Summit County, Ohio - Chapter 19, 1908 (part 2 of 2)

ALEXANDER H. COMMINS. an attorney, practicing at Akron, is interested in a number of Akron business enterprises. He was born at Akron in 1872, and is a son of the late Alexander II. Gomtnins. After completing the common school course in his native city, Mr. Commins entered Kenyon College, where he was graduated in 1894, with the degree of A. B. Shortly afterward, he began reading taw with Charles Baird. In 1899 he was admitted to the bar, and since has been associated with Mr. Baird in the practice of his profes.sion. He is a director in the Central Savings and Trust Company, at Akron, and is largely interested in real estate through Sunnnit County, pai'ticularly in the vicinity of Akron and Barberton. In 1900 Mr. Commins was married to Ethel Sheldon, who is a daughter of C. E. Sheldon, president of the Whitman-Barnes Company. Mr. and Mrs. Connnins have two children, Ethel Louise and Henrietta.

WATSON E. SLABAUGH, .senior member of the law firm of Slabaugh & Seiberling, has been a resident of Akron since 1886. He was born in Portage County, Ohio, where he attended school until he entered Mount Union College. Mr. Slabaugh has been mainly the maker of his own foi-tunes. At the age of eighteen years he began to teach school, which profession he followed for four years. In the meantime he was preparing himself for a collegiate course in law, and in 1885 he was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School. In the following j'ear, he located at Akron, and here he entered into practice with Edward P. Otis, under the firm name of Otis & Slabaugh. Later he became a member of the firm of Marvin, Atterholt & Slabaugh, which continued until 1892. From that date until 1898 Mr. Slabaugh practiced alone, and then entered into partnership with Mr. Seiberling, under the present firm style. This firm is regarded as one of Akron's most reliable combinations of legal talent, and many important interests are placed in their hands.

Mr. Slabaugh is a director in the Second National Bank and a stockholder in numerous other prosperous concerns. While not veiy active in politics, he has the welfare of the city at heart and has served on many boards which have civic progress a* their object. Lie is a leading member of the High Street Christian Church.

Mi: Slabaugh was married (lir^t) in 1884, to Mary Bettes, who died iu 1892, leaving one son, Edwin, who is a student in the public schools. She was a daughter of Dr. George W. Bettes, of Randolph, Portage County. Mr. Slabaugh was married (second) iu 1895, to Jessie M. Gongwer, who is a daughter of Samuel Gongwer. Of this union there are iwo children, Harold and \V. E., Jr.

ELLSWORTH E. OTIS, attorney, junior member of the law firm of Otis and Otis, at Akron, with well ajjpointed offices at Nos. 15- 16 Arcade Building, has been in active practice since 1887. He was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and is a son of Resin P. and Cathei'ine (Bair) Otis. Mr. Otis comes of Revolutionary stock, three membei's of the family, Robert, Stephen and Edward Otis having served in the Continental army, one of them losing his life in the cause. These patriots were great- and great-great-uncles of Edward P. and Ellsworth E. Otis, of Akron. The parents of Mr. Otis were both born in Ohio. The Otis family came to this state frou;i New England, where it has been prominent from the days of the Revolution. The Bair family came from Pennsylvania and is of German extraction.

Ellsworth E. Otis was liberally educated, attending both Wittenberg College and AVooster LTniversity prior to entering the law department of the University of Michigan, where he was graduated in 1887. His elder brother, Edward P. Otis, was already established in the practice of law at Akron and Mr. Otis immediately entered into partnershij) with him, under the firm name of Otis and Otis. This firm has continued up to the present time and has become well known all over Summit County. In a city where legal talent is especially con.spicious, the firm has won many hard-fought battles, and both members are numbered with the able men of the profession.

On June 27, 1894, Ellsworth E. Otis was married to Mary Louise Guth, who is a daughter of Jacob R. Guth, an old resident of Akron. They enjoy a beautiful home at No. 642 East Market Street. Politically Mr. Otis is identified with the Republican party, but only as a good citizen, anxious to promote the prosperity of his community and the country generally. He is connected fi-aternaliy with the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, and is secretary of the local chapter of the Beta Theta Pi, his college fraternity. For many years he has been a member of the Lutheran Church.

EDWARD P. OTIS, senior member of the prominent law firm of Otis and Otis, at Akron, with offices in the Arcade building, wa^ born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and is a son of Resin P. and Catherine (Bair) Otis. He comes of Revolutionary stock, three members of the family, Robert, Stephen and Edward Otis, having sei-ved nobly with the Continental army, one of them losing his life in the cause of freedom. These militant patriots were great- and great-great-uncles of Edward P. and Ellsworth E. Otis, of Akron. The name of Otis has always been identified with military valor, .statesmanship and professional prominence. The family settled early in Ohio and in this state both the parents of the subject of this sketch were born.

Edward P. Otis prepared for Oberlin College in the local schools, and after attending the college for a while, taught .school prior to entering Wittenberg College, in 1877, where he remained until graduation in 1882. He immediately began the study of law m the office of Nealy and Patrick, at New Philadelphia, and during 1884-5 he attended the Cincinnati Law School, in June of the latter year being admitted to the bar. Mr. Otis located at Akron in August, 1885, and was associated in a law practice for two years with W. E. Slabaugh. He then formed a partnership with his younger brother, Ellsworth E. Otis, the firm of Otis and Otis coming into existence in 1887. During its continuance of two decades it has made its ability felt at the bar of Summit County, and has been engaged in much of the most important litigation of this section.

Henry H. Wolfe, of Springfield, Ohio. He has one daughter, Catherine Louise. The beautiful family home at No. 65 Adolph Avenue is often the scene of many pleasant social functions, Mrs. Otis being a gifted musician and a patroness of the leading musical events of the city. Both Mr. and Mrs. Otis are members of the Luthertm Church. Politically the former is a Republican, but is too much engaged in his profession to be willing to accept political honors. Fraternally he is a Free Mason, and is also president of the local chapter of his college fraternity, the Beta Thefa Pi. He has shown his interest in the growth and development of Akron, as becomes a publicspirited citizen, and has helped to promote her educational and religious interests, for a number of years having been a member of the board of directors of Wittenberg College.

GEORGE W. ROGERS, attorney, and credit man with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, at Akron, was born at Akron, Ohio, in. 1875. He is a son of John Rogers, and a grandson of James Rogers, both of whom survive, honored residents of this city. He was reared in his native city and after graduating from the Akron High School, entered Buchtel College, which he left in order to enter upon the study of law with the wellknown law firm of Baird & Voris. One year later this firm was dissolved, after which Mr. Rogers remained for a time under Mr. Baird's instruction, later becoming a student with Oviatt, Allen & Cobbs. In March, 1899, he was admitted to the bar and engaged in the practice of his profession at Akron, thus continuing until April, 1902. when ho accepted his present position.

In. 1895, Mr. Rogers joined Company B, Eighth Regiment, Ohio National Guards, and in 1898 when war was declared againsit Spain, went out a.s a member of that Company. He was mustered into the United States service at Columbus. May 13, 1898, and a few days later went to Washington, D. C. where the regiment remained in camp at Camp Alger imtil the fifth day of the following Julv. It was then transported to Cuba, where it was on duty for six weeks, and then returned to America, landing at Montauk Point. Mr. Rogers wtis given a furlough of sixty days which he spent at home, and was then mustered out, in November, 1898. During this brief military experience he was corporal of liis company.

On October 15, 1902, Mr. Rogers was married to Anna G. Bauer, a daughter of Jacob Bauer, of Akron, and they have one son. Harold G. Mr. Rogers is a member of the Royal Ai-canum, and of the organization of United Spanish War Veterans.

LOUIS D. SEWARD, attorney, and a leading member of the Akron bar, was born at Akron, Ohio, in 1852, and Is a son of the late Colonel Dudley Seward, who Avas a distinguished officer in the Civil War.

Colonel D'udley Seward came to Akron in 1840, where he entered into business aind became a factor in politics. Prior to the Civil War he served as sheriff of Summit County. He was one of the first men to offer his life and services at the beginning of the war and was promoted for gallantry to be colonel of the Second Ohio Cavalry, serving all through as such. After the war he was a captain in the Eighth Regiment, United States Cavalry, and brevet major in the United States army, receiving his appointment in the United States army for gallant and meritorious service at MonticeUo, Kentucky. He did good service in the West during the Indian troubles. At the time of his death, in 1881 , he was on the retired list of the army.

Lonis D. Seward was reared and educated in Akron, and read law in the offices of Edgerton & Kohler and of H. C. Sanford. In 1876 he was admitted to the bar, and has been in active practice ever since in his native city. He has been active in politics since early manhood, LS at present serving in the City Council, and was mayor of Akron from 1886 to 1888, a period of great prosperity and advnncemont for this municipality.

has just completed a six-yeai' term as a member of the State Botu'd of Public Works. Mr. and Mrs. Seward have one daughter, Martha, who is attending school. Mr. Seward is a Knight Templar Mason, and is well known in the fraternity. He is one of the trustees of the East Akron cemetery, and he is a sitockholder in various successful business enterprises of Akron.

CHARLES S. COBBS, formerly a leadmg member of the Akron bar, and for twelve years a partner in the prominent law firm of Oviatt, Allen and Cobbs, of this city, was born July 7, 1853, near Alliance, Columbiana County, Ohio, and died at his home in Akron, January 27, 1903. He was a son of Walker and Hannah (Morris) Cobbs.

On the maternal side, Mr. Cobbs came of distinguished ancestry. His forefathers included Robert Morris, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence; Jonathan Morris, who married Mary West, sister of the great painter, Benjamin West; and Jonathan, Benjamin, William, Joseph and Samuel Morris, all of whom served in the Revolutionary War. The Morris family professed the peaceful principles of the Quaker faith, but in time of public stress, they proved their loyalty even to the extent of taking up arms. Jonathan Morris was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Camden, August 16, 1780, and was kept a prisoner on Ediso Island, off the coast of South Carolina, during the remainder of the war. William Morris was taken prisoner on board an American privateer, and later was incarcerated in Dartmouth Prison, England. He made his situation known to his uncle, Benjamin West, who was then in London, who first interceded with the king, and later succeeded in bribing the guards, .securing William's release in this way. The latter escaped and returned to the United States. In the War of the Rebellion there were five members of this family in the Union army; one of them, J. Morris Johnston, fell at Murfreeslioro. Tennessee. Another, Benjamin F. Morri.-i, was wounded and subsequently captured at Macon, Georgia. The Morris family has also been prominent in the paths of peace in various parts of the reunited couutrj-, ' and many of their blood have won laurels in professional careers.

Charles S. Cobbs completed his education at Mt. Union College, where he was graduated in 1877. During the two succeeding years, while studying law, he engaged in teaching school, and for the larger part of this period, was superintendent of the Malvern Union schools. Innnediately after his admission to the bar, in 1879, he located in Akron, where his legal ability quickly became recognized, and in the .spring of 1881 he was elected city solicitor. In this office he served two full terms, declining a re-election, and henceforth devoting himself entirely to practice of his profession. On March 9, 1891, he entered into partnership with the late Edward Oviatt and George G. Allen, under the firm style of Oviatt, Allen and Cobbs - a strong combination, which for years handled a large part of the important litigation in Summit County. In addition to his work as a member of this firm, Mr. Cobbs was retained by various corporations and was local attorney for the Valley Railway Company.

On November 2, 1881, Mr. Cobbs was married to Margaret S. McCall, who was born at ^Lilvern, Ohio, and who is a daughter of Rev. Hosea McCall, a native of the state of Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. Cobbs had four children, two of whom survive - Reginald Mc- Call and Margaret. Mrs. Cobbs resides at No. (382 Buchtel Avenue, Akron.

FRANCIS SEIBERLING, attorney-at-law, and a member of the law firm of Slabaugh & Seiberling. at Akron, with offices in the Everett Building, was born September 20, 1870, at Des Moines, Iowa, and is a son of Nathan Septimus and Joseva (Myers) Seiberling.

Nathan Septimus Seiberling, father of Francis, was a son of Nathan Seiberling, who was one of the early pioneers of Summit County. Nathan S. Seiberling, at the age of eighteen years, enlisted for service in the Civil War, in March, 1865. for one year, and was a member of Company D, 198th Ohio Volunteer In- fantry. He was honorably discharged, May 8, 1865, at the close of hostilities. He married Joseva Myers, who was a daughter of Alpheus Myers, one of the earliest settlers in Norton Township. Both the Seiberling and Myers families came to Summit County in the days when it was a wilderness and both assisted materially in the development of its resources and in bringing about civilizing influences.

When but three years of age, Francis Seiberling suffered the loss of his father, who died in early manhood. His mother thea» returned to her old home in Norton Township, this county, where he was reared to the age of twelve year.~. He then went to Medina County and completed his course of study at the Wads worth High School. He entered Wittenberg College, Si^ringfield, Ohio, in the fall of 1888, where he remained two years, and then entered Wooster University, where he was graduated in 1892, with his degree of A. M. He immediately began the study of law in the office of Marvin, Saddler & Atterholt, and was adinitted to the bar in October, 1894. He practiced his profession for about one year alone, and then entered into his present partnership, under the firm name of Slabaugh & Seiberling. Mr. Seiberling's interest, in politics is merely that which he has in common with every good citizen.

On June 16, 1897, Mr. Seiberling was married to Josephine Laffer, who is a daughter of James M. Laffer, one of the pioneer druggists of Akron. He and his wife have two children, Eleanor and Josephine. Mr. Seiberling is a member of the Lutheran Church and belongs to its board of trustees. Fraternally he is a Mason.

he was graduated at Mt. Union College, after which he was engaged in school teaching for about four years. In 1877 he came to Akron with the intention of studying law, and being received into the office of J. M. Poulson, was admitted to the bar in 1878, and later to the Supreme Court of Ohio. For a number of years he was the attorney for Aultman, Miller & Company, and in their interests traveled all over the country. He has tried cases in all parts of the United States and necessarily has been long familiar with the laws of all sections. Probably in his particular line of practice, he has no equal in Summit County. Mr. Sadler has been active in county politics for a number of years and for one year was secretary of the Republican County Committee. He was appointed a member of the first Board of City Commissioners and of the first Board of Review, on which latter board he served for five years. He is a man of public spirit and on many occasions has proven his interest and usefulness in civic affairs.

In 1881 Mr. Sadler was married to Margaret Fox, who is a daughter of David Fox. They have three living children, namely : Frank Herbert, who has charge of the testing department of the Edison Storage Battery at West Orange, New Jersey; Edith, who is chief clerk in the Summit County treasurer's office ; and Jean Cairns, residing at home. In addition to hLs other business interests, Mr. Sadler is vice-president and a member of the board of directors of the Akron Building and Loan Association, and has been a charter member on its board of directors since its inception in 1888. He belongs to the Masonic Lodge and to the U. C. T.

0. L. SADLER, an attorney at Akron, whose professional labors have called him to many sections of the countrj^ while still retaining his home in this city, was born September 11, 1854, at Rootstown, Portage County, Ohio.

EMORY A. PRIOR, M. S., LL. B., a leading member of the bar at Cuyahoga Falls, was born in Northampton Town.«hip, Summit County, Ohio, Jime 27, 1855, and is a son of Henry W. and Emily (Bonesteel) Prior.

The study of Mr. Prior's ancestral line leads us back to the early settlement of New England. The first of the name of whom he have record, was Benjamin Prior, whose birth is

Jo:~hua J'rior, son of Benjamin and Bertha Prior, was born in 1709 and died in 1784. He married Mary, daughter of Eleazer and Lydia (Waterman) Barnham, January 31, 1735.

Simeon Prior, younge.-^t of the nine children of Jo.<hua and Mary Prior, and greatgrandfather of Emory A., was born May 16, 1754, at Norwich, Connecticut, and died June 29, 1837. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, enlisting in Connecticut, as armorer, under Colonel John Durgey, about 1776, joining the army at King's Yard. New York City. His record shows that aliout 15 weeks later he joined a regiment on Painter's Hook, and after the city was taken by the British, his regiment went to Fort Lee and later participated in the battle of Trenton. The family history asserts that on this occasion, Simeon Prior was a member of General Washington's body-guard. He married Katherine Wright, and in 1802 brought his family to Northampton Township. He was the first regular farming" settler here, the only other family being that of a Mr. King, who kept a tavern at Old Portage, the coramenoement of Portage Path. Simeon Prior was a fanner, blacksmith and machinist, a combination of occupations well qualifying him to make an admirable pioneer settler.

William Prior, son of Simeon, and grandfather of Emory A. Prior, was born at Norwich, Connecticut, April 6, 1783, and died June 7, 1872. He accompanied his father to Northampton in 1802, where he secured farming land. He participated in the War of 1812, being a member of Colonel Rial Mc- Arthur's regiment. In politics he was a Jeffersonian Democrat. He was twice married: first, to Sarah Wharton, who was a daughter of James Wharton, and who died in early married life; and, second, to Polly Culver.

Henry AV. Prior, son of William and father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Northampton To-wnship, Summit County, Ohio, January 25, 1813, and died in 1875.

He was a man of exceptional mentality and made the best of the educational advanttxges afforded him and of his business opportunities. He acceptably filled all the local offices of any responsibility in Northampton Township, and, although not united with any religious body, was a liberal supporter of churches and all moral movements. In 1849 he went to California, by way of New York and the Isthmus of Panama, and remained there one year engaged in prospecting and mining. Having much natural mechanical skill, he combined farming with carpenter work, and with his father and a brother, he built a mill on the present site of the Puritan mill, in Northampton Township, which they operated together for many years. He remained actively interested in agricultural pursuits up to the clo.-e of his long and useful life. -

His wife, Emily, was a daughter of Jacob Bonasteel, also an old settler in this vicinity. She died in April, 1860, on the home farm in Northampton Township. There were two children born to Henry W. Prior and wife, of whom Emory A. is the only survivor, the elder in order of birth having died in infancy.

Emory A. Prior was aft'orded the best educational advantages to be obtained in his native locality, and he is inclined to think that in some ways the youth of his day, when they had the personal attention of their teachers, enjoyed better opportunities for individual advancement than is sometimes the lot of students under the present graded system. He attended the Cuyahoga High School, "and came under the personal attention of Almeda Booth, who was a noted teacher and philanthropist at that time. In 1874 he was graduated at Buchtel College, completing the scientific course and securing his B. S. degree, and later, after completing a post graduate course, received the degree of M. S. In 1877, after a course in the Harvard Law School, Mr. Prior was graduated there and secured his LL. B. degree, shortly afterward coming to Cuyahoga Falls. He took the necessary examination,^ in the Old District Court at Cleveland, Ohio.

After this prolonged season of close study, Mr. Prior decided to settle on a farm in Northampton Township, and was engaged in farming and dairying thereon up to 1890. He then opened an office in Akron, where he practiced law until 1895, when he located permanently at Cuyahoga Falls, entering,into a partnership with Charles H. Howland. This association lasted five years, during which time the firm had its share in the business of importance that came before the Sunnnit County courts.

In the fall of 1902 Mr. Prior became secretary of the Falls Savings and Loan Association. In August, 1904, the Cuyahoga Falls Savings Bank was organized by the following capitalists who comprised its board of directors: Emory A. Prior, C. M. Walsh, L. W. Loomis, Henry Thomas, W. R. Lodge, Edwin Seedhouse and William A. Searle. This bank was organizexi to take up the business in this vicinity of the Akron Savings Bank, which had failed. Mr. Prior has been identified with this institution as secretary and as a director eiver since, and since June, 1906, he has been a member of its financial committee. He is concerned in other business enterprises and was one of the organizers of the Walsh Paper Company, of which he is a stockholder, and in which he has been secretary since its founding.

On March 25, 1882, Mr. Prior was married to Abbie F. Allen, who is a daughter of Albert Allen, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and they have three children, namely : Henry William, Margaret H. and Ruth Wharton. The family belong to the Episcopal Church. In political sentiment, Mr. Prior is actively identified with the Republican party. He was elected village solicitor during his years of active practice and was re-elected, serving two terms. Otherwise, he has accepted no political office. He is a member of Star Lodge. No. 187. F. & A. M., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.

ANDREW JACKSON KREIGHBAUM, a representative citizen of Springfield Township, is a member of the Summit County bar, and is successfully engaged in the practice of his profession. He was born in Summit County, Ohio, September 23, 1862, and is a son of Johnston B. and Martha (Martin) Kreighbaum.

The maternal ancestors of Mr. Kreighbaam were people of importance, several generations back, in Pennsylvania. Thomas Martin, the great-grandfather, was born in Ireland and married Kate Kennedy, a native of England. The maiden name of the grandmother of Mr. Kreighbaum was Way, and she was the first white child born in Suffield Township, Portage County. Andrew Martin, the grandfather, was born in Pennsylvania, and wa.s nine years old when he accompanied his parents to Portage County. Andrew and Rebecca Mnrtin had the following children : Rebecca, residing in Summit County, who is the widow of Johnston Roser; Martha, the mother of Mr. Kreighbaum ; Elmira, residing in Stark County, who married John Grotz; Matilda, who married Benjamin W. Bi.xler, residing at Springfield Center; and David W., deceased, who is survived by his widow who formerly -was Rebecca Henderson. The grandparents died on the farm on which they settled after marriage.

Johnston B. Kreighbaum was born in Green Township, Summit County, Ohio, November IS. 1826. and was married January 29, 1851, to Martha Martin, who was born July 16, 1831. Of their eight children, there are three survivors" - Andrew J., McClelland and Ida Ella. McClelland Kreighbaum was born September 23, 1864 and is engaged in agricultural pursuits in Summit County, owning a good farm. He married Minerva Pressler, who is a daughter of William and Lucinda Pressler, and they have three children. Ida Ella Kreighbaum married Charles Mc- Calgan. of Stow Township, who died at Munroe Falls, leaving three children : Ru.ssell, Claude and Maud, the two latter being twins. Prior to entering the army for service in the Civil War, .Johnston B. Kreighbaum was engaged in farming and in operating a hotel at Green'iburs. Ohio. On Mav 2, 1864. he was enrolled at Cleveland as a member of Company H, lO^ith Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He wa^ honorably discharged August 27, 1864. Although his sendee covered but ninety days, the hardships encountered during this period were the cause of his death, he having ruptured a blood vessel. For the fidelity and efficiency of his service he received the thanks of the President of the United States and the Governor of Ohio. He belonged to that portion of the army that operated effectively against Richmond and Petersburg.

Andrew Jackson Kreighbaum attended the local schools through boyhood and prepared for the profession he had chosen by taking a couree in the Cincinnati Law School, where be spent the years of 1890 and 1891. After his admission to the bar he engaged in practice at Akron, retaining his residence in Springfield Township. He married Ella Phillips, a daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Christiana Phillips, the latter of whom is deceased. Mr. Phillips resides at Akron. Mr. and Mrs. Kreighbaum have four children, namely: McKee, aged fourteen years; Martha, aged ten years ; Maud, aged seven years; and Claud, aged three years. Mr. Kreighbamu is in a position to give his children many advantages, both educational and social.

While Mr. Kreighbaum has been actively identified with the Democratic party .since his maturity, he has never been a seeker for political offiqes or honors, but has been a willing wf)rker for his friends. He is a member of the order of Maccabees, belonging to Union Tent at Uniontown. Stark County. With his family he belongs to the Reformed Church of Springfield Town.ship.

CHARLES AMMERMAN. attorney-at-law. Barberton, where he has been established since 1893. is one of the leading citizens of this village. Mr. Ammerman was born near Miller.sburg. Holme.s County, Ohio, May 4, 1863, and is a son of Abraham and Sarah (Korns) Ammerman. He was reared on his father's farm in Holmes County, and obtained his primary education in the district schools. Later he attended the Millersburg High School and then began to teach. He remained six years in the local educational field, and then he taught three years at Benton, Ohio, during the interims completing his education at the Ohio Normal L'niversity, at Ada. He read law with Judge Maxwell and Hon. George W. Sharp, at Millersburg, and subsequently attended the law school at the Ohio State University at Columbus, being admitted to the Ohio bar, December 7, 1893. He immediately located at Barberton, where he has since engaged in practice. He was elected village solicitor for two terms and was then appointed to the same office by the village council, and served on this occasion for a year and a half. He is recognized as an able lawyer and ha-? been chosen on numerous occasions to manage important cases of litigation.

On June 10, 1891, Mr. Ammerman was married 'to Kate Thompson, and they have three children - Harold, Helen, and Charles, Jr. Mr. Ammerman's fraternal connections ' include the Knights of Pythias, the Odd Fellows, the Elks, and the Independent Order of American Mechanics.

STEPHEN C. MILLER, attorney-at-law, at Barberton. with offices in the American National Bank Building, on the corner of Fourth Street and Tu.scarawas Avenue, enjoys a large and lucrative general practice, which extends all over Summit County. Mr. Miller was born at Hudson. New York, March 1, 1863, and is a son of Abraham and Ann H. (Miller) Miller.

Abraham Miller, also a lawyer, practiced has profession for some years in New York, and died at Palmyra, in that state, in 1871, at the age of thirty-three. His wife Ann still survives.

In 1876 the subject of this sketch came to Akron, Ohio, to make his home with his uncle. Dr. S. H. Ooburn, with whom he remained until 1881, in the meantime attending the common and High Schools of this city. He commenced his law reading in the office of Edgerton & Kohlcr, at Akron, and completed his legal studies in Florida, to which state he went in 1881. He was admitted to the Florida bar in 1890, and practiced at Tallahassee until 1895. He then returned to Akron, where he practiced law until 1901, and then located permanently at Barberton. Here he has taken part in a large portion of the important business before the various courts, and has demonstrated his ability on many occasions. Mr. Miller was married dn Florida to Minnie Beazley, who was reared at Monticello, Jefferson County, Florida, and who is a daughter of Judge William Beazley, of that place. They have two children, Susie and Isbell, the latter being named for Charles Isbell, of Akron.

HON. GEORGE W. SIEBER, formerly state senator, serving in the Seventy-fourth General Assembly of Ohio, is a leading member of the Akron bar and a partner in the prominent law firm of Grant, Sieber & Mather, which, in January, 1907, succeeded the firm of Grant & Sieber. Mr. 'Sieber was born February 22, 1858, in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Joseph and Sarah (Moyer) Sieber. The Sieber family Ls of German extraction. Both parents of Senator Sieber were born and reared in Pennsylvania. In 1868 they came to Summit County, where the father carried on a successful business for a number of years. He died in 1896.

In 1876 George W. Sieber was graduated from the Akron High School. He then took a course in Buchtel College, afterwards entering the Cincinnati Law School, from which institution he was graduated in the class of June, 1882, carrying off first honors. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and began practice at Akron. On March 25, 1897, he was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1891 Mr. Sieber entered into partnership with Hon. Edwin P. Green, formerly of the Common Pleas Court, and Hon. Charles R. Grant, formerly of the Probate Court, the new firm assuming the .style of Green, Grant & Sieber. The death of Judge Green caased a reorganization of the firm as Grant & Sieber.

Prominently identified with Republican politics. Senator Sieber has frequently been invited to accept public office. In 1886 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Summit County, and in his official capacity acquitted himself during his first term with such credit that he was re-elected and served in the oflice for six years, retiring in 1893. In 1899 he avas elected senator from the Twenty-sixth District, and when he completed his term of service and returned to his private practice, it was with the consciousness of public duty well performed.

On September 1, 1883, Senator Sieber was married to Elsie C. Motz, who is a daughter of George M. Motz, a prominent citizen of Middleburg, Pennsylvania. They have three children: Joseph B., Florence S. and Ruth. The family belong to the Lutheran Church. Mr. Sieber is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, and belongs also to the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Elks.

H. F. CASTLE, member of the firm of Felmly & Castle, prominent attorneys at Akron, was born at Cuyalioga Falls, Ohio, and is a son of E. H. Castle, who came to Summit County from New York, in 1860, and who has been engaged in farming near ^luiu'oe Falls ever since.

H. F. Castle attended the district schools and spent four years in the Cuyalioga Falls schools, after Mhich he studied law at home, and on June 1, 1903, was admitted to the bar. He immediately located for practice at Akron and continued alone tmtil 1905, when the present firm was established. Mr. Castle has won his way to the front rank of his profession by personal ability backed by hard work, and he has also become a factor in politics. He is a Republican and is a member of the Akron County Board of Elections, and is secretary of the Republican County Executive Committee. During the Spanish- American War he was a member of Company A. Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was mustered into service in May, 1898, but was never actively engaged, spending its whole term of enlistment in camp at

Tampa aud Key ^^'est. The company was mastered out of the service al Columbus, in November, 1898. Mr. Castle is a member of the Spanish-American War Veteran Association, and belongs also to the Odd Fellows. Religiously, he is afRIiaited with the Methodist Episcopal Church.

T. W. WAKEMAN, attorney, and claim agent for the Northern Ohio Traction and Light Company, at Akron, has been identified with the interests of this city since December, 1884. Mr. Wakeman was born at Kendallville, Noble County, Indiana, in 1866. At the age of eighteen years he had already completed the common and High School courses at Kendallville, and when twenty-one had commenced the study of law, which he prosecuted in the office of R. W. Sadler, a prominent attorney in Akron at that time. Hl5 admission to the bar took place in March, 1889, and he continued with Mr. Sadler until 1892, when he began individual practice, retaining the same office. In 1902 he became claim agent for the Northern Ohio Traction and Light Company, the duties of which position have since absorbed a large part of his time and attention. He is interested also in some of Akron's business enterprises and is a stockholder in the Highland Park Land Company. Formerly he was quite active in politics, but he now' finds little time to give to anything outside his profession. Mr. "Wakeman belongs to the Knights of Pythia«. the Elks, tlie Elks Club and the Portage Country Club.

WILLIAM E. SNYDER, attorney, formerly a member of the law firm of Esgate, Spencer & Snyder, of Akron, but now practicing alone, with offices in the Hamilton Building, was born in Franklin Town.ship, Summit County, Ohio, in 1871, and is a son of Michael and Nancy (Marsh) Snyder.

The father of Mr. Snyder was born in Alsace-Lorraine, France, and after emigrating to America, he .«ettled first in Springfield Town.«hip. Summit County, Ohio, for several years, and then removed to Franklin Township, where he lived until his death in 1893.

having become one of the leading men of his community. He married Nancy Marsh, who was a daughter of George A. Marsh, a pioneer settler in the region of Turkey Foot Lake, and a son of Adam George Marsh, who settled there in 1810.

William E. Snyder was reared in Franklin Township, attending the local schools. He then took a special course at \'alparaiso, Indiana, and subsequently spent one year at Mt. Union College. He began to teach sch(X)l when but seventeen years of age and continued that occupation, with some intervals, for the next eight years. In 1895 he took up the study of law in the office of Otis & Otis, having mastered the elementary principles of the science while teaching. He was admitted to the bar in October, 1898, and in the following year he located in Akron, and entered into associatetl practice with Mr. Kerstetter, under the firm name of Snyder & Kerstetter. The firm lasted for two years, after which Mr. Snyder practiced alone until 1904, when the pr&sent firm of Esgate, Spencer & Snyder was formed. Mr. Snyder is somewhat interested in politics, but to a larger degree in his profession. In 1894 Mr. Snyder was married to Olive C. Kerstetter, and they have three children, namely : Margaret, Marion and Harold. Mr. Snyder is a member of Grace Reformed Church. Fraternally, he is an Odd Fellow,

HON. E. W. STUART, senior member of the law firm of Stuart & Stuart, ait Akron, and formerly probate judge of Summit County, is a prominent citizen who is identified with a number of the successful enterprises of this city. .Judge Stuart was born May 9, 1840, at New Preston, Litchfield County, Connecticut. His parents settling in Erie County, Ohio, in 1842, his boyhood was .spent on his father's farm. At the age of eighteen he entered the Western Reserve College, having prepared at the Huron Institute at Milan, and was graduated in October, 1862.

For a period of four months he ser\'ed in the Civil War as a member of Company B, Eighty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantrs', being stationed at Camp Chase, Colum- bus, Ohio. He enlisted in May, 1862, and was discharged on the 27th of the following September by reason of the expiration of his term of enlistment. Company B was organized at Hudson, Ohio, and was composed of students of the Western Reserve College, the captain being C. A. Young, later a noted professor at this institution, Dartmouth College, and Princeton University.

After his army experience and graduation from college, Mr. Stuart was engaged in teaching for four years, during which period he was principal of Shaw Academy, at Collamer, Ohio, for two years. In the meantime he had assiduou.?ly applied himself to the study of the law, and with such success that in 1866 he was admitted to the bar. He entered upon the practice of his profession in partnership with Hon. S. P. Wolcott, at Kent, Ohio, where he continued until May. 1870. He then came to Akron and formed a law partnership here with C. P. Humphrey. Mr. Stuart's abilities were soon recognized, and he served Summit County as prosecuting attorney from January, 1877 to 1880, having previously served as. city solicitor of Akron from 1871 to 1877. In 1890 he was elected to the Probate Bench of Summit County and served two terms, from February 9, 1891, to February 9, 1897. His work in that position was characterized by the same qualities which have always commended him to the people - great industry, ability of a high order and fearlessness in the performance of duty. Since retiring from the bench he has been engaged in the. practice of the law with his son at Akron. Pie is a director in the Central Savings & Tn:st Company and in the Permanent Savings and Loan Company.

JudgeStuart was married May 11, 1864, to Harriet E. Whedon, who is a daughter of Harvey Whedon, a former prosecuting attorney of Summit County, now deceased. They have one son, Fred H., a graduate of Buchtel College, admitted to the bar in 1889, who is practicing law in partnership with his father. The firm of Stuart & Stuart having offices at No. 402 Hamilton Building, handles a large part of the important litigation in Summit County. Judge Stuart resides at No. 24 Fir Street, and his son at No. 31 North Prospect Street.

NEWTON CHALKER, a retired lawyer of Akron, who has been identified with l)oth the business and professional life of the city for a number of years, is generally rec- (ignized as one of Akron's prominent men. Mr. Chalker was born at Southington, Trumbull County, Ohio, September 12, 1842, and is a son of James, Jr., and Eliza J. Chalker.

The Chalker family originated in England and became established about 1640 in Connecticut, and in 1805 in Ohio. James Chalker, the grandfather of Newton Chalker, was born at Saybrook, Connecticut, where he married Mercy Norton, and with his wife and infant son he came to the Western Reserve, locating in Southington, Trumbull County, Selecting a location in the midst of the forest, he built a cabin of logs, and entered upon a pioneer existence. He lived until 1867, his span of life covering ninety years, and the death of his aged wife hut shortly preceding his own. They reared thirteen children - Orrin, Joseph, Edmond, James, Phoebe, Anna, Polly, Calvin, Daniel, Philander, Harri.'^on, Allen and Mercy.

Ja/mes Chalker. Jr., the father of Newton, was born in Southington, June 15, 1811. His educational opportunities were confined to three winter terms in an old log schoolhouse, situated one mile east of Southington Center, but by much reading he became in after years iwell versed in history, and was aLso a thorough student of the Bible. When a young man he purcha.«ed on credit a tract of fifty acres of woodland, located two miles west of Southington Center, where, after years of earnest labor, he established a comfortable home for himself and family. He eventual- Iv became one of the largest land owners in the township, having added to his original property from time to time. Mr. Chalker was married (first) to Eliza Jane Hyde, of Farmington, who died in 1849, leaving three children: Byron, who became a farmer, and died in Southington at the age of fifty-two years; Newton, subject of this article; and Coluimbus, who died at the age of twenty-seven years; another child, Benson, died in infancy. In 1851 Mr. Clialker was married (second) to Adeline Timmerman, who was born in the state of New York, and they had two daughters, Mary Jane and Bertha. The former married A. J. Morris, a resident of Southington, and died in her thirty-seventh year. The latter beoaine the wife of Thomas McConnell, a resident of Youngstown, Ohio. James Chalker died September 23, 1893, having passed his eighty-second birthday. For years he was a pillar of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Newton Chalker attended the district schools until he was fourteen years of age, after which, for six years, at irregular intervals, he was a student at the Western Reserve Seminary, West Farmington, in the meanwhile becoming a very successful district school teacher. Prior to enlisting for service in the Civil War, in the. spring of 1862, he had taught school in his home neighborhood and at Braceville, Southington, Parkman and Champion, Ohio, and. after his return at Litchfield, ^Michigan. When twenty years of age he offered his services in defense of his country, enli.«ting in Company B, Eighty-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which Ijelonged to the department of the army then under the command of General George B. McClellan. The most important military event of his term of service was the protracted battle of Harper's Ferry, in which the Union forces were captured by thase of Stonew^all Jackson, the latter having a very much larger force. In the fall of 1862, on account of the expiration of its term of enlistment, the Eighty-seventh regiment wa=! mustered out, and the members who had survived its many dangers returned to their homes, Mr. Chalker being one of them.

In the spring of 1863, Mr. Chalker entered Allegheny College, at Meadville, Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in June, 1866, with the degree of B. A., later receiving that of M. A. During 1866-7 he served as principal of Dixon Seminary, at Dixon, Illinois, and in the year following he accepted the superintendency of the public schools at Darlington, Wisconsin. But while successful to a flattering degree as an educator, this was not the full extent of his ambition. In September, 1868, therefore, after some preliminary preparation, he entered the Albany Law School, and in 1869 he was graduated with the degree of B. L. In the fall of that year he entered upon the practice of his profession at Cameron, Missouri, where he remained until 1874. He then returned to Ohio, in the summer of that year locating in Akron, since which time this city has been his home.

Mr. Chalker continued actively engaged in the practice of law until 1894, when he began to give the greater part of his attention to his other large and varied interests. He was one of he founders of the Peoples' Savings Bank at Akron, and of the Savings Bank at Barberton, owning a large amount of stock, and serving on the Board of Directors of the fonner institution. He owns a large amount of property, including a farm adjoining Southington, which he now makes his legal residence. He has purchased and improved a number of tracts in Summit County, several of these being new additions to Akron, notablv that choice residence section known as North Hill.

After giving up his law practice, Mr. Chalker, in 1895-6, made a busy trip around the globe, having previou.sly visited, by preference, almost everj' interesting portion of his own land. Among the countries he visited on this trip were Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland. Italy, Greece, Syria, Palestine, Eg^^pt, Nubia, India,. Burmah. China, Japan and our own Sandwich Islands, in all of which he found much to interest a man of cultured mind.

Mr. Clialker is identified politically with the Republican party. Since 1892 he has ben a member of Buckley Post, Grand Army, of the Republic, and has sensed as its commander. One of his di.stin,guishing characteristics Is his civic pride in regard to .Akron, and another, his tender memory of the old home where he was reared, and of the lo- cality with whicli his parents and grandparents were so closely identified. The old Methodist Church in which they worshipped has profited many hundreds of dollars by his bounty in the past few yeai-s. There is also just being completed at Southington the Newton-Chalker High School, which Mr. Chalker has erected at a cost of $20,000, and which was donated by him to the Board of Education, the donation ceremonies taking place on August 22, 1907-. His charities have always been large, their full extent being known only to himself. Ilis acquaintance is extensive, and his friendships include individuals of taste, learning and culture, all over the world.

Henry Marcellus Hagelbarger

prosecuting attorney of Summit County, sen-ing his second term, was born at the hamlet of Spring Mountain, Coshocton County, Ohio, December 2, 1887, ^'ou of Henry and Louise (RaJey) Hagelbarger.

The late Henry Hagelbarger was a farmer of , Monroe Township, Coshocton County, serving several terms as a justice of the peace. For three yeare in the Civil War he was a faithful soldier in the Union army, first as a member of Company A, Sixteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he enlisted April 24, 1S61, for three months. He enlisted September 18, 1861, in Company I, Fifty-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, being a sergeant of said company, and was transferred November 18, 1862, to Battery H, Fifth Regiment', United States Artillery, and was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga. He died March 25, 1895. His widow survives.

H. M. Hagelbarger was reared on a farm and secured his primary educational training in the local schools. Me taught school three tern.s, and later attended the Ohio Northern University at Ada, subsecjuently studying law in the law office of ex-Lieutenant-Governor A. W. Jones, at Youhgstown, Ohio. In February, 1892, he came to Akron to accept the position of official stenographer for the courts of Summit County, to which he was appointed l)y tiie late Judge A. C. ^'o^is, and which he acceptably filled for seven and a htdf years. Having been admitted to the bar in October, 1897, he resigned this position and began the practice of law in September, 1899, having his law office with that of Attorneys Young & Wanamaker. In politics Mr. Hagelbarger is a Republican. In November, 1901, he was elected prosecuting attorney of Summit County, taking the office in January, 1902. In the fall of 1904 he was re-elected. In February, 1902, he formed a law partnership with N. 0. Mather, under the Hi-m name of Hagelbarger & Mather, which continued three years, and wlien it was dis.solved, Mr. Hagelbarger moved his office to the court hou.se.

On September 10, 1895, Mr. Hagelbarger was married to Martha May Jones, daughter of William H. and Sarah (Mustill) Jones, of iVkron. They have two sons and two daughters,'viz. : Paul Raley, Ralph Henry, Martha Louise and Sara. The family attend tlie Greece Methodist EpLscopal Church ait Akron, Mr. Hagelbarger being a member of its board of trustees. He is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, is a past master of Adoniram Lodge, F. & A. M., and for three years has been district lecturer for the Twenty-first Masonic District. He is also a member of the Sons of Veterans, and in 1902 was Junior ^^ice Commander of the Ohio Division of the Sons of Veterans, and is at present Division Coun- .selor.

HON. JACOB ADAMS KOHLER, president of the People's Savings Bank, at Akron, ;uid senior member of the law firm of Kohlcr, Kohler & Mottinger, with offices in the Arcade Building, has been prominently identified with the business and professional life of this city, and also with the public affairs of this .-section of Ohio. Mr. Kohler was born in Berks County, Penn-^ylvania, August 15, 1885, and is a son of Henry and Mary (Slanker) Kohler.

When the subject of thi.s sketch was an infant his parents moved to Franklin Town.ship, Summit County, Ohio, and he obtained hi< education in the district .schools of that lucal- ity and at Lodi Acadeiav. In early manhood he letu-ned the cabinet-maker'^ trade, but later turned his attention to the law, for which he prepared under Attorney N. W. Goodhue, at Akron, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. During many of the years spent in the practice of his profession he AVius alone, but at other times was in partnership, first with Hon. Sidney Edgerton, later, RoUin W. Sadler, and vStill later, with Hai'vey Musser, all once leading members of the Summit County bar. Judge Kohler served two terms, from 1868 to 1872, as i^rosecuting attorney of Summit County. In 1880 he was elected a member of the State Legislature, serving until 1885; from 1886 until 1888, he served as attorneygeneral of Ohio, and in November, 1895, he was elected judge of the Court of Common Plea*, for Medina, Lorain and Summit Counties. He proved an able judge and retired from the bench with the respect and esteem of all those familiar with the able manner in which he had performed his duties.

Judge Kohler has been more or less interested in building and improving for some years. In 1882, in association w-ith his friend, the late Russell A. Alger, then of Detroit, Michigan, but formerly of Akron, he erected the Arcade Block in this city, a five-story structure on Howard Street, which is the largest and most modern of all the city's buildings devoted to bu.sine.ss purposes. He owns a large amount of property in this section and is continually adding to its value by improving it.

Judge Kohlerwas married May. 16, 1860, to Frances H. Coburn, who is the only child of the late Dr. Stephen H. Coburn, one of Akron's capitalists, whose estate is managed by the judge.

Judge and Mrs. Kohler have been the parents of two children - Hurlbut Stephen, born January 20. 1868, and George Coburn, born November 17, 1870, both graduates of Yale College. Judge Kohler owns an imposing residence at No. 315 East Market StrcOt.

X'aughan & A'aughan, with offices in the Dobson i^lock, was born July 31, 1855, at Aklon, and is a son of the late General Alviu C. and Lydia (AUyn) Voris. He was graduated in 1872 from the Akron High School, and in the following September entered Buchtel College, where he was graduated June 30, 1875. He entered the Harvard Law School, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was graduated there June 27, 1877. Early in the following October he was admitted to the bar at Cleveland, Ohio. He first located for practice at St. Louis, being admitted to the bar in the state of Missouri, and was associated there with the well known law firm of J. M. and C. H. Crum, from June, 1878, until Febiiiary, 1879. Upon his return to Akron, ho entered into partner.ship with his father. General Alvin C.VorLs, under the firm name of A^oris and Voris, which association continued until General Voris was called to the Common Pleas Bench. Mr. Edwin F. Voris then entered into partnership with Charles Baird, w;ith whom he practiced for about three years. Upon the death of the late John C. Means, Mr. Voris was appointed to fill out the unexpired term as jn-osecuting attorney, and faithfully and efficiently performed the duties of the office from Mav, 1886, until January, 1887.

On October 21, 1879, Mr. Voris was married to Lizzie U. Slade, of Columbus, Ohio. Their family numbere five children - Lydia, William S., Elizabeth, Edwin F., Jr., and Marion. Politically Mr. Voris is identified with the Republican party, but has never sought political honors. For a number of years he was a member of the Akron Board of Education. He is interested in the Sons of A'eterans, and was one of the organizers of Camp 27. of that Society.

EDWARD H. BOYLAN, senior member of the well-known law firm of Boylan & Brousc, located at No. 23 Doyle Building, Akron, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1875, and is a son of Edward Boylan, formerly a railroad man of that section. Mr. Boylan wn< left an or])haM when he was a child of but ten year.--. To be placed face to face with the most serious problems of life in early childhood is a htird fate, and the boy who meets such a situation with a brave heart and has the courage and ambition to conquer fortune in spite of such initial difficulties, well deserves success. Mr. Boylan first learned telegraphy, working during the summers, but attending school in the winters. He thus acquired the means to take two years in the literary department of the University of Michigan. He then resumed telegraphic work, reading the jareliminary principles of law in his leisure time, and when, in 1900, he had secured sufficient capital, he became a student of huv at the University of Michigan. From this institution he was subsequently graduated, and w-as admitted to the Michigan bar. He later returned to Ohio and, after taking the necessary examination in his native state, was admitted to practice in its courts, and soon after entered the law office of Dayton Doyle. He continued io practice alone until October 8, 1903, when he entered into his present partnership with Edwin W. Brouse, under the firm name of Boylan & Brouse.

Politically Mr. Boylan is a Republican, and takes a lively interest in public matters and city affairs. Fraternally he is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias, a Maccabee, and a AVoodman, in all these organizations being valued for his bright and helpful qualities. He belongs also to the Masonic Club, and is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Akron.

F. B. TIIEISS, vice-president and executive officer of the First National Bank of Akron, and president of the First National Bank of Wadsworth, besides being a well-known lawyer, is one of the leading financiers of this section of Ohio, and is identified with many successful business enterprises, both in Akron and in other jiarts of Summit County. He was born in Northampton Township, Summit County. Ohio, in 1866, and is a son of Christian Theiss, a native of Germany.

reside in Northampton Township. They were both born in Germany and after emigrating, resided for a time in Pennsylvania, coming to Sunnnit County in 1855. In maidenhood, his mother was Charlotte Noe. She has reached her seventieth year, while her hus- 'band is seven yeai-s her senior. They live retired on their .farm and are respected and esteemed in their community.

F. B. Theiss completed the ordinary public school course in his native township and then entered Buchtel College, where he remained for four and one-half years. He then began to read law with the firm of Oviatt & Allen, and in 1888 was admitted to the bar. He continued with the same legal firm for five years, and then opened an office of his own. He is a member of the Summit County Bar Association. In addition to his above-named interests, Mr. Theiss is a director in the American Sewer Pipe Company and the American Strawboard Company, and as stockholder and director, is interested in many other prospering concerns. In 1889 Mr. Theiss-was married to Addie Smith, who is a daughter of John Smith, of Northampton Township. They have one child, Ruth. Mr. Theiss is a member of the First Church of Christ, at Ak-

HON. ALVIN COE ABORTS. Among the distinguished sons of Summit County whose memories are enshrined in the hearts of its best citizens, and whose gallant deeds are recorded on the page of our country's history, few, if any, occupy a more honorable place than he whose name staaids at the head of this biography.

General Voris was born in Stark County, Ohio, April 27, 1827. His father, .Judge Peter Voris, was for many years one of the best known citizens of the county - a man of high standing in his profession and prominent in public life. Elected county surveyor in 184.3, Peter Voris succassfully performed its duties /or the full term of three years, and in 1847 was chosen one of the two representatives which Summit County was in that year entitled to in the State Legislature, his col- league beiug Captain Anio? Seward, of Tallinadge. In 1850 he was appointed by Governor Ford associate judge of the Court of Connnon Pleas, to fill the vacancy occasioned hy the resignation of Judge Samuel A. Wheeler, which office he held until the new constitution went into effect, in February, 1852.

Alvin G. Voris was given a liberal education at Twinsburg Institute and at Oberlin College. Having his father's taste for a professional career, he studied law, and was admitted to the bar on June 20, 1853. He had jireviously been deputj' county clerk for about two years, and had also, from 1851 to August, 1852. jierformed the duties of probate judge, to which office Charles G. Ladd had been elected under Summit County's new- constitution. Judge Ladd's health never permitted liini to a.ssume the duties of this office, and young "V'oris was apjiointed deputy clerk by him and ver\' acceptably performed the proliate business of the county until, upon the judge's death, his successor was elected.

From this time on Mr. Voris went steadily forward. He soon became noted as one of the alil&st members of the bar, and in 1859 he was elected, in connection with Judge Sylvester H. Thompson, of Hudson, to represent Summit County in the State Legislature. In this body he .served until 1860.

The serious condition of public affairs, and the outbreak of the Civil AVar. brought many changes to people in every walk of life. Laj'- ing aside for the time being all personal amliition with respect to his profession, Mr. "\'ori.s enlisted as a private in the Twentyninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was being recruited by Major Lewis P. Buckley for the three years' service. "Before the oi'ganization was completed, however, Governor William Dennison tendered him a second lieutenant's commission, with authority to recruit men for an entirely new regiment. The recruits secured by him were finally consolidated others, raised in other portions of the state, into the Sixtyseventh Regiment, with Otto Burstenbinder a.s colonel and A. C. Voris as lieiitenant-colonel.

service at Camp Chase, December 22, 1861, and b\' January 19th being ready for active duty, was sent into the field in Western Virginia. March 22, 1862, it reported to General Banks, at Winchester, Virginia, and on the following day, Lieutenant-colonel Voris being in full command, had its first brush with the enemy, "driving the opposing forces till past midnight as far south as Kearnstern.'' Early on the morning of the 24th it was called to engage the enemy under Stonewall Jackson, being the first regiment to enter the fight.

Being ordered to support a battery of artillery, the regiment, under the impetuous lead of Colonel Voris, crossed an open field, threefourths of a mile, on a double-quick, exposed to the enemy's fire, the Colonel forming his men on the left of General Tyler's brigade, within point-blank range of a rebel batteiy protected by a stone w'all." While engaged in arranging his men Colonel Voris was wounded in the thigh, but supported by two of his men, he seized the colors and started forward. After giving the enemy two or three volleys he ordered a charge, which was made with such vigor and impetuosity that the enemy broke and fled, this being one of the very few instance.? on which Stonewall Jackson was discomforted in his brilliant military career. The Sixty-seventh lost in this battle fifteen killed and thirty-two wounded.

After some heavy marching the regiment was ordered to reinforce the army of General McClellan on the James, and on June 26 embarked on the steamer Herald and the barge Delaware, before the end of their journey being in great peril from a severe storm, during which the hawser connecting the barge and steamer parted, lea\'ing the barge at the mercy of the wind and waves. Men, hoi-ses and equipment were wa.«hed overboard and lost. The rescue of the survivors was largely due to Colonel Voris, who wa* himself on the liarge, and who lost all his military trappings.

The Sixty-seventh remained with the Army of the Potomac until the evacuation of the Peninsula in December, 1862, when it was transferred to North Carolina, and thence.

February 1, 1863, to Hilton Head, South Carolina, where they endured all the dangers and privations of the siege, sustaining a heavy loss in the disastrous assault on Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863. In this engagement Colonel Voris was seriously wounded in the side, wliich necessitated his return home for rest and recuperation.

At the end of sixty days Colonel Voris rejoined his regiment, which, in February, 1864, re-enlisted as veterans and returned to Ohio on furlough. Early in May, 1864, the regiment joined General Butler's forces at Bermuda Hundred, and on the 8th was sent to guard the left flank of the Tenth Corps, while destroying the railroad from Chester Station to Petersburg. On the 19th they liad a desperate encounter with the enemy, losing sixty-seven officers and men in killed and wounded, but holding their ground against four successive charges. For their conduct on this day Colonel Voris and his command were highly complimented by General Terry, the Colonel being recommended for promotion as a brigadier-general of volunteers. The rest of the history of this regiment to the close of the war was one of glory and honor. May 20, 1864, in a magnificent charge on the enemy's lines, the Sixty-seventh lost sixty-nine officers and men killed and wounded, but accomplished the object of the charge - to recover a portion of our lines which had been captured by the rebels. In this engagement the rebel. General W. H. S. Walker was captured. Colonel Voris relieving him of his sword, which he afterwards retained as a trophy. In Augu.«t, at Deep Bottom, four companies of the Sixty-seventh lost nearly one-third of their men in a charge on the enemy's rifle-pits, which, however, they captured before the rebels could reload their guns. During that year the regiment was under fire 200 times, and, it wsos said by Whitelaw Reid, that "out of 600 muskets taken to the front in the .spring, three-fifths were laid aside during the year on account of casualties."

In the spring nf 186^ the Sixty-seventh was actively engaged until the collapse of the rebellion. Its record shows gallant service at Fort Gregg, Petersburg, April, where Colonel Voris was the first Union officer to enter the fort, and at Appomattox, where the Colonel received a wound in the left arm from a fragment of a rebel shell. "Brevetted Brigadier- General in 1864, and Major-General in 1865, on the close of hostilities General \'oris was assigned to command the politico-military district of South Anna, Virginia, and, with his regiment, to perform garrison and police duty. For six months and more the general performed the arduous and perplexing duties of the position so satisfactorily to all parties as to call forth the following commendatory notice from the Charlottesville Daib/ Chronicle, of strong rebel proclivities: 'General Voris has conducted himself in command here in the kindest and most considerate manner, and has shown himself an energetic, faithful, and just oflicer. He leaves with the be.st wishes of our people.' "

From the close of his army service until the end of his life, which closed July 28, 1904, General Voris was actively engaged in professional work, and he was honored by an election to the Common Pleas Bench, for Summit, Medina, and Lorain Counties, November 4, 1890. He was also a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1873, in the deliberations of which he bore a conspicuous and honorable part.

On .lune 20, 1853, Judge Voris married Lydia Allyn, who died March 16, 1876, leaving three children, namely: Edwin F.. now senior member of the well-known law firm of Voris, Vaughan & Vaughan, of .Akron; Lucy, who became the Avife of Charles Baird; and B&ssie C, who married William T. Sawver. General Voris married, for his second wife, February 21, 1882, Mrs. Lizzie H. Keller, a daughter of the late .Judge C. G. Ladd. Mrs. Voris who survives her distinouished husband, resides on Diagonal Road, Perkins Hill, Akron.

Hon. Newell D. Tibbals

of the Court of Common Plea^, has heen a ])roiiiiiK'nt factor in public affairs in Sumnut County for many years. lie is a native of Ohio, and was born at Doerfield, Portage County, Ohio, September 18, 1.SM;>, and is a son of Alfred M. and Martha (Sweni) Tibbals.

The parents of Jud.ne Tibbals were pioneers in Portage County. The fatlur wius born in Massachusetts and the mother in New Jersey, a,nd both, in their youth, had accompanied older members of the family to this section, where the whole of their subsequent lives iwcre ])a.ssed. They were among the early founders of the Methodi.st Episcopal Church.' They bocame people of substance and reared their children in comparative comfort.

Newell D. Tibbals completed his education in 1853 at McLain Academy, then a noted .school at Salem, Ohio. Two years of continuous study of the law prepared him for admittance in 1855 to the bar, and he entered upon practice at Akron. In 1860 he was elected prosecuting attorney, and two year.^ later he was re-elected, and in 1865 he was elected city solicitor, being the first incumbent of that office. While advancing thus rapidly in his profession, he was also becoming a valuable factor in the Republican party, which was proven by his election as state senator to represent Portage and Summit Counties, and his subsequent service in tlie notable sessions of 1866 and 1867. In 1875 he was called to the bench, being elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas, for the second subdivision of the Fourth Judicial District of Ohio, to which honorable position he was reelected in 1880. Judge Tibljals continued to alJy perform his official duties until the spring of 1883, when he resigned in order to -levote his attention to the active practice of law.

Judge Tibbals was married Octolicr 22, 1856, to Lucy A. Morse, l)orn at Randolph, Portage Countv, Ohio, Julv 9, 1835, who died at Akron, October 28, 1894. She was a lady of beautiful Christian character and ininimerablc virtues. An admirable Tuotber and loving wife, her heart was so largi' tliat her gentle ministrations went out to all who were unhappy or in need in any circle.

She was at the head of many charitable organizations, both during the Civil War and subsequently, and was the founder of many benevolent enterprises, which still prosper and remember her with affection and admiration. Judge Tibbals and wife had seven children and the following still survive: JMrs. Martha A. Day, Mrs. Jessie A. Hoover, Mrs, Giertrude A. Stanley, Newell L. and Ralph Waldo.

i\.lthough Judge Tibbals has always been a man with laudable ambitions, he has never permitted the high honors conferred on him to close his eyes to loyalty to his country, interest in his city or devotion to his home. In 1864 he .served as sergeant in Company F, 164th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at Washington, D. C. Later he was commiissioned by Governor John Brough 'as major of the Fiftyfourth Battalion, Ohio National Guard. In 1886 he was appointed judge advocate for the Department of Ohio, G. A. R., and in 1890 was reappointed and made aide-de-camp to Commander-in-Chief R. A. Alger; also was on the staff of Commander-in-Chief R. B. Brown in 1906. Since the close of the Civil War he has constantly interested himself in the affaii-s of Buckley Post, No. 12, G. A. R., at Akron, and in 1894 was elected its commander. In that year he was the Post's representative at the National Encampment held at Pittsburgh, Penn.sylvania. Since 1887 he has been associated in the practice of law with Mr. J. C. Frank.

HON. HENRY C. SANFORD, an able member of the Summit County bar, and one of Akron's most entei-prisinsi- citizens, is a con.spicuous example of the value of self-help, through which only he has attained his ]iresent position in life. He was born at I'oitland. Maine, September 11, 1833.

His father, John Sanford, was a native of Maine and an inventive genius, being granted several patents, among whicli were those for a fanning mill, straw board, a journal for reducing friction, a pulley power, a tide mill fonc of the most novel) and several others that came into practical use. He married Pri.<cilla Delano, by whom he had nine children. The Delanos are of Huguenot ancestry, and are descended from the family of that name from which came General Grant. The first of them to come to this country made the passage in the sailing vessel "Fortune/' landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts, where the mother of the .subject of this sketch was born.

When he wiis but nine years old, Henry C. Sanford's father died, and from that time until reaching the age of eighteen he made his home with a brother, at Manchester, New Hampshire. During his .school days he not only kept up with his classes in the Kendall Academy, but entered upon an apprenticeship in the Manchester Locomotive AVorks. When eighteen years old he came to Ohio. For a number of years thereafter he followed railroading, increasing his knowledge and receiving steady promotion until he was one of the most capable engineers to be found on any of the various systems. In the latter part of his railroad career he was located for some time at Kent, Ohio, as engine dispatcher for the Erie Railroad. He also had charge of ordinary repairs on locomotives at that point. During his career as a railroad man he encountered many dangers and had many trying experienc&s. One such occurred near Plymouth. when he wa.s engineer for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road, which in these days might have aaou him a Carnegie medal. It was a daring act which endangered his own life, to run his train into another for the purpose of crippling it, and thus prevent it from being engulfed at Crooked Creek, where he had discovered the bridge had been wa.«hed away.

Before giving up railroading Mr. Sanford had procured books and begun the study of law. Every spare moment was taken advantage of. Sometimes he might have been seen sitting on the foot-board of his engine with a law book in his hand. His determined efforts were rewarded by .success. He completed the study of his chosen profession at tlie lawschool of the Universitv of Michigan. .\nn

^Vrbor, where he was a student for one year preceding his admission to the bar. When he came to Akron, in 1870, he was already recognized as an able attorney, and since then he has botli added largely to his professional reputation and has also served in public life with conspicuous success. Elected prosecuting attorney, he served in that important office in 1S7.3 and 1874, and in 1879 and 1880 as city solicitor. Not content with thLs, his fellowcitizens .still further showed their appreciation of his ability and trustworthiness by electing him to the State Legislature, in which he served two full terms, covering the years from 1888 to 1891, inclusive. He is still engaged in the active practice of law, having an office in Room 1, Arcade Block, Akron.

Aside from his law practice and public service, Mr. Sanford has ever been a useful and public-spirited citizen. He has been personally connected with the promotion of many worthy business enterprises, whose succe.«s has contributed largely to the prosperity of the city. He was one of the two promoters of the Peoples' Savings Bank, and for some years a member of its board of directors. In the fall of 1907 he organized the Commercial Savings Bank of Akron, with a capital .stock of $100,000.00, which institution is located in the building owned by him, at the corner of Main and Exchange Streets.

Mr. Sanford was married, January 10,1857, to Emily J. Fairchild, of Amher.st, Lorain County, Ohio. Mrs. Sanford died March 6, 1890, having borne her husband three children, namely: AVilliam H., a graduate of the Cincinnati Law School, who is engaged in the real estate business in Akron; Burton L, who is now deceased; and May F., who for the past five years has had charge of the art department at Buchtel College.

WILLIAM T. VAUGHAN. a member of the prominent law firm of Voris, Vaughan & Vaughan, of Akron, Ohio, was born in Coventry Township, Summit County, Ohio, in 1860, and is a son of Thomas and Catherine Vaughan, who was married in Ireland, in 1848. His mother's maiden name was Cath- urine Callahan. The}- eauie to America from Ireland in the same year, and to Sunnnit County in 1849, and engaged in farming in Coventry Township in 1850, where he resided until his death in 1892. His wife Catherine died in 1884. He took a prominent part in local politics and was well and favorably known in his locality. They reared a family of seven sons, namely : Maiuice, who is connected with the freight department of the B. it 0. Railroad Company, at .Vkron; Timothy, residing on the old farm; Thomas, who was a graduate of St. Charles, Md., died in 1892; William T., who is a middle member of the law firm of Voris, Vaughan & A'aughan ; Cornelius, who is a foreman of the B. F. Goodrich Company ; Richard, re-siding on the old farm, and John R., wlio is the jmiior member of the la^^- firm of Voris, Vaughan & Vaughan.

William T. Vaughan spent his boyhood days on a farm, and was educated at Buchtel College, Akron, and the Ohio Northern University. He taught in the public schools in Summit County for fourteen years. He .studied law in the law office of Watters and Phelps, and was admitted to the bar in October, 1894. He is interested in politics and in 1884 was elected clerk of Coventry Township. In 1898 he was appointed member of the Board of Control of the Akron Public Library, and is at present, 1907, president of said board. He was married to Mary Doherty in 1897 at Hudson. Ohio, and they have four children - Wilola, Francis, Eldred and William T., Jr. Mr. Vaughan and family belong to the Catholic Church, and he belongs to the order of the Knights of Columbus.

JOHN R. VAUGHAN, a member of the prominent law firm of Voris. Vaughan. & Vaughan, of Akron, was born in Coventry Township, Summit County, Ohio, in 1869, and is a son of the late Thomas Vaughan. He was reared in his native township, where he attended school, after which he was for some time a student at Buchtel College. He then taught for two years in the public schools, and subsequently entered the Northern Ohio University at Ada. where he completed his litertu-y education. He then engaged in the insurance busines tis general agent for the Union Central Life Insurance Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, which position he resigned to accept a position with C. T. Parks, undertaker, and remained with him for three years. Almost immediately on entering into business life he 'began to take an interest in politics, and was soon appointed deputy-sheriff, which position he filled for three yeai-s, when he resigned to take charge of the Akron District Telegraph Company. He was with this concern but a short time when he was appointed justice of the peace, in November, 1900, to serve out the unexpired term of E. J. Hard. In the meanwhile he had begun the study of law with the firm of Vaughan & Phelps, and was admitted to the bar in December, 1902. He immediately began practice with his brother, under the style of Vaughan & Vaughan, the firm being expanded later by the admission of Edwin F. Voris, when the present style of Voris, Vaughan & Vaughan was adopted. In addition to his law practice, which is considerable, Mr. Vaughan has large farming interests, and is one of the lead'ug citizens of this section.

He was married, June 28, 1905, lo Mrs. Margaret Anne (Kennedy) Nelan. He is a member of St. Vincent de Paul's Callioli'; church, and is fraternally connected with the Knights of Columbus, the Maccabees, and Ancient Order of Hibernians.

HON. CHARLES G. LADD, once prominent in the professional and social life of Akron, and the first probate judge ever elected in Summit County, was born June 22, 1822, at Rutland, Vermont. He came to Akron in the spring of 1840. his sister being already a resident of this city, and the wife of General Lucius V. Bierce. He was a young man of ability, but was largely dependent upon his own efforts, and by serving as a deputy to the United States marshal at Akron, he earned enough money to enable him to complete his education at the Western Reserve College. After adequate study in the office of General Bierce, he was admitted to the bar in 1845, and \va.'< takoii iiitn partnership by his brotherin-law, under the lirm name of Bierce and Ladd. In the fall of 1851, he was elected probate judge of Summit County, but his health was then failing and the duties of the ofiice were aceordingiy delegated to Alvin C. A'oris, who was made liis deputy, and who f^erved as such until the lamented death of Judge Ladd, July 30, 1852.

Judge Ladd was married July 12, 1845, to Hannali Ermina Williams, who was a daughter of Barnabas "\Mlliams, one of the founders of Akron, Ohio. They had three children, namely: Walter C, Lizzie, and Emma E. ^^"alter C. Ladd, born June 21, 1843, was married December 23, 1869, to Genevra F. Oviatt. and died in 1902. Lizzie, now residing on Diagonal Road, Perkins Hill, Akron, is the widow of the late GJen. A. C. Voris. She is a lady of social prominence in this city and is a charter member of the Daughters of the I-tev'olution. Emma E., the youngest daughter, is the -widow of Albert J. McMeil, who died July 10, 1873. She has one child, Grace E., Avife of C4eorge B. Merrill, who is connected with the Robinson Clay Product Company. They have t-wo children - Henry and James.

Judge Ladd died while Ijut at the entrance of what promised to be a brilliant and useful career. He served one term as mayor of Akron, and almost every office of trust and responsibility was within his gra.^p.

HON. R. M. AVANAMAKER, attorney of Akron, was born at North Jackson, Mahoning County, Ohio, son of Daniel anl Laura (Schoenberger) W^anamaker. He completed his literary education at the Ohio Nonnal University, at Ada, Ohio. He began the study of law under Ridenour tt Halfhill, of Lima, in the fall of 1891 entered the law depailment at Ada University, and was graduated therefrom in the spring of 1893, being admitted to the bar in Mai'ch of the same year. He came to Akron in September, 1893, and in October folloAving the firm of Young & Wanamaker A\as established. In 1895 Mr. Wanamaker v.'as elected prosecuting attorney of Summit

County. He i- a ujember (it Stale liar Association, and of several fraternal order.-. In 1906 he was elected to the ottice of the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the district composed of Summit, Medina and Lorain Counties. Judge Wanamaker was a very successful lawyer and ably filled the office of prosecuting attorney for two terms, and during this time he reinesented the state in the celebrated case of the State of Ohio against Cottell for murder, and also prosecuted a large number of indictments for riot, growing out of the great riot and destruction of proj^erty that occurred in the city of Akron. He has entered now upon the discharge of his duties as Common Pleas Judge a. id hi(l~ to become as successful in that office as he was in the office of prosecuting atloniry.

HON. C. R. GRANT, senior member of the law firm of Grant, Sieber & Mather, at Akron, and for se^veral terms probate judge of Summit County, though >a resident of Ohio since 1864, was born in Nesv Haven County, Connecticut, October 23, 1846. When a school boy of only fifteen years, he demonstrated his patrioti.sm and manly cjualities by enlis-ting in the service of his eountry, being accepted, although so A'oung, as a member of the Twelfth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. He was later a.'Nsigned as beai-er of dispatches for se\-eral of the noted officers of the Union army in the Civil War, among them General B. F. Butler and Creneral Banks, serving on the staff of the latter general until October, 1863, when he was honorably discharged and returned to Connecticut.

In April, 1864, Mr. Grant .settled on a farm in the neighborhood of Cuyahoga Falls, where, during his leisure moments, he prepared for college by pi'ivate study, and in September, 1868, he entered the freslnnan class of tlie Western Reserve College, at Cleveland. A brilliant student, he was graduated at the head of his class, which consisted of eighteen members, dn 1872. receiving valedictorian honors. For the two following years he was engaged in the .^udy of law under the supen'ision of Judge N. D. Tibbals, ai Akron, and in 1874 lie was admitted to the bar. Close attention to study had somewhat impaired his health, and, therefore, he wisely returned for _a Avhile to the invigorating life of the farm. In 1876 Mr. Grant entered into partnership with H. B. Foster, of Hudson, and in the fall of that year the law firm of Foster, jMar\in & Grant was organize ' and continued in business at Akron until Sej^tember 16, 1883. This congenial association was then dissolved, owing to the junior member being appointed probate judge of Summit County by Governor Foster, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Goodhue. Twice afterward, in 1884, and in 1887, Judge Grant was elected to the bench and served through the w-hole period, acquitting himself with credit, and never forgetting thait he was entrusted with the administration of an office, not only of honor, but of grave responsibilit}". He returned to his private practice, with 'many friends botli on the bench and bar. His present offices, with (he firm of Grant, Sieber & ]\lather, are in the Dobson Building.

Judge Grant was married (first) October 9, 1873, to Frances J. Wadhams, who died September 14, 1874. He married (second), November 9, 1876, Lucy J. Alexander, who died June 8, 1880, lea\ing one child, Frances Virginia, who was born September 24, 1877. The third marriage of Judge Grant took place August 19. 1S91. U) Ida Schick, by whom he has two sun-iving children, Louise E.. and lone.

WILLIAM E. YOUNG, of the firm of Allen, Waters, Young and Andress, attorneys, of Akron, was born at Mount Hope, Holmes County. Ohio. February 3, 1863, son of Matthias and Catherine (King) Young. In 1882 he entered the Ohio Normal L'nivei-sity from which he was graduated in 1888. He .studied his profession in the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and was graduated in 1892. He was admitted to the bar in March, 1892, and on January 1, 1893, opened a law office in the Pflueger Block, on Howard Street, Akron. In October, 1893. he formed a partnei-ship with Mr. Wananiaker. In April. 1897. he was clectid mayor

WILLIAM T. SAWYER, attorney, of Akron, was, born in Springfield Township, Summit County, Ohio, December 1, 1862, son of Robert V. and Martha Ann Sawyer. After liis father's death, which occurred in ]\larch, 1877, he accompanied his mother to Akron. He spent two years in the city schools and two years in the preparatory department of Bucbtel College, and was then admitted to the college proper, from which he was graduated in June, 1887. After some time spent in travel, he began to read law under the direction of the firm of Kornie and Caldw^ell. He was admitted to the bar of Tennessee in May, 1888, and then returned to Akron. Here he further pui-sued the study of law and was admitted to the bai- of Ohio in June, 1890, since which time he has been engaged in the active and .successful practice of his profession. Mr. Sawyer was elected mayor of the city of Akron, in the fall of 1907, after a very spirited contest and his term of otfice will begin in January, 1908.

SAMUEL G. ROGERS, a member of the law firm of Rogere, Rowley and Rockwell, of Akron, was born in this city, November 6, 1865, son of Jaseph M. and Sarah J. (Graybill) Rogers. In 1885 he entered the law office of Judge U. L. Marvin to begin the study of liis profession. After being graduated with honors from the Cincinnati Law School in 1887, he was admitted to the bar, and liegan the practice of his profession in Akron. In 1892 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Summit County, in which office he .sensed efficiently for three years. He has since continued in the practice of his profession, and is now a conspicuous figure at the Summit County bar. He is one of the attorneys for the Northern Ohio Traction and Light Company and is recognized as one of the most successful and efficient trial lawyers in the countv.

GEORGE G. ALLEJSI, attorney, of Akron, member of the law firm of Allen, Waters, Young and Andre.ss, was born in Granger, Medina County,«Ohio, August 26, 1855. He was graduated from the Akron High school in 1S73, and began the study of law in the offices of John J. Hall and Edward Oviatt. He then took a six months' course in the law dqaartment of Michigan Univereity, at Ann Ax'bor, and was admitted to the bai' at Akron in August, 187(i. He began practice in association witli Edward Oviatt under the firm name of Oviatt and ^Vllen, and has since built up a very successful practice. He has taken an active part also in business and public affairs, and in 1883 was for a short time acting mayor of Akron.

HON. DAYTON A. DOYLE, judge of the Common Pleas Court, was born in Akron, September 27, 1856. He was graduated from the Higli scJiool in June, 1874, and from Buehtel College, with the degree of A. B., June 26, 1878. After reading law for one year in the office of attornej'-general Jacob A. Kohler, lie entered the Cincinnati Law school, from which he was graduated May 26, 1880, wdth the degree of ]^L. B. He was admitted to the bar in the Supreme Court of Ohio, at Columbus, May 27, 1880, and to practice in the United States Courts, at Cleveland, May 26, 1882. In 1885 he opened a law office in Akron, l)eing 'a.-^sociated as a partner with Frederick C. Bryan, Esq. In April of that year be was elected city solicitor, and he was re-elected to that office in April, 1887, efliciciitlv jxTforming its duties for four years. Up to tlic time of his elevation to the bench.

FRANK D. CASSIDY was born January 29, 1849, at Peninsula, Summit County, Ohio, son of William P. and Caroline M. (Kohler) Cassidy. After some exinerience in mercantile business, he began the study of law in 1877 with the firm of Edgerton & Kohler, and was admitted to the bar in March, 1879. He has since j^racticed his profession in Akron and has made a reputation as an able attorney. He married, in 1878, Miss Sarah J. Francis, a daughter of Joseph Francis.

NATHAN MORSE, ESQ., was born at Union, Tolland Countj^, Connecticut, November 2, 1848; he was reared on a farm and graduated from Amherst College in 1874. He studied law with Senator George F. Hoar and at Boston University; and on examination was admitted to the Suffolk (Boston) bar in 1875. After being a short time in Holyoke, Mass., lie located at New Hartford, Conn., in 1876, and in -June of that year he married Miss Ellen AVhite, of South Hadlev Falls, Mass. In April, 1882, he moved to Akron, where he has since been engaged in the succes-;ful practice of the law. He has been closelv identified with The People's Savings Bank Company, as stockholder, director, and its attorney since about the time of its organization. During all his Akron life, he has been connected with the First Congregational Church. Has been twice a delegate to the National Council of that body, and is now the registrar of Puritan Conference of the churches of that denomination.