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A STANDARD HISTORY
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Springfield and Clark County,
Ohio
An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention
to the Modem Era in the Commercial, Industrial,
Educational, Civic and Social Development
Prepared Under the Editorial Supervision of
DR. BENJAMIN F. PRI?JcE
President Clark County Historical Society
ASSISTED BY A BOARD OF ADVISORY EDITORS
VOLUME II
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General J. Warren Keifer. Among the many able men and women produced by Clark County, one whose life and service have kept up many vital points in the affairs of state and nation is Gen. J. Warren Keifer, one of the last remaining links to connect the modem present with the Clark County of sixty and more years ago. He was a young lawyer trying his first cases before the Civil war broke out and in that war he gained imperishable fame as a soldier and Union officer. General Keifer since the Civil war has practiced law, has been a banker for about half a century, and has a long and honorable record in public affairs, serving fourteen terms in Congress, one term in the Forty- seventh Congress (1881-1883) as Speaker of the House.
He was born on a farm on Mad River in Bethel Township, Clark Coimty, January 30, 1836, a son of Joseph and Mary (Smith) |Ceifer. His father, who was bom at Sharpsburg, Maryland, December 28, 1784, was a pioneer of what is now Clark County, settling here in 1812. H^ was a well qualified civil engineer, and though his main occupation was farming his professional knowledge was of use in developing a new country, particularly in establishing common schools and the construc- tion of highways. He died in Clark County, April 13, 1850. His wife, Mary Smith, was bom January 31, 1799, in Losantiville, now Cincinnati, and died at Yellow Springs, Clark County, March 23, 1879. Her fam- ily was of English ancestry, was early settled in New Jersey, and one branch of the name was established in Ohio in 1790.
General Keifer was educated in public schools and at Antiodi Col- lege, and while working on the home farm took up the study of law. He also studied in the law offices of Anthony and Goode. He was admitted to the bar at Springfield, January 12, 1858, and then bq;an his work as a practicing lawyer in tfiat city. He had just three years in which to win for himself a measure of success and proficiency as a lawyer before the Civil war came on.
He was one of the first to offer his services in Clark County, enlist- ing April 19, 1861. April 27 of the same year he was commissioned major of the Third Ohio Infantry for a period of three months, and soon afterward was recommissioned for three years. His first important engagement was the battle of Rich Mountain, July 11, 1861 — ^the first general field battle of the Civil war. He was at other points in the West Virginia campaign, being on the field of Cheat Mountain and Elk Water. February 12, 1862, he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Third Ohio Infantry, and during the events of that year in Ken- tucky and Tennessee he was at the capture of Bowling Green, at Nash- ville, at Huntsville and Bridgeport, Alabama, and in April, 1862, led an expedition into Georgia and performed an important service by destroying the saltpetre works at Nickajack Cave. September 30, 1862, he was commissioned colonel of the One Hundred Tenth Ohio Infan- try. He was assigned to General Milroy's command in West Virginia, was in command of a brigade and the post at Moorefield. General
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Kdfer was twice wounded during the battle of Winchester in June,
1863. July 9th of that year he was assigned to the Third Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, and took part in the pursuit of General Lee's troops after the battle of Gettysburg. He fought at Wapping Height^ and in August he was dispatched with his command to New York City to suppress the draft riots and to enforce the draft. After this service was accomplished he returned to the main theatre of war in September, and on November 27, 1863, was in the battle of Mine Run. March 24,
1864, he was transferred with his brigade to the Sixth Army Corps. At the battle of the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, he was seriously wounded, but in the following August, in spite of his disability, resimied command of his brigade. With his wounded arm in a sling he took his place at the head of his troops under Generals Sheridan and Wright in the battles of Opequan, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek in the Shenandoah Valley campaign. At Opequan a horse was shot while under him. October 19, 1864, President Lincoln brevetted him brigadier-general of volunteers "for gallant and meritorious services in the battles of Ope- quan, Fisher's Hill and Middletown, Virginia."
In December, 1864, with his own corps. General Keifer rejoined the Army of the Potomac in front of Petersburg. March 25, 1865, he led a successful assault, commended in general orders, and on April 2, charged with his division in the final assault which carried the main works and resulted in the capture of Petersburg and Richmond. On April 5 his command aided in cutting oflF the retreat of Lee's army and forced it to give battle on the sixth at Sailor's Creek, during which movement General Keifer and General Frank Wheaton, each command- ing a division of the Sixth Army Corps, with some cavalry and artillery, defeated Gen. F. S. Ewell's wing of Lee's retreating army and suc- ceeded in effecting the capture of over ten thousand of the enemy, includ- ing General Ewell and many officers of high rank. Soon after this result General Keifer was given information that a body of the enemy lay concealed in a dense forest to the right. He rode in person to ascer- tain the correctness of the information, and coming suddenly upon the Confederate troops and taking advantage of the gathering darkness and the smoke of battle he shouted to the Confederates the command "for- ward," and they followed after him, suspecting nothing. On reaching the edge of the wood they discovered that they were being led by a Union officer, and General Keifer's trooos soon surrounded the Confed- erate body and captured them all, including Commodore John Randolph Tucker, their commander. Following the conclusion of the scene lead- ing up to Appomattox, where General Keifer was present at the sur- render, he went with his corps to North Carolina to aid in the capture of Gen. Joe E. Johnston, and was present at the capitulation of that Southern leader.
General Keifer was wounded four times during the Civil war. He was honorably mustered out June 27, 1865. On November 30, 1866, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-sixth United States Infantry, but declined this opportunity to continue a military career. General Keifer was one of a number of veteran officers of the Civil war from both sides who took up active duty again in arms at the time of the Spanish-American war. In April, 1898, though sixty-two years
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of age, he was appointed major-general by President McKinley and had command of the Seventh Army Corps at Miami and Jacksonville, Florida, and from Savannah embarked with sixteen thousand men for Cuba, establishing his headquarters at Buena Vista, just outside Havana. He was in command of the American military forces when they took possession of the city January 1, 1899. He was mustered out in May, 1899.
At the conclusion of the Civil war General Keifer resumed his law practice, and the law has always been his profession though many weighty matters and interests have come between him and his practice. In later years he took in as associates his sons, William W. and Horace C. Keifer. The latter is now deceased. The Keifer law firm, Keifer & Keifer, includes the General's grandson, Horace S. Keifer, who was an officer overseas in the recent World war.
In 1873 General Keifer became president of the Lagonda National Bank, and he has been head of that institution now for practically half a century. Soon after the Civil war he was drawn into politics, was elected and served in 1868-69 as a member of the Ohio Senate, was a delegate at large to the Republican National Convention of 1876, and thirty-two years later a delegate to the convention of 1908. In 1876 he was elected to his first term in Congress, the Forty-fifth Congress, and served continuously in that body as representative of the Seventh Ohio District from 1877 to 1885. General Keifer had the distinction of being the first Ohio man ever chosen to the speakership of the House of Representatives. He was elected to that honor in December, 1881, and served in that capacity until March 4, 1883. After an interval of just twenty years General Keifer again consented to represent the Sev- enth District in Congress, being elected in 1904 and serving in the Fifty- ninth to the Sixty-first Congresses, from 1905 to 1911.
General Keifer was organizer of the Board of Control in 1868 for the Soldiers' and Sailors* Orphans' Home at Xenia, and was one of the trustees of this institution from 1870 to 1878. He has long been prom- inent in Grand Army circles and was department commander in 1868-70 and vice-commander-in-chief in 1871-72. In 1903-04 he was commander of the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. General Keifer helped organize and was the first commander-in-chief during 1900-01 of the Spanish War Veterans. General Keifer is a well known Ohio orator and in political campaigns has delivered many formal addresses on various occasions. He is a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, and during 1895-96 he devoted much of his time to the writing of an important historical work known as "Slavery and Four Years of War," which was published in 1900.
March 22, 1860, General Keifer married Miss Eliza Stout, of Spring- field. She died March 12, 1899. To their marriage was born three sons and one daughter: Joseph Warren, Jr.. who moved to Nebraska and became a member of the Legislature of that state; William W. and Major Horace C, both of whom took up the law and became partners with their father; and Margaret E., deceased.
The Kelly Family has been one whose name has been written large upon the history of Springfield and Clark County, where its representa- tives have stood exponent of constructive enterprise and high civic ideals.
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The family was founded in Clark County more than a century ago, its original American representatives, of Scotch-Irish lineage, having come to this country in the early Colonial period and having settled in Virginia. James Kelly, grandfather of Oliver S. Kelly, who became a citizen of prominence and influence in Clark County, went forth from Virginia as a patriot soldier in the War of the Revolution. John Kelly, son of this Revolutionary soldier, accompanied his father to Ohio when a youth, and the family home was established in Clark County in the year 1808. John Kelly, as a soldier in the War of 1812, well upheld the military honors of the family name, and he was in the prime of life at the time of his death, in 1825. His wife, Margaret, was a daughter of Alexander McBeth.
Oliver S. Kelly, son of John and Margaret (McBeth) Kelly, was bom in a pioneer log cabin which is still standing, about four miles south of Springfield, and the date of his nativity was December 23, 1824, his father having been a native of Kentucky and having died when Oliver S. was an infant. The widowed mother later contracted a second mar- riage, and the stepfather proved austere and unkind in the treatment of the boy. A quarrel between the two led to Oliver S. leaving home when a lad of fourteen years, his devoted mother having grieved at the parting and having prepared his little package of personal effects when he started away from home one Sunday morning, with determination not to submit to further abuse on the part of his stepfather. He proceeded to the home of William ("Uncle Billy") Mclntire, a mile or two distant. Of his reception at this pioneer home the following brief record has been given: "When he arrived he found Aunt Polly, the wife of William Mclntire, and to her he told his story. In her great-hearted way, she said, 'Oliver, stay right here, and you don't need to go any farther for a home.' He remained with the Mclntire's four years, and worked on the farm, for fifty dollars a year. At that time the Mclntire children were small, and Aunt Polly used to say in after years that Oliver Kelly did more to rear them than she did. In later years, when Mr. Kelly had succeeded in life and accumulated a competency, and when his step- father and Uncle Billy Mclntire had fallen into hard lines financially, it was a source of pleasure to Mr. Kelly to sooth the declining years and smooth the pathways of these folk — the one having been his early friend and the other having had the proverbial coals of fire placed upon his head when the stepson came to his rescue."
At the age of eighteen years Oliver S. Kelly entered upon a practical apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade, in the learning of which he worked four years at a wage of $75 a year. A number of the barns which he erected in Clark County in those early days are still standing. In those days a carpenter had to possess skill as an architect also, and Mr. Kelly was able to build as perfect a winding staircase as can be produced today, few of the average working carpenters of the present time having equal skill. As a young man Mr. Kelly wedded Miss Ruth Ann Peck, who was born at Springfield, this county. When the gold excitment was at its height in California Mrs. Kelly bravely responded when her husband expressed a desire to go to that land of promise, and she assured him that she would care for the home and children during his absence. He made the journey to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama in 1852, and
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upon his return, four years later, he brought back $5,000 in gold. With this capital he engaged in the wholesale grocery business at Springfield, and was the founder of one of the very first wholesale houses in the progressive town. After the lapse of one year Mr. Kelly sold this busi- ness and formed a partnership with William Whitely and Jerome Fassler, Mr. Whitely having been an inventor and Mr. Fassler a machinist. Mr. Kelly had available his capital of $5,000, and his partners being able to invest only $1,000 each, he loaned to them the other $4,000, for which they gave a joint note, Mr. Kelly having held this note twenty years before it was settled. The history of the Whitely, Fassler & Kelly Com- pany has become a well known part of the industrial and commercial history of Springfield, and needs no rehearsal in this connection. In the first few years of the partnership Mr. Kelly, with the aid of one assist- ant, did all of the carpenter work of the firm ; Mr. Fassler, with one of two assistants, did all the machine work; and Mr. Whitely carried on the experimenting and research that brought increasing success to this pioneer manufacturing enterprise. Mr. Kelly continued his connection with the business until 1881, when he sold his interest to Mr. Whitely. He played a large part in the civic and industrial development and prog- ress of Springfield, and his name merits a place of enduring honor in the history of his native county.
In politics Mr. Kelly was originally a whig and thereafter a repub- lican. In 1887 he was elected mayor of Springfield, in which office he served one term, with characteristic ability and loyalty. In 1863, as a young man, he was elected a member of the City Council, in which position he served six consecutive years. In this and other ways he had much to do in shaping the destiny of the future city. He was one of the trustees that had charge of the installing of the original waterworks system of Springfield, and while he was mayor the City Hall and the City Hospital were built and equipped. His life as a whole was a fine exemplification of the "Golden Rule." Mr. Kelly had exceptional musical talent, and in the earlier period of his residence at Springfield his fine voice was heard regularly in the choir of the old Baptist Church that stood at the northeast corner of High and Limestone streets. After many years a dissention in this church so disgusted him that he severed his connection therewith, never afterward to become actively identified with any church organization. The death of Mr. Kelly occurred April 9, 1904, and that of his wife occurred in the following year. Of their five children only two are now living, Oliver W. and Edwin S., of whom specific mention is made in following paragraphs.
Oliver Warren Kelly, elder of the two surviving sons of the late Oliver S. Kelly, was born in the family home on South Center Street, Springfield, December 11, 1851. In 1869 he was sent to Weinheim, Germany, to learn the German language and also to attend a leading preparatory school. When the Franco-Prussian war was precipitated he pursued his studies in the polytechnic school at Zurich, Switzerland, and at the close of the Franco-Prussian war he was a student in a similar institution in Aix la Chapelle, Prussia. He returned home in 1873, and at once entered the employ of Whitely, Fassler & Kelly, his experience having eventually covered every department of the busi-
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ness, including field work. In the fall of 1877 Mr. Kelly became super- intendent of the Champion Malleable Iron Works at Springfield, and he thus continued his service until the fall of 1880. After passing two years in Colorado, where he was associated with mining enterprise, he returned to Springfield and became general superintendent of the Spring- field Engine & Thresher Company, which in March, 1890, was reorganized as the O. S. Kelly Company. Upon the death of his father, in 1904, Mr. Kelly succeeded to the presidency of this company, of which he has since continued the executive head, with secure status as one of the influential factors in the industrial and commercial circles of his native city.
Mr. Kelly is a republican, and has completed the circle of both the York and Scottish Rites of the Masonic fraternity, in the latter of which he has received the thirty-second degree, besides being affiliated with the Mystic Shrine.
Mr. Kelly wedded Miss Kate Fassler, daughter of Jerome Fassler, and of their four children three are living: Armin Lee, Louise (Mrs. Carl Ultes) and Katherine. Bessie died in infancy
Edwin S. Kelly was bom at Springfield on the 17th of April, 1857, and here has well upheld the high industrial and civic prestige of the family name. In 1878 he graduated from Wooster University, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He has been virtually self-sustaining since he was a lad of twelve years, and he depended upon his own financial resources in completing his education. After leaving college, with $400 of borrowed capital, he bought an interest in the commission coal business, with William Pimlott as his partner. This enterprise proved successful and was continued sixteen years. Mr. Kelly then organized the now widely known Kelly-Springfield Tire Company, his interest in which he sold five years later, at a handsome profit. He then organized the Home Lighting Heating & Power Company, and his fine administrative ability made this concern likewise a distinctive success. Mr. Kelly likewise organized the Kelly-Springfield Motor Truck Com- pany, and developed the same into one of the foremost industrial con- cerns of its kind in the United States. He has disposed of the major part of his stock in this company, but is still interested in the large and prosperous enterprise. He is now president of the Kelly-Springfield Printing Company, and aside from his executive service with this cor- poration he gives his personal supervision also to his extensive farming interests near Yellow Springs, Ohio. He is liberal and public-spirited as a citizen and takes lively interest in all that touches the welfare of his native city and county. His political allegiance is given to the republican party.
In 1881 Mr. Kelly was united in marriage with Miss Patti C. Linn, and they have four children: Ruth (Mrs. Stanley J. Fay), Leah (Mrs. George M. Foos), Oliver S. and Martha. In the World war the son, Oliver S., enlisted under the English flag, but was later granted a transfer to an American command and was assigned to the army truck service in France, he having been assigned to special duty after the signing of the historic armistice and after his return home having received his honorable discharge, with the rank of second lieutenant. He is now
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on a plantation in Santo Domingo (1922). Miss Martha Kelly, who is now actively engaged in social-service work at Springfield, took a special course of training for nurses at the time of the World war, and was in active service at the Wilbur Wright aviation field during the influenza epidemic, after which she served seven months in the Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia.
Edward Lyon Buchwalter. A record of admirable achievement in connection with the commercial development and progress of the City of Springfield stands to the credit and honor of Captain Buchwalter, and in this connection no other one man has shown greater civic and business loyalty or been more prominent ii^ constructive enterprise. He was preceded to Springfield by kinsmen, John W. and Frank M. Bookwalter (who utilized an anglicized spelling of the family patronymic), all of whom gained prominence and influence in progressive industrialism and general advancement in Springfield. The lineage of the Buchwalter family traces back to residents of one of the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland, from which fair little republic the progenitors of the American branch came to this country in the year 1710, and established residence in Pennsylvania.
Edward L. Buchwalter, a son of Levi and Margaret (Lyon) Buch- walter, was born on a farm in Ross County, Ohio, June 1, 1841. He was a student in Ohio University, at Athens, at the inception of the Civil war, and he did not long deny manifestation of his youthful patriotism. In August, 1862, he became a sergeant in Company A, One Hundred and Fourteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and the first engagement in which he took part was under General Sherman at Chick- asaw Bayou, in front of the Northern fortifications of Vicksburg. There- after he participated in a spirited engagement at Fort Hindman, Arkan- sas, and he was actively identified with the continuous military move- ments of the Union forces commanded by General Grant leading up to the subjugation of the so-called "Gibraltar of the West." On July 4, 1863, he assisted in the digging of the historic canal designed to isolate Vicksburg, and in the command of General Osterhaus' Division, in General McClernards' Corps, he aided in the building of pontoon bridges. He took part in the engagements at Port Gibson, Raymond, Champion Hill, Big Black River and the assaults on Vicksburg, and thus had his full share of intensive warfare. His executive ability and soldierly qualities led to his being commissioned first lieutenant in the Fifty- third United States Colored Infantry, and in May, 1864, he was pro- moted captain. Following the fall of Vicksburg his company and regi- ment were located at Goodrich Landing and Millikens Bend, Louisiana, until January, 1864 when they moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi. From Vicksburg, during the month of October, they went up the White River to St. Charles, Arkansas. While on this journey they were many times under fire. In the spring of 1865 Captain Buchwalter returned to Vicks- burg, whence he was sent to Jackson, Mississippi. After the war came to a close he continued in the service of the Government, first as provost marshal at Macon, Mississippi, and later in similar service at Meridan, that state, where he had charge also of the Freedman's Aid Bureau. It was not until March 8, 1&6, that he received his honorable dis-
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charge, and after the lapse of years he has only gracious memories of his military career, with kindly feeling for those who fought for the South as well as those who were soldiers of the Union. His continued interest in his old comrades in arms has been vitalized by his appreciative affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic and the military order known as the Loyal Legion.
After the close of the war Captain Buchwalter was engaged in farm enterprise in his native county until 1873, when he came to Spring- field. Here for ten years he was associated with the firm of James Leffel & Company, and in 1883 he became one of the organizers and the president of the Superior Drill Company, which purchased the plant and business of Thomas, Ludlow & Rodgers. Upon the organiza- tion of the American Seeding Machine Company, in March, 1903, rep- resenting an amalgamation of several manufacturing concerns. Captain Buchwalter was elected president of this important industrial corpora- tion and so continued until he retired from active business on reaching his three score and ten years. The Captain has been president of the Citizens National Bank of Springfield from the time of its organization, in 1898. He has functioned prominently, loyally and with much of influence in connection with civic and business affairs in Springfield, and his is inviolable place in the confidence and esteem of the community that has long represented his home and the central stage of his pro- ductive activities.
On the 1st of September, 1868, Captain Buchwalter wedded Miss Clementine Berry, and she passed to the life eternal in November, 1912. Mrs. Buchwalter was a woman of fine intellectuality and gracious per- sonality, was prominent in Ohio and the nation, and was loved by those who came within the sphere of her gentle influence. In March, 1914, Captain Buchwalter wedded Miss Marilla Andrews, a cousin of his first wife, and she is the popular chatelaine of their attractive home.
Luther L. Buchwalter is a popular representative of a family whose name has been one of conspicuous prominence in connection with the industrial, commercial and physical advancement of the City of Springfield, and he is here vice president of the American Seeding Machine Company, one of the great industrial corporations representing an amalgamation of a number of leading manufacturing concerns. In January, 1892, Mr. Buchwalter became associated with the Superior Drill Company, which later was merged with the American Seeding Machine Company, and his identification with the business has thus been consecu- tive for thirty years.
Mr. Buchwalter was born in Ross County, Ohio, September 9, 1874, and is a son of Morris L. and Louise (Zimmerman) Buchwalter, the former a brother of Edward L. Buchwalter, of Springfield, of whom specific mention is made in sketch preceding. In the public schools of his native city Luther L. Buchwalter continued his studies until he had profited by the advantages of the high school, after which he was a student in the Cincinnati School of Technology. After leaving this latter institution he came to Springfield and took a minor position with the Superior Drill Company. In the office department of the busi- ness he made advancement through the diflferent grades until he became
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secretary of the company, and since 1920 he has been vice president of the American Seeding Machine Company, which absorbed the property and business of the former corporation. Mr. Buchwalter, like other representatives of the family in Springfield, has shown marked civic liberality and progressiveness, and has gained secure place as one of the vital exponents of industrial enterprise in this city. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity.
In June, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Buchwalter and Miss Jessie Johnson, daughter of Robert Johnson, of Springfield, and the one child of this union is a son, Edward L.
Rev. Rees Edgar Tulloss, Ph. D., D. D., has become a distinguished figure in connection with ministerial and educational work, and is now president of Wittenberg College, a leading institution maintained at Springfield under the auspices of the Lutheran Church.
Dr. Tulloss was born at Leipsic, Ohio, July 26, 1881, and is a son of Rees P. and Mina D. (Weaver) Tulloss. The lineage of the Tulloss family traces back to remote French origin. It is probable that repre- sentatives of the family were of the Huguenot Protestant faith in France and that they were among those who fled from their native land to escape the religious persecution incidental to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. They found refuge in Scotland, and it was thence that came the original representatives of the family in America, they having set- tled in Fauquier County, Virginia, in the Colonial period and members of the family having gone forth at patriot soldiers in the war of the Revolution. The paternal great-great-grandfather of Dr. Tulloss of this review was one of the first settlers at what is now Newark, Ohio, and there he established the first brick kiln in that frontier district. The family name has been closely linked with the history of that section of Ohio during the long intervening years. • In the public schools of his native city Dr. Tulloss continued his studies until his graduation from the high school in 1896. For six years thereafter he was identified with business enterprise at Leipsic, and in the autumn of 1902 he entered Wittenberg College, the institution of which he is now the president. Of his career as a student in this col- lege the following statements have been written: "Here he at once became a striking figure, taking a prominent part in all of the college activities. He was captain of the football team in 1905, and made him- self a force in the athletic work of the institution. He was a member of the Excelsior Literary Society of the college. Upon his graduation, in 1906, he received special honors in logic and philosophy — ^the first to gain this distinction."
In 1909 he graduated from the Hamma Divinity School, was ordained to the ministry of the Lutheran Church and accepted the pas- torate of the church of this denomination at Constantine, Michigan, where he continued his charg^e six years and more than doubled the membership of the church. He resigned this pastorate to take up post- graduate study. He spent one year at Johns Hopkins University, Bal- timore, Maryland, and then went to Harvard University, from which in 1918 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He was ten- dered the position of instructor in psychology at Harvard, but refused
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the post in order to continue his work in the ministry. He accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Lutheran Church at Mansfield, Ohio, this being one of the largest Lutheran Churches in America, with a mem- bership of nearly 2,000 communicants. Doctor Tulloss was eminently successful in his work at Mansfield, where within two years he increased the membership of the church by 500, besides developing a men's Bible class of fully 500 members.
As a youth Dr. Tulloss gained experience in practical educational work. In 1901 he established at Leipsic, Ohio, the Tulloss School of Touch Typewriting, and he transferred the headquarters of his institu- tion to Springfield when he here became a student in Wittenberg Col- lege. The Tulloss School became a prosperous institution and was incor- porated in 1913. In 1915 the Doctor disposed of his interests in this institution. In 1914 he was tendered the presidency of Midland Col- lege at Atchison, Kansas, and later was offered the chair of psychology in Hartford Theological Seminary. In June, 1920, Doctor Tulloss was elected president of Wittenberg College, and his vigorous administration during the intervening period has given evidence alike of his exceptional scholarship and executive ability. The result has been a vitalized for- ward movement in the college, and in the financial campaign which he instituted and carried to successful issue subscriptions totaling nearly $2,000,000 were secured for the support and expansion of this splendid institution.
In the year 1908 was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Tulloss and Miss Alpha Miller, a daughter of E. N. Miller, of Springfield. Mrs. Tulloss was a student in Wittenberg College, is a talented musician, especially as a vocalist, and her gracious personality has won her many friends in the social circles of her home community. Doctor and Mrs. Tulloss have two children, Alice and Nancy.
Asa Smith Bushnell, fortieth governor of Ohio, reflected the dis- tinction of his spotless private life and long leadership in business and politics upon the City of Springfield, his home for over half a century. The name Bushnell will always remain significant in Springfield, and as a result of the career of the late Governor Bushnell it has a permanent national distinction as one of the great industrial captains of the last century and one of the most trusted leaders Ohio gave to the republican party.
Governor Bushnell was bom at Rome, Oneida County, New York, September 16, 1834, and was of old New England ancestry. His grand- father, Jason Bushnell, fought as an American soldier in the Continental Army during the Revolution. He was first a member of the company of Capt. Charles Miel, in General Waterbury's Brigade, and subsequently was with Washington's Army at Tarrytown. The Connecticut family of Bushnells has been distinguished in the field of science and education. Daniel Bushnell, father of Governor Bushnell, was born at Lisbon, Con- necticut, February 17, 1800. In 1845 he brought his family to Ohio, locat- ing in Cincinnati. Daniel Bushnell married Miss Harriet Smith on March 9, 1825.
Asa S. Bushnell was eleven years of age when the family moved to Cincinnati, and he completed his education in the common schools of that
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city. Like nearly all the prominent men that Ohio produced in the last century, he had only the advantages of common schools, and his achieve- ments were more directly the product of his integrity and resourceful energy rather than the result of unusual training or education. Asa Bush- nell came to Springfield in 1851. A youth of seventeen, his first employ- ment here was as clerk in a dry goods store. Three years later he became bookkeeper for the firm of Leffel, Cook & Blakeney. In the spring of 1857 he accepted employment as bookkeeper and traveling salesman for Warder, Brokaw and Child. Though he remained with this firm only a few months, the employment is significant since their business was the manufacture of mowers and reapers, and it is with the great industry of manufacturing harvesting machinery that the name Bushnell is most closely identified. After leaving that firm Mr. Bushnell was for ten years associated with his father-in-law. Dr. John Ludlow, in the drug business.
In the meantime the Civil war came on and the young business man readily put the call of patriotic duty above private interests and raised Company E of the One Hundred and Fifty-second Ohio Infantry. As captain of this company he was under the command of Gen. David Hunter in the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864. After the war he resumed his connection with the drug business, but a few years later rejoined his former employers, which firm in the meantime had become Warder, Mitchell & Company. Still later this became the Warder, Bush- nell & Glessner Company, and as a Springfield industry it was one of the foundation stones upon which the city's industrial progress rested. Mr. Bushnell became president of the company in 1886, and the machin- ery manufactured by his company and bearing his name was distributed and used in every agricultural state of the Union, and was exported to practically every agricultural country in the world.
Among other important business interests that felt the guiding hand of Governor Bushnell were the First National Bank and the Springfield Gas Company, which he served as president, and he was a stockholder and director in a number of the city's prominent corporations. Governor Bushnell always generously shared his great success in material aflfairs with his home community and its institutions. He was one of the largest benefactors of the Ohio Masonic Home at Springfield, and donated generously of his wealth to many other org^anizations and causes in his home city. He was a member of Mitchell Post, No. 45, G. A. R.
Apart from the intimate association of his name with manufacturing, his reputation over the state at large is due to his long and distinguished service in the republican partv and the efficient administration he gave as governor of the state. In 1885 Mr. Bushnell became chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee, and in this connection he aided materially in securing that most important party victory implied in the election of Governor Foraker by a handsome plurality and in the unpre- cedented result of securing a republican majority in the General Assem- bly without the vote of Hamilton County, thus insuring the return of John Sherman to the United States Senate.
In 1886 he was appointed quartermaster-general of the state by Gov- ernor Foraker, and served in the capacity for a term of four years. In the State Republican Convention of 1887 Mr. Bushnell was nominated
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by acclamation as a candidate for lieutenant-governor on the ticket with Governor Foraker, but he declined the honor. In 1889 the leaders of Ohio republicanism insistently urged that he should head the party ticket, but he positively refused to have his name considered in the connection. Again, in 1891, he was most urgently importuned to accept the guber- natorial nomination, his party associates maintaining that he was the most logical and available man for the place, and the one who would most successfully uphold the standard of the organization ; but owing to the intimate association of national politics in that campaign the nomina- tion naturally went to Major McKinley, of whom Mr. Bushnell was a most ardent supporter. Mr. Bushnell was one of the four delegates at large from Ohio to the National Republican Convention at Minneapolis in 1892, and in every republican convention for many years he served as a del^^te. He refused on several occasions to become a candidate for Congress from the Springfield District, and manifested at other times his preference for working in the cause aside from the position as a public official or candidate.
This high honor which was accorded Mr. Bushnell in his nomination for governor of the state came entirely without his solicitation. His services to the party and his particular eligibility for the office were so thoroughly recognized that at the Republican State Convention held at Zanesville in May, 1895, the demand for his nomination for governor was so unqualified that he could not but accept the candidacy. Through- out the ensuing campaign he made a canvass that was dignified and particularly gratifying to his constituents, gaining the good will of all classes, and in his utterance showing that practical judgment and effective policy which made his administration so thoroughly acceptable to the people of the state and so creditable to him as a man and as an official. The campaign was a vigorous one, and at the November election he was elected by the flattering majority of 92,622, a victory greater than any ever achieved by any other Ohio governors save John Brough, who was a candidate at the time of the late war and who received practically the entire vote of the state. Governor Bushnell was inaugurated on the 13th of January, 1896. As chief executive he conducted affairs with that mature wisdom and according to those practical business principles which his character naturally indicates. He was one of the delegates-at-large to the National Republican Convention held at St. Louis in June, J896.
Governor Bushnell was a member of the Episcopal Church and was a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason. In September, 1857, he married Miss Ellen Ludlow, daughter of Dr. John Ludlow, of Spring- field. The death of Governor Bushnell occurred in 1904, and three children survived him: Mrs. J. F. McGrew, Mrs. H. C. Diamond and John L. Bushnell. The son is president of the First National Bank of Springfield.
John L. Bushnell had the disadvantage of being a son of an illus- trious father, but in spite of that handicap has achieved for himself a prominence and a very useful place in the commercial life of his native city.
The career of his distinguished father. Governor Bushnell, is the subject of the full and carefully written article preceding, and what fol- lows is only a brief outline of the life and service of the son.
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John L. Bushnell was bom at Springfield, February 15, 1872. He was reared and received his early educational advantages in his home city and in 1894 graduated from Princeton University. He has given nearly thirty years of his life to the commercial affairs of Springfield. Mr. Bushnell is president of the First National Bank and president of the Morris Plan Bank. For many years he has been an ardent horseman and has owned some prize-winning animals. He married Miss Jessie M. Harwood, daughter of the late T. E. Harwood.
Burton J. Westcott, who in 1921-22 served as mayor of the City of Springfield, is distinctly an exponent of progress along both civic and business lines and has been prominently concerned with the com- mercial and industrial advancement of his home city.
Mr. Westcott was bom at Richmond, Indiana, July 18, 1868, and is a son of John M. and Caroline (Mitchell) Westcott. John M. West- cott was bom in Union County, Indiana, and was a son of Henry Westcott, the latter having been a boy at the time of the family removsd from New Jersey to Indiana, about the year 1812. The family name became one of no little prominence in connection with the pioneer devel- opment and progress of the Hoosier State, and its prestige was fully upheld in constructive activities in later generations. Soon after the close of the Civil war John M. Westcott established his home at Rich- mond, Indiana, and he became one of the prominent manufacturers and influential citizens of that fine old city, long known as one of the lead- ing American headquarters of the Society of Friends. Mr. Westcott became the sole owner of the important manufacturing business con- ducted under the title of the Hoosier Drill Company, and his civic lib- erality was manifested in his valuable contributions to the civic and materia] upbuilding of Richmond. There his death occurred in 1907, his wife having passed away in 1901. Of their seven children the pres- ent mayor of Springfield was the fifth in order of birth.
The public schools of his native city afforded Burton J. Wescott his preliminary education, which was supplemented by his attending Swarth- more College and DePauw University. He initiated his business career by becoming associated with the Hoosier Drill Company, of which his father was the president. In 1903 this concern, with numerous others of similar order, was merged into the American Seeding Company, and in March of that year Mr. Wescott came to Springfield, Ohio, as treasurer of the latter corporation, which here established its general offices. He has retained this executive position to the present time. In 1896, at Rich- mond, Indiana, was organized the Westcott Carriage Company, and in later years the same was reorganized as the Westcott Motor Car Com- pany, the headquarters of the company being removed from Richmond to Springfield in 1916. Of this corporation Mr. Westcott is the president. He is a director of the Lagonda National Bank and is financially inter- ested in other business enterprises of important order, including several of the representative industrial concerns of Springfield.
Springfield's mayor is a staunch republican, and in public affairs of a local order he has been significantly loyal and progressive. In 1913 he •was elected a member of the city commission of Springfield, upon the adoption of the commission system of municipal government, and was
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later made president of that body, which makes him ex-officio mayor of the city. He has remained the incumbent through successive reelections that have attested popular appreciation of his vigorous and effective administration. He is a member of the Lagonda Club, the Springfield Country Club and the Dayton Club of Dayton, this state.
Mr. Westcott married Miss Orpho Leffler, of Hamilton, Ohio, and they have two children: Jeanne (Mrs. Richard M. Rogers), and John M. II.
Albert Henry Kunkle, of Springfield, is now the presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of this, the Second Appellate District of Ohio. He has been an honored and representative member of the bar of this county for about thirty-five years, and his influence has been bene- ficial in public affairs in this section of the state.
Judge Kunkle was bom at Vandalia, Montgomery County, Ohio, on the 15th day of February, 1860, and is a son of the late David and Susanna (Stouffer) Kunkle, both natives of that county and repre- sentatives of sterling pioneer families in that section of the Buckeye State. In 1878 his parents moved to Springfield, where they resided imtil their deaths.
Judge Kunkle secured his early education in the public schools of Vandalia. He graduated from Wittenberg College in the class of 1882, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His alma mater later con- ferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. After his graduation he applied himself with diligence to the study of law, and was admit- ted to the bar of this state in 1885. He engaged in the practice of his profession in Springfield and served for a number of years as city solicitor of that city. He was judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Clark County from 1905 to 1913, where he made a splendid record. He resigned as common pleas judge to assume his duties as a member of the Court of Appeals of this district, to which he had been elected. The judge is an active member of the Clark County Bar Association and of the Ohio State Bar Association. He is prominently affiliated with different fraternal organizations and in 1922 was elected grand prelate of the Ohio Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He and his wife are commimicants of the Fourth Lutheran Church of Springfield. Mrs. Kunkle, whose maiden name was Margaret P. McCulloch, is a daughter of the late William McCulloch, of Springfield.
Judge and Mrs. Kunkle have three children : Albert is a member of the Class of 1922 of Wittenberg College; Virginia is a member of the Class of 1925 in that institution ; and Susanna is attending the Ridge- wood Private School.
IfoN. Thomas L. Calvert. Clark County is located admirably for the successful prosecution of farming, for the soil is exceedingly fertile and productive, the climatic conditions are almost ideal and transporta- tion facilities are practically unsurpassed. However, although the agri- culturist here is possessed of these advantages, he cannot compete suc- cessfully with his fellows unless he carries on his operations according to modem ideas, including the use of highly improved equipment. That the majority of the farmers of this region are progressive is proven
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by the large number of finely-developed farms to be found all over Clark County, a fact that has raised very materially the standard of excellence here and placed Clark County among the leaders in agricul- ture in Ohio. One of the men who has assisted in bringing zbout this desirable consummation is Hon. Thomas L. Calvert, the owner of a fine property in Madison Township, on Selma Rural Route 1, and a member of the Ohio State Legislature.
Representative Calvert was bom at Georgetown, Maryland, Decem- ber 20, 1858, and is a son of Thomas L. and Elizabeth (Paist) Calvert. Thomas L. Calvert was bom at Newtown, Pennsylvania, in 1824 and removed from his native state to Maryland, where he spent some years, retuming to Pennsylvania in 1859. Mrs. Calvert was bom at Media, Pennsylvania. Thomas L. Calvert of this review received his early edu- cation in Pennsylvania, and had just passed his twelfth year when he came to Clark County with a brother and settled on a farm. After three years he went to Newtown, Pennsylvania, where he entered a select school conducted by the Society of Friends, and remained as a students therein for three years. For two years thereafter he was employed in a general store at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, following which he again came to Ohio and became a clerk in the Hollingsworth general store at Selma and remained one year. Mr. Calvert and his brother then bought Mr. HoUingsworth's interests, which included a gen- eral store, grain elevator and coal yard, and were associated in business until 1892, in which year Mr. Calvert disposed of his holdings to his brother and purchased his present farm in Madison Township, on which he has carried on successful operations ever since. At this time he is the owner of 125 acres, but operates 330 acres, and is an up-to-date agricultur- ist in every respect. He has made a success of his business through good management and a thorough study of his vocation, backed by incessant industry, and may freely be said to be the architect of his fortunes, for what he owns he has achieved through the work of his own hands.
Mr. Calvert is a member of the Friends Church, and as a fratemalist is affiliated with the Masonic order. A stalwart republican in his politi- cal allegiance, he has been one of the wheel-horses of his party in Clark County for a number of years and has been called upon frequently to accept the responsibilities of public office. He was township trustee and a member of the Board of School Directors for some years, and when his agricultural knowledge was recognized was elected secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, a position which he held for four years. He was also chief of the State Dairy and Food Department for a period of three years. In 1920 Mr. Calvert was sent to the State House of Representatives as the representative of his district, and his record in that body has been an admirable one. He has been faithful in looking after the needs of his constituents, and has supported worthy legisla- tion in all cases.
On June 14, 1888, Mr. Calvert was united in marriage with Miss Ella F. Warner, who was born in Madison Township, Clark County, a daughter of Simeon and Elizabeth Warner. Mrs. Calvert was given good educational advantages, and completed her schooling at Baltimore, Maryland. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Calvert: Leland S., a graduate of Earlham College, of Richmond, Indiana, who
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is now engaged in agricultural operations in Clark County; J. Donald, also a graduate of that institution, who also is farming in this part of Ohio: and Helen F., a graduate of Earlham, who is now teaching in the high school at Selma.
Honorable T. Addison Busbey. The Busbey family of Clark County has furnished to the world a number of men of exceptional ability and achievements. Nearly all of them at one time or another were actively associated with school work, and from education they were drawn into journalism. As writers, editors and authors the name has national distinction. The father of the family was Thomas C. Busbey, a pioneer of Harmony Township and one of the first residents of Vienna. He devoted the greater part of his active life, thirty years, to the teaching profession. He married Anna Botkin, a daughter of* Richard Botkin, an early settler of Pleasant Township, Clark County. After their marriage Thomas C. Busbey and wife lived in Vienna, and while they never accumulated wealth, they were thoroughly respectd for their fine ideals and their usefulness. They had eleven children, reared nine to maturity, and eight of them became teachers. Seven' of the family are still living.
Two of the sons were soldiers in the Civil war. The late William H. Busbey was a soldier in Company C of the First Kentucky Regi- ment and after the war he taught school, served as city editor of the Ohio State Journal, was associate editor on the Toledo Blade and until his death in 1906 was managing editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, at that time one of America's greatest newspapers. Hamilton Busbey, who was bom in 1840, was a member of the staff of the Louisville Journal under George D. Prentice from 1863 to 1865 and in the latter year became one of the founders of the Turf, Field and the Farm at New York and was editor of that paper until 1903. He was a judge in many of the racing and horse shows of the United States, was the first advocate of the National Trotting Association and is author of several works on the horse and a recognized authority on light harness horses. He is now living at Vienna, Ohio. Another son, L. White Busbey, who was bom in 1852, was on the local staff and later chief political writer on the Chicago Inter-Ocean until going to Washington as correspondent for that paper. He was connected with the Chicago Inter-Ocean from 1879 to 1905, was secretary to the Speaker of the House, Joseph G. Cannon, from 1904 to 1911, and served as secretary of the American section of the International Joint Commission with Great Britain in 1911-15. He is a resident of Washington. Another son, Charles S. Busbey, has lived in Chicago for twenty-seven years, and is a member of the Board of Local Improvement of that city. Among the daughters were Louisa, now deceased; Angelina, wife of James S. Rice, who died August 16, 1922; Miss Harriett, who was an educator for many years; and Mary, widow of Theodore Postle.
T. Addison Busbey, youngest of the eleven children, was bom in the village of Vienna, in Harmony Township, June 11, 1858. He acquired his public school education, as a boy took upon himself the responsibilities for his higher education, and throughout his life has been a man imbued with an ambition to do for others as well as for
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himself. At the a^e of seventeen he was granted a teacher's certificate. He taught school until he was twenty-one. Seeking some of the broader opportunities in the world of journalism, where his brothers had distinguished themselves, he removed to Chicago in the spring of 1883 and for a quarter of a century, beginning in a minor capacity, he was associated with the Railway Age, probably the foremost publication in the United States representing the railroad and transportation inter- ests in general. He served the Railway Age as reporter, assistant editor and managing editor, and he himself became a noted individual author- ity on transportation matters. His statistical articles commanded wide attention, being copied almost universally by the great dailies of he country, and many were reproduced in leading journals of Europe.
Leaving Chicago in 1908, Mr. Busbey returned to the village of his birth, and while conducting a general insurance business and looking after his private affairs, he has received repeated honors indicative of the esteem and confidence reposed in him by his fellow citizens here. In 1909 he was elected mayor of South Vienna, was re-elected in 1911, 1913 and 1915, and throughout his successive terms he gave a municipal administration notable for law enforcement and also for progressive betterment in the civic and physical improvement of the village. In 1916 Mr. Busbey was nominated on the republican ticket as candidate for the State Senate, representing the Eleventh Senatorial District, composed of Clark, Madison and Champaign counties, and was elected and took his seat January 1, 1917. He was re-elected in 1918, and was one of the influential members of the State Senate until January 1, 1921. In the Eighty -second Session of the Legislature he was a mem- ber of thirteen committees and chairman of two of them, including the roads and highway committee, and was author of the highway bill enacted during that session. Senator Busbey while engaged in news- paper work in Chicago was editor and compiler of a biographical direc- tory of railroad officials, which went through five editions.
Mr. Busbey married Emancipation Proclamation Coggeshall, daugh- ter of Hon. William T. Coggeshall, one of Ohio's foremost newspaper men, at one time editor of the Ohio State Journal and who was private secretary to Governor Dennison during the Civil war and was state librarian of Ohio. He was author of many books, and was appointed United States minister to Ecuador, and died while in that office, in 1867. Mrs. Busbey was educated at Columbus and in Otterbein College at Westerville, Ohio. Senator and Mrs. Busbey were married June 28, 1888, and she died at her home in Vienna October 1, 1913.
The only son is Ralph C. Busbey, bom at Chicago, May 12, 1890. He graduated from high school and in 1908 returned with his parents to Vienna. He was a reporter on the Springfield Daily News, in 1912 went to Columbus with the Citizen, again was associated with the Daily News at Springfield, served as chief deputy clerk of courts of Clark County, became managing editor of the Springfield Morning Sun, acted as special correspondent at Columbus for the Associated Press, for a time was connected with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and is now in charge of the Akron News Bureau of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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James Asbury Myers. Among the many prominent business men who have helped to build Springfield and establish its commercial suprem- acy, there are few who labored more earnestly or incessantly or who were held in higher esteem than the late James Asbury Myers. He was bom in a log cabin on the Cedarville-Jamestown Pike, in Greene County, Ohio, September 1, 1852, and died at Springfield, May 27, 1904. Joseph Myers, his father, was an agriculturist, who migrated from Virginia to Ohio in the early days and settled in Greene County, where he rounded out his career as a man of upright character and a devout Methodist.
James Asbury Myers passed his youthful days at work on the home farm, and during the winter months attended the district schools. Later on he pursued a course at the old seminary at Xenia, and for a time after his graduation was engaged in teaching school. After this he came to Springfield, and here for a time was engaged in the retail grocery business, but in 1878 disposed of his interest in that enterprise, and with the late Chandler Robbins organized the Robbins & Myers Company, founders. The firm members could not foresee what this organization would eventuallv become. Each saw future possibilities of fair success, of course, otherwise they would not have embarked in the business, but that the venture would develop into one of the leading industries of Springfield was beyond this power of foresight. From that time until his death Mr. Myers labored energetically toward the building up and prosperity of his concern, and he lived to see it take front rank. He is entitled to a large share of the credit of inaugu- rating a new era among business nien — ^that of honesty and good-fellow- ship among competitors. His entire life, both social and commercial, was based on honor, and that this was so thoroughly instilled in and so inseparable a part of his character is attested by his attitude toward his customers, and his success can, in a great measure, be attributed to his rugged honesty and strict adherence to the policy of allowing no misrepresentation to be made of the product of his plant. Recognized as an indefatigable worker, unceasingly laboring to make Springfield a center of which posterity would be proud, he came into close contact with other men of affairs and had their confidence and respect, while he was equally esteemed and even beloved by his associates for his sterling qualities. He took an exceedingly active part in the Centra) Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he was Sunday School superin- tendent for more than a score of years, and his outside life, aside from business, was largely devoted to church work. Although a strong advocate of the principles of the republican party, and while connected with a number of public movements and charitable enterprises, his naturally modest and unassuming disposition, and his devotion to his church, family and business, prevented him from accepting any office of public acknowledgments, although at one time he served as a member of the School Board.
Mr. Myers married Miss Emma Elizabeth Homer, who survives him, and their two sons, Wilbur J. and Warren A., are both identified with Springfield's business life, and particularly with the business of which their honored father was one of the founders.
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Wilbur J. Myers is a son of the late James A. Myefs, whose career as a constructive business man and industrial founder in Spring- field has been carefully sketched on other pages. Wilbur J. Myers is one of the two sons who has maintained the great business momentum set in motion by their father.
The son was born July 29, 1882, at Springfield, graduated from the high school of his native city in 1901, and received his Bachelor's Degree from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1905. Since his graduation his tasks and responsibilities have been with the industrial and financial life of Springfield.
In the fall of 1905 he became purchasing agent for the Robbins & Myers Company, and has been with that corporation, whose products have a world-wide reputation and use, and is now vice president. He is also a director of the First National Bank and the American Trust and Savings Bank.
Mr. Myers is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Lagondav Rotary and Country Clubs, is a Beta Theta Pi and a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He is the master of H. S. Kissell Lodge No. 674, Free and Accepted Masons.
September 12, 1906, he married Blanche Peck, daughter of Mrs, Frances S. Peck. They have one son, Richard Asbury.
PiERSON T. Spinning, M. D., who resides on the National Road in Springfield Township, three miles east of Springfield, was bom at Innd- lay, Ohio, August 7, 1854, and is a son of Isaac Milton Spinning, who was born at Springfield, Clark County, in 1813, a son of Pierson Spin- ning. Pierson Spinning, the sterling pioneer founder of the family in Clark County, came here in the year 1812, from New Jersey, he having made the trip down the Ohio River to Cincinnati and thence overland to Clark County. He was one of the early merchants and prominent contractors at Springfield. He continued m mercantile business here for thirty years, and as a contractor he constructed a part of the Miami and Erie Canal, as well as a portion of the old National Road. He made judicious investments in Clark County land, and land owned by him is now a part of the City of Springfield. This honored pioneer died in 1856, at the age of seventy years, and his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Schooley and who likewise was bom in New Jersey, attained to the venerable age of eighty-four years. Of their children the first, Hattie, died in young womanhood; Lizzie did not marry and was a resident of Dayton at the time of her death, when venerable in years; Emily married George McAlpin, founder of the important McAlpin mercantile establishment in the City of Cincinnati ; Sally married David Stewart, and they established their home at Dayton ; Isaac Milton, father of the Doctor, was the next in order of birth ; and Charles and Pierson, Jr., became prominent wholesale merchants in the City of Cincinnati.
At Findlay, this state, was solemnized the marriage of Isaac Milton Spinning and Harriet Taylor. She was born in Vermont and came to Springfield, Ohio, in 1863. At Findlay, Mr. Spinning was engaged in the hardware business until 1860, when he removed to the City of Qeveland. There he continued his business activities until 1863, when
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he returned to Springfield, his death having here occurred when he was sixty-five years of age and his widow having here passed away at the age of seventy-four years. Of their children the eldest is John, now a prosperous farmer in Florida ; Dr. Pierson T., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; William, a resident of Peru, Indiana, was for many years engaged in the drug business there, besides being interested in various other local enterprises; Milton died in childhood; Arthur is business manager of the Springfield Coffin & Casket Company ; and Carrie is the wife of George Sylvester, an officer in the United States Army and now (1922) stationed at Los Angeles, California.
The early education of Dr. Spinning was acquired in the public schools, and he is now the only resident of Clark County that was a member of the class of sixteen graduated from Wittenberg College, at Springfield, in 1874, four other members of the class surviving in 1922. After thus receiving from this college the degree of Bachelor of Arts Dr. Spinning forthwith entered Miami Medical College, in the City of Cincinnati, and from this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1878 and with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For four years Dr. Spinning was engaged in the practice of his profession at Springfield. He made a record of admirable achievement also in the pedagogic profession, to which he gave his time and attention for a period of seventeen years, fourteen of which found him engaged in high school work as a teacher of natural sciences. Under his direction instruction was received by many men who later achieved prominence as lawyers, physicians and business men. For more than twenty years past Dr. Spinning has resided on and given his supervision to his fine farm, the old Anthony Bird homestead, in Springfield Township, property which he has owned more than a quarter of a century. He has specialized in the raising of registered Jersey cattle, and his herd varies from twenty- five to sixty head of these fine animals. On the farm he frequently holds public sales of Jersey cattle, and these draw breeders from far and wide, as the Doctor has gained high reputation for the superiority of his Jerseys. The Doctor, who gives little attention to his profession, is still a student and reader of marked enthusiasm, and is known as a talented classical scholar who specially enjoys the reading of classical Greek works. For thirty years he has been a valued and appreciative member of the Men's Literary Club at Springfield, which has but two who have been members for a longer period, besides which his is the distinction of being the only farmer represented on the membership roll. Dr. Spinning is a bachelor, but does not vaunt himself unduly on this score of immunity.
Arthur Riggs Altick is one of the active younger group of men in the commercial and civic life of Springfield. He served as secretary of the Chamber of Commerce until March, 1922, when he resigned. He is officially and personally interested in several of the movements and orgam'zations to promote the best interest of the city and county and IS now connected with the Francis J. Drolla Company, one of the leading investment houses in this section of Ohio.
He was bom at Dayton, Ohio, June 22, 1891, and is a direct descend- ant of Daniel Altick, one of three brothers who settled in America in
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1640 from Amsterdam, Holland, locating near what is now Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The great-grandfather of A. R. Altick, Daniel Altick, was one of the early settlers of Dayton, and operated the first brass foundry in that city. The father of Arthur R. Altick was Arthur Altick, who had one brother, Harry M. Altick, and one sister, Carrie (Coblentz) Altick. Arthur Altick married Shirley Blanche Riggs. Her father, Philip Denton Riggs, was a cavalry officer in the Union Army, and at the close of the Civil war was a revenue officer. Her mother, Celina Rachael Dobbins, was a daughter of T. C. Dobbins, a prominent wholesale and retail hardware merchant at Dayton. T. C. Dobbins mar- ried Martha Drake, a lineal descendant of Sir Francis Drake, the famous English navigator. The three children of Philip Denton Riggs and wife were: Marion Ella, born March 1, 1867; Shirley Blanche, born April 6, 1868; and Thomas Earle Riggs, born August 4, 1869. Shirley Blanche Riggs was married to Arthur Altick November 15, 1888, and their only child, Arthur R., was born just five months after his father's death. Two years after the death of her husband the mother married Doctor Richard L. Brown, and they have lived in Springfield since 1906.
April 20, 1921, at Cleveland, Arthur R. Altick married Ethel Courtney Rose, daughter of Mrs. Alice Rose, of that city. To this union a son, Richard Denton Altick, was born at Springfield, January 16, 1922.
Arthur R. Altick was educated in grammar schools at Dayton and Springfield, the high schools of Troy and Springfield, and is a graduate of the Springfield High School and of Willis Business University. After considerable experience in several different lines Mr. Altick in 1916 became connected with the Kelly-Springfield Motor Truck Company in the engineering department, under Lewis E. Kalb, chief engineer. At the beginning of the World war he was called with Mr. Kalb, where he served in the Quartermaster Corps, Motors and Vehicles Division. Later he assisted in establishing the Cleveland Department, Motors and Vehicles Division, of the office of chief-of-stafi, war department.
After the war, returning to Springfield, Mr. Altick in March, 1919, assumed the duties as secretary of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce. This is an office obviously involving a great deal of administrative detail and responsibility, but Mr. Altick also found time to avail himself of other opportunities for public spirited service. During 1919 he assisted in organizing the Clark County Good Roads Council and is now serving as secretary of the council. In 1920 he was appointed secretary of District No. 7 of the Ohio Good Roads Federation, comprising the counties of Clark, Darke, Preble, Montgomery, Miami, Champaign, Greene and Fayette. Good roads for years has been a cause arousing in him the readiest cooperation, and he has rendered valuable assistance to the federation in helping to organize the counties of Montgomery and Champaign, with councils at Dayton and Urbana.
With his other secretarial duties he was prevailed upon to accept in January, 1920, the executive secretaryship of the Springfield Real Estate Board. He takes an active interest in real estate matters effecting his home city and county. Mr. Altick is a member of the First Congre- gational Church of Springfield, is a charter member and is serving as the first temporary president of the Springfield Exchange Club, and is affil- iated with the Masonic fraternity.
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Harvey M. Tittle, assistant postmaster of Springfield, has been in the local postal service for over twenty years and is one of Spring- field's best known and most popular physicians.
.He is a descendant of John Tittle, who emigrated from England to Northern Maryland about 1750. John Jacob Tittle, a son of the immi- grant, had a local reputation as an Indian fighter. The next generation was represented by Jonathan Tittle, who removed from Northern Maryland to the vicinity of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, about 1800. Jonathan was the father of Jacob Tittle, and the grandfather of Levi Tittle, Sr. Levi Tittle, Sr., married Sarah Lerch, whose father, Daniel Lerch, served as a cavalryman during the Mexican war, while her great-grandfather Lerch was a soldier under Gen. George Washington in the Revolutionary war.
Levi H. Tittle, a son of Levi Tittle, Sr., and father of Harvey M. Tittle, married Mary E. Buck, descendant of a line of Pennsylvania farmers living in that state since Colonial times. Levi H. Tittle and wife had six children: Scott M. and Harvey M., both of whom were born at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Franklin O., Sarah E., Walter E., and Blanche E., all natives of Springfield, Ohio.
It was in 1875 that the family removed from Harrisburg, Pennsyl- vania, to Springfield, Harvey M. Tittle being a child at the time. Levi H. Tittle is superintendent of the Welsbach Street Lighting Company at Springfield.
Harvey M. Tittle was reared and educated in Springfield. In 1899 he became a clerk in Springfield post office, and by experience he has a thorough knowledge of every detail of the postal service and has been an invaluable factor in the efficiency of the Springfield post office. He is an active member of the Masonic Order also belonging to the York and Scottish Rite bodies and is a member of Antioch Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is also a member of the Kiwanis and Country clubs, is of a republican family in politics, and is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church.
February 5, 1895, Harvey M. Tittle married Miss Harriet A. Zim- merman, who is a direct descendant of a soldier of the Revolution. Her parents are Henry M. and Mary G. (Funk) Zimmerman, whose six children are Harriet A., Grace G., Lester M., Katherine L., Marie A. and Percy S. Three children have been bom to Mr. and Mrs. Tittle: R. Eugene since completing his high school education has been engaged in construction work; Mildred L., who graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with the class of 1920, is an employe of the Springfield post office; Robert H., a civil engineer, graduated from the Ohio State University with the class of 1921 ; Betty Ann Tittle, a member of the family, is still attending school at Springfield.
Daniel B. Hiser. In the enjoyment of the comforts and luxuries of modern life the ordinary individual may, perhaps, sometimes remem- ber the debt owed to inventive genius. In older days, when many helpful arts had not yet been developed, the inventor had no such general encouragement as at present, and, however, patiently he worked out his ideas, often without proper tools or surroundings very often his corn-
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pleted product would prove a failure, and indifference and even ridicule would be his only reward. This thought carries one backward many years, to the time when the late Daniel B. Hiser of Springfield as a little boy watched his father work out his inventive ideas in his little cabinetmaker's shop at West Jefferson, Ohio, the most interested of his children because he also possessed inventive genius.
Daniel B. Hiser was bom at West Jefferson, in Wayne County, Ohio, July 4, 1836, and was a son of Henry and Martha (Burtnutt) Hiser. Henry Hiser worked at the cabinetmaker's trade as necessity demanded, but an inventive turn of mind led him to devote every spare moment to the development of his inventive ideas, many of which proved of great utility and brought him local fame and modest fortune. Among his inventions was a beehive, a clover huUer and a plow, the latter, known as the Hiser plow, proving of considerable commercial value. His beehive also proved profitable, and his clover huller was in use throughout Ohio for manv years. He invented many other things, but the above named were the only ones that proved entirely successful. Henry Hiser and his wife died at Wooster, Ohio, and their burial was there.
Daniel B. Hiser undoubtedly inherited mechanical skill. He had common school privileges, and then chose to learn patternmaking. He married at Wooster, Ohio, Sarah Fickes, and in 1883 removed with his family to Springfield. Here he worked as a pattern-maker under John H. Thomas in the Thomas Manufacturing Company's plant, but from youth had been experimenting and developing inventions of his own, some of more or less value. It was on this account that he was invited to assist in the organizing of the co-partnership known as the Springfield Metallic Casket Company, and after that he confined his efforts to this enterprise. This company was built around his invention, a sectional cast metal casket made to seal hermetically. Finally ill health caused him to sell his holdings in the above company, and he returned then to the Thomas Manufacturing Company, but during the last fifteen years of life he was an invalid. Of his family of six children all but one are living.
Charles Henry Hiser, the eldest born of the above family, bears the name of his two grandfathers. He was bom at Wooster, Ohio, October 2, 1861, and attended the public schools there before accompanying his parents to Springfield. For the past thirty-seven years he has been superintendent of the Metallic Casket Company, and in point of service is the oldest employe of the corporation.
Mr. Hiser married, August 23, 1913, Katherine H. Rubsam, who was bom at Springfield, and thev have two children: Charles Henry and Mary Hertzler. In political life Mr. Hiser is a republican. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar and a member of the Mystic Shrine, and is one of the trustees of the Masonic Temple Association. He has always been active in promoting the city's welfare and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary, Lagonda and Country clubs.
Samuel Elmer Greenawalt. A. B., A. M., D. D. The influence exerted by one individual on the life and affairs of a community is often
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so definite and notable that no history of the place would be complete without extended and appreciative comment. Thus attention may be called to one of Sprin^eld's useful and distinguished citizens. Dr. Samuel Elmer Greenawalt, professor of English Bible and Comparative Religion in Wittenberg College, who is one of the most versatile of men, being able to consider equally well questions involving abstruse learning and those calling for business sagacity along practical, normal lines. He has been a resident of Springfield since 1908, and during these fourteen years has been closely identified with the city's progress along religious, educational, cultural and business lines.
Doctor Greenawalt was born on a farm near Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, February 27, 1859. He is a son of Jesse and Susanna (Shimp) Greenawalt, and a grandson of John Greenawalt, who came with his family from Pennsylvania to Mahoning County, Ohio, and there passed the rest of his life. Jesse Greenawalt removed with his family to Allen County, Indiana, about 1855, and there spent the rest of his life engaged in agricultural pursuits. His wife was of German extrac- tion, and they were the parents of five children and faithful members of the Lutheran Church.
Samuel Elmer Greenawalt spent his early years on his father's farm and attended the country schools, later the graded schools and sub- sequently the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, Indiana. He then turned his attention to educational work, and for some years taught in the country graded schools. In the fall of 1880 he entered Wittenberg College as a student, from which institution he was graduated in 1884, with the degree of A. B. and in the following year was granted his Master's Degree and in the spring of 1887 was given his degree of Bachelor of Divinity. He was ordained to the Lutheran ministry following his graduation. His first pastorate, of six years duration, was at Osborn, Ohio, where he had served the Lutheran congregation for one year prior to his ordination.
During the following sixteen years Doctor Greenawalt served but two pastorates before coming to Springfield, remaining at Findlay, Ohio, for eleven years and at Belief ontaine for five years. In 1908 he was called to the Fourth Lutheran Church of SpringiSeld, where he labored for the succeeding eight years, building up a strong church organization most helpful to his synod and one that has had a marked moral influence in its home city. The fine stone church building was erected during his pastorate. In 1916 he accepted his present position on the faculty of Wittenberg College, where his erudition adds further weight to a very learned body of instructors. The chair of English Bible and com- parative Religion was established by Dr. and Mrs. Greenawalt as a memorial to her father, the late Ross Mitchell. One of the many philanthropies which for years have particularly interested Dr. Greena- walt is the Oesterlin Orphans Home, with which he was concerned in founding and of which he has been president of the Board of Trustees and chairman of the Executive Committee.
Dr. Greenawalt married, May 2, 1889, Miss A. Mary Mitchell, who is a daughter of Ross Mitchell, one of the early business men of Springfield. They have four children: Catherine S., who is the wife
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of Charles G. Shatzer, dean of Wittenberg College; Ross Mitchell, who took a course in agriculture in the Ohio State University, is manager of his father's farms in Clark and Champaign counties; Elmer Paul, who is a graduate of the medical department of Johns Hopkins University, served in the Medical Reserve Corps in the World war ; and Marguerite. All four of the children are graduates of Wittenberg College.
In 1916 Dr. Greenawalt razed the old buildings and erected the Greenawalt and the Greenawalt Industries Building, thereby greatly benefiting and improving the city. He is interested in several business corporations, and is vice president and treasurer of the James Carson Company, wholesale grocers. Doctor Greenawalt is widely known and is greatly appreciated as an instructor, his students leaving his classes with clear understanding and helpful inspiration.
Floyd A. Johnston. A useful life crowded with honorable activity has been the choice of one of Springfield's leading professional men, Floyd A. Johnston, United States commissioner, who occupies a prominent place as a member of the Clark County bar. This place he has won through intelligent observation, persistent study and close application, supplementing a natural talent that led to his choice of a future career while still a youth following the plow on his father's farm.
Floyd A. Johnston was born in Madison County, Ohio, September, 15, 1875, and is the son of Henry B. and Emma (Trond) Johnston, whose family consisted of two children. Henry B. Johnston has followed farming practically all his life, and is yet engaged in that occupation in Madison County. It was on the home farm there that Floyd A. Johnston grew to manhood. In boyhood he attended the district schools and later became a student in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and from this institution received the degrees of B. S. and LL. B., and was admitted to the bar in December, 1901.
Mr. Johnston came to Springfield in April, 1902, and opened an office for the practice of his profession. He was practically unknown and had to begin at the bottom and depend upon his own efforts. Perhaps one of the earliest convictions forced upon young professional men, especially in the law, is that there are no "short cuts" to success, and for some years, despite his thqrough knowledge of the law, professional opportunity and consequent rewards were discouragingly slow to Mr. Johnston. Gradually, however, he made solid progress and his interests widened, his legal successes in a general practice bringing him into the limelight, and today he occupies a position of definite importance in his profession. Mr. Johnston deprecates the possession of unusual legal ability, explaining that close study and conscientious application have been the elements in his success, but his many friends and admirers maintain that if, in the future, public honors absorb all of his time and attention, the Springfield bar will have lost one of its most gifted members. In January, 1920, Mr. Johnston was made a United States commissioner, and is serving as such at the present time. He is active in all that concerns the welfare of Springfield, and is a member of the board of sinking fund trustees for the city.
Mr. Johnston married June 14, 1901, Miss Mabel C. Gore, of Newton Falls, Ohio, and they have two children : Myra E. and Robert F. Mr,
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Johnston and his family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. In political life he is a democrat. Professionally he is a member of the American, state and county bar associations, and fraternally is a thirty- second degree Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine.
James S. Webb. Many boast of Springfield as the place of their nativity, but there are others who are proud of the fact that they have had the discernment and good judgment to become adopted sons of Clark County, and this is the fact with regard to James S. Webb, one of the leading insurance brokers of this part of the state. While his permanent location in the city is of relatively recent date, he may be fairly accounted as one of the county's progressive, helpful and dependable business men, typical of his day and calling.
Bom at Louisville, Kentucky, December 16, 1869, he is a son of John G. and Adelaide (Wardlaw) Webb. John G. Webb, a native of England, immigrated to Canada, and from there came to the United States and located in Clark County at a date prior to the war between the states. For some time he conducted a farm in Springfield Township. With the outbreak of the war between the two sections of the country he symbolized his loyalty by enlisting to help preserve the Union, and served as a military telegrapher. Mr. Webb was under the command of General Grant at Vicksburg and elsewhere, and his military career in behalf of his adopted country reflected much credit upon him and the cause in which he served. After the termination of the war he located at Louisville, Ken- tucky, there engaged in mercantile pursuits, and there died in 1884.
James S. Webb grew to years of maturity in his native city, and there received his educational training in its excellent public schools. He first came to Springfield in 1892 to become superintendent of the old Hastings Paper Mill. Later he moved to New York as eastern manager for the Victor Rubber Company. Ohio had its attractions for him, however, for in 1906 he became treasurer of the Webb Construction Company at Columbus, Ohio. In 1913 he came once more to Springfield, and estab- lished himself in business as an insurance broker, at which he has since continued with more than average success. In Springfield Mr. Webb has contributed time and money in furthering all laucUble aims of the community. He is a member of the Chamber of' Commerce, the Fire and Underwriters Casualty Association, and the Rotary, Lagonda and Country clubs, having served as president of the former. He is a com- municant of the Episcopal Church, belongs to the Young Men's Christian Association, and is one of the executive committee of the republican party in Clark County. For years he has been active in local Masonic history. He served as master of Anthony Lodge No. 455, Free and Accepted Masons, and was the first master of St. Andrews Lodge No. 619, Free and Accepted Masons. To him has been accorded the rare honor of having conferred upon him the thirty-third degree of Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Masonry, and he also holds membership in the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. During the World war Mr. Webb took an extremely active part in local work. He served the Government in various local camps, urging upon the soldiers and sailors the importance of taking out insurance. He was chairman of the Fraternal Committee in
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the sale of Liberty Bonds, and was song director for the Clark County War Chest.
On October 13, 1903, Mr. Webb married Miss Lucy Harrison, of Louisville, Kentucky, a daughter of Col. William Harrison, one of the prominent men of Kentucky. Mr. Webb is a man of strong character and noble impulses, and lives up in his everyday life to what he believes to be his duty. Whenever responsibilities have come to him he has labored earnestly and effectively to discharge them, and has never shirked a per- sonal or civic duty, but rendered full value for whatever has been demanded of him. Such men are rare, but when found are a valuable asset to their community.
William Mills. The Mills family has played a dominating part in the development of Springfield and Clark County, and the record of the accomplishments of the men bearing the name forms interesting reading for those understanding people who recognize the fact that no community can be greater than its representative citizens. The first of the name at Springfield was the late William Mills, a native of the North of Ireland. He reached early manhood in his native country, but having two sisters living in New York City and another, Rachel, the wife of John Clark, living at Springfield, Ohio, he, too, crossed the Atlantic, with his mother and his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Johnson, in 1847. After a short visit in New York City William Mills came on west to Springfield and established his home on Harrison Street. He followed the business of contracting and building, and was also a landscape gardener. In the course of time he was made a street commissioner, being one of the first to hold that office, and as such did much to effect improvements in the streets of the city. He was a man of medium stature, and was very active and enterprising. As a communicant of the Episcopal Church and as a good citizen he upheld in his life and deeds all that obtained for the betterment of the community. His death occurred in July, 1877. He and his wife had six children, five of them reaching maturity, but only two survive, William Mills, of Springfield, and Mary J., wife of Alexander G. MacKenzie, of Springfield, Ohio.
William Mills, last of two surviving children of William Mills, the elder, and named after his honored father, was born at Springfield, Ohio, October 10, 1856. He has always made this city his home and the .scene of his rather unusually successful business operations. His edu- cational training was received ill the public schools, and all of his interests center in and about Springfield. His father dying when he was nearing his twenty-first birthday, he succeeded to his father's occupation, and in 1881 was elected to the same office his father had held for so long, that of street commissioner, having for his assistant his brother Robert R. Mills. These two operated a stone quarry and lime kiln just west of the present site of the Masonic Home, and it is still known as the Mills Quarry. The brothers also bought the Cold Spring Quarry, and operated that for a time. They were progressive in their business methods and conducted the first large stone crusher ever brought to this neighborhood. Incidentally they opened a builders' supply house, and this business is now conducted under the name of The Mills Bros. Co. Robert R. Mills, who was one of the real men of Springfield,
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died January 12, 1920, his wife having preceded him, leaving a son, Ralph E., and a daughter, Rachel L., now Mrs. Richard Rodgers, the former a partner in the firm founded by his father and uncle.
The younger William Mills married Mary Carr, a daughter of Joseph and Jane (Courtney) Carr. They became the parents of six children, namely: Charlotte, who died in infancy; Mary C; William C, who is the present auditor of Clark County ; Agnes R. ; Joseph A., who married Frances Todd and lives at Springfield; and Robert A., William C. and Joseph A. served in the World war, the latter in the heavy artillery, but did not get overseas. Mr. Mills and his wife are members of the Epis- copal Church, in which for years Mr. Mills has been senior warden. He is a Knight Templar, member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the Mystic Shrine.
William C. Mills, one of the enterprising young men of Springfield, is auditor of Clark County, and a veteran of the World war. He was born at Springfield, August 13, 1895, and was graduated from the high school course with the class of 1915. He had been attending Wittenberg College for two years when this country entered the World war, and enlisted, September 17, 1917, in the United States naval service, and was first assigned to duty on the Schurz, then on the Wilmett, holding the official rank of quartermaster. After his honorable discharge, in December, 1918, he returned to Springfield and served as chief deputy county auditor until the resignation of his chief, Raymond W. McKinney. Since February, 1921 he has been auditor of the county by appointment of the Board of County Commissioners. Mr. Mills is the youngest man ever honored with this position. He is a Presbyterian in religious belief ; a republican in politics, and belongs to the Alpha Tau Omega college fraternity, and is a Knight Templar member of the Masonic order.
On October 19, 1920, William C. Mills married Miss Dorothy Willard Brain, and their son, Willard Carr Mills, is of the fourth generation of his family to have lived at Springfield, and the third generation to have been born in the city. This little fellow has back of him an honorable line of ancestry on both sides, and every reason to be proud of his name.
John L. Plummer has been established in the practice of law at Springfield since 1886, and has long held secure vantage-place as one of the representative members of the bar of Clark County. A splendid achievement that stands to his enduring honor is that of having organized the Merchants & Mechanics Savings & Loan Association, of which he has been official attorney from its inception and of which he has been the president for the past several years. This organization, through its liberal and well ordered functioning, has done much to further the industrial advancement and general civic prosperity of Springfield.
Mr. Plummer was born on a farm near Kewanee, Illinois, September 27, 1857, and is a son of Levi M. and Cynthia Ann (Bayless) Plummer. Nathan Plummer, grandfather of the subject of this review, was a native of Maryland, and the family home was established in Fairfield County, Ohio, in the pioneer days, removal later being made to Adams County. Shortly after his marriage Levi M. Plummer removed to Illinois, but about eight years later he returned with his family to Ohio and re-established his home in Adams County. His entire active career was marked by close
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association with farm enterprise, of which his father had been a pioneer representative in the old Buckeye State. Both he and his wife continued to reside in Adams County until their deaths.
The boyhood of John L. Plummer was passed in Logan and Adams counties, Ohio, and he early became inured to the sturdy discipline of farm life. After having profited by the advantages of the district schools he was for one year a student at Geneva College, Northwood. Later he graduated from the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, from which he received the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts. He largely defrayed the expenses of his higher educa- tion by teaching school, he having taught two years in the district schools and one year in Warren County. While at Lebanon he beg^n the study of law, in the office and under the effective preceptorship of James M. and John E. Smith. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1885;, and in April of the following year he opened an office at Springfield, where he has since been engaged in active and successful practice and where he has been concerned in much important litigation, with enviable reputation as a resourceful trial lawyer and well fortified counselor. A stalwart advocate of the cause of the republican party, Mr. Plummer was elected in 1890 to the State Senate, in which he gave characteristically loyal and effective service during his term of two years. He declined to become a candidate for re-election and has preferred to confine his activities to the work of his profession and to his business interests rather than to hold public office. He was president of the Springfield Commercial Club, which was later reorganized as the Chamber of Com- merce, and he has served also as president of the Clark County Bar Association. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church.
October 23, 1889, recorded the marriage of Mr. Plummer and Miss Anna Willard Brain, of Springfield. They have no children.
Harry S. Kissell is one of the leading exponents of the real estate business in his native city of Springfield, where he has to his dis- tinction the platting and placing on the market of Ridgewood, the most important and attractive suburb of the city. He is president of the Fairbanks Building Company, of which he was one of the organizers, as was he also of the American Trust & Savings Bftnk, of which he has been a director from the time of its incorporation, besides which he is a director also of the First National Bank of Springfield. In the World war period Mr. Kissell was chairman of the War Savings Committee of Clark County, which raised $1,700,000, and he served also as a director of the Clark County Chapter of the Red Cross, as well as chairman of the publicity committee of the Clark County War Chest. He takes deep interest in all that touches the civic and material prosperity and advancement of his native city and county, and is distinctly a loyal and public-spirited citizen and representative business man of Springfield. Mr. Kissell is a republican, he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church, and he is prominently affiliated with the time- honored Masonic fraternity, in which he has received the maximum and honorary thirty-third degree of the Scottish Rite. He is a past
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master of Anthony Lodge No. 455, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and has passed the various official chairs in the Masonic Grand Lodge of Ohio, of which he was grand master in 1910-11. In 1921 H. 3. Kissell Lodge No. 674, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, was organized and instituted at Springfield, and the same was named in his honor. His maximum York Rite affiliation is with the local Commandery of Knights Templars. He is a member of the Beta Theta Pi college fraternity.
October 17, 1901, recorded the marriage of Mr. Kissell and Miss Olive Troupe, daughter of Theodore Troupe, of Springfield, and the two children of this union are Roger Troupe and Mary Lucretia.
Harry S. Kissell was bom at Springfield on the 24th of September, 1875, and is a son of Cyrus B. and Lucretia C. (McEwen) Kissell, the former of whom was bom at Litersburg, Maryland, and the latter at Hillsboro, Illinois. Cyms B. Kissell established his residence in Spring- field about the year 1855, and here he was long and actively engag^ in the real estate business, through the medium of which he did much to further the development and progress of both the city and the county. The Kissell family has been established in America since 1732, the original progenitor in this country having been Nicholas Kissell, who came here as a member of a Moravian mission and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Emanuel M. Kissell, grandfather of the subject of this review, was the inventor of important improvements in Agri- cultural machinery, and was a son of George Kissell, the family having early settled in Maryland. Cyrus B. Kissell and his wife became earnest members of the Presbyterian Church in Springfield, where Mrs. Kissell still maintains her home, the honored husband and father having passed away on the 29th of October, 1903. Of the three children, one died in infancy ; Blanche is the wife of Ralph C. Busbey ; and Harry S., of this sketch, is the oldest of the children.
I. Ward Frey. An old Colonial family in America that has been identified with Springfield interests for seventy-five years bears the name of Frey. It was established on American soil by one Heinrich Frey, a native of Germany, and afterwards a man of great enterprise at Zurich, Switzerland. From that ancient city he is supposed to have come to this country in 1688, locating at Palatine Bridge on the Mohawk River, opposite the present town of Canajoharie, New York. It was there he built a durable stone dwelling house, prudently providing it with convenient loopholes through which those inside could use rifles in the event of an attack by hostile Indians. The old stone house still stands, in a remarkable state of preservation.
Henry Frey son of the founder, married a Miss Keyser, and their son, also named Henry, chose for his wife Elizabeth Herkimer, a sister of Gen. Nicholas Herkimer, a noted early family of the State of New York. Philip Rockel Frey, son of Henry and Elizabeth Frey, married Elizabeth Tyrell.
Samuel Challott Frey, son of Philip R. and Elizabeth Frey, was born at Johnsville, New York, February 7, 1799. He married Susan C. Calhoun, and they were the grandparents of I. Ward Frey, who
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has long been one of Springfield's business men. Samuel C. Frey was a watchmaker and jeweler, and additionally was a man of education. In 1830 he moved across the border to Brockville, Canada, where he lived during the next seven years. The history of the Canadian revolution of that time is well known, and, as in all revolutions, innocent people often suffer with the guilty. Mr. Frey at heart was in sympathy with the reformers, but kept a neutral attitude as far as possible, but he became a suspect and when his arrest became imminent, closed up his affairs and returned to the United States. In 1838 he came to Ohio and embarked in the jewelry business at Canton in Stark County; going thence to Springfield, and later removing to Decatur, Alabama, where he died at a venerable age.
George H. Frey, son of Samuel C. and father of I. Ward Frey, was bom in Philadelphia, Jefferson County, New York, December 19, 1825, and acquired his earlier education in the City of Brockville, Canada. In 1838 he accomp^ied his parents to Ohio, and remained in the family home at Canton until 1847, when, on being admitted to the bar, he came to Springfield, and became a leading factor in business and political life. Among a variety of business enterprises he had an interest tn one of Springfield's banks; was a prime mover in the construction of the Delaware branch of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad; was instrumental in setting on foot the construction of the Ohio Southern Railway, which is of the greatest importance to Spring- field, connecting, as it does, the city with the Jackson coal fields and ore producing regions, and for one year was president and for many a director of this company. In 1854 he became owner of an interest in the Republic newspaper, and was the able editor of this journal for eight years, during that time wielding an influence in political circles second to none in the state. In 1856 he was appointed one of the delegates to the convention held at Pittsburgh for the purpose of organizing the national republican party and to provide for the selection of delegates to the first National Republican Convention for nominating presidential candidates, which was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 19, 1856, and to which Mr. Frey was also a delegate. Among his many notable political friends was Horace Greeley. At Springfield Mr. Frey was a vigorous leader, as elsewhere. He served on the School Board and in the City Council, and presided over the construction of the city water works, and it was during his period of service as county commissioner that the new court house was built and other public improvements brought about.
In the old Ward home at Springfield, on July 8, 1851, George H. Frey was united in marriage with Jane Quigley Ward, who was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1831, and died at Springfield, April 12, 1881. Her parents, Isaac and Mary (Rodgers) Ward, came from Cumberland County in 1833. Isaac Ward was born October 2, 1796, and died at Springfield, April 3, 1863. In Cumberland County he had been a manufacturer of woolen goods, but his health failed and after coming to Springfield was never active in business. Isaac Ward was a son of William and Elizabeth (Harrison) Ward, who moved from Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, to Portsmouth, Ohio, with
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their son Isaac and their daughter Sarah. William Ward was accidentally drowned in the Ohio River, and following this domestic calamity the brother of his widow came to Ohio from Pennsylvania and escorted his sister and her children back to the old home, the journey being made on horseback. Subsequently she returned to Ohio, and she died at Spring- field.
I. Ward Frey was born November 22, 1852, at Springfield, in the home of his maternal grandfather, which is now the Frey home. He attended the public schools and Wittenberg College, after which he spent three years at the Highland Military Academy, Worcester, Massachusetts. Soon after leaving school he was called upon to take over the manage- ment of his father's quarries, and soon proved himself a capable business man, for years afterward being actively identified with the construction of the Springfield, Jackson & Pomeroy Railway, a narrow gauge road which is now the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railway. His health failed, and for six years he was practically out of business, but subsequently he was associated with Governor Bushnell in the building of Springfield's first interurban traction line. Since then Mr. Frey has mainly devoted his time and attention to the development of his own city real estate and the management of his valuable farm properties in Clark County and Indiana.
Mr. Frey married Miss Anna Wilson, who was born at Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of William W. Wilson, whose father, the Rev. Alexander Wilson, was born in Ireland and was a minister ip the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Frey have one daughter, Helen Wilson, who is the wife of Clarence B. Schmidt, of Xenia, Ohio.
Mr. Frey has been more of a business man than politician, although never failing in vigilance as a citizen. He has been one of the most active members of the Chamber of Commerce. For many years he has been a trustee and member of the Oakland Presbyterian Church, has been a generous contributor to many charities, and is a highly esteemed member of the Country Club.
Emin Witherspoon Hawkins. Among the important offices having to do with the conduct of Clark County's government is that of the county agricultural agent, the duties of which are of a character that necessitate the direction of a carefully-trained incumbent. The present county agricultural agent, Emin Witherspoon Hawkins, possesses the necessary qualifications and equipment for this position and is discharg- ing its duties and responsibilities in a manner that is pleasing to the people and of great benefit to the community.
Mr. Hawkins was born at Fairmount, Illinois, March 23, 1894, a son of William C. and Mabel (Witherspoon) Hawkins. His paternal grandfather, Edmund Hawkins, a native of Ohio, migrated in young manhood to Edgar County, Illinois, where he settled among the pioneers and continued to be engaged in agricultural pursuits during the remainder of his life. His son William C. was born in that county, March 21, 1865, and was reared to agricultural operations, to which he devoted himself for many years. Removing to Fairmount, he became one of the prominent and influential men of his community, and served as mayor thereof for two terms, of two years each. He married Mabel Witherspoon,
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who was born May 10, 1866, near Fairmount, Illinois, a daughter of William Witherspoon, a native of the Prairie State and an early settler and farmer of Edgar County. She was a member of the old and dis- tinguished Southern family of that name, the most noted member of which was John Witherspoon, the famous American educator, who was born at Yester, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, February 5, 1722. John Witherspoon became president of Princeton College in 1768, was a delegate for six years from New Jersey to the Continental Congress and was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He died near Princeton, New Jersey, September IS, 1794.
Emin Witherspoon Hawkins attended the public schools near Fair- mount, following which he spent three years at Fairmount High School, and then competed the four-year course at Danville High School. In 1912 he enrolled as a student at the University of Illinois, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1916, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science, after having pursued a full course in agriculture. On the completion of his education he went to Chicago, where he became a sheep buyer for Swift & Company at the Union Stock Yards, but failed to find his work congenial and accordingly went to Mount Pros- pect, Illinois, where he began teaching agriculture in the high school. He was thus engaged until December 1, 1917, when he enlisted for service in the World war and entered the air service, having been commissioned second lieutenant. He remained in that service and held the same rank until he received his honorable discharge January 7, 1919. In May, 1919, Mr. Hawkins became county agricultural agent for Ritchie County, West Virginia, and February 1, 1920, accepted his present position as county agricultural agent for Clark County, Ohio. Mr. Hawkins is a member of the National Agricultural Association, the Clark County Agricultural Association and the Clark County Grange. He also belongs to the Masonic Order, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Alpha Gamma Rho college fraternity.
Mr. Hawkins married Miss Ethel Klophel, who was born at Stratford, Ontario, Canada, daughter of Edward Klophel. They have one child, Marjorie Louise.
Charles Henry Bacon. An old and honorable family name of Springfield, Ohio, is that of Bacon, where business enterprise, good citizenship and sterling personal character have always been associated with it. For many years its leading representative was the late Charles Henry Bacon, merchant, banker and prominent citizen, whose long and useful life was spent in this city.
Mr. Bacon was born at Springfield, Ohio, September 1, 1833, and died here December 19, 1902. He was of New England ancestry and Revolutionary stock. His parents were John and Mary (Cavileer) Bacon, the former of whom was born at Weathersfield, Connecticut, a son of Captain Richard and Anner (Fosdick) Bacon. Captain Richard Bacon served as an officer in a Connecticut Line regiment in the Revolutionary war. John Bacon came to Ohio in 1812 and located at first at Urbana, in Champaign County, but came to Springfield in 1818. He was a saddler by trade and for many years had his harness and saddle shop on the present site of the Mad River National Bank. He was one of
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the organizers of the old Mad River Bank, which was familiarly known as "Bacon's Bank" and which was the pioneer banking institution of Springfield. This bank was incorporated in 1847, under the name of the Mad River Bank of the State of Ohio. In 1865 it was reorganized and chartered as the Mad River National Bank, being one of the first national banks organized under the National Bank Act. Mr. Bacon became president, and continued to be identified with this bank until his death which occurred March 5, 1868. He married Mary Cavileer, who was born at Chestertown, Maryland, and died at Springfield, Decem- ber 22, 1878. Of their family of children Charles Henry was the youngest son.
Charles Henry Bacon attended school at Springfield in boyhood and grew to manhood with practical business ideas, evolved while receiving early commercial training. For many years he was engaged here in the wholesale grocery business, first as a member of the firm of Wright, Horr & Bacon, and later of the Horr & Bacon Company. For an extended period he was a director in the Mad River National Bank, and at the time of his death was vice president. His business sagacity was marked, and his judgment was frequently consulted on important matters of business policy by others who were less well informed or did not possess his keen foresight.
Mr. Bacon married on September 22, 1858, Miss Jane D. Horr, a daughter of Dr. Obed and Catherine (Foley) Horr. Dr. Horr was bom in Massachusetts, came very early to Ohio and for many years was a practicing physician at Mechanicsburg in Champaign County. He married Catherine Foley, who was bom in Clark County, Ohio, and was a daughter of John Foley, a pioneer in Clark County from Virginia. These names are all familiar ones in Ohio, long having represented some of the best citizenship in the state. Two daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bacon: Fannie, who became the wife of Charles Rowley, of Springfield, and now resides in Michigan ; and Catherine, whose death occurred shortly after her marriage to E. O. Bowman, a well known journalist of Colum- bus, Ohio.
Mr. Bacon was primarily a business man and political leadership never appealed to him. He was, however, a careful and observant citizen and deeply interested in all that related to the substantial well- being of Springfield, wielding a marked influence in the direction of education and morality, and was a generous but unostentatious con- tributor to local charities. Mrs. Bacon still occupies the spacious family residence on East High Street, which for many years has been one of the hospitable homes of the city. She has a wide circle of personal friends here, who admire and esteem her for her beautiful traits of character, and additionally has another circle of friends, the most of them personally unknown to her, who are continually enjoying the fruits of her benevolence. She is a member of the Episcopal Church.
Riley Smith. The work of the real estate man is varied and the responsibilities resting upon him are frequently important, for it often lies within his province to foster a local spirit of civic pride. This accomplished, the successful realtor reaches out for broader fields and endeavors to attract to his city new blood and capital. He in a measure
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develops the resources of his community, popularizes it and directs the investment of its revenues and management of many of its affairs, and much of this is done through individual effort. Among the younger realtors of Springfield who have gained positions of importance through their activities in these directions is Riley Smith, a real estate dealer and builder of homes, and vice president of the Avondale Realty Company.
Mr. Smith was born in Ross County, Ohio, near the Gillespieville Post Office in Liberty Township, September 3, 1883, a son of Simon Watson and Sarah (Tracy) Smith, natives of the same county. Simon W. Smith was born on the above farm, September 15, 1858, and was in the building and contracting business at Chillicothe, Ohio, until coming to Springfield in 1916, since which time he has been identified with his son's building operations. His wife, Sarah, was a daughter of William Tracy, who was a native of Pennsylvania and came to Ross County, Ohio, with his parents when he was a boy. In additions to being a con- tractor at Gillespieville he was a local minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Smith died at Chillicothe in May, 1910, aged forty-nine years.
The pioneer of this branch of the Smith family was Michael Smith, who was bom in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1810, one of twelve children who were orphaned by the death of both parents during an early epidemic of cholera. He was bound out to a man named Van Gundy, with whom he came to Ross County, and eventually became well-to-do, buying what was then the Taylor farm in Liberty Township, which land had been obtained by Taylor direct from the Government. This farm still remains in the possession of Mr. Smith's descendants. Michael Smith was twice married, and had he been living in 1915 would have been 105 years old, with the following descendants: Eleven children, forty- three grandchildren, seventy-three great-grandchildren and one great- great-grandchild. During these 105 years there have been only thirteen deaths in Michael Smith's descendants' families. Four of his sons served in the Union Army during the Civil war, and came through "without a scratch."
Riley Smith was reared on the old homestead in Ross County and attended the Glade • District School. He left the farm when he was twenty years old, and, going to Chillicothe, learned the building business in all its details, doing manual labor in the different building trades and using his powers of observation to ^ve him all the information that he could secure. When he was twenty-three years of age he was a full- fledged building contractor at Chillicothe. due to the care he had taken in preparation, which included correspondence school courses and the study of English under a tutor. In 1911 he came to Springfield and began building and selling homes. In 1915 he became secretary and general manager of the Avondale Realty Company, and in 1920 became vice president of that concern. In addition to his own building operations and his connection with the company mentioned he has other important business interests, some of which are now only in the development stage. Energetic and progressive, he has always made his mark in the business world, and is steadily making advancement. Mr. Smith is a valued member of the Springfield Real Estate Board and the Springfield Chamber
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of Commerce. Fraternally he is affiliated with St. Andrews Lodge No. 619, Free and Accepted Masons. Mr. Smith is an active member of Story-Hypes Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is financial secretary to the Board of Trustees, and has charge of the stewardship department of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Springfield District of the West Ohio Conference.
Mr. Smith married Miss Edna Ault, daughter of Reason and Elizabeth Ault, of Gillespieville, Liberty Township, Ross County, who died in May, 1919, leaving two sons: Hobart R. and Lloyd S. In June, 1921, he married Joyce E. Trombley, daughter of DeWayne D. and Mary P. Trombley, of Springfield, Ohio.
Warren W. Diehl. In the mind of every resident of Springfield the name Diehl at once suggests the attainment of prestige in the hard- ware business, owing to the intimate connection of three generations of the Diehl family with this line of trade, as well as with its inception and development in the city. The present representative of the family in the business is Warren W. Diehl, president of the Diehl Hardware Company and one of Springfield's most forceful and capable business men.
William Diehl, the grandfather of Warren W. Diehl, was born in Germany, and in his native land learned and followed the trade of coppersmith. On immigrating to the United States, many years ago, he located at Springfield, where he opened a small shop for the follow- ing of his vocation on East Main Street, a few doors east of where the Hotel Shawnee now stands. In 1870 he entered the hardware busi- ness under his own name, establishing the industry which is still in existence. He married Catherine Frankenberg, who was also a native of Germany.
William Wallace Diehl, son of William Diehl, and father of the present generation, was born at Springfield, March 8, 1846. He was reared and educated at Springfield, where he learned the trade of furni- ture finisher, at which vocation he worked for a time, spending a few years at Philadelphia. He was also in the feed store industry for a time at Springfield, but finally entered his father's hardware business and in 1885 purchased the elder man's interest. FrOm that time forward he conducted the enterprise until in January, 1920, when he sold out to his sons, Warren W. and Carl H. Diehl, and H. B. Nelson. He then lived retired from active business until his death, which occurred Decem- ber 8, 1920. During the Civil war Mr. Diehl served with Company F, 152nd Regiment, Ohio National Guard, and saw active service at the front. He was a member of Mitchell Post No. 45, Grand Army of the Republic, and as a fraternalist held membership in Springfield Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Diehl belonged to the First Congregational Church and lived his faith daily, being a man of the highest integrity and probity of character. In 1883 he married Miss Henrietta Zammert, who was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Albert Zammert, a native of Germany, for some years a resident of Cincinnati, and later an early merchant taitor of Springfield. To Mr. and Mrs. Diehl there were born five children: Warren W., Carl H., Howard F., Helen Catherine and Glenna Lucille.
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Warren W. Diehl, son of William Wallace Diehl, was born at Spring- field, December 9, 1886. After completing his course at Wittenberg Academy he attended Yale University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1910. He then entered the Cincinnati Law School, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1913, although he had been admitted to the bar in the previous Decem- ber. Mr. Diehl embarked upon the practice of his profession at Springfield at the time of his graduation, and continued to follow his calling until he entered the service of his country during the World war. On March 4, 1918, he entered the service as sergeant of the first class in the Medical Corps, and July 10 of the same year sailed for France, where he was detailed to Base Hospital No. 53 at Langres, France. There he remained until March, 1919, when he returned to this country and was mustered out and honorably discharged at Garden City, Long Island, New York. After his return from the war Mr. Diehl gave up the profession and entered his father's business, and subsequently, in 1920, with his brother Carl H. and H. B. Nelson, bought the business. He is now president of the concern, which was incorporated in 1902 as the Diehl Hardware Company, and which is a large and growing concern.
Mr. Diehl is a member of George Cultice Post No. 6, American Legion, of which he served as commander from June 1, 1921, to June 1, 1922. He is also a member of St. Anthony Lodge No. 455, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Springfield Chapter and Council. He is also a member of the Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Delta Phi college fraterni- ties.
Edward Allen Tehan is secretary and treasurer of the Fahien- Tehan Company, owners of the splendid store at Springfield that is the chief headquarters for dry goods merchandise in Clark County. He and H. J. Fahien have been associated for many years. They were together as fellow employes in an old dry goods house of which their present business is in an important sense the successor. They later became small stockholders in that business, then withdrew and organized a company of their own, and by the unique combination of their special talents in different lines they have made one of the most prosperous mercantile organizations in the State. The full story of the business is contained in the regular history of the president of the company, Mr. Fahien, on other pages of this publication.
Mr. Tehan was born on a farm in Champaign County, Ohio, August 26, 1876, son of Morris and Jennie (Sullivan) Tehan. His mother was bom at Springfield. Morris Tehan was four years of age when his parents came to the United States and settled in Champaign County. In 1878 the family moved from Champaign County to Springfield, and Morris Tehan and wife both died in this city.
Edward A. Tehan was two years of age when he came to Springfield, and he has spent practically all his life in this city. He was educated in the parochial schools and in the Nelson Business College. At the age of seventeen, in 1893, he entered the service of the old Kannain Brothers Dry Goods store at Springfield. Years of experience brought him steady promotion until he was a stockholder, and it was in 1907 that
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he and Mr. Fahien organized and incorporated the Fahien-Tehan Company.
Mr. Tehan is a member of the Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce, Knights of Columbus and St. Raphael's Catholic Church. He married Florence Kelley, daughter of John R. and Ellen (Fitzgerald) Kelley, of Springfield. Their family consists of five daughters and one son: Marion, Edward Allen, Jr., Helen, Florence, Margaret and Eleanor.
Stanley Richard Hutchings, M. D., one of the successful and prominent members of the Clark County medical profession and a progressive citizen of Springfield, was born in the city of Chicago, Illinois, October 28, 1869, the son of Samuel and Demaris (Richardson) Hutchings, the Hutchings being of English stock and the Richardsons of Irish and Scotch origin.
The paternal grandfather of Doctor Hutchings, Benjamin Hutchings, was a pioneer of the Western Reserve of Ohio, he having come out from Connecticut in the early days and settled in the City of Cleveland, where his son Samuel was born in 1842. The maternal grandfather, Jonas Richardson, a native of New York State, became a pioneer of Western New York. Both the Hutchings and Richardson families furnished soldiers to the Revolutionary war. From Cleveland Samuel Hutchings went to Chicago as a young man, and after a few years transferred his activities to a farm in Jefferson County, New York, on account of the ill state of his health. There he died in 1890. When the second call was made for troops during the Civil war he enlisted at Cleveland, but ill health incapacitated him for service and he was honorably dis- charged before he saw active duty. His widow is still residing on the old home place in Jefferson County, New York, in which county she was bom.
Stanley Richard Hutchings was reared in Jefferson County, New York, where he attended the public schools and the Watertown High School, and then became a student at the Adams (New York) Collegiate Institute. He passed the regents' examination at the last-named college and on the points, or merits, he thus received, entered the University of Vermont, from the medical department of which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1896. He entered the practice of medicine and surgery at Springfield, January 1, 1897, and has since continued therein with deserved success. He is a member of the Clark County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and as a fratemalist holds membership in the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Junior Order United American Mechanics.
On October 19, 1918, Doctor Hutchings was commissioned a first lieutenant in the United States Medical Corps, but was not called for duty until a short time before the signing of the armistice. After active service at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, he was honorably discharged the same year. Doctor Hutchings has been a member of the Springfield Board of Education for several years, first by appointment and then by election, and is giving the cause of education his earnest support.
On October 28, 1897, Doctor Hutchings married Hattie Sias, who was born at Henderson, Jefferson County, New York, a daughter of
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Dr. W. H. H. and Melissa (Tifft) Sias. Her grandmother, Luzina H. Tifft, was the daughter of Thomas Worden, a soldier of the American Revolution and his daughter Luzina was presented with a gold spoon by the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, at the time the society so honored all of its living "real daughters of the Revolu- tion," this spoon being cherished by Mrs. Hutching^ as an heirloom to be handed down to her children. To Dr. and Mrs. Hutchings there have been bom two daughters and a son: Florence Christiana, born September 23, 1899, who graduated from the high school at Springfield in 1917, married Hilliard Mulford, of Port Chester, New York; Richard Stanley, born November 21, 1906, in high scool; and Roxana Luzina, born November 4, 1911.
George Washington Netts, first vice president of the Merchants and Mechanics Savings and Loan Association, and one of the best-known men of Springfield, where he has lived all his life, was bom in this city, January 27, 1847, a son of the late Louis and Elizabeth (Hehr) Netts, natives of Prussia.
Louis Netts was born in 1802 and often told how, as a boy, he watched the army of Napoleon I. as it marched past his father's place. The parents were married in the old country, and in 1834 the family, including two children, sailed for America. While they stopped for a time at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and also in Monroe County, Ohio, they settled permanently at Springfield a few months after landing. Louis Netts was a weaver by trade, but there was no employment to be found at that vocation at Springfield at the time of his arrival, so he turned his hand to any honorable work that presented itself, including the digging of ditches. About that time the First Lutheran Church and Wittenberg College were in the course of construction, and public sub- scriptions were being taken in behalf of both institutions. Mr. Nettes' subscription was two days' work for each, work which would have netted him fifty cents a day for other parties, and considering the conditions of his finances at the time, with a growing family on his hands, it may be said that his subscription was a generous one. Soon after his arrival at Springfield he hit upon the idea of making oak baskets, going to the woods and getting out his strips, from which he fashioned the baskets in his small shop at his home. His product soon attracted attention and found a ready market, and for many years he continued in this line of endeavor and made a good livelihood. He was a public-spirited man, a democrat in politics until the Fremont campaign, a Lutheran in religion and an ardent Abolitionist. He died, greatly respected and esteemed, in 1879, his worthy and estimable wife surviving him until 1890.
George W. Netts attended the Springfield Public School, and after working in a printing office for a time, learned the wood-working trade and secured employment with the Mass-Foos Company, a concern with which he was connected for twenty-nine years. He was foreman of the shops during a long period of that time, during which he traveled all over the country for his concern, erecting windmills. In 1906 Mr. Netts was elected superintendent of the City Hospital, and was in charge? of that institution for three years. He served as a member of the
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School Board for some time and as a member of the City Council, and was also one of the city park commissioners. One of his "hobbies," if it may be so characterized, has been the encouraging of young married peo- ple to own their own homes, and many families of today now thank him for his efforts and advice (and often financial assistance) in securing their places of residence. His well-known views on encouraging people to save caused the Merchants and Mechanics Savings and Loan Associa- tion to invite him to accept a position on its Board of Directors, and in 1912 he was elected first vice president of this concern, of which he had become a stockholder shortly after it was organized, thirty years ago. Mr. Netts is also very much interested in educational and welfare work, and has long taken an active part in public affairs. He was a member of the committee which built Memorial Hall, and had much to do with the location of the hall on its present site. He is a member of Clark Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons; Springfield Lodge No. 33, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and the Tiffany Bible Class of the Congregational Church. He is a deep reader of the Bible and is very apt with quotations and translations therefrom. In politics he is a democrat.
In Kansas Mr. Netts married Elizabeth Wood, who was born in Iowa, daughter of Charles Wood, a general contractor. She died in the summer of 1921, leaving five sons: Charles L., who volunteered and served in the Spanish-American war and is now one of the prominent business men of Springfield, the head of the Netts Floral Company; Robert I., who attended Wittenberg College, enlisted as a volunteer and served during the Spanish-American war, and is now assistant county surveyor of Clark County ; Benjamin L., who engaged in the drug busi- ness at Cleveland, Ohio; James C. ; and Stanley G. James C. Netts attended Wittenberg College, and when the United States entered the World war volunteered for service. He attended the training school at Fort Benjamin Harrison, where he received his commission as second lieutenant, subsequently being pronwted first lieutenant, and receiving his honorable discharge with the rank of captain. He is now a member of the firm of the Thomas A. McBeth Rose Nursery Company of Spring- field. Stanley G. Netts attended Wittenberg College, where he became distinguished as an athlete, especially in basketball. He volunteered for service in the army during the World war, trained at Fort Benjamin Harrison; Officers' Training School, where he was commissioned a second lieutenant, was promoted to first lieutenant, and mustered out with the rank of captain. On leaving Wittenberg College he entered Princeton University, from which he was graduated in 1921, following which he went on an athletic tour of Europe, playing basketball in France, Belgium and Germany. He is now head coach for the Hoboken (New Jersey) High School.
Charles L. Petticrew. Well known in mercantile circles of Spring- field is Charles L. Petticrew, the proprietor of the "Walk-Over" Boot Shop at Nos. 3 and 5 East Main Street. He has carried on this business for about ten years, during which time he has built up a large and suc- cessful enterprise, and at the same time has established himself favorably in the confidence and esteem of his fellow-merchants and patrons. He
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is a native of Springfield and was born June 28, 1863, a son of the late John L. and Columbia (Harris) Petticrew, and a member of a family of Scotch and Irish origin.
The Petticrew family settled at an early date in the wilds of Michigan, where the great-grandfather of Charles L. Petticrew met his death at the hands of the Indians. His son, David Petticrew, the grandfather of Charles L., migrated to Ohio in 1823 and settled first at Springfield. Subsequently he went to near Dayton, but later returned to Springfield, where he died August 30, 1856. For a number of years he was engaged in the wagon-making business, having his shop and residence at the corner of West Main and Wittenberg streets, which shop and home were for many years landmarks in that part of the city.* He became a promi- nent citizen, served in the City Council and was a member of the old volunteer fire department, and his funeral was attended by the City Council and by "Neptune" and "Rover" fire companies in a body. He was a member of the first English Lutheran Church established at Springfield. Mr. Petticrew married Mary Lehman, who was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1797, and died at Springfield, March 12, 1875. She was a (kughter of David Lehman, who came to Ohio from Maryland in 1805, and lived for a time on the Cox farm near Dayton, but later removed to Clark County.
John L. Petticrew, father of Charles L., was born at Springfield, February 2, 1827. He was for many years engaged in the quarry business with his brother Ambrose at the foot of Plum Street, and was a man of well-known business integrity. He also took an active part in civic affairs and served as a member of the City Council for several terms. His religious connection was with the First Lutheran Church. His wife, Columbia, was born August 25, 1828, in a log house at the comer of West Main and Wittenberg streets, a daughter of William Morrison Harris, who with his family left Maryland for Ohio between 1816 and 1820 and located at Springfield. He married Lydia Ann Mayne, who was born September 6, 1807, a daughter of John Mayne, of South Mountain, five miles from Frederick City, Maryland. John Mayne served as a soldier during the War of 1812, as a member of President Madison's body-guard, his wife having been a personal friend of "Dollie" Madison, and having, with the President's family, watched the burning of the national capital by the British. John L. Petticrew and Columbia Harris were married in Clark County, Ohio, June 14, 1847, and became the parents of the following children: Albert E., born June 29, 1848, died May 3, 1915, married Louisa Stockford; Orin L., born March 26. 1853, died in January, 1921 ; Ella A., born April 6, 1858, died September 13, 1921, married Rev. Samuel Schwarm; John W., born November 15, 1860, now a resident of Dayton ; Charles L., of this review ; Lydia M., born December 4, 1865, died October 28, 1917, married W. W Wittmeyer; and Flora, bom March 29, 1869, unmarried.
Mr. Petticrew married Miss Elizabeth M. Petot, the daughter of Charles and Catherine (Speck) Petot, of Londonville, Ohio, both natives of France. Mr. and Mrs. Petticrew have one son, Ralph A., born September 14, 1890, who was educated in the public schools and at Nelson's Business College, and is now associated with his father in the shoe business.
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Golden Clyde Davis. While disturbing elements have in recent years undoubtedly made law enforcement a matter of grave corncern in many communities, there has, perhaps, been less trouble at Springfield than in other cities of its size. Without question the reason of this is that here the law is really upheld, and no infraction of it will be coun- tenanced as long as public officials of Springfield are men of such sterling, well balanced character as Hon. Golden Clyde Davis, municipal judge in this city. While Judge Davis is not a temperamental man, he knows how to soften justice with mercy on occasion, but he takes his official duties in all seriousness and with the result that he commands the respect and full confidence of his fellow citizens, irrespective of political affiliation.
Judge Davis was born at Springfield, Ohio, January 1, 1882, and is a son of Asa and Elizabeth (Miner) Davis. The D^vis family is an old pioneer one of Ohio. Asa Davis was bom in Franklin County, Ohio, in 1826, and died at Springfield in 1910. He was a son of William Davis, a very early settler in that county, to which he came with several brothers from Virginia. In 1872 Asa Davis came to Springfield, and during the rest of his active business life was engaged in the real estate brokerage business. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The mother of Judge Davis was born in 1830, in Athens County, Ohio, and died at Springfield in 1917. She was a daughter of Joseph K. Miner, who was born in Athens County, where his parents. New England people, were early settlers.
Judge Davis attended the public schools and Wittenberg College, from which institution he was graduated in 1904 with the degree of A. B. He then entered the University of Missouri, where he completed two years of his law course, then returned to his native state and finished his course and received his LL. B. degree in the Ohio State University in 1908. In the same year he was admitted to the bar, opened a law office at Springfield and entered upon the practice of his profession. There was no mistake made when he was appointed in May, 1913, and in the fall of that year was elected city judge to fill out an unexpired term, for so admirable had been his decisions that in 1915 he was elected judge for the full term of four years, and in 1919 he was re-elected for another term of four years. His whole course on the bench has been one of sustained efficiency, and he well deserves the high esteem in which he is held by all law-abiding citizens.
Judge Davis was reared in the Lutheran Church. He is a member of the Clark County Bar Association, is connected to some extent with other organizations, and still retains membership in his old college fraternities, the Alpha Tau Omega and the Phi Delta Kappa.
Warren Dell Alexander. In the substantial development of a community the mercantile interests play an important part, and commer- cial prosperity rests largely upon the financial responsibility of the merchants and the spirit of enterprise that usually permeates this par- ticular business field. Springfield has mercantile establishments that would be creditable in much larger cities, and the annual volume of business in this line is so great that it sets wheels moving in many other directions and thus furthers general prosperity. One of the most important, largest and best known mercantile houses in the clothing and
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gents' furnishings line at Springfield is that conducted under the firm style of W. D. Alexander & Company, of which Warren Dell Alexander is the senior member.
Warren Dell Alexander was born at Mercer, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1871, and is a son of George F. and Ann Jeannetta (Dice) Alexander. His paternal grandfather, Elias Alexander, was a leading citizen of Mercer County, served as sheriff for some years and was prominent in other ways. He came from sturdy Scotch Presbyterian stock that settled early in the Keystone State. George F. Alexander was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, in 1834, moved later to Ohio and died in 1906, and is survived by his widow. She was bom at Poland, Mahon- ing County, Ohio, the birthplace of William McKinley. Her parents were George and Mary (Phillips) Dice, the former of German and the latter of Scotch extraction.
Warren Dell Alexander attended the public schools at Mercer, New Wilmington and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as the family home changed in his youth, and later had high school advantage at Clifton, Ohio. In 1888, when in his seventeenth year he began his independent career as a clerk in his uncle's general store at Manorville, Pennsylvania, where he had four years of valuable mercantile training. In 1892 he came to Springfield, and this city has been his chosen home for thirty years. After a number of years as a salesman he embarked in the clothing and gents' furnishings business on his own account as a member of the firm Kedel & Alexander. The first business location was at No. 34 East Main Street, but later expansion made removal to larger quarters necessary, and since then the commodious building on the corner of East Main and Limestone streets has been occupied. In 1918 Mr. Alexander purchased his partner's interest in the business and has since continued under the firm name of W. D. Alexander & Company. Keep- ing abreast of the times, handling only reliable goods and following honorable methods, Mr. Alexander has built up a great and profitable industry, and no business man of Springfield is held in greater esteem. He is also the second vice president of the Capital Savings & Life Insurance Company of Columbus, Ohio.
On March 24, 1897, Mr. Alexander married Miss Agnes McCuUough, a daughter of the late William McCullough, who for a number of years was a prominent leather merchant and manufacturer of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander have two children: William Warren, who was bom in 1900, is associated with his father in business; and Jeannette Elizabeth, who was born in 1909.
Mr. Alexander has taken an active part in civic affairs as he believes it to be the duty of a good citizen. He has served faithfully and efficiently as a member of the City Council and on the city civil service commis- sion, has been liberal in his contributions to benevolent objects and often has given of his time and means to promote movements for the general welfare. With his family he belongs to the Covenant Presbyterian Church. He is a thirty-second degree Mason atid a Shriner, being a member of Anthony Lodge No. 445, Free and Accepted Masons ; Pales- tine Commandery ; Dayton Consistory, and Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton. Mr. Alexander has long been a valued member of the Chamber of Commerce, and belongs to the Rotary, Lagonda and
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John Salladay Heaume is owner and proprietor of the Hotel Heaume, one of Springfield's newest and best hotels. Mr. Heaume was educated in Wittenberg College at Springfield, and since his college career has been an active figure in local business circles, and for many years has conducted a high class restaurant service, later amplified into the general hotel business.
Mr. Heaume is a native of Guernsey County, Ohio, and is in the fourth generation of a pioneer family in that section. The American ancestor and the founder of the name in Guernsey County was his great-grandfather, Peter Heaume. He was born a British subject on the Isle of Guernsey. He brought his family to the United States in 1832 and settled near Cambridge, among a colony of people who had come from the Isle of Guernsey and had given the name of their old home to this Ohio County. John Heaume, grandfather of the Springfield hotel man, was born on the Isle of Guernsey in 1816, and was sixteen years of age when brought to this country. He became a prosperous farmer and esteemed citizen of Guernsey County. In that county he married Rachael Priaulx, also a native of the Isle of Guernsey, and of a family that came in an early day to Guernsey County, Ohio. John Heaume in 1894, at the age of seventy-eight, accompanied by his grand- son John S., went back to visit his old home on the Isle of Guernsey, and died while there.
William E. Heaume, of the third generation of the family in Guernsey County, was born on a farm near Cambridge, June 17, 1850. He later became a farm owner, and practiced agriculture until 1910, when he removed to Cambridge. From there he came to Springfield about 1915, and is now living retired. He married Amanda (Salladay) a native of Guernsey County, daughter of George Salladay, whose people were Virginians.
John S. Heaume, whose parents, William E. and Amanda (Salladay) Heaume, are residents of Springfield, is one of four children born to them: Minola is the wife of Rev. C. V. Larrick; Ella, deceased, was the wife of O. B. Drake ; Alberta is the wife of Dr. J. E. Secrist and resides in Cambridge, Ohio. Mr. Heaume was born at the old Heaume farm near Cambridge, July 23, 1876. He spent his early life on that farm, and began his education in the common schools of the township. During 1895 he was a student in Wittenberg Academy at Springfield, and from there enrolled in Wittenberg College, where he remained until graduating A. B. in 1900. He was a member of the college fraternity Beta Theta Pi. He also took a course in the old Nelson Business College, and for three or four years was employed as an office man with different firms in Springfield.
Mr. Heaume entered the restaurant business in 1905. His place of business was established at the southeast corner of Fountain Avenue and Columbia Street. He developed and organized a high class service, greatly appreciated and liberally patronized by the public. For over twelve years he continued his restaurant, and in the meantime he began the erection of his hotel on the southeast corner of Fountain Avenue and
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Mr. Heaume is a member of Clark Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons, belongs to the Dayton Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Automobile Club and the Fourth Lutheran Church.
June 7, 1903, Mr. Heaume married Julia Douglas Moler, daughter of J. D. and Millie (Oaks) Moler. Her father for twenty-five years was city engineer of Springfield. She attended college at Oxford, Ohio. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Heaume are: Majorie Amelia, Mary Catherine and John Douglas.
Joseph Mathias Rehe in the twenty years since he began his business career has had many promotions in responsibility with several corpora- tions. He was a railroad man until he came to Springfield, and he is now secretary and treasurer of the Westcott Motor Car Company of this city.
He was born in Cincinnati, April 16, 1884, and represents two well- known old families in the commercial life of that city; His paternal grandfather, Joseph Rehe, was an early oil merchant there. His maternal grandfather, Mathias Johannigman, was prominent in the coal business at Cincinnati. The parents of Mr. Rehe were John T. and Caroline (Johannigman) Rehe, both natives of Cincinnati. His mother died in 1886 and his father in 1918. Both were devout Catholics.
Joseph M. Rehe grew up at Cincinnati and was educated in St. Mary's parochial schools and St. Xavier's High School. His practical business experience began in 1903, as a salesman for the firm of Chatfield & Woods, paper jobbers and manufacturers at Cincinnati. From 1907 to 1910 he was in the auditing department of the Big Four Railroad Company, and from 1910 to 1916 he was in the auditing department of the Ohio Electric Railway.
June 1, 1916, Mr. Rehe came to Springfield in the capacity of auditor and assistant secretary of the Westcott Motor Car Company. During the past six years he has had an important share in building up this local industry, and in February, 1922, he was elected a member of the board of directors and secretary-treasurer of the corporation.
Mr. Rehe is a member of Springfield Lodge No. 51, B. P. O. E., and for the past six years has been treasurer of the Elks' Club. He is a mem- ber of St. Raphael Catholic Church. April 19, 1906, he married Miss Bertha Stall, daughter of Oliver and Julia (Tobin) Stall, of Cincinnati.
Isaac B. Rawlins was a resident of Ohio from his childhood until his death, save for a brief interval passed in Illinois, and he played a constructive part in the industrial and civic progress of Clark County and the City of Sprinefield. He was born in the State of Delaware, in 1809, a son of Rev. Charles Rawlins, who was a native of England and who became a pioneer clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Ohio and also a successful teacher in the pioneer schools.
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Isaac B. Rawlins was reared in Ross County, Ohio, and as a young man he engaged in the manufacturing of pottery at Frankfort. Later he became a farmer in Fayette County, and finally, in order to provide better educational advantages for his children, he came with his family to Clark County and purchased a farm about two miles distant from Springfield, on the present Urbana Turnpike. From the fkrm he drove with team to transport his children back and forth from the schools at Springfield, and about 1855 he removed with his family to this city, which was then a mere village. Later he purchased from William N. Whitely a wooded tract at the comer of Gillet and Burnett roads, southeast of Springfield. He cleared and otherwise improved this land, which he eventually sold at a profit. At the same time he was the owner of a farm in Illinois, the same having been in charge of his son Charles. When Charles enlisted for service as a soldier in the Civil war the father assumed charge of the Illinois farm and left his son George in supervision of the farm near Springfield. Within a short time George Rawlins likewise became a soldier of the Union, and the father then returned from Illinois. He thereafter gave active attention to his property interests in Clark County, and engaged successfully in the real-estate business as a member of the firm of Middleton & Rawlins, which laid out and placed on the market the Middleton & Rawlins addition to the City of Springfield. Mr. Rawlins subsequently platted and developed two other additions that contributed much to the growth of the city. He was a stalwart in the local ranks of the republican party, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His death occurred in 1888, Mrs. Rawlins having preceded him to the life eternal.
As a young man Mr. Rawlins wedded Miss Mary A. Hottsenpiller, and they became the parents of six children: Harriet, Charles F., George C, Mary, Albert M. and Martha. Of the children only Albert M. and Martha are now living. Charles F. Rawlins was a member of the One Hundred and Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the Civil war, and died while in the service, as a result of exposure. George C, who likewise gave gallant service in defense of the Union, became a representative member of the Springfield bar and was one of the leading lawyers of Clark County at the time of his death, July 27, 1921.
Albert M. Rawlins, only surviving son of the honored subject of this memoir, was born at Frankfort, Ross County, Ohio, September 29, 1848, and his early education was acquired principally in the public schools at Springfield, where also he attended Wittenberg College. He was actively associated with his father's business and property interests until 1873, when he engaged in the lumber business, of which he has since continued one of the successful and influential representatives at Springfield. He is a loyal advocate and supporter of the cause of the republican party, but has had no ambition for political activity or public office. He holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Herman Jacob Fahien. One of the most perfect organizations of its kind in the State of Ohio is the Fahien & Tehan Company, dry goods merchants at Springfield. The president of this business is H. J.
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Fahien, who has been a resident of Springfield for over thirty-five years, and whose life since early boyhood has represented a complete devotion to the ideals and the practical service of merchandising.
He was bom at Richmond, Indiana. His parents, Jacob and Mary Fahien, were natives of Germany, came to America as young people, were married in Cincinnati and soon located at Richmond, Indiana, where his father spent the rest of his active life in the contracting business.
H. J. Fahien was only 6 years of age when his father died, and when he was 11 he became self-supporting as a cash boy in the dry ^oods store of George H. Knollenberg at Richmond. His business apprenticeship was served in the dry goods establishment, and before he left there, in 1886, he had risen to the responsibilities of head of the silk department.
With this degree of successful experience to his credit Mr. Fahien came to Springfield in 1886 and began work in the dress goods depart- ment of the old firm of Kinnane & Wren. When this firm dissolved, Mr. Fahien continued with its successors, Kinnane & Brothers. The business still later was incorporated, the principal members being Edward, John and James Kinnane, while Mr. Fahien and his present partner, Edward A. Tehan, were minor stockholders in the enterprise. Edward Kinnane died in 1899 and his brother in 1907.
Soon after the latter event, Mr. Fahien and Mr. Tehan withdrew from the old house and organized, and in July, 1908, incorporated the Fahien & Tehan Company. They secured quarters for their business ir three floors and basement of the recently completed Fairbanks Building. In this building their store was opened in 1908, and from the first it enjoyed a substantial trade and rapidly built itself into a favored position in the retail business section. In 1914 the Kinnane Brothers Company went out of business. In the meantime, the Fahien & Tehan Company had outgrown their quarters in the Fairbanks Building, and they there- fore secured the old location of Kinnane Brothers in the Bushnell Building, and in addition they secured the services of the more efficient salespeople of the old firm, some of whom are still with the Fahien & Tehan Company. The last year Fahien & Tehan were in their location in the Fairbanks Building their business aggregated $286,000. In 1921 the volume of their business reached the imposing figure of $1,250,000.
Mr. Fahien married Carrie Frances Bonner, of Springfield, who came from Maryland. They have one of the very attractive homes of the city, built on a street of fine homes. East High Street. The architectural features of their house may be described as a California bungalow, built of solid concrete, and on a lot 120 by 400 feet, surrounded by 1,000 feet of specially trimmed hedge fence and roses.
George Owen Cogswell, president and general manager of the Cogs- well Building Company, one of the important general contracting con- cerns in the City of Springfield, was born at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, April 28, 1887, and is a son of Dr. George Elmer Cogswell and Czarania E. (Coman) Cogswell. Dr. Cogswell, now a representative physician and surgeon at Springfield, was born at Towanda, Pennsylvania, January 6, 1849, and is a^son of Charles and Lucy (Belden) Cogswell, the original American representative of the family having been John Cogswell, who came from England and settled at Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1627.
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Philander Cogswell, great-gratid father of the subject of this review, was born and reared in Pennsylvania. In 1850 Charles Cogswell removed from Pennsylvania to Carroll County, Illinois, where his family joined him in the following year. A mason by trade, he became a successful contractor in that county, and there he passed the remainder of his life. His wife likewise yvas born in Pennsylvania, a daughter of Dr. Lemuel C. Belden, who went to Illinois in 1851 and became the first homeopathic physician in Carroll County. Dr. George E. Cogswell was an infant at the time of the family removal to Illinois, where his youthful educational advantages included those of Carroll Academy. Later he attended Paynes- ville Academy, at Paynesville, Ohio, and in 1873 he graduated from Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, one of the leading homeopathic institutions of the United States, his technical studies having been advanced under the direction of several of the leading physicians of Chicago and Cleveland. In the year of his graduation, Dr. Cogswell engaged in practice in the City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and in 1889 he established his home and professional headquarters at Mount Carroll, Illinois. In 1892 he removed to Waukegan, that state, and in 1902 he engaged in practice at Champaign, Illinois, where he remained until his removal to Springfield, Ohio, where he has been established in successful general practice since 1918. He is an active member of the Clark County Medical Society. For thirty years Dr. Cogswell has maintained affiliation with the Masonic fraternity, in which his basic membership is in Wau- kegan Lodge, A. F. and A. M. In the same Illinois city he is a charter member of Long Commandery of Knights Templar, and while a resident of Iowa he served as junior warden of the Masonic Grand Lodge of that state. His wife was born at LeRoy, New York, a daughter of Louvane Coman, and the children of this union are three sons: E. Roy, who is identified with the telephone business at Springfield, Illinois ; George O., of this sketch, and Robert C, his twin brother, the latter being now secretary of the Vaughn Building Company, Hamilton, Ohio.
George O. Cogswell attended the public schools of Waukegan and Champaign, Illinois, and in 1911 graduated from the University of Illi- nois with the degree of architectural engineer. Mr. Cogswell has made a record of distinctive success as a contractor and builder at Springfield, where in 1919 he organized the Cogswell Building Company, of which he is the president and general manager. This company has erected a number of the best grade of modern business and residence buildings in Springfield, as well as school buildings, and the business of the concern, based on effective service, is constantly expanding in scope. Mr. Cogs- well is a member of the SDrinefie^^ Cb^^iber of Commerce, the Kiwanis Club and St. Andrew's Lodge No. 619, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.
In 1914 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cogswell and Miss Katharine Saxton, daughter of Charles Saxton, of Pueblo, Colorado. The children of this union are three in number: Eveline, Ruth and Charles Saxton.
Jacob P. Nave is a member of a well-known family of Clark County. His own career has been one of progressive industry that has taken him from the ranks of renter to an independent farm owner. His farm is
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located on the Springfield and Selma Pike, on Rural Route No. 11, in Greene Township.
Mr. Nave was born in the same township, November 23, 1867, son of John G. and Margaret (Gram) Nave. His father was born in Green Township, June 10, 1838, and his mother in the same locality, September 11, 1840, and she is now living, at the age of 82. His father died May 24, 1918. The late John G. Nave spent his active life as a farmer in Greene Township, and he served one enlistment as a Union soldier in the Civil war. He was a member of the Baptist Church and clerk of his home church. These parents had five children : Armenia, wife of William B. Todd, of Springfield; Alfretta, widow of Wiley Howett; J. T., Jacob P. and Charles, all farmers in Greene Township.
Jacob P. Nave, while a boy on a farm, attended the common schools, and he remained at home until he was 24. On December 24, 1891, he married Aurelia Garlough, also a native of Greene Township. Mr. Nave after his marriage rented farms for nineteen years, and he has since lived on his own farm of eighty acres. He has handled much high- grade live stock and is one of the active men in the farming community. He has served as master of Pitchin Grange No. 1649. He is a republican in politics.
Mr. and Mrs. Nave have had two children : John B., born November 19, 1892, IS now deceased. Edgar P., born January 27, 1894, was edu- cated in the common and grade schools and high school of Pitchin, and on June 14, 1921, married Rachel E. Reynolds.
Peter Knott, who resides on his excellent farm in section 22, Greene Township, is a native of Clark County and a representative of a family whose name has been worthily linked with the history of this county since the pioneer days. Peter and Nancy Knott, grandparents of him whose name initiates this paragraph, came to Ohio from New Jersey and settled near Clifton, Greene County, the grandfather having not only developed a farm but having also operated a tannery at Clifton. His son Peter, father of the subject of this sketch, was born near Clifton on the 2d of February, 1843, and in this locality he was reared and educated. When the Civil war was precipitated on the nation, he manifested his youthful patriotism by enlisting in the Forty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he saw hard service at the front. After the close of his term he re-enlisted, this time in a regiment of cavalry, and with this latter com- mand he served until the close of the war. He was nineteen years old at the time of his first enlistment, and his active service covered the last three years of the great conflict between the North and the South. At the age of twenty-nine years he married Miss Martha McKeehan, and soon afterward they established their home on the farm now owned by their son Peter, of this review. Here the father continued as one of the substantial farmers and loyal and honored citizens of Clark County* until his death, in January, 1906, and his widow passed to the life eternal in the year 1920, both having been zealous members of the Presbyterian Church in the neighboring village of Clifton and he having long served as an elder in the same. His political allegiance was originally given to the republican party and later to the prohibition party. Of the eight children, seven are living at the time of this writing, in 1922 : Mabel E.
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is a popular teacher in the public schools of the City of Cleveland; Ella remains at the old homestead, as does also Mary, who graduated from Cedarville College; Bertha L., a graduate of the same college, is a successful teacher in the public schools at Clifton ; Laura died at the age of three years ; Paul M., a graduate of the Clifton High School, is now a prosperous farmer in South Dakota ; Peter, of this review, was the next in order of birth, and Martha, who graduated from Cedarville College, is the wife of Leo Anderson, of Cedarville.
Peter Knott III., whose name introduces this review, was born on the farm which is his present place of residence, and the date of his nativity was March 29, 1886. In the public schools he continued his studies until his graduation from the Clifton High School, and he then entered Cedar- ville College, in which he was eventually graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then went to South Dakota, where for twenty months he taught in graded schools. He remained in the West for some time, and after returning to his native county he assumed the active management of the old homestead farm, which has been in the possession of the family nearly eighty years and which comprises 185 acres of most fertile and valuable land, the ownership of the property being now vested in six of the children of the third generation. Mr. Knott is independent in politics and as a citizen is progressive and public-spirited, with deep interest in all that concerns the welfare of his native county. His name is still enrolled on the list of eligible bachelors in Clark County.
James Howard Harris, M. D., one of the successful and representa- tive physicians and surgeons of Clark County, is established in the practice of his profession at Clifton, and has the satisfaction of claiming Clark County as the place of his nativity, his birth having occurred in the City of Springfield, April 8, 1873. He is a son of Dr. Ezra C. and Marie (Bird) Harris. The father was born in Harmony Township, this county, September 28, 1844, and was reared on the pioneer farm, in the work of which he early began to aid. He continued to attend the public schools of the locality and period until the inception of the Civil war, and though he was but sixteen years of age at the time, he promptly found oppor- tunity to give definite expression to his youthful patriotism by enlisting as a private in Company I, One Hundred and Tenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He proceeded with his command to the front and took part in all of its engagements until the time when he was so severely wounded as to be incapacitated, when he received his honorable discharge. After the war he followed the course of his ambition by preparing himself for the medical profession. He graduated from Starling Medical College, now the medical department of the University of Ohio, and then engaged in practice at Clifton, where he continued his successful service until 1888, when he removed to Springfield, the county seat, in which city he held prestige as an able physician and surgeon and loyal and progressive citizen until the time of his death, April 19, 1920, his wife having passed away in 1882, and both having been earnest members of the United Pres- byterian Church, in which he served many years as an elder. Dr. Harris was a staunch advocate of the principles of the republican party, was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, and in the Masonic fraternity he received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He
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consecrated his life to his noble and exacting profession, which was dignified and honored by his character and service. Of the children. Dr. James H., of this review, is the eldest; Mabel, who graduated from Monmouth College, is, in 1922, a student in the University of Ohio, and Lucy, likewise a graduate of Monmouth College, is the wife of Rev. Joseph Speer, a Presbyterian clergyman.
Dr. James H. Harris was reared at Clifton and Springfield, and after having attended the high school in Springfield and pursued a higher course in Wittenberg College, he entered Starling Medical College, his father's alma mater, in which institution, now a part of the University of Ohio, he was graduated in 1895, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. From that time to the present, he has been successfully established in general practice at Clifton, and is doing a work that effectively supple^ ments that of his honored father. He has developed a large and suc- cessful practice and is one of the representative physicians and surgeons of his native county, within which his circle of friends is coincident with that of his acquaintances. He is actively identified with the Clark County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medi- cal Association. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife are active members of the Presb)rterian Church in their home village.
On the 14th of November, 1895, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Harris and Miss Gretta McCullough, who likewise was born and reared in Clark County and who is a graduate of the Clifton High School. Dr. and Mrs. Harris have one son, James M.,. who is, in 1922, a member of the junior class in the Clifton High School.
David W. Stewart, a retired farmer residing in the attractive village of Clifton, is a native son of Clark County and a representative of one of its sterling pioneer families. He was born in Greene Township, this county, December 19, 1848, and is a son of Capt. Perry Stewart and Rhoda (Wheeler) Stewart, both likewise natives of Greene Township, where the former was born June 6, 1818, and the latter, December 30, 1824— dates that show that both families were founded in Clark County in the early pioneer period, when this section of Ohio was little more than a frontier wilderness. Captain Stewart was one of the venerable and honored citizens of his native county at the time of his death, December 29, 1906, his wife having preceded him to eternal rest, and both having been zealous members of the Christian Church.
Capt. Perry Stewart was reared on the pioneer farm and gained his early education in the schools of the locality and period. After his mar- riage he settled on a farm near Pitchin, in Greene Township, and he continued for many years as one of the substantial farmers of his native county, the closing period of his life having been passed in the City of Springfield. At the time of the Civil war Captain Stewart recruited and became captain of Company A, Ninety-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he commanded his company at the front during the greater part of the year 1862 and also until the autumn of 1863, when he, physically incapacitated for further service, resigned his commission as captain and was granted an honorable discharge. Upon his return home he resumed the management of his farm, and he remained on the homestead until
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well advanced in years, when he removed to Springfield. The captain was a citizen of marked loyalty and public spirit, held secure place in popular confidence and esteem, served as a member of the Board of Cotmty Commissioners, and represented his native county in the Ohio Legislature in 1868-9. He was a republican in politics and was affiliated with Mitchell Post No. 45, Grand Army of the Republic. Of the ten children, seven are living at the time of this writing, in 1922 : Harriet is the widow of James Hatfield, who was a prosperous farmer in Greene Township ; Julia is the wife of R. M. Elder, of Clark County ; David W., of this review, is the next younger; John T. is a resident of Texas; Charles F. resides at Springfield, Clark County; Perry M. is a resident of Yellow Springs, Greene County, and E. W. remains on the old home farm of his father.
David W. Stewart found the period of his childhood and early youth compassed by the influences and activities of the home farm, and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages of the local schools. He was but fifteen years old when he entered service as a Union soldier in the Civil war. He enlisted as a member of Company D, One Hundred and Forty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he served with his command at the front until the expiration of his term in 1864, when he received his honorable discharge, his record having been that of a gallant yotmg soldier of the Union. For many years thereafter, Mr. Stewart continued as one of the vigorous and successful exponents of farm industry in Greene Township, where he had a well-improved farm estate and where he remained until he retired to his present home in the village of Clifton. He lived forty-seven years on his farm, in the northwest corner of Greene Township, and since that time he and his wife have lived in their attractive home at Clifton. Mr. Stewart still retains possession of his fine farm property, which comprises 100 acres. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, he is affiliated with Mitchell Post No. 45, Grand Army of the Republic, and his wife is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
February 12, 1874, recorded the marriage of Mr. Stewart and Miss Amanda McClintick, who was bom in Springfield Township, this county, Novemfber 8, 1855, where she was reared on the home farm of her parents. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, five are living: P. M., who is carrier on rural mail route No. 9 from the City of Springfield, represented his native county as a soldier in the Spanish-American war ; Myrtle is the wife of Herbert F. Cory, of Greene County ; Delmer mar- ried Miss Lina Gram, and they reside in the City of Springfield ; Ruth is the wife of A. S. McCuUough, of Clark County, and Harry M., who graduated from the high school and attended the University of Cincin- nati, was a soldier in the World war, in connection with which he was for two years in active service with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, he being now at the parental home.
John H. Martin. Five miles to the south of the City of Spring- field, on Yellow Springs Turnpike, is situated the well-improved farm of Mr. Martin, who has here staged his productive activities as a progressive agriculturist and stock-grower.
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Mr. Martin was born in the State of Maryland, on the 15th of January, 1869, and is a son of Christian and Sarah (Bowers) Martin, who were bom and reared in that state, where they retained their home until March, 1869, when they came to Ohio and settled on the farm which the father purchased in Greene Township, Clark County, near Clifton. Christian Martin gained prestige as one of the most vigorous and successful expo- nents of farm industry in the county, and accumulated an estate of an approximate value of $65,000. Both he and his wife continued their residence in this cotmty until their deaths, when well advanced in years, and both were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church at Clifton. The political allegiance of Christian Martin was given to the republican party. Of the children of this representative family, the following are living in 1922: Harvey resides in the City of Springfield; Silas is a farmer in Springfield Township; Emanuel is a prosperous farmer in Greene Township; John H., of this sketch, is the next younger; Mary is the wife of Charles Harland, of Springfield; Albert resides at Spring- field, and Jessie (deceased) was the wife of M. Leininger.
John H. Martin was not yet three months old when the family home was established in Clark County, and here he was reared on his father's farm, in the work of which he early began to assist. In the public schools he continued his studies until he had profited by the advantages of the Clifton High School. He continued to be associated with the work and management of the old home farm for a number of years after his marriage. In the year 1905 he purchased and established his residence upon his present excellent farm, his original tract of 124 acres having since been amplified by the purchase of an adjacent 140 acres, so that he now has a large and well-managed landed estate, the very appearance of which shows his progressiveness and well-directed activities in the furtherance of modern agricultural and live stock enterprise. Mr. Mar- tin has proved eminently successful in his chosen field of endeavor and has had no reason to regret having continued his allegiance to farm industry In his native county, where he is known and honored as a liberal and loyal citizen. He is a stockholder in the Farmers Grain Company of Emery ; is a stalwart supporter of the cause of the republican party, and he and his wife are active members of the Emory Methodist Episcopal Church at Beatty, Springfield Township, he being a member of its Official Board.
In December, 1896, Mr. Martin wedded Miss Edith Davis, who was born in Springfield Township on the 30th of May, 1877, and of this union have been born five children : Edna is the wife of Harry Shank, of Springfield ; Alice, a graduate of the Springfield High School and also a graduate trained nurse, is now the wife of Arnold Thompson, of Spring- field, and at the parental home remain the three younger children. Earl, Luretta and Oscar.
John C. Littleton, who figures prominently as one of the able and successful representatives of farm industry in Greene Township, was bom at Clifton, in the adjoining County of Greene, on the 18th of September, 1852, and is a son of Joel and Martha A. (Brant) Littleton, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Warren County, Ohio. Joel Littleton was reared and educated in the historic Old Dominion State, and was a
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young man when he came to Warren Coimty, Ohio, where his marriage occurred. Thereafter he was for two years engaged in farming in Indiana, and he then returned to Ohio and settled at Clifton, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his wife was a member of the Presbyterian Church. At the time of the Civil war Mr. Littleton proved physically ineligible for service as a soldier. He never wavered in his allegiance to the democratic party, in the faith of which he was reared, and he was long and actively affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Of the family of eight children four are living at the time of this writing, in the summer of 1922: Anna is the widow of John W. Randall ; John C, of this review, is the next younger ; Joel is engaged in the tmdertaking business at Springfield, and Viola is the wife of Alfred Fry, of that city.
At Clifton John C. Littleton was reared to the age of eighteen years, and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages of the public schools of the village. After his marriage he was for seven years engaged in the general merchandise business at Yellow Springs, and he then sold out and removed with his family to the City of Dayton, where he was engaged in the grain and flour business for the ensuing eight years. He purchased his present farm in 1898, and here established his residence in 1901, the place being well improved and comprising sixty acres.
Mr. Littleton is a progressive and public-spirited citizen, is a repub- lican in political adherency and is serving in 1922 as township trustee. He is a stockholder in the Emery Farmers Grain Company, at Springfield, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is a past grand, and was a charter member of the lodge of Knights of Pythias at Clifton. He and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church.
February 19, 1874, recorded the marriage of Mr. Littleton and Miss Ella Cox, who was reared on a farm in Mad River Township, Clark County, and whose early education was acquired in the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Littleton have but one child, Gilbert C, who was born October 18, 1876. Dr. Gilbert C. Littleton was graduated in a leading college of dentistry in the City of Cincinnati, and is now successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in the City of Springfield, with offices in the Arcue Building.
Cyrus Shaw has long held prestige as one of the successful and representative farmers of Clark County, and his well-improved farm estate is situated in Greene Township, where he stands forth as one of the venerable and highly honored citizens of this section of his native state.
Mr. Shaw was born in Greene County, Ohio, on the 30th of October, 1842, and is a son of Robert and Polly (Wilson) Shaw, the former of whom was born in New Jersey, November 29, 1804, and the latter of whom was born in Massachusetts, October 3, 1812. Both families were founded in America in the early Colonial period of our national history. Robert Shaw was a boy of about seven years when he accompanied his parents on their removal to the wilds of Ohio in 1812, and the family home was established in Greene County, where the father reclaimed a farm from the virgin forest and where the family lived up to the full
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tension of frontier life. Robert Shaw, the fourth in a family of seven children, was reared on the pioneer farm and early proved his self- reliant energy in connection with pioneer development and progress. In January, lfi34, was solemnized his marriage with Miss Polly Wilson, and they reared a large family of children. Robert Shaw and his wife con- tinued their residence in Greene County until their deaths.
Cyrus Shaw was reared on the old home farm and was afforded the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period. He was not yet twenty-one years of age at the inception of the Civil war, but before the close of the conflict he found opportunity to evince his youthful loyalty and patriotism by joining the gallant ranks of the "boys in blue." In 1864 he enlisted in Company F, Eighth Ohio Cavalry, with which he proceeded to the front and took part in a number of engagements. At Beverly, West Virginia, he was captured bv the enemy, and thereafter he was confined thirty-five days in the infamous old Libby Prison at Richmond, Virginia. After the close of the war he continued his asso- ciation with farm enterprise in his native county until 1872, when he went to California. He there remained until the Centennial year, 1876, when he returned to Ohio, where for many years he has been successfully identified with farm industry in Clark County, his well-improved farm estate comprising 164 acres and devoted to diversified agriculture and stock-raising. In addition to owning this fine homestead farm, Mr. Shaw is a stockholder in the Emery Farmers Elevator Company. He is a staunch advocate of the principles of the democratic party, and is affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
On the 6th of May, 1879, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Shaw and Miss Sarah E. Baker, who was born in Ripley County, Indiana, April 23, 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw have seven children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here recorded: George W., February 20, 1880; Charles D., January 15, 1882; Leslie P., October 23, 1884; Ralph I., April 7, 1890; Harvey, January 25, 1892; Henry F., March 28, 1894, and Margaret C, December 30, 1887. The son Ralph was in active service in the World war as a member of the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Margaret C, the only daughter, is a graduate of the high school at Yellow Springs.
Charles A. Roberts. A family that has been long and favorably known in Clark County for its connection with agricultural affairs and its high standards of citizenship is that bearing the name of Roberts. Of Welsh origin, its members have been largely farmers, and all have been of a sturdy, self-reliant type, constructive in accomplishment and per- manent in achievement. One who exemplifies the best traits of the family is Charles A. Roberts, who is carrying on extensive operations on his farm in Moorefield Township, on which he was born January 10, 1864, a son of Thomas H. and Mary (Coffey) Roberts.
James H. Roberts, the grandfather of Charles A., was born in Vir- ginia, where he received a practical, common school education and grew to manhood. There he married for his first wife, Jane Wilson, and moved to near Cincinnati, Ohio, where he started a tanyard on the Ohio River. His wife died in that community, leaving seven children. While residing
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there Mr. Roberts entered 250 acres in Moorefield Township, Clark County, but it was not until 1819 that he moved thereto. There he mar- ried, November 22, 1820, Mary Wren, and they lived on the farm during the remainder of their lives. Their ten children, all born there, are now deceased.
Thomas H. Roberts, the ninth child of his father's second marriage, was bom March 28, 1836, on the farm now occupied by his son Charles A. in Moorefield Township. He was educated in the rural schools, and married, March 26, 1863, Mary Coffey, who was born February 8, 1839, in Pleasant Township. They passed the remainder of their lives on the home farm and were highly respected and esteemed members of their community. They were the parents of six children, born as follows: Charles A., January 10, 1864 ; James W., March 6, 1865 ; Anna M., Octo- ber 20, 1866; Elizabeth A., April 14, 1869; Lucy C, November 21, 1870, and May, November 29, 1878. Of these children four are living at this time.
Charles A. Roberts was reared on the home farm and received his early education in the public schools and at Nelson's Commercial Col- lege. As a young man he became a bookkeeper in hardware and furniture stores at Springfield and Dayton, but eventually tired of city life and returned to the farm. He has been successful in the operation of his property and is now the proprietor of a tract that compares favorably in improvements and productiveness with any others in the locality. He is a man of ability and has carried on his farming in a modern manner.
On December 24, 1889, at Dayton, Mr. Roberts married Miss Mar- garet Howard, who was reared at Dayton, and died without issue, July 10, 1895. On August 22, 1898, Mr. Roberts married Josephine Warwick, who was born in Putnam County, Ohio, January 10, 1876, and educated in the graded and high schools. They have had eight children: Agnes, a graduate of high school, who married Oscar Lambert and has two chil- dren; Josephine, a high school graduate and teacher in the Springfield public schools, now attending Wittenberg College; Thomas, a graduate of high school, who is assisting his father in the operation of the home farm ; Edwin and John C, who are attending high school, and Catherine, James and Lucy, who are attending the graded school. The family belongs to the Baptist Church, in the work of which they have been active. Mr. Roberts is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees, in which he is keeper of the records. A republican in his political allegiance, he has the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens, and has served as township trustee and member of the School Board.
Earl Wilbur Tiffany, A. B., who for the last six years has been principal of the Springfield High School, was born at Springfield, July 27, 1873, a son of George and Ellen (Neal) Tiffany. George Tiffany was born at Meadville, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1849, a son of Nathan and Abigail (Ross) Tiffany, natives of Connecticut and Pennsylvania, re- spectively. The TifFanys are of old English stock, and this branch of the family has been in America for eight generations, the original immigrant having" settled in Connecticut upon arriving in this country, from which state later generations moved to Pennsylvania. The Ross family is of Pennsylvania Dutch origin. George Tiffany, the father of Professor
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Tifl'any and a carpenter by trade, came to Springfield in 1870, and here followed his vocation until his retirement, several years prior to his death in 1908.
Earl Wilbur Tiffany was educated in the Springfield public schools and graduated from the high school in 1890, following which he enrolled as a student at Antioch College, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts as a member of the class of 1905. He began his independent career as a bookkeeper for the James Lumber Company of Springfield, with which company he remained for one and one-half years, and then turned his attention to teaching. He taught his first school in 1892, when he was in his eighteenth year, and for four years was a teacher in the schools of Mad River Township, in Clark County. Then he taught at the Northern Building School at Springfield for one year, following which he became a teacher in the high school and remained in this capacity for about twenty years, teaching mathematics. In 1916 he was made principal of the high school, a position in which he has since remained, having established a splendid record for efficiency and popularity. He is a member of the National Educational Association, mathematics section, of which he served one year as secretary and one year as president, and of the Central Ohio Teachers Association, of which he IS now a member of the Executive Committee. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masons, belonging to Anthony Lodge No. 455, F. and A. M., and also holds membership in the Kiwanis Club.
In 1896 Professor Tiffany was united in marriage with Miss Anna M, Schaefer, who was born at Springfield, daughter of Charles H. and Susan (Netts) Schaefer, and to them there have been born the following chil- dren : Chester Wayne, who is teaching in the public school at Pliimwood, Ohio ; Don Meal, a graduate of Antioch College, Bachelor of Arts degree, and now assistant principal of the high school at Franklin, Ohio ; Florence Margaret, a teacher at the Fulton School, Springfield ; Lois Elizabeth, who IS attending Wittenberg College ; Philip Earl, a student at the Springfield High School, and Helen Louise and Normal Stanley, who are attending the graded schools. A little daughter, Dorothy, died at the age of three months.
John T. Shumaker. A well-known figure in educational circles of Clark County is John T. Shumaker, principal of the Fulton School of Springfield, who has been identified with school work throughout his career, the last ten years of which have been spent at Springfield. He is not only well and widely known as a teacher, but occupies several impor- tant posts in educational organizations and has done much to elevate the public school system standards.
Mr. Shumaker was born near Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio, Jan- uary 26, 1876, and is a son of the Rev. J. W. and Lydia J. (Webster) Shumaker. His father was born in Virginia, in 1830. He entered the ministry of the Presbyterian Church at the age of twenty-two years, and took his first charge in Adams County, Ohio. After a long and useful career, during which he filled a number of pulpits in Adams, Highland and other Ohio counties, he died in Adams County in 1904, aged seventy- four years. He was greatly beloved by his people in the various sec- tions in which his valuable labors were prosecuted. The mother of Mr.
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Shumaker, Lydia J. Webster, was born at Hillsboro, Ohio, March 22, 1833, and was a descendant of the old and distinguished family of which Daniel Webster was a member. She also died in Adams County in 1904, passing away only a few days prior to the death of her husband.
The early education of John T. Shumaker was obtained in the public schools of Adams County, and he was only seventeen years of age when he taught his first school, at Chum Creek, Ohio. Later he taught for eight years in the high school at Stout, Ohio, whence he went to Tremont, this state, and remained five years as a teacher in the high school, Mr. Shumaker was then offered the position of principal of the Fry School at Springfield, which he accepted and held for two years, later holding the same position at the Lagonda School for four years. In 1919 he became principal of the Fulton School, a post which he still retains.
Mr. Shumaker is a member of the Central Ohio Educational Asso- ciation, the Ohio State Educational Association, the Springfield Teachers Institute, of which he is secretary and treasurer, and the Springfield Teachers Association, of which he is treasurer. He holds a life certificate in Ohio as a public school teacher. Among his associates he is known as a man of broad and comprehensive knowledge, possessing the enviable faculty of imparting his knowledge to others, and among the student body he is highly esteemed and widely popular. As a fraternalist he holds membership in Clark Lodge No. 101, A. F. and A. M.; Red Star Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and Union Camp, Modern Woodmen of America. He belongs to Covenant Presbyterian Church of Springfield, where he has been a member of the Session for nine years and teacher of the Barraca Sunday School class for fifteen years.
In 1895 Mr. Shumaker was united in marriage with Miss Sally Pitts, who was born at Buena Vista, Ohio, in November 1876, daughter of Oscar and Mary J. Pitts, both of Buena Vista, Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. Shumaker there has been born one son, Claude V., born September 22, 1897. He attended the public schools, received instruction at home under the preceptorship of his father and then enrolled as a student at the Cincinnati School of Pharmacy, from which he was duly graduated. He is now securing further practical experience and training as an employe of a pharmacy at Springfield. Claude V. Shumaker married Miss Ruth Barton, of Springfield, and they are the parents of two children, Jack and Bob.
James Alexander Hayward, whose death occurred in Springfield on the 22nd of May, 1916, was a native son of Clark County, which he dignified alike by his sterling character and worthy achievement, he having been long numbered among the representative figures in the business life of Springfield.
Mr. Hayward was born on the old homestead farm of the Hayward family, on the present Charleston Turnpike, Clark County, and the date of his nativity was August 16, 1836. He was a son of David Hayward, who was born in the State of New Jersey, in September, 1803, and whose father, Abraham Hayward, was born January 10, 1782. From New Jersey David Hayward eventually removed to Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), and thence he came to Ohio in the '30s and established himself as a pioneer farmer in Clark County.
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He became one of the honored and influential citizens of the community, and at the time of his death, July 22, 1867, he was a member of the Board of County Commissioners and a director of the Springfield Board of Trade. At the time of his death the Springfield Daily News spoke of him as "an upright, able and conscientious man." David Hayward married Elizabeth Newcomer, and they became the parents of three sons and three daughters.
James Alexander Hayward was reared to the sturdy discipline of the pioneer farm, received the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period, and grew virile in mental and physical stature. Upon leaving the farm he established his residence in Springfield and engaged in the lumber business, his first yard, one of modest order, having been on the site of the present office of the Thomas Manufactur- ing Company, on South Limestone Street. Mr. Hayward continued successfully in the lumber trade until 1892, when he became treasurer of the Hoppes Manufacturing Company, with which representative concern he continued his service in this position until his death. His high ideals were expressed in all phases of his singularly active and successful life, and he commanded inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem, the while he was known for his generosity and consideration and for unostentatious benefactions of many kinds. He was an active member of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church. He found his interests aside from business in the work of his church and the gracious precincts of his home. His first wife, whose maiden name was Harriet Rinehart, was a daughter of Levi Rinehart, another of the ster- ling pioneers of Clark County. Mrs. Hayward died in 1886, and is survived by two children, Harry B. and Bessie (Mrs. Guy Coblentz). For his second wife Hayward wedded Mary Thompson, daughter of Christopher Thompson, and she survived him five years, her death occurring in July, 1921. No children were born of this union.
Harry B. Hayward, only son of the late James A. Hayward, to whom the preceding memoir is dedicated, was bom at Springfield, on the 1st of January, 1868, was educated in the public schools and a commer- cial college, and he initiated his practical career by becoming associated with his father's lumber business. In 1892, in partnership with his cousin, ^^. M. Goode, he succeeded his father in this business, at the time of the Voter's retirement therefrom, and the new firm continued the enterprise until 1916, when Mr. Hayward sold his interest to his partner, Mr. Goode. Since that year he has given his attention to the supervision of his various capitalistic interests and private business. He is a director of the Springfield Coffin & Casket Company, and is president of the Vulcan Hardware Company.
On the 8th of June, 1892, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hayward and Miss Alice Clifford, of Detroit, Michigan, and their only child, Ethel, is the wife of Charles G. Augustus. Mr. and Mrs. Augustus have one child, Charles Hayward.
John William Deam. One of the most important features of the educational system in all large cities of today is that which has to do with the business management. Modern educational methods
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demand a large and constantly-growing income to keep pace with the advancing standards as to equipment, etc., and it is necessary that the affairs of this matter be handled with the most scrupulous care and trained ability in order that the schools receive the greatest benefit in this direction. The business manager of the Springfield Board of Education, John William Deam, has been identified with school work for nearly thirty years, and is a man of much experience and specialized training. His discharge of the duties of his office has been commended by those who have watched educational affairs during the past two years.
Mr. Deam was born at Springfield, May 5, 1871, and is a son of John Peter and Catherine (Keopge) Deam. Mrs. Deam, who still survives as a resident of Springfield, was born in 1847, in Prussia, Germany, a daughter of Andrew Peter Keopge, a stonemason by trade, who brought his family to the United States in 1864 and set- tled at Springfield, where he rounded out his career. John Peter Deam was born at New Bremen, Ohio, a son of John Andrew and Elizabeth (Garvey) Deam. John Andrew Deam was born in the United States, of German parentage, and as a youth learned the blacksmith trade, but later in life was the proprietor of a hotel. He was an early resident of Springfield, where he became well known and highly esteemed. John Peter Deam was six years of age when brought to Springfield by his parents, and here acquired a public school education. During the Civil war he enlisted in an Ohio volunteer infantry regiment, with which he served bravely and faith- fully, and following the war returned to Springfield, where he fol- lowed blacksmith and steel forging work. When he died, in 1916, his community lost a good man and public-spirited citizen.
John William Deam is indebted to the graded and high schools of Springfield for his educational training. As a youth he was apprenticed to mechanical work in the foundry and pattern depart- ment of the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company (now the Inter- national Truck Company), and remained with that concern until 1894, at which time he first became identified with public school work. During the next quarter of a century he was variously employed in the public schools, and thus became fully familiar with all branches of their management. On January 5, 1920, he was made business manager of the Board of Education, a position which he has filled with much ability to the present. He has the full confi- dence of his associates and has proven himself capable, trustworthy and energetic in the discharge of his important duties. Mr. Deam is a member of Moncrieffe Lodge No. 33. Knights of Pythias, and of Commercial Camp No. 3347, Modern Woodmen of America.
He was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Kelso, who was born at Cumberland, Maryland, a daughter of John and Mary F. (Carter) Kelso, well-known and highly esteemed residents of that city. To this union there have been born the following children: Charles Henry; Esther May, who married William Newcomb and has two children, Paul and William R. ; Ethel Florence, who married Paul Nagel and has two children, Billy and Betty ; and John Walter. Mr. and Mrs. Deam occupy a pleasant home at Springfield and have
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a large circle of sincere friends. They are faithful members of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, and are willing and generous contributors to all movements pertaining to charity, education and better citizenship.
Frank D. Saunders. During a period of fifteen years Frank D. Saunders of Springfield has been actively and prominently engaged in institutional work throughout the State of Ohio, and his long and comprehensive training equip him admirably for the discharge of his present duties as superintendent of the Ohio Masonic Home, a position which he has held since September, 1919. Mr. Saunders was born at Marlborough, Massachusetts, April 3, 1857, and is a son of Dexter B. and Abby E. (Pulsifer) Saunders.
Dexter B. Saunders was born on a farm in Massachusetts, April 17, 1820, and was reared to agricultural pursuits, which he followed during the early years of his life. Later he became identified with manufacturing activities, both in the state of his nativity and in Ohio, to which latter he came in 1875, bringing with him his family. He took up his residence at Cleveland, where he died in 1898. He was a man of much ability and of the strictest integrity and held the respect and confidence of all with whom he was associated. On February 26, 1852, Mr. Saunders married Miss Abby E. Pulsifer, who was born February 6, 1831, daughter of Nathaniel Pulsifer, and died January 12, 1858.
Frank D. Saunders received his early education in the primary schools and the English High School of Boston, and started on his active career soon after the Boston fire as an assistant in his father's factory. Later he joined the organization of D. Appleton Com- pany, publishers, New York City, and was sent to Ohio and was connected with the school book department of the company in the Buckeye state. Later, because of financial disaster, due to the failure of a .bank, Mr. Saunders became identified with institutional work in Ohio, his first connection of this character being with the Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum. He continued as field agent for thai institution from 1908 until 1910, when he went to Akron, Ohio, as superintendent of the Summit County Children's Home, where he remained until September, 1919, at that time coming to Springfield to assume his present duties as superintendent of the Ohio Masonic Home. In this work he has proven highly capable, and his execu- tive management has served to maintain the institution at a high standard of efficiency.
Superintendent Saunders is a member of Henry Perkins Lodge No. 611, A. F. and A. M., of Akron; Washington Chapter No. 25, R. A. M., of Akron ; Akron Council No. 80, R. and S. M. ; Akron Com- mandery No. 25, K. T. ; Lake Erie Consistory; Antioch Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Dayton ; and Chapter No. 304, Order of the Eastern Star. He has always given his support to worthy civic movements.
On July 12, 1882, Mr. Saunders was united in marriage with Miss Lottie L. Craig, who was born at Olmstead Falls, Ohio, September 19, 1857, a daughter of Henry and Lydia Craig, of Canterbury, Eng- land. Mrs. Saunders is matron of the Masonic Home and an able
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assistant to her husband in his manifold duties. Mr. and Mrs. Saunders are the parents of two children : Nellie Craig, born Novem- ber 1, 1884, who married J. C. Conger, of Peninsula, Ohio, and has one daughter, Charlotte, born April 4, 1921 ; and Warren Saunders, born April 1, 1886, who died June 10, 1916, leaving a widow and two children, Ruth E., born July 12, 1912, and Frank D., born December 23, 1914. Mr. and Mrs. Saunders are faithful members of the Covenant Presbyterian Church, and have always been generous sup- porters of all enterprises in the way of charity, religion and educa- tion. They have made numerous friends since locating at Spring- field, and are popular with the inmates of the Home.
Fred Wertzel Williss is the executive head of a splendidly ordered educational institution that contributes much to the prestige of his native county and the City of Springfield, where he is proprietor and director of the Williss Business University. He was born on a farm in Madison Township, Clark County, June 18, 1858, and is a son of the late P. W. and Anna (Williss) Williss. He was reared in the home and on the farm of his paternal grandfather, John Williss, and supplemented the discipline of the public schools by a course in the Ohio State Normal School at South Charleston, this county, in which he was graduated. Thereafter he studied medicine under the preceptorship of his grandfather, Dr. Williss, of Cincinnati, and that of Dr. Buckingham, of Springfield, but he deflected from the medical to the legal profession. He read law in the offices of Keifer & White, of Springfield, and was admitted to the bar in the year 1880. He initiated practice in the office of the late Samuel Bowman at Springfield, but in 1882 returned to the offices of his preceptors, Keifer & White, with whom he continued to be associated in practice during the ensuing twelve years. He was private secretary to Gen- eral J. Warren Keifer during the latter's terms of service as a mem- ber of the United States Congress, including the term when General Keifer was speaker of the House of Representatives. Mr. Williss also gave characteristically effective service as private secretary to the late Judge William White, who was then presiding on the bench of the United States District Court of Ohio.
Mr. Williss learned stenography and typewriting under the direc- tion of Benjamin Gaines, and when he came to Springfield he was the only man in the city at that time who earned his living by stenography. His appreciation of the value of such work and of the desire of many young men to prepare themselves for service as stenog- raphers and typewriter operators lead to his responding to a distinct demand and opening, in 1880, the pioneer school of shorthand and typewriting in Springfield, he having employed competent teachers to conduct the institution. From a most modest inception this school, which originally received only local supporting patronage, has grown into one of the important and well conducted institutions of its kind in the state. The Williss Business Universitv occupies the entire fourth floor of the Bushnell Building, has stuaents from every state in the Union, as well as from other countries, and it is now one of the largest and most celebrated schools for business train- ing to be found in the entire United States, its facilities being used
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by the Government in its reclamation service for soldiers of the World war. By 1890 the growth and demands of the school made it expe- dient for Mr. Williss to retire from the practice of law, and he has since given his entire time and attention to its management, his progressive policies having brought its service in all departments up to the highest standard of efficiency and usefulness. Mr. Williss received from Nashville College the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and from the American Institute of Commerce he has received the degree of F. C. I., as has he also from the British Institute of Commerce, of London, England.
At South Charleston, Clark County, in 1881, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Williss and Miss Martha H. Sands, who was born in Illinois but who was an infant at the time of the family removal to Clark County, Ohio, where she was reared and educated. Her father, Israel Sands, later removed to Winfield, Kansas. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Williss the following brief data are available : Carl L., born in 1883, received his business education in the Williss Business University, the advantages of which have been utilized also by the other children, and he is now manager for the Standard Oil Company at Memphis, Tennessee; Frank S., bom in 1885, won the gold medal in typewriting at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mis- souri, in 1904, and at the time of his death, in October, 1920, he was sales manager for the Standard Oil Company at Jackson, Tennessee ; Warren K., born in 1887, received from the National Association of Accountants, Washington, D. C, his technical recognition as a certi- fied public accountant, and as an expert accountant he is now engaged in practice at Springfield; Grace A., born in 1889, is the wife of Adolph F. Long, of Springfield; Fred W. died in childhood; LeRoy M., bom in 1900, is bookkeeper for a representative business concern at Springfield.
Mr. Williss is affiliated with the Ohio Commercial Teachers Asso- ciation, the Ohio State Stenographers Association and the National Stenographers Association. In their home city he and his wife hold active membership in St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church.
John H. Gowdy. A typical representative of the best agricul- tural element of Clark County is found in the person of John H. Gowdy, a well-known butcher and farmer, who lives on his thirty-two acre farm on the line between Springfield and Moorefield townships. He has been a resident of this community for many years, and ha« various business interests in addition to being a progressive citizen.
Mr. Gowdy was born November 5, 1857, in Champaign County, Ohio, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Swartz) Gowdy. Wil- liam Gowdy was born as Christiansburg, Champaign County, Ohio, a son of John and Betsey Gowdy, and was reared in his native community. From Champaign County he went to Urbana, Ohio, where he was residing at the time of President Lincoln's call for volunteers for the Union Army for service during the Civil war, and July 11, 1861, enlisted, becoming a member of Company H, Twenty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was one of those to sacrifice his life on the altar of his country, for at the battle of Chattanooga he was badly wounded, and died in the army hospital October 2, 1863. A
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man of sterling qualities, he had the respect of his officers and the friendship and esteem of his comrades. He and his worthy wife were the parents of four children, of whom three are living in 1922: Sarah A., wife of Alfred Shaffer, of Dayton, Ohio; Carolina A., the wife of Gus Wiegel, of Tremont City, Ohio, and John H., of this review.
John H. Gowdy was reared in Champaign County until he was seven years of age, at which time he was brought to Clark County. The death of his father had left his mother in straitened financial circumstances, and as a result his education was very much restricted, being confined to several terms of attendance at the district schools. However, he made the most of his opportunities, and as he has been a man of keen observation and a prolific reader he today possesses a practical education that is as valuable as that of many men who have enjoyed far greater advantages in the way of schooling. He wa^ only nine years of age when he began to work on farms, and this formed his vocation until he was sixteen years of age, at which time he learned the trade of butcher. For about five years he worked for others at various places, but finally, when he had just passed his majority, he embarked in business on his own account, and has con- tinued therein until the present, when he is the proprietor of a successful and extensive business, both wholesale and retail. He bears an excellent reputation for industry and integrity, built up through years of honorable dealing with his fellows.
On June 21, 1881, Mr. Gowdy was united in marriage with Miss Emma J. Fox, who was born on the farm on which she and her husband now make their home, April 6, 1859, a daughter of Simon and Mary A. (Hause) Fox. They have no children. Mr. and Mrs. Gowdy are people of religious tendencies, but have never made formal declaration of membership in any church, although they attend services regularly. Fraternally Mr. Gowdy is affiliated with Lodge No. 455, Free and Accepted Masons, the Chapter and Council of Masonry, Palestine Commandery No. 33, Knights Templar, and Antioch Shrine of Dayton, Ohio. In politics he is a democrat, but only takes a good citizen's part in public affairs, having never cared for nor sought public office. He has various business connections and is a stockholder in the American Motorist, Dayton, Dayton Auditing Devices, and the Springfield Bond and Mortgage Company.
David W. Trimmer. Agricultural methods have advanced amazingly during recent years, and machinery and equipment considered entirely adequate only a comparatively short time ago are now obso- lete. That this is so is due to the progressive ideas and good judgment of such capable and farsighted agriculturists as David W. Trimmer, of Moorefield Township, who has a snug farm of thirty acres in Moorefield Township, on which he is carrying on successful operations.
Mr. Trimmer was born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, August 6, 1859, and is a son of Gibson and Catherine (Ulrich) Trimmer. Gibson Trimmer was born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, where he grew to manhood and received only meagre educational advan- tages. He married Catherine Ulrich, who was born in York County, Pennsylvania, and who, like her husband, had only scant opportuni-
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ties for the securing of an education. They were married in Adams County, where they made their home during the remainder of their lives, devoted themselves to the pursuit of farming and were highly esteemed members of their community. They belonged to the Meth- odist Episcopal Church. Mr. Trimmer served as a private in a Penn- sylvania regiment of volunteer infantry during the Civil war, and during his four years of service established an honorable war record as a participant in numerous hard-fought engagements. In politics he was a republican. Mr. and Mrs. Trimmer were the parents of thirteen children, of whom four are living in 1922: Emma, the wife of Benjamin F. Miller, of Pennsylvania; David W. ; Ellen, the wife of Christ Schultz, of Pennsylvania, and Lewis, also a resident of the Keystone State.
David W. Trimmer was reared in Pennsylvania until reaching the age of sixteen years, at which time he came to Ohio. He obtained a common school education, and on coming to Clark County began working on the farm for monthly wages during the summer months, while in the winters he was employed in a factory at Springfield. Mr. Trimmer married Miss Almeda May Buser, who was born in Pennsylvania and came to Ohio in young girlhood, receiving her education in the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Trimmer resided at various places until 1900, when they located on the farm and have since made it their home. Their thirty-acre property is highly improved and has been made greatly productive, and the buildings are substantial and attractive. Mr. Trimmer operates as a general farmer, and is thoroughly at home in all departments of his vocation. He is likewise a man of sound integrity, who has the respect of his fellow-citizens because of his straightforward qualities and willing- ness to lend his aid to worthy community movements.
Of the seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Trimmer six are living in 1922: Catherine, a graduate of the Springfield High School, now the wife of James J. Cliborn, of Kentucky; Gertrude, who attended high school for two years, and is now the widow of James Carnihan; Murial, a graduate of the high school, living at home, who is a teacher in the Springfield public schools; Raymond O., an employe of the railroad, living at the home of his parents, who was married and is the father of one child; George, a graduate of the Springfield High School, and also a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago, who is now a resident of Chicago ; and Harold, who is single and assists his father in the work of the home farm. Mr. and Mrs. Trimmer are members of the First Baptist Church of Springfield, to the movements of which they are generous donators. Fraternally he is a popular member of the local lodges of the Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of the Golden Eagle and the Loyal Order of Moose. He is a republican in his political tendencies, but has never been a seeker of public office.
Luther Neer. Included among the men who have assisted Clark County's agricultural development is Luther Neer, now a resident of Catawba and a citizen who is held in high esteem by his neighbors. He is one of the large property owners of Pleasant Township, and is modern in his tendencies and actions.
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Mr. Neer was born on a farm in Pleasant Township, Clark County, November 12, 1854, and is a son of Nathan and Mary A. (Hunter) Neer, and a great grandson of Henry Need. His grandfather, Amos Neer, was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, near Neerville, named in honor of the family, and was married there to Nancy Cunnard, a native of the same State. Together they came to Clark County, where they passed the remainder of their lives in farming. Their son Nathan Neer, father of Luther, was born in Pleasant Township, October 8, 1822, and passed his entire life within the borders of the county, where he applied himself to agricultural operations. He and bi« worthy wife, who was born in Pleasant Township, March 1, 1823, were the parents of seven children, namely: Levi, William H., Miranda E., Luther, Charles F., Alonzo W. and Laura J.
Luther Neer was reared on the home farm in Pleasant Township and passed his boyhood and youth much the same as other farmers' sons in his community, attending the district school in the winter seasons and working on the home farm during the rest of the year. Thus he continued until reaching the age twenty-one years, at which time he embarked in agricultural operations on his own account. He has been highly successful in his operations, and is now the owner of 525 acres of land, all located within the boundaries of Pleasant Township. Mr. Neer first married Miss Mary J. Loveless, who died in 1908, having been the mother of five children : Olive L., the wife of Van C. Tullis, and they have two children, Dorothy and Robert; Nathan L., who is deceased ; Leonard J., who is a farmer and stock raiser in Pleasant Township, married Crystal P. McClennan, and they have one child, Mary Jane; Gladys R. is the wife of Morris Lellis, and they have one child, Martha; and Emerson J., who is assisting his father in the work of the home place. Emerson J. Neer served in the American Army during the World war, and saw active service overseas as a member of the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Aviation Corps.
On January 10, 1917, Mr. Neer was united in marriage with Miss Laura M. Baldwin, who was born in Clark County, February 14, 1864, a daughter of George S. and Mary (Neer) Baldwin, the former born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, September 5, 1833, and the latter, in Pleasant Township, August 10, 1839. Mr. Baldwin came to Clark County in 1855, and he and Mrs. Baldwin were married here two years later. They became the parents of three children: Ella F., the widow of William O. Shearer; Laura M., who became Mrs. Luther Neer, and Howard J., who died October 10, 1893. Mrs. Neer, a graduate of the Marysville High School, was a teacher for several years prior to her marriage. Her father was a son of Johnson C. and Hannah (Speakman) Baldwin, and her mother was a daughter of Mahlon and Nancy (McConkey) Neer, the latter being a daughter of Archibald and Nancy (Michey) McConkey and a granddaughter of Archibald and Margaret (McDonald) McConkey, both of whom were born in Scotland and came to the United States as young people. Mr. and Mrs. Neer are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Neer is a member of the Board of Stewards. Mrs. Neer is a member of Magnetic Rebekah Lodge No. 258, of Marysville, Ohio. In politics both are republicans.
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Milton Cheney. One of the most substantial representatives of the farming interests of Clark County is Milton Cheney, of South Charleston. He has devoted upwards of half a century to his tasks and responsibilities, has prospered, owns a fine and well developed farm, and has rendered a great deal of community service in the intervals of his business career.
Mr. Cheney was born on a farm in Madison Township, July 7, 1850, son of Jonathan and Matilda (Harpall) Cheney. His father was born near Mechanicsburg, Champaign County, Ohio, and his mother, in Greene County. Jonathan Cheney after a common school education came to Clark County, located on a farm, and became widely known as a cattle man and stock trader. He was very suc- cessful and left a large property at his death. He was a member of the Universalist Church, was a charter member of the Madison Lodge of Odd Fellows and is also affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, Free and Accepted Masons. He was a staunch republican in politics. His family consists of three children: William, deceased; Rebecca, living in California, widow of Milton Young, and Milton.
Milton Cheney had the training of a farm boy, was educated in the public schools, and was with his parents until the age of twenty-one. On April 27, 1871, he married Addie Sprague, a native of Harmony Township. Five children were born to their marriage: Mollie, wife of G. B. Hicks; Miss Harriet B.; Pearl, who is city manager of South Charleston ; Howard L., superintendent and treas- urer of a business at Franklin, Ohio ; Scott, who lives with his father. The daughter, Miss Harriet B., has for twenty-one years been super- intendent and manager of the local Telephone Company, and has proved an exceedingly capable business woman, handling all the buying and other duties of the management.
Mr. Cheney's large and productive farm comprises 350 acres. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian Church. He is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, Free and Accepted Masons, is a past grand and past chief patriot in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and a republican. His public service comprises thirty-two years of membership on the School Board of Madison Township. For twelve years he served as township trustee, and in 1894 was elected and served two terms as a county commissioner.
James W. Roberts. The agricultural interests of Clark County are well represented in Moorefield Township by James W. Roberts, a member of one of the old and honored Clark County families, and a capable and experienced agriculturist of modern tendencies. Mr. Roberts is also an active participant in public affairs, and at the present is a member of the Board of Trustees of Moorefield Township.
Mr. Roberts was born on a farm near the site of his present home, March 6, 1865, and is a son of Thomas H. and Mary (Coffey) Roberts. His grandfather, James H. Roberts, was born in Virginia, of Welsh descent, and after receiving a public school education took up farming. In the Old Dominion he married for his first wife Miss Jane Wilson. They moved to near Cincinnati, Ohio, where Mr. Roberts began his career as the proprietor of a tannery, with a tan- yard on the Ohio River. His wife died in that community, leaving
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seven children. While residing there Mr. Roberts entered 250 acres of land in Moorefield Township, Clark County, but did not take up this property until 1819. Not long after settling there he married, November 22, 1820, Mary Wren, and they spent the remainder of their lives on the farm. They became the parents of ten children, all of whom are now deceased.
Thomas H. Roberts, who was the ninth in order of birth of his father's children by his second marriage, was born March 28, 1836, on the farm now occupied by his son Charles A. Roberts in Moore- field Township. He was educated in the country schools, and was united in marriage, March 26, 1863, with Miss Mary Coffey, who was born February 8, 1839, in Pleasant Township, Clark County. They passed the remaining years of their lives on the home farm, which they developed into a valuable property through industry and good management, and at the same time won and held the respect and esteem of the people of their community. They were the parents of six children, whose birth dates were as follows: Charles A., Jan- uary 10, 1864; James W., March 6, 1865; Anna M., October 26, 1866; Elizabeth A., April 14, 1869; Lucy C, November 21, 1870, and May, November 29, 1878. Of these children four are living at present.
James W. Roberts was reared on the old home farm in Moorefield Township, where he assisted his father during the summer months, and in the short winter terms went to the district school at Oakdale. He remained on the home place until reaching the age of twenty- seven years, when his father assisted him to a start in life at the time of his marriage, June 30, 1892, to Miss Blanche Baldwin, who was born July 15, 1871, in Kansas, and was reared at Washington, D. C, where her father was an attorney in the employ of the United States Government. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Roberts, who had secured a good public school education, was a teacher in the schools of Clark and Champaign counties, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts are the parents of one daughter: Blanche B., who was born March 30, 1894. She has had excellent educational advantages, being a graduate of the Springfield High School, the School of Expression, Boston, Massa- chusetts, and the Springfield Business College, and is now serving capably as stenographer in the real estate office of James and Bower of Springfield.
At the time of their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Roberts settled on his farm of sixty-five acres, on which he has since made numerous improvements, including a comfortable home and commodious barns and outbuildings. He conducts his operations in a modern way, using up-to-date machinery and methods, and in his community is accounted an able agriculturist as well as a man of business reliability and a citizen of public spirit. He is also the owner of a share in the home farm. A republican in his political sentiment, he has been interested in public affairs in the community for some years, and at present is serving capably and faithfully in the capacity of trustee of Moorefield Township and as a member of the local Board of School Directors. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Junior Order United American Mechanics. Mrs. Roberts is a member of and active worker in the Baptist Church.
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Harvey E. Myers, for a long period of years was in service in an executive capacity with one of Springfield's greatest industries, the Robbins and Myers Company, and when he retired from business he took up responsibilities both pleasant and useful as a practical farmer. He is proprietor of the Beaver Creek Earm, a splendid place of 500 acres situated on the National Pike, eight miles east of Spring- field.
Mr. Myers was born near Jamestown, Greene County, Ohio, July 27, 1866, son of Joseph and Susana (Long) Myers. His father was also born in the same county, was reared and educated there, and spent his active life on the farm near Jamestown. He had 160 acres, and was a very substantial citizen as well as successful farmer. He was a republican, served as township trustee and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Joseph Myers and wife had eight children: William A., and Henry C, deceased; Louisa E., living at Springfield, widow of John H. Gano; James A., and Charles A., deceased; Laura B., widow of Frank Bryan; John F., a farmer in Greene County, and Harvey E.
Harvey E. Myers lived on the home farm in Greene County until he was nineteen years of age. While there he attended the common schools, and on going to Springfield he became a bookkeeper in the offices of the Robbins and Myers Company. Subsequently he acquired an interest in the business, and from 1886 to 1916, a period of thirty years, he was secretary and vice president of this corporation. Mr. Myers sold his interest and retired from the business in 1916, and since then has been devoting his time to the management of the Beaver Creek Farm, undoubtedly one of the best properties in the rural district of Clark County.
March 28, 1889, Mr. Myers married Mary E. Griffith of Spring- field. She was born on a farm in Clark County, July 26, 1866, daughter of Jeremiah and Lorena (Kelly) Griffith. Her father was born in Indiana, December 19, 1842, and her mother, in Greene County, Ohio, August 10, 1836. Mrs. Myers lived on the farm where she was born until she was twelve years of age, and then went to Springfield, where she completed her education. Mr. and Mrs. Myers have four daughters : Gladys, born April 28, 1893, a graduate of Wittenberg College and the wife of Rev. J. D. Wint; Marjorie, born April 10, 1896, a graduate of Wittenberg Academy and Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, has been a bookkeeper and teacher in a business college; Dorothy, born May 8, 1897, a graduate of the Plattsburg High School, is now wife of Ralph N. Agle, of Har- mony Township, and Jean E., born November 27, 1908, attending the eighth grade of the public school. There was another child, Clarence, who died at birth. Mr. Myers and his family are members of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church of Springfield. Mrs. Myers has been very active in Sunday School and is teacher of the Woman's Bible Class. Fraternally he is affiliated with Anthony Lodge No. 456, Free and Accepted Masons, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason in the Consistory of Dayton, a member of Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton, is a past grand and one of the trustees of Ephraim Lodge No. 146, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Springfield, and is also a trustee of the Grand
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Lodge and a member of the Mad River Encampment. He and Mrs. Myers are members of Ivor Lodge of the Rebekahs. Politically he has always done his duty as a republican.
Joseph E. Deitrick has been a prosperous farmer of Clark County for a long period of years, and, while he has turned over the respon- sibilities to others, he still lives on his fine farm on the National Road, six miles east of Springfield.
Mr. Deitrick was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, November 13, 1848, son of Joseph and Rachael (Armstrong) Deitrick. His father was born six miles northwest of Dayton, in Montgomery County, where his father had settled on coming to this country from Switzerland. Joseph Deitrick had a common school education and became a carpenter and contractor, and through that business amply provided for his family. He was a republican. His wife was born at Brownsville, Indiana, but from early girlhood lived in Montgomery County. They had a family of seven children, three now living,
Joseph E., and two sisters : Elizabeth, widow of William Stutz ; and Irs. Sarah Riley, also a widow.
Joseph E. Deitrick was four years old when his mother died and eleven when his father passed away. After that he lived until he was grown in the home of George and Mary Cleppinger. He acquired a common school education, though he had to work for a living even as a boy. After leaving the Cleppinger home he worked on a farm in Champaign County, and from there came to Clark County. For seven years Mr. Deitrick managed the Baird farm, where his wife was born and reared and where they now reside.
May 13, 1880, Mr. Deitrick married Carolina E. Baird, and she has lived in this community all her life. Mr. and Mrs. Deitrick are members of the Methodist Protestant Church, and he has been very active in that church.
Peter C. Baird, father of Mrs. Deitrick, was born in Maryland, in 1792, while his wife was born in 1802. The Baird family moved from Maryland to Flemingsburg, Kentucky, and in 1807 came to Clark County, Ohio. Peter C. Baird entered the land comprising the farm where Mr. and Mrs. Deitrick reside. The farms owned by Mr. and Mrs. Deitrick comprise 300 acres in their home place, 165 acres adjoining Vienna, 110 acres at Brooks Station, and still another place of 174 acres. For a number of years they have rented these farms, and have taken life in comfort, spending much of their time in travel.
Edgar Newton Lupfer, president and general manager of the Springfield Metallic Casket Company, was bom on the old homestead farm of the Lupfer family, just to the west of the original site of New Bloomfield, Perry County, Pennsylvania, a part of the farm being now within the corporate limits of that borough. He was born February 28, 1856, and is the eldest son of the late William and Hannah M. (Billow) Lupfer. His g^eat-great-grand father on the paternal side was Jacob Lupfer, who came to America from Wittenberg, Saxony, and passed three years in the present Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, whence he then removed to Perry County, that state, in 1778. The land which he purchased in the latter coun^ continued in the possession
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of the family until 1875, when it was sold by his great-grandson, William Lupfer. There is a legend that this entire tract was once purchased from the Indians for a string of beads and a bull calf. Jacob Lupfer, the original progenitor, came to America on the sailing vessel "Phoenix," which sailed from Rotterdam and which landed in the port of Philadel- phia, November 22, 1752. On the ancestral homestead in Perry County four generations of the family were born, including the father of him whose name initiates this review. Casper Lupfer, son of Jacob, donated sites for cemeteries for both the Lutheran and Reformed Churches in his commimity, and his remains were interred in burial ground thus given to the Reformed Church.
In the spring of 1861 William Lupfer, with his wife and their four children, came from Perry County, Pennsylvania, to Shelby, Ohio, where he engaged in mercantile enterprise. A year later he engaged in the same business at Shiloh, but in 1870 he sold his stock and business and returned to Pennsylvania, where he purchased the interests of the other heirs to the old homestead of his father, David Lupfer, who died in the spring of that year. In the fall of 1876 Mr. Lupfer again came with his family to Ohio, and on this occasion he established his home at Springfield, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives.
When a lad of fourteen years Edgar N. Lupfer left the high school at Shiloh, Ohio, and entered the New Bloomfield Academy in Pennsyl- vania, in which he continued his studies from 1870 to 1873. He then entered upon an apprenticeship to the printer's trade in the office of the New Bloomfield Times, and after completing his three years' apprentice- ship he worked four days and a half as a journeyman at his trade. After returning to Ohio he was associated with his father in the retail grocery business until 1884, when he was appointed general agent of the Superior Grain Drill Company of Springfield, which is now a part of the American Seeding Machine Company. In this position he had his headquarters at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and had supervision of ninety- two agencies, in Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. In the fall of 18iB4 he married Miss Elizabeth Ann Baker, and in the spring of the following year he returned to Springfield and purchased an interest in a firm recently organized to manufacture a newly patented metallic burial casket. In 1886 the Springfield Metallic Casket Company was incorporated, with Mr. Lupfer as its secretary. Ross Mitchell, president of the company, was born at Landisburg, Pennsylvania, twelve miles distant from the birthplace of Mr. Lupfer, and was a boy when his parents removed to Springfield, Ohio.
In 1888 Mr. Lupfer became general manager, as well as secretary, of the Springfield Metallic Casket Company, and since October 16, 1917, he has been its president and general manager. The following statement has all of proved consistency: "Mr. Lupfer has, by his ability, pro- gressive policies and effective management, brought his company not only to a position of leadership among the powerful corporations of Springfield, which is a great manufacturing city, but also to be one of the strongest, if not the strongest, concerns in its field of industry in the entire world."
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"In the early part of 1884 the Springfield Metallic Casket Company was organized as a partnership, by Dr. A. A. Baker, D. R. Hosterman and Daniel B. Hiser, the last mentioned having been patentee of a sectional cast-metal casket which would seal hermetically. The first little assembling shop, with office, was over Bauroth's machine shop in Walnut Alley, between High and Main streets, the room being about forty feet square. The officers were : Dr. A. A. Baker, president ; Ross Mitchell, vice president; D. R. Hosterman, treasurer; E. N. Lupfer, secretary; S. E. Baker, general manager; and Charles H. Hiser, super- intendent.
"It was in the fall of 1899 that our company purchased the Springfield Silver Plate Company, through the medium of which casket hardware was added to our line. In the same year we purchased the plant known as the Driscol Buggy Company. To the parent plant we have added additions and also the erection of two separate factory buildings, one for the exclusive manufacture of steel grave-vaults, and the other con- taining our mammoth drawing presses and dies. We have added to our line until we can supply every need of the funeral director. Our product consists of bronze, copper and sheet-ingot iron caskets. These sheet-metal caskets are manufactured in a great many sizes and a great variety of finishes. We manufacture about 100 styles. We manufacture also a line of cloth-covered wood caskets and casket hardware for other manufacturers. Our company ships goods all over the country, but is one of the few companies that does. We now have storage stocks and exhibit rooms in Los Angeles, Omaha, Kansas City and Detroit."
The company gives continuous employment to a force of about 300 persons, and the concern is one of the largest of the kind in the world, its far reaching trade contributing much to the commercial prestige of Springfield. Mr. Lupfer is vice president of the Mad River National Bank, and a director in the Ohio State Life Insurance Company at Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Lupfer is a valued member of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce and the local Rotary Club, and holds membership also in the Lagonda and Country Clubs. He is a Knight Templar and thirty- second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and affiliated also with the Mystic Shrine. He is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
The first wife of Mr. Lupfer died March 23, 1916, and is survived by one son, Robert Newton Lupfer, who is secretary of the Elmwood Myers Company, of Springfield. He married Miss Ella Mason, of Detroit, Michigan, and they have one son, Edgar Baker Lupfer. On the 11th of January, 1919, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lupfer and Minnie L. Bergmann, of Madison, Wisconsin.
Warren K. Buffenbarger is a well known business man of South Charleston, where he is proprietor of the leading garage. He also has and manages some valuable farming interests in this section of Clark County.
Mr. BuflFenbarger was born on a farm in Green Township, August 6, 1883, son of Samuel and Florence (Baldwin) BuflFenbarger. The BuflFenbargers were one of the first families of Clark County. His grandfather, George BuflFenbarger, was a native of Virgina and was one of the first settlers in Madison Township, where he located in 1806. Samuel BuflFenbarger was born in Madison Township, July
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28, 185 L His wife, Florence Baldwin, was born in Greene Township, September 13, 1854, daughter of John and Jane McQuality Baldwin. Samuel Buffenbarger and wife were reared and educated in Madison Township, and after their marriage settled on a farm in Green Township. She died on the old homestead, and he passed away at South Charleston in 1921. They were members of the Presby- terian Church, and in politics the father voted as a republican.
Warren K. Buffenbarger was the only one of five children to survive infancy. He spent his life on the farm, acquired a district school education, and in 1908 moved to South Charleston, where for twelve years he was active in the lumber business. Since 1920 he has devoted his time to the management of his garage and his farm.
November 25, 1903, Mr. Buffenbarger married Delia McDaniel, a native of Pickaway County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Buffenbarger have two children: Elmer Willard, born December 29, 1909, and Warren K., Jr., born in 1914. Mrs. Buffenbarger is a Presbyterian. He is affiliated with the Junior Order United American Mechanics and is a republican.
Vernie Nagley is a practical farm manager and owner, and bis home is a farm in Madison Township, near Selma. He was born at Fort Wayne, Indiana, January 5, 1879, son of George and Catherine (Gram) Nagley. His parents were both natives of Clark County, his father born in Madison Township, in 1847, and his mother, in Greene Township. Vernie Nagley was only four years of age when his mother died, and he was soon afterward left an orphan. From the age of five he was reared by W. P. Nagley until he was about ten years old. He has spent most of his life on the farm where he lives today. He acquired a common school education, and at the age of eighteen left home and spent three years on a cattle ranch in the West. He then returned and has since been identified with his work as a farmer and stockman.
Mr. Nagley, who is unmarried, is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, Free and Accepted Masons, at South Charleston. He indi- vidually owns a hundred acres, but he operates between 700 and 800 acres for farming and raising purposes. He produces much high grade stock, and he also buys and feeds for the market, shipping cattle by the carload. He has been a member for the past seven years and has served as vice president of the Clark County Agri- cultural Board. He is a republican, active in the party and has served as judge of elections.
Leonard S. Wright is one of the men who is setting a high standard for the agricultural and stock raising industry of Clark County. He is a man of very good judgment and business ability, and his industry has carried him far toward the achievement of individual success. Mr. Wright for the past ten years has lived on the old McGrew farm, four miles west of South Charleston.
He was born on a farm in Fayette County, Ohio, December 13, 1884, son of Allie and Alice (Fannon) Wright. His father was born in Fayette County, March 31, 1861, son of Walter S. and Nancy (Allen) Wright, and grandson of Benjamin and Rebecca (Cave) Wright. Allie Wright was reared and educated in Fayette County,
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and after his marriage lived on a farm there for a number of years. He now owns a farm in Greene Township of Clark County, but his home is in Springfield. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is a republican in politics. AUie Wright and wife had five children: Leonard S. ; Ansel, a farmer in Madison County, Ohio; Samuel, a farmer in Clark County; Ova, wife of Thomas Winner, a carpenter at Springfield, and Ekjrothy, attending the Springfield High School.
Leonard S. Wright spent his early life on farms in Fayette and Madison counties, and while there made the best possible use of his advantages in the district schools. He was at home until he was twenty-one, and two years later he married Delia Foster. She was born in Madison County, November 13, 1887, and had a public school education.
After his marriage Mr. Wright rented a farm in Madison County for four years, and then, ten years ago, moved to Clark County and took charge of the extensive property of 577 acres which has been under his capable direction and management. He has made this farm the home of a herd of registered Shorthorn cattle. He and his brother Ansel own together a farm of 207 acres in Greene County, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Wright have two children : Ruth, attending the Harmony Township High School, and Benjamin C, who is still in the grade school. Mr. Wright is affiliated with the Springfield Lodge of Elks, is a republican, and the family are Presbyterians and attend worship at South Charleston.
Robert A. Tindall, farmer and land owner, has spent practically all his life industriously engaged on the farm where he now resides in Greene Township.
He was born there February 7, 1876, son of Robert and Mary A. (Hartwell) Tindall. The Tindalls are a pioneer family of Clark County. His grandparents, Thomas and Sarah Tindall, were natives of England, were married and some of their children were bom in that country, and about a century ago they established their home in Clark County, where they lived out their lives. Robert Tindall was born on the home farm in Greene Township, June 25, 1825, and he had a long life of industry and honorable citizenship. He died November 7, 1907. He was a repub- lican in politics, had served as a school director, and his wife was an active member of the Methodist Church. Mary A. Hartwell was bom at Xenia, Ohio, September 21, 1839, and died June 20, 1876, the mother of three sons and three daughters. Robert A. Tindall was the youngest child, and was only a few weeks old when his mother died. He has two brothers living: Herbert D., bom January 5, 1865, who has never mar- ried and lives at the old homestead ; and William, born November 16, 1873, a resident of Memphis, Tennessee.
Robert A. Tindall during his boyhood attended the district schools, and almost from his earliest recollections he has done some of the work on the farm where he now lives. Mr. Tindall owns a well improved place of 171 acres. He is a republican in politics.
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January 20, 1916, he married Marjorie Stuckey, who was born in Xenia, Ohio, June 8, 1897, daughter of Clarence and Blanche (Weddle) Stuckey. She was reared at Xenia, and attended school there and also the Sehna High School. Mr. and Mrs. Tindall have twin children, Robert H. and Wanda, born May 5, 1917.
J. William Roberts. One of the modernly-improved and highly- productive farms of Clark County is that known as the Valley View Stock Farm, consisting of 365 acres, which is located on the Springfield and Mechanicsburg Turnpike, ten miles northeast of Springfield. The proprietor of this valuable property is one of the reliable citizens of his community, J. William Roberts, who was born in Champaign County, Ohio, across the road from his present home, January 27, 1859, being a Son of John W. and Polina Hamilton (Hodge) Roberts.
The Roberts family are of Welsh origin, and the paternal great-grand- parents of Mr. Roberts were William and Rebecca Roberts. His grand- father, James H. Roberts, was born in Virginia, and as a young man, in 1810, went to Lawrenceville, Indiana, where he entered a large tract of land. Later he moved to Clark County, Ohio, where he was thel owner of a farm, and rounded out a career of industry marked by the attainment of a gratifying success. The maternal grandfather of J. William Roberts was John H. Hodge, who married Polly Baird, and they settled near South Vienna, on the old Columbus Road. He died at the age of thirty-four. His wife remained a widow and raised five children, one of whom married John Wren Roberts, the brother of J. William Roberts. The third child of his father's second marriage, John W. Roberts, was reared in Champaign and Clark counties, and received his education at the old Foley schoolhouse in Moorefield Township, in which community he was born in 1825. In November, 1846, he married Polina Hamilton Hodge, and in 1852 they moved from Clark County to Champaign County and settled on the farm now owned by their son J. William. They were highly respected people of their community, and fully merited the esteem in which they were held. Of their five children four are living in 1922: Melissa J., the wife of John W. Evans; Emma C, the widow of William G. McCreary ; Frank M., deceased; J. William, of this review; and Sallie, the widow of George Given.
J. William Roberts was reared on the home farm and acquired his educational training in the rural district school at Buck Creek. He remained under the parental roof and was associated with his father in the pursuits of farming, and when the elder man died he took over the home property by purchase and has continued its operation to the present time. He carries on general farming and specializes in the breeding and raising of fine livestock, for which his property had achieved something more than a local reputation. Mr. Roberts has made numerous improvements on his farm, and is looked upon as being modern in his tendencies and progressive in his actions. A good business man, he has always acted honorably in his transactions with his fellow-men.
In November 26, 1890, Mr. Roberts was united in marriage with Miss Clara Goodfellow, who was born near South Vienna, Ohio, July 7, 1863, and was educated in the public schools of her birthplace. She and her husband are the parents of two sons: Homer, a graduate of
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high school, who is assisting his father with the work of the home place ; and Frank G., who attended the Nelson Business College, married Jessie Swaidner, and since her death has been associated with his father and brother in operating the farm. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts are members of the first Baptist Church, Springfield, in the work of which they have taken an active part. Like his father, Mr. Roberts is a republican in his political sentiment and support. He has served as a member of the Board of School Directors, and at all times has evidenced his public spirit a^ a citizen.
Jesse Otis Davy, M. D. In the death of Dr. Jesse Otis Davy, on June 23, 1922, the City of Springfield, Ohio, not only lost a citizen of great worth, but the medical profession one of its best exemplars of all that medical science stands for. He was of old Ohio stock and all his life took pride in his native state.
Doctor Davy was born in Delaware County, Ohio, October 18, 1840, and was a son of Rev. Henry Dor^y Davy, born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and Elizabeth (Leatherman) Davy, born in Maryland. His father was born May 4, 1811, united with the Dunkard Church body in 1838, and was called to its ministry in 1845, in which he continued until within a few years of his death in 1893. The mother of Doctor Davy was born March 11, 1809, a daughter of John Leatherman, who also was a Dunkard preacher. After their marriage the parents of Doctor Davy packed their household belongings in a one-horse wagon, and in that way journeyed into what was then the wilderness of Delaware County. The father, who was of sturdy stock, coming from Welsh ancestors, cleared a farm in addition to looking faithfully after his church flock. He was twice married, and ten children were born to his first union. Doctor Davy being the sixth in order of birth, and four children being born to his second marriage.
Jesse Otis Davy spent his boyhood on the home farm, attending a select school in 1858, and later in 1860, went to Navarre, where he read medicine with Dr. J. D. Otis. He remained there until 1861, when he came to Springfield to attend Wittenberg College. He was at college when Fort Sumpter was fired on, and with four of his fellow students he enlisted for military service on April 23, 1861, entering Company C, Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which they served in the battles of Phillipi, Laurel Hill and Carrick's Ford, and were honorably dis- charged in August, 1861.
Doctor Davy returned to his studies at Wittenberg, but on October 23, 1863, re-enlisted, entering Company B, Fifty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Department of the Cumberland, and took part on the first line in the battle of Missionary Ridge. Soon after that he was transferred to the medical corps, and served in that department until his second dis- charge, August 16, 1865. He once more returned to Wittenberg College, from which he was graduated in 1868, with the degree of A. B., then entered the Cincinnati Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1869 with his medical degree. He was engaged in practice in Miami County until 1882, when he came to Springfield and continued active in his profession here until the close of his useful life.
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Doctor Davey was one of the first physicians to use Gimming in the practice of medicine, its use being especially efficacious in the treatment of typhoid fever during the frequent epidemics of thai period, and he was famed far and wide for his skill in treating such cases. This was a forerunner of the use of antitoxin in present day medicine.
Doctor Davy married in June, 1868, Miss Susanna A. Hopper, of Springfield, who died here without issue on September 8, 1891. On October 18, 1898, Doctor Davy married Miss Clare Snyder, who was born at Springfield, a daughter of John J. and Josephine C. Snyder, the former a native of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Madison County, Ohio. Doctor and Mrs. Davy had one son, John Henry, who was born September 3, 1901, and resides with his mother at Springfield.
Doctor Davy was widely known in his profession, and belonged to such representative bodies as the Clark County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He was con- sidered a man of sound judgment on public questions, and for many years was influential as an advocate of absolute temperance. He was a member of the Covenant Presbyterian Church at Springfield. He gave generously to charity, and no call for his professional ministrations was ever unheeded, no matter what the circumstances might be. His greatest memorial is in the hearts of those he so faithfully served.
Edward P. Holman is half owner of the fine landed estate known as Cedar Lawn Farm, the same being situated on the Urbana Turn- pike in Moorefield Township and five miles north of the City of Springfield. He takes pride in maintaining this place of 173j4 acres as one of the model farms of his native county, and is known as a specially progressive exponent of agricultural and livestock industry.
Mr. Holman was born in the City of Springfield, this county, on the 6th of March, 1866, and is a son of Robert L. and Martha M. (Hildreth) Holman, both natives of Cherry Valley, Massachusetts, where they were reared and educated and where their marriage was solemnized. The parents of the subject of this sketch came to Clark County in the early '50s, and after here being employed a short time by the Dodge Bedstead Company, Robert L. Holman was for a brief period engaged in the lightning rod business. Thereafter he did eflfective work as a carpenter, millwright and pattern maker, and during the Civil war he gave his attention largely to the manufac- turing of hominy for the use of soldiers in the field. After the war he engaged in the grocery business at Springfield, and in the spring of 1875 he removed to the farm now owned by his sons Edward P. and W. H., where he remained until his death, which occurred in 1919, his wife having passed away in 1913 and both having been earnest and consistent members of the Church of God. Mr. Holman was independent in political matters, was affiliated with the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows and became a prominent and influen- tial member of the Ohio State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, for which he served as contracting agent. Of the four children one, Arthur, is deceased ; Walter H. is a prosperous farmer in Moorefield
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Township; Herbert W. is a resident of Salem, Oregon, and Edward P., of this review, is the youngest of the three.
Edward P. flolman was nine years old when the family removed from Springfield to the farm in Moorefield Township, and since completing his studies in the public schools he has been continuously^ and successfully identified with farm enterprise. In politics he is not constrained by partisan lines but gives his support to men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment. He has served in the past as master of Tremont Grange and is the incumbent of this office at the time of this writing, in 1922. He and his wife hold membership in the Congregational Church of Springfield.
June 1, 1893, marked the marriage of Mr. Holman and Miss Eloise Ilges, who was born and reared in Moorefield Township, and they have three children: Thomas, who was born October 31, 1895, is a graduate of the University of Ohio and is now in the employ of the Government at Garden City, Long Island, New York, where he is identified with the aeroplane service; George, who was born October 22, 1897, graduated from the University of Ohio, with the degree of Civil Engineer, and is now connected with the W.est Vir- ginia Inspection Bureau; Fred H., born June 9, 1903, graduated from the Springfield High School and thereafter was for one year a student in Wittenberg College and for a similar period in the Uni- versity of Ohio, he being now at the parental home.
Benson A. Baker is one of the representative agriculturists and stock growers of the younger generation in Moorefield Township, where he stages his productive activities on the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth and which is situated six and one- half miles north of Springfield. Here he was born March 27, 1895, a son of Charles O. and Irby E. (Rawlings) Baker. The father was born in German Township, this county, October 30, 1858, a son of Alexander and Johanna (Baker) Baker, the former of whom likewise was born in Clark County and the latter of whom was born in Mary- land, she having been young when she came with her parents to Clark County. Alexander Baker became a prosperous farmer in German Township, near Eagle City, where he remained until 1865. He then removed with his family to the farm which he purchased in Moore- field Township, where he passed the remainder of his life, he having been one of the honored pioneer citizens of the county at the time of his death. Of his two children Charles O. was the elder, and Susanna became the wife of Dr. J. M. Kilgore, they having established their home in the City of Chicago, Illinois.
Charles O. Baker was reared on the home farm and received his early education in the local schools. December 13, 1888, recorded his marriage with Miss Irby E. Rawlings, who was born in Cham- paign County, this state, August 5, 1867, a daughter of James and Laura (Townley) Rawlings. After his marriage Charles O. Baker settled on a farm in Moorefield Township, and he later purchased and removed to the adjoining farm, which constitutes the home place of his son Benson A., immediate subject of this sketch. Here he remained until his death, November 30, 1916, and his widow still resides there. He served as a trustee of the Moorefield Chapel Meth-
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odist Episcopal Church, of which his widow likewise is a zealous member, his political support was given to the republican party, and he was affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees. Of the two surviving children the subject of this review is the younger, his brother, Carroll R., who was born April 2, 1892, being a resident of Springfield and the maiden name of his wife having been Effie Geron. Benson A. Baker has wisely continued his allegiance to the great basic industries under the influences of which he was reared, and has proved himself a progressive and successful farmer in his native county. His early educational advantages were those of the public schools of Moorefield Township. He and his wife are active members of the Moorefield Chapel Methodist Church, and he is serving as a trustee of the same, being the virtual successor of his father in this office. He is a republican in political proclivities, is affiliated with Lessing Lodge No. 372, Knights of Pythias, at Springfield, and also with adjunct organization, the Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan. He married. May 26, 1921, Miss Maude Anderson, and they have one child, Roger Eugene. He is associated with his widowed mother in the ownership of the well improved old home- stead' of ninety-four acres.
John C. Cromwell, who has charge of the Sultzbach Farm of 260 acres in Moorefield Township, one mile north of the corporate limits of Springfield, was born at Frederick, Maryland, July 14, 1880, and is a son of William E. and Catherine E. (Crawford) Cromwell, the former of whom was born in Maryland, in 1834, and the latter in Virginia, in 1843. In 1886 William E. Cromwell came with his family to Ohio and settled in Clinton County, where he purchased a farm. He there continued his successful activities as a farmer until his removal to the City of Columbus, from which city he worked as a locomotive engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, his early experience in this vocation having been gained before he came to Ohio. He continued in railroad service until his retirement, and he now resides at Springfield, his wife having died in 1915. He is a democrat in politics and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also his wife. Of their six children three are living, the subject of this review being the youngest of the number: William C. is foreman in an elevator manufactory in the City of Columbus, and Catherine E. is the wife of H. H. Hodge, of Springfield.
The public schools of Ohio's capital city aflForded to John C. Cromwell his early education, which included the discipline of the high school, and after leaving school he was employed in the electric light works of Columbus until 1911. He then came to Clark County, where he has the active management of one of the large and fine farm estates of Moorefield Township, as noted in the opening paragraph of this review. He is a leader in the breeding of registered Jersey cattle^ in Clark County, the fine herd on the farm being headed by "Majestic Star," and the farm being also a center for the raising of registered Poland-China swine, with an average herd of forty head. Though loyal and progressive as a citizen and a staunch advocate of the principles of the democratic party, Mr. Cromwell has had no
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desire for political activity or public office. He and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church.
June 8, 1904, recorded the marriage of Mr. Cromwell and Miss Catherine E. McLean, who attended Oxford Female College and later graduated from Danville College. She is a popular factor in the representative social activities of the home community, and is the gracious chatelaine of the pleasant rural household over which she presides. Mr. and Mrs. Cromwell have one son, John McLean, who was born June 22, 1918.
Adam Stoner has been a farmer who has wisely and progressively ordered his agricultural and livestock enterprise and made of success a logical result. He is one of the substantial citizens of Moorefield Township, where he is the owner of a valuable landed estate of 250 acres, besides which he is a stockholder in two of the banking insti- tutions in the City of Springfield, is a director of the Clark County Mortgage Finance Company, and has other capitalistic investments. Mr. Stoner is a republican, has served as township trustee and mem- ber of the School Board, and takes loyal interest in all that concerns the welfare of his home community. He is an earnest member of the Methodist Protestant Church and has held important offices in the same. Mr. Stoner has a wide circle of friends in Clark County, and his name is enrolled on the roster of bachelors in the county.
He claims the old Keystone State as the place of his nativity, his birth having occurred in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, January 13, 1856. He is a son of David and Magdalene (Buckwalter) Stoner, both likewise natives of Lancaster County, where the former was born October 27, 1809, and the latter on the 3d of May, 1815. The parents were representatives of pioneer German families of Pennsylvania, and the father became one of the
f prosperous farmers of his native county, he having erected on his arm the substantial stone house in which he continued to reside until his death, which occurred in October, 1868, his widow having long survived him and having passed the closing years of her life in Clark County, Ohio, where she died September 9, 1897, both having been zealous communicants of the Lutheran Church and the political allegiance of the father having been given to the republican party from virtually the time of its formation until the close of his life. Of their six children one son and three daughters are living: and with the son, subject of this sketch, reside two of the sisters. Misses Amanda E. and Lucy, the eldest sister, Maria, being the widow of Thomas Campbell and maintaining her home at Springfield. Adam Stoner has been a resident of Clark County since he was a lad of nine years, was here reared on the farm and here received the advantages of the district schools. He has remained continuously on the old home farm, in the ownership of which his sisters are associated, and he has made a record of large and successful achieve- ment as a thoroughgoing agriculturist and stock grower.
John S. Nicklin is numbered among the substantial farmers and representative citizens of Moorefield Township, and is serving at the present time (1922) as township trustee, a preferment that shows
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the high regard in which he is held in his native township. He was born on a farm near the Village of Moorefield, this county, December 5, 1855. He is a son of John B. and Catherine (Hoffman) Nicklin, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Clark County, Ohio. The father was reared and educated in the historic Old Dominion State, and there he remained until he was twenty-two years of age, when he came to Clark County, Ohio, and settled in Moorefield Town- ship, where he met and eventually wedded Miss Catherine HoflFman, daughter of Jacob V. and Elizabeth (Seibert) Hoffman, sterling pioneers of the county.
After his marriage John B. Nicklin bought the homestead farm on which he proved most successful in his long continued activities as an agriculturist and stock grower, and on which he continued to reside until his death, his widow having passed the closing years of her life in the home of one of her daughters and having been ven- erable in years at the time of her death in 4914. Both were earnest and zealous members of the Moorefield Chapel of the Methodist Episcopal denomination. Mr. Nicklin was a staunch democrat and served as township trustee and as a member of the School Board. Of their ten children only four are living: Clara, who is the wife of James Crabill, of Springfield Township ; John S. and Joseph H., both of whom are representative farmers in Moorefield Township, and Effie, who is the wife of Oliver McConkey, of the same township.
On the old home farm John S. Nicklin remained until he was twenty-two years of age, and in the meanwhile he had profited by the advantages offered in the district schools. After leaving the parental home he was employed by the month at farm work for two years, and after his marriage, in 1880, he farmed on rented land for a period of eight years. He then, in 1888, purchased his present fine homestead farm which has been the stage of his progressive activities as an agriculturist and stock grower during the long intervening period of more than thirty years. He and his wife are prominent members of the Methodist Protestant Church at Pleasant Hill, of which he is a trustee, besides having served as superintendent of its Sunday School.
Mr. Nicklin has been influential in the local councils of the democratic party and has been called upon to serve in various offices of community trust. He has been township trustee since 1915, has been a valued member of the School Board of his district, has served as a member of the Clark County Board of Agriculture and is an active member of the Clark County Farm Bureau. He has done well his part in advancing the standard of farm industry in his native county, and has proved a loyal and progressive citizen.
June 1, 1880, recorded the marriage of Mr. Nicklin and Miss Mary C. Beard, who was born in Moorefield Township, December 3, 1859, a daughter of Jacob and Catherine (Seitz) Beard. Mr. and Mrs. Nicklin have two children: Oliver, who was born April 10, 1882, married Miss Ada Otstot, and they now reside in the City of Spring- field; Pealie. C, who was born July 21, 1884, is the wife of Dell F. Creamer, and they reside at the home of her parents, Mr. Creamer having the active management of the Nicklin farm.
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Charles W. Constantine, for forty years a well known and highly respected citizen of Springfield, former mayor, attorney and councillor, died at his home, 15 West Jefferson Street, Friday night at 10:40 o'clock, February 11, 1916, from paralysis, following an illness of five months. Although Mr. Constantine has been confined to his home during the winter months, unable to give his attention to his personal affairs, his recovery was confidently hoped for until the last Monday, when he suflFered a stroke which followed one of September 2nd. From that time on Mr. Constantine grew worse and his recovery was despaired of.
Charles William Constantine was known to thousands of Springfield people. His activity in all things pertaining to the advancement and welfare of his city and his interest in aflfairs political as they pertained to the success of the democratic party had given him an acquaintance- ship throughout not only Ohio but with the big men in public life throughout the country. For years his advice was sought by men high in civic life both in this city and in Ohio and other states. Although always active in behalf of others, Mr. Constantine held but one public office in his career, that being mayor of Springfield during the years of 1883 and 1884. It was characteristic of him that his eflForts politically were always directed for his friends rather than to his own advance- ment or preferment. To Charles W. Constantine friendship was a sacred institution, and many men in Springfield can attest to this fact.
Mr. Constantine was born at Reading, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1846, the son of Philip and Louise Constantine. While still a boy Mr. Constantine's parents moved to Cincinnati, where after residing for a short time they came to Springfield, in the late fifties. After a residence here for a time the family removed to a farm near New Albany, Indiana, where Mr. Constantine received his earlier academic education. When about nineteen years of age he returned to Springfield and took employment with the Bushnell and Ludlow drug store. The drug business, however, was not to his liking, and he removed to Chicago, where he studied law in the offices of Charles M. Hadry, an eminent attorney of the Illinois metropolis. In 1872 he was admitted to the Illinois bar, and for a time practiced law in Chicago.
During his residence in Chicago Mr. Constantine was united in mar- riage with Miss Barbara Fassler, a daughter of Jerome Fassler, of Springfield, Ohio, the date of the wedding having been February 22, 1876. Mrs. Constantine survives him. In 1878 he gave up his practice in Chicago and came to Springfield, being admitted to the Ohio bar. It was after taking up his permanent residence in this city that Mr. Constantine became the legal advisor of John W. Bookwalter, late mil- lionaire manufacturer and philanthropist, who died September 26, 1915, in San Remo, Italy. What was begun as a business association gradually grew into a close friendship, and at the time of his death, Charles W. Constantine was counted one of the most personal in all of Mr. Book- waiter's wide acquaintances and friendships. At his death Mr. Constan- tine was named as executor of the Bookwalter will, a distinction which he shared with Frank M. Bookwalter.
Aside from many other activities which caused Mr. Constantine to be reckoned as a man of prominence in his community were those which
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he constantly exercised in behalf of Springfield. He helped choose the sites for the Ohio Knights of Pythias Home and the Ohio Odd Fellows Home, and was one of the men who were foremost in having those homes located in Springfield. He was instrumental in the organization of the Country Club in this city, and was a member of the Commercial Club. Mr. Constantine was a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Mystic Shrine, an Elk and life member of the Loyal Order of Moose. Also he was a member of the Lagonda Club, a member and stockholder) of the Springfield Country Club, and he was interested in and worked for the establishing of the Masonic Home at Springfield.
The life of Mr. Constantine is closely interwoven with the history of several of Springfield's leading industries. He was associated with O. S. Kelly in the development of the O. S. Kelly Company and also assisted Mr. Bookwalter in the organization of the Bookwalter Steel and Iron Company. He was at one time a director in the James Leffel Company, of this city and a stockholder in that concern.
The political activities of Mr. Constantine covered a wide field of endeavor in behalf of many of the most prominent men of the country. He was intimate with such men as William C. Whitney and Daniel Manning, of New York, the men who were credited with having brought Grover Cleveland into prominence. In 1879, in the days of Tom Ewing, Mr. Constantine began to attend state conventions of his party. By 1881 he had risen so high in the councils of his party that he out- maneuvered the then powerful Senator George H. Pendleton, preventing his election as permanent chairman of the Democratic State Convention of that year. It was by this stroke that Mr. Constantine materially assisted in affecting the nomination of Mr. Bookwalter for the governor- ship on the democratic ticket over Theodore J. Cook, the candidate favored by Senator Pendleton.
It was during the preliminaries of the Bookwalter campaign that Mr. Constantine became associated with Mr. Henry B. Payne, afterward a United States Senator. Mr. Constantine had gone to Cleveland to seek the support of Mr. Payne for Mr. Bookwalter, and likewise the assistance of John H. Farley, then mayor of Cleveland. Mr. Constantine was on his way to call upon Mr. Payne, in company with Mayor Farley, when they learned of the assassination of President Garfield. It was at the conference with Payne that the fear was first expressed that the news of President Garfield's assassination would bring victory to the republican standard at the coming election, which resulted as had been foreseen. Mr. Constantine served on the Democratic State Central and State Executive Committees, during which he became associated with Durbin Ward, George Hoadley and others of the dignitaries of the party in Ohio. It was at a conference held in this city that an agreement was reached among John R. McLean, Mayor Farley and Senator Pendleton that the two last named were to conduct the Bookwalter campaign in Northern Ohio, McLean in the southern part, and Mr. Constantine became treasurer of the State Executive Committee. He was a stomg supporter of President Cleveland in the campaign of 1884. The first political defeat to be suffered by Mr. Constantine was when in his fight for the election of John A. McMahon of Dayton in 1889 as United States
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Senator, the latter was defeated by Calvin S. Brice. In 1892 Mr. Con- stantine was a delegate to the national convention which nominated President Cleveland.
It was through the efforts of Mr. Constantine that the name of Mr. Bookwalter was withdrawn from the active lists of candidates for United States Senator in 1903, after Mr. Bookwalter had declined to permit the use of his name while the forces of Tom L. Johnson were pleading for him to become a candidate.
Albert D. Heindel, who is, in 1922, giving loyal and effective service as township assessor of Moorefield Township, is not only one of the representative farmers of this township but also claims the same as the place of his nativity, his birth having here occurred on the 8th of September, 1858. He is a son of Matthias and Mary E. (Ferree) Heindel, both natives of York County, Pennsylvania, where the former was born in 1818 and the latter in 1824. After their . marriage the parents continued their residence in the old Keystone State until 1851, when they came to Clark County, Ohio, and settled on a farm north of Lagonda, where they passed the remainder of their lives and where the father made a record of successful and worthy achievement as an agriculturist and stock grower. Matthias Heindel was a man of sterling character, was one of the substantial and hon- ored citizens of Moorefield Township, was a republican in political adherency, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the United Brethren Church, in which he served as a trustee. Of their eleven children only two are living at the time of this writing, in 1922, the subject of this sketch being the elder of the two, and his sister, Alice, being the wife of A. B. Swartwout, of Moorefield Township.
Albert D. Heindel was reared on the old homestead farm, and after having profited fully by the advantages of the district school he continued his studies in the high school at Urbana, besides taking a normal course at Tremont. His good judgment has been shown in his continuous alliance with farm industry, for in this connection he has achieved marked success and has contributed his quota to the advancement of agriculture and livestock enterprises in his native county. He is a stalwart republican, and his secure place in the confidence and high regard of the people of his old home township is shown in his having served twenty-five years as township assessor and in his having been twice elected land appraiser of the township. He also gave ten years of service as a member of the School Board of his district. He is a valued member of the local Grange, and he and his wife are communicants of the Lutheran Church in the City of Springfield.
November 23, 1893, recorded the marriage of Mr. Heindel and Miss Anna M. Hotz, who was born on a farm north of Springfield, this county, December 20, 1870, and in the summer following their marriage they established their residence on their present fine home- stead farm, which comprises sixty acres and which is well improved. Of their six children the eldest is Mary E., who graduated from the Springfield High School and who afterward devoted two years to successful teaching in the public schools, she being, in 1922, a student
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in Wittenberg College at Springfield. E. Wesley is associated in the operations of the home farm. Emma G., who is a graduate of the Springfield High School, is now a stenographer in the offices of the American Seeding Machine Company at Springfield. Albert D., Jr., is likewise a graduate of the Springfield High School, and he is now ^t the parental home. Mildred A. is a graduate of the same high school and is now a nurse in the City Hospital of Springfield. Wil- liam H. is a member of the class of 1923 in the Springfield High School.
John H. Davis. In Moorefield Township, four miles north of the City of Springfield, is to be found the well improved and ably managed farm homestead of Mr. Davis, the total area of his landed estate being 202 acres, of which his residence place comprises sixty acres. He has proved his resourcefulness and energy as a vigorous and successful exponent of farm industry, is progressive and liberal as -a citizen, is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and he is an active member of the Pleasant Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also his wife.
Mr. Davis was born in Greene County, Ohio, October 10, 1873, and is a son of John W. and Priscilla (Davis) Davis, both of whom .were born in the vicinity of Columbus, the capital city of Ohio, the former on the 1st of April, 1849, and the latter on the 30th of August, of the same year. After their marriage the parents remained several years on a rented farm near Columbus, and they then came to Greene County and located on a farm near Cedarville. In 1874 they removed to Greene Township, Clark County, where John W. Davis purchased a farm of 126J4 acres. Later he bought as a little home- stead a tract of four acres, and on this place he remained until the death of his wife in 1915. He is now venerable in years and is one of the highly respected citizens of Clark County. He is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also his wife, and in politics is a staunch republican. Of their ten children all but one survive the loved mother: Cora B. is the wife of F. A. Johnson, of Greene Township; William F. resides at Beatty, Clark County; John H., of this review, is the next younger; Asa B. is a farmer in Greene Township; Edith is the wife of John H. Martin, of Greene Township; Warren E. is a farmer in that township; Maude is the wife of W. A. WornstaflF, likewise of Clark County; Floyd resides at Villa, this county ; and Oliver maintains his residence at Springfield.
The old home farm in Greene Township figured as the sage of the rearing and early activities of John H. Davis, and in the mean- while he did not neglect the advantages offered by the public schools. After attaining to his legal majority he was employed five years at farm work by the month, and in his later independent activities as a farmer he has achieved substantial success, as shown by his owner- ship of a well improved and valuable farm property.
In 1900 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Davis and Miss Bessie P. Kiser, who likewise was born and reared in Clark County, and who passed to the life eternal in February, 1920. She is sur- vived by hve children : Florence H., Ralph, Ruth, Wilma and Mar- jorie. Miss Florence H. Davis graduated from one of the Ohio State
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Normal Schools and is a successful and popular teacher. Ralph is a graduate of the Springfield High School and also of a business college, and the younger children are still attending school.
John Henry Kobelanz. The Kobelanz family has been one of the sturdiest and most highly respected in Clark County. Three gen- erations of the name have lived here. As a family they have been distinguished by business initiative and enterprise, by public spirit, by helpful support to educational and religious institutions, and fre- quently by constructive leadership in local affairs.
The founder of the family was Frederick Kobelanz, who was born in Hanover, Germany. He married Margaret Duhme. In 1830 he came to America, spent one winter at Buffalo, New York, and then by boat and overland arrived in Springfield. A year later he went on to St. Louis, but remained only a year or so and then settled permanently in Clark County. While in the West he was on a Mississippi River steamboat. His principal business in Spring- field for a number of years was the operation of stone quarries, and he was a leading contractor in stone and lime. He also assisted as a foreman of construction during the building of the National Pike. He was one of the organizers of the Lutheran Church, now St. John's Lutheran Church, and he and a Mr. Ward furnished the first stones for the building of Wittenberg College. He helped clear the logs and brush from what is now the College Campus, and was an intimate friend of Ezra Keller, founder of the college. He was affiliated with Clark Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons and was a Royal Arch Mason. He was also a staunch friend and gave financial assistance to James Leffel, aiding him in completing his invention of the water wheel. Two other permanent Springfield manufacturers, John H. Thomas and P. P. Mast, soon after starting in business went to Frederick Kobelanz and secured his financial backing. He was recognized as the leading German born citizen of Springfield. About 1844 he removed to his farm of 325 acres situated in sections twelve, six and five in Springfield Township. He lived there, looking after his farm and other interests, until his death on November 24, 1880. His wife died in 1864.
Their son, John Henry Kobelanz, Sr., was born on North Foun- tain Avenue in Springfield, March 15, 1839, and was five years of age when his parents removed to the farm. After the death of his father he came into the possession of 111 acres, including the homestead, and was successfully identified with agricultural opera- tions there until his death on December 11, 1918. John Henry Kobelanz, Sr., married Anna M. Snyder, who was born near York, Pennsylvania, July 11, 1841, daughter of Abraham and May (Kunkel) Snyder, natives of York County. Anna Snyder was induced to come to Clark County to take care of an aged uncle and aunt, and she remained here until her marriage. She died March 29, 1920. She was the mother of five children : Elva K., wife of Dr. P. A. Dillahunt, of West McCreight Avenue ; Charles E., who died at the age of three years ; John Henry, Jr. ; Daisy L., Mrs. Glenn Russell, living on West McCreight Avenue, and Anna M., wife of Henry G. Miller, of Spring- field Township.
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John Henry Kobelanz, Jr., was born in Springfield Township, June 20, 1875, and he acquired a good education in the public schools and had four years in Wittenberg College. He has busied himself with the tasks and responsibilities of a farmer and a citizen alert to the welfare of the community. After the death of his father he came into the possession of fifty-three acres of the old farm, and still occupies that place on McCreight Avenue, on Rural Route No. 7. He is a republican, while his father was a democrat and served one term as township trustee. Mr. Kobelanz is affiliated with Ingomar Lodge No. 610, Knights of Pythias, and is a member of the First English Lutheran Church.
February 15, 1922, he married Mrs. Mary (Burkhart) Gaier, a native of the City of Springfield and widow of Anton Gaier. By her first marriage she has three children, John, Louise and Emily.
Fred W. Bin nig has made an excellent success of floriculture in his native county, and his fine greenhouses and nurseries are sit- uated in Springfield Township, three and one-half miles southeast of Springfield, on the Selma Turnpike. Mr. Binnig is a young man who has thoroughly fortified himself in the scientific and practical details of modern floriculture, and his enthusiasm and progressive policies have brought to him both prestige and prosperity.
Mr. Binnig was born at Springfield, the county seat, on the 7th of June, 1894, and is a son of Christian and Sophia (Voll) Binnig, the former of whom was born in Germany, January 24, 1870, and the latter of whom was born at Springfield, Clark County, in 1863. Christian Binnig was about fourteen years of age when he came from his native land to the United States, in 1883. He became asso- ciated with the nursery business of the Storrs & Harrison Company of Painesville, Ohio, his preliminary training in this line of enter- prise having been gained in Germany. He continued his alliance with this * concern until 1888, when he came to Springfield and entered the employ of C. A. Reeser, who was here engaged in the greenhouse business. In 1893 he was made superintendent of the plant and business, and after the organization of a stock company to carry forward the business on a large scale he became vice president, of which position, together with that of superintendent, he con- tinued the incumbent until his death, October 6, 1913. His marriage occurred June 21, 1893. Mrs. Binnig died February 19, 1922, an earnest communicant of St. John's Evangelical Church, as was also her husband, he having served as president of the Church Council. Mr. Binnig was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, was independent in politics and was a substantial business man and loyal citizen who ever commanded unqualified popular esteem. Of the three children Fred W., immediate subject of this sketch, is the eldest; Carl C. is associated with the florist business of his elder brother, and Harold is engaged in the automo- bile business at Springfield, as a member of the firm of Townsley & Binnig.
The public schools of Springfield afforded Fred W. Binnig his early education, and after his graduation from high school he was
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for one year a student in the University of Ohio, the death of his father having interrupted his work at the university. In his inde- pendent business career Mr. Binnig has shown marked resourcefulness and progressiveness, his greenhouse plant being established on a tract of thirteen acres and being of the best modern type. He has facilities for the propagating of flowers and shrubbery of all kinds, and has developed a large and substantial business. His residence is at the plant, and the house is modern in architecture and appointments. Mr. Binnig takes loyal interest in all that concerns the communal welfare and the general prosperity of his native county, is independent in politics and is affiliated with Anthony Lodge No. 455, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Springfield.
On the 17th of April, 1917, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Binnig and Miss Mabel Corry, who likewise was born and reared in Clark County and who is a daughter of Riley and May (Garlough) Corry. Mr. and Mrs. Binnig are specially zealous members of St. Jghn's Evangelical Church in Springfield, and in the Sunday School of the same he is teacher of the Young Men's Bible Class. Mr. and Mrs. Binnig have two children: Roger, born November 11, 1919, and Walter, born January 25, 1922.
Granville L. Ort holds the office of cashier of the First National Bank of New Carlisle, which was founded more than twenty years ago and which has a record of most excellent service to its con- stituent community and which is one of the substantial and important financial institutions of Clark County.
Mr. Ort was born in Greene County, Ohio, November 1, 1862, and is a son of the Rev. George B. Ort, who was born and reared in Pennsylvania and who was a young man when he came to Ohio and engaged in teaching school in Montgomery County. Later he com- pleted a theological course in Wittenberg College, at Springfield, and after his ordination to the ministry of the Lutheran Church he became pastor of the church of this denomination at Osborn, Greene County, where he continued his earnest and effective pastoral service fourteen years and where he remained until his death, at the age of forty-seven years.
He whose name initiates this review received excellent educa- tional advantages, including those of Wittenberg College, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1889 and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, which later was supple- mented by that of Master of Arts. In 1890-91 he was a successful teacher in the public schools of New Carlisle, and for six years there- after he was cashier in the general passenger agent office of the Big Four Railroad in the City of Cincinnati, his activities in this connection having covered a period of six years. He then became assistant cashier in a bafik at Osborn, Greene County, and on the 1st day of January, 1918, he assumed his present office, that of cashier of the First National Bank of New Carlisle, an institution that has been most carefully and ably managed and that is in impreg- nable financial condition, with deposits of fully $100,000 and with its stock above par and none for sale, a substantial surplus fund adding further to its solidity. This bank was organized twenty years ago,
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and bases its operations on a capital stock of $30,000. Among its stockholders and directors have been numbered representative men of Clark County, and its officials have been able and faithful in the discharge of their executive functions. The bank owns the well equipped building in which its business is conducted.
Mr. Ort married Miss Hettie A. Monk, daughter of the late John Monk, who was long numbered among the honored citizens and extensive and representative farmers of Clark County. Mr. and Mrs. Ort have one son, John M., who graduated from the Ohio State University and was a former instructor in chemistry at the Case School of Applied Sciences, in the City of Cleveland. He is now holding the same position in the Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio.
Mrs. John G. Nave represents the old and prominent Gram family of Clark County. She owns and occupies with her family a fine farm of J 51 acres in Greene Township, on rural route No. 5 out of Springfield.
Her maiden name was Margaret E. Gram. Her parents were Jacob and Catherine (Weller) Gram, and her grandfather was David Gram. Jacob Gram was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, March 22, 1811, and as a young .man he left Lancaster County and walked over the mountains to Clark County, Ohio. He subsequently went back to Penn- sylvania, and altogether he traveled the distance between the localities six times. In Clark County he married Catherine Weller, a native of Virginia, and after their marriage they settled on a farm in Greene Township.
In the Gram family were nine children, four of whom are still living: Mrs. John G. Nave; Theodore Gram, of Springfield; Joseph, a farmer in Greene Township ; and Ed Gram, a farmer in Madison Township.
John Nave started life with little beyond the labor of his hands. He worked for monthly wages, later rented land from Robert Elder, and finally bought a small place and eventually had a farm of eighty-eight acres, all paid for. He was a democrat and'he and his wife were active members of the Free Will Baptist Church at Pleasant Grove.
Margaret E. Gram grew up on the home farm, and as a girl she proved her usefulness both in the work of the house and in the field. She had a wonderful constitution, and was able to do a man's work in the harvest field. On August 8, 1861, she became the wife of the late John G. Nave. Mr. Nave enlisted and served a hundred days as a Union soldier. Both took an active part in the Free Will Baptist Church, and he served ten years as superintendent of its Sunday School. Mrs. Nave is the mother of five children : Armenia P., born on May 16, 1862, wife of William B. Todd, of Springfield; Alpharetta O., born October 16, 1863, widow of Wiley Howett; Justinus T., born September 3, 1865, a farmer; Jacob P., born November 23, 1867, a farmer in Greene Town- ship ; and John C, bom October 6, 1870, who operates his mother's farm. The family are members of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church. Mr. Nave in 1880 met with an accident on his farm, breaking both legs, and he never fully recovered.
J. T. Nave is one of several brothers whose farming enterprise has brought them substantial material rewards and who are looked upon
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as leaders in the rural community of Greene Township. J. T. Nave's farm and home are on rural route No. 5.
He was born in the same township, September 3, 1865, son of John G. and Margaret E. (Gram) Nave. The father was born in the same township June 10, 1838, and died May 19, 1918, at the age of eighty years. The mother, still living, was born September 11, 1840. The grandparents were Jacob and Mary (Kanable) Nave. John G. Nave acquired a country school education, served an enlist- ment as a Union soldier in the Civil war, and devoted half a century or more to the work of his farm. He was an active member of the Free Will Baptist Church and an independent in politics. His five children were: Armenia, wife of William B. Todd, of Springfield; Alpharetta, widow of Wiley Howett, J. T., Jacob P., and John C, all farmers in Greene Township.
J. T. Nave lived with his parents on the old homestead and acquired a common school education, and at the age of twenty-one began earning his living by day and month wages as a farm hand. On October 2, 1889, at the age of twenty-four, he married Jennie B. Jones, a native of Greene Township. For two years after their mar- riage they rented land and then, in 1892, Mr. Nave bought his present place, where he has 150 acres, well farmed, well improved and an attractive and profitable home. Mr. and Mrs. Nave have two chil- dren : Albert, a graduate of the Pitchin High School ; and Gladys E., who is also a high school graduate and is the wife of C. W. Jacobs, of Yellow Springs, Ohio. The family are members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Nave is affiliated with the Junior Order United Ameri- can Mechanics, and was a charter member and is a past chancellor of that order. He is independent in politics.
Charles F. Wise has been an active figure in farming and stock raising circles in Clark County for over forty years. While he has turned over some of the heavier responsibilities to younger shoulders, he still owns a large amount of valuable farm property and lives on a farm in Greene Township, six miles west of South Charleston.
He was born on a farm in Springfield Township, December 26, 1861, son of Lewis and Malinda (Hatfield) Wise. His father w£^3 born in Madison Township, near South Charleston, December 14, 1829, son of Jesse and Debora (Strong) Wise. Jesse Wise was a native of Virginia, and came on horseback with his mother across the mountains to the vicinity of South Charleston about 1810. His mother lived there the rest of her life, and he grew up and at the age of eighteen married Debora Strong. The Wise family has therefore been identified with this part of Clark County for considerably more than a century. The three children of Jesse Wise were: Phoebe, wife of John Butcher; Anna, who became the wife of Hamilton Wade; and Lewis Wise.
Charles F. Wise spent his early life on the old farm in Springfield Township, and while there attended the local schools. At the age of twenty-one he went for himself and on August 1, 1883, married Minnie A. Schukedantz, who was born in Madison Township, November 5, 1863. After his marriage Mr. Wise rented land from his father, and at his father's death he secured 160 acres in Greene Township. He lived on that place thirty-four years, and in 1920 moved to his present
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home of seventy-nine acres. Altogether he owns nearly four hundred acres.
Mr. and Mrs. Wise have three sons. Blain C, born June 1, 1884, is a graduate in the Pitchin High School, as are his two brothers, and he is a farmer and married Emma Truesdale. Clarence L., born June 16, 1886, is a farmer and married Daisy Craig. Jesse C, born December 14, 1891, married Louise Skillings. He is a farmer, and is also a well trained and talented vocal and instrumental musician.
The entire Wise family are members of the Pitchin Grange. Mr. Wise is a republican, has served as trustee and a member of the School Board, and is a stockholder in the Farmers National Bank at Spring- field. In live stock he has specialized in the breeding of Poland-China hogs.
Mrs. Wise is a daughter of Christopher and Judith (Clemens) Schu- kedantz. Her father was born near Frankfprt, Germany, and her mother near South Charleston, Ohio. Her father was a boy when his parents came to America, locating near South Charleston, where he grew up and married and became a successful farmer and live stock shipper. Of the nine children in the Schukedantz family five are living: Sarah, wife of Thomas Day, of Lagonda; Mary, wife of James Littler, of Springfield; Anna C, widow of John Hess, of Springfield: Mrs. Wise ; and Henry, living near Selma.
Warren R. Shuirr has devoted long years of study, energy and attention to the important business of growing fresh vegetables for the Springfield market, and has built up one of the successful enter- prises of that kind within the city district.
Mr. Shuirr was bom in the village of Tremont, Clark County, Jan- uary 11, 1872, son of Frederick and Matilda (Hesselgesser) Shuirr. His father was born in Ohio, of German parentage, and after his mar- riage located at Tremont. He was a blacksmith by trade. In 1880, moving to Springfield, he bought three acres just north of the city, built on this land two greenhouses, and was successfully engaged in the grow- ing of flowers and in general gardening until his death in 1886. His widow survived him until 1917. They had three children: Elmer, now on the old homestead ; Warren R. and Louisa E., wife of Howard Logan, living on St. Paris Pike near Springfield.
Warren R. Shuirr was eight years of age when his parents moved to Springfield, and he finished his education in the Snow Hill district school. In February, 1892, he married Miss Clara V. Derr, a native of Maryland and daughter of Noah and Henrietta (Gothard) Derr. After his marriage Mr. Shuirr bought a tract of land bounded by McCreight Avenue, First Avenue, Yellow Springs Street and an alley on the west. On this he constructed a greenhouse 70 x 70 feet, and for thirty years has made a specialty of growing vegetables both under glass and in the open for the Springfield market. He sells his produce at a stand on the city market.
Mr. Shuirr is independent in politics, is affiliated with Moncrieflfe Lodge No. 33, Knights of Pythias, and Springfield Council No. 240, Junior Order United American Mechanics. He has two sons. Walter, in the dairy business in Springfield Township, is operating a milk route.
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He married Nellie Dougal, and they have two children, named John Arnold and Helen. The second son, Roy, lives at home.
Harvey A. Baker is senior member of the firm of H. A. Baker & Brother, in which his associate is his younger brother, Harry C. Baker ,^ and in the thriving little city of New Carlisle the firm controls a large and prosperous enterprise in the handling of heavy and shelf hardware, agricultural implements, etc., and in maintaining the local agency for the Ford automobiles. This substantial business was estab- lished in the year 1906, when Harvey A. Baker came to New Carlisle and opened a modest tin ship. The advance which has marked the history of the enterprise has been made through careful and progressive policies and effective service, and the members of the firm have achieved high reputation as business men of ability and reliability, and as liberal and public-spirited citizens. The business has been definitely expanded in scope since Harry C. Baker was admitted to partnership therein, and at the present time the general operations require the retention of a corps of about ten employes. Harry C. Baker has the general super- vision of the business of the Ford agency of the firm, and a well equipped garage and service department are maintained in this connection. The hardware and implement business is established in a building of two stories and basement, and the two floors give to the firm an aggregate floor space of 8,800 square feet, the adjunct warehouse having 5,000 square feet of floor space and the garage having 3,350 square feet. The progressive firm of H. A. Baker & Brother owns all of these prop- erties, and the splendid success that has attended the enterprise stands in evidence alike of the sterling characteristics of the two brothers and their vigorous and well ordered policies in the development of the busi- ness. Harvey A. Baker is a director of the New Carlisle Building & Loan Association, and has contributed his share to the development of the successful business of this concern. He is a director also of the New Carlisle Bank, and his civic loyalty and public spirit have been effectively brought into play in his service as a member of the Village Council and the Board of Education, and the new public school build- ing was erected when he was a member of the board. He served one year as president of the board. He was reared on a farm in Wyatidot County, and learned his trade at Osborn, Greene County, whence he came to New Carlisle and instituted his independent business career, as noted earlier in this context. He and his wife hold membership in the Brethren Church.
Mr. Baker wedded Miss Anna Wine, who was born and reared in New Carlisle and who is a daughter of Jacob Wine, now a venerable and honored citizen of New CarUsle. Mr. Wine has been a resident of Clark County fully sixty years. He came to this country from Vir- ginia, and was long numbered among the representative farmers in the vicinity of New Carlisle. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have one son, Eugene, who is, in 1922, a student in the Junior High School of New Carlisle.
William Riley Burnett, former mayor of Springfield and former commandant of the Soldiers Home, represents an old Clark County family, and for many years has been one of Springfield's most substan- tial and influential citizens and business men.
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He was bom in Springfield Township, August 17, 1846, son of John and Mary (Jones) Burnett. His great-grandfather was a cousin of Daniel Boone. His paternal grandparents were Richard and Mary (Nolan) Burnett. Richard Burnett, a native of Cynthiana, Kentucky, came to Clark County in early days, driving a wagon overland. For many years he was proprietor of the old Pennsylvania House. John Burnett, father of William R. Burnett, was born in Springfield Town- ship, October 8, 1821. He was well educated, learned the trade of millwright and carpenter, taught school one winter in Indiana, and after returning to Springfield Township followed his trade and for a long period of years was an employe of the T. T. Mast Company. On Jan- uary 5, 1843, John Burnett married Mary Jones, who was born at Culpeper Court House, Virginia, July 25, 1825. Her father, Wesley Jones, on moving with his family from Virginia, lived for a time in Knox County, Ohio, then in Clark County, and soon left here, his daughter Mary, however, remaining with the Vance family until her marriage. She died April 3, 1907, while John Burnett passed away February 9, 1890. They were the parents of Thomas Henry, William Riley, George, Maiy Jane, James Buchanan, Emma, Edward and Lewis, the only two now living beirig William R. and Lewis.
William Riley Burnett grew up in Springfield Township, and had the privilege of attending school in the western school house only until he was fourteen years of age. At that time he began work, and has been largely on his own responsibility ever since, and what he has achieved has been directly due to his ambition and well directed energy. On October 19, 1865, he married Mary Catherine Monohan. She was born in Springfield, June 17, 1844, daughter of John and Eliza (Tuttle) Monohan, both natives of Clark County. Her paternal grandfather, Michael Monohan, was a native of Ireland. Her maternal grandparents, Caleb and Mary (Prickett) Tuttle, came from Virginia to Clark County. The Tuttles were very early pioneers in Springfield Township.
In the meantime Mr. Burnett had served a period of nine months enlistment as a Union soldier. He enlisted July 3, 1863, in Company A of the Fourth Independent Battalion of Cavalry, and was on duty in Tennessee until honorably discharged February 16, 1864. Soon after his marriage he took up work as a machinist in the old Champion Shop, and continued to be associated with that prominent local industry for twenty-one years. After this long and faithful service he was an agent for the Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati for more that! a year, and then engaged in the grocery business at 60 East Main Street. After selling this he was manager of the Springfield Breweries until 1900.
A man who had demonstrated his ability in business aflfairs and his thorough public spirit, Mr. Burnett was called by popular election to the chair of mayor, and by re-election served two more terms, until 1909, when he resigned to accept appointment as commandant of San- dusky's Soldiers Home. His wife was appointed matron of the home. Both gave the best of their ability and service to the management of this institution until July 1, 1921, when they resigned. Since then Mr. Burnett has lived partly retired at 215 West Columbia Street. He also owns the old Burnett home at the comer of High and Plum streets.
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Mr. Burnett among other public services was for six years a mem- ber of the School Board, four years represented the First Ward on the City Council, for four years was on the Board of Public Service and four years on the Police s^nd Fire Board. For another four years he was government ganger at the William Burns Distillery. Mr. Burnett was reared a Lutheran, was a democrat in politics, and is affiliated with Clark Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons, Springfield Lodge No. 33, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Division No. 44, Uniformed Rank, Red Star Lodge No. 205, Knights of Pythias, and Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mrs. Burnett was reared in the Baptist Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Burnett have two sons. Theodore Addison, born December 3, 1869, was the youngest graduate of the American Veter- inary College of New York, and for a number of years has practiced his profession at Columbus, Ohio. He married Emily Morgan, and they have a son, William Riley, Jr., bom November 25, 1900. The second son, Levi Herr Burnett, born October 14, 1874, is a graduate of Kenyon College and Columbia Law School of New York City. He has success- fully practiced law at Pittsburgh, and is assistant to the president of the Carnegie Steel Company. He married Clara Brown, and they have three children: Elizabeth, bom May 30, 1899, and now the wife of Dwight Beer, of Pittsburgh; William Herr, born in October, 1900; and Mary Priscilla, born June 15, 1912.
John B. McConnell, one of the retired citizens of Springfield, was at one time a very active figure in the business life of Clark County, and earned then the respect and confidence of all with whom he was associated, which he still holds. He was born in Xenia, Ohio, December 9, 1844, a son of Robert and Anna (Bmscup) McConnell, natives of Virginia and Maryland, respectively. Robert F. McConnell lost his father when he was young, sometime between 1827 and 1830, and his widowed mother came from Virginia to Xenia, Ohio, bringing her children with her. They came to Xenia in 1830.
Robert F. McConnell and his wife were married in 1842. In early life he was a painter, but later on clerked in a store at Yellow Springs, taught school for some years, and for fifteen years was auditor and recorder of Hardin County, Ohio. His death occurred in March, 1881, when he was sixty-two years old. His wife died in 1850, aged thirty- five years, and both passed away at Kenton, Ohio. Their children were as follows: John B., who was the eldest; Robert Henry, who died at Ukiah, California, March 12, 1922. After the death of his first wife Robert F. McConnell married her sister, Mary Bruscup, and they had six children, namely : Anna and Emma, who are both deceased ; Finley, who lives at Indianapolis, Indiana ; James E., who lives at Miami, Florida ; Reynolds, who lives at Macon, Georgia ; and Charles, who when last heard from lived in California.
When he was five and one-half years old John F. McConnell was taken to Kenton, Ohio, by his parents, and there he was living when he enlisted, June 13, 18(53, in Company L, Second Ohio Heavy Artillery, and was first sent to Frankfort, Kentucky, and later to different points in Tennessee. His regiment was given the work of keeping the road
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open for those actively engaged in fighting, and it participated in the battle at Cleveland, Tennessee, following which the command was rushed to the front at the engagement at Athens, Tennessee, but did not arrive until the battle was over. In December, 1864, at Strawberry Plains, Tennessee, four companies of his regiment and two companies of a Tennessee regiment were engaged in an important battle. On August, 23, 1865, Mr. McConnell received his honorable discharge and returned to Kenton.
Like so many of the returned soldiers of those times, Mr. McConnell taught school for a time after returning home, and in the following winter the money he had thus earned was spent in paying his tuition at a private school at Xenia, Ohio. For several years afterward he alter- nated teaching school in the summer months and attending the National Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio, from which he was finally graduated, and for one year thereafter he taught school.
Deciding then upon a business career, Mr. McConnell came to Springfield, Ohio, and entered the employ of the Saint John Sewing Machine Company as general utility man, and continued with that con- cern for fourteen years, or until it went out of business. Mr. McConnell then went with P. P. Mast & Company, farm implements, and after seven years with them worked for three years for the Superior Drill Company. For several years thereafter he was variously engaged, but since 1912 has lived retired. In September, 1883, he moved into a large double house, corner of Broadway and Isabella Street, which he owns, and in 1901 he built another house, 1314 Broadway, which he rents.
On July 15, 1875, Mr. McConnell married Elizabeth Ivins, born near Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, in September, 1847, a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Cliver) Ivins, natives of New Jersey, who came to Warren County, Ohio, about 1830, and in early life Mr. Ivins worked as a wagonmaker, but later on became a farmer. He was born in 1806 and died at the age of eighty-seven years, and his wife, born in 1805, died in 1869.
Mr. and Mrs. McConnell became the parents of the following children : Ralph Homer, who died at the age of three and one-half years ; Grace and Blanche, who died in infancy; and Clarence Herbert, who is employed in the Springfield post office, married Ella Russell, and they have two children, Elizabeth and John Hugh. Mrs. McConnell is well educated, having attended the common schools and the National Normal School at Lebanon. Both Mr. McConnell and wife belong to the Central Methodist Episcopal Church of Springfield. He is a republican, but not active in politics. Fraternally he maintains membership with Clark Lodge, F. and A. M., and Moncrieffe Lodge, K. of P. He belongs to Mitchell Post No. 45, G. A. R., which he has been quartermaster since 1913, and he served it as adjutant for four years.
Charles^ John Alsheimer is a prosperous Springfield greenhouse owner, and in that business he has been successfully engaged for more than twenty years.
He was bom in Bavaria, Germany, December 14, 1868, son of John B. and Elizabeth (Lacher) Alsheimer, both of whom spent all their lives
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in Germany. Charles John Alsheimer was reared and acquired a com- mon school education in Germany, and at the age of nineteen came to America and located at Springfield. During the next nine years he worked in different factories, and then had four years of training and experience in a greenhouse. Having learned the business, he bought, in 1901, five acres in the 2600 block on Columbus Avenue. This was then vacant land, and on it he built a house, barns and greenhouse, and in subsequent years has greatly extended the area under glass. His greenhouse is noted for his floral specialties, and while he is a large contributor to the floral trade he also does general gardening on his open land.
Mr. Alsheimer is a republican and a member of the Catholic Church. January 18, 1901, the same year he engaged ift business for himself, he married Miss Anna Belt. She was born at Casstown, Ohio, daughter of Alexander and Matilda Belt. Her father is still living at Springfield. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Alsheimer: Carl, who was killed in a railroad accident at the age of eight years, and Marie and Paul, both at home.
Thomas Ross McGregor. The McGregor name is well known in Springfield, where for many years it has been associated with the floral and greenhouse industry. One member of this family is Thomas Ross McGregor, a veteran of the Civil war, who has lived practically retired here for a number of years.
He w^as born in RossShire, Scotland, May 25, 1836. In 1851, when he was fifteen years of age, he accompanied his parents to America and lived with them at Cincinnati. At the age of twenty he went to Benton County, Indiana, worked on a farm, and from there went on to Kansas City, Missouri, and had an experience as a cowboy on a Western ranch for two years. Shortly after his return to Oxford, Indiana, he enlisted, in April, 1861, for the three months term in Company D, of the Fifteenth Indiana Infantry. He received his first drilling at Lafayette, Indiana, and was then sent to Indianapolis, where his term of enlistment expired. On returning to Oxford he helped raise Company D of the Sixtieth Indiana Infantry, enlisted as a first sergeant in December, 1861, and after some drilling at Camp Lafayette was assigned to duty with the First Brigade, Fourth Division of the Thirteenth Army Corps. His regiment went into action in Kentucky to check the advance of the Confederates from the South, and participated in the battle of Murfreesboro, where his regi- ment was captured and paroled. After three months in Indianapolis Mr. McGregor was exchanged and ordered to Cairo, Illinois, where he joined the main brigade and division and entered upon the cam- paign to open the Mississippi River. He was in the battle and capture of Arkansas Post, and then for forty days in the siege of Vicksburg, subsequently proceeding down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. During the Red River campaign his regiment was again captured, but at that time Mr. McGregor was serving as a scout and therefore escaped. He returned to Indianapolis, taking the old flag, which he exchanged for a new one, and was then on recruiting duty three months. After the exchange of his regiment he rejoined it in
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Louisiana, and subsequently did duty in Texas, Florida, Alabama and Tennessee. In March, 1865, his command was at Houston, Texas, and, the war being practically over, was soon ordered back to Indianapolis, where Mr. McGregor was discharged.
After this long and faithful service as a soldier of the Union Mr. McGregor came to Cincinnati and established a game and fish store at the corner of Sixth and Central avenues. He sold this one year later. On December 24, 1868, he married Mercy Ann Skillman. She was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, a daughter of Elijah Skillman, a native of Pennsylvania.
After his marriage Mr. McGregor operated a farm owned by his wife near Cincinnati, and while there erected a substantial new home. His wife died there in July, 1888, leaving no children. Mr. McGregor then continued the operation of the farm of twenty acres, and rented sixty acres besides, but in 1897 disposed of his property interests there and came to Springfield. Since then he has employed his time chiefly in his brother's greenhouse and nursery, and is practically retired.
His brother, David McGregor, was born at Cincinnati, in August, 1851. His parents, Peter and Christina (Ross) McGregor, had come to America and settled at Cincinnati shortly before his birth. Peter McGregor was a railroad contractor in Scotland, and he built some of the principal streets in Cincinnati and for the last eight years of his life lived with his son David in Springfield, where he died in 1890. His wife died in 1887. Of their ten children six are now living: Thomas and Belle, both living in the home of their brother David at Springfield; Margaret, Christina and Jessie, all living in Cincinnati; and David, who is the youngest of the family.
David McGregor came to Springfield in 1872, and was associated with his brother Frank in establishing a wholesale florists business. After half a century the firm is still known as McGregor Brothers, florists, and it is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in the city. The business is located on Belmont Avenue, and Mr. David McGregor has a fine modern home at 1923 East High Street.
In December, 1875, he married Elizabeth Brown, a native of Ham* ilton County, Ohio, and daughter of Ira and Olive (Wilder) Brown. Her father was born at Homer, New York, and her mother at Provi- dence, Rhode Island. Both Mr. and Mrs. McGregor were educated in public schools of Cincinnati. He is a republican, and Mrs. McGregor is a member of the Oakland Presbyterian Church. They have three children: Roy, associated with the floral business, married Mabel Martin and has two children, David and Mary; Miss Harriett, at home; and Ross, an employe of the Elwood Myers Company at Springfield, married Belle Cornell and has a daughter, Jean.
Robert Wiggins is an old time railroad man of Springfield, now retired and residing at 520 West Mulbury Street. Taking his career with that of his father, it is possible to connect the name Wiggins inti- mately with the history of practically every railroad in Springfield from the pioneer transportation line of that city.
Mr. Robert Wiggins was born in Springfield, February 16, 1849, son of James and Mary Louise (Hutchinson) Wiggins. His parents in
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1846 came from Philadelphia to Springfield. His father was a locomo- tive engineer, and had been trained to the business on some of the first locomotive engines in America. James Wiggins ran the locomotive while track was being laid on the little Miami Railroad from Cincinnati to Springfield. At that time this was intended to be the main line. How- ever, the Springfield stockholders objected on account of the noise, and subsequently this became a short division, while the main line was run by way of Xenia to Columbus. James Wiggins was in the service of this railroad from 1846 to 1873, a period of nearly thirty years. On account of the railroad strike in 1873 he left the service, and after that remained in Springfield, following the employment of stationary engineer. James Wiggins was bom September 14, 1806, and died November 3, 1892. His wife was born December 18, 1812, and died August 25, 1894. Their children were: Charles A., bom October 8, 1834, and died Febmary 1, 1873; Benjamin S., bom October 11, 1835, died September 20, 1854; Mary L., born April 24, 1837, died December 21, 1858; James A., born March 11, 1839, died March 21, 1906; Emma E., bom April 5, 1841, died March 22, 1842; Joseph B., bom July 14, 1843, died June 17, 1890.
The youngest of the children was Robert Wiggins, and he is the only survivor. He grew up at Springfield, attended public schools and also the McGk)Ogan private school. At the age of sixteen he began his career at railroading, starting as a fireman on the Little Miami Railroad. He was in the service of this division for about six years as fireman, and on May 1, 1871, was promoted to engineer, with a mn between Cincinnati and Columbus. After about nine months he went with the Baltimore & Ohio, with headquarters at Chillicothe, Ohio. February 1, 1873, he again transferred his employment, joining the Pennsylvania system, with headquarters at Logansport, Indiana. In December, 1873, on account of the railroad strike, he returned to Spring- field, and soon afterward went to the Southwest, to Houston, Texas, and for a few months had a run on the Houston & Texas Central. Again returning to Springfield, Mr. Wiggins was for two and one-half years a stationary engineer in a local malleable iron factory. When he resumed railroading it was with the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton, but his first trip required three days and three nights, and he left the service promptly. Going to Columbus, he was taken into the service of the Scioto Valley Railroad as an engineer during the constmction of that line. Six months later he came back to Springfield, and was again employed by the Ohio Southem, now the D. T. and I., and was in its service continuously until December 8, 1914. He retired at that date, after having given practically half a century to the duties of fire- man or engineer. He is one of the oldest members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and for one term served as chief engineer of Division No. 208.
Even after leaving the railroad service Mr. Wiggins did not retire absolutely, since for five years he was an employe of Webster and Perks. Mr. Wiggins is a republican, and is affiliated with Clark Lodge No. 101 Free and Accepted Masons.
April 4, 1872, he married Miss Isabella J. Culp. She was bom at Yellow Springs, Ohio, daughter of Levi and Margaret (Hart) Culp, who came to Ohio from Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Wiggins
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were the parents of two sons: Burton R., born July 4, 1874, died December 26, 1918; and Walter C, born February 9, 1892, living at home and a clerk in Springfield.
Ellis Henthorn. Among the older residents of Springfield few are better known and none more highly esteemed than Ellis Henthorn, for many years a leading contractor, and an honored veteran of the great Civil war. He is a native of Ohio, and except during the time when he was serving his country wherever duty called he has practically spent his life in the Buckeye State.
Mr Henthorn was born in Monroe County, Ohio, April 22, 1838. His parents were James and Eliza (Wright) Henthorn, his father a native of Monroe County and his mother born in 1815 in Greene County, Pennsylvania. His paternal grandparents, William and Fanny (Myers) Henthorn, belonged to Ohio, and his maternal grandparents, Robert and Elizabeth Wright, to Greene County, Pennsylvania. James Henthorn was bom in 1812, was a farmer all his life in Monroe County, Ohio, and died there in 1854. His widow survived him many years, dying at Springfield, to which city she had moved when it became the home of her son. She passed away in 1902. Of their nine children but four are living: Ellis, of Springfield; Thomas, of Milford, Dela- ware; Jane, wife of Joseph Lang, of Springfield; and Andrew, also of Springfield.
Ellis Henthorn was sixteen years old when he lost his father. He attended the district schools during boyhood, but after his father's death provided for his own needs by working for other farmers, and was so engaged when the Civil war came on. On January 6, 1862, he enlisted for service, entering Company K, 78th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he took part in the battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh, also Raymond Junction, Jackson, Champion's Hill and siege of Vicksburg, and was honorably discharged at the close of this enlist- ment. On January 6, 1864, he re-enlisted in the same company and regiment, being in the 3rd Division, under General Logan, and in the 17th Army Corps, commanded by Gen. James A. McPherson, whose death he later witnessed at the battle of Atlanta. Mr. Henthorn par- ticipated in the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, marched to the sea under Sherman, fought at Atlanta, then marched back to Petersburg and then to Richmond, and was one of the victorious army that took part in that never-to-be forgotten Grand Review at Washington, D. C. on May 21, 1865, and was finally discharged July 11, 1865.
Mr. Henthorn married on April 10, 1864, Miss Laura Tuttle, who was born at Zanesville, Ohio, August 29, 1847, a daughter of Benjamin and Catherine L. (Trout) Tuttle, and a granddaughter of Solomon and Sarah (Lowe) Tuttle. During the Revolutionary war Grandfather Solomon Tuttle served in the Vermont Dragoons, was captured by the British and kept a prisoner for thirteen months. After his marriage Mr. Henthorn located at Zanesville, and under his father-in-law learned the stone mason's trade. After the death of Mr. Tuttle in 1879 Mr. and Mrs. Henthorn moved to Springfield, and here he went into the contracting business and for seven and one-half years, in addition to doing a large amount of work for private parties, did all the city stone
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work for bridge abutments and culverts. For fifteen years and three months also he was contractor for all the stone work for the National Harvester Company at Lagonda, then a suburb but now a part of the City of Springfield. Mr. Henthorn continued active in business until the age of seventy-five years, when failing eyesight compelled him to retire.
Mr. and Mrs. Henthorn had six children born to them: Alice, who died at the age of six years ; Augusta and Mary L., both of whom lived to be forty-two years old; William, a soldier during a great part of his life, died in Springfield, Ohio, November 21, 1919; Bessie, who resides with her father; and Charles Foster, who was a soldier in the Spanish- American war, is connected with the International Harvester Company at Springfield. Mr. Henthorn's son William served three years in the United States Regulars in the Spanish- American war in the Philippines, during the Boxer trouble in China, and on the Mexican border. In the World's war he served as first sergeant of Company B. his regiment being in the 37th Division, 148th Regiment. Mr. Hen- thorn belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic, is a republican in politics, and is a member of the Church of Christ.
Willis B. Clarke. The late Willis B. Clarke was one of the highly respected men of Springfield, where he resided from 1872 until his death. He was born in Rappahannock County, Virginia, May 3, 1851, a son of Robert and Mary (Bradley) Clarke, who came to Licking County, Ohio, when Willis B. Clarke was a lad,^and there he continued to live until he came to Springfield. After coming to this city he worked in the wood shop of the Saint John Company, but when the mill burned he became custodian of the Springfield public schools, and continued to be employed in this capacity until his death, which occurred May 14, 1917. In politics he was a republican. A man of high principles, he lived up to his conception of his duty as a good citizen and Christian, and always held the confidence of all who knew him.
On May 1, 1882, Mr. Clarke married Ada M. Wright, born at Cataw- ba, Clark County, Ohio, in February, 1862, a daughter of Lewis and Maria (Davisson) Wright, he was born in Ohio and she at South Cham- paign, Ohio. The maternal grandparents of Mrs. Clarke, Isaac and Sarah (Curl) Davisson, natives of Virginia, traveled overland on horse- back with teams at an early day from Virginia to South Charleston, Ohio, where they permanently settled. Mr. and Mrs. Clarke became the parents of the following children: Carrie M., who is a decorator and artistic painter; Nell M., who married Robert Shaw, has two children, Robert Clarke and Elizabeth Jean, and they live at 504 East Madison Avenue, Springfield. Miss Clarke is a valued member of the Fort- nightly Club.
Mrs. Clarke owns a fine modern residence at 114 Woodlawn Avenue, Springfield. When the Springfield Day Nursery was founded in October, 1920, she was appointed its matron, and since then has most acceptably held this position, and it is largely because of her efficiency and kindly care of the little ones under her supervision that this enterprise has been so decided a success. She is a consistent member of, and worker in, the Saint Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church.
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William Bayley has been a resident of Springfield since 1875 and has been a prominent and influential figure in the civic and industrial development and progress of this city. He was born at Baltimore, Maryland, July 28, 1845, and bears the full patronymic of his father, William Bayley, Sr., who was born in Staffordshire, England, and who was a young man when he came to the United States, in company with his brother and sister. Here he engaged in the work of his trade, that of slater, and here he married Mary Ann Mason, who was of New England Colonial ancestry. Mr. Bayley, Sr., was associated with Wildey in the founding and organizing of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, of which he eventually became grand master of the Maryland Grand Lodge. He continued his residence in Baltimore until he met an accidental death, in 1858. His widow survived him a number of years, and of their eleven children William, of this review, is the youngest.
Mr. Bayley was reared in his native city, where his educational advantages were those of the schools of the period. In 1861 he entered upon an apprenticeship as a machinist with the engineering firm of Poole & Hunt, the business of which is now conducted under the title of the Poole Engineering Company. His original stipend was $1.50 a week, but his wages were increased by one dollar a week as soon as the Civil war began. He completed his apprenticeship at the age of twenty-one years, and by this time he had been placed in charge of the drafting department. Prior to this, through the advice and persuasion of his mother, Mr. Bayley attended night school, where he devoted special attention to the study of engineering and drafting. He con- tmued his connection with the Poole concern until 1870. In the mean- while the firm has become interested in the Leffel water wheel, which was then being manufactured at Springfield, Ohio. John W. Book- waiter, who was interested in the enterprise, had come to Baltimore to make arrangements for the manufacturing of the wheel, and inci- dentally Mr. Bayley produced requisite drawings for the invention. He saw an opportunity to improve the device, and secured a patent on his divergent discharge on the wheel bucket. A. B. Crowell, who had been interested in the Leffel wheel at Springfield, became associated with Mr. Bayley in the manufacturing of the Tatter's improved inven- tion at Wilmington, Delaware. The improvement thus devised is now in general use wherever water wheels are in commission. Mr. Crowell was soon succeeded by George Remington, but the financial panic of the early 70s so crippled Mr. Bayley that he was virtually compelled to begin over again, in 1875, the depression having made his manu- facturing enterprise imsuccessful in returns.
February 21, 1871, recorded the marriage of Mr. Bayley and Miss Mary E. Dicus, whose brother, James A., had been a fellow apprentice with Mr. Bayley in the Poole establishment and who also had served as a soldier in the Civil war. After the war James A. Dicus came to Springfield, Ohio, and had here been employed by the Leffel people and by Whitely, Fassler & Kelly, reaper manufacturers. Through the influence of Mr. Dicus Mr. Bayley came to Springfield in 1875, and likewise found employment with the firm of Whitely, Fassler & Kelly. In 1889 Messrs. Dicus and Bayley became connected with the Rogers Fence Company, which later became known as the Rogers Iron Com-
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pany. About 1904 the business was reorganized under the title of the William Bayley Company, and of this corporation, now one of the important manufacturing concerns of Springfield, Mr. Bayley still con- tinues the president, though the active management of the business is now vested in his four sons, William D., Guy D., Lee and Elden. Being a great lover of nature and of the great out-of-doors, Mr. Bayley finds much satisfaction in the use of his automobile, but he still gives a general supervision to his varied and important business interests. His incentive genius has been employed in various ways, especially in devising improve- ments on harvesting machinery and devices now being made by his Company. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, is a republican in politics, and he and his wife are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a member of the first Board of Park Commissioners of Springfield, and as such did much to improve the parks. In this connection he has designed and erected bridges in various sections of Springfield, besides which he has designed and built many other bridges in Clark County. In addition to the four sons already mentioned Mr. and Mrs. Bayley have one daughter, Mary, who is the wife of Colonel Joseph Hyde Pratt, present state geologist of North Carolina.
Robert S. Rodgers. For more than ninety years the Rodgers family has been identified with many of the most important enterprises that have substantially contributed to the growth and development of Spring- field. To go no farther back in family ancestry than the birth of its Ohio pioneers in Pennsylvania, their sterling character and business acumen have demonstrated from early days to this that the old Keystone State nourished a sturdy type of citizen, one worthy of the hearty wel- come extended by the sister state to the west.
William Rodgers, the first of the name at Springfield, was born in Pennsylvania in 1809. He came here in early manhood and for a time was a partner of Peter Murray in mercantile pursuits. Mr. Rodgers became interested in banking in 1851, first with the old Springfield Bank and later with its successor, the First National Bank. He was an exemplary citizen and courteous gentleman, an early portrait portraying him as a noticeable figure, arrayed in the conventional attire of his day, and of pleasing features and dignified posture. In 1841 he married Miss Sarah Harrison, who was a sister of the wife of his brother. Dr. Robert Rodgers.
Dr. Robert Rodgers was bom in Pennsylvania, removed from Cum- berland County, that state, to Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1832, and from there to Springfield in the following spring. Beside himself and his brother, William, his brother Richard and two half brothers. Rev. James L. and Andrew Denny, also came to Qark County. Dr. Robert Rodgers was one of the early physicians at Springfield, was one of the organizers of the Springfield Bank, and during his entire life was a dominating figure in Qark County. In early manhood he married Miss Effie Harri- son, and they had the following children: John H., Richard H. and Isaac W., twins, Frances, James and Sarah H.
Richard Henry Rodgers was bom at Springfield, Ohio, September 23, 1836, a son of Dr. Robert and Effie (Harrison) Rodgers. He had
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early school privileges in his native city, and finished his educational training with a course in Wittenberg College. Until 1857 he was suc- cessively in the drug business, railroad building and banking (the old Clark County Bank), and for one year after this was in the wholesale and retail carpet business in the City of St. Louis. Upon his return to Springfield he became deputy coiuity treasurer, and served for five years. From then imtil 1867 he conducted a book store, but from this period on he was actively identified with the manufacturing interests of the city. Associated with him was his twin brother, Isaac W., for a time. With his business partners, Mr. Rodgers manufactured the Superior Grain Drill, one of the manufactured products that have made Springfield, Ohio, known wherever wheat is grown. The firm of which he was a member was succeeded, by the present American Seeding Machine Company, which continues to manufacture the amplified Supe- rior Grain Drill. He was an excellent type of the successful business man of his day, thoroughly practical, honest and upright and proud of his business reputation. He was a director in the First National Bank, from which directorate he retired in 1908 and was succeeded by his son, Robert S. Rodgers.
In 1866 Mr. Rodgers married Miss Alice Kilgore, who was a daughter of former Congressman Daniel Kilgore of Cadiz, Ohio, who was one of the organizers of the Panhandle Railroad Company. Mrs. Rodgers died February 11, 1884, the mother of three children: Charles K., Robert S. and Effie S., the daughter dying in childhood. Charles K. Rodgers married Florence, a daughter of P. P. Mast, who was one of Springfield's foremost citizens. Mrs. Charles K. Rodgers died in April, 1901, and the death of her husband followed in October, 1902. They had one son, Richard M., who served in the aviation service of the Canadian Government during the World war. He married Jeanne, daughter of B. J. Westcott, and they have two children.
Richard Henry Rodgers spent his last years retired from business pursuits. With his father he had become a charter member of the Second Presbyterian Church, from which he retired to assist in organ- izing the Third Presbyterian, which is now the Northminster Presby- terian Church, of which he was an elder at the time of his death.
Robert S. Rodgers is one of Springfield's most prominent, able and trustworthy business men. He was born at Springfield, July 9, 1873, and is the only survivor of his parents' children. His education from boyhood to young manhood was thorough, from the primary school and Wittenberg Academy, through three years of preparatory work at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, to Princeton University, where he spent four years and was graduated in 1896. He fulfilled his father's hope and expectation by then turning his mind to business, entering the office of the Superior Drill Company and continuing with its successor, the Amer- ican Seeding Machine Company, of which he is secretary. He is also president of the Springfield Dairy Products Company, and holds the same office in the George H. Mellon Company and the Patric Furnace Company, is a director of the First National and of the American Trust & Savings Banks, and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the City Hospital from 1918 to 1922, and of which in 1921 he was presi'cnt.
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Mr. Rodgers married, June 5, 1900, Miss Edith Winwood, and they have two daughters, Alice K and Lucinda W. The religious home of the family is the Northminster Presbyterian Church. Mr. Rodgers has never been unduly active politically nor has fraternal life partic- ularly appealed to him, but, thoroughly companionable, he is a valued member of the Lagonda, Rotary and Country clubs.
Philip Edward Montanus. To worthily bear an honored family name that has been known to history not only for years, but for cen- turies, is the unusual distinction enjoyed by one of the leading citizens of Springfield, Ohio, Philip Edward Montanus, president of the Spring- field Machine Tool Company. Mr. Montanus has been a resident of Springfield for almost a half century, but his birth took place at Dresden, Ohio, June 5, 1854.
Students of medieval history find that the Montanus family was prominent as early as the third century in Rome, Italy, which >yas then the seat of civilization. It is probable that the most distinguished of the name was Bishop Montanus, a noted ecclesiastic of the Church of Rome, who was excommunicated because of heretical tendencies. In time the name became known in other countries, particularly in Germany, where generations of the family came and passed away before Philip Montanus, father of Philip Edward Montanus, came upon the scene of life.
Philip Montanus was bom and reared in Germany. He there was married to Elizabeth Wahl, supported his family by work as a tailor, and until 1854 accepted the conditions that prevailed for all in his modest walk of life in his native country. He was not satisfied, however, tor he saw no promising future for himself or his children, and the law of enforced militarism was particularly distasteful to a man of peace. In the spring of 1854 he came to the United States with his wife and children, and in June of that year his son Philip Edward was bom on the soil of Ohio. The family home was established at Sidney, in this state, and as soon as ix)ssible Mr. Montanus became a naturalized Amer- ican citizen. To some extent, perhaps, he was handicapped in his busi- ness efforts because of an imperfect knowledge of English, but among his new neighbors he found many of his countr)rmen, and both business and social environment brought comfort and contentment. He learned to love the institutions of his adopted land and was an American in all but birth.
Philip Edward Montanus was educated in the parochial and public schools of Sidney, Ohio. His father was a quiet, unostentatious man but practical withal, and when his son had reached the age of sixteen years, he deemed it time the youth should begin to put in practice the lessons of thrift and industry that he had taught his children by example. In 1870 Philip Edward entered a retail dmg establishment, and con- tinued in the business until 1887, for twelve years being so engaged at Springfield, to which city he came in 1875.
While Mr. Montanus has been prominently identified with other important enterprises at Springfield, he is probably best known as the founder and able director of the Springfield Machine Tool Company. This business he started in 1887, in a small way, as his capital was
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limited, but from the first he gave it his direct, personal attention and has developed it into one of the important manufacturing industries of this city. Until within the past thirty years ninety per cent of all types of machine tools were made in the Eastern states, but then such pioneers as Mr. Montanus invaded the West, and at the present time, Ohio alone manufacturers more machine tools than all the Eastern states combined. Mr. Montanus was among the first to introduce American made machine tools in Europe, and succeeded in building up a large and profitable trade there, which was temporarily interrupted by the calamity of the World war. He still continues as president of the great business concern he built up, but no longer finds it neces- sary to attend to any details, this burden now resting on the strong shoulders of his competent sons, Paul A. and Edward S. Montanus. Among other business connections that have reflected credit upon his sagacity and integrity is one from which he retired in 1921, he having been vice president of the Citizens National Bank since its organization and one of its founders.
To Mr. Montanus' first marriage, to Miss Hattie Armstrong, three children were bom : Paul A., Edward S. and Helen, the daughter dying at the age of seven years. His second marriage was with Miss Adah Bennett, and they have had two children : Josephine and Frederick, the latter dying in infancy. Mr. Montanus and his first family are of the Roman Catholic faith.
As conscientious in his political convictions as in religious life and business affairs Mr. Montanus has always been a sincere supporter of the principles of the democratic party, and on several occasions his party has honored him by nominations to high office, first to the State Legis- lature and second to Congress. Although on both occasions his vote was flattering and in some sections entirely unexpected in strength, but it failed to overcome the great normal majority of the opposing party. One of the attractions of the beautiful grounds near his home is a small lake well stocked, and here Mr. Montanus enjoys fly-fishing and and other outdoor recreations. He takes great interest in the Spring- field Park, and is one of its board of commissioners, and is a member of the Commercial and Lagonda clubs. He has a cultivated taste in music, having been director of several church choirs for many years, is an expert player on the zither, and was secretary and treasurer of the Springfield Choral Society.
The Ludlow Family. Cooper Ludlow, who came to Clark County in 1804, was the progenitor of a long line of that name whose history is inseparably interwoven with that of Springfield. Born in New Jersey, June 11, 1783, he was a son of John Ludlow, who settled at Cincinnati in 1790 and became the first sheriff of Hamilton County. Cooper Lud- low was twice married. By his first wife, who was Elizabeth Reeder, he became the father of Ellen, Mary, Stephen, John and Jacob. To his second marriage, with Elizabeth Layton, a daughter of Judge Joseph Layton, nine children were born: Joseph, Jason, Silas, Abraham R., George, Cornelius, James, Catherine and William.
Cooper Ludlow became widely known. In 1804 he came to Clark County and had his home in a log house situated some three miles west
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of the present site of Springfield. He bought land and traded in live- stock and also operated a tannery. But little is known of his children by his first wife except of his second son, John, who, with the passing of time, became the acknowledged fountain head of Qark County his- tory, as well as its foremost citizen.
John Ludlow, or Dr. John Ludlow, as he was generally known, was bom December 9, 1810, and was reared amid pioneer surroundings. At the time of his birth our second war with Great Britain had not been fought. Springfield was but twenty years old. Indians, often hostile, were numerous in the immediate neighborhood. Wild game could be secured for food without leaving the cabin doorstep. It was amid such an environment that John Ludlow passed his boyhood and reached man- hood. He selected pharmacy as his vocation in life, and after a period of preliminary training in Cincinnati embarked in that line at Springfield and continued in it many years. He became interested in other avenues vitally aflfecting the material welfare of the community. As early as 1851 he became a director of the Springfield Bank, and upon the death of Judge Oliver Clark, succeeded him as its president. This bank was the immediate predecessor of the present First National Bank.
On August 31, 1835, Dr. Ludlow married Elmina Getman, daughter of Frederick and Mary Getman, of Herkimer County, New York, and to them were bom three children : Ellen, who became the wife of Asa F. Bushnell, who later became governor of Ohio, and Frederick and Charles. For more than forty years Doctor Ludlow was a member of Christ Episcopal Church, and his many unostentatious deeds of charity and acts of benevolence indicated a true and sincere Christianity. At the time of the organization of the FemcliflF Cemetery Association Doctor Ludlow was instrumental in having its foundation of such a character that the cemetery has since become recognized as one of the natural beauty spots of Ohio. For years he was one of the most active and valued members of the Clark County Historical Society.
Abraham R. Ludlow was the fourth son born to the second marriage of Cooper Ludlow, and the house in which his birth occurred on May 6, 1826, is still standing on Main Street, Springfield. His boy- hood and early youth passed without any notable occurrences outside of the home circle. He leamed the trade of brick-laying and later engaged in contracting, the Western school building at Main and Yellow Springs streets being a remaining example of his work. In the early '60s, in partnership with a brother-in-law, Alphonso Farrell, he embarked in the foundry business, which was connected with the old Blakeny-Leffel water wheel works, and later bought the Williams Distillery Building on Limestone Street, near the present site of the D. T. & I. railroad depot. It was here that the firm began the manufacture of brickmaking machinery in connection with general foundry work. About 1870 a re-organization was effected, and the concern then became the Farrell, Ludlow & Chorpening Company, manufacturers of corn-planters. This corporation induced C. C. Patrie to remove from the East to Springfield and entrust to them the manufacture of the Patrie patent Superior Grain Drill. Upon the purchase of the Chorpening interest by Richard and Isaac Rodgers, brothers, the firm name became Farrell, Ludlow & Rodgers, and about 1875 Joseph and Charles Thomas succeeded to the
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interests of Farrell & Rodgers. From that time until 1881 the firm had the name of Thomas, Ludlow & Rodgers. In 1881 Abraham R. Ludlow severed his connection with the business, of which he was one of the original founders, and shortly thereafter bought the Springfield Mal- leable Iron Company plant, which he operated until his death.
To the marriage of Abraham R. Ludlow and Catherine Elizabeth Seaman children were born, four of whom reached maturity: Jason S., Rodney F., Thurston W. and Dora Bell, the only present survivor being Thurston W.
Abraham R. Ludlow was a man of broad mind and high ideals. It was not mere pecuniary gain that actuated his efforts. He had the higher vision of success in life, and his kindness of heart and generous disposition endeared him to all. In the early days he was a member of the City Council, and he was one of the organizers of the first paid fire department. He venerated sacred things, and the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church, which he helped to organize, was a benefi- ciary of his membership and benefactions for years. He was an original follower and supporter of Francis Murphy in the cause of temperance, and later he politically allied himself with the prohibition party. In the campaign in which Charles Foster was the republican and John W. Book waiter the democratic candidate, Mr. Ludlow was the prohibition candidate for the governorship of the state, his defeat in no wise diminishing his interest in the cause.
Jason S. Ludlow, eldest son of Abraham R. Ludlow, had a youth of great promise but did not long survive manhood. He married Eliza- beth G. Phillips, and their one son, Abraham Phillips, is also deceased.
Rodney F. Ludlow, who died in 1918, was prominent as a consulting engineer. He was bom at Springfield in 1856 and was educated in the public schools and Wooster University. Until 1894 he was associated with the Springfield Malleable Iron Company, and then went to Phila- delphia as a consulting engineer. He married Carrie L. Smith, and they had six children: Alden R., Benjamin F., Anna, Mida, Elizabeth and Catherine. The elder son, Alden R., resides at Great Neck, New York, and his work in connection with acetylene welding has brought him prominence in his line. Benjamin F. Ludlow attained distinction in the law and in politics in the City of Philadelphia, and his relatives are justly proud of the distinguished part he had in the World war activities.
Thurston W. Ludlow, who is one of Springfield's foremost citizens, was bom in this city, January 21, 1858. He attended the public schools, and completed his scholastic training with a course at Wooster Uni- versity. As an accountant he entered the service of the Springfield Malleable Iron Company in April, 1879, has continued with it ever since and is its present president and directing head. He is also vice president of the Springfield Savings Society, and is a trustee of the Fern- cliff Cemetery Association and of the City Hospital, and is an imix)rtant and most active member of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, in which he has been a factor for years.
Mr. Ludlow married, September 22, 1881, Miss Carrie Trader, who died in February, 1918. She was the dearly beloved mother of four children: Harold, deceased, and Thurston Rosecranz, Dora Elizabeth
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and Catherine. Thurston Rosecranz Ludlow is of the fourth genera- tion of his family to have lived in Clark County. He is the present secretary of the Springfield Malleable Iron Company. He married Miss Elizabeth Geddes, who is a daughter of James L. Geddes, a promi- nent manufacturer of Springfield. Thurston W. Ludlow is a republi- can, but no tender of political preferment has been able to separate him from the field of active business. He is a member of the Lagonda, Country and Rotary clubs.
Edward W. Simpson. A name that for over eighty years has been known and honored at Springfield is that of Simpson. It still repre- sents, in a worthy representative of today, Edward W. Simpson, of this city, high character, business success and citizenship that has, as it were, been "tried by fire." Edward W. Simpson was bom at Springfield, Ohio, April 2, 1845. His parents were George and Esther (Walker) Simpson.
George Simpson was bom in 1812 in Yorkshire, England, where he learned the trade of millwright. He married there Esther Walker, and in 1840 came to the United States with his family, stopping first at Columbus, Ohio. His objective point, however, was Springfield, where an English friend, Christopher Thompson, had settled,_ and, as at that time there were no railroads between the two places, the Simpson family covered the distance on foot. Mr. Thompson in later years became president of the Lagonda National Bank. George Simpson was endowed with both business energy and good judgment. In his earlier years at Springfield he followed his trade and in 1850 built the first public school structure on the comer of Yellow Springs and Main streets, and he also was the builder of the doors of the old locomotive round house of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was one of the first to recognize the commercial value of the water power of Mill Run and had much to do with the subsequent development along this stream, operat- ing both saw and gristmills of his own. Later he bought extensive tracts of timber land in Michigan and established lumber yards at Detroit and at Springfield.
When the Civil war came on George Simpson enlisted in Company A,. Ninety-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served to its close, not only in this way proving his love for the Union but additionally giving three sons to the cause: Joseph, Edward W. and George, the last named being but twelve years old when he went out as a drummer boy with the Seventy-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The eldest brother, Joseph Simpson, served first in the Fourth Ohio Infantry and then re-enlisted in the Thirteenth Ohio Cavalry, and later had a leg shattered in battle. George Simpson died November 27, 1887, the father of seven children. In early |X)litical life he attached himself to the whig party but subse- quently became a republican. He reared his family in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Edward W. Simpson is one of the two surviving members of his parents' family. His school days ended when he was thirteen years old, at which time he went to work in the shops, first of Steele & Winger and later of Whitely, Fassler & Kelly, and it was while working for the latter firm that he enlisted, in 1861, in the Union Army, becoming a
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member of Company F, Fjfty-fourth Ohio Infantry, afterward re-enlisting in Company K, Third United States Cavalry. It was hard discipline for a boy of seventeen years.
Mr. Simpson was captured by the enemy in a skirmish near Benton, Arkansas, and was confined at Camden, that state, being sent later to Shreveport, Louisiana, to Marshall and to Tyler, Texas, and was at the latter place when the Confederates surrendered. Long imprisonment and rough usage had wrecked his health, and he was sent to New Orleans and from there to his home on "unlimited furlough," but he surprised his officers and comrades by rapid recuperation. He reported for duty at headquarters in Columbus and was returned to his regiment, then encamped at Little Rock, Arkansas. Later he was sent to Arkadelphia, in an official capacity, and still later was placed in charge of the collec- tion of confiscated cotton along the Red River.
Mr. Simpson was then assigned at Fort Smith, Arkansas, to com- mand the establishing of a wooden water route across what is now Indian Territory and Oklahoma, the lack of water causing great suffer- ing in many parts of the then arid states. During this mission he saw millions of deer and buffalo, not to mention unfriendly Indians. He was then on detached service with United States Surveyor Steck in connection with the Government survey, and after this was sent as an escort for the first territorial representative of Arizona to a point where he could secure safe passage to Washington, D. C. In the fall of 1866, the Indian menace became so great that ordinary com- mtmication through their hostile territory was deemed impossible, and it was at this time that such known brave soldiers as Mr. Simpson and his two picked comrades undertook the hazardous mission of carrying orders from Fort Selden, New Mexico, to Fort Beard, New Mexico. Although he risked his life every moment and on one occasion was lost for a time, he finally reached the friendly military fort in safety and successfully performed the duty assigned him. When he was finally discharged in 1867 he held the commission of sergeant, and at that time had the distinction of being the youngest sergeant in the United States Army.
Mr. Simpson made his way back to civilization as far as Fort Leaven- worth in a prairie schooner, and thence by rail to Springfield, and shortly afterward quietly went back to shop work, his days of danger and adventure, during which he had many times proved a hero, being left behind. Later he became a lumber inspector and eventually suc- ceeded his father in his lumber enterprises. He has been an active and useful citizen in many ways. For twelve years he served as chief of the Springfield Fire Department, and was secretary of one of the first build- ing and loan associations.
Mr. Simpson married, January 28, 1873, Miss Mary B., daughter of Jonathan Renner. Their one son, Charles, died in infancy. They are members of the Third Lutheran Church. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, the G. A. R. and the Sons of Veterans.
William C. Trumbo, of the Taggart-Trumbo Company, wholesale and retail dealers in coal and builders' supplies in the City of Spring- field, is a popular representative in the third generation of one of the honored pioneer families of Clark County.
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In 1834 Silas Trumbo set forth from what^s now Pendleton County, West Virginia, and made his way on horseback, much of the distance through a virtual wilderness, to Clark County, Ohio, where kinsman and other -friends of his had previously located. He was a nephew of Rev. Saul Henkle, a pioneer Methodist preacher in this section of Ohio and one of the early clerks of Qark County. Silas Trumbo was a stonemason and bricklayer by trade, and after coming to Ohio he assisted in laying the foundation for the first building of the Qark County Infirmary. Later on he worked at the carpenter trade and at carriage-making. In 1838 he married Hulda Downs, of Urbana, and they established their home in the little village of Donnelsville, Qark County, where they passed the remainder of their lives, he having died in. 1900 and she in 1891. Silas Trumbo was one of the founders and became a class-leader of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Don- nelsville. He served forty years as justice of the peace and held other local offices of public trust, including those of township trustee and school trustee. Of the ten children, six are now living (1922). Two of the sons served as gallant soldiers of the Union in the Civil war. Levi M. was a member of Company C, One Hundred and Tenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died in 1862, of pneumonia, while with his regiment at the front. William L. served in the One Hundred and Forty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Joseph B. Trumbo, son of Silas and Hulda (Downs) Trumbo. was born December 3, 1847, and died March 20, 1922, one of the venerable and honored citizens of his native county. He acquired his early edu- cation in the common schools of the day and thereafter worked with his father at wagonmaking. In 1881 he engaged in the retail grocery business at Donnelsville, where he continued his active association with the enterprise for thirty-eight years, during twenty-one of which he was postmaster of that village. In 18iBl he was elected trustee of Bethel Township, and after serving nearly ten years in this office he resigned the same to assume that of county commissioner, to which latter office he was elected in 1890 and in which he served two full terms and about ten months additional, owing to a change in the law. He served con- tinuously as a member of the school board of Donnelsville from 1904 to 1917, and in 1918 he removed to the City of Springfield.
In 1876 was solemnized the marriage of Joseph B. Tnmibo and Miss Estelle Gardner, and they have five children: Maude A. (wife of Dr. Edwin S. Todd), William C, Lodema (Mrs. W. L. Nyswander), Silas B. and Gale B. Silas B. was in the nation's military service in the World war period, was stationed in turn at Fort Oglethorpe and Camp Gordon, and held the rank of first sergeant at the latter camp at the time when the armistice was signed. Joseph B. Trumbo was a stalwart republican in his political affiliation and he and his wife were long zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
William C. Trumbo, eldest of the three sons, was born in Bethel Township, this county, on the 1st day of March, 1879, and after having there attended the district schools he continued his studies in the Spring- field High School. He then took a course in the Nelson Business Col- lege. For several years he was in the employ of the Springfield Gas Company, with which he filled various executive positions, and in 1913
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he became deputy county treasurer under Frank A. Crothers. Of this position he continued the incumbent until September, 1917, when he became county treasurer, to which office he was elected in 1916 and in which he served two consecutive terms, or four years. In April, 1919, he became one of the principals of the Taggart-Trumbo Company, and since his retirement from the office of county treasurer he has given his active attention to the business in which he is thus interested. He is one of the active workers in the local ranks of the republican party, and he and his wife are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias, and in his native county his circle of friends is coincident with that of his acquaintances.
In 1905 Mr. Trumbo wedded Miss Mabel Beard, of Mad River Township, Clark County, and her death occurred November 13, 1918, no children surviving her. In 1919 Mr. Trumbo married Miss Virginia Persinger, and they have one daughter, Sara.
James L. Welsh, who is serving as a valued member of the Board of County Commissioners of Clark County, of which he was formerly sheriff, has boen a business man of prominence in the City of Springfield and is known and honored as one of the broad-gauged and progressive citizens of the county. His residence in the City of Springfield is at 2565 East High Street.
Mr. Welsh was born on a farm five miles west of Mechanicsburg, Champaign County, Ohio, on the 4th of November, 1863, and is a son of John and Rebecca (Spry) Welsh, the former of whom was born in Virginia and the latter in Champaign County, Ohio, where the Spry family settled about the year 1801 and became actively associated with pioneer development and progress. John Welsh was an infant at the time of his parents' removal from Virginia to Champaign County, Ohio, where his father, Levi Welsh, became a prosperous farmer, besides having assisted in the construction of the old National Road. He con- tinued his residence in that county until his death, November 4, 1854.
John Welsh became extensively engaged in farm enterprise in Cham- paign County, and in 1878 he came with his family to Clark County, and operated a large farm in Moorefield Township. He was one of the venerable and honored citizens of this county at the time of his death, which occurred at the home of his son James L., in 1916, when he was eighty-one years of age, his wife having passed away in 1893. Of their five children James L., of this sketch, is the eldest; John, Jr., who was for many years engaged in the dry-goods business at Springfield, is now a merchant in the City of San Diego, California ; Miss Lousetta May died when comparatively a young woman; Newton is engaged in the livery business at Springfield; and Fanny, who became the wife of Charles Shafer, died at the age of thirty-two years.
That James L. Welsh made good use of his early educational advan- tages is shown in the fact that at the age of seventeen years he became a successful teacher in a district school, his emolument for this service having been $100 for the term of three months. He continued his effective labors in the pedagogic profession seventeen years, and in the meanwhile advanced his own education by attending the normal depart-
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ment of Wittenberg College and the normal school at Lebanon, under Professor Holbrook. For nine years he taught in the graded schools of Oakdale, and he gave four years service as a teacher in Congresg Hall, in Springfield Township. In the summer vacations Mr. Welsh was a traveling representative of the Champion Machine Company, and in this connection he visited virtually all of the grain-producing states of the Union, as well as Manitoba, Canada. He later became general agent for the Osborne Machine Company of New York for South- western Ohio, and maintained headquarters in the City of Cincinnati. After retiring from this position he opened a farm-implement store at Springfield for the handling of all kinds of farm implements and machinery. Mr. Riggle, another veteran salesman for the Osborne Company, was his partner in the business three years, and for three years thereafter the enterprise was conducted under the firm name of Welsh & Watkins, with Daniel Watkins as junior member. Mr. Watkins was succeeded by Newton Welsh, and thereafter the business was continued under the title Welsh Brothers about four years. After the retirement of Newton Welsh, James L. Welsh continued the business in an independent way until 1917, when he sold the stock and business, after having been successfully engaged in this line of enterprise fifteen consecutive years.
In 1916 Mr.Welsh was elected sheriflF of Clark County, as candidate on the republican ticket, on a strictly Dry Platform and Law Enforce- ment, and in this office he served two terms of two years each. While making an arrest of a drink-crazed criminal Mr. Welsh was shot in the leg, the injury causing a permanent shortening of the member. While still sheriff he was, in 1920, elected a County Commissioner, and he has been in active and effective service in this office since September 19, 1921. He has been a loyal and influential figure in the local councils and campaign of the republican party. He and his wife are zealous mem- bers of the United Presbyterian Church in their home city, both having been specially active in the work of its Sunday School, besides which Mr. Welsh has served as vice president and president of the Clark County Sunday School Association, in which he is at the present time superintendent of the adult department. He is affiliated with the Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Mad River Encampment ; the Lodge and Uniformed Rank of the Knights of Pythias; the local council of the United Commercial Travelers ; and the Springfield Council of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.
Mr. Welsh married Miss Louie E. Dugan August 5, 1890. She was born and reared near Springfield. They have no children. Mrs. Welsh is influential in the local organization of the Woman's Christian Temper- ance Union and in various departments of the work of the United Presbyterian Church of Springfield.
John E. Miller. In the life histories of men who have attained to pbces of prominence through the medium of their own efforts there is always to be found something of interest and value to the youth who is starting out to make his own way in the world. The lessons set forth by the lives of self-made men should be included in the training of each aspiring youth. There is nothing so stimulating to ambition as the
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thought that what man has done man can do. With the illustration before him of the obstacles overcome, the hard-fought battles won and the final success attained, even the young man facing the greatest of disadvantages may well take heart and apply himself to his task with a feeling of confidence. In the career of John E. Miller, vice president and manufacturing director of the Crowell Publishing Company of Springfield, owners and publishers of The American Magazine, Woman's Home Companion, Colliers, The National Weekly, Farm and Fireside, and The Mentor, there are to be found these lessons. The success which he has attained within a comparatively few short years, the position which he occupies among Springfield's business men, and the regard and confidence in which he is universally held are attractive enough in themselves to inspire emulation, and when it is considered that all have been gained by his own endeavors the lessons become of incalculable value.
Mr. Miller was born at Delphos, Ohio, January 30, 1881, and received his primary educational training in the public schools of that place. Owing to the death of his father when he was a lad of fifteen years his educational plans were disarranged, but he managed to complete his course at the Delphos High School, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1897. For several years, as a thrifty and energetic youngster, he turned his hand to any honorable employment that presented itself, without settling down to any one line of work, but in 1902 he came to Springfield as chief clerk to the car accountant of the Detroit Southern Railroad. After two years with that road he entered the service of the Amering Seeding Machine Company, but shortly thereafter was employed by the International Harvester Com- pany and served in the accounting department until the end of August, 1905. On September 1 of that year he became bookkeeeper and cashier of the Kelly Springfield Road Roller Company, with which concern he remained until October, 1912, when he identified himself with the Crowell Publishing Company, a concern with which he has since remained. His first titles were office manager and accountant, and from April 15, 1916, until February, 1920, he was general superin- tendent, since which time he has held the positions of vice president and manufacturing director. While Mr. Miller admits that there is something unusual in his quick rise from obscurity to prominence, with- out advantages or outside assistance, he states that an equal chance is open to every American youth possessed of ambition and will. In his own case he modestly asserts that fortuitous circumstances played a large part in his rise, but it is reasonable to suppose that had he not possessed the brain capacity, the initiative, the eternal watchfulness and the con- stant industry he would not have won success even though all the cir- cumstances in the world had been in his favor. Mr. Miller has numerous important business connections, and is a member of the Lagonda Club, the Springfield Country Club, the Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce.
On June 27, 1905, Mr. Miller was united in marriage with Miss Gertrude Emma Blumenstiel, of Springfield.
Earl Newton Miller. The packing interests, like others of importance, are well looked after at Springfield, and a leading concern
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is the Springfield Abattoir Company, which has been developed in the last quarter of a century by its present owner and manager, Earl New- ton Miller, who formerly was identified with the great packing house of Swift & Company. Mr. Miller's modem plant takes precedence over the majority of others in Ohio, and has a commercial trade field that insures over $1,000,000 annual average of business.
Earl Newton Miller was bom in Clark County, Ohio, the youngest of a family of seven children bom to Samuel Newton and Cassandra M. (Baker) Miller. Samuel Newton Miller, or as he was usually known, Newton Miller, was bom in Clark County, on his father's farm in Mad River Township. He was a son of Daniel Miller, a native of Maryland, who was the first of this branch of the Miller family to come to Clark County. He settled as a pioneer near Enon in Mad River Township, cleared land and prospered as a farmer. Here Samuel New- ton Miller was born June 30, 1819, and grew to manhood. His edu- cational privileges were limited, but his intellect was quick and, almost entirely self-educated, he became a man of general information and sound judgment. He followed general farming and found it profitable to specialize on potatoes. Although a man of peace and a life long member of the Christian Church, when the Civil war was precipitated he was one of the first in his neighborhood to offer his services, and served out an enlistment of three months. He married Cassandra M. Baker, who was bom May 13, 1822, and died in March, 1896, surviving her husband, whose death occurred in September, 1887. He was a con- sistent Christian man, and he reared his family to be loyal to each other, their church and their country. For many years he was a church class leader and superintendent of the Sunday School, and as he was gifted with a fine voice, was the leader of the choir.
Earl Newton Miller spent his boyhood and early manhood on the home farm, in the meantime gaining a first-class public school education. In the spring of 1883 he moved to Springfield, where he conducted a fruit store for a time and then engaged in handling livestock, and, m a small way, also dealt in meat. In 1892 he entered the employ of the Swift Packing Company, and for the next five years managed their branch establishment at Springfield. In 1897 he came to his present location on Rockaway Street, west of Fountain Avenue, where he began for himself in the packing industry, in a building 50 by 25 feet. This was the nucleus of his present extensive plant operated as the Spring- field Abattoir Company, where the immense volume of business requires the assistance of forty-five workers. As may be inferred, a large amount of capital is invested, and only trained service can insure the satisfactory preparation and production of the choice meat products such as are demanded by the public today, and incidentally it may be added that only an exceedingly clear-headed, capable business man can manage such a business successfully.
On January 23, 1878, Mr. Miller married Miss Frances Dunkle, and they have one daughter. Alpha, who is the wife of Dr. R. E. Tuloss, president of Wittenberg College. Mr. Miller and his wife attend the Methodist Episcopal Church. In political opinion he is a republican. Although never consenting to hold a public office, he has been a most active and eamest citizen in promoting the best interests of the city,
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and so confident are his neighbors in his integrity that they often follow his lead in public-spirited movements and in matters pertaining to the general welfare.
Clarence H. Kay, M. D., has been prominent in the medical pro- fession at Springfield for many years. He was born in this city, October 28, 1856, and is a son of the late Dr. Isaac Kay. After completing his literary education he decided to study the science of medicine and so took a preparatory course under the supervision of his father. He entered Miami Medical College in 1880, and was graduated from that institution in 1882,
Until his father died Dr. Kay was associated with him in practice and since then has been alone. On many occasions since receiving his medical decree he has taken post-graduate courses, under Dr. William Taylor, in the Cincinnati City Hospital, and at other medical centers, has specialized in electro-therapy and thermo-therapy, and has long been a close student of psychology. He is a member of the Ohio State and the Clark County Medical societies.
Dr. Kay married in 1881 Miss Florence Wilson. They are members of the Covenant Presbyterian Church. At one time Dr. Kay was presi- dent of the Board of Education at Springfield, and for fourteen years he was physician in charge of the Clark County Infirmary. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
The Robbins Family has left its name deeply and worthily impressed on the history of Springfield. Rev. Chandler Robbins was the first of the family to come to Clark County. His ancestral line traces back to one of the Pilgrim Fathers who came to America on the first voyage of the historic ship "Mayflower." Isaac Robbins, father of the Rev. Chandler Robbins, was bom in one of the New England states, but was for many years a resident of Alexandria, Virginia, where he was identified with banking enterprise, where he served as a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and where was sol- emnized his marriage with Mary Douglas Howell.
Rev. Chandler Robbins was born at Alexandria, Virginia, but the greater part of his education was obtained in New England, he having worked as a cabinetmaker to defray the expenses of his higher educa- tion. He completed his theological course in the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, and in the same was graduated. In 1841 he came to Springfield, Ohio, to assume charge of the Methodist Epis- copal High School, a leading educational institution of the town at that time. His service in this pedagogic capacity continued about five years, and for the ensuing three years he occupied the chair of ancient lan- guages in Augusta College, Kentucky. He then returned to Springfield, and here he established and conducted a select school, which did splen- did service in the education of young men and women and in the incul- cation of high ideals. A man of fine intellectuality and earnest steward- ship, Mr. Robbins wielded large and benignant influence and was known as one of the leading educators in this part of Ohio in his day. He finally transferred his membership to the Protestant Episcopal Church, and at Christ Church, Springfield, he was ordained a deacon, later being
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ordained to the priesthood and becoming rector of this parish. Con- secrated zeal marked his course as a churchman and clergyman, and his memory is revered by all who came within the sphere of his benignant influence.
Rev. Chandler Robbins wedded Miss Laura Cooper, a daughter of Judge Samuel Cooper, and she proved his devoted companion and gra- cious helpmeet until his death, in May, 1871, at Springfield. Mrs. Rob- bins died in December, 1887, at Suffolk, Virginia, to which state she had gone for the benefit of her health. Of their children three attained to years of maturity: Elizabeth, Chandler and Mary D.
Chandler Robbins, son of Rev. Chandler Robbins, was born in Feb- ruary, 1844, and he gained his early schobstic discipline under the effective preceptorship of his honored father. He was seventeen years of age when, in 1861, he manifested his youthful patriotism by enlisting for service as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war. He became a member of Company B, Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and after serving four and one-half months he received his honorable dis- charge. In 1863 he re-enlisted, and after serving four months with the Seventeenth Ohio Battery of Artillery he was transferred to Company I, Eightieth United States Colored Troops and given commission as second lieutenant. He continued in active service until 1866, and in receiving his honorable discharge he was given the brevet rank of cap- tain. He was in Louisiana at this time, and he there rented a planta- tion, to the operation of which he gave his attention until the following year, when his crops were destroyed by flood. He then returned to Springfield, and here he was identified with various lines of enterprise until 1873, when he went to New Mexico and, as a civil engineer, assisted in the governmental surveys in the territory. In 1875 he was appointed United States surveyor and astronomer, and assumed the con- tract for the surveying and defining of the boundary line between New Mexico and Arizona, and to lay out the Mojave Indian Reservation, he having been at this time about thirty years of age.
In 1876 Mr. Robbins returned to Springfield, and in 1878 he pur- chased the plant and business of the Lever Wringer Company. The factory was destroyed by fire in 1880, and its rebuilding was followed by a period of industrial success for the enterprise, which finally devel- oped into the important industry now conducted under the title of the Robbins & Myers Company. In the early '90s Mr. Robbins became con- nected with the Chicago Sewing Machine Company, and the company within a short time thereafter became actively concerned in the manu- facturing of bicycles, the title of the Monarch Bicycle Company being adopted and Mr. Robbins, as an officer of the company, having for a few years maintained his executive headquarters in the City of New York. In 1898 he returned to Springfield, and after disposing of his holdings in the Robbins & Myers Company he gave much of his time and attention to agricultural enterprise, in which he was especially suc- cessful. On the Scioto Marsh in Hardin County he raised on forty acres of land in a single year a crop of onions that brought in market an aggregate of $30,000.
Chandler Robbins wedded Miss Meta M. Hunt in 1877, and they became the parents of three children: Chandler (died in infancy), Wil-
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liam H. and Dougbs. Mr. Robbins died on the 18th of August, 1921, his wife having passed away on the 8th of June of the preceding year. Mr. Robbins was a man of fine character and exceptional business abil- ity, and the circle of his friends was limited only by that of his acquaint- ances. Both he and his wife were earnest communicants of the Protes- tant Episcopal Church.
William H. Robbins was bom May 31, 1880. After attending the public schools he continued his studies in turn in the Haverford Gram- mar School, Cheltenham Military Academy and Wittenberg College, besides which he took special courses in agriculture in the University of Wisconsin and the Iowa State Agricultural College. He was actively engaged in farm enterprise until the nation became involved in the great World war, when he entered the First Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana, where he gained com- mission as first lieutenant. In June, 1918, he sailed for France, and there he was promoted captain. As a member of the Three Hundred and Thirty-second United States Infantry he went to Italy, and there he took part in the battle of Vittorio-Veneto. After the signing of the armistice Captain Robbins was assigned to special service in investi- gating food conditions in certain parts of Serbia and Hungary for Sec- retary Hoover. In May, 1919, he returned to the United States, and he received his honorable discharge with the brevet rank of major. He has since given the greater part of his time to his executive duties as treasurer and general manager of the Williams Company, an important industrial corporation at London, Madison County, Ohio, though he still retains his residence at Springfield.
Major Robbins is a republican, is affiliated with the Masonic fra- ternity, and he and his wife are communicants of Christ Church, Protes- tant Episcopal, in their home city.
December 10, 1903, recorded the marriage of Major Robbins and Miss Lucie Rebecca Morrow, daughter of John Morrow of Springfield, and the three children of this union are: Georgeanna Douglas, Lucie Morrow and Elisabeth Chandler.
Douglas Robbins, younger son of the late Chandler Robbins, was bom December 19, 1883, and after completing his literary education he became an art student in the City of New York. Later he continued his art studies and work under Howard Helmick in Washington, D. C. ; at the Art League in New York City; at the Pratt Institute in Brook- lyn ; and, finally, in Paris, France. He was in New York during a por- tion of the period of the World war, and there assisted the French Con- sulate in a clerical capacity.
Oliver C. Clarke. Veteran honors in the abstract of title business in Clark County go to Oliver C. Clarke, who has lived in Springfield all his life, and two generations of his family preceded him here. Mr. Clarke has been active in the business life of the city for forty years.
His grandparents, Oliver and Elizabeth (Strong) Clarke, were both natives of New England, and they went south to the State of Georgia to teach school. Tlieir own children, however, they could not permit to remain and grow up in an influence blighted by the institution of slavery, and, therefore, in 1837 they came north to Ohio. Oliver
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Clarke acquired 180 acres of land in Clark County, and practically all of that property is now within the city limits of Springfield. He was a man of much force of character, well versed in general affairs, and was elected and served as one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas. He died in 1855. Oliver Clark also at one time was president of the old Springfield Bank, out of which the present First National Bank is a modern development. Oliver Clark was reared a Presby- terian, but in Springfield became a charter member of the First Con- gregational Church. He and his wife had nine children, all now deceased.
The son, Charles E. Clarke, was born in Georgia, July 25, 1830, and was seven years of age when brought by his parents to Springfield. He was reared and educated here, began his active career as clerk in a store, and later was in a book and publishing house at Dayton. Early in the Civil war he joined a friend who was adjutant general of the State of Missouri, and was assigned to the commissary department, with the rank of captain. Subsequently he was promoted to major. After the war he established himself in business at Independence, Missouri, and laid the foundation of his fortune in the lumber business. He also lived three years at Fort Scott, Kansas, and from there returned to Springfield, where he spent the rest of his life and where he died in March, 1876.
Charles E. Clarke married Mary Christie, and their two children were Frances, now deceased, and Oliver C. Charles E. Clarke was an able business man, quiet and unassuming in character, and earned the respect and honor of all who knew him.
Oliver C. Clarke, son of the late Major Clarke, was bom in Spring- field, July 9, 1861. He was educated in the public schools of that city, and graduated from Wittenberg College in 1883. Mr. Clarke has been in the abstract of title business in Springfield for twenty-seven years. He is also one of the directors in the Merchants and Mechanics Savings and Loan Association.
He married Jessie Allen in 1918, and they have one daughter, Emily.
John N. Garver, who is now engaged in the real estate business upon an extensive scale, with headquarters in the City of Springfield, has had a somewhat varied professional and business career, in which he has been prominently identified with newspaper and periodical pub- lishing. He is a native of Clark County, Ohio, and a representative of a family that was here founded more than ninety years ago. In 1831 Abraham and Elizabeth (Rice) Carver, accompanied by their seven children, came from the part of Virginia that now constitutes the State of West Virginia, with team and covered wagon along the rough trails and through the forest wilds until they reached their destination in Clark County, Ohio, where they settled on a partly reclaimed tract of school land in Bethel Township. There Abraham Carver and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, and they bore well their part in connection with the early stages of civic and industrial development in the county. Their son Benjamin C. was born near Harpers Ferry, Jef- ferson County, Virginia (now West Virginia), in 1829, and thus was a child of about two years at the time of the family removal to Ohio,
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where he was reared on his father's pioneer farm, in the work of which he early began to assist, the while he attended the rural schools of the locality during the winter months, when his services were not in requisi- tion on the home farm. After his marriage to Miss Ruth Rohrer, of Springfield, he established their home on the old farmstead of his father in Bethel Township, and continued his operations as an agriculturist and stock-grower there until 1884, when he removed with his family to Kansas. He passed several years in the Sunflower State, where he gained his quota of pioneer experience, and the last two years of his life were passed in the home of his daughter in Oklahoma, where he died in 1909, at the age of eighty years, his wife having preceded him to eternal rest. They became the parents of eleven children, of whom eight sons and one daughter attained to maturity, two daughters having died in infancy. Three of the sons reside at Springfield, John N. and Walter B. being associated in the real estate business, and James L. being a commercial traveling salesman.
John N. Carver was bom on the old home farm in Bethel Town- ship, Clark County, September 28, 1858, and he profited in his boyhood and youth by the discipline of the farm. After attending the public schools and an academy he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, from which he was graduated in 1882 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Thereafter he was for a time a commercial traveler for the Superior Drill Company of Springfield, and he then followed his father to Kansas and began the study of law at Emporia. He soon abandoned these studies to accept a reportorial position with the Emporia News. Incidentally he began to make examination of land titles, in the interest of Eastern investers who were extending loans on Kansas real estate. This experience in time led to his removal to Kansas City to work in a similar capacity for the New England Trust Company. Like many another devotee, he was not long able to restrain his predilection for journalism, and in 1886 he became editor of the Sioux City (Iowa) Tribune. In the following year, in association with A. D. Hosterman, a former Springfield boy, he founded the Lincoln Newspaper Union, auxiliary publishers to supply printed sheets to country newspapers, but in the following year they sold the business to the Western Newspaper Union. In the autumn of that year Mr. Carver returned to Springfield, and on the 21st of November, 1888, married here Miss Anna C^iger, daughter of Professor H. R. Geiger, a member of the faculty of Wit- tenberg College. In the same year, in association with others, Mr. Carver purchased The Republic and The Champion City Times, which two Springfield daily papers were then consolidated under the title of The Republic-Times. Mr. Carver became advertising manager of the paper, which became a power in the local field, and when, in 1892 the owners of this newspaper property purchased the Peoria Morning Transcript, at Peoria, Illinois, Mr. Carver assumed charge of the latter as publisher and general manager. He remained five years at Peoria, in 1897 returning to Springfield, where shortly afterward he purchased The Farm News and a publication entitled Womankind, which latter he afterward sold to W. D. Boyce of Chicago. He continued the publica- tion of the Farni News until 1906, when he sold the plant and pros- perous business to the Simmons Publishing Company. In the period
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since that time he has given his attention principally to the real estate business, in which he at first specialized in the handling of Western lands. The business now conducted involves the handling of all kinds of realty, both city and country, and the operations extend into several other states.
Mr. Carver is an advocate of the principles of the republican party, and from 1905 to 1911 he was a member of the City Council of Spring- field, being one of the republican leaders of that body. In 1908 he was president of the Springfidd Commercial Club. He is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine, and of the Phi Kappa Psi college fraternity, as are also his two sons, who likewise are graduates of his alma mater, the Ohio Wesleyan University. The two oldest daughters, who are graduates of Vassar College, were actively engaged in war work in Washington, D. C, during the period of American par- ticipation in the World war. Mr. Carver is a member of the Spring- field Chamber of Commerce, the Springfield Country Club, and the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church. His first wife died in 1910, and is survived by four children: Benjamin G., Louise (Mrs. F. E. Prior), Frances N. (Mrs. Kenneth Backman), and John N., Jr. Both sons were in service in the World war, Benjamin having been a lieuten- ant in the aviation corps, and John N., Jr., having been in the motor- transport service on the stage of conflict overseas.
In 1915 Mr. Carver wedded Miss Helen Bevitt of Springfield, and they have one child, Barbara.
Aaron Joseph Mover. The history of Springfield is the record of the lives of the men who played their part in the development of its commercial and industrial prestige, and one of them who, during many years was an integral factor in its busy life, and after he had retired still made it his home, was Aaron Joseph Moyer, now deceased. He was bom in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, January 25, 1845, a son of John and Mary (Hartraft) Moyer, natives of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, who were farming people, and both died in Pennsylvania.
When he was sixteen years old Aaron Joseph Moyer became a mem- ber of the Pennsylvania State Militia. He first attended the district schools, and then taught school in order to pay his way through Dixon Seminary, at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Subsequently he became book- keeper for several concerns, and in 1880 came to Springfield and became, ticket agent for what was then the Ohio Southern Railroad, but now the Dayton, Toledo & Ironton Railroad, and after twenty months in that situation, became manager for the Rogers Iron Fence Company, and held that position nearly five years. Mr. Moyer, with William Bums as his partner, organized the Springfield Architectural Iron Com- pany to manufacture all kinds of iron fences, cornices, stairs, fire escapes and lawn mowers, and after fifteen years of successful opera- tion, disposed of his business and retired. His death occurred in October, 1916, and in his passing Springfield lost one of its most repre- sentative citizens.
On August 6, 1873, Mr. Moyer married Rebecca Weaver, bom at Freeport, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Peter S. and Anna (Bowman) Weaver, natives of Huntington County, Penn-
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svlvania, and Berwick, Pennsylvania. On both sides of the family the ancestors were established in the American Colonies over a quarter of a century prior to the Revolutionary war. Mr. and Mrs. Moyer became the parents of the following children: Aaron Joseph, Jr., who lives at Dalton, Massachusetts, married Zenaide Staples; Fredelia Hughes, married Frostie Paxton, and they live at Midland, Pennsylvania, and have two children, Robert P. and Dorotha J. ; Ebbie, who lives with her mother, teaches both vocal and instrumental music; and Frederick Weaver, who married Hester Ann Orr, lives at Springfield, and they have two children, Hester Ann and Frederick.
Mr. Moyer attended the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his widow and children are Episcopalians. He served for one term as a member of the Board of Public Service of Springfield, and was always active as a republican. Well-known in Masonry he had been advanced to the Commandery in that order. In 1907 Mrs. Moyer built a modern resi- dence at 1128 North Limestone Street, and here she and her daughter are living, surrounded with all of the comforts and some of the luxuries of life.
Paul Tiffany Gerhardt. There are in every community men of force and character whose importance is definitely recognized, but in the majority of cases these are men of years and long business experi- ence. At Springfield, however, this supremacy is not entirely main- tained, for here are found men of the younger generation who are capably handling old-time business problems, and as officials compe- tently directing large enterprises. An example is readily found in Paul Tiffany Gerhardt, who is secretary and general manager of the Avon- dale Realty Company, secretary of the New Century Land & Securities Company, and also secretary of the Springfield Real Estate Board.
Paul Tiffany Gerhardt was born at Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, July 23, 1892, and is a son of Jacob and Ida May (Tiffany) Gerhardt, and a grandson of Sebastian and Margaret (Petersen) Gerhardt. The grandparents were bom in Germany, the grandmother in Alsace-Lorraine, now a province of France. They embarked for the United States on the same sailing vessel and, although strangers at the time, the long voyage of three months gave them plenty of opportunity to get acquainted and the result was that they were married in the City of New York shortly after landing. For a time they lived in Pennsylvania and then came as pioneers to Greene County, Ohio. Sebastian was a wagon maker and horseshoer, and his trade expertness caused him to be selected for such work in the Union Army during the Civil war. He was with General Sherman's forces on the memorable march to the sea, and acquitted himself well, not only as a mechanic, but often as a soldier in the thickest of the fight.
Jacob Gerhardt, son of Sebastian, was bom at Yellow Springs, Greene County, Ohio, in 1860, and resided in the place of his birth until 1882, when he removed to Springfield and embarked in the retail grocery business, in which he has successfully continued ever since, his well known establishment being situated at 31 North Fountain Avenue. He married Ida May Tiffany, who was born at Dayton, Ohio, in 1861. She is a daughter of the late Isaac Tiffany, who for many years was in
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the hotel business in Clark County, and who was a thirty-third degree Scottish Rite Mason. The Tiffany name is well known in the United States, largely on account of its honorable, well-managed business enter- prises. The great New York jewelry house of Tiffany has been heard of in the remotest villages. The father of Mrs. Gerhardt was a half- brother of the New York capitalist, and one of his brothers was politi- cally prominent in Greene County, of which he was sheriff at one time. Mr. and Mrs. Gerhardt have three children: George S., of Springfield, who is a traveling salesman ; Alice Margaret, who is the wife of Dr. Frank Newton, of Toledo; and Paul Tiffany.
Paul Tiffany Gerhardt was educated in the public schools, with one year in the high school, and at Wittenberg College, from which institu- tion he was graduated in 1910. In that same summer he went to work with the International Harvester Company, and remained three years with the Springfield branch, serving in different capacities and in various departments, and when he left the plant in 1913, at the time of the great flood, he was serving as emergency timekeeper in the general offices.
Mr. Gerhardt by this time had made up his mind as to a future business career, talent and inclination both pointing in that direction, and he next entered the employ of the James Leffel Foundry Company as cost clerk. He continued three years with this concern, and when he retired early in 1916 he was officiating as chief factory clerk. In July, 1916, he became bookkeeper for the Avondale Realty Company, and shortly afterward a salesman, with bright prospects ahead. These were not, however, immediately realized, for Mr. Gerhardt was one of the patriotic, unselfish young men who when country and civilization were endangered had the personal courage and moral strength to set aside their individual ambitions and offer themselves for service in the great armed conflict across the Atlantic.
On May 12, 1917, as one of the first from Springfield, Mr. Gerhardt enlisted for service in the World war. He was ordered to Fort Benja- man Harrison Officers' Training Camp where, on August 13, 1917, he was commissioned second lieutenant and assigned to duty in France as one of eight commissioned officers selected from that camp to continue training in France, with the object of developing them into instructors for duty back in this country. He left the United States on the trans- port Mongolia on August 29, 1917, landed at Liverpool, England, three weeks later and then proceeded to the French officers' training school at La Val Bonne, where he took a seven weeks' course in modem war- fare tactics. He was then ordered to the American training school at Langres, France, the first one to be established, and on the day follow- ing, Christmas, 1917, he reported to the English training school at La Togue, France, on the English Channel. There he took a course in Lewis gun practice, and in January, 1918, went from there to the Hallock sector (English) on the English front.
In February the young military student reported to the Saint Pol (France) Bayonet School, and was there when the big German offensive drive started on March 21, 1918, following which he participated in eight battles. After that drive he was ordered back to American head- quarters at Langres, France; then for three weeks was with the Eighty-
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second Division, known as the "All American," as instructor, then was with the Eightieth Division as instructor and later was assigned as platoon commander, and as such served with the Eightieth Division on the New Zealand (Picardy) sector, going thence into the St. Mihiel offensive. On September 26, 1918, he was sent into the Meuse-Argonne offensive, and on October 28, 1918, he was promoted to first lieutenant, and was serving with that rank when the armistice was declared. Lieu- tenant Gerhardt returned then to the United States, with duty well done, landing on American soil on June 1, 1919. He was discharged and mustered out at Camp Lee, Virginia, on June 12, 1919, bearing four service stars.
Mr. Gerhardt returned to the Avondale Realty Company at Spring- field, of which he became secretary and subsequently manager, and later identified himself with other important business interests. His marriage took place on October 24, 1919, to Miss Martha H. Patterson, who is a daughter of William I. and Nettie (Odor) Patterson, of Belief ontaine, Ohio, and they have a daughter, Joane J., who was bom July 10, 1920. Lieutenant Gerhardt is a member of the Fourth Lutheran Church, and has the honor of having been the first child baptized in the Fifth Lutheran Church of Springfield. He is a member of St. Andrew's Lodge No. 619, F. and A. M., is a thirty-second degree Mason, Columbus Consistory. He belongs to George Cultice Post No. 6, American Legion, and is second vice president of the Springfield Exchange Qub.
Samuel Franklin Hunter. Under modern conditions and organ- ization the fire department of a great city like Springfield is one of the most important in the municipal service, and its management requires rare abilities of an executive nature, good diplomatic powers in the handling of a large force of men so that the vast machine may run without retardii^ friction, the bravery of a fearless soldier and the broad judgment of an able general. All of these traits are possessed in an eminent degree by Samuel Franklin Hunter, chief of the Springfield Fire Department and one of the best known fire fighters in Ohio. He was bom on a farm near Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, October 14, 1867, and is a son of Joseph B. and Margaret (Everoad) Hunter.
Joseph B. Hunter was bom at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, March 10, 1834, the son of James E. and Nancy (Morrison) Hunter, natives of Scotland, who came from County Londonderry, Ireland, to America in 1832, landing at Philadelphia and settling first at Hagerstown, Maryland. In 1836 they removed to Bartholomew County, Indiana, making the joumey by stage. When the Civil war came on Joseph B. Hunter recruited, drilled and equipped, at his own expense, a company at Columbus, Indiana, which was mustered into the service June 19, 1861, as Company K, Thirteenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, of which he was commissioned first lieutenant. He served until the expiration of his term of enlistment, and July 1, 1864, was honorably discharged and mustered out with the rank of captain. The following December he married' and engaged in farming near Columbus, Indiana, which occupation he continued during the remainder of his active life. He died December 17, 1906, leaving his widow and
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five sons and five daughters. His brother, John G. Hunter, enlisted in 1862 in Company A, Ninety-third Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was commissioned second lieutenant and served until after the Battle of Vicksburg, when he resigned, but later re-enlisted as quartermaster sergeant in the Tenth Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, serving until honorably discharged.
Margaret Everoad, the mother of Chief Hunter, was bom on a farm near Columbus, Indiana, March 20, 1844, the daughter of Charles and Eliza (Boyer) Everoad, who were bom near Allentown, Pennsyl- vania, of Hessian-German parents. They removed to Bartholomew County, Indiana, in 1828, by stage. The widow Hunter now resides at Walesboro, Bartholomew County.
Samuel F. Hunter was reared on the farm and attended the country schools, working on the farm until he was seventeen years of age, at which time he secured employment on telegraphic construction for the Western Union in a district mapped off the Pennsylvania Railway System between Chicago and Pittsburgh, and continued to be thus employed until he was twenty years old. In 1887 he located at Colum- bus, Ohio, where he was employed as foreman of construction and maintenance from 1887 to 1896 with the old Columbus Electric Light & Power Company, of which company John M. Plaisted was superintendent. It was Superintendent Plaisted who started the first electric lights in Columbus in 1885. Mr. Hunter connected up and installed the first incandescent lights in the Neil House at Columbus, in September, 1887. which were the first lights installed in that city, and in August of the same year assisted in installing the first overhead trolley system in Colum- bus, which was the first ever connected up in Ohio.
After nine years of service Mr. Hunter resigned from the Columbus Light & Power Company, and under Chief Henry Heinmiller entered the employ of the City of Columbus as general foreman of construc- tion and maintenance of the fire alarm and police telegraph systems, and during his three years in that capacity installed all of the fire alarm and police telegraph wires underground in the mercantile districts of that city. Also he was in charge of all electrical inspection at Colum- bus. In July, 1899, he resigned the above position to become foreman of construction for the Central Union (Bell) Telephone Company, and was assigned to a district embracing the counties of Clark, Madison, Champaign, Logan and Union, with Springfield as his headquarters. In 1904 he resigned this post and April 1 of that year was appointed chief of the Springfield Fire Department, an office which he has since retained. During his administration he has inaugurated many new ideas in the extinguishment of fires, fire protection and fire prevention. He was one of the first fire chiefs in Ohio to install an automobile pumping engine, and has been a booster for motor-driven fire equipment with the result that his department is equipped with the finest of motor-driven apparatus. During his more than eighteen years as chief the following large fires in Springfield have been successfully handled by the depart- ment: May 8, 1906, the Cottage Bakery, total loss, $25,000; April 23, 1907, Indianapolis Frog & Switch Companv, total loss, $52,000; Sep- tember 2, 1912, Cartmell Building, $40,000 ; 'December 17, 1913, Spring- field Spring Company, $25,000: March 6, 1914, Kerns & Lothshuetz
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Abbatoir, $22,500; December 12, 1914, Robbins & Myers Fort Pitt Foundry, $101,000; April 21, 1915, Winters Printing Company, $30,000; February 22, 1916, Inskeep Glove Factory, $23,300; August 6, 1916, Hennessy's Garage, Barrett Building and Fout Candy Company, $21,100; November 25, 1916, O. S. Kelly Company, $67,000; April 11, 1917, Buffalo-Springfield Road Roller Company, $302,000; March 12, 1918, alarm sounded at 1:11 a.m. from box No. 12, County Courthouse, $54,000; January 22, 1921, Kauffman's Clothing Store and McCrorey's Five and Ten Cent Store, in Commercial Block, $230,000.
Chief Hvmter was one of the promoters and organizers of the Ohio Fire Chiefs* Association, the first organization of the kind in Ohio, founded in 1904, and was its treasurer until the organization went out of existence. In 1918 he responded to the invitation of Ohio State Chief Fire Marshal Fleming to the fire chiefs of the state to attend a meeting at Columbus for consultation on the safety of industries making war munitions and the protection of all railways in the state, which meeting resulted in the organization of the Fire Chiefs* Club of Ohio. Chief Hunter was made chairman of that meeting and was elected first vice president of the club. In 1919 he was elected to the presidency, in which he continued for two years, and is now a director. He was one of the organizers of what is known as the Springfield Fire Prevention Club in 1919, and has served as its president ever since. He is a mem- ber of the International Association of Fire Engineers, and in October, 1921, was appointed at the Atlanta convention as chairman of the exhibit committee of that organization for its fiftieth convention, which was held at San Francisco, August 15 to 18, 1922. The exhibition floor space covers 20,000 square feet and Chief Hunter allotted the full 20,000 feet. He is an associate member of the International Fire Pro- tective Association and is also a member of the American Insurance Union. The chief of the Springfield Fire Department is fifty-four years of age, a vigorous, wide-awake, capable and experienced man, and promises to maintain indefinitely the service of which he is the head at its past standard of superiority and to continue to incorporate into the system the methods and improvements indicated by the advance- ment of mechanics and science.
On June 12, 1888, Chief Hunter married Elizabeth Brennan, who was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, daughter of Edward and Mary (Hill) Brennan, who never came to the United States. They have one daugh- ter, Mary H.
Charles Forest Adams, M. D. A member of the Ohio medical fraternity since 1884 and for sixteen years engaged in practice at Springfield, Dr. Charles Forest Adams is one of the best known phy- sicians and surgeons of the county seat and not only possesses a large general practice, but is particularly well known in fraternal circles in his capacity as physician to the Odd Fellows Home. His career has been one of usefulness and constant advancement and he has ever maintained a high standard of professional ethics.
Doctor Adams was bom at Leesburg, Highland County, Ohio, April 22, 1861, and is a son of Jonathan and Sarah (McKay) Adams, both natives of Highland County, Ohio, where the family is an old
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and honored one. This branch of the Adams family was settled in Highland County by Solomon Adams, a native of Virginia, who came to the Western Reserve of Ohio with other adventurous spirits and blazed the trail during pioneer days. After preparing a primitive home he sent for his younger brother John who, with his wife and infant son, Joseph Adams, made the journey from Virginia to the Ohio River, thence on a raft down the river to Pomeroy, Ohio, where Solomon met them with horses. From that point the mother and child rode one horse, while the others carried the small impedimenta of household goods and necessities, while the two men journeyed on foot to the little party's destination in Highland County. Later John Adams, the g^ndfather of Doctor Adams, built and operated the first gristmill ever conducted at Leesburg.
Jonathan Adams, son of John Adams and father of Doctor Adams, was bom in 1832 in Ohio. He acquired his education in the primitive country school in the neighborhood of the new home, and as a youth learned milling under his father and followed that vocation for some years. Subsequently he engaged in the drug business and finally became a salesman for the International Harvester Company, with his home at Sabina, Clinton County. There his death occurred in 1916. when he had been retired some years, aged eighty-four years. He led a useful career, was known as a man of strict integrity and good citizenship, and was esteemed by those who were associated with him in a business or social way. Mrs. Sarah McKay Adams, who was bom in 1833 and died in 1912, was a daughter of Rev. Benjamin McKay, a minister of the Methodist faith in Highland County.
Charles Forest Adams was rfeared at Leesburg until he was sixteen years of age, the family then moving to Sabina, at both of which places he attended the public schools. Having graduated from the high school at Sabina, in 1882 he entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine as a member of the class of 1884. In the same year he embarked in practice at Sabina, and later went to Midland City, Ohio, but subse- quently returned to Sabina. His next location was Milledgeville, Fay- ette County, this state, whence he came to Springfield November 6, 1906. He has since been engaged in general practice here and has h large and representative clientele of the most desirable kind. Shortly after his arrival in this city Doctor Adams, December 1, 1906, was appointed physician to the Springfield Odd Fellows Home and has continued to occupy this position to the present. He keeps fully abreast of the various advancements being made in his calling, and is a mem- ber of the Clark County Medi^ Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He holds membership in all branches of Odd Fellowship, including the Encampment and the Rebekahs.
Doctor Adams was united in marriage with Miss Martha J. Sever, who was born at Washington Court House, Ohio, daughter of Milton and Catherine (Carr) Sever.
Chauncey Iles Weaver. Of the public utilities companies of Clark Covmty which have functioned to the entire satisfaction of the
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people, few have been placed in a more favorable light than the Spring- field Light, Heat and Power Company. Not a little of the credit for the success of this concern and for its high standing in the confidence and esteem of the people must be given to the vice president and gen- eral manager, Chauncey lies Weaver, a man of liberal training and broad practical experience, whose knowledge, ability and energy have contributed materially to the placing of the concern upon a high pedestal.
Mr. Weaver was born at Everest, Kansas, February 13, 1886, a son of Calvin B. and Margaret (lies) Weaver. He spent his youth in Kansas, where he attended the public schools, including high school, and then entered the Kansas State College, where he pursued a course in electrical engineering, and was graduated from that institution after a satisfactory college career with the degree of Bachelor of Science. Following this he took up special work in electric measurements at Armour Institute, Chicago. Mr. Weaver was employed afterward by the General Electric Company at Schenectady, New York, whence he was subsequently transferred to that company's sales department at Minneapolis, Minnesota. When he left the General Electric Company's employ he went to Chicago, where he entered the service of the West- inghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company as salesman in con- nection with coal mines.
In the fall of 1912 Mr. Weaver became identified with the Com- monwealth Power, Railway and Light Company, which is the holding company for the Springfield Light, Heat and Power Company. For three )'ears at first Mr. Weaver acted in the capacity of sales man- ager. In 1915, 1916 and 1917 he was manager of the Eastern Mich- igan Power Company, a construction concern engaged in building hydro- dectric and steam plants and transmission lines, also doing other con- struction work for the Consumers Power Company in Michigan. On January 3, 1918, he took charge of the Springfield Light, Heat and Power Company in the capacity of general manager, and in the fol- lowing year was also made vice president, having held these two posi- tions to the present time.
Mr. Weaver is an active member of the American Institute of Elec- trical Engineering, the National Electric Light Association and other organizations of his profession. As a fraternalist he is a charter mem« ber of H. S. Kissell Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Springfield. He likewise holds membership in the Springfield Chamber of Com- merce, the Springfield Rotary Qub, the Lagonda Club, the Springfield Country Club and the Young Men's Christian Association. His reli- gious connection is with the Presbyterian Church.
In 1909 Mr. Weaver was united in marriage with Miss Laura Lil- lian Lyman, who was bom February 11, 1888, at Manhattan, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver have one daughter, Margaret Gertrude.
George M. Leffel. The career of George M. LeflFd, now one of the highly respected retired citizens of Springfield, has been one of diversified activity, in which he has engaged in a ntimber of pur- suits and enterprises, all of which have been successful under his man- agement. His versatility in business may be seen when it is stated that during his life he has conducted a grocery, sold nursery stock.
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manufactured tricycles, operated a farm and conducted a hotel, in addi- tion to carrying on various other investments. At the same time he has found the opportunity to devote his talents to the support of Springfield's interests.
Mr. LeflFel was born September 2, 1843, in Bethel Township, Clark * County, Ohio, and is a son of James and Lucy Jane (Patterson) Leffel, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of German Township, Clark County. His grandfather, Jacob Leffel, came from Pennsylvania to Clark County at an early day, and settled as a pioneer in Bethel Township at a time when the country was still the abiding place of numerous Indians, and bear, panthers and other wild animals roamed the forests. Joseph Patterson, the maternal grandfather, was bom in England and was an early settler of German Township, where he became a large landholder. He was killed while driving cattle, when his horse fell while endeavoring to jump over a large log. Jacob Leffel and his wife were the parents of seven sons and seven daughters. After their marriage James and Lucy Jane (Patterson) Leffel settled on a farm in Bethel Township, where Mrs. Leffel died in 1868, at the age of forty-four years. Mr. Leffel then moved to Springfield, where he died in 1901, when eighty-seven years of age. They were the par- ents of three children: Joseph O., who died when sixty-seven years of age; Mary Ellen, who died as Mrs. Joseph W. Stafford, also aged sixty-seven years; and George M.
George M. leffel was educated in the public schools and at Witten- burg College and spent his time on the home farm until 1870, in which year he moved to Springfield and established himself in business as the proprietor of a grocery at the comer of High and Fountain streets. After three years he disposed of this establishment and went on the road selling all kinds of nursery stock, owning his own establishment, with headquarters at Springfield. In 1880 he entered the manufactur- ing business, making all kinds of tricycles, and became president and superintendent of the Tricycle Manufacturing Company, with an estab- lishment in the western part of Springfield. He built up this business to such an extent that 165 men were employed in his plant, and then sold out in 1885 and engaged in the business of raising Barred Rock chickens. In that enterprise he became the largest raiser of that breed of poultry in the world, erected large buildings on Liberty Street, and continued in the business for fifteen years. Mr. Leffel also conducted a farm at the edge of Springfield. During the years 1901 to 1911 he operated a hotel at Wellington, Kansas, and through a clever bit of salesmanship realized a profit of $3,500 on this investment. Since 1911 Mr. Leffel has contented himself with the care of his properties, he having twenty-four tenants in his various houses at Springfield. He was one of the first stockholders in the Citizens Bank and also holds stock in the Lagonda Bank. His fine modern home is located at 829 South Limestone Street. Mr. Leffel is a democrat in politics, but takes only a good citizen's interest in public affairs. He also has several civic and fraternal connections.
On February 16, 1888, Mr. Leffel married Miss Lula Osborn Houck, who was born at Springfield, a daughter of Edward and Mary Houck, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Springfield, of English
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parentage. Mrs. Leffel died August 17, 1921, leaving one son, James Osborn. James Osbom Leffel was born March 8, 1896, and graduated from Culver Military Academy, standing sixth in his class and attaining the rank of lieutenant. During the World war he was stationed for three months at Fort Benjamin Harrison and at Atlanta, Georgia, and was honorably discharged with the rank of second lieutenant, which rank he still retains. He has since been engaged in the undertaking business at Springfield. He married Miss Clara Sherman and they have one daughter, Laurabelle Ann, born April 12, 1920.
Jacob L. Kohl came to Springfield thirty-four years ago, and after continuing work at his mechanical trade for a number of years turned his attention to the coal business, and has built up and directed two successful enterprises in that line, and is still owner of one, though he has turned over practically all the responsibilities of management to his children.
Mr. Kohl, who is one of the highly respected citizens of Springfield, was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, December 31, 1863, son of Frederick and Christiana (Light) Kohl, who were also natives of Lebanon County. His grandfather, Frederick Kohl, was born in France, came to Penn- sylvania at the age of sixteen and lived in that state all his life. The father of Jacob L. Kohl was a Pennsylvania farmer.
Mr. Kohl was educated in the public schools of Pennsylvania, and in 1886 he married Katie H. Holenbach, who was born in Burks Coimty, Pennsylvania, daughter of Joshua Holenbach. As a young man Mr. Kohl learned the molder's trade, and in 1888 moved to Springfield, and was employed in some of the local industries of the city until 1906. In that year he opened his first establishment as a dealer in hard and soft coal, at 1300 Lagonda Avenue. Ten years later he sold this business, and after two years it was acquired by his daughter Mabel, Mrs. Charles Magaw, and is still conducted under that proprietorship. In 1914 Mr. Kohl started his second coal yard, at 2868 East High Street. This is a business handling coal both retail and wholesale and also gasoline and automobile accessories. On October 1, 1920, Mr. Kohl retired from the active management of the business.
In the meantime, in 1916, he had a modern brick home constructed close to his business plant, at 2862 East High Street. Mr. Kohl is a member of the Church of God and a republican in politics. Of his children, the son Charles is employed at the coal office, and by his marriage to Carrie Cutler, has five children, Dora, Charles, Genevieve, Ruth and Margaret. Leroy, also a resident of Springfield, married Fanny Yoder, and their six children are: Eleanor, Martha, Selma, Robert, Mabel and Bettie. Ralph, of Springfield, married Anna Rehm, and is the father of five children, John Jacob, Richard, Lewis, Donald and Jean. The daughter Mabel has already been named as the wife of Charles Magaw. The youngest child, Lewis H., is at home.
John Groeber. One of the most essential industries of a city like Springfield is the production of the vegetable crops required in immense quantities by the population. One of the conspicuous men, a really con- structive factor in this business at Springfield, was the late John
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Groeber, whose name is held in grateful memory not only for his busi- ness enterprise but for the worthy family of children whom he left to carry on his work and influence.
Mr. Groeber was bom in Bavaria, Germany, September 1, 1843. He was reared and educated there in the common schools and at the age of nineteen, in order to escape the compulsory military service, he left Germany and came to Cincinnati, Ohio. From Cincinnati in 1883 he moved to Springfield and bought ten acres of land at the south city line. To this he later added four and one-half acres. All of this land he used for truck gardening and also built on it a large frame house that is the comfortable home of his widow and some of his chil- dren today. In order to supplement his business in the growing sea- son he erected a large greenhouse, 150 by 110 feet, and used it for the production of early vegetables.
Mr. Groeber died November 23, 1917. Mrs. Groeber was bom in August, 1852. Of their children the oldest is Catherine, Mrs. J. M. Pauly, of Springfield. Emma, living with her mother, is the widow of E. V. Holway. Margaret is Mrs. Edward Kriegbaum of Spring- field, and has two children, Robert and Dorothy, /^tone, of Spring- field, who served four years as deputy oil inspector of this district, married Alice Senett and has a son, John. Frank, also of Springfield, married Catherine K. Markin, and their five children are Thomas, Hugh, Martin, Eloise and Ann. The family are all communicants of St. Bernard's Catholic Church.
The sons Frank and John Groeber Jr. continued the business estab- lished by their father. For eight years John Groeber was in the whole- sale commission business in Springfield, but sold out and now gives his time to truck gardening. He is a member of the Commercial Trav- elers, the Knights of Columbus and Fratemal Order of Eagles and is a democrat in politics.
John Groeber, Jr., married Qara Mueller. Their seven children are WiUiam, Paul, Mildred, Jerome, Eleanore, Lucille and Arthur.
Orion Palmer Miller is a successful city farmer, with home on South Limestone Street, practically within the city limits of Spring- field. He has long been an honored member of the community and his name introduces the record of several families that came to Spring- field and Qark County at almost the beginning of civilization in this section of Ohio.
His branch of the Miller family was established in Virginia by Frederick Miller in 1743. A son of this Frederick was Frederick Mil- ler, Jr., who married Elizabeth Peery. They were reared and married in Ctmiberland County, Pennsylvania, and after their marriage moved to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and in 1818 they left Botetourt County, Virginia, and came overland to Clark County, Ohio. Here they acquired land in Bethel Township, and Frederick Miller died there December 2, 1822, being survived by his widow until 1844. They were the great-grandparents of Orion Palmer Miller.
The grandfather, John Miller, was born November 29, 1798, in Botetourt County, Virginia, and was about twenty years of age when he came to Clark County. He married Joanna Smith, who was bora
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December 27, 1806, in Bethel Township of Qark County, daughter of Samuel' and Elizabeth (McClure) Smith, who were among the earliest settlers of this county.
A son of John and Joanna Miller was Samuel Smith Miller, who was bom July 20, 1829. On May 13, 1856, he married Margaret Palmer, a daughter of John and Margaret (Hance) Palmer. John Palmer was bom in England in 1791, and died December 11, 1882. His birthplace was Bristol, England. His wife, Margaret Hance, was bom in Kentucky in 1800 and died June 21, 1884. After their marriage Samuel Smith Miller and wife lived at Springfield, where he worked in a printing office for years. He was a graduate of the Cleveland Medical College but on account of deafness was unable to practice. Accordingly he bought part of his father's farm in Bethel Township and was identified with the agricultural vocation there until 1874. Sell- ing out in that year, he bought thirty-six acres just south of Spring- field, but now within the city. He continued farming and dairying for about thirty-five years. In 1886 he erected a fine frame residence on the farm and throughout his lifetime he kept all the land but five acres. He died April 6, 1916. His widow passed away January 8, 1922.
Orion Palmer Miller is the oldest child of Samuel Smith Miller and wife. The second son, Cyrus I., bom March 11, 1859, lives at 27 South Lourie Avenue, in Springfield. Margaret, bom June 14, 1864, died October 15, 1865. William died in infancy December 3, 1866. Bertha Ann, bom September 9, 1870, is the wife of George W. Frants, has one son, George M., born April 18, 1907, and she lives with her brother Orion. Mary Elizabeth, bom September 13, 1872, died May 9, 1881. John Milton, the youngest child, bom August 23, 1876, lives at 21 Euclid Avenue.
Orion Palmer Miller, who was born February 7, 1857, has never married, and he made his home with and looked after his parents during their declining years. He was educated in the district schools of Bethel Township and in Wittenberg College and his business from youth to the present time has been farming. He is a republican and the family has been active in the Christian Church.
The Todd Family. Among the many old and honored families of Clark County, one whose members have always been representative of stable citizenship, reliability in handling official responsibilities, integ- rity in business affairs, high standards in professional lines and absolute probity in their home lives, is that bearing the name of Todd.
James Todd, the progenitor of the Clark County, Ohio, Todds, was of Irish nativity, and tradition states that when a lad he worked his passage to America as a cabin boy, prior to the outbreak of the War of the American Revolution, in which he served as a soldier of the patriotic forces. After the war he settled in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where was born a son, James, October 22, 1796. This James Todd I moved to Ohio and settled on a small stream, named in his honor Todd's Fork, a branch of the Little Miami River, in Warren Covmty. He was twice married, Mary Ann (Brand) Todd being the matemal ancestor of the present Todds of Springfield and Qark Covmty. Shortly after the close of the War of 1812, in which he
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served for a time, James Todd II came to what is now Greene Township, Clark County, and there erected his cabin in the midst of pioneer sur- roundings. His wife was Elizabeth Garlough, of German origin, whose father had served the Colonies as a soldier during the Revolution. The occupation of James Todd II was that of millwright and many of the pioneer mills of Clark County were erected by him.
For over 100 years the Todds have lived in Greene Township. They were there at the beginning of its settlement, had much to do with its development from an unbroken forest, and there and elsewhere in the county their descendants and allied families have lived honor- able and useful lives. Over ninety years ago James Todd II built the brick house yet standing, which was one of the very first of its kind in all that section, and, as was the custom of the pioneers, this house was one that had no keys — the latchstring was ever on the outside for the wayfarer. James Todd died December 29, 1863, and his widow, April 13, 1890. They had nine children, Margaret A. Eichelbarger, John H. Todd, Mary A. Todd, Catharine A. Tuttle, William B. Todd, Sarah M. Tuttle, Samuel A. Todd, Nancy L. Tuttle and James Todd, all of whom, except James Todd, have spent their entire lives in Clark County.
John Henry Todd was the second in order of birth and the oldest son. He was bom November 25, 1821. was twice married, first to Sarah Taliaferro, who was the mother of his children, Eliza Marshall, James M. Todd and Elizabeth Elliott, and died September 27, 1888. John Henry Todd was born and reared and, except for a few years spent in Illinois, always made his home in Clark County.
James M. Todd, the only son of John Henry Todd, was born in Greene Township, Clark County, May 28, 1848. His upbringing was on the home farm until the breaking out of the Civil war and during this time he acquired a fair education in the neighboring district schools. In the fall of 1896 he was elected treasurer of Clark County, a position to which he was re-elected two years later, serving four years in all. In 1906 he again entered public life, when elected mayor of Springfield, a capacity in which he served during that and the following year. One of his important acts was helping to compel the Big Four Railroad to erect a suitable depot and throughout his administration he executed the laws found on the statute books to the best of his ability, consci- entiously, without fear or favor. He was ironically termed the **Lid" mayor, because he clapped on the lid over the cesspools of crime in the city. Since leaving the mayoralty office he has been living in retire- ment. Mr. Todd is a Presbyterian in religion and a republican in poli- tics. As a fratemalist he is a Knight Templar, York Rite and thirty- second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of the Mystic Shrine. On September 25, 1873, Mr. Todd married Miss Lora A. Otstot, and they have two sons, Harry Duschane, M. D., a physician of Akron, Ohio, and Arthur J.
Arthur J. Todd, the younger of the two sons of James M. and Lora A. (Otstot) Todd, was born May 15, 1880, at Springfield, where he attended high school in 1898. He then entered Wittenberg College, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1902, and entered upon his legal studies at the University of Cincinnati, from the
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law department of which institution he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1905. He was admitted to the bar in the same year and has been engaged in the practice of his calling ever since. In religious faith Mr. Todd is a Presbyterian and his political allegiance is with the republican party. During the World war he served in the capacity of townships chairman of the Liberty Loan drives. Fraternally he is a Mason.
On June 25, 1912, Mr. Todd married Miss Ella M. Morgan, daugh- ter of Thomas J. Morgan, and they are the parents of two children, Martha Jane and Arthur J., Jr.
Melvin L. Milligan. The many and varied interests of Spring- field have brought to this city a number of solid and enterprising men whose efforts have been and are directed toward the achievement of further distinction for this locality a«d other improvements. Without these men it is doubtful if the city today would hold its present high prestige, or that its name would stand for so much that is of a high order of merit. One of these representative men and good citizens is Melvin L. Milligan, a graduate and experienced attorney, who has many diversified interests, and who served the city as mayor during 1901 and 1902.
Three decades ago, in 1892, the old Springfield Foundry Company was organfzed. Charles W. Fairbanks, who subsequently served as vice president of the United States, had previously bought the property where the plant now stands. Elias Jacoby, representing the Fairbanks inter- ests, was the first president, and the company devoted its energies to the manufacture of "yokes" for cable street railways, their product almost wholly being absorbed by the Chicago Street Railway. In 1898 the name was changed to the Fairbanks Machine Tool Company, which entered extensively into the manufacture of lathes in addition to carrying on a general job foundry business. In 1902 the name was again changed, becoming the Fairbanks Company, and since then the manufacture of piano plates has occupied their entire attention. It is a fact not generally known that Springfield is the greatest center for the manufacture of piano plates in the world, the three Springfield factories producing the majority of the 275,000 plates made annually in the United States. In 1894 M. L. Milligan succeeded Frank Serviss as secretary and treasurer of the corporation, and he has eVer since, been a prime factor in its life. In 1898 he was elected its president, and still officiates as such.
Melvin L. Milligan >vas born in Perry County, Ohio, July 28, 1860, a son of Alfred P. and Rachel (Iliflf) Milligan, the former a veteran of the war between the states and a farmer ; and a grandson of George and Priscilla (Thrap) Milligan, natives of Pennsylvania and pioneers of Perry County, Ohio. Melvin L. Milligan was reared on the home farm, obtained his preliminary education in the public schools of Perry and Morgan counties, Ohio, completed a business course in a commercial college at Zanesville, Ohio, and after a four-year course in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, was accorded the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1884. Following this he read law, was admitted to the bar at Columbus, Ohio, in 1886, and later at Kansas City, Missouri, where he was engaged in the practice of his profession. He came to
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Springfield in 1891, and has since made this city his permanent home. As a republican he was elected mayor of the city in 1901, and served as such for two years. He is a firm believer in the greatness of his country, state, coimty and city, and is intensely interested in their material welfare. On August 30, 1887, Mr. Milligan married Miss Jennie Fairbanks, a daughter of Loriston M. and Mary Adelaide Fairbanks, and a sister of former Vice President Fairbanks. The five children bom to this mar- riage are: Loriston F., Harry S. and Mary Adelaide, twins, Robert L., and Rachel I. Loriston F. Milligan was a lieutenant during the World war, first serving in the Coast Artillery, and later in the Anti-Aircraft Service. Harry S. Milligan was a medical student, enlisted and was assigned to the Officers Medical Reserve Corps.
John J. Hoppes. Being born and reared on a farm seems to be one of the old-fashioned requisites of the successful career. Innumerable examples exist of outstanding men who, on frosty mornings of boyhood days, had warmed their bare feet on the spot where the cow had lain. Somehow, nature gives the country-bred boy a wider g^sp on life's problems, places upon his shoulders greater care of self-dependence, instills a more developed power of initiative, and assists in the upbuild- ing of a rugged, strong physique. A product of the farm who has risen to a high place among the Ohio inventors and engineers is John J. Hoppes, of Springfield, who was bom on a farm in Pickaway County, Ohio, September 4, 1857, a son of Daniel and Helen (Stanton) Hoppes.
The Hoppes family in remote times lived in Lorraine, in what is now France, but during the Thirty Years' war removed to Belgium, and from that country immigrated to the United States. In direct line members served in the Revolutionary war and the War of 1812. Daniel Hoppes was a contractor engaged in building operations, most of which were flour mills scattered about central Ohio. At the early age of twelve years John J. Hoppes began to help his father, and four years later, dur- ing his father's illness, took over the contracts. For about two years he was engaged in the contruction and operation of these mills, which were driven by both steam and water. In this capacity he did everything from landscape gardening to engine operating, and later on in life made good use of the diversified experience thus gained. As a young man he was always quiet, thoughtful and studious, and at the age of sixteen years passed a teachers' examination, although his youth prevented an assign- ment.
Early possessed of a desire to take up engineering studies, he decided to enter Stephens Institute of Technology, and had some correspondence with Dr. R. H. Thurston with that end in view, but owing to his father's illness it became impossible for him to carry out his desire. Doctor Thurston, however, had become interested in the youth and offered to help him with a personal correspondence course of instruction, which was gladly accepted. He continued this course for some five years, and attributes much of his success to the fundamental guidance of Doctor Thurston. Very early in life he took up the study of physics, which he has always maintained greatly appealed to him. His copy of Quackenbos' Natural Philosophy, with its well-thumbed pages, is still treasured on his book shelf.
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About this time Mr. Hoppes began to specialize in designing and rebuilding steam plants and acting as consulting engineer in a small way to power users. Soon his inventive and constructive talents became active, and subsequently his attention was directed chiefly to developing steam specialties. In 1882 he designed a feed water heater and in 1885 a live steam feed water purifier. Nature's phenomena furnished him with his first inspiration in designing the purifier, as, noticing how the drip of water from the roofs of natural caverns caused the formation of stalactites, he conceived the idea of employing this principle in an appara- tus for heating and purifying boiler feed water by means of live steam. Later on he applied this same principle to an exhaust steam feed water heater. He also designed a new form of steam separators, emjJoying troughs partly filled with water to intercept the entrainment. This princi- ple he also applied to exhaust pipe' heads. The latest apparatus designed by Mr. Hoppes is a V-notch water meter, wherein the height of the water is weighed in the ratio of the rate of flow. This apparatus, although very simple, is a very ingenious device, a good example of the ability of Mr. Hoppes to clearly analyze a difficult proposition. The greater number of these inventions were brought to finition at Spring- field, where Mr. Hoppes is a recognized authority on his specialties.
Mr. Hoppes is happily married, his wife having been formerly Miss Hattie Merrill. He is fond of his home, but when he can find the time is also inclined to indulge his favorite recreations of motoring and boat- ing. Back in 1901 he designed and built a 75-foot steel houseboat launch, which included many unusual features new at that time. Civic improve- ment is another avocation. Springfield, Ohio, in 1915, adopted the com- mission form of government, and Mr. Hoppes, who had advocated this form some dozen years before, was one of those selected to draft the charter. In 1887 he was elected one of the city commissioners, a posi- tion which he still holds. A comprehensive sewage system, repaving of the city's streets, the elimination of overhead wiring and numerous improvements made by the city have formed a large part of his work in this position. Under the administration of P. P. Mast, and three separate times, he reorganized the police and fire departments of the city. He was the principal organizer in the formation of the National Improvement Association, and was its first presiding officer. Later this association was changed to the National Civic League. For twenty-five years he has been a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engi- neers, and is also a member of the Ohio Engineering Society and the National Association of Stationary Engineers.
In addition to directing the affairs of the concern which bears his name Mr. Hoppes is also president of the Trump Manufacturing Com- pany, which manufactures a new tjrpe of super high speed water wheel, in the design of which Mr. Hoppes was largely instrumental; president of the Everwear Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of playground apparatus, also of Springfield; and, since 1886, directing head of the Hoppes Manufacturing Company, which he founded. He helped organ- ize the present Chamber of Commerce and was president of its two predecessors, the Board of Trade and the Commercial Club. He is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine, and a mem- ber of the Board of Directors of the Lagonda National Bank. During
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the World war he was an exceptionally busy man. As a manufacturer he was called upon to build separators to be used in separating the crude materials from gas for making T. N. T. and other high explosives; the building of water wheels for operating powder mills in France, and the construction of water wheels for nitrate plants in this country.
Robert Johnson was one of those strong, capable, ingenious men who, a half a century ago, through participation in manufacturing activ- ities, assisted in making the City of Springfield famous. He was a con- temporary of the leading industrial captains of the 70s and '80s, and was associated with them in the promulgation and advancement of busi- ness concerns which brought the city prestige and prosperity and which caused its name to be known all over the country because of its products.
Mr. Johnson was bom January 20, 1832, in Clark County, Ohio, a son of James Johnson, a native of County Donegal, Ireland, of Scotch ancestry. James Johnson married in Ireland Helen Johnston, and in 1824 the family immigrated to the United States, buying a farm a few miles south of Springfield, in Clark County, where James Johnson was engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death in 1872. Robert Johnson was the the fifth in a family of eight children. From early boyhood until the close of his life he was an exceptionally hard worker. He grew up as a farm boy, and his educational training was limited to a few months yearly in the neighboring district schools. In the spring of 1849 he came to Springfield, where, after serving an apprenticeship at the carpenter's and joiner's trade, for which he was paid $40 the first year and $62 the second year, he began working at the trade. Before he had attained his majority he had built, unaided, during his spare time, a double flight of continuous rail stairs, the first of their kind in Springfield, and after this for a number of years was associated with his brother, James Johnson, in contracting and building. In 1865 he went to the Pennsylvania oil fields, and there, associated with others, spent two years in oil produc- tion, but in 1867 returned to Springfield, where he joined Amos Whitely, W. W. Wilson, J. W. Taylor, Walter Craig and others in the organiza- tion of the Champion Machine Company, which was formed for extending the business of the manufacture of Champion reapers and mowers that were then being manufactured by the firm of Whitely, Fassler & Kelly. From this time for fifteen years Mr. Johnson held the office of secretary and superintendent of the company. In 1873 the Champion Malleable Iron Company was created for the manufacture of malleable iron use4 in the products of the Champion Machine Company, of Whitely, Fassler & Kelly and of Warder, Mitchell & Company, and of this new company Mr. Johnson became secretary and a director. In 1874 the three com- panies named above organized the Bar and Knife Company for the pur- pose of manufacturing cutter bars, knives and sections, and of this con- cern Mr. Johnson was also made secretary and a director. In 1881 he severed his connections with these concerns and built the Johnson Block on Main Street, and in 1883 became vice president of Mast, Foos & Company, serving as such for fourteen years. In November, 1883, with E. L. Buchwalter, C. E. Patric, Richard H. Rodgers, Charles S. Kay and others, he bought out Thomas, Ludlow & Rodgers and organized the Superior Drill Company, which during subsequent years has had an
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important bearing on the commercial history of Springfield. During the remainder of his life Mr. Johnson was first vice president of this cor- poration. With its wonderful growth and prosperity the Superior Drill Company absorbed the Champion Machine Company, and has become known throughout the United States, particularly as a great manufacturer of specialized farm machinery. Mr. Johnson was also an official of the Hoppes Manufacturing Company, the Springfield Coal and Ice Company, the Foos Gas Engine Company, the Springfield National Bank and numerous other business and financial enterprises of Springfield. He was a Methodist in church belief, in politics a republican, and was an incor- porator of the Methodist Home for the Aged at Yellow Springs, in all ways standing for those things contributing to the real welfare of the community.
To Mr. Johnson's marriage with Adelaide T. Humphreys there were horn six children: Effie, who married K. M. Burton; Nellie, who mar- ried Randolph Coleman ; Frank C. ; Clara, who married A. M. McKnight ; Jessie, who married Luther L. Buchwalter, and Benjamin P.
Frank C. Johnson. Prominent among the business men of the pres- ent at Springfield, one who has succeeded his father as an important factor in manufacturing circles is Frank C. Johnson, president of the American Seeding Machine Company. Mr. Johnson was born at Spring- field, November 10, 1866, a son of Robert Johnson, and after attending the local public schools enrolled as a student at the Kenyon Collegiate Preparatory School. Subsequently he pursued a course at Phillips- Andover, and then returned to Springfield, where in 1887 he associated himself permanently with the American Seeding Machine Company. He has filled at diflferent times practically all of the various official positions, and since September 19, 1920, has occupied the office of president. Under his direction this has become one of the leading enterprises in its line in the country, and Mr. Johnson occupies a well-merited position among the leading business men of his community. He has always shown a commendable interest in civic aflfairs, and has contributed of his time and means in the forwarding of those movements which have been con- structive in character and worthy in aim. Likewise, he has aided educa- tion, charity and religion. Mr. Johnson is primarily a business man, but is not adverse to the companionship of his fellows and holds membership in the lea^iing Springfield clubs, in addition to being a Mason of high standing.
In 1891 Mr. Johnson was united in marriage at Springfield with Miss Louise JeflFeries, a member of a well-known family of this city, and to this union there have been born two children: Elizabeth, who married Robert Cartmell, and Margaret, who married Harold Prout.
Patrick J. Shouvlin. Instances are numerous of men who, denied advantages in their youth, have overcome the obstacles which have appeared in their path and fought their way to prominence and prosper- ity, but there are few in the business world of Springfield who can equal the record of Patrick J. Shouvlin, proprietor of the Superior Gas Engine Company, probably the largest singly-owned plant in the world.
Mr. Shouvlin, while his only recollection is of United States soil, was bom in Ireland, February 1, 1863, a son of Daniel and Bridget
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(Gallagher) Shouvlin. His father, a native of County Donegal, Ireland, went to Scotland when a young man and there learned engineering, fol- lowing which, in 1856, he joined the LeWises, who had extensive iron interests in the United States, and came to this country, locating at Allen- town, Pennsylvania, where he operated blast engines. Later he returned to Ireland, where he married Bridget Gallagher, and after living there a few years returned to America in 1866 with his wife and sons, Patrick J. and Daniel J. The father spent the remainder of his life in this country.
After the death of her husband Mrs. Shouvlin took her two sons to the anthracite region of Pennsylvania, and it was there that Patrick J. Shouvlin began his career as an anthracite miner, in the meantime having obtained a common school education. While looking after machinery he picked up a knowledge of practical engineering in the school of experi- ence, and this he subsequently supplemented by private study, finishing as a mechanical engineer. In 1883 he came to Springfield and began working in the railroad shops at locomotive building, but after five years went to Wisconsin, where he became assistant master mechanic of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad at LaCrosse. Later he was employed in the same capacity for the same line at Tacoma, Washington. In 1889 he returned to the East and located at Springfield, where he started a small machine shop on the present site of the Daily News plant. In the course of time his general line of steam engines and general machine business was augmented by the beginning of the development of the present Superior Gas Engine Company, which was moved to East Street in 1900 and to his present location, at Sheridan and Grenmount avenues, four years later. The present plant covers six acres of the twelve acres belonging to this property. In addition Mr. Shouvlin bought the old Herb Medicine Company plant, which was the progenitor of the old Common Sense Engine Company. As before noted, the present Superior Gas Engine Company is the largest singly-owned plant in the world. The engine is especially adapted for the pumping of oil, and recently a real oil-burning engine has been devised which is destined to become one of the wonders of its kind. In his plant Mr. Shouvlin employs on an aver- age of 500 men. He is a democrat with independent proclivities, and in 1913, while traveling abroad, was elected a city commissioner, a position in which he has served very capably. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore, which nominated Woodrow Wilson for the presidency.
In 1887 Mr. Shouvlin married Catherine Burns, and they have six children : Daniel R. ; Ann, who married Oswald Croty ; John P. ; Mary, who married Henry Wickham ; Raphael, and Joseph. Of these Raphael and Joseph were in the United States service during the World war, but neither was called upon for overseas service. For many years Mr. Shouvlin has been a member of the American Association of Mechanical Engineers.
Francis M. Bookwalter, who is now living virtually retired in his beautiful home at Springfield, has been a prominent figure in the industrial, commercial and civic affairs of this city, and as a man of
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thought and action has regulated his life to effective service, the while substantial success has attended his varied and important activities.
Mr. Bookwalter was bom in a pioneer log cabin near Rob Roy, Fountain County, Indiana, on the 29th of April, 1837, and is a son of David Buchwalter, who was bom in Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 1804, and who eventually changed the orthography of the family name to the English form, Bookwalter. When David Bookwalter was nine years old 3ie family removed to Ross County, Ohio, where his father, Joseph Buchwalter, took up land and engaged in pioneer farm enterprise. In that county David was reared to adult age, and in 1828 he went to Indiana to establish a home on land which his father had previously purchased at a public sale held at Crawfordsville, that state. After spending a year on this land, David Bookwalter returned to Ross County, Ohio, where was solemnized his marriage with Susan Van Gundy, of Holland Dutch ancestry. In 1830 the young couple established their home on the pioneer farm on Little Shawnee Creek in Fountain County, Indiana, the Shawnee Indians having at that time been still in evidence in that section, which was still on the frontier of advancing civilization. On this old homestead were bom the five children, Francis M., John W., William H. H., Melinda Jane and Malissa. The father built a sawmill and an oil mill on Little Shawnee Creek, and in 1837 he erected on his farm a substantial stone house, the first pretentious building in that section of Indiana. In his oil mill David Bookwalter ground flaxseed and the oil product was shipped to points as far south as New Orleans, by boats on the Wabash, Ohio and Mississippi rivers. David Bookwalter died in 1859, and his widow passed away many years later, at a venerable age, she having been a member of the home circle of her son Francis M. at Springfield at the time of her death.
Francis M. Bookwalter was reared under the conditions and influ- ences marking the pioneer period in the history of Indiana, and he aided in the work of the home farm and the mills operated by his father. The discipline which he acquired in the local schools was supplemented by one year of study in the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, the death of his father having caused him to retum home. For a time he had charge of the old home farm and the saw mill, the flax-raising enterprise having so waned as to stop the operation of the oil mill. The crude machinery of the old-time mills had peculiar fascination for Mr. Bookwalter and tended to spur his natural aptitude for mechanics and his interest in mechanical science. He finally built a grist mill on the old home farm and in operating the same he finally learned of the Leffel water wheel, an improved power device then being manufactured at Springfield. In 1865 his brother John W. came to Springfield to make personal investigation of the wheel and to transact other business. He became interested in the Leffel wheel and also, of major impor- tance, in the daughter of Mr. Leffel. He finally married the daughter and also acquired an interest in the manufacturing business. In 1867 Francis M. Bookwalter joined his brother in Springfield and for about a year thereafter he had charge of the mill which the two acquired on Buck Creek. They sold this property in 1868 and Francis M. then became shipping clerk for the firm of James Leffel & Co., in which
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he later assumed charge of the water-wheel correspondence. In 1876 John W. Bookwalter became the owner of two-thirds interest in this manufacturing enterprise and in 1879 the sole owner. In 1876 Francis M. Bookwalter was made general manager of the business, in which he acquired an interest in 1890 and of which he continued the general manager until 1900, when he retired, though still retaining his financial interest. For forty-eight years and eight months John W. and Fran- cis M. Bookwalter were associated with the important business con- ducted under the original title of James LefFel & Co., and the death of John W. occurred in 1915.
Francis M. Bookwalter, who has passed the eighty-fifth milestone on the journey of life, has gained high reputation as an inventor, and he obtained patents on several improvements which he made on the Leffel water wheel. He has traveled extensively, both in this country and abroad, is a man of fine intellectual ken, and he had made some- what of a hobby of precision in mechanics. Years ago, in the memory of old residents, he developed and installed what was the first semblance of a town clock in Springfield, and the same was looked upon to regu- late all things. He has been for many years a close student of mechan- ics and astronomy and his interest in wireless telegraphy has been shown in his installing a complete wireless outfit in his home. Mr. Book- waiter issued in 1917 a most interesting and valuable booklet entitled "The Pocket Performance of Fine Watches Exhibited by Critical and Systematic Time Service Records," a work now in its fifth edition. From the text of this booklet the initial paragraph is reproduced herewith :
"The writer has for many years been interested in the subject of correct time service, as a diversion from the arduous exactions of an active business career. Thirty-nine years ago he furnished to the City of Springfield, Ohio, a system of time signals similar in several respects to the present practice of the telegraph company. His private astronom- ical observatory contained a high-class fixed transit instrument, and a combined clock of his own arrangement, with two dials and one pen- dulum, which kept both mean sidereal and mean solar, or local, time. The sidereal clock was corrected at frequent intervals by observing at night the transit of nautical almanac fixed stars, which are tabulated by the Washington and Greenwich observatories for navigators. The solar time dial could be corrected by the transit of the sun across the meridian, but it was more convenient and pleasant to utilize the stars by night for the necessary corrections. The combined clock was arranged electrically and mechanically to strike automatically the bell of the central station of the fire department, located a half-mile distant. These signals were adopted by factories and others as their local stand- ard time."
From 1872 to 1900 Mr. Bookwalter produced all the descriptive and promotive literature of James Leffel & Company and the splendid suc- cess of the corporation is thus to be attributed in large measure to his able efforts. From 1890 to 1900 he was vice president, treasurer and general manager of the corporation. He has been liberal and pro- gressive as a citizen, is a staunch republican, and in the Masonic fra-
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ternity has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, besides being affiliated with the Mystic Shrine.
In 1868 Mr. Bookwalter married Miss Mary Elizabeth Croft, and they became the parents of three children, the second of whom, Lulu J., died at the age of twenty-two months; May Louise was the wife of George R. Prout, who died in March, 1922, and of whom individual mention is made on other pages; and John A. died in 1917 at the age of forty-three years.
John A. Doyle has maintained for fully a quarter of a century a place of prominence in connection with commercial floriculture in his native county and in addition to conducting his large and well-equipped greenhouses in Springfield, he is the owner of several valuable farm properties in Clark County. Mr. Doyle was bom on his father's farm in Springfield Township, this county, in the year 1865, and is a son of the late Patrick Doyle, who was bom in Ireland and who came to the United States prior to the Civil war, he having become one of the substantial farmers of Clark County and having continued to reside on his homestead place in Springfield Township until his death, when seventy years of age. Patrick Doyle and his wife were charter mem- bers of St. Raphael's Catholic Church at Springfield and it is pleasing to note that their son John A., of this review, is likewise an earnest communicant of this parish, besides which he maintains affiliation with the Kjiights of Columbus.
John A. Doyle passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the home farm and gained his education in the district and parochial schools of his native county. Before instituting his independent career in connection with the florist business he had gained six years of prac- tical experience while in the employ of Peter Murphy and the McGregor Brothers, well known florists and nurserymen of early days. Twenty- five years ago, to meet a local demand for bedding plants, Mr. Doyle established a small greenhouse twenty by eighty feet in dimensions, on North Limestone Street, his capital at this time having been summed up in about $1,000. The enterprise prospered and each successive year he added to its scope and facilities, and the greenhouses were of large area and the best of equipment when, at the expiration of ten years, Mr. Doyle sold the plant and business to the Springfield Floral Com- pany, there having been at that time fifteen greenhouses under glass, with an area of about 35,000 square feet. The annual business had attained to an average aggregate of $15,000 and the number of employes was twelve. After selling his original business Mr. Doyle instituted the development of his present fine plant, the offices of which are at North Fountain Street, Ridgewood. The twelve greenhouses of this modern plant have 40,000 square feet under glass and an average of twelve employes is retained in the operation of the plant. Here Mr. Doyle makes a specialty of the propagation of roses of the finest type and he has a wide sale of both plants and cut flowers in this line. He has fully 200 varieties of roses and sells rose bushes on an extensive scale to nurseries and jobbers in all parts of the United States. In addition to maintaining a characteristically effective personal supervision of this large and prosperous business enterprise Mr. Doyle also finds time to
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direct in a general way the improvement and operations of his valuable farms in Clark and Champaign counties. He is a progressive business man and a loyal and public-spirited citizen, his name being still enrolled on the roster of eligible bachelors in his native county, where his circle of friends is coincident with that of his acquaintances.
William Miller Drake had the good fortune to live out his life at a farm and country home in Clark County which had been the home of his parents before him. He was one of the most substantial repre- sentatives of the agricultural interests of the county and he proved himself a sterling friend of education, religion and every matter con- nected with the fundamental progress and prosperity of the commu- nity. His home in Mad River Township, eight miles southwest of Springfield, is still occupied by Mrs. Drake and her children.
The late Mr. Drake was bom April 29, 1856, and died November 29, 1920. His death occurred in the old house, still standing, erected by his grandfather, William Drake. It was the home of his own parents throughout their married lives, Cyrus E. and Martha Ann (Miller) Drake. Cyrus Drake was born March 17, 1824, and died April 16, 1901. Martha Ann Miller was bom October 3, 1826, and died March 20, 1892. Cyrus Drake was a successful farmer and stockman. The old farm comprises two hundred and seventy-two acres. He was a char- ter member of the Mud Run Presbyterian Church while it existed and later he attended the Yellow Springs Church four miles away. The children of Cyrus Drake and wife were: Albert I., a farmer in Greene County, living at Yellow Springs ; William M. ; Margaret E., who lives at Yellow Springs; Ida, wife of Charles Weaver, of Greenville, Ohio; and John W., who left home as a young man and is a hardware mer- chant at Toledo.
December IS, 1898, William Miller Drake married Sarah A. Keifer, daughter of Benjamin F. Keifer and a niece of Gen. J. Warren Keifer. An account of her father, Benjamin F. Keifer, appears on other pages. Mrs. Drake was born at the old Keifer home.
The late Mr. Drake remained with his father and eventually bought out the interest of the other heirs of the farm and until his death continued the stockraising feature of the homestead. He kept good horses and other livestock. He also served on the Election Board and was a member of the School Board when the new schoolhouse was erected. He was a trustee and elder in the Presbyterian Church at Yellow Springs and seldom missed attending worship there. He was affiliated with the Junior Order United American Mechanics of Enon.
Mrs. Drake, who carries on the business of the home farm, has two children: Marie lone, a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and Warren Keifer, a student in Antioch College at Yellow Springs.
J. Edwin Lowry. now retired and residing at 19 East Cecil Street at Springfield, devoted his active life to his farming interests in Bethel Township, and his individual career reflects additional honor upon the record of the Lowry family in Clark County. The name Lowry is one
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of the first in point of time in the annals of the pioneers, and much is said in the general history concerning Robert M. Lowry and his asso- ciates.
The founder of the American branch of the family was David Lowry, who was born in Scotland in 1724. He married there'tin 1762, and soon afterward came to America and settled in Pennsylvania. He had eight children, and seven whose names are recalled ^ere': John, who was bom in Scotland ; Archibald, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1765 ; David, who was bom in Pennsylvania in 1767, and was the pioneer of the family in Clark County ; Thomas, who was bom in Pennsylvania in 1769; Robert, who was bom in 1771 ; Lettice, born in 1773, and Nellie J.
Ajmong these Archibald was also a pioneer of Clark County. After his marriage in Pennsylvania he came to this section of Ohio in 1796 and settled on Mad River, on land now included in Springfield. In 1803 he erected what was known as "the finest house" in Springfield, on what is now Primrose Alley. Archibald died in Cincinnati of the cholera in 1832. His son David was bom on his land in Springfield in 1797.
David Lowry, the pioneer of 1795, came to Mad River in that year and took land where Cassius Minnick lives in Mad River Township, seven miles west of Soringfield. Later he settled on land a mile farther west, known as the Grape Hill Farm, a name due to his planting of a vineyard. David Lowry died in 1859 at the age of ninety-one at his old farm. He was a man of great enterprise, and he built and operated for the benefit of his pioneer neighbors a saw mill on DonneFs Creek, which bordered on his farm, and he also conducted a grist mill, a paper mill and a still house. His old farm is still in the family.
In 1801 David Lowry married Sarah Hamer, of Dayton. She died' in 1810. In 1811 he married Jane Wright Hodge, of Paris, Kentucky. The children of his first wife were: Nancy, who married William Wil- son ; Susan, who married George Croft and after his death, John Leffel ; Elizabeth, who married Isaac Peck; and Mary, who married Wilson Hart. By his marriage to Jane Hodge, David Lowry had the following children: Martha, who married Jesse Christie, of Springfield; David Wright, who married Jiane Layton; Robert Mitchell, mentioned below; and Rebecca, who married Jeremiah Leffel, of Bethel Township.
Robert Mitchell Lowry spent all his life at the old farm and was a man of most substantial character. He tried to enlist in the Home Guards at the time of Morgan's raid, but was refused on account of his age. He was a republican in politics. Robert Mitchell Lowry, who died December 18, 1902, married Elizabeth Bancroft. They had a large family of children, but only one reached mature years, James Edwin Lowry.
James Edwin Lowry was bom August 27, 1852, in the house erected in 1826 and still standing. This is a story and a half brick dwelling, one of the first of that material built in the county, and the brick was bumed on the farm. James Edwin Lowry spent his boyhood at the old home- stead, and finished his education in the Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio, under Professor Holbfook. He was associated with his father, and later succeeded to the ownership of the farm and conducted it until 1918, when he retired to Springfield, and still g^ves his supervision to the land. Mr. Lowry for many years was a successful breeder of Shorthorn, Red
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Polled and Black Angus cattle, and frequently exhibited his Red Polled stock in local fairs. In later years he conducted a dairy.
Mr. Lowry has rendered a constructive service in the official affairs of Clark County, particularly in the road building program. In August, 1905, he was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Board of County Com- missioners and was re-elected in 1907 and again in 1909. He retired from office in September, 1911, after five years of service. It was during this five-year period that the substantial beginning was made of good road construction. Mr. Lowry frequently represented Bethel Township in republican conventions.
In 1886 he married Emma O. Wallace, daughter of Smith Wallace and a member of the prominent Wallace family of Bethel Township. Smith Wallace was the leading farmer of that district and for a number of years was president of the County Agricultural Society and a leader in the county fairs. Mrs. Lowry, who is a native of Bethel Township, is the mother of one daughter, Martha Adella, a graduate of Wittenberg College. Mrs. Lowry is a member of the Baptist Church, her grand- father, Hugh Wallace, having been instrumental in establishing that old church in Bethel Township. Mr. Lowry is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 377 at Enon, a village two and one-half miles from his home farm.
Albert K. Crossland maintains as the place of his productive activi- ties his excellent farm on the Selma Turnpike, four miles Southeast of Springfield, in Springfield Township, and it has been through his own ability and well directed endeavors that he has gained- secure vantage- ground as one of the substantial agriculturalists and stock-growers of his native county. He has made good improvements on his farm of 110 acres, and the same is a center of successful farm enterprise. Mr. Crossland has served for many years as superintendent of the Selma Turnpike, one of the excellent thoroughfares of Clark County, is a charter member of the Farm Bureau of the county, and is one of the charter stockholders in the Farmers Bank at Springfield. His political support is given to the republican party, and he is affiliated with the Junior Order United American Mechanics.
Mr. Crossland was born at Springfield, judicial center of Clark County, on the 1st of February, 1852, and is a son of Jacob and Emily (Otstot) Crossland, both natives of Pennsylvania, where the former was born in 1817 and the latter in 1820, the death of the father having occurred in 1852, when the subject of this review was only a few months old. Jacob Otstot, maternal grandfather of Mr. Crossland, was born and reared in Pennsylvania, and in 1835, accompanied by his wife and their two children, he drove through with tewn and covered wagon from the old Keystone State to Clark County, Ohio, where he settled on a tract of heavily timbered land in Springfield Township. He cleared a small piece of ground on which to build his pioneer log cabin, and then proceeded with the reclamation and development of his embryonic farm, both he and his wife having passed the remainder of their lives on this homestead. The marriage of the parents of Mr. Crossland was solemnized in Clark County, and after the death of the father the young and widowed mother eventually became the wife of Samuel Hayes, on
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whose farm the subject of this review was reared to adult age, his educational advantages having been those of the public schools of the locality and period.
Mr. Crossland continued to be associated with the work of the home farm until he had attained to his legal majority, and for a few years thereafter he had the general supervision of the 100 acre farm owned by Rev. Mr. Tuttle in Springfield Township. He then rented a small farm and engaged independently in agricultural and live-stock enterprise. On the 14th of March, 1880, he married Miss Laura Rice, and in the same year they established their home on his present farm. Mrs. Crossland was born in Springfield Township, in 1860, and here she passed her entire life, her death having occurred in 1886, only a few years after her marriage. Of the two children of this union the firstborn, Charles, is deceased, and Walter E. is a successful farmer in Springfield Township. In 1892 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Crossland and Miss Emma Fink, and of this union no children have been born. Mr. and Mrs. Crossland are popular factors in the social life of their home community, and their attractive rural homestead is a center of generous hospitality.
The Moores Lime Company, whose plant is located two miles west of Springfield, is an important industry of Clark County, and involves some interesting history and geology. The present presence of limestone rock and the manufacture of lime has been known in Clark County from earliest times. But the limestone in the Springfield District has charac- teristics that make it perhaps the highest quality found anywhere in the country. It is known as pure Dolomite limestone, the chemical constitu- ents of which comprise ninety-nine per cent of magnesia and lime, leav- ing only a little more than a trace of other materials that must be refined in the manufacture of lime.
Over sixty years ago John B. C. Moores began the manufacture of Springfield lime. His son's succeeded him, and they in turn were suc- ceeded by the third generation, who today comprise the Moores Lime Company, representing probably the oldest lime industry in America continuously conducted by the same family. While the limestone rock quarried in the plant in Springfield Township has a great variety of uses^ including crushed limestone for agricultural purposes, the most widely known product of the Moores Lime Company is "Whitekote," a lime of the highest grade for plastering and other building purposes, and now shipped and distributed over practically all the states east of the Mis- sissippi.
The secretary of the company and the active official in charge of the business at Springfield is William H. Moores. About 1864 John B. C. Moores was a dealer in building material at Cincinnati, and he also ope- rated a cement plant at Louisville. His brother Herbert operated the first lime kiln on the Mad River. John Moores was active in the business until his death in 1896. Herbert continued to reside in Springfield until his death five or six year ago. William B. Moores, a son of John B. C, was born in 1871, and in the latter '80s became manager of the plant and his brother Lawson continued the industrv until 1920. William B. Moores was killed in a blast in the mill in 1903. He and his brother acquired
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about 200 acres on each side of Mad River. These quarries produced thirty-thousand tons of stone and twenty-thousand tons of lime every year, and the industry originated the largest tonnage of freight shipped out of Clark County. The industry is one employing about forty per- sons, and most of these live in homes adjoining the property. The old Builders Supply business at Cincinnati is now continued as the Moores- Coney Company. The products of the Moores Lime Company were awarded special medals at the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893.
The president of the Moores Lime Company is John Moores, a resi- dent of Cincinnati. William H. Moores, the secretary-treasurer of the company, became superintendent of the plant in 191o. He had grown up in the business from boyhood. He was bom at Springfield, August 27, 1896. He married, June 17, 1922, Helen Neas, daughter of Prof. J. A. Ness, of Springfield, Ohio.
Harry Mouk Brosey. One of the most prominent families in the old community of Medway in Bethel Township is that of Brosey. One of its representatives was Harry Mouk Brosey, who spent all his life on the old farm at Medway.
His grandfather and the founder of the family here was Gottlieb Brosey, who was born in Wuertemberg, Germany, April 9, 1792. He was a soldier in the Napoleonic war, being a body-guard to the King of Wuertemberg. He was with Napoleon's Army in the Russian campaign, and was made a prisoner and was twice wounded, and while a prisoner was hired out to a farmer. On reaching home after the terrible vicissi- tude of the Russian campaign he was welcomed as a man from the grave. Soon after the close of the war and as a young man of twenty- five he came to America, reaching Philadelphia with $1.50 in his pocket. He walked twelve miles into Lancaster County, where he lived for twelve years. He married his three wives in Lancaster County. His third wife was Betsy Keiler. For twelve years he lived in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and in 1841 came to Ohio. The Feigley family came about the same time and both of them settled near Medway. Gott- lieb Brosey secured one hundred and thirty acres there. He burned the brick for the erection of two homes for two of his children, and he also supplied brick for store and church buildings at Medway. He spent the last seven years of his life on an adjoining farm, where he died Decem- ber 7, 1866. He was a staunch Mennonite, and he located in a com- munity where a church of that denomination had already been estab- lished. His third wife died in December, 1861. By his first marriage he had one son, Noah, who lived to the age of eighty-one. There were four children by his second marriage: Anna, who became the wife of Jacob Siple and removed to Union City, Indiana, where she died at the age of seventy-eight ; John, who as a lad went to Mississippi, served as a Confederate soldier and lived in that state until his death at the age of eighty-six ; Christian, mentioned below ; and Barbara, who married Adam Shaffer and lived at Medway until her death at the age of seventy-five. The children of Gottlieb Brosey's first marriage were : Susan, who mar- ried Theodore Zeller and died at the age of eighty-two ; Elizabeth, who married Isaac Brenizer, and died at Medway; Samuel, who is now eighty-three years of age and a resident of Medway; Benjamin, who
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served as a Union soldier and died at the age of sixty-six; Mary, who married WiHiam H. Owen, of a prominent family of Champaign County ; Sarah, who married Seph Smaling ; and Martha, of Springfield, widow of David Raybum.
Christian Brosey spent the greater i^art of his life on his farm near Medway, where he died at the age of eighty-one. He married Anna Monk, daughter of Henry Mouk. Henry Monk's first wife was named Esther, and his second wife was Maria Hershey. Her father, Andrew Hershey, was bom September 14, 1770, and was a son of Andrew and a grandson of Andrew. The last named Andrew was bom in Switzerland in 1702 and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1719. His son Andrew was bom in 1734 and died in 1806.
The late Harry Mouk Brosey was bom at the old farm at Medway, and died there June 24, 1918, at the age of fifty-four. At the age of twenty-five he married Minnie Hamish, of Osborn, Greene County, Ohio, daughter of Jacob and Rebecca Ann (Gram) Harnish. Jacob Hamish was a soldier in the Civil war, and for some years before his death was a dry goods merchant at Osborn in Greene County. He died at the age of sixty-two and his wife at seventy. He was an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Minnie Harnish, only child of her parents, after her marriage lived with her husband in the village of Medway until the death of Mr. Brosey's mother, when they returned to the old farm. Mr. Brosey was a success- ful farmer and a cattle raiser, and was quite active in the democratic party.
Mrs. Brosey is the mother of four children and still occupies the farm of 125 acres in Bethel Township. Her son, Hamish G., graduated from high school, attended Wittenberg College at Springfield, and married Marie Stork, by whom he has two children, Helen Louise and Harry William. Anna Rebecca is the wife of Paul Gerlaugh, a resident of Columbus and an extension worker for the Ohio State University. Mr. and Mrs. Gerlaugh have one daughter, Julia Ann. The two youngest children are George Dewey and Catherine Elizabeth. George Dewey married Hazel C. Kline, and they have one child, Dewey R.
W. C. Wallace. One of the well kept and valuable country prop- erties in Bethel Township, owned by W. C. Wallace, has been in the Wd- lace family for three consecutive generations and is the homestead of a family that has been in Clark County for more than a century. This farm is situated ten miles west of Springfield and a mile south of the National Road.
W. C. Wallace, his father, Joseph C, and the two sons of W. C. Wal- lace were all bom in the same house. W. C. Wallace was bom July 13, 1864.
The pioneer of the family here was Reuben Wallace, who came from Rockingham County, Virginia, and bought the land included in the Wal- lace homstead in 1818. This land then cost $11 an acre. He acquired a half a section. A school stood on adjoining land, and he had to acquire a strip eleven rods wide, containing twenty-two acres, in order to make the school accessible to his land Two school houses stood on that site, the second one a brick building erected about 1833 and abandoned in
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1872 and torn down in 1888. Reuben Wallace was born August 13, 1778. He became a man of substantial character in Clark County, and was a member of the State Legislature at the time Fayette County was created and was one of the three commissioners to locate the county seat. Reuben Wallace was a cabinet maker by trade. He sold off from his original tract until he owned two hundred acres at the time of his death. His sons Joseph C. and Benjamin F. acquired this portion of the homestead. Reuben Wallace died May 11, 1855. On April 5, 1803, he married Anna Lamme, of a family that came from Virginia about the same time as the Wallaces. His second wife was Barbara Cecil, and his third wife, Eleanor Mitchell, survived him some years. There were several children by the first marriage, and a granddaughter living at New Carlisle is Mrs. William Higgins. The children of the second marriage were: John W., born in 1820 and died young; Benjamin F., born in 1822, and removed to Indiana, where he died; Anna, bom in 1823, became the wife of Robert Black and died, north of Carlisle, in middle life ; Reuben B., bom in 1825, and died young ; Joseph C. ; Nancy, born in 1828, died unmarried in 1903; Sarah, born in 1830. married Monroe Dyche, and died in California in 1905, and William W., born in 1831, was drowned at the age of nineteen.
Joseph C. Wallace was bom December 7, 1826. October 3, 1861, he married Mary N. Smith, who was bom at Greenfield, Ohio, June 16, 1838. She died March 19, 1903. Joseph C. Wallace was killed at a railroad crossing January 7, 1897. At the time of his death he owned 153 acres of the homstead, and also another place of eighty-six acres near there. He was a prosperous farmer, stockman and cattle feeder. His family consisted of two sons, W. C. and Fred S. The latter attended the University of Delaware, Ohio, read law, was editor of the old Republic, and is now publisher of the Tribune at Coshocton, Ohio.
W. C. Wallace was given a high school education, and his life has been practically devoted to the interests of the farm since early man- hood. On June 9, 1906, he married Grace Wise, daughter of William and Martha (McKinney) Wise. Her great-grandfather, Samuel McKin- ney, came to Clark County about the same time as the Wallaces. Martha McKinney was the daughter of Cyrus McKinney. The Wise family were pioneers at Medway, where they owned the site of the old power house and erected a saw mill and woolen mill. William Wise is now liv- ing retired at Medway and was for over fifty years a justice of the peace.
After his father's death W. C. Wallace acquired the old farm, and his business life has been completely devoted to its management. He is a dairyman and stock raiser. The family residence now occupied by him was erected in 1900. He is a republican, and is a member of the Aleth- odist Episcopal Church at Medway. The Ward Chapel was practically built by his grandfather, and was used by the congregation until a new church at Medway was built, about 1855. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace have a family of three children: Donald M., who graduated from the Ohio State University in 1922 ; Roscoe W., a member of the class of 1923 in the state university; and Anna E., who graduated from high school in 1922. Both sons are also graduates of high school.
Frank E. Funderburg is proprietor of the Shawnee View Farm, where he carries out an extensive program as a practical farmer and a
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stock man. This farm is in Bethel Township, west of Springfield, on the National Pike. Mr. Funderburg is undoubtedly one of the best known and most influential citizens of Clark County. He is now filling the office of county commissioner, and has played a prominent part in many county movements, including the Grange.
He was born in Bethel Township, near New Carlisle, September 12, 1871, son of Anthony and Susannah (Heck) Funderburg. His mother was a daughter of Samuel and Barbara (Klick) Heck, and the Heck homestead adjoins that of Anthony Funderburg and is .now owned by Herbert Funderburg, whose wife is a granddaughter of Samuel Heck. Anthony and Susannah Funderburg spent their married lives on the farm above mentioned, and started there with about a hundred acres, improved with a log house and barn, and made it a farm of unusual building equip- ment. Anthony Funderburg eventually owned five hundred acres, includ- ing his father's old home and a portion of the Heck homstead. He was a successful sh^ep and hog raiser, a good business man, and never con- cerned himself with public office. He finally retired to New Carlisle. He was very active in the Church of the Brethren, at first in the old church at Donalds Creek and later in its oflfshoot, a church at New Carlisle, and he served as a deacon in both congregations. Anthony Funderburg died in New Carlisle, May 14, 1913, at the age of seventy- three, having been born March 24, 1843. His widow is still living at New Carlisle and takes an active part in church work. They have fivt children: Frank E. ; Samuel H., who owns the old homestead; Daniel H., owner of a farm in Darke County and a resident of Brookville; Emma, wife of John B. Gump, of New Carlisle; and Clara, wife of Herbert T. Barnhart, owner of the original Funderburg farm.
Frank E. Funderburg was reared at the old home, attended the Bethel Township High School, and on December 20, 1893, married Anna Hiestand, daughter of Christian and Catherine (LeflFel) Hiestand, who came from York County, Pennsylvania, prior to the Civil war and were farmers in Bethel Township. Her father died at his home on Sugar Grove Hill, April 25, 1920, at the age of eighty-one, and his widow is still living, at the age of eighty. Mr. Hiestand was a school director, and the Bethel Baptist Church stood on his farm and has occupied three successive buildings on that site. The hundredth anniversary of this church was celebrated April 20, 1922, and the original minutes of the church are now kept by Frank E. Funderburg, the present clerk. The organizers of the church in 1822 were Joseph Morris, William Sutton and Luke Byrd.
Mr. and Mrs. Funderburg were classmates in high school. After their marriage they spent five years on the old Heck farm, then moved to a farm belonging to his wife's father, and lived there on Troy Pike for sixteen years, and in 1915 Mr. Funderburg bought the Shawnee View Farm, located four and one-half miles west of the center of Springfield, on the National Road. This contains ninety-five acres of the old Gordon homestead, a place occupied by three generations of the Gordon family. Mr. Funderburg had erected a fine country home here. He was engaged in the dairy business for sixteen years, and for ten years he supplied milk to the Knights of Pythias Home. He is also owner of a hundred sixty acres of his father's old farm, including part
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of the Heck homestead, but this property is under the management of a tenant. Mr. Funderburg has made a success of raising registered stock, though he is not in the fancy stock business, growing rather for prac- tical use. He has long been prominent in the Grange, serving as county deputy, as master of Pomona Grange, as delegate to the State Grange and has also attended the National Grange Convention. His service as clerk of the Bethel Baptist Church began in 1903. He also acted for a num- ber of years as trustee of the School Board, and during the World war he was president of the County Draft Board for two and a half years. Mr. Fimderbufg takes great pride and satisfaction in the record made by Clark County as exhibited from the records of the Draft Board. All calls for troops were promptly met. Mr. Funderburg became a member of the Board of County Commissioners in September, 1921. This board is looking after the rebuilding of the courthouse and road building in addition to the routine of county fiscal affairs. While Mr. Funderburg has been rather active in public affairs he is not a politician. He is affiliated with St. Andrews Lodge No. 619 of the Masonic Order. Mrs. Funderburg shares with him in interest and enthusiasm for the work of the church and the Grange. They have no children of their own but have given home to three, and two of these remained with them until their marriage. For six years Mr. Funderburg was one of the four trustees of the County Children's Home, an institution that had in Mrs. Funderburg one of its ablest supporters, and she is still much interested in it.
Marion C. Moses, D. V. M., has proved himself one of the most liberal and progressive citizens of New Carlisle, where he gained marked success and prestige in his profession and where he is now a member of the firm of Brubaker & Moses, which here owns and conducts one of the leading general hardware establishments of this part of Clark County.
Doctor Moses was born in Jackson Township, Champaign County, Ohio, on the 25th of January, 1884, and his early education was acquired in the public schools. In preparation for his profession he completed a course in the Cincinnati Veterinary College, in which he was graduated in 1910, with the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. In the same year he came to New Carlisle, and his ability and personality soon enabled him to build up an extensive and lucrative practice and to gain place as one of the leading veterinarians of Clark County. His initiative enter- prise was shown when he erected and equipped the Honey Creek Mills at New Carlisle, the village having had no flour mill in operation for eighteen years previously thereto. The doctor sold his interest in this important enterprise after placing the same on a substantial basis.
Doctor Moses is a stalwart republican and has taken lively interest in public affairs of a local order. He has served two terms (four years) as mayor of New Carlisle, an office of which he was the incumbent from 1916 to 1920, inclusive, and in which he gave a most vigorous and progres- sive administration. Under his regime many excellent public improve- ments were made, and the village freed itself of debt, besides accumulat- ing an appreciable surplus. Doctor Moses is a past master of the local lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, has represented the same in the Grand Lodge of Ohio, and in the Scottish Rite of the great fra-
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temity he has attained to the thirty-second degree, besides being affiliated with the adjunct organization, the Order of the Eastern Star. While his mercantile business demands much of his attention. Doctor Moses still continues in the practice of his profession.
Doctor Moses married Miss Ruth Cradlebaugh, daughter of H. S. Cradlebaugh, of New Carlisle, who is the owner of the Silver Lake sum- mer resort, one and one-half miles west of Miami, and who is making of the same a most popular recreation place. Doctor and Mrs. Moses have one son, Howard C. Moses, born July 8, 1917.
George W. Trostel has secure standing as one of the representa- tive business men of New Carlisle, which is his native town, and in the welfare and advancement of which no citizen takes greater pride and interest. He is conducting the furniture and undertaking business of which his father was one of the founders, the enterprise having been established in 1889 by J. A. Trostel and T. J. Scarff, and this alliance having been maintained imtil 1895, when George W. Trostel took the place of Mr. Scarff as a member of the firm, the title of which was then changed to Trostel & Son. In 1914 the father retired from the firm and since that year the subject of this review has been sole proprietor of the large and well ordered business. The original firm in the first few years was engaged in the manufacturing of a kitchen cabinet, but this department of the business was eventually discon- tinued. The building that was erected for the accommodation of the business in 1891 was destroyed by fire in 1910 and on the site George W. Trostel erected the present modern building, two stories in height and 22 by 82J4 feet in lateral dimensions. The entire building is used for the business as is also a large warehouse. Mr. Trostel has been associated with the business since 1893 and in his independent control of the same his progressive and well directed policies have resulted in a substantial expansion of the enterprise. The establish- ment is of modern equipment in all departments and in connection with the undertaking department is maintained a motor ambulance as well as a funeral car of latest improved automobile type. Mr. Trostel took a course in scientific embalming, as did his wife and their son Garrett P., both of whom are associated with the business.
Mr. Trostel has been a member of the New Carlisle Board of Edu- cation for twenty-one years, and has served as its clerk for the past twenty years. He was specially earnest and zealous in the progressive movement that has given to New Carlisle one of the finest school build- ings to be found in any Ohio town of equal or even much larger pop- ulation. He is a republican in political allegiance and both he and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church in their home city, he having been president of its board of trustees for several years and having given many years of effective service as superintendent of its Simday School.
Mr. Trostel is a leader in the local organization of the Masonic fraternity and is, in 1922, serving as high priest of his chapter of Royal Arch Masons, which he has represented also in the Grand Chap- ter of the state. He and his wife are actively affiliated with the Order of the Eastern Star, in which he is a past worthy patron, their sop
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Garrett P. likewise being affiliated with the time-honored Masonic fra- ternity. Mr. Trostel has passed the official chairs in the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, has served as district deputy for this fraternal order and holds membership in its Encampment body, besides which he is identified also with the Junior Order United Amer- ican Mechanics.
George W. Trostel was born at New Carlisle on the 18th of Sep- tember, 1875, his father, J. A. Trostel, having come to Clark County from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in the late '60s and having become one of the leading business men and honored and influential citizens of New Carlisle, where he served as a member of the village council and as chairman of its street committee. He is now living retired at New Carlisle and is seventy-seven years of age at the time of this writing, in 1922. His wife, whose maiden name was Jacob-Anna Peters, is likewise a native of the old Keystone State.
George W. Trostel married Miss Cliffie M. Saylor, who was born and reared in Clark County and who is a daughter of William and Minerva (Perrine) Saylor, the former of whom died when a young man. The Perrine family has long been one of prominence and influ- ence in Clark County. Mr. and Mrs. Trostel have two sons. Gar- rett P. was afforded the advantages of Wittenberg College at Spring- field and later completed a course in the Cincinnati School of Embalm- ing, he being now associated with his father's business. William Warner, the younger son, is, in 1922, a student in the University of Ohio.
Wilbur E. Elwell is giving vigorous and successful management to his excellent farm of sixty-two acres on the Willow Road in Moore- field Township, and is a popular scion of one of the old and well known families of Clark County.
Mr. Elwell was bom at Springfield, judicial center and metropolis of this county, and the date of his nativity was June 23, 1881. He is a son of Eli and Zella (Owen) Elwell, the former of whom was born in Greene Township, this county, and the latter of whom was born near Urbana, Champaign County. Eli Elwell was a skilled machinist and was long employed at his trade in the City of Springfield, where he remained until his death and where his widow still resides. Mr. Elwell was independent in political matters, was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he served as noble grand of his lodge, and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as is also his widow. Of the surviving children the eldest is Mabel, who is the wife of Frederick Henderson; Wilbur E., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth ; Harry L. is in the employ of the American Rose & Plant Company at Springfield; Frank M. is engaged in farm enterprise in Springfield Township; Irene is the wife of W. L. Cotton.
Wilbur E. Elwell was reared in Springfield and there profited duly by the advantages of the public schools. After leaving school he was for some time employed as clerk in a grocery store and later he found employment at farm work in Randolph County, where he remained thus engaged for a period of six years. He then returned to Spring-
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field and learned the machinist's trade, to which he there continued to give his attention for fifteen years, besides which he was for a time there engaged in the draying business. In 1914 he purchased and removed to his present home farm, which he has made the stage of effective and successful agricultural and livestock enterprise. Mr. El well gives his political allegiance to the republican party, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and he and his wife hold membership in the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Springfield. Mr. Elwell married Miss Clara B. Dietzel, who was born at Spring- field, this country, December 23, 1889, a daughter of Edward and Barbara (Vetter) Dietzel, both natives of Germany. Mr. Dietzel became a prosperous merchant at Springfield, and was also identified with the tinning business. Mrs. Elwell continued her studies in the public schools until she had profited by the advantages of the high school, and thereafter she completed a course in a business college. For six years prior to her marriage she held a position as stenographer at Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Elwell have no children.
Harry Arnett. Every profession or business demands certain characteristics of its followers if they hope for success, but in none of them all are the requirements more varied or exacting than that of the business of handling real estate. The successful realtor must under- stand property values. He must be able to decide not only the present market value, but its real worth, and to foresee possible expansions in the future. To provide against undue advantage being taken of him and his client he must keep in close touch with the progress of events and the development, both active and potential, in the commu- nity. Not only must he be an excellent salesman, but he must also be sincere and be able to so impress the possible purchaser that he will not only close a deal but return when he is looking for more property. Above everything else the realtor must insist upon a fair deal and establish his own reputation for unflinching integrity. Small wonder that one who succeeds in the real estate business is able to sell insur- ance as well or that many seek through him safe and profitable invest- ments for their surplus, for in meeting these requirements his various capabilities are marvelously developed and in his realty transactions he gains the confidence of the public in such a convincing manner that other business comes to him as a matter of course. Such a man is Harry Arnett, realtor of Springfield, who also carries on a large insurance business and makes loans and investments.
Harry Arnett was born at Springfield, August 6, 1884, a son of Andrew and Elnora (Toland) Arnett, both natives of Springfield. Thomas Arnett, the paternal grandfather, was born in Clark County, Ohio, but his wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Kills, was born in Pennsylvania. Learning the trade of a shoemaker, Andrew Arnett followed it for fifty-seven years, and died October 5, 1920. His wife died many vears ago, passing away in 1887. Their children were Harry and a younger brother, Clarence Earl, who is now a resident of Detroit, Michigan.
Until he was seventeen years old Harry Arnett attended the Spring- field public schools, but at that age entered the mailing room of the
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Crowell Publishing Company and remained with that concern for seven years. Having become convinced of the value of a commercial train- ing, he then took a business course at Willis Business College and soon thereafter established himself in his present business. He handles city and country real estate and has put through several of the largest deals in this locality. He is unmarried and resides with an aunt. Miss Nancy Amett, at 11 East Southern Avenue. She and Andrew Amett were two of the eleven children born to their parents. Mr. Amett is an independent republican but aside from casting his vote generally for the party candidates in national matters and according to his best judg- ment in local affairs, he is not active in politics, his large and constantly expanding business absorbing his full time and attention. He repre- sents a number of the old-line companies in the insurance branch of his business and through his different connections is able to make loans on attractive terms and investments of a very desirable character.
John R. Hinkle. In a pioneer log house that stood on the site of his present attractive residence in Springfield Township, three miles south of the county seat, Mr. Hinkle was bom August 26, 1847, and the record of his mature life has been one of close and effective iden- tification with constructive farm industry. He is a son of John and Mary Ann (Way) Hinkle, both natives of Lancaster County, Penn- sylvania, where the former was bom October 19, 1811, and the latter on the 20th of November of the same year. The parents were reared in their native county, where their marriage occurred, and they were ambitious and self-reliant young folk themselves for the labors and responsibilities of pioneer farm life. It is interesting to record that Mrs. Hinkle was presented with a fine oil landscape painting, the work of Edward C. Lewis, the day before she left the old home in Penn- sylvania, and that this interesting family heirloom is now owned by and lends to the attractions of the home of her son John R., immediate subject of this sketch. The Otstot family came to the county about the same time as did also John Hinkle, Sr., father of John, Jr., he having here purchased 700 acres of timber land, his four sons, Henry, Samuel, Joseph and John, Jr., having aided in the reclaiming of the land and all having become substantial farmers here, though Samuel later moved to Indiana, where he passed the remainder of his life. Henry likewise eventually removed to Indiana, but his death occurred while he was visiting the old home in Clark County. Joseph continued his farm activities in Clark County until his death, at the age of sixty- four years.
John Hinkle, Jr., father of the subject of this review, reclaimed his farm from the forest, his first clearing having been made to provide a site for the pioneer log house in which his son John R. was bom. He developed one of the excellent farms of Springfield Township and erected the present commodious house in 1857, he having here lived until his death, at the age of sixty-five years, and his widow having been in her ninety-fourth year when she passed to the life etemal. By purchasing land inherited by his sisters, John Hinkle increased the area of his farm estate until he had more than 300 acres. He was liberal and loyal as a citizen, a stalwart republican, and had varied
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financial investments, inchiding stock in the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad. He and his wife were earnest and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their eight children John R. is the youngest; Michael, born in 1833, died at the age of seventy-four years; Rebecca J., eighty-six years of age (1922), is the widow of Elijah Karne and lives on a farm near that of her youngest brother; Mary P., who married Nathan Lightner, died in middle life; Ellen became the wife of Daniel Ault and remained in Clark County until her death, at the age of seventy-five years.
John R. Hinkle has never found it expedient or a matter of desire to leave the fine old farm on which he was bom and raised. His early education was acquired in the common schools of the locality and period. December 23, 1875, recorded his marriage to Miss Mary Jane Stratton, daughter of Isaac Stratton, of Greene Township, where she was bom January 14, 1852. The maximum loss and bereavement in the life of Mr. Hinkle came when his loved and devoted wife was summoned to eternal rest, after an ideal companionship of forty-three years, her death having occurred January 8, 1918. She is survived by four children. Bertha, Isaac Pearl,, Rebecca K. and Ethel May, all of whom remain with their father on the old home farm except Rebecca, who is the wife of George Hirtzinger, likewise a resident of Spring- field Township. The daughters all hold membership in the Lutheran Church at Springfield. Their mother was raised in the Methodist belief.
Mr. Hinkle's farm is one of 120 acres, and is maintained under effective cultivation, besides being the stage of successful livestock enter- prise. He is a republican and has served as judge of elections, road super\'isor and school trustee.
Mrs. Sarah Otstot, who resides in Springfield Township, on the old Columbus Road, was born in this township, not far distant from the City of Springfield, August 29, 1855, and is a daughter of Wil- liam A. and Ellen (Way) Kershner, whose marriage was solemnized in this county. Jacob Kershner, grandfather of Mrs. Otstot, came with his young wife from Maryland to Clark County in the year 1825, and on their pioneer farm in Springfield Township their son William A. was born in the year 1828. Jacob Kershner was sixty-five years of age at the time of his death, and his widow, whose maiden name was Sarah Marble, was venerable in years at the time of her death, passing away at the age of seventy-nine years. The father of Jacob Kershner like- wise came to Clark County, where he conducted a blacksmith shop for a ntunber of years, he having been a skilled workman at his trade. He was also a large farmer and a veteran of the War of 1812. William A. Kershner here gave his entire active career to constructive farm enter- prise, reclaimed much of his land from the forest and continued as one of the substantial farmers of Springfield Township until the death of his wife, at the age of sixty-nine years, when he left the farm and finally removed to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he died in 1900, at the age of seventy-two years. He was a veteran of the Civil war. Of their two surviving children Mrs. Otstot of this review is the elder, and Anna is the widow of Frederick Kurtz, of Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Sarah Kershner was reared on the home farm and was afforded the advantages of the public schools. In 1876 was solemnized her mar- riage to John Otstot, who was born in Springfield Township, this county, near the old home of his wife, the date of his birth having been March 27, 1847. He was a son of William and Rebecca (Knaub) Otstot, who were born in Pennsylvania, but whose marriage occurred in Clark County. Ohio. William Otstot came from I^ncaster County, Penn- sylvania, and his wife from York County, Pennsylvania. The mother of Mrs. Sarah Otstot was likewise born in Lancaster County of the old Keystone State.
After his marriage John Otstot farmed on rented land for seven years, and he then purchased a farm in the northeast part of Spring- field Township, on Grant Road, this old homestead of 104 acres being still owned by his widow. He improved this place into one of the model farms of the township and gained reputation as one of the most progressive and successful farmers of his native county, where he ever held inviolable place in popular confidence and good will. Eventual Iv he purchased the old home farm on which he had been reared, south of Springfield, and he acquired also a farm near his residence home- stead. In his active farm operation he gave much attention to the breeding and raising of excellent types of livestock. He was one of the original stockholders in the Farmers Bank at Springfield, and his stock in that institution is still held by his widow, who has augmented the same by the purchase of additional stock. As a citizen Mr. Otstot was liberal and public-spirited, took a loyal and helpful interest in com- munity affairs, served for many years as a member of the School Board of his district and was a staunch republican in politics, he having been a member of its township committee in Springfield Township for a number of years. The death of Mr. Otstot occurred April 23, 1911, and his remains rest in beautiful Ferncliff Cemetery at Springfield. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Otstot has retired to a small place near the old farm, and her pleasant home continues a center of gracious hospitality of much of the representative social activitv of the com- munity. She is a zealous member of the Sinking Creek Baptist Church, as was also her husband. Of her four children the eldest is William: Frederick, who had been in charge of the old home farm, died at the age of thirty-six years; Mabel is the wife of August Getz, a successful farmer near the home of her mother; and Harry operates the home farm.
Morton S. Titus, a member of the firm of Titus Brothers, repre- sentative business men of the younger generation in Clark County, was bom in Springfield Township November 26, 1893, the fourth in order of birth of the five children of Harley Titus, who likewise was bom in this township, January 14, 1863, a son of James P. and Ellen (Price) Titus. James P. Titus was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and was a young man when he came to Ohio and settled in Clark County, where he became a successful farmer and substantial and honored citi- zen, his death having occurred March 11, 1906, and his wife having died about fifteen years prior thereto. Of their children four attained to years of maturity: Herman, Harley, James and Gustavus. Harley
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Titus was reared and educated in this county and here he achieved in the passing years substantial success and prestige both as a farmer and an extensive buyer and shipper of livestock. He married Mary E. Hazzard, who was born at Vicksburg, Mississippi, a daughter of Wil- liam S. and Mary (Hendren) Hazzard. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Titus had lived for a number of years in the home of an aunt in the City of Columbus, Ohio. As previously stated, Morton S. Titus is the fourth in a family of five children, the others being Lamar C, Homer T., Howard P. and Malcolm.
The firm of Titus Brothers are owners of the old Redmond Mill, now known as the Junction Mill, on Beaver Creek, one-half mile north of the National Road, in Springfield Township, and four miles east of the City of Springfield. In the year 1808 John Foster here erected one of the first grist mills in the county, and he sold the property later . to a man named Buckles, who added a distillery to the enterprise. Buckles eventually sold the property to John Rea who, in 1835, sold it to Robert Rodgers, the latter having added a saw mill in 1837. In
1839 the entire pioneer milling plant was destroyed by fire, but in
1840 Mr. Rodgers erected and equipped a new mill on the same site — a four-story brick building that at that period constituted one of the largest flour mills in the state. In 1847 Thomas McCormack purchased a half interest in the property and business. In 1866 Lewis HuflFman owned the mill, which he sold to Judson Redmond for $8,000. In 1887 this substantial old mill was remodeled and a full roller process system was installed, with an output capacity of fifty barrels. How- ever, the old buhr stones are still in service, being used for the grind- ing of feed. Judson Redmond died in 1906 and thereafter the mill was operated by his son until 1919, when the firm of Titus Brothers purchased the plant and business, the enterprise having since been suc- cessfully carried on by this progressive firm of young men.
Morton S. Titus married Miss Adeline Showell and they have one child, Darlington, bom January 6, 1922.
E. J. McCuLLOUGH is one of the native sons of Clark County who has here marked the passing years with successful achievement in con- nection with farm industry. On his present homestead farm, in Greene Township, he has resided all his life, and he has so ordered his course as to retain secure place in the confidence and good will of the community which he has worthily lived and worthily wrought.
Mr. McCullough was born on the old Smith farm, near Selma, Greene Township, and the date of his nativity was April 28, 1854. He is a son of John W. and Margaret A. (Kitchen) McCullough, the former of whom was born in Virginia, December 7, 1817, and the latter of whom, the second wife of John W. McCullough, was born August 27, 1830, in Greene Township. The father long gave his attention to farm enterprise in Clark County, and here his death occurred on the 4th of August, 1882, his widow having survived him a number of years and both having been earnest members of the Christian Church, in which he served as an elder. His political support was given to the republican party. Besides the subject of this sketch two other children are living, Charles W., a resident of Nebraska, and Isaac, who maintains his home
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at Van Wert, Ohio. A son by a former wife, George W., lives at Yellow Springs, Ohio,
The activities of the farm and the discipline of the district schools marked the formative period in the career of E. J. McCullough, and he has been continuously an exponent of farm industry in his native county since the period of his youth. He takes loyal interest in all that concerns the welfare and advancement of his home county, is a stalwart in the local camp of the republican party, and he is a zealous member of the Christian Church. His wife is a member of the Presby- terian Church.
As a young man Mr. McCullough married Miss Jennie Grindle, who was born in Greene County, Ohio, near Clifton, on the 16th of April, 1859, and who is a daughter of the late Henry and Sarah A. (Plouman) Grindle. Mr. and Mrs. McCullough have two children, Gretta M., who is the wife of Dr. James H. Harris, individual mention of whom appears elsewhere in this work; and A. S., who is now a mining engineer and geologist in New Mexico. A. S. McCullough graduated from the Clifton High School, later attended Antiocli College, and in preparing for the profession of his choice he finally entered the great Leland Stanford University in California, in which he was duly graduated and in which he specialized in geology. As a practical geologist he spent one year in exploration work in South America, and he is now engaged in profes- sional work as a mining engineer in New Mexico, where he is financially interested in various mining projects. He married Miss Ruth Stewart, a daughter of Wilmont and Amanda Stewart, and the one child of this union is a son, Joseph, born July 1, 1921.
John Crabill, who is now living retired on his attractive little farm homestead in Springfield Township three miles east of the City of Springfield, on the National Road, is a representative of one of the oldest and most honored pioneer families of Clark County and with his two sons is the owner of a valuable farm estate of more than 350 acres on Buck Creek Bottoms, this constituting the old pioneer farm of his paternal grandfather and being locally known as "The Promised Land," a title which it has held for many years. For the past six years Mr. Crabill has lived retired on a small farm. In all of his relations of life he has well upheld the prestige of a family name that is one of prominence in the history of this county.
John Crabill was born on the old home place and the date of his nativity was July 5, 1847. His entire active career was one of close and successful association with farm industry, and he has stood well to the front as one of the liberal and progressive citizens of his native township. He is a son of Thomas V. and Sidney (Yeazell) Crabill, whose marriage was solemnized in 1833. Thomas Voss Crabill was bom in Moorefield Township, this county, November 21, 1810, a son of David and Barbara (Baer) Crabill, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Pennsylvania. In 1808 David Crabill settled on Buck Creek, in Moorefield Township, where he reclaimed one of the produc- tive farms of the early pioneer period. His children were : Sarah, John, Thomas V., David Jr., James W., Mary, Susan, Joseph, Pierson D., William H. and Eliza J. David Crabill served as a soldier in the War
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of 1812 and in every respect he lived up to the full tention of pioneer life on the frontier.
Thomas V. Crabill was reared on the old home farm and in 1833, as previously stated, he married Sidney Yeazell, she having been a .daughter of Abraham and Mary Yeazell, of whose fifteen children those living in 1881 were William, David, James, Thomas V., Milton, Joseph F., Levina and Elizabeth. With 100 acres of land inherited from his father and with the further fortification of $1,000 in cash received by his wife from her father's estate, Thomas V. Crabill ini- tiated his independent career imder favorable circumstances, as viewed from the standards of the locality and period. A man of energy, integ- rity and constructive ability, he eventually accumulated one of the largest and most valuable landed estates in Clark County, the same having com- prised 700 acres in Springfield Township and 320 acres in Moorefield Township.
December 19, 1872, recorded the marriage of John Crabill and Miss Barbara E. Zimmerman, a daughter of Isaac and Anna Zimmerman, who came from Pennsylvania to Clark County in 1849 and who passed the remainder of their lives on their farm near Lagonda. Like her husband, Mrs. Crabill received the advantages of the common schools of Clark County, besides which she was for two years a student in the Springfield Female Seminary, a well ordered institution of its day. Mr. and Mrs. Crabill have three children, concerning whom brief record is here entered: Ada Irene is the wife of William Y. Maher, who is engaged in the practice of law at Springfield, as one of the representa- tive members of the Clark County bar; Qark Rodgers, the elder son, has the active management of the old home farm and is one of the progressive exponents of agricultural and livestock industry in his native coimty; Pearl Preston, the yoimger son, resides in Springfield and is actively identified in a managerial capacity with leading industrial enter- prises there.
Wallace G. Bird is known as one of the progressive farmers and representative citizens of his native township, where he owns and resides upon the fine old homestead farm which was the place of his birth, the same being eligibly situated on the Bird Road, one-quarter of a mile north of the National Pike, in Springfield Township, three miles east of Springfield, the county seat. On this farm Mr. Bird was bom March 23, 1866, a son of Luke Bird, who was born and reared on the old homestead farm of which the present farm of his son Wallace is a part, his father, Anthony Bird, having been born in Bedford County, Vir- ginia, April 13, 1805, a son of Luke and Elizabeth (Huffman) Bird, who figure as the founders of this representative family in Clark County, whither they came from the Old Dominion State in the year 1816, when their son, Anthony, was a lad of eleven years. Luke Bird, the pioneer, instituted the development of a farm in the midst of the forest wilds of Springfield Township, and here he remained until his death, in 1823, his widow having passed away in 1835. Here Anthony Bird was reared to manhood on the frontier farm, and at the age of twenty-four years he married Miss Jane Snodgrass, daughter of John and Jane (Steele) Snod- grass, who likewise were sterling pioneers of the county. Of the three
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children of Anthony and Jane Bird the eldest was John S., who con- tinued his residence in Clark County until his death, at the age of seventy-seven years; Luke, father of the subject of this review, was the next younger son; Nancy Jane, became the wife of Arthur Richards, who still resides in this county, at a venerable age, she having died at the age of seventy-five years. After the death of his first wife Anthony Bird married Miss Maria Wallace, and of the children of this union three attained to maturity : Wallace, who was a soldier in the Sixteenth Ohio Battery of Light Artillery in the Civil war, died while in service, at a hospital in the City of St. Louis, Missouri ; James, who died in Arkan- sas, a bachelor, likewise served as a soldier in the Civil war, he having thereafter graduated in a theological seminary at Xenia, Ohio, and hav- ing been ordained a clergyman of the United Presbyterian Church, but a disorder of his throat having finally made it impossible for him to con- tinue his work in the ministry; Belle, the only daughter of the second marriage, became the wife of E>r. E. C. Harris, and both are now deceased. After the death of his second wife Anthony Bird contracted a third marriage, and his third wife, whose maiden name was Mary Cowan, likewise preceded him to eternal rest, no children having been born of their union. Mr. Bird died on the 2d of July, 1882, one of the venerable and honored pioneer citizens of Clark County. He was a staunch republican, a man of high principles and mature judgment, and was a substantial and influential citizen in his community. In 1834 he was elected justice of the peace, and by sixteen successive re-elections he continued the incumbent of this office for a long period of years. He was an earnest and consistent member of the United Presbyterian Church, with which he became actively affiliated in 1837. In 1829 he settled on a pioneer farm of 240 acres in Springfield Township, and of the same the farm now owned by Wallace G. Bird, of this sketch, is a part. Anthony Bird and all of his sons became republicans, his original political allegi- ance having been given to the old whig party. The son Luke served as constable when the father was justice of the peace. The Bird family did much to further the operations of the historic "underground railroad" by which many slaves were aided in escaping in the period prior to the Civil war.
Luke Bird learned the trade of millwright under the direction of his uncle, Silas V. Bird, and he followed his trade for a time in both Indiana and Illinois. In 1866 he erected and equipped a hominy mill in Balti- more, Maryland, and he continued his operations in the erection of mills for many years. About the year 1870 he returned to the old home farm, his individual holding having been a small part of the original place. About 1880 he resumed the work of his trade, and for many years there- after he controlled a prosperous business in the remodeling of mills, installing roller-process systems, etc. He married Margaret Richards, who was born in Virginia, a daughter of Edward and Jane (Benson) Richards, she having been four years old when the family came to Ohio and established a home in Clark County. The death of Luke Bird occurred November 1, 1908, and his widow followed him to the life eternal in April of the next year. Of their four children the eldest is Edward Anthony, who resides at Springfield, and is in the service of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad; Ida Jane is the wife of Joseph
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H. Newton, a substantial farmer and miller of Springfield Township; John S., died at the age of fifty-five years, he having served as township clerk of Springfield Township, as secretary of the Clark County Fair Board, and as secretary of the School Board; and Wallace G., of this sketch, is the youngest of the children. The parents were zealous mem- bers of the United Presbyterian Church, though the mother had been reared in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Wallace G. Bird gained his youthful education in the public schools and was but a boy when he assumed unusual responsibility in connection with the affairs of the home farm, he having become its virtual manager when he was fourteen years old, his father having been absent from home in connection with his business as a millwright. He has thus far passed virtually his entire time on the old homestead, to which he has added until he now has a well improved farm of fifty-four acres, devoted to diversified agriculture and to the raising of livestock. For the past thirty years he has been a wholesale dealer in flour, as a representative of the Moorefield and Mad River mills. During all but two years of this long period he has handled virtually all of the output of these mills, and has sold to grocers, bakers and other dealers and large users. For other mills he has sold to the jobbing trade, and his activities in this line of business have demanded much of his time and attention, though he has always given a general supervision to his farm. He has had no desire for public office, but served four years as township assessor, his political allegiance being given to the republican party. He and his wife are attendants of the United Presbyterian Church, and both were earnest and zealous in the furtherance of local agencies and movements in support of the Government war service in the World war period, Mrs. Bird having been chairman of the local Red Cross Chapter. She is a valued and appreciative member of the Woman's Club in the City of Springfield.
Mr. Bird married Miss Mary W. Russell, a daughter of William Russell, a skilled machinist and a resident of Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Bird have no children. Mrs. Bird is a talented artist, and has been a successful art teacher, besides which many of her fine productions, in oils, water colors and pastel, have won many awards at public exhibi- tions of varied orders, her work including the most artistic of china paint- ing. Mrs. Anna Russell, mother of Mrs. Bird, was bom in 1840 and died in 1918. She was a daughter of the honored and loved pioneer physician Dr. Abel Whipple, of Springfield. Doctor Whipple was born in Massachusetts, in 1804, in 1835 was graduated in a medical school at Staunton, Virginia, and in 1866 he engaged in the practice of his pro- fession at Springfield, where his death occurred in 1876. In 1836 the doctor married Mary Matson, daughter of John Matson, of Cincinnati. Doctor Whipple was a descendant of Benjamin Whipple, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. William M. Russell was bom at Yonkers, New York, in 1840, and died at Springfield, Ohio, in 1900. In the period of the Civil war he was Government inspector of arms in the great Colt manufactory at Hartford, Connecticut. In 1866 he was sent to the far West, as a secret-service representative of the Government, and with a companion he was for a time lost in the desert of Death Valley, where he narrowly escaped death by starvation. John Matson, maternal grandfather of Mrs. Bird, was a member of the mili-
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tary expedition that visited the battle-ground and buried the dead after the defeat of General St. Clair in the War of 1812, and letters which he wrote in description of this event were published in a Cincinnati paper in 1845, a copy of this paper being in possession of Mrs. Bird, who also treasures a number of rare volumes from the library of her paternal grandfather, Doctor Whipple.
At the dedication of the new and modern centralized school building three miles east of Springfield Wallace G. Bird read a very interesting historical record which he had prepared and which gave data concerning educational work in the early days. From this address it is learned that the first school in Springfield Township was established in 1806 by Nathaniel Pinkered, a log house on the site of the present Lagonda Bank in Springfield being used for the school. The first school near the present centralized school three miles east of Springfield was taught by a man named Warrington. The school house here erected in the late '50s con- tinued in use until the erection of the present modem building. In the paper prepared by Mr. Bird appear the following interesting records con- cerning pioneer settlement in this special community of Springfield Township : "J^"^^s Reid and brother John came in 1802, from Virginia. James Rea came from Pennsylvania in 1802; John Dugan came in 1806, from Pennsylvania, and in the same year John and Jane Snodgrass came from Kentucky. Andrew Benson, of Virginia, came in 1806, and his brother George in 1807, their wives having been daughters of Robert and Mary Renick. In 1810 Mathew and Jane Wood came from Kentucky. In 1812 came Isaac Wood, a native of New York. John Foster came in 1808 and built the original mill on the site of the Junction Mill. Adam and Maria Alt were from Maryland. John Whitely, born in North Carolina, came from Kentucky in 1811, the maiden name of his wife hav- ing been Christina Hall. Their son Andrew became a leading citizen. In 1816 Luke Bird, a Baptist minister, came from Medford, Pennsylvania. His sons, Anthony, Herbert and Silas, became substantial citizens. John Stickney landed in New York in 1819 and the next year settled where his grandson, William J. Stickney, now lives, in Springfield Township. Thomas Crabill came in 1833, but was bom in Moorefield Township, in 1810. Edward and Jane Richards came from Virginia in 1842. Among early teachers in this community were the following named: Dan Wuthard, Warrington and Humphreys, J. Q. Adams, Merrell Meade, Lanthun, Green, Stephen Hatfield, Nathan Wood, J. L. McClelland, Rachel Baer, James A. Bird, Dr. E. C. Harris, William Forrest, Kate Ruckman, John Wood, Mrs. William Forrest, John Finney, Mrs. Grace Finney, Rebecca May Collier, Doctor Spinning (who is still a resident), and many others."
Herbert A. Learn, station agent at Springfield for the Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati & St. Louis (Big Four) Railroad, was bom at Canal Winchester, Fjranklin County, Ohio, on the 27th of January, 1877. His father was a metal manufacturer and proprietor of well established metal works now located at Columbus, the Ohio capital city. The sub- ject of this review was afforded the advantages of the public schools, including those of Columbus, and he was eighteen years of age when, in 1895, he took a position as messenger in the service of the Columbus,
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Shawnee & Hocking Railroad at Columbus. He later entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and remained at Columbus until 1898, when he was transferred to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On Janu- ary 1, 1900, he entered the service of the Carnegie Steel Company, with which he there continued his connection until March 31, 1904. He then returned to Columbus and became assistant cashier and later cashier in the offices of the Big Four Railroad, a capacity in which he continued his effective services until February 10, 1910, when he was advanced to the post of chief clerk to the superintendent, W. G. Bayley. On the 28th of February, 1917, Mr. Learn was made Big Four station agent in the City of Sandusky, and there he remained until February 1, 1920, when he was transferred to Springfield and assigned to his present office, that of station agent for the same railroad system, a corps of sixty-five employes being here retained under his supervision. The local freight house has a capacity for holding the contents of fifty-two cars, and the freight facilities are of the most approved modem type. Freight shipped from the Big Four station at Springfield averages about 500 cars a month, with inbound freight cars averaging from 800 to 1,200 a month. The business here centered is of broad scope and importance as touch- ing the industrial and commercial activities of this section of Ohio, and average about $250,000 monthly. Mr. Learn is an executive of marked ability, with splendid efficiency in the handling and directing of mani- fold details, and he is one of the representative and distinctly popular figures in railroad and business circles at Springfield.
Garrett Sherlo established his residence in Clark County more than forty years ago, and here he achieved substantial success as a represen- tative of farm industry, the while he so ordered his life in all its rela- tions as to merit and receive the unqualified confidence and esteem of all who knew him. He developed and improved one of the fine farms of German Township, and on this old homestead he continued to reside until his death, in 1919, at the venerable age of seventy-nine years. His character and achievement were such as to render most consonant the tribute here offered to him and his memory.
Mr. Sherlo was born and reared in Germany and was sixteen years of age when, after the death of both of his parents, he came to the United States, his tangible possessions being represented in the contents of a small trunk, and he being entirely dependent upon his own efforts in making his way to independence and prosperity in the land of his adoption. He first established his residence in Preble County, Ohio, and his loyalty to his adopted country was shown when he went forth from that county as a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war. In that county was solemnized his marriage with Miss Mary Jane Shuey, who preceded him to eternal rest by about three years. After leaving Preble County Mr. Sherlo was for a time engaged in farming in Cham- paign County, and it was from that county that he came to Clark County and purchased the farm of 130 acres in German Township. He made the best of permanent improvements on this place, including the excellent buildings, and made the farm one of the best in German Town- ship, he having eventually sold a small portion of the land, so that the old homestead now comprises 103 acres. Mr. Sherlo was a loyal and
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public-spirited citizen, and while he had no desire for official prefer- ment he made a characteristically excellent record during his incimibency of the position of township trustee. He was a republican in politics and was a zealous member of the Dutch Reformed Church at Spring- field, as was also his wife. The one child. Delta Ada, was born and reared in Clark County. She became the wife of Samuel Amos Judd, who was born in Virginia, and they thereafter continued to reside on the old home farm of her parents until her death, September 9, 1911, at the age of forty-one years, her husband being now a resident of New Carlisle, this county. Delbert Sherlo Judd, only child of Samuel A. and Delta A. (Sherlo) Judd, now owns and resides upon the old home farm, which he received as heritage from his maternal grandfather and the active management of which is now vested in him, as a progressive young man of twenty-one years (1922).
Evan C. Price has devoted nearly thirty years to one of Spring- field's prominent industries, the Indianapolis Switch & Frog Company, entering the service of that corporation in a minor capacity and is now its vice president, secretary and treasurer. He is also president and treasurer of the Auto Signal Company.
Mr. Price was born in Champaign County, Ohio, at Powhattan, February 26, 1870. His father, Evan R. Price, as a young man was a clerk in the Baldwin stores in Clark County. He enlisted and served as a Union soldier with the Sixty-sixth Ohio Infantry, and after the war was in the implement business at Circleville and still later was a farmer. He married Mary Jane Wilson, a relative of the pioneer Bald- win family of Clark County.
Evan C. Price was two years of age when his father died, and after that he was reared in Clark County in the home of his grandfather Wilson. He attended the common schools, had two years in the Ohio State University, and for a time was in the laundry business at Cleve- land. He lost all his accumulations there during the panic of 1893, and somewhat later returned to Clark County and in 1894 went with the Indianapolis Switch and Frog Company.
Mr. Price has been very active in civic as well as business circles, and has particularly devoted time and means to the Y. M. C. A. He is a Presbyterian. For two years he was chairman of the committee handling the War Savings Stamps in Clark County. He is a member and director of the Chamber of Commerce.
On November 25, 1896, Mr. Price married Miss Sarah L. Hodge, of Mechanicsburg, Ohio.
The Ridgely Trimmer Company, of which Jerry K Williams is the active head, is a large and prosperous industry and one of the most distinctive of the manufacturing enterprises centered at Springfield. It is the only factory in the world devoting its energies exclusively to the making of tools and supplies for the benefit of the decorator, painter and paper hanger. These tools, the product of a long line of inventive effort and experience, have served to lighten the burden of the world's work, and at the same time have enabled an increasing proportion of the world's population to secure and enjoy the advantages of the decora-
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tive arts in their own homes. How the business started is an interesting story. As usual it started with an individual who recognized the need of finding better methods, and had the inventive skill to devise some- thing better than the tools then at his command.
This individual was Charles T. Ridgely, a paper hanger. When he first started work at his trade, like hundreds of other paper hangers at the time, he used a pair of shears with which to trim his paper. The use of shears continued until he decided that he could work much faster by using a knife. He designed a special knife for the purpose. Then one day while using it the knife slipped and one of his fingers was badly cut. His wife expostulated with him for using a knife,, and said that after so many years of paper hanging he should be able to invent a safe and easy way of trimming paper. A woman's good advice and an acci- dent were the original source of the invention of the Ridgely Trimmer. The first invention was relatively crude, and modem implements manu- factured under the Ridgely name have only the basic principle in com- mon with the first trimmer devised by Charles T. Ridgely about 1882.
Shortly after he had devised the invention, Mark Smith, a son of Mark Smith, who was a pioneer of Springfield, obtained an interest in it, and together these men made an exhibit of the trimmer at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. Their trimmer was awarded the only prize given to any device of that kind. This trimmer combined a straight edge and knife, and was used after the paste was applied. The softer the paper became the easier the machine worked and without danger of cutting the hand, chipping the straight edges or snagging the paper. A self -connecting gauge cuts the rotary blade against the straight edge and enables the operator to cut any weight paper without chang- ing the gauge in the least.
It was in September, 1900, that Mr. Jerry K. Williams acquired the ownership of the Ridgely patents and plant. He organized a stock com- pany known as the Ridgely Trimmer Company, and has been actively identified with the concern ever since and is its real directing head. When he took hold of the Ridgely Trimmer Company the output was one wall paper trimmer and one seam roller. The trimmer, which was then the dominating feature of the business, is now obsolete, and sub- sequent improvements and patents have resulted in a marvelously accu- rate and efficient machine now known throughout the world. Other devices have been incorporated in the manufacturing until the company now produces every tool known for the use of the decorator, painter or paper hanger. The company even employs experimental engineers whose sole business it is to devise or perfect tools that will relieve the hard work of the trade, produce more work with the same amount of labor and time, and add in general to the efficiency of an important branch of the constructive art.
The Ridgely Trimmer Company has a world-wide business. It owns a warehouse in England, and handles its business in Continental Europe, as it does in the United States, through its own salesmen and through jobbers. The company also has warehouses in Australia and South America. In the United States their warehouses are in New York City and San Francisco.
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Springfield is the parent office, and the main manufacturing plant is also in this city. In the plant are employed from a hundred to four himdred persons. During the World war this company had on its pay- roll 1,100 people, and the entire organization was devoted to the making of what is termed technically "Stick Controls" but is known better by the public as steering gears for airships. In the Ridgely factory at Springfield not less than ninety percent of the airship steering apparatus in America was manufactured during that period.
Ethan A. Williams, father of Jerry K., was born in New York State and came to Springfield, Ohio, when a boy. Here he became acquainted with Catherine Schaeflfer, daughter of William N. SchaefFer, and they were married. Of their ten children seven died within ten days of each other from black scarlet fever. Ethan A. Williams was a dvil engineer and laid out the old Ohio Southern Railroad, being paid for his work in script. Subsequently he branched out in general con- tracting. He was a graduate of Harvard College, a member of the Episcopal Church, and in an unostentatious way did much good in his community. Many residents of Springfield still recall his kindly char- acter and his acts of substantial charity.
Jerry K. Williams, only survivor of his father's family, was bom at Springfield, February 4, 1868. He was not reared in wealth nor, on the other hand, in poverty, but from an early age his independent spirit took him into practical work and he really paid his expenses while fin- ishing his education in high school. He did work at night and also carried groceries to the home of Mr. Prince and others. After com- pleting his education he worked in different lines until he took over the Ridgely Trimmer Company, and in the success of that great enter- prise he has been the primary factor.
In 1886 Mr. Williams married Sara A. Stokes, of Bellefontaine, Ohio. Two children were bom to their marriage, a son and daughter, the latter dying at the age of three months. The son, Harry S. Wil- liams, died at the age of thirty-three, and at the time of his death was actively engaged in the Ridgely Trimmer Company. He was married and is survived by two children, Sara R. Williams, Jr., and Jerry K. Williams, Jr., aged respectively seven and eleven years.
Mr. Williams is a member of the Christian Science Church, is a republican, belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, Lagonda Club, Rotary Club and Country Club, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is a life member of the Knights of Pythias, and life member of the Benev- olent and Protective Order of Elks. He is also a member of the Com- mercial Travelers.
Albert W. Dyer. It has been claimed that no one who has once entered the newspaper business is ever satisfied outside of it ; that there is a fascination in the work which cannot be resisted. Certain it is that its followers work harder for less substantial retum than almost any class, receiving as their reward the satisfaction in having borne a part in shaping public policies and advocating in popular form improvements. Upon the shoulders of the conscientious newspaper man rests heavy responsibilities, and if he is faithful to high ideals he is certain of effect-
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ing much good and accomplishing constructive work of a high order. Albert W. Dyer, proprietor and publisher of the South Charleston Sentinel, is a man whose experience in newspaper work is a wide and comprehensive one and whose efforts have been principally expended in this line of endeavor. He was bom at Springfield, Ohio, March 8, 1882.
The parents of Albert W. Dyer, John and Mary (Hunt) Dyer, are natives of Taunton, England, where John Dyer was bom October 29, 1853. They were reared and educated in their native place, he attend- ing the public schools and she a private one. In 1880 John Dyer came to the United States and located at Springfield, Ohio. Engaging with the William M. Whitely Company, he has continued with 3iis concem and its successors ever since as an experimental man. Mrs. Dyer was born March 6, 1861, and she came to the United States about 1879. She and her husband were married at Springfield, Ohio, where they have since maintained their residence. Originally Church of England people, they are now communicants of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Dyer belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Order of Ben Hur, and in politics he is a republican. He and his wife had three children bom to them, of whom two now survive, Albert W. and his brother, Cliflford J., a high-chool graduate, now teller for the Farmers National Bank of Springfield, Ohio.
The boyhood and youth of Albert W. Dyer were spent at Spring- field, where he attended the public schools and where he took a com- mercial course in the Willis Business University, being one of its grad- uates. His first position was that of stenographer with the Floral Pub- lishing Company, and he held it for three years. For the subsequent three years he was stenographer for the Evans Manufacturing Com- pany, and then, leaving that concem, he went to Toronto, Canada, and for a time was with the ad department of the Montreal Star. Severing these connections Mr. Dyer returned to the United States and became ad manager of the Chautauqua publications at Chautauqua, New York. After two years in that position he came back to Springifield, Ohio, and became manager of Floral Life. Subsequently he went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as circulation manager of Suburban Life. Once more he returned to Springfield, and for four years was with the American Seeding Machine Company, but then returned to newspaper work as editor and publisher of the Mayville, New York, Sentinel, continuing with this journal for six years. It was at the termination of that period that he came to South Charleston and bought the South Charleston Sentinel, and entered upon his present field of usefulness.
On October 10, 1906, Mr. Dyer married Augusta Ehrle, bom at Springfield, a daughter of Fred and Katherine (Kohler) Ehrle. Mrs. E^er attended the common and high schools of Springfield, and the Willis Business University, of which she, too, is a graduate. For a time she was with the Floral Publishing Company of Springfield as stenog- rapher, and later with the Crowell Publishing Company in its advertis- ing department. Mr. and Mrs. Dyer have three children, namely: Dor- othy, Marjorie and John F. The Dyers are communicants of the Epis- copal Church. A Mason, Mr. Dyer belongs to Anthony Lodge No. 455, F. and A. M. He is a strong republican, but has never cared to make the race for public office. Both he and Mrs. Dyer are the center of a
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congenial circle, and their pleasant home is the scene of many delight- ful gatherings. As a citizen Mr. Dyer stands exceptionally high in pop- ular esteem, and he is making his one of the best country papers in Ohio.
FiNDLEY W. Shaw has a record of vigorous and successful achieve- ment as one of the substantial exponents of farm industry in Clark County, has the distinction of being a native son of the Buckeye State and is a scion of a sterling pioneer family of Ohio. His well improved farm estate is situated in Greene Township and his postoffice address is Yellow Springs.
Mr. Shaw was born in Greene County, Ohio, January 11, 1856, and is a son of Robert and Polly (Wilson) Shaw, the former of whom was bom near Trenton, New Jersey, in 1804, and the latter of whom was bom in Massachusetts, in 1812, both having been young at the time when the respective families established pioneer homes in Ohio. The marriage of Robert Shaw and Polly Wilson was solemnized when they were young folk, and they settled on a farm in Greene County, where their first child was born in the year T835. Later they removed to a farm two miles west of the original place, and two years prior to his death Mr. Shaw came to Greene Township, Clark County, where he died in 1886, his devoted wife having passed to etemal rest in 1882 and hav- ing been an earnest member of the Presbyterian Church. Of their eleven children six are living in 1922, and of the eleven the subject of this sketch is the youngest. Cyrus is a fanner in Greene Township and is individually mentioned on other pages of this work; Margaret is the widow of John Kemp and resides at Hammond, Louisiana; Lydia is the widow of Abraham Rasner and resides near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Horace is a resident of Yellow Springs, Clark County; and John is another of the prosperous farmers of Greene Township, this county.
Findley W. Shaw was reared on the old home farm in Greene County, where he remained until he had attained to his legal majority, his educational advantages in the meanwhile having been those of the public schools of his native county. He has never found it expedient to sever his allegiance to the basic industries of agriculture and stock- growing, through the medium of which he has won substantial pros- perity. His fine home farm comprises sixty acres of the excellent land of Greene Township, and he is one of the loyal and representative citi- zens of that township. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Yellow Springs, of which he is a trustee.
December 31, 1878, recorded the marriage of Mr. Shaw and Miss Anna Patton, who was bom May 11, 1858, in Greene Township, and who has lived continuously in this township, where her parents were early settlers. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw have a fine family of ten children, concerning whom brief record is sriven in conclusion of this review: Emerson graduated from Cedarville Collegre and is now principal of public schools in the State of Minnesota; Raymond likewise e^raduated from Cedarville College, and later completed a course in the Ohio State University, he being now engaged in the real estate business at Colum- bus, this state ; Wilbur graduated from the law department of Valparaiso
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University, at Valparaiso, Indiana, and is now engaged in the real estate business in Baltimore, Maryland; Walter, a graduate of the Ohio State University, is now in charge of the boys' institution known as Welcome Hall, in the City of Brooklyn, New York; Rev. Edward B. is a grad- uate of the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pennsylvania., and is now pastor of North Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania ; Minnie, who remains at the parental home, is likewise a grad- uate of the Ohio State University; Paul M., a graduate of the high school at Clifton, is now associated with his brother Raymond in the real estate business in the City of Columbus; John P. was graduated from the Clifton High School and later attended Antioch College, is associ- ated in the management of the home farm; Nettie graduated from the high school, thereafter was for three years a student at Cedarville Col- lege, and is now teaching public school ; Ruth E. is attending Cedarville College. Paul M. and John P. represented Ohio in the nation's mili- tary service in the World war period, Paul having accompanied his command to France, where he twice went "over the top" and where he suffered from a gas attack while at the front. John was in service at Camp Perry, Ohio, and was not called overseas.
Oscar T. and Paul C. Martin. The name of Martin is associated with the legal history of Clark County, both Oscar T. Martin, now deceased, and his son and successor, Paul C. Martin,, adding distinction to their profession by their own capabilities and actions. The late Oscar T. Martin was bom January 25, 1848, and died May 1, 1913. He was a son of David M. Martin, who with his family moved from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to Osbom, Greene County, Ohio, about 1854, and became a justice of the peace and a man of considerable local popularity. His wife, the mother of Oscar T. Martin, was Mary Brenneman. Oscar T. Martin was reared in Greene County, where he attended school, and where he taught school for a time. Enrolling at Wittenberg College, he took its regular course and was graduated therefrom in 1868. For some time thereafter he was interested in local newspaper work, becoming a reporter and later editor of the old Advertiser. This was, however, but the preliminary action to his study of the law with Keifer & White, and about 1873 he was admitted to the bar and at once began an active practice that was only terminated with his death.
In 1873 Oscar T. Martin married Mary S. McCoy, and they became the parents of Paul C. Martin. Oscar T. Martin developed into one of the foremost lawyers of his time, and combined with his professional skill he possessed more than ordinary business qualifications. He was a tremendous worker and very industrious and became attorney for some of the great corporations, and was the personal attorney and friend of the late Governor Bushnell. In 1904 he succeeded Governor Bushnell as president of the First National Bank of Springfield, and served as such until his death. He took a keen interest in all local matters, and was a zealous member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Martin was a loyal friend, and while he never ran for office he sacrificed time in fur- thering the political ambitions of his associates. In 1901 he organized the law firm of Martin & Martin, the junior member being his son, Paul C. Martin, and the latter, after his father's death, continued alone
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until 1921, when Homer C. Corry became his partner, the firm now being Martin & Corry.
Paul C. Martin graduated from Princeton in 1898 and has since then practiced law at Springfield. He married Bessie, the only child of William M. Black, one of the old-time and honored men of Spring- field. Mr. Martin has been identified with many of the local industries of Springfield. In recent years, in addition to an extensive law prac- tice, he has aided in the progress of many public and semi-public utili- ties with which he is connected.
Horatio Strong Bradley. One of the longest records of personal service in the industrial affairs of Springfield might properly be claimed by Horatio Strong Bradley, who came to the city nearly fifty years ago and has long enjoyed a place of power and prestige among local manu- facturers and bankers. Mr. Bradley is president of the Lagonda Manu- facturing Company, vice president of the Springfield Advance Machine Company, and vice president of the Springfield National Bank.
He was bom at Ashland, Ohio, February 4, 1853, son of Rev. Horatio S. and Sarah (Patterson) Bradley. His parents are now deceased. His father for a long period years was an active minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and held charges at many points in the Ohio Conference.
H. S. Bradley lived with his parents in the different towns and cities where his father was a pastor. The longest period of residence during his boyhood was at Delaware, Ohio, where he acquired most of his public school education, and in the same city he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, where he was graduated with the A. B. degree in 1872. The following year Mr. Bradley went to work in a bank at Hartford City, Indiana, but after a short time came to Springfield, in 1873, and here he worked for a time as a bookkeeper in a drug house. His first important position among the manufacturing interests of the city was as cashier for the St. John Sewing Machine Company. He was associated with that old-time industry for a number of years. Later, with Gustavus Foos, he became one of the organizers of the Foos Manufacturing Company, a business now continued as the Bauer Broth- ers Manufacturing Company. Mr. Bradley organized the Lagonda Man- ufacturing Company in 1903. This is a local industry for the manu- facture of a line of steam specialties, and its output is distributed all over the country. Mr. Bradley has been president of the company from the beginning. This and other connections above noted constitute for him a busy program in the commercial life of Springfield.
However, he has accepted responsibilities in other departments of life, and since 1908 has been a* member of the Board of Trustees of Ohio Wesleyan University, his alma mater. He is a trustee of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church and a member of the Y. M. C. A. Socially he belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and the Las^onda and Country Qubs. Mr. Bradley married Miss Nannie Gunn. Her father. Rev. J. W. Gunn, was one of Springfield's oldest and most highly respected citizens.
W. H. Stackhouse. Springfield has long enjoyed the national prominence as a center of American manufactures. Some of the per-
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sonal leaders in Springfield industry have likewise been accorded dis- tinction among the industrial leaders of the country, and one of these is W. H. Stackhouse.
His personal .career has been closely associated for many years with what was formerly known as the Bettendorf Metal Wheel Company of Davenport, Iowa. This corporation in 1890 established a branch at Springifield. The company manufactured metal wheels for agricultural implements, and the output was sold to implement manufacturers. Some years ago the business was converted into an unlimited partnership, as it is at present, the principal stockholders then being G. Watson French, Nathaniel French and J. L. Hecht, all of Davenport. Nathaniel French is now deceased. W. H. Stackhouse in 1898 became an owner in the business, and has had the complete management at Springfield for the past fifteen years. This is a business employing some four hundred hands, and the product is sold through manufacturers all over the civ- ilized world. On March 1, 1922, he became general manager of the firm, with headquarters at the Davenport, Iowa, plant, though retaining his residence in Springfield.
Mr. Stackhouse was born at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, April 22, 1865, son of Samuel S. and Ann (Humphreys) Stackhouse, of English and Scotch lineage. He was educated at Davenport, Iowa, and for twenty-five years has been identified with the French and Hecht busi- ness. Prior to that he served under appointment from President Cleve- land as collector of internal revenue for the southern district of Iowa. Mr. Stackhouse has been president of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, president of the Springfield Manufacturers Association, and for a number of years has been a member of the National Industrial Conference Board of New York City. He is also a former president of the National Implement and Vehicle Manufacturers Association, and a member of the National Chamber of Commerce, of which he is a national councillor.
Mr. Stackhouse was one of the men invited by President Har- ding to a conference at St. Augustine, Florida, in February, 1921, rela- tive to the subject of Federal taxation. He made an oral argument on this measure before the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives in August, 1921. President Harding also invited him to participation in the National Conference on unemployment, held in September, 1921, and he was chairman of the Manufacturers Commit- tee. During April, 1921, he was one of the thirty-six men summoned from different parts of the United States to confer with Secretary Hoover on the reorganization of the Governmental departments at Washington and to consider the matter of making the Department of Commerce most beneficial to the public. At this conference an Execu- tory Advisory Committee of five was created to act in an advisory capacity to the secretary, and Mr. Stackhouse is one of the members of this committee. During January, 1922, upon invitation of President Harding, he participated in the National Agricultural Conference at Washington, District of Columbia.
Mr. Stackhouse is an independent republican, and is a Catholic. He is married and has nine children and two grandchildren.
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Edwin L. Shuey, Jr. Six miles from the center of Springfield, in Moorefield Township, Clark County, is situated Amedsa Hills Farm, the productive and well-improved property belonging to the Shuey fam- ily, and under the superintendence of Edwin L. Shuey, Jr., the only son, an enterprising agriculturist of this region. Mr. Shuey formerly had several important business connections in the larger cities, but has found his chief enjoyment and prosperity in the midst of his farm, where he is operating successfully in the fields of farming and stockraising.
Mr. Shuey was bom at Dayton, Ohio, January 3, 1887, and is a son of Edwin L. and Effie (Mitchell) Shuey. Edwin L. Shuey was bom at Cincinnati, Ohio, January 3, 1857, and as a child was taken by his parents to Dayton, where he was reared and where his education was acquired in the public schools. After attending high school he entered Otterbein College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and subsequently was granted the degree of Master of Arts. A few years ago he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. On August 15, 1882, he married Effie Mitchell, who was born at Springfield, and who had been a student at Wittenberg College. Following their union they settled at Westerville, Franklin County, Ohio, where Mr. Shuey was an instructor in the college for four years. They then removed to Dayton, where they have since resided, Mr. Shuey being connected with several of the largest business enterprises of that city. For many years he has served as a director of the Dayton Young Men's Christian Association and is a member of the International Committee of that organization. He has always been active in the civic and religious organizations of his city and of the country. Mr. Shuey is president of the Board of Trustees of the First United Brethren Church of Dayton. In politics he is a republican. He has served as a member of the School Board, and is now president of the State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (1922). He and Mrs. Shuey are the parents of three children: Amy M., the wife of A. G. Book- waiter, of New York ; Sarah Catharine, the wife of J. Bard McCandless, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Edwin L., Jr.
Edwin L. Shuey, Jr., was reared at Dayton, where he was graduated from the Steele High School, following which he entered Oberlin Col- lie and was a member of the graduating class of 1909, when he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then took a position with the Delco organization at Dayton as assistant to the treasurer, remaining in that capacity for two years, when he resigned and joined the Berryhill Nursery, holding an active position for one year. He is still assistant treasurer of this concern, which is now located at Amedsa Hills Farm. When he left Dayton Mr. Shuey came to his present handsome prop- erty, where he raises large crops of all the standard grains, and makes 9 specialty of breeding Hampshire hogs. He is a modern agriculturist, stockman and nurseryman in every respect, and during his ten years on his Moorefield Township place has made numerous improvements.
Mr. Shuey is a member of the First United Brethren Church of Dayton and holds an official position and membership in the Young Men's Christian Association at Dayton and Springfield. He is also a member of the State Boys' Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association of Ohio.
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George C. Agle has been one of the hardest working citizens of Clark County. He toiled during his youth and early manhood to earn his own living and help support the family. For many years he was a farm renter, and gradually progressed to a point where he was able to acquire land of his own, and he is now dwelling in comfortable prosperity, owner of a fine farm on rural route No. 1 out of South Vienna, in Harmony Township.
Mr. Agle was born in Bethel Township of Clark County, May 12, 1858, son of Philip and Elizabeth (Kriegbaum) Agle. His father was born in Germany m 1832, and was brought to this country in 1835 by his parents, who located near Springfield. Philip Agle was put on his own resources when a boy, worked in brick yards, and subsequently established a brick plant of his own at Donnelsville in Clark County, and lived there until he was accidentally killed in 1867, at the age of thirty- five. His wife was a native of Germany, came to the United States at the age of nineteen, was married in Springfield and then moved to Donnelsville. The parents were Lutherans, and the father was a repub- lican in politics. Of their seven children two are living : George C. and Philip, the latter a farmer five miles south of Springfield.
George C. Agle was born at Donnelsville, and acquired only a com- mon school education. While in school he worked on holidays and during the summer season, later worked in a brick yard for his board and clothes and for two years was employed in a tile factory. He also did farm work for monthly wages, and later rented and farmed a place three years. He operated a farm of ninety-six acres on the shares, living there with his mother and sister for two years.
January 21, 1886, Mr. Agle married Flora Seifert, who was bom in Greene County, Ohio, in October 1861. After his marriage Mr. Agle rented a 170 acre place for two years, then a farm of two hundred and two acres in Madison Township for four years, and subsequently took another place of two hundred and fifty-two acres in Harmony Township. He was located there fourteen years and still later moved to a farm of 306 acres, where he also lived fourteen years. During this time he purchased his present farm. Since then he has lived on his own place of two hundred and fifty-eight acres. Mr. Agle has been very systematic in his farm management, and much of his prosperity has been gained by the growing of hogs. He was at one time a breeder of Poland Chinas, and his present stock is largely Durocs.
While on the farm of two hundred and fifty-two acres his good wife died, in May, 1905. She was the mother of nine children: Glenna E., Blanche E., Edwin C, Ralph N., George J., Clara M., Nettie M., Mary B. and Fannie M. All are living except Mary B. The children are all graduates of the Harmony Township High School, and four of the daughters became successful teachers. The family are members of the Lutheran Church but attend the Christian Church, and Mr. Agle is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Plattsburg Church. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Elks Lodge of Springfield, is a republican, and has taken an active part in public affairs, serving two terms as township trustee, has been a member and farmer treasurer of the Clark County Agricultural Association, and for twenty-six years was a member of the Board of Education.
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John German is one of the native sons of Clark County who here continues as a progressive and substantial representative of farm indus- try, his well improved farm being situated in German Township, seven miles west of Springfield, and he is trustee of this township at the time of this writing, in 1922.
Mr. German was born in Springfield Township, this county, Septem-* ber 22, 1864, and is a son of Peter and Margaret (Geron) German. Peter German was bom and reared in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, where he learned the trade of miller and where he remained until he was seventeen years of age, when he came to the United States and estab- lished his residence in Clark County, Ohio, where one of his sisters had previously located. On his immigration he was accompanied by his brother Baltzer, and they landed at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with their supply of funds entirely exhausted. The two brothers came to Clark County, and here both found employment at farm work. Peter entered the employ of Peter Sintz, of Springfield Township, and this sterling citizen and successful farmer assisted the two young German lads in getting a start in the land of their adoption. Peter German later worked in the saw mill and on the farm of Mark Snyder, and at the age of twenty-four years he married Miss Margaret Geron, who was then nine- teen years of age. She was likewise a native of Hesse-Darmstadt and was thirteen years old when she came to America and found a home with her uncle, John Loomis, in Clark County. After his marriage Peter German farmed on rented land for a few years and then he purchased fifty acres on the National Turnpike, in Springfield Township. For this property he paid thirty dollars an acre, and on the same he and his young wife established their home in a pioneer log house. Until he could make his own land available for the raising of crops he rented fields of his former employer, Peter Sintz, and by energy and good management he made each successive year count in progress to the goal of independence and prosperity. He became the owner of an excellent farm of ninety- five acres three miles distant from Springfield, and on this homestead he continued to reside until his death, in the early '90s, at the age of sixty-one years, his life having been shortened by an injury which he had received while cutting com. His widow survived him eight years, and was likewise sixty-one years of age at the time of death. Of their children Lizzie became the wife of John Schneider, and she died at the age of fifty-four years; Margaret, wife of Peter Winkler, died at the age of forty-two years; George was fifty-one years of age at the time of his death; Peter is a carpenter by trade and resides in the City of Springfield ; John, of this sketch, was the next in order of birth ; Adam remains on the old home farm in Springfield Township; Anna is the wife of George Schneider, of Springfield ; and Jacob died at the age of forty years.
John German was reared on the old home farm and gained his early education in the district schools. He was associated with his father in dairy farming, and continued his residence on the old homestead until 1896, when he purchased and removed to his present place of 185 acres, known as the old George Miranda farm and situated on the Troy Turn- pike. For this property, which has greatly advanced in value under his progressive management, he paid forty-two dollars an acre. The farm
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was in a run-down condition and he forthwith began the development of an effective system of tile drainage, the place at the present time hav- ing 6,000 rods of tile drains, it having been necessary for him to force an outlet through farms owned by others, his example having since been effectively emulated by other landholders of the locality, who have found tile drainage of inestimable value. Mr. German has continued success- fully his enterprise of dairy farming, and makes a specialty of breeding Shorthorn cattle and the general feeding and raising of cattle and hogs. He has won through his own ability and efforts a substantial prosperity and is the owner of a farm of 170 acres in Champaign Coimty, this place being utilized for pasture and being five miles distant from his fine home farm. Mr. German has made the best of permanent improvements on his home farm, including the erection of modem buildings, silos, etc., and the place is now one of the model farms of Clark County. In his civic relations Mr. German has shown the same progressive spirit and loyalty that have marked his individual enterprise. He served eight years as a member of the School Board of his district, and was in tenure of this office at the time when centralization of the schools was effected, there being now but three schools in Springfield Township outside of the county seat, and the work of these centralized schools have been brought to a high standard. The secure place which Mr. German has in popular confidence and esteem was further indicated when, in 1921, he was elected trustee of German Township. He assumed the duties of this office January 1, 1922, and is giving special attention to the main- taining of good roads, he being responsible for the upkeep of eight miles of road in his township. He is a staunch advocate of the principles of the democratic party and has been active in its local councils. He is an active member of the Farm Bureau of Clark County, and he and his wife are communicants of the German Lutheran Church at Springfield. At the age of twenty-four years Mr. German married Miss MoUie Ellinger, who died three years later and who left no children. For his second wife Mr. German wedded Miss Mary Rader, of Springfield, and they have five children: John Henry, Baltzer, Margaret, Minnie and Helen. All of the children remain at the parental home with the excep- tion of Margaret, who is the wife of Clarence Bishop, a farmer in the vicinity of the old home of her parents.
Rev. Harry Trust, pastor of the Congregational Church at Spring- field, has been a member of this community since 1921, and has already won the love and respect of a wide circle both within his own church, as well as those who have come to know him in his other duties. He has been a faithful pastor to his flock, not only here but elsewhere, and has impressed all with his disinterested work in the cause he serves; he has been a foremost factor in all of the movements for the betterment of the moral standards of the country, and conscientious in the dis- charge of his manifold duties. He has been fearless in denunciation of that which he thought was wrong, and has preached a gospel of action with power and eloquence.
Doctor Trust was bom of an old Devonshire family at Ivybridge, Devon, England, January 11, 1883. He was graduated from the public schools of England, and for two years was a student of the University
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of London, and then came to the United States, where he entered the theological seminary of Bangor, Maine, and was graduated therefrom, and from Bowdoin College, in 1916, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His first pastorate was at Winthrop, Maine, from whence he was sent to Biddeford, Maine, and in 1921, to Springfield.
He is secretary of the Clark County Ministerial Association, assistant moderator of the State Conference of Congregational Churches of Ohio, and president of the Boy Scouts of Springfield. He does not confine his work to those duties strictly pertaining to the ministry, but is always seeking to broaden the scope of his influence, and has taught the Bible in the Young Men's Christian Association, is active in the Brotherhood of the Congregational Church, and is a member of the Exchange Club.
On January 3, 1917, Rev. Mr. Trust married Miss Lillian Effie Knowlton, who was born on Deer Isle, Maine, and is a member of a family which traces its ancestry back to the time of William the Con- queror, The Knowltons have resided in this country since its Colonial period and members of it have participated in all of its wars, beginning with the American Revolution. She is eminently fitted for the exacting duties of a minister's wife, and shares with her husband the aflfec- tionate esteem of the people of Springfield.
The Good Family of Springfield was settled in Pennsylvania long before the start of the war of the American Revolution, its ancestors having come to America from Switzerland during the Quaker immi- gration of that early period. John Good, grandfather of the present generation of the family at Springfield, married Sarah Singer, like himself a native of Pennsylvania. Samuel Good, their son, and father of the present generation, was born at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, August 13, 1826, and married Caroline Fisher, who was born at Ligonier, Penn- sylvania, July 9, 1829. Her grandfather, Mathias Fisher, served on one of the Clark expeditions into this part of Ohio, was captured by the Indians at Fort Tecumseh, not far from Springfield, and was held a captive until his escape from them at Fort Niagara, he then returned to -his Pennsylvania home.
At about the beginning of the Civil war John and Samuel Good removed their families to Virginia and settled at Cherry Camp, Harrison County (now Bristol, West Virginia), where they engaged in general .merchandising and in handling coal, oil and timber land. At that place John Good and his wife died. In 1881 Samuel Good came to Spring- field, his eldest son, the late John M. Good, having preceded him here three years. Samuel Good never engaged in business at Springfield, but lived retired until his death, January 25, 1892, his widow surviving him until October 8, 1916. To Samuel and Caroline (Fisher) Good there were born the following children : Alice Mary, bom at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, March 10, 1852, married C. A. Reese, of Springfield, and died in 1896; John M., born at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, December 2, 1853, married Jessie Minnick, and died February 16, 1921 ; Jessie M., born at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, November 2, 1856, was for several years assistant librarian of the Warder Library, Springfield, and in 1908 entered the florist business under the style of "Miss Jessie Good, florist and seedswoman," having since developed a large and very successful
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plant and seed business and shipping her products all over this country and to other lands; Harry Fisher and Frank Ernest.
Harry Fisher Good was born at Cherry Camp, West Virginia, Novem- ber 21, 1862. As a lad of ten years he went to live with his maternal uncle, Thomas A. Fisher, M. D., at LeRoy, Illinois, by whom he was reared. He graduated from LeRoy High School, secured a first-class teacher's certificate, and desired to teach, but was prevented by his youth from securing a school. In 1880 he entered Wittenberg College, where he spent one term, and then went to work in a greenhouse, which he left in the spring of 1890 to enter the employ of the Good & Reese Company, florists, the firm consisting of his brother, John M. Good, and his brother-in-law, Mr. Reese. He remained with this concern until 1901, in which year he embarked in the same business on his own account at Shreveport, Louisiana, but in the following year returned to Springfield and resumed his connection with the Good & Reese Com- pany. In 1903 this was incorporated and Harry F. Good became a stockholder. At the time of the retirement of Mr. Reese he assumed the duties of secretary and treasurer of the company, but since then has given up the treasurership and now devotes his entire time to the secre- tarial duties. He is a member of Anthony Lodge No. 445, F. and A. M. ; Red Star Lodge No. 205, K. of P.; and the Florists and Automobile Clubs of Springfield. His religious connection is with the Church of Christ. Mr. Good married Josephine Champane, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Davenport) Champane, of Springfield, and they have one son and one daughter: Chester Champane, born September 15, 1887; and Minnie May, born May 19, 1890.
Frank Ernest Good was born at Cherry Camp, West Virginia, Decem- ber 11, 1864, and there received a public school education. Coming to Springfield in 1880, he went to work for C. A. Reese, florist, and when the company of Good & Reese was organized he became vice president thereof. On the death of his brother, John M. Good, in 1921, he suc- ceeded him as president and so continues. He is recognized as one of the leading expert "rose men" of the entire country, the growing of rose plants having been his hobby as well as his business. He is a mem- ber of Red Star Lodge No. 205, K. of P., and a member of the Board of Trustees of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Good married Miss Elizabeth M. Derr, who was born at Thermont, Mary- land, daughter of John W. and Laura Virginia (Creager) Derr, and they have one daughter: Anna Laura, who married Clarence Butcher, of near South Charleston, Qark County.
Henry-Arbogast Families. These are family names held in high honor in Clark County today, and they were in many ways typical of the sturdy virtues of the pioneers who settled and developed this section of Ohio. The families became related by the marriage of Walter C. Henry with Sarah Eliza Arbogast in the '60s.
The founder of the Henry family was William Henry (1768-1842), grandfather of Walter C. Henry. He came from Fleming County, Ken- tucky, in 1813, bringing with him his wife, Elizabeth Johnson Henry, (1775-1846) and a family which increased to twelve, all of whom mar- ried except the youngest daughter, as follows: Polly, married Jonathan
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Jones, and had two sons; John, married Rachel Morris and had three sons and four daughters ; Johnson, married Sarah McDaniels, had three sons and five daughters; Nancy (1808-1887), married James Heaton (1804-1887) and had two sons and two daughters; Hamilton, who mar- ried Rebecca Dalrymple, had two sons and six daughters; Martha (1804- 1890), married James Morris, and had ten sons and one daughter; Jona- than, married Caroline Chamberlin, and had six sons and five daughters; Sarah, married Amos Wright, and had three sons and one daughter; Benjamin, who was married and had one son; Lavina (1815-1899), mar- ried Michael Wilson, Jr. (1814-1879) had eight sons and four daughters; William, Jr., who was the father of two sons and one daughter; and Miss Elizabeth. Altogether there were about sixty grandchildren. Many of these answered the call of the West, and from all the numerous progeny the two little daughters of the late Carlton Henry of Platts- burg, Martha Rice Henry and Carlton Louise Henry are the only representatives in Clark County today bearing the family name Henry. With the exception of the numerous descendants of Lavina Henry Wilson there are today perhaps less than a score of lineal descendants of William Henry and Elizabeth Johnson in Clark County.
The well established tradition exists that there is some relationship between this branch of the Henry family and that of the "immortal Patrick," but no substantial evidence has so far been brought forward to establish proof of such relationship. Without the prestige of descent from such an historical character it should be noted that in this and many different localities a goodly number of ministers, lawyers, doctors, edu- cators, successful farmers and business men sprang from the quiet, unobtrusive man, William Henry, a Christian gentleman, who is men- tioned in a former Clark County history as "a kindly man much liked by everyone." He and his wife helped to organize the first Christian Church society at Plattsbufg. Later the Christians and Universalists joined with other denominations to build an edifice called the "People's House," which still stands.
Jonathan Henry (1807-1868) married Caroline Chamberlin (1811- 1865) on October 20, 1833. Their old home was famed for its hospi- tality. In answer to an inquiry about this old homestead Miss Jean Canady of Plattsburg writes: "The main part of the old house is still standing on the Silvers farm. I have not been over to it for years, though as a child I was there every few days. Oh, what happv times we had there !" When the eleven Morris cousins and the twelve Wilson cousins came to visit Jonathan and Caroline and their eleven children it made quite a gathering, and several of those old time guests still remain to vouch for "those days of real Fport."
The eleven children of Jonathan Henry and wife were: Walter Cham- berlin, who married Sarah Eliza Arbogast; Stephen Herriman (1837- 1886) who married Anna Magennis; Mary Elizabeth (1838-1907); Hamilton Harrison (1840-1917) who married Amanda Welsh; William
Isaac (1841-1863); Virginia Caroline (1843 ); Sarah Sophronia
Caldwell (1844 ), second wife of J. M. Caldwell; George Washing- ton (1847-1880), who married Elizabeth Lightner; Nancy, who died in
infancy; Benjamin Franklin, (1849 ), who married Anna Conover;
and Martha Lavina Caldwell (1851-1882, first wife of Joseph M. Caldwell,
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of Gamett, Kansas. Three of the sons, Stephen, Hamilton and Isaac» enlisted in Company K of the Thirty-first Ohio Infantry during the Civil war. Shephen was wounded at Chickamauga, Isaac, a color bearer, was killed at the Battle of Missionary Ridge, and Hamilton attained the rank of captain. Three of the daughters and three sons became successful teachers early in life. Twelve grandsons of William Henry served in the Civil war.
Walter C. Henry (1834-1913) and Sarah Eliza Arbogast (1839 -1894) were married September 22, 1863. The bride was the eldest daughter of Henry Arbogast (1815-1859) and Susan Climer (1816- 1894). She was a granddaughter of Peter Arbogast (1770-1842) who emigrated from Virginia to Clark County in 1812. Born and reared in Clark County, Walter C. Henry and wife received such education as the schools of that time afforded, but both supplemented this early edu- cation with wide and varied reading. Walter Henry was a real student of books. With true prophetic instinct and an eager philanthropic desire to help his fellowman, he lived and thought in advance of his time. He was a third party prohibitionist when it took moral courage to be one, and he was equally in advance of the spirit of the times advocating woman's suffrage. He stood for a liberal religion, and he was never afraid to be in the minority.
The three children of this couple were: Caroline, Carlton and May Estelle. The last one of these to live in Clark County was the late Carlton Henry of Plattsburg. The only surviving child is May Estelle, now Mrs. Walter Jackson, of Chicago, who for many years has been a* teacher in the Chicago public schools. The parents of these children when in middle life moved to London, Ohio, and spent their remaining years there.
Carlton Henry was reared at London, and as a child took a keen delight in books. Quite early his well trained, brilliant mind had accum- ulated a wealth of knowledge. The London High School, Ohio State University and Wittenberg College contributed to his education. He taught in both Madison and Clark counties, but after his marriage, in 1909, to Glenna Rice, daughter of the late James S. Rice and Angie (Busbey) Rice, of South Vienna, Located permanently in Plattsburg, where he acted as secretary and manager of the Home Telephone Com- pany. Even after his removal to Clark County he continued for years to hold the position of assistant secretary of the Madison County Fair Association. In these capacities and as principal of the Harmony Town- ship High School over a long period of years he had a wide acquaintance over Central Ohio, and his friends were legion. He was a member of Chandler Post, F. and A. M., of London, and was affiliated with the Universalist Church, as were his parents and grandparents. He was a republican in politics.
The Arbogast family had its original seat in the southwestern part of (jermany, near Switzerland. They probably were of French Hugue- not origin and the name is spelled in many ways. There is record of Balthazar Arngast, who came from Rotterdam to Pennsylvania on the ship Carteret on December 11, 1744; Johannes (1751), on the Edin- burgh; and CJeorge (1750), on the Anderson. Michael Arngast (Michael Arbogast) took the oath of allegiance to the English Gov-
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ernment on going aboard the Speedwell, September 25, 1749, at Rotterdam, bound for Pennsylvania. Michael Arbogast (1734-1812) moved to what is now West Virginia, Pendleton County, in 1752. He was naturalized in Augusta County, Virginia, August 22, 1770, and served in the Second Battalion, Augusta County Cavalry troops, under Capt. Peter Hull of Pendleton or Highland County during the York- town campaign. The history of Highland County records that he owned 1,037 acres of land in 1800. The following list may not include all of his children: Adam (1760), married Margaret Hull; David, married, July 4, 1785, Elizabeth Fleisher; Mary, married in 1785 James MuUcnax; John (a lieutenant in 1794) married Hannah Davis; George, married in 1791 Catharine Yeager; Michael, Jr., who died in 1813, married Barbara Buzzard ; Henry, who died in 1844, married Sophia Wade and, second, Elizabeth Seyfert; Peter (1770-1842), married Sarah Hender* son (1781-1850), and was a twin brother of Henry. Several of these sons were with their father in the Revolutionary war and also in the War of 1812. They were all large men, a family characteristic even today. The Arbogasts of Clark County are all descendants of three of Michael's sons, David, Michael, Jr., and Peter, who migrated to Clark County about 1812. David settled later in Madison County, Indiana, where he died. The other two sons both died in Clark County. Peter came to Clark County from what is now Hampshire County, West Vir- ginia, bringing a family of several children. These and the children subsequently born made up the following list: Cornelius (1801-1883) married Sarah Davison and was the father of four sons and four daugh- ters; Priscilla, who married Jacob Smith, and liad two sons and two daughters; Otho, who had two sons and one daughter; Margaret, who married William Carl, and had two sons and three daughters; Lydia, (1818-1889), who married William Cheney (1816-1897); Malinda, who married Willis Climer, had three sons and six daughters; Susan married John Wilkinson, and had one son and four daughters; Mary, who married Jonathan Hardman, had three sons and three daughters ; and Henry (1815-1859), who married Susan Climer (1816-1894) had four sons and two daughters. Over forty grandchildren are repre- sented in this list, and these may be found in every walk of life, thrifty, industrious citizens. The home of Peter Arbogast was used for religious services held by a "New Light" minister named Enoch Harvey.
The story of the coming of this pioneer family is graphically told by a grandson, Albert Arbogast, in a personal letter, used herewith: "In regard to my grandfather, Peter Arbogast, he was born and raised near Romney, Hampshire County, Virginia. He was married to Sarah Henderson several years before he sold his farm and moved to Ohio in 1812, while the war was going on with England. Aunt Priscilla Smith was large enough to walk in the rear of grandfather's wagon and chock the wagon with a forked handspike which she placed against the rim and a spoke in the hind wheel in going up the mountains. Grandfather hired a man named Seebert to drive his six-horse team through to Ohio, and to work for him for a year, for which service he was to receive a horse. There were probably some four or five large covered wagons in the party. Grandfather's part seems to have been to keep in hearing of the wagons, and with his trusty gun "Friday" he kept the entire party
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in the choicest deer and bear meat, such game being plentiful. There seemed to be no trouble with Indians, and the expedition was successful except for a most unfortunate accident. In a sudden lurch of one of the wagons a child fell over the side and was seriously injured. All the wagons were halted, and examination showed the injury was prob- ably fatal. A prayer meeting. was held and Uncle Cornelius stated it seemed to him that prayers were enough to melt the adamantine rocks of the towering mountains ; but all relief was of no avail and the little one passed away. With such implements as they had a grave was hol- lowed out on a mountain side and with impressive services the funeral was concluded and the weeping party went forward on the long journey. The first people accosted in Ohio by grandfather were two brothers named Ellsworth, whose relatives are still found in eastern Clark County. They told him there was one piece of land left unentered in their settle- ment ; but nobody would have it. After examination Peter Arbogast thought the land worthy of purchase, and his judgment must have been fair, as his great-grandson (Amos Smith), still owns it and lives on the same place. This farm has been in the family one hundred and ten ytars. The next day, leaving his family in the covered wagon, grand- father on horseback started fpr the General Land Office at Cincinnati, I^rchased the land and returned from the long ride in just three weeks. Then grandfather, Seebert and probably Uncle Cornelius, a lad of ekven, went into the nearby timber and soon had the round logs ready for a house. Venison and corn had to be provided for a dinner for the great event of house raising. Invitations were sent out for miles around, and when the day came the Foleys, the Ellsworths, the Coifeys, the Clarks, the McConkeys and the Engles were all there. The strength and skill displayed by those hardy pioneers is something wonderful. By noon the house was up, with a puncheon floor, stone fireplace, stick chimney, properly daubed with clay, as were the chinks between the logs, a door made of split boards, pinned together with wooden pins, leather hinges and a latch string. The roof was made of clapboards held on by logs reaching the whole length of the house. The men came generally on horseback, with their wives riding behind on the same horse. The women were equal to the occasion, as they always are, and a bounteous dinner was ready for the tired and hungry men, consisting of the best venison and com bread, served 'stand up and help yourself.' Then was held a shooting match with rifles at a white patch one inch square placed on a charred board at a distance of one hundred yards. A marksman named Engle drove center three times offhand at this distance.
"Grandmother Arbogast was described as quite tall and straight, with jet black hair, of Irish stock and considered by some to be proud." If Sarah Henderson deserved the reputation which has lived through the years she had reason to hold a certain kind of pride. An efficient nurse and wonderful skill at her loom, were two of her accomplishments. One of her wonderful blue and white coverlids is still in the family, as handsome as it was the day it left her loom. Her handicraft was equaled if not surpassed by the wonderful embroideries and other needlework of her granddaughter, Eliza, whose work has been exhibited and; admired by art critics in Chicago and elsewhere."
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Henry Arbogast (1815-1859) and Susan Qimcr (1816-1894) were married early in 1839. Several years afterward they moved to Shelby Coimty, but after a short time returned to Pleasant Township, where the husband died before any of the sons were of age. The widow, assisted by the older sons, managed the home farm now owned by the heirs of Milton Arbogast, and educated two sons, James and Albert, to be teachers, both of whom gained distinction in educational affairs. The eldest daughter, Sarah Eliza, married Walter C. Henry, September 22,
1863, Charles (1841 ) married Eliza Byerly, and had one child,
Mrs. Louis Jones, of South Vienna. Albert (1848 ) married Mary
Porter, and their four children were : Ernest, of New York City ; Ethel St. Clair • (children, Lillian, John C. and Virginia); Lora and Pearl, of Columbus, Ohio. James (1845-1917) married Laura McConkey and had a daughter, Edna. Milton (1851-1918) married Elizabeth McClenen
(1846 ) and of two sons, Howard died in infancy, while Creston
Willard married Edna Harmison and had a son, Howard, and two
daughters, Doris May and Madelon. Johanna (1857 ) married
Charles Huffman. The eldest son, Charles, one of the organizers and an official of the Farmers Bank of South Vienna, served in Com- pany K of the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Ohio Infantry. Two sons of Cornelius Arbogast also served in the Civil war. With the samef thrift that characterized the first American ancestor, Michael Arbogast, the sons of Henry kept and increased the ancestral acres or bought land elsewhere. The mother moved to London about 1880, where she died in 1894. Henry Arbogast and Susan Climer Arbogast are buried in Kirkwood Cemetery at London.
More than passing mention should be made of Rev. Cornelius Arbo- gast (1801-1883), son of the pioneer Peter, who developed into a man of the Abraham Lincoln type, both mentally and physically. He mar- ried Sarah Davisson, with whom he enjoyed sixty years of happy wed- ded life. His unusual ability was early recognized and he served the communities in which he lived in various capacities of trust. While liv- ing in Clark County he was justice of peace for fourteen years, and after his removal to Shelby County in 1851 served as county commis- sioner for many years. Although not an attorney, his advice was often sought in matters pertaining to the law. This legal turn of mind was also possessed to a marked degree by his nephew, the late Milton Arbo- gast, who seemed to instinctively interpret, as did his uncle, a difficult problem of law.
Although residing in Shelby County, Cornelius Arbogast kept in touch with his former home, and he and his nephew, the late James Arbogast, helped to assemble the material for an earlier history of Clark County (1881).
He was ordained to the Universalist ministry in 1844, and for many years preached in various neighborhoods in Central Ohio. He was a forceful, logical speaker, genial in his manner, winning all who came in contact with him.
The attendance of hundreds at his funeral on a stormy November day spoke eloquently of their love for this grand old man, a veritable "father in Israel."
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George Sabin Dial. In the person of George Sabin Dial, who has practiced so long and so ably at the Springfield bar, is linked the Spring- field of the past and the present. A native of this city, both he and his pioneer father, the late Judge Enoch George Dial, have been parts of its progressive life, and in the law, in education, in business and in poli- tics have contributed to the development of the city's institutions and the furtherance of its welfare and prestige.
Mr. Dial was bom at Springfield, August 2, 1861, a son of Enoch George and Emeline (Sabin) EWal. His father was bom in Clermont County, Ohio, October 16, 1817, a son of Shadrach and Susanna (Reed) Dial. Shadrach Dial, the son of Robert Dial, was born in North Caro- lina, in 1758, and in 1803 was married, two years after which event he came to Ohio and settled in Clermont County, where he spent the remainder of his life in agricultural pursuits and died in 1843. Enoch George Dial graduated from Miami University in 1843. Following his graduation he was for a year a teacher and member of the faculty of Ohio Wesleyan University, but resigned from that college in 1845, and, coming to Springfield, for four years was president of the Springfield High School and Female College. In the meantime he studied law and was admitted to the bar, and also, although continuing \o reside at Springfield, was interested for a time in a newspaper at Urbana, Ohio. He was a democrat in politics up to 1860, in which year he became a staunch member of the republican party. In 1852 he was chosen an elector on the democratic electoral presidential ticket in Ohio. In 1869, as a republican, he was elected judge of the Probate Court of Clark County, and was re-elected in 1872 without opposition, but three years later refused a third election. In 1879 he was elected a member of the Ohio State Legislature, and served as chairman of the committee on schools and school lands of the House. While in the Legislature he introduced a bill to abolish the sub-district system and to establish the township system, the schools of each township to be managed by a board of education elected by the people thereof. He also introduced a bill providing for county school superintendence. The proposed legis- lation met with universal approbation by the leading educators and edu- cated men of the state, and generally by the press, but, encountering decided opposition among the smaller politicians and press, the bills failed to pass. However, the ideas embraced in those measures were later adopted by the Legislature and became laws. He also served as a member of the Springfield Board of Education and was always inter- ested in the cause. He died at Springfield in 1896. Judge Dial married Emeline Sabin, who was born at Troy, Miami County, Ohio, in 1827, and died at Springfield in 1882. She was a daughter of Dr. Roswell Sabin, of Troy, and to this union there were bom four children: Mary, deceased, who was the wife of Charles D. Hack; Annie C, of Spring- field, who is unmarried ; George Sabin, of this review ; and Morris Ros- well, of LaGrange, Illinois.
George Sabin Dial attended the city public schools, after which he spent three years, from 1878 to 1881, at Wittenberg College, and then entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he was graduated with his Bachelor of Arts degree as a member of the class of 1882. He read law in the office of the Hon. Thomas J. Pringle, of Springfield, and was
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admitted to the bar in 1885, since which time he has been in the active practice of his profession at Springfield, of which city he served as prosecutor from 1895 to 1897. Mr. Dial has been interested for a num- ber of years in city planning and park extension, and during his admin- istration as president of the Springfield Commercial Club the campaign was inaugiu^ated for the successful raising of the money for the purchase of the land which became Cliff Park, a campaign which was the begin- ning of the movement to bring Snyder Park up to the city. Mr. Dial was assistant attorney to the city solicitor in the condemnation of park land along the creek, by which proceedings the city acquired about forty acres of land for park purposes.
During the World war Mr. Dial was active as a "Four-Minute Man," and took part in all the various campaigns for raising war funds. He is active in church work and is a member of and secretary to the Official Board of High Street Methodist Episcopal Church. He has been a mem- ber of the Board of Directors of the Springfield National Bank. Mr. Dial is a member of the Clark County Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, successor of the Springfield Commercial Club, of which he was president in 1908.
On February 12, 1890, Mr. Dial was united in marriage with Miss Louise Baldwin, who died January 30, 1897, leaving one daughter, Mary Louise, who married Louis P. Kalb, of Detroit, Michigan. On March 8, 1913, Mr. Dial married Clara Eugenia Crane, daughter of J. W. Crane, of Springfield, Ohio. Mr. Crane was a prominent manufacturer, for many years being secretary and general manager of Mast, Foos & Com- pany works. .
Adam Grube. The late Adam Grube was one of the substantial men of foreign birth who, coming to Springfield, became valued citizens of their adopted country and here amassed a fortune. He was born in the Rhine province of Bavaria, Germany, a son of Jacob and Philipena (Shearer) Grube, who in 1835 came to the United States and after liv- ing at Tiffin, Ohio, for two years, located at Springfield. During the time he was at Tiffin, Jacob Grube had to work very hard in construction work on the Wabash Canal. After coming to Springfield he continued to work by the day until his demise.
When still a lad Adam Grube helped to take care of his mother and brothers and sisters, working to do so by selling produce from house to house, and his honest measure and pleasant manner soon enabled him to build up a large trade. As soon as he was strong enough he began working out by the day, and in the meantime gained a knowledge of the brick industry, entering, when only twelve years old, the brick- yard of James Robinson, and receiving for his labors $3 per month. He was patient and very thrifty and at last was able to go into partnership with his brother in the purchase of fifteen acres of land, on which the industrious young men carried on gardening. Later he bought his brother's interest in this property. For fourteen years he lived in a house built of logs before he replaced it with one of brick he had himself manufactured, for he and his two brothers, Jacob and Christian, had gone into the brick industry, in which they continued for six years. Then for a few years Mr. Grube again devoted himself to
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gardening, but once more began to manufacture brick, taking as his partner Charles Elmer Grube. They gave employment to twelve men and five boys and did a big business, but he retired from it before his death, which occurred July 19, 1910.
Adam Grube first married Anna Mary Wilch, bom in Hancock County, Ohio, and they had eight children, the only survivor being one son, John A., who is living in Springfield, Ohio. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Grube married, October 6, 1868, Gertrude Rettig, born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, May 5, 1845, a daughter of John P. and Elizabeth (HeoflFley) Rettig, who settled in Henry County, Ohio, in 1863. By his last marriage Adam Grube had nine children, of whom four survive, namely: George P., who is at 1756 Limestone Street, a sketch of whom follows; Samuel D., who resides in Moorefield Town- ship, married Abbie J. Baker, and they have three children, Ruth, Mrs. Robert Scifers, has two daughters, Gertrude G. and Mary Jane Scifers; Margaret, Mrs. H. J. Robinson, who resides with her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Grube, and Delbert I., who also lives with Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Grube; F. Joseph, who lives in Moore- field Township, married Mary Helle, now deceased, who bore him one son, Irvin A. F. Grube, with his father; and Gertrude S., who is keeping house for her brother, F. Joseph, in Moorefield Township, just north of Springfield.
Adam Grube was a business man of excellent judgment and invested his money wisely. He owned several farms in the vicinity of Springfield and the fifty-acre addition to Springfield that is known as Grube Addi- tion. He belonged to Saint Luke's Evangelical Church of Springfield, in which he was an earnest worker. The democratic party had in him a firm supporter, although he never cared for public honors. He did his full duty as he saw it, was honest, sincere and helpful, and when he died one of the best citizens of Clark County passed to his last reward.
George P. Grube. One of the best-known and most highly respected families of Clark County is that bearing the name of Grube and its members are numbered among the most representative citizens of Spring- field. One of them, George P. Grube, of 1756 North Limestone Street, is following a somewhat original line in his business operations, for he is not only a poultry fancier, but also raises Pekingese Chinese dogs and has built up a very valuable connection in both lines. Mr. Grube was bom at Springfield, February 10, 1873, a son of Adam and Gertrude (Rettig) Grube, natives of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, a sketch of whom precedes in this work; and grandson of Jacob and Philipena (Shearer) Grube, natives of Germany, who came to Clark County, Ohio.
Growing up in Springfield, George P. Grube attended the Snow dis- trict school and Nelson's Business College and remained with his parents, who owned fifteen acres of land, now the block of 1700 Limestone Street, until his marriage, which occurred February 20, 1899, when he married Carrie E. Morgan, born at Tampico, Indiana, a daughter of William and Rachel (Mahanka) Morgan, natives of Tampico, Indiana.
After his marriage Mr. Grube built a house just south of the Home Road, on North Limestone Street, where he resided for seven years, during which time he continued working with his father in manufac-
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turing brick, in which industry the elder man had built up a large business. Selling his interest in this, Mr. Grube then bought one acre of land about two blocks south of his home, on North Limestone street, and erected a new residence. He was engaged in manufacturing brick on his own account until 1915, when he sold his business and bought one and three-quarter acres, with a frontage of 124 feet and a depth of 576 feet, on which he put up another residence. While working in green- houses he at the same time began to raise single-comb, Mottled Ancona chickens, and has exhibited them in the principal poultry shows of the country. He won first prize at Chicago upon two occasions, first prize at Cincinnati ; and in January, 1922, the first prize at Cleveland. He sold one hen for $100. He also received two prizes at Jthe poultry show held at the Madison Square Garden, New York City, and he is still engaged in breeding and raising these fine chickens, and, as before stated, is raising the Pekingese dogs so in demand for pets by the wealthy.
Mr. and Mrs. Grube have no children. They belong to St. John's Lutheran Church of Springfield. Politically he is a democrat but he is not active in public matters. Fraternally he maintains membership with Lone Star Lodge No. 732, I. O. O. F. Mr. Grube has always been a hard worker and deserves the success which has attended his efforts. His fame as a poultry fancier has gone far beyond local bounds, and his exhibits are looked forward to with great interest by others in the same line of business as well as those who seek at these shows especially fine specimens for their own flocks.
E. W. Stewart, proprietor of the fine Red Bud Hill Farm, com- prising 131 acres and situated near the village of Pitchin, in Greene Township, was born on this farm, which he now owns, and the date of his nativity was October 27, 1868. He is a son of Captain Perry Stewart and Rhoda A. (Wheeler) Stewart, both likewise natives of Greene Township, where the former was born, on this same ancestral farmstead, June 6, 1818. his wife having been born December 20, 1824. The captain was a son of John T. and Anna (Elder) Stewart, the former of whom was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, March 3, 1781, a son of Samuel Stewart, whose father Robert was a son of John Stewart, who was bom in Scotland and was numbered among those who left their native land and established homes in the North of Ireland on account of religious persecution in Scotland.
Samuel Stewart (I) came to the United States in company with his brother Hugh and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1735.
Captain Perry Stewart was reared on the pioneer farm of his father in Greene Township, Clark County, Ohio, and was numbered among the gallant men who went forth in defense of the Union when the Civil war was precipitated. On the 15th of July, 1862, he recruited Com- pany A, Ninety-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he served as captain of this company until after it had participated in the battle of Chicka- maug^ in the autumn of that year. He then returned home, his physi- cal disability having disqualified him for further service at the front. In 1866-7 he served as county commissioner of Clark County, and in 1868-9 he represented the county in the State Legislature, his political allegiance having been given to the republican party.
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October 15, 1844, recorded the marriage of Captain Stewart and Miss Rhoda A. Wheeler, who was bom December 20, 1824, a daughter of Ebenezer and Jemima (Miller) Wheeler, who were born in New Jersey and whose marriage was solemnized at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1803, they having established their home in Clark County in 1806. Harriet J., eldest of the children of Capt. Perry Stewart, was bom October 7, 1845, and is the widow of James Hatfield ; Julia A., bom July 3, 1847, is the widow of R. N. Elder; David W., bom December 19, 1848, resides at Clifton; John T., born August 21, 1850, is a resident of Houston, Texas ;^ Mary E., bom July 25, 1852, became the wife of Samuel Kerr and is now deceased her death having occurred July 20, 1907 ; Charles P., born August 2, 1856, resides at Springfield and was formerly county com- missioner of Clark County; Ellen J., bom July 16, 1859, became the wife of George Nicholson, and her death occurred February 15, 1918; Jessie was bom July 12, 1861, and died September 23, 1865; Perry M., born July 6, 1866, resides at Yellow Springs, Greene County; and E. W., subject of this sketch, was born October 27, 1868.
E. W. Stewart early gained his full share of practical experience in connection with the work of the home farm and in the meanwhile attended the district schools. He remained at the parental home until his marriage, October 26, 1893, with Miss Nettie Shobe, who was born and reared in Greene Township, and since that time he has had a pro- gressive career as one of the vigorous and successful agriculturists and stockgrowers of his native county. Mr. Stewart is a republican, has served as justice of the peace and member of the School Board, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Protestant Church, he being secretary of its Quarterly Conference and both he and his wife being specially influential in the various departments of church work, including the Sunday School. Mr. Stewart is a past master of the local Grange and has served four years as state deputy of the Ohio State Grange, besides being influential as a member of Pomona Grange. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart have two children : Edna A., born August 12, 1894, is the wife of Howard Price, a farmer in Greene Township; and Lois S. who was bom September 26, 1897, is a trained nurse by profession, she having graduated in the Nurses Training School at Springfield, and both she and her sister are graduates of the Pitchin High School. Helen J., youngest of the children, was born June 16, 1903, and died on the 17th of the following September.
Fred G. Stewart is consistently to be designated as one of the pro- gressive and successful representatives of constructive farm industry in his native county and township, and his vigorous operations are staged on what is known as the old Estle farm, in Section 21, Green Township.
On the old home farm of his father, in Section 22 of Green Township, Fred G. Stewart was bom June 2, 1884, and on both the paternal and maternal sides he is a scion of old and honored pioneer families of Clark County. He is a son of Charles F. and Clara (Gailough) Stewart, both likewise natives of Greene Township, where the former was bom on a farm in Section 23 and the latter on a farm in Section 16. After their marriage the parents settled on a farm in Section 22 of their native township, and there they remained until 1918, when they moved to the
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City of Springfield, where they have since maintained their home. Of their five children the eldest is Josephine, who is the wife of Stephen Kitchen ; Fred G., of this review, was the next in order of birth ; Howard H. is a successful farmer north of Springfield; Samuel N. remains on and has active charge of the old home farm; Stephen W. served in the World war as a member of the Quartermaster's Department of the Amer- ican Expeditionary Forces in France, and his death occurred March 31, 1920, within a short time after his return to his native land.
Reared on the farm and profiting by the advantages of the local schools, Fred G. Stewart waxed strong in mental and physical powers, and he supplemented his education by a course in Nelson's Business Col- lege at Springfield. At the age of nineteen years he successfully passed a civil service examination and was appointed a mail carrier on rural route No. 11 from the City of Springfield. He continued his effective service in this capacity three years.
November 7, 1906, recorded the marriage of Mr. Stewart and Miss Rachel Estle, who was born on the farm which is their present place of residence and the date of whose nativity was September 3, 1883. Mrs. Stewart is a daughter of Orson D. and Harriet (Anderson) Elstle, and her father was bom on this same farm, March 4, 1857, the mother having been born at Clifton, November 7, 1856. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Stewart were William H. and Rachel (Farrow) Estle, the latter having been born in Kentucky and having been a girl when she came to Clark County, where she was reared in the home of her uncle, William Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Estle became the parents of six children: William (died young), Edwin, Orson D., Henry R., Phoebe, and William.
Orson D. Estle was reared on the old home farm which was the place of his birth, and received the advantages of the common schools of the period. He was a young man at the time of his marriage with Miss Harriet Anderson, and the surviving children are four in number : Fred, a graduate of the Clifton High School, is a successful farmer in Greene Township, near Clifton ; Rachel, wife of the subject of this review, is the next younger; Bessie is the wife of Walter E. Crossland; and Ellen is the wife of Orville Shaw. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart have one child, Har- riet L., who was born December 4, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are active members of the Presbyterian Church, he is a republican in politics, and is affiliated with the Junior Order United American Mechanics. Mr. Stewart has been retained as the efficient incumbent of the office of clerk of Greene Township for the past ten years, and is one of the progressive and highly esteemed citizens of his native township and county.
Further data concerning the Stewart family are given in the preceding sketch of this volume.
Milton Cole was a representative of one of the pioneer families of Clark County, where he passed his entire life and where he gained high vantage-ground as one of the able and distinguished members of the bar of this part of Ohio. He was bom in Clark County in the year 1848, and was a son of Arthur Cole, who came from Virginia and estab- lished his residence in Clark County in 1830. Arthur Cole opened the first "gig shop" or carriage factory in Springfield, and besides manu-
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facturing buggies of the type then in use he was identified also with farm enterprise in the county. He is recalled as a man of sterling char- acter, industrious and unassuming, and worthy of the unqualified esteem in which he was uniformly held.
Milton Cole early gained experience in connection with the activities of the home farm, and his preliminary education was acquired in the common schools. In 1871 he graduated from Wittenberg College, at Springfield, and in 1871-2 he attended the law department of the Uni- versity of Michigan. Thereafter he continued his study of law at Spring- field, under the preceptorship of the law firm of Spence & Arthur, and in October, 1873, he was admitted to the bar. He was a young man of exceptional intelligence and vigor, and in establishing himself in prac- tice at Springfield he soon made his powers felt as a resourceful trial lawyer and well fortified counselor. In 1874, as a democrat, he was defeated for the office of prosecuting attorney, but in 1875. and again in 1878, he was elected mayor of Springfield, his ability and personal popularity enabling him to overcome the large republican majority. He was a close student, gained broad and exact knowledge of the science of jurisprudence, and he long controlled a large and representative law practice, which extended outside the limits of Clark County and involved his appearance in connection with many important cases tried in the various courts of this section of the state. His character was the posi- tive expression of a strong and loyal nature, and he ever conmianded the confidence and high regard of his fellowmen. While serving his second term as mayor of Springfield Mr. Cole wedded Miss Elnqra Skidmore, and the only child of this union is a son, John M., of whom specific mention is made in the sketch immediately following this. Mil- ton Cole was one of the leading lawyers and honored and influential citizens of Springfield at the time of his death, and his wife likewise is deceased.
John M. Cole has been engaged in the practice of his profession in his native city of Springfield since 1904, and both as a lawyer and a citizen he is well maintaining the prestige which the character and achievement of his father here established, a memoir to his father, the late Milton Cole, being given in the article immediately preceding this.
John M. Cole was born at Springfield on the 21st of May, 1879, and after having duly profited by the advantages of the public schools he here entered Wittenberg College, in which excellent institution he was graduated in 1900, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1903 the college conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts, after he had taken an effective post-graduate course. In 1901-2 he attended the law department of the University of Cincinnati, and upon his admission to the bar in June, 1904, he engaged in the practice of his profession at Springfield. He now has a large and representative general practice but has specialized in corporation and commercial law. Mr. Cole served from 1904 to 1908 as assistant city solicitor. He is a staunch advocate of the principles and policies of the democratic party, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. Knights of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Phi Gamma Delta college fraternity. He was secretary of the local chapter of the Red Cross during the nation's par-
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ticipation in the World war, and was a member of the Springfield ques- tionnaire board. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
June 29, 1904, recorded the marriage of Mr. Cole and Miss Sarah Hoy, daughter of John F. Hoy, and they have six children: John H., Eleanor E., Fred M., George W., Robert W. and Richard T.
Robert Quigley King was a lad of about nine years at the time when his parents established their home at Springfield, in 1841, and with the passing years he played a large and worthy part in the civic and business development and progress of the city in which he passed virtually his entire life. He was widely and familiarly known by his personal initials, "R. Q.," which are most pleasingly perpetuated in the name of the fine Arcue Building which was erected by his sons D. Ward and Robert L. at the northwest comer of High Street and Fountain Avenue.
Robert Q. King was born at Tarlton, Pickaway County, this state, August 13, 1832, and was a brother of. Colonel David King, a venerable citizen and still active business man of whom specific mention is made on other pages of this work. Mr. King was a son of David and Almena (Caldwell) King, who came to Springfield in 1841, the father here engaging in mercantile and later in the real estate business and having contributed much to the early upbuilding of the future city. His death occurred in 1849, and his wife survived him by several years. Both were earnest members of the First Presbyterian Church. Of their nine children six attained to mature years: Robert Q., Mary E. K. (Mrs. Luther A. Gotwald), David, Sarah J., S. Noble and Minnie.
Robert Q. King became a student in Wittenberg College at the time when its sessions were held in the First Lutheran Church at Springfield, and he was one of the early graduates of this now important educa- tional institution which lends prestige to Springfield. As a young man he engaged in the retail hardware business, in which his associate was Alexander Runyon. The business was conducted under the firm name of Runyon & King until he sold his interest and turned his attention to the real estate business, of which he became one of the leading repre- sentatives in the city and county. He was an able business man, and in his real estate operations he did much to advance the material upbuild- ing of his home city.
Mr. King organized the first hook-and-ladder company in Spring- field, and was one of the valued members of the old volunteer fire depart- ment. In the department of the later years he continued to maintain a deep interest, even to the time of his death. After the paid fire depart- ment was established he was the second to serve as its chief, a position which he retained about ten years. He was a republican in political adherency, and he and his wife were zealous members of the First (now Covenant) Presbyterian Church, of which he served many years as treasurer.
As a young man Mr. King wedded Miss Harriet A. Danforth, of New Albany, Indiana, who had come to Springfield as a teacher in the old Female Seminary on College Avenue, where now stands the North- ern Public School of the city. The death of Robert Q. King occurred
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November 26, 1917, his wife having preceded him to eternal rest. They became the parents of five children: D. Ward and Thomas Danforth are deceased ; Robert L., the one surviving son, is individually mentioned in a sketch immediately following this memoir; Almena K..is the wife of Harvey J. Warrick; and Madge C. is deceased.
D. Ward King, the eldest son. was bom October 27, 1857, was reared in Springfield and was educated in Wittenberg College. When a young man he went to Missouri and engaged in farm enterprise. He became known throughout the entire Union as a stalwart advocate of the good-roads movement, and was the inventor of the King Road Drag, which became widely used in the improving of roads. He married Mary Burbank, of Springfield, and they had four children. Mr. King died February 9, 1919, and is survived by his wife and children, namely: Lettia Reed, Robert Q., Jr., Miriam Caywood and David Bryant.
Asa W. Hodge. For a decade more than a century of years the Hodge family has been residing in Clark County, where it is well and favorably known. For the most part its members have followed the pursuits of agriculture, and all have been good citizens, contributing not less to the development of their community than they have to the building up of personal prosperity. A worthy representative of this old and hon- ored family is found in the person of Asa W. Hodge, who is now oper- ating the old Foley farm, situated one and one-half miles east of New Moorefield, in Moorefield Township.
Asa W. Hodge was bom on the farm adjoining that which he now occupies, October 3, 1873, and is a son of J. M. and Mary A. (Hunter) Hodge. His great-grandfather, Andrew Hodge, was born in Virginia, whence he went to Kentucky, and finally, in 1810, came to Ohio, where he entered land in Pleasant Township, Clark County, which is still in the Hodge name. Here he rounded out his career as a farmer, developii^r a good property and winning the respect of his fellow-citizens. His son, James M. Hodge, the grandfather of Asa W., was born in Pleasant Township, where, on attaining his majority, he purchased land and spent his life as a tiller of the soil. He was also a man of integrity and one who had his neighbors' esteem. He married Elizabeth Sayler, and they became the parents of four children, all of whom grew to maturity, but all are now deceased : Samuel, John, J. Milton and Sallie.
James M. Hodge was bom on a farm in Pleasant Township, Clark County, May 2, 1837, and received his education in the public schools. He married Mary A. Hunter, who was bom in Catawba, Pleasant Township, Clark County, April 20, 1839, and following their union settled on a part of the old home place, which he increased through industry and good management to a tract of 900 acres. He was honored . because of his many sterling traits of character and his integrity in business affairs, and in his death his community lost a good and reliable citizen. In politics he was a republican, and on various occasions he was called to public office, at times serving as township tmstee, member of the School Board and justice of the peace. He and his worthy and estimable wife were the parents of eight children, of whom three grew to maturity: Asa W. ; Ida M., the wife of H. S. Andrew, of Dayton; and Anna I., a maiden lady, residing on the home farm.
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Asa W. Hodge was reared on the home farm and acquired his educa- tion in the rural school in the vicinity of his father's farm in Pleasant Township. He remained on the home place and assisted his father in its cultivation until the time of his marriage, October 3, 1901, to Miss Bertha Page, who was bom in Pleasant Township, June 19, 1880, and educated in the public schools, a daughter of Charles B. and Melissa Page. Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hodge settled on the old Foley farm in Moorefield Township, where they have developed a handsome and productive property and have installed many improve- ments which add to the property's appearance and value. Mr. Hodge carries on general agricultural work in all its departments, and is also a breeder of registered Poland-China hogs, a field of work in which he has met with much success. His standing in the community is that of a man who is strictly reliable in all his transactions. As a fraternalist Mr. Hodge holds membership in the local lodge of the Junior Order United American Mechanics. He is a republican in politics, and the confidence of his fellow-citizens is reflected in the fact that he has been elected a member of the Township Board of Trustees four times. He and Mrs. Hodge had one child, which died in infancy.
Robert Leffler King, only surviving son of the late Robert Q. King, to whom the preceding memoir is dedicated, was born August 24, 1863, and reared at Springfield, where his early educational advantages included those of Wittenberg College. He has been prominently con- cerned in the promotion of agricultural and live-stock industry in Han- cock County, Ohio, where he is the owner of valuable farm property, and has also been a successful dealer in real estate. He was associated with his brother, the late D. Ward King, in the erection of the Arcue Building, one of the modem business structures of Springfield, and given its name from the initials of their father, R. Q. In this building he maintains his business office.
Mr. King as a citizen and business man has fully upheld the honors of the family name, which has been connected with the history of Spring- field for more than eighty years, and he takes deep interest in all that touches the welfare of his native city and county. He and his wif ^ are members of the Covenant Presbyterian Church.
June 4, 1891, recorded the marriage of Mr. King and Miss Lola Askam, of Vanlue, Hancock County, and they have three children: Edwin A., Hamlin C. and Jessie. Edwin A. married Miss Helen Wet- more, and they have two daughters, Marguerite and Ruth. Hamlin C. married Miss Edith Cole, and they have two children, Donald L. and Ethel Jessie.
John W. Burk, whose death occurred on the 17th of April, 1917, left a distinct and most worthy impression on the industrial, commercial and civic aflfairs of the City of Springfield, and a tribute to his memory properly finds place in this volume. He was bom and reared in Can- ada, the year of his nativity having been 1850. He attended school in his boyhood days, but early began the battle of life for himself. His first work was in a flour mill, and with the passing years he became skilled in all details of the milling business. In 1869 he came to the
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United States, and he continued his association with milling operations at Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Cold water and other points in Michigan, as well as in other states of the Middle West.
In July, 1897, Mr. Burk established his residence at Springfield, Ohio, where he purchased the Warder & Barnett milling plant, one of the oldest in this section of the state. The condition of the plant physi- cally was at a low status, and many local business men, familiar with conditions, believed that the property and business could not be revived and placed on a paying basis. It was the energy, technical ability and well ordered executive policies of Mr. Burk that conspired to the devel- opment of this property into one of the most important mills in Ohio, the while the business became one of most prosperous order. In 1902 Mr. Burk effected a reorganization of the business and enlisted the capitalistic co-operation which made possible the enlarging and modern- izing of the plant. It was in this year that he organized and incorpo- rated the Ansted & Burk Company, and with amplified provisions that left but little of the original equipment of the mill he was the guiding spirit in making the business so expand as to constitute an important addition to the industrial and commercial interests of Springfield and in bringing the products of the mill up to the highest standard. Mr. Burk's inflexible personal integrity was reflected in all phases of his business career, he was generous, honorable, progressive as a man of affairs and loyal and liberal as a citizen. His was a gracious personality, and he made and retained friends in all classes, for his character was the positive expression of a true and noble nature. He served two years as president of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, and through this and other mediums did much to advance the interests of his home city. He gained national repute in his chosen sphere of business and was for two terms president of the Millers National Federation. He was a Knight Templar Mason, and in the Scottish Rite of the fraternity received the thirty-second degree.
Mr. Burk wedded Miss Ida Negus, who was born in Massachusetts, and who survives him, as do also their two daughters, Helen M. and Mabel B.
Richard D. Patton has been a resident of Springfield since 1904^ and was here associated with railroad service until 1916, when he became traffic manager for the Ansted & Burk Company, the important milling concern that has contributed much to the commercial prestige of the city. He is now vice president and general manager of this important indus- trial corporation and is one of the vital and progressive business men of the city.
Mr. Patton was born at Morgantown, judicial center of Monongalia County, West Virginia, and the date of his nativity was March 11, 1873. He is a member of a family of eight children, of whom five are living. He is a son of Dr. Frederick H. and Eliza C. (Dorsey) Patton. Dr. Patton was major of a West Virginia regiment in the Union service in the Civil war, and after being captured by the enemy it was his to endure the hardships of both Libby and Andersonville Prisons, the names of which are odious in the history of the great conflict between the states of the North and the South. Dr. Patton, a physician and
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surgeon of exceptional ability, was chief surgeon of the Soldiers Home at Dayton, Ohio, at the time of his death.
Richard D. Patton was an infant at the time of the family removal from West Virginia to West Newton, Pennsylvania, where he gained his rudimentary education. He was about twelve years old when the family home was established at Dayton, Ohio, where he continued his studies in the public schools until he entered the Michigan Military Academy at Orchard Lake, a most excellent institution, the organization of which was later permitted to lapse, greatly to the regret of all familiar with its splendid record. In this academy Mr. Patton continued his studies three years, and he then found employment in a paper factory at Dayton, Ohio. Thereafter he was in railway service for somewhat more than ten years, and it was in this connection that he came to Spring- field in 1904, as noted in a preceding paragraph.
Mr. Patton is a loyal member of the Springfield Chamber of Com- merce and the local Rotary Club, and is a statmch supporter of the progressive policies of these organizations. He is a republican, he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church, he is a member of the Lagonda and Country Clubs of Springfield, and in the Masonic fra- ternity his maximum York Rite affiliation is with the Springfield Com- mandery of Knights Templars, he having received also the thirty-second d^ree of the Scottish Rite and is a member of the Mystic Shrine.
In 1906 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Patton and Miss Mabel Burk, daughter of the late John W. Burk, to whom a memoir is dedi- cated in the preceding sketch. Mr. and Mrs. Patton have no children.
Maurice M. Sellers^ sales manager for the Lagonda Manufacturing Company of Springfield, is one of the progressive business men of the younger generation in his native city, where he is also proprietor of the business conducted under the title of the Alpha Chemical Company.
Mr. Sellers was bom at Springfield in the year 1885, and is a son of the late Charles E. Sellers, who was the owner of the industrial enter- prise conducted under the title of the Alpha Chemical Company, of which he continued the executive head imtil his death. Charles E. Sellers was born and reared in Clinton County, this state, and was a young man when he established his residence at Springfield. Here he wedded Miss Carrie Johnson, who was bom in the City of Columbus, Ohio, and she still resides at Springfield. In the manufacturing of medicinal prepara- tions the Alpha Chemical Company controls a substantial and prosper- ous business, and since the death of his father, Maurice M. Sellers, of this review, has successfully continued this enterprise, besides which he has been for the past ten years sales manager of the Lagonda Manu- facturing Company, his connection with which has covered a period of twenty years. The early educational advantages of Mr. Sellers included those of the local high school, and his business career in his native city has been one of consecutive advancement. He married Miss Laura E. Brenan, who was born at Marietta, this state, and they have one son.
Read Letts Bell, M.D. Regarded as the Dean of the Springfield medical profession, Doctor Bell has continued an active practice of medi- cine and surgery in that city for forty-five years. In that time he has
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three times been honored with the office of president of the Clark County Medical Society. He graduated in medicine with the class of 1876, the centennial year, at Harvard Medical School, being one of the thirty-six graduates in that year from that old and famous professional school of Harvard University.
Doctor Bell was born December 8, 1850, on a farm near Utica, Ohio. He represents two well known families in this state, the Bell and the Letts families. His grandfather, Benjamin Bell, was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, and in 1803, the year after Ohio was admitted to the Union, came to this state, settling in Knox County. Bell's Meet- ing House, built in his time and on his land, is a landmark in that county and is still used as a church. While in Pennsylvania Benjamin Bell married Elizabeth McClellan. Her father, Carey McClellan, was a soldier of the Revolution in Washington's Army, Captain John Mar- shall's Company.
The father of Doctor Bell was Jacob Bell, who was born and spent all his life in Knox County, where he followed farming. He died in 1873. His wife, Rachael Letts, was born in Washington County, Penn- sylvania, daughter of David and Thankful (Read) Letts, who on com- ing from Southwestern Pennsylvania settled in the Bell neighborhood of Knox County, Ohio. She died in 1874.
During his early years Doctor Bell lived on a farm, shared in its labors, attended the common schools of Knox County, and completed his literary education in Dennison University at Granville, Ohio, where he received the A.B. degree in 1872, and in 1875 his alma mater bestowed upon him the Master of Arts degree. In the meantime he had enrolled as a student in Harvard Medical School at Boston, graduated in 1876, and in the following year began his long and useful service as a phy- sician at Springfield. His professional associates have always admired his remarkable vigor as well as the ability he has displayed in his pro- fession, and apparently he is as active today as he was a quarter of a century ago. For many years Dr. Bell was on the surgical staff of the Springfield City Hospital, and he performed the first operation for appendicitis in that hospital. His patient is still living. Besides his active official connection with the Clark County Medical Society, Doctor Bell is a member of the Ohio State and the American Medical Associ- ations. He is affiliated with Anthony Lodge, F. and A. M., Palestine Commandery No. 33, K. T., and is a member of the Episcopal Church.
In 1878 he married Sarah Robinson, who was born near Coshocton, Ohio, daughter of Edmund Robinson. Doctor Bell's only daughter spent three years in the study of kindergarten methods in Chicago, and is now engaged in the work of her profession at Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
Charles Foster Harrison. Well known in financial and business circles of Springfield is Charles Foster Harrison, vice president and cashier of the Mad River National Bank and vice president and man- ager of the Springfield Clearing House Association. He has been iden- tified with the former institution for a period of thirty-four years and is one of the prominent men of Springfield who has worked his own way up the ladder of success.
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Mr. Harrison is a product of the agricultural community south of the City of Springfield, where he was bom on a farm in Springfield Township, July 31, 1859, a son of Caleb and Catherine (Foster) Har- rison. His father was bom near West Chester, Pennsylvania, a son of Frederick Harrison, who was the founder of this branch of the Har- rison family in Clark County. Catherine Foster, the mother of Charles Foster Harrison, was the daughter of William Foster, an Englishman bom in London and an early settler of Clark County. The parents of Charles F. Harrison died the same day, in 1913, and were buried in the same grave.
Charles F. Harrison was reared on the home farm in Springfield Township until he was a lad of seven years, and then, in 1866, his parents removed to Burlington, Io\ya. In 1877, however, the family returned to Clark County and to the old farm. The lad was educated in the public schools of Clark County and the high school at Burlington, Iowa. After leaving the latter institution he followed agricultural pur- suits with his father until the time of his marriage, then entering the Farmers National Bank of South Charleston, Clark County. Starting with the bank in a minor capacity, at a salary of thirty dollars per month, he was gradually promoted until when he left the service of the bank, three years later, he was filling the positions of bookkeeper and teller. On March 10, 1888, Mr. Harrison entered the service of the Mad River National Bank of Springfield in the capacity of general bookkeeper. Later he was appointed assistant cashier, and in 1910 was promoted cashier. He became identified with the Springfield Clearing House Association in 1906, and has been manager and vice president thereof for ten years. In point of length of active service Mr. Har- rison is the oldest banker in Springfield. Much of the prestige that is maintained by the Mad River National Bank has come as a result of his ability, energy and sound practicality, while his courtesy and at all times obliging nature have served to gain many friends for the insti- tution. In banking circles he is accounted able and thoroughly informed, and his associates have the utmost confidence in him. Mr. Harrison is identified with a number of civic bodies, including the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, and, possessing pride in the city of his adoption, is always ready to assist worthy movements pertaining to its welfare and advancement along constructive material lines. While he is an extremely busy man, engrossed in the daily routine of his important duties, he is not adverse to the companionship of his fellows and is one of the popular members of the Springfield Country Club.
Mr. Harrison was united in marriage in Clark County with Miss Lucy Griffith, the daughter of Cyrus and Martha Griffith, of South Charleston, Clark County, and to this union there was born one daugh- ter, Elizabeth, who is now the wife of Charles A. Crummell, formerly a resident of Dayton, but now of Springfield. Mrs. Harrison is a mem- ber of the Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Harrison is an attendant.
Benjamin Butler McIntire, educator of Springfield, and for the last twenty-seven years principal of the Washington public school of that city, has been engaged in teaching for a period of thirty-six years, during which time he has risen to a justly recognized place in his pro-
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fession. He was born at Springfield, July 7, 1863, a son of the late Albert M. and Anna M. (Peck) Mclntire.
The Mclntire family is an old one in Clark County and Springfield, and for six generations its members have had part in the civic affairs of both county and city. The Clark County settler was William Mclntire, who with a brother came over from Scotland prior to the Revolutionary war, in which struggle for independence William Mclntire served as a soldier in the Virginia line. After the close of the Revolution he mar- ried his brother's widow, and soon afterward came to Ohio and settled in what is now Clark County, of which region he was a pioneer. Here his son Samuel was born and figured as an early farmer of German Township. He reared a family of several sons and daughters, one of whom, William T., was for twenty-five years prominent in the public affairs of the county. Another son, Joseph, served as sheriff, and a third son, John, was a successful general contractor.
Albert M. Mclntire was born at Springfield in 1835, and died in 1903. In 1868 he removed to Kansas, but returned to Springfield in 1876, and, resuming his contracting business, continued to be interested therein until he retired from active life some years prior to his death. His wife, who was the daughter of David Peck, died in 1888. To this marriage children were bom as follows: William D., of Springfield; Benjamin Butler, of this review ; Lillie May, deceased, who was the wife of James Dick; Albert H., M.D., a practicing physician and surgeon of Springfield ; Ada, deceased ; Edwin K., of Springfield ; Samuel, deceased ; Jane, who married A. A. Wright, of Springfield; Sarah, who married Walter F. Kitchin, of Springfield; John D., of Springfield, who mar- ried Belle Parker and has three children; and Pearl, deceased.
Prof. Benjamin Butler Mclntire attended the public schools and Antioch and Wittenberg Colleges, and has been a deep and close student all of his life, his range of practical reading extending into medicine, anatomy and science and kindred subjects. That he was well equipped for his profession and has made a success as an educator is testified by the following expressions of two well-known local educators:
"Prof. B. B. Mclntire, of this city, is recognized as one of the lead- ing educators in this community. For several years he has been the efficient principal of Washington School. His work as a teacher and administrator has been very successful. He is deeply interested in all civic and community welfare movements. He has unusual initiative, and has the ability to inspire his students to follow his leadership. Mr. Mclntire was formerly a student in Wittenberg College, and, while not a graduate, has covered the entire field of the college curriculum. I can thoroughly recommend him as to his scholarship, his good judgment in school management, and his qualities of leadership. I shall be glad to answer any letters addressed to me personally. Respectfully, Charles G. Heckert, President of Wittenberg College."
"Mr. B. B. Mclntire has been known to the writer for many years as one of the progressive principals of the public schools in Springfield, Ohio. He has maintained a high standard of efficiency in all his work. He has inaugurated many new features which have added interest to the course of study. For eight years he was a member of the Board of Examiners for the City of Springfield, which gave me, also a member,
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an opportunity to study the thoroughness and accuracy of Mr. Mclntire's scholarship and his acquaintance with all lines of knowledge bearing on his profession. He is in all respects an up-to-date public instructor and, in addition, a man of large information on many subjects. In character and life he is the peer of the best. Sincerely, B. F. Prince, Professor in Wittenberg Collie."
Professor Mclntire began teaching school in 1886, his first school having been the Benson School, east of Springfield. He began teaching at the Fair Street School in Springfield in 1887, then taught at the Lagonda School, and in 1895 became principal of the Washington School, where he has since continued. He has been very progressive in his school work. Springfield's first kindergarten was taught at Wash- ington School ; the first playgrounds and school gardens were established at the same school; the "First Aid" organization had its beginning at Washington School ; the first "Mothers Club" was organized there ; and the "Washingtonian" was the first ward school journal published in the city, which little sheet was printed in the Washington School print shop which was the first printing office in the city schools. Professor Mcln- tire has been a member of the National Educational Association for thirty-five years; of the Ohio State Educational Association for thirty-six years ; of the Central Ohio Educational Association for thirty- six years ; and for a number of years has been a member of the Spring- field Teachers Association and of the West Ohio Superintendents Round Table. He is a past master of Clark Lodge No. 101, F. and A. M.
In 1892 Professor Mclntire married Jeannette F. Lutz, who was born near Circleville, Ohio, daughter of Henry Lutz, and granddaughter of John Lutz, who came over from Germany and became an early set- tler of Piqua County, Ohio. Mrs. Mclntire graduated from the Tarlton (Ohio) High School, after which she took special work and then taught in the Tarlton schools for five years prior to her marriage. She is active in educational, charitable and religious work, she and the Professor being members of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church.
Charles Martin Frederick Keller. The late Charles Martin Frederick Keller, of Springfield, was one of the solid business men and good citizens of Clark County, who, although of foreign birth, became thoroughly Americanized and identified with the development of the dty in which his interests were centered. He was born in Germany, June 26, 1834, a son of Godfried Keller, who died in Germany many years ago.
At the age of eighteen years young Keller left his native land for the United States, and spent a year in New York City, and then came on westward to Indiana, where he attended school for a year so as to gain a working knowledge of the language. He was naturalized October 8, 1856. Coming then to Springfield, he began working at his trade of baker and confectioner, which he had learned in Germany, and acquired a business of his own. This he sold in 1870 and bought twenty-five acres of land, and 1408 Clifton Avenue is now a part of this tract. Here he was engaged in farming. In 1862 he made an excellent investment when he purchased a three-story brick block of three stores, 21 to 23 West Main Street, that is now very valuable. During the years he
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lived at Springfield he did his full part in civic matters, and among other things served as a member of the Rover Volunteer Fire Depart- ment. A member of Goethe Lodge, I. O. O. F., he passed all its chairs, and was also a member of the Encampment. This most excellent man died December 29, 1909, and in his passing Springfield lost one of its most representative citizens.
On December 31, 1857, Mr. Keller married Catherine Koepge, born in Prussia, Germany, October 5, 1834, a daughter of Peter and Cath- erine (Herr) Koepge, the former of whom was a highly educated man and a schoolmaster. Mrs. Keller died August 24, 1898, having borne her husband the following children : Charles William, who died at Den- nison, Texas, aged thirty-three years ; Sophia Catherine, who died at the age of five and one-half years; Elizabeth Helen Gene, who died at the age of three and one-half years ; Caroline, who is Mrs. William Seybold, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Katherine Marie and Augusta Emily, who reside at the old homestead, 1408 Clifton Avenue; Bertha Sarah, who is the widow of John Rolfes, lives at Merced, California; and Rosa Rebecca lives in Springfield.
The beautiful residence, a ten-room house, heated by both a coal and gas furnace, affords a delightful home for the two daughters, Katherine Marie and Augusta Emily. They own this property and also the busi- ness block on West Main Street. The children all attended the grade and high schools of Springfield. Mr. Keller and his wife were charter members of Saint John's Lutheran Church of Springfield, and the daughters belong to the First Lutheran Church of this city and are mem- bers of its various societies. Miss Augusta E. Keller has been president of the Book Club, and both ladies are popular in the congenial circle they have gathered about them.
Perry Andrew Grube. Although now living retired at Springfield, Perry Andrew Grube has had a useful life and accomplished much of a practical nature, doing everything on his own account, for he left school when he was eleven years old to earn his own living. He was born in German Township, Clark County, Ohio, May 11, 1859, a son of Jacob and Catherine (Nawman) Grube, natives of Tiffin, Ohio, and German Township, respectively. The paternal grandparents, Jacob and Philapine (Spearer) Grube, natives of the Rhine Province, Germany, came to the United States about 1836, and remained until 1838 at Tiffin, Ohio, but in the latter year came to Springfield and bought 600 acres on West North Street. The maternal grandparents, Jacob and Elizabeth (Kemp) Nawman, were natives of Virginia, where the great-grand- father, Thomas Nawman, was bom in 1779. About 1801 Thomas Naw- man brought his family to Clark County, Ohio, traveling across country with three wagons drawn by oxen. He took up land in German Town- ship, cleared his farm, improved it, and developed a large property. This farm was later divided among his children, and Jacob Nawman received his share. The parents of Perry Andrew Grube settled in Springfield after their marriage, but a year later moved to the present site of Ridgewood, German Township, now a part of Springfield, where they owned 156 acres, and this they operated for many years, but subsequently moved to a farm of fifty-six acres nearby, and there
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he died March 23, 1915, his widow surviving him and making her home at Tippettville, Florida, with her daughter, Mrs. Laura Brenning. The children born to Jacob and Catherine Grube were as follows: Perry Andrew, whose name heads this review; Laura, who is Mrs. Luther Brenning; Benjamin, who is deceased; Sarah, who is Mrs. Wilbur Morris, of Fremont, Ohio; Christopher and Solomon P., both of whom live on Grube Road, Springfield.
From the time he was nine until he was fifteen Perry Andrew Grube lived on a farm in Ridgewood, and then moved to one in German Town- ship. Until he was eleven years old he attended the district schools, and then began working in a wood yard, where he remained for four and one-half years, during which time he disposed of the wood on twenty- five acres of land, hauling it to different customers at Springfield, and was then engaged in farming for a time. When he was twenty-two years old he went on the road as a salesman and traveled through Indian Territory and Texas for three years, then returning to Clark County and going on his father's farm in German Township.
In 1896 he married and moved to Grube Road, which was named in his honor, and was there engaged in farming for five years, at the expiration of that time going into the dairy business on Grube Road and Saint Paris Pike, which he conducted for eleven years. He then bought 142 acres of land from his father-in-law in Harmony Township, and for three and one-half years conducted this property, and then abandoned farming and once more went into a milk business and main- tained a milk route. On May 12, 1910, he organized the Home Diary, in partnership with George Ustler and George Wendel, and this was so successful a venture that William and Orville Trout were admitted to the firm in 1912, and the manufacture of ice cream, under the name of the Standard brand, was added. This connection was continued for eight years, and in 1922 Mr. Grube disposed of his interests and is now retired. He owns his handsome modem residence, 1206 Fountain Ave- nue, Springfield; ten valuable lots at Ridgewood, and a farm of 156 acres of land three miles west of Fremont, German Township, which is operated by his sons.
On March 18, 18%, Mr. Grube married Addie F. Slentz, born in Harmony Township, a daughter of Henry and Ruth (Bennett) Slentz, natives of German Township; and granddaughter of Erastus and Eliza- beth (Dickerson) Bennett, natives of Kentucky. Mrs. Grube died July 29, 1911, having borne her husband the following children: Henry, who lives at Kalamazoo, Michigan ; Jessie, who is Mrs. Freeman Campbell, of Plattsburg, Ohio ; and Andrew, Ira and John Lewis, all of whom are farmers of German Township. On May 11, 1915, Mr. Grube married Mrs. Minnie (Thompson) Brown, born in Pickaway County, Ohio, the widow of Charles Brown. Mrs. Grube has two children by her first marriage: Turney A., who lives at Albany, New York; and Bessie, who is Mrs. Clyde Dillon, of Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Grube is independent in his political affiliations, and for nine years served on the School Board of Springfield and Harmony Townships and represented Harmony Township on the Board of Supervisors of Clark County for nine years. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Grube is a most highly-respected citizen and is recognized as one of the best rep-
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resentatives of the men who have made their own way in the world that the county possesses.
Peter F. Igou. The late Peter F. Igou was for many years one of the substantial men of Springfield and successfully conducted a teaming business and dealt in hay and grain. He always lived up to high con- ceptions of civic duty, and when he died his city lost one of its most representative citizens. He was born in Champaign County, Ohio, Feb- ruary 8, 1845, a son of Peter and Elizabeth A. (Purtlebaugh) Igou, natives of Indiana and Virginia, respectively. The paternal grandfather, Paul Igou, was the first white child born in Boone County, Indiana, where his parents had settled upon coming to the state from Maryland. The maternal grandparents, Henry and Margaret Purtlebaugh, came to Champaign County, Ohio, in 1830. Peter Igou and his wife were mar- ried in Champaign County and settled on a farm in that county, where both later died.
The only child of his parents to survive infancy, Peter F. Igou, remained at home until he was fifteen years old, but at that time began working for farmers in the vicinity of Champaign, Illinois. At the out- break of the war between the North and the South he enlisted in Com- pany I, Second Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, a three-month regiment, and when discharged at the termination of his period of enlistment, re-en- listed in the same regiment, with which he continued to serve until the close of the war. Following his second discharge he returned to Cham- paign County, Ohio.
On October 4, 1867, Mr. Igou married Lureatha Bayless, born in Champaign County, Ohio, October 28, 1851, and following his marriage he settled on a farm in Champaign County and was there engaged in farming until 1880, when he moved to Springfield, Ohio, and here he embarked in a teaming business and dealt in hay and grain, and was so occupied until about seven years before death claimed him, April 23, 1902.
Mr. and Mrs. Igou had the following children: lona, who was born February 12, 1869, is Mrs. Ivin Johnson, of Champaign County, Ohio; Hugo, who was born January 29, 1870, died February 29, 1919; Albert L., who was bom June 29, 1871, lives at Cleveland, Ohio; Dennis T., who was born January 30, 1873, lives at Springfield, Ohio; Arnett E., who was born September 13, 1874, lives at Springfield, Ohio; Effie May, who was born March 20, 1876, is Mrs. William E. Sullivan, of Springfield, Ohio; Durward B., who was born October 5, 1878, lives at Cleveland, Ohio; Dale C, who was bom February 20, 1880, lives at Springfield, Ohio; Edward G., who was bom December 25, 1882, lives at Springfield, Ohio; Maude A., who was born July 28, 1885, is Mrs. Charles R. Weber, and lives with her mother; and Harry, who was born February 14, 1888, died March 3, 1888.
Mrs. Igou is a daughter of William C. and Mary Ann (Colbert) Bayless, natives of Champaign County, Ohio. The grandfather, Heze- kiah Bayless, was a native of Virginia, and he married a Kentucky-born lady. The maternal grandparents were Thomas and Margaret (Rich- ardson) Colbert, natives of Kentucky, where he died, she coming to Champaign County, Ohio, with her children, four or five in number,
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but later moved to Hardin County, where she died. Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam C. Bayless lived on a farm in Champaign County, seven miles east of Urbana, where both died. They were the first persons in the early days to use a coal oil lamp in Champaign County. Their children were as follows: Nelson, who is deceased; Mrs. Igou, who was second in order of birth ; Lydia Alice, who is deceased ; Elnora, who is the widow of David Johnson, lives at Cable, Ohio; and Jennie M., who is the widow of Alonzo Reed, of Rockford, Iowa.
Mr. Igou attended the common schools of Champaign County and the academy at Urbana, Ohio, and his widow attended the public schools of Champaign County and the Urbana Normal School. He belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church, but his widow is a member of the Disciples Church. He was independent in his political affiliations. Mitchell Post, G. A. R., held his membership, and he maintained his interest in it until his death.
Dennis Sullivan, now retired, for nearly forty years was engaged in an express business at Springfield, and is regarded as one of the substantial citizens and old soldiers of Clark County. He was bom at Toledo, Ohio, in October, 1842, a son of Jeremiah Sullivan. Becoming an orphan in 1843 the little Dennis Sullivan was bound out to a Mrs. Early, a widow living near Terre Haute, Indiana, at Saint-Mary's-in- the-Woods, and here he lived until he was sixteen years old, when he went to Sullivan, Indiana, and learned the painters' trade and worked at it in different parts of the country until 1876, when he settled at Terre Haute and went into the furniture business. This he sold in 1880, and coming to Springfield established himself in business as a deliveryman, and was so engaged for over thirty-nine years, building up a large and valuable connection, and then, in 1920, retired.
Intensely patriotic, Mr. Sullivan sought to enter the army in 1861, but was refused, but embarked with the others in the company in which he wanted to enlist. When discovered he was put off at Terre Haute, Indiana, but re-embarked with another company and was once more put off, this time at Greencastle, Indiana. With a third company he trav- eled as far as Indianapolis, Indiana, and there enlisted with Company E, Twenty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which left for Baltimore, Maryland, July 6, 1861, where the command was under General Dix, drilling and doing guard duty until in February, 1862, when they were sent to Fortress Monroe, Virginia. After a few weeks in camp there they went to Ship Island, near Mobile, Alabama, where they were put under the command of General Butler and started with a fleet of frigates up the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana, with a solid Con- federate battery turned against them.
At the beginning of May, 1862, they reached New Orleans and remained there for some months. On August 2, Mr. Sullivan had the misfortune to be taken prisoner at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was taken to Jackson, Mississippi, three months later was sent to Vicksburg, Mis- sissippi, and from there up the Yazoo River to the Union lines, where he was exchanged. . Following his exchange he was sent north up the Mississippi River, by way of New York City, and thence by water to New Orleans, where he rejoined his regiment. He was honorably dis-
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charged July 31, 1864. Mr. Sullivan participated in the expedition through Merrimac and Northampton counties, November 14-22, 1861 ; moved to New Orleans, March 4-12, 1862; attacked by Sewell's bat- teries, March 5; operated against Forts Jackson and Saint Philip, April 18-28; went on to Berwick Bay, May 5; took part in the expedition to Caillou Bayou, June 9-10; battle of Baton Rouge, August 5; Bayou des Allemands, September 4-5 ; the engagement near Charles City Court- house, September 8; expedition to Donaldsonville and skirmish, Sep- tember 24; operations in La Fourche District, October 24 to November 6; action of Bayou Teche, November 3; engagement and destruction of gunboat "Cotton," January 14, 1863, after which, February 4, 1863, the regiment was changed to heavy artillery. They operated against Fort Hudson, to which they laid siege in the latter part of May or June, and until the fort surrendered July 8, 1863, were engaged against it. From July to September they were in and about Baton Rouge, and September 5-11 were in the Sabine Pass expedition. During his very hard and varied war service Mr. Sullivan was not once wounded, nor did he spend a single day in the hospital, a very remarkable record.
On August 31, 1876, Mr. SuUivan married Rebecca M. Reeves, and they became the parents of the following children: William E., who lives at Springfield, Ohio, is connected with the O. S. Kelley Company, married Effie Igou, and they have three children, Leota, May, William, Theobert and Stanley E. ; and Carrie May, who married E. G. Igou, an auto dealer, and they have one son, John Reeves.
While Mr. Sullivan never had much schooling he is a very well- informed man and can talk entertainingly upon a number of subjects, especially those relating to his army experience. He is a member of Mitchell Post, G. A. R., and has held all of the offices except that of commander. While he is a staunch republican he has not been active in politics. A loyal soldier, good citizen and sound business man, Mr. Sullivan has done his full duty and has earned the position he holds in the esteem of his neighbors and friends.
William Francis, M. D. There is one vocation, that of the physi- cian, which opens to its devotees an extremely wide range of usefulness. Its avenues are numerous, and that particular phase of its sphere which accomplishes the more than splendid work of preserving .God-given life says nothing of the world of sorrow that is banished or of the happiness which is re-enthroned through health restored at the exercise of the divine art. It is indeed a divine art, and those who study and follow it, mellowed and enriched as they are through their association with unmasked humanity, are possessed of a priceless ability to answer the command to "heal the sick." Among the leaders of the profession at South Charleston, Clark County, is Dr. William Francis, who since engaging in practice in this community has gained the confidence of all and the gratitude of many.
Doctor Francis was born on a farm in Franklin County, Ohio, October 6, 1869, and is a son of Frederick and Eliza A. (Heath) Francis. Frederick Francis was born in County Kent, England, in 1833, and was a babe of three years when brought to the United States by his parents, the family locating in Franklin County, Ohio, where the youth
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was given his educational training in the public schools and reared to stalwart manhood. Brought up as a farmer's son, he adopted that vocation when he reached years of maturity, and was engaged in the pursuits of the soil at the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in a volunteer infantry regiment of Ohioans, in the Union Army, and fought gallantly until the close of the struggle. After his military career he resumed his operations as an agriculturist, and continued to be engaged therein during the rest of his life. He had a successful, useful and honorable career, and died at the ripe old age of seventy-eight years. Mr. Francis was a popular comrade of the Grand Army of the Republic, and always attended the meetings of his old brothers-in-arms who wore the Blue. He was a democrat in his political allegiance, and at one time served as a member of the Board of Township Trustees. Of the nine children bom to him and his worthy wife eight were living in 1922.
William Francis was educated primarily in the district schools and was reared on the home farm, where he learned the dignity of labor and the value of honesty. Later he attended the Northern Ohio Normal School at Ada, where he prepared himself for a career as teacher, but after three years spent in the school-room entered Starling Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1897 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. At that time he located for practice at Sedalia, Ohio, where he spent nine years, then going to southwestern Missouri, where one year was passed in professional work. Returning then to Ohio, he took up his residence and practice at South Charleston, which has since been his home and the scene of his material and professional success. During the fifteen years of his residence here he has acheived prosperity and atracted to himself the confidence as well as the patronage of a large clientele.
Doctor Francis by a former marriage has three children: Dona, who was educated in the high school and at Wittenberg College, and is the wife of Paul R. Jones, of Springfield where he is Teller in the First National Bank; Ruby, who is attending high school; and Mary E., a graded school pupil. In 1917 Doctor Francis married Mrs. Maud (Yeazel) Hodge.
Doctor Francis holds membership in the various organizations of his calling, including the Clark County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and is a close and careful student of the many advancements being made constantly in his calling. As a fraternalist he belongs to the Masonic Order and is a Past Master of Leanore Lodge No. 512, Free and Accepted Masons, of Sedalia, Ohio. He is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, at Springfield, in both of which he is popular. He has several business connections, and is president of the Paint Creek Oil and Gas Company, an enterprise for the product on these commodities, and the owner of a valuable and well-cultivated farm near South Charles- ton. A democrat in politics and a man who has always accepted his public responsibilities and duties cheerfully, he has been prominent in civic affairs and a supporter of public-spirited movements, and during his one term as mayor of South Charleston he gave his city a businesslike administration.
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Harry Mellinger. In the public life of Clark County Harry Mellinger is distinguished by the service he has rendered as a county commissioner, and particularly as a good road advocate and one of the men who have made possible the extensive program of good road con- struction. Mr. Mellinger has lived in Qark County all his life, and has been a successful farmer and horseman.
He was bom in the house where he lives today on December 20, 1861. This home is four miles south of Springfield, in Springfield Township. He is a son of John Hertzler and Rachael (Rosser) Mel- linger. His mother was bom in Clark County, west of Springfield, daughter of John Rosser, a native of Wales and an early settler in Qark County. John H. Mellinger was eight years of age when brought from Lancaster Coimty by his parents, Jacob and Martha (Hertzler) Mellinger, about 1841. The family settled in Mad River Township, where Jacob Mellinger lived until his death, in the late 70s, in advanced years. He owned a 180-acre farm there. His family were Lutherans. His sons Jacob and John H. were jointly interested in the ownership of a section of land in Ford County, Illinois, where Jacob Mellinger spent his active business career, but finally retumed to Springfield, and died in that city. John H. Mellinger was a partner in this land until it was sold. Before his marriage he bought the land included in the present homestead of Harry Mellinger, and largely developed it as an agricul- tural pro|X)sition. He started there with eighty acres, mostly in timber, and this timber was worked up into barrel staves and spokes. John H. Mellinger was widely known over Qark and adjacent counties as a stock buyer and shipper, and he continued in that business until his death, at the age of sixty-two, having in the meantime increased his farm to 140 acres. His widow survives him and is now living in Spring- field. In politics he was a republican. In his private life he practical the Golden Rule, and it is thought that he never had an ill word for any one. The five children of John H. Mellinger and wife were : Harry ; Emma, wife of David Herr, an undertaker at Springfield ; Martha, wife of Harry Hedges, of Cleveland; John, who died at the age of twenty- two ; and Annie, who married Robert Mills and died, leaving two children.
Harry Mellinger as a boy began taking some of the res|X)nsibilities of the work of the farm. He was educated in the Possum School House, and while he earned a certificate as a teacher, he never used it. After reaching manhood he acquired the interests of the other heirs in the farm, and he now has 176 acres, part of which cost him $100 an acre. He has one of the very fine country homes of Clark County. In live stock he has handled Poland China hogs, and became well known as a grower and breeder of horses for the road and track and he still keeps a few road horses. One of the fine horses owned by him was Colonel Coyp, a noted show horse that was sold for $2,000 to Harry Mitchell of Philadelphia, and later was sold for $25,000.
Mr. Mellinger served two terms as township trustee before entering upon the public duties of county commissioner. For years he has been interested in the good roads problem, and he was first elected to the Board of County Commissioners on a good roads platform in the fall of 1916. He entered office in 1917, and has twice been re-elected. Nearly all the modern highways of Clark County have been built since
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he entered office, including the hard surface roads and many secondary roads that have been put in good condition the year around. Mr. Mellin- ger has been active in party politics and conventions. He and his family are members of the Congregational Church at Springfield, and he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias.
Mr. Mellinger's first wife was Emma Flenner, of Hamilton, Ohio. She died four years later, leaving one son, Flenner, who attended Witten- berg College and is now a student in the Iowa State College of Agricul- ture at Ames. Mr. Mellinger's present wife was Pearl Kauffman. Her father, Henry Kauffman, who died several years ago, was a former teacher and for many years in the greenhouse business.
Lemuel Mitch. One of the fine farms of Clark County is owned by Lemuel Mitch, whose life has been spent in this county and whose energy as a farmer and capability as a citizen have brought him a high degree of appreciation from his fellow citizens.
Mr. Mitch's farm is situated on the National Road, a mile and a half east of South Vienna, in Harmony Township. He was born only half a mile away, August 2, 1867, son of Charles and Mary (Bennett) Mitch. His father, a native of Germany, was brought to this country at the age of twelve years by his parents, who settled at Springfield, where they lived out their lives, the grandfather dying in 1882. Charles Mitch was reared in Springfield, and from early youth worked as a farm hand until his marriage, when he located on a rented farm near Brighton. During the administration of Governor Bushnell he was appointed a guard in the State Penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, and served there four years. After that he returned to his farm. He was active in republi- can politics, served as a trustee of Harmony Township two terms, became a soldier in the Union Army in July, 1861, and served tmtil December, 1865, when he was discharged at San Antonio, Texas. He first enlisted in the infantry, served three years, and after re-enlisting was in the cavalry. He and his wife had eight children, six of whom are living: Lemuel; Charlotte B., wife of S. A. Miller, of Springfield; Jane, who is married and lives at Sedalia, Ohio ; Alice, wife of Arthur Madder, of Brighton; Emma, wife of William Clark, of South Vienna; and Bruce B. Mitch.
Lemuel Mitch grew up on the home farm and acquired a common school eucation. For thirty years he has been prosperously engaged in farming and has a place of 347 acres. Outside his farm he has other interests and is a stockholder in the Ohio Gate Company and the Spring- field Stock Yards.
December 29, 1892, he married Effie M. Wilson, who was bom in Harmony Township, November 26, 1871. They have three children: Mary A., a graduate of the Plattsburg High School; Leroy B., who married Mabel Snodgrass and lives on a farm; and Floyd H., a graduate of the Plattsburg High School, who is married and lives in Harmony Township.
The family are members and Mr. Mitch is a deacon in the Wilson Chapel Christian Church. He is a past grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias Lodge, and has been active in republican politics. He is a member of the Board of Election, and is the present trustee of Harmony Township.
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Harry B. Fidler is the efficient and popular manager of the fine farm of the Ohio State Home maintained by the Independent Order of Odd Fello\ys in section 35, Greene Township, Clark Cotinty, and he takes great pride in keeping this farm up to the highest standard and making it a credit to the noble fraternity under the auspices of which it is operated.
Mr. Fidler claims the old Buckeye State as the place of his nativity, his birth having occurred in Shelby County, Ohio, on the 21st of Sep- tember, 1868. He is a son of James and Lucinda (Epler) Fidler, the former of whom was bom in 1847 and the latter in 1849. James Fidler was bom in Miami County, this state, a representative of a sterling pioneer family, and after his marriage he established his residence on a farm six miles east of Sidney, Shelby County, his wife having been reared in that county. After remaining a comparatively short period on the farm in Shelby County Mr. Fidler and his wife removed to Michigan, where he found employment at Charlotte in Eaton County. After the retum to Ohio he remained for a time in Shelby County, and he then removed to Auglaize County, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, both having been eamest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Fidler was a staunch advocate of the principles of the republican party, and was affiliated with the Masonic fratemity. Of their seven children two are deceased: Harry B., of this review, is the eldest of five surviving; Emma is the widow of M. A, Carnes; Gertrude is the wife of William Rose; Judson H. is a car- penter by trade and vocation and resides in Logan County ; and Maude is the wife of Frederick Simpson.
To the public schools Harry B. Fidler is indebted for his youthful education, and he remained at the parental home for some time after attaining to his l^al majority. In the passing years he gained broad and practical information conceming all of the details of farm enter- prise, and thus he is most thoroughly fortified for the responsible posi- tion of which he is now the incumbent. He has been long and promi- nently affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he is a past noble grand of Mosgrove Lodge No. 754 ; past chief patriarch of Champaign Encampment No. 29; a member of the Daughters of Rebekah, Lcxlge No. 188, at Urbana ; and past captain of Canton Occi- dental No. 21. He has been a representative of his lodge in the Ohio Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows. He is a republican in political allegiance. It should ht noted that the father of Mr. Fidler represented Ohio as a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, he having been a mem- ber of Company K, Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and having been in active service three years and four months. In later years he vitalized the memories and associations of his military career by active affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic.
The maiden name of the first wife of Mr. Fidler was Emma Kennedy, and no children were bom of this union. In 1916 he contracted a second marriage, when Miss Nellie Liston, of Adams County, became his wife. They have no children.
Charles S. Hatfield, one of the successful farmers of Greene Township, claims Illinois as the place of his birth, but is a representa-
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tive of one of the sterling pioneer families of Clark County, Ohio. Nathaniel Hatfield, great-grandfather of the subject of this review, came from Kentucky to Ohio in the year 1805, and in 1808 he settled on a frontier farm in Clark County, where he became a pioneer in both civic and industrial development and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. Their son, James, g^randfather of him whose name initiates this sketch, married Margaret Kitchen, and the latter's son James, who was bom in Springfield Township, Qark County, April 12, 1844, married Miss Harriet J. Stewart, daughter of Captain Perry Stewart, who was another of the well known pioneer citizens of Claric County. James Hatfield, Jr., father of Charles S., represented Qark Coimty as a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war, his first enlistment having been in the Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he saw active service at the front, as did he later as a member of the Eighth Ohio Cavalry, in which he enlisted after the expiration of his first term. In later years he perpetuated his asso- ciation with his old comrades by maintaining active affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. His marriage with Harriet J. Stewart was solemnized April 12, 1866, and they removed to Logan County, Illinois, where they remained one year, within which, on the 27th of May, 1867, their son Charles S. was there bom. Within a short time afterward they returned with their infant son to Clark County, and here James Hatfield farmed on rented land until 1872, when he pur- chased the fine homestead farm now owned and occupied by his son Charles S. On this place he continued his activities as one of the enter- prising farmers of his native county during the remainder of his active career, and he was a citizen of prominence and influence in his com- mimity, as shown in the fact that for five years he was representative of Clark County in the State Legislature, his political allegiance having been given to the republican party. He and his wife were zealous mem- bers of the Christian Church on High Street in the City of Springfield. They are suprived by three children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the eldest; Jessie R. is the widow of Professor Alonzo C. Stretcher, who was a teacher of science in Antioch College; and Julia M. is the wife of J. Clarence Anderson, a hardware merchant at Yellow Springs, Greene County.
Charles S. Hatfield was reared on the farm which is now his place of residence, and in the public schools he continued his studies until he had duly profited by the advantages of the Springfield High School. Thereafter he completed a commercial or business course in Antioch College, and he showed the good judgment to continue his allegiance to the great basic industries of agriculture and stock growing, to which he has applied careful business methods and progressive policies and through the medium of which he has gained substantial success. He has continuously been associated with the operations of the old home farm, which property he purchased after the death of his father. He is giving special attention to the breeding of fine Polled Jersey cattle, and has the distinction of being secretary of the American Polled Jersey Cattle Club. He is a leader in the breeding of Polled Jerseys in this part of Ohio, and has made the enterprise eminently successful. Mr. Hatfield is a stockholder in the Emery Farmers Grain Company at Springfield,
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is a director of the Miami Deposit Bank, and his fine farm of 135 acres is situated in sections 27 and 28, Greene Township. He is a stalwart in the local ranks of the republican party and served as vice chairman of the Qark County Republican Committee. He is progressive and liberal as a citizen and has given many years of service as township assessor and real estate appraiser^ He is a past chancellor of Clifton Lodge No. 669, Knights of Pythias. The name of Mr. Hatfield still appears on the roster of eligible bachelors in Clark County.
James T. Eichelberger has made worthy contribution to the further- ance of the prestige of Clark County along agricultural and live-stock lines, and though he is now living virtually retired he still remains on his fine homestead farm on the Sdma Turnpike in Greene Township, five miles southeast of the City of Springfield. This old homestead has added value to him by reason of the fact that it was the place of his birth, which here occurred on the 29th of April, 1847, a date that indi- cates that he is a representative of a pioneer family. Mr. Eichelberger is a son of the late Michael and Margaret (Todd) Eichelberger, the former of whom was bom in Maryland and the latter was bom in Greene Township, Clark County, November 21, 1819, her parents having been niunbered among the very early settlers in this county. John and Fannie (Baker) Eichelberger, parents of Michael, passed their entire lives in the State of Maryland.
Michael Eichelberger was bom in Maryland in September, 1815, and he was a young man when he came to Clark County, Ohio, where was solemnized his marriage with Miss Margaret Todd, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Garlough) Todd, the former of whom was bom in Washington County, Pennsylvania, October 22, 1796, and the latter of whom was bom at Hagerstown, Maryland, January 12, 1799. James Todd, who was a millwright by trade, came to Greene Township, Clark Coimty, early in the nineteenth century and here his marriage was solemnized January 28, 1819, his wife having been a daughter of John Garlough, who was bom in Germany, in 1728.
Michael and Margaret (Todd) Eichelberger became the parents of four children, of whom the subject of this review was the third in order of birth ; Fannie became the wife of Isaac Tuttle ; Margaret became the wife of J. M. Paschall ; and John W. is now deceased.
James T. Eichelberger has resided on the old homestead farm from the time of his birth to the present, and in his active career was recog- nized as one of the most vigorous and progressive farmers of his native county, his success being such that he is able to pass the gracious eve- ning of his life in peace and prosperity and in a community that is enQeared to him by the memories and associations of many years. His farm comprises 133 acres of the valuable land of Greene Township and is maintained under a high state of cultivation. In addition to farming Mr. Eichelberger was for a number of years the owner and operator of a |X)rtable saw mill. He has shown loyal interest in community aflfairs and is independent in politics.
December 26, 1872, recorded the marriage of Mr. Eichelberger and Miss Eliza Nave, who was bom January 22, 1853, and died January 28, 1919. She was a member of a family that is specifically mentioned
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on other pages of this volume. Of the four children of Mr. and Mrs. Eichelberger three are living : John, a bachelor, remains at the old home and has the active management of the farm ; Miss Nina likewise remains at the old home ; Claude is deceased ; and Byron is one of the progressive young farmers of Greene Township. His wife's maiden name was Mabd Hansell. Byron Eichberger is affiliated with the Junior Order United American Mechanics, and his sister Nina is a member of the Daughters of America. Byron Eichelberger has one son, James W., who was bom July 9, 1919.
William T. Waddle is consistently given high rank as one of the vital and successful representatives of farm enterprise and the dairy industry in Clark County, and his progressive operations are staged on his well improved farm of approximately 164 acres, in section 35, Greene Town- ship. He was born in this township on the 23d of April, 1876, and is a son of Joseph M. and Martha B. (Taylor) Waddle. Joseph M. Waddle was born near the present city of Wheeling, West Virginia, December 30, 1839, and was a son of William and Maria (McMackin) Waddle, who came to Ohio in 1865 and settled on the farm now owned and occupied by their grandson William T. Waddle, of this review. Here the grandparents passed the remainder of their lives, both having been devout members of the United Presbyterian Church, in which William Waddle was an elder. Of their seven children only one is living in 1922, Addison, who is a resident of the State of Kansas.
Joseph M. Waddle was reared in what is now the State of West Virginia, and was twenty-five years of age when he accompanied his parents to Clark County, Ohio. In Greene Township, this county, on the 23d of August, 1870, was solemnized his marriage with Miss Martha B. Taylor, and of the eight children of this union only one is deceased : Miss Nellie M. continues her residence in Clark County; William T., immediate subject of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Jessie is the wife of Albert Anderson, a farmer in Greene Township; John E. is engaged in the grocery business at Xenia; Forrest is a farmer in Cedarville Township, Greene County; Harry A. is a salesman for a wholesale lumber company in the City of Columbus; and Roy is a progressive farmer in Greene County.
The environment and activities of the home farm compassed the childhood and early youth of William T. Waddle, and in the local schools he gained his early education, which was supplemented by his attending the Clifton High School. He remained at the parental home until he had attained to his legal majority, and thereafter was employed at farm work imtil he was twenty-six years of age, vhen he married and soon after- ward initiated his independent career as a farmer. He has the satis- faction of utilizing the old homestead farm of his paternal grandparents, and has been specially successful both as an agriculturist and stock- grower. He now gives special attention to the dairy department of his farm enterprise, is a successful breeder of Polled Jersey cattle and main- tains on his farm a fine dairy herd of about fifty cattle of this splendid type. He is a stockholder in the Emery Farmers Grain Company at Springfield. Mr. Waddle is a stalwart republican, and while he has had no desire for public office he has shown his civic loyalty through eight
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years of effective service as a member of the School Board of his dis- trict. He and his wife are zealous and honored members of the United Presbyterian Church at Clifton, and he is serving as an elder of the same.
On the 20th of February, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Waddle and Miss Ethel M. Shaw, who was born in Greene Town- ship, August 10, 1878, and who is a daughter of John A. Shaw. Mr. and Mrs. Waddle have three children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here recorded: Kenneth S., March 28, 1906; Wilber J., March 3, 1912; and Lois, January 30, 1917.
Jasper W. Olinger. The Olingers as a family have been identified with Clark County since pioneer days as farmers and developers of the land and the life of the rural district. Some of the choicest bodies of land in the county have been owned by them. A representative in the present generation is Jasper W. Olinger, who is proprietor of one of of the largest individually owned farms in the county, located at Brighton in Harmony Township.
He was born just a mile east of his present home on April 11, 1861, son of Joseph C. and Mary (Smith) Olinger. His father, who was bom in old Virginia, May 25, 1815, and died May 18, 1894, was bound out when a boy to a man in Virginia and remained in his home and employ for eleven years and then continued to work for him ten years more. He came to Ohio in company with William Troxell on horse- back. For a time he worked with his brother Peter in a blacksmith shop and subsequently, while working in the woods, he broke his right leg. He finally settled down to farming near Brooks Station and later he bought a place of 480 acres, all of which he improved by clearing, ditching and building. At the time of his death Joseph Olinger left a farm estate of 900 acres. He united with the Baptist Church in Virginia when he was ten years of age, but subsequently became a member of the Christian Church and for many years was an elder in his home church. He was a republican in politics. Joseph Olinger married Mary Smith, and six of their children are living: Jacob M., of Springfield; George W., a farmer in Harmony Township; Wil- liam H., who occupies the old homestead; Jasper W. ; C. S., an attorney at the Springfield bar; and Joseph C, of London, Ohio.
Jasper W. Olinger grew up on the home of his father, attended the common schools, and had a careful discipline in the tasks of farm- ing. For over thirty years his eflForts have been applied to farming as a business of his own. Mr. Olinger is the enviable possessor of a farm of 567 acres in one body, lying partly in Pleasant and partly in Harmony townships. This farm is noted for its good live stock, cattle, sheep, hogs and horses.
Mr. Olinger remained at home with his parents until he was thirty- two. November 29, 1893, he married Alta D. Wilson. They have two children: Ralph J., bom August 14, 1897, who married Mary Fra- zier ; and Raymond H., born February 2, 1904. The family are mem- bers of the Wilson Chapel Christian Church, in which he is a deacon. He is a member of the Grange and a republican in politics.
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Edgar H. Long, M. D. A competent and well-trained physician and surgeon, Doctor Long has found his work and congenial environment at South Vienna.
He was bom in Warren County, Ohio, September 22, 1897, son of Benjamin and Rosa (Cadwalder) Long. His parents are also natives of Warren County, where his father was born May 4, 1874, and his mother October 22, 1875. They were reared and educated there, and after their marriage located on a farm, where they are still residing. His father is now retired from the heavier duties of the farm. He is a republican in politics.
Only son of his parents. Dr. Edgar H. Long spent his youth on the farm, graduated from high school in 1915, and had further train- ing at Cincinnati, where he subsequently entered the Eclectic Medical College and was graduated M. D. in 1920. Doctor Long was house physician at the Deaconess Hospital of Cincinnati for eight months, and received a diploma from that institution. From July, 1920, to July, 1921, he served as an interne in the City Hospital at Springfield and left there to take up private practice, associated with Dr. E. H. Smith of South Vienna. Doctor Long is a member of the Eclectic and State Medical societies. He is a republican and is affiliated with the Junior Order United American Mechanics.
W. C. Ray, postmaster of South Vienna and a grocery merchant, has been a very active young business man in South Central Ohio for a number of years.
He was born in Vinton County, Ohio, January 30, 1877, son of Jesse and Josephine (Garrett) Ray. His father was bom in Vinton County in June, 1842. He enlisted and served three years and three months as a soldier in the Civil war. After the war he followed farm- ing in Vinton County, sold out his property there, and in 1888 moved to Fayette County, where he bought land, later lived for a time at Bloomingsburg in that county, and in 1892 moved to Madison County, where he lived on a rented farm until 1902. In that year he came to Springfield and from there moved to New Carlisle. His wife died at Canal Winchester in August, 1911, and he is now living retired at Colimibus. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and is a republican in politics. There were eight children, five of whom are living: Effie, wife of Arthur Robbins, of South Charleston; W. C; Maude, wife of Forrest Slyh, of Columbus ; Grace, wife of Fred Wyant, of Maryland; and Mabel, wife of S. D. Latham of Hilliard, Ohio.
W. C. Ray acquired a common school education. He remained at home with his parents until he was twenty-four and on August 31, 1902, married Mabel Robbins. They have two children: Marjorie, a grad- uate of the Harmony Township High School; and Palmer, attending high school. Mrs. Ray is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Ray is affiliated with Vienna Lodge No. 660, Knights of Pythias, and is a republican.
Mr. Ray first engaged in the grocery business at New Carlisle, where he was located for two years, then moved his business head- quarters to Hilliard for one year, and for two years was at Canal Win- chester and another two years at Columbus. With this experience he
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established himself at South Vienna and has developed a highly pros- perous business and is one of the substantial men of this community.
Arthur H. Walker is a civil engineer by training, but for a quar- ter of a century has devoted his professional knowledge and other tal- ent to the management of a high class farm in Clark County, a place that has been in the Walker family for three generations and is known as the Able Walker homestead, situated in Madison Township.
Mr. Walker was bom in this township September 6, 1876, son of Phineas and Catherine L. (Harrison) Walker. His mother was a daughter of Seth and Sarah (Fawkes) Harrison. Phineas Walker was also bom at the old homestead, son of Able and Hannah (Lupton) Walker. Arthur H. Walker represents the tenth generation in descent from Lewis Walker, who came from Wales in 1686. Able and Hannah Walker came to Clark County from the vicinity of Winchester, Vir- ginia, in the Shenandoah Valley and secured, the old homestead now occupied by their grandson.
Arthur H. Walker grew up on the farm, attended the public schools, graduated from high school, and in 1897 finished his course and received the Civil Engineer's degree at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. He served as a volunteer in the Spanish- American war, joining the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was with this regiment in the Porto Rico campaign. After his college and military experience Mr. Walker retumed to the farm and has shown a high degree of efficiency in the management of the place. This farm comprises 144 acres.
September 29, 1906, he married Anna Leidigh Pringle, who is a high school graduate. They have one daughter, Catherine, bom July 18, 1907. Both Mr. Walker and his wife are birthright members of the Friends Church. He is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a past master, is a member of the Royal Arch Chapter and Council at London, Ohio, Palestine Com- mandery No. 33 at Springfield, the Scottish Rite Consistory, and is a member of Lu-Lu Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania. In politics he is a republican.
William R. Thorpe. The old Thorpe homestead farm, occupied and managed by William R. Thorpe, is located in Madison Township, on Rural Route No. 1 out of Sdma. William R. Thorpe has been one of the energetic and prosperous men of this community for nearly forty years and is, in fact, a native of that vicinity.
He was bom on the farm where he now lives August 22, 1865, son of Thomas and Maria (Reeder) Thorpe. His father was born in Belmont County, Ohio, February 23, 1829, and in 1835 the family removed to Morgan Coimty, where he grew to manhood and had a share in the work of making a farm. After reaching the age of twenty-one he moved to Columbiana County, where he married Maria Reeder, a native of that county. She died April 20, 1878, her only child being William R. Thorpe. The father married again, but had no children by the second union. He and his wife were birthright members of the Hixite Friends Church, and he was a republican and gave service on the School Board in Madison Township.
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William R. Thorpe grew up at the old farm, attended the com- mon schools, and on November 18, 1890, married Anna H. Hallsteine. She was born in German Township of Clark County, November 16, 1869, and was educated in the public schools, in the Springfield High School and for two years was a teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Thorpe have one son, William D., bom August 14, 1899. He had a liberal educa- tion, attending the common schools, spent two and one-half years in Miami Military Institute, also two years in the Oklahoma College of Agriculture and Mechanical Art. He then returned to Ohio, but in June, 1921, went back to Oklahoma. He married Almeda Childers.
William R. Thorpe is a birthright Friend, and his wife was reared a Lutheran, but both are now members of the Presbyterian Church of South Charleston. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and is a republican. Mr. Thorpe in addition to the responsibility of han- dling his farm of 108 acres was for one term township assessor, and is a stockholder in the R. L. Dollings Service and in the South Charles- ton Lumber Company.
William Joseph Corcoran. Modern advancement develops certain capabilities in men and gives them avenues of expression not opened up a few generations ago. When the latter half of the last century was in its youth men of ability were restricted in a measure in their choice of a life work. If they felt no inclination toward the law, the pulpit or the clinic, they either had to enter the schoolroom, take up farming or engaged in the marts of trade. The thousand and one openings now oflfered to the ambitious youth had not been discovered. However, as the new possibilities brought about by discovery and invention dawned upon the skilled men of the country it was seen that they were eager to embrace every opportunity and to create new chances for advancement. In this connection one of Springfield's men of the younger generation who has come prominently to the forefront in recent years through his connection with a modern industry is William Joseph Corcoran, who was superintendent of the Steel Products Company until he organized the Corcoran Engineering Company.
Mr. Corcoran is a native of Lennox, Massachusetts, born May 13, 1890, a son of Michael C. and Mary (Dalton) Corcoran, natives of the same state and of Irish descent, as the names might indicate, and both now residing at Stockbridge, Massachusetts. For generations the Corcorans have been prominent in the medical profession and as mechanics. William Joseph Corcoran was reared at Stockbridge, Massa- chusetts, where his parents had removed in 1897, and received his early education in the public schools there, graduating from the high school in 1910. He then entered Pratt Institute, a technological institution of Brooklyn, New York, and was graduated therefrom in 1912. Af that time he went to work as a toolmaker for the Wells Brothers Tap and Die Company, of Greenfield, Massachusetts, and on leaving the employ of that concern associated himself with the Hendee Manufacturing Company, makers of the Indian motorcycle. Mr. Corcoran's next position was with the General Electric Company at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he contitiued to work as a toolmaker, and it was in the same capacity that he came to Springfield in 1914 and joined the plant of
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the Kelly-Springfield Motor Truck Company. He remained with that concern until 1915, when he joined the organization of the Steel Products Company as a toolmaker. Here his ability, fidelity and industry won ready recognition and he was soon promoted assistant foreman of the machine shop. From this position he rose to foreman of the tool room, and in 1919 he was made superintendent of the plant. He resigned from the Steel Products Company June 10, 1922. On June 27, 1922 W. J. and T. M. Corcoran, brothers, started a company of their own, known as the Corcoran Engineering Company, at 231-239 East Main Street. Mr. Corcoran is considered an expert in his line of work, is possessed of much executive ability, and has the confidence of his associates and the friendship and good will of the employes of the plant. He has worked his own way up the self-made road to accomplishment, and is appreciative of the efforts and ambitions of others. He is a member of the Springfield Engineers' Club, the Springfield Automobile Club, the Knights of Columbus and the Springfield Chamber of Commerce. His religious faith is that of the Catholic Church, he and Mrs. Corcoran being members of St. Raphael's Church of Springfield. While he has not sought public preferment of any kind, he takes an interest in civic affairs, and always supports all measures calculated to be for the cjty's advance- ment and welfare.
In 1915, at Springfield, Mr. Corcoran was united in marriage with Miss Gertrude J. Arnold, a daughter of John Arnold, of Holyoke, Mas- sachusetts, and to this union there have been born two children : Gertrude A. and William J.
Timothy Wilson, now eighty-two years of age, has spent the greater part of his industrious life in the rural sections of Clark County. He occupies a farm in Harmony Township that is a monument to his industry.
He was bom at Walton, Yorkshire, England, April 1, 1840, son of Timothy and Sarah (Rhodes) Wilson. His parents spent all their lives in Yorkshire and of their ten children nine reached mature years. Timothy Wilson has a sister Harriet, now the wife of William Parker, living in Kansas.
Timothy Wilson lived in England until he was eighteen. He attended school there, but at the age of twelve years he began work- ing and for three years was employed in a dairy. After that he con- tinued farm work until he came to the United States, landing at New York City. He joined his brother at Elyria, Loraine Coiuity, Ohio, and after a short time came to Springfield. He worked on farms and in the timber district around South Charleston. While here he mar- ried Nancy Smith, who was born on a farm in Harmony Township. After his marriage Timothy Wilson secured twenty acres of land, and by hard work has achieved the ownership of about eighty acres, well improved and highly developed. His wife died there in 1919. Of their six children, five are living: Miss Sara E. ; Charles H., a sketch of whom follows; Arabella, wife of W. B. Hunt of Columbus, and they have two children. Barton L. and Charlotte M.; Anna M., wife of Charles F. Gilbert, of South Charleston; and Ault G., a farmer in Harmony Township. He married Ethel L. Morningstar and they have
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one child, Ruth E. Mr. Timothy Wilson attended the Lisbon Baptist Church and is a democrat.
Charles H. Wilson was born at the old Timothy Wilson homestead June 19, 1872, and is now a prosperous farmer in an adjoining place in Harmony Township. He grew up on a farm, had a common school education and he worked as a farm hand and for a time rented land. He now owns 137 acres.
February 25, 1909, he married Nellie McDonald, who was bom in Madison Township, February 18, 1886, daughter of Job and Elizabeth (Mort) McDonald, her father a native of Virginia and her mother of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilson have one son, Charles R., bom September 25, 1910. They are members of the Baptist Churcn, in which he is a deacon, and in |X)litics he votes as a republican.
Clarence E. Laybourne has been a representative farmer in Greene and Harmony townships for the past twenty years. His home is in the Plattsburg community, and he is a native of Clark County and member of one of its old and substantial families.
He was bom on a farm in Green Township of this county October 17, 1880, son of William and Anna (Madden) Layboume. His father was born in the same locality on May 26, 1843, and grew up on the farm and acquired a public school education. The mother was bom July 9, 1852, and at the age of seventeen qualified as a teacher and at the age of nineteen was granted a life certificate. She and her husband were married in 1876, and they then located on a farm in Greene Town- ship, where the father continued his industrious career until his death in 1906. He was a republican and an active member of the Baptist Church, with which his widow is also affiliated. Of their five children four are living: Lawrence, Clarence, Stanley, Alice and Willie, who died aged six years.
Clarence E. Laybourne grew up on a farm, attended the local schools and was at home with his parents until he was twenty-one. Since then he has been farming for himself, and his management of his farm and his private interests have gained him the confidence of his fellow citizens to the extent of conferring upon him offices of trust and responsibility. He has been township trustee of Greene Township, is a republican, is a member of Fielding Lodge No. 192, F. and A. M., is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of Antioch Temple of the Shrine at Dayton. He is a Baptist, while Mrs. Layboume is a member of the Christian Church.
October 29, 1903, he married Virginia Troxell, daughter of William and Dora (Shryack) ) Troxell, and a member of one of the best known families in this section of Clark County. Mr. and Mrs. Laybourne have three children : Troxell, now in the third year of high school ; Elizabeth, a first year high school girl ; and Esther, attending the grade school.
David H. Campbell is postmaster of Plattsburg, and is a member of the firm Campbell and Price, general merchants and dealers in grain, coal and seeds. He has been continuously in business in that rural town of Harmony Township for over thirty years, and is one of the very sub- stantial citizens of that section of Clark County.
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Mr. Campbell was born on a farm in Harmony Township, January 14, 1858. His father, Samuel D. Campbell, was also a native of Harmony Township, had a public school education there, and married Mary (Jones) Foreman, who was born in Illinois and was married there, she and her husband then locating in Harmock^/ Township of Clark County, where Mr. Foreman died. Samuel D. Campbell after his marriage followed farming, and at the time of the Civil war enlisted at Sprin^eld in the Union Army, and died while in the service. He and his wife were members of the Christian Church. Of their four children two are now living, David H. and Melyne B., the latter of Cedarville, Ohio.
David H. Campbell was only a small boy when his father died. He spent several years in Springfield, but about 1865 his mother returned to Harmony Township, and he grew up there. He had a common school education, and as a boy began working for his own support. For a time he was in the employ of the man who owned the store now conducted by Campbell and Price. He was also in the grain business, was employed for a time by Hamilton and Brooks, and for four or five years he oper- ated a tile factory. He then bought the store at Plattsburg owned by John Nicholson & Company, in 1890, and two years later John Price bought into the business and the firm of Campbell and Price has now been in existence for thirty years.
In 1879 Mr. Campbell married Jennie Hartman, who was born at South Vienna, Ohio. She died July 29, 1920, and was long a faithful member of the Christian Church. Their two children were Jessie, who died in 1901, and Freeman. Freeman is a graduate of High School and the Ohio Wesleyan University of Delaware, and by his marriage to Jessie Grube has two sons, David A. and Robert. Mr. Campbell is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, F. and A. M., and has filled the chairs in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. He is treasurer of the Home Telephone Company of Plattsburg, and he has been postmaster under the civil service rules for a number of years. He was formerly a democrat, but is now a republican in politics.
Edwin Pearl Deaton, the efficient superintendent of the Clark County Infirmary, is giving a most careful and effective administration and has brought this institution to high standard in all departments of its service, his regime having made it specially creditable to his native county.
Mr. Deaton was bom on the old homestead £arm of the family in Bethel Township, one mile distant from the county institution of which he is now superintendent, and the year of his birth was 1874. On the old home place his venerable father, N. E. Deaton, eighty years of age at the time of this writing, in 1922, still resides, and when it is stated that this honored citizen likewise is a native of Clark County it becomes evident that the family was here founded in the pioneer days. N. E. Deaton is a son of Andrew Deaton, who was bom in Pennsylvania, and who came in an early day to Clark County, where he reclaimed and developed a farm in Bethel Township, and where he died at the age of eighty-five years. N. E. Deaton married Miss Cath- erine Confer, who was born at Yellow Springe, Greene County, this state, and whose death occurred in 1916, she and her husband having
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continued their devoted companionship until they were able to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary, and the gracious ties having been severed only when the loved wife and mother passed to the life eternal.
Edwin P. Deaton was reared on the old home farm, which only recently passed out of the possession of the family, through sale of the property, and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages of the local schools. He has been continuously associated with farm enterprise in his native county from his boyhood, and he had charge of the old home place until the same was sold. His secure place in popular confi- dence and esteem became especially evident when he was selected superin- tendent of the County Infirmary, after the former incumbent, Jesse Pence, had dropped dead while at his home. Mr. Deaton assumed the duties of this important office on the 1st of January, 1919, and his administration has fully justified his appointment to the office.
The Clark County Infirmary and Farm are situated in Bethel Town- ship, nine miles west of the City of Springfield. The main building, standing on a slight elevation, is constructed of brick and is three stories in height, as are also its two wings, each of which has a porch and bal- cony at the front. The county farm comprises 156J4 acres, and was purchased about eight years ago, the place having been the old homestead farm of the late Martin Snyder. The infirmary buildings are of modem design and facilities, and the main building was erected at a cost of $100,- 000. The infirmary has accommodations for 175 inmates, and the aver- age number is about one hundred, women being in the minority. The farm is maintained at a high standard, has fifteen dairy cows of the pure- bred Holstein type, and the fine orchard on the place gives ample crops of peaches, apples, etc. The institution is largely self-supporting, and each year records an advance toward making the place entirely inde- pendent of extraneous financial support on the part of the county. The superintendent believes that after the nation has maintained its prohibi- tion laws twenty-five years there will not be need for institutions to care for the indigent. In politics Mr. Deaton is a republican, but in local af- fairs he supports men and measures meeting his approval rather than being constrained by strict partisan lines.
Mr. Deaton married Miss Blanche lone Snyder, who was born and reared in Bethel Township, she having been ten years old at the time of her mother's death and having then been taken into the home of her maternal cjrandparents. She is a daughter of John Snyder, who died at the age of sixty years, he having been for a number of years engaged in the grocery business at Donnelsville, this county. John Snyder was a son of Samuel Snyder and a nephew of Martin Snyder, the names of both of whom are honored in connection with civic and industrial develop- ment and progress in Clark County. Samuel Snyder died at the age of eighty-five years and his brother Martin at the age of eighty-eight. The Snyder family had owned a landed estate of 400 acres, extending from the National Road to the present county farm, which was a part of this original Snyder landed estate. Mr. Deaton has found his wife an able and popular coajutor in carrying on the aflFairs of the County Infirmary, of which she is matron. They have one daughter, Lucille, who is now the wife of Roy Free, of Springfield. She was educated in that city and is still numbered among the successful and popular teachers in the public schools of the county seat.
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Lemuel N. Doom is known and valued as one of the most loyal and progressive business men and influential citizens of New Carlisle, where he is cashier of the New Carlisle Bank, a member of the firm of Doom Brothers, engaged in the undertaking business, and president of the Board of Education in a vital little city that has provided one of the most modem and attractive school buildings to be found in places of similar or even much greater population in the entire State of Ohio.
Mr. Doom was bom in the picturesque little mountain City of Staun- ton, Virginia, in the year 1875, and is a son of John Doom. He was six years old at the time of the family removal to Kentucky, and two years later removal was made to Troy, Miami County, Ohio. He was sixteen years old when he came with his parents to Clark County, where the family home was established on a farm near New Carlisle. He remained on the farm nine years, and later gave effective service as clerk in hard- ware and drug stores at New Carlisle. In 1910 the former cashier of the New Carlisle Bank prevailed upon Mr. Doom to assume the position of bookkeeper in that institution, and eventually, in 1913, he was chosen cashier of this bank, in which executive office he has since continued his able and popular administration. The bank bases its operations on a capital stock of $30,000, has a surplus fund of $10,000, and the institu- tion has paid regular dividends to its stockholders. Frank E. Thompson, of Miami County, is president of this strong and well ordered bank, which owns the building in which its business is conducted.
Mr. Doom received his early education in the public schools and has taken deep interest in the schools of New Carlisle during the period of his residence here. He has served eight years as a member of the Board of Education, of which he is now the president, and was a vigorous sup- porter of the progressive movement which resulted in giving to New Carlisle one of the finest school buildings in the state, the same having been erected in 1921. Mr. Doom is independent in politics and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. Mrs. Doom is a charter member and is a past worthy matron of the local chapter of the Order of the Eastem Star, is an influential and popular member of the Progress Club and is a prominent figure in the representative social and cultural activities of her home community.
Mr. Doom married Miss Maude Smith, of Tippecanoe. Miami County, and they have two children : John Howard and Mabel Virginia.
Robert Stevenson Parsons is giving specially effective and progres- sive administration of the office of superintendent of the public schools of the thriving Ijttle City of New Carlisle, and is doing much to advance the standard of educational work in Clark County.
Mr. Parsons was bom in Greene County, this state, on the 28th of November, 1863, the place of his nativity having been the parental home farm near Fairfield. His father, James Parsons, was born in Virginia, was six years of age at the time of the family removal to Ohio in 1840, and was a resident of Miami County at the time of his death, in 1921, at the venerable age of eighty-seven years.
Robert S. Parsons continued his studies in the public schools of his native county until he had completed a course in the high school, and thereafter he devoted five years to successful work as a teacher in the
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schools of Greene County. In the furtherance of his higher education he entered Wittenberg College, at Spwingfield, and in this excellent insti- tution he was graduated in 1894, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, his alma mater having conferred upon him, in 1897, the supplemental degree of Master of Arts, after he had taken an effective post-graduate course. Thereafter he was for two years a member of the faculty of Wartburg College at Waverly, Iowa, where he held the chair of mathematics. For the ensuing four years he was superintendent of the public schools of Bethel Township, Miami County, Ohio, and he next taught one year in the high school at Miamisburg. From 1900 to 1902 he was engaged in successful professional work in Porto Rico, where for the first year he was principal of the schools at Maricao and the second year was at the head of the high school in the seaport Town of Mayaquez. He then returned to the United States, and for eleven years he continued his able services as superintendent of the public schools of Beaver Creek Town- ship, Greene County, Ohio. He was for the ensuing year principal of the High School at New Vienna, Clinton County, and the next three years found him giving characteristically effective administration as superintendent of the public schools of Jeffersonville, Fayette County, from which post he came in 1917 to that of superintendent of the schools at New Carlisle. Here he has brought to bear earnest work in syste- matizing the schools and introducing and carrying forward progressive executive and scholastic policies. Under his regime have been added the manual arts high school, the departments of drawing and home eco- nomics, and the establishing of junior and senior orchestras in the high school. His love of music has prompted him to develop its cultural woric in this community, and in this and many other ways has he shown his fine sense of civic loyalty. He is an enthusiast in his profession and takes deep satisfaction in being helpful to aspiring youth. Thus he is found' making the best of provisions for encouraging athletic sports in connection with the schools under his jurisdiction, the while his efforts are always bent to the adopting of the most modern and advanced meth- ods and facilities in school work. Mr. Parsons is actively identified with the Ohio State Teachers Association, the Central Ohio Teachers Associa- tion and the National Teachers Association. He is affiliated with the Alpha Tau college fraternity.
The fine new public school building at New Carlisle was completed in 1921 at a cost of $170,000 and is attractively situated on a five-acre tract that was formerly the site of the old Snyder Hall Academy. In the schools are retained nine teachers, the total enrollment of pupils in 1922 was 254, fifty-four being in the high school and fifty-one in the junior high school. All departments are maintained in the modern building which is a credit and honor to the citizens of New Carlisle and in which they take justifiable pride.
In the year 1901 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Parsons and Miss Emily J. Allen, of Miami County, and they have one son, James Allen, who graduates from the senior high school, class of 1923, at New Carlisle.
L. M. Ervin has played a vigorous part in the commercial affairs of Clark County for a number of years. His business headquarters are now
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at South Vienna, where he is proprietor of the elevator and a dealer hi coal and implements.
Mr. Ervin was born in Madison County, Ohio, October 17, 1878, son of Alfred H. and Columbia (Perkins) Ervin. His father was bom in Fajrette County, Ohio, June 30, 1843, and his mother was bom at Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, January 23, 1844. Alfred Ervin, when a boy, accompanied his parents to Madison County, where he grew up and acquired a common school education. In 1861, at the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the Seventy-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and gave three years of soldier's service to the cause of the Union. After his discharge he returned to the farm, soon afterward married, and took up farming as his regular vocation. Later he removed to Fayette County, and was a contractor there until his death. He was a member of the Baptist Church and a republican. Of his five children four are living: Mary, wife of Curtis Milbum; Charles, a farmer in Harmony Township of Clark County; L. M., and Harry, a farmer in Madison Township.
Leon M. Ervin spent the first sixteen years of his life in Fayette County, and acquired his public school education there. Later he com- pleted a course in the commercial college at Springfield, and at the age of nineteen began keeping books and subsequently for five years was in the grocery business at Springfield. Then, following an experience in the southern states for about two years, he returned to Clark County and located at South Charleston, and for eleven years was associated in business with the Houstons of that vicinity. In 1917 Mr. Ervin located at South Vienna, and after conducting a store for three years, he engaged in his present business, operating the elevator and as a dealer in coal and implements.
On November 7, 1899, he married Sue Munsey, daughter of Rev. C. D. Munsey. They have one daughter, Alice M., bom January 16, 1907, and now attending high school at Plattsburg. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Ervin is a past master of the Masonic Lodge and is keeper of records and seals in the Knights of Pythias. He is a republican, and while at South Charleston he served as mayor two years and six years on the Town Council.
Charles F. Gilbert for many years has been an active business man at South Charleston. His principal activities have been in the lumber business, and he is also connected with the financial life of Springfield and has been deeply interested in the civic welfare and advancement of his home community and the county at large.
He was bom in Greene County, Ohio, March 20, 1872, son of Lewis and Anna (McClain) Gilbert. Lewis Gilbert was bom in Harrison County, Ohio, January 1, 1838, had a common school education, and at the beginning of the Civil war enlisted in the Union Army and served with all the fidelity of a good soldier four years. He was in Sherman's Army, and after the war was deeply interested in the Grand Army of the Republic. At Cedarville in Greene County he married Anna McClain, who was born August 31, 1842, in Ross County, Ohio. After their mar- riage they located at Cedarville. They were active members of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church. Their four children were : Miss Lena, who has
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for many years been a high school teacher; Charles F. ; Delia, wife of John W. Johnson, of CedarviUe, and Ralph, a farmer in Greene County.
Charles F. Gilbert attended the common schools, and as a youth became interested in the lumber business. On locating at South Charles- ton he was associated with Joseph Van Horn, and at the death of Mr. Van Horn, took over the lumber business and gave his entire time to its management until 1919. The business was then discontinued, and Mr. Gilbert has since given his time to his farm properties.
He married Miss Anna Wilson, who was reared on a farm in Har- mony Township of Clark County. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Gilbert is a thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner, being affiliated with Palestine Commandery at Springfield, and Antioch Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. of Dayton, Ohio, and is a past master of his lodge. He and his wife are both members of the Eastern Star, and he is a republican, and at present is serving on the Village Commission of South Charleston. He is financially interested in the Springfield Bond and Mortgage Company, the officers of which are: F. E. Hosterman, president ; C. A. Young, vice president ; Stanley S. Petticrew, second vice president; Hugh Hagan, secretary; A. H. Penfield, treasurer, and the directors are David F. Snyder, Paul E. NoUen, W. F. Tuttle, O. C. Clark, Joseph A. Poss. Charles F. Gilbert and A. C. Kaser.
Anna Wilson, wife of Mr. Gilbert, is a daughter of Timothy and Nancy (Smith) Wilson. Her father was bom in Yorkshire, England, April 1, 1840, came to the United States at the age of eighteen, locating near South Charleston, was a successful farmer in that locality, and is now living retired. His wife, Nancy Smith, was bom in Harmony Town- ship, January 1, 1845. They are members of the Lisbon Baptist Church. Mr. Wilson served a hundred-day enlistment during the Civil war in the One Hundred and Fifty-third Ohio Infantry. Of the eight children in the Wilson family, five are living: Alva, unmarried; Arabelle, wife of W. B. Hunt, of Columbus, Ohio; C. H., a farmer in Harmony Town- ship; Mrs. Anna Gilbert, and A. G., a farmer in Harmony Township.
William Gordon is a native of Clark County, has had an expe- rience of forty years in the saw mill industry, and is proprietor of the South Charleston Saw Mill.
He was born in Greene Township of Clark County, May 12. 1861, son of William and Mary (Edwards) Gordon, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of West Virginia. Both were reared in Ohio, and the father for the greater part of his active life followed the trade of stationary engineer. He was a republican, and he and his wife were members of the Episcopal Church. Of their nine children three are now living: William; Andy, of Jamestown, Ohio; and Nettie, wife of Henry Edwards, living near Xenia.
William Gordon was educated in town schools, as a youth went to work around saw mills, and has a knowledge of the mechanic and the business side of the lumber industry, omitting hardly a single detail. It was in 1916 that he bought the mill at South Charleston and has made that an important industry.
Mr. Gordon married Elizabeth Tracy, who died in March, 1901. She was the mother of five daughters, three of whom are living: Iva,
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wife of Thomas Jones; Leona, wife of Joseph Smith; and Inez, wiie of John Switzer. In 1904 Mr. Gordon married Josephine French. They are members of the Methodist Church and he is a republican.
Michael Way Hinkle was one of the outstanding figures in the agricultural life and enterprise of Clark County for a long period of years. He was a successful farm owner and a thoroughly progressive citizen.
He was born in Springfield Township, May 29, 1834, and lived in that one community practically all his life. His parents were John and Mary (Way) Hinkle, who were born and married in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and soon afterward started West, driving over- land to Columbus, Ohio. They remained in the capital city during the summer of 1833 and then moved to land acquired in Clark County. John Hinkle bought seven hundred acres just south of the City of Springfield. Nearly all of this at that time was dense timber, and his personal labors and management cleared up and developed most of it to farming purposes.
It was on his father's farm near Springfield that Michael Way Hinkle came to manhood, securing his education in the Congress School. In 1859, when a young man of twenty-five, he married Alice Dean. She was bom at Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, August 29, 1835, daughter of Alexander and Margaret (Shotwell) Dean. Her parents moved to Springfield, Ohio, in 1846, when she was eleven years of age. Her father was a shoemaker and while he followed that trade all his active life, he also lived on and operated a farm in Springfield Township.
Michael Way Hinkle after his marriage lived on part of his father's farm for six years, and then moved to another place owned by his father in Springfield Township, a farm of 102 acres three miles south of the city. Mr. Hinkle also owned eighteen acres south of the city limits. The cultivation of the land, the management of his property interests, the performance of his duties as a good citizen made up the program of his life's activities. He was a republican voter. Mr. Hinkle died May 6, 1908, and was survived a little over a year by his wife, who passed away August 22, 1909.
Of the children of this good old couple the oldest is John M., of Springfield Township. The second, Elizabeth S., is now deceased. Mary is the wife of Joseph Crabill, of Locust Grove, Ohio. Alexander is a farmer in Springfield Township. Alice died at the age of two years. Sarah is the wife of Alva Graham, of Springfield.
Miss Susan and Miss Margaret Hinkle make their home together and reside on a six-acre suburban place, part of the original eighteen-acre tract owned by their father adjoining Springfield. They are active mem- bers of the Second Lutheran Church. Miss Margaret Hinkle is an accomplished and successful teacher. She acquir^ her early educa- tion in the Congress District School and in 1898 began teaching. The first year she taught at Hopewell in Greene Township and from 1899 until the fall of 1921 taught in the Cross Roads School of Springfield Township. While teaching she was also carrying her higher studies in Wittenberg College, and in 1922 was awarded the degree Bachelor
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of Arts. For the past two years she has been an instructor in the Springfield Normal School.
Omar W. Stoll when he retired from the road as a traveling sales- man established a permanent business connection in the village of South Vienna, where he was bom, and is now one of the prosperous general merchants in that section of Clark County.
He was bom at South Vienna August 25, 1887, son of Jacob and Edith (Perkins) Stoll, also natives of Harmony Township. His father was reared on the farm, learned the carpenter's trade and for many years has been a carpenter contractor, living at South Vienna. They have lived in South Vienna since their marriage. The mother is an active member of the Christian Church. Jacob Stoll is a democrat, has filled the chairs in the Lodges of Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of P)rthias and is a member of the Elks. He and his wife had five children : Omar W. ; Chester W., a graduate of Springfield High School, now living at St. Louis, Missouri; Marie, wife of Paul E. Troxell; Border, a g^duate of high school; and Foster, still attending the Harmony Township High School.
Omar W. Stoll as a boy at South Vienna attended the public schools and business college, and in April, 1909, went west to Califomia, where he had an experience of six years as clerk in a wholesale hardware house. After returning to Clark County he went on the road as a traveling salesman for a Dayton house and traveled for four years and then engaged in business as a general merchant at South Vienna.
November 25, 1916, at Denver, Colorado, he married Mona Weldon. She was bom at Denver, and was educated in the graded schools of that city. They have two children, Weldon, born in 1918, and Wil- liam, bom in 1921. Mrs. Stoll is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, Free and Accepted Masons.
John Eddy Furry, M. D. After fifteen years of successful practice as a physician and surgeon at Springfield, Doctor Furry responded to the urgings of his fellow citizens to become a candidate for the office of mayor, and was elected and is giving Springfield a thoroughly business- like and satisfactory administration of its municipal affairs.
Doctor Furry was born on a farm in Fayette County, Ohio, April 18, 1869, son of Miller and Margaret Jane (Row) Furry, who were natives of the same county. His grandfather, Joseph Furry, came to Ohio from Pennsylvania, settled in Fayette County when it was almost an unbroken wilderness, and he started on a good work in that and neighboring counties, for many years being a pioneer minister of the Methodist Church. The maternal grandfather of Doctor Furry was Andrew Row, also an early settler in Fayette County, locating there about 1812. Both the Furry and Row families came from England originally, the Rows being of North English stock.
Doctor Furry's early recollections center around the old farm in Fayette County. He attended public schools there, and completed his literary education by graduation with the Doctor of Science degree from the Ohio Northern University of Ada in 1891. Following his college career he spent several years on the farm, and then began his professional
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education in the Medical College of Ohio, now the Medical Department of the University of Cincinnati. He graduated M. D. in 1899, and in the same year began practice at Washington Court House. In 1906 he moved to Springfield, and is one of the men of highest standing in the medical profession of this city. He belongs to the Association of Military and Normal Surgeons, U. S. A.
Doctor Furry was elected a member of the City Council and to the office of mayor in 1921. He is a member of Confidence Lodge No* 265, Knights of Pythias, at Washington Court House, has served as chancellor commander of the Lodge, took his Grand Lodge degrees in 1899, and is also a member of the Elks Club.
Doctor Furry married Frances Malinda Jamison, and they were born and reared in the same locality of Fayette County. Her father, William Jamison, was a native of Ohio, of Scotch Irish ancestry, and her great-grandfather was the first judge of Fayette County. I)octor and Mrs. Furry have two children, Reppa Leah and Eddy Francis, the latter at home. Reppa is the wife of Harry Crosly, now a resident of Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Crosly have three children, Harrison Thomas, Mary Frances and Martha Leah.
Charles O. Hays is one of the old and substantial citizens of Clark County, with a record of nearly half a century as a farmer, and is also well known in business and civic circles. Mr. Hays is owner and proprietor of the Hillside Park Farm comprising 160 acres located five miles east of Springfield, on the South Charleston and Spring- field Pike.
He was bom in the City of Springfield April 30, 1857, son of Sam- uel and Emily (Ostot) Hays. His father was bom in Pennsylvania, October 9, 1825, son of Andrew Hays, a native of Scotland. Samuel Hays was reared at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, had a public school education, and in 1855 located at Springfield, Ohio. He was married there in that year, followed several lines of work 'in the city, and in 1865 moved to the old homestead, where he continued his life of activ- ity. He and his wife were members of the First Baptist Church of Springfield, and he was a republican and a past grand in the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. There were two sons, Charles O., and Edward A. The latter was a well known farmer of Clark Countv, who died May 27, 1919.
Charles O. Hays was about eight years of age when his parents, moved out to the farm. He began his education in the public schools of Springfield, and after completing his school work his energies were given to the home farm until he was twenty-six. On March 15, 1883, he married Sarah E. Tuttle, who was bom in Clark County, February 21, 1855. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hays moved to the farm where they have lived for forty years and where they have reared their family. They were the parents of six children: Clarence E., who mar- ried Elizabeth Blue and his two children, Isabelle and Charles, and lives at Springfield; Grace J., wife of John H. Blue, and they have two children living, Doris and Grace M., and one Wilber, is deceased; Emma B. is the deceased wife of Baird Stickney, and they have five children, Dorothy, William, Robert, Henry and Helen Elizabeth; Fred
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married Isabelle J. Stickney and they have three children, Wilber, Fran- ces Ellen and an infant; Miss Helen is at home; Martha E., who is a graduate of the Plattsburg High Schood and Normal School, is the wife of John W. Sharp, of Nashville, Tennessee.
Mr. Hays is affiliated with South Vienna Lodge No. 660, Knights of P3rthias, with Uniform Rank No. 44 of that order, and is a repub- lican. For eighteen years he was a member of the Harmony Township School Board and for many years has been associated with the Clark County Agricultural Society. He is a stockholder in the W. F. Tuttle Hardware Company of Springfield.
Mrs Alice Merritt is proprietor of one of the fine country homes of Clark County, located on Rural Route No. 1 out of South Charleston in Madison Township. Mrs. Merritt is the widow of the late Charles H. Merritt.
She was bom on a farm in Madison Township, October 4, 1859, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Buffenbarger. Her father was bom in Madison Township May 29, 1839, son of Washington and Mary (Goudy) Buffenbarger and a grandson of George and Mary Hanna Buffenbarger. George Buffenbarger was a native of Virginia, brought his family west in a covered wagon to Madison Township, and was one of the pioneer settlers on the banks of the Little Miami River. He and his wife had children named Washington, Samuel Salmon, Judson, Simington, Eve and Elizabeth.
Washington Buffenbarger was the father of Peter, Hannah, Mahala, Priscilla and Marian. Of these, Peter was reared and educated in Madison Township and devoted his active lifetime to farming there. He married Mary E. Kiser, and of their twelve children nine are still living: N. B., a farmer in Harmony Township; Jennie B., of Wel- lington, Ohio, widow of Jacob Lewis; Alice; Jeannette, who was the wife of Jacob Momingstar, is now dead; Stacy, of Springfield; Ella, wife of Thomas Thompson, of Los Angeles ; Todd, of South Charleston ; Anna R., wife of Ed Rhoads, living in Iowa ; Miss Mamie ; Harley, of South Charleston; and Sally and Jonah T., both deceased.
Alice Buffenbarger spent her early life on the farm on the banks of the Little Miami River, attended the public schools, and on January 20, 1886, became the wife of Charles H. Merritt. Mr. Merritt was bom in Madison Township, October 11, 1849, and was liberally edu- cated in Springfield Township and attended) Wittenbengf College at Springfield and subsequently graduated from a college at Wilmington, Delaware. For some years he was a teacher.
Mrs. Merritt became the mother of five children. Beulah is a grad- uate of Nelson's Business College of Springfield and is now the wife of Glenn Littler. Thomas E. was graduated in the grammar and high schools, married Anna Engle and is now a butter maker by trade. Esther A. is a graduate of the South Charleston High School and the wife of Arthur Momingstar, of Carthage, Ohio. Mary E. is a high school graduate and wife of Homer Sessler, an engineer at a creamery at Dayton. Charles H., who also finished a high school course, married tsther A. Selspaugh and lives at South Vienna. Mrs. Merritt and her family are members of the Friends Church. She is active in the
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W. C. T. U. at South Charleston and has been a strong prohibitionist. The farm where she lives comprised 108 acres and she also has prop- erty in South Charleston and has some valuable investments in Govern- ment railroad and other bonds and securities.
Edward H. Smith, M. D. For a period of almost forty-five years Dr. Edward H. Smith has been at the service of the community of South Vienna as a physician and surgeon. He is one of the oldest members of the medical profession in Clark County and also one of the county's most highly respected and useful citizens.
He was bom on a farm in Franklin County, Ohio, February 15, 1855, son of Josiah O. and Nancy (Lane) Smith, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Ohio. Josiah Smith was bom near Bal- timore, lived there until he was fourteen and then came to Ohio, acquir- ing his education in both states. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and for a number of years enjoyed a successful practice as an attorney. He was a leader in his locality in the democratic party, was a member of the Christian Church and the Masonic Order. The chil- dren of Josiah O. Smith and wife were: Mrs. Sarah A. Worthington, deceased; Dr. Edward H. ; Mrs. Nevel, of West Jefferson, Ohio; Mrs. Louemma Weaver, of South Vienna ; Mrs. Theodosia Brant, of Spring- field; Wade H., of West Jeflferson, veterinary surgeon; Frank H., an attorney at Columbus; and Alice, widow of James Redmand.
Dr. Edward H. Smith spent his early life on the farm in Franklin Cotmty, living there until he was seventeen. He acquired his educa- ation in the public schools and normal schools, took up the study of medicine privately and later entered the Starling Medical College of Columbus, in 1875, and graduated with the M. D. degree in 1878. Soon after his graduation he located at South Vienna and has practiced here continuously. He is a member in good standing of the Clark County and State Medical Association, and in a business way is vice president of the Farmers Deposit Bank of South Vienna.
June 4, 1879, Doctor Smith married Ida May Ellinger. She was educated in the public schools at South Vienna. They had one daughter, Alena Ruth, who was educated in Wittenberg College and Oxford Col- lege for Women, and is now the wife of H. M. Saylor, cashier of the Farmers Deposit Bank. Doctor and Mrs. Smith are members and liberal supporters of the Methodist Episcopal Church and he is a past grand of South Vienna Lodge No. 345, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, while Mrs. Smith is past grand of the Rebekah Lodge. In politics he is a republican.
OsMAN C. Clary, M. D. The ideal physician is one who brings into the sickroom a cheerful presence, uplifting the patient from the slough of despair, so that in this manner he cures quite as much as he does by administering medicines. The modern physician understands and recog- nizes the value of a strong personality as well as the achievements in all of the branches of the profession that are commanding the admiration of modern civilization. Many of these discoveries have grown out of the fact that the man of science believes in giving much of himself as well as of the contents of his medicine case. All of the leading instructors
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teach that unless the physician is in harmony with the patient he cannot hope for the best results. These ideas as well as countless others are the outcome of years of study, and are freely accepted by the men who advocate progress in this most important of all of the learned profes- sions. One of the physicians whose name is associated with some very able work in Clark County is Dr. Osman C. Clary of Selma.
Doctor Clary was bom in Lawrence County, Ohio, June 7, 1875, a son of George M. and Celesta (Ellsworth) Clary. George M. Clary was also born in Lawrence Coimty, Ohio, July 13, 1847, and both he and his wife attended the common schools of that county, of which she, too, was a native. He supplemented the instruction he received by private study and reading, became a teacher and taught for thirty-two years, and then, leaving the educational field, went into the insurance business. At present he is retired, but his wife died January 13, 1894. Early uniting with the Methodist Episcopal Church, George M. Clary has continued one of its zealous members, and Mrs. Clary was also active in church work. She was a daughter of Dr. L. W. Ellsworth, a noted Methodist minister, and a member of the Ohio State Legislature from 1878 to 1880. He was a man who was always prominent in public affairs as well as church work, and when he died, July 25, 1905, he was mourned by a wide circle, who felt that one of the really desirable citizens had passed away. George M. Clary had three children, all sons, namely: Rev. Albert L. Clary, a Methodist minister now stationed at I ronton, Ohio; Roscoe M., who is a clothing merchant of Columbus, Ohio, and Dr. O. C. Clary, who was the youngest.
The boyhood and youth of Doctor Clary was spent at Ironton, Ohio, and he attended its public schools through the high school course, and then, entering the medical department of the University of Louisville, at Louisville, Kentucky, took the full medical training and was graduated therefrom with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Immediately there- after he located at Coal Grove, Lawrence County, Ohio, and remained there in practice for a time, going thence to Waterloo, Ohio, and finally, in 1921, to Selma. Doctor Clary belongs to the Lawrence County Medi- cal Society and was quite active in it while residing at Waterloo.
On September 24, 1904, Doctor Clary married Zola Dement, a grad- uate of the public schools of Ohio. They became the parents of the fol- lowing children: Carl, who was bom September 7, 1905, is attending the Selma High School ; Irene, who was born June 29, 1908 ; Eloise, who was born May 9, 1910; Bertha, who was bom April 15, 1915, and Clar- ence, who was born September 13, 1921. Doctor and Mrs. Clary belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. A Mason, he is a member of Ohio Valley Lodge No. 536, F. and A. M., and he also belongs to the Eastem Star, to Waterloo Lodge No. 937, I. O. O. F., to the Knights of the Golden Eagle and to Pomona Grange, his wife being a member of the latter order. A man of the highest ideals. Doctor Clary has always lived up to them both as a professional man and citizen, and in so doing has set a standard of excellence difficult of attainment.
Edward Wilber Baxter. One of the prominent citizens and suc- cessful business men of Springfield is Edward Wilber Baxter, who has been actively identified with the civic and social affairs of the city for a
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number of years. His birth took place on East High Street, September 4, 1879. His parents were James C. and Rebecca (Hesser) Baxter, both deceased.
Mr. Baxter was reared and educated at Springfield, attending the public schools and Nelson's Business College and graduated from the latter in 1901. He entered into business in the capacity of bookkeeper for the Snyder Milling Company of Springfield, and one year later, in 1902, was one of the organizers of the Union Plumbing Company, in partnership with his brother, C. P. Baxter, and J. C. Nafz. This later became the Baxter-Naf z Company, incorporated under this name in 1904, its officers being C. P. Baxter, president ; J. C. Nafz, vice president, and E. W. Baxter, secretary and treasurer. This is the largest heating and plumbing company at Springfield. It built and owns the Elite Apartment house and the business block on North Fountain Avenue, on the ground floor of which the company has large and modernly equipped headquarters.
Although early immersed in business Mr. Baxter found time to still further his education, taking special work at Wittenberg College, in psychology, philosophy, geology, history and English literature, the wide scope of these studies indicating a versatile taste. From youth he has taken an active part in civic and welfare work, particularly emphasized by the Y. M. C. A., of which he has long been a deeply interested mem- ber. During the World war he volunteered for work with this organiza- tion overseas, and was serving, preparatory to sailing, as secretary of this body at Camp Sherman, but before necessary arrangements could be completed the armistice was signed with the enemy.
Mr. Baxter is prominent in Masonic circles. He was made a Mason by Anthony Lodge No. 445, F. and A. M., became a charter member and first senior deacon of St. Andrew's Lodge No. 619, F. and A. M., later serving as master and trustee ; a member of Palestine Commandery No. 33, Knights Templar, of which he is a past commander; Dayton Consistory, thirty-second degree, and belongs to Antioch Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is a trustee of the Springfield Masonic Club. Mr. Baxter belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is a charter member of the Rotary Club. He was reared in the Lutheran faith and is a member of the First Lutheran Church at Springfield, for four years serving the Sunday School attached as superintendent. He is held in the highest esteem by his fellow citizens as trustworthy in business and honorable in all other relations of life.
Martin Thomas Burnham. The law as well as other learned pro- fessions, is well represented at Springfield, and few members of the bar in Clark County are better or more favorably known than Martin Thomas Burnham, who for twenty-nine years has been attorney for the Spring- field Building & Loan Association. He opened his first law office in Springfield, in 1876, and this city has continued to be his home ever since.
Martin Thomas Burnham was bom in Portage County, Ohio, Janu- ary 15, 1854. His parents were Daniel and Mary (Carr) Burnham, and his grandfathers were Martin Burnham and Rev. Thomas Carr. Martin Burnham, the grandfather, was bom in Connecticut and learned the blacksmith trade in his native village. Prior to the War of 1812, for business reasons, he moved with his family across the line into Canada,
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and was engaged at his trade when that conflict came on. As the war feeling grew better resentment developed against citizens of the United States, and Mr. Burnham found himself surrounded by impatient enemies among his heretofore friendly neighbors, and he was ordered to return immediately to his own country or suffer the consequences. Therefore he had to leave his family temporarily on Canadian soil and flee across the border. He lost all his property, but his family later joined him in the Western Reserve and Ohio became their permanent home. Mr. Burnham settled first on the old Poe farm, not far from Ravenna, the county seat of Portage County, but later removed to Rootstown, where he established a blacksmith shop and bought a small farm and spent the rest of his days there.
Daniel Burnham, father of Martin T. Burnham, was born in 1810, just across the line in Canada. He shared the family fortunes, grew up in Portage County, learned his father's trade and died in 1884. He mar- ried Mary Carr, who was born in Carroll County, Ohio, and died in Portage County in 1876. She was a daughter of Rev. Thomas Carr, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was born in Washing- ton County, Pennsylvania, and was a son of John Carr, a native of Ire- land, who settled in Pennsylvania at an early date and acquired exten- sive farm property in the western part of that state and in Eastern Ohio. Rev. Thomas Carr inherited a farm in Ashtabula County but did not settle there, trading it for one owned by his brother in Portage County, and there spent the rest of his life.
With such an ancestral background of solid qualities, Martin Thomas Burnham had an early environment that doubtless has had an influence on his subsequent life. He attended the public schools in Portage County, and then entered Mount Union College, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1874, with the Degree of Bachelor of Science. He then applied himself to the study of law at Ravenna, and in 1876 was admitted to the bar and in September of that year came to Springfield. Here he entered into a general practice, both civil and criminal, and soon became an important member of his profession here. He has not been as active in political life as some of his brother lawyers, but dur- ing 1881-1882 served as city solicitor of Springfield. In 1893 he retired from criminal practice when he became attorney for the Springfield Building & Loan Association, in which relation he has continued ever since.
Mr. Burnham married, in 1910, Miss Mary Landfelt, who was born at Lancaster, Ohio, and is a daughter of Henry and Catherine Landfelt, of Lancaster, Ohio. They have one son, Martin Thomas Burnham, Jr., who was bom May 4, 1913. Mr. Burnham is a member of several old and representative fraternities, including Red Star Lodge No. 205, Knights of Pythias, and Springfield Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks.
Charles Edgar Petticrew. Prominent among the men who have been identified with the business affairs of Springfield during the past thirty years is Charles Edgar Petticrew, secretary and member of the Board of Directors of the Springfield Building and Loan Association. Mr. Petticrew is one who has followed consistently one line of activity,
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for from young manhood he has been associated with the organization with which he is now connected and in the successful development of which he has played an important part:. As the active head of this con- cern he occupies a position of prestige among the constructive business men of the county seat of Clark County.
While he has been a resident of Springfield since 1871, Mr. Petticrew was born at Westville, Champaign County, Ohio, January 9, 1870, being a son of the late James A. and Rebecca Petticrew, both of whom were of Scotch ancestry. James A. Petticrew was bom near Dayton, Ohio, May 30, 1835, a son of David and Mary (Lehman) Petticrew, early citizens of Springfield. David Petticrew settled at an early date in the vicinity of Dayton, but later moved to Westville and then to Springfield, where he became a pioneer wagonmaker. James A. Petticrew learned the wagonmaking trade in the shop of his father, and followed that business at Westville until 1871, at which time he became a resident of Spring- field. Here he accepted a position with the Springfield Coffin and Casket Company, by whom he was employed until his death, September 28, 1894. He was a man of industrious habits and sound integrity, had several connections of a fraternal and civic character and was a good and public- spirited citizen. His wife, Rebecca Robbins, was bom in Miami County, Ohio, January 8, 1840, and was a daughter of John and Maria (Phelps) Robbins. This worthy and estimable woman was called in death Febru- ary 26, 1914. She and her husband were the parents of the following children : John, who is now deceased ; Ambrose B., a resident of Spring- field; Mary M., of Springfield; William A., also a resident of this city; Leslie R., now living at Des Moines, Iowa ; Charles Edgar, of this rec- ord ; James Franklin, living in Clark County ; Viola May, who is deceased ; and David Elbert, of Springfield.
Charles Edgar Petticrew was but one year of age when brought by his parents to Springfield, and here he was reared and received a public school education. Following his graduation from the Springfield High School as a member of the class of 1887, when he was seventeen years of age, he entered Wittenberg College, which, however, he attended only a short time. He began his independent career as the incumbent of a clerkship in a Springfield grocery store, and continued to be thus employed until 1893, when he secured employment in the capacity of assistant secretary with the Springfield Building and Loan Association, with which organization he has been identified to the present. In 1910 he was made secretary of the enterprise, has since become a member of the Board of Directors thereof, and is now the active head of the concern, which under his management has attained to large proportions and is rated among the leading business industries of its kind in this section of the state. Mr. Petticrew, while a very busy man, engrossed in the duties of an important company, is not adverse to social pleasures and the com- panionship of his fellows, and has a number of social, fraternal and civic connections. His name is always found included on the lists of sup- porters of worthy movements, to which he invariably contributes of his energies, abilities and means.
Mr. Petticrew was united in marriage in 1898 with Miss Minnie Hendrickson, the daughter of Austin Hendrickson, of Carysville, Cham- paign County, Ohio.
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Rush Rodgers Richison, M. D. One of the leading members of the medical fraternity of Clark County, who is well and favorably known both because of his accomplishments in his general practice and because of his work as city health officer of Springfield and county health officer of Clark County, is Rush Rodgers Richison, M. D. During his profes- sional career, which has extended over a period of eighteen years, he has been engaged in practice in several different communities, in all of which he has been accounted a skilled, careful and thoroughly trained physician and surgeon
Doctor Richison was born at DeGraff, Logan County, Ohio, Novem- ber 11, 1881, a son of Jasper N. and Anna (Carlos) Richison. His father, who was born in Bethel Township, Clark County, in 1842, and died in 1890, was a son of John Richison, the emigrant of the family into Clark County, who was of Scotch-Irish parentage. Jasper N. Richison moved from Clark County to Logan County, Ohio, and thence to the village of Yellow Springs, where he passed the remainder of his life. His worthy wife, who was born at St. Paris, Champaign County, Ohio, and now resides at Van Wert, Ohio, is a daughter of Dr. Frederick Carlos, a native of Spain, and of the noted family of that name which contended for the Spanish throne for so many years. Dr. Frederick Carlos attended Wittenberg University in Germany, and was in the active practice of medicine at Cincinnati for a number of years.
Rush Rodgers Richison graduated from Yellow Springs High School as a member of the class of 1899, following which he studied at Antioch College for two years and then pursued the full four-year course at the Ohio Medical University at Columbus, Ohio, being graduated therefrom with the class of 1904 and receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. Later he supplemented this with post-graduate work at Harvard Medical School in 1912, and at New York City in 1916. Doctor Richison entered upon the practice of his profession at Van Wert, Ohio, in 1904, and remained in that community until 1912. In that year he went to Carson County, Texas, where he served as health commissioner from 1912 to 1914, and from 1914 to 1916 followed his profession at Yellow Springs, Ohio. In the latter year he was made superintendent of the District Tuberculosis Hospital, near Springfield, a position which he retained until 1920, in April of which year he was made city and county health officer, the duties of which office have engrossed his attention to the present time. He has been energetic and conscientious in handling the responsibilities of his trust, and has gained and held the confidence and respect of the people. Doctor Richison is a member of the Clark County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society, and is president of the section of hygiene of the latter. As a fratemalist he holds member- ship in H. S. Kissell Lodge of the Masonic Order, and his religious affilia- tion is with Covenant Presbyterian Church of Springfield.
In 1903 Doctor Richison was united in marriage with Miss Nell B. McMillen, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Willmore) McMillen, of Van Wert, Ohio, and to this union there have been born two sons and three daughters : Pauline Marie, born in 1904 ; Alice Louise, born in 1907 ; Ruth Rosalie, born in 1909; Junior, bom in 1911 ; and Joe, bom in 1915.
Frank John Braun, secretary, treasurer, director and manager oi the Springfield Morris Plan Bank, is one of the progressive and repre-
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sentative business men of his native city and county. His birth occurred at Springfield on the 2Sth of May, 1876. He is a son of Leo and Mary (Neidlinger) Braun, his father having been for many years successfully engaged in the jewelry business at Springfield.
Leo Braun was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1840, and in his native land he received his education and also learned the jeweler's trade. Shortly after the close of the Civil war in the United States he came to this country, and never afterward did he a^in visit his home. In 1865, the year of his arrival, he took charge of a jewelry store in New York City, but a few months later he engaged independently in the jewelry business at Parkersburg, West Virginia. In 1868 he came to Springfield, Ohio, and opened the jewelry establishment which he thereafter con- ducted until his death, December 12, 1917, at the age of seventy-seven years. He was held in high esteem as a business man and loyal and public- spirited citizen, served as police and fire commissioner of the city, and was for many years active in civic affairs. Mr. Braun was a man of fine intellectual ken, was a deep student and reader, and collected a large and select private library. He read and spoke with fluency several languages. His wife, who was born at Springfield, October 6, 1853, here passed her entire life, she having been sixty-five years of age at the time of her death, in April, 1918. Her father, George Neidlinger, was bom in Germany, and was one of the honored pioneer citizens of Springfield at the time of his death.
To the public schools of Springfield Frank J. Braun is indebted for his early education, and at the age of fifteen years he here found employ- ment in a machine shop. Within a comparatively short time he met with an accident in the shop, and the injury he thus received was the means of changing his course in life. After recovering from the injury he took a course in a business college, and in 1892 he entered the office of Oates & Company, commission merchants. Thereafter he was bookkeeper and cashier for the insurance firm of Wallace & Corry, and still later he had charge of the branch foundry of the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company.
In 1900 Mr. Braun initiated his association with banking enterprise by taking a position in the First National Bank, with which he continued his connection fifteen years and won advancement to responsible execu- tive positions. In 1915 he assisted in the organization of the Springfield Morris Plan Bank, of which he is now the active executive head and in the administration of the affairs of which he has been most successful. Mr. Braun takes deep interest in all things touching the welfare and progress of his native city and county, is an active member of the Spring- field Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis Club, the Sinking Fund Com- mission of Springfield, the Lagonda Club, and is affiliated with the local organizations of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He and his wife are communicants of the First Lutheran Church of Springfield.
The year 1900 recorded the marriage of Mr. Braun and Miss Alnora Hagerman, daughter of Louis B. and Frances (Zeller) Hagerman, of Springfield, and of the children of this union the names and respective birthdates are here recorded: Frank Louis, July 23, 1903; Karl Leo,
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February 17, 1905; Dorothy Lucile, August 8, 1908; Elizabeth Marie, August 7, 1912; Edwin LeRoy, February 13, 1916.
Phraortes E. Bancroft. The late Phraortes E. Bancroft had an exceptionally praiseworthy career during his long life at Springfield. He lived at a period when integrity of conduct was general and not as it seems today, and for this reason the fact that he was pointed out as an example of the virtues would indicate that he was a man of unusual char- acter, who left his impress on the times and history of Springfield's middle era.
Mr. Bancroft was born at Springfield, January 28, 1822, and was a descendant of one of the three brothers who emigrated from England to the American Colonies in 1632. His grandfather, John Bancroft, was born in Massachusetts, and served the Colonies during the War of the Revolution, in which he held the rank of lieutenant. John Bancroft married Ann Waters, and their respective deaths occurred at Springfield, Ohio, in 1834 and 1842. Louis Bancroft, the father of Phraortes E., was born near Lake Champlain, Vermont, in 1796, and in his earlier years divided his time between farming and teaching school. He came to Springfield in 1812, traveling by boat to Upper Sandusky and then by horseback to his destination, and after his arrival volunteered for service during the War of 1812, but was rejected because of ill health. At Springfield he operated a store for many years, was deputy sheriff and Government inspector, and later embarked in the wholesale grocery busi- ness. He married Mary Christie, a daughter of Robert Christie, who was a pioneer of Clark County and a contractor and builder whose work is yet in evidence in the community. Louis Bancroft and his wife lived to celebrate their sixty-fifth wedding aniversary. Their children were: Leonidas, Phraortes E., LaFayette, Oscar, Amanda M. and Flavilla G.
Phraortes E. Bancroft secured the better part of his schooling under Milo G. Williams, a noted educator of that day, following which he served an apprenticeship at the hatter's trade with Coates & Lathrop, a well-known firm of the early days. He worked at that trade as a jour- neyman for a time, but in March, 1851, embarked in the business on his own account when he established a modest store at 4 East Main Street. This was at a time when the hatters made their stock in trade by hand, and Mr. Bancroft, who was a thorough master of his craft, fol- lowed this rule Coupled with his skilled workmanship and scrupulous honesty, he possessed a keen business foresight, which aided him in mak- ing a success of his venture. In 1882 he built a four-story brick build- ing, in which he located his hat store, and with the passing of time he added to his stock a line of furs. Eventually his business grew to such proportions that he found it necessary to occupy all four stories of his building. The business founded by him in 1851 has been continuously in existence ever since, and is now conducted by his son, Robert C.
Phraortes E. Bancroft was for years a director of the Lagonda National Bank. Originally a whig in politics, with the birth of the repub- lican party he joined that organization and supported its principles and candidates faithfully during the remainder of his career. He was a Knight Templar Mason and for more than a half a century an Odd Fellow. In 1845 Mr. Bancroft married Miss Catherine Moody, who
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died in 1854, without issue. Mr. Bancroft married, July 12, 1859, Miss Louisa M. Mayhugh, and to this union there was born one son, Robert C. Mr. Bancroft was one of the builders of Springfield and lived long enough to see the primitive frontier village develop into a modem city of the present period. His death occurred February 23, 1907.
Robert C. Bancroft, the only son of Phraortes E. Bancroft, was born at Springfield, Ohio, November 7, 1866, and has always made this city his home. His early education was obtained in private schools, fol- lowing which he took the preparatory and collegiate courses at Witten- berg College, where he was a student for five and one-half years. He belonged to the class which eventually graduated in 1887, but Mr. Ban- croft, in 1885, had left his studies to enter the store of* his father, which was still situated at 4 East Main Street, its location for sixty years. In 1911 Rober C. Bancroft moved to his present location, at 25 East Main Street. This business, which was incorporated in 1913, is the oldest in continuous existence at Springfield. For thirty-six years Robert C. Bancroft has been engaged in business here, and during this time has established a splendid record and built up an enviable reputation. He was one of the eleven men of Clark County, and nine of Springfield, who handled all the local activities of the War Chest during the World war, and at all times has been one of the city's foremost men in public life. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1913, president of the Rotary Club in 1917, for years has been one of the active members of the Covenant Presbyterian Church and is a Knight Templar member of the Masonic fraternity. In 1916 he organized the Bancroft-Limbocker Company, which built the Bancroft Hotel, an ornament to the city and one of the leading hotels of the state. He is the sole owner of this property. Mr. Bancroft has made no particular stir in local politics save to exercise the right of franchise
On October 7, 1891, he married Miss Esther B. Simpson, daughter of Joseph Simpson, of Springfield, and they have two children : Robert C, Jr., and Dorothy L. When the United States entered the great war Robert C. Bancroft, Jr., entered the training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, where he was made a second lieutenant in the motor truck division. He sailed for France in December, 1917, and was in the active zone during practically all of his service, which was terminated by his honorable discharge in June, 1919. While abroad he was given his first lieutenancy.
Charles Bauer. It is not too much to say that the late Charles Bauer was one of Springfield's most patriotic, unselfish and useful citizens, this being but a just tribute to one who for years was actively identified with its growth and progress, and one whose integrity of character and sense of personal responsibility won for him the confidence and esteem of all who knew him.
Charles Bauer was bom at Springfield, Ohio, December 23, 1869, and died in his beautiful home in this city, the deplorable result of a railroad accident, on March 18, 1922. He was a son of Jacob and Margaret (Weimer) Bauer, the former of whom was born in Switzerland and the latter in Germany, and both are deceased. Jacob Bauer came
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to Springfield in early manhood, and for a number of years was engaged in the flour milling business, and in his later year was a feed merchant.
The public schools of Springfield prepared Charles Bauer for futures usefulness. He was yet a boy when he went to work for the old firm of Ward, Bushnell & Glessner, now the International Harvester Company of Springfield, with which concern he remained for about fifteen years, when the death of his father left the latter's feed store as his inheritance and he assumed charge. The business transacted at that time was but a modest one, but Mr. Bauer had ambition, combined with good judg- ment, and gradually expanded and added other commodities, imtil within a few years he found himself at the head of one of the largest concerns in the coal, hay, grain, lime, sewer pipe, cement and builders' supplies in the city. The development of this business into one of such large importance was accomplished through his own industry and thrift, in combination with the confidence and patronage of his fellow citizens, who had learned to trust his word in business transactions and accept it as readily as another's bond.
Mr. Bauer was active and prominent in public affairs, and the city as a municipality was greatly benefited by his activities. He served as a member of the City Council for five years, two years of this time being president of the council, and his earnest efforts for the city's best interests are easily recalled. In 1912-13 he was a member of the charter committee and helped frame and have adopted the city charter of today. In so doing he gave evidence of his unselfish character, for at that time he was the logical candidate for the office of mayor, but he regarded the charter plan of government as the proper form, and willingly gave up his chance for political advancement so that he could put through the city charter. He always regretted that the necessity had arisen that forced him to leave school at an early age, and this may have stimulated his interest in the public schools with a view of widening their advantages in the interest of those who had need of help. For some years he was a member of the Board of Education and president of the same, his sound judgment and practical ideas making his services unusually valu- able. As a member of the People's Municipal League his activities in this body earned for him the gratitude of his fellow citizens, for there was no welfare work in which he did not take part and many reforms were, in a measure, the result of his participation. He was earnest in calling attention to many of the menaces to life and health that, strangely enough, are permitted to exist in many modern and progressive cities, and in particular urged the elimination of the many dangerous grade crossings in the City of Springfield. Unfortunately these appeals met with but tardy response, and because of this Springfield, in tragic manner, lost one of her most worthy and helpful citizens, the accident which caused Mr. Bauer's death being the result of the demolishing: of his automobile as he was crossing the tracks of the D. T. & I. Railroad on March 18, 1922.
In the domain of politics Mr. Bauer was an important factor in the councils of the democratic party in Clark County, where for ten years nc served continuously as chairman of the County Central Committee.
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He took an active part in all local patriotic movements during the World war, contributing time, money and personal influence.
Mr. Bauer married, December 23, 1905, Mrs. Vinnie (Kite) Peden, who was born in Champaign County, Ohio, a daughter of Rev. James T. and Mary (Comer) Kite, the latter of whom survives. The father of Mrs. Bauer was a well known minister of the Baptist Church. Follow- ing the death of Mr. Bauer, Mrs. Bauer assumed charge of his business and has capably carried it on ever since. She is a member of the First Baptist Church at Springfield, of which Mr. Bauer was a trustee.
Social by nature and companionable in every circle, Mr. Bauer wa« identified with a number of the representative fraternal organizations. He was a prominent Mason and Shriner, a member of Clark Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons, Da)rton Consistory, S. R., and Antioch Temple, Mystic Shrine. He belonged also to Springfield Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; MoncrieflFe Lodge No. 205, Knights of Pythias; Lone Star Lodge No. 132, Odd Fellows; Champion Aerie No. 397, Fraternal Order of Eagles ; and Ontario Tribe No. 207, Independent Order of Red Men.
JosiAH El WOOD Cooper, M. D. There is no profession or vocation to which men devote themselves more dignified in its ethics or more reasonably helpful to the world than that of medicine. Similar claims are made by the church and by the law, but they, while essentially true enough, are based on other foundations. The healing art demands of its real followers the natural reverence for the dignity of the human body that commands the exercise of all the skill that years of study and training have brought to them to cure its ills. Justly is this pro- cession in the forefront. Methods may differ, systems may not be quite alike and personality counts for much, but the aim and principle remain the same. Among the members of the medical profession of Clark County one who was well known for many years at Springfield was the late Dr. Josiah El wood Cooper, whose skill and faithfulness, together with his determined hopefulness and cheerfulness, made his presence valued in many households.
Doctor Cooper was bom at Claysville, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1872, a son of Lewis W. and Lydia CMcClung) Cooper, and was one of a family of nine children. Doctor Cooper, after attending the public school of his native locality, entered the State Normal School at Erie, Pennsylvania, and then the Eclectic Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine with the class of 1896. For a few months he was engaged in prac- tice in Dishler, Ohio, but came to Springfield in 1897, where he suc- ceeded to the practice of Doctor Nelson, on Lagonda Avenue. Later his practice increased to such an extent that he opened offices in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building. Doctor Cooper rose to a high place in his calling and had the respect and esteem not only of his patients, but of his professional brethren and those outside of the profession with whom he came into contact. He was an examining physician for many of the lodges, and belonged to the various organiza- tions of his calling, of which he was a close and constant student. Called to his death, November 3, 1921, before he had reached his fif-
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tieth year, he had accomplished more than many physicians do in an entire lifetime of earnest effort. He was a republican in politics, and held membership in the Loyal Order of Moose, in which he was exam- ining physician; the Protective Home Circle, the Knights of the Mac- cabees, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in all of which he had numerous friends. His religious faith was that of the United Presbyterian Church.
On April 27, 1915, at Springfield, Doctor Cooper was united in mar- riage with Edna Allison, who was born at Springfield, December 22, 1884, a daughter of Levi and Arabella (Neff) Allison, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Springfield, and a granddaughter of Benjamin Allison. They had no children. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Cooper has resided in the beautiful home at No. 1611 Lagonda Avenue. She is a member of the Lutheran Church and takes much interest in religious and charitable work.
Oilman John Morean, superintendent of preparatory work and advertising department of the Crowell Publishing Company of Spring- field, is not only recognized as one of the experts of the country in his highly specialized field of endeavor, but has also been prominent in civic and welfare movements at Springfield for a number of years. Like a number of the well-known and successful business men of the city, he is a product of the farm, having been born on his father's homestead in Floyd County, Iowa, April 18, 1882, a son of Oilman S. and Mary A. (Ranche) Morean.
Oilman S. Mor^n was bom at Sheboygan, Michigan, in 1852, a son of Oilman John Morean, who was of Scotch-Irish descent and of Scotch birth. As a young man he immigrated to the United States and first settled in Wisconsin, whence he removed to Michigan. Oilman S. Morean resided in Michigan until the summer of 1882, at which time he removed to Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa, and became a pioneer insurance man of that locality, also owning and operating a farm. Later he became adjuster for the State of Iowa for the Continental Fire Insurance Company, a position which he held for many years. He was likewise interested in fast horses and for some years owned and raced a stable of horses which he campaigned on western tracks. He is now living in comfortable retirement on his farm in Webster City, Iowa. His wife, Mary A. Ranche, was bom in 1854, in New York State, a daughter of John R. Ranche, a native of Germany, who came to the United States with his widowed mother and settled in New York State, where his death occurred in 1866.
Oilman John Morean, of this notice, was reared at Sanborn, Iowa, until he was seven years of age, at which time he was taken to Web- ster City, where he resided until he was fifteen, in the meantime secur- ing his educational training in the public schools. At Webster City he served an apprenticeship to the printer's trade under the preceptor- ship of LeRoy Evans, the well-known Iowa newspaper man of that time, and on completing his primary training in his trade went to Des Moines, where he secured employment in the bindery of Oeorge A. Miller & Company, where he later rose to the position of foreman. In 1901
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Mr. Morean went to Hamlin, Minnesota, where he joined his father, who at that time was at Hamlin with his string of race horses, and became a driver for the elder man, his success in that line gaining him the sobriquet of "the boy wonder." He has the distinction of having driven in a race against the redoubtable veteran **Pop" Geers, one of the best-known and most capable figures of the track, and having won from the veteran in a driving finish. Mr. Morean spent the year 1902 in traveling about the country, working for brief periods in diflFerent printing establishments and picking up all available information per- taining to printing and its allied branches. His travels wound up tem- porarily at St. Paul, Minnesota, where he became foreman in the print- ing shop of the St. Paul Pioneer-Press newspaper.
In 1909 Mr. Morean came to Springfield and became foreman of the composing room of the Crowell Publishing Company, which at that time was a modest concern in comparison with its present size. For a number of years he has had complete charge of all direct effort work and job press departments, as well as advertising for the Springfield plant and is now justly recognized as one of the country's experts in his line of endeavor. Mr. Morean has been active in civic and welfare work at Springfield for a number of years. He was instrumental in establishing the Community Golf Course, and is the father of the Elks' "No Empty Stockings," which has for its purpose the filling of Christmas stockings of the needy children, which movement is now national in scope. He is a member of the Community Council and the Chamber of Commerce, and is fraternally affiliated with Red Star Lodge No. 205, K. of P.; and Springfield Lodge No. 51, B. P. O. E., in which he is chairman of the house committee. He also belongs to the Spring- field Golf Club and is a charter member and president of the Lions Club. Mr. Morean has four show saddle horses, one pair of black- five- gaited mares, Hindu Beauty and Sweet Beauty, one Kentucky-bred three-gaited combination mare, Sweet Patootee, and one five-gaited bay mare. The Sweet Patootee mare has never been outside of first and second since started at the show ring.
On May 4, 1904, Mr. Morean was united in marriage with Miss Esther Emma Todd, daughter of William Todd, of Fort Dodge, Iowa. Mrs. Morean died in September, 1918, leaving a son, Todd, who was bom December 22, 1908, at St. Paul, Minnesota. In June, 1919, Mr. Morean married Mrs. Florence Cassidy, daughter of Hiram Lapham. By her former marriage with G. B. Cassidy Mrs. Morean had one son, Robert.
Lee B. Corry is the executive head of the firm of L. B. Corry & Company, which conducts one of the largest and most successful gen- eral insurance agencies in the City of Springfield, with finely equipped offices in the M. & M. Building.
Mr. Corry was born in Greene County, Ohio, on the Uth of March, 1855, and is a son of William R. and Eliza (Brown) Corry, of whose family of ten children two died in infancy, the other eight attaining to maturity and all of the number still living except the eldest. Wil- liam R. Corry was bom in Pennsylvania and was a representative of the family in whose honor the City of Corry, that state, was named.
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In 1831 his parents removed to Greene County, Ohio, and there he assisted in reclaiming the pioneer homestead from the forest wilds. He was in the 100-days* service in the Civil war and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church.
Lee B. Corry, fourth in order of birth in the family of ten children, was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and acquired his prelim- inary education in the district schools of his native county. Later he continued his studies in turn in Antioch College and the Lebanon Nor- mal School. He continued his alliance with farm enterprise in Greene County until his marriage, in 1879, and thereafter was associated with his father-in-law, Elder R. Stewart, in the operation of the latter's flouring mills at Clifton, Greene County, imtil the autumn of 1884, when he came to Springfield and took the clerical position in the employ of the Springfield Manufacturing Cpmpany. When the com- pany later went into the hands of a receiver Mr. Corry was made super- intendent of the plant, the operation of which was continued. In the spring of 1892 he purchased the old established Ohio Farmers Insurance Agency, from which he has developed his present substantial and pros- perous general insurance business, he having purchased at intervals other insurance agencies and consolidated their business with his own, which now is one of extensive scope and representative clientage. His elder son, Clifford C, being now the junior member of the firm.
Mr. Corry is a progressive business man and a progressive and lib- eral citizen. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. He is a valued member of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce. In the Masonic fraternity he has been for twenty years a trustee of Qark Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, his maximum York Rite affiliation being with the Commandery of Knights Templars in his home city, besides which he is a member of the Mystic Shrine and has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite.
September 24, 1879, recorded the marriage of Mr. Corry and Miss Nannie J. Stewart, youngest daughter of the late Elder R. Stewart, of Clifton, Greene County, and of the three children of this union the firstborn, Bessie, died in early childhood; Clifford C, as previously noted, is a partner of his father in the insurance business; and Wil- liam R., who likewise is associated with the business, was a second lieutenant with the American Expeditionary Forces in France in the World war. He received his preliminary training at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana and at Chillicothe, Ohio, and was in active service in France for about one year.
Roy a. Goodfellow, the present efficient and popular county treas- urer of Clark County, is a native son of the county and a representative of one of its best known and most honored pioneer families. His great- grandfather, Moore Goodfellow, was bom in Ireland in 1786, came to the United States in 1808 and shortly afterward became one of the earliest settlers in what is now Harmony Township, Clark County, Ohio. His marriage to a daughter of John Nicholson is said to have been the first wedding solemnized in Harmony Township. John Nicholson set- tled on Beaver Creek, this county, in 1806. Moore Goodfellow was
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a man of energy and resourcefulness, acquired about 600 acres of land and developed one of the excellent pioneer farms of the county. On the old homestead he and his wife remained until their deaths and his was the distinction of having represented Clark County as a loyal soldier in the War of 1812. The children of Moore Goodfellow were nine in number — five sons and four daughters.
Samuel Goodfellow, grandfather of the present treasurer of Clark County, was a child at the time the family home was established in the midst of the forest wilds of this county, and he was reared to man- hood under the conditions that marked the pioneer days. Here he married Mahala Jones, and they settled on a farm in Harmony Town- ship, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Samuel Good- fellow erected on his farm one of the first large bams in that part of the county and the barn dances there held were events of much social enjoyment in the community. "Uncle Sam" and "Aunt Mahala" Good- fellow were well known throughout the county and numbered their friends by the score. He and his wife became the parents of three children, all of whom are now deceased.
Milton B. Goodfellow, son of Samuel and Mahala (Jones) Good- fellow, was bom and reared on the old homestead farm in Harmony Township and in his youth received excellent educational advantages, including those of the Chandler Robbins Military School at Spring- field, and those of Buchtel College at Akron, an institution now known as Akron University. The initial activities of Milton B. Goodfellow after he began his independent career were in connection with farm industry, and upon removing from the farm to Springfield he became a traveling salesman for the Whitely interests. For several years in his later life he was delinquent tax collector for Clark County. He died in 1910, and his widow still resides at Springfield. Mr. Good- fellow was a republican, was a Knights Templar Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine, and he was one of the well known and highly hon- ored citizens of his native county. He served for a time as a member of the City Council. It was said that he knew by name a greater num- ber of the citizens of Clark County than did any other one man. He is survived by four children: Laura (Mrs. J. Forbes Anderson), Elno S., Roy A. and Ruby G. (Mrs. Robert Geiger).
Roy A. Goodfellow was born December 9, 1884, and is indebted to the public schools of Springfield for his early education. For the past ten years he has been actively identified with administrative affairs in the office of the county treasurer, where he first served as second deputy and later as first deputy treasurer, and entered upon his service as county treasurer in September, 1921, his election to this office having occurred in November, 1920. His long association with the fiscal affairs of the county assures an able and careful administration on his part, and his election proved a fitting testimonial to his previous efficient service, as well as to his personal popularity in his native county. He is a republican and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. He is an adept in fly-fishing and his hobby lies along this line of piscatorial diversion.
June 6, 1917, recorded the marriage of Mr. Goodfellow and Miss Ethel L. Meyer, and they are popular factors in the social life of Springfield.
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Albert Eglinger as a youth became associated with his father's business, has for many years been a successful merchant in Springfield, and has also been prominent in city affairs, being a former vice-mayor.
He was bom November 12, 1869. His birthplace then was out in the country in Springfield Township, but is now within the city lim- its. His father, the late Albert Eglinger, was a pioneer florist of Clark County. He was bom in Switzerland in 1831, came to the United States when a young man, lived for several years at Cincinnati, and from there came to Springfield Township to take over the management of the nurseries of Thomas Worder. He knew the floral and green- house business thoroughly, and not long afterward he established him- self in an independent business as a florist in Springfield. He con- ducted a prosperous business, one of the first of the kind in Springfield, until poor health caused him to retire. After selling his establishment he turned his capital into the retail grocery business and continued a prosperous store under his name until his death on December 3, 1905. He married Louisa Keifer, who was born in Switzerland in 1833, and came with her parents when she was a girl to the United States. She grew up in Clark County and died at Springfield in 1908. She and her husband were active members of the Lutheran Church.
Albert Eglinger, Jr., acquired his early education in the public schools of Springfield. He practically grew up in his father's floral and grocery business, and after completing his education he became assistant in the grocery store. On his father's death he succeeded to the business and for the post seventeen years has been conducting it under his own name. He has developed what is now the leading west end store for groceries, provisions and meats.
There is an important record of public service attached to Mr. Eglinger's name in Springfield. He was twice elected a member of the City Council for terms of two years each. The last six months of his first term he was president of the council and was then re-elected for a two-year term as president, which made him vice-mayor of the city. After he left the City Council he was appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of the City Hospital, and held that office for eight years until he resigned. He is a member of the Springfield Retail Grocers' Association, belongs to the First Lutheran Church and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias.
In 1895 he married Miss Dora E. Michael, daughter of Frederick Michael, who was an old and honored citizen of Clark County. Mr. and Mrs. Eglinger have one son, Harold F., now in the sophomore class at Wittenberg College.
Charles Adam Young. Prominent among the business men of Springfield who during recent years have taken advantage of the oppor- tunities offered here for advancement and have risen thereby to posi- tions of commercial and industrial preferment is Charles Adam Young, vice president and treasurer of the Springfield Abbatoir Company. Mr. Young is one of the self-made men of Springfield and his con- nection with a number of leading enterprises has been gained solely through individual effort and merit.
Mr. Young was bom at Donnelsville, Clark County, Ohio, May 16, 1872, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Krishbaum) Young. His
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father was bom in Germany and was about ten years of age when brought to the United States by his parents, who first settled in Penn- sylvania and from that state came to Ohio and settled at Donnelsville. John Young, who was engaged for many years in the meat business, died in 1903 at the age of seventy-two years. His wife, Elizabeth, was also bom in Germany and was but a child when she came to this country with her parents, who settled first in Pennsylvania, coming thence to Clark County. Her death occurred in 1920 when she was eighty-two years of age. To Mr. and Mrs. Young there were bom four sons, all of whom have been engaged, at times, in the meat busi- ness: John A., now a livestock dealer at Yellow Springs, Ohio; Peter, now head salesman for the Pittsburgh branch of Kingman & Company, meat packers; William, who is engaged in the retail meat business at Berkeley, Calif omia; and Charles Adam, of this record.
Charles Adam Young passed through the public schools at Don- nelsville and received his introduction to the meat business in the establishment of his father. In 1892 he engaged in the wholesale meat business in his native town and three years later removed to Aberfdda, Clark County, where he continued in the same line of endeavor for a period of eighteen years. In 1912 he removed his business to Spring- field, and, in length of time, is the oldest wholesale meat dealer in the city. Mn Young has been identified with a number of important Springfield enterprises and is widely and favorably know in business circles of the city. He was one of the organizers of the Springfield Abbatoir Company, of which he has been vice president and treasurer since its incorporation, and which owes much of its success to his busi- ness ability and judgment. He is likewise a director in the Spring- field National Bank, the Springfield Bond and Mortgage Company and the Purity Ice Cream and Dairy Company. As a fratemalist he holds membership in the Knights of Pythias, and is also a member of the United Commercial Travelers. His religious connection is with the Lutheran Church.
In 1895 Mr. Young was united in marriage with Miss Amy Minich, the daughter of D. C. and Elizabeth Minich. Mrs. Young was bom at Enon, Clark County, and died in 1918, leaving two sons, Robert M. and John C, both of whom are students at Wittenberg College.
Richard Edward O'Brien. During a period of twenty-three years Richard Edward O'Brien has been chief of police of Springfield, and in this time has developed a department that serves as a model for eifficiency and discipline. Chief O'Brien won promotion to the head of his depart- ment because of his fearlessness as an officer and his executive talents, and his courteous and pleasing personality. He is a native son of Spring- field, and was born January 6, 1860, a son of the late John and Dora (McAvoy) O'Brien.
John O'Brien was born in Ireland in 1828, and was a child when brought to the United Stdtes by his parents, also natives of that country, who located at Cincinnati. There he completed his education, was reared to manhood, and continued to make his home until the early '50s. He was married in that city, of which his wife was a native. On coming to Springfield John O'Brien applied himself to the business of teaming.
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which he followed for many years, and died in this city in 1886. His widow survived him for a long period, passing away in 1917, when she had reached advanced years. They were faithful members of the Catho- lic Church, and were the parents of the following children : Mary, who became the wife of William Peifer, of Springfield ; Richard Edward, of this notice; Annie, who became the wife of Patrick Lawler, of Spring- field; Patrick E., superintendent of the Springfield Street Railway Com- pany; Jennie, the widow of the late Bernard Shourlin, of Springfield; and William, who is connected with the Kelley Motor Truck Company of Springfield.
Richard Edward O'Brien was reared in Springfield, where he obtained a practical education in the public schools, and received his introduction to the serious affairs of life as an employe in a local printing establish- ment. Later he learned the trade of house painting, and did job and contract work for several years, but these employments seemed too prosaic for the youth, in whose blood there thrilled the spirit of adventure, and in May, 1890, he secured a position on the Springfield Police Force. From his boyhood he had been able to manage horses, and on joining the department he was made driver of the patrol wagon, a position which he held for two years. For two years thereafter he served as patrolman, was then made a special officer and later a detective, gradually working his way upward, and displaying at all times the absolute courage and fidelity to duty that won the commendation of his superior officers and the admiration and respect of his fellows. On May 1, 1899, he was appointed chief of police, a position which he has held to the present time, with a long record for efficiency and progressiveness. He has con- tinually strengthened his reputation as a fine disciplinarian, and upon the occasion of unusual disturbance of the public peace and in the unrav- eling of many notorious crimes his coolness and bravery as an officer and his skill as a detective have been in high demand.
Chief O'Brien is one of the best known chiefs of police in Ohio, and is now a member of the Board of Governors of the Ohio Police Chiefs Association, of which organization he has served as president and vice president ; a member of the International Police Association and a mem- ber of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His religious con- nection is with St. Raphael's Catholic Church. In his private relations he presents an admirable example of upright and able citizenship.
On May 16, 1886, Chief O'Brien was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Bums, who was born and reared at Springfield, the daughter of the late Edward Burns, and to this union there have been born four children: Gretta, William E., Walter and Dora.
William Edward Lucas is marking with loyal efficiency his admin- istration as city engineer of Springfield, and his interest in all that touches the wellbeing of the city is emphasized by his claiming the same as the place of his nativity, his birth having here occurred on the 2d of October, 1886. He is a son of the late Richard R. and Mary E. (McComb) Lucas, the former of whom was bom in Wood County, this state, of Pennsylvania-Dutch parentage, and the latter of whom was born at Newark, Ohio, of Scotch-Irish lineage. As a youth Richard R. Lucas was a successful teacher in the district schools, and he also
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gained technical skill at the carpenter's trade. In 1880 he established his residence at Springfield, and after here following his trade for a time as a journeyman he engaged independently in contracting and building. In 1894 he assumed the position of foreman of the woodworking depart- ment of the Springfield Metallic Casket Company, and of this post he continued the incumbent until his death, on the 15th of November, 1914, his wife having passed away on the 26th of the preceding January.
In the public schools of Springfield William E. Lucas continued his studies until he had profited by the curriculum of the high school, and thereafter he took special work in engineering at the school maintained by the local Young Men's Christian Association, as well as effective courses through the medium of a leading correspondence school. He spared himself neither time nor effort in fortifying himself for the pro- fession of his choice, and in 1905 he found opportunity to engage in active service in civil engineering, in the capacity of rodman in the office and work of the city engineer of Springfield. His experience has covered all phases of the work of this department of the city service, and his advancement has been won through loyal and efficient service. In July, 1920, Mr. Lucas became chief engineer of the city, and in this office he is making a record second to that of no previous incumbent of this important municipal office. He is a member of the Ohio Engineering Society and the American Society of Civil Engineers, is a republican in political allegiance, is affiliated with Kissell Lodge No. 674, F. and A. M., with Springfield Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he and his wife are communicants of Christ Church, Pro- testant Episcopal, in their home city. Mrs. Lucas, whose maiden name was Minna Geron, was born and reared at Springfield and is a daughter of Frantz Geron, a native of Germany.
Ralph Houghton Wetherbee, manager of the Samuel Bingham's Sons Manufacturing Company, has been in the sales end of the printer's roller business for a number of years, and finally came to Springfield to take charge of the local Bingham plant, one of the largest industries of its kind in the country.
Mr. Wetherbee was bom in New York City, March 12, 1886, but represents substantial lines of early Colonial stock in New England. His parents are Frederick and Melvina Amanda (Houghton) Wetherbee. His paternal grandfather, Zophar Wetherbee, was born at Harvard, Massachusetts, and his maternal grandfather, John Houghton, was a native of Concord, Massachusetts. Frederick Wetherbee for a number of years was a salesman in New York City, but is now living retired at Harvard, Massachusetts, his birthplace. He is now in his seventy-seventh year, and his wife, who was bom at Bolton, Massachusetts, is now in her seventy-fifth year. They are members of the Congregational Church.
Ralph H. Wetherbee spent his early life in New York City, acquired a public school education there, and at the age of sixteen went to work for the China & Japan Trading Company of New York. He was with that corporation until 1910, when he became a salesman of printer's rollers. The following year he moved his headquarters to Pittsburgh, in 1914 to Columbus, and in 1917 came to Springfield, where he has since been sales manager of the Samuel Bingham's Sons Company, manufac- turers of printer's rollers.
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One of the younger men in the commercial affairs of Springfield Mr. Wetherbee has interested himself in various organizations of both a business and social nature. He is affiliated with Springfield Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is now serving his third consecutive term as exalted ruler, an unusual honor seldom paid in any Elks Lodge. He has three times represented the lodge and the National Grand Lodge of Elks. He is also a member of Anthony Lodge No. 455, F. and A. M., Dayton Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton. He is a charter mem- ber and was the first president of the Springfield Lions Club, is a mem- ber of the Springfield Automobile Qub and the Chamber of Commerce.
May 1, 1910, Mr. Wetherbee married Ruth May Bagster. She was bom at Harvard, Massachusetts, daughter of William T. and Nancy (Wright) Bagster. They have one son, Ralph H., Jr., born September 20, 1911.
Charles Butler Ham ma, M. D. While he has devoted many years to that indispensable service of a general medical and surgical practice, Doctor Hamma is a man of recognized special attainments and achieve- ments. He has been established at Springfield for the past ten years, and represents a family well known in the field of scholarship and profes- sions in Southern Ohio.
Doctor Hamma was born at Yellow Springs in Green County, Ohio, September 5, 1865, son of Andrew W. and Mathilda (Carter) Hamma. His grandfather was Levi Hamma. Andrew Hamma was bom in Pennsylvania in 1834, and when he was a boy between the age of twelve and fourteen his parents moved to Ohio, making the journey by wagons over the mountains and across the Ohio country until they reached Richland County. Andrew Hamma grew up on the farm in Richland County, and after reaching his majority he bought land in Greene County, and from there moved to Greene Township, Clark County, where he prospered and enjoyed the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens. He died in 1905. His wife, Mathilda, was born in Richland County and died in the spring of 1913, the day of the great Dayton flood
Doctor Hamma acquired his early education while living on the home farm. He also attended Clifton High School and was a student in night schools. He completed his medical course in the Miami Medical College in 1892, and in the thirty years since his graduation he has been an unceasing student and has kept in touch with many of the most distin- guished leaders of his profession. He has done post graduate work at Philadelphia, at Berlin, Germany, Vienna, Austria, and Dublin, Ireland. Beginning in 1895 he was in practice at Cincinnati with Dr. C. C. Agan. In 1907 he returned to Yellow Springs, and in 1910 he again went abroad with his uncle, Doctor Hamma, founder of Hamma Divinity School of Wittenberg College, and devoted another nine months to hospital work and experience. After his return he opened his office in Springfield in 1910, and from 1911 to 1917 was on the medical staff of the Springfield City Hospital. Doctor Hamma, during the World war, was in the Med- ical Corps as an expert examiner of heart and lungs. He attended the First Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, was commis- sioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps, and subsequently served at
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Camp Taylor, Kentucky; Camp Greenleaf, Georgia; Camp Dix, New Jersey, and Camp McClellan, where he was finally discharged, being mus- tered out with the rank of captain. Doctor Hamma is a member of the Clark County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Association, is affiliated with St. Andrews Lodge No. 619, F. and A. M., and is a mem- ber of the First Lutheran Church.
SciPio Eugene Baker. The late Scipio Eugene Baker, prominent citizen, successful manufacturer and banker, and founder of the Cham- pion Chemical Company of Springfield, was descended from two pioneer families of Clark County, the Bakers and the Millers. His grandfather, Ezra D. Baker, came from New Jersey to Clark County in 1805. He moved to Enon, married Anna Morgan, and reared four children. Ezra D. Baker attained a very advanced age, and at the time of his death was one of the oldest settlers in Madison Township. He was active in public life, serving as county commissioner four terms and in various other ways contributed to the advancement of his community. He long survived his worthy wife, who died in 1867.
Alonzo Addison Baker, M. D., son of Ezra D. and Anna (Morgan) Baker, was born on the Baker farm near Enon in 1831 and received an excellent education. In 1845 he began the study of medicine, in 1846 and 1847 attended medical lectures at Starling, and in 1870 graduated from the Ohio Medical Collie with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He practiced medicine in Clark and Champaign counties until 1878, in which year he removed to. Springfield. During the Civil war he was commissioned surgeon of the Fifty-third Regiment, Ohio National Guard, but physical disability forced him to resign. Later in life he became interested in manufacturing, and was president and treasurer of the Champion Chemical Company of Springfield, which he had helped to found. He was also financially interested in and one of the organizers of the Springfield Metallic Casket Company, which is also a leading Springfield concern today. Doctor Baker married Miss Margaret Miller, who belonged to the old Shellabarger family of Clark and Champaign counties, and to them four children were bom.
Scipio Eugene Baker, son of Dr. Alonzo Addison and Margaret (Miller) Baker, was bom at Donnelsville, near Enon, Ohio, June 12, 1860, and died September 25, 1921, at Beth-El Hospital, Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he had gone for treatment. As a country doctor's son he had the advantage, like so many men of later achievement, of a child- hood and youth spent in rural surroundings, where were developed funda- mental qualities of industry and integrity. As a young man he located at Springfield, where he attended Wittenberg College, from which he was graduated in 1878, and for a time engaged in the study of law, but eventually gave up his aspirations for a professional career to enter upon one of business, joining his father in the Springfield Metallic Casket Company, of which he became manager in 1884, in the following year purchasing a part interest in the business. In those early days Mr. Baker often assisted with his own hands in the manufacture of the company's product. It was during this period that he founded the company to which later his energies and abilities were to be most largely devoted, the Champion Chemical Company; this was in 1887. In 1899, when the
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Foos Gas Engine Company bought and moved into the old Knife and Bar factory, Mr. Baker disposed of his holdings in the Springfield Metallic Casket Company. About this time, also, he associated himself with the firm of Mast, Foos & Company, makers of wind engines and pumps, and in the following year became interested in the salt-producing industry and reorganized the Royal Salt Company of Kanapolis, Kansas, the presidency of which he retained throughout the remainder of his life. Mr. Baker's business and executive ability next found expression in the reorganization of the Foos Gas Engine Company of Springfield, of which he became president and treasurer in 1897. He was also a director of the Western Salt Company of St. Louis. At the time of his demise he held the offices above mentioned, was vice president and a director of the Springfield National Bank, and president and treasurer of the Champion Chemical Company.
Among the industries under the direction of Mr. Baker probably no other was quite so close to his heart as the Champion Chemical Company, which in the early days of his business career he had helped to organize. This business was the outgrowth of the Hill Fluid Company, in which a part-ownership was held by Mr. Baker's father. To the son was due its later development, its outstanding record of success and the building up of an organization which is continuing the service upon which that suc- cess rests. The Champion Chemical Company was a pioneer in develop- ing improved methods of embalming and in perfecting high-grade embalming fluids. As in the case of other companies controlled by Mr. Baker, the quality of the produft has always been regarded as the prime factor to be considered. In this field, more almost than in any other, Mr. Baker taught his organization absolute certainty of results is possible only through uniformity and dependability of product. Hence quality, rather than price, has been the key word in the Champion plant. The scope of the company's service was greatly expanded during the time of Mr. Baker's presidency, and he built up its line until it embraced, and still embraces, nearly everything required in the modem direction of funerals. One of the products of the Champion factory is a complete line of steel grave vaults, among them being the oldest of grave vaults as well as the latest, the latter being a vault of particular design and qual- ity which perpetuates the name of Mr. Baker.
Until a few days prior to his death Mr. Baker continued his business activities. On September 16, 1921, accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Jessie (Foos) Baker, he left on a business and recuperative trip through the West. Hearing of her father's serious illness, his daughter Margaret hurried westward, but he was not destined to return alive. What had seemed to be only a heavy cold when he had left Springfield developed into a form of pneumonia, and he passed away at Beth-El Hospital, Colo- rado Springs, Sunday morning, September 25.
During the years of his active life Mr. Baker became a well-known and useful member of society, with activities leading in various direc- tions. He was well-known in a social way, as a member of the Lagonda and Country clubs, was quietly active in philanthropies, was a Knight Templar Mason, and was a communicant and official member of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church. A wide circle of business acquaintances and friends extending throughout the country remember
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with respect and admiration his qualities of sterling integrity, of untiring devotion to his tasks and of loyal adherence to worthy principles.
On June 25, 1895, Mr. Baker was united in marriage with Miss Jessie Foos, and they became the parents of one daughter, Margaret, who makes her home with her mother at Springfield. Mrs. Baker was bom at Springfield, and is a daughter of the late John and Samantha (Mark) Foos. Mr. Foos, a pioneer manufacturer and capitalist of Springfield, was born in Madison County, Ohio, in 1826 and come to Springfield in 1848. In 1861 he puchased the Barnett Oil Mill, later the Steel, Lehman & Compapj Mill, and became a large dealer in seed and oil, although during the Civil war period he devoted his energies to the manufacture of woolens. In 1870 he became a partner in the Mast-Foos Company, and in 1876 became heavily interested in the St. John Sewing Machine Com- pany. From the time of his locating at Springfield until his death Mr. Foos was one of the most prominent business citizens and manufacturers of his day in the city.
Peter A. Dillahunt is a veterinary surgeon, with an extensive experience of nearly thirty years in the profession, and a large part of that time was spent in the Federal service in connection with the Bureau of Animal Husbandry. Doctor Dillahunt is a native of Clark County, and for several years has been engaged in a successful private practice, his home and stables being located on McCreight Avenue.
He was born in German Township, Clark County, December 30, 1869, son of Andrew J., and Mary (Miller) Dillahunt, his father a native of Maryland and his mother of German Township. His paternal grandparents, George W. and Elizabeth (Garvin) Dillahunt, came from Maryland during the Civil war and located in German Township. The Miller family were early settlers of that township, and the maternal grandmother of Doctor Dillahunt was Rachael Bower. Andrew J. Dilla- hunt was a well known farmer and a veterinarian of German Township, where he died in 1905. After his death his widow removed to Springfield, where she now resides. Their children were: Elizabeth, of North- ampton, Ohio, widow of S. J. Patterson; Peter A.; G. Luther, living with his mother ; Fred, of Springfield ; Frank, of Mount Holly, Michigan ; and Otto C, of San Diego, California.
Peter A. Dillahunt acquired a good education in the grammar and high schools of German Township, and at the age of twenty-one entered the Ontario Veterinary College at Toronto, Canaua. He was graduated in 1893, and at once returned to Springfield, and conducted a successful practice over Clark County for fifteen years. In 1908 he joined the Bureau of Animal Industry, under the United States Department of Agriculture, as a veterinary inspector. The duties of this position required a great deal of travel over many states, and at the end of ten years, in 1918, he resigned, primarily for the purpose of looking after the farm of his father-in-law, Henry Kobelanz, in Springfield Township. After the death of Mr. Kobelanz on December 11, 1918, Doctor Dillahunt continued the management and operation of the farm until March 29, 1920, since which date he has given his time atid attention almost entirely to his veterinary practice.
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December 15, 1896, Doctor Dillahunt married Elva Kobelanz, a native of Springfield Township and daughter of John Henry and Anna M. (Snyder) Kobelanz. Mr. and Mrs. Dillahunt are the parents of four children: Lelah Ester, wife of Omer Fouts, of Columbus, Ohio; Henry Cecil, a student still at home, as are also Arthur Linden and Anna Martha. Mrs. Dillahunt was educated in the public schools of Springfield. They are active members of the first Lutheran Church, and for the past seven years Mr. Dillahunt has served as superintendent of the Sunday School of St. Marks' Church. He is a democrat, is affiliated with Spring- field Lodge No. 205, Knights of Pythias, and is a member of the American Veterinary Association, has served as vice president of the Ohio State Veterinary Association, and is a member of the United States Live Stock Sanitary Association.
Hector Urquhart, for over thirty years, has been engaged in the manufacture of bakery products. The greatest part of that period he has lived in Springfield, where he is president and general manager of the Springfield Baking Company. His generous public spirit has been constantly in evidence in connection with nearly every movement for the broader civic and social advancement of Springfield.
Mr. Urquhart was bom in the City of Toronto, Canada, March 21, 1845. His parents, Hector and Christian (Mitchell) Urquhart, were born in Scotland, and their voyage to America was their honeymoon. They came over in a sailing vessel, and spent all their married lives in or around Toronto.
Mr. Hector Urquhart grew up in the City of Toronto, attended the public schools of Canada, and for a few years was a teacher. He is a practical business man of long and thorough training, and for a time before coming to the United States was manager of a hardware store in Canada.
In 1889 Mr. Urquhart engaged in business at Lansing, Michigan, as a member of the firm Urquhart Brothers, proprietors of a large cracker bakery. This business, in 1893, was sold to the United States Baking Company, now a branch of the National Biscuit Company. Mr. Urquhart, in 1896, came to Springfield to take charge as manager of the local plant of the National Biscuit Company. In 1905 he bought that plant, and has continued it as the Springfield Baking Company, oiF which he is president and general manager. The company is a close corporation, its stock being held in the hands of members of the president's family. Mr. Urquhart is also president of the Reynolds Baking Company of Colum- bus, Ohio.
As a prosperous business man, the movements that have especially appealed to his co-operation and means have been those associated with the social welfare of his community. For years he has been actively identified with the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A., and was one of the leaders in the campaign to raise more than $30,000 for the Y. W. C. A. in March, 1922. Mr. Urquhart is a member of the Covenant Presbyterian Church, is influentially identified with the Chamber of Commerce and is affiliated with Anthony Lodge No. 445, F. and A. M., Palestine Com- mandery No. 33, K. T., Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton. He is a member of Strathroy Lodge No. 58, Independent Order of Odd
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Fellows, in Ontario, Canada. He has kept his membership there since joining the order when a young man. In 1921 he and three other mem- bers of the lodge were presented with beautiful gold badges as tokens of continuous membership in good standing for fifty years. Mr. Urquhart had become eligible for this honor in 1920.
John Munchel for thirty years has been one of the growers and producers of the truck and vegetable crops that supply the city pop- ulation of Springfield, and is one of the well-established and substantial citizens of the community.
He was born near Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana, December 3, 1872, son of Paul and Catherine (Engbers) Munchel, both natives of Germany, his father of Bavaria. Paul Mtmchel was four years of age when his parents, Adams and Helena (Wuest) Munchel, came to America and settled at Cincinnati, where Paul was reared and edu- cated. After his marriage in Cincinnati he bought land at Brookville, Indiana, and in addition to farming also followed his trade as a brick- maker. He sold his farm there in 1914, and lived retired until his death on February 14, 1921. His wife passed away in 1884. The oldest of their children is John; Joseph lives at Cedar Grove, Indiana; Helen occupies the old homestead in Indiana; Elizabeth, also at the homestead, is the widow of Frank Meyer; George is a public school teacher at Oldenburg, Indiana; Paul died at the age of twenty-eight years; Anthony lives at Brookville; and William is a resident of Cin- cinnati.
John Munchel while a boy attended the Oak Forest parochial school in Brookville, Indiana. When he was twenty years of age he came to Springfield and for twenty-two years was associated with the John Graeber truck farm. He then bought three acres in the south part of Spring^eld, improved with a substantial residence and other build- ings, and has since been prosperously engaged in general gardening and trucking. Mr. Munchel and family are members of St. Bernard's Cath- olic Church and he is a democrat in politics.
June 20, 1910, he married Miss Catherine HoeflFner. She was born at Williamstown, Ohio, daughter of George Hoeffner. Mr. and Mrs. Munchel have one son, John.
The Springfield Planing Mill & Lumber Company is a well- ordered industrial concern that contributes its quota to the commercial prestige of the metropolis and judicial center of Clark County, and its operations are based on ample capital and efficient executive direction. The business had its inception in a partnership formed by Frederick Michael and David A. Merkley, and with its expansion it was found expedient to incorporate the business, the present title having at that time been adopted, in 1885, when the company was incorporated with a capital stock of $20,000, the present capital being $60,000. Mr. Michael became the first president of the company and continued the incumbent of this office about one year after he had retired from active association with the enterprise in the late '90s. Mr. Merkley continued a stockholder of the company until his death. In the '90s George Dresher became identified with the company. He continued to be financially interested
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in the business until his death in 1919. In the meanwhile Harvey Bow- ers likewise had become an interested principal in the company and business. A. M. Jenkins, third president of the company, continued his active executive connection with the business until about 1901. W. C. Keppel was thereafter president and general manager one year, and in 1903 A. L. Duffey succeeded him in this dual office, of which he continued the incumbent until his death, on the 14th of March, 1922. his successor as president and general manager being E. E. Dresher. H. E. Fisher gave long and efficient service as secretary of the company, and upon his resignation, in February, 1900, he was suc- ceeded by W. C. Keppel, who thus served until he was elected pres- ident of the company, as previously noted. E. E. Dresher succeeded to the office of secretary, and it was after twenty years of careful and constructive administration in this office that he was elected president of the company. A. C. Harraman is now secretary of the company.
The original planing mill of the company was established on leased land, and with the great expansion of the business in the passing years there has been consecutive growth in the capacity and facilities of the manufacturing and distributing plant, the company now owing and occupying a tract of land that has a frontage of 200 feet on Columbia Street with a depth of 250 feet. Virtually this entire area is now covered with the buildings of the company, and in the mill is retained a force of thirty men, with an additional corps of ten employes in other departments. The mill has the best of modem equipment and facilities and manufactures all kinds of lumber products for building purposes, a specialty being made of supplying the demands of architects and contractors. The annual business of this vital and progressive cor- poration now averages fully $200,000, and the incidental capitalistic investment in the enterprise is in excess of $120,000.
A. L. Duffey, former president of this company, was born at Hillsboro, Ohio, and was sixty-two years of age at the time of his death. He came to Springfield in the spring of 1882 and he was a technical authority in all departments of lumber manufacturing, so that he proved a most able and valued executive after he had identified himself with the company of which he was president at the time of his death. He was one of the strong and resourceful business men of Springfield, loyal as a citizen, but never desirous of political activity or public office. He is survived by his widow and by one daughter, Mrs. Florence Burkhart.
E. E. Dresher, present chief executive of the Springfield Planing Mill & Lumber Company, was bom in Pike Township, Clark County. March 15, 1882, and is a son of George Dresher, a former president of the company, as noted in a preceding paragraph. George Dresher was born near Dayton, Ohio, and was a boy at the time of the family removal to Clark County. He became actively identified with farm enterprise of independent order and developed also a prosperous busi- ness as a contractor in the erection of farm buildings, as well as one of the principal stockholders in the Springfield Planing Mill & Lumber Company. E. E. Dresher became bookkeeper for the company in the year 1904, later served as its secretary, and finally became its president, as already noted in this context.
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Albert Tuttle. Quietly pursuing the life of the average Amer- ican citizen, the late Albert Tuttle did his duty as he saw it, and was recognized as a responsible factor in the life of his community. For a number of years he was a substantial resident and active farmer of Springfield Township, and took an effective part in public life, being especially active as a member of the local school board. His work here is ended, but the effect of what he accomplished lives on, and has its influence on thse present and rising generations.
Albert Tuttle was bom at Vienna, Ohio, in March, 1841, a son of Zebidee and Elizabeth (Wolf) Tuttle, natives of Virginia, who at an early day came west to Ohio and located near Vienna, and spent the remainder of their lives on a farm in Spring^eld Township. They were most excellent people and were very highly regarded by their neighbors.
Growing up on his father's farm, Albert Tuttle early learned to be useful, and while assisting his father attended the local schools. Sub- sequently he was a student of Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio. In 1868 he moved to a farm of 145 acres in Springfield Township, of which he owned eighty-one acres, and there he was engaged in agri- cultural pursuits until his death, which occurred on the farm. All his life he was loyal to the republican party. Early in life he united with the Presbyterian Church, and both he and his wife became honored members of the United Presbyterian Church of Springfield, of which she is still a member.
On April 5, 1868, Mr. Tuttle married Miss Catherine Johnson, born in Springfield Township, September 12, 1842, a daughter of James and Nellie (Johnson) Johnson, natives of Ireland, who, following their mar- riage left Ireland and came directly to Ohio, locating on a farm they bought in what is now the southern part of Springfield, and here they later died. They were the parents of nine children, of whom Mrs. Tuttle is the youngest.
Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle had one son, Bert Isaac Tuttle, who is agent for the Ford automobile at Springfield. He married Jessie Russell, and they have three children, namely : Albert Russell, who operates the Tuttle homestead; Edwin Mark, who is at home; and Nellie, who is a public school teacher. After the death of Mr. Tuttle Mrs. Tuttle moved to Springfield, where she built a fine residence at 625 South Limestone Street, and she occupies one side of the house and her son the other. She was educated in the Possum district school. A most estimable lady, she is occupied with her household and church duties, and enjoys the companionship of a congenial circle of personal friends.
Walter Andrew Shuirr, one of the prosperous younger business men of Springfield, owns and operates a farm and also a milk distrib- uting station in Springfield. His home is on the Children's Home Road on Rural Route No. 3.
He was born near Tremont, Clark County, in September, 1892, a son of Warren and Clara (Derr) Shuirr. His father is one of the substantial and upstanding citizens of Clark County, and a brief review of his career is given elsewhere.
The son attended the Snow Hill district school, completed a course in Nelson's Business College in Springfield, and in February, 1911,
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married Miss Nellie Dougal. She was born at Van Wert, Ohio, daugh- ter of John and Mary Dougal.
For six months after his marriage Mr. Shuirr remained in the par- ental home and then, moving to Springfield, was employed for two years in the industrial plant of Robbins and Myers. He then took charge of his father's greenhouse and truck gardens for seven years. Fol- lowing that he moved to a farm in Springfield Township and in con- nection with general farming began the operation of a dairy. On August 13, 1921, he bought a distributing milk station at 226 West Second Street, and is now both a producer and a distributor, having four wagons for distributing milk in the city and handles about three hundred gallons daily.
Mr. Shuirr is independent in politics. He and Mrs. Shuirr have two children, John Arnold and Helen Louise.
James G. Smith. Forty odd years of his life has James G. Smith lived in Springfield and vicinity. He has been a capable and trust- worthy citizen, a good business man, and is still active as a cement contractor.
He was bom in Monroe County, West Virginia, April 13, 1859, son of Henry and Sarah (Smith) Smith, his father a native of West Virginia, and his mother of old Virginia. James G. Smith was educated in the common schools of his native state and was nineteen years of age when he came to Springfield. For a number of years he was engaged in farm work and part of the time he lived in German Town- ship and was elected and served as assessor of that township. He is a democrat in politics.
Since 1902 Mr. Smith has lived in Springfield, was in stone quarry work for several years, and in the meantime, in 1903, began contract- ing. His experience covers all phases of cement and concrete, and he has the facilities for executing promptly and efficiently any contracts in that line. He has from five to six men on his working force practically all the time. His offices are at 1132 North Plum Street.
On June 30, 1880, Mr. Smith married Margaret E. Sider, who was bom at Terre Haute, Ohio, daughter of Joseph and Martha (Pence) Sider, a native of Hancock County, Ohio, and her mother of Qark County. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Smith are: Harry C, of Pasa- dena, California, who married Dolly West ; Carrie, wife of Fred Dough- man, of Springfield ; Myrtle. Mrs. Charles Curry, of Springfield ; Gladys, of Springfield Township; Ned O., who lives at 1014 Lowry Avenue; Hugh, of Youngstown, Ohio, who married Catherine Hannon ; Kenneth, of Pasadena. California; Loren, at home; Mildred, Mrs. Orin Strayer, of Springfield; and Ivan, who married Gladys Selders and lives in Springfield.
George Stanley Raup. In legal circles of Springfield a name that is well and favorably known is that of George Stanley Raup. During the ten years that he has been engaged in practice he has made rapid strides in his calling, demonstrating the possession of qualities that make him equally at home in all departments of the law. He is a native of Clark County, having been born on the family homestead in
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Moorefield Township, September 30, 1885, and is a son of the late Rev. G. P. Raup, a review of whose career will be found elsewhere in this work.
After attending the local graded and high schools, from the latter of which he graduated as a member of the class of 1904, George Stan- ley Raup enrolled as a student in Wittenberg College, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1908. He taught school one year in Iowa and one year in Illinois and then entered Harvard Law School and in 1913 received his law degree. Admitted to the bar in the same year, he began practice at Springfield in association with Paul Martin, but since 1919 has practiced alone, with offices in the Mitchell Building. He has a large and important clientele, and is ranked among the suc- cessful and able attorneys of the city.
On October 31, 1918, having volunteered for service, Mr. Raup entered the Coast Artillery at Fort Totten, Long Island, and served therewith until receiving his honorable discharge, being mustered out November 30, 1918. He is a member of the Clark County Bar Asso- ciation and American Bar Association and as a fraternalist belongs to Clark Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons. He also holds mem- bership in the Masonic and Kiwanis Clubs and the Springfield Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Raup was united in marriage with Miss Ada B. Bryant, daugh- ter of John T. Bryant, of Springfield.
A. J. DoMER, assistant secretary of the Springfield Building & Loan Association and treasurer and a director of the Avondale Realty Com- pany of Springfield, is a native son of Clark County and descended from two of its old and honored families, the Domers and the Blacks.
Mr. Domer was born on his father's farm in German Township, this county, on the 9th of January, 1888, and is a son of Martin and Sid- die M. (Black) Domer, both of whom were born in Pike Township, this county, the former on the 24th of March, 1860, and the latter on September 18, 1862, a daughter of John F. and Margaret Mary (Mouck) Black and a descendant of Andrew Clinton Black, who was one of the pioneer settlers in Clark County. Since 1895 Mr. and Mrs. Martin Domer have maintained their residence in the City of Spring- field. Adam Domer, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born near Baltimore, Maryland, and was a boy at the time of the family removal to Clark County, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his life and where he became a substantial representative of farm industry. His wife whose maiden name was Gabrilla Davis, was born in Vir- ginia, and was a child when her parents thence came to Ohio and num- bered themselves among the early settlers in Clark County.
After having profited by the advantages of the public schools of Springfield, A. J. Domer completed here a course in the Willis Business College, in which he was graduated in 1906. Since that year he has been continuously associated with the Springfield Building & Loan Association, and his effective service, covering a period of sixteen years, has resulted in his advancement to his present office, that of assistant secretary. Mr. Domer is president, in 1922, of the Exchange Club of Springfield, is senior warden of Anthony Lodge No. 445, Ancient Free
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and Accepted Masons, and is affiliated with the Chapter and Council bodies of York Rite Masonry. He and his wife are communicants of the First Lutheran Church.
Mr. Domer wedded Miss Bessie M. Rhonemus, daughter of Harry A. and Fannie (Frames) Rhonemus, of Springfield, and the two children of this union are Dorotha Dell, bom September 5, 1910, and Donald Paul, bom May 31, 1919.
Alvin Luther Baylor is secretary and a director of the James LefFel Company, one of the oldest and most prosperous manufacturing institutions in the City of Springfield. He entered the service of the business more than thirty-five years ago and experience and study have brought him up from the ranks to be one of the executive officials.
Mr. Baylor is a native of Clark County, bom on a farm in German Township, January 1, 1866. His grandfather, John Baylor, came to Ohio from York County, Pennsylvania, and was a farmer in German Township until a few years prior to his death, when he removed to Kansas, and he died in that state. He married Catherine Ferree, of York County, Pennsylvania.
William Baylor, father of the Springfield manufacturer, was bom in York County, Pennsylvania, in 1842. He was a boy when he came with his parents to Clark County. The family made its joumey from Pennsylvania over the mountains with wagons and teams. William Baylor was for a long period of years one of Clark County's active agriculturists. He lived in German Township for some years and later on a farm in Mad River Township for twenty years, and then removed to Springfield, where he died in 1910. William Baylor married Malinda Pence, who was bom in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, daughter of Solomon and Caroline (Zerkle) Pence. She died in 1914.
Alvin L. Baylor spent his early life on his father's farm in German and Mad River townships. He acquired a common and high school education. In 1885, at the age of nineteen, he came to Springfield and soon went to work in the offices of the James LefFel Company as a stenographer. He rapidly familiarized himself with the varied details of the industry and in 1890 took over the management of the engine and boiler department of the company. His service continued, and in 1916 he was elected secretary of the company and one of the board of directors. Next to B. F. KauflFman, the treasurer of the company, Mr. Baylor is now in point of continuous service the oldest man in the business. Hard work, faithfulness and the ability to adapt himself to the changing conditions of the business have brought him success, and he is the type of man who makes such a community as Springfield an important center of industry.
Mr. Baylor is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, is a charter member of the Y. M. C. A., is a member and the secretary of the board of trustees of the First Congregational Church, and is affiliated with Clark Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons, Palestine Com- mandery No. 33, K. T., Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton, and Red Star Lodge No. 205 Knights of Pythias.
Mr. Baylor married in 1889 Miss Amelia Smith, who was bom in Mad River Township of Clark County, daughter of Adolphus A. and
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Sarah (Shellabarger) Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Baylor have three children, Helen Lucile, Alvin Smith and Paul Brannock. The daughter, Helen, is the wife of Frank E. Dock, formerly of Logansport, Indiana, now of Springfield, and they were graduated in the same class from Wit- tenberg College. The son Alvin is in the service of the James Leffel Company. The son Paul is a graduate of Wittenberg College and is now an employe of the James Leffel Company.
J. Howard Littleton. Considering that the building up of a great city and a prosperous community depends so largely upon its substantial manufacturing enterprises, Springfield is to be congratulated upon the number that find a home here, the products of which carry her name and fame far and wide over the country. An old and stable concern of this kind is the Springfield Paper and Merchandise Company, of which J. Howard Littleton is general manager, treasurer and member of the Board of Directors.
Mr. Littleton was born in Greene County, Ohio, and is a son of Burr and Hannah (Sparks) Littleton. Burr Littleton was bom in Maryland in 1831, and was sixteen years old when he accompanied his parents to Greene County, Ohio. In early manhood he followed farming, and later became interested in the manufacture of paper at Clifton, Ohio, in asso- ciation with Col. David King, who is now president of the Springfield Paper and Merchandise Company. In 1887 Burr Littleton came to Springfield, where he was engaged in the grocery business for a number of years. Throughout his entire life he was deeply interested in the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church, serving as a church trustee while a resident of Clifton, and being equally active after coming to Springfield. Convinced that the Sunday School was the nursery of the church, he devoted himself to its upbuilding and efficiency, teaching the older Bible class until in his eighty-first year, and serving up to his eightieth year as superintendent of the Sunday School. In this office he was succeeded by his daughter Buretta, who is an instructor in the Springfield High School. He married Hannah Sparks, who survives. She was bom in Clark County, Ohio, in 1835, a daughter of Ephraim Sparks, an early settler, who passed the last twenty years of his life in Springfield. For sixty years Mr. Littleton was a member of the Odd Fellows.
J. Howard Littleton, who is one of Springfield's representative men in many ways, grew up in Greene County and attended the public schools of Clifton. In June, 1882, he became office boy for the Springfield Paper and Merchandise Company, with which concern he has been identified ever since, advancing from one position to another, for twelve years representing the business on the road, and in 1897 was made general manager and treasurer, and also a member of the directing board. From the first Mr. Littleton showed enterprise and the ability to make the most of his opportunities, and this proof of essential business qualities gave assurance of success in this field.
Although Mr. Littleton has devoted himself closely to the develop- ment of his business, he has found time to concern himself with civic affairs, as he deems the duty of a good citizen, and in the encouragement and promotion of enterprises which work for the general welfare Like his father, he has always been interested in church and Sunday School,
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and as a member of the First English Lutheran Church and served that church for nineteen years as Sunday School superintendent. For a time he was chairman of the board of the Clark County Sunday School Association, and is still active in that work. His influence and labors for the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. have been notable and untiring. In March, 1922, he accepted the responsibility of captain of one of the teams in the drive which resulted in raising $30,000 for the Y. W. C. A., in 1920 having served as captain in the drive that brought in a fund of $500,000 for Wittenberg College.
In December, 1894, Mr. Littleton married Miss Anna Gelsenliter, who was born at Springfield and is a daughter of Andrew Gelsenliter, who for many years was connected with the International Harvester Company at Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Littleton have two sons: Ken- neth H. and J. Luther. Kenneth H. Littleton after graduating from Wittenberg College took the La Salle (Chicago) course in accounting, and afterward entered the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed the Wharton School of Finance course. He is now a member of the Fidelity Sales Company of Springfield. J. Luther Littleton after grad- uating from Wittenberg College became associated with the Springfield Paper and Merchandising Company. He married Miss Lois Sharp, and they have one son, J. Luther, Jr.
Mr. Littleton has always been consistently interested in education, morals and commerce, but not to any undue extent in political life. He is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce and was a charter member of the old Board of Trade. He belongs to the Kiwanis Club.
William Henry Sieverling. Prominent among the public ser- vants of Clark County who are rendering efficient and conscientious serv- ice in positions of responsibility and trust is William Henry Sieverling, county surveyor and resident engineer of the State Highway Department. One of the well-known civil engineers of Ohio, during a long and active career he has been engaged in the completion of a number of important projects, and at the time of his acceptance of the office of county suveyor, in 1916, was the head of a large and prosperous contracting business. He is generally recognized as one of Clark County's most efficient and useful officials.
Mr. Sieverling was bom at Cincinnati, Ohio, April 29, 1865, a son of the late Frederick A. and Maria (Niemeyer) Sieverling, natives of the principality of Brunswick, Germany. The parents were married in the old country and came to the United States in 1861. Their passage, on a sailing vessel, was booked for Baltimore, Maryland, but when the vessel arrived off that point they found the city quarantined and the land- ing was accordingly made instead at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Frederick A. Sieverling was an architect and builder, having learned his profession in Germany, and after reaching this country applied himself to that kind of work. He followed his vocation at Leavenworth Kansas; Kansas City, Missouri ; Cincinnati, Ohio, and in other cities between Cincinnati and New Orleans, and ort reaching Cincinnati made permanent settlement. He built many large business houses, public buildings, churches and other structures in the Queen City of the West, and was for several years superintendent of construction and maintenance for the Board of Edu-
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cation of that city. Later in life he became superintendent of bridges of the Santa Fe Railway, and while in the line of duty, in 1887, met his death in an accident. His widow survived until 1901.
William Henry Sieverling was reared at Cincinnati, where he grad- uated from the old Woodward High School, and then pursued an engi- neering course at the University of Cincinnati. He left college to take employment on the survey and construction of the Cincinnati Southern Railway (Q. & C), then building, and was next with Anderson & Hobby, engineers of Cincinnati, a concern with which he remained until its dis- solution. His next connection was with Colonel Anderson, who succeeded the former firm for several years, being engaged in engineering and con- struction work in large plants at different points throughout the country, although continuing to maintain his residence at Cincinnati. In 1890 Mr. Sieverling became engineer in charge of construction of Thomas W. I-awson's Grand River Coal, Iron and Improvement Company, at a point between the mouth of the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers ; subsequently was in service with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, building bridges, etc. ; then went to the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway, in similar work ; and later moved to Anderson, Indiana, where he sur- veyed several routes which were later incorporated into the Indiana Trac- tion Company.
In 1895 Mr. Sieverling came to Springfield, and in that year took service with the Ohio Southern Railway, building viaducts and installing the interlocking system at Quincy, Ohio, after which he built the yards at Lima, Ohio, eventually becoming engineer of maintenance of way of that road, with residence at Springfield. He was next with the syndicate which built the Detroit, Lima & Northern Railway from Lima to Detroit^ as engineer of maintenance of way, with residence at Detroit, and latei was transferred to Springfield. Mr. Sieverling subsequently was pre- vailed upon to accept the position of city engineer of Springfield, which he held between eight and nine years. On leaving the above office he engaged in contracting, and continued therein until 1916 when he was elected county surveyor, which office he is still holding, having been twice reelected. Mr. Sieverling is a member of the Ohio Engineering Society, associate member of the American Association of Engineers, and a member of the Contractors Association of Ohio and the Association of Northwestern Ohio County Surveyors. Fraternally he is affiliated with Anthonv Lodge No. 455, F. and A. M. ; Palestine Commandery No. 33, K. T. ; Da\^on Consistory, S. R., thirty-second degree ; and Antioch Tem- ple, A. A. O. N. M. S., and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He belongs also to the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Central Methodist Episcopal Church, which edifice he built.
Mr. Sieverling married Miss Kate Helen Stoll, the daughter of John Stoll, of Piqua, Ohio, and to their union there have been born two sons : John Walter and Paul Adolph. John Walter Sieverling graduated from Springfield High School, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce (University of Pennsylvania), specializing in advertising, and is now engaged in that business at Chicago. During the World war he went overseas with the Three Hundred and Twenty-fourth Heavy Artillery, Eighty-third Division, and upon arriving in France was assigned to
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training in the Camouflage School, after which he was detailed to the French Camouflage Division. Later he was detailed in the same line of work and as interpreter with the Army of Occupation. He returned to this country June 1, 1920, and received his honorable discharge. Paul Adolph Sieverling was graduated from the Ohio State University with the degree of Civil Engineer, and is now assistant division engineer in the State Highway Department. He enlisted in the United States Navy during the World war and was assigned to the Ensign Training School. He was still receiving instruction in that school when the armistice was signed, but was detained in the navy until September, 1921.
George Ernest Ireland. A capable, broad-minded, well-balanced man, always master of himself and knowing how to be firm and resolute, and possessing the absolute confidence of his associates, George Ernest Ireland has risen to a position of prominence among the business men of Springfield, where he is general manager of The Steel Products Engineer- ing Company. He is a native of the Buckeye State, having been born at Greenfield, Highland County, Ohio, February 23, 1884, and is a son of Matthew Owen and Margaret L. (Simmison) Ireland.
Matthew Owen Ireland was born on the home farm in Ross County, Ohio, August 3, 1850, a son of George L. Ireland, who was also born in Ross County, on a farm located between Good Hope and Chillicothe. He was a son of Silas Ireland, the Ohio pioneer of the family, who came from Eastern Pennsylvania. The mother of George E. Ireland was born in Ross County, January 19, 1855, a daughter of John Simmison, who came from Maryland and settled in Linden Township, the home community of the Irelands, and there passed his remaining years in agricultural pursuits. In 1886 the parents of George E. Ireland moved from Ross County to Washington Court House, Ohio, and from that point the father was for many years a traveling salesman for an agri- cultural implement firm. Subsequently he engaged in the manufacture of acetylene gas generators, a business in which he became quite success- ful, and he and his worthy wife are still residents of Washington Court House, where they have many friends and are held in high esteem and regard. George E. Ireland's father had two brothers, both prominent physicians of Washington Court House, Ohio. One, Dr. Stephen A. Ireland, now deceased, was a bachelor. The other, Dr. W. E. Ireland, married and is still living, but retired from active life.
George Ernest Ireland was but two years of age when taken by his parents to Washington Court House, and there his education was acquired in the public schools. He graduated from the high school in 1904, following which he pursued a course in -the International Corre- spondence Training School, and began his independent career in the employ of the Ludlow Soap Manufacturing Company at Washington Court House. He passed through the various departments, and through integrity, industry and fidelity, with accumulating ability, won promo- tion finally to the post of assistant bookkeeper. In 1906 Mr. Ireland resigned his position to enter the employ of the Davis Sewing Machine Company at Dayton, Ohio, and later was in the drafting room of the Recording and Computing Machine Company of that city, during which time he designed computing and banking machines which were very
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intricate and complex, remaining with that concern from 1907 to 1911 and passing from the drafting room into the experimental department and to Chief Engineer. In 191 1 he opened an engineering office at Dayton, handling the designing of special automatic machinery and equipment, and in the spring of 1914 became president and general manager of the City Engineering Company of Dayton. In the following fall he became assistant superintendent of the Dayton Fare Recording Company, and in the spring of 1916 became general manager of the International Engineering Company of the same city, remaining with that concern until the fall of 1917, when he became identified with The Gem City Machine Company. In the fall of 1918 he came to Springfield as general manager of The Steel Products Engineering Company, a position which he still retains. In addition to general manager, he is now assistant secretary and one of the Directors to the Directorate. From the fall of 1917 to the fall of 1918 Mr. Ireland represented his company in government contract work pertaining to war supplies at Washington, District of Columbia.
He also has since the war engineered many large development projects for some of the largest manufacturers in the county.
The company designs and constructs all kind of special equipment and machinery for saving labor, increasing production and cutting cost, as well as giving interchangeability.
Mr. Ireland has with his organization closed and fulfilled many con- tracts for the government even in times of peace and has been of great value to the Government in the development of aeronautical equipment, engines, etc. The Steel Products Company having designed and sold to the Government several of their own engines.
Mr. Ireland is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, vice president of the Springfield Engineers* Club, a member of the Dayton Engineers' Club and of the Columbus Engineers' Club, and on the advisory staff of McCook's Aviation Field at Dayton. He also holds membership in the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, the Springfield Athletic Club, the Springfield Automobile Club, the Spring- field Kiwanas Club, the Dayton Shrine Club; Mystic Lodge No. 405, Free and Accepted Ma^ns, of Dayton; Dayton Consistory, Scottish Rite, thirty-second degree, and Antioch Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Dayton.
Calvin A. Horr. To the list of worth-while men now passed away who had much to do with the upbuilding of Springfield as a business center and desirable place of residence, no name had more right to be added than that of the late Calvin A. Horr, who for many years was honorably identified with Springfield interests. He was a successful business man and an exemplary, broad-minded, generous citizen.
Calvin A. Horr was bom at Denmark, New York, August 9, 1818, and died at Springfield, Ohio, January 21, 1873, a son of Jacob and Eliza- beth Horr. He married, December 11, 1845, Elizabeth Morgan, who was born in the City of London, England, February 29, 1820, and died at Springfield, January 4, 1913. She was a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Edwards) Morgan, natives of North Wales. In 1832 Thomas Morgan brought his family from London to the United States, crossing the Atlan-
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tic Ocean in a sailing vessel which landed them safely in the port of New York. After a short stay there they came to Ohio and settled at Mechanicsburg, in Champaign County, and it was there that their daugh- ter was married to Calvin A. Horr. She survived him many years. A capable, resourceful, intelligent woman, she made her presence felt in every community in which her long life was spent. To the last she was interested in all the wonderful changes taking place about her, and had a fair understanding of political questions. On many occasions during subsequent presidential campaigns she told of having, in girlhood, come with others from Mechanicsburg to Springfield to witness the great demonstration made when Gen. William Henry Harrison visited this city during his campaign.
Upon coming to Ohio Calvin A. Horr established himself in the dry goods business at Mechanicsburg. Later he became secretary and treas- urer of the Springfield, Mount Vernon and Pittsburgh Railway Company, with which he was identified for several years, and the rest of his life was spent at Springfield. When he retired from the railroad business he embarked in the wholesale grocery business, as a member of the firm of Wright, Horr & Bacon (the junior member being Charles H. Bacon), and later Horr & Bacon, this firm for years being leaders in its line at Springfield. In the meanwhile Mr. Horr had judiciously invested in real estate, and at the time of his death this was very valuable, and, with his other interests in favorable condition, enabled him to leave his family a large estate. He was more of a business man than politician, but he was always deeply concerned in his city's welfare, and to the utmost of his ability performed every recognized civic duty. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity and also to the Odd Fellows.
Mrs. Laura H. Harshman, daughter of Calvin A. and Elizabeth (Mor- gan) Horr, was born and educated at Springfield, and with the excep- tion of a few years has made this her life-long: home. On March 17, 1870, she was united in marriage with Jonathan Harshman, Jr., who was born at Harshmanville, Montgomery County, Ohio, February 1, 1849, and was a son of Joseph and Caroline (Protzman) Harshman, pioneers in Montgomery County. Joseph Harshman operated a flour mill at Osborn, in Montgomery County, for many years. After completing his course at Wittenberg College Jonathan Harshman married, and then took over his father's milling interests at Osborn, which he successfully conducted until his death, March 15, 1874.
Mrs. Harshman returned then to Springfield, where the large estate left her by her father required her attention. She has a wide circle of friends here and has numerous social interests and also devotes much time and means to benevolent movements and charitable purposes. She has long been a member of Christ Episcopal Church.
Benjamin Frederick Kauffman had the good fortune when a boy, soon after leaving school, to enter the service of one of Springfield's oldest and best known business institutions, the James LeflFel & Company, and by continuous service, with increasing responsibilities, is now the oldest active member of the organization and treasurer and director of the company.
Mr. Kauffman was born February 27, 1867, at Alpha in Greene County, Ohio, son of Benjamin and Mary (Fish) KauflFman. The
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KauiFmans were an old family of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where his grandparents, Michael and Katharine (Seitz) KauiFman, were both born. Michael Kauffman was born in 1789 and his wife in 1793. She was six years of age when General Washington died, and she always remembered the scenes and incidents attendant upon the death of the father of our country. Benjamin Kauffman was born October 18, 1834, at what is now the corner of High and York streets in Springfield. He became a woolen manufacturer, and was conducting a business of that kind at Springfield, with William Rabbitt, during the Civil war. In 1866 he removed to Alpha, Greene County, where he continued woolen manufacture until 1870, and until 1872 continued in the same industry at Spring Valley, Ohio, and then at St. Mary's Ohio, until 1877, when he returned to Springfield. Benjamin KauflFman died at Lawrenceville in Clark County in April, 1819. His wife, Mary Fish, was born at Dayton, Ohio, July 9, 1838, daughter of William Fish, of English ances- try. She died in 1911.
Benjamin Frederick Kauffman acquired his early education in the public schools of St. Mary's and Springfield. The brief business experi- ence he had before entering James Leffel & Company was as a messen- ger boy for six months in the Western Union Telegraph Company's office and then for a similar time as clerk in the telegraph office. In February, 1883, at the age of sixteen, he became an office boy for James Leffel & Company. Three years later he was promoted to bookkeeper. All the men officially identified with the business or as employes when he entered it are now gone, and he is the oldest man in the organization. Besides his official place in this well-known establishment he is a director in the Springfield Savings Bank, and is financially interested in several other enterprises.
Mr. KauflFman was vice president of the Chamber of Commerce at the time of its reorganization, and he took a leading part in the work which placed the chamber on its present successful footing. He is presi- dent of the Springfield Traffic Association, is a director of the Y. M. C. A., a member of the Lagonda and Rotary clubs, and is a mem- ber of the Board of Deacons of the Covenant Presbyterian Church.
On April 30, 1901, Mr. KauflFman married F. Maude Mattison, who was born near Bennington, Vermont, daughter of Leland J. and Sarah L. (Staflford) Mattison. Mr. and Mrs. KauflFman have one son, Fred- erick Mattison KauflFman, born June 18, 1902, now in his junior year at Wittenberg College.
Frank R. Packiiam. The late Frank R. Packham, inventor, mechan- ical expert and man of aflFairs, was one of Springfield's most noted fig- ures, one whose success gained him not only prominence all over this country and abroad, but also contributed materially to the prestige of his home city. He was born May 11, 1855, at Hadley, Michigan, a son of Patrick and Clarinda (Green) Packham, the former a native of England and the latter of New Hampshire. Patrick Packham was born at Lewes, County Sussex, and came with his parents to the United States when he was but ten years of age. He became a wheelwright by trade and later a miller, and from Michigan, where he had settled, removed to Canada, but in 1873 returned to the United States and settled at Springfield, later
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removing to Liberty Center, Henry County, Ohio, where he owned and operated a flour mill and where both he and his wife died.
Frank R. Packham left school when he was a boy of fourteen years, and while the family was residing at Guelph, Canada, began to learn the trade of machinist, for which he showed peculiar and even remarkable adaptation. His first work at Springfield was with the old Warder, Mitchell & Glessner Company (now a part of the International Harvester Company's plant), and in 1875 he entered the employ of the Baker Drill Company at Mechanicsburg, Ohio, as superintendent and expert machin- ist. When that company, a modest one, went out of business Mr. Pack- ham opened a shop for the manufacture of tinners' tools and a stove- pipe crimper, the latter bearing his name. This article, which, like his tinners' tools, was his own invention, is still on the market and enjoys a good sale. Closing out his business at Mechanicsburg, he returned to Springfield and entered the drafting room of the Superior Drill Company, and in 1903 when that company through succession or reorganization became the American Seeding Machine Company, he was put in charge of the experimental department as expert mechanic and inventor, and remained in those positions until his death.
As an inventor with the above company Mr. Packham was instru- mental in revolutionizing and modernizing the g^ain-drill business of the world. As an inventor and mechanical expert he contributed numerous improvements to various agricultural implements now in use all over the world, and as a missionary, or salesman, he twice went abroad in the interests of his company, one trip including England, Germany, France, Ireland and Russia, and the other including Honolulu, Japan and other points in Asia. He took out upwards of sixty patents covering his inven- tions and upwards of 150 patents on improvements, all of which proved their worth. He was a most remarkable man, remarkable for rare mechanical ingenuity, inventive genius, executive ability and good busi- ness ideas, added to which were originality and an artistic temperament, truly a remarkable combination of talent and ability.
When the Japanese Government sent a commission to the United States, the Cincinnati Board of Trade selected Mr. Packham to represent the State of Ohio, and with the commission he toured this country. Mr. Packham continued with the American Seeding Machine Company until his death, which occurred New Year's Day, 1915. He was at one time vice president of the Springfield Commercial Club, was a charter mem- ber of the Springfield Country Club, and a member of the Lagonda Club. Fraternally he was affiliated with Clark Lodge No. 101, F. and A. M.; Dayton Consistory, S. R., thirty-second degree, and Antioch Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
On July 13, 1875, Mr. Packham was united in marriage with Miss Maxmilla Mouser, who was bom near Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio, the daughter of Thomas Kenton and Mary Catherine (Thomas) Mouser. During the Civil war Thomas Mouser enlisted in the Twenty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga, where he was taken prisoner and died of his wounds in the prison at Weldon, North Carolina, in 1864. His wife, Mary Cath- erine, was born near Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, the daughter of Archi- bald and Catherine (Swimley) Thomas. The Thomas and Swimley
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families came to Ohio from Virginia. To Mr. and Mrs. Packham children were bom as follows : Lewis Thomas, who died at the age of one and one-half years; Charles M., educated in the public schools and at Witten- berg College, and now identified with the automobile business in New York City, who married Miss Edith Kleckner, of Lynchburg, Ohio, also a graduate of Wittenberg College, and has two daughters, Susannah and Mary Catherine ; Florence C, who married Parkman C. Leffel, of Spring- field; and Jane, who attended Wittenberg College and is now a teacher in the public schools of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Mitchell Wagner Raup. The spirit of business enterprise that leads to constant service and endeavor is notably manifested at Spring- field by men of worth who have spent their lives here and have achieved substantial place and recognition of merit from their fellow citizens. Naturally men who have steadily advanced in the business world are not weaklings, their steady efforts have made them strong, financially and otherwise. This may be referred to in times when inactivity instead of conscientious industry seems acceptable in every section of the country. A busy, useful business career has been that of Mitchell Wagner Raup, who is secretary and treasurer and also a member of the board of directors of the Springfield Metallic Casket Company of Springfield.
Mr. Raup was bom at Constantine, Saint Joseph County, Michigan, June 9, 1879, and is a son of Rev. Gustavus P. and Fanny M. Raup, the family history being given in another part of this work.
Mitchell Wagner Raup spent his boyhood on a farm inn Moorefield Township, Clark County, Ohio, and attended the country schools. I^ter he became a student in Wittenberg College, taking a course of two years in the preparatory department and then the regular college course of four years, when he was graduated with the degree of A. B. Mr. Raup then found his inclinations turning in the direction of a business career, and to qualify himself for the same he took a full commercial course in a business college at Springfield. In 1898 he entered upon his independent business career and from that time until the present has been continuously identified with important Spring- field interests. He entered first the advertising defpartment of Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, now the Crowell Publishing Company, going from there to the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company, as cashier's clerk, continuing as such until this company was consolidated with the International Harvester Company, when he became cashier of the Springfield plant. In 1903 Mr. Raup joined the organization of the Springfield Metallic Casket Company as assistant treasurer. Subse- quently he was made treasurer and in 1917 was elected secretary-treas- urer. He has been a member of the board of directors of this company since 1907.
Mr. Raup married. May 1, 1903, Miss Margaret Detwiler, who is a daughter of Christian Detwiler formerly a resident of Urbana, Ohio, who removed to Chicago, Illinois, where he was in a general contracting business until his death in 1901. Mr. and Mrs. Raup have three daugh- ters: Mary M., bom April 12, 1904; Fannie L., born December 4, 1906; and Grace E., bom January 24, 1908. Mr. Raup and family belong
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to the Presbyterian Church. He is a member of Clark Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons; Dayton Consistory, thirty-second degree, and Antioch Temple, Mystic Shrine. He belongs also to the Masonic Club and to the Chamber of Commerce.
Frank L. McDonald. The career of Frank L. McDonald, of Springfield, has been one in which he has followed several lines of activity, in all of which he has made a success. He has been suc- cessively merchant, farmer and institution head, and at the present time is acting in the capacity of superintendent of the Odd Fellows Home at Springfield, a position which he has held since 1919. Mr. McDonald is well and favorably known both in business annd fraternal circles, and possesses the reputation of a man of industry, integrity and thorough capability.
Frank L. McDonald was born on a farm near Wilmington, Ohio, November 17, 1871, and is a son of James W. and Sarah (Thatcher) McDonald, natives of Clinton County, Ohio. James W. McDonald was born in October, 1844, and was reared to the pursuits of agricul- ture, which he followed uninterruptedly until 1886. In that year he disposed of his farm and removed to Wilmington, there entering the meat business as a retailer, a line in which he continued until his death in 1906. Mr. McDonald was a good citizen and a man of proven integ- rity, and his death removed from this comrhunity one who had always been a supporter of constructive and public-spirited movements. He married Miss Sarah Thatcher, who was born in September, 1843, a daughter of Joseph and Deborah (Hadley) Thatcher, both natives of Clinton County, Ohio, where Mrs. McDonald was reared and received her education in the public schools.
Frank L. McDonald received his early education in the country schools in the vicinity of his father's farm, and later completed a course at the high school at Wilmington, to which city the family had moved when he was fifteen years of age. Mr. McDonald left high school in 1891 to enter the furniture and undertaking business at Wilmington, in a partnership, under the firm style of Halliday & McDonald. He continued in this business until 1893, when he sold out his interest and joined a Mr. Gallup in the house furnishing business, the firm name being Gallup & McDonald. This venture proved a successful one but after four years Mr. McDonald's health failed and he disposed of his interest and sought the country in which to recuperate, purchasing a farm in the vicinity of Wilmington. This he operated for five years, during which time he fully recovered his health, and in 1913 sold his farm and became superintendent of the County Infirmary at Clinton. He held this position until 1919, when he came to Springfield to accept the superintendency of the Odd Fellows Home, a position which he holds at this time.
On September 18, 1895, Mr. McDonald was united in marriage with Miss Fanny M. Doani, who was born March 13, 1872, at Wilmington, Ohio, a daughter of Judge A. W. and Martha G. (Taylor) Doam. Judge Doam sat on the bench of the Common Pleas Court of Clinton County for fifteen years, and was one of the best known and most highly respected men of his day and locality. During the Civil war he served
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gallantly as colonel of the Seventy-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
To Mr. and Mrs. McDonald two children have been born : Margery, born November 30, 1903, who is now in her second year at Wilmington College; and Gerald, born June 5, 1905, now in the junior year of the Springfield High School. Mr. McDonald is a member of the Encamp- ment branch of Odd Fellows, the Patriarch Militant and the Daughters of Rebekah. He also holds membership in the Masonic Blue Lodge; Wilmington Chapter No. 52, R. A. M.; the Scottish Rite at Dayton; and the Eastern Star. He and Mrs. McDonald are members of the Friends Church at Wilmington.
Henry Bretney was an honored pioneer who wielded large and helpful influence in connection with the early civic and business inter* ests of Springfield and Clark County. He was born at Hagerstown, Maryland, and was a young man when he came to Clark County and established his residence at Springfield, in the '20s. He here conducted a general merchandise store, as did he also at Yellow Springs and North Lewisburg. He also bent his energies to the development of a farm in Clark Coimty and he would have been a wealthy man had he refrained from endorsing notes for his friends — obligations which he had to meet and that greatly reduced his material holdings. Books still in existence disclose the fact that Mr. Bretney established here a tannery that was a rather pretentious one for the day, the same having been situated on the site of the present Bretney Tannery, 222 East Main Street, Spring- field. The original tannery on this site was outside of the village limits and the National Road had not then been constructed, the location hav- ing been adopted by Mr. Bretney by reason of the excellent springs in the immediate vicinity. The water from these springs was piped to the tannery and because of its peculiar mineral constituency proved specially adapted to leather making. It is interesting to record that the water from these springs is still used by the extensive Bretney Tannery of the present day, an advantage that more than compensates for the lack of a railway siding. In the early days, owing to the diminutive supply of money in circulation, the tannery was operated on the per contra trading plan then in vogue. Henry Bretney was thoroughly versed in the science and practical details of the tanning business, his father and grandfather having been tanners, and his son and grandson having con- tinued the operation of the tannery which he founded at Springfield, Harry V. Bretney being of the fifth generation in direct line to be actively associated with the tanning industry. Henry Bretney con- tinued as one of the representative business men and honored citizens of Springfield until his death in 1869. He married Lucinda Van Meter.
Their son, Charles Van Meter Henry Bretney, was born in the family homestead, on the opposite side of the street from the tannery, in the year 1836. When the son was five years old the family removed to a farm near Catawba, this county, and there he was reared to the age of twelve years, the family having returned to Springfield in 1848 and Charles having here completed his youthful education by attending Wittenberg College. He became actively associated with the operation of the tannery, and after the death of his father became the owner of the
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business, which he successfully continued until his death, December 5, 1893. He served as a member of the City Council and was a member of the old Neptune volunteer fire department. Mr. Bretney was a man of indefatigable energy and devoted himself assiduously to his business, which he developed to one of broad scope and substantial prosperity. His wife, whose maiden name was Josephine Qark, was bom in Virginia and was a child when she made the overland journey with her parents to Ohio, before the era of railroads, the family home having been established in Champaign County. Mr. and Mrs. Bretney were among the first members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church and were zealous in its work. Of their nine children seven are living at the time of this writing, in 1922; Lee Clark, eldest of the number, is deceased; Harry V. was next in order of birth; Lucy is the wife of Ralph B. Miller; Sallie is deceased; Charles W. is a res- ident of New York City; and Leontine, Clara, Ralph C. and Josephine continued their residence at Springfield. Harry V. and Ralph C. Bretney continue the operation of the pioneer tannnery established by their grandfather, and their brother-in-law, Ralph B. Miller, is treasurer of the company. Most of the other children of the family retain stock in the business. The devoted mother passed to the life eternal Feb- ruary 13, 1912.
Harry V. Bretney was bom at Springfield on the 3rd of Sep- tember, 1869, the year in which occurred the death of his paternal grand- father. His early education was obtained in the public schools and Wittenberg College, and during his entire adult life he has been actively associated with the tanning business established by his grandfather. He is now president and general manager of the Bretney Tannery, the concern being one of the important industrial corporations of Spring- field and its history having been one of consecutive and successful operation from the time of its inception.
Mr. Bretney belongs to all the Masonic bodies. He is a member of representative clubs and other social organizations in his native city, is a republican in political allegiance, was for six years a member of the board of trustees of the Springfield City Hospital, and was pres- ident of the board for three years of this period. He was active and influential in patriotic service in connection with the various local move- ments during the nation's participation in the World war. His wife and daughter are active members of the Episcopal Church.
On the 16th of June, 1909, Mr. Bretney married Miss Juliet Webb, and they have one daughter, Adelaide.
Augustus N. Summers, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, retired from the bench of this tribunal on the 1st of January, 1911, and has since been engaged in the general practice of his pro- fession at Springfield, where he is one of the distinguished members of the Clark County bar.
Judge Summers was born at Shelby, Richland County, Ohio, on the 13th of Jirne, 1856, and is a son of Rev. Daniel and Louisa (Hine) Summers. Rev. Daniel Summers was bom on a farm near Waynes- boro, Pennsylvania, and in the '40s he became a student in Wittenberg
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College at Springfield, Ohio. In the theological department of this old and honored Lutheran College he was duly graduated and after his ordination as a clergyman of the Lutheran Church he became pastor of a church of this denomination at JefFersonville, Kentucky, this initial charge having been followed by his incumbency of pastorates in various other states of the Union, including Ohio. He was a man of fine intellectuality, and in his high calling labored long, earnestly and effectively.
At Shelby, Ohio, Judge Summers gained his preliminary education in the public schools, and he was twelve years old at the time of the family removal to Vandalia, this state, where he continued his studies until, in company with his brother Jacob, he entered his father's alma mater, Wittenberg College. Jacob was graduated as a member of the class of 1879, as was also Augustus N. Jacob became a minister of the Lutheran Church and continued his active services as a clergyman until the time of his death. After his graduation in the college Judge Stmimers b^;an reading law under the preceptorship of Samuel A. Bow- man, who was at that time one of the leading lawyers engaged in prac- tice at Springfield. In 1881 Judge Summers was admitted to the bar of his native state and was admitted to partnership with his former and honored preceptor, under the firm name of Bowman & Summers. In 1885 he was elected city solicitor of Springfield and by re-election he continued the incumbent of this office three consecutive terms. In 1894 he was elected judge of the Circuit Court of the Second Circuit and in 1900 he was re-elected. His service on the circuit bench was marked by fine judicial discernment and broad and accurate knowledge of law and precedent. The high reputation which he gained on the circuit bench brought to him distinguished recognition in his second term, for, in 1903, he was elected a member of the Supreme Court of the state, to assume which office he resigned his position on the bench of the Circuit Court. In his seven years of service as a justice of the Supreme Court he made an admirable record that is now a part of the judicial history of this state.
Judge Summers is a staunch and effective advocate of the prin- ciples of the republican party, he is president of the Springfield Coun- try Club at the time of this writing, the winter of 1921-22, and is affiliated with the Phi Kappa Psi College fraternity.
On the 17th of November, 1887, was solemnized the marriage ot Judge Summers and Miss Nellie Thomas, daughter of the. late Hon. John H. Thomas, of Springfield, to whom a memoir is dedicated on other pages of this work. Judge and Mrs. Summers have three chil- dren: Thomas B., Daniel and Virginia. Both of the sons are graduates of Yale University and both were in the nation's military service in the World war period. Thomas B. attended the Officers' Training Camp at Augusta, Georgia, was assigned to the artillery branch of the service, but was not called to active duty overseas. He gained the rank of captain, as did also his brother Daniel, who was captain of a com- mand of engineers and who was in active service in France for some- what more than a year.
Joseph M. Collins. There is no more exacting profession than that of the educator, for past is the day when anyone can be accepted as
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a teacher. The training for this work is long and arduous, and the con- scientious educator never ceases to be a student, but keeps on adding to his store of knowledge and improving his methods of imparting instruc- tion and awakening in his pupils a desire to learn. The people of Clark County have long realized the necessity of placing able men and women in charge of educational matters, and in their selection of Joseph M. Collins as superintendent of their public schools they took a stand which has resulted in very admirable progress, for he is one of the leaders in his calling in the state, and a man of such compelling personality as to gain the confidence of his teachers and pupils alike.
Joseph M. Collins was born on a farm in German Township, Clark Covmty, Ohio, July 23, 1876, a son of Joseph H. and Mary E. (Rockel) Collins, and a grandson of Jerome and Margaret (Burress) Collins, the latter a cousin of President James Madison. The antecedents of the Col- lins family date back to Scotland, but their advent in this country took place when it was still a dependency of Great Britain. Members of the Collins family served in the American Revolution. Their home was in Virginia, and it was from Culpeper County, that state, that Jerome Col- lins and his family came to Ohio, living first in Champaign County. After a short time, however, they came to Clark County, which con- tinued to be their permanent home. The family were Unionists when in Virginia, and as their neighbors were of the opposite political belief this led to unpleasantness and was the reason for the exodus into Ohio. Jerome Collins followed farming, and died in Clark County in the early 70s. He and his wife had eight children, five sons and three daughters.
Joseph H. Collins was the sixth child in the above family, and was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, July 11, 1841. He came with his parents to Ohio when a young man. He attended school after arriving in Clark County, and completed his education at the well-known normal school at Urbana, Ohio. Later he taught school, mostly in Clark County, but some in Champaign County. Subsequently he engaged in farming, and this was really his life's occupation. He was a man keenly alive to the issues of the day, and was regarded as one of the substantial citizens of his period. In politics a republican, at the time of his death, August 17, 1905, he was one of the commissioners of Clark County.
Joseph M. Collins is one of the five living children of his parents. He was reared on the home farm, attended the district schools, and later, for two years, the old Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, and then engaged in school-teaching in his native county. Incidentally he attended Wittenberg College, and while he never graduated from this institution he was honored by having conferred upon him the Master's Degree in 1918. In 1921 he had been twenty-five years in school work. For four years of this time he taught in Mad River Township, then, in 1901, he came to Springfield, where he continued teaching until 1904 when he was elected county superintendent of schools. While teaching in Springfield Township he officiated for ten years as superintendent of schools of the township, and has always been active in local matters. He is a republican, and strong in his support of his party.
Mr. Collins is very prominent in state educational work, and in 1921 was elected president of the Central Ohio Teachers' Association, at the annual meeting held at Dayton, Ohio. He is the first Springfield man
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to be so honored since 1903. During 1920 Mr. Collins held a position on the executive committee of the association. Two other Springfield men were honored at the Dayton meeting, Earl W. Tiffany, principal of the Springfield schools, and Oscar T. Hawke, assistant superintendent of the Clark County schools being elected members of the executive com- mittee.
On August 22, 1922, Mr. Collins married Miss Amy Louise Winters, a daughter of Robert P. Winters. Mr. Collins is a Royal Arch Mason. Throughout his career he has shown an expansion of ideas and a broad- ening of his character. He has been quick to grasp and utilize new ideas and methods and to formulate others, and is never content with the progress made, but is urging himself and his associates to further eflForts m order to raise the standards of his schools and develop the mentality of his pupils.
Charles F. Stewart, a former member of the Board of County Commissioners of Clark County, and a representative of one of the old and honored families of this section of Ohio, is now living virtually retired in his attractive home at 1424 South Center Street, Springfield. On other pages of this work appear sketches that give adequate record concerning the history of the Stewart family.
Charles F. Stewart was born in Greene Township, this county, on the 2d of August, 1856, the sixth in order of birth in a family of nine chil- dren. On the eighty-fourth birthday anniversary of his father, Capt. Perry Stewart, June 6, 1902, the father was one of the seven brothers present to celebrate the occasion, and all are now deceased, the eldest having died at the age of ninety-six and the youngest at the age of eighty-one years, while the father of the subject of this review passed away at the age of eighty-eight years.
The boyhood and early youth of Charles F. Stewart were passed on the old home farm, and he profited in the meanwhile by the advantages of the local schools. Later he advanced his education by attending the Normal School at Lebanon, of which the revered Dr. Holbrook was then the executive and scholastic head. In 1880 Mr. Stewart wedded Miss Clara Garlough, daughter of James T. Garlough, of Greene Township, and thereafter he continued his active and successful alliance with pro- ductive a^cultural and live stock enterprise in Greene Township until March, 1915, when he left his well improved home farm of 130 acres and removed to Springfield, where he is now living in well-earned retire- ment from the labors and responsibilities that were long his portion. He made excellent improvements on his farm, including the erection of a bank barn and the remodeling of the two-story house. After having served one term as township trustee Mr. Stewart gave twenty-one years of effective service as township clerk, his eldest son being now clerk of the same township, and John T. Stewart, grandfather of the subject of this review, having been the first to serve as clerk of that township. For eight years Mr. Stewart was a member of the County Election Board and to his credit is to be accorded also four years and seven months of effective and loyal service as county commissioner, a position in which he was the advocate and supporter of progressive movements, especially in the improving of the roads of the county. He has been a stalwart in
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the local ranks of the republican party and has done effective work in behalf of its cause. He was one of the organizers and original directors of the Farmers Bank of Springfield. He and his wife hold membership in the Covenant Presbyterian Church at Springfield, and in this city he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias.
Mr. and Mrs. Stewart became the parents of four sons and one daughter, the daughter being Josie A., now the wife of Stephen Kitchen, a farmer in Greene Township, and they are the parents of seven children ; Frederick G., the eldest son, owns and operates the old Estle farm of 170 acres in Greene Township, and is serving as township clerk, as previ- ously noted in this review. He married Rachael Estle, and they have one child ; Howard H. married Miss Florence Howett, and is a success- ful farmer in Springfield Township. They have two children. Samuel, who married Miss Bertha Swaby, has the active management of the old home farm of his father. They are the parents of one child. Stephen W., who served nineteen months in the United States Army in the period of the World war, and who was for fifteen months of this interval in active service in the quartermaster's department of the American Expe- ditionary Forces in France, returned home in July, 1919, and his death occurred on the 29th of March, 1920, about four months prior to his twenty-fourth birthday anniversary.
James C. Walker, who is now living virtually retired in his pleas- ant home at 1223 Clifton Avenue in the City of Springfield, has shown in his career as a citizen and business man the same fine sense of loyalty that marked his course while serving as a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war. He is familiarly known as Captain Walker, this military title having been first applied to him by General Thomas in recognition of his gallant achievement in leading his regiment in the his- toric battle of Missionary Ridge.
Captain Walker is a native son of Qark County and an honored rep- resentative of one of the well known pioneer families of the county. He was bom in Harmony Township, November 30, 1843, and is a son of John and Margaret (Jenkins) Walker, the log cabin in which he was born having likewise been the birthplace of his mother. John Walker was bom in the State of Virginia in 1817, a son of James and Catherine Walker^ whose marriage occurred at Hagerstown, Maryland, and who established their home not far distant, but in the State of Virginia. James Walker, a native of Germany and a shoemaker by trade, came with his family to Ohio in 1819, and both he and his wife were venerable pioneer citizens of Clark County at the time of their deaths. John Walker was reared in Clark County and as a boy was indentured or "bound out" to Samuel Wolfe, under whose direction he served a thorough apprentice- ship to the carpenter's trade, besides which he gained ample experience in farm work. His wife was a daughter of William and Hester Jenkins. William Jenkins, of Welch ancestry, served as a soldier in the War of 1812, and thereafter was given a grant of land in Clark County, Ohio, in recognition of such service. Here he developed a productive farm and here he died at the age of seventy-four years, his widow having been nearly ninety years of age at the time of her death, in 1864. In 1857 John Walker removed with his family to Springfield, and there he died
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in 1879, at the age of sixty-two years, his wife, Margaret, having passed away at the age of thirty-nine years, in 1861, and their remains being interred in Greenmount Cemetery. Their son, WilHam H. H., who eventually established his home at Lansing, capital of the State of Mich- igan, served as a member of Ohio commands during four years of the Civil war and gained the rank of second lieutenant. He first enlisted in Company E, Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and later was in service with the Forty-fourth Ohio Infantry and the Eighth Ohio Cavalry. Joseph S., another of the sons, enlisted in Company A, Ninety-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was killed in battle in Kentucky in 1862. George W. and Louis H., two other sons, became residents of Missouri. Margaret, one of the two daughters who attained to maturity, became the wife of Anson Smith, of Tremont, Ohio, and Mary Jane was the wife of John Rice. Of the immediate family James C, oi this sketch, is now the only remaining representative in Clark County.
Captain James C. Walker was reared and educated in Clark County, and in his youth here learned the carpenter's trade at Springfield. He was seventeen years of age at the inception of the Civil war, and he forth- with gave evidence of his youthful patriotism by enlisting August 1, 1861, as a member of Company K, Thirty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was made color-bearer of his command, and retained this office from November, 1863, until the close of the war. After the expiration of his original term he re-enlisted as a veteran in January, 1864, and though he took part in eighty-one engagements, including a number of major bat- tles, he was fortunate in having never received a wound. He took part in the conflicts at Mills Springs, Corinth, Perryville, Stone River, Hoover's Gap, Tullahoma, Chickamauga, Brown's Ferry and Missionary Ridge — ^all engagements of important order. As color-bearer of his regi- ment he led the command in the fierce battle at Missionary Ridge, the flag which he bore having been riddled by eighty-nine bullets and the staflF with ten bullets, and the United States Congress awarded him a medal for the gallantry which he displayed in the capture of the colors of the Forty-first Alabama Regiment while upholding the colors of his own regiment at Missionary Ridge, and it was in this connection that General Thomas conferred upon him the title of captain, though he did not receive a commission as such. After re-enlistment and a furlough home Captain Walker was with Sherman's forces in the battle of Resaca and other engagements of the Atlanta campaign, and he participated in the historic march from Atlanta to the sea, and eventually took part in the Grand Review in the City of Washington at the close of the war, he having carried in this review the tattered colors of his gallant regiment. It is a notable fact that Captain Walker remained with Gen. George H. Thomas all through the war, first in his brigade, then division, then his corps, and later, his department.
After the close of his most commendable military career Captain Walker was for several years employed in the buildins: of railroad bridges on the Vandalia Railroad through Indiana and Illinois, and later in Ohio. From 1874 to 1883 he was engaged in cabinet work in various industrial plants in his home county, and eventually he became chief of the Springfield Police Department, of which he had previously been assist- ant chief. He continued as chief for eighteen months, and from 1892 to
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1900 he held the office of constable. As a contractor and builder he occupied himself effectively for a number of years prior to his retire- ment from active business, at the age of seventy years. The year 1922 finds Captain Walker in effective service as township trustee of Spring- field Township, and since 1908 he has given much of his time to the obtaining of pensions for worthy comrades who served in the Civil war. He has obtained pensions for a number of old soldiers who had been previously vmsuccessful in gaining such merited recognition on the part of the Government, and he took particular satisfaction in winning a pen- sion for a member of his own company whose service he had known personally and whose record was found to be unblemished, though this comrade had been recorded as a deserter. The Captain has served five terms as commander of Mitchell Post No. 485, Grand Army of the Republic, and is the incumbent of this office at the time of this writing, in 1922, as successor of James T. Lott, who died while holding the office. Of the charter members of this post only two are now living. Captain Walker and T. M. Gugenheim. In politics Captain Walker has ever given loyal allegiance to the republican party.
December 24, 1873, recorded the marriage of Captain Walker and Miss Susie P. Llewellyn, who was born at Columbia, Pennsylvania, November 11, 1852, a daughter of Stephen L. Llewellyn, who died in that state and whose widow later returned with her children to her old home in Ohio. Captain and Mrs. Walker have five children: Frank L., Harry L., Wilbur L., M. Nellie and Lillian. Frank L. married Grace Bechtol, and they have one child, James E. Wilbur L. married Miss Wilda Powell, and has two children, Ruth and Bettie. Lillian married Virgil Baker, and they have one child, Martha Louise.
Glenn Ru.ssell, who formerly made a record of successful achieve- ment in connection with farm enterprise is now engaged in a general contracting enterprise, in construction work of varied order, and maintains his business headquarters in the City of Springfield. Mr. Russell was bom and reared in North Carolina, and has been a resident of Clark County since 1911. Here in 1915 was solemnized his marriage with Miss Daisy Kobelanz, daughter of the late Henry Kobelanz, the old Kobelanz homestead being now the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Russell. The mother of Mrs. Russell is likewise deceased.
Since 1920 Mr. Russell has been successfully engaged in general contracting, in connection with which he owns and operates a gravel pit and supplies all gravel and sand utilized in his various contracting operations. At the time of this writing, in the early summer of 1922, he has in hand a contract for excavation work preparatory to the erection of a new dormitory building at Wittenberg College, Springfield. He is one of the alert and progressive young business men of Clark County, and here he and his wife have a wide circle of friends. They have no children.
Stanford J. Perrott, the efficient and popular superintendent of beautiful FerncHflf Cemetery at Springfield, claims the old Wolverine State as the place of his nativity, his birth having occurred in Jackson County, Michigan, where he was reared and educated. He gained his
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initial experience in cemetery work in Dayton, Ohio, in which he has become an authority. In March, 1893, he became associated with the management of Woodland Cemetery at Dayton, Ohio, where he remained until March, 1909, he having in the meanwhile won advancement to the position of assistant superintendent. In the spring of 1909 he became assistant superintendent of Woodlawn Cemetery at Toledo, Ohio, where he continued his effective service until April 1, 1916, when he was called to the superintendency of Femcliff Cemetery at Springfield, the execu- tive board having learned of his ability and having tendered him this office, in which he has made a record of splendid and loyal administra- tion. Under the direction of Mr. Perrott has been effected for record purposes a replatting of FernclifT, and a complete card index of lot own- ers has been made, while he has had direct supervision of the develop- ment of the fourteen-acre extension of the cemetery. This beautiful cemetery is owned and controlled by the Springfield Cemetery Associ- ation and comprises about 250 acres of hnd bordering on Lagonda Creek along which extends a line of cliffs varying in height from thirty to sixty feet, with many isolated rocks that seem to stand as sturdy and faithful sentinels keeping guard over the peaceful and picturesque "God's Acre" that constitutes one of the most beautiful cemeteries in America. The varied landscape of the cemetery grounds has been admirably adapted to the improvement of the property, and the great forest trees lend their idyllic charm to the sacred spot. In the maintaining of Fem- cliff at its high standard a corps of forty employes is retained, and all of them work under the direct supervision of the able superintendent. At Dayton, this state, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Perrptt and Miss Mary E. Gardner, daughter of John Gardner of Springfield, who is now living retired in this city, where occurred the birth of his daughter Mary E. Mr. and Mrs. Perrott have two children, Ruth V. and Orrin J.
Owen L. Cornwell. Some men are taken away when still in the prime of life, and yet, although their span of years is not complete, a review of their work will show that they accomplished much more than some whose years far outrun the biblical limit of three score and ten. After all it is the sum total and not the length of time required to exe- cute the work that is important. Mr. Cornwell was a man who sought to make each action amount to something worth while and to do well whatever he undertook, and was rewarded by material success and the confidence and respect of his associates.
Bom in Madison County, Ohio, March 14, 1864, Owen L. Cornwell confined his field of operation to his native state, of which he was always justly proud and was ever one of its most worthy sons. His parents, Addi- son and Tabitha (Flemming) Cornwell, were born near Richmond, Vir- ginia, where they were reared, educated and married. Addison Cornwell attended the famous Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, but did not follow a professional career, preferring agricul- tural pursuits. Coming to Madison County, Ohio, he bought a farm, and continued to operate it until he died.
The youngest of thirteen children, Owen L. Cornwell had the mis- fortune to lose his mother when a small boy, and he was reared by a
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sister, Mrs. John Goodfellow, who lived in the vicinity of Vienna, Ohio, with whom he remained until his marriage, which occurred in 1888, after which he lived for one year at Vienna, and then spent three years in Madison County, Ohio. Going then to Charlestown, Ohio, he was in the employ of the Houston Company for many years and became one of its most valued men and skilled employes. In November, 1919, Mr. Comwell saw fit to retire from his long connection with this company, and moved to Springfield, buying a fine, modem residence at 817 South Limestone Avenue, and planned to enjoy life in it and the city of his choice. Fate decreed otherwise, and he died January 12, 1920, and in his passing his community lost a good citizen.
On February 22, 1888, Mr. Cornwell married Mary Peters, who was bom at South Charlestown, Ohio, April 8, 1870. She is a daughter of Oliver K. and Susan (Way) Peters, he born in South Vienna, Ohio, and she in South Charlestown, Ohio. The patemal grandparents of Mrs. Comwell were Samuel and Nancy (Weaver) Peters, natives of Virginia. The Weaver family moved to Clark County, Ohio, when Nancy Weaver was four years old. The maternal grandparents of Mrs. Comwell were Michael and Sarah (Hinkle) Way. Michael Way was brought when an infant by his parents to Springfield, Ohio. His wife was born in Spring- field, Ohio, to which city the Hinkles came at a very early day and invested heavily in land, some of which was located just outside of the eastern limits of Springfield.
Mr. and Mrs. Comwell had the following children born to them: Arthur P., who lives at Cincinnati, Ohio; Laura W., who is Mrs. How- ard Strain, of Selma, Ohio, and is a public school teacher ; Elizabeth O., who is also a public school teacher; Oliver K., who is a high school teacher, living at Springfield; and Samuel A., who is at home. Mr. Cornwell attended the public schools of Vienna, and his wife those of Charlestown. The Methodist Episcopal Church had in him an, earnest and sincere member. He belonged to the Junior Order United Amer- ican Mechanics. He was a strong republican, and Mrs. Cornwell adheres to the same political faith. Mr. Cornwell never sought the limelight, but he never evaded a responsibility nor failed to do his duty or to render a generous assistance to those less fortunate than he.
Augustus B. Nolte, a resident of Springfield for thirty years, is a brass founder, a leader in the manufacturing circles of the city, and well established in the confidence and esteem of his many friends here.
Mr. Nolte was born at Cincinnati, July 26, 1855. His father, Francis Nolte, was bom in Germany, was a stone mason by trade, and found a more congenial home and better opportunities in a business way in America. He spent the rest of his life in Cincinnati. Augustus B. Nolte had only limited opportunities to secure an education as a youth. When about seventeen he went to work as an office clerk in his native city, and subsequently was a bookkeeper in a tobacco warehouse.
Mr. Nolte came to Springfield in 1888. In the meantime he had laboriously developed some financial interests, represented chiefly by the stock he held in the brass foundry of McGregor Brothers and Company. On removing to Springfield he bought the interest of the other partners, and in time he changed the name to the Nolte Brass Company. This is
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one of the leading brass foundries of the Springfield Industrial District and is a highly prosperous business.'
Mr. Nolte is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Mystic Shrine and the Springfield Cham- ber of Commerce. In 1878 he married Miss Katherine Wurster, of Cov- ington, Kentucky. Their two children are: Estelle May and Allan A. The son Allan is. general manager of the Nolte Brass Company. He married Corinne, daughter of Dr. S. A. Ort, former president of Wit- tenberg College, and they are the parents of two children, Samuel O, and Corinne.
Edgar E. Parsons. That all individuals do not find the niche, jor which they consider themselves especially fitted is largely attributable to their inability to fit themselves for those niches which they could occupy with profit and honor. They do not concentrate upon that which they understand and for which nature and training have made them ready, but diffuses themselves over too wide a territory and in the end accom- plish little or nothing. The successful man in any line is he who devel- ops his latent strength by the use of vigorous fitness, innate powers and expert knowledge, gradually attaining to an efficiency not possible in the beginning. Each line of endeavor demands special qualifications. Some men are born executives, being able to direct others to carry out plans which are formulated in the active brain of the leader, and an individual who possesses this ability to plan and direct should bend all his energies toward obtaining an executive position. Edgar E. Parsons during his incumbency of the office of city manager of Springfield has shown him- self by nature and training an executive, and his labors and achieve- ments have been of great benefit to his city.
Mr. Parsons was born August 5, 1878, at Detroit, Michigan, but belongs to a family that has resided in Clark County, Ohio, for several generations. His great-grandfather was Israel Parsons, a native of Frederick County, Maryland, who was a pioneer of Clark County and has long since passed to his final rest. He settled at Springfield about 1828, coming here from Harpers Ferry, Virginia, to which place he had gone after his marriage. His brother Samuel, who came to this city about the same time as he, was the first city clerk of Springfield and in later years became a prosperous citizen, owning a large part of the land upon which the city now stands. Israel Parsons, upon his arrival, estab- lished himself in business as the proprietor of a butcher shop, and con- tinued in the same line during the remainder of his life. He was one of the organizers of Clark Lodge No. 101, F. and A. M., having been made a Mason in 1824, and for many years was tyler of the lodge. He was bom in 1799, and July 2, 1828, married at Baltimore, Maryland, Miss Ann Cox, they becoming the parents of nine children. He died Novem- ber 11, 1883, in the faith of the Methodist Church, leaving a host of friends.
George W. Parsons, a son of Israel Parsons and grandfather of Edgar E. Parsons, was born August 1, 1833, at Springfield, and as a young man learned the trade of plasterer. He was thus employed until the Civil war, when he enlisted in the Union Army and rose to the non- commissioned rank of sergeant. At the close of his military career he
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returned to Springfield, where he resumed work as a plasterer and was so engaged until his death in 1879. He married Anna Krumbelholm, a Catholic, of English parentage, and they became the parents of five children.
John C. Parsons, a son of George W. Parsons and father of Edgar E. Parsons, was bom at Springfield, and in early life learned the trade of machinist, to which he devoted a number of years. During the post ten years he has been superintendent of the Juvenile Home of Spring- field. He formerly served as township constable and as juvenile officer, and has an excellent public record. His political tendencies make him a republican and his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian Church, while as a fratemalist he affiliates with the Knights of Pythias, the Knights of the Golden Eagle and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Parsons married Miss Cora Gram, and they had two children: Edgar E. and Walter, the latter of whom died in early youth.
Edgar E. Parsons was reared at Springfield, where he attended the public schools, following which he pursued a course at Wittenberg Col- lege, and while at that institution was well known in athletics, being quarterback on the varsity football team of 1901. Later, to further pre- pare himself, he attended a business college and took courses in engineer- ing through the Scranton Correspondence Schools and law through the De La Salle Extension University. For twelve years he was a civil engi- neer in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and as such had charge of the track elevation work for this company at Chicago, in a project that cost $8,000,000. In 1917 Mr. Parsons enlisted for service m the United States Army, entering the Officers' Training Camp at Camp Lee, Virginia, where he was granted a captain's commission in the Fifty-fifth Engineers. He sailed for France June 30, 1918, and his work abroad consisted of building hospitals for the American Expedi- tionary Forces. He returned to the United States August 10, 1919, and was honorably discharged September 5, 1919. On his return Mr. Par- sons made application for the office of city manager of Springfield, to which he was appointed July 1, 1920. He has proven capable and ener- getic, and his work has received much commendation from the citizens of Springfield.
On October 31, 1901, Mr. Parsons was united in marriage with Miss Mabel Crawford, at Bristol, Tennessee, and they have one daughter, Virginia Lee, born on Decoration Day, 1918. Mr. Parsons has a number of business, social and civic connections, and is a member of Clark Lodee No. 101, A. F. and A. M., of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and of the Knights of Pythias.
EpwARD Harford, president of the Springfield Savings Society, has long been active in all matters pertaining to the best interests of Spring- field, and is recognized as one of the most representative citizens of Clark County. In his efforts along all lines he has not striven merely for personal advancement, but for the more worthy object of bettering existing conditions, and he is held today in high regard by all who know him and of his work. Mr. Harford was born at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, November 16, 1853, a son of John and Caroline (Roberts) Harford. In 1856 the Harford family came to the United
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States, and located at once at Springfield, where John Harford worked at various things, principally as a carpenter, and he continued to be a resident of Springfield the remainder of his life.
The second of a family of six children, Edward Harford, has never known any home but Springfield, and was educated in the common and high schools of the city. For several years he was employed in a drug store. On May 1, 18/6, he became a clerk in the Springfield Savings Society, and in July, 1880, owing to the death of John C. Buxton, he succeeded him as cashier and treasurer of the society. Until March 13, 1916, he continued to hold these positions, but was then elected presi- dent, and has since served in that capacity. For years he has been a member of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, of which he is a director and treasurer. During the late war he was a member and vice chairman of the executive committee of the Liberty Loan drives. For many years he held membership in the First Presbyterian Church and later, when that church merged with the Second Presbyterian Church what is now the Covenant Presbyterian Church of Springfield, he became a member and is now 'a member and president of its Board of Trustees. He is secretary and treasurer of the Springfield Masonic Temple Association; a past master of Clark Lodge No. 101, F. and A. M. ; past high priest of Springfield Chapter No. 48, R. A. M., and past eminent commander of Palestine Commandery No. 33, K. T. ; is also a thirty-second degree A. A. O. R. Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He was a trustee of the Ohio Masonic Home from the time of its establishment in Springfield in 1891, until 1918, and has served as treasurer of the Home since 1901.
On May 16, 1882, Mr. Harford married Miss Nellie R. Le Clercq, and they have two children. Frederick L. was top sergeant in the Ordnance Department and served a year in France. He married Helen Freeborn, of Seattle, Washington, and he is now a resident of Seattle. Katherine Harford is the wife of Dr. Emery Dibert, of Springfield, Ohio, and they are the parents of two children, Marjorie and William Edward Dibert.
Edgar A. Fay, secretary of the Merchants and Mechanics Savings and Loan Association and one of the thoroughly capable and highly esteemed business men of Springfield, has passed his active career in this city, the most of it in connection with the concern with which he is at present identified. He was born at Marietta, Ohio, June 19, 1860, and is a son of Samuel E. and Miriam E. (Long) Fay.
The Fay family traces its ancestry back to John Fay, who came to America in the good ship "Speedwell" in early Colonial times, and from whom Edgar A. Fay is a descendant. Benjamin Fay, the great-grand- father of Edgar A. Fay, fought as a soldier in the Continental Line dtwing the Revolutionary war, while his son, William Fay, the grand- father of Edgar A., was a soldier in the American Army during the War of 1812. The family has long been identified with the Congrega- tional Church, and for a large part the male members have followed the pursuits of agriculture. Samuel E. Fay resided at Marietta, Ohio, until February, 1871, at which time he brought his family to Springfield, and for five years thereafter operated a farm in Springfield Township.
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He then disposed of his land and bought a monument business at Spring- field, of which he was the proprietor until his death.
Edgar A. Fay was about ten years of age when brought by his parents to Springfield, which, with the exception of a short period, has been his home ever since. He acquired his education in the public graded and high schools, and after his graduation from the latter secured employ- ment in the postoffice as a clerk. When he resigned this position he decided to see something of the opportunities offered by the western country, but after six months returned to Springfield and began clerking in a store, a vocation which he followed until 1885. Having mastered shorthand, he became stenographer and bookkeeper for the Tricycle Manufacturing Company, and during the period of his employment with that concern filled about every office position at the company's bestowal. In the meantime the Merchants and Mechanics Savings and Loan Association had become organized, and in February, 1893, Mr. Fay was elected secretary, a position in which he served until September 29, 1894. During this short period the business grew by leaps and bounds, and it was necessary to seek larger quarters in order to handle the great volume of transactions flowing in. In 1894 Mr. Fay severed his connec- tion with the secretarial office, but remained with the concern as a mem- ber of the Board of Directors. In 1902 he resigned as a director and resumed his duties as secretary, and in the discharge of the responsibili- ties of this office he has remained to the present, having been largely instrumental in building up the association's great prosperity.
On October 4, 1889, Mr. Fay was united in marriage with Miss Alice W. Guthrie, of Springfield, and they are the parents of nine children: Eunice M., who is the wife of Raymond E. Boiler; Benjamin Guthrie, who is a missionary in South America; Capt. Cyril E., who gained that rank during the course of the World's war, in which he was an active participant ; Harriet L., twin of Cyril E. ; William S., who served in the United States Navy during the World war; James L. ; George A. and Miriam A., twins; and Allen U. Mr. and Mrs. Fay are consistent mem- bers of the Congregational Church, in the faith of which their children have been reared. Mr. Fay is a member of the -Springfield Chamber of Commerce, and has a number of social and civic connections.
Harley G. Root. Close competition and able competitors in every line make heavy demands upon the physical strength, nervous energy and business sagacity of every business man of importance today. The call is made on his good judgment as well as his favorable financial stand- ing, hence it really means something worth while when a man is able to meet this situation successfully and competently direct, organize and manage large enterprises in which vast capital is invested and many diverging interests concerned. A representative business man of Spring- field, Ohio, who is prominently identified with important business con- cerns, is Harley G. Root, president and treasurer of the H. G. Root Company of Springfield and Columbus, wholesale and retail dealers in automobile accessories, and president and treasurer of the Automotive Parts Company, operating stores in Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati.
Harley G. Root was bom at Marietta, Ohio, September 19, 1882, and is a son of George G. and Barbara (Bennett) Root, both of whom
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belonged to pioneer families of Washington County. His grandfather, Tomas Root, served as a soldier in the Union Army through the Civil war.
In large measure Harley G. Root is a self-made man. He was educated in the public schools, and after completing his high school course at the age of seventeen years, taught his first term of school in Washington County, and continued to teach for the next three years, in the meanwhile learning the art of telegraphy. He then secured a position with the Big Four Railroad Company as a telegrapher in the Cincinnati office, and eventually became chief clerk. In 1909 he came from there to Springfield as chief clerk to the general passenger and freight agent of the Ohio traction lines.
In 1910 Mr. Root started in business for himself, organizing the Springfield Vulcanizing Company, which under his able direction has been developed into a large enterprise, the H. G. Root Company, extensive dealers, both wholesale and retail, in automobile accessories. On August 4, 1914, Mr. Root went to Richmond, Indiana, to become general man- ager of the Westcott Motor Car Company, subsequently moving with it to Springfield, and was the active directing head of this concern, also its secretary and treasurer, until March 1, 1922, when he resigned to give his entire attention to his own expanding affairs.
Mr. Root married, June 30, 1906, Miss Edith Lawwill, of Wash- ington Court House, Ohio, and they have one son, Gordon. Mr. Root and his family are members of the Covenant Presbyterian Church, of which he is a trustee, and chairman of its New Church Building Com- mittee, and is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Wittenberg College and of the Board of Trustees of the Springfield City Hospital. He has served as president of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, of the Manufacturers Association, of the Automobile Club and the Rotary Club.
Brown Burleigh. The modem young American business man with his energy, vitality and clear vision, has many remarkable achievements to his credit, and a community is fortunate, on many occasions, if given the opportunity to follow his clear-sighted leadership along many lines of effort. One of the younger business men of Springfield, who has come rapidly to the front in commercial life, is Brown Burleigh, who is identified with a number of important enterprises here.
Brown Burleigh was born at Springfield, Ohio, February 27, 1883, and is a son of Harry West and Frances (Brown) Burleigh. Harry West Burleigh was bom at Greencastle, Indiana, and was a son of John Burleigh, a native of Indiana but of Kentucky parentage. For a number of years Harry W. Burleigh was a traveling salesman, and was well and favorably known over a wide territory. His death occurred in 1917. He was a Mason of high degree. The mother of Brown Burleigh still resides at Springfield, which is her native place, her father, the late Major Luther Brown, having been a hardware merchant and prominent citizen here for many years.
Major Brown served with distinction in the Civil war. He entered the Union Army as a member of Company I, One Hundred and Tenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on December 12, 1862, and was commissioned captain two days later. He served on the staff of Gen. J. Warren
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Keifer until the end of the war and was mustered out on June 26, 1865, with the rank of major, by brevet. He was active in state politics and influential at Springfield.
Brown Burleigh completed the public school course in his native city and was graduated from the high school in 1901, and afterward for a time continued his studies in Wittenberg College. In 1902, impatient to enter upon a business career, he accepted the position of timekeeper and paymaster for the Superior Drill Company, now the American Seeding Machine Company, and continued in that relation until 1905, when he went with the D. L. Auld Jewelry Company of Columbus, Ohio. In 1908 he returned to Springfield, and in December of that year became a member of the Kissell Real Estate Company of this city, of which he is vice president, additionally being secretary of the Kissell Improve- ment Company, secretary and treasurer of the Kissell Development Company, and president of the Members' Real Estate Company. The Kissell interests are extensive and the Kissell Real Estate Company is the largest and most prosperous organization of its kind at Springfield, a well financed, well managed and well officered body. Mr. Burleigh not only has been active and thorough-going in his personal and com- pany's business affairs, but has been a real moving force in all that con- cerns the substantial welfare of the city, an important factor in the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, of which he formerly was a director.
Mr. Burleigh married on November 14, 1914, Miss May S. Fait, who was born at Baltimore, Maryland, and is a daughter of Mrs. Wil- liam Fait, of Springfield. They have one daughter, Sybel Louise, who was bom January 14, 1921. Mr. and Mrs. Burleigh are members of Christ Episcopal Church. They take part in the pleasant social life of the city and have a wide acquaintance, and Mr. Burleigh belongs to the leading clubs, including the Lagonda, Country and Rotary. He is a charter member of St. Andrew's Lodge No. 619, F. and A. M.
Isaac Zimmerman was for a long period of years a substantial factor in the agricultural interests of Clark County. He came from Pennsylvania in 1848, and in the following year bought and settled on what has long been known as the Zimmerman farm, just outside the city limits of Springfield. He was a man of industry and fine char- acter, and he especially contributed to the citizenship of Clark County a family of children whose records can only be briefly reviewed in this account.
Isaac Zimmerman was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, March 20, 1823, son of Henry and Barbara (Greiner) Zimmerman. Henry Zimmerman was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, December 31, 1786. He was the son of Peter and grandson of Peter Zimmerman. Peter Zimmerman, Sr., whose ancestor came to this country from Ger- many and founded the family in Lancaster County in Colonial times, was a Revolutionary soldier.
After making his preliminary investigations in Clark County Isaac Zimmerman returned to Pennsylvania in 1849 and married Anna Chris- tiana Ober. She was born in Lancaster County, December 20, 1829, daughter of Jacob and Barbara (Coble) Ober. Both of her grand- fathers, Christian Ober and David Coble, were soldiers in the Revolu- tionary war.
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When Isaac Zimmerman and his bride returned to Clark County from Pennsylvania they made the journey overland, bringing with them all their possessions. At that time Springfield was a town, with a small population and few industries. After purchasing his farm Isaac Zim- merman cultivated it and improved it from year to year, and from his farming activities generously provided for his family and discharged those duties and obligations incumbent upon good citizenship. He was a most upright man, a strict member of the United Brethren Church and enjoyed the esteem of all who knew him. He died at his home farm July 14, 1871, and his wife passed away May 18, 1876. The fol- lowing is a brief account of their children and also some of their grandchildren.
Cyrus Zimmerman, oldest son of Isaac Zimmerman and wife, was born October 12, 1850. He was educated in the public schools and Wit- tenberg College and became a farmer and a man of prominence in Union County, Ohio, where he died June 15, 1915. He married Lydia E. Low, of Springfield. Of their children Albert I. is now manager of the American Security and Trust Company of Kansas City, Missouri; Walter A. is a bank cashier at Volmer, Idaho; Joseph is a farmer in Clark County; Cyrus Edwin died in France while serving with the Ambulance Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces; and Ralph is operating the home farm in Union County.
Barbara Ellen, oldest daughter, was born November 26, 1852, and married John Crabill, of Clark County. Their children are: Ida Irene, wife of William Y. Mahar, a Springfield attorney; Clark R., a farmer in Clark County; and Pearl Preston, who is president of the Central Brass & Fixtures Company of Springfield.
Agnes Zimmerman, born August 7, 1854, married William S. Welsh, a native of Hedgesville, West Virginia, and who for many years was superintendent of Mast, Foos and Company of Springfield. Her only son, James Winfield Welsh, is now executive secretary of the American Electric Railway Association, with headquarters in New York City. James W. Welsh married Ada Clement, of Pittsburgh, and they have two sons, James W., Jr., and Clement William.
William Joseph Zimmerman, who died September 30, 1918, was a farmer near South Charleston in Clark County. He married Ida Way.
Ida Flora Zimmerman became the wife of Samuel S. Spencer, an attorney at Emporia, Kansas. Their children are: John W., who is now the forest supervisor of Big Horn Forest for the United States Government and is stationed at Sheridan, Wyoming; Dorothy was a missionary four years in St. Mary's Parish at Kyoto, Japan, and at this writing (1922) is home on a leave of absence; Ruth, also an educator, taught one year in the Boys' Commercial School at Kyoto, Japan, and is now teacher in a high school in California. The three younger chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. Spencer are Robert, Louise Christine and Ober, all in school.
Effie Jane Zimmerman, sixth child of this family, married Dr. L. E. Custer, of Dayton, Ohio, and their son, L. Luzern Custer, is an inventor and is president of the Custer Specialty Company, manufacturing his own patents.
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Miss Carrie May Zimmerman, youngest of the children of Isaac Zim- merman, has long been prominent in the educational affairs of Spring- field. She was educated in the local high school, is a graduate of Witten- berg College, did post-graduate work in the University of Chicago and Wellesley College ; studied abroad in the University of Jena, and passed the examinations at the University of Grenoble, France, in 1910. She was at one time a teacher in the Springfield Seminary, and is now head of the department of modern languages in the Springfield High School. Miss Zimmerman is active in the Methodist Church, the Woman's Club, and belongs to the Lagonda Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, having four direct ancestors who were in that war.
Edwin S. Houck. When the pioneers of a hundred years ago built their cabins in what is now the busy, prosperous city of Springfield, Ohio, it is not probable that they were searching for the easy things of life or expected other than the hardships they encountered. In large measure they were hardy, practical people, hopeful for the future but meeting it with fortitude, and carrying on their undertakings with industry and resourcefulness. From such stock came the early builders of Springfield, a sturdy example of whom was George Houck. His descendants have belonged to Springfield ever since, and one of these is found in Edwin S. Houck, able lawyer and prominent and useful citizen.
George Houck was born in Pennsylvania. The original home of the Houcks was the Province of Wurttemberg, Germany. This particu- lar branch of the family came to the United States in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and many of the name may be found among the substantial people of this country today. George Houck's wife was a member of the old Pennsylvania Dutch family of Snyder, still numerous in the vicinity of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. For a time they lived in Maryland, where, presumably, their six children were born, and from that state the family set out in 1836 for Springfield. They traveled by stage coach on the old National Road and were ferried across the Ohio River at Wheeling. At Springfield George Houck engaged in brickmaking, an occupation that had been followed in his family for 250 years. He became a citizen of recognized worth, a stem advocate of law and order and an honest supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Edwin L. Houck, the youngest of the sons of George Houck, was six years old when he accompanied his parents to Clark County, and he grew to manhood with many of his father's sterling qualities. He was well educated for his times, having attended the old Springfield Seminary that stood on the present site of the Y. W. C. A. Building, and in the course of time learned the family trade, and, later, in association with his brother, William H. Houck, became wealthy. Early invest- ments in land that at first would be utilized in brickmaking and later, as Springfield rapidly expanded, would be platted and sold, contributed greatly to this result. In 1853 Mr. Houck became a member of a com- pany commanded by his brother, Samuel Houck, organized to cross the plains to California. Although he survived the hardships, dangers and disasters of this expedition, it was a wild adventure and memorable in
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every way. The thrilling events of this journey included battles with wild beasts and with Indians, but the most serious disaster, a visitation of Asiatic cholera on the banks of the Platte River, on the old Oregon Trail, served to almost decimate the company. Edwin L. Houck escaped, but his brother, Samuel Houck, fell a victim to the epidemic. Mr. Houck became acquainted with many of the conspicuous plainsmen of the Far West and knew Bridger and Kit Carson well. He remained in the mining regions tmtil he met with more than moderate success, and then returned home by way of the Isthmus of Panama.
Edwin L. Houck married in Qark County Mary Osborne, daughter of Joseph and Sophia Osborne, who had come here in 1836 from Balti- more, Maryland, largely led here because of a hatred of slavery and desire to rear their children in a free state. Mr. and Mrs. Houck had one daughter and three sons. The daughter, who was the wife of George M. Leffel, died in August, 1921, leaving one son, James O. Leffel. The three sons are: Samuel M., who is a farmer in Mad River Town- ship, Edwin S., and Ernest O., who is a prosperous sheep rancher near Casper, Wyoming. The mother of the above family died in 1904 and the father in 1909. Their acquaintance was wide and esteem universal.
Edwin S. Houck was born at Springfield, Ohio, March 3, 1868. He attended the public schools and subsequently Wittenberg College, from which he was graduated in 1886, then entered upon the study of law in the office of Goode & Scott, and was admitted to the bar in 1891. Mr. Houck has an established reputation as an able and honorable mem- ber of his profession, and has been identified with a large amount of important litigation in this section of Ohio in the last quarter of a cen- tury. From preference he has always made his home at Springfield, and his wise, conservative helpfulness in civic aflFairs has been of incalculable value. He served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Spring- field Hospital Endowment Fund, and also of the Springfield Sinking Fund Board and City Commission. In political sentiment he is a democrat. During college days he belonged to the Phi Gamma Delta, and has ever since maintained an interest in the fraternity. He is unmarried.
John Miller was one of Springfield's merchants, and had founded a successful business before his death, which took him away in the prime of his years and usefulness.
He was bom at Springfield, January 27, 1857, son of John and Agnes Miller, early settlers in the city. Mr. Miller was educated in the public schools and also attended Wittenberg College. As a young man he engaged in the grocery business, and was located on West Main Street for two years, after which he moved his establishment to 2415 East High Street. He bought the store building there, and had active charge of the growing business until his death on September 21, 1883.
In March, 1879, Mr. Miller married Mary Cramer. She was bom in Springfield, August 11, 1857, daughter of George and Catherine (Hefner) Cramer, natives of Germany, who came to Springfield in 1852 and soon settled on a farm in Springfield Township, where they lived the rest of their lives. Her father died April 10, 1911, and her mother, April 10, 1916.
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Mrs. Miller has one son, Walter John, born August 2, 1883. Since he left school he has been associated with his mother in managing the grocery business at 2415 East High Street, and is one of the very ener- getic and successul young business men of the city. Mrs. Miller is a member of St. John's Church.
Arthur W. Finfrock since coming to Springfield has been identified with several lines of useful service, and is now engaged in the floral business, managing one of the most popular establishments of the kind in the city.
Mr. Finfrock represents an old family of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and was born near Winchester, that state, December 14, 1872, son of Benjamin C. and Anna Marie (Hubbard) Finfrock. His father was born at Hagerstown, Maryland, and his mother, at Winchester, Virginia. He died in 1910, at the age of eighty-three, and his wife, in 1915, aged eighty-six. Benjamin Finfrock never lived in Ohio, though he visited in Clark County in 1865. Benjamin C. Finfrock, Jr., a brother of A. W., was engaged in the cigar business at Springfield, and died when forty-six years of age.
Arthur W. Finfrock was educated in the district school of Virginia, and at the age of ten years began working at odd jobs and partly paying his own way. At the age of sixteen he began operating a traction engine for his father, and this was his work largely until he came to Springfield. For six months in this city he was engaged in the building of road rollers, then for six months was a motorman with the Springfield Rail- way, following which he was with the Kelly Monument Works, and six years later was promoted to shop foreman.
On account of an injury he resigned in 1917, and since then has been manager of the Ferncliff Floral Company at 437 McCreight Avenue. This company handles all kinds of cut flowers, plants and general designs, and for the production of flowers has about seven thousand square feet under glass. The founder of the business in 1913 was Alfred S. Finfrock, who died December 29, 1917.
Mr. Finfrock married in February. 1902, Miss Delia Baker, who was born near Winchester, Virginia, September 13, 1885, daughter of John and Susan (Miller) Baker, both natives of Shenandoah County, Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Finfrock have two children, Ruth Austin, born June 28, 1903, and Charles Seward, born August 17, 1909. Mrs. Finfrock was educated in the public schools of Virginia. They attended St. John's Lutheran Church. Mr. Finfrock is independent in politics, and is now affiliated with Springfield Lodge No. 33, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was first initiated in that Order in Madison Lodge No. 6, at Winchester, Virginia. He is a member of Fraternal Order of Eagles, No. 397, and Mrs. Finfrock is treasurer and for two years was trustee of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Eagles.
William Harmon Slough. For the greater part of a half century William Harmon Slough had interests and activities to identify him usefully with the citizenship of Springfield. His chief business for a number of years, until he retired, was operating a truck farm and green- house, one of the leading industries of the kind in the city.
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Mr. Slough was born and grew up on a farm that is now included within the city limits of Springfield. He was born February 27, 1853, son of George and Elizabeth (Seibert) Slough. His grandparents, George and Catherine (Shenk) Slough, were natives of Lancaster, Penn- sylvania. His father, George Slough, was born in Lancaster August 27, 1821, and in 1846 married Elizabeth Seibert. She was born in Germany September 15, 1828, and her parents, George and Eva Catherine (Ban- gert) Seibert, came to this country in 1830 and settled on East Main Street in Springfield. George Seibert owned a farm of sixty acres there which was operated by his son-in-law, George Slough, and a portion of this land is now the property of William Harmon Slough. George Slough after his marriage lived on this sixty-acre farm in Springfield Township. A cooper by trade, he devoted most of his years to agri- culture. About 1858 he moved to Richland County, Illinois, remaining there only a year, when he returned to his old home in Clark County, where his wife died on May 16, 1859. He sufvived her many years and passed away March 9, 1898. Their children were: Leonard, of Fristoe, Benton County, Missouri; William Harmon; Eva Catherine, deceased wife of Mark Livingston, by which union there were seven children; Margaret, Mrs. John Remsberg, of South Center Street, Springfield.
William Harmon Slough was about six years of age when his mother died, and after that his father's home was broken up and he lived for a time with an uncle at Springfield, and also with another uncle around Dayton, Ohio. He acquired his education in the Snow Hill and Gray Hill district schools, and when he returned to Clark County at the age of fifteen he went to work on the farm of David B. Way. He was a worker on the Way place until he was twenty, and then sought new opportunities in the West, going to Clinton, Douglas County, Kansas, where he worked until the following fall on farms. Coming back to Clark County he resumed farm work and the next spring took charge of the sixty-acre place that had belonged to his grandmother Seibert. In 1880 Mr. Slough again went West, to Abilene, Kansas, bought a farm, but on account of hot winds and cyclones stayed there only a year.
Once more back in Clark County, Mr. Slough was employed for three or four years in the Rhinehart & Ballard Shop. He then bought a tract of land in Mad River Township and did truck growing for two years. He then resumed employment in the same shop as before but now under the proprietorship of O. S. Kelley, and was an employe in the Kelley Foundry for fifteen years. Mr. Slough in 1901 bought ten acres of the old Seibert farm, which in the meantime had been acquired by his father. On this land he put up a home and other buildings, started the growing of vegetables and truck crops, with Springfield as his immediate market, and in that business was associated with his son Wil- liam H., Jr. In 1904 they erected a large greenhouse, and the business has since been conducted as a year round proposition. In 1918 Mr. Slough turned over the business to his son and has since lived retired, his home being at 2016 North Limestone Street.
March 22, 1877, Mr. Slough married Christina W. Hoechamer. She was born at Moulton, in Auglaize County, Ohio, September 1, 1859, daughter of John F. and A. Regina (Trunk) Hoechamer. Her parents were born in Bavaria, Germany. Mrs. Slough was educated in public
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schools of Auglaize County. Of their children the oldest is Eva Cather- ine, who was educated in grammar and high schools, took special work in Wittenberg College at Springfield, and is now a teacher in the Jef- ferson School of Springfield. The second child, John F., who lives at 220 May Street, Springfield, married Amelia Menz, and their three children are Paul Luther, J. Frederick and A. Elizabeth. William H., Jr., whose home adjoins his father's, married Elsie Ihrig and has five children, E. Catherine, William Henry, Elsie R., George E. and Ethel C. The youngest child, Anna Elizabeth, died at the age of twenty-three months. Mr. and Mrs. Slough are members of Zion Lutheran Church, which he served as elder four years, and he is a democrat in politics.
George- W. Winger, vice president of the First National Bank of Springfield, is a native son of Clark County and a representative of a family whose name has been linked with the history of this county for more than eighty years. Mr. Winger was born in this county on the 22d of February, 1844, and is a son of Jacob and Catherine (Trout) Winger, whose marriage was solemnized December 27, 1832, both having been bom and reared in the State of Pennsylvania. The following rec- ord is of definite historic interest and is properly reproduced in this connection :
"The widespread persecution of the Protestants of France and Cen- tral Europe by the Jesuits in the early part of the eighteenth century, whereby France lost more than a million of her most enterprising and industrious citizens, resulted, in connection with the general devastation of Central Europe, in a large emigration from continental Europe, and specially from among the Uberty-loving Swiss. About this time great inducements were offered to Europeans by William Penn in the peaceful province of Pennsylvania, where all could worship God according to the dictates of conscience, and many families and colonies from Switzerland, particularly those of the Mennonite cult, left their vine-clad hills and valleys and settled in the fertile country in Eastern Pennsylvania. Among the number was Karl Michael Wenger, who came to America from the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, in 1736, and who settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was twice married, and of the three sons of the second union Jacob was born in 1783. This son eventually changed the spelling of the family name to make it conform to the English pro- nunciation, and succeeding generations have retained the orthography which he thus adopted, that of Winger. Jacob Winger married Eliza Weaver, and their second son, Jacob, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, August 26, 1810. It was this son Jacob who became the pioneer representative of the family in Clark County, Ohio.
"In the spring of 1837 Jacob Winger, in company with Isaac Jacobs (who became a pioneer farmer) and their small families, made their way over the mountains and across the country with teams and wagons and settled in Clark County. Ohio. At Springfield, then a mere village, Mr. Winger began to ply his trade, that of carpenter and house-builder, and success attended his activities. In 1843 he purchased and removed to a farm one mile east of town, and this tract is now a part of the beauti- ful suburb of Elmwood. In 1850 he sold his farm to Algernon Paige and returned to Springfield to resume the work of his trade. In 1852,
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in company with William Whitely and others, he erected shops at the northwest comer of Limestone and Washington streets for the purpose of building freight cars. The financial depression of 1853 put the rail- roads temporarily out of expansive operation, and during the ensuing fourteen years Mr. Winger was actively identified with other manu- facturing enterprises."
As the original religious faith of the Winger family in Pennsylvania was that of the Mennonite Church, which is opposed to warfare, no representatives of the family served as soldiers in the Revolution. Jacob Winger was a sterling citizen whose constructive activities did much to further the civic and industrial advancement of Springfield and Clark County, and he was one of the honored pioneer citizens of the county at the time of his death, in 1885, at the age of seventy-five years. His first two children, Mary Elizabeth and Amaziah, were born in Pennsyl- vania, and after the family home had been established in Clark County, Ohio, eight other children were bom, namely : Catherine Ann, Hezekiah, Hannah, George W., Winfield Scott, Susanette, John Moore and Mary Cotes. Amaziah served as a gallant soldier of the Union throughout the Civil war, and was captain of Company A, Ninety-fourth Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry. Hezekiah, as lieutenant and captain, was in service with Company I, Forty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and the Eighth Ohio Cavalry, was wounded in a charge upon the enemy at Lynchburg, Virginia, and as a result of this injury he died in February, 1866.
Jacob Winger had not formally united with any religious body at the time of his immigration to Ohio, but on the 21st of April, 1841, during a series of revival meetings held in the old courthouse at Springfield, he and his wife united with the First Baptist Church, in which they continued zealous workers during the remainder of their lives.
George W. Winger had attended the common schools and was a student in Wittenberg College at the time of the Civil war. Before grad- uating he left college, in 1864, and enlisted as a private in Company E, One Hundred and Fifty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, his regiment having been one of the few emergency organizations that saw active service. After the close of the war Mr. Winger attended the first busi- ness college established at Springfield, the same having been conducted by Edward Harrison. Thereafter he was bookkeeper and salesman in the clothing store of Matthew Oates, and later he became bookkeeper and teller in the old Second National Bank of Springfield. He entered this service September 6, 1866, and on August 1, 1874, he resigned to enter the service of the First National Bank, with which he has con- tinued his active executive association during the long intervening^ period and of which he has been the active vice president for many years. He and his wife are eamest members of the Presbyterian Church, and in politics he is generally a republican. He has been active and influential in the promotion of the interests of the local Young Men's. Christian Association, has served two intervals as president of the same and is the incumbent of this position at the present time, his interest in the organization having been marked by close alliance with the work since shortly after the Civil war. He is affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic.
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November 14, 1877, recorded the marriage of Mr. Winger and Miss Julia Schenck, of Warren County, and they have four children: Stanley DuBois, Helen, Ruth (Mrs. Thomas F. Anderson, of Sidney, Ohio), and Alice.
George R. Prout was a prominent factor in the civic and industrial life of the City of Springfield, where he was president of James Leffel & Company, of the Bookwalter Hotel Company, and vice president of the Citizens National Bank.
Mr. Prout was bom at Sandusky, Ohio, September 30, 1868, a son of Andrew and Sarah M. (Richmond) Prout. Andrew W. Prout, who was bom at Bloomingville, this state, was for forty-seven years actively identified with banking enterprise in Ohio. Mrs. Prout was a daughter of Colonel David C. Richmond, who was in command of a regiment of Ohio militia in the Civil war, he having traveled extensively in foreign lands and having become one of the foremost horticulturists of his day in Ohio. He married Sarah Burr, a distant relative of Aaron Burr.
David Prout, a native of London, England, married a daughter of Admiral Hawkins, of the British Navy, and he immigrated to America in 1640. He established his residence in New York City and was the progenitor of the Prout family in this country. He became prominently concerned in the shipping trade between New York and the West Indies. His son Degory was a drummer in the army of General Washington in the War of the Revolution, and for his services was given a large grant of land near Waterloo, New York.
George R. Prout, the elder in a family of two children, took a pre- paratory course in Phillips-Exeter Academy and successfully passed the examination for entrance into Yale University, but impaired eyesight caused him to relinquish further study along higher academic lines. He took a course in the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York, and thereafter he was for some time associated with manufactur- ing enterprise in his native city of Sandusky. There he later was engaged in the retail hardware business, and upon coming to Springfield he became associated with the Superior Drill Company, in which he con- tinued as sales manager until 1919. Prior to this he had acquired an interest in the business of James LefFel & Company, of which corporation he was president from 1917 until his death, March 17, 1922. His influ- ence and financial co-operation were given also in the development and upbuilding of other important concerns in Springfield, and he was known and valued as one of the substantial business men and progressive citi- zens of the judicial center of Clark County. Mr. Prout served as master of the local lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and as com- mander of the Sandusky, Ohio, Commandery of Knights Templar, his Masonic affiliations including also his reception of the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and his membership in the Mystic Shrine. He was a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
On the 27th of September, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Prout and Miss May Louise Bookwalter, daughter of Francis M. Bookwalter, of Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Prout became the parents of two children, Harold Andrew and Elizabeth Bookwalter. In connection with the World war Harold A. Prout became first lieutenant of Company
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C, Three Hundred and Twentieth Infantry, Eighty-third Division, his preliminary training having been received at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana, and he having been in service with the American Expeditionary Forces in France from June, 1917, until his discharge in February, 1919. Since then he has been connected with James Leffel & Company, of which he is now vice president. On September 11, 1920, Mr. Prout married Miss Marge Adelaide Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Johnson, of Springfield, Ohio, and they are the parents of one daughter, Joanne Louise.
William D. McIntire. A well-known figure in business circles of Springfield is William D. McIntire, who has made a marked success of his activities in the insurance field, and who has also been prominent in civic and fraternal matters. Mr. McIntire was born at Springfield, March 3. 1861, and is a son of the late Albert M. and Anna M. (Peck) McIntire.
For six generations the members of the old and honored family of McIntire have participated in events of Clark County and the City of Springfield. The family was founded in this county by William McIntire, a native of Scotland, who immigrated to America prior to the War of the Revolution, with a brother, and took part in the winning of American independence as a member of the Virginia line. At the close of the struggle he married the widow of his brother and came to Ohio, settling in what is now Clark County, a region of which he was a pioneer. Here his son Samuel was born and later figured as an early farmer of German Township. He reared a family of several sons and daughters, one of whom, William T., was for twenty-five years prominent in the public affairs of Clark County. Another son, Joseph McIntire, served with great ability as sheriff of the county, while a third son, John McIn- tire, was a successful general contractor of Springfield.
Albert M. McIntire, father of William D. McIntire, was born at Springfield in 1835, and died in 1903. He removed to the State of Kan- sas in 1865, but ten years later returned to Springfield, and, again taking up the contracting business continued to be engaged therein until his retirement from active life some years before his death. His wife, who was the daughter of David Peck, died in 1888. Mr. and Mrs. McIntire were the parents of the following children: William D., of this review; Prof. Benjamin Butler, principal of the Washington School, Springfield; Lillie May, deceased, who was the wife of James Dick; Dr. Albert H., a successful practicing physician and surgeon of Springfield; Ada, who is deceased; Edwin K., of Springfield; Samuel, who is deceased; Jane, who became the wife of A. A. Wright, of Springfield; Sarah, who became the wife of Walter F. Kitchin, of Springfield; John D., a resi- dent of the same city ; and Pearl, who is deceased.
William D. McIntire was a small boy when his parents moved to Kansas, and the next ten years of his life were spent on a farm on the wild prairies of frontier days. With the family he suffered the priva- tions of pioneer life, particularly in the winters, and made a regular hand on the farm, handling the stock and following the plow. His early edu- cation he received from his mother, who was a well-educated woman, and in the "soddy" schoolhouse of the neighborhood of the farm home.
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and he also obtained six months of schooling at the home of his maternal grandparents in Illinois. At the age of fifteen years he entered the Springfield graded schools but an accident shortened his school days for all time, although he continued his private studies by lessons taken under Professor Rowe, an old school teacher of those days, to whom Mr. Mclntire went several times a week, paying this old instructor ten cents a lesson. Later he took a course in bookkeeping at the Nelson Business College, then recently opened at Springfield, and on leaving that institu- tion became bookkeeper for C. C. Funk & Company, wholesale and retail grocers on South Fountain Avenue, near Main Street. A year later he gave up bookkeeping and went to work for his father in the contracting business, but following his marriage, in 1884, he went to work as a machinist for the Thomas Manufacturing Company, where he put in three years. He was next with the O. S. Kelly Company for seven years, but failing health necessitated his giving up work in the shops and in order that he might have out-door employment he entered the employ .of the Home (Fire) Insurance Company, establishing a farm department through the local agency of that company. In 1896 he estab- lished his own insurance business and since that year has been owner of the W. D. Mclntire Insurance Agency, handling a general line of fire, health, accident and other insurance, with offices in the Odd Fellows Building on South Fountain Avenue.
Mr. Mclntire is a member of all branches of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has passed through all the chairs of the various branches. Since 1905 he has been treasurer of the Ohio I. O. O. F. Christmas Committee and handles all of the funds donated by the lodges of the state and by individuals for the purpose of giving Christmas cheer and entertainment to the residents of the State I. O. O. F. Home at Springfield.
In 1884 Mr. Mclntire married Miss Margaret Fahl, who was born at Donnelsville, Clark County, Ohio, daughter of Nicholas Fahl, and to this union there have been bom two sons and two daughters. Raymond L., identified with the Citizens National Bank of Springfield, married Grace Circle, of near New Carlisle, Ohio. William R., attending high school, resides with his parents in the comfortable family home. The two daughters, Ada V. and Olive E., both promising young ladies, are deceased.
Charles Franklin Jackson is one of the older business men of Springfield, and for over thirty years has been actively associated with the profession and business of a funeral director. Successive changes and developments have occurred in his business affairs until today he owns one of the most complete and perfectly equipped organizations of the kind in the state.
Charles Franklin Jackson was bom on the home farm in Moorefield Township of Clark County, June 12, 1873, son of John M. and Kate (Kraft) Jackson, and grandson of John Jackson, a representative of the distinguished Jackson family of old Virginia, one of whose members was General Stonewall Jackson. John M. Jackson was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, in 1834, and was left an orphan at the age of eighteen months and soon afterward was brought to Moorefield Township, Clark
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County, by his uncle, William Moore, in whose home he was reared. John M. Jackson was possessed of a most adventuresome spirit, which led him to nearly all parts of the world. As a youth of sixteen he joined in the rush to the California gold field in 1849. In his pursuit of excitement and wealth he went on to the gold fields of Australia, where he met with success and accumulated a considerable fortune. Following this he traveled all over the world and in the course of his travels he learned to speak seven different languages. Finally he returned to Clark County, Ohio, bought the farm on which he was reared, and he lived there a contented and prosperous farmer until his death in 1890. His wife, Kate Kraft, was born in Springfield, daughter of Jacob Kraft, one of the early manufacturers of the city, who came here from Balti- more. Mrs. John M. Jackson is still living.
Charles F. Jackson spent his early life on the farm, was educated in the common schools and in the Springfield High School, but did not go on further with his education on account of his father's death. He was then about seventeen and he began learning the undertaking business with W. A. Gross & Company, spending five years with that concern. Following that he went on the road as demonstrator of anatomy for the Champion College of Embalming, and subsequently was a road salesman for a funeral and embalming supply house. Mr. Jackson in 1906 estab- lished himself in the undertaking business at Springfield as a member of the firm Myers & Jackson. Later he became sole owner of this busi- ness, and he bought the old Pursell residence on West High Street, con- verting it into a suitable place for his business. Subsequently he sold this property to the Crowell Publishing Company and the site is now covered with the mammoth plant of that publishing house. He then secured the beautiful William S. Foos residence property on East High Street, there being five acres of ground. The fine old home has been remodeled into what is probably the largest and most beautiful under- taking establishment in the State. Mr. Jackson's individual home is at 640 North Fountain Avenue.
Among other business interests Mr. Jackson is vice president of the Trump Manufacturing Company, and is treasurer of the Superior Refrigerator Company. He is active in the fraternal life of Springfield, being affiliated with Clark Lodge No. 101, F. and A. M., Dayton Con- sistory of the Scottish Rite, Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton, Ephraim Lodge No. 384, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Canton Occidental No. 21, Patriarchs Militant; Springfield Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Red Star Lodge No. 205, Knights of Pythias; Junior Order United American Mechanics, Yolo Tribe No. 90 of the Improved Order of Red Men, and is also a member of the Lagonda Club, Lions Club and the First Lutheran Church.
Mr. Jackson married Miss Ada H. Hughes, daughter of J. Harvey Hughes, of the well-known family of that name in Springfield. They have two daughters, Courteney C, who graduated from high school in 1922, and Jean R., attending the Ridgewood private school for girls.
Homer W. Ballinger, general manager and treasurer of the Clark County Lumber Company and one of the prominent men of the younger generation at Springfield, was bom at Versailles, Ohio, March 22, 1?§8,
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a son of Dr. John B. and Mary Louise (Worch) Ballinger. His entire carrer has been devoted to the lumber business, in which he has centered his interests, although he has also found time to devote to the promulga- tion and advancement of movements having for their object the welfare of the city and its institutions and interests.
Dr. John B. Ballinger was born on the old family homestead, located near Versailles, a son of Elam Ballinger, the latter a son of Jacob Bal- linger, one of two Quaker brothers who came to America from England and settled in South Carolina. Jacob became the Ohio pioneer of the Ballinger family, and settled on Ballinger Run, named after him, which crosses the line of Darke and Miami counties, east and west. Dr. Bal- linger early decided upon a medical career, and after preparatory work entered the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, from which he was grad- uated with his degree. He has been a practitioner at Versailles for many years and is still active in his profession, having a large and lucrative clientele and standing high in the ranks of his calling. His wife, Mary Louise Worch, was born near New Madison, Ohio, a daughter of Sebas- tian Worch, a native of Germany. Mrs. Ballinger died at Versailles in 1920.
Homer W. Ballinger attended the public schools of Versailles, and after graduating from the high school of that place in 1906 enrolled as a student at Miami University, where he received his degree as Master of Arts with the graduating class of 1910. On leaving college he entered the employ of his uncle, George H. Worch, a well-known lumber dealer of Versailles, where he received his introduction to the business and became acquainted with many of its methods. In December, 1911, he came to Springfield as manager of the Clark County Lumber Company, one of the largest concerns in its line in Ohio. In 1917 he was made manager and treasurer of the concern, positions which he has retained to the present.
During his career Mr. Ballinger has been called upon to fill a number of positions in the business world for which his executive ability and other qualifications equip him admirably. He is a director of the Ohio Association of Retail Liunber Dealers and of the Hoo-Hoos, the lumber dealers' society. He formerly served as president of the Young Busi- ness Men's Club and as a director of the Springfield Chamber of Com- merce, and at present is president of the Springfield Automobile Club and a member of the Rotary Club of Springfield. As a fratemalist he is a charter member of H. S. Kissell Lodge, F. and A. M., of which he is senior warden, and belongs to Dayton Consistory, thirty-second degree Scottish Rite, and to Antioch Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Dayton. He likewise holds membership in the Delta Epsilon college fraternity. With Mrs. Ballinger he belongs to the First Lutheran Church.
On October 12, 1912, Mr. Ballinger was united in marriage with Miss Nellie W. Herron, who was bom on the Herron farm in Butler County, Ohio, a daughter of L. D. Herron, a well-known ag^culturist of that county.
Jerome P. Courlas, a successful manufacturer of and dealer in candies and a recognized leader in the affairs of the appreciable Greek contingent of citizens in this community, has been for the past decade
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specially active and influential in civic affairs in the metropolis and county seat of Clark County.
Mr. Courlas was born in the City of Philicion, District of Sparta, Greece, on the 12th of October, 1889, and is a son of Peter and Cath- erine Courlas, who likewise were born in that city. When he came to the United States Peter Courlas left his family in his native land until such time as he should have established himself effectively in the land of his adoption. He passed several months in the City of Chicago, and finally established himself in the candy business in the City of Cincin- nati, Ohio, where his son Jerome P. joined him in 1903, the son Harry coming over from the old home in Greece in the following year. The year 1905 recorded the arrival of the beloved wife and mother, and thus the family was reunited. In 1910 Peter Courlas and his wife returned to their native land, where Mrs. Courlas still remains, her husband hav- ing come back to the United States in 1914.
Jerome P. Courlas gained his early education in the schools of his native city and was fourteen years old when he joined hia father in Cin- cinnati, as noted above. He attended the graded and high schools in that city and later made a special study of the English language in the City of Cincinnati. In his father's establishment he gained practical knowledge of the manufacturing of high grades of candy, and in 1907 he established himself in the candy business on West Main Street in the City of Springfield, Ohio, where he began operations on a modest scale. About one year later he returned to Cincinnati, but in 1910 he estab- lished his permanent home at Springfield, where for one year he was manager of the Majestic Theater, a position which he resigned to estab- lish himself in the restaurant business in rooms adjacent to the Fountain Hotel. W^hen the nation became involved in the World war he sold his restaurant, and while waiting call to the military service of the country, under the draft provisions, he found employment in the Crystal Res- taurant. He was not called into active service, but in 1918, when the "fight or work" order was issued, he became foreman in the tool supply department of the Robbins & Myers Manufacturing Company, where he remained thus engaged for a period of fourteen months. After the close of the war he resigned this position and purchased the Arcade Confec- tionery, which he has since successfully conducted, in the manufacturing and sale of candies of fine grade and also in conducting an excellent restaurant in connection.
On the 23d of September, 1920, through regular naturalization pro- cedure, Mr. Courlas became a full-fledged citizen of the United States, and even before this he had become loyally interested and influential in civic affairs in his home city. He is president of the Hellenic Union Club, is an active member of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, and is at all times ready to give his influence and co-operation in the further- ance of measures and enterprises advanced for the general good of the community. In the World war period he gave valuable aid in the cam- paigns in support of the Red Cross work and the County War Chest, in which latter drive he was a captain. He has been liberal in support of the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. in Springfield, and as a loyal and liberal citizen he commands the esteem of a large circle of Springfield's best citizens.
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The year 1918 recorded the marriage of Mr. Courlas and Miss Mabel Conkling, who was born at Port William, this state, a daughter of Lucien and May (Stephens) Conkling, and the two children of this union are Catherine and Elaine. Mr. Courlas is a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
Elmore Willard Ross came to Springfield in the year 1884, and here he built up a large and prosperous industry in the manufacturing of various kinds of agricultural machines. He long held precedence as one of the vigorous, progressive and influential business men and rep- resentative citizens of Springfield, and here his death occurred in 1892.
Mr. Ross was born at Auburn, New York, in the year 1849, and there he was reared and educated, the Ross family having been one of prominence and influence in and about Albany, New York, for several generations, with pioneer distinction in that part of the old Empire State. The subject of this memoir was a son of Elmore P. Ross, who was a man of fine business ability and one who figured prominently in connection with various industrial and commercial enterprises of broad scope and importance, he having been owner of large tracts of coal land, a director of the old Southern Central Railroad (now a part of the Lehigh Valley system), and also a director of the Wells-Fargo Express Company, besides which he was prominently concerned in manufacturing industry. Elmore W. Ross received excellent educational advantages, including those of Yale University, and after his marriage he removed to Fulton, New York, to take charge of a manufacturing establishment that had been given to him by his father. In 1884 he removed the machinery and business to Springfield, Ohio, where he eventually developed a large plant and a substantial business in the manufacturing of agricultural machinery, his removal to Ohio having been prompted by a desire to establish his factory more nearly in the central part of the country's great agricultural region. The factory was devoted principally to the manufacturing of feed and ensilage cutters, and the enterprise became one of most prosperous order — a valuable contribution to the industrial prestige of Springfield. Mr. Ross was a man of fine character and fine intellectual powers, and he made for himself inviolable place in the business and civic life of his adopted city. He was a semi-invalid for several years prior to his death. His widow still maintains her home at Springfield.
In the State of New York was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Ross and Miss Mary Fitch, one of whose ancestors, Ebenezer Fitch, was the first president of Williams College, Massachusetts, the town of Fitch- burg, that state, having been named in honor of this family.
Elmore P. Ross, only child of him to whom this memoir is dedicated, was bom at Fulton, New York, November 14, 1876, and was nine years of age at the time of the family removal to Springfield, where he duly profited by the advantages of the public schools. Thereafter he entered Williams College, at Williamstown, Massachusetts, and in this historic institution he was graduated in 1899, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In the following year he became actively identified with the manu- facturing business founded by his father, and he is now one of the execu- tive heads of this concern, which still bears the corporate title of the E. W. Ross Company.
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In January, 1907, Mr. Ross wedded Miss Alice Muir, in London, England, and they became the parents of two children, of whom one is living, Elmore Muir Ross. The younger son, Willard Gordon, died in 1918, at the age of seven years.
As a resourceful and progressive business man and public-spirited citizen Mr. Ross is fully upholding the honors of the family name.
John O'Brien became one of the successful business men and sub- stantial and honored citizens of Springfield, and here his death occurred in 1906, after he had here maintained his home for half a century. He was bom in Kings County, Ireland, in 1839, a son of John O'Brien, Sr., and he was a lad of fourteen years at the time of the family immigration to the United States, the voyage across the Atlantic having been made on a sailing vessel of the type common to that period. The family home was maintained in Cincinnati, Ohio, about three years, and about 1856 removal was made to Springfield, where the parents passed the remain- der of their lives. John O'Brien, Sr., here conducted a general store and became one of the popular and highly respected citizens of Clark County. In physical stature he was below the average, but he bore himself with dignity, dressed with exceeding neatness, customarily wore a silk hat, and was a typical Irish gentleman of the fine old school. Both he and his wife were devout communicants of the Catholic Church. They became the parents of seven sons and one daughter. Henry, one of the sons, was an officer in an Ohio regiment in the Civil war, and was a resident of Indianapolis, Indiana, at the time of his death.
John O'Brien (II), the immediate subject of this memoir, attended school in Cincinnati, and there was solemnized his marriage with Miss Dora McAvoy. They became the parents of three sons and four daugh- ters, one of the daughters being now deceased. John O'Brien and his brother Patrick established the first pottery in Springfield, the same hav- ing been situated on West Main Street and having been operated suc- cessfully by them for a number of years. Thereafter John O'Brien engaged in street contracting, and of this line of business he became one of the leading and most successful representatives in Springfield, where he handled many important contracts in connection with progressive municipal improvements. He was a man of inviolable integrity in all of the relations of life, and commanded unqualified popular esteem in the city which long was his home and the stage of his well directed activities. His widow survived him by about twelve years, attained to the venerable age of eighty-two years and was one of the gentle and revered pioneer women of Springfield at the time of her death, in 1918. Three sons still reside in Springfield: Richard H., Patrick E. and Wil- liam. Richard H. is chief of the police department of the city
Patrick E. O'Brien was bom in Springfield on the 12th of March, 1863, and gained his early education in the Western Public School and the parochial school of St. Raphael's Church. In early years he was employed in various industrial shops in Springfield, and later he became special agent of the Springfield-Xenia Telephone Company, of which he was one of the organizers and original stockholders. Since 1919 he has been the general manager of this important corporation. He and his wife are zealous communicants of the Catholic Church, he is affili-
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ated with the Knights of Columbus, and is a member of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce. He has achieved marked success in connection with his various business alliances, is a director of the American Trust & Savings Bank, is treasurer of the Kissell Improvement Company, and a director of the Edward Wren Company, which conducts one of the leading mercantile establishments of the city.
On the 12th of October, 1894, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. O'Brien and Miss Margaret Quinn, a daughter of Martin and Margaret Quinn, of Springfield. The two children of this union are Paul and Marguerite. Paul O'Brien graduated from Wittenberg College. He IS now engaged in the successful practice of law in the City of Cincin- nati and is associated with ex-Governor Harmon.
David King. In the year 1841 the father of Colonel David King came to Springfield from Tarlton, Pickaway County, Ohio, and the future industrial city gained in the next generation of the family a man who was destined to play a large and important part in its civic and material development and advancement. The father, who likewise bore the personal name of David, was a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of the Buckeye State, and was a man of superior men- tality and business ability. Upon coming to Springfield, which was then a mere village, he here engaged in the mercantile business and later invested in real estate. He was a firm believer in the future growth and importance of Springfield, and one of the properties which he here accumulated was at the comer of Limestone and Main Streets, where the M. & M. Building now stands, his holding extending on Main Street to the present Boston Store. He and his wife were leading members of the First Presbyterian Church. The maiden name of Mrs. King was Almena Caldwell. They became the parents of nine children, of whom six attained to maturity, namely: Robert Q., Mary E. K. (Mrs. Luther A. Gotwald), David, Sarah J., S. Noble and Minnie. Mr. King died in the year 1849, honored by all who knew him, and his widow survived him several years. Two of the sons, David and S. Noble, were gallant soldiers of the Union in the Civil war. S. Noble King became a cap- tain in an Illinois regiment, and in most of his service was stationed at Island No. 10, in the Mississippi River.
Colonel David King, the immediate subject of this review, was born at Tarlton, Pickaway County, Ohio, September 11, 1839, and thus was a mere infant at the time of the family removal to Springfield, where he was reared to manhood and where he has continuously maintained his home. He was one of the first students in Wittenberg College, at the time when its sessions were held in the Lutheran Church at Springfield, and he is today undoubtedly the oldest surviving graduate of this insti- tution. He was clerk in a local mercantile establishment when the Civil war began and had already gained considerable tactical training as a member of a local militia company. Upon President Lincoln's first call for volunteers he enlisted with his company, being enrolled April 14, 1861, and mustered in on the 17th of that month. He was made first lieutenant of his company, later promoted to captain, and took part in the first battle of Bull Run, and when the ninety days' term of enlistment had expired the members of the company unanimously voted to continue
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in service an additional ten days, and later virtually all of the members re-enlisted. It is a matter of record that sixty-five percent of the mem- bers of the company became officers after this re-enlistment. In 1862, as major, Mr. King assisted in raising the Ninety-fourth Ohio Volun- teer Infantry, with which he went to the front. With this command he took part in the battles of Perrysville and Stones River, as well as numerous minor engagements. In 1863 he received his honorable dis- charge, his health being so impaired that his death was thought to be imminent. He was retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
After recuperating his physical energies Colonel King became con- nected with the Clifton Paper Mills, and he continued his alliance with paper manufacturing for a period of several years. He then organized the present Springfield Paper & Merchandise Company, with which he still continues his connection, with prestige as probably the oldest active paper merchant in Ohio. He is president of the company and has been the directing force in the upbuilding of its large and prosperous business.
Colonel King is a stalwart republican, is affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and he is among the oldest and most honored members of the Covenant Presbyterian Church of Springfield.
In 1864 Colonel King married Miss Mary M. Danforth, and they have two children. Noble C. and Mary, the latter being Mrs. George H. Brain.
Clarence J. Foster is vice president and has had an active part in the development of the business and industry of the Buffalo-Springfield Roller Company, one of the larger of the concerns whose manufactured output, distributed practically in all civilized countries, makes the name Springfield famous in commerce and industry.
Three generations of the Foster family have been residents of Spring- field and have contributed to its growth and prosperity. The grand- father of Qarence J. Foster was William Foster, who was bom in York- shire, England, June 20, 1805. As a young man he learned metal work- ing in various lines. In 1837, at the age of thirty-two, he came to the United States and immediately established his home at Springfield, Ohio, where he opened a blacksmith shop at what is now Foster and Main Streets, the former street named in his honor. He was an expert mechanic and gradually secured competent men under him and developed a considerable industry to meet the needs of the time. His shop was on the National Road and he shod stage horses and re-tired the wheels of the stage coaches and other wagons that crossed over that thoroughfare. In later years William Foster bought a farm near Springfield and was engaged in its duties. William Foster married Sarah Gedlin, who was bom August 5, 1812. Her parents came from England to the United States in 1831, and in that year established their home at Springfield, Ohio. William Foster and Sarah Gedlin were married September 5, 1835. Their four children were : Catherine A., Sarah J., Joseph W. and Mary E. Sarah Foster died June 11, 1872, and William Foster on July 10, 1876. He was one of the honorable, upright men of his day, and in a quiet way he did his part in laying the foundations of a greater Spring- field. He was a member of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and at one time held the office of township trustee.
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Joseph W. Foster, only son of his parents, was born on the home farm January 16, 1845, and he spent his active life on that farm, now within the present limits of the City of Springfield. As he grew to man- hood he adopted farming as his regular vocation, and he proved himself a man of steady mold and great intrinsic worth. He worshiped as a member of the same church as his father, and showed the same sense of civic duty. Joseph W. Foster, who died in 1902, married, October 10, 1871, Josephine M. Smith, daughter of Lewis C. and Anna (Hurd) Smith. They were the parents of one daughter, Anna C, and two sons, William L. and Clarence J.
Clarence J. Foster was bom in the same house as his father, on December 19, 1876. He was educated in the local public schools, in Wittenberg College and in a business college. For two years he was a clerk with the Ansted & Burk Company, millers, and then became an employe of the O. S. Kelly Company. When that business was reorgan- ized and a new corporation formed, known as the Kelly-Springfield Road Roller Company, Mr. Foster remained with the new company, and also with its successor, the Buflfalo-Springfield Roller Company, of which he is vice president.
The Buffalo-Springfield Roller Company was started as a depart- ment of the O. S. KeUy Company about 18iS8. It developed into a big business, justifying separate organizations, and after about twelve years the Kelly interests were withdrawn and the reorganization was named Kelly-Springfield Road Roller Company. At that time the plant was moved to its present location on Kenton Street. C. M. Greiner and J. B. Cartmell were the principal owners at that time, Mr. Cartmell being president and C. J. Foster secretary. In 1912 Mr. Cartmell disposed of his holdings and since then C. M. Greiner has been president, C. J. Foster and C. F. Greiner vice presidents, and E. E. Greiner treasurer. This company manufactures a special line of road making and working machinery and road rollers, and during the World war the corporation furnished rollers for road construction work in France and also for cantonments, aviation fields, forts, arsenals and other duty at home. It is properly spoken of as one of the most important of the manufacturing enterprises of Springfield.
Clarence J. Foster, like his father and grandfather, is a member of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and is affiliated with the Alpha Tau Omega college fraternities, and the Lagonda and Country Clubs. In 1903 he married Miss Katherine Speed. They have two sons, Joseph W. and Philip S.
The Buckeye Incubator Company. With the largest output and sale of its products of any industry of its kind in the world, the Buckeye Incubator Company is a distinctive business of Springfield, and its history involves the personal careers of several prominent men of that city.
One of the pioneers in the manufacture of the modern incubator was Mr. Frank Saumenig, who in 1888 designed and manufactured the original type of the Buckeye Incubator. He discovered and incor- porated into his first machine the important relationship between tem- perature, ventilation and moisture in connection with artificial incubation.
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His early incubators proved their extraordinary efficiency in the hands of the local poultrymen who were fortunate enough to secure the limited number the manufacturer and inventor could afford to build. The enterprise attracted the attention of Mr. James Homan, also of Spring- field, and in 1891 he became associated with Mr. Saumenig, placed con- siderable capital at the disposal of the business, and a factory was built on Innisfallen Avenue, near Rebert Pike. A satisfactory market was found for the incubators on a larger scale. When the Buckeyes were exhibited at the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893 they carried off the highest honors in competition with a large number of other machines. However, during the latter part of 1893 serious differences of opinion developed between the two partners, ending with Mr. Saumenig dropping out of the business, and he began taking up the manufacture of incu- bators on his own account. Limited means brought his enterprise to financial failure, and his business was purchased at public sale by Mr. Homan in 1895.
Mr. Homan continued to be associated with the business from 1894 until 1906. Under his administration the company was on a mail order basis. The incubators proved their merit, but Mr. Homan was not dis- posed to expand the business. In 1906 George Cugley of Philadelphia secured an active share in the company, and it was decided to discon- tinue the mail order business and market the product through established dealer agents. This brought a rapid expansion, and inside of a year a new factory was secured, located on Euclid Avenue at the Pennsylvania Railroad crossing. In this new location the growth of the enterprise proved too rapid for Mr. Homan, who was advancing in years, and he decided to sell his interest rather than to supply additional qapital. In 1911, therefore, he sold his stock to Mr. George Cugley, who became president and general manager of the company. Mr. Cugley immediately redesigned all the company's products, with a view of standardizing all the mechanical parts. His improvements met with the immediate favor of the trade and resulted in rapid sales expansion between 1911 and 1917. At that time Mr. Arthur R. Hill was in charge in the capacity of sales manager, and the volume of sales increased from $75,000.00 in 1911 to $675,000.00 in 1917, and in 1921 the sales had reached $1,500,000.00.
In the meantime new financial associates had been secured for the company in the person of Mr. J. S. Crowell, Mr. Arthur R. Worthing- ton and Mr. H. S. MacKinnon. For three years Mr. Worthington and Mr. MacKinnon were respectively vice-president and secretary.
The great increase in sales had made it necessary to increase the plant and the credit facilities of the organization to such an extent that when the war came on, with its attendant ill effects upon the poultry industry in general, the company was obliged to apply for a receiver in May, 1918. Mr. Joseph B. Cartmell was appointed receiver, but owing to the heavy demands made upon him he found it necessary within a few months to secure assistance, and Mr. J. B. Clingerman was appointed co-receiver. These receivers handled the affairs of the company in such a satisfactory way that the receivership was discharged in June, 1920, the creditors receiving payment in full for their obligations, with six per cent interest.
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In the meantime Crowell, Worthington and MacKinnon had disposed of their holdings to Mr. J. B. Cartmell, Hill and Robert Cartmell, and upon the reorganization of the business Mr. J. B. Cartmell was elected president, with George Cugley, vice president, Robert Cartmel, secre- tary, and Arthur R. Hill, treasurer and general manager.
Under Mr. Cartmell's guidance the affairs of the company have con- tinued to expand, so that now the Buckeye Incubator Company is the largest manufacturer of incubators and brooders in the world. The company's sales are greater than those of the three largest competitors combined. This leadership is largely due to the fact that the Buckeye Company has always kept in advance of its competitors by building the most perfect types of incubating and brooding machines. The coal burning brooder has been a large factor in the advancement of business. The company is now making rapid progress in the building of mammoth incubators, used by commercial hatcheries who make a business of hatch- ing and selling baby chicks. These mammoth incubators range in size from 2,440 eggs to 10,368 eggs, and are built under a patent acquired from Mr. S. B. Smith of Cleveland, Ohio. The company recently opened a European office at Herblay, France, through which connections are being established in all European countries. The company is now repre- sented in nearly every country where chickens are raised to any extent, and the incubators and brooders bearing the Buckeye name have an international distribution and use.
Henry Edgerton Freeman. In the aggregate of individuals that make up the best citizenship of a community there will frequently be found those whose names and personalities are more familiar to the pub- lic than others, because of honorable achievement along one or more lines of effort They are almost without exception men of individual modesty, whose prominence has been brought about through rare com- petency and the confidence and appreciation of those who put a true value on trustworthiness in the small as well as the great things of life. Perhaps no business citizen of Springfield is held in higher esteem than Henry Edgerton Freeman, who for years has been closely identified with finance and banking interests in this city and elsewhere.
Henry Edgerton Freeman was bom at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, March 17, 1878, and is a son of L. R. and Elizabeth (Reed) Freeman. He graduated from the Cuyahoga Falls High School in 1894, and from Adelbert College, Western Reserve University, in 1898. Almost immedi- ately he turned his attention to business, his preference being shown by his acceptance of the position of cashier in the Garfield Savings Bank, at Glenville, Ohio, where he continued from 1899 until 1903, and from that time onward has filled responsible positions with representative financial institutions of the state. From 1903 until 1906 Mr. Freeman was associated with the Garfield Savings Bank of Cleveland as assistant secretary and treasurer; was secretary and treasurer of the American Trust and Savings Bank of Springfield from 1907 to 1916, since which time he has been vice president and director ; is treasurer of the Robbins & Myers Company and of the Edward Wren Company, of Springfield, and is a director in the First National Bank, the Morris Plan Bank and the Springfield Light, Heat & Power Company. His name is a recognized
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asset to business corporations for it has become a synonym for business foresight and sotmd judgment and for unimpeachable business integrity.
Mr. Freeman married January 12, 1909, at Crestline, Ohio, Miss Bertha S. Bebst. He is a member of the Congregational Church, and resides at 1575 East High Street, Springfield.
In political life Mr. Freeman has always been affiliated with the republican party, never being unduly active but always endeavoring to live up to his standard of good citizenship. Since coming to Springfield he has not only been identified with important business aflfairs, but he has been interested and helpful along constructive lines relating to the gen- eral welfare. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary, Country and Lagonda clubs, being president of the latter in 1921, and is a Royal Arch Mason.
Donald Kirkpatrick. A prominent member of the Springfield bar and a popular and capable public official is found in Donald Kirkpatrick, who is serving as prosecuting attorney of Clark County. He is a worthy representative of old and substantial pioneer families of the state.
Mr. Kirkpatrick was bom at Oakland, California, December 29, 1884, and is a son of James H. and Mary (Johnston) Kirkpatrick. His great- grandfather, Peter Kirkpatrick, after honorable service in the Revolu- tionary war came to Ohio and in 1808 settled in what was then the wilder- ness of the north end oi Licking County, his only neighbors at that time being Indians, who often were unfriendly. He was a courageous, resourceful man, however, and after again serving as a soldier, in the War of 1812, returned to his home in Licking County and became a man of local prominence. On his pioneer farm he reared a large family and was succeeded by his son, James M. Kirkpatrick, who, in the course of nature, was succeeded by his son, James H. Kirkpatrick. The latter, like his father, became an extensive farmer and grower of Merino sheep, and at one time did a large business in exporting sheep to Utah, his main customer being Brigham Young. On the maternal side of the family Mr. Kirkpatrick is also of Revolutionary stock, and the Johnstons were among the earliest settlers in Logan County, where they acquired land and were representative people.
Donald Kirkpatrick from the age of seven years was reared on the old Kirkpatrick homestead in Licking County. He was educated in the public schools of Utica and the Ohio State University, from which insti- tution he was graduated with his degree of B. A. in 1910. Two years later, with his LL.- B. degree, he was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of his profession at Springfield in September, 1912. He has met with a large measure of success, and in electing him to the responsi- ble office of prosecuting attorney of Clark County his fellow citizens have demonstrated their esteem and confidence. He takes a deep interest in civic affairs and is a valued member of the Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Kirkpatrick married in 1916 Miss Bertha Adams, of Columbus, Ohio, and they have two children : Donald, Jr., and Mary Phyllis.
Charles Henry Pierce. While monuments of marble and stone may serve to emphasize a man's importance during life and perpetuate his memory after death, there can be no more lasting memorial than that
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to be found in the sincere gratitude and affection that he may have inspired through unselfishly working for the benefit of others. This is the test of true worth.
In the passing away of Charles Henry Pierce on March 28, 1918, Springfield lost a citizen of inestimable value, one who had been promi- nently identified with its business affairs and its civic progress for years. Less conspicuously, he was deeply concerned in the welfare of his fellow men, although his philanthropy was unostentatious. It came from a sense of personal responsibility, and, pursued with kindly motive, resulted in untold benefit to those who will ever revere his memory. Mr. Pierce was bom at Chelmsford, Massachusetts, April 13, 1840, a son of Stephen Pierce.
Mr. Pierce had but indifferent educational opportunities* as he was left an orphan when but nine years old and his home was with strangers. It was in 1856, when sixteen years old, that the youth came to Springfield and embarked in the newspaper business. At that time the town was proud of its train service of three times a week, and young Pierce began to deliver Cincinnati newspapers and later was able to secure the agency for the same, being the real pioneer in this line here, although for a time it was no easy matter to secure enough patrons to make the venture very profitable. In the meanwhile the Civil war came on, and he served as a soldier for a short time and then returned to his newspaper business in Springfield, and many of the older residents can remember his stand on the postoffice corner, where he also acted as stamp clerk. He possessed the right idea of salesmanship and prospered where others might have failed.
In 1876 Mr. Pierce established himself in the retail book, stationery and wall papr business at 11 South Fountain Avenue, in the owner- ship and management of which his son has succeeded him. He arose to an important place in the affairs of Springfield. In 1892 he retired from active participation of his book store, all the later years of his life being connected with banking. At one time he was a director of the Springfield Savings Bank, but resigned from this directorate in order to accept a similar position in the Lagonda National Bank, of which he subsequently became vice president. He took an active part in the organization of the Springfield Building & Loan Association, having much to do with estab- lishing it on a firm foundation, was its second president and served many years in that capacity. His successor is Dr. B. F. Prince.
Mr. Pierce's marriage with Miss Maria T. French, a family was born, and three children reached maturity: Bertha F., who is the wife of Frank E. Sawyer; Walter C, who married Carolena Henking. and they have one son, Engene; and Roscoe, who married Dora J. Griffith, and they have two children, Ilva and Maynard F.
While Mr. Pierce was an alert and vigorous citizen and served effec- tively on the old City Council, he was in no sense a politician. Although not a member of the denomination, he was a regular attendant of the First Congregational Church, in which he held official positions, including that of church treasurer for thirty years or more. He was extremely charitable but had practical ideas and in his generous helpfulness endeavored to make his beneficence valuable to the recipient. He early became impressed with the conviction that the ownership of a home of
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his own was the greatest security a poor man could have for the future, and it will never be known how many times he supplemented advice on this subject with the financial assistance that made possible the poor man's dream. That this was frequent is often suggested by the attiitude of visitors to his old store who, standing before his fine portrait hanging on the wall, will whisper with every sign of deep emotion, "He was the best friend I ever had."
The Kelly-Springfield Motor Truck Company is definitely to be considered one of the more important of the many industrial concerns that lend commercial prestige to the City of Springfield. About the year 1905 Oscar Lear organized at Columbus, Ohio, a company to build rac- ing and motor cars, under the Frayer-Mille patents on air-cooled motors. In 1907 the headquarters of the company were transferred to Spring- field, through the cooperation and financial assistance of public-spirited citizens of this place, and the title of the Frayer-Mille Company was adopted by the corporation. Here the company first confined its busi- ness to the manufacturing of pleasure cars and taxicabs. After about two years the enterprise was directed exclusively to the manufacturing of air-cooled motor trucks, and E. S. Kelly eflfected a reorganization of the company, which was then incorporated as the Kelly Motor Truck Company. In 1912 the company produced an output of water-cooled motor trucks and abandoned the air-cooled motors. At this juncture the firm of Emerson, McMillen & Company of New York secured the con- trolling interest in the business, which has since been thus retained, and the corporate title was then changed to its present form, the Kelly-Spring- field Motor Truck Company. This vital and progressive corporation has gained an enviable success and reputation, its motor trucks being recog- nized as among the best manufactured, and the trade having been extended to virtually all parts of the civilized world. The company bases its opera- tions on a capital stock of $6,000,000, and in the extensive and modem manufacturing plant an average of 600 employes are retained. During the border troubles between the United States and Mexico the Kelly- Springfield trucks were largely used by the Government in connection with operations there, and in the period of the great World war, after having previously purchased a few of these trucks, Belgium standardized the Kelly-Springfield trucks in its war activities, as did also the Canadian Government and other allied nations, all of which purchased large num- bers of these celebrated trucks. The personnel of the present official corps of the company is as here noted : James L. Geddes, chairman of the Board of Directors; Charles W. Young, of New York, president; Capt. Marion McMillen, vice president.
James L. Geddes, chairman of the directorate of this representative Springfield corporation, is a native of Scotland where he was reared and educated and whence as a young man he came to Canada and found employment in connection with railway operations. He came to the United States about the year 1895, and for several years he was treasurer and auditor of the Detroit City Gas Company, in the metropolis of Michigan. Since 1913 he has been a resident of Springfield, and he has entered most loyally and effectively into the civic, industrial and com- mercial life of the community, the while he has proved a liberal and
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progressive citizen of strong constructive powers in connection with business affairs of broad scope and importance.
Joseph Link. One of the men who for nearly forty years was a living force in Springfield, and the good influence of whose noble and unselfish life will be felt for many years to come was the late Joseph Link.
He was bom on the fifth day of April, 1846, in Baden, Germany. With a view to becoming a teacher he attended the Gymnasium (high school) and also studied music. Realizing that his opportunities for advancement would be much greater in the United States, he immigrated to this country when he was twenty-two years of age, locating at Spring- field, Illinois. He attended a college near by and completed his education.
Mr. Link came to Springfield in 1867. He taught school over ten years, and was organist at St. Bernard's Church a long time. He was also one of the charter members of the Springfield Maennerchor, a flour- ishing men's choir in the early '90s, and the director of the same. In 1888 he located with his family at Cincinnati, where he taught school. While there he was organist at St. Boniface Church. In 1891 he removed to Springfield, where he entered the grocery business, being compelled to give up teaching on account of his health. He continued in business until his death, which occurred at the Good Samaritan Hospital on April 13, 1905, where he submitted to an operation. He was a member of the Board of Review for three years.
He married at Springfield, Illinois, in 1869, Mary Schwing, who survives him and who resides on Lagonda Avenue, where she has lived fifty-four years. Ten children were bom of the marriage, seven of whom survive. Two died early in life, and the third, Francis C. Link, who was prominently identified with the business interest of the city, died in 1916, at the age of forty-one years. The surviving children are: Dr. Joseph A., who is a leading surgeon and veteran of the World war; Mary, a teacher; Constantine, a realtor, and prominently identified with and director of various industrial enterprises and director of the Mer- chants & Mechanics Savings and Loan Association; A. C, an attorney and the referee in bankrutcy for Clark County; Clara, who is the wife of Andrew A. Helmuth, a realtor ; Anna, who is connected with and principal owner of Link's Grocery; and Lewis, a veteran of the World war and engaged in real estate business with his brother Constantine, operating under the firm name of Link & Link.
The firm of Link & Link is widely and favorably known as a real estate firm in this section of the state. They have platted many additions, including "Arlington and Warder Homestead," and deal extensively in city and farm properties. In 1914 the firm, then composed of the late Francis C. and Constantine Link, together with their brother, A. C., pur- chased the site at the corner of Limestone and Main streets, and organ- ized the Link Hotel Company, which built the Shawnee Hotel Building, a handsome and strictly modern fire-proof hotel. The business properties north of the hotel as far down as the county historical grounds are owned by Constantine and A. C. Link.
Mrs. Mary Link, widow of Joseph Link, is seventy-four years of age and enjoys good health. Two of her children, Clara Helmuth and Con- stantine Link, are married and each has three children.
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Arthur H. Baker finds the title of Acadia Farm no misnomer for his fine homestead place on Yellow Springs Turnpike, seven miles south of Springfield, in Greene Township, for this is one of the model farms of the township and in every respect gives evidence of vigorous and progp'es- sive management.
Mr. Baker was bom in the State of New York, on the 19th of Febru- ary, 1870, and is a son of William and Rosa (Palmer) Baker. He was but one year old at the time of his father's death, and he was reared by his widowed mother, who gave him the best educational advantages she was able to provide. He earned his first money by working in a green- house, for $2 a week, and he continued to be employed in this connection four years. He then went to the Northwest, where he followed various vocations, he having been for fifteen years in the restaurant business. In Springfield, judicial center of Clark County, Ohio, he has owned and successfully conducted several restaurants, and here he is now proprietor of the Robbin & Myers cafeteria, though he now resides upon and gives his active supervision to his fine farm, which is of small area but well improved. This place, comprising twenty-one acres, is largely given to the raising of vegetables. He is a member of the special district Board of Education in Greene Township, and is president of the Hope- well Community Church, he and his wife holding to the faith of the Covenant Presbyterian Church. He is a director of the Emery Farmers Elevator Company of Springfield, and is an active member of the Grange in his home township. In the Masonic fraternity Mr. Baker's basic affiliation is with Anthony Lodge No. 455, F. and A. M., at Springfield, where he holds membership also in Springfield Chapter, R. A. M. ; Springfield Council, R. and S. M. ; and Palestine Commandery, Knights Templar. In the Scottish Rite of the time-honored fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree, and he is also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. The maiden name of the first wife of Mr. Baker was Ada HoUen- back, and she is survived by one son, Luther B., who served in the World war as one of the gallant young soldiers with the American Expeditionary Forces in France and who now resides in the City of Cleveland. For his second wife Mr. Baker married Miss Margaret Williams, of Chicago, Illinois, no children having been born of this union.
John Louis Dorst has achieved a splendid service in the upbuilding and maintaining of the Springfield Young Men's Christian Association, of which he has been the efficient and popular secretary since 1911.
Mr. Dorst was born at Harrison, Hamilton County, Ohio, November 28, 1872, and is a son of Henry and Margaret (Lorenz) Dorst. The early educational discipline of John L. Dorst was obtained in the public schools and was supplemented by a special course in Lane Seminary. He initiated his association with business by assuming a clerical position in the Cincinnati offices of the Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati & St. Louis (Big Four) Railroad, and in early manifestation of his sense of personal Christian stewartship he became secretary of the railroad department of the Young Men's Christian Association at Cincinnati. In this position he continued his service from 1893 to 1903, and thereafter he served until 1911 as secretary of the central department of the Young Men's Christian Association of Cincinnati. In April, 1904, he was licensed to
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preach by the Cincinnati Presbytery, and from 1905 to 1911 he had pas- toral charge of the Pleasant Run Presbyterian Church in Hamilton County. This was in connection with his Y. M. C. A. work
Since assuming his present executive office with the Springfield Young Men's Christian Association in 1911, Mr. Dorst has accomplished much for the lasting benefit of the youth of this community, and the benignant eflfect of his activities is to be seen and felt in all of those branches of human endeavor that contribute to the making of a vigorous industrial city. His indomitable energy and high ideals find exemplifica- tion in work aside from his mere technical service as secretary of a strong and well ordered Y. M. C. A., and his spirit of helpfulness touches and inures to the benefit of the entire community. Several of his addresses before the Young Men's Literary Club of Springfield have received more than local recognition and commendation. This has been specially true in connection with the earnest addresses which he has deliv- ered under the respective titles and in the respective years here desig- nated: "Study Child Labor," 1912; "Life of Sir George Williams," 1914; "Women in Industry," 1917; "Why the *Y'?" 1919; and "The Spirit of Cooperation in Industry," 1921.
From 1902 to 1904 Mr. Dorst was a member of the Board of Educa- tion at Hartwell, Hamilton County ; in 1905 he was elected by the Presby- tery of Cincinnati a commissioner to the General Assembly of the Presby- terian Church at Buffalo, New York; from 1905 to 1911 he was a direc- tor of the Western Tract Society; he has been an elder of the Presby- terian Church continuously since 1895 ; he has been Sunday School super- intendent continuously from 1915 to the time of this writing, in the win- ter of 1921-2; is a member of the Clark County Supday School Associa- tion; since 1919 he has been secretary of the Rotary Club at Springfield. In the Masonic fraternity Mr. Dorst has received the thirty-second -degree of the Scottish Rite, and is affiliated with the Mystic Shrine. He is a valued member of the Ohio State Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association. In June, 1921, he received from Wittenberg College at Springfield the honorary degree of Master of Arts.
On the 16th of September, 1896, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dorst and Miss Florence May Elwood, of Cincinnati, and they have seven children : Stanley E., John Wilbur, Florence May, Paul Henry, Dorothy E., Helen and Margaret. Stanley and John entered the nation's military service in connection with the World war, but neither was called into service abroad. Stanley held the rank of second lieutenant of infantry.
Prof. Gaylord Ridgeway Humberger. Gifted in marked degree, fitted by training and natural talent as a musician, it is not surprising that Gaylord R. Humberger has attained distinction in musical circles of Springfield or that the public schools of the city have made such rapid progress along musical lines since he became supervisor of this branch of the educational curriculum in 1920. Professor Humberger was born at Galion, Crawford County, Ohio, January 25, 1887, and is a son of Edward Luther and Ethelinda (Hassinger) Humberger.
Edward Luther Humberger was born at Massillon, Stark County, Ohio, a son of John Humberger, who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania, in which state he had settled first upon his arrival in this country from
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Germany. The mother of Professor Humberger was born at Leesville, Ohio, in 1851, a daughter of Jonas Hassinger, a native of Pennsylvania, whose ancestors came from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania prior to the war of the American Revolution. Both parents still survive and are residents of Dayton, Ohio. In his young manhood Edward L. Hum- berger learned the trade of machinist, which he followed for some years, but for many years has been a locomotive engineer for the Erie Rail- road, running out of Dayton.
Gaylord Ridgeway Humberger attended the public schools of Galion, and after his graduation from high school as a member of the class of 1905, spent two years in the study of music at the Dana Institute of Music, Warren, Ohio. He then further prepared himself for his chosen art by attendance at the Michigan and Detroit Conservatories of Music, at Detroit, and on leaving that city journeyed to the East, where he played in concerts in New York City, Philadelphia and various other large cities in the Keystone State. In 1910 he located at Dayton, Ohio, where he engaged in professional playing and taught music in the public schools of Harrison Township, Montgomery County, until 1917, in which year he took charge of normal music work at West Milton, Ohio.
Professor Humberger was next appointed supervisor of music in the public schools of Marietta, Ohio, whence he came to Springfield in 1920 to accept his present position as supervisor of music in the public schools. While his work has covered only a period of two years here, it is a record of achievement. He has organized orchestras and glee clubs in every public school in the city, the orchestras combined numbering over 300 students, while the glee clubs have a total membership of about 600 pupils. Piano, vocal and instrumental classes with credit for outside study, have been organized in each school ; with the progressive scries of piano lessons as a text, and in addition, under Professor Humberger's direction, there have been organized in the high school a high school girls' glee club, a high school boys' glee club, a high school orchestra and a student band, all of these being successful organizations and ones that are making rapid and gratifying progress. He has given boys' minstrels and operas, and in 1921 presented a May Musical Festival of choral and orchestral work, continuing two nights, which met with much approval and very favorable press notices, and this was repeated in 1922, when the entertainment continued for three nights. In the latter years he organized a Junior High School musical appreciation class and study of the instruments of the symphony orchestra. Professor Hum- berger has the happy faculty of being able to impart his own knowledge to others, and his popularity with the students has gone far to hold their attention and interest and to aid him in his earnest labors toward a higher musical standard.
Professor Humberger is a member of the American Federation of Musicians. He is an honorary member of the Fortnightly Club of Springfield, and is fraternally affiliated with Stillwater Lodge No. 616, F. and A. M., and Raynold Lodge No. 82, K. of P., of Marietta, Ohio. In 1911 Professor Humberger was united in marriage with Miss Anna M. Bauer, who was born at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, daughter of Charles and Catherine Bauer, and to this union there have been born three children: D'Esta Marguerite, Virginia Gail and Gaylord Ridge- way, Jr.
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Victor George Augustine Tressler, Ph. D., D. D., educator, and professor of Hamma Divinity School of New Testament Philology and Criticism, Wittenberg College, Springfield, was bom at Somerfield, Pennsylvania, April 10, 1865, a son of the Rev. John William and Carrie (Augustine) Tressler.
Rev. John William Tressler was bom at Loysville, Perry County, Pennsylvania, the present site of Tressler Orphan Home, which was founded by him and his brothers and which is the largest orphanage in the United Lutheran Church. Reverend Tressler was the son of Col. John Tressler, an officer of the United States Army during the Mexican war and a man of extraordinary personality, who led a varied and active career and whose achievements were numerous and noteworthy. Reverend Tressler completed his education at Pennsylvania College, Grettysburg, and entered the Lutheran ministry early in life, laboring therein for many years. His wife, Carrie, was born in Somerset County, Pennsyl- vania, a daughter of Abraham Augustine. Both the Tressler and Augustine families were among the oldest and most highly esteemed in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Victor George Augustine Tressler acquired his preliminary edu- cational training in the public schools, following which he studied at Pennsylvania State College, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, and later at Gettys- burg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where he received his degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1886, "summa cum laude." He received his Master of Arts degree in 1889 from the same school. In the meantime he was a student of law at Chicago in 1887 and 1888, and in 1891 received his Bachelor of Divinity degree from McCormick Theological Seminary. He was a correspondence student of Hebrew at the University of Chicago in 1895, following which from 1897 to 1900 he was a student at the Uni- versity of Leipzig, from which he received his Ph. D. degree. In the latter year he also studied at the University of Berlin, Germany, and in 1901, at the University of Paris, France. He received his Doctor of Divinity degree from Susquehanna University in 1905.
Doctor Tressler was ordained to the Lutheran ministry in 1892, and his first charge was as pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, San Jose, California, where he labored from 1891 to 1898. At the same time, from 1896 to 1898, he was lecturer of history at the San Jose Academy, and dean and professor of philosophy at Ansgar College, Hutchinson, Min- nesota, in 1901 and 1902. In 1905 he accepted the call to Wittenberg College, where he has since been professor of Greek and of New Testa- ment Philology and Criticism, Hamma Divinity School. A man of pro- found and comprehensive learning, he is justly accounted by his fellow- workers as one of the leading educators of the state, while among the student body he is greatly popular. Doctor Tressler has had very agree- able success in his chosen field of labor. From the start he has been exceptionally fitted for the duties and responsibilities involved. He has manifested a personal interest where another might have shown only a professional obligation, and has instilled in the hearts of his students and in the records and traditions of the college a warm tenderness and respect. Doctor Tressler was president of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the United States of America, and is a member of the Executive Board of the United Lutheran Church of America and a
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member of the National Union Council. He is president of the Spring- field City Hospital Board, is a member of the Authors' Club of London, England, of Phi Gamma Delta, S. A. R., and of various literary, social and civic clubs, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. He possesses much literary ability, and is the author of various monographs and a correspondent to numerous periodicals. He has traveled exten- sively in Europe and Asia.
In 1906 Doctor Tressler was united in marriage with Mary Baugher Gotwald.
George William Adams. For many years the late George William Adams was identified with a number of the leading business interests of Springfield, Ohio. Few men were better known over the state in the grocery trade, and in other lines, both in merchandising and banking, his commercial ability was highly rated and his honorable name counted as an asset.
George William Adams was bom on the old Adams farm on the Har- rison Turnpike, near the City of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, December 28, 1861, and died in the City of Springfield on March 31, 1913. His parents were William and Mary Barbara (Hartman) Adams, the former of whom was born in Germany in 1811 and the latter in the same country in 1821, and both were brought to the United States by their parents in childhood. They were reared and married in Ohio, and practically spent all their lives on the Hamilton County farm. William Adams died in 1875, and his wife survived him ten years. They were the parents of the following children: Margaret, William, Eliza, Josephine, Caroline, Louise, John E., Simeon and George W.
George William Adams attended* the country schools near his father's farm until he was twelve years old. He was the youngest of the family, and there was nothing except his own preference that caused him to put aside his books at this time, leave the farm, and decide to make his own way in the world in some other vocation. In 1873 he came to Springfield and went to work in the grocery store of his brother-in-law. Martin Krapp, who found his young assistant a valuable helper because of his industry, reliability and very evident business capacity. Mr. Adams remained with the Krapp store until he reached manhood, by which time he had become thoroughly acquainted with the retail grocery business and began to have ambitions to have a similar business of his own.
It was in 1882 that Mr. Adams opened a grocery store on Clitfon Street, in partnership with his brother John E., it being a modest venture at that time. The above partnership continued for six years, during which time the business was transferred from Clifton to Pleasant Street. The latter location proved an advantageous one from a business stand- point, and from that time until 1894 Mr. Adams devoted himself ener- getically to developing and expanding his grocery interests, until he found himself the proprietor of the leading wholesale house on the south side of the city. He had worked hard, never sparing himself, and had become, in fact, "a tired business man." With an idea of retiring from business and enjoying the leisure that ample means made possible Mr. Adams sold his grocerv store and at the same time bought a beautiful country home in a choice residential surburb of Springfield.
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Like many another man who too soon has retired from the strenuous struggle that seems inevitable, with the idea that a life of inactivity would be preferable, Mr. Adams grew wearied with an existence in which there were no difficult commercial problems to solve or business ventures to plan for the future. Within less than two years he bought back his grocery store, and continued to vigorously conduct it as before, but then sold again, on the eve of making a trip with his family to the western coast. After a season spent in California and other parts of the West Mr. Adams returned, reinvigorated, to Springfield, repurchased his old store and conducted it for many years afterward.
In 1910 Mr. Adams founded the Springfield Abattoir Company, and at the time of its incorporation was its largest stockholder and was its first president. Later he sold his interests in this concern and became a member of the firm of C. H. Oates & Company, commission merchants of this city, and so continued until his death. He was a stockholder in the Springfield National Bank and had numerous other financial inter- ests. It is doubtful, however, if any of these ever made as close an appeal to him as a business man as did the grocery trade. He was justly proud of the high standing he had won for himself in that line of effort, in which, from first to last, he had the confidence of his fellow citizens as a dealer of the high.est business integrity.
On September 24, 1884, Mr. Adams married Miss Amanda Kredle, who was born on West Main Street, Springfield, a daughter of Michael and Louise (Neibert) Kredle, both natives of Germany and brought to America in childhood by their parents. Mrs. Adams' father was born in 1830, and died at Springfield in 1901, and her mother, born in 1834, died in 1900. They were members of St. John's Lutheran Church and were held in esteem by all who knew them. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Adams: Walter Ulysses and Alma. The former was associated with his father in business and succeeded him as a member of the commission firm of C. H. Oates & Company. He married Miss Nellie Polling, of Springfield. Miss Alma Adams, who for four years has been an instructor in the Springfield High School, of which she was a grad- uate in 1913, graduated also, in 1917, from Wittenberg College, with the degree of A. B.
Mr. Adams was a republican in political life but was never ambitious to shine in politics. He was, however, a close observer of passing events, and from his position in the business world was able to gauge public sentiment very correctly, which knowledge he often used in the capacity of a public-spirited citizen for the benefit of Springfield. He was a valued member of the Chamber of Commerce, was fraternally identified with the Knights of Pythias, and for thirty years had belonged to the First Lutheran Church at Springfield. In every relation of life he was honorable and trustworthy, and his death was a distinct loss to the City of Springfield.
A. Richard Kent, M. D. The Clark County Medical Society chose as its president for 1922 one of the prominent younger physicians and surgeons of Springfield, Dr. A. Richard Kent. Doctor Kent came to Springfield highly qualified by training in medical college and hospitals, and has made rapid progress to leadership in his profession.
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He was born May 20, 1889, at Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jer- sey. The Kents have lived in that part of New Jersey and in the old Dutch settlement of New York since 1715. The family was represented by soliders in the Revolutionary war. Richard A. Kent, father of Doctor Kent, was bom at Bloomfield, while his mother, Emma Shoemaker, was of Holland-Dutch ancestry and a native of Pennsylvania, where the Shoemakers settled in 1740.
Doctor Kent was educated in the Bloomfield High School, in the Centenary Institute at Hackettstown, New Jersey, and the Pennington Seminary at Pennington, New Jersey. In preparation for his profes- sion he entered the New York Homeopathic Medical College, where he was graduated M. D. in 1914. For nearly two years Doctor Kent remained in the East doing hospital work at St. Mary's Hospital, PassaiC; New Jersey, and in the Flower Hospital of New York City.
He began his practice in Springfield, January 6, 1916, as successor to Dr. R. B. House. Doctor Kent offered his services to the Government at the time of the World war, and was enrolled in the Medical Corps in 1918, with the rank of lieutenant. His active service was for four months at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, but he was honorably discharged after the armistice and at once resumed his private practice in Spring- field. Besides his active membership and presidency for 1922 of the Clark County Medical Society, Doctor Kent is a member of the Ohio State Medical Association, the Miami Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the American Institute of Homeopathy and the Ohio State Homeopathic Medical Society.
In a business way he is treasurer of the Springfield Advance Machine Company. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, is affiliated with Anthony Lodge No. 445, F. and A. M. ; Palestine Commandery No. 33, K. T. ; Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton, and belongs to the Men's Literary Society, the Lagonda and Country Clubs, and the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 1916 Doctor Kent married at Raritan, New Jersey, Elizabeth Austin Rusby. Her father, Rev. Samuel O. Rusby, is pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Raritan. The two children of Doctor and Mrs. Kent are: Elizabeth Jane, bom July 7, 1918, and Con- stance Ryder, born December 21, 1920.
Elmer A. Watts. In the necessary realization of modern discoveries and inventions that have in the last quarter of a century or more most tremendously changed and bettered conditions and operations in many lines of human effort, it would be folly to assert that inventive genius can go no further, yet, in the light of the large measures of perfection that has been introduced into some lines of present day manufacturing it may seem problematical. The ordinary, uninspired man may well consider with wonder and admiration his brother whose marvelous inven- tions have wrought these changes, for his talents are truly extraordinary and without them the world would make little progress. In this field no one in the State of Ohio may be justly named more prominent than is Elmer A. Watts, president of The Miller Improved Gas Engine Company of Springfield, also president of the Watts-Dunn Air Pump Company, and interested in the manufacture and distribution of many
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articles of his own invention that have proved to be invaluable in modern mechanics.
Elmer A. Watts has been a resident of Springfield for twenty-four years. He was born in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, June 20, 1873, and is a son of George L. and Mary (Watson) Watts. After com- pleting his public school course at Muncy he started as an apprentice with 5ie Williamsport Machine Company in his native state, learned his trade there and in 1895 came to Ohio, spending three years at Greenfield. In 1898 he came to Springfield, and for many years has been identified with The Miller Improved Gas Engine Company, of which he is now the head.
The history of the above company began in March, 1898, when a charter was granted to Charles A. Miller, N. H. Fairbanks, Oscar T. Martin, A. R. Cobaugh and M. L. Milligan. The Miller Gas Engine Company was incorporated for the purpose of making gas engines. It had as a basis an engine invented by C. A. Miller, and began business with a capital stock of $25,000. The first officers were: Charles A. Miller, president; N. H. Fairbanks, vice president; M. L. Milligan, secretary and treasurer. The first site was the old Whitely plant on East High Street, removal being made to its present location on Plum and Fair streets in 1902. In 1909 Mr. Miller died, and all the original incorporators have ceased connection with the business.
In 1910 a new engine, designed by Elmer A. Watts, superseded the Miller engine, and this new engine, with later improvements, has since continued as the principal product of the plant. In 1913 Mr. Watts introduced a new engine and compressor combined (his own invention also) for compressing air and gas, which is manufactured here, and is used in gas and mining fields. The product of this plant is used indus- trially, in electric lighting, street railways, oil, gas and mining fields. Within the last four years the company has installed for the Charles F. Noble Oil & Gas Company at Burk-Burnett, Texas, a number of its products, this being the largest gasoline plant in the world. The Miller Improved Gas Engine Company now operates with a capital of $120,000, and employs 150 hands. Its officers are: Elmer A. Watts, president and general manager; Homer C. Miller, vice president; Fred E. Kirchner, secretary and treasurer. Among other notable inventions to be credited to Mr. Watts is an automatic pump for pumping oil and water, the same being manufactured by the Watts-Dunn Air Pump Company, of which concern Mr. Watts continues to be president.
In 1895 Mr. Watts married Miss Jessie May Brown, of Greenfield, Ohio, and they have two children: Lawrence Fay and Thelma Louise. Mr. Watts and his family are members of the Christian Church. He is an active member of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, being notably enterprising and progressive in all that concerns the welfare of his city, in political life he is an earnest republican, but no politician, and for many years has belonged to the Masonic fraternity.
Joseph B. Cartmell. A banker and manufacturer who has been associated with several of Springfield's most notable industrial and financial institutions, Joseph B. Cartmell is a native son of Clark County, and as a young man he performed the humble role of a country school
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teacher and a bookkeeper, so that it has been on the strength of his indi- vidual effort that he has risen high in the commercial world.
He was born on a farm in Pleasant Township of Clark County, son of Jacob Van Meter and Sarah Amelia (Baldwin) Cartmell. The Cart- mells were a family of considerable prominence in old Virginia, where the pioneer ancestor settled in 1734, coming from Northumberland^ England. The grandfather of Joseph B. Cartmell was Nathaniel Cart- mell, a native of Virginia, who settled in Pleasant Township of Clark County as early as 1801. Jacob Van Meter Cartmell was born in the same township in 1811, and spent his active life as a farmer. He died in 1896. His wife, Sarah Amelia Baldwin, was born at Springfield in 1824, daughter of Jonah Baldwin, and a granddaughter of Dr. William Need- ham, who came from Vermont to Springfield in 1815.
Joseph B. Cartmell finished his education in Wittenberg College, and then followed his work as a country school teacher and his employment as a bookkeeper in a book store and printing office. It is now nearly half a century since in January, 1875, he first became connected with the manufacturing interests of Springfield as an employe of the firm Rine- hart, Ballard & Company. In 1882 Mr. Cartmell, associated with O. S. Kelly, O. W. Kelly and L. H. Pursell, organized the Springfield Engine and Thresher Company. This new corporation took over the business of Rinehart, Ballard' & Company, and Mr. Cartmell was secretary and treasurer of the company until the name was changed to the O. S. Kelly Company in 1890, and he continued with the new organization as secre- tary and treasurer until 1901. Thus for fully a quarter of a century he had been actively identified with one of the most conspicuous industrial enterprises of the city. He also organized, and was president until 1911 of, the Kelly-Springfield Road Roller Company. He was a director in the Springfield Savings Society from 1890 until 1907, resigning to become a director of the First National Bank. He is now chairman of the Board of Directors of this banking institution. He is also vice president of the American Trust & Savings Bank and vice president of the Springfield Morris Plan Banking Company. He is president of the Buckeye Incu- bator Company and a director in several other manufacturing and busi- ness corporations.
With all these business connections he has found time to express his public spirit and generous interest in various civic movements. He served four years as head of the American Red Cross in Clark County. He is senior warden of Christ Episcopal Church and is a member of the Spring- field Rotary Club, the Lagonda Club and the Springfield Country Club. In 1881 Mr. Cartmell married Emma Anthony, daughter of Gen. Charles Anthony. She died in 1910.
Harry Edily Hebrank, president of the Mad River National Bank of Springfield, Ohio, came to Springfield a few years ago from Pitts- burgh, where he had become one of the prominent younger men in bank- ing circles. His financial ability and judgment are rated high through- out Western Pennsylvania and Ohio, and he is regarded as one of the most useful men in Springfield.
He was born at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, September 28, 1878, son of Emanuel E. and Jennie (Lowry) Hebrank. His father was bom at
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Adamsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1846. This is an old Pennsylvania-Dutch family. The grandfather moved from Reading, Pennsylvania, to the western part of the state in 1799, crossing the mountains with wagons and teams. Among the houshold goods he took with him was a grand- father's clock, which has been in the family for five generations and is still keeping accurate time. Emanuel Hebrank for many years was a successful contractor at Pittsburgh, and is now living retired in that city in his seventy-sixth year, and his wife at the age of seventy-four. She was born in Ireland in 1848, daughter of John Lowry, who brought his family to the United States and settled in Western Pennsylvania.
Harry E. Hebrank secured his early education in the public schools of Allegheny and Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. In 1894, at the age of sixteen, he went to work as clerk in the Pittsburgh mercantile house of J. K. McKee & Company. Following that for three years he was with the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, and then for another three years was with Thomas Carlin & Sons, foundry at Allegheny.
His career in banking began in 1903 with the private bank of M. Holmes & Company of Pittsburgh. That bank was consolidated with the Union National Bank in 1905, and Mr. Hebrank remained with the larger institution as auditor until 1917, when he accepted the invitation to come to Springfield as secretary-treasurer of the American Trust & Savings Bank. Mr. Hebrank was elected president of the Mad River National Bank of Springfield, Ohio, July 12, 1922, accepting this posi- tion and resigning from the American Trust & Savings Bank.
Mr. Hebrank is treasurer of the Lagonda Floral Company and a director in the Springfield Union Stock Yards. Before coming to Spring- field he served as president of the Pittsburgh Chapter, American Insti- tute of Banking. From 1912 to 1918 he was one of the twelve members of the Executive Committee of the American Institute of Banking. He is a director in the First Joint Stock Land Bank of Cleveland. He is a member of the Springfield Country Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the United Presbyterian Church.
In 1909 Mr. Hebrank married Sara E. Goodfellow, of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Her father, William Hardy Goodfellow, has been a mer- chant of Hollidaysburg and Altoona, Pennsylvania.
George Edward McCord, educator and superintendent of the public schools of Springfield, was bom on a farm near Litchfield, Illinois, Sep- tember, 26, 1875, a son of John Francis and Elizabeth Frances (Nichol- son) McCord.
John F. McCord was born near Greenville, Illinois, June 10, 1847, the son of Dr. David A. McCord, who with his brother, Lucien, and his half-brother, Henry, came over from Scotland and settled first at Cin- cinnati, Ohio. Later David and Henry McCord removed to Illinois, Henry later going to Colorado, while Lucien remained in Ohio, his grandson of the same name becoming the first teller for the First Trust and Savings Company of Springfield. Dr. David McCord removed to Vandalia at about the time that city was made the capital of Illinois and there was engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery for a num- ber of years.
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John Francis McCord removed from the farm into Litchfield, and for many years was a foreman of one of the departments of the Litch- field Car and Machine Company. He died at Springfield, Ohio, June 25, 1922. His wife, Elizabeth, was born near Litchfield, a daughter of George W. Nicholson, who read medicine but never practiced that calling, going instead into public life and holding various official positions. She died November 19, 1919.
Prof. George Edward McCord graduated from Litchfield High School in 1893, following which he taught in the public schools for five years. Seeking further preparation for his chosen calling, he then enrolled as a student at Wittenberg College, from which institution he was duly graduated with the class of 1901, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1902 he received his Master of Arts degree from the same college. In later years he has taken |X)st-graduate work at the University of Michigan and at Columbia University, and in 1922 received his Master of Arts degree from the latter in Education. He likewise took the post-graduate work in mathematics and science.
During the years 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1904 Professor McCord was a teacher in the Springfield high schools, and during a part of 1904 and until October, 1905, was professor of mathematics at Midland College, Atchison, Kansas. In 1905 he became head of the manual training department of Springfield, following which for several years he taught in the senior department of the Springfield high schools. In July, 1917, he was elected superintendent of the Springfield public schools, a position which he has retained to the present.
Professor McCord is a member of the National Educational Associa- tion, the Ohio State Teachers Association, the Central Ohio Teachers Association and the Miami Valley Round Table, a superintendents' asso- ciation. He likewise holds membership in the Central Ohio Schoolmas- ters' Club. He is a thirty-second degree Knight Templar Mason, a mem- ber of the Mystic Shrine and belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Lions Club of Springfield. His religious connection and that of his fam- ily is with the Lutheran Church.
Professor McCord married Miss Harriet Gaby, who was bom at Litchfield, Illinois, June 10, 1879. the daughter of John H. Gaby, a Pennsylvania German. Mrs. McCord is a member of the Woman's Club, is president of the JeflFerson School Parent Teachers' Association, and is active in church work. The children of Professor and Mrs. McCord are as follows: George E., Jr., bom November 23, 1903, a sophomore at Wittenberg College; Helen Christine, born July 10, 1909, in the class of 1925 of the Springfield High School; Robert Gardner, bom September 2, 1911; and Richard Francis, born October 31, 1917.
Elmus John Carmony. Of the men prominently identified with the financial interests of Springfield few have gained a higher reputation for ability and fidelity than Elmus John Carmony, resident manager at Springfield of the United Security Company of Canton, Ohio. He has been active in the business and public life of the city for a number of years, and his career has proven an exemplary one, demonstrating what may be accomplished by a man of will and capacity. Although he has not sought to figure before the public except in a business capacity, he
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is a man of comprehensive knowledge along many lines, and his progres- sive spirit has been evidenced in a number of ways.
Elmus John Carmony was bom at Lytle, Warren County, Ohio, October 20, 1888, a son of William H. and Mary E. (Garrette) Car- mony, natives of Miami and Chiampaign counties, Ohio, respectively, the father now deceased and the mother still a resident of Lytle. Elmus J. Carmony attended the public schools of Lytle, where he was graduated from the high school as a member of the class of 1906, and then entered Ohio Wesleyan University, being graduated in 1912 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. On leaving college he became general secretary of the Valparaiso University (Indiana) Young Men's Christian Association, a position which he filled with ability from September, 1912, to September, 1913, and from the latter date until June, 1914, was engaged in traveling for a company producing high school annuals, his territory including the states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. From June, 1914, to October, of the same year, Mr. Carmony served on the Ohio State Indus- trial Commission at Columbus, as special agent of the commission on strikes and lockouts, a capacity in which he rendered valuable service. In October, 1914, he came to Springfield as manager of the United Security Company of Canton, Ohio, a position which he still retains.
Mr. Carmony is very active in civic, religious and welfare work, and has given and is giving freely of his time in the support of all move- ments along those lines of endeavor. During the World war he took part in all bond, War Chest and Red Cross campaigns, especially in that of the War Chest, of which he practically had charge of the speaker's committee of Clark County outside of the City of Springfield. In 1920 he was active in the work of the Inter-Church World Movement. At the present time he is chairman of the Clark County Sunday School Asso- ciation, and is a member of the Official Board of the High Street Meth- odist Episcopal Church. Mr. Carmony also holds membership in the Phi Delta Theta and Phi Beta Kappa college fraternities, the Lagonda Club, the Springfield Country Club, the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion, the Young Men's Literary Club, the Kiwanis Club, of which he is president for 1922, and Anthony Lodge No. 445, F. and A. M.
On June 27, 1914, Mr. Carmony was united in marriage with Miss Coral Douce, a daughter of George W. Douce, of Caledonia, Ohio, and to this union there have been bom two children: Marian Adelle, bom October 5, 1916; and Robert John, born October 23, 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Carmony have a pleasant home, which is always hospitably open to their many friends.
Henry F. Starrett. For many years of his long and useful life the late Henry F. Starrett was one of Springfield's substantial business men and greatly esteemed citizens. He was bom at Lancaster, Pennsylvania^ October 9, 1809. His father, Henry Starrett, came with his family to Urbana, Ohio, in 1811. He was a miller by trade and for some time operated a mill at Urbana, in which he met with an accidental death from suflFocation. He was survived by his widow and three sons and three daughters.
Henry F. Starrett was yet young when his father died. As soon as he was old enough he was apprenticed to a local shoemaker by the name
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of White, with whom he learned the trade and in 1826 he came to Spring- field and went into the boot and shoe business with a Mr. Sellers, who was a Methodist Episcopal minister. Mr. Starrett was a good business man and later bought his partner's interest. Still later he became inter- ested in the buying and improving of property, acquiring both residence and business sites on West Columbia Street, Main Street and on Foun- tain Avenue. In 1857 Mr. Starrett erected a large brick house at 17 West Columbia Street, an unusually commodious residence.
Mr. Starrett married, April 16, 1835, Miss Catherine Albert, who was bom at Hagerstown, Maryland, November 17, 1818, and died October 4, 1915. Her parents were George and Catherine Albert, who were born in Holland and came to the United States and settled in Maryland at an early day. The children of Henry F. and Catherine Starrett were: Llwellyn, who is deceased; Levenia Rebecca, who was born April 26, 1838, and owns the old homestead at Springfield; Irving Nelson, who was born in 1843, and died in 1917; Charles Henry, who died in child- hood ; Walter K., who died at the age of twenty-one years ; Mary Eliza- beth, who died May 23, 1919, the widow of Albert C. Herr and their two daughters, Nettie L. and Albertine, reside with their aunt. Miss Levenia ; and Harry S., who resides on North Limestone Street, Spring- field.
Henry F. Starrett continued active in business life until his retire- ment in 1880, and his death followed on June 3, 1888. He was consid- ered one of the representative men of Springfield and enjoyed the confi- dence and respect of every one. He took a deep interest in all that promised to be of benefit to the city, and served faithfully and honestly on the City Council during important periods of the city's development. In politics he was a republican, in fraternal life was an Odd Fellow, and for many years attended the First Presbyterian Church at Springfield and was generous in contributing to its support.
Irvin Eakins. While outside enterprise and capital have undoubt- edly done much to further the development of Springfield, the interested observer will note that a large amount of its substantial progress must be credited to those who can claim Ohio ancestry. Among the old names so recognized are those of Eakins and Long, and the present bearers of these names at Springfield are representatives of sturdy old pioneer families of the Western Reserve.
Irvin Eakins, for many years well known in business circles, was bom in Darke County, Ohio, September 20, 1851. His parents were Benjamin and Sarah Jane (Woods) Eakins, old residents of Darke County, where his father followed farming and also operated a sawmill and lumber yard. In later years he moved to Missouri, and both parents of Mr. Eakins died there. He assisted his father in earlier years, but after his marriage he embarked in the grocery business at Palestine in Darke County, where he continued until 1879, when he removed to Mis- souri and was engaged in business at Kansas City until his death in the summer of 1910.
Mr. Eakins married, September 20, 1874, Miss Mary Elizabeth Long, who was born at Lewisburg, Preble County, Ohio, July 3, 1854. her parents were Jacob and Catherine (Smyers) Long, the former of
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whom was bom at Cincinnati, Ohio, and the latter in Preble County. Her father died in 1897, at the age of eighty-three years, and her mother, in 1858. Of their five children, Mrs. Eakins was the fourth in order of birth, and others being: Arabelle, who resides at No. 110 Snyder Street, Springfield, is the widow of Frank Teaford ; Harmon, who lives in Preble County ; Anetta, who died when eighteen years old ; and Walter Z., who conducts a hotel at Miami, Florida.
After the death of her husband Mrs. Elakins returned with her two sons, Herbert W. and RoUand C, to the home of her father at Spring- field, in which city her brother, Walter Z. Long, conducted a bakery and confectionery store on West Main Street, between Center and Witten- berg avenues. Mr. Long subsequently sold this business and became interested in a hotel at Miami, Florida, but still maintains a home on Spring and Clifton streets, Springfield.
Mrs. Eakins kept house for her father for many years while her sons were growing up and being educated. Herbert W. Elakins was bom September 21, 1875, and conducts a confectionery store on Elast High Street, Springfield, and also manufactures a popcorn machine that was invented by his uncle. He married Miss Juanita Jackel, and they have two children: Herbert and Betty Jane. They reside at No. 1220 North Fountain Avenue, Springfield. Rolland C. Eakins was born Feb- ruary 10, 1878. He is in his brother's employ at Springfield, but has large realty interests of his own, both at Springfield and Miami, Florida. Since the death of his wife, on April 25, 1920, he and his three younger children reside with his mother in her beautiful home, which is situated at No. 1214 Garfield Avenue. His children are: Robert Luther, bom October 20, 1910; Paul Herbert, bom September 25, 1911; Dorothy Louise, born October 6, 1914; Eleanor Agnes, bom December 5, 1915; and Marjory, born in November, 1918.
Mrs. Eakins' sons own some very valuable property at Springfield. Together they built five double houses on West McCreight Avenue, one on Fountain Avenue, and the handsome family residence on Garfield Avenue, all being of modem type of construction and adding greatly to the improvement of the localities in which they stand. Mrs. Eakins is a member of the First Lutheran Church of Springfield and belongs to the order of the Eastern Star. She has a wide acquaintance here and is very highly esteemed.
John W. Sowers. The self-made man deserves more than passing mention, for his success proves that he possessed more than ordinary attributes in order to rise, through his own efforts, to a position some- what above that attained by the rank and file. John W. Sowers is one of the men of this character in Clark County who, working hard and saving thriftily, become independent and takes a constructive part in the work of their community. His finely improved truck farm on Hillside Avenue, Springfield, shows the results of his hard work and good man- agement, and he has every reason to be proud of what he has accomplished.
John W. Sowers was bom in Greene County, Ohio, February 12, 1849, a son of John Hanson and Elizabeth (Coines) Sowers, natives of Maryland and of Greene County, Ohio. Early in life he was a carpenter.
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but later was engaged in farming. His death occurred at Springfield, October 2, 1862, his widow surviving him until February 15, 1892, when she passed away at Springfield.
As he was the eldest of six children, after his father's death John W. Sowers had to go to work and he had no further opportimity of attending school. For two years he did farm work on the homestead, and then worked out by the month for neighboring farmers. Following his marriage in 1870 Mr. Sowers was engaged in farming, operating a threshing machine and doing saw-mill work until 1886, when he located at Springfield, and for the next three years he was engaged in hauling stone. Going then into the employ of P. P. Mast, of the Buckeye Drill Company, he continued with him until 1902, when he secured a piece of land in the eastern part of Springfield and farmed it until 1908. He then bought five and one-half acres on Hillside Avenue. The subsequent year he erected a residence, barn and other outbuildings, which are excel- lent for their several purposes, and here he maintains a comfortable home and raises vegetables, which he sells at his stand in the city market.
In August, 1870, Mr. Sowers married Lydia Jane Shrock, who was bom at Springfield, and died there Jime 28, 1889. They became the parents of the following children: Jennie Ann, who is the wife of Ernest Bennett, of Pueblo, Colorado; Eldward and William, who live at Springfield; Ottie L., who died in infancy; Harry, who lives at Spring- field; Ollie, who is Mrs. Harry Webb, of Kalamazoo, Michigan; Frank, who died in infancy; Roy, who lives with his father; and Floyd, who died in infancy.
Mr. Sowers has always been a republican, and is active in party mat- ters. For three years he served on the School Board and for two years represented Fairfield on the Board of Supervisors. Fraternally he belongs to Fairfield Lodge, I. O. O. F., and Springfield Lodge No. 240, J. O. U. A. M. Hard working, thrifty and careful, Mr. Sowers has made his way in life, and not only is successful in material things, but stands very well with his neighbors, who appreciate his excellent qualities.
John Wilbert Summers. One of the most profitable industries connected with horticulture is that of growing roses for the market, the demand for these beautiful blooms being steady during all seasons. One of the men who is engaged in it at Springfield, and in this line has built up a well-deserved reputation for the excellence of his product, is John Wilbert Svunmers, of 271 Johnson Avenue. Mr. Summers was bom in Pike County, Ohio, September 12, 1887, a son of James and Isabel (Stops) Summers, natives of Pike County, Ohio, and Illinois, respec- tively. James Summers was a farmer of Pike County, who died in 1890, and after his demise his widow moved to Highland County, Ohio.
After the death of his father John W. Summers lived with an uncle in Highland County, Ohio, and as he grew older worked for him in his grocery store. Subsequently Mr. Summers came to Springfield and entered the employ of Good & Reese, florists, with whom he learned the business, and fifteen years later bought two acres of land on Johnson Avenue, on which he erected his greenhouses, now having 15,000 feet under glass, and here he raises roses exclusively and disposes of them to local people. He also built a fine residence and has a very nice home.
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On September 15, 1909, he married Charlotte McMillan, born at Springfield, Ohio, a daughter of David and Minnie (Tavener) McMillan, her birth occurring August 16, 1891. Mr. and Mrs. McMillan survive and make their home at 2545 Tecumseh Avenue, Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Summers have three children, namely: John Wilbert, Junior, who was bom July 18, 1910; Clarice, who was bom April 20, 1914; and Lil- lian, who was born May 6, 1916. Mr. Summers is independent in his political affiliations, but he is interested in having good men elected to office and in securing needed improvements for his home city. He is a Blue-Lodge Mason. Hard-working and a good manager, Mr. Summers has built up a fine business and deserves the prosperity which has attended him.
Cary S. Davis, while he enjoys the comforts of a beautiful home in the Village of Harmony, is still closely identified with the farming and stock raising interests of Clark County, a business to which he has devoted the best efforts of forty years or more.
He was bom at Washington Court House, Fayette County, Ohio, April 25, 1861, only son and child of Abner and Sarelda (Archie) Davis. His father was a native of Fayette County and his mother was also bom in this state, of Virginia ancestry. Cary S. Davis was a year old when his father died. His father was in the Union Army, and died of measles contracted in the service. The mother lived about thirty years longer, and she did her best to rear and carefully train her son Cary, who in turn remained with her until he established a home of his own. She was a devout member of the Baptist Church.
Cary Davis had a common school education and as a youth began earning his living by farm work. In 1880 he married Mary Daugherty, who was born in Fayette County in 1861. Her father likewise died while a Union soldier. For several years Mr. Davis worked on a farm for twenty dollars a month. Later they began farming for themselves, and for twelve years Mr. Davis leased and operated the Cyrus Hegler farm. Several years ago he built a handsome bungalow home in the Village of Harmony. His farming operations are conducted on seven hundred acres. He was the first breeder of Hampshire hogs in Clark County, and has also devoted much attention to the Percheron horse and Shorthorn cattle.
Mr. and Mrs. Davis have five children. Bessie is the wife of George Beedy, living at Harmony, and they have two children, Ruth and Cary S. Jessie, a graduate of the JeflFersonville High School, is the wife of Wil- bur Countz, of Newport, Kentucky, and they have a daughter, Mary Helen. Matie is the wife of Harvey Esterline, of Clark County. Roy, who married Margaret Stickney, is a farmer in Clark County. He has three children, John L., Martha and Nellie. Mary is attending school at Plattsburg. The family are members of the United Brethren Church. Mr. Davis is affiliated with South Vienna Lodge No. 145, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a democrat in politics.
Edson K. Young is numbered among the successful and popular representatives of farm industry in his native township and county and is the owner of two well improved farms that give evidence of the pros-
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perity which he has gained largely through his own efforts, the only financial fortification which he otherwise received having been $700 which came to him through parental heritage. Of his farms, one which comprises 126 acres is situated in Moorefield Township, five miles north of Springfield, on the Urbana Turnpike, and the other, containing 137 acres, is in German Township. He was born on the farm of his father in Moorefield Township, and the date of his nativity was October 6, 1865. He is a son of Jacob and Melissa (Hullinger) Young, the former of whom was bom near Baltimore, Maryland, in 1821, and the latter of whom was a native of Clark County, Ohio, and a representative of a pioneer family of this county. Jacob Young was a child at the time of his father's death, and was taken into the home of a man named Bollinger, with whom he came to Ohio when he was a boy. He received somewhat meager educational advantages and in his youth he learned the trade of millwright, to which he continued to give his attention until he purchased the homestead farm in Moorefield Township, Clark County, on which he passed the remainder of his long and worthy life, he having been venerable in years at the time of his death. His widow passed away in 1892, about ten years before her husband. Both were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics Mr. Young was a stalwart republican. The names of these sterling citizens are held in affectionate memory in the community in which they long lived and wrought to goodly ends. Of their eleven children nine are living at the time of this writing, in 1922 : John H., Martha, Albert, L. L., Mary, Oscar, Edson K., Cora and Nora.
Edson K. Young was reared on the old home farm, of which he is now the owner, and received his youthful education in the local schools. After his marriage, in 1892, he continued to reside on the old homestead three years, and then removed to a farm in Greene Township. On this rented place he remained three years, and the following year he passed on a farm on the Valley Turnpike. He then purchased and removed to a small farm in Logan County, but this property he sold a year later, whereupMDn he removed to West Liberty, that county, where he remained until he purchased a farm of ninety-seven acres in that county. Three years later he sold this farm to advantage and he then returned to Clark County and purchased the interests of the other heirs to the old home- stead of his parents, a property which he still retains. He remained on this farm until 1913, then passed eighteen months in the City of Spring- field, and returned to the old farm in August, 1915. In March of the following year he rented the place, and thereafter he cpntinued his resi- dence in Springfield until 1919, when he removed to a farm of 137 acres in German Township. In March, 1920, he removed to his present resi- dence. Mr. Young has shown much judgment and circumspection in his real estate transfers and general business operations, and is known as a thoroughgoing farmer who gets maximum returns from his agricultural and livestock enterprise. He is now the owner of 266 acres of valuable land in Clark County and is a loyal and progressive citizen. His political proclivities place him firmly in the ranks of the republican party, and while he has had no desire for public office he has given effective service as trustee of Moorefield Township.
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March 1, 1892, recorded the marriage of Mr. Young and Miss Ida Steinbarger, who was bom in Champaign County, this state, March 19, 1868, a daughter of Joseph Steinbarger. Of the two children of Mr. and Mrs. Young the elder is Corinne, who was born in June, 1894, and who is now the wife of George Ogg, of Springfield. Niles, who was bom October 23, 1897, is associated in the work and management of the home farm. He married Rosina Webber. During the war he served in the United States Navy, and was connected with the wireless service for nearly two years.
Thomas L. Gaynor, one of the honored residents of Springfield, and a veteran of the Union Army, has had a long and varied business career and is now living in the honorable retirement to which his years of industry entitle him. He was born in Oneida County, New York, April 11, 1844, a son of Keiran K. and Elizabeth (Handwright) Gaynor, he was bom at Dublin, Ireland, and she at Marcy, Oneida County, New York. In 1837, having completed his apprenticeship to the blacksmith- ing trade, Keiran K. Gaynor left Ireland for the United States and the trip over in a sailing vessel consumed six weeks. When he landed in this country he found conditions chaotic, owing to the panic of that year, and he was not able to secure employment in the East, so, safeguarding his scanty store of money, he set out on foot to find some section where work was more plentiful, and traveled on through Ohio and up into Michigan, finally landing a job at Joliet, that state.
His work was satisfactory and he could have remained with his employer indefinitely, but as he could not obtain all of the money due him Kieran K. Gaynor decided to leave and, taking a two-year-old colt in part payment, led it, walking himself, all the way back East to Syra- cuse, New York. From there he started, still on foot, for Constable- ville. A heavy snow storm came up, the colt was not able to withstand it and fell down, and the young Irishman nearly despaired, but fortu- nately came to a log cabin, and the people, after helping him rescue his colt from under the snow, which had already begun to bury it, and put it under shelter, welcomed him to their humble home. While conversing with his host he, to his amazement, discovered that he was his elder brother, who had come to the United States many years previously. The reunion was a most happy one, and Keiran K. Gaynor remained with this brother until the following spring, when he went to Whitesboro, New York, and later bought a blacksmith shop at Yorkville, New York, where he lived for many years. Subsequently he worked at his trade in Oriskany Valley, New York, in a large mill at that point, and remained there until 1848, when he moved to Utica, New York, and was black- smith at the steam woolen factory. The company failed, and Mr. Gay- nor was compelled to take a farm near Streeterborough, New York, which the company owned, as payment for wages due him. He sold it, and then, returning to Utica, lived there until his death.
Thomas L. Gaynor had but few educational advantages and has always regretted this deprivation. So impressed has he always been of the advantage of securing a proper amount of schooling that he educated two brothers, one of whom was W. J. Gaynor, at his own expense, and the younger man lived in his household for some time. Subsequently
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he became famous, was at one time mayor of New York City, and while in office was killed by an assassin. The other brother, Joseph E. Gaynor, became a physician and surgeon, receiving his medical degree at Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Only a lad when war was declared between the North and the South, Thomas L. Gaynor did not let his youth stand in his way, but enlisted, April 21, 1861, in Company B, Fourteenth New York Volunteer Infan- try, for three months, and when his first enlistment expired, re-enlisted in his old company. His service was with the Army of the Potomac and he participated in all of the principal battles of .his command and received his second discharge December 31, 1863. Immediately there- after he re-enlisted in Company B, Fourteenth New York Heavy Artil- lery, which took part in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Walnut Grove Church, Cold Harbor^ and was in the engagement in the vicinity of Petersburg, June 17, and July 30, 1864, and that in front of Petersburg July 30, 1864, Walden Railroad, Pegram Farm, and then in the campaign against Petersburg from March 25 to April 2, 1865. His last discharge papers bear the date of August 26, 1865, and he left the service as a sergeant.
Returning to Utica, New York, the seasoned soldier found employ- ment in railroad construction work for a few months, and then became a passenger conductor on a run between Utica and Albany, New York, which he held for two years. Going then to Rochester, New York, he worked in a machine shop for a short time, was clerk in a hotel for a year, and then returned home once more. For a year thereafter he was in the employ of the New York Asylum for the Insane, and then began learning the machinist trade, and he later learned the trade of carding in a woolen mill. Making another change, he came to Springfield July 5, 1881, and for five years was in the employ of the Saint Johns Sewing Machine Company, and later was with the Thomas Manufacturing Com- pany, and continued with the latter concern until March, 1919, with the exception of 1889 and 1890, when he was city mail carrier. In 1919 he retired from active life.
In November, 1880, Mr. Gaynor married Josephine Pelton, born in Herkimer County, New York, a daughter of Justin J. and Ruth (Cole) Pelton, he bom in Connecticut and she in Herkimer County, New York. At the time of her marriage to Mr. Gaynor, Mrs. Gaynor was the widow of Joseph Vickerman and had one daughter, Nellie J. Vickerman, now Mrs. Charles E. Johnston, of Springfield, Ohio. In 1901 Mr. Gaynor built a modern frame residence at 1314 Clifton Avenue, and here he and Mrs. Gaynor are living.
While he has not connected himself with any party, preferring to vote independently, he has been active in public matters and at one time was candidate for the office of sheriff of Clark County. He is a Chap- ter Mason, and belongs to the Lodge of Odd Fellows and also to the Encampment, and has held all of the offices in the I. O. O. F. Lodge. He is a man who is held in high regard all over Clark County, and his many excellent attributes are recognized by those who best know him.
Rev. Gustavus P. Raup. The Lutheran clergy numbers among its members men of broad education, religious enthusiasm and enlightened \news, men whose example and teaching exercise an influence that must
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be counted as one of the great factors in advancing any community. Not alone do they serve as spiritual guides to their people, but invari- ably possess a large measure of the practicality which enables them to advise and teach in the ordinary events of life, and to protect the inter- ests of their parish while also promoting its temporal affairs. Much, in fact, is demanded of those who choose the unselfish life of the Lutheran clergy. Not all, as in other walks of life, are fitted by nature for the same sum of responsibility, and perhaps few, under the same conditions, would have attained such prominence and influence as was enjoyed by the late Rev. Gustavus P. Raup, of Spring^eld.
Reverend Raup was born at Turbotville, Pennsylvania, January 17, 1851, and was a son of Henry and Sarah Raup, natives of Westmore- land County, Pennsylvania. His paternal grandfather, Philip Raup, a native of Germany, was a soldier, during the War of 1812 and also in the Indian campaigns, seeing service in different parts of Ohio. The Raups have always been Lutherans in religion.
After attending the public schools Gustavus P. Raup entered Mis- sionary Institute, as Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, which was only a few miles from his boyhood home, and after a year at that school entered the preparatory department of Wittenberg College, at Springfield, in 1869. In June, 1874, having completed the college course at Wittenberg, he was graduated with a class of fifteen young men, of whom eleven entered the ministry of the Lutheran Church. In the autumn of the same year he entered the Wittenberg Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1876, and in that year accepted a call to Messiah Lutheran Church at Constantine, Michigan, but his work in the ministry was of short duration, for ill health, followed by a stroke of paralysis, caused his physicians to advise him to live as much in the open air as possible, and, resigning his pastorate, he in 1879 retired to his farm near Springfield. Notwithstanding the relinquishment of the active work of the ministry, he never lost interest in the work of the church and its institutions, nor got out of touch with it. He was always very active along the lines of Sunday School work and temperance, and, having a deep insight into the teachings of the Bible, was a very successful Bible class teacher. For nearly thirty-five years he was identified with the Lutheran Synod, and was highly esteemed by those of his brethren in the ministry who knew and understood him. With his family he was identified with the Third Lutheran Church of Springfield, and was deeply interested in its welfare. On communion occasions he was always an assistant to the pastor, a service which was deeply appreciated by all. He was for many years a trustee of Wittenberg College and a member of its finance committee, and was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Qark County Children's Home for many years. Reverend Raup was present at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Wittenberg Col- lege, held June 8, 1916, and on the following day he and Mrs. Raup entertained the members of his graduating class, it being the fortieth anniversay of that event, and in the evening of the same day attended the Alumni banquet. On the following day he attended the commence- ment exercises and witnessed the graduation of his daughter. On Sat- urday evening, June 20, following, he died at his home.
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On May 28, Reverend Raup was united in marriage with Miss Fannie Mitchell, daughter of Ross Mitchell, of Springfield, and to their union eleven children were born, as follows: Mitchell W., graduated from Wittenberg College, married Margaret Detwiler, of Springfield, and is secretary-treasurer of the Springfield Metallic Casket Company; Henry R., a graduate of Wittenberg College, is in business at Larned, Kansas; James R., a graduate of Wittenberg College, married Bertha Smith, of Indianapolis, Indiana, and is now engaged in business at Timken, Kansas ; Helen, a graduate of Wittenberg College, is unmarried and resides with her mother; George S., a graduate of Wittenberg College and of Harvard Law School, married Ada Bryant, of Springfield, and is now engaged in the practice of law at Springfield ; Robert Bruce, a graduate of Witten- berg College, took post-graduate work at Columbia University in 1922; Chandler Paul, who attended Wittenberg College married Jessie Guyton, of Springfield, and is a resident of that city; Catherine, a graduate of Wittenberg College, is unmarried and resides with her mother ; Gustavus A., who attended Wittenberg College, is now engaged in business at Timken, Kansas ; Hugh M., a member of the junior class at Wittenberg College (1922) ; and one child that died in infancy.
Joseph Miller. Those who never come into direct contact with the producers of their daily food have little conception of the debt the world owes these faithful, hard-working men and women who labor under many obstacles in order to feed the multitudes. Many of these, especially those adjacent to large cities^ find it more profitable and convenient to specialize on raising vegetables and market this produce themselves through direct selling to the public, in this way cutting out the profits of the middleman and lowering the price to the consumer. The city market of Springfield offers splendid opportunities for the truck farmer to sell his products and the public to buy at first cost fresh vegetables and fruits. One of the energetic men of Clark County who has won a well-sustained reputation for the excellent quality of his produce and the fairness of his prices is Joseph Miller, whose finely-cultivated truck garden is on Clifton Avenue.
Joseph Miller was born at Dayton, Ohio, April 12, 1862, and he comes of good, solid German stock. His parents, John G. and Gertrude (Trangenstein) Miller, were bom in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, from whence they came to the United States and settled at Dayton, Ohio. By trade the father was a machinist and traveled about the country working at his calling, although he continued to maintain his home at Dayton until in March, 1882, when he moved to Springfield, and there he continued to live until his death, in 1908, when he was eighty-four years old. His wife died in the same year, aged seventy-seven years. Their children were as follows : Joseph, who was the eldest ; Emma, who married Sylvester Sheeley, of Saint Louis County, Missouri ; Lewis, who lives on East Main Street, Springfield, Ohio; and Jacob, who lives in Springfield Township, Clark County.
Joseph Miller obtained his educational training in the country schools and grew up on a farm. When he was twenty years old he began to put to practical use the lessons of industry and thrift taught him from child- hood by his watchful parents, and began to learn the moulder's trade,
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and for thirty years followed that calling. Tiring of its exactions, hq then commenced gardening at 1608 Clifton Avenue, and has maintained a stand in the city market ever since.
On May 3, 1893, Mr. Miller married Caroline Groeber, who was bom at Cincinnati, Ohio, a daughter of Anton and Caroline (Culvis) Groe- ber, natives of Bavaria and Prussia, Germany, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have the following children: Caroline, who is a professional nurse; and John, Anton, Gertrude, Marie, Charlotte, Joseph and Cath- erine, who are all at home. Mr. Miller and his family belong to Saint Bernard's Catholic Church of Springfield. He is a strong democrat, but has not come before the public for political favors. Fraternally he belongs to the Loyal Order of Moose of Springfield. Mr. Miller is not a man who seeks publicity. All his life he has sought to understand his duty and then to live up to what was expected of him. His work is well done, whether it be the planting of his seed, the marketing of his produce, the casting of his vote, the performance of his religious obli- gations, or the watchful bringing up of his children, and people have learned to depend upon him and to follow his example in many things, for they know that he is a good citizen and reliable man and one whom they are willing to emulate in large measure.
Clarence Albert Ustler. One of the industries which is flourish- ing at Springfield is that of producing plants for the local trade, and in it are engaged men who have devoted their lives to this line of work, and one of them who is deservedly successful is Clarence Albert Ustler, of Fleming Street. He was bom at Springfield, Ohio, September 15, 1891, a son of John and Margaret (Hotz) Ustler, natives of Germany and Springfield, Ohio, respectively. John Ustler came to the United States when about twenty years old and settled at Cleveland, Ohio, where he became a brakeman and later a railroad watchman, but he is now deceased. His widow survives him and lives on Floral Avenue, Springfield.
When he was fourteen years old Clarence Albert Ustler began to earn his own living, and at the same time attended night school so as to further his education. He worked about greenhouses, learning the busi- ness in all its details, and in 1915 went into this line of business for him- self, buying two acres of land on Fleming Street, on which he has erected greenhouses, and now has about 6,000 feet under glass. He specializes in raising geraniums, and sells them locally. Subsequently he added nine-tenths of an acre, which is occupied by his residence, sheds and other buildings. In addition to his horticultural activities he does gar- dening in a small way and is very successful, for he likes his work and understands it.
On July 26, 1917, Mr. Ustler married Vina Belle Knight, born at Bellefontaine, Ohio, a daughter of William and Jennie Knight, and they have two children: Vina May, who was bom May 1, 1918; and Bettie Louise, who was born October 8, 1919. Mr. Ustler belongs to Grace Lutheran Church, and is assistant secretary of the Sunday School. While he is interested in the election of good men to office, he prefers to vote independently of party affiliations. Fraternally he belongs to the Odd Fellows of Springfield, but finds his greatest pleasure in his
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home circle. He is a most worthy young man, hard-working and thrifty, and all he has he has earned through his own efforts and is therefore entitled to all the more credit because he has not relied upon others for his start in life
Junius F. Whiting is one of the substantial men of Springfield who has combined the practical with the artistic in his work and accom- plished much of a lasting character, although he is now practically retired. He was born in Monroe. County, Michigan, January 14, 1845, a son of Giles and Margaret W. (De Groot) Whiting, he born at Tru- mansburg, New York, in 1808, and she at Morristown, New Jersey, in 1812. They were married in New York City, but lived in New York State and Ohio, where he was engaged in farming and construction work on the Erie Canal. In 1832 they went to Michigan, and he acquired ownership of 800 acres of land in Monroe County. This was heavy timber land, which he cleared. On it he planted two peach orchards, and there he lived until 1848, when he moved to Xenia, Ohio, to take charge of a hotel he purchased from his wife's brother, and here he became a man of prominence. He later moved to Preble County, Ohio, where he served as sheriff, his son Junius F. serving as one of his deputies.
With the outbreak of the war between the North and the South father and son enlisted, September 12, 1861, in Company E, Thirty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and were assigned to Thomas' First Forma- tion in the Army of the Cumberland. Junius F. Whiting was wounded three times. They were discharged at the expiration of their period of enlistment and the father returned home on account of disabilities. Junius once more re-enlisted January 1, 1864, in the same company and regiment, and received his second discharge July 22, 1865, at which time he assisted in the work of discharging the soldiers. Junius F. Whiting then returned to the old home, that had in the meanwhile been estab- lished at Eaton, Ohio, and there the father died January 13, 1875, his widow surviving him until in December, 1893.
On December 25, 1872, Junius F. Whiting married Elizabeth Dug- gins, who was born at Eaton. Ohio, a daughter of Cornelius V. Duggins. Mr. and Mrs. Whiting had one daughter, Ruth Elizabeth, who is living with her father. Mrs. Whiting died November 12, 1873. On December 25, 1875, Mr. Whiting married Julia E. Collins, of Wabash, Indiana, a daughter of William Collins, and they had three children, namely: Hubert, who died at the age of seven years; Milton V., who is in the Regular Army; and Anna, who died at the age of fifteen years. Mrs. Whiting died in October, 1885, at East Portland, Oregon.
Mr. Whiting's army experience was not confined to that period when he was in the volunteer service, for January 24, 1867, he enlisted in the Regular Army and was discharged January 24, 1870» as sergeant, having been stationed at Governor's Island, New York. He has been a land- scape and portrait painter, draughting and topographical engineer. For three years he had charge of the illustrations of the western division for the Northern Pacific Railroad, and has traveled in every state of the Union except Louisiana, Vermont and New Hampshire, and knows con- ditions and soils of various parts of the country. For a time he lived
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at Toledo, Ohio, and also at Defiance, Ohio, and then came to Spring- field, where he bought a fine modern residence at 807 West Pleasant Street, where he and his daughter now live. After coming to Spring- field he embarked in designing in the artistic branches of his profession, and did a large amount of work for magazines and atlases.
A member of the Grand Army of the Republic, he was senior vice commander of Bishop Post No. 22, at Defiance in 1903, and now belongs to Mitchell Post No. 45, G. A. R., of Springfield, of which he is a past commander and present adjutant. He belongs to Z. Barney Phillips Camp No. 37, Sons of Veterans ; is aii aide de camp of the Grand Army of the Republic of the United States, and belongs to the Knights of Pythias of Springfield. The Methodist Episcopal Church holds his membership, and he is a zealous church worker.
Alvin E. Wildman, proprietor of the Avalon Stock Farm of 780 acres near Selma, Ohio, is one of the leading agriculturalists of Clark County and a man whose influence in local affairs is strong and of a constructive nature. He was bom on his present farm, March 21, 1864, and belongs to one of the old-established families of Clark County, tracing back his ancestry to his great-great-grandfather, William Wild- man, a native of Virginia. John Wildman, son of William Wildman and the great-grandfather of Alvin E. Wildman, was also bom in Vir- ginia, where he was reared, and he married in Bedford County, that state, in 1800, Eliza Bond, also bom and reared in Virginia. In 1814 they came to Ohio and located on the farm that is now the property of Alvin E. Wildman, and here both died, he first and his wife shortly thereafter, not long surviving their advent into the county. They were the parents of the following children: William, Seneca, Benjamin, Edward, Hannah, Mary Ann and Deborah. The Wildmans were Quakers, and the first meeting of the Society of Friends in Clark County was held on the present Wildman farm in 1816. The tract of land now known as Plain Plum was granted to the society for the pur- pose of erecting on it a meetinghouse. The contract transferring the property was drawn by Amaziah Buson in favor of John Wildman and Seth Smith as representatives of the society, and afterward, in 1821, the property was willed to the society The meetinghouse was erected upon the land and was used for meetings of the Quakers until 1828. In that year the Orthodox Quakers separated from the Hicksites, and thereafter meetings were held in the house of John Wildman until another location was secured, south of the Village of Selma.
The grandfather of Alvin E. Wildman was Edward Wildman, and his son, William Wildman, was the father. The latter was bora in Greene County, Ohio, three miles from the present farm of his son, and when he was nine years old he was brought to this same farm and reared in Clark County. He attended the local public schools and a boarding school maintained by the Society of Friends, and was well educated. Returning to the farm, he continued to operate it until 1900, when he retired, moved to Springfield, Ohio, and made that city his home for eigrht years, but in 1908 went to California, where he died in 1914. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Eliza Harrison, died at Springfield, Ohio, in 1907 They were the parents of six children, of whom three
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are now living. These children were as follows: Bertha, who married John F. Hickman; Walter, who was a banker, and died in 1922; Alvin E., whose name heads this review; Louis, who died in 1899, was edu- cated at Earlham College, and was cashier of the bank at Cedarville, Ohio, at the time of his death; Rachel, who was educated at Earlham College, is the wife of Robert Elder; and Ernest, who died at the age of thirteen years.
Alvin E. Wildman was also reared amid strictly rural surroundings, and was taught the habits of industry and thrift which have been of great use to him during his useful life. After attending the local schools he became a student of Earlham College, and was graduated therefrom in 1886, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. Having decided to adopt farming as his life work, he returned to the homestead and until his father's retirement was his partner, but subsequently became the sole owner. While raising a general line of farm produce, Mr. Wildman devotes the greater part of his attention to stockraising and feeding and handles cattle, hogs and sheep, and deals in them upon an extensive scale.
On June 1, 1887, Mr. Wildman married Anna White, who was edu- cated in the public schools of Indiana and Earlham College. She is a daughter of Edmund and Emily White. Mr. and Mrs. Wildman became the parents of eight children, namely: Edith E., who graduated from Earlham College and Bryn Mawr College, and is a teacher; Edna E., who graduated from Earlham College, is the wife of Harold H. Peter- son, secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association and located at Nagpore, India ; William W., who was also educated at his father's alma mater, and the Illinois State University, is at home; Walter E., who graduated from Earlham College, is now (1922) in Russia at the head of the Friends Relief ; Winifred A., who is a graduate of Earlham College; Philip, who is a student at Elarlham College; and Austin and Anna E., who are attending the local schools.
Like all of his family, Mr. Wildman belongs to the Society of Friends and is an elder of the local meeting. In 1919 he was appointed as com- missioner representing the American Friends Service Commission to start reconstruction work in Serbia, and was abroad for five months, during which time he visited the scenes of reconstruction work in France and England. A friend of education, he is a member of the Selma School Board and one of the trustees of Earlham College.
John L. Carr. From the beginning of the postal service the repre- sentative men of each community have been chosen to fill the important office of postmaster. As so much responsibility rests in their hands it is necessary that they be men of strict honesty, reliability and solidity. John L. Carr, postmaster of South Charleston, is one of the efficient officials in the employ of the postal authorities and is discharging his duties in a way that commands commendation on every side.
Mr. Carr was bom at South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio, Sep- tember 14, 1889, and is a son of John and Margaret (Lynch) Carr. His father was bom in Ireland, of Irish parentage, and grew to maturity in his native land, where he had the advantage of attendance at grammar schools. He married in Ireland Margaret Lynch, who had been born
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in Ireland, where she received a public school education. After the birth of their eldest son they immigrated to the United States and settled at South Charleston, where John Carr secured employment in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad. For thirty-two years he continued with this line, a large part of the time as assistant foreman, and then retired. He was a member of the Catholic Church, as was Mrs. Carr, both being active therein, and in politics Mr. Carr was a staunch democrat, although he never sought the honors connected with public preferment. There were three children in the family: Owen E., who is connected with the Bell Telephone Company at Middletown, Ohio; Bernard J. and John L.
John L. Carr was educated primarily in the public schools of South Charleston, where he graduated from the local high school as a member of the class of 1910. He then attended Antioch and Wittenberg Col- leges, and with this preparation entered upon his career as an educator. After teaching in the rural districts for six years he became township superintendent of schools in Madison Township, a capacity in which he acted for two years, and he then took the civil service examination and was appointed postmaster of South Charleston in November, 1918. He took office January 1, 1919, and has discharged the duties of that office ever since in a highly capable and expeditious manner.
On October 10, 1921, Mr. Carr married Miss Mary A. Gallagher, of London, Ohio, who attended the London High School for two years and also pursued a course at the Bliss Business College. Mr. and Mrs. Carr are members of the Catholic Church. In political matters Mr. Carr maintains an independent stand.
Robert Elder. The general store business has one advantage in that it is an absolute necessity to its community. Nevertheless, too many people trade upon this fact and, in consequence, are a long way removed from the hustling, resourceful man known as the twentieth-century mer- chant. As in all lines of business a financial creed is necessary in order not to fall behind in the procession, and that of Robert Elder, merchant and postmaster of Selma, has been to deal fairly, to represent his goods honestly and to treat his patrons courteously.
Mr. Elder was born on a farm in Greene Township, Clark County, Ohio, January 16, 1872, and is a son of Robert N. and Julia Ann (Stew- art) Elder. His father was born on the old Elder homestead place in Green Township, April 10, 1843, and at the outbreak of the Civil war enlisted in the Union Army, becoming a member of the Ninety-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until the close of the struggle. He participated in numerous hard-fought engagements, including those of General Sherman's famous March to the Sea, and had an excellent record for bravery and fidelity to duty. After the war he returned to his home community and married Julia Ann Stewart, who had also been bom in Greene Township and who, like her husband, had a public school education. She was a daughter of Perry and Rhoda Stewart. After their marriage they settled down on the Elder home- stead, where they resided until 1885, in that year crossing the river and purchasing a farm in Madison Township, upon which Mr. Elder passed away in 1897, in the faith of the Presbyterian Church, to which Mrs. Elder also belonged. Mr. Elder was held in high esteem in his com-
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munity and was one of the leaders of the republican party in his district. He served as a member of the township Board of Trustees, was a mem- ber of the School Board for upwards of twenty years, and in 1888 was elected a member of the Board of County Commissioners of Clark County, and served in that capacity for two terms. He and his worthy wife were the parents of eleven children, of whom six are living at this time: Robert; Ellis W., who is a resident of Casper, Wyoming; Walter N., a graduate of the law department of Ohio State University, who is now engaged in operating the home farm; Eula, the wife of Lewis H. Smith, of Whittier, California; Carrie, the wife of Cornelius Van Vinen, a resident of Santa Rosa, California; and Nancy, a grad- uate of Occidental College, Los Angeles, who is engaged in Young Women's Christian Association work at Eureka, California.
Robert Elder received his education in the public schools of his home community and was reared on his father's farm, on which he resided until 1895, at that time coming to Selma, where he has since been iden- tified with mercantile pursuits. He has built up an excellent business enterprise which attracts its patrons from all over the countryside, and in its conduct Mr. Elder has gained the reputation of being not only a capable business man but an honest one as well. He is likewise acting in the capacity of postmaster, and has the good will and friendship of the people of his community for the manner in which he handles this important part of the Government's business. Some years ago Mr. Elder and his uncle, P. M. Stewart, founded a private bank at Yellow Springs, of which Mr. Elder was president and under cashier until it was incorporated into a state bank, when he became vice president, a position which he now fills. He is likewise president of the Farmers Deposit Bank of South Vienna, Ohio, and July 1, 1922, was elected president of the First State Bank of South Charleston, Ohio, upon its organization. He has served as cashier of the Ohio State Fair Associ- ation. A republican in politics, he has been prominent in local and state affairs for a number of years, and for seventeen years has been clerk of the School Board. His religious connection is with the Methodist Epis^ copal Church, in which he has been a teacher in the Sunday School for fourteen years, while his worthy and estimable wife is a member of the Friends Church. Both Mr. and Mrs. Elder are supporters of all move- ments which promise to be of benefit to their community, in the way of religion, charity, education or good citizenship, and are held in high esteem and regard for their many sterling qualities of heart and mind.
On September 14, 1898, Mr. Elder was united in marriage with Miss Rachel Thome Wildman, who was educated in the public schools aqd at Earlham College, and to this union there have come five children: Robert N., born September 8, 1899, a graduate of the Selma High School and of Earlham College, where he was a member of the S. A. T. C, and is now his father's associate in his business ventures; Lois, bom December 14, 1900, a graduate of Selma High School and of Earl- ham College, Richmond, Indiana; William M., born February 12, 1905, who graduated from Selma High School as a member of the class of 1922; Julia, bom April 14, 1906, who is attending high school; and Kenneth, born February 7, 1911, who is attending graded school.
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Thomas Mattinson, a well known farmer and stock breeder in Madison Township, is the third Thomas Mattinson in as many succes- sive generations. In his career he has carried on the traditions of the family for effective work in the agricultural field and equally good citizenship.
Mr. Mattinson was born in the community where he is living today, on December 18, 1864, son of Thomas Mattinson and grandson of Thomas Mattinson. His grandfather married Jane Beedam, who died in 1833, and in 1834 he and his children left Westmoreland, England, and came to the United States. The family consisted of four sons and three daughters, named: Mathew, John, Thomas, William, Ruth, Agries and Jane. For about a year the Mattinsons lived near Massillon, Ohio, and in 1835 came to Madison Township of Clark County, where they purchased four hundred acres and immediately began the task of devel- oping a farm out of this practically unimproved place.
Thomas Mattinson, second of the name, was born in Westmoreland, England, April 24, 1820, and was fourteen years of age when he crossed the Atlantic with his father. He had a common school education, and he shared in the early development of the old homestead in Clark County. He married Elizabeth Ann Wilkinson in 1863. Their children were Thomas, John, James, John Henry, and three others that died in childhood.
Mr. Thomas Mattinson of the third generation grew up on the old farm, had a common and high school education, and did advance work in the Ohio State University and the Miami University at Oxford, where he specialized in mathematics and civil engineering. He was one of the well educated men of the farmer class in Clark County, and that has no doubt contributed to his success in managing the farm and direct- ing his other activities. Mr. Mattinson for many years has been a well known breeder of the Aberdeen Angus cattle. He takes an independent position in matters of politics and is a member of the Episcopal Church, while his wife and children belong to the Methodist Episcopal.
October 15, 1896, Mr. Mattinson married Byrd D. Pugsley, who was bom at Washington Court House, Ohio, February 20, 1866. She was educated in high school and in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Dela- ware. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Mattinson : Margaret A., who graduated from high school and the Ohio State University with the M. A. degree and is now a teacher in the high school at Circleville, Ohio; James P., a high school graduate, who also attended the Ohio State University and is a practical young farmer; Byrd, who was edu- cated in high school and the State University; Thomas, who after high school attended the Miami Military Academy and is at home; and John v., a student in the local high school.
John Trout came from Pennsylvania to Clark County, Ohio, in the year 1851, accompanied by his wife, whose maiden name was Sarah McDowell, and by their three children: Samuel, Anna and John. He established his residence at Medway, and there he was engaged in the meat-market business until hjs death in 1893, he having learned the butcher's trade most thoroughly before leaving the old Keystone State. He was one of the representative business men and honored citizens of
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Clark County at the time of his death, when sixty-eight years of age. He was a son of John Trout, whose father was one of three brothers who came from Holland to America in an early day, the father of John Trout, Sr., having settled in York County, Pennsylvania, and the other two brothers in Virginia and Maryland, respectively. After John Trout, Jr., immediate subject of this memoir, came to Clark County his parents finally came to this state and established their residence at St. Paris, Champaign County, where they passed the remainder of their lives.
The following appreciative estimate of the character of the subject of this memoir has been given: "John Trout was an honorable, upright man, temperate in all his actions, just and considerate, and numbered his friends by the number of his acquaintances. He trusted many, and often to his personal inconvenience and loss, but he never consented to have recourse to law in gaining his just rights. He preferred to cancel debts due him rather than to take legal action against those who had thus taken advantage of his kindness." After the family home was established in Clark County three other children were born, Jacob, Aaron aijd Albert. Few men of his time were better known or held in higher esteem in Clark County than "Uncle John" Trout. Other representatives of the Trout family in this county are but distantly related to him whose name initiates this review.
Albert Trout, youngest of the children, was born at Medway, Clark County, November 3, 1860, and there received his youthful education in the public schools. At the age of eighteen years he initiated his inde- pendent career, and he and his father cared for the invalid wife and mother with loving solicitude until her death in 1886. In the meanwhile, in October, 1882, Albert Trout married Miss Alice Doner, daughter of David Doner, a farmer near Medway. After his marriage Mr. Trout became a traveling salesman, and in this service he continued until the death of his parents. In 1893 he removed to Springfield, and here he has since been successfully engaged in the retail grocery business. He has been industrious, honorable and fair, has achieved prosperity through his own efforts and has so ordered his course in all of the relations of life as to merit and receive the imqualified respect and confidence of his fellowmen. He is loyal and public-spirited as a citizen, has had no desire for public office of any kind, and is independent in politics. To Mr. and Mrs. Trout have been bom six children: Ezmond (Mrs. Iber Courson), Calvin, Senora, Grafton, Anna (Mrs. Chester Baker) and Donald. All of the sons, and also the son-in-law, Iber Courson, are associated with the grocery business conducted by Mr. Trout, and Graf- ton was in the nation's military service in the World war period, though he was not called to the stage of conflict overseas.
Webb W. Witmeyer. Ability and professional achievement mark Mr. Witmeyer as one of the representative members of the Clark County bar, and he has been actively engaged in practice at Springfield, metrop- olis and judicial center of the county, since 1890.
Mr. Witmeyer was bom in Richland County, Ohio, and is a son of Levi S. and Susan (Light) Witmeyer, who there stood exponent of progressive and successful farm enterprise, the lineage of both tracing back to staunch Pennsylvania German stock. The schools of his* native
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county afforded Webb W. Witmeyer his early education, and in 1884 he came to Springfield and entered Wittenberg College. In this institu- tion he was graduated as a member of the class of 1887 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. For the ensuing two years he was suc- cessfully engaged in teaching school, his pedagogic activities having included service as principal of the Lagonda School. During the sum- mer vacations while thus engaged he read law in the office of John L. Zimmerman, of Springfield, and his acquirements under such able pre- ceptorship thereafter enabled him to complete in one year the full course in the Cincinnati Law School, in which he was graduated in 1890. For more than twenty years he was associated in practice with his honored preceptor, Mr. Zimmerman, and since 1912 he has conducted an inde- pendent law practice of substantial and representative order.
Mr. Witmeyer is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Clark County Children's Home, is a democrat in politics, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias.
In 1907 Mr. Witmeyer wedded Miss Lydia M. Petticrew, a member of an old and prominent family of Clark County, and she died in 1917. Mr. Witmeyer has two foster children.
Isaac H. Thorne. One of the progressive farmers of Clark County, who has developed his farm of sixty acres into a valuable property, is Isaac H. Thome, proprietor of the Maple Place. He was born in Greene County, Ohio, December 30, 1859, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Harvey) Thorne. William Thorne was bom in Greene County, Ohio, March 4, 1823, and his wife was bom near Wilmington, Ohio, in Clinton County, in 1835. They were reared in their native counties, and he was a widower when they were married in Clinton County. Following their marriage they located on the farm he owned in Greene County. She died January 10, 1874, he surviving until June 29, 1914, when he passed away. After her death he moved to Selma, Clark County, and this thereafter continued to be his home. Both were reared as Quakers, and he was an elder of his meeting. In all of his business ventures he was very successful, and he was highly respected by all who knew him. For many years he voted the republican ticket, but he was also a strong advocate of prohibition. By his second mar- riage he was the father of five children, but Isaac H. is the only sur- vivor, and he is the only one who reached maturity.
Growing up on his father's farm in Greene County, Isaac H. Thome was early taught the best methods of farming, and learned to like the work which he later adopted. as his calling. His father gave him excel- lent educational advantages, and he attended the public schools, Wil- mington College, and the Ohio Northern University, spending a year in the last-named institution. Returning to the farm, he took up the work of operating it, and has made it profitable.
On June 11, 1891, Mr. Thorne married Emma Kitchen, who was born in Clark County, Ohio. November 29, 1863, and she was one of twin daughters of Isaac N. Kitchen. After attending the public schools her parents sent her to college at Hillsdale, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Thome have one daughter living, Anna Louise, who was born December 25, 1892. They were also the parents of twins, a boy and a girl, who
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died in infancy. The daughter Anna graduated from Selma High School and Earlham College, and then became the wife of Lewis H. McDorman. They live in Clark County, Ohio, and have three children, William Homer, James Thorne and Meriam Elizabeth. Mr. Thorne was reared a Quaker and belongs to the Society of Friends. Like his father, he is a republican, and for a short time he served as a justice of the peace, and formerly was on the School Board for several years. For thirteen years he was a rural free delivery mail carrier, being appointed under the civil service act. Mr. Thorne is an official of the Springfield Federal Farm Loan Association, serving it now as vice president and director, and he is also a member of the loan committee. In everything he has undertaken Mr. Thome has displayed that earnestness and fidelity to the trust reposed in him which is so characteristic of him, and those depending upon his services have never had reason to complain. Both he and his wife are held in high regard by their neighbors, for they are persons to inspire confidence and win friendship. Like the majority of the members of the Society of Friends Mr. Thorne is a man whose word is as good as another's bond, and if he makes a promise is certain to carry out the spirit as well as the letter of it.
John W. Baldwin was one of the first merchants in Springfield, and he and his brothers were the first persons in that section of the state to connect the East and West in the dry goods business, maintaining large stores in New York as well as at Columbus and Springfield.
John W. Baldwin was born at Garretstown, Berkeley County, Vir- ginia, now West Virginia, December 25, 1807, and the Baldwins were among the first settlers of Clark County, Ohio. His maternal grand- father, John Wilson, was a soldier in the American Revolution. His grandmother, Jane Hedges, was a descendant of the Hedges who were prominent in England at the time of Queen Anne. Joseph Baldwin, father of John W., was bom in Berkeley County, Virginia, July 11, 1773. He and his wife, Elizabeth Wilson Baldwin, are buried in Buck Creek Cemetery in Champaign County, Ohio. The Baldwins came to Clark County in 1807. Joseph Baldwin was the father of eight children : Wil- liam, James, Joshua, Samuel V., John W., Rebecca and Jane, and one that died in infancy.
John W. Baldwin in early life was engaged in the dry goods busi- ness in New York City as a member of the well known firm Baldwin, Dibley & Work. After his marriage he returned to Springfield, where he established and remained a partner of the dry goods firm of Baldwin & Company until his death. He was also interested in the Mad River National Bank, being its president at the time of his death. He took a prominent part in the affairs of his home city and always supported measures looking to the general good. He was an ardent patriot and very active during the War of the Rebellion. Being too old to go himself he, nevertheless, was one of the leaders in everything at home having any connection with the war and assisted with his means and his time every move favorable to the Union.
John W. Baldwin died January 5, 1881, and is buried in the family vault in Ferncliff Cemetery at Springfield. He married Rachel Werden. Their six children, Elizabeth, Sara, Qara, Mary, Laura and Eleanor,
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were all born in Springfield except Clara and Mary, who were bom at their father's residence at the head of Buck Creek Valley.
Rachel Werden Baldwin was one of the oldest pioneers of Clark County. She was bom in Champaign County, Ohio, December 28, 1819, but within a few months after her birth her father, Col. William Werden, moved to Springfield, where Mrs. Baldwin spent most of her life.
Col. William Werden was bora November 11, 1785, at Wilmington, Delaware. In early life he engaged in the wholesale leather business at Philadelphia, but owing to ill health early in 1819 came west with his family and settled in Clark County. At the age of nineteen he had enlisted and served as a soldier through the Seminole war. At Spring- field he erected and managed the National Hotel on the northwest cor- ner of Spring and Main streets. With others he also established and operated the stage line between Springfield and Wheeling. Colonel Werden was probably the most widely known man in Springfield in his day. His acquaintance was of national scope, and he was a friend of Henry Clay, Thomas Corwin and other distinguished characters, and a personal acquaintance and statmch follower of Andrew Jackson, who appointed him postmaster of Springfield during his second term. Colonel Werden was one of the founders in 1834 of All Souls parish of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He married Rachel Reed at Trenton, New Jersey, where her family settled in early Colonial times. Her grandfather, William Greene, had the distinction of guiding General Washington and his army on the night of his famous attack on the Brit- ish forces at Trenton. The eight children bom to Colonel William Wer- den were: Robert, Sarah Ann, Mary Jane, Reed, Rachel, William, Wharton and Duncan.
Reed Werden became an admiral in the United States Navy, and had command of the squadron blockading Charleston Harbor during the Civil war. As a young lieutenant he attracted attention by bringing into port the bark "Amelia" after sixty days of terrible weather, during twenty-two days of which the officers and crew were compelled to live on a small amount of bad rice and bread and the rats which they were able to catch in the hold of the vessel. When the bark arrived at the port of St. Thomas it was announced the most unseaworthy vessel ever there.
The National Hotel at Springfield, after being sold by Colonel Wer- den, was renamed by the new proprietors the Werden House.
Among the three lineal descendants of Colonel Werden in Springfield today are his granddaughters : Mrs. Samuel F. McGrew, Mrs. John A. Blount and Mrs. Mary B. Moores, all children of John W. Baldwin and Rachel Werden Baldwin.
Samuel Finley McGrew was born in Steubenville, Ohio, July 19, 1845. but all his life from early boyhood was spent in Springfield.
Thomas Fletcher McGrew, his father, also a native of Steubenville, was bom April 15, 1817. In his early life he and Finley B. McGrew conducted a general merchandise store in the village of Smithfield, Jefferson, County, Ohio, but he later took up the practice of law. In 1856 he moved his family to Springfield, where he became cashier of the Mad River Valley Branch of the State Bank of Ohio, which later
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became the Mad River National Bank, and of that institution he was president at the time of his death on November 3, 1903.
April 8, 1841, Thomas Fletcher McGrew married Martha Dilworth Judkins, of Smithfield, Ohio. . She was bom at Richmond, Ohio, August 12, 1819, her father being Dr. Anderson Judkins, one of the leading physicians of that section of the state. The father of Doctor Judkins was James Judkins, and his mother was Martha Stanton. The mother of Mrs. Thomas F. McGrew was Catharine Carr. Her father, James Carr, laid out the village of Smithfield in 1803. Mr. Carr's wife was Elizabeth Price. Martha Dilworth Judkins graduated from the sem- inary of Dr. C. C. Beatty at Steubenville at the age of seventeen, and because of her scholarship was requested to come to Smithfield to take charge of a school, and while engaged in teaching there she met her future husband. Mrs. Thomas F. McGrew died December 10, 1900. She and her husband are buried in FemcliflF Cemetery in Springfield. Their six children were : William A. McGrew, Samuel Finley McGrew, T. F. McGrew, J. F. McGrew, Baldwin McGrew and a daughter, Eliza- beth, who died in early infancy.
Samuel Finley McGrew was about eleven* years of age when his parents moved to Springfield. Soon afterward he entered Wittenberg College, from which he graduated at the age of sixteen. For a short time thereafter he was in the dry goods business with the firm of J. W. & H. Baldwin, and then entered the banking office of the Mad River National Bank, of which his father was cashier. His associa- tion in different capacities with the Mad River National Bank con- tinued for forty-seven years, and until the day of his death on Novem- ber 2, 1910. For some years prior to his death he was cashier and a director of the bank, and was also president of the Springfield Clearing House Association.
While the late Mr. McGrew never took an active interest in politics, he was a member of the republican party, which his father helped to found in Clark County. During his lifetime he held different positions on the various municipal boards and bodies of his home city. At the time of his death he was vice president of the Board of Trustees of the Warder Public Library. He was a member of Christ Episcopal Church in Springfield. He was entitled to membership in the Sons of the American Revolution by reason of the services rendered to the Ameri- can cause by his ancestors, but he never affiliated with the order.
Mr. McGrew was a man of considerable literary ability and was well versed in the classics. He probably inherited this trait from both of his parents, who were well educated for that day, and his father probably had one of the largest, if not, indeed, the largest, private library in the City of Springfield. While he wrote a number of shorter poems and essays, probably his most ambitious poem was that entitled "The Mission of Hermes," which he wrote as a tribute to his mother as "his friendly critic and appreciative listener."
October 20, 1869, Mr. McGrew married Elizabeth Edmonson Bald- win, eldest daughter of John W. Baldwin and Rachel Werden Baldwin, of Springfield. More is said on other pages concerning the Baldwin and Werden families in Qark County. Mrs. McGrew is still living at Springfield. The three children bom to Mr. and Mrs. McGrew were:
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John Baldwin McGrew, Samuel Judkins McGrew and Rachef Werden McGrew. The daughter died in early infancy.
The late Samuel F. McGrew was a man of sterling character. Broad- minded, recognizing that there should be two sides to every controversy, yet he was firm in his convictions when once a decision had been reached. Acknowledged as an authority upon banking, by nature straightforward and open in his dealings with others, he received and held the confidence of all with whom he came into contact. If faithfulness to a trust reposed and unremitting attention to the requirements of business are evidence of a successful life, then Mr. McGrew was a success in the highest sense, and in his long life of splendid accomplishment and in a name above reproach are found his most precious legacies to his family and his con- tribution to the general welfare of the community in which he lived.
Joseph Anthony Poss has definite vantage-place as one of the successful contractors and builders in the City of Springfield, and such are the scope and importance of his operations that he is consistently to be designated as the leading exponent of this line of business enter- prise in the metropolis ot Clark County.
Mr. Poss was born in the City of Toledo, Ohio, March 2, 1881, and is a son of Anthony and Maria (Stermatz) Poss, who were born and reared in Alsace, France, and who came to the United States soon after their marriage. They established their home at Toledo, Ohio, and there the death of Mrs. Poss occurred in 1886, when her son Joseph A., of this sketch, was a boy of five years. In his native land Anthony Poss learned the trade of millwright, and for a number of years after coming to the United States he was engaged in building and equipping flour mills in Northwestern Ohio. He then engaged in general contracting and building at Toledo, and in 1892 he came to Springfield, where he continued successfully in the same line of enterprise until his death, in 1907, at the age of sixty-three years. As a contractor he erected many of the finest buildings in Springfield, and as a citizen and business man he commanded unqualified confidence and esteem.
The public schools of Toledo and Springfield afforded Joseph A. Poss his youthful education, and in Springfield he completed also a course in the Nelson Business College. When he was a lad of fifteen years he went to work for his father, and at the age of sixteen years he was supervising the work of a crew of men employed by his father. For ten years prior to the death of his father he had active supervision of all of the latter's business, and when his father passed away, in 1907, he continued the business in an independent way and under his own name. As the leading contractor and builder at Springfield he has erected many important buildings, among which may be noted the Sun Theater; the new building of the Springfield Light, Heat & Power Company; the Springfield City Hospital; the Hotel Rogers; Grace Reformed Church; the Regent Theatre ; the Farmers National Bank ; and parts of the Odd Fellows and Masonic Homes, besides his own modern business block on West Main Street. He erected also a large and modern school building at Williamsport, Ohio, and the Murray Theater at Richmond, Indiana.
Mr. Poss has completed the circles of both York and Scottish Rites in the Masonic fraternity, in the latter of which he has received the
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thirty-second degree, besides holding membership in Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine and Antioch Grotto. He is a member also of the local organizations of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a valued member of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, holds membership in the Rotary and Lagonda clubs, and he and his wife are communicants of the Fourth Lutheran Church of Springfield.
The year 1902 recorded the marriage of Mr. Poss and Miss Josephine B. Barry, daughter of William Barry, of Springfield, and the two children of this union are Eva Catherine and Joseph Anthony, Jr.
H. M. Saylor, cashier of the Farmers Deposit Bank of South Vienna, took up banking after a long and active career in the newspaper busi- ness, and at one time was editor of one of the Crowell publications at Springfield.
Mr. Saylor was bom at Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, June 24, 1876, son of W. J. and Eliza (Marlin) Saylor. He was reared in his native village of Pennsylvania, attended public school there, and as a youth learned the printer's trade. After graduating from high school he became manager of the Ashland Local in Pennsylvania, and at the age of twenty left th^t position to attend Potts College at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. While there he became associated with the Williams- port Times as managing editor, was on the editorial staff of the Penn- sylvania Grit, and left Pennsylvania to come to Springfield as editor of the Farm and Fireside for the Crowell Publishing Company. He remained with the Farm and Fireside four years, and on resigning went back to Pennsylvania, but returned to Clark County to marry Miss Ruth Smith, of South Vienna, and has since been identified by residence and in a business way with this town. Mrs. Saylor is a graduate of Witten- berg College and Oxford College for Women.
In 1909 Mr. Saylor succeeded Walter Elder as cashier of the Farmers Deposit Bank of South Vienna. He has carried the responsibilities of that office now for thirteen years. The other officers of this bank are : Robert Elder, president; Dr. Edward H. Smith and Charles Arbogast, vice presidents; and George A. Beard, attorney.
Mr. Saylor is an Episcopalian, a republican, is affiliated with Eureka Lodge No. 335, F. and A. M., of Montoursville, Pennsylvania, belongs to the Scottish Rite bodies at Williamsport, is a member of the Royal Arch Chapter and Knight Templar Commandery at Springfield and Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton.
Walter Benjamin Bauer. The ambition, a laudable one, of the worth-while citizens of almost every community is to see it grow and develop, to increase its domain and widen its opportunities. The main factors in bringing about these desirable results are the real estate dealers. These keen, well informed men, alert to every opportunity, are the real mediums of progress. Among the leaders in this line at Springfield no one in recent years has been more active and successful than Walter Benjamin Bauer, who is secretary and sales manager of the James-Bauer Company.
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Mr. Bauer is a native of Springfield and was bom on the site of the present City Building, on Fountain Square, July 15, 1880, a son of Gottleib F. and Lena (Schoen) Bauer. The father of Mr. Bauer was bom at Stuttgart, Germany, in 1849, leamed the baker's trade there and came to the United States in 1867. In the spring of 1873 he came to Springfield, and proved to be a very competent business man, and thrift and industry brought him an ample fortune. The mother of Walter B. Bauer was bora in Baden, Germany, in 1850, and was three years old when the family came to the United States and located at Delaware, Ohio. Her death occurred at Springfield in 1900. Both she and husband were members of St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Springfield.
Walter B. Bauer graduated from the Springfield High School in 1898, and immediately turned his attention to business, for eighteen months being a clerk in a drug store and then spent two years in one of the city's industrial plants. During the fall of 1901 and spring of 1902 Mr. Bauer took a commercial .course, paying his own way through business college by extra work, early and late, and so thoroughly quali- fied himself that late in the spring of 1902 he was able to enter the offices of the American Seeding Machine Company as a stenographer and sub* sequently became chief clerk and timekeeper.
In 1906 Mr. Bauer, in association with his three brothers, engaged in business as the Valley Rug Company, he being business manager. Three years later he sold his interest in this concern and became a sales- man of vacuum cleaners, and in handling these comparatively new house- hold machines became so well acquainted with their mechaiiism that he recognized their lack of real utility, in some cases, and this led him into the invention of a water-power hand vacuum cleaner, which he had patented, later improved, and took it to Elyria, Ohio, for manufacture by the Supreme Metal Products Company.
To a man of Mr. Bauer's temperament, however, inaction is intoler- able, and very soon his energies found an outlet as a solicitor at Cleve- land for business colleges, and while so engaged began to sell real estate. Finding himself unexpectedly successful in this line, he determined to thoroughly fit himself for the business, and as a member of the first real estate class organized at the Western Reserve University completed the course there, an advantage that many of his co-workers have neglected. In 1913 Mr. Bauer returned to Springfield and began selling real estate, and with such marked success that one year later he was offered a part- nership with his then employer, J. Warren James, and on April 1, 1916, the James-Bauer Company was incorporated and capitalized at $10,000, which was later increased to $200,000 (preferred) and $200,000 (common). In 1920 the company completed the erection of their own building at 109 East Main Street, which is probably one of the hand- somest real estate offices to be found in any city. In 1921 the company added to its real estate business the building and loan feature, which department was opened on January 1, 1922.
On June 26, 1907, Mr. Bauer married Miss Marie Meyers, who was bom at Donnelsville, Clark County, Ohio, and is a daughter of Dr. John E. Meyers, who is a practicing physician of Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Bauer have three children : Elizabeth, bom September 6, 1908 ; Jeannette, bom April 16, 1910; and Walter B., Jr., born December 28, 1916.
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In addition to being identified with various organizations of civic and business importance Mr. Bauer stands high in Masonry. He is a member of Anthony Lodge No. 445, F. and A. M., Springfield Chapter No. 48, R. A. M. ; Springfield Council No. 17, R. and S. M. ; and Pales- tine Commandery No. 13, Knights Templar.
Edward W. Williams educated himself for the law, but has found more congenial work in the field of journalism, and has had a wide and interestingly varied experience in Ohio newspaper work, both as editor of city dailies and in other capacities. Some years ago he returned to his home town, New Carlisle, where he is editor and proprietor of one of the best country newspapers in the state. Recently he also became postmaster of that little city.
Mr. Williams was bom March 29, 1877, on a farm two miles south of New Carlisle. This farm was granted to his great-grandfather by President James Monroe. His grandfather. Rev. Henry Williams, was one of the well known early citizens of the Mud Run Valley. Edward W. Williams is the youngest son of J. C. and Amelia Williams. His father in his day was a man of prominence in his section of Clark County and earnestly advocated and worked for every enterprise looking to the wel- fare of the locality. Edward W. Williams had two uncles who were prominent in Ohio affairs, Elihu S. Williams, a member of the Fifty- first and Fifty-second Congress, and the late Judge H. H. Williams, for two terms Common Pleas judge of Miami County.
E. W. Williams grew up on the farm, attended the Mount Pleasant school, at the age of twelve entered high school and graduated in the spring of 1894 from the Olive Branch High School at Forgy, Ohio. In the fall of the same year he entered Wittenberg College of Springfield, taking the classical course and graduating A. B. in 1898. The follow- ing two years he taught school in his old home district at Mount Pleas- ant. Following that he became a student in the law department of Ohio Northern University at Ada, and about that time received the degree of Master of Arts from Wittenberg College. Leaving his law studies, he became editor and owner of the Sun at New Carlisle in the spring of 1901. For three years he had charge of this newspaper. Dis- posing of his interests, he became city editor of the Evening Herald of Dayton, thus entering the daily newspaper field. Later he joined the editorial staff of the Springfield Sun, and there came under the influence of the late George Burba, known as one of the most prominent news- paper men in Ohio. For seven years he was associated with the Daily News of Springfield, this experience rounding out his training in city newspaper routine and qualifying him for the post which he accepted in 1911 of state editorship of the Citizen of Columbus.
After two years at the state capital Mr. Williams re-purchased the printing plant of the Sun at New Carlisle. He has been manager and editor of this thriving paper for the past eight years. He has directed the editorial policy in the line of independent republican tendencies, and has rendered some valuable service to his party during campaigns. On March 23, 1922, Mr. Williams was named as postmaster of his home town, but still retains the ownership of the newspaper.
As editor of the Sun Mr. Williams made the paper a constant leader in behalf of public welfare and improvement. The Sun is a weekly
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paper, devoted to home interests, and a number of public improvements owe their inception and final completion to the Sun and its able editor. One of these is the beautiful elm drive from the town to the New Carlisle Cemetery. For half a mile on either side of the road are grow- ing rows of beautiful elm memorial trees, over one hundred in number, and serve at the cemetery drive as a shaded boulevard instead of a hot, dusty roadway in summer. Another campaign for which the Sun was largely responsible resulted in the erection of a beautiful new school building at New Carlisle, at a cost of $160,000. Mr. Williams and the Sun also exerted all their possible influence in favor of the paved high- way, soon to be constructed, from New Carlisle southward to the National Road, a mile and one-half long. The direct assessments for this improvement were raised by popular subscription.
August 8, 1900, Mr. Williams married Viola C. Funderburg, youngest daughter of George K. and Martha Fimderburg. They have two chil- dren, Martha Louise, born in 1902, and Harry E., born in 1906. The family are all members of the New Carlisle Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Williams was superintendent of its Sunday school for three years. He is affiliated with the Masonic Order, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Junior Order United American Mechanics. In all move- ments for the public good and the advancement of the educational and religious interests Mr. Williams has been active in township and county. His ability as a leader and his enthusiasm for any cause which he believes to be right and just have made him generally recognized as one of the men of more than ordinary worth in the citizenship of Clark County.
Ed Gram. In the agricultural community of Madison Township one of the best known citizens and most capable farmers is Ed Gram, a native of Clark County, and whose life has been devoted to the work of his farm.
He was born in Greene Township, near Pitchin, May 19, 1860, son of Jacob and Catharine (Miller) Gram. His father was born near Har- risburg, Pennsylvania, and his mother, in Virginia. They came to Clark County when young people, grew up here and before getting permanently located Jacob Gram made four trips on foot between Pennsylvania and Ohio. After his marriage he located near Pitchin, and was a farmer in that community until his death in 1869. The mother died in 1864. She was a Methodist. Of their nine children Ed is the youngest, and four are still living, the three others being : Margaret, a widow, residing near Pleasant Grove; Theodore C, of Springfield; and Joseph, of Greene Township.
Ed Gram spent his early life on the farm near Pitchin where he attended school. In 1885 he went out to California, and spent several years in the Far West. He returned to Clark County in June, 1888, and on February 26, 1889, married Miss Ella King. Mr. and Mrs. Gram have two daughters: Elsie M., born December 9, 1890, wife of Ralph Walker; and Anna C, born September 22, 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Gram are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is an elder in the church at South Charleston. He is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, F. and A. M., and took his first degrees in that lodge in 1886 and has filled a number of its chairs. He is a republican. The farm to which he has devoted so many years consists of a hundred acres.
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Ella King, wife of Mr. Gram, was born in Clark County October 8, 1869, daughter of Daniel and Anna B. (Packer) King. Her father was bom at Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, June 16, 1839, and her mother was born November 22, 1846, daughter of Milton and Eliza (Willis) Packer. Milton Packer was born on October 18, 1824, and his wife on July 18, 1817. The King family is of Revolutionary ancestry. Daniel King served as a soldier in the Civil war. His parents were Andrew and Theresa (Fox) King, the latter a daughter of Daniel Fox, who served as a soldier in the War of 1812. Daniel Fox was a son of Frederick Fox, who was a drummer boy in a Pennsylvania Regiment during the Revolution. Mrs. Ella King Gram was born at the old Willis Tavern, but since early infancy has lived at the homestead where her home is today.
Gus LeBolt controls a large and prosperous business as a wholesale and retail dealer in cigars and tobacco, and is one of the leading expo- nents of this line of enterprise in the City of Springfield, where his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances.
Mr. LeBolt was born at Piqua, this state, October 6, 1866, and is a son of Charles and Esther (Lebensberger) LeBolt, the former of whom was born in France, not far distant from the River Rhine, his father, a butcher by trade, having been in active service with the army of the great Napoleon, and having been assigned to the supervision of meat supplies for the army. Charles LeBolt was reared and educated in his native land, and was a young man when he came to the United States. After a brief sojourn in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he established his home at Piqua, Ohio, where during the old canal-boat days he was a large and prosperous dealer in groceries, feed, queensware, etc. He died in 19(M, and his wife, who was likewise born near the Rhine, but on German soil, was a young woman when she came to America, and her marriage to Mr. LeBolt was solemnized at Dayton, Ohio. She survived her husband by more than a decade and died at Springfield in 1917.
The public schools of Piqua received a due amount of attention on the part of Gus LeBolt during the period of his boyhood and early youth, and in his seventeenth year he went to Springfield, Missouri, and found employment as clerk in a dry-goods store. He next took- a similar posi- tion in a clothing store at Streator, Illinois, and at the age of twenty-one years he became a traveling salesman for a manufacturer of overalls at Ottawa, Illinois. From that time to the present time he has continued to be numbered among the gallant forces of the "knights of the grip," and even at the present he finds his services in requisition as a traveling salesman for a leading wholesale house in the City of Rochester, New York, for which he makes two trips each year, but his service in this capacity is to be terminated with the year 1922, owing to the exactions of his large and important individual business interests.
Following the death of his brother, the former owner, Mr. LeBolt purchased from the estate the Arcade cigar store at Springfield in 1904, and thus was initiated his active connection with the commercial and general business interests of this vital Ohio city. From time to time he has expanded his operations and holdings, and he is now the owner of a chain of retail cigar and tobacco stores in Springfield — Lebolt's Cor-
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ner, Main and Limestone streets; Bancroft Hotel cigar store; Hotel Shawnee store ; Fairbanks Building store ; and My Krantz Corner Store. His wholesale establishment and premium department are in the Fair- banks Building.
As a youth Mr. LeBolt achieved more than local fame as an athlete, especially in connection with the "national game," baseball. He was one of the very first curved-ball pitchers in the country, and pitched the first out-curved ball ever delivered in connection with the game. He organized and played with the "Piqua Fast Blacks," which team won the championship of the state in baseball. He has not lost interest in the great game and is still an enthusiasic "fan." Mr. LeBolt is a member of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, and is affiliated with the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias, as is he also with the United Commercial Travelers.
On the 1st of January, 1913, Mr. LeBolt was united in marriage with Mrs. Sophia Kleeman, widow of Joseph Kleeman, of Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania, and she is the popular chatelaine of their pleasant home in Springfield.
Ion a. p. Morgan, M. D. In medical circles of Springfield Dr. Ion A. P. Morgan occupies the position of a reliable, learned and skilled practitioner, to whose other professional qualifications are added the desirable concomitants of intense human sympathy and wide practical experience. He is also a business man of capacity, and his connection with the Morgan Medicine Company has done much to further the inter- ests of that concern.
Doctor Morgan was born at Columbus, Ohio, March 28, 1869, and is a son of William and Dorothy (Funk) Morgan, the former born at Harrisburg, Ohio, and the latter at California, Ohio. The parents were married at Morgan Station, a community in the neighborhood of Colum- bus, named in honor of the family, where William Morgan was the owner of a large and valuable tract of land on which he carried on agri- cultural operations until his death, in January, 1920. His widow still survives him and makes her home on the farm.
Ion A. P. Morgan attended the public school of Columbus, and after some preparation entered the Homeopathic Medical College at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1891, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He immediately started practice at Columbus, where in addition to a general practice he was retained by several institutions as physician, but in 1913 changed his field of practice to Dayton, where he remained three years. He then went to Cleveland, where he spent one year, and in 1917 took up his residence and practice at Springfield, where he has since made gratifying advancement in the acquirement of a large and representative practice. Doctor Morgan belongs to the various organizations of his profession, and keeps fully abreast of the advancements being made in medical science, having always been a close and careful student. He is a republican, but has not sought political honors or public preferment. He has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Mrs. Morgan of the Rebekahs, and both belong to the Church of Christ.
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On June 6, 1890, Doctor Morgan married at Zanesville, Ohio, Miss Minnie E. Nevins, who was born at Zanesville, February 20, 1870, a daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Mary Elizabeth (Brown) Nevins, the former a native of Nashport, Ohio, bom January 3, 1848, and the latter bom at Hanover, Ohio, August 6, 1848. Mr. Nevins was a Union soldier during the Civil war, having served 100 days as a member of Company F. One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and received his honorable discharge August 22, 1864. He died in September, 1918, since which time Mrs. Nevins has resided with her daughter and son-in-law. Doctor and Mrs. Morgan. Mr. and Mrs. Nevins were the parents of three daughters: Minnie E., now Mrs. Morgan; Iva Blanche, who died as the wife of the late Orlie Brown, leaving one son, Warren Calvert, who resides with Doctor and Mrs. Morgan; and Viola May, who died as the wife of Frank O. Perry, leaving one son, Forrest E., of Sandusky, Ohio, who married Lillie Low and has two children, Edith and Theodore. Doctor and Mrs. Morgan have no children. Several years ago Doctor and Mrs. Morgan started the manufacture of several proprietory medicines, including liver pills, cough syrup, com remedy and two kinds of liniment, and this business, known as the Morgan Mfedicine Company, under the management of Mrs. Morgan, has grown to large proportions, four traveling salesmen being kept on the road.
Arthur Elmer Cole, D. O. Prominently identified as one of the leading osteopathic practitioners of Clark County, Dr. Arthur Elmer Cole, of Springfield, is carrying on a large practice, and occupies the position in his community to which his talents and abilities entitle him. He was bom in Shelby County, Ohio, June 27, 1876, and he is a son of D. A. and Margaret (Taylor) Cole, also natives of Shelby County. The paternal grandparents were Wesley and Anna (Glaze) Cole, he a native of Pickaway County, Ohio. The maternal grandparents were John and Mary Taylor, he bom near Huntington, Pennsylvania, was a cousin of Bayard Taylor, the noted author. The Coles originated in Virginia, from whence they came to Ohio during the earliest days of its settle- ment, floating down the Ohio River, and fighting Indians whenever a stop was made. They secured 160 acres of land at Circleville, Ohio, where the family resided for many years.
D. A. Cole, as his father before him, was a farmer, and they, with the great-grandfather of Doctor Cole, entered in all. some 600 acres of land from the Government, all located in Shelby County. From ScotcTi and English forebears Doctor Cole inherits many sterling traits of char- acter, all of which have come down to him, amplified by American condi- tions and surroundings. D. A. Cole died in 1910, but his widow survives him and makes her home at Sidney, Ohio, although she is an aged lady, having been bom in 1837. She and her husband had seven daughters and four sons, and Doctor Cole was the seventh child.
Until he was twenty-one years old Doctor Cole remained at home, but then began attending the Anna, Ohio, High School, from which he was graduated in 1900. He then took the regular academic course at the Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he was graduated in 1906, and became principal of the schools at Bradford Junction, Ohio, where
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he remained for one year, and then for two years he was principal of the schools at Pennville, Indiana. His health failed, and he felt that it was necessary for him to seek a change of occupation, so took up the study of osteopathy at Kirkville, Missouri. He was graduated in that science in 1911, and for four years thereafter was engaged in practice at Urbana, Ohio. Subsequently he took up post-graduate work at the Chicago Col- lege of Osteopathy, and in March, 1916, came to Springfield, opened an office in the Mitchell Building, but since 1919 has maintained his offices at 815 and 816 Fairbanks Building.
On September 2, 1908, Doctor Cole married at Pennville, Indiana, Miss Daisy Heller, bom in that city, a daughter of Hamilton Heller, bom near Hillsboro, Ohio, the fifth generation from the American founder of the family, one of the Hessian troops. There were four brothers of the name of Heller who were brought to the American Colonies by the English to fight against the Colonists, and when, after the close of the American Revolution, they were given the alternative of returning to their native land with all their expenses paid or remaining in the land they were sent to help subdue they adopted the latter, and their descend- ants are now to be found all over the United States. Doctor and Mrs. Cole have one daughter, Virginia, who was born June 4, 1911. He belongs to the Central Methodist Episcopal Church of Springfield, and is active in church work and teacher in the Sunday School. He is independent in politics. Saint Andrews Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Springfield holds his membership. He belongs to the Springfield Osteo- pathic Society, the Dayton District Osteopathic Society, the Ohio Osteo- pathic Society, and the American Osteopathic Association.
Fred Foster. Past the age of fourscore, Fred Foster is still a man of vigor, and though retired from business he keeps lip active asso- ciations with his old friends in Springfield. Mr. Foster for a great many years was on the Springfield police force, and altogether has had an exceedingly active life.
He was born at Hagerstown, Maryland, March 26, 1839, son of George and Fredericka (Drexler) Foster. His maternal grandfather, Frederick Drexler, came from Germany in 1806 and settled at Baltimore, Maryland. He was a tailor by trade, and in 1839 moved with wagons overland to Dayton, Ohio, and in 1854 settled at Springfield, Ohio. His daughter, Fredericka Drexler, was born in 1812. George Foster was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1829, at the age of twenty-one. He was a damask weaver by trade. For a time he lived in the mountains, where a hermit took care of him. He married at Hagerstown, Maryland, about 1832, and in 1839 moved with wagons and teams to Dayton, Ohio, and in 1840 bought twenty acres of land at North Dayton. Selling this property in 1855, he bought a farm of fifty- five acres just northwest of Springfield, and lived there until his death in 1865. His widow survived him until 1892. Their children were: Elizabeth and Edward, both deceased ; Fred ; Louisa, Mrs. David White, of Bloomington, Illinois; Mary, Mrs. Wesley Van Shoick, of Blooming- ton; Cynthia, deceased; William, of Bloomington; and Frank, of St. Louis, Missouri.
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Fred Foster had only the advantages given in a log cabin district school, and attended school only until he was twelve years of age. In the spring of 1857, a young man of eighteen, he moved to Amboy, Lee County, Illinois, and for two years worked in the Illinois Central shop there. In 1859 he and four old shopmen provided themselves with ox teams and started for the gold field of Pikes Peak, Colorado. They left home in March, and while on the plains they met a great number of gold seekers returning after a futile quest, and they decided to give up the adventure without proceeding further. Consequently they returned to Omaha, sold their oxen and outfit, and each of them paid $1.50 for pas- sage to St. Louis on a Missouri River boat. From St. Louis Mr. Foster went on to Bloomington, Illinois, where his parents were located, and in the fall of the same year he came to Ohio to join his uncle, Fred Drexler, a tavern keeper.
In October, 1861, Mr. Foster married Lucinda Eveline Barringer, a native of Clark County and daughter of Jacklin H. and Harriett (Stiles) Barringer, her father a native of Virginia and her mother of Greene County, Ohio. After his marriage Mr. Foster farmed four years, and then joined the D. & M. Railroad at Lima as a fireman. Two years later he went to Weyauwega, Waupaca County, Illinois, was there about a year spent a few months in Clark County, and for two years was on the police force of Bloomington, Illinois. Soon after returning to Spring- field this experience as a policeman brought him appointment to the Springfield force, and he served continuously for twenty years, from 1872 until 1892, when he resigned. For three years following he was watchman in the Bushnell Building, and since then has lived retired. His wife died January 2, 1904, after more than forty years of married companionship. Since the death of his wife Mr. Foster has lived with his son Fred at 218 North Lowry Avenue. He is a democrat in politics.
Mr. Foster's son George I., born in August, 1862, is a horse trainer at the Springfield Fair Grounds. The son Fred K.. born in June, 1872, is a commercial traveler and married Cora Bargdill, daughter of Harve and Elizabeth (Tressler) Bargdill, and has one son. George Leroy, of Springfield, married Mabel Sherbandy. and has a son, Frank.
Stanford L. O'Harra. There are, perhaps, no vocations which command greater respect and few which oflFer better opportunities for the display of character and ability than does the legal profession. Springfield's bench and bar have long ranked with the most distin- guished of the country, and the profession here represented has among its members men of high standing and wide reputation. In preparing a review of the careers of men whose names stand out prominently in the legal profession of Springfield and who by character and accom- plishments have attained prominence, the record of Stanford L. O'Harra is found to be one that compels attention.
Mr. O'Harra is a son of the Buckeye State, havine been born at Pleasant Corners, Franklin County, September 13, 1888, a son of George William and Mary Elizabeth (Cummins) O'Harra, the former a native of Alton, Ohio, and the latter of Circleville, this state. The grandparents on the paternal side were John Timothy and Adeline (Beatty) O'Harra, earlv settlers of Franklin County, as were also the
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maternal grandparents, John Edward and Mary Elizabeth (May) Cum- mins, who were well-known residents and farming people of the Cir- cleville community. George William O'Harra, Hke most of the family, is engaged in agricultural pursuits on a property at Alton, where he has good improvements of a modem kind and where he and Mrs. O'Harra occupy a pleasant home.
Stanford L. 0*Harra attended the public schools of his home com- munity and the high school at Columbus, Ohio, following which, after some further preparation, he entered the Ohio State University at Columbus, graduating and entering the pratice of law in 1916. In that same year he was admitted to the bar and took up his residence at Springfield, where he immediately entered upon the practice of his pro- fession. Being industrious, ambitious and firmly grounded in the prin- ciples of his calling, he soon formed agreeable professional connections and began building up a clientele that has since increased steadily both in size and importance. Mr. O'Harra has been identified with a number of leading cases, in which his success has denoted the possession of abilities beyond the ordinary. He is a member of the various organiza- tions of his calling and maintains offices in the M. & M. Building. A democrat in politics, in 1920, he became his party's candidate for state senator, but met defeat with his ticket. Fraternally he is affiliated with Bushnell Coimcil No. 163, Jr. O. U. A. M., of which he has been trustee since 1920, and his religious association is with the Central Methodist Episcopal Church.
On September 8, 1915, at Newport, Kentucky, Mr. O'Harra mar- ried Bertha Gragg, who was bom at Goodhope, Ohio, a daughter of Samuel and Jennie (Condon) Gragg, natives of Ross County, this state. To this union there have been bom three children: Miles, and Edwin Allen and Edward Milton, twins. The present family residence is sit- uated at 2515 Hilltop Avenue, in which locality Mr. and Mrs. O'Harra have many friends.
John H. Thomas, who died at his home in the City of Springfield on the 23d of January, 1901, was a man whose character and achieve- ment marked him as one of the leading citizens of his home city and county and as one of the essentially representative men of Ohio.
Mr. Thomas was born at Middletown, Maryland, October 4, 1826, and was a son of Jacob and Sophia (Bowlus) Thomas. As a youth he was given exceptional educational advantages, as gauged by the aver- age standards of the day, and in 1849 he graduated from Marshall Col- lie at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. In 1851 he became a student of law in the office of Hon. S. W. Andrews at Columbus, Ohio, and later continued his technical studies under the preceptorship of William White, who was at that time one of the ablest and most influential members of the bar at Springfield. After his admission to the bar Mr. Thomas was engaged in the practice of his profession at Spring- field about two years, and he gained secure place in the confidence and esteem of this community, the while he made an excellent record in the work of his profession. His popularity was indicated by his elec- tion to the office of county recorder of Clark County: within a compar- atively short time after he had here established his residence, and he
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was the incumbent of this office at the time of the inception of Spring- field's remarkable development as an industrial center. His practical provision of future possibilities enabled him to take advantage of oppor- timities here presented in a business way. He became senior member of the firm of Thomas & Mast, in which his coadjutor was the late P. P. Mast, and they were among the first here to engage in the manufacturing of agricultural implements — a field of enterprise in which SpringiSeld has become one of the leading industrial centers of the United States. Mr. Thomas retired from the firm in 1872, after the enterprise had been developed into one of important and prosperous order, and in 1874 he resumed his active alliance with local manufacturing interests by organizing a firm in which his sons William S. and Findley B. became his associates. The business has been continued with unequivocal success during the long intervening years, and in the manufacturing of all kinds of agricultural implements the Thomas Manufacturing Company is today one of the important industrial concerns of Springfield.
Mr. Thomas was significantly a man of thought and action, and his versatility of talent led to his benigant influence being extended prom- inently into civic and political avenues. In 1868 he was the demo- cratic nominee for representative of this district in the United States Congress, but was unable to overcome the great and normal repub- lican majority in the district. When United States senators were elected by the Legislatures of the respective states Mr. Thomas became a candidate for the office, his successful opponent having been the late Hon. Calvin S. Brice.
Mr. Thomas became a man of wealth and influence, but he ever had a high sense of personal stewardship and realized the objective responsibilities which success imposes. Thus he was most liberal in the support of charitable and philanthropic agencies and in this con- nection one of the most noteworthy of his benefactions was his financial gift which made possible the establishing and maintaining of the Mitchell-Thomas Hospital at Springfield.
In 1854 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Thomas and Miss Mary Bonser, daughter of Hon. Jacob Bonser, of Chillicothe, Ohio, and she preceded him to the life eternal. They are survived by four children: William S., Findley B., Nellie (Mrs. Augustus N. Summers) and Mabel (Mrs. L. P. Matthews).
William S. Thomas, president of the Thomas Manufacturing Com- pany and of the Mad River National Bank of Springfield, is one of the essentially representative men of his native city, and is a son of the late John H. Thomas, to whom a memoir is dedicated in preceding paragraphs.
Mr. Thomas was born at Springfield on the 22d of April, 1857, received his preliminary education in public and private schools and was but fourteen years old when he entered Wooster University, in which institution he was graduated, with honors, in 1875 — one of the youngest students ever graduated in this excellent Ohio institution. As noted in the preceding sketch of the career of his honored father, he became associated with the latter in the organization of the Thomas
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Manufacturing Company, of which he was made treasurer in 1886 and of which he has been president since the death of his father in 1901. From his early manhood Mr. Thomas has been a prominent and influential figure in the civic, industrial, commercial and social life of his native city. He has long been president of the Mad River National Bank, and has been a dominating force in* making this one of the leading financial institutions of this section of Ohio. He was president of the Jefferson Club from 1880 to 1890. For many years he has been an active member of the First Presbyterian Church, in which his parents likewise held membership and he has served as president of its board of trustees. He is a valued member of the Springfield Com- mercial Club, and has served as president of the Ohio Shippers' Asso- ciation. In divers ways Mr. Thomas has contributed liberally of time and money to movements and enterprises advanced or the general good of his home city and county, and in the World war period he was a veritable tower of strength in connection with the various patriotic activities in the city and county. The Thomas Manufacturing Com- pany, manufacturers of a large and widely diversified line of agricul- tural implements, has contributed in large measure to the industrial and commercial fame and solidity of Springfield. Mr. Thomas has long been influential in the councils and campaign activities of the demo- cratic party and for years has been a member of the democratic State Central Committee of Ohio. Though he has had no desire for public office, his civic loyalty has caused him to give eflfective service in various local offices of trust, often at a personal sacrifice.
December 8, 1887, recorded the marriage of Mr. Thomas and Miss Fannie Senteny, who was bom in the City of Louisville, Kentucky. They have three children: John Henry, Wallace Senteny and Lucretia (Mrs. Burton Carr, of Richmond, Indiana). Wallace S. Thomas was an instructor in the aviation service of the Government during the major part of the time during which the nation was involved in the World war, and was an aviation pilot in active service at the time when the war closed.
William McCulloch. The late William McCulloch, pioneer manu- facturer and dealer in harness and leather goods, was one of Springfield's best known and most highly honored business men 'and citizens. Not only was his life notable for the business ability and public spirit which he at all times displayed in his career, but for his absolute integrity, his kindly nature, his fidelity to his church and city, his fealty to his friends and his devotion to his home and family.
Mr. McCulloch was born at Cunnock, Ayreshire, Scotland, April 20, 1839. When he was a boy of thirteen years he began to learn harness making, and worked at that trade in Scotland until 1868, in which year he came to the United States. Upon reaching this country, with his wife and three children, he came direct to Ohio, and after spending a few months at Xenia, Ohio, came on to Springfield in 1869. Imme- diately after locating in the city he formed a partnership with the late Martin Routzahn, under the firm name of McCulloch & Routzahn, and opened a harness shop and store at No. 40 East Main Street, where the business has ever since remained, now conducted by Mr. McCulloch's two sons. He died April 29, 1915.
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In Scotland Mr. McCuUoch married Miss Elizabeth Russell, who was born in that country in June, 1838, and who still survives her husband as a resident of Springfield. To that union there were born the following children: Sarah, born in Scotland, who is the widow of the late D. I. Anderson, of Springfield; Elizabeth, born in Scotland, the wife of A. C. McCutcheon, formerly of Springfield, but now of Toronto, Canada; Hugh; Margaret, born at Springfield, the wife of Hon. A. N. Kunkel, of Springfield, judge of the Appellate Court; Mary; Agnes, bom at Springfield, the wife of Warren D. Alexander, a merchant of Springfield; William Paton; Helen M., the wife of Harvey A. Miller, on the staflF of the Columbus Dispatch newspaper; and Ruth, who died at the age of ten years.
Hugh Russell McCulloch, elder son of William McCulloch, was bom in Scotland, July 14, 1866, and received his education in the schools of Springfield, graduating from the high school of a member of the class of 1886. At the time he became associated with his father in business, and at the time of the death of the father he and his brother took over the enterprise, which is still being conducted under the style of W. McCulloch's Sons. He is a director in the Springfield Savings Bank, Trustee of the FemcliflF Cemetery, is a member of the Board of Session of the United Presbyterian Church, and takes an active and constructive part in civic aflFairs. Mr. McCulloch married Miss Olive Stafford, who was born at Springfield, a daughter of Joseph Stafford.
William Paton McCulloch, the younger son of William McCulloch, was born at Springfield, December 25, 1878, and received his education in the public schools and at Wittenberg College. On leaving the latter institution he joined in business aflFairs with his father, and when the latter died he and his brother Hugh assumed control, which they have held to the present. Mr. McCulloch. is a member of the Springfield Country Club and has other social, as well as business and civic connec- tions. He belongs to the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. McCulloch married Miss Gertrude Torrence, the daughter of Frank P. Torrence, of Springfield.
Eli West. The attractive community of Catawba, in Pleasant Township has its full quota of citizens who have stepped aside from the path of active endeavor to allow the passing of the younger gen- eration with its high hopes and ambitions. A highly respected member of this retired colony is Eli West, who for many years was engaged in blacksmithing and who gained a competence and many friends by a career of industry and straightforward dealing with his fellowmen.
Mr. West was born at Catawba, July 1, 1856, and is a son of Henry and Sarah (Wood) West. His great-grandfather, Edmund West, was born in Virginia and in young manhood came to Ohio, where he set- tled as a pioneer in Madison County. Here he rounded out his career as an agriculturist. Alex West, the grandfather of EH West, was bom in Madison County, where he was reared on his father's farm and educated in the public schools of his day. He passed his life as a farmer of Madison County, and passed away on his property, as did his wife, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Curl. Henry West, the father of Eli West, was bom in Madison County, December 23,
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1832, and was reared and educated in his native community. He fol- lowed farming and stockraising all his life and died at the early age of forty years, May 2, 1872. Mrs. West, who was born in 1832, at Catawba, was educated in the public schools and died Jime 28, 1866, in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Mr. West was also a member. He was a republican in politics. In their family there were six children, of whom five are living in 1922: Eli, of this notice; William, a resident of Virginia; Lettie, the wife of C. G. Wilson; Isaiah, of Columbus, Ohio; and James H., also of Columbus. After the death of his first wife Mr. West married Miss Elizabeth Brocker, and they became the parents of three children: Lewis, who is deceased; Foster, a resident of London, Ohio; and Clark of Springfield.
Eli West was given a common school education and was reared on the home farm, where his boyhood and youth knew much of hard work because of the death of his parents. When he was thirty years of age he applied himself to the task of learning the trade of blacksmith, and this he followed in his home commimity for thirty-six years, or until the time of his retirement. A skilled and thorough master of his trade, his work was always of the highest character, and he became widely known for his ability in matters pertaining to his vocation. His shop at Catawba was well patronized, even after the advent of the auto- mobile, and his services were in demand in special work requiring deft- ness and strength.
Mr. West married Miss Lydia Steps, who was born at Catawba, at the place where she now lives, August 5, 1858, and is the mother of five children: Clola, the wife of John Skilman; Mary and Millie, twins, the former single and at home and the latter the wife of Wilbur Davidson, of Urbana Township, Champaign County: Lottie, the wife of Charles Snyder; and Letty, the wife of John W. LaflFerty. Mr. and Mrs. West are members of the Methodist Protestant Church, in which Mr. West has been active for thirty-four years, being a class leader and member of the board of trustees for a long period, and formerly having been superintendent of the Sunday School. In politics a repub- lican, he has been active in public aflfairs for many years. He was mayor of Catawba and for four years has served in his present capac- ity as treasurer of Pleasant Township, in addition to which he has held other township offices. His business connections are numerous and he is a stockholder in the Hub Mountain Coal Company, the Temp- lar Motor Company of Cleveland and the United States Axle Company.
George Van Ness Sheridan, general manager of tht Springfield Sun, is well known in newspaper circles throughout the state. For a man of his years the range of his experience in publicity has been exceptionally wide.
Mr. Sheridan was bom at Circleville, Ohio, September 7, 1887, son of Henry C. and Ann Augusta Sheridan. His mother's people lived for many generations in Western New Jersey on the Delaware River. His paternal grandfather came from Dublin, Ireland, to this country, and during the period of the Civil war conducted the Broadway Hotel at Broadway and Fourteenth Street in New York City. From New
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York City during the 70s the parents of the Springfield editor, Henry C. and Ann Augusta Sheridan, moved to Ohio.
George Van Ness Sheridan graduated from the high school at Marysville, Ohio, in 1905, and for two years was a student in the Ohio State University. He began his career as a newspaper man at Columbus in 1907, serving as a reporter, subsequently was managing editor of the Zanesville, Ohio, Times-Recorder, and for ten years was engaged in newspaper and in special publicity work in Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland. He was for six years executive secretary of the Ohio State Medical Association of Columbus.
Mr. Sheridan has been general manager of the Springfield Sun since 1917 and during the past five years has been an influential worker in connection with a number of Springfield's business and civic organiza- tions.
During the World war Mr. Sheridan was voluntary publicity director of the war chest and for nearly all other war publicity cam- paigns in Columbus. He also served at Washington in an unofficial connection with the Surgeon General's office in the allocation of Ohio physicians for military and civil service. He was chairman of the Clark County Red Cross Chapter in 1920-21. Mr. Sheridan is a repub- lican, is affiliated with H. S. Kissell Lodge of Masons, the Elks and Eagles at Springfield, and is a member of the Springfield Country, Masonic, Eagles and Elks clubs, the Lions Club and Chamber of Com- merce.
Mr. Sheridan is managing director and treasurer of Orchard Springs Sanitarium Company, owning the sanitarium at Shiloh, near Dayton. He is a director and vice president of the Rotary Club of Springfield, director of the Lagonda Club, and is a member of the Covenant Pres- byterian Church. At Cleveland, Ohio, June 23, 1913, he married Eve C. Husband, daughter of Doctor and Mrs. A. J. Husband, whose home is on Belmore Road, Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan have two chil- dren: Philip Henry, born in 1914, and Martha Sheridan, born in 1915.
Raymond G. Boehme, M. D. In the present era of expanding hori- zons in the science of medicine and surgery, of wonderful discoveries and unthought-of surgical achievements, the profession seems to have almost reached a point when its accomplishments are little short of being miracles. The modern physician and surgeon, taking advantage of every opportunity for advancement and knowledge, must often realize with professional elation his great power over disease and disability and he encouraged in his struggle to conquer the strongholds that have not yet been overcome. Possessing the steady nerve, the patience that never tires, the trained understanding gained through his long period of special study, he must yet possess, in order to be a successful surgeon, a courage that never quails, together with a superb technical manual skill. Of the physicians and surgeons of Springfield who are thus equipped, and who through this equipment are gaining advance- ment in their calling, one who is making steady progress is Dr. Ray- mond G. Boehme.
Doctor Boehme was bom at Newport, Kentucky, September 30, 1888, and is a son of Herman and Mary (Wittman) Boehme, natives of
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Newport, Kentucky, who are now residents of Clermont County, Ohio, where Dr. Herman Boehme is engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery. Raymond G. Boehme attended the graded and high schools in his youth, following which he expressed a predilection for the medical profession and accordingly entered the Ohio Miami College at Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1911. At that time he returned to Newport, Kentucky, where he was engaged in practice for two and one- half years, after which he went to Somerville, Ohio, which was his field of practice and place of residence for one and one-half years. Doctor Boehme then moved to Enon, Clark County, where he followed his pro- fession for two and one-half years, and in 1918 came to Springfield, which has since been his home. Here he has been successful in build- ing up a large and lucrative practice of the most desirable kind, and in forming a number of pleasant connections of a social nature as well as of a professional character. He is recognized as being thoroughly conversant with his profession, to which he devotes himself unre- servedly. He is a member of the Clark County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society and is a close and careful student. On September 30, 1921, he moved into a handsome modem brick residence located at No. 709 West Main Street. Doctor Boehme has served as assistant health officer of Springfield one year. In politics he is a republican, and his religious connection is with Central Methodist Epis- copal Church, while fraternally he is affiliated with Kissell Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Springfield, and the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of the Maccabees, in all of which he has formed numerous friendships.
On November 10, 1914, Mr. Boehme was united in marriage with Miss Edna Droste, who was born at Newport, Kentucky, a daughter of Gustav and Elizabeth (Smith) Droste, the former bom at Cincin- nati, Ohio, and the latter at Newport. Three children have come to this union: Donald Wilfred, bom October 10, 1915; Gordon Ray, bom March 2, 1917; and Robert Clement, born October 13, 1918.
Luther Alexander Gotwald, D. D. The late Luther Alexander Gotwald, D. D., of Springfield, was one of the notable men of his time in the Lutheran Church of Ohio and Pennsylvania, and, in truth, of the entire country. He was born in York County, Pennsylvania, in 1833, and died at Springfield, Ohio, September 15, 1900, and between those two dates he accomplished much for his own fame, but more for the good of humanity.
Doctor Gotwald was a son of the Rev. Daniel and Susan (Krone) Gotwald, of York County, Pennsylvania. Rev. Daniel Gotwald was one of the able and eloquent Lutheran ministers of his time. He died in 1843 and his widow was left in poor financial circumtances, with eight children to rear. During the days of his youth Luther A. Gotwald served as errand boy and clerk in a local store and was later a printer. He began preparation for the ministry in 1852 as a preparatory stu- dent at Wittenberg College, Springfield, and after three years entered Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg^ Pennsylvania, where he was grad- uated with honors in 1857. He then spent two years at the Lutheran
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Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, graduating in 1859. He received his degree of Doctor of Divinity from Pennsylvania College fifteen years later. Soon after graduating Doctor Gotwald was licensed to preach by the Lutheran Synod of West Pennsylvania, his first pastorate being at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1863. He was next pastor at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, for two years, and in 1865 became pastor of the First Lutheran Church at Dayton, Ohio, where, four years later, his health failed, and he was compelled to spend a year in recuperating from throat trouble. In 1870 he became pastor at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, remaining until 1874. For the next twelve years he was pastor of St. Paul's Church, York, Pennsyl- vania. Toward the close of 1885 Doctor Gotwald removed to Spring- field to take charge of the Second Lutheran Church, which under his guidance for three years grew into a strong congregation. This was his last pastorate. During the above time he took an active part in founding the Third Church, 1887; the Fifth Church, 1891; the Fourth Church, 1898, and Calvary Church, 1900, all of Springfield.
In December, 1888, Doctor Gotwald became professor of Practical Theology at Wittenberg Seminary, and his work here was as suc- cessful as his ministerial work has been prolific of good results. He was a director of Wittenberg College from 1865 to 1869; a trustee of Pennsylvania College, 1873-1885; a director of the Theological Sem- inary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1871-1880; a member of the Board of Home Missions, 1881-1885; president of the West Pennsylvania Synod, 1873-1876; and a member of the Board of Church Extension, 1874-1885. He was frequently a delegate to the Lutheran General Synod. Doctor Gotwald was an able and prolific writer and many of his writings were published, receiving favorable mention by the press. He is best known by his two published volumes of sermons.
On October 13, 1859, he married Mary E. King, who was born at Tarlton, Ohio, in 1837, a daughter of David King. Her brother was one of the earliest settlers and most prominent men of his time in Springfield, and was for years a successful merchant. She died in 1920. To this marriage there were born seven sons and two daughters, of whom the seventh child died in infancy; another, Luther Alexander, Jr., died at the age of fifteen years; another, William W., died at the age of seventeen years; and another. Rev. George D. died at Kansas City, Missouri, in 1890, after a ministry of four and one-half years. The surviving children are : D. King, M. D., a practicing physician of Spring- field; Robert C, an architect, of Springfield; Rev. Frederick G., secre- tary of the Lutheran Board of Education, residing at York, Pennsyl- vania; Mary S., who married Judge H. C. Pontius, of Canton, Ohio; and Almena, who married Glenn M. Cummings, an attorney of Cleve- land, Ohio.
Robert C. Gotwald was bom at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, in 1864, and attended the York County Academy and Pennsylvania College. He was graduated with the degree of Civil Engineer from Lehigh Uni- versity, as a member of the class of 1886, and on leaving college went to the West, where he was in the employ of the Missouri Pacific Rail- way as engineer in the bridge-building department until 1891. In that year he located at Springfield and opened an office as an architect and
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engineer, capacities in which he has designed and had charge of the erection of many of the larger buildings of Springfield and the sur- rounding communities. He is a member of Anthony Lodge No. 445, F. and A. M., the Springfield Country Club and the Springifield Cham- ber of Commerce.
In 1911 Mr. Gotwald married Miss Mary Ward, daughter of John A. Ward, of Springfield, and they are the parents of one son, John Luther.
Edwin Joel Sanderson is a mechanical and hydraulic engineer by profession, and has had a long and active service in the engineering and sales department of The James Leffel and Company, Springfield, Ohio. He is now sales manager and is a director of that corporation, one of the important industries of Springfield, manufacturing water wheels, steam engines and boilers.
Mr. Sanderson was born on a farm in Clinton County, Ohio, Febru- ary 18, 1877. He is the son of Frank W. Sanderson, who was bom in Clinton County, February 13, 1852, and married Frances M. West, who was born in the same county September 5, 1851. His paternal grand- father, Joel Sanderson, was the founder of the family in Clinton County, coming there in his boyhood from Kentucky. The family originally came from Scotland and settled in Kentucky and Southern Ohio. His maternal grandfather, William West, was born in Clinton County, and represented a branch of the West family who came out of England several genera- tions ago and settled along the Hudson River in New York State, from where the various branches moved westward as the country was opened up.
Frank W. Sanderson was for many years engaged in the operation of canning factories and packing plants in Clinton, Greene and Highland counties. In 1916 he moved to Leesburg, Highland Coimty, where he and his wife now reside.
Edwin J. Sanderson began his education in the country schools in Clinton County, and graduated from the Sabina High School in 1896. He left his home in Sabina in 1897 and found employment in a general store in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, where on August 10, 1898, he married Mary Stuart Barr. She was bom in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, and was the daughter of Cyrus and Nancy Stuart Barr, both of these families being pioneers in Champaign County.
Mr. Sanderson owned and operated for a short time a general store at Woodstock, Ohio. He was, however, never satisfied with the retail business and gradually prepared himself by private instructions and study for the mechanical engineering profession, for which he had a natural aptitude and strong inclination.
In September, 1900, he came to Springfield and found employment in the drawing room of the Foos Manufacturing Company. In February, 1901, he secured a position as draughtsman with The James Leffel and Company, which was the beginning of a service that has now continued for over twenty years. After spending about seven years in the draw- ing room Mr. Sanderson was advanced to a position in the engineering and sales department. For several years thereafter he traveled quite extensively in the United States, Canada and Mexico in the interests of his company. In 1916 he was made sales manager, which position he
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now occupies, and the following year was made a member of the Board of Directors.
Mr. Sanderson is deeply interested in all forms of church, educa- tional, civic, social and welfare work, but his greatest interest is the Sunday School and for fifteen years he has served either as superin- tendent or associate superintendent of the Sunday School of the Covenant Presbyterian Church, in which he is also an elder and clerk of the session.
He is a member of the Y. M. C. A. and Chamber of Commerce, is a past master of Clark Lodge No. 101, F. and A. M., a member of Pales- tine Commandery No. 33, K. T., and Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton. He is a past senior councillor of Champion City Council No. 23 of the United Commercial Travelers, and is a member of Ingomar Lodge No. 610, Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of the Lagonda and Country clubs.
Stephen Kitchen. One of the fine old farms of Clark County, now under the capable supervision of the grandson of its pioneer owner, is the Kitchen homestead in Greene Township, five miles west of South Charleston.
The pioneer ancestor of the Kitchen family in Clark County was Stephen Kitchen, who came here from Warren County, Ohio. Subse- quently he went to Illinois. The old farm just mentioned was the home of his son Abraham L. Kitchen, who married Mathilda Jones, daughter of Erasmus Jones. They were married November 19, 1829, and all their eight children are now deceased.
One of their sons was Erasmus J. Kitchen, who was bom at the old hometead, August 11, 1836. He died in February 1905. He attended the schools of his day, and as a young man he enlisted in Company F of the Forty-fourth Ohio Infantry in August, 1861, and was in service until the close of the war. He participated in a number of battles, including Lynchburg and Knoxville, but was never wounded. After the war he worked on the farm, married and settled on another place near Pleasant Grove. He was an active member of the G. A. R., the Baptist Church and was a republican. Erasmus Kitchen married Lavina M. Hatfield, and they were the parents of six sons, four of whom are living : Joseph L., a farmer in Greene Township; Abraham L., who died at the age of twenty-one; James H., a farmer in Greene Township; Stephen; E. J., a farmer in Greene Township; and Wayne, who died at the age of ten years.
Stephen Kitchen, who now occupies and manages the old homestead, was born on a nearby farm June 12, 1877. He had a common school education while growing up in Greene Township, and for many years has been a successful farmer and stockman. He owns 136 acres in his home place. He is also a stockholder in the Farmers National Bank at Spring- field.
March 11, 1902, he married Josie Stewart, daughter of C. F. Stewart. Mr. and Mrs. Kitchen's children are : Rhoda A., wife of William Bussey ; E. J., and Frances, both attending high school; Margaret, Stewart and Wayne, school children; Margaret, deceased; and Stephen. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church of South Charleston. Mr. Kitchen is aflfiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, F. and A. M., and is a republican.
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William Troxell. One of the most influential citizens of Clark County is a man representative of the rural interests, William P. Troxell, proprietor of the Oakland Farm, a mile and a half west of Plattsburg, on the Springfield and Lincoln Road.
Mr. Troxell was bom on this farm March 18, 1887, son of William and Dora (Shyrack) Troxell. His father was a native of Virginia, came to Ohio at the age of nineteen, finished his education in the public schools, and married a Clark County girl. After his marriage he located on what is now the Oakland Farm, and was active in the affairs of that community until his death. He was a republican, served as township trustee, and he and his wife were devout members of the Christian Church. She died September 5, 1917. Of their six children five are living: Pearl, who graduated from high school and attended college, is the wife of E. W. Cruikshank, of San Bernardino, California; Jessie is the widow of Charles Mitsch; Virginia is the wife of C. E. Layboume; William P. is the next in age; and Paul E., is a farmer in Harmony Township.
William P. Troxell was born in the house where he and his family now reside, and as he grew to manhood at attended the common and high schools of the vicinity, and is also a ^aduate of Nelson's Business Col- lege at Springfield. Mr. Troxell marned Marie M. McMahan on Decem- ber 24, 1918. She was bom in Harmony Township of Clark County and is a graduate of the Plattsburg High School. They have one son, William, Jr.
Mrs. Troxell is a member of the Christian Church, while Mr. Troxell is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, F. and A. M., with Springfield Commandery, K. T., Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton, and takes an influential part in the work of the Farm Bureau and Grange. He is a republican, a member of the Harmony Township School Board and has served as ditch commissioner and township assessor. The Oak- lang Farm comprises two hundred and twenty-five acres, and in addition to the management of its crop production, Mr. Troxell do^s a large busi- ness in shipping and dealing in live stock. He is a breeder at his farm of registered Angus cattle and Hampshire hogs.
William Babbitt Quinn, M. D., is one of the yoimger members of the medical profession at Springfield. His success has been due to careful training, personal qualifications for his chosen vocation, and an unusually wide practical experience.
Doctor Quinn was born at Newport, Kentucky, February 17, 1892, son of Robert A. and Janet D. (Douglas) Quinn. His father was a native of Cincinnati, and ran away early in the Civil war to enlist in the Seventeenth Ohio Infantry. He was in service until the close of hostili- ties, and for many years afterward was advertising man for the Williams Directory Company. He continued in that work until his death on February 24, 1892.
Mrs. Janet D. Quinn after the death of her husband, and with two small children to care for, took up the study of medicine in the Cin- cinnati Eclectic Medical Institute, and graduated in 1895. She made a wonderful success of her profession, was one of the pioneer women to take up medicine as a career, and she enjoyed an extensive practice at
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Newport for twenty-six years. Since then she has lived retired at Los Angeles. Her two sons are William B., and Robert Douglas. The latter was born in April, 1889, and is now an electrical engineer at Bingham- ton. New York.
William Babbitt Quinn was just a week old when his father died, and he was reared and carefully trained by his mother at Newport, where he attended grammar and high school. In 1913 he graduated from the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College, and following that had seven months of hospital training at Cincinnati, for a similar time was connected with the Springfield Hospital, and later was interne and assistant to the super- intendent of the Metropolitan Department of Public Charity at Black- well's Island, New York. Doctor Quinn practiced medicine at Holly- wood, California, for a year and a half, after which he returned to Springfield, and for four years was a member of the obstetrical staff at the Springfield City Hospital. His offices are in the Fairbanks Building. He is a member of the Ohio State and National Eclectic Association and also the Clark County and Ohio State Medical societies. Doctor Quinn is a member of the Episcopal Church.
In June, 1917, he married Miss Elvira Voorhees, a native of Rich- mond, Indiana, and daughter of Samuel T. and Ora (Calloway) Voorhees. They have two children, Ora Janet, born in April, 1918, and William Monroe, bom in December, 1919.
Adam Burroughs Parker, now living retired at 235 Greenmount Avenue in Springfield, has had a busy career, beginning with his service when little more than a boy as a Union soldier, and continuing through many years after the war as a farmer and later as a contractor and builder.
Mr. Parker was born in Highland County, Ohio, in April, 1846, son of Samuel and Mary (Kinzer) Parker, both natives of Highland County. His grandparents, Jonathan and Margaret (Burroughs) Parker and Adam and Christina (Deardorff) Kinzer, were all natives of Virginia. Jona- than Parker served as a soldier in the War of the Revolution. These families were Quakers in religion, and Adam B. Parker has been loyal to the same faith.
Mr. Parker attended the common schools during his boyhood, and in the fall of 1863, when he was only seventeen, he ran away from home to enlist in the heavy artillery. His regiment was part of the reserves, and was on duty in a number of campaigns in Alabama, Georgia and Tennes- see. His regiment was stationed with the Union forces before Atlanta. Mr. Parker was discharged in August, 1865, several months after the close of the war, and then returned to Highland County. On September 10, 1868, he married Miss Lydia Ann Burgiss, a native of Highland County and daughter of Beverly Burgiss.
After his marriage Mr. Parker sold the old home place of his parents and bought other land in the same community. He built a modern house, but three years later sold out and came to Springfield, where he erected a substantial residence at 235 South Greenmount Avenue. During his active years at Springfield, Mr. Parker was a successful contractor and builder for about twelve years, until ill health caused by his army serv- ice compelled him to give up a regular routine of duties. He was for
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many years a member of the Grand Army Post of Springfield, and is a republican in politics.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Parker are: Walter F., of Cleveland; Beverly, who died in 1905; Charles, Otis and Clyde, all residents of Springfield ; and Robert, who died at the age of twenty years.
Isaac Stallsmith. While the late Isaac Stallsmith never lived in Clark County, his widow and daughter have become honored residents of Springfield, and their connection with this locality renders him eligi- ble to a place in a work of this character. Mr. Stallsmith was a quiet, unpretentious man who tried hard to do his duty in life in spite of ill health and some discouragements, and the record of his earnest, courage- ous struggle shows what a man can do when he is actuated by the right motives.
Isaac Stallsmith was bom in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, in 1852, a son of Israel and Rebecca Stallsmith, natives of Ohio, who moved to Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Isaac Stallsmith was reared in his native state, and after reaching maturity began farming for himself in Perry County, Pennsylvania, where he met and married, in 1887, Emma Lauver, bom in Perry County, February 15, 1858, a daughter of Peter and Susannah (Keagle) Lauver. After his marriage Mr. Stallsmith moved to a farm he owned in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and for some years was engaged in farming it, but increasing ill health compelled him to rent the place and live in practical retirement until his death, which occurred in May, 1898.
Following his demise Mrs. Stallsmith lived on the farm until October of that year, and then sold it and the other property left to her by her husband, and lived with her father until March, 1899, when she came to Springfield to keep house for her brother, Lewis Lauver, on Saint Paris Pike. After his death, in December, 1909, she purchased his fine resi- dence, with two lots, and here she has since resided. Mr. and Mrs. Stallsmith had one daughter. Prudence, who was bom to their marriage October 24, 1897, and she lives at Springfield, where she is employed as a stenographer. Mr. Stallsmith was a member of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, and Mrs. Stallsmith is a Dunkard in religious belief, bdt her daughter belongs to the Central Methodist Episcopal Church of Springfield. A republican, Mr. Stallsmith took an active part in politics, and at one time was township assessor. Mrs. Stallsmith is also a repub- lican. Both she and Miss Stallsmith are deservedly popular at Spring- field, and have gathered about them a congenial circle since coming to the city.
George D. Grant, M. D. In years of continuous service Dr. George D. Grant is one of the oldest physicians at Springfield. He has been known not only by his capability and skill, but by his loyalty and devo- tion to the best interest of his profession here for more than forty years.
Doctor Grant is a native of Springfield, where he was born in Decem- ber, 1855. son of William and Martha Lee (Darling) Grant. His father was born in Yorkshire, England, son of Thomas and Mary Grant, who came to America and located in Hardin County, Ohio, in 1830, when William Grant was nineteen years of age. William Grant took up the
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meat business at Springfield, where he married Martha Lee Darling. She was born near Worcester, Massachusetts, daughter of Darius and Susanna (Fairbanks) Darling, natives of the same state. During the '30s William Grant came to Springfield, and was a resident of the city about sixty years. He died in April, 1894, at the age of eighty-three, and his wife passed away in January, 1898, aged seventy-two.
George D. Grant attended the common schools of Springfield, and subsequently acquired a liberal education, attending school at Marietta during 1872-73, was a student in Wittenberg College at Springfield in 1873-74, and subsequently graduated from the Pulte Medical College of Cincinnati in 1878. For sixteen months Doctor Grant practiced at London, Ohio, and in July, 1879, returned to his native city, where he has been in active practice now forty-three years. Since 1909 his offices have been in the Fairbanks Building. Doctor Grant has enjoyed many honors in medical organizations. He served one year as president of the Miami Valley Homeopathic Society, is a former vice-president of the Ohio Homeopathic State Medical Society, is a member of the Homeo- pathic Medical Society of Ohio, and Clark County Medical Society.
October 29, 1878, he married Miss Jessie M. Morrow, a native ol England. They had three children: Deane D., of West Liberty, Ohio; Frederick M., of Tippecanoe City, Ohio; and Walter, who died in infancy. The mother of these children died in February, 1908, and in April, 1912, Doctor Grant married Miss Ida O. Singer, a native of Newark, Ohio. Doctor Grant is a member of the First Congregational Church and for eighteen years was trustee and treasurer of that organ- ization. He also served two years on school boards and is a republican in politics.
Solomon Bowers Stiles. For more than a half century the late Solomon Bowers Stiles was one of the representative business men of Springfield, Ohio, a man of sturdy character and high sense of responsi- bility. In his pursuance of important business activities that largely concerned the development and material growth of the city he not only demonstrated business acumen, but also displayed many of the qualities that assured him the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens.
Mr. Stiles was born at Hummelstown in Dauphin County, Pennsyl- vania, November 9, 1849, and died in his beautiful home at 916 South Limestone Street, Springfield, on December 23, 1920. He was i son of Jacob and Mary (Bowers) Stiles, members of well known old Dauphin County families. The Stiles family was founded in America in Colonial days by three brothers who came from Europe and settled at Boston, Massachusetts, latter generations finding homes in many dif- ferent states. Jacob Stiles was born in the old Stiles homestead in Dauphin County, which had been the property of his grandfather, and when he reached manhood he married Mary Bowers, also born in Dauphin County of old stock. Jacob Stiles was a substantial and highly respected farmer and mechanic.
Solomon B. Stiles was aflforded excellent educational advantages and all his life was considered a man of superior mental equipment, taking a keen interest in business aflFairs. After graduating from the Millersville (Pa.) Normal School, Mr. Stiles followed teaching professionally and
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continued therein until 1872, when, following his marriage, he came to make his permanent home at Springfield, Ohio, where his father-in- law, Samuel Hanshaw, had invested in city real estate.
Mr. Stiles embarked in the grocery business after locating here, and continued in this line of trade through a long and busy life, with many additional business interests. He became interested in handling resd estate, first as a side issue and largely induced thereto because of a kind and friendly interest in the patrons of his store, many of whom would never have* accomplished the buying of a home except for the helping hand he held out. It was his well-thought out plan to buy lots, build houses and improve and then to sell to worthy people, under easy condi- tions, and this developed into a large business, which not only in time added to Mr. Stiles' fortune but was the means of adding a reliable and independent class of citizens to Springfield. He acquired other business interests and responsibilities, and was a stockholder in numerous worthy concerns, mainly at Springfield. Mr. Stiles was ever ready to lend encouragement and financial aid to new enterprises that measured up to his high standard of integrity, in this way showing a generous spirit and business vision that made his activities permanently useful to the city. He continued in the retail grocery business at the same location on Clifton Avenue for nearly fifty years, his store being one of the familiar landmarks in what is now known as the South End. He served six years as a member of the City Council, taking office April 20, 1897. He also served as president of the council.
In 1872, at the home of her parents near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Mr. Stiles was united in marriage with Miss Clara C. Hanshaw, who was born in the old Hanshaw homestead. Her parents were Samuel and Catherine (Zimmerman) Hanshaw, both families for many genera- tions belonging to Dauphin County, the Zimmermans being of Revolu- tionary stock. Mr. and Mrs. Stiles became the parents of one son, Paul H., who was born at Springfield in 1874, and died in this city in 1918. For many years he was associated with his father's business interests. He married Miss Lucile Braber, who was born in Clark County, Ohio, and they had two sons: Jacob Elden Stiles, who is a student in Wittenberg College; and Alvin B. Stiles, who is completing his high school course. They are young men of talent and character, and promise to be worthy of their honorable ancestry.
Mr. Stiles was reared by Christian parents in the faith of the Lutheran Church, and to this religious body he remained attached all his life. For fifteen years he was a member and one of the official board, and was also Sunday School superintendent, of the First Lutheran Church. He was a member of Clark Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons, also Royal Arch Mason, and at one time belonged to the Odd Fellows. He was liberal in his charities and broad-minded in his judgment of his fellow men.
Henry O. Newlove is an honored veteran of the great Civil war. For half a century he devoted his industry to the task and responsibilities of farming in Clark County. His career has been successful and honor- able, and he is now living in comfottable retirement with his wife and companion of half a century in Springfield.
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He was bom near Harmony in Clark County, in December, 1844, son of Edward and Nancy (Wood) Newlove, his father a native of Eng- land and his mother of Virginia. His grandfather, Joseph Newlove, brought his family to America by sailing vessel, landing after a voyage of six weeks and, coming West, secured 245 acres in Harmony Township of Clark County. That land is now occupied by a brother and sister of Henry O. Newlove. The father of Nancy Wood came to Lagonda, Ohio, at an early day, was a grist miller, but finally moved to a farm near Moorefield and died August 8, 1862. Edward Newlove and wife after their marriage settled on the old Newlove homestead and eventually suc- ceeded to its ownership. Edward Newlove served as a school director and was an officer in the Methodist Protestant Church at Harmony. The children of these parents were: Edward H., deceased; Mary F., who died when eighty-four years of age ; Sarah, at the old homestead ; George B., who died in 1919 in Union County, Ohio ; Henry O. ; Robert W., on the old home farm ; and Benjamin W., decea^sed.
Henry O. Newlove as a boy attended district schools, and was in his eighteenth year when he accepted an opportunity to join the army battling for the Union. August 9, 1862, he enlisted, and was assigned to Com- pany I of the Forty-fourth Ohio Infantry, which he joined at Lexington, Kentucky. This regiment was part of General Bumside's Army, in the First Brigade, Third Division, Twenty-third Corps. His company was moimted at Frankfort, Kentucky, on December 20, 1862, and served through the spring and summer of 1863, when they were dismounted. The company was under Bumside in the Tennessee campaign during the fall and winter of 1863. In January, 1864, Mr. Newlove re-enlisted with 550 men out of the 600 men of his regiment for Cavalry service. He was in numerous engagements and campaigns in Kentucky and Tennessee and also in Virginia, was in the siege of Knoxville, and in the raid on Lynch- burg. He was taken prisoner at Beverly, West Virginia, but was held only about six hours, when the Confederates were attacked and com- pelled to release their prisoners. Mr. Newlove received his honorable discharge on May 30, 1865, and the day after he returned home he went to work as a farm hand.
On February 22, 1872, he married Miss Sarah E. Thatcher. Mrs. Newlove was bom in Moorefield Township, December 3, 1847, daughter of James and Amelia (Gordon) Thatcher. Her father died in 1848. Her mother was bom in Virginia. After his marriage Mr. Newlove con- tinued working by the month for a time, then rented a farm two years in Madison Township, then another farm near Yellow Springs, and follow- ing this he bought a forty-seven acre farm in Harmony Township. At that place he remained seventeen years. On selling out he again rented for nine years, and then bought a place of twenty-six and a half acres in the west part of Harmony Township. After living there for ten years he sold and bought a double modem house at 1327 Clifton Avenue, and that is the home of his retired years.
Mr. Newlove is affiliated with the Grand Army Post at Springfield, IS a staunch republican, and for nine years was a school director in Har- mony Township. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Protestant Church in Harmony, and he acted in the capacity of a trustee of the congregation for many years.
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Mr. and Mrs. Newlove became the parents of the following children : Corinna, of St. Petersburg, Florida; Daisy, who is the wife of Fred Hawkins of Springfield, and has one daughter, Pauline ; Edward, a resi- dent of Columbus, Ohio, who married Ethel Belt; Grace, who died at the age of twenty-one months ; and Wilbur, of Springfield, who married Myrtle Layton.
MiCHAEi. Gallagher was one of the industrious citizens of Spring- field for half a century, was associated with banking and real estate developments, and was a man of utmost loyalty in all the relations sus- tained by him to country, church, community and his family.
He was born in County Sligo, Ireland, in 1843. His father died there, and when he was nine years of age he and his widowed mother and a twin sister came to Springfield, Ohio. During the greater part of his boyhood at Springfield he lived in the family of Charles Morgan, a local miller. Mr. Morgan educated him and also provided opportunities to learn the milling business. On December IS, 1864, Mr. Gallagher enlisted in Company K of the One Hundred and Fifty-second Ohio National Guard, and served the hundredth day period of his enlistment. After leaving the army he resumed farm work, took up a commercial course in Springfield, and after the death of his friend and benefactor, Mr. Mor- gan, he was employed in the Warder Mill. He left that service to become collector for the First National Bank, and was soon promoted to paying teller. The only important interruption to his continued service with this institution came when as a result of failing health he took a vacation, including one summer spent in Ireland. After his return he again became collector, and was with the bank until he retired in 1909. He died September 10, 1910.
February 13, 1877, Mr. Gallagher married Miss Katharine Flynn. She was born at Syracuse, New York, December 20, 1850, daughter of Bartholomew and Bridget (Boland) Flynn. Her parents were natives of County Sligo, Ireland, were married there about 1845, and soon came to America and bought a farm near Syracuse, New York. In 1865 they left that locality and bought country property at Northfield, Summit County, Ohio, and in October, 1865, moved to Springfield. Her father died September 15, 1905, and her mother in 1893.
Michael Gallagher was given a bounty for enlisting as a soldier dur- ing the rebellion. At his discharge he had about $200 saved up, and he and his sister bought a parcel of land in the Rogers addition of Spring- field. On one of the lots he built a small house for his mother, located on Chestnut Avenue. Later he bought out the interest of his sister, and at his marriage he built additions to his first home, and lived there until his death. He had also purchased adjoining land, and on this Mrs. Gallagher and her two sons built a fine modem double house. He also owned a double house and a single house on Garfield Avenue, at corner of Madison Street. All this property remains in the hands of Mrs. Gallagher. Both were active members of St. Raphael's Catholic Church, and the late Mr. Gallagher was a republican in politics.
There were three sons. Harry Sidley, the oldest, was bom Septem- ber 23, 1879, and died April 19, 1907. The son Charles Morgan, bom January 14, 1883, is now paying teller in the Springfield National Bank.
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He lives with his widowed mother. The third son, Herbert M., born February 17, 1887, married Lillian M. Knipshire, of Paterson, New Jersey, and has a daughter, Madalyn M.
Paul E. Troxell, member of an old Clark County family, has found an interesting and useful sphere of activity as a farmer and stock dealer. His home is in Harmony Township, in Section 15, on Rural Route No. 1 out of Plattsburg.
He was bom at the old Troxell homestead in Section 16 on October 8, 1887, son of William and Dora (Shyrack) Troxell. His father was bom in Virginia, came to Ohio at the age of fifteen, worked for some years at month wages, and from a humble start made for himself a suc- cessful position as a trader and farmer. He was a deacon in the Christian Church and a charter member of its home church, was a republican and served on the School Board and as township trustee. By his first mar- riage he had no children. His second wife, Dora Shyrack, was born at Plattsburg in Clark County, January 28, 1848, and she died September 5, 1917, having survived her husband from May, 1888. They had six children : Pearl, George, Jessie, Virginia, William P., and Paul E.
Paul E. Troxell grew up on the old farm, and still owns an interest in 475 acres comprising the homestead. He was educated in the public schools, in business college and spent three terms in the Agricultural School of Ohio State University. He is a practical farmer, and for a number of years has been operating as a livestock dealer.
April 25, 1918, Mr. Troxell married Marie StoU, who was born at South Vienna in Clark County and finished her education in the Spring- field High School. They have one daughter, Mary M., born February 16, 1919. Mrs. Troxell is a member of the Christian Church. Fraternally he is active in Masonry, being affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, F. and A. M., Springfield Chapter, Springfield Commandery and Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton. He is a republican in politics.
Henry E. Bateman. Shrewd business ability, special adaptiveness to his vocation, appreciation of its many advantages and belief in his own power to succeed have placed Henry E. Bateman among the lead- ing promoters of agriculture in Clark County. From the prairies his imaided hands brought forth ample means, permitting his retirement to South Charleston and his consigning to younger hands the tasks that made up the siun of his existence for many years. He has a modem home and is regarded as one of the financially strong and morally high retired farmers.
Mr. Bateman was born on a farm in Greene Coimty, Ohio, August 21, 1837, and is a son of Daniel H. and Elizabeth (Sirlotte) Bateman, and a grandson of William and Margaret (Duckel) Bateman. Daniel H. Bateman was born near Baltimore, Maryland, on a farm, in 1783, and at the age of twenty-one years left his native state and moved to Ohio. He had an excellent education, having received instruction under his father, who conducted a private school near Baltimore, known as the Oxford of America. On coming to Ohio Mr. Bateman located at Chillicothe, having letters of introduction to the Rennicks, large cattle raisers of their day and locality, with whom he remained for four or
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five years, thus getting his start in life. Later he came to Greene County, Ohio, and was employed in the stock business with William Harpole until 1851. In that year he came to South Charleston, Clark Coimty, where his death occurred February 2, 1863. In Greene County, in 1824, Mr. Bateman married Elizabeth Sirlotte, who was bom in Bracken County, Kentucky, in 1799, and had a good education for her day and state. She died November 25, 1854, in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which she was a very devout member. They were the parents of five children : William, who met his death on the Pacific Ocean when the ship on which he was traveling was wrecked and burned on the coast near the Magdalena Islands; Abner L., who died at Columbus, Ohio, March 15, 1916; Henry E., of this review; Ruth, deceased, who was the wife of Edward Garrett, who met his death at the same time that William Bateman died ; and Margaret, who died in July, 1899, as the wife of Amos Briggs.
Henry E. Bateman went to the public schools and remained on the home place until his father's death, remembers distinctly the Under- ground Railway, a station of which was conducted at his father's home. Fugitive slaves, fleeing from their former masters in the South, were sheltered and passed on to the next station, finally arriving in Canada, where they were safe from pursuit and a return to bondage. When he entered upon his independent career Mr. Bateman adopted farming and dealing in stock as his life work, and this he followed during the active years of his life. Ever since his retirement he has lived in South Charleston, and is still interested in farms, although merely as a matter of investment.
On February 19, 1866, Mr. Bateman was united in marriage with Miss Annamelia Paullin, who was born in Clark County, Ohio, May 22, 1844, a daughter of Newcomb T. and Mary A. (Harpole) Paullin. She died in the faith of the Presbyterian Church, of which she had been a lifelong member, January 22, 1916. Mr. and Mrs. Batemen were the parents of two children: Howard D., a graduate of Phillips Academy, of Andover, Massachusetts, is now a capitalist of New York City, Mary B., a high school graduate and a graduate of the Phelps School of Columbus and the McDonald-Ellis School of Washington, D. C, married H. W. Paxton, a graduate of Wesleyan College, Dela- ware, Ohio, a prominent democrat and ex-member of the Ohio Legis- lature and now an attorney of Clark County. They have two children, Annamelia B. and Howard Bateman Paxton.
Mr. Bateman is a republican, while his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian Church. He is known throughout his locality as a dependable and upright man, one who regards his word as he would his bond, and who has ever maintained the highest method of farming and the noblest ideals of home and community life.
Thomas Daniel Hodge. The ordinary layman, engrossed in the business occupation which is his means of livelihood, is representative of the nation's citizenship. This is the normal type and his life begins and ends, perhaps, with nothing more distinctive than the ripple on the stream when the pebble is cast into the water. It is the imusual t)rpe that commands attention, and it is his influence exerted on his com-
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munity and the record of his life that are valuable and interesting as matters of biography. In the professions, and especially in the law, the opportunities for usefulness and personal advancement depend almost entirely upon the imusually gifted individual and here natural endowment is as essential as is thorough preparation. The bar of Springfield, a representative body of the state, has its full quota of brilliant men, and one of its foremost members among the younger generation is Thomas Daniel Hodge.
Mr. Hodge was born at Yellow Springs, Ohio, November 23, 1892, and is a son of Thomas and Rose (Meighan) Hodge, the former a native of Springfield and the latter of County Donegal, Ireland. The paternal grandparents were John and Elizabeth Hodge, natives of Ire- land, who immigrated to the United States and settled at Springfield about the year 1830, the grandfather spending the remainder of his life as a contractor and builder. The maternal grandparents, James and Bridget Meighan, were also natives of Ireland, and took up their resi- dence at Springfield in 1855, Mr. Meighan following the trade of black- smith. For a short time Thomas and Rose Hodge resided at Yellow Springs, but during the greater part of their lives have lived at Spring- field, where Mr. Hodge is employed by the American Seeding Machine Company.
In his youth Thomas Daniel Hodge attended the parochial schools of Springfield and after being fully prepared for his college education entered the Ohio State University, where he completed his law course as a member of the class of 1913. For a time thereafter he furthered his preparation by studying law in the office of John M. Cole, and then took the examination, which he successfully passed, being admitted to the bar in 1915. He then engaged in practice until September 20, 1917, when he enlisted in the United States Army and was assigned to the 324th Field Artillery, Eighty-third Division, with which contingent he was at Camp Sherman until April 29, 1918. He was then sent to a special training school at Camp Johnston, Florida, where he received his commission as first lieutenant and was assigned to the P. S. & T. Division, general staflF, at Washington, D. C. On November 2, 1918, he started overseas for active service, but after the armistice was declared entered the Water Transportation Division, general staflF, A. E. F., doing duty on a ship plying between England and France. He returned to Philadelphia April 18, 1919, and two days later received his honorable discharge. On his return to Springfield he resumed the practice of his profession at 828-29-30 Fairbanks Building, where he is now in the enjoyment of a large clientele. Mr. Hodge is a member of the Clark County Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association and stands high in the estimation of his fellow-practitioners as an observer of professional courtesies and ethics. He is a democrat in politics but has not sought public office. His religious connection is with St. Raphael's Catholic Church, and fraternally he belongs to Springfield Council No. 624, Knights of Columbus; and Springfield Council, Fraternal Order of Eagles. He is on the staflF of the Amer- ican Legion.
On August 13, 1917, Mr. Hodge was united in marriage with Miss Marie J. Garrett, who was bom at Springfield, a daughter of William H.
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and Mary (McCarthy) Garrett, the former a native of Springfield and the latter of Owosso, Michigan.
Samuel Zimmerman, a vigorous and resourceful exponent of farm industry in his native country, was born on his present fine old home- stead farm in Springfield Township, July 9, 1862, and is a son of George and Eliza Zimmerman, both natives of the old Keystone State, where their marriage occurred and whence they came to Clark County, Ohio, in the spring of 1859. George Zimmerman was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, February 11, 1819, and his death occurred July 11, 1899. His brother Isaac preceded him to Clark County and became a farmer near Lagonda, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, their two sons, Cyrus and William, likewise being deceased. Cyrus Zimmerman removed to Union County, but William remained in Clark County until his death, a few years ago.
Upon coming to Clark County George Zimmerman first established residence upon a farm near that of his brother Isaac, but two years later he purchased the farm now owned and occupied by his son Samuel, of this sketch. He bought also additional land, including the adjoining Nagley and Carr farms, and within a few years he had thus accumulated a valuable estate of about 312 acres. In 1874-5 he erected the large and substantial house now occupied by his son Samuel, and he made other improvements of the best order, all buildings on the place having been erected by him. Henry M., Augusta and Mary, children of the first wife of George Zimmerman, all became residents of the State of Kansas. Of the children of George and Eliza Zimmerman the following brief record is available : Milton is a resident of Wellington, Kansas ; Simon remained on the old home farm and died when in middle life; Arminta, the widow of John Moore, still resides in Clark County; Alice is the wife of James Ramsey, of Winfield, Kansas ; and Frank and Samuel remain on the old homestead farm. After the death of his second wife George Zimmerman wedded Elizabeth Parthemore, who likewise pre- ceded him to the life eternal, no children having been bom of this union. George Zimmerman was an active member of the United Brethren Church at Lagonda, served several terms as township trustee and was also a member of the School Board of his district.
Samuel Zimmerman has always resided on the old home farm which was the place of his birth, and his early educational advantages were those of the public schools of the locality. He had active charge of the farm about twelve years prior to the death of his father, and the well improved place, devoted to diversified agriculture and to stock-growing, comprises 132 acres. This fertile bottom land makes the farm one of special value, and on the place is an excellent orchard, the attractive resi- dence being situated on a sightly knoll and being surrounded with fine old native trees. Both Samuel and Frank Zimmerman are bachelors.
George W. Teiian, a member of the Springfield bar and who until recently served more than six years as judge of. the Probate Court of Clark County, Ohio, is a member of a family that has been identified with Springfield and Clark Coflnty for over ninety years.
His grandfather, John Tehan, was a native of County Kerry, Ireland, who came to the United States when a small boy with an elder brother,
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Patrick Tehan, and in 1832 settled in Springfield. John Tehan made his home in Springfield until his death in 1869. He was a worker in the stone quarries and helped to construct and operate the first lime kilns in Clark County. He was a soldier in the Mexican and Civil wars, serving in the Fifteenth United State Infantry in the Mexican war and in Company E of the Sixtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil war. John Tehan married Ellen Spring, and they were the parents of seven sons. They were members of the first Catholic pansh organized at Springfield.
Maurice F. Tehan, the father of Judge Tehan, was the youngest of these seven sons and was born in Springfield July 12, 1852, in a house that stood on the southwest comer of Fountain Avenue and Columbia Street, and spent his entire life in the City of Springfield. He was edu- cated in the local schools and learned the iron moulder's trade, which trade he followed until in 1896 he and some associates organized the Hennessy Foundry Company, which company for a nimiber of years was one of the important industrial plants of Springfield. He was active in the affairs of this business until his death on December 24, 1917. In young manhood Maurice F. Tehan married Miss Catherine Sheehan, who was born at Bryan in Williams County, Ohio, but who from early childhood resided at Napoleon, Ohio, up to the time of her marriage. They were the parents of three children: George W. Tehan, Nellie C., wife of David A. Pettigrew, and Maurice F. Tehan, Jr.
George W. Tehan was bom in Springfield, December 29, 1882, was educated at St. Raphael's and the Ohio Northern University, where he graduated in 1905. He has been active in the practice of his profession since his admission to the bar excepting the time he occupied the bench of the Probate Court.
In November of 1914, on the election of Hon. F. W. Geiger as judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Judge Tehan was appointed by Governor James M. Cox to succeed Judge Geiger as Probate judge. In Novem- ber, 1916, Judge Tehan was elected to that office to succeed himself, and for more than six years discharged his duties with the utmost thorough- ness and fidelity. On his retirement from office he again assumed the active practice of his profession, and at the present time is associated with Hon. Harry A. Brenner, under the firm name of Tehan & Brenner.
On January 26, 1909, at Springfield, Judge Tehan married Miss Anna M. North, who was a daughter of the late James B. North. The North family have lived in Clark County for almost a century, having been among the early settlers in the village of Selma, Madison Town- ship, Clark County, Ohio. Judge and Mrs. Tehan are the parents of five children: Catherine E., Georgiana M., James N., Martha E. and John N.
In politics Judge Tehan is a democrat. During the World war he was active in numerous enterprises to further the cause of his country, being a member of the executive committee of the War Chest, chairman of the British and Canadian Recruiting Mission, and held a commission from the War Department as a civilian aid to the Adjutant General of the United States Army. He was active in the various Liberty Loan and Red Cross campaigns, and as chairman of the Military Training Camps Association was instrumental in sending more men into the various
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Officers Training Camps and the various branches of the army than any other individual in Clark County outside of the members of the City and County Draft Boards.
Clifford Holliday Baumgardner, M. D., a physician and surgeon with offices in the Fairbanks Building at Springfield, saw active service with the Hospital Corps during the Spanish-American war, subsequently graduated in medicine, and has had a successful professional career for twenty years.
Doctor Baumgardner is a native of Clark County, bom at Catawba, November 7, 1876, son of David S. and Susan L. (Ward) Baumgardner. His father was bom in Ohio, son of Peter L)mch and Mary (Skillman) Baumgardner, who were also natives of Clark County. His g^eat-grand- father Baumgardner was one of the first settlers in Pleasant Township, locating there when the Indians still made their home in this section of Ohio. David S. Baumgardner had a brother, Isaac, who died at Mur- freesboro, Tennessee, while a Union soldier and was buried in Clark Coimty. He had a sister, Lou B., now Mrs. Samuel Neer, living at Mechanicsburg, Ohio.
David S. Baumgardner enlisted in the Forty-fourth Ohio Infantry and subsequently veteranized with the Eighth Ohio Cavalry and was in service imtil the close of the war. After the war he engaged in the undertaking business at Catawba, being associated with his father in that work. As undertakers after the pioneer custom of the time the firm made caskets to order. They were also contractors and built a number of schoolhouses and other buildings in that vicinity. He finally removed to Springfield and was in the maintenance of way department of the Big Four Railroad. He died in 1910. His wife, Susan L. Ward, was born in Virginia, daughter of Paragon Ward, a native of Maryland. Her mother was a native of Virginia and a cousin of Gen. Robert E. Lee. She came to Catawba with two sisters shortly after the close of the Civil war, and died in this county in 1887. The two sons of David S. Baumgardner and wife are Doctor Ward L., a dentist at Columbus, and Qifford Holliday.
Qifford Holliday Baumgardner attended grammar and high schools at Catawba and Springfield, was a student in the Maple Park University of Cincinnati, and graduated in 1903 in the Ohio Medical University of Coliunbus. His service with the Hospital Corps during the Spanish- American war started soon after the outbreak of hostilities and con- tinued until November, 1898. After graduating he had a year's experi- ence in hospital work at Columbus, and engaged in private practice there for two years. For seven years his home was at Selma, Ohio, and since then he has been identified with the medical profession at Springfield, and since 1915 has had his offices in the Fairbanks Building.
On February 22, 1899, Mr. Baumgardner married Miss Marie L. Wilson, who was bom at Fredonia, New York, June 2, 1880, daughter of Charles Walter and Affa L. (Lowell) Wilson, both natives of Chau- tauqua County, New York. Her matemal grandparents were James and Jane (Schlick) Lowell. James Lowell started one of the first vineyards in Chautauqua County. Sherman Lowell, a brother of Affa L. Lowell, is now national g^and master of the Farmers Grange. Doctor and Mrs.
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Baumgardner have one child, Lowell Ward, born June 30/ 1902. Mrs. Baumgardner was educated in the State Normal School of New York. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Doctor Baum- gardner is a republican, is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Springfield and the Junior Order United American Mechanics.
Charles Wesley Evans, M. D. In the practice of medicine and surgery Mr. Evans has been successfully engaged at Springfield for a number of years, and in addition to devoting his best talents and resources to his professional clientele he has also figured in the develop- ment of real estate and is one of the large property owners of the city.
Doctor Evans was born in Jackson County, Ohio, July 25, 1871, son of John W. and Margaret (Cherrington) Evans, his father a native of Jackson County and his mother of Gallia County. The paternal grand- parents, William and Margaret Evans, were natives of Wales, and came to America by sailing ship in 1818. From Pittsburgh they journeyed down the Ohio River on a boat as far as Gallipolis, but their intention to proceed further was frustrated when their boat was cut loose for the purpose of making them stay. They subsequently secured land in Jackson County. The maternal grandparents of Doctor Evans were William and Margaret (Hanks) Cherrington, both natives of England, and early settlers in Jackson County. Four sons of William Cherring- ton became ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. John W. Evans and wife after their marriage settled on a farm in Jackson County and lived out their lives as country people in that community. John W. Evans died in 1903 and his wife in 1912, They reared a large fam- ily of eight sons and two daughters, Charles W. being the seventh in order of birth.
Doctor Evans after the local schools continued his education in the Ohio Normal University and the Ohio Wesleyan University. He grad- uated in medicine from Starling Medical College of Columbus, and soon afterward came to Springfield, where he began practice with his brother Doctor Orin H. Evans. Together they erected the large three-story brick building at 554 South Limestone Street, where Doctor Evans still has his home. His brother, Dr. Orin H., died in August, 1909. Doctor Evans is president of the Springfield Apartment Company, incorporated for $100,000. This company built the Southern Apartments on South Lime Street.
Doctor Evans is a member of the Clark County, Ohio State and American Medical Associations, is a republican voter and is a trustee of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
On June 10, 1907, he married Miss Nellie Blanche Wiley, a native of New Park, Pennsylvania, and daughter of John C. and Luella Wiley. They have one son, Haden Wiley Evans, born November 28, 1913,
Virgil Austin Bell. One of the younger members of the Clark County bar is Virgil Austin Bell, who since 1920 has been identified with the well-known Springfield law firm of Zimmerman, Zimmerman & Zim- merman, and who has made a favorable impression on his associates during his comparatively short professional career.
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Mr. Bell was born July 4, 1888, at Springfield, and is a son of Darius W. and Sarah (Fansler) Bell. His grandparents on the maternal side were Noah and Melvina (Neese) Fansler, the former a native of Vir- ginia and the latter of Champaign County, Ohio.
Virgil Austin Bell attended the public schools of Springfield and of Clark County, and the high school at Marion, Ohio. His professional studies were prosecuted at Baldwin- Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1920, in June of which year he was admitted to the Ohio bar. Soon thereafter Mr. Bell identified himself with the law firm of Zimmerman, Zimmerman & Zimmerman, and this connection has continued to the present.
Mr. Bell is unmarried and resides at the home of his parents, 715 West High Street. He is independent in politics, not having formally allied himself with any political party. Fraternally he is affiliated with Marion Camp, Modern Woodmen of America.
Arthur M. Spining. By way of introduction to the prominent and historic Springfield family of Spining, something may be said of one of the city's leading manufacturing establishments, with which Arthur M. Spining has been identified in an executive way for a number of years.
In 18& the firm of Kidzie & Mellen established a planing mill at Springfield. Their output was largely material for builders. Later they started the manufacture of the old "toothpick" type of coffins, which were made from native wood, chiefly yellow poplar, and stained to imitate mahogany and rosewood. That was the pioneer beginning of casket manufacturing in Springfield. Subsequently the firm of Deardorf, Mel- len & Company operated the Springfield Coffin Company, and that in 1884 was consolidated with the Springfield Casket Company, and for nearly forty years the Springfield Coffin and Casket Company has been one of the successful corporations of the kind in the United States. The first manager of consolidated industry, appointed in 1884, was J. V. Elster, and he was succeeded in 1910 by A. M. Spining. During the early '80s the use of native wood for caskets was abandoned, and thereafter for many years the chief material was chestnut for the shells, with cloth covering. At the present time hardwoods are used extensively, and they are finished in every conceivable way, but cloth covered work is mainly featured. This factory, it is important to note, has not been closed for twenty-five years, and it is the source of livelihood from thirty to forty employes.
Arthur M. Spining, manager of the company, was born at Springfield, October 25, 1867, son of Isaac M. and Harriet (Taylor) Spining, a grandson of Pierson and Mary (Scooly) Spining, and great-grandson of Judge Isaac Spining. Judge Isaac Spining in 1808, with his wife, whose name was Catherine Pierson, and her father, John Pierson, went to Hamilton County, Ohio. Judge Isaac Spining and John Pierson had both served as soldiers in the Revolutionary war. Judge Isaac Spining never lived in Clark County, but his son Pierson Spining moved to Springfield in 1812, and at one time owned much of the land on which the modem city stands. He was one of the wealthy and influential men of his generation, and employed his means extensively in constructive enterprises. He helped build the old National Road through this part
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of Clark County, and two bridges erected by him in the '30s are still in use. The Spining home was the first in Springfield to introduce a piano, and that venerable instrument is now preserved in the room^ of the Clark County Historical Society. Pierson Spining also probably had the first cook stove, marking the beginning of an improvement bver the old ways of cooking by the fire place. His household furnish- ings, that were a considerable novelty to the people of that town, included cut glass decanters. Pierson Spining was one of the prominent members of the Presbyterian Church.
His son Isaac M. Spining was born in 1813, on the site of the present Springfield Hardware Company's establishment. He was reared in the pioneer town, made the acquaintance of Indian boys still living there, and during his active career was a successful merchant. For a time he lived at Findlay and at Cleveland, but spent his last years in Springfield, where he died in 1878. He and his wife had six children, the youngest being Arthur M.
Arthur M. Spining has had his home at Springfield, except for three years he lived in East Tennessee. He has maintained the honorable traditions of the Spining family in this locality, has been active in busi- ness for over thirty years, and takes much pride in what Springfield has accomplished in growth and development during his lifetime.
In 1888 Mr. Spining married Mary Estella Wade, daughter of John Wade and granddaughter of General Melancthon Wade. Their five children are Mary Louise, Edith Cecelia, Susie Wade, Katherine Pierson and Arthur Milton, Jr. The daughter Susie is the wife of Carl W. Tuttle, and they have two children, Wilbur Spining and Mary Jane Tuttle.
Mr. Spining votes as a republican, is a York and Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of Antioch Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is a Deacon in the Covenant Presbyterian Church, has for twenty-five years been affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Com- mercial Travelers.
LeRoy Lambert. When the history of music in Clark County shall be properly written few men will be found who have more deeply stamped their individuality upon the musical development of their period and community than Professor LeRoy Lambert of Springfield. The complete history of his busy life would be inspiring and serve as an example to those seeking achievement that can only come through per- sistent and thoughtful effort. At the present time in addition to being director of music and teacher of piano at Wittenberg College he is serv- ing as president of the Springfield Board of Education, and thus is con- tributing to both the musical and educational advancement of his com- munity.
Professor Lambert was bom at Little York, Ohio, April 13, 1870, and is a son of Samuel W. and Mary (Bair) Lambert, natives of Ohio, the father of Scotch-Irish and the mother of Pennsylvania Dutch stock. His early environment was agricultural in character, and until he was fourteen years of age he passed his time at and in the vicinity of Dayton, Ohio, Having passed through the township public schools he entered
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Ohio Wesleyan University, taking music and select courses for four years, for even in boyhood he had shown marked musical talent and his parents decided to encoura^fe it. He spent the years 1891 and 1892 in the City of Boston as associate director of the Commonwealth Conserva- tory of Music at Hyde Park, and, returning to Ohio in the latter year, became director of music at Wittenberg College. In 1895 he resigned his position temporarily or, rather, entered upon a somewhat extended vacation from his duties at that institution. Going abroad for two years he took private instruction under Jedliczka, the noted pianist of Berlin, Germany, and on his return to Springfield was engaged in private work until 1918. In that year he was prevailed upon to return to Wittenberg College as director of music and instructor of piano, and since has given his devoted attention to that work. Professor Lambert is a trustee of the Ohio Federation of Music and a member of the Ohio State Musicians Association. He is a life member and past exalted ruler of Springfield Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and a member of the Masonic Order. Long a member of the First Lutheran Church of Springfield, he has been a devoted worker therein and is now president of the John L. Zimmerman Sunday School class of that church. In 1919 Professor Lambert was elected a member of the Springfield Board of Education, and since that time has served as president of the board, his work in the interests of the public schools, always constructive in character, having been greatly appreciated by the people.
Professor Lambert married Miss Clara L. Croner, the daughter of Gustave and Caroline Croner, residents of Troy, Ohio, and to this union there have been born two daughters : Phyllis Caroline and Martha Louise. Professor and Mrs. Lambert occupy a pleasant home at Springfield, which is always kept hospitably open to their numerous friends.
Lewis J. Laybourn has contributed his quota to the advancement of constructive farm enterprise in Clark County, and is now one of the venerable native sons still residing in the county, his homestead farm being situated in Springfield Township, eight miles southeast of the City of Springfield.
Mr. Laybourn was born in this county on the 15th of September, 1846, and is a son of James and Mary (Skillings) Laybourn. Chris- topher Laybourn, great-grandfather of the subject of this review, came from England to the United States and became one of the pioneer set- tlers in Clark County, where he established his home in 1820. He founded and successfully conducted the first nursery in this county, where he remained until his death, when in his ninety-eighth year. His son Joel became one of the substantial farmers of his generation in Clark County and was the owner of a good farm in Greene Township. It was on this farm that James, son of Joel and father of Lewis J., was bom, and he likewise did eflFective service as one of the progressive repre- sentatives of farm industry in the county, where both he and his wife passed the closing years of their lives on the old homestead now occu- pied by their son Lewis J., the second of their four children. William H., eldest of the children, is deceased, as is also Jerusha, who was the wife of Dr. W. P. Madden; Sarah became the wife of Thomas Nave, and they still reside in this county.
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Lewis J. Laybourn gained his early education in the pioneer schools of Springfield Township, and his entire active career has been one of close alliance with farm enterprise. For twelve years he farmed in Greene Township, where he owned a place of 240 acres, and he then removed to his present farm, one of the best improved in Springfield Township, with a commodious modem house situated in a fine grove of native trees and constituting one of the most attractive rural homes in this county. Mr. Laybourn has held rank as one of the most exten- sive and successful farmers of his native county, is a man of fine per- sonality, a loyal and progressive citizen, and commands the high regard of all who know him.
As a young man Mr. Laybourn married Miss Jennie Bird, who like- wise was born and reared in this county and who was a daughter of Herbert Bird. Mrs. Layboum*s death occurred in 1886, and she is sur- vived by one daughter, Mary B., who became the wife of Myron Beck- man, now deceased, and who with her second husband resides with her father on the old home farm.
Thomas E. Mattinson. One of the old and honored residents of Madison Township in Clark County is Thomas E. Mattinson, whose active life of half a century has been devoted to his accumulating farm interests in that vicinity. For a number of years he has done a pros- perous business as a raiser and feeder of cattle and hogs, and has a 200- acre farm thoroughly improved, in the management of which his son is now associated with him.
He was bom near his present home October 23, 1849, a son of Mathew and Margaret (Evans) Mattinson. His father was born in Westmoreland County, England, in 1810, came to the United States in 1834, and soon settled on a farm near South Charleston, Ohio. He mar- ried Margaret Evans, and they had six children: Charles, deceased; Miss Ruth; Thomas E. ; Mary, who marrieid Darwin Pierce; Evan, deceased ; and Miss Sarah M.
Thomas E. Mattinson acquiried a common school education during his boyhood, was trained to farming, took it up as his regular vocation, and for many years has been one of the steady and substantial citizens of the locality. He is a republican in politics and a member of the Presbyterian Church.
In 1881 he married Emma Clemans, who was reared in Madison Township. She died in 1900. The only child and son is Edwin C. Mattinson, born April 25, 1887. He is a graduate of the South Charles- ton High School, is unmarried and is associated with his father on the farm. He is a Presbyterian and a past master of the Masonic Lodge.
Harry R. Anderson, whose well improved and ably managed farm of 104 acres is situated in Moorefield Township, on Rural Route No. 10 from the City of Springfield, has won distinctive prestige as one of the progressive agriculturists and stock-growers of his township and county, and in his farm enterprise he is giving special attention to the breeding of registered Poland-China swine and Jersey cattle.
Mr. Anderson was born in Springfield Township on the 6th of May, 1877, and is a son of Joseph B. and Serena (Dunseth) Anderson, the
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former of whom was bom in the State of Pennsylvania, in 1828, and the latter of whom was born in the beautiful Walnut Hill District of the City of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1848. Joseph B. Anderson was an infant at the time his parents came to Ohio and numbered themselves among the pioneer settlers in Clark County, where he was reared on a farm in Moorefield Township. He eventually became the owner of an excellent farm near Villa, this township, and in the course of his long and useful life he contributed much to the industrial and civic advancement of Clark County. He remained on his home farm until his death, and his widow still resides in Clark County. Mr. Anderson was a man of high ideals and sterling character, was a strong supporter of the cause of the prohibition party, and was an active member of the Presbyterian Church, as is also his widow. Of their children the firstborn, Forrest J., is deceased; Charles B. resides at Springfield, and Harry R. is the subject of this review.
The activities of the home farm early enlisted a share of the helpful service of Harry R. Anderson, and after profiting by the advantages of the district schools of his native township he continued his studies in Wittenberg Academy until his graduation in the same. He has to his credit a record of successful service as a teacher in the rural schools of his native county, but his chief vocation has been that of farm enter- prise, in which he has won substantial success. He is one of the leaders in the civic and industrial aflfairs of his community, served seven years as justice of the peace, and was for a number of years a member of the School Board of his district. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, he is affiliated with Anthony Lodge No. 245, A. F. and A. M., at Springfield, and he and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church in that city.
On the 18th of March, 1903, was recorded the marriage of Mr. Ander- son and Miss Florence E. Sanfer, and the children of this union are three daughters: Maude S., Mildred and Miriam. The two youngest daugh- ters remain at the parental home, and Maude S., the oldest, is the wife of Benson E. Baker.
George W. Reichard, M. D. More than any other class of men physicians win the friendship and affection of those with whom they are professionally associated, and when a practitioner who has ministered to his community for many years is removed from its midst, general sor- low is felt. Many deeds of kindness marked the career of the late Dr. George W. Reichard, who was one of the prominent physicians and citizens of Clark County and of Springfield from 1897 until the time of his death in 1915.
Doctor Reichard was born in Washington County, Maryland, March 1, 1854, a son of Dr. Valentine and Catherine (Wolf) Reichard, natives of Maryland and of German descent, both of whom are now deceased.
The elder Doctor Reichard was engaged in practice at Fair Play, Washington County, Maryland, for many years, and was a man of pro- fessional attainments and sterling character. Dr. George W. Reichard attended the district schools of his native locality, and in. 1871, when in his seventeenth year, began teaching in the rural schools of Washington County, a vocation which he followed for five years, during the last two
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years of which, between terms, he attended the Millersville (Pennsyl- vania) Normal School. While still teaching, he began reading medicine under the preceptorship of his father, and in the fall of 1876 entered the Eclectic Medical College, of Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he was grad- uated as a member of the class of 1878 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Leaving college he embarked upon the practice of his profes- sion at New Moorefield, Clark County, Ohio, in the year of his gradua- tion and continued successfully there until 1897 when he removed to Springfield where he continued in the general practice of his calling until his death, July 27, 1915. Doctor Reichard was a self-educated and self-made man and attained his success both as a physician and a citizen through his own efforts. He was recognized as one of the leading men of his profession in Clark County and at Springfield, was greatly popular, and had a wide circle of friends who admired him for his sterling char- acter. He was a member of the Clark County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society, and kept fully abreast of all the advance- ments made in his calling, being a close and careful student and some- thing of an investigator. His fraternal affiliation was with the Knights of Pythias, and as a churchman he adhered to the Methodist Episcopal faith. In civic affairs he was a supporter of all worthy movements and charity and education found in him a true and unswerving friend.
On October 19, 1882, Doctor Reichard was united in marriage with Miss Cora A. Mumma, who was born at Sharpsburg, near Hagerstown, Maryland, the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Miller) Mumma, well- known residents of that part of Maryland for many years. To Doctor and Mrs. Reichard was bom one daughter, Christie. She was born at New Moorefield, Ohio, October 9, 1884, and graduated with first class honors from Wittenberg College, in 1904. She married J. Fred Ander- son, a well-known attorney of Springfield, and died October 17, 1912, leaving one daughter, Elizabeth Reichard Anderson.
Charles Newell Hunter was a resident of Springfield forty years, was connected with one of the city's manufacturing industries, and the latter part of his life was successfully engaged in farming and gardening at his place east of the city, where Mrs. Hunter still lives.
He was born at Otsego, near Zanesville, Ohio, December 28, 1845, son of John and Sarah (Newell) Hunter, his father a native of Ireland and his mother of Pennsylvania, of English parentage. When Charles Newell Hunter was five years of age his parents, in 1850, moved to McArthur in Vinton County, Ohio. In that locality he grew to manhood, attended the public schools there and also completed a business course at Portsmouth, Ohio. After completing his education he clerked in general stores and also became a teacher. His experience as a teacher covered a period of about fourteen years.
In 1873 Mr. Hunter married Miss Emma Winter. She died in 1889, and they lost all their three children in infancy. In the meantime in 1882. Mr. Hunter removed to Springfield, and became an employe of the West End Malleable Works. For nine years he was a foreman in that industry. Having given for many years such faithful service to this business he finally retired and bought approximately fifty acres just east of the city limits. This farm contained a fine home, and the land is
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now within the city limits of Springfield. Here Mr. Hunter found profit as well as pleasure in truck gardening and general fanning, and continued those activities until his death in January 10. 1922.
On August 1, 1894, he married Miss Laura Jane Evans. Mrs. Himter was bom at Cincinnati, July 9, 1858, daughter of Cornelius Springer and Catherine (Ellis) Evans, the former bom near Newark, Ohio, and the latter in Ireland. Cornelius Evans was a Methodist minister and was the son of Rev. William B. Evans, one of the pioneer preachers of the Methodist denomination in Ohio. Mrs. Hunter has two children, Ellis Evans, born March 9. 1896, and Ruth, bora February 19, 1897, both at home. Ruth is a teacher in the public school. Mrs. Hunter was reared in the various towns and communities where her father had his duties as a minister. For five years she was a student in the Cincinnati Art School, and she was a teacher of art in the public schools of Spring- field until her marriage. She keeps in touch with the intellectual move- ments in her home city, is an active member of the High Street Method- ist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Hunter was for several years on the Official Board of that church. He is affiliated with the Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities, and is a democrat in politics, while Mrs. Hunter is a republican.
Henry S. Cradlebaugh, proprietor of Silver Lake Park, two miles northwest of New Carlisle, has done and is continuing to do a most commendable work in the development and upbuilding of this place as one of the most attractive recreation and amusement resorts of this sec- tion of the state, and he is one of the popular and representative citizens of New Carlisle.
Mr. Cradlebaugh was born in Seneca County, Ohio, but came to Qark County in 1881 and passed ten years on a farm near New Carlisle. He then removed to this village, where he operated a machine shop and where he eventually added a garage and general automobile repair shop. He has much of native mechanical ability, early gave special study to gasoline engines, and in 1890 he purchased one of the first gasoline engines manufactured at Springfield. In 1902-3 he held the position of designer for the Foos Gas Engine Company at Springfield, and in this connection he devised many improvements on various types of gas engines. For the past twenty-eight yeafs Mr. Cradlebaugh has success- fully conducted a well-equipped general machine shop and also an auto- mobile garage at New Carlisle, his original work in connection with automobilies having been initiated in 1899, so that he is a veteran in this industry. He has been granted a number of patents on improvements to gas engines and also on farm implements and machinery. Among his patents is one on a device to indicate low water supply in connection with gas engines; another, now expired, to indicate speed; and a friction clutch pulley which was placed in use by the Foos Company while he was associated with that concern. Impaired health caused Mr. Cradle- baugh to retire from his position with this corporation, in the develop- ment of the business of which he contributed in large measure through his admirable inventions.
For the past three years Mr. Cradlebaugh has been actively identified with the improving and developing of beautiful Silver Lake Park, which
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comprises seventeen acres) the lake being of pure spring water and with shell marie beaches that make it specially attractive for bathing and swim- ming. The lake is fed entirely by fine springs, its maximimi depth is twenty-seven feet, and wooded hills surroimded it and add to its pic- turesque attractions. The resort is now equipped with modem bath houses, and at the park the summer season of 1922 shows frequently as many as 700 persons bathing and swimming at the beaches. Adequate provisions are made for the serving of meals and refreshments, and a large auditorium has been erected for assembly purposes, with the result that the resort is used by the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. of Springfield and by other organizations devoted to religious and cultural service. On his lake tract Mr. Cradlebaugh has 850 peach trees that are just coming into bearing. Mr. Cradlebaugh has had no desire for political activity or public office, but for twelve years he gave effective service in caring for the apparatus of the New Carlisle Fire Department. He and his wife are active members of the United Brethren Church in New Carlisle, and their circle of friends in the county is limited only by that of their acquaintances.
Mr. Cradlebaugh married Miss Laura B. Wolf, daughter of the late Jacob Wolf, who was a substantial farmer near New Carlisle. Mr. and Mrs. Cradlebaugh have two daughters: Nellie is the wife of Rev. Galen B. Roger, a clergyman of the United Brethren Church, and Ruth is the wife of Dr. Marion C. Moses, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this work.
Rev. George W. Fraser. The older generation remember the late Rev. George Wilson Fraser as a gifted man, a learned educator and elo- quent minister of the Lutheran denomination, whose life was a well-spent one and a fine example of Christian humility and moral uplift. Mr. Fraser was born at Lincoln, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1841, a son of William J. and Catherine Fraser, natives of Pennsyl- vania. Deciding upon a ministerial career, George Wilson Fraser early began to prepare for it, and studied at the Millersville Normal School, from which he was graduated in 1869. He enlisted from Millersville in the Union Army August 2, 1862, as a member of Company E, One Hun- dred and Twenty-second Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was dis- charged May 3, 1863, at the expiration of his period of enlistment. Immediately thereafter he re-enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Ninety-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and received his second discharge January 31, 1866, with the rank of first lieutenant, which com- mission was bestowed upon him by Governor Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania. Following his last discharge he resumed his studies and completed his course. He was a student in the seminary of the Lutheran denomination at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and was ordained a minister of the Lutheran Church in 1872. In the meanwhile he had taught school in Pennsylvania, and was principal of the schools of Lena, Illinois. It is mteresting to note that the commanding officer of Company E and its organizer. Captain Bierly, was principal of the Millersyille Normal School, of which Mr. Fraser had been a student.
In December, 1876, Mr. Fraser married Fannie Breneisen, born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in October, 1852, a daughter of Israel
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and Amelia (Bruebaker) Breneisen, natives of Pennsylvania. Follow- ing his marriage Mr. Fraser took a charge at Loogootee, Illinois, and remained there for two years, when he went to Grand View, Indiana, on the Ohio River, for a time. He then returned to Pennsylvania and taught school for two years. It was then that he was sent on a mission to the Quapaw Indians of Indian Territory, and was very successful there. For a year he was stationed at Bloomington, Nebraska, and was then placed in charge of an academy at Wayne, Nebraska, where he had remained for one year. For two years thereafter he had charge of the church at Dongola, Illinois, and then for five years was at Shipman, and for four years was at Olny, both in Illinois. This last terminated his ministerial life, and he went to Springfield, Ohio, and lived retired for four years. He was, however, still too active a man to be satisfied to remain idle, and so went to Omaha, where he became file clerk in the general offices of the Union Pacific Railroad, and held that position until 1911, when he returned to Springfield, and here he died in Decem- ber, 1912. His widow survives him and lives with their daughter in the fine residence they own at 227 Stanton Avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. Fraser had the following children: John Howard, who lives at Centralia, Illinois; Emma B., who lives with her mother; Willard G., who lives at Columbus, Ohio; Martin Luther, who is a scientific teacher at Cedarville College, Ohio; and Alice Ruth, who is Mrs. Wendell Dysinger, of Los Angeles, California. Mr. Fraser was a republican, but was not active in politics. Until his death he remained an earnest member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Fraser's work is completed, but its influence remains and lives on in the hearts and lives of those whom he helped, and the world is better and saner for his passage through it.
John Lincoln Dickey. The career of John Lincoln Dickey, one of Springfield's well-known and highly esteemed citizens, has been one in which he has followed a number of vocations and out of which he has gained wide experience, much contentment and a fair share of worldly goods. He has been soldier, teacher, office man, traveling salesman and dairyman, in all of which occupations he has demonstrated versatile abil- ity, and wherever he has resided has merited the respect of his fellowmen.
Mr. Dickey was born near Bloomingburg, Fayette County, Ohio, September 11, 1864, and is a son of Rev. John Parsons Alexander and Hannah Caroline (Peterson) Dickey, natives of Ross County, this state. Rev. John P. A. Dickey, who was a Presbyterian preacher, but who also ministered to congregations of other faiths during the early days when ministers were few in this region, was a son of Alexander Brown and Jane (Henry) Dickey, who were bom in Hardy County, Virginia, now West Virginia. The great-grandparents of Mr. Dickey, Robert and Mary (Henry) Dickey, were born in Virginia, and Robert Dickey was a light horseman in Capt. Thomas Kirkpatrick's Company and Col. William Bratton's Regiment in South Carolina during the Revolutionary war, according to Book P, page 647, of South Carolina, in the custody of the Historical Commission at Columbia, South Carolina. He was also a member of the second South Carolina Provincial Congress in 1775 and 1776, as shown in the Journal of the General Assembly of South Caro-
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Una, September 17, 1776 to October 20, 1776, edited by A. S. Salley, Jr., page 161 ; and also the South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Maga- zine, Volume VII, page 107. He was born in Virginia, in 1745, and died in 1817 at South Salem, Ross County, Ohio, being buried on the James Dean farm, now owned by a Mr. Stimson. After coming to Ohio he assisted Gen. "Mad Anthony" Wayne in driving the Indians from the Miami Valley. The history of Fayette County, page 980, states in the biography of Rev. William Dickey: "His father, Robert Dickey, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and removed to Kentucky at its close." Perhaps the best-preserved history of the Dickey family is found in the Presbyterian Almanac of 1864, pages 112 to 132. In 1780 Robert Dickey married Mary Henry, who was born in 1750 and died in 1812. Alexander B. Dickey, the grandfather of John L. Dickey, was bom in 1783 and died in 1851, being buried at South Salem, Ross County.
Rev. John Parsons Alexander Dickey was bom May 5, 1828, and in early life was a school teacher, subsequently adopting the profession of minister of the Presbyterian faith. A man of sterling character and the utmost probity, although rather careless in his habits of dress, he min- istered to the spiritual needs of the people all over this country, of what- ever religious faith. His wife, who owned the home at Bloomingburg, would have preferred a more settled existence, and for a number of years would not accompany her husband on his peregrinations, but eventually allowed herself to be convinced of the worth of his work and his need for her assistance. Mr. Dickey was a republican in his political views. He died February 5, 1899, his wife, whom he had married in 1852, passing away June 5, 1893. They were the parents of the follow- ing children : Jane, who is deceased ; Martin Luther, of Bloomingburg ; Edith Eliza and Hattie May, who died in 1882, at college ; John Lincoln ; and Nellie Josephine, who died April 11, 1910, as the widow of Charles Sturgeon, leaving four children.
The maternal grandparents of Mr. Dickey, Col. Martin and Eliza- beth (Coyner) Peterson, were bom in Virginia, the Petersons being of Swiss descent and the Coyners being of Holland origin. Col. Martin Peterson was a wagonmaker and farmer at Austin, Ross County, this state, a colonel in the Ohio Militia and a soldier during the War of 1812. John Martin Peterson, the maternal great-great-grandfather of John Lin- coln Dickey, was supposed to have had a Revolutionary record. With two sisters he was captured by the Indians, and was confined for several months, but, being put in charge of the ammunition of the band, managed to make his escape. His sisters, however, were taken to Upper Sandusky, where one of them married a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
John Lincoln Dickey attended the public schools of Bloomingburg and in 1882 entered Delaware (Ohio) College. In November, 1884, he was stricken with an attack of erysipelas and compelled to return to his home, but April 30, 1885, went to Xenia to take an examination for appoint- ment to West Point. In the same year he went to Washington Court House, where he began the study of law with Hon. A. R. Creamer, but after two weeks read in the list of appointments that he had passed the examinations with a percentage of 7J^ higher than any of his competi- tors, and accordingly was appointed to West Point, June 14, 1885. He remained there nineteen months, leaving in January, 1887, when he
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returned to Washington Court House and again took up the study of law, this time with Robert C. Miller, prosecuting attorney, in the mean- time teaching school. In 1889 he attended Ann Arbor Law School, Michigan, and in 1890 was appointed adjutant to the Ohio Military Academy at Portsmouth, Ohio, under Col. A. L. Bresler. He held the rank of captain of Company E, Sixth Ohio National Guard, at Washing- ton Court House, which was later transferred to the Fourteenth Rc^- ment, under Col. A. B. Coit. At this time Captain Dickey was teaching mathematics, etc., at Portsmouth, and as he could not keep up with his company, resigned in the fall of 1890. In 1891 he was appointed com- mandant of cadets at Griswbld Collie, Kemper Hall, Davenport, Iowa, imder Bishop Perry, and was holding this position June 9, 1892, when he was admitted to the Ohio bar.
On June 22, 1892, Mr. Dickey married Mary Katherine Evans, of Adams Coimty, Ohio, daughter of Edward Patton and Amanda Jane (King) Evans. Her brother, Capt N. W. Evans, was a member of the Constitutional Convention, and during the Civil war commanded a com- pany of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Following his marriage at Ports- mouth, Ohio, Mr. Dickey removed to Davenport, Iowa, where he served for a time as aide-de-camp on the staff of Horace E. Boies, going then to Columbus, Ohio, where he practiced law until October, 189a He then accepted a position as traveling collector for the Deering Harvester Company, remaining therewith three and one-half years, after which he formed a connection with the Piano Manufacturing Company of Chi- cago, Illinois, and engaged in the same kind of work until October 1, 1907. Resigning his position, he returned to Columbus, Ohio, where he was engaged in the life and accident insurance business until moving to South Charleston, where he practiced law for two years. Mr. Dickey then decided to go to Denver, but when he had gotten as far as Spring- field allowed himself to be persuaded to remain in this city as manager in charge of insurance, credits, collections and general correspondence for the Foos Gas Engine Company. After seven and one-half years he severed his connections with this firm and became a traveling salesman for the National Equipment Company, selling automatic sprinklers. He resides at No. 1515 North Belmont Avenue, where he has a comfortable home, and maintains an office at No. 703 Fairbanks Building. He is the owner of a thirty-Jersey dairy, one of the leading establishments of its kind in this section of the state, and one that will stand comparison with the best in Clark County. Mr. Dickey is a member of the Covenant Presbyterian Church. He is not a politician and takes only a good citi- zen's interest in public matters. Fraternally he is affiliated with St. Andrew's Lodge No. 619, F. and A. M., of Springfield, and Antioch Shrine, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Dayton.
Mrs. Dickey died February 28, 1909, leaving two children: John Evans of Los Angeles, California, and Jane King, who resides with her father and stepmother. On April 12, 1910, Mr. Dickey married Helen Gertrude Breedlove, of Urbana, Ohio.
Joseph J. Meenach is one of the few survivors of the Civil war, and for over a half a century has enjoyed a place of honor and esteem in Clark County. A man of industry, he depended on his own efforts to
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earn him a competence, and after many years as a farm renter he acquired the attractive place he now occupies in Harmony Township.
Mr. Meenach was bom in Clark Coimty, in Pleasant Township, August 3, 1844, son of James and Harriett (Wolf) Meenach. His father was bom in Springfield Township of Clark Coimty in 1811, and his mother in Harmony Township in 1819. His grandfather, William Meenach, came from Pennsylvania and was one of the pioneers of Clark County, locating here considerably more than a century ago. James Meenach grew up in Clark County, had such educational opportunities as were afforded in his time, and after his marriage he settled on a farm in Pleasant Township. Subsequently he lived in Springfield Township, where he died. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Of his four children two are living, Joseph and Sarah, the latter the wife of William Butler, of Kansas.
Joseph J. Meenach was reared in Springfield Township, attended the common schools there, and when a boy of eighteen, in 1862, he enlisted in Company A, of the Ninty-fourth Ohio Infantry. He was in the serv- ice until the end of the war, largely in the armies of Shennan and Thomas, participated in several battles but was never wounded. He marched with the troops of General Sherman in the Grand Review at Washington after the war. On leaving the army Mr. Meenach returned to Clark County and to the tasks of farming.
December 27, 1877, he married Louise Butler, a native of Clark County. Mr. Meenach made slow and steady progress toward prosperity by operating rented farms, and altogether he paid out $13,000 in rent. Finally he bought the farm of ninety acres where he now lives, and has occupied this place since 1896. He is an honored member of Mitchell Post No. 45 of the Grand Army of the Republic, and is a republican m politics.
Mr. Meenach has four children: Harriett, wife of Frank Pierson, of Springfield and she has five children, William, Lawrence, Esther, Robert and Walter; OUie, wife of George Engle, of Pleasant Township, they have one child, Rodger; J. W., who operates the home farm, mar- ried Maud Ward, but they have no children; and Lottie B., wife of Paul Booghier, of Springfield, and they are the parents of one child, Helen Louise.
Nathan E. Deaton is one of the well-known and highly respected residents of Springfield, who, after a very active life, is now enjoying comparative leisure which he is devoting to his music, in which art he is very proficient, playing with equal Facility the piano, auto-harp or any other stringed instrument. He was born in Bethel Township, Clark County, May 27, 1842, a son of Andrew J. and Catherine (Brandenburg) Deaton, he was born in Botetourt County, Virginia, along the Roanoke River, and she on Jackson Creek, Bethel Township, Clark County, Ohio. The paternal grandfather, George Deaton, died in Virginia, and his widow, whose maiden name had been Ream, with nine children, traveled overland with a four-horse wagon to what is now Pike Town- ship, Clark County, Ohio. The maternal grandfather was Henry Brand- enburg, a native of Germany, married Lucretia Slusser, and they were among the very early settlers of the Jackson Creek District in Bethel
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Township, Clark County, Ohio, where he became the owner of 3CX) acres of land.
After their marriage Andrew J. Deaton and his wife commenced life in a log cabin. In 1844 he rode to Cincinnati, Ohio, and bought 175 acres of virgin forest land in Pike Township, four miles north of New Carlisle. Cutting down the trees, he cleared a small space and built a log cabin and otherwise improved the place and in 1853 sold it and moved on the National Road, in Bethel Township, where he bought a farm, and there he lived until his death, which occurred in 1889, when he was seventy-three years old, as he was born May 11, 1816. She died in 1892, aged seventy-three years, as she was bom May 6, 1819. Their children were as follows: Nathan E., who was the eldest; A. H., who lives in Bethel Township; Grover, who lives at Muncie, Indiana; and Albert, who lives at Dayton, Ohio.
On March 22, 1864, Nathan E. Deaton married Catherine Confer, bom near Yellow Springs, Ohio, a daughter of Francis and Magdalena (Wolf) Confer, natives of Ohio. After his marriage Mr. Deaton lived with his wife's mother near Donnelsville and began teaching school. His peaceful activities were interrupted by the outbreak of war, and he enlisted in April, 1864, in Company E., One Hundred and Fifty- third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he did guard duty on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad near Cumberland, Maryland, until he was discharged in September, 1864. On July 4, 1864, he was in the Battle of Imboden and August 2, 1864, in the Battle of Oldtown, Maryland. His command was in several battles and minor engagements. After the termination of his 100 day enlistment, and discharge, Mr. Deaton returned home, and continued to reside on the farm for about eighteen months, and then moved to a house his father had built for him on one of his farms. There he spent eight years, and then became a resident of Donnelsville, first living in a house his wife owned, but soon erecting a house on his wife's portion of her mother's estate, which comprised fifty-five acres. To this Mr. Deaton added fourteen acres by purchase, and he conducted this farm until 1897, when he placed his son in charge of it and bought a residence at Donnelsville, and here Mrs. Deaton died May 13, 1911, aged sixty-seven, as she was bom May 23, 1844. Following her demise Mr. Deaton spent two more summers and one winter at Donnelsville, then sold his property and came to Springfield, where he made his home with his son until his second marriage, which occurred June 19, 1917, when he married Mrs. Mary A. (Limson) Blessing, born in Madison Coimty, Ohio, a daughter of Jesse and Mary A. (Slaughter) Limson, natives of Madison County, Ohio, and widow of John M. Blessing, born in Fayette County, Ohio. Mr. Blessing died January 7, 1911, leaving no issue. Mr. Deaton had the following chil- dren born of his marriage: Florence, who died at the age of five years; Lizzie Verena; who died at the age of fifteen years; Oliver, who lives at Springfield; Edwin, who is superintendent of the Clark County Infirmary, married Blanche Snyder; Floyd G., who lives at Toledo, Ohio ; and E. P., who lives at Springfield, married Birdie Swaney, and they have one son, Wilbur S.
Mr. Deaton attended the district schools, Linden Hill Academy at New Carlisle, Ohio, a select school of Valley Pike, under Professor
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Harrison, Wittenberg College, and has studied a great deal by himself, especially along musical lines, completing his musical education by attend- ing Professor Large's classes. His musical talent is a source of great enjoyment to him and his friends, and he is often called upon to delight others both in public and private. In politics a republican, he has been very active, and has served on the School Board of Bethel Township, was mayor of Donnelsville, and always interested in public affairs. He belongs to Mitchell Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Springfield.
John Ezra Myers, M. D. The medical profession of Clark County has some of the ablest representatives of this learned calling to be found in Ohio, men whose lives are given up to a self-sacrificing care of others and the safeguarding of the health of their communities. One of these representative physicians and good citizens of this section is Dr. John Ezra Myers of Springfield, who with his brother. Dr. Noah Myers, is engaged in a general practice, with offices at 715 Fairbanks Building.
John Ezra Myers was bom in Pike Township, Clark County, Octo- ber 25. 1853, a son of Lewis and Elizabeth (Frantz) Myers, also natives of Pike Township. The grandparents on both sides of the family were among the very early settlers of Pike Township, where they obtained land from the Government, and it is still owned by their heirs. Lewis Myers bought the homestead, and he and his wife continued to live upon it until their deaths, he passing away in 1873 and she in 1893. Their family consisted of the following children : Simon, who died in infancy ; William, who Hves at Springfield; Aaron, who lives in Kansas City, Missouri ; Doctor Myers, whose name heads this review ; Mary, who married Henry Dresher and lives on the homestead; Noah, who is his brother's partner; Sarah, who is the widow of I. B. Trout and lives at Chicago, Illinois; and Clara, who is Mrs. Lewis Pieffer and lives at Chicago.
Doctor Myers attended the district schools, the Lebanon Normal School and the Cincinnati, Ohio, Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1880, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For seven years thereafter he was engaged in a general practice at Donnelsville, Ohio, and then came to Springfield, where he was later joined by his brother, and since 1912 they have occupied their present offices.
In June, 1881, Doctor Myers married Laura Strock, born in Pennsyl- vania, and they had one daughter, Marie, who married W. B. Bauer, of Springfield, and their children are Bettie, Jeannette and Walter B. Mrs. Myers died in 1893, and Doctor Myers married Kate S. Dibert in Janu- ary, 1896. She was bom in Clark County, a daughter of George and Elizabeth Dibert. At the time of her marriage to Dr. Myers, Mrs. Myers was the widow of Austin Evans, and they had one daughter. Pearl Evans, who married Frank C. Harwood, and died, leaving one son, Manton Harwood, of Springfield, and he married Cathryn Chapman.
For two terms Doctor Myers was president of the Clark County Medical Society, and he belongs to the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. For eight vears he was a member of the Springfield Hospital Board. He is a physician and surgeon excep- tionally endowed with those gifts which go to make up the ideal medical man. He has great energy and capacity for hard work, and delights in
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solving the problems which are constantly confronting his profession. There is one trait about which few know anything, he is very chaitable of his valuable time among the poor, whom he serves without thought of remuneration.
Theodore Thomas Drake. Evidences abound in Clark County of the skill and capability of Theodore Thomas Drake, whose memory will be perpetuated in concrete and steel composing the numerous bridges which he has erected and is erecting in all parts of the coimty. Mr. Drake has been engaged in bridge construction as a contractor ever since coming to Springfield, a number of years ago, and has worked his way to a prominent position in business circles.
Bom June 21, 1871, in Madison County, Ohio, Mr. Drake is a son of Sanford and Mary (Rainbow) Drake, natives of Jefferson County, Ohio. Sanford Drake, who was a contractor in the building of covered bridges, located at South Charleston, Ohio, in 1873, and there spent an active and successful career, dying in 1894. His widow survived him a number of years, passing away December 26, 1916. They were the parents of the following children : Lewis W., who died in 1893 ; John W., a resident of Jefferson County, Ohio; Samuel C, who died May 1, 19^, aged forty-three years; William Allen, a resident of Jefferson County, Ohio; Mary Elizabeth, who is the wife of Todd Buffenbarger, of South Charleston, Ohio ; George, a locomotive engineer, Who was killed in 1895 in a railroad accident at Spokane, Washington; Hiram, whose present whereabouts are unknown; Cassius M., of South Charleston, Ohio; and Theodore Thomas.
Theodore Thomas Drake received his education in the graded and high schools of South Charleston, where as a youth he learned the trade of carpenter. After working at his trade for fifteen years at South Charleston he joined the National Cash Register Company at Dayton, Ohio, where he was foreman of construction for ten years, and then came to SpringiSeld and established himself in business as a contractor in the erection of steel and concrete bridges. He has done much county work, as well as work of a private character, and is accounted one of the most skilled and capable men in his line in the state. Since October 1, 1920, Mr. Drake has occupied a house of the semi-bungalow type, at No. 1801 South Fountain Avenue, which was designed and built by himself, and is composed of natural cut stone. It is modern in every particular and is one of the show places of his part of the city.
On October 15, 1915, Mr. Drake was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Griffin, who was born at Ironton, Ohio, October 13, 1882, a daughter of John and Ellen (Rhoades) GrifSn. John Griffin was bom in Ireland, and as a young man immigrated to the United States, where he met and married Miss Rhoades, a native of this country. Later they moved to I ronton, Ohio, where Mr. Griffin was employed in the nail fac- tory, and that community is still their home. Mr. and Mrs. Drake have no children. Mrs. Drake, a woman of superior attainments, is an artist in oils and water colors, and their beautiful home contains numerous specimens of her talent in this direction. Their religious connection is with the Third Lutheran Church, to the work of which they contribute generously. Mr. Drake is a stanch republican in politics, and during
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his residence at South Charleston served two terms as a member of the City Council. Since coming to Springfield business duties have occupied his attention to the exclusion of other matters, but he takes a good citi- zen's interest in civic matters, and is always ready to give his support to movements that his judgment tells him are worthy of his cooperation. As a fratemalist he belongs to Springfield Lodge No. 51, B. P. O. E., South Charleston Lodge No. 166, I. O. O. F., in which he has been through the chairs, and Moncreiffe Lodge, K. of P., in all of which he is very popular.
James Monroe Sheaff, whose home is on St. Paris Pike, has lived nearly four score years in Clark County. His active life time, taken' up with useful service as a farmer and dairyman, resulted in the accumula- tion of a generous amount of land and improved farms. He is now retired from business, and his record has been such as to afford him a pleasing retrospect over his past life and experiences.
Mr. Sheaff was bom at Albany, New York, September 4, 1839, son of Leonard and Mary (Champney) Sheaflf. His parents, also natives of New York State, came in 1844 to Clark County, and in Springfield Town- ship bought 113 acres of land. For this they paid $33 an acre, and on it they spent the rest of their years, developing one of the model farms of the township. The father died there at the age of eighty and the mother at eighty-two. Their children were: Mrs. Mary Quick; Myra, wife of Charles Everett; Miss Caroline; James Monroe and George W., twins. James Monroe is the only one living. His brother George died in July, 1921.
Mr. Sheaff grew up on the homestead in Springfield Township, attended the Snow Hill District School, and during the Civil war served as a member of the Home Guards until impaired health compelled him to leave the service. In 1870 Mr. Sheaff married Mary E. Miller, who was born in Springfield Township, daughter of Isaac and Betsie Miller, natives of Pennsylvania, and early settlers of Springfield Township.
After his marriage Mr. Sheaff lived with his parents four years, then worked the Snyder farm in German Township four years, and from there came to St. Paris Pike and bought land at $300 an acre, erected a fine residence, and for many years did an extensive business as a farmer and dairyman. For three years he sold his milk at retail over a route in the City of Springfield. His business Avas known as the Snow Hill Dairy. Mr. Sheaff is still owner of several farms, operated by tenants, and he has a 100-acre farm at New Carlisle in Pike County, where his son lives. He formerly owned eighty acres in the suburban district of Springfield, and sold that to a corporation for $500 an acre. The prop- erty is known as Hills and Dales, and was subdivided for city lots, though Mr. Sheaff still owns sixteen acres of the tract. Mr. Sheaff has lived retired since 1918. He is a democrat, has taken an intelligent inter- est in local affairs and for nine years was road supervisor. Mrs. Sheaff is a member of the First Lutheran Church. They have been married for over half a century and they have three grandchildren. Their daughter, Nettie B., now deceased, was the wife of John Linn, and left one daugh- ter, Marv Janette. The son. Clark, living on the farm at New Carlisle, married Edna Breneman, and their two children are James Monroe and John.
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John Sudler Elliott was a pioneer insurance man of Springfield, and founded and conducted for forty years a properous business that is still continued under the old name. He was widely known in insurance circles, and he was generous of his time and means in connection with many movements for the advancement of Springfield as a city and com- munity.
He was born at Sudlersville, Queen Anne County, Maryland, Decem- ber 9, 1854, his birthplace being a village named in honor of his maternal grandfather. His parents were John and Ann (Sudler) Elliott, natives of the same county. Both families were established in Maryland in pioneer times.
The late John S. Elliott was reared and educated in Sudlersville, and at the age of seventeen came to Ohio. For several years he lived with a relative, Matthew Morris, at Bellbrook, near Dayton. He worked on his relative's farm and also attended the old Wiltz Business College in Dayton. Soon after completing a course in that school he engaged in the insurance business on his own account at Xenia, where he repre- sented the Farmers Insurance Company of Dayton. Mr. Elliott came to Springfield in 1875, and for a short time was employed in the insur- ance office of D. R. Hosterman. He then established his own business, and on July 1, 1877, organized the J. S. Elliott Company, insurance, and personally conducted that widely known insurance agency forty years, being president and general manager of the company until his death, which occurred on November 30, 1917. The business under the old name is still continued by his widow, Mrs. Nora E. Elliott and his son, John Oliver Elliott. In civic affairs Mr. Elliott served as a member of the City Board of Safety under Mayor W. R. Burnett, was president of the Board of Public Aflfairs under Mayor John M. Good, and for a number of years was on the Democratic Executive County Central Committee. He was one of the first trustees of the Mitchell-Thomas Hospital. He was a charter member of the Lagonda Club and at one time was presi- dent of the Ohio State Association of Fire Underwriters. Other organ- izations of which he was an esteemed member were Anthony Lodge No. 445, F. and A. M.; Springfield Chapter No. 48, R. A. M.; Springfield Council No. 17, R. and S. M.; Palestine Commandery No. 33, K. T. ; Dayton Consistory of the Scottish Rite; Springfield Lodge No. 23, B. P. O. E., and the United Commercial Travelers.
In September, 1877, Mr. Elliott married Mary W. Boyer, of Dayton. She died in December, 1884, leaving a son and daughter. John Oliver, the son, now president and general manaf:er of the J. S. Elliott Com- pany, married Ruby Brenner, of Springfield, and they have a son, John. The daughter is Mrs. Lida B. Limbocker, now of Detroit, and she is the mother of four children, named Virginia, Eleanor, Jane and Henry.
In January. 1886, J. S. Elliott married Nora E. Wood. Mrs. Elliott is a native of Springfield, daughter of Samuel R. and Margaret (Mclntire) Wood. Her father was born in Virginia and was a child when his parents moved to Clark County, Ohio. Her mother was born in Clark County, and is a member of the old Mclntire family of this section. Samuel R. Wood died in 1898. Her mother is now eighty-four years of age. Mrs. Elliott became the mother of three children and also has several grandchildren. Her daughter, Margaret, is the widow of
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John Snyder, of the old Snyder family of Springfield. Mr. Snyder died December 24, 1918, and is survived by five children : Kathryn, William, Rachel, John and Margaret. Mrs. Elliott's older son, Benjamin P., died July 30, 1913, at the age of twenty-three. Her other son, Alan G., is a young business man in Kansas City, Missouri.
Leonard Schaefer. While instances are numerous regarding men who have been attracted to America by the opportunities offered to those possessing ambition and determination, and have, through the possession of these qualities, risen to places of prominence in the communities in which they have centered their activities, it is doubtful if a better exam- ple of this class of self-made man could be found than the late Leonard Schaefer, early citizen and manufacturer of Springfield. Arriving in this country without means, and in ill health, he worked with his hands and traveled the familiar but difficult roads which chance opportunities open to the aspirant from foreign shores. While his numerous business inter- ests called for his utmost attention, he was not indifferent to the duties of citizenship, as his connection with affairs of a public nature show.
Mr. Schaefer was bom in Germany, Pebruary 5, 1823, and having learned the locksmithing trade in his youth, had held prior to coming to America a foremanship in a large lock factory at Stuttgart. He was an active sympathizer, if not in fact a participant, in the German revolution of 1848-1849, and on this account he found it expedient that he leave Germany at the earliest moment, and, without a passport, fled to America early in 1849. On board ship he contracted small-pox and when the ship docked at New York he with others was sent to a hospital where he was held for six weeks. His ultimate destination in this country was Cin- cinnati, to which point he proceeded as soon as released from the hospi- tal, but upon his arrival at Cincinnati he found cholera in epidemic form in that city and accordingly came on to Springfield. Here he found employment in a brick yard, but not for long, as he soon went to work at his trade and later opened a small locksmith shop on what is now East Main Street. His business prospered and in 1850 he opened a machine shop in the same community on East Main Street, between Spring and Poster streets, where for forty years he carried on a successful business enterprise, manufacturing locks, safes, fences, etc. He made a number of safes and fences for the early banks at Springfield, and for merchants of the city, and erected practically all of the early iron fences of the community. It was Mr. Schaefer who made the iron fence around the State House at Columbus, which old wrought-iron fence is still in use. The first Springfield city directory, published in 1852, carried the following business advertisement: "L. Schaefer, lock and whitesmith, bell-hanger, gunsmith, screw cutter and maker and repairer of brass, iron or steel work, all attended to promptly for city or country."
Mr. Schaefer was both a successful business man and citizen who took an interest in the civic affairs of his day. He was a member of the Old Union Volunteer Pire Company, was an active member of St. John's Lutheran Church, and was a democrat in politics. Before he left Ger- many he had become engaged to marry Rosina Esslinger, who was born in Germany in 1823, the daughter of John Gottlieb Esslinger, a soldier against Bonaparte in 1814, a portrait of whom, in uniform, is now in pos-
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session of his grandson, Henry L. Schaef er, of Springfield. When Leonard Schaefer fled from Germany it was with the understanding between the engaged couple that the bride-to-be would join her intended hus^band at Cincinnati. The plans, however, were necessarily changed, owing to the circumstances noted above, and so the wedding took place at Springfield, in 1849. To their marriage one son was bom, Henry L., of whom an account follows.
Mrs. Schaefer died in 1869, and in that year Mr. Schaefer, accom- panied by his son, returned to Europe for a visit to his old home, and there, in the following year, he married Bertha Kurz, and to that union there were bom children, of whom three survive: C. Albert, of whom there will be further mention ; Leonard, P., and Paul, all of Springfield. Leonard Schaefer, Sr., died at Springfield, May 5, 1895, honored by all who knew him.
Henry L. Schaefer, one of the best-known citizens of Springfield, engaged in the undertaking business at 226 West Main Street, was bom in this city, July 31, 1850, a son of the late Leonard and Rosina (Esslinger) Schaefer. He was reared in this city, where he attended the public schools, and while in Germany with his father in 1869 and 1870 attended two terms in the Government Technical College at Stutt- gart, taking a course in mechanical drawing. Upon his return from Germany he went to work in his father's machine shop and continued there until 1875, in which year he secured a position in the tool depart- ment of the Champion Bar and Knife Company, at Springfield, where he remained imtil 1893. By that time he had become foreman of several different departments, but resigned and going to Chicago entered a school of embalming. After passing a satisfactory examination he returned to Springfield and engaged in the undertaking business on his own account, and has since continued, the business now being in the firm name of Henry L. Schaefer & Son. Mr. Schaefer is, and has been for years, very prominent in public affairs, and his efforts have contributed to the growth of the city and its institutions. He served as county coroner two terms, from 1895 to 1898, his first commission as coroner having been .signed by Hon. William McKinley, then goverpor of the State of Ohio, and his second signed by Governor Asa Bushnell. He became a member of the Springfield Board of Education from the Sixth Ward during the '80s, and in 1904, when the first school board was elected at large instead of by wards, he was again selected for that position, going into office January 1, 1905, and continuing therein until January 1, 1920. He refused to stand for re-election. For his services, and in honor of the man and citizen, the new junior high school was named the Henry L. Schaefer School. He was for a number of years president of the Board of Directors of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Mr. Schaefer is also prominent as a fratemalist. He was secre- tary and treasurer of the local committee which succeeded in establish- ing the Knights of Pythias Home at Springfield and was a member of the committee which located the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Home in this city. Mr. Schaefer belongs to Clark Lodge No. 101. F. and A. M. ; Springfield Chapter No. 48, R. A. M. ; Springfield Council No. 17, R. and S. M.; Palestine Commandery No. 33, K. T., all of Springfield; Antioch Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Dayton, and Dayton Consistory,
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thirty-second degree, S. R. M. He was the founder and first worthy patron of Order of the Eastern Star, at Springfield; and belongs to MoncreiflFe Lodge No. 33, K. P., holding the rank of major in the Uni- formed Rank of Pythians; Goethe Lodge No. 384, I. O. O. F. ; Mad River Encampment No. 16, in which he has passed all the chairs ; Canton Occidental, Patriarchs Militant, in which he is senior past captain; Champion Council No. 2, Jr. O. U. A. M. ; and Violet Council No. 29, Daughters of America. Mr. Schaefer is also a member of the Clark County Historical Society. He is a director in the Clark County Build- ing and Savings Company and in the Springfield Light, Heat and Power Company.
On July 30, 1872, Mr. Schaefer was united in marriage with Miss Bertha Orthmann, who was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, March 21, 1851, daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Orthmann, the former of whom was engaged in practice at Hillsboro, Ohio, when he died in 1858. The widow and daughter then went to Germany, where Mrs. Schaefer was educated. Three children were bom to Mr. and Mrs. Schaefer: Katherine, who married Henry S. Carpenter, of Dayton, now living in retirement at Jacksonville, Florida; Bertha C, whose first husband was William S. Wead, deceased, and who married May 29, 1922, Edward P. Poling; and Theodore Frederick. Theodore Frederick Schaefer was born at Springfield, January 7, 1882, and following his graduation from high school spent two years at Wittenberg College, although while there he found time to assist his father in the conduct of his undertaking busi- ness. On May 7, 1918, he volunteered and enlisted in the United States Navy and was rated a first-class engineman. He was stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois, and was with what was known as the "black gang" until relieved from duty December 20, 1918. On January 1, 1919, he became junior member of the firm of Henry L. Schaefer & Son. Mr. Schaefer is a member of Clark Lodge No. 101, F. and A. M. ; Springfield Chapter No. 48, R. A. M. ; Spring- field Council No. 17, R. and S. M.; Oriental Consistory, thirty-second degree, and Medina Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., the two latter of Chi- cago. He also holds membership in the Eastern Star; Ingomar Lodge No. 610, K. P. ; Goethe Lodge No. 384, I. O. O. F. : and Springfield Lodge, F. O. E. He is likewise a member of the Kiwanis Club of Sprinefield and the Phi Gamma Delta College fraternity. On November 1, 1905, Mr. Schaefer married Miss Louise Botkin, who was born at Springfield, the daughter of Lafayette Botkin. Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Schaefer celebrated their golden wedding July 30, 1922, in St. John's Evangelical Church. The occasion was celebrated by many friends of this honored couple as well as relatives and children.
Carl Albert Schaefer, president of the Reeser Plant Companv, and purchasing agent for the Thomas Manufacturing Company of Spring- field, was born at Springfield, Julv 19. 1870, a son of the late Leonard and Bertha (Kurz) Schaefer. He was educated in the public schools and as a lad took employment as a messenger boy with the Western Union Telegraph Company. Later he became a clerk in a hardware store for several years, and from this position advanced to that of book- keeper, which he held at several different establishments. On January 1, 1891, he entered the offices of the Thomas Manufacturing Company at
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Springfield, as a bookkeq)er, and through integrity, industry and fidelity won promotion to his present post as purchasing agent. Since 1910 he has been president of the Reeser Plant Company, leading florists of Springfield. Mr. Schaefer is president of the council of St. John's Lutheran Evangelical Church, belongs to the Masonic Order, and holds membership in the Kiwanis Club of Springfield and the Van Dyke Clan, a social fishing club.
Mr. Schaefer married Miss Delia L. Betzold, the daughter of J. J. Betzold, of Springfield, and to them there have been bom three children : Bertha Marie, a junior in Wittenberg College ; Carl Albert, Jr., a fresh- man in the engineering department of the Ohio State University, and Catherine Lucille, who is attending high school.
William Myers. Among the substantial retired residents of Spring- field, Ohio, for many years well-known in business circles, is William Myers, formerly a justice of the peace, and a representative of one of the old pioneer families of Pike Township, Clark County. Mr. Myers owns a large body of land in Pike Township, together with valuable realty at Springfield.
William Myers was bom in Pike Township, Clark County, Ohio, near Dialton, February 24, 1849, a son of Lewis and Elizabeth (Frantz) Myers, the former of whom was bom in German Township, Clark County, May 4, 1821, and the latter- near Hampton, Clark County, Ohio, Novem- ber 7, 1825. His paternal grandparents were George and Magdaline (Cosier) Myers, who came to Clark County from what is now West Virginia and settled in German Township. His maternal grandparents were Jacob and Sarah (Ebersole) Frantz, who were natives of Switzer- land. They settled in Pike Township, Clark County, about 1818. All this section was almost a wilderness at that time and people who traveled had to go on horseback and follow trails through the forests.
After Lewis Myers and Elizabeth Frantz were married they settled in Pike Township, and in 1856 Mr. Myers bought the old Frantz home- stead. To the original 160 acres he added twenty more acres for a site for a sawmill, which he built and operated. He was a man of great industry and much enterprise, and during a part of his life did business as a farmer, sold timber, burned brick and profitably followed other lines of industrious activity. His death occurred May 28, 1873. The mother of Mr. Myers survived him for twenty years, dying April 2, 1893. They were good, kind, virtuous people, respected by all who knew them, and faithful members of the Dunkard Church. They had the following children: Simon, who died when two years old; William; Aaron, who lives at Kansas City, Missouri ; J. E., who is a physician at Springfield ; Mary Ann, who is the wife of Henry Dresher, of Pike Township, Clark County; Noah, who is a physician at Springfield; Sarah E., who is the widow of Isaiah B. Trout, of Chicago, Illinois ; and Clara Idella, who is the wife of Lewis Pdffer, of Chicago.
William Myers gave his father assistance on the farm in his earlier years, but later prepared himself for the profession of teaching, attend- ing normal schools at New Carlisle and at Lebanon, Ohio, from the latter of which he was graduated in 1875. He was not more than eighteen years old when he commenced to teach school, and he continued to teach
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during the winters for the next fourteen years, giving attention to the farm during the summers.
Mr. Myers married, July 21, 1880, Miss Matilda Ream, born in Pike Township, April 8, 1858, a daughter of Jeremiah and Madeline (Fansler) Ream, the father a native of Pike Township and the mother of Cham- bersburg, Pennsylvania, from which her parents came first to Massillon, Ohio, and then to Springfield. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Myers were Samuel and Elizabeth (Basinger) Ream, natives of Virginia, who settled early in Pike Township. For a few years after his marriage Mr. Myers taught school at North Hampton, Ohio, and also conducted a general store, then removed to Springfield, and here was in the sawmill and lumber business for many years, and was additionally interested in buying timber and conducting a threshing machine. It was about this time that he built a comfortable residence on West High Street, Spring- field, which some years later he traded for a farm of ninety-four acres adjoining the old homestead in Pike Township, on which still stands the old log cabin his grandfather built. In 1906 Mr. Myers had his fine modern residence erected at No. 1112 North Fountain Avenue, Spring- field, which has been his home ever. since, and he owns 227 acres of land.
Two daughters were bom to Mr. and Mrs. Myers : Glenna, bom May 2, 1881, who is the wife of Rev. Ernest Fremont Tittle, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Evanston, Illinois ; and Nellie Lucile, bom May 4, 1886, who is principal of the Ridgewood Private School at Springfield. Mr. Myers is a member and a trustee of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics a democrat, he served twenty- five years as clerk of Pike Township, for two terms was a justice of the peace and was a member of the Election Board that first operated under the Australian ballot system. He was the first chancellor commander of the Knights of* Pythias at Northampton, Ohio.
Emory F. Davis, M. D. In extent of practice Doctor Davis is one of the busiest physicians and surgeons at Springfield, where he has per- formed his professional work and has been active in the affairs of citi- zenship for over twenty years.
Doctor Davis was bora at Centerville in Montgomery County, Ohio, June 27, 1870, son of Edward H. and Martha Jane (Fallis) Davis. His father was a native of Salem, New Jersey, and his mother of Richmond, Virginia. Edward H. Davis was a stock raiser and farmer in New Jer- sey, and at the beginning of the Civil war he became a captain in the Ninth New Jersey Infantry. He was wounded by g^n shot in the right knee at the battle of Roanoke, Virginia, while serving under General Bumside. He was also taken prisoner, and for some time endured the evil conditions of Andersonville Prison. Later he was exchanged and put in charge of the exchange train. Subsequently he moved to Mont- gomery Coimty, Ohio, and there re-enlisted in the One Hundred Thirty- first Ohio Infantry. He was the first lieutenant of Company I in that regiment. Edward H. Davis was in the Ford Theatre the night that President Lincoln was shot. Eight of his brothers were soldiers in the Confederate Army. After the war he owned and operated a farm at Centerville, but he died at Springfield in August, 1911. His widow sur- vived him until July 22, 1920. They had two children, Doctor Davis and Nellie, wife of John E. Warner, of Detroit, Michigan.
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Emory F. Davis grew up at Centerville, attended grammar and high school there, and graduated in medicine from the University of Ohio April 9, 1897. Prior to locating at Springfield Doctor Davis practiced two years at Celina and one year at Lancaster, and in 1900 moved to Springfield. Since 1914 he has maintained a fine suite of offices in the Fairbanks Building.
In October, 1898, Doctor Davis married Miss Fannie N. Hutsler, a native of Jamestown, Greene County, Ohio, daughter of John W. and Ruth (Evans) Hutsler, natives of Virginia. Her mother was a first cousin of "Firfiting Bob Evans," one of America's foremost naval heroes. Mrs. Davis' parents were early settlers in Greene County, and her mother, who was bom in 1831, is now living at Springfield, past ninety. Doctor and Mrs. Davis have a modem home at 103 North Western Avenue. Their only child is Lawrence H., bora in September, 1899. He married Elizabeth Carr, and they live with Doctor Davis. Lawrence Davis is a partner in the Crescent Casket Company, manu- facturers of high grade children's caskets.
Doctor Davis and family are members of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church. He was for several years a member of the Clark County Blind Conunittee, is a republican, a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Belongs to the Clark County, Ohio, State and American Medical associations, and is physician to the Ohio State Knights of P)rthias Home.
Homer C. Corry, one of the younger members of the Clark County bar, and junior member of the well known legal firm of Martin & Corry, with offices at 203 Bushnell Building. Springfield, is a native of Clark County, and a son of Robert F. and Ethel (Stewart) Corry.
Robert F. Corry was bom in Greene County, Ohio, in 1857, and died in 1917. He was a son of James Corry, also a native of Greene County, whose parents were pioneers of that locality, they having come from Penn- sylvania to the Buckeye State during early days. Ethel Corry was bom in Greene Township, Clark County, in 1859, and is now residing at Springfield. She is a daughter of Thomas E. Stewart, who was born in the same township, a son of John Templeton Stewart, who came from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1805, and settled in Greene Township, where he became a prosperous farmer and large land owner.
Homer C. Corry was bom on the farm in Green Township. July 9, 1887, and attended the graded and high schools of Springfield. He grad- uated from the Clifton High School of Green Township in 1904, and then entered Antioch College from which he received his Bachelor of Arts desrree as a member of the class of 1910. During 1910 he taught in the Enon High School, Clark County, during 1911 and 1912 was a teacher in the Yellow Springs High School, and during 1913 and 1914 was an instructor in the Ironton (Ohio) High School. During this period Mr. Corry studied in the law department of Chicago University, and was graduated from the law department of the Ohio State University in 1915, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Admitted to the bar in 1915. he entered practice at Springfield in the offices of Chase Stewart. From 1916 to 1918 he taught law in the Law School of the Ohio State
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University, and in the latter year enlisted for service in the United States Army as a private and during the World war was stationed at Camp Sherman. He was promoted to sergeant and later received his commis- sion as first lieutenant and was assigned to duty in the judge advocate general's department, serving at Camp Logan, Texas, and at Washing- ton, D. C. He was mustered out and honorably discharged July 5, 1919.
Returning to the practice of law at Springfield, Mr. Corry became associated with Paul C. Martin and in September, 1921, became a mem- ber of the firm of Martin & Corry. He is a member of the Clark County, the Ohio State and the American Bar Associations, and holds member- ship in the Phi Delta Phi and the Order of the Coif, and Harry S. Kis- sell Lodge No. 674, Free and Accepted Masons. He is president of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce and a trustee of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio.
On January 1, 1920, Mr. Corry was united in marriage with Miss Helene Jobe, daughter of Charles L. and Margaret Jobe, of Xenia, Ohio. Mrs. Corry died at Springfield, December 4, 1920.
Oliver T. Clarke. The wearisome sameness that frequently attends the continuous following of a single line of effort has never been a fea- ture of the career of Oliver T. Clarke, of Springfield, draughtsman for the Hobart Manufacturing Company. His has been a life in which he has followed several lines of industry and in which each step has been a forward one. Mr. Clarke is a native of St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana, and was bom October 25, 1885, a son of Hiram F. and Nelly (Thom- son) Clarke, natives of Springfield.
The paternal grandparents of Mr. Clarke, Oliver and Elizabeth (Strong) Clarke, were bom in Southampton, Massachusetts, and shortly after their marriage moved to Decatur, Georgia. They resided there for some years, and Mr. Clarke conducted a store in partnership with a Mr. Willard. Later they came to Springfield. Hiram F. Clarke attended the public schools of Springfield, and as a young man went to Cincin- nati, where he leamed the hardware business with the firm of Henry Hammet & Son. Returning to Springfield, he embarked in the hard- ware business on his own account and, later, in partnership with his brother Lewis S. Clarke, conducted a sugar plantation in St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana. Returning to Springfield in 1887, he connected him- self with the Springfield Seed Company, subsequently identifying him- .self with the wholesale paper business. He then became one of the organizers of the Star Paper and Box Company, on West Pleasant Street, and some time later this was changed to the Clarke Paper Box Com- pany, of which he was the head until his retirement. He died June 21, 1914, greatly respected and esteemed by all who knew him. Mrs. Clarke, who survives him, resides at 525 North Wittenberg Street, Springfield. She is a daughter of James L and Lavinia G. (Snyder) Thomson, natives of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The former for some years was book- keeper for the firm of Counts & Comeback, early dry goods merchants of Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Clarke had two children: Oliver T., and James, who died in infancy.
Oliver T. Clarke attended the graded and high schools of Springfield, withdrawing from the latter in 1902, and at that time started to leam
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the vocation of machinist at the plant of the Owen Machine Tool Com- pany, where he spent three years. After mastering his trade he worked thereat at various places, including the George Rogers Tool Works and the Foos Gas Engine Company, but left the latter in August, 1906, and became identified with the firm of Staley & Bowman, patent attorneys, as a draughtsman, an occupation in which he had become proficient by attendance at the Young Men's Christian Association night classes and by a course with the International Correspondence School. Leaving the latter in the fall of 1911, he became identified with the American Seeding Machine Company as draughtsman, continuing until April of the fol- lowing year. On April 13, 1912, he started to work as a tool designer for the Robbins & Myers Company and remained with that firm until September 17, 1921. On November 14 of the same year he became con- nected with the Hobart Manufacturing Company of Troy, Ohio, who manufacture coffee grinders, meat grinders, food mixers, etc. He still maintains his connection with this concern and is now engaged in doing the company's experimental drafting. Mr. Clarke is a member of Christ Episcopal Church at Springfield, and is fraternally affiliated with St. Andrews Lodge No. 619, F. and A. M., and Springfield Chapter No. 48, R. A. M.
On June 28, 1916, Mr. Clarke married Miss Blanche Gardner, who was bom November 22, 1882, at Springfield, Ohio, daughter of Frank and Kathryn (Garrett) Gardner, the former bom at Fredericktown, Maryland, and the latter in Springfield. Mrs. Clarke, who graduated in 1905 from Wittenberg College, traveled in Europe and the United States, followed the educator's profession for several years, and taught at the high schools of Celina and Springfield prior to her marriage. She and her husband are the parents of three children : Oliver T.. Jr., bom June 22, 1919; Nelly Kathryn, bom November 18, 1920; and Frances, bom May 13, 1922. Mrs. Clarke is a member of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church and of the Springfield Woman's Club.
J. Fred Anderson. For over ninety years the Anderson family has been identified with the substantial interests of agriculture and farm hus- bandry in this section of Ohio, and while J. Fred Anderson was bom on a farm, he chose the legal profession for a career. His father died when he was seven years old. His work since becoming a member of the Springfield bar has proved him one of the keenest minds and ablest members of the local profession.
His grandfather, David Anderson, was a native of Scotland, and as a young man came to the United States about 1827. He soon afterward located near Selma in Clark County. He married Juliana Stewart, whose people were among the first and also among the best settlers of that locality. David Anderson was a skilled cabinet maker, and he worked at that occupation in connection with farming. He was a devout Pres- byterian of the old school, very strict in his ideas of religious duty, was upright in his daily conduct, and his community held him in high esteem. He was a radical anti-slavery man and his home became a station on the underground railroad and there he assisted many fugitive slaves toward freedom. One of his sons, Oliver Hazard Perry Stewart Ander- son, served as a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil war. David
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Anderson and his wife had thirteen children, several dying in infancy. Not one of these children is still living in Clark County.
The eldest was John Stewart Anderson, who was bom on the home farm near Selma, October 12, 1836. He became a farmer, and was regarded as one of the most successful stock men in this part of the state. He was one of the first to import full blooded Percheron horses. He served a hundred days' enlistment in the Civil war, was a republican in politics, and was devoted to his home and family. His farm was in Greene County, just over the line from Clark County, and he died there February 22, 1888. He married, January 23, 1861, Elizabeth Tindall, who survives him. Of their seven children four are living: Mrs. Robert E. Corry, residing at Yellow Springs, Ohio, mother of six children; Mrs. Harvey S. Collins, living near Xenia, Ohio, has four children; Miss Cora A., a teacher in the Springfield High School; and J. Fred.
J. Fred Anderson was bom at the homestead near Clifton in Greene County, February 14, 1881. He attended local schools there, later Cedar- ville College in Greene County, from which institution he was graduated in 1901 with the degree of Ph. B., and in 1907 received from the Law Department of the Ohio State University the degree of LL.B. He was admitted to the bar June 18, 1907, at once began practice in Springfield, and in October, 1907, formed a partnership with his old schoolmate and roommate at Ohio State University, E. F. McKee, and the firm of Anderson & McKee, maintaining offices in the Bushnell Building, repre- sents not only a congenial personal association, but a combination of legal abilities and experience that gives it special prestige in the local bar.
Mr. Anderson is a Presbyterian, a republican, is a member and for- mer secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, and is a Knight Templar Mason.
On September 20, 1911, he married Christje Reichard, daughter of Dr. George W. Reichard, of Springfield. Mrs. Anderson died October 17, 1912, leaving a daughter, Elizabeth Reichard Anderson. Mr. Ander- son married, August 19, 1922, Leona Braun, daughter of the late Leo Braun, well known as a jeweler in Springfield for sixty years.
Elza F. McKee is junior member of the Springfield law firm of Anderson & McKee and is one of the very prominent young lawyers of the city. In 1921 he was honored by election as president of the Clark County Bar Association.
He was bom at St. Mary's, Ohio, May 16, 1884, son of Charles P. and Matilda J. (Smith) McKee. He was one of their six children, grew up on his father's farm, and did a share of the farm work while attend- ing district schools. He spent four years in St. Mary's High School, graduating in 1900. In the fall of 1903 he entered the Law Department of the Ohio State University, and took special courses in other university departments at the same time. He graduated in law in June, 1907, but had been admitted to the bar in 1906, after which for several months he worked in the law offices of Cmm, Raymond & Hedges, of Columbus, Ohio, getting special instruction. After graduating he came to Spring- field and in October, 1907, joined his old classmate in the firm Anderson & McKee.
Mr. McKee served as city attorney from October 15, 1910, to Decem- ber 31, 1911, and from January 1, 1914, to June 1, 1920, held the same
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office, and since then has been acting special advisory counsel for the city. During the World war he was Government appeal agent for the local board for the City of Springfield. Mr. McKee was president of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce in 1921, is a Council degree Mason, an independent democrat, and a member of the Presbyterian Church.
Oscar N. Bartholomew, now deceased, was for many years one of the leading contractors and builders of Springfield, but for some time prior to his demise was living in retirement. He was born in Tompkins County, New York, September 18, 1835, and died at Springfield, Ohio, February 5, 1918. His parents, Josiah and Chairy Ann (Eaton) Bar- tholomew, were natives of New York.
Growing up in his native state, Oscar N. Bartholomew was educated in an academy at Elmira, New York. For two years he served in the Union Army, as a member of the Seventy-sixth New York Volunteer Infantry, and among other important engagements, participated in that of the Wilderness. In 1872 he came to Springfield and went into a contracting business, and became an acknowledged authority on the design and construction of heavy buildings, a number of which were erected by him at Springfield, among which was the church building of the First Congregationalists, which was later destroyed by fire. He was noted for his fidelity to the spirit as well as the letter of his contracts, and no one ever stood any higher in public esteem than he.
On June 24, 1859, Mr. Bartholomew married Harriet M. Malory, born near the Mohawk River in New York State, a daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Turner) Malory. Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew had the pleasure of celebrating their Golden Wedding in 1909. Two children were born to them, namely : Ella R. and Charles J. but the latter died November 22, 1917.
After coming to Springfield Mr. Bartholomew affiliated with the First Congregational Church and later with the First Lutheran Church of this city, to which his widow also belonged, and she continued one of its active supporters until her death January 18, 1922. He was a zealous Mason, and very active in the work of Mitchell Post, Grand Army of the Republic. On each Memorial Day he rode at the head of the procession of the veterans, wearing his uniform, and mounted on a white charger, and his imposing figure is sadly missed on these days since his demise. He was an upright man of unflinching honesty, and never asked more of anyone than he was willing to give, but expected others to live up to the principles he believed so necessary for the main- tenance of good government and proper business relations. His tong life of useful endeavor and helpful effort along practical lines teaches a lesson, and his example may well be emulated by the rising generation.
Frank A. Hartley, M. D., a specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat diseases and a member of the Springfield City Hospital staff, has been engaged in practice in this city since 1909, but his entire professional experience covers a period of a quarter of a century.
Doctor Hartley was bom in Union County, Ohio, November 28, 1871, son of James and Lydia (Bonham) Hartley. His father was bom
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at Bemly, Lancashire, England, and his mother in Licking County, Ohio. James Hartley came to the United States about 1855. He had been superintendent of construction for railroad work both in England and France, and in the United States continued similar work. While in the South he contracted malaria, and while the disease was not fatal it caused him to leave railroad construction and buy a farm in Union County, Ohio, where he lived until his death in 1879. His widow sur- vived until 1914, and also died in Union County.
Frank A. Hartley grew up on the home farm, was educated in the common schools, in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, attended the Marysville High School, and in 1898 graduated from the Starling Med- ical College at Columbus. For seven years he performed the routine of a general practitioner. During 1907-08 Doctor Hartley took special work with the Wilsi Polyclinic at Philadelphia, and in 1909 attended the Uni- versity of Vienna. On returning to this country he located in Spring- field, and has since specialized in eye, ear, nose and throat diseases. His offices are in the Fairbanks Building. Doctor Hartley has been on the staff of the Springfield City Hospital since 1913. He is a member of the Clark County and the Ohio State Medical Societies and the Academy of Ophthalmology and Laryngology.
June 26, 1902, Doctor Hartley married Delia M. Cisco, a native of Champaign County, Ohio, and daughter of Joseph and Charlotte (Barnes) Cisco, natives of the same county. Doctor and Mrs. Hartley are members of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church. He is on the Official Board of the church, is a republican in politics, and is affiliated with Kissell Lodge No. 674. F. and A. M.
Malcolm Earl Spencer. To interpret the law properly in all its complexities and unerringly to apply its provisions to establish human rights and defeat injustice demands such a comprehensive knowledge not only of books but of life itself that he who reaches a high plane in this profession must command more than negative consideration in the nrinds of his fellow men. It is told both in history and romance that there is a form of law that is upheld among savages, but when interpreted it resolves itself into the axiom that might makes right, and in modem, civilized life it becomes the task of the exponent of the law to overcome this only too prevalent idea. Hence, on a solid educational foundation must be erected a thorough knowledge of what law means to the present- day man and how it can be applied to circumvent evil, protect the help- less and bring happiness and safety to the deserving. Among the younger members of the Clark County bar one who has made rapid advance- ment in his calling because possessing a thorough understanding of its responsibilities and opportunities is Malcolm Earl Spencer, of Springfield.
Mr. Spencer was born at Columbus, Ohio, January 29, 1893, and is a son of George W. and Amelia (Strait) Spencer, the former bom at Columbus and the latter at Straitsville, Perry County, Ohio. His father, who was educated in the public schools of Columbus, became constmc- tion superintendent for the Bell Telephone Company at Westerville, Ohio, and later at Columbus, Ohio, a most hazardous position, and one which he filled in various other parts of the country until meeting his death in the line of duty October 18, 1904. Mrs. Spencer survived him only until April, 1905.
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Malcolm Earl Spencer was only eleven years of age at the time of his father's death, and until that time had attended the public schools of Columbus. When he was left an orphan he was taken to the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows Home at Springfield, where he remained until reaching the age of sixteen years. He then entered Wittenberg Academy and worked his way through that institution, from which he was graduated in 1914. During this time he had applied all his spare time to the study of law with Donald Kirkpatrick, a well-known lawyer of Springfield, and upon his graduation and subsequent admission to the Ohio bar became associated with Mr. Kirkpatrick, under the fi.rm style of Kirkpatrick & Spencer. This concern is now justly accounted one of the strong and reliable legal combinations of the city and has been iden- tified with a number of prominent cases.
On June 24, 1914, Mr. Spencer was united in marriage with Miss Mabel Furlong, who was bom in Cincinnati and, having been left an orphan at a tender age, was reared at the Ohio State Independent Order of Odd Fellows Home at Springfield. To this union there have come three children: Malcolm Earl, Jr., who died in infancv; Gerald Elden, bom May 18, 1920, and Phyllis Adele, born June 19, 1921. Mr. Spencer and his family belong to the Northminster Presbyterian Church, in the work of which he has taken an active part, and has taught in the Sunday school. A republican in politics, he has taken little more than a good citizen's part in public affairs, but has endeavored at all times to dis- charge his duties, and is serving as prosecuting attorney's assistant. He belongs to the I. O. O. F. Encampment and the Rebekahs.
Clarence Andrew Chase. One of the best-known hotel execu- tives of the country is Clarence Andrew Chase, who for the last five years has been manager of the Hotel Bancroft, Springfield's leading and most popular hostelry. Mr. Chase's youthful inclinations were along the lines of a musical career, but circumstances developed that directed him toward his present vocation, one in which he has attained an unqual- ified success.
Mr. Chase was born at Portland, Maine, May 3, 1872, a son of Andrew J. and Hattie (Lowney) Chase. His father was a native of Sagadahoc County, Maine, and a member of the old Chase family of New England, from which was descended the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, the Ohio statesman. Andrew J. Chase was for many years agent for the Travelers Insurance Company for the states of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. He was a very prominent public man, a fine speaker and a man of prepossessing appearance, and his services were much sought after in the promotion of welfare work, both local and state-wide. He was an able assistant to Neal Dow in the temperance movement which made the State of Maine "dry,", and his death, which occurred in 1898, removed from his community an able, reliable and greatly- respected citizen. His widow, who is now residing at Dorchester, Massa- chusetts, is a daughter of William Lownev, the noted candy manufac- turer, who originated and manufactured "Philadelphia caramels," and a sister of Walter Lowney, who manufactured the brand of chocolates which bear his name.
Clarence A. Chase was reared at Woodfords, a suburb of Portland, and was educated in the public schools and at business college. Always
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musically inclined, and of some talent, he was the leader of his own orchestra when he was but eighteen years of age, at which time he became a student of violin at the New England .Conservatory of Music at Bos- ton. About that time business reverses overtook his father and it became necessary for young Chase to go to work. Accordingly, in answer to an advertisement, he secured the position of cashier in the buffet of the old and famous Tremont Hotel at Boston. As soon as his father learned of his employment he arranged to have him transferred to the cafe, where he also served as cashier, and it was while with the old Tremont that he laid the foundation for his later success in the hotel business. He served his apprenticeship in all the different departments of the Tre- mont, and at the age of twenty-two years was holding the position of chief clerk of that historic hostelry. The Tremont was then under the management of R. A. Stranahan, whose sons, Robert and Frank, are now proprietors of the Champion Spark Plug Company, of Toledo, Ohio, manufacturers of the automobile spark plug of that name. The old Tre- mont closed its doors four years after Mr. Chase joined its organization, and for a time thereafter he was identified with the Prebble House, of Portland. Subsequently he joined Mr. Stranahan in the management of the old Stuart House, at the comer of Forty-first Street and Broad- way, New York City. Later he entered the commissary department of the Pennsylvania Railway Company, and still later of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railway Company. He was commissary agent for this line, in charge of all dining cars and restaurants, but resigned from this position to become chief clerk of the Imperial Hotel, New York City. In 1910 he left the Imperial to join the organization of the Hotel LaSalle, Chicago, where he was chief clerk for four years, leav- ing that hotel to go to Spokane, Washington, to assist in the equipment and become manager of the Hotel Davenport, then being made ready for opening. This hotel, with only 335 rooms, was built and equipped at a cost of $2,235,000, and is today considered the finest establishment in the United States. In 1917 Mr. Chase returned to the Imperial, at New York City, temporarily, and in July of that year came to Spring- field, at the invitation of its New York owners, to take charge of the Hotel Bancroft, which at that time, through mismanagement, was on the eve of closing its doors. Under the supervision of Mr. Chase the Ban- croft has been improved in every respect, and has won the reputation of being the best managed hotel not only in Springfield but in the entire state, with improvements being carried forward all the time.
Mr. Chase is chairman of the board of governors for the State of Ohio of "the Greeters of America," a hotel managers' organization, and is district vice president of the Ohio State Hotel Association. He was made a Mason in Continental Lodge No. 76, Waterbury, Connecticut, and advanced to the Rose Croix degree by Cascade Chapter, Spokane, Washington.
Mr. Chase married Mary Edith Perry, daughter of Charles S. Perry, one of the men who made possible the manufacture of watches by machinery, and for years connected with the Elgin Watch Company, of Elgin, Illinois.
Milton Yake is engaged successfully in the buying and shipping of livestock and also gives general supervision to the management of his
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excellent farm in Moorefield Township, near Villa, in which village he maintains his residence and business headquarters.
Mr. Yake was bom in Pennsylvania, March 29, 1864, and is a son of Lewis and Martha (Dellinger) Yake, the former a native of Ger- many and the latter of the State of Pennsylvania. Lewis Yake was a child at the time of the family immigration to the United States, was reared and educated in Pennsylvania and there his marriage occurred. He continued his activities as a farmer in the old Keystone State until the late '60s, when he came with his family to Ohio and established his residence in Champaign County, where- he farmed for a few years on rented land and then came over into Clark County and purchased a farm near Moorefield. He made this one of the well ordered farms of Moore- field Township, and on the same he continued to reside until his death, in 1916, his widow having passed to eternal rest in 1921 and both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Yake was well fortified in his political views and was a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party. He had no desire for public office but gave effective service as a member of the school board of his district. Of the ten children the eldest of the eight surviving is Hiram, a farmer near Harmony, this county; David is engaged in farming in Hancock County; Milton, of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; John resides at Springfield, and Edward at Youngstown; Erbie is the wife of Frank Coe; Lewis is a resident of New Moorefield, Clark County; and Anna is the wife of George Fetz.
On the old home farm near the postoffice village of New Moorefield Milton Yake passed the period of his boyhood and youth, and in the meanwhile profited by the advantages of the local schools. After attain- ing to his legal majority he was for seven years employed by the month at farm work, and with the passing years he so directed his energies as to win substantial financial advancement and prove a successful agri- culturist and stockgrower. He now owns 104 acres of land in Moore- field Township, including the three acres on which is situated the family home, at Villa. Mr. Yake is a stockholder in the Merchants & Mechan- ics Building & Loan Association at Springfield, and in addition to look- ing after the affairs of his farm, in the northeast quarter of Section 21. Moorefield Township, he has proved exceptionally successful as a dealer in livestock, his judgment of values in this line being virtually authori- tative. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he is affiliated with the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.
September 28, 1895, marked the marriage of Mr. Yake to Miss Ella McConneha, who was bom near New Moorefield, this county, in 1867. They have no children.
Spalding Wesley Bishop, a retired citizen of Springfield, living at 622 Linden Avenue, was in service nearly a third of a century in the city police department, and is honored and respected as one of the oldest minions of law and order in the city.
Mr. Bishop was bom in Springfield Township, in November, 1849, and represents one of the earliest families established in Qark County. He is a son of John and Elizabeth (El well) Bishop, and he and his father were bom in the same house. Elizabeth Elwell was bora in
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Greene County, Ohio, daughter of Israel Elwell, a native of that county. John Bishop was a son of Edward and Tabitha (Winchester) Bishop, the latter a native of Clark County. Edward Bishop was born in New Jersey, son of Moses Bishop, who died in that state. The widow of Moses Bishop married a Mr. Tremble. This Mr. Tremble was a western pioneer, coming by raft on the Ohio River in 1808, along with Benham and Hunter. They were three months on the way, largely due to the fact that they stopped oflf at different points to survey the country for a prospective location. In that year Tremble entered a tract of land in Clark County. In 1813, after accompanying Captain Benham with troops to Fort Recovery during the War of 1812, he returned and took possession of this land. In 1814 it became the property of. Edward Bishop, and remained in the Bishop family until 1912, for practically a century. John Bishop and Elizabeth Elwell were married in 1848, and then settled on the old homestead, remaining there until 1875, when they moved to Hardin County, Ohio, where John Bishop died. His widow passed away in Springfield in 1914. Of their children Spalding Wesley is the oldest ; James is deceased ; Melissa lives at Yellow Springs, widow of George Pearson; Anna is the widow of Elwood Cusic, and lives in Chicago; Edward is at Seattle, Washington; Katie is the widow of Jef- ferson Mahoney, of Chicago.
Spalding Wesley Bishop remained at the old home, acquiring a dis- trict school education, and in September, 1873, married Mary Burns. She was bom at Boston, Massachusetts, daughter of Thomas and Cath- erine (Tifney) Bums, natives of the same state. After his marriage Mr. Bishop rented a farm in Springfield Township two years and then moved to Harmony, Ohio, and farmed and operated a ditching machine for seven years. On leaving the county he came to Springfield, and for three years was employed in a wholesale fruit house. At the conclusion of that employment he went on the police force, under Mayor O. S. Kelly, and his thirty-two years' service with the police department ended in 1919, in which year he was retired. Mr. Bishop was reared a Metho- dist, is a democrat in politics, and is affiliated with Lodge No. 146, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows.
He and his wife had six children : John, Harry and Florence, all of whom died in early childhood ; Hanford, of Detroit, Michigan, who mar- ried Gertmde Smith and has two children; Vivian and Constance; Fan- nie, who died when twenty-three years of age; and Clarence, who lives with his father and married Beula Dennis.
William McKay Runyan, M. D., is a native of Clark County and is one of the active and progressive young physicians and surgeons of Springfield.
He was bom at Catawba, Clark County, December 9, 1895, son of Percy E. and Mabel Anna (Keesecker) Runyan, his father a native of Catawba and his mother of Springfield. His paternal grandparents were Milton and Mary (McClellan) Runyan, the former having been iden- tified with some of the pioneer milling operations of Clark County. The maternal grandparents were Aaron and Elizabeth (Ensley) Keesecker, Aaron Keesecker having been a pioneer school teacher of Clark County. Percy Runyan for many years was active in educational affairs of Clark
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County, but since 1920 has lived retired. He and his wife had the fol- lowing children: Helen, Mrs. Howard Ream of Springfield; Doctor William M.; Philip, of Cleveland, Ohio; Marjory, wife of Clayton Jen- kinson, of Springfield; and Mary Elizabeth, who lives with her father and mother at Springfield.
William McKay Runyan was educated in the grammar and high schools and attended Wittenberg College and also the Willis Business College at Springfield. He prepared for his profession in the University of Cincinnati, where he graduated M.D. in 1920. He had one year of additional training and experience in the Jewish Hospital at Cincinnati, and then return^ to Springfield and succeeded in building up a fine practice. His offices and home are at 2104 East Main Street. Doctor Runyan is a member of the Clark County, Ohio State and American Medical Associations.
June 16, 1920, he married Miss Mabel Kolb, who was bom in Medina County, Ohio, daughter of John V. and Alvaretta (Fisher) Kolb. They have one daughter, Margaret Louise, born July 8, 1922. Doctor and Mrs. Runyan are members of the United Brethren Church. He is a republican, and is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge and fra- ternal order of Eagles at Springfield.
Charles Elihu Ballard. The profession of law at Springfield is ably represented by Charles Elihu Ballard, who has had a successful and busy professional career, in which he has attained a high place in his calling. During the twenty-three years that he has practiced at Spring- field he has not only established a high personal reputation for ability and character, but has also served acceptably in positions of trust and respon- sibility.
Mr. Ballard was bom in August, 1865, on a farm in Clinton County, Ohio, and is a son of Abram and Mary J. (Oren) Ballard. David Bal- lard, the great-great-grandfather of Charles E. Ballard, was born in Vir- ginia, and in 1800 came to the present site of Wilmington, Ohio. A Quaker in religious faith, he served as preacher at Quaker meeting, and was probably the first of that denomination in that part of the coun- try. His son, John Ballard, the g^eat-grand father of Charles E. Ballard, accompanied his father to Wilmington, in which locality he entered Gov- ernment land and engaged in agricultural pursuits during the remainder of his life. Joseph Ballard, the grandfather of Charles, was born at Wilmington, in 1812, and married Susanna Stillings, who had been brought from Virginia to Clinton County by her parents about 1825, the family traveling overland in true pioneer fashion.
Abram Ballard was born in Clinton County, Ohio, where he was given a country school education, and on attaining his majority followed in the footsteps of his forefathers and adopted the vocation of farming, which he followed throughout his life. He was a man of industry and probity, and in his death, which occurred in 1913, his community lost a reliable and public-spirited citizen. Mr. Ballard married Miss Mary J. Oren, who died in 1892, a daughter of Elihu and Jane (Newcomb) Oren, the former bom in Tennessee, whence he came with his father, John Oren, to Clinton County, Ohio, in 1810. Elihu Oren was a farmer and schoolteacher, and during the Civil war and prior thereto was an ardent
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Union man and abolitionist. His home served as a station on the Under- ground Railway, and he assisted many slaves to the securing of their freedom by helping to send them to a safe refuge in Canada. He mar- ried in Clark County in 1830, and immediately thereafter moved to Clinton County, where he spent the rest of his life. He and the mem- bers of his family belonged to the Society of Friends. The children bom to Abram and Mary J. (Oren) Ballard were: Clara, who died at Adrian, Michigan, in September, 1921, as the wife of Hiram Arnold; Charles Elihu, of this review; and Joseph F., who is the owner of a model farm in Clinton County.
Charles Elihu Ballard attended the public schools of his home local- ity, following which he pursued a course at Wilmington College. He then took up his professional studies at the Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated in 1894 with the degree of Bachelor of Law, and immediately thereafter commenced his professional labors at South Charleston. After five years he decided that Springfield offered a wider field for the demonstration of his abilities, and he accordingly opened an office at this city, which has since been the scene of his success. He has always practiced independently and has carried on a general law business. For four years, 1913, 1914, 1915 and 1916. he served ably as prosecuting attorney, establishing an excellent record for industry and close attention to the duties of his office. In 1890 he served as census enumerator. Mr. Ballard is a republican in politics. As a fratemalist he holds membership in Springfield Lodge No. 146, I. O. O. F., and Springfield Lodge No. 51, B. P. O. E.
In March, 1915, Mr. Ballard was united in marriage with Miss Jessie Parker, of Springfield, Ohio, daughter of William J. and Libby (Stew- art) Parker, and to this union there has come one son, Charles Jesse, bom March 1, 1916.
Benjamin W. Keifer, of Mad River Township, represents one of the old families of Clark County and has devoted his active years largely in the management of farming interests in the community where he was bom. His father, Benjamin F. Keifer, a brother of General J. Warren Keifer, was one of Clark County's most substantial farmers, and devel- oped a fine place in Mad River Township, still occupied by his children. He was bom April 22, 1821, and died December 5, 1907. It was in the early sixties that he bought eighty acres included within the present Benjamin Keifer homestead. The old house on that land is still stand- ing. In subsequent years he added to the place until he had a body of four hundred acres, and in the management of the farm and in the per- formance ot his various community duties he found ample expressions for the energies and purpose that composed his character.
Benjamin F. Keifer married Amelia Henkle, of Clark County. She died in 1873, and six of their children reached mature years. The eldest, Silas H., lived at the old homestead and died at the age of sixty-nine. Mary C. is still living on the home farm. F. Erwin has never married, and is also identified with the homestead. The fourth child is Benjamin W. Keifer. Sarah A. is the widow of William M. Drake. A. lone, the youngest, is with her brother and sister at home.
Benjamin W. Keifer was born and reared at the old homestead, and remained there with his brothers until he married, at the age of thirty-
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five, Ethel Crist, of Mad River Township. She died seven years later, leaving two children : Wilbur H., now living with his Uncle Erwin ; and Ruth A., at home. The second wife of Mr. Keifer was Margaret Wolf, who died in 1914, and her son, J. Elmer, is now attending school.
At the time of his marriage Mr. Keifer moved to the old Shella- barger farm, which had been acquired hy his father, and he has lived there ever since, superintending the cultivation of the 135 acres. He has served as a member of the local school board and is active in the republican party. He is a member of the Yellow Springs Methodist Episcopal Church, the church in which his parents worshiped. He is also a member of the Farm Bureau.
William Henry Bitner. In business activities that in the highest degree constitute a public service, and in a personal career that repre- sents a singular combination of adversity and persistent will to over- come misfortune, the life story of William Henry Bitner is one of the most interesting that can be told of any citizen of Clark County. Mr. Bitner is general manager of the Springfield Dairy Products Company. He helped organize this corporation, and its growth and success has been due to his efforts more than to those of any other individual.
Mr. Bitner was bom August 18, 1855, in Adams County, Pennsyl- vania, representing the third generation of the Bitner family in this country. His grandfather, Henry Bitner, came from Germany and set- tled in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The old Bitner family Bible brought from Germany was printed 150 years ago and is still carefully preserved in the home of William H. Bitner. The father of the Spring- field business man was Henry Bitner, who was bom in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and for a number of years operated a grist mill, later a hotel at Mummasburg, Pennsylvania, and from that town he moved to Biglerville, Adams County, where he was in the butcher business until 1862. In that year he enlisted in the Union Army and served about twelve months, until severely wounded. After his army service he was in the nursery business at Biglerville, then rented his land and became a merchant. He lived in Adams County until his death. Henry Bitner married Nancy Glass, a native of Franklin County. The old Glass home- stead owned by her grandparents is still in the family. She also died in Adams County. The children of Henry Bitner and Nancy Glass were Jennie, Elizabeth, William H., George, Enna and Alice.
William H. Bitner was about eight years old when the great battle of Gettysburg was fought. He shared in the excitement and turmoil incident to the invasion of Southern Pennsylvania by Lee's army. The family at that time lived in a small town named Heidelberg. This was ten miles from Gettysburg, scene of the three days' battle in July, 1863. However, some of the events of that campaign came under the eyes of the boy and made impressions that can never be effaced from his mem- ory. He relates that on the day before the battle the Confederate troops came to the quiet little town of Heidelberg and camped there, tearing down the residents' fences to feed their fires, and a large detachment settled on a vacant lot immediately next to the Bitner home. At first they demanded all the food in the house, and then gave the family three minutes to vacate the premises. His father had fortunately driven his
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horses to Lancaster, and thus saved them. He was preparing to leave the home to the invaders when the order to vacate was suddenly counter- manded and they were not further disturbed. The great battle of Get- tysburg came to an end on Friday, although smoke of gun powder still hung over the field on Sunday, when William H. Bitner, accompanied by two others, went to view the scene. It was a terrible sight, horses and men lying so close together that the horrified visitors could scarcely put foot on the ground. The great Lutheran College had been thrown open as a hospital, and every poor mangled body in which there still remained a spark of life had been gathered up and crowded in this build- ing in the hope of easing their sufferings. This was no sight proper for a child of eight years, and probably William Bitner was one of the few ever an eye-witness of such an appalling scene on American soil. He walked ten miles to the scene of the battle and then tramped over the grounds, returning to his home after covering a distance of twenty-five miles, and all that time had not a morsel to eat.
Mr. Bitner since he was nine years of age has been self-supporting, starting out at that time to work on farms in the neighborhood at monthly wages. It is literally true that from that age he has been a producer and doer of things. At the age of fourteen his arm was badly torn by a circular saw, and until he was seventeen he worked on a farm and then for two years was employed in an iron ore mine at Pinegrove, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Not long afterward a cave-in occurred in the mine, and he was taken out for dead. After this experi- ence he resumed farm work, and in August, 1875, a young man of twenty years, he came to Clark County, Ohio. During the next several years he continued as a farm laborer, and then came the third accident, when he was run over by a heavily laden wagon. Still later, while operating his threshing machine and saw mill, he fell from a log and broke his 1^. These injuries interfered with but did not balk his stead- fast ambition to succeed, and he went back with renewed energies after each misfortune.
Mr. Bitner began farming on his own account in 1883, when he rented the Creighton farm south of Springfield. It was on that farm that he made his start in the dairy business in 1884. In April, 1885, he moved to the Snyder farm north of Springfield, and he lived there for fourteen years. In October, 1898, he bought the farm of Cornelius Miller, his father-in-law, and that has been his home for the past twenty- two years, though in the meantime by purchase the area of the f^rm has been increased to two hundred and twenty acres. The improvements on this farm constitute one of the notable country places of Clark County. Besides all the building equipments devoted to the use of stock and the dairying industry there are six dwelling houses.
Mr. Bitner has been actively identified with the dairy industry in Clark County for nearly forty years. He was one of the promoters of and bought and paid for the first stock, in 1902, in the Springfield Pure Milk Company. From its organization and incorporation in 1903 he was genersil manager and a director. In 1919 this company was con- solidated with the Home Dairy and Ice Cream Company, and the busi- ness was then incorporated as the Springfield Dairy Products Company, with Mr. Bitner retained as general manager. He was one of the first
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practical dairymen in the county to become an enthusiastic advocate of the highest standards of purity, and he has done much to extend the use of this wholesome food product. He was the pioneer in pasturizing the milk supply of Clark County. The corporation of which he is the active head now owns and operates seven plants in Clark County, and it is a business as closely identified with the vital welfare of the people as any other industry.
Mr. Bitner is also a director in the Lagonda National Bank, the Morris Plan Bank and the Springfield Coal and Ice Company. He is a member of the Rockway Lutheran Church, and for the past twenty-five years has been superintendent of its Sunday school. In many other ways he has co-operated with and has contributed to the success of move- ments for the promotion of general welfare.
December 28, 1880, Mr. Bitner married Elmira A. Miller, daughter of Cornelius and Henrietta (Kieffer) Miller, old residents of Clark County. Mr. and Mrs. Bitner have two daughters, Etta B. and Grace M., both graduates of Wittenberg College. Etta is the wife of Dr. J. F. Browne, a well-known Springfield dentist, and they have a daugh- ter and son, Jean and William Bitner. Grace is the wife of Harry Clink, of Clark County, and they also have two children, Robert and Myra,
John Pfeifer, who is vice president and factory manager of the Springfield Auto Lock Company, has the further distinction of being the inventor of the modem and valuable device for the manufacturing of which this company was organized. He has exceptional inventive talent, has taken out sixty patents on cash registers, five on change- makers, and various patents on grave vaults, dictaphones, morgue tables, automatic curtain-hangers, signal devices, and locks for automobiles.
Mr. Pfeifer was born at Springfield, Ohio, on the 9th of June, 1866, and is a son of the late Charles and Elizabeth (Berg) Pfeifer, who were bom in Germany, whose marriage was solemnized in Pennsylvania, and who established their home at Springfield, Ohio, in the early '60s. Charles Pfeifer, a skilled blacksmith, here entered the employ of the Mast & Foos Company, in the large manufacturing plant of which he held a position as foreman for many years. He was fifty-one years of age at the time of his death, in 1895, and his widow passed away in 1920, at the age of seventy-three years.
In addition to receiving the discipline of the public schools of his native city, John Pfeifer took courses in bookkeeping and mechanical drawing, under the direction of private instructors. In 1881, at the age of fifteen years, he entered upon an apprenticeship in the tool-making department of the St. John Machine Company, at Springfield. Four years later he went to Cincinnati and entered the employ of the Eclipse Sewing Machine Company, but within a few months he transferred his services to the Dueber Watch Works at Newport, Kentuckv. In 1887 he took a position with the Fay Watch Case Company, at Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York, where he won his first assignment as a fore- man in the tool department when he was in his nineteenth year.
In 1900 Mr. Pfeifer returned to Springfield and became foreman of the tool room of the St. John Sewing Machine Company, but two and one-half years later he went to Dayton and entered the employ of the
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great National Cash Register Company, in the tool department of the plant of which he spent the next five years. He then re-entered the employ of the St. John Sewing Machine Company, and a year later he returned to Dayton with the National Cash Register Company, for which corporation he thereafter did important research and experimental work. On his return to his native city he organized a company for the manu- facturing of the Champion Cash Register, which was invented and pat- ented by him, but three years later he sold these interests to the Mast & Foos Company and joined this corporation in the capacity of super- intendent of its cash-register department. Two years later the company sold its cash-register business to the Toledo Computing Scales Com- pany, and with the latter company Mr. Pfeifer continued his connection for the ensuing nine months. From Toledo he then returned to Spring- field, and after here being in charge of the tool room of the Foos Gas Engine Company two years he became superintendent of the Standard Trimmer Company of this city. A year later he resumed his alliance with the Foos Gas Engine Company, as foreman of the tool room, and he was advanced to the office of general superintendent of the plant, a position which he retained five years. He then, in July, 1920, organized the Springfield Auto Lock Company, which is developing an important industrial enterprise in the manufacturing of automatic automobile locks and other devices likewise invented and patented by him. He is an active and valued member of the Springfield Engineers Club and is one of the progressive and representative business men of his native city. He and his wife are communicants of St. John's Lutheran Church.
In 1889 Mr. Pfeifer wedded Miss Lillian Bauer, who was born in the City of Cincinnati, a daughter of Frederick Bauer. They have one child. Hazel, who married Arthur Desher, of Springfield, and who now reside at Ford City, Pennsylvania, and have two children, Bettie and Helen.
Isaac Kay, M. D. During the earlier days of its history Clark County numbered among its honored, beloved and effective citizens Dr. Isaac Kay, who for many years ministered to the ills of his fellowmen as a physician, and won their veneration and respect because of his many enobling characteristics. He came of a long line of honorable ancestry of Quaker origin, and his wife came of the same sturdy stock. Their ancestors belonged to the original William Penn colony, having come to Penn's grant of land from Yorkshire, England.
Doctor Kay was bom near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, December 8, 1828, which continued to be his home until 1836 when he was brought by his parents to Preble County, Ohio. When but eighteen years of age he began the study of medicine, having decided to become a physician, and had for his preceptor Dr. William Gray, of Lewisburg. Subse- quently he pursued further his medical studies in the old Starling Med- ical College, at Columbus, Ohio, and was graduated therefrom, after four years, in 1849, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Until 1853 he was engaged in the practice of his chosen profession at Lewisburg, but in May of that year came to Springfield and entered upon a long and successful practice. Not only did he attain to prominence in this calling, but he also achieved distinction as an author and public speaker on medical subjects. As a physician he stood without a superior in his
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day, but he was equally prominent in the civic, economical and moral development of his community. To his marriage with Clara M. Deck- ert, solemnized November 27, 1852, two sons were born, Charles S., a sketch of whom follows; and Clarence H. Doctor Klay's work is ccrni- pleted, but the results accomplished by him live on and will have their effect upon posterity for many years to come.
Charles S. Kay. The influence of an intellectual home and high- minded parents has long been held to be of paramount importance in determining . the life work of those who win a prominent place in the world, and the effects of such admirable surroundings can easily be seen in the work of Charles S. Kay, one of the most widely-known men of Clark County, a leading factor in the life of Springfield, and a pur- poseful statesman of unusual ability. He was bom at Miamisburg, Mont- gomery County, Ohio, November 4, 1853, a son of Dr. Isaac and Clara M. (Deckert) Kay.
It is usual for the youth of this land to take some time, after reach- ing their majority, to find their true vocation in life, and such was the case with Mr. Kay. It is to be presumed that his boyhood was passed in a normal manner, attending the public schools, having his share of boyhood fights, and possibly playing "hookey," but in the end he acquired a sound, practical education and laid the foundation of character long noted for its strength and reliability. He developed a predeliction for literature and early in life became a contributor to the newspapers of Springfield and Cincinnati. Later on he engaged in commercial lines, and for twenty years was treasurer for the Superior Drill Company. Since terminating that connection Mr. Kay has largely devoted his ener- gies to literary pursuits, and his "column" in the Springfield Daily Sun is eagerly looked for by hundreds and is quoted from extensively. One of the originators of the Citizens National Bank of Springfield, he has continued as one of its directors ever since. In addition to this con- nection he is financially interested in several other of Springfield's com- mercial institutions and civic organizations. In religious belief he is a Baptist. For some years he has maintained membership with the Com- mercial and Lagonda clubs, and has served as president of the latter. He is a Knight-Templar member of the Free and Accepted Masons.
In 1893 Mr. Kay wedded Miss Belle C. Gunn, a daughter of Capt. John C. Gunn, of Lexington, Kentucky, and the four children bom to this union were named: Clarence M., Edith W., Claribel and Robert. While the business career of Mr. Kay necessitated his being much in public life, he has never aspired to prominence and his honors in this respect have come entirely unsolicited, and were accorded him by the republicans. As a public speaker his services are much in demand, and his addresses, covering a wide range of subjects, demonstrates his ver- satility. In 1916 Mr. Kay was elected to the Ohio State Assembly from Clark County, and he has since held the office by re-election. He has introduced bills of a constructive nature now on the statute books, and stands high among the legislators of Ohio. The legislative handbook issued by state authority in 1920, had the following to say of him :
"A citizen of the highest type and a gentleman of perfect poise and kindly human sympathies predominating his general character, the rep-
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resentatdve of Clark County in the Eighty-second and Eighty-third Gen- eral Assemblies of Ohio, was in every respect well equipped for the duties of legislator. Although an effective speaker Mr. Kay exerted his influence in legislation more by his personal work and his writings than by oratory."
Charles F. McGilvray has been a resident of Springfield since 1884 and has been continuously identified with the Robbins & Myers Foundry, of which corporation he is now the president.
Mr. McGilvray was born in Hillsboro County, New Hampshire, on the 22d of January, 1849, aixd is a son of Thurston and Mary Ann (BuUard) McGilvray. His grandfather, Jacob McGilvray, was a school- mate of Horace Greeley, the great-grandfather, whose personal name was probably Abel, having come to America from Scotland, family tra- dition being to the effect that he changed the original spelling of the name (McGillory) to the present form. Thurston McGilvray was born at Petersboro, New Hampshire, and his wife at Dublin, that state. In 1850 he made the overland journey to California, where the gold excite- ment was then at its height, and there his death occurred in 1857. His widow continued to reside in New Hampshire until her death, many years later, they having been the parents of three sons, of whom Charles F. of this review is the youngest.
Charles F. McGilvray began working on a New Hampshire farm when he was a lad of eleven years, and he attended the neighboring schools during the winter terms until he was fifteen years old. He then went to Boston, where he was variously employed uiitil he was eighteen, when he entered upon an apprenticeship in an iron foundry, his wages being 75 cents a day the first year, $1.00 the second year, and $1.25 the third year. Workmen then applied themselves from twelve to fourteen hours a day, and no trade unions existed to dictate terms. After work- ing a few years as a journeyman at his trade Mr. McGilvray became superintendent of the foundry department of the New York State Reformatory at Elmira, where he remained until 1884, when he came to Springfield, Ohio, to assume the position of superintendent and gen- eral manager of the Robbins & Myers Foundry, with which he has con- tinued his executive connection during the long intervening years. About three years after coming to Springfield he acquired an interest in the business, and he became president of the corporation upon the death of the former incumbent, Mr. Myers. From a general foundry the plant expanded its functions to include the manufacturing of electric fans, and eventually the manufacturing of electric motors became the primary function. Under the effective direction of Mr. McGilvray the industry has expanded into one of broad scope and importance. When he came here the foundry based its operations on a capital of about $25,000, and the force of employes numbered only thirty-five. Now the corporation employs thousands of men, with a branch plant at Brantford, Ontario, Canada, and has assets of more than $13,000,000.
Mr. McGilvray is a staunch republican but is essentially a business man rather than a politician. In 1913 he was elected mayor of Spring- field, and in 1917 he was re-elected. He served two years of his second term and then resigned, owing to the exactions of his private business
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affairs. His administration, careful and businesslike, met with distinct popular approval. In the Masonic fraternity Mr. McGilvray has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and is a member of the Mystic Shrine. He is vice president of the Mad River National Bank at Springfield, is a valued member of the Springfield Chamber of Com- merce and the local Rotary Club, and is a member also of the Lagonda and Country clubs, and the Dayton Bicycle Club and the Mystic Shrine Club, both of Dayton, this state.
In 1874, at Petersboro, New Hampshire, Mr. McGilvray wedded Miss Addie Gray.
In the past few years Mr. McGilvray has given but minor attention to business affairs, and his success stands in salutary evidence of what may be achieved by an American youth who is ready to fight the battle of life for himself, to meet and overcome obstacles and to press forward with confidence and assurance toward the goal of independence and worthy material prosperity.
Perry M. Stewart, president of the Miami Deposit Bank at Yel- low Springs, Greene County, is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of Clark County, and other personal sketches in this volume give ample data concerning this sterling family which, in successive gen- erations, has been one of prominence and influence in connection with the civic and industrial development and advancement of Clark County.
Mr. Stewart was bom on the old homestead farm of his father in Greene Township, this county, and the date of his nativity was July 6, 1866. He remained on the home farm until he had attained to his legal majority, and the education which he gained in the local schools was supplemented by his attending Antioch College, at Yellow Springs. After two years of service as clerk in a general store at Selma, Clark County, Mr. Stewart was for two years a deputy in the office of the county audi- tor. He then received appointment as deputy county treasurer, in which position he served four years, 1897-1901, under James M. Todd. The record which he made in this connection was such as to meet popular approval, as shown in the fact that in 1900 he was elected county treas- urer. At the expiration of his four years' term in this important fiscal office he became associated with Robert Elder in purchasing the stock and business of the Miami Deposit Bank at Yellow Springs. The insti- tution was at the time in the hands of a receiver, and its deposits were about $30,000. In assuming control of this financial institution Messrs. Stewart and Elder incorporated the same with a capital stock of $10,000 and opened it as a private bank. Four years later, in 1909, it was incor- porated as a state bank, with a capital of $25,000, its deposits having by this time been increased to $125,000. In 1920, with increasing business of substantial order, it was found expedient to raise the capital stock to $50,000, which is the present base of operations. The bank now has a surplus fund of $40,000 and deposits aggregate fully $300,000, each successive year showing an expansion in the business, which is conducted along progressive but duly careful and conservative lines. In 1916 the bank building was remodeled and a modem equipment installed in the banking offices, which has the best type of vaults, including one with safety-deposit boxes. The stock of the bank is held locally, and as its
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president Mr> Stewart has given a signally able and effective administra- tion. He and Mr. Elder have recently organized and established a bank at South Charleston, Clark County.
Mr. Stewart is generically a republican in political allegiance, but has now retired from active participation in political affairs. In the Masonic fraternity he is past master of Yellow Springs Lodge, A. F. and A. M., which he has represented in the grand lodge of the state, and. in the Scottish Rite of the time-honored fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree. He and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church in their home city, and here he served several years as a trustee of Antioch College.
At the age of thirty-four years Mr. Stewart wedded Miss Irene B. Black, of Ross County, and they have three children: Mildred, Russell and Mary. The elder daughter is a student in Antioch College.
Richard Stanley Lucas. Undoubtedly, while some men achieve success along certain lines and in certain professions, there are also indi- viduals who are bom to them, their natural leanings and marked talents pointing unmistakably to the career in which they subsequently reach distinction. With some the call of the pulpit must be obeyed; to others the science of medicine appeals ; the business field or the political rostrum engage many, while there are still others who early see in their visions of the future their achieving in the law as the summit of their ambition. To respond to this call, to bend every energy in this direction, to broaden and deepen every possible highway of knowledge and to enter finally upon this chosen career and find its reward worth while, has been the happy experience of Richard Stanley Lucas, one of the leading younger members of the Qark County bar, engaged in practice at Springfield.
Mr. Lucas was bom at Springfield, September 9, 1894, and is a son of Rushville R. and Mary Elizabeth (McComb) Lucas, the former a • native of .Bloomville, Seneca County, Ohio, and the latter of Newark, this state. The paternal grandfather of Mr. Lucas was Richard J. Lucas, who was bom in Seneca County, Ohio, ai\d the maternal grandparents were William and Mary (Mitchell) McComb, natives of Ireland. Rush- ville R. Lucas came to Springfield in young manhood and here married Miss McComb and for many years was foreman in the woodworking department of the Metallic Casket Company. He died November 11, 1914, Mrs. Lucas having passed away January 26, 1914. They were the parents of the following children : William E., city engineer of Spring- field; Lester, of Ocala, Florida; Charles Mitchell, an employe of the Big Four Railroad, Springfield; Robert R., a sanitation engineer and contractor of Springfield; Richard Stanley; and* Helen Elizabeth, of Ontario, Canada.
Richard Stanley Lucas attended the public schools of Springfield and after preparing himself in the Woodward High School and the Springfield High School, entered the law department of the University of Cincinnati, where he took honors and was graduated in 1917. He was admitted to the bar of Kentucky, December 16, 1915, when only twenty-one years of age, and to the Ohio bar in June, 1917, and com- menced the practice of law with the firm of Jelke, Clark & Forchheimer, at Cincinnati, in December, 1917. His career was interrupted by the
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World war, and January 5, 1918, he came to Springfield and enlisted in the Aviation Service, following which he was at 3ie Ohio State Uni- versity Ground School for three months. He was next sent to Chanute Field, Rantoul, Illinois, where he spent six months and next was trans- ferred to Camp Grant and recommended for a Second Lieutenant's com- mission. He remained at that camp until the close of the war, and was honorably discharged December 4, 1918. He at once returned to Spring- field, where he took an office with T. J. McCormick, in the firm of McCormick, Lucas, Nevins & Carpenter, third floor of the M. & M. Building. During his comparatively short career in his^ profession he has made rapid progress and has gained a place high in the estimation of his associates.
Mr. Lucas is unmarried. He belongs to the Christ Episcopal Church of Springfield, and in politics is a republican. He belongs to Kissel! Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Springfield; the Masonic Consistory, and the Antioch Shrine, A. A. O. N. M. S., at Dayton; Springfield Lodge No. 51, B. P. O. E.; Springfield Lodge F. O. E., and the college fra- ternities of Phi Kappa Kappa and Phi Alpha Delta. He belongs also to the Columbus (Ohio) Athletic Club, and his professional connections include membership in the Clark County Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association.
Hon. John M. Good. That deep love of Nature, as the handiworic of God, which invests the flowers, the plants and the trees with a kind of personality that is companionable, is not given to every man to experi- ence, but where this gift is bestowed the world finds one in whom yet lingers the faith and gentleness of childhood combined with the strength, patience and courage of maturity. During the long life of the late Hon. John M. Good, of Springfield, he passed through many of the hard experiences that seem, in some way, a necessary part of development, but throughout his career he maintained his love of Nature, .and it was this quality, perhaps, that made him known as a florist all over the land. He is best remembered to the people, however, as one of the city's most upright and public-spirited citizens, and as one of the best mayors Springfield ever had.
John M. Good was bom at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, December 2, 1853, a son of Samuel and Caroline (Fisher) Good. The father was born at Johnstown, August 13, 1826, and died at Springfield, January 25, 1892; and the mother was born at Ligonier, Pennsylvania, July 9, 1829, and died at Springfield, October 8, 1916. Samuel Good was a son of John and Sarah (Singer) Good, natives of Pennsylvania. Mathias Fisher, the maternal great-uncle of John M. Good, was captured by the Indians at Fort Tecumseh, near Springfield, while serving on one of Clark's expeditions into this section of Ohio, but escaped from his cap- tors at Fort Niagara and made his way back to his Pennsylvania home. John M. Good went with his parents to Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia), when he was a lad of about six years of age, and was reared at Cherry Camp, the home of the family. He received a common school education and learned the machinist's trade, and was working in the shops of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway at Huntington, West Virginia, when a strike came on. Becoming disgusted with con-
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ditions, he left Huntington and quit his trade, coming to Springfield in 1877 and securing employment with C. A. Reese, a florist. Later, with C. L. Reese he entered the florist business, under the firm name of Good & Reese, which in 1903 was incorporated as the Good-Reese Company, Mr. Good at that time becoming president of the concern, a position which he held until the time of his death. The history of the florist industry of Springfield is one of the most interesting points in the devel- opment of the city, and John M. Good's name and achievements will not soon be forgotten.
As a business man Mr. Good was a success in every sense of the term, but it was as a worth-while, progressive and patriotic citizen that he is remembered by the conmiimity at large, for he had a part in every civic and welfare movement that was inaugurated during his time. He was an enthusiastic worker in the Young Men's Christian Association, the Red Cross and kindred organizations, and took leading parts not only in the different drives for funds, but gave freely from his own pocket, and during the World war contributed unstintingly of his time and means to all war activities. But his part in temperance matters gained him greater prominence, probably, thaii any other thing. He was an uncompromising "dry" man, and labored in season and out for the cause of prohibition, local and national. He was a prime mover in organizing the Lincoln-Lee Legion, which organization fought so hard and eflfectively for the constitutional amendment providing for prohibi- tion. On December 10, 1913, when over 1,000 men^rs of that Legion were on parade at Washington, D. C, Mr. Good's young son, John M., Jr., carried an American flag in the parade, contrary to regulations which then and now prohibit the carrying of bamners and flags in parades in our National capital. But an exception was made in the case of young Good, a mere lad, and he proudly and triumphantly bore his flag to the White House and to the capitol building, the only instance of the rule regarding flags having been suspended before or since.
In 1900 Mr. Good was elected mayor of Springfield, gave a good business administration and gained the confidence of the people, but would not accept a renomination, not caring for public office. He was a member of Clark Lodge No. 101, F. and A. M.; Palestine Com- mandery No. 33, K. T. ; Dayton Consistory, S. R., thirty-second degree, and Antioch Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He belonged to the First Lutheran Church and to the Young Men's Christian Association. He died at his home in Springfield, universally mourned, February 16, 1921, being survived by his widow and two children.
On December 5, 1901, Mr. Good was united in marriage with Miss Jessie Minnick, who was bom at Springfield, daughter of George and Jennie (Hamilton) Minnick, who came to Springfield from West Vir- ginia. To Mr. and Mrs. Good there were bom two children: Helen and John M., Jr.
Paul A. Staley. Commercial law is so great a legal field that the practitioners of the large cities of the United States have been obliged to divide it into special departments. One of the most important of these is patent, copyright and trademark law, which in these days of abundant invention, authorship and commercial piracy, has itself assumed huge
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proportions. To attain a success in this l^al domain requires untiring patience, keen business judgment and a broad knowledge of mechanics, commercialism and the practical affairs of life. It is, in fact, doubtful whether any branch of the law which has been specialized demands so wide a range of practical knowledge as this. To have acquired eminence in it, as has Paul A. Staley, senior member of the firm of Staley & Bowman, patent attorneys of Springfield, is therefore high tribute to precise and thorough practical wisdom, coupled with good judgment in its application.
Mr. Staley was bom at Mechanicsburg, Champaign County, Ohio, May 1, 1859, a son of Stephen and Emma (Rathbun) Staley, the father of Holland and the mother of English descent. Stephen Staley was educated in the public schools and before marriage he and his wife taught school. Later he learned the miller's trade, and for a number of years was engaged in that business and was also identified with other manu- facturing interests in Champaign County. Four children were bom to Mr. Staley and his worthy wife, as follows: William C. ; Paul A., of this review; Elizabeth, who married M. A. Saxteder; and Florence, who married Joseph E. Wing.
Paul A. Staley was educated in the public schools of Mechanicsburg and after leaving school went to work in the machine shops of that place. Having inherited splendid mechanical and business ability, his progress was rapid and he soon mastered what the machine shops offered him and became a mechanical engineer. Coming to Springfield in 1878, he became identified with the Whitely Manufacturing Company as mechan- ical draughtsman, later becoming interested in the subject of patents. In 1880 Mr. Staley went to Chicago, in which city he read law and was also engaged in preparing mechanical plans and specifications. He was admit- ted to the bar at Chicago in 1883, and in 1884 returned to Springfield and opened a law office in this city, soon after which he was directing his full energies along the line of patent law. In that work he has pro- gressed from year to year until he is now one of the best known and most successful patent attomeys in Ohio, with a patronage extending to all parts of the United States.
Aside from the law, Mr. Staley has been and still is identified with the general business interests of Springfield. He was president of the Home Telephone Company, vice president of the Springfield Metallic Casket Company; vice president of the H. V. Bretney Company, vice president of the Igou Manufacturing Company ; and served as receiver for the Superior Mill and Manufacturing Company and the Trump Manu- facturing Company; and at present is acting in a like capacity for the Anderson & Heyer Company. He was one of the original directors and vice president of the American Tmst and Savings Company up to the time of its affiliation with the First National Bank. Likewise, he has f oimd time to interest himself in civic and community aflfairs, being at present vice president of the Board of Park Commissioners, of which board he has also served as president ; he is president of the Community Council, an association of all charitable and welfare institutions, and active in the formation of the welfare association known as the Fed- eration of Community Service for Clark County. He was for several years president of the Lagonda Club, and is a member of the Chamber
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of Commerce the Country and Rotary clubs of Springfield and of the American Patent Bar Association.
In 1889 Mr. Staley married Jamesonia Dickson, of Leavenworth, Kansas, who died in 1899, leaving two daughters, Ruth and Kate, both graduates of Wells College, who are now engaged in advanced woman educational work. In 1906 Mr. Staley married Isabel Baker, of Wau- sau, Wisconsin, and to them there have been bom four children: Mary, Louise, Paul A., Jr., and John C.
Nathaniel F. Peters. There , is no doubt but that niany of the most useful citizens have been produced in the rural regions, and that farm work prepares a man for almost any walk of life. The farmer is of necessity somewhat independent, and early learns to use his wits to provide himself with many of the necessities of life. He not only knows how to till the soil and raise stock, but is also a fair machinist and handy man, and on going from the farm into the city can turn his hand to many diflPerent kinds of work. Nathaniel F. Peters, of Springfield, is one of the farm-bom-and-bred men of Clark County, who, after a suc- cessful career as a farmer, is now profitably engaged with the Kelly Auto Truck Company.
Nathaniel F. Peters was bom in Franklin County, Virginia, October 2, 1844, a son of Samuel and Hannah (Flora) Peters, both of whom were bom, reared, married and died in Virginia. Nathaniel F. Peters was reared in his native county and was brought up on his father's homestead, where he was early taught to perform the work of the farm. The outbreak of war between the North and the South fired his young blood and, ardently espousing the Southern cause, he enlisted in the Confederate Army, became a member of Ix^ngstreet's Corps, Pickett's Division, General Lee's command, and for three years was color bearer for his company. During his service he received three gunshot wounds. His period of service was terminated by the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Courthouse, and following that event he returned home and resumed farming. However, conditions were so changed by the war that he sought new surroundings, and in 1867 came to Springfield, where he spent one year, and then went to Delaware County, Indiana, and there continued to farm and work in sawmills for two years. Returning to Virginia he became an agent for a company selling wash- ing compounds, and traveled about selling this product for two years. Following his marriage in 1869 he was engaged in farming in Franklin County, Virginia, for four years, but was not contented there for he felt that conditions were too hard during the Reconstruction period, and, having liked Clark County during the year he had lived in it, he returned to Ohio and for a year was engaged in farming in Clark County. Then, for a time, he was employed in a sawmill in the country regions, and later in one at Springfield. For some years he was a watchman for the Big Four Railroad Company, and now holds the same position with the Kelly Auto Truck Company.
On January 5, 1869, Mr. Peters was married in Franklin County, Virginia, to Julia A. Childress, who was bom at Blackwater, Franklin County, Virginia. They became the parents of the following children: Mary, who is Mrs. Lewis Overhultzer, of North Manchester, Indiana;
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Theodore, who lives at Springfield, Ohio; Daisy, who is Mrs. John Socker, of Springfield; Myrtle, who is Mrs. William Myers, of live Oak, Florida; and Harry, who lives at Springfield. Mr. Peters is a democrat, but while always giving the candidates and principles of his party a faithful support, he has not been active in politics. As a soldier Mr. Peters did what he considered his duty, offering his strength and life in defense of the cause he loved, but when it lost, he just as bravely returned to civil life and has since performed its obligations with equal courage. While his business interests have taken him away from the place of his nativity he has never lost his love for the Old Dominion, nor his pride in her history, and he is proud to be numbered as one of her sons.
Always dependable, the Kelly Auto Truck Company place implicit trust in him, and feel that they have in him one of the most faithful of their employes, and they appreciate him and his work. Among his associates Mr. Peters is held in high regard, and he has many warm, personal friends in the city and throughout the county.
Clement L. Jones, M. D., has practiced medicine in Springfield since 1910, and is one of the busy professional men of the city. He served for a few months as a captain in the Medical Corps during the great war, but without exception has devoted his time and talents fully to his private practice in internal medicine in Springfield.
Doctor Jones was bom at Winchester, Indiana, April 29, 1876, son of Levi M. and Mary (Williams) Jones. His parents were bom in Champaign County, Ohio, and both are now past fourscore years and living at Jamestown.
Qement L. Jones is the son of a physician, and he early made choice of the same vocation as his permanent career. He acquired his higher education in Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania, and graduated in medicine from Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore in 1903. After some further training and experience in the Mount Carmel Hospital at Columbus, where he was pathologist to the hos- pital, he located at Springfield in 1910, and for a number of years has had his offices in the Fairbanks Building. Doctor Jones is a member of the Clark County, Ohio State and American Medical Associations. Fratemally he is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is a Mason and Shriner. He belongs to the First Lutheran Church, and is a republican in politics.
March 3, 1917, Mr. Jones married Miss Hazel Laybourne, a native of Springfield. Tbey have one daughter, Martha, bom December 11, 1918.
Doctor Jones was commissioned Captain in the Medical Corps and entered that service September 1, 1918. He was ordered overseas, but the order was revoked while he was at Hoboken, where he was when the Armistice was signed. He received his honorable discharge from the service February 20, 1919.
Joseph Hill Rinehart, M. D. In the six years he has been located at Springfield Doctor Rinehart has not only covered a wide range of service as a physician and surgeon in private practice,. but has also done
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a great deal of hospital and other public work and for nearly a year was in the army service, part of the time in France during the World war.
Doctor Rinehart was bom at Ballard, Washington, March 21, 1891, son of Joseph Hill and Jeannie Frances (McKellar) Rinehart. His father, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, ran away from home at the time of the Civil war, served as a drummer boy and finally enlisted as a pri- vate in the ranks with an Ohio regiment of infantry. After the war he studied medicine and joined the regular army in the medical department. He was attached to the medical staflf of the regular army and was in service during General Custer's expedition against the Indians in the Northwest. At the time of the Custer massacre he was with the troops under General Reno. He was also in the regular army service at the time the Union Pacific Railroad was built. By his first marriage he had five children, all now deceased except one daughter, Mary Frances, wife of Thomas F. Stack, of Chicago. For his second wife he married Jeannie Frances McKellar, a native of Tiverton, Ontario, Canada. They were married at Billings, Montana, and soon afterward Joseph H. Rine- hart, Sr., removed to Ballard, Washington. He engaged in practice there and also -served as mayor two terms, and for two terms was a mem- ber of the State Legislature of Washington. He finally returned to Billings, Montana, and died there December 31, 1908, at the age of sixty-two. His widow still lives at Billings. Of her children Joseph H. Rinehart is the oldest. Frances Marguerite is the wife of J. M. Cornwell, of Lodge Rest, Montana ; Alma Marguerite is Mrs. Bert Rari- don, of Hardin, Montana; Lewis McKinley lives at Denver, Colorado; and Elwell Otis is a resident of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dr. Joseph Hill Rinehart spent most of his boyhood at Billings, Mon- tana, where he attended public schools. He came East for his higher education, attending the Culver Military Academy and the Culver Naval School in Indiana. He graduated there in 1910, and then entered the Medical Department of Ohio University, graduating M. D. in 1915. After graduating Doctor Rinehart was connected with the Springfield City Hospital four months, and then began private practice at Catawba in Clark County. Since July, 1916, he has been in practice at Springfield, with home and office at 1170 Lagonda Avenue.
October 19, 1912, Doctor Rinehart married, at Covington, Kentucky, Miss Ella Mabel Quigley, a native of Zanesville, Ohio, and daughter of Harry C. and Hannah (Todd) Quigley, the former a native of Zanes- ville, and the latter of England. Doctor and Mrs. Rinehart have one son, Joseph Hill, Jr., bom May 16, 1918.
Doctor Rindiart and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. He has for several years been secretary of the Pension Exam- ining Board, and is now associate surgeon on the staff of the Springfield City Hospital. He is a republican, a Royal Arch and Knight Templar Mason, and is a member of the Clark County, Ohio State and American MedicsJ Associations. He was the second post commander of the George Cultier Post of the American Legion from May, 1920, to 1921.
Doctor Rinehart was commissioned in the Medical Reserve Corps in
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the Thirty-second Battalion, and on going overseas to France he served two weeks on an operating team and was then assigned regimental sur- geon of the Three Hundred Sixteenth Engineers, Ninety-first Division, where he was with troops from Montana, Wyoming, Idaho and Wash- ington. He was in the Argonne Campaign for a time but later was transferred to Belgium and was in the battle of Lyscheldt and remained there imtil the armistice. Then for several months he was with a camp in France, went from there to St. Nazaire, and landed in the United States at Camp Merritt, New Jersey, in March. He was transferred to Camp Dix, was discharged April 18, and reached home the following day.
Joseph Webb, M. D. Soon after finishing his medical education Doctor Webb was commissioned an officer in the Medical Corps and gave two years to the service of his country during the World war. After his release from army duty he took up private practice in Spring- field, and is one of the prominent young physicians and surgeons of the city.
Doctor Webb was bom in Mad River Township of Clark County, August 4, 1888, son of George L. and Grace (Minnich) Webb. His father was bom at Peoria, Illinois, son of Joseph and Lucy Webb, natives of the same state. He became a mechanical engineer and the duties of this profession called him to numerous localities as a place of residence. He died at Donnelsville, Ohio, in 1894. His widow, now Mrs. Lee Miller, living in Springfield Township, is a daughter of Dewitt Qinton and Elizabeth (Higgins) Minnich, the former a native of Clark County and the latter bom near Eaton, Ohio.
Joseph Webb attended district school, the Oliver Branch High School, was graduated from Wittenberg College in Springfield in 1910, and soon afterward entered Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore for his med- ical training. He was graduated there in 1914, spent one year in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and for two years continued the advanced work of his profession in Leland Stanford University Medical Department at San Francisco.
In May, 1917, Doctor Webb was commissioned as First Lieutenant of the Molical Reserve Corps, was assigned to duty at Camp Keamy in California for eleven months, and was then sent to France. He had a varied routine of duty at various posts in Northern France. He was honorably discharged April 26, 1919, at ChilHcothe, Ohio, and soon afterward took up practice at Springfield. His offices are at 237 Bush- nell Annex and his residence at 2221 Elmwood Avenue.
Febmary 21, 1920, Doctor Webb married Miss Sue McFarlane, a native of Baltimore. She is a member of the Oakland Presbtyerian Church. Doctor Webb is an independent republican. He is affiliated with St. Andrew's Lodge No. 619, F. and A. M., belongs to the Scottish Rite Consistory and Shrine at Dayton, and is a member of the Ohio State and Clark County Medical Societies.
John L. Zimmerman has long been one of the honored and repre- sentative members of the bar of Clark County, and May 1, 1922, stands as the fortieth anniversary of his establishing himself in the practice of , his profession in the City of Springfield.
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Mr. Zimmerman was bom on the old homestead farm of his father, in Greene Township, on the Salem road, in Mahoning Coimty, Ohio. He is a son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Shimp) Zimmerman. His paternal grandfather, Captain Joseph Zimmerman, came from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and established his home in Mahoning County, Ohio, in 1803, he having been one of the first three settlers in the county. In 1812 he there organized a company for service in the War of 1812-15, and as captain of the same he was in active service in the command of Gen. William Henry Harrison, the old muster roll which he retained being now in the possession of his grandson, the subject of this review, who values the same as a family and historic heirloom. The Zimmerman family lineage traces back to Germany, from which country its members were driven out through religious persecution and found refuge in Swit- zerland. From that fair little republic the first representatives came to America about 1750, and it is a matter of record that numerous mem- bers of the family were aligned as patriot soldiers in the War of the Revolution.
Abraham Zimmerman was bom in what is now Mahoning County,' Ohio, in 1825, was there reared to manhood and there passed his entire life on the old home farm which was taken up by his father in the early pioneer days, when that section was a forest wilderness. This property, now one of valuable order, was granted to Capt. Joseph Zimmerman by the Government of the United States, has continuously remained in the possession of the family, and is now owned by John L. Zimmerman, of this review. Abraham Zimmerman, a man of strong character and vig- orous mentality, was long one of the influential men of his native county, was called upon to serve in various offices of local trust, including those of township trustee and justice of the peace, and he was familiarly known as 'Squire Zimmerman. He was one of the venerable pioneer citizens and native sons of Mahoning County at the time of his death, in 1918, his wife having preceded him to eternal rest and both having been devoted communicants of the Lutheran Church. Of the four children one died in infancy; Rev. J. C. Zimmerman became a distin- guished clergyman of the Lutheran Church and eventually was chosen secretary of the Board of Church Extension of the General Synod of that denomination in the United States; Catherine became the wife of Dr. Emor W. Sinon, who served as pastor of the Lutheran Church at Akron, Ohio, and both are now deceased.
John L. Zimmerman found the period of his childhood and early youth compassed by the benignant environment and influences of the old home farm, and his preliminary education was obtained in the schools • of his native county. In 1874-5 he was a student in Mount Union Col- lege, and in the following winter he was teacher in the Germantown district, Beaver Township, Mahoning County. In 1879 he was graduated in Wittenberg College, at Springfield, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. After leaving college Mr. Zimmerman read law in the office and under the preceptorship of Judge J. K. Mower, and in 1881 he was admitted to the bar of his native state. On the 1st of May, 1882, he engaged in the practice of law at Springfield, and here he has continued his professional activities during the long intervening years, which have
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brought to him secure standing as one of the leading members of the bar of Clark County.
Mr. Zimmerman has shown lively interest in all things touching the civic and material welfare of his home city, has been president of the board of trustees of the Springfield Public Library, has been for twenty- five years treasurer of his alma mater, Wittenberg College, besides which he has given effective service as president of its board of directors. In the World war period he was president of the district exemption board and was active in support of all patriotic movements in his home city and county. Though influential in the councils and campaign work of the democratic party for many years, Mr. Zimmerman has never held political office. He has been a zealous communicant of the First Lutheran Church of Springfield since 1876, and his wife likewise has been active and influential in church work. He became a member of the committee which brought about the movement to unite the various Lutheran bodies in the United States, and is now a member of the exec- utive committee of the United Lutheran Church of America. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias. He is vice president of the D. Q. Fox Company, wholesale grocers, and also of th E. W. Ross Company, a representative manufacturing con- cern of his home city. Mr. Zimmerman has built four business blocks in Springfield and has otherwise contributed to the material upbuilding of the city. As a memorial to his deceased brother and sister Mr. Zim- merman erected the fine Zimmerman Memorial Library building of Wittenberg Collie, and he thus paid also a splendid tribute to the insti- tution of which he is a graduate.
In 1889 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Zimmerman to Miss Helen E. Ballard, of Springfield, and they have two sons. Charles Bal- lard Zimmerman, the elder son, was graduated in Wittenberg College, and thereafter was for two years a student in the law department of Harvard University. In the World war he served as a major advocate with the Fourth and Eighty-second Divisions, and was in France fifteen months, within which he took part in the St. Mihiel and Argonne oflFen- sive movements, he being now a law partner of his father. John Luther, Jr., the younger son, was graduated in Wittenberg College in 1916 and in the law school of Harvard University in 1920, he being now associ- ated with his father and brother in the practice of law. He was chief quartermaster in the naval aviation service in the World war period and was stationed at Seattle, Washington.
Mrs. Lavinia Wilson. Among the old pioneer families of Clark County perhaps none did more in the way of substantial agricultural development than that of Crabill, which was founded here more than one hundred years ago. A well-known and highly esteemed descendant of this fine old family is Mrs. Lavinia Wilson, who has a wide social acquaintance at Springfield, which city has been her home for a number of years.
The first of the Crabill family to settle in Clark County was David Crabill, who was the great-grandfather of Mrs. Wilson. He was bom in Loudoun County, Virginia, in 1782, grew to manhood there and mar- ried Barbara Baer, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1788. In 1808
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they came to Clark County to carve out a home in the wilderness, and eventually David Crabill bought a tract of land in Moorefield Township. It was wild land but he was a man of industry and in the course of time cleared and greatly improved it. With other settlers of that period and locality the Crabills found themselves involved in the War of 1812, and when David marched off to serve as first sergeant in the army of Gen- eral Wayne his wife was left with little children in the lonely cabin, in constant fear of wild animals and marauding Indians. David Crabill survived the dangers he encountered and returned safely, and as he was thrifty as well as industrious, was able to leave a fair estate at the time of his death in 1836. His military services were not forgotten by the Government, and after his death his widow received a large grant of land. Her death occurred many years later. They were the parents of twelve children, all of whom are deceased: Sarah, who was the wife of George Kiser; Maria, who was the wife of Adam Yearger; John, who died in boyhood ; Thomas V., who married Sydney Yeazill ; David, who married Eliza Hedges; James and Joseph, both of whom died young; Mary, who married Joshua Crown; Susan, who was the wife of Rev. Levi E. Weir; Pierson S. ; William H. ; and Eliza, who was the wife of Oscar Jones.
Thomas V. Crabill, second son of David, was bom on the home farm in Moorefield Township, Clark County, November 2, 1810, and gave his father assistance until his own marriage on January 31, 1833, to Sydney Yeazill, who was born in Clark County, February 6, 1815, a daughter of Abraham and Mary Yeazill, also pioneers. Soon after mar- riage Mr. Crabill rented one of his father's farms and later bought it, and there he and his wife spent their lives, honored and esteemed by all who knew them. Their children were as follows : William, who mar- ried Sarah Wise; David, who married Nancy Rock; Nancy Jane, who died at the age of sixteen years; Ann Eliza, who married Joseph Win- ger ; James, who married Clara Nicklen ; Susan, who died in childhood ; i-ouisa, who married Jacob Tuttle; Lavinia, who lives at Springfield; John, who married Barbara Zimmerman ; Elizabeth, who married Alonzo Leffel; Thomas, who married Rebecca Ostot; Emma and Pearson, both of whom died in infancy ; Milton, whose first wife was Mary Leffel and whose second was Elizabeth Hiltz; and Joseph, who married first, Min- nie Smith, and second. Flora Lawrence.
Lavinia Crabill was bom on the old family homestead in Moorefield Township, Clark County, Ohio, a daughter of Thomas Voss and Sydney (Yeazill) Crabill. She attended the district schools in girlhood, and, according to the custom in old-time substantial households, had practical training under a careful and competent mother, in domestic tasks as well as the social usages of the time, for the Crabills were always hos- pitable and the large family in the old home had many friends. Her first marriage was to Thomas Walsh, who was born also in Moorefield Township, Clark County, April 15, 1837, and died in 1884. Her sec- ond marriage took place in 1886, to Michael Wilson, who was born in Harmony Township, Clark County, Ohio, March 16, 1837, and died at Springfield, November 14, 1909.
During his earlier years Mr. Wilson engaged in farming, but later retired to Springfield where, for a number of years he was engaged in
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the wholesale grocery business. He was a man of sterling character. Mrs. Wilson still occupies her comfortable residence on West High Street and takes a deep interest in all that pertains to the general wel- fare. She has long been a member of Covenant Presbjrterian Church. Her father died in September, 1884, but her mother survived until 1907.
William James Stuart. The late William James Stuart was for many years one of the substantial business men of Springfield, Ohio, and when he died this city lost one of its most representative citizens. Dur- ing the Civil war he did valient service as a Union soldier, and was equally loyal to his country during the years of peace which followed. Mr. Stuart was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, January 23, 1846, a son of Thompson and Rebecca (Holliday) Stuirt, farming people who both died in Fairfield County, Ohio. Mr. Stuart attended the public schools and academy at Bremen, Ohio, and also the college at Pleasantville, Ohio.
When the war between the two sections of our country broke out William James Stuart was still residing with his parents and notwith- standing his youth made many attempts to enlist but was just as many times refused.
Finally, however, he was accepted and became a member of Company B, Seventeenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry with which he served until the close of the war and participated in the Grand Review at Wash- ington, D. C. His regiment was a part of the First Brigade, Third Divi- sion, Fourteenth Army Corps, and his company was commanded by Capt. James T. Weakly and later by Captain Stinchcomb. Following his honor- able discharge at Louisville, Kentucky, Mr. Stuart returned to Ohio and for a time was engaged in farming and later, with some of his army comrades, opened a general merchandise store in Bremen, Ohio.
On May 2, 1870, Mr. Stuart came to Springfield, Ohio, and on May 3, 1870 he was married to Miss Dora Frances Hatcher, bom at Saltillo, Ohio, April 19, 1851, a daughter of Isaac M. and Mary Matilda (Moore) Hatcher, natives of Muskingum County, Ohio. For a number of years Mr. Stuart was employed as a clerk in the carpet department of a large dry goods store conducted by Miller and Jones.
He later went into partnership with Andrew C. Black in handling fine carpets. The building in which this latter business was conducted burned down and Mr. Stuart then bought and established a carpet cleaning and rug factory which he conducted until he was stricken with paralysis and had to retire.
He planned and built on a lot at 16 East Ward Street a fine modern residence, where his widow still maintains her home, where he died December 28, 1914.
The following children were bom to Mr. and Mrs. Stuart: OUia Wilbur, born March. 3, 1871, and died September 23, 1878; Vesta Peari, wife of W. C. Douglas of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Edna Rebecca, wife of William N. Kissinger of Lockhart, Florida.
For many years Mr. Stuart was a valued member of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church of Springfield and served on its official board and as a member of various church societies.
He was a stanch republican. From the time that it was organized he was zealous in behalf of the Grand Army of the Republic, and was adju-
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tant of Mitchell Post, at Springfield, and Mrs. Stuart is a member of the Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary of Mitchell Post G. A. R. and also of the New Century Club. She was educated in the public schools of Bremen, Ohio, and in the Young Woman's Methodist Seminary of Springfield, Ohio, now the Y. W. C. A. Building.
As a Mason, Mr. Stuart maintained membership with the Springfield Lodge, A. F. and A. M., and lived up to the highest ideals of this order, as he did to those of his church, and was a noble and sincere Christian, and the influence of his blameless life remains and will continue to be felt in the lives of his former associates for a long time to come.
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William Henry Rayner, president of Mast, Foos & Company, is one of the most representative of the solid business men of Clark County, but his skill and experience have been gained in other localities and occu- pations as well as in the present invironments. His life is a record of sustained effort, intelligently directed, and he has fairly earned his pres- ent high position in his company and community. Mr. Rayner is a native son of Ohio, having been bom at Piqua, July 24, 1854, a son of William and Catherine (Barrett) Rayner, and grandson of John and Elizabeth (Wainwright) Rayner, the former of whom was bom at Sheffield, Eng- land, August 14, 1817.
John Rayner, with his wife and six small children, sailed from Liver- pool, England, on the vessel "Edgar of London," June 30, 1830, with 109 passengers on board, and landed at New York City, August 14, 1830, after a stormy and dangerous voyage of six weeks. They settled temporarily at Cleveland, Ohio, but during the winter of 1831 John Rayner with his son and two others, started out on a wagon trip to Xenia and Old Town, Ohio, where there was an English colony, but decided later to settle permanently at Piqua, Ohio, which he did in the following spring. A man of high character John Rayner was a man of strong religious convictions, and for years was a local preacher of the Methodist denomination. By trade he was a carpenter, and contracted for and built many of the older residences and business houses of Piqua, some of which are still standing and in good repair, a monument to his skill and honesty.
William Rayner, son of John Rayner, and father of President Rayner, as a young man worked with his father in the carpenter trade, and also built several houses on his own account. He took up the trade of a pattern maker, at which he worked for several years. Following his preliminary school training in England and the United States, he had the further advantage of a two-year course at Granville College, which he completed in 1842. He, too, was a local preacher of the Meth- odist faith. In middle life he acquired land and became a farmer, his property being located on the Stillwater turnpike, about one and one-half miles northwest of Piqua, and on it he died. Catherine Barrett was his second wife and mother of President Rayner. She was a daugh- ter of William and Mariah (Turpen) Barrett, and was bom at Lebanon, Ohio, August 11, 1831. William Barrett was one of the first settlers of Darke County, Ohio.
William H. Rayner was the third son of his parents, and when he was two year^ old they took him to the farm on the Stillwater turnpike,
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above referred to, and here he was reared as any normal, healthy farmer's son, and was sent to the Beach Grove School, held in the orig- inal red brick school house of that district. When he was fifteen years old he entered the Piqua High School, from which he was graduated in May, 1873. A youth of high ambitions, he decided to seek his fortune in the West, and went to Omaha, Nebraska. Upon his arrival there he found the situation somewhat disastrous for the effects of the panic of that year were clearly felt, and many were out of employment. There- fore, not finding the opportunity he sought, he drifted back to Sigourney, Iowa, where for a brief period he worked as a carpenter, but was soon offered a position in a hardware store. Accepting it he held it until the spring of 1875, at which time he was joined by his elder brother, James, and the young men went on a cattle ranch in South Park, Colorado. Here for a year William H. Rayner was engaged in developing his natural skill and gaining experience of life from the viewpoint of a cow- boy. Later he assisted in driving a large herd of mountain cattle from South Park to Las Animas, Colorado, for rail shipment to the Eastern markets. The route lay along the Arkansas River from Canyon City to the termination of the railroad at Las Animas, which was beyond old Fort Bent, which at that time was standing in good repair.
In 1876 Mr. Rayner entered the field in which he was to achieve his signal successes, when he became an employe of Morse & Van Court, hardware merchants of Neponsett, Illinois. Returning to Ohio at the close of 1876 Mr. Rayner spent some time in the employ of Croy & Hatfield, hardware merchants of Piqua, Ohio, and went from them to Columbus, Indiana, where he was manager of a store owned by his uncle, Marshall Taylor. On March 1, 1878, Mr. Rayner entered the employ of Mast, Foos & Company, as a traveling salesman, and was soon made the Western agent for the company at its branch house at Omaha, Nebraska. About 1889 he joined the Churchill Pump Company of Omaha, which organization included the following officials : E. V. Lewis president; William H. Rayner, vice president; and A. S. Cost, secretary. This became a prosperous concern, and carried on a large wholesale business, but was finally sold to another company. On May 1, 1891, Mr. Rayner returned to Mast, Foos & Company, at Springfield, Ohio, and moved his family to this city, he in the meanwhile having married. Becoming financially interested in this company he was made a member of its board of directors, and later its president. He is also president of the Duplex Mill & Manufacturing Company of Springfield, a company he helped to organize some years ago. He belongs to several Masonic bodies, and has passed through all of the chairs of the Knights of Pythias. Early uniting with the Methodist Episcopal Church, he belongs to the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and has been a member of its official board for the past thirty years. For twelve years he was on the board of the Young Men's Christian Association. Mr. Rayner has also been a member of the board of trustees of the Clark County Historical Society for some years and is now serving as its secre- tary. His interest in natural history objects has been sustained through- out his life, and his collections of archaeological, geological and curio articles are valuable and are on exhibition at the rooms of the society. He also takes great interest in the preservation of local historical items,
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correctly claiming that the commonplace of today may be the history of tomorrow. Mr. Rayner was an early member of the Country Club, of the Lagonda Club, and came into the Commercial Club, now the Chamber of Commerce, from the old Board of Trade.
On October 18, 1881, Mr. Rayner was married to Hester M. Turk, who wa^ bom at Quindora, Kansas, September 30, 1860, but at the time of her marriage was a resident of Piqua, Ohio. Their eldest son, Wil- liam Pearce Rayner, was bom at Omaha, Nebraska, July 30, 1882, where the first ten years of their married life were passed. The second son, Anthony Edwin, was also born at Omaha, July 25, 1884; and the third son, Eugene Turk, was also bom in that same city, September 25, 1886.
Francis Marion Hagan is now rounding out the last year in a half century's active membership in the Springfield bar. He has been one of the most capable counsellors of the county, and a great and important volume of legal business has been entrusted to his care. He has also served on the bench of the Common Pleas Court, and his long career as a lawyer has been marked throughout by a fine sense of public obliga- tion and public spirit.
Judge Hagan's people were among the early settlers of Mad River Township and it was in the log cabin home of his parents near Enon that he was born June 10, 1844. His paternal grandfather Denny Hagan was bom in the north of Ireland, and his grandmother was also a native of Ireland. His maternal grandfather Peter Furay, was a native of Philadelphia, of south of Ireland extraction. Peter Furay married Mary Ann Arcronche Baubee Duplissy, a native of Canada of French-Irish extraction. Both Peter Furay and his wife lived to be ninety-one years of age. Judge Hagan's parents were Hugh and Ann Hagan. His father was bom in Pennsylvania, and devoted his active lifetime to farming in Clark County. Though he lived in a time of simple man- ners and in an isolated environment, he kept himself well posted in politics, matters of history and in the Bible. Ann Hagan, his wife, was a native of Ross County, Ohio, and was distinguished for her fine domestic virtues.
Growing up in a community where the schools presented a narrow curriculum, Judge Hagan had to get for himself the opportunities for a thorough education. He attended the common schools, became a teacher, for a time conducted a select school, and with his earnings entered Antioch College at Yellow Springs. He was prevented from graduating by ill health. With^a frail constitution in early boyhood and manhood he was unable to enter the military service at the time of the Civil war. However, he was among the home guards called out at the time of the Morgan invasion of the state. Through means acquired as a teacher and farm worker he studied law, completing his studies in the offices of Spence & Arthur at Springfield. He was admitted to the bar in 1873, and in the early years while struggling for recognition he rented quarters on Main Street, with an office in the front room, and had his own living quarters in the rear. Mr. Hagan was satisfied to permit his abilities and character to win appreciation on their own merits and in time he found himself engaged in a growing and prosperous
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general practice in the local courts and in subsequent years in the State and Federal courts of Ohio. His first important public service was rendered as City Solicitor of Springfield during 1873-74 and 1875-76. He was a very young lawyer at the time, but proved himself equal to every emergency in the office and handled many complicated legal ques- tions at a time when the city government was engaged in two of its most important constructive labors, the building and installing of a waterworks system and a sewer system.
Judge Hagan has been a liberal democrat, and in general has been in accord with the democratic party policy. This has been the minority party in Clark County, the republican majority normally running to sev- eral thousand votes. Judge Hagan was twice defeated as candidate for City Solicitor by majorities ranging from twenty-five to thirty votes, and was once elected by 1,200 votes and for his second term by 2,000 votes. He was once defeated for Common Pleas Judge by 160 votes. President Cleveland during his first term appointed Mr. Hagan post- master of Springfield, and he filled that office during 1885-88. In 1890 Governor Campbell appointed him Common Pleas Judge of Clark County for an unexpired term of three months. The Clark County Bar Associa- tion at the end of this brief service by unanimous vote made "record of their high appreciation of the marked ability and absolute impartiality and uniform courtesy with which Judge Hagan has discharged the duties of his office." Many years later Governor James M. Cox appointed him to the Common Pleas bench to serve during the years 1913-14.
Among the many other honors and responsibilities Judge Hagan has enjoyed in his home city, should be mentioned his work as president of the Board of Trade of Springfield in 1890, when the board was engaged in a large program of public activity. He was trustee of the Mitchell- Thomas Hospital from 1899 to 1905, for ten years was a trustee of the Associated Charities of the City of Springfield, has been a trustee of the Clark County Historical Association since its organization, served one year as trustee of the Sinking Fund of Springfield, for one year was president of the Clark County Bar Association, and was president of the gener^al committee of the Springfield Centennial Celebration. While he was on the bench as Common Pleas Judge he presided at the trial of Dr. Arthur Smith, accused of putting his wife to death by poisoning. This case was probably the most famous and attracted the most attention of any case ever tried in Clark County. There were two trials, each lasting thirty days, involving a host of expert witnesses, and the jury disagreed in each trial.
Judge Hagan has been a York Rite Mason for a quarter of a century, has been a trustee and president of the Masonic Temple of Springfield for many years, and for sixteen years since its organization has been trustee and president of the Springifield Masonic Temple Company. For a number of years he was a member of the Springfield Country Qub and of the Lagonda Club, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and is a charter member of the Men's Literary Club, organized thirty years ago. He was active in the Second Presbyterian Church until its consolida- tion with the First Presbyterian Church under the new title of the Cove- nant Presbyterian Church. He served as an elder in both churches.
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In 1882, at Springfield, Judge Hagan married Miss Justina Fingland Bevitt. Her father was at one time a well-known physician of St. Charles, Missouri. Mrs. Hagan was a teacher for some years, and has long been prominent in the social and religious life of Springfield. Their three children are, Francis Marion, Jr., Hugh and Margaret, who is now by marriage Mrs. Margaret Howard MacGregor.
Benjamin F. Prince, editor of this history of Springfield and Clark County, is .president of the Clark County Historical Society, and for many years has been a recognizeid authority on local history.
Doctor Prince was bom at Westville, Champaign County, Ohio, December 12, 1840, son of William and Sarah (Nauman) Prince. Much the greater part of his life's associations and work have identified him with Springfield's great institution of higher education, Wittenberg Col- lege. He graduated A. B. there in 1865, received his Master of Arts degree in 1868, and in 1891 Wittenberg awarded him the Doctor of Philosophy Degree. While Doctor Prince was a student of theology for a time, his life work ha« been education, and he has held a chair in the faculty of Wittenberg College since 1866. Doctor Prince was editor of the book "Centennial of Springfield," published in 1901, and has con- tributed many articles on historical topics. He is a member of the American Historical Association, the American Economics Association, and is a director of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society. Doctor Prince is a republican, is a member of the Lutheran Church, and belongs to the Men's Literary and Lutheran Clubs at Springfield.
August 3, 1869, he married Miss Ellen Sanderson, of Springfield. She died February 17, 1911.
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