Canton Township (part 40 of 62)

On Christmas day of the year 1877 Ah". Currie was united in marriage to Aliss Jennie Forrest, daughter of William and Sarah (Stevenson ) Forrest, who had come to America from Scotland many }ears before. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Currie was solemnized in the city of \V)nng-.stown, Ohio, and they forthwith came to Stark count}-, where he had pre\-ionslv established his home, as before noted. Of this union three children were born, namely: James F.. who was born April 24. 1879, near Massillon, this county: William d.. who was born December II. 1881. at Xewman. this count\-. wdiere also was born the onl\- daughter, Sadie M., the date of her nativity being April 17, 1884. James V. Currie has been for the past three years a reporter on the Canton Daily Repository. William Forrest, the father of Mrs. Currie. recently died at his home near Massillon, ?nd he was at that time one f>f the two surviving members in this county of the old Twenty-third Ohio Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, in which the late lamented President McKinley served during the Ci\il w ar. The other survivor was the Re\-. C. L. Manchester, w ho was pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church of Canton until loor. The regiment was recruited through counties north of Stark, and on it? membership mil were a few volunteers from tlii-; county. Dr. Manchester, as pastor of the church mentioned, there officiated at the funeral of Canton's distinguished and loved citizen, President McKinley, in .September, 1901. \\"hen the late President visited his home in Canton Air. horrest called occasionally at his cottage to exchange greetings and to live over again the days of their military service, the ] 'resident ever accorded him a most cordial welcome. The Twenty-third Ohio had within its ranks two men who later served in the chief executive office of the nation, - Hayes and Mc- Kin.ley. Among other members who afterward became distinguished were Hon. Stanley Matthews, once a prominent jurist of Cincinnati ; General Rosecrans rmd Russell Hastings, all prominent among Oliio's sons. Mr. Forrest served four jears in the Civil war and was wounded in tlu' battle of Winchester, Virginia, a piece of shell, weighing exactly sixteen ounces, passing through his thigh. He enlisted with a ]^ennsylvania regiment and later went out with the Ohio regiment mentioned. He participated in the sanguinary contlicts of Antietam and Gettysburg and many others of the memorable battles of the great internecine war. He was six feet in height, w itb ])owerful physique, and he was seventy-four years of age at the time of his death. His remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at Newman, this county.

Thomas H. Currie was made a citizen of the United States, at New Philadelphia, Ohio. He served several terms as township trustee and again as school director of Lawrence township, Stark county, and for years he was superintendent of the Sunday school at Newman, this county. Fifteen years ago he came to Canton and opened a grocery store in the west end of the city, and later he ^vas emjiloyed at the watch factory, in the vicinity of which he became interested in real estate, acquiring a considerable amount of valuable ])roperty, his first work at the watch factorv bcins' in connection with the construction of the plant, as has been previously stated in this cuutext. After the plant was put m operatinn he was emploved in \ariiius capacities and was finally promoted to the position of foreman of the gold and silver refining department, having previously had laboratory experience in metallurg}^ with the Glasgow & Port Washington Iron & C"oa! Company, in Tuscarawas county, as prospector, upon which experience he enlarged in such a way as to enable him to become a successful assayer and refiner. In the years he has been with the watch company he has assayed and refined several million dollars' worth of precious metals, including some material from the TJnited States mints. He has taken an active interest in the time honored fraternity of Freemasons, and in the same has recei\"ed the Knight Templar degrees. He was the first ])residing officer of Canton Home No. 43, Home Guards of America, which has a membership of two hundred and fifty. For years he has been an officer in the First Presbyterian church. Fie has taken no active part in politics since coming to Canton, although his friends ha\e repeatedly urged him to do so. Scotland, his native land, and the "bonny blue bell" are not forgotten, and when the scattered Scots come together on Caledonia days to re-sing "Auld Lang Syne'' he is aye there, and the "cannie chiels" of the Canton Burns Club have him as "keener o' their siller"' (treasurer).

DAVID HINTON claims the old Keystone state as the place of his nativity, Iraving been born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, on the 23d of December, 1851, and being a son of James and Sarah CBarnett) Hinton, of whose nine children six are living at the time of this writing, namelv : Louisa, who is the wife of Daniel Willaman, of New Berlin, this county; David, who figures as the subject of this sketch ; Samuel, who resides at INIiddle Branch, this county; Alfred, who makes his home in the city of Cleveland ; and Charjes, who is a farmer of Nimishillen township. James Hinton was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, where he was reared and educated and where he learned the carpenter's trade in his youth, becoming an expert artisan in the line, and' continuing to follow the same at intervals until the closing years of his life. His wife was likewise a native of Pennsylvania, being a daughter of James Barnett, who was a tailor by trade and vocation and who passed the closing years of his life in Stark county. In 1853, when our subject was but four years of age, his father removed from Bedford county, Pennsylvania, to Stark county, locating in Nimishillen township, where the family maintained their home for several years, after which they removed to Plain township, where the father purchased a farni of fifty-six acres, upon which he passed the residue of his useful and honorable life, passing away in 1900, at the venerable age of seventy-seven years, secure in the esteem of all who knew him. In politics he was a stanch supporter of the Republican party, with which he identified himself at the time of its organization, and he was a devoted member of the Church of God, as was also his cherished wife, who was summoned into eternal rest in 1895, at the age of sixtyeight years.

Under the home roof David Hinton was reared to maturit)', receiving the advantages afforded by the common schools of the day and early beginning to work at the carpenter's trade under the effective direction of his honored father, who gave him most careful instruction and encouragement, so that he could claim the distinction of being a master carpenter when only -eventeen years of age. Mr. Hinton was united in marriage to Miss Lncinda Stauffer, who was born in Canton township, this county, being a daughter of Jacob Staufifer, whose father was numbered among the early settlers of Stark county, with whose annals the name has l;een prominently and honorably identified from the pioneer epoch to the present tlay. To them have been liorn four children, of whom two survive, namely : George, who is a carpenter by vt)cation and a resident of Nimishillen townshij); and Latu'a, who- remains at the parental home. After his marriage Mr, Plinton purchased his present home farm, in which are comprised one hundred acres of very fertile and productive land, while upon the place he has made the best of improvem.ents, his ability as a car[ienter and builder giving assurance that no imperfect workmanship would be tolerated in the erecting of the various buildings, including the commodious and pleasant residence. Mr. Hinton still continues to work at his trade at varying intervals, his services being in requisition by many of the residents of this section, who appreciate his technical abilit}-, his sterling integrity and his fidelity to the terms of every contract. In the matter of politics he exercises his franchise in support of the principles and policies of the Republican party, of which he has been a stalwart adherent from the time of attaming his majority, though he has never sought the honors or emoluments of official preferment. He takes a lively interest in all that concerns the welfare of the community, being progressive and public-spirited at all times, and recogiiizing his marked eligi])ility, the people of the district ha\e continuouslv retained him in office as school director for the past tweh'e A^ears.

WILLIAM BLANK is a native of West Virginia, and the son of John and Elizabeth (Engleman) Blank, both parents born in Germany, but since 1857 residents of the L^nited States. On coming to this countrv. John Blank settled in West Virginia, but after a comparatively short residence there moved to Indiana, thence, after a short time, to Stark county, Ohio, locating at Canal Fulton, with the Inisiiiess interests of wliicli he lias since Ijeen connected. At the present time he is enoaeed in the nianutacttire of cereal coffee and baking powder, lieing a large stockholder and practiad manager of the French Cereal i^Ianufacturing Company, which he assisted to organize and in the affairs of which he has since been a leading spirit. During President Cleveland's second adiiiinistration he was postmaster at Canal Fulton, having been appointed to the office in recognition of his active and faithful party service, having been a pronounced Democrat ever since becoming an American citizen. William Blank vras torn on the 6th clay of August, i86i, and, with the exception of a few years, has spent his life in Canal Fulton, having been quite young when his parents mnvetl to the town. After receiving a good practical education in the public schools, he decided to devote his life to business pursuits. /\ccordingly. when a young man. he effected a co-partnership with his brother. John V. Blank, in the grocery trade, the firm thus constituted lasting about twelve years. The Blank l)rothers secured a large and lucrative patronage and became the leading grocers of Canal Fulton, their prestige as acti\'e, wideawake and eminentlx' successful business men earning for them a reputation by wy means confined to the ])recincts of the town in which their establishment was situated. At the expiration of the alxive period the partnership was dissolved, the subject engaging in general merchandising tipon his own responsibility, and to this he has since de\'oted his time and attention witli large tinancial gains. Mr. Blank is an accomplished business man and bv successful management and fair dealing has built u]i a large trade, which is constantly growing in magnitude and importance. Xot a little of his patronage is due to his amiable qualities and gentlemanly demeanor, characteristics which have much to do in winning friends and gaining public conlidence. In addition to his mercantile business, he is interested in various otiier enterprises, among which is the French C ereal Manufacturing Company, of which he is now president. As already stated, Mr. Blank has held ?e\eral official positions, having served four years as town clerk, and at the present is discharging the duties of treasurer of Canal J^ulton. He also held the important position of treasurer of the Street Fair Association, in which, as in other offices referred to. he displayed ability of a high order and discharged worthilv e\ery dtitv incumbent u])on him. At this time Mr. Blank is secretar\ of the Catholic Mutual Benevolent Association, with which organization he has been identified for several yeiirs in various other capacities; he is an acti\'e and inlluential factor in the social, fraternal and business interests of the place of his residence. In politics he is an uncompromising supporter of the Democratic party and has conti"il>uted much to its success not only in municipal and county affairs, but in state and national campaigns as well.

Air. Blank was married, in 1883. to Miss Hattie Pfiff'er, who was born in Canal I-'ulton in 1866. the daughter of August and Julia Pfiffer, natives of Cermany. The father was for a numl^er of years propriet(jr of a hotel in Canal Fulton, where his death took place in 1808. Ti) Mr. and Mrs. Blank have been born' two children: Bertha, a jjrighl voung lady of fifteen, to whom is accorded the honor (jf being the youngest person ever graduated from the Canal Fulton high school, and Arnold, who is now pursuing his studies in the same institution. Mr. Blank and family are devoted members of the Catholic church, being among the leading workers and liberal supporters of the congregation at Canal Fulton.

in connection with the great struggle which resulted in American independence. According to the most authentic information obtainable the Doctor's great-great-gneat-grandfather on the paternal side was William, a native of Ger-* many. He came to America prior to the war of the Revolution and when the colonists revolted espoused their cause and bore a distinguished part until the Briton was driven from our shores. He also proved his loyalty to his adopted country by fighting her hereditary foe from 1812 to 181 5. having served in a Pennsylvania regiment during that war. He is supposed to have first settled in Massachusetts, moving thence to New York and later to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where he followed the life of a farmer until his death, which occurred about the year 1835. The subject's great-greatgrandfather was William, a native of Philadelphia, born June 10, 1770, married Elizabeth Morgan, born September 8, 1771. William died September 3, 1833, and his w'ife June 6, 1845. The issue of their union was as follows : Nancy, who married a Mr. Fisher, born October 22, 1791, died May 16. 1858; John, born June TO, 1793, at Darlington, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania ; Sallie, born February 12, 1796, died January i, 1856: Charjes, born July 26, 1798, died April 4, 1872; William, bom June 27, j8oo, died June 3, 1879; Elizabeth, born August 25, 1802; Jessie, born June

28, 1845; Matilda, born September 20, 1808, died August 25, 1852; Jacob, born June 19, 1810, died March 20, 181 t; Minnie, born December 20, 1818, married a Mr. Stephenson, of near Mansfield, Ohio, and they have four children. John Foulks, the subject's great-grandfather, was born in Westmoreland county, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1793, and, like his father, devoted his life to the pursuit of agriculture. When a young man he came to eastern Ohio, settling at Moultrie, Columbiana county, where shortly after his arrival he mar- rietl a widmv of the name of Mary Hassler, daughter of William Sleutz, who was also a native of Pennsylvania. John Foulks entered a section of land on which he built a small log cabin and lived the life of a pioneer, sharing in all the hardships and vicissitudes of the early times. He developed a fine farm, accunnilated a large estate and became one of the enterprising men of the community in which he lived. Fie died in 1878, where he originally settled, his wife preceding him to the grave in 1869. The following are the names of the children born to John and Mary F""oulks : Lafayette, of whom a more extended notice will be found in another paragraph ; Mrs. Minerva Vink, born August 7, 1834 ; William, born May 8, 1836, died in 1893, a soldier of the late Civil war; his widow, formerly Miss Angeline Nunermaker, resides at New Franklin; Milton, born August 25, 1838, also a veteran of the Rebellion, died at Dunkirk, Lidiana, in 1901 ; John M., born June 5. 1840, served in the One Hundred and Fifteenth Ohio ^'olnnteers in the Civil war, married Elizabeth Jones and now lives at New Franklin, Ohio; Theodore Shannon, born March 29, 1842, was likewise a soldier, and at this time lives at Butte. Montana, a single man; Calvin, born April 15, 1845, a member of the One Hundred and Fifteenth Ohio Infantry in the Civil war, married Maggie Jones and makes his home at Albion, Michigan.

Lafayette Foulks, the oldest of the above children, M-as born in Columbiana county, Ohio, December 24, 1832. He was reared to agricultural pursuits, attended at intervals when a boy the old fashioned schools of the times and made farming his life work. In 1851 he married Miss Nancy Whiteleather, who was born in Columbiana county in the year 1836, the daughter of David and Elizabeth (Firestone) Whiteleather, natives respectively of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and Wooster, Ohio. David Whiteleather came to this state in an early day and died in New Chambersburg, Ohio, about the

After his marriage Lafayette Foulks moved to a farm in the vicinity of Moultrie, Columbiana county, and there lived and prospered until his death, in 1889. Like his brothers, he too responded to the country's call in the dark days of the Rebellion, enlisting in Company D, One Hundred and Fifteenth Ohio Infantry, of which he was made second lieutenant at Columbus and later, for brave and meritorious conduct, was promoted first lieutenant. He acted in the latter capacity until the close of the war and returned home after spending three and a half years in the service of his country. In politics he was originally a Whig, but afterwards became a Republican, of which party all the male members of the Foulks family have been earnest supporters. He was a zealous communicant of the jNIethodist church, as was also his wife, and as a man and citizen he commanded the esteem and confidence of the community in which nearly all of his life was spent. Lafayette and Nancy Foulks reared the following children: Marion C, M. D. ; David W., born December 15, 1859, resides in Indianapolis, Indiana, married Frances Harrison, now deceased; William L., born March 30, 1866, died September 29, 1900, married Alpha Shively; Elizabeth, born March 29, 1862, married D. E. Lower, of Columbiana county, Ohio.

Marion C. Foulks, M. D., was born INIay 15, 1852, in Columbiana county, Ohio, and spent his early years on liis father's farm, meanwhile, as opportunities afforded,, attending the common schools. He was an apt pupil, as may be inferred from the fact of his having successfully passed the required examination for a teacher's license when but thirteen years of age, perhaps the youngest person in the state to receive such an instrument. Mr. Foulks taught school for seven successive years, but in 1873 abandoned educational work for the purpose of reading medicine, entering the office of Drs.

Firestone and Carey at Salem, Ohio. Subsequently he became a student of the medical department of Wooster Uni\ersity, from which institution he was graduated in 1876, and immediately thereafter began the practice of his profession at North Georgetown, Columbiana county, where he remained during the ensuing ten years. Dr. Foulks built up an extensive practice in and around North Georgetown and in due time became one of the leading physicians and surgeons in that section of the state. In 1886 he opened an ofifice in Canton, and since that time has practiced in this city and adjacent country with a large measure of professional and financial success. His career has been one of uninterrupted prosperity, and today he occupies a commanding position among the medical men of eastern Ohio. He is now the consulting physician of the Aultman Hospital, and as a member of tlie Stark County Academy of Medicine, Canton Medical Society, Northeastern Ohio Medical Society, and the State Medical Association, he has done much to advance the standard of professional efficiency in this part of the country'. Fraternally Dr. Marion C. Foulks is a Roy-at Arch Mason, a member of the Independent Order c»f Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pj'thias and an active worker in the Improved Order of Red Men. He is a pronoimced Republican in politics, yet he has never held political office nor aspired to public distinction, although acti\e in promoting the interests of his party and ever ready to maintain the soundness of his opinions. Religiously he was reared a Methodist, but in matters of faith entertains liberal views, believing all clunxhes to be potent instrumentalities for good if properly conducted. T!ie Doctor was married, at New Alexander, Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1873, to Miss Frances A. Lower, whose birth occurred in that town on the 4th day of July, 1856. Mrs. Foulks is the daughter of Michael and Nancy (Smith) Lower, both natives of the countv of Columbiana, their re- spective ancestors having moved to that part of the state from central Pennsylvania. Dr. and Mrs. Foulks have two children, namely : Anna M., educated in Canton public schools, graduated from the high school and from the Canton Business College; Wallace, S., M. D.

Dr. Wallace S. Foulks, to a brief review of whose life and professional career the reader's attention is herewith respectively invited, was born June i, 1875, '''' Salem, Columbiana county, Ohio. When he was an infant his parents moved to North Georgetown and there he lived until about fourteen years of age, meanwhile beginning his education as a pupil in the village schools. He continued his studies at the above place until the family came to Canton, after which he attended the city schools until his nineteenth year and then entered his father's office to begin his preliminary preparation for the medical profession. In due time under his father's able direction he was ready to enter upon a more thorough course of instruction, and accordingly he became, in 1894, a student of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and after attending that celebrated institution the greater part of three years was graduated in 1897 ^^'i'^h the degree of Doctor of Medicine.

In October of the latter year Dr. Foulks began practicing at his present quarters in Canton and since that time has made rapid advancement, enjoying toda}- worthy prestige among the successful professional men of the city and county. He prepared himself for his life work under some of the ablest medical talent on the continent, and, availing himself of every opportunity for advancement, has gradually forged to the front, gaining an honorable distinction and a liberal share of patronage. He is a young man of fine intellectual and professional attainments, a student- and a thinker, and thus far his laudable ambition to excel has been crowned with most encouraging success. In common with the enterprising*and progressive members of t!ie profession everywhere he seeks the association of those similarly engaged, and accordingly his name is found in the records of the Canton Medical Society, the Stark County Academy of Medicine, and other medical organizations, whose object is the advancement of a higher standard of excellence among those whose lives and energies are being devoted to the alleviation of human sufifering. Realizing that to political parties are entrusted the government of the state and nation,: he gives his support to the party which in his judgment best meets the requirements of the people and that most nearly subserves their interests, and believing the Republican party best calculated to meet these ends he has been pronounced in his allegiance thereto since old enough to read and investigate intelligently, and he is now one of its younger leaders in the city of Canton. The Doctor is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal church of this city and in his fraternal relations belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Eagles,. Knights of Honor, Home Guards, Royal Templars and W'oodmen of the World. He is a married man and has a pleasant home in Canton, presided o-'.-er by a lady of culture and refinement who became his wife in this city on the 29th day of June, 1899. The maiden name of Mrs. Foulks was Florence M. Rockhill and she is the daughter, of .Samuel H. and Margaret (Smith) Rockhill. To them has been born a son, Raymond, born March 6, 1903.

JOSEPH L. REED, M. D. - In the veins of Dr. Reed is mingled the blood of the sturdy Irish and Scotch races, blood that has contributed as much if not more than any other to the strength and firmness of our composite national life. His grandfather, William F. Reed, a native of North Ireland, came to the Ignited States a number of years ago, a single man, and settled in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where he met a young lady by the name of Susan Wyandt, who afterwards became his wife. Her parents migrated to Stark county, Ohio, when there was but a single log cabin on the present site of Canton, and entered a tract of land in what is now the township of Sugar Creek. They were joined a little later by another family of Wyandts, accompanied by William F. Reed, the little company making their way from Pennsylvania to what was then the far west in a wagon drawn by a yoke of oxen. Mr. Reed went to work as a farm hand, assisting his future father-in-law and others in clearing and preparing their lands for cultivation. After his marriage with Susan Wyandt he also settled in Sugar Creek townhip, cleared a farm and lived on the same until his death, at the age of fifty-six years. His wife survived him for some time, ' departing this life when about seventy-eight years old.

Henry Reed, son of William F. and Susan Reed, was born on the old farmstead in the township of Sugar Creek, October 2, 1846, spent his early days beneath the parental roof and at the early age of seventeen joined an Ohio regiment to fight for the preservation of the Union. He entered the service of the country in 1862, and at the expiration of his period of enlistment veteranized in the Nineteenth Ohio Regiment of Infantry, and remained in the army until the close of the Rebellion. After the war, he resumed agricultural pursuits in his nati\e township and in 1867 was united in marriage to Miss Mary Shunk, whose birth occurred in Stark county, Ohio, on the 25th of December, 1848. Michael Shunk, father of Mrs. Reed, was a native of Pennsylvania, as was also his wife, who bore the maiden name of Christiana Putman, both coming from the county of Westmoreland. Tlie grandfather of Mrs. Shunk, Gabriel Putman, is said to have been the first permanent white settler in the southern part of Stark county, taking up there three hundred and sixt acres of land and locating on the same whe the country was an unbroken wilderness. H became a well-to-do man and worthy citizei accumulated a large estate and died in 188 at the advanced age of ninety years. At th time of his death he had two brothers and sister, the youngest being eighty-two years ok Not long after Henry Reed's marriage h purchased a farm of one hundred and sixt acres in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, in what i now known as the "Rocks" and continued t live there and prosper until 1870, when h disposed of his place and formed a partnershi; with D. W. Rush in the manufacture of furni ture at the then town of Milton, now Wilmoi Two years later their shop was destroyed b; fire, but they immediately rebuilt and con tinned the business under the firm name o l^ush & Reed, until September, 1882, when th latter withdrew, but did not dispose of hi entire interest until three years later. In 188 Mr. Reed purchased the old Gilbert farm ii Sugar Creek township and disposing of a par of the land for the purpose of erecting build ings made the place one of the finest and mos ^-aluable of its area in that part of the county He still makes his home on this farm and i deservedly classed among the most successfu agriculturists as well as one of the most inteili gent and enterprising citizens of the community in which he resides. He and his good wif( are now practically retired and enjoying th( well-earned fruits of their many years of toi and honorable endeavor. In politics Henr} Reed is a stanch Republican and as such ha; been elected to several local offices, including that of township trustee, in which he is now serving his second term. He was a member ol the local school board for a period of fourteer years, during wiiich time he did much to promote the educational interests of his township. Fraternally he is an actfve member of Wilmol

Dr. Joseph L. Reed, the only child of his parents, was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, June 25, 1868, and when he was two years Did his parents removed to the town of Wilmot, Stark county. His early advantages were similar to those enjoyed by the majority of :ountry and village lads, and the public schools afforded him the means of acquiring a good education. He was graduated from the Wilmot high school in 1885 and immediately thereafter began teaching', in which profession he made a reputation second to that of few 3f his fellow educators in the count)' of Stark. He entered this field of endeavor at the age of seventeen and from that titne forward relied entirely upon his own resources not only for 1 livelihood but for carrying to successful issue the plans for his future course of action. While teaching he spent his vacations at Mt. Union College and in this way succeeded in working his way through that institution, graduating in 1891 with the degree of Bachelor jf Science.

During the three years following- the completion of his collegiate course Dr. Reed served as superintendent of the Navarre public schools, meantime, on the 8th day of January, 1892, being united in marriage to Miss Mildred Shorlx, daugiiter of James and Adelaide Shorb, of Canton. Although well cjualified by nature and intellectual training for school work. Dr. Reed did not see fit to spend his life in the educational field, but had he done so there is no doubt that he would have achieved marked success both as a teacher and manager of schools. In 1894 he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, not as an end, but as a means to an end, as he had long contemplated preparing himself for another calling- more in harmony with his tastes and much more remunerative from a financial point of view, - the medical profession. Yielding to this desire, he entered in the fall of 1894 the Ohio Medical University, at Columbus, and there prosecuted his studies with great assiduity until 1897, on April 17th of which year he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Unlike many young physicians who choose for their first location some small village or remote country town, Dr. Reed at once selected a larger field, opening an office in May, 1897, at No. 430 South Market street, Canton. His reputation as a capable physician and surgeon soon became known and almost from the beginning his practice has been large and lucrative. He now ranks with the able medical men of the city, stands high in the estimation of the pul)lic and spares no pains to keep in touch with the trend of modern thought in all matters relating to his chosen calling. For two years he served as physician for the county infirmary and discharged the duties of the position in a manner highly creditable to himself and satisfactory to all concerned. He is identified with the Stark County Medical Society and the Canton Medical Society, and is regarded by older physicians as one of the promising medical men of the future. Dr. Reed belongs to several benevolent and fraternal societies, among which are Clinton Lodge No. 47, Free and Accepted IMasons, at Massillon ; Garfield Lodge, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and Lodge No. 26, Protected Home Circle, the last two in Canton. He is keenly alive to the great public rjuestions of the day, national and international, and as a stanch stipporter of the Republican party takes an active interest in political matters, but not as an aspirant for ofiicial honors.

WILIJAM G. MYERS was a native son of the Buckeye state, having been born June 7, 1 820. in Chippewa township. Wayne county, the son of Peter and Sarah (]\Iiller) Myers.

His father was born in Rensselaer county, New York, while his mother was a native of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. They both removed to Ohio, were married and located on the farm where the subject was born. William G. Myers is indebted to the common schools of Summit and Stark counties, Ohio, for his mental discipline and made good use of such opportunities as were afforded him, acquiring a good practical education. At the early age of sixteen years he was bound out to a cabinet maker and carpenter and learned those trades. Upon attaining his majority he commenced business on his own account, erecting houses and barns and doing such other jobs as came to him. He was a good workman and generally found plenty of work awaiting him. His proficiency in the branches of learning then taught in the common schools had secured for him a license to teach and while still occupied at the trade of carpenter he put in his winters in the school room. His time was thus occupied until about the time of his marriage, in 1823, when he gave up the carpenter trade and commenced farming, continuing as before to teach school during the winter months. While engaged in his pedagogical labors he had been associated with several literary societies and took quite an active part in the debates and discussions of these societies, religious, scientific and political topics, engaging their attention. He acquired considerable skill as a debater and gained a reputation as a man who possessed definite and well founded ideas on questions affecting public interests and who was able to defend his convictions when opportunity offered. He was among the earliest anti-slavery, temperance and female suffrage advocates in his section of the country, and to his discussion at that time of the great questions which then confronted the nation he ascribed his taste for the study of law, to which he subsequently applied himself. He commenced, in 184S, the reading of the underlying principles of law, and after due examination was admitted to practice at the bar, which profession he successfully followed for fifty years. He continued his farming interests until 1 87 1, when he removed to Canal Fulton, .Stark county, and continued the practice of his profession until in February, 1902, when he received the appointment as postmaster of Canal Fulton, and is now performing the duties of that office. By the exercise of sound judgmen, good business methods and a uniform courtesy to all the patrons of the office, he won the firm confidence and strengthened himself in the good will of all, regardless of political lines.

Mr. Myers had a creditable military record, having enlisted, in September, 1862, in Company G. One Hundred Twentieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of which company he was commissioned captain. The regiment was first encamped at Mansfield and from there was sent to Vicksburg. They took part in the most arduous campaigns and marches of the Civil war and participated in several sanguinary conflicts, in all of which the subject nobly bore his part of the hardships and privations incident to the life of a soldier. Politically he was a Republican from the organization of the party in 1856 and took an active part in all the campaigns of the party for thirty years, having stumpetl the counties of Wayne, Stark. Medina, Summit and Holmes, and doing much other effective work in a political way. He was a forceful yet pleasing speaker and his words always carried conviction to the minds of his hearers. He kept alive his old army associations through his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic, and was at one time commander of his post. Religiously he was identified with the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he was an active and consistent member for sixty years.

Miss Sarah J. Hardgrove, the daughter of a well known and prominent farmer of that township. The union was a most feHcitous one and was blessed with six children, four sons and two daughters, namely: John W., William N., George AV., Richard F., Mary M. and Rosa. They also have eighteen grandchildren. Mr. Myers, by a life of right li\'ing and strenuous endeavor, earned a warm place in the hearts of all who knew him. He was a devout lover of the pure, true and good, and was ever ready to encourage that which is worthy and to support that which is best. All found in him a friend and helper, and many were the expressions of sorrow and sincere regret when he died, the sad event occurring on the 14th of January, 1903.

LEWIS D. BLANCHARD, D. V^ S. - Daniel August Blanchard, father of the Doctor, was born in Switzerland, where he was reared and educated, the date of his nativity having been 1825. As a young man he severed the home ties and set forth to seek his fortunes in America, arriving in due course of time in the city of New York, whence he made his way directly to Ohio, locating at Mount Eaton, WaTOe county, where he entered a claim to a tract of wild land, which he reclaimed from the forest and which he eventually developed into one of the many fine rural estates of that section of the commonwealth. He was progressive, energetic and ambitious, had faith in the final outcome of his efforts, and in view of his present position none can doubt the wisdom of his course nor the consistency of his early confidence in what the future had in store in connection with the agricultural resources of the Buckeye state. Tn Wayne county, he was united in marriage to Miss Julia Dodez, a daughter of Louis Dodez, an early and honored settler of that section. The parents of the subject still reside on the old homestead, which is doubly endeared to them by the memories and associations of the past, and both are zealous and devoted members of the French Reformed church, with which they have been prominently identified for many years. In politics Daniel A. Blanchard formerly gave his suport to the Democratic party, but since the organization of the Prohibition party, with whose principles his ideas are in thorough harmony, he has exercised his franchise in favor of the same. To him and his devoted and cherished wife were born four children, namely: Ellen, who is the wife of R. V. B. Pinkerton, of Canton; Lewis D., who figures as the subject of this review; Alii E., who is associated with the subject in business; and Flora, who died, at the parental home, in 1883, at the age of nineteen years.

Lewis D. Blanchard was born on the old homestead farm, in Wayne county, Ohio, on the 7th of September, 1858, and he was reared to manhood under the invigorating discipline of the great basic art of agriculture, - an influence which makes for both mental and physical vigor, as the history of the American Republic has demonstrated in a most significant way. He attended the district school in the vicinity of his home until he had attained the age of eighteen years, and thereafter was for two terms a student in the high school at Wooster, after which he resumed his labors on the home farm. At the age of twenty-one he went to Toronto, Canada, where he was matriculated in the Ontario Veterinary College, where he completed the prescribed course - a most thorough and exacting one - and where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1882, receiving his degree as Doctor of Veterinary Surgery. Immediately after his graduation Dr. Blanchard returned to Ohio, and in May of the .same year located in Canton, at his present headquarters, whei'ej' he established himself in the active practice of his profession. He soon secured a repre- sentative patronage, his skill and thorough scientific knowledge insuring his definite precedence from the start, and he is recognized as one of the most able veterinarians in the state. He is a great lover of that noble animal, the horse, and tlius takes marked satisfaction in this feature of his work. He was for a time located, for \arying intervals, at other points in the cit)-, l)ut returned to his original ipiarters in 1887, and here he has since remained. In that year he entered into a partnership with his brother and George W. Heldenbrand, in the livery, undertaking and transfer, business, under the firm name of Miller, Blanchard & Company, and this association has since continued, while the business has grown to be one of the most important of the sort in the city, the firm having modern and complete facilities and equipments and being able to handle all work in the various departments to the satisfaction of their patrons. The business has so increased in scope and importance as to place a demand upon the subject for the major portion of his time and attention, and he has to a large degree abandoned the practice of his profession, thoug'h his interposition in this line is frequently in requisition in consultation and in critical cases.

In politics Dr. Blanchard gives an uncompromising allegiance to the Democratic party. in whose cause he has been an active and efficient worker, having served as delegate to the various conventions of the party in the county and congressional district, and having frequently been also a delegate-at-large to state conventions. He has never sought official preferment, but his interest in the work of education, and his marked eligibility, led to his being' twice elected a member of the board of education of Canton, in which capacity he served for two full terms, proving a valuable member of the body, while he received a large majority on the occasion of each election. Fraternallv he is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias, in the former of which he is past exalted ruler of Canton Lodge No. 68, of Canton, Axhicli he represented as a delegate to the meeting of the national grand lodge of the order in Cincinnati (1896) and Miimeapolis (1897). His religious faith is that of the French Reformed church, and he holds membership in the church at Mount Eaton, near his birthplace.

In the city of Canton, on the 26th of March, 1891, Dr. Blanchard was united in marriage to Miss Laura B. Milhoff, daughter of Frank Milhoff, of this city, where she was born and reared. Dr. and Mrs. Blanchard have two children, Florence, ^vho w-as born on the 4th of J\Iay, 1893, ^"^^ Donald L., born in April, 1903. Their home is a center O'f generous and refined hospitality and they are prominent in the social life of their home citv.

JOHN F. FARBER was born in Pike township. Stark county, on the 22A of November, 1834, and there his youthful days were passed on the parental homestead, while it is needless to say that he early became familiar with the manifold details which entered into the reclamation and cultivation of a pioneer farm, this formative period in his life being one which has had its infiuence upon his entire subsequent career, since he then learned the value of consecutive endeavor and to appreciate the sturdy self-reliance and inrlependence which are ever begotten under such circumstances and environments. His initial scholastic discipline was received in the little district school, and he continued his efforts in this line until he had acc|nired a good common-school education. But ere proceeding farther with a consideration of his ]Dersonal career, we may well revert to the ancestral history. Llis father, the late James I^nrl^er, was likewise a native son of Ohio, and his was the distinction of having been the first white child born in Sandy township, Tuscarawas county, where lie was ushered into the world on the ist of March, 1808, being a son of John Farber, who emigrated to Ohio in 1806. He located in Tuscarawas county, where he took up a tract of land in tlie midst of the dense forest, there instituting the work of reclamation and thus contributing his quota as one of the founders and builders of a great commonwealth. He there passed the remainder of his life, and thence, as a young man, his son James, father of the subject, came to Stark county, becoming one of the first settlers in I'ike township, wher,e he had the opportunity of repeating the pioneer experiences of his earlier years, though with the added responsibilities implied in becoming the head of a family and dependent upon his o\sn resources. He married Miss Caroline A. Weaver, who was born in the old Empire state of New York, on the 1 7th of July, 181 5. They continued to make their home in Pike township until their deaths, and in their later years were permitted to enjoy tlie comforts and the rest which are the fitting crown of years of earnest and indefatigable endeavor. On the 2 1 St of February, 1890, death set its seal upon the mortal lips of this noble woman, and her loved companion did not long survive her loss, his death occurring on the Jd of the following June, at the age of nearly eightythree years, while she was in her seventy-sixth year at the time of her death. This worthy couple became the parents of seven children, namely : John F., the immediate subject of this sketch; Isabella, who became the wife of John Kiefer and who died in Carroll county, this state; Emma, who died at the age of about two years ; 01i\ er, who is a farmer in Osnaburg township; Philip, who is individually mentioned elsewhere in this work; Abigail, who is the wife of Franklin Neuhouse, of Pike township ; and Betsey, living in Sandy township. In politics the father of these children was a Democrat, and both he and his wife were members of the L'nited Brethren church.

John F. Farber, the immediate subject of this .sketch, continued to assist in the work of the homestead farm until he had attained the age of twenty-seven years, when he removed from his native township to Rose township, Carroll county, where he made his home froni 1863 until 1890, having been one of the successful farmers of that county. He then returned to Pike township and purchased his pr-esent fine homestead, which includes one hundred and sixty-eight acres, with the best of permanent improvements and maintained under efl'ective cultivation. In addition to carrying on diversified farming Mr. Earlier also devotes no little attention to the raising of live stock of high grade. He is progressive and methodical, and thus has ever been able to secure the best returns from his labors, while his sterling integrity of character and his genial personality have gained to him the esteem and good will of all with whom he has come in contact in the various relations of life. In politics he accords allegiance to the Democratic party, and he has never been unmindful of the duties of citizenship, but has shown a proper interest in local afi'airs of a public nature, though he has never been imbtied with a desire for official preferment. His interest in the cause of education, however, led to his election to the office of school director, of which he has been incumbent for several years. He is a consistent member of the United Brethren church at Magnolia, of which his wife likewise was a member, exemplifying her deep Christian faith in the daily walks of a life that was one of intrinsic purity and beauty.

In Pike township, on the 15th of April, i860, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Farber to Miss Harriet Flora, who was born 'in this township, on the 31st of January, 1839, being a daughter of the late George and Han- nah (Bowman) Flora, honored pioneers of this county, where the death of both occurred. Mr. and Mrs. Far,ber became the parents of three children, namely: Emma E., who is the wife of Franklin Seaman, of Carroll county; Franklin F., \Aho married Laura Wadsworth and who is now engaged in stock dealing in Carroll county; and Philip F., who married Mary E. Crooks and who is now devoting his attention to farming in Sandy township, Tuscarawas county. The great loss and sorrow in the life of the honored subject was that entailed by the death of his cherished wife, who passed away, at the present homestead, on the 6th of February, 1897. Hers was a noble and gracious womanhood, and her kindness and unvarying sympathy for those in any way afflicted, in mind, body or estate, gained to her the love of all who came within the sphere of her personal influence, while to those who were of the immediate family and who represented hen dominating interest, remains the greatest appreciation of her beautiful character, while in this memory is found the measure of consolation which robs death of its sting. In the cemetery near his farm Mr. Farber has erected a beautiful mausoleum; and here the remains of the loved wife and mother are laid to rest, safeguarded until the glorious resurrection is again typified.

CHARLES TFIEODORE CARLSON is a native of Sweden, having been born in the town of Carlsborg, on the 3d of March, 1863, and being a son of Carl Abraham Stong, who is a tailor by vocation and who still resides in Sweden, the name of our subject teing Carlson, in accordance with the custom of his native land, which gives to the sons the surname from the father's Christian name. The mother of the subject is also still living, her maiden name having been Anna Caisa Peterson. This worthy couple became the parents of five children, of whom three are living, while of the number two arc residents of the L'nited States. Charles T. Carlson was educated in the schools of his na^tive land, where he remained until lie had attained the age of seventeen years, when he severed the home ties and emigrated to America, landing in Xew York city, a stranger in a strange land and with no knowledge of the language of the country, while his financial resources were very limited. The problem was one which would have daunted a less valiant soul, but Mr. Carlson had the selfreliant spirit Avhich begets success, while he stood ready to turn his hand to any honest work which oftered. Owing to his youthful appearance he could find no work in the national metropolis, and he then went up the Hudson river and secured employment on a farm, remaining one month, at the expiration of which he returned to the city for the purpose of seeking other work. There he met John D. Locke, a manufacturer of tinware, and this gentleman gave him employment about his residence, and about five months later his employer suggested he enter his establishment and learn the tinner's trade. Mr. Carlson gladly accepted the proposition so kindly made, and in Mr. Locke's factory, at Whitestone, Long Island, he served an apprenticeship of four year? at the trade, and then served an additional period of fourteen months at the plumber's trade, while during this time he attended night school at College Point, Long Island, being anxious to properly learn the English language -and to otherwise supplement his educational training, in order that he might be the better prepared to face the battle of life in the land of his adoption. In the institution mentioned he secured a diploma in mechanical drawing, becoming specially skilled in this line. After leaving the Locke establishment Mr. Carlson was placed in charge of the metal department of the shops of the Long Island Railroad Company, where he remained two years, after which he went to Memphis, Tennessee, where lie secured the position of foreman in the shops of the H. Wetter Manufacturing Company, in which connection he so thoroughly proved his abilit}- and fidelity that at the expiration of two }'ears he was made superintendent of the factory, which incumbency he retained sixteen years, at the expiration of which, in July, 1 90 1, he came to Canton and accepted his present position, in which his discriminating and efficient efforts have met with appreciation and have done much to conserve the best interests of the concern with which he is identilied. In politics Mr. Carlson exercises his franchise in support of the principles of the Republican party, and his religious faith is indicated in his holding membership in the First Presbyterian church, of which his wife also is a member. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Royal Arcanum, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Improved Order of Red Men.

On the i6th of January, 1902, Mr. Carlson was united in marriage to Miss Mary Althouse, a daughter of George W. and Susan (Baum) Althouse, of Canton.

JOSEPH A. MEYER was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, being a son of Col. Frank Meyer, who was an official in the service of the government and whose wife at the time of her marriage to Colonel Meyer was a widow. After the death of her second husband she came to Canton and here "established her home and passed the remainder of her life. In the public schools the subject of this memoir received his early educational discipline, and in preparing for the active responsibilities of life he served an apprenticeship at the jeweler's trade under the direction of a man named Fry, the pioneer jeweler of Canton. When Mr. Fry finally removed from Canton Mr. Mever succeeded to his business, his original location having been on the site of the present Folwell block. There he continued to conduct a very profitable business for a long term of years, becoming one of the prominent merchants and influential citizens of Canton, and eventually he provided more commodious and attractive quarters for his establishment, by erecting an attractive and substantial brick building, with front of Berea stone, just to the north of his former location. Here he continued to carry forward the enterprise, Avhich was the most important of the sort in the city, until he finally retired from active business, having by good management and scrupulous integrity and fair dealing attained a competence. He was the owner of one hundred and thirteen acres of the original Meyer's estate, at Meyer's lake, this county, and this greatly appreciated in value under his control. His death occurred on the 7th of June, 1887. He was a man of generous and kindly nature, had marked sagacity in business and was essentially publicspirited, taking a deep interest in all that conserved the welfare and progress of the city which was his home for so many years and in which he held the implicit confidence of all who knew him. In politics he gave his allegiance to the Republican party, and his religious faith was that of the Episcopalian church.

Mr. Meyer was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Bleck, who was born in Pennsylvania and who died about 1885. Of this union were born the following named children : Frank C, who died in Canton, at the age of about forty years; Joseph A., who died at Bagdad, Turkey, was a graduate of the Boston School of Technology, and was engaged in the w^ork of his profession at the time of his death; Winifred, who was a teacher in a school for the deaf; John M. is a dentist, residing in Tacoma, Washington ; and Carrie is the wife of Otto Ryan, of New York. On the ist of September, 1886, Mr. Meyer consummated a second marriage, being then united to Mrs.

Frances C. Cross, widow of Samuel F. Cross, and of this second marriage no children were born. Mrs. Meyer survives her honored husband and, as has been already stated, resides in Canton. She was born in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, on the i.st of June, 1S38, and her parents died while slie was an infant. She -was taken into the home of the Rev. Thomas Childress and was accorded the devoted care that would have been given by her own parents. Rev. Childress' wife, Phoebe, nee Perry, was a lineal descendant of Commodore Perry and was a noble Christian woman. Mrs. Meyer was thus favored in being reared in a home of marked culture and refinement, and at the time she was taken by these worthy folk they were residing in Butler county, Ohio, Rev. Childress being a clergyman of the Baptist church. After a few years they removed to Preble county, and Mr. Childress assumed pastoral charge of the church at Winchester, where Mrs. L'leyer received her early educational training in the public schools, being graduated in the high .-school. Her foster parents were very kind and devoted and afiforded her every advantage in their power to provide, and she holds their memories in the deepest affection and veneration. Mr. Chddress gave a full half century to the work of the Christian ministry, and in the early days he traveled from place to ijJace on horseback, looking after the spiritual welfare of the pioneei* settlers in the isolated sections of the state. He enjoyed great popularity in southwestern Ohio and was an ever welcome guest in all the best homes of that section. He died at Winchester, Preble county, jiliout the beginning of the Civil war. passing away in the fullness of years and well earned honors. His wife passed most of the remainder of her life in the home of her foster child, Mrs. j)\feyer, her death occurring in Canton in 1872. Mrs. Meyer has been thrice married. In 1854, at Winchester, Ohio, she l^ecame the wife Henry Clawson, who was born in that towai, being the son of Randolph and Xancy (Weaver) Clawson, the latter of whom was a daughter of Judge \\'ea\cr. one of the honored pioneers of the southwestern part of the state. He was a }^ung man of sterling character. He d.ied at the age of twenty-three years, leaving his young widow with one child. Leonard E., who was born in Winchester, on the 8th of December, 1855 and who is now a successful business man of San Francisco, California, where his mother has visited him on four different occasions, so that she has made eight trans-continental trips. In Winchester, on the J 6th of July, 1858, Mrs. Meyer was a second time married, becoming the wife of Samuel F. Cross, who was Ijorn near Oneida, Carroll county, Ohio, and who was engaged in the hardware business at Winchester at the time of his marriage, and there he remained until the spring of 1861, when with his wife and little ilaughter he came to Canton, where he maintained his home until his death, on the 23d of February, 1874, having been for many years a traveling" salesman. In politics Mr. Cross was a stanch Republican and his religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which ]\lrs. Meyer has long been a devoted member. By her second marriage she became the mother of two children, Mary Lnella, who was burn in Winchester, Preble county, on the i6th of April, 1859, and who is now the wife of James B. Robinson, of San Francisco, California ; and Joseph Cameron Cross, who was born in Canton, September 19, 1862, is now a resident of C'olumlius, Ohio. He married "Miss Bertha Dunning and they have two sons, Frederick H. and Joseph Cameron. i\lrs. Meyer's home is locatetl at 403 East Eighth street. She is a devoted and active member of the First Methodist Episcopal church and is prominent in the work of the Ladies' Aid Society and the Foreign Missionary Society of the church, as well as the Woman's Christian Temperance L'nion, -^xliile

JOSEPH SCHILLIG was born in Ximishillen township, Stark county, Ohio, on the i8th of April, 1841, being a son of Joseph and Sophia (Cupper) Schilling, of whose ten children eight are living at the time of this writing, namely: Joseph, the immediate subject of this sketch; Catherine, who is the wife of John Berg, of Maximo, this township; Mary A., who is the widow of Alexander Findlay and resides in the city of Canton ; Magdalene, who is the wife of Anthony Gerardot, of Maximo ; Josephine, who is the wife of Louis Gerardot, of Marlboro township; John, who is likewise a resident of that township, as is also Adam ; and Enialine, who is the wife of Joseph Gerardot, of Washington township. The father was born in the province of Alsace, France (now Germany), in the year 1812, being a son of George Schillig, who came to the United States with his family in 1824, making his way from the eastern seaboard to Ohio and taking up his abode in Columbiana county. There the father of the subject secured employment in the tavern at New Garden, that county, doing the chopping of wood for five stoves by means of which the hostelry was heated and made comfortable for its guests and other inmates. He also looked after the horses and was a general utility boy, finding httle time for diversion. Later he went to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he was employed for a period of about twelve years, within which time he w^as married. One year after this eventful episode in his career he returned to Ohio, and came to Stark county, where he purchased a farm of one hundred and six acres, in Nimishillen township, the same having been partially improved, though much of the native timber was yet remaining. He thereafter devoted his attention to the clearing and otlierwise improving of his farm, bringing the same under effective cultivation, and here he continued to reside until his death, which occurred in the year 1863. His wife survived him a number of years, her (Ie:ith occurring in 1886.

Th.e subject of this sketch was torn on the old homestead above mentioned, and as a boy he began to contribute his quota to its work, while he received such advantages in a scholastic way as were afforded in the public schools of the locality. He was about twentytwo years of age at the time of his father's death, after which he took charge of the farm and operated the same for his mother. In 1868 he was united in marriage to Miss Louise Menegay, who was likewise born in Nimishillen township, being a daughter of John B. Menegay, who was born in France, whence he emigrated to America when a young man,, becoming one of the first settlers in this division of Stark county, where he passed theremainder of his life. The year after his marriage Mr. Schillig purchased and removed to his present home farm, which comprises eighty acres, and within the intervening years he has improved the place and made it one of the valuable farms of the county. In 1897 Mr. Schillig erected on his farm a large and attractive house of modern architectural design and equipment, and in the same years was also completed his large and well arranged bank barn, while all other buildings about the place are in harmony. After the death of his mother, in 1886, Mr. Schillig purchased the old homestead which his father had secured so many years ago, the same still comprising the original one hundred and six acres and being a valuable property. The subject still owns the homestead and personally superintends its cultivation. To Mr. and Mrs. Schillig have been born four children, one of whom died in infancy, while those surviving are John M., who is a successful teacher in the city of Cleveland ; Mary J., who is the wife of Robert Martlet, of Canton, this county; and Charles E., who remains at home, being a popular teacher in the schools of this locality.

Mr. Schillig is known as a man of marked public spirit, taking a deep interest in all that touches the progress and material prosperity of the community, while in politics he is a stanch advocate of the principles of the Democratic party. He served three years as assessor of Nimishillen township and for the past nine years has been incumbent of the office of justice of the peace, in which he has given admirable service. The cause of education has been one in which he also manifested deep concern, doing much to advance the same in a local way, while for twelve years he did efficient service as director of the school board of his district. He is a communicant of the Catholic church, as is also his wife, they holding membership in St. Louis' church, at Louisville.

ALFRED L. RIZER, M. D. - Back to the cradle of our national history must the genealogist go in tracing the history of the Rizer family on this side of the Atlantic, since its paternal ancestors settled as early as 1776 in Maryland, and in that state his grandfather, Martin Rizer, was born about the year 1798. The first of the Rizers to come to this country were three brothers, natives of Germany, one of them being the father of the above Martin. This ancestor was born and reared in Allegany county, Maryland, and spent his life there, dying about 1882. His wife was a Miss Close, whose antecedents were also pioneers of the above state, in certain localities of which the name is still familiar. Three sons of Martin Rizer, Solomon, Simon and Levi, were soldiers in the Union army during the great rebellion and did effective service in some of the most noted campaigns and bloodiest battles of the war. Like many of the German Americans, tlie Rizers were Lutherans and as such were noted for piety, allegiance to the church, and for true moral worth as citizens.

Jesse Rizer, the Doctor's father, was born in Allegany county, Maryland, in February, 1820, and grew to maturity there, learning while young the trade of blacksmithing. His brothers also appear to have been natural mechanics, as they all adopted the same trade as the subject and became skilled workmen. After working in iron for a number of years, Jesse Rizer took up coopering and in due time acquired as much efficiency in that vocation as he had developed as a blacksmith. He married, in his native state. Miss Sophia IMiller, a lady much his senior, as her birth occurred about the year 18 10. She was a native of Germany and accompanied her parents to the United States, the family settling in the county of Allegany. Some time after his marriage Mr. Rizer loaded his household effects on an old-fashioned, two-horse emigrant wagon and moved to Ohio, locating at Mt. Vernon, Knox county, where some of his wife's relatives were then living. After spending a few years in that locality he changed his abode to the town of Danville, in the same county, where he made barrels and other articles of cooperage, until advancing age compelled him to discontinue manual labor. Mrs. Rizer departed this life at Danville, about the year 1888 and later Mr. Rizer took a second wife, who still survives.

Dr. Alfred L. Rizer is the only child by his father's first marriage. He was born in Allegany county, Maryland, December 14, 1844, and when about four years old was brought to Ohio by his parents, of which state he has since been an honored resident. After completing the common school course he entered the normal school at Danville, where he prepared himself for college, but owing to circumstances over which he had no control.

was not permitted to carry into effect his plans to acquire a finished education. It is proper to state that one of the reasons that materially interfered with this purpose was the lack of means, in consequence of which he was compelled to discontinue his studies and make his own livelihood besides contributing his earnings to the support of his parents. While a student he made rapid strides in mastering the branches constituting the curriculum of the normal school and at the early age of sixteen he was sufficiently advanced to pass the required examination and receive a teacher's license. He taught his iirst term in the little vilage of Brownsville, Knox county, under rather peculiar circumstances, as two-thirds of the pupils were much older and larger than himself, quite a number of them being full grown men and women. He succeeded most admirably both as an instructor and a disciplinarian and iinished the school with little or no difficulty, winning the high esteem of pupils and patrons and earning a reputation such as few older teachers achieve. He continued in the educational field for a number of years, dividing his time between working at various Tiinds of manual labor in the summer and teaching during the winter seasons. Not desiring to devote his life to a calling so poorly remembered as school work, Mr. Rizer decided to adopt medicine for his profession, accordingly, in 1868 he began a preliminary course of study at Gambler, Knox county, with Dr. Sapp, a well known physician of that place, under whose direction he continued for about four years. He applied himself very assiduously to investigation and research, accompanied his preceptor on his professional rounds and by close observation and practical experience made rapid advancement in the theory and practice of medicine. The better to prepare himself for efficiency in his chosen -calling he entered, in March, 1870, the Detroit Medical College, Detroit, Michigan, from which he was graduated two years later and immediately thereafter began the practice of his profession at Aurora, Portage county, Ohio. At the beginning of his career Dr. Rizer experienced the difficulties that usually beset the pathway of young physicians, but it was not long until he overcame these and grew in public favor. That he succeeded in Aurora is abundantly verified by the twenty-three years of practice there, during which he more than realized professionally and financially the bright hopes of his youthful days. In December, 1894, the Doctor transferred his extensive business to other hands and changed his location to the city of Canton, from which time to the present his record has been a series of continual successes in a field where many of the state's eminent physicians have practiced.

Dr. Rizer's ambition to excel in his chosen calling has gro\vn with his progress and as a physician and surgeon he now has few superiors in northwestern Ohio. He makes diagnoses readily, has had long and valuable experience in the treatment of nearly every disease to which humanity is heir and possesses a thorough knowledge of materia medica and pathology, with the ability to reduce the same to practice. Dr. Rizer has employed every means at hand to keep pace with modern theories and methods, but in the end he relies chiefly upon his own judgment and skill, backed as they are by long years of practical experience. By coming in contact with men of high profesional attainments in the medical society with which he is identified and by mutual interchange of opinions, he has greatly enlarged the area of his general knowledge and heightened the technical scholarship which has been such a potent factor in his field of endeavor. He belongs to the Northeastern Ohio Homeopathic Medical Society and since becoming connected therewith he has been an active participant in its deliberations.

has never stepped aside from his profession to take a ver)' acti\e interest in party affairs, ahhough a mrm with the courage of his convictions and well informed upon the leading questions before the American iieople. In matters religious he also has decided views, being an earnest believer in the fundamental truths of Christianity and a zealous member of the Lutheran church of Canton. While pronounced in his allegiance to his creed, he is not narrow in matters of faith but looks upon all churches and religious organizations as influential factors in promoting the well being of society and winning mankind to a high and noble destiny.

The Doctor was liappily married, in April, 1895, to Miss Carrie Parsons, a most estimable and cultured ladv of Aurora, the union being without issue.

CHARLES W. REAM was born on the old liomestead farm, in Plain township, this county, on the 3d of October, 1867, and his rudimentary education was secured in the district schools, this training being later supplemented by a course of study in the Canton Business College, at Canton, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1884. As a boy he contributed his quota to the work of the home farm, and w hen eighteen years of age he came to Canton and took a clerkship in the grocery of McCloud & ^'oung, where he gained his initial cx]>erience in the line of enterprise in which he is now successfully engaged on his own responsibilit)-. He continued to be employed as a clerk for a number of years, and on the 5th of July, 1892, he associated himself with W^illiam H. Leonhart, under the firm name of Ream & Leonhart, and opened the present grocery of the subject, (jn the east side of the public square, Mr. Ream ha\-ing purchased his partner's interest in the business on the i8th of September,

1893, since ^\hich time he has continued the same independently, having been energetic and progressive in his methods and courteous and liberal in his 'dealings with his patrons, so that he has built up a prosperous and representati\e trade, having a well equipped and thoroughly modern store and catering to a discriminating ])atronage.

Henry Ream, father of the subject, was tern on the homestead farm in Canton township, on the 28th of September, 1823, being a son of Philip and Mary (Aultman) Ream, who were native? of Pennsylvania. His grandparents were natives of Germany, whence they emigrated to America, having bound themselves out to pay their passage. After they had arrived in the new world, and after this obligation was discharged they were married and settled in Pennsylvania, where they afterward resided until their deaths. Philip and Mary (Aultman) Ream were married in their native state, and in 1806 emigrated to Columbiana county, Ohio, and one year later to Stark county, where they entered land in Canton township, and developed a valuable farm, and there passed the greater part of their lives, though about two years previous to their deaths they went to live with one of thein daughters in Nimishillcn township, where their deaths occurred, the mother in January, 1851, and the father in October of the same year, he being in his eighty- fottrth year and she in her seventysecond. They became the parents of fourteen children, of whom the father of the subject is the youngest and the only survivor.

Henry Ream is one of the representative and highly honored farmers of Plain township, where he has maintained his home for more than half a century, having taken up his residence on his present farm in 1852. He was for a time engaged in the butchering business in connection with his farming industr}', while for many years he has maintained throughout this section of Ohio a very high rqiutation as an auctioneer, in which line he has disposed of more goods at public vendue than has any other person in the county, having followed this business fifty years. The first sale he ever took charge of was in 1849, 'ind the last one in 1899, and during this period auctioneered over fifteen hundred sales. He has also been in control of an excellent business in the operation of a threshing outfit, and it may consistently be said that few men in the county are better known or held in more unqualified esteem.

On the 1st of January, 1846, Henry Ream was united in marriage to Miss Anna Oberlin, who was born in Plain township, this county, October 7, 1827, being a daughter of Adam and Elizabeth (Albright) Oberlin, who were pioneer settlers in that township, the farm on which they located being contiguous to the city of Canton, a portion of which is located on the same. Soon after Henry Ream's marriage he settled on his father's old home farm where he resided three years, then moved on his fatherin-law's farm and lived there three years, then purchased and settled on his present farm, where he has since resided. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ream are earnest and consistent members of the Reformed church, and in politics Mr. Ream was a Whig until the organization of the Republican party, since which time he has ever been arrayed in support of its principles. Of the ten children of this marriage five are living at the present time, namely : Josiah W., who is a resident of Muncie, Indiana ; Ellen A., who is the wife of Edward E. Carnes, of Canton; Edwin L., who is likewise a resident of this city; Emma C, who is the wife of Frank J. Bordner, of Perry township and Charles W., the immediate subject of this sketch. Charles W. Ream was united in marriage at Canton, December 27, 1891, the lady of his choice being Miss Emma Hosier, a native of this county, born May 19, 1865, and a daughter of Samuel and Nettie Hosier, who are now residents of

JOHN T. SCHROYER.-The ancestral members of the Schroyer family were natives of Germany, the later generations having resided at Baden Baden. The great-grandfather of the subject, George Schroyer, came with his wife to the United States in 1 764, settling somewhere in the eastern states. His son, the subject's grandfather, came to Ohio early in the pioneer period and located in Stark county. He died while comparatively young, and his widow afterward married Jacob Minnick, to which union were born six children, three sons and three daughters. To her first union but one child was born, George W., the father of the subject, his birth taking place in Canton in 1833. His father died while George was a babe of but two years, and at the age of eight years he left the maternal roof and went to live with the family of Jacob Myers. As soon as old enough he was set to \vork at farm labor, thus early becoming inured to hard and consecutive toil. He was subsequently apprenticed to learn the trade of a carpenter with George Schlabach, which trade he followed, working for various concerns until 1891, when he entered the em-r ploy of his son, the subject.

George W. Schroyer was married in Canton to Miss Sarah Fogle, the daughter of William Fogle, one of the early pioneers of Stark county. Her death occurred on the nth of July, 1896. They were both faithful and consistent members of the First Baptist church of Canton and were held in high esteem by all whs> knew them. They were the parents of the following children: Charles, of Chicago; Anna, at home; Emma, Mrs. Jacob Reigner, of Canton; John T., the subject; Nettie, Mrs. Elmer Ball, of Canton; Carrie, Mrs. Charles E. Ruskin, of Cleveland, Ohio; George, of Canton,

John T. Schroyer is a native of Canton, having been born at the old homestead on South Cleveland avenue on the 8th of April, i860. As soon as old enough he commenced attending school, in which he remained until he was nine years old. At that early age he took up the work of gardening and was also engaged in herding cattle for John Spangler. In this way he was employed during the summers and attended school during the winters until he was eighteen years of age. Then he attended two winter terms in the W. H. Avery Academy at Canton. The winters of 1876 and 1877 he went to Indiana and was employed as a chore boy on the farm belonging to his uncle, attending school at the same time. He was ambitious to take up the 'legal profession as his life work, and with this end in view went to South Bend, Indiana, and entered a law school, here he continued his studies for two years. However. h&- coming convinced that for a young man to succeed in establishing himself in a practice it was necessary that he should have some backing, which he had not he reluctantly gave up the iaw and returned to Canton. Here he entered the employ of C. Aultman & Company, being engaged in the work of settling up old accounts. worked along this line about two years and was then called into the home office and put in charge of the shipping department. His faithfulness and close attention to the interests of his employers soon won for him their confidence but the close confinement proved detrimental to his health and he was forced to seek other employment. In 1889, having managed to save a part of his earnings, he invested it in the laundry business. His success was gratifying from the start and he has continued this business ever since. Possessed of sound business princi]jles, good judgment and absolute integrity, he has long commanded the confidence and good will of the public, which has accorded to him a full share of its patronage. The plant is equipped with the latest and most improved machinery and is constantly run at its fullest capacity.

Since attaining his majority the subject has taken an acti\e part in advancing the interests of the Democratic party and has contributed \'tvy materially to the success of that party in local, state and national campaigns. He was nominated by the Democratic party for member of the Canton city council in the seventh ward, a ward which is nominally Republican by three hundred majority. However, such was the hold he had upon the public confidence that in the following election (1899) he carried the ward by a majority of thirty-six, and two years later was selected to succeed himself by the remarkable majority of two hundred and thirty-, five. Upon taking his seat in the council he at once assumed a prominent place in its deliberations and w as accorded a high standing on several of its most important committees. During his first term he served as chairman of the judiciary and the ways and means committees, and was retained in these positions the scond year. As chairman of the last-named committee, it became his pleasure to report the largest surplus in the treasury during the entire history of the city of Canton. He is also a member of the board of Auditorium trustees. He is a strong advocate of the best sanitary measures and has repeatedly urged the adoption by the city of a municipal garbage plant.

Fraternally Mr. Schroyer is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Royal .\rcanum, Patrick Henry Council, Junior Order United American Mechanics, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Ancient Order of United \\'orkmen, and is president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. In matters religious the subject is identified with the First Baptist church and is a member of the \\^illiam Carey Bible class.

united in marriage with Miss Lillie Jack, of Canton. This union has been a most happy and congenial one and has resulted in the birth of two children, Muriel and Doroth}'.

HENRY W. FAULK, M. D. - This wellknown physician and surgeon is numbered among" Stark county's native sons and is an honored representative of one of its early pioneer families. Both his father and his mother's people lived in this locality when it was a frontier settlement and their names are closely interwoven with the history of the communities in which they originally located. Andrew Faulk, the Doctor's grandfather, was a native of Germany. He came to the United States about the beginning of the last century, and settled in New Jersey, where he worked for some years at the blacksmith trade. He was a married man when he came to America, and his children were all bom in New Jersey. In the year 1815 he came with his family to Stark county, Ohio, and entered a quarter section of land about two and a half miles north of Waynesburg, the country at that time being as nature had made it. He hastily constructed a rude log cabin, which answered the purpose of a dwelling until a building more in keeping with the needs of his growing family could be erected. His second dwelling, a two-story hewed-log cabin, was among the first structures of the kind in the -township in which he settled. Andrew Faulk was a true type of the strong, determined pioneer of his day, and experienced in full measure the trials and vicissitudes of life in the backwoods. By long and continued toil, he developed a good farm and as years went by became one of the leading agriculturists and j^rominent citizens of his part of the county. After a long and useful life he died on the place where he originally settled, honored and respected by all who knew him, his death occin^- ring in 1850, \\'hen he was eight v vears old.

Among the children of Andrew Faulk was a son, also Andrew by name, whose birth occurred in New Jersey in 1806. Andrew, Jr., was nine years old when his parents moved to Ohio, and from that time until his death he made his home in the county of Stark. He grew up amid the stirring scenes of the pioneer period, contributed his share to the clearing and cultivating of the home farm and when old enough to begin life for himself chose agriculture as a vocation. In 1833 he married Miss Susan Welker, who was born in the southeastern part of Stark county in 181 6, her parents moving here several years prior to that date. Mrs. Faulk was early left an orphan and grew to young womanhood in the wilderness, living th.e meanwhile with different parties who looked after her interests. Mr. Faulk inherited the greater part of his father's estate and, like the latter, also became a leading farmer and enter;prising citizen, departing this life in 1885 in his eightieth year. In politics he was originally a Whig, but later Ijecame a Republican, and as such took an active part in the public affairs of his township and county. He was a man of profound religious convictions and for a number of years was a leading member of the local Methodist Episcopal church, his wife being also a member of that denominatiijn. Mrs. Faulk preceded her husband to the other world, dying about the year 1872.

Andrew and Susan Faulk reared a family of ten children, whose names are as follows : Matilda married Richard Wilson and died near the old homestead in Ma}-, 1901 : Osee Ann married Daniel Bronson, deceased ; James, a fanner of Canton township, married f<->r his first wife Martha Silvers, after whose death he chose for a compan.ion Hannah Yohe ; Sophia, the third in order of birth, is the wife of Luther Baxter and lives in this county; Albert, who lives in Carroll county, Missouri, married Lizzie Neill ; Sarah, wife of William Shearer, died some years ago in this county;

Thomas, a soldier of tlie late Civil war, died at Natchez, Mississippi, while in the service of his country; Henry W., of this review, is the eighth in orden of succession ; Lemmon R. died in the year 1872; William, the youngest, who runs the home farm, married Miss Malissa Rogers, of Stark county.

Dr. Henry VV. Faulk was born on the old homestead in Stark county, May 20, 185 1. Under the parental roof he grew to young manhood and as soon as old enough learned by practical experience the true meaning of honest toil as required in the cultivation of a farm. In the winter seasons he attended the district schools and in this way prosecuted his studies until the age of sixteen, when he entered Mt. Union College. After spending some time in that institution he turned his attention to teaching and was thus engaged for about seven years, devoting his vacations the meantime to his collegiate work at Alt. Union. At the age of twenty-three he began the study of medicine with Dr. A. B. Walker, of Canton, and after continuing under that gentleman's instructions about three years entered the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati.

Dr. Faulk was graduated from that institution in 1878 and in September of the same year was united in wedlock to Miss Isabelle A. Shaffer, of Carroll county, Ohio. Being well prepared for the active duties of his profession, the Doctor immediately after his marriage opened an office in the town of Osnaburg, Stark county, where he soon built up a large practice, which continued with success and financial profit during the fifteen years following. In June, 1893, he wound up his business at Osnaburg and in August following located at Canton, where he has since practiced with a large measure of professional and financial success. Dr. Faulk has always had a laudable ambition to stand high in the medical world, not so much from a desire for the honor which such a station would bring, but rather to become a true benefactor of mankind in alleviating suffering. That he has to an eminent degree realized this ambition is attested by the success that has crowned his efforts and by the high esteem in which he is held by the public and by his professional associates. Politically the Doctor is a Republican, has ever been true to his convictions, and while not a partisan, labors earnestly for the success of his party, as every good citizen should. He served one term as physician of the county infirmary and as a member of the board of control of that institution did much to make it answer the purposes for which intended. Fraternally he holds membership with the Knights of Pythias and religiously subscribes to the Methodist Episcopal doctrine. For several years he served with the late President McKinley and others as trustee of the First Methodist Episcopal church of Canton, and holds the same position at the present. Dr. and Mrs. Faulk have two children, Dora and Hugh, aged twenty-three and nineteen years respectively. The Doctor is a member of the Stark County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association.

WILLIAM M. BLECKER comes of German ancestry in the agnatic line and of .Swedish in the maternal, while he is a native of the old Keystone state of the Union, having been born in the city of Philadelphia, on the 30th of May, 1869, and being a son of Lorenzo and Mary (Landes) Blecker, who are now residents of Meyerstown, Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, where the former is engaged in the contracting business. The subject received his early education in the public schools and in his boyhood began to contribute to his own support, the family being in moderate circumstances. Through his own exertions he was enabled to complete a college course of a technical order, entering the Coleman Institute, at Lebanon,.

He soon manifested his superior ability in the work of his chosen vocation, and his progress has been consecutive from the initiation of his efforts in the line. He was for a number of years engaged in the work pertaining to his profession, including pattern-making, and thoroughness andj fidelity have characterized his entire course during his entire career. He became foreman of the Leechburg Foundry & Machine Company at I>eechburg, Pennsylvania, and eventually became a stockholder in the company. Later he became associated with Hitzfelds in the purchase of the plant of the Avonmore Foundry & Machine Company's plant, at Avonmore, Pennsylvania, and then effected the organization of the West Pennsylvania Foundry & Machine Company, of which he was made president, the plant being successfully operated during his regime, which terminated when he disposed of his interests in the concern. He then became identified with the Vulcan Foundry & Machine Company, at Newcastle, Pennsylvania, from which place he came to Canton, where he became interested in the construction of the plant of the Canton Roll & Machine Company, which was completed and put into operation, Mr. Blecker being made vice-president of the company. He and J. E. Carnahan finally purchased the interests of all other stockholders, and six months later they sold the plant and business to Pittsburg men. In 1898 Messrs. Carnahan and Blecker began the construction and equipment of the plant of the -Carnahan Tin Plate & Sheet Mill, and the same was placed in operation the following year. Our subject is secretary and treasurer of the company, and the business now takes rank among the prosperous and important industries of Canton. Mr. Blecker is also first vice-president of the Carnahan Stamping and Enameling Company, which is a successful institution of Canton, and is treasurer of the United Steel Company, whose fine plant is in course of construction in Canton at the time of this writing. He is also treasurer of the Carnahan Land & Improvement Company, which has valuable interests here, and has other financial interests in outside concerns. From these statements it will be seen that Mr. Blecker is a man of marked administrative ability and that he has directed his efforts in the promotion of enterprises which work for the general good, offering employment to many persons and constituting the most practical form of productive and legitimate philanthropy. He is loyal to the interests of his home city and his public spirit leads him to give a ready support to all measures advanced for the general welfare and for the furthering of the upbuilding and material and civic prosperity of the city. In politics he allies, himself to no particular party or faction, being independent in his views and lending his influence and exercising his franchise in support of men and measures, rather than submitting to the partisan lash. He and his wife are members of the First Methodist Episcopal church of Canton and take an abiding interest in its work.

Mr. Blecker was united in marriage in the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to Miss Ida Schell, who was born in Parker, Armstrong county, that state, being a daughter of George Schell, a representative of one of the sterling old English families of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Blecker have two children, Mildred and Harold.