Canton Township (part 61 of 62)

AZARIAH C. DONAT, who is a successful farmer and representative citizen of Lake township, Stark county, was born on the old homestead farm in Tuscarawas township, this county, on the 19th of October, 1855, being the eldest son of Peter and Mary Ann (Crossland) Donat, the former of whom was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, on the 7th of October, 1805, while the latter was born in Akron (then known as Middleburg), Summit county, Ohio, on the 4th of May, 1826. In the autumn of the year 1819 Peter Donat, who was then a lad of fourteen years, accompanied his parents, Jacob and Elizabeth Donat, on their remox'al from the old Keystone state to Ohio, and in the following spring they settled on a tract of heavily timbered land in Tuscarawas township, this county, where the grandparents of our subject passed the remainder of their lives, and there also did their son Peter assume the responsibilities of carrying forward the improvement of the old home farm, developing the same into a valuable property and making the best of improvements, so that in the old home, so hallowed with the memories and associations of the past, he reared his children to lives of usefulness and honoi, being ever of good repute among men and true to every responsibility which canopied his life. Leal and loyal, strong in his convictions, never sacrificing conscience on the altar of personal expediency, this noble pioneer lived a "godly, religious and sober life," and was gathered to his father in the fullness of time, his death occurring on the homestead where he had passed so great a portion of his davs, on the 30th of August, 1890. "He rests from his labors, and his works do follow him." His devoted and cherished wife, who had lieen a true helpmeet to him from the time of their marriage, on the 9th of March, 1843, until the seal of death was placed upon his mortal lips, did 111)1 long survive him, since she was summoned into eternal rest on the 3(1 of January, 1892. Standing in the pure light of lives and characters like these, we can not be moved to a spirit of reverence, nor can we fail to realize the spiritual consistency of the merging of the finite lives into the transcendent glory of the infinite, for theirs was the faith which makes faithful and greater consecration could not be than this. Both were active and zealous members of the Reformed church, exemplifying their Christian faith in their daily walks and in all the relations of life. This worthy couple became the parents of two sons and nine daughters, whose naities, in order of birth, are as follows : Amanda, Lydia A., Hannah, Ann Eliza, Olivia, Azariah C, Emma, Eva, John A. and Loretta. Of this number all are living save four.

Azariah C. Donat was reared to maturity on the old homestead, in Tuscarawas township, and. being the elder tA the two sons, he early began to contribute his quota to the work of the farm, while his educational discipline was received in the public schools of the vicinity. He continued at the parental home until the time of his marriage, which occurred in Sugar Creek township, this county, on th nth of November, 1880, when he was united to Miss Eleanor S. Kaylor, who was born in that township on the 23d of July, 1863, being a daughter of Daniel M. and Mary (White) Kaylor, honored pioneers of Stark county, where the latter died on the 24th of January, 1886, her husband surviving until September i, 1896. The subject and his wife are the parents of three children, Mary L., Claude K. and Helen,. all of whom remain at the parental home. After his marriage the subject located on a farm in Sugar Creek township, and to its cultivation he devoted his attention from the fall of 1880 until the spring of 1884, when he took up his residence on his present fine homestead, in Lake township. The place has a commodious modern residence and other excellent liuildings, is under a liigh state of cultivation^ and on every hand shows the care bestowed by a progressive and scientific farmer. I'he homestead comprises one hundred and sixty acres and is one of the model farms of this favored section of the sta e. The family occupy a place of prominence in the social life of the community, where their friends are in number as their acquaintances, and the subject and his wife are devoted members of the Metb.odist Episcopal church, in whose work they take an active interest. In politics Mr. Donat gives his allegiance to the Democratic party, but he has never sought the honors or emoluments of public office.

ELIAS HIMEBAUGH. - As the name implies, Mr. Himebaugh is of stanch German extraction in the agnatic line, though the family has for several generations been identified with American interests, the original representatives in this country having settled in Pennsylvania in the early pioneer epoch. He is a son of Abraham and Adeline (Reed) Himebaugh. His father is now a resident of Portage. He was the eldest of their eight children, and of the number six are living at the present time. Elias Himebaugh was born in Portage county, Ohio, November 23, 1861, and was reared to the age of thirteen years in his native county, where his father was engaged in farming, and there he secured his rudimentary education in the district schools. The family then removed to the vicinity of Cuyahoga Falls, Summit county, and there our subject remained until he was nineteen years of age, assisting in the farm work and attending the public schools as opportunity ofifered. Thereafter he resided in Portage county about four years, and on the i6th of October, 1S83, when twenty-two years of age, he was united in marriage to Miss Amanda C. Schreiner, who was born in Green township, Sunim.it county, being a daughter of Michael and Almira (Smith) Schreiner, both of whom are now deceased. After his marriage Mr. Himebaugh resided in Summit county, being there engaged in the dairy business, and in the spring of 1896 he came to Stark county and took up his residence in Uniontown, where he associated himself with his brotherin-law, M. Schreiner, in his present line of enterprise, in which his efforts have been attended with excellent success, for he has brought ta bear marked energy and discrimination and has maintained the highest policy of business integrity in all his transactions, so that he has gained the unqualified confidence and esteem of all who know him, while he is ably seconded by his partner, who is likewise a capable and straightforward business man. In the manufacturing of apple-butter and jellies he utilizes a device of his own invention and secures a product of such superiority that he can not supply the demand placed upon him in this department, while he has secured a patent on the invention mentioned and the same is destined to come into very general use, as it simplifies the process of manufacture and insures better results than can be secured by any other method as yet employed. In politics Mr. Himebaugh is a stalwart supporter of the Democratic party, though he has never sought official preferment of any order, and both he and his wife are zealous members of the Reformed church, in whose \\ork they take an active part. They have no children.

LEWIS E. DOUGHERTY, M. D., is a nati\-e son of the Buckeye state, having been born in the town where he now makes his home, on the 28th of August, 1853, and being a son of the late Dr. James E. Dougherty, who was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, whence he came to Stark county in 1849, locating in Grcentown, where he attained distinction in his profession and won the affectionate resfard of the manv in whose homes his kindly and helpful ministrations were accorded. He was consecutively engaged in practice in Greentown from 1849 until 1885, in which latter year, as candidate on the Republican ticket, he was elected to the office of recorder of Stark county, an incumbency \\hich he retained for a period of six years, during which he. as a matter of course, was a resident of the city of Canton, the county seat. He died in that city, on the 24th of March, 1894, having had a wide acquaintanceship throughout this section of the state and having ever held the uncjualified confidence and esteem of all who knew him. while his record as an official was one of the same ability and fidelity that characterized his work in his profession. He was a stalwart supporter of the Republican party and its principles, while he was a devoted and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church from his boyhood until the hour came when the veil of the life eternal was lifted for him, as death set its seal upon his mortal lips. He was superintendent of the Sunday school when but sixteen years of age, and in later years was incumbent of various other offices in the church. His wife, Vi'hose maiden name was Angeline Gorgas, is likewise a native of Pennsyh'ania, having been born in Lebanon county, and she still resides in Canton, where she has a wide circle of devoted friends and where she is a valuetl member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Of her seven children, of whom our subject was the second in order of birth, four are living. Dr. Lewis E. Dougherty was reared in his native town and here he has ever maintained his home, while the prestige he has secured in his profession is the more noteworthy from the fact that it has been gained in the community Avhere every step of his career has been watched ;\nd known by the people who have been familiar with his life history from his youth up. After attending the public schools of Greentown, he entered ihe seminary at Greensburg,

Summit county, this state, where he continued his studies for a time, as did he later at Mount Union College, near Alliance, Stark county. After completing his more purely literary education he began the work of technical preparation for liis chosen profession by taking up the reading of medicine under the effective preceptorship of his honored father, and eventually he was matriculated in the Columbus Medical College, in the capital city of the state, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1879, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine and coming forth specially well equipped for the work of the profession, since his instruction from the start had been of the most scrupulously careful and painstaking order, his father constantly advising him as to his work, and encouraging him in his efforts, so that his ambition was -quickened to the utmost. After his graduation he was favored in becomihg associated with his father in practice, and he thus continued until the latter's removal to the city of Canton, when he practically succeeded to the large and representative practice which had been built up by his father during the long years of his active and eft'ective work in this place. It is to the credit of our subject that he was able to maintain the prestige of the name, notwithstanding his youth, and he has ever held the confidence and high esteem of those to whom he has ministered, and his success is based upon the sure foundation of broad and exact knowledge and the power of making decisive and practical application of the .same. He is a close and appreciative student and keeps in close touch with the advances made in the sciences of medicine and surgery, having always at hand the best standard and periodical literature pertaining to his profession, and also finding much of inspiration and aid through his membership in the Northeastern Ohio ]\IedicaI Association. In politics the Doctor is a stanch adherent of the Republican party and fraternally

On the 3d of July, 1879, in Summit county, Ohio, Dr. Dougherty was united in marriage to Miss Clara Hart, who was born in that county, being a daughter of Benjamin and I^Iary Hart., and of this union two children were born, - James B., who is preparing for the medical profession, and Ervin G., who is to study dentistry. Mrs. Dougherty was summoned into eternal rest on the 12th of December, 1886, ha\ing been a woman of gracious and noble character, and a dexoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In the city of Canton, on the 14th of June, 1892, the Doctor was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Gritilith, who was born in Durham, England, whence she came to America with her parents in her girlhood. Dr. and Mrs. Dougherty have one son, Lewis E., Jr. The family home is one of the most attractive in the village and is a center of refined hospitality.

!\nLTON M. BAUER, M. D., was born in the village of Loyal Oak, Summit county, Ohio, on the 4th of June, 1853, being a son of John J. and Catherine (Everhard) Bauer, who are natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectivel}-. and both of whom are living, the father having devoted his life principally to tanning and farming, and having been one of the honored and intluential citizens of Summit county, where both he and his wife have resided forty years. They became the parents of seven children, of whom the Doctor was the second in order of birth, and of the number four sons and one daughter are living at the present time, all being well established in life. John J. Bauer is of stanch German lineage, as the name implies, and the family was founded in Pennsylvania many years ago, while from the old Keystone state it has sent representatives into the most diverse sections of the Union. Dr. Bauer passed his youth in his native town, where he received his early educational training in the public schools, and he was for a number of years identified with the tanning business there, while later he was successfully engaged in teaching school for a portion of the time during an interval of seven years, showing that he had duly profited by the scholastic privileges which had been accorded him, for in the meanwhile he had continued his studies in the National Normal University, at Lebanon, this state, where he thus became specially eligible for pedagogic work. He was there graduated as a member of the class of 1876, having to a large extent depended upon his own exertions in defraying the expenses of his college course, as did he later in the prosecution of his technical studies in preparing for the work of his chosen profession. Soon after being graduated in the normal school he began reading medicine under effective preceptorage, and was finally matriculated in the Long Island Hospital College, in Brooklyn, New York, where he completed a thorough and exacting course of study, having the best of incidental advantages in the matter of clinical work and experience, and he was duly graduated as a member of the class of 1880, receiving his diploma in June of that year and also thecoveted title of Doctor of Medicine. Soon after his graduation Dr. Bauer came to L'niontown. Stark county, and here established himself in practice, duly displaying his "shingle" and preparing to serve his novitiate. This, however, proved of very brief order, since popular recognition of his abilities and his gracious personality were not long denied, and here he has remained in continuous practice to the present time, and he now controls an essentially representative business, being the family physician in many of the leading homes of this locality and enjoying the highest measure of esteem and good will in the community where- he has Hved and labored to so goodly ends. He is always ready to respond to calls upon his time and professional attention, even at distinct personal sacrifice and discomfort, for he holds that his profession involves a duty from which no worthy devotee of the same can consistently shrink. Dr. Bauer is a valued member of the Ohio State JMedical Society and the Cleveland Medical Society, while, as previously noted, he has been president of the Northeastern Ohio Medical Association. He takes a deep interest in the work and the deliberations of each of these bodies, realizing the practical value of interchanging ideas and profiting by the experiences of others. Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of the Maccabees, being a member of Union Tent No. 158, in his home village. In politics the Doctor accords a stanch allegiance to the Democratic party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Evangelical Lutheran church, in whose work they take an active interest.

In Uniontown, on the 19th of September, 1888, Dr. Bauer was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Schoner, who was born in Lake township, this county, being a daughter of the late Henry and Saloma Schoner, who were honored pioneers of this section of the county, where her father devoted the active years of his life to agricultural pursuits. Dr. and Mrs. Bauer have one son, Paul Emerson, who was born on the 8th of December, 1892.

REV. FREDERICK KELLER comes of stanch German lineage in the agnatic line, and also on the maternal side, both families having long been identified with the annals of American history. He was born in the village of Bellevue, Huron count)\ Ohio, on the 27th of January, 1863, bing a son of Rev. Eli Keller, D. D., who has been a clergyman of the Reformed church since the year T855 and who is prominent in its councils, as has he been in the active and fruitful work of the ministry. He is now a resident of Allentown, Pennsylvania, and his is the good fortune to still have the companionship of his loved and devoted wife, whose maiden name was Emma J. Hoffeditz. To them were born eight children, of whom six are living at the present time, while the subject of this sketch was the fourth in order of birth. While he was a mere child his parents removed to Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, where he passed his youthful days and Avhere he secured his preliminary educational discipline in the public schools, later supplementing this by a course of study in Ursinus College, a church institution at Collegeville, near the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was there graduated as a member of the class of 1883, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In the meanwhile Mr. Keller had decided to follow in the footsteps of his honored father and prepare himself for the ministry of the Reformed church, in whose faith he had been carefully reared and of which he had been deeply appreciative from his youth up. He accordingly began his technical study by being matriculated in the theological seininary of Heidelberg College, at Tiflin, Ohio, one of the leading institutions maintained under the direct auspices of the Reformed church in America, and he was there graduated as a member of the class of 1886 and being ordained to the ministry in May, 1886. He was engaged in home mission work for four years, the field of his labors during this time being principally in the state of Kansas, and he then returned to Ohio, where he filled various pastoral charges prior to 1898. when he came to Hartville as pastor of the church here. He has done much to vitalize the work of the church here, both along spiritual and temporal lines, being a forceful and convincing speaker, his every utterance bearing the impress of sincerity and conviction, while he is known as a man of ripe scholarship and as one endowed with marked executive and administrative ability, so that he is well equipped for exercising all the functions of his high calling. The church has a membership of about two hundred individuals, and its affairs are in a prosperous condition, while the pastor has the zealous co-operation of his flock and can not but feel that his lines are cast in pleasant places. He is an earnest and indefatigable worker, is of gracious and genial presence and hold the respect and good will of all sorts and conditions of men. In politics he gives his allegiance to the Republican party.

On the iQth of October, 1886, at Tiffin, this state, was solemnized Ihe marriage of Mr. Keller to Miss Anna Lecrone, who was born in that county (Seneca) being a daughter of Benjamin Lecrone, an honored and influential citizen of that section, and of this union three children have been l)orn, namely : Bertha, Howard and Ralph.

LORENZO CROCKER is a native of Summit county, Ohio, having laeen born on a farm in .Springfield township, on the 3d of l\Iarch, 1849, and being- a son of Myron and Lydia Crocker, both of whom died in that where the father devoted his active life to farming, being one of the lionored citizens and pioneers of the locality. Lorenzo Crocker was reared to maturity in his native county, early becoming inured to the sturdy work of the farm and securing his educational training in tlie district schools. As a young man he served an apprenticeship at the carpenter trade, and when twenty years of age he came to Stark county, where he was engaged in the work of his trade for a period of thirteen years, at the expiration of whicli he established himself in the sawmill business in the village of New Baltimore, also operating a cider-mill in season, and there he continued to reside for nearly a score of years, being one of the prominent and honored business men of the place. In 1899

Mr. Crocker came to Hartville, and here he has established himself in a profitable business, operating a feed mill, saw mill and cider mill, and also dealing in grain, and through good management and honorable dealing each department of his enterprise has been placed on a paying basis, while he has been given distinctive marks of public confidence and esteem, as is evident when we advert to tlie fact that for two years he served as clerk of Marlboro township, within the time of his residence in New Baltimore, while in the spring of 1902 he -yvas elected to the oflice of justice of the peace in Hartville. He takes an active interest in public affairs of a local nature and is one of the stanch advocates of the principles and policies of the Democratic party, in whose support he has been arrayed from the time of attaining his legal majority.

On the loth of December, 1874, in Portage county, this state, Mr. Crocker was united in marriage to Miss Louisa Ba^ighman, who was born in Summit county, being the daughter of James Baughman, one of the sterling pioneers of that county. The subject and his wife have no children.

IRVIN O. GOETZ, as the name implies,, comes of stanch German ancestry, though the family i:ame is one which has been for several generations identified with the annals of the American republic. He was born in the village of Hartville, Stark county, on the 9th of January, 1868, being a son of Henry and Mary (Agnex) Goetz, both of whom still maintain their home in this village, being held in the highest esteem by all who know them and being entitled to consideration as pioneer residents of the place. Of their five children three are living at the present time, and he to whom this sketch is dedicated was the fourth in order of birth. He received his preliminary educational discipline in the public schools of his native vil- lage, and supplemented the same by a course of study in the Ohio Business University, in the city of Cleveland, where he gained that technical training which has proved of so great value to him in his active business career. After leaving the institution mentioned he was for seven years employed as bookkeeper for his uncle, John Goetz, who is engaged in the milling business in the city mentioned, and later he was himself engaged in the grocery business in Cleveland for a period of about three years. In the spring of 1900 he returned to Hartville, where he associated himself with Dallas Keller in the establishing of their present enterprise, and its growth has been most gratifying, while through fair and honorable dealing and scrupulous care in the handling of all details of the business, the firm have gained the implicit confidence and esteem of the community. The store is well equijiped and is supplied with a select and compreliensive line of general merchandise, while no effort is spared to cater to the most exacting demands of the many and appreciative patrons of the establishment. Mr. Goetz is thoroughly publicspirited in his attitude, and whate\er is projected for the best interests of the village or the community at large is certain to receive his cordial support. In politics he has been a stanch adherent of the Democratic party from the time of attaining his legal majority, and his religious faith is that of the Reformed church, of which Mrs. Goetz is likewise a devoted member, while Ijoth .ire [irominent in the social life of the community.

On the 1 2th of September, 1893, Mr. Goetz was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Shanafelt. who was born in Portage county, Ohio, l)eing- a daughter of Levi Shanafelt. an influential citizen of that county. The subject and his wife have a pleasant home in Hartville, and the same is a center of cordial and gracious hospitality.

DR. PERKINS WALLACE, son of George and Harriet Menough Wallace, was born at Burton, near the site of the present city of Cle\eland, July 18, 1808. His father went from Acworth, New Hampshire, in 1795, to Youngstown, Ohio. Perkins Wallace was the youngest of four children. He moved with his parents to Cle\eland in 18 10, and from there to Brandywine Mills, Ohio, in 1814. Dr. \\'allace attended the Cincinnati Medical College, studying under Dr. Gross, then Professor Gross, who became deeply interested in him then and remained a warm personal friend until his death, coming to Ohio twice to urge Dr. Wallace to enter into partnership with him in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Wallace was graduated from Cincinnati in the spring of 1S34. On July 21 of this same year, at Canton, Ohio, he married Rebekah, daughter of William and Elizabeth Seabury Fisk Raynolds, in the Raynolds homestead, on South Market street. They resided for a time at Massillon, then Akron, but finally returned to Canton in October, 1847, and there Dr. Wallace passed away Julv 18, 1868, in the home where they were married.

In his medical practice in Canton Dr. Wallace was associated with Dr. Bonfield and later Dr. Matthews. He was thorough, exact, painstaking, careful, just and sympathetic, all of which are distinctive traits of the Wallace character. He excelled in diagnosis, and was quick to see and prompt to act. He was devotedly attached to his profession, was an enthusiast in it, and was readily acknowledged as one of the leading physicians of the state.

Dr. Wallace was eminently public spirited; he was active in the organization of the public schools and for years was a member of the board of directors. He was largely instrumental in securing thorough, college-bred teachers who gave to the school labor and abilitv which made for them a reputation they have since sustained. In every public effort both Dr. and Mrs. Wallace were active, earnest workers. As an old-Hne Whig and ardent Republican Dr. Wallace was an interested student of political history. With the intuitions of a statesman and the wisdom of a .seer, he followed the events of the Civil war. He was a loyal citizen, an eminent physician, a man of learning and rare culture.

JOHN B. KAGEY is the second of four children born to Jacob and Sarah (Berlin) Kagey, natives of Ohio, the former born in Columbiana county and the latter in Stark county. Three of the four children are living, namely : William H., who is engaged in the grocery business at Louisville; John B., of this review, and Ira E., who is a farmer of Nimishillen township. John B. Kagey was born in Nimishillen township, Stark county, Ohio, July 14, 1 87 1, and until seventeen years old lived with the parents, meanwhile acquiring a good education in the district schools. As a student he was studious and diligent and by close application made such advancement in his studies that at the above age he was able to pass successfully the required examination and secure a teacher's license. Young Kagey began his career as an educator in 1888, and during the ensuing five years taught in the schools of his native county, devoting the summer seasons to manual labor on the home farm. He achieved signal success as an instructor and had he seen fit to continue in the profession there is no doubt that in due time he would have become one of the distinguished educators of this part of the state. His ambition, however, to become an active factor in the world of affairs, led him to choose another than tho educational field in which to rise, consequently in 1893 he abandoned the school room and, in partnership with his brother William H., bought the grocery store in Louisville owned by Joseph Lesh, going in debt for his share of the purchase price., It is needless to state that this enterprise proved successful, as the fact is l^atent to every inhabitant of the town and it is also mere repetition to say that it was the real beginning of the subject's remarkable career as an energetic, far-sighted business man. In 1897 Mr. Kagey was appointed postmaster of Louisville and is still the incumbent of that office. Shortly after entering upon the discharge of his official duties he sold his interest in the grocery business to his brother and a few months later opened a clothing store which in due time became one of the most thriving mercantile establishments in the county outside the cities of Canton and Massillon. By carefully studying the demands of the trade and catering to the popular taste in the matter of raiment he built up an extensive patronage and his familiarity with every detail of the business enabled him to buy and sell so as to realize profits which soon placed him on the high road to fortune. In 1900 he turned his attention to another field of endeavor by purchasing of John L. Warstler the Champion Tile Works at Louisville. A few months later he bought at public sale the plant of the Empire Clay Company and combining the two establishments found himself at the head of an industrial enterprise which in point of continued growth and rapid gain in public favor has few if any parallels in the history of the country's manufacturing interests. In fact, the series of successes which have marked the career of the business since Mr. Kagey took possession and assumed practical management has been little less than phenomenal, as it has risen from a comparatively modest beginning to a leading place among similar enterprises throughout the state. The high reputation achieved by the products of the establishment has caused it to become widely known in industrial circles, not only in Ohio but in a number of other states and to supply the constantly growing demand a large force of workmen is required. Mr. Kagey gives especial attention to the mannfacture of hollow building block and other articles of similar character, their high order of excellence being the plant's most successful advertisement. For the making of these various products Mr. Kagey has not only one of the largest but in every respect one of the best equipped establishments of the kind in the United States, the different departments being as complete as the most advanced mechanical research can make them, while none but efficient and thoroughly reliable workmen are employed, the present force averaging thirty to forty for every working day in the year. In the management of the large business the proprietor exhibits a high order of executive talent, clear insight, mastery of detail and a ripeness of judgment on all matters connected with the plant locally and in relating to the public with which he. deals. Contributing by. his enterprise and progressive methods to the material and industrial growth of his town and county and occupying a prominent station among the successful manufacturers of the state, he is regarded as a representative citizen in e\'ery sense of the term and as a man whose influence has done more tlian that of any other individual of his age to give stability and tone to the thriving community with the history of which he has been so actively identified.

Mr. Kagey was married February 18, 1893, to Miss Leora Warstler, of Louisville, daugliter of John L. and Harriet Warstler, the union being blessed with two children, Marion C. and Zola C. In politics Mr. Kagey is a Republican but the claims of his business has been such as to preclude a very active participation in political or public affairs. As a good citizen, however, he keeps in touch with the leadingquestions before the people, votes his principles intelligently -and expresses his opinions as one who arrives at conclusions only after mature deliberation. Mr. Kagey's fraternal relations are represented by the Masonic order, Junior Order of United American Mechanics and Knights of the Maccabees, belonging to Juilliard Lodge No. 460, Louisville, Council No. 152 and Louisville Tent No. 1S2, of the three organizations, respectively.

FRANK E. SCHUMACHER was born on a farm in Marlboro township. Stark county, Ohio, on the nth of March, 1857, being a son of Henry and Susan (Harvey) Schumacher, the former of whom is now deceased, passing away, in Portage county, in his forty-ninth year, while his widow, who is sixty-three years old, lives at Suffield, Portage county, Ohio, The father was born in Pennsylvania, of stanch German ancestry, and was a man of sterling character, devoting his life principally to agricultural pursuits, while both he and his wife were zealous members of the German Reform church. Of their si.x children the subject of this review is the eldest and of the number four are living at the present time. When Frank E. Schumacher was two years of age his parents removed from Marlboro township to Hartville, where they maintained their home until he was twelve years old, his preliminary educational discipline having been received in the schools of tiiis village, and they then removed to Molluny township, Portage county, where our subject was reared to maturity on the farm and where he continued his studies, in a somewhat irregular way, in tiie district schools. There he continued to be identified with farming until he had attained the age of about twenty-seven years, when he came again to Hartville, Stark county, where lie was engaged for several years in the lumber bushiess, to which he devoted his attention until 188S, when he engaged in his present line of enterprise, in which he has met with excellent success, having excellent facilities for the prosecution of his manufacturing and turning out the highest class of work in the hne of window and door screens, while he turns out many original and attractive designs, all work being done on honor, so that his patronage has shown a consecutive increase hi scope. Mr. Schumacher is progressive in his methods, looking carefully after all details of his enterprise and being known as a capable and upright business man. In politics he exercises his franchise in support of the principles and policies of the Democratic party, and both he and his wife are worthy and consistent members of the Reformed church.

In Portage county, this state, on the 24th of November, 1887, Mr. Schumacher was united in marriage to Miss Susan Warner, who was born and reared in that county, being a member of one of its honored pioneer families, and she was summoned into eternal rest, in Hartville, on the ist of July, 1896. She is survived by her one son, George, who is bookkeeper in his father's establishment and who is known as not only a fine accountant but also as a young man of excellent business acumen, while he is one of the popular young men of the village, his friends being in number as his acquaintances. He received excellent advantages and through the proper use of the same has become well equipped for the active duties of a successful business career. He proves an able coadjutor to his father and through his efforts much has been done to insure the success of the enterprise of which mention has been made. On the i6th of July, 1892. the subject of this sketch consummated a second marriage, being then united to Miss Minnie Gilmore, who was born in this county,- and of this union three children have been born, namely : Howard, Carl and Leonia.

of December, 1853. ^'^^ ^'^''^^ reared on a farm and duly profited by the sturdy discipline involved, while he secured his early educational training in the public schools. He then entered the commercial department of Mount Union College, near Alliance, this county, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1872, after which he was matriculated in Buchtel College, at Akron, this state, where he continued his studies about four years. He then entered upon the technical work of preparing himself for his chosen profession, beginning the reading of medicine at Uniontown, Stark county, where he had as a preceptor Dr. G. F. Waldron, an able representati\'e of his profession, and under these conditions he continued his studies for one year, and he was then matriculated in the medical department of the University of ?>Iichigan, at Ann Arbor, where he remained one year, after which he entered the Missouri Medical College, in the city of St, Louis, where he was graduated in the spring of 1880, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine and being well fortified for the work of his profession. He began the active practice of his profession in Conimanche, Iowa, where he remained somewhat more than a year, after which he came to Hartville, Stark county, where he has built np a lucrative and representative practice, his professional novitiate here having been of brief duration, since he forthwith gained recognition as an able and discriminating physician and surgeon, one devoted to his work and ever ready to respond to the call of suffering and distress, regardless of personal comfort. Not only is he particularly sure in diagnosis and in anticipating" the complications of disease, but he also is endowed with that deep human sympathy and grateful personality which have so important an influence in the clinical work of the profession. The Doctor is a constant and appreciative reader of the best standard and periodical literature pertaining to the two branches of his profession, and also finds a source of valuable information and inspiration through his membership in the Northeastern Ohio Medical Association, of which he is a popular and valued member. Politically the Doctor gives his allegiance to the Democratic party, and he has ever shown a lively interest in all that concerns the well-being of the community, though never an aspirant for oflicial preferment of any sort. He has an attractive modern residence in the village, and the same is a center of gracious and unreserved hospitality, the family taking an active part in the social life of the town. Fraternally Dr. Smith is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, holding membership in Stark Lodge No. 513, in the city of Canton; and with the Knights of the Maccabees, in which he is affiliated with Hartville Tent No. 282.

In his native town of Brimfield, Portage county, on the 26th of October, 1881, Dr. Smith was united in marriage to Miss Emma J. Wise, who was born in that county, being a daughter of John Wise, an honored citizen of that place, and of this union three children have been born, namely : Winifred, who died at the age of three and one-half years; and Howard J. and Roger C, who are attending the public schools. The Doctor and his wife are zealous and valued members of the Reformed church, in whose work they take an active part.

In conclusion we will advert briefly to the genealogy of Dr. Smith. He is a son of Charles E. and Abigail (Hawley) Smith, both of whom came of stanch New England ancestry, the respective families having been founded in that section of the Union in the colonial epoch of our national history. Charles E. Smith was born in Portage county, Ohio, in 1820, being a son of William Smith, who came to this state from Massachusetts in the early pioneer days and located in Portage county, where he passed the residue of his life.

having reclaimed and improved a farm and become one of the influential citizens of the locality, in which he was one of the first settlers. There the father of our subject was reared and educated and there he also continued to be identified with the great basic art of agriculture during a long and useful career, and while success attended his efforts and he became recognized as one of the substantial farmers of the county, he left to posterity that greatest of all bequeathments, an honored name. He was summoned into eternal rest in August, 190 1, at the venerable age of eightyone years and secure in the esteem of all who knew him. His devoted wife preceded him into the life eternal, her death occurring in January, 1896, at which time she was in her seventy-second year. The father was a Democrat in his political proclivities, and both he and his wife consistent and earnest church members, their faith being ever exemplified in their daily walk and conversation. Of their five children our subject was the third in order of birth, and of the number foiu' are living at the present time.

JACOB L. OBERLIN was a native son of the old Buckeye state, having been born in Plain township. Stark county, Ohio, on the loth day of March, 1830. His father, Adam Oberlin, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1802, emigrated to Ohio in later years and died in Plain township in i88r, when upwards of seventy-nine years of age. Jacob L. Oberlin was reared under the parental roof in Plain township - in fact, he had never known any other home. He was born in the same yard that he died in, having seen three different houses in the same yard. He received a fair education in the common schools of the neighborhood and upon attaining a sufficient age decided to make farming his life vocation. He was a man of keen intellect and tireless energy and proved a marked success in his chosen calHng. Few men in his township attained to a more enviable standing than did he and he was frequently consulted by his neighbors and acquaintances on matters of importance, his wise discrimination and sound judgment being generally recognized by all who knew him.

Mr. Oberlin was twice married. His iirst wife was in her maidenhood Miss Sarah Spangler, and by her he became the father of three children, namely : Josiah M'. is a resident of Portage county, Ohio ; Clara is the wife of John Rasor, of Trumbull county, this state; Laura is the wife of Rev. L. H. Burry, pastor of St. Paul's church of Massillon. Mrs. Sarah Oberlin died in 1862 and on the 22d day of May, 1864, Mr. Oberlin was united in marriage with Miss Sarah E. Poyser, a daughter of Joseph Poyser. She was born in Perry township, this county. May 17, 1839, and received a fair education in common schools of her township. This union of the subject has been blessed by the birth of eight children, viz: Otto W., Norman, Charles A., John H., Walter J., who died at the age of eighteen years, Edward, wdio died in childhood, Emma, who died in infancy, and Martha J. In politics Mr. Oberlin was a Republican and took a keen interest in the public affairs of his com- Tnunity. He was honored by election as a member of the school board and so efficient were his services on that board that he was retained in the position for seventeen consecutive years. Religiously he was long a faithful and consistent member of Trinity Lutheran church. Pie possessed excellent business qualifications and at the time of his death was the owner of one hundred and twenty acres of as fine land as could be found in Plain township. He was a devoted husband and a loving- and indulgent father, but never spoiled his offspring by substituting fondness for what his common sense pointed out to him as being the necessary discipline to render them self-reliant and to prepare them for the stern realities of life and the struggles that life inevitably entails. But this discipline was mild as well as effective, and his memory will be cherished with love and affection by his widow and children as long as life with them is vouchsafed with the faculty of remembrance. The home farm is now under the care and management of his son, John PL, who is carefully looking after the liest interests of the property.

REV. G. H. SOUDER. - The Souder family in this country appears to have originated in Pennsylvania, of which state the subject's father, George Souder, was a native. George Souder was born in the year 181 7, grew up a farmer and followed that calling in Pennsylvania until 1854 when he moved to Richland county, Ohio, purchasing a farm near the town of Shelby, upon which he spent the remainder of his days, dying there at the advanced age of eighty-one years. He was a man of excellent parts, pronounced in his allegiance to what he considered right and few men in his community enjoyed to as great degree the confidence and esteem of their fellow citizens. He was a God fearing man who carried religion into his every day concerns, and for over fiftyfive years held the office of elder in the Reformed church, with which body he became identified in early youth. For many years he was an unswerving supporter of the Democratic party, but later in life became a staunch Prohibitionist and as such exerted a potent influence for the cause of temperance to the end of his days. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Wentz, was also a native of Pennsylvania, born in the year 1818. She came of an old and respected family of that commonwealth, and was a woman of many excellent c[ualities of head and heart, deeply religious and a most excellent wife and loving and devoted mother. She bore her husband six children, and entered into her eternal rest in 1886, aged sixty-eight years. Of these children four are hving at the present time : Daniel W., of Ft. Wayne, Indiana; C. H. L., a physician and surgeon' of Chicago, Illinois; Carrie, wife of Oliver Lybarger, of Richland county, Ohio, and George H., the subject of this sketch.

Rev. G. H. Souder was born in Richland county on the 2d day of April, 1857, and acquired his preliminary education in the district schools near the paternal homestead. The training thus received served merely as a foundation for a more thorough intellectual discipline, as he subsequently entered Oberlin College where he pursued his studies until the fall of 1875, when he became a student of Heidelberg College at Tiffin. Mr. Souder entered the latter institution for the purpose of preparing for the ministry of the Reformed church and after completing the prescribed course in 1880 began his theological studies in the seminary at the same place, graduating from the latter in 1882. Immediately thereafter he was ordained to the work of his holy office and given charge of the church at Greenville, Ohio, where he labored with much acceptance during the ensuing two years, at the expiration of which time he was transferred to the church at Swander's Crossing in Shelby county. He served as pastor of the latter congregation three years and four months, during which time the church was greatly strengthened materially and spiritually and his parishioners parted with his services very rehictantly when he left there to accept the pastorate of the large and more influential charge of Bellevue, Ohio, to which he ministered for a period of five years. During his labors at Bellevue Rev. Souder- was instrumental in building up the church along all lines of activity, renovating and thoroughly refitting the house of worship, and inspiring the members to renewed zeal in the Master's service. Numerically the congregation was increased over fifty per cent and the deep spirit of devotion around bore eloquent testimony to his earnestness and success as a consecrated minister as well as to his leadership in planning and carrying to completion material improvements.

Severing his connection with the congregation at Bellevue, Rev. Souder went to Bluffton, Indiana, where his pastorate of four and a half years' duration was fruitful of large and far reaching results. He engineered the raising of funds for a general repairing of the temple of worship, costing several hundred dollars, and he was also instrumental in increasing the membership fully one-half, in addition to which his influence was felt as a potent spiritual force among other churches of the city and by the public in general. Leaving Bluffton, Rev. Souder became pastor of the church at CarroUton, Ohio, whither his reputation as an able pastor and wise leader had preceded him. There, as in his former fields of labor, his efforts were blessed with abundant success, not only in numerous accessions to the congregation but also in the matter of church improvements, as he renovated, repainted and recarpeted the building, thus adding very materially to its appearance and general comfort as a fit temple in which to worship the most high. remaining three and a half years with the good people of that field and proving a blessing to them in many ways, he gave up the charge and in December, 1900, entered upon his duties as pastor of the cliurch at Louisville, where he has since ministered to the spiritual wants of a congregation which has not been slow to recogiiize and appreciate his ability, zeal and consecrated service. During his short pastorate here the church has taken on new life and a general advance has been made along all lines of duty, the preacher's strong personal

Rev. Souder's sermons are clear, concise, logical and practical and when discussing some of the grand themes of revelation, or when persuading sinners to abandon the error of their ways and accept the proil'ered mercies of the crucified Redeemer, he frequently rises to the heights of eloquence, which not only captivates his hearers but so impresses their minds and hearts as to strengthen their faith or move them to repentance.

Rev. Souder, on the 30th day of May, 1888, was united in marriage with Miss Lulu M. Miller, of Shelbyville, Illinois, daughter of William and Sarah Miller, the father for many years a prosperous business man of that city, but now retired. Three children brighten the home of the subject, namely : Loye M., Ola S. and William H., a daughter by the name of Ruth dying a few years ago.

While devoting his time and talents primarily to the noble work in which he is engaged. Rev. Souder is by no means indifferent to the duties which every community expects of its citizens. He maintains an interest in the material as well as the moral and spiritual welfare of the town of his residence and to the extent of his ability encourages every means to this end. Fraternally Rev. Souder is a member of the National Union and the Modern Woodmen of America, and politically gives a hearty support to the party of Prohibition. He is and long has been a firm and unyielding foe of the liquor traffic, and believes the only effectual means of ridding the country of the curse to be in the direction of stern legislative coercions.

than has Frederick H. Snyder, who is a native of the cit}', and who for thirty years has been closely identified with its manufacturing and financial interests. Mr. Snyder was born November 17, 1839, the son of Frederick and Anna (Schreiber) Snyder, both of whom were natives of Germany. Frederick, the father, was born in 1816, and came with his parents to the United States when a boy. He was a pioneer of Massillon, coming to this city in 1828. The mother was born in 1820, and was brought by her parents to America in about 1830. The family landed at Baltimore, Maryland, and after remaining a short time in tiiat city started west overland. They made the entire trip from Baltimore, Maryland, to Massillon by wagon, - a large caravan, - drawn by six horses. The trip consumed three weeks and at the end the man who moved them had only three of his six horses left, the others having died on the way. It was a tedious and tiresome journey, especially over the mountains, but the family endured it with fortitude. The parents of the subject were married in Massillon and made their home here ever afterwards. Frederick, the father, was a contractor and operated a large planing mill. He planned and erected many of the principal buildings of Massillon, including the Conrad Hotel, of the present time. He was an enterprising and energetic man, a fine mechanic and possessed of business and executive ability in more than ordinary degree. Fie and his wife were members of the German Lutheran church. He died in 1858, his widow surviving until May, 1903, when she died at the age of eighty-three years. To them the following children were born : Frederick H,; Maria, deceased, was the wife of Jacob Wagoner; George M., of Massillon; Jacob F., of Massillon, member of Hess-Snyder Company; Henry died in 1901 ; Charles F., of Massillon, also a member of Hess-Snyder Company; John B., of Massillon; Benjamin, of Massillon.

Frederick H. Snyder attended the public schools of Massillon until he reached his seventeenth year, and then began an apprenticeship at the machinist's trade, first in Rochester, Ohio, and then at Wooster, Ohio. After finishing his apprenticeship he worked as a journeyman until July, 1874, mostly in ^Massillon, at which time he and his brothers, Jacob F. and Charles F., engaged as partners in a general line of job1:)ing as machinists. This they continued until the spring of 1882, when they consolidated with J. F. Hess & Bros, under the firm name of Hess, Snyder & Company, \\ith. the subject as the head of the concern. In February, 1901, the company was incorporated as The Hess-Snyder Company, with the subject as president, J. F. Hess as vice-president, and F. H. Snyder, Jr.. as secretary and treasurer. Besides Mr. Snyder's interest in the Hess-Snyder Company, which is one of the leading manufacturing plants of Stark countv, he is interested in a number of other concerns of importance, among which are the following: The Dime Savings Bank of Massillon, of which he is president; the Merchants' National Bank, of which he is a director ; the Independent Printing Company, of which he is president; the BrowTi Lumber Company, of which he is a director; the Massillon Iron and Steel Company; the Southern States Portland Cement Company, of Atlanta, Georgia. He is a trustee of the Massillon Free Library, an elder in St. Paul's Lutheran church, and a member of the publication board of the Lutheran Book Concern of Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Snyder has been identified with the Massillon Board of Trade since its organization; he has also been a memlDer of the executive board of the same since its organization.

In 1863 Mr. Snyder was married to Barbara Moure, who was born in Germany. Her parents died when she was quite young. To Mr. and Mrs. Snyder the following children have been born: Frank H., secretarv and treasurer of the Hess-Snyder Company; Albert L. and Edward H., both connected with the Hess-Snyder Company ; Hattie E. married Edward Janson, who is engaged in the drug business in Canton, Ohio.

Mr. Snyder is considered as one of Massillon's leading citizens and men of affairs. His long business career has been uniformly successful, and besides building up one of the important manufacturing enterprises of Stark county, he has assisted in the promotion and success of half a dozen others, each one of which has contributed to the building up of Massillon. He is recognized as a man of more than ordinary business and financial ability, and one of unimpeachable integrity. He is progressive, enterprising and public-spirited, and always is to be found on the side of any movement looking to the improvement of the communitv and its institutions.

JOHN E. MONNOT, secretary of the Canton Board of Trade, and a well-known member of the Stark county bar, was born November 30, 1865, at Louisville, Stark county, Ohio, the son of Peter J. and IVIary (Mofifatt) Monnot. Peter J. was born in France and in the early 'forties, when in his thirteenth year, emigrated with his parents to America. The great-grandfather of the subject began the \'oyage with the family, but died on the way and was buried at sea. The paternal grandfather of the subject, Peter M., after reaching this country, settled with his family in Nimishillen township. Stark county, where he f(illowed farming. He died at Louisville in 1882. Peter J. was a blacksmith by trade, and conducted a shop in Louisville for many years. He is still living. The mother of the subject died when he was about two years of age. ITe was reared in Louisville and received his education in the public and parochial scliools. At the age of fourteen years he began to learn the carpaiter's trade.

at whicli lie worked several years. He then entered the furniture store of J. B. McCrea, ni Canton, witli whom he worked for two years. He then became traveHng salesman for the Berger Manufacturing Company of Canton, being the first man sent out on the road by that concern. He continued to travel for the Berger people for several years, taking up the study of law during that time. In March, 1887, he was admitted to the bar, and that same fall was elected to the Ohio legislature on the Democratic ticket and in 1889 he was re-elected. In 1894 he was appointed postmaster at Canton, holding that office for four years. Since 1891 he has been secretary of the Board of Trade and for seven years he was chairman of the committee on statistics of that organization.

In 1893 Mr. Monnot married Laura M. Barlet, daughter of the late Peter Barlet, who for many years was one of Canton's most prominent merchants.

JOHN SHEARER was ushered into the world in Osnaburg township, Stark county, Ohio, the date of his nativity having been October 29, 1824, while he is the sole survivor of the three children born to Henry and Dorothy (Grimm) Shearer. The father of the subject was born in York county, Pennsylvania, on the 1 6th of November, 1791, being a son of Jacob Sh.earer, who was likewise born in the old Keystone state, where he was reared to maturity and where his marriage was solemnized. In the year 181 3 Jacob Shearer came to Stark county, Ohio, reaching his destination in May of that year, and he forthwith located on the farm in section 27, Osnaburg township, and being one of the first settlers in this section of the county, where he accjuired three-fourths of a section of wild land, for which he had exchanged his farm in Washington county, Pennsylvania. He was accompanied by his wife and two of his children, - Henry, father of the subject, and Catherine, neither of whom were married at the time, and later his three other sons, John, Jacob and Adam, joined him in this county and settled on the land adjoining the home farm of their father. The entire tract was covered with the native timber, and the father and sons set to themselves tlie arduous task of reclaiming the same to cultivation, thus aiding materially in the development of this now opulent and signally favored section of the Buckeye state. Here the honored grandfather of the subject passed the remainder of his life, his death occurring in the year 1823, at which time he was seventy-nine years of age, while his faithful wife followed him into eternal rest two years later, at the age of seventy-four years. In 1815 the father of the subject returned to Pennsylvania, where was solemnized his marriage to Miss Dorothy Grimm, and with his bride he forthwith came to the Stark county home, having acquired the eighty acres of land upon which his father had located upon coming to the county and which is now the home of the subject of this review. Here he developed a good farm, making excellent improvements on the place, and applying himself with that energy and good judgment through which a due measure of prosperity in temporal affairs is certain to come. He here made his home until he was called from the scene of life's labors, the golden evening of his day having passed in the home of his son John, of this sketch, who had purchased the old homestead. Henry Shearer was a man of mature judgment and strong mentality, though he had liut meager educational advantages in his youth, having received but sixteen days of definite schooling in his youth. He took an active interest in public afifairs of a local nature and was well informed on the questions and issues of the day. In politics he originally was arrayed in the ranks of the Whig party, but upon the organization of the

Republican party he transferred his allegiance to the same and ever afterward continued a stanch advocate of its principles. He and his devoted wife were consistent and valued members of the Lutheran church, and he aided materially in the erection of the first church building of this denomination in this portion of the county. He was steadfast and true in all the relations of life, and he died in 1878. in the fullness of years and honors, having attained the venerable age of eighty-seven years. His wife, who was likewise a native of Pennsylvania, was summoned to the land of the leal February 3, 1845, ^t the age of forty-nine years.

John Shearer, whose name introduces this sketch, was reared to maturity on the pioneer homestead, and he early became inured to the strenuous work involved in its reclamation and cultivation, while his educational training was limited to a somewhat desultory attaidance in the primitive log school house, with its rude equipment of puncheon floor and slab benches, - an institution of the type from' which have gone forth some of the strongest characters in the history of our nation. On the 13th of March, 1845, ^i'- Shearer was united in marriage to Miss Susanna Schaeffer, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, whence her parents removed to Carroll county, Ohio, when she was a child of two years, while later they came thence into Stark county, where they passed the balance of their lives, being numbered among the sterling pioneers of this section of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Shearer became the parents of nine children, and it has been the pitiable lot of our honored subject to see one after another of his sons and dautrhters pass across the "great divide" into the eternal life, imtil none are left to comfort and sustain him in his declining years, while his loved and devoted wife also has passed forward to that "undiscovered countr}^ from whose bourne no traveller returns."

the homestead farm from his father, and here he continued to be successfully engaged in general farming, though he relegates the active labors to others, while maintaining a general supervision of the place and bringing to bear his thorough and practical knowledge of the best methods to be followed in the connection. He is well preserved and gives slight evidence of the more than three score and ten years which have passed over his head. In politics he has ever accorded an unqualified support to the Republican party, with which he identified himself at the time of its organization, but he has invariably refused to permit the consideration of his name in connection with any public office. He is a worthy and devoted member of the Lutheran church, in which he was an officer, in various capacities, for more than forty-five years, and in whose work he has taken an active and zealous part, as did also his wife, who entered into eternal rest on the 7th of Januarj^, 1892, at the age of sixty-nine years. She was a woman of noble attributes of character, and won the affectionate regard of all who came within the sphere of her kindly and gracious influence, while the life immortal gained a new glory when death set its seal upon her mortal lips.

LOUIS A. LOICHOT. - Among the younger class of prominent citizens of Canton, few. if any, hold a more commanding positioir in financial circles or are better or more favorably known throughout Stark county than Louis A. Loichot, ex-auditor of Stark county,- and vice-president and manager of the First National Bank. Mr. Loichot is a native of Stark county, having been born in the village of Harrisburg, ]\Iarch 12, 1861, and is the son of Louis and Catharine (Simon) Loichot), the former a native of France, the latter of Switzerland. Thev both came to Amer- ica when yoting, and in 1857 were married in this county. After their marriage the parents removed to Minnesota, in which state they resided for several years. Returning to Stark county, they took up their residence in Harrisburg, where the father became postmaster. He also served as assessor of Canton for some time.

Louis A. Loichot received his education in the common schools of Toledo and Canton. He also took a commercial course at Saunders' Business College. Leaving school, he took a clerkship in a dry goods store in Canton, which position he held for one year, and then entered the employ of Isaac Harter & Sons Banking House as collector and teller. He remained with this house for thirteen years continuously, leaving it to enter upon the duties of county auditor. In 18S5 Mr. Loichot was elected to the Canton city council, in which body he served for a period of four years, three years of which he was president of the council. In 1889 he was nominated by the Democratic party for the office of auditor of Stark county, and was successful at the ensuing election, taking charge of the office in September, 1890. So satisfactory to the people of the entire county was his administration of the offige that at the expiration of his first term he was reelected, thus serving as county auditor two full terms. LIpon leaving the auditor's office, Mr. Loichot entered the First National Bank as cashier, and five years later he was elected vice-president and manager. He is also a director in the Dime Savings Bank of Canton.

In 1889 Mr. Loichot married Miss Minnie R., daughter of F. I. Piero, one of Canton's oldest and most respected pioneer citizens, who is still living. To this marriage two sons have been born : Louis P., who died at the age of ten years, and Raymond. Mr. Loichot is a member of the Knights of Columbus, Catholic Mutual Benefit Association, the Elks and St. John's Catholic church.

LOUIS J. MIDAY. - Felix Miday, father of the subject, was born in the vicinity of the city of Paris, France, where he was reared to maturity. He had the distinction of being a soldier under Napoleon, being attached to the cavalry arm of the service and taking part in several campaigns. As a young man, he came to America, landing at Baltimore, whence he soon afterward came to Stark county, locating in the village of Louisville. He had learned the trade of carpenter in his native land and was a skilled workman when he came to America. In Louisville he established himself in business as a contractor and builder, and in the early days his services were in demand in all sections of the country, many substantial buildings which are still standing having been erected by him. In 1844 Mr. Miday was united in marriage to Miss Cesarea Dodane, who was likewise born in France, whence she accompanied her parents on their removal to the United States, the family being numbered among the early settlers in the town of Louisville, this county. Felix Miday continued to be actively engaged in business for a long term of years, and finally retired to his farm, in the immediate vicinity of Louisville, where he made his home until his death, in 1880, at the venerable age of eighty-four years, his widow there residing until she, too, was summoned into eternal rest, in 1896, at the age of seventyeight years. Both were communicants of the Catholic church, and were prominent and active members of St. Louis' parish, in Louisville. They became the parents of four children, namely : Frank, who is a successful farmer near Louisville, this county; Louis J., the immediate subject of this memoir; Joseph and John, who are likewise engaged in farming near Louisville.

Louis J. Miday was born on the parental homestead near Louisville, Stark county, Ohio, on the 24th of July, 1848, and after securing his preliminarv educational training in the parochial school of that village he continued his studies in Louisville College, while later he was afforded the advantages of a course in Notre Dame University, at South Bend, Indiana. Upon leaving the university he came to Canton, and for the ensuing two years he was employed in the wholesale grocery house of Carl Bechele, in this city. At the expiration of this interval, he entered the commercial department of Mount Union College, where he continued his studies until he had completed a thorough course. He then re-entered the employ of Mr. Biechele, with whom he remained for five years, and upon his withdrawal from this concern he purchased the grocery of George Fessler, on North Market street, where he managed a successful retail business for two years, when he sold out and established himself in the wholesale wine and liquor business, on North Market street, and disposing of the same at the end of twelve years. He then became associated with John Melbourne in the manufacture of paving brick at Malvern. Mr. Miday withdrew from the firm after about five years and then turned his attention to the street paving business, in which he did contracting upon a very extensive scale. He was interested in this line of enterprise until the time of his death, which occurred at his home in Canton, on the 4th of February, 1898. He acquired a large amount of valuable real estate. He purchased the American hotel and remodeled the building for business purposes, and was the owner of other property on Market street, in the business center of the city. Fraternally he was identified with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and his religious faith was that of the Catholic church, in which he was reared. He was a communicant of St. John's church, as is also his widow.

of Mr. Miday to Miss Tillie T. Wernet, who was born in this city, being a daughter of John B. Wernet, an honored pioneer of the city, having been a native of Germany, where he was born on the 12th of December, 1820, his parents passing their lives in the fatherland, where they died after he had come to the United States. Mr. Wernet emigrated to America in 1839, when nineteen years of age, being accompanied by his brother, Dr. Joseph Wernet, and landing in the city of Baltimore they thence came at once to Canton. Dr. Wernet died in 1859, having been an able physician and surgeon. John B. Wernet had learned the hatter's trade in his native land, and he followed the same for several years after his arrival in Canton, and then engaged in the grocery business on the site of the present Hotel Yohe, where he remained twelve years, after which he purchased lots on South Market street and there erected a store and dwelling. There he continued in business until 1877, when he sold out and soon atferward took up his residence on his farm, in Plain township, where he lived five years, after which he returned to Canton and passed the remainder of his life in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Miday, his death occurring on the 14th of October, 1896. In 1849, in Canton, Mr. Wernet was united in marriage to Miss Theresa Tyler, a daughter of Joseph Tyler, concerning whom specific mention is made elsewhere in this volume, and she died at the home on South Market street, on the 27th of April, 1865. They became the parents of seven children, namely : Tillie T., widow of the subject; Emma, who is a sister in the Ursuline convent in Youngstown, this state; Louis J., who married Miss Laura Biechele and who resides in Canton; Otto, who married Miss Cecilia Wackerly and who is living on the old homestead farm in Plain township; William, who married Miss Olivia Biechele and who is now a resident of

Mrs. Miday was born in the family home, on the site of the present Yohe Hotel, in Canton, and after pursuing her rudimentary studies in the parochial schools of this city, she entered the Ursuline convent in Cleveland, where she received the best advantages. She has three daughters, namely : Emma T. and Matilde, who remain at the home with their mother, both having completed their education in the Villa Angela convent, in the city of Cleveland; and Cesarea, who is a graduate of the Canton high school, and is now the wife of George W. Belden, of New York city.

GEORGE LOUIS ALBRECHT, one of Massillon's prominent citizens and leading business men, was born in that city on December 24, 1848, and is the son of Frederick and Elizabeth (Daum) Albrecht. Frederick, the father, was a native of Oberhauser, Rhine Falls, Bavaria, where he was born September 18, 1818, and was the son of Nicholos and Elizabeth (Engle) Albrecht, both natives of Bavaria. The children of Nicholos Albrecht and wife were as follows, all born in Bavaria: Adam, George, Nicholos, Charles, Frederick, John and Catherine. Frederick, father of our subject, learned the trade of a shoemaker in his native town. He emigrated to America in 1,838, landing at New Orleans. The following spring, 1839, he came to Massillon, and there worked for two years at his trade as a journej'- man. In 1843 ^^ engaged in business upon his own responsibility, having accumulated sufificient capital to establish a shop and to this he soon afterward added a retail grocery store. With him as a partner for six years in the grocery store was his brother Michael. Purchasing his brother's interest at the expiration of that time, Frederick conducted the business until 1875, when he retired from active life, being succeeded in business by his son, G. Louis, who had been associated with him for some years previously. In 1847 he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Daum, who was born in 1828 in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, and is the daughter of John Daum, who also emigrated from Germany to America in 1841. To this union children were born as follows : G. Louis, the immediate subject; Mary married H. C. Dielhenn, of Massillon; Sophia died aged nineteen years; Mina; Frederick, a merchant of Akron, Ohio, operates five retail grocery houses, a drug store and a wholesale barber supply house; Emma; Edward, of L. L. McLain & Company, of Massillon; John died in infancy. Frederick Albrecht died June 29, 1887, aged sixty-eight years and nine months. His was a useful and most successful life. From a small and insignificant beginning he became one of the substantial men of Massillon, and at his death left his family a handsome fortune. He was a Republican in politics, and a member of the Lutheran church. His widow and six children survive him.

G. Louis Albrecht was educated in the public schools of Massillon. Upon leaving school he entered the grocery store of his father and there learned the business of which he has since made so great a success. In 1869 his father made him his partner in the business, and in 1875, upon the retirement of the old gentleman, the subject became his successor. After conducting this business for a period of ten years he sold it to his brother Frederick, and became one of the organizers of the firm of C. L. McLain, & Company, wholesale grocers, which firm was established at that time by Mr. McLain and Mr. Albrecht as equal partners. Subsequently other gentlemen entered the company, and today it is one of the largest commercial houses in northern Ohio. Mr. Albrecht is president of the South Massillon Coal Company, is a

Mr. Albrecht married Amelia Dielhenn, a daughter of Peter Dielhenn, one of the prominent pioneer business men of Massillon. To this union one daughter has been born, Evelyn, who married Dr. R. B. Diamond, of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Mr. Albrecht is a member of the Episcopal church.

JOHN B. DeWEES, D. D. S. - The De- Wees family, as the name indicates, is unmistakably of pure French extraction, and it is established beyond peradventure that tlie original progenitor in the United States was one of that noble band of Huguenots who fled from France to escape the persecutions incidental to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. This was the great-great-grandfather of Dr. De- Wees and he emigrated first to Holland, as did so many others of his countrymen of the Protestant faith, and thence came to America, where he arrived about the year 1730. He married Miss Margaret Richard, a native of England, and they became numbered among the first settlers in either Montgomery, Berks or Bucks county, Pennsylvania. They became the parents of five sons and one daughter, and from the eldest son, Wilham, the line is traced directly to the subject of this review, of whom he was the great-grandfather. William De- Wees was born in Pennsylvania, prior to the middle of the eighteenth century, as is evident from the fact that about 1770 he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Dehart. They became the parents of one son, William, Jr., grandfather of Dr. DeWees of this sketch. The senior William DeWees died at the early age of thirty-five years, having started for an ocean voyage, for the benefit of his health, but having passed away before embarking, his remains being interred in New Jersey. His son William was but nine years of age at the time.

and the mother subsequently became the wife of John Wilson, and they resided in Amity township, Berks county, Pennsylvania, two children being born of the second marriage.

William DeWees, Jr., grandfather of the subject, was born in Amity township, Berks county, Pennsylvania, on the 9th of December, 1779, and his death occurred in Osnaburg, Stark county, Ohio, on the Sth of March, 1862, at the venerable age of eighty-two years. As a young man he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Martin, who was born in Cocaiico township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on the nth of May, 1779, and who died in Womelsdorf, Berks county, Pennsylvania, on the 13th of July, 1849. Of this marriage three sons were born, Jacob, John and George M. William DeWees served an apprenticeship at the carpenter trade, becoming an excellent artisan, and about seven years after his marriage he located in Reamstown, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and five years later he purchased a farm in the adjoining county of Berks, where he lived five years, eventually losing the property through a long litigation regarding the title to the same. His attorneys were James Buchanan and Judge Hopkins, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He later accumulated other property, becoming the owner of a hotel or tavern at Newmanstown, Lebanon county. He remained in the old Keystone state until after the removal of his son George M. to Stark county, Ohio, eventually joining him here and here passing the residue of his honorable and useful life.

George Martin DeWees, father of the Doctor, was born in Cocaiico township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on the 23d of March, 1809, and was reared in' the old Keystone state, assisting his father in his various operations as a carpenter and securing such advantages in an educational way as were afforded in the common schools of the locality and period. On the ist of January, 1832, at

Reading, Pennsylvania, he was united in marriage to Miss Susan Brown, who was born in Exeter township, Berks county, Pennsylvania, on the 7th of March, 1808, and who died on the 17th of October, 1863, her remains being laid to rest in the cemetery at Osnaburg, Stark county, Ohio. Subsequently Mr. DeWees married Miss Susan Delap, who died on the 2 2d of January, 1875, only a few months prior to the demise of her husband. Of the children of George M. and Susan (Brown) DeWees we enter the following brief record : Archibald, who was born at Sinking Spring, Berks county, Pennsylvania, on the 7th of July, 1832, died there on the 22d of November, 1834; Ambrose, born April i, 1833, in Cumru township, that county, died in Washington, D. C, on the nth of February, 1902, having been twice married ; he served in the United States army in 1856, and was in the three months' service during the Civil war, as a member of the Eleventh Pennsylvania \^olunteer Infantry ; also served in the three years service and was mustered out at the end of the war ; Elizabeth, who was born in Cumru township, Berks county, on the 27th of March, 1835, is the wife of Hiram Wepner and resides at Osnaburg, Stark county, Ohio; Cordelia, who was born in the same place in Pennsylvania, on the 7th of March, 1837, died on August nth of the following year; William B., who was born in the same township, on the 6th of October. 1839, married Miss Lizzie Lape, and they reside in Canton, Ohio, he being a retired merchant; John B., the youngest son, is the immediate subject of this review; Mary, who was born in Womelsdorf, Berks county, Pennsylvania, May i, 1844, died in Osnaburg, Stark county, Ohio, on the 4th of March, 1864. Of the marriage of George M. and Susan (Delap) DeWees two children were born, namely: George D., who was born in Osnaburg. Stark county. Ohio, on the i6th of July, 1866, is now a resident of Chicago, Illinois, and Emma, who was born in Osnaburg,

George Martin DeWees, the father of the subject, was a man of many and varied attainments and fine intellectuality. He was proficient in the carving of wood, in engraving on metals and in painting in both oils and water colors and various other pigments. His specific scholastic discipline was received in the country schools of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, as before noted, but the education of such a man is not time-limited by curriculum of school or college but extends throughout life, - so long as there remains the possibility of leading out the alert mind into new fields of thought and endeavor, thus justifying the generic use of the term education, which means a leading out or drawing forth. In initiating his active business career Mr. DeWees became a clerk in a dry-goods establishment at Sinking Springs, Pennsylvania, and there his first marriage was solemnized. Through the sedentary occupation he was following, his health became impaired, and he found it necessary to seek employment less confining. He accordingly engaged in the huckstering business in the village mentioned. He had visited Stark county and other portions of Ohio prior to his marriage, having done a profitable business in the cutting of profiles or silhouettes, a form of art protraiture which was then in high favor. He finally withdrew from busineps in Sinking Spring and removed to Womelsdorf, Berks county, Pennsylvania, where he turned his attention to work at the gunsmith trade an-* to the manufacturing of shoe lasts, while also kept a stock of shoe findings. This resented but one phase of his endeavors, was a man of marked versatility, as has r been stated. Thus he devoted the m: tion of his time in that place to sign ' / point near Newnianstown, Lebanon county, where he erected a shop and became associated with his father in chair-making, last-making and general wood-turning, in tlie meanwhile continuing to devote much attention to his sign-painting, in which line his services were in almost constant requisition. At the time of the building of the Lebanon Valley Railroad he moved into the town last mentioned, his father having there purchased a hotel property. For several years following he was engaged in conducting this hotel, or tavern, as such caravanseries were commonly known in those days.

In the year .i860, accompanied by his wife and children, Cieorge M. DeWees came from Pennsylvania to Stark county, Ohio, locating in the hamlet of Osnaburg, where he purchased property and engaged in the hotel business, conducting what was known as the L'nion Hotel. Later he opened a general merchandise store, and in this line of enterprise he continued until his death, which occurred very suddenly, on the 27th of September, 1875. He served as postmaster of Osnaburg for several years and also as towr.ship clerk, and no man in the community has ever enjoyed a higher degree of popularity, confidence and esteem. He was the soul of iionor, was ever animated by the deepest sympathy and charity, tolerant in his judgment but hating equivocation and dissimulation witli all the strength of his frank, sincere and upright nature. He was a man who stood "Four square to every wind that blows," and \ in his deatln the community suffered the loss of valuefl citizen and manifested an unmistaka- ever manifested in his own personality. He demanded the approval of conscience for every thought, word and deed, and lived a life which served both as lesson and inspiration. As another has written of him, "He loved his country and he was a ciUzen of sterling character and wortli ; and his death was lamented by all who knew him." Ih politics he gave his allegiance to the Republican party, and his religious faith was that of the Universalist church, but he was not a memljer of any church.

John Brown DeWees, the immediate subject of this review, was born at Womelsdorf, Berks county, Pennsylvania, on the 9th of November, 1841, and his early educational advantages were such as were afforded by a somewhat desultory attendance in the district schools of the old Keystone state, where he was reared to maturity, having been nineteen years of age at the time of the family removal to- Stark county, Ohio. He was a valiant soldier in the war of the Rebellion, and while in camp, under difficulties which may well be imagined, he devoted himself assiduously to study when his military duties permitted. In i860 he came with his parents to Ohio, and in the following year he returned to Newmanstown, Pennsylvania, where he had been promised a clerkship in a store. While there, however, his patriotism and loyalty led him to join a number of his chums and playmates of former days in tendering his services in defense of the Union, whose integrity was in jeopardy through armed rebellion. On the 12th of October, 1861. he was mustered in as a private in Company F, Ninety-third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and of his military career we make a summary as follows: On the 22d of October, 1864, he was promoted to the office of sergeant major; was commissioned adjutant, with the rank of first lieutenant, on the 4th of March, 1865 : and he was mustered out with his regiment, on the 27th of Tune, 1865, having thus served during practically the entire period of the war. The regiment proceeded to the front shortly after its organization was completed, being assigned to the Army of the Potomac. On the 19th of December, 1864, iii the battle of Winchester, Mr. DeWees received a flesh wound in the right leg, but save for this he escaped more than nominal injuries during his term of service, having been in General Sheridan's command at the battle mentioned. He took part in many of the notable engagements of the great internecine conflict, and among the most important may be mentioned the following: Williamsburg, Virginia; Fair Oaks, or Seven Pines; the seven-days flght from Richmond to Harrison's Landing, on the James river ; Antietam ; the battle of the Wilderness, Gettysburg and the fights up to Pittsburg; and Sailor's creek. His regiment was ordered forward to reinforce the troops in the second battle of Bull Rim, but arrived too late to participate in the action at that point. He was always found at the post of duty and did all that was required of him without complaint, while he endured a full share of the hardships which made the great Civil war one of the most memorable in the annals of history.

At the close of the war Dr. DeWees rejoined his parents in Osnaburg, this county, and soon afterward removed to the city of Chicago, Illinois, where he entered into partnership with M. Rice and engaged in the restaurant business at the corner of State and Jackson streets, in what is now the very center of the finest retail district of the great western metropolis. The partnership was dissolved after an interval of six months, and the subject tlien came again to Stark county, and entered the office of Dr. J. S. Keagle, in the Commercial block. Canton, where he devoted his attention to the study and practical work of dentistry for the ensuing year, becoming specially proficient in his profession, which is lx)th a science and a mechanical art. He then established himself in practice in Osnaburg, where he continued business for several years. In the meanwhile he had been tendered a position in the men's furnishing store conducted by his brother William B., in Canton, and in 1868 he became identified with this enterprise, and when his brother sold the business, in 1870, to Henry Meyers, the Doctor remained with the new proprietor, and was thus engaged for several years.

In 1879, with a view to re-entering the practice of his profession and imbued with a desire to attain a technical knowledge which would place him on a parity with the leading representatives of the profession, in which notable advances had been made in methods and systems, the Doctor entered the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, at Philadelphia, where he completed a thorough course of study and practical work and was duly graduated as a member of the class of 1880. He then returned to Canton, opening an office and here he has ever since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession, in which he has attained marked prestige, receiving a representative support. His finely equipped offices are located in the Gibbs block, and here he has the best provisions for the handling of all classes of dental work, both operative and laboratory, while he is known as one of the most skillful and discriminating of workmen and as one fully informed as to the best methods of procedure in the surgical branch of the profession. He is secretary and treasurer of the Canton Dental Association, and is held in the highest esteem by his professional confreres, as well as by all others with whom he is throw* in contact in business or social circles. Frternally the Doctor is a member of McKin Post No. 25, Grand Army of the Repul and of the Independent Order of Odd Fell In politics he gives an uncompromisir legiance to the Republican party, with he has been identified from the time o^ ing his legal majority, his first pr'

In Paris township, this county, in 1871, Dr. DeWees was united in marriage to Miss Lizzie Enirich, who was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, being a daughter of John Emrich, a native of Germany. Of the children of Dr. and Mrs. DeWees v/e incorporate the following data : Howard E., w'ho is engaged in the practice of dentistry at Malvern, Carroll county, Ohio, married Miss Ora McGregor, a daughter of Judge Malcolm McGregor, of Carthage, Missouri; Gertrude E., who is the wife of George W. Howenstine, of Canton ; and Harry E. and Herbert E., who are twins, the former being entry clerk in the o'ffice of the Bucher-Gibbs Company, of Canton, while the latter is a traveling salesman for the Canton Hardware Company.

MICHAEL J. HOLTZ. - Of the neighboring states, Pennsylvania contributed most to the population of Ohio, and in its early settlement Stark county was especially fortunate in securing from the sturdy farming community of the Keystone state the progenitors of some of the best and most progressive families in the county today. Among these the Holtz family is entitled to special mention. The late Michael J. Holtz, of Plain township, the subject of this sketch, was a representative offspring of the family.

1 818. liere she met her future husband, John Holtz, and later they were married. They located on a farm, built a home and reared a family. Mary Holtz died when about sixtynine years of age, while her husband, John Holtz, lived to the age of eighty-four years, his death occurring in 1874.