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In February, March and April, 1918, as president of the American Insurance Union and a member of the Moose War Relief Commission, Mr. Lentz under the auspices of the United States Government visited the American, British, French, and Italian war fronts. On April 7, 1918, which was the first anniversary of America's entrance into the World War, on invitation of the Italian Government, in the old Coliseum in the city of Rome, he delivered his famous address: "A Free Man in a Free Nation in a Free World," pronounced by Ambassador Thomas Nelson Page and others to be the truest definition of America's purpose and mission in the World War. After his return from abroad he delivered this address at the request of the. United States Government and many civic, religious, fraternal, and commercial organizations at the same time, describing conditions as he found them at the front lines from the English Channel to the Adriatic Sea and emphasizing the importance of America doing her full part in establishing a condition in the world wherein one may proudly claim that America was the originator of the thought of "A Free Man in a Free Nation in a Free World."

Mr. Lentz has been one of the leading progressive thinkers and reformers of the nation, and like all reformers who think a generation ahead of their time, it has required courage and determination on his part to stand by his convictions but he did stand by those convictions because he had a vision even though it cost him money, position, and friends to do so. Few, if any, such men have lived to see so many of their dreams and ideals realized. He has been an ardent worker for prohibition for twenty-five years, and it was his stand in Congress against the canteen in the army posts that defeated him for re-election in 1900 because the liquor interests and their money were solidly against him. He gave the dry forces one month of his time free each year, making speeches in many states against the saloon and its influence, and donated not only his time but money also until Ohio and the whole nation were dry, and he has now entered upon the campaign for a dry world. He has been an advocate of equal suffrage for women for more than twenty-five years, contributing his money and his time to the cause and says he will continue to do so until it is triumphant. He has always been a friend of labor and has never failed to raise his voice in its behalf. While in Congress he introduced the resolution and was the leading number of the committee that investigated the Idaho bull pen outrages and the searchlight that he threw on the abuse of martial law for the oppression of labor in the Ccour-de-Alcne compelled the President to withdraw the troops from that state. He has advocated government ownership of a postal telegraph and telephone for a quarter of a century; was a champion of Rural Free Delivery, the Parcel Post, Postal Savings, and the one cent pound rate, and helped place these laws on the statute books at Washington. He assisted in escuring the three cent street railway fare for Columbus and has been an untiring advocate of government and municipal ownership of public utilities, and is living to see these things rapidly coming to pass.

As an extemporaneous speaker and debater he has few equals. His voice has been heard on all these progressive measures for the up-lift and betterment of mankind in every state of the Union, including Canada, Cuba, Hawaii, and Europe. As a deep thinker and student of economic and political questions and conditions, as a brilliant orator and as a writer, Mr. Lentz is recognized as one of the notable men of this generation. His volume, 'Thomas Jefferson, the Radical," from the Royeroft Press, is considered by critics to In one of the ablest books ever written on the life, character, and statesmanship of Jefferson.

JOHN' DELANO KARNS. Success has come to John Delano Karns as a lawyer because he has put forth the proper effort to attain it, indefatigable industry being the keynote whereby he has advanced himself from the ordinary rural environment to a position in the front ranks of his profession.

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Mr. Earns was born on the old homestead in Franklin county, Ohio, October 12th, 18(53 the son of John M. and Millie Jane (Clover) Karns. His father was born October 16th, 1831, on West Broad street, Columbus, on the present site of the American Insurance Union building, in which Mr. Karns now has his office. His grandfather was John Karns, a native of Martinsburg, Berkley county, Virginia, born there in 1806, and removed to Columbus, Ohio, in 1825. So for nearly a century the Karns family has been well and favorably known and closely identified with the growth and history of Franklin county, and the capital city. John M. Karns, after returning from the Civil War removed to his farm in Prairie township, Franklin county, and followed general agricultural pursuits. His death occurred on May 10, 1912. His wife, Millie Jane Clover, was born on the family farm in Prairie township, this county, on December 11, 18:37. She was a daughter of Joshua Clover, who was a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1788, the son of Peter Clover, a native of Hesse, Germany. Peter Clover removed his family from Pennsylvania to Chillieothe, Ohio, in 1802. Joshua Clover was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was taken prisoner by the English when General Hull surrendered at Detroit. In 18 14, Peter Clover, with his wife, eight sons and two daughters went to Prairie township, Franklin county, bringing with them their household effects, live stock and other portable property and here thev became very comfortably established through their frugality and industry. The death of the mother of the subect of this sketch occurred on June 25, 1915.

John D. Karns was reared on the farm where he did the ordinary work of a farmer's son during the crop seasons, and attended the district public schools in the winter time. Later he entered Reynoldsburg Academy, and taught school when in his seventeenth and eighteenth years, and in his nineteenth year he entered the junior class at Ohio State University where he was a student for one year. In the fall of 188.3, he entered the United States Weather Bureau training school at Fort Myer, Virginia, near Washington D. C. where he took special courses in meteorology, practical and theoretical electricitv, observation and signalling work, and in 1881 he was sent west by the U. S. Government to establish two meteorological stations in Utah. He was next stationed at the mouth of the Columbia river, at Cape Disappointment. Although he became one of the experts in the Weather Bureau, he decided that the routine w7ork was not entirely to his liking for a life occupation, and abandoned the service in 1888 to do work in western Oregon for the United States engineering department as sextant observer, and in the fall of that year was transferred bv that department to St. Louis, Missouri, on the Mississippi river improvement work, where he was regarded as one of the most efficient and trustworthy employees of the Federal Government.

While stationed at St. Louis Mr. Karns entered the law department of Washington University in that city, from which institution he was graduated, June 12, 1890, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and in that year he was admitted to the bar of Missouri, also to the Ohio bar, and entered practice in Columbus. From 1891 to 1893 he was a member of the law firm of Jones, Karns & Wilgus. He was one of the professors of the law department of the Ohio State University and served as Judge of the Municipal Court by appointment of Mayor John X. Hinkle. Since 1907 he has been the partner of Hon. John J. Lentz of the law firm of Lentz & Karns. He has not only met with success at the local bar, in building up a large and growing clientage, but has also been recognized by many of the leading lawyers of the United States, who have recently elected him President of the Fraternal Societies Law Association of America, which meets annually in Chicago.

Mr. Karns has always been a zealous student of history and general literature, and is recognized by all his acquaintances as c. well informed man along these lines. He is an author of no mean ability, having written and published considerable verse which has attracted wide attention. He has also written many articles on meteorological and kindred subjects; which have brought him favorable mention as an author.

He is a member of the Franklin County Bar Association, the Methodist Church, and the Elks, and is the Associate Counselor of the American Insurance Union.

On April 22, 1891, Mr. Karns was married to Louise M. Bonn, a daughter of Frederick Bonn, a Methodist Minister of San Jose, California. They have one daughter, Bonnvdell Karns, who was a student of the Ohio State University, and graduated from Cornell University in 1916, with the degree of L. A., and she is at this writing taking special courses in civics and philanthropic work at Nelson Morris Institute and at Michael Reese Hospital. Chicago.

EDMOND BOTHWELL DILLON. Standing out distinctly as one of the central figures of tin judiciary of Ohio was the name of Hon. Edmond Bothwell Dillon, who died on the 11th day of November, 1919, and who at the time of his death was one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin county. Prominent in legal circles and equally so in public matters beyond the confines of his own jurisdiction, with a reputation in one of the most exacting of professions that won him a name for distinguished service second to none of his contemporaries, there was no more prominent or influential man in the community long honored by his citizenship. Achieving success in the courts at an age when most young men are just entering upon the formative period of their lives, wearing the judicial ermine with becoming dignity and bringing to every case submitted to him a clearness of perception and ready power of analysis characteristic of the learned jurist, his name and work for years were allied with the legal institutions, public enterprises and political interests of the state in such a way as to earn him recognition as one of the distinguished citizens in a locality noted for the high order ot its talent.

Edmond Bothwell Dillon was a native son of the Buckeye state, having been born at I ronton, Ohio, on February 9, 1869, and was the son of Rev. J. W. and Mary Catherine (Cox) Dillon. The father, who also was a native of Ohio, was a well-known minister of the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is now deceased, being survived by his widow, who is still living. Edmond Dillon received his early education in the public schools of Gallipolis and Portsmouth, and then attended the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, which institution, in 1897, conferred on him the honorary degree of Master of Arts. In 1887 lie began the reading of law in the office of S. W. Durflinger, at London, Ohio, and later with George F. Martin, of Lancaster. In October, 1891, he was admitted to the bar and at once came to Columbus and entered upon the practice of his profession. Soon afterwards he formed a law partnership with the late Judge H. B. Albery, under the firm name of Albery & Dillon. In 1897 he was appointed by the Supreme Court a member of the law examination board, on which he served most acceptably until 1903. In 1898, under a special law, be was appointed a member of the city civil service board, and served in that capacity up to the time of his elevation to the bench in 1903. From 1897 until he became judge of the Common Pleas Court he was attorney for the dairy and food department of the State of Ohio. In 1904 he was elected to the chair of law, as pertaining to evidence, in the law department of the Ohio State University and held that position for thirteen years. In 1903 lie was elected a member of the Court of Common Pleas, in which position he served to the time of his death, a period of sixteen years.

Politically, Judge Dillon was an active supporter of the Republican party and stood high in its councils. He served as chairman of the county and congressional committees in the campaign of 1900, when McKinley ran for President, and in 1912 he received the nomination of the Republican party for Governor, but declined the nomination, foreseeing the coming split iii the party. His qualifications for the office of judge were unquestionable. First of all, he possessed integrity of character. He possessed the natural ability and essential acquirements, the acumen of the judicial temperament. He was able to divest himself of prejudice or favoritism and consider only the legal aspects of a question submitted. No iabor was loo great, however onerous; no application too severe if necessary to the complete understanding and correct determination of a question. His career at the bar and on the bench offers a noble example and an inspiration, for he was never known to fail in the strictest courtesy and regard for professional ethics.

Tn college life Judge Dillon was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi and the Delta Chi Greek-letter fraternities. He was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, the Knights ol Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Flks, the Franklin County Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, while, socially, he belonged to the Columbus Athletic Club and the Columbus Country Club. His religious membership was with the Franklin Park Methodist Episcopal Church and he served on its official board.

On May 8, 1895, Judge Dillon was married to Marian Daisy Whitney, daughter of Calvin and Marian (Dean) Whitney, of Norwalk, Ohio, both of whom are d -eased. Mr. Whitney, who was widely known as a philanthropist and supporter of benevolent enterprises, was president of the A. B. Chase Piano Company, of Norwalk. To Judge and Mrs. Dillon were horn the following children: Edmond Whitney, horn September 14, 1897, was a pilot and instructor in tin aviation service during the recent war, and is now taking up the study of law at the Ohio State University; Mary Catherine, born on December 27, 1900, is a student in the Sargent School of Physical Education at Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Marian Elizabeth, born February 4, 1908.

A rare compliment was paid to Judge Dillon in 1911 when he was chosen, entirely without solicitation or suggestion on his part, as a candidate for Circuit Judge.

As a fitting close to this review, we present an excerpt from the memorial resolutions of the Franklin County Bar Association, and which shows in an unmistakable manner the exalted position Judge Dillon held in the hearts of those who were in the best position to know him well:

. . . As members of the bar we feel that it is due the living as well as the dead that we should bear solemn testimony to the value of the services of our deceased brother to the judicial life which he dignified and adorned by many of the choicest labors and accomplishments of a professional career.

As a lawyer Judge Dillon was thoroughly grounded in legal principles; his reading was large and accurate and he possessed attainments in departments of study outside of the judicial sphere. In science and general literature and in history his reading was extensive and his memory was so tenacious that the acquisition of his study seemed always at his disposition. He had great powers of analysis, closeness of logic and a rapidity in the formation of his judgment that amounted to almost intuition. The foundations of his strength were laid in hard study, untiring efforts, indomitable energy, unflinching integrity and honor. Hie thoughts that we have here expressed have most of them been already voiced and long known by Judge Dillon's closest friends and especially by those who had known him since boyhood; and all who met him in his manhood and in his later life willingly join in like testimony to his purity and worth. Such a life as his well deserved high honor from courts and bar, and now that he has departed forever from us, it is fitting that a conspicuous notice should be taken of his career, both as a tribute to his memory and as an incentive for initiation and emulation bring an encouragement unto those yet engaged in their responsibilities and labors.

Judge Dillon "crossed the bar" in the very prime of manhood. He was conspicuous in his physical development almost to the point of perfection. He would have attracted attention in any assemblage by his towering manhood, his handsome, encouraging and ennobling countenance and by his genial and gentlemanly treatment of all with whom he came in contact.

The members of the bar will ever remember wtih pleasure an appreciation of Judge Dillon expressed by his pastor, Rev. Burt David Evans, on the occasion of his funeral. As an estimate by a man entirely apart from the profession, it is worthy of reminder here and we qoute from him on that occasion. In this appreciation Doctor Evans said:

"In addition, he was a witness of the truth in his ability to see and make clear certain moral and ethical distinctions. In the legal profession that is a great task. Men who give themselves to the study of the law stand, as it were, before the great body of truth as it relates to the welfare of human society. The right and the wrong of these questions were clearly seen by Judge Dillon. His decisions were so adequately expressed that they became light to the men of his profession. It was said of him that he was a natural judge; in other words, he had the qualifications that made it possible for him to so express the moral and ethical content of a principle that other men would see it clearly and seek to embody it in their legal practice. He never could have been a pettifogger, his devotion to the cause of truth and his ability to interpret the same would not permit him to be such; on the contrary, he constantly sought the great principles involved and interpreted them as they had to do with human conduct and welfare. It was his privilege to assist in the construction of a legal edifice builded upon the foundations of fundamental truth.

"Furthermore, he gave light to his fellowmen in the great spirit of humanitarianism that characterized his life. He said at one time that he had sought to give every man a square deal. As the dispenser of justice this was his aim, the ideal toward which he was ever striving." . . .

GEORGE W. LATTIMER. For many years George W. Lattimer ranked among the leading business men of Columbus, and while not primarily a public man he was influential in the affairs of the city. Strong mental endowment, coupled with an honesty of purpose made him a dominant factor in the circles in which he moved. He was essentially a man of affairs, sound of judgment, far-seeing in what he undertook, and successful in the enterprises to which he addressed himself. He won and retained the good will and confidence of the people with whom he came in contact.

Mr. Lattimer was born in Columbus, December 6th, 1856, and died there February 12th, 1920. He was descended from two Ohio pioneer families. His ancestors fought in the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. Col. Jacob Lattimer commanded a regiment in the Continental army, while Captain James Atherton was killed in the Wyoming valley, Pennsylvania, while in command of his company in the French and Indian

War. Hoth were direct ancestors of the subject of this sketch, and his grandparents on both sides of the house were pioneers of Ohio. Daniel Dodge and Katherine (Hyde) Lattimer, the paternal grandparents, were natives of Connecticut. They came to Ohio and settled on land along the Scioto river in Franklin county north of Columbus in 1815. Daniel Lattimer took up government land, which he cleared and developed into a good farm through hard work, undergoing the privations and hardships incident to life in the wilderness. William Cox, the maternal grandfather, was an Englishman and served as a sailor during the French and Indian War, after which he settled in Philadelphia. He later made his way into the Wyoming valley where he met and married Ann Atherton, who was born and reared there. After their marriage they removed to Ohio, settling in Delaware county. William Cox was a cabinet maker, a trade he followed even after taking up his residence in Ohio. In later life he retired to his farm.

Oliver Hallam Lattimer, father of Oeorge W. Lattimer, was born in Norwich township, Franklin county, Ohio, in 1827 and died in Columbus in 1865. He grew up on the home farm and upon reaching manhood married Sarah Atherton Cox, who was born in Delaware count v this State in 1831. She died in Columbus in 1913. Oliver H. Lattimer worked on his father's farm until he was twenty-one years of age, at which time his father gave him a horse and he came to Columbus to seek his fortune. He went to work for Dr. Awl, who at that time was superintendent of the State Asylum for the Insane. Sarah Atherton Cox was educated in the old academy at Westerville, Franklin county, which finally became Otterbein University. She taught school for a while then accepted a position at the State Asylum for the Insane, and it was while the parents of our subject were employed there, that they first met.

Oliver H. Lattimer entered the bakery and confectionery business in Columbus prior to the Civil War, supplying the wholesale trade. As that was before the building of many of our railroads, he sent his bakery and confectionery products about the country in wagons. During the winter months, he was often compelled to use four and six horse teams to pull his wagons through the mud and snow. He held a large government contract for army "hardtack" during the Civil War.

George W. Lattimer grew up in Columbus. He was graduated from Central High School in 187 1, then attended school a year in Cleveland, after which he entered Amherst College, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1879. He was a member of the Chi Psi college fraternity. After returning home he read law a while in Columbus, then spent about a year in Colorado where he had mining interests. Returning to Columbus he accepted a position as secretary and treasurer of the Nelsonville Coal & Coke Company of this city, but a year later resigned. In 1882, with George B. Kauffman and L. B. Kautfman. In- organized the Kauffman & Lattimer Company, wholesale druggists. This company was incorporated in 1888 as the Kauffman-Lattimer Company. Mr. Lattimer served as secretary and treasurer until his death. He was founder and for over twelve years president of the Lattimer Stove & Foundry Co., later succeeded by the A. T. Nye Co.

Mr. Lattimer was active and prominent in the civic lift' of Columbus until his death, lb helped in the organization of the Columbus Board of Trade in 1882 and was one of its original directors. He served as president in 1906. For many years he was chairman of its public improvement committee, and served as commissioner of parks under Mayor Jc ffivv. He was identified with the good roads movement for years, was president of the Franklin County Good Roads Association, and treasurer of the Ohio Good Roads Association. He was vice president and treasurer of the Ohio Good Roads Federation. He was on the first joint committee of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce and the Ohio Grange which formulated many of the present road laws of Ohio. Governor Harris appointed him a delegate to iIm convention of the National Good Roads Association at Buffalo, New York, also a delegate to tin- convention of the National Civic federation, which met at St. Paul and Minneapolis. Governor Cox, during his first term, appointed him a member of the State Hoard of Arbitration.

11, was tin first president of the Central Philanthropic Council, vice president of the board of managers of tin- Associated Charities, a member of the board of directors of the Humane Society, vice-president of the Anti Tuberculosis Society, a trustee of the Hannah Neil

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He was appointed one of the five members of the State Flood Commission by Governor Cox in 1913; was appointed one of the three commissioners by Judges of Common Pleas Courts under the conservancy act for prevention of floods in the Franklin county district. The American Red Cross presented him with a medal for distinguished service rendered during the 1913 flood. From the time of the flood until its reorganization for the World War he acted as State representative of the American Red Cross. He was elected president of the National Wholesale Druggists' Association at Jacksonville, Fla., in 1913, and had been chairman of many important committees. For six years before his death he was chairman of the National Legislative Committee.

He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Ohio Chapter Sons of American Revolution. He belonged to Broad Street Methodist Episcopal Church and was a trustee of the Columbus School for Girls. He was one of the founders of the Columbus Conntrv Club and chairman of the grounds committee. He was a member of the Columbus Athletic and the Columbus Club.

Mr. Lattimer's first marriage was to Belle Gardner, a daughter of Andrew Gardner, who was at one time postmaster at Columbus. Her death occurred in 1886, leaving one son, Gardner Lattimer, who graduated from Amherst College in 1906. Mr. Lattimer married Minnie Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Williams of Columbus, in 1898. Their daughter, Jane Lattimer, graduated from the Columbus School for Girls, and is now a junior at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.

For unselfish service of his fellows, no citizen of Columbus was more conspicuous than George W. Lattimer. His death, following so closely on his intensive serivce as chairman of the Columbus Chapter of the Red Cross during the period of the war, assumes the character of the supreme sacrifice made by those who fell in battle. It was not given him to fight, but it was his portion, willingly assumed and capably performed, to lead in the work of caring for the wounded and ministering to the needs of the men of army and navy and their dependents.

That patriotic and humanitarian service was the crown of years of endeavor in behalf of the unfortunate and the suffering. Born in Columbus, he spent essentially all of his years here, generously dividing his time between private business and unsalaried public service. No worthy movement in the cause of humanity lacked his sympathy ; few such efforts were without his active support. Kindly in his manner, clear in his thinking, careful in his judgments and firm in his convictions, he was a wise counselor and a good leader.

HARRY M. DAUGHERTV. While Harry M. Daugherty, well known lawyer of Columbus, has passed the nadir of his professional life, yet he has many years of profitable activity before him. He is a man of thought and study and finds essential nutriment in feasting at the boards of the legal masters of the past. Having depended a great deal upon these established authorities he has ever kept well prepared for his dailv tasks.

Mr. Daugherty was born in Washington Court House, Fayette county, Ohio, January 26, 1860. He is a son of John H. and Jane (Draper) Daugherty, the father a native of Pennsylvania and the mother of Ohio. The Drapers came to the Buckeye State from Virginia in pioneer days. The records of both these old families are most creditable in the annals of Ohio.

Harry M. Daugherty attended the public schools when a boy in his native town, and later entered the University of Michigan, taking the law course, and was graduated from that institution with the class of 1881, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1883 and began the practice of his profession in his native town soon thereafter, but in 1893, seeking a larger field for the exercise of his talents, lie removed to Columbus, and with the late Judge H. B. Maynard formed the law firm of Maynard & Daugherty, which partnership continued with uninterrupted success until Judge Maynard went upon the bench in 1903. Then the law firm of Worthington & Daugherty was formed and in two years Judge Worthington went upon the bench and the firm of Daugherty & Todd was formed, to which was later admitted R. F. Rarey, the name being changed to Daugherty. Todd & Rarey, and this name has been retained by the firm to the present time. It is well known throughout Ohio and is regarded as one of the strongest firms in Columbus.

Mr. Daugherty was elected to the Ohio General Assembly from Fayette county in 1889 and In made such a splendid record that his constituents re-elected him in 1891. He was chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, also was chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee in 1898 and again in 1912. In the latter year he was second in the primary flection for the nomination for United States Senator. In 1893 he was chairman of the Republican State Convention when William McKinley was nominated for governor of Ohio. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1901, 1908 and 1912, and was a member of the committee on rules in 1901 on credentials at the convention of 1908 and in 1912, being a delegate-at-large, was elected Chairman of the Taft delegates to the convention. In the pre-convention campaign of 1920, Mr. Daugherty was an ardent supporter of Warren G. Harding for the Presidency and was the successful manager of the canvass in Ohio.

On September 3, 1883, he was united in marriage with Lucy Walker, a daughter of Anthony B. and Emily (Miller) Walker, of Wellston, Ohio. To this union two children were born,- namely : Emily B., who married R. F. Rarey of Columbus, a member of the law firm of Daughertv, Todd & Rarey ; and Draper M., who is now a captain and a part of the Occupational army in Germany.

As a public servant Mr. Daugherty lias been faithful to every trust reposed in him and he has the confidence and esteem of all classes, being a public spirited, broad-minded, scholarly and genteel gentleman who makes and retains friends without effort. He is one of the leading men in the Republican party in Ohio and has done much to shape its policies in this State. His advice is frequently sought by candidates and he is frequently called into counsel by national leaders of the party.

JAMES TURRELL MILLER. The success of men depends upon character as well as upon knowledge. In every community some men are known for their upright lives, strong common sense and moral worth. Their neighbors and acquaintances respect them, the young generations heed their example, and when they "wrap the drapery of their couches about them and lie down to pleasant dreams" posteritj- listens with reverence to the story of their quiet and useful lives. Among such men of recent period in Columbus was the late James Turrell Miller, who passed from earth's activities on January 13, 1920. He was of modest and unassuming demeanor, a fine type of reliable, energetic American, a man of exemplary character who in every respect merited the high esteem in which he was universally held.

James Turrell Miller was born on Rich sstreet, Columbus, August 1-1, 1816, and was the son of Henry and Almeda (Warner) Miller, pioneer residents of this city, and well known throughout the community. The subject received his educational training in the public schools of Columbus, from which he was graduated. Shortly afterwards he was stricken with typhoid fever, the outcome of which was continued ill health, because of which his father bought him a farm, believing the change from city to rural life would be physically beneficial to him, which it proved to be. This farm, which lies along the Scioto river, on the Dublin road, was the nucleus from which Mr. Miller began to acquire the splendid tract of land which is now Upper Arlington. His parents erected the old homestead in 1862 and made their home there until Mr. Miller's marriage, in 1869, when they removed into Columlnis. where Henry Miller was closely identified with various business interests. The young man then look possession of the old home and there lived up to the time of his death. He added to his original farm from time to time until his landed possessions here amounted to about 1000 -nil-,, which, in 1913, was sold by him to the Upper Arlington Company, the family retaining the old homestead. Upper Arlington is now one of the very substantial suburbs of the city of Columbus, and a very desirable residence district, the former Miller property including the present site of the Scioto Country Club and the old Columbus Gun Club. While liis extensive land interests required much of his time, he was alive to the interests of thi community and was one of the originators and directors of the Miller & Huston Shoe Company, of Columbus, and, together with his father and Samuel Huston, owned and operated one of the first street railways in Columbus. His activities in a material way added to Ins individual prosperity and to the welfare of the city and community honored by his citizenship. However, he never allowed the pursuit of wealth to warp his kindly nature, but preserved his faculties and the warmth of his heart for the broadening and helpful influence of human life, being to the end a kindly, genial friend and gentleman whom it was a pleasure to meet.

Politically, Mr. Miller was an earnest supporter of the Republican party and took a deep interest in public affairs. He was the first mayor of Upper Arlington, serving as chief magistrate of the village for a year before it adopted the commission form of government, in 1918. While he was a member of the Scioto Country Club, the Columbus Automobile Club, and the State Street Schoolboys' Association, he was not a society or club man in the ordinary acceptance of the term, though he delighted in the companionship of men. But he was essentially a home man and his happiest hours were spent in the family circle. A lover of nature, he was very fond of flowers and in many ways gave evidence of an inborn love of the esthetic. His donations to benevolent and charitable objects were made entirelv without ostentation or display.

On December 8, 1869, James T. Miller was married to Esther E. Everitt, the daughter of Zephaniah and Nancy (Smiley) Everitt, both of whom were pioneer residents of Franklin county, and of whose five children she was the third in order of birth, the survivors being Mrs. *E. W. Tuller, of Dublin, Ohio, and Mrs. J. C. Richards, of Columbus. Mrs. Miller died on May 19, 1909. Surviving Mr. and Mrs. Miller are six daughters and two sons, namely: Jessie Evelyn, Ella Huston, Nancy, Almeda, Grace, Eliza, who became the wife of Edward D. Howard, their children being Eliza Miller Howard and Edward Davenport Howard; Henry, who was married to Helen Barton, of Cadillac, Michigan, their present home being in Upper Arlington, their children are James Barton Miller and Esther Miller; Lieutenant Samuel Huston Miller is a member of the medical corps of the United States army, being located at Camp Dix, New Jersey. He married Evelyn Blake, of Camden, New Jersey, and they have one child, Margaret Blake Miller.

Mr. Miller's career was complete and rounded in its beautiful simplicity ; he did his full duty in all the relations of life, and he died beloved by those near to him, and respected and esteemed by his fellow citizens.

DAVID TOD GILLIAM, M. D. David Tod Gilliam, M. D., distinguished physician and surgeon, instructor and citizen and dean of the Columbus medical profession, was born at Hebron, Ohio, April 3, 184-1, and is descended from two old Virginia families, the Gilliams and Bryans. The Gilliam family trace their ancestry direct to Count de Guillaum, who was given his eoat-of-arms at Hastings, A. D. 1066, by William the Conqueror. After the family got into England the name was changed to Gilliam. William, Devereux and John, sons of Sir Richard Devereux Gilliam, came to America in 1635 aboard the good ship "Constance," with the royal commission to survey and map the Dominion of Virginia. From there the Gilliams of America are descended. They were prominent during the colonial and revolutionary periods. Ensign James Gilliam, of Lunenburg, was killed during the Revolution of 1758; Lieutenant John Gilliam served with great valor in Captain Nathaniel Mason's company of the Fourteenth Virginia Regiment, 1776; Hincha and John Gilliam and Captain James Gilliam served in 1669. Sir Richard Devereux Gilliam married Lady Dorothy, daughter of the Earl of Pembroke, who was beheaded by the Lancastrians July 27, 1-169. Sir Richard was the eldest son of Walter, Viscount of Hereford and the ancestor of Robert Jarratt, who married Sarah Bradley. Their children were: Robert, Joseph, Devereux and Mary Jarrat, who married William Gilliam. The children of William and Mary (Jarratt) Gilliam were: Devereux, who married Edith Ellis; Sarah, who married Mica j ah Williamson; Elizabeth, who married George Raulstone, a direct descendant of Lord Elgan and his svife, Lady Margaret Creighton.

William Gilliam, of Orange county, Virginia, married Ann Poythress and had among others, a son, Robert, who married Lucy Sketton, and a daughter, Ann P., who married Nathaniel Harrison, of Berkley. Other intermarriages connected the Gilliams with many of the notable families not only of the old Dominion, but of other Southern states, and the Gilliam family of the present generation may well be proud of their direct and collateral lineage, for they descend in a clear and unbroken line to those who built up the foundation of our country and are united by blood to the first families of the land.

The Gilliam family was founded in Ohio during the early thirties by William Gilliam (father of David Tod Gilliam, M. D.,) who was born on the family estate "Bellefield," near

Yorktown, Va. He was the son of William and grandson of Jacob Gilliam, who descended from John Gilliam, one of the three brothers who came to Virginia in 1635. William Gilliam, the Ohio settler, married, first, Lucy Scrvent Wills, by whom he had five children. His second wife was Mary Elizabeth Bryan, of "The Vinyards," near Williamsburg, Va., of an old Virginia family. Her mother, Martha Lee, was second cousin of General Robert E. Lee. The children born of the marriage of William and Martha Elizabeth (Bryan) Gilliam were: Edward Lee, Martha Ann, David Tod, Harriet Linsley, John Apperson, Mary California, Charles Frederick, Letitia Virginia and Florence Adelade.

William Gilliam, father of Dr. David Tod, was of a nomadic disposition all through life, and even after coming to Ohio, he was not content to remain long in any one locality and frequently moved his family from one point to another. As a young man he learned shoemaking and followed that trade to some extent, not as a necessary means of livelihood, as his family were wealthy, but from disposition. After coming to Ohio he was engaged in the mercantile business, first at Newark, where he owned two stores at one time. His last place of residence was Nelsonville, where his death occurred. His wife died at Middleport.

Dr. David Tod Gilliam (better known as D. Tod) attended the common schools. He was but a boy of sixteen years when the Civil War came on; he volunteered and in August, 1861, was mustered into Company I, Second West Virginia Loyal Cavalry. The regiment for which he enlisted was an Ohio one, but the State's quota of cavalry having already been filled the regiment was offered to West Virginia and was gladly accepted. At the organization Young Gilliam was elected corporal and drill master of his company. Thirteen months after the regiment began campaigning Dr. Gilliam was wounded and captured at Gauley River, Va., where he was campaigning under General Crook. Five weeks later, however, he made his escape from prison and succeeded in reaching his home then at Middleport, Ohio. From there he was sent to parole camp at Columbus but while there was taken violently and dangerously ill and was sent home to die.

After recovering his health he attended Commercial College at Cincinnati, intending to prepare for a mercantile business. A few years later, however, he abandoned business, read medicine and entered Ohio Medical College, graduating with the degree of M. D., class of 1871. He began practice at Nelsonville, Ohio, but was soon thereafter called to the Chair of Pathology at Columbus Medical College, and he opened an office in this city. Later he accepted the Chair of Physiology in Starling Medical College, Columbus, and in addition to that Chair he later became professor of obstetrics and disease of women. He still later filled the Chair of Gynecology at Starling, which he held for many years when he resigned, and was immediately elected emeritus professor of Gynecology of that college. After the merging of Starling Medical College and the Ohio Medical University under the name of Starling- Ohio Medical College, Dr. Gilliam was elected emeritus professor of gynecology at that institution. Dr. Gilliam has made Gynecology a study and his practice and writings along that line of his professional work have won him recognition in the highest professional circles in America and abroad and he has been highly honored both as physician and surgeon and as a man by the leading medical societies of both the United States and England and has been made an honorary member of many bodies He is a member of all the leading medical associations, including the American Medical Association, the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Ohio Medical Society, the Columbus Academy of Medicine, and is an honorary member of the Columbus Practitioners' Club. His contributions to medical literature have been valuable and include many papers of great scientific value and "A Pocket Hook of Medicine," published in 1882, "The Essentials of Pathology," published in 1883, and "Practical Gynecology," published in 1903. He has kept in touch with the profession at home and abroad and has many times been the guest of honor at banquets given at the meetings of the profession in different cities.

On October 7, 1866, Dr. Gilliam married Lucinda F. Minturn, daughter of Judge Thomas I.. Minturn, of Nelsonville, Ohio, and to them have been born these children: Dr. Farl M., physician and surgeon of Columbus; Robert Lee and Myrtle G.

HORACE LEET CHAPMAN. The late Horace Leet Chapman was a conspicuous figure in tin- industrial, financial and political history of this State for over half a century. He was a native of western New York but spent all of his mature life in Ohio. His parents wen- Samuel and Betsey (Leet) Chapman H'S father's mother w.as a sister of Colonel Coms^/r^C> s^zj/-* fort Tyler, of the Revolutionary War and his mother was a direct descendant of Sir Edwin Leet, first colonial governor of Connecticut. His uncle, Ralph Leet, was one of the first trustees of the Ohio State University.

Horace L. Chapman was born in Allegheney county, New York, on July 10, 1837. His death occurred in Columbus June 28, 1917. He received a common school and academic education in his native county and when he was seventeen years of age he came to Ohio and entered the employ of his uncle, Horace Leet, a lumber merchant of Portsmouth, later becoming his uncle's partner in the firm of Leet & Chapman. In 1863 he engaged in banking as a member of the firm of Kinney & Chapman, private bankers at Portsmouth, and so continued for two wars, during which true he also read law and was admitted to the bar but never entered the practice. In 1865 he removed to Jackson and founded the private bank of Chapman, Clair & Company, which bank was, in 1871, converted into the First National Bank of Jackson, and of which Mr. Chapman became president, and so continued until his death. The subject of this memoir was one of the pioneer coal operators of Jackson and it was due to him, more than to any other one man, that the attention of the world was brought to the valuable coal deposits of that county. He explored and assisted in the development of that field and as the founder and president of the Chapman Coal Company, he became the largest operator and dominant person in that section. He was also identified With the manufacture of iron in that district. He was one of the builders and first vicepresident of the Detroit Southern railroad, which, with the C, H. & D. railways were outlets for the products of his industries. He removed to Columbus in 1892, but continued his business interests at Jackson, in which city he was regarded as the "foremost citizen" long after he had ceased to reside there.

Mr. Chapman was also prominent in the domain of politics, though never a seeker for public office, although his party frequently honored him. He declined a nomination for Congress at a time when the Democratic ticket was certain of election and in 1897 the Democratic State Convention nominated him for Governor, and, although it was understood both by the party and himself that the Republican party would in all human probability win. owing to conditions prevailing at that time, Mr. Chapman accepted the nomination, and, so popular was he with the voters of the State that he reduced Governor Bushnell's 1895 majority from 90,000 to 28,000 in 1907. He was frequently a delegate to the different conventions of his party and in 1900 was delegate-at-large for Ohio to the National Convention at Kansas City.

Fraternally Mr. Chapman was a Knights Templar Mason and socially a member of the Columbus and the Columbus Country Clubs. He was a notable man in many respects, of great executive ability, with a genius for organization, and his success in business was due entirely to his own efforts. His judgment in business matters was wonderfully keen and accurate and he made but few mistakes. His integrity was of the strictest and his reliability was proverbial. He was one of the kindest and most tender hearted of men, with a personality that won and held the friendship of men.

Mr. Chapman was united in marriage with Frances E. Benton, who was born at Port Allegheney, Penn., the daughter of the fate Hon. A. M. and Beulah G. (Hill) Benton, and to their union were born a son, Frank Benton Chapman, and a daughter, Grace, now Mrs. Henrv Nelson Rose, both of whom, with their mother, survive.

GEORGE TALLMAN SPAHR. Practical industry, wisely and vigorously applied, never fails of success. It carries a man onward and upward, brings out his individual character and acts as a powerful stimulous to the efforts of others. It is the motive force back of all lea-itimate action that makes for higher levels in the industrial world and those who do not recognize its importance in the general scheme of things must not expect to get very far up tlie heights. Recognizing this fact at the outset of his career George Tallman Spahr has governed his life accordingly.

Mr. Spahr was born in Ironton, Ohio, November 6. 1856, and is descended from two sterling old Buckeye families. His paternal grandfather was of Swiss extraction and was a native of Virginia, from which state he removed to Ohio in the early part of the nineteenth century, settling near Xenia. The maternal grandfather was a pioneer of Pickaway county. Ohio, where for a number of years he served as Probate Judge.

minister of the Methodist Church of Ohio and one of the leading men of that denomination, occupying manv important pulpits throughout the State. He was born and grew up on his father's farm, near Xenia, attended the district schools and Miami University and entered the ministry when a young man. He served as presiding elder of the Marietta, Lancaster, Columbus and London districts of the Ohio Conference. In 1858 he was appointed to the pulpit of Old Town Street Church, Columbus, and occupied the pulpit two years, and in 1870 he was again appointed to that charge, serving one year, then became presiding elder of the Columbus district. He was profoundly versed in the Bible and was a forceful, earnest, logical and eloquent pulpit orator. He retired from the ministry in 1880, and spent his last years in Columbus, where his death occurred June 4, 1890. His wife, Elizabeth Tallman, was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, the daughter of Judge Tallman. She died in Columbus, June 28, 1900.

George T. Spahr was graduated from the Columbus High School in 187-1, then entered Amherst College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1878. He read law in Columbus and was admitted to the bar in 1881. However, soon thereafter and before he had entered practice, he became manager of the Gazette Printing House and later secured an interest in that business, which was destroyed by fire on January 26, 1892. Following this the firm of Spahr & Glenn was organized and the entire job printing business of the Ohio State Journal was taken over by them. This firm has continued to the present time, growing with advancing years.

Mr. Spahr may well be classed as one of the builders of Columbus of the present generation, for lie has long been active in promoting the growth and development of the city in a very substantial way. In 1897 he built the Spahr building and in 1901 erected the Outlook building, both on Broad street, in the heart of the business section, and both notable office buildings. He has also figured prominently in the financial history of the city. He was one of the original directors of the Mutual Savings Association, over thirty years ago, and has ever since been a member of that board. He was a director of the Ohio Trust Company, and lias been a director of the National Bank of Commerce from its organization twenty years ago. He was a director of the Chamber of Commerce from 1897 to 1903 and president of same in 1903 and 1901. He has been a member of the board of trustees of Broad Street Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church since 1885.

Mr. Spahr belongs to the Columbus Club, the Columbus Country Club, the Columbus Athletic Club and the Scioto Country Club. He is a member of the Masonic order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

October 28, 1886, Mr. Spahr was married to Harriet C. Marple, daughter of Nathan B. and Harriet (Clark) Marple. Mrs. Spahr died November 23, 1919. The following children were born to them: Marie, who was graduated from the Columbus High School in 1901, also was graduated from Wellesley College with the class of 1909; she served as field secretary of the College Settlement Association for two years, and was married on June 15, 1915, to Stanley C. Colburn of Duluth, Minnesota; Elizabeth was graduated from Walnut Hills School, at Natick, Massachusetts, with the class of 1908, and she studied music at Dresden, Germany; on November 15, 1910, she was married to Frank Austin MeElroy of Columbus: Dorothy, died at the age of two years and four months; Eleanor was graduated from Walnut Hills School in Massachusetts, with the class of 1915, and she married Rutherford H. Piatt. jr., of Columbus, on August 18, 1917; Katherine, tin- youngest of the children, is at home witli her father.

Personally, Mr. Spain- is a gentleman of many commendable qualities of head and heart which have made him popular with a wide circle of friends and acquantances, and he has long been regarded as one of the foremost citizens of the capital city.

RUTHERFORD HAYES PI.ATT. For many years Rutherford Hayes Piatt has been an able and respected member of the Franklin county bar. Mr. Piatt was born in Columbus September fi, 1853. His father, the late William Augustus Piatt, was a conspicuous figure in Hi. affairs of Columbus a generation ago and bis achievements earned for him a place anions; those men of the pas! who are termed the builders of the capital city. lie was a native of Massachusetts, born in Lanesboro, that stale. March 7 1809, and was a direct descendant of Richard Piatt, I lie American ancestor of tin's branch of the family who came over from Hertfordshire, England, in 1638, settling in the Connecticut colony. His mother dying srhen he was but four years old, William Augustus Piatt was reared by the family of Benjamin Piatt, his grandfather, and with his grandparents he came to Columbus in 1817. While educational facilities at that early period were limited in the middle west, he nevertheless acquired a good English education. He was ambitious and possessed an unusually bright and receptive mind. In early manhood he learned the watchmaker's trade, opened a jewelry store in the Neil House block and became one of the successful business men of his time. As the years passed he became interested in other business affairs and in 1816 he was chosen president of the Columbus Gas Company, which lie had helped organize. In 1850 he retired from the jewelry business in order that he might devote more of his time to other interests. He was one of the founders of the Ohio Tool Company, took a leading part in organizing and conducting other successful undertakings and became one of the leading business men of that period.

William A. Piatt was also prominent in civic affairs of Columbus. He served as a member of the original board of trustees of Greenlawn Cemetery, aided in the selection of a suitable site for the same and was president of the association for twelve years. Governor Chase appointed him a member of the State House Commission in charge of the erection of Ohio's new State House, then in course of construction, and he continued a member of the commission until the capitol was completed. His death occurred August 8, 1882.

On September 2, 1839, William A. Piatt was united in marriage with Fanny A. Hayes, of Delaware, Ohio. Her death occurred July 16, 1856, leaving one son and three daughters.

Rutherford H. Piatt of this review was prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, then entered Yale University, from which he was graduated in 1874 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He studied law and entered Columbia Law School, New York City, from which he was graduated with the class of 1879 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws; soon thereafter he was admitted to the Ohio Bar and immediately began the practice of law in Columbus.

Mr. Piatt was for three years professor of pleading and practice in the Law School of Ohio State University and he was for five years a member of the commission appointed by the Supreme Court of Ohio to conduct the semi-annual examinations of applicants for admission to the bar. He was a member of the Ohio Board of State Charities from 1901 to 1913. He was president of Greenlawn Cemetery Association for a number of years, is a member of the board of trustees of Starling Medical College and of the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. In May, 1917, he was nominated to the Governor by the Common Pleas Judges of Franklin county for appointment to the board to be formed to administer the selective service law in Franklin county. Thereafter he aided in the selection by the Governor of the members of the five boards for the city of Columbus and Franklin county, and himself served as Chairman of Local Board No. 3 of Columbus throughout the war. He has been president of the Columbus & Xenia Railroad company since 1913.

Mr. Piatt is a member of the Franklin County Bar Association, also the Ohio State Bar Association. He belongs to the Columbus Club, the Columbus Country Club, the Scioto Country Club, and the Yale Club of New York City.

January 8, 1887, Mr. Piatt was united in marriage with Maryette A. Smith, a granddaughter of the late Judge Joseph R. Swan, of the Ohio Supreme Court. To their union the following children have been born: Robert S. was graduated from Yale University in 1914, then took post-graduate work in geology and geography at Chicago University. In the late war he was commissioned Captain of infantry ; served as an instructor in two successive officers' training schools at Camp Grant, Rockford, 111., and commanded a company in the 82nd infantry, 16th Division, when the war ended. He is now a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago. Rutherford H, jr., was in his junior vear at Yale University, class of 1918, when war was declared. He left college to join the National Army, was commissioned a first lieutenant of artillery and served with the 323d regiment, field artillery. He participated with his regiment in the hard fighting of the last six weeks of the war and was with the armv of occupation on the Rhine. He married in August, 1917, Eleanor, daughter of George T. Spahr, of Columbus. Since his discharge from the service he has joined the publishing firm of Doubleday, Page & Company and is on the staff of the World's Work. Joseph S. is preparing for college and Emily is at home.

HENRY GUMBLE. The name of Henry Gumble, lawyer, needs no introduction to the people of Columbus. Possessed and imbued as he is to a large degree with the elementary principles of the law, his addresses before the CDurt or jury, his briefs and written opinions have ever been models of perspicuity and force, and plain to the comprehension of all. But while In has distinguished himself as an attorney, he has a greater claim to the respect of the people of central Ohio in his sturdy integrity of character and his life-long course as a friend of justice.

Mr. Gumble was born in the city of which he is still a resident on August 20, 1863. He is a son of Max and Miriam (Wise) Gumble. The father was born in Baden, Germany, in 1 8.32, and in that year the mother was born in Bavaria, Germany. They immigrated to America in early manhood and womanhood and were married in Boston, Massachusetts, from which city they came to Columbus, in 1858, and here they spent the rest of their lives, the father dying in 1896 and the mother passing away in 1898. Max Gumble was one of the well known business men of the capital city for many years.

Henry Gumble received his early education in the Columbus grammar and high schools, graduating from the latter in 1880. He then entered Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated in 1883. He was admitted to the bar in 1881 and soon thereafter entered the practice of his profession in Columbus, continuing two years, then in 1886 he accepted a position as assistant disbursing clerk of the lower house of Congress and spent three years in the national capital. He returned to the private practice of law in Columbus in 1889, becoming a member of the law firm of Outhwaite, Linn, McNaughton it Gumble, which firm became Outhwaite, Linn & Gumble upon the death of Mr. McNaughton in 1891. Retiring from the above firm in 1896 Mr. Gumble formed a partnership with his brother, Nathan, under the firm name of Gumble & Gumble, which partnership was terminated by the death of the junior member of the firm in 1911, since which time our subject has been engaged in the practice alone.

In September. 1917, Judge Safer, of the Federal Court for the Southern District of Ohio, appointed Mr. Gumble LTnited States Commissioner, the duties of which responsible position lie lias continued to discharge with ability, fidelity and honesty.

Mr. Gumble is a member of the Franklin County Bar Association, of which he was at one time president. He also belongs to the Ohio State Bar Association. He is a member of the Columbus Athletic Club and the Progress Club.

On September 24, 1891, Mr. Gumble married Mollie Harmon, of Columbus. To their union a son and daughter have been born namely: Beatrice, who married Edwin B. Jacobs, a business man of Cincinnati; and Max H.

\\ 1 1. HI R T. MILLS has b' en one of the most active and progressive architects of Columbus since the beginning of his practice here in 1892.

He is the son and grandson of Methodist ministers, both well known and prominent, in their day, throughout western Pennsylvania end eastern Ohio. His mother, (still living) is a Thoburn, being the voungest sister of James M. Thoburn, the well-known Bishop of India of the Methodist Church.

Following a special apprenticeship in a large engineering plant covering several years, Mr. Mills came to Columbus to complete his engineering education at the Ohio State LTniversity, and although following the practice of architecture since leaving the University, he lias personally specialized in the engineering phases of his chosen profession.

Several hundred buildings designed in Mr. Mills' office and supervised by himself and associates have been constructed throughout the Central States, and one at least in a foreign land. .a large school for girls in Seoul, Korea. During the past four years his business lias been an incorporated companv The Mills & Millspaugh Company - Mr. M. Laurence Millspaugh being associated with Mr. Mills, and the firm both designs and constructs buildings ol th? belter class, specializing in coin nereial structures.

Mr. Mills is I he author of American School Building Standards, - a handbook of school architecture lor the use of architects and boa'als of education, which has become a standard authority in its Held .and is in ve>-v general pse throughout the United States and Canada, also in two or three foreign lands. This ha- naturally given Mr. Mills personally much prestige as an authority on educational buildings, and has led to consulting employment with educational bodies in many parts of the country. He has also written a number of contributions for technical journals, and a paper for one session of the National Educational Association.

By way of innovations in his field of activities, Mr. Mills introduced into Ohio the method of lighting school rooms from one side only, now the generally accepted practice, and so far as known was the first architect to make use of rough-surface brick, now known as Rug, Tapestry or wire-cut brick, instead of smooth faced press brick for outside wall facing of buildings.

Mr. Mills has two children: Wilbur T., jr., now a senior at Ohio State, and Miss Dorothy, a musician residing in New York City. His wife, Minnie Luse Mills, has been for years a prominent organist and instructor in the theory of music here in Columbus, and has appeared in recital in many large cities of the central states.

EDMUND EARL SHEDD. One of the best remembered business men of a past generation in Columbus was the late Edmund Earl Shedd, one of the prominent pioneer merchants of the capital city, and a man who did much in promoting the general upbuilding of the same. Of Mr. Shedd's personality it may be said he was a man of strong and active sympathies; his temperament was ardent, sympathetic and his demeanor uniformly courteous, and these and other attractive characteristics unconsciously drew him an unusual number of devoted friends, upon whom, under all circumstances, he could rely, and who, now that he has "passed over the river," revere his memory. He was a close student of human nature and comprehended with little effort the motives and purposes of men. A lover of truth and sincerity, perhaps, his most predominant trait was his sterling integrity. Of spotless character and unflagging industry and energy, he rose through his own efforts to a position of great usefulness and no little distinction and stood as a conspicuous example of symmetrically developed American manhood, and his position as one of the representative citizens of Columbus for over a half century was cheerfully conceded by all who knew him.

Mr. Shedd was a resident of the Buckeye capital for considerably over three-quarters of a century, and for a period of sixty-five years was engaged in business here under his own name, and during his long and active career he built up not only one of the largest mercantile houses in his home city but also an untarnished reputation as a useful, honorable and patriotic citizen.

The Shedd family has been in America since 1645, in which remote year Daniel Shedd emigrated from England and settled in Baintree, Massachusetts, colony. His direct descendant, Oliver Shedd (great-grandfather of the subject of this memoir), was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, fighting with the Colonial troops, and his son, Abijah Shedd, grandfather of our subject, married Joanna Farley, a daughter of Ebenezer Farley, who, as a "minute man," fought at the battle of Lexington. Abijah Shedd, the second, father of Edmund E. Shedd, was a native of Hollis, New Hampshire, as was also his wife, Sophia Blood.

Edmund E. Shedd was born on a fa: m at the town of Bethel, Vermont, July Hi, 1828. He was engaged in farming and mercantile pursuits at his old home town until 1846, in which year he came to Ohio. He had received a very good practical education when a boy and after coming west he taught school one year at Goodhope, Fayette county, this State, then spent a year at Hillsboro, and in 1848 took up his residence in Columbus where he spent the remainder of his long and useful life.

His first employment in Columbus was as a clerk for Brooks & Huston, wholesale grocers, with which firm lie spent about two years, then took a position witli the firm of Decker & Hibbs, wholesale grocers, witli whom lie remained about three years. He was a close observer and while in the employ of these two concerns he mastered the various phases of the mercantile business, and in 1852 entered business on his own account by organizing the wholesale grocery company of Shedd & Miller. In 1856 Mr. John Miller was succeeded in the firm by Isaac Eberly, and for the next thirteen years the firm continued as Eberly & Shedd, located on the spot now occupied by the Southern Theatre.

In 18GP. that firm was dissolved and Mr. Shedd organized the E. E. Shedd & Company, and later admitted his sons into the firm as partners. 1" 18!) I- the firm became that of E. E. Shedd & Sons, moving into their large and well equipped building on North Front street. In 1901 the business was incorporated as The E. E. Shedd Mercantile Company, of which our subject continued president until his death. By close application, good management and courteous and honest dealings with his customers he built up a large and important mercantile establishment that grew gradually with the growing city. A large number of the best firms of Columbus traded with him continuously for a period of many years, which fact would indicate that they always received fair and just treatment by this old and well established house, the prestige of which has continued unabated to the present time.

Mr. Shedd was a member of the first board of directors of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce and was for several years a director of the Fourth National Bank.

In 1852 Mr. Shedd married Aurelia Edna Thompson, a daughter of James McMillan Thompson, of London, Madison county, Ohio. Her death occurred in 1903. To their marriage the following children were born: Virginia S., now deceased, married Col. Orlando J. Hodge, of Cleveland, Ohio: Franklin J., also deceased, married Anna Frisbie, a daughter of Charles H. Frisbie, of Columbus; Edmund E., jr., who married, first, Ella Lansing, of Cliillicothe, Ohio; second, Alice L. Anderson, Richmond, Va. ; Frederick married Agnes Jeffrey, a daughter of Joseph A. Jeffrey, of Columbus; Harry, deceased; and Carlos Butler, who married Louise Krauss, daughter of George C. Krauss, of Columbus.

The death of Mr. Shedd occurred on Monday, April 15th, 1918, at the advanced age of ninety years. He is remembered as a successful business man, of pleasing presence, a well read and manly man and one whose career was of much benefit to the general welfare of his home city.

GEORGE H. BARKER. The greatest results in life are often attained by simple means and the exercise cf the ordinary qualiities of common sense and perseverance. This fact having been recognized early in life by George H. Barker, an extensive coal operator of Columbus, he seized the small apportunities that he encountered on the rugged hill that leads to life's lofty summit where lies the ultimate goal of success," never attained by the weak, ambitionless and inactive.

Mr. Barker is a native of Ohio and is descended from two old Buckeye families. His grandfather, John Barker, a native of New York state, came to Ohio in early days and settled in Perry county, while his maternal grandfather, James Dollison, was an early citizen of near Zanesville, Muskingum county.

Rev. David Goodin Barker, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Perry county, Ohio. He was for over a quarter of a century in the Baptist ministry in southeastern Ohio, holding charges in Hocking, Perry and Fairfield counties, and died at Pleasantville. He married Martha Jane Dollison, who was born near Zanesville. Following his death she brought her family to Columbus.

George H. Barker was born at Ewing, Ohio, July '-'7, 1S7:S, and from his fourteenth year was reared in Columbus. He is a splendid example of a successful self-made man. 1 1 was necessary for him to become a bread winner at an early age and while attending school he carried a regular route on the Columbus Dispatch. He also worked during spare time and through the summer vacations at various odd jobs, at whatever he could get to earn an honesl dollar. Being compelled to leave school at an early age, he secured a position as clerk iii a prominent drug store and applied himself to the study of pharmacy bill, as tin's did not prove to liis Liking, lie took a course in a business college and became a bookkeeper in one of the offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and later worked as bookkeeper for various business firms, and finally became secretary of a building and loan association.

!-> iQio Mr. Barkei identified himself with Maynard Brothers, operators of coal mines, firsl as bookkeeper, and two years later as sales manager. When that firm was incorporated in 1907 as The Maynard Coal Company he was elected vice-president, which position he has continued to occupy to the present time. He is also vice-president of the Superior Coal & Dock Company of Superior, Wisconsin, and Duluth, Minnesota. He is secretary and treasurer of the Daniel Boone Coal Company of Hazard, Kentucky. He is vice-president and director of the National Coal Association of Washington, D. C, and a director in the Citv National Rank of Columbus. In all the above mentioned concerns his advice and influence have made for success and he is regarded as one of the leading coal operators of central Ohio. Through his close application, sound judgment and general ability he has forged his way up from an unpromising early environment to a position of influence and prominence in the affairs of Columbus, deserving much credit for what he has accomplished in the face of obstacles.

Mr. Barker has long taken an active interest in civic affairs and philanthropic work and has been a participant in the different Red Cross campaigns for war funds and in the "war chest" campaign. He was at one time president of the Columbus Young Men's Christian Association. He is charitably inclined and gives freely of his time and means to worthy causes, calculated to be beneficial to his fellow men. He is a member of the Columbus Club, the Columbus Country Club, the Columbus Athletic Club, and fraternally, he is a Past Master of Kinsman Lodge of Masons, a thirty-third degree Mason, belonging to the Scottish Rite, Knights Templar and Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

Mr. Barker was married to Lena Maynard, who was born in Sunbury, Ohio, the daughter of Burns L. Maynard, one of the founders of the Maynard Coal Company. They have one son and one daughter, namely: Margaret Maynard Barker, and Burns Maynard Barker.

The career of Mr. Barker might be studied with much profit by the youth hesitf.ting at the parting of the ways, for therein are many valuable lessons, chief of which is the fact that to the young man of grit, courage, honesty and proper ideals there are no obstacles big enough to prevent him from attaining a large measure of success in this world, if he seeks it along legitimate lines.

EDWARD NEWTON HUGGINS. One of the best known members of the Franklin County Bar is Edward Newton Huggins, who has been practicing law in Columbus for the past thirty-three years, during which time he has met with continued success and has kept well abreast of the times in his profession. Concerning the sincerity of purpose, the unquestioned probity and uprightness of conduct and character, the ability and honesty of Mr. Huggins, it may be said, they are as well known and recognized as his name.

Mr. Huggins was born at Mt. Oral), Brown county, Ohio, November 6, 1860, and is of Buckeye pioneer stock. His grandfather, Robert V. Huggins, was a native of Lincoln county. North Carolina, and in very early days made the tedious overland journey from that state with a party headed by the Rev. Rankin, the abolitionist, and settled near Ripley, Ohio, where the party formed a settlement and as early as 1812 established what was known as "Red Oak" Church. A few years later Robert Virgil Huggins removed to Highland county,, where he purchased a large tract of land, some of which is still held by his descendants after a lapse of more than a century. He was a strong abolitionist, and before the war between the states his five sons, also abolitionists, conducted an "underground railroad" and assisted many a slave in his flight for freedom.

James E. Huggins, son of Robert V. Huggins, the pioneer, and father of Edward N., was born in Brown county, Ohio. There he grew to manhood, attended the district schools and became a leader in public affairs. He was a delegate to t he first convention of the Republican party held at Columbus. He lived to the advanced age of eighty-two years. He married Arethusa C. Diboll, a native of Connecticut and a daughter of Dr. William Virgil and Philena (Collins) Diboll, both descended from early New England families. Mrs. Diboll was of the old Collins-Huntington families, of which Collins P. Huntington, the great railroad magnate and philanthropist, and P. W. Huntington, the late Columbus banker, were descendants. Dr. Diboll brought his large family to Ohio in early days. Mrs. Huggins lived to reach her seventy-sixth year.

Edward N. Huggins was educated in the district schools and the Hillsboro High School. He read law under Judge Samuel F. Steel, and his brother, Judge Henry M. Huggins at Hillsboro. and, in 188:3. entered the senior class of the Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated with the class of 1884, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bar in June of that year, and entered the practice in Columbus the following October. He was first in the office of Henry C. and Edward L. Taylor for a few months, and in April, 1885, he associated himself with the late John G. MeOuffy, under the firm name of McGuffv & Huggins. Three vears later he became the associate of 1). K. Watson, Attorney General of Oliio, which partnership continued about four years, when .Mr. Hug-gins organized the firm of Huggins & Sowers, which later became Huggins, Sowers & Watson. Mr. B. G. Watson becoming a member. Then lie became the senior member of the firm of Huggins, Johnson & Hoover, then of Huggins, Huggins & Hoover, and now he is the senior member of the firm of Huggins, Pretzman & Davies. His practice has been general, running largely to corporation law, in which lie is regarded as an expert and one of the most successful in the State. He is a member of the Franklin County Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association.

In 1892 Mr. Huggins was the Republican candidate for Congress in his district, leading a "forlorn hope," as the district was overwhelmingly Democratic, although lie ran ahead of his ticket. Again, in 1898, at the urgent request of William McKinlev, then President, he made the race for Congress and was defeated a second time, but only by seven hundred and two votes, while the Democratic majority was over three thousand. In 1908 he headed the Republican ticket in Ohio for elector-at-large. He was one of Senator Mark Hanna's most trusted lieutenants, and was for years a leader in the party in central Ohio and did much for its success.

On October 10, 1890, Mr. Huggins married Clara Morris, a daughter of Dr. W. W. I'.llslierrv, a noted physician and member of Congress from Georgetown, Ohio.

Mr. Huggins is a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, the Columbus Country Club and the Presbyterian Church. He has long been regarded as one of the representative citizens of the capital city, whose interests he has done much to promote, and where he is held in high esteem by all classes.

CHARLES H. LIXDENBERG, president of The M. C. Lilley & Company, manufacturers of regalia, military and society goods, was born in Prussia January It, 1811, the son of Theodore and Charlotte (Bisky) Lindenberg.

Theodore Lindenberg was graduated from a German university and prepared for the legal profession. He was appointed Judge for life and held a judicial position until the German Revolution of 1818, in which he participated, and which action caused him to flee the country in 1819. Coming to America in that year he located in Columbus, but owing to bis inability to master the English language sufficiently to enable him to practice law in this country, he engaged in the manufacture of cigars in this city. Both be and bis wife died in Columbus.

Charles H. Lindenberg attended school in Prussia and also the public schools of Columbus. He served an apprenticeship at typesetting on the Ohio State Journal and worked a journeyman printer until the Civil War came on. In April, 1861, in response to President Lincoln's first call for three months' troops, Mr. Lindenberg volunteered and was mustered into Company G, Thirteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Before the three months' service bad expired he re-cnlisted for three years' service in the same company and regiment, and alter bis full term of service was mustered out and discharged as First Lieutenant. Returning from the war h" followed his trade for awhile and thin in 1865 joined M. C. Lilley, Captain John Seibert and Henry Lindenberg, a brother, in organizing the .M. C. Lilley & Company, a partnership, for the publication of the old "Odd Fellows' Companion," a fraternal publication which in its time enjoyed a great success, its circulation reaching ultimately over twenty thousand copies monthly. In those days the manufacturers of regalia did not advertise to any great extent in fraternal or other publications and M. C. Lilley & Company receivsd letters from all over the west asking for information as to where regalia could be purchased. This led the company to enter this line of manufacture themselves in a small way and from that small beginning has grown I In great M. C. Lilley & Company, now the largest house in that line in the world. The Company was incorporated and Mr. Lindenberg has been its president continually, with the exception of one year, when poor health induced him to resign, only to resume the office a year later, a Iter bis health bad been restored. Mr. Lindenberg was the organizer of

I be Columbus Brass Company, and has been its president since its incorporation. He also organized tin Columbus Piano Company (now the Lindenberg Piano Company) and was its president lor a long time, being succeeded by his son Paul. He has been active in the Chamber of Commerce, served on its board of directors and was elected president of the organization, but declined lo serve lor privat reasons. Fie is a member of the Wells Post,

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G. A. R., of Ohio Commandery Loyal Legion and belongs to the different degrees of the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and other fraternal soeieties.

Mr. Lindenberg married Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Robins, of Columbus, a native of New York state, and to them have been barn the following five sons: Carl, vice-president of The M. C. Lilley & Company, Frank, a mechanical engineer; Paul, president of the Lindenberg Piano Company; Robert, in the office of The M. C. Lilley & Company, and Leo.

GUS B. BARLOW. That "man liveth not to himself alone" is an assurance that is amply verified in all the affairs of life but its pertinance is the more patent in those instances where persons have so employed their inherent talents, so improved their opportunities and so marshaled their forces as to gain prestige which finds its angle of influence ever broadening in practical beneficence and human helpfulness, One of the well known and influential citizens of Columbus who, while laboring for the legitimate advancement of his own affairs, has not neglected his larger duties as a citizen is Gus B. Barlow, prominent life insurance man.

Mr. Barlow was born at Jackson, Ohio, December 27, 1859. He is a son of Henry and Rosene (Marshall) Barlow, both natives of England. They came to the LJnited States in early life and were married in Ross county, Ohio. For a number of years the father was engaged in the mercantile business in Jackson, later moved to Portsmouth, Ohio, where his death occurred in 1900, when past seventy-eight years of age. The mother of our subject died in Columbus in 1912, when past her eighty-second birthday.

Gus B. Barlow received a common school education and when a boy served an apprenticeship at the printer's trade in Portsmouth, and continued to work at the same for some time, then became an editor, manager and finally owner of newspapers. During the time the Hon. James W. Newman was filling the office of secretary of state of Ohio, Mr. Barlow had charge of the Portsmouth Times, of which Mr. Newman was the owner. He organized the Portsmouth Press early in 1897 and published that paper until late in the same year when he sold out and organized the Portsmouth News, a morning daily paper. This property he disposed of in 1898 on account of failing health and the following year entered the life insurance field as local agent at Portsmouth, of the Washington Life Insurance Company, of which he later became district manager and special worker.

In the fall of 1908 Mr. Barlow became manager of the Ohio department of the Federal Life Insurance Company and in 1909 he established his home in Columbus. In 1917 he was made manager of the Ohio department of the Federal Accident and Health Insurance Company, which department he organized, and is now manager of both branches of this company for Ohio. As a life insurance man he has been very successful from the beginning, possessing the various attributes that go to make up the successful worker in this field. He has unusual energy, perseverance, foresight and diplomacy, besides being scrupulously honest. One year he had an individual production of business with the Federal Life Insurance Company which had not been equaled by any other agent connected with this company up until the year 1918, when it was exceeded. He has been a member of the Federal's "One Hundred Thousand Dollar Life Club" for every year of its existence, and at the meeting of the club in San Francisco in 191-1 he was elected president of the club, serving one year.

Mr. Barlow is prominent in Masonic an 1 Pythian circles, belonging to all the different bodies of these two organizations. He served for three years as worshipful master of Portsmouth Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. He is a member of Goodale Lodge. No. 372, Free and Accepted Masons of Columbus, of Mt. Vernon Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, No. 23, of Portsmouth; also of Solomon Council, Xo. 79, Royal and Select Masters of Portsmouth; Calvary Commandery, No. 13, Knights Templar of Portsmouth; A. A. Scottish Rite. Valley of Cincinnati, in which lie has attained the thirty-second degree: In- belongs to Svn.m Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Cincinnati. He ha" he'd cverv office in tlie Knights of Pythiias order, including membership in Massie Lodge, Xo. 115, Knights of Pythias; he is a retired member of the Uniform Hank, was for ten vears adjutant and signal officer of the Tenth Regiment, Uniform Rank, in which office he was succeeded by Hon. Carmi Thompson, ex-secretary of state. He has held membershit) in all the above named bodies, except the Mystic Shrine, for the requisite time in which to p-ive him life membership. He was one of three supreme delegates to the first Sunreme Lod<>-e meeting of the D. O. K. K. of Chica<rn in 1895, which delegates made the first supreme laws for this order. He was given a medal by Franklin Ellis for personally organizing the greatest number of Knights of Pythias lodges in any county in Ohio for lli.it pear than any other one man. He has served as a member of the board of trustees of the Third Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, and is active in all lines of endeavor relating to the civic life of Columbus. He sent to the Federal Government suggestions for manless aeronautics, which idea provides for controlling war-planes from the starting point, also provides for the discharge of explosives at the proper time, which plans he suggested be turned over to an Edison, a Maxim, or other inventor for them to work out in detail. He is in receipt of letters from the national war board thanking him for his patriotic action.

Mr. Barlow is a type of the broad-minded, patriotic, far-seeing citizen, always alert to the best interests of his country, ready to discharge his obligations to the community, State and nation as he sees it, and always ready to bear his full share of the civic burden. He is a Republican in politics, but is not a biased partisan, preferring to vote for the best man, irrespective of party alignment.

On December 27, 1881, Mr. Barlow was united in marriage with Agnes E. Brouse, at Portsmouth, Ohio, and to their union one son was born, Gus H. Barlow, whose birth occurred at Portsmouth, October 23, 1884; he received good educational advantages, and since December, 1908, the son has held the position of cashier of the Ohio Department of the Federal Life Insurance Company at Columbus; he is a member of Goodale Lodge, No. 372, Free and Accepted Masons, also of Scioto Commandery and has attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite Order ; he is also a member of Aladdin Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He was employed during the latter part of the war at the hardest work in the Lorain, Ohio, shipyard, which he preferred to any clerical work. He remained two months after the war closed. He is a young man of much business ability and in every way a worthy son of a worthy sire.

THOMAS J. KEATING. Born in Philadelphia, Pa. Reared and educated in Ohio. Admitted to practice law in the State and Federal Courts of Ohio and in the Supreme Court of the United States. Has served as president of the Franklin County Bar Association and of the Ohio State Bar Association, and is a member of the American Bar Association Residence for the last thirty years, 1317 East Broad street, Columbus, Ohio.

RALPH REAMER RICKLY, son of Samuel S. and Maria M. Rickly, who succeeded his father in the banking business in Columbus, was the last representative of the family. He was born at Taralton, Pickaway count}', Ohio, January 20, 1851, and died at his home in Columbus, January 1(5, 1919. He received his preliminary education in the public schools, graduating from the old Central High School in 1868. He then entered Yale University from which he was graduated in 1872 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Upon leaving the University Mr. Rickly returned to Columbus and worked in his father's bank as Teller. He had assisted in the bank at intervals previous to going to college. In 1875 when the bank was reorganized and incorporated as the Capital City Bank lie became Cashier and after the death of his father succeeded to the presidency, which responsible position he held up to the time of bis death.

Mr. Rickly was one of the organizers and incorporators of the Bank of Corning at Corning, Ohio, of which he was President. It was incorporated in 1892. He also helped organize the Bank of Basil, Basil, Ohio, which was incorporated in 1895, and of which he was also President. He was the oldest active banker in Columbus in point of years of service; was vice-president of both the Columbus Transfer Company and the Kauffman & Lattimer Company, and a trustee of Heidelberg Universitv. Mr. Rickly was very successful in business affairs and was in everv respect a worthy son of a worthy sire. He was one nf the most widely known Masons in the state; was the oldest thirtv-third degree Scottish Rite Mason, also the oldest member of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in Columbus: was Past Master of Goodale Lodge No. 372; Past High Priest of the Ohio Chapter No. 12; Past Thrice Illustrious Master of Columbus Council No. 8; Past Eminent Commander of Mt. Vernon Commandery No. 1. Knights Templar; was Most Wise Master of Columbus Chapter, Rose Croix. A. A. S. R. for a number of years; was treasurer of Hi. Scottish Rite bodies of Columbus, Aladd'i Temple, Goodale Lodge, Ohio Chapter, Columbus Council, Mt. Vernon Commanderv. Masonic Temple Association and M-"-"iic Mutual Benefit Association; was Pa t Grand Commander of the Grand Com- mandery of Ohio Knights Templar and at the time of his deatli was Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge, F. & A. M. and of the Grand Chapter, R. A. M. of Ohio.

WILLIAM GREEN DESHLER. The late William Green Deshler, pioneer business man and banker of Columbus, was for many years one of the city's most conspicuous and notable figures - known by all and by all respected. He was born in Columbus May 24, 1827, the son of David and Betsy (Green) Deshler, the old family residence then being on the site of the present Hotel Deshler, named in honor of the family who built it. His father, David Deshler, was the owner of the Clinton Bank, a pioneer financial institution.

William Green Deshler was educated in the private schools of Columbus and eastern Pennsylvania, and at the age of seventeen entered his father's bank and for years was a leader in the banking circles of Columbus. Becoming the guiding genius of the old Clinton Bank, he developed it into what became the Deshler National Bank and he continued at the head of the new bank until he wound up its affairs and surrendered its charter in 1911.

During the Civil War Mr. Deshler was one of the chief advisers of Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, under President Lincoln, and he did great good to the cause of the Government during that struggle, a participation in which he was denied on account of ill health. In 1882 he created the Betsy Green Deshler Fund of $100,000 and placed it in the hands of the Columbus Female Benevolent Society as a Memorial to his mother and to help widows and orphans. This fund now amounts to over a half million dollars. Later, upon the death of his daughter, Mrs. C. O. Hunter, he established a similar fund with like disposition in her memory, to be known as the Kate Deshler Fund of $33,000 - a thousand dollars for each year of her life. Later he gave $60,000 additional to that fund. When the only child of Mrs. Hunter died he created a memorial fund of $13,000 for crippled and deformed children.

Mr. Deshler died February 16, 1916. He was twice married. His first marriage was to Ann Eliza Sinks, and to that union one son and two daughters were born as follows: John G. Deshler, Kate Deshler Hunter, deceased ; and Mary Deshler Warner, deceased.

His second wife was Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Dr. I. J. Jones, of Columbus, and to that marriage three daughters were born as follows: Elizabeth Deshler Sowers, deceased; Louise Deshler Cox and Helen Deshler B-own.

FLORUS FREMONT LAWRENCE, M. D. It was not until the thinking Greeks, in many respects the wisest people the world has ever known, proved that the medical cure was the practical way of overcoming the multiform ills of the flesh to which humanity everywhere are supposed to be heir, and that these ills were not due to the presence of evil spirits or to the anger of the heathen gods. Thus was placed upon a scientific basis the study of the human organism with its various ailments. However, the time it has taken to develop the present system of healing and surgery has, indeed been a long one - some four thousand years.

One of the successful physicians of Columbus, who keeps well abreast of modern materia medica, is Dr. Florus Fremont Lawrence, who was born at Wadsworth, Medina county, Ohio, March 16, 1863. He is a son of the Rev. Oman and Camilla (Liggett) Lawrence, both natives of Ohio and both of Scotch parentage.