Canton Township (part 13 of 62)

As a preacher Elder Jones has long enjoyed a high reputation, not only in his own communion but among all I'rotestant bodies in Ohio and many other states. As a pulpit orator he stands unique, and he is perhaps without a peer as a master of assemblages; in his power to sway audiences at will, he has few equals and is perhaps without a superior. His forensic abilities are of the highest order and the late President Garfield, one of the great orators of this country, pronounced him one of the most eloquent speakers in the United States.

Always zealous in his work of the ministry. Elder Jones has also kept abreast with the times in matters of public and political import. In his younger days he was a Democrat, but in 1854 he transferred his allegiance to the Republican party, and has ever since been a zealous and unswerving Republican, and as such is fearless in expressing his opinions and untiring in his efforts to uphold the principles of the party and to contribute to its success. As a citizen he is not indifferent to his duties to the public, being interested in all legitimate measures and means for advancement of the genei'al welfare. Although in his ninety-first year. Elder Jones, as already indicated, retains in a marked degree the possession of his mental and physical faculties, being as keen and alert in mind as in the days of his prime, and in body, capable of enduring remarkable exertions for one of such advanced age. He has never known any serious indisposition, his health from childhood having been uniformly good and, coming of a family noted for longevity, he bids fair to live many years before rounding out the full life which has so greatly blessed the world and benefited mankind.

Of the eight children born to Elder and Mrs. Jones, seven are living, namely: Helen, widow of David Solliday; William A., of Canton; Jefferson H., of Chicago, Illinois; Emma P.. wife of William Heston, of Homestead, Pennsylvania; Isaiah B., a resident of Ashland, Ohio; Mary C, who married Hiram M. Turner, of Pueblo, Colorado, and Kimball P., whose home is in Johnson City, Tennessee. Anna, the deceased member of the family, was the wife of Norman A. Sherwin ; she left a son by the name of Ira R.. who lives at this time in Wichita. Kansas.

\MLUAM H. CLARK is a native of the old Keystone state of the Union, having been born in Brownsville, Fayette countv. Pennsylvania, on the 19th of February. 1858, being a son of John F. and Permelia M. (Alexander) Clark. John F. Clark was born near \mity. Washington county, Pennsylvania, on the 6th of November, 1831, and he died in the city of Canton, Ohio, nn the 17th of February, 1896. His fatlier. Levi Clark, was likewise a native of the Keystone state, where he was born on the 22(1 of January. 1S09. and he was in his earlier years quite extensively engaged in business as a (Inner, in connection with farming, and lie passed the later years of his life in agricultural pursuits near Salem. Henry county, Iowa, where he died about the year 1879. Flis wife, whose maiden name was Margaret Fulton, died at the home of her daughter, Lurania (Mrs. J. H. McVey), in the state of Idaho in the year 1899 at the venerable age of ninety years. They l)ecame the parents of ten children, namely: Joim I<"ulton, father of the subject of this review ; Deborah, who was married to G. A. Kerr on the 17th of August, 1853; Lebbeus, who died in 1853; Isaac, who married Marie E. Sharp on the i8th of February, 1858; Isabel, who married Stephen Hill on the 2d of Septemlier, 1856; Lydia, who married Isaac Clerk on the ist of January, 1861 ; James Fulton, who married Martha J. Frazier on the 4th of January, 1872; Levi Herod, who died in infancy; Lurania, who married Josiah H. Mc- Vev on the 6th of March, 1866. and Silas, who married Mary A. Sweet on the 2gth of March, 1872. Isaac Clark, the great-grandfather of the subject, was born in the state of New Jersey on the 28th of July, 1766. where the family had Ijeen established early in that century, and it is a matter of record that three of his brothers were active participants in the war of 1812. After his marriage he removed to southwestern Pennsylvania, where he passed the remainder of his life, as did also his wife, whose maiden name was Deborah French, She was born Nrivember 24, 1769, in New Jersey, and there their marriage was solemnized on the I2th of .\pril, 1786. He died on the 30th of November, 1842, while she passed away on the 30th of Decemljer, 1846. Of their children brief data is as follows: I'lKebe became the wife of Reason James. John married Mahila Clark, Aaron died unmarried, Silas married PhiDebe McFarland, Abner married Pattie Evans, Isaac married Martha Crockard ; Ezekial married Joanna McFarland, ]Mary became the wife of John Fulton, Lebbeus married Mary Evans. Charlotte became the wife of Harvey Cutter, Deborah married Adam Lacock, Le\'i was the grandfather of the subject, Lurania married P)ethuel l^N-ans and Lvdia became the wife of )(ihn M. Reeves.

John F. Clark, father of the subject, was reared to maturity in Pennsylvania, and in his early manhood he followed the vocation of a drover in that state, while later he was engaged in farming. When the subject was an infant his parents removed from Pennsylvania to Henry county, Iowa, and thence, in 1864, to Canton, Stark county, and here William H. was reared and educated. Here his father established himself in the insurance business, becoming agent for both fire and life insurance companies of the best order, and with this important line of enterprise he continued to be actively identified until the time of his death, having built up a large and important business and having been honored as one of the upright and representative citizens of Stark county's attracti\e capital. He was for more than thirty years a member of the Canton First Presbyterian church, and for the major portion 1 if tliis time he held the office of elder and superintendent of the Sunday school in the same, his devoted wife being likewise an earnest and zealous member of the church. In politics he was originally an old-line Whig, but he espoused the cause of the Republican part}- shortly after its organization and ever afterward was a stanch ad\ocate of its principles.

C)n the 2d of September, 1856, in Fredericktown, Washington county, Pennsylvania, John F. Clark was united in marriage to Miss Permelia M. Alexander, who was bonn near that place on the 22d of June, 1837, being a daughter of Andrew and Harriet (Lawrence) Alexander, the former of whom was of sturdy Scotch lineage and the latter of German ancestry in the paternal line. The original American progenitor of the Alexander family was Elias Alexander, who was born and reared in Scotland, whence he removed . into England and thence emigrated to America in the colonial days, locating in Maryland, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits. There he marrietl a Miss Bradley, and they later removed to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where they passed the remainder of their lives. His son Isaac was born in Washington county, and there he continued to be a farmer until his death. His son Plenry was likewise born in that county, and there was solemnized his marriage to Miss Mary Young, who was of Scottish ancestry, and both died there. Their son Joseph was born and reared in Washington county and there married Miss Jeanette Montgomery, being of partly French extraction and the same family line as General Montgomery of Revolutionary fame. Joseph Alexander, like his fatheii and grandfather, was a farmer in his native county, which continued to lie his home until his death. His son Andrew, the maternal grandfather of the subject of this review, was born on the old home farm in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and there he recei\-ed an academic education. He became a prominent and influential citizen in his section of the Keystone state, where he was engaged in merchandising and also in the mining of coal, which he shipped to points as far distant as New Orleans, utilizing flatboats on the Ohio and Mississippi ri\'erts. He owned a mercantile establishment in Fredericktown and also a valuable farm in the vicinity. He took a prominent part in public affairs and was for a number of years captain in the state militia. In his native county Andrew Alexander was married to Miss Harriet Lawrence, whose ancestors came from the Rhine district of Germany to the United States in order to escape religious persecutions, the name having been originalh' spelled Lorenz. They settled in Maryland, whence members of the family later removed to Fayette count}-. Pennsylvania, where Harriet (Lawrence) Alexander was horn, being a daughter of Jonathan Lawrence, /.ho was a son of William, the emigrant ancestor. In an early day Anilrew Alexander came to Ohio aiid i)iu"chascfl a farni in Dela- ware county, after which he returned to Pennsylvania for his family, but was taken ill and (lid not live to establish his home in the Bucke3'e state, his death occurring in his native county in 1853. His widow came to Ohio to join her children, and here passed the remainder of her life. Of their children brief record is as follows : William was for a number of years a prominent member of the Stark county bar, and here remained until 1868, when he removed to the city of Toledo, where he was engaged in the insurance business until his death; Jeanette jNI. married Colonel Benjamin F. Pond, of Malta, Morgan county ; Permelia Matilda is the mother of the subject and still maintains her home in Canton ; Montgomery D. is a representative citizen of Canton ; Henry Duncan is likewise an honored resident of this city; Harriet Louisa is the wife of Daniel Walters, of Oskaloosa, Iowa ; West L. is a resident of Canton and is individually mentioned elsewhere in this volume; Sarah Isadore married D. K. Allender and died in Canton, and Emma Josephine married William Cox and died in Canton. The children born to JMr. and Mrs. Clark were as follows: The subject; Andrew L.. born November 26, 1863: Margaret, October 25, 1870, and Grace, born September 12, 1877.

William H. Clark was about six years of age at the time when his parents took up their residence in Canton, and here he has since maintained bis home and here risen to a position of prominence in the business life of the city and in the esteem and good will of the community. He secured his educational discipline in the public schools of Canton. ha\-ing been graduated in the high school as a member of the class of 1878. Mr. Clark is secretary and treasurer of the Ohio Millers' Fire Insurance Company, while his other business interests are important. He is president of the Savings and Loan Company, vice-president of the First National Bank of Canton, a director in the City National Bank, president of the Sanitary Mdk Company and vice-president of the J. H. McLain Company of Canton, manufacturers of heating boilers and radiators. He is a man of excellent business and executi\e talent, progressive in his ideas and publicspirited in his attitude, being loyal to the interests of his home city and ever ready to aid legitimate undertakings for the general good. In politics Mr. Clark is found arrayed as a stalwart advocate of the principles of the Republican party, but he has never manifested an iota of political ambition in the seeking of official preferment. He is a valued member of the First Presbyterian church, in whose faith he was reared from his childhood. Mr. Clark has not as yet joined the ranks of Benedicts, but is one of the distinctively popular bachelors of Canton, where his frdends are in number as his acquaintances.

JULIUS WHITING, Jr., is an able member of the bar of Stark county and a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of the city and county in which he now lives and of which he is a native son. His ancestral history betokens long and prominent identification of the name witl: the annals of American history, the original American progenitor having come from England and taken up his abode in the colony of Massachusetts prior to the middle of the seventeenth century. From a history of Lynn, Massachusetts, compiled by Arnold Lewis, who had recourse to town and colony records of divers orders, we are able to quote interesting passages apropos of the ancestral history of the subject, and these extracts cannot fail of permanent value as here entered. It may be said that the town of Lynn was founded in 1629, and vmder date of 1636 is found reference to the original progenitor of the Whiting family in America. In the folj£37rf ifU ^'.^. i'ifi//i.

1636. - The Rev. Samuel Whiting arrived from England in June and was installed pastor of the church of Lynn on Tuesday, November 8th. The council remained two days and found much difficulty in organizing the church, which was composed of only six members besides the minister. (16.37) The Rev. Thomas Cobbet arrived from England on June 26th and was installed colleague in the ministry with Mr. Whiting. Mr. Whiting was styled the pastor and Mr. Cobbet was called teacher. On November isth the name of the town was changed from Sangus to Lynn. The name was given in respect to Mr. Whiting and others who came from the town of Lynn Regis, or King's Lynn, in Norfolk, England. (1638) In an apportionment of the public lands is found "Mr. Samuel Whiting, the pastor, two hundred acres." (1657-63) Mr. Samuel Whiting testified in court and in 1663 addressed a letter, written in a handsome manner, to the county clerk at Ipswich, from the church of Lynn. (1679) In the number of ministers of New England there were few who deserved a higher celebrity for the purity of their character and the fervor of their piety than the Rev. Samuel Whiting.

Mr. Whiting was born at Boston, in Lincolnshire, England, on November 20, 1597. His father, John Whiting, was mayor of that city in 1600 and 1608, and his brother John obtained the same office in 1655. Having completed his studies in the school of his birthplace, he entered the university at Cambridge, where he had for his classmate his cousin, Anthony Tuckney, afterwards master of St. John's College, with whom he commenced a friendship which was not quenched by the waters of the Atlantic. He received impressions of piety at an early age. Having taken his degree, he entered holy orders and became chaplain to a family of five ladies and two knights, Sir Nathaniel Bacon and Sir Roger Townsend, with whom he resided three years. He then went to Lynn, England, where he spent three years more, with Mr. Price as his colleague. While at this place complaints were made to the bishop of Norwich of his nonconformity in administering the services of the church, on which he was removed to Skirbick. There the complaints were renewed, on which he determined to sell his possessions and embark for America. He remarked : "I am going into the wilderness to sacrifice unto the Lord and 1 will not leave a hoof behind me."

Mr. Whiting sailed from England in the beginning of April, 1636, and arrived in Boston May 26th. He was very seasick on the passage, during which he preached but one sermon. He observed that he "would much rather have undergone six weeks of imprisonment for a good cause than si.^ weeks of such terrible seasickness." He came to Lynn in June and was installed on November 8th at the age of thirty-nine. He was admitted to the privilege of a freeman December 17th. His residence was nearly opposite the meeting house in Shepherd street. An anecdote related by him will serve to illustrate his character. In one of his excursions to a neighboring town he stopped at a tavern where a company were reveling. As he passed the door he thus addressed them: "Friends, if you are sure your sins are pardoned, you may be wisely merry." He is reputed to have been a man of good learning and an excellent Hebrew scholar. In 1649 he delivered a Latin oration at Cambridge, a copy of which is preserved in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He possessed great command over his passions and was extremely mild and affable in his deportment, and his countenance was generally illumed with a smile. He was chosen moderator in several ecclesiastical councils and appears to have been generally respected.

In the latter part of his life Mr. Whiting was afflicted by a complication of disorders and endured many hours of most excruciating pain. But his patience was inexhaustible and his strength enabled him to continue the performance of the public services till a very advanced age, in which he was assisted by his youngest son, Joseph. A short time before his deatli he presented to the general court a claim for five hundred acres of land, which he had by deed of gift from his brother-in-law, Richard Westland, an alderman of Boston, in England, who had loaned money to the colony of Massachusetts. As the claim had been some time due, the court allowed him six hundred acres. He made his \vill February 25, 1679. He commenced thus : "After my committing of my dear flock unto the tender care of that great and good Shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ." He gave his son Samuel, at Billerica, his house and four hundred acres of land, valued at three hundred and sixty-two pounds, and fourteen acres of marsh at Lynn. He remembered his daughters at Roxbury and Topsfield, and bequeathed his orchard, dwelling house and eight acres of land at Lynn to his son Joseph. His money and place amounted to five hundred and seventy pounds, fifteen shillings, six pence. He died on the nth of December, 1679, at the age of eighty-two, having preached at Lynn forty-three years. His death called forth a highly bombastic eulogy from the pen of Benjamin Thompson, of Braintree, the first American poet. The following epitaph was applied to him by Cotton Mather ;

"In Christ I lived and died, and yet I live; My dust to earth, my soul to Christ I give." ]\Ir. Whiting published several works, the principal of which are the following: A Latin oration, delivered at Cambridge on commencement day, 1649; a ser- moil delivered before the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, of Boston, 1660; a discourse on the Last Judgment, 1664; "Abraham's Humble Intercession for Sodom, and the Lord's Gracious Answer in Concession Thereto," 1666.

Mr. Whitnig married two wives in England. By his first wife he had three children, two of whom were sons, who, with their mother, died in England. The other was a daughter, who came with her father to America and married Thomas Weld, of Roxbury. His second wife was Elizabeth St. John, of Bedfordshire, to u-hom he was married in 1630. She came to Lynn with her husband and died iNIarch 3, 1677, aged seventy-two years. She not only assisted her husband in writing his sermons, but also by her care and prudence relieved him of all attention to temporal concerns. By her he had six children - four sons and two daughters. One daughter married the Rev. Jeremiah Hobart, of Topsfield, and one son and one daughter died at Lynn. The other three sons received their education at Cambridge. They were Rev. Samuel Whiting. Jr. ; Rev. John Whiting and Rev. Joseph Whiting.

The Rev. Samuel Whiting, Jr., was born in England in 1633. He studied with his father at Lynn and graduated at Cambridge in 1653. He was ordained minister at Billerica November 1 1, 1663, and died February 28, 1713, aged seventy-nine years. The name of his wife was Dorcas and they had ten children - Elizabeth, Samuel, Rev. John (minister at Lancaster, and killed by Indians September II, 1697, aged thirty-three), Oliver, Dorothy. Joseph, James, Eunice, Benjamin (died in infancy), and Benjamin (2d). Rev. John Whiting (son ot Samuel, Sr.) graduated at Cambridge in 1653. He returned to England, became a minister of the established church and died at Leverton, in Lincolnshire, very e.xtensively respected. Rev. Joseph Whiting graduated in 1661. He was ordained at Lynn October 6, 1680, and soon afterward removed to Southampton, Long Ishmd. He married Sarah Danforth, of Cambridge, daughter of Thomas Danforth, deputy governor, by whom he had six children, born at Lynn, and of these all except the first and sixth died within a few weeks of their birth.

The history of Torrin^ton, Ci mnecticiit, gives the .-^ame general ontline of the family history, and says of Joseph, who removed to Long Island, as noted, that he continued to preach in the church at Southampton until his death, in \~-^- llis son Samuel lived in tliat town, where he married. He had three sons, Benjamin, Stejihen and Jo.seph. Benjamin married in Walling turd, Connecticut, in 1720, and later --ettled in Meriilen, that state. In

1734 he purchased three full rights of land, a part of which he gave to his sons John and Benjamin, both of whom settled in Torrington, Connecticut. Of Stephen Whiting there is no record e.xtant. Joseph married and settled in .Stamford, Connecticut. John Whiting, son of Benjamin, was born November 23, 1723, and married Sarah Foster, who bore him eleven children, from the fifth of whom, John, Jr., the line of descent is traced to tlic subject of this .sketch.

John Whiting, Jr., was born July 24, 1758, and died March 19, 1830. In 1778 he was united in marriage to Miss Sylvia Loomis, who was born January 7, 1760. and who died June

Abuer ^\'hiting, eldest son of John, removed from Connecticut to Lewis county, New York, taking up his residence in Copenhagen, He married Asiruth Clark, and they became the parents of the following named children : Roxy. who was born July 13. 1805. died December 13, 1839: FTar\ey M.. who was Ix^rn .\]iril 14,

Harvey M. Whiting, son of Abner and Asiruth (Clark) Whiting, married Louisa Clark, and of their children three are living at the present time, namely : Franklin M., who was born November 21, 1838 ; Anna, who was born April 14, 1840, and is unmarried; and Mary Aurelia, who was born April 23, 1843, and who is the wife of Ashbel Humphrey. Franklin M. married Ophelia Wapple and they became the parents of three children.

Ira Whiting, second son of John and Sylvia (Loomis) Whiting, and grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in Colebrook, Litchfield county, Connecticut, on the 28th of November, 1 780, and he there died on the 26th of March, 1843. ^^ married Elizabeth Conklin, who was likewise a representative of an old New England family, and they became the parents of five children, namely : Lorenza Miles, who came to Canton, Ohio, in 1838, and who was for many years one of the leading physicians of this county, where he died in 1884. He married Mary Marshall and they became the parents of one son, Julius, who died in early boyhood, and two daughters, Kate C. and Harriet F., the former of whom was the wife of Alfred S. Huntington, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; she died April 10, 1903. Julius, the second son, was the father of the subject of this sketch. The other sons were John Harrison, A. Wellington and Samuel.

having been there engaged in agriculture. He attended school until he had attained the age of sixteen years, and thereafter was engaged in teaching for one winter term at Barkhamstead. At the age of seventeen he became a clerk in a mercantile establishment in his native town, and was thus employed for five years, and thereafter he was similarly engaged at Amherst, Massachusetts, until 1840, when he came to Canton, Ohio, on a visit to his brother and the following year returned to make Canton his home, where he passed the remainder of his life. Here he secured employment as teller in the old Farmers' Bank, and after the failure of that institution, in 1844, he returned to Connecticut to settle up his father's estate and in 1845 lis returned to Canton and a few years later he associated himself with Isaac Harter, Martin Wikidal and Peter P. Trump in organizing the Savings Deposit Bank, of which he continued a cashier and general manager until 1 861, when his health became so impaired as to necessitate his retirement. He became one of the representative business men and influential citizens of Canton, and he ever commanded the unqualified confidence and esteem of the community. He lived to attain the patriarchal age of eighty years, his death occurring on the 14th of June, 1896. When the village of Canton put on the importance of cityhood Mr. Whiting had established the financial institution already referred to. Through wars and peace, through panic and prosperity, its permanent utility has vindicated the wisdom of his methods. That institution, and its off shoots, have been controlling factors in the city's economic development. Mr. Whiting's successors in control have gracefully accorded to him, as their schoolmaster in finance, the honor of having put banking in Canton upon that safe and conservative basis which has always distinguishe^l its commercial affairs.

publican party he transferred his allegiance to the same and was ever afterward a stanch advocate of its principles. His religious faith was that of the Presbyterian church. After his marriage he resided for a time in Snyder's hotel, which was located near .the court-house, and about 1S50 he purchased property just east of the Methodist Episcopal church, on West Tuscarawas street, and there resided eleven years, the place now being owned by Dr. A. J. Douds. In 1 86 1 he purchased the present family homestead, opposite the residence of the late lamented President McKinley, on North IVIarket street, and there he resided until the close of his long and useful life.

In 1847 ^I''- Whiting was united in marriage to Mis5 Harriet K. Stidger, who was born in Canton, this county, on the Blh of January, 1818, and who has ever maintained her home here, having witnessed the development of the city from the condition of a straggling hamlet in the miilst of the forest to a position as an attractive and opulent industrial and residence city. She is still living', and in the golden evening of her gracious life she is loved and revered by the wide circle of friends whom she has gathered about her during the long years of her residence in Canton. She is a daughter of General George Stidger, who emigrated to Canton from Baltimore, ^Maryland, in 1806, becoming one of the early settlers in Stark county, where he died in 1826. He served with distinction in the war of 18 12, with the rank of general, and was a man of fine mentality and impregnable integrity, having wielded marked influence in the pioneer community during the years of his residence in Ohio and having been a member of an old and iionored family of Maryland. Of the four children of Julius and Harriet (Stidger) Whiting we enter the following brief record : Laura and Mary Elizabeth died in infancy; Julius is the immediate subject of this sketch ; and Helen Frances was the

Julius Whiting, Jr., was born in Canton, on the 6th of June, 1855, and here he received his elementary educational training in the public schools. At the age of twelve years he entered the military academy at Spring"field, Ohio, while later he continued his studies in a select school at Painesville, this state. His father's health at this time had become so precarious that it was deemed advisable for our subject to remam at home, and accordingly he returned to Canton, where he attended a private school for the following two years. In 1872 he was matriculated in the Western Reserve College, at Hudson, Ohio, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1876, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1879 his alma mater conferred upon him the Master's degree. After leaving the Western Reserve College Mr. Whiting took a post-graduate course in Harvard College, and he then entered the law department of that institution, where he continued his technical studies for two years, and in September, 1879, he was duly admitted to the bar of Ohio. Thus he came to the active work of his profession with an excellent equipment, having spared no effort to thoroughly familiarize himself with the minutiae of the law and with the basic principles of the science of jurisprudence. He established himself in the practice of his profession in his native city, and he soon proved his powers as an advocate and counselor so that popular appreciation was manifested in the representative clientage which he succeeded in securing and wbicli he has retained during all periods of his career at the bar. Mr. Whiting has the valuable faculties of concentration and close application, and, with a full appreciation of the dignity and responsibility of the profession, he never presents a case without careful preparation, while by his strict observance of the unwritten code of ethics he has com- mended himself to the esteem and confidence of his confreres at the bar, and is known as one of the able and representative lawyers of the county and state. It has been his to hold the intimate friendship of many of the distinguished men of Ohio, including the lamented President McKinley and also Senator Hanna, while he has been a recognized leader in the local ranks of the Republican party, in whose councils he has taken part and whose cause he has ever endeavored to further so far as lay within his power, having rendered effective service in various campaigns and having been one of the stanchest admirers and supporters of President McKinley, whom he had known from his boyhood days. He is a man of genial and unassuming personality and has the high regard of all classes of citizens in his native place, in whose welfare he has a deep and abiding interest. Unlike many others, Mr. Whiting never came to regard his education as a thing that had been completed by his college life. His student habits have clung to him. Neither his professional duties, nor interest in governmental affairs, have been allowed to stand in the way of that broad culture which has kept him abreast of the best thought of his times. His familiarity with the incidents and results of modern research, and with general literature, give him an equipment and an authority which is rarely conceded to any one. It is largely due to these facts that Mr. Whiting has attached to himself a circle of such influential and distinguished friendships, both at his home and throughout the country.

On the 9th of November, 1881, Mr. Whiting was united in marriage to Miss Harriet M. Gregory, who was born in Hudson, Summit county, Ohio, being a daughter of Dr. Edwin S. and Clara (Baldwin) Gregory, and being a representative of old and influential American families - the Gregorys, Baldwins and Hudsons, members of the last mentioned family having been the founders of the town of

Hudson, Ohio, and descendants of Henry Hudson, the first explorer of the river which bears his name. Mr. and Mrs. Whiting have one child, Helen A.

DAVID ZOLLARS was born February 19, 1828, in Harrison county, Ohio. When he was a mere lad the family moved to a farm several miles south of Canton. At the age of nineteen Mr. Zollars entered the store of the late Isaac Harter, Sr. After several years he became a partner in the business under the firm name of Isaac Harter & Company, which continued for three years. JVfr. Zollars then went into the employ of the Farmers and Mechanics store for three years. At the end of this time Mr. Harter sold his entire stock to Mr. Zollars and Samuel Baird, who continued the business at the old location, under the firm name of Zollars & Baird, for eighteen months, when the latter retired. Mr. Zollars conducted the business alone for some years, when Peter E. Barlet was taken into the firm, under the name of Zollars & Company. In 1884 Lewis R. Zollars was taken into partnership, the firm name remaining unchanged. After the death of Mr. Barlet, it was changed to David Zollars & Son, and has so continued. The present business location has been occupied as a general merchandise store and dry goods house for sixty-five years. A frame building stood there until replaced by the fine brick building erected by Isaac Harter, Sr., and now occupied by the firm, and where Mr. Zollars Sr., has, in capacity of clerk and proprietor, spent fifty-seven years, a business career of unusual length, distinguished by the strictest integrity and rewarded by success, not only in a pecuniary way, but by an enviable reputation in the community.

]n 1856 Mr. Zollars united with the Baptist church, of which he has been a consistent and enthusiastic member. For twenty-five years continuously he was superintendent of the Sabbath school, resigning a few years ago. During all the time of his most exacting business career he always found time for personal service in the church and was ready, with open hand, for its support.

Mr. Zollars is one of the directors of the Central Savings Bank, and a trustee of Dennison University, located at Granville, Ohio. During the time of Governor McKinley's administration, the latter offered Mr. Zollars a place on the board of one of the charitable institutions at Columbus, which, for business reasons, Mr. Zollars could not accept.

LORENZO M. WHITING, M. D. - To epitomize the life and character of the late Dr. Whiting within the limits which this work allows is impossible. The stalwart proportions of his living presence were realized in the void made by his death. But less than most men intellectually his equal does he need the voice of eulogy, for "his works do follow him." Concerning the family genealogy adequate data is given in the sketch of his brother, Julius Whiting, appearing on another page of this work, so that this memoir need touch only the life and services of the Doctor himself.

Lorenzo Miles Whiting, the eldest in a family of five sons, was born in Colebrook, Litchfield county, Connecticut, on the 27th of February, 181 1, the family being of fine old English extraction and having been establislied in New England in the early colonial epoch. There the name has been one of prominence durine' manv successive generations, while its representatives are now to be found in the most diverse sections of the Union. The Doctor was a son of Ira Whiting and a grandson of John Whiting, concerning both of whom more specific mention is made in the sketch of Julius Whiting, to which reference has already been made. The Doctor was reared to the sturdy discipline of a New England farm, where he v\axed strong in both mental and physical vigor, while his rudimentary education was received in the common schoools of the locality and period. He continued his studies in a school at Sandisfield, Berkshire county, ]\Iassachusetts, and at the age of eighteen he began teacliing school, continuing to devote his attention most successfully to pedagogic work for several years. As a young man he went to Perth Aniboy, New Jersey, and he retained vivid recollections of old CouDUodore \ anderbilt and his family, the Commodore having been the founder of the present noted family of the name. The Doctor recalled in later years the circumstances of having seen Mrs. A'anderbilt cross over to New York city with a little boat laden with vegetables, which she was taking to market, her transportation facilities being somewhat different from those controlled by her descendants of this century.- The Doctor later attended Williams College, in ]\Iassachusetts, and was graduated in the medical department of this institution as a member of the class of 1835. Shortly afterward he went to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he entered upon the practice of his profession, but after a brief interval his health became seriously impaired and he \vas thus led to come to Canton, Ohio, in which village he made his advent in 1836, in response to an invitation from two of his boyhood friends, Hiram Griswold and Elijah P. Grant, who were here established in the practice of law and who assured him that this would be a favorable place for him to recuperate his physical energies. They finally induced him to make a permanent location in Canton, and he accordingly established himself in the practice of his profession in the pioneer town and he became widely known as one of the most eminent and scholarly pliysicians of the state, while he wielded a marked influence in local affairs. He was a man of wide erudition and was an able writer and speaker. He wrote many essays of fine literary merit and was a valued contributor to the Ohio Medical Journal, published in the city of Columbus, while he also became one of the censors connected with the Charity Hospital and Medical College of the city of Clevelarcd, and in this institution delivered many lecture before the students. He was not only tlioronghly read in the sciences of medicine and surgery, but also devoted much attention to original investigation and research along scientific lines, particularly as bearing on his profession. He was among the very first to adopt the germ theory of disease, and made extensive researches in the line, doing much to fortify the votaries of this so-called innovation ill holding to the theory which is now common!}' accepted, while he wrote many monographs and al)le treatises on the subject. Dr. Whiting contiiuied in the active practice of his profession until 1879, when he received a stroke of paralysis, which compelled him to abandon active labor, and thereafter he lived practically retired until his death, which occurred on the 30th of June, 1884, at which time he was seventy-three years of age. His skill and ability in his profession gained to him the highest prestige and his genial and gracious personality won to him warm and enduring friendships, which were ever held inviolable.

During the crucial epoch leading up to and culminating in the war of the Rebellion Dr. H' biting was known as an uncompromising abolitionist, and he was one of those prominently concerned in the operation of the famous "underground railway," by means of which so many slaves were assisted to freedom, lie often rose in the middle of the night and with his own conveyance carried a fleeing slave to Marlboro,' the next station on this socalled railway, while during the war he was one of the most ardent supporters of the Union. At the outbreak of this great conflict he \vas summoned to Columbus as a member of the board of examiners for surgeons, in which capacity he rendered most effective service. He was afterward appointed examining surgeon for the pro\-ost marshal's board of the seventeenth district of Ohio and served in that capacity until the close of the war. After the war he was made a member of the board of pension examiners for Stark county, retaining this incumbency until 1880, when he resigned the office by reason of his pliysical infirmities. As a young man he became an earnest worker in the temperance cause, of which he ever afterward continued a stanch advocate, while his helpful influence was extended in many ways, for he had a deep knowledge of the springs of human thought and action and his tolerance and charity were unbounded, his aim ever being to "do good unto all men." His benevolences were extended with a lavish hand and yet so unostentatiously tliat none save biniself and the recipient of his favors knew of them. A man of recondite knowledge, a clear and logical thinker and one who had at all times the courage of his convictions, he was an agnostic in religion, though he maintained the deepest reverence for the spiritual verities and he so lived as to well merit the unqualified commendation which was given to Abou Ben Adem. In politics the Doctor was originally a member of the Whig party, later identifying himself with the Free Soil organization, being one of the two men who voted its ticket in Stark county, while at the inception of the Republican party he transferred his allegiance to the same and ever afterward remained a stalwart advocate of its principles. He was active in its cause and was a delegate to one of the conventions which nominated the late President McKinley for congress, while he was a warm personal friend of tiie martyred President.

No physician in Stark county stood in higher estimation with the profession, and he Avas one of the prominent and valued members of the Northeastern Ohio Medical Society and also of the Canton Medical Society, of which last he was one of the founders. His genial personality and distinguished attainm.ents drew to him the friendship of many prominent men, and at his home he delighted in entertaining such persons, among whom may be mentioned the late Salmon P. Chase, Horace Greeley, Rev. John Pierpont, Parker Pillsbnry and Theodore Parker, the renowned Unitarian clergyman. The Doctor was at one time a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he passed the various official chairs. The Doctor was a man of fine physique, standing six feet in height, distinguished in presence and of marked symmetry of features, his face indicating the patrician stock and the high intellectual faculties with which he was endowed. He had a rare appreciation of the humorous, and was a most entertaining reconteur and conversationalist, greatly enjoying the amenities of refined society. Dr. Whiting was a man who stood four s(|uare to every wind that blows, and standing in the light of such a noble life and character, we cannot but be moved to a feeling of veneration and distinctive appreciation, while his in- .fluenct for good must continue in ever widening angle, through the lives and labors of those upon whom it was so beneficently exerted.

In conclusion we will turn briefly to the domestic chapter in the life history of the honored su1)iect. In Colebrook, Connecticut, on the i.|th of September, 1837, Dr. Whiting was united in marriage to Miss Mary Marshall, a friend of his childhood days. She was born in Colebrook on the 23d of October, 181 1, being a daughter of Roswell and Sophia (Bass) Marshall. The Marshall family is of fine English lineage, coming on one side of the Tudor stock, and it was early established in tlie colony of Massachusetts, whence representatives later went to Connecticut. Ihe Bass family was also established in New England in the early colonial days, being likewise of English extraction. Mrs. Whiting died in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1864, while absent on a visit, and her remains were interred beside those of her husband, in Westlawn cemetery, Canton. Dr. and Mrs. Whiting became the parents of three children, concerning whom the followijig is brief data : Julius died at the age of four years ; Harriet resides at ] 34 North Cleveland avenue. Canton, and Kate C, who died April 10, 1903, was the wife of Alfred S. Huntington, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and they had one son and five daughters.

HON. GEORGE W. RAFF. - The paternal ancestry of Mr. Raff was of stanch German origin, the name having been Von Rafifensberger as held by the ancestry in Germany, while the American line first dropped the prefi.x "von" and later eliminated the terminology until the present form came into use, while the family was established in America in the early period of the settlement of Pennsylvania, where the original progenitors in the new world took up their abode. George W. Raff represented one of the pioneer families of Stark county, having been born in Tuscarawas township, on the 24th of March, 1825. His father, William Raflf, was born in Pennsylvania, whence he came to Ohio at an early day, locating in Stark county, and he died when his son George was a child, having been a man of a high order of intellectuality and having been for a number of years a successful school teacher. Owing to the death of his father the subject of this memoir was compelled to assnine personal responsibilities when he was a mere boy, doing- his part in supporting the other members of the family. On this account his early educational advantages were very liinited in scope, but one of so alert mentality could not he permanenth' handicapped in this respect, and throug-h his own efforts Judge Raff became possessed of a broad and liberal education. He began to depend upon his own resources when about tweh-e years of age, and after living for a few years in the village of Bethlehem he came to Canton, where he was given a clerical position in the office of the county recorder, his uncle, Daniel Raff, having been incumbent of the office at the time. Later he became a clerk in the mercantile establishment of Mr. Wikidal, but his inclinations soon led him to rejoin his family, who were still living in Bethlehem. After a time the entire family came to Canton, and for a short period Mr. Raff was again employed in the recorder's office, under Arnold Lynch. Li 1844 his uncle, Daniel Raff, was elected to the office of county clerk, and our subject was tendered the position of second deputy, Thomas Goodman, now of Chicago, being the first deputy. Mr. Raff remained in the clerk's office until 1850, and within this time had become chief deputy, wh.ile in addition to this he had lieen appointed clerk of the circuit court. He continued in tenure of both positions, and through the kindly action of his uncle he was afforded an opportunity to take up the study of law, his uncle employing another person to relieve him of the more onerous duties devolving upon him as deputy clerk. Thus, in June. 1848, he became a student in the law office of Hiram Griswold, who was then considered the head of the Stark county bar, and in July, 1850, he was duly admitted to the bar of the state, upon examination before the supreme court, then in session at Bucyrus, this body at the time being alone empowered to admit candidates to practice in the courts of the conimonwealth. Shortly afterward Mr. Raff resigned the two clerkships noted, and went to New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas county, Avith the expectation of establishing himself in practice in that place, but owing to the fact that conditions there proved unfavorable to his health he returned to Canton, where he entered into a professional co-partnership with James D. Brown, and here initiated his successful professional career. He had been a close student and was at this time well grounded in the principles of jurisprudence, while from his boyhood days he had been an omniverous reader of good literature and had shown the marked assimilative power which ever characterized his mental equipment.

Li the autumn of 185 1 Mr. Raff yielded to the importunities of his friends and became the candidate of the Democratic party for the office of judge of the probate court of Stark county, being at the time but little more than twenty-six years of age. His nomination received a flattering endorsement at the polls and he was elected to this responsible and dignified office by a gratifying majority. The probate court had just been created, under the provision of the new state constitution, and he organized the same in this county, showing marked discrimination in systematizing the business and placing it upon the basis which has virtually Ijeen retained ever since that time. Li 1855, at the expiration of his term of office. Judge Raff formed a law partnership with John Lahum, the firm attaining high prestige, while Judge Raff, became known as one of the most eminent and successful members of the bar of the county. He was a man of well rounded character, finely balanced mind and splendid intellectual attainments, and several of his published works touching the f|uestions of law remain as perpetual and worthy monuments to his ability. One of his first works was entitled "A Guide to Executors and Administrators in the State of Ohio," while the same is generally known as Raff's Guide, the work Ijeing based upon liis wide and compreliensi\e experience in tlie work of tlie probate court and being one of distinctive value. In 1862, at the request of Robert Clarke, the well known publisher of the city of Cincinnati, Judge Raff prepared a Pension Manual, for the benefit of persons having claims against the government in connection with the war of 1812. and the Mexican and Civil wars, but later, on account of the rapid legislation then found necessary, and by reason of the frecjuent and multifarif)us changes made in existing and bounty laws, it was deemed expedient to issue an entirely new manual, and this work was carefully taken in hand b\- Judge Raff, the result being the publication of the valuable volume known as the W'ar Claimant's Guide. In 1863, at the suggestion of the same publisher. Judge Raff prepared a comprehensive work on the road laws of the state of Ohio, the same being held as an authoritative exposition of the subject.

In 1870 Judge Raff formed another professional alliance, associating himself in practice with George E. Baldwin, under the firm name of Raff & Baldwin, and he continued thereafter in the active practice of law in Canton alx)ut a year, when his health became so impaired that he was led to withdraw from general practice, and he then entered the employ of Cornelius Aultman. the well-known manufacturer and capitalist of Canton, in the capacity of confidential agent, secretary and attorney, and he continued to be thus engaged until the death of Mr. Aultman. on the 26th of December, 1884. Judge Raff was then appointed one of the administrators of the estate. In 1888, Judge flaff, in company with his son Edward, organized the Central Savings Bank of Canton, of which he became president and his son cashier, and on the 14th of April of the same year Judge Raff was summoned into eternal rest, after years of signal honor and usefulness, and- the community was called upon to mourn the loss of one of its best citizens. Dr. Peter Barr was then elected president of the bank, and a few years later Edward Raft' resigned his position of cashier and was elected to the presidency of the institution, retaining this incumbenc}' until his death, on the ist of February, iQor, at Tucson, Arizona, whither he had gone a month previously in the hope of recuperating his health. Judge Raff was a man of strong individuality and indubitable i)robity, and his influence was ever exerted in the furtherance of all that was good and true, so that, standing in the white light of his exalted character and worthy career, we gain anew a respect for all that sterling manhood represents.

In politics Judge Raff ga\e his allegiance to the Democratic party, but in local affairs he was liberal in his attitude, while he was ever public-spirited, taking a deep interest in all that tended to conserve the prosperity and progress of his home city, to which he was deeply attached. He was a devoted member of Trinity Lutheran church and gave a liberal support to all departments of its specific work and also to its collateral benevolences, while for a quarter of a century he was the leader of the choir of the church, having been possessed of fine musical talent and having a well trained and sympathetic baritone voice.

On the 1 8th of December, 1855, Judge Raff was united in marriage to Miss Belinda J. Schneider, who survi\-es him and who still resides in the Canton homestead, which is endeared to her by the memories and associations of the past. She was born in Chambersburg, Eranklin county, Pennsylvania, on the i8th of February, 1828, being a. daughter of Frederick Alexander Schneider, who was born in the village of Houburg, near the city of Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, on the 23d of October, 1790, and who passed the major portion of his early life in the city of Hamburg. His father. Frederick Schneider, was a colonel in the Prussian army, and had his official head- quarters in the town of Houburg-, wliile his family resided in Hamburg the greater po'tion of the time. The father of Mrs. Raff was sent to America when but eighteen years of age, in order that he might escape tiie merciless conscription pre\'aiHng (hu'ingthe Napoleonic \vars. and he landed in the city of Philadelphia, where he was for several years employed as clerk in a hardware establishment, after which, in company with a friend, he went to Chambersburg', that state, where they became associated in establishing a hardware business. In that town Mr. Schneider was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca Faber, and in 1829 they removed with their family to what was then the village of Canton, Ohio, where he opened the first hardware store in the town, while it has been stated that this was the first established west of the Alleghany mountains. Here he continued to be actively engaged in business until 1857, after which year he lived retired until his death, which occurred on the 27th of February, 1864, his remains being interred in Westlawn Cemetery. His wife passed away on the 4th of April, 1887, at the venerable age of eighty-three 3^ears, both having been zealous members of the Lutheran church. Mr. Schneider was one of the influential citizens of Canton in the pioneer days, and was president of the village council at one time. Of their nine children we enter the following record, the two eldest having lieen born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and the others in Canton : Margaret, who became the wife of Charles Cranz. died in California in 1893. Belinda is the widow of the subject of this memoir. Anton G. died in Massillon, this county, in 190T. Frederick A. is a resident of San Jose, California. Louis B. maintains his home in the city of Omaha, Nebraska. Edward F., who was a brave soldier and officer in the war of the Rebellion, attaining the rank of brigadier general at the close of the war, and who died in Europe, in 1873. having gone abroad for the purpose of recruiting his health.

Henrietta, the widow of Captain James Wallace, died in Canton on the 9th of December, 1900. He was a valiant soldier in the Avar of the Rebellion and in the battle of Fredericksbiu^g received a wound which necessitated the amputation of one of his legs. After the operation he was sent to a hospital near the city of Washington, and, in company with her aunt, Mrs. Brown, his fiancee went to his bedside to minister to him, and while he was thus lying on the bed of suffering their marriage was solemnized, and the same evening his spirit took its flight. Julia F., who became the wife of Captain William J. Broatch, who was an officer in the regular army and served during the Civil war, died in Canton in 1893, while here for a visit. Emma S. remained unmarried until her death, which occurred in 1873.

Judge and Mrs. Raff became the parents of two children, namely: Norman C, who is a resident of New York City, where he is eng^aged in business, married Mrs. Virginia (Duncan) Kingman ; and Edward, who was president of the Central Savings Bank at Canton, who died in February, 1901, as has already been noted.

HENRY WILLIAM HARTER, a representative niemlier of the bar of the county and at present an incumbent of the office of judge of the court of common pleas of the first subdivision of the ninth judicial district of Ohio, is a native of the city of Canton, having been born in the old family homestead, which stood on the site of the present First Methodist Episcopal church, on West Tuscarawas street, on the 9th of May, 1853, and being a son of Isaac and Amanda Z. (Moore) Harter. After availing himself of the advantages afforded in the public schools of Canton, Mr. Harter was matriculated in Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1874, receiving the de- gree of Bachelor of Arts. After leaving college he returned to his native city and began the study of the law, becoming a student in the office of the firm of Lynch & Day, under whose able preceptorship he continued his reading of the law for two years, after which he was a student in the law department of Columbia University, in the city of New York. He was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1877 and later was admitted to practice before the supreme court of the United States. He established himself in practice in Canton, and soon gained a high reputation as an able and discriminating advocate and counselor, while he continued in the active work of his profession for nearly a quarter of a century, having to do with nnich important litigation in both the state and federal courts and showing an unflagging devotion to his profession, from which his semi-retirement came only when he was called to the bench. In 1879 he was elected to the office of prosecuting attorney of Stark county, entering upon the discharge of his duties on the ist of January of the following year and continued to hold this position until January, 1885. During these years he added materialy to his reputation through his able service as prosecutor, handling the legal affairs of the county with consummate tact and discrimination and thus conserving the ends of justice. In 1901 he became the nominee of his party for the office of judge of the court of common pleas and was elected in the autumn of that year, without opposition, as the other party made no nomination for the office. On the bench Judge Harter has given an ad- .ministration which has fully justified the wisdom of the choice of the voters of the judicial district. The judge is a member of the firm of Isaac Harter & Sons, proprietors of the Savings Deposit Bank, one of the substantial and popular monetary institutions of the state and the oldest banking concern in the city of Canton, its establishment dating back to the year 1854. He is also vice-president of the George D.

Harter Bank, of this city ; vice-president of the Aultman & Taylor Machinery Company, of Mansfield, Ohio; and vice-president of the Bonnot Company, manufacturers of clay-working and cement machinery in Canton. Judge Harter is president of the Aultman Hospital Association and a member of the board of trustees of the Canton public librar}?, his interest in all that touches the welfare and progress of his native city being at all times insistent and helpful. In politics he has ever given an unqualified allegiance to the Republican party and has been an able advocate of its policies, though he has never sought official preferment save in the direct line of his profession.

Fraternally the Judge is identified w'ith McKinley Lodge. Free and .\ccepted Masons ; Canton Chapter No. 84, Royal Arch Masons; Canton Commandery No. 38, Knights Templar; Nimishillen Lodge No. 39, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; and Canton Lodge No. 68, Benevolent and Protecti\-e Order of Elks. He is a zealous member of Trinity Lutheran church.

At Westfield, New York, on the 23d of June, 1883, was solemnized the marriage of Judge Harter and Miss Annette H. Taylor, who was born in the town of Westfield, being a daughter of David H. and Harriet P. (Campbell) Taylor. Of this union have been born three children, namely : Henry ^^''.. Jr., who was born on the 30th day of December, 1886: David Taylor, who was born on the i8th of May, 1888, and who died on the ist of the following August; and Charles Stockton, who was born on the 13th of September, 1890.

WEST L. ALEXANDER. - The career of the gentleman whose name introduces this sketch is prominentlv identified with the insurance business in the city of Canton, where he is recognized as an alert, reliable and thoroughly progressive man. He was born on the parental homestead near Fredericktown, Washington county, Pennsylvania, on the 25th of April, 1847, being a son of Andrew and Harriet (Lawrence) Alexander, the former of whom was of Scottish and the latter of German ancestry. Andrew Alexander, father of the subject, was also a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and was a prominent and successful business man of his section of the old Keystone state, where he engaged in merchandising and also in the operation of coal mines, shipping large quantities of coal on tiat-boats down the Ohio river and also down the Mississippi as far as New Orleans. His enterprise in the line of merchandising was principally conducted in Fredericktown, in his native county, and in the immediate vicinity of that town he was the owner of a valuable farm. He was a man of prominence and influence in the community, taking part in public affairs and having been for a number of years captain of a company of state militia. He was united in marriage, in his native county, to Miss Harriet Lawrence, who, as previously stated, was of German descent, the name having originally been spelled Lorenz. The ancestors were residents of the Rhine district of Germany, whence the original representatives in the new world emigrated to escape religious persecutions, settling in Maryland, whence members of the family later removed to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where the mother of the subject was born, being a daughter of Jonathan Lawrence, who was a son of William, the emigrant ancestor. Some time after Andrew Alexander's marriage he came to Ohio and purchased land in Delaware county, though he subsequently returned to Pennsylvania for his family, but was soon afterwards taken ill and did not live to establish his home in the Buckeye state, his death occurring in his native county in 1853. His son William later came to Ohio for the purpose of disposing of the land in Delaware county, and after his arrival in the state determined to establish a permanent residence, taking up his residence in Mount Vernon, Knox county, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar, and whence he removed to Canton in 1859, where he was associated with W. Iv. Upham in the practice of his profession. Later he engaged in the insurance busmess and iri manufacturing in this city, where he remained until 1867, when he removed to tlie city of Toledo, where he devoted his attention to the insurance business until his death. He was a stanch supporter of the principles of the Republican party from the time of its organization and was a zealous member of the Baptist chvu'ch. as was also his wife, whose maiden name was Loretta Wise. Some time after the death of her husband the mother of the subject came to Canton to join her children, and her death occurred in this city.

As a rule the members of the Alexander family have been Presbyterians in their religious faith, while in politics the Whig and later the Republican party claimed allegiance from the majority of the representatives of the family. Of the children of Andrew and Harriet (Lawrence) Alexander we enter the following brief record: William, the eldest, has been already mentioned in this paragraph; Jeanette M. is the widow of Colonel Benjamin F. Pond, of Malta, Morgan county; Permela Matilda became the wife of John F. Clark, and of them more specific mention is made in the sketch of the life of their son, William H., of Canton, appearing on another page of this volume; Montgomery D., who married Miss Henrietta Hughes, of Greene county, Pennsylvania; Henry Duncan, who is engaged in the blacksmithing business in this city, married Miss Louisa Smith, of Canal Dover, Ohio; Harriet Louisa is the wife of Daniel Walton, of Oskaloosa, Iowa; West L., subject of this sketch, was the next in order of birth ; Sarah Isadore was the wife of D. K. Allemler, who died in Canton ; Emma Josephine married William Cox, of Greene county, Pennsylvania ; she died in Canton, where he now maintains his home.

"West L. Alexander passed his early childhood on the homestead farm near Fredericktown, Washington county, Pennsylvania, and his initial scholastic discipline was received under the tutorage of Joseph Baker, in Greene county, that state, while he continued his studies in the public schools of his native county until he had attained the age of thirteen years, when he came to Canton. Ohio, to join his brother and sister, who had here located. Here he continued his studies in the public schools, completing- a four years course in the high school. During the Civil war Mr. Alexander enlisted, in Canton, in the one hundred days' service, becoming a private in Company B. One Hundred and Sixty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He continued in active ser- ^-ice for five months, or until after the close of the war, after which he returned home. A short time later he was matriculated in Dennison University, at Granville, this state, where he remained as a student for two years. In 1868 he engaged in the general insurance business in Canton, and a year later he turned his attention to civil engineering, along which line he had received specific and technical instruction during his collegiate course, and to this vocation he continued to devote himself for four years, being successful in his operations as a railroad civil engineer. In 1874 he again became identified with the insurance business, being retained as special traveling agent for the Girard Company of Philadelphia, and Firemans, of Dayton, Ohio, after which he established a local insurance agenc\- in the city of Canton, representing a number of the leading fire and life companies, and here he has built up a large and important l)usiness. retaining a representative clientage and being recognized as one of the leading underwriters of this section of the state. He was one of those prominently concerned in the organization of the Canton public library and is a member of its directorate at the present time, while he also lent effective co-operation in the organization of the Aultman Hospital Association, of which institution he has ever since been .secreta^}^ In politics Mr. Alexander is a stalwart adherent of the Republican party, but has never sought official preferment, though he served for two years as a member of the city council. Fraternally he is identified with McKinley Post No. 25, Grand Army of the Republic, and also with the ^Masonic order and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

In the city of Canton, on the 8th of Septemlier, 1875. was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Alexander to ^liss Caroline Renick, daughter of the late Jonathan Renick, and of this union three children have been born : Edward R., who is engaged in the practice of law in the city of Washington, D. C. ; and Jeanette M. and Donald, who remain at the parental home.

GEORGE D. HARTER. - The strong, true men of a people are always public benefactors. Their usefulness in the immediate and specific labors they perform can be defined by metes and bounds; but the good they do through the forces they put in motion and through the inspiration of their presence and example is immeasurable by any finite .gauge or standard of value. The late George D. Harter was such a man. To epitumize his life and character witirin the limits which this work allows is impossil)le. But less than most men intellectually his equal does he need the voice of eulogy. A native son of the city of Canton, which was the scene of his mature labors, he left a distinct impress on the ci\'ic and industrial life of the c<uint\", wliile his oH'orts were so discerningly directed along' well defined lines that he seemed at any one designated point to have realized at that point the full measure of his possibilities for accomplishment.

George Dewalt Harter, who was summoned into eternal rest at his home in Canton, on the 6th of December, 1890, was born in the old family homestead, which was located on the site of the present Savings Deposit Bank, on south Public Square, in the city of Canton, the date of his nati\-ity having been Christmas day of the year 1843, so that he was but fort\'-seven years of age at the time of his demise, being called away in the very prime of his honorable and useful manhood. He was the third son of the late Isaac Harter, one of the honored pioneers and most influential citizens of the county, concerning whom a specific memoir appears on other pages of this work, so that a recapitulation of the family history will not be demanded in this connection. Mr. Harter received his early educational discipline in the public schools and at the age of sixteen was graduated in the Canton high school, with a record of high scholarship. Shortly afterward he was given the position of teller in the Savings Deposit Bank, of which Julius Whiting, Sr., was cashier at the time, and he was incumbent of this oflice at the time when the dark cloud of civil war began to obscure the national horizon. Though but eighteen years of age at the time, Mr. Harter gave prortipt evidence of his intrinsic patriotism by tendering his services in defence of the integrity of the Union. Concerning his military career the following tribute was ofl^ered at the time of his death by his lifelong friend and his comrade in the Rebellion, John J. Clark, of Canton. :

Comrade George D. Harter, whose early and untimely death we are called upon to mourn, when a youth of eighteen years enlisted as a private soldier in Company E, One Hundred and Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on the 14th of August, 1862. The nation had become alive to the magnitude of the rebellion and the patriotic spirit of our people had become fully aroused, and the work shops, farms, offices, counting rooms and school houses sent out living streams of willing sacrifices, ready to ofter themselves upon the altar of liberty in defense of a common country. Comrade Harter was not formed in a rugged mold, but his early education, his correct habits, his studious cast of mind and his sterling loj-alty and devotion to the principles of freedom, made him a willing, earnest soldier in his country's cause and gave him such prestige that on September 18, 1862, he was made a sergeant of his company, and on December 14th of the same year he was advanced to the position of first lieutenant of Company E, which position he held till the close of the war, respected and cherished by all who served under him and trusted and confided in by those under whom he served. Always quiet and unassuming, always attentive to duty and at Iiis po.st wherever duty called him, his services as a soldier exhibited those sterling traits of character which in civil life exemplified him as a man and so endeared him to all who knew him. His early training in his father's banking house had made of him a correct and methodical accountant and had fitted and qualified him to properly discharge the irksome duties imposed upon officers in command of troops engaged in defense of lines of communication and in garrison, and it is safe to say that there was not a more competent and trustworthy officer on the line between Nashville and .Sherman's front in 1863, 1864 and 1865 than the quiet, self-reliant and modest young lieutenant, over whose remains we now shed fraternal tears in kindly remembrance of his many virtues. In December, 1864, when Sherman abandoned his connections and marched his victorious veterans from Atlanta to the sea. General Hood sought to reap rich reprisals by a bold invasion of Tennessee. Lieutenant Harter was then in command of a meager garrison in a block house near Nashville. The right wing of Hood's army swept across the railroad and enveloped its defenses and attacked the block house with artillery at short range - defenses intended only to shelter the garrison from the marauding bushwhackers who interfered with the railroad bridges. Against such odds and under such circumstances Lieutenant Harter held his block house, though it was many times penetrated, killing several men, until night came, when he skillfully and successfully withdrew his command and led them through the enemy's lines into Nashville, where they became a part of the invincible army fif (jcncral Thomas, which broke Hood's army of invasion to pieces and redeemed Tennessee from the menace of subsequent invasion.

Comrade Harter was present at the fatal catastrophe which, on August 26, 1863, resulted in the sad and untimely death of his brother. Captain Joseph S. Harter, at whose side he remained, ministering with a brother's kindly hand until death relieved the Captain of his sufferings. Besides being a member of the Loyal

Legion, he was a comrade in Canton Post No. 25, Department of Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic, which he joined by muster^ on the first day of November, 1882. He always took much interest in a quiet and unostentatious way in the welfare of the post. He was one of the most liberal contributors where sickness or distress called for relief. He only needed to know that assistance was required. In his death our post suffers a severe loss and one which our comrades will feel keenly and deeply. He was a brave and true-hearted defender of the republic at a time when the republic most needed brave and loyal defenders. He offered to die that his country, proudly, gloriously and unitedly great, might live. At his death his countrymen remember his gallant services and drop upon his grave the sorrowing tears of grateful remembrance.

Anotlier apprcciati\e estimate of Air. Harler's career as a soldier is the following, which was given by Hosea R. Jones, of Canton, who was a member of the same regiment :

Mr. Harter was looked upon as being one of the best drilled men in the regiment and his bravery was simply undaunted. He marched down to Tennessee in the summer of 1864 and was engaged in a fierce battle there. When the rebels attempted to take possession of and destroy the various block houses. Lieutenant Harter and a company of less than twenty men were stationed along the Nashville & Tennessee Railway, in charge of garrison No. 2. The Southerners tried to capture the troops and destroy the garrison because behind it were hitling a large number of colored people. Mr. Hartor's company was assaulted by the enemy December 9. 1864, while they had only three pieces of rifled artillery. A continuous lire was kept up from 9 o'clock in the morning until dark. Two of the garrison were killed and five wounded. Under cover of night the garriscJn withdrew^ to Nashville in safety. After their retreat General Thomas recognized the services of Lieutenant Harter in defending the block houses to such an extent that he attached Mr. Harter to his headquarters for some time and finally placed him or. Genera! Beatty's staff as aide-de-camp. After that fierce battle General Thomas issued a special complimentary order acknowledging his services as lieutenant in defendins his post, and presented him with a handsome saddle. During one of his engagements Mr. Harter's sword was shot off by a shell.

I\rr. I lark-r continned in active service until victory crowned the Union arms and then retm^ned to Canton, where he resumed his position in the bank, continuing to be identified with the institution until 1867, when he became associated with his brother Alichael D. in the organization of the banking firm of George D. Harter & Brother, and this institution is still in existence, being known at the present time as the George D. Harter Bank. Apropos of his many capitalistic and industrial associations the following extract is from an article published in the Sunday Herald, of Canton, on the morning after his death : "At the time of his death Mr. Harter was president of the First National Bank and a member of the banking firm of Isaac Harter & Sons. As a banker he was always conservative and successful, at the same time very liberal with his patrons. There are, no doubt, many men in this city today who can date their success in life to favors received from him. But there is a time-honored adage which says : 'there is that which scattereth and yet increaseth,' for Mr. Harter leaves a large estate. There is no public or private charity in this city which is not his debtor. One of the greatest things of this kind to which he had become deeply interested was the new building of the Young Men's Christian Association, on West Tuscarawas street. Trinity Lutheran church also received a share of his donations to religious institutions. The new hospital A\hich he and his wife were building in tlie western part of the city will be completed." (This institution is now in operation and is unexcelled in its accommodations and equipments.) He was born in the faith of the Lutheran church, of which he was a member from his }outh until his demise, while during the greater portion of the time during his adult years he served the same in some official capacity. ha\-ing been a member of Trinity Lutheran church, of whose Sunday school he was superintendent at the time when his summons came to pass forward to the "land of the leal." Of him it has been said that he "was neither a Pharisee nor a bigot in religion," and this was to be presup- posed as true of one of so high intellectuahty and wide mental and practical ken. He was signally appreciative of all that is best in literature and art and his private collections in these lines were among the best in the state, it was his pleasure to enrich his beautiful home with all that makes for ideality in life, the home life representing an apotheosis of all the term implies, and being so sacred and inviolate as to make it incompatible in this connection to even attempt the lifting of the gracious veil which compassed it. He was a member of the Canton board of trade, of the board of managers of the Young Men's Christian Association and of its building committee. Its politics he gave a stanch allegiance to the Republican party, l>ut, having a deep insight into the well springs of human thought and action and being ever kindly and tolerant in his association with "all sorts and conditions of men," he placed true values upon those with whom he came in contact in the various relations of life, even esteeming character above the mere accidents of temporal prestige or power. ]\lr. Harter was a distinct man and a true one, and as such it was his to become a potent factor for good in all places in which he chose to interpose, while the unequivocal esteem and affection accorded him on e\-ery side constitute the best tribute to his worth as a man. 'A gracious personality, a cultured and refined taste and a sincerity of thought and purpose which never wavered, - these characterized the man to whom this memoir is dedicated, and, standing in the pure light of his unassuming and noble manhood, we can not but be moved to a feeling of respect and admiration and to a realization of the fact that he lix'ed a life filled to its maximum with usefulness and Imnor. His death was held as a personal bereavement to the people of Canton, where his entire life was passed, and his name will be held in grateful remembrance as long

In conclusion, briefly, reference is made to the domestic chapter in the life of the honored subject. On the 3d of March, 1869, was solemnized his marriage to i\Iiss Elizabeth Aultman, daughter' of the late Cornelius Aultman, one of Canton's most distinguished and public-spirited citizens, and of this union were born six children, concerning whom the following is a brief record : Eliza Aultman Harter (deceased) ; Mary Elizabeth, at home; C. Aultman (deceased) ; Amanda, wife of James U. Fogle, of Canton; Catharine and Elizabeth, at home. Besides his wido\v and four children Mr. Harter is survived by two brothers and two

CHARLES STEESE, president of the First National Bank of Massillon, is a native of Ohio, born in the year 1842 at Canal Dover, Tuscarawas county, being the eldest of a family of children whose parents were Dr. Isaac and Mary (Johnson) Steese. The father practiced medicine for a number of years in the above town and rose to an eminent place in the ranks of the profesion to which he devoted the greater part of his life and the maturity of his mental powers. When about four years old Charles Steese was brought to Massillon where he spent the years of his youth and early manhood, the meanwhile attending the public schools until completing the prescribed course of study, after which he entered Kenyon College at Gambler. Finishing his intellectual training in that institution, he accepted a position in a bank where his abilities were soon recognized, as witness his success in promotion from a minor clerkship to higher and more responsible posts and from that time to the present he has been actively identified with the financial history of Massillon. After serving three years as teller in the Merchants Bank of this city, Mr. Steese was made assistant cashier of the First National Bank, entering the latter institution at its organization, and in 1874 rose to the position of cashier, the duties of which he discharged until elected to the presidency, March 23, 1S92. As president his record has been a series of continued successes, as the history of the bank abundanti}- proves, and he occupies today a conspicuous place among the able financiers of Ohio, besides having a wide reputation in business circles in other states. A man of strong mentality, mature judgment and fertility of resource, his opinions in financial matters have had great weight, and, as already indicated, his influence in the business development of Massillon has been marked and salutary along every line of the city's industrial and commercial erowth.

GEORGE REEVES was born in the town of Victoria. Monmouthshire, England, on the 7th day of July, 1850. His ancestors for several generations wene identified \\\\\\ agricultural pursuits and were residents near tlic town of Motcomb. in Dorsetshire. England, l)eing gradually depri\ed of their holdings in that locality by the scheming of wealthy landlords of the county. George and (Martha) Arnold Reeves, parents of the subject, were liorn. reared and married in Motcomb, and there were born five of their eight children, namely: Marv i\nn, James, Jabez, Jonathan and Jeremiah. In 1847 the)- removed to the great iron-manufacturing county of Monmouthshire, locating in the town of Victoria, where their sons Frederick. George and Thomas were born. The parents each attained a venerable age, and nf their children five are living at the present time, namely : Marv Ann. Jabez. Jonathan, Jeremiah and George.

attained the age of thirteen years, when he went to work in a rolling mill in Victoria, iron railroad rails being there manufactured. These rails were straightened by hand. The process of straightening was accomplished by a primitive method. A very large man with a very large hammer or sledge would strike the rail at the points where it was bent, but it was necessan- that the product be free from dents and marks, and to accomplish this object a lx)y was engaged to hold a piece of sheet iron, rounded at one end for a handle, on the rail at the point of impact with the sledge, and in the case of Mr. Ree\'es, upon whom devolved this service, it may be said that it was a very small boy who thus rendered assistance. \\ hile engaged in this work he received six pence (twelve cents) per day, antl in his eyes his first month's pay was much larger than any he has ever since received. Within a few months he became errand boy for the general manager of these large iron works, and soon afterwards this gentleman accorded him the privilege of going to work for a short time with any of the skilled workmen in his employ, and the boy chose to work a short time, in turn, with the carpenters, patternmakers, painters, stone masons, bricklayers, blacksmiths and boilermakers. His brief experience in each of these departments proved of distinctive value to him in after years, since he gained a knowledge of the manifold details entering into the prosecution (if tile industry with which he identified himself as owner and employer. At the age of sixteen years, Mr. Reeves left this employment and went away from home, working in different parts of luigland for the ensuing two years and su]:)pi:trting himself very respectably in e\erv wa^-.

In 18^)0, al the age of nineteen years, Mr. Reeves was united in marriage to Miss Mary Mcintosh, at Abergavenny. Monmouthshire, and in Mav of the following vear he came with his bride to America, and here he foutid emi i ploynient as a boilennaker, working for short intervals at Sharon, Pittsburg and Connellsville, Pennsylvania, and Youngstown, Ohio. From the last place he removed to Leetonia, Columbiana county, this state, where he started the Leetonia Boiler Works. In the autumn of 1871 he located in Niles, Trumbull county, where he became associated with his three elder brothers, Jabez, Jonathan and Jeremiah, under the firm name of Reeves Brothers, and they there established themselves in the same line of enterpnise. Soon afterward Jabez and Jonathan disposed of their interests in this business, which was thereafter continued by Jei-emiah and George, as equal partners, until 1891. In 1880 Jeremiah went to Europe with his family, remaining abroad somewhat more than a year, within which period the entire charge of the business at Niles devolved upon the subject of this review. In 1883 the Reeves brothers embarked in the rolling-mill business at Canal Dover, Tuscarawas county. In June of that year George Reeves went to the town mentioned and purchased the rolling mill there located, securing the property for himself and his brother from the assignee of the previous owners, and the Reeves Iron Company was forthwith organized to operate the plant. This venture being made in face of the fact that three different firms of experienced mill men had failed there, seemed to some older and more experienced heads to indicate a spirit of pure recklessness and presumption on the part of the Reeves brothers, who knew but little of the business, and there was no little criticism as to their jeopardizing their past successful record and hard-earned savings in this enterprise. It fell to the lot of Jeremiah to undertake the direct management of these works, and he removed from Niles to Canal Dover for that purpose in 1883, while George remained in Niles to conduct the pioneer business, paying weekly visits to the Canal Dover plant for consultation concerning its operation. Much hard labor and deep thought were given to it for years, and many sleepless nights came as the result to both of the interested principals. Reeves Ijrothers were placed, as the saying goes, between the devil and the deep sea. They chose the sea, but it is nut ill advised to say that at times they scarcely knew whither their course was trending". The plant had never employed more than one hundred men until it came into the possession of the Reeves brothers; in 1885 more than two hundred men were on the pay roll and sunshine appeared through the previously clouded atmosphere of the enterprise. It became prosperous aiid consecutively exl)anded in scope and importance until in 1891 it aft'orded employment to more than five hundred persons in the manufacture of iron and steel bars, from one-fourth inch to two-inch, round and square; three-fourth inch to sixinch flats, light rails, angles, etc. In 1890 plans were made to add a plant for the manufacturing of light sheets and plates, and within the two vears following said plant was completed and properly equipped.

In 1 88 1 -2 the Reeves Brothers contracted for and erected the substantial iron buildings, boiler tanks, etc., for the rolling mills of the Ward Iron Company, at New- Philadelphia, Ohio. This company failed in 1883, owing the Reeves brothers a large sum of money, for which lien was taken. In 1885, at the earnest solicitation of the citizens of New Philadelphia, James Ward, the former owner and his creditors, the subject of this sketch and his brother Jeremiah, organized the New Philadelphia Iron & Steel Compau}-, the Reeves brothers taking stock for their lien, and the new company proceeded to take possession of the plant mentioned and to i^lace the same in operation. George Reeves was elected secretary and treasurer of the company, and upon him devolved the arduous task of satisfying other creditors of the original Ward Iron Company and of procuring the funds demanded for the remodel- ing and putting into operation the acquired plants as well as taking an active part in the management of the manufacturing. The works were put into operation in the autumn of 1S85 with twenty-two puddling furnaces, muck mill, bar mill and two sheet mills. In 1887 the Reeves brothers purchased the interests of James Ward and others, and by the year 1891 had increased the number of sheet mills to four and had succeeded in paying off all the creditors of the Ward Iron Company. From 1883 jthe Reeves brothers' Niles plant kept on increasing its capacity and business under the management of George Reeves, but was somewhat curtailed by reason of the brothers' investments at Canal Dover and New Philadelphia.

In 1 89 1 Jeremiah and George Reeves dissolved partnership, the former taking all the interests of both in the Reeves Iron Company, at Canal Dover, while our subject acquired the interests of both in the plant at Niles and in that of the New Philadelphia Iron & Steel Company. The three concerns continued operations under the original titles and George Reeves became president of the New Philadelphia Iron & Steel Company, while his eldest son, Albert G., was made secretary and treasurer of the same. Success and progress continued to attend the fortunes of the company, and in 1899 it had increased its capacity to ten sheet mills, with an extensive galvanizing plant and stovepipe works, while employment was given to six hundred persons. In 1900 the company sold its plant, inventory and business to the American Sheet Steel Company, a New Jersey corporation.

In 1893 arrangements were made by George Ree\es and the citizens of Alliance to remove the Niles plant to the former city, and this work was accomplished in 1893-4. The works were destroyed by fire in May, iQoo. but were rebuilt and again put in operation early in the succeeding year. On July 15111 of that same year fire again destroyed the plant, Init the courage of the interested principals did not abate even in the face of this second disaster, and it was decided to rebuild upon an even more extensive scale. In September of that year contracts were let for the erection of buildings to be constructed entirely of steel and brick, and these were not completed until October, 1902. None save those who have had similar experience can appreciate or understand the demoralization and chaos caused by being thus suddenly deprived of the facilities for carrying on a large and heiivy manufacturing business, involving the arranging for the subletting of contracts and the cancelling of others for work on hand. The discouragement incidental to seeing regular customers driven elsewhere for merchandise, and the entire disruption of the shop organization also must figure as disrupting elements in such a case, and it stands to the credit, self-reliance and invincible courage of Mr. Reeves and his coadjutors that they did not permit the word failure to be for a moment considered. His great capacity as an executive and as a man of initiative power stood well in h;ind at this critical juncture, and the results are most gratifying and significant. The business was operated by George Reeves under the firm name of Reeves Brothers, as before noted, until October i, 1901, when a reorganization was effected by our subject, the concern being incorporated under the title of The Reeves Brothers Company, with Mr. Reeves, his sons and daughter as stockholders. The organization was perfected by the election of George Reeves, president ; Albert G. Reeves, vice-president and treasurer; James A. Reeves, manager, and Arthur A. Reeves, secretary, and operation of the plant under the new regime was inaugurated in October, 1901. After the buildings were completed, machinery and other equipments and accessories had to be re-arranged, and at the time of this writing (May, 1903) more