DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 801 equal to the situation, however, for he is a man of marked force, of keen discrimination and of notable sagacity. Mr. Folsom has two children, Miriam and Eleanor, but lost his wife in 1891. His political allegiance is given to the republican party for he has firm faith in the principles of its platform, yet at local elections he casts an independent ballot. Fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to the lodge and council, and he also belongs to the Dayton City Club. He is likewise a member of the Third Street Presbyterian church and it will thus be seen that he is neglectful of none of those associations which constitute helpful interests in life and promote a well rounded development of the individual. CARL CLIFFORD SLOAN. The farm on which Carl Clifford Sloan resides and of which he is the prospective owner, has been in possession of the Sloan family for four generations an:I it waandso the birthplace of our subject. The place comprises one hundred and fifteen acres, situated in Wayne township and is one of the neat and productive properties of this section of Montgomery county. As stated, Mr. Sloan was here born, February 1, 1876, a son of James S. Sloan, who was likewise born on this farm, April 21, 1838. His paternal grand father was Alexander Sloan, who was born July 19, 1794, and died October 10, 1870. The latter was married April 15, 1830, to Elizabeth Crook, a native of Somersetshire, England, who came to America when only four years of age. She was born August 16, 1804, and died February 19, 1880. James S. Sloan, our subject's father, acquired his education in the common schools and in the high school at New Carlisle, Ohio. He engaged in farming throughout his entire business career but is now living retired in Wayne township. He is a member of the Osborn Methodist church.. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Lydia James, was born near Bellbrook, Greene county, Ohio, January 8, 1840, a daughter of David W. and Rebecca (Austin) James, the former a farmer and very influential citizen of Greene county. At the age of twenty-four years he was elected justice of the peace of Sugar Grove township, that county, which office his father, John James, had previously filled. David W. James died in July, 1875, his remains being interred in the Bellbrook cemetery, while his wife departed this life in July, 1850, and she is also buried at Bellbrook. It was on the 23d of May, 1871, that Lydia James gave her hand in marriage to James S. Sloan, subsequent to which time they made quite an extensive trip down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. They then located in Wayne township, where they have lived to the present time. In the summer of 1909 Mrs. Sloan went to Seattle, Washington, making the jotirney alone, although she had passed the sixty-ninth milestone on the journey of life. Like her husband, she is a member of the Osborn Methodist church, and a woman who possesses many lov.able alovabley traits of character. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Sloan was blessed with two children, the sister of our subject being Bertha Estella, who was born November 16, 1873. She began her education in the district 802 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY schools and later completed the high-school course at Osborn, subsequent to which time she entered Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, in 1890, and there completed the two years' literary course, while for three years she studied piano in Dayton. Carl C. Sloan, the only son of the father's family, completed the high-school course at Osborn in 1894. In the meantime he had been trained to the duties of the home farm and when starting out in life on his own account chose farming as his life work. He is now the prospective owner of the old home place, comprising one hundred and fifteen acres, situated in Wayne township. It is improved with good and substantial buildings and he has all the modern machinery that is necessary for the successful conduct of the farm. In addition to carrying on general farming he also raises Duroc-Jersey hogs and both branches of his business are proving a profitable source of income to him. Mr. Sloan was married August 21, 1901, tO Miss Grace L. Nash, of New Baltimore, Stark county, Ohio, a daughter of William L. and Harriet (Bryan) Nash. Her father has engaged in farming for many years and is also a prominent member of the State Grange. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Sloan were born two children, but Robert Nash, who was born August 21, 1902, died the following day. The daughter, Mary Elizabeth, born February 21, 1904; was left motherless when only ten days old, as Mrs. Sloan passed away March I, 1904. Thus ended the career of one whom the community had learned to love and the members of her household deeply. feel her loss. Since her death, Mr. Sloan's sister has had the responsibility of rearing his little daughter. Mr. Sloan gives his political allegiance to the republican party and for three years served as pike commissioner, while in 1907 he was elected justice of the peace for a term of four years. He is identified with the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he is serving as one of the stewards. Enterprising and progressive in all that he does, he is ever alert to his advantages and opportunities and is thus working his way steadily to the front, being classed today among the representative young farmers of Wayne township. ABEL HOOVER. The name of Abel Hoover has long been associated with manufacturing interests in. Miamisburg and has ever stood as a synonym for commercial enterprise, integrity and reliability. For a considerable period Abel .Hoover has been a factor in connection with the productive industries of the city and is still financially interested therein although he is largely living retired in that he leaves the management of his manufacturing interests to others save for the general supervision which he gives to his business. He was born in Miamisburg, September 5, 1832, and is descended in the paternal line from German ancestry. His grandfather, Frederick Hoover, was a native of Pennsylvania and a farmer by occupation. Removing to Ohio he became one of the very early settlers of Montgomery county where he engaged in farming until old age incapacitated him for further labor of that character. He then retired and re- DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 803 moved to Miamisburg, where his last days were spent. He married a Miss Herman who also died when well advanced in years. They were the parents of six sons and two daughters : David, Martin, Isaac, John, Simon, William, Catharine and Mrs. Isaac Treon. Of this family David H. Hoover, father of Abel Hoover, was born in Pennsylvania but was reared to farm life in Montgomery county, Ohio, and when he became a man turned his attention to the manufacture of threshing machines in Miamisburg. He took up that work in the '4os and continued in the implement business for many years, becoming one of the well known and prominent representatives of that line of trade and manufacture in this part of the state. He married Miss Catharine Houtz, also a native of Pennsylvania and a daughter of John Houtz. Her father lived in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where he conducted a distillery, a flour mill, a cooper shop and a store. He was one of the most prominent business men of that part of the state and in addition to his commercial and industrial interests he was a very extensive landowner, his possessions aggregating about nineteen thousand acres. He was a pioneer of Montgomery county, Ohio, where he engaged in farming and here he also established a distillery, sending his products down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers on flat boats to New Orleans. He afterward removed to Miami county, discontinued manufacturing because of a belief that the course was wrong and became a strict Presbyterian. He died at an old age. He and his wife reared a large family of children including: Nancy, Catharine, Eliza, Barbara, Mary, Christina, John, Samuel and Jeremiah. Among this number was Catharine who became Mrs. David H. Hoover. The death of Mr. Hoover occurred at Miamisburg when he was seventy years of age while his wife survived him for a number of years and passed away at the very venerable age of eighty-seven years. They were both consistent members of the Methodist church, their Christian faith being the guiding principle in their life. Unto them were born three children : Elizabeth, who is the widow of Charles Allen and is now residing in Miamisburg; Abel of this review ; and Samantha, the wife of William Gamble of Miamisburg. Abel Hoover has spent his entire life in the city of his nativity. In his boyhood days he pursued his education in the old-time subscription schools, in select schools and in the Ohio Wesleyan University, where he was a student for a short time. He afterward went to work in his father's shop and later became interested in the business as a partner. Following his father's death he continued the business and is still connected with manufacturing interests, the output of. the factory at the present time being machinery for making twine. The business has long been a profitable venture, capably conducted along modern business lines and its manufactured product finds a ready and profitable sale on the market. On the 7th of April, 1858, Mr. Hoover was united in marriage to Miss Clara E. Hoff, a daughter of William and Eliza (Leis) Hoff. Mrs. Hoover was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, in the town of Wammelsdorf and her parents were also natives of the Keystone state. They arrived in Miamisburg in the '40s and the father here engaged in the dry-goods business. Unto them were born eight children, five sons and three daughters, of whom three are now living: Mrs. Clara Hoover ; Mary C., who is the widow of George A. Black of 804 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY Dayton ; and H. C. Hoff, of Miamisburg. The father lived in Miamisburg for many years and engaged in the dry-goods trade here, becoming recognized as one of the leading and representative merchants of the city. He died in 1876 at the age of sixty-seven years, while his wife survived him for eight years and was seventy-two years of age at the time of her demise. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Hoover was George Hoff, a native of Pennsylvania, who served as a soldier in the War of 1812. His wife bore the maiden name of Margaret Nice. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Hoover was George Neis. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Abel Hoover has been blessed with six children, but Harry and Herbert died in early childhood. William D., who is now living in Denver, Colorado, married Miss Elizabeth Hunt and they have two children, Edward and Donald. Charles F., an eminent physician practicing in Cleveland, Ohio married Miss Catharine Frazier and they had one daughter, Catharine. George Albert, who married a Miss Taylor, is living in Detroit, Michigan. Esther Belle is the wife of Oscar E. Linderholm and they reside in Chester, Texas, with their one daughter; Clara Christine. Such in brief is the life history of Abel Hoover, a man whose record reflects credit upon Miamisburg, his native city, and throughout his life the place of his residence. Some years since he passed the Psalmist's allotted span of three score years and ten, and he remains a most respected resident here, honored by reason of what he has accomplished and the straightforward business methods which he has ever pursued. In all relations he has measured up to the full standard of manhood. H. L. FERNEDING. H. L. Ferneding, the well known attorney of Dayton, early in life chose the practice of law as his life work and has gained more than local prominence as a representative of his profession. Living in Dayton throughout his entire life, he is a son of Clement J. and Barbara (Barlow) Ferneding, the former now and for many years prominent as a manufacturer and street railroad man of Dayton. He acquired his early education at the parochial school and later was graduated from St. Mary's Institute, a college situated in the southern part of this city, where he remained for five years. He then had the benefit of further instruction at the University of Notre Dame, near South Bend, Indiana, where he completed a two years' course and then returned to Dayton to begin his legal studies. Mr. Ferneding had the advantage of having as a preceptor in the law the distinguished attorney Hon. John A. McMahon, who has always proven his warm friend and benefactor and in whose office he-remained for four years. During a portion of this time, in the fall of 1895, he entered the Cincinnati Law School and in the following spring was graduated and passed his examination for ad-Mission to the bar. He then returned to the McMahon law office and a few months later formed a partnership with Hon. Charles W. Dale under the name of Dale & Ferneding, which partnership continued for a number of years, during a portion of which time Hon. D. B. Van Pelt, ex-judge of the court of common DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 805 pleas of Clinton county, came to Dayton and became a member of the firm under the firm name of Van Pelt, Dale & Ferneding. In the summer of 1905, upon Judge Dale's elevation to the probate bench of this county, Mr. Ferneding formed a partnership with W. S. McConnaughey and John C. Shea under the firm name of Ferneding, McConnaughey & Shea, with offices in the Reibold building. This firm has grown to be one of the strongest and most representative in the city and the success that has attended their efforts has been pronounced. By reason of his professional connection, Mr. Ferneding became identified with several important business interests, being an officer and director of the Teutonia National Bank, the Dayton, Springfield & Xenia Southern Railway Company, the Ferneding-Heymann Company, the William Focke's Sons Company, the Walker Lithographing & Printing Company, and the Columbia Land & Building Company, the last named having large real-estate holdings in this city, and of which company he is the president. Mr. Ferneding is also a member of and president of the board of managers of the Ohio State Reformatory at Mansfield and is now serving his second term. The management of this in, stitution is nonpartisan in character, being composed of three democrats and three republicans. He was first honored by appointment to this position by the late Governor George K. Nash, a republican, and at the expiration of his term was honored by reappointment from his own party, a democratic administration, in the person of Governor Harmon. Mr. Ferneding has always been a democrat and takes a lively interest in public matters and in anything that pertains to the progress and welfare of the city. He is a member of the Dayton Club, the Knights of Columbus and the Country Club. MRS. OMA APPLE. One of the productive farms in Jackson township, Montgomery county, that in the excellent state of cultivation of its fields, the neat condition of all its appurtenances, such as fences, and the modern and substantial buildings, speaks of the good management of its owner, is that owned and worked by Mrs. Oma Apple. This enterprising and energetic woman was born in this township, October 24, 1868, and is the daughter of Peter Lies, who claimed Pennsylvania as his native state, having been born there on the 24th of February, 1832, and of Mary (Fuls) Lies, who was born in Jackson township, January 1, 1834. The daughter of a farmer, Mrs. Apple was early inured to the ways of that life, for from her girlhood she ever took an interest in the work about her, doing her share, and a woman's part is no small one on a farm. When she married Mr. Apple she was well prepared to be his helpmeet. Indeed, as time has proven, when opportunity demanded she brought to the fore all those latent qualities of character, good management, capacity for right judgment, and a thorough understanding of the details of the farming business that had been growing and ripening during the preceding years of her life. Mrs. Apple has two daughters who are now able to assist her. Carrie, the elder, was born on the 12th of July, 1889 ; and Orpha was born May 1, 1891. 806 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY Both girls have received a good education, for they are graduates of the Jackson township high school. They with their mother are members. of the Reformed church, and frequently grace the social gatherings that are a part of the life of the congregation. Farming is so almost exclusively the work of a man that when a woman assumes its burdens and bears them with something approaching a man's strength, it is a subject for remark and high commendation: Mrs. Apple has not only carried on her husband's farm and work, but she has so conducted the place that it has brought her generous returns. Her 'fields are among those that present the most prosperous appearance of any in the township, and it is needless to say that in her endeavors she has the good will and support of those who know her. THE CITIZENS BANKING COMPANY. The Citizens Bank was organized as a private institution in 1895 by Levi Baker and was capitalized for twenty-five thousand dollars. It enjoyed a prosperous existence until 1_900, when it was reorganized, becoming the Farmers & Merchants Bank with Dr. W. S. Mundhenk as the president. In 1905 are-organization was effected under the name of the Citizens Banking Company, with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars, at which time L. Baker was honored with the presidency. He still continues in that position, his assistant officers being: Dr. W. S. Mundhenk, vice president; and O. E. Baker, cashier. They own the bank building, which is a two story brick structure, sixty-six by ninety-nine feet. It is thoroughly equipped with modern fixtures and every accessory to facilitate the work of the bank, and the institution would be a credit to a city of much larger size than Brookville. The second floor of the building is used as the opera house of the village. It is forty by ninety feet, has a complete stage equipment and will seat four hundred. WILLARD D. CHAMBERLIN. Among the productive industries of Dayton is the one which now owes in part its successful management and continued expansion to Willard D. Chamberlin. Since 1906 he has been the president of the Beaver Soap Company, in which connection he is helping to conduct an enterprise of value in the industrial life of the community. His judgment .is at all times sound and reliable, and his keen discernment constitutes a strong force in the able management of the house. Tracing the ancestral line back through many generations it is found that Henry Chamberlin .was the progenitor of the family in the new world. He came from Hingham, England, sailing July 26, 1638, on the ship Diligent, Henry Martin master, and landing at Boston on the loth of August following. This was a comparatively short voyage for that time. He was accompanied by his wife, Mary Jane Chamberlin, by their two children and by his mother, Christina Cham- DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 809 berlin. He was both a shoemaker and a blacksmith by trade. His son, William Chamberlin, born in Hingham, Massachusetts, was the next in line of direct descent to our subject. His son, John Chamberlin, was whipped nine times on Boston Commons on account of his association with the Society of Friends and was finally condemned to death but was released on the order of the king, after which he removed to Newport, Rhode Island, where he ultimately pissed away. Joseph Chamberlin, a son of William Chamberlin, was a farmer and cordwainer. He was the father of another William Chamberlin, the great-great-great-grandfather of our subject, who was a native of Colchester, Connecticut, and devoted his life to farming and to the conduct of a hotel. His son, Peleg Chamberlin, followed agricultural pursuits and died in Kent, Connecticut. He was the father of William Chamberlin, the great-grandfather of W. D. Chamberlin. Born in Kent, Connecticut, July 26, 1754, he, too, made farming his source of livelihood. He served as a soldier in the American army in the Revolutionary war, enlisting in 1776 for one year. He was on duty at Fort Stanwix, now Rome, New York, where the first American flag was unfurled in 1777. His death occurred at Bridgewater, Pennsylvania. Samuel Chamberlin, the grandfather, was born in Lexington, New York, and in 1810 removed to Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, where his death occurred. He, too, followed the occupation of farming and he was a minister of the Old School Baptist church. Samuel Chamberlin, father of W. D. Chamberlin, was born in Bridgewater, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, May 4, 1827. In early manhood he took up the profession of teaching. He had been educated in an academy and for twenty-one terms followed teaching, spending two or three years of this time in the Titus district of Middletown, Ohio, after which he returned to the east. For over thirty years he resided at Vestal Center, Broome county, New York, and gave his attention to the occupation of farming. In politics he was a prominent republican in his community, especially active in local affairs. He served as supervisor, justice of the peace and in other local offices and declined ..a proffered candidacy for the general assembly. His life was ever honorable and upright, in consistent harmony with his principles as a member of the Baptist church, in which he served as deacon for more than three decades. He died at Vestal Center, New York, February 18, 1893. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Caroline Swan, removed to Waverly, Iowa, after her husband's death to make her home with a daughter there, but died at Oxford, New York, October 13, 1908. Her family numbered four children : Willard D. ; Alma M., the wife of Dr. Osincup, of Waverly, Iowa ; Samuel S., a manufacturer of table slides in Dayton ; and Carrie L., who died in early childhood. Willard D. Chamberlin, born in Ketchumville, Tioga county, New York, August 13, 1858, began his education in the district schools near his boyhood home and was afterward a high school student in Binghampton, New York. When he put aside his text-books he sought a home in the west, starting in 1877 for Ohio with Dayton as his destination. Here he secured a clerical position in the office of his cousin, Charles Chamberlin, agent for the Great Western Dispatch, where he remained until 1881, when he went upon the road as traveling salesman for Thresher & Company. In 1885 he became associated with Mr. Beaver in the manufacture of soap under the firm style of Beaver & Company, Mr. Chamberlin as- 810 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY suming the management of the office and also attending to the sales by introducing their product upon the road. In 1893 the business, which had enjoyed continuous growth, was incorporated under the name of the Beaver Soap Company, with Mr. Chamberlin as vice president, in which position he continued until 1906, when he was elected to the presidency, the company being at that time reorganized. Prior to this he had for ten years been a director but took no active part in the management. He is today, however, bringing his executive force and keen discrimination to the solution of business problems, and his sound judgment is an element in the continued success of this productive industry! On the 5th of September, 1888, Mr. Chamberlin was united in marriage to Miss Mary Hinkley Sumner, a daughter of Dr. E. J. Sumner, of Mansfield Center, Tolland county, Connecticut. Their children are: Mary Louise, born September 14, 1889; and Edwin Sumner, born November 1; 1894. Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlin hold membership in the First Baptist church, with which he has been identified since 1870 and in which he is serving as .a trustee. In politics he is a republican, unfaltering in his allegiance to the 'party but without ambition for office. He has many good qualities which have won him the regard of his fellowmen. HENRY C. RYDER. Careful analyzation into the life history of the great majority of men gives incontrovertible proof of the fact that success is won by earnest, persistent and unfaltering effort. It is in this way that Henry C. Ryder has worked his way upward, for although he started out in life, without any specially favorable advantages, he has made steady progress in the business world until today he ranks among the successful farmers and stock-raisers and extensive landowners in Butler township. A native son of Montgomery county, he was born in Butler township upon the old home farm upon which he now resides, his birth occurring on the 28th of December, 1852. He is a son of David C. and Catherine (Keener) Ryder, the former a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, born in November, 1809. He came to Montgomery county at an early age and at once became identified with the occupation of farming, continuing to engage in that line of activity until his retirement from business several years prior to his death. He became a successful, substantial and influential man whose high moral worth was recognized throughout the community and gained him the honor and respect of his fellowmen. His death -occurred on the 5th of AuguSt, 1891, and his remains were interred at Vandalia, Ohio. His wife, who in her maidenhood was Catherine Keener, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in November, 1815, and came to Ohio at an early age. Her father, who followed general farming and was a member of the Lutheran church, died several years ago, while Mrs. Ryder passed away in May, 1902, her remains being laid to rest beside her husband at Vandalia, Ohio. In. their family were nine children. Nancy; the eldest, married I. A. Brankenburg and has five children, namely : Frank ; Ella ; Ida ; Enima, deceased; and Dcra. Mary became the wife of William Rahn and resided in Washington township for a number of years. She and her husband are DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 811 both now deceased and are survived by their three children, Ellen, Harry -and Ida. Michael, the third in order of birth, is now deceased. He was twice married, his first union being with Sarah Breghm, by whom he had two children, Korah and Walter, while for his second wife •he chose Sally Johnson, who became the mother of one child, Dora. David wedded .Fannie Hart, of Washington, Pennsylvania, by whom he had four children, Katie, Frank, George and Jesse. Katie and George are both deceased. He was a Lutheran minister and very prominent in the community in which he resided. His death .occurred when he had attained the age of forty-two years, his remains being interred at Washington, Pennsylvania. Jacob married Ellen Miller and became the father of five children, Charles, Ira, Ada, Isaac and John. He passed away in 1899 and was buried at Lewisburg, Preble county. John, who is a graduate of W ittenberg College, never married and is now residing in Dayton. Emma became the wife of Leander Coffman, who is now living retired in Lewisburg, Ohio. In their family were six children, namely : Wilbur ; Addie and Elmer, both deceased ; Francis ; Edmund ; and one who died in infancy. Henry C., of this review, is the next in order of birth. Anna passed away at the early age of four years, her remains being laid to rest in Butler township. Henry C. Ryder, whose name introduces this record, spent the early years of his life upon his father's farm and no event of especial importance came to vary the routine of his life during the period if his boyhood and youth. He acquired his early education in the common, schools of Butler township while later he pursued a course at Wittenberg University at Springfield. He also studied for a term and a half at the Lebanon University, and after leaving that institution he was engaged in teaching in Van. Buren township,: accepting and filling for two and a half years the position of a teacher who had been dismissed. He also taught one term at Little York, after which he withdrew from that profession, thinking to find other pursuits more congenial and profitable. In seeking for a life work he wisely chose the occupation to which he had been reared and in the spring of 1876 took up agricultural pursuits and has since been thus engaged. At first he rented a farm, which he continued to operate for several years, but possessing the laudable ambition to some day own a farm of his own, he applied himself with unfaltering industry and perseverance to the accumulation of sufficient means whereby to gratify this ambition. He engaged in general farming and later branched out into stock raising, being untiring in his efforts along those lines to win success. He did not, however, engage in any reckless speculation or unsafe investment, but on the other hand confined his business activities strictly within the limits of his means, and through well directed diligence intelligent labor and careful economy sought to gain his end. Nor were his labors in vain for his close application and good management in time brought their own reward and he became prosperous and successful in his undertaking, so that at the end of seven years he "purchased the farm upon which he resided, although in so doing he placed himself under a rather heavy financial obligation. However, the qualities which had been his salient characteristics throughout the previous years continued to be the: dominant features in his labor and he persevered in his efforts until in 1897 he was able to pay up all debts and became the sole owner of the farm. Two years later he removed to his 812 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY father-in-law's farm, upon which he resided. for four years, and in 1893 he purchased the old homestead farm, to which he removed and upon which he has since continued to reside. He now owns two fine farms which are under a high state of cultivation and are among the well developed and valuable farming properties of Montgomery county, while he occupies a prominent place among the agriculturists and extensive landownersof the community. It was on the 4th of March, 1879,. that Mr. Ryder was united in marriage to Miss Alice Stoner, the daughter of Daniel and Marguerite (Miller) Stoner. Her father, who was born in Maryland about seventy years ago, came to Ohio at an early date and became identified with agricultural pursuits here, being recognized as one of the most prominent and influential men in 'Montgomery county. He has now retired from active business life, however, and makes his residence in Dayton. His wife, who was born in Montgomery county, passed away several years ago at the age of forty-five years. She and her husband were both members of the German Brethren Baptist church and were the parents of ten children, namely : Alice, born in April, 1859 ; Edgar, born August 4, 1861; Elizabeth, born in August 1862 ; Jennie, born in 1866; Irene, in 1868; Marcus,. in 1870 ; Nora, who passed away in infancy ; Effie, born in 1874 ; Harry, in 1876; and Mande, in 1879. Of this number Edgar married Nettie Yost, by whom he has seven children : Eugene ; Vivian ; Mary ; Russell ; Colette ; Daniel; and Myron, deceased. The third child, Elizabeth, became the wife of Moses Wampler, by whom she has the following children : Bessie, Maud, Amos, Emma, Dora, Mary and Maurice, all of whom are living, while several passed away in infancy. Jennie married D. J. Wample and they have one child, Lyman. Irene is the wife of Jesse Waybright and with her husband and five children resides in Maryland. Marcus, who lives in Minnesota, is married and has four children, while Nora, who is now deceased, is buried in the family graveyard. Effie married Clinton Miller, and they have two children, while Harry and Maude are both single. Unto the union of Mr. and Mrs. Ryder were born six children, namely: Ralph, who was born on the 31st of December, 1881; Claude, born in May, 1883; Nellie, on the 17th of March, 1887 ; one who passed away in infancy and is buried at Polk cemetery ; Raymond, born October 16, 1893 ; and Mark B., on the 29th of February, 1896. Ralph, who is now deceased, graduated in 1904 with the first high school class of Butler township, after which he .taught school during the winter of 1904-05. He later entered Manchester College at North Manchester, Indiana, with the purpose of pursuing a classical course, but during his junior year he contracted pneumonia and died on the 30th of November, 1907. His remains were taken home and interred at Polk Cemetery. He was a very active member of the Brethern. church and was a young man of excellent traits of character. Claude attended the common schools and also attended high school. He lives at home and assists his father in the work of the farm. Nellie, who attended the common schools, was .a member, of the first class to graduate from the township high school, graduating from that institution with brilliant honors. She has traveled extensively throughout the western part of the United States and. is now taking a two years' course in domestic science at the. State Normal at Ypsilanti, Michigan. Raymond, living at home, is a Member of the junior. DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 813 class at high school, while Mark B., who is also under the parental roof, entered the eighth grade in the fall of 1909. Mr. Ryder has been a very prominent figure in educational, circles in Butler township and is not only a man of considerable intellectual ability himself but has given his children excellent educational advantages. He was among the few who were instrumental in establishing the township high school and has served the township in almost every capacity pertaining to work along educational lines. He and his wife are both members of the German Baptist church of which he is a trustee, and he always takes a deep and active part in the various phases of church work. He is a man of high moral character who wields a wide influence throughout the community by reason of his honorable manhood and high ideals, and he stands as a splendid type of the high-minded American gentlemen with whom contact means expansion and elevation. HARRY N. ROUTZOHN. Harry N. Routzohn, formerly assistant prosecuting attorney for Montgomery county, is one of the younger representatives of the bar but his reputation is such that his colleagues of youthful years might well envy. His birth occurred in Dayton, November 4, 1881, and he is a representative of the young American of today, being descended from French, German, Irish and Swedish ancestors. His paternal grandfather was of a family that came originally from the province of Alsace-Lorraine, while his paternal grandmother was a native of Dublin, Ireland. His mother's parents were of German and Swedish origin, his grandmother having been a descendant of the famous Springer family, which came from Sweden and settled in Delaware during the Revolutionary period. His father, Henry J. Routzohn, is a native of Maryland, who came to Dayton in 1866, and now devotes his attention to general farming. Reared under the parental roof, Harry N. Routzohn attended school to the age of fourteen years when, in 1896, he was appointed court page under Judge A. W. Kumler. He was then associated with the work of the courts until February 13, 1905, when he became an active practitioner of the bar, having been admitted on the 22d of June, 1904. His leisure hours , in previous years had been devoted to the mastery of legal principles and he was also familiar with the routine work of the courts so that he entered upon his chosen calling particularly well qualified to discharge the onerous duties devolving- upon him in this connection. On the 13th of February, 1905, he formed a partnership with C. J. Mattern under the firm style of Mattern & Routzohn, which continued until January I, 1906, when he was appointed to the position of assistant prosecuting attorney of Montgomery county, in which connection neither fear nor favor swerved him in the discharge of his official duties. Mr. Routzohn after serving for a period of three years in this position, on December 1, 1908, formed a partnership with Julius V. Jones with whom he is now engaged in the general practice of law in the city of Dayton, under the firm style of Jones & Routzohn. 814 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY On the 22d of September, 1901, Mr. Routzohn was married in Dayton to Miss Laura E. Poock, a daughter of Louis D. Poock. There are four children of this marriage Norman. E., Mary D., Conrad M. and Emma L. Mr. Routzohn is quite well known in fraternal circles. He has taken the degrees of the lodge, chapter and council in Masonry, belongs to the Knights of Pythias and to Ormus Grotto of the Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets. Socially he is connected with the Garfield Club; religiously with the Oak Street United Brethern church ; and politically with the republican party. These associations indicate much of the nature of his interests and activities. 'While, .a young man such is his keen insight and intelligently directed labor that his opinions carry considerable weight in the control of matters of general interest and moment. REV. JOHN GOTTLIEB MUELLER. It is with hesitancy that the historian takes up the task of preparing the life history of the Rev. John Gottlieb Mueller, not because of a lack of material but for fear that the record will not be the adequate expression of a life of such far-reaching influence and yet touch with modesty upon the history of one who ever keeps his own personality in the background save as his forceful character, actuated by the high ideals of humanitarianism and Christianity, leaves its impress upon the lives of those with whom he comes in contact. He has for fifteen years been the pastor of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church, in Dayton and no representative of the ministry in this city is more uniformly honored and respected. He was born October 18, 1861, on a farm in Medina county, Ohio, a son of Rev. John Gottlieb Mueller, who was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, in 1823, and on arriving in America in 1852 located in Liverpool, Medina county, Ohio. In 1867 he removed with his family to Knox county, Indiana, and in 1879 went to St. Louis, Missouri, to take charge of the St. John's Evangelical church until 1898, when he retired and came to Dayton, spending his last days in this city. He married Gottliebin Eckhardt, also a native of Wurtemberg, where they were married. Her death occurred in St. Louis in 1893, while Rev. Mueller passed away in Dayton in 1905. Both were consistent members of the German Evangelical Lutheran church. Their family numbered eight children, of whom three died in early life, while five are yet living: Lina, the widow of the Rev. Henry Brenner ; Rev. Carl Mueller, of Chicago ; Lydia, the wife of the Rev. Louis Nollau ; Rev. J. G. Mueller, of this review ; and Selna, living in Dayton. The elder brother was the founder of the Deaconess Hospital of Dayton, now known as the Miami Valley Hospital, this institution having its beginning in the fact that he brought here from Germany the first trained nurse or deaconess and thus introduced a work which has gradually expanded and developed into one of the most important institutions of this character in Ohio. Rev. John Gottlieb. Mueller of this review was in his third year when his father removed to Knox county, Indiana, and there he attended the country schools until sixteen years of age, when he entered a preparatory school at Elmhurst, DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 817 Illinois, with the end in view of becoming a representative of the ministry. After completing his course in that institution in 1881 he was matriculated in the Eden Theological College of St. Louis, Missouri, from which he was graduated in 1884. His first charge was at Denver, Colorado, where he organized a congregation and erected a house of worship. He remained there for two and a half years, doing splendid work for the church in that time. Accepting a call to Middletown, Ohio, he spent four years in pastoral work there and a similar period in Newport, Kentucky, after which he came to Dayton in 1894, having been called to the pastorate of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church. The following year Dr. Mueller was married in St. Louis, Missouri, to Miss Emilia P. Schneider and they have two sons, Earl E. and Ernest Hugo. Their home is the center of a cultured society circle as well as a haven of strength for many who seek advice and counsel from their pastor. Mr. Mueller's work may be well termed practical Christianity. Thoroughly conversant with the doctrines of the church and with theological principles, he stands for that which is even higher than a knowledge of dogma or creed—the beautiful life of the spirit manifest in daily contact with one's fellowmen and the employment of one's powers and talents to the best advantage that all such may contribute to the world's progress toward the high ideals which the church ever holds before its people. Not only is the work of St. John's carefully organized along the lines in which all churches participate but into new fields as the pastor directed the efforts of his people, organizing various educational classes, believing, as do thousands of progressive thinkers of the present day that the work of the world is or should be a part of Christianity coming directly under Christian influence and guidance. Rev. Mueller's views on the subject can perhaps best be stated, quoting from the little pamphlet sent out by the church in regard to the educational classes and which says : "Throughout the ages the fundamentals of Christianity have ever been the same, but its practice has undergone various changes. Christian religion at one time consisted only in endeavoring to solve the question, How can I be eternally saved? and in debating who will be saved and who will not. There came a period when it was determined that living a Christian life meant to turn away from the world and lead a life of idleness in seclusion ; again a period when the entire stress was placed upon good deeds. This naturally produced a reaction and deeds and sacrifices were cast aside and the entire emphasis laid upon Faith. All these different phases comprise religion and blessed is the church which succeeds in combining them all. Service is the life of love and love is the life of Christianity. This is the aim of our educational class work, in a spiritual sense. We want to help to save our young people by helping to keep them busy." The church classes are instructed in dressmaking, fancy work, sewing, millinery, cooking, pyrography, mechanical drawing, freehand drawing, clay modeling, stenography, bookkeeping and common branches and there are also choral classes and a class in instrumental music for boys. A library is also maintained and one cannot visit any of these classes without being impressed with the interest manifested by the pupils and the helpful spirit which permeates the whole. It is almost needless to say that St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church has a hold upon its young people that few churches have and that it is one of the most potent elements in all Dayton for the moral and religious progress of the city. 818 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY Rev. Mueller is a man of scholarly attainments and broad learning, who is continually adding to his rich mental resourses but above and beyond that he posseses a deep human sympathy which enables him to perceive almost intuitively that which will be most helpful to his parishioners and to speak the word in season which is ofttimes the turning point in a life. There came to him at a recent date—October 18, 1908—a substantial manifestation of the confidence, good will and love which his parishioners entertain for him. It was the occasion of the forty-'seventh anniversary of his birth and without his knowledge the members and their families to the number of one thousand people assembled at the church after which word was sent to the pastor that his presence was desired there. Not knowing the reason thereof he responded to the call and when he had been ushered to the dimly lighted room the lights were turned on in full and he found the entire auditorium filled with his friends and parishioners. An attractive program was rendered, a substantial gift was made to him and then the thousand people sat down to a banquet which was perhaps the largest ever held in the history of Dayton's churches. Rev. Mueller's work may well be termed "applied Christianity" and, as stated in the editorial of the Daily News of September 9, 1908, not until the seeds he has sown have reached their full fruition in the lives of those with whom he has come in contact will his influence and labors cease to be felt as a dynamic force for good in Dayton. Through the work which they love, they are taught to love the church. Religion is a matter of the hands and head as well as of the heart. Their work shows what has been wrought by building Christian character. It shows what can be accomplished with a spool of thread or a piece of paper as a text. Every stitch, every mark, every product of the mission circle is a sermon, and it would be well for the entire city if more such sermons were preached. It would be a glorious thing in fact if every church in the city would take up work along the same line. CLEMENT JOSEPH FERNEDING. A history of Dayton would hardly be complete without mention of Clement Joseph Ferneding, who has for a number of years been closely and helpfully connected with the business and public interests of this city. A native of Dayton, he was born March 10, 1846, and was here reared to manhood. He acquired his early education in the parochial schools and later attended St. Mary's Institute of this city ; Mount St. Mary's of the West and the Catholic Institute of Cincinnati, after. which he crossed the threshold of the business world and took up the broader and more difficult lessons taught in the school of experience. He became identified with the city railway interests and was president of the Dayton Street Railway Company for more than ten years. For four years he served as a member of the police board, during the last year acting as the president of that organization but at the close of his term declined reappointment to that office. He was one of the incorporators and director of The Union Safe Deposit & DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 819 Trust Company, and was also the executive director of The Dayton Insurance Company, which went into liquidation after paying its stockholders in full. He is now serving as president of The Ferneding-Heymann Company, cigar manufacturers of Dayton. He was one of the incorporators and is also a director of the Fourth National Bank and president of The Dayton, Springfield & Xenia Southern Railway Company and has been president of this company and its predecessor for the past ten years. His business interests have been large and varied and he has been a guiding spirit in all of the enterprises with which he has been connected, manifesting excellent business capacity and executive force and also possessing the initiative spirit to a marked degree. While his success alone would entitle him to a place among the representative men of his native city he is perhaps equally well known because of the deep interest he has taken in church work and in various benevolent enterprises of this city, He is a member of the Catholic church and for twenty-five years continuously served as secretary of Holy Trinity church. He was made chairman of the committee appointed from the different Catholic parishes throughout Dayton looking to the abandonment of St. Henry's cemetery, which had become surrounded by dwellings, and the property was sold and proceeds from the sale were sufficiently ample to cover the cost of removal of about five thousand three hundred unclaimed bodies which were transferred to Calvary cemetery and a beautiful mortuary stone chapel built in commemoration. When the increased attendance of St. Joseph Orphan Society of Dayton made it necessary some years ago to supply more adequate quarters and grounds for the institution, and there being no funds available for the purpose, Mr. Ferneding was named as chairman of a committee of Catholic citizens to devise Ways and means of meeting the situation. Some fifty-six acres of land adjoining the Orphans Home were purchased, a large portion of which was sold in building lots to such advantage as to entitle each member of the syndicate making the purchase a return of his investment with fifteen per cent interest, besides donating to the orphanage seventeen acres of ground adjoining the home and a large sum of money. The Society was thus provided with one of the most beautiful homes for orphans in the state and which is now one of the attractive places of interest in the city. At the time of the erection of the new addition to St. Elizabeth Hospital, Mr. Ferneding was selected by the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis and by the committee in charge to act as chairman of the building committee and the magnificent structure erected will ever prove a monument to his good judgment and untiring zeal in this worthy cause. For a number of years Mr. Ferneding was associated with his father, the late Henry Ferneding, one of the pioneer residents of Montgomery county, in the flour and milling business under the firm name of H. Ferneding & Son and before the milling trade was transferred to the great northwest the volume of business done annually by this firm was one of the largest in this section of the country. In 1869 in Dayton, Mr. Ferneding was united in marriage to Miss Barbara Barlow, a daughter of the late Theodore Barlow, and in their family are three children, namely : H. L., an attorney of this city ; Thomas A., vice president and general manager of The Dayton, Springfield & -Xenia Southern Railway Company ; and Marie C. Ferneding. 820 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY Mr. Ferneding is a stanch supporter of the democracy and, although he does all in his power to further the influence and interests of his party, the honors and emoluments of public office have had no attraction for him. His interests are wide and varied, showing a well rounded character, and the value of his service in community affairs is widely acknowledged, while the consensus of public opinion accords him prominence among the representative citizens of Dayton. WILLIAM P. HUFFMAN. William P. Huffman, named with those men whom Dayton has honored as chief among the promoters of her growth and progress and as an exponent of all that is straightforward and commendable in business relations, was active in banking circles and in real estate and building operations in this city for many years. At a period when Dayton had not emerged from villagehood his birth occurred within its borders, his natal day being October 18, 1813. His parents were William and Lydia (Knott) Huffman. His grandfather, William Huffman, who was of German descent, and his grandmother, who was of English lineage, emigrated to America from Holland sometime in the decade following 173o and established their home in Monmouth county, New Jersey, where their son William was horn May 24, 1769. On the 14th of June, 18o1, he wedded Lydia Knott, who was born in Monmouth county, January 19, 1779. They became the parents of a son and four daughters, and on removing to the west in the beginning of the nineteenth century settled in Dayton, where William Huffman passed away January 23, 1866, having for a brief period survived his wife, who died March 21, 1865. William P. Huffman received a fair English education and devoted some time to the study of law solely as a factor in a more thorough business equipment but with no intention of following the profession as a life work. Early in 1837 he took up the occupation of farming, to which he devoted ten years, and again became a factor in the life of Dayton on his return to the city in 1848. His time thereafter was devoted to real estate, to building operations, to banking and to the promotion of such enterprises as the Third Street Railway, the Dayton & Springfield pike, the Cooper Hydraulic Company, the Second National Bank and the Third National Bank. All of these felt the stimulus and impetus of his wise judgment and his indefatigable energy. He was one of the organizers of the Second National Bank and was its president for many years. He was also president of the Third National Bank from its organization up to 1887. His plans were always carefully formulated and executed with a precision and dispatch that insured their success. On the 18th of October, 1837, Mr. Huffman was united in marriage to Miss Anna M. Tate, a daughter of Samuel Tate, and they became the parents of the following named: William, deceased ; Martha Bell, the deceased wife of E. J. Barney, of Dayton ; Lydia H., the deceased wife of James R. Hedges, of Dayton ; Charles T., deceased ; Lizzie H., widow of Charles E. Drury, of Dayton ; Samuel,. who died in childhood ; Torrence, of Dayton ; Frank T., also of this city ; George P., deceased ; and Anna M. DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY - 821 Mr. Huffman served as a trustee of Denison University at Granville, Ohio, for fifteen years and was ever a stalwart champion and supporter of the cause of education. He held membership in the Linden Avenue Baptist church and his influence and labors constituted salient factors in the molding of Christian sentiment in the community. A man of clear, sound, practical judgment and exceedingly conservative and reliable in all transactions, his name stood as a synonym for wisdom and safety in the business circles of Dayton. While he promoted and managed important enterprises, he regarded business, however, as but one phase of life, never allowing it to exclude his active participation in and support of other vital interests which go to make up human existence. WILLIAM H. VAN RIPER. William H. Van Riper, well known in Montgomery county by reason of his activity in political lines and his capable service in public office, has made his home in Dayton from early manhood. As the years have gone by he has put forth persistent effort in business affairs and at no time has he been neglectful of his duties to the public welfare, meeting every duty that has devolved upon him in a private or in an official capacity with a sense of conscientious obligation. The life history of William H. Van Riper began March 20, 1851, the place of his nativity being Seneca county, New York. His grandparents, Garret and Ann Van Riper, were natives of New Jersey and on leaving that state became residents of New York, where they spent their remaining days. Among their children were triplets, one of whom was Henry Van Riper, the father of our subject. The three boys, upon arriving at mature years, were each of remarkable stature and weight, and their resemblance was so close as to make it difficult to distinguish them. The three were named Henry, Richard and Peter, but the last two are not living. Henry Van Riper wedded Sarah Ann Gunn, a native of Ireland, who was nineteen years of age when she came with her parents to America. Her death occurred in January, 1875, when she was seventy-four years of age. She had for twelve years survived her husband, who was born in 1824 and died January 3, 1863. William H. Van Riper was reared in the town of Waterloo, Seneca county, New York, where he attended a common school and at the age of fourteen he made his initial step in the business world as an apprentice to the tinner's trade, serving under I. N. Thorn in Waterloo. He not only completed his three years' term of indenture but also was an employe of Mr. Thorn in Waterloo for five years and afterward came with him to Dayton and continued with him for fifteen years in this city. No 'higher testimonial of his industry, faithfulness and reliability can be given than the fact that he remained in the service of one man for twenty years. In 1885 he embarked in business on his own account, opening a grocery store on the west side of Dayton in partnership with his father-in-law, Christian Becker. Two years later, however, he purchased a tin and jobbing shop on West Third street and in 1890 began business at No. 127, now 405 South Williams street, where he conducts a general tin, jobbing and contract business. 822 - DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY He has been very successful in industrial lines and is well known as a progressive, reliable representative of business interests in this city. Not alone in this line, however, has Mr. Van Riper enjoyed the confidence and good will of the general public. He is perhaps even better known by reason of his activity in political circles, having always been a stanch advocate of republican principles. In the spring of 1875 he became a candidate for director of the city infirmary and was chosen to the office by eight hundred and ten votes above those given his opponent, this being the largest majority received by any candidate on the city ticket. On the loth of April, 1895, he assumed the duties of the office and during the first six months of his connection with the board the running expenses of- the infirmary were reduced about forty per cent. He continued in the office for three years and later was elected county infirmary director, in which position he served for five years. While curtailing the comfort of the inmates and the influence of the institution in no measure, he stood for retrenchment in expenses through economical management and accomplished a large saving for the county in that direction. In 1905 he was appointed county commissioner to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Kemp, and in 1906 he was elected county commissioner and served three years, making in all four years and three months in office. His .course in this position is equally commendable for his official service is always characterized by creditable reform. Pleasantly situated in his home life, Mr. Van Riper was married December 21, 1882, to Miss Isora Becker, a daughter of Christian Becker of Dayton. Her birth occurred in Montgomery county, March 16, 1861, and her father, a native of the same county, was born in 1838. In 1880 he took up his abode in Dayton, where for some years he engaged in the grocery business but is now living retired. Mr. and Mrs. Van Riper have become parents of two sons and a daughter, Clayton, born February 24, 1884; Carrie, born on the 18th of March, 1886 ; and Christian, born December 20, 1896. Mr. Van Riper holds membership in Hope Lodge, No. 227, Knights of Pythias, and both he and his wife are members of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church. A resident of Dayton from early manhood, he is known as one of its worthy business men and particularly as a loyal and valuable public official who is opposed to anything like misrule in public affairs and in all of his public service seeks the welfare and advancement of the entire community. JOHN PHILIP MUMMA. John Philip Mumma was numbered among the pioneer residents of Dayton, coming to this city in 1827 when but four years of age. Dayton had at that time taken on little of the evidences of modern metropolitan civilization and development which it now bears. It had few industrial or commercial enterprises but within it were possibilities for development which were recognized by those early settlers. In pioneer times down to the date of his death, covering a period of about seventy years, Mr. Mumma was deeply interested in the growth and