(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 427 Wadsworth, Ohio, aged sixty-three years. He combined farming with carpenter's work and contracting. He reared a family of twelve children, Solomon E. being the youngest son and tenth child. When Solomon E. Shook was three years old, his parents moved to Wadsworth Township, Medina County, where he was educated in the district schools. In 1877 he went into the grist mill of his eldest brother, David Shook, where, during his eighteen months' stay, he learned the elementary principles of milling, and from there he went to Millport and worked for James McLean as second miller. He remained with him for two years, and then went to Toledo as head miller for Potter & Company, two and a half years later coming to Akron to become second miller for Seiberling Milling Company. For four years Mr. Shook was foreman for the Seiberling people. In 1889 he went to New Brighton, Pennsylvania, where for three years he was head miller in the City Mills. Then returning to Akron he took charge of the Clinton Milling Company's plant, which was owned by A. L. Clause & Company. In 1895 Mr. Shook took a pleasure trip to Riverside, California, which covered two years. After his return to Akron he accepted his present position. He has two millers in his employ and turns out 200 barrels of flour per day. His equipments are ample for the grinding of all kinds of feed. Mr. Shook is not only an expert miller, but an inventor. He is the author of an appliance intended to take the place of the usual babbitt metal, which is easily adjusted and which he has been using in his mill for the last five years. It has proved to be of the utmost utility and is an invention that well deserves to be patented. FRANK G. STIPE, president of the Board of Education of Akron, has been identified with the interests of this city since 1866, and is well known in business circles here as a general contractor. Of German-Irish descent, he was born, in 1846, in Greentown, Stark County, Ohio, and is a nephew of Colonel Robert Nugen, who was a member of Congress from Tuscarawas County in 1861-63. When nine years old he removed with his parents to a farm near Greensburg, Summit County. He attended the district schools and Greensburg Seminary, teaching during the winter near his home until he was eighteen years of age. He then enlisted in Company H, 164th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a part of the National Guard belonging to the Fifty-Fourth Battalion. Company H was sent from Fort Taylor directly to the forts around Washington, where it took part in the defense of the city. At the end of 115 days' service it was discharged, the soldiers, as Mr. Stipe well remembers, being addressed by President Lincoln. In the spring of 1866 Mr. Stipe came to Akron and worked six months for Rockwell & Danforth, in the contracting business. Subsequently he entered the painting department of Aultman, Miller & Company, where he continued for five years. His health becoming somewhat impaired, owing to his close application to his trade, in 1871 he went to Springfield Township, where he worked on a farm for three years, teaching during the winters. Upon his return to Akron he entered into business for himself as a contractor, executing in a most satisfactory manner some of the city's largest contracts for painting and decorating. Appointed city commissioner, he assumed the duties of that office in April, 1895, and served three years on the board. He then became an organizer for the Pathfinders' society, being one of the first deputies in the field in, the interests of this organization, with which he remained connected for about a year. At the end of that time he resumed business as a contractor. In 1888 Mr. Stipe was elected a member of the Board of Education, from the old Fourth Ward, by a majority of forty votes, overcoming a normal Democratic majority of -300. In 1890 he was appointed decennial appraiser of the city, and was re-elected to the school board for a term of three years, being made its president on organization in January, 1907. This honor, which was totally un- 428 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY solicited, reflects the opinion of his fellow citizens concerning his ability, and his fidelity to the best interests of the city. By virtue of his office as president of the Board, Mr. Stipe is also chairman of the depositary commission of the Board's funds. In 1865 Mr. Stipe was married to Soviah C. Koons, who was born in Summit County. They are the parents of four children, namely: Nora E., wife of George Barker, an iron worker, of Cuyahoga Falls; Harry J., who is cashier at the Akron office of the Electric Package Company; Mabel L., who is the wife of Arthur L. Foster, a manufacturer of New York; and Martha M., wife of Alonzo Jackson, a resident of Akron, who holds an official position in a railroad office. Mr. Stipe has other business interests not mentioned above, and is one of Akron's busy, capable, and public-spirited citizens. He belongs to Nemo Lodge of Odd Fellows, and to Buckley Post, G. A. R. A member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, he is serving that organization on the Board of Trustees. ARTHUR JAMES SAALFIELD, publisher, was born in Leeds, England, in 1863. His father, Albert Saalfield, Esq., was a manufacturer of woolens. With the other members of his family, a large one, he came to the United States while still a small boy. Mr. Saalfield tells with amusement of the wonder and comment excited by himself and brothers when they arrived in New York, on account of the Highland costumes they wore, then the fashion for small boys in England. The family lived for a time in New York City, where the father shortly died. Here young Arthur attended the public schools. In 1872, at the age of nine years,. his business career began. The Saalfield family had removed to Chicago, Refusing longer to be dependent, the embryonic publisher commenced to make his own way in the world. His first engagement was with Messrs. W. B. Keene, Cook & Company, then the leading book-sellers in the West. With them he remained for four years. He then returned to New York and spent the following year at Steven's Academy, Hoboken. In 1877, then fourteen years of age, A. J. Saalfield became an employee of Charles T. Dillingham, the well-known book jobber. Here he remained for fifteen years, beginning at the bottom, and gradually working his way to the top of the business. Long before he left Dillingham's he was a salesman of exceptional ability, widely known and well liked by the trade. Mr. Saalfield started a book jobbing and publishing business of his own in 1892, and continued in its management until 1898, when he removed to Akron, Ohio, to take charge of the book publishing department of The Werner Company. He had not been in successful occupancy of this responsible position very long when the opportunity of buying the business was presented. With his usual business acumen, he recognized the possibilities thus placed within his reach and at once concluded the purchase. At that time The Saalfield Publishing Company, A. J. Saalfield, proprietor, came into existence. From the first, the new concern prospered. Its growth and development has been such as to ,discredit the opinion, long held, that the natural and only habitat of the successful publisher is the Eastern seaboard. Under A. J. Saalfield's able guidance, his concern shortly outgrew its original quarters. Thereupon he purchased new 'and larger premises, but they, too, soon became too small to accommodate the demands of his increasing business, as is best evidenced by the large additions that have been construct Today The Saalfield Publishing Company well and favorably known wherever books in the English language are read. While their greatest market is, of course, at home, a large and growing demand is found in Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, The Argentine, The Hawaiian Islands and the fax Philippines. The books of The Saalfield Publishing Company are widely various, ranging from monumental and expensive sets to tiny ju- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 429 veniles. The long experience of the proprietor, coupled with rare good taste and a talent for planning and selecting material that the public wants, amounting almost to a sixth sense, is accountable for an almost unbroken series of successful publishing undertakings, and promises in the not-distant future to make his company one of the leading publishing houses of the country. In 1885 A. J. Saalfield was married. to Allah Louise Sutton, the accomplished and talented daughter of the Rev. George Sutton. Mrs. Saalfield is widely and favorably known to the reading public by her maiden (pen) name. She shares with her husband the enviable responsibility for the success of The Saalfield Publishing Company, for her books, both prose and verse, have been among the most lucrative of the Saalfield enterprises. Of late, this gifted authoress is turning her attention more particularly to writing juveniles. There are five children in the Saalfield family: Albert G., Arthur J. Jr., Edith M., Robert S. and Alice C. No expense is spared in their liberal education. The advantages of the best schools and travel are freely theirs. The commodious and beautiful 'home of the Saalfield family is located at 24 North Prospect Street, where the latch string is ever on the outside for the friends of every member of the family, and where a generous and cordial hospitality is always charmingly dispensed. Both Mr. and Mrs. Saalfield are prominently identified with movements for the public welfare, church work, charities and society. R. A. HINE, secretary and treasurer of the Star Drilling Machine Company, at Akron, has been a resident of this city since, February, 1890; and is identified officially with a number of other large business enterprises in this section. Mr. Hine was born at Shalersville, Portage County, Ohio, in 1865. He was educated in the schools of Shalersville, West Farmington and Austinburg, and afterwards spent four years teach- ing school. He then entered the law office of R. W. Sadler, but after a few months of law study in Akron, he became connected with the Star Drilling Company of this city, with which he has been identified in one capacity or another for the past seventeen years. He began his services with this organization as bookkeeper, but for the past eight years has been treasurer and secretary of the company. He is also secretary and treasurer of the Star Rubber Company, and occupies the position of president in a number of smaller enterprises. November 14, 1901i, Mr. Hine married Jane Hall, who was horn in Akron and is a daughter of John Hall, a well-known citizen. Mr. Hine has a number of fraternal connections', belonging to the various Masonic bodies, the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of the World and the Pathfinders. JAMES ALBERT FISHER, a business citizen of Cuyahoga Falls, dealing in hay and straw, was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, May 26, 1863, and is a son. of Cornelius and Catherine (Martin) Fisher. Cornelius Fisher, now living retired on his farm in Northampton Township,: Summit County, was born July 16, 1840, in Hesse-Cassel, Germany, and came to America in that year, in company with a sister and his widowed mother. For ten years Mrs. Fisher lived with her children at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and then moved to Greencastle, where Cornelius engaged in farming. In 1869 he came to Summit County and was engaged in farming at. different points in Northampton Township until 1903, when he purchased a small farm which he devotes mainly to fruit-growing. He served one year in The Civil War, enlisting in 1863 in Company D, 158th Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was honorably discharged in 1864. He has never been an active politician, but he always exerts his right of citizenship and casts his vote for the candidates of the Republican party. Cornelius Fisher married Catherine Mar- 430 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY tin, a daughter of James Martin, all being natives of Franklin County, Pennsylvania. They had ten children, namely: Ida, James, George B., Elizabeth, Netta, Annie Virginia, John, Gertrude, Arthur and Myrtle. The mother of the above family was born April 5, 1840, and died September 5, 1903. She was a valued member of the Disciples Church at Cuyahoga Falls. Cornelius Fisher was reared in the faith of the German Reformed Church, by his. parents, George and Elizabeth Fisher. George Fisher was killed in a coal mine. His wife later united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and died at Cuyahoga Falls in April, 1904, aged eighty-eight years. James Albert Fisher was educated in the common schools of Northampton Township and followed farming in that section until 1887, when he embarked in his present business at Cuyahoga Falls. He handles hay and straw and does a very large business, his sales to the Robinson Clay Product Company at Akron alone amounting to more than 1,000 tons yearly. He is a careful business man and bears a very high reputation as such with the large dealers and consumers at Akron, among whom his trade mainly lies. Mr. Fisher was married to Augusta Weber, of Cleveland, Ohio. She is a member of the Episcopal Church. Politically, Mr. Fisher is a Republican and has held local offices. JAMES CHRISTY, formerly one of the most public-spirited and successful business men of Akron, was the head of the firm of James Christy & Sons, manufacturers of leather, and dealers in leather, hides. furs and findings, was born in Springfield Township, Summit County, Ohio, and died in October, 1904. He was educated in the district schools and worked on his father's farm until sixteen years old. Then for three years he, enjoyed the advantages offered by a private school at Middlebury. He afterwards taught two terms of school, but gave up teaching in 1841 to enter into business with his brother-in-law, James Sawyer, establishing a tannery on North Howard Street, which was operated under the firm name of Christy & Sawyer. They later added a shoe manufactory and a store, and continued in business until 1851. In the following year Mr. Christy entered into a partnership with his brother, John H. Christy, which continued until 1879, when Mr. Christy took his two sons, James Jr. and Will, into partnership. The style of the firm then became James Christy & Sons. Their specialty was the manufacture of harness leather. In 1850 Mr. Christy, like many of his neighbors, made the overland journey to California, returning by way of the Isthmus of Panama. Forty years later, when seventy years of age, he again visited the Pacific coast, and made a leisurely return journey through many of the far western States, noting with interest the wonderful changes which this space of time had brought about. In politics he was identified with the Republican party, but never accepted office outside his city. He served for five years as a member of the Akron city council. In October, 1849, Mr. Christy was married to Janet Warner, of Akron, who died in March, 1906. Of their six children the following survive: Alice, who is the wife of John E. Metlin; James and Will, who are prominent business men of Akron, and Nettie, who resides at the family home, No. 160 Fir Street. James Christy, Jr., is proprietor of the wholesale and retail leather, saddlery and hardware company, which is established at No. 142 South Howard Street, Akron. Will Christy is president of the West Hill Land Company, the Akron People's Telephone Company, the Hamilton Building Company and the Central Savings and Trust Company, the largest savings bank in Akron, and vice-president of the Northern Ohio Traction and Light Company, and the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. PHILIP R. SCHNABEL, a partner in the Western Reserve Rabe and Tanning Company, of Cuyahoga Falls, was born at Munroe AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 431 Falls, Summit County, Ohio, May 10, 1876; son of Charles W. and Jennie E. (Clayton) Schnabel. His paternal grandfather was Philip Schnabel, who was born in Hessen, Germany, in 1825. Emigrating to America in early manhood Philip settled at Cuyahoga Falls, residing on the thoroughfare now known as Fourth Street. His wife, in maidenhood Martha E. Lapp, was born in Germany, May 10, 1820. Charles W. Schnabel, father of the subject of this sketch, and son of the Philip above mentioned, attended school in the Big Springs school house at Cuyahoga Falls and later continued his studies at Munroe Falls. He remained on the old homestead until his marriage, at which time he purchased a property at Munroe Falls, where he lived for eleven years, being 'employed there in a paper mill. He married Jennie E. Clayton, who was a native of Tallmadge, Summit County, Ohio, and a 'daughter of Richard Clayton. Mr. Olayton, who was born in Wales, was a coal miner by occupation and resided at Tallmadge, where his widow now lives. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Schnabel have been the parents of three children, namely: Philip R., whose name begins this sketch ; Harry C., who died at the age of eighteen months, and Milo Clayton, residing with his parents, who is a graduate of the Cuyahoga Falls High School, Class of 1907. Philip R. Schnabel was reared and educated in his native city, graduating from the Cuyahoga Falls high school in 1893. After assisting his father on the home farm for several years, he was appointed mail carrier, being one of the first rural carriers in the State. He remained at this occupation for eighteen months, and then became assistant postmaster at Cuyahoga Falls, which position be filled up to 1903, a. period of six years. For several years subsequently he was associated with his father in the live-stock business, breeding and selling -cattle: He then entered the employ of the company in which he is now a partner, as a taxidermist. Possessing a strong taste for this kind of work, he had, even in his boyhood, acquired considerable skill as a taxidermist, and entered into it because it was congenial. He holds a permit from the State Fish and Game Commission, which is dated 1903. The Western Reserve Robe & Tanning Company was established in the fall of 1904 by Hon. J. C. Jones of Toledo, and Charles J. Appleby, the latter a tanner of twenty-five years' experience. The company's plant at Cuyahoga Falls was estabishhed for the manufacture of fur garments, including fur robes, coats, gloves and mittens, the company tanning their own skins and making a specialty of taxidermy. Mr. Schnabel purchased Mr. Jones's interest in the firm on March 1, 1907. The factory is located in a convenient section of the town—on North Front Street—and each year its importance grows and its output increases. Mr. Schnabel married Edna Whittlesey, a daughter of J. H. Whittlesey, of Stow. Mr. Schnabel was reared in the. Methodist Episcopal church. His wife is a Catholic. A. WESLEY HAWKINS, proprietor of the Akron Lumber Company, who is located at No. 569 South Main Street, Akron, is one of the city's successful men of affairs. He was born in Portage Township, Summit County, Ohio, in 1854, and is a son of Nelson C., and a grandson of John Hawkins, who was one of the very first settlers in Portage Township. Nelson C. Hawkins was born on his father's pioneer farm 'in Portage township, Summit County, in 1824, and died in 1891. He assisted his father in developing the land from its native wilderness, but did not devote his entire life to agricultural pursuits. For twenty-five years prior to his death, he was employed by the firm of Aultman, Miller & Company. In political sentiment he was a Republican, and during some years he served as a trustee of Portage Township. A. Wesley Hawkins was reared and educated in Portage Township, and worked for about one year for the mercantile firm of Hall Brothers, at Akron, following which he was in the county recorder's office for a short time. He then took a complete commercial 432 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY course in O. S. Warner's Business College. During the succeeding year he kept books for the firm of Oviatt & Warner, dealers in agricultural implements, when Mr. Oviatt organized a company for the manufacture of threshing machines and farm wagons, of which Mr. Hawkins became secretary, serving eleven months as such at Hudson. He then returned to Akron and went to work for the firm of Aultman, Miller & Company, for a short time, subsequently serving two years as bookkeeper for Jahant & Grey. Afterwards he became bookkeeper for the Akron Lumber Company, which was operated by the Diamond Match Company. After eight years' connection with this company, Mr. Hawkins, in association with J. H. Dellenberger, in 1891, bought the plant, since which time, the firm has done a large wholesale and retail lumber business, operating a planing mill and manufacturing sash, doors and blinds. In 1876 Mr. Hawkins was married to Clara A. Smetts, a daughter of the late George W. Smelts, who was a postal railway clerk, residing at Akron. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins have two sons, George W. and Charles W., the former of whom is bookkeeper for the firm of Rohrbacher & Allen, at Akron, the latter being employed in the office of the Akron Lumber Company. Mr. Hawkins and family belong to the Congregational Church. Mr. Hawkins is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, belongs to all branches of the Odd Fellows and is also a Knight of Pythias. While not particularly active in politics, he has always shown his interest in public affairs and has served as a member of the City Council. CHARLES HERBERICH, secretary and treasurer of the Depositors' Savings Bank Company, at Akron, has spent the greater part of his life in this city, but is a native of Germany. Early in life he was brought to America and was reared and educated in Akron. After completing his education, Mr. Herberich entered the employ of the American Hard Rubber Company, and was connected with the shipping department for seven years. He then became 'a member of the firm of D. Herberich & Company, dealers in general insurance and real estate, of which he is at present the secretary. He is a stock holder in a number of corporations and has been secretary and treasurer of the Depositors' Savings Bank since its organization. The other officers of this financial institution are: Carl Dietz, president, and A. H. Mallison, vice president. The bank was open for business April 15, 1907, with a capital stock of $50,000, and it has been successful from the start, its officers inspiring general confidence. In 1902 Mr. Herberich was 'married to Vs ronica Storz, who is a daughter of George Storz, now deceased, but formerly a substantial citizen of Akron. They have two children, Grace and Richard. Mr. Herberich is a member of the First German Reformed Church, Which he served on the board of trustees for four years. He belongs to the beneficiary order of the Royal Arcanum and to the Liebertafel Club. CLYDE K. FOWLER, local agent for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, and for the United States Express Company, at Cuyahoga Falls, has been a resident of this place for the past seven years, coming here first as a telegrapher. He was born at Chardon, Lawrence County, Ohio, July 23, 1875, and is a son of Seymour S. and Celia J. (Clark) Fowler. Seymour S. Fowler, father of Clyde K., was born in Massachusetts, and when about seventeen years of age, went to Michigan, where he was engaged in a lumber business for some years. He then moved to Sheridan, Ohio, where he was occupied as an auctioneer, and insurance agent, Wring thence to Ravenna and later to Akron, where he was connected with the Akron Machine Company for eleven years. For the past six years he has been in the piano business at Massillon, Ohio. His wife, Celia, (lied October 16. 1902, aged fifty-six years. She was a consistent member AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 435 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which religious body Mr. Fowler also belongs. Of their six children, four grew to maturity, namely: Clark B., residing in Pennsylvania; Caroline, who married Charles W. Canfield, and resides at Chardon ; Nellie, who married Wilbur F. Bliss, residing at San Diego, California, and Clyde K. Clyde K. Fowler attended the public schools at Chardon, and at the age of seventeen years learned telegraphy at Ravenna, where his parents were then residing. He has been employed solely in railroad work, for the first five years being with the C. & P. Railroad, and since then with the Baltimore & Ohio Company. He has been located in different sections of the State, and because of his expert manipulation of the keys, has been many times placed in responsible positions. ' Mr. Fowler was married in 1896 to Elizabeth E. MacLaughlin, a daughter of George and Rachael MacLaughlin, of Alliance, Ohio. They have two children, Ruth E. and Harold G. Mrs. Fowler is a member of the Congregational Church. Politically, he is a Republican. He belongs to Pavonia. Lodge, No. 301, Knights of Pythias Mr. Fowler has recently purchased a comfortable home at Cuyahoga Falls. Although he has been physically handicapped since the age of fourteen years; when the accidental discharge of a gun shattered his right hand, he has overcome all disadvantage resulting therefrom, and in his line of work has been successful. MILTON H. WARNER, owner of the Hillside Fruit and Dairy Farm, which consists of sixty-five acres of some of the most productive land in Coventry Township and is favorably located within one-half mile of the corporation limits of Akron, is one of the prominent and substantial men of this section. Mr. Warner was born on his father's farm in Coventry Township, Summit County, Ohio, August 1, 1859, and is a sal of Solomon and Matilda E. (Ritter) Warner. Mr. Warner's grandparents were Henry and Elizabeth (Kepler) Warner, who were born in Pennsylvania. In 1835 they came to Ohio, settling first at Canton, but later they came to the farm in Coventry. Township, Summit County, which is now owned by William Ferris. When they came to this neighborhood as pioneers, the whole region was a wilderness, and before they could build their first log house, a clearing had to be made in the forest. After Henry Warner had provided a comfortable home in Ohio, he was joined by his aged father, Adam Warner, who survived until almost the age of ninety-nine years. Henry Warner died aged seventy-six years and his widow when three years older. They reared a sturdy family of eight children, six of whom are still living. They were John, Adam, Jacob, William, Samuel, Abraham, Solomon and Daniel. Jacob Warner, of this family, served as a 100-day soldier in the Civil War, and William Warner served three years, both receiving an honorable discharge at the close of their terms of service. Solomon Warner, father of Milton H., was born in Coventry township, Summit County, Ohio, June 22, 1837, and still survives, residing with his son, Milton II., his only child. He was married May 27, 1858, to Matilda E. Ritter, who was born in Springfield Township, Summit County, Ohio, October 28, 1837, and died April 24, 1888. For many years, Solomon Warner followed the threshing business. Milton H. Warner, their only child, was reared on the old home place. He attended the district schools and later spent a short time in the Smithville High School. When about seventeen years of age he began to work in the mill of Brewster Brothers, at Pleasant Valley, where he remained for twelve years, when he went to East Akron and worked for eighteen months in the Seiberling mill, retaining his home, however, at Pleasant Valley until 1897. He then moved to his present farm, which he had bought from the Austin Spicer heirs, in 1895. This land has always been "considered fertile and has been made exceptionally productive under Mr. Warner's excellent methods; He "makes a specialty of dairying, keeping sixteen head of cattle and 436 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY five head. of horses, and of fruit-growing, especially berries. He finds a ready market for all his produce at Akron. The improvements on the farm, including the commodious fourteen-room residence, and substantial barn and other buildings, have all been made by Mr. Warner. Mr. Warner is also connected with the Norton Mutual Fire and Cyclone Insurance Company and has written some of the largest policies in this locality. Mr. Warner was married December 18, 1884, to Ida C. Grotz, who is a daughter of John and Almira (Martin) Grotz. The maternal grandmother of Mrs. Warner, Rebecca Way, was the first white child born in Suffield Township, and the family is an old and prominent one of this section. Mr. and Mrs. Warner have two sons, Harry J., residing at home, assisting his father, and Edgar S., who is connected with the Goodrich Rubber Company. Mr. Warner and family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the spring of 1907, Mr. Warner was elected a member of the Summit County Agricultural Society. Fraternally he belongs to Summit Lodge, No. 50, of the order of Odd Fellows, and is also a member of the Encampment. His portrait is presented on an adjoining page. ALBERT H. MALLISON, one of Akron's leading citizens now retired from active business life, is a member of a prominent pioneer family, and a son of the late Albert G. Mallison, who came to Akron in 1832. Mr. Mallison's father came to Summit County in the capacity of a civil engineer, and was associated with Captain Howe in the surveying and laying out of about 300 acres of land which is now in the central part of Akron. He did a large amount of surveying in this section, and many of the old recorded papers of conveyance, have his name attached. He was a native of Connecticut, born in 1797, and he died at. Akron, in 1879. In 1843 he was married to Cornelia G. Washburn, who was born in Ohio, and died in 1875. Of their family of three children there are two survivors—Eveline, who mar ried H. G. Moon, a retired citizen of Akron, and Albert H. Albert H. Mallison attended school in Akron when the present busy city was a village and he has seen all of its wonderful development. Until 1890 he was engaged in farming, and still retains farming interests. At that date he platted his farm, which has been largely sold in town lots, and is one of the most desirable residence portions of the city. Mr. Mallison is identified with the banking interests of Summit County. In addition to being vice president of the Depositors' Savings Bank, he is a stockholder in the Second National Bank of Akron and also in the Cuyahoga Falls Bank of Cuyahoga Falls. His beautiful home, at 513 Wooster Avenue, is situated within half a dozen rods of the spot where he was born. On March 16, 1875, Mr. Mallison was married to Alice M. Miner, and they have four children, namely: Edith M., who married Joseph H. James, a professor in the Carnegie Institute, at Pittsburg; Celia R., wife of W. E. Hardy, who is connected with the Diamond Rubber Company, of Akron; Blanche J., who was a member of the graduatin class at Buchtel College in 1907, and Albert G., who is a third-year student at the Western Reserve University. Mrs. Mallison is a member of the Universalist Church. Mr. Mallison has ever taken a good citizen's interest in public matters. Politically a Republican, he has served on numerous occasions in office, both in the city of Akron and in the county. He was a trustee for three terms of Portage Township, assessor for two terms, and for three years served as a member of the Akron School Board. He is liberal in his donations to charity and in his support of benevolent institutions. FRANK T. MOLONEY, cashier and treasurer of the Cuyahoga Falls Savings Bank, treasurer of the Walsh Paper Company and also of the Cuyahoga Falls Board of Trade, occupies a prominent position in the business life of this city. Mr. Moloney was born at Chicago, Illinois, November 16, 1873, and is AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 437 a son of John J. and Mary A. (Smith) Moloney. John J. Moloney was born in Ireland "and after the death of his father, accompanied his mother to America, about 1843. He was seventeen years of age when he enlisted for service in the Civil War, entering the Nineteenth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in which he served for three years, during which time he was twice wounded and otherwise injured. He and wife have spent the most of their lives in Chicago, where he has followed carpenter work. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Frank T. Moloney has been identified with the banking business ever since he completed the High School course in his native city. He was in the employ of the Commercial National Bank of Chicago for eleven years, beginning as a messenger boy, and he was gradually advanced until 1903, when he became connected with Euclid Park National Bank of Cleveland, as general bookkeeper. He remained there until 1905, when he came to the Cuyahoga Falls Savings Bank. He is one of the executive committee of the Cuyahoga Savings Society. Mr. Moloney married May Belle Van Hart, of Cincinnati, and has one child, a daughter, Adella. Mr. and Mrs. Moloney are members of the Congregational Church. In political sentiment, Mr. Moloney is a Republican. He is prominent in Masonic circles, belonging to Union Park Lodge, No. 610, A. F. & A. M., of Chicago; York Chapter, R. A. M., No. 148, and Al Sirat Grotto, of Cleveland. GEORGE H. WORRON, president of the Star Planing Mill and Lumber Company, with plant at. No. 55 Cherry Street, Akron, has been a resident of this city for a quarter of a century and has a wide circle of business as well as personal friends. He was born in County Kent, England, in 1854. In 1856 the parents of Mr. Worron came to America and settled at Utica, New York. The subject of this sketch was reared in that section of the country, and after he had com pleted his schooling, at the age of fourteen years, he learned the carpenter's trade. In 1882 he came to Akron and entered the employ of the D. W. Thomas Company, contractors and builders, and becoming foreman, remained with that firm for about fifteen years. He then organized The Star Planing Mili Company, with a capital stock of $25,000, and a finely-equipped plant. The business is the manufacturing of sash, doors, blinds and general interior finishings, and in connection the company conducts a lumber yard, and also do a general contracting business. In 1882 Mr. Worron was married to Alice S. Hunsicker, who is a daughter of Peter Hunsicker of Johnson's Corners. He is a member of the English Lutheran Church. His fraternal connections are with the Odd Fellows and the Maccabees. HARRISON THEODORE ROETHIG, a successful business man at Cuyahoga. Falls, proprietor of a meat market on Front Street, was born at Cuyahoga Falls, Summit County, Ohio, September 19, 1869, and is a son of Ferdinand Julius and Sarah J. (Faze) Roethig. Ferdinand Julius Roethig was born at Krakow, Austrian Hungary, February 24, 1825, and when he was five years old his father died and his mother took him to Germany. She possessed means and he was educated at Leipsic, where he later learned the trade of tinner and coppersmith. He was one of the young men who rallied under the banner of the Hungarian patriot, Louis Kossuth, whose fortunes he followed for three years. After the defeat of their great leader, at Temesvar, on August 9, 1849, the members of the regiment to which Mr. Roethig belonged, including himself, escaped to the United States, and here he fell hack on his trade as a means of support. For a year he worked at New Orleans, and then ascended the Mississippi to St. Paul. From that city he went to Chicago, and worked there at his trade for one year, and then coming to Cuyahoga Falls. Here he followed his trade for 438 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY many years, a part of the time for himself and partly in the shops of L. W. Loomis and Parks & Gillette. After coming to Ohio he enlisted for service in the Civil War, but was stricken with illness at Massillon, which caused his discharge. He died April 17, 1886, eight years before his old commander. On August 30, 1852, Ferdinand Julius Roethig was married to Sarah J. Faze, who survives him and resides at Cuyahoga Falls. She was born at Manchester, Carroll County, Maryland, February 24, 1832, and accompanied her parents to Cuyahoga Falls, when she was five years of age. Her family came in wagons and were three weeks making the trip. Her father, Peter Faze, was born in Germany and came to America with his parents when five years of age. He was a paper-maker and was accidentally killed in a paper mill in April, 1852, when aged fifty-nine years. There were nine children born to Ferdinand J. Roethig and wife, namely: Ferdinand J.; deceased; Julia Sarah, who married C. W. Moon, both being now deceased; Charles B., residing at Syracuse, New York; William Washington, residing at Cuyahoga Falls, and Edward Loon, Lillian, Alfred Herman and Harrison T., all residents of Cuyahoga Falls. All of the above family was reared in the German Lutheran faith. Harrison Theodore Roethig was educated in the common and High Schools at Cuyahoga Falls, and then learned the butchering business with Smith Tifft, with whom he remained for ten years. He then went to work for his brothers, William and Edward Roethig, who were doing business under the firm name of Roethig Bros., remaining with them for another ten years. In February, 1901, he opened his own market. He has a clean, sanitary place, puts up his own ice and does a large part of his own butchering. He deals only in first-class meat, carrying all the staple delicacies in his line: He is essentially a man of business, and although he votes with the Republican party, he takes no active part in political affairs, devoting his time exclusively to looking after his constantly in creasing interests. Mr. Roethig married Bertha L. Holden, who is a daughter of James Holden, of Kent, and they have one son, Lowell H. W. G. WISE, secretary and manager of the Wise Furnace Company, which operates large works at Akron, was born at Green-town, Stark 'County, Ohio. He was educated in the district schools and at Mt. Union and subsequently taught school for two years. Coming to Akron in search of a satisfactory business field, Mr. Wise entered the office of J. F. Seiberling, where he remained for six years. He then went to Catskill, New York, where he was engaged in a brick industry for two years, after which he returned to Akron. Here he was associated for a time with the Werner Company, and, later with the Twentieth Century Heating Company, remaining with the latter house for four years. In January, 1904, Mr. Wise organized the Wise Furnace Company, which was incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000, with J. W. Myers, president; George Carmichael, vice-president, and W. G. Wise, secretary and manager. This company manufactures furnaces of the Wise pattern, and the National Gas Hot Water Heaters, and their large factory gives employment to seventy-five men. The business has been a prosperous one from the beginning, and the progress of the company has ben the most rapid known in the furnace business. In 1893 Mr. Wise was married to Emma Filbey, of Shreve, Wayne County, Ohio, and they have one child, Atlee. Mr. and Mrs. Wise belong to the Woodland Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of the U. C. T. GEORGE J. RENNER, president of the George J. Renner Brewery Company, of Akron, and a resident of this city for nineteen years; is a native of Germany, where he was born in 1835. In 1849 Mr. Renner came to America and lived at Covington and Cincinnati, Ohio. until 1882: He then removed to Wooster, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 441 where he was in a brewing business for three or four years, and was afterwards in the same business in Mansfield up to 1888, when he came to Akron. Purchasing an old brewery plant here he added to it until he now owns one of the finest equipped breweries in the country. He still owns a brewery at Mansfield, and has also other business interests, having been concerned in oil production for some years. The Akron brewery operates an ice plant having a capacity of fifty tons daily. The sales of the brewery amount to about 28,000 barrels annually, but could be advanced, with the present equipments, to from 30,000 to 50,000. In 1853 Mr. Renner married a native of Germany, and they have a pleasant family and a fine home in Akron, where Mr. Renner is numbered with the leading citizens. ELUE O. FRITCH, secretary and manager of the Faultless Broom Manufacturing Company, of Akron, a prosperous enterprise which is capitalized at $25,000, is a native of Ohio and was born in Stark County, June 13, 1883. Mr. Fritch was fifteen years of age when he came to Akron,, and his education had been secured in the schools of Stark County and at a commerical correspondence school in Rochester, New York. His first position was with the National Drill and Manufacturing Company at Barberton, where he had entire charge of the cost and time pay-roll department. After three months he took charge of the controler department of the Alden Rubber Company and had charge of the warehouse until the works were closed. Mr. Fritch then went to Cleveland and took charge of the books of the University club for one year and later was assistant manager of the Chamber of Commerce club, for two years. He subsequently returned to Akron and assisted in the organization of the Faultless Broom Manufacturing company, which was incorporated March 1, 1907, with John A. Boughton as president; E. 0. Fritch, as secretary and manager; J. W. Harter as vice-president and T. F. Waters as treasurer and sales manager. This industry has bright prospects, and judging from the character of the men who have put their capital in the venture, there is little doubt that it will soon be numbered with the city's most important enterprises. The plant is located at No. 15 West Center Street. Mr. Fritch is a member of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church. He belongs fraternally to the Royal Arcanum. ERNEST C. DEIBEL, general manager of the Renner Brewing Company and a resident of Akron for the past sixteen years, was born at Youngstown in 1862.. After completing his education in his native city, he became connected with the brewing interests, and later took a course in the Brewing Academy, at Chicago.. In 1892 he came to Akron and assumed the position of general manager of the Renner. Brewing Company. He is also the marriage of the Renner-Deibel Gas Company, operating sixty-two wells in Columbiana County, Ohio. He married Elizabeth Renner, who is a daughter of George J. Renner, and they have one child, Helen Deibel. Mr. Deibel' is a member of the Eagle and Elk fraternities. He belongs to St. Bernard's Catholic Church at Akron. ROBERT RUSSELL PEEBLES, superintendent of the Turner, Vaughn and Taylor Company, at Cuyahoga Falls, is a practical and experienced machinist, having devoted all of his mature life to this line of work. He was born at Millersburg, June 24, 1869, and is a 'son of James W. and Isabella (Patterson) Peebles. Mr. Peebles' parents came to Cuyahoga Falls when he was about two years of age. The father was engaged in railroad work, and was a conductor on the C. A. & C. Railroad for a number of years. Later he was a partner of the Falls Rivet and Machine Company, but is now in the employ of the Turner, Vaughn and Taylor Company. He married Isabella Patterson and they have two children, Robert Russell and Evalena, the latter of whom is a teacher in the Cuyahoga Falls High School. Mr. James W. 442 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY Peebles is a member of Star Lodge, No. 187, F. & A. M., and of Washington Chapter, R. A. M. at Akron, Ohio. Robert R. Peebles married Clara Belle McCracken, who is a daughter of William McCracken, of Natick, Massachusetts. In political sentiment Mr. Peebles is a Republican. He served two years as a member of the board of public affairs, has been on the City Council, and has been president, and at present is vice-president of the Cuyahoga Falls Board of Trade. He is prominent in Masonry, having served two years as worshipful master of Star Lodge, No. 187, F. & A. M.; he is a member also of Washington Chapter and of the Council at Akron. JOHN C. WEBER, a retired business citizen of Akron, formerly president of the Akron Foundry Company, and for a number of years a leading factor in the city's commercial life, was born August 20, 1844, at Monroeville, Huron County, Ohio. When he was three months old his parents moved to Akron. He attended the public and parochial schools connected with the Catholic Church until prepared for St. John's College at Cleveland, Ohio, where he spent two years. Then he was a student in the Christian Brothers' College at Dayton for one year. In 1860 he became a clerk in the general store of P. D. Hall at Akron, where he remained until October, 1861. He then enlisted in the Sixth Ohio Independent Light Battery, which became a part of General Sherman's brigade, and saw his first active service at the battle of Shiloh. His battery was sent all through Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky and its next serious engagement was at Perryville in the latter state. Mr. Weber participated in the battle of Stone River, and in the following June started with his comrades on the Chattanooga campaign, in which they took part in the battles of Hoover's Gap, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. Thence they went to East Tennessee to take part in the Atlanta campaign. The Sixth battery participated in all the hard battles of this memorable period, Rocky Face. Hill, Buzzards' Roost, Dalton, Resaca, Adamsville, Calhoun, Pumpkinvine Creek, New Hope Church, Pickett's Mills, Lost Mountain, Pine Top, Kenesaw Mountain, Chatahoochee River, Vining Station, Atlanta, Jonesboro and Lovejoy Station. From Atlanta his command was attached to the army under General Thomas at Galesville, Alabama, where Mr. Weber's term of enlistment expired. During the Atlanta campaign he had served as an orderly for the chief of artillery on the staff of General Wood. After a visit home, Mr. Weber returned to Nashville, Tennessee, where he remained until the close of the war. He was then engaged for two years in a grocery business at Akron, after which he went to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama. He spent some three years visiting the different states of the West, before returning to Akron. He then became. associated as traveling salesman with the wholesale drug house of George Weimer, with which he remained connected for three yens. In 1875 he superintended the erection of the Weber Block on Howard Street, Akron, a fine two-story business structure 60 by 100 feet in dimensions. In 1876 Mr. Weber went to Cleveland, where he became associated with the C. E. Gehring Brewery Company, where he continued in business until 1885, then returning to Akron. He purchased the interest of William Gray in the tinware and house furnishing goods firm of Jahant & Gray, and for fourteen years confined a large part of his attention to this enterprise. He also built the plant of the Akron Foundry Company, of which he was president, but disposed of his interest in 1899. In 1874 Mr. Weber was married to Emeline Oberholtz, and they have five children, namely: Eva, who is the wife of E. W. Donahue, residing at Akron ; C. Irene, Susie M. and Bertha .T., residing at home; and Florenz, who is assistant superintendent of the Columbia Gas and Electric Light Company, of Cincinnati. Mr. Weber and family belong to St.' Bernard's Catholic Church. He is a Knight of St. John, a Knight of Columbus, a member of the Catholic Knights of Ohio, and of the Catholic Knights of America. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 443 He belongs to Buckley Post, G. A. R., and is a member of the Lincoln Farm Association. He is also connected with the Commercial Travelers' Association, of Cleveland. Mr. Weber has always enjoyed the recreation of travel and has seen almost all sections of his native land. Several years since, after retiring from the environments of business, he took a tour through Europe, accompanied by his son. He has never taken any active part in politics and would never consider any office of a political nature, but he accepted a position on the Humane Association when proffered him by the Humane Society of Akron. FRANK A. SEIBERLING, president and general manager of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, at Akron, is a business man of this city who has been identified with many of its important enterprises. He was born on his father's farm near Western Star, Summit County, Ohio, October 6, 1859, and is a son of John F. and Catherine L. (Miller) Seiberling. In 1861 John F. Seiberling removed with his family to Doylestown, and in 1865 to Akron. Of his eleven children nine are still living. Frank A. received his first school training in the building then used for school purposes which stands adjacent to the Congregational Church on the south. After he had completed the first year's course in the High School, he entered Heidelberg College at Tiffin. He remained there two years, retiring at the end of his junior year in order to be of assistance to his father, who had. just started the manufacture of the Empire harvester. The young man's collegiate training proved useful in the official business which grew out of this industry, and in 1884, when the Seiberling Company was organized, Frank A. became secretary and treasurer. Other large industries, companies and corporations with which he has been identified, either as stockholder or as official, are the Akron Twine and Cordage Company, the Werner Printing and Lithographing Company, Superior Mining Company, Canton Street Railway Com pany, Zanesville Street Railway Company, Akron Street Railway Company, Manufacturers' Mutual Fire Insurance Association, the Thomas Philips Company, and the National City Bank. His main attention is now given to the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, of which he is president and general manager, the other officers being: L. 0. Miles, vice-president; G. M. Stadleman, secretary; C. W. Seiberling, treasurer ; and P. W. Litchfield, superintendent. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, with which Mr. Seiberling has ben identified since 1898, was organized in that year. They are engaged in the manufacture of rubber goods, their specialties being solid and pneumatic carriage and automobile tires, bicycle tires, rubber horse shoes, rubber tiling, golf balls, moulded rubber and rubber specialties. There is no portion of the civilized world where these goods do not find ready sale. On October 12, 1887, Mr. Seiberling was married to Gertrude F. Penfield, of Willoughby, Lake County, Ohio. He and his wife are the parents of five children: John Frederick, Irene Henrietta, Willard Penfield, James Penfield and Gertrude Virginia. HARRY S. DAVIDSON, M. D., a prominent physician and surgeon at Barberton, and coroner of Summit County, has been a resident of this village since August, 1899. He was born at East Springfield, Jefferson County, Ohio, April 7, 1871, and is a son of C. L. and Mary A. (O'Connell) Davidson. Dr. Davidson is of Scotch-Irish descent, his paternal grandparents having been born in Scotland, and his maternal grandparents, in Ireland. The families were both agricultural ones. Young Davidson was reared on his father's farm and remained at home until he was twenty years of age. In the meantime he attended the country schools and improved his opportunities to such an extent that, without difficulty, he passed the necessary examination for teachers. Except as a substitute, however, Dr. Davidson never taught school He spent two years in a drug store at Mingo Junction, with his uncle, Dr. W. J. O'Con- 444 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY nell, a well-known physician and druggist, and then entered the Scioto School of Pharmacy, graduating therefrom after an attendance of two years. Immediately following, he entered the Ohio Medical University at Columbus, where he was graduated in April, 1897. He practiced his profession for one years at Somerdale, Tuscarawas County, and then came to Barberton, where he has not only built up a fine practice, but has become one of the leading citizens. In 1898 Dr. Davidson was married to Maggie Johnson, who was born in England, and who came with her parents to America when she was six months old. She was reared and educated in Wadsworth, Ohio, and after maturity went to Tuscarawas with her parents, teaching in Somerdale for seven years. Dr. and Mrs. Davidson have been the parents of three children: Harold (deceased), Dorothy and Jane. Politically, Dr. Davidson is a Republican and in November, 1906, he was elected county coroner, in which office he has proved himself a careful, discreet and efficient official. He is a member of the Barberton school board, serving in his second term, and moving a valuable assistant to the other members of the board. He belongs to the Summit County and the Ohio State Medical Societies. Fraternally he is a Masan, a Knight of Pythias and an Elk. His well-equipped offices are located in the Barberton Savings Bank Building. BYRON P. WISE, secretary of the Camp Conduit Company, at Akron, has been identified with electrical work almost throughout his business career. He was born in Green Township, Summit County, Ohio, and is a son of William Wise, a native of that township. The family to which he belongs came from Pennsylvania to Ohio at an early day, David Wise, the grandfather of Byron P., settling in Green Township, Summit County. Mr. Wile's ancestors in general have been agriculturists, and his father is a retired farmer living at Greentown. Mr. Wise was educated primarily in the Uniontown public schools, and later took a business course in the Hammel's Commercial College at Akron. He then associated himself with business houses where he could closely study electricity, in which he was deeply interested. For a time he was in the employ of the Erie Railroad, then was connected with the Camps for six years, and since the organization of the Camp Conduit Company, has been the secretary of this concern. In 1900 Mr. Wise was married to Lela Smith, of Summit County, who is a daughter of D. J. Smith. He has two sons: Royale C. and John Clarke. Mr. Wise and family belong to Grace Reformed Church. ALFRED G. LUSK, who is largely interested in the estate and insurance business throughout Summit County, has convenient offices in the Lusk Block, on Tuscarawas Avenue, Barberton, in which place he ranks among the leading business citizens. He was born in Orange County, New York, Jan. 9, 1843, and is a son of Cyrus and Susan (Williams) Lusk. In 1853, when he was ten years old, his parents moved to Coldwater, Michigan, where the father entered the real estate business, taking over the purchase and. sale of much property. It was in that locality that Mr. Lusk was mainly reared. When fourteen years of age he began railroad work as a section man, and by the time he was twenty-one years of age he had been made a section foreman. In the meanwhile his education had not been neglected, and on March 10, 1866, he was graduated from the Eastman National Business College at Chicago. He continued railroad work, first being given charge of a work train and later being made trainmaster's assistant on the Lake Shore Railroad. He spent twenty years as assistant to roadmaster John Stewart., one of the stalwart old officials of the Lake Shore. From there he went to the West Shore Railroad as road-master, with headquarters at Canastota, Now York, where he remained for two years and then returned to Coldwater, where he continued one year, and then, with Charles Pain, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 445 formerly with the West Shore, came to the Erie Railroad, then the N.Y. P. & 0. Railroad, the former in the capacity of general manager and Mr. Lusk as roadmaster. Headquarters were established in 1885 at Akron, and he remained with the Erie Railroad for fifteen years. In 1900 he came to Barberton and embarked in his present business, subsequently building the two adjoining Lusk Blocks, on Tuscarawas Avenue, the ground floor of one being occupied by M. C. Frank, a leading boot and shoe merchant, and the other by F. A. Fobes, who has a fine stock of dry goods and millinery. Mr. Lusk married Emma Hemrod and they have one child, Carrie, who is now the wife of Dr. Morehouse Blackman, of Coldwater, Michigan. For the past forty-two years Mr. Lusk has been a Mason, and in point of service is the oldest member of the fraternity at Barberton. G. CARL DIETZ, secretary of the Burkhardt Brewing Company, and president of the Depositors' Savings Bank, of Akron, was born in this city in March, 1875, and is a son of Henry and Caroline (Rupp) Dietz. His parents were both born in Germany and came to Akron almost a half century ago. The father, an iron worker, died when G. Carl was still a youth, leaving his wife with a family of six small children to rear. Thus the subject of this sketch at an unusually early age was obliged to relieve his mother of a part of her heavy burden, and responsibilities fell on his shoulders before he was hardly old enough to assume them. He gave all the assistance he could in the rearing of the family, and guided his younger brothers and sisters to careers of usefulness. Laboring through the day time and attending school at night, Mr. Dietz acquired a good business education, and finally obtained a position in the People's Savings Bank, where he remained for ten years. He later became cashier of the Security Savings Bank, having previously been a clerk in a clothing store for some three years. Still later Mr. Dietz retired from the Security institution, after serving five years, and became secretary of the M. Burkhardt Brewing Company. The banking business, however, continuing to have attractions for him, he became one of the organizers of the Depositors' Savings Bank, which was opened for business April 15, 1907, and of which he was made president. He also fills the position of secretary and treasurer of the Burkhardt Realty Company. On November 17, 1902, Mr. Dietz was married to Ida Burkhardt, who is a daughter of the late W. Burkhardt. He and his wife are members of the German Reformed Church. He has the esteem and confidence of his fellow-citizens, many of whom have traced his successful business career from boyhood. SYLVESTER T. CUNNINGHAM, funeral director and expert embalmer, with business location on the corner of Mill and High Streets, Akron, is the senior member of the firm of S. T. Cunningham & Company. Mr. Cunningham was born at Detroit, Michigan, December 18, 1868. When a school boy of twelve years Sylvester T. Cunningham started to learn the undertaking business in his native city, and served a long and strict apprenticeship, which resulted in his thorough mastery of every detail and his acquisition of the highest skill in the technical branch of the business. He has spent eighteen years in its practice in Akron, and has fully earned the high reputation he enjoys. For seventeen years he was the embalmer and funeral director for George Billow, undertaker. In June, 1906, he established the firm of S. T. Cunningham & Company, which already occupies a leading place among the substantial business houses at Akron. His undertaking rooms are centrally located, and his business equipments are modern in character, while his charges are no higher than are necessary to insure the best service. In 1889 Mr. Cunningham was married to Julia Kehoe, of Detroit, Michigan, who has proved a very capable assistant to her husband in the business. They have one son, W. E. Cunningham, who was educated in the Akron 446 - HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY schools and is now connected with his father in the business. WILLIAM J. RATTLE, B. S. M. E., resides on the farm on which he was born, in Stow Township, Summit County, Ohio, September 6, 1852. His parents were William and Elizabeth Goodwin (Gaylord) Rattle. His land aggregates 350 acres, the most extensive farming tract in Stow Township, and is one of the best managed, finely improved and valuable estates in Summit County. The Rattle family is of English ancestry and Quaker faith. James Rattle, the paternal grandfather, came to America from Bath, England, accompanied by his children, who were named respectively: Samuel, William, Henry, Frank, Mary and Celia. Until 1830 he resided with his .family at Skaneateles, New York, and then moved to Cuyahoga Falls. He died in 1870, aged ninety years. William Rattles, father of William J., was born at Bath, England, June 12, 1808, and was a mere boy when he accompanied his parents to the United States. After the death of his mother, the family removed from Skaneateles, New York, to Ohio, but prior to this William had learned and followed the trade of tanner. After reaching Cuyahoga Falls he embarked in the shoe business and soon became interested in other lines of activity, becoming owner of a grain elevator, and for a long period being a large handler of wheat. He built the business block now o?- cupied by the Loomis Hardware Company and erected many other structures in the city. In 1854 he moved to Cleveland, but remained in that city but a short time, his attention having been turned to the lumber business, in which he was engaged at Saginaw, Michigan, until 1858. He then returned to Cleveland, in which city he lived retired until the close of his life. He was a member of Star Lodge, No. 187, F. & A. M., at Cuyahoga Falls. In politics he was a Republican. Religiously he was a member of the Society of Friends. He married a daughter of the late Thomas Gaylord-, of Stow Township, of a family of great prominence. She was born In June, 1824, and died April 10, 1905. She was a devoted member of the Episcopal Church. William J. Rattle was an only child. He began his schooling in Stow Township, continued it in Cleveland and was graduated in 1874, from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, with the degree of. B. S. Immediately afterward he opened an office at Cleveland, as a mining enginer and analytical chemist, and his work in this direction now takes him to all parts of the country. In 1902, his son, William Rattle, became his partner and the firm name is W. J. Rattle & Son. The magnificent farm in Stow Township is operated as a grain and stock farm. Oa it are raised about sixty acres of wheat, which Mr. Rattle markets, and fifty tons of hay b?- yond what is used on the farm, and all the corn and oats for feeding. Formerly Mr. Rattle raised many sheep, but when the price declined, he, like other sheep-growers in the township, turned his attention to other lines of industry. He raises many Berkshire hogs, keeps thirty head of highgrade cattle of various breeds, has six full-blood Guernsey cows and a Guernsey bull, Moon Arch, a noble and valuable animal. This farm is conspicuous, not only on account of its size and fertility, but because of the care which has developed it into a place so full of beauty as well as utility. Mr. Rattle keeps six men employed and has provided every kind of improved machinery, and all modern conveniences, so that all his plans can be sue. cessfully carried out. His beautiful home is but one of the fine buildings which make the whole estate one of note. There are two fine residences on the place, one of which was once the home of his grandfather, Thomas Gaylord, who, with other members of the family, owned large estates in Summit County. Mr. Rattle was married in 1877 to Julia Cary, who is a daughter of John E. Cary, and they have three children. William, Mary and Elizabeth. William Rattle Was born June 27, 1878, and has grown un in the business in which he is engaged. After completing the AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 449 public school course, he received scientific training at the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, later at Kenyon College and with his father in the latter's office, and is thoroughly qualified to further the firm's interests in every way. In April, 1907, he was married to Susie Dewitt, of Cleveland. Mary married Harvey Mansfield; they have one daughter, Mary, and reside in Cleveland, Ohio. Elizabeth was born at Stow, Ohio, July, 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Rattle belong to St. John's Episcopal Church at Cuyahoga Falls, as also do all their children. Mr. Rattle is prominent in Masonry, be-. longing to Star Lodge, No. 187, F. & A. M., at Cuyahoga Falls; Akron Chapter, R. A. M.; Akron Commandery, K. T.; Cleveland Consistory and Alkoran Temple at Cleveland. In political faith he is a Republican. He is a member of the Summit County Horticultural Society, and of the American institute of Mining Engineers. SHERMAN B. STOTLER, superintendent of the Summit County Infirmary, holds a very responsible position, the duties of which have been faithfully and efficiently performed since he assumed them. Mr. Stotler was born December 25, 1856, in Doylestown, Wayne County, Ohio. His, parents, Emanuel and Eliza (Franks) Stotler, were well-known farming people of Wayne County, and the father was also a skilled mechanic. His death occurred in 1889. There were seven Children in the Stotler family.. Mrs: Stotler died July 1st, 1901. Sherman B. Stotler was reared on a farm and was educated in the local schools. For many years after attaining manhood, he was employed by the late J. F. Seiberling, as an expert machine man. In 1887 Mr. Stabler was appointed superintendent of the Summit County Infirmary, which shelters, at the latest report., 178 inmates. His duties include, besides the care and management of this large number of unfortunates, the cultivation of the infirmary farm of 345 acres. Only a man possessed of tact, good judgment and excellent business capacity could satisfactorily fill so important an office. On December 20, 1882, Mr. Stotler married Della Shaffer, who is a daughter of David and Harriet (Cornelius) Shaffer. Politically, Mr. Stotler is a Republican. He is connected fraternally with the Knights of Pythias and the Odd Fellows. The publish-, ers take pleasure in presenting his portrait in this connection. WILLIAM L. CAMPFIELD, undertaker and dealer in furniture, at Barberton, is one of the leading citizens of the town, a man of progressive ideas and real public spirit. He was born April 2, 1802, in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Andrew Jackson and Mary J. (Montgomery) Campfield. Mr. Campfield lost his father When he was fourteen years of age, and remained on the home farm with his mother,. until her death. He then sold the property, and in partnership with H. Orrison, embarked in an undertaking and furniture business at Martin's Ferry. After one year, Mr. Campfield bought out his partner's interest and conducted the business alone until 1902, when he disposed of it. and one year later came to Barberton. On January 1, 1904, he arrived from Martin's Ferry and bought out the furniture store of Frank Hale, continuing the business at the same stand and incensing its scope by adding undertaking. On April 18, 1901, Mr. Camp-field was graduated from the Pittsburg School of Anatomy, and understands every detail of the undertaking business. He is well equipped for all the business demands made upon him in this .line, and is also the leading furniture dealer in Barberton. In the fall of 1895 Mr. Campfield was married to Matilda. E. Shaffer, and they have a very pleasant home in Barberton. Fraternally, Mr. Campfield belongs to the Elks and Knights of Pythias. With his wife, he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Since locating here he has taken an active interest. in promoting every movement for the welfare of the town. In the Business Men's Association, of which he is a. director, he sees