Summit County, Ohio - Chapter 20: Statistics, 1908 (part 4 of 27)

Alansox Wouk And Eepresentative Citizens

theran Church. Fraternally, he belongs to the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Council of the Masons, and to the Odd Fellows and the Elks. Socially he is a member of the German-American Club and the Liebertafel Society, of Akron. The family home is situated at No. 328 Buchtel Avenue, Akron.

ALANSON WORK, formerly vice-president of the Akron Rubber Works, and for many years well known in this city as an energetic and successful business man, was born at Quincy, Illinois, March 1, 1842. His father, Alanson Work, Sr., was a native of Connecticut, from which State he moved to Illinois. One of the early Abolitionists, he was imprisoned in 1841 for helping slaves to escape, the sentence being for twelve years; he was, however, pardoned out after three years.

When the subject of this sketch was three years old, his parents moved to Middletown, Connecticut, and thence to Hartford, that State, where he attended the public schools until he was seventeen, spending one year also in Trinity College. At the age of nineteen he entered the employ of A. T. Stewart, later of the Metropolitan Bank of New York, and so continued for seven years. In 1869 he moved to "\'ineland, New Jersey, and one year later to Cincinnati, and, as a partner in the firm of Chamberlain, Gibbs & Company, was engaged for two years in building railroad bridges and railroads. He then went to Rhode Island and took a contract to rebuild the bridges on the Providence & Wooster Railroad, putting up fourteen double tract bridges in about one year. He was superintendent of the Allen Fire Department Supply Company at Providence, Rhode Island, for five years, and during that time took out several patents on fire engine supplies, one nowadopted by the United States, being Work's Patent Coupling. On January 1, 1875, Mr. Work moved to Akron as superintendent of the Akron Rubber Works, and in 1880, when the corporation was organized, he became vicepresident of the B. F. Goodrich Company.

marriage there were seven children, as follows: Alice, wife of Prof. Walter Wilcox, of Cornell University; Bertram G., president of the B. F. Goodrich Company; Dorothv W., Effie A., Fred W., and Gerald S., all of whom are residing at home; Clarence, who was accidentally drowned at the age of thirteen years.

THE BREWSTER FAMILY. Prominent among the families which have been identified with the development and progress of Summit County, from the early days of its settlement, is the Brewster family, which ha^ numerous worthy representatives in Coventry Towmship. It is of New England ancestry and' its immediate progenitors came from Groton, Connecticut. Earlier records, if preserved, could prove that this sturdy, vigorou.? family was a leading factor in events preceding the American Revolution by many years.

The year 1811 marks the entrance of this family into Ohio. Stephen Brewster was born at Groton, Connecticut, probably there had good educational advantages, and at any rate he learned to be a good carpenter and capable millwright. Following his marriage at Groton, he removed to the State of New York, and in 1811 came to what is known as the Brewster estate, situated in Coventry Township, Summit County, Ohio. The long journey was made in wagons, through a rough and almost unsettled region for the larger part of the way. there being no railroads or other means of transport-ation hither at^ that time. Not a single house had yeit. been built between Coventry Township and Akron.

Stephen Brewster purchased 160 acres of land at a very low price, from the Connecticut Land Company, and the home was .started in the midst of the virgin fore.~t. A log cabin wa5 built on a little clearing, in which were placed the possessions brought from tlie old Connecticut home, and here the duties and burdens of life were assumed as in more civil- ized coniimunities, but attended by many hardships. The family lived on the wild game that abounded, until they could raise grain, the deer at that time being so numerous that they ran through the woods like a flock of sheep. Stephen Brewster and wife never left their pioneer home for any other, and here he died at the age of eighty-eight years, and she survived to be seventj'. Their descendants tell of the deep affection existing between them, which continued through childhood, youth and mature life.

Stephen Brewster married Lydia Bellows, who was born at Groton, of another prominent old New England family. This was probably about 1796. They had the following children : James G., Lucinda, who married a Mr. Mus.say; Hannah, who married (first) William Clark, (second) David Dunbar; Charlotte, who married Martin Housel ; Alexander, and Hiram, who died about 1813, shortly after the family came to the farm, and was buried in the orchard, where a stone still marks the spot.

James G. Brewster, the eldest son of Stephen and Lydia Brewster, was born at Groton, Connecticut, in 1797. When he was a boy the family came to Ohio, where, as the eldest, he was called on to do almost a man's work in clearing up the w'Hd farm. His educational chances were few, there being no settled .system of schools at that early day, but his parents were well informed, and his own mind was active enough to enable him to at first quickly absorb primary teaching and later to apply common sense and good judgment to the actualities and demands of life. He died in June, 1842. From his fatlier he inherited a part of the homestead, and to thi.s land he added until he owned 320 acres, lying on both ?ides of the road.

Jamos G. Brewster was married in Columbiana County, Ohio, to Martha ITa'^scn, who was born in Pennsylvania and was brought to the above county in childhood, where her people -were prominent pioneers. Her death occurred in November, 1881. at the age of seventy-five years. They had the following children: Stephen (deceased), who married

Charlotte Meech (also deceased) ; Jonathan H. and James G. (both deceased), twins, the latter of whom married Mary Davies ; Hiram, a very prominent retired citizen of Coventry Township, and George, who died May 25, 1907.

Probably there is no better known family in Summit County than the one now represented as its head by Hiram Brewster, who was born on the family estate in Coventry Townshij). June 8, 1835. He was reared here, and three months has been the longest period that he has ever been absent from the old place to which he is so closely attached through long as.sociation. His education was secured in the old district school near his home, which building was of frame construction, although many in the township were built of logs. His summers in boyhood were spent in farm work, but during three winter months, each comfortable old farm-house gave up its quota of pupils. Mr. Brewster never married but remained with his parents and assisted in the building of all the houses, barns and other structure on the estate, which now aggregates 750 acres, lying jointly in Coventry and Springfield township-. The residence is one of the large ones and it conveniently accommodates Mr. Brewster and his nephew, Hayes Brewster, who is a son of the late Stephen Brewster.

Hiram Brewster now lives retired from active work of any kind, to the extent of taking no responsibility, but as long as he lives he will probably feel an interest in all that goes on on the old home place. His tastes never led him into politics to the extent of accepting office, hut his influence has always been turned in the direction of progress and improvement. For many years he has been interesited in several of Summit County's most prosperous business enterprises, and is a member of the firm controlling the Buckeye Sewer Pipe Company, and a stockholder in the Summit Coimty Sewer Pipe Company.

Hayes Brewster, in the fourth generation from the pioneer of the family in Ohio, is a well-known and valued citizen of Coventry Township, where he was born, June 25, 1876.

His parents were Stephen and Charlotte (Meech) Brewster. Hy father died in January, 1887, and his mother passed away in December, 1903. He was the second born in bis parents' family, the others being: Ephraim, residing in the far West; Stephen, also residing in tJie West, and -lohn. In 1899, Hayes Brewster was married to Susan Dodd, who is a daughter of Daniel and Catherine (Griffith) Dodd, and they have two children, Hiram and Charlotte. Mr. Brewster is interested in the Buckeye Sewer Pipe Company.

Other descendants of the pioneer Brewster settler are found in the daughter and granddaughter of the late George Brewster, who was born March 21, 1837, and died May 25, 1907. He was a lifelong resident of Coventry Town.ship and wa« one of the most successful business men in this section of Summit County. He was largely interested in coal for many years and, with a brother, operated what is known as the Brewster mill, for a long period. He shared in po-.se.-sion of the large Brewster estate, which passed into the hands of his widow at the time of his death. He was identified with the Re]niVjlican party and with the Ma.sonic fraternity. On October 19. 1876, he married Maria Kent, who was born in SufFleld Township, Portage County. Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Brewster had four children : Georgia, who married Perry A. Kriisher and has one daughter, Dorothy ; Wallace, who died at the age of two and onehalf years: Artlmr, who died at the age of fifteen, and Bessie, who died a2;ed twenty

DAVID A. METZLER, assistant .superintendent of the Alkali Rubber Company, Akron, is one of this city's young and enterprL^ing bu.siness men. He was born here in 1881. and is a .son of William Metzler, who is prominently connected with the Diamond Rubl)er Comjiany. He was educated in the Akron public schools, and at the Cathedral College. Trenton, New -Jersey. Upon his return to Akron he entered the employ of the Diamond Rubber Company, serving first in the laboratory and later becoming assi-stant superintendent. He remained with the concern for five years. In 1904, when the Alkali Rubl)er Company was made a di.«tinct plant, Mr. Metzler was selected for the position of assistant superintendent, in which he has since served very etficiently. He has other business interests, being concerned in the promotion and success of the Ohio Rubber Culture Company, which is operating plantations in Mexico, where rubber trees are now being cultivated.

On October 25, 1904, Mr. :Mctzler was married to Abbie Lawton, a daughter of E. A. Lawton, who is .superintendent of the Akron Water Works. Mr. Metzler is a member of St. Vincent's Catholic Church. He belongs to the Knights of Columbus and to various organizations of a social nature.

HON. JOHN McNAMARA. Sometimes tnith reads as strangely as fiction and the record of the life of John McNamara, from the condition of an orphan bound-boy tr) the honorable .station of leading citizen in a prosperous community, in another land than that of his birth, contains matter for serious consideration. He was born in County Clare, Ireland, probably on February 12. 1833, and certainlj^ was baptized by the larish priest on February 15th. of that year. His parents were Martin and Mary (Mclnery) McNamara.

There can be little provision made for the future by the small tenant farmer of Ireland, and when John McNamara's parents died, the mother when he was nine years old and the father three years later, the little lad of eleven years found himself entirely dependent upon his own abilities. The kind-hearted farmers in the neighborhood were all poor, but they gave the child a chance to work, and with a prudence that was remarkable, he saved the pittances he earned until he had accunnilated enough capital to take him to England, where he bound him.«elf out to learn the pla.sterer's trade. His emplover, taki"g advantage of his youth and ignorance, kept him for two vears at labor without giving him any chance to learn the trade, and the boy stood it no longer, but ran away. He then became a coal miner and worked in a coal bank until 1854, when he came to America, landing at Philadelphia. He first sought farm work in the agricultural districts, and was employed for two years in Delaware County. Then coming to Ohio, he continued to work as a farmer in Geauga County, until 1863, when he came to Barberton, or to New Portage as it was then. He saw a good business opportunity in the opening of a general store, and in this enterprise met with success, conducting a first-class mercantile establishment here for many years. He was made the first postma.ster and served in that capacity for eighteen years. In the meantime, through his industry and legitimate business methods, he had acquired property and had promoted the growth and development of the town in many ways. In 1900 his fellow-citizens honored him by electing him their mayor, and he served as sueh until 1903. During his administration Barberton took many forward strides. Mr. Mc- Namara is now largel}' interested in tlie real estate business.

In 1864 Mr. McNamara was married to Hannah Woods, who i.s a daughter of Jertv miah Woods. They have had seven children, four of w'hom survive, namely: Mary, James, who has succeeded his father as mayflr of Barberton; Stephen, and Myrtle, who is the wife of Thomas Davis. Mr. McNamara, with his family, belongs to the Roman Catholic Church.

W. A. INWOOD, .superintendent of the Alkali Rubber Company of Akron, came to this city in 1899, since which time he has been connected with some of Akron's largest business enterprises. Mr. Linwood was born in 1877. in Connecticut, and when six years of age accompanied his parents to California, where he was reared and educated, enjoying some unusual advantages of travel in his youth, as he cro.ssed the continent three times before he was eight years old. Mr. Inwood's first business experience was with the Hercules Powder Works, of California, with which he remained connected for seven years. Coming then to Akron he entered the employ of the Diamond Rubber Company. After serving four years as foreman, he was transferred to its branch establishment, the Alkali Rubber Company, of which he was made superintendent, this promotion being due to his superior knowledge of the busine&s and his tact and ability in managing men. On April 4, 1906, Mr. Inwood was married to Genevieve Williams, who was born at San Francisco, California. Mr. Inwood is a Free Mason and an Odd Fellow, being affiliated with local lodges of these orders.

FERDINAND SCHUMACHER, formerly president of the American Cereal Company, but now retired, has long been identified with great manufacturing enterprises which have brought wealth and fame to the city of Akron. Mr. Schumacher was born March 30, 1822, at Celle, Hanover, Germany, and is a son of F. C. and Louise Schumacher. Until he was fifteen years of age he attended school, then became clerk in a grocery, and later an employ in a sugar refinery. In 18.50 he emigrated to America, settling first on a farm near Cleveland. His previous training, however, had not been in the line of agriculture, so in 1851 he is found at Akron engaged in a fancy goods business. In the year 1856 he embarked in the business, which through his enterprise developed into one of the great world industries, and which has brought him the title of "Cereal King." Under his own name he continued in the manufacture of oatmeal, pearl barley and other cereal products, until later he con.solidatcd with the firm of Co-mmins and Allen, under the style of The F. Schumacher Milling Company. He thus largely increased the capacity of the mills and immediately repaired his great loss in the fire of 1886, which destroyed mills and elevators at the depot. About 1801 he consented to a further combination of interests under the great corporation known as the American Cereal Company, and was elected as its president. He continued with

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H. P. Crowell and Robert Stuart as executive committee of this great concern until 1899, when he failed to 'be re-elected, and gladly accepted retirement from the busy life he had led for so many years, finding rest and quiet in his beautiful home at No. 258 East Market Street, Akron. The American Cereal Company's head office is now located at Chicago, that city being a great center, but the Akron Mills are its most important property.

On October 7, 1851, Mr. Schumacher was married at Cleveland to Hermine Schumacher, who was born at Bevern, Brunswick, Germany, and died June 1, 1893. They had seven cliildren, two of whom survive, namely: Louis, a resident of Akron, who was vice president of the F. Schumacher Milling Company, and F. Adolph, who was secretary of the same company, and is now engaged in business at Riverside, Iowa. Mr. Schumacher married for his second wife, August 1, 1S99, Mary Zipperlen, wlio is a daughter of Dr. A. Zipperlen, of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Mr. Schumacher has always been a valued citizen, not because he lias busied himself in regard to local political affairs, but because he ha= been a man of broad views and generous inclinations, which have resulted in public-.~pirited enterprises, and in liberal a-^- sistance given to education, religion and charity. It was mainly through his benefactions that a number of the religious edifices of the city were completed, this notably being the ca^e in regard to the Universalir-t Church. By example and years of protest against the liquor evil, Mr Schumacher has become known as one of the leading temperance advocate.^ of Ohio. Time ha« touched him liglitly. and notwithstanding his many years of intense devotion t.o business, with the care- tbat harass even tlie most successful, he has retained remarkable vigor.

member of the important real e-tatc, loan and in.surance firm of Stuhldreher Brothers, which commands a large business at Barberton and h.Ts offices on the Stuhldreher Block, on the corner of Second and Tuscarawas Avenue, has been located in this city since 1891. He was reared on his father's Stark County farm and attended the district schools in his neighborhood, completing his education by a course in the Massillon Business College. He then took a position with the Pennsylvania Railroad as station agent at Barberton, and served also as agent for the Baltimore and Ohio Road, his railroad connection covering ten years. He then embarked in the real estate business with his brother, Edward J. Stuhldreher, who left the railroad service at the same time. They control an immense amount of business in their line, a large part of it being buying and selling on commission. In 1902 Mr. Stuhldreher built the fine business block knowm as the Stuhldreher Block, a three-story brick structure with di mansions of 50 by 100 feet, in which is located the Barberton postoffice and the Barberton Opera House, the latter seating SOO people. Another large house having quarters here is the Union Furniture Company. The upper floors are admirably fitted up for offices.

Mr. Stuhldreher takes a somewhat active interest in politics and served as city clerk from 1896 to 1900. He and brother repre- .sent the most progressive and enterprising business element in the city.

St. Vincent de Paul's Church, at Akron, is a well-'beloved and valued member of the Catholic clergy in this city. PTe was born September 28, 1851, at vScranton, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Thomas and Ann (Hart) Mahar, both of whom were of American birth.

Father Mahar entered St. Mary's Collcoe. .at Cleveland. Ohio, where he devoted four years to .study, prior to becoming a pupil at St. Lois College, at Louisville. Stark County, which he entered in 1866 for a term of three years. In 1869 he went to Rome, Italy, where, amid churchly .surroundings, he pursued his ecclesiastical studies for six veal's, under eminent iastructors, subsequently be-

In 1875 Father Mahar came to Cleveland, having been ordained May 30, 1874, and wa~ made assistant pastor of St. John's Cathedral. In this capacity he served for five years. On Angnst 1, 1880, Bishop Gilmour appointed him pa.stor of St. Vincent de Paul's Church at Akron, which Ls one of the largest and most influential Catholic churches in the city, having a inenibership of 500 families. His work in connection with this charge has been eminently successful.

A history of churches, as of individuals, is vastly interesting and instmctive, when it tells a story of obstacles bravely overcome and difficulties surmounted in a righteous Clause, and a short account of the growth of St. Vincent de Paul, from the early nucleus of little pioneer fire-side gatherings, visited by an over-worked priest, when it was possible for him to make his way through the then un.settled regions, to the stately structure now standing, which fitly represents the faith, endurance and piety of both priests and people, must arrest general attention. The fir.st records tell of Father Henni, afterward Archbishop of Milwaukee, coming to Akron in 1835, riding on horse-back from Cincinnati, and holding services and saying mass in the cabin of the late James McAllister. From 1837 to 1842 the village was visited by Rev. J. B. Purcell, later Archbishop of Cincinnati; Rev. Louis Goesbriand, Father McLaughlin, Father Basil Shorb and others. In 1843 a small frame house was commenced on Green Street by Father M. Howard, who retained charge of the congregation until 1844. From 1845 to 1848 Father Cornelius Daly had charge, and during his pastorate, he being the first regularly appointed, the hou.se on Green Street was enlarged and completed. Following Father Daly came a long list of able and faithful priests as follows: Rev. Ca.siimir ^louret, from October, 1848, to June, 1850; Father Goodwin, June to December, 1850; Rev. Francis McGann, December, 1850, to August, 1855; Rev. L. Molon, January, 185(3; Rev. Thomas AValsh and

The present imposing stone edifice on the corner of West Market and Maple Streets, was begun on St. Patrick's Day, 1864, and continual imju'ovements have been going ou ever since. The architecture is of the Roman order, with twelve large, stained-gla.ss, emblematical windows. The tower contains a fine bell and a first-class clock. An elegant brick parsonage has also been erected, and the church owns seven acres of land fronting on West Market Street, which is dedicated to cemetery purposes. Father Mahar has many ideas as to future improvements.

SOLOMON E. SHOOK, who fills the important position of head miller in the Walsh Milling Company's mills at Cuyahoga Falls, was born in Jackson Township, Stark County, Ohio, November 22, 1860, and is a son of Philip and Margaret (Everhard) Shook.

The great-grandfather of Solomon E. Shook was John Shook, who was born in Germany and came to America in 1752, landing at what w-as then called Port of York but is now the city of Philadelphia. He lived there for a time and then went into the farming regions of the State, purchasing 400 acres of land in Nortlnnnberland County, which are still owned by his descendants. He married a Miss Ohl," and he died in 1799. His son, David Shook was born on the land above referred to, and died Octoljer 24, 1868, aged .«eventy-nine years. He Avas a carpenter by trade and also a farmer. In 1810 he came to Ohio, settling at New Berlin, Stark County, and from there went out as a soldier in the War of 1812, in which he sensed as captain. He married Sarah Mark, who was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and died in Ohio, in 1861. Both grandparents of Solomon E. Shook lie buried at New Berlin, in the old Zion church-yard.

Frank G. Stipe

"Wadsworth, Ohio, aged sixty -three years. He comhined farming with carpenter's work and contracting. He reared a family of twelve children, Solomon E. being the youngest son and tenth child.

When Solomon E. Shook was three years old, his parents moved to Wadswotth Township, Medina County, where he was educated in the district schools. In 1877 he went into the grist mill of his eldest brother, David Shook, where, during his eighteen months' stay, he learned the elementary principles of inilling, and from there he went to Millport and worked for James McLean as second miller. He remained with him for two years, and then went to Toledo as head miller for Potter & Company, t\\"0 and a half year.'* later coming to Akron to become second miller for Seiberling Milling Company. For four years Mr. Shook -was foreman for the Seiberling people. In 1889 he went to New Brighton, . Pennsylvania, where for threo years lie was head miller in the City Mills. Then returning to Akron he took charge of the Clinton Milling Company's plant, which was owned Ijy A. L. Clause ifc C(ini])any. In 1895 Mr. Shook took a pleasure trip to Riverside, California, which covered two years. After his return to Akron he accepted his present position. He has two millers in his employ and turns out 200 barrels of flour per day. His equipments are ample for the grinding of all kinds of feed. Mr. Shook is not only an expert miller, but an inventor. He is the author of an appliance intended to take the place of the usual babbitt metal, wliich is easily adjusted and which he habeen using in his mill for the last five years. It has proved to be of the utmost utility and is an invention that well deserves to be patented.

FRANK G. STIPE, president of the Board of Education of Akron, has been identified with the interests of this city since 1866, and is well known in business circles here as a general contractor. Of German-Irish descent, he was born, in 1846, in Greentown, Stark County, Ohio, and is a nephew of Colonel

When nine years old he removed with his parents to a farm near Greensburg, Summit County. He attended the district schools and Gteensburg Seminary, teaching during the winter near his home until he was eighteen years of age. He then enlisted in Company II, 164th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a part of the National Guard belonging to the Fifty-Fourth Battalion. Company H was sent from Fort Taylor directly to the forts around Washington, where it took part in the defense of the city. At the end of 115 (lays' service it was discharged, the soldiers, as Mr. Stipe well remembers, being addressed Ijy President Lincoln.

In the spring of 1866 Mr. Stipe came to Akron and worked six months for Rockwell & Danforth, in the contracting business. Subsequently he entered the painting department (if Aultman, Miller & Company, where he continued for five years. His health becoming somewhat impaired, owing to his close applicition to his trade, in 1871 he went to Springfield Township, where he worked on a farm for three years, teaching during the winters. Upon his return to Akron he entered into business for him.self as a contractor, executing in a most satisfactory manner some of the city's largest contracts for painting and decorating. Appointed city commissioner, he assimied the (iuties of that office in April. 1895, and served three years on the board. He then became an organizer for the Pathfinders' society, being one of the first deputies in the field in the interests of this organization, with which he remained connected for about a year. At the end of that time he resumed business as a contractor.

In 1888 Mr. Stipe was elected a member of the Board of Education, from the old Fourth Ward, by a majority of forty votes, overcoming a normal Democratic majority of .300. In 1890 he was appointed decennial appraiser of the city, and was re-elected to the school board for a term of three years, being made its president on organization in Januarv, 1907. This honor, which was totallv un- solicited, reflects the opinion of his fellow citizens concerning his ability, and his fidelity to the best interests of the city. By virtue of his office as president of the Board, Mr. Stipe is also chairman of the depositary commission of the Board's funds.

In 18(35 Mr. Stipe was married to Soviah C. Koons, who was born in Summit County. They are the parents of four children, namely: Nora E., wife of George Barker, an iron worker, of Cuyahoga FalL?; Harry J., who is cashier at the Akron office of the Electric Package Company; Mabel L., who is the wife of Arthur L. Foster, a manufacturer of New York; and Martha M., wife of Alonzo Jackson, a resident of Akron, who holds an official position in a railroad office.

Mr. Stipe has other business interests not mentioned above, and is one of Akron's busy, callable, and public-spirited citizens. He belongs to Nemo Lodge of Odd Fellows, and to Buckley Post, G. A. R. A member of the First ]\Icthodist Episcopal Church, he is serving that organization on the Board of Trustees.

ARTHUR JAMES SAALFIELD, publisher, was born in Leeds, England, in 1863. His father, Albert Saalfield, Esq., was a manufacturer of woolens. With the other members of his family, a large one, he came to the United States while still a small boy. Mr. Saalfield tells with amusement, of the wonder and comment excited by himself and brottiers when they arrived in New Y'ork, on account of the Highland costumes they wore, then the fashion for small boys in England.

The family lived for a time in New York City, where the father shortly died. Here young Arthur attended the public schools. In 1872, at the age of nine years, his business career began. The Saalfield family had removed to Chicago. Refusing longer to be dependent, the embryonic publisher commenced to make his own way in the world. His first engagement was with Messrs. W. B. Keene, Cook & Company, then the leading book-sellers in the West. With them he remained for four years. He then returned to New York and spent the following year at Steven's Academy, Hoboken. In 1877, then fourteen years of age, A. J. Saalfield became an employee of Charles T. Dillingham, the well-known book jobber. Here he remained for fifteen years, beginning at the bottom, and gradually working his way to the top of the business. Long before he left Dillingham's he was a salesman of exceptional ability, widely known and well liked by the trade.

Mr. Saalfield started a book jobbing and publishing business of his own in 1892, and continued in its management until 1898, when he removed to Akron, Ohio, to take charge of the book publishing department of The Werner Company. He had not been in successful occupancy of this responsible position very long when the opportunity of buying the business was presented. With his usual business acumen, he recognized the possibilities thus placed within his reach and at once concluded the purchase. At that time The Saalfield Publishing Company, A. J. Saalfield, proprietor, came into existence. From the first, the new concern prospered. Its growth and development has been such OS to di.scredit the opinion, long held, that the natural and only habitat of the successful publisher is the Enstern seaboard. Under A. J. Saalfield's able guidance, hi^ concern shortly outgrew its original quarters. Thereupon he purchased new and larger premises, but they, too, soon becaine too small to accommodate the demands of has increasing business, as is best evidenced by the large additions that have been constnicted. Today The Saalfield Publishing Company is well and favorably known wherever books in the Engli.sh 'language are read. While their greatest market is, of course, at home, a large and growing demand is found in Canada, England. Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, The Argentine, The Hawaiian Islands and the far Philippines.

venileg. The long experience of the proprietor, coupled with rare good taste and a talent for planning and selecting material that the public wants, amounting almost to a sixth sense, is accountable for an almost unhroken series of successful publishing undertakings, and promises in the not-distant future to make his company one of the leading publishing houses of the country.

In 1885 A. J. Saalfield was married to Adah Louise Sutton, the accomplished and talented daughter of the Rev. George Sutton. Mrs. Saalfield is widely and favorably known to the reading public by her maiden (pen) name. She .shares with her husband the enviable responsibility for the success of The Saalfield Publishing Company, for her books, both prose and verse, have been among the most lucrative of the Saalfield enterprises. Of late, this gifted authoress is turning her attention more particularly to writing juveniles.

There are five children in the Saalfield family: Albert G., Arthur J. Jr., Edith M., Robert S. and Alice C. No expense is spared in their liberal education. The advantages of the best schools and travel are freely theirs.

The commodious and beautiful home of the Saalfield family is located at 24 North Prospect Street, where tlie latch .string is ever on the outside for the friends of every member of the family, and where a generous and cordial hospitality is always charmingly dispensed. Both Mr. and ]\Irs. Saalfield are prominently identified with movements for the public welfare, church work, charities and society.

H. A. HINE, .secretary and treasurer of the Star Drilling Machine Company, at Akron, has been a resident of this city since February, 1890, and is identified officially with a number of other large busine-s enterprises in this .section. Mr. Hine wa.s born at Shalersville, Portage County, Ohio, in 1865. He was educated in the schools of Shalersville. West Farmington and Au.stinburg. and afterwards spent four years teaching school. He then entered the law office of R. W. Sadler, but after a few months of law study in Akron, he became connected with the Star Drilling Company of this city, with which he has been identified in one capacity or another for the past seventeen years. He began his services with this organization as bookkeeper, but for the past eight years has been treasurer and secretary of the company. He is also secretary and treasurer of the Star Rubber Company, and occupies the position of president in a number of smaller enterprises.

November 14. 1905, Mr. Hine married Jane Hall, who was born in Akron and is a daughter of John Hall, a well-known citizen. Mr. Hine has a number of fraternal connections, belonging to the various Ma- .sonic bodies, the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of the World and the Pat.hfindejs.

JAMES ALBERT FISHER, a business citizen of Cuyahoga Falls, dealing in hay and straw, was born in Franklin County, Penn.sylvania, May 26, 1863, and is a son of Cornelius and Catherine (Martin) Fisher.

Cornelius Fisher, now living retired on his farm in Northampton Township, Summit County, was born July 16, 1840, in Hesse- Cassel, Germany, and came to America in that year, in company with a sister and his widowed mother. For ten years Mrs. Fisher lived with her children at Chamber.?burg, Penn.sylvania, and then moved to Greenca.«tle, where Cornelias engaged in farming. In 1869 he came to Summit County and was engaged in farming at different points in Northampton Township until 1903, when he purchased a small farm which be devotes mainly to fruit-growing. He served one vear in the Civil War. enlisting in 1863 in Coinipany D, 158th Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was honorably discharged in 1864. He has never been an active politician, but he always exerts his right of citizen.«hip and casts his vote for the candidates of the Republican party.

tin, a daughter of James Martin, all being natives of Franklin County, Pennsylvania. They had ten children, namely: Ida, James, George B., Elizabeth, Netta, Annie Virginia, John, Gertrude, Arthur and Myrtle. The mother of the above familv was born April 5, 1840, and died September 5, 1903. Slie a valued member of the Disciples Church at Cuyahoga Falls. Cornelius Fisher was reared in the faith of the German Reformed Church, by has parents, George and Eliza'beth Fisher. George Fisher wa.s killed in a coal mine. His wife later united with the Methodi.st Epi.scopal Church, and died at Cuyahoga Falls in April, 1904, aged eighty-eight years.

James Albert Fisher was educated in the common schools of Northampton Township and followed farming in that section until 1887, when he emharked in his pres<'iit business at Cuyahoga Falls. He handles hay and straw and does a very large busines-;, his sales to the Robinson Clay Product Company at Akron alone amounting to more than 1,000 tons yearly. He is a careful business man and bears a very high reputation as such with the large dealers and eonsmners at Akron, among Vhorn his trade mainlv lies.

Mr. Fisher was married to Aiigusta Weber, of Cleveland, Ohio. She is a member of the Episcopal Church. Politically, Mr. Fisher is a Republican and has held local offices.

JAMES CHRISTY, formerly one of the most public-spirited ajid successful bu.«iness men of Akron, was the head of the firm of James Christy & Sons, manufacturers of leather, and dealers in leather, hides, furs and findings, was born in Springfield Townsihip, Summit County, Ohio, and died in Oo tober. 1904. He was educated in the district schools and worked on his father's farm until sixteen years old. Then for three years he enjoyed the advantages offered by a privat:' school at Middlebury. He afterwards taught two terms of school, but gave up teaching in 1841 to enter into business with his brotherin-law, James Sawver, establishiing a tannery on North Howard Street, which was operated under the firm name of Christy & Sawyer. They later added a shoe manufactory and a store, and continued in busine.ss until 1851. In the following year Mr. Christy entered into a partnership with his brother, .John H. Christy, which continued until 1879, when Mr. Christy took his two sons, James Jr. and Will, into partnership. The style of the firm then became James ChrLsty & Sons. Their specialty was the manufacture of harness leather.

In 1850 Mr. Christy, like many of his neighbors, made the overland journey to California, returning by way of the Lsthmus of Panama. Forty years later, when seventy years of age, he again visited the Pacific coast, and made a leisurely return journey through many of the far western States, noting with interest the wonderful changes which this space of time had brought about. In politics he was identified with the Republican party, but never accepted office outside his city. He .served for five years as a mem- ]yeT of the Akron city council.

In October, 1849, Mr. Cbri-sty wa* married to Janet Warner, of Akron, who died in March, 190:5. Of their si.x children the following survive: Alice, who is the wife of John E. Metlin ; James and Will, wh i are prominent business men of Akron, and Nettie, who re.«iides at the family home. No. 160 Fir Street.

James Christy, Jr., is proprietor of the wholesale and retail leather, saddlery and hardware companv, which is established at No. 142 South Howard Street, Akron. Will Christy is president of the West Hill Land Company, the Akron People's Telephone Company, the Hamilton Building Company and the Central Savings and Tnist Company, the largest savins? bank in Akron, and vicepresident of the Northern Ohio Traction and Light Company, and the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company.

Falls, Summit County, Ohio, May 10, 1876, son of Charles W. and Jennie E. (Clayton) Schnabel. His paternal grandfather was Philip Schnabel, who was born in Hessen, Germany, in 1825. Emigrating to America in early manhood Philip settled at Cuyahoga Falls, residing on the thoroughfare now known as Fourth Street. His wife, in mnidenhood Martha E. Lapp, was born in Germany, May 10, 1820.

Charles \V. Schnabel, father of the subject of this sketch, and son of the Philip above mentioned, attended school in the Big Springs school house at Cuyahoga Falls and later continued his studies at Munroe Falls. He remained on the old homestead until his marriage, at which time he purchased a property at Munroe Falls, where he lived for eleven years, being employed there in a paper mdll. He 'married Jennie E. Clayton, who was a native of Tallmadge, Summit County, Ohio, and a daughter of Richard Clayton. Mr. Clayton, who was born in Wales, wa« a coal miner by occupation and resided at Tallmadge, where his widow now lives. Mr. and Mrs. Charles "\V. Schnabel have been the par-" ents of three children, namely: Philip R., whose name begins this sketch; Harrj- C. who died at the age of eighteen months, and Milo Clayton, residing with his parents, who is a graduate of the Cuvahoga Falls High School, Cla-s.-. of 1907.

Philip R. Schnabel was reared and educated in his native city, graduating from the Cuyahoga. Falls high school in 1893. After assisting his father on the home farm for .several years, he was appointed mail carrier, being one of the first_ rural carriers in the State. He remained at this occupation for eighteen months, and then became assistant postmaster at Cuyahoga Falls, which position he filled up to 1908, a period of six years. For several years suljseauently he was associated with his father in the live-stock business, breeding and selling cattle. He then entered the employ of the company in which he i< now a partner, as a taxidermist. Possessing a strong taste for this kind of work, he had. even in his boyhood, acquired considerable skill as a taxidermist, and entered into it because it was congenial. He holds a permit from the State Fish and Game Commission, which is dated 1903. The Western Ra=erve Robe & Tanning Company was astablished in the fall of 1904 by Hon.\j. C. Jones of Toledo, and Charles J. Appleby, the latter a tanner of twenty-five years' experience. The company's plant at Cuyahoga Falls was established for the inanufacture of fur garments, including fur robes, coats, gloves and mittens, the company tanning their own skins and making a specialty of taxidermy. Mr. Schnabel purcha.'^ed Mr. Jones's interest in the firm on March 1, 1907. The factory is located in a convenient section of the town - on North Front Street - and each year its importance grows. and its output increa.ses.

Mr. Schnabel married Edna Whittlesey, a daughter of J. H. AVhittlesey, of Stow. Mr. Schnabel was reared in the Methodist Episcopal church. His wife is a Catholic.

A. WESLEY HAWKINS, proprietor of the Akron Lumber Company, who is located at No. 569 South Main Street, Akron, is one of the city's successful men of affairs. He was born in Portage Township, Summit County, Ohio, in 1854, and is a son of Nelson C, and a grandson of John Hawkins, who was one of the very first settlers in Portage Town.ship.

Nelson C. Hawkins was born on his father's pioneer farm in Portage township. Summit County, in 1824, and died iti 1891. He assisted his father in developing the land from its native wdlderness, but did not devote his entire life to agricultural pursuits. For twenty-five years prior to his death, he was employed by the firm of Aultman, Miller & Company. In political .sentiment he was a Rqjublican, and during .some years he ser\'ed as a tnistee of Portage Township.

A. Wesley Hawkins was reared and educated in Portage Township, and worked for about one year for the mercantile firm of Hall Brothers, at Akron, following which he was in the county recorder's office for a short time. He then took a complete commercial four^e ill 0. S. Business College. During the succeeding year he kept books for the firm of Oviatt & Warner, dealers in agricultural implements, when Mr. Oviatt organized a company for the manufacture of threshing machines 'and farm wagons, of which Mr. Hawkins becaime secretary, serving eleven inonths a^ such at Hudson. He then returned to Akron and went to work for the firm of Aultman, Miller & Company, for a short time, subsequently serving two years as bookkeeper for Jahant & Grey. Afterwards he became bookkeeper for the Akron Lumber Company, which was operated by the Diamond Match Company. After eight years' connection with this company, Mr. Hawkins, in association with J. H. Dellenberger, in 1891, bought the plant, since which time, the firm has done a large wholesale and retail lumber busine.ss, operating a planing mdll and manufacturing sa.«h, doors and blinds.

In 1876 Mr. Hawkins was married to Clara A. Smetts, a daughter of the lute George W. Smetts, who was a postal railway clerk, residing at Akron. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins have two sons, George W. and Charles W., the former of whom is bookkeeper for the firm of Rohrbacher & Allen, ai Akron, the latter being employed in the office of the Akron Lumber Company. Mr. Hawkins and family belong to the Congregational Church.

Mr. Hawkins is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, belongs to all branches of the Odd Fellows and lis also a Knight of Pythias. While not particularly active in politics, he has always shown his inlerest in public affairs and has served as a member of the City Council.

CHARLES HERBERICH, secretary and trea.surer of the Depositors' Savings Bank Company, at Akron, has spent the greater part of his life in this city, but is a native of Germany. Early in life he was brought to America and was reared and educated in Akron.

After completing his education. Mr. Herbericli entered the employ of the American Hard Rubber Company, and was connected with the shipping department for seven years. He then became a member of the firm of D. Ilerberich & Company, dealers in general insurance and real estate, of which he is at present the secretary. He is a stockholder in a number of corporations and has been secretary and treasurer of the Depositors' Savings Bank since its organization. The other officers of this financial institution are: Carl Dietz, president, and A. H. Mallisfni, vice president. The bank was open for business April 15, 1907, with a capital stock of $50,000, and it has been successful from the start,. its officers inspiring general confideiic In 1902 Mr. Herberich was married to Veronica Storz, who is a daughter of Georgj Storz, now deceased, but formerly a substantial citizen of Akron. They have two children, Grace and Richard. Mr. Herberich is a member of the First German Reformed Church, which he served on the board of trustees for four years. He l)elongs to the beneficiary order of the Royal Arcanum and to the Liebertafel Club."

CLYDE K. FOWLER, local agent for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, and for the United States Express Company, at Cuyahoga Falls, has been a resident of this place for the past seven years, coming here first as a telegrapher. He was born at Chardon, Lawrence County, Ohio, July 23, 1875, and is a son of Seymour S. and Celia J. (Clark) Fowler.

Seymour S. Fov\4er, father of Clyde K., was born in Ma.ssachusetts, and when about seventeen years of age, went to Michigan, where he was engaged in a lumber business for some years. He then moved to Sheridan, Ohio, where he was occupied as an auctioneer and insurance agent, going thence to Ravenna and later to Akron, where he was connected with the Akron Machine Company for eleven years. For the past six years he has been in the piano business at Mas.'sillon. Ohio. His wife, Celia, died October IB. 1902, aged fiftv-six vears. She was a consistent member of the Metibodist Episcopal Church, to which religious body Mr. Fowler also belongs. Of their six children, four grew to maturity, namely: Clark B., residing in Pennsylvania; Caroline, who married Charle.s W. Canfield, and resides at Chardon; Nellie, who married Wilbur F. Bliss, residing at San Diego-, California, and Clyde K.

Clyde K. Fowler attended the public schools at Chardon, and at the age of seventeen years learned telegraphy at Ravenna, where his parents were then residing. He has been employed solely in railroad work, for the first five years being with the C. & P. Railroad, and since then with the Baltimore & Ohio Company. He has been located in different sections of the State, and because of liis expert manipulation of the keys, 'has been many times placed in responsible positions.

Mr. Fowler was married in 1896 to Elizabeth E. MacLaughlin, a daughter of George and Rachael MacLaughlin, of Alliance, Ohio. They have two children, Ruth E. and Harold G. Mrs. Fowler is a member of the Congregational Oiurch. Politically, he is a Republican. He belongs to Pavonia Lodge, No. 301, Knights of Pythias. Mr. Fowler has recently purchased a comfortable home, at Cuyahoga Falls. Although he has been physically handicapped since the age of fourteen years, when the accidental discharge of a ,gini shattered his right hand, he has overcome all disadvantage resulting therefrom, and in his line of work has been successful.

MILTON H. AA^ARNER, owner of the Hillside Fruit and Dairy Farm, which consists of sixty-five acres of some of the most productive land in Coventry Township and is favorably located within one-half mile of the corporation limits of Akron, is one of the prominent and substantial men of this section. Mr. Warner was born on his father's farm in Coventry Township, Summit County, Ohio, August 1, 1859, and is a son of Solomon and Matilda E. (Ritter) Warner.

born in Pennsylvania. In 1835 they came to Ohio, settling first at Canton, but later they came to the farm in Coventry Township, Summit County, which is now owned by AA'ilham Ferris. AVhen they came to this neigh- Ijorhood as pioneers, the whole region was a wilderness, and before they could build their first log house, a clearing had to be made in the forest. After Henry AVarner had provided a comfortable home in Ohio, he was joined by his aged father, Adam AA^irner, who survived until almo.st the age of ninety-nine years. Henry AA'arner died aged seventj'-six years and his widow when three years older. They reared a sturdy family of eight children, six of whom are still living. They were John, Adam, Jacob, AA^illiam, Samuel, Abraham, Solomon and Daniel. Jacob AVarner, of this family, served as a 100-day soldier in the Civil AVar, and AA^illiam AA'^arner served three years, both receiving an honorable discharge at the close of their terms of service.

Solomon Warner, father of Milton H., was born in Coventry Township, Summit County, Ohio, June 22, 1837, and still survives, residing with his .son, Milton H., his only child. He was married May 27, 1858, to Matilda E. Ritter, who was born in Springfield Township, Summit County, Ohio, October 28, 1837, and died April 24, 1888. For many years, Solomon AA^arner followed the threshing business.

Milton H. AA^arner, their only child, was reared on the old home place. He attended the district schools and later spent a sliort time in the Smithville High School. AA'^hen about seventeen years of age he began to work in the mill of Brewster Brothers, at Pleasant A''al]ey, where he remained for twelve years, when he went to East Akron and worked for eighteen months in the Seiberling mill, retaining his home, however, at Pleasant A^'alley until 1897. He then moved to his present farm, which he had bought from the Austin Spicer heirs, in 1895. This land has always been considered fertile and has been made exceptionally productive under Mr. AA'arner's excellent methods. He makes a specialty of dairying, keeping sixteen licad of cattle and five head of horses, and of fruit-growing, especially berries. He finds a ready market for all his produce at Akron. The improvements on the farm, including the commodious fourteen-room residence, and substantial barn and other buildings, have all been made by Mr. Warner. Mr. Warner is also connected ivith the Norton Mutual Fire and Cyclone Insurance Company ajid has written some of the largest policies in this locality.

Mr. Warner was married December 18, 1884, to Ida C. Grotz, who is a daughter of John and Almira (Martin) Grotz. Tlie maternal grandmother of Mrs. Warner, Rebecca Way, was the first white child born in Suffield Township, and the family is an old and prominent one of this section. Mr. and Mrs. Warner have two sons, Harry J., residing at home, assisting his father, and Edgar S., who is connected with the Goodrich Rubber Company. Mr. Warner and family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the spring of 1907, Mr. Warner wa^ elected a member of the Summit County Agricultural Society. Fraternally he belongs to Summit Lodge, No. 50, of the order of Odd Fellows, and is also a member of the Encampment. His portrait is pre-eiited on an adjoining page.

ALBERT H. MALLISON, one of Akron's leading citizens now retired from active business life, is a member of a prominent pioneer family, and a son of the late Albert G. Mallison, who came to Akron in 1832.

Mr. Mallison's father came to Summit County in the capacity of a civil engineer, and was a.ssociated with Captain Howe in the surveying and laying out of about 300 acres of land which is now in the central part of Akron. He did a large amount of surveying in this section, and many of the old recorded papers of conveyance, have his name attached. He was a native of Connecticut, born in 1797, and he died at Akron, in 1879.

In 1843 he was married to Cornelia G. Washburn, who was born in Ohio, and died in 1875. Of their family of three children there are two sur\'ivors - Eveline, who married H. G. Moon, a retired citizen of Akron, and Albert H.

Albert H. Mallison attended school in Akron when the present busy city was a village and he has seen all of its wonderful development. Until 1890 he was engaged in farming, and still retains farming interests. At that date he platted his farm, which has been largely sold in town lots, and is one of the most desirable residence portions of the city. Mr. Mallison is identified with the banking interests of Summit County. In addition to being vice president of the Depositors' Savings Bank, he is a stockholder in the Second National Bank of Akron and also in the Cuyahoga Falls Bank of Cuyahoga Falls. His beautiful home, at 513 Wooster Avenue, is situated within half a dozen rods of the spot where he was born.

On March 16, 1875, Mr. Mallison was married to Alice M. Miner, and they have four children, namely: Edith M., who married Joseph H. James, a profea-^or in the Carnegie Institute, at Pitt.'^burg; Celia R., wife of W. E. Hardy, who is connected with the Diamond Rubber Company, of .^kron;. Blanche J., who was a member of the graduating cla.ss at Buchtel College in 1907, and Albert G., who is a third-year student at the Western Reserve University. Mrs. Mallison is a member of the Universalist Church.

Mr. Mallison has ever taken a good citizen's interest in public matters. Politically a Republican, he has served on numerous occasions in office, both in the city of Akron and in the county. He was a trustee for three terms of Portage Township, assessor for two terms, and for tiiree years served as a member of the Akron School Board. He is liberal in his donations to charity and in his support of benevolent institutions.

FRANK T. MOLONEY, cashier and treasurer of the Cuyahoga Falls Savings Bank, treasurer of the Walsh Paper Company and also of the Cuyahoga Falls Board of Trade, occupies a prominent position in the business life of this city. Mr. Moloney wa« born at Chicago, Illinois, November 16, 1873, and is

John J. Moloney was born in Ireland and after the death of his father, accompanied his mother to America, about 1843. He was seventeen years of age when he enlisted for sendee in the Civil War, entering the Nineteenth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in which he served for three years, during which time he was twice wounded and otherwise injured. He and wife have spent the most of their lives in Chicago, where he has followed carpenter work. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.

Frank T. Moloney has been identified with the banking business ever since he completed the High School course in his native city. He was in the employ of the Commercial National Bank of Chicago for eleven years, beginning as a messenger boy, and he was gradually advanced until 1903, when he became connected with Euclid Park National Bank of Cleveland, as general bookkeeper. He remained there until 1905, when he came to the Cuyahoga Falls Savings Bank, He is one of the executive committee of the Cuyahoga Savings Society.

Mr. Moloney married May Belle Vim Hart, of Cincinnati, and has one child, a daughter, Adella, Mr. and Mrs. Moloney are members of the Congregational Church.

In political sentiment, Mr. Moloney is a Republican. He is prominent in Masonic circles, belonging to Union Park Lodge, No. 610, A. F. & A.' M,, of Chicago; York Chapter, R. A. M., No. 148, and AI Sirat Grotto, of Cleveland,

GEORGE H. WORRON. president of the Star Planing Mill and Lumber Company, with plant at No. 55 Cherry Street, Akron, has been a resident of this city for a quarter of a century and has a wide circle of bu.sine,ss as well as personal friends. He was born in County Kent, England, in 1854. In 1856 the parents of Mr. Worron came to America and settled at Utica, New York, The subjec-t of this sketch was reared in that section of the covmtrv, and after he had completed his schooling, at the age of fourteen years, he learned the carpenter's trade. In 1882 he came to Akron and entered the em- ,ploy of the D.' W, Thomas Company, contractors and builders, and tecoming foreman, remained with that firm for about fifteen years. He then organized The Star Planing Mill Company, with a capital stock of $25,000, and a finely-equipped plant. The business is the manufacturing of sash, doors, blinds and general interior finishings, and in connection the company conducts a lumber yard, and also do a general contracting bu-i- II ess.

In 1882 Mr. AVorron was married to Alice S. Hunsicker, who is a daughter of Peter Hunsicker of Johnson's Corners. He is a member of the English Lutheran Church. His fraternal connections are with the Odd Fellows and the Maccabees.

successful business man at Cuyahoga Falls, proprietor of a meat market on Front Street, was born at Cuyahoga Falls, Summit County, Ohio, September 19, 1869, and is a son of Ferdinand Julius and Sarah J, (Faze) Roethig.

Ferdinand Julius Roethig was born at Krakow, Au.strian Hungary, February 24, 1825, and when he was five years old his father died and his mother took him to Germany. She pas.sessed means and he was educated at Leipsic, where he later learned the trade of tinner and copper.-^mith. He was one of the young men who rallied under the banner of the Plungarian patriot, Louis Kossuth, whose fortunes he followed for three years. After the defeat of their .great leader, at Temesvar, on August 9, 1849, the members of the regiment to which Mr. Roethig belonged, including himself, escaped to the United States, and here he fell back on his trade as a means of support. For a year he worked at New Orleans, and then ascended the Mississippi to St, Paul, From that city he went to Chicago, and worked there at his trade for one year, and then coming to Cuyahoga Falls. Here he followed his trade for many years, a part of the time for himself and partly in the shops- of L. W. Loomis and Parks & Gillette. After coming to Ohio he enlisted for service in" the Civil War, but was stricken with illness at Massillon, which caused his discharge. He died April 17, 1886, eight years before his old commnnder.

On August 30, 1852, Ferdinand Julius Roethig was married to' Sarah J. Faze, who sun'ives him and resides at Cuyahoga Falls. She was born at Manchester, Carroll County, Maryland, February 24, 1832, and accompanied her parents to Cuyahoga Falls, wJieu !?he was five years of age. Her family came in M-agons and were three weeks making the trip. Her father, Peter Faze, was born in Gennany and came to America with his parents when five years of age. He was a paper-.ma.ker and was accidentally killed in a paper mill in April, 1852, when aged fiftynine years. There Avere nine children born Ferdinand J. Roethig and wife, namely: Ferdinand J., deceased; Julia Sarah, who married C. W. Moon, both being now deceased; Oharle.s B., residing at Syracuse, New York; William Washington, residing at Cuyahoga Falls, and Edward Loon, Lillian, Alfred Herman and Harrison T., all residents of Cuyahoga Falls. All of the above family was reared in the German Lutheran faith."

Harrison Theodore Roethig was educated in the common and High Schools at Cuyahoga Falls, and then learned the butchering business with Smith Tifft, with whom he remained for ten years. He then went to work for his brothers, "\A^illiam and Edward Roethig, who were doing business under the firm name of Roethig Bros., remaining with them for another ten years. In Febniary, 1901, he opened his own market. He has a clean, sanitary place, puts up his own ice and does a large part of his own butchering. He deals only in first-class meat, carrying all the .staple delicacies in his line. Lie is essentially a man of business, and although he votes with" the Republican partv, he takes no active part in political affairs, devoting his time exclusively to looking after his constantly increasing interests. Mr. Roethig married Bertha L. Holden, who is a daughter of James Holden, of Kent, and they have one son, Lowell H.

W. G. WISE, secretary and manager o! the Wise Furnace Company, which operates large works at Akron, was born at Greentown, Stark County, Ohio. He was educated in the district schools and at Mt. Union and subsequently taught school for two years. Coming to Akron in search of a satisfactory business field, Mr. Wise entered the office of J. F. Seiberldng, where he remained for six years. He then went to Catskill. New York, where he was engaged in a brick industry for two years, after which he retu^-ned to Akron. Here he was associateid for a time with the Werner Company, and later mih the Twentieth Century Heating Company, remaining with the latter house for four years.

In January, 1904, Mr. Wi.se organized the Wise Furnace Company, which Avas incorporated Avith a capital stock of $50,000. Avith J. W. Myers, presidemt; George Carmichael, vice-prasident, and AV. G. Wise, secretary and manager. This company manufactures furnaces of the WLse pattern, and the National Gas Hot Water Heaters, and their large factorj' gives employment to seventy-five men. The business has been a pro.sperous one from the beginning, and the jirogress of the company has ben the most rapid known in the furnace business.

In 1893 Mr. AVise was married to Emma Filbey, of Shreve, AVayne County, Ohio, and they have one child, Atlee. Mr. aTid Mrs. AVise belong to the AA^oodland Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of the U. C. T.

GEORGE J. RENNER, president of the George J. Renner BrewerA' Company, of Akron, and a resident of this city for nineteen A^ears, is a native of G6rmanA^ where he \^as ijorn in 1835.

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where he was in a brewing business for three or four years, and was afterwards in the snnie business in Mansfield up to 1888, when lie came to Akron. Purchasing an old brewery plant here he added to it until he now owns one of the finest equipped breweries in the country. He still owns a brewery at Mansfield, and has also other business interests, having been concerned in oil production for some years. The Akron brewery operates an ice plant having a capacity of fifty tons daily. The sales of the brewery aiuount to about 28,000 barrels annually, but could be advanced, with the present equijiments, to from 30,000 to 50,000.

In 1853 Mr. Renner married a native of (Tcrmany, and they have a pleasant family and a fine home in Akron, where Mr. Rminer is numbered with the leading citizens.

ELUE 0. FRITCH, secretary and manager of the Faultless Broom Manufacturing Company, of Akron, a prosperous enterprise which is capitalized at .$25,000, is a native of Ohio and was born in Stark Countv, June 13, 1883.

Mr. Fritch was fifteen years of age when he came to Akron, and his education had been secured in the schools of Stark County and at a commerical correspondence school in Rochester, New York. His first position was with the National Drill and Manufacturing Company at Barberton, where he had entire charge of the cost and time pay-roll department. After three months he took charge of the controler department of the Alden Rubber Company and had charge of the warehouse until the works were closed. Mr. Fritch then went to Cleveland and took charge of the books of the University club for one year and later was assistant manager of the Chamber of Commerce club, for two years. He subsequently returned to Akron and as.sisted in the organization of the Faultless Broom Manufacturing company, which was incorporated March 1, 1907, with John A. Boughton as president; E. 0. Fritch. as secretary and manager ; J. W. Harter as vice-president and T. F. Waters as treasurer and sales manager. This industry has bright prospects, and judging from the character of the men who have put their capital in the venture, there is little doubt that it will soon be numbered with the city's most important enterprises. The plant is located at No. 15 West Center Street. Mr. Fritch is a member of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church. He lielongs fraternally to the Royal Arcanum.

ERNEST C. DEIBEL, general manager of the Renner Brewing Company and a resident of Akron for the past sixteen years, was born at Youngstown in 1862. After com- I)leting has education in his native city, he l)ecame connected with the brewing interests, and later took a course in the Brewing Academy, at Chicago. In 1892 he came to Akron and assumed the position of general manager of the Renner Brewing Company. He is also the 'manager of the Renner-Deibel Gas Company, operating sixty-two wells in Columbiana County, Ohio. He married Elizabeth Renner, who is a daughter of George J. Renner, and they have one child, Helen Deil)el. Mr. Deibel is a member of the Eagle and Elk fraternities. He belongs to St. Bernard's Catholic Church at Alcron.

ROBERT RUSSELL PEEBLES, superintendent of the Turner, Vaughn and Taylor Company, at Cuyahoga Falls, is a practical and experienced machinist, having devoted all of hds mature life to this line of work. He was born at IMillersburg, June 24, 1869, and is a son of James W. and Isabella (Patterson) Peebles.

Mr. Peebles' parents came to Cuyahoga Falls when he was about two years of age. The father was engaged in railroad work, and was a conductor on the C. A. & C. Railroad for a number of years. Later he was a liartner of the Falls Rivet and Machine Company, but is now in the employ of the Turner, Vaughn and Taylor Company. He married Isabella Patterson and they have two children, Robert Russell and Evalena, the latter of whom is a teacher in the Cuyahoga Falls High School. Mr. James W.

In political sentiment Mr. Peebles is a Republican. He served two years as a member of the board of public affairs, has been on the City Council, and has been president, and at present is vice-president of the Cuyahoga Falls Board of Trade. He is prominent in Masonry, having served two vears as worshipful master of Star Lodge, No. 187, F. & A. M. ; he is a 'member also of Washington Chapter and of the Council at Akron.

JOHN C. WEBER, a retired business citizen of Akron, formerly president of the Akron Foundry Company, and for a number of years a leading factor in the city's commercial life, was born August 20, 1S44, at Monroeville, Huron County, Ohio.

AVhen he was three months old his parents moved to Akron. He attended the public and parochial schools connected with the Catholic Church until prepared for St. John's College at Cleveland, Ohio, where he spent two yeai-s. Then he was a student in the Christian Brothers' College at Dayton for one year. In 1860 he became a clerk in the general store of P. D. Hall at Akron, where he remained until October, 1861. He then enlisted in the Si.xth Ohio Independent Light Battery, which became a part of General Sherman's brigade, and saw his first active service at the battle of Shiloh. His battery wa.« sent all through Mi.s.sissippi, Alabama and Kentucky and its next serious engagement was at Perryville in the latter state. Mr. Weber participated in the battle of Stone River, and in the following .June started with his comrades on the Chattanooga campaign, in which they took part in the battles of Hoover's Gap, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. Thence they went to East Tennessee to take part in the At^ lanta campaign. The Sixth battery participated in all the hard battles of this memorable period, Rocky Face Hill, Buzzards'

Roost, Dalton, Resaca, Adamsville, Calhoun, Pumpkinvine Creek, New Hope Church, Pickett's Mills, Lost Mountain, Pine Top, Kenesaw Mountain, Chatahoochee River, Vining Station, Atlanta, Jonesboro and Lovejoy Station. From Atlanta his command was attached to the army under General Thomas at Galesville, Alabama, where Mr. Weber's term of enlistment expired. During the Atlanta campaign he had served as an orderly for the chief of artillery on the staff of General Wood.

After a visit home, Mr. Weber returned to Nashville, Tennessee, where he remained until the close of the war. He wa« then engaged for two years in a grocery business at Akron, after which he went to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama. He spent some three years visiting the different states of the West, before returning to Akron. He tiaen became iis.sociated as traveling salesman with the wholesale drug house of G«orge Weimer, with which he remained connected for three years. In 1875 he superintended the erection of the Weber Block on Howard Street, Akron, a fine two-story business structure 60 by 1 00 feet in dimensions. In 1876 Mr. AVeber went to Cleveland, where he became associated with the C. E. Gehring Brewery Company, where he continued in bu.sine.ss until 1885, then returning to Akron. He purchased the interest of William Gray in the tinware and house furnishing goods firm of Jahant & Gray, and for fourteen years confined a large part of his attention to this enterprise. He also built the plant of the Akron Foundry Company, of which he was president, but disposed of his interest in 1899.

In 1874 Mr. Weber was married to Emeline Oberholtz, and they liave five children, namely: Eva, who is the wife of E. W. Donahue, residing at Akron: C. Irene, Susie M. and Bertha T., residing at home; aiid Florenz, who is a.ssistant superintendent of the Columbia Gas and Electric Light Company, of Cincinnati. Mr. Weber and familv belong to St. Bernard's Catholic Church. He is a Knight of St. -lohn, a Knight of Columbus, a member of the Catholic Knights of Ohio, and of the Catholic Knights of America.

He belongs to Buckley Post, G. A. R., and is a member of the Lincoln Farm Association. He is also connected with the Commercial Travelers' Association, of Cleveland.

Mr. Weber has always enjoyed the recreation of travel and has seen almost all sections of his native land. Several years since, after retiring from the environments of business, he took a tour through Europe, accompanied by his son. He has never taken any active part in politics and would never consider any office of a political nature, but he accepted a position on the Humane Association when proffered him by the Humane Society of Akron.

FRANK A. SEIBERLING, president and general manager of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, at Akron, is a business man of this city who has been identified with many of its important enterprises. He was born on Jiis father's farm near Western Star, Summit County, Ohio. October 6, 1859, and is a son of John F. and Catherine L. (Miller) Seil>erling. In 1861 John F. Seiberling removed with his family to Doylestown, and in 1865 to Akron. Of his eleven children nine are .still living.

Frank A. received his first school training in the building then used for school purposes which stands adjacent to the Congregational Church on the .south. After he had completed the first year's course in the Higli School, he entered Heidelberg College at Tiffin. He remained there two years, retiring at the end of his junior year in order to be of assistance to his father, who had just started the manufacture of the Empire harvester. The young man's collegiate training proved useful in the official 'bu-siness which grew out of this industrs', and in 1884, when the Seiberling Company was organized, Frank A. became secretary and treasurer. Other large industries, companies and corporations with which he has been identified, either as stockholder or as official, are the Akron Twine and Cordage Company, the AVerner Printing and Lithographing Company, Superior Mining Company, Canton Street Railway Company, Zanesville Street Railway Company, Akron Street Railway Company, Manufacturers' Mutual Fire Insurance Association, the Thomas Philips Company, and the National City Bank. His main attention is now given to the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, of which he is president and general manager, the other officers being: L. C. Miles, vice-president; G. M. Stadleman. secretary; C. W. Seiberling, treasurer ; and P. W. Litchfield, superintendent. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, with which Mr. Seiberling has ben identified since 1898, was organized in that year. They are engaged in the manufacture of rubber goods, their specialties being solid and pneumatic carriage and automobile tires, bicycle tires, rubber horse shoes, rubber tiling, golf 'balls, moulded rubber and rubber specialties. There is no portion of the civilized world where the.se goods do not find ready sale.

On October 12. 1887, Mr. Seiberling was married to Gertrude F. Penfield, of Willougbby. Lake County, Ohio. He and his wife are the parents of five children: John Frederick, Irene Henrietta, Willard Penfield. James Penfield and Gertrude Virginia.

HARRY S. DAVIDSON, M. D., a prominent physician and .surgeon at Barberton, and coroner of Summit County, has been a resident of this village since August, 1899. He was lx)rn at East Springfield, Jefferson County, Ohio, April 7, 1871, and is a son of C. L. and Mary A. (O'Connell) David.son.

Dr. Davidson is of Scotch-Irish descent, his paternal grandparents having been lioni in Scotland, and his maternal grandparents, in Ireland. The families were both agricultuml ones. Young Davidson was reared on his father's farm and remained at home until he was twenty years of age. In the meantime he attended the country schools and improved his oportunities to such an extent that, without difficulty, he passe-d the necessary examination for teachers. Except a"! a substitute, however, Dr. David.son never taught school He spent two years in a drug store at Mingo Junction, with his uncle. Dr. W. J. O'Con- ncll, a well-known physician and druggist, and then entered the Scioto School of Pharmacy, graduating therefrom after an attendance of two years. Immediately following, he entered the Ohio Medical University at Columbus, where he was graduated in April, 1897. He practiced his profession for one years at Somerdale, Tuscarawa.s County, ai<d then came to Barberton, where he has not only built up a fine practice, but has become one of the leading citizens.

In 1898 Dr. Davidson was married to Maggie Johnson, who was born in England, and who came with her parents to America when she was six months old. She was reared and educated in "\\'adsworth, Ohio, and after maturity went to Tuscarawas with her parents, teaching in Somerdale for seven years. Dr. and Mrs. David.son have been the parents of three children: Harold (deceased), Dorothy and Jane.

Politically, Dr. Davidson is a Republican and in November, 1906, he was elected county coroner, in which office he ha.s proved himself a careful, discreet and efficient official. He is a member of the Barberton school board, serving in his second term, and proving a valuable as.sistant to the other members of the board. lie belongs to the Summit Cotmty and the Ohio State Medical Societies. Fraternally he is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias and an Elk. His well-equipped offices are located in the Barberton Savings Bank Building.

BYRON P. WISE, secretary of the Camp Conduit C-ompany, at Akron, has been identified with electrical Avork almost throngho\it his bu.siness career. He was born in Green Township, Summit County, Ohio, and is a son of William Wise, a native of that township.

The family to which he belongs came from Pennsylvania to Ohio at an early day, David Wise, the grandfather of Byron P., settling in Green Town.ship, Summit County. Mr. Wise's ance.stors in general have been agriculturists, and his ifather is a retired favmer living at Greentown.

Mr. Wise was educated primarily in the Uniont(nvn public schools, and later took a business couree in the Hammel's Commercial College at Akron. He then associated him.^elf with business bouses where he could closely study electricity, in which he was deeply interested. For a time he was in the employ of the Erie Railroad, then was connected with the Camps for six years, and since the organization of the Camp Conduit Company, has been the secretars' of this concern.

In 1900 Mr. Wise was married to Lela Smith, of Summit County, who is a daughter of D. J. Smith. He has two .sons : Royale C. and John Clarke. ^Ir. Wise and family belong to Grace Reformed Clnuvh.

ALFRED G. LUSK, who is largely interested in the estate and insurance basiness throughout Summit County, has convenient offices in the Liisk Block, on Tuscarawas iV venue, Barberton, in which place he ranks among the leading bu.sin&ss citizens. He was born in Orange County, New York, Jan. 9, 1843, and ^is a son of Cyrus and SusJtn (Williams) Lusk. In 1853, when he was ten years old, his parents moved to Coldwatcr, Michigan, where the father entered the real estate business, taking over the purchase and sale of much property. It was in that locality that Mr. Lusk was mainly reared. When fourteen years of age he began railroad work as a section man, and by the time he was twenty-one years of age he had been mode a section foreman. In the meanwhile his education had not been neglected, and on March 10, 1866, he was graduated from the Eastman National Business College at Chicago. He continued railroad work, fir^t being given charge of a work train and later being made trainmaster's a.ssistant on the Lake Shore Railroad. He spent twenty years as assistant to roadmaster .John Stewart, one of the stalwart old officials of tbe Lake Shore. From there he went to the AVest SJiore Railroad as roadmaster, with headquarters at Cana.'^ota, New York, where he remained f«r two years and then returned to Coldwater, where he continued one year, and then, with Charles Pain, formerh' with the West Shore, came to the Erie Raih-oad, then the N.Y. P. & 0. Railroad, the former in the capacity of general manager and Mr. Lusk as roadmaster. Headquarters were established in 1885 at Akron, and he remained with the Erie Railroad for fifteen years. In 1900 he came to Barberton and embarked in his present business, subsequently building the two adjoining Lusk Blocks, on Tuscarawas Avenue, the ground floor of one being occupied by M, C. Frank, a leading bo: it and shoe merchant, and the other by F. A. Fobes, who has a fine stock of drj- goods and millinery.

ilr. Lusk married Ennna Hcmrod and they have one child, Carrie, who is now the wife of Dr. Morehouse Blackman, of Coldwater, Michigan. For the past forty-two years Mr. Lu.~k has been a Mason, and in point of service i.s. the oldest member of the fraternity at Barberton.

G. CARL DIETZ, secretary of the Burkhardt Brewing Company, and president of the Depositore' Savings Bank, of Akron, was born in this city in March, 1875, and is a son of Henry and Caroline (Rupp) Dietz.

His parents were both born in Germany and came to Akron almost a half century ago. The father, an iron worker, died when G. Carl was still a youth, leaving his wife with a family of six small children to rear. Thus the subject of this sketch at an unusually early age was obliged to relieve his mother of a part of her heavy burden, and responsibilities fell on his shoulders before he was hardly old enough to assume them. He gave all the assistance he could in the rearing of the family, and guided his younger brothers and sisters to careers of usefulness. Laboring through the day time and attending school at night, Mr. Dietz acquired a good business I'ducation, and finally obtained a position in the People's Savings Bank, where he remained for ten years. He later Ijecame ca.shier of the Security Savings Bank, having previously been a clerk in a clothing store for some three years. Still later Mr. Dietz retired from the Securitv instilutiDU. after serving five years, and became secretary of the M. Burkhardt Brewing Company. The banking business, however, continuing to have attractions for him, he became one of the organizers of the Depositors' Savings Bank, which was opened for business April 15, 1907, and of which he was made president. He also fill.- the position of secretary and treasurer of the Burkhardt Realty Company,

On November 17, 1902, Mr. Dietz was married to Ida Burkhardt, who is a daughter of the late W. Burkhardt. He and his wife are members of the German Reformed Church. He has the esteem and confidence of his fellow-citizens, many of whom have traced his successful business career from boyhood.

SYLVESTER T. CUNNINGHAM, funeral director and expert embalmer, with business location on the corner of Mill and High Streets. Akron, is the senior member of the fij-m of S. T. Cunningham & Company. Mr. Cunningham was born at Detroit, Michigan, December 18, 1868.

When a school boy of twelve years Sylvester T. Cunningham started to learn the undertaking biisiness in his native city, and .<erved a long and strict apprenticeship, which resulted in his thorough mastery of every detail and his acquisition of the highest skill in the technical branch of the busine-s. He has .spent eighteen years in its practice in Akron, and has fullv earned the high reputation he enjoys.

For seventeen years he was the embalnur and funeral director for George Billow, undertaker. In .June, 1906, he established the firm 'of S. T. Cunningham & Company, which already occupies a leading place among the sub.stantial business houses at Akron. His undertaking rooms are centrally located, and his business equipments are modem in character, while his charges are no higher than are neces.sary to insure the best .service.

In 1889 Mr. Cunningham was married to -Julia Kehoe. of Detroit, Michigan, who has proved a very capable assistant to her husband in the bn.«iness. They have one son. W. 11 Cunningham, who was educated in the .\kron

WILLIAM J. RATTLE, B. S. M. E., resides on the farm on which he was born, in Stow Township, Summit County, Ohio, September 6, 1852. His parents were William and Elizabeth Goodwin (Gaylord) Rattle. His land aggregates 350 acres, the most extensive farming tract in Stow Township, and is one of the best managed, finely improved and valuable estates in Summit County.

The Rattle family is of English ancestry and Quaker faith. James Rattle, the jiaternal grandfather, canne to America from Bath, England, accompanied by his children, who were named respectively: Samuel, AVilliam, Henry, Frank, Mary a.nd Celia. Until 1880 he resided with his family at Skaneateles, New York, and then moved to Cuyahoga Falls. He died in 1870, aged ninety years.

William Rattles, father of William J., was born at Bath, England, June 12, 1808, and was a mere boy when he accompanied his parents to the United States. After the d"ath of his mother, the family removed from Skaneateles, New York, to Ohio, but prior t') this AVilliam had learned and followed the trade of tanner. After reaching Cuyahoga Falls he embarked in the shoe business and soon became interested in other lines of activity, becoming owner of a grain elexator. and for a long period being a large handler of wheat. He built the business block now o.'- cupied by the Loomis Hardware Comjtany and erected many other structures in the citv. In 1854 he niovcd to Cleveland, but remainrd in that city but a short time, his attention having been turned to the lumber business, in which he was engaged at Saginaw. Michigan, until 1858. He then returned to Cleveland, in which citv he lived retired until the close of his life. He was a member of Star Lodge, No. 187, F. & A. :M., at Cuyahoga Falls. In politics he was a Republican. Religiously he was a member of the Societv of Friends. He married a daughter of the late Tliomas Gaylord, of Stow Town.ship, of a family of great prominence. She was born in June, 1824,

William J. Rattle was an only child. He began his schooling in Stow Town.ship, continued it in Cleveland and was graduated in 1874, from the Shefiield Scientific School of Yale Univei"sity, with the degree of B. S. Immediately afterward he opened an office at Cleveland, as a mining enginer and analytical chemist, and his work in this direction now takes him to all parts of the country. In 1902, his son, William Rattle, became his partner and the firm name is W. J. Rattle & Son.

The magnificent farm in Stow Township 's operated as a grain and stock farm. (>,i it are raised about sixty acres of wheat, wliich Mr. Rattle markets, and fifty tons of hay beyond what is used on the farm, and all the corn and oats for feeding. Formerly Mr. Rattle raised many sheep, but when the price declined, he, like other .slieep-growcrs in the township, turned his attention to otlier lines of indu.stry. He rais&s many Berkshire hogs, keeps thiiij' head of highgrade catt'e of various breeds, has .six full-blood Guernsey cows and a Guernsey bull. Moon Arch, a noble and valuable animal. This farm is conspicuous, not only on account of its size and fertility, but becau.se of the care which has developed it into a place so full of beauty as well as Titility. Mr. Rattle keeps six men employed and has provided every kind of improved machinery, and all modern conveniences, so that all his plan* can be successfully carried out. His beautiful home is but one of the fine buildinp« which make the whole estate one of note. There are two fine residences on the place, one of which was once the home of his grandfather, Thomas Gaylord, who, with other member- of the family, owned large estates in Summit County.

Mr. Rattle was married in 1877 to .Julia Gary, who is a daughter of .John E. Cary, and they have tliree children. AA^illiam, Mary and Elizaheth. AA'illiam Rattle was born .Tune 27, 1878, and has grown up in the business in which he is engaged. After completing the public school course, he received scientific training at the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, later at Kenyon College and with his father in the latter's office, and is thoroughly qualified to further the firm's interests in every way. In April, 1907, he was married to Susie Dewitt, of Cleveland. Mary married Harvey Mansfield; they have one daughter, Mary, and reside in Cleveland, Ohio. Elizabeth was born at Stow, Ohio, July, 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Rattle belong to St. John's Episcopal Church at Cuyahoga Falls, as also do all their children.

Mr. Rattle is prominent in Masonry, belonging to Star Lodge, No. 187, F. & A. M., at Cuyalioga Falls; Akron Chapter, R. A. M. ; Akron Commandery, K. T. ; Cleveland Consistory and Alkoran Temple at Cleveland. In political faith he is a Republican. He is a member of the Summit County Horticultural Society, and of the American Institute of Mining Engineers.

SHERMAN B. STOTLER, superintendent of the Summit County Infimiary, holds a very responsible position, the duties of which have been faithfully and efficiently performed since he assumed them. Mr. Stotler was born Decemljer 25, 1856, in Doylestown, Wayne County, Ohio. His parents, Emanual and Eliza (Franks) Stotler, were well-known farming people of Wayne County, and the father was also a skilled mechanic. His death occurred in 1889. There were seven children in the Stotler familv. Mrs. Stotler died Julv 1st, 1901.

Sherman B. Stotler was reared on a farm and was educated in the local schools. For many years after attaining manhood, he was employed by the late J. F. Seiberling, as an expert machine man.

In 1887 Mr. Stotler was appointed superintendent of the Summit County Infirmary, which shelters, at the latest report, 178 inmates. His duties include, besides the care and management of this large number of unfortunates, the cultivation of the infirmary farm of 345 acres. Only a man possessed of tact, good judgment and excellent business capacity could satisfactorily fill so important an office. - On December 20, 1882, Mr. Stotler married Delia Shafl'er, who is a daughter of David and Harriet (Cornelius) Shafl'er.

Politically, Mr. Stotler is a Republican. He is connected fraternally with the Knights of Pythias and the Odd Fellows. The publishers take pleasure in presenting his portrait in this connection.

WILLIAM L. CAMPFIELD, undertakerand dealer in furniture, at Barberton, is one of the leading citizens of the town, a man of progressive ideas and real public spirit. He was born April 2, 1862, in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Andrew Jackson and Mary J. (Montgomery) Campfield.

Mr. Campfield lost his father when he was fourteen years of age, and remained on the home farm wath his mother, until her death. He then sold the property, and in partnership with H. Orrison, embarked in an undertaking and furniture business at Martin's Ferry. After one year, ^Ir. Campfield bought out his partner's interest and conducted the business alone until 1902, when he disposed of it and one year later came to Barberton. On January 1, 1904, he arrived from Martin's Ferry and bought out the furniture store of Frank Hale, continuing the business at the same stand and inceasing its scope by adding undertaking. On April 18, 1901, Mr. Campfield was graduated from the Pittsburg School of Anatomy, and understands every detail of the undertaking business. He is well cquijiped for all the business demands made upon him in this line, and is also the leading furniture dealer in Barberton.

In the fall of 1895 Mr. Campfield was married to Matilda E. Shaffer, and fhey have a very pleasant home in Barberton. Fraternally, Mr. Campfield belongs to the Elks and Knights of Pvthias. With his wife, he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Since locating here he has taken an active interest in promoting every movement for the welfare of the town. In the Business Men'.s Association, of which he is a director, he seas

WILLISTON ALLING, president of the Dime Savings Bank at Akron, and formerly county recorder of Summit County, was born October 26, 1842, in Vienna Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, and is a son of Jonathan and Maria (Clark) Ailing. The parents of Mr. Ailing came to Trumbull County from Connecticut, in which state he resided imtil he was twelve years old. He then became a member of his uncle's family, in Northampton Town.«hip, Summit County. After remaining with his uncle for three years, he secured farm work in Tallmavge Township. In August, 1862, he enlisted frcm that township for service in the Civil War a:id for three and a half years thereafter Avas a member of Company I, One Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was honorably discharged in December, 1865.

Mr. -Ailing then returned to Tallmadge Township and engaged in contracting and building, in wliich business he continued until 1897. Mr. Ailing became president on its organization of the Dime Savings Bank, at Akron, which is now one of the leading financial institutions of the city. The other officers* of this bank are: Clint W. Kline and Charles Switzer, vice-presidents, and William H. Evans, secretary and treasurer. The capital stock of thds bank is $50,000, with a surplus of $2,250. The bank i,s .^dtuated in the Ma.sonic Building on the corner of Mill and Howard Streets.

Mr. Ailing was married in 1867 to Emilie A. Carter, who was born in Brimfield, Portage County, Ohio, and is a daughter of Horatio Tj. and Julia A. (Lyon) Carter, native'; of Ma,'«achusetts. He and his wife have b en the parents of six children: Julia M., Walter C, Ruth W., Fannie M.. Mary E. and Edwin L., of whom the last mentioned died in December, 1904. The family ha> a hi^ih social standing in Akron.

iican, and at various times he has served in important offices. For twenty-one years he was a justice of the peace, for several years county recorder, and for a long period an active and useful member of the Board of Education of Tallmadge. Mr. Ailing and family reside at No. 39 South Balch Street. The Ailing family are members of the West Congregational Church.

JOSEPH COOK, an old and honored citizen of Akron, now retired from active business life, was born in England in 1847. His parents came to America when he w-as an infant, settling first at Danville, later at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and still later at Eagt Liverpool, Ohio.

He was reared up to the age of sixteen years in East Liverpool, obtaining his education in the public school.*. He was still a schooll)oy when he first enlisted for sei-vice in the Civil War, entering Company F. Fourth Regiment, West Virginia Cavalry, in which he served, nevertheless, with the courage and efficiency of a man through the eight months for which he had contracted. After his discharge he re-enlisted, entering Co'mpany A, One Hundred and Forty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served four months, and being lionorably discharged, came to Akron. Here he enlisted for the thira time, in Company A, One Hundred and Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for one year, but as this was an old regiment, it was soon mustered out, and Mr. Cook wns transferred to Company E, One Hundred and Eighty-eighth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he remained until the close of the war, being finally mu.«tered out in the fall of 1865. He had served imder General Butler in the Eastern army and under General Kelley in West Virginia, his la-t field service being with the Army of the Cumberland.