(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 375 center of this property. He purchased this land for $3.00 per acre, and his only neighbors were a half-breed Indian and his squaw, who lived at the present site of Straw Board and hunted for a living. Mr. Way began to clear his 280-acre tract and built a log cabin in the woods, deer at this time being so plentiful that they had to be driven away from the wheat fields. Mr. Way's stock consisted of one horse, two oxen, one cow and one hog, which they brought with them from Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Way both spent the remainder of their lives here. Their four children were : Anna, Levi, Franklin and Joseph. Joseph Way, who was born in 1801, came to Ohio when sixteen years of age, and lent his hand towards developing the farm in the new country, although in his native State he had learned the trade of carpentering. The family's nearest white neighbor at this time came five years later than the Ways, Sylvester Van Hinning settling about three miles .away. Joseph Way continued to make this property his home all the rest of his life, and died there in 1873. At one time Mr. Way and Abel Irish were the only two to vote the Democratic ticket in Norton township, which now has a large Democratic majority. Joseph Way was married three times, first to Miss Stellman, by whom he had four children: Abigail, Henry, Martha and Charles. He had one child by his second marriage,—Joseph,— and after the death of his second wife he was married to Jane McCracken, who came from Pennsylvania during the early days. Of this last union there were born five children : Loren ; Caroline, the widow of David Eby; Mary, who married Noah Eaton; Anna and John. The mother of these children died at the age of eighty-six years. Loren Way attended the district schools and lived on the home farm until his marriage, the heirs selling about three years before 0. C. Barber located there. After his marriage Mr. Way built a house on the home farm and lived there for seven years, after which he purchased forty and one half acres of land from Henry Sours, in Coventry Township, where he spent four years. This property, which is now used as a clay pit, was subsequently sold by Mr. Way, and in 1891 he bought his present farm from the J. Kepler heirs, where he has since carried on general farming with much success. His machinery is modern and his methods practical, and his property as a consequence yields abundantly every year. In politics Mr. Way is a Democrat, but he has neither held nor cared to hold public office. In 1879 Mr. Way was united in marriage with Ella Berlien, who is a daughter of John Berlien. Of this union there is one child, Marvin Wilber, now an agriculturist of Coventry Township, who married Bessie Gerst and has three children : Ralph, Ethel and Ruth. GEORGE SACKETT, for sixty years a prominent resident of Cuyahoga Falls, who was closely identified with its manufacturing industries, and many other of its upbuilding agencies, was born at Warren, Litchfield County, Connecticut, January 6, 1821, and died at Cuyahoga Falls, Summit County, Ohio, July 12, 1907. He was a son of Aaron and Hulda C. (Tanner) Sackett. The Sackett family became established in Summit County in 1838, through the settlement here of Aaron Sackett and his household. Both he and his wife were born in Connecticut, and the maternal grandfather of George Sackett, served in the Revolutionary War as an officer under General Anthony Wayne. In 1836 Aaron Sackett moved to Canandaigua, New York, that his children might enjoy the educational advantages of that place. In 1838 the Sackett family resumed their western journey and permanently settled on a tract of land in Tallmadge Township, where Aaron Sackett' resided until his retirement from active life in 1868. He died at the home of his son, William Sackett, in Copley Township, at the age of eighty-four years. His sterling traits of character were reflected in his children, who were ten in number, George being the third in order of birth. 376 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY Mr. Sackett attended two sessions of the Tallmadge Academy, and then his school days were ended. Up to the time he attained his majority he performed faithfully the arduous part that fell to the lot of the eldest son in a large family living under pioneer conditions. When twenty-one years old Mr. Sackett began farming on his own account. His capital was $100. He leased a tract of land from the "Chuckery" Company, located in that section of the city of Akron now known as North Hill Thanks to untiring industry, and the exercise of his unfailing good sense, these farming operations prospered greatly. Special attention was given to the production of wool and wheat raising. His farm at one time embraced the handsome total of 1,400 acres of excellent land. Mr. Sackett was also interested in manufacturing enterprises, and was for a number of years the president of the Cuyahoga Paper Company. He was a man of superior business ability and accumulated an ample fortune. He engaged in coal mining, railroad building, and the general development of the country at Laredo, Texas, in partnership with Gov. A. C. Hunt of Colorado. At one time he had large holdings of real estate and mining properties in Colorado. Mr. Sackett was from the very formation of the Republican Party its stanch and undeviating supporter. He was the president of the first Republican Club in Cuyahoga Falls.. In 1867 he was elected County Commissioner by the Republican party and served three years. In 1879 he was appointed a member of the State Board of Equalization, representing Summit and Portage Counties, and he also served in lesser offices. His superior judgment was exercised in the performance of public tasks with the same fidelity as in the pursuance of his private business. He was a man of honor in all transactions. In 1848 Mr. Sackett was married to Helen Williams of Auburn, New York, who died in 1851. Mr. Sackett was married a second time, February 9, 1854, at Tallmadge, Ohio, to Frances V. Grant, a daughter of William and Esther (Treat) Grant, of Orange, New Haven County, Connecticut, who, with one daughter, Mrs. A. F. Smith, of Cleveland, survives him. In 1847 Mr. Sackett purchased a valuable farm of 200 acres on which he resided until 1867, when he purchased the property on Second street, where he lived until he completed the building of a fine residence in 1902 on Broad street, Cuyahoga Falls. This beautiful home remains the place of residence of his widow. In 1902 Mr. Sackett completed the sale of the city lots into which he had divided his farm, making the Sackett addition to Cuyahoga Falls now one of the most attractive parts of the city. For many years Mr. Sackett was an active, consistent, Christian, a member of the Congregational Church, to which he gave generous support both of money and time. Until within a year of his death, Mr. Sackett enjoyed as good health as usually falls to the lot of men of his years, while his mind remained clear, and his interest in his family and immediate circle of friends never ceased. He was the last of his family save one, Mrs. H. C. Grant, of this city. George Sackett's was a pre-eminently successful career. In it all there was nothing to conceal. He was from first to last honest, upright, industrious, a good citizen, neighbor and friend. F. W. ROCKWELL, a successful and representative business man of Akron, has been a resident of this city for over thirty-six years. He was born in 1851 in Kent, Ohio, then known as Franklin Mills. In 1859 he accompanied his parents to the northwestern part of Missouri, where he resided for five years. They then returned to Ohio, taking up their residence at Andover, where they remained for about a year. A year was then spent at Windfall, Indiana, from which place they removed to Linesville, Pennsylvania for a residence of five years. During these early years the subject of this sketch attended the common schools, supplementing the education therein obtained by a year's attendance at Allegheny College. In 1871, at the age of AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 377 twenty, he came to Akron, accepting a position as bookkeeper with the Akron Sewer Pipe Company, with whom he remained thirteen years. Beginning at the foot of the ladder he worked his way up until he became secretary of the company. Mr. Rockwell then went into business for himself as a manufacturer of stoneware, under the firm name of Johnson-Rockwell & Company. Afterwards purchasing Mr. Johnson's interest he continued the business under the style of F. W. Rockwell & Co., until 1890, when he sold out his interests to A. J. Weeks. He had previously made arrangements to go to Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, to establish a sewer-pipe company, and accordingly he now established with others the Pennsylvania Sewer Pipe Uo., Limited. His interests in this concern he sold out in 1892, returning to Akron, where for a year he was in the office of the Columbia Sewer Pipe Co. The concern was then merged with the Union Sewer Pipe Company, Mr. Rockwell remaining with them until 1896, when the consolidated concern went out of business. He had previously—about 1893—become interested in a grocery business, and he now gave his personal attention to it until 1899. He then became connected with the Robinson Clay Product Company, continuing to conduct his grocery business, however, until 1903, when he sold out. For four years Mr. Rockwell had charge of the sale department of the .Robinson Clay Product Company, but since then has had charge of real estate titles, insurance, and claims of customers. Mr. Rockwell takes an active interest in politics. He was chairman of the Republican County Committee in 1887-1888 ; he also served on Akron's school board from 1881 to 1889; in 1883 he was elected president of the board ; in 1887 he was elected its treasurer; and he was again elected president in 1888. In 1902 he was again elected, and has served continuously from that time up to the present. He served as president of the board in 1905 and 1906. During his service on the board the following buildings were constructed: The Kent, Howe, Henry, Fraunfelter, Samuel Findley, High School, and the Annex to the high school. Mr. Rockwell belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and to the Royal Arcanum, being a member of the local lodges of these societies. He was married in 1875 to Miss Mary A. Johnson, a daughter of Thomas Johnson, a pioneer hardware manufacturer of Akron. Mr. and Mrs. Rockwell have five children living, namely : George W., who is in the employ of the Lehigh Portland Cement Co., of Mitchell, Indiana; Frank J., an attorney, who is a member of the prominent law firm of Rodgers, Rowley & Rockwell, of Akron ; Thomas, who is assistant purchasing agent for the Robinson Clay Proe',et Co. ; and Mary and Ida, who reside at hOme with their parents. WILLIAM CLOYD JACOBS, M. D., who at the time of death was, in point of service, the oldest medical practitioner at Akron, was also one of the most eminent. He was born February 26, 1840, at Lima, Allen County, Ohio, and was a son of Thomas K. and Ann (Elder) Jacobs. Dr. Jacobs was of Welsh extraction and his great-grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. William Jacobs, his grandfather, was a native of Pennsylvania, where he lived until late in life and then joined his son at Lima, Ohio, where he died in 1848. Hon. Thomas K. Jacobs, father of the late Dr. Jacobs, was born January 30, 1812, in Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in 1835. In 1836 he settled at Lima, where he worked at his trade of tailor, and took an active interest in politics. In 1840 he was elected treasurer of Allen County, serving six terms in that office, and in 1859 was elected to the State Legislature, serving three years. He acquired a large amount of real estate and dealt largely in the same. He died November 12, 1884. He married Ann Elder, who was a daughter of Noah and Ann (Alexander) Elder, and they had nine children, four of whom grew to maturity, as follows : William C. ; Matilda, who married Henry A. Moore ; Clara, who, married John- Brotherton ; and Thomas K., 378 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY of Lima, now retired from the medical profession and engaged in large real estate operations. At the age of sixteen years, the late Dr. William C. Jacobs obtained the coveted appointment of cadet in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, but finding nautical training was not to his taste he resigned two years later, in 1859, and returned home with the intention of studying medicine, and later entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, where he was graduated. March 3, 1862. On April 1, 1862, he was commissioned acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army and was immediately sent South and entrusted with various medical and surgical tasks. On account of an accident in the succeeding October, he was given a leave of absence and during this period he received his commission as surgeon, being then under twenty-three years of age. He joined the Eighty-first Regiment, Ohio Vol. Inf., January 9, 1863, and served with it at Corinth, in the campaign against Atlanta, in the "March to the Sea," and in all the operations of the army from Savannah, Georgia to Raleigh, North Carolina. He was mustered out of the service at Camp Dennison, Ohio, July 21, 1865, young in years but old in medical and surgical experience. Dr. Jacobs settled at Akron in October, 1865, and until his demise took an active interest in all that concerned this city. In politics he was always an adherent of the Republican party, but never accepted any office except membership on the Board of Education, to which he was thrice elected. Dr. Jacobs was married (first) September 10, 1863, to Huldah M. Hill, of Piqua, Ohio. Dr. Jacobs was married (second), March 6, 1895, to Mrs. Mary H. Wheeler, a daughter of Sheldon and Harriet (Speers) Brown, of Akron. Mrs. Jacobs survives and resides at No. 641 East Buchtel avenue. Dr. Jacobs is also survived by one son, Harold H., born February 10, 1866, who was associated with his father in medical practice and is now his successor. Dr. Harold H. Jacobs graduated from Amherst College in 1888 and from the Ohio Medical College in 1891. As a medical practitioner he holds a high rank in the profession in this section. His office is in the Hamilton Block. September 2, 1891, Dr. Jacobs was united in marriage to Elizabeth Griffin, daughter of H. G. Griffin (deceased) of this county. Dr. and Mrs. Jacobs have three children : Hulda G., Harriet T. and Mary Elizabeth. The late Dr. W. C. Jacobs was a Thirty-second Degree Mason and was widely known in the fraternity. He belonged also to the Knights of Pythias and to the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and to the Grand Army of the Republic. A. T. WOODS, M. D., one of the experienced and valued medical practitioners residing at Loyal Oak, where he has been located for the past twenty-eight years, was born at Uniontown, Stark County, Ohio, April 6, 1856, and is a son of John B. and Susan (Willis) Woods. The father of Dr. Woods was engaged in a general mercantile business at Uniontown until his son was about 5 years of age, when he moved to Akron in the fall of 1860, where he entered into a banking business and for many years was president of the City Bank. Later he organized the City National Bank and was its first president. Many sections of the city were identified with the Woods family, the father of Dr. Woods owning a large amount of real estate. He built the Woods Block in the year of 1862 on the corner of Market and Main Streets. The old Woods homestead, on the corner of Union and Market Streets, is now the Renner home, but for many years it was the place where the Woods family found privacy, peace and contentment and also where their friends were hospitably entertained. Both parents of Dr. Woods died at Akron. Father on August 14, 1896; mother, June 26, 1897. Dr. Woods was reared from the age of five years at Akron and enjoyed the advantages offered by the graded city schools and later the High School. In preparation for his medical college course, he read with Dr. H. M. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 379 Fisher for three years and then entered the Western Reserve University at Cleveland, whore he was graduated in 1879. A few days later found Uhn established at his present location, ready for business, and through all the succeeding years he has never failed to answer a call for medical help. Dr. Woods is held in the highest esteem, both personally and professionally. In 1881 Dr. Woods was married to Ella Harrier, who is a daughter of Daniel Harrier, and they have one daughter, Lily Blanche, who married Dr. Bert A. Shriber, a. dental surgeon of Akron. Dr. Woods has practically retired from practice, but consents occasionally to serve in consultation or to visit in an old family, whose physician and friend he has been for a quarter of a century. He has never identified himself with secret organizations, his only fraternal connection being with the beneficiary order of Pathfinders. EDWARD B. MILLER, manager of the People's Improvement Company, at Akron, has been a resident of this oily since childhood, and hags been identified with many of the city's important industries. He was born February 15, 1859, at Canton, Ohio, and is a son of Lewis Miller, who was the originator and founder of the Chautauqua. Association. He was scarcely more than five years old when his parents moved to Akron, where he attended school. He later entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, remaining three years. In the meantime he evinced a natural leaning toward mechanics, and this led him to enter Stevens' School of Technology, at Hoboken, Now Jersey, where he took a course in mechanical engineering. Mr. Miller then went for a. tour of Europe, and on his return he entered the foundry department of his father's concern, the Aultman-Miller Com pany, with the determination of learning every detail of the business. This plan he carried out and became assistant superintendent of the shops, remaining for eight years with that company. Later he was superintendent of the Akron Iron Company for eight years. During all this period he had been quietly investing in land in and around Akron, which since then he has been platting and building thereon comfortable homes for the public. His foresight has proven him a man of business faculty of high degree. His land is well improved, and, while materially benefitting himself, he has added much to the general attractiveness of his city. Since childhood he has been united with the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Akron. JOHN H. DELLENBERGER, whose business connection with the Akron Lumber Company, with plant located at No. 575 South Main Street., Akron, dates from 1890, inns been a resident of this city for the past forty-. one years. Ile was born in Portage County, Ohio, in 1844, and was reared on his father's farm in Sufliold Township. Mr. Dellenberger is one of the surviving veterans of the Civil War. When twenty years of age he enlisted for service in Company II, 184th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and his period of service covered about. nine months, during which time he was stationed mainly in Tennessee and Alabama. He survived all the dangers and disasters of war, and returned safely to his home in Portage County. It was then engaged in carpenter work until the fall of 1866, when he came to Akron and began contracting, in which occupation he continued until 1870, when he went into the lumber business and was associated twelve years with Simon Hankey. The Hankey Lumber Company was then organized, of which Mr. Dellenberger was a member for five years. Since then he has been identified with the Akron Lumber Company, which handles all kinds of building materials and 'manufactures sash, door, and blinds and deals in all kinds of lumber. In 1868 Mr. Dellenberger was married to Elizabeth J. Acker. He has three sons: Albertus J., Harry A. and John H., Jr., all of whom are connected with the Akron Lumber Company. In addition, John H., Jr., is a veterinarian, a graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College. Mr. Dellenberger is a member 380 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY of the Main Street Methodist Episcopal Church. He belongs to Buckley Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He has never taken any very active part in politics, but is numbered with the quiet, solid representative men of his city, ever ready to do his part in promoting matters of public welfare, but seeking no personal emolument therefrom. ROBERT TURNER, residing on his valuable farm in Portage Township, lying just outside of the limits of the city of Akron, came to this locality from the city where he was engaged for many years in a manufacturing business. Mr. Turner was born in Norfolk, England, January 5, 1833, and is a son of James and Mary (Walker) Turner. He was reared in England and remained in his native land until 1852. After he left school he began work in a flour mill and served an apprenticeship of five years to the millers' trade. When he left England, his objective point was Akron, which city he reached on July 8, 1852, and on the following day he went to work at the old Center mill, operated by the Allen-Perkins Company. Here he remained for ten years and three months, for eight years of which time he was head miller. On July 1, 1862, Mr. Turner bought a steam flour-mill of George Ayliff, which he operated until 1872, when he sold it and bought the woolen factory on Cherry Street. This he converted into an oatmeal mill, having from 1864 made oatmeal in the steam mill. He continued the manufacture of oatmeal until 1881, when he sold out to J. H. Hower & Sons. Mr. Turner had been living up to this time in a comfortable home on North Summit Street, Which he now traded for a farm of ninety acres, known as the old Judge Pitkin farm. This land, on account of its location, is each year becoming more valuable, and Mr. Turner is selling town lots from it, and the time is not far distant when this will be one of the fmest residential parts of Akron. In 1858 Mr. Turner was married to Jane Cooper, who died in February, 1892. The children of this marriage were: Robert, who died young; Addie, residing in Akron; Nellie M., who married George W. Carpenter, residing in Akron; and Robert, residing also in Akron. Mr. Turner was married (second) to Emma E. Gibbons, who is a daughter of Edward Gibbons. Mrs. Turner was born and reared in England and accompanied her brother to America when she was twenty-five years of age. She learned stenography and secured a position, first with William Taylor Son & Company, and later was with the William Bingham Company and the Standard Lighting Company, where she continued until her marriage in 1893 to Mr. Turner. Since becoming an American citizen, Mr. Turner has been a loyal supporter of the Government, serving during the Civil War as a member of the Sixty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was stationed for the 100-day term at Akron. He has since served acceptably in various offices of responsibility, to which his fellow citizens elected him. For ten years he was a director of the old Portage Township school and for years was a member of the Summit County Agricultural Society, being its treasurer for a part of the time. Fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to Akron Lodge, No. 83, A. F. & A. M., and the Royal Arch Chapter, also of Akron. CHARLES E. AKERS, proprietor of the large hardware business, located at No. 984 S. Main Street, Akron, has been a continuous resident of this city for the past thirty-three years. Mr. Akers was born in England about 100 miles distant from the great city of London, and in his native land attended school through boyhod and learned the tinner's trade. Thus, when the young man arrived in Akron, he was ready to go to work and his services were accepted by Cramer & May, but within six months he realized that there was a good opening in his line of business for another first-class establishment, and; accordingly, in association with his brother, he formed the firm of Akers Brothers. This firm continued for twelve years, doing a general hardware, roofing and tinning business. Charles AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 383 E. Akers is now sole proprietor of the large business, dealing in all kinds of hardware, tinning, roofing and spouting, besides doing general job work. Mr. Akers enjoys a large patronage and is numbered with the leading business men in his line of industry in Akron. In 1880 Mr. Akers was married to Anna White, and they have four children, namely; Edith, who married Frederick Stornan, residing at Akron, and Eva, Alfred and Ruth. Mr. Akers and family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically Mr. Akers is a Republican. He is a member of several insurance societies and has served on some civic boards, but he is in no way a politician. Quite recently he has enjoyed a visit to Europe, spending six weeks in viewing the various places of interest in London, Liverpool, Paris and other famous Old World cities. JACOB KOCH, a prominent citizen of Akron for many years, but now living retired from business activity, was born at Baerstadt, Bavaria, Germany, May 29, 1840, and is a son of Henry and Mary Koch. His parents were natives of Germany who emigrated to America in 1841, finding a home in the city of Philadelphia. The father lost his life through the foundering at sea of a sailing vessel on which he was a passenger, in 1845, between Philadelphia and Savannah, Georgia, and in 1846 Jacob accompanied his mother to Cleveland, Ohio. He was educated in the schools of that city. In 1854 he came to Akron, where his uncle was the senior member of the clothing firm of Koch and Levi, and secured a clerkship with them. During the next ten years he devoted himself so closely and thoroughly to the business that in 1864, when his uncle retired, he was able to take his place. In 1878 Mr. Levi was succeeded by Louis Loeb, and the firm name then assumed was J. Koch and Company. The business was removed to commodious quarters on South Howard Street, subsequently removal being made to the corner of Mill and Main Streets. Mr. Koch continued at the head of the firm and in time built up the largest establishment in Akron dealing in gents' furnishing goods and boys' and men's clothing. In January, 1907, he disposed of his interest in the business, and since then has been enjoying a quiet life of ease and leisure. Since his retirement the business has been changed to a stock company, composed of clerks who had served under, and were trained in business methods by, Mr. Koch, Louis Loeb being manager. On March 12, 1878, Mr. Koch was married to Leah Hexter, of New York, who died in that city September 3, 1878. February 8, 1893, Mr. Koch married (second) Miss Ella Dessauer, of Montrose, Pennsylvania. Of this union there is one child, Marion Blanche, born March 15, 1895. Mr. Koch takes a good citizen's interest in public matters, and has frequently demonstrated his patriotism and public spirit. He responded to the call of Governor Brough, in 1862, for troops for State defenders, and in 1864, as a member of the 164th Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, served 100 days in front of Washington. He has been connected with a number of civic bodies, and served for a time on the Board of Trustees of the De Roo Hospital fund. He has a beautiful home at No. 36 Adolph Avenue. J. A. SWINEHART, president and manager of the Swinehart Clincher Tire and Rubber Company, a large business enterprise of Akron, has resided in this city for the past thirty-one years. He was born in 1851, at Suffield, Portage County, Ohio, where for some time he attended school, completing his education at Smithville. Mr. Swinehart was nineteen years of age when he came to Akron and he spent seven years teaching school in the surrounding districts. He having a natural taste for woodworking, he finally left the educational field and learned the millwrights' trade, subsequently developing into a contractor. For some sixteen years he engaged in contracting, building many of the largest mills, besides numerous other buildings, at Akron and 384 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY throughout Summit County. When the Firestone Rubber Company was organized he became interested in it as a business enterprise, and accepted the position of vice-president, which he retained for three years. He then went to Europe, where he was engaged for a number of years in selling patents on his side-wire tire. Mr. Swinehart made six trips abroad in the interests of the above named business, but in the meanwhile he was studying out other inventions, which resulted in the production of the clincher tire, and, in 1904, of the organization of the Swinehart Clincher Tire and Rubber Company. This became an incorporated body. Its present capital stock is $200,000.00, with J. A. Swine-hart as president and general manager; B. C. Swinehart as vice-president; Fred A. Boron, as treasurer, and C. O. Baughman, as secretary. The manufacture of the Swinehart Clincher Tires is the company's main industry. Mr. Swinehart is interested also in other concerns and is one of Akron's stirring and prominent business citizens. From 1893 to 1895 he served as a member of the Akron school board. In 1880 Mr. Swinehart was married to Callie C. Coldren, of Springfield Township, Summit County. They have three children, namely: B. C. Swinehart, who is vice-president of the Swinehart Clincher Tire Company, and a resident of Akron, and Ada and Esther, who reside at home with their parents. Mr. Swinehart and family belong to the Grace Reformed Church of Akron, which he is serving as a member of the official board. NATHANIEL LOMBARD, superintendent and chief engineer of the Lombard & Replogle Engineering Company, at Akron, with quarters in the Hower Building on West Market Street, is of New England ancestry and was born at Springfield, Maine, in 1865. Mr. Lombard received his educational training in his native state, and when nineteen years of age he went to Boston Massachusetts, and found employment with the American Arms Company of that city, with whom he continued for four years. Here he had an opportunity of working out some ideas of his own and his experiments resulted in the invention of a practical machine for covering electrical wires. Its value was immediately recognized and he sold it without difficulty to the Eastern Electrical Cable Company, entering their works to build a few of the machines. His busy brain kept at work and he soon produced a lasting machine for lasting shoes, which he sold to the McKay Shoe Machinery Company, of Boston. About the same time he sold his hydraulic car brake to the city of New York, where a number of cable cars were equipped with this life-saving appliance. Other important inventions of recognized utility are his waterwheel governors, the Lombard water-wheel governor, which is controlled by the Lombard Water Wheel Governor Company, of Boston, and his other invention, the improved waterwheel governor, which is being built by the Holyoke Machine Company, of Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1905 Mr. Lombard came to Akron and, after inventing and perfecting the Lombard & Replogle mechanical water-wheel governor, he formed the Lombard & Replogle Engineering Company, which was incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000. The officers of this company are: M. Otis Hower, president; H. Y. Hower, vice-president; M. A. Replogle, secretary, and Nathaniel Lombard, superintendent and chief engineer.. Mr. Lombard retains a one-third interest in the Improved Water-Wheel Governor Company, of Worcester, Massachusetts; is a stockholder in the Lombard Water-Wheel Governor Company, also of that city, and is interested in a number of smaller concerns. He has been equipped by nature with inventive gifts, which he has developed to great advantage, and in his special field, he has no superior. In 1899 Mr. Lombard was married to Mayetta Harddy, of Boston, Massachusetts, and they have one daughter, Sybil. NORMAN FREDERICK RODENBAUGH, M. D., physician and surgeon, at Barberton, stands very high in his profession, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 385 all through Summit County, where his family is an old and honored one. Dr. Rodenbaugh was born in Springfield Township, Summit County, Ohio, September 15, 1865, and is a son of Abraham and Rebecca (Hart) Rodenbaugh. The Rodenbaugh family is of German extraction, but has been American for a number of generations. The founder of the family in Ohio was John Roden-bough, the grandfather of Dr. Rodenbaugh, who came from Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, in 1840, and settled on a farm in Springfield Township, Summit County, close to the line of Green Township. Abraham Rodenbaugh, father of Dr. Rodenbaugh, was born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, December 18, 1818, and accompanied his parents to Ohio when about twenty-two years of age; •he was a soldier drilled for the Mexican War, under Colonel Buckley, and was on his way to the front when the order was countermanded. He was married to Rebecca Hart in 1846. She was born in Springfield Township, and was a daughter of John Hart, Jr., and a granddaughter of the John Hart, formerly from New Jersey and Pennsylvania, whose name is signed to that immortal document, the Declaration of Independence. The grandfather, to uphold his pledge, enlisted and fought seven years through the Revolutionary War, under General Lafayette. John Hart, Jr., was a soldier under General Jackson in the war of 1812, and was with Old Hickory against England in the famous battle of New Orleans. The children of Abraham and Rebecca (Hart) Rodenbaugh were seven in number, and five of these still survive. The boyhood days of Dr. Rodenbaugh was spent on his father's farm, where his training was that of the usual country boy, including attendance in the local schools. Later he entered the Uniontown High School, and attended Buchtel College, and subsequently taught school for six terms, in the meantime doing considerable preliminary medical reading, after which he entered the Ohio Medical University, which is now connected with Starling Medical College. In 1899 he ad- mated to partnership Dr. George A. Brown, . Senecaville, Guernsey County, Ohio, for six years, who was superseded by his nephew in 1905-, Dr. Herbert Rodenbaugh, both being graduates of Ohio Medical University at Columbus. In 1897 Dr. Rodenbaugh was married to Minnie Kepler, who is a daughter of Samuel Kepler, a highly respected resident of Akron. They have two children, Josephine and Hugo. Dr. Rodenbaugh has always associated with the Methodist Episcopal Church. His fraternal connections include the Elks, the Odd Fellows, the Foresters, and the Maccabees. Few men were more prominent in the early development of Springfield. Township than Abraham Rodenbaugh, father of Dr. Rodenbaugh. He was a man of progressive ideas. In the early days he, with John R. Buchtel, founder of Buchtel College, were boys from the same neighborhood, grubbed and cleared the timberland on several farms in the southern part of Coventry and Springfield Townships and purchased and ran, one of the first separators for thrashing wheat in that part of the county. Abraham Rodenbaugh survived until 1897, aged seventy-nine years, his wife having died in June, 1891. They were widely known for their many worthy characteristics and for the generous hospitality that prevailed in their home. A. WINKLER, vice-president of the Pettitt Brothers Hardware Company, a leading house in its line of business at Akron, has been a resident of this city almost all his life, although his birth took place in Germany. He was three years of age when his parents came to Akron in 1876. His boyhood was passed in attending to home duties. He was taught to be frugal and careful, from necessity, and he attended school until he was old enough to begin to learn a trade. He chose to be a tinner and worked under William Kasch, at Akron, for three years and then became associated with the firm of May & Fieberger, with whom he continued for eleven years, becoming well and favorably known, both to the trade and the general public. Since 1903 he 386 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY has been a member of Pettitt Brothers Hardware Company, and one of its, leading officers since its incorporation. In 1897 Mr. Winkler was married to Anna Trommer, who was born at Millersburg, Ohio, and they have one daughter, Beatrice. Mr. Winkler's only fraternal connection is with the order of Maccabees. He is a man of prac tical ideas and of thorough knowledge of his line of business, and finds time, in the course of his busy life, to lend his influence to further the city's welfare, and when the representative men of Akron are mentioned, his name is included in the honorable list. JOSEPH A. BALDWIN. The death of Joseph A. Baldwin, which took place at his home, No. 805 East Market Street, Akron, removed from this section a man who was formerly one of the most important factors in its business life. Mr. Baldwin was born at Goshen, Connecticut, December 6, 1820, and was a son of Erastus and Lucretia (Austin) Baldwin, and a grandson of Daniel Baldwin. Mr. Baldwin became a resident of Copley Township, Summit County, when seventeen years of age. Four years later he secured employment as a clerk with Kent, McMillen & Company, merchants, subsequently entering into partnership with Roswell Kent, under the firm name of J. A. Baldwin & Company, for the manufacture of woolen machinery. The firm style subsequently became McMillen, Irish & Company, and later Kent, Baldwin & Company. Mr. Baldwin was a man of keen business perceptions and was active in promoting and furthering many of the city's most important industries. In 1872 he became secretary and general manager of the Buckeye Sewer. Pipe Company and was identified with it until the close of his life. He was also president of the Summit Sewer Pipe Company and of the Permanent Savings and Loan Association, and a director in the Central Savings and Trust Company. He was looked upon as the pioneer in the clay industry in this section. In 1853 Mr. Baldwin was married to Mary A. Kent, a daughter of Alson Kent, who was a well-known citizen of what was formerly known as Middlebury. Two children were the fruit of this marriage: Alson, born in 1856, who died at the age of eleven years, and Eleanor L., born in 1859. The latter, in 1883, married Harry H. Gibbs, a prominent business man of Akron, who is treasurer of both the Buckeye and the Summit Sewer Pipe Companies. Mr. Baldwin is also survived by a brother, Harvey Baldwin, of Akron. During the whole course of his life, Mr. Baldwin was interested in public affairs, and especially active in advancing the cause of education. In early years he served on the Council of Middlebury and in later life on the Akron City Council, as a citizen ever being true to the responsibilities he accepted. In his political views he was a. Republican. He was actively interested in church work and for many years he had been a member and a trustee of the First Congregational Church at Akron. He was known in different parts of the country, it having been his custom for the past twelve years to spend the winter months in the South. In all places of sojourn he impressed those who were admitted to his acquaintance as a man of business ability and high personal honor. CHARLES BRADLEY, one of Stow Township's highly esteemed citizens, who is now retired from active pursuits, was for many years engaged in farming. Mr. Bradley was horn April 29, 1838, at Streetsboro, Portage County, Ohio, and is a son of George and Nancy Paulina (Peck) Bradley. Stephen Bradley, the grandfather of Charles, was a native of Lee, Massachusetts, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits. He and his wife Lydia were the parents of a large family. George Bradley, one of this family, was born at Lee, Massachusetts, and as a young man came to Streetsboro, Ohio, where he purchased a farm of seventy-one acres. He was married May 17, 1837, to Nancy Paulina Peck, who was born July 20, 1809, in Connecticut, and who was a daughter of Rufus Peck, of Litchfield, that state, who AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 387 came to Ohio in 1835. Mrs. Bradley died June 9, 1874, and her husband survived her until 1894, when he passed away, aged eighty-five years. They were the parents of seven children, five of whom grew to maturity, namely: Emily (deceased), who was the wife of George Nighman; Charles, whose name begins this sketch; Clara, who is the wife of Samuel Foster, of Richland, Michigan; William, a twin with Clara, and Susan, who married James E. Olin, of Ravenna, Ohio. Charles Bradley was reared in Streetsboro, Ohio, and remained on the home farm until attaining his maturity. In the fall of 1863 he came to Stow Township and purchased a farm of forty-one acres, which he increased from time to time by purchase, until it aggregated 100 acres. Mr. Bradley has always engaged in general farming and dairying, and his herd of from twenty-five to thirty head of cattle include some of the finest to be found in the township. His milk finds a ready sale at Cleveland. His farm buildings are all large and substantial, and include a circular silo, 14x28 1/2 feet. Mr. Bradley married Henrietta Le Moine, who was a daughter of Noah Le Moine,. of Stow Township They had three children: Ora D., who is engaged in cultivating the home farm;.W. Earl and Clara M., who reside at home. Mrs. Bradley died September 27, 1899, in the faith of the Disciples Church. In politics MT. Bradley is a Democrat. He is an active member of the local Grange, in which he has held official position. ARTHUR J. WEEKS, proprietor of the extensive chemical pottery manufacturing plant situated at No. 926 East Market Street, Akron, has been a resident of this city for a quarter of a century. He was born in Copley Township, Summit County, Ohio, in 1847, and is a son of Darius Weeks, and a grandson on the paternal side of Leavitt Weeks, who came to Summit County with his two brothers as early as 1815. Settling on a farm in Copley Township, Darius Weeks resided there all his life, with the exception of a few years, which he spent in mercantile business. He married Elizabeth Wilcox, daughter of Major John R. Wilcox, a graduate of West Point, who was stationed at Fort Edwards, Warsaw, Illinois, where Mrs. Weeks was born. Her grandfather Pliny Wilcox settled on the farm on which the Raymond House is now located, just across the road from the old home of John Brown in Akron. Darius Weeks had three sons and two daughters, namely: Arthur J., whose name begins this sketch ; Virginia, wife of William H. Whitmore, of Akron; Celestia A., wife of O. E. Robinson, of St. Louis, Missouri; Frederick H., who is engaged in the lumber an pottery business in Akron, and Charles D., also engaged in the pottery business, and a resident of Akron. Arthur J. Weeks was reared mainly on his father's farm in Copley Township. After completing the district school course, he spent two years in Willoughby College, and then became a student at Bethany College, in West Virginia, where he took a course in civil engineering. Here he became 'a member of the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity. Subsequently he was connected with the construction of the Wheeling & Lorain Railroad, and of the Valley Railroad, on the latter of which he was a division engineer. He then went to Evans- vice, Indiana, where he was engaged for seven years in a wholesale business. Returning at the end of this period to his native county, he embarked in the pottery business in Akron in partnership with his brother, F. H. Weeks, and Joseph Cook. After three years the Weeks brothers bought Mr. Cook's interest, and three years later Arthur J. Weeks sold his interest in the concern to F. H. Weeks and purchased the F. W. Rockwell plant, which he has been since engaged in operating. Here he manufactures all kinds of pottery, but makes a specialty of chemical pottery. His business, carried on along careful and conservative lines, gives employment to from thirty to forty men, and is now ranked among the important industries of the city. Mr. Weeks has always been actively interested in the public affairs of Akron, and on numerous 388 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY occasion has been elected to civic office, always proving himself equal to the demands made upon him in such official capacity. His fraternal connections include the Odd Fellows and the beneficiary order of the Royal Arcanum. In 1874 Mr. Weeks was united in marriage with Lovina Humbert, who bore her husband three children : Edmund A., Lulu L. and Arthur J. (deceased). Edmund A. L., who was a student of Buchtel College and a graduate of the Western Reserve Medical College, is a physician residing in Akron. Lulu, who also attended Buchtel College, is the wife of M. A. Knight, son of Dr Knight of Buchtel College, and also, like the subject of this sketch, is engaged in the pottery business. Mrs. Weeks died July 31, 1907. WILLIAM McFARLIN was one of Akron's prominent business men for a long period, during which he was either at the head or officially connected with many of the most important interests of this section. For some years prior to his death he was president of the First National Bank of Akron, and was also treasurer of the National Sewer Pipe Company, of Barberton, Ohio. Mr. McFarlin was born January 16, 1843, at Bath, Ohio, and was one of the family of four children of Moses and Elnora (Woodruff) McFarlin. He was educated at the Brooklyn Normal School and the Akron High School, after which he was engaged in teaching until April, 1863. He then entered the Union army as chief clerk for Colonel Crane, who had charge of the military railroads in the Department of the Army of the Cumberland. He served in this capacity until October, 1865. In the following spring he accepted the position of teller in D. P. Eberman and Company's Bank at Akron. In 1867 he became teller and assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Akron, being made cashier in January, 1878. From 1871 until August' 1, 1891, Mr. McFarlin was secretary and treasurer of the Akron Gas Company. On the organization of the Portage Strawboard Company, in 1882, he became its secretary and treasurer, and served as such until its merger with the American Strawboard Company in 1889. Other large corporations in which he was a prominent factor were : the National Sewer Pipe Company, at Barberton ; the Creedmoor Cartridge Company, at Barberton ; and the Akron Woolen and Felt Company. In all these organizations he proved himself a man of the quickest business perceptions, and was credited with sound judgment and broad views of the business field. On December 31, 1872, Mr. McFarlin was married to Julia Ford Henry, who was one of a family of seven children born to her parents, Milton W. and Abigail (Weeks) Henry, of Akron. Her father was a native of Massachusetts, but subsequently engaged in a mercantile business in this city, where he died March 16, 1886. Mr. McFarlin died November 8, 1894. His widow survives and resides at No. '61 Fir street, Akron. They had three daughters—Anna, Bessie, wife of K H. Fitch, manager of the Diamond Rubber Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Laura. J. GRANT HYDE, a leading business citizen of Clinton, Ohio, who is manager of the Clinton Milling Company, was born in Bristol Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, September 6, 1872, and is a son of Charles P. and Clara M. (Hunter) Hyde. Charles P. Hyde was also born in Bristol township, and there he has resided all of his life, being engaged in agricultural pursuits, and owning an excellent property. He was married to Clara M. Hunter, who was born at Niles, Ohio, and to them four children were born: Joseph Grant ; John, of Trumbull County; Mary E., who married S. T. McBrier; and Clara E. who is single. J. Grant E., was reared on his father's farm, and after graduating from the public schools of Bristol township at the age of eighteen years, he began teaching school, at which occupation he continued for eleven years, during which time he attended Mount Union College, at Alliance, Ohio, for four AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 391 years. Mr. Hyde then engaged in the milling business at Niles, having a half interest in the George F. Sager and Company mills for about one year and one-half. In April, 1903, with Mr. Sager he came to Clinton? where they purchased property and established the present mill. They conducted this business together until September, 1905, when it was incorporated into a stock company, George F. Sager being elected the first president and Mr. Hyde manager, a position which he has held to the present time. Thomas McBrier is the present president. The capacity of the mills is 100 barrels of flour and twenty tons of feed daily, and among their best known products are the "Clinton Best" flour and the "Fancy Blended." A branch office is situated at No. 63 West Market street, which is in charge of S. T. McBrier. In October, 1905, Mr. Hyde was married to Maude H. Mahan, who was born at Bristol, Trumbull County, Ohio, and is a daughter of Joseph Mahan, a son of one of Trumbull County's early pioneers. Mr. Hyde is a Republican in politics, and fraternally is connected with Western Star Lodge No. 21; of Youngstown, and the Knights Templar of Warren. With his family, he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a director in the Clinton Savings Bank and president and director of the Clinton Bell Telephone Company. MINER JESSE ALLEN, prominently identified with the American Cereal Company, is one of Akron's substantial citizens whose large interests make him a notable factor in its business life. Mr. Allen was born November 11, 1829, in Coventry Township, Summit County, Ohio, and is a son of Levi and Phebe (Spicer) Allen. Jesse Allen, the paternal grandfather of Miner J., was born in 1770, in Litchfield County, Connecticut, and came to Ohio in 1811, purchasing a large tract of wild land in Coventry Township, Summit County. He reared a family of ten children. The maternal grandfather, Major Miner Spicer, was also a native of Litchfield County, Connecticut, and came on horseback to Summit County, Ohio, in 1810, buying 260 acres of land in what is now Portage Township. He settled here with his family in 1811. During the War of 1812 he served as a 'major of militia. Major Spicer married Cynthia Allyn, who traced her ancestry back to Lieutenant Governor Jones, who was the first governor of the New Haven Colony. Levi Allen was born February 10, 1799, in Tompkins County, New York, and was the second child of his parents. He 'was twelve years of age when he walked from there to Coventry Township, Summit County, Ohio, driving the cattle and sheep with which his father proposed to stock the new farm. He assisted in clearing and developing the land until his majority, when he purchased land for himself on which he resided until 1868. He then retired to Akron, where he died May 11, 1887. On December 10, 1823, he was married to Phebe Spicer, who was a daughter of Major Miner and Cynthia (Allyn) Spicer, and they had the following .children: Levi, Miner S., Albert, Miner J., Walter S. and Cynthia. Mrs. Levi Allen died January 10, 1879. Miner J. Allen, the direct subject of this sketch, was engaged in farming in Coventry Township, where he was reared and educated, until 1867, when he came to Akron to assume the duties of local, and also traveling, grain buyer for the firm of Commins & Allen. In 1884 he invested in a one-fifth interest in the Akron Milling Company, which was merged two years later into the F. Schumacher Milling Company. Later this organization was merged into the American Cereal Company, and Mr. Allen is still connected with this great corporation, being one of its directors. Mr. Allen was married June 1, 1876, to Frances C. De Wolf,, a daughter of Samuel and Margaret (King) De Wolf, of Trumbull County, Ohio. Mrs. Allen's grandparents were Joseph and Sarah (Gibbons) De Wolf, the former of whom was a Revolutionary soldier. Mrs. Allen can trace a clear ancestral line to early colonial days, members of her 392 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY family residing at Wethersfield, Connecticut, as early as 1664. Mr. and Mrs. Allen have five children, namely : Albert Mark, Miner W., Margaret P., Christine C., and Frances De Wolf. The family home is at No. 30 Bowery Street. Mr. and Mrs. Allen are members of the First Disciples' Church at Akron. They have always evinced a deep interest in educational matters, and Mrs. Allen was one of the first two ladies to be elected a member of the Akron Board of Education. In earlier years Mr. Allen was interested in politics, but since taking up his residence at Akron he has been too closely engaged in business to give much time to political affairs. His public spirit, however, has often been proved and he stands high in the estimation of his fellow citizens. GEORGE PHILIP SCHNABEL, who has operated a fruit farm at Cuyahoga Falls, since 1892, is a well known citizen and belongs to a highly respected old family of this place. He was born at Liverpool, Medina County, Ohio, December 5, 1852, and is a son of John George and Johanna Christina (Kurtz) Schnabel. The parents of Mr. Schnabel were both born in Germany, in the town of Weimsburg, the father on April 1, 1829, and the mother in 1818. The former died in January, 1900; the mother survived her husband six years, dying in 1906. They came to America in 1846, settling first at Liverpool, Ohio, where John George Schnabel followed his trade of shoemaking for seven years. In 1854 he came to Cuyahoga Falls, where he continued to work as a shoemaker for the rest of his life. Of his eight children, the following six grew to maturity: Katherine, who married Frederick Eberly, residing at Akron ; John, who died in the army, during the Civil War, having served three years in the Sixth Ohio Battery; Eliza, who married George Brewster, residing at Findlay, Ohio ; Elizabeth, who married Elmer R. Brewster and resides in Akron; Christina, who married William A. Williston, residing at Cuyahoga Falls; and George Philip. John George Schnabel and wife were quiet, worthy, trious people, kind and neighborly in relations with others, and consistent mem hers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. George P. Schnabel was educated in the schools of Cuyahoga Falls. After he had completed the High School course, he learned the trade of shoemaking under his father and Samuel Wills, and continuing with the latter until he went out of business, after which Mr. Schnabel went into business for himself with his father. After they retired from this business, George P. Schnabel operated a store for Bowman & McNeil of Akron, for eighteen months, when he purchased it. After conducting it for himself for three years, he sold out to George Hanson. In 1892, Mr. Schnabel started his fruit farm, acquiring five acres on Portage street, which he has put into a fine state of cultivation. Under his intelligent care all kinds of fruit adapted to the climate flourish, but he has made specialties of grapes, strawberries and German prunes, devoting about one acre to strawberries. He raises about eight tons of grapes and disposes of all his products at Akron, receiving the highest market price on account of their superior quality. Under his way of conducting it the business has proved very profitable. In 1904 he erected his comfortable home—an eight-room, two-story residence, conveniently located on the farm. Mr. Schnabel married Martha C. Harris, who is a daughter of Henry C. Harris, of Orrville, Ohio, and they have four children, namely: A. Garfield, a practicing physician, residing at Tucson, Arizona; Walter H., a stockholder in and secretary of the Nute Foundry Company at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; and Harriet F. and May B., both residing at home. The family is a representative one of the city. WILLIAM J. O'NEIL, president of the Akron Pneumatic Tire Company, which has found a productive business field in this city, is a native of Akron, where he was born August 16, 1862. He is a son of the late Owen AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 393 O'Neil, who came to. Akron about 1845, and engaged here in the oil business for a number of years, subsequently selling out to the Standard Oil Company. After leaving school, Mr. O'Neil became cashier and bookkeeper for Cyrus Miller, a grocer, later becoming associated in an official position with the Akron Wholesale Grocery Company. He then entered the employ of the B. F. Goodrich Company, which he served six years as bookkeeper and nine as cashier. Mr. O'Neil then severed his connection with that company in order to assist in the organization of the Akron Pneumatic Tire Company, incorporated for $25,000, which manufactures pneumatic tires, the Greenwald Extensible Tread Tire and ;he Internal Protector Reinforced Tube-Non-skid Tread. It controls also the manufacture of the Non-Puncturable Tire, one of the greatest inventions known in the automobile trade. Mr. O'Neil is a member of St. Vincent's Church at Akron. A. ADAMSON, who is proprietor of one of the largest machine-shops and foundries at Akron, has been prominent in this industry here for the past twenty-one years. He was born in Scotland, in November, 1861, and was brought to America by his father, when he was nine years of age. Mr. Adamson resided in Western Pennsylvania until he was seventeen years of age and then moved to Portage County, Ohio, where he was employed as an engineer in mines until 1885. He then came to Akron, where he served an apprenticeship as a machinist with the firm of Webster, Camp and Lane, remaining six years with that company. Then, in partnership with J. W. Den-mead he started a machine-shop of his own on the present site of the Doyle Block. This partnership continued for eight months, when Mr. Adamson bought out Mr. Denmead's interest, and continued the business at the same place for five years. He then built a brick block on West Exchange street, with dimensions of 50 by 100 feet, utilizing it exclusively as a machine-shop. Since then he has added to the original building, it being now- two stories in height and 100 feet square. He has also built a foundry plant with dimensions of 60 by 100 feet and has equipped it with the best foundry machinery in this section of the State. The products of these works are all kinds of rubber machines and molds, this being the largest mold manufacturing plant in the world. Employment is given to eighty workmen and the distribution of wage money is very large. In 1881 Mr. Adamson was, married to Flora. E. Burnett, and they have two children, C. F. and Vera L. C. F. Adamson is consulting engineer, with offices in the Hamilton Building. Vera L. has recently completed her third year at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Mr. Adamson has been particularly blessed in his children, both possessing talents of a superior order. He is an elder in the First Disciples Church at Akron. Fraternally he is a Mason. GEORGE HELMSTEDTER, a prominent citizen and one of the largest landowners in Coventry Township, resides on his well-improved farm of 100 acres, owning about 366 acres in all, with property in Franklin township and four residences in Barberton. 'He was born June 18, 1849, in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, and is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Baduna) Helmstedter. The parents of Mr. Helmstedter were both natives of Hesse-Darmstadt, where there were farming people. The father died when his son George was six months old. The mother survived until 1863, dying about six months before George Helmstedter left Germany for America. Her first marriage had been to a Mr. Jones, who left her with two children, Adam and Elizabeth. Two were born of her second marriage, Catherine and George. George Helmstedter grew up on the home farm and attended school until he was thirteen years of age. He then apprenticed himself to a blacksmith, paying the sum of $45 as a premium, and worked for two and one-half years learning the business, but receiving nothing in return but his board. Two of his companions, Peter Frederick and Peter 394 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY Flariet, determined to emigrate to America and join an uncle who was then living in Jackson Township, Stark County, Ohio, and it was easy to persuade the orphan boy, who had just lost his mother, to join them. George was then but sixteen years old, and his friends were each seventeen, and together they crossed the Atlantic ocean and made their way to Massillon, Ohio. Peter Flariet was of a more adventurous disposition than the other boys and he soon left them and drifted west and was entirely lost sight of. Peter Frederick, however, became a well-to-do farmer, and George Helmstedter accepted the offer of the uncle on the Stark County farm, who offered him work for six months and wages of $6 a month. This looked like affluence to him and he accepted the offer, and faithfully earned his money. After completing his contract with his employer, Mr. Helmstedter went to Millersburg in Holmes County, where he worked during the winter for Peter Myers, who paid him $7 per month. In the spring he started to work at his trade at Richville, near Massillon, where he remained for six months. He then entered the employ of John Frank, at Berlin, and afterwards worked for the Frank Brothers for four years. He carefully saved his money and although he received but a comparatively small wage at any place, in the aggregate, it amounted to a considerable sum. About this time he married and for four years he worked his father-in-law's farm on shares, a farm located in Manchester, which Mr. Helmstedter now owns. In 1876 he bought ninety-six acres of his present farm and later added the rest, buying ninety-seven acres from the Carmenter estate in Coventry township. That is a fine place well improved, with large house and barns and he obtains a good rental for it as he does for the well-improved farm near Manchester. All his property is well improved and kept in good repair. He has achieved a gratifying success and has acquired all his property honestly, and in a way that is open to any other quiet, industrious, saving young man. On October 24, 1872, Mr. Helmstedter was married to Lavina Row, who is a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Harton) Row. They have had seven children, namely : Rose Jane, who died aged two and one-half years; Arty Arvilla, who married Dustin Weaver and has four children— Homer, Charlotte, Nellie and Leo ; Anice, who married George Painter, and has three children—Jennie, Clarence and Ica; and Frank, Wesley, Levi and Lena Viola. Mrs. Helmstedter was born in Franklin Township, Summit County, Ohio, and her parents were among the early pioneers of that section. Her father died in February, 1892, aged eighty-one years, and her mother in 1896, aged eighty-two years. They had eleven children, namely : Leah, Polly, and Susan, all deceased; Sarah, who married Fred Weyrick ; Jacob; Elizabeth, who married George Carmenter; Rebecca, who married H. Clackner ; Lavina, Amanda, Levi, and an infant, all deceased. Mr. Helmstedter and his family belong to the Evangelical Church. In politics he is a Republican. When he landed on the shores of America his money capital consisted of $15 in gold, a coin worth $10 and five one dollar gold pieces. This money he kept for a number of years, and used the larger coin at a time when just that amount was lacking to pay on a farm he was buying. He still has several of the smaller coins which he brought from Germany. His life has bee a busy and interesting one. In spite of all disadvantages he has acquired more than independence, and has gained the friendship and regard of a wide circle of acquaintances. He has helped develop the resources of his section and lived to enjoy the results. JACOB ADLER, president of the American Scrap Iron Company, the largest concern of its kind in this section of the country, is also the proprietor of the Akron Brass & Bronze Company, another important concern in the commercial life of Akron, and is also interested in many things which make this city a place of note. Mr. Adler was born in far off Russia, where he lived until he w nine years of age. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 397 From the age of nine to that of fourteen, he resided in Sharon, Pennsylvania, during which time he learned the English language. In 1891, when he had reached his fourteenth year, he came to Akron, and for two years was employed here in the Diamond match factory. He then entered into his present business, and finding it remunerative, in 1903 assisted in the organization of the American Scrap Iron Company. It was incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000, with Jacob Adler as president ; Max Holub as vice president and Robert Chalmers as secretary. The business is of more importance and of greater extent than the average citizen has any conception of, and includes a trade in secondhand machinery. Their yard is situated at No. 30 North State street, Akron. The Akron Brass & Bronze Company, of which Mr. Adler is at the head, gives employment to a goodly number of workers. On January 25, 1898, Mr. Adler was married at Akron, to Ray Rosenbloom. He and his wife are the parents of three children—Bernard, Sylvia and Selma. Mr. Adler takes an interest in politics, to the extent of being concerned that good men get into office. He belongs to the order of Maccabees and to the Sons of Peace, and is liberal in the support of various religious organizations. As a citizen and business man he enjoys the respect and esteem of those with whom he comes into contact and is a worthy representative of a country which has sent many good citizens to America. AARON TEEPLE, a well known and highly respected Akron citizen, who for a number of years has been closely identified with the agricultural and horticultural interests of the county, and whose residence is at No. 24 South Portage Path, was born in Franklin Township, in 1841, and is a son of John and Dorothy (Miller) Teeple. His father, a native of Newark, New Jersey, came to Summit County before its organization, purchasing a tract of 160 acres in the wilderness, on which he built the indispensable log cabin. After long and arduous labor he cleared his land and developed it into a good farm, on which he and his wife spent the rest of their days. He died in September, 1864, and was followed to the grave by his wife a year later. They reared a worthy family of six sons and one daughter. Three of the sons, including the subject of this sketch, fought for the preservation of the Union in the Civil War, one of them—Isaac—losing his life in the cause, being killed on the skirmish line in the battle of Champion Hill, in the rear of Vicksburg, May 16, 1863. George Teeple, the other brother, who was a member of the Fifty-Eighth Illinois Regiment, died. near Springfield, Missouri, after the war. The daughter, Catharine, became the wife of Henry Brunkhart, who died in Missouri. She noire resides in Akron. Her daughter Mary graduated from the State Normal School at Warrensburg, Missouri, and is now a teacher in the Akron Public Schools. John Teeple, th6 father, took a pride in giving his children a good education. All of them, except David, taught in the public schools. Aaron Teeple, with whose history we are more directly concerned, passed his boyhood and youth amid the healthful surroundings of the farm. He was educated in Franklin Township and at the Western Reserve Eclectic College, at Hiram, Ohio, the principal of which was at that time James A. Garfield, afterwards president of the United States. On the breaking out of the Civil War, he, with a number of students, enlisted, in September, 1861, in Company A, Forty-Second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of which Principal Garfield was Colonel. His military record includes the winter campaign of 1861 and 1862 in the Big Sandy Valley, in Eastern Kentucky, in which the rebels under General Humphrey Marshall were driven from the valley; the taking of Cumberland Gap in the summer of 1862, with the frequent skirmishing and fighting, and its evacuation in the fall of the same year, followed by a march of eighteen days among the mountains of Eastern Kentucky without rations, harrassed by the enemy under General Kirby Smith and John Morgan until they 398 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY reached the Ohio River at Greenupsburg; the campaign up the Kanawha Valley in Western Virginia and return to Point Pleasant; the embarkation on fleet of transports to Memphis and Vicksburg; the first attack on Vicksburg by way of the Yazoo at Chickasaw Bluffs ; the assault on Fort Hindman or Arkansas Post, January 10, 1863, in which his regiment was in the advance line of the charge, resulting-in the capture of the entire garrison ; the campaign against Vicksburg, including all the engagements in the rear of the city, the siege and the surrender of General Pemberton's entire army ; the campaign after General Joe Johnston at Jackson, Mississippi, and engagements incident thereto ; the return to Vicksburg and transfer to the Department of the Gulf ; an expedition by land against. Galveston, Texas, going as far as Opelousas and returning to the Mississippi River at Plaquemine, where a large fort was built; the patrolling of the Mississippi River by transports and gunboat fleet, and finally by aiding and covering the retreat of General Banks in his Red River campaign, in May, 1864. His service covered a period of over three years, during which his regiment traveled more than 5,000 miles. He took part with the regiment in all of its engagements, excepting that at Black River, Mississippi. He remained behind on that occasion to bury his brother, who had been killed on the battle field on the day previous. About three weeks before his term of service expired he was taken sick, and was sent to the United States Barracks Hospital at New Orleans, where he was lying at the expiration of his term of service. By his comrades he was brought to the hospital at Columbus, Ohio, where he was met by his mother and younger brother, who brought him home. For two years after his return he remained an invalid. After his army service he attended school for a time at Baldwin University, Berea, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Then it became necessary for him to be earning something, and he bought a farm of 140 acres, well timbered, near Akron, and engaged in the manufacture of lumber, clearing in this way about fifty acres, and paying for the farm from the sales. The land thus cleared he turned into farming j land. He lived on this farm for about sixteen years, at the end of which time he bought a few acres of land near the corporation line of Akron, and built for himself and family a home. The extension of the city limits now includes his place. A man of refined and intellectual tastes, Mr. Teeple has for many years taken a great interest in the fascinating science of horticulture, on which subject he is a well recognized authority. An article on horticulture from his pen may be found in this work. He has also furnished many similar contributions at different times to agricultural and horticultural journals, his communication being eagerly sought and welcomed by all lovers of fruits and those interested in floral culture. In politics he is a Republican. He 1 has held various offices in Portage Township. For thirty years he has been a member of Buckley Post, G. A. R., of Akron, being a past commander of the same. Religiously he is affiliated with the Christian or Disciple Church. Mr. Teeple was married in the fall of 1865 to Miss Rachel Heiser. This union has been blessed with two children: J. Frank, a former student of Buchtel College and now a business man of Akron ; and Nellie, a graduate of the public schools of Akron, who resides at home with her parents. HON. WILLIAM BUCHTEL, the founder and formerly president of the Akron Savings Bank, and largely interested in many of Akron's most important business enterprises, for years has also been prominent in affairs of public import in county and State. Mr. Buchtel was born in Green township, Summit County, Ohio, December 23, 1822, and is a son of John and Catherine (Richards) Buchtel, and a grandson of that hardy old pioneer, Peter. Buchtel. William Buchtel obtained his education in the district schools and has led a busy, useful life since reaching the years of discretion. He was twenty-two years of age when he pur-   AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 399 chased his father's farm of 100 acres which he continued to operate for twelve years, being mainly engaged in the cultivation of wheat. He then became interested in milling, and after renting his farm removed to Springfield Township, where he operated both grist and saw mills. He was so engaged when troops were called for to strengthen the defences around Washington, and he quickly responded, enlisting in the 104th Regiment Ohio National Guard, and remaining until honorably discharged from the service, in 1866. Upon his return to Summit County, Mr. Buchtel became interested in the lumber business, first as a member of the firm of Jackson, Buchtel and Company, which later became William Buchtel and Sons. He estimates that during his many years of activity in this line, his firms had the handling of more than 20,000 acres of Government and State pine lands. Mr. Buchtel also turned his attention to banking interests at Akron, organizing, in company with W. B. Raymond, the Citizens' Savings Bank, of which E. Steinbacher was president, William Buchtel, vice-president, and W. B. Raymond, cashier, This later became the Citizens' National Bank. Mr. Buchtel then became vice-president of the City National Bank of Akron, a position he resigned in 1888, when he organized the Akron Savings Bank, of which he remained the head for a number of years. He served also as president of the Thomas Lumber and Building. Company, and as treasurer of the Akron Building and Loan Association. Mr. Buchtel was interested for some years in building operations: Many of the stately residences at Akron are testimonials to his enterprise and ability, as also are some of the city's finest business structures, among them the Akron Savings Bank and the Buchtel hotel, the latter being still his property. Mr. Buchtel was married March 7, 1842, to Martha Henderson, of Springfield Township, Summit County. She died December 17, 1884, having been the mother of four children, namely: Catherine Jane, James H. (deceased), John D. and William M. Mr. Buchtel married for his second wife, December 3, 1885, Mrs. Nora Sackett Wilcox. As a citizen, devoted to public duty, Mr. Buchtel has always shown his interest in civic affairs, and frequently even when the holding of office interfered considerably with his private business, he consented to serve when convinced that it was for the public welfare. Thus he served on the board of city commissioners, several terms as its chairman ; was a' member of the Decennial Board of Equalization in 1890, and held other important positions in which he safe-guarded the interests of the public. in November, 1901, he was elected a member of the Seventy-fifth Genera t Assembly and during his first term a. Columbus, served on the standing committees on Geology, Mines and Mining, Municipal Affairs and Prisons and Prison Reforms. In 11903 Mr. Buchtel_ was returned to the Legislature and during his term in the Seventy-sixth General Assembly, he served as chairman of the committee on Prisons and Prison Reforms and was a member of the standing committees on Banks and Banking, Villages and Taxation. Mr. Buchtel is a member of the Elks and of the Hoo-hoos, a very extensive organization composed wholly of men connected with the lumber industry. He belongs to Buckley Post, Grand Army of the Republic. For two years after his return from military service in the Civil War, he remained connected with the same battalion of National Guards. MAX HOLUB, vice president of the American Scrap Iron Company, was born in Russia, in September, 1857, and came to this country in 1882. Settling immediately in Akron, he began working for the Wilkoff Brothers Scrap Iron Company, at $1.00 per day. From this humble beginning he has by industry and intelligence risen to the position of vice-president of one of the largest scrap-iron firms in the State. He was married in October, 1889, to Mary Rosenfeld, and has two children—Harry and Dave—both of whom are attending the Akron Public Schools.