Summit County, Ohio - Chapter 20: Statistics, 1908 (part 2 of 27)

Jonathan Weygandt in boyhood accompanied his father, Henry AVeygandt. from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Wayne County, Ohio, who bought a farm in Chippewa Township, which he cleared up, being of the earliest settlers. In later years, he would often tell of how he used to make the trip from Chippewa Township to Akron, to the old stone mill, with an ox-team, being two days on the road. He removed to Ashland County, Ohio, after his marriage, and lived on a farm that his father owned, and which, with his brother Eli, he cleared and developed into a good piece of agricultural property. He resided there from 1838 until 1853 and then moved to Copley Township, Summit County, where he purchased sixty-nine acres ; but one year later he moved to Portage Township and bought a farm of 136 acres. On this the family lived until 1864, when Mr. Weygandt sold out to Joseph E. Wesener and moved to Illinois, where he bought 200 acres of land. Both Jonathan Weygandt and his wife died in Illinois.

In April, 1895, John F. Weygandt sold his farm of eighty-five acres, in Illinois, and returned to Summit County, where he was subsequently married, after which he settled in Macon County, Illinois, and lived there for thirty-one years. In 1895 he came back to Summit County and purchased his present place, erecting a fine residence and substantial farm buildings.

December 31st, 1864, Mr. Weygandt w;is married to Elizabeth Garman, who is a daughter of Benjamin Garman, and they have one son, Emory Marion. The latter married Jennie Baughman, who died in Illinois. He resides with his parents. The family belong to Grace Reformed Church.

J. E. PFLUEGER, vice-president and superintendent of the Enterprise Manufacturing Company, leaders in the saddlery industry at Akron and commanding a trade that covers the whole United States, is one of the city's most active and enterprising men of affairs. Mr. Pflueger has scarcely reached middle age, having been born September 18, 1864, and is a native of Erie, Pennsylvania. He is a son of the late E. F. Pflueger, who was the foimder of the present business.

E. F. Pflueger was born at Baden, Germany, in Febi-uary, 1843, and after a most useful life, passed away at Akron; Novem- "ber 18,1900. An enduring monument to his memory is the prosperous industry to which he devoted many years of his life, and which had its inception in his inventive brain. He was brought to America in early childhood, being then an orjihan, and by the time he was six years old had made himself of use to his protectors, by carrying water from the old town pump, in Buffalo, for use in a bakery. From the age of eight years to that of fourteen he was chore boy in a stove foundry. He then entered upon his apprenticeship to the molder's trade, which he followed until 1868, when he came to Akron. For u number of j'ears he was connected with the Erie Stove Company, a Pennsylvania organization. As an example of his industry and business foresight, it is related that when the foundry was closed during July and Augast, he was accustomed to go through the country and buy up apples and produce, which he would ship to the city markets, making a good profit. It was in connection with this industry which he opened up for himself, that Mr. Piiueger came to Akron and with capital supplied by Mr. Miller, a wholesale grocer of Buffalo, New York, who had become interested in his operations, embarked in a groceiy business on Howard street, which he continued with great success, until 1880. Then the inventions which for a number of years he had been engaged in perfecting demanded factory facilities, and a business organization for their manufacture and sale.

Mr. Pflueger's first successful inventions were a horse head light and a harness rosette, and when these were put on the market, the inventor went out on the road and sold them himself, thus in great degree accumulating the capital with which the Enterprise Manufacturing Company was started. He subsequently continued his inventions until he had fifty patents granted him, of which the following is a partial list: Hinge-tug as applied to fishing spoons and baits, fish scalers, coil spring fastener for fishing float, sweatpad spring for attaching sweat-pads to horses' collars, medicated sweat-pads, riveting loops to backs and mountings, luminous head-light and rosette, wire rosette. Jockey Club rosette: detachable rubber horse shoe, fist bait with flitter, weed protector as applied to fishing tackle, luminous paint as applied to fishing tackle, paper or pulp fishing float, fish bait decoy, swivel for fishing bait, wooden Trolling Peek, soldering machine, and a luminous paper weight, these being but some of the inventions which seemed to spring almost spontaneously from Mr. Pflueger's active mind. He continued active to the time of his death, and died just as he would doubtless have wished, still in harness.

J. E. Pflueger was placed as superintendent of the Enterprise Manufacturing works while still young, following out his father's instructions, and gradually assuming more and more responsibility. After the death of the elder Pflueger, the business was reorganized and J. E. Pflueger became vice-president, George A. Pflueger succeeding his father as president of the business. J. E. Pflueger also has made many practical inventions which are manufactured by the company. Among them may be mentioned, the cyclone spinner, metal rosette fastener, a hard rubber side plate with metal center reinforcement for fishing reels, a leather thumb brake for fishing reels, and a reinforced flange washer for fishing reels; he has also many others pending. His inventions, like those of his father, are all practical and add greatly to the value of the articles to which they are applied.

The Enterprise Manufacturing Company, organized in 1880, was incorporated in 1886, and was reorganized in 1901. The present home of the company is a four-story brick building, which has supplanted smaller quarters. This plant is equipped with all kinds of modern machinery, with original appliances made by the Pfluegers, and their products include many other articles in addition to their rosettes, ornaments, spots, saddle-mails, fronts and houseing plates, which have been leaders in regard to popular demand.

In 1891, J. E. Pflueger was married to Lovina Ulm, of Brimfeld, Portage County, Ohio, and they have two children. Erne arid Edna. Fi-aternally, Mr. Pflueger is a Knight Templar and belongs to all of the Masonic branches at Akron; he is also an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias. He is corresponding secretary of the Avansas Pass Tarpon club, of Tarpon, Texas; and of the Tuna club, of Catalina Islands, California.

AUSTIN J. TRIPLETT, a representative citizen of Coventry Township, and the owner of a well-cultivated farm of thirty acres, was born in an old log house on his present farm in Kenmore. Coventry Township, Summit

William Triplett, the grandfather of Austin J., was probably born in Virginia, from whence he moved to East Liberty, Logan County, Ohio, and there purchased a farm, which he cleared from the woods. Some years later he sold this property and bought a farm in Coventry Township, now a part of the Brewster brother's estate, which he cultivated until within ten years of his death, when he retired, the rest of his life being spent with his children. His death occurred at the home of his son, Joshua Triplett, when he was over 70 years old, his wife having passed away some years before. William Triplett was twice married, his second wife being Saviera Viers, and had eight cliildren, three of whom were sons and five daughters.

John Triplett, the father of Austin J., was born March 4, 1809, and was the first white child born in Green Township, Summit County, Ohio, and the eldest of his parents' children. He was reared to agricultural pursuits and experienced all the hardshijis of pioneer life, clearing a home from the dense wilderness. Shortly after his marriage he located on what is now the farm of Austin J. Triplett, and cleared a small space in the center, on which he built a small log house, this being the family home until his son Austin was four years old. At this time a house was built on the Manchester road, and in 1841 was built a frame house, in which Mr. and Mrs. Triplett spent the rest of their lives, the former's death occurring in August, 1888, and that of his wife in August, 1875. He was a Democrat in politics and served one term as town.ship trustee, although ho never cared for jaiblic life.

John Triplett married Laura Bellows, who was born in Coventry Township, a daughter of Ithemer Bellows, of Connecticut. To Mr. and Mrs. Triplett there were born three children, namely: Amelia, who married John Haines, of Lockwood Corners ; Austin James, whose name begins this article; and Marietta, who was the wife of George W. Foust, of

Austin J. Triplett was reared on the home farm, and his education was largely secured at home, as in his early youth there was little or no public money in the township, and as a result what educational institutions there were at that time were supported by what each family could afford to subscribe. Teachers were advertised for and bids for the positions accepted, and school sessions were held in a double log-house, a family living in one .side while the school was held in the other. Mr. Triplett's father was in poor health, and as soon as the son became old enough he took charge of the home farm, which he later received from his father's estate. About twenty acres of this land he sold for building-lots in Kenmore, and the remainder he has used for agricultural purposes. His home, which is located at the corner of the two roads, was erected by him in 1902 and its beautiful location and surroundings attract the attention of every visitor to this section. Mr. Triplett is a Prohibitionist in politics, and for many years has .served efficiently as a member of the school board.

On September 19, 1858, Mr. Triplett was married to Mary Cartmill, who was liorn at Mogadore, Sunnnit County, Ohio. There were three children born of this union, namely: William, a carpenter, residing near his father, who married Nellie Lodge and has three children, Claude, Lydia and Hattie (Mrs. Lloyd Stein) ; Charles, also residing near his father's home, who married Nancy Norris and has two children, Flossie and Lester; and Jesse, a machinist living at Akron, who married Bertha Daily, and has three children, Elsie, Dorothy and Earl. Mr. Triplett, with his wife and family, belongs to the Evangelical Church, which he has served as trustee.

JOHN SOWERS, county recorder of Summit County, now serving in his second term, is a veteran of the Civil War. He was born in Wavne Countv, Ohio, in 1845, where in

Mr. Sowers was not quite seventeen years of age when he enlisted for service in the war for the preser\'ation of the Union, in 1861 becoming a member of the Sixth Battery in Sherman's brigade. The command to which he was attached left Mansfield for Louisville, and for a time it was employed guarding the Columbia River, near Shiloh. It later took part in the siege of that city, j^articipated in the battles of Corinth, Stone River, Chickamauga, [Missionary Ridge, and through all the skirmishes and long marches of the Atlanta campaign, going from Atlanta to Jonesboro, then back to Tenne.ssee, where were fought the battles of Franklin and Nashville. The command wav-; then ordered to East Tennessee, and from there to Texas, and then to Cairo, Illinois, from which point it went by water to New Orleans. The end of the war closed Mr. Sowers' long military .service and he was honorably discharged at Camp Chase, Ohio, September 1, 1865.

Having suffered no serious injury in spite of the many fields of danger on which he had been, Mr. Sowers returned safely to Wayne County and set about completing his education. After a year at school he learned the plasterer's trade and in 1868 began work at it in Greensburg, where he subsequently followed it for some thirty years. He then purchased a meat market which he conducted until 1897, when he sold out and came to Akron, which city has been his home since. He has always been active in politics and while residing at Greensburg, was township assessor for eleven years and school director for three years, later .serving three years as con- .stable. Mr. Sowers was first elected' county recorder in the fall of 1902 and assumed the duties of the office in September, 1903, performing them so satisfactorily that he was easily re-elected in the fall of 1905.

In 1870, Mr. Sowers was married to Kate Garman, of Summit County, and they have eight children, namely: Blanche, who is the wife of AVilliam Brady, residing at Massillon ; Grace, who is her father's assistant in the recorder's office; Floyd, residmg in Pennsylvania; William, chief deputy in the recorder's office ; Leroy, residing at Akron ; Maud, who is the wife of Joseph Funk, residing at Akron ; and Paul and Fay, both residing at Akron. Mr. Sowers is a valued comrade in Bucklev Post, G. A. R.

U. G. FREDERICK, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the U. G. Frederick Lumber Company, was born in Summit County, Ohio, and during the whole of his business life has resided in Akron. He is a son of Henry Frederick, who was one of the early settlers of this county, where he became a successful farmer.

U. G. Frederick after completing the common-school course in his native county was a student for awhile at Hiram College. Later he took a business course in Eastman's Commercial College, at Poughkeepsie, New Yoi-k. Prior to going east, Mr. Frederick had been with the B. F. Goodrich Company, for a short time, and after his return he entered the employ of the Thomas Lumber Company. In 1901, he bought the Thomas interests and in 1905 he incorporated The U. G. Frederick Lumber Company, at Akron, with a capital sto*k of $25,000. The officers of the company are: Henry Frederick, president; L. A. Frederick, vice-president; and U. G. Frederick, secretary, treasurer and manager. The company does a general lumber and contracting business and its commercial standing is of high rating. In 1887, Mr. Frederick was married to Lulu Walterman, who w-as born in New York, and they have one child, Ethel. With his famil}' he belongs to the Disciples Church. Fraternally Mr. Frederick is a Knight Templar and an Elk, and he belongs to the Masonic Club and the Portage Countrj' Club.

J. A. MAHAFFEY. Among the self-made men of Akron, whose business success has been the direct result of his own personal effort, is J. A. Mahaffey, proprietor of the largest furniture and house-furnishmg store in this city. He was born in 1858, at Freeport,

Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, and was taken to Pittsburg when ten years of age, where he was educated, attending the public schools for a few years.

Mr. Mahaffey has displayed remarkable business faculty and he began to be self-supporting when only twelve years of age, working first as a newsboy and later as a messenger in a telegraph office. He then became office boy for a civil engineer, and all the time, while performing the duties of the position for which he was paid, he was learning business methods and using his spare time to qualify as a bookkeeper. When seventeen years old he became assistant bookkeeper in a mercantile house and later bookkeeper in a Pittsburg wholesale house, where he continued for fourteen years. In 1890 Mr. Mahaffey went to Canton, Ohio, where he established a housefurnishing store, and later, in the same year, opened a branch store at Akron. He conducted both these enterprises until his Akron business became so large as to be of more importance than the original enterprise at Canton, when he sold the Canton store, and has since devoted his attention exclusively to that in Akron. His commodious quarters give him 30,000 square feet of floor space and he carries a complete stock of all goods in his line.

In 1879, Mr. Mahaffey was married to Emma Foust, of Pittsburg, and they have three children : Edna Blanche, who married D. M. Krug, of Canton; and J. Earl and A. Roy, both of whom are associated with their father in the business. Fraternally, Mr. Mahaffey is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, an Elk, a Knight of Pythias, and an Eagle, and belongs also to other beneficial orders. He still retains membership with the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Canton.

D. R. HANAWALT, superintendent of the Hower Building, at Akron, and a director of the Lombard & Replogle Engineering Company, of this city, was bom in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, April 12, 1861. He remained in his home neighborhood until eighteen years of age, and completed his education at Juniata College, having previously taught school for three years in central Pennsylvania. In 1883 he went to Philadelphia, where he was bookkeeper for five years with a wholesale grocery house and for nine years a traveling representative of a photographic supply house. Following this he became interested in the manufacture of stoves at Royersford, Pennsylvania, in which he continued for seven years, after which he came to Akron and became interested in the business life of this city, as above noted. In making Akron his home, he has connected himself with local institutions, and has made friends among the people, to his and their mutual benefit. He is a member of the German Baptist Church. On July 11, 1900, Mr. Hanawalt was married to Matilda Augusta Preston, of Newark, New Jersey, and they have three children : George Preston, Joseph Donald and Virginia Brands.

GEORGE D. BATES, formerly mayor of Akron and founder and jirasident of the Second National Bank of this city, was born November 11, 1811, at Brandon, Vermont, and died at Akron, July 25, 1887, at the age of seventy-six years. In 1828 Mr. Bates came to Ohio and worked for a time on a farm in the vicinity of Solon, but in 1836 he opened a general store at Franklin Mills, which he conducted for about ten years. In 1848 he formed a partnership with Charles - Webber and James B. Taplin, under the firm name of G. D. Bates & Company^ establishing the Globe Foundry, which business still survives under the name of the Webster, Camp & Lane Machine Works. Several years later Mr. Bates sold his foundry niterests, and engaged in railroad building, in partnership with J. H. Pendleton, in which business he continued to be interested for some years. In 1855, in association with the late Gen. Philo Chamberlin, he embarked in a private banking business, under the firm name of G. D. Bates & Company, several years later buying the stand of the old Akron Bank. In 1863 he organized the Second National Bank of Akron, and to the interests of this financial institution he devoted the greater part of his time for the lest of his life. His public services to Akron included a performance of all the duties pertaining to the mayoralty, to which he wtis elected in 18(34 and 1865, and to advancing the commercial importance of the city in every way possible to a good citizen.

Mr. Bates was married (first) to Anna Maria Warner, who died December 4, 1841. He was married (second) June 22, 1845, to Alice Maria Baker, who was born at Olean, New York, and who died September 19, 1853. Three children were born of that marriage. On April 4, 1856, Mr. Bates married his third wife, Mary Ann Mathews, who was born at Mclndoe Falls, Vermont, and who died August 12, 1885, leaving two children, Jennie and George D. The latter is cashier of the Second National Bank of Akron and a member of the board of directors. His residence is at No. 152 Adolph avenue.

HON. J. PARK ALEXANDER, who, after many years of prominence in business and public life, is now serving as a member of the Board of Commissioners in relation to the building of the magnificent new Court House, of Summit County, is one of Akron's distinguished and honored citizens. For a protracted period he was prominent in political life, representing this community first in the State Legislature, in 1882 and 1883, and the counties of Summit, Portage, Geauga, Lake and Ashtabula, in the State Senate, from 1888 until 1892, and again, from 1896 to 1898; and throughout his life up to the present time, he has been identified with matters of public concern.

Mr. Alexander was born August 7, 1834, at Bath, Summit County, Ohio, and is a son of John and Mary (Scott) Alexander. During his boyhood and early youth, he attended Richfield Academy and the Marlboro Normal School, at the latter institution taking a course in civil engineering. He then began to teach school, and from April, 1855, until July, 1857, he was principal of the Akron Grammar School, many of the present residents of this city having been students under him at that time. In 1866 he went into business, jnu-chasing the site of the present Diamond Fire Brick Works, where he began the manufacture of silica fire brick, upon which he held a patent, also the manufacture of stoneware, contracting for the output of some fifteen other potteries, and establishing warehouses at Akron, Detroit and Chicago. In 1887 he still further enlarged his business, and from 1872 until 1877, he operated in addition two oil refineries. He continued to be actively interested in illuminating and lubricating oils until 1891, since which time he has turned his attention in other directions.

On September 4, 1860, Mr. Alexander was married to Martha D. Wright, and into their household have been born eight children, namely: Clara W., who married Prof. Charles B. Wright, residing at Middlebury, Vermont; Helen B., who married Henry B. Sperry and resides in Akron, Ohio; George Bates, who is now deceased; Grace F., "wife of C. N. Belden, president of the Taplin, Rice Company, and residing in Akron ; Martha D., who married Charles H. Little of Cleveland; Bessie H., who married Stephen H. Pitkin, residing at Akron, where he is general manager for the Wellman Seaver Company ; John Park, who is deceased; and Alice S., who married Frank E. Hulett, who with his father is the patentee of the hoisting machinery known as the Hulett Unloader, residing at Cleveland.

During the greater part of his mature life, Mr. Alexander has been active in politics, and his fellow-citizens have recognized his claims to public confidence. Among many other causes which he has successfully championed, are the colonization of the imbeciles and feeble-minded youths of the State, and through his eft'orls an appropriation of $150,- 000 was secured for that purpose, and an institution was established after he had worked ten years for its success. During the several years following he served on the board that regulated its affairs. While the needs oT his whole State have always appealed to him, Mr. Alexander has been particularly anxious at all times to promote the interests of Akron and Summit County. For some fifteen years he occupied a seat in the City Council, ior almost the whole of that time being president of the board. In 1858 he was made secretary of the Summit County Agricultural Society, and for fourteen years following, was its secretary and president. In 1872 he was elected treasurer of the State Board of Agriculture. In fraternal life Mr. Alexander has been an Odd Fellow for many years, oelonging to the various divisions of that order.

OTIS REED THOMPSON, proprietor of the Crystal Creek Celery Farm, a tract of 171 acres, situated in Stow Township, has been a prominent citizen of this section for a numbet of vears. Mr. Thompson was born September 12', 1849, at Hartville, Lake Township, Stark County, Ohio, and is a son of Benjamin F. and Susanne (Werner) Thompson.

Benjamin F. Thompson, was born January 13, 1820, in the same house and on the same farm in which his son Otis R. was born, his father John Thompson, having been a very early settler in Stark County. All through his active life he has been engaged extensively in farming, has bought and sold cattle on a large scale and raised many sheep. In politics he is a Republican, but he has paid less attention to office-holding than many others whose business interests were not so large. He has been twice married and he and his first and second wife have been consistent and active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Benjamin F. Thompson was married (first) to Susanne Werner, who died in 1863. She was a daughter of John Werner, of Stark County, Ohio, and she became the mother of eight children, six of whom reached maturity, as follows: John L., residing at Cuyahoga Falls; Henry, residing in Cuyahoga Falls Township; Emily, who married Travella Wilcox, and resides in Cleveland; Mary, wife of Cyrus Yerrick, and residing in Akron; Otis Reed; and Loretta, who married William Lane. Emily and Loretta are deceased. Mr. Thompson was married (second) to Martha

Oti.s Reed Thompson was reared in a home where all material comforts were abundant, but his educational advantages were very limited. He was only fifteen years of age when he enlisted as a drummer boy in Company A, 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Col. Charles F. Manderson, and he remained in the service a little over two years. The first battle in which his mettle was tried, was at Ringold Station, below Chattanooga. He later took part in the Atlanta campaign, was engaged in battle of Franklin, Tennessee, later on participated in the second battle of Nashville, after which he went with his regiment to Texas. After his honorable discharge from the army in which he had displayed the enthusiasm of youth and the bravery of manhood, Mr. Thompson returned to Lake Township and remained at home with his father whom he greatly assisted. Some two years later he accompanied his father and step-mother, the latter of whom was a kind, motherly woman, to Stow Townshiji, where they settled on a farnr on which the Test Station now stands. His parents subsequently moved to Cuyahoga Falls, but Otis Reed remained on that fai-m for fourteen years.

From the age of fourteen Mr. Thompson was trusted by his father with business affairs, having shown rare good judgment, even in childhood, concerning the handling of stock. During most of his subsequent life, Mr. Thompson has given special attention to this line of industry, for many years being a noted breeder of stock and fine horses; and even now, when his main attention is directed to another industry, he still breeds Shetland ponies and at the i)resent writing (1907) has twenty-four head of these beautiful little animals. On the above farm, Mr. Thonij)Son also ran a dairy, raising many cows at that time and there started his horse-breeding industry which later assumed such large proportions. In 1888 he bought his present farm of 171 acres, naming it appropriately the Crystal Creek Stock Farm., for the breed- ing of trotting and draft hordes from regi.stered stock. Mr. Thompson improved hi.s farm with the idea of developing speed, along with other good qualities in the horses he bred, to this end building a half mile track, where matinee races were held as long a.s he devoted his attention to that industry. lie raised many notable horses, among them b;'- ing Fariny Wilki's, who ea.sily made a record of 2.26 1-4, and that wa.s not the limit of her speed. She was used mainly as a brood mare. Mr. Thompson also bred the noted horse Jessie Wilkes, who made a record of 28 1-4 and a trial mile of 2.11. Mr. Thompson was offered $7,000 for her, but she died on his hands. Mr. Thompson has since bred Cardinal Wilkes, and Noble Wilkes, who made a mark of 29 1-4.

Mr. Thompson continued in the horse business on his place until within the past twelve years, and he is still interested in the breeding of "draft horse.s, being president of the Springdale Horse Company, which imported the Belgian stallion, Toto to improve the breed of local draft horses. This noble animal was imported July 27, 1903, at a cost of $3,000. He was approved by the Belgian government to stand for public service in Belgium, and was also approved by the French government to stand for public service in France. It is generally conceded that the Belgian is the coming breed of draft horses. During all the time that Mr. Thompson was engaged in the horse business, he also ran a large dairy, having a milk route at Cuyahoga Falls and supplying milk to Fair Oaks ^'illa for many years.

About the time that Mr. Thompson retired from the breeding of horses, he turned his attention to another profitable industry, the growing of celery, his celery tract covering about twenty-five acres, on which he raises something like $5,000 worth of the succulent vegetable a year, with the work of eight employes. He raises also corn, wheat and oats, and, as mentioned above, gives attention to his Shetland ponies. It will be seen that Mr. Thompson is a man of great business capacity and occupies a very prominent place in the attention of his fellow citizens. He has had the foresight to enable him to see favorable business opportunities, and has had the courage to push forward and make every enterprise to which he has given direct attention, a success.

When nineteen years of age Mr-. Thomj).<on was married to Isabella Machmer, who is a daughter of John Machmer, of Lake Township, Stark County. They have three children, namely: Pinetta, who married Frederick Hibbard, residing in Stow Township; Lillian, who married ^\\ C. Keenan, residing at Akron; and Roy Otis. In 1906, Mr. Thompson erected what is probably the finest rural residence in this county. It is modern in every particular, equipped with hot and cold water, with a sewerage sy.stem that carries the waste to a distant creek running through the farm. The house is placed on an eminence which gives a beautiful view of the surrounding country, with a handsomely shaded lawn sloping from the front to the highway. He luis three other dwellings on the farm which are occupied by his employes. Other substantial improvements made by Mr. Thompson, include the fine bank barn which was built in 1895, its dimensions being 40 by 60 feet, with 18-foot posts. Prior to this, in 1887, he built the horse barn which is 70 by 26 feet in dimensions, with 1 6-foot po.sts. For fourteen years he has been a director of the Summit County Agricultural Society and he has served as expert judge of hoKes and cattle at county fairs all over the State. In politics he is a Republican, but he has never sought political ofiice. Since its organization, he has been a member of Eddy Post, Grand Army of the Republic at Cuyahoga Falls. He is termed the "celery king" on account of his success in growing celery and to the fact that he is the largest grower in this part of Ohio. Personally, Mr. Thompson is a man who impresses one with his vigor and enterprise.

at No. 183 EUwood Street, is a worthy veteran of the great Civil War, throughout which he served with honorable distinction. He was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, February 7, 1834, and comes of the sturdy Scotch and German stock with which that section of the United States is largely settled. When Colonel Miller was a child of ten years his parents moved to Harrisburg, where he spent three years of his early life, at the end of that period accompanying them to Lancaster County, in the same State, where they settled on a farm. This furnished him with plenty of healthful occupation until he was eighteen years old. He then began an apprenticeship to the blacksmith's trade, at which he continued for three j^ears, during this period receiving wages amounting to but $25 a year. After becoming proficient at his trade, and being confident of securing employment almost anywhere, in order to see something of his native country, he left home in 1860, journeying as far west as Mansfield, Ohio, where in August of that year, he began work in the blacksmith shop of the Mansfield Machine Works. Here he might have remained indefinitely, but for the breaking out of the Civil War. But the rebel attack on Fort Sumpter changed for the time being the even cv;rrent of his life. He had a good position with an excellent concern, but to him his country's call was imperative. Putting aside all thoughts of self-interest, with loyal determination he stepped promptly forward to join the ranks of the Nation's defenders.

On April 13, 1861, Mr. Miller enlisted for a service of three months in Company I, First Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered in at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, April 18th, being sent directly to Philadelphia. Ten days later the regiment went to Washington City, camping for drill along the Orange Run Railroad. From that point it was sent soon after to Vienna, Fairfax County, Virginia, where it had its first engagement with the enemy, sustaining a loss of ten men wounded. Its second w-as at Bull Run, July 21, 1861, and this closed Mr. Miller's first term of enlistment, which had been fairly strenuous. His second enlistment was on October 14, 1861, in the Sixth Ohio Independent Battery, and his third, for three years more, on December 12, 1863, his final discharge being effected September 1, 1865, at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio.

During this long period of almost constant military activity Colonel Miller participated in the following engagements, being promoted from the ranks to one official position after another. As noted, his first two engagements were at Vienna and Bull Run respectively, after which he was on duty at Washington, D. C, until his discharge, August 3, 1861.

The Si.xth Ohio Battery in which Mr. Miller re-enlisted in the following October, was organized at Camp Buckingham, Mansfield, Ohio. On November 10, 1861, Mr. Miller was made a sergeant of his company. On December 15, 1861, the battery was sent to Louisville, Kentucky and assigned to the Eleventh Brigade, Department of the Ohio. It remained at Camp (Tilbert until January 12, 1862, when it transferred to the Cumberland River. March 18, it journeyed to Nashville, Tennessee, by steamer, marched with the Artillery Reserve, Army of the Ohio, to Savannah, arriving at Pittsburg Landing on the morning of the second day of the battle of that name, otherwise known as the battle of Shiloh. The siege of Corinth under Halleck, April 30, to May 30, followed, the brigade being under the immediate command of General James A. Garfield. On the evacuation of Corinth by the Confederates the brigade went into camp at Stevenson, Alabama, where it remained from June 18 to August 21. It then took part in the pursuit of Bragg to Louisville, Kentucky, imtil September 25.

As a part of the Artillery Brigade. Sixth Division, Second Corps, the Sixth Battery engaged in the pursuit of Bragg to Crab Orchard, October 1 to 15, subsequent movements being to Perryville, October 8, Harrodsburg, October 11, Stanford, October 14: thence to Na.shville, Tennessee.

serves of the Fourteenth Army Corps of the Army of the Cumberland, and as such saw active service at Lavergne, December 26-27 ; Stewart's Creek, December 28; Stone River, December 28-31; January 1-3, 1863, Colonel Miller being wounded January 2d. The next service of the battery was at TuUahoma, June 24-30; Hoover's Gap, July 2-4-25; Lee and Gordon's Mill, September 11 ; Leet's Tanyard, September 12-13; Chickaniauga, September 18-21 ; Siege of Chattanooga, September 24-October 26; then in garrison at Fort Wood, where Colonel Miller veteranized.

Colonel Miller took part in all the engagements of importance in which his command participated in the Atlanta campaign, including the following: Tunnel Hill, May 7; Buzzard's Roost Gap, May 8; Rocky Face Ridge, May 8-11 ; Resaca, Mav 13-16 ; Adairsville, May 17-18; Dallas, Mky 25-June.24; Pickett's Mill, May 27; Kenesaw Mountain, June 17- July 2; Pine Mountain, June 14; Lost Mountain, June 15-17 ; Pine Knob, June 19 ; Gulp's House, June 22 ; Assault on Kenesaw, Jmie 27; Smyrna Camp Ground, July 3-4 : Chattahoochee River, July 6-17 ; Peach Tree Creek, July 19-20 ; Siege of Atlanta, July 21-Au,gust 25; Ezra Chapel, July 28; Utoy Creek, August 5-6 ; Jonesboro, August 31- September 1 ; Lovejoy Station, September 2- 6; Pursuit of Hood in Nashville Campaign. November to December; Columbia, Duck River, November 24-28 ; Spring Hill, November 29; Franklin, November 30; Nashville, December 15-16; Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River, and Huntsville, Alabama.

Colonel Miller was on duty in the Department of Louisiana from July 3 to August 23. 1865, and was mustered out September 1, as before mentioned. During this long period of almost constant danger Colonel Miller was twice wounded - once seriously, through the arm at Stone River, and once slightly, in the abdomen, his life Being saved on this latter occasion by his having a notebook with family letters in his pocket. His wounds kept him in the hospital for over two months. The life-preserving book and papers he still keeps, naturally regarding them with tender sentiments. They will descend to those who come after him as precious relics of the day when, but for their opportune presence, a brave soldier's life would have been sacrificed.

At the close of the war Colonel Miller returned to Mansfield, where he resided until 1882. He then came to Akron, entering the rolling mills of the Akron Iron Company, in which he continued to work at his trade for thirteen years, after which he retired from active industrial life.

On December 15, 1864, Colonel Miller was married to Lizzie McCoy, a daughter of John and Jane McCoy. He and his wife are the parents of three children, namely: Mary S., wife of A. J. Wills, who has charge of the tire department of the B. F. Goodrich Company; Charles J., who is a traveling representative of Leggett and Company, of New York City, the largest wholesale grocery house in the world; and Harry C, who is a salesman for the B. F. Goodrich Company. Both Mr. Miller's sons are very able business men.

A man of firm political convictions. Colonel Miller has taken an active part in civic matters. He has held local offices at various times and for six years was assessor for the Second Ward at Akron. Army affairs, too, have always remained interesting to him, and the old veteran organizations have claimed much of his time and attention. He was the main organizer of the Union Veteran Union of Ohio, from which organization -his title of colonel was received. For the last thirty-two years he has been a member of the order known as the Knights of Honor, belonging to Acme Lodge, No. 35, Akron, Ohio.

PHILO B. UPSON, who is now one of the most influential citizens of Sedgwick County, Colorado, where he has a valuable homestead of 160 acres, belongs to one of Ohio's old and honorable families, whose ancestors were identified not only with the early settlement of the Western Reserve, but also the establishing of civilization in the New England colonies. He was born June 14, 1844, in Medina County, Ohio, and is a son of Reuben A. and Jane (Furber) Upson.

Reuben Upson, the grandfather of Philo B., was born at Waterbury, Connecticut, August 14, 1771, and in 1798 he married Hannah Richardson, who was born at Waterbury, October 18, 1780. In 1808, he came to Ohio with his brother Stephen and family, cutting a path tlirough the forest to Portage County, where the brothers bought land of the Connecticut Land Company. Later Reuben Upson moved to Tallmadge Township, Summit County, where lie bought a farm, on which he lived until 1818, when he removed to another part of the same township, purchasing 800 acres. Not being able to secure a clear title to this land he later accepted the same amount in still another part of the same town.ship. He died in 1848, aged seventyfour years. His children were: Phebe, Emma, Reuben, Polly, Chloe. Hannah. .I\ilius A. and George C.

Reuben Upson (second), son of Reuben and Hannah Upson, was born near Waterbury, Connecticut, in 1808, and accompanied his parents to Ohio, growing to manhood in Summit County. He then returned to Connecticut and worked one year for Seth Thomas, the famous clock maker, after which he returned to Ohio and settled on a farm. In 1836 he made a trip to Iowa, going down the Ohio River and up the Mississippi, and after reaching that then far distant State, he a farm ; but not finding the prospect satisfactory, he returned to Ohio in 1837, walking the distance from Rock Island, Illinois to Chicago, then a "little village in the mud," where he took a steamer to Cleveland and settled in Medina County. In 18(j7 he traded his farm for a hotel in the town of Cuyahoga Falls, where he remained until 1871, when he removed to Henry County, Illinois and resided there until his death, which occurred m February, 1884.

Before moving to Iowa, Reuben Upson (second) was married to Jane Furber, who was born in England, August 26, 1810, and who died in Illinois in 1901. She was a daughter of Frances and Elizabeth Furber, who settled in Summit County w'hen she wa.-; nine years old. Her parents lie buried at

Kent. Of the nine children comprising the family of Reuben and Jane Upson, three survive, namely: Philo B. ; Benjamin L., residing in Henry County, Illinois, engaged in farming; and Mary L., who is now the wife of Joseph U. Barnes, residing at Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Philo B. Upson was reared and mainly educated in Northampton Township, Summit County, and was engaged in farming there at the outbreak of the Civil War. In July, 1862, he entered the Union army, enlisting as a member of Company G, 115th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was ordered to the front. For one year the regiment was engaged in provost duty at Cincinnati, and at Covington, Kentucky, going thence to Murfreesboro, and during the winter of 1863-4 it did picket duty. In the following summer, Mr. Upson was one of the body of thirty men detailed to man a blockhouse on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, near Lavergne, and on the 5th of December the men were surrounded by a party from General Forest's army, and all were captured. When en route for Andersonville Prison, twenty days later, Mr. Upson was fortunate enough to escape, whtle his poor comrades, after enduring the horrors of that terrible prison pen, were paroled and placed on board the ill-fated steamer "Sultana"' which was destroyed by an explosion, near Memphis, in which disaster, many of tlie members of Mr. Up?on's coni]ianv were killed.

After his escape from the Confederates, Mr. U{ison returned to Murfeesboro and rejoined his regiment and a few days later was detailed for duty at the very point where he had been captured, the blockhouse having been destroyed at that time. Mr. Upson was a good soldier and he remained on duty at this point until he was recalled in order to receive his discharge, which took place at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in July, 1865. He was paid off at Cleveland and then was at liberty to return to his home, reaching there safely, with the consciousness that he had performed his whole duty as a patriotic and loyal citizen. ]'{v has ahvavs since then enjoyed his meet- ings with old comrades, taking much interest in matters pei'taining to the Grand Army of the Republic and at present is past connnander of Julesburg Post, No. 21, Department of Colorado and Wyommg.

Mr. Up.son remained in Sununit County until 1867, when he went to Illinois and for two yeans he worked as a farm hand in Henry County, and then rented a farm which he carried on for two years, after which he bought a place five miles from Geneseo, which he cultivated for the following thirteen years.

It was in 1885 that Mr. Upson made a great change m his life by removing to Colorado, and arriving there, having the foresight to take up a homestead, being the first man to settle in Sedgwick Township. His farm lies within two miles of Sedgwick, and its value has increa.sed many times over since he saw its po.ssibilities in the spring of 1885. For some years he was extensively engaged in the cattle business, but in 1892 he turned his attention to other lines of industry, his son being old enough by this time, to take charge of the farm. Mr. Upson went to Wadena, Minnesota, where he became manager of a farm loan agency, and vice-president of the Wadena State Bank. One year later he went to Minneapolis, where he w-as connected with the Minneapolis Title and Trust Company as collector, remaining in that city until August, 1895. He then severed hLs connection with the corajjany and returned to Colorado, once more resuming the care of his cattle business.

AVhen Sedgwick County was cut off from Logan, in 1889, Mr. Upson was .selected by Governor Cooper as one of the first county commissioners, and in the following fall he was formally elected to fill a term of three years, being the only member of the first board who was returned to office. In the summer of 1802, he was chosen as an alternate delegate to the National Republican Convention which convened at Minneapoli.-, and which nominated Benjamin Harrison for the Presidencv of the United States.

Stephen Richardson, a farmer of that section. She w-as born at Pleasant \^alley, Illinois, where she enjoyed fair educational advantages. To Mr. and Mrs. Upson a family of eleven children have been born, and what is remarkable is that all but one survive. William G., the eldest, is engaged in farming and stock-raising in Logan County. Clara L. is the wife of E. C. Smith, a stockman of Sedgwick County. Charles B. is cashier and paying teller of the Minneapolis Title, Insurance and Trust Company, of Minneapolis. Joseph Clinton is a business man also of that city. John E. is a member of Company B, Thirteenth Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, now- at Manila, having left the University of Minnesota in order to enter the army: Chloe Etta is a teacher in the public schools of Sedgwick. Jennie E., Ray R., Daniel D. and Bes.sie R., reside at home. Mrs. Upson died July 5, 1904. Mr. Upson and family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

postmaster at Akron and formerly a memlier of the Ohio State Legislature, representing Summit County, was born near Royalton, Fairfield County, Ohio, September 25, 1844, and is a son of George and Rachel (Hathaway) Eliright.

Dr. Ebright is of German-Scotch ancestry. His father, who for many years wa.'i a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, died in 1864, at the age of fifty-three, leaving a widow and nine children.

From the public schools of Fairfield County, Leonidas S. Ebright entered the Union Army a-^ a soldier, enlisting May 7, 1862. for three months' service in Company K, 85th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was honorably discharged in the following September. He re-enli.sted in April, 1864. in the Eightyseventh Regiment Ohio ^'ohmteer Infantry. Later he was transfen-ed to Company G, 88th Infantry, and served on detached duty until July 3," 1865, when he was mustered out by special order at Camp Chase.

army service, he taught school. In February, 186'8, he came to Akron, after serving as a clerk in a drug store at Wooster, for six months, and entered upon his medical studies in the office of Drs. Bowen and Ebright. Subsequently he entered the Charity Hospital Medical College, at Cleveland, where he \vi\s graduated m February, 1869. He then resumed his residence in Akron, engaging in practice until 1871, when he took a postgraduate course in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at New York City. In the fall of 1872 Dr. Ebright went to Europe and spent ten months m special study in some of the most famed hospitals and laboratories there. After an absence which covered tliirtccn months, he returned to Akron, in which city he became an eminent practitioner. He was the first secretary of the Northeastern Medical Society and later was its president. For a protracted period he was the city health officer, and for a number of years also w;is physician to the Children's Home, and a member of the board of physicians of the Akron City Hospital.

For nearly a quarter of a century Dr. Ebright has been one of the active and influential Republicans of this section of Ohio, serving on the various important county and State committees. In 1879 he was elected a representative from Summit County, to the State Legislature, and demonstrated during his term at Columbus that he might be trusted to look after the people's interests. In campaign work throughout the country. Dr. Ebright has been a tower of strength to his party, and has been associated, on one or another oca.sion, with almost all of its leading orators. His equal command of the German tongue with the English, often proved advantageous to Republican interests. During 1898, Dr. Ebright, as a political speaker, vi.sited the States of Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky and a large part of Ohio. July "27, 1897, he was appointed postmaster at Akron by the late President McKinley, who was liis personal as well as political friend. In that year the Akron office had sixteen carriers, one of whom .still serves as .such, having been identified with the office ever since its establishment, and the receipts amounted to $400,- 000. In comparison, in 1907, Postmaster Ebright has twenty-three clerks and thirtysix carriers, handling in all the respectable sum of $1,000,000.

On November 15, 1883, Dr. Ebright was married to Julia A. Bissell, who was born at Sharon, Medina County, Ohio, and they have two children, Ruth B. and Mary R. The family residence is situated at No. 678 Ea.st Market street.

Dr. Ebright has been prominent also for many years in fraternal circles, having filled some of the highest offices in R. A. bodies as well as with the Knights of Honor. For four years he served as surgeon-general, with the rank of brigadier-general, on the staff of Governor McKinley ; for five years was surgeon of Battery B, Ohio National Guards, and for five years of the German Guards. In 1890 he was honored by being made president of the Decennial Real Estate Board of Equalization, of Akron. At various times he has been more or less interested in business enterprises. He served as president of the Akron Sewer Pipe Company, and was one of the directors until it was merged with the American Sewer Pipe Company. His busy life has brought him into close contact with men and aft'airs, and he numbers friends and admirers in every class both in Akron and elsewhere.

MAURICE G. SNYDER, manager of the Oliio Mining & Railway Company, at Akron, who has been a resident of this . city since 1871, was born at New Baltimore, Stark County, Ohio, in 1860. His father, John C. Snyder, was in the mercantile business at New Baltimore, for a number of years, and was a veteran of the Civil War.

Maurice G. Snyder was nine years old when his parents moved to Akron, and he secured his education in this city, later going to Wadsworth, Ohio, where he worked in a printing office for one year. He then came back to Akron, where he entered the offices of the Aultman-Miller Company, and he re- mained with that house for twenty-one years subsequently. He was then elected a member of the Board of Public Service, at Akron, and after serving one term embarked in a coal business. In April, 1907, Mr. Snyder accepted the management of the Ohio Mining and Railway Company, a position which carries with it a large amount of responsibility. He is one of the stockholders and is chairman of the board of directors of the Ohio & Pennsylvania League of professional base ball players and has all the ordinary American's enthusiasm for the sport.

In 1888, Mr. Snyder was married to Eliza Wigley, who was born in England. They have three sons, Maurice H. and Paul and Park, twins, ilr. and Mrs. Snyder are members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. He belongs to the fraternal order of Odd Fellows and the social organization, the Kirkwond Club.

N. C. STONE, president of the National City Bank, of Akron, was born in this city in 1854. He is a son of Nelson B. Stone, who was formerly a prominent citizen here, and a sketch of whom may be found on another page of this volume. Mr. Stone was reared in Akron, and after graduating from the public schools, became a member of the class of 1876 of Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware. Ohio. He then spent one year in European travel, at the end of which time, returning to Akron, he entered business life, becoming connected with the Weary-Snyder- Wilcox Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of and dealers in lumber. With this concern he remained for about seven year.<. He was then connected for a short time with the Sciberling Milling Company. His next move was to Kansas City, but after a short stay there his business interests called him to New York City, where he was located for about two years. In 1887 he returned to Akron and entered the employ of the Selle Gear Company, with whom he remained until the spring of 1888. In this year he entered upon an entirely different sphere of busmess activity, becoming cashier of the City National Bank. On the expiration of the bank's charter in 1903, by limitation, a new organization became necessary, and the National City Bank was acordingly organized in May of that year, Mr. Stone becoming president, which office he has since retained. Mr. Stone is also interested in a number of manufacturing enterprises in Akron. He is a man of sound and extensive information in regard to the business and financial conditions, both of Akron and the surrounding district, and while enterprising and fully abreast of the times, exercises a conservative judgment in all business matters which come before him for his decision. In politics he is a Republican. He is affiliated with the First Methodist Episcopal Church, which he is now serving on the board of trustees. Mr. Stone was married in 1879, to Miss Margaret J. Oburn, of Chicago, Illinois.

C. H. BORST, president and manager of The Borst Stone & Brick Company, of Akron, has been identified with the business life of this city for the past decade. He was born in 1856, at Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio, and is a son of the late J. A. Borst.

The father of Mr. Borst resided at Wadsworth until the latter was sixteen years of age, where he was engaged in raising fruit with great success, and then moved to Greentown and for some time carried on a coal business. Subsequently he became interested in the growing of celery, and his investigations and experiments resulted in his becoming one of the first notable celery growers in this part of Ohio. Subsequently he became one of the most extensive growers in the State, and also jiroduced the best varieties, of which he had 100 acres at the time of his death, in 1894. He has made a complete sucess of the industry.

C. H. Borst attended the High Schools of both Wadsworth and Greentown. His first work was in the line of civil engineering, and for two years he was connected with the Washington, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad line, in Virginia. In 1878 he "went on the road," traveling between Cleveland and Canton, for two vcars, after which his field of work lay in Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, and New and Old Mexico. He spent nine years west of Missouri. He then came back to Ohio and for about seven years was connected with the city engineer's office at Akron, resigning that position in order to look after personal business interests. In the spring of 1903, The Borst Stone & Brick Company was incorporated, with a cajnlal stock of $10,000, with Mr. Borst as president and general manager. The business of this concern is the manufacturing of all kinds of cement blocks, plain and ornamental, and they do a general cement block contract work in all kinds of building. The firm stands at the head in this line of indu.'^- try. Mr. Borst is a man of extensive experience and thorough business integrity.

In 1895 Mr. Borst was married to Belle Tait, of Akron, and they have two children : Helen E. and Frank A. As a good citizen, Mr. Borst is interested in the perpetuation of hone.st city govcTmnciit. Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow.

I'lIILlP WAGONER, a retired citizen of Akron, an ex-county commissioner of Summit County, and a. man long identified with its lending- interests, was born m Franklin Townshiii, Summit County, when it was still a part of Stark County, Ohio, April 3, 1829. He is a son of George Wagoner, an early settler.

George Wagoner was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in 1812, locating' in Jackson Township, Stark County, where he remained until 1821. He then .s^old his farm and entered 160 acres of Government land in what is now Franklin Township, Sunuiiit County, and there he remained engaged in farming and stockraising until the clo.se of his active career. He died April 23, 1873. He married Rebecca Sowers, who was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and died in 188(J. They reared six of their family of ten children, the survivors at this writing being the following; Henry L., postmaster at Krumroy, Springfield Township; Philip, residing in Akron; John J., residing at Akron : Harriet, widow of Michael

Philip Wagoner was reared and educated in Franklin Township. For nine years he followed the carpenter's trade. He then turned his attention to farming and this occupation he successfully followed until he retired from active life in 1900. He has been an active participant in public matters in Franklin Township, voting first with the Whig party and later with the Republicans, having supported every Republican presidential candidate. On many occasions he has been elected to office, serving four years as township treasurer of Franklin township, one year as assessor, in 1890 as census enumerator, and in September, 1900, assuming the duties of county commissioner, in which office he served for two terms or six years.

In 1850 Mr. Wagoner was married to Hannah Henney, who died in August, 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Wagoner had twelve children born to them, the five living being the following: Amanda C, who married Henry Taylor, of Akron; Irvin S., residing in Colorado, where he is interested in gold mines; Emma, who married C. F. Reinhold, of Ma.ssillon, Ohio; Mary, who married ^Maurice Monegan, of West Richfield, Summit County; and Harvey Philip, residing at Akron. Since he was seventeen years of age, Mr. Wagoner has been a member of the Lutheran Church. He is one of Summit County's honored citizens.

LOREN WAY, one of the sub-tautial farmers of Summit County, living on his valuable farm of ninety-two acres in Coventry Township, was born January 22, 1850, on his father's farm, which was situated on the present site of Barberton, Coventry Township, this county, and is a son of Joseph and Jane (McCracken) Way.

Ezra Way, the grandfather of Loren, was a native of Connecticut, whence he came to Ohio in 1817, settling on the present site of Barberton. Here he bought a tract of timberland extending from Wolf Creek to the Tuscarawas river. Lake Anna being in the center of this property. He purchased this land for $3.00 per acre, and his only neighbors were a half-breed Indian and his squaw, who lived at the present site of Straw Board and hunted for a living. Mr. Way began to clear his 280-acre tract and built a log cabin in the woods, deer at this time being so plentiful that they had to be driven away from the wheat fields. Mr. Way's stock con- .sisted of one horse, two oxen, one cow and one hog, which they brought with them from Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Way both spent the remainder of their lives here. Their four children were: Anna, Levi, Franklin and .Joseph.

Joseph AVay, who was born in 1801, came to Ohio wlien sixteen years of age, and lent his hand towards developmg the farm in the new country, although in his native State he had learned the trade of carpentering. The family's nearest white neighbor at this time came five yeai's later than the Ways, Sylvester A'an Hinning settling about three miles away. Joseph Way continued to make this property liis home all the rest of his life, and died there in 1873. At one time Mr. Way and Abel Irish were the only two to vote the Democratic ticket in Norton township, which now has a large Democratic majority.

Joseph AVay was married three times, first to Miss Stellman, by whom he had four children : Abigail, Henry, Martha and Charles. He had one child by his second marriage, - Joseph, - and after the death of his second wife he was married to Jane McCracken, who came from Pennsylvania during the early days. Of this last union there were born five children : Loren ; Caroline, the widow of David Eby; Mary, who married Noah Eaton ; Anna and John. The mother of these children died at the age of eighty-six years.

Loren Way attended the district schools and lived on the home farm until his marriage, the heirs selling about three years before 0. C. Barber located there. After his marriage Mr. Way built a house on the home farm and lived there for seven years, after which he purchased forty and one half acres of land from Henrv Sours, in Coventrv Township, where he spent four years. This property, which is now used as a clay pit, was subsequently sold by Mr. Way, and in 1891 he bought his present farm from the J. Kepler heirs, where he has since carried on general farming with much success. His machinery is modern and his methods practical, and his property as a consequence yields abundantly every year. In politics Mr. Way ls a Democrat, but he has neither held nor cared to hold public office.

In 1879 Mr. Way was united in marriage with Ella Berlien, who is a daughter of John Berlien. Of this union there is one child, Marvin Wilber, now an agriculturist of Coventry Township, who married Bessie Gerst and has three children : Ralph, Ethel and Ruth.

The Sackett family became established in Sunnnit County in 1838, through the settlement here of Aaron Sackett and his household. Both he and his wife were born in Connecticut, and the maternal grandfather of (loorge Sackett, sei-ved in the Revolutionary War as an officer inider General Anthony Wayne. In 1836 .Varon Sackett moved to Caiiandaigua, New York, that his children might enjoy the educational advantages of that place. In 1838 the Sackett family resumed their western journey and permanently settled on a tract of land in Tallraadge Township, where Aaron Sackett resided until his retirement from active life in 1868. He died at the home of his son, William Sackett. in Copley Township, at the age of eighty-four years. His sterling traits of character were reflected in his children, who were ten in number, George being the third in order of birth.

Mr. Sackett - attended two sessions of the Tallniadge Academy, and then his school days were ended. Up to the time he attained his majority he performed faithfully the arduous part that fell to the lot of the eldest son in a large family living under pioneer conditions.

When twenty-one years old Mr. Sackett began farming on his own account. His cai)ilal was $100. He leased a tract of land from the "Chuckery" Company, located in that section of the city of Akron now known as North Hill. Thanks to untiring industry, and the exercise of his unfailing good .sense, these farming operations prospered greatly. Special attention was given to the production of wool and wheat raising. His farm at one time embraced the handsome total of 1,400 acres of excellent land.

Mr. Sackett was also interested in manufacturing enterprises, and was for a number -of years the president of the Cuyahoga Paper Company. He was a man of superior business ability and accumulated an ample fortune. He engaged in coal mining, railroad building, and the general development of the country at Laredo, Texas, in partnership with GoA'. A. C. Hunt of Colorado. At one time he had large holdings of real estate and mining properties in Colorado.

Mr. Sackett was from the very formation of the Republican Party its stanch and undeviating supporter. He was the president of the first Republican Club in Cuyahoga Falls. In 1867 he was elected County Commissioner by the Republican party and served three years. In 1879 be was appointed a member of the State Board of Equalization, representing Summit and Portage Counties, and he also sei-ved in lesser offices. Ilis superior judgment was exercised in the performance of public tasks with the same fidelity as in the pursuance of his private business. He was a man of honor in all transactions.

In 1848 Mr. Sackett was married to Helen Williams of Auburn, New York, who died in I8/1I. Mr. Sackett was married a second time, February 9. 1854, at Tallniadge, Ohio, to Frances V. Grant, a daughter of William and

In 1847 Mr. Sackett purchased a valuable farm of 200 acres on -which he resided until 1867, when he purchased the property on Second street, where he lived until he com- . pleted the building of a fine residence in 1902 on Broad street, Cuyahoga Falls. This beautiful home remains the place of residence of his widow. In 1902 Mr. Sackett completed the sale of the city lots into which he had divided his farm, making the Sackett addidition to Cuyahoga Falls now one of the most attractive parts of the city. For many years Mr. Sackett was an active, consistent. Christian, a member of the Congregational Church, to which he gave generous support both of money and time. Until within a year of his death, Mr. Sackett enjoyed as good health as usually falls to the lot of men of his years, while hi^ mind remained clear, and his interest in his family and immediate circle of friends never ceased. He was the last of his family save one, Mrs. H. C. Grant, of this city. George Sackett's wa^ a pre-eminently successful career. In it all there was nothing to conceal. He was from first to last honest, upright, industrious, a good citizen, neighbor and friend.

F. W. ROCKWELL, a successful and representative business man of Akron, has been a resident of this city for over thirty-six years. He was born in 1851 in Kent, Ohio, then known as Franklin Mills. In 1859 he accompanied his parents to the northwestern part of Missouri, where he resided for five years. They then returned to Ohio, taking up their residence at Andover, where they remained for about a year. A year was then spent at Windfall, Indiana, from which place they removed to Linesville, Pennsylvania for a residence of five years. During these early years the subject of this sketch attended the common schools, supplementing the education therein obtained by a year's attendance at Allegheny College. In 1871, at the age of twenty, he came to Akron, accepting a position :i.-5 bookkeeper with the Akron Sewer Pipe Company, with whom he remained thirteen years. Beginning at the foot of the ladder he worked liis way up until he became secretary of the company.

Mr. Rockwell then went into business for himself as a manufacturer of stoneware, under the firm name of Johnson-Rockwell & Company. Afterwards purchasing Mr. Johnson's interest he continued the business under the style of F. W. Rockwell & Co., until 1890, when he sold out his interest.? to A. J. Weeks. He had previously made arrangements to go to Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, to establish a sewer-pipe company, and accordingly he now established with others the Pennsylvania Sewer Pipe Co., Limited. His interests in this concern he sold out in 1892, returning to Akron, where for a j^ear he was in the office of the Columbia Sew'er Pipe Co. The concern was then merged with the Union Sewer Pipe Comjiany, Mr. Rockwell remaining with them until 1896, when the consolidated concern went out of business. He had previously - about 1893 - become interested in a grocery business, and he now gave his personal attention to it until 1899. He then became connected with the Robinson Clay Product Company, continuing to conduct his grocery business, however, until 1903, when he sold out. For four years j\Ir. Rockwell had charge of the sale department of the Robinson Clay Product Company, but since then has had charge of real estate titles, insurance, and claims of customers.

Mr. Rockw-ell takes an active interest in politics. He was chairman of the Republican County Committee in 1887-1888; he also served on Akron's school board from 1881 to 1889; in 1883 he was elected president of the board ; in 1887 he was elected its treasurer, and he was again elected president in 1888. In 1902 he was again elected, and has served continuously from that time up to the present. He served as president of the board in 1905 and 1906. During his service on fhe board the following buildings were constructed: The Kent. Howe. Henrv. Fraunfelter, Samuel Findley, High School, and the Annex to the high school. Mr. Rockwell belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fallows, and to the Royal Arcanum, being a member of the local lodges of these societies. He was married in 1875 to Miss Mary ^V. Johnson, a daughter of Thomas Johnson, a pioneer hardware manufacturer of Akron. Mr. and Mrs. Rockwell have five children living, namelj': George W., who is in the employ of the Lehigh Portland Cement Co., of Mitchell, Indiana; Frank J., an attorney, who is a member of the prominent law firm of Rodgers. Rowley & Rockwell, of Akron ; Thomas, who is assistant purchasing agent for the Robinson Clay Product Co. ; and Mary and Ida, who reside at home with their parents.

WILLIAM CLOYD JACOBS, M. D., who at the time of death was, in point of service, the oldest medical practitioner at Akron, was also one of the most eminent. He was born February 26, 1840, at Lima, Allen County, Ohio, and was a son of Thomas K. and Ann (Elder) Jacobs.

Dr. Jacobs was of Welsh extraction and his great-grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. William Jacobs, his grandfather, was a native of Pennsylvania, where he lived until late in life and then joined his son at Lima, Ohio, where he died in 1848.

Hon. Thomas K. Jacobs, father of the late Dr. Jacobs, was born January 30, 1812, in Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in 1835. In 1836 he settled at Lima, where he worked at his trade of tailor, and took an active interest in politics. In 1840 he was elected treasurer of Allen County, serving six terms in that office, and in 1859 was elected to the State Legislature, serving three years. He acquired a large amount of real estate and dealt largely in the same. He died November 12, 1884. He married Ann Elder, who was a daughter of Noah and Ann (Alexander) Elder, and they had nine children, four of whom grew^ to maturity, as follows : William C. ; Matilda, who married Henry A. Moore; Clara, who married John Brotherton; and Thomas K.,

At the age of sixteen years, the late Dr. William C. Jacobs obtained the coveted appointment of cadet in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, but finding nautical training was not to his taste he resigned two years Utter, in 1859, and returned home with the intention of studying medicine, and later entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, where he was graduated March 3, 1862. On April 1, 1862, he was commissioned acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army and was immediately sent South and entrusted with various medical and surgical tasks. On account of an accident in the .succeeding October, he was given a leave of absence and during this period he received his commission as surgeon, being then under twenty-three years of age. He joined the Eighty-first Regiment, Oliio Vol. Inf., January 9, 1863, and served with it at Corinth, in the campaign against Atlanta, in the "March to the Sea," and in all the operations of the army from Savannah, Georgia to Raleigh, North Carolina. He was mustered out of the service at Camp Dennison, Ohio, July 21, 1865, young in years but old in medical and surgical experience.

Dr. Jacobs settled at Akron in October, 1865, and until his demise took an active interest in all that concerned this city. In politics he was always an adherent of the Republican party, but never accepted any office except membership on the Board of Education, to which he was thrice elected.

Dr. Jacobs was married (first) September 10, 1863, to Huldah M. Hill, of Piqua, Ohio. Dr. Jacobs was married (second), March 0, 1895, to Mrs. Mary H. Wheeler, a daughter of Sheldon and Harriet (Speers) Brown, of Akron. Mrs. Jacobs survives and resides at No. 641 East Buchtel avenue.

Dr. Jacobs is also survived by one son, Harold H., born February 10, 1866, who was associated with his father in medical practice and is now his .successor. Dr. Harold H. Jacobs graduated from Amherst College in

1888 and from the Ohio Medical College in 1891. As a medical practitioner he holds a high rank in the profession in this section. His office is in the Hamilton Block. September 2, 1891, Dr. Jacobs was united in marriage to Elizabeth Griffin, daughter of H. G. Griffin (deceased) of this county. Dr. and Mrs. Jacobs have three children: Hulda G., Harriet T. and Mary Elizabeth.

The late Dr. AV. "C. Jacobs was a Thirtysecond Degree Mason and was widely known in the fraternity. He belonged also to the Knights of Pythias and to the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and to the Grand Army of the Republic.

A. T. WOODS, M. D., one of the experienced and valued medical practitioners residing at Loyal Oak, where he has been located for the past twentyeight years, Avas born at Union town, Stark County. Ohio, April 6, 1856, and is a son of .John B. and Susan (Wiillis) Woods.

The father of Dr. Woods was engaged in a general mercantile bu-siness at Union trnvn until liLs son was about 5 j'ears of age, when he moved to Akron in the fall of 1860, where he entered into a banking business and for many years was president of the City Bank. Later he organized the City National Bank and was its first president. Many sections of the city were ddentified with the Woods family, the father of Dr. Woods owning a large amount of real estate. He built the Woods Block in the year of 1862 on the corner of Market and ilain Street.-:. The old AVoods homesitead, on the corner of Union and Market Streets, is now the Renner home, but for many years it was the place where the AA'oods family found privacy, peace and contentment and ako where their friends were ho.spitaibly entertained. Both parents of Dr. AVoods died at Akron. Father on August 14, 1896; mother, .lune 26, 1897.

Dr. AVoods was reared from the age of five years at Akron and enjoyed the advantages offered by the graded city schools and later the High School. In preparation for his medical college course, he read with Dr. H. M.

Fitfher for tlireo years and then entered the Western Reserve University at Clevelajid, where he was graduated in 1879. A few days later found him established at his present location, ready for Ijusiness, and through all the succeeding years ho has never failed to answer a call for medical help. Dr. Woods is held in the liighest esteem, both personally and profe.s,sionally.

In ISSl Dr. Woods was married to Ella Harrier, who is a daughter of Dain'el Harrier, and they have one daughter, Lily Blanche, \\ilio married Dr. Bert A. Shriber, a dental .surgeon of Akron.

Dr. Woods has practically retired from practice, but consents occasionally to serve in consultation or to visit in an old family, whose physician and friend he has been for a quarter of a century. He has never identified himself with secret organizations, his only fraternal connection being with the beneficiary order of Pathfinders.

EDWARD B. MILLER, manager of the People's Improvement Company, at Akron, ha« been a resident of this city since childhood, and has been identified with many of the city's important industries. He was born February 15, 1859, at Canton, Ohio, and is a son of Lewis Miller, who was the originator and founder of the Chautauqua As.sociation.

He was scarcely more than five yeai-s old when his parents moved to Akron, where he attended school. He later entered the Ohio We.sleyan Univei"sity, remaining three years. In the meantime he evinced a natural leaning toward mechanics, and this led him to enter Stevens' School of Technology, at Hoboken, New .Tersey, where he took a course in mechanical engineering. Mr. Miller then went for a tour of Europe, and on his return he entered the foundry department of his father's concern, the Aultman-Miller Company, with the determination of learning every detail of the business. This plan he carried out and became assistant superintendent of the .shops, remaining for eight years with that company. Later he was superintendent of the Akron Iron Company for eight years. During all this period he had been quietly investing in land in and around Akron, which since then he has been platting and building thereon comfortable homes for the public. His foresight has proven him a man of business faculty of high degree. His land is well improved, and, while materially benefitting him.self, he has added much to the general attractiveness of his city. Since childhood he has been united with the Firat Methodist Episcopal Church at Akron.

JOHN H. DELLENBERGER, who.se bu.sine.ss connection with the Akron Lumber Company, with plant located at No. 575 South Main Street, Akron, dates froan 1890, has been a rasident of this city for the past fortyone years. He was born in Portage County, Ohio, in 1844, and was reared on his father's farm in Suffield Township.

Mr. Dellenberger is one of the surviving veterans of the Civil War. When twenty years of age he enlisted for service in Company H, 184th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and his period of service covered about nine Tiionths, during which tiane he was stationed mainly in Tennessee and Alabama. He survived all the dangers and disasters of war, and returned safely to his home in Portage County. He was then engaged in carpenter work until the fall of 1866, when he came to Akron and began contracting, in which occupation he continued until 1870. when he went into the lumber business and was a.ssociated twelve yeai's with Sianon Hankey. The Hankey Lumber Company was then organized, of which Mr. Dellenberger was a member for five years. Since then he has been identified with the Akron Lumber Company, which handles all kinds of building materials and manufactures sa^h, door, and Winds and deals in all kinds of lumber.

In 1868 Mr. Dellenberger was married to Elizabeth J. Acker. He has three son? : Albertus J., Harry A. and John H., Jr., all of whom are connected vnth the Akron Lumber Company. In addition, John H., Jr., is a veterinarian, a graduate of the Ontario Veterinarv College. Mr. Dellenberger is a member of the Main Street Methodist Episcopal Chureh. lie belongs to Buckley Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He has never taken aiiy very active part in politics, but is numbered with the quiet, solid representative men of his city, ever ready to do his part in promoting matters of public welfare, but seeking no personal emolument therefrom.

ROBERT TURNER, residing on his valuable farm in Portage- Township, lying just outside of the limits of the city of Akron, came to this locality from the city where he was engaged for many years in a manufacturing business.

Mr. Turner was born in Norfolk, England. January 5, 1833, and is a son of James and Mary (AValker) Turner. He was reared in England and remained in his native land until 1852. After he left school he began work in a flour mill and served an apprenticeship of five ye-ars to the millers' trade. AVlien he left England, his objective point was Akron, which city he reached on July 8, 1852, and on the following day he went to work at the old Center mill, operated by the Allen-Perkins Company. Here he remained for ten years and three months, for eight years of which time he was head miller. On Jvily 1. 1862, Mr. Turner bought a steam flour-mill of George Ayliff, which he operated until 1872, when he sold it and Ijnught the woolen factorj' on Cherry Street. This he converted into ain oatmeal mill, having from 1864 made oatmeal in the steam mill. He continued the manufacture of oatmeal until 1881, when he sold out to J. H. Hower & Sons. Mr. Turner had been living up to this time in a comfortable home on North Summit Street, which he now traded for a farm of ninety acres, known as the old Judge Pitkin farm. This land, on account of its location, is each year becoming more valuable, and Mr. Turner is selling town lots from it, and the time is not far distant when this will be one of the finest, residential parts of Akron.

died young; Addie, residing in Akron; Nellie M., 'who married George W. Carpenter, residing in Akron; and Robert, residing al-^'O iu Akron. Mr. Turner was married (second) to Emma E. (jibbons, who is a daughter of Edward Gibbons. Mrs. Turner was born and reared in England and accompanied her l^rother to America when she was twenty-five years of age. She learned stenography and secured a position, first with William Taylor Son & Company, and later was with the William Bingham Company and the Standard Lighting Company, where she continued until her marriage in 1893 to Mr. Turner.

Since becoming an American citizen, Mr. Turner has been a loyal supporter of the Government, sei'ving during the Civil War as a member of the Sixty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was stationed for the 100-day term at Akron. He has since served acceptably in various offices of responsibility, to which his fellow citizens elected him. For ten years he was a director of the old Portage Township school and for years was a member of the Summit County Agricultural Society, being its treasurer for a part of the time. Fraternally he is a Ma^on, belonging to Akron Lodge,' No. 83, A. F. & A. M.,'and the Royal Arch Chapter, also of Akron.

CHARLES E. AKERS, proprietor of the large hardware busin&ss, located at No. 984 S. Main Street, Akron, has been a continuous resident of this city for the past thirty-three years. Mr. Akers was born in England about 100 miles distant from the great city of London, and in hh native land attended school through boyhod and learned the tinner's trade.

Thus, when the young man arrived in Akron, he WHS ready to go to work and his services were accepted by Cramer & May, but within .six months he realized that there was a good opening in his line of biisiness for another first-cla.'ss establishment, and, accordingly, in as.sociation with his brother, he formed the firm of Akers Brothers. This firm continued for twelve years, doing a general hardware, roofing and tinning business. Charles

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E. Akers is now sole proprietor of the large business, dealing in all kinds of hardware, tinning, roofing and spouting, besides doing general job work. Mr. Akers enjoys a large patronage and is numbered with the leading business men in his line of industry in Akron.

In 1880 Mr. Akers was married to Anna White, and they have four children, namely; Edith, who married Frederick Stornan, residing at Akron, and Eva, Alfred and Ruth. Mr. Akers and family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Politically Mr. Akers is a Republican. He is a member of several insurance societies and has ser\'ed on some civic boards, but he is in no way a politician. Quite recently he has enjoyed a visit to Europe, spending six weeks in viewdng the various placas of interest in London, Livei-pool, Paris and other famous Old World cities.

JACOB KOCH, a prominent citizen of Akron for many years, but now living retired from business activity, was born at Baerstadt, Bavaria, Germany, May 29, 1840, and is a son of Henry and Mary Koch. His parents were natives of Germany who emigrated to America in 1841, finding a home in the city of Philadelphia. The father lost his life through the foundering at sea of a sailing vessel on which he was a passenger, in 1845, between Philadelphia and Savannah, Georgia, and in 1846 . Jacob accompanied his mother to Cleveland, Ohio. He was educated in the schools of that city. In 1854 he came to Akron, where his uncle was the senior member of the clothing firm of Koch and Levi, and secured a clerkship with them. During the next ten years he devoted him.self so closely and thoroughly to the business that in 1864, when his uncle retired, he was able to take his place. In 1878 Mr. Levi was succeeded by Louis Loeb, and the firm name then assumed was J. Koch and Company. The basiness was removed to commodious quarters on South Howard Street, subsequently removal being made to the corner of Mill and Main Streets. Mr. Koch continued at the head of the firm and in time built up the largest establishment in Akron dealing in gents' furnishing goods and boys' and men's clothing. In January, 1907, he disposed of his interest in the business, and since then has been enjoying a quiet life of ease and leisure. Since his retirement the business has been changed to a stock company, composed of clerks who had served under, and were trained in business methods by, Mr. Koch, Louis Loeb being manager.

On March 12, 1878, Mr. Koch was married to Leah Hexter, of New York, who died in that city September 3, 1878. Febiuary 8, 1893, Mr. Koch married (second) Miss Ella Dessauer, of Montrose, Pennsylvania. Of this imion there is one child, Marion Blanche, born March 15, 1895.

Mr.. Koch takes a good citizen's interest in ]niblic matters, and has frequently demon- .-;trated his patriotism and public spirit. He responded to the call of Governor Brough, in 1862, for troops for State defenders, and in 1864, as a member of the 164th Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, served 100 days in front of Washington. He has been connected with a number of civic bodies, and served for a time on the Board of Trustees of the De Rod Hospital fund. He has a beautiful home at No. 38 Adolph Avenue.

J. A. SWINEHART, pr&sident and manager of the Swinehart Clincher Tire and Rubber Company, a large business enterprise of Akron, has resdded in this city for the past thirty-one years. He was born in 1851, at Suffield, Portage County, Ohio, where for some itime he attended school, completing his education at Smithville.

Mr. Swinehart was nineteen years of age when he came to Akron and he spent seven years teaching school in the surrounding districts. He having a natural tasite for woodworking, he finally left the educational field and learned the millwrights' trade, subsequently developing into a contractor. For some sixteen years he engaged in contracting, building many of the largest mills, besides nvnnerous other buildings, at .\kron and throughout Summit County. When the Firestone Rubber Company was organized he became interested in it as a business enterprise, and accepted the position of vice-president, which he retained for three years. He then went to Europe, where he was engaged for a niimbr of years in selling patents on has side-wire tire. Mr. Swinehart m«de six trips abroad in the interests of the above named business, but in the meanwhile he was studying out other inventions, which resulted in the production of the clincher tire, and, in 1904, of the organization of the Swinehart Clincher Tire and Rubber Company. This became an inc.oi"porat«J body. Its present capital stock is $200,000.00, with J. A. S^\-inehart as president and general manager; B. C. Swinehart as vice-president; Fred A. Boron, as treasurer, and C. 0. Baughman, as secretary. The manufacture of the Swinehart Clincher Tires is the company's main industry. Mr. Swimehiart is linterested also in other concerns and is one of Akron's stirring and prominent business citizens. From 1(S93 to 1895 he served as a member of the Akron school board.

In 1880 Mr. Swinehart was married to Callie C. Coldren, of Springfield Township, Summit County. They have three children, namely: B. C. Swinehart, who is vice-president of the Swinehart Clincher Tire Company, and a resident of Akron, and Ada and E.?ther, who reside at home with their parents. Mr. Swinehart- and family belong to the Grace Reformed Church of Akron, which he is serving as a member of the official board.

NATHANIEL LOMBARD, .superintendent and chief engineer of the Lombard & Replogle Engineering Company, at Akron, with quarters in the Hon'er Building on West Market Street, is of New England ancestry and was born at Springfield, Maine, in 1865.

Mr. Lombard received hi? educational training in his native state, and when nineteen years of age lie went to Boston Massachusetts, and found employment with the American Arms Company of that city, with whom he continued for four vears. Here he had an opportunity of working out some ideas of his own and his experiments resulted in the invention of a practical machine for covering electrical wires. Its value was immediately recognized and he sold it without difficulty to the Eastern Electrical- Cable Company, entering their works to build a few of the machines. His busy brain kept at work and he soon produced a lasting machine for lasting shoes, which he sold to the Mc- Kay Shoe Machinery Company, of Boston. -Vbout the same time he sold his hydraulic car brake to the city of New York, where a number of cable cars Avere equipped with this life-saving appliance. Other important inventions of recognized utility are his waterwheel governors, the Lombard water-wheel governor, which is controlled by the Lombard AVater Wheel Governor Company, of Bo.ston, and his other invention, the improved waterwheel governor, which is being built by the Holyoke Machine Company, of Worcester, Massachusetts.

In 1905 Mr. Lombard came to Akron and, after inventing and perfecting the Lombard & Replogle mechanical water-wheel governor, he formed the Lombard & Replogle Engineering Comjianv, which was incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000. The officers of this company are: M. Otis Hower, president; H. Y. Hower, vice-president ; M. A. Replogle, secretary, and Nathaniel Lombard, superintendent and chief engineer. Mr. Lombard retains a one-third interest in the Improved Water-Wheel Governor Company, of "\Vorcester, Massachusetts: is a stockliolder in the Lombard Water-Wheel Governor Company, also of that city, and is interested in a number of smaller concerns. He has been eqxiipped by natm'c with inventive gifts, which he ha.s developed to great advantage, and in his special field, he ha? no superior.

all through Sunuiiit County, where his family is an old and honored one. Dr. Rodenbaugh was bom in Springfield Township, Summit County, Ohio, September 15, 1865, and i5 a son of Abraliam and Rebecca (Hart) Rodenbaugh. The Rodenbaugh family is of German extraction, l>ut has been American for a number of generations. The founder of the family in Ohio was John Rodenbaugh. the grandfather of Dr. Rodenbaugh, who came from Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, in 1840. and settled on a farm in Springfield Township, Summit County, clofie to the line of Green Township.

Abraham Rodenbaugh. father of Dr' Rodenbaugh, was born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, December 18, 1818, and accompanied his parents to Ohio when aboTit twenty-two years of age; he was a soldier drilled for the Mexican War, under Colonel Buckley, and was on his way to the front when the order was countermanded. He was married to Rebecca Hart in 1846. She was born in Springfield Town.ship, and was a daughter of John Hart, Jr.. and a granddaughter of the John Hart, formerly from New Jersey and Pennsylvania, whose name is signed to that immortal document, the Declaration of Independence. The grandfather, to uphold his pledge, enlisted and fought seven years through the Revolutionary' War, under General Lafayette. John Hart, Jr., was a soldier imder General Jackson in the war of 1812, and w.as with Old Hickory against England in the famous battle of New Orleans. The children of Abraham and Rebecca (Hart) Rodenbaugh were seven in number, and five of these still survive.

The boyhood days of Dr. Rodenbaugh yvas spent on his father's farm, where his training was that of the u.«ual country boy, including attendance in the local schools. Later he entered the Union town High School, and attended Buchtel College, and subsequent- Iv taught school for six terms, in the meantime doing considerable preliminary medical reading, after which he entered the Ohio Medical University, which is now connected with Stariing Medical Colleee. In 1899 ho admitted to partnership Dr. George A. Br&wn, Senecaville, Guernsey County, Ohio, for six years, who was superseded by his nephew in 1905, Dr. Herbert Rodenbaugh, both being graduates of Ohio Medical University at Columbus.

In 1897 Dr. Rodenbaugh was married to Minnie Kepler, who is a daughter of Samuel Kepler, a highly re.«pected resident of Akron. They have two children, Josephine and Hugo.

Dr. Rodenbaugh has always associated with the Methodi.?t Episcopal Church. His fraternal conuections include the Elks, the Odd Fellows, the Foresters, and tlie Maccabees.