WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 825 born March 14, 1786, died October 21, 1843 ; Joseph, born March 29, 1788, died February 18, 1862 ; Ann (Mrs. Keslar), born July 3, 1789, died April 20, 1855 ; Stephen, Jr., born October 26, 1790, died February 23, 1853 ; Johnson, born June 8, 1792, died July 1, 1856; Mary, born March 7, 1794, died December 25, 1855 ; Elisha, born July 20, 1797, died in California October 28, 1862; Elizabeth (Mrs. Kelley), born April 17, 1799, died June 9, 1832. Of these children, John was the father of Stephen M., who was born September 8, 1825. He was reared on the home farm and received his education in the common schools. Because of the comparatively primitive type of the schools of that day his education was necessarily somewhat limited, but he Was a close and discriminating reader and a keen observer of men and things, and in his mature years he was considered a well-informed man, being a man of prominence and marked influence in the community. After attaining the proper age he went to work in the Henry mills and was also engaged in farming until April 1, 1854. He was the owner of one hundred and seventy-four acres of land and was an enterprising and progressive man in his operations. He was a Democrat in politics and took an active part in local public affairs, having served six years as a member of the board of county commissioners and thirty-three years, or a third of a century, as justice of the peace, being elected in 1855 without any solicitation on his part. In 1865 he was elected to the office of commissioner of Wayne county, serving two .terms, six years. During his incumbency in that office he inaugurated a system of bridge building that has done more good for the public of Wayne county than any other previous system. He was one of the board of commissioners when the present county offices were built, and their construction is largely due to his superior judgment and qualification as an officer. With unfaltering fidelity to duty he regardless of sacrifice to himself, filled every position of trust and responsibility in which he had been placed by the public. He was honest, true, capable, broad-minded and generous. He was progressive in thought and pronounced in the expression of his opinions, being a Democrat of the old Jacksonian school. His death occurred on the 23d of February, 1906, and in his passing away-the community suffered a distinct loss. His was that sturdy, dignified and stalwart character which in any community commands at once .unbounded confidence and respect. Stephen M. Henry married Delilah Burnett, who was born April 27, 1829, and died November 9, 1857. To them were born the following children: Mary Jane, torn, December 13, 185o, died August 29, 1908, was the wife of John Schaaf, and they had a daughter, Florence E., who is the wife 826 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. of J. C. Patterson, of Franklin township, and the mother of five children, those living being Mary Delilah, Stephen John, Edith and Myrtle; Stephen John, born April 13, 1855. On March 31, 1858, Stephen M. Henry entered into a second matrimonial alliance, this time with Catherine Burnett, who was born November 23, 1832, on a farm adjoining her present residence. She is a daughter of John and Eliza (Kizer) Burnett. Her father was born April 28, 1804, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, a son of Isaac Burnett. The family came to Wayne county in i8o8 and settled in what is now Wooster township, where the father entered land, also entering land in Holmes county. John Burnett received a limited education, but was a man of energy and good judgment and attained a good repute among his fellow men. On attaining his majority he moved onto the Franklin township farm, which his father had entered, and there he successfully carried on agricultural operations until his death, which occurred May 4, 1854. His wife died October 22, 1871, and their remains lie in the cemetery at Moorland. They were affiliated actively with the Methodist Episcopal church, of which Mrs. Burnett was one of the earliest members here. He was a Republican in politics and was prominent and influential in the councils of his party. They were the parents of the following children : Jane, born July 22, 1831, now deceased, was the wife of Robert Scott, of Clinton township ; Catherine (Mrs. Henry) ; Isaac, born July 27, 1834, residing in Franklin township Lucinda, born February 1, 1836, became the wife of Marion Dodd, and both are now deceased; Peter, born November I, 1838 ; Hester, born February 15, 1841, became the wife of George Schaaf and both are deceased. ARTY C. SAURER, D. V. S. Among the honored professional men in Wayne county stands Dr. A. C. Saurer, who is located in the attractive and prosperous town of Apple Creek and who is known as one of the native sons of the county and a member of one of the sterling pioneer families of this section of the old Buckeye state. His ability and his profession has gained him marked prestige, while his personality is such as to have gained to him a host of warm friends in the communities where he has practiced his profession. Arty C. Saurer was born in Saltcreek township, Wayne county, Ohio, bn the 28th day of August, 1885, and is a son of E. S. and Lena (Sauvain) Saurer. The father was for a number of years a well known teacher in the WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 827 public schools and later a successful and prosperous farmer, but is now engaged as a manufacturer of tile brick at Maysville, Ohio. He is a man of marked ability in any line to which he applies himself and is a man of splendid reputation in the circles in which he moves. E. S. and Lena Saurer. are the parents of four children, namely : Arty C., Lester, Zona and Lewis. The subject of this sketch was reared on the farm in Saltcreek township and was early initiated into the secrets of successful agriculture. He attended the common schools and also the school at Maysville, receiving a good practical education in the common branches. He had from boyhood evinced a fondness for animals and was also of a studious, technical turn of mind, these elements resulting in the eventual determination on his part to take up the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery. To this end he matriculated in the noted Veterinary College at Toronto, Canada, in 1905, and took a full course, graduating at that institution in the spring of 1907 with the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Surgery. He at once entered upon the active practice of his profession at Maysville, Ohio, but, desiring a larger field for his operations he moved, in the spring of 1909, to Apple Creek, where he is now established. In connection with his professional work, he is also running a livery and feed barn, in-which he is meeting with gratifying success. Though young in years, Doctor Saurer has already demonstrated in an unmistakable manner that he possesses a broad and comprehensive knowledge of his profession and he has handled successfully a number of very difficult and apparently hopeless cases. He is enjoying a patronage that is increasing rapidly and he stands today one of the best known men in his profession in this part of the county. In politics Doctor Saurer gives his support to the Democratic ticket, in the success of which he displays a healthy interest. Fraternally he is a member of Apple Creek Lodge, Knights of Pythias. Quiet and unassuming in his demeanor, Doctor Saurer has made many friends and all are united in their high regard for one who is living an honest, industrious and upright life in their midst. MATTHEW BEAZELL. This venerable and highly honored citizen of East Union township, Wayne county, is deserving of special mention in a work of this character owing to his long, useful and upright life and the interest he has taken in the development of this community. He was born in Westmoreland county, Penn- 828 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. sylvania, January 8, 1825, the son of John and Sarah (Shepler) Beazell, also natives of the last named place. John came to Stark county, Ohio, settling near Navarre, where he owned a good farm and where he spent the remainder of his life. He lived quietly and cared nothing for public display. He was a firm believer in the Bible and the principles of the Presbyterian church, and he took a great interest in schooling his family. He was very successful financially, owning a well improved farm of one hundred and sixty acres; he earned all his competence by his own efforts. He and his wife were the parents of eleven childien, namely : Matthew, Rachael, Michael F., Mary, Harvey, William, Sarah, Harriett C., Noah H., Clara and James. Matthew Beazell was reared on the home farm, where he remained until he was twenty-one years of age. He attended the common schools and received a fairly good education for those early days. He turned his attention to teaching, which profession he followed very successfully for a period of ten years, teaching two village schools. He later studied at Mt. Vernon, Ohio. He was regarded as an excellent teacher and his services were in great demand. Mr. Beazell was married on March 24, 1859, to Hannah Cunningham, who was born in Saltcreek township, September I I, 1834, the daughter of James and Hannah (Finley) Cunningham, the former born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1797. He married there and they came to Ohio and located in Saltcreek township, southern part of Wayne county, when that section was practically a wilderness. He was a stock raiser and farmer and in that neighborhood he spent his entire life. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church for many years. He and his wife were the parents of the following children : William, Nancy, Elizabeth, Jane, Violet, Rebecca, Eb. Robert and Hannah ; two children died at the age of two and one-half years. The others grew up on the farm in Saltcreek township.. Hannah Cunningham was reared on the farm and here She attended the district schools, receiving a good education. After their marriage they moved to a farm in East Union township where they lived for forty-five years, or until they moved to Apple Creek in April, 1904. They began life in a one-room log cabin in which they lived for six years, when it was replaced by a good frame dwelling. Being hard workers, they soon had a start and their farm of one hundred and sixty acres made them a comfortable living and a competency that renders their old age free from want, giving them all the luxuries their needs require. They started with ninety-five acres in East Union township and they now own two hundred and forty acres of excellent land. WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 829 To Mr. and Mrs. Beazell six children were born : James Harvey, born February 12, 1860; Albert, born June 26, 1861, died when twenty-one years of age; Clarissa J., born June 5, 1864, died in August, 1864; William S., born August 7, 1867; Frank R., born February 22, 1869 ; Emma S., born November 16, 1876. James H. graduated from Ann Arbor University and is a teacher ; Albert graduated from the primary department of the University Df Wooster. Mr. and Mrs. Beazell are members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Beazell being an elder in the same ; they have long been active workers and Liberal supporters of the church. In politics Mr. Beazell is a Republican. He and his wife are very pleasant and they are highly esteemed by all who know them, being generous, affable, religious and hospitable. They celebrated their fiftieth (golden) wedding anniversary on March 24, 1909, which was a notable event to the family and many relatives and friends. WILLIAM CASKEY. This highly esteemed and popular citizen, who since 1906 has been the efficient sheriff of Wayne county, is of Ohio birth and a descendant of one of the early settlers of Wayne township, the farm on which the family originally settled having been purchased from the government by his great-grandfather and held in the Caskey name ever since. John Caskey, the subject's grandfather, a native of Ireland, came to America with his parents when sixteen years old and grew to maturity on the farm in Wayne township referred to above. In due time he succeeded to the ownership of the place and there reared his family, among his children being a son, William Caskey, who was born and reared on the family homestead, and who afterwards became a well-to-do farmer and representative citizen of Wayne township. He married, in young manhood, Elizabeth Criets, who was born in the above township, and became the father of nine children, of whom the following survive : Mrs. Mary Mackey, of Smithville, Wayne county ; Mrs. Alltena McGlenen, of Creston, Ohio; Mrs. Ida Conn and Elmer E., of Wayne township, and William M. Caskey, whose name appears at the head of this review. The father of these children died about 1889; the mother, an aged lady of eighty-three years, has been living for some time in the town of Madisonburg, this state.. 830 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. William M. Caskey, whose birth occurred in Canaan township, Wayne county, Ohio, on the 9th of April, 1862, was reared to agricultural pursuits, received a fair education in the public schools and remained with his parents until attaining his majority, when he became a tiller of the soil upon his own responsibility. Later he operated a mill in connection with his agricultural interests and for about twenty-six years ran a threshing outfit with which he threshed much of the grain raised in his own and other parts of the county In 1898 he was elected trustee of Wayne township and so ably and judiciously were his official duties performed that three years later he was chosen his own successor, his majorities in both elections being much larger than those of any other candidate on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Caskey's honorable record as trustee, together with his active interest in behalf of his party, led to his nomination in 1906 for the office of sheriff. In the ensuing election he defeated his Republican competitor by one thousand four hundred and seventy-seven votes, the largest majority ever given a candidate in the history of Wayne county, and two hundred and two more than any other man on the ticket, a fact of which he has ever since felt deservedly proud, as demonstrating his popularity with the people regardless of political ties. Taking charge of the office January 1, 1907, he addressed himself to his duties, which he has since discharged in an able and satisfactory manner, proving a capable and popular official and a terror to evil doers within his jurisdiction, many of whom he has arrested and brought to the bar of justice, while not a few, fearing his determined course to reduce crime to the minimum, have taken counsel of their better judgment by seeking safer quarters in other and distant parts. In 1908 Mr. Caskey was reelected and his second term will expire on January 2, 1911. He has been faithful to every trust and in his official capacity stands high in the esteem and confidence of the people of the county and in point of efficiency and faithfulness his administration compares favorably with that of any of his predecessors. On November 17, 1892, Mr. Caskey entered the marriage relation with Blanche Geyer, of Wayne township, his friend and companion ever since they. attended the same school in childhood and youth. Four children have been born to this union, viz. : Ruth, aged fifteen ; William Paul, deceased; Florence and Raymond, aged twelve and five years, respectively. Mr. Caskey owns a highly improved and valuable farm in Wayne township and by industry and thrift and good management has accumulated a sufficiency of this world's goods to place him in independent circumstances. He has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for eighteen years, also WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 831 belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He is a regular attendant of the Lutheran church, with which his wife holds membership, and is a liberal contributor to its support. Generous in all the term implies, with a large body and a heart in keeping therewith, he enjoys the confidence of his fellow men to a marked degree and it goes without saying that he is pre-eminently one of the most popular and highly respected citizens of the county with which his life has been so closely identified. WILLEY SYLVESTER OLDMAN. It was once remarked by a celebrated moralist and biographer that "there has scarcely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not have been useful." Believing in the truth of this opinion, expressed by one of the greatest and best of men, the writer of this review takes pleasure in presenting a few facts in the career of a gentleman who, by industry, perSeverance and close application has worked himself from an humble station to. a 'successful business man and won an honorable position among the well-known and respected men of the city in which he resides. Willey Sylvester Oldman was born at Homerville, Medina county, Ohio, June 22, 1872, where he spent his childhood. Prior to his ninth year he attended school at Homerville, receiving the rudiments of an education which he has since supplemented by general reading and by coming in contact with the world at large. At that tender age it became necessary for him to go out and support himself, and, being a brave-hearted lad, he was soon successfully baffling his way in the world of men. Working at various occupations, earning an honest dollar any way he could until he was seventeen years of age, he went to Cleveland and, having long desired to enter the railroad world, he sought and secured employment on the Conneaut railroad, where he remained for a period as fireman and various occupations during a period of some six years. .He was also employed by the Van Cleve Glass Company, to which he gave very faithful service. Mr. Oldman was married on June 12, 1901, to Bede Rice, daughter of William and Mary Rice, of Spencer, Ohio, where Mrs. Oldman was reared and educated, her birth having occurred at Sarinac, Michigan, on June 3o, 1875. She graduated from the high school at Spencer, and taught school in Spencer twelve years. To this union one child was born, Kenneth Rice Oldman, November 15, 1908. Both Mr. and Mrs. Rice are affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church. 832 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. Soon after his marriage Mr. Oldman purchased a farm of ninety-six acres which he worked very satisfactorily until 1909. On August 15th of that year he came to Wooster and organized the Wooster Vacuum Cleaning and Rug Weaving Company and he is now enjoying a very satisfactory patronage. The vacuum cleaner which he operates is a Wge portable machine run by a gasoline engine, with a hose attached, fitted with sweepers. Only the hose is taken into the house where carpets are cleaned, first-class work being guaranteed at five cents per yard. Upholstered furniture, bedding and mattresses are also cleaned by suction of air without raising a speck of dust or removing the furniture from the room. It removes all dust and moths from carpets and from beneath carpets and rugs without taking them off the floor. It is a remarkable modern invention. Mr. Oldman also weaves rugs from old ingrain and Brussels carpets, making line of work a specialty and one of the principal departments of his business. SAMUEL BROWN EASON. It is the progressive, wide-awake man of affairs that makes the real history of a community and his influence as a potential factor of the body politic is difficult to estimate. The examples such men furnish of patient purpose and steadfast integrity strongly illustrate what is in the power of each to accomplish, and there is always a full measure of satisfaction in adverting, even in a casual way, to their achievements in advancing the interests of their fellow men and in giving strength and solidity to the institutions which make so much for the prosperity of the community. Such a man is Judge Samuel Brown Eason, of Wooster, Ohio, and as such it is proper that a review of his career be accorded a place among the representative citizens of the city and county in which he resides. Judge Eason represents one of the best known and most highly honored pioneer families of Wayne county, having been born at the old Eason home and Susan (Brandsteter) Eason, the father born in Wooster and the mother near Hagerstown, Maryland. The Judge's paternal grandfather was Robert Eason, who was among the earlier pioneers of Wayne county. He was of English and Irish descent, his father, Samuel Eason, having emigrated from Ireland, and his mother, Anna Marshall, from England, several years before their marriage on Pine creek, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, where Robert was born, December Io, 1795. When the latter was nine years old WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 833 his father died, and two years thereafter his mother married Edward Taylor. Soon after this second marriage the Eason-Taylor family removed from Lycoming to Erie county, Pennsylvania, and during their residence There the war of 1812 was fought. In this struggle Robert Eason took part, being in active service during a regular term of enlistment in a Pennsylvania regiment then stationed with other troops at Fort Erie. He was also detained to work as a carpenter on ships then building near the fort for service in Commodore Perry's fleet. For this service, in addition to the regular pay as a soldier, he lived to receive from the United States government a warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of land, but his death occurred before the passage of the act of Congress granting pensions to all who had served in the second struggle with England for American independence. After the war closed the family moved to Chester township, Wayne county, Ohio, on April 14, 1816. The mother and step-mother Taylor brought all the children with them, viz : Robert, Alexander, Mary and Anne. The family first settled on a tract of land in the northeast quarter of section 31, where they built a cabin and cleared land. A year after this Robert married Beulah Sooy, daughter of Noah Sooy, who had settled two ycarl previously in Chester township, having emigrated from Lafayette county, Pennsylvania. Robert and his young wife then commenced housekeeping in real backwoods style, near Wooster, at the Stibbs mill. Here Mr. Eason lived for six years, when, by the aid of his good friend, Joseph Stibbs, he purchased a small farm in the wilds of the Muddy Fork of the Mohican, to which he moved with his wife and three children, Samuel, Joseph and Benjamin, taking tip their residence in a cabin in the woods on a quarter section of land in Perry township, then Wayne, now Ashland county. Robert Eason was a natural mechanic. Besides clearing land and farming, he worked at almost every branch of various trades required by the primitive settlements—was wagonmaker, plowmaker, weaver, blacksmith, cabinetmaker, gunsmith, millwright, shoemaker and general utility man in the line of mechanics for his neighbors. During the eight years that Robert Eason lived in Perry township he and his neighbors joined in building the first log school house. The site of this early "college," the structure itself having long since disappeared, is in Chester township, near the county line. Here Sarah Elwood, niece of Mr. Eason, opened the first country school. In the summer of 1826 Robert Eason built the first frame bank-barn of any magnitude in Perry township. On January 19, 1832, he moved his family to and settled on the farm in Plain township, later owned by his son, Hon. Benjamin Eason. Here he succeeded (53) 834 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. Dennis Driscoll in the business of milling, and commenced improving a new farm, and there he lived and continued the milling business until his death, April 14, 1854. At this place, on March 12, 1850, to this family a most sad and terrible accident occurred, the wife of t.obert Eason being crushed to death by the machinery of the mill. The remains of husband and wife rest side by side in the old graveyard near Millbrook. In his boyhood days, Benjamin Eason for several years pursued the vocation of teacher, varying his employment, at times, in surveying and managing and cultivating a farm. He was not exactly a child of the wilderness, but wilderness conditions surrounded the rude cradle in which he was rocked, his birth having occurred on May 5, 1822, He spent his life in Wayne county and became one of the eminent men of his day and generation, having devoted the latter part of his, life to the law. He taught his first school when nineteen years old and when twenty-six was elected justice of the peace and served until 185p, when he and his brother, Alexander, who died at Placerville, California, made the long, hazardous trip ov.erilidie plains to California in search ofgold, being members of • the "Denillt on Company," composed of about forty Wayne county men. He returned home the following winter from the Eldorado of the far West. In 1851 he was elected clerk of the common pleas court, and was re-elected in 1854. He was elected to the state Senate in 1859 on the Democratic ticket, and also served in the Senate in 1882 and 1883. He was, by appointment, treasurer of Wayne county nine months. In 1862 he was commissioned captain of Company E, One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and for some time he served at the front in the South. In 1864 he purchased the Wayne County Democfat and edited the same for some time. April 1, 1870, he opened an office in Wooster with his son, Samuel B., of this review, as partner, and devoted his time to the practice of law and continued successfully during the remaining active years of his life. Samuel B. Eason, the immediate subject of this biographical record, had the privileges of the common country schools, which he attended during the winter. months and worked on the home farm the remainder of the year, Caroline Culbertson being his first teacher in the litfle school house at Springville, and at an early age he evinced an inclination to study and a passion for books. When eighteen years of age he tendered his services to the government, and on May 27, 1862, was mustered into service, joining- Company D, Eighty-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. Andrew H. Byers and Col. Barnabas turn-S. In this regiment he served four months, WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 835 his enlistment being three months, and he was discharged on September 25th following. Upon his return from the army, Mr. Eason registered, in the fall of 1863, at Mt. Union, Stark county, and remained in the college there one year altogether, having attended school at home in the winter of 1863 and 1864, returning to Mt. Union later. For one year he had charge of the college telescope of six and three-eighths aperture. He then entered Vermillion Institute, Hayesville, Ashland county, Ohio, remaining in that institution, with the exception of one term of teaching, until September, 1867, then, accompanied by Hon. John K.-Cowen, late president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, as roommate, he entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, from which he was graduated in the spring of 1869, havirt completed the course in law. Hon. John W. Kern, of Indianapolis, was his class-mate at Ann Arbor. In the winter of 1867-8 he was elected one of five to take part in the public exercises of the Webster, the most prominent literary society of the law department, and the next day after the exercises there entertained at dinner by Judge and Mrs. Thomas W. Cooley, and he cries the incident in memory as one of the most pleasant of school days. The next winter he was president of the Webster. Mr. Eason located at Columbia City, Indiana, but in 1870 he returned to Wooster, Ohio, and formed a partnership with his father, practicing thus for two years. Later his brother, Benjamin, joined the firm of B., S. B. & B. F. Eason, which continued until 1885, when Samuel B. began practicing alone, having by this time won an enviable reputation at the local bar. In 1897 Samuel B. Eason was elected judge of the common pleas court, in which he made a splendid record and was re-elected to the same responsible position in 1902, and by legislative enactment the term was lengthened to six years, and he served until January 1, 1909, then resumed the practice of law. The Taggart divorce case and the Dickinson murder trial were among the noted cases that came before him as judge. Judge Eason was married on May 7, 1885, to Anna Hindman, a lady of education and refinement, the daughter of John and Nancy (Phillips) Hindman. She was born at Apple Creek, this county, and at the time of her marriage lived at Wooster. This union has been without issue. The Judge's home, at No. 117 West Liberty street, is one of hospitality and good' cheer, cozy and a favorite mecca for the many friends of himself and wife. The businesS of the. Judge is exclusively the practice of law, and he is also the owner of a valuable and attractive .farm of two hundred and 836 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. forty-five acres in Franklin township, which he operates. He has placed many valuable improvements on it, including forty-six thousand feet of drain tile, erected substantial buildings, etc. Politically, Judge Eason is a Democrat and as a speaker and advisor during campaigns his services are most valuable, the success of the ticket in a number of campaigns being largely attributable to his wise counsel and judicious leadership. As a lawyer Judge Eason busies himself with those things in which success depends upon the symmetrical judgment and practical grasp that come—from reading and reflection. These characteristics were observed while on the bench, his fidelity to duty there and his faithful discharge of the same winning the admiration of all concerned; irrespective of party alignment. He Ts a man of intense energy and application. He goes into court with his case completely in hand. The labor of preparation is not considered. He has a keen perception of the varying phases of human nature which characterize his professional career. In counsel he is inquisitive, exacting and exhaustive, wanting to know the truth and the facts. As an advocate he is earnest, resolute and persuasive, and is, withal, one of Wayne county's energetic, public spirited citizens, richly deserving the high esteem in which he is held by all classes. Judge Eason is the owner of a fine refracting telescope of nine inches clear aperture, made for him in 1882 by the celebrated firm of Alvan Clark & Sons, and of which Alvan Clark, Sr., the founder of the house, in an autograph letter to him, states that the object glass was made with his own hands and that it is one of his best. This he uses for occasional recreation, and with it in 1882 he obtained a view of the atmosphere of Venus, which would not be visible again for one hundred and twenty years, or until the next transit,.and many other interesting and beautiful views of the planets and stars have been gained by him through this splendid instrument. CYRUS A. RIEDER. As long as history endures will the American nation acknowledge its indebtedness to the heroes who, between 1861 and 1865, fought for the preservation of the Union and the honor of the starry banner which has never been. trailed in the dust of defeat in a single polemic conflict in which the country has been engaged. Among those whose military records, as valiant 837 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. soldiers of the war of the Rebellion, reflect lasting honor upon them is the subject of this sketch, who is now living a retired life in the pleasant little town of Apple Creek and who is known as one of the sterling citizens of Wayne county, where for a number of years he was successfully engaged in profegsional pursuits. Cyrus A. Rieder was born at Maysville, Saltcreek township, Wayne county; Ohio, on the 3oth day of January, 1844, and is a son of Daniel, Jr., and Sarah A. (Mowrey) Rieder. Daniel Rieder was brought to Wayne county by his parents in 1813, when he was but a boy, and here he adopted the pursuit of farming, which he followed during the remainder of his active life. He was prospered, and eventually became the owner of two hundred acres of good land. Unfortunately, however, he became surety on a bond, mjiich, becoming forfeited, ruined him financially. He married Sarah A. Mowrey and they became the parents of sixteen children, ten of whom grew to mature years. The subject was reared on the parental farmstead, on which he worked until he was seventeen years old. At that time the war had broken out in the Southland and, feeling the patriotic impulse, he volunteered for service in the defense of his country and joined Company C, Forty-first Regiment Volunteer Infantry, the date of his enlistment having been August 8, 1862. He remained with this command, participating in a number of the bloodiest battles of that great conflict, including those of Stone River, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. In the last named engagement Mr. Rieder received a terrible wound in the right leg, from the results of which he has had to undergo two amputations. He was discharged in 1864, and, returning to his Wayne county home, he at once took the first steps towards securing a good education. He attended first the school at Fredericksburg, and then went to Professor Eberley's school at Smithville. He then engaged in teaching school, in which he was successful and which he continued for nine years. He had determined to take up the profession of the law and to this end during the past several years he had put in all his spare time in the study of Blackstone, Kent and the other great legal authorities. Eventually he took the examinations at Wooster and was properly admitted to the bar of Wayne county. He located at Wooster and entered actively into the practice of his profession and was soon numbered among the leading members of the bar. He was elected city attorney of Wooster, in which position he served four years, and also served two terms as county attorney and prosecuting attorney. In all these positions he acquitted himself in a manner which won for him an enviable reputation among his professional brethren. He went to Kansas and 838 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO located at Anthony, where he remained for eight years, during which time he engaged in the practice of the law. While there he served four years as postmaster, receiving his appointment under President Cleveland's first administration. At the end of the period noted Mr. Rieder returned to his old home in Wooster and resumed the practice of his profession, in which he continued until 1900, then went to St. Regis Falls, New York, and stayed eight years, and came back and retired at Apple Creek,,,where he is now living. In recognition of his faithful service during the Civil war, and as a partial recompense for the physical injury from which he suffered, the subject now receives a liberal pension from the government which he helped to preserve and perpetuate. In his professional life Mr. Rieder was recognized as a man of unusual attainments and occupied a high position in the estimation of those who knew of him and his work. He is a good speaker, a close student and an indefatigable worker,—elements which contribute to a large measure to the success of any lawyer. In private life he is a man whom it is a pleasure to know. Genial in manner, a splendid conversationalist, faithful in his friendships and of unimpeachable personal character, he is eminently deserving of the unstinted confidence and respect which are accorded him throughout the community, and he is particularly deserving of representation in a work of this character. PETER WELTY. A representative of one of the old and honored families of Wayne county, which since pioneer days has been prominently connected with the development and substantial progress of this section of the state, Mr. Welty is worthily sustaining the high reputation of the family, through his active and useful life, prominence in connection with the agricultural industries of this favored section of the Buckeye state and his influential position as one of the county's extensive landholders. There is utmost compatibility in here entering a brief review of his career., and aside from being a valuable and perpetual record, the article will be read with interest by the many friends of himself and family. Peter Welty was born on the farm on which he now resides in section 5, Paint township, Wayne county, Ohio, on February 17, 1839. He is a son of John and Barbara (Lukenbill) Welty. John Welty was a native of canton Berne, Switzerland, and came to the United States in his young manhood un- WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 839 accompanied. He went first to Virginia, where he remained for a time, and then came to Ohio, settling in Wayne county. He is supposed to have been married in Holmes county, for he farmed for a while near Minesburg, that county. in he came to Wayne county and bought the land where the subject now lives. He was in politics a strong Democrat, but declined to accept any public office. Besides being a successful farmer, he was also a good mechanic, being proficient in blacksmithing and carpenter work. He was also the owner of land in Putnam county, this state, and was in all his affairs a prosperous man. He was a member of the Mennonite church and lived a life consistent with his professions. After coming to America, Mr. Welty was married to Barbara Lukenbill, who settled in Holmes county with her parents when she was quite young. To Peter and Barbara Welty were born nine children, as follows : Chris C., Catherine, Barbara, Mary, Anna, Peter, Magdalene, Fannie and John, the latter dying in infancy. Peter Welty remained under the parental roof during his youth and received a fair education in the district schools of the neighborhood. He early plied himself to the labors of the farm and gave his undivided attention to the work, in which he has continued during all his active days. He has followed general farming and has been progressive in his methods, keeping in close touch with the most advanced ideas relating to the science of agriculture. He has never been tempted to forsake the great basic art, which is the foundation and strength of the commercial life of the nation, realizing that the successful husbandman is the most independent and carefree man in the country. Mr. Welty owns a fine farm and has given intelligent direction to every detail of the work thereon. His buildings are commodious and well arranged, his machinery is thoroughly up-to-date, the fences well kept and everything about the place shows the owner to be a man thoroughly practical in his ideas and methods. In connection with the tilling of the soil he also gives some attention to the breeding and raising of livestock, in which also he has been prospered. Now in the golden sunset years of his life he has laid aside much of the actual manual labor of the farm, but his interest in the work is unflagging and he is as alert and keen in his interest in passing events as in his prime. Politically, Mr. Welty has always voted the Democratic ticket, but has never sought nor held public office of any nature, being content to occupy the rank of a private citizen, though at all times he has been found an earnest supporter of all worthy movements for the general good. He and his wife are members of the Mennonite church, to which they give an earnest support. In 1861 Mr. Welty was united in marriage to Anna Gerber, who was 840 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. born in May, 1839, in Sugar Creek township, this county, the daughter of Woolerick Gerber. To the subject and his wife have been born eight children, namely : Benjamin, Barbara (deceased), John, William, Rosa, Daniel. Sarah and Reuben. Mr. Welty has through a long course of years retained the unqualified esteem of the community. He has consistently devoted his time and attention to his business interests, through which he has gained a gratifying and well-merited success. Industry, energy and progressive spirit have ever been dominating characteristics in his makeup and through these forces he has attained a distinctive degree of prosperity and is numbered among the representative agriculturists of the county. J. H. TODD, M. D. The ancestors of Dr. Joe H. Todd on his paternal side were Scotch-Irish and Welsh ; on the maternal, they were Holland Dutch and Welsh, with a mingling of what Emerson calls "compact old English blood." His mother was a direct descendant of Peter Yokom, who immigrated to America from Holland in 1693 and settled at Sweedsford, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His oldest son, John, married Elizabeth DeHaven, a Welsh Quakeress, and died or was killed in the Revolution February Jo, 1777. About this time, at a family reunion, the name Yokom was changed to Yocum. His son, also named John, was born at Sweedsford February 14, 1757, and married Mary Evans, of Welsh-English blood, at Chester, Pennsylvania. He migrated to York county, Pennsylvania, where he established Yocumtown, on the Susquehanna, and removed to Wayne county, Ohio, in 1828. He was a Revolutionary soldier and Doctor Todd's great-grandfather. His son, Elijah, was the Doctor's grandfather and was a local Methodist preacher and a builder of carding machines and mills. He was married to Catherine Wagoner, a "Pennsylvania.-Dutch" girl, at Yocumtown, and here was born the Doctor's mother, Caroline Matilda Yocum, in 1813. Doctor Todd's paternal great-grandfather, Capt. James Todd, was born in county Antrim, north Ireland, of Protestant parents, in 1690, and came to America with a Welsh wi fe. about 1740 and located at Baltimore, Maryland. He had the mariner's thirst for the sea, the skill and education of the mechanic and sailor in building and sailing his craft. He was a sea captain and became the owner of vessels plying between his home city and the Bermudas, Ba- WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 841 hamas and Cuba, as well as an Importer of Arabian horses. But, like many who go out on the sea in ships, he met with disaster, and the requiem of his hopes was chanted in tempest and storm. His two ships vent down off Hatteras. The losses were heavy, his spirit broken, and he retired to a small farm in York county, Pennsylvania, where his family had a summer home in his absence. Here the Doctor's grandfather, James Todd, was born in 175o, who as a boy frequently went on voyages with his father, for he, too, loved the sea; but when disaster destroyed their wealth, he was apprenticed to a saddler in York. He learned the trade, but later was a teacher in a Quaker school, where he married a Quaker maiden and returned to the old farm. He was appointed justice of the peace by Governor Trimble and made stain of militia. The Doctor's father, James Todd, was born on this farm in .1796 (the name James had been given to the eldest son for many generations). After the death of his father, in 1828, he came to Ohio and located in Wayne county, dealing in land and horses. He was married in 1836 to Caroline Matilda Munhall, a widow, whose maiden name was Yocum. To them two children were born, Joe H. and Lunette Yocum, the former of which is the subject of this sketch. A number of Doctor Todd's earlier years were spent upon his father's farm near Millbrook, where he attended the old conventional, but now traditional, country school, subsequently registering as a student at Vermilion Institute, Hayesville, Ohio, under the presidency of Rev. Sanders Diefendorf, then one of the foremost academic educators of Ohio. From here he went to Fredericksburg Academy. On the completion of his disciplinary course of institutional drill and methods in 1861, he commenced the study of medicine. After the battle of Gettysburg, in response to the national government call for medical aid, although yet a student, he hastened to the scene of that desperate struggle, which supplied him extraordinary opportunities in the practical. part of surgery, both as an operator and assistant in those crucial tests to the unfortunate which resulted from the iron game of war. Here and at Chambersburgh and Harrisburg he remained during the summer, when he proceeded to Bellevue Hospital, New York, remaining there during the winter of 1863-64. Here were afforded him special lessons in surgery by Professor Smith of Bellevue, and private instruction from Austin Flint, Sr., directly in the branches of percussion and auscultation of the lungs, from whom came a strong and merited endorsement of his skill and accomplishments: In 1864 he was a private student of Frank Hamilton. In 1865 he received his diploma and commenced practice with a clientage from the beginning that prognosticated his future success. In 1869 he was 842 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. a delegate to the National Medical Society at New Orleans, being commissioned by the Medical Society of Wayne County. To further gratify his aspiration to attain the highest possible skill and excellence in the various departments of his profession, he returned to New York, placing himself under the special care of Austin Flint, Jr., as second assistant in the department of physiology, receiving private instruction in surgery from Professor-Hamilton and also from Delafield, in microscopy. In 1870 he again visited New York, where he was for a period assistant to Austin Flint, Jr., in physiology laboratory. In 1876 Doctor Tood purchased a home in Wooster and permanently located there. He is a member of the American Public Health Association, and has been since 1892. He was a delegate to the International Medical Congress at Washington, D. C., in 1885, and again to Berlin, Germany, in 189o, visiting the hospitals of Europe in the interests of his profession. He assisted in founding the Ohio Archaeology and Historical Society at Columbus, Ohio, in 1881, and was one of its earliest members. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, chosen in 1892. He was present at the second meeting of the Ohio Academy of Science after its organization, was elected a member and is uniform in his attendance of its meetings, at Columbus, Ohio, where it was established in 1892. Its first president was Edward W. Claypool. It is composed of about two hundred members. He has read three papers before the academy on the preglacial drainage of Wayne and associated counties. The investigations and researches that Doctor Todd has made in his various fields of scientific thought have been most valuable contributions and have served a distinctive purpose with other scientists and specialists of the institutions of which he is a member, in establishing and sustaining organized societies and institutes for original research. In the processes along these lines of scientific and antiquarian research there seem to be three stages of development. In the first there comes 4 period of discovery, during which the region is traversed by traveling specialists, either as independent investigators with a laudable and instinctive love for their work, anticipating no special reward for their labors, only so far as they can enlighten mankind, stimulate inquiry into the mysteries of the arcapum of nature and add some new chapters to the folios of science, or by such persons attached to expeditions sent out by government or by scientific institutions. In this way the general nature of the, anthropologic, ethnologic, archaelogic and biologic conditions are made known to science, and in most cases much data and many hitherto unknown facts, truths and WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 843 results are attained and described. In the second stage the field is occupied by local . residents, collectors, persons who are able to devote a portion of their time to observation and research and to the preservation of the specimens that they find, without the opportunities and accessories of libraries and other facilities for original research. Such persons seldom publish the reg'ults of their labors and accumulations, but send their treasure to specialists, more favorably situated, who know the discoveries of their correspondents. In the third stage comes the development of local research, by resident antidkuarians and scientists, who spend years of patient toil, extracted from business or professional life, in studying the conditions that surround them, traversing home and adjacent districts, and by publishing the results of their exploitations gradually introduce to the light a rich profusion of scientific data. As the resident specialists increase in number they specialize by degrees, so that in time all phases of the subject receive proper attention. The culmination of these conditions is the founding of great establishments for original research. The labors of Doctor Todd have proven to be substantial auxiliaries in these directions, and his observations and researches from a local standpoint. have found expression in valuable publications and aided in accomplishing the organization, permanence and security of the Academy of Science, at Columbus, Ohio. Independent of his studies and investigations and writings in testimony of his persistence, energy and enterprise, he has accumulated a cabinet of thirty thousand specimens, the largest private collection in Ohio, twenty thousand of which are historic and absolutely perfect, the remaining ten thousand being equally historic but partly incomplete. He lately presented five thousand to the Wooster City Library. Doctor Todd is advanced in years to beyond middle life, is of medium height, with strong, wiry nerves, has black hair, faintly touched by the silvery spray of years, with darting, dark, perceiving eyes, a clean, classic face, in which are mirrored his thoughts, feelings and emotions, the silent languages of the soul and heart as they are radiated from intellectual centers of acute and deep intensity. His faculties are in their zenith and in the highest degree capable of action, work and achievement, his physical forces ever ready to sustain his best promotive mental enterprise. He possesses the genius of adaptation to the subject in hand, and practices surgery on Time by cutting it into divisions and sub-divisions for the better and more systematic accompliShment of his professional, historic and scientific designs. Circumstances, however iron-clad, are seldom permitted to interfere with his distribution of work; for which he is in a state of constant preparation and 844 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO: adjustment to it. All his bases and foundations are well and strongly laid. This has been emphasized from the beginning of his professional career. In the battle with disease he must first reconnoiter the field and locate the enemy, bringing tact, judgment, reason and strategy to his assistance before assaulting the citadel. Nor does he rely on tactics of the books or the speculations of the old teachers, writers and theorists or depend upon a set of stereotyped methods to attain conclusions or achieve results. The entire human cosmos must be studied, its springs and action, temperament and constitutional peculiarities, the vibrations and relations of every chord of the poetic thousand on the human harp. He must seek and know, "For knowledge is of things we see." Nothing is taken for granted, nothing suspended in uncertainty, refusing to doubt when there is a rational possibility of being sure. He has, therefore, found it necessary to implicitly trust himself, others only so far as he may not be damaged in their disappointment. In his divisions of study, experiments, and investigations and travel, Doctor Todd finds an inspiriting life ; he finds it in the forests and fields, among the pebbles and stones, the grasses and grains, the vines and orchards of his farm, in his beautiful home, with its stabilities of brick and stone, and its multiform tenantry of flowers and trees, overlooking the beautiful valley, whose preglacial history he has revealed to geologic science, and the irregular, undulating and hilly landscapes beyond with unraveled signs and legends, costumed in summer in delightful colors, lifting a robe of purity to the dawn and bursting into primal beauty at the touch of the sinking sun. In the enjoyment of this selected life an unusual importance is attached to the interest with which he invests it by word or conversation. He talks fluently on the subject-matter under consideration, with a familiarity with it that indicate how clearly he comprehends it; talks readily and quick and to the point, with singular accuracy and conciseness and invariably with an objective. In his written productions is found. remarkable perspicacity, strength and compactness of statements, an orderly and logical marshalling of ideals. in which is employed vigorous, but plain, pure English words, having but little use for superlatives, yet recognizing the fact that they are frequently decorations, but neither strengthen nor vitalize expression. There is a strict form and technical directness and transparency of thought and elucidation in all emanations from his pen. His habit is to think intently and well of his subject, hold it with a firm mental sub-maxillary grip, and when the time conies he .rapidly unreels the finished fabric from his mind. As a man Doctor Todd is substantial and intrinsic in his personality, a self-adjusting, independent, veritable entity, without a proxy, always stand- WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 813 ing and answering for himself, maintains the essentials of proper equipoise and a lofty spirit, is benevolent, sympathetic, and humorous, all of which qualities pre-eminently characterize him. the impulsiveness of some of the Celtic grit that is him crosses his orbit, the steadier and safer equilibriums of his Dutch maternal blood act as a repellant and counter-force, when the shadow on the disc suddenly disappears. His student hours are tense and dense amid the silences of inquisitive and contemplative thought. To such minds relief to reflection is best assured by further reflection. What die reads, sees, hears and thinks, serves his premises with these he cares, first, to improve himself. He deeply enjoys both ancient and modern literature, the old poets and masters, the classic authors, the heralds and voices of antiquity, kneels at the shrines of the great artists and the fame-winners n sculpture and painting and architecture, participates in the acclamations of the triumphs of art and "the blaze of every science." For all of these and for maps and charts and models "and dusty tomes crowded with heavy but profound philosophies and researches," he possesses an exalted if not spiritualized appreciation. He enjoys, not alone, the distinguished merit and scholasticism of the literature of his profession, but the learning of men of learning, the best literary productions, whether those of Tacitus or Macaulay, and Chaucer or Tennyson—those composing and embodying the highest results of knowledge and fancy, preserved and transmitted by the old or later authors. He does not incline to a literature which exclusively regards the personal, the romantic and beautiful, as the cardinal objects of thought and expression, but rather one that combines those characteristics with definite and accurate description, exact analysis, and the bringing together of true cause and effect as the chief end. A scholar himself, with the training of the schools and familiar with college curriculums and the courses of study, the Doctor cherished the assumptions of his own line of study, and with due regard to preordained thinkers he has chiseled lines which are modest historical testimonies. And here he rests. as is his right. Among the possibilities of those existing are his incredulity in methods of education in this or any period of spasmic culture. His convictions of conscience are not absolutely in colleges and universities—men factories, in which you can make a man a real, live illuminating genius out of the raw masticated material of creation. There must be a touch of the Master in it ; the spirit of the Designer behind it. In a Greek quarry, like ancient Oxford, there is a major portion who would make better operators as carpet-weavers in the mills of Wilton or steel grinders in Sheffield. 846 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. Significally characteristic of the Doctor is his diligence in circumscribing himself to the circle of his own affairs, whether in the administrations of his profession, the fascinating seclusion of his reliquaries or in peregrinations through the forests and fields or the slenderly wooded acres of the streams, challenging the outposts of landscapes for their buried or unburied, or even their semi-articulate tones of time, their resonant, choiceful antiquarian legends and secrets. If Dr. Todd were objectless he would be a brilliant, if apparently fading, taper, but never invisible in the toneless halls of sleep. Not true is this. There is constantly an object impelling him, and such is his self-balance that he floats steadily on, whether on smooth or troubled currents, where and when he can afford to wait, accounting expectations as no punishment and willing to abide, if necessary, the adjournment of his hopes until the next day. If he has formality, it is that of his style and greeting, and upon meeting him his social and mental circumferences are at once visible. If there be a stateliness and a degree of selfhood, they are appurtenances belonging to him, but this is not sutre, or unbending, but native qualities which adhere and dwell' in so metropolitan and composite a nature. There are times when solitude, the compressed silences of the ages, break the limit and the eternal mandate of the world, when the thinker must retire and in the sweet martyrdom of seclusion speak to himself and address himself in the untold, unwritten language of the human soul, and in this sense, with what the eye can see in sight, or the mind can compass, more specially in looking back, he seeks his days and periods of tranquil quietness in seclusion, in his quaint libraries, his museum, among his geologic fossils, his Indian quarries and prehistoric repositories, his aggregated things of antiquity and old atmosphere. Here he can conceal himself to be guessed at by those who do not know, to be understood by those who understand, to see and work unseen and when he emerges to the light again to be known by his vitalizations and actions that his retirement was not affection. From the effect of his exact professional habits he is discriminate and technical in place, time and order and is self-regulated to a degree which sometimes excites a suggestion, but this is essentially associated with the conscientiousness which forms a conspicuous future of his character. He would be regarded as a man well born, well derived, well disciplined and well finished, the strongest representative of his own personality, the sentinel of each of his own particular wards, a rampart to himself, testifying to the relations which he finds in life. He aims, first, to do justice to himself ; this done, he can dismiss all menace of opposition or lack of appreciation or superstition. WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 847 He who keeps the door of a mine, whether of galena, mercury, plumbago, or aluminum, will soon know, that the people want to see him, as real men always prefer to see and know real men. The possession of the ,instinct of a man of historic and scientific ventures implies the boldness to do and accomplish ; it carries in it the symptoms of determination and courage, for the culminations of all battles, whether fought in the interest of science or themselves, are pivoted on courage. The fibers and sinews of the scholar and thinker then reaches the stage and fills the proscenium. It is superbly gallant to be brave at cannon points, but better to be brave when better issues are joined. With Doctor Todd, he would sooner be the defendant than the challenger, but he in his inmost heart detests cowardice. If, however, he resolves to do or act, he would, with the mariner's instinct of his ancestry, plunge into the ships that go down into the sea, and in the delicious peril of death hammer at the doors that had never been opened. Even then, he would violate his attachments to his curios,.and experience an ambiguous sound in the tender, holy and potential ciktialities of a divinely Miltonic scene. Of his curios ! But he is not English enough to swing in hammocks, from the boughs of the Upas tree, or put the blood of a martyr in an elembic, or to saw a hole in the head of the"Winking Virgin" to know why she winks, but, if he won a Croesus or was the successor to the earldom of Arundel, he would beg the secrets of nature and, like Sir George, enrich the universities of the world with his gifts. -BY BEN DOUGLAS. JOSEPH PERILSTEIN. The record of Joseph Perilstein is that of a man who, by his own unaided efforts, has worked his way from a modest beginning to a position of influence and prosperity. His life has been one of unceasing industry and perseverance, and the systematic and honorable methods he has followed have won him the unbounded confidence of his fellow citizens. Joseph Perilstein, a well-known merchant of Orrville, is an American by adoption only, but he has always been loyal to our institutions since his coming here. He was born in Austria-Hungary in 1873, the son of Abraham and Molly Perilstein, both of whom are still living in the old country. Young Joseph in his boyhood assisted his father about the home place and dreamed of the great republic across the Atlantic of which he had been 848 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. told so much, and, when eighteen years of age, he got enough money together to come to America. He landed in New York, but later came on to Cleveland. He was penniless, but, being ambitious and possessing many of the qualities that always make for success, he soon found employment in selling goods to individual families. He could not speak English, but study and observation soon acquired our language. He was on the road for four and one-half years. Then in 1896 he came to Orrville, Ohio, and engaged in the dry goods business and, being successful from the first, he has been here ever since, having built up an excellent trade with the town and surrounding country. He had but little capital when he came here, but he has been very successful and is now carrying a large stock of merchandise, carefully selected and up to date, and his prices are always right, according to many of his customers, who come from all parts of the county to deal. At first his store was very small, but now it requires three large rooms to accommodate his large stocks, occupying the first, second and third floors of a substantial building in the best business part of the city. He carries a full line of dry goods, cloaks, carpets, rugs and lace curtains, and his store is always a busy place. He requires a number of clerks and other employes to assist in carrying on his rapidly growing business. Here customers always get courteous consideration and a square deal. In other words, he conducts "The Growing Store of Wayne County." Mr. Perilstein was married in 1889 to Edith Warner, a native of Austria, but she came to America when young, having spent her early girlhood in Vienna. Their marriage occurred in New York. They have no children. Mr. Perilstein is a stockholder in the Orrville National Bank and he also has valuable real estate holdings. He has a beautiful home and is one of the leading citizens of Orrville. Fraternally he belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is an obliging, genteel, progressive business man, who has won a reputation for both industry and fair dealing. JAMES M. WARD. One of the well known and influential citizens of Congress township, Wayne county, Ohio, is James M. Ward, who for a number of years has resided here and successfully conducted one of the best farms in the township. He has always been actively interested in everything which tended to promote the development of this region, and has been confidently counted WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 849 upon at all times to endorse progressive measures and to uphold the law, right and justice. Mr. Ward was born in the township of Canaan, this county, his natal day having been the 25th of December, 1852. His father was John W. Ward, who was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1821, and who married Mary Magdeline Ritter, who was born in Chester township, this county, in 1829. John W. Ward was a prominent and successful farmer near Burbank, this county, and died in 1898. In politics he was a Democrat and took a live interest in public affairs. He and his family were active members of the United Brethren church. To him and his wife were born six children, a remarkable feature in connection therewith being the fact that they included three pairs of twins. They are mentioned as follows : John and James, the former being deceased, and the latter being the subject of this sketch ; Christina and Lucy, the former the wife of Frank. Myers, of Burbank, and the latter the wife of Daniel Hartman, of Greene county, Ohio; John Leander and Mary Esther, the former living in this state, and the latter being a nurse in California. A further notable fact regarding the five surviving children is that their aggregate weight is over half a ton. The subject's paternal grandfather, Robert Ward, was a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and was a stone-mason by trade. He came from Maryland to Ohio in 1836, locating in Canaan township.. The maternal grandfather was Jacob Ritter, a native of Pennsylvania who came to Ohio sometime before the twenties and settled in Chester township, Wayne county, where he operated the large farm now owned by John Raudebaugh. James M. Ward secured his preliminary education in the common school near his home, after which he took the literary course at Lodi Academy, He was then engaged for eight winters in teaching school, in which he was eminently successful. He had decided to make the practice of medicine his life work and to this end his leisure hours during this period were spent in the study of medicine and under the direction of Dr. C. J. Warner, of Congress. By dint of rigid economy, the subject managed to save five hundred dollars and with this he matriculated in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. He completed his technical studies in the medical department of Wooster University, graduating in 1878 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. During the following two years he was engaged in the practice with Dr. Warner, his former tutor, and at the end of that period he opened an office alone in that town. He also owned and operated a drug store, and was highly successful in both professional and commercial lines. During the following five years he was very busily engaged and (54)