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

Phillip Heintz, father of George, was born in Germany, in 1810, and went to school until it was time to learn a self-supporting trade, when he chose that of weaver, although he was apt in almost any kind of mechanical work. He then served his allotted time in the Germany army. He married Mary Beard and after the birth of four children, they decided to emigrate to America. They took passage in a sailing vessel March 15, 1845, and spent forty days in covering the di;stance which the ocean steamers of the jiresent day cover in seven days. They landed safely, however, and in a few^ weeks were settled on the farm w^hich George Heintz now owns. At the time they came here the land vias not very attractive, as a large amount of timber was still standing and burnt stumps marked the spots where the trees had been cut, but the ground was fertile, and with industry the land was developed into an excellent farm. An old log house was on the place, in which the family took up their residence, and here the father died in 1876, aged sixty-six years. His wife, who was born in 1812, survived to the age of eighty-four. After coming to America the family was increased by the birth of five more children. Those born in Germany were: Catherine, who married Philip Laubert.: Philip J., Louise, deceased, who married Frank Knapp, and John. Those who were born in America were: George, subject of this sketch: Mrs. Esther Glass. Mary, who married Unas Cramer; Lena, who married Eli Pcatro, and Matilda, who married Walter Sherbondy.

George Heintz grew up on the old farm and began farm work while still young, in the meanwhile going to school as opportunity afforded. He then learned the potter's trade, which proved remunerative, and in eight

. years he made enough to purchase the old homestead from the other heira. This was in 1878, and ten years later he tore down the old log house and erected his present comfortable nine-room frame residence. Not stopping there, he made many other substantial improvements which have added to the value of his property. Beautiful shade trees and green lawn make it very attractive. Mr. Heintz also owns property in Akron.

On November 15, 1877, Mr. Heintz was married to Mary M. Beck, who is a daughter of Greorge and Catherine (Blose) Beck. Mrs. Heintz's parents came from Germany about 1845, but she was born in America, her parents having been married in the United States. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Heintz, namely: George Philip, who died in April, 1897, aged eighteen years; William A., who married Theresa Canfield, and Ernest Walter, Adella and Earl Forest. Mrs. Heintz is one of a family of six children, as follows: Catherine, who married F. Schultz; Christiana, deceased, who married William Gayer; Mary; Carry, who married William Thornton, and John and George. George Beck and wife died in Coventry Township. Mr. Heintz and family belong to the German Reformed Church. They are kind, industrious and worthy people who enjoy the esteem of the community in which they lived so long.

LAWSON WATERMAN. Few citizens of Peninsula, Summit County, passed off the stage of life followed with more sincere expressions of respect and esteem, or left behind a better record of a useful, blameless life than did Lawson Waterman, who was born at Decatur, Otsego County, New York, January 21, 1811, and died after a short illness. September 21, 1892.

At the age of nineteen years he went to Rochester, New York, where he found employment in a ship yard, and in the following summer went on the lakes as a sailor, a calling he followed for several yeare. In 1836 he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he met Angeline C. Roger, whom he married

October 24, 1840. She was born April 11, 1821, in Kingsville, Geauga County, Ohio, and died on the home place at Peninsula, January 12, 1906. They had two children, George Lawson, and a child that died in infancy. George Lawson Waterman was a gallant soldier in the Civil War, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. He died September 19, 1863, from a wound received while quelling a mob, at Dayton, Ohio.

The parents of Lawson Waterman were Elisha and Diana (Young) Waterman. Elisha was a son of a Revolutionary soldier, who served through the entire seven years, settling at Decatur, Otsego County, New York, where Elisha was born. In 1791 he married Diana Young, who was born at Decatur, New York, and was a daughter of a Revolutionary soldier, the wife of a soldier of the War of 1812, and the grandmother of an officer in the Civil War. She was a woman of noble character and impressed herself on her children. Elisha Waterman enlisted at the opening of the War of 1812, and was taken prispner by the British at the battle of Queenstown, but was soon released on parole and eventually discharged. He had four children: Lawson, Onesimus, Marietta and Ellen. In 1843 he brought his family to Ohio and settled on a farm in York Township, Medina County, where he died at the age of eightyfour years and his wife at the age of eightysix years.

After marrage Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Water, man came to Peninsula and for many years he engaged in the manufacturing of canal boats, and prospered because of his energy, prudence and upright dealing, amassing a modest but honest fortune. He was a man of sterling character, charitable to a fault, bestowing benefits in a quiet way and always giving a petitioner the benefit of the doubt. His friends were numbered only by those who had come to his acquaintance. His passing away was that of going to sleep and when he was no more, the community in which his kind and exemplary life had been led. had lost a good man.

ber of yeaa^ was postmaster at Peninsula and served in town aiid township offices. He belonged to Meridian Lodge, No. 266, A. F. & A. M., West Richfield.

NORMAN WISE, millwright for the Cleveland-Akron Bay Company at Boston Mill, in Boston Township, was born at East Liberty, Green Township, Summit County, Ohio, April 26, 1865, and is a son of William J. and Mary A. (Bower) Wise.

William J. Wise was born January 6, 1840, and for many years carried on agricultural pursuits in Tallmadge Township, where he still owns a large farm, although he is now retired from active pursuits and is living a quiet life at Akron. He was married to Mary A. Bower, who was the daughter of John Bower, of Newheim, and they had two sons and four daughters, Norman being the eldest child. Mr. and Mrs. Wise were members of the Presbyterian Church.

Norman Wise was educated in the common schools of Green Township, and when he was sixteen years old left the home farm and went to Cuyahoga Falls, where he began to learn the trade of machinist, in the plant of Turner* Vaughn and Taylor. Later he went to Cleveland, where he followed his trade in different shops, and subsequently went from place to place, both in the East and West, gaining varied and valuable experience. In 1887, when he entered the employ of the Cleveland Paper Bag Company, Mr. Wise's ability was recognized, and he held a prominent position with that firm for three years, when he went to the Taylor and Boggis Foundry Company, and was in charge of their machinery for ten and one-half years. In the spring of 1900, Mr. Wise came to his present position, to install the machinery of the paper mill, the erection of the building having been started in the fall of 1899. To gain some idea of the machinery which comes under Mr. Wise's care, one need only glance at the following equipment of the plant: one 84-inch paper machine, one 124-inch paper machine, four rotary boilers, two rope cutters, two dusters, a devil-picker, one 60-horse-power engine and coating machine, seven boilers, two feed water pumps, one fire pump with a capacity of 750 gallons per minute, one supply pump with a capacity of 1,000 gallons per minute, one rotary pump with a capacity of 550 to 600 gallons per minute, two water wheels manufactured by the Dayton Globe Iron Works with a capacity of 400 horse-power, a 1,000- horse-power cross compound Hamilton Corliss engine, one Snyder Hughes condenser, 1,398 feet of pipe line, composed of 6, 8, 10 and 12 inch pipe to a dam in the woods near the mill, which has a twelve-foot head of water and delivers water at a pressure of twenty-eight pounds, and a 4,600-gallon fire tank at an elevation of 120 feet, the plant being supplied with automatic sprinklers throughout. The plant has a machine ship equipped with drills, lathes and all other machinery necessary to make repairs on equipment, and Mr. Wise has the services of competent assistants.

Mr. Wise was married to Rose Wolfe, who is the daughter of Adam Wolfe, of Cleveland, and they have three children: Daisy G., Norman and Marion. In political matters Mr. Wise is a Republican. In 1901 he was elected justice of the peace of Boston Township, and he is now serving his second term, which continues until 1910. He has been a member of the Board of Education since 1905. Fraternally Mr. Wise is connected with Pavonia Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Cuyahoga Falls.

ALLEN WELTON, formerly a very prominent citizen of Boston Township, where he carried on agricultural pursuits on a large body of land which once aggregated 300 acres, was born July 18, 1809, in Vermont.

Mr. Welton was given but limited educational opportunities in his youth, and for a number of years his fortunes fluctuated. As a young man he began to clerk in a store in his native state, and later went to New York. There he was variously employed, finally acquiring a wood yard and on one oc- casion he chopped 400 cords of wood, only to see it swept away by the sudden uprising of a river. Prom New York he tlien went to Cleveland, Ohio, which city was but a small village, and from there to Bedford, and shortly afterward to Boston Township, south of Peninsula. He settled on the farm on Oak Hill, now owned by his widow, which was then covered with timber and this he cleared and cultivated in the course of years, accumulating 300 acres. A large part of this land has since been sold, the farm now containing 187 acres. For a niunber of years Mr. Welton conducted a dairy, and at one time milked forty cows. He was a man of many practical ideas and began making cheese at home, the industry soon growing to such proportions that he built a cheese factorj', which wiis the first one in Summit County, and later operated another factory at Bath, which his son Frank helped him to conduct. For many years he was a member of the Ohio Dairymen's Association.

Mr. Welton was married (first) in New York, to Sarah Strieker, and they had five children, namely: Francis, who is deceased; George W., who lives at Akron ; William H. H., also a resident of Akron; John N. ; and Ellen E., who is the widow of Andrew Ozmun, of Bath Township. On March 17, 1852, Mr. Welton was married (second) to Louise Thompson, who is a daughter of Mills and Catherine (Allen) Thompson, who was born at Hudson, Ohio, January 14, 1831. The following children were born to this marriage: Frank E., who is a railroad conductor, residing at Akron, married Ella Hancock, and they have had three children, Park and Harry, living, and Clara, deceased; Cora A., who married Walter Hunt, who carries on the home farm, has one son, Elwin Welton ; Emma C, who married Ira O. France, residing at Akron; Hattie J., who married Bert Lee. residing in Boston Township, has one child, Chester; Ira Glenn, residing at home; and Jessie and Alice, both of whom are deceased.

was the first physician to settle in Summit County. Mills Thompson, her father, was born at Waterbury, Connecticut, but at the time of his mari'iage he lived at Akron. Dui ing the building of the Ohio Canal, he was an overseer of a part of the work for a time, but his life was mainly spent as an agriculturist.

Allen Welton made two trips to Kentucky and Nashville, Tennessee, to visit his sons, who contracted serious illness during their service in the Civil War, and on one of these trips brought his son John home with him. He had many thrilling experiences, and on a number of occasions narrowly escaped capture by roving bands of guerrillas. A stanch Republican in politics, Mr. Welton was often elected to positions of trust, and served as county commissioner and township trustee. During his long and useful life he was very active in church and charitable movements, and was the founder of the Congregational Sunday-school, which is still in existence in the neighborhood of his former home.

EDWARD ROEPKE, a highly esteemed retired farmer of Portage Township, Summit County, Ohio, whose comfortable home is on the Dayton Street extension, just across from the new Caldwell school, was born November 10, 1841, in Zemmen, Prussia, and i.< a son of William and Frederica (Dittbenner) Roepke.

Edward Roepke was reared to manhood in his native country. During his youth he worked as a hired man on a farm, receiving twenty-two dollars per year and his board, and also spent two years as a waiter in a private house in Berlin, for which service he received four dollars per month, his board and washng.

When he was twenty-one years of age, with Ills parents and their other children, Mr. Roepke started for America, from Hamburg,, Germany, in the sailing vessel Wnshington, and after a voyage of fourteen weeks landed at Quebec, Canada, in September, 1862, In April, 1863, they removed to Ottawa, where the men of the family endeavored to secure employment on the new Government bnildings being erected there, but faiHng in this they came to Akron, Ohio, Mr. Roepke liaving seen in an advertisement that men were needed in the construction of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. On arriving in this city difficulty with the language embarra.ssed them as none of the family could read or write in English, nor could they speak or understand it with the exception of an occasional common word. They already had suffered misfortune. Their passage had been paid to Akron by way of Oswego and Cleveland, but between Hudson and Akron they lost all of their belongings, even their bedding and household effects, which they had brought that far from Germany, and their sole possessions were the clothes they wore. However, here the father and five sons found work, each receiving eleven shillings per day for eleven hours' labor. After three months, they entered the employ of George Wolven as quarrymen, and here their w'ages were one dollar and fifty cents for ten houre' work, and tliey continued for two years working in the quaiTies. In 1864, Albert Roepke. the second eldest brother, enlisted in the Sixth Ohio Cavalrv% and served nine months in the Federal Army, and as in addition to his monthly salary of sixteen dollars he received a bounty of $.500. he felt almost rich, and hastened to better the family fortunes. With this sum four- acres of land were purchased in Akron, on which was situated a stone quarry, and Edward and Albert Roepke and a half-brother, William Moss), engaged in business, the firm going into debt for an additional $500. The stone quarry was operated for five years, stone selling at one dollar per load, and at the end of this time they engaged in contracting, and Edward Roepke was made superintendent of the business, which proved verv successful. Later this land was sold off in lots and Edward Roepke purchased a farm of 108 acres in Portage Township, on which he built a fine house and barn and engaged in general agricultural pursuits.

although he still contiiuied his contract ing operations, and did much road construction work for the county. In 1900, Mr. Roepke sold his farm and took a trip to California, where he remained several months. After returning to Akron, he went to Detroit, Michigan, where he spent three summers, his winters being passed in Florida. In November, 1905, the present Mrs. Roepke purchased from Robert Turner the lot on which thoy now reside, at Cuyahoga Falls, and Jlr. Roepke erected here a beautiful home, in which they have since lived.

In 1864 Mr. Roepke was married (first) to Caroline Myers, who died in 1894. She was a daughter of Ernest Myers. To this union there were born eleven children, as follows: Charles, who lives at Akron ; Rosa, who is the wife of John H. Rice, of Mansfield, Ohio; Edward A., who is in the fertilizing business at Akron ; Emma, who married Richard Dohl, a stove and furnace merchant of Ravenna, Ohio; William, whose death occurred August 81, 1905; Clara, who is the wife of L. B. Jennings, a baker, of Ravenna, Ohio; George, who for three years was a member of the United Statas Anny in the Philippines; John, who lives at Ravenna, Ohio; ilary, who is the wife of Adam Fichter, an architect of Akron; Ida, who is a stenographer at Mansfield, Ohio ; and Harry, who also resides in Mansfield. In 1905 Mr. Roepke was united in marriage with Henrietta Huge.

Mr. Roepke has been much interested in public matters in his township, and for nineteen years served on the School Board, and for four years in the office of road superintendent. He is a Republican and is Township Committeeman of his party. He is an excellent example of a self-made man.

JOHN M. FOUSE, general farmer and well-known citizen, residing on his valuable farm of twenty-five acres, which is situated on Dan Street, ju.st east of the city limits of Akron, and in Portage Town.ship, was born in Lake Township, Stark County, Ohio, Oc-

Frederick Fouse was born on the old Foiise homestead in Stark County, which his father, John Fouse, bought from the Government, when he came as a young man pioneering in Lake Township. He was a native of Blair County, Pennsylvania, and died on the farm he had worked so hard to secure and improve when his son Frederick was three months old. His widow remained on the farm which consisted of 140 acres, where she reared her two children, Frederick and Savilla, the latter of whom later married Isaac Madlem. and is now deceased. Grandmother Fouse subsequently came to Portage Township, where she lived until her death, at the age of eightyseven yeai's..

As soon as Frederick Fouse attained sufficient strength and judgment he took upon himself the mafiagement of the farm and when he reached manhood, he married Elizabeth Gaerte, who was a daughter of Jacob Gaerte and was reared in Lake Township. All of their nine children were born and reared on the Stark County farm, as follows: Malinda, who married Philip Fulmer, resides in Portage County; John M., of Portage Township; Reuben, Jacob, Edward P., Milton W., Fernando and William F., all reside in Portage Township; and Ira, who died at the age of twenty-seven years.

In 1873, Frederick Fouse sold the farm in Stark County and bought 107 acres in Summit County, John M. Fouse's farm being a part of this tract. Mr. Fouse lived on his new purchase until his death in January, 1884. He erected new buildings and improved his land in many ways. His widow survived until April, 1904. They were worthy people in every way and enjoyed the esteem of all who knew them.

John M. Fouse was trained in agricvdtural pursuits from his boyhood and has never turned his attention to any degree to an>i.hing else. For twenty-eight years he was in the milk business and had an Akron route, but in January, 1907, he discontinued his dairv.

He married Susan Royer, who is a daughter of Abraham Royer, of Stark County, and they have a fine, intelligent family of ten children, namely: Bertha, Aquilla, Austin J., Frederick, Clarence, Claude, Mabel, Floyd, Gladys and Elva. The eldest son, Aquilla Fouse, married Edna Sprague, and they have three children : Ruth, Helen and Harold.

When the home farm was divided at the time of the father's death, John M. Fouse purchased twenty-five acres of the land, which is exceedingly valuable on account of being so desirable for city building extension, together with the buildings, the substantial barn having been put up in 1880, and the fine frame dwelling, in 1881.

Mr. Fouse is one of the recognized leading men of the township and is a member of the Board of Education together with the folloT\ang prominent citizens: John Mc- Dowell, president, Roland Koplin, W. W. Washburn and Abner Caldwell. Mr. Fouse belongs to the order of Pathfinders.

FRANK A. WILCOX, capitalist, who has been a resident of Akron since 1882, is extensively engaged in a general contracting and real estate business here and is identified with a large number of the successful enterprises from which the city has gained its name as an important commercial center. He was born at Richfield, Summit County, Ohio, May 17, 1852, and is a son of Dr. J. C. Wilcox, one of the county's pioneers.

Frank A. Wilcox remained at Richfield until he was eighteen years of age, securing his preparatory education there, and then entered Oberlin College. Here he was graduated in 1878, and immediately afterward began the study of law in the office of T. E. Burton, at Cleveland, Ohio. After one year there he accepted the position of superintendent of the schools of Glenville, which he filled for three years. Mr. Wlicox then bought the abstract books of Summit County and from 1882 to 1898, he did the abstract, real estate and insurance business which is now controlled bv the firm of Bruner. Good- hue & Cook, being associated the most of the time with A. H. Noah. He still retains an interest in the business. He was then secretaoy of the India Rubber Company for one year, and in 1899 took charge of the Pennsylvania Rubber Company, serving as vicepresident, treasurer and general manager. He remained with this company until March 1, 1907, and is still on its board of directors. Mr. Wilcox is now engaged in a general contracting and real estate business. His large real estate interests occupy much of his time. He is a stockholder in the Akron Selle Company and in other concerns, being treasurer and general manager of the Arcturus Lithia Springs Company.

In 1893, Mr. Wilcox was married to Delia M. Doyle, who is a daughter of the late William B. Doyle. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox lost an interesting little son, Doyle, who died at Erie, Pennsylvania, aged but six years. They have one daughter, Margaret, and an adopted daughter, Elizabeth L.

While residing at Glenville, Mr. Wilcox served as a member of the City Council, and from 1885 until 1887, he served on the Akron City Council. He was the founder of the order of Maccabees at Akron and is past master of the order here, and he is also past grand of Akron Lodge, No. 547, I. 0. 0. F., and was sent as a representative to the Grand Encampment of the state of Ohio. He belongs also to the Akron lodge of Elks. At Jeannette, Pennsylvania, he united with the First Presbyterian Church. Akron has few more progressive, enterprising and public-spirited citizens than Mr. Wilcox.

CLINT W. KLINE, Clerk of Courts, was born in Green Township, Summit County, Ohio, January 14, 1860 ; he is the sepond son of David and Elizabeth (Chisnell) Kline, now living in Greensburg, Ohio.

Mr. Kline was reared on his father's farm and obtained the usual country school education : subsequent to this he was a student in the Akron High School, and was a student at Buchtel college and also at Hiram college.

At the age of seventeen he began teaching country schools, which profession he followed for seven years, after which he took a course in stenography at Springfield, Ohio.

In 1885 he came to Akron and engaged in the retail grocery business with his brother, Oliver J. Kline, under the firm name of Kline Bros., which partnership continued until 1903 when Mr. Kline entered upon his duties as Clerk of Courts, thus terminating the partnership.

Mr. Kline has always been a Republican and has always been active in local politics, having served as chairman of the Republican City Central Committee for a number of years and vice-chairman of the Summit County Executive Committee. In 1895 he was elected to the Board of Education from the famous Old Fourth ward, the Democratic stronghold of the city, in which capacity he served during 1895 and 1896; he did not stand for re-election, having received the Republican nomination for member of the General Assembly of Ohio.

Mr. Kline was elected to the office of Clerk of Courts at the election of 1902 and assumed his duties as such in 1903 ; in 1905 he was reelected to a second term, which will expire in August, 1909. Mr. Kline is connected with a number of our banking institutions and is vice-president of The Dime Savings Bank. He is also a stockholder in a number of Akron's flourishing enterprises.

In 1886 Mr. Kline was married to Minnie E. Burnham, a popular teacher of the Akron public school; they have two children. Vera B. and Helen B. Mr. Kline is prominent in fraternal matters, affiliating with a great many fraternal bodies.

CHARLES TSCHANTZ, a highly esteemed citizen of Portage Township, Summit County, Ohio, who resides on the old Good farm and is engaged in farming and dairying, was born September 21, 1855, in Switzerland, and is a son of John and Christina Tschantz, both of whom died in the old countrv. Charles Tschantz was reared in his native country, where he received a good education, his father being a school teacher, and at the age of sixteen yeai's he came to America, locating at once on the farm of Abe Mosier in Wayne County, Ohio. After remaining there for two years Mr. Tschantz removed to Beaver County, Pennsylvania, where for two years he worked in a dairy, and subsequently went to Putnam County, Ohio, where he lived for seven years. After his marriage, Mr. Tschantz went to Ashtabula, Ohio, where he continued to reside for six years, and in 1897 located on the old Sacket farm in Copley Township. Two years later he purchased forty acres of land in Copley, where he resided for three years, at the end of which time he purchased a residence and ten building lots in Akron. Mr. Tschantz removed to his present home in 1899, and in 1905 purchased thirty acres of land, which he farms in connection with the 298 acres that he rents from Edward Good. He makes a specialty of dairying, having for this purpose a herd of from twenty-five to thirty finely bred cattle.

Mr. Tschantz was man-ied in Putman County, Ohio, to Anna Vungunton, and to this union there have been born seven children: Lena, who married Allen Wright; William, who married Margaret Hodgson, and has one child, Buelah Margaret; Otto, who resides in Oregon ; .Tohn, also a resident of Oregon ; Charles, who lives at home ; Anna, who is a stenographer of Akron; and Lizzie. With his family Mr. Tschantz attends the Christian Church.

C. H. PALMER, who is identified with a number of Akron's greatest business enterprises, is still in the .vigor of middle age, having been born in 1850, in old Middlebury, now- Akron, and is a son of Albert and Ann Elizabeth (Hoyc) Palmer.

Stephen Palmer, the grandfather of C. H.. was one of the earliest manufacturers of this section. He established a fanning mill factory which his son, Albert Palmer, continued to operate until about 1850, in which year he to went to Tennessee, where, for a time he was engaged in the same business. In early manhood, Albert Palmer was a school teacher. He still survives, and resides at Akron, having reached hLs eighty-third year, while his wife has rounded out her seventy-seventh.

C. H. Palmer was educated at Kingsville Academy. He was only twelve years old when he was sent out on his father's wagon, to sell matches, and thus from boyhood he has been connected with the great corporation now known as the Diamond Match Company. From the humble position of match boy, Mr. Palmer, through diligence and industry worked his way up, step by .9tep, through the different grades of service until he now occupies the responsible positions of vice-president and general superintendent of the Diamond Match Company, as well as a director in the same. Mr. Palmer is largely interested in many other flourishing enterprises of this prosperous city and section. He is president and director of the Granite Clay Company; trea.surer and a director of the Akron Smoking Pipe Company ; a director of the First National Bank of Akron ; a director of the Barberton Savings Bank, at Barberton, and other concerns of less magnitude.

In 1876, Mr. Palmer was married to Marion Peckham, who wa.s born, reared and educated at Middlebury, and who is a daughter of Thomas H. Peckham, one of the earlie.st settlers at Tallmadge, Summit County. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer have one son, Thomas A., who is manager of the Barberton branch of the Diamond Match factory, and vice-president and a director of the Granite Clay Company. He was educated at Case's School of Applied Science. Mr. Palmer is a member and one of the trustees of the First Church of Christ, at Akron.

WILLIS G. MARSHALL, a well-known citizen and general farmer of Norton Town- .ship, residing on his farm which lies one-half mile north of Johnson's Corners and about one-half mile south of Norton Center, was

Robert Marshall was born in Perry County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Joseph Marshall. He came to Sununit Covnity a.s a young man and after his marriage Ixnight the farm on which Willis G. resides. Both he and wife died on this farm. They had twleve children, Willis G. being the youngest of the family.

Willis G. ilarshall wa.s reared on thi.s fine old farm and went to school at Norton Center. In 1878 he was married to Mary S. Betz, a daughter of Alvin D. Betz, and she was reared within a half mile of the farm on which Mr. Marshall grew up. They have three children - Roy G., Leonard E., ^md Nellie M. The eldest son is foreman of the hose room of the Rubber Products Company, at Barbert-on. He married Mabel Cooper and they have three .children - Ethel M., Cloyd C, and Ruth I. Leonard, the second son, is also employed in the Rubber WorlvS. He married Doxie Tawney. Miss NelHe resides at home. Both sons have built and are living on the place, which is now the West corporation limit of Barberton.

Following his marriage. Mr. Marshall lived for two years at Norton Center, and then ino\'ed to a farm south of Johnson's Corners, on which he remained for four yeai-s. He then moved to Wayne County, for a three years' residence. He moved back to Norton for one year and then returned to Wayne County, where he remained for fourteen years. In the .spring of 1902, he bought the old home farm and has carried on agriculture here ever since. For three years he also carried on a dairy, but has discontinued that indui5try. The family is one that is very highly respected in this neighborhood.

IRVIN R. MANTON, superintendent of factory No. 3, Robinson Clay Product Company, at Akron, has been connected with this large business enterprise ever since he completed his education, and his industry, ca-

{)acity and fidelity have contributed in full measia-e to the success of the concern. He was born at Akron, Ohio, January 24, 1874, and was educated in the schools of Akron, with three years of instruction at Saltsburg, Pennsylvania. After completing his school studies he entered the factory of the Robinson Clay Product Company, of which he has been superintendent for the past four years. He has engaged rather extensively, also, in the breeding of fine horses, at present owning about fifteen head, they possessing qualities which make them exceedingly valuable. On April 5, 1898, Mr. Manton was married to Fredericka Wickdal Hurxthal, a member of one of the old and substantial families of Canton, Ohio. They have one child, Laona. Mr. Manton is a member of the First Presbyterian Church. He has numerous social connections, being a member of the Portage Country Club, the Canton Country Club, and the Gentlemen's Driving Club of Akron.

IRVING C. RANKIN, M.D., specialist in surgery and diseases of women, is a leading practitioner at Akron. He was born at Akron, Ohio, -in 1871, and is a .son of George T. Rankin.

Following his graduation from the Akron High School, in 1888, Dr. Rankin entered the Syracuse University, where he was graduated in 1892 with his degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. He received his Master's Degree in 1894. In 1895 he was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, and after serving one year as an interne in the Allegheny General Hospital, at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, he located at Akron, in 1896. He has been in continuous practice in this city ever since, with the exception of a part of the year 1904, which he spent at Berlin and Vienna, taking a post graduate course in the famous medical institutions of those cites. Dr. Rankin is gynecologist of the Akron Hospital, and surgeon for a number of the large industries of this city, notably, the Quaker

Oats Company, the' Northern Ohio Traction and Light Company, and the Taplin and Rice Company. He also carries on a general practice. He is a member of the Summit County, the Ohio State, the Cleveland, and the North Eastern Medical Societies. For three of the eleven years in which he has been engaged in practice at Akron, Dr. Rankin served as city physician. On November 1, 1898, Dr. Rankin was mariied to Lena J. Schreuder, of Syracuse, New York. Dr. Rankin retains membership in his Greek letter college fraternity, the D. K. E.; also belongs to the Masonic order.

JOHN "W. PAYNE, city engineer at Akron, was born at Port Clinton, Ottawa County, Ohio, in 1857, and like many other men now in professional life, was educated in the district schools and was reared on the paternal farm.

When Mr. Payne decided to adopte civil engineering as his profession he entered the engineering department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and was graduated in 2883, with his degree of a working Bachelor of Science. Following his departure from the university, he worked for the Government, for two years, on the Mississippi River survey, and for two years on the Missouri River. The death of his brother, who had been in the dry goods business at Port Clinton, recalled him to that city and he took charge of that business, removing to Akron, Ohio, in 1887, and disposed of it in 1894. In 1892, he first began work in the city engineer's office as assistant, and continued in that capacity until 1899, when he was made city engineer, an office he has filled eveisince.

In 1886, Mr. Payne was married to Martha A. Orchard, of Lima, Ohio, and they have two children, "William A. and Mildred. The latrter resides at home. William A. Payne is a student in the engineering department of the University of Michigan. Mr. Payne and family belong to the Woodland Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a trustee.

He has been prominent for a number of years, in the order of Odd Fellows, is a member of the Encampment, and belongs also to the Pathfinders. Formerly he was president of the Ohio Engineering Society and still retains his membership.

ELMER I. McCAMAN, whose excellent farm of 100 acres is situated in Coventry Township, about two and one-half miles southeast of Barberton, is a native of Summit County, Ohio, and was born on the banks of Long Lake, in Coventry Township, August 30, 1871. He is a son of Elihu and Louisa W. (Foust) McCaman.

Isaac McCaman, the grandfather of Elmer I., was the founder of this family in Ohio. He was born in Ireland and came to America accompanied by two brothers, one of whom settled first in Maryland, while the other, with Isaac, settled in Virginia. In a short time, Isaac McCaman pushed north to Ohio and settled near what is now the town of Uniontown, where he died aged forty-five years. His widow survives him into old age and died at Akron. Of their large family there are two survivors, namely : Percilla, who is the widow of Adam Cormany, and Lucinda, who is the Widow Gruber, residing at Akron.

Elihu McCaman was reared on the farm on which his father had located and through youth assisted in clearing the same. In young manhood he bought the 3Iary Ellen, a tidy little canal boat, on which he and his mother lived for a number of years, during which time he followed a profitable business on the water. After his marriage he retired from the canal and disposed of his boat, following agricultural pursuits in Coventry Township until his death, in December, 1899, when sixty-eight years of age. In middle life he married the widow of Michael Dixon, who was a daughter of George and Nellie Foust. One of the three children of her first marriage still survives, Delilah, who married Levi Gaugler. Two children were born to her marriage with Elihu McCaman : Elmer I., and Ella J., the latter of whom married

Charles Rhodenburger and is deceased. By a second marriage, to Orange Cook, one child was born, George L. The mother of Mr. Mc- Caman resides at Barberton.

Elmer I. McCaman was nine years old when his parents moved to the farm in the southwest corner of Coventry Township, where he went to the old District No. 9 school, after which he worked in the shops at Barberton until his marriage. After this event, he went into a sawmill business with his halfbrother, George Cook, and was a partner in the G. L. Cook Lumber Company, of Barberton, which engaged in business there for four years. Mr. McCaman then sold his interest to Mr. Cook, and in 1904, he bought his present excellent farm, from the Dickerhoof heirs. The property was improved to some degree, but Mr. McCaman has added to the value of the land very materially, by his careful cultivation and excellent agricultural methods.

Mr. McCaman was married February 13, 1895, to Clara N. Stefifee ,who is a daughter of Amos and Alice (Fairbanks) Steffee. They have five children, namely: Carrie, Ellery, Edwin, Forest, Orwin, and Sadie B. Mrs. McCaman is the eldest of her parents' family of four children, the others being: Leon, Blanche, and Almira, the latter of whom died young. The mother of Mrs. McCaman died March 26, 1907, aged fifty-four years, but the father still survives. The maternal grandfather, Edwin Fairbanks, was a native of New York and was one of the earliest settlers in Copley Township.

Mr. and Mrs. McCaman are members of the United Brethren Church at Lock wood Corners, in which he is one of the stewards. He is a Democrat. Formally he was a member of the Knights of Pythias, at Barberton.

highly esteemed citizen of Northfield Township, was engaged in farming for many years but is now retired from active management of his farms, though still residing in a commodious residence which he built on one of them several years ago. He is the second son of the late James W. and Adeline (Hanchett) Wallace and was born February 18, 1843, in Northfield Township, Summit County, Ohio. This branch of the Wallace family became American through Robert Wallace, the greatgreat-grandfather of Hiram, who removed from Scotland early in the eighteenth century to Londonberry, Ireland, and thence to Londonderry, New Hampshire. To Robert was born James, and to James came two sons, George and Robert, not mentioning the numerous collateral branches. These brothers, George and Robert, having the spirit of adventure in them, and perhaps being restive under the strict New England discipline of those days, put good axes over their broad shoulders and fat bags of beans on their backs, and, leaving their native town of Ackworth, New Hampshire, directed their foot-steps westward. By aid of the axe they supplemented the provender in the bags and after traversing some six hundred miles of sparcely settled country they reached Youngstown, Ohio, where they were engaged by a Mr. Samuel Menough to chop wood at twelve and one-half cents per coid. The two brothers must have done more than chop well, for George captured the hand of Mr. Menough's daughter Harriet, and her sister became Robert's wife.

In 1806 George Wallace removed to Cleveland and purchased twelve acres of land on what is now Superior Avenue N. W., running from the site of the old Weddell House (the present Rockefeller Building) to the river, and built thereon a log hotel building. It is said that Mr. Wallace paid three hundred dollars for this land which, with improvements at the present time, is worth millions.

In the latter year Mr. Wallace removed with his family to the southern part of Northfield Township to escape the malarious air of Cleveland and to develop a fine water-power on a beautiful stream to which Mrs. Wallace gave the name of Brandywine.

making Brandywine the greate.st business point between Cleveland and Pittsburg. He remained active in his many enterprises until his death in 1846, at the age of seventy-three. Though not a church member he was a liberal supporter of the Presbyterian Church, his day-book now in possession of his grand-son Hiram, .showing among other items the entry of ten gallons of whiskey armually towards the minister's stipend ; the good liquor of that day and locality being known as "Brandywine currency." He left four children: James AVaugh, George Young, who was one of the early sheriffs of Portage County, Emeline, and Perkins, a physician.

James W. Wallace, father of Hiram, became one of the most widely known and universally respected of the older residents of Smnmit County. Born in Youngstown, November 27, 1803, he Avas three years of age M-hen the family removed to Cleveland and began the limited school curriculum of the time. Early in life he was intrusted with business interests by his father, at the age of fifteen managing alone the general store at Brandywine with its large and varied stock of goods. About 1825, in company with his brother George Y., he took immediate charge of the different branches of the Brandywine business including a twelve hundred acre farm on which were kept 2,000 to 2,500 sheep, seventy to seventy-five head of cattle and ten to fifteen horses. As an index to the time it is interesting to note that the total tax on this property was then but five dollars. Later, m a.ssociation with his father, he built many miles of the Ohio Canal and the aqueduct at Roscoe. Large tracts of the AVestern Reserve were faaniliax to him, as for years he was the representative of the Land Company which (iriginally owned tliat section of Ohio. This together with his otJier diversified interests, brought him ^Aade acquaintance in the territory between Cleveland and Pittsburg. His unfailing courtesy to all, combined with just but considerate business methods, made him the grand old man of the time and section.

On September 8, 1836, Mr. Wallace married Adeline Hanchett, daughter of lliraui and Mary Hanchett. Previous to 1841 Mr. Hanchett built the "Lady of the Lake," the first good vessel built on Lake Erie, wliich is said to have paid for herself in two trips to and from Buffalo. From this union there were seven children: George, deceased; Hiram Hanchett, the subject of this sketch; Mary, wife of Mr. Lorin Bliss, treasurer of Northfield Township; AA^arner AA^, a retired farmer of Lexington, Ky. ; Leonard C. a retired farmer of Macedonia, Ohio; Jo.seph, who died in infancy ; Margaret Stanhope, wife of Mr. II. R. P. Hamilton, architect, Cleveland. After residing for several years in the .substantial homestead built liy the head of the family and overlooking the Fails of the Brandywine, Mr. and Mrs. AVallace removed, in 1870, to Maple Mound on the road leading from Macedonia to Hudson where in comfortable retirement, with childi'en and grandchildren about them, they enjoyed their later years, Mrs. AA'allace living until March 15, 1885, and her husband until September 28, 1887, their lives fully rounded in all relation,s of the home, the world and the church.

Their second son, Hiram Hanchett Wallace, received his education in the Northfield public schools and at AVestern Reserve College, and remained at the home in Brandywine until his marriage Decemljcr 18, 1867, to Marianna Mearns, daughter of Air. John Mearns of Cecil County, Maryland. To them were born : Adeline Rebecca, now deceased ; Belle Alearns,' who became the wife of Air. Clark Dillow of Brecksville and is deceased, leaving two children, James Hiram and Elizabeth; Anna AVaugh, married to the Rev. Mr. AVm. T. Hammond of Northeast, Maryland, both deceased, leaving a daughter, Rebecca; Alargaret, deceased; George H., an intelligent farmer of Northfield who married Miss Emma Rudgers of Brecksville and has an infant daughter; Schuyler J., a promising young attorney of Cleveland; Harvey Baldwin, a.s.sistant manager of a large manufacturing concern in Detroit, who married Miss

Olive Snyder, and also has an infant daughter; Marianna Mearns, who since infancy has been as a daughter to her aunt, Mrs. Lorin Bliss, Mrs. Wallace dying February 18, 1887, shortly after childbirth.

Soon after his firet marriage ]\Ir. Wallace settled in Pocahontas County, luwa, in the same neighborhood as his brother George, where he fanned extensively until 1879, when he sold hL-> holdings and, returning to Northfield, bought the Proctor farm. Lot 04. In 1885 he increased his acreage by the purchase of the- Boyd farm, Lot Ho. and on a .-igluly eminence well removed from the public highways, he erected hLs present handsome residence, which was completed in 1891. Beautiful shade trees, fruitful orchards, well kept gardens, a large barn with the lusual outbuildings, and an inexhaustible pure water supply, on an automatic system, make evident the thrift and comfort which prevail. His farms, through intelligent care and foresight, have been kept up to the high standard which might be expected and are now managed by his first son who resides in the substantial brick dwelling built sixty years ago by Mr. Daniel Proctor.

Mr. Wallace's religious training and beliefs are Presbyterian, of which church he is a supporter; his politics are Republican and he has served .several terms as township trustee in Iowa and for years he was a leading spirit in the Northfield Board of Education which has brought to a high standard the schools that he attended as a child. Naturally Mr. Wallace is widely known and enjoys an enviable reputation in the esteem of his extended acquaintance.

WILLIAM JACOB FRYMAN, general farmer and stockraiser, owns ninety-one acres of excellent farming land in Bath Township, which has been his home for the past twenty years. He was Ijorn January In. 18B1, in Copley Township. Summit Covnity, Ohio.

Daniel Fryman, the grandfather of William J., was a native of Pennsylvania, who came from that State on foot, with his dog and gun, and continued his walk through Sunmiit County to Medina County, Ohio, where he later spent many years on his farm south of \\^xdsworth. He subsequently returned to Summit County and settled in Coplev Township, where ho died in October, 1874.

Joel Fryman was born and reared in Medina County, Ohio, and in early manhood came to Copley Township, Summit County, where he was married. In 1870, he went to Williams Countj', Ohio, but after three years returned to Summit County and purchased a farm in Portage Township, where he and his wife still live. He was married to Mary Jane Simons, who was born at Lockwood'.^' Corners, in Coventrj' Township, and is a daughter of Henry Simons, a native of England, who secured the fii'st marriage license taken out in Summit County, Ohio. He settled in Coventry Township at an early day, and there became the owner of a large tract of land. Mrs. Fryman's mother died when she was five years old, and she went to live with here uncle, William Carpenter, and was known on this account as Mary Jane Carpenter. To Mr. and Mrs. Fryman there were boi-n eight children : Sarah, who is the wife (jf Frank Swift ; William J. ; Arvella, who married Thomas Carter; Mary, who died when three years old; Ella, who married Heiu-y Moeler; Plomer; Frank, who died when thirteen years old; and Cora, who died aged about one year.

Until twenty-one years of age, Wilhani Jacob Fryman remained on the home farm in Portage Township, and he then started to work as a farm liand. In Febinjary, 1895, he bougtit two-thirds of a farm of 116 acres, formerly the McMillan property, which is located one and one-half miles west of Montrose, but as there was a dispute as to the title, he was obliged to repurchase it. He cultivates the whole 116 acres and in addition forty-six acres belonging to his father-in-law, Norton Hubbard, whose home is almost across the road from Mr. Fryman's, in Copley Township. Mr. Fryman has engaged very extensively in raising draft horses, and a number of fine animals belonging to him are in the service of the Akron Fire Department, the Lyman Lumber Company and the Akron breweries.

On December 27, 1883, Mr. Fryman was married to Lena Hubbard, who was born in Copley Township, on a farm in sight of her present home, and is a daughter of Norton and Harriet (Miller) Hubbard. The mother of Mrs. Fryman died December 30, 1888, and her father November 4, 1907. Norton Hubbard was born at Batavia, New York, and on Christmas night, 1830, was brought by his uncle to Copley Township and they settled in a little log cabin. He lived in Summit County for seventy-seven years and was one of its most highly esteemed citizens. To Mr. and Mrs. Fryman one child was bom: Eex, who resides at home.

Mr. Fryrnan is a member of the National Protective Legion, to which all of the family belong. He is a deacon in the Church of Christ at Copley.

PHILANDER D. HALL, JR., capitalist and traveler, who owns a vast amount of valuable realty in and about Akron and is identified with a number of the city's prosperous enterprises, was born at Bridgeport, Connecticut, July 10, 1854, and is a son of Lorenzo and Mary J. (Hubbell) Hall.

The late Lorenzo Hall was one of the early merchants of Akron and for years was a member of the firm of Hall Brother, a name that for a long period stood for business acumen and commercial integrity. Lorenzo Hall acquired a large fortune and became one of Akron's most valuable citizens. He died January 9, 1892. He married Mary J. Hubbel, and they had two sons, Frank L. and Philander D., Jr., The former is one of the leading attorneys of the city of New York. He was a student in the office of David Dudley Field, in New York, and is a graduate of Yale College and of the Law School of Columbia College.

Philander D. Hall, J., who bears the honored name of his uncle, the late Philander D. Hall, was four years of age when his father came to Akron. He was reared in this city, attended first the primary and then the High School here, and then became a student in the Columbia preparatory school, of New York city. He continued there for two years and completed his education at Strasberg, Germany, where he took a special course. Upon his return to his native land, he engaged in a wholesale hardware business at San Francisco, for a period and then came to Akron and took charge of the Hall Brothers store, which he managed for five years, or until the death of his venerable uncle. After selling the store, Mr. Hall was engaged for a considerable time in looking after the large amount of real estate which had come into his possession. He is interested in the Colonna Tire and Rubber Company, and the Swinehardt Rubber Company, and is a stockholder in a number of like concerns. He is one of the directors of the National City Bank of Akron and has interests in New York. During the past year, Mr. Hall has been a resident of London, England, where he has represented the Firestone Rubber Tire Company. He has spent much time in travel and is familiar with various parts of Europe, having but recently returned from visiting France and Italy.

On June 28, 1894, Mr. Hall was married to Eva M. Grant, of Cleveland, and they have one son, Frank Hurlburt. Mr. Hall was reared in the Episcopal Church and is a vestryman of the Church of Our Savior at Akron.

E. C. SHAW, general manager of works of the B. F. Goodrich Company, at Akron, has been a resident of this wide-awake city since 1893, and is numbered with her successful business men. Mr. Shaw was born in 1863, at Buffalo, New York.

After receiving au excellent public school training in his native city, Mr. Shaw entered Yale College, where he was graduated in the class of 1886. Upon his return to Buffalo, he engaged in an electric light business until 1893, when he came to Akron to take charge of the Akron Electric Light Company, remaining with that organization for that year and in 1894 coming to the B. F. Goodrich Company in the capacity of a mechanical and electrical engineer. Mr. Shaw soon became assistant superintendent of this great concern, later was made superintendent, and since January 1, 1907, has been general manager of works of a company whose products are of world-wide fame. In 1897, Mr. Shaw was married to Jennie L. Bond, of New York city. He is a Knight Templar Mason, and is a popular member of the Poi-tage Country club.

ISAAC LEIBY, one of Copley Township's most respected citizens, owns a valuable farm of 131 1-2 acres, which has been managed by his son since Mr. Leiby retired from active life. He was born on his father's farm in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, November 10, 1821, and is a son of Jacob and Mary Leiby.

Mr. Leiby comes of Pennsylvania Dutch stock, of people noted for their industry and honesty. His father was also born in Pennsylvania and engaged in farming and distilling. He servived his wife and lived to the unusual age of ninety years. They had a family of thirteen children, and all but one of these reached maturity and all have passed to their final reward except Isaac, and his sister Emeline, who married Charles Krum.

Isaac Leiby worked with his father until he was about twenty years old and then learned the carpenter trade. He has worked at this more or less all his life and even at the age of eighty-six years can do a good piece of work in this line. He had very little chance to go to school in his boyhood and never learned the English language until he was grown, the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect being used entirely in the neighborhood in which he lived. When he was twenty-five years old he was married to Mary Heimbaug, and about two year later, with his wife and two little ones, the youngest but a few weeks old, he started in a one-horse wagon, with the intention of acquiring land and settling in Norton Township, Summit County,- Ohio, both of which he accomplished. When Mr. and Mrs. Leiby reached Akron they found a small village, which then had no railroad connection, and the houses then standing were not of the kind Mr. Leiby afterward built all through this section.

Mr. Leiby came to Summit County a poor but honest, temperate and industrious man, and it was not very long after he settled here that he bought his first tract of land, twenty acres, from a ilr. Myers, and then forty acres from S. J. Spake, and to this he soon added thirteen and one-eighth acres, bought of David Miller. From time to time, as a good piece of land came upon the market, he bought until he owned 141 1-2 acres. Recently he has sold ten acres. W^hen hfi settled here he lived for a short time in the log house that was standing, but before long put up the nice residence which has stood for fifty years. Its construction w^as so substantial that no repairs have been necessary until recently, when Mr. Leiby put down a ne^y porch floor, and it was well done.

The wife of Mr. Leiby died September 14, 1899. They had seven children, as follows; Leander, who married Amanda Houghlan; Charles, who married Mary Miller; Henry, who married Jennie Jones; Aaron, who manages the home farm ; Lovena C. ; Mary Elizabeth, who married L. Squires ; and Samantha Jane, who married W. Stonebrook.

In politics Mr. Leiby and his son Aaron axe both stanch Democrats. During the time he served as road supervisor, the township profited by his good judgment and close attention to the work in hand. He is a leading member of the Reformed Church in his neighborhood, in which he has served as deacon for many years and elder for the past five years.

W. A. SACKETT, M.D., a prominent medical practitioner at Akron, was born in Copley Township, Summit County, Ohio, in 1866, and is a son of the late William C. Sackett, a well-known citizen.

William C. Sackett was born at Warren, Connecticut, in October, 1827, and died in Summit County, in November, 1902. He was a son of Aaron and Huldah Camilla (Tanner) Sackett, and was ten year old when his parents emigrated to Tallmadge Township, Summit County. He was a representative man of his section, deeply interested in its development and evinced public spirit and enterprise. In 1851 he went to California. later to Oregon, and after four j'ears in the far W^est, he returned to Ohio. Here he purcha'ied a large farm from George Sackett, his brother, and carried on extensive agricultural pursuits until 1893, when he moved to a farm in Portage Township. Here he continued to reside until 1898, removing then to a farm he bought in Coventry Township, where his death occurred. For a period of five years he w;as president of the Summit County Agricultural Society. On March 18, 1857, he married Harriet L. Galbraith, who was a daughter of Henry H. and Ann (Langworthy) Galbraith.

Dr. W. A. Sackett graduated from the Akron High School in 1885, and from Oberlin College, in 1890, with the degree of A. B. In 1893 he was graduated from the iVIedical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and the A. M. degree has since been conferred on him by Oberlin College. Dr. Sackett immediately located at Akron, where he has met with hearty recognition. He is a member of the Summit County, the Ohio State Sixth Councilor District and the American Medical Association.

Until her lamented death in Janu.ary, 1906, the venerable mother of Dr. Sackett resided upon the farm in Coventry Township. She was born at Mogadore, Summit County, Ohio, July 25, 1837, and was a daughter of Henry Galbraith, who was born near Belfast, Ireland. He came to Canada in bovhood and in 1836 to Summit County, where he became a wellknown citizen. He survived until 1893. Fraternally, Dr. Sackett l-< a Mason. Keligiously, he is a member of the First Congregational Church.

S. A. KEPLER, dairyman, and owner of forty-three acres of excellent farming land, situated in Coventry Township, five miles south of Akron, was born December 9, 1864, on the home farm, in the old log house situated on the hill, in Coventry Township. Summit County, Ohio. His parents are Samuel and Susanna (Swigart) Kepler.

Samuel Kepler was born in Green Townshil). Sununit County. Ohio, and is a son of Jacob Kepler, who owned nuich land in Green Township and also worked as a mechanic. Samuel was the eldest son of Jacob, and on him fell many of the heavy duties of the farm. In early manhood he was married to SiLsanna Swigart, who was one of a family of fifteen children born to George Swigart, who lived in Franklin Township, Summit County. Samuel Kepler and wife had seven children, namely: Uriah, residing in Kansas; Anuh, the widow of H. C. Preyer, residing at Cleveland; Jacob, residing at Barberton; Samuel Adam; Minnie, who married Dr. Rodentjaugh, residing at Barberton; and Jefferson and Rahama, both of whom died young, of scarlet fever. Mr. and Mrs. Kepler reside in a fine large residence, at No. 56 South Broadway^ Akron, moving there after .selling a farm of 19(5 acres. He still owns 138 acres in Coventry Township.

Samuel Adam Kepler grew up on the old home place and attended District School No 6, when home duties were not too pressing. He remained assisting his father until 1888, and when he married he bought his present farm from his father. At that time there were no buildings on the place and all the improvements, house, barns and other structures he has put here. His barns, where his milk is handled, are model buildings, with cement floors and with every convenience and sanitary condition required in modern days.

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On September 23, 1893, Mr. Kepler was married to Maggie B. Grubb, who wa.s born at Manchester, Summit County, Ohio, and is a daughter of William and Ro.<e (Mills) Grubb. The father of Mrs. Kepler is deceased. The mother rasides with Mr. and Mrs. Kepler. For twenty years she was matron of the Summit County Children's Home. They had sL\ children: Harry, residing at Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania; Edwin, residing at Paine, Ohio, where he is a physician : Maggie B. ; Catherine, who married E. Baumgardner; Artie; and Elma, who married Charles Adams.

In his fraternal relations Mr. Kepler belongs to the Masonic lodge at Barberton. and he is prominent as a Knight of Pythias, having twice represented his lodge at Sandusky and the Grand Lodge of the order at Columbus. He is one of the substantial men and successful agriculturi.sts of Coventrv Township.

J. R. CAMPBELL, who is interested in a real estate and insurance business, with offices in the Arcade Building, Akron, is a survivor of the Civil War, having spent several years in the sei"vice of his country. Mr. Campbell was born in Green Township, Wayne County, Ohio, December 15, 1843, and L< a son of John Campbell, who formerly conducted a tannery at Smithville, Wayne County.

J. R. Campbell was reared and educated in his native place, where he learned the tanning busines.*. On August fi, 1862, he enlisted in the Union army for three years, entering Company H, 102nd Regiment, 0. V. I. In February, 1863, he was honorably discharged on account of disability, but in May, 1864, he re-enlisted, becoming a member of Company A. 169th Regiment, 0. V. I., and was stationed at Fort Ethan Allen, Virginia, until the expiration of his second term of service, when he was again honorably discharged. He returned to his home and began work as a tanner, his father purchasing a tannery at Smithville. ThLs plant Mr. Ca.mi)bell purchased of his father in 1872, Init the venture proved disastrous on account of the panic of 1873. In 1879 he came to .\kron, and being without capital, went to work for James Christy & Sous for $1.25 a day, pending better business pros{>ects. For ,-i.\ months he lived frugally and economically, when things took a turn for the better, and now Mr. Campbell owns property valued at $6,000. In his case, energy, patience and perseverance brought a sure reward. For ( leven years he was at the head of the malleable department of the Whitman-Barnes Company, and in 1897 he was elected justice of the peace, in w^hich oltice he served nine years, or three terms. He made an excellent (ifticer and was noted for his wise decisions and incorruptible judicial attitude on all occasions. Since retiring from that office he has devoted himself to the real estate and insurance business, and although competition is keen at Akron, he has had no trouble in securing a large part of the businet*s along these lines. He has been prominently identified with the beneficiary order of Royal Arcanum for a number of years, and has done much to build up that organization in this section.

In 1867 Mr. Campbell was married to Mary M. Bacheman, who is a daughter of Rev. Bacheman, a minister of the Reformed Church, and they have three children, namely: Arietta C, Homer C. and Carrie M. The latter is the widow of Robert E. Patterson, and resides at home. The older daughter is the wife of C. F. Tobey, residing at Cleveland. Homer C. Campbell, a practicing attorney at Cleveland, graduated with second honors at the Akron High School and later at the Adelbert Law School.

Mr. Campbell is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Akron and has been identified with its Charity Association. He is serving in his twelfth year as chaplain of Buckley Post, G. A. R.. ha«! been all through the chairs of the organization, and was commander in 1895. He is serving also as secretary of the county board of the Soldiers' Relief Commission.

WILLIAM SOUERS, a prominent citizen and retired agriculturist of Summit County, who resides in his beautiful home at Kenmore, was born May 16, 1841, in Franklin Township, Summit County, Ohio, and is a son of David and Catherine (Smith) Souers.

Phillip Souers, the grandfather of William Souers, brought his family from Pennsylvania to Green Township, Summit County, and settled as a pioneer in the woods, where he lived for about forty years, clearing a small farm and pursuing the carpenter trade. In his later years he removed to Roanoke, Indiana, near Fort Wayne, where he died at the ripe old age of ninety years. His first wife having died in Green Township in 1851, Phillip Souers was married a second time in Indiana. To the first union there were bom five children: David; Allen; Sarah, who married Daniel Wiltrout; Mary, who married George Weston; and Elhanon, all now deceased.

David Souers, father of William, was just a boy when the trip to Ohio was made in wagons, and his youth was spent in helping his father to clear the home farm. When still a young man he learned the carpenter trade, at which he worked until his marriage, when he bought a farm of about eighty acres in Franklin Township, which he sold after a number of years, in 1857, buying 120 acres of land from John R. Buchtel. This land, now known as the Cobern Allotment, cost him fifty dollars per acre, and here he carried on operations for three years, when he traded it off and removed to the Reservoir farm in Coventry Township, where his death occurred September 29, 1888, at the age of seventyeight years, his widow surviving him until April 17, 1892, when she died aged seventyseven years. In 1840, Mr. Souers was married to Catherine Smith, whose family also came from the East, and to this union there were born six children: William; Daniel, who resides in Akron; Ellen, the widow of Daniel Warner; Sanford, who is deceased; Frank, who lives at Akron ; and Charles who is a resident of Coventry.

William Souers was bom in one of the first frame houses erected in this section of Franklin Township, and grew up on the farm, where most of his boyhood was spent. He attended the district school, which was situated about four miles from his home, and also worked for some time at New Portage. He lived with his father until thirty-one years of age, when he rented the farm where Kenmore is now located, a tract of seventyfive acres, from George Strawhecker. After living there about ten years, Mr. Souers purchased the farm at ninety dollars per acre, and here he continued to operate another ten years, when he sold the property to W. A. Johnson for about $12,000, and removed to his beautiful residence in Kenmore, where he and his wife have since lived in quiet retirement. At the time Mr. Souers first located on this property it was a barren waste of land, and he has seen it grow into one of the most beautiful sections of Coventry Township, the town of Kenmore. In business circles Mr. Souers is regarded as a man of good judgment and clear insight, while as a citizen and as a neighbor he is held in high esteem. In political life he is a Republican, but he has sought no political preferment. With his family he belongs to the Evangelical Church at Kenmore, in which he is class leader.

William Souers was married in 1864, to Susan Weaver, who was born in Coventry Township, and is a daughter of Daniel E. and Rebecca (Renninger) Weaver, the former of whom was a native of Ohio and the latter of Pennsylvania. To Mr. and Mrs Souers there have been born four children, namely: One who died in infancy; John, who died when twelve years old ; George, who died at the age of nine years; and Mary, who married Aaron Faylor, and resides at Akron. Mr. and Mrs. Faylor have one child, Ray.

FRED W. WOLF, dealer in staple and fancy groceries and smoked meats, who has an excellent business location at No. 41 Adams Street, Akron, was bom in 1867, at Cuyahoga Falls, and was brought to Akron in his infancy, where he was reared and educated, graduating from the Akron High School in 1885.

Following his graduation, Mr. Wolf became identified with a business house, the Whitman & Barnes Company, with which he remained for thirteen years, during five years of this period being employed at the branch conducted at West Pullman, Chicago, After leaving West Pullman, Mr. Wolf engaged, in 1899, in a grocery business at Akron and purchased the stock of Mr. Ely and isubsequently the property at No. 41 Adams Street, a building two stories high, with basement, its dimensions being 22x60 feet. In the rear he has a warehouse which is 24x30 feet. Business men generally considered it an excellent investment. Mr. Wolf is also one of the stockholders of the Aladdin Rubber Company, the Tyler Wholesale Company, the Akron Brewing Company, and others. In 1890^ Mr. Wolf was married to Helena McMullen, of Akron, and they have three children: Cecelia, Howard and Ralph. Mr. Wolf is a Mason, belonging to Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council, and Commandery, and is also a member of the Masonic club.

WILIAM M. VANDERSALL, who owns a valuable farm of ninety-four acres in Coventry Township, situated about five miles south of Akron, belongs to an old pioneer family of this section and was bom in Green Township, Summit County, Ohio, June 8, 1851. He is a son of Samuel and Susanna (Yearick) Vandersall.

Samuel Vandersall was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was a son of Jacob Vandersall, who was born in Germany and sailed for America, in childhood, with his parents. They were unfortunate in their choice of a sailing vessel, as it lost its course and before landing was made, many of the poor emigrants star\'ed to death. Perhaps this would have been the fate of the Vandersall family had not Jacob found a place in the hold of the vessel where rats had a nest and at night when the rodents came out, he would catch them and thus provide food which kept the party from starving. The Vandersalls settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and Jacob Vandersall, the grandfather of William M. became a preacher there in the Evangelical Church and preached also after he came to Stark County, Ohio. He had the following children: Jacob, John, David, Samuel, Mary A., Catherine and Elizabeth.

On the Stark County farm, Samuel Vandersall grew to manhood, helping to clear the land and also learning the wagon-making trade, having a shop of his own for several years. After his marriage he moved to Summit County and settled on a farm in Green Township, on which he lived for forty-five yeare, his death taking place there in 1892, at the age of seventy-nine years. He was married January 21, 1834, to Susanna Yearick, who was born on her father's farm m Green Township and who still sundves, now being the oldest woman in that township, having passed her ninety-second birthday, June 17, 1907. She has often told her children of her girlhood, when she used to pasture the cows on the site of the present great reservoir. The children of Samuel and Susanna Vandersall were the following: John, residing on his farm of 160 acres in Coventry Township ; Mary, who married George Gougler; Abraham, at present preaching at Wellsville, Ohio, in the Evangelical Church; Simon, an Evangelical preacher, residing at Salem. Oregon; Sarah, residing on the old homestead with her venerable mother ; Joseph ; Elias Wesley ; William Madison,- Cornelius, who is deceased; and Daniel 0.

William M. Vandersall grew to manhood on his father's farm in Green Township and obtained a good education for the time and locality, attending the district schools and a private school at Greensburg. He was, however, expected to do his share of farm work and thus he was trained both physically aii'l mentally. Shortly after his marriage he j airchased his present farm, from William Shutt, his father-in-law. For a few years he lived with his family on his father's farm and for two years at Pleasant Valley, and then returned to this farm wliere he has remained ever since. He has always carried on a general line of farming and is numbered with the township's successful men.

On September 1, 1876, Mr. Vandersall was married to Samantha Shutt, who is a daughter of William and Susan (Cook) Shutt. They have had five children, namely : Clara E., who is a successful and valued teacher in the public schools of Akron; Herman M., who is a carpenter; Gomer, who died aged fourteen months; Laura C, residing at Kenmore ; and Ora, residing at home. Mr. Vandersall and family belong to the Evangelical Church at Kenmore, and at various times he has served in church offices. He is. one of the sterling men of the town.ship and he and family are all held in great esteem.

CHARLES SWITZER, one of Sunnnit County's mast substantial citizens whose magnificent farm of over 200 acres is situated in the southeastern corner of Coventry Township, was born August 28, 1822, in York County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Andrew and Eva (Stumer) Switzer.

The grandpai'ents of Charles Switzer, who spelled the name Schweitzer, came from Germany and settled in York County, Pennsylvania, where they spent the remainder of their lives. They had two sons, the youngest of whom was Andrew, the father of Charles. Andrew Schweitzer grew up on the farm in York County, Pennsylvania, bu]t about twelve yeai's after marriage removed with his wife and five children to Indiana County, Pennsylvania, where they settled on a rented farm. In about 1832-3 the family went, to Portage County, Ohio, making the journey by four-horse team and wagon, and liere Mr. Schweitzer purchased a farm of sevrnty-llve acre,-^, four acres of which were cleared and a log house built thereon. With the lielp of his children he cleared this property, and here made his home until after the death of his first wife, when he removed to Greensburg, Ohio, .south of East Liberty, and here his death occurred in his eighty-second \"ear. Andrew Schweitzer was married (first) to Eva Sturmer, whose parents had also come from Germany to, York County, Pennsylvania, where she was born. She died on the Portage County farm in her fifty-second year, having been the mother of six children : Elizabeth, who married a Mr. Hilderbrand; Christiana, who married George Enders, lives in California, aged ninety-three years; Catherine, who married Adam Yerick ; John, who died at the age of ten years; Charles; and Sarah, who married Franklin Tousley. Mr. Schweitzer was married (second) at Greensburg, Ohio, to Barbara Sweitzer, who survived him ten years.

Charles Switzer had to contend early in life with a lack of educational opportunities, as his services were demanded on the home farm, first in York County, Pennsylvania, and later in Indiana County, even before he had reached his tenth year. In his native State he received about- one month's schooling, and after the family located in Portage County, Ohio, he attended school for short periods at odd times, and later received about two and one-half months' educational training in Sunnnit County. When about twenty years of age Mr. Switzer left home to make his own way, going to East Liberty, Ohio, where he worked for John Castitter at farming, receiving twelve dollars i:>er month and his board, which were considered very high wages in that day. He continued with Mr. Castitter for two summers and then spent one season in the employ of Adam Yerrick. After his mariage, Mr. Switzer rented a part of his present property, which was then owned liy his father-in-law, John Tousley, and here he has made his home ever since. By 1853, he had accumulated enough capital to enable him to j)urclia.'^e tliis exi-ellent i(roi)erty, a tract of over 200 acres, and here he erected a large eight-room frame hourie, a substantial barn and good outbuildings. Although retired from active pureuits for the past twenty years, Mr. Switzer still superintends the operation of his farm, which is conceded to be one of the finest in Ihiii section of the county. In 1880, a fine vein of <?oal was discovered on a part of this property, and for twelve years it was mined by the Todd Stanbaugh Company.. iSIr. S\\atzer has been a stock holder in the People's Savings Bank since that institution's organization, and is a stock holder and director in the Dime Savings Bank at Akron.

On October 6, 1844, Charles Switzer was married to Rebecca Tousley, who was the daughter of John and Rebecca Tousley, and to this union there were born five children, namely: John A., who married Anna Leach; Joel B., who married Mary Yerick; Orlando, who died at the age of three years: Almira, who married John Brown ; and Daniel Scott, who married Mazie Stoolberrv'. The mother of these children died in 1862. aged thirtyseven veal's. In October, 1884, Mr. S'vvitzcr wa-: man-ied (second) to Lydia j\I. Boone, who was the daughter of George Boone. Here death occurred in April, 1904, at the age of sixty-two years.

Mr. Switzer is a Republican. He has always taken an interest in the affairs of his community and has l>een found at the head of movements calculated to be of public benefit although he has never .-nought political office.

WILLIAM F. LAUBACH, treasurer and general manager of the Akron People's Telephone Company, was born at .'Vllentown. Pennsylvania, and was four years old when his parents moved to Ix)yal Oak, Summit County, Ohio, where he received his early educational training. Later he attended tlie Copley High School.

trade under one of the leading jewelei"s of the city, devoting his evenings to advancing his knowledge, especially along the line of commercial college work. From 1878 until 1883, Mr. Laubach served an apprenticeship under the supervision of the firm of Foltz & F'rank, and continued wnth them as a clerk until 1892, when he was admitted to partnership and remained active in the business until 1900. Failing health warned him to change his occupation, and he then identified himself with the Akron People's Telephone Companj', becoming treasurer and general manager.

In 1898, Mr. Laubach was married to Grace Henry, who is a daughter of M. W. Henry, one of Akron's pioneer merchants. They have one daughter, Martha. Mr. Laubach is a member of the First Congregational Church and one of its board of deacons. His fraternal connections are mainly with the various Masonic bodies, as follows: member of Adoniram Lodge, No. 517; Washington Chapter, No. 25;' Akron Council, No. 80; pa.st eminent commander of Akron Commandery, No. 25 ; member of Lake Erie Consistory, and a thirty-second degree Mason.

CHARLES E. WISE, who owns 160 acres of fine land in Franklin Township, which lies along the dividing line from Green Township, is one of the representative farmers of this section, and one of its sub.stantial and reliable men. He was born on the farm of his grandfather, in Coventry Township, Summit County, Ohio, December 29, 1865, and is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Kepler) Wise.

Daniel Wise, the grandfather of Charles E., was born in Snyder County. Pennsylvania, and was a son of Peter Wise, whose whole life was pas.sed in Pennsylvania. His children were: Peter, John, Jacob, William, Daniel, Samuel, Betsey, Catherine and Lydia, all now decea«ed except Betsey, who married Peter Miller.

sylvania. He located in Green Township among the earlj' pioneers and began to clear land, and when opportunity offered, worked at his trade - that of stone-mason. After a time he was joined by his brother Samuel, who made the long journey with a horse and wagon. The brothers married sisters, Samuel espousing Catherine, and Daniel, Sarah Raber, both being daughters of Henry Raber, a pioneer farmer in the locality. At one time Henry Raber owned 1,000 acres of land in Summit County, and he gave each >of his children a farm. In early times he carried his wheat by wagon, to Cleveland, where he sold it for from forty to fifty cents a bushel. He died on his original homestead farm of 160 acres, when almost ninety years of age.

After his marriage, Daniel Wise gave the larger part if his attention to farming. He died in Green Township, owning at that time three farms, aged eighty-two years, and his widow died within three days of one year later. Daniel and Sarah Wise had the following children: John D.; Henry, father of Charles E. ; Louisa, who married John Neal ; Daniel, residing in Illinois; Frank and Calvin, both residing in Green Township; and Sarah, now deceased, who married L. Preere.

Henry Wise was reared on his father's farm in Green Township, assisting from boyhood in the heavy work which was made necessary by the wild condition of a large part of his father's property at that time. For a short period he attended the old log school-house and sat on the rough benches which were considered perfectly suitable in those days, but he had time to acquire no more than the rudiments of knowledge. From 1861 to 1863 he was engaged in drilling oil wells at Oil City, Pennsylvania, but with that exception, his whole life was spent in Summit County. For a time he resided south of Barberton, but later moved to the north of that town, where he died November 25, 1905, aged sixty-two years. He married Elizabeth Kepler, who was born and reared in Coventry Township, Summit County, Ohio, and is a daughter of Jacob and Susan (Mar.>h) Kepler, both of whom survive. They had four children: Charles Elmer, Olive, Harvey A., and Ida A., all now living, except the youngest, who died aged four years. Ida A. married Martin Ling.

Charles Elmer Wise was born while his parents lived in the house now owned by Huston Keppler, which was the home of his maternal grandfather. In a short time they moved to Franklin Township and located on the farm where Harvey Wise now lives, and where the three other children were born. It was on that farm that Charles E. Wise lived until his marriage, in the meanwhile obtaining his education in the district schools. For one year following his marriage, Mr. Wise farmed for his father-in-law at Norton, removing from there to a farm in Franklin Township, where he remained until 1891, when he settled on his present place which he secured from his father. In addition to carrying on general farming, Mr. Wise operates a portable sawmill. He has added to the original farm acreage and has much improved the property. In 1893 he built his substantial barn all of his buildings are kept in good order, his farm machmery is sufficient for his needs, and his surroundings indicate thrift and good management. In addition to this A'aluable property he owns the residence site at No. 76 Fay street, Akron.

In February, 1888, Mr. Wise was married to Cora A. Miller, who is a daughter of Jacob J. and Theresa Miller, and they have one son, Walter A. Mr. Wise is a good citizen, but he takes no very active interest in politics.

FRANK CORMANY, residing on his valuable farm of fifty-one acres in Coventry Township, is the owner of 112 acres, the balance being situated in Long Lake Park. Mr. Cormany was born March 12, 1855, on the old Cormany homestead in Coventry Township, Summit County, Ohio, and is a son of John and Rebecca (Harter) Cormany.

.Tohn Cormany was born in Pennsylvania and died in 1859. With his brothers he came to Summit County in early days, and they bought a large tract of timber land in

Coventry Township, which they set about clearing. When the land was subsequently divided, each brother secured about forty acres. John Cormany married Rebecca Barter who was born in Pennsylvania and died in Ohio, in 1906, aged eighty-five years. She was a daughter of Jacob Harter, who settled in the green woods of Summit County, on the site of the present city of Barberton. To her marriage with John Cormany there were born eleven children, namely: Jeremiah, who died aged five months; Phillip; Catherine, who married George Pow; Mrs. Araminta Miller; Mrs. Rohama Allen; Levi; Lushia, who is deceased; Frank; Aaron, who is deceased; Mary, deceased, who married Frank Shick; Mrs. Emma Wartsbaucher. Mrs. Cormany later contracted a second marriage with Moses Shick, to which no children were born.

Frank Cormany remained with his mother for a short time after the death of his father, and then went to assist his uncle, Samuel Cormany, with whom he remained until the latter's death. In the meantime he had become a skilled farmer and after his marriage he purchased land, first from Samuel Peifer and ne.xt from Samuel Cormany, his uncle. His land is well improved and would command a high price if placed on the market. For some years he has been practically retired from agricultural work, his stalwart sons being capable of looking after the property, and they also are engaged in all kinds of teaming.

In July, 1877, Mr. Cormany was married to Malinda Sellers, who is a daughter of Jacob and Catherine (Rinninger) Sellers, both of whom, in Coventry township, died in advanced age. Mrs. Cormany has the following brothers and sisters: Mary, who married Daniel Thomas; Maria, who married Robert Bidiker; Henry; Hiram; Malinda, and Joel.

Mr. and Mrs. Cormany have had five children, namely: Anna, who died in infancy; In'in, who married Miss Wagner, resid&s near his father, and they have children ; Samuel, who married Miss Mosier, has one child.

Politically, Mr. Cormany is a Republican. In March, 1907, he was elected, with Allen Swartz and William Bergdorf, road superintendent in Coventry Township, and has proved a careful and efficient public official.

JOHN ROSE, a representative citizen of Coventry Township, residing on his fine tract of 125 acres, was born on his father's farm in Lake Township, Stark County, Ohio, October 29, 1838, and is a son of George and Susan (Pontious) Rose, and a grandson of Philip Rose.

George Rose was a native of Berks County, Pennsylvania, and was one of a family of five children, his only brother dying unmarried, at the age of twenty-one years. .He was young when the family came to Stark County, Ohio. After his marriage, in 1867, Mr. Rose sold his farm in Stark County, and came to Coventry Township, Summit County, where the rest of his life was spent. Both he and his wife reached advanced age, and died at the home of their son John. Reared to agricultural pursuits, George Rose continued to be a farmer all his life, and prospered to such an extent that he was able to give each of his children a start in life. George Rose was married in Stark County, Ohio, to Susan Pontious, who was also a native of Pennsylvania, and who came to Stark County with her parents when about twelve years old. To Mr. and Mrs. Rose there were born three children: Jacob, who moved to Indiana, where he became a man well thought of, and died at the age of sixty-nine years; Susan, who married Joseph Young, also moved to Indiana and later to Kansas; and John.

John Rose received his education in the district schools of Stark County, and was reared on his father's farm, where his youth was spent in hard, honest toil. For about four years after his marriage he carried on farming in Stark County, and then moved to Coventry Township, Summit County, and purchased his present farm from John Donner.

lie cleared ott' the timber, f;tiinip.s and built a substantial barn, and has done much to make his farm one of the best in the township. Mr. Rose has always beeii an indastrioiLS, hard-working farmer, and has the respect and e-steem of the entire community.

Mr. Rase was married in Stai'k County, to Sarah Garl, who was born in Portage County, Ohio, and she died April 6, 190'6, at the age of sixty-seven years. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Rose, namely: Mary, who married E. P. Fouse; Christina, who married M. Fouse; Jacob, who married Amanda Focht; Lydia, who married F. Fouse; Elsie, who married Adam Warner; Amanda, who married J. Hicks; Daniel, who married Julia Willems, resides on his father's farm, and has three children, Chester, William and Irene; Chai'les, who married Mary Hembauch; and Eli, who married Tillie Yankcr.

In political matters Mr. Rose is a Democrat, and he has served as township trustee for twenty-three years. He and his family belon.ii' to the Reformed Church.

FRANCIS X. ADAMS, M.I)., a very successful general medical practitioner at Akron, with well-equipped offices at No. ,7"2S South Main Street, has been engaged in ]iriitVssioiial work in this city since 1898, and has built up a large and very satisfactory jiracticc. He was born in Cambria County, Pennsvlvania. When Dr. Adams wius a youth of fifteen years, his parent* removed to Kent, Portage County. Ohio, when' he (-(nnplcted liis literary education, after wliicii be entered tlie Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, wliere he was graduated in 1885. Dr. Adams .settled at Kent, where be continued to practice until 1888, when be removed to New Portage, Siunmit County, and subsequently to Akron, in Se}itember, 1893. Dr. Adams is a progressive member of his ])rofession and keeps well posted on all matters pertaining to it, belonging to the Ohio State Eclectic and the Northeastern Ohio Eclectic Medical Societies.

Dr. Adams was married, in 1877. to Catherine L. Sheridan, of Kent, Ohio, who died in October, 1908. She is survived by two daughters: Gertrude R., who married Clyde Orr, who is in busines.s at Akron; and Geraldine, who is still at school. Dr. Adams and his daughters belong to St. Marj-'s Catholic Church. He is a member of the Catholic Mutual Benefit A.s.sociation, the Knight.s of Columbus, and the Ancient Order of Hibernians, at Akron, and the Ohio State Eclectic Medical Society.

WALTER L. SACKMANN, manufacturer, a general machine shop located (in Sweitzer Avenue, Akron, does a large liusiness in the manufacture of steel stamps, .stencils and seals, brass and aluminum checks, steel letters and figures. He was born at Cleveland, Ohio, in December, 1876, and is a son of the late Henry Sackmann, who settled in Cleveland in 1844 and carried on a manufacturing business there for a number of years.

From the schoolroom, ilr. Sackmann entered the manufacturing plant of his brother, who was engaged in the manufacturing of steel .stamps and stencils, and after four years of experience there, entered the employ of A. II. Dickey, in the same line. In 1900, he ciinie to Akron and engaged in the mold letliriug business for the Goodyear Rubber Com- ]iany. and in May, 1901, he embarked in the stamj) and .stencil business. In his machine .<h())) he manufactures .special maehinery, molds of all kinds, blanking and forming dies and also does ])unch pre.ss work. The t)usiness is one which demands special trainuig and a large amoiuit of care and accuracy from every employe. In 1908. Mr. Sackmann was mari'ied to Emmy M. Droz. of Cleveland.

R. M. AMLSON, manager of the .\kron Laundry Company, which operates the largc>t and most modern laundry in Akron, was born in Summit County, Ohio, in 1S!;2. and is a sou of the late Jonathan Wilson.

son has been mainly engaged in the laundry busines:?, operating a plant of his own. In 1901 the Akron Laundry Company was incorporated, with a capital stock of $20,000, with N. P. Goodhue, president; E. J. Alderfer, vice-president; and R. M. Wilson, secretary and treasurer. The company has erected a fine brick building, 42 by 132 feet in dimensions, and two stories in height, which they have equipped with all modern appliances for the rapid, thorough, and sanitary conduct of their industrj'. They give work to forty-five employes and have five wagons in continual use. Their efforts to plea.se the ]>ublic have been generously recognized. In 1892, ^Ir. Wilson was married to Sophia M. Smith, of Akron. Mr. Wilson is an Elk and i.- a trustee of the Akron branch of this order.

CAPT. SUMNER NASH, for years secretary and treasurer of the Akron Belting Company, and a member of the board of directors of The Permanent Savings and Loan Company, and of The Abstract Guarantee & Tmst Company, at Akron, is now numbered with the retired manufacturers of this citv. Captain Nash was born May 10. 1836, in Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio, and is a son of Hophni and Lovisa (King) Nash. The ancestors of Captain Nash on both paternal and maternal sides were of Scotch-Irish extraction and were early settlers in Massachusetts, where both the Nash and King families have been identified with important public affairs for generations.