500 - HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY parents of John Y: Williams, who was born on his father's farm near Lisbon, August 13, 1849, and who is now living in Alliance, being retired from active pursuits. He devoted the major portion of his active life to farming, though during his early years he was .a school teacher. He was prominent and influential in his community and represented Columbiana county in the state legislature from 1886 to 1890. Afterward he served as superintendent of a „government Indian school at Fort Hall, Idaho. He was a member of the city council, Alliance, and in various ways has taken an active part in the affairs of his town and county. In politics he is a republican and is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal church, which he has served on the official board. Emma (Crook) Williams, who was born in Elkton, Columbiana county, May 3, 1850, and is now living in Alliance, is a daughter of Thomas and Jane (Batchelor) Crook, both of whom were natives of England and died at Elkton. Her father was a woolen manufacturer and also conducted a general store at Elkton, besides owning and operating farm land. He was also an ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. Harry W. Williams attended the public schools of Alliance, graduating from high school in 1899, and later entered Mount Union College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1905. In May, 1906, he entered the employ of the Morgan Engineering Company at Alliance, and has since been connected with the engineering department. He is an expert in his line, in which he has gained a high reputation, and has given loyal and dependable service. In his political affiliation Mr. Williams has always been a republican and has shown a proper interest in public affairs, particularly such as pertain to the welfare and progress of his home city and county. He is an active member of the First Methodist Episcopal church, in which he is secretary of the official board and secretary and treasurer of the Sunday school. On December 31, 1917, in Alliance, Mr. Williams was united in marriage to Miss Gertrude Finney, who was born in Conneaut, Ohio, February 24, 1885, and was graduated from the Salem, Ohio, high school in 1904, after which she attended Salem Business College. She was employed as a stenographer prior to her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Williams are the parents of a daughter, Alice Katherine, born April 17, 1920. They are well known in social circles of Alliance and are held in high esteem. Mr. Williams is a HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY - 501 director of the Midland Savings & Loan Company of Alliance and among his business associates is regarded as a man of mature and reliable judgment, while in the sphere of private citizenship he has so ordered his course as to win the respect of his fellowmen. Mrs. Williams is a daughter of Joseph Alexander and Amy Lucretia (Leyde) Finney. In the paternal line Mrs. Williams' ancestry is traced back to the twelfth century, at which time three brothers by the name of Di Fini were living in Florence, Italy. They were of an old baronial family and were devoted to literature as a profession. Their home was the world-famous Palmiera Villa, built by Croine Di Fini in 1230. At that time it was called Travista, or "Three Faces," the f aces of the three brothers being carved on the building. It was afterward called Chiffoneria, meaning "avoid care," and is now owned by an American millionaire. One of the brothers referred to went to Ireland and became the ruling prince of Ulster, the well known Prince Finn McCool, so that his descendants are of the clan De Finn, meaning The Finn. The old castle is marked on River Finn, in Ulster county. The clan was famed for its beautiful men and their golden red hair. They were respected and feared by the natives of their locality because they could read and write and sing to musical instruments. A noted member of the family was Ossian, the poet prince of Ireland. In Ulster county, in 1668, was born Robert Finney, who married Dorothea French, and in 1720 brought his wife, seven sons and two daughters to America, settling at New London, Chester county, Pennsylvania, where he bought "Thunder Hill farm," for which he paid sixteen thousand pounds sterling. He was for forty years a ruling elder in the West Grove Presbyterian church. Among his children was Dr. John Finney, who was colonel in the Continental army, and who practiced medicine for forty years in New Castle, Delaware, where he was also officer of the port. He married his cousin, Elizabeth French, and they became the parents of David Finney, who became a judge of the court at Wilmington, Delaware, and who married Miss Ann Thompson. Their son, David Thompson Finney, married Miss Mary James, a daughter of Captain Sir John James, who was a native of England, a man of title, who settled in Charlotte, South Carolina. He was one of the chevaliers of that locality, but fought in behalf of the colonies during the Revolution. David Thompson and Mary ( James) Finney came to Ohio from Wilmington, Delaware, after their son, Washington, 502 - HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY was born. They had first located in Philadelphia, where Mr. Finney held office under his cousin, Thomas McKean, at that time the governor of the state, and who signed the Declaration of Independence and became a justice of the supreme court. On arriving in Ohio, David T. Finney settled on a one thousand acre Revolutionary grant in Holmes county, which land is now in the possession of his grandson, William Finney, and the latter's son, Delno Finney. Washington Finney was born in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1775 or 1776, and died at Nashville, Holmes county, Ohio. He married Miss Martha Bell, of Millersburg, and they became the parents of eleven children, one of whom was Thomas Thompson Finney, who followed farming and died in Nashville. About 1843 he married Miss Mary Jane Richardson, and to them were born four sons and four daughters, one of whom was Joseph Alexander, who was born near Eldersville, Pennsylvania, May 18, 1852, and was the father of Mrs. Gertrude Williams. He was a traveling salesman for many years, and his death occurred near Steubenville, Ohio. He was a democrat in politics and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. His wife was born near Pattersonville in Carroll county, Ohio, August 11, 1853, and died in Alliance, August 10, 1920. She was a daughter of Henry and Amy (Fishel) Leyde, living near Minerva, Carroll county, Ohio. Mr. Leyde was a prominent farmer of that county and the first in that locality to raise peaches on a large scale. Mrs. Williams is also related to Colonel John French Finney, M. D., and Captain John Finney, both of whom served in the Revolutionary war, and Dr. John Finney, the noted surgeon of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, is a member of the same family. ALBAN FREDERICK MORRIS Alban Frederick Morris is a citizen who has known the thrill of successful achievement. From the humble position of office boy he has steadily risen through the mastery of each task assigned him until he has bridged the great space between his initial position and the presidency of a large corporation, being now at the head of The Morgan Engineering Company of Alliance. That he has been steadily a contributing factor to the growth and prosperity of the HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY - 503 enterprise is indicated in the fact that at a recent date he was advanced to fill a vacancy in the chief executive office of this concern and today is largely shaping the policy and directing the activities of the business, to which he first turned his attention when his textbooks were put aside. There is no record which the American public holds in so high esteem as that of a self-made man, and there is no record which serves to more fully encourage and stimulate the youth of the land than such a one as constitutes the life history of Alban Frederick Morris. He was born in Alliance, his parents being Alban J. and Jane (Evans) Morris. At the usual age he entered the public schools and mastered the work of successive grades until he was graduated from the high school. It was then that he obtained a position as office boy with The Morgan Engineering Company. He applied himself closely to the work assigned him, gained intimate knowledge thereof and developed his efficiency to a point that brought him promotion. Thus it was that he worked in the offices of the different departments in the plant, eventually becoming paymaster and later the head of the cost and estimating department. He was afterwards assigned to duty in the sales department, where he continued for a few years, and that he again measured his capability and his industry in the terms of advancement and success is indicated in the fact that in 1903 he was made sales manager. Twenty years passed and in 1923 he was elected vice president as well as sales manager, so continuing until May 14, 1928, when he was elected to the presidency as the successor of the late Colonel W. H. Morgan. The years of experience which were his as sales manager enabled Mr. Morris to gain a wide acquaintance with the steel industry throughout the United States and his knowledge thereby obtained will be of immense benefit to him in directing the activities of the great enterprise of which he is now the head. On the 28th of September, 1898, Mr. Morris was married to Miss Ella Bullock, a daughter of David P. and Adelaide (Fisher) Bullock, of Alliance. Her father, who was for many years a wholesale grocer of Alliance, is now living retired in Detroit, Michigan, but the mother has passed away. Mr. and Mrs. Morris have a son, Alban Frederick, Jr., who was born September 16, 1915. Mr. Morris is a member of the First Presbyterian church, while his wife is a communicant of the Episcopal church. In Masonic circles he is well known, having membership in the lodge, chapter 504 - HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY and commandery and also in Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He exemplifies in his life the beneficent spirit of the craft and is in full sympathy with its purposes to maintain higher standards in individual living and in community activity. He is an active member of the American Iron and Steed Institute and belongs to the Congress Lake Club and the Alliance Country Club, and in the community in which his entire life has been passed he enjoys in notable measure the respect, confidence and good will of his fellowmen, having so conducted his affairs as to win substantial and creditable success in business and to contribute to the progress and upbuilding of the city in which he has lived and labored. He is forceful and energetic, strong and purposeful, and he never stops short until his well formulated plans are carried to successful completion. WILLIAM PURDY AKINS Among the native sons of Stark county who have wisely remained here and have become actively interested in the business affairs of their respective communities is William P. Akins, a member of the Cope Electric Company of Alliance, in which line of effort he is meeting with well merited success. Mr. Akins was born in Alliance on the 24th of August, 1896, a son of C. L. and Mary (Purdy) Akins. His paternal grandfather, Philip Akins, was a native of France but was for many years a resident of this country and his death occurred in Alliance. He was a member of the Roman Catholic church. C. L. Akins was born and reared in Alliance ; attended its public schools and is now successfully engaged in the garage business. He is a republican in politics and is an adherent of the Presbyterian church. His wife was born in Ireland and is a daughter of John and Margaret (McMillan) Purdy, both of whom were natives of the Emerald isle. Mr. Purdy died in Alliance, where he had served for thirty years as superintendent of Alliance cemetery. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. William P. Akins was graduated from the Alliance high school in 1915 and attended Mount Union College one year, after which HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY - 505 he entered the Carnegie School of Technology at Pittsburgh, where he remained until February, 1918, when he enlisted for service in the World war. He was in training at Fort Myers, Virginia, and was then sent to France, where he saw active service for ten and a half months. He was honorably discharged at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, April 2, 1919, and on his return to his home city he acquired an interest in the Cope Electric Company of Alliance, of which he is still a member and in connection with which he is serving as superintendent of construction. He is painstaking and thorough in whatever he undertakes and is an important factor in the success of his concern. On October 10, 1923, in Alliance, Mr. Akins was united in marriage to Miss Carolyn Cantine Kay, who was born in this city, February 5, 1900, a daughter of Charles Young and Gertrude ( Cantine) Kay. Her paternal grandparents were Dr. Charles and Alice (Young) Kay, both of whom were natives of this state and died in Alliance. Dr. Kay was a successful physician of the city, a republican in his political views and, a public-spirited and influential citizen. Charles Young Kay was born in East Fairfield, Ohio, November 25, 1852, and died in Alliance, February 10, 1925. In his early years he practiced law in this city, but later turned his attention to the hardware business, in which he met with success and retired from active business pursuits sometime prior to his death. He was an active supporter of the republican party and served at one time as a member of the city council and also as superintendent of schools. His wife was born in Saginaw, Michigan, August 5, 1860, and is still living in Alliance. Her parents were William and Emily (Dickenson) Cantine. Her father, who was born and reared in Connecticut, went to Michigan in early days, but died in 1903 in Alliance, where he had lived for a number of years. He organized the Alliance Gas & Power Company and later was in the hardware business with his son-in-law, Charles Young Kay, under the firm name of Cantine & Kay. During the Civil war he enlisted and served in the commissary department until the close of that conflict, being discharged with the rank of major. His wife was born in Hadley, Massachusetts, September 10, 1833, and died in Alliance, December 27, 1924, at the age of ninety-one years. William Cantine was a son of William and Caroline Cantine, both of whom were born in Connecticut and lived in Michigan. Mrs. Cantine died in Alliance, Ohio. Mrs. 506 - HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY Akins has two sisters, Misses Mary Emily and Gertrude Alice Kay, both of whom are living in Alliance. Mrs. Akins was graduated from the Alliance high school in 1918, attended Mount Union College one year and then entered the University of Wisconsin, from which she was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1922, since which time she has been engaged in social and civic work. She is executive secretary of Alliance Chapter of the American Red Cross Society, is a member of the council of the Alliance Day Nursery, and belongs to the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Alliance Women's Club, the Coterie Club and the Alpha Xi Delta sorority. She is a member of the Presbyterian church and gives her support to the democratic party. Mr. Akins has always supported the republican party and his religious connection is with the Presbyterian church. He is a member of J. M. McFadden Lodge No. 697, F. & A. M. ; Alliance Chapter No. 83, R. A. M. ; Alliance Council No. 212, R. & S. M.; Alliance Commandery No. 67, K. T. ; Al Koran Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S., at Cleveland ; Alliance Lodge No. 467, B. P. 0. E. ; the American Legion, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon college fraternity, the Alliance Country Club and the Chamber of Commerce. He is a man of up-to-date ideas and progressive methods, is industrious and energetic in his business affairs and is well worthy of the high place which he holds in the estimation of those who know him. MILO HERBERT DUNBAR The Dunbar Brothers Company of Canton has gained a high reputation among automobile owners and dealers for the superior qualities of the battery which it is producing and which is attaining a notable popularity, its sales showing a marked increase each year. The concern was established by Milo H. and Nelson R. Dunbar as the Dunbar Brothers Battery Company, at which time they were simply dealers in batteries. However, in the following year they engaged in the manufacture of their own batteries, at which time the firm style became the Dunbar Brothers Manufacturing Company. Their plant is located at 712 Rex avenue, northeast, Canton, where they make the Dunbar battery, the particular sell- HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY - 507 ing points of which are the ability of the battery to operate in the hardest commercial car service from sixty to ninety days on each water refill, many of them having run from seven to ten months on one refilling; the Dunbar patented terminal connections, which, by their exclusive design, eliminate terminal breakage from the strain and vibration of the heavy starter cables, and also makes it possible to connect up mechanically perfect to any starter cable; the thickness and strength of the plates ; the quarter-sawed Port Orford cedar separators, which cushion the plates, completely insulate them, and permit free circulation of the electrolyte ; the lock nut and rubber washer on the posts, which assure an absolutely leak-proof connection; and the solid rubber cases, which are weather proof, acid proof and non-breakable. Quality and satisfaction are the outstanding features of the Dunbar batteries. In the Chrysler "Round the Rim" of the United States, a most unusual feat, the Dunbar battery in the car was not given attention of any nature. Yet at the completion of the trip of thirteen thousand four hundred and fifty-six miles, which was made in twenty-one days, four hours and eight minutes, the battery still contained sufficient electrolyte for safety and hydrometer tests. The Dunbar Company sells both at wholesale and retail, supplying dealers throughout northern Ohio and serving the territory through service stations. Milo H. Dunbar was born at Linngrove, Adams county, Indiana, on the 17th of April, 1891, and is a son of Emanuel E. and Lucinda A. (Smith) Dunbar, both of whom were natives of the Hoosier state. The Dunbar family moved to Canton, Ohio, April 1, 1900. The mother died December 15, 1916, and the father now resides in Canton. Milo H. Dunbar received his educational training in the public schools of Ohio, and finished the eighth grade at the Crystal Park school in Canton. He learned the trade of machinist with the Harvard Dental Chair Company, with which concern he remained three years, and was then employed for a year as a toolmaker in the plant of the Timken Roller Bearing Company. He next worked in the same capacity for the Miller Pasteurizing Company, and when he left the employ of that concern seven years later he was general shop superintendent. In April, 1916, he and his brother embarked in the battery business and their history from that time to the present has been a record of continued success. 508 - HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY On November 25, 1915, at Alden, Illinois, Mr. Dunbar was united in marriage to Miss Florence M. Edwards, who was born at Bristol, Wisconsin, February 5, 1891, a daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Morris) Edwards, both of whom are natives of England and still reside in Alden. Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar have three childen, namely : Richard H., born June 17, 1919 ; Harley G., born February 2, 1921; and Ted M., born April 14, 1925. Mr. Dunbar is a republican in his political views and is a member of Canton Council No. 60, Royal League. He and his wife are earnest members of the First Christian church of Canton, in the work of which Mrs. Dunbar takes an active part, being particularly interested in the missionary societies. Mr. Dunbar has shown sound judgment in all of his business affairs, has labored hard for success and is well worthy of the prosperity which is now his. PAUL GIFFIN HIMMELRIGHT Paul G. Himmelright, vice president and manager of the Monarch Rubber Company, of Hartville, Ohio, has been a leading factor in the success of this prosperous concern and has shown himself a man of marked business and executive ability. He was born in Piqua, Ohio, on the 26th of June, 1890, a son of Owen H. and Mary Armetta (Giffin) Himmelright. In the paternal line he is of German descent, and the family was established in Ohio by his great-grandfather, who became a pioneer settler at Minster, Auglaize county. There his son, John H. Himmelright, was born and reared to young manhood. He then moved to Piqua, where he established his permanent home and spent the remainder of his days. Owen H. Himmelright was born at Piqua ; received a good public school education, and engaged in the contracting business, which he followed during his active business career. His death occurred in 1917. In the maternal line Mr. Himmelright is of Scotch descent, the Giffin family having long been established in Scotland, which country they left at the time of the Knox religious persecutions and located in the north of Ireland. From the latter country came the American progenitor of the family early in the eighteenth century and settled in Pennsylvania. About 1800 HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY - 509 Grandfather Giffin moved to Warren county, Ohio, of which locality he was a pioneer farmer, and in about 1825 he located in Miami county, where he took up a tract of government land, the patent to which, signed by President Madison, is now in Mr. Himmelright's possession. • On this farm, which is located about four miles east of Piqua, was born Mary Armetta Giffin, who is still living in Piqua. Paul G. Himmelright attended the public schools of Piqua, graduating from high school in 1908, after which he entered Miami University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1912. He became a salesman of plaster for the United States Gypsum Company of Chicago and was employed by that concern and the American Cement Plaster Company continuously until 1919, when he entered the employ of the Crystal Park Lumber & Coal Company, with which concern he remained until 1921, when he was appointed receiver for the Monarch Rubber Company of Hartville. He conducted that business until 1926, when it was reorganized under the same name, with the following officers and directors : H. B. Fawcett, of Canton, president; Paul G. Himmelright, vice president and manager ; R. M. Fawcett, second vice president ; P. M. Seymour, of Canton, secretary ; R. J. Himmelright, assistant secretary and treasurer ; W. Paul Wagner, 0. W. Renkert, C. T. Carlson, D. P. Hoover and H. C. Milligan, of Canton, and C. B. Wagner, of Hartville. The capital stock amounts to ten thousand shares, of no par value, but a declared value of twenty-five dollars a share. The company is engaged in the manufacture of Monarch tires and has a daily output of fifteen hundred tires. Since its reorganization the company has prospered and is now regarded as one of Stark county's solid and going concerns. On September 2, 1915, Mr. Himmelright was united in marriage to Miss Mabel I. Bauhof, of Canton, a daughter of Edward A. and Agnes (Rudy) Bauhof, the latter of whom still resides in Canton. Mr. Bauhof, who was for many years engaged in the monument business on East Tuscarawas street, retired in 1914, and his death occurred in 1918. Mrs. Himmelright was educated in the Canton public and high schools, after which she attended Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. She is a member of the Junior Service Club, of Canton. Mr. Himmelright is a member of Oxford Lodge No. 67, F. & 510 - HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY A. M. ; Piqua Chapter, R. A. M. ; Piqua Council, R. & S. M. ; the Beta Theta Pi college fraternity, the Canton Club, the Congress Lake Club of Canton and the Old Colony Club of New York. He and his wife are earnest members of Trinity Reformed church of Canton, in which city they reside, their home being at 335 Fifteenth street, northwest. A man of high purposes, consistent life and sterling character, he has the genuine respect of his associates for his capable and efficient work in connection with building up the business, and all who know him hold him in high regard for his genuine worth as a man and citizen. JACOB B. SNYDER Jacob B. Snyder, who for more than a third of a century has been a prominent and successful representative of the legal profession in Canton, where he is now engaged in practice with his son, Huber J., under the firm style of Snyder & Snyder, has also been an outstanding figure in the ranks of politics, representing his district in the seventy-third and seventy-fourth general assemblies of Ohio. His natal day was July 2, 1866, and his birthplace a farm near East Canton, Stark county, Ohio, his parents being Jacob B. and Mollie (Bollinger) Snyder, both of whom were born in the vicinity of Louisville, this county, the former on October 25, 1824, and the latter in 1844. His grandparents in both the paternal and maternal lines were natives of the Keystone state and were known as Pennsylvania Germans. Jacob Snyder, the paternal grandfather of Mr. Snyder of this review, was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, where the family had located before the Revolutionary war. He made his way to Stark county in pioneer times, took up a tract of timber land in Nimishillen township and made a home in the midst of the wilderness. Jacob B. and Mollie (Bollinger) Snyder, the parents of the subject of this sketch, were reared in a rural community and passed away on their farm adjoining East Canton on the north, the former dying October 25, 1891, and the mother on the 1st of January, 1897. Jacob B. Snyder, whose name introduces this record, pursued his early education in the grade school at Osnaburg, now East Canton, continued his studies in Ashland College and subsequently HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY - 511 attended the Northern Ohio University at Ada. He followed the profession of teaching as an instructor in the district schools of his home community for a few years. Desiring to become a member of the bar, however, he matriculated in the Cincinnati Law School, which in May, 1891, conferred upon him the degree of LL. B. Admitted to the bar on the 30th of May,. 1892, he opened an office at Osnaburg but in April of the following year located in Canton, where he has continued in the work of his chosen profession through the intervening period,of thirty-five years. He was a member of the firm of Craine & Snyder from 1900 until 1911 and since April, 1924, has been engaged in general law practice in association with his son, Huber J., under the style of Snyder & Snyder, and has built up a clientage of extensive and gratifying proportions. His fidelity to the interests of his clients is proverbial, yet he never forgets that he owes a higher allegiance to the majesty of the law. His diligence and energy in the preparation of his cases, as well as the earnestness, tenacity and courage with which he defends the right, as he understands it, challenge the highest admiration of his associates. On the 27th of November, 1894, at Howenstine, Stark county, Mr. Snyder was united in marriage to Miss Alice Steinmetz, who was born on a farm near that place on the 7th of October, 1871. Her parents, George and Mary Ann Steinmetz, who were Pennsylvania Germans, were both born in Pike township, this county, the former on October 14, 1834, and the latter on January 26, 1836. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder are the parents of a daughter and a son, namely : Bernice, who resides with her father and mother at 1251 Logan avenue, northwest, in Canton; and. Huber J., who married Georgia Andreas and resides at North Canton. Since age conferred upon him the right of franchise Mr. Snyder has been a stanch supporter of the republican party, believing that its principles contain the best elements of good government. He was appointed postmaster of Osnaburg in 1889 and capably discharged the duties of the office until his resignation on the 1st of January, 1892. Two years later, in 1894, he was elected mayor of Osnaburg and gave to its citizens a businesslike and progressive administration characterized by many measures of reform and improvement. In 1897 he was elected to the Ohio legislature and at the end of his first term won reelection, serving in both the seventy-third and seventy-fourth general assemblies of the state. He was 33V3 512 - HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY speaker pro tem of the seventy-fourth general assembly and made a splendid record as a legislator, giving the most thoughtful and earnest consideration to the many vital questions which came up for settlement until the close of his second term on the 1st of January, 1902. Mr. Snyder is a worthy exemplar of the teachings and purposes of the Masonic fraternity, which he joined in 1892, while in the strict path of his profession he has membership connection with the Stark County Bar Association. Both he and his wife have always lived in Stark county and have gained many warm friends within its borders. GARFIELD WEHR FORDING Prominent in real estate, insurance and financial circles of Alliance stands Garfield W. Fording, whose business is conducted under the name of the Fording Agency. He is a progressive, alert and up-to-date business man and the success which has come to him is the legitimate outcome of his persistent and well directed efforts. Mr. Fording was born at North Benton, Mahoning county, Ohio, on the 8th of July, 1881, a son of Lloyd and Elizabeth (Wehr) Fording. His paternal grandfather, Ewan Fording, was born in this state, May 30, 1810, and died in Alliance, March 21, 1897. He had followed farming but had lived retired from active pursuits for some time prior to his death. He was a republican in politics and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married Miss Christina Clippinger, who was born in Salem, Ohio, in 1809, and died at the Fording homestead in Smith township, four miles from. Alliance, December 28, 1886. She was a daughter of Anthony and Margaret (Miller) Clippinger, who are buried at North Georgetown, Ohio. Anthony Clippinger was a native of Pennsylvania and fought in the Revolutionary war. Elizabeth (Wehr) Fording was born in Pennsylvania, September 26, 1849, and died in Alliance, Ohio, February 21, 1920. She was a daughter of Samuel and Mary (Treichler) Wehr, both of whom were born in Pennsylvania and died in Blairstown, Iowa, where Mr. Wehr was engaged in mercantile business. They were members of the Presbyterian church. To Lloyd and Elizabeth Fording were born HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY - 513 four children, namely : Garfield W., of this review ; Susan S., who is serving as deputy clerk in the office of the county auditor of Stark county at Canton ; Mayme C., who is a public stenographer in Alliance ; and Mildred E., who is the wife of Charles R. Holeton, who is a veteran of the World war and is now engaged in the undertaking business at Niles, Ohio. They have a daughter, Elizabeth Susan. Garfield W. Fording attended the public schools, graduating from the Alliance high school, and later attended Mount Union College. He learned the machinist's trade and drafting, which lines of work he followed here until 1905, when he embarked in the real estate and general insurance business. This proved a successful venture and he has built up a large and prosperous business, being now numbered among the leaders in his line in the city. For the past few years he has also represented the Manufacturers Finance Acceptance Corporation, which is engaged in the buying of mortgages. On January 20, 1910, in Mars, Butler county, Pennsylvania, Mr. Fording was united in marriage to Mrs. Lavina B. (Walters) Smith, who was born December 11, 1878, and is a daughter of Robert and Minerva (Rea) Walters. Her father was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and died in Mars, February 2, 1912. He followed farming and also did considerable contracting and building. He was a republican and a member of the United Presbyterian church. His parents, Henry and Nancy (Forsythe) Walters, who lived on a farm in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, were also members of the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Nancy Walters was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, and there her death occurred. Minerva (Rea) Walters, who was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, and died at Mars, that county, July 13, 1913, was a daughter of William and Nancy (Sluhlfire) Rea, the former of whom was a pioneer farmer of Butler county. He brought the first mowing machine into that county and while operating the machine his team became frightened and ran away. He was caught in the machine and one of his legs was cut off, his death resulting. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and was a republican in politics. Mrs. Fording was educated in the public schools of Butler county, and has long been a member of the United Presbyterian church, in which she sang in the choir for a number of years. She is a member of the Daughters of Rebekah and the Protected Home Circle 514 - HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY and during the World war took an active part in Red Cross work. By a former marriage she is the mother of a son, Rea Ainsworth Smith, who was born January 22, 1898, at Atwater Center, Ohio. He is in the real estate business and is also associated with the Manufacturers Finance Acceptance Corporation. He is a veteran of the World war, having served as a sergeant at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, where he was stationed for eighteen months. He married Miss Caroline Hely, of Alliance. Mr. Fording gives his political support to the republican party and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of the Maccabees and the Protective Home Circle, as well as the Chamber of Commerce and the Alliance Real Estate Board. He took an active part in advancing all local war measures during the World war and has always given freely of his time and influence in advancing the material and civic interests of his city and county. A man of strong individuality and agreeable manner, he has won many loyal friends, while throughout the community he is held in high regard. HUBER JAMES SNYDER Huber James Snyder, an able young lawyer and popular native son of Stark county, now serving as one of its assistant prosecuting attorneys, is successfully engaged in practice at Canton in association with his father, Jacob B. Snyder, under the firm style of Snyder & Snyder. He was born at East Canton, Ohio, July 31, 1898, his parents being Jacob B. and Alice ( Steinmetz) Snyder, the former born on a farm near East Canton, July 2, 1866, and the latter on a farm eight miles southeast of Canton, October 7, 1871. Both are of German ancestry and their respective parents came to the Buckeye state from Pennsylvania. A sketch of Jacob B. Snyder may be found on another page of this work. Huber J. Snyder received his early education at the Woodland Avenue school in Canton, which he attended for eight years. Subsequently he spent three years in the North high school of Canton and then for a year continued his studies in the Central high school here, receiving a diploma from the latter. He was graduated therefrom as the fourth highest in scholarship in a class of one hundred HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY - 515 and seventy-five pupils. Thereafter he was a student in the literary department of the University of Michigan for two years and then for four years attended the University of Chicago, being a law student in the latter institution for eight quarters or two and two-thirds years. The degree of Bachelor of Philosophy was conferred upon him. Mr. Snyder moved from East Canton, the place of his birth, to the city of Canton, subsequently spent four years in Chicago and is now a resident of North Canton, Ohio. He first worked as a paper boy, carrying the Canton Repository to residents on North Market street for three years, while later he was employed in the steel mill of the Central Alloy Company. Prior to becoming identified with the legal profession he engaged in teaching in grade and high schools near Otis, Colorado, for one term and he also taught chemistry, history and business law at the McKinley high school in Canton, Ohio, as a substitute teacher. During the past five years he has devoted his attention to the work of the courts, being engaged in the private practice of law as junior member of the firm of Snyder & Snyder, with offices at 803 First National Bank building in Canton. On the 1st of August, 1927, he was appointed an assistant prosecuting attorney of Stark county by Henry W. Harter, Jr., the present prosecuting attorney. On the 8th of December, 1926, at Canton, Ohio, Mr. Snyder was united in marriage to Miss Georgia Andreas, who was born at Dover, this state, December 31, 1902. Mrs. Snyder is popular in social circles of the community, plays golf and tennis on the grounds of the Orchard Hill Country Club and indulges her love of the game of bridge with the ladies of the Y's Men's organization. In community affairs Mr. Snyder manifests a deep and helpful interest. He is the present secretary of the Stark county republican committee and has also been a central committeeman for a number of years. At the time of the World war he served from the date of his enlistment in the army in September, 1918, until his honorable discharge on the 15th of December following. He holds membership in the Y's Men's Club, of which he served as president in 1926, in the American Business Club, the American Legion, the Orchard Hill Country Club and the Canton Automobile Club. He is also a member of the Loyal Men's Bible Class of the First Christian church at Canton, of which he served as secretary for-two and one-half years and which is one of the largest Bible classes 516 - HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY in the world. Friendly in manner, and cordially responsive in his social relations, he has made many warm friends and is a popular member of the circles in which he moves. AUGUSTUS G. MOSER Augustus G. Moser, district manager at Canton for the Ohio Power Company, has gained his present enviable standing in the electrical world through his determined and persistent efforts along right lines. He is, in the best sense of the term, self made and is entitled to great credit for what he has accomplished, being today regarded as one of Canton's leading men of affairs. Mr. Moser was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on the 23d of November, 1877, and is a son of Michael and Caroline (Kraft) Moser, both of whom were born and reared at Germantown, Pennsylvania, and were descendents of old Pennsylvania families of German origin. After attending the public schools of Germantown, the father learned the trade of a tailor, and subsequently moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where he engaged in the merchant tailoring business. He was a veteran of the Civil war, having served as a private throughout that struggle. He gave his political support to the democratic party and was a member of the Lutheran church. To him and his wife were born seven children, four sons and three daughters, of whom Augustus G. is the fourth in order of birth. Both parents are deceased. Augustus G. Moser attended the public schools of Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was graduated from high school, and completed his educational training in the University of Arkansas. He then served an apprenticeship at electrical engineering, and was made office manager for the Little Rock Railway & Electric Company, being later promoted to the position of assistant manager. He continued with that company until 1901, when he went to Saginaw, Michigan, as manager of the Bartlett Illuminating Company, holding that position until 1904, when the plant was sold to other interests. Going then to Winona, Minnesota, Mr. Moser became manager for the Winona Railway & Light Company, later resigning that position in order to accept that of manager for the Chillicothe Railway & Light Company at Chillicothe, Ross county, HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY - 517 Ohio. He resigned that place to become manager for the National Gas & Electric Company of Detroit, by which concern he was later assigned to take charge of and rebuild the plant of the Bucyrus Light & Power Company, at Bucyrus, Crawford county, Ohio. On completion of that work, he was transferred to Canton as assistant manager of the Ohio Power Company, in which capacity he served until January 1, 1921, when he was made manager of the Canton district. He has proven a capable and trustworthy official and has handled the affairs of the company in this district in a manner that has caused much favorable comment. On July 14, 1901, at Little Rock, Arkansas, Mr. Moser was united in marriage to Miss Italy Jane McCabe, who was born and reared at Little Rock and was a daughter of M. D. and Mary (Drew) McCabe. Her father was a native of Ireland, and her mother was born in Little Rock and belonged to an old and prominent family of that locality. Mrs. Moser died April 14, 1920, at the home of her mother in Little Rock, to which she had gone in the hope of regaining her failing health. Mr. Moser is a member of Canton Council No. 341, K. C., the Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce. He is president of the Canton Advertising Club. While closely devoted to the interests of the companies he has represented, he has not lost sight of his obligations as a citizen and has consistently given his support to every movement or measure for the advancement of the public welfare. A keen and discriminating business man, energetic and up-to-date in his methods, he is highly regarded by all who have had dealings with him, and in the social circles of Canton he enjoys a well merited popularity. WILLIAM SLOANE KINNEY Well known as the pioneer in the real estate mortgage loan business in Canton, William S. Kinney has established an enviable reputation, and worthily bears a name which for more than a century has stood for the highest traditions of citizenship in Stark county. He was born in Wooster, Ohio, December 20, 1882, a son of Isaac Newton and Margaret (Leas) Kinney. His father was a son of William and Sarah Wilson Kinney, of Canton township, 518 - HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY and the mother's parents were Jacob and Maria Strayer Leas, of Osnaburg township. The great-grandfather, Peter Kinney, migrated from Washington county, Pennsylvania, to Ohio, casting in his lot with the pioneer settlers of Canton township, in which he owned two quarter sections as early as 1819, and this land was held in succession by three generations of the family. In 1878 the ancestral home was sold by Isaac Newton Kinney. The maternal grandparents of William S. Kinney were early settlers in Osnaburg township, and Jacob Leas was one of the founders and pillars of the Osnaburg English Lutheran church, now known as the Kuntz Memorial church. Isaac Newton Kinney, father of William S. Kinney, settled in Wooster in 1878, where he engaged in the hardware business, and became known as one of the best citizens of the town. William S. Kinney passed from the public schools of his native town to the College of Wooster, graduating in 1904. While in college he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, and was known as a man of social charm and genuine character. After graduation he became a salesman for the Wooster Brush Company, one of the soundest firms in the city. In 1914 he removed to Canton to engage in the real estate and building business. He has prospered in his work and has been closely connected with the development of Canton. In many ways he has been a pioneer. He instituted the life insurance mortgage loan business in Canton ; built the first distinctively English house there ; laid the first broken flagstone walk; built the first Indiana limestone business building; and owned and operated the first successful outdoor automobile parking space in the city. He is a director of the Stark County Savings and Loan Company. He has done these things quietly and unobtrusively, but he has pointed the way for many who have advertised themselves much more actively and widely. Mr. Kinney has been content to feel the joy of the pioneer and to watch quietly the value to the community of his enterprise. In 1915 Mr. Kinney married Miss Beulah Batchelor, of Camden, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Kinney have two children : William S., Jr., born July 6, 1916; and Josephine Craig, born February 2, 1922. Mr. Kinney belongs to the Canton Club and the Congress Lake Club, residing during the summer season in his summer home at Congress Lake. Mrs. Kinney is a charter member of the Women's Club of Canton, is also connected with the HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY - 519 Canton College Club and is a Daughter of the American Revolution. During the World war, Mr. Kinney was a member of the Manufacturers Liberty Loan committees and had charge of all the industrial plants in the northeast end for the third, fourth and fifth loans. Not being a manufacturer, he was drafted for the work by the chairman, William C. Laiblin, under whom he also served in the campaign for the sale of War Savings stamps. Mr. Kinney was likewise an active advisory member of the draft board and took a leading part in the carrying out of the selective service act. Indeed, among the younger men of Canton, William S. Kinney exemplifies the value of imagination and culture in business life. He has steadily refused to be dominated by the passion for money making and has taken care to make his occupational life minister to the life of the spirit. Such men as he give us hope that our country may in time produce many business men who understand that the enrichment of life is the one thing of supreme importance. He is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal church and has served as a vestryman for six years. Those who enjoy his acquaintance know that in private life he prides himself upon his library and his works of art. He is fond of books on landscape architecture and art and is making a collection of first editions of modern authors. He is a lay member of the Grand Central Art Galleries of New York city, and the owner of a varied and valuable collection of art works, among which the works of Joseph Pennell at present predominate. At the recent memorial exhibition of Pennell's work at the Cleveland Art Museum, Mr. Kinney furnished a large number of the most valuable exhibits. AUDLEY H. CALHOUN, M. D. Among the medical practitioners of Canton, none is held in higher esteem than Dr. Audley H. Calhoun, who commands a large and lucrative practice and enjoys an enviable reputation as an able and dependable physician. He was born in McKeesport, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, on the 25th of May, 1880, a son of Audley and Anna (Dooris) Calhoun. The family was originally from the north of Ireland and its first representative in Ohio was the Doctor's great-grandfather, Audrey Calhoun, who settled in Jefferson 520 - HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY county, where he preempted a tract of land, the patent for which was signed by President Monroe. The family was established in America sometime prior to the war of the Revolution and tradition states that one of its members fought on the side of the colonists in that struggle. Andrey Calhoun became the father of Thomas Calhoun, who married Miss Eliza Dawes, and they were the parents of Audley Calhoun, Sr. The latter was reared and educated in Jefferson county, Ohio ; later went to McKeesport, Pennsylvania, where he lived until 1902, and then returned to his native state, settling in Canton, where he still resides. During his active career he was successfully engaged in mercantile pursuits. He is a democrat in his political views and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. His wife died in Canton in 1924 at the age of seventy-nine years. To this worthy couple were born three children, of whom two survive : Audley H., of this review ; and Marguerite, who is a teacher in the Canton public schools. Audley H. Calhoun attended the public schools of McKeesport, graduating from high school, after which he attended Western Pennsylvania University. On completing the course there he entered Starling Medical College, the medical school of Ohio State University, at Columbus, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1906. He first engaged in the practice of his profession at Wren, Van Wert county, Ohio, but later removed to Brewster, Stark county, where he remained three years, and in 1912 came to Canton, where he has been in continuous general practice to the present time. He has a well equipped office at 222 Cleveland avenue northwest and possesses to a marked degree the valuable quality of being able to inspire confidence on the part of his patients. He keeps in close and constant touch with the latest advances in the healing art and has been very successful in the treatment of human ailments. At Payne, Paulding county, Ohio, Dr. Calhoun was united in marriage to Miss Golden A. Smith, who was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and is a daughter of the late Thomas J. and Mary M. (Griffen) Smith, both of whom were descended from old Revolutionary stock. Dr. and Mrs. Calhoun are the parents of four children, Thomas A., E. Dorris, Marguerite Jane and Mary Alice. Mrs. Calhoun is a member of the Canton Women's Club and of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and is a lineal descendant HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY - 521 in the fifth generation of the Ball family which was related to George Washington. The Doctor is a stanch democrat in politics and fraternally is a member of Canton Lodge No. 60, F. & A. M. ; Dewitt Clinton Consistory, A. A. S. R., at Grand Rapids, Michigan; Aladdin Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S., at Columbus, Ohio ; the American Legion and the Forty and Eight. He also belongs to the Lakeside Shrine Club, the Congress Lake Club and the Canton Chamber of Commerce. He maintains professional affiliation with the Stark County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the Canton Medical Library Association. He and his wife are communicants of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church. The Doctor is a veteran of the World war, having been commissioned a first lieutenant in the medical corps, and he was assigned to the Fourteenth Sanitary Train at Camp Custer. At the close of the war he was honorably discharged. A man of earnest purpose, closely devoted to his profession and absolutely without pretense of any nature, he makes a favorable impression on all who come in contact with him and stands deservedly high in public confidence and esteem. CHARLES T. OLDROYD One of Canton's leading life insurance men is Charles T. Oldroyd, who has followed this line of effort here for the past eighteen years, during which period he has built up an extensive and prosperous business. He was born at Toledo, Tama county, Iowa, on the 19th of October, 1863, a son of Elmer G. and Sarah S. (Bunce) Oldroyd. The father was born at Clinton (Shreve), Wayne county, Ohio, December 10, 1836, and was descended on the paternal side from English ancestors who settled in this country in 1818 and on the maternal side from Pennsylvania German stock, while the mother, who was born in Wakeman, Ohio, was descended from an old Connecticut family. Charles T. Oldroyd received his early education in the school at Shreve, Ohio, after which he took a course in the Spencerian Business College, in Cleveland, from which he was graduated in 1885. He remained with his parents at Shreve and worked at the Watch- 522 - HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY maker's trade with his father until January, 1887, after which he returned to Cleveland and taught in the Spencerian Business College and was employed as bookkeeper for the Brooks Oil Company until February, 1889. He then became general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association at Sandusky, Ohio, in which capacity he served until 1893, when he again went to Cleveland, where for about five years he was employed in a bank. Coming to Canton in 1898, he was with The Bonnot Company until 1907, after which he spent a year and a half in Colorado. In 1910 he embarked in the life insurance business in Canton, to which he has closely devoted his attention to the present time. On October 27, 1891, in Sandusky, Ohio, Mr. Oldroyd was united in marriage to Miss Winifred G. Gould, who was born at Norwalk, Ohio, June 22, 1871, and is a daughter of Rodney C. and Statira P. (Ward) Gould, both of whom are deceased. She is a descendant of John Howland, who was a passenger on the "Mayflower," and both of her parents were born in New England. Her father was for many years a successful school teacher. Mrs. Oldroyd is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Aultman Hospital Auxiliary and numerous women's missionary societies, and teaches a class of adult women in the Sunday school of the First Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. and Mrs. Oldroyd are the parents of two children. Elizabeth B., born January 31, 1907, was married in Canton, August 8, 1928, to Dyess Sproull, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Sproull of Canton, and they live in Canton. Charles N., born April 4, 1911, is at home. In his political views Mr. Oldroyd is nominally a republican, but casts his ballot in accordance with the dictates of his judgment. He is an ardent supporter of prohibition, due to his experience with unfortunate drinking men and his firm belief that liquor is the greatest cause of poverty and crime. He is identified with the First Methodist Episcopal church of Canton and the Epworth Methodist Episcopal church at Waco, in the work of which societies he takes an active interest, having served from January, 1900, to December, 1907, as superintendent of the Sunday school of the First church, and since January, 1924, as superintendent of the Sunday school of the Epworth church. He is a member of the Canton Chamber of Commerce and gives his support to every measure for the promotion of the best interests of his city and county along material, civic or moral lines. He is a man of strong personality HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY - 523 and agreeable manner, has a wide acquaintance throughout this community and commands the uniform confidence and respect of all who know him. FREDERICK HENRY HESS Frederick Henry Hess is a prominent representative of mercantile interests in Canton as proprietor of one of the leading furniture stores of the city, located at 703 West Tuscarawas street, where he has been successfully engaged in business during the past decade. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 18, 1866, his parents being William Jacob and Bertha Hess. The father's people came to America from Germany in Revolutionary days. The mother was born at Kaiserslautern in Bavaria, Germany, where her father was district judge. In the acquirement of an education Frederick H. Hess attended the public schools of his native city and subsequently pursued a commercial course in the Cincinnati Business College. After serving a four years' apprenticeship to a watchmaker he was employed in a bank in a clerical capacity for one year and subsequently spent four years as clerk in a wholesale clothing house. Then the desire to travel seized him and for eight years he journeyed through the country, visiting most of the large cities and also a great many of the smaller towns of the United States. In 1898 he accepted a position as salesman for a Pittsburgh concern, in the interests of which he visited Philadelphia, New York city, Chicago, Cleveland, Toledo and Detroit. The year 1914 witnessed his arrival in Canton, Ohio. It was in 1918 that he here embarked in the furniture business on his own account on a very small scale and the success which has attended the undertaking is indicated in the fact that he is now the owner of one of the leading furniture stores of the city, occupying twenty-seven thousand square feet of floor space at 703 West Tuscarawas street, at the corner of High street. Mr. Hess keeps regular store hours, but is always glad to accommodate his patrons with evening appointments on request. He was ridiculed when selecting his present site, but time has proven that it is the ideal location for the kind of business in which he is engaged, for his is a corner 524 - HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY store with a sixty-foot window frontage. He enjoys the distinction of being the pioneer retail dealer on West Tuscarawas street. On the 3d of March, 1903, in Cleveland, Ohio; Mr. Hess was united in marriage to Jessie Ann Marshall, who was born in Clinton, Iowa, and whose parents migrated from the northern part of New York state. Her father, George W. Marshall, who was born at Ogdensburg, New York, March 9, 1837, served in the Civil war with a construction corps. He became a mason contractor of Clinton, Iowa, and built a stack for a lumber mill which was left standing as a monument after the mill proper was torn down. On the 9th of March, 1855, he married Julia Addis, who was born at Binghamton, New York, January 15, 1837, and was about eight years of age when she migrated to Wisconsin in a covered wagon. Mr. and Mrs. Hess are the parents of four children, namely : Anabel Mack, who is a pianist with studio in Cleveland, Ohio ; Mary Jane, a teacher at Cleveland Heights ; Helen Vandaca, who is the wife of George Calhoun ; and Betty Ann, a senior at the McKinley high school. Mr. Hess is a republican in politics but not a narrow partisan. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Trinity Reformed church, while fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic order, belonging to Canton Lodge No. 60, F. & A. M. He is also a member of the Optimist Club, the Masonic Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the Better Business Bureau and is numbered among the substantial and valued citizens as well as representative business men of Canton. HERBERT T. O. BLUE Professor Herbert T. O. Blue, who has been instructor of history and English in the Central and McKinley high schools of Canton since 1918, enjoys an enviable reputation as an educator and has become well known in different sections of the state as a lecturer on archaeological and historical subjects. His birth occurred at Ada, Hardin County, Ohio, on the 9th of September, 1887, his parents being Orren P. and Della A. (Ewing) Blue, the former a native of Walnut township, Pickaway county, Ohio. His grandparents in the paternal line were Harvey A. and Emily HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY - 525 (Bowman) Blue. The American progenitor of the Blue family was Michael Blue, of Virginia, of Revolutionary fame. The family migrated from England in the early part of the seventeenth century and settled originally in Hampshire county, Virginia, now West Virginia. It was about the year 1810 that the family removed from Virginia to Ohio, settling in Fairfield county. Orren P. Blue, the father of Professor Blue, devoted his attention to educational work in early life but for many years has been engaged in business as an abstractor of land titles. He has long figured prominently in public affairs, having served as deputy county recorder, county treasurer and as clerk of the city of Kenton, while at the present time he is a member of the Kenton city council. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic order and with the Modern Woodmen of America, representing the latter as consul for many years. He is also one of the active members of the Chamber of Commerce and takes a very helpful part in civic and religious affairs, being a prominent member and an official in the Church of Christ of Kenton, Ohio. In early manhood Orren P. Blue was married to Della A. Ewing, daughter of the late Alexander C. and Margaret (Park) Ewing, who were natives of Trumbull and Knox counties, Ohio, respectively, and came to western Ohio with their parents, settling in Orange township, Hancock county. The Ewings, who were also of English origin, became early settlers in western Pennsylvania and took up their abode among the pioneer residents of Trumbull county, Ohio. Herbert T. O. Blue attended the public schools of Kenton, Ohio, until he had completed the high school course as a member of the class of 1906. Following his graduation he spent four years as a student in the normal and classical departments of the Ohio Northern University at Ada, which conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1913, and then devoted a year to the classical course in the Ohio State University at Columbus. During the four-year period between 1913 and 1917 he served as principal of the high school at Ada. Professor Blue also studied in the department of theology in Hiram College, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1918. Since that year he has been a resident of the City of Canton, Ohio, and has been engaged in teaching in the department of History and English in the Central and McKinley high schools. He served as president 526 - HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY of the Hardin County Teachers Association during the years 1913 and 1914 and also has membership in the Ohio State Teachers Association and in the National Education Association. Moreover, Professor Blue has exerted a potent influence from the lecture platform, speaking largely on educational, historic and religious themes. An able writer, he has for a number of years contributed articles on archaeological and historical subjects pertaining to the state of Ohio, and he is an active member of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society at Columbus. He has lectured on archaeological and historical subjects before various organizations throughout the state, specializing in this field of scientific research. Professor Blue is a very active and valued member of the Young Men's Christian Association. He belongs to Canton Chapter of the International Y's Men's Club and is editor of the international organ of this association (affiliated with "Association Men") which is published in New York. He is chaplain and a member of the board of directors of the Y's Men's Club. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons, belonging to Lathrop Lodge No. 154, F. & A. M., of Kenton, Ohio, while his religious faith is indicated by his membership in the First Christian Church of Canton, in which he is serving as an elder. The church has a membership of six thousand and Professor Blue is the teacher of the Loyal Men's Bible class, which numbers eight hundred and is the largest men's Bible class in this section of the country. On the 11th of August, 1920, in Kenton, Ohio, Professor Blue was united in marriage to Miss Anna Wagner, daughter of P. V. and Emma (Williams) Wagner and granddaughter of Samuel Wagner, who was a son of John Wagner, a soldier of the Revolutionary war. The first of the name in Ohio settled in Pleasant township, Hardin county, in 1833. Professor and Mrs. Blue make their home at 1105 Ninth Street, northwest, in Canton, Ohio.