Canton Township (part 50 of 62)

Franklin R. Yarger, the subject proper, was born in Sandyville, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, February 2, 1S42. Of the seven children born to his parents, but four now survive besides himself, namely : Mary E., the wife of Warren L. Umstead, of Pike township, this county; Oliver H. P., of Canton township, this county; Irene, the wife of George Capes, of Cleveland, and John E.,of Canton. The subject was reared at home and received such education as was obtainable in the common schools of the neighborhood. From his twelfth year he was compelled to look largely after his own interests and he worked for neighboring farmers and at whatever he could find to do. In the midst of his strenuous struggle to eke out an existence the tocsin of war was sounded throughout the land and the subject hastened to offer his services to assist in the preservation of the national integrity. On the 5th of June, i86r, he enlisted in Company D, Fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantiy, and served valiantly in the defense of Old Glory until his final discharge, June 21, 1864, at Columbus, Ohio. He took part in all the battles and marches in which his regiment participated and bravely bore his part of the hardships and privations which fell to the lot of the brave sons of the North in that dire struggle. Among the battles in which he participated were Gettysburg, Mine Run, Fredricksburg, Chancellorsville, the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor and many minor engagements. The history of the Fourth Ohio Regiment is a notable one and includes the record of sixty-nine battles and skirmishes. The subject did not go through the conflict unscathed, being wounded at the battle of Hanover Junction, and again wounded during the continuance of this fight on the folbwing day. in the battle of Cold Harbor Mr. Yarger was badly wounded in the back of the head and was put into a baggage wagon and carried eighteen miles. There were six other wounded soldiers in the conveyance and two of them died as a direct result of the rough jolting on the way. Mr. Yarger's time of enlistment expiring two days later, he was placed on a boat and taken home. His wound proved to be a severe one and he has not altogether recovered from its efifects, the nerves of his right side having been slightly paralyzed ever since.

As soon as he was so far recovered as to be able to do so, Mr,. Yarger married and settled on a farm belonging to his mother-in-law and at once entered upon his career as a farmer. After the death of his mother-in-law, in 1890, the estate was settled and the subject and his wife acquired possession of the farm, comprising one hundred and ninety-five acres of splendid farming land. Prior to this time Mr. Yarger had purchased two pieces of land, twenty acres lieing bought in 1875 and a like amount in 18S1. in 1899 he bought thirty-eight acres of land lying across the road from the home farm and thus he has come into possession of some of the finest agricultural property in the county.

On the 25th of May, 1865, Mr. Yarger was united in marriage with Miss Rebecca Reinhart, a native of Sandy township. Stark county, the daughter of Valentine Reinhart, her birth having occurred in the house in which she now lives. Her father was a native of Pennsylvania, but when a child was brought by his parents to Ohio, they being among its earliest settlers. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Yarger were born five children, of whom three survive, as follows : George M. farms one of his father's tracts ; William E. cultivates the home farm, and Mary K., who is the wife of John W. Bartholomew, of Cleveland. In politics the subject is a firm and uncompromising Republican, while fraternally he is a member of Sandy Valley Post No. 433, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he was at one time commander. His religious principles are embodied in the creed of the English Lutheran church, of which he has long been a faithful and consistent member.

Massillon State Hospital For Insane

The law authorizing the establishment of an additional hospital for insane in the state of Ohio was passed March 31, 1892. Thereupon a committee, consisting of Dr. A. B. Richardson, George R. Davis and Dr. C. W. King, was appointed to select a site. After visiting different localities, the commission chose the beautiful location .south of Massillon. The ground was a gift of the citizens of Masillon to the state of Ohio, and consisted of two hundred and forty acres. The state has added one hundred and sixty acres by purchase. In December, 1892, Governor McKinley appointed a building board, composed of Robert Sherrard, S. J. McMahon, W. H. Mullen, Dr. A. B. Richardson and Dr. H. C. Eyman. This board was, in the same month, organized by the election of Robert Sherrard as president, S. J. Mc- Mahon, vice-president, and Dr. A. B. Richardson, secretary. Plans for building were submitted by Yost & Packard, with F. L. Packard as supervising" architect. The early part of 1893 '^^'is spent by the board in visiting institutions, comparing and perfecting plans. The first contract was let in August, 1893', and building- commenced in September of the same year. Dr. A. B. Richardson was elected superintendent in May, 1898. After months of arduous labor in directing the details of completing the four buildmgs under contract, and furnishing the same, the patients belonging to this district, in the hospitals at Columbus, Toledo and Cleveland, numbering three hundred and thirty, were brought to their new, attractive home. The opening reception took place September 6, 1898.

October 15, 1899, Dr. Richardson received the appointment as superintendent of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D. C, and his departure was a source of regret to all. He was a distinguished alienist, a conscientious worker and a genial. Christian gentleman. It was the good fortune of the board of trustees to secure so worthy a successor to Dr. Richardson as Dr. H. C. Eyman, a man of experience, ability and enthusiasm for the work, who took charge November I, 1899. At this writing twenty-one buildings have been completed and occupied, eleven for patients, nine forming the domestic group, and one large auditorium, named William McKinley Hall, dedicated to the memory of Ohio and Stark county's most illustrious son. The present capacity is for nine hundred and sixty patients. There is one large dining room for all the inmates able to leave their respective buildings. The room is light and airy, the floors and wainscoting of marble, and in every way constructed with a view to durability and sanitary conditions. The cottages are built after the style of the French-Swiss chateau, with large sun parlors and extensive porches added. A new hospital building for the care of the acute insane will be built on the brow of the hill to the extreme south. This building will tendencies will be cared for on the first floor, having their dormitory or sleeping room adjoining their sitting room. They will also have their dining room on the same floor. The acutely excited patients will be given separate sleeping rooms, a separate sitting room, bath room and dining room. There will also be a large dining room on the first floor for patients almost well enough to be transferred to cottages. On the second floor a large dormitory and sun room will be devoted to the care of the acute physically ill and bedridden patients. The central portion of the building will be carried up three stories in height. On the third floor there will be an operating room, with amphitheatre for training school and other students, an anaesthetizing room and a recovering room. There will also be four rooms built, in as nearly as perfectly sanitary manner as possible, for the purpose of isolating patients with contagious diseases. On the first floor there will also be reception rooms and examination rooms. Hydrotherapy and electrotheraphy will be special features.

Under the instructions of a landscape gardener, the grounds have been beautifully laid out, and artificial lakes, ornamental trees and flowers abound. Base ball grounds and tennis courts have been prepared for use of patients. Each year, as appropriations are made, cottages will be added until the institution will probably be the largest in the United States. Dr. Eyman was the first superintendent in Ohio to establish a training school for nurses. The course is the same as in regular institutions, comprising two years, followed by examinations, with granting of diplomas. The ability to obtain this instruction, free of cost, at hours not interfering with their duties, attracts a far better class of men and women for this very important part of hospital work, and raises the service from an almost menial to a skilled employment.

is held under the supervision of the superintendent. Weekly dancing parties, concerts, lectures, stereopticon views and theatricals are given for entertainment of patients. An experiment of Dr. Eyman's, "The Monday Evenings at Home" for the patients in McKinley Hall, has been a great success. A stroll through, the grounds on a pleasant summer evening is a source of great delight. The porches, sun parlors and grounds are filled with tidy, orderly people. Games of ball and tennis in progress, giving the place more the aspect of a resort for summer visitors than a hospital for insane. The only fitting attitude of mind in response to such a cheerful sight is one of prayer, in thankfuhiess for the privilege of living in these latter days of enlightened humanity, when insanity is no longer considered a crime to be punished with chains in prison cells, but a disease requiring the highest medical skill with the best environment.

ROBERT B. HAMILTON is a native of New York state, having been born in New York city on the I'oth of October, 1829. He is the son of Robert and Finniah (Henry) Hamilton, of whose nine children but six now survive, namely : The subject ; Cordelia, the widow of Alexander F. Atwell, late of Waynesburg; Adaline, the wife of John E. W'ilson, of Waynesburg; Finniah, the widow of the late B. F. Taylor, of Augusta, Kentucky; Alecia, widow of the late J. C. Rogers, of Waynesburg, and Edward H., of Waynesliurg. Roliert Hamilton was a native of the Emerald Isle, having been born in the county of Donegal, Ireland, in 1795. In 1814 he was brought to the United States by his parents, two brothers also accompanying them. They located in New York city, where Robert learned the trade of morocco dressing". He was married while living in that city and in 1830, with his wife and the subject of. this sketch, came to Stark county, Ohio. He purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land in Sandy township, two miles northwest of Waynesburg, where for a time the family resided. In 1838 he rented a farm near Waynesburg and removed to it and about the same time opened a hotel at that place, the hostelry being still run under the name of the Hamilton House. The house soon gained a well deserved popularity and Mr. Hamilton continued its management until his death, August 31, 1876. He was widely known over a wide section of counti-y and was universally esteemed. In politics he was a Democrat and in religion a Presbyterian. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Finniah Henry, was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and was of Irish extraction. She was possessed of marked intelligence and strength of character and at the time of her death, which occurred three years subsequent to that of her husband, she was widely mourned by a large circle of friends.

The subject of this sketch was reared under the parental roof and early acquired habits of industry, his parents instilling in him right principles of thought and action. He was indebted to the common schools for his education. He was possessed of ambition and an energetic disposition and at an early age of twelve years he worked in the harvest fields, raking the grain and carrying the sheaves. Upon attaining maturer years he learned the trade of wagon and buggy making, at which he worked steadily for a number of years. At the age of about twenty-five years he began contracting, building a number of bridges in this section of the country and also constructing many of the locks on the Sandy and Beaver canal. In coimection with his other enterprises, he also did considerable carpentering and house building. From 1864 until 1874 Mr. Hamilton engaged in the mercantile business in the building now occupied by Blythe & Newkirk. During these years he was also en- gaged in the manufacture of brick. The mercantile venture was unfortunate, however, and Mr. Hamilton lost in that enterprise much of his wealth. Of recent years he lived a retired life, maintaining his residence at Waynesburg, running a farm situated just east of the city.

On the 30th of March, 1858, Mr. Hamilton was united in marriage with Miss Usher Robertson, a native of Carroll county and the daughter of James and Jane (Nelson) Robertson, both natives of Ireland. Her parents, upon their emigration to this country, first settled in Pennsylvania, but later came to Carroll county, where they resided until their deaths. Mrs. Hamilton is a graduate of the Canton Female Seminary and is in every way a highly cultured lady. To Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton ha\-e been born six children, namely: James R., who lives in Oklahoma; Jane N. is the wife of R. T. Hawke, of Carroll county; Cora is an instructor in the commercial department of the Canton high school; Minnie M. is at home; Alexander lives in Oklahoma and Finniah is at home. In politics the subject is a Democrat and has been honored by the electors of his township with the oflices of trustee and treasurer, serving two terms in the first named position. He was also for several years a member of the school board. Religiously he is a member of the Presbyterian church and does all in his power for the advancement of the interests of the organization to which he belongs. His faternal affiliation is with the Free and Accepted Masons, he holding membership in Massillon Commandery No. 4. In every walk of life he is widely respected as a courteous, kind-hearted and generous man of perfect integrity and pure moral worth.

T. F. WILLIAMS, the wholesale and retail butcher and grain merchant of Waynesburg, Stark county, Ohio, was born in Rose township, Carroll county, this state, on the 14th of September, 1854, and is the son of John W. and Elizabeth (Mclrvin) Williams. The father was also born in Rose township, Carroll county, the son of Levi Williams, the date of his birth being the year 1832. John W. ^Villiams was reared upon the parental homestead and upon attaining manhood was given control of the farm, comprising one hundred and sixty acres, of which he later acquired sole possession. He resided upon that place until about 1885, when he sold it and removed to Mineral Point, where he resided for two or three years. He then located in Sandyville, but two or three years later removed to Waynesburg, which place has since been his home. For the past five years he has been in the employ of the subject in the latter's grain elevator. He is a Republican in politics and in religion affiliates with the Methodist Episcopal church. He has been for many years quite active in church work and has held various offices in the societies with which he has been connected. Mrs. Elizabeth Williams was born in Tuscarawas county, this state, in 1831, receiving a fair education and has proven to her husband a helpmate in the truest sense of the term. In the spring of 1902 Mr. and Mrs. Williams celebrated the g'olden anniversary of their wedding, a very enjoyable occasion for them and the many friends who gathered to offer congratulations. They became the parents of nine children, of whom the following named survive: T. F., the subject; Mary, the wife of Marshall Brown, who resides in Mississippi ; Sarah, who is single and resides at home ; Minnie is the wife of R. I. Stemple, of Waynesburg; Grant lives in Blue Fields, Nicaragua; William is engaged in the theatrical business.

T. F. Williams remained at home during the years of his minority, in the meantime acquiring a 'good practical education in the common schools of his neighborhood. At the age of twenty-one years he began his indepen- dent career as a farmer, renting land until 1884. In that year he came to Waynesburg and engaged in the grain business, buying the elevator at this place. He was very successful in his new enterprise and because of his many sterling qualities of character soon won not only a remunerative patronage, but that which he values still more highly, the esteem and confidence of those with whom he was thrown in contact. In 1898 Mr. Williams acquired an interest in the Waynesburg Buggy Company, with which he was identified about three years, severing his connection therewith in 1901. In 1900 the subject purchased the butcher shop in Waynesburg and was engaged in the wholesale and retail meat business. He butchered for the custom trade of the adjacent country and also catered to the Waynesburg trade. He has intrenched himself strongly in the good will of his fellow citizens and has been given a well deserved recognition as one of the leading business men of his city.

In 1877 Mr. Williams was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Mowls, a native of Carroll county, and the daughter of M. M. IMowls, a retired citizen of Waynesburg. This union has been a happy and felicitous one and has been blessed by the birth of the following children: Pearl E., a teacher; Roy F., Eva M., Ralph, Ray, Dean and Paul, all of whom are at home, and one deceased. Mr. Williams maintains a fraternal relation with Tent No. 29, Knights of the Maccabees, and takes deep interest in the work of that society. In politics he is a Republican and for. a number of )'ears has been one of the most influential and active party workers in this township. He has been honored by his party by election to the office of township treasurer, holding the office for two terms and discharging its duties in an eminently satisfactory manner. He has on many occasions served as a delegate to the county and state conventions of his party and for, several years was a member of the central committee. At the present time he is serving as a member of the board of directors of the Stark county work house. Religiously Mr. Williams has for many years been a faithful and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church and has been active in advancing the cause of the Master. In the local society to which he belongs he has for years held official station and is at present the efficient superintentlent of the Sunday school. During the past sixteen years Mr. Williams has missed but three sessions of the Sunday school, a record of which he certainly has just reason to be proud. He is one of the public spirited citizens of his community, always ready to contribute in any way possible to its improvement.

HARMON ANTHONY was born on a farm in Osnaburg township, Stark county, Ohio, on the 23d of August, 1861, being a sonof Josiah and Lucinda (Baughman) Anthony, of whose ten children all save two are still living, namely : Harmon, the immediate subject of this sketch: Edwin, a farmer of. Osnaburg township; John, a resident of Hancock county, this state ; Levi, also engaged in farming in Osnaburg township; Orrin, who remains on the old homestead; Minerva, who is the wife of Rufus Zartman. of Osnaburg township; Ella, who is the wife of William H. Chenot, ]3rincipal of the public schools of Hartville, this county ; and Ida, who is the wife of Herbert Starkey, of Osnaburg township. Josiah Anthony likewise was born in Osnaburg township, near the farm upon which he now resides, the year of his nativit}^ having been 1836, his father, John Anthony, having come to Stark county from Pennsylvania and having been numbered among the early settlers in Osnaburg township, where he reclaimed land and continued to be engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death. The father of our subject was reared and educated in his native township,.

growing up on the farm, and while a young man he learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed as a vocation for a number of years. Soon after his marriage he purchased and removed to his present home farm, in Osnaburg township, where he has ever since resided, and he has gained recognition as being one of the most progressive and influential farmers in this section, while his efforts, directed with excellent judgment and marked energy, have been attended with a due measure of success. His home farm comprises one hundred and twenty acres, and a short distance to the east of the same he owns an additional thirty acres, while he also has a valuable farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Hancock county, this state, and residence property in the city of Canton. He lias been a stanch adherent of the Republican party practically from the time of its organization, and has served as township trustee and been accorded other marks of public confidence and esteem. He and his wife are active and valued memters of the Reformed church and are numbered among the honored pioneer citizens of Osnaburg township.

Harmon Anthony was reared principally on the homestead farm and received in his youth such educational advantages as were afforded by the public schools of the locality, later supplementing this discipline by one term of study in the state normal school at Ada, learning the trade of telegraphing, at which he was employed in various places up to the year 1887, when he was appointed to his present position as station agent and operator at Robertsville, and here he has since given efficient and acceptable service, having the entire confidence of the authorities in charge and being one of the popular citizens of the town. Early in the '90s he engaged in the haixlware and agricultural implement business in Robertsville, and continued this enterprise about three years, when he disposed of the same, and later he con- -ducted a meat market for a year and for some time was local agent for various fertilizers. In 1902 he here established a general-merchandise business, having a well equipped store and securing a representative patronage, the business being largely assigned to the supervision of his wife and daughter, while his attention is given to his official duties.

In politics Mr. Anthony has ever given an unqualified allegiance to the Republican party, and he acted as census enumerator in Paris township in the government census of 1890, while he is now serving his second term as justice of the peace, having been elected on the Republican ticket by a majority of one hundred and seventy-three in a township whose normal political complexion is Democratic by an average of three to one. He and his wife are both members of the Reformed church, in whose work they take a lively interest, and fraternally he is identified with the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, being a member of Ethan Allen Council No. 171, in the village of Paris.

On the 25th of April, 1889, Mr. Anthony was united in marriage to Miss Flora A. Bollinger, of Robertsville, she being a daughter of David Bollinger, an honored pioneer citizen, and of this unio!i has been born one daughter, Helen, who is one of the popular and attractive young ladies of the community, having received her educational training in the public schools.

JOHN V/IESON CRAINE comes of stanch Scotch-Irish lineage, the respective families of the agnatic and cognatic lines having been long established in the north of Ireland and in bonnie auld Scotland, and the name which he bears has been identified with the annals of American history for many generations. His paternal grandfather, John Craine, a saddler by trade and vocation, was one of the pioneers of Westville, Columbiana county. Ohio, where he died when well advanced in years, as did also his wife, whose maiden name was Nancy Wilson and who was of stanch Scotch lineage. Samuel i\TcClelland Craine, father of our subject, was born in Wellsville, Columbiana county, aliout the year 1828, and there received a common school education, so availing himself of the advantages afforded as to become eligible for successful work as a teacher in the public schools of the locality. A man of fine - mentality and marked ambition, he early made definite plans for his future life work, taking up the study of law and in due time being admitted to tlie bar of his native state, within whose province he has ever since continued in active practice. In politics he was originally a Whig, ]'/Ut at the time of the organization of the Republican party he transferred his allegiance to the same and has ever since continued an earnest and able advocate of its cause.

In Washington county, Pennsylvania, was born the mother of the subject, her maiden name having been Elizabeth H. Hoft, and she was a resident of Canonsburg, that county, at the time of her marriage, her father, John Hoft, having been an influential farmer of that section of the Keystone state and an avowed Covenanter. She is now about seventy-six years of age and is a woman of gracious presence, a strict Presbyterian and one who has the affectionate regard of all who know her. Samuel and Elizabeth H. Craine are the parents of four children, concerning whom we offer the following brief data : Agnes remains at the parental home; John W., subject of this review, was the next in order of birth ; Annie is the wife of Charles M. Watson and they reside in the city of Cleveland ; and Maude is the wife of Frank M. Graham, of Clay Center, Clay county, Kansas.

John \Y. Craine was born in the town of Wellsville, Columbiana county, Ohio, on the 5th of March, 1859, and when he was a child of one year his parents removed to Carrollton, Carroll countv. this state, where he was reared to the age of ten years, securing his preliminary educational discipline in the public schools of that town, while it may be noted that his first teacher was Judge Thomas T. McCarty, now a representative member of the bar of Canton and incumbent of the office of judge of the common pleas court for a number of years. V.Hien the subject was eleven years of age his mother removed to Smith's Ferry, Columbiana county, this state, and shortly afterwards to Leetonia, Columbiana county, where she has since maintained her home. There he continued to attend the public schools until he had attained the age of sixteen years, when he entered upon an apprenticeship at the trade of telegraphing", becoming an expert operator and continuing to follow this vocation, at various points, for about a decade. In the meanwhile he also taught school at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, for two years. He had determined to fit himself for a wider field of visefulness than that implied in the following of telegraphy, and he thus worked at his trade for a sufficient interval to acrumulate funds adequate to enable him to continue his educational work, and when liis exchequer began to show marks of depletion he would resume work until he had again husbanded his resources. He thus continued his studies for several terms in Mount Union College, near the city of Alliance, this comity, while he also applied himself vigorously and appreciatively to the study of law, purchasing the requisite text books and thus applying himself diligently in his otherwise leisure hours. In 1882 he continued his technical reading of the law for five weeks under the preceptorship of Hon. H. W. Harter, of Canton, and later was for a time a student under the direction of William C. Pippit, an able member of the bar in the city of Alliance. In 1885, upon examination before the supreme court, Mr. Craine was duly admitted to the bar of the state, thus gaining the desideratum for which he has so faithfully and intelligently labored. He forthwith engaged in the practice of his profession in Alliance, and his novitiate was of brief duration, si-nce the energy and ability which had led him to apply himself to his technical study with such avidity could scarcely fail to bring him popular recognition and support. He secured a representative clientage in Alliance and there continued in practice until the ist of July, 1899, when he came to Canton, the capital of the county, in order to facilitate the important practice of -which he was in control and also to broaden the field of his endeavors. Here he entered into professional alliance with A. M. McCarty and C. vS. McDowell, under the firm name of Mc- Carty, Craine & McDowell, and they were associated in practice until the ist of December, 1 90 1, when the present firm of Craine & Snyder was organized, the able coadjutor of our subject being Jacob B. Snyder, while the firm is recognized as one of the strong legal concerns of the county, retaining an important clientele and having to do with much of the litigation in the county and state courts, while the reputation gained by our subject both as an advocate and counselor is high and is based upon his thorough knowledge of the science of jurisprudence and his facility in applying that knowledge.

In politics Mr. Craine accords an unqualilied allegiance to the Republican party. having cast his first presidential vote in support of the "plumed knight" and eminent statesman, the late James G. Blaine, while he has been an effective advocate of the principles and policies of the party. While a resident of Alliance he served two terms as city solicitor, as a member of the ciiy council one term and two terms as a member of the board of education. Fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order, being affiliated with Canton Lodge No. 60, Canton Chapter No. 84, and Canton Commandry No. 38, Knights Templar, and his religious views are in harmony with the faith of

In the city of Alliance, on the 15th of February, 1895, Mr. Craine was united in marriage to Miss Lida G. Graff, a daughter of Matthew- Graff, a well-known citizen of that place, and of this union has been born one child, Henlen.

JAMES W. CARNES was born in Pike township. Stark county, Ohio, on the 13th of May, 1853, the son of James and Jane (Bechtel) Carnes. The latter were the parents of seven children, all of whom are living at thi.s date. Their names are as follows : John W. is a painter and resides in Canton, Ohio; Katie A. is the wife of John H. Yarger, of Sparta, this state; Almina is the wife of A. D. Weaver, of Canton ; Flora is the wife of D. F. Lash, of Bolivar, Ohio; the subject is ne.xt in the order of birth; Margaret is a widow and resides in Bolivar, Ohio ; Joseph is a blacksmith and resides in Minerva, this county. The subject's paternal grandfather, John- Carnes, was a native of Ireland, as was his wife, but they emigrated to the United States and became early settlers of Pike township, this county. He was a very successful farmer and succeeded in acquiring eleven hundred acres of land all in one strip, the land lying partly in Pike and partly in Sandy township. James Car,nes-was born in Pike township in 1823, his birth occurring in the same house in. which occurred the birth of the subject. Fle was reared upon the paternal homestead and at the time of his marriage he acquired the old homestead as a marriage gift from his father. When a boy he was afflicted with white swelling which crippled him permanently, but aside from this he was strong and sturdy in physique. In early life he took a great interest in live stock and dealt quite extensively in various lines of stock, driving the animals over the mountains' to the eastern mar- kets. Through his deahngs he became very well acquainted and it was said that he was personally known to almost every man, woman and child within a radius of twenty-five miles of his home. He became the owner of about two hundred acres of good land and in connection with his stock business he gave much attention to his farming interests. He was a liberal and kind-hearted to a favdt in his relations with his friends. A stanch Republican in politics and wielding a wide influence for his l^arty, yet he never sought nor desired public office of any nature. During the Civil war he contributed largely from his own means towards buying substitutes to take the places of friends who had been drafted for military service. He was not a member of any church, but was a regular attendant upon divine services and lived a quiet and consistent Christian life, contributing liberally to church work and to all charitable objects. His death occurred when he was fifty-five years old. His wife was born in Pike township about 1820, and w^as of German ancestry, her parents being among the early settlers of Pike township, having come probably from Pennsyh-ania. ]\Irs. Carnes died at the age of se\-ent}'-eight years, beloveil and respected by all who knew her.

James W. Carnes was reared under the parental roof and received such education as was afforded in the common schools of the period. He early exhibited habits of industry and freciucntly when not otherwise employed worked io\- neighboring farmers. At the age of twenty years he left the parental roof and began life's battle on his own account, being employed as a farm hand up to 1892. That year he went into mercantile business, opening a stove and tinware store, and in connection therewith did a regular tinning business, doingroofing, spouting, furnace work, etc. He has been very successful in his various ventures and is today accounted one of the most progressive and enterprising citizens of Waynesburg.

In 1888 Mr. Carnes was united in marriage \vith Miss Rebecca Norman, of Steubenville, Ohio. JMrs. Carnes is an amiable antl agreeal)le lady and has succeeded in winning for, herself a host of warm and loyal friends in the city of her adoption. The subject is a Republican in politics and was recently elected to the town council, but declined to serve. Religiously he is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church and takes deep interest in all movements having for their object the advancement of the moral or educational advancement of the community. As the architect of his own fortune he has builded wisely and \vell and the success that crowns his efforts is justly merited.

LOUIS SCHAEFER. - Among the citizens of Canton who by a long and useful career left the impress of their individuality upon the present generations was the late Louis Schaefer, who for over half a century was clearly identified with the growth of the city and its institutions, and who ever stood for the l)est interests of the community in all things. Mr. Schaefer was a native of the department of the Moselle, France, where he was born December 25, 1815, the son of Phillip and Elizabeth (Loehr) Schaefer. He received his education principally at the schools of his native place, this training being supplemented by valuable instruction received from his father, who was a man of fine education and a teacher by profession in early life. In 1830 the family emigrated to America, and soon afterwards came to Stark county, and settled in Osnaburg township, near the present village of Maple-, ton, where Philip, the father, engaged in farming. Subsequently he established a country store at that point, and for many years carried on farming and merchandising jointly.

Louis Schaefer came to Canton in 1832 and took a position as clerk in the general store of Martin Wikidal, one of Canton's old-time merchants. He was a restless and ambitious youth, and after working for Mr. Wikidal a few years decided the vocation of a clerk was too slow for him. All along his ambition had been for the legal profession, which fact he had frequently confided to a fellow clerk in Mr. Wikidal's store, which fellow clerk was John Banner, of Canton, and he finally abandoned merchandising and took up the law by entering the office of Griswold & Grant, of Canton, where he remained as a student until 1842, when he was admitted to practice. He soon took rank among the members of the local bar, not so much as a brilliant lawyer, but rather as a careful, painstaking and thoroughly reliable attorney u hose forte was along the line of commercial practice. He also rose rapidly as a public man and became an influential exponent of the doctrines of Democracy. But he was not an office seeker, by any means. In the fall of 1843 he was tendered, by the friends of the administration of President Tyler the secretaryship of the American legation at France, which, for valid reasons, he respectfully declined. Had he embraced this opportunity to enter diplomatic circles he would no doubt have made his mark, for besides notorial gifts he was a linguist of more than ordinary ability, and besides the English language spoke fluently French and German. In 1866 he was the candidate for congress of the Democrats of the seventeenth district, and was also on the commission sent to Washington City to demand the release of Vallandigham. He took an active interest and part in the development of Canton, and was for many years connected with the city council, in which body he was always found working for the good of the entire community. He was also a member of the board of education for a long period, during -which time he devoted much of his time to the welfare of the public school system, of which he was a warm friend. In the establishment of the Canton city water works Mr. Schaefer was the leading active spirit, and to his efforts in this direction alone, if in no other, the people owe a debt of gratitude. He was also active m securing the passage of the bill authorizing county commissioners to build court houses, and the Stark county court house was the first one erected under the provisions of that law, he being a member of the board of county commissioners at that time. He was instrumental in the establishment of several important industrial enterprises in Canton, among them the Dueber Watch Manufacturing Company, in the bringing of which to Canton he was probably more influential than any other one man. He was also active in bringing the Dueber Soap Manufacturing Company to Canton.

In May, 1849, Mr. Schaefer was married to Catherine Anna, the daughter of the Rev. Stephen A. Mealy, of Savannah, Georgia, who was an estimable lady of more than ordinary intelligence and accomplishments. She died August 17, 1879. having been the mother of the following children: Louis M., who was educated at Kenyon College, took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1877. His death occurred May 31, 1890. Mary E. married William R. Day. secretary of state during the first administration of President Mc- Kinley, and at present an associate justice of the L'nited States supreme court by appointment of President Roosevelt. Alice L. died in 1874, aged twenty-one years. In 1882 Mr. Schaefer was again married, his second wife being Miss Helen E. Conger, of Millersburg, who survives him.

Mr. Schaefer was a man of the strictest integrity, of great energy and very enterprising. He was an excellent lawyer, a good business man and an admirable citizen. He was warmhearted and generous, but at the same time was impulsive, impetuous and quick-tempered.

but like all men possessed of those characteristics was a warm and steadfast friend and companion. He did much for Canton in many ways, and probably no man is better remembered today or his memoi"y revered more than is his, among those who came in contact with him during his busy life. He died November 12, 18S9.

PHILIP ELSASS is a native son of the old Buckeye state, having been born in Piqua on the 13th of June, 1855. He is one of seven children torn to Christian and Christina (Engle) Elsass, of whom but three survive, George W., of Waynesburg, this state; Sarah, the wife of David Muckley, of Sandy township, this county, and the subject. Christian Elsass was a native of Alsace Loraine, Germany, having been born in 1825. Early in life he learned the trade of shoemaking and in young manhood came to the United States. Coming at once to Ohio, he located at Waynesburg, where he was employed by a cousin, Peter Elsass. After a short residence here he returned to his native country, but a short time afterwards again came to Waynesburg, where he was shortly afterward married. Soon after this interesting event he removed to Piqua, this state, where for a few years he was employed at his trade. About 1857 he returned to Waynesburg, and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there in September, 1894. He was in poor financial condition upon his arrival in the new world, but by dint of steady perseverance and rigid economy he amassed a comfortable competence, and also won that which is of far more value, the respect and confidence of those who knew him. He was a firm Democrat in his political proclivities, but took no very active part in public affairs. , Religiously he was connected with the Evangelical Lutheran church and lived faithfully in accordance with the teachings of the Holy Writ. His wife, who in her maidenhood bore the name of Christina Engle, was also a native of Alsace Loraine. Germany, and was born in 1823. \Vhen but a young lady she accompanied her parents; upon their immagration to the new world and was here united in marriage to the father of the subject. SJie was of marked intelligence and sterling character and was beloved by all who knew her. Her death occurred Eebruary 2, 1902.

Philip Elsass, the immediate subject, was reared under the parental roof and acquired a fair education in the common schools. At the early age of fifteen years he went to work at the bench in his father's shoe shop and soon acquired a thorough practical knowledge of the trade, which served him well in later years. He continued so employed until 1877, after which time only the winters were so employed, the summers being spent at carpentering. In 1886 Mr. Elsass engaged in the shoe business in Waynesburg, meeting with a marked degree of success. In 1893 he purchased the interest of his deceased brother in the mercantile firm of Beans & Elsass, to which he has since devoted his attention. Since casting his lot with the citizens of Waynesburg Mr. Elsass has won an honorable place in the business circles of the city because of his many excellent qualifications. He is essentially the architect of his own fortune, and his career presents a series of continued advancements until he now occupies a conspicuous place in the front rank of the city's most enterprising and Successful business luen. His name is a synonym for honorable dealing and his record demonstrates the utmost conformity to the ethics of commercial life.

On the 1 6th of March, 1876, Mr. Elsass was united in marriage with Miss Lucinda Gibler, of Sandy township, this county, the daughter of Gabriel Gibler, now deceased. To the subject and wife four children have been born, of whom three survive, as follows : Emma L.

is the Vvife ol' Rev. C. J. Lautenschlager, of Glenford, this state; Sarah F. is the wife of Marion O. Peters, of Steubenville, Ohio, and Mable E., who is still at home. In matters political the subject is liberal, though he possesses Democratic proclivities. He has served the public in several important capacities, having been for two terms a member of the board of councilmen and also for two terms a member of tlie scliool board and for three years a member of the board of health, being still an incumbent of the two offices last named. He is a firm and consistent member of the Lutheran church in which he has held various offices, being at the present time deacon, secretary and treasurer. His time is almost entirely given to his business interests and the excellent condition of everything with which he is connected indicates his care and supervision.

AARON B. BEANS is a native son of the Old Dominion state, having been born in' Rappahannock county, Virginia, on the 12th of February. 1836. Fie is a son of John F. and Almira J. (Hawkins) Beans, of whose six children four are yet living, namely : Jane H., who is the wife of S. M. Sexton, of Wellsville. Ohio; John W., who is a general contractor in Van Buren county, Iowa ; Mary, who is the wife of James Gibson, of Jones county, Iowa, and Aaron B., who is the immediate subject of this sketch. John F. Beans was born and reared in Virginia, and there he learned the trade of wagon-making, becoming a skilled artisan in the line. In 1844 he removed from his native state to Knoxville, Jefferson county, Ohio, where he was engaged in the work of his trade for the ensuing three years, at the expiration of which he removed to New Cumberland, Tuscarawas county, where he conducted a mercantile business up to the time when the discovery of gold in California led so many valiant argonauts across the weary stretches of plains, enduring innumerable dangers and hardships, to seek the hidden treasures. In March, 1849, he joined the "innumerable caravan" moving slowly across the continent to the New Eldorado, and he arrived in California in the following September/, six months having been consumed in the perilous journey, the menace from the Indians lieing almost constant while enroute. He worked in the placer mines until the winter of 1852-3, having met with the varying success which has ever marked the search for gold, and then he returned to his home by the way of the Isthmus of Panama. The following spring he again made the trip across the plains, acting as guide for a party of six others, one of whom was his brother. They proceeded l)y the northern route and passed into Oregon, where all save himself decided to remain, while he went on to San Francisco, where he shortly afterward took passage for home, again making the tripby the way of the Isthmus rpute and reaching his destination in the winter of 1853-4. In the following spring he purchased a general merchandise store at Norristown, Carroll county, Ohio, where he continued in businessuntil the close of the war of the Rebellion, when he removed to Van Buren county, Iowa, where hei established himself in the wagonmaking business, which he thereafter followed up to the time of his death, which occurred when he was about se\'enty- three years of age. In his early life he was an old-line Whig in hispolitical proclivities, but during the crucial epoch of the Civil war he was a stanch Union man and he espoused the cause of the Republican party at the time of its organization and thereafter remained an adherent of the same. His religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal church, as was also that of his wife, whose death occurred in 1848, at the age of thirty years. William Beans, the paternal grandfather of the subject, was likewise born in Virginia, being a representative of one of its

Aaron V,. Beans received his pneliminary -educational training in his native county in Virginia, and was about eight years of age at the time when the family came to Ohio, which has thus been his home for the major portion of his life. Here he continued to attend the common schools, laying an excellent foundation for lliat bro.'id and practical knowledge which he gained in later years. At the age of eighteen years he became a clerical assistant in his father's store at Norristown, Carroll county, where he gaineil liis initial business experience. He remained in the store until 1858, when he came to Waynesburg, Stark county, where he accqjted a clerkship in the general store conducted by the firm of J. Ranne & Company, and here he continued to make his home until the outbreak of the Rebellion, when his intrinsic loyalty and patriotism were noused to responsive protest, and scarcely had the smoke of the rebel guns cleared away above the ramparts of old Fort Sumter, ere he tendered his services in defense of a righteous cause. On the 17th of April, 1861, lie enlisted, for a term of three montiis, as a private in Comp;my A, Nineteenth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was organized in Stark- county. Colonel Samuel Beatty commanding, while the captain of Company A was Charles F. Mandcrson. The regiment was assigned to the command of General McClelland in the Army of West Virginia, and actively engaged in the battle of Rich Mountain. Mr. Beans received his honorable discharge in the latter ])art of August, 1861, at Columbus, Ohio, and then returneil to Waynesburg, where he shortly afterwards enlisted as a member of the home guard, being made fir.st lieutenant of Company I, One Hundred and Sixty-second Regiment, John F. May, captain, and Colonel Ball commanding. In 1864, when a call was made for one-hundredday men, the regiment promptly responded and was sent to Kentucky, where it remained on detached duty, guarding railroads, supplies, etc., until the expiration of the term of enlistment, when its members received their honorable discharges. Mr. Beans then returned once more to Waynesburg, and shortly afterwards he accepted a government position as special officer in the office of the provost marshal at Alliance, this county. In the suring of 1865 he returned to Waynesburg and became a clerk in the mercantile establishment conducted by the successors of his former employers, J. Renne & Company, and was thus engaged for the ensuing three years. In 1868 he initiated his independent business career by effecting the organization of the firm of A. B. Beans & Com- ]3any, dealers in produce, the enterprise being continued in Waynesburg until the autumn of 187 1, when the partnership was dissolved and the business sold. Our subject thereupon accepted a clerical position in the establishment of Elson & Higley, who were engaged in the general merchandise business in this town, and he remained with this firm until April, 1877, when he associated himself with J. C. Elsass and R. Nctz in the purchase of the Ixisiness of this firm, and operations continued under the title of Beans, El.sass & Netz. In the following .spring Mn Netz's interest was acquired by the other two members of the firm, and the firm name of Beans & Elsass has been continued up the present time, while the enterprise has grown to be the most im])ortant of the sort in V\'aynesburg, deriving its trade from a wide territory normally tributary to the town. Mr. J. C. Elsass continued to be actively identified with the business until his death, in 1891, as the result r)f an accident, and his widow thereafter maintainec? his interest in the concern until 1893, when she disposed of the same to Philip Elsass, a brother of her late husband, and he has since remained an interested principal in the business. Of the senior member of the firm one wlio lias known Iiini long and well has given, the following appreciative estimate : "Mr. Beans has learned the science of successful merchandising and his hrm conducts the principal Imsiness of the town. His honor and integrity are as inllexible as the 'laws of the Medes and Persians, which change not,' and no citizen is more worthy of the confidence and esteem of the community in which he has lived and labored to so goodly ends, while it is evident that this objective appreciation of the man is not denied." rolitically Mr. Beans is a stanch adherent of the Republican parly, but he is essentially a business man and has never had any desire for the honoris or emoluments of public office, lie and his wife arc both valued members of the Presliyterian church.

On the 2r)th of July, 1862, Mr. Beans was united in marriage to Miss Mary McCauley, of Wellsville, Ohio, and they are the parents of one son, Herbert S., who is now a resident of Waynesburg, Ohio.

MADISON W. WADE. - The great advances made in the science anrl art of photography within the last decade have been almost phenomenal and challenged the admiration of all, while the incidcnlnl \rdue has been of great importance as touching \-arious lines of reproduction for commercial and amusement cnter- Ijrises, as well as in offering the most beautiful effects in art portraiture through the medium of the sun's rays. Among those who have introduced new lines of reproduction in the photographic line is Mr. Wade, who is widely known as the founder of the small photographs, or the process of securing several miniature portraits in different positions with but a single exposure for the securing of six or more photographs in the one position. That is, each plate, with its varying number of exposures, will contain many small portraits on the one negative. He now carries on an extensive business under the title of liic Wade Photo Company, and his success is gratifying from the fact that he has gained the same through his own efforts and ability. iM-om a small broclnu'e issued by Mr. Wade we make quotations at this point, since the ;niicle tlins published will afford an idea of the rise of the popular enterprise of which he was the founder. In these 'juotations we shall not follow the exact diction and shall eliminate extraneous data, as expediency may suggest, but retain the main points relevant to the subject.

"M. W. Wade, the genial ])ro|)rietor of the Wade Photo Company, is the original founder of the small photographs and the attenflant and imporlrmt industry which has l)een built up through the same. In i8g6 Mr. Wade was in the cm])loy of Charles T. Pomeroy, a progressive pho1:ographer of Kansas City, Missouri, who had a special camera for copying I)liotf)gra])hs for ;i marriage bureau in th.'it city, and from this camera Mr. Wade conceived the idea of the small photographs, with which he has achieved so much fame and success and delighted many thousands of customers. Mr. Wade now has this camera in his possession and woulfl not part with it for many times its original cost, as it is the first and original camera with which smrdl photographs were popularly and successfully introduced. When he first announced to some of the older and supi^oseilly wiser heads of the profession that with the multiplying principle he had evolved from this camera he could profluce sixteen photographs, in four different ])ositions for twenty-five cents and realize a profit, the general attitude manifested was one of incredulity and even ridicule. Ilis generous employer, Mr. Pomeroy, however, realized to a greater extent the possibilities involved, and after several months of experimenting gave Mr. Wade a vacation from the Kansas City gallery and furnished equipments, finances, etc., for making a practical and thorough test of the new departure in the busi- ness. Accordingly, on the 17th of July, 1897, in Leavenworth, Kansas, Mr. Wade swung his sign to the breeze, 'Sixteen photographs of yourself, four different styles, twenty-five cents.' Thus the small photos were launched, and stranger than fiction reads the story of the growth of the enterprise. Before a background could be arranged a daughter from one of the wealthiest families in town was in front of the camera demanding her picture. She was photographed with the wallpaper for a background. The next customer was a prosperous young farmer who insisted that his name was William McKinley and that he wanted seven sets of those photos. The first day ran thirteen dollars and Mr. Wade thought his scheme was ruined by the unlucky number. But not so;the next day showed a still livelier trade, and for six weeks an unbroken line of customers filed in front of the camera from morning until night. Being unaccustomed to such constant operating Mr. Wade was physically exhausted at the expiration of this period, and he was compelled to take a rest of ten days in Kansas City, where he opened business in his special line at the end of this interval, turning the same over to IMr. Pomeroy ten weeks later."

In the above paragraph is outlined the inception of the important and extensive business which Mr. Wade has built up, and it is sufficient to say in this connection that his experiences in many of the leading cities of Kansas and Colorado in the following months were even more gratifying in the amount of business done and the public enthusiasm aroused. Mr. Wade had in the meanwhile thoroughly instructed his brother and sister, F. H. and Maude J. \Vade, in the details of the luisiness, and thereafter branch studios were opened in various places. Mr. Wade and his party of six assistants passed three months in Colorado, doing an enormous business, and enjoying the many scenic beauties of that fair commonwealth, and after defraying all expenses for the party he realized a profit of more than nine hundred dollars from his operations during the period mentioned, while he had also accumulated seven hundred and fifty dollars' worth of the best diamonds to be found in the markets of Denver. From the pamphlet to which recourse has previously been had, we continue to quote, as follows : "On his return to Kansas City from his triumphal tour, to say that Mr. Wade was made the lion of the hour by his former employer, fellow photographers, photographic stock dealers and acquaintances in general is putting it mildly. All who knew him \\^hen he launched the 'little photos' wished him well, but many doubted the success of the venture. They now bade farewell to their fears. Little photos had become the rage of the west. Photographers far and near were springing into line, as if by magic, and essaying the production of the popular little portraits. Western photographic supply houses which had watched the gr,owing popularity of these photographs with keen interest, began pushing the sale of different styles of cameras for making them, and manufacturers of the same were worked to their utmost capacity supplying the demand. In May, 1899, ^''- Wade removed liis forces from Missouri and commenced opening a circuit of galleries in Ohio, embracing the cities of Cleveland, Akron, Canton, Massillon, Mansfield, New Philadelphia and Coshocton, with headquarters at Canton. This was probably the largest circuit of photograph studios of the kind under one management and ownership in the United States. The business has since been constantly expanding in scope and importance, and Mr. Wade has control of a magnificent enterprise which has been built up solely through his own energy and talent. Lie attributes his phenomenal success principally to the following causes : His prices are within reach of the humblest, his results are good enough for the greatest, and he tries to give value received in every instance. He buys no cheap stock with \\hich to execute his work, his materials and accessories being the best the markets afford. His pictures are as permanent as photographic science knows how to make them. In his finishing departments he has the most experienced and competent assistants to be found, regardless of price."

Aladison Wright Wade, of whose successful career an outline has been given in preceding paragraphs and who maintains his residence in Canton at the time of this writing, is a native son of the Buckeye state, having been born in the city of Logan, Hocking" county, Ohio, on the ist of June, 1866. He was there reared to maturity, receiving his early educational discipline in the public schools and thereafter attending the Ohio Normal University, at .Ada, Hardin county, where he was a student in the years 38S4-5-6. He put his scholastic acquirements to practical test by teaching in the public schools for a time, and in 1889 he went to Kansas City, Missouri, where he served a thorough apprenticeship in the photographic business in the studio of Mr. Pomeroy, to whom reference has been previously made in this sketch, wdiile his future course has been noted in the preceding portion of this context, so that a recapitulation is not demanded at this juncture. In politics Mr. Wade is stanch adherent of the Republican party, in whose cause he takes a lively interest, his first presidential vote having been cast in support of Benjamin Harrison. His religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he was reared. Mr. Wade is a young man of pleasing and genial personality and sturdy physique, and is at yet a single man.

Edward Wade, the father of the subject, was born near the city of Altoona, Blair county, Penn.sylvania, where he passed his boyhood days, then coming with his parents to Perry county, Ohio, in which state he has since continued to make his home, having been a resident of Logan. Llocking countv, or its immediate \-icinity, for the past forty years. He is the patentee of several proprietory medicines which have long commanded a large sale. His father, Lliram Wade, was a pioneer physician of western Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in the j^ractice of his profession for many years, the family having been established in New England in the colonial epoch of our national history and being of stanch English lineage. Hiram Wade was a cousin of Hon. Benjamin E. Wade, the eminent Ohio statesman and lawyer, long a member of the United States senate. The mother of the subject bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Wright, and she was born in Licking county, Ohio, being a daughter of Tranklin Wright, an honored pioneer of that section of the state. She died in Logan, in 1884, at the age of forty-four years, and was survived by her nine children, two since dying. She was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as is also her husband, and the latten has given his allegiance to the Republican party from practically the time of its inception.

ALERED C. GOUDY, M. D., is a native son otthe Buckeye state and a scion of sterling pioneer stock. He was born in Wayne county, Ohio, on the 25th of September, i860, being a son of George W. and Sabina (Zortman) Goudy, both of whom were likewise natives of that county, where their respective parents took up their abode in the early pioneer days. In 1868 the father of the subject removed to Tuscarawas county and located in the town of Ragersville, where he remained until 1882, removing to New Philadelphia in 1882. His death occurred on the 3d of November, 1899, at which time he was sixty-four years of age. Lie was a m.iller by trade and vocation and a man of utmost integrity and honor in all the relations of life, while he was endowed with excellent business ability and held the unequivocal confidence and esteem of those with whom he came in contact. He was a stanch supporter) of the Democratic party and for many years was an active worker in its ranks, having been incumbent of various offices of pubhc trust and responsibility, including those of township trustee, tow^^ship treasurer and justice of the peace, Avhile in i8Si he was elected sheriff of Tuscarawas county, in which capacity he served two terms, giving a most able and acceptable administration. His father, William Goudy, was a native of the Old Dominion state of Virginia, whither he came to Wayne county, Ohio, as a pioneer of 1800, and there he passed the remainder of his life, as did also his wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Bates and who was born in Pennsylvania in 1788,. where she was reared and educated. This worthy couple became the parents of the following named children : Samuel, James, Isaac, Henry, George W., INIary, Cynthia, Eliza and Tena, and of the number only one is living at the present time. The mother of the subject is still living, maintaining her home in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas county. She is a de\'oted member of the Baptist church. Of their seven children we enter the following brief record : Martin B., who was born in 1855, is a resident of Kokomo, Indiana; Peter, who was born in 1856, resides in Strasburgh, Ohio; Mary V., who was born in 1859, is now the wife of Isaac Swihart, of Ragersville; Alfred C. is the immediate subject of this review; Frank E., who was born in 1866, is a resident of New Philadelphia; Charles L., born in 1869, lives in New Philadelphia, and .\lta, born in 1872, is Mrs. William Price.

Dr. Goudy was a lad of seven years at the time of his parents' removal to Tuscarawas county, and he was reared to maturity in the town of Ragers\-ille, where he secured his early educational discipline in the public schools, while he promptly formulated definite plans for the future sphere of action, determining to prepare himself for the medical profession, for which he early manifested a distinctive predilection. At the age of nineteen years he began his technical reading under the preceptorship of Dr. H. J. Peters, of Ragersville, an able and honored physician and one who did much to aid and encourag'e his young student. Dr. Goudy thus continued his studies for a period of three years, after which he was matriculated in that well known and particularly well equipped institution, the Starling Medical College, in the city of Columbus, where he gave hiiuself earnestly to his study and practical clinical work until he had completed the prescribed course, being duly graduated.as a member of the class of 1882 and receiving his coveted and well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Goudy forthwith established himself in the practice of his profession in the village of Strassburg, Tuscarawas county, where he remained until 1888, when he came to his present location, in Beach City, where he has built up a large and representative practice and where he has gained recognition among his professional confreres and the general public as a thoroughly able and discriminating physician and skillful surgeon, having the equipoise so essential in the time of emergency and e\'er keeping in close touch with the advances made in the various departments of his profession. In addition to the exigent work of his profession the Doctor also conducts a well-ordered drug store, in which he also keeps a select stock of books and stationer3\ and in this mercantile business he controls an excellent trade, drawn from the territory normally tributary to the town. In politics he gives a stanch allegiance to the Democratic party, and while residing in Tuscarawas county he was elected to the office of township clerk, and in Beach City he has been a member of the board of education for the past nine years. He is a member of the Bankers' Fraternal Union.

On the 23d of September, 1881, Dr. Goudy was tinited in marriage to Miss Mary R. Eckert, who was born in Tuscarawas county, being a daughter of Frederick and Phoebe F.ckert, her father being a prominent farmer of tliat count} , where she reared and educated, being a lady of gracious personahty and marked refinement. Dr. and Mrs. Goudy have four children, namely: Phoebe S., Grover C, Earl E. and James A. The family are prominent in the social life of the community and their pleasant home is one in which a gracious hospitality is ever in distinctive evidence.

\\'ILLIAM W. CLARK, JR. - He to whom this brief sketch is devoted is a son of that well-known and Iionored citizen and prominent business man whose patronymic he bears, \\'ilham W. Clark, Sr., who has manifold capitalistic interests in Canton and elsewhere, while he is president of the Canton Steel Roofing Company, of which the subject of this review is treasurer. On other pages of this work will be found specific mention of the father and also of the brother of our subject, and in the connection has been given adequate infonuation concerning the family history to forefend the necessity of reiterating the statements at this juncture, so that this article may be devoted entirely to him whose name appears above and who is treasurer of the Canton Steel Roofing Company and known as a young man of alert mentality and. excellent business acumen, as may be inferred from the responsible position of which he is in tenure.

In the family homestead, in West Tuscarawas street, in the city of Canton, William W. Clark, Jr., was born on the 17th of December, 1880, and after attending the public schools he was entered as a student in that old historic institution, the Phillips Acadeiny, at Exeter, New Hampshire, which he left and entered the army. At the outbreak of the Spanish-Amer- ican war Mr. Clark enlisted in Company I, Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, wliich was commanded by Colonel C. V. Hand, while Henry Willis was captain of Company I. Mr. Clark had recei\ed thorough military discipline in the academy mentioned, and this tactical knowledge stood him well in and during his practical efforts as a soldier, his record during the campaign in Cuba being one which was creditable to him and to the state from which he went forth to do battle in a righteous cause. After his return from the war he became a student in the law department of the Ohio State University, in the capital city of Columbus, and was there graduated as a member of the class of 1902, though he has never engaged in the active practice of the profession for which he has thus qualified himself. He became identified with the Canton Steel Roofing Company in a clerical capacity, and in January, 1903,. was elected treasurer, in which office he is rendering excellent service. In ])olitics he is a Reptiblican, while he is distinctively popular in both the business and social circles of his native city and is a worthy representative of the name he bears.

NORMAN REESE was bom in the village of Freeburg, this county, on the 24th of December, 1852, being a son of Edward and Emeline (Shidler) Reese, of whose eleven children the following named nine still survive: Norman, the immediate subject of this sketch; Harmon, who resides at North Georgetown, Columbiana county ; Edward H., who is a resident of Freeburg, Stark county; John, who is a successful farmer of Paris township; Laura, who is the wife of Samuel Stafifer, of Freeburg; Emma, who is the wife of Wilson Hartzel, of Freeburg; Ada, who is the wife of Calvin Aultman, of Alliance, this county ; Nancy, who is the wife of John Irwin, of Freeburg; and Ella, who is the wife of Ellard Hoppis, of

Alliance. The father of our subject was born in Washington township, Stark county, in the year 1S34, being a son of George Reese, who was a native of Pennsylvania and of stanch German lineage, the family having been founded in the Keystone state at an early epoch of its history. In the early pioneer days in Stark county George Reese came hither from his native state and settled on a tract of heavily timbered land in Washington township, eventually reclaiming a goodly portion of the same and developmg a good farm, upon which both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. On this pioneer homestead on which he was born Edward Reese was reared to matuntv, and after his marriage he settled on a farm adjoining the homestead, renting the same for a few years and then purchasing the place, which comprised eighty acres. He later pur chased thirteen acres lying contiguous, thus making the area of his farm ninety-three acres. Here he improved one of the valuable farms of tlie county and became known as a progressive and successful business man and a publicspirited citizen, and he has ever held the implicit confidence and esteem of all who know him. About i8g6 he sold his farm to his sonin-law, Samuel Staffer, and then purchased a residence in the pleasant village of Homeworth, where he has since lived retired from active business. In politics he is a stanch Republican, and for several years he served as trustee of Washington township, while he has long been an active and zealous member of the German Baptist church, of which his wife likewise was a devoted adherent. She was born in Paris township, this county, being a daughter of David Shidler, who was one of the early settlers there, whither he emigrated from Pennsylvania. The devoted and loved wife and mother was summoned into eternal rest in 1 89 1, at the age of fifty-six years.

public schools of the neighborhood he is indebted for the early educational advantages which fell to his portion, while he supplemented this training by a course in the commercial department of Mount Union College, near the city of Alliance. He continued to assist his father in the management and work of the homestead farm up to the time of his marriage, in 1880, when he removed to the state of Michigan, where he remained about eighteen months, ha^/ing devoted his attention to teaching and other occupations while in the Wolverine state. At the expiration of the period noted be returned to Stark county and settled on the paternal homestead, which he operated on shares for the ensuing three years, at the expiration of which, in 1886, he took up his residence in the village of Robertsville, where he established himself in the general merchandising business, in which he has ever since successfully continued, carrying a select and comprehensive stock of goods and catering to a discriminating and representative patronage. He has long been interested in pomolog\', and for the past six years has devoted special attention to the raising of fine fruits, utilizing a tract of about five acres in Osnaburg township, near his home, so that he gives the enterprise his personal supervision, in connection with the carrying forward of his mercantile business. Tn 1897 Mr. Reese was appointed postmaster at Robertsville and has ever since remained incumbent of the ofiKe, while for several years past he has been a valued and efficient member of the school board. He has exercised bis franchise in support of the principles of the Republican party from the time of attaining his legal majority and is knowii as a stalwart advocate of its cause. Like his parents, he has been a prominent and worthy member of the German Baptist church, in whose faith he was reared and of which his wife likewise is a member.

was united in marriage to Miss Anna Myers, who was born in Trenton, Grundy county, Missouri, and who became the foster-daughter of Henry Dessler, a prominent miller and honored citizen of Stark county, in whose home she was reared from her childhood. Mr. and Mrs. Reese have five children living, namely: Effie M., Carl N., Harry H., Lela and Ruby. One other child died at the age of twelve years. They have a pleasant home in the village and the same is a center of refined hospitality, while they are prominent in the social life of the community, in wlnich it may well be said they have "troo'^s of friends."

THOMAS C. BELDING. - Among the progressive and highly respected business men of Canton is Mr. Belding, who holds the responsiljle position of superintendent of the Canton Steel Roofing Company, of whose directorate and executive he is a member, having been for a number of years one of the stockholders of the company, while it may be said in due commendation that he has gained success through his own efforts. His grandfather, Titus Relding, was born in the state of Massachusetts, the family having been established in New England in an early day, and he became one of the pioneer settlers in Portage county, Ohio, where he served as a captain in the state militia, that section of the commonwealth continuing to be his home until death.

Thomas C. Belding is a native of Carroll county, Ohio, having been born in the town of Sherodsville, on the 7th of June, 1851, and being- a son of Gershom B. and Margaret (Long) Belding, the former of whom was born in Portage county, this state, and the latter in Carroll county. When our subject was a child his parents removed to Leesville, Carroll county, and shortly afterward took up their abode in IJhrichsville, Tuscarawas county, where the father was engaged in bridge building for a period of six years, while our subject there received his early educational discipline in the public schools, while the family came to Stark county and located in the village of Waynesburg when he was nine years of age. His parents came to Canton, Ohio, to reside in 1892, at which place occurred the death of his father, who passed away in 1895, at the age of seventy-eight years, while his wife died the same year, at the age of seventy-six years. They became the parents of three sons and two daughters, and of the number two sons are li\-ing at the present time.

Thomas C. Belding learned the trade of carriage w^ood-working in the town of Carrollton, Carroll county, beginning his apprenticeship at the age of nineteen years, and to this vocation he gave his attention about five years, at the expiration of which he learned the pattern-making trade. In 1886 he came to Canton, and on the ist of the following year assumed his present position as superintendent of the Canton Steel Roofing Company, in which he later became a stockholder and director, as has been previously noted in this context. He has been indefatigable and discriminating in his efforts and has done much to foster the upbuilding of this now large and important industrial enterprise, while his course has ever been such as to retain to him the confidence and high regard of all with whom he has come in contact. Though never a seeker of political ])referment of any order Mr. Belding has ever been a stanch advocate of the principles and policies of the Republican party and has been loyal to the various duties of citizenship. He was reared in the faith of the Disciples' church, and his views are in harmony with its teachings.

At Waynesburg, this county, on the 21st of October, 1879, Mr. Belding was united in marriage to Miss Emma McCort, who died in 1 882, leaving one child, Margaret, who is now employed as stenographer in the Central Sav- ings Bank, in Canton. On the 19th of May, 1891, Mr. Belding consummated a second marriage, being then united to Miss Mary B. Ross, who was born in Stark county, Ohio, being a daughter of James H. Ross, and of this union have been born two children, H. Ross and Ruth C.

ALEXANDER B. CLARK was born in Canton, Ohio, on the 23d of March, 1874, the oldest son of W. W. and Eunice Bierce. He received his early education in the Canton public schools, attended preparatory school at Wooster, Ohio, entered college at Yale University and graduated in course in 1897 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. After graduation from college he studied law in the office of Clark & Ambler for one year, and in 1S98 entered the law department of the Ohio State ITniversity and was admitted to the bar of the state of Ohio in the following March, graduating from the law department of the Ohio State University with the degree of Bachelor of Law. Immediately after graduation from the law school he accepted a clerical position with the Canton Steel Roofing Company, and was elected secretary in 1901. Besides being connected with the Canton Steel Roofing Company, he is also director of the Dieljold Safe & Lock Company and the City National Bank of Canton, Ohio. On September 26, 1000. Mr. Clark was married to Faith Fogle, and they ]ia\-e one child, A. B., Jr.

THOMAS S. CULP is engaged in the manufacturing of bicycles, tricycles, motor cycles and automobiles in the city of Canton, and has labored faithfully and loyally during the many years of his active business career. His first establishment in Canton, opened in the year 1885, was a little shop twelve by twenty feet in dimensions, the same being a portion of his ))resent quarters, at the corner of Mahoning street and Sandal Court. He first established a tin shop and handled stoves on a rnodest scale, and when the bicycle was at the height of its popularity he found it expedient to abandon his tin and stove business and engage in the handling, repairing and manufacture of the "wheels,'' while in 1901 he expanded the scope of his enterprise to include the manufacturing of automobiles and motor cycles, in which lines he has turned out some fine models, being an expert mechanic and one of individual ideas, so tliat he has brought out irumerous improvements in methods of construction. The motors utilized by him are principally of the gasoline type and are very effective in their operation, as well as economical.

Mr. Culp was born near the village of Sugar Grove Ridge, Jefferson county, Ohio, on the 20th of December, 1858, and there received his preliminary educational training in the common school, while he later . attended the public schools of Uhrichsville, Tuscarawascounty. When he was fourteen years of age his parents removed to Steubenville, Jefferson county, and at the age of sixteen he began his apprenticeship at the trade of tinner, serving three years, and thereafter working as a journeyman until the centennial year, 1876. In 1877 he located in Toronto, Jefferson county, where he opened a small tin shop and worked at his trade, carrying a small stock of stoves and tinware in connection. About three years later he removed to Elliottsville, Jefferson county, where his father was at the time conducting a brick yard, and of this enterprise thesujjject had the management for the ensuing two years, at the expiration of which he removed to Wells\-ille, where he secured employment in the tin and copper shops of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Company. Two years later he took charge of the tin shop of the Wellsville Hardware Company, in whose employ he remained one season. During the fol - lowing autumn and winter he conducted a roller-skating rink in the village of Minerva, Stark county, and then took up his residence in Canton, where he assumed charge of the shops of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Company, retaining this incumbency more than eight years. Within this interval he opened a little shop of his own, giving it his personal attention in the evenings, after leaving his regular work. Later he Iniilt up his present flourishing enterprise, of which adequate mention has been made in an earlier paragraph of this article.

In politics Mr. Gulp is a stanch adherent of the Republican party, in whose cause he takes an active interest, and fraternally he is identified with the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, the Daughters of Liberty, Daughters of America, Knights of the Maccabees, and the Home Guards of America. His religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he was formerly an active member of tlie First Methodist Episcopal church of Canton.

Of the ancestry of the subject we may sa}' that he is a son of Jacob G. Culp, who was a railroad engineer for a quarter of a century, having been thus engaged in the employ of the Panhandle, the Baltimore & Ohio and other lines, while at the present time he is a stationary engineer at Conneaut, this state. He likewise is a native of Ohio and a scion of one of its pioneer families, having been born in Jefferson in 1S4T. His Avife, whose maiden name was Hannah Cole, was also born in that county, in 1S47, ^.nd she is a sister of Leander C. Cole, who was formerly mayor of the city Massillon, Stark county. John Culp, grandfather of the subject, was a successful farmer, wool buyer and speculator in Jefferson county, wliere he died, having been a man of worth :and influence and having been commonly Icnown as "Squire Culp. Lie married Elizabeth Cooper, who was of Irish lineage. The Culp family is of stanch German stock, and the first representative of this immediate branch in America was the great-grandfather of the subject. It is but consistent that we make mention of the fact that during his entire life the subject has never used tobacco in any form nor taken a drink of intoxicating liquor, while to his abstemious habits he feels that he owes his fine physical health today, being a man of A'igor and energy and in the very prime of an active and useful career.

On the 27th of May, 1886, in the city of Canton, Mr. Culp was united in marriage to Miss Lillie Arnold, of tliis city, and she was summoned into eternal rest on the i8th of April, 1891, at the age of twenty-seven years, being survived by her only child. Earl E,, who is a fine lad of fourteen years at the time of this writing (1903). On the loth of November, 1892, Mr. Culp consummated a second marriage, being then united to Miss Mary A. Reinhokl, daughter of Captain L'rias R. Reinhoid, of Canton, and they have one daughter, Viola, aged nine years. The pleasant family liome is located at No. 622 Mahoning street and here a hospitable welcome is ever assured to the wide circle of friends whom the subject and wife have gatiiered about them.

HAL B. STONEBROOK, D. D. S., is a native of the village of Bakersville, Coshocton county, Ohio, where he was l)orn on the 17th of February, 1869, being a sonof Hiram J. and Emaline (Thompson) Stonebrook, of whose twelve children ten are living at the present tune, namely: .Vlonzo O., who is a teacher in the high school at Port Washington, Tuscarawas count)'; Hal B., who is the immediate subject of this review; Harry G., who is engaged in tlie practice of dentistry at Canal Dover in partnership with the subject; Florence, who is the wife of Levi Sciioonover, of Canton, Ohio; Iimma, who is the wife of a Mr. Spraig; William H., who is in the employ of the Canton Steel Company, at Canton, Stark county; Francis M., a laborer in Canton; Oliver H., who is a farmer near Bakersville, Coshocton county; Carlyle H., who is at the parental home, as is also Cecil V. Hiram J. Stonebrook, the father of these children, was born in I'uscarawas county, Ohio, on the 1st of August, 1840, and was there reared to maturity, receiving his preliminary educational discipline in the public schools, and effectively supplementing the same by a course of study in the Ohio Wesleyan University, in the city of Delaware, where he prepared himself for the profession of which he was to prove so successful and popular an exponent during a long and active career. Soon after leaving the college he turned his attention with marked efficiency to the pedagogic profession, and for the long period of twenty years he continued his active labors in the educational field, though for the greater portion of the period of the war of the Rebellion he laid aside all civic efforts to respond to the call. of higher duty, serving as a loyal and patriotic soldier in the Union army and aiding in perpetuating the integrity of the nation. In the autumn of the year 1862 he enlisted as a private in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he continued in active service until the close of the war, his regiment having been assigned to the command of General Sheridan. Among the more notaljle battles in which he participated may be mentioned the following: Monocacy, Cedar Creek, Winchester, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, siege of Petersburg and Appomatox Court-house. Through gallant and meritorious service he rose through the different grades until he became commander of his company, as first lieutenant of which he led his valiant comrades of Company C into the memorable battle of the Wilderness, after which he continiied in command of the same until the close of the war, when he received his honorable discharge. After his return. Lieutenant Stonebrook resumed teaching, to which he devoted his attention during the winter months, while in the suminer seasons he was engaged: in agricultural pursuits. In 1874 he established himself in the manufacture of woolen goods in Bakersville, Coshocton county, the while continuing his pedagogic labors during the winters until about 1880, after which he gave practically his entire time to his manufacturing interests until 1897, since which year he has lived retired in: the city of Coshocton. In politics he has ever given a stanch allegiance to the Democratic party, and for a period of twelve years he wasincumbent of the office of justice of the peace. His religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church, in whose work he has taken an active part, while fraternally he is an honored member of the Grand Army of the Republic, being past commander of the post withwhich he is affiliated. At one time he was quite prominent in the Knights of Pythias fraternity, having organized several lodges, but in recent years he has allowed his membership to lapse. He is a son of Frederick and Priscilla Stonebrook, both of wdiom were born in Pennsylvania, of stanch old German lineage, and they emigrated from the old Keystonestate to Ohio in the pioneer davs, taking" up their abode in Carroll county, whence they eventually removed to Tuscarawas county, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Emaline ^Thompson) Stonebrook, the mother of the subject of this sketch, was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, on the 19th of November, 1843, ^""^1 'i^i' death occurred on the- 25th of October, 1892. She was a daughter of James Thompson, who with his wife emigrater from Ireland, their native land, to America and took up their residence in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, in the early days, therepassing the residue of their lives. Mrs. Stone- brook was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal cliurch and was a woman of gentle and gracious presence, ever retaining the love of those who came within the sphere of her kindly influence.

Dr. Stonebrook, whose name introduces this article, passed his boyhood days on the homestead farm and his early educational privileges were such as were afforded by the district schools. After sturdily completing the curriculum of the district schools he became a student in the Bakersville high school, where he completed the prescribed course. At the age of eighteen years he began his active endeavors in that profession in which his honored father had attained so marked success, and during a period of seven years he was engaged in teaching during the winter months, while during the summers he was employed m his father's woolen mills, in Bakersville. In 1894 he began his technical preparation for the profession of dentistry, by entering upon an apprenticeship in the office and under the direction of Dr. J. H. Riggle, a skilled practitioner at Sherodsville, Carroll county, and so earnestly and effectively did he apply himself to the mastering of all details of operative and laboratory work that in 1896 he passed a rigid examination before the state board of dental examiners, in session at Columbus, and was granted his diploma and license to practice. In July of the same year he located in Waynesburg and established himself in the practice of his chosen profession, his novitiate being of very brief duration, for his unmiistakable skill and discrimination in his professional work and his genial personality soon gained to him a representative patronage. His offices are equipped with modern accessories and conveniences, and the highest grade of workmanship and most careful operations in the line of dental surgery are assured under all circumstances. In politics the Doctor gives his allegiance to the Republican party, but he has had no ambition for ot^cial preferment of any sort. He is a prominent and zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which his wife likewise is a member, and at the present time he is a steward of the church in Waynesburg, while for ten years he has been a teacher in its Sunday school, and for several terms served as superintendent of the same, taking a lively interest in all departments of the church work. He is identified with the Knights of the Maccabees, aPtiliating with Waynesburg Tent No. 29, of which he is past commander, while for three years he was keeper of records in the same. He also belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen.

On the 3d of September, 1892, Dr. Stonebrook was united in marriage to Miss Lillie M. Riggle, a daughter of Charles Riggle, a prom.inent retired farmer of Bakersville, Coshocton county, and of the five children born of this union four survive, namely : Mary Edna, Audrey Evangeline, Lois M. and Charlotte Lucille.