350 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. firm, which was selected after thorough tests by expert engineers. While Bascom is not a pretentious town, selection for such an industry was a wise one, labor conditions and abundant supply of material giving it precedence, and it may honestly claim to be the center of one of the important industries of the country. In 1899 Mr. Matthews exhibited one of his naphtha launches at the International Export Exposition, in Philadelphia, and secured a medal on the same, while in 1900, at the Paris exposition, in competition with fully one hundred other manufacturers, his boat received the highest award, this fact being sufficiently significant to require no further statement as to the superior excellence of the boats manufactured by the concern. Mr. Matthews is one of the able young business men of the county and is held in the highest regard by all who know him. In politics he exercises his franchise in support of the principles and policies of the Republican party, and while he is essentially public-spirited in his attitude he has never been an aspirant for political office. He is a member of Pickwick Lodge, No. 175, Knights of Pythias, at Tiffin, and is also identified with the uniformed rank of this order. On the 1st of August, 1894, Mr. Matthews was united in marriage to Miss Martha J. Miller, daughter of Wesley W. Miller, the present postmaster of Bascom, and of this union two children have been born,—Carl L. and Ward A. JOHN SEITZ. John Seitz, one of the most prominent citizens of Seneca county, was born on the farm where J. K. Spitler now resides, in Bloom township, on the 12th of March, 1829. His paternal grandfather, Elder Lewis Seitz. was a native of York county, Pennsylvania. About the year 1800 he removed to Fairfield county, Ohio, settling near Lancaster, where he soon became recognized as one of the most enterprising and progressive citizens of the locality. At the public land sale he pur- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 351 chased about two hundred and forty acres of land, but he never removed to that property and it was afterward divided among his children. He became a minister of the Primitive Baptist church, and throughout his life he was an active worker in the cause of the Master. Elder Lewis Seitz, Jr., the father of him whose name introduces this review, was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, October 21, 1802, and there he received his education and was early inured to the work of the farm. He, too, became a minister of the Baptist church, but as a means of livelihood followed the tilling of the soil, for he never received any compensation for his work as a minister. In 1825 he located on a part of the land which had been purchased by his father in Bloom township, on which lie erected a one-room log cabin, in the woods. The land was then in its primitive condition, containing large groves of black walnut, butternut and poplar timber, but as the years passed by he succeeded in clearing and improving one hundred and sixty acres, and there he made his home until 1864, his landed possessions at that time consisting of two hundred and forty acres. In that year, however, he left his pioneer home and for a few years thereafter was a resident of Wyandot county, after which he returned to Bloom township, there maintaining his residence until his life's labors were ended in death, in 1890. For sixty-six years he served as the pastor of the Baptist church at Honey Creek, in Bloom township, and he also held various township offices, his political support having been given to the Democracy. For his wife Mr. Seitz chose Miss Barbara Kagy, and they became the parents of fourteen children, twelve of whom grew to years of maturity : Catherine, who became the wife of D. H. Patterson and is now deceased ; Lydia, the deceased wife of Jacob Seiple; Elizabeth, the wife of Eli Bretz and a resident of Wyandot county, Ohio ; John, the subject of this review ; Mary, who married A. D. Bretz and makes her home in Marion county, Ohio; Annie, deceased, who married Samuel Bretz ; Barbara, Hannah, Abraham, Daniel and Lewis, all deceased ; Aaron, a prominent farmer of Bloom township ; Lovina, who makes her home in Bloomville ; and Jonas, also deceased. The mother of this family was called to her final rest when she had reached the age of forty-two years. She, 352 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. too, was a member of the Baptist church, and was an active worker in the cause of Christianity. John Seitz, of this review, remained on the old home farm in Bloom township until he was eighteen years of age, during which time he pursued his education in the old log school-house of the neighborhood. He then entered the Seneca County Academy, at Republic, where he remained as a student for two terms, under W. H. Harvey as principal, and for a time thereafter he followed the teacher's profession in his native locality. After his marriage he continued to make his home under the parental roof for the following year, while for the three subsequent years he was engaged in merchandising in Bloomville, after which he returned to the locality of his birth and there located on eighty acres of unimproved land. Directing his energies to the arduous task of clearing and improving his land, Mr. Seitz soon had his farm under an excellent state of cultivation, and there he made his home until 1865, when he came to the farm on which he now resides, here purchasing one hundred and eighty acres. As the years have passed by and prosperity has rewarded his well directed efforts he has succeeded in placing his fields under a fine state of cultivation, has placed many valuable and substantial improvements on his land and has erected a large brick residence. His is one of the attractive and valuable homesteads of the locality, and everything about the place indicates a progressive and thrifty owner. There he is extensively and successfully engaged in general farming and stock-raising. On the 9th of April, 1851, Mr. Seitz was united in marriage to Miss Cecilia J. Hite, a daughter of David and Elizabeth (DeLong) Hite. Unto this union have been born seven children, namely : Milford K., a. prominent jeweler of Bloomdale, Wood county. Ohio; Omar B., who was accidentally killed by a horse on the range in Texas ; Marshall, a farmer and fruit-grower of Texarkana, Arkansas ; May, the wife of R. W. Thornburg, a prominent physician of Toledo ; Nettie, deceased ; and Orin K., who operates the home farm, married Rena Lamberson and they have one child, F. Marion. Mr. Seitz, of this review, is not a member of any religious denomination, but is a constant attendant at the Baptist church. He has ever CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 353 taken an active and commendable interest in the public affairs of the county, and has held many positions of honor and trust. In 1862 he was elected to the office of justice of the peace of Bloom township, and eight years afterward, in 1870, was elected to represent his district in the legislature, and so acceptably did he discharge the duties entrusted to him in that responsible position that he was re-elected for a second term. In 1874 and again in 1878 he was a member of the senate. Allen O. Myers was at that time clerk of the senate, and he gave to our subject the appellation of the "watch dog of the treasury," it having ever been the aim of Mr. Seitz to work for the masses, and while a member of that important body he proved a power for good to those he represented. From 1867 he became known as a Greenback Democrat, and in 1880 supported Weaver for the presidency. In that year also he was nominated by the Greenback party for governor of the state of Ohio, and in the ensuing campaign he visited various parts of the state. In 1887 the Union Labor pasty nominated Mr. Seitz for the same offiCe, and he received twenty-five thousand votes, after an active campaign. In 1891 he was the nominee of the People's party for governor, again visiting nearly every section of the state, making an able and spirited Canvass, and on this occasion also receiving a vote of twenty-five thousand. He had as competitors both McKinley and Campbell, and upon Labor Day he spoke from the same platform in Cincinnati, and the papers reported his speech as having effectually. captured the crowd. During this period Mr. Seitz also edited a column in the interests of the People's party in the Cincinnati Post. In 1892-3 he published in Tiffin the "Plow and Hammer," in the interests of the same party, and he has rendered most effective service h upholding the principles which he advocates, having been in demand as a campaign speaker in Michigan, Indiana, West Virginia, Texas, etc. The late General William H. Gibson, of Tiffin, paid him a marked tribute, saying that he was logical and eloquent and that there was but one man in northwestern Ohio who excelled him.. In 1896 Mr. Seitz was one of the presidential electors on the Bryan ticket, and was active in the campaign. under the direction of the campaign committee, and he has since 354 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. declined all importunities to become a candidate for office, maintaining an independent attitude in politics. Mr. Seitz is a man of strong mentality, keen discernment, great tact and resolute purpose and is therefore well fitted for the political honors which have been conferred upon him. He commands the respect of his fellow men by reason of his sterling worth of character, and Ohio numbers him among her honored sons. REV. PROF. J. H. GOOD, D. D. The subject of this sketch was a masterful man in his church, the Reformed church in the United States, and likewise in educational circles. Born on the 22d day of November, A. D. 1822, in the vicinity of Reading, Pennsylvania, it was in the Reading Academy he was prepared for pursuing a regular college course in famous Marshall College, subsequently called Franklin and Marshall College. He distinguished himself at Marshall College and afterward in the theological seminary of the Reformed church. He was the "honor man" in his class, and while he ranked first in scholarship he was also considered as ranking first in leadership of his fellow students, both in college and theological seminary. When Mr. Good was barely twenty-four years old he was induced by his distinguished instructors, especially by Professor Philip Schaff, D. D., LL. D. (who was impressed with the fact that the Reformed church needed a college in Ohio), to head such an educational movement by coming west in person and giving himself to the work. For three or four years he earnestly strove to make this educational movement in the Ohio synod something more than mere "synodical resolutions." No money was promised, no students pledged, nothing in fact but "wind" and "resolve" was Synod's contribution thus far toward founding a college as an adjunct of the theological seminary of the Reformed church. This latter school of theology had just made an inauspicious beginning, under Rev. Professor A. P. Freese, at Columbus, Ohio, and was hardly CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 355 expected to live. College-bred students for the seminary were likely to be lacking until the church itself put both institutions into such successful operation that the one might complement the other. To do this fifty years ago was many times more difficult than now, because a long campaign of information and the instilling enthusiasm throughout the church in eastern and southern Ohio had to be kept up under the alert management of Rev. Mr. Good and a few personal friends. In the central part of the state he labored personally and in the other parts by correspondence. By his wonderful hopefulness and persistence Professor J. H. Good, as the acknowledged champion of the great cause, carried the undertaking to a successful termination in the founding of Heidelberg College, at Tiffin, Ohio, in the month of November, A. D., 1850. During the four preceding years of his residence in Ohio, first at Lancaster and then at Columbus, so much apathy existed among the lay members of the Reformed denomination throughout the state, who were expected in their material prosperity to liberally furnish funds and students for an institution of higher learning, that Professor Good at his own financial risk, but with synodical authority, began, in the latter part of the year 1848, the publication of a church or denominational paper (the Christian World, now published at Dayton, Ohio), with the avowed purpose of making it the instrumentality of forwarding the college movement. The labors of this gifted leader in the Ohio synod were indefatigable,—in his private academy at Lancaster, Ohio, meant to be a starter of the church college, which might be relocated elsewhere; then in Columbus, Ohio, where he edited the church paper and taught in the theological seminary to prevent its becoming disorganized, all the while keeping up an extensive correspondence with Rev. Hiram Shaul, residing in Tiffin, which latter labor was wondrously fruitful, in that the citizens of Tiffin through Rev. Mr. Shaul finally made satisfactory proposals for locating the church's institutions in the enterprising little city of Tiffin. Its citizens, together with some Reformed people living in the vicinity, guaranteed a reasonable percentage of the large expense for grounds and the erection of a three-story college building, should the Ohio synod under Professor J. H. Good's leadership, be induced to found a first-class col- 356 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. lege in this new portion of the Buckeye state. What Rev. Mr. Good forecast and optimistically outlined in personal speech and in his wide and burdensome letter-writing was fully realized. Much had to be taken in faith on his personal assurance and pledge to the citizens as to what he could persuade synod to do in the case. The synod seemed likely to choose the central part of the state for locating the college, and, in fact, at a hastily called special meeting, its constitutionality being questioned at the time, it was in some unsatisfactory way or manner "resolved" to do this very thing. A few months later, however, the synod convened constitutionally in Navarre, Ohio, and accepted Professor J. H. Good's view of the situation. By an almost unanimous vote his. outspoken preference for Tiffin over any and all competing localities was in constitutional form indorsed. Furthermore he was at this meeting elected professor of mathematics. He received four-fifths of all the votes of synod, being considered the best mathematician ever graduated by Marshall College. He was expected to prepare a constitution and by-laws for the projected college, which he wrote and reported to synod and the same was adopted. Rector Reuben Good's school, begun in Tiffin immediately after the meeting of the Navarre synod, had in a few weeks so increased in the number and in the equality of its students as to have a satisfactory percentage of those advanced in the higher branches of study and prepared for a classical course in college in the near future. The number of these, together with the less advanced students, one hundred and fifty in all, Made it necessary for the strenuous mathematical professor to do a large amount of teaching during the first year of the school's existence, while having upon his broad shoulders many other very heavy burdens. The prosperity of the school, however unexpected, justified the wisdom of synod in its "resolution" to have a charter from the state of Ohio. On the 19th day of February, 1851, the general assembly of Ohio passed the act "to incorporate Heidelberg College, at the city of Tiffin." With a legal status thus secured, much was to be done, and nearly all devolved on the energetic Professor J. H. Good, in the absence of a president of the newly chartered college. Being a member of the board of trustees, CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 357 by the logic of events he must needs be its controlling spirit and leader. He served on all its important committees and saw that said committees did their work, or else he did it for them. He prevailed on his personal friend, Rev. Hiram Shaul, to give up the pastorate of the First Reformed church, at Tiffin, to. accept the position of financial agent and to devote his entire time to collecting funds for the seminary and an endowment for the college, thoroughly canvassing eastern Ohio and other portions of the state. It was arduous and discouraging work, and the agent was in constant communication with Professor Good, who animated and directed his work. At one time he actually prevented, by his own personal influence, the abandonment of the task. Professor Good's spirit was abroad in every part of the synod's. territory; his correspondence was immense, and most men would have quailed before the stupendous work to be done. Fortunately he was in the prime of life, in full possession of noble powers and his heart knew no fear. With faith in God and faith in his own resourceful nature he could not fail. Nay, this great father of Heidelberg lived to see a glorious success. achieved. A building adapted to the needs of the college was imperatively demanded. "Much of the labor connected with the erection of a suitable building devolved upon the energetic professor of mathematics," is the testimony of ex-Chancellor Kefauver after investigating documentary evidence. A site being chosen in the eastern portion of Tiffin, Professor Good, as chairman of the building committee, prepared the plans for the contemplated college edifice. The basement story was put up in the autumn of 1851 and the corner stone was laid by Major Lewis Baltzell, in behalf of the board of trustees, May 13, 1852, when General Samuel F. Carey pronounced an oration before a crowd of about seven thousand pe0ple. Professor Good's temporary connection with the theological seminary had not ceased upon his coming to Tiffin, in 185o, owing to the fact that the professor-elect of theology had not yet arrived. With the arrival of Professor E. V. Gerhart, A. M., in the latter part of May, 1851, he was relieved of further Supervision in reorganizing the theological seminary, but his work in the college was increased and he was 358 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. compelled to take additional branches of study, as was also the case with Professor Reuben Good, to whom the college trustees assigned the department of natural science; and this was also the case with Professor Sarah J. Thayer, a fine classical scholar, who gave the higher classes instruction in both Latin and Greek, in addition to other college duties. President E. V. Gerhart, of course, did his full quota of work in the chair of mental and moral philosophy, while Professor S. S. Rickley taught some of the normal branches of study, coming into the faculty a year later. The number of students rapidly increased from one hundred and fifty to very nearly two hundred, including those in the seminary. Thus there was sunshine as well as shadow in those early days of Heidelberg's history, when the pioneer settlers were not fully prepared, if in purse (which may be indeed questioned) yet not understandingly, for several years to adequately support the self-sacrificing professors and instructors. The latter defect was ably and grandly supplied by the sainted Henry Leonard and others whose names became imperishably connected with Heidelberg's history. Rev. A. Nelson, D. D., of the Methodist Episcopal denomination, says : "Heidelberg College and Heidelberg Theological Seminary, especially the former, made a strong showing from the very beginning." Rev. Leonard Bacon, D. D., LL. D., several years later says : "The college (Heidelberg), by reason of its able faculty and its determination to do thorough educational work, had a more encouraging outlook than many other western colleges which I personally visited and inspected by direction of the Western College Society of New England ;" and he recommended a donation of twenty-five hundred dollars to Heidelberg's contingent fund by his society. The society got into financial straits before this was paid, but from this eminent Congregationalist minister's good words Heidelberg realized something in aid in another form. Turning now to the personal characteristics of the "father of Heidelberg," who for thirty-eight years was one of Tiffin's distinguished citizens, we quote again from ex-Chancellor Kefauver, incidentally remarking that when about forty-five years old Professor Good received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Franklin and Marshall CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 359 College : "Dr. J. H. Good was wonderfully constituted. We find men greater than he was in some particular endowment, but few are his equals in gifts that make a man's life as symmetrical as was his. In his habits he was methodical in all his work. System was a great object with him. To this trait can be attributed largely the abundance of his labors. Dr. J. H. Good possessed a logical mind. He never jumped at conclusions, but in the smallest matters reasoned them out. It was owing to this fact that his religion was not of the emotional type, he being ready always to give a reason for the hope within him. He alarmed a congregation in our city not many years ago when he announced that there were twenty-nine propositions in the text, and entered upon their discussion with considerable animation. Before he had proceeded to any length in the sermon his hearers discovered that there was much in store for them, and that they would get it, too, without any trespassing upon either their time or patience. He was quite a literary man, being the author of a number of books, and a frequent contributor to our different church papers.- Dr.' Kefauver adds : "Intellectual giant as he was, he was not such a slave to his views as to suppose all others differing from him must be in the wrong. He was willing to allow to others of opposing sentiments the possibility of being right; and whenever the cause 0f truth required absolutely a union of sentiment between contending parties he had the magnanimity to do his part of the yielding in the case.- So much has been recorded on these pages about our subject as the father of Heidelberg and the institution's early history interwoven with his young life that of necessity much has been omitted regarding Ms happy domestic life, his pulpit ministrations, his active pen in controversial writing, his encouragement of the enlistment of college students for the defense of the Union in the dark days of 1861-5. and his subsequent occupancy of a position, from 1868 to 1888, at the head of Heidelberg Theological Seminary, when (1868) he gave up the chair of mathematics to Professor C. Hornung, A. M.,—all of which must be left to the writer of a larger biography than this short sketch. Dr. Lewis H. Steiner. former librarian of the Enoch Pratt free library, of Baltimore, Maryland, a student of Professor Good before the 360 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. latter came to Ohio, gives us in fitting language these concluding words: "Scholarly, deeply pious, devotedly attached to his church, a vigorous and honest antagonist, an excellent citizen, he has gone from the church militant to receive the reward that awaits good and faithful servants. The church will be unworthy of her history when she forgets the memory of men like Jeremiah Haak Good." Dr. Good died in Tiffin January 25, 1888, and over his grave, in beautiful Greenlawn cemetery, his mo"Resurgam,","s the simple inscription "Resurgam expressive of his immortal hope. DANIEL H. CRAMER. The prosperity of any community, town or city depends upon its commercial activity, its industrial interests and its trade relations, and therefore the real upbuilders of a town are those who stand at the head of the leading enterprises. One of the most progressive, energetic and reliable business men of Seneca county is Daniel H. Cramer, who is extensively engaged in the manufacture of lumber. His home is in Loudon township and he was born on the farm where he now resides, November 22, 1858, his parents being William and Charlotte (Snyder) Cramer, the former a native of Pennsylvania. In their family were the following children: Daniel H., of this review ; William A., Morgan E., John J. and Frederick V., all of whom reside in Fostoria; Jane, the wife of Isaac Stultz, of Jackson township; Nettie, the wife of John Hazen, of Loudon township; Anna, who married Edward Seeman, of Dunkirk, Indiana; Allie A., who resides at home; and Nellie, who died at the age of six years. Under the parental roof Daniel H. Cramer was reared, and in the common schools he acquired a knowledge of the branches of English learning usually taught in such institutions. His business and mechanical training was received in his father's mill, and there he worked until 1893, mastering every department of the business and becoming thoroughly familiar with the work of360nufacturing lumber, both in prin- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 361 ciple and detail. In the year mentioned he purchased the business of his father and has since been at the head of what is now one of the leading enterprises of the community. From the time he was fifteen years of age he has been the head sawyer in this mill. When he entered upon the duties of the position he was so small that he had to stand upon a box. There is no planing mill in this portion of the state that is better equipped or more complete in its appointments. It is supplied with modern machinery of the latest improved kinds needed in the business, much of which has been introduced since our subject became the owner. He is a splendid business man, enterprising and wide-awake and knows how to reach maximum results with minimum effort. There is nothing wasted about his place, every slab being used in some manner. His careful supervision has made the enterprise one of profit, and in addition to its control Mr. Cramer is also engaged in contracting and building-, having erected some of the best houses and barns in this section of the county. He is also the owner of three or four threshers, which he operates in conjunction with his other business affairs. On the 13th of December, 1880, Mr. Cramer was united in marriage to Miss Isa Oyermeire, a native of Sandusky county, Ohio, and a daughter of Hugh Overmeire, a retired farmer now living in Fostoria. In his political affiliations Mr. Cramer is a Republican, but has never sought or desired office, preferring to give his entire attention to his business interests. To him there has come the attainment of a distinguished position in connection with the great material industries of the county, and his efforts have been so discerningly directed along well-defined lines that he seems to have realized at any one point of progress. the full measure of his possibilities for accomplishment at that point. A man of distinct and forceful individuality, of broad mentality and most mature judgment, he has left and is leaving his impress upon the industrial world. For years he has been an important factor in the development of the natural resources of the state, in the upbuilding the county and in the promotion of the enterprises which add not alone to his indiyidual prosperity but also advance the general welfare and prosperity of the county in which he makes his home.. - 23 - 362 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. JUDGE JOHN McCAULEY. When the history of Seneca county and her public men shall have been written its pages will bear no more widely known name and record no more distinguished career than that of Judge John McCauley. If "biography is the home aspect of history," as Wilmott has expressed it, it is entirely within the province of true history to commemorate and perpetuate the lives and characters, the achievements and.honor of the illustrious sons of the nation. The name of Judge McCauley is inseparably associated with the history of jurisprudence in this part of Ohio, and his characteristics are not unlike those of Carlyle, the philosopher, for there have ever been manifest in him a certain rugged strength, strong determination and decisive views, which have been powerful agents in winning him success at the bar. The Judge is a son of Henry and Susan (Kelley) McCauley. both of whom were born and. reared in Paisley. Scotland. They were married in 1834 and immediately afterward emigrated to the Union States, settling in Columbiana county, Ohio, where they purchased a farm. Later they sold that property and bought a tract of land in Wood county, Ohio, where they lived for about six years, when they removed to a farm in Hancock county, Ohio, where the father spent his remaining days, his death occurring in 1881, when he was seventy-seyen years of age. His widow survived him twelye years, dying at the home of the Judge, in Tiffin, at the age of eighty-seyen. Judge McCauley was born in Columbiana county,. December 9, 1834, and attended the primitive schools of Wood and Hancock counties until sixteen years of age, when he entered the academy at Republic, Seneca county, three years being devoted to preparation for college. At the age of nineteen he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, completing the classical course by graduation in 1859, and receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He taught several terms of school in order to pay his expenses while pursuing his education in the academy and college. The resolute spirit which enabled him thus. to make his own way through school has also been an important factor in his pro- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 363 fessional career and has gained him advancement to a prominent place in the ranks of Ohio's able attorneys. On the 1st of September, 1859, he began reading law with the late Judge James Pillars, one of the most brilliant and prominent attorneys and jurists of northern Ohio. By hard study and close application he was enabled to pass the examination at the end of a year and was accordingly admitted to the bar. In 1860 he began practice in Tiffin, and in 1875 he entered into partnership with Robert G. Pennington, a distinguished member of the Seneca county bar, this relation being maintained for four years. Later he became associated with Henry J. Weller, his present partner, the firm of McCauley & Weller taking a foremost position at the bar of central Ohio, and the important litigation with which their names are connected' being an indication of their ability and the esteem in which they are held. Mr. McCauley was elected prosecuting attorney of Seneca county in 1865 and re-elected in 1867, serving for four years. In 1874 he was elected a member of the convention called to revise the state constitution. In 1879 he was elected judge of the common-pleas court for the tenth judicial district of Ohio, a district comprising Wood, Hancock, Hardin and Seneca counties. After three years upon that bench he resigned, in order to accept the position of a member of the supreme-court commission, which was tendered him by Governor Charles Foster, in April, 1883. His duties in this capacity were no less arduous and important than were those of the supreme court judges, though he served faithfully as a member of this commission until its work was finished in 1885, when he resumed the private practice of law. His knowledge of the law being comprehensive and profound, he was well qualified for the important duties which devolved upon him, and he was accredited with strict fairness and impartiality in his rulings on the bench. He fully sustained the dignity of the office, permitted no contention or wrangling among counsel and despatched the business of the court with remarkable facility. His appointment to the supreme-court commission was generally recognized by members of the bar as one of peculiar fitness, and at no time did his course fail to justify their high regard for him. His advice is freely and constantly sought by the younger members of the bar, and 364 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. is generally given. He has been remarkably successful in practice, is powerful in argument before court or jury and marshals his points in evidence with masterly skill, and with marked accuracy applies to them the principles of law bearing upon the subject. In 1864 Judge McCauley was united in marriage to Miss Josephine Lockwood, a daughter of Dr. Alonzo. and Marinda (Newcomb) Lockwood, of Fostoria, Ohio. Unto them were born five daughters, of whom one died in infancy. The Judge is of a most sympathetic disposition and those in need or distress never appeal to him. in vain. There is no display or ostentation connected with his benevolence and he is entirely free from vanity, being a plain-spoken, large-hearted and fair-minded man. He holds no membership relations with church or secret society, but is guided by a high sense of morality and broad humanitarian principles. JOSEPH SHAW. Captain Joseph Shaw, now deceased, was through many years numbered among the representative citizens of Seneca county, and by an upright and 'honorable career commanded the respect of all who knew him. He was born, in Scipio township, Cayuga county, New York, March 20, 1811. His father, Robert Shaw, was born in 1783 and was a farmer by occupation. After arriving at years of maturity he wedded Sarah Keller, who was born in 1787, and in 1836 they came to Seneca county, Ohio, locating in Scipio township, where Robert Shaw purchased several hundred acres of land and located upon the farm, on Morrisson creek, now owned by Mrs. John Rosenfeldt. Unto him and his wife were born ten children.: Mary, Eliza, Joseph, Matilda, Sallie, Silas, George, Roxa, Jerome and Alfred. The last named is the only one living, and he resides at Chicago, Illinois. The father of this family remained an honored resident of Seneca county until his death, which occurred August 14. 1864. His wife survived him about four years, passing away in 1868. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 365 Captain Joseph Shaw, whose name introduces this review, was reared in the state of his nativity and when a young man was captain, of an Erie canal boat for seven years, running between Albany and Buffalo. In 1841 he came to Seneca county, making his way by canal to the Great Lakes, and when he arrived in this portion Of the state he became identified with agricultural interests, purchasing one hundred and sixty acres of land in Scipio township, two and one-half miles .west of Republic. He at once began the cultivation and improvement of his farm, which in course of time he transformed into a valuable property. In the year of his emigration westward Mr. Shaw was united in marriage, at Genoa, New York, to Rachel Ogden Price, a native of that place. They became the parents of three children, the eldest being Jane E., who married Captain George Tubbs. The second daughter, Helen, is the wife of Sergeant E. E. Heath, and Annie E. is the wife of G. R. Hemmingway, the proprietor of the Miller House, in Ashland, Ohio. Captain Shaw, with his family, returned to New York in 185o, remaining for twenty years, much of the time being spent as a hotel proprietor at various points. He returned to a farm west of Republic in 1870, but his last years were passed in Republic, where he died August 20, 1 87 7. His widow survived him twenty-three years, dying in Ashland on March 3o, 1900. Jane E. Shaw, their eldest daughter. was born in 1843 and on the 26th of May, 1868, she gave her hand in marriage to Captain George Tubbs, who was a native of Elmira, New York, born May 19, 1833. At the time of the civil war he aided in organizing the One Hundred and Forty-first Regiment of New York Infantry, being elected second lieutenant of Company I. He was promoted to first lieutenant and at the battle of Resaca he was wounded by a minie ball, which struck him in the right foot. After his recovery he was given charge of an invalid corps for a short time, but later was detailed as topographical engineer on the staff of General Knipe, commanding a brigade of the First Division of the Twentieth Army Corps. Subsequently, on the march from Sayannah through the Carolina's, he was appointed topographical engineer on the staff of General Jefferson C. Davis, of Indiana, who com- 366 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. manded the Fourteenth Army Corps. These honorable positions on staff duty were conferred on Captain Tubbs both for his efficiency as an officer and on account of his physical inability to march and command his company. After participating in the grand review, in the city of Washington, Captain Tubbs returned to the Empire state, where he was married. He resided in Candor, Tioga county, New York, where he conducted an iron foundry for four years. On the expiration of that period he sought a home in Ohio, living in Republic and vicinity. Here he maintained pleasant relationship with his old army comrades through his membership in Robinson Post, G. A. R., at Republic. He served as commander of Robinson Post, as mayor of Republic and was serving his second term as justice of the peace at the time of his death, which occurred on the 2d of March, 1899. For the past fifteen years Mrs. Jane E. Tubbs has been actively engaged in Relief Corps work, and is filling the position of president of Robinson W. R. C. for the fifth time. She is also a member of the Farmers' Household Club, the Reading Circle and the Daughters of Rebekah. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Tubbs was blessed with three children : Joseph K., who is an oil producer living in Rollersyille, Ohio ; Robert M., who is in the office of F. E. Myers & Brothers, at Ashland, Ohio ; and Charles E., who is living with his mother in Republic. FRANCIS J. BORK. Among the prominent and successful citizens of Seneca county, Ohio, must be mentioned Francis J. Bork, who is a prosperous farmer and respected and useful member of society. His valuable estate, which is located two miles south of Tiffin, attracts attention and favorable comment, not only on account of the evidences of agricultural superiority but also by reason of its attractiveness and its air of generous comfort. Francis J. Bork was born on Christmas day, 1843, in Bloom town- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 367 ship, Seneca county, being a son of Frederick and Margaret (Young) Bork, natives, respectively, of Germany and France. His early life was spent on a farm and his experiences were those of the average youth of his locality,—plenty of farm work in the summers and study in the district schools in the winters. Until he had reached his seventeenth year Mr. Bork lived with his parents in Bloom township, and in 186o hey accompanied them on their removal to Seneca township, remaining at home and assisting his father until the date of his own marriage, eleven years later. The marriage of Mr. Bork was to an estimable and attractive young lady of his neighborhood, Miss Elizabeth Smith, who became his wife on January 29, 1871. They have one child, Maria, aged nine years. Soon after marriage Mr. and Mrs. Bork came to their present farm, and here they have made their home ever since. Although the hospitable home of our subject and wife is one of the most comfortable and well appointed in this township, this is almost wholly due to the industrious efforts of its owner, as very few improvements had been made on this farm when Mr. Bork came to it. When he purchased his farm it was with the intention of engaging extensively in farming and stock-raising. It consists of one hundred and fifty-nine acres of land and is unusually valuable on account of its close proximity to the city of Tiffin. Being a practical man, Mr. Bork understands all these advantages, and he has one hundred and thirty acres of his land under cultivation, raising grain and other products for which this part of the state is notable. As a successful stock-raiser he is well known in the township, his superior methods of feeding and sanitary housing meeting with excellent results. Mr. Bork has taken a deep and intelligent interest in his vocation and he has also taken pride in his surroundings. In 1881 he built one of the most commodious and complete barn structures to be found in this neighborhood, its dimensions being thirty-eight by eighty feet. This was followed, in 1888, by the erection of a large, modern brick residence, of pleasing appearance without and solid comfort within. Mr. Bork has 368 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. provided for safety from fire by having all of his numerous buildings covered with slate roofs, adding beauty to utility. For many years Mr. Bork has been a leading member of the Democratic party in this section and served as township supervisor for a long period. In this position he looked carefully after the interests of the tax-payers and his administration has reflected credit upon the office. In religious life he is a consistent member of St. Joseph's Catholic church. Mr. Bork is a quiet, unobtrusive citizen, busily occupied with his own large interests, but takes a public-spirited pride in the adyancement of enterprises which promise to be of benefit to his township. He is charitable in his benefactions, liberal in his support of public enterprises, honest and upright in his business dealings and kind and deyoted in the bosom of his family. He is a man who not only possesses the esteem of his fellow citizens, but who also deserves it. Mrs. Bork was born in Germany, the daughter of Matthias and Mary Ann (Smith) Smith, who emigrated to America when she was two years of age, locating on a farm in Liberty township, Seneca county, Ohio, whence they eventually removed to Lucas county, where. Mr. Smith's death occurred. His widow still maintains her home in that county. Mrs. Bork was a young lady of twenty-one years at the time of her marriage, and she has proved a true companion and helpmeet to her husband. REV. GEORGE W. WILLIARD, D. D., LL. D. As a minister of the gospel and as editor and educator Rev. Dr. George W. Williard was widely known, and although his life's labors have been ended his influence is yet widely felt in the lives of those with whom he was associated, and bears fruit in the kindly deeds and virtues of those who follow his example and carry out his precepts. Instructing through the press, from the pulpit and in the school-room, the lessons which he expounded fell deep into the heart of many a reader or auditor and aided in the development of upright manhood and Christian CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 369 womanhood. Tiffin, Ohio, knew him long and well as the president of Heidelberg College, which he raised from a comparatively insignificant institution to the rank of the best colleges of the land. George W. Williard was a native of Frederick county, Maryland, where he was born on the l0th of June, 1818, the son of John and Mary (Shafer) Williard. His ancestors were. French Huguenots, who fled from their native land to escape the persecutions incident to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, proceeding to Germany and thence emigrating to America in the early colonial epoch. Dr. Williard's early educational advantages were very meager, but, haying determined to devote his life to the Christian ministry, he eagerly availed himself of every opportunity which would enable him to broaden his knowledge and thus be better prepared for the exalted calling. To this end he entered the high school at York, Pennsylvania, when sixteen years of age. There he remained until the school was removed to. Mercersburg, where Marshall College was established in 1835, and in the latter institution he was graduated with the class of 1838. It may be noted, incidentally, that Marshall College was later merged into Franklin and Marshall College, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and that the institution is maintained under the auspices of the Reformed church. He studied theology at Mercersburg and was licensed to preach in October, 1840, being soon afterward ordained a clergyman of the Reformed church. He spent four years in simultaneous charge of three congregations, one being in Virginia, twelve miles distant from his two Pennsylvania churches. On the expiration of that period he went to Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in preaching and also taught in the local academy. For three years thereafter he was pastor of a church in Winchester, Virginia, and then became pastor of the Reformed church at Columbus, Ohio, continuing at that place until 1855, when he resigned to accept a call from a church in Dayton, Ohio, where he labored as an earnest and zealous minister of the gospel until 1866. In that year he accepted the presidency of Heidelberg College, in Tiffin. Previously to this time, in 1853, he was elected editor of the Western Missionary, the organ of the Reformed church in the west, and he continued to fill that position, in connection with his 370 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. pastoral work, until his removal to Tiffin. He found the affairs of the college in a very discouraging condition, there being few teachers and scarcely any endowment. It was, in fact, little more than an academy, but gradually he succeeded in placing it on a solid financial basis and in raising the educational standard to an equality with that of other colleges of the land. During the presidency of Dr. Williard, which continued for twenty-four years, there were erected on the campus a president's home, a boarding hall for young women and a commodious college building, at a cost of seventy-two thousand dollars. These buildings were all paid for before he left the institution, and there was handed to the trustees ninety-one thousand dollars safely invested and bearing seyen per cent. interest, together with notes to the value of twenty-fiye thousand dollars, bearing six per cent. interest. A library fund of about six thousand dollars was also secured, together with a considerable beneficiary fund for the aid of indigent young men. There were three hundred and forty-six students enrolled in 1890, when he resigned the presidency, and the school was in a most flourishing condition, as the result of his untiring labors, his zeal and his ability. Added to his comprehensive knowledge, mature wisdom and Christian piety was a practical business acumen and a singular facility for the effective imparting of instruction, and all of his varied powers were constantly exerted in behalf of the college. In 1890 Dr. Williard, after a regime of nearly a quarter of a century as president of Heidelberg, accepted the chair of ethics and apologetics in, and was acting president of, Ursinus College and Theological Seminary, at Collegeville, Pennsylvania, where he remained for nearly three years. After a short residence in Lancaster, that state, in 1895, he founded and organized the Hivling Memorial Reformed church, of Dayton, Ohio, and he presided as pastor of the same until his death, which occurred on the 17th of September, 1900. The congregation first met in a car shed, which had previously been used as a stable, but under the control and guidance of the devoted pastor the church became strong and prosperous, and an edifice was erected at a cost of nearly twenty thousand dollars. With untiring effort, with a nature so hopeful as to CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 371 ever baffle discouragement, Dr. Williard carried forward his work of improying the mental and moral condition of his fellow men and aided in the development of sterling character, which represents all that is, of definite and permanent value in life,—the only thing that commands true respect and honor and that broadens the nature and fits it for the progression in the life to come. Not only was Dr. Williard known for his pastoral and college work, but he also won distinction in the realm of religious literature. His literary productions were quite extensive and were widely read among the people of his denomination. In 1851 he published a translation from the original Latin of Dr. Ursinus' Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism. In 1871 he assisted in the preparation of the Western Liturgy of the Reformed Church ; in 1879 he wrote and published the History of Heidelberg College, together with thirteen addresses and sermons delivered to the graduating classes ; in 1883 he edited a Treasury of Family Reading, which had a wide circulation ; in 1890 he published the Life, Work and Character of Henry Leonard, who for thirty years was the successful financial agent of Heidelberg College; and his best and most important work was the Comparative Study of the Dominant Religions of the World. He was also a frequent contributor to the different periodicals, of the church. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Franklin and Marshall College, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1866, and that of Doctor of Laws by Monmouth College, of Monmouth, Illinois, in 1888. Dr. Willard was thrice married. On the 21st of April, 1841, he wedded Miss Louisa C. Little, a daughter of Dr. P. W. Little, of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and after her death he married Miss Emily Jane Hivling, a daughter of Colonel John Hivling, of Xenia, Ohio, the marriage being solemnized on January 3, 1866. Her death occurred in 1891, and on the 7th of October, 1893, Dr. Williard was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Gormley, a daughter of Joseph Gormley., of Lancaster; Pennsylvania, who survives him. By the first marriage there were five children, of whom two are living at the present time, the eldest of these being Dr. George P. Williard, a prominent physician of Tiffin, 372 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. to whom individual reference is made in appending paragraphs. His brother, Rev. Edwin R. Williard, was for nearly a decade pastor of Grace Reformed church, at Akron, this being one of the most flourishing churches of the Ohio synod, and his pastorate there was terminated in 1900. He is now in. pastoral charge of the Salem Reformed church, at Canal Fulton, Ohio. Death came to Rev. Dr. Williard when he was eighty-two years 0f age, and after he had devoted a half-century to the work of Christian education, through the school, the pulpit and the press. He labored without ceasing, and his zeal supplemented broad knowledge that rendered him a forceful and convincing speaker and an entertaining and instructive writer. His mind was analytical and inductive, his arguments logical and his reasoning strong and convincing. At this point it would be almost tautological to enter into any series of statements showing Dr. Williard to have been a man of high intellectuality and broad public spirit, for these have been shadowed forth in the lines of this review. Strong in his individuality, he never lacked the courage of his convictions, but there were as dominating elements in this individuality, a lively human sympathy and an abiding charity, which, taken in connection with the sterling integrity and honor of his character, gained for him the respect, confidence and honor of men. GEORGE P. WILLIARD, M. D. For more than a quarter of a century George Parker Williard has been engaged in the practice of medicine in Tiffin, and the years have told the story of a successful career, due to the possession of innate talent and acquired ability along the line of one of the most important professions to which man may devote his energies,—the alleviation of pain and suffering and the restoration of health, which is man's most cherished and priceless possession. This is an age of progress in all lines of professional achievement, and Dr. Williard has kept abreast CENTENNIAL. BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 373 of the advancement that has revolutionized methods of medical and sur- gical practice, rendering the efforts of the physicians of much more avail in warding off the inroads of disease than they were even at the time when he entered upon his professional career. The Doctor is a native of Pennsylvania, his birth having occurred in Huntingdon, that state, on the 1st of July, 1845. He is a son of Rev. Dr. George W. Williard, subject of the foregoing memoir. His boyhood days were spent under the beneficent influences of a cultured and refined home, the family having removed to Columbus, Ohio, in his early childhood, while he was ten years of age when they located in Dayton, this state, where he prosecuted his studies in the public schools, being graduated in the Dayton high school when seventeen years of age. Almost immediately thereafter he began reading medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. John Davis, of that city, and on the 9th of March, 1867, he was graduated in the Jefferson Medical College,• in the city of Philadelphia. Thus amply fortified for his chosen calling, he opened an office in the village of Fort Seneca, Seneca county, Ohio,. on the 29th of June, 1867, and for six years he continued in active practice. In 1873 the Doctor went to California, where he became associated in practice with his cousin, Dr. Cephas L. Bard, a brother of United States Senator Thomas R. Bard, and this professional alliance continued two years, at the expiration of which Dr. Williard returned to Ohio and located in Tiffin, where he has continuously been in practice for the long period of twenty-six years. Long since he left the ranks of the many to stand among the successful few, his ability and devotion to his profession gaining him this relative precedence. He has studied and read broadly, carrying his investigation into every field of thought bearing upon his profession and having readily adopted those methods and improvements which wide experience and sound judgment indicated to him a definite valuation in connection with his work. When nineteen years of age, in 1864, Dr. Williard became a member of Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-first Regiment of the Ohio National Guard, and with that command went to the front for service 374 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. in the war of the Rebellion. They were sworn in at Dayton and thence proceeded to West Virginia. The Doctor first served as regimental steward, at Harper's Ferry, and later was post steward in the fort at Federal Hill, Baltimore, Maryland. While in the military service he had six hemorrhages, and as a result became so debilitated as to necessitate his discharge from the service, and he endured seven other hemorrhages after his return home, but he eventually recovered his health and has never asked for a pension. Dr. Williard holds membership in General William H. Gibson Post, No. 31, Grand Army of the Republic, and thus maintains friendly relations and comradeship with those who were loyal defenders of the integrity of the Union during the dark days of the civil war. He is also identified with Tiffin Lodge, No., 77, F. & A. M., of which he is a valued member. In politics he has always been a Republican, and while he warmly endorses the principles and policies of the party and is a liberal contributor in the promotion of its cause, he has never accepted office, preferring to devote his entire time and attention to his practice. For several years he has held the position of local surgeon for the Big Four Railroad and also for the Fostoria & Tiffin Electric Railroad. The Doctor is one of the leading physicians of this part of the state, with broad and comprehensive knowledge of the theory of medicine and surgery and wide experience in practice, his ability being attested by the representative support he receives in the community where he has so long lived and labored and where his popularity is of the most unequivocal order. On the 16th of February, 1881, Dr. Williard was united in marriage to Miss Electa Stout, of Dayton, Ohio, a daughter of Elias Stout and the granddaughter of David Stout, who was one of the pioneers of Dayton, where he located when it was a mere village. Mrs. Williard was reared and educated in Dayton and is a woman of gracious presence and innate refinement, being prominent in the social life of Tiffin. She has made her home celebrated for its pleasing hospitality and good cheer. She holds membership in the Presbyterian church, in whose work she takes a deep interest.