Summit County, Ohio - Chapter 20: Statistics, 1908 (part 25 of 27)

Floriant Houriet married Catherine Miller, who was born May 18, 1840, in Germany, and accompanied her parents to America in 1852, when she was a girl of twelve years. They were Lawrence and Elizabeth (Bott) jNIiller. Her father died in 1879. Six children were l)orn to Floriant and Catherine Houriet as follows: Edward, who died in infancy; Ulysses F. ; Mary, who is a teacher in the public schools of Akron ; Willie, who died aged three years; Zelina, who married Edward Richert, and has one child ; Paul ; and Elsie, who fills the position of bookkeej^er in the South Akron Bank. All the children were born at Canal Fulton, graduated from the schools of that place, and all who sui"vived infancy, with the exception of the younge.st, have taught school.

Floriant Houriet is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and he accompanied his old regiment to Washinaton city to be present at the inauguration of the late President McKinley, their beloved comrade. He is a meml)er of the Reformed Church, while Mrs. Houriet and the children are members of the Lutheran Church.

was noted for his quick, intelligence and his genial, happy nature and, after completing his time at school, he was gladly accepted as a teacher and very soon was made superintendent of the township schools, subsequently becoming the principal of the High School at Norton Center. He remained in the educational field from 1887 until 1895, in the meanwhile .spending some of his summers at "\^alparaiso College, Indiana. In 1895 he made a bicycle tour through Florida, visiting many interesting points outside the line of ordinary travel. When he returned it was to find the heated McKinley campaign agitating Summit and adjoining counties, and he immediately began to stump the country fnr the leader of the party, in this capacity visiting almost every part of Summit County, and making friend* wherever he went. Many still recall him standing on the street corners in interested conversation, surrounded by his farmer friends, speaking first in English and then in German, being greatly gifted as an elocutionist. After his bicycle trip to Florida Mr. Houriet made one to St. Louis using the same wheel, pausing at many places to address gatherings of the Young Men's Christian Association, in which organization he was greatly interested. He was prominent a* a member of the building committee of the association at .\kron. and was one of its directors.

For a few months in 1896 he was connected with the New York Life Insurance Company, later becoming a.ssociated with the late Noah Steiner in the real estate business He had much to do with the rapid disposal of the White City allotment in 1898. At that time Mr. Steiner was pushing the claims of the Pathfinder order and Mr. Houriet became interested and joined the organization as its thirteenth member. He later began to organize lodges, many of which are among the most prosperous of this beneficiary oraanization. notably the "Coshoction." After the death of Mr. Steiner. Mr. Houriet was elected in 1901 as president and assumed the command of the order. For some time he waactive as manager of the company, which began laying out and building up Kenmore, and Mr. Steiner's death threw the whole business into Mr. Houriet's capable hands. It was about this time that he moved into the jiresent beautiful family residence, which later became the property of his father. Mr. Houriet never married. He died in Akron, Ohio, June 28, 1904.

CHARLES G. LUTZ, who is engaged in a general contracting business at Barberton, is one of the substantial citizens of Norton Town.ship, of which he was elected a trustee in 1905. Mr. Lutz was born in AVayne County, Ohio, July 15, 1868, and is a son of Sebastian and Elizabeth (Eitonmiller) Lutz. In his boyhood, the parent.* of Mr. Lutz removed from the farm on which he was born, to Marshallville, where the father followed the business of carpet weaving. He attended the schools of Marshallville until about seventeen years of age, when he began to learn the carpenter's trade, which he subsequently followed as a livelihood, six years later going into contracting. In March. 1897. he came to Barberton, since which time he has been very busily engaged, and has erected a number of the iine.st busines.? blocks in the place, notably the Rodenbaugh Block, which was completed in 1906, the McKenna Block, in 1904, and the Henry Block, in 1907. He keeps from two to ten men employed.

At Marshallville, in the spring of 1898, Mr. Liitz was married to Catherine Yeakley, who died March 28. 1901, leaving three children - Karl, Irene and Edna. Mr. Lutz was married (second) to Mrs. Flora (Houtz) Heller, who was the widow of Jacob Heller, and they have one child, Nola. Mr. Lutz is a member of the Reformed Church at Barberton. In politics he is a Democrat and has always taken a good citizen's interest in public affairs.

GEORGE GRETHER. Among the representative agriculturists of Nortliampton Town,«hip may be mentioned George Grethcr, who owns a fine farm of 100 acres. He was born at Akron. Ohio. September 2, 1853, and

John George Grether was born in Baden, Germany, in 1822, and there learned the trade of wagon-maker. He was about thirty years old when he came to America, and on locating at Akron he entered the employ of his brother Jacob, who was in business there. Mr. Grether then went to Jackson's Corners, where he worked a rented farm for some years, after which he purchased a lot on what is now West Exchange Street, Akron, and during the Civil AVar he worked at his trade. In 1887 he purchased the farm now owned by George Grether, and here his death occurred in his sixty-seventh year. Mr. Grether was married to Elizabeth Dice, and she now makes her home with her only son, George Grether. She is seventy-eight years old. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Grether: George and Ernest Frederick, the latter of whom died when twenty-one years of age.

George Grether attended the public schools, after which he learned the trade of chainmaker, which he followed for fourteen years, and which he finds of much value to him in farm work, as with this knowledge he can do all his own blacksmith work. He now gives his entire attention to agricultural pursuits, and raises and fattens calves for the market., also selling many chickens and eggs. Mr. Grether was for five years a member of the Sixth Ohio Battery, Eighth Regiment, Ohio National Guards, for three years of which time he was corporal.

Mr. Grether was married to Pauline Dice, who is a daughter of Martin Dice, of Akron, and they have had seven children, six of whom survive, namely: Louisa, who is the wife of Fred Shumaker, of Cleveland: Otto Frederick, who lives in Akron: Charles George A\''illiam, who resides in Copley Township; and Edward, Frank Herbert and Ruth Marie Elizabeth.

S. C. McGOAA^AN. junior member of the firm of McGarry & McGowan, prominent contractors and leading citizens of Akron, has spent the major part of his business life here, coming to this city in 1868. Mr. Mc- Gowau was born in 1857, in New Jersey, and is a son of Charles McGowan, who was an early contractor at Akron, and concerned in selecting sewer pipe clay and working for the Buckeye Sewer Pipe Company.

S. C. McGowan's early life was spent on the farm of Miss Louise Sumner, after which he entered the employ of David R. Paige, who was engaged in a hardware and general contracting business, remaining there for twenty-five years. During nine years of this period Mr. McGowan was with Mr. Paige in the city of New York, working on the contract of constructing the Croton aqueduct. Mr. Paige was called to Africa, and after his departure, Mr. McGowan built the piers for the suburban elevated road from the Harlem River to Tremont. With Mr. Paige he built the Guttenberg race track and was concerned in many other large jobs in that city. He was connected with D. C. Coolman and Page & Carey when they built the Ohio River Railroad from Wheeling to Parkersbnrg, West Virginia, between the years 1882-1 8S6. After ' his return to Akron, in 1890, Mr. McGowan entered into partnership with Daniel Mc- Garry, under the firm name of McGarry & McGowan, and they do a general contracting business second to no other in this section. A contract is being carried out at the present writing (1907). -niiich includes the putting in of a complete sewer system for the city of Ravenna, extending some ten or twelve miles. The firm has done a great deal of street paving and the work is well done, it bedng the aim of this firm to excel in all that it undertakes. Mr. McGowan is intere.sted in other enterprises, and is ranked with the city's substantial business men.

In 1902 Mr. 'McGowan was married to Amelia Wohlwend. He is a consistent member of St. Vincent de Paul's Catholic Church. He belongs to the organization known the world over as the Knights of Columbus. While not accepting office for himself. Mr. McGowan takes n lively interest in politics and is a loyal supporter of his friends.

WILLIAM E. MARTIN, a reprusentaUve citizen of Summit County, Ohio, who is one of the heirs to the undivided estate of his father, a desirable farm in Northfield Township, located on the State Road, was born in Northfield Township, December 14, 1861, and is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Sodon) Martin.

Henry Martin, who was born in Sowham, England, was engaged in market gardening there with his father until coming to America. He stai'ted to this country with his first wife and seven children, but on the voyage to the new home five of his children and his wife died of smallpox. Having friends in Northfield Township, Mr. Martin at once located here and for two or three years worked l)y the day. In 18(54 he rented several farms which he operated until 1874, in which year he purchased the farm now owned by William E. Martin, and here carried on general farming until his death, in December, 1899, at the age of eighty-six and one-half years. Mr. Martin was married (second) to Elizabeth Sodon, who was born in England, and Avas a daughter of John Sodon, and to this union there were born six children : William E. ; Mary, who is the wife of Jacob Ritchie, of Northfield Township; Hannah Emily, who married Lewis Whitcomb, of Northfield Township; Elizabeth Jennie, who married .James Rees, of Bedford Township: Minnie B.; and Rachel L., who is the wife of Benjamin Myers, of Northfield Town-hip. The mother of these children died- in June, 1906, aged seventy-one years, in the faith of the United Presbyterian Church, of which the family were all members. Mr. Martin was a Democrat in politics, but never sought public office.

William E. Martin was educated in the public schools of Northfield Township, and his life has always been spent on the farm on which he now lives. This is a well-kept, fertile property in the northern part of the township, situated on the State Road, and being near Cleveland. Mr. Martin ha? always engaged more or less in truck farming. His principal crops, however, are hay. wheat.

corn and oats. Mr. Martin was married to Editli Smith, who is the daughter of Samuel Smith, of New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Martin is a devoted member of the United Presbyterian Church.

JOSEPH R. MELL, senior member of the well known insurance firm of J. R. Mell & Son, at Akron, is also a veteran of the Civil War, one whose long and arduous service entitles him to the honorable and grateful consideration of his fellow-citizens. Mr. Mell was born in Mahoning County, Ohio, where he was educated and remained until he was sixteen years of age, when he moved to Portage County.

Among the first young men of Portage County to come forward in defense of the Union was Joseph R. Mell, who, as a private, entered Company K, Nineteenth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, entering April 22, 1861. During the three months of this first enlistment he saw hard service in West Virginia and participated in the battle of Rich Mountain. After its expiration he returned to Summit County, Ohio, but the call of hia country was again too strong to permit him to settle down in safety to peaceful pursuits, and he re-enlisted for a period of three years, on February 20, 1862, entering Company K, Sixty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was organized at Camp Chase. This regiment returned the young soldier to the scene of hia former exploits in West Virginia, where it remained under the command of General Fremont until July, 1862, when it was sent to join General Pope's army at Culpeper Court House. Then followed the second battle of Bull Run, then Chancellorville, followed by the Gettysburg campaign, at this time the regiment being a part of the Eleventh Army Corps. On the second day of the fight at Gettysburg Mr. Mell was captured on Gulp's Hill and was taken to Richmond, where he was held a prisoner of war until the spring of 186r), being paroled just at the close of the war. From the ranks he was again and again promoted for personal valor, climbing from private to orderly sergeant, then to second lieutenant in 1863. During his confinement in prison he was promoted to be first lieutenant, and still later to the rank of captain, as which, however, he was never mustered in.

Captain Mell returned to Summit County after being released from the Confederate prisons, and as soon as he was sufficiently recuperated, engaged in a hotel business, which he conducted for three years, and then came to Akron. He entered the employ of the Aultman-Miller Company, with which corporation he continued to be associated for twenty-one years. Since then he has been engaged in a general insurance business in partnership with his son, Cloyd W., under the firm name of J. K. Mell & Son. In 1895 Mr. Mell was elected councilman at large, an office he filled for about nine months, which he resigned to accept the appointment of court bailiff.

On August 30, 1865, Mr. Mell was married to Sabina V. Koons, who is a daughter of Jonas Koons, and a granddaughter of Henry Koons, who came to Summit County from Allentown, Pennsylvania, among the earliest settlers. Mr. and Mrs. Mell have four surviving children, namely: Marvin M., residing at Akron, engaged in a flour and feed business; Todd J., residing at Youngstown, where he is manager of the automobile tire department of the Republic Rubber Company; Wade B., residing at Havana. Cuba, engaged in a brokerage business: and Cloyd W., of the firm of J. R. Mell & Son. For twenty-five years Mr. Mell has been an official member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is past commander of Buckley Post, No. 12, G. A. R.

GEORGE T. WHITMORE, treasurer and general manager of the Granite Clay Company, of Akron, has been a resident of Mogadore since 1902. and is an experienced man in his line of business. He was born at Ea.«t Liverpool. Ohio, .January 1. 18.58. and is a son of Richard and Emma (Robinson) A^Hiitinore.

to America and settled in Wiscousiu, in 1847, removing from tliere to East Liverpool, where he lived until 1857, when he located at Akron, where he died in February, 1898, aged eeventy-nine years. He was a potter by trade. The mother accompanied her parents when they crossed the Atlantic Ocean and settled at East Liverpool, where she was mai-ried. The following children were born to Richard Whitmore and wife: Elizabeth, William H., Maria H., George T., John A., James B., Emma H. and Earl. The mother of these children died in July, 1870, aged thirty-seven years.

George T. Whitmore was reared at Akron and graduated from the High School of that city in 1876, later entered Buchtel College, where he remained for two years, leaving in 1 880 to accept the position of shipping clerk , with Whitmore, Robinson & Company. He contiinied to fill that position for one year and then entered into partnership with Cook & Fairbanks, which firm was later known as Cook, Fairbanks & Company, manufacturers of stoneware, remaining in that connection until 1889. After severing his busine.s,s relations with the above company, Mr. AVhitmore was one of the organizei's of the Summit Sewer Pipe Company and remained with that concern for eleven years. In 1899 he went to the City of Mexico, as general manager of the Mexico Clay Manufacturing Company, and remained in that capacity one year and then returned to Akron.

Mr. Whitmore is a man of too mucli business activity to remain quiescent for any length of time, and shortly after his return from the South, he organized the Granite Clay Company, with whfch he has been identified ever since. The plant is located at Mogadore and the capacity is 2,000 car loads annually. Employment is given to ninety men. The bu.siness was incorporated in 1900. with C. H. Palmer, president; T. A. Palmer, vice-president; G. T. AVhitmore, treasurer and general manager; and W. N. Palmer, secretary. The business is capitalized at $250,- to May Peckham, who is a daughter of Thomas and Agnes Peckham, and was reared and educated at Akron, where she graduated from the High School in the class of 1880. They have four children, three daughters and one son, namely: Agnes Emma, Marion P., Elizabeth and Cicorge T., Jr.

Fraternally, Mr. Whitmore belongs to the Odd Fellows and the Maccabees, being identified with the former order at Akron and the latter at Mogadore. In politics he is a Republican and he was elected to the city council, of Akron, in which he served one year as president. During 1887 and 1888 he served as treasurer of the Republican Central Committee. He has been active in county politics since he was twenty-one years of age. Mr. Whitmore's father was one of the pioneers in the clay industry in Summit County and it has formed a leading feature of the son's successful business career. Mr. and Mrs. Whitmore reside in a beautiful residence which he erected after coming to Mogadore to make this place his permanent home. He is a man of pleasing personality, frank, friendly and sincere, and possesses the business capacity, good judoment and foresight to make successful both social and business aspiration. He is identifi' d with the various charities and with the civic organizations which prmnote the general welfare.

representative of one of the old and prominent families of Summit County, wa.s born on the farm in Sprinoifield Township, on which he still resides, March .SO, 1848, and is a son of William and Ivouisa (Gra^jsard) McChesney.

William McChesney was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1817, and was seven years of age when he accompanied his parents to this part of Ohio. They were John and Martha (Laramore) McChesney, the former of whom had come in boyhood to America, settling with his parents in Pennsylvania, where other Irish emigrants had formed a colony. There were five children

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The parents of Edward A. McChesney were married in Coventry Township, Summit County, where the mother was born in 1825. She was a daughter of Peter Frederick Gressard, who served as a soldier under Napoleon Bonaparte. He came to America and settled in Summit County, where his last years were .spent. His children were: Catherine, Louisa, Eugenia and Rosalie, twins; Frederick and Charles. One daughter, Rosalie, who is Mrs. Bruot, survives and resides on Fir Street, Akron. To William and Louisa Mc- Chesney were born the following children : Edward A. ; William H., residmg in Springfield Township, married Lucy Thompson ; Flora A., I'esiding at ATcron, is the wife of G. L. Sypher; Herman G., residing at Akron, married Lucy Wright; and Frederick W., residing in Springfield Township, married Nettie Yerrick. The father died in 1905, aged eighty-nine J'ears, and the mother in 1900, aged seventy-five years.

Edward A. McChesney was reared on the present farm and was educated in the district schools. He carries on mixed farming and dairying on his forty-seven acres of excellent land, which is mainly looked after by his son. For the past thirty years Mr. McChesney has been engaged in building and contracting, working all over Summit County.

Mr. McChesney was married in 1873 to Sarah Wise, who is a daughter of Samuel and Catherine (Rahber) Wise, and they have had three children : Gertrude, who l« deceased : May, who married Charles Roeger, have one son, Milford Glenn ; and Dwight, who manages the home farm. Politically, the Mc- Chesneys are identified with the Republican party.

AUGUST BLESSM.AN, treasurer of the Klages Coal and Tee Company, of Akron, has been a resident of this citv for a period of twenty-five years. He was born in Germany, in 1857, and wn* r°ared and odncatcd tliTc. In 1882 he came to America, shortlv afterward locating at Akron. Here he embai'ked in a coal business, for the first five years working for Mr. Klages, and then, in partnership with Mr. McCue, bought the business. In 1887 the firm name was changed to II. Klages & Co., and when it was incorporated in 1890, it became the Klages Coal and Ice Company, with a capital stock of $50,000. At that time it was dealing largely in ice, having bought out two other companies. In 1 895 the Klages Company built an ice plant for the manufacture of artificial ice, it having a capacity of fifteen tons daily, and it completely changed the conditions of the ice business in this city. Since then it has been found necessai-y to enlarge the plant and the output is now seventyfive tons daily, employment being given to forty men. The present officers are: P. E. Werner, president; A. Blessman, treasurer; L. Klages, secretary, and H. W. Haupt, supei-- intendent.

In 1887, Mr. Blessman was married to Lillie FLsher of Akron, and they have three children - Matilda, M. Freda, and Walter B. Mr. Blessman is a Mason, belonging to the Blue Lodge, Council, Chapter, and Commandery at Akron; also to the Odd Fellows' organization in this city. He is numbered with the .successful business men of Akron and is a valued representative citizen.

CHANCY SALISBURY, a highly re spected resident of Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio, who was born on the farm on which he lives, where he has seventy-eight acres of valuable land, is one of the older agriculturists of this section. His birth took place March 10, 18.S0, and he is a son of AVilliam and Sylvia (Atrill) Salisbury.

Both parents of Mr. Salisbury were born in New York state. William Salisbury came to Bath Township in 1827, where he remained a year a.esisting settlers to clear their land and begin its cultivation. He found the country .«o desirable that he decided to establish here a home of his own and made the long journey back to his native plnce in order to marry. The young couple bravely started in a belated April snow storm, biit the snow melted before they had covered the distance and they completed their journey to the new home in a wagon. Wilham ballsbury built a modest log house on his land, having bought seventy-five acres of the present farm, and then began its clearing and subsequent improvement. At a later date he bought forty-five acres on the opposite side of the road. He and wife lived on this farm during the remainder of their lives, dying honored and esteemed in their community. William Salisbury's death took place April 8^ 1868; his wife died February 24, 1867. They had seven children, the three survivors now being: John, residing in Wisconsin, aged seventy-nine years; Chancy, who has reached his seventy-seventh year; and William, residing in California, who is aged seventy-one years. Those deceased are: Olive, who was the wife of Joseph Manly; Peter, Mary and Russell.

Chancy Salisbury has devoted his life more or less to pursuits pertaining to the farm which he assisted in the strength of youth to clear. His opportunities for attending school were meager,, but having spent much time in travel, he is, in some important respects, one of the best-informed men in his neighborhood. He has made ten trips to Wisconsin, three to Iowa, three to Michigan and two to New York, and once, in the space of six weeks, he visited thirteen states.

Mr. Saliisbury married Maria Hopkins. Having no children of their own, they opened their hearts to two little girls, Jennie and Nancy Lambight, who grew up under their protection and have married well. Jennie married William Wolf and they have seven children - Sherman, Ida, Howard, Alba, Cai-- rie, Earl and Maud. Nancy married Adam Wolf, and they live at Hammond's Corners, while Mr. and Mrs. William Wolf reside with Mr. Salisbury. Mrs. Salisbury died in June, 1891. She was an estimable woman and good Christian. In politics, Mr. Salisbury is a Republican and on that ticket he was elected township trustee. He is a member of the Disciples Church, of which for several years he was treasurer.

CHARLES W. JAQUITH, who owns a fine farm of seventy-three acres, of well improved land in Coventry Township, was born in a log cabin in Medina County, Ohio, and is a son of William Henry and Margaret J. (Hunt) Jaquith, and a grandson of Josiah Jaquith.

Josiah Jaquith, Sr., great-grandfather of Charles W., came to Ohio from Vermont in 1829, and settled on a 100-acre tract in the northern part of Wadsworth Township, Medina County, building a little log hut on the east side of the "Big Spring." Later, in 1831, Josiah Jaquith, Jr., the grandfather of Charles W., and his family, followed here and located on the same farm, making the trip in true pioneer style, with ox teams, it taking six weeks. The newcomers erected a larger log cabin of white wood, hewn on one side, the floor being of oak puncheons. For a number of years the Jaquiths made potash here, which was hauled through the woods to Pittsburg. The land was cleared and a number of orchards sol out, probably the first in the county, and Josiah Jr., received the west half of the property. This land, which had been purchased from a Mr. O'Brien for $3.00 per acre is now some of the most valuable property in Medina County. Here Josiah Jr., died July 30, 1842.

William Henry Jaquith, father of Charles W., was born at Saint Albans, Vermont, July 6, 1827, and made the trip with the family to Ohio, growing up in the woods of Medina County, where he experienced all the hardships of pioneer days. In his younger days Mr. Jaquith did little farming, having learned the shoemaking and coopering trades, and also teaching school for a short time. In the spring of 1865 he went to Johnson's Corners, Summit County, Ohio, and took charge of a .grist mill for a Mr. Shaw, where he remained six years, and from 1871 to 1879 he conducted the New Portage House, at New Portage. He also kept an apiary at New Portage, and sold honey, hives, bees, etc., but in 1883 gave up this business, and purchased the present farm of Charles W. Jaquith, where both he and his wife died.

ried to Margaret J. Hunt, who was a daugliter of John Hunt, who came from Union County, Pennsylvania, and purchased the old Jaquith home place. Mr. Jaquith died January 2, 1887, and his wife ?*lay '21, 1907. They were the parents of five children, namely: Mary E., who married J. H. Miller; Charles Wesley/ Ella, deceased, who married N. Van Hyning; Henrietta^ who died young; and William J., deceased.

Charles W. Jaquith spent his boyhood days in Medina County, and attended the district schools of his native locality. When about ten years of age he left Medina County with the family, and went to Summit County, later how'ever returning to Wadsworth to attend the Mennonite College, learning to read and write in German. When a young man he helped his father in the mill at Johnson's Corners, and later taught singing in New Portage and the vicinity, being choir leader for many years. On account of poor health, Mr. Jaquith went to Michigan, locating for a while on a fruit farm in the western part of the State, and. spending his winters in a lumber camp. In 1883 he returned to Summit County, Ohio, being beater engineer for two years with the Straw Boai'd Company, at New Portage. In the spring of 1885 he came to his present property, of which he became the owner soon after. He has been engaged in general farming since that time.

On May 16, 1883, Mr. Jaquith was married to Fannie Cady, who was born on a farm in Boone County, Illinois, and is a daughter of F. R. and Nancy (Schlellenger) Cady. F. R. Cady, who is still well preserved in spite of his eighty-two years, is serving as a county coroner in Michigan, where he has been a justice of the peace for many years. He resides at South Haven, where his wife's death occurred. They were the parents of five children, namely : Ida and Flora, deceased ; Fannie, the wife of Mr. Jaquith; Jennie, and Allen, who belongs to the live-saving crew. Mrs. Jaquith taught school near South Haven for three years. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Jaquith, namely: William E., a machinist of Barberton, and a member of the Odd Fellows; and Bessie P. Mr. Jaquith is a Republican m politics, and has been a member of the School Board since 1896. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of New Portage.

JACOB A. SNYDER, residing at his beautiful home at No. 197 High Street, Barberton, is a worthy representative of one of the old and honorable pioneer families of Summit County, which has been established here since 1818. Jacob Augustus Snyder was born in Coventrj' Township, Summit County, Ohio, May 16, 1845, in the old log house in which the family lived until he was fourteen years old. His parents were George M. and Mary Ann (Rex) Snyder.

George M. Snyder was born in Pennsylvania, in 1814, and -was four years old w'hen the family came to Ohio. His parents were Joseph and Maiy (Bachman) Snyder, who left Pennsylvania with their loaded wagons and ox-teams and made their slow way across the mountains and through the uncleared forests until they reached Summit County. They settled in Green Township, erecting a primitive log cabin, in which they lived during the remainder of their lives which reached into old age. They had numerous children, some of whom succumbed to the hardships and privations of pioneer life, but twelve reached maturity, as follows: Peter Joshua ; George M. ; Elizabeth, who married (first) a Mr. Hoobler and (second) Samuel Messer; Sophia, who married (first) George Tritt and (second) a Mr. Babb; Jacob; Daniel; Paul, residing in Starke County, Indiana; .Joel; Abraham, residing in Green Township, Summit County; Jonathan; and Nathaniel, residing in Green Township. The survivors of the above family are Paul, Abraham and Nathaniel. The children took after their parents, being large of frame and of robust constitution.

George M. Snyder was reared on the pioneer farm and assisted in its clearing. His educational chances were feiw, school houses were far apart and in so large a family there was always woi'k ready for every hand. He learned the mason's trade and worked at it during the season, heli:ied to farm and in the winter, assisted to work the old loom, weaving cloth. His marriage did not make much difference in his employments, merely transferring them to another place, for those were days when everything was hand-made and there was little leisure for any one. Occasionally he would talce his gun and go out for game, which was then very plentiful, and shoot deer, turkeys and bear, and on one occasion a wild hog. His son still preserves a dangerous-looking tooth, which was one of its defensive weapons. After his children had grown up he settled down to farming, purchasing 125 acres of the land on which the village of Snydertown now stands, and he owned property also at Barberton. He was a man who was well known all through this section. He died at the age of seventy-eight years.

George M. Snyder was married (first) to Catherine Harter, who was a daughter of Jacob Harter, one of the pioneers in the neighborhood of Barberton. Mrs. Snyder died and left three children: Henry, and George and Catherine, both of whom are deceased. Mr. Snyder was married (second) to Mary Ann Rex, who was a daughter of Jacob Rex. She died in 1871, aged fortythree years, the mother of fourteen children. They were as follows: Eliza Jane, who died in infancy; Jacob; Sadie, who married Harry Deisem; Daniel W. ; Mary, who married Dr. Andereon ; Lewis ; Thomas J. ; Lucy, who died in infancy; William; Inez, who married L. Horner; Evelyna, who married H. Pontius; Emma, who married William Stott; and two younger children who died in infancy.

.lacob Augustus Snyder was fourteen years old when his parents moved to the farm on which they spent many years, and he attended the district schools, making his home with his parents until he was twenty-five yeare of age. In the meantime, from the age of twenty-one, he taught school for about fovir years, at New Portage and Mount Hope, and for one year in Lee County, Illinois. He also operated a grocery store at Akron, in partnership with Henry Deisem, on the corner of High and Church Streets, tor about one year. Mr. Snyder was able to see many business possibilities and took advantage of a rmmber of them. In association with K. How, he operated an old horse-power threshing machine for some four years, doing a good business. Then he worked for one summer in the Baughman stone quarry, after which he learned to be a telegrapher, although he never put this knowledge to any practical end.

Mr. Snyder then concluded to vLsit his uncle who lived in Illinois, and worked on his farm for a time. H(! later accepted a school and taught in Lee County, where he made many friends. In the following spring he took a course in Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College and then became bookkeeper for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, which was extending its line between Defiance, Ohio, and Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Snyder worked for two years in Indiana for this corporation, and after the great Chicago fire, which, for a time, interrupted business with that city, he went out as foreman of the Railroad Construction Company to Kentucky. After a time he returned to Summit County and for a short time was associated with Morris Young in a butchering business.

After his marriage, Mr. Snyder settled on hLs present farm, which he purchased from Henry Swiggert, and has devoted considei'able attention to growing berries and trucking. He has been largely interested for many years in contracting. The stone for the building of the strawboard works came from his farm. He has probably built more cellars than any man in Summit County, furnishing the stone from bis own quarries. He built the Barberton & AVestern Railroad road bed and also one mile of track from the sewer pipe company's plant to the clay pit. He has done a large amount of grading and has filled many contracts for William A. .Johnston. He also carried on a successful florist business. In 1878, Mr. Snyder was married (first) to Catheriue Blinn, who died in 1891. She was a daughter of Christopher Blinn. In 1892, Mr. Snyder was married (second) to Mrs. Minerva (Fi-eeman) Young, who was the wiuow of A. J. Young, and a daughter of Asa and Catherine (Wolfi'ed) Freeman. She had three children, namely : Lubert, who died aged seventeen years; Grace, who married (first) Dell Acres, and (second) Benjamin Eby, and has two children, Hazel and Farrell; and Clarence, who married Nona Fink. H&e purchased Mr. Snyder's greenhouses and continues in the florist business.

When Mr. Snyder retired from active life, he purchased a place at Barberton, on which there stood a residence. This he has completely remodeled and made into a modern home. The suiToundings are tasteful, jiarticularly the arrangement and choice of shrubs, which Mr. Snyder set out himself.

Politically, Mr. Snyder is a Democrat and has frequently held township offices. He is secretary and a stockholder in the Lalcewood Cemetery Association, of which he was one of the organizers. Prior to its disbanding, he was a member and master workman in the order of American Mechanics. Both he and his wife, as well as their son Clarence, are members of the beneficiary order of Pathfinders. They belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Snyder has sei'ved as a trustee for a long period: .Few men of this section are better or more favorably known.

HON. GUSTAVUS SEIBERLING, who has been mayor of Western Star for the past fourteen years and a county commissioner of Summit County since 1905. was born .Tune 19, 18.54, on the fann in Norton Town.ship, on which he .*till resides.

The father of Mr. Seiberling was born in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in 1811, and came to Summit County and settled in Norton Township when the entire country was an uncleared wilderne.'^s. He bought eighty acres of land which he cleared, and on which he built a sawmill, where later was built the first Excelsior reaper. He lived a long and active life, and was identified with the development of Norton Township in a larger degree than almost any other citizen. He married Katherine Peters, who was also a native of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and they reared a family of thirteen children, eight sons and five daughters. Of this family six sons and one daughter survive, namely: James Plenry, residing at Jonesboro, Indiana, where he owns a large rubber manufacturing plant; Monroe, a large plate glass manufacturer, residing in a suburb of Chicago; Charles, residing at Mitchellville, Iowa, a retired farmer, formerly a soldier in the Civil AVar; Columbus, a retired farmer residing at AVadsworth ; Milton A., a farmer residing in Norton Town.ship; Sarah, wife of Jacob M. Harter, residing at AA'adsworth, and Gustavus, w^ho is the youngest of the family.

Mr. Seiberling was reared on the home farm and was mainly educated at AA'estern Star Academy. For many years he carried on extensive farming and stockraising, and has also taken a prominent part in the public affairs of Summit County. He was one of the organizers and a charter member of the Norton Mutual Fire Association, of which he has been secretary for twenty years, and for fourteen years he has served as mayor of the town of AVestern Star. He was elected commis.sioner in the fall of 1905, but prior to that had served in many offices, for twenty years being a member of the School Board of AA^'estern Star village school, for ten years school clerk; and in 1900 he was elected real estate assessor. Politically, he is a Republican and has been an important leader in the ranks of that party for many years.

In 1875, Air. Seiberling was married to Julia Kulp, who is a daughter of .John M. Kulp. of Norton Township, and they have five children, namely: AA'^ilson F., residing on a farm adjoining that of his father; Claud, operating the home farm: Sarah Katherine, who is the wife of Dr. AA'illiam AA^'ise, V. S.. residing at Barberton ; and Pauline and Raymond G.. who reside at home with their parents. Mr. Seiberlinfr is a member if the Tjithcran Olmrch nt AA^ndsworfli. in which he

GEORGE MAAG, a highly respected citizen of Akron, who was one of the organizers of the Twentieth Century Heating and Ventilating Company, of this city, and who continued to be treasurer of the concern from its founding, has been active in the business life of the community for many years. Mr. Maag was born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1853, where he remained until reaching the age of seventeen years. He then went to Orrville and learned the tinner's trade. After three years he looked around for a promising field for work, and in the fall of 1873, came to Akron, where, until 1878, he was with the firm of Cramer & May. Subsequently he established himself in a hardware bu.=iness at Haysville, Ashland County, where he remained until January, 1885, when he removed his interests to Shelby, Ohio. In 1890, he left Shelby and returning to Akron, became employed with the firm of May and Fiebeger, continuing with them until the fall of 1894. He then became associated with William Clerkin in establishing the manufacture of the Twentieth Centuiy Furnace under the firm name of Clerkin and Maag, which firm has been succeeded by the Twentieth Century Heating and Ventilating Company. In this line Mr. Maag has met with success.

The ideas involved in the manufacture of the heaters and boilers illustrate new principles, and the plant is fitted with all kinds of modern machinery to carry out these designs. In 1899, Mr. Maag w-as married to Lydia Bans, who is a daughter of .Jacob Bans, of Akron. The family residence is situated at No. 40 Mt. View Avenue, Akron.

DANIEL B. CAHOW, proprietor of the Cahow Pump Company, of Akron, is a leading business man of this city and one of its prominent merchants. He was born in York Township, Medina County, Ohio, in 1854, and is a son of D. J. Cahow, a pioneer in the pump manufacturing line. When he was two years old his father moved to Salem, Iowa, where he remained, however, Ijut two years, returning to Ohio and settling in Litchfield, Medina County. When Daniel B. was six years old his father began the manufacture of pumps and the subject of this seketch was therefore practically reared in this business.

At the age of eighteen years he came to Akron with his father and brother, H. J. Cahow, and engaged in a pump business, but for the past eighteen years he has been sole proprietor and is the head of the largest retail pump business in the United States. He handles all kinds of pumps, and has the exclusive sale of all the best ones, especially the Myers pump, which has no superior. As a pump man he has a reputation which extends all over the State.

On October 4, 1877, Mr. Cahow was married to Nellie M. Garman, who was reared at Akron, and they have three children : Grace, who married M. J. Hallinan, assistant city engineer at Akron; and Roy and Ray, twins, the former of whom is a lithographic artist and the latter is with the pump manufacturing concern of F. E. Myers & Brother, of Ashland, Ohio. Politically, Mr. Cahow is a Republican. He has fraternal membership in Akron Lodge, No. 88, F. & A. M. ; Nemo Lodge, No. 746, I. 0. 0. F. ; also the Encampment ; the Daughters of Rebecca ; the Knights of the Maccabees, and the Protected Home Circle.

GEORGE H. WADSWORTH, general superintendent of the machinery department of the Falls Rivet and Machine Company, at Cuyahoga Falls, is well known locally in this connection while his name is a familiar one in all the leading foundries of the United States, Canada and Europe, as the inventor of machinery of the greatest utility. Mr. Wadsworth was born near Chester, England, February 11, 1857, and is a son of William Collins and Agnes (Hogg) Wadsworth.

On the paternal side, Mr. Wadsworth traces his ancestry to Holland and on the maternal, to Scotland. His father, William C. Wadsworth, was born at Liverpool, England, where he later held a position as harbor master, and was killed in the performance of his duty, when his son, George H., was twelve years of age. He had four children, namely: John Murray, who has been governor of a province in India, for thirty years ; Agnes, who is deceased; George H.; and Elizabeth, who resides with her aged mother, at Colwin Bay, North Wales. The family is of the Presbyterian faith.

In Eis boyhood, George H. Wadsworth showed a natural leaning toward mechanics, and as soon as his education was considered to be far enough advanced, he entered the Great Western Railway shops, at Wolverhampton, where he served an apprenticeship of six years in what was there denominated the fitter and turner trade. This trade he followed until he was twenty-three years of age, when he came to Cleveland, Ohio, and entered the old Cleveland Bridge and Gar Worlcs. He continued work at his trade, mainly in Ohio, and was the first tool-maker employed by the National Cash Register Company, and organized their tool room. Later, Mr. Wadsworth entered into business for himself, at Findlay, Ohio, and from 1887 until 1891, he ran a machine shop under the firm name of Wadsworth, Sheesley & Company. Erom there he returned to Cleveland and remained superintendent of the Avery Stamping Company until the spring of 1894. He was then called to Chicago and was with the firm of Frazer and Chalmers, coming from there to take the position of foreman of the machine shop of The Falls Rivet and Machine Company. After one year, Mr. Wadsworth became superintendent, but six months later left the company in order to engage in other business.

When the business of this company was reorganized and changes made under the administration of Jeremiah Long, about 1897, Mr. Wadsworth returned to the company as general superintendent. At this time, owing to his past experience. The Falls Rivet and Machine Company was successful in obtaining some large contracts for government work amounting to about $140,000, which were completed with satisfaction to the Government and with financial advantage to the company. Mr. Wadsworth continued with the company as general superintendent until 1901, when he again severed his relations in order to engage in the manufacture of a coremaking machine, which was an invention of his own. The Wadsworth Improved Core Machines and Equipment, including the Wadsworth Portable Core Oven, have won their way through their obvious utility, and thousands are now in use in foundries throughout this and other countries. There are many similar machines on the market but the only medal given for a core machine, at the St. Louis Exposition, was awarded to The Falls Rivet and Machine Company for the machines invented by Mr. Wadsworth. He has made many other inventions relative to foundry work, all of them proving practical and valuable. He was the oldest continuous exhibitor at the American Foundrymen's Association.

In 1902, Mr. Wadsworth went to Cleveland and there engaged in the manufacturing of automobiles and was general superintendent and a stockholder in the American Motor Carriage Company. At the reorganization of The Falls Rivet and Machine Company, in 1903, Mr. Wadsworth again becme superintendent of the machinery department, a position for which he is so thoroughly qualified. He has some 300 men under his supervision and through his knowledge and care the great output is kept up to the standard which has won its present reputation for this concern. Mr. Wadsworth's interests have never centered in politics, but he gives a good citizen's support to all laudable public measures and casts his vote with the Republican party. In England, Mr. Wadsworth was married to Cecily Blower, who is a daughter of Samuel J. Blower, of . Wolverhampton, and they have three children, namely: Florence E., Agnes K. and George H. The family belong to the Episcopal Church.

ALEXANDER STEESE, proprietor of the Copley Mill, situated on Wolf Creek, has been a resident of Summit County, Ohio, for nearly a quarter of a century, and is one of Copley township's well-known business men. Mr. Steese was born November 20, 1862, in Stark County, Ohio, and is a son of Abraham and Lydia (Bowers) Steese.

Abraham Steese was born in Pennsylvania, and when a young man of eighteen years moved to Akron, Ohio, which was then but a small village. He was employed for some time in digging wells in and around Akron, constructing probably 600 or 700 in the vicinity, but after his mai-riage he engaged in agricultural pursuits in Stark and Summit Counties, and in this occupation spent the remainder of his life, which closed in 1902 when he had attained the age of eighty-five years. Mr. Steese was married to Lydia Bowers, a native of Stark County, Ohio, who died in 1882 at the age of fifty-nine years, and to them eleven children were born, namely: Elizabeth, who married Thomas Beck; Lewis; Susan, who married J. Guttenberger ; Levi, who was drowned at the age of eleven years; Elvina, who married Solomon Arntz ; Cecelia (deceased), who married Fred Shoemaker, the original jiroprietor of the Copley Mill; Israel; Melvin ; Alexander; Amanda, who married A. Phile; and Frances, who married Charles Phile.

Alexander Steese grew up on his father's farm in Stark County, Ohio, where he attended school, and in 1885 started to work in his brother-in-law's mill, Mr. Steese's present property, where he continued for five yeai-s. In 1890 he removed to Tallmadge, where he worked imtil the fall in the plant of the Sewer Pipe Company, subsequently returning to his brother-in-law's mill in Copley Township. In the spring of 1891 he went to Indiana, where he worked at the carpenter's trade with his brother Lewis, but he again returned to Copley Township, where he .spent the winter. In the spring of 1892 Mr. Steese went to Comet, Green Township, and there rented a mill from D. F. Burger, which he operated until 1904, at which time he purchased stock in the Clinton Milling Company, of Clinton, Ohio, where for two years he was engaged as miller. He then traded his stock in the company for his present business, which he has since conducted with much success. The capacity of the mill is twenty-five barrels daily, and the product is the well known "Household Favorite Flour."

In September, 1887, Mr. Steese was married, first, to Jennie Fulmer, whose death occurred in June, 1890, and to this union th?re was born one child, Clark. Mr. Steese was married, second, in the spring of 1893 to Stella Kleckner, who is a daughter of John and Elizabeth Kleckner, of Green Township, Summit County, Ohio, and six children have been born to them: Ruth, Grace, Mvra, Laura, Paul and Carl.

CAPT. W. M. HILTABIDLE, State agent for the North American Mutual Fire Insurance Company, with quarters in the Hamilton Building, Akron, has been identified with the Department of Public Works under the direction of the State board, for many years, and since 1905 has been interested in his present enterprise. He was born at Mansfield, Ohio, July 31, 1857, where he was reared and educated.

During his eai'lier years, Mr. Hiltabidle served four years as shipping clerk lor the Humphrey Manufacturing ('om))any. of Mansfield, and for six years was with the Bodine Roofing Company, of Mansfield, both as superintendent of their works and as traveling .salesman. In' 1887 he entered the employ of the State Board of Public Works and had charge of the steam dredge, continuing until 1892, when he was promoted to the office of division superintendent and in that capacity came to Akron. He remained superintendent until 1902, and then gave" up that position to become superintendent of the water supply for the manufacturers of Akron and Barbertoli. performing the duties of this office from 1902 until 1905. In the latter year he assisted in organizing the Noitli American Mutual Fire Insurance Compaiiy, the home office being at Mansfield. The fi^si. policy was issued October 26, 1905. They started into business with policies in force of $773,850. On July 12, 1907, their bool-s showed: Policies in force, $2,038,574.01, premiums paid, $75,264.52 ; fire losses paid, $21,505.61; contingent assets, $177,992.15. Mr. Hiltabidle is State agent and a member of the Board of Directors. The enterprise is one which has met with a hearty welcome and is in a very prosperous condition.

Captain Hiltabidle gained liis title as captain of Company B, Eighth Ohio Regiment, at Mansfield, and also during his long period of service with the Board of Public Works, when he was commanding officer.

In 1878 he was married to Roberta Cairns, of Plymouth, Ohio. They have one daughter. Myrtle Rose, who graduated from the Akron public schools, in the cla.ss of 1907. With his family, Captain Hiltabidle belongs to Trinity Lutheran Church. He is a Thirtysecond Degree Mason, and has held many offices in the local Masonic bodies. He is also an Odd Fellow, and a Knight of Pythias, past exalted ruler of the Akron Lodge of Elks, and belongs to the Ma.sonic and Elk clubs, and to Harry Foster Camp, No. 331, Sons of Veterans.

JAMES H. CASE, who has been engaged in the drug business in Akron for the past thirty-one years, is one of the city's most esteemed citizens. He is also an honored veteran of the Civil Wa;-, and one of the few survivors of the Third Division of Cavalry, which gained distinction under their brave and beloved leader, the gallant General Custer. Mr. Case was born in 1844. in old Middlehury, and is a son of Simon S. and Jane (McDowell) Ca,se.

Simon S. Case, a harness-maker by trade, was horn in the State of New York and came to Akron among the early settlers. Later he engaged in 'general contracting, and he built an entire section of the C. A. & C Railroad.

Still later he went into the stoneware business, and was the first shipper of stoneware from Summit County l)y rail. His death took place in 1877.

James H. Case entered tl:e Federal army at the age of nineteen years, becoming a member of Company A, Second Regiment, Ohio Cavalry. This regiment was mustered into the sei-vice at Columbus, and it was first ordered to Tennessee and Kentucky. It participated in the battles of the Wilderness, Spott- .sylvania. Mine Run. Hanover Court Hoase, and all battles from the Wilderness to the surrender of Lee. After Wilson's Raid Mr. Case was taken sick and was confined to the hospital for two months in Baltimore and Wilmington. After rejoining his regiment he took part in the battles of Winchester, Berry\'ille, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek and Stony Creek. In October. 1863, Mr. Case reenli-sted and remained in the service until after the final surrender of the Confederate forces, being honorably mustered out at St. Louis, Missouri, in September, 1865. His most thrilling war experiepce was during Wil- Raid, when he had his horse shot from under him. In recalling the various brave . commanders under whom he served, Mr. Case remembers the gallant General Custer, who was adored by his soldiers, who together keep green his memory in an annual gathering of the survivors of the old command. In 1907 Mr. Case attended the reunion held at Canandaigua, New York.

After the end of his military service, Mr. Case retiu'ned to Akron where he worked at the machinist's trade until 1.S76. He then engaged in the diiig busine.s.~ in which lie has continued ever since. He is a stanch Repul)- lioan, and was a great admirer of the late Senator .James G. Blaine, during whose candidacy, Mr. Case's store was the Blaine headquarters. He has served two terms in the City Council and has been postmaster at Postal Station No. 4 ever since its orgauization.

REED DEEDS, inventor, is the senior member of the firm of Reed Deeds & Son, builders and contractors at Cuyahoga Fall^i, and the patentee of the Deeds Monolithic System of Concrete Construction, which provides forms, molds and methods for the erection and construction of all classes of buildings, with either solid or double walls, doing away with machine-made blocks. Mr. Deeds established himself in business at Cuyahoga Falls in 1889. He was born at Portersville, Butler County, Pennsylvania, July 11, 1848, and is a son of John and Ann Catherine (Wimer) Deeds. His family record includes an ancestor who sei-ved on General Washington's staff in the Revolutionary "War.

Philip Frederick Deeds, his paternal grandfatlier, operated a mill near Slippery Rock, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, but had lived in Butler County, where his son, John Deeds, was born, in 1806. In boyhood John Deeds learned the *heelright trade and later, when that business declined, took up carpentering. In 1857 he moved to Youngstown and continued in active business there until he retired, in 1879, when he went to live with a daughter at Keokuk, Iowa, where he died in 1883. He was one of the old-line Abolitionists and in slavery days assisted many a "chattel" to escape from bondage. He was a strict Methodist and built a church near Portersville, and, unknown to the general public, constnicted an underground tunnel which led to a big .stump in the woods. Down the tunnel from this stump, the operators of the Underground railroad conducted many fleeing slaves. Later he became an ardent Republican and at the outbreak of the Civil War, offered his services, which were declined on account of his age, but he persisted in serving in the home guard. He was a man of most upright character and at various times honestly performed the duties of public office.

The mother of Mr. Deeds was a daughter of John Wimer, who resided near Portersville, Pennsylvania, where she was born in 1813. Her father was one of eight brothers, who migrated from the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, in about 1790, to what was afterwards called Butler County, Pennsylvania. He saw military sei-vice in the Black Hawk War. Of the nine children born to John Deeds and wife, eight grew to maturity, namely: Thirzah, now deceased, who married John Ramp, of Cuyahoga Falls, also decetised; Joseph who served three years in the Seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was killed near Kingston, Georgia, during the Civil War; Hiram, now residing at Cleveland, who was for three years a member of the same regiment, and was wounded four times; Elizabeth, who married Joseph Ramp, of Keokuk, Iowa, and died at Cuyalioga Falls; Wilbur, who served one year in the Civil War as a member of the Second Ohio Battery, and who died in 1906, at Noblesville, Indiana; Reed, who served in the Fourth Indiana Cavalry, but was special orderly at Brigade Headquarters of the First Brigade, Second Division, Wilson's Cavalry Corps ;' Minerva, who married Richard Reid, residing at Cuyahoga Falls; and Frank, residing at Schenectady. New York. The mother of this family died in 1892. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church.

Reed Deeds was eleven years of age when his father settled at Youngstown, Ohio. After completing his education he learned the carpenter's trade with liis father, following which he worked as a journeyman for a number of years, in Cleveland, Youngstown and Akron. In 1868 he came to Cuyahoga Falls, where he has since resided. In 1876 he began to work for H. B. Camp, building his shops, and thus he gradually worked into brick and cement contracting, which led up to the invention of his system of concrete construction. In 1878 he took up cement work, using some of the first Yeass Portland cement ever made in the United States. At Cuyahoga Falls he built John Walsh's residence, the Roethig Block, the Brand Block, and the power houses and barns for the A. B. C. Railway, both at Cuyahoga Falls and Bedford, and their additions to their Akron plant; also the chapel at Oakwood Cemetery, and the power house for the Youngstown lS!^ Ohio River R. R. at West Point, Ohio. Other fine building that he has done includes his own handsome residence, which was completed in 1893, which is situated on North Front Street, and in 1904 he built a cement house for his son, Wilber Clyde, who became his partner in business in 1902, when the firm name of Deeds & Son was adopted. His pay-roll averages about thirty men.

Mr. Deeds has always been more or less of an inventor and his machines have proved of remarkable utility. His patent on monolithic construction bears the number 787665, and that on hold molds No. 878664; he has also another on railroad water tanks. In the small space accorded to the present sketch it would be impossible to do full justice to Mr. Deed's invention of the monolithic concrete system. He has issued a clear and concise explanation of his invention which has been widely circulated, with the most gratifying results as to business. For some twenty-eight years Mr. Deeds has been a successful mason and builder and he has given a great deal of study to the use of concrete material, solving the problem as to its use at the smallest expense and with the greatest amount of durability. Mr. Deeds married Eliza Bradley, who was born at Cuyahoga Falls, December 17, 1849, a daughter of Robert and Margaret Bradley, of that place. Mrs. Deeds' father was born at Middletown, Connecticut, and accompanied his parents to Summit County, in childhood.

Mr. and Mrs. Deeds have had two children : Arthur, who died in childhood, and Wilber Clyde, who is in partnership with hLs father. Wilber Clyde Deeds was born December 1, 1875. at Cuyahoga Falls, and was educated in the schools of his native place, and at the Western Reserve Academy, at Hudson, where he w^is graduated in 1895. He then spent one year in the Ohio State University, taking a course in mining engineering. lie learned the brick-laying trade with his father, whose business partner he became, in 1902. On June 25, 1898, he enlisted in Company F, 10th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of which he was made corporal, for service in the Spanish-American War. Later he was transferred to the lltli Company of the Signal Corps and in 1899 he accompanied that body to Cuba, where he was in service three and one-half months, and then returned and was honorably discharged at Savannali, Georgia. He is a member of the United Spanish-American War Veterans, of Camp Ward A. Wilford, at Akron.

Wilber C. Deeds married Ethel Dean, who is a daughter of William Spray, of Mantua, Ohio, and they have two children, Dorothy and Ethel. Mrs. Wilber C. Deeds is a member of the Disciples Church. She also, with her husband, belongs to the Falls Chapter, No. 245, Eastern Star. He is prominent in Masonic circles, being a member of Star Lodge, No. 187, Washington Chapter, No. 25, R. A. M., and Akron Commandery, K. T., No. 25. In politics he is a Republican.

Reed Deeds has- always been identified with the Republican party, but his interests have lain in an entirely different direction from office-holding and he has never been willing to consider any such proposition. He is, how-- ever, a public-spirited citizen, one who has always lent his influence in the direction of permanent improvements and substantial progress. He is not united with any religious body but liberally contributes to the support of the Congregational Church, to which Mrs. Deeds belongs. Fraternally he Ls a Mason, belonging to' Star Lodge, No. 187, also to Pavonia Lodge, No. 301, Knights of Pythias. Mrs. Deeds is a member of the Woman's Relief Corps, and it was through her untiring efforts that the fine flag pole w^as purchased and erected at the corner of Second and Broad Streets, she having the honor of being the first to raise the flag.

operates a tract of 151 acres of fine farming land, situated on the Akron-Wadsworth road, about five miles west of Akron, was born in this township, June 14, 1863, and is a son of Joseph D. and Sarah (Surf ass) Bauer.

Daniel Bauer, the grandfather of William D., was one of the first settlers of Norton Township, whence he came from Northampton County, Pennsylvania, in 1843, and, locating about one mile northwest of Loyal Oak, purchased land and eventually became the owner of several hundred acres. His son, Joseph D. Bauer, was but eleven years of age when he came here with the family. In about 1869 he located with his family on the farm now owned by Ed Laubaugh, and in the spring of 1888 settled at Loyal Oak, where Joseph b. Bauer died July 16. 1903. In March, 1894, Mr. Bauer purchased the present farm of his son AVilliam D., which the latter has been operating since 1895. Joseph D. Bauer was married to Sarah Surfass, who was born in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, and is a daughter of Andrew Surfass, who came to Noi'ton Township a few years after the arrival of Daniel Bauer. Four children were born to Joseph B. and Sarah Bauer, namely: AVilliam D. ; Fietta E., who is the wife of Ed Laubaugh; and two who died in childhood.

William D. Bauer was educated in the schools of his home vicinity, and was reared on the farm now owned by Ed Laubaugh, whence his parents had removed when he was about six years old. In 1895 he located on his present property, where he has earned on general farming with much success to the jiresent time.

In 1887 Mr Bauer was married to Phcebe Stimson, who is a daughter of Robert Stimson, of Copley Town.ship, and they have eight children: Warren F., Celia L., Blanche May, Joseph R., Grace F., Nellie B., Elva P. and Floyd O. Mr. and Mrs. Bauer are members of the Lutheran Church of Loyal Oak.

MILLER G. MOORE, who holds the responsible position of division superintendent with the Northern Ohio Traction Company, with headquarters at Cuyahoga Falls, was

John H. Moore was born in New Jersey, where he has always lived an honorable useful life. By trade he is a blacksmith and conducts his own business. For some years he has been a justice of the peace, and he is now serving as postmaster at Middle Valley. His three children are: Miller G. ; Georgia, who resides in Norwich, New York; and Frank, residing at Garwood, New Jersey.

After completing the common school course in his native place, Mr. Moore learned telegraphing, which he followed in connection with railroad work, for two years. He has been connected with transportation lines ever since he was fourteen years of age. Mr. Moore began in a humble way and understands the business in all its details. He has filled positions similar to his present one both in Cleveland and Detroit, and"came to Cuyahoga Falls in June, 1902. He has charge of the A. B. C, Kent and Ravenna and Barberton lines, and has control of about 125 "men, with seventyfive or eighty miles of track under his jurisdiction. His thorough technical knowledge and reliable character, make him a valuable part of the great system which he represents.

Mr. Moore was married at Detroit, Michigan, to Marie Common, a daughter of James Common, of that city, and they have two children, Melba and I)oris. The family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Moore belongs to Court Bagley, of the order of Foresters, of Detroit, of which he has been (hief ranger; and he is also a member of the National Union. He is an Independent in politics.

DAVID E. HILL, one of Akron's old and prominent citizens, was born at Gowanda, Cattaraugus County, New York, May 25, 1825. coming of sturdy English-Scotch ancestry, lie was eighteen years old when he came to Middlebury, Ohio. During his early years at Middlebury, Mr. Hill worked in a machine shop and then became a.ssociated with others in the manufacture of the old- fashioned fire engine,?. From 1847 until 1849 he represented the firm of -McMillan & Irish, on the road, selling woolen maehinerj', in the spring of the latter year first becoming interested in what is now the Akron Sewer Pipe Company, which was the pioneer cf the great industry. Mr. Hill was the organizer and leading spirit of the American Sewer Pipe Company, which has an annual output of 5,000 car loads, or 60,000 tons. His influence on the business life of Middlebury was pronounced and his standing was high in business circles as long as he remained an active factor in the business life of the community.

On June 5, 1848. Mr. Hill was married to Harriet Louise ilcMillan, who is a daughter of the late Reuben McMillan. They have had three children, namely : David W., born March 15, 1850, who married Grace Perkins McCurdy, of Akron, Septembei 6, 1877, and died January 30, 1880. leaving one child, Eva C. ; Cora T., born July 10, 1852, who died February 6, 1874; and George R., born April 3. 1855.

All his life, Mr. Hill has been a thoughtful and intelligent watcher of public events. He has been identified with the Republican party ever since its organization, and almost since his majority, has been an incumbent of office, sen-ing Summit County in some capacity, long and well. He served either in the Council or on the School Board of the village of Middleburv, until its annexation to Akron, in 1872, and from 1862 to 1868, he was county commissioner, and was elected a member of the Citv Council of Akron, from the Sixth Ward, for the years, 1875-76-77 and 1878.

THOMAS RHODES, one of Akron's much esteemed retired citizens, residing at No. 610 West Market street, was born in 1826, in Lancastershire, England, and was about seven years of age when he accompanied his parents to America. The father of Mr. Rhodes settled in Sharon Township, Medina County, Ohio, where the son was reared, and under his brother's tutelage, mainlv educated.

Mr. Rhodes followed farming and stockraising in both Medina and Summit Counties, giving especial attention to the growing of sheep. After a busy and successful agricultural career, Mr. Rhodes erected the beautiful residence in Akron whioli has since been his home.

In 1876, Mr. Rhodes was married to Sarah B. Garside. PIo and his wife are leading members of the West Hill Congregational Church. Prior to the Civil War, Mr. Rhodes was prominently identified with the Abolition party and was well known to many anti-slavery leaders, being a great admirer of William Lloyd Garrison.

October 2, 1862, Mr. Rhodes enlisted in Company A, Seventy-second Regiment, 0. V. I. He took the place of his brother who had been drafted. Pie served till July 30, 1863, and was honorably discharged at a camp twenty miles in the rear of Vicksburg.

CHARLES P. HELLER, who is carrying on extensive farming operations on his excellent tract of 148 acres situated about threequarters of a mile west of Bath Centre, Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio, has served as a.5sessor of this township for the past five ^ears, and is one of the most influential Republicans of his section. Mr. Heller was born October 1, 1855, in Guilford Township, Medina County, Ohio, and is a son of Levi and Elizabeth (Dutt) Heller.

Levi Heller, who was a native of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where he was reared and educated, removed to Medina County, Ohio, a short time after his marriage, and there cultivated a seventy-seven acre farm until his death in 1865. He married Elizabeth Dutt. who sunnved him until 1893, and to them was born one child, Charles P.

Charles P. Heller was but nine years of age when his father's death occurred, and when he was thirteen years old he took full charge of the farm in Medina County, where he and his mother lived alone. In 1881 this farm was sold, and Mr. Heller and his mother removed to his present home in Bath Township, where he erected a fine home in 1882.

Here he has carried on successful agricultural operations to the present time. He has been prominent -in the ranks of the Republican party in this section, having been a member of the Summit County Republican Executive Committee for several years, served four years as a member of the Bath Township School Boai'd, and was president thereof for two years, and since 1902 has served in the capacity of assessor, filling that position to the satisfaction of all concerned. In 1888 Mr. Heller was united in marriage with Mary Stnink, who is a daughter of William Stnmk, of Wadsworth, Ohio. Mr. Heller is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees and of the Masonic order.

ALONZO SMITH, a prominent farmer and representative citizen of Sunuiiit County, Ohio, who is engaged in operating an excellent farm of 121 acres in Franklin Township, was born December 26, 1846, north of Middlebranch, Stark County, Ohio, and is a son of George E. and Sarah (Crist) Smith.

George E. Smith was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and when a boy of twelve years came to Ohio with his parents, settling about seven miles north of Canton. He grew to manhood on the home farm, and in his youth learned the tanner's trade, which he followed for some years, conducting a tannery north of Middlebranch, Stark County. In 1859 he purchased a farm near Canton, where the rest of his life was spent, his death occurring igni his eightieth year. Mr. Smith married Sarah Crist, who died at the homestead at the age of eighty-seven years. Owing to a fire accident when a child he lost the fore part of both feet, which much interfered with his ability to walk. At his death Mr. Smith owned 1,132 acres of choice land in Stark and Summit Counties, as follows: Eighty acres in Canton Town.ship near Fulton; ninety acres in Plain; 268 in Lake; 160 in Nenieshellen, and 190 in Perry Township, south of Massillon, and in Summit County he owned 344 acres. They were the parents of eight children, namely: Sarah Ann, who was the wife of Israel Bixler; Susan, who was the wife of Christ Wingerd; Christian, who went' West and has never been heard from; -Andrew H., who was a soldier in an Ohio regiment during the Civil War; Benjamin H., who was also a soldier during the Civil War, and now resides at Canton ; Joel, who lives in Stark County; Alonzo; and Philo, of Canton,

Alonzo Smith was reared on the home farm, and for one year worked at the plastering business in Canton, In 1872 he purchased his present farm from John Genine, and here he has continued to reside. Mr. Smith is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is treasurer. He is agent for the Norton Mutual Fire Association for Franklin Township. In December, 1867, Mr. Smith was married to Harriet H. Longabaugh, and to them were born five children : Phidello, who married Maude Mefi'; Rahama, who married Dr, Harper; John, who conducts a general store; Orlando; and Sadie, who married Bert Pni'dy.

WILLIAM J, POWELL, general farmer, cultivating 125 acres of valuable land in Northfield township, is a son of William and Sarah (Baum) Powell, He is a great-grandson of George Powell, who was born at Bei'- lin, Germany, and who, during the times of Napoleon, Avhen the country was in an unsettled condition, became involved in politics, and, with other revolutionists, prepared to flee to America, He .succeeded in getting his wife and children on board of a sailing vessel and then, being hard pressed, endeavored, with soiue companions, to escape to the ship on a floating log, in which attempt he was drowned. His son, Henry Powell, grandfather of AA^illiam J,, came from Germany with his mother and two sisters. He was sold in New Jersey to work out the passage money for the family, he then being eight years of age. He lived up to the agreement and remained with his owner until he was twentycne years old, when he married Rachel Fowler and they subsequently came to Mahoning County, William Powell, the father, was born in New Jersey and emigrated to Alahon- ing County, Ohio, with hi^ father, when six yeajs old. He lived there until he was eighteen, and then came to what is now Northfield, Summit County. In 1840, he married Sarah Baum, and settled on her homestead farm of fifty acres, to which he added until he owned 125 acres. On this land he carried on general farming and sheep growing. He voted \vith the Republican party, but never sought office. He died in 1868. He was leared in the Society of Friends, but as there was no religious organization of that body in this locality, he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. His death occurred in 1868.

Thomas Baum, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Powell, was born in 1798, in We.-^tmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and in 1801, was brought by his parents to Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio. He subsequently married Mary Perkey, and they had the following children: John, deceased, served in the Civil AVar; Sarah, the mother of Mr. Powell, born June 1, 1824; Mary, now deceased; Martha, who is the widow of U. R. Plorner. of Akron; Elizabeth, who married David Silver, of Jennings County, Indiana; and .James M., who resides at East Toledo.

To William and Sarah Powell were born five children, of whom the following now survive: Louisa, widow of Elihu Griswold, residing at Akron; Harriet E., who married Andrew J. Kelty, of Bedford; Mary R., residing at home with her mother; and William J., whose name begins this sketch.

William J. Powell grew up on the farm which he now cultivates, and was thoroughly trained in agricultural work. He raises on 125 acres, wheat and potatoes for market, giving twelve acres to wheat and three to potatoes, and grows hay, com and oats for feed and dairy bu.siness, keeping about twenty-five bead of cattle.- The milk from his cows, all of excellent breed, is shipped to Cleveland. Hi? apple orchard is in fine producing condition. Mr. Powell looks well to his buildings and his immense barn is of 30 by 90 feet, with eighteen-foot po.sts. He farms along

Mr. Powell married Margaret R. Nesbitt, who is a daughter of the late James Nesbitt, formerly county commissioner, and a prominent citizen of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Powell are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically, Mr. Powell is a Republican, and for six years has been a member of the Republican County Executive committee. He served for seven years on the School Board and one j^ear as a member of the Council at Macedonia. He has since been elected councilman for a term of two years.

THE BAUM FAMILY. The immigrant ancester of this family was George Baum, Sr., who was born in Germany, November 17, 1754, and who, when seventeen years of age, sailed for America with a brother. The latter died on ship-board and was buried at sea. The ship must have met with tempestuous weather, or have been a very slow- sailor, as it is recorded that the voyage lasted sLx months. He landed at Philadelphia in the year 1772, when public affairs were in more or less of a ferment owing to the troubles with England which were in a few years to bring on the Revolutionary War. In accordance with a not unfrequent custom in those days, his services had been sold to a man for three years to pay his passage. In 1783 he was married to Mary Higgin, a native of Pennsylvania. In 1801 he moved to Ohio, settling in Columbiana County, where he purchased 160 acres of land of the government, at $1.25 ].er acre, which land is now the site of the city of Salem. The nearest gristmill was then at Marietta, about sixty-five miles away, the route being through the woods, and it used to take him from three to four days to make the trip, leading his horse, which carried the grist. On each occasion he was obliged to camp at least two nights in the ^^ oods.

Thomas Baum, son of George and Mary Baum (and maternal grandfather of William J. Powell, of Northfield Township, Summit County, Ohio), was born in Westmoreland

County, Pennsylvania, June 20, 1798. In 1801 he accompanied his parents to Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio. Here he subsequently married Mary Perkey. In 1821 he became a resident of Northfield Township, Summit County, where he purchased a farm for three dollars per acre. This farm was located about eighteen miles from Cleveland, and is now known as the G. T. Bishop farm. Here his death occurred, December 24, 1862. His wife had preceded him to the grave, dying on her fifty-eighth birthday, June 28, 1855. They reared a family of six children - - John, Sarah, Mary, Martha, Elizabeth, and James M. The record of these children is, in brief, as follows:

John enlisted in the 111th Regiment Ohio, Volunteer Infantry, in Williams County, Ohio, and served nearly three years. He died in that county November 16, 1865. Sarah became the wife of William Powell, of Northfield Township, where she now resides. Mary married a Mr. White, of Jennings County, Indiana. Martha, who is the widow of Mr. Horner, resides in Akron, Ohio. Elizabeth is the wife of David Silver, of Jennings County, Indiana.

James M. Baum, the remaining member of the above-mentioned family, was born on Christmas Day, 1838. He was educated in the district schools, and assisted his father in clearing and developing his land. In 1872 he located in Section 33, Ross Township, Wood County, Ohio, where he is now engaged in general farming and gardening, having a T^ ell improved farm of some forty acres. He also devotes a part of his attention to fruit raising. Being located but a short distance from Toledo, he finds a ready market for his produce, and has been quite successful. He is numbered among the prosperous and representative citizens of his locality.

GEORGE R. HILL, viec-]iresident of the American Sewer Pipe Company, and interested in other commercial enterprises, is one of Akron's leading business citizens. He was born at Akron, Ohio, and is a son of David E. Hill, who was the pioneer manufacturer of sewer pipe in America. The late David E. Hill was born in the State of New York and came to Akron in 1848, when the village was known as Middlebury. Here he established himself in business and after many experiments succeeded in manufacturing a drainage pipe which was the very first article which proved of real utility in handling sewerage. He was the founder of the Akron Sewer Pipe Company and subsequently of the Hill Sewer Pipe Company, and at the time of his death, in August, 1901, was one of the leading manufacturers and capitalists of Akron.

George R. Hill was reared and educated at Akron and from boyhood has been connected with the manufacture of sewer pipe. He was an early assistant of his father and succeeded to many of his interests. The American Sewer Pipe Company has thirtyseven plants, three of these being in the Akron district; the one located at Barberton is the largest plant of its kind in the world. From small beginnings the business has grown to enormous proportions. In 1884, Mr. Hill was married to Alice A. Hinman. He is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church and also of its vestry. He is a Thirty-second Degree Mason.

JOHN CRISP & SON, a leading busine.-^,^ firiu at Akron, engaged in general contracting and dealing in all kinds of building material, is a prominent factor in the commercial life of this city. John Crisp, the founder of the firm, was born in England and learned hi.'^ trade in London. When he emigi'ated he lived for about one year at Hamilton, Canada, and then came to Akron.

In 1876 the firm of Crisp Brothers was established at Akron, and it continued in busines.s here for twenty years. Then John Crisp withdrew on acount of being elected a member of the Board of City Commissioners, on which he served for four years. In August, 1901, the firm of John Crisp & Son was organized, compo.sed of John Crisp and his son, Edmond F. Mr. Crisp was married at Hamilton, Canada, to Susan Akell, and they had three sons: Edmond, Lee and Roland. Mr.

Crisp is a Knight Templar Alasoii and is a member of the board of directors of the Employers' Association. With his whole family, he is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Edniond F. Crisp was born at Hamilton, Canada, and was one year old when his parents came to Akron, where he was reared and educated, graduating from the Akron High School. He immediately went into the office of Crisp Brothers, and then took a course in a business college in this city. Lat-er he learned his father's business, from the ground up, and when taken into partnership, was thoroughly familiar with the work as an artisan, and perfectly competent to handle it in a business way. Among the first buildings -erected by the firm of John Crisp & Son, was the First National Bank building, and this was followed by the brick work for the Colonial Salt Company, the Wellman Seaver Morgan Company's plant, the Gothic flats, the Long & Taylor building, the shipping building for the B. F. Goodrich Company, and many more of size and importance.

In June, 1905, Edmond F. Cri.sp was married to Frances "Wilson, who is a daughter of John Wilson, a wealthy pioneer settler at Akron. Mr. Crisp belongs to the Knights -of Pythias and is a captain in the Uniformed Rank. He is as.sociated with the Masons and -other organizations and is vice-president of the Builders' Exchange.

ABNER E. FOLTZ M.D., physician and surgeon and oculist at Akron, has been in active practice in this city for more than thirty years. He is a veteran of the Civil War and has more than a local reputation as a poet and professional author. Dr. Foltz was born in 1840, in Wayne County, Ohio.

He obtained his literary education at Sharon Center, Medina County, and he and his four brothers served together in the same company, in the Civil War. They enlisted about August 6, 1862, in Company T. 102nd Regiment. 0. V. I., and remained in the army until the close of the war, during the larger part of this period being on detached

After completing h^ literary .education, Dr. Foltz began the reading of medicine. He spent six months in the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and in 1868 was graduated from the medical department of the Western Reserve College. In 1869 he took a post-graduate course at Jefferson Medical College, after which he was engaged in practice for one year, at Ashland, Ohio, and then came to Akron.

Dr. Foltz was married in 1869, to Frances C. Bowen, who is a daughter of the late Dr. William Bowen. one of the early physicians of Akron. They have one son. Esgar Bowen, who is associated with his father in medical practice. Dr. E.sgar Bowen Foltz completed the High School course at Akron, was subsequently graduated A. B. from Buchtel College, and later from the medical department of the University of Cincinnati. He has also a diploma from Christ Ho.spital. where he practiced for eighteen months. He is a close and earnest student of his profe.s.sion.

Dr. A. E. Foltz is a member of the County. State and Northeastern Ohio Medical societies, and Dr. Esgar belongs also to the American Medical Association. .\ clinical chart, prepared by Dr. A. E. Foltz is in use all over the world and he also designed the optician* chart and is the designer and patentee of what is known as the Wizard Hinge.

CHATTNCEY B. LANE, a prominent citizen of Twinsburg Township, resides on his A'aluable farm of 175 acres, on which, with only temporary periods of absence, he has spent his whole life. He was born on thi.-^ farm, in Summit County, Ohio, January 14, 1 844. and is a son of Chauncy and Phebe W. (Bailey) Lane.

Chauncey Lane was born at Killingsworth. Connecticut. August 31, 1803. and died in Ohio in March. 1885. He was a son of Philip Lane, whose w'hole life was passed in Connecticut. The family was established in New England by three brothers, Joseph, John and

Robert, who came from Englaud in 1670. Luman Lane, brother to Chauncey, was the first of the family to come to Summit County, reaching here November 2, 1820. In November, 1828, Chauncey Lane came to Twinsburg Township, walking through the snow already fallen in the woods, and bought 100 acres of land, a part of Chauncey B.'s farm, cm which just enough clearing had been done to make possible the building of a log cabin, which was subsequently replaced by a comfortable home. In 1837, Chauncey Lane was married to Phebe Worthington Bailey, who born at Groton, Connecticut, January 20, 1811, and died in 1885, when nearly seventyfive years old. Her parents were Asher and Abigail (Smith) Bailey, and her grandfather was Samuel Smith. She accompanied her brother to Geauga County, in 1836, settling in the town of Munson and came to Twinsburg to teach school. The two survivors of their family are: Caroline A., who is the wife of Hon. William Fowler, who was mayor of Redlands, California, and a very prominent citizen; and Chauncey B., of Twinsburg Township.

Chauncey B. Lane was reared on the home place and was afforded much better educational advantages than were enjoyed by many youths of his acquaintance. He was given academic training at the Bissell Institute at Twinsburg, and was but eighteen years _ of age when he enlisted for service in the Civil AVar. At Camp Chase he entered Company I), Eighty-fourth Regiment, 0. V. I., and served through his first three months of enlistment, mainly in Eastern Virginia and Maryland. In August, 1864, Mr. Lane reonlisted, entering Company H, 177th Regiment, 0. V. I., in which he served until the close of the war. He participated in many battles and skirmishes, weary marches and tiresome and dangerous guard duty, traveling over a large extent of the southern country, and received his honorable discharge at Greensboro, North Carolina.

out and returned to his parents at Twinsburg. Here he has continued to reside, taking an active part in public affairs and carefully regulating a large private business, looking after the operation of a farm of 175 acres. For seven and a half yeai-s he served as a justice of the peace at Twinsburg, for many years has been connected with the Board of Education, serving frequently as its president, for two years was township assessor, and for a number of years was township trustee. On February 27, 1867, Mr. Lane was married to Mary E. Ames, who was born in Vermont, and is a daughter of Edwin and Anna (Scribner) Ames. The father of Mrs. Lane was born in Massachusetts, moved later to Illinois and still later to Minnesota, where he died. Her mother was bom at Poughkeepsie, New York. After her widowhood she moved to Ravenna, Ohio, and subsequently died at the home of her daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Lane have had four children, namely: Carrie A., who married E. W. Hull, and has two children, Florence L. and Lois M. ; Frank C, who died February 21, 1902, married Cleora B. Chamberlain; Edwin A., residing at Cleveland, who married Blanche Force, and they have one son, Wilbur C. ; and Edna, who is a student at Oberlin College. Mr. and Mrs. Lane are members of the Congregational Church at Twinsburg. Mr. Lane is a Republican.

T. M. PARKER, Sr., vice-president and manager of the Summit Lumber Company, with an extensive plant on West State street, Akron, has been a resident of this city since 1867. He was bom in 1837, in Kent County, Delaware, where he was reared and educated.

Prior to leaving his native State, Mr. Parker engaged in farming, after which he spent eighteen months in the oil fields near Oil City, Pennsylvania. In 1867 he came to Akron and during the following year engaged in shipping fruit, when he became associated with the Thomas Company, contractors and builders, with whom he continued for eighteen years. Mr. Parker then engaged in a contracting business in partnership with Wil-

Ham H. Jones, who died in 1897, after which Mr. Parlcer purchased a tract of land on State and Canal streets for a site, and proceeded to organize the Summit Lumber Company. It was incorporated with a capital stock of $15,- 000, with T. M. Parker, Jr., president; T. M; Parker, Sr., vice-president and general manager; and William H. Mantz, secretary and treasurer. The business is both wholesale and retail and in addition to dealing in lumber of all kinds the company operate a pla,ning mill and manufacture doors, sash and blinds, and do a general contracting business. This great industry gives employment to many men, adding both to the material prosperity of the individuals concerned and to the city at large.

In 1861, Mr. Parker was married to Catherine Millington, of Caroline County, Maryland, who died in 1905, leaving one son, T. M. Parker, Jr. He was educated in the Akron schools and subsequently traveled for ten years in the theatrical business. For the past ten years he has given his attention to the demands of the increasing business of the Summit Lumber Company, and like his father, is numbered with the city's reliable and substantial citizens.

JOHN P. MACKEY, dairyman and general farmer, in Northfield Township, was born in Boston Township, Summit County, Ohio. August 23, 1853, and is a son of Thomas and Margaret (Pope) Mackey.

The father of Mr. Mackey came to America from County Antrim, Ireland, when seventeen years of age, and joined an older brother, who had located in the State of New York. There he learned the carpenters' and joiners' trade, which he followed for seventeen years, and then, about the time of his marriage, settled down to farming. While following his trade exclusively, he worked in various cities through what is now the Central West, thus visiting Summit County. He was pleased with this section and subsequently bought the farm on Oak Hill, in Boston township, on vdiich he spent the rest of his life. He was married in 1850 to Margaret, daughter of

John Pope, of Northfield Township, and four of their eight children grew to maturity, namely: John P., above mentioned; Amy, who married Rev. William G. Harper, a -Methodist clergyman, residing at Washington Village; George F., residing at Rocky River; and T. Harvey, also rasiding at Rocky River. The mother of the above mentioned family died in 1895. She was a member of the United Presbyterian Church. The father, Thomas Mackey, died in 1891, lacking a few days of being seventy-five years old. His father, James Mackey, also came to America and farmed for a time in Northfield Towmship,> but later bought a farm near Everett, in Boston township.