom of Hanover, Germany, for about one hundred and fifty years. Two branches of the family migrated from the old family seat and their descendants are chiefly residing in the United States. Hon. Edward Peschau, German imperial consul in the port of Wilmington, is the son of Rev. George Ludwig Peschau, who spent his whole life in Germany and was the first minister in the family's history. He was a graduate of the far-famed University of Goettingen and, after being ordained to the holy ministry, took charge of the Lutheran church at Altenbroch, near the city of Bremen. Here he lived and labored for fifty-two years, and here he died and is buried. One 720 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY of his sons is a physician in Germany, and a nephew of his, Dr. Herman Peschau, resides in Nebraska. Rev. Professor F. W. E. Peschau, D. D., of Miamisburg, Ohio, the subject of this sketch, was born in the city of of Clansthal-Zellerfield, Hanover, February 17, 1849. He is the eldest child and only son of Henry and Wilhelmine (Muehlbahn) Peschau and had but one sister. The family came to the United States in 1853, on the ship North Carolina, and landed in Baltimore, where they resided a short time, and then removed to Wheeling, West Virginia, to take up a permanent residence. In Wheeling the aged father, Henry Peschau, did in 1897. The only daughter, Mrs. Augusta Fuhi, still resides there. The mother died March 9, 1877. She and her husband were buried in Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran cemetery. Having spent his boyhood days in Wheeling, where he attended both a German parochial school and the public school, and having been confirmed, he was sent in 1867 to study for the holy ministry in the celebrated Lutheran college and theological seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. There he spent six years. At his graduation he had the honor of delivering the German oration of his class, which was the largest the institution had graduated up to that time. It is customary in Germany that when young Lutheran theologies have finished their course that they teach either in private families or in a school, to use what they have learned and to get practical experience and to learn to understand life and the world, that their public teaching may be practical, wise and useful. This wish was cherished by the father, and so Professor Peschau accepted the honorable position tendered him and became superintendent of German in the public schools and professor of German in the high school in the city of Evansville, Indiana. This position he held three years, when he resigned that he might give himself exclusively to the ministry. He was asked by the board to reconsider and recall his resignation after its presentation, as he had given entire satisfaction. Called as Lutheran pastor to Nebraska City, Nebraska, he was soon after his removal there unanimously chosen superintendent of the public schools and served in that capacity two years. He also became professor of German in Nebraska College, an Episcopal institution located there, and for two years taught therein under the lamented Bishop Clarkson. All this was done in addition to his pastoral labors. Shortly after his removal to Nashville, Tennessee, he became professor of German in Dr. Ward's large female seminary, at that time the largest in the south, and also in Vanderbilt University, so that he taught continuously for about ten years. Recognizing his talents, proficiency, experience and success both as a professor and superintendent, the board of trustees of North Carolina College in 1883 unanimously elected him president of the college, but he declined the high and distinguished honor of a college presidency. As superintendent and professor he has had under his care about one hundred teachers and thirty-eight hundred children and students. He has been a prolific writer. For years he was editor of the German Gleanings, in the Lutheran Observer, of Philadelphia, the largest and most widely circulated English Lutheran church paper in the world. When the Southern Illustrated Monthly Magazine was begun in Nashville, Tennessee, which was one of the finest efforts in this line ever made in the south, but for lack DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 721 of means failed, he was chosen editor. For about ten years he was associate editor of The Lutheran Visitor, the leading southern Lutheran church paper. Besides all this he has been special correspondent of several papers in both English and German. He has not only lectured to his students in German university style, but has also delivered many addresses and lectures on educational and other topics before teachers' institutes, county, district and state conventions, schools, seminaries, colleges and universities. He has lectured in the following twenty states : Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. His lectures on The Cemetery of the Sea, Foreigners, Luther, The Lutheran Church, Moral Training in Public Schools and the Sons of Issachar have been delivered before thousands of people and received great encomiums from the press, from faculties of institutions, from private letters, etc. We apend just a few. The Charleston News and Courier says : "The learned and gifted speaker selected as his subject 'Foreigners,' and answered who and what they are and what they have done for this country. The effort was grand and the audience was delighted." The Die Deutsche Zeitung of Wheeling, West Virginia, said : "Pastor Peschau is an extraordinarily fine speaker." Charlotte North Carolina Observer : "Mr. Peschau is a lecturer of fine ability and his lecture is one of the finest literary productions we have known to emanate from the pen of our home talent." Nashville Daily American : "In regard to the lecture I can only repeat what all others have said who have heard it, that it was grand, beautiful, sublime." The sole aim and object of his public life has been to prove himself a faithful pastor and gospel preacher in the Evangelical Lutheran church ; while he has talents in other directions and delights to use them to do good, the ministry is his chief delight, as it is his chief calling. Even as a student he organized two Sunday schools, and while engaged in the busy duties of superintendent and professor at Evansville, Indiana, he began and maintained and built up a mission in the courthouse that had a Sunday school of almost four hundred scholars. His first regular pastorate was at Nebraska City, Nebraska, where he succeeded the distinguished Rev. Dr. Eli Huber, who had been called to Philadelphia as pastor of the large Messiah church. One Easter Sunday while pastor here he confirmed forty-eight catechumens. The work prospered in every direction but the climate was too severe for the young pastor, and so on the united and urgent advice of several physicians he went south, accepting a call to the First church in the city of Nashville, Tennessee. The parting of the pastor and the people in Nebraska City was a touching one. The most pleasant relations possible had existed, the work was prosperous, and the pastor and people were mutually pleased and satisfied, so that it was painful to each side to speak the parting word. In Nashville, Tennessee, the pastoral relations were always pleasant and both the congregation and Sunday school grew steadily for years. The church being German, English services were introduced that were much appreciated and well attended, and proved to be of incalculable advantage to the church and its work. About four years were spent in the famous capital of Tennessee and Rev. Mr. Peschau often' speaks of them with delight and of the kindness shown him while 722 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY there, from the governor down to the humblest citizen. Having been unanimously called as pastor of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran church of Wilmington, North Carolina, in December, 1881, he accepted the call and removed to that city in February, 1882. He has ever enjoyed the esteem of his congregation. The first two pastorates he served have endeavored several times to have him return as pastor when there was a vacancy and St. Paul's in Wilmington paid him the unusual honor and kindness of adopting, unanimously and heartily, a resolution in 1884, expressing the desire that he might remain its pastor during the days of his natural life. During his labors in Wilmington the parsonage interior has been completed and much improved and the exterior painted. The interior of the church has also undergone entire renovation. The interior has been finely frescoed, new chandeliers and carpets have been supplied and a grand new pipe organ secured, and improvements made in many directions. Lutheran Memorial building, an elegant edifice; was erected in 1884. In 1890 a lot was purchased and a fine chapel erected thereon in Brooklyn, known as St. Mathews Mission, which mission he started and organized. The congregation and Sunday school have both enjoyed a steady growth and are both in a flourishing condition. Up to the present time Rev. Peschau has had charge of and under his own supervision about eighteen hundred Sunday school scholars. Being an active church worker he has held many positions of trust and has received many church honors. Fully two-thirds of his time in the ministry he has been a synodical officer. He has occupied almost every possible office of ecclesiastical secretaryship from the lowest to the highest. For four consecutive years he was president of the North Carolina Synod, an honor no other man ever enjoyed in the history of this old body.. He was the last president of the General Synod, South, at Roanoke, Virginia, and as the first president of the United Synod, South, opened its convention in Savannah, Georgia, in 1887, so that he was twice the chief officer in the entire Southern Lutheran church. The general Southern Lutheran body chose him as its representative to the Northern General Synod in 1887. He has frequently represented district synods, both as delegate to the general body and also to other district synods. On the l0th of June, 1891, he was complimented with the honorary degree of D. D., which was unanimously and heartily bestowed upon him by the board of trustees and the faculty of North Carolina College. Dr. Bernheim, his predecessor, wrote : "Your congregation is certainly advancing under your administration and I say this sincerely and not as a mere compliment, the work speaks for itself." The Lutheran Home in a notice of him said : "We are glad to have such a worker in so important a field of labor." Those who bear the banner of the cross successfully are worthy of all honor. We sometimes overlook the esteem due them—due not to pamper pride, but to "give honor to whom honor is due." We offer, therefore, no apology for this extended biography of one to whom God has given superior talents and the energy to use them. On the 3d of June, 1873, Rev. Peschau was united in marriage to Miss Clara J. Myers, eldest daughter of Hon. A. K. Myers, Sr., of York Springs, Pennsylvania. They have six children living, four daughters and two sons. Dr. Peschau has published a number of songs of his own composition, including Ode to Gen- DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 723 eral Andrew Jackson, which was sung by the Philharmonic Society and played by the Columbia (Tenn.) band at the unveiling of the Jackson Equestrian Statue in Nashville in 1880 ; Ode to Mrs. ex-President James K. Polk ; God Bless Our Noble Firemen ; There is no Home but Heaven ; The Orphan's Plea ; and Father Ryan's celebrated Conquered Banner, which he later translated into German and set to music. He has published tracts, quite a number of sermons, a small book of poems, a sketch of Mrs. James K. Polk, dozens of pamphlets, etc. He has been elected honorary member by a number of literary societies connected with literary institutions, as Vanderbilt University, North Carolina College, etc. Various historical societies of national reputation and influence have elected him an honorary member, these including the Tennessee Historical Society, the finest in all the southland ; and the German Historical Society of Maryland, which is the finest in its line in the United States ; Trinity Historical Society, of Dallas, Texas ; and others. He is corresponding secretary of the Wilmington Historical Society, has been a director of the Wilmington Library Association for about eight years, was acting chaplain of the Porter Rifles, the best infantry company of Nashville, Tennessee, and has often officiated as chaplain in both the house and senate of the Tennessee legislative bodies. He has been a delegate to county, state and international Sunday school conventions a number of times and was chosen a vice president of the North Carolina Sunday school convention in Charlotte. The Doctor has received a number of calls from different churches and besides these has been offered other calls during his stay in Wilmington but he declined them all. Prominent among them was the call 'by the church of the Holy Ascension, of Savannah, Georgia, this being extended in February, 1891. This is the largest Lutheran church and congregation in the southern states, the church having cost about seventy-five thousand dollars. All these facts prove a recognition and appreciation of his talents and services on the part of the church. As to his scholarship we need but say that he not only studied Hebrew, Greek and Latin and the full college course but that he speaks, writes and uses English and German with equal fluency, ease and accuracy and has so far mastered the Norwegian language as to be able to hold services for Scandinavian seamen, which are most highly appreciated. His ability as a writer is demonstrated in the fact of his having been editor so many years. The many church offices he has held prove that he is a parliamentarian of recognized merit. The positions occupied in educational institutions demonstrate that he is a successful educator. The many things written and accomplished by him establish his reputation as a many sided and indefatigable worker. His success as pastor and preacher is attested by the work done and the calls with which he has been honored. His theological attainments have been recognized and endorsed by the honorary degree of D. D. which has been conferred upon him. His oratorical powers have often been complimented and at the eighty-eight, convention of the North Carolina synod he was publicly in= troduced as "the silver tongued orator of the North Carolina synod," and. the Lutheran Visitor's reporter- from South Carolina, who was present, published in his account the following : "He was introduced as the silver tongued orator of the North Carolina synod, and fully sustained that reputation. The address 724 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY was a learned, able and eloquent presentation of the subject and is highly complimented by all." While Rev. Peschau has talents, he has that which is better—industry ; and while he has an enviable popularity, he has that which is better—humility. He ascribes all he has and all he has been able to do to the blessing and help of God, whose child and servant he is, and his one ambition is to spend and be spent, to fullest extent, in the Master's service. In closing this sketch, which is a labor of love, the writer, Colonel T. G. Burr, wishes to add to what has been said above, that he has known Rev. Mr. Peschau intimately for the past ten years, although he is not a member of his church. No minister in the city of Wilmington of any denomination has the confidence and general esteem of the entire community to a greater degree than has Dr. Peschau. He is the only minister in our knowledge, experience and observation of fifty years, in all the south, that has the extraordinary ability to conduct the services of the church in three different languages, a thing he has done and is doing from Sabbath to Sabbath in the German, Norwegian and English languages. Rev. Peschau is still in the prime of life and we feel sure still higher honors await him in the golden future. In whatever way and from whatever source they may come, they cannot be bestowed upon one more worthy in every way, for he would grace any station in life and give dignity and worth to the highest official position. From Wilmington, North Carolina, he was called to the pastorate of Zion Lutheran congregation, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, the oldest English Lutheran church west of the Allegheny mountains and one of the wealthiest in western Pennsylvania. This is the congregation to which the celebrated Hon. George F. Huff belongs. Here he spent seven years, from 1893 to 1900. Called from Greensburg, Pennsylvania, to Miamisburg, Ohio, where he is at present living and laboring, he entered upon his duties in Ohio in 1900. Three churches have been greatly improved, thoroughly renovated, under his ministry and supervision, namely : St. John's, Grace of West Carrollton and the St. Jacob's of Miamisburg, which latter church has a membership of nearly a thousand. For three years Rev. Peschau has been the secretary of the District Synod of Ohio, and five years president of the Southwestern Conference, and for two years president of the Ohio State Lutheran League. He was elected and extended calls from the following congregations, which calls he, however, declined to accept : St. Marks of Williamsport, Pennsylvania ; the First English Lutheran, of Goshen, Indiana, and the St. John's English Lutheran, of Dayton, Ohio. He has been honored with twelve calls. The golden jubilees, in which he took a prominent part and delivered the principal sermons are as follows : the Pittsburg Synod's Jubilee in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania ; the District Synod of Ohio, at Lancaster, Ohio ; Zion congregation, Greensburg, Pennsylvania ; St. Paul's, Wilmington, North Carolina ; the First church, Nashville, Tennessee ; and the centennials of the old historical Organ church, near Salisbury, North Carolina ; and the Emmanuel congregation of Germantown, Ohio. At the Nashville (Tenn.) centennial, he was the orator on German day, and on German day in Dayton he addressed thousands in German ; and in Nova