Columbus City (part 10 of 57)

Mr. Ross was reared and educated in his native town, early displaying those self-reliant attributes which later in life gained him universal praise and the thanks of his superiors. He entered the army, near the beginning of the Civil war, joining the Twelfth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served three years. His experiences can be but touched upon in the limits accorded the present sketch, but mention must be made of several occasions when his firmness and devotion to duty saved his command most necessary stores and a vast amount of money was secured for the government. History tells of the retreat of General Milroy from Martinsburg^ Virginia, the safety of which was, in a great measure, due to the efficiency of Courtland Ross, who was then one of the transportation agents under General Fitch. Mr. Ross had charge of the great iron safe containing all the papers and a large amount of government funds, but when the town was set on fire at their backs Mr. Ross took the responsibility of placing the money belonging to his government, amounting to sixty thousand dollars, upon his person, secreting it, through every kind of peril, for three days, when he had the proud satisfaction of turning it over to the proper authorities intact. He also saved the transportation train, although bridpes were being burned and the enemy surrounded him on every side. The amount saved the government in money, stores, clothing and ammunition, in great part owing to the bravery of Mr. Ross, was computed to be over a million dollars. Upon another occasion, when in desperate straits, his superior, officer ordered him to throw his wagons over Steel Top mountain, but he refused and brought his train safely into camp on the following morning. Upon still another occasion he was cut ofif by the enemy from his command for a period of three days, but managed to protect his stores until he could get into the lines again. This was a large train, the best ever turned over to the post quartermaster, its forty wagons and ninety horses all being safe. Mr. koss held the position of transportation master for General Fitch for two years, and clippings from the newspapers of the times tell of the high esteem in which he was held in the service.

After his return from the army Mr. Ross engaged in contracting for the Little Maumee railroad, continuing with that corporation for six years, his residence being in Lebanon; but in 1870 he removed to Columbus and took charge of the Columbus Transfer Company, which position he held for twelve years, being one of the stockholders of the company. Selling his interest there, he engaged in the dairy business for five years, making a specialty of the manufacture of butter, and now has the contract for the furnishing of milk to the Institution for the Feeble Minded in this city. Mr. Ross has always been an active and progressive man, interested in many private and public lines. He managed an omnibus line at one time in Lebanon, Ohio, and was the contractor for the Lebanon & Freeport pike road.

The first marriage of Mr. Ross took place in 1865, to Miss Jane Anderson, resulting in the birth of one son, Fenton, now in the auditor's office of the Hocking Valley railroad, of which he was at one time the paymaster. The second marriage of Mr. Ross, took place in 1885, to Miss Magdalene Smith, a native of Cardington, Morrow county, Ohio. Mr. Ross is a Drominent Republican and is often called to consult in the deliberations of the party. He is one of the men who have built up a great part of the business of this city and he is well known and most highly regarded.

America

The Order of LTnited Commercial Travelers of America was incorporated under the law^s of the state of Ohio on January 16, 1888. by John C. Fenimore. Levi C. Pease. S. H. Strayer. W. E. Carpenter, John Dickey, C. S. Ammel, F. A. Sells and Charles B. Flagg, well known commercial travelersi and residents of Columbus. This order is the only one of its kind, being a secret, fraternal, beneficial order, exclusively for commercial travelers, with the following as its objects and purposes :

2d, To give all moral and material aid in its power to its members and those dependent upon them. Also, to assist the widows and (orphans of deceased members.

5th, To elevate the moral and social standing of its members. The tenets of the order are unity, charity and temperance. Its colors are blue, white and gold. The social and fraternal features are what each individual council makes them.

Weekly indemnity (not exceeding 52 wrecks) .... 25. The order has paid from its indemnity fund over four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and from its widows' and orphans' fund, which is a fund set a?ide for the benefit of the widows and orphans of deceased members, they have paid out over twenty-five thousand dollars.

The order had, July i, 1901, a membership of over sixteen thousand; one hundred and eighty-five subordinate councils in the different states ; seventeen grand councils, and the supreme council, composed of representatives from the several grand councils, with headquarters at Columbus, Ohio.

William B. Woodbury

None of the younger men of Columbus have attained equal prominence with William B. Woodbury in political circles, as he now occupies the position of secretary of the Republican executive committee, - an honor which came to him unsolicited but which is justly merited, for few men, even of greater years, have cjualifications which would so well fit them for the responsible and onerous duties', connected with the office. Although he has but just entered upon manhood Air. Woodbury has a very wide acquaintance in Columbus and throughout Franklin county.

In the schools of the capital city Mr. Woodbury acquired his early education, supplemented by a course in the central high school, of which he is a graduate, and by study in the Ohio State University. From the time ho entered upon his busines's career after leaving college until his appointment to his present position, he has been connected with newspaper work, a representative of the Citizen, and one whose efforts have contributed in no small measure to the success of that journal. His newsipaper work has thrown him in contact with a large number of people whose friendship he has unconsciously won by the genial disposition and thorough good nature which have at all times characterized him. In association with his newspaper work and as the result of his loyal American citizenship he became deeply interested in the political questions of the time and took his position in the ranks of the Republican party. To one of his eneregtic nature it would be impossible to be idle in any relation or position in which he might be placed; and therefore he became an earnest worker for his party, doing effective service for Governor Nash, who is one of his neighbors. When the time came to choose a secretary for the Republican executive committee, friends of Mr. Woodbury, unknown to him, spoke of his fitness^ and gave to him their support. It was th-e consensus of opinion, although he is so young, that there was no one available who knew so many of the ward workers throughout the city and countv, or was better qualified for the position. It come to him unsought, but on the ist of August, when headquarters were opened, he took up his duties in a manner that showed he was equal to the situation. He displayed excellent generalship in managing the campaign and succeeded in carrying Franklin county by over thirty-seven hundred votes, - the greatest majority ever given in the history of that county, electing a Republican congressman in a Democratic district. Mr. Woodbury is! now connected with the Everett-Moore Syndicate; of Cleveland in the telephone branch of that great organization.

Frederick Krumm

The late Frederick Krumm was born August 14, 1840, and died July 30, 1899, at his residence, 11 17 East Broad street, Columbus, Ohio, after an illness of three days. He left to his family the valuable legacy of a good name won as a soldier, a business man, a public official and a citizen. He was born in Columbus and was' there carefully educated in all useful branches under the direction of his father. The grandfather of our subject, J. Martin Krumm, was born September 24, 1784, and died at Columbus on the 4th of February, 1864. He was chief magistrate of Bronnweiler, Wurtemberg, Germany, and was a capable schoolmaster there until he came to America, and after locating at Columbus was a pubHc-spirited citizen, taking part in all efforts to advance the city materially and socially.

Martin Krumm, the father of our subject, was born April 5, 181 2, aud died August 4. 1869, in Columbus. He came to America in 1832, and at Columbus established a mafiufactory of steel and brass machinery, and iron fences, which became known as one of the largest and most important factories of the city. He became prominent in musical circles and w^as the organizer, in 1848, of the Maennerchor, which was for years the leading musical society of the city, artistically and socially, and its golden anniversary was celebrated in October, 1898. He married Fredericka Fichtner, who was born in Gotten weiler, Wurtemberg, June 27, 1820, a daughter of Johann and his wife, Maria Kurtz. Mrs. Krumm, whose father lived and died in Germany, is now living in Columbus, in her eightieth year, well and active. Like her husband, she was musical, and they were for several years members of the choir of the St. Paul's German Evangelical Lutheran church, at the corner of High and Mound streets, Columbus. The subject of this sketch was their eldest child, the others being: Martin, who succeeded his father in the manufacture of machinery and iron fences ; Alexander \V. and Albert, well known lawyers of Columbus ; Daniel, who is associated with Martin in his manufacturing enterprise, and is also a maker of violins; Flora, who married Dr. A. M. Blaile, of Columbus, professor of physiology in the Ohio State University; and Louise A., of Columbus.

Frederick Krumm was graduated in the Columbus high school and was employed in his father's office until, in 1861, he enlisted in the Thirty-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under General C. C. Walcott, which on the second call for troopsi by President Lincoln went to the front and served gallantly for two years, during most of which time Mr. Krumm was lieutenant and captain of Company D. He bears the scar of a slight wound on the arm as a reminder of the days when he bore arms in defense of the Union. After leaving the army he engaged in dry-goods merchandise in Columbus. In 1866 he married Miss Cornelia Zettler, of Columbus, and some ten years later removed to Shawnee, Ohio, where he was a mine operator and general merchant until 1880, suffering the vicissitudes of business in those years, added to which was the total destruction of a plant owned by him by fire. Thus crippled financially, he returned to Columbus and for seven years was superintendent of public school buildings and was for three terms a member of the school board. Eventually he became a member of the firm of Dauben, Krumm & Riebel, architects, and had personal charge of the original construction of the Great Southern hotel. During the closing years of his life he was in the queensware trade.

He was always active, energetic and ambitious, faithful in all the affairs of life, and courteous, liberal and charitable to an uncommon degree. He was a leader in social circles and like all his family prominent in musical organizations, both vocal and instrumental. Possessing a baritone voice of remarkable strength and purity, which was often referred to by critics as the equal of any in America, he held high rank as a singer, was a leader in several choral organizations and often appeared in concert for social and charitable institutions, toward the success of which he was always a willing contributor in that way. He was a member of several of the earlier orchestras organized at Columbus, was for forty years a member of the Maennerchor, was a charter member of the Orpheus Club, was a member of the Arion Musical Society, was a leading spirit in the Krumm-Lippert quartette and was for many years a member of the quartette of the First Congregational church.

Always a close student of all public and economic questions, he was unusually well informed concerning every political problem, and having once made up his mind on any question of public iDolicy he was outspoken and unchangeable in his opinion concerning it. This strict aldherence to what he thought ^-as right concerning the money riuestion led him into the Dem- ocratic ranks, and he was assistant postmaster under President Cleveland, and was prominent in political campaigns as a leader of Democratic glee clubs and was a charter member of the Gold and Silver League of Columbus. He was a member of the board of trustees of the Ohio State Savings and Loan Associations from its organization until his death.

Mrs. Krumm is a daughter of the late John Zettler, who was a prominent merchant of Columbus for many years. He was born in Monsheim, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, in December, 1817, came to Columbus with his parents in 1837, and died there September 17, 1892, aged nearly seventyfive years. During the war he was a contractor of many kinds of supplies for the Federal army. His parents were Jacob and Cornelia (Spindler) Zettler, and his father was a prominent wine merchant and mill owner of his native land, but met with reverses about 1835-36 and sought to rebuild his fortune in America. Mrs. Krumm's mother was Mary A. Kientz, born May 31, 1816, at Shertzheim, Baden, Germany, and died August 13, 1893, in Columbus, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Krumm had children as follows : Cornelia, at home; Frederick C, who is the general agent of the /Etna Life Lisurance Company at Columbus; John Zettler, teller of the Hayden-Clinton Bank of Columbus; Lenora, Stella L and Mary D., all members of their mother's household; and Robert, who died in infancy.

George K. Nash

Among the most prominent and influential citizens of Columbus is numbered George Kilbon Nash. The census enumeration gives the population of a town or city as so many hundreds or thousands, or perchance millions, but the majority of the residents who form this aggregate are little known. Few indeed are they who command public attention and who are leaders of public thought and movement; but with this class is numbered George K. Nash. Rising above the heads of the mass are many men of sterling worth and value, who by sheer perseverance and pluck have conquered fortune, and by their own unaided efforts have risen from the ranks of commonplace to eminence and positions of respect and trust; but the brilliant qualities of mind and brain which mark the great la\yyer are to a certain extent Godgiven. It is to his own perseverance .and .indomitable energy that Mr. Nash owes his success in life, as well as to his keen and brilliant mind. He is of a sanguine temperament, large-hearted and a genial and a polished gentleman. As a lawyer he is noted for his integrity; he prides himself upon never urging a client into a suit for the sake of fees, and he will not prosecute a case unless he has every reason to believe he will win it ; but he claims the right to defend any cause in any court. ' _

Mr. Nash is numbered among Ohio's native sons, his birth having occurred in Medina county, on the 4th of August, 1842. He is a representative of old New England families, his parents having been natives of Massachusetts, whence they emigrated westward at an early period in the develop- ment of Ohio and cast in their lot with its pioneer settlers. To the public schools Mr. Nash is indebted for the early educational privileges which he received. At the age of twenty years he became a student ni Oberlin College, where he pursued a regular course ujp to the sophomore year. His life prior to that time had been quietly passed in the work of the farm and in the duties of the schoolroom, but now a period of excitement reigned in the land, for certain states of the southi attempted to overthrow the Union, and loyal men from the workshops, from the stores, from the offices and the fields gathered in defense of the old flag and the cause it represented. As a private Mr. Nash "donned the blue" with the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment of Ohio National Guards and joined the army. His term of service ended about the close of the war and he returned to the quiet pursuits of civil life.

A professional career attracted him, and with a desire to engage in the practice of law he took up the study of the fundamental principles of jurisprudence in the office and under the direction of Judge R. B. Warden. In Columbus, in 1867, he successfully passed the examination necessary for admission to the bar and immediately thereafter entered upon practice in the courts of the district. He practiced for three years and was then called to public office, being elected prosecuting attorney of Franklin county, in the year 1870, at which time he overcame the usual Democratic majority of about three thousand, - a fact which indicated his personal popularity and the confidence reposed in his legal ability. His able service was indicated by reelection in 1872, and he retired from the office, as he had entered it, wath the good will, confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens. For a number of years thereafter he gave his attention to the private practice of law, enjoying a distinctly representative clientage. He was retained as counsel either for the defense or prosecution in almost every important case tried in the courts of his district. His is a natural discrimination as to legal ethics, and he is so thoroughly well read in the minutic-e of the law that he is able to base his arguments upon thorough knowledge of and familiarity with precedents, and to present a case upon its merits, never failing to recognize the main point at issue, and never neglecting to give a thorough preparation. His pleas have been characterized by a terse and decisive logic and a lucid presentation rather than by flights of oratory, and his power is the greater before court or jury from the fact that it is recognized that his aim is ever to secure justice and not to enshroud the cause in a sentimental garb or illusion which will thwart the principles of right and equity involved.

The offices he has held have ever been in the line of his profession, either as a lawmaker or as one who is in charge of ihe execution of the laws. In 1876 he was the Republican nominee for congress, and in 1877 for attorney general; but the entire ticket met defeat. Two years later, however, he was again nominated to the latter office by the Republican state convention on the first ballot and by popular vote he was chosen for the office in October of that year. So faithfully and acceptably did he discharge the important duties of his position that he was re-elected, receiving a very large majority over his opponent, Frank C. Dohsrty. one of the strongest men on the Democratic ticket. A contemporary said of him: "Fearless in the discharge of his duties, fully sustaining the dignity of the law and of the state, he was influenced by neither fear nor favor. He is one of those men who feel that when a position is entrusted to them; when a high honor is placed in their hand's ; when the destinies of the state are committed to their care, that there is but one line to follow, and that is the line of strict and conscientious duty."

In 1883 Mr. Nash was appointed a member of the supreme-court commission of Ohio, and since his retirement from that office he has engaged in the private practice of law, with ever increasing success. Many are the important litigated cases which have been entrusted to his care. He was counsel on the case w'hich arose concerning the railway war between Vanderbilt, of the New York Central, and Jewett, the president of the Erie line. The litigation arose concerning the Bee line, whose consolidation by Vanderbilt with the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton road was fought by Judge Nash, who was successful in preventing this. He was also one of the counsel in the notable Franklin tally-sheet forgery cases.

Mr. Nash has always been a stalwart Republican. A careful consideration of the important questions wdiich affect the weal or woe of the nation has led him to give an unfaltering support to the principles promulgated by the grand old party. His influence and labors have contributed to its growth and success. In 1880 he was the chairman of the Republican state executive committee, and to his splendid managerial ability the success of the party in that year securing over thirty-four thousand majority votes for James A. Garfield is due. In the state convention of 1895 he received two hundred and seventy-nine out of eight hundred and seventeen votes in the nomination for governor, and the fact that these votes came from sixty of the eightyeight counties of the state indicates his wide popularity.

While undoubtedly he is not without that honorable ambition which is so powerful and useful as an incentive to activity in public affairs, he regards the pursuits of private life as being in themselves abundantly w'orthy of his best efforts. He is a noble character, - one that subordinates personal ambition to public good and seeks rather the benefit of others than the aggrandizement of self. His is a conspicuously successful career. Endow^ed by nature with high intellectual qualities, to which are added the discipline and embellishments of culture, his is a most attractive personality. Well versed in the learning of his profession, and with a deep knowledge of human nature and of the springs of human conduct, with great shrewdness and sagacity and extraordinary tact, he is, in the courts, an advocate of great power and influence. Both judges and juries always hear him with attention andi deep interest.

Elijah Marion

Marion is a family name connected with the patriotic history of our country, and when it is stated that an early settler in any locality came from jMassachusetts it is at once understood that he was a man of progress' and enterprise, who came to subdue, to civilize and to enlighten, and whose influence was always an active force for good. Such a citizen was Elijah Marion, of Marion township, Franklin county, Ohio, who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, April 10, 1814, and died in Marion township on the nth of December,' 1899, aged eighty-five years. His father, also named Elijah, was a native of Boston, where he w^as reared and married Lydia Stone, and in 18 16 he came to Franklin county, Ohio, when his son Elijah was about two and a half years old, bringing with him hia wife and family. They came in a covered wagon, with two yoke of oxen and a team of horses in front. Locating in Marion township, just south of Columbus, he erected a log cabin and began to clear and improve a farm, on which he passed a long and useful life. He had two sons and two daughters, - Calvin, Lucy, Lydia and Elijah.

Elijah ]\Lirion, who was the youngest of his father's' family, nad no recollections antedating the settlement of the family in Marion township, where he attended school in a log schoolhouse and helped to clear the land and put it under the plow. He was married on the i8th O'f May, 1842, and began housekeeping on the home place. He was successful in life, prominent as a Whig and later as' a Republican, and lived and died safe in the good opinion of his fellow townsmen, who knew him as a helpful and influential citizen. Mrs. Adaline (Livingston) Marion, his widow% was born August 4. 1820, within the present limits of Marion township, a daughter of Judge Eidward Livingston, a native of the state of New York. He came unmarried to Franklin county in 1804. at the age of twenty-one years, and settled at Columbus', where he became a prominent man, attaining success at the bar and occupying the bench at the court of common pleas. On the 17th of March. 1807, he married Martha Nelson, of Marion township, wdio was born in Pennsylvania and came to Franklin county at the age of fifteen years. Mr. Livingston lived to be sixty years old, and his wife lived to the age of seventy. They had eight children, all of whom grew to manhood and womanhood and three are now living. Mrs. Marion was the sixth child and fourth daughter in order of birth and was reared in Marion township, having a vivid recollection of the primitive sichools of pioneer days.

Elijah and Adaline (Livingston) Marion became the parents of nine children. Caroline W. was the first born of the family. Clinton L. was born August 11, 1845, ^^'^s reared on the farm on wdiich he now lives and has followed agricultural pursuits as a life occupation. He is a Republican in iwlitics and a man of influence in his township. Edward L. married Alice IMcElhinny and lives in Marion township. Lucy is the wife of Levi Pease, of Thompsonville. Connecticut, but now a resident of Columbus. Ohio. Laura is deceased. Martha is the widow of Frank J. Reinhard and lives at Fifth and Mound streets. Columbus. Mr. Reinhard was countv auditor for a number of years. Adaline is still a member of her mother's household. Louis C. married Emma Meeker, and their residence is on the spot where his grandfather. Elijah Marion, built his primitive log cabin. Clara Alice is the wife of Rev. Simon P. Long, a minister of the Lutheran church and a resident of Columbus. Mrs. Marion has fourteen grandchildren, thirteen of whom were born in Franklin county, Ohio. The other, Edward L. Pease, was born at Hartford, Connecticut, and is a successful lawyer of Columbus. Her grandfather, James Livingston, was! a general in the patriot army in the Revolutionary war, and her grandfather, David Nelson, served in the cause of the colonies as a private, and thus it appears that she is descended from Revolutionary stock in both the paternal and maternal lines.

William C. Goldsmith, who is identified with the farming interests of Blendon township, which is the place of his nativity, was born on the 6th of September, 1863, his parents being John and Sarah J. (Clapham) Goldsmith. They had but two children, the elder being Clara, now the wife of John F. Holcomb, a farmer of Blendon township. The father was born in Franklin township, Franklin county, October 6, 1837, and was only seven years of age when his parents died. He then found a home with a Mr. Miller, in Jackson township, with whom he remained until his nineteenth year, when he went to Central College and found employment with Professor Washburn, then principal of the institution. There he remained for about two years, attending college during the scholastic year. On the expiration of that period he entered the employ of Joseph Clapham, and on the 26th of January, i860, was united in marriage to one of his employer's daughters. He next purchased a farm of one hundred and seven acres! in Blendon township, on the east side of the Big Walnut. There he resided up to the time of his enlistment in the Civil war. He joined the one-hundred-day men, becoming a member of Company C, One Hundred and Thirty-third' Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in 1864. During his service he contracted a severe illness, which terminated his life on the i8th of July of that year, his death occurring on the hospital boat Matilda, near Bermuda Hundred, on the James river. He was' reared a Democrat, but the political issues of the country centering about the war caused him to ally himself with the Republican party, which strongly advocated the Union.

His wife was born July 25, 1834, upon the farm where our subject now resides, and there her death occurred October 29, 1894. She was a daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Hudson) Clapham. Her father was born in Walton, Yorksihire, England, on Christmas day of 1793 and in 1818, soon after his marriage, he crossed the Atlantic to the new world, sailing from Hull, England, and landing at Philadelphia after a voyage of eight weeks. He at once went to Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in teaming and farming through a period of five years. He then came to Ohio, settling in Blendon township, Franklin county, in October, 1823. upon a farm then owned by John Snow, of Worthington. but now known as the Schrock farm. Seven years afterward he purchased a tract of one hundred acres on Big W'alnut creek one mile north of the present site of Central College. It is the place upon 'which our subject now resides, and there the grandparents made their home until called to their final rest, the former dying September 4, 1874, while the latter passed away January 22, 1873, at the age of seventy-live years and twenty-three days. The grandfather had almost completed his eighty-hrst year They were held in high regard for their upright lives, which were in harmony with their professions as members of the Presbyterian church. Although Mr. Clapham did not take an active part in politics, he was a man firm m his beliefs and before the war was an anti-slavery Whig, while later he became a member of the Republican party. During several terms he served his fellow townsmen asi township trustee and as justice of the peace, discharging his duties in a firm and efficient manner. In his family were nine children, but only one is now living, Joseph, who resides in Delaware county, in his eighty-fifth year. The daughter, Mrs. Goldsmith, was for many years a member of the Presbyterian church at Central College, and up to the time of her death took a prominent part in its work, being especially active in her efiforts to promote missionary interests. She held membership in the James- Price Woman's Relief Corps, of Westerville, and was a loving and devoted mother, a considerate neighbor and was ever ready to lend a helping hand to those in need of substantial aid. Her sympathy was broad, her charity deep, and she always had a kind word for those with whom she came in contact. Although her funeral was held on an inclement day, it was one of the largest attended of any ever held in this portion of the county for many years, her very extensive circle of acquaintances gathering to pay their last tribute of respect and love to one whom they had long known and honored. .

William C. Goldsmith, whose name introduces thisi record, spent his boyhood days in the usual manner of farmer lads. He pursued his elementary education in the common schools and later entered Central College Academy. After his father's death the mother returned to her girlhood home, so that our subject was reared on the farm of his grandfather Clapham. He died when our subject was eleven years of age. The work of the farm early devolved upon his young shoulders, and at the age of sixteen he had the entire management of the place. After the death of his mother the land was inherited by himself and his sister, and in March, 1898, j\Ir. Goldsmith purchased his sister's share in the farm and is now sole owner. He continues its cultivation along progressive lines, and everything about the place is neat and thrifty in appearance, indicating his careful supervision.

W. C. Goldsmith was married to Miss Nellie R. Purcell, of Columbus, Ohio, December 24, 1900. In politics he is a stanch Republican, unswerving in his advocacv of the principles of the party, and he is now serving as trustee of the township. He holds membership in Rainbow Lodge, No. 327, I. O. O. F., of Westerville, and was also a member of Blendon Grange, No. 708, of the Patrons of Husbandrv. Mr. Goldsmith is- known as a worthy repre- sentative of an early family of the county, and the qualities which have made him a successful business man have been supplemented by those characteristics which command respect in every land and clime.

Among those who have spent their entire lives in the city of Columbus is J. P. Lind, who has risen to a leading position in industrial circles, being the chief manager of the Columbus Table Company. He was born in the city which is still his home in August, i860, and is a son of Christian and Margaret Lind, who were among the early settlers of Columbus. In the city schools he acquired his education and on putting aside his text-books he entered the employ of the M. C. Lilley Company, clerking in different departments for that corporation for sixteen years. Long continued service is an unmistakable indication of fidelity to duty, and it is therefore a self-evident fact that Mr. Lind was most faithful in his work and enjoyed the unqualified confidence of his employers. As the years passed he was advanced from one position to another with added responsibility and increased pay, and in 1897 he was offered and accepted the position of general manager of the Columbus Table Company, which manufactures tables of all sizes, kinds and materials, confining the output exclusively to this department of the furniture trade. The products of the factory are shipped to the various states of the Union. The machinery employed is of the latest design ; steam power is used in the operation of the factory ; and employment is furnished to fifty men, the business being under the immediate supervision of Mr. Lind.

In 1880 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Lind and Miss Margaret Burney, of Columbus. He is a member of the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, and with the affairs of the city he is identified as a member of the school board, having served for the past sixteen years in that department of the municipal government, representing the sixth ward. He is a publicspirited and progressive citizen, giving his aid and co-operation to all measures and movements calculated to prove of public benefit.

Peter Swickard

Peter Swickard, a highly esteemed resident of Plain township, was born on the loth of November. 1838. in the township which is yet his home, his parents being John and Elizabeth (Baughman) Swickard. The father, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, was born August 25, 1806, and was a son of Daniel Swickard, who became one of the first settlers of Jefferson township, Franklin county. Tradition savs that he- was a native of Germany. On coming to Ohio, about 1822, he located on Black Lick, in Jefferson township, where he remained for a number of years and then removed with his family to Plain township, where he purchased a farm, upon which he made his home until his death. In Pennsylvania he was a prominent distillervman and agriculturist. When his Hfe's labors were ended in accordance with a request which he had made, his remauis were interred at the old family homestead, but in later years 'his children had his body removed to the cemetery in New Albany. He was an extremely conscientious man. oi hiffh principles and sterling wort^ esteemed by all who knew him.

John Swickard, the father of our subject, spent his youth as an inmate of the parental home and acquired such education as was afforded by the common schools of that time. In later years, through broad reading and observation and by the aid of a retentive memory, be became a well intormed man \fter his marriage he purchased a portion of the old homestead and beo-an farming. As the years passed he added to his landed possessions until he\-as the owner of between five and six hundred acres of land, constituting a valuable and very desirable property. An ardent member of the United Brethren church for more than fifty years, he took an active interest in everythino- pertaining to the promotion of Christianity He was the founder ot Mt Pleasant church, and during his life time was one of its most liberal supporters At the time of the division in the church he was one of the active leaders of the radical side, and when the opposition became stronger and the church property was sold. Mr. Swickard refused to sell the house of worship during his life time. After his death the church was abandoned and a new edifice was erected in New Albany, which was a more central location. I^or many vears Mr. Swickard was a local preacher in the church and labored untiringly and earnestly to promote the cause of the Master among his fellow men In early life he was a Republican, but in his closing years he was a . stalwart advocate of the Prohibition party. His death occurred September 10 1898 and thereby the community lost one of its valued citizens, tor he was a man of strong purpose and of unquestioned fidelity to all that is- good, true and just. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Baughman. was born in Plain township, Franklin county, September 6, 1804, and tradition says that she was the first white child whose birth occurred in that locality. Her parents were Adam and Precilla (Huffman) Baughman, both of whom were of German lineage and were the first white settlers in Plain township, having emigrated from Pennsylvania to Franklin county d^n"^ the davs when Indians were still numerous in this part of the state Both the grandparents were laid to rest on the Baughman farm. Mrs. Swickard passed away January 2. 1882. By her marriage she had seven children, of whom six are vet living, namelv : Eliza, widow of Levi Dagne, of New Albany ; Frederick. Levi and Noah, all of Plain township; Peter, of this review; and John W'., who is living on the old homestead.

Peter Swickard passed his youth in the usual routine of farm work and plav. In the common 'schools he was educated, and on the 20th of November. i860, he was united in marriage to :\Iiss Emma E. Smith, a native of Plain township, Iborn on the farm where she now resides. Her parents, Abraham P. and Millie (Kanouse) Smith, came to Franklin countv. Ohio, from New Jersev, in 1828. After their marriage ^Ir. and Mrs. Swickard located upon a farm of one hundred and eighty acres in Plain township, which was then the property of his father, and there they resided for five years, his attention being given to the cuhivation and development of the fields. On the expiration of that period he removed to his present home, having purchased one hundred and five acres from his father-in-law. Upon this place he has since resided, and about 1895 he added to his landed possessions by purchasing a farm of ninety-six acres adjoining his home place on the west. He is a very progressive and energetic agriculturist, and everything about his farm is neat and thrifty in appearance. He has good buildings, the latest improved machinery, high grades of stock and well developed fields, and his property is valuable and attractive in appearance.

The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Swickard has been blessed with three children: Laura E., now the wife of Henry Mahr, a farmer of Plain township;'Charles O., who resides upon the land which his father last purchased; and Wella S., who is living on the farm with his brother Charles^ the two sons operating the tract of land. Mr. Swickard exercises his right of franchise in support of Republican principles and is a recognized leader of his party in this locality. He served for six years as township assessor and for the same period has filled the of^ce of township trustee, while for a quarter of a century he has been a member of the school board and through threefourths of that time has been its chairman. Although the township is largely Democratic he has always been elected by flattering majorities, a fact which indicates his personal popularity as well as the confidence and trust reposed in him. He does not belong to any church, but contributes liberally to the support of religion. For many years he was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, but is not now connected with the organization. His entire life has been passed in Franklin county, so that his history is familiar to friends and neighbors. It is one worthy of respect and of emulation, and in this volume Mr. Swickard well deserves creditable and honorable mention.

Aioses T. Dickey

For over half a century the subject of this review was prominently identified with the industrial and agricultural interests of Franklin county, and was one of Blendon township's most highly esteemed citizens. He was born in Washington county. New York, on the i/th of July, 1823, a son of Joseph and Lovina (Taggart) Dickey, also natives of that county, while the paternal grandfather was a native of the north of Ireland and the founder of his branch of the family in the new world. In 1838 Joseph Dickey, his wife, and four children, James, Moses, Joseph and Albert, came to Franklin county, Ohio, by way of the Erie canal and the lake to Cleveland and thence by canal to near their destination. As a location he selected a little hamlet called Portersburg, in honor of a family that had previously located there, whose acquaintance had been made on the way to Ohio. It was near Amalthea, afterward widely known as Central College, from the institution founded there by Timothy Lee. There Joseph Dickey opened a shop and worked at his trade of blacksmithing until his death, which occurred in 1845. Because of his intelHgence and interest in the questions of the day his shop was often the meeting place of the leading citizens of the township, who discussed with ardor the great questions of politics and religion then agitating the public mind. In these discussions Mr. Dickey always took an active part. He was a good mechanic, and his skill and industry enabled him to make a good living for his family. His wife survived him and died in 1854. After coming to this county the family circle was increased by the birth of another son, Courtland. The eldest son, James, married Jeanette Parks, who died within a year. He subsequently married her sister, Sylvia, and settled in Xenia, becoming connected with the Miami Powder Company. His death occurred in 1888. Joseph Dickey was a school teacher in early life, teaching in Franklin and Pickaway counties, Ohio, and also for one year in the state of Iowa, while visiting friends, but he was principally engaged in the stock business with our subject. He never married and now resides on his brother's old homestead. Albert succeeded Moses in the blacksmith business, which he discontinued after securing a comfortable competence, and is now engaged in farming in Blendon township. Courtland also became connected with the Miami Powder Company, of Xenia, through the influence of his elder brother, and was general agent and secretary of the company for several years before his death. He died suddenly in 1890, at the age of fifty-six.

Moses T. Dickey was fifteen years of age when the family took up their residence in the wilds of Franklin county. His education was obtained in the public schools, and when of proper age he began learning the blacksmith's trade in his father's shop, afterward establishing himself in business at the same place. On the 2d of November, 1847, ^^ married Miss Alma, a daughter of Menzas and Lucy (Phelps) Gillespie, a pioneer family of this county. By this union were born six children, five of whom are living, namely : Clarence W., a civil engineer in Washington, D. C. ; Alice, the wife of John A. McCoy, of Emporia, Kansas; Alma G., a resident of this county; Charles, deceased; Clayton L., who is engaged in school work; and Marcus C, who is engaged in journalistic work, being now connected with the Columbus Citizen.

For about ten years after his marriage ]\Ir. Dickey continued to work at his trade, and then, selling the business to his brother Albert, he purchased a farm in the same community and devoted the remainder of his life to agricultural pursuits. He and his brother Joseph became well known as dealers in stock, operating in partnership very successfully and accumulating considerable property.

Mr. Dickey was a stanch Republican and an earnest champion of the principles of his party, exerting quite an influence in local political affairs. For a number of years he served as trustee of Blendon township. He was a man of exceptionally good mind, was a great reader and very observant of passing events, keeping well informed on the questions and issues of the day. He thought and read a great deal along religious lines in his later years, and while not a member of any church he always held the tenets of Christianity in high regard. Always interested in elevating the standard of living, he contributed liberally to any cause for the betterment of those around him. Of strong patriotic convictions, he gave liberally of his means toward' carrying on the Civil war and was an ardent admirer of President Lincoln. His wife, to whom he was greatly attached, was in many respects a very superior woman. Her death occurred February 7, 1893, at the age of sixty-six. Having been for a number of years in feeble health, this great blow no doubt hastened his death, which occurred March 12. 1898, in his seventy-fifth year.

Sbion Peter Ewing

During recent years the part taken by skillful workmen in public affairs is an important one and organized labor is a factor to be reckoned with by those who seek favors of the people. The men who devote themselves to strengthening organized labor are as patriotic as the men who struggle for human advancement in any other way and their motives are no longer misunderstood or cjuestioned by fair-minded people. The name above will be recognized by citizens of Columbus, Ohio, as that of one who has given the best years of his life to the cause of organized labor and men high in business and official circles are ready to testify to his singleness of purpose and the efficiency of his work.

Simon Peter Ewing was born in Licking county, Ohio, in 1858. came to Columbus in 1880 and engaged in building as a carpenter. He is a charter member of Carpenters' Union, No. 61, which was organized in 1884 with ten members and now has more than seven hundred members in the city of Columbus alone, and has filled all offices in the local union. He has been called to different offices in the Trades and Labor Assembly of Columbus and has been its president three terms, and he is now and has been for the last ten years treasurer of the Ohio Federation of Labor. He has been representative at three national conventions of Carpenters and Joiners of America and has represented the Trades and Labor Assembly in convention at every session since its organization. In September, 1900, he was appointed by Governor Nash superintendent of the free employment bureau at Columbus, partially through the influence of Commissioner of Labor Rotchford. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has filled all offices in Robert Curtis Lodge, No. 762, is a member of Mentor Lodge, No. 642, Knights of Pythias, and has passed all chairs in Court Champion. No. 1492, Independent Order of Foresters, and is past high ranger of that order, an office to which he was chosen by election and in which he served two years.

Mr. Ewing married Miss Sadie Lydy, daughter of Horace E. Lydy, a prominent and influential citizen of Fairfield county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Ewing have five children, named as follows in the order of their birth : Harry Eastman, Alice Lydy. Spencer, Ivan Lewis and Rachel Elizabeth.

In politics Mr. Ewing is a Republican, active in his labor for his party and its principles and fully in accord with the policy of its leaders and the present administration of national affairs. In many ways and at all times he has demonstrated his right to be called a progressive and public-spirited citizen, for there has been in his time, no measure promising good to his fellow citizens to which he has not given moral and material aid. His w^ork and achievements in behalf of organized labor have been so' noteworthy as to attract the, attention of leading citizens, irrespective of political affiliation, and to win the commendation of all who have became cognizant of them.

Thomas E. Edwards

Thomas E. Edwards, a representative of the train service on the Pennsylvania Railroad, w^as born September 2^, 1849, "^ Birmingham, England, and is now serving in the capacity of railway conductor. His father, Thomas E. Edwards, was born in Wales, in 1810, and with his family came to this country in 1849, during the early infancy of his son and namesake. The family located in Dayton, Ohio, where the father died in 1852, but the mother still survives and is a resident of Pennsylvania. William John Edwards, the brother of our subject, is a baggage master on the Pennsylvania road, running betw'een Pittsburg and Wheeling. He is now married and makes his home in Sheridan, Pennsylvania. One sister, Ada, now Mrs. Robert Henry, resides on Neil street, Columbus, and has four daughters: Cornelia. Anna, Madge and Edith, all of w-hom are wuth their parents. Sarah, widow of George Taylor, resides in Zanesville, Ohio, and has three daughters and one son : Belle, Mary, Muda and George. After the death of Thomas Edwards, Sr., the family removed to Zanesville, Ohio, and in 1869 became residents of St. Paul. Minnesota. The mother was again married, uniting with James Mail, and they had one daughter, Anna, and two sons, H. W. and W. J., who are still in Pennsylvania.

He whose name begins this record learned the trade of iron molding in Zanesville and remained there for six months after the removal of the family to the west. He then w-ent to Newark, Ohio, where he remained for a year and next proceeded to Dennison, hoping to secure work at his trade in that place, but as there w^ere no foundries there, and as his financial circumstances made it necessary for him to secure immediate employment, he accepted a position on a gravel train, being engaged in that work for eight months. About the end of that period he met with am accident, severing the main artery in the left leg, and thus was incapacitated for work for many months.

When again able to engage in active business he resumed w'ork on th.e gravel train and after six months secured work as a brakeman on a freight train on the east end division, running from Columbus to Pittsburg. On account of the very dangerous nature of the work on that division, on his own application, he w^as transferred to the west division. He recalls a very mvsterious collision which occurred when he was on the former line. The engine ran into an obstruction at night at the entrance to a tunnel. After investigation they found a sawmill on the track. During a heavy rain, the mill, standing on the embankment which had been washed out by the water, had slipped down until it rested on the track. This was in the year 1874. Mr. Edwards was never seriously injured except once when braking. On that occasion he was thrown from the top of the car by catching his foot on an iron. He struck the platform and rolled off on the track. He was then picked up by a drover who had witnessed the accident and was carried into a caboose with three of his ribs broken, and neither the conductor nor any of the crew learned of his injury until after reaching the next stop. When off duty, by reason of the accident, he was notified by the officers of the road to appear for examination for promotion. He did so, passed the examination, and since that time he has been on the end of the line where he still runs. In June, 1878, he was promoted conductor and still fills that position. He has indeed been a very faithful employe of the road and has been given preferred runs because of his ability and carefulness in discharging his duties. He has never caused the company to lose a single dollar by reason of inefficient service or neglect. He is now on a special train running between Columbus and' Dennison, Ohio. Fifteen years agO' he was offered a position as passenger conductor, but declined it, the company acceding to his wishes, and he is still on preferred freight runs.

Mr. Edwards has been living in Columbus for twenty-three years and the fine residence which he now occupies, at No. 754 North St. Clair avenue, was erected by him. In 1877 he was married to Miss Martha Hammel, of Tuscarawas county, and unto them have been born two sons and three daughters. Her parents were both natives of Ohio and are now deceased. William John, the eldest child, born in 1878, is now a fireman on the Pennsylvania road. He was married to Miss Lashura Wheeling and resides in the capital city. Ada and Jennie are twins, seventeen years of age, and are now students in the high school. Bessie died at the age of three years and eleven months. Thomas Edwin was born February 9, 1888. Mr. Edwards is a member of the Episcopal church and for fifteen years was a member of the Order of Railway Conductors, of Columbus.

Frederick Weber

Frederick Weber, deceased, was one of the leading German-born citizens of Franklin county, and in his business career he displayed the characteristic thrift and enterprise of his race. Beginning life in the new world with no capital except that acquired bv his own industry, he became one of the most prosperous business men of Clinton township.

Mr. Weber was born in Bavaria March 17, 1806, and passed his boyhood and youth in his native land. In 1830, when a young man, he emigrated from Rhenish Bavaria to America, and after spending one year in York county, Pennsvlvania, came to Ohio, making his home in Stark countv for three years. On the 30th of May, 1833, he was united in marriage tO' Miss CaroHne Tascher, and the following year they came to Franklin county, locating on a farm in Clinton township. A year or two later he erected the first distillery in Franklin county, which at first had a capacity of but from one to two barrels per day. At that time there were only a few houses east of the Scioto river, and one or two north of the present Union' depot at Columbus. In connection with farming Mr. Weber successfully operated his distillery, and to meet the growing demands of his trade he increased its capacity to eight barrels per day, carrying on business uninterruptedly up to within a few years of his death, and meeting with marked success in the undertaking. His first purchase consisted of forty acres of heavily wooded land, upon which he erected a log cabin, and there the family^ began life in true 'pioneer style. As years advanced and he prospered in his business he added to his landed possessions from time to time until he had three hundred and twenty-four acres at the time of his death. Without money, prestige or friends, a stranger in a strange land, the language of whose people he could not speak or comprehend, he began life in America, but having learned in youth the most important lesson of how to attend to his own affairs, by his industry, perseverance and frugality, he succeeded in accumulating a handsome competence for his declining years, and was able to leave his family in comfortable circumstances. He was a member of the German Independent Protestant church, and lived a consistent Christian life, it being an assuring comfort to him in his last days that he never had occasion to regret any act performed by him. Mr. Weber exercised his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Democracy. Surrounded by his wife and children, he passed away May 10, 1885, leaving many friends as well as his immediate family to mourn his loss.

Mr. Weber's first wife died in 185 1, and of the ten children born to them those living are : Frederick, a resident of Clinton township ; Louisa, wife of Dr. L. Sciiaub, of Columbus; George, mentioned below; Henry, professor of chemistry in the Ohio State University ; and Herman, a resident of Clinton township. The deceased were Mrs. Caroline Tascher, Wilhelmina. Mrs. Amelia Graeff, Charles, and Lena, wife of William Westervellt, of Hardin county, Ohio. In 1862 IVIr. Weber married Mrs. Ida Emily Homilus, now deceased.

George Weber, son of Frederick, was born on the home farm in Clinton township March 30, 1843, ^^''d after completing his education in the district schools of the neighborhood assisted his father in the distillery until after the inauguration of the Civil war. In 1862 he enlisted for three years, in Company C, One Hundred and Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and in the spring of 1863 went south with his regiment, joining the Army of the Cumberland, under command of General Buell. From Kentucky they went to eastern Tennessee, taking- part in the battle of Fort Donelson, and the engagements at Franklin, Tennessee, and Shelbyville. They were in the outskirts of the fight at Chattanooga, and for two days were in battle at Chick- amauga. On the second day Mr. Weber was wounded in the neck by a rifle ball, which confined him in the hospital, first at Stevenson and later at Cumberland. On his recovery he rejoined his regiment near Atlanta, and later indk part in the heavy fighting in and around that stronghold. His regiment went with Sherman's army on the march to the sea, and took part in the battle of Jonesboro, after which they were stationed near Savannah for a time. They were in the Carolina campaign, taking part in the battle at Bentonville, North Carolina, which was the last engagement of the war. They next marched to Washington. D. C, and participated in the grand review at that place. The war having ended, they went to Albany, New York, and fjom there to Louisville, Kentucky, where they were honorably discharged in August, 1865. On his return home Mr. Weber resumed work in the distillery, where he was employed until his father disposed of the business.

In 1865 he married Miss Amelia Herbig, and after that event located on a farm in Clinton township, on which he has since made his home. He owns eighty acres of valuable land, which is highly improved and in an excellent state of cultivation, and is now successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits.

Mr. and Mrs. Weber have a family of three children, namely: Bertha, Ida and Laura. The parents are both members of the Lutheran church, with which Mr. Weber has been connected since the age of seventeen years. He is a charter member of Elias J. Beers Post, in which he has filled all of the offices from commander down. He was land appraiser of his township in 1900, and for thirteen successive years has efficiently served as township trustee. He is one of the representative and prominent men of his community - one who commands the respect and confidence of all with whom he comes in contact, either in business or social life.

Orlando W. Aldrich

Orlando \Y . Aldrich, a distinguished lawyer and one of the most prominent and influential citizens of Columbus, was born in Erie county, New York, March 30, 1840, and is a son of Sidney and Lydia A. (York) Aldrich. His father was born near Framlingham, Suffolk county, England, in 181 7, and came to this country in 1832. Two years later he located in Erie county. New York, and lived in that state until 1864, when he moved to Jackson county. Michigan, making his home there until his death, which occurred in 1891. From 1833 until his death he was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was a class-leader from 1840. He was also licensed as a local preacher, and for many years prior to his death was chosen to officiate at more weddings and funerals than any other minister in his part of the state, as he was honored and trusted by all who knew him. In business affairs he was active, zealous, hospitable and sslf-sacrificing. His estimable wife preceded him to the better world, dying in Michigan, in 1882. She was a native of Clarence. New York, and was descended on the paternal side from Asahel Franklin, of Bennington, Vermont, who was a nephew of

Benjamin P^ranklin, and who fought under Stark at the battle at that place. Her grandmother, Amy Franklin York, was eleven years old at the date of that battle and saw it from her father's house. She married Stephen York, and the family had removed to Canada and resided less than half a mile from the battle-field of Lundy's Lane, which battle she isaw from her own house. Her husband was the man who gave the information to General Brown which resulted in the capture of a British spy. This becoming known to the Canadian authorities, the family had to fly from their home and their farm was confiscated. Their son Stephen, the father of Mrs. Aldrich, had been drafted into the Canadian militia, but ran away, came to the states, joined Captain Spencer's company of New York militia and was at the battle of Fort Erie.

Mr. Aldrich served for two years in the Fourteenth Xew York Volunteer Infantry from May 17, 1861, to May 23. 1863, being with the regiment in the campaign in the peninsula, also at Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. He was graduated at the Illinois Wesleyan University in 1869, received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1875, the degree of Doctor of Laws from Albert University, of Belleville, Ontario, in 1877, and the degree of Doctor of Civil Law in the former institution in 1881. He was admitted to the bar of Illinois in 1870, when Vice-President Stephenson and Judge Weldon of the United States court of claims were on the committee of examiners. He was the professor of philosophy at the Illinois Wesleyan University in 1877 and 1878, and professor in the law department of that college from 1876 to 1 88 1, and in the Ohio State University from 1892 to 1897. For three years he was the editor of the Weekly Jurist, of Bloomington. Illinois, and edited the first American edition of Anson on Contracts, an English work of high authority. He also prepared the supplemental volume of Ohio Statutes from 1880 to 1885, and wrote an article on elections in volume VI, first edition of the American Encyclopedia of Law, consisting of two hundred pages of double-column matter.

As a lawyer he stands deservedly high in his profession, and in business and social circles also occupies an enviable position. He was the first president of the Worthington, Clintonville & Columbus Street Railway Company, holding that office from 1891 to 1898, and the office of vice-president since that time. He is also the president of the Ohio State Interurban Railway Association ,and is now the secretary of the Columbus, Delaware & ^Marion Electric Railway. At the Ohio Centennial in 1888 he was honorary commissioner for Franklin county.

In his political affiliations Mr. Aldrich is a Republican. For two years he was the vice-president of the Ohio State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and was the president of that society for one year. He has also been the president of the Ohio Society of the War of 1812 since its organization in 1895, ^"cl is now the vice-president general of the national organization of that order. He has served as the commander of Beers Post. G. A. R. ; was the judge advocate of the department of the Ohio; a member of the council of administration of Ohio, and a delegate to the national encampment in Cincinnati. He is also a member of the Union Veteran Legion Encampment, No. 78. For four years he was the master of the New England Lodge, No. 4, F. & A. M., of Worthington, and he is a life member of Mount Vernon Commandery, K. T., and a member of Aladdin Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

Owning a fine fruit farm of twenty-three acres near the city, Mr. Aldrich takes an active interest in. horticulture, and has been the president of the Columbus Horticultural Society. He was the vice-president of the Ohio State Horticultural Society for four years. He also takes a great interesc in art, and has the largest collection of oil and water colors by European and American artists in this section of the state, and also has a splendid collection of rare old books, taking a deep interest in archeological researches. He has one volume of Roman law j^ublished in 1482, only a few years after the first printing was done by movable type. He holds and merits a place among the representative legal practitioners and citizens of Columbus, and the story of his life, while not particularly dramatic, is notwdthstanding such a one as offers a typical example of that energetic American spirit which has enabled many an individual to rise from obscurity to a position of influence and renown solely through native talent, indomitable perseverance and singleness of purpose. Mr. Aldrich is a pleasant, genial and polished gentleman, of high social qualities and very popular, having a most extensive circle of friends and acquaintances who esteem him highly for his genuine w^orth.

Mr. Aldrich married Miss Roselin G. Jewell, at Hudson, Illinois, in 1863. She died in 1877, leaving two children: Edgar S., who graduated at the Ohio State University in 1898 as an electrical engineer, and is now the manager of the electric-light plant at Snohomish, Washington ; and Mrs. Harry E. Clum. of Columbus. In 1878 Mr. Aldrich married Mrs. Sarah A. Taylor, of Vandalia, Illinois, who was born in Coshocton county, Ohio. They have one son, W. Richard, now a student in the law department of the Ohio State University.

Andrew Morrison

Andrew Morrison was born in county Down. Ireland, twelve miles southeast of Belfast, on the loth of January. 1836, and represents one of the old families of that locality. His father, John Morrison, was born in the same county, about January 5, 1801, and was a son of Andrew and Isabelle (Swindell) Morrison, being the youngest of their three children. The others were Samuel and Isabelle, now deceased. The grandfather of our subject was born in county Down and was of the fifth generation to reside upon what was known as the Morrison farm there, the ancestors originally removing from Scotland to the Emerald isle.

John Morrison was reared on the ancestral farm and after his marriage to Agnes Murdock took charge of the home place, his mother having died prior to that time, and the father made his home with the son and his wife After his father died John Morrison became owner of the home place and was left by his father in good financial circumstances, but through ^oinosecurity for others he met with reverses and lost his fortune. In the spring ot 1849 he emigrated on the sailing vessel, Mary Pleasant, which weighed anchor in the harbor of Liverpool. After a voyage of twenty-eight da^s he hnded at ^ew \;ork city and thence made his way westward to Knox county Ohio, where resided his uncle, William Morrison, who was the possessor of considerable property, and had importuned the father of our subject to come to the new world, holding out the inducement that he would leave his prooerty to^him at the time of his -death, as he had no children of his own This uncle had crossed the Atlantic with three or four of his brothers-in-law by name of Wilson, early in the nineteenth century, and they settled in 'the northern part of the state of New York. Later all served as soldiers in the war of 1812 and after the cessation of hostilities Mr. Morrison and his brothers-in-law went to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, thence bv boat to Marietta, Ohio There one ot the Wilson brothers traded a land grant for a farm but small sfeds'"""^'"" ^^'''' ^'°"'"'^'' ^^''°''"^' ^^'^ ^°'''^' ^"^ ^^"°-^ '°^"'^^>'- ^^ In the fall following his emigration to America John Morrison's family emigrated on the sailing vessel, Josephine, which left Belfast for Xew York and reached the American metropolis after a thirty-davs vova^e There they were met by the husband and father, and by train theV proceeded to Buffa o and thence to Sandusky by steamer. From that place to Mansfield they u-;;i:;i? '''' 1 v' "^t^S'^""^ 'P^"^ ^''"'^'^ '^'^^^ '-^"d becoming dissatisfied uith the condition of affairs between himself and his uncle he left Knox county and came to Frankhn county, locating on Alum creek in what was then Montgomery township, but is now Marion township. In this way he beo-an n'Tliffli "V ''"T T^ "^ '^'' ^'" °^ ^^-^3 he leased sixty-five acVes of land m Mifflm township for seven years. This was all covered with the native growth ot torest trees and according to the terms of the lease Mr. Morrison was to c ear and tence the land. With characteristic enercn^ he began the DnHnr.l ^' '"' ^^^-^y^the trees sold the wood to the railroad companies. During the seven years ot his lease-holding and through the succeeding year hnl ' 1'/°"' f'!\''^ ""'''' ''''''' ^^""^^^^^ ^'''' ^' l^"^l surrounding their home and furnished large amounts of wood to the railroads. This was the toundation of the family's prosperity in the county. In the fall of 1861 the father purchased two hundred acres of land and' Andrew Morrison whose name u.troduces this review, became the owner of one hundred acres ' ad S ing_. his p ace being now the ^^'il]iam Morrison farm. The family took up heir abode upon that property and there the father made his home until his death, which occurred m June. 1895. At the time of the location upon e old homestead the land was a tract of wild timber and he and his Zs co tinned the work of felling the trees and snpplying cord-wooii to the railroad, the company running a switch road to their place. At the time of the removal of the family the father and his son Andrew also purchased a sawmill, which was operated by the son Samuel, and later our subject conducted the enterprise alone for seven years.

Andrew Morrison, whose name begins this record, was the only son of his parents, and his sister Isabelle has now passed away. He was reared under the parental roof, and in Ireland acquired a good common-school education prior to the emigration to the new world. On his arrival here he had the opportunity of resuming his studies under a competent instructor who was teaching school in the Morrison neighborhood, thus accommodating his neighbors, who, in return, chopped wood for him. Our subject's proficiency in mathematics excited the wonder of the children throughout the neighborhood and they would come for miles around to see him "figure," as they termed it. At twenty-three years of age he entered upon his independent business career, working during the greater part of the succeeding two years at wood-chopping. In 1861 he purchased one hundred acres of land in Jefferson township. This was the time when the father removed to his new 'home and he lived under the shelter of the parental roof until the time of his enlistment in the service of his country, in August. 1862. He joined Company I, of the Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the First Brigade of the First Division of the Army of the Cumberland. In September of the same year he was captured at the battle of Richmond, M'ith five or six thousand of his comrades, but on the second day following they were paroled and returned to Camp Chase. Later Mr. Morrison was taken ill and after two months spent in the post hospital he was discharged on account of disability, in April, 1863, and returned home. He then resumed the business of wood-chopping and of manufacturing lumlier.

In 1865 Mr. Morrison was married to Miss Cynthia Zane, a native of IMuskingum count}'. Ohio, and a daughter of Corbin Zane, a representative of the Zane family who laid out the citv of Zanesville. His people were among the distinguished pioneers of the Buckeye state, and a romantic story attaches to the life-history of Elizabeth Zane. who through her bravery in facing Indian bullets in order to save the fort at Marietta, by carrying a keg of powder to the men who were engaged in defending the fort. The mother of ]\Irs. IMorrison was in her maidenhood Miss Sarah Miller and she was a descendant of Governor Arthur St. Clair, the first governor of Ohio. The grandfather, Milo Miller, was descended from one of the Pilgrims who came to America in the Mayflower and also from some of the Revolutionarv heroes. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Morrison has been blessed with five children, of whom three are now living, namely: Frank M., a farmer of Jefferson township; Sarah K., the wife of Frederick Hoffman, who is a mem]-)er of the bar and secretary of the Rock Plaster Company, of Columbus; and Homer E., who is operating the farm.

there one hundred and seventeen acres of land constituting a part of his present farm. He was at that time conducting a sawmill, but in 1868 he purchased one hundred and twenty-six acres of land south of Taylor, and removing to that place he made it his home for two or three years, after which he traded it for one hundred and ninety-six acres of his present farm, which now comprises a tract of three hundred and thirteen acres. Since that time it has been the place of his abode and is one of the most desirable farming properties in this section of the state. He also owned one hundrel and eightvfive acres of land north of Reynoldsburg, in Jefferson township, and fortyfive acres near Bullits Park, just outside of the city limits of Columbus. His business interests have been capably managed, his well directed efforts bringing to him a high degree of success. He has never had time nor inclination to seek public office, but exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Democratic party. In early life he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, but in more recent years has not held membership connection with any denomination. His wife, however, is a Methodist. Socially he is connected with the Reynoldsburg Lodge, F. & A. M., his life exemplifying the benevolent principles of the fraternity. His career has been an active, busy and useful one, and his worth as a man and citizen

Richard Sinclair

Richard Sinclair, a retired merchant residing in Columbus, was born in the city of Rochester, New York, November 28, 1828, a son of George and Mary (Hositt) Sinclair. The fatlier was born in Scotland, but in early life emigrated to the United States, where he was married, after which he located in Rochester, New York, and engaged in the butchering business. In 1839 he came with his family to Columbus, where he opened a meat market and continued actively in that line until within a short time prior to his death, which occurred when he was in his seventy-fifth year. His wife, who survived him for some time, died in 1875. She was born in Edinburg, Scotland, and in her girlhood came to America with her parents, who located in Rochester, New York.

Richard Sinclair, who is the only survivor in a family of five children, accompanied his parents on their emigration to Columbus, in 1840. and in the public schools of the citv he continued his education for a time. In his twelfth year he entered his father's market, where he remained until he had attained his majority, when he opened a meat market on his own account on Higfh street, between the American and United State? hotels. There he carried on business until 1850, when he sold out. Having saved some money, he purchased eighteen acres of land on what is now ^^'est Broad street, the consideration being four thousand dollars. Of this he paid two thousand down, while the balance was to be met in payments of five hundred dollars. Hardly more than a year had passed \Ahen he was offered forty thousand dol- lars for the property, and, refusing this, he hiter sold it for sixty thousand. He has erected between twenty-five and thirty dwelHng houses and a number of store buildings in this city. A large business block on West Broad street, which has a forty-four-foot front and is ninety-nine feet in depth and three stories high, and is now occupied by a stock of hardware, w^s erected by him and was for some years the best business block west of the Scioto. Prominently connected with real-estate and building interests, he has done much to improve the city along substantial lines of progress and development.

On the 7th of November, 1856, Mr. Sinclair w^as united in marriage to Miss Margaret Romosier, of Columbus, a daughter of John Romosier. She died in 1882, leaving eight children: Charles, who is now a ticket agent for the Hocking Valley Railroad ; George W., who died in 1888 ; Lucy, who died m 1898; Elizabeth, the wife of Law^rence H. Cott; Eloi.^e; Mrs. Matilda Howe; Richard; and Ethel. Mr. Sinclair erected his fine brick residence at No. 913 West Broad street in 1891, and it is known as one of the attractive homes of the city. Although he started out in life with very limited capital he has by energy^ economy and good management accumulated a handsome competence for old age.' He always voted the Democratic ticket, first supporting James Buchanan for the presidency and since that time has never wavered in his allegiance to the party.

Leonhard Hirsch

In this age of colossal enterprise and marked intellectual energy, the prominent and successful men are those whose abilities, persistence and courage lead them into large undertakings and assume the responsibilities and labors of leaders in their respective vocations. Success is methodical and resultant ; and however much we may indulge in fantastic theorizing as to its elements and causation in any isolated ini-tance, yet in the light of sober investigation we wdll find it to be but a result of the determined application of cue's abilities and powers along the rigidly defined line of labor. America owes much of her progress and advancement to a position foremost among the nations of the w^orld to her newspapers, and in no line has the incidental broadening out of the sphere of usefulness been more marked than in this same line of journalism. Columbus has enlisted in its newspaper field some of the strongest intellects of the state, - men of strong mental grasp, cosmopolitan ideas and notable business sagacity.

Prominent among the men who have given the city prestige in this direction must be placed Leonhard Hirsch, the subject of this review. His identification with the art preservative of all arts dates from an early period in his career. He w-as born October 13. 1834. in the towni of Berncastel, which lies on the banks of the Moselle river, in Rhenish Prussia. At the accustomed age he entered the public schools of the fatherland, there pursuing his studies until he entered upon his business career as an apprentice to the carpenter's trade. He followed that pursuit through the period of his minority, and soon atter attaninig man's estate he began business on his own account as a prmter and lithographer in Frank fort-on-the-Main, but was obliged to abandon all and flee to England when that famous old city was occupied by the Prussians in 1866. For five years he remained on the "merrie isle,' where he was employed at his trade and finally became the manager of the Hermann, a German weekly paper published in London.

Attracted by the opportunities of the new world, where the field of advancement lay open to all and where liberty of thought and action is one of the cherished possessions of the people, he resolved to seek a home beyond the w-ater, and in 1870 crossed the Atlantic to New York. In the metropolis he soon secured an excellent position in the line of his trade, having for a time served as the manager ot the Oestliche Post, a daily paper published in the German language, in 1872 he became a resident of St. Louis, where he also acted as the manager of a paper until 1876, the year of his arrival in Columbus, wdiere he was «iiplo}-ed for a number of months in the office of the Westbote. Wishing, however, to engage in business for himself, he established a Republican Sunday paper published in his native tongue. He called it the Ohio Sontagsgast and by his unflagging industry, perseverance, keen sacracitv and capable management he mad^e it a profitable business venture. Although the majority of German residents are advocates of Democratic principles he made his paper a Republican organ, fearlessly advocating the principles of the party in which he has ever believed since becoming a student of American politics. At the same time his journal became a bright, newsy organ, devoted to the welfare of the city and state, as well as to the expression of the editor's political views. In 1891 Mr. Hirsch broadened the scope of his enterprise by establishing a daily paper, called the Daily Express, which is the only German Republican journal in central Ohio. From the beginning it has constantly grown in favor and therefore in patronage, and now has an excellent circulation among the German-American people, in whose homes it carries influence by its frank expressions concerning the questions and interests of the day which affect all mankind.

In 1886 Mr. Hirsch was appointed by Governor Foraker to the position of supervisor of public printing, and in that office he rendered most effective service. He filled the position for five terms, being re-appointed by Governor Foraker and later by Governor McKinley.

In 1871 Mr. Hirsch was united in marriage to Miss Lotta Meyer, and they now have five sons and a daughter. The sons follow in the father's political footsteps, being earnest advocates of the Republican party. The success which has come to Mr. Hirsch has been by no means the result of fortunate circumstances. It has come to him through energy, labor and perseverance, directed bv an evenly balanced mind and by honorable business principles. He has made the most of his opportunities and at the same time the rules of his life have been such as to win the unqualified confidence of his fellow men, gaining their esteem and regard.

Benjamin G. Wheeler

Benjamin G. Wheeler, the experienced and popular conductor on the Pennsylvania Railroad, was born April 6, 1849, i'''^ Hopedale, Harrison county, Ohio, his parents being Chrrstopher and Rebecca Wheeler. The father was born in Harrison county, Ohio, April 11, 1816, and was the eldest of a large family of children, the others being: Reason, born July 10, 1818; Benjamin, November 20, 1819; Morgan, May 27, 1821; Malinda, January 2, 1823; Mocinda. December 2, 1824; Hinzay, December 28, 1826; Hezekiah W., June 30, 1828; Nancy, April 30, 1830; Anion, December 23, 1831 ; John \\\, July 5, 1833; and Rachel, June 4, 1835. All are now deceased with the exception of Rachel, who is now married and living in the west. The father of our subject resided upon a farm in early life, but about 1850 removed to the village of Hopedale, where he followed the carpenter's trade. On the paternal side he comes of an old American family, the father having been a native of Maryland. For many years Christopher Wheeler was connected with the building interests of Hopedale, and his life's labors were ended in death in that town on the 4th of March, 1887. His wife, isurviving him for about nine years, passed away in the same town, March 8, 1896. Their children were: Mary Jane, born May 14, 1839; William Franklin, October 16, 1840; John Wilson, December 17, 1842; Eliza Ellen, December 16, 1844; Reuben Arnold, April 29, 1847; Benjamin G., April 6, 1849; Sarah Ellen, October 13, 1851 ; Keziah Margaret, September 2, 1853; Samuel Christopher, September 30, 1855; and Eliza Ellen, January 31, 1858. Four of the number have now passed away. Keziah Margaret died on the 28th of September, 1853; Sarah Ellen, on the 9th of March, 1854; Reuben Arnold, July 13, 1857; and Samuel Christopher, May 20, 1881. The last named was a brakeman on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and by coupling cars in the yards in Columbus was fatally injured. John W. Wheeler enlisted in 1861 in the Forty-third Ohio Infantry, and remained for three years at the front. After the war he spent twenty years as an engineer on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and then purchased a farn-i. wh"ch lie has since operated. William Wheeler is living in Dennison, Ohio, and for the past twenty years he has been employed in the Panhandle shops at Dennison, as a blacksmith.

Benjamin G. Wheeler was only about a year old when his parents became residents of Hopedale, where he pursued his education in the public schools. From early life, however, he has been dependent upon his own labors, having worked as a farm hand for hiis board and ten cents per day when a small boy. He also assisted his father at the carpenter's trade before attaining manhood, aiding in shingling, siding and other such work. His brother William w^as a conductor on the Panhandle Railroad in 1864, and our subject also entered the service about that time, soending three month? on a freight train as brakeman. In the discharge of his duties he found it necessary to step over the soldiers who were being taken to the front on freight cars on his run to Newark and Steuben ville. In October, 1868, he accepted a permanent posi- tion with the Panhandle Company, running from Dennison to Cohimbus, Ohio, as a brakeman. He held that position for six months and then accepted a similar position on a passenger train, serving in that way until December, 1 87 1. Between the years 1872 and 1876 he was the baggage master on a train and from 1876 until 1881 he was freight conductor. In the latter year he was assistant yard master, also having a passenger run, and in December, 1 88 1, he was given a regular passenger run and has continued in the service of the company in that capacity up to the present time. Over his record there falls no shadow of wrong, for he has ever been faithful and true to his duty, careful and earnest in its discharge. He has been constantly on the Pittsburg division, running between Columbus and Pittsburg, and his trustworthiness is a matter of record, well worthy of commendation.

On the 15th of May, 1872, Mr. Wheeler was united in marriage to Miss Emma Brydie, of Columbus, in which city they have since made their home, now residing at No. 1223 Hunter avenue. The lady was a daughter of Hugh and Mary A. Brydie. Her father died in 1861, at the age of forty-five years, and her mother passed away in 1895, at the age of sixty-seven. One of her brothers, James, died when only fifteen years of age, from disease while serving his country in the Civil war. Two of her brothens, William and Millard F., are now residents of New Mexico. Her sister, Ida May, is the wife of Earnest A. Pierce, of Boston, Massachusetts. Mrs. Jennie Deuell and Mrs. Mattie L. Levi, of this family, are residents of Columbus, and Ella is living in Cincinnati. Her father was a native of Tennessee and her mother of Illinois. Mrs. Wheeler is a member of the Third Avenue Episcopal church. In 1 871 Mr. Wheeler became a member of Excelsior Lodge, No. 145, I. O. O. F., of Columbus. In his life he exemplifies the benevolent spirit of the fraternity. Both he and his wife are well known for their genial manner and sterling qualities and the hospitality of many of the homes of Columbus is extended to them.

Amlliam R. Lazenby

America has made wonderful strides in scientific research during the century just completed, and among those who have been leaders of investigation is William Rane Lazenby, whose discoveries along horticultural line? have been not only a source of gratification and pleasure to the scientific world, but also of practical value to the fruit-raisers and agriculturists of the land. Lie has attained a national reputation in connection with educational work and scientific discovery and to-day occupies an eminent position among the men of high scientific attainments. His local connection is with the Ohio State University, occupyinsf the chair of horticulture and forestrv, but throughout the country he is widely known, being a representative of the leading societies for the advancement of scientific attainment and research along his chosen lines.

and acquired his preliminary education in the country schools of his native township. His more advanced studies were pursued in the Pen Yan Academy and in his college course in Cornell University, being graduated in the last named institution with the class of 1874. Immediately after his graduation he was appointed instructor of botany and horticulture in his alma mater, which position he held for two years, when he was made assistant professor of horticulture, serving in that capacity until he resigned in 1881.

It was in that year that Professor Lazenby was elected professor of botany and horticulture in the Ohio State University, at Columbus, wath which institution he has since been connected, now holding the professorship of horticulture and forestry. While a member of the faculty of Cornell he w^as the botanist to the New York State Horticultural Society, the horticultural editor of the Husbandman and lecturer for the New York State Grange. He drafted the bill for, and aided in establishing, the New York State Experimental Station, which is located at Geneva. After his removal to Ohio he drafted a bill and secured the establishment of the Ohio E^xperimental Station, of which he was a director for six years. He was for five years the secretary and for two years the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; has been for the past eight years the president of the Columbus Horticultural Society, - one of the oldest associations of its kind in America ; is an active member of the American Pomological Society and vice-president of the National Forestry of Congress, and in addition is an active or honorary member of many state and local societies. He has written much upon horticultural and agricultural subjects and for twenty years has 1)een a lecturer before farmers' institutes.

In 1896 Professor Lazenby was united in marriage to Miss Harriet Edelia Akin, of Colunbus, and with their daughter, an only child, they reside in their home near the Ohio State University. The Professor has superior ability as an educator, being able to impart clearly and readily to others the knowledge he had acquired. He has deep love for the subjects in w-hich he gives instruction, and his fondness for scientific research has led 'him into new fields where he has gained many valuable truths of benefit to his fellow men.

John H. Mills

In raihvay circles John H. Mills has long been widely and fa\"orably known. He was born April 19, 1867, in New^ IMoscow, Ohio, a son of Henry PI. Mills, whose birth occurred in 1833. Both his father and his mother died on' the same (ky. - August 17, 1894. - at Cooperdale, Ohio, their disease being tynhoid fever. Ten days later their daughter Bertha also passed away. The father was connected with commercial pursuits, conducting a general mercantile store in Cooperdale.

John H. Mills spent the first sixteen years of his life under the parental roof, and then went to Columbus, Ohio, to learn the carriage-maker's trade.

'J'his was his first independent venture and thereby tested his power, giving indication of the elemental strength of his character. He worked at carriagemaking- until December 12, 1890, when he entered the service of the Pan Handle Railroad Company. On the nth of May, 1892, he became an employe of the Toledo, Walhonding Valley & Ohio Railroad, having charge of the express and baggage. In' December. 1896, he came to Columbus and again entered the service of the Pan Handle Road, with which he has since continued.

On the 26th of January, 1895, Mr. Mills was united in marriage to Miss Maggie Finley, the w^edding being celebrated in Mansfisld, Ohio. Her parents were both natives of Pennsylvania, and from that state removed to West V^irginia. where Mrs. Mills w^as born. Her father was a member of the One Hundred and Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil war and served with the First Army Corps in many of the most important engagements which occurred in that portion of the country. He died at Loudonville, Ohio, where his wife is still residing. In their family were tiiree sons : Wilson and Joseph, who are residents of Loudonville, wdiile James makes his home in Toledo, Ohio, Mr. Mills is the treasurer of the Order of Railway Trainmen, of Columbus, and is regarded as one of the most prominent and influential members of the organization. His political support is given to the men and measures of the Republican party, and in religious faith both he and his wife are Presbyterians, belonging to the Broad Street church. The record of Mr. Mills is that of a man who has by his owm efforts worked his way upw-ard to a position of affluence. His life has been one of industry and perseverance, and he has at all times commanded the respect of bis fellow men.