(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 300 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY bus, Ohio. He enlisted in May, 1862, and was discharged on the 27th of the following September by reason of the expiration of his term of enlistment. Company B was organized at Hudson, Ohio, and was composed of students of the Western Reserve College, the captain being C. A. Young, later a noted professor at this institution, Dartmouth College, and Princeton University. After his army experience and graduation from college, Mr. Stuart was engaged in teaching for four years, during which period he was principal of Shaw Academy, at Collamer, Ohio, for two years. In the meantime he had assiduously applied himself to the study of the law, and with such success that in 1866 he was admitted to the bar. He entered upon the practice of his profession in partnership with Hon. S. P. Wolcott, at Kent, Ohio, where he continued until May, 1870. He then came to Akron and formed a law partnership here with C. P. Humphrey. Mr. Stuart's abilities were soon recognized, and he served Summit County as prosecuting attorney from January, 1877 to 1880, having previously served as city solicitor of Akron from 1871 to 1877. In 1890 he was elected to the Probate Bench of Summit County and served two terms, from February 9, 1891, to February 9, 1897. His work in that position was characterized by the same qualities which have always commended him to the people—great industry, ability of a high order and fearlessness in the performance of duty. Since retiring from the bench he has been engaged in the practice of the law with his son at Akron. He is a director in the Central Savings & Trust Company and in the Permanent Savings and Loan Company. Judge Stuart was married May 11, 1864, to Harriet E. Whedon, who is a daughter of Harvey Whedon, a former prosecuting attorney of Summit County, now deceased. They have one son, Fred H., a graduate of Buchtel College, admitted to the bar in 1889, who is practicing law in partnership with- his father. The firm of Stuart & Stuart having offices at No. 402 Hamilton Building, handles a large part of the important litigation in Summit County. Judge Stuart resides at No. 24 Fir Street, and his son at No. 31 North Prospect Street. NEWTON CHALKER, a retired lawyer of Akron, who has been identified with both the business and professional life of the city for a number of years, is generally recognized as one of Akron,s prominent men. Mr. Chalker was born at Southington, Trumbull County, Ohio, September 12, 1842, and is a son of James, Jr. and Eliza J. Chalkor. The Chalker family originated in England and became established about 1640 in Connecticut, and in 1805 in Ohio. James Chalker, the grandfather of Newton Chalker, was born at Saybrook, Connecticut., where he married Mercy Norton, and with his wife and infant son he came to the Western Reserve, locating in Southington, Trumbull County, Selecting a location in the midst of the forest, he built a cabin of logs, and entered upon a pioneer existence. He lived until 1867, 'his span of life covering ninety years, and the death of his aged wife but shortly preceding his own. They reared thirteen children—Or- rin Joseph, Edmond, James, Phoebe, Anna, Polly, Calvin, Daniel, Philander, Harrison, Allen and Mercy. James Chalker, Jr., the father of Newton, was born in Southington, June 15, 1811. His educational opportunities were confined to three winter terms in an old log schoolhouse, situated one mile east of Southington Center, but by much reading he became in after years well versed in history, and was also a thorough student of the Bible. When a young man he purchased on credit a tract of fifty acres of woodland, located two miles west of Southington Center, where, after years of earnest labor, he established a comfortable home for himself and family He eventually became one of the largest land owners in the township, having added to his original property from time to time. Mr. Chalker was married (first) to Eliza Jane Hyde, of Farmington, who died in 1849, leaving three children : Byron, who became a farmer, and died in Southington at the age of fifty-two AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 303 years; Newton, subject of this article ; and Columbus, who died at the age of twenty-seven years; another child, Benson, died in infancy. In 1851 Mr. Chalker was married (second) to Adeline Timmerman, who was born in the state of New York, and they had two daughtars, Mary Jane and Bertha. The former married A. J. Morris, a resident of Southington, and died in her thirty-seventh year. The latter became the wife of Thomas McConnell, a resident of Youngstown, Ohio. James Chalker died September 23, 1893, having passed his eighty-second birthday. For years he was a pillar of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Newton Chalker attended the district schools ,until he was fourteen years of age, after which, for six years, at irregular intervals, he was a student at the Western Reserve Seminary, West Farmington, in the meanwhile becoming a very successful district school teacher. Prior to enlisting for service in the Civil War, in the spring of 1862, he had taught school in his home neighborhood and at Braceville, Southington, Parkman and Champion, Ohio, and, after his return at Litchfield, Michigan. When twenty years of age he offered his services in defense of his country, enlisting in Company B, Eighty-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which belonged to the department of the army then under the command of General George B. McClellan. The most important military event of his term of service was the protracted battle of Harper’s Ferry, in which the Union forces were captured by those of Stonewall Jackson, the latter having a very much larger force. In the fall of 1862, on account of the expiration of its term of enlistment, the Eighty-seventh regiment was mustered out, and the members who had survived its many dangers returned to their homes, Mr. Chalker being one of them. In the spring of 1863, Mr; Chalker entered Allegheny College, at Meadville, Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in June, 1866, with the degree of B. A., later receiving that of M. A. During 1866-7 he served as principal of Dixon Seminary, at Dixon, Illinois, and in the year following he accepted the superintendency of the public schools at Darlington, Wisconsin. But while successful to a flattering degree as an educator, this was not the full extent of his ambition. In September, '1868, therefore, after some preliminary preparation, he entered the Albany Law School, and in 1869 he was graduated with the degree of B. L. In the fall of that year he entered upon the practice of his profession at Cameron, Missouri, where lie remained until 1874. He then returned to Ohio, in the summer of that year locating in Akron, since which time this city has been his. home. Mr. Chalker continued actively engaged in the practice of law until 1894, when he began to give the greater part at his attention to his other large and varied interests. He was one of he founders of the Peoples, Savings Bank at Akron, and of the Savings Bank at Barberton, owning a large amount of stock, and serving on the Board of Directors or the former institution. He owns a large amount of property, including a farm adjoining Southington, which he now makes his legal residence. He has purchased and improved a number of tracts in Summit County, several of these being new 'additions to Akron, notably that choice residence section known as North Hill. After giving up his law practice, Mr. Chalker, in 1895-6, made a busy trip around the globe, having previously visited, by preference, almost every interesting portion of his own land. Among the countries he visited on this trip were Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Nubia, India, Burmah, China, Japan and our own Sandwich Islands, in all of which he found much to interest a man of cultured mind. Mr. Chalker is identified politically with the Republican party. Since 1892 he has ben a 'member of Buckley Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and has served as its commander. One of his distinguishing characteristics is his civic pride in regard to Akron, and another, his tender memory of the old home where he was reared, and of the lo- 304 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY cality with which his parents and grandparents were so closely identified. The old Methodist Church in which they worshipped has profited many hundreds of dollars by his bounty in the past few years. There is also just being completed at Southington the Newton-Chalker High School, which Mr. Chalker has erected at a cost of $20,000, and which was donated by him to the Board of Education, the donation ceremonies taking place on August 22, 1907. His charities have always been large, their full extent being known only to himself. His acquaintance is extensive, and his friendships include individuals of taste, learning and culture, all over the world. HENRY MARCELLUS HAGELBARGER, prosecuting attorney of Summit County, serving his second term, was born at the hamlet of Spring Mountain, Coshocton County, Ohio, December 2, 1867, son of Henry and Louise (Raley) Hagelbarger. The late Henry Hagelbarger was a farmer of Monroe Township, Coshocton County, serving several terms as a justice of the peace. For three years in the Civil War he was a faithful sol dier in the Union army, first as a member of Company A, Sixteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he enlisted April 24, 1861, for three months. He enlisted September 18, 1861, in Company I, Fifty-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, being a sergeant of said company, and was transferred November 18, 1862, to Battery H, Fifth Regiment, United States Artillery, and was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga. He died March 25, 1895. His widow survives. H. M. Hagelbarger was reared on a farm and secured his primary educational training in the local schools. He taught school three terms, and later attended the Ohio Northern University at Ada, subsequently studying law in the law office of ex-Lieutenant-Governor A. W. Jones, at Youngstown, Ohio. In February, 1892, he came to Akron to accept the position of official stenographer for the courts of Summit County, to which he was appointed by the late Judge A. C. Voris, and which he acceptably filled for seven and a half years. Having been admitted to the bar in October, 1897, he resigned this position and began the practice of law in September, 1899, having his law office with that of Attorneys Young & Wanamaker. In politics Mr. Hagelbarger is a Republican. In November, 1901, he was elected prosecuting attorney of Summit County, taking the office in January, 1902. In the fall of 1904 he was re-elected. In February, 1902, he formed a law partnership with N. 0. Mather, under the firm name of Hagelbarger & Mather, which continued three years, and when it was dissolved, Mr. Hagelbarger moved his office to the court house. On September 10, 1895, Mr. Hagelbarger was married to Martha May Jones, daughter of William H. and Sarah (Mustill) Jones, of Akron. They have two sons and two daughters, viz. : Paul Raley, Ralph Henry, Martha Louise and Sara. The family attend the. Grace Methodist Episcopal Church at Akron, Mr. Hagelbarger being a member of its board of trustees. He is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, is a past master of Adoniram Lodge, F. & A. M., and for three years has been district lecturer for the Twenty-first Masonic District. He is also a member of the Sons of Veterans, and in 1902 was Junior Vice Commander of the Ohio Division of the Sons of Veterans, and is at present Division Counselor. HON. JACOB ADAMS KOHLER, president of the People,s Savings Bank, at Akron, and senior member of the law firm of Kohler, Kohler & Mottinger, with offices in the Arcade Building, has been prominently identified with the business and professional life of this city, and also with the public affairs of this section of Ohio. Mr. Kohler was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1835, and is a son of Henry and Mary (Slanker) Kohler. When the subject of this sketch was an infant his parents moved to Franklin Township, Summit County, Ohio, and he obtained his education in the district schools of that local- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 305 ity and at Lodi Academy. In early manhood he learned the cabinet=maker,s trade, but later turned his attention to the law, for which he prepared under Attorney N. W. Goodhue, at Akron, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. During many of the years spent in the practice of his profession he was alone, but at other times was in partnership, first with Hon. Sidney Edgerton, later, Rollin W. Sadler, and still later, with. Harvey Musser, all once lead- ing members of the Summit County bar. Judge Kohler served two terms, from 1868 to 1872, as prosecuting attorney of Summit County. In 1880 he was elected a: member of the State Legislature, serving until 1885; from 1886 until 1888, he served as attorney-general of Ohio, and in November, 1895, he was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas, for Medina, Lorain and Summit Counties. He proved an able judge and retired from the bench with the respect and esteem of all those familiar with the able manner in which he had performed his duties. Judge Kohler has been more or less interested in building and improving for some years. In 1882, in association with his friend, the late Russell A. Alger, then of Detroit, Michigan, but formerly of Akron, he erected tho Arcade Block in this city, a five-story structure on Howard Street, which is the largest and most modern of all the city,s buildings devoted to business purposes. He owns a large amount of property in this section and is continually adding to its value by improving it. Judge Kohler was married May 6, 1860, to Frances H. Coburn, who is the only child of the late Dr. Stephen H. Coburn, one of Ak ron,s capitalists, whose estate is managed by the judge. Judge and Mrs. Kohler have been the parents of two children—Hurlbut Stephen, born January 20, 1868, and George Coburn, born November 17, 1870, both graduates of Yale College. Judge Kohler owns an imposing residence at No. 315 East Market Street. EDWIN F. VORIS, a prominent attorney at Akron, senior member of the firm of Voris, Vaughan & Vaughan, with offices in the Dobson Block, was born July 31, 1855, at Akron, and is a son of the late General Alvin C. and Lydia (Allyn) Voris. He was graduated in 1872 from the Akron High School, and in the following September entered Buchtel College, where he was graduated June 30, 1875. He entered the Harvard Law School, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was graduated there June 27, 1877. Early in the following October he was admitted to the bar at Cleveland, Ohio. He first located for practice at St. Louis being admitted to the bar in the state of Missouri, and was associated there with the well known law firm of J. M. and C. H. Crum, from June, 1878, until February, 1879. Upon his return to Akron, he entered into partnership with his father, General Alvin C.Voris under the firm name of Voris and Voris, which association continued until General Voris was called to the Common Pleas Bench. Mr. Edwin F. Voris then entered into partnership with Charles Baird, with whom he practiced for about three years. Upon the death of the late John C. Means, Mr. Voris was appointed to fill out the unexpired term as prosecuting attorney, and faithfully and efficiently performed the duties of the office from May, 1886, until January, 1887. On October 21, 1879, Mr. Voris was married to Lizzie U. Slade, of Columbus, Ohio. Their family numbers five children—Lydia, William S. Elizabeth, Edwin F., Jr., and Marion. S., Mr. Voris is identified with the Republican party, but has never sought political honors. For a number of years he was a member of the Akron Board of Education. He is interested in the Sons of Veterans, and was one of the organizers of Camp 27, of that Society. EDWARD H. BOYLAN, senior member of the well-known law firm of Boylan & Brouse; located at No. 23 Doyle Building, Akron, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1875, and is a son of Edward Boylan, formerly a railroad man of that section. Mr. Boylan was left an orphan when he was a child 306 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY of but ten years. To be placed face to face with the most serious problems of life in early childhood is a hard fate, and the boy who meets such a situation with a brave heart and has the courage and ambition to conquer fortune in spite of such initial difficulties, well deserves success. Mr. Boylan first learned telegraphy, working during the summers, but attending school in the winters. He thus acquired the means to take two years in the literary department of the University of Michigan. He then resumed telegraphic work, reading the preliminary principles of law in his leisure time, and when, in 1900, he had secured sufficient capital, he became a student of law at the University of Michigan. From this institution he was subsequently graduated, and was admitted to the Michigan bar. He later returned to Ohio and, after taking the necessary examination in his native state, was admitted to practice in its courts, and soon after entered the law office of Dayton Doyle. He continued to practice alone until October 8, 1906, when he entered into his present partnership with Edwin W. Brouse, under the firm name of Boylan & Brouse. Politically Mr. Boylan is a Republican, and takes a lively interest in public matters and city affairs. Fraternally he is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias, a Mama-bee, and a Woodman, in all these organizations being valued for his bright and helpful qualities. He belongs also to the Masonic Club, and is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Akron. F. B. THEISS, vice-president and executive officer of the First National Bank of Akron, and president of the First National Bank of Wadsworth, besides being a well-known lawyer, is one of the leading financiers of this section of Ohio, and is identified with many successful business enterprises, both in Akron and in other parts of Summit County. He was born in Northampton Township, Summit County, Ohio, in 1866, and is a son of Christian Theiss, a native of Germany. The venerable parents of Mr. Theiss both reside in Northampton Township. They were both born in Germany and after emigrating, resided for a time in Pennsylvania, coming to Summit County in 1865. In maidenhood, his mother was Charlotte Noe. She has reached her seventieth year, while her husband is seven years her senior. They live retired on their farm and are respected and esteemed in their community. F. B. Theiss completed the ordinary public school course in his native township and then entered Buchtel College, where he remained for four and one-half years. He then began to read law with the firm of Oviatt & Allen, and in 1888 was admitted to the bar. He continued with the same legal firm for five years, and then opened an office of his own. He is a member of the Summit County Bar Association. In addition to his above-named interests, Mr. Theiss is a director in the American Sewer Pipe Company and the American Strawboard Company, and as stockholder and director, is interested in many other prospering concerns. In 1889 Mr. Theiss was married to Addie Smith, who is a daughter of John Smith, of Northampton Township. They have one child, Ruth. Mr. Theiss is a member of the First Church of Christ, at Akron. HON. ALVIN COE VORIS. Among the distinguished sons of Summit County whose memories are enshrined in the hearts of its best citizens, and whose gallant deeds are recorded on the page of our country,s history, few, if any, occupy a more honorable place than he whose name stands at the head of this biography. General Voris was born in Stark County, Ohio, April 27, 1827. His father, Judge Peter Voris, was for many years one of the best known citizens of the county—a man of high standing in his profession and prominent in public life. Elected county surveyor in 1843, Peter Voris successfully performed its duties for the full term of three years, and in 1847 was chosen one of the two representatives which Summit County was in that year entitled to in the State Legislature, his col- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 307 league being Captain Amos Seward, of Tall madge. In 1850 he was appointed by Governor Ford associate judge of the Court of Common Pleas, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Judge Samuel A. Wheeler, which office he held until the new constitution went into effect, in February, 1852. Alvin C. Voris was given a liberal education at Twinsburg Institute and at Oberlin College. Having his father,s taste for a professional career, he studied law, and was admitted to the bar on June 20, 1853. lie had previously been deputy county clerk for about two years, and had also, from 1851 to August, 1852, performed the duties of probate judge, to which office Charles G. Ladd had been elected under Summit County's new constitution. Judge Ladd,s health never permitted him to assume the duties of this office, and young Voris was appointed deputy clerk by him and very acceptably performed the probate business of the county until, upon the judgo,s death, his successor was elected. From this time on Mr. Voris went steadily forward. He soon became noted as one of the oldost members of the bar, and in 1859 he was olected, in connection with Judge Sylvester H. Thompson, of Hudson, to represent Summit County in the State Legislature. In this body ho served until 1860. The serious condition of public affairs, and the outbreak of the Civil War, brought many changes to people in every walk of life. Laying aside for the time being all personal ambition with respect to his profession, Mr. Voris enlisted as a private in the Twenty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was being recruited by Major Lewis P. Buckley for the three years'. service. "Before the organization was completed, however, Governor William Dennison tendered him a second lieutenant's commission, with authority to recruit men for an entirely new regiment. The recruits secured by him were finally consolidated with others, raised in other portions of the state, into the Sixty- seventh Regiment, with Otto Burstenbinder as colonel and A. C. Voris as lieutenant-colonel. The -Sixty-seventh was mustered into the service at Camp Chase, December 22, 1861, and by January 19th being ready for active duty, was sent into the field in Western Virginia. March 22, 1862, it reported to General Banks, at Winchester, Virginia, and on the following day; Lieutenant-colonel Voris being in full command, had its first brush with the enemy, "driving the opposing forces till past midnight as far south as Kearnstern." Early on the morning of the 24th it was called to engage the enemy under Stonewall Jackson, being the first regiment to enter the fight. Being ordered to support a battery of artillery, the regiment, under the impetuous lead of Colonel Voris, crossed an open field, three-fourths of a mile, on a double-quick, exposed to the enemy,s fire, the Colonel forming his men on the left of General Tyler,s brigade, within point-blank range of a rebel battery protected by a stone wall." While engaged in arranging his men Colonel Voris was wounded in the thigh, but supported by two of his men, he seized the colors and started forward. After giving the enemy two or three volleys he ordered a charge, which was made with such vigor and impetuosity that the enemy broke and fled, this being one of the very few instances on which Stonewall Jackson was discomforted in his brilliant military career. The Sixty-seventh lost in this battle fifteen killed and thirty-two wounded. After some heavy marching the regiment was ordered to reinforce the army of General McClellan on the James, and on June 26 embarked on the steamer Herald and the barge Delaware, before the end of their journey being in great peril from a severe storm, during which the hawser connecting the barge and steamer parted, leaving the barge at the mercy of the wind and waves. Men, horses and equipment were washed overboard and lost. The rescue of the survivors was largely due to Colonel Voris, who was himself on the barge, and who lost all his military trappings. The Sixty-seventh remained with the Army of the Potomac until the evacuation of the Peninsula in December, 1862, when it was transferred to North Carolina, and thence,' 308 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY February 1, 1863, to Hilton Head, South Carolina, where they endured all the dangers and privations of the siege, sustaining a heavy loss in the disastrous assault on Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863. In this engagement Colonel Voris was seriously wounded in the side, which necessitated his return home for rest and recuperation. At the end of sixty days Colonel Voris rejoined his regiment, which, in February, 1864, re-enlisted as veterans and returned to Ohio on furlough. Early in May, 1864, the regiment joined General Butler,s forces at Bermuda Hundred, and on the 8th was sent to guard the left flank of the Tenth Corps, while destroying the railroad from Chester Station to Petersburg. On the 19th they had a desperate encounter with the enemy, losing sixty-seven officers and men in killed and wounded, but holding their ground against four successive charges. For their conduct on this day Colonel Voris and his command were highly complimented by General Terry, the Colonel being recommended for promotion as a brigadier-general of volunteers. The rest of the history of this regiment to the close of the war was one of glory and honor. May 20, 1864, in a magnificent charge on the enemy’s lines, the Sixty-seventh lost sixty-nine officers and men killed and wounded, but accomplished the object of the charge—to recover a portion of our lines which had been captured by the rebels. In this engagement the rebel, General W. H. S. Walker was captured, Colonel Voris relieving him of his sword, which he afterwards retained as a trophy. In August, at Deep Bottom, four companies of the Sixty-seventh lost nearly one-third of their men in a charge on the enemy,s rifle-pits, which, however, they captured before the rebels could reload their guns. During that year the regiment was under fire 200 times, and, it was said by White-law Reid, that "out of 600 muskets taken to the front in the spring, three-fifths were laid aside during the year on account of casualties." In the spring of 1865 the Sixty-seventh was actively engaged until the collapse of the re bellion. Its record shows gallant service at Fort Gregg, Petersburg, April, where Colonel Voris was the first Union officer to enter th fort, and at Appomattox, where the Colonel received a wound in the left arm from a fragment of a rebel shell. "Brevetted Brigadier General in 1864, and Major-General in 1865, on the close of hostilities General Voris was assigned to command the politico-militar district of South Anna, Virginia, and, wi his regiment, to perform garrison and police duty. For six months and more the gener performed the arduous and perplexing duti of the position so satisfactorily to all parties as to call forth the following commendatory notice from the Charlottesville Daily Chronicle, of strong rebel proclivities: `General Voris has conducted himself in command here in the kindest and most considerate ma ner, and has shown himself an energetic, faithful, and just officer. He leaves with the best wishes of our people., " From the close of his army service until the end of his life, which closed July 28, 1904, General Voris was actively engaged in professional work, and he was honored by an election to the Common Pleas Bench, for Summit, Medina, and Lorain Counties, November 4, 1890. He was also a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1873, in the deliberations of which he bore a conspicuous and honorable part. On June 20, 1853, Judge Voris married Lydia Allyn, who died March 16, 1876, leaving three children, namely : Edwin F., now senior member of the well-known law firm of Voris, Vaughan & Vaughan, of Akron; Lucy, who became the wife of Charles Baird; and Bessie C., who married William T. Sawyer. General Voris married, for his second wife, February 21, 1882, Mrs. Lizzie H. Keller, a daughter of the late Judge C. G. Ladd. Mrs. Voris who survives her distinguished husband, resides on Diagonal Road, Perkins Hill, Akron. HON. NEWELL D. TIBBALS, senior member of the law firm of Tibbals & Frank, at Akron, formerly state senator, and judge AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 311 of the Court of Common Pleas, has been a prominent factor in public affairs in Summit County for many years. He is a native of Ohio, and was born at Deerfield, Portage County, Ohio, September 18, 1833, and is a son of Alfred M. and Martha (Swern) Tibbals. The parents of Judge Tibbals were pioneers in Portage County. The father was born in Massachusetts and the mother in New Jersey, and both, in their youth, had accompanied older members of the family to this section, where the whole of their subsequent lives were passed. They were among the early founders of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became people of substance and reared their children in comparative comfort. Newell D. Tibbals completed his education in 1853 at McLain Academy, then a noted school at Salem, Ohio. Two years of continuous study of the law prepared him for admittance in 1855 to the bar, and he entered upon practice at Akron. In 1860 he was elected prosecuting attorney, and two years later he was re-elected, and in 1865 he was elected city solicitor, being the first incumbent of that office. While advancing thus rapidly in his profession, he was also becoming a valuable factor in the Republican party, which was proven by his election as state senator to represent Portage and Summit Counties, and his subsequent service in the notable sessions of 1866 and 1867. In 1875 he was called to the bench, being elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas, for the second subdivision of the Fourth Judicial District of Ohio, to which honorable position he was reelected in 1880. Judge Tibbals continued to ably perform his official duties until the spring of 1883, when he resigned in order to devote his attention to the active practice of law. Judge Tibbals was married October 22, 1856, to Lucy A. Morse, born at Randolph, Portage County, Ohio, July 9, 1835, who died at Akron, October 28, 1894. She was a lady of beautiful Christian character and innumerable virtues. An admirable mother and loving wife, her heart was so large that her gentle ministrations went out to all who were unhappy or in need in any circle. She was at the head of many charitable organizations, both during the Civil War and subsequently, and was the founder of many benevolent enterprises, which still prosper and remember her with affection and admiration. Judge Tibbals and wife had seven children and the following still survive : Mrs. Martha A. Day, Mrs. Jessie A. Hoover; Mrs. Gertrude A. Stanley, Newell L. and Ralph Waldo. Although Judge Tibbals has always been a man with laudable ambitions, he has never permitted the high honors conferred on him to close his eyes to loyalty to his country, interest in his city or devotion to his home. In 1864 he served as sergeant in Company F, 164th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at Washington, D. C. Later he was commissioned by Governor John Brough as major of the Fifty-fourth Battalion, Ohio National Guard. In 1886 he was appointed judge advocate for the Department of Ohio, G. A. R., and in 1890 was reappointed and made aide-de-camp to Commander-in-Chief R. A. Alger; also was on the staff of Commander-in-Chief R. B. Brown in 1906. Since the close of the Civil War he has constantly interested himself in the affairs of Buckley Post, No. 12, G. A. R., at Akron, and in 1894 was elected its commander. In that year he was the Post's representative at the National Encampment held at Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania. Since 1887 he has been associated in the practice of law with Mr. J. C. Frank. HON. HENRY C. SANFORD, an able member of the Summit County bar, and one of Akron,s most enterprising citizens, is a conspicuous example of the value of self-help, through which only he1 has attained his present position in life. He was born at Portland, Maine, September 11, 1833. His father, John Sanford, was a native of Maine and an inventive genius, being granted several patents, among which were those for a fanning mill, straw board, a journal for reducing friction, a pulley power, a tide mill (one of the most novel) and several others 312 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY that came into practical use. He married Priscilla Delano, by whom he had nine children. The Delanos are of Huguenot ancestry, and are descended from the family of that name from which came General Grant. The first of them to come to this country made the passage in the sailing vessel "Fortune," landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts, where the mother of the subject of this sketch was born. When he was but nine years old, Henry C. Sanford,s father died, and from that time until reaching the age of eighteen he made his home with a brother, at Manchester, New Hampshire. During his school days he not only kept up with his classes in the Kendall Academy, but entered upon an apprenticeship in the Manchester Locomotive Works. When eighteen years old he came to Ohio. For a number of years thereafter he followed railroading, increasing his knowledge and receiving steady promotion until he was one of the most capable engineers to be found on any of the various systems. In the latter part of his railroad career he was located for some time at Rent, Ohio, as engine dispatcher for the Erie Railroad. He also had charge of ordinary repairs on locomotives at that point. Dur ing his career as a railroad man he encountered many dangers and had many trying experiences. One such occurred near Plymouth, when he was engineer for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road, which in these days might have won him a Carnegie medal. It was a daring act which endangered his own life, to run his train into another for the purpose of crippling it, and thus prevent it from being engulfed at Crooked Creek, where he had discovered the bridge had been washed away. Before giving up railroading Mr. Sanford had procured books and begun the study of law. Every spare moment was taken advantage of. Sometimes he might have been seen sitting on the foot-board of his engine with a law book in his hand. His determined efforts were rewarded by success. He completed the study of his chosen profession at the law school of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he was a student for one year preceding his admission to the bar. When he came to Akron, in 1870, he was already recognized as an able attorney, and since then he has both added largely to his professional reputation and has also served in public life with conspicuous success. Elected prosecuting attorney, he served in that important office in 1873 and 1874, and in 1879 and 1880 as city solicitor. Not content with this, his fellow-citizens still further showed their appreciation of his ability and trustworthiness by electing him to the State Legislature, in which he served two full terms, covering the years from 1888 to 1891, inclusive. He is still engaged in the active practice of law, having an office in Room 1, Arcade Block, Akron. Aside from his law practice and public service, Mr. Sanford has ever been a useful and public-spirited citizen. He has been personally connected with the promotion of many worthy business enterprises, whose success has contributed largely to the prosperity of the city. He was one of the two promoters of the Peoples' Savings Bank, and for some years a member of its board of directors. In the fall of 1907 he organized the Commercial Savings Bank of Akron, with a capital stock of $100,000.00, which institution is located in the building owned by him, at the corner of Main and Exchange Streets. Mr Sanford was married, January 10, 1857, to Emily J. Fairchild, of Amherst, Lorain County, Ohio. Mrs. Sanford died March 6, 1890, having borne her husband three children, namely: William H., a graduate of the Cincinnati Law School, who is engaged in the real estate business in Akron ; Burton I., who is now deceased ; and May F., who for the past five years has had charge of the art department at Buchtel College. WILLIAM T. VAUGHAN, a member of the prominent law firm of Voris, Vaughan & Vaughan, of Akron, Ohio, was born in Coventry Township, Summit County, Ohio, in 1860, and is a son of Thomas and. Catherine Vaughan, who was married in Ireland, in 1848. His mother,s maiden name was Cath. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 313 erine Callahan. They came to America from Ireland in the same year, and to Summit County in 1849, and engaged in farming in Coventry Township in 1850, where he resided until his death in 1892. His wife Catherine died in 1884. He took a prominent part in local politics and was well and favorably known in his locality. They reared a family of seven sons, namely: Maurice, who is connected with the freight department of the B. & 0. Railroad Company, at Akron ; Timothy, residing on the old farm ; Thomas, who was a graduate of St. Charles, Md., died in 1892; William T , who is a middle member of the law firm of Voris, Vaughan & Vaughan ; Cornelius, who is a foreman of the B. F. Goodrich Company; Richard, residing on the old farm, and John R., who is the junior member of the law firm of Voris,,Vaughan & Vaughan. William T. Vaughan spent his boyhood days on a farm, and was educated at Buchtel College, Akron, and the Ohio Northern University. He taught in the public schools in Summit County for fourteen years. He studied law in the law office of Wafters and Phelps, and was admitted to the bar in October, 1894. He is interested in politics and in 1884 was elected clerk of Coventry Township. In 1898 he was appointed member of the Board of Control of the Akron Public brary, and is at present, 1907, president of said board. He was married to Mary Doherty in 1897 at Hudson, Ohio, and they have four, children—Wilola, Francis, Eldred and William T., Jr. Mr. Vaughan and family belong to the Catholic Church, and he belongs to the order of the Knights of Columbus. JOHN R. VAUGHAN, a member of the prominent law firm of Voris, Vaughan, & Vaughan, of Akron, was born in Coventry Township, Summit County, Ohio, in 1869, and is a son of the late Thomas Vaughan. He was reared in his native township, where he attended school, after which he was for some time a student at Buchtel College. He then taught for two years in the public schools, and subsequently entered the Northern Ohio University at Ada, where he completed his literary education. He then engaged in the insurance busines as general agent for the Union Central Life Insurance Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, which position he resigned to accept a position with C. T. Parks, undertaker, and remained with him for three years. Almost immediately on entering into business life he began to take an interest in politics, and was soon appointed deputy-sheriff, which position he filled for three years, when he resigned to take charge of the Akron District Telegraph Company. He was with this concern but a short time when he was appointed justice of the peace, in November, 1900, to serve out the unexpired term of E. J. Hard. In the meanwhile he had begun the study of law with the firm of Vaughan & Phelps, and was admitted .to the bar in December, 1902. He immediately began practice with his brother, under the style of Vaughan & Vaughan, the firm being expanded later by the admission of Edwin F. Voris, when the present style of Voris, Vaughan & Vaughan was adopted. In addition to his law practice, which is considerable, Mr. Vaughan has large farming interests, and is one of the leading citizens of this section. He was married, June 28, 1905, to Mrs. Margaret Anne (Kennedy) Nelan. He is a member of St. Vincent de Paul,s Catholic; church, and is fraternally connected with the Knights of Columbus, the Maccabees, and Ancient Order of Hibernians. HON. CHARLES G. LADD, one prominent in the professional and social life of Akron, and the first probate judge ever elected in Summit County, was born June 22, 1822, at Rutland, Vermont. He came to Akron in the spring of 1840, his sister being already a resident of this city, and the wife of General Lucius V. Bierce. He was a young man of ability, but was largely dependent upon his own efforts, and by serving as a deputy to the United States marshal at Akron, he earned enough money to enable him to complete his education at the Western. Reserve College. After adequate study in the office of General Bierce, he was admitted to the bar in 1845, 314 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY and was taken into partnership by his brother-in-law, under the firm name of Bierce and Ladd. In the fall of 1851, he was elected probate judge of Summit County, but his health was then failing and the duties of the office were accordingly delegated to Alvin C. Voris, who was made his deputy, and who served as such until the lamented death of Judge Ladd, July 30, 1852. Judge Ladd was married July 12, 1845, to Hannah Ermina Williams, who was a daughter of Barnabas Williams, one of the founders of Akron, Ohio. They had three children, namely : Walter C., Lizzie, and Emma E. Walter C. Ladd, born June 21, 1846, was married December 23, 1869, to Genevra F. Oviatt, and died in 1902. Lizzie, now residing on Diagonal Road, Perkins Hill, Akron, is the widow of the late Gen. A. C. Voris. She is a lady of social prominence in this city and is a charter member of the Daughters of the Revolution. Emma E., the youngest daughter, is the widow of Albert J. McNeil, who died July 10, 1873. She has one child, Grace E., wife of George B. Merrill, who is connected with the Robinson Clay Product Company. They have two children—Henry and James. Judge Ladd died while but at the entrance of what promised to be a brilliant and useful career. He served one term as mayor of Akron, and almost every office of trust and responsibility was within his grasp. HON. R. M. WANAMAKER, attorney of Akron, was born at North Jackson, Mahoning County, Ohio, son of Daniel and Laura (Schoenberger) Wanamaker. He completed his literary education at the Ohio Normal University, at Ada, Ohio. He began the study of law under Ridenour Si Halfhill, of Lima, in the fall of 1891 entered the law department at Ada University, and was graduated therefrom in the spring of 1893, being admitted to the bar in March of the same year. He came to Akron in September, 1893, and in October following the firm of Young & Wanamaker was established. In 1895 Mr. Wanamaker was elected prosecuting attorney of Summit County. He is a member of the State Bat Association, and of several -fraternal orders. In 1906 he was elected to the office of the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the district composed of Summit, Medina and Lorain Counties. Judge Wanamaker was a very successful lawyer and ably filled the office of prosecuting attorney for two terms, and during this time he represented the state in the celebrated case of the State of Ohio against Cotten for murder, and also prosecuted a large number of indictments for riot, growing out of the great riot and destruction of property that occurred in the city of Akron. He has entered now upon the discharge of his duties as Common Pleas Judge and bids to become as successful in that office as he was in the office of prosecuting attorney. HON. C. R. GRANT, senior member of the law firm of Grant, Sieber & Mather, at Akron, and for several terms probate judge of Summit County, though a resident of Ohio since 1864, was born in New Haven County, Connecticut, October 23, 1846. When a school boy of only fifteen years, he demonstrated his patriotism and manly qualities by enlisting in the service of his country, being accepted, although so young, as a member of the Twelfth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. He was later assigned as bearer of dispatches for several of the noted officers of the Union army in the Civil War, among them General B. F. Butler and General Banks, serving on the staff of the latter general until October, 1863, when he was honorably discharged and returned to Connecticut. In April, 1864, Mr. Grant settled on a farm in the neighborhood of Cuyahoga Falls, where, during his leisure moments, he pre. pared for college by private study, and in September, 1868, he entered the freshman class of the Western Reserve College, at Cleveland. A brilliant student, he was graduated at the head of his class, which consisted o eighteen-members, in 1872, receiving valedictorian honors. For the two following years he was engaged in the study of law under the supervision of Judge N. D. Tibbals, at Akron, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 317 and in 1874 he was admitted to the bar. Close attention to study had somewhat impaired his health, and, therefore, he wisely returned for a while to the invigorating life of the farm. In 1876 Mr. Grant entered into partnership with H. B. Foster, of Hudson, and in the fall of that year the law firm of Foster, Marvin & Grant was organized, and continued in business at Akron until September 6, 1883. This congenial association was then dissolved, owing to the junior member being appointed probate judge of Summit County by Governor Foster, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Goodhue. Twice afterward, in 1884, and in 1887, Judge Grant was elected to the bench and served through the whole period, acquitting himself with credit, and never forgetting that he was entrusted with the administration of an office, not only of honor, but of grave responsibility. He returned to his private practice, with many friends both on the bench and bar. His present offices, with the firm of Grant, Sieber & Mather, are in the Dobson Building. Judge Grant was married (first) October 9, 1873, to Frances J. Wadhams, who died September 14, 1874. He married (second), November 9, 1876, Lucy J. Alexander, who died June 8, 1880, leaving one child, Frances Virginia, who was born September 24, 1877. The third marriage of Judge Grant took place August 19, 1891, to Ida Schick, by whom he has two surviving children, Louise E., and Ione. WILLIAM E. YOUNG, of the firm of Allen, Waters, Young and Andress, attorneys, of Akron, was born at Mount Hope, Holmes County, Ohio, February 3, 1863, son of Matthias and Catherine (King) Young. In 1882 he entered the Ohio Normal University from which he was graduated. in 1888. He studied his profession in the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and was graduated in 1892. He was admitted to the bar in March, 1892, and on January 1, 1893, opened a law office in the Pflueger Block, on Howard Street, Akron. In October, 1893, he formed a partnership with Mr. Wanamaker. In April, 1897, he was elected mayor of Akron. November 1, 1906, Mr. Young assumed his present firm relationship, as above noted. WILLIAM T. SAWYER, attorney, of Akron, was, born in Springfield Township, Summit County, Ohio, December 1, 1862, son of Robert V. and Martha Ann Sawyer. After his father,s death, which occurred in March, 1877, he accompanied his mother to Akron. He spent two years in the city schools and two years in the preparatory department of Buchtel College, and was then admitted to the college proper, from which he was graduated in June, 1887. After some time spent in travel, he began to read law under the direction of the firm of Kornic and Caldwell. He was admitted to the bar of Tennessee in May, 1888, and then returned to Akron. Here he further pursued the study of law and was admtted to the bar of Ohio in June, 1890, since which time he has been engaged in the active and successful practice of his profession. Mr. Sawyer was elected mayor of. the city of Ak, in the fall of 1907, after a very spirited contest and his term of office will begin in January, 1908. SAMUEL G. ROGERS, a member of the law firm of Rogers, Rowley and Rockwell, of Akron, was born in this city, November 6, 1865; son of Joseph M. and Sarah J. (Gray-bill) Rogers. In 1885 he entered the law office of Judge U. L. Marvin to begin the study of his profession. After being graduated with honors from the Cincinnati Law School in 1887, he was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of his profession in Akron. In 1892 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Summit County, in which office he served efficiently for three years. He has since continued in the practice of his profession, and is now a conspicuous figure at the Summit County bar. He is one of the attorneys for the Northern Ohio Traction and Light Company and is recognized as one of the most successful and efficient trial lawyers in the county. 318 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY GEORGE G. ALLEN, attorney, of Akron, member of the law firm of Allen, Waters, Young and Andress, was born in Granger, Medina County, Ohio, August 26, 1855. He was graduated from the Akron High school in 1873, and began the study of law in the offices of John J. Hall and Edward Oviatt. He then took a six months, course in the law department of Michigan University, at Ann Arbor, and was admitted to the bar at Akron in August, 1876. He began practice in association with Edward Oviatt under the firm name of Oviatt and Allen, and has since built up a very successful practice. He has taken an active part also in business and public affairs, and in 1883 was for a short time acting mayor of Akron. HON. DAYTON A. DOYLE, judge of the Common Pleas Court, was born in Akron, September 27, 1856. He was graduated from the High school in June, 1874, and from Buchtel College, with the degree cf A. B., June 26, 1878. After reading law for one year in the office of attorney-general Jacob A. Kohler, he entered the Cincinnati Law school, from which he was graduated May 26, 1880, with the degree of LL. B. He was admitted to the bar in the Supreme Court of Ohio, at Columbus, May 27, 1880, and to practice in the United States Courts, at Cleveland, May 26, 1882. In 1885 he opened a law office in Akron, being associated as a partner with Frederick C. Bryan, Esq. In April of that year he was elected city solicitor, and he was re-elected to that office in April, 1887, efficiently performing its duties for four years. Up to the time of his elevation to the bench, he was one of the most prominent and successful attorneys practicing in Akron. FRANK D. CASSIDY was born January 29, 1849, at Peninsula, Summit County, Ohio, son of William P and Caroline M. (Kohler) Cassidy. After some experience in mercantile business, he began the study of law in 1877 with the firm of Edgerton & Kohler, and was admitted to the bar in March, 1879. He has since practiced his profession in Akron and has made a reputation as an able attorney. He married, in 1878, Miss Sarah J. Francis, a daughter of Joseph Francis. NATHAN MORSE, ESQ., was born at Union, Tolland County, Connecticut, November 2, 1848; he was reared on a farm and graduated from Amherst College in 1874. He studied law with Senator George F. Hoar and at Boston University; and on examination was admitted to the Suffolk (Boston) bar in 1875. After being a short time in Holyoke, Mass., he located at New Hartford, Conn., in 1876, and in June of that year he married Miss Ellen White, of South Hadley Falls, Massa In April, 1882, he moved to Akron, where he has since been engaged in the successful practice of the law. He has been closely identified with The People,s Savings Bank Company, as stockholder, director, and its attorney since about the time of its organization. During all his Akron life, he has been connected with the First Congregational Church.. Has been twice a delegate to the National Council of that body, and is now the registrar of Puritan Conference of the churches of that denomination. CHAPTER XX STATISTICS Population of Akron (census of 1900) - 42,728 State rank of Akron according to population - 7 National rank of Akron according to population - 87 Valuation of Akron's property according to general tax duplicate - $22,044,670.00 Miles of paved streets in Akron - 30 Miles of sanitary sewers in Akron - 75 It is interesting to compare the neighbor cities of Youngstown and Canton in respect to the last two items. Youngstown has seventeen miles of paved streets and fifty-four miles of sanitary sewers. Canton has eighteen miles of paved streets and thirty-five miles of sanitary sewers. The sixth census-that of 1840-does not give the population of Akron. Summit County is given 22,560. At that time Cleveland had 6,071; Steubenville, 4,247; Zanesville, 4,766; and Chillicothe, 3,977.