Canton Township (part 21 of 62)

Charles E. Tinkler \A-as reared to young manlu 1(1(1 in his native city, attended for a mimber of years the public schools and later prepared himself for life's active duties by taking a special course in mechanical engineering. After finishing' his technical education he spent eight years with the Massillon Bridge Company as draughtsman and at the expiration of that time accepted a similar position with a bridge company at Youngstown. After remaining two years with the latter concern he resigned his place and on March 31, 1892, became chief engineer for the Canton Bridge Company, which position he still holds. Mr. Tinker's career has been eminently creditable and as a skillful mechanical engineer and accomplished draughtsman he has few equals and no superiors in the city where his talents are being exercised.

Mr. Tinker was married at Massillon. in i(S84. to Miss Minnie Rogers, daughter of William Rogers, a well-known resident of that citv and for a long time a justice of the peace. To Mr. and Mrs. Tinkler have been Ijorn seven children, namely, Bessie, Ralph, Charles, Flelen, Alice, Francis and Willard, all living with their parents. Mr. Tinkler is a Republican in politics rnid manifests a lively interest in party afifairs, being well posted relative to the leading questions and issues of the day. In religion he subscrilaes to the Presbyterian creed and since moving to Canton has been one of the active workers in the Calvary Presbyterian church of this city, being at this time a member of its ])oard of trustees. Mrs. Tinkler is also identified with the same congregation and.

EDWARD SCOTT. - One of the leadingbusiness men of his portion of the county, and who has won a high standing because of his sterling qualities, is the gentleman whose name appears at the beginning of this paragraph. His iiaternal father, John Scott, was a native of Ireland, while the subject's father, William Scott, was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, his birth having occurred in December, 1799. William Scott was reared upon a farm and spent his boyhood and youth in his native county, early learning the lessons of practical industry. In 1833 he came west and located upon a farm near New Cumberland, Fairfield township, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, where he remained for a number of years, subsequently removing to New Cumberland, Ohio, where he conducted a hotel for two years, at the end of that time removing to Waynesburg. He remained in the latter place until 1843, '^^'^ in that year he removed to a farm near New Harrisburg, Carroll county, this state, where he remained until his death, which occurred when he was eighty-two years old. Politically he was a stanch Democrat and his religious belief was in harmony with the creed of the Presbyterian churcii. His wife, who in her maidenhood bore the name of Margaret Power, was a native of Maryland, born in 1801. and was a daughter of Robert and Margaret Power. Both of her parents were descended from Scotch ancestry and her paternal great-grandfather Power was the first Presbyterian minister west of the Alleghany mountains. Margaret Scott was a woman of deep piety and sweet womanly graces and was beloved by all. Her death occurred when she was eighty-two years old.

Pennsylvania, April 21, 1826, and was one of nine children born to his parents. Of these children, the five who survive are as follows : Margaret is the widow of James Gribben, deceased, late of New Harrisburg, Ohio ; the subject is the next in the order of birth; Roljert P. resides in New Harrisburg; Clarentine is the wife of Ezra Boggs, of Piarrison township. Carroll county, this state; Eli A. resides in Kansas. The subject was reared under the paternal roof and assisted in the home duties imtil about the age of twenty years. In 1846 he accepted a clerkship in a general store at New Harrisburg, and after remaining in this position for three years he went to Magnolia, Carroll county, where he filled a similar position for four years, having the management of the business at the latter place. Giving up this position, Mr. Scott went to Massillon and was employed in a wholesale dry-goods house, a portion of the time acting in the capacity of traveling" salesman. Severing his connection with this firm, he took a trip through the western states and upon his i-eturn located in Waj'uesburg, being employed there for a few months as clerk. The same year, 1856, in company with two other men, Mr. Scott opened a dry-goods store, but six months later sold his interest in the enterprise and took another western trip, niainh- through Nebraska and Iowa. Upon his re'turn to Waynesburg he accepted a clerkship with G. P. Augustine, with whom he remamed for three years, and in the spring of 1 86 1 he opened a drug store in Waynesburg. His genial and courteous manners and marked business ability soon gained for him a liberal share of the public patronage and he continued in the business imtil 1903, a period of fortyone years, when he sold his store and retired from active life. In 1861 Mr. Scott was appointed postmaster of \\^a\"nesburg and held the office for twenty-four years, there being a break of but two years in his incumbency. In politics IMr. Scott has all his life been a firm and uncompromising Republican and has taken an active part in advancing his party's interests in the townsliip. He has been influential in the party councils and has served several years as a member of the town council. His religious principles are those of the Presbyterian church, while fraternally he is a member of Canton Lodge No. bo, Free and Accepted Masons.

In 1858 Mr. Scott was united in marriage with Mrs. Mary Crevoisie Couch, who was born at Chavon Les Grandes, France, October 30, 1826. Her parents, Joseph and Marie Crevoisie, came to America soon after her birth and located at Hanoverton, Columbiana county, Ohio, where he was engaged in running a hotel. They subsequently returned to Delle, France, for the purpose of educating their son and daughter. Returning to America in 1840, they settled in Waynesburg, and in 1845 Mary Crevoisie was united in marriage with John R. Couch, a promising lawyer of that village. Of this marriage there was one issue, a daughter, who became the wife of William A. Strayer, of Canton, Ohio. Mr. Couch died in 1853 ^^'^ in 1858, as before stated, his widow became the wife of the subject. Mr. and Mrs. Sco'tt have been blessed with three children, namel\- : William R., of Cleveland; Addie Marie, the the wife of Dr. John F. Price, of Wellsville, this state, and John C, of Canton.

HENRY ADAM RUPP was born in the town of Guntersblum, Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, on the 15th of April, 1837, the family name having long been identified with the annals of that section of the empire. He is a son of John and Mary Magdalena (Welder) Rupp, both of whom were born in the year 1806, in the village of Hochheim. Hessen-Darmstadt. Adam and Margaret Rupp, the paternal grandparents of the subject, passed their entire lives in that same province, and the family was there identified with agricultural pursuits in the various generations. The father of the subject was engaged in farming in the fatherland until 1851, when he emigrated with his family to America and came to Stark county, settling in Osnaburg township, where he engaged in the lime and coal business and also dealt in real estate to a considerable extent,- handling coal land and owning a considerable amount of such land, on which he operated the coal mines. In 1868 he removed to Benton county, Iowa, where he purchased three hundred acres of land, and he thereafter li\ed practically retired from active business until his death, which occurred in 1883, his wife having passed away in 1880, while both were laid to rest in the cemetery at Blairstown, that county. His marriage to Mary Magdalena Weber was solemnized in }vlav.

Darmstadt, her father, John Jacob Weber, having been a resident of Hochheim, near the city of Worms. The parents of our subject were originally members ot what was known as the Protestant church of Germany, and after coming to Canton they became members of the German Reformed church, of which Rev. Peter Herbruck was for so long a time the pastor. They became the parents of the following named children: Henry, who died in infancy; John Franklin, who was born on the ist of December, 1835, and who is now a resident of Benton county, Iowa; Henrj'- A., who is the immediate subject of this review ; George and Philip, both of whom died in infancy; Margaret, who was born on the 17th of June, 1842, and who is now the wife of Henry Reisser. of Blairstown. Iowa, and Lena, who was born July 12, 1849. ''^"'1 ^^lio '^ ^^^^ \v\ie. of William Grunewald, of Blairstown, Iowa.

Henry Adam Rupp was in his fourteenth year at the time when he accompanied his parents on their emigration to America, and thus he received his preliminary educational discipline in the excellent schools of his native land.

After locating in Stark county he began to assist his father in his various business operations, and he thus continued until he had attained the age of thirty-one years. In 1868 he removed tO' Benton county, Iowa, where he purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, and there he continued to be engaged in agricultural pursuits and dairying for the ensuing twenty-four years, becoming one of the prosperous and influential citizens of the county and commanding unqualified respect in his community. In 1892 he returned to Stark county and purchased a farm of fifty acres in section 31, Plain township. He conducted this farm for eleven years, and also dealt to a greater of less extent in land in the county during this interval. ,\t the expiration of the period noted he removed to his present attractive little homestead of five acres, in the same township, where he has since lived retired from active business, enjoying the rewards of his former years of toil and endeavor. His homestead is improved with excellent buildings of modern type and with the best of modern facilities, and is one of the pleasant rural homes of the county. He still retains in his possession five acres of his original purchase, having sold the remaining forty, and also has sixty acres in the western part of Jackson township, and one hundred and fort\- other acres in the same township. In politics he is a stanch advocate of the general principles of the Democratic party, and is also strongly in favor of the cause of prohibition of the liquor traffic, while he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the hour, and takes a deep interest in all that tends to conserve the general welfare- H^ is a prominent and earnest member of the First Reformed church, of Canton, and a liberal supporter of its work, while he is an elder in the consistorv of the church, of which his wife likewise was a devoted member.

united in marriage to Miss Rebecca Platner, who was born in Osnaburg township, this county, on the 12th of August, 1842, being a daughter of John and Christina (Livelsberger) Platner, both of whom w'ere born in Pennsylvania, of German lineage, while they were numbered among the honored pioneers of Stark county, where they passed the closing years of their lives, both having been zealous members of the Reformed chucli. The cherished and devoted wife of the subject was summoned into eternal rest on the 14th of September, 1897, and her remains were interred in the beautiful cemetery of Westlawn, in Canton. She w'as a W'Oman of gracious character and held the affectionate reo'ard of all who knew her.

AARON ^^^ ROSS is a native of the old Keystone state, having been born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, on the r3th of March, 1832, and being now the only survivor of the eight children born to John and Rhoda (Jones) Ross. His father was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1794, the original American progenitors having taken up their abode in that commonwealth prior to the war of the Rebellion. John Ross was reared to maturity in Greene county, Pennsylvania, and was there educated, and shortly after his marriage he removed to Fayette county, that state, where he became the owner of a farm of one hundred and twelve acres, which he developed into a fine property, and there he passed the residue of his life engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was a man of fine mentality and exalted integrity, and was one of the earliest and most uncompromising opponents of the liquor traffic, against which institution he waged a vigorous and unremitting warfare throughout his life, his influence in the line being widely felt. In politics he was a stanch adherent of the Whig party of the old line and took an intelligent and active interest in public affairs, both national and local. He died on his homestead farm in 1835, the subject being at the time a child of but two years, so that it is his misfortune to have practically no recollection of his father, whose name he has ever held in the highest affection and filial honor. After the death of his father the subject's devoted mother remained on the farm and bra\ely faced the responsibility of keeping her family together and rearing her children in the ways of truth and righteousness, she having been a zeaknis member of the ^Methodist Episcopal (-hmxh, as was also her husband. She survived her husband by many years, being summoned into eternal rest in 1864, at the age of sixty-nine years, and having carefully reared to maturity seven of her eight children. She was a native of Virginia and was a daughter of Aaron and Sarah Jones, who were also among the early pioneers of Fayette cotinty, Pennsylvania.

Aaron W. Ross grew to manhood on the home farm, and while a mere boy he began 10 assist in its work, while as the years passed bv and he waxed strong in mind and body, more and greater responsibilities devolved upon hiiu in the connection, as the family was a large one and the task of securing the proper revenues from the farm one of no slight insistency. His early educational discipline was received in the district schools near his home, after which it was supplemented in the Morgantown (\\'est Virginia) Academy and later at the Greene Academy at Carmichaels, Pennsylvania, and Allegheny College at ]\Ieadville, Pennsylvania. Pie later attended the Madison College in Uniontown. Pennsylvania, eight miles distant from his home, where he graduated in 1857. Shortly afterward he started on quite an extended tour through the south and middle west, in search of an elig-ible location and to secure a rest from his arduous scholastic application, as he had passed innumerable nights in close study. In 1859, after his return to his home, he was tendered and accepted the position of assistant superintendent in the George's Creek Academy, in Fayette county, where he did very effective pedagogic work, gaining a reputation that lead to his being called, in 1 86 1, to the principalship of the Greene Academy, at Carmichaels, Greene county. Pennsylvania. In 1863, greatly to the regret of the managing body and the gtudents, he resigned his office, and for a number of years thereafter he gave a general supervision to the management of the old home farm, while simultaneous- Iv he successfully established himself in the fire and life insurance business. He came into possession of the homestead farm after the death of his mother, and in 1883 he disposed of the property and came to Stark county, where he effected the purchase of his present farm, which comprises seventy acres located in the en\irons of the city of Alliance, while the permanent improvements on the place are of the best order, including a spacious and attractive residence of modern design and equipments. He gives his personal supervision to the farm and is known as one of the model farmers of this section, bringing to bear scientific methods and those correct business principles which are as re(|- uisite in this line of industrial enterprise as in anv other field of business. In politics he g'ives an unequivocal allegiance to the Republican party, but has never desired the honors or emoluments of public office, though he maintains a lively interest in the questions and issues of the hour. He and his wife are jM-ominent and honored members of the Methodist Episcopal church and he has followed in the footsteps of his father and has been a stanch advocate of the temperance cause, never having tasted liquor as a beverage. While residing in Pennsvlvania he was urged to become the candidate of liis party for state senator, but refused to permit his name to be considered in the connection.

county, Pennsylvania, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Ross to Miss Elizabetli J. Horner, who was born and reared in Greene county, Pennsylvania, being a daughter of Amos and Rel^ecca (Grooms) Horner. Mr. and Mrs. Ross are the parents of three daug'hters, concerning whom we enter brief record, as follows : Sarepta E. is a young lady of high inteliectlial attainments, having pursued her studies in- the George's Creek Academy and having later continued her educational work in the Alliance high school, where she was graduated, after which she taught successfully for five years in the public schools of that city, and then went to Chicago, where she was matriculated in the Cook County Normal School, and there she was graduated as a member of the class of 1891, after which she was engaged as a teacher in the same school, where she d.id most eflicient work for the ensuing three years, and later she was for seven years a successful and ]iopular teacher in the city schools of Chicago. She is now a teacher in the State Normal School at Plattsliurg, New York. Effie F., the second daughter, is now the wife of Edwin Sebrell, of Bolton, Stark county, and Rhoda R., the youngest daughter, is a trained nurse and is now residing in the city of Brooklyn, New York, where she has proved most successful in the work of her nolile profession, being a young woman of pleasing and gracious personality and tender sympathy, and having that self-control, equipoise and readiness of expedient which makes her so valuable a factor and one whose ministratir)ns are so much appreciated in the sick-room.

JOHN BRACHER. - Jacob Bracher, the father of the subject of this review, was born in Germany in the year 181 5. He rose to a high position in the government service of that country, and for a number of rears held the important post of inspector of mines, the duty of which he discharged until immigrating to the United States in 1854. Coming to this country he located at Alliance, Ohio, where he followed various enterprises, his intelligence and practical experience in different business pursuits making him a valuable man in any undertaking to which he addressed himself. His lirst wife, whom he married in Germany, died shortly after the family settled in this city and later he contracted a matrimonial alliance with Aliss Salima Binkard, who bore him three children, two of whom survive, the subject of this review and Prank. The first marriage also resulted in three ofifspring. namely : Julius, of Gallion, Oliio; Victor, and Charlotte, wife of William J. Barr, of Los Angeles, California. Jacob Bracher departed this life in 1865 and sometime thereafter his widow married Mr. .\ndrew Hutif, of Alliance, who is also now deceased. She resides in this city.

John Bracher was born July 11. 1858, in Alliance, Ohio, and spent his early years after the manner of the niajoritv of citv lads, attending as soon as old enough the public schools, in which the foundation of his literary education was laid. This training was afterward supplemented by a literary and commercial course in Mount Union College and at the age of fifteen he entered the Morgan Engineering" \\'orks at .\lliance for the purpose of learning the machinist's trade. After serving an apprenticeship of several years, during which he made an exceptionally fine record as a skilled workman, he accepted a position in the establishment, first as a journeyman, but in due time his efticiency was such that he was promoted to the responsible post of foreman. Mr. Bracher served for some time in that capacity and developed not only great mechanical skill but also unusual capacity as a manager of men. His employers, fulh' appreciating his \'aluable services, subsequently made him assistant superintendent, the duties of which position he discharged in an able and satisfactory manner for a number of years, a part of which time he spent on the road in charge of the expert work of the company. In the latter capacity he traveled quite' extensively over the United States, setting up machinery and superintending the construction of plants, his efforts in this line adding greatly to his high reputation as a finished mechanic and master of his calling.

In the year iSoo Mn. Bracher severed his connection with the Morgan Company to become chief engineer and manager of the Alliance water works, which position he held until 1898, \\hen he was made superintendent of the system, the duties of which responsible trust he has since ably discharged. Since taking control of the water works he has added a number of valuable improvements and greatly increased the efficiency of the system, his management being able and business-like and fully meeting the expectation of the public. His thorough mastery of mechanical science enables him easily to detect the slightest flaw and to remedy it with dispatch. He gives personal attention to every detail of the plant, is untiring in his efforts to make it fully answer the purposes for which intended and today there are few cities in Ohio with as complete or as ably managed water works system as the plant in Alliance. Mr. Bracher, by his efficiency and devotion to duty, has earned the unbounded confidence of the people of his city and his tenure in the office he now holds is a matter of indefinite period, unless he sees fit to terminate it.

Tlie domestic chapter in the life of ls\v. Braclier hears the date of December 24, 1883, at which time was solemnized his marriage with Miss Catherine Kolb, of Alliance, daughter of the late John Kolb, for many years a prominent moulder in the emi)loy of the Morgan Company, h^our children have been born to this anion, three of whom are living, namely: Mary, Olive and Blanche, all members of the happy home circle. Mr. Bracher is a friend of higher education and he has pro\ided his children the best advantages in this direction the country affords. The oldest daughter, after graduating from the Alliance high school, entered Mt. Union College, where she is now prosecuting her studies with an excellent record as a student. She is especially proficient in music, having received instructions from the best talent in this part of the state and as an expert pianist she has but few equals and perhaps no superiors in the city of Alliance. Olive, the second daughter, is also an alumnus of the city high school and a young lady of refined tastes and liberal culture. Her musical abilities are decidedly pronounced and she is now recognized as one of the most skillful violinists in this part of the country. The youngest daughter, like her sisters, is an apt student and gives every promise of excelling in her literary training and general accomplishments. Socially the family occupies a prominent position and the different members are popular with their associates and useful in their respective spheres of activit}'.

Politically Mr. Bracher is an uncompromising Republican and for some time past he has been an influential factor in the party in Alliance and Stark county. He served several years on the election board but is not himself an office seeker, although an active and zealous for his friends with aspirations in that direction. He holds fraternal relations with the Masonic and Pythian brotherhoods and in religion subscribes to the Presbyterian creed, belong'ing to the First church of that denomination in Alliance, in wliich he also holds the position of trustee.

HERMAN KLORER was' born January 26, 1836.' in Endingen, Baden, nermany, the son of John Klorer, a prominent grain dealer of that city. His mother was also noted for her business ability as well as for her high social standing, the family belonging to the better class of the populace of Endingen. Herman enjojed the best educational advantages his native city afforded, completing the prescribed course of the public schools and subsequently pursuing his studies in high institutions of learning until becoming a finished scholar. When a young man he turned his attention to business pursuits and continued the same in Paris, France, for a number of years, meeting with success in his undertakings. With the object in view of finding a broader field and better opportunities, he finally left his native land and came to the United States, proceeding direct to Canton, Ohio, whither a cousin by the name of Joseph Biechele had preceded him by some years. After spending about three years in various kinds of business, Mr. Klorer became interested in the Berger Manufacturing Company, which enterprise he helped organize and of which he was elected treasurer. He took an active part in promoting the company's interests and making it one of the leading industrial establishments of the city and to his able and judicious financial management is largely due the success which has marked its history from inception to the present time. Mr. Klorer held the important position of treasurer as long as he lived and discharged his ofiicial functions in such a manner as to gain the implicit confidence of all connected with the concern. He was also' a large stockholder in the enterprise and at the time of his death owned a third interest in the company. He was an accomplished business man not only as a skillful accountant, familiar with every detail of his position, but possessed executive ability which proved of great value in the management of aft'airs of the enterprise. Mr. Klorer was twice married, the first time in Canton to Miss Marie Ruska and, after her death, to Miss Rosa Lang, who survives him. He was independent in his political views, but generally voted with the Democratic party on national issues; although a great admirer and warm friend of the late President McKinley, whom he supported for the office of chief executive. Among his German fellow citizens of Canton, he was largely a moulder of opinion and, irrespective of nationality, the people of the city held him in the highest personal regard. By reason of failing health, superinduced by too close application to business affairs, Mr. Klorer, in 1897, made a trip to Europe, hoping thereby to regain his wornout physical energies. This proved a fruitless quest, as he died in August of that year in the city of Munich, from which place his remains ^vere taken to his former home in Baden and laid to rest in the burial ground of his ancestors. Thus, at the age of sixty-one, passed away a manly man who had lived a useful life, achieved a large measure of success and made the world better by his presence. His name is sacredly enshrined in the memory of those with whom he mingled, both in his native land and the country of his adoption, and the record of an honorable, well-spent life is his most endur-

HILLGREEN, LANE & COMPANY. - The city of Alliance offers great inducerrients for the prosecution of industries of wide scope and importance and in particular to manufacturing enterprises, by reason of available supply resources, desirable facilities and ready fostering. That these advantages are recognized and appreciated in a practical way is shown in the securing to the city of so celebrated an institution as that conducted by the firm whose name initiates this paragraph, - an institution which contributes a large quota to the prestige and material prosperity of the city and county. An industry of magnitude and with management all that experience and science can offer, it is assuredly not inconsistent that in this work be incorporated definite men- tioii of the magnificent enterprise conducted by Hillgreen, I.anc & Company in the manufacture of the iiigliest type of that most noble of all instruments, the pipe organ, and in connection we cannot do better than to enter in complete form an ai-ticle appearing in the Alliance Daily Leader of September 23, 1902 :

"Perhaps no institution in Alliance develops abroad a more desirable phase of reputation for our city tlian that of Hillgreen, Lane & Company, whose organs are being constantly installed in the leading churches of our, land. With large financial resources and with every facility that experience can dictate and capital obtain, this firm have taken a position in the very forefront of the trade. Their factory here is one of the largest and most complete establishments in the Lhiited States for the building of pipe organs. Jn the splendid brick structure erected by the Alliance Building Company and purchased later by Hillgreen, Lane & Company, are constructed all the component parts of the king of instruments. Artisans have been brought together from the four corners of the earth for the carrying on of this art industry. Skilled lalx)r of the most specific type is required for the work. Only men of special aptitudes, trained under long and rigorous apprenticeship, ;u-e available here. Perhaps in no branch of mechanical industry is a higher degree of intelligence demanded of employes. So correlated are the various parts of the instrument, so interdependent all the divisions of the work of that function of every detail in relation to the general organism must l)e understood and intelligently treated.

"Looking upon the completed instrument, with its numberless daintily constructed motor valves, its interminal)le wilderness of tubing, its complexity of mechanical construction, and its thousands of tuneful pipes that only wait the touch of some master at the keys that they mav utter their strains divine, one feels hat here the limit of mechanical effort has been

"One source of surprise to the visitor at the factory is the wide variety of materials empluyed in the wcjrk'. Tribute is levied upon the wilds of Africa for ivory and upon the forests of ^\sia for their ebony. Central and South America pay their toll of mahogany, cocobolo and rosewood, while a score of indigenous trees contribute to the list. The mineral kingdom adds its iron, brass, lead, zinc, tin, gold and silver, - in tiny spring or heavy casting, in tube of pipe or ornament, all serve somewhere in the complicated anatomy of the instrument. Leathers, too, perform an important function in organ building. We were shown skins wrought to the softness and thinness of silken fal)rics, bleached to the snowy whiteness or dyed to the richest shades. Deer thong, rawhide, sheepskin, sole leather and - all are employed.

"Not the least interesting department of the work is that in which the metal sheets are cast from which the tin and 'spotted metal' pi])es are formed. The crude but effective process employed in this casting is said to have impro\ed but slightly during the past three centuries. In a caldron mer a specially constructed stove or furnace, the metals, mi.xed in the required proportions, are melted. On a long table of stone, set to a perfectly level surface, over which is tightly stretched a sheet of linen treated with a paint of soapstone, the metal is spread. A wooden matrix or mould of the width of the table receives the molten mass from the crucible. From the bottom of this receptacle the metal is jiermitted to issue as it is passed with appropriate speed along the table. The aperture through A\liich the metal escapes can be regulated with a thumb screw, and sheets of metal can l)e obtained in varying thickness, from that of a sheet of writing paper to that of the heaviest cardboard. As the metal in this attenuated fnnn hardens immediately u])on be- ing exposed to the air, there is of course no further running. The result of this process - a clothhke sheet of beautiful metal - is then rolled up as a scroll, to wait the manipulations of the pipe makers and the voicers. We were shown pipes having a speaking length of scarcely a quarter of an mch, and of diameter less than that of the ordinary commercial lead pencil. Contrasting with these were others, in the great assembling room of the factory, having a length of eighteen or twenty feet and through the ample hollows of which a man could comfortably pass. Wood is also used in the construction of organ pipes, the heavier or more pervading tones of the instrument being usually olitained from pipes of this material.

"The pipes of an organ, we learn, are fashioned in similitude of the human vocal apparatus, - palate, lips, cheeks, teeth and lungs have each a counterpart. The distinctive qualities of tone desired are obtained not only by assigning particular sizes and shapes to the pipes but also by means of definite though delicate manipulations of the palate, teeth, cheeks and lips. Upon this process the voicer depends for differentiating the tones into string, flute, organ or reed qualities, and upon his success in this work depends largely the merit of the instrument. In the voicing room the organ has, in a sense, 'breathed into its nostrils the breath of life,' for here its voices first break from the dead eternity of silence into the world of life and song. In the churches of the cities of many states of the Union the instruments of this firm are constantly ministering to the people with the benedictions of their throbbing chords and the caressings of their gentler melodies. Horace Bushnell once said : 'Imagine the great singer of Israel and the vast company of the Levites hearing for the first time in the temple of God a newly invented organ. What emotions roll over his soul and the souls of his great choir of performers! He rises and goes forth saving: "I will alter

This firm consists of Messrs. Alfred Hillgreen, Charles A. Lane and S. J. Williams. Business was commenced in the spring of 1898 in y\.lliance, the firm being organized the same year under the name appearing at the head of this article. They had not before that time been engaged in the business and the growth of the enterprise has been simply mar\-elous. The firm is in no wav connected with any other

JOHN A. ROACH, M. D. - The family which Dr. Roach represents is an old one, as his great-grandfather, Peter Roach, a native of Ireland, took passage on the first vessel that sailed from Cork after the American struggle for independence and, reaching the shores of the new world in due time, settled in Berks county, Pennsylvania. After spending a number of years in that state, the above Peter removed to Columbiana county, Ohio, where he purchased land and developed a farm on which he spent the remainder of his clays as an industrious tiller of the soil. Samuel Roach, son of Peter, was born in Pennsylvania, and when a }'outh accompanied his parents to Columbiana county. Ohio, where he grew to manhood's estate. He, too, was an agriculturist and devoted his active years to farming, realizing therefrom an ample competence for his old age. He married, near Carrollton, Miss Mary Biles and spent a number of years in the vicinity of that town, subsequently removing to Stark county, where he died after reaching the advanced age of four score years. His father was also past eighty when he died and the family from a remote period has been noted for longevity.

Roach, was born June 22. 1S29, about six miles east of Carroliton, Oliio. and wlien an infant was brought to Stark county, his father carrying him the greater part of tlie way to the new home at RobertsviHe. where the family settled. When a young man Jason Roach went to Paris, where he learned cabinetmaking and ornamental painting, and after finishing his trades attended for some time the seminary at Marlboro, with the object in view of fitting hunself for some other calling. Later he began the study of medicine at Augusta and after prosecuting the same for some }ears engaged in the practice of his profession, continuing the same with a large measure of success until 1885. when he wound up his business and retired to Alliance, where he is now spending the e\ening of a long and useful life. Jason Roach served in the late war as a member of Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteers, enlisting in 1862 and participating in a number of battles. Before being assigned to the hospital service, some time later, he signalized himself by strict devotion to duty in that department and at the expiration of his period of enlistment, in August, 1865, was discharged with an honorable record. Previous to the war he took an actixe part in political affairs and in 1859 was elected to the legislature, being the first Republican from his district to serve in that body. He has always been a stanch partisan and in addition to his interest in politics has held several local official positions, including among others, that of justice of the peace, in which he served for a period of twenty-four years, receiving his first commission from Salmon P. Chase, at that time governor of Ohio. The maiden name of Mrs. Jason Roach was Delila Ashbrook ; she lx)re him two sons and two daughters, namely : William M., a lawyer practicing his profession in Alliance; Olive, wife of David B. Turnipseed, a prominent business man of the same city; Eva, who married Matthew IMcEwing, government agent

Dr. John Roach was born in Augusta, Carroll county, Ohio, on December 5, 1858. After attending school until his twentieth year, he spent the ensuing five years as a teacher, meanwhile, on attaining his majority, taking up the study of medicine under the direction of his father and prosecuting the same when not engaged in educational work, until entering the medical department of the Western Reserve University in 1882. He was graduated from that institution after two years of laborious study and had the distinction of serving as treasurer of the class which completed the course in 1884.

After his graduation. Dr. Roach opened an ofifice in Sherrodsville. where he practiced until 1886, when he closed out his business there and chose a larger and more promising field in the city of Alliance. Since locating in the city the Doctor's professional career has been a distinguished one and he now stands in rank with the leading physicians and surgeons of northeastern Ohio. His success has been commensurate with his ability and energy and, as stated in a preceding paragraph, his eminent services in the line of surgery have won him more than a state reputation.

Personally, Dr. Roach is a refined gentleman of pleasing address and agreeable manners and he impresses all with whom he comes in contact as possessing wide intelligence, liberal culture and remarkable strength of character. He belongs to the various medical organizations, local, state and national, and is also a Mason of high degree, being identified with Blue Lodge No. 271 ; Alliance Chapter No. 83, Royal Arch Masons, in which he is now serving as high priest; Salem Commandeiy No. 42, Knights Templar; Emeth Grand Lodge of Perfection, at Canton, and the Al Koran Temple, Cleveland. He is one of the leading members of the Benevolent and

Protectixc Order of Elks in Alliance and served as iirst exalted ruler of Lodge No. 467. In politics the Doctor is an unwa\ering Republican and while not a partisan in the strict sense of the term, he takes an active interest in the welfare of his party and has great influence in its councils. Religiously he adheres to the faith of the Christian (or Disciple) church and is one of the leading members of that communication in Alliance.

In the year 1880 was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Roach and i\Iiss ]\Iargaret A. Dunlap, of Salineville, Ohio, the issue of which is one daughter by the name of Rhea, who with her parents constitutes an unbroken domestic circle.

JACOB E. McFADDEN, who is one of the well known and highly esteemed citizens of Alliance, is incumbent of the responsible position of supervisor of bridges and buildings for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was born near \V'ilmington, Delaware, on the 15th of b'ebruary, 1847. being a son of Israel and Esther (Young) McEadden, of whose ten children six are living at the present time, namely : Charles, who is a retired farmer, residing in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania ; Mercer, who is a farmer of Chester county, that state ; Jacob E., who is the immediate subject of this sketch; Henry A., who resides in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, and who is a foreman on the road under the direction of our subject ; Joseph, who is a contractor of Little Rock, Arkansas : and Rosanna. who is the wife of Thomas Davis, of West Grove, Pennsylvania. The paternal great-grandfather of the subject came from Scotland to the United States, while the parents of his paternal grandmother came from England, their name Ijeing Mercer. She was distantly related to General ]\Iercer, of Revolutionary fame.

county, Pennsylvania, where he was born, and upon attaining manhood he engaged in the» manufacture of woolen goods, continuing to operate woolen mills during his entire active business career. Shortly after his marriage he removed to the state of Delaware, but after a short interval he returned to Chester county, Pennsylvania, while later he remo\ed to Georgetown, Lancaster county, that state, where he died at the venerable age of eightytwo years. He was originally a Whig in politics but after the organization of the Republicanparty he gave his support to the same until his death. He was never an office-seeker but was c[uite active in local politics and was a man of ability and sterling character. His wife waslikewise born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, her parents having emigrated thither from Germany. She is now deceased.

Jacob E. McEadden, subject of this re\iew, remained at the parental home until he was fourteen years of age, his educational advantages being such as were afforded in the common schools. At the age noted he secured a position on a farm, where he remained about two years, and in August, 1862, when not vet sixteen years of age, he enlisted as a private in Company E, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for service in the Civil war. He continued to serve in the ranks for nine months and was then detailed as a member of the construction department, and in this capacity he continued to serve until the close of the war. He participated in the battles of Antietam, South Moimtain and Chancellorsville, and at the last named point, on the 3d of May, 1863, he was captured by the eneni}- and was held in Libby and Belle Isle prisons about thirty days. During this time his term of enlistment expired and upon his release he Avas employed by the government in the construction of bridges, repairing railroads, etc., as implied in a foregoing statement.

no regular employment for nearlj' a year, and he then accepted a position with the Keystone Bridge Company, of Pittsburg. He worked but a brief time for this concern before there came a recognition of his superior ability and his fidelity, and he was made superintendent of bridge construction. He continued in the employ of this company about fourteen years, at the expiration of which he was tendered and accepted his present position, in which he has since continued to render most discriminating and satisfactory service. In politics Mr. Mc- Fadden is a stanch advocate of the. principles and policies of the Republican party and fraternally he has risen to high degrees in the Masonic order, being a member of Conrad Lodge No. 271, Free and Accepted Masons; Alliance Chapter No. 83, Royal Arch Masons ; Salem Council, Royal and Select Masters, and Salem Commandery No. 42, Knights Templar; and also of Elida Lodge of Perfection, in Canton ; Lake Erie Consistory, of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in Cleveland, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine, in that city, while he is also identified with Alliance Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

On the 1 6th of July, 1878, Mr. McFadden united in marriage to Miss Frances E. Billings, of Athol, Massachusetts. They have no children.

FRANCIS M. REED. - A worthy representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of Stark county and incumbent of the responsible position of superintendent of the Canton city parks, Mr. Reed well merits recognition in this compilation, which has to do with those who have been the founders and builders of his native county and the conservators of its progress and prosperity. Mr. Reed was born in Osnahurg township. Stark county, on the -ith of No^'embcr. 1857, and as a boy he began to lend his aid in the manifold duties pertaining to the work of the farm, while he conned his lessons in the district schools during the winter months, thus laying the foundation for the excellent fund of information and practical knowledge which he has since gained through the associations and experience of an active and useful career. His father, John Emory Reed, was a cooper by trade, and was a native of Osnahurg township. Stark county, Ohio, where he was born July 9, 1834. His death occurred in Pike township, this county, January 12, 1866, at which time the subject was in his ninth year. The maiden name of the subject's mother was Amanda Smith. She was born in Pike township. Stark county, December 20, 1838, the daughter of John Smith, one of Stark county's old and respected pioneers. She still resides on her father's old homestead in Pike township. To John E. and Amanda Reed were liorn three children. Emeretta, Mary A. and Francis M., the subject of our sketch, the eldest of the family. He remained at home until his twenty-fourth year, when he came to Canton, and took up the trade of carpenter and also that of stationary engineering, while in his boyhood he had secured no little facility as a cooper, through working in his father's shop, so that he was not ill prepared to assume the independent work of life upon attaining years of maturity. In 1881 he came to Canton, and here for a term of years he worked as a carpenter during the summer months, while during the winters he found employment as a stationary engineer, thus jiutting his technical knnwledge to practical and effective use. For seven years he held the position of janitor of the North Cherry street school house, and in 1894 he was appointed to the office of superintendent of the public parks of the city, in which capacity he continued until May 4, 1903. During former years he had gi\-en no little attention to gardening, and this experience, together with his knowledge of carpentering and engineering, made him peculiarly eligible for this preferment. He fully demonstrated the wisdom of the choice made in selecting him for the office, and under his direction the beautiful park system of the city was greatly improved, while everything about the same shows the careful and scrupulous attention paid to keeping the parks in the best of order and rendering them attractive. Mr. Reed showed marked discrimination and enthusiastic interest in his work, and that his efforts were not lacking popular and official appreciation is evident from his long retention as superintendent. He has a pleasant home at i6ig East Lake street, where he has a small green house, in which he propagates many choice varieties of flowering plants and shrubs. In politics he is independent and fraternally he is a prominent member of the Independent Order of Foresters, being identified with both the lodge and the Uniform Rank, in which latter he is past court deputy.

On the 27th of September, 1883, in Canton, Mr. Reed was united in marriag^e to Miss Mary E. Frease, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, May 9, 1858, being a daughter of George and Caroline (Saxton) Frease, and of this union two children were born, Harry E., wlio remains at the parental home, and Lester W., \\^lio died at the age of two years.

John Smith, the maternal grandfather of the subject, was a member of one of the early pioneer families of Stark county, having removed hither from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in company with his parents, in the early years of the nineteenth century, being a mere child at the time. He was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1800, and he was reared to manhood in Stark county, Ohio, where he passed practically his entire life, his death occurring on the old homestead, in Pike township, in 1888. William Reed, the paternal grandfather, came to Stark countv with his father in the early days, having been born in Pennsylvania, where the family was established in the colonial epoch, and he located land in 0.snaburg township, where he improved a farm and where he passed the remainder of his life, passing away at advanced age, as did also his devoted wife, whose maiden name was Nancy Engle.

JOSEPH CALMELAT. - The subject of this review, who is the present superintendent of streets of the city of Canton, is a native son , of Stark county, and in both the paternal and maternal lines is a representative of loyal and eminently sterling French stock, the former of whom were old established families of Bratan. and the latter of Romania, France, both families prominently identified with the annals of 'this section of the Lhiited States from the early pioneer epoch.

The subject is a son of Peter Claude Calmelat, who was born in the province of Alsace, France, which is now a portion of the German empire, the date of his nativity having been April 19, 1819. He was a son of John and Katherine Calmelat, and in 1833, when he was thirteen years of age, the family enjigrated to America, all of the children having been born in France. They landed in New York city, and thence came on to Stark county, Ohio, and located on a farm at Rome, Nimishillen township, where the majority of the French settlers had established their homes. There John Calmelat and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. Peter C. Calmelat grew to manhood on the homestead farm and received a common school education. In his youth he learned the carpenter trade, to which he continued to devote his attention for a number of years. He married Miss Magdalene Hadet, the only child of Jacob Hadet. She was born in France and there her mother died when she was but two years old. Her father afterwards left her in care of his sister and came to the United States to' seek a h(jine. He undoubtedly came directly to Stark county, knowing of the settlements of his countrymen in this section. He finally purchased a farm in the vicinity of the village of Louisville, and some time afterwards returned to France for his daughter, the mother of the subject, and after returning subsequently consummated a second marriage, being united with Miss Madalene Calmclat, an elder sister of the father of the subject, so that the relationship of the two families has become doubly intimate. As already noted, the mother of the subject was the only child of the iirst marriage, and of the second two children were born, n^amely : ]\Iary, who is the widow of a Mr. Bournicat, who was drowned while crossing the Atlantic, the boat on which he had taken passage having gone to the Ixjttom of the sea ; she now resides in Louisville, this county ; and Frances, who died in her girlhood.

After this marriage Peter Claude Calmelat took up his residence at Louisville, where he continued in the work of his trade for a time, and later was similarly engaged in Buftalo, New York. He soon returned to Louisville, however, where his death occurred March lo. 1898, at the age of .seventy-nine years and eleven months, honored by all who knew him. His wife, who was Ixirn on the 19th of April, 1823. also died in Louisville, May 8, 1884. Lt the following- paragraph mention is made of their children.

Nicholas, who was born in Rome, this county, was there reared to the age of twenty years, having recejved a common school education, and he then went to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he found eniplnNincnt in the car shops, and became an expert car-builder. Li that city he married Miss Augustine LaCraw, and later removed to Chicago, Illinois, where he took charge of the building department of the South Side Street Railway Company, eventually becoming general manager, while he was the invent(jr of many improxements in connection with car building, securing patents on many of his devices. Later he became incumbent of a responsible position in the empluv of the Pullman Palace Car Company, at Pullman, Illinois. While in Fort W'ayne he was joined by his brtjther Jacob, and in 1869 they went to the gold fields of California, eventually returning to Chicago to take up the work already noted. From that city he finally went to Seattle, Washington, where his death occurred. Jacob Calmelat, the second of the children of Peter C. Calmelat, was also born in Rome, this county, and, as already noted, went west with his elder brother and passed some time in the guld fields of California. Later he went to Arizona and from there, in 1S71. t(i old Mexico,' prospecting for gold, arriving there with but ten cents in his pocket. He securcfl employment in a Hour mill owned by an American, and several years later bought the mill, which he operaterl until 1885, when he disposed of the propertv and returned to his home in Stark county for a visit witli his famil}-. On his return to ^lexico he purchased an immense ranch, the same being twelve miles in length and six m width, in the slate of Sonora. which lies along the gulf of California, and there he still resides, having his ranch finelv stocked and conducting his operations on an extensi\-e scale, hr.ank'. who was burn in Plain township, this conntv, resides at the old home in Louisville. I''elicia, who was burn in Louis\ille, is the wife of James Gallagher, of Canton. Joseph, the subject of this sketch, w'as the next m order of birth. Peter died at the age of twentv-eight vears. l^ouis died in infanc\'. as tlid also two other children.

Joseph Calmelat was born in Louisville, Stark county, Ohio, on the J9th of June. 1859. and his educational discipline was received in the public ;uul ])arochial schools of his native village. In 1873 his father, who was em- pl(j}'e'l 111 railroad work, had liis hand Ijadly crushed, wliile his son Frank met with a similar accident a few weeks later, necessitating- amputation of the member. The railroad C(jmpany, soon after this sent a representative to the home and asked tha-t the subject, thijugh only fourteen \-ears of age, be allowed to take his father's place. He was thus compelled to cut short his school work and to assume heavy responsibilities. He was put to Wdi'k on a wrecking train, and his labors were of arduous character, such as loading gravel trains, handling steel rails, etc. The ambition of the }"outh was slio^^n in the fact that after a hard day's work he would devote the evening til studv, aiming to keep in touch with the progress made by his former classmates. He continued to be thus ein]:)loyed until 1877, on Novemlier 7th of which year he went to the city i)f Chicago, realizing that he must find employment which Avould offer him a chance for ad\'ancement, if he hoped to be other than a commi in laborer. He was taken ill in Chicago-, and his eldest brother advised him to seek outside employment. He accordingly secured a position as driver on the street car lines of that city, horses being utilized at that time. He continucfl tii be thus engaged about three years and then worked at the harnessmaking trade about two years in that city, having previousl}' served a partial apprenticeship at r.ouisville, Ohio. During these two years he continued his educational work under private tutors. In 1881 he returned to his iiati\'e town, where, on the 13th of October, of the same year, he was united in marriage to Miss Lizzie Rallay, who was born in Louisville, this county, being a daughter of T^eonard and Frances (Jillotl Baliay. .After his marriage he returned \vith his bride to Chicago, where he continued in the work of his trade for the following three months, at the expiratiim of which time he again returned to I^ouisvillc. where he engaged in the harness and saddlerv business on his own responsibility, building up a good trade and continuing the enterprise until 1884, when he came to Canton, where he was employed by the street railway company until April of the following year, when he took the position of plow inspector in the works of the Bucher-Gibbs Company, retaining this incumbency until 1888, after which he was in the employ of the Gilliam Manufacturing Company until August, 1890. In the meanwhile, in 1886, he took up the study of law in the office of W'ana & Bow, of this citv, and continued to devote his leisure time to technical reading in this line until 1890. He had been frugal and economical during these years of close application to work and had accumulated a small financial surplus, which he ni>w determined to devote to the supplementing of his educational discipline. He was matriculated in Mount Union College in the fall of 1890, and there completed a three years course in special branches. He then passed a few months as salesman in the china and crockery store of Bour Brothers, in Canton, but his health became so impaired as to render it expedient for him to again seek outdoor employmeiTt. In the autumn of 1894 he again entered the employ of the Gilliam Manufacturing Company, remaining with them until April, 1898, when he was elected justice of the peace, as candidate of the Democratic party. He served one term and refused a re-nomination. On the expiration of his term, in .April, 1901, he was appointed as- I sistant street commissioner, by David Sommer, the commissioner, and the appointment was duly confirmed by the council, and in this capacity he continuetl until the 4th of May, 1903, when under tlie new law, he was appointed by the board of public service to his present office, and in both has rendered effective service. Iii politics he has ever given an unqualified allegiance to the Democratic part]', and his religicius faith is that of the Catliolic church, in which he was reared and of which his wife is a communicant. They have one child, Gladys ^lercedes, who was born in Louisville, this county, on the 2ist of July, 1891, and who is now attending the public schools.

JOHN MATTI is a nati\e of Switzerland, where he was boni in October, 1850, being a son of Emanuel and Catherine (Smith) Matti, the latter of whom died when the subject was a child of but four years, while he was eighteen years of age when his father passed away. He had received his educational training in the schools of his native canton and continued to assist his father in the work of the home farm and also learned the art of cheesemaking under his effective direction. In 1870, two years after the death of his father, being' entirely dependent upon his own resources and feeling assured that the United States would afford superior opportunities for the attaining of a position of independence through individual effort, Mr. Alatti emigrated to America, landing at Castle Garden, New York, and thence coming to Holmes county, Ohio, and locating in the village of Black Creek, where he at once set about finding an occupation which would aft'ord him a living. He secured employment on the construction work of the Cleveland, Mount Vernon & Columbus Railroad, and continued in this work for a period of about sixteen months, at the expiration of which he came to the city of Alliance, Stark county, where, for about the same length of time, he was employed in the steel-rolling mill, and then hired out as a farm hand in the vicinity. However, he found it impossible to maintain amicable relations with his eniployer and a short time later secured work at cheesemaking, being employed on salary for one year and then, in the autumn of 1874. he returned to Switzerland to collect a sum of money there due him and also to transact other business. After giving his attention to these affairs he invested his money in merchandise of varied kinds, for which he believed he could find a ready and profitable sale m the United States, and with the same he embarked for the return voyage, on the French steamship "Europe," and when the boat was about mid-ocean, having passed through heavy seas and been irreparably damaged, it v/ent to the bottom, the passengers escaping in the small boats but losing practically all their possessions, Mr. Matti having nothing but the clothes which he was wearing at the time. The imperiled passengers were finally rescued by another vessel and in due time reached their destination in New York city. Mr. Matti forthwith returned to Ohio and located in Columbiana county, where he engaged in the manufacture of cheese on his own responsibility, having contracted for milk from various farmers prior to going abroad. A year later he came again to Stark county and located on the farm adjoining his present homestead on the south, and here he successfully continued the manufacturing of cheese for the ensuing three years, carefully conserving his resources and beginning to descry the dawning of definite prosperity as the reward for his assiduous and well directed efforts. At the expiration of the period noted he removed to the village of New Berlin, where he continued in the same line of industry, securing milk from the farmers of the vicinity and ever giving most scrupulous care to the process of manufacturing, so that the superior products of his establishment found a ready demand on the markets. There he made his headquarters for an interval of eleven years, and simultaneously maintained two branch factories at other points, employing capable persons to conduct the practical work of the same. In 1889 he purchased his present homestead farm, of one hundred and eighty-five acres, in Marlboro township, and about three years later he effected the purchase of eighty acres lying contiguous on the north, so that his landed estate now comprises two hundred and sixty-five acres. He has made excellent improvements on the places, including the erection of two large and substantial modern barns, and his land is maintained under a most effective state of cultivation, beingdevoted to diversified agriculture, while he has also devoted no little attention to the raising of high-grade live stock, especially hogs, and has also continued the manufacture of cheese upon a somewhat extensive scale, the insistent demands for his products in the line rendering it expedient for him to continue the enterprise. He has been progressive in his ideas. e\-er energetic and indefatigable in Ms labors, annnated by the most sturdy integrity of purpose. In politics Mr. Matti gives his support to the Democracy so far as national issues are involved, but in local affairs he is liberal in his views.

In 1873 Mr. Matti was united in marriage to Miss Louisa Halde, who was born in Switzerland, being a daughter of Jacob Halde, who emigrated thence to the United States. To Mr. and Mrs. Matti have been born eleven children, of whom the following eight are living : Emma, John, Mary, Flora, Ella, Hulda, William and Caroline.

REUBEN WISE SHRIVER, dealer in agricultural implements and all kinds of machinery, is one of the leading business men of New Baltimore, and his reputation as a successful salesman has given him wide publicity throughout Stark and adjoining counties. Mr. Shriver is a native of Portage county, Ohio, and the son of Elias and Eliza (Wise) Shriver, both parents descended from old families of Pennsylvania and Virginia, the former born about 1818 in Canton township, the latter in 1821, one mile east of Middlebranch. These parents spent their lives in the state of their birth, the father dying in 1890, the mother

Reuben Wise Shriver was born August 10, 1856, in Randolph township, and at the proper age entered a select school at Randolph, which he attended until his sixteenth year, the meanwhile of summer seasons assisting his father in cultivating the farm. He devoted his attention to agriculture during his youth and young manhood, and after attaining his majority continued its pursuit as his principal vocation until 1901, at which time he moved to New Baltimore and engaged in the sale of agricultural machinery. Mr. Shriver has built up a lucrative business in the handling of farm machinery and in:plements, and at this time commands as extensive trade in these as any man in the county. He represents some of the largest companies in the United States, notably among which are the Bucher-Gibbs Plow Company, of Canton, the Thomas Manufacturing Company, of Springfield, Ohio, the Piano Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, D. Y. Hallock & Son, York, Pennsylvania, besides handling the products of many other leading concerns. In his capacity of salesman he has visited every locality in Stark county, in addition to which his territory includes large portions of the counties adjacent thereto, the volume of his business being so great at certain seasons as to require the help of a number of assistants to set up the machinery, which he sells. A man of sound business sense, clear judgment, keen sagacity and possessing executive ability of a high order, he seldom fails in any of his plans and foresees with remarkable clearness the future outcome of present action. While highly regarded as a safe, reliable and eminently honorable business man, he is also respected as a citizen, being greatly esteemed in the community of his residence, throughout the county and wherever known.

like all intelligent and enterprising citizens, manifests a liNX'l)- interest in the qnestions of the day, keeping himself well informed relative thereto. He is identified with the Maccabees fraternity, and belongs to the Christian chnrch of New Baltimore, his children also being members nf the same congregation.

Mr. Shriver was married, in 1884, to Miss Bertha D. Maxwell, whose birth occurred in Portage county, three miles east of Randolph, in the year 1861. Her parents, John and Elsie Maxwell, were members of old and highly respected families of Ohio and for many years the father followed agriculture for a livelihood, as did his ancestors from an early period. Mrs. Shriver departed tliis life on April 5, 1901. leaving three children, whose names and dates of birth are as follows: Ethel L., September 25, 1885; Ruth E., June 12, 1887, and Milton E.. August 28, 1893, '^ll living at home with their father, constituting a most agreeable famil\- circle.

CORWIX D. BACHTEL. - The Bachtel iamih' is one of the oldest and most honoi'ed in Stark county, where it was established ninety years ago, and the genealogy is fully outlined in the exhaustive article appearing on other pages of this work and indexed under the title of Moses A. Bachtel, the venerable uncle of the subject. Corwin 1). Bachtel was born in the city of Canton. Stark county, Ohio, cm the 9th of April. 1862, being a son of John Menry and Elizabeth B. (Welch) Bachtel. who now reside at 819 Liberty street, this city, where they have long maintained their home, the father being one of the representative citizens of the county. He was born in Pike township, this county, on the 25th of November, 1830, and in 1832 accompanied his parents on their removal to ITuntington county, Indiana, but in 1856 he retm^ned to Canton and entered the em]>liiy of the .\uUnian Compau}'. with which concern he remained for the long period of thirty-seven years, being now retired from active business. He was married on the ist of January, 1861, to ^^liss Elizabeth B. Welch, who was likewise born in this county, and they became the parents of two children, Corwin D., subject of this review, and Helen, who is now a teacher in the shorthand and stenography department of the Union school of Canton.

Corwin D. Bachtel received his educational training ni the public schools of Canton, and was graduated from the high school in the class of 'y^. On the 14th of November of the same year he entered the George D. Harter & Brother Bank as messenger, and worked his way up until he became George D. Harter's chief assistant. The death of Mr. Harter occurred in December, 1890, and the Ij.ank was re-organized in 1891', as the George D. Harter Bank, of which Mr. Bachtel was elected cashier. It was through Mr. Bachtel's efforts that the re-organization of the bank was accuniplislicd, he securing tiie co-operation of many prominent financial men of Stark county as directors and stockholders. Mr. Bachtel left the George D. Harter bank in January, icpo, and almost immediately took up the organizalicm of the Canton State Bank, which organization was under headway, and on May 21. 1900, the Canton State Bank began business with Mr. Bachtel as the cashier.

Mr. Bachtel is one of tlie ])iiimlar and honored citizens ;ind business men of Canton, wliere he has passed his entire life, and where he has attained success through his own efforts. In politics he is a stanch Repulilican so far as state and national issues are in\o]\e(l. but in local affairs he maintains an independent attitude. He was a memljer of the board of education from 1894 to 1898, inclnsi\-e, and served as tt'easurer of the board for three years and also as chairman of its finance committee during a portion of tlie time, having been continuouslv a member of saitl committee, while he was also chairman of the teacher's committee for two years and a memher of the ^ame for his full term of four years. He has been a member of the Simpson Methodist Episcopal church from liis boyhood, while he has for many years been an officer in the same, serving as steward, trustee, etc., and being at the present time chairman of the board of trustees, and also chairman of the finance committee. He has taken a deep interest in all departments of the church work, and has long been active in its Sunday school, in which he has a class at the present time. ^Irs. Bachtel is also a zealous and devoted member of the church. Fraternally the subject is identified Avith the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having been a member of the Nimisella Lodge No. 39, for the past twenty years, and also \vith the Junior Order of United American Mechanics and the Knights of Honor.

In Canton, on the 17th of September, 1884, Mr. Bachtel was united in marriage to ]\Iiss Alice S. Stone, who was born in this city, being a daughter of William S. and Kate (Bell) Stone, who now resides at 1002 West Fourth street. Mr. and Mrs. Bachtel have four children, namely: Raymond I., who was born August II, 1885, and who is a member of the class of 1903 in the Canton high school; Kate E., who was born June 13, 1888. and is now in her second year in the high school ; Arthur D., who was born Feljruary 14, 1894, and who is a student in the public schools, as is Margaret A., who was born August 9, 1896. The family is prominent in the social life of the community and I\Ir. Bachtel has well upheld the prestige of a name which has long been honored in Stark countv.

WILLIAM E. MELBOURNE. - During the dark and bloody epoch of persecution of the French Huguenots in the days following the revocation of the edict of Nantes, many of those unfortunate and noble people fled to other lands lor safety and among the number were the paternal ancestors of the subject of this sketch. They escaped from their native land and made their way to the friendly shores of Ireland, securing tracts of land in Queens county and becoming powerful and influential landlords of the Emerald Isle. Lord Melbourne, whose name is well known in history, was a cousin of the grandfather of him whose name initiates this sketch. A number of the members of the family became members of the Society of Friends in Ireland, and of this simple and noble faith was John Melbourne, grandfather of our subject. John Melbourne married a Miss Colclough. who was a communicant of the estalilished church of England, and by reason of having married outside the Quaker church he was excommunicated and also lost his property, though he in time became prosperous through his own eft'orts and recouped the losses of earlier days. He continued to reside in Queens county. Ireland, until his death, when well advanced in years.

His son, Henry, father of William E.. was born in Queens county, about 1823, and he there followed farming and milling and also conducted a mercantile business in the town of Mount Rath. His wife, whose maiden name was Jane Sawyer, was likewise a native of Queens county, being a daughter of Frank and Catherine (Hugo) Sawyer, the latter being likewise of French Huguenot stock and of the same family line as the late Victor Hugo. Henn- Melbourne died on his old homestead, in Queens county, Ireland, in 1896, and there his widow still resides, being about eighty years of age at the present time. George Melbourne, a great-uncle of our subject, was an officer in the English army during the Crimean war, and during his service had sc\'en horses shot from under him, while the name has been of prominence in civic and public affairs in Ireland for several generations. Of the children of Henry and Catherine (Sawyer) Melbourne we enter the following brief record : John, now deceased, was a resident of Canton and is individually mentioned on other pages of this work. Matilda is the wife of Thomas Murphy, of Cleveland, Ohio. Jane became the wife of Arthur Ellis, who was an officer in the English army, and after his death she married a Mr. Stokes, and they now reside in Australia. Elizabeth is the wife of John Kerr, of Waterford, Ireland. Caroline is the widow of John Foster, and she resides in the state of California. Frank came to America and it is supposed that he located in the west, the family having- lost trace of him. Henry remains on the old homestead farm in Ireland. William E. is the immediate subject of this review. Marian is the wife of a Mr. Mackey, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Emma is the wife of John Colclough. George F. S. is the subject of an individual sketch appearing elsewhere in this work. Herbert and Gertrude were twins, the former having died at the age of twentyfour years, while the latter remains on the old homestead with her venerable mother.

William E. Melbourne was born on the home farm, in Queens county, Ireland, on the 25th of February, 1862, and was reared under the sturdy discipline implied, while his early educational training was received in excellent public and private schools. At the age of twenty years he came to the United States to join his brother John, \vho had established a home in Canton, and upon his arrival in this place the subject entered the employ of his brother, who was at that time engaged in the erection of the city hall. Under the direction of his brother he learned the trade of brick and stone mason, and after remaining there between two and three years he returned to his home, in the Emerald Isle, where he continued to reside for the following five years, at the expiration of which, in 1889, he returned to America and once more took up his abode in

Canton, where he engaged in contracting and building on his own responsibilitj', and here he has since continued to be identified with this important line of mdustrial activity, while he has been concerned in the erection of many important buildings in this section. He erected the school buildings on East Fourth street and Aultman avenue; made extensive repairs on the Bass building, which was practically remodeled ; erected the Scherer building, at the corner of T'ourth and ^larket streets; the county workhouse and the west part of the court house, in which lines he saved to the county fully thirty thousand dollars in the work and incidental transactions. In August, 1901. he entered into partnership with his brother, George F. S., and they ha\-e since carried on a large and important contracting business under the firm name of Melbourne Brothers. In 1901 they erected the building of the local electric-light plant; in 1902 built the McCurdy block and the afldition to the school house on West North street, while at the time of this writing the}" have in course of construction the Auditorium and Market House building, at the corner of Third street and Cleveland avenue, this being one of the most important contracts awarded in Canton in late years. The firm ha^-e the highest reputation for ability and correct business methods, and their every contract is carried out according to specifications and with absolute fidelity to all terms of agreement. Our subject is a man of distinctive business acumen, is progressive in his attitude and is known as one of the leading contractors and representative business men of Canton.

In politics Mr. Melbourne advocates the principles of the Republican party, to whose candidates he usually gives his support, though he is not so strongly partisan that he will not sunprirt the men and measures appro\-e(l bv his judgment simply because they appear in connection with an opposing ticket. He and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church, holding membership in the Canton Episcopal church, of whose vestry he was formerly a member. He became identified with the Masonic fraternity while a resident of Ireland, and is at the present time affiliated with Canton Lodge No. 60. Free and Accepted Masons.

In this city on the 9th of August, 1894, Mr. Melbourne was united in marriage to Miss Frances E. Waters, who was born and reared in Queens county, Ireland, and to this union have been born four children : Frances J., Herbert Sidney, William Henry and Mildred Edith.

WILLIAM Mackenzie. - In the picturesque town of Glenluce, situated at the head of the bay of Luce, in Wigtownshire, the southernmost county of Scotland, William MacKenzie was ushered into the world on the 23d of August, 1857. His parents were both born and spent their youth in Wigtownshire. On his mother's side all the grandparents sprung from a race of Macks, McKies and McKeans, their native towns being Newton, Stewart and Wigtown. William McKie was a gardener and also kept store and hotel in Glenluce for many years. He died in Glenluce at the age of seventy-three. The grandmother, whose maiden name was Agnes McKean, died with the cholera at the age of fifty-five years, having taken the cholera while nursing a sailor who had contracted the disease while returning from a foreign trip.

William MacKenzie, the immediate subject of this review, attended the schools of his native town until he was about twelve years of age, having also devoted as much time as possible to prosecuting his studies at home, both prior and subsequently to this age. Thereafter he was engaged in selling newspapers, acting as messenger boy and doing such other work as came to hand until he was fourteen years of age, when he secured employment in a dry-goods establishment in his native village, where he remained four years, gaining a valuable knowledge of business methods and of the details of this particular line of enterprise. He then secured a position in a large dry-goods establishment in the city of Glasgow, being assigned to the dress-goods department and receiving forty pounds per year in compensation for his services, and continuing" to be connected with this emporium for nearly four years. While serving his apprenticeship in the business in his native town Mr. Mac Kenzie had formed the acquaintance of a fellow employe, Robert S. Bell, who is his present partner, and the acquaintanceship thus made led to their final association in business in a locality far distant from their native land. In 1877, believing that better advantages for attaining independence through individual effort were to be found in the United States, Mr. MacKenzie, who was then twenty-one years of age, erhbarked in Glasgow on the steamship Ethiopia, of the Anchor line, and set sail for America, landing in New York city as a stranger in a strange land and with just enough money to pay his fare to his destination, the city of Rochester, New York, where he had been assured of a position in the establishment of Sibley, Lindsay & Curr. With this well-known firm he remained for a period of eighteen months, receiving six hundred dollars for his annual salarv and an honorarium of one hundred dollars if he remained the full year. He became imbued with the western fever and at the expiration of the eighteen months he went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he secured a position the day after his arrival, entering the employ of the dry-goods house of Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barnev. and he continued his residence in that city for three years and nine months, during six months of which interval he was in the employ of B. Nugent & Brother. At this time

Peter Goudie, who was born and reared in the same locahty as our subject and who was in business in a small town in the state of New York, decided to make a change of location and accordingly came to Canton, in the meanwhile writing Mr. MacKenzie a request to join him here. This he did, arriving in the city in March, 1882, in which year Mr. Goudie here established himself in the dry -goods business in the location now held by the firm of MacKenzie & Bell. Mr. MacKenzie was placed in charge of the dress-goods and thus continued for a period of thirteen years, at the expiration of which, in 1896, Messrs. MacKenzie & Bell purchased the business, which they have ever since continued, having built up one of the most important retail enterprises of the sort in the city and securing a representative patronage. Their establishment is located at 224 North [Market street, is spacious and well arranged, metropolitan in all its appointments, while the stock carried is of a select and comprehensi\-e order, comprising all lines usually handled in a high-class dry-goods house. Mr. Goudie had enlarged the store two years before his withdrawal from business, and the stock carried by the present firm is far more extensive than that originally demanded, which fact indicates the cunuilative tendency of the enterprise under the effective and honorable management of the mterested principals.

Though Mr. MacKenzie is essentially and distincti\'ely a business man be does not hedge himself in with his individual interests but manifests a lively concern in all that touches the wellbeing of his home city and keeps in touch with the questions of public policy. In national affairs he gives his support to the Repul)lican party, but in local matters, where no issue is involved, he is independent of strict ]);utisan lines and lends his influence in the furthering of such measures and the supporting of such men as meet the of his judgment. He was reared in the faith of the Presbyterian church, and after his marriage he 1 identified himself with the Methodist Episcopal church. Iiolli he and his wife being active 1 and valueil members of the First ^Methodist Episcopal church of Canton, of whose board of ' trustees he is a member at the present time. ' He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity. On the 26th of April, 1889, Mr. MacKenzie was united in marriage to Miss Carrie Krause. a daughter of John I'Crause, a well known and honored citizen of Canton, in whose public schools Mrs. MacKenzie had been a sue- | cessful and popular teacher up to the time of her marriage. Of this union have been born six children, namely : Ruth Agnes, who died in infancy; William, who is now (1903) twelve years of age ; Mary, who died at the age of foin^teen and one-half months; Robert, aged seven ; (irace, aged five ; and Jessie, aged two.

HARRY S. RENKERT. - The Renkert family is of standi German extraction and was early founded in America, the original progenitors settling in the state of Pennsylvania, whence its representatives came later as pioneers of Tuscarawas county, Ohio, settling in the immediate vicinity of Canal Dover. There Jacob J. Renkert, father of the subject, was born, in the year 1847, and he was reared on the homestead farm, while he secured such educational advantages as were to be bad in the common schools of the locality and period. At the age of eighteen years he became identified with the manufacture of brick in his native county, securing an interest in a brick yard at Canal Dover, and he continued to be engaged in the manufacturing of building brick until he had attained the age of thirty years, when he directed his attention to the manufacturing of fire-brick, continuing operations in this line at Canal Dover until 1888, when he disposed of his interests there and came to Canton, where he l)ecame one of the organizers and a leading stockliolder of tlie Royal Brick Company. He continued to be acti\ely identified with iliis concern until its interests Avere merged into the ]\JetropoHtan Paving Brick Company, in 1902, when he became a stockholder in the new company- and a meni1)er of its directorate, while he has since retained the executive otiice of manager of the Royal plant of the concern, in Canton, being one of the honored business men and representati\e citizens of Canton. He gave his support to the Democratic party in 1892, when he found himself so out of accord with the heretical financial policy of the same that he showed the courage of his convictions by arraying himself in the ranks of the Republican party, of whose cause he has since been a stanch advocate. He is a valued member of the Lutheran church. As a youngman he was united in marriage to ]\Iiss Emma Lahm, who was born in Canal Dover, Tuscarawas county, in 1854, and she died in Canton, in 1896, having been a woman of noble attributes of character and gracious presence. She is survived Ijy- her three children, namely: Harry S.. the subject of this sketch; Oliver W., who is engaged in the practice of dentistry in Akron, this state, and Addie C, who remains at the parental home.

Harry S. Renkert was liorn in Canal Dover, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, on the 27th of January, 1875, and there he continued his studies in the public schools until he had attained the age of sixteen years, -xvlien he accompanied his parents on their removal to Canton, where he was for two terms a student in the Canton Business College. Thereafter he was employed for two years in the private bank of John Kime, in the village of Louisville, this county. In 1896 he became bookkeeper and stenographer with J. L. Higley & Company, sales agents for the several paving brick plants of Canton, simultaneously acquiring ah interest in the same, and in 1899 he became a stockholder in the Royal Brick Company, serxing- as treasurer of the same in 1900 and 1901, in the meanwhile continuing his connection with the general sales agency. Upon the organization of the Metropolitan Paving Brick Company-, in ]March, 1902, he was elected to his present dual ofifice of secretary and treasurer of the concern, and his executive and administrative abilities are proxing of marked value in furthering the interests of the business, which is rapidly expanding in scope and importance. In politics he gives an unqualified allegiance to the Republican party, his religious faith is that of the Lutheran church, and fraternally he is an appreciative and popular member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

On the 6th of October, 1897, Mr. Renkert was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Schlemmer, who was born in Canton, being a daughter of Philip and Alice (Beacher) Schlemmer, and they have a fine little son, Donald J., who was born on. the 13th of May, 1899.

JAMES C. LANTZ is a native of the state of ^Maryland, ha\-ing' been born in Hag-erstown, Washington county, on the loth of June, 1839, and being the son of Christian and Caroline Lantz. He was the only child and his father died a few months before the birth of the son, after which the mother of the subject returned to her parental home. She lived to attain the venerable age of eighty-seven years, her death occurring in Hagerstown, in 1902. Christian Lantz. Sr., grandfather of the subject, was engaged in the tanning business in Hagerstown until the time of his death, and his father was a native of Germany, whence he emigrated to America in an early day, taking up his abode in Mandand, where he passed the residue of his life. The mother of the subject continued to reside in the home of her father, until his death, Hagerstown having been her home throughout her entire life.

his native town, whence he received excellent educational advantages in the public schools, \\ liile at the age of sixteen years he entered upon an apprenticeship at the trade of carpenter, serving three years and becoming a thoroughly skilled artisan in the line. He continued to follow his trade in his native state until 1863, which year witnessed his arrival in Canton. Previously to this time, on the 5th of November, 1861, in Waynesboro, Maryland, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Jemima Price, who was born in that place, in the year 1843, being a daughter of George Price, who was there successfully established in the hotel business for many years. Mr. Lantz was a member of the First Regiment of the state militia of Maryland, serving under Colonel Kenly, who later became a general, and in this command he served during the Civil war, participating in important battles and receiving a musket-ball wound in the right cheek during the progress of the battle of South Mountain. He was with the state militia during John Brown's memoral)le raid, and he witnessed the execution of this redoubtable zealot, being probably the only man in this section of Ohio who was present- at this occasion.

For two years after coming to Canton Mr. Lantz was employed in the manufactory of E. Ball, and for the ensuij\g three years he was engaged in the work of his trade, as a contractor and builder. In 1868 he founded his present enterprise, beginning operations on a modest scale in the manufacturing of boxes and having his plant on South Rex street, the original building having stood upon a portion of the ground occupied by his present large and well equipped plant. By honorable business methods and unflagging energy Mr. Lantz has succeeded in building up an extensive industry, the products of his establishment 1>eing in demand throughout a wide trade territory, while he commands the unstinted confidence and esteem of the people of Canton, in Vt'hich city he has so long made his home. In politics he is a stanch adherent of the Democratic party and he has at all times shown a loyal interest in public atYairs of a local nature. He served two years as a representative of the fifth ward in the city council, and for two terms, of three years each, was a valued member of the board of education. Fraternally he is identified with the blue lodge, chapter and commandery of the Masonic order, and also is a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine. He and his wife are worthy and zealous members of the Trinity Lutheran church. They became the parents of eight children, only two of whom are now living, Maggie, who remains at the parental home, and Lulu, who is the wafe of Charles G. Gimbel, of Wooster, Ohio.

NEWTOX K. BOWMAN was born on a farm in Tuscarawas township, this county, on the 7th of October, 1856, being the first in order of birth of the twelve children of Samuel S. and Margaret (Kibler) Bowman, the former of whom was born in the state of Pennsylvania and the latter in \'irginia. When Samuel S. Bowman was an infant his parents, Adam and Elizabeth (Spicer) Bowman, came to Stark county from the old Keystone state, and became pioneer settlers of Paris township, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Adam Bow^man had two brothers, John and Michael, the farmer of whom removed to Virginia, where he passed the residue of his life, while the latter died in Liberty. Guernsey county, Ohio. Elizabeth (Spicer) Bowman was a daughter of Richard Spicer, who was a soldier in Burgoyne's army during the war of the Revolution, in w-hich he was captured by the forces under General Washington. After the war he signified his allegiance to the new republic and settled at Fort Littleton, Pennsylvania, in which state he continued to reside until his death. His children, in addition to Eliza- beth, were Richard, Samuel, Nancy and Mollie. Adam and Elizabeth Bowman became the parents of three sons and two daughters, Samuel S., Adam, Richard, Mary and Margaret. The original ancestor of the Bowman family in America was the subject's great-grandfather, who emigrated hither from Germany, the land of his nativity.