Summit County, Ohio - Chapter 20: Statistics, 1908 (part 22 of 27)

David Shook the second, the father of George Adam, was born in Pennsylvania and was one of the younger members of a family of fourteen children. He was a boy when his parents moved to Niagara County, New York, and remained there until his older brother, Philip Shook, moved to Portage County, Ohio. Shortly afterward, David went on a visit, but was so well pleased that he remained with Philip, assisting him in clearing up his vr\\d farm, until his own marriage, after which he acquired a small farm in Stark County. He lived there through the death of his first wife and after his second marriage, but in 1852 he removed to a farm in Michigan, where he died, aged sixty-two years.

In Stark County, Ohio, David Shook wa.s married to Catherine Hanse, who was born near New Berlin, Ohio, and died in August, 18.38, aged twenty-three years, leaving but one child, George Adam. The father married (second) a Miss Holben, also of Stark County, who survived him, and they had the following children: .Jonathan, David, Catherine, ,Tohn, Elias, William and Reuben.

taken to the home of aii aunt, Mrs. Mary Ranch, who reared him in Mahoning Countj', Oliio, until he wa^ fourteen yetus of age, permitting him to attend the district school while supporting himself by work on her farm. However, Mr. Shook did not feel independent until he had earned fifty dollars by himself and paid this sum to the Ranch family, this being sufficient to cover all the expense he had ever caused them. He had now sliu'ted out for himself and as his work was farm labor he lived at various homes in the neighborhood, remaining with the Sluss family for three years. Not being satisfied with the education he had been able to oljtain in the district schools, he arranged to attend the Randolph select school, later took a coni'se in Greensburg Seminary, in Summit County. and still later, enjoyed one term at Mt. Union College. During the time he was thus acquiring a really superior education, he was industrious and reliable and always found good homes where he worked on the farm during the summers. AVhen he was about eighteen years of age he began to teach, school and taught through fifteen winters, mostly in Stark, Summit and Wayne Counties, in 1864 teaching one term at the reservoir in Coventry Township, and occasionally teaching summer terms.

Mr. Shook continued to teach until 1877. having also carried on farming during the larger part of the time. He had secured an interest in a farm near Uniontown, in Lake Town.'^hip, Stark County, and later purc'has'd the M'hole farm and lived there for six years. After retiring from the educational field, Mr, Shook bought a grist-mill at Uniontown, which he operated for three years, and then sold it to Dawd and Samuel Rittor, after which he rented a farm for a few years. In 1881 he bought his present property from Jacob Sellers and moved on this place in the spring of 1882. It was well improved property when he purchased it and he has kept up its condition. Later he bought a tract of timber land, in Green Township, which he still owns in partnership with his .«'On-in-law,

William H. Wagoner. For twelve years after settling on this place Mr. Shook was engaged in the threshing business and also successfully ran a sawmill for a time with Mr. Waggoner. He carries on general farming, making his land pay for all the attention he gives it, and keeps good stuck and uses iiiipnn-ed machinery.

On Mai-ch 17, 1861, Mr. Shook was married to Elizabeth Mutchler, who wa^s born in Stark County, Ohio, and is a daughter of Godfrey and .ludith (Meiers) Mutchler. Her parents came from Germany and were married in Stark County, Ohio, this being the second marriage of her father. There were live children bom to this union, namely: Eva, Elizabeth, Mary, Magdalena and Rosina, who is deceased. Mr. Mutchler had married tii-st in Germany, Christina Ga.sz, who left three children : Dorothy, Christina and Bar- Ijera. Both parents of ]Mrs. Shook died at New Berlin.

Mr. and Mrs. Shook had the following children : Clara E., who married William Waggoner; 'Henry E., who married Emma Heimbaugh; Erwin J., who married Amelia Dietz; and Anna, who married Edward C. Eippert. Mr. Shook and family belong to the Lutheran Church. His children are all well educated and all four have been teachers. In politics Mr. Shook is a Republican and he has served both as township trustee and as assessor.

.lOHN BREITENSTINE, one of Norton Township's most substantial citizens, who owns .378 acres of land in. this and Franklin Township, a part of which is particularly valuable because of coal beds, has been a resident of Summit County since he was eight years of age. He was born in Chippewa Township, Wayne County, Ohio, .Tanuary 14, 1847, and is a son of .Tacob and Lydia (Kellar) Breitenstine.

The parents of Mr. Breitenstine were reared in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, but were married in Wayne County, Ohio. .Tncob Breitenstine was Itorn in Germany and was fifteen years old wheu he accompanied his father, John Jacob Breitenstine, to America and later to Chippewa Township, Wayne County, Ohio. The family later all removed to Franklin Township, Summit County, where the grandparents died when over eighty years of age. Jacob Breitenstine assisted his father in paying for the farm of eighty acres in Franklin Township. He was a smart man in the sense of being educated and of good judgment, and for some years he practiced law. He lived to the age of eighty-four yeai-s. He married Lydia Kellar who lived to the age of eightythree. They had eight children, six of whom reached maturity.

John Breitenstine is one of the township's self-made men. He was the eldest of the eight children of the family, and as soon as he was old enough, he took the management of the farm, as his father was engaged in his professional work. When twenty-one years of age, he went to work at the County Infirmary, but two years later he resumed farming and this has been his main occupation since. Mr. Breitenstine bought his present farm in 1888 and has erected all the substantial buildings here. It was formerly owned by Dr. Samuel Bargess. A valuable coal bank was opened on this farm in 1840, and it has been worked ever since with little sign of giving out.

On August 27, 1869, Mr. Breitenstine was married to Sarah Surfass, who was born and reared in Norton Township and who is a daughter of Cornelius Surfass. They have six children: Harvey, who is married, resides with his family in Norton Township; Harry, also married, is engaged in the threshing business in Norton Township ; Milton follows the trade of plastering; Mattie married Logan Fletcher; Newton and Sadie reside at home with their parents. Mr. Breitenstine and family belong to the Reformed Church. Although he is one of the largest landowners and most independent men of this section, he has made his property all himself, using good judgment in his investments and being industrious and frugal. He is one of the township's best-known men.

A. J. STELZER,a leading general merchant at Akron, dealing in dry goods and fancy groceries, at Nos. 619-621 North Howard Street, has been a resident of Akron for the past twenty years, and is one of her bestknown citizens. He was born in 1875 at Cleveland, Ohio.

When Mr. Stelzer was a child one year old his parents moved to Canton, Ohio, where he lived until the age of ten, when family sicknass terminated his school days and practically threw him upon his own resources. He came to Akron and entered a grocery store owned by his uncle, J. A. Rulmer, with whom he worked for one year, later was with John Keoberle for eighteen months, going from there to James Diehm. He continued with the last-named business man for seven years and then became connected with the Inman Brothers in a general mercantile business, where he remained for six years. In April, 1903, Mr. Stelzer bought out C. Reusch, who was conducting a store at the present location, 619-21 North Howard Street, and since that time has carried on a large and very satisfactory business. He occupies two rooms, one 21 by 60 feet in dimensions and the other 15 by 22 feet, both of which are well stocked. He owns also a commodious wareroom in the rear. He is known as the leading North Hill merchant and his trade is so large that he requires the assistance of five employes.

On October 20, 1898, Mr. Stelzer was married to Edith Mason, who was born at East Akron, and they have two daughter: Mildred J. and Gretchen M. With his family he belongs to the North Hill Methodist Episcopal Church. He is identified with the order of Maccabees.

WILLIAM RALPH LODGE, secretary and manager of The Silver Lake Park Company, vice-president and a director of the Cuyahoga Falb Savings Bank, and interested in a niimher of other successful business enter- prises, is one of the best-known men of Summit County, llu waii boru at Cleveland, Ohio, June 6, 1874, and is a son of the late Ralph Hugh and Julia A. (Plum) Lodge.

There are few residents of Stow Township who do not recall with the kindest memories the late Ralph Hugh Lodge, the larger part of whose life was devoted to developing Silver Lake Park, a property he acquired during the childhood of his son, William Ralph. Nature had done much, m her own wild way, for this region, but to the Lodges must be attributed the remarkable changes which were brought about in a comparatively few years. While the natural beauties have been retained every device of modern invention has been added and the result is an ideal summer resort to which thousands of people come from every part of the country, gladly returning year after year.

William Ralph Lodge attended the corncommon and High schools of Cuyahoga Falls and then entered the preparatory department of Oberlin College, with the intention of completing the whole college course. In the meanwhile he became interested in his father's enterprise of developing Silver Lake Park, and after seven terms at Oberlin, decided to return home and give his father assistance, which, on account of the increasing responsibilities attending the huge enterprise, was greatly needed. Few men were better equipped for handling details as well as planning improvements than was the late Mr. Lodge, but the work went on so rapidly and in so many directions that even he was not able to properly attend to it. The yoimg man then came to share his father's burdens. He had also the capacity, but his ideas of business were more modern than were those of his father, and for some time the systematized methods of the son surprised the older man. William Ralph Lodge practically reorganized the whole business, opened an office and installed a typewriter, purchasing the machine with his own money, which he had earned by selling ice to campers about the lake. He opened up books for the accounts formerly kept by his father laid away in his active brain, or on slips of paper in his pocket. At first these changes were innovations that the older Mr. Lodge scarcely approved of, but ere long he saw their value, and thence was brought about a perfect confidence which always existed thereafter. Since 1894, William Ralph Lodge has largely had control, although he continued to w^ork under his father's direction for the following six years, but since 1900 he has had the active management un his shoulders. Until the death of his father, however, Mr. Lodge sought and valued his parent's advice and counsel. He had much to do with promoting the park, acquiring a number of tracts of land to accommodate the rapidly growing business. One of the most important undertakings was the negotiating and building of the railroad connection with the C. A. & V. C. Railroad, and bettering the terminals of the trolley lines connecting with the resort.

Silver Lake Park, with its buildings and other improvements, represents an investment of about $200,000. Every piece of work is done substantially, with a view to the future. The present beautiful pavilion could not be replaced for less than $50,000. The perfect sewerage system was put in under most difficult conditions, a part of it being laid under the lake and the Cuyahoga River, being thirteen feet below the surface. This engineering work had to be done during the winter season when the river was frozen, entailing a stupendous expenditure. With his other duties, Mr. Lodge has always had charge of the advertising by which people, societies, churches and other organizations learn of the comfort, pleasures and advantages ofiPered by this unique resort, and a conception may be formed as to the amount of business to which it is necessary for Mr. Lodge to give personal attention, when it is stated that during the 100 days of the season, an average of 2,000 people are entertained daily. Regular employment is given 150 workers in different depai-tments.

periiig eiitei-prises, leading the busy life of the modern man of capital and affairs. He is vice-president of the Cuyalioga Falls Savings Bank and one of itts directing board; is vicepresident and a director of the Success Dishwashing Machine Company, of Wooster, Ohio, of which he was one of the organizers, and is chairman of the Co-operative Creamery Company, at Stow Corners.

Mr. Lodge married Marie Antoinette Ellsworth, who is a daughter of Edward Ellsworth, of Stow Township. They have two sons, William Ellsworth and Edward Ellsworth. Mrs. Lodge is a member of St. John's Episcopal Church at Cuyahoga Falls.

In political sentiment Mr. Lodge is a Republican and has sei-ved as a delegate to county conventions. He gives generous assistance to his friends in various campaigns, but has no political ambition for himself.

CRANNELL MORGAN, vice-president of the Hardware Supply Company, at Akron, treasurer of the Wise Furnace Company, and interested financially in a number of other local business enterprises, was born at Somerville, New Jersey, in 1871, where he was reared and obtained his education.

Mr. Morgan was an employe of AVilliam Bingham & Company, in the hardware line, at Cleveland, for the first ten yeare of his business career, starting at the bottom of the ladder and learning all the details of the busin&«s. For two years he represented that firm on the road, and then came to Akron as manager of the Ohio Glass and Hardware Company for Cleveland parties. Later Mr. Morgan organized the Morgan and Bunnell w^holesale and retail company in the same line, continuing business for eight years. In 1904 the Hardware Supply Company of Akron was organized, absorbing the Morgan and Bunnell Company and the Standard Hardware Company, and Mr. Morgan has been vice-president of thL'? concern from the be: ginning. In 1895 Mr. Morgan w^ns married to Bertha Weber, of Cleveland, and they have one son, Webb C. Mr. Morgan is a member of the Portage Country club, and the Auto club. His business and social connections axe both numerous and he is personally a very popular citizen.

CAPTAIN FREDERICK K. REAM, one of tlie best-known citizens of Northampton Township, residing on his well-improved farm of forty acres, was born in Germany, February 2, 1826, and is a son of Christopher and Katherine (Stockel) Ream.

The parents of Captain Ream were natives of Germany and the mother died prior to the family exodus to America, in 1830. The father sui^vived until 1869, being sixty-eight years old at the time of his death. Frederick K. Ream was the only child of the first marriage. The father's second marriage was to Mrs. Katherine Schrader, a widow with three children, and two more were born to this union. For some year's after reaching the United States Christopher Ream engaged in farming in the vicinity of Cleveland, and then purchased a farm near Royalton, Ohio, which he operated during the rest of his life.

Frederick K. Ream attended school at Royalton, and remained at home until he was sixteen years of age, when he decided to go nut into the world and take care of himself, and he remembei"s now with amvLsement, that all he caried with him was one extra shirt and a clean handkerchief. At that time he was a sturdy youth and had a pleasant^ winu'ing manner that brought him friends and he soon secured work with a farmer near Penin.sula, with whom he lived two years, during which time he was very industrious, but received for his labor little except his board. He next secured a position as driver on the canal and was promised five dollars a month salary, which was satisfactory to him when the bargain was made, and he worked hard from June imtil November, drawing but three dollars of the twenty-five dollars coming to him and doubtless laying great plans concerning the expenditure of this sum. These all came to naught, however, as his employer

Later he made a better bai'gain, by which he received twenty dollai's a month, with board, and he continued here until 1852, when he purchased a canal boat of his own and thii.? acquired the title by which he has been known ever since. For many years Captain Ream did a good basiness on the canal and continued to operate his own vessel as long as he remained on the water. He is well remembered by other captains and a number of his old associates recall their seasons of work together. Captain Ream had the reputation of keeping the neatest and best conditioned vessel among them all. Hia quick eye enever failed to note the slightest scratch on the varni.sh and the merest disfigurement made by the mo\4ng of freight or from other cau.ses, and it was a familiar sight w^hen the skipper himself a]3peared with ptunt pot and brush, repairing all damages. When his boat went out of commisison at the close of the season, it was as clean and fresh as when it went in. Captain Ream continued to run his boat until 1865, when he bought a farm in Northampton Township, now known as the Herbruck farm, which he sold in 1875, and settled on the one on which he has resided ever since. For .some years he has had it under rental. At one time he owned considerable property in Akron, but has sold seven of his houses, retaining but one. Prior to November 10, 1905, Captain Ream had enjoyed the usual health afforded to those of his years, but at that time he suffered from a partial paralysis which has greatly inconvenienced him and di.stre.^sed his friends. His intellect, however, is clear, and a visit to Captain Ream is ve^^' enjoyable as his reminiscenses reach far back and his .stories of life on the canal touch an important epoch in local history.

Mr. Folger was educated in Portage County. Until June 26, 1882, he had railroad office experience, and afterward entered the Bank of Akron, at Akron, Ohio, as bookkeeper, later becoming assistant cashier, and still later, cashier of the Second National Bank of Akron. This position he resigned, January 1, 1894, in order to become treasurer of the B. F. Goodrich Company, and . has held this office from that time until the present.

On October 15, 1883, Mr. Folger was married to Lola R. Russell, of Streetsborough, Portage County, Ohio, and they have three daughters, viz.: Florence, Elizabeth and Mary Joy.

FRANK S. BALES, dairyman and farmer, owns eighty-four and one-half acres of land' in Northampton Township, which is exceedingly valuable, as it lies within the corporation limits of Cuyahoga Falls. He was born in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, December 31, 1871, and is a son of -John and .Tane (Miller) Bales.

The father of ^Ir. Bales followed the trade of stonema.son at New Castle, Pennsylvania, but as he died when Frank S. wa« a child, the son has but few recollections of him. After death. Frank S. went to live with a maternal uncle. Sylvester Miller, who took the place of a father to him, and to whom he, in turn, is giving filial care in his old age. T\Tien thirteen years old Mr. Bales came to NorthaiTipton Township, where he worked for the substantial farmers of this .section for some three years, then spent a year in the lumbering di.stricts of Michigan, and after his return, in 1895, he rented the Allen farm for one year, and the Sperry farm for three years. In 1898 Mr. Bales purchased his present place, seventy acres of which he cul- tivates, the remaining being in timber or used as pasturage. He keeps about twenty head of cattle and for seven years has conducted a milk route, selling about forty gallons daily in Cuyahoga Falls. He raises hay and wheat, but his main crop is corn. He has two circular silos, each ten feet deep and thirty feet high. Mr. Bales keeps all his buildings and surroundings in fine condition, and as he is a man of progressive ideas, he has supplied himself with all kinds of agricultural implements to facilitate his work. His substantial barn, 40 by 72 feet in dimensions, with 20- foot posts, he built in 1903.

Mr. Bales married Lillie Robinson, who is a daughter of Andrew Robinson, of Northampton Township, and they have three children : Addie, Howard and Leona.

Mr. Bales is a self-made man and takes just pride in the fact that his possessions have been acquired through his own industry and good management.

ERNEST C. BUETCH. a prominent citizen of Coventry Township, of which he served as treasurer for many years, resides on his well-improved farm of seventy-four acres. Mr. Buetch was born October 11, 1855, in Coventry Township, Summit County, Ohio, and is a son of Jacob and Mary (Richler) Buetch.

The father of Mr. Buetch was born in Germany and grew up on his father's farm there. In 1853, when about twenty years of age, Jacob Buetch came to America, locating shortly afterward in Ohio, and in 1854 he came to the farm which his son Ernest. C. now owns. The land was then covered with timber, but with the assistance of his sons, it was all cleared off. The comfortable res^idence in which Mr. Buetch lives wa? built by hia father. Jacob Buetch was married in Coventry Township to Mrs. Mary Richler, who was the widow of John Richler, and their only child was Ernest C. By her first marriage, Mrs. Buetch had six children, namely: John, Jacob. August; Mary, who is the widow of Jacob Grethers; Barbara, who is the widow of John Zitterly; and Louisa, who married John Keppler. Two of the sons were killed in the army during the Civil Mar, while August died after coming home from the effects of yellow fever, contracted while he was in the service of his country. Jacob Buetch died on this farm August 19, 1895, having survived his wife since May 14, 1885. They both were most worthy people, kind, ho.spitable, frugal and industrious.

Ernest Buetch was mainly educated in the district schools of Coventry Township and had one winter's schooling at Akron. As he grew old enough he had to help his stepbrothers in the work of clearing up the farm, and on the death of his father this property came into his possession. Since 1878 Mr, Buetch has made a feature of threshing, and in partnership with his son, owns an outfit, and together they do a large amount of business in this line. For about eight years Mr. Buetch operated a sawmill in addition to carrying on a general agricultural business.

On May 14, 1881, Mr. Buetch was married to Sarah J. Renninger, who is a daughter of Solomon and Lavina (Keppler) Renninger, the latter of whom is deceased. They have two children : William F. and Emma Lavina The former is associated with his father in the threshing business and resides at home. He married Berdella Verick.

In politics, Mr. Buetch is a Democrat and he has taken an active interest in party affairs in this neighborhood. As an evidence of the confidence which his fellow-citizens have in his ability and integrity, it may be .stated that he held the important office of township trustee for a continuous period of ten years, with the exception of two months. He was a capable, eflScient and honest official. He is an Odd Fellow and belongs to Nemo Lodge, No. 746, Akron.

CHARLES' A. CALL, general farmer and respected citizen, who has lived on his present valuable farm of 185 acres, which is situated in Stow Township, since he was five years of age, was born at Darrowville, Sum-

The father of Mr. Call was bom July 12, 1815, at Warner, New Hampshire, and died in Ohio, March 24, 1891. He was reared on his father's farm and attended the district schools. In 1835 he went to Boston, Massachusetts, where he made his living peddling bread until 1837, when he started on a journey to Peoria, Illinois, and stopped on the way to visit friends in Summit County. He was so pleased with what he saw that he decided to remain and make thi.s section his home. For five winters he taught school and for fifteen years he worked at the cooper's trade, running a shop of his own for a number of years at Darrowville, where he employed four men. In 1859 he purchased the farm which his son now owns and moved his shop to his own land. Later, he undertook the manufacturing of cheese, which industry he carried on for almost twenty-five years, continuing until 1890, and was the principal owner and the manager of the Hudson cheese factory. He was an earnest Republican and a .stanch supporter of the Union during the Civil War. He was a liberal supporter of educational and benevolent enterprises and was held in the highest esteem. For fortysix consecutive years he served as a justice of the peace in Stow Township, and from 1877 until 1883, he was one of the county commissioners of Summit County. He was in sympathy with the Grange movement and a member of that body. In his religious belief he was a Universalist.

On November 17, 1842, Moses Danforth Call was married to Harriet Maria Starr, who wa.s a daughter of Josiah Starr, who settled in Stow Township in 1804. She died June 26, 1886, aged sixty-seven years, nine months and one day. She was the loving, devoted mother of four children, namely: Mary Lovina, deceased, who married G, H. O'Brien, of Stow; Emma Augusta, who married E. A. Season, of Hudson ; Ellen Jo.sephine, who

Charles A. Call was five years of age when his parents came to the farm which he now owns and which he has kept intact, with the exception of five acres, taken off for railroad purposes. His education was secured in the district schools, and his main business in life has been farming and dealing in cattle. He devoted two years, 1892 and 1893, to the cheese business, but has no interest in that industry at present. He cultivates seventy acres of his land, raising hay, corn, oats and wheat, and at all times requires one man's assistance in the work. Mr. Call has two silos with dimensions of 11 1-3 feet in diameter and 29 feet in depth. Mr. Call is one of the agriculturists who recognize and take advantage of modern methods and improved machinery.

Mr. Call was married on November 5, 1879, to Olive A. Prior. She is a daughter of Samuel Prior, of Northampton Township. They have four children : Leland, who is a graduate of the Ohio State University, is an instructor in an agricultural college at Manhattan, Kansa.s; Florence, who married George H. Lodge; and Howard M. and Fannie, residing at home. Mrs. Call belongs to the Disciples Church at Stow.

ANDREW A. SPIELMAN. farmer, stockraiser and dairyman, residing on his productive farm of eighty acres, which is situated in Northampton Township, was born October 4. 1867, and is a son of .Jacob and Theresa ("Schneider) Spielman.

Both parents of Mr. Spielman were born in Germany, the father in 1810, and the mother in 1825. .Jacob Spielman was married twice. His first wife died in Germany and left three children, namely: Mrs. Victoria Neff, formerly of Cincinnati: -Joseph; and Mrs. Mary Pfaft, residing at Cuba. ICansas, the latter being the only .survivor. Joseph Spielman then moved from his native province to

Bavaria, where be followed his trade of wagon-maker, until he emigrated to America, after which lie became a farmer. He bought lirst a farm in Portage County, on which he lived some years, and then resided in various sections before he settled permanently in Northampton Township, where he bought the farm on which Andrew A., his son, was born and now resides. Jacob Spielman died on this farm in 1866, survived by his widow until September 8, 1905.

Jacob Spielman married (second) Theresa Schneider, who was born in Bavaria, and was a daughter of John Schneider. They had one child born in that province, Barbara, who is the wife of John Zimmerman, of Akron. After I'eaching America, seven more children were added to the family, as folloW'S: John, residing in Northampton Township; Philip, residing at Cleveland; Katherine, who married Ernest Moody, residing in Kent; Amelia, who married Henry Murley, residing at Columbus; Eva, who is the widow of August Waggoner, residing in Kent ; Elizabeth, who married Barton Hcwbridgo, residing at Akron: and Andrew A., residing in Northampton Township. The family wns strictly reared in the faith of the Koman Catholic Church.

Andrew A. Spielman lia.* always resided on the home farm. He is one of the leading hay and wheat raisers of this section and feeds his stock his corn and oats, raising fine cattle and many hogs. His dairy products, especially his superior butter, finds a ready market at Akron. He understands how to make every portion of his land repay him for his labor, and this is successful farming.

Mr. Spielman has a very pleasant home circle. He married Lucy Leiser, who is a daughter of Peter Leiser, of Akron, and they have five children: Leo B., Gertrude A., Florence A., .Tames and -Jacob Albert. Mr. Spielman, with liis family, belongs to St. Bernard Catholic Church. Like his father before him, he is identified with the Democratic party. .

ri.LBERT FETTE, who tills the ofhce of deputy revenue collector, has been a resident of Akron since 1899, but his place of birth was Bremen, Germany, in the year 1839, full twenty years before the birth of the present brilliant, masterful German emperor.

Mr. Fette learned the cigar-making trade in his native land and when he was twentyone year's of age he came to ^Vmerica in the hope of finding better opportunities for advancement. He remained for six months in the city of New York, and then located at Jamestown, New York, where he worked at his trade for eighteen months, going from there to Buffalo, where he remained until 1862. EiU'ly in that year he enlisted for service in the Civil War, entering Company H, 116th Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, and remained in the service until the close of the war, spending a pai't of the period in Virginia, and two yeai-s in the Red River campaign, then returning to the Shenandoah Valley. He was seriously wounded in the neck at Plain's Store, Louisiana, and was confined- in the Lincoln Hospital, at Washington, D. C, when he was mustered out. "When sufficiently recovered, he returned to BuA'alo, where he remained until 186S, going then to Warren, Pennsylvania. In 1873 he settled at Philadelphia, removing to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1877, and moving from there in 1880 to Erie, Pennsylvania. A year later he went to Denver, Colorado, and remained in that section for seventeen years. He was mainly engaged in the manufacture of cigars. For one year prior to 1889, when he came to .Vkron, Mr. Fette resided at Vancouver, Briti.-'h Columbia. For the past five years he has held (he office of deputy revenue collector of the Eighteenth District of Ohio, with his h(^adquarters at Akron.

In LSrsl Mr. Fette was married to ]\Iiiinie Ernestine Holtz, who died in 1899. Mr. Fette has been a very active Republican for many years. He belongs to Buckley Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He is a member of the Masonic fraternitv.

L. H. Horner

LA FAYETTE H. HORNER, who is largely interested in Sunmiit County real estate, has been a resident of Akron since November, 1890, and in the past seventeen years h^as done more real estate dealing than any other individual in this city. He was born in ISGl in Northampton Township, Summit County, Ohio, and is a son of the late Uriah R. Horner.

The father of Mr. Horner was one of Summit County's most respected citizens. He waa born in Mahoning County, Ohio, and he became a successful farmer and stockman in Summit County, to which he came in 1856, where he died in 1893.

LaFayette H. Horner remained on the home farm until he was twenty-four years of age, in the meanwhile obtaining his education in the district schools of Northampton Township, afterward spending two years in a nursery business in Southern Indiana and Kentucky. In 1890 he came to Akron, and on a venture went into the real estate business in a small way, shortly afterward finding himself particularly well adapted for this field of work. Mr. Horner bought the Coburn allotment, making of this one of the greatest realty successes on record, distancing all competitors. In 1904 lie huilt thirty-two new houses; in 1906, thirty-four, and in 1907, the current year, forty new residences have been erected, all the lots in this large body of land having been dispo.sed of, except eighty-five, Mr. Horner deals only in his own real estate and he has investments all over the city and owns also county property, including a farm on which he breeds light harness horses from first-class stock. Mr. Horner, is an excellent type of the modern business man, whose trained faculties respond to the demands made upon them without interfering with his health or preventing his enjoyment of a rational social life.

In 1897 Mr. Horner was married to Inez C. Hutchin,?on and they have three children : Gladys V., Fayette H.' and Fern Inez. He is a member and liberal supporter of Calvary Evangelical Church. His only fraternal connection is with the Akron Lodge of Odd Fellows.

HENRY CLARENCE VIELE, retired, formerly was identified with the basiness and official life of both Akron and Summit County. Mr. Viele was born in Washington County, New York, October 29, 1841, and is a son of Hiram and Abby M. (McFarland) Viele.

In the spring of 1842, the parents of Mr. X'iele settled in Akron, and he was educated in this city. When sixteen years old he began clerking in the old stone mill, of which his father was superintendent. He subsequently left that business in order to enter the army, enlisting in 1864, in Company F, 164th Regiment, 0. Y. I., which was stationed at Fort Corcoran, Arlington Heights, during the whole of his 100 days term of service. Upon his return to Akron he entered the sendee of the Merchants' Union E.x- ]>ress Company and a year later became ticket agent for the C. A. & C. Railroad. Subsequently he become interested with his father in a flour and feed bu.siness.

In 1868, Mr. Veile was engaged to assist the city and county in making up the duidicate tax lists, and later was connected with the county treasurer's office for some time. In February, 1872, he was appointed county recorder to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the incumbent of "that office, and he served out that term and then served as deputy county treasurer until 1878. Mr. Viele's management of that office elevated him in public esteem and in 1878 he was elected county treasurer of Summit County; being re-elected in 1880, he held the oflfice for four years. The records of tho.se years testify to Mr. Viele's efficiency as a public officer. He then became teller in the Citizens' Savings and Loan Association, serving until 1887 ; he was a.ssistant trea<urer until 1888, and from then until he retired from lnL*ine.s.s activity, he was treasurer of the association .

Island, and they have one daughter, Fanny M. Mrs. Viele died November 14, 1898. Mr. Viele resides at No. 550 East Market street Akron. As one of the older residents of this city, Mr. Viele has been connected with its development, and has always done his part as a man of broad views and public spirit. He belongs to Buckley Post, G. A. R., at Akron.

JOHN C. HERBRUCK, fruit and dairy farmer, residing in Northampton Township on his valuable fiu'in of lo9 acres, was born near Hartville, Stark County, Ohio, October 11, 1862, and is a son of Philip and Elizabeth (Oberling) Herbiiick.

Jacob Herbruck, the grandfather, was born in Steinhauser, Rheinfalz, Bavaria, Germany, and died in 1865, aged seventy-two years. In 1817 he married Maria Garman, who was a daughter of Christian Garman, and they had nine children, namely: Maria Elizabeth, Jacob, Henry, Katerina, Philip, Daniel, Elizabeth, Mary and Ludwig. Jacob Herbruck was a .son of Herbruck Von Herbruck, of Holland origin. This prefix of von, it appeares, can be sold, carrying mth it a title to office, and when the great-grandfather became somewhat impoverished, he disposed of the von and the name has since been plain Herbruck, and as such, in America, has carried with it enough distinction. It is borne worthily by the present generation. Grandfather Herbruck was a soldier imder the great Napoleon, when he was preparing for the memorable invasion of Russia. In 1854 he came to America and settled in Lake Township, Stark County, Ohio. He and wife both belonged to the German Reformed Church.

Philip Herbruck, father of .John C, is a retired resident of Akron. 'He was born in Rheinfalz. Germany, September 26, 1826, and attended school in his native neighborhood until it was time to learn a self-supporting trade. He cho.se that of frescoe painting and worked at the same until 1848, when he was led into joining the Revolutionary party and was chosen captain of 150 men. These he drilled from one spring until the latter part of August, and when the Revolution was over he, with other leaders in the movement, left Germany. He came to America in 1849 and first at Canton, Ohio, removing later to New Berlin, where he worked as a wagonmaker until 1851, when he went to New Salem, and in the following year to Middlebury, then to Uniontown, and in 1853 to Hartville, Lake Township, Stark County, where he started into business for himself. .Vfter his marriage he conducted his wife's farm in addition to working in his shop. In 1867 he bought the farm in Northampton Township, which is occupied by his son, John C, which he operated until 1887, when he retired to Akron.

On January 4, 1852, Philip Herbruck was married to Mrs. Elizabeth (Oberling) Hassler, who was born June 17, 1823, in Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Jacob Oberling, later of Jackson Township, Stark County, Ohio. She was three years old when her parents moved to Stark County, where her father subsequently became the owner of 400 acres of land. He was a son of Michael and Annie Oberling. He married Elizabeth Runk, also of Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, and he died in July, 1850, aged sixty-three years. Mrs. Herbruck's first marriage was to Daniel Hassler, October 22, 1844. Of the three children born to that union, but one was reared, namely, Daniel Hassler, now of Portage Township. There were eight children born to Philip Herbruck and wife, namely: Cecelia Elizabeth, who married Charles Schumaker, of Bnrberton; Caroline, who married Daniel Motz, of Northampton ; Sarah, who married Theodore Trautman, of Cleveland; John C. ; Mary, who married Christian Zimmer, of Akron : William, residing at Akron ; and two decea.sed. Mrs. Herbruck is a member of the First German Reformed Church, which Mr. Herbruck also attends, and to which he gives support. Mr. Herbnick is notably a Christian man, althoiigh he is identified with no denomination. He is liberal-minded enough to see good in every religion and a large part of his time is passed in visiting the ill and sufiFeriug, reading the Scriptures to those who will listen, and carrying cheer to many a sick bed. He is widely known and much beloved.

John C. Herbruck was two years old when his parents moved to the southern part of Northampton Township and settled on the farm on which he resides. He was educated in the common schools and has been engaged in agricultural pursuits from early youth, always making his home on the present farm. Of his 139 acres he has 100 under cultivation. For many years the farm was conducted almost entirely as a dairy farm and he keeps about twenty head of cattle. In 1901 he purchased an Akron milk route and markets his milk in that city very profitably, in fact, has a demand rather larger than he can supply. His milk is obtained from fine, purebred Holstein cows. Mr. Herbruck raises some 400 bushels of wheat annually in addition to hay, oats, com and other products and he has had a silo constructed, thirty feet in depth, and sixteen feet in diameter.

There are so many interesting activities going on on Mr. Herbruck's farm that a visitor is plea«ureably surprised as well as instructed. One of these is the raising of ginseng for medicinal purposes. His large garden devoted to producing this valuable root shows the plant in its various stages. One reason why it is not generally raised is that it requires a great deal of patient care before it can be harvested. One and one-half years are required for the tiny seeds to .sprout, and there must be a growth of five -years before the product is ready to market. Another successful industrv carried on here is the raising of bees. Mr. Herbruck having about seventyfive hives, each one of which averages an annual product of fifty pounds of choice honey. It is Mr. Herbnick's d&«ire to eventually convert his farm into a great fruit garden, and he is graduallv workins: to that end. He has a fine orchard of Baldwin apple trees, some of which are already bearing, and is also settine; out choice varieties, suitable to the climate of pear, peach, plum and cherry trees. The buildings and surroundings are all admirable and substantial. In 1879 the father of Mr. Herbruck put up the great barn with dimensions of 36 by 70 feet, supported by 18- foot posts. The comfortable and attractive home was built in 1872, and the grounds have been under a course of improvement ever since.

Mr. Herbruck married Huldah Bauer, who is a daughter of George Bauer, and was born at Sandusky, Ohio. George Bauer was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, in 1810, and died in January, 1892. He came to America and settled at Sandusky, Ohio, where he established himself in the business of wagonmaking, taking in as partners his sons, August, Theophilus and Reinbold, who later succeeded to the business, and still carry it on under the firm name of Bauer Bros. The father then turned his attention to agricultural pursuits and on his place utilized ten acres in a vineyard. He was married three times. The children of his first marriage were August and Mary. The second wife died without issue. He married (third) Caroline Stradtman, who was born in Minden, Prussia, and to this union there were bom four children: Theophilus, Huldah, Reinhold, and a babe that died.

Mr. and Mrs. Herbmck have six children, five sons and one daughter, namely: George P.. Clara Elizabeth, Arthur, Edward, John and Harry. All have been given educational advantages and the daughter's musical talent has been developed.

JOHN BEESE. proprietor of a meat market at No. 1138 South Main Street, Akron, ia one of the substantial men and enterprising citizens of this place. Mr. Beese was bom at Thoma.stown." Summit County, Ohio, in 1869. and is a -son of .John Beese. The father of Mr. Beese. who died at .Akron in 1893. was a well known and highly regarded citizen. He was born in Wales and came to Summit

County in 1853. For many years he was engaged in a coal business, operating a mine at Thomastown and later the Summit Coal Company's mine near the Reservoir.

John Beese, second, was reared and educated in his native neighborhood and, after leaving school, was a clerk in a shoe store for six years. In 1896 he opened his present market and has given it his main attention ever since, conducting a first-class establishment and supplying a fine line of customers. His quarters are sanitary and his stock includes everything in his line. Mr. Beese Ls one of the directors in the South Akron Banking Company. In 1S99 Mr. Beese was married to Mary E. Bernell. who is a daughter of the late Edward Bernell, and they have two bright, intelligent boys. .John Frederick and George William. Mr. Beese is an Odd Fellow.

JACOB HIMELRIGHT, a leading agriculturist of Portage Township, residing on his farm of 142 acres, which is situated on the Copley road, about two miles west of Akron, was born in Green Township, Summit County, Ohio, May 26, 1839. His jmrents were John and Catherine (Hinkey) Himelright.

The grandparents of Jacob Himelright were natives of Pennsylvania, who settled at East Liberty, Green Township, Summit County, when they came to Ohio, and there John Himelright was born. He followed farming all his active life.

Jacob Himelright grew up on his father's farm and obtained his education in the district schools. When twenty-six years of age, he married Lavina Baughman, and they had seven children born to them as follows: Milton, who resides in Medina County, Ohio ; Alton ; Irvin ; Joseph ; Clara, who married Frederick Bninskill, is deceased ; Elsie, who married William Carpenter; and Orlie, who died in boyhood. The first wife of Mr. Himelright died March 19, 1893, and he was married (.second) to Mrs. Elizabeth (Foast) Squires, who was Ijorn and reared in Coventry

Township, Sununit County, Ohio, and is a daughter of George Foust, and was the widow of Martin Squires. She had seven children by her first marriage, namely : Martha, who married John Kendall; George; Cora, who married Eugene Parker; Amanda, who married Bert Taylor; Delia, who married Ellis Adair; Albert; and Franklin, who died aged eight months.

In 1874 Jacob Himelright purchased a farm of eighty-five acres, in Copley Township, on which he resided for a time and then sold it and bought one of 182 acres, which was located one mile east of his present farm. AVlicn Mr. Himelright took po.-isesison of his farm of 142 acres, in 1902, his son Jo.seph settled on the other farm. He owns another farm north of Akron, consisting of eightyfive acres. Mr. Himelright has shown good judgment in making his investments and owns some of the best land in Portage Township. He carries on general farming and stockrai.9ing. He is one of the leading members of the Copley Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a trustee.

Alton Himelright, the second son of Jacob Himelright, resides on a fine farm of eightyfive acres in Portage Township, which ia owned bj' his father, but which has been under his care since 1889. He was born at Ea-^t Lil^erty, Green Township, Summit County. Jainiary 1, 1865. When he was seven years old his parents moved from Green Township to Copley Township, where his father bought a farm, north of Copley Center, on which the family lived for three years. He then purchased another farm on which they lived for twenty-,six j'ears. In 1902 Mr. Himelright's father settled on his present farm in Portage Township, but Alton continued to live in Copley until 1889, when he was married to Elizabeth Scheck, who is a daughter of .Jacob Scheck, an early settler of Portage Township. Following marriage. Alton Himelright and wife settled on the farm where he has since engaged in a general line of agriculture. He has made many improvements on the place which have greatly added to its value. He has

Irvin J. Himelright, the third son of Jacob Hinielright, wa.s born at East Liberty, Green Township, Summit Count}', Ohio, November 20, 1867. He resides on a part of his father's home farm and operates the whole of the 142 acres. He has made a reputation a.< a good farmer by the intelligent agricultural methods he has followed, resulting in abundant crops.

May 4, 1897, Mr. Himelright was married to Ida Scheck, who is a daughter of Jacob Scheck. The Scheck family is a prominent one in Portage Township. Mr. and Mrs. Himelright have four children : Ruth, Mabel, Jacob and Elno. The Himelright family has never taken any verj' active intere.«t in politics, but when matters of public importance come up they are usually consulted and are always found to be willing to do their full share. They are estimable, first-class citizens, industrious, careful and fnigal and devoted to their homes and families,

STEPHEN HENRY HORN, market gardener, residing at No. 330 Merriman Street, just inside the limits of Akron, is the owner and operator of a fine truck farm of nine and one-quarter acres, on Merriman road, just outside the city limits. Mr. Horn was born on West Market Street, Akron, September 10, 1856, and is a son of Stephen .Tackson and Elizabeth Ruth (Robin.son) Horn.

Stephen Jackson Horn, who was a native of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, came to Portage Township where he resided while he engaged in a grocery business in Akron, and later followed the carpenter's trade. He devoted his spare time to gardening on his own land, where he died August 25. 1895. In his younger days Mr. Horn had been a school teacher, and among his pupils was Elizabeth Ruth Robinson, who was a daughter of Tyler Robinson, and to thL« young lady Mr. Horn was later married. They had eight children, seven of whom, with Mrs. Horn, survive.

Stephen HenrA- Horn was reared and educated in Portage Township, where he has always resided, w-ith the exception of two years, during which he traveled for an installment company. In 1877, in association with his brother, James William Horn, he engaged in the trucking business, one which had been founded by their father, but in 1904 the partnership was dissolved, and since that time Mr. Horn has continued in this business alone. He finds a ready wholesale market at Akron. Mr. Horn has never married.

EUGENE A. HAWKINS, treasurer of the Sununit Rural Telephone Company, is one of the leading men of Copley Township, a large owner of farming land and proprietor of a business at Copley Center, where he handles coal, farming implements, wagons, cement and particularly fertilizers, devoting his personal attention almost exclusively to selling the latter commodity. He resides on forty acres of his land, the home farm being situated on the south side of the Bath and Copley Township road, about nine miles west of Akron. His other farm, containing sixty- .seven acres, lies west of this place. Mr. Hawkins was born on his present farm, June 28, 1854, and is a son of George W. and Matilda (Hubbard) Hawkins.

Samuel Hawkins, the grandfather, came from Connecticut to Copley Township, at an early day, and .spent the rest of his life on his pioneer farm. George W. Hawkins, father of Eugene A., was the first white child born in Copley Township, in which he spent the whole of his life. He assisted his father to clear the land, and frequently told his children of how in early days he followed a blazed trail to the village of Akron, carrying grain to and from the mill. He always engaged in general farming, and during the Civil War he also did some garden tnicking. lie married Matilda Hubbard, who was born in Copley Township, of parents who came to Ohio from \'ermont. After marriage they settled on the farm which is now the property of Eugene A. Hawkins, and cleared a part of the land, living here until death. Mrs. Haw- kins died December 5, 1886, aged seventy years, and he survived her for ten years. They had five children, namely : Adelia, who died young; Eliza, deceased, who married AVarren Miller; Alice, who married Dr. A. 0. Huntley ; George, who died aged twenty-five years ; and Eugene A. There was an adopted daughter, Clarinda Blair, who married Horace Dunsha.

After his marriage, Eugene A. Hawkins went to housekeeping on a farm near the home place, of which he has had charge from maturity. In 1S92 he was engaged as local agent for the S. M. Hess & Bro. firm, of Philadelphia, fertilizer manufacturers. Mr. Hawkins accepted the agency of only Bath and Copley Townships at first, but he made such progress in his sales that more territory was added, until now he has control for the company, of territory covering Summit, Medina, Wayne, Cuyahoga, Portage, Ashtabula, Geauga, Ashland, Erie and the north half of Stark Counties. This large territory requires Mr. Hawkins to practically give all his time to advancing the interests of this company. He is a man of excellent business foresight. In 1903 he operated a coal and fertilizer business of his own at Copley Center, and in the same year admitted Newton Smith to partnership, but later bought Mr. Smith's stock and took in his son-in-law, Homer A. Swigart. The latter attends to the business at Copley Center while Mr. Hawkins continues on the road. Mr. Hawkins was the first dealer to handle coal in this township, and in 1906 he sold over 3,000 tons. He has an admirable business location, right adjacent to the Northern Ohio Eailroad. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins own a one-half interest in the Summit Rural Telephone Company, of which he is treasurer, W. F. Laubach being president and general manager.

On January 1,. 1878, Mr. Hawkins was married to Juvie Colson, who is a daughter of Orren and Valencia Colson, and they have three children: Jessie, Mabel and Ruth. The eldest daughter married Prof. H. 0. Bolich, who is principal of the Cuyahoga Falls High

School. Mabel, the second daughter, married Homer A. Swigart, who is in partnership, at Copley Center, with Mr. Hawkins. They have two children : Alverda and Alice.

In political sentiment, Mr. Hawkins is a Republican and he was one of the building committee for the Centralized School of Copley Township. With his family, he belongs to the Disciples Church.

A. E. LYMAN, vice president and general manager of the Lyman Lumber Company, of Akron, with offices on South Main Street, is interested in an industry which is of large importance in this section. Mr. Lyman has been a resident of Akron for eighteen years, but he was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1853.

Mr. Lyman was four years old when his parents moved to Tallmadge, Summit County, where he was reared and educated. In 1876 he went to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he was engaged in the lumber business until 1889. He then returned to Akron, still carrying on the same line of business, and subsequently established the Lyman Lumber Company, an organization which deals in all kinds of lumber. He has occupied his present location since 1897. From his many years' experience in this line, Mr. Lyman has become an expert in both soft and hard lumber and his advice on the subject is frequently sought by his patrons.

In 1876, Mr. Lyman was married to Alice Bierce, who is a daughter of L. B. Bierce, of Tallmadge, who was a pioneer of that locality. They have one son, Lucius B., who is associated with his father in the lumber business. Mr. Lyman is a member of the First Congregational Church at Akron and is a member of the Board of Deacons.

C. F. ADAMSON, a mechanical and electrical engineer, with offices in the Hamilton Building, Akron, has made great strides in his profession, reaching a position of respoi. sibility in spite of his youth, which men have not attained who have ^ven a much longer period to study and practice. From boyhood he has displayed a natural leaning in the direction of this profession and his main lisi; of efforth has been so projected.

C. F. Adamson was born at Carlton, Ohio, in 1882, but from childhood he was rear-jd in Akron. After completing the High School course in this city, he spent some years gaining practical experience in the shops of his father, A. Adamson, a leading business man and manufacturer at Akron. He afterwards devoted several years to obtaining a wide engineering experience, occupying responsible positions with many prominent concerns through the country. For some time he was engaged in machine tool designing, being retained by the Pittsburg Machine Tool Company as chief designer. In 1900 he was in charge of the construction and equipment of the plant of the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company, at Franklin, Pa., also giving much time to the designing of their air compressors and other products. He became connected with the engineering department, Carnegi'^ Steel Company, in 1902, and, after serving two years, he established an engineering office at Akron in 1904.

Mr. Adamson has devoted his time to general engineering practice, inventions and research, and he has made many valuable improvements in labor saving machinery. As consulting engineer, he is engaged by a number of the large manufacturing concerns throughout the country, and his services are in great demand for the designing of new machinery, and manufacturing plants. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In 1902 Mr. Adamson was married to Miss Mary M. O'Donovan, of Franklin, Pa. He is a member of the First Church of Christ.

Jackson Horn, who was an early pioneer from Pennsylvania, had been a school teacher in his younger days, but later engaged in carpenter work and in gardening. His death occurred in Portage Township, Summit County, in 1895. Mr. Horn and his wife, who had been one of his pupils at school, became the parents of eight children, seven of whom still survive.

James William Horn was reared in Portage Township, and after leaving the country schools became a farm hand. He continued to work on different farms until about 1877, when, with his brother Stephen Henry Horn, he took charge of the gardening business which had been started by their father, and they continued as partners until 1904, when .James W. Horn engaged in business on his own account. He purchased eight and onehalf acr&s of land, and in addition to the two and one-half acres owned by his sons, he rents a tract of 100 acres across the road from his home, and cultivates it all, twenty acres of this being laid out in a truck farm, which is one of the largest in the county. He makes a specialty of small vegetables, and raises about 40,000 head of cabbage annually. He sells by wholesale through Akron, employs six hands and runs two wagons. In 1908, Mr. Horn erected his present beautiful residence.

On September 19, 1886, Mr. Horn was married to Bessie May Harris, who was born in Bath Township, and is a daughter of Edward Harris. They have six children, as follows: Percy J., who married Delia Hill, who is a daughter of Joseph Hill ; Esther, who is the wife of George B. Replogle, has one child, Margaret; and Ralph, James, Jay and Earl.

JAMES WILLIAM HORN, a highly esteemed citizen of Portage Township, Summit County, Ohio, whose fine truck and garden farm on Merriman Street, is situated about one-half mile from the limits of Akron. was born on what is now West Market Street,

WILLIAM CLERKIN, president and general manager of the Taplin, Rice, Clerkin Company, of Akron, one of the city's large and flourishing industries, with factories in Akron, is a man of much business enterprise and is identified with other successful con- cerns of this section. Mr. Clerkin was born at Hudson, Ohio, February 14, 1860, and is a son of Patrick Clerkin. The father of Mr. Clerkin was born in Ireland. He settled near Hudson, Ohio, in 1852, and there engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, in 1880. at the age of seventy-eight yeart:.

William Clerkin received his education in the district schools of Hudson Township. Western Reserve Academy and Buchtel College, where he graduated in 1887. He followed school-teaching for some years after completing his own education, his first school being in a little cabin schoolhouse, which In/ had attended in his youth. In 1890 he became connected with the firm of May & Fiebeger, at Akron, with which he continued for five years, during that time thoroughly learning the furnace business. In December, 1894. with other capitalists, he organized the Twentieth Century Heating and Ventilating Company, for the manufacture of a full line of heating furnaces. He sold his interests in that company in 1907 and organized the Taplin. Rice, Clerkin Company with a capital stock of $250,000. The Taplin, Rice, Clerkin Company has two factories and employs 300 "men. The offices of this company are : William Clerkin, president and general manager; C. B. Raymond, vice-president ; Edward Crow, secretary; and C. N. Belden, treasurer. Mr. Clerkin is also a director of the Akron People's Telephone Company, the People's Savings Bank and a director and trustee of the Young Men's Christian Association Building. Mr. Clerkin is active in politics to the extent of good citizen.*hip.

In 1890 Mr. Clerkin was married to Elizabeth Shields of Cleveland, and they have a family of five sons and three daughters, as follows: William, Harold, Leonard, Paul, Cyril, Irene. Aiuia and Bessie. Mr. Clerkin and family belong to St. Vincent De Paul's Catholic Church of Akron.

CHARLES ARTHUR CARTER, one of the well-known and highly re.ipected citizens of Northampton Township, I'esiding on his valuable fann of fifty-six acres, where, with the able assistance of his son, he engages in general farming and dairying, was born in Boston Township, Summit County, Ohio, November 28, 1851. His parents were William and Evelyn (Gillett) Carter.

The first of the Carter family to come to this section of Ohio was William Carter, the grandfather of Charles A., who settled in Hudson Township. He married Betsey Mays and tlieir wedding was the first ever celebrated in Boston Township. He owned a good farm but did not develop it to any degree, his tastes lying more in the direction of hunting and fishing. He served in the War of 1812.

William Carter (2), father of Charles Arthur, was born in Boston Township, Summit County, and died in 1890, aged sixty-seven years. For a considerable part of his life he owned and operated boats on the Ohio Canal. He owned a farm in Richfield Township, which was mainly managed by his sons. He married Evelyn Gillett, of Richfield Township, and they had the following children : Julia, who married Charles Meade, resides at Everett; Charles A., resides in Northampton Township ; William is deceased ; Albert resides in Northampton Township ; Edwin is a resident of Northfield; Nettie, who married John Johnston, resides in Boston To\\nship; and Jessie, who married Frank "\^'aite, resides at Akron. The mother of the above family died in December, 1873, aged forty-seven years. Both parents were worthy members of the United Brethren Church.

Charles Arthur Carter was fourteen years old when he accompanied his parents to Richfield Township, and as he was the eldest son, a large part of the responsibility of managing the farm fell on his .shoulders during his father's absence. In this way he did not have more than ordinary educational advantages. As he grew older he worked on the neighboring farms, gaining valuable experience and making many friends through the township whom he retains to the present day. When married he went to farming on his own account, and for twenty-nine years he rented and resided on the Mathew Broughton fanii. In 1901 he purchased his present property^ which i.s mainly under the management of his son, Darwin Burr Carter, who, since an affliction of the eyes has fallen upon his father, has nobly taken the helm. Mr. Cartel' keeps seven head of cows and sells his milk to the Akron Pure Milk Company.

Mr. Carter mai'ried Susan Lappin, who wa,- born on the farm of her father, .John Lappin, in Bo.ston Township, February 11, 1852, and they have four children, namely: Myrtle E., who married Fred Blackburn of Boston Township ; Pai-k Oliver, residing at Cleveland; Darwin Burr; and Fannie, who is 'i popular teacher in Bath 'J'dwiisbi]). residiuii at home.

JOHN MOORE .TOIINSTOX. a mciiilniof the Board of Infirmary Director- of Summit County, has been a resident ol .\kroii since the fall of 1906. l)ut still rct:iiii> his great stock farm of 190 acre.-, in Copley Township, and is interested in the Ijreeding of .standard horses of a type that has made liL'^ name known all over Ohio. Mr. .Johnston was born in Copley Townshij), Summit County, Ohio, ^Vugust I'A. J<SJ4. and is a sou of William and Elizabeth (i. (Moore) .Johnston.

On the maternal side, Mr. .Johnston comes of Revolutionary sto<'k. liis great-grandfather. Joseph Moore, having won distinction first as an Indian fighter and later as a soldier in the Continental army. John Moore, tiie maternal grandfather of Jlr. .Johnston resided in Stark County until after the birth of liis daughter Elizabeth and then settled in Springfield Township Summit County. On tlie paternal side the grandfather wa.< Cornelius .Johnston, who, born in New Jersey, went from that State to Pennsylvania, and whence he came to the wild regions of Green Township, Summit County, in 1814. William Johnston, father of .John M., was born in Green Township, .\ugust 3, 1815, and died in Copley Township, in 1885. In recalling William Johnston, one of the reliable useful men of his day and locality is brought to mind. He was of a higher type intellectually than many of his neighboi's and became to some extent leader among them, capably performing the duties of public office and a.ssisting in the development of the various resources of his section. He was one of the early directors of the County Infirmary on the board of which his .son has served since 1905. William and ElizaJjeth .John.ston had two children, John Moore, and Cornelius Alexander, the latter of whom is a prominent farmer, residing in Tallniadge Township.

John M. Johnston obtained his education in the district schools of Copley Township, and for many years devoted his whole attention lo farming and stockrai.siag. He made .1 specially of fine horses and has produced many animals on his farm that have won fana' all over the country. Mr. .John.ston owned the .sire and dam, and rai.sed the finely matched team that became the property of the late President iMcKinley," this team being attached to the carriage which wa.s used by the Chief-Magistrate on the day of his inaugural. Mr. Johnston is ju.stly proud of having raised horses that took precedence in the White House stables. ilany of his hoi"ses have been sold for fancy driving and have been taken to all parts of the world, never failing to reflect credit on their breeder. Mr. Johnston is an ardent Republican and has always taken a patriotic citizen's interes.t in public affairs. He has served two terms as infirmary director, the first one a numbei" of years ago.

In 1867, Mr. Johtnston was married to Mary Angelia Dales. Her father, Stephen Dales, was born March 25, 1802. in Delaware County, New York. His father served in the capacity of a teamster in the "War of 1812, in which year the family came to Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston have two children, namely: Je^ie, who is the wife of Gilbert C. Wakz, a prominent real estate dealer at Akron ; and Marcia, who is the wife of 0. R. Nash, who is employed in the treasurer's office of the Goodrich Rubber Company, at Akron. Mr. Johnston is widely known

JOHN ABELE, who owns 104 acres of fine farming land in Portage Township, was born February 15, 1850, in Wurtemburg, Germany, and is a son of John and Victoria Abele, both of whom died in Germany.

John Abele learned the trade of a puddler and followed it in his own country until his twenty-first year, when he came to America. He worked one year in the rolling mills at Allentown, Pennsylvania, and was employed for two years by the Cambria Iron and Steel Company at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. In 1873 Mr. Abele located at Akron, Ohio, and the next twenty-three years were spent with the Akron Iron Company, where he rendered faithful service in the capacity of puddler. Mr. Abele left the employ of this company in 1896, and for six years thereafter cultivated a 20-acre tract of land in Portage Township, Summit County, Ohio, but at the end of this time purchased his present property, which was the old Edward Roepke farm, from John Rice, and here he has carried on agricultural pursuits to the present time. Mr. Abele's farm, which is one of the largest in this section of Portage Township, has been brought to a high state of cultivation. He also conducts the Akron Garbage Route.

In 1875, in Akron, Mr. Abele was married to Agatha Treitingar, who was born at Akron, Ohio, and is a daughter of Caspar Treitingar. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Abele, namely: John, Joseph, Frank, William, Clara, Albert and Annie. ' in Richfield Township and attended the neighboring schools through boyhood. When still under eighteen years of age, in July, 1861, he entered the Union Army, first as a teamster, but in the fall of the same year enlisted as a private soldier in Company K, Third New York Cavalry, and remained in the army subsequently for four year's and five months. His service was mainly in Virginia and the Caxolinas. He passed about eighteen months in North Carolina, and participated in the battles of Kingston, N. C, Petersburg and Richmond. He took part in many of the raids which were such an important part in the movements in that section, notably the Wilson raid, with others of like character, having participated in thirty odd engagements. He was mustered out of the service at City Point, Virginia, November 30, 1865, and was honorably discharged at Albany, in December, 1865.

Mr. Wilcox then returned to the home farm and worked for his father until 1878, when he went to Kansas, where he spent seven years. In 1885 he came to Akron and established the business in which he has been interested ever since.

In 1867 Mr. Wilcox was married to Mary Templeton, and they have seven children, namely: Henry C, a mechanical engineer, residing in Wisconsin ; Francis L., wife of W. B. Doyle; George, residing at East Akron; Millie, who married Charles Markwalder; Arthur G., a practitioner of medicine residing at Solon Spring, Wisconsin, a graduate of the Western Reserve Medical College and of Adelbert College; and Frank and Ralph, the latter of whom has just graduated from the Akron High School. Mr. Wilcox has kept up old army associations and is a member of Bucklev Post, G. A. R.

H. C. WILCOX, who conducts a title and abstract business at Akron, with quarters at Room 5, AVilson Building, was' born in Richfield Township, Summit Countv, Ohio, November 10, 1843.

JOHN W. McDowell, president of the Portage Township School Board, is the owner of sixty acres of excellent farming land at Fairlawn, Portage Township, Summit County, Ohio, where he has resided since 1898. He was born in Sugar Creek Town-

John McDowell, the grandfather of John W., was a native of Pennsylvania, and the son of a Scotch emigrant. He came to Wayne County, Ohio, at an early day, and there the remainder of his life wjuj spent. Luther McDowell was reared in Sugar Creek Township, and was there married to Margaret Cully, who was a daughter of Joseph Cully, who was a native of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. To Mr. and Mrs. McDow-ell there were born six children, as follows: Calvin, who resides at Dalton, Wayne County; Allen, who lives at Wilmington, Pennsylvania; Thomas, who resides at Dalton; John W. ; Jennie, who lives at Dalton ; and Minnie, who maried Oliver Hauenstein, resides near Dalton. The parents of these children still survive and live with their daughter and sonin-law, Mr. and Mrs. Hauenstein.

John W. McDowell was reared in his native section, and after attending the common schools of the township, entered the Dalton High School, from which he was graduated, and subsequently attended the Ohio Normal School at Ada, Ohio. For the next four years he taught school in Sugar Creek Township, Wayne County, and he then went to Apple Creek, where, with W. D. Weaver, he embarked in a hardware and farm implement business, continuing there for two years. At the end of this time he sold out his interests and located in Akron, where for eleven j^ears he worked in the hardware establishment of May and Fiebeger, subsequently becoming a member of the firm of Pettitt Brothers and McDowell, at No. 18 South Howard Street. Four years later, January 1, 1907, he sold out his interests in the hardware business of W. F. Ringler, and engaged in agricultural pursuits on his present fine farm, which he had purchased prior to engaging in business for himself.

Mr. McDowell has shown much interest in educational matters, and in 1901 he was elected a member of the School Board of Portage Township, of which he was made president in 1903. He is a Knight of Pythias and a Knight of the Maccabees.

WILLIAM WALTERS, who has been treasurer of Northampton Township, Summit County, Ohio, for the past twelve years, owns here the fine farm of fifty acres, on which he was born, August 26, 1869, and is a son of William and Sarah Ann (Campbell) Walters.

Henry Walters, the grandfather of William, was a native of Pennsylvania. He was a millwright by trade, who acquired a farm after coming to Wayne County, Ohio, on which was a very fine orchard, from which he' gathered as many as 1,500 bushels of apples annually. He died in Wayne County in 1875, aged seventy-two years. His wife was named Anna Vizcavert. They were members of the Presbyterian Church.

William Walters, father of William, was bom in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1830, and at the age of eleven years began to learn the millwright trade with his father, w'hich he followed throughout life, his last w^ork in this line being the finishing of the Shumaker plant, at Akron. On December 25, 1889, he came to Northampton Township from Sugar Creek Township, and settled on a farm of fifty acres, which he had purchased some time previously, and to which he later added thirty-six acres. When his sons became old enough to work on the farm they took charge and Mr. Walters retired, and he died in 1885, in Northampton Township, aged fifty-five years. He was a stanch Republican in politics, and at the time of his death was serving as township treasurer, elected by that party. Mr. Walters was married to Sarah Ann Campbell, who died in 1893. She was a daughter of Henry Campbell, of Wayne County, Ohio

William Walter.-; wa.s edncated in the common schools, and he ha.< engaged in fanning ever since boyhood. In 1900 he purchased the home farm from his father's heirs, and he has since made many improvements here. HLs buildings on this property are of a suUstantial nature and include the rcsidenci' ])uilt by his father in 1873, and a circular silo 12x24 feet. He raises large crops of oat.-i and corn, and keeps about fifteen head of cattle, disposing of his milk to the Akron Pure Milk Company.

Mr. Walters was married to Nellie Hardy, who is a daughter of Perry T>. Hardy, a prominent resident of Northam]iton Township, and they have one child, Ruth. Mr. and Mrs. Walters attend the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he is a stanch Republican and he has been a leading man in his community for many yeai-s. His long tenure in office speaks well as to the confidence felt in him by his fellow-citizens.

LEVI RAWSON was born in Mendon. Massachusetts, July 2, 1808. He carne to Ohio in 1829 and settled in Massillon in October, 1830, where he was engaged iA successful business under the titles of Rawson & Brainerd, L. & S. Rawson, and S. Lind & Co., conducting a general merchandise store, also operating the Red Mill on the Ohio Canal.

Mr. Rawson in 1844 moved to Akron, where he owned and operated the Cascade and Mtns, Mills. During his residence in Akron he lived in the house at the northeast corner of East Market and Broadway. . The Akron mills were operated under the firm name of Rawson & Noble. He was also engaged in the woolen business, operating a mill in Middlebury under the name of Rawson & Goodale.

In 1849 Mr. Rawson moved to Cleveland, although still retaining his interests in Akron, and there until his death was engaged in the forwarding and conimi.s.-iion business,

Ixing identified with the firm of Rawson, Foot iV; (.-'urtis. He was also interested in the vessels Massillon and Marshfield, which w-ere engaged in the lake trade, the Ma.ssillon in 1859 making a trip from Cleveland to Liverpool. Mr. Rawson died in Cleveland, January 25, I8:;4, after a successful business career of lifty-.six years. Socially, he was genial, kind and liberal to those less fortunate, giving frcfly and without ostentation. He is survi\ed by one daughter, Mrs. Geo. T. Perkins, and two sons, Charles and Ed. B. Rawson, of Li.sbon, Ohio.

.VITATST C. MILLER, general contractor at Akron, dealing in brick, stone and lime, with quarters at No. 295 Buckeye Street, came to this city in 1874. He was born in 1852, in Prussia-Germany, and was eighteen years of age when he came to America.

Mr. Miller had partly learned his trade before leaving his own land, and he completed his apprenticeship in America, working in New York, Chicago, Milwaukee and Cleveland. When he reached Akron he was ready to undertake any kind of contract for mason work or building constniction. He worked awhile for different parties, but in 1876 embarked in general contracting on his own account, his fii-st big job being for the Robinson Brothers' Sewer Pipe plant. Mr. Miller has continued in the contracting business and during his business life of a quarter of a century here, he has had the contracts for some (if the city's most important buildings. His work is seen in the Akron Savings Bank Building; the O'Neil Buildins;: the brick work for the Diamond Rubber Buildings; the Kubler and Beck Buildings; the Burkhardt Brewery plant; the Star Drill Machine Company's plant, and many others of lesser note. At the date of this writing (1907) he is building the Star Rubber Company's new plant. In addition to what may be called his personal business. Mr. Miller is interested in a number of other important enterprises of Akron, in which his name has inspired additional confidence. He was one of the organizers and a director of the Securitv Savings

Bank, and a stockholder in the People's Savings Bank. He is interested in the Central Savings and Trust Company ; is a stockholder in the Diamond Rubber Company, the B. F. Goodrich Company, and the Akron Brewery Company, and is also a director in the Lodi Oil and Refinery Company.

In 1881 Mr. Miller was married to Adele Uitas, who was born in Prussia-Germany, and Ihey have two children, Adele and Bodo E., the latter of whom is a medical student in (he Universit}' of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. Mr. Miller is a prominent member of the Democratic party in this city and takes much interest in local affairs. For three years he has been a member of the Akron Liebertafel, a leading German social organization. A man of unimpeachable character, Mr. Miller is a representative of Akron's best citizimship.

FRANK F. MILLER, mechanical engineer, with the Star Drilling Machine Company, of Akron, has been identified with this line of work ever since he entered into business, and has been a resident of this city since he- was ten years old. He was born in 1879 at Smith's Ferry, Ohio, but his childhood was passed at Braceville, Leavittsburg and Newton Falls, to which point his parents, J. W. and Abbie (Brown) Miller moved while he was very >oung.

Mr. Miller entered the public schools of Akron at the age above mentioned and continued until he was graduated from the Akron High School, in 1897. He then became a student at the 'Western University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1001, with his degree of M. E. During the following year he worked for the American Bridge Company, first at Pittsburg, Penn.sylvania, and later at Canton, Ohio, then for one year he was with the Wollman-Seaver- Morgan Engineering Comnany, of Cleveland, since which time he has been with the Star Drilling Machine Companv, in his present canacity. He is a stockholder in this enterprise and also owtis stock in the Star Rubber Company.

In 1902 Mr. Miller was married to Clara A. Parisette, daughter of Charles and Susan (Selzer) Parisette. Charles Parisette was born in Germany and came to the United States about 1857. Mr. Parisette volunteered in a California regiment during the Civil War, and now makes his home in Akron, at 738 West Market Street. Mrs. Miller graduated from the Akron High School in 1898, also from the Perkins Normal School two years later. She then taught in the Allen school. With her hu.sband, she belongs to te First Congregational Church. They are the parents of two children - Forest Keimeth and Alma Lenore.

ALBERT C. HARRINGTON, a general farmer of Northampton Township, is a worthy representative of a prominent old family of Summit County, was born April 19, 1872, on the old Harrington homestead, and is a son of Frederick L. and Mahala (Carter) Harrington.

Job Harrington, grandfather of Albert C, was born at Bennington. Vermont, March 9, 1792, and was a son of Richard Harrington. In the fall of 1812 he left Bennington and reached Tallmadge Township, Summit County, before the end of the year, commissioned to purchase a farm for his parents. In the following year the family came to the new home and l:)uilt their little log cabin in the midst of the forest. In 1814 .Job returned to Vermont and married Susan Hartle, who was born at Georgetown, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1796. In 1815 Job Harrington bought the farm on ^-hich Albert C. Harrington was born and reared. He died March 24, 1869. During the early -days -when pioneer conditions prevailed and the larger number of his neighbors were Indians, Job Harrington displayed those sturdy characteri.stics which made him one of the most useful men of the township. He conciliated the Indians and made friends of them for himself and the community, and possessed the shrewdness as well as the integritv which brought ahout improved conditions for all concerned. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Harrington, Wil- liam Carter, was also of New England birth and ancestry, and he too was a man of prominence and usefulness in Summit County. William Carter was born at Middletown, Connecticut, February 13, 1792, married Chloe Wadsworth in 1814, and died April 24, 1876. William Carter came to Northampton Township at a very early day. He was a bricklayer by trade and an expert workman, and buildings in numbers still stand, both at Akron and Cuyahoga Falls, which testify to his skill.

Frederick L. Harrington was born October 14, 1835, and died in 1899. He was married October 10, 1866, to Mahala Carter, who was born October 11, 1842, one of four children born to William Carter by his second wife, Jane Carter, to whom he was married in Northampton Township, October 17, 1834. The other children were: Patty, William and Helen. Frederick L. Harrington and wife had five children, namely: Charles E., who was born February 24,' 1869; Albert C, Frank L., who was born December 13, 1874; Myron E., who was horn May 22, 1877; and Laurel L. who was born June 8, 1896. and died at fifteen years of age.

Albert C. Harrington was reared in Northampton Township and after completing his schooling, engaged in farming on the old homestead until his marriage, when he settled on the farm on which he has resided ever since, this being a valuable tract of seventyfour and one-half acres, which came to his wife on the death of her mother. Mr. Harrington operates this farm after modern methods, largely as a dairy farm. He keeps about fifteen head of cattle and ships his milk to Akron. His main crops are hay, corn, wheat and oat^, and he has an excellent silo. The comfortable residence wa."? built by his late mother-in-law, Mrs. Flannigan. in 1891.

On November 27, 1901, Mr. Harrington was married to Fanny May Flannigan, who was born and roared on the present farm. She is the second daughter of John and Maria (Cochran) fPurcell) Flannigan. The father of Mrs. Harrington was born in Ireland and died in Northampton Township, Summit

County, Ohio, December 27, 1879, aged fiftyfive years and five months. He came to America in boyhood and worked as a farm hand until shortly after his marriage, when he bought a farm in the northeast corner of Northampton Township. This first purchase was of seventy-five acres, to which he subsequently added 140 acres, located partly in Boston and partly in Northampton Townships, and these two farms he operated until his death as dairy farms, keeping twenty head of cattle. He carried on a large cheese and butter industry on the farm and its products were disposed of at Akron. He was survaved twenty-five j'ears by his widow, who died December 20, 1903. She was born in ]825, in Stow Township, Summit County, Ohio, and was a daughter of Robert and Fanny (Bird) Cochran. Her father was killed by the Indians while making a trip through California. There were eleven children in his family, all of whom are deceased, except James, who is a general farmer and dairyman in Northampton Township, and Martha, who married William Galloway, also of Northampton Township. The mother of ilrs. Harrington was married, first to Nicholas Purcell, who was survived by one daughter, Josephine, who married Edward Donahue, of Northampton Township. To her second marriage two daughters were born : Martha Jane, who married John E. Raleigh, of Northampton Township; and Fanny May, who married Albert C. Harrington.

Mr. and Mrs. Harrington have three children, namely: Opal E., who was born September 13, 1903; Chester A., who was born June 18, 1905; and Velma Rhea, who was born August 13, 1907. Mr. and Mrs. Harrington are members of the United Presbyterian Church, to which Mrs. Flannigan also belonged, and in which she was much beloved. In politics he is a Democrat, but he has never been willing to accept political office, preferring the quiet life of a private citizen. With his wife he belongs to the Northampton Grange, Patrons of Husbandry.

M. C. HEMINGER, who is engaged in a real estate, insurance and loan business at Akron, with offices at No. 1094 South Main Street, is one of the representative business men of the city. He was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, September 10, 1861.

Mr. Heminger was reared in his native section, attending the local schools, and later completed a normal course at Mt. Union and a commercial course at Painesville. He then took up the profession of teaching, which he followed more or less continuously for twenty years, having obtained an Ohio State Life Certificate in 1895. During this period he became interested in the buying and selling of property, and met with such good success that he declined his appointment as teacher of the Clinton schools, in 1901, in order to accept a position with the Akron Realty Company. He entered that company as a bookkeeper, later became a salesman and subsequently secretary, treasurer and general manager. In 1906 Mr. Heminger went into the real estate business for himself, adding insurance, 'loans and investments, and he has met with most satisfactory success. His method is to purchase tracts of land and make first-pla.=s improvements, subsequently finding no difficulty in disposing of them. His efforts have benefitted the whole community, as he has been the means of bringing much outside capital to this point. He is a director of the South Akron Banking Company. His business office has been at Akron for the past seven years, but his beautiful home is situated at Kenmore.

In 1887 Mr. Heminger was married to Sarah A. Jones, who was born in Wales, and they have a bright, interesting family of four sons and four daughters, namely: Vesta M., Richard B., Muriel "W., Alice C! Harold R.. Arthur L. Leah M. and Beryl G. The eldest daughter graduated from the Kenmore High School and is taking a course in music in the Cleveland School of Music, ha\nng a great natural gift. Mr. Heminger and family belong to the Reformer! Church at Kenmore, in the Sunday School of which he fakep a <leep interest.

As an intelligent and enlightened citizen, Mr. Heminger takes a laudable interest in all public mattei-s concerning his city, coimty and country at large. He has served as clerk of Fairfield Township, Tuscarawas County, and is chairman of the Board of Education of Coventry Township.

JOHN D. JONES, president of the J. D. Jones Coal Company, operating coal mines at Hametown (his place of residence) and Manchester, in Summit County, and in Chippewa Township, Wayne County, owns the latter rnine, and is also one of the directors of the Hametown Coal Company. He was born in Glenmorganshire, Wales, April 29, 1851, and is a son of David D, and Keziah (Morgan) Jones.

Coal mining has been the occupation of the Jones family for several generations and the subject of this sketch accompanied his father to the mines when he was a little boy, doing such work as falls to children in the old Welsh mines. When he was nine years of age he began to work at the Great Western shaft, and was employed at different places which were more or le,=s dangerous. He worked at the Fern Dale shaft and left there just thirteen days before there was an explosion in it in November. 1867, by which 214 men lost their lives.

In December, 1868, when seventeen years of age, Mr. Jones came to America and joined his parents at Sherman, Ohio, where they had settled three and one-half years before. In 1871 the family moved to Hametown, which ha^ been the home of John D. .lones ever since. By a premature explosion of powder in one of the mines David D. Jones was so seriously injured, in September, 1885, that he survived but five days. A comrade was killed instantly.

In 1873 John D. Jones was married to Elizabeth Boden, who is a daughter of .John Boden. and who was born also in Wales, and came to Norton Town.'hip in girlhood. They have eight sun-iving children, namely: Gomar, who is president and secretarv of the. Hametown Coal Company; Gwylnm, who married Alta Mobn, and has two children; David J., who married Maude Hehuick, and has two children; Henry, who manied Elma Williama, has one child; and Obediah, Mae, Jeannetta and Charles, residing at home. Four other cliildren are deceased. Mr. Jones is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias at Doylestown.

Gomar Jones, the eldest of the above family, was born in Norton Township, Summit County, Ohio, March 5, 1874, and was reared and educated in this neighborhood. Like his father and grandfather, his whole business life has been identified with coal interests. With his father, John D. Jones, John Klein and Obediah Jones, he is interested in the Hametown Coal Company's mine, being president, secretary and manager of the works, this coal bank having been opened up in April, 1893. In April, 1905, the J. D. Jones Coal Company, in which he is also interested, bought a coal bank at Manchester. The third mine of the company, located in Chippewa Township, Wayne County, wa.s started December 26. 1906. The coal industry is one of the most important in Norton ToAvnship, and require.-i a large investment and careful management.

In 1898 Gomar Jones was married to Ida Williams, who is a. daughter of .Tohn C. Williams, a coal miner, now residing in Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have two children : Robert L. and Clayton. Mr. Jones is a member nf tlic Ma.'^onic fraternity at Barberton.

JOHN BLACKBURN, a repre.'ientative agriculturist of Bosston Townsliip, wlio is .serving his second term as township trustee, w-as born December 15, IS'29, in Lincolnshire, England, and is a son of AVilliavn and Jane (Emerson) Blackburn.

AVilliam Blackburn was born in Lincolnshire, England, where he died at the age of sixty-six years. His widow came to .America when seventv-five years of age with her youngest son. She died at Hudson, in the faith of the IMothodist Episcopal Church, and was buried at Peninsula. AVilliam and .Tane

(Emerson) Blackburn were the parents of seven children, six of whom grew to maturity : James, Mary and George, all deceased; John; Thomas, who resides at Hudson ; and Henry, who lives in Cleveland.

John Blackburn had but meager educational opportunities when a youth, but through reading and association with others, has long since remedied any early defects. He was twenty-three years old when he came to America on a sailing vessel, one of the old kind which took six weeks to make the voyage. He arrived in Boston Township June 3, 1853, and worked for three months on the Ohio Canal. In the spring following he hired out to a farmer in Macedonia and lived there two years, but in the spring of 1855 he moved back to Boston Town.'^hip. where he rented a farm for two years and another farm for seven years, paying a cash rent. In 1864 he purchased 155 acres of his present farm, to which he has added, by purchase, and is now" the owner of 192 acres. This land he devotes to the cultivation of potatoes, wheat, hay, corn and oats. His fine residence of nine rooms was erected by Mr. Blackburn in 1888, and he has a barn 60x40x20, with a 9-foot basement, which he built in 1895. His buildings are well kept, and everything about the property .shows careful management. Mr. Blackburn has given special attention to dairying and keeps twenty-five cows, his milk being dispo.sed of at Cleveland.