CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 475 Dora, the wife of Van Peterson, a farmer of Ashland county ; Stephen, who is conducting his father's farm in Mifflin township, this county ; and Grover C., at home. Mr. Smith gives his allegiance to the men and measures of the Democratic party, and is connected with Madison Grange, P. of H. Socially he is widely and favorable known and has a host of warm friends in the community where almost his entire life has been passed. J. H. FULLTON, In the subject of this review we find a worthy representative of the agricultural interests of Washington township, Richland county, Ohio. He was born on the old Fullton homestead in that township May 6, 1852, and is the only child of John and Mary (Duncan) Fullton, the mother having died soon after his birth. The father was a native of Cumberland county-, Pennsylvania, and was fourteen years of age when the grandfather died, after which the grandmother, accompanied by her five sons and one daughter, started by team for Ohio and settled in Medina county, in 1835. There John Fullton continued to make his home until 1843, when he came to Richland county and purchased a farm of eighty acres in Washington township from his father-in-law, David Duncan. His first home here was a log cabin, which in later years was replaced by a better residence, while barns and other buildings were also erected. Although he began life for himself in limited circumstances he became quite well-to-do, and at his death, which occurred in 1893, he owned two hundred and seventy acres of valuable land in the home farm, and another tract of one hundred acres elsewhere, which was acquired through his own industry, perseverance and good management. He was five feet, eight inches in height, and weighed about one hundred and seventy-five pounds. His political support was always given the men and measures of the Democratic party, and he efficiently served as justice of the peace for some time. Religiously he was an active worker and elder in the Presbyterian church. For his second wife he married Rachel J. Campbell, by whom he had three children, namely : William, deceased; Jane, the wife of William Palm, who is living on a farm in Washington township ; and Belle, the wife of Andrew Andrews, of the same township. In the common schools near his boyhood home J. H. Fullton acquired his literary education, and he remained under the parental roof until thirty-five years of age, when he moved to that part of the home farm which he now occupies. After residing there for five years he went to Demorest, Georgia, 476 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. where the following five years were passed, after which he returned to Ohio and has since resided upon his present farm, his home being located on the new state road seven miles from Mansfield. He owns ninety-seven acres of rich and arable land, and is successfully engaged in general farming and stock-raising. In 1883 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Fullton and Miss Sarah Andrews, and to them have been born two children : Annie B., now sixteen years of age; and John L., aged twelve years. Mr. Fullton is a member of the Congregational church and a stanch supporter of the Democratic party. He has served as the township clerk two years, and has always faithfully discharged every duty devolving upon him, whether public or private. JOSEPH B. ZEHNER. J. B. Zehner was born in Mifflin township, Ashland county, March 7, 1870. His father, Peter Zehner, was born in the same township October 29, 1836. His mother's maiden name was Hannah Boyer, who was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1839. The Zehner family live in the historic Ruffner locality. The family connections are so numerous that reunions are annually held. J. B. Zehner has traveled extensively in the west, and taught school in several of the new states. In 1899 he engaged in the grocery business in Mansfield, and on July 20 of the same year he married Miss Vina Zehner. They have one child, a son, named Harold Ivan Zehner. In the winter of 1901 Mr. Zehner disposed of his stock of groceries to engage in other business. He is a young man of good character, and has many friends who wish him success in whatever field of endeavor he may engage. DUANE M. DOTY. One of the prominent business men of Shelby, Ohio, is Duane M. Doty, who was born in this place in 1855, and is the son of John and Sarah (Rutan) Doty, the former of whom died at the age of seventy-seven, the latter still surviving. They came to Shelby from Crawford county, Ohio, in 1868, and engaged in farming. They were the parents of seven children : Joseph, who now lives at Lexington ; James H., who lives at Marion, Ohio; Lewis Calvin, who lives at Eureka, Utah ; Emma, who lives in Shelby ; Mrs. Mary Harman, who lives in Shelby ; Mrs. Sarah McCarty, who lives in Barbertown, Ohio ; and our subject. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 477 Until 1892 our subject remained on the old homestead farm, but at that date he came to Shelby and engaged in work at the Tube works, where he remained until 1895, when he became interested with C. G. Grosscup in the plumbing business and has been occupied in that line ever since. The business is conducted on modern lines and meets with the approval of the people of his town. He is considered a good and reliable citizen and is regarded' with respect and esteem. GEORGE W. LEITER. Among the active, enterprising and industrious citizens of Monroe township is classed George W. Leiter, who was born November 3, 1850, upon his present farm on sections 6 and 7, a son of David and Mary (Bell) Leiter. In their family were twelve children, but only four are now living, namely : David B., John H., Samuel B. and George W., all farmers of Monroe township. Our subject's paternal grandfather, Jacob Leiter, was born in Maryland in July, 177o, of German parentage, and was married on the 1st of November, 1796, to Nancy Peck, who was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, December 26, 1771, and died in 1823. Her parents were also from Germany. In his native state the grandfather engaged in farming throughout life, and there died October 16, 1823. David Leiter, the father of our subject, was born in Leitersburg, Washington county, Maryland, December 12, 1798, and there grew to manhood. He wedded Mary Bell, who was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1807, a daughter of Jacob Bell. His first wife was her cousin, Nancy Bell, who died eighteen months after their marriage, leaving one child, Jacob, now deceased. While residing in his native state, David Leiter engaged in farming and teaming, hauling flour from Baltimore to Washington. In 1836 he emigrated with his family to Ohio, and after one year's residence near the St. James schoolhouse in Mifflin township, Richland county, he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land in Monroe township, just west of Lucas, where he spent his remaining years. He was an energetic man, of good business and executive ability, and consequently prospered in his undertakings, acquiring between four and five hundred acres of land. Politically he was first a Whig and later a Republican, but never an office-seeker. He was an active church-worker, in early life holding membership in the German Reformed church, but subsequently united with the Lutheran church, in which he served as a deacon and elder for many years. He died 478 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. May 13, 1875, honored and respected by all who knew him on account of his sterling worth and strict integrity. George W. Leiter received a good common-school education, and as he approached manhood worked on the farm, receiving a share of the crops in compensation for his labors. His entire life has been passed upon the old homestead, which he now owns and successfully operates. On the 6th of January, 1876, was celebrated his marriage to Miss Mary M. Marlow, also a native of Monroe township, this county, and a daughter of Moses Marlow, one of its early settlers and well-known citizens. Four children blessed this union, namely : Jessie M., D. Paige, and Georgia A., all at home; and Ada B., deceased. Politically Mr. Leiter is identified with the Republican party, and socially affiliates with Monroe Lodge, No. 224, I. O. O. F., of Lucas. He is one of the leading members of the Congregational church of that place, which he has served as the treasurer, and is one of the most highly respected citizens of his community. SAMUEL B. LEITER. Samuel B. Leiter, a son of David and Mary (Bell) Leiter, was born on the old Leiter homestead in Monroe township May 8, 1846, and there grew to manhood, aiding his brother in its cultivation and attending the district schools when his services were not needed at home. On the 2d of May, 1864, he joined the "boys in blue" of Company C, One Hundred and Sixty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and shortly after his enlistment was sent to Marlow's Division, Tenth Army Corps, under the command of General Terry. He was in the reserve force during the engagement on the Weldon Railroad, and was discharged at Columbus September 15, 1864. Mr. Leiter was married December 8, 1870, to Miss Anna Charles, a native of Monroe township, this county. Her father, John S. Charles, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and when a child came to Ohio with his parents. He is now a hardware dealer of Lucas, and served as postmaster at that place under President Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Leiter have two children, Mott W. and Star Hoyt, both at home. After his marriage Mr. Leiter located upon his present farm of eighty acres in Monroe township, and in 1900 also purchased the old Cunning place of sixty-five acres, while his sons own the thirty-five acres lying between the two farms. As a tiller of the soil he has met with success, and is now quite well-to-do. He is a stanch Republican in politics and a member of Venus Lodge, No. 152, F. & A. M., and Chapter No. 28, R. A. M., of Mansfield. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 479 MACK H. DAVIS. Mack H. Davis, of Shelby, Ohio, was born in Akron, this state, on the 17th of January, 1857, his parents being Baker and Lydia (Henshaw) Davis. The father was a native of Pennsylvania and the mother of New York. He was born January 1, 1827, his wife on the 3d of April, 1832, and their marriage was celebrated in Ohio in 1855. Two children were born unto them, the daughter being Martha M., who was born in Akron in 1865, and is now the wife of Elsworth M. Lewis, of Shelby, Ohio, their wedding being celebrated in 1891. In 1876 the father became a resident of Shelby, where he entered into partnership with Cortez F. Fish and Daniel W. Storer for the purpose of conducting a flour-milling business, under the firm name of Fish, Storer & Davis. The father of our subject died in 1879 and his son succeeded to a partnership in the business. In 1882 the enterprise was incorporated under the firm name of Tile Shelby Mill Company. Mr. Davis, whose name introduces this record, was graduated in the Akron high school in 1874, and for three years thereafter was the city editor of the Akron Daily Beacon. He then came to Shelby and accepted a position as the bookkeeper for the firm of which his father was one of the partners. As stated, he succeeded to a partnership in the business upon his father's death. The Shelby Mill Company is capitalized for one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, and at the time of the incorporation Mr. Davis was elected the secretary and treasurer. In 1892 he was chosen the president, and has since filled that position in a most creditable and satisfactory manner, his management bringing to the company well-merited success. The plant has a capacity of one thousand barrels of flour per day. The brick building is five stories in height, is supplied with elevators, and was erected in 1883. The supplies for the mill are shipped to Shelby from Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana, and the company markets its products in eastern-states and abroad, making extensive shipments to Great Britain. The leading brands of flour are known as Storer's Best and Prize Winner. They have a cooper shop in connection with the mill, and employment is furnished to about sixty workmen, turning out one thousand barrels per clay. The mill is in continuous operation night and day. Mr. Davis is a man of resourceful business ability, of keen discrimination in business affairs, of sound judgment and strong purpose. These qualities have enabled him to extend his field of labors into various lines. He carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes, and his interests have been varied and of an important character. He was one of 480 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. the originators of the Shelby Tube Works, and was a director of the company until about two years ago, when he resigned. He is still a stockholder in the institution, however. He is the president of the Shelby Water Company, which was incorporated in 1897, with a capital of eighty thousand dollars. The plant has already cost about one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. There is a complete pumping station, having a capacity of four million gallons of water per day, the water supply coming from a driven well in the north of the village, near the city limits. They have fifteen acres of land, duplex pumps, a stand pipe one hundred and forty-five feet high and sixteen feet in diameter, twelve miles of mains and one hundred and nine fire hydrants, having an inexhaustible supply. He is the treasurer of the Shelby Electric Company, which he aided in organizing. It has a capital stock of two hundred thousand dollars and manufactures from six to eight thousand lamps daily, employment being furnished to one hundred and fifty people, one hundred of whom are girls. Mr. Davis is also the treasurer and manager of the Umbrella Company, and is a director in the First National Bank, also vice-president of the Shelby Building and Loan Association. He is the president of the Winter Wheat Millers' League, with headquarters at Indianapolis, an organization formed by merchant millers of the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri and represents an invested capital of thirty million dollars and involving some three hundred mills. He has been the president of the Millers' National Association with headquarters at Chicago, holding that office in 1898, and at the present time is still a member of its board of managers. Its membership comes from thirty-three different states. Mr. Davis was united in marriage, in 1878, to Miss Harriet Botsford, of Akron, Ohio, a daughter of Almon W. and Caroline (Bolton) Botsford. Three children have come to bless the union, but one died in infancy. The others are Myra Grace, who was born July I, 1884; and Almon Baker, who was born December 29, 1886. Mr. Davis has been prominent in public affairs. In 1898 he was elected a member of the city council, and while serving in that capacity he caused to be introduced a bill in the state legislature for the purpose of having a special act passed to enable the council to bond the village of Shelby for the purpose of establishing a municipal electric-light plant. This was clone and the enterprise has proved a great success financially, and seems to have been the impetus that has brought about the growth and prosperity of Shelby in recent years. Thereby the streets are supplied with arc lights, and a complete incandescent system for the use of private individuals and business firms was CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 481 established. From the beginning this has proved a very successful enterprise. as the revenue from the incandescent service has been sufficient to pay all the operating expenses of the plant and has also created a fund sufficient to meet the bonds as they become due. Mr. Davis holds the rank of major in the Ninth Regiment of the Uniformed Rank of the Knights of Pythias. He belongs to the Colonial Club, which was organized by the business men of Shelby in 1898, at which time he was elected the president, having ever since served in that capacity. He is also a member of the Royal Arcanum, the National Union and the Pathfinders' Association. He contributes to the support of the First Presbyterian church, in which his wife and children hold membership. He has been identified with this section of the Union for many years and has contributed to its material progress and prosperity. ED B. WALTERS. Many lines of business are very efficiently conducted in the town of Shelby, Ohio, making this a pleasant stopping place for the tourist and a delightful spot in which to found a home. Mr. Walters was born near Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio, December 30, 1864, a son of John J. and Suan (Baxter) Walters, the former a native of Virginia, the latter of Ohio. The family of our subject's parents consisted of three sons and one daughter —Charles B., Hattie A., Frank L. and our subject, he being the second in order of birth. The paternal grandfather of Mr. Walters was named Mahlon Walters, a man of Scotch-Irish descent, the paternal grandmother being a member of the old southern Taylor family, of Virginia. The maternal grandmother was named Harriet Le Fever, of French descent, and the maternal grandfather was David Baxter, a native of the state of Pennsylvania. The father of our subject was engaged in the livery business many years before the birth of his son, his uninterrupted business life in Fredericktown numbering thirty years. He has lived retired from active life for the past seven years, our subject becoming his partner in 1887. In 1895 Ed B. Walters came to Shelby and opened up his present fine livery establishment, since which time he has been prepared to accommodate the public with the most substantial or elaborate vehicles in the market. This is appreciated, and Mr. Walters has no fault to find with his neighbors because of lack of patronage. Mr. Walters is a genial, pleasant man, who has won the esteem of his neighbors as well as the public by his unvarying courtesy and the excellent and reliable character of his establishment. 482 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. The marriage of Mr. Walters was celebrated January 18, 1888, when he wedded Miss Jennie A. Shafer, of Bellville, Richland county, Ohio, a daughter of Adam and Susan (Zimmer) Shafer, natives of Bedford county, Pennsylvania, and two children have been born to them : Harry E., born November 21, 1888; and Grace, born March 9, 1890, who died April 21, 1896. In his politics Mr. Walters favors the Democratic party, and has served as constable, being re-elected for a second term. He is connected with the Masonic fraternity, Ben Hur, and the I. O. O. F., being popular in all. Mrs. Walters is a member of the Lutheran church, where she is highly appreciated. JAMES M. PEARCE. James McVay Pearce is one of the residents of Richland county, where throughout his entire life he has made his home. He was born December 19, 1835, in Washington township, and is one of the residents on the Mansfield and Newville road, having lived on that thoroughfare for sixty years. He is a son of Lewis K. and Elizabeth (Driscol) Pearce and a grandson of Stephen and Mary (Kinney) Pearce, who came from New Jersey, reaching their destination on the 19th of September, 1814. They settled in Washington township, and the land they then entered from the government is still in the possession of their descendants. The historical associations of their advent into Ohio are interesting to recall. The morning after the arrival of the Pearce family, as its members were watching the day break over the Washington township forest, Francis Scott Key gazed, "in the dawn's early light," over the bay at Baltimore and saw that the American flag still waved above Fort McHenry, and in the inspiration of the occasion wrote that immortal ode, "The Star Spangled Banner,"—a song that will ever be sung by the American people to voice the patriotic sentiments of their liberty-loving hearts. At that time Return Jonathan Meigs was the governor of Ohio, and the total vote of the state was twenty-two thousand and fifty, while it is now nine hundred thousand. Mansfield at the present time has a population of twenty thousand, and was then a village of about twenty houses, principally log cabins. What changes have taken place in the years that have intervened ! It has well been said that the lamp of civilization has surpassed that of Aladdin. The forests have changed into fields of grain and the waste places have become gardens of flowers, towns and cities have been built with marvelous rapidity and showing splendid handiwork ; but in this march of progress the work and hardships of the pioneers must not be forgotten. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 483 Mr. Pearce's father died in 1850, and in 1853 his mother married Landin McGregor, and the second union, like the first, was a happy one, for Mr. McGregor proved to be a kind husband and a good stepfather. He died November 21, 1887, and his wife, the mother of our subject, passed away March 15, 189o, at the age of seventy-seven years. She was a typical pioneer mother and a woman of great physical strength. She could stand in a half-bushel measure and shoulder two and a half bushels of wheat Feats of strength were often indulged in at gatherings during the pioneer period. The Pearce settlement was known in the olden time as The Beech on account of the abundance of beech trees in that locality. The Pearces were strong, athletic men in their day, and at musters and other gatherings engaged freely in the sports of the occasions which sometimes wound up in a rough manner ; but the Pearces did not object to that, for they generally held their own with the best of the crowd. Mr. Pearce, of this review, was named in honor of James McVay Pearce, a pioneer preacher of the Christian church. He owns a part of the original Pearce land, being a good farm of one hundred and twenty-four acres, and his orchards are far-famed. He has worked hard, has prospered and always has "money to lend and corn to sell." He belonged to a family of eighteen children, and has two brothers and two sisters yet living. On February 10, 1897, he married Miss Catherine C. Miller, a daughter of Joseph and Catherine (Yager) Miller, of Monroe township, Richland county. James M. Pearce is unostentatious in manner and has but little regard for display in dress, and might at times be mistaken for a man in indigent circumstances, as the following incidents will show : The child of a relative died and Mr. Pearce went to Lucas to buy some articles for the family. There was a new merchant there who did not know Mr. Pearce, and when he stated that the relative's child was dead and he wanted to get some merchandise, the proprietor, imagining he wanted credit, said, "I can't trust you." Mr. Pearce replied, "I must get the goods somewhere." Whereupon the merchant became more emphatic, "I tell you, sir, you can not get trusted here." During this talk a gentleman entered the store and hearing what the merchant said, and knowing Mr. Pearce, that he was wealthy and honorable in his dealings with his fellow men, exclaimed, "Trust him to the whole store if he wants it." "I did not ask for trust," said Mr. Pearce, as he left the store and went to its rival on the opposite side of the street, paying for his purchases from a large roll of bills ! Upon another occasion Mr. Pearce stabled his horse in a Mansfield feed. barn and went around at noon to see if it had been fed ; and noting no remnant of food in either trough or manger, he called the 484 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. proprietor's attention to the fact. In the dispute that ensued the stable official admitted that the horse had not been fed and doubted the owner's ability to pay for the feed. A neighbor of Mr. Pearce then came up and said, "Why, this is Jim Pearce; and he is able to give a check on the bank for your entire barn and its contents." Mr. Pearce is an agreeable, well-informed man. His latchstring is always out, and he greatly enjoys entertaining his friends, of whom he has a host. HENRY E. SHEETS. Of the "art preservative of arts," Henry Eugene Sheets is a representative, being the well-known proprietor of the Shelby Republican. He was born in Ashland, Ohio, on the 18th of March, 1860, and is a son of Solomon and Christine (Weisinstein) Sheets. The mother was born in 1836, and by her marriage became the mother of five sons, of whom S. A., J. C., and Henry E. are residents of Shelby. The first named is a photographer, with a studio in this city, and J. C. is engaged in the practice of dentistry here. Mr. Sheets, of this review, completed his public-school education in the high school of Ashland, and afterward continued his studies at Wooster (Ohio) University. Since 1887 he has been connected with the newspaper business. In 1890, at Great Falls, Montana, he began the publication of a paper known as the Industrial, and continued as its editor and proprietor for four years, when he sold out. He then became identified with the Pittsburg Dispatch, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, but after a year he came to Shelby and purchased the old Richland County republican, which was published by William Tait. He became its owner in December, 1896, and changed its name to the Shelby Republican. The paper has a circulation of about fourteen hundred, and upholds the principles of the grand old party. Mr. Sheets is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Ashland Lodge, No. 151. He is well known in Shelby, where he is recognized as an earnest advocate of all measures calculated to prove of benefit to the city along any of the lines that contribute to the welfare and happiness of men. REV. NATHANIEL H. LOOSE. Rev. Nathaniel H. Loose, of Shelby, was born in Perry county, Pennsylvania, September 5, 1834, his parents. being Peter and Anna Mary (Rauch) Loose, also natives of the Keystone state. In 1845 they removed to Monroe, Michigan, where the father followed the occupation of farming. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 485 The subject of this review was reared amid the refining influences of a good Christian home and was well fitted for life's duties by excellent educational privileges. He was educated in Heidelberg College, at Tiffin, Ohio, at which he was graduated in 1858, and in 1859 was graduated at the theological seminary. He was ordained to the ministry in August of that year. His first pastoral charge was at Sugar Grove, Ohio, where he remained from 1859. until 1863. In the latter year he accepted a call from the church in Shelby, Ohio, where he continued until 1877, and in that year he took up his work of attending to the spiritual needs of the church of his denomination in Bellevue, Ohio, his pastorate at that place covering an entire decade. From 1887 until 1890 he was located in Plymouth, Indiana, and from 1890 until 1894, in Baltimore, Ohio, after which he returned to Shelby and has since been the esteemed and honored pastor of the Reformed church at this place. During the period of his former residence here he had been a valued member of the school board, having served as its president for six years, during which time the high school building was erected, standing as a monument to the progressive spirit of the members of the board and to the intelligence of the citizens of the town. In 1858 the Rev. Nathaniel H. Loose was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Miss Alma T. Kroh, of Tiffin, Ohio, a daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Tice) Kroh. Their marriage was blessed with four sons, one of whom died in infancy. Ursinus K. was born at Sugar Grove, in 1859, and at the age of sixteen years entered the First National Bank, in Shelby, and was well known in business circles. After severing his connection with the bank in Shelby he went to Tiffin, where for three years he occupied the responsible position of teller in the First National Bank of that city. Then he spent five years as receiving teller in the First National Bank of Toledo. He afterward spent five years in Hartington, Nebraska, as cashier, and now occupies the cashiership in the bank at Snohomish, Washington. He is also connected with the Pacific coast lumber trade. Alvin B., born in 1863, is now in Columbus, Ohio, where he is associated in business with his brother, Clarence E., who was born in 1867. They are partners in the jewelry and optical business. The former is a graduate of the Chicago College of Ophthalmology. Two of the sons are married, but the youngest is still single. Rev. Mr. Loose is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and also of the Royal Arcanum. He is a member of the Board of Regents of Heidelberg University, of Tiffin, Ohio, and by that institution the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him in 1893. He has perhaps 486 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. married more couples and preached more funeral sermons in a given time than any other minister of the gospel in Shelby, for he is very popular not only among the people of his own denomination, but also among the representatives of other churches. His has been a noble and upright life, unselfishly devoted to his fellow men in the endeavor to bring to humanity the needs of the human soul and the ennobling power of the gospel. He is a logical, entertaining and convincing speaker, having an excellent command of the art of rhetoric and under all an earnestness of purpose which colors his every utterance and leaves no one in doubt of his sincerity. Such a life is a benediction to all who come in contact with it. NATHANIEL GUTHRIE. Nathaniel Guthrie is one of Richland county's native sons, his birth having occurred October 6, 1843, on the farm which is still his home, his parents being John E. and Elizabeth (Crawford) Guthrie. His father was born in Harrison county, Ohio, and was a son of William Guthrie, who came to Richland county, Ohio, in 1815 and entered from the government the quarter section of land which adjoins Nathaniel Guthrie's present farm on the north. He was the fifth settler in Blooming Grove township. He was accompanied by his wife and eight children, and after building a log cabin he cleared an acre of land, with the assistance of his wife and three eldest sons, and sowed wheat upon it. They had no fodder for the cattle; so the latter subsisted on browse. For a time the family was compelled to live on corn that had been frosted and which the cattle had. refused to eat, for the supply of meal had become exhausted before the winter was over. With the aid of his sons, William Guthrie cleared his land and developed a good farm, upon which he spent his remaining days. John E. Guthrie remained upon the old homestead until his twenty-ninth year, having about three months' schooling in the winter season. He was then married and removed to the farm upon which our subject now resides and which he had previously purchased. It comprises a quarter section of land, for which he paid four hundred dollars, and upon it he and his wife remained until called to the home beyond. They were members of the Presbyterian church, Mr. Guthrie having become identified therewith in his boyhood, and for many years he was a deacon in the church. He gave his political support to the Democratic party, while the grandfather of our subject was a Whig. Unto John E. and Elizabeth (Crawford) Guthrie were born nine children, of whom four are yet living, namely : William, of White CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 487 county, Indiana; Eleanor, the wife of Jacob DeLancey, of Cass township, Richland county ; James, a resident of Shiloh, Ohio; and Nathaniel. The boyhood days of Nathaniel Guthrie were quietly passed on the home farm, and in thee common schools he acquired his education. In his nineteenth year, however, his mode of life became greatly changed, for on the 15th of October, 1862, he volunteered for service in the Civil war and was assigned to duty in Company K, of the One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He remained at the front for one year, and then on account of disability was honorably discharged. He took part in the engagements at Vicksburg, Arkansas Post and the siege of Vicksburg, and thence returned to Jackson, Mississippi, where he was last in active service, being mustered out October 12, 1863. His brother William was a member of Company D, One Hundred and Second Ohio Infantry, and remained at the front until the close of the war, while James joined Company I, of the Fifteenth Ohio Infantry, and served for three years. He was captured at Stone river and held for three days and was paroled on the field. Returning to the north Nathaniel Guthrie remained at home until he had regained his health, and in the spring of 1865 went to the oil fields of Pennsylvania, where he spent the summer and fall. Owing to the death of his father he returned home to assist in the management of the farm. He. was married the following year to Miss Almecla Parcher, a native of Richland county and a daughter of John and Nancy Parcher, both of whom are still living, in Butler township; the former is in his eighty-fourth year and the latter in her eighty-third year. They are both well preserved and have traveled life's journey together as man and wife through the long period of sixty-five years. After his marriage Mr. Guthrie removed to Ashland, where he engaged in carpentering for two years, and then returned to the old homestead to care for his mother and an invalid sister. There he remained for four years, during which time he continued carpentering and then his brother James left the farm, going to a place of his own, and our subject assumed the work of cultivating the fields, being thus engaged up to the time of his mother's death. The year following he purchased the old homestead and has since made excellent improvements upon his place, which is now one of the most desirable farms of the community. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie has been blessed with ten children, of whom six are yet living, as follows : J. Luther, a farmer of Weller township, Richland county ; James H., a hardware merchant of Bloomdale, Wood county, Ohio ; Myron Taylor, who manages the home farm; Eva, at home; Benton W., an em- 488 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. ploye of the National Cycle Works, in Shelby, Ohio; and Ella E., the wife of Marion Houston, a farmer of Blooming Grove township, Richland county. Mr. Guthrie is a Democrat, well informed" on the issues of the day, and eves to his party a stalwart support. For six years he served as a trustee of his township, proving himself a capable officer. He is prominent in civic societies, holding membership in Spiegel Post, No. 228, G. A. R., of Shiloh; Rome Lodge, No. 158, I. O. O. F., in which he has passed all the chairs; Shiloh Lodge, No. 374, R. A.; and Shiloh Lodge, F. & A. M. Throughout his entire life Mr. Guthrie has resided in Richland county and has made a creditable record, gaining for himself the respect and good will of his fellow men. LATHROP J. TRACY. The lineage of the Tracy. family comes down in an unbroken line from Egbert I, king of England, to the present time. In Puella F. Mason's Lineage of the Tracy Family we find that the Tracys have been prominent in the past, as they are at the present time. Judge Josiah Tracy, of the thirty-fifth generation, was born at Franklin, Connecticut, October 1, 1796, and married Diantha Lathrop August 18, 1824, at which time they removed to Painesville, Ohio, where he engaged in the mercantile business. In 1832 he removed to Vermillion and was the superintendent of the Huron Iron Works. In 1835 he moved to Huron and engaged in the commission business. At different periods he served as mayor, justice of the peace, colonel of militia, state senator and judge of Erie county. He moved to Mansfield in 1847 and died January 11, 1857, and at his request wag buried at Huron, beside his wife, who had died April 22, 1840. Of the thirty-sixth generation we make note of the late Lathrop J. Tracy, the eldest son of Judge Josiah Tracy, who was born at Painesville, Ohio, May 26, 1825. His earlier years were spent with his parents in Vermillion, and later at Huron. At the age of eighteen he removed to Honesdale, Pennsylvania, where he was employed as the secretary and bookkeeper in the office of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, and later was in the employ of the same company at Rondout, New York. On June 1o, 1852, he was married to Eliza Kirtland, at Honesdale, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Daniel P. Kirtland. She survives him, with two sons, —Frederick K., of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Rufus A.,—and one daugh- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 489 ter,—Mrs. Mary T. Roe, of Mansfield. Another son, Daniel Lathrop, died May 22, 1894, at Great Falls, Montana. Mr. Tracy moved to this city in 1854 and for many years was engaged in the grain and wool business, succeeding the firm of Sturges, Tracy & Company. About 1885 he became associated with his brother, F. E. Tracy, in the wholesale grocery business, and later became the secretary of the Tracy & Avery Company. For many years, and at the time of his death, he was a director of the Sandusky, Mansfield & Newark Railroad Company. At the organization of the Merchants & Manufacturers' Insurance Company, October 10, I87, he was elected its president, which office he continued to fill until his death. He was always greatly interested in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association, and during the earlier years of that body was actively identified with its interests, serving as the president of the Mansfield Association. Quoting from his annual report to that association (1870), he says : "While we have not accomplished all that we would, and in the review may not realize as an actuality the full accomplishment of that we hoped for, and prayed for in the early morning of 1870, happy, blessed will it be for us if in this review we can, as an association and as individual members of this association, say 'we have done what we could.' The Master lays no greater, no less, a demand upon each one of us than this ; and, as we each for himself and unto God shall make answer, we may gather new inspiration and zeal and consecration for that which lies before us in the coming year. "And now, brethren beloved, in looking back over the past, while it can hardly be otherwise than that there will be regrets that we have come short in many things, may we not rejoice that the great Master has given us so much of His presence and blessing in the association work of the year? that so often we have known for a surety that we walked not in our own strength or wisdom, as we have gone out by twos and fours on the Sabbath afternoons of the year at the command of our devotional committee, fulfilling the appointments made by them at the various churches and schoolhouses in our vicinity. Have we not felt our hearts burn within us as we have journeyed and talked by the way? and have we not known of a surety of His being 'in the midst' when we have endeavored to tell these congregations of 'Jesus and His love ? Can we ever forget what our eyes saw and what our ears heard of the manifest presence of the Holy Spirit in our meetings at Spring Mills, at Lucas and at Carter's church, where for three weeks in succession meetings were held every night in the CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 490 week, Saturdays excepted, and where as a fruitage forty-five souls confessed Christ? "No, my brethren. Let us count it all joy that the Master permitted us to enter into such blessedness of service for Him; and may we gather from these hallowed memories new consecration of life and increased zeal for His service in our association work for the year that lies before us." Resuming the life narrative, we may add that Mr. Tracy was always an active member of the First Congregational church, serving at various times as a deason and a trustee. The death of Lathrop J. Tracy occurred on Friday, September 24, 1897, at Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, whither he had gone a month before for the benefit of his health. From among the tributes paid to his memory we quote the following from a Mansfield paper : "It was with a feeling of sincere sorrow that the news of his death was received in this city, where for so many years he has been a good citizen, respected and beloved for his many admirable qualities of head and heart. That his familiar form and kindly face and voice shall be seen and heard no more in meeting and greeting, with the friends of his long and busy life, causes saddened hearts. "Mr. Tracy was a man of quiet and unostentatious demeanor. His disposition was that which made him avoid rather than seek that prominence so sought after by many ; but his sterling qualities of manhood were known and admired by those who came within the circle of his acquaintance. His life was pure and blameless. He was kind and charitable, a Christian gentleman,—as another has written of him, 'one of nature's noblemen.' Advancing age did not impair the genial sunshine of his nature. In all his relations with his fellow men he was courteous. He was the agreeable companion of his associates and men of his own years, and at the same time his heart was ever young; and in him the children had a friend. The memory of Lathrop J. Tracy will live long in the hearts of all who knew him." Rufus Avery Tracy, of the thirty-seventh generation, the third son of Lathrop J. Tracy, was born at Mansfield, Ohio, September 8, 1865, attended Oberlin College dur1880-1,o-1, and January 16, 1882, entered the employ of the Citizens' National Bank, serving as a messenger boy, bookkeeper, teller and assistant cashier. On account of impaired health he severed his connection with the bank April 15, 1894, and took a position in the employ of the Mansfield Mutual Insurance Company, also establishing a local insurance agency in company with J. M. Cook, under the firm name of Cook & CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 491 Tracy. In January, 1895, he was appointed general agent of the Mansfield Mutual Insurance Company. October 17, 1888, he married Miss Harriet Edith Wagner, a daughter of John W. and Malinda C Wagner. Their children are : John Wagner Tracy, born January 13, 1890, and died June 18, following; Rachel Wagner Tracy, born October 28, 1892; and Sarah Lathrop Tracy, born August 22, 1895. Mr. Tracy is a young man of fine business ability and exemplary character. HIRAM E. KINGSBORO. Among the well known citizens of the town of Shelby, Ohio, who have made their birthplace known through the state and even beyond, is Hiram E. Kingsboro, the subject of this sketch. He was born at Shelby, in 1844, and is the son of John and Jane (Wilson) Kingsboro, the latter a daughter of Eli and Mable (Barnes) Wilson, who came, in company with the 'Whitney family, to this county June 20, 1818. Eli Wilson was born in 1789 and was a soldier of the war of 1812, belonging to a Connecticut regiment, and became a general of militia, in this state, in 1830. He built the first cabin in the town of Shelby, in 1818, and was the pioneer in the mill business. The father of our subject came to Shelby, Ohio, in 1835, although he was born near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, about 1814. His father was a native of Ireland, who loved the old country and became a member of the band of Emmett's United Irishmen, in 1796, this causing the necessity of emigration, after the execution of Emmett. He was of military mold and joined the forces of the United States, accompanying General Scott to Canada, and engaging in the battles of Lundy's Lane, Chippewa, Niagara and Fort George. When the Civil war broke out the father of our subject enlisted first in Company D, Fifteenth Regiment, in answer to the three-months call for troops, and re-enlisted in October, 1861, entering Sherman's brigade, Sixty-forth Ohio, this being for three years. The army of the Cumberland, to which Mr. Kingsboro was attached, saw much hard service, but he escaped injury and enlisted as a veteran at the close of his former term of service. During his connection with the Ohio regiment he held the position of sergant, but his veteran connection was with Sherman's army, and he was sent to Texas, being mustered out in 1865, returning to his home and family in 1866. Our subject was reared in Shelby, where he received his education. His CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 492 father was established here in the shoe business and he also became interested in that line. On May 2, 1864, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Sixty-third Ohio Regiment, as sergeant, and was attached to the First Brigade, Third Division, Tenth Corps, under General B. F. Butler, was in the James river expedition, was under fire in front of Petersburg, and was one of the number detailed to build the pontoon bridge, by means of which General Grant's army crossed the James river, in 1864, a large amount of dangerous service for enlistment of one hundred, and twenty days. He was a member of the troops called out at the time of the incursion of General. Kirby Smith, when they were so feelingly thanked by the lamented Governor Tod, of the state. The marriage of our subject took place in 1864, to Miss Mary A. Gettle, a daughter of William and Mary (Hershiser) Gettle, who came here1820,82o, from Pennsylvania. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Kingsboro : Orpha Dell, who married Joseph C. Lewis, of Shelby, on November 20, 1884; Hattie Laura, who married Benjamin J. Kuhn, of Mansfield, Ohio, January 15, 1884; John R., a druggist at Urbana; Ohio; and Charles E., who also is a druggist. Mrs. Kingsboro has always taken an active interest in all public affairs and has been recognized as a capable and efficient citizen. He has served two terms as a member of the town council, has been a member and the president of the school board, and chief of the Shelby fire department. During his administration of the latter office his hook and ladder company became the champion of the state of Ohio, and during 1873-4 it won every prize, contests then being a favorite sport. After their disbandment Mr. Kingsboro formed a military organization called the Shelby Light Guards, which continued in existence for seven years, during which time they visited through Ohio and other states, and the services of our subject in this connection were recognized by the presentation of a fine sword, bearing a very appropriate inscription, testifying to the esteem in which he was held. While the Australian ballot system was under consideration in Ohio, Kingsborohoro was one of the Republican representatives of the election board of Richland county. For four years he served efficiently as a gauger for the government, during the administration of President Grant. He has been connected with the Masonic order since 1865, and is a member of Harker Post, G. A. R., of which he has been the commander, and also has been captain of the Sons of Veterans. He belongs to Shelby Lodge, No. 392, K. of P., and is also a member of the Uniformed Rank, Damon Com- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 495 R. C. Quinn is a prominent farmer of Richland county and is an ex-soldier of the Civil war, having served in the Union army from 1862 to 1865. Mrs. Quinn has had the care of fourteen children, several of them being the children of her brother. Her nephew, Bartholomew Flannery, is living in Mansfield. He is thirty-one years of age and is a well educated young man, having attended college after getting through with his common-school course. Mrs. Quinn, like all the rest of her family, is a devout Catholic, and well remembers the burning of old St. Peter's church during the second term of Mr. Flannery as sheriff. Mrs. Quinn has two sisters and two brothers. Mrs. Catherine Agan, one of the sisters, is a widow, living on East Sixth street: She had eleven boys, seven of whom are still living. Mrs. Annie Burk, the other sister, is living on Diamond street, Mansfield. She also is a widow, and has one boy, eighteen years of age, and one daughter, twelve years of age. The brothers, Patrick and Cornelius Hogan, also live in Mansfield. Mrs. Quinn is enjoying the best of health and is one of the most useful communicants of St. Peter's church. She is an excellent woman in every way and has a host of friends. JOHN WISE. John Wise, a retired merchant of Butler, was born in what is now Ashland county, but was then a part of Wayne county, Ohio, on the 26th of April, 1827. His father, George F. Wise, was a native of Wittenberg, Germany, and came to America in 1804., when about twenty years of age, crossing the Atlantic in a sailing vessel, which dropped anchor in the harbor of Philadelphia after a voyage of three months. He was a tailor by trade, completing his apprenticeship in London, England. He worked in a sugar refinery in order to secure money for his emigration, and on hoard the ship was. employed as a half sailor, thus meeting the expenses of the voyage. He had only seventy-five cents when he landed in Philadelphia, and he gave that to a beggar. For a time he was employed at the tailor's trade in Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love, and later engaged in the same line of business in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but subsequently secured a position as a farm hand. After aiding in the labors of the field through the clay time he would devote his evenings to his trade. After his marriage he engaged in chopping wood and worked on a farm. In 1815 he came to what is now Ashland county, Ohio, a distance of three hundred miles from his old Pennsylvania home. Three times he made the trip on foot in order to make payments 496 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. upon his farm, which he entered from the government, and to which he removed in 1820. It was covered with a tract of heavy timber, and in the midst of the forest he erected a log cabin. He then began clearing the land, transforming it into highly cultivated fields. Upon that place he spent his remaining days, dying at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. During the war of 1812 he enlisted in the service and started for the front, but peace was declared ere he reached the scene of hostilities. In politics he was an active Democrat and in religious belief a Lutheran. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Christiana Weaver, was a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but her parents were of German birth. She, too, was a member of the Lutheran church, and she lived to be ninety-one years of age. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Wise were born fourteen children, thirteen of whom reached years of maturity. In a typical pioneer home on the western frontier John Wise was reared. Much of the land in that section of the state was in its primitive condition and the work of civilization and progress seemed scarcely begun. He assisted in the task of developing the home farm and in the public school acquired his education, being there a schoolmate of Senator Allison, of Iowa. At the age of twenty he went to Ashland to learn the trade of wagon and carriage making, serving an apprenticeship of two years, during which time he received fifteen dollars per year in compensation for his services. On the expiration of that period he went to North Liberty, and there, farming a partnership, engaged in business on his own account. After nine years the partnership was dissolved and Mr. Wise removed to Iowa, where he remained for three years, working at his trade. In 1862 he came to Butler and established a wagon and carriage repair shop, which he conducted until 1868. when he opened a hardware store and tin shop. A few years after- ward he sold the latter. but continued to conduct the hardware store until 1896. when he disposed of that business and has since practically lived retired. He owns seventy acres of land, a part of which is within the corporation limits of Butler, and two store buildings. On the 21st of August. 1851. Mr. Wise was united in marriage to Miss Amity Armentrout, who was born in Newville. Richland county, January 19. 1833. a daughter of Jacob and Mary (Hammond) Armentrout, both of whom were natives of the Shenandoah valley of Virginia, in which locality they were married. The father was born in 1800 and became a farmer and cabinetmaker. He brought his family to Richland county. but in 1854 removed to Iowa, locating near Tipton. where he died. at the age of seventy-seven years. In politics he was an active Democrat. His wife CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 497 belonged to the Baptist church and died at the age of eighty-five years. They had twelve children, all of whom reached mature years and are still living. Mrs. Wise has spent her entire life in Richland county, and by her marriage 'has become the mother of four children : Cromwell, who is engaged in the dry-goods business in Butler ; Milton, a dealer in shoes and harness in Butler; Oscar, who is engaged in the telephone business, building a line to Arlington, Ohio ; and Flora, who died at the age of sixteen years. In his political views Mr. Wise is a Democrat and takes great interest ni the success of his party, keeping well informed on the issues of the day, as every true American citizen should do. He served for several years as a justice of the peace in Knox county. He belongs to Thrall Lodge, No. 170, F. & A. M., of Frederickstown, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, while two of their children belong to the Methodist Protestant church. In business Mr. Wise has attained a desirable success. Dependent entirely upon his own labors, he has surmounted the obstacles in his path, and the difficulties which he has encountered have served as an impetus to renewed labor. In this way he has advanced steadily to a plane of affluence, and now, having acquired a handsome competence, he is enjoying a well earned rest. SAMUEL C. CLARK. In this publication, which has to do with those who have been in the past or are to-day prominently concerned in the business, professional, political and social life of Richland county, we are gratified to give a specific consideration to Samuel C. Clark, of Mansfield, for his life has been one of activity and he is widely known throughout the county. Mr, Clark is a native son of the Buckeye state, having been born in Mount Gilead, Morrow county, July 14, 1850, the son of George Northrup Clark. The latter's father was Samuel Clark, one of the pioneers of Ohio. He was a native of the state of Connecticut, whence he came to Ohio in the early days, locating at Boardman, Mahoning county, where he was one of the first settlers, becoming one of the influential men of that section of the state. He married a Miss Northrup, of the well known old New England family of that name, and they reared two sons and three daughters. His son, George N., the father of the immediate subject of this review. removed from Mahoning to Morrow county, settling in South Woodbury, where he was 498 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. engaged in the dry-goods business for many years, being very successful in his endeavors. He was a man of strong intellectuality and inflexible integrity and his prominence and influence in Morrow county were umistakable, as shown in the fact that he served two consecutive terms in the state legislature, being the first representative that the town of Woodbury had ever had in the general assembly. At the outbreak of the war of the Rebellion George N. Clark signalized his patriotism and loyalty by enlisting for service, as a member of the Ninety-sixth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he held the office of adjutant. At the close of the war he was elected county auditor, which led to his removal to the county-seat, Mt. Gilead, in 1865, and there he passed the residue of his life, passing away in 1893, at an advanced 'age and secure in the esteem of all who knew him. He married Mary Lowrey and had five children, of whom three survive : Samuel C., of this sketch; Cyrus C., who is engaged in the crude-oil business in Findlay, Ohio; and Alice C., the wife of Charles Miller, who is a clerk in the freight office of the Pittsburg, Akron & Western Railroad, at Akron. Samuel C. Clark came to Mansfield in the year 1869. For some twelve or thirteen years he was employed by the S. N. Ford Lumber Company, and then for a period of eleven years he was a railway postal clerk; later was in charge of the Fulton Truck & Foundry Company's business for about two years ; for about one year he was the superintendent of the Manfield water works, and on the 1st of May, 1899, he received from Mayor Brown the appointment to the important and exacting office of chief of the police department of Mansfield, and this position he held till September, 1900. He engaged in the fire and life insurance business in February, 1901, in which he is meeting with success. Mr. Clark was one of the charter members of Mansfield Lodge, No. 56, B. P. O. E., and is also a member of Madison Lodge, No. 26, Knights of Pythias, maintaining a lively interest in these fraternities. In his political adherency he has always given a stanch allegiance to the Republican party and its principles. Turning in conclusion to the more purely domestic chapter in the career of Mr. Clark, we record that on February 26, 1880, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Carrie M. Day, a daughter of Sylvanus B. Day, a well-known resident of Mansfield. Mrs. Clark has two brothers,—Lieutenant Willis B. Day, of the United States Navy, who is at present stationed in the government navy yards at Brooklyn, New York ; and Benjamin F. Day, CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 499 who is connected with the wholesale confectionery establishment of Voegele & Demming, of Mansfield. Mrs. Clark's grandfather in the agnate line was Benjamin F. Day, who was a native of the historic old state of New Jersey and who came from Chatham, Morris county, that state, to Ohio, about the year 1838, becoming one of the pioneers of the Buckeye state. Of his children we offer the following brief record : Sylvanus B. is the father of Mrs. Clark, as has been already noted. Rear Admiral B. F. Day, of the United States Navy, has the distinction of being the youngest man to occupy that important office in the navy department of our government. He resides on a plantation near Glasgow, Virginia, about three miles from the famous Natural Bridge. Calvin Day, a resident of Kansas City, Missouri, is the city passenger agent of the Santa Fe Railroad. Maria became the wife of John Blymeyer, a retired manufacturer of Mansfield. Matilda is the widow of D. A. Beekman and resides at Plymouth, Ohio. Harriet is the wife of Wells Rogers, a retired shoe merchant of Plymouth, this state. MITCHELL STARR, M. D. There are few men whose lives are crowned with the honor and respect which is universally accorded Mitchell Starr ; but through more than half a century's connection with Ohio's history his has been an unblemished character. With him success in life has been reached by his sterling qualities of mind and heart, true to every manly principle, and he has never deviated from what his judgment would indicate to be right and honorable between his fellow men and himself ; he has never swerved from the path of duty, and now, after a long and eventful career, he can look back over the past with pride and enjoy the remaining years of his earthly pilgrimage with a consciousness of having gained for himself by his honorable, straightforward career the confidence and respect of the entire community in which he lives. We read of the lives of the heroes of the past, and they not only prove of historical interest but serve to inspire and encourage us; yet we need not go to former ages for examples that are worthy of emulation. The men of to-day who have won distinction and honor, equal in exemplary traits of character those who have passed away, and the life record of Mitchell Starr may well prove of great benefit if we will but heed the obvious lessons which it contains. Dr. Starr is one of the oldest native sons of Richland county. He resides in Shenandoah. He was born in Blooming Grove township, on the