Columbus City (part 51 of 57)

Francis B. Pearson received his elementary education in the public schools and then studied at Wooster College, Wooster, Ohio, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1885, and was later given the honorary degree of Master of Arts by that institution, now the University of Wooster. However, before entering college he taught school in Champaign and Clark counties and was for three years superintendent of the schools of West Jefferson, Madison county, Ohio.

Upon leaving college Mr. Pearson became professor of Latin and English at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, continuing there for five years, then accepted the principalship of East High School, Columbus, where he remained for a period of eleven years. He was then made high school inspector at Ohio State University, to which work he gave his attention for eight years. He was appointed superintendent of Ohio State Department of Public Instruction, which office he assumed on February 16, 19 Hi, and he has since continued to discharge the duties of the same with his usual fidelity, ability, promptness, perseverance and sound judgment, handling the affairs of this, as well as his preceding positions of trust and responsibility in a manner that has reflected much credit upon himself and to the eminent satisfaction of all concerned. He has done as much, if not more, than any other one man for the betterment of Ohio's system of public instruction. He is deeply enamored of his work, is by nature an organizer and a man of broad vision and keen discernment, and he has kept fully abreast of the times in all phases of educational work and has introduced many modern and important changes in our school system. Moreover, he is a profound scholar along both technical and general lines. He is a man of genial, obliging nature and of pleasing address and is therefore popular with the teachers of the State and all others whom he has occasion to meet in the discharge of his professional duties, as well as in his social and private life.

Superintendent Pearson is an author of unusual talent and versatility, critics pronouncing his style much superior to that of the average writer, and his name has long since transcended the borders of his native state, in fact, he is one of the best known educators in the Middle West, and what he has to say along educational lines, on which he is a widely recognized authority, finds a very ready audience, whether through the lecture platform or the press. He is author of the following well known works: "The Evolution of the Teacher," "The High School Problem," "The Vitalized School," "Reveries of a School Master," and "The Reconstructed School." All of these have been very helpful in modern educational work and most potent for good.

Superintendent Pearson was married at Hudson, Wisconsin, to Fannie S. Humphrey, a daughter of Judge H. L. Humphrey, who was on the bench in Wisconsin for a number of vears, also was a member of Congress for three terms and one of the prominent men of his section of the state.

Fraternally, Mr. Pearson is a Mason, and one would judge by his personal habits that he tried to carry its sublime precepts into lis every day life. He is in every respect deserving of the good will and high esteem that are universally accorded him and of the eminent position he fills in the educational world.

SAMUEL A. KINNEAR. The career of Samuel A. Kinnear, the present efficient and popular postmaster of the city of Columbus, has been such as to elicit just praise from all classes, owing to the fact that he has always been loyal to the trusts reposed in him and has been upright in his dealings with his fellow men, at the same time lending his support to the advancement of any cause looking to the welfare of his home city and locality. No man has been better known or more influential in the city where his entire life has been spent, and yet he is an unassuming, obliging and genial gentleman, contented to lead a quiet life and to be regarded only as a good citizen.

Mr. Kinnear is of the third generation of one of the oldest families in Ohio, which branch of the family is descended from Samuel Kinnear, a native of Pennsylvania, from which state he came to Ohio in 1806, three years after the State was admitted to the Union. He first settled in Pickaway county, but in 1833, after having endured the hardships incidental to life on the frontier, where he had carved out a home through grit and perseverance, he removed to Columbus, or more properly North Columbus, as that section of the city was then known. He built a home on North High street, where he "kept tavern" for many years. He served as justice of the peace for over thirty-eight years, and was the first and only man to serve as postmaster of North Columbus. He was one of the men of influence in tin affairs of the city in its days of early development. He married Ellen Hill, a native of Virginia, who came with her parents to Ohio in 3 833. The death of Samuel Kinnear occurred March (>, 18fi7.

Josiah Kinnear, son of Samuel and Ellen (Hill) Kinnear, was born in the old family home on North High street, built by his father in 1833, on June 27, 183 1. Here he grew to manhood and was educated in the common schools, later attended Otterbein and Capital Universities. He took up civil engineering and for thirty years served as county surveyor and city engineer, and also as sheriff of Franklin county in the early seventies. On March 28, 1857, he married Josephine Shattuck, daughter of Captain Alexander Shattuck, another Franklin county pioneer, who was a native of Groton, Massachusetts. The death of Josiah Kinnear occurred in August, 1905.

Samuel A. Kinnear was also born in the old family residence on North High street, opposite tin' Olentangy Park, January 7. 1858, the son of Josiah and Josephine (Shattuck) Kinnear. He was educated in the public schools and at a commercial college, and learned surviving and civil engineering under his father. His first business experience was in 1876, in which year he had charge, under his father, of the North High street improvements. Thin, for six years, he served as deputy county surveyor under his father. He next entered the contracting business and secured the contract for building the northwest sewer for the city of Columbus. He then became a member of the contracting firm of Hess & Kinnear and operated a mill at Olentangy park. He was thin clerk of the Probate Court for six vears, then lax inquisitor For two years, and in 1893 he was elected county treasurer. After filling these offices in a very able and acceptable manner, he returned to contracting as a member of the firm of Hoover & Kinnear, and had charge of the building of five bridges for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, then had charge of the construction of twentyfive miles of the Buffalo & Susquehanna railroad, and after that he completed fifteen miles of road for the same company, then had charge of making a fill on the Baltimore & Ohio at Lodi, Ohio, which was nine miles long and called for one million yards of earth and was to be twenty-five feet high. Completing the fill and pulling his work cars off one Saturday night, he found next morning the fill had completely disappeared - sunk out of sight in what was then discovered to be a cranberry swamp, under which was a lake. He subsequently rebuilt the fill which is still in a solid and safe condition. He was next in charge of the elevation of the tracks of the Baltimore & Ohio through Wheeling, West Virginia. All the above work was done by the firm with which lie was connected.

Mr. Kinnear and his brother, Edward F., finally formed the firm of Kinnear Brothers, and to the State of Ohio contracted to do masonry work at Akron and St. Marys and to build eight locks at Toledo on the old canal They next took a contract to drain eightyone thousand acres of land in Harris county, Texas, which contract they completed in two years' time.

Thus Mr. Kinnear's work as a contractor has been on a vast scale and has placed him among the big contractors of the Middle West. In these he was very successful, proving to be a man of rare executive ability and foresight, and he met witli a large measure of success.

On January 1, 1912, Mayor Karb appointed Mr. Kinnear director of service for the city, and while thus officiating, after the flood of 1913, he accomplished work of which he is very proud. While the flood was receding he hired all the dump wagons within a radius of thirty miles and had the cellars and streets of the inundated district cleared of the debris before other cities affected by the flood got started. He held the office of director of service until he was appointed postmaster on September 6, 1911. February 27, 1919, he was re-appointed for four years, and the duties of this office he is discharging in a manner that reflects much credit upon his ability, loyalty and probity of character and to the entire satisfaction of the people of Columbus and the department at Washington. To Mr. Kinnear's credit it may be stated that through his efforts to a large degree was inaugurated in Columbus, November 1, 1918, the government-owned motor equipment service for the handling of mail and distribution of parcel post - the Columbus office being; the fourteenth in the United States to receive this recognition and at the time of its inauguration here no other city of less than five hundred thousand population was so privileged.

Mr. Kinnear has been very active in all war relief work, especially in the campaigns for the raising of funds for the Red Cross, Young Men's Christian Association, and the War Savings and Thrift Stamps. He was a member of the original committee which promoted Columbus' three million dollar war chest. He was appointed by H. P. Wolfe, State director of sales of War Savings and Thrift Stamps, chairman of Franklin county for the sale of these stamps, the county's quota being five million, five hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars, and he had the county thoroughly organized, when, on April 1, 191S, he was appointed chairman of the Ohio Division of Post Offices, in the sale of savings stamps, which embraces over twenty-two hundred postoffices, so lie resigned the county chairmanship in order to take charge of the heavier duties of the last named position. He is now engaged in thoroughly organizing every postoffice in Ohio by formulating a specific plan and assisting in file disposal of one hundred and six million dollars worth of war savings and thrift stamps. which is Ohio's quota.

Mr. Kinnear is a thirty-second degree Mason and belongs to the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Chamber of Commerce and the Columbus Athletic Club.

.Mr. Kinnear married Clara A. Poster, a daughter of Samuel G. Poster, a well known citizen of Columbus, and they have one daughter. Clara K.. who married Jasper S. Kinslow. State war explosives director.

Xo man in Columbus takes a more active interest in the affairs of the city in general than does Mr. Kinnear. for he lias the best interests of his home city very much at heart. He is widely known and his record, both as a pub'ic and private citizen, lias ever been above criticism.

CHARLES JOHN PRETZMAN. Upon the role of representative professional men of Columbus is Charles John Pretzman, prominent lawyer and public-spirited citizen, who seems to possess those qualities of head and heart which not only bring material success but always commend themselves to persons of intelligence. He has been willing to work hard for his success, which, after all, usually comes to the deserving.

Mr. Pretzman was born in Springfield, Ohio, August 4, 1867, a son of William H. and Anna T. (Barcaper) Pretzman. His father was born in Maryland in 1834, where his forefathers settled in 1739. He came to Ohio in 1855, settling at Springfield, where he died in 1913. His wife was born in Springfield in 1813, a daughter of John Philip Barcaper.

Charles J. Pretzman passed through the public schools and then entered Wittenberg College at Springfield, after which he went abroad and studied in France and Germany for several years. Upon returning to America he read law in the office of Powell, Ricketts & Black in Columbus, and, making rapid progress, was admitted to the Bar in April of 1889, and immediately opened an office and practiced alone until 1897, in which year he became a member of the firm of Williams, Taylor & Pretzman. From 1907 to 1915 he was again alone in the practice, then became a member of the firm of Huggins, Pretzman & Davies, which still exists, being regarded as one of the leading law firms in Columbus, and an extensive general law business is carried on.

Mr. Pretzman is a member of the Franklin County and the Ohio State Bar Associations. He was president of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce in 1910, and was a member of the board of trustees of the Columbus Public Library from 1910 to 1911. He is one of the most active and prominent Masons in Columbus, in fact, in the State of Ohio. He is a member of the Scottish Rite of Free Masonry; Mt. Vernon Commandery in the York Rite; Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine; Columbus Lodge No. 30 of Blue Lodge Masonry; was Grand Master of Masons in Ohio in 1913 and 1914, being elected to that position at the meeting of the Grand Lodge in 1913, and at this writing, 1919, is Master of Columbus Chapter of Rose Croix. He is a member of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite, being an honorary thirty-third degree Mason. He belongs to the Columbus Country Club and the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

On October 11, 1892, Mr. Pretzman married Clara Louise McGuire, and to their union three children have been born, William Hugh, deceased; Allan Iredell and Lawrence Charles.

Mr. Pretzman is a man who takes a good citizen's pride in the advancement of his city and country, and heartily supports such movements as make toward this end. He comes of an honest, rugged pioneer family and has been careful to keep its name unsullied.

JOHN GORDON BATTELLE. Among the men of Ohio of the present generation who achieved notable success in business and won honor and high regard as a useful and patriotic citizen, was Colonel John Gordon Battelle, iron manufacturer of Columbus, who well maintained the prestige of his honored forefathers. And, while Colonel Battelle was not a native of Ohio, he was descended from one of the oldest families of the State, one which figured conspicuously in the making of the early history of the commonwealth.

rhe Battelle family is of French origin, and its genealogy is authentically traced back to the twelfth century in England, the amori'il registers of that country accrediting the familv with two coats of arms.

The original American ancestor was Thomas Battelle, who came over from England and settled at Dedham, Massachusetts, as earlv as 1640. He died on Februarv 8, 1706; he married at Dedham on September 5, 1648, Marv Fisher, the daughter of Joshua Fisher, of Svlcham, England. She died on August 7. 1691.

John Battelle (I) second child of Thomas and Marv (Fisher) Battelle, was born on Julv 1. 1652, and died on September 20, 171 2 ; he married on November 18, 1678, Hannah Holbrook.

Ebenezer Battelle (I), fourth child of John and Hannah (Holbrook) Battelle, was born January 22, 1691, and died on March 6, 1759; he married first, on March 3, 1714, Abigail Day: second, on August 8, 1718, Abigail Allen; third, on January 16, 1727, Zipporah Ellis.

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Ebenezer Battelle (III), second child of Ebenezer and Prudence (Draper) Battelle, was the Ohio pioneer and the great-grandfather of Colonel John Gordon Battelle, of Columbus. He was born on February 4, 1754, and was graduated from Harvard College in 1775. At the Lexington alarm, he served as a volunteer in the company commanded by his father, and served later in the Revolutionary War as Major of the First Suffolk Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry, and later was appointed by the Governor, Colonel of Massachusetts Militia. He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, which organization was founded in 1637 and still survives. In 1781 he and Isaiah Thomas established what was the second book-store in Boston, to which store they later added a circulating library. When the Ohio Company was organized Colonel Battelle became an associate member of that company and was appointed one of its agents. With others, he left Boston for Ohio on April 6, 1788, going from Boston to Baltimore by sea, thence by wagons across the mountains to the Ohio river, thence to Marietta by flat-boat. At Marietta, where were located the lands of the Ohio Company, Colonel Battelle completed the erection of a house on the Campus Martius in the summer of his arrival. And in that residence was held the first Court of Quarter Sessions, which opened its proceedings on September 9, 1788. He became one of the company, composed almost entirely of old officers of the Revolutionary War, who formed in the winter of 1788-89 an association for the settlement of Belpre, twelve miles below Marietta. In the spring of 1789 he cleared a piece of land at that place and built a block house for the use of his family as a residence, and in the lower room of the block house he was accustomed to hold religious meetings every Sabbath, he officiating as chaplain. He married at Boston, Mass., Anna Durant, daughter of Cornelius Durant, a merchant of that city. Colonel Battelle died at Newport, Washington county, Ohio, in 1815.

Ebenezer Battelle (IV), son of Colonel and Anna (Durant) Battelle, and grand-father of Colonel John Gordon Battelle, of Columbus, was born at Dedham, Massachusetts, on August 8, 1778, and came with his parents to Marietta, and died at Newport, Ohio, on January 2, 1876. He married, in Newport, Ohio, on September 10, 1800, Mary Greene, who was born at Warwick, Rhode Island, on September 2, 1778. She was descended from notable Colonial ancestors, one of which was Roger Williams, founder of the Rhode Island colony, she was also a cousin to General Nathaniel Greene, the Revolutionary hero.

Rev. Gordon Battelle, D. D., son of Ebenezer (IV) and Mary (Greene) Battelle, and father of Colonel John Gordon Battelle of Columbus, was born at Newport, Ohio, on November 14, 1811. He attended the neighborhood schools, and an academy at Brookfield, Massachusetts, kept by one of Ins uncles, and at Marietta College. For a time in early life he was a clerk in a mercantile store at Point Harmar, Ohio, and also was engaged in flatboat trading on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Deciding to complete his education he entered Allegheny College at Meadville, Pa., and was there graduated in 1810, with the highest honors and was valedictorian of his class and received his A. M. degree. Ohio University gave him the honorary D. D. degree in I860. Soon after leaving college he was appointed to take charge of Asbury Academy at Parkersburg, Va., then under control of the Ohio Conference of the M. E. Church. Then began a very active and useful career, first as a teacher and then as a clergyman. He was licensed to preach in 1842. but still continued his educational work. In December, 1843, he organized the first class in the Northwestern Virginia Academy, at Clarksburg, Virginia, which academy he conducted as principal until 1851, at which time lie resigned to devote himself formally to the ministry. He was successively pastor of M. E. Churches at Charleston, Fairmont and Wheeling, Va. In 1855 he was elected a delegate for the Western Virginia Conference to the General Conference, and in 1859 lie was appointed presiding elder of the Wheeling district, and was also re-elected a delegate to the General Conference by an almost unanimous vote. In October. 1861-, Governor Pierpont appointed Dr. Battelle to visit the various military camps in tinwestern part of Virginia and to report concerning the condition of Union volunteers, and while on that mission lie was elected a delegate to the convention to form a constitution for the new state of West Virginia, in which convention he was conspicuous. He was made chaplain of the First Regiment Virginia Volunteers (loyal) and went with the regiment to the front. He died in Washington, D. C, on August 7, 1862, of typhoid fever which resulted from fatigue and exposure while at the front. Dr. Battelle was married at Somerset, Ohio. October 12, 1842, to Maria Louisa Tucker, who was bom at Windsor, Vermont, on

October 7, 1816, and died at Buffalo, N. Y., on December 17, 1889. On July 8, 1913, there was dedicated at Newport, Ohio, Dr. Battelle's birthplace, a monument to the memory of the men of that town who had participated in the various wars of the United States. This monument is surmounted by a tine, life-size statue of Dr. Battelle as the most distinguished of the men of Newport thus commemorated. This monument was presented to the town as the joint fift of Post No. 489, G. A. R., and Colonel John G. Battelle of Columbus.

Colonel John Gordon Battelle, son of Rev. Dr. Gordon and Maria Louisa (Tucker) Battelle, was born at Clarksburg, Va. (now West Virginia), on May 12, 1845. He attended a private school at Fairmont, (Virginia) Academy, the public schools at Wheeling, W. Ya., and was prepared for college at Lindley Institute. He also passed the examination for admittance to West Point Military Academy and received the appointment, but his father's death caused him to give up a military career and go to work to assist in making a living for his widowed mother and six young sisters.

At the age of 17 he became a clerk in the U. S. Treasury Department at Washington and later on, during the Civil War, he held a position in the U. S. Quartermaster Department at Wheeling for about three years. He then became bookkeeper for the Hobbs Glass and Queensware Company in Wheeling. In 1866 he became secretary and general superintendent of the Norway Manufacturing Company, which operated a rolling mill at Wheeling, and it was there he laid the foundation for his later long and successful career in the manufacture of iron. In 1869 Colonel Battelle went to Memphis, Tenn., where he became identified with the Memphis rolling mill, and also became president of the J. G. Battelle Company, manufacturers of cotton-bailing tires.

Leaving Memphis, Colonel Battelle came to Ohio in 1883, and in March of that year he became manager of the Cincinnati Corrugating Company and when that company removed to Piqua, Ohio, he became its vice-president and general manager, later becoming president and general manager of the Piqua Rolling Mill Company, holding offices with the same companies simultaneously. In his mill at Piqua the first piece of tin plate ever made in America was produced, and William McKinley, then making his campaign for Governor, dipped one of the first pieces. Two years later Piqua tin plate was awarded the first prize at the World's Fair in Chicago.

When the Piqua companies, of which Colonel Battelle was the head, were sold to Un- American Sheet Steel Company, he removed to New York City. However, at about that time the Columbus Iron and Steel Company had been organized, and several of his Ohio friends being interested in the new concern, they induced Colonel Battelle to take a financial interest in the company, and, in 1902, he removed to Columbus. He took over the controlling interest in and reorganized the concern, becoming its president and general manager. Under his guidance the company grew from a very small affair into one of the city's important industries. Colonel Battelle continued at the head of that company until it was merged with the American Rolling Mills Company, of Middletown, Ohio, in 1917. at which time lie retired from active business life. However, lie continued a director of same .Mid was also a director of the Inland Steel Company and of the Rising Sun Mining Company.

Colonel Battelle was commissioned Colonel in the Ohio National Guard by Governor Nash and was appointed and served as Ohio Commissioner to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition .-it San Francisco, Cal.

He was a member of the following societies: Sons of the Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, Military Order of tlic I. oval Legion, Society of American Indians, National Geographical Society, Aero Society, Society for National Preparedness, American Genealogical Societv Lincoln Memorial Association, Federation of Oood Roads, Roy Scouts of America, The Ohio Society of New York, a director of the National Association of Manufacturers, in fact was the founder of the Ohio Manufacturers' Association, for it was he who ''"'I'1' the first meeting for and inspired its orgonization and was vice-president of same at the tune ol his death. He was active in the membership of the following clubs: Columbus,

( oloiiel Battelle had a wonderful mind for grasping the details of operation and of hnsiness. He was methodical in his habits, initiative in his thinking and tireless in his work. otos ,-. great reaH»r and kent himself informed as to the progress made in manufacture

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"Brotherhood of Man." He was liberal in his benefactions to churches and universities, but did not limit his generosity to creed or color - lie gave equally to all churches and institutions of learning - knew no distinction in demonstrations ; he was especially interested in the colored race, was its benefactor and friend, believed in helping the negro to help himself, and no man or man's memory has a warmer spot in the affections of the colored people of Columbus than has Colonel Battelle.

On February 10, 1881, Colonel Battelle was united in marriage at Memphis, Tenn., with Annie M. Norton, who was born at Montgomery, Alabama, the daughter of Dr. Samuel Edwin Norton, M. D., D. D., a South Carolinian, of old Connecticut stock. Mrs. Battelle's mother was Julia Alston, a native of Halifax, N. C, of English stock, her ancestors having come to America in Colonial days.

Gordon Battelle has been for several years engaged in business in the West, where he has extensive mining interests, also in Mexico. He is now making his home in Columbus looking after the interests left by his father.

JOHN M. SARVER. The record of John M. Sarver, the well known life insurance man of Columbus, who is a scion of an old family of Ohio, proves that blood counts in this country but in a different way than in the old world; for here we count as worthiest tlie good blood of our honest, hard-working ancestors, while across the ocean it is merely the difference between the aristocracy and the peasantry.

Mr. Sarver was born on November 29, 1865, on the Sarver homestead in Stark county, Ohio, the son of Michael and Eliza J. Sarver. When he was seven years old the family removed to California, but in 1876 they came East and located in Philadelphia, Penn. Six months later they returned to Stark county, Ohio, locating in the city of Canton, and there John M. Sarver was graduated from the High School, with the class of 1881. He then taught school during the winter months and attended the Ohio Northern University at other times, taking a classical course and graduating with the class of 1886. The following year, when he was but twenty-one years old, he was elected principal of the North Cherry street school at Canton, and after five years in that position he was appointed principal of the Canton High school. His record as an educator and advocate of modern methods of instruction was so eminently satisfactory that in 1901 he was elected superintendent of the Canton public schools, the duties of which office he continued to discharge in a manner that reflected much credit upon himself and to all concerned, until 1905. He did much to place the schools of that city on a modern basis, equal to any in the State, and he was popular with both teachers and pupils.

While teaching in Canton Mr. Sarver took special courses at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, at the University of Buffalo and at the College of Liberal Arts at Chautauqua, New York. Thus he became exceptionally well equipped for educational work.

Mr. Sarver served as president of the Stark Count v Teachers' Association in 1889 and 1890, and for many years was a member of the county board of school examiners; he was a number of the Ohio Teachers' Association and the National Educational Association and for many years he ranked among the leading school men of Ohio.

In 1905 Mr. Sarver gave up educational work to enter the field of life insurance, in which his success has been equal to, if not greater than, that won in the field of education. In the same year he became general agent of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company , and in the following year he assisted in the organization of the Ohio State Life Insurance Company at Columbus, of which company he became secretary, when he took up his residence in the capital city. The rapid growth and pronounced success of this company has been due in no small measure to his wise counsel, close amplication and strong pertinacity. He continued to hold the position of secretary until 1913, in which year he was elected president of the comrjany. He has remained its head until the present time and his able management of its affairs has resulted in placing this well-known companv high on the list of life insurance companies in the United States, and its prestige is rapidlv growing from year to year.

sisting of about one hundred of the life insurance companies of this country. He is also president of the Ohio Conference of Health and Accident Companies. While in Canton he was a charter member and a member of the board of directors of the Citizens Building & Loan Company. He is a member of the First English Lutheran Church, the Young Men's Christian Association, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Columbus Athletic Club, and other organizations.

Mr. Sarver understands thoroughly the life insurance business in which he has met with such signal success. He is deserving of a great deal of credit for what he lias accomplished, working his way up from the bottom rung of the ladder of success.

CALEB I,. McKEE. Caleb L. McKee, a prominent business man and stock broker of Columbus, has always been identified with the business interests of this community, and from early childhood displayed a marked taste in this direction. Mr. McKee's father was interested in railroad building in the early seventies and the son has always been familiar with the stock market quotations. Mr. McKee, from his own experience, is of the opinion that a young man should follow his bent in choosing an occupation.

Caleb L. McKee was born November 9th, in the year 1866, at Columbus, Ohio, a son of James M. and Indiana (Lodge) McKee. His father was one of the early settlers of this city, coming here about 1840 and engaging in business as the proprietor of a general store situated where the Wyandotte building now stands. The elder Mr. McKee during the latter years of his life, became prominent in railroad construction, in this State, Indiana, and Illinois. On the maternal side of the house, Mr. McKee is also descended from pioneer stock, his mother's grandfather being one of the early settlers of Kentucky, who came through the Cumberland Gap with Daniel Boone in the latter part of the eighteenth century and settling in what was then unbroken wilderness.

Mr. McKee passed his childhood in his native city and received his early education in the local public schools. He later attended the Ohio State University and Williams College, completing his course in 1885. In that year he returned home and began his business career at Columbus, in the employ of The Kilbourne & Jacobs Manufacturing Company, where he remained four years. In 1890 he engaged in the mortgage loan business, in which he continued until 1901, when he turned his attention to stock brokerage, as he had so long desired to do. From that time to the present he has been actively engaged in this line and has met with a very marked and creditable success. In the same year (1901), he became a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and in 1907 a member of the New York Stock Exchange. Two years later he joined the Cleveland Stock Exchange and in 1916 that of Pittsburg. He was himself one of the organizers and a charter member of the Columbus Stock Exchange. His interest in the stock market goes deeper than that of merely making a fortune for himself and he has always kept himself well posted regarding conditions throughout the world, particularly with reference to the welfare of this country. In addition to this, his chosen activity, Mr. McKee is interested in Columbus real estate, iron, oil, lumber and coal in various parts of the country. He is also a member of the Columbus Club, Columbus Athletic Club and the Columbus Country Club.

In the year 1910 Mr. McKee was married to Miss Ida Lee Smith, of Columbus, and they are the parents of one daughter, Indiana Lodge McKee, and an infant son, Henry Taylor McKee.

Mr. McKee is .justly regarded by all who know him as a citizen of the highest type and lie has shown in business, as in every other relationship of life, an integrity and probity second to none in the community. He has always interested himself in local affairs and is well known for his broad-minded and intelligent public spirit. He is a liberal supporter of many movements undertaken for the best welfare of the community and from early manhood to the present has been a great asset to the city in which he has made his home.

ARCHIBALD SAMUEL HAMMOND. "Through struggle to triumph'' seems to be the maxim which holds sway with the majority of people, that is, those who attain to a successful goal at all, must find it after arduous effort. And, though it is unquestionably true that many fall exhausted in the conflict, a few, bv their inherent force of character and strong mentality, rise above their environment and all which seems to hinder them, until they reach the plane of affluence toward which their faces were set through the long years of struggle that must necessarily precede any accomplishment of great magnitude. Such has been the history, briefly stated, of Archibald Samuel Hammond, president of the Midland Grocery Company, and general manager of the Monypeny-Hammond Co. Branch, one of the oldest and largest wholesale houses in Columbus.

Mr. Hammond was born at McOonnelsville, Morgan county, Ohio, July 19, 1860, a son of the late Thomas and Mary Jane (Wilson) Hammond. The father was born at McConnelsville, September 2, 1830, the son of Benjamin Hammond, who came from Virginia to Ohio and was a pioneer of Morgan county, where he estiblished a home in the midst of primitive surroundings and by grit and perseverance became very comfortably established after enduring many of the hardships and privations incident to pioneering. He married Esther McCune. The mother of the subject of this sketch was born at Meadville, Pennsylvania, July 23, 1837. Her parents were natives of Ireland, where they grew up and married, and Mrs. Mary Jane Hammond was the first of their children born in America. Her death occurred July 22, 1891.

Thomas Hammond, father of our subject, was in early manhood engaged in the oil business and had charge of a refinery at McConnelsville. Under President Hayes' administration he was appointed postmaster there and after serving out his first term was re-appointed, but in April, 1880, he resigned his position and moved his family to Columbus, where he accepted a position as bookkeeper for the wholesale grocery firm of McDaniel & Johnson, in which firm he was given a working interest in 1881. From that time on his business career was associated with that of his son, the subject of this review. He became one of the successful business men of Columbus and was highly respected as a man and citizen. His death occurred on August 9, 1905.

Archibald S. Hammond was educated in the common schools and high school of McConnelsville, and he began his business career on January 2, 1875, as clerk on a steamboat on the Muskingum and Ohio rivers, at which lie continued for two years. He then clerked in a retail store in McConnelsville, Ohio, and assisted his father in the postoffice until March 16, 1880, on which date he came to Columbus and this city has been the arena of his activities ever since, and during this period of thirty-eight years he has lived to see and take an active and important part in the material growth of the city and while advancing his own interests has not for a moment neglected his larger duties as a citizen.

Upon taking up his residence in the Capital City Mr. Hammond accepted a position as shipping clerk and bill clerk with the wholesale grocery house of McDaniel & Johnson. Botli he and his father were given working interests in that concern on January 1, 1881, and on January 1, 1887, they, in partnership with William Monypeny, organized the Monypeny-Hammond Company, and took over the business of McDaniel, Johnson & Company. On January 1, 1895, they incorporated under the above title, with Mr. Monypeny as president, Thomas Hammond as treasurer and Archibald S. Hammond as vice-president and general manager. On January 1, 1902, the Midland Grocery Company was incorporated, of which Mr. Hammond lias since been president, and as such he has managed its affairs in an able, judicious, careful and praiseworthy manner, so that its business has rapidly advanced from year to year until it is today one of the largest and most widely known grocery houses in the State of Ohio. He has inaugurated a superb system of management in all departments and promptness and honesty are his watchwords. The Monypeny-Hammond branch still continues as a subsidiary, of which Thomas Hammond was treasurer until his death.

Archibald S. Hammond is also vice-president of the Keever Starch Company and vicepresident of the United Seal Company, president of the Diamond Metal Weather Strip Company and a director of the Ohio Wax Paper and Printing Co., the Columbus Railwav. T i<jht & Power Company, and the Kessler Yeast Company. In all of these he makes his influence felt, for the general success of the firms and their steady advancement is due in no small measure to his judicious counsel and influence. He was formerly a director of the Columbus Board of Trade.

Mr. Hammond is a member of the Columbus Country Club, the Columbus Athletic Chih: and fraternallv he is a Knight Templar, a tliirtv-second degree Mason, belonging to (l,« C0nttish Rite and the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a r-prr.K-n. nf the Junior Lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fe'lows.

and a daughter of David Benbow. To this union a son and daughter have- been born, namely,: Louise is at home, and Alan Archibald, who is assistant manager of The Monypenv-Hanimond Co. Branch and manager of The Midland Coffee Co., a department of the Midland Grocery Company ; he married Katherine Nickell, a daughter of John Nickell of Columbus, they have a daughter and son - Virginia and John Archibald.

BEAI.K EDWARD POSTE. One of the most conspicuous figures in the commercial circles of Columbus and central Ohio during the generation that has just passed was the late Beale Edward Poste, who was quite actively identified with the business and industrial interests of this section of the Buckeye State, and for a number of years widely known as the head of one of the largest vehicle manufacturing plants in America. Equally noted as a citizen whose useful career conferred credit upon his home city and State and whose marked abilities and stirring qualities won for him much more than local repute, Mr. Poste held distinctive precedence as one of the most progressive and successful men that ever inaugurated and carried to successful termination large and important undertakings in this State. Strong mental powers, invincible courage and a determined purpose that hesitated at no opposition so entered into his composition as to render him a dominant factor in the business world and a leader of men in notable enterprises. He was essentially a man of affairs, sound of judgment and far-seeing in what he undertook, and every enterprise to which he addressed himself resulted in a large measure of material success. At the same time he was a man of esthetic nature and his soul was in harmony with the finer elements of existence. He had an eye for the beautiful in nature in her varied forms.

The subject of this memoir was born in Columbus, February 15, 1856, the son of John and Caroline (Ashby) Poste, a highly esteemed and influential pioneer family of this city. The parents have long since passed away. Six children were born to them, two brothers of our subject surviving - J. Hamilton Poste, well known business man of Columbus; and J. Robinson Poste, president and general manager of the Columbus Bolt Works of this city.

Beale Edward Poste grew to manhood in his native city, where he was contented to spend his entire life and he received his education in the Columbus schools. As a young man he was for some time connected with the Columbus Machine Company, also served in the office of the county recorder and later engaged in the nursery business with his father. About 1890 he became identified with the Columbus Cart Company, which he helped organize, the other members of the firm being his brother, J. Hamilton Poste and W. S. S. Rogers. Under bis able direction the business grew to large proportions. The firm engaged exclusively in the manufacture of two-wheel road carts during the period when this vehicle was at the height of its popularity. Although the business prospered it was later merged into the Columbus Carriage Manufacturing Company, which concern also enjoyed in exceptionally rapid growth, building a full line of medium price vehicles, their capacity being about twelve thousand vehicles annually. Owing to the superior quality and workmanship of its products it became in great demand and the company's output was distributed all over the United States. It was necessarv to expand the plant from time to time in order to lake care of constantly increasing business.

In 1899 the managers of the Columbus Carriage Manufacturing Company abandoned their former policv of marketing their output through retail dealers and adopted the mail order system which was then being widely used in this country. However, this policv did not meet the approval of the Poste brothers and thev withdrew from the company, and on October I of thai year formed the Poste Buggy Companv. which was successful from the start. This company was pioneer in a number of methods of operating the buggv business, one of which was lo confine its output fo a single line that of manufacturing "piano box" buffgies only, which policy was never deviated from during the entire existence of the firm. The I'oslr brothers also established a precedent in adopting for the conduct of their business net cash terms ill thirtv d.ivs from shipment, whereas prior to that time, terms in the buggv business hail univrrsall v been net cash in four months or five per cent cash discount for eisli hi thirtv davs. The new system Droved to be successful. An output of three thousand vehicles a vear was maintained bv the Poste Buggv Companv until the business was sold mi September 1, 1918, to the Ahlbrand Carriage Company of Seymour, Indiana.

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Beale Edward Poste was president of the Poste Bros. Buggy Company, vice-president of the Neil Hotel Company of Columbus, a director in the Columbus Bolt Works Company, also a director in the company operating the Majestic Theater of Columbus.

Politically, he was an ardent Republican and was influential in the affairs of his party although he had no desire for party leadership or public office. His advice was often .sought by candidates as it was also in business circles. He was regarded as a strong and dominant factor in both civic and commercial life, although he was quiet in disposition and never obtrusive or ostentatious. He was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, also belonged to the Columbus Club, the Wyandot Club and the Marshalsea Club. He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, but was never active in church affairs, being liberal in his religious views, his ideal more nearly that of the Wordsworthian type - the religion of nature, he bjing very fond of the fields, plants and wild life of the earth. He delighted to work in his gardens, cultivating choice flowers and plants, surrounded by an atmosphere of growing nature, as the beautiful surroundings of his exquisite country home would indicate to anv observer. He had the natural appreciation and the eye to beauty of a poet, and enjoyed the solitudes "where nothing polished dared pollute man's path." He was a man of patriotic impulses and one of the keen disappointments of his life was that he could not take an active part in the world war. He would gladly have volunteered for service at the front had men of his age been permitted to do so.

On December 26, 1912, Mr. Poste was u lited in marriage with Margaret Adair Brownell, daughter of J. T. and Mary (Toomy) Adair. The mother resides in Lexington, Kentucky. The father is deceased. The Adair family has long been highly respected and influential in the capital of the Blue Grass state, where Mrs. Poste was reared and educated. Mrs. Poste resides at the beautiful new country home, '.'13y Dews," which is located in a picturesque environment on the Scioto river about ten miles north of Columbus.

On December 28, 1918, Mr. Poste sustained an injury to his right arm while alighting from his motor car which resulted in his dea'h at Grant Hospital, Columbus, on January 9, 1919.

WALTER HENRY MARTIN. One of the energetic and far-seeing business men of Columbus is Walter Henry Martin, senior member of the well known real estate firm of Martin & Cooke. He started out in life practically unaided and has mounted the industrial ladder without assistance. With a mind capable of planning he combines a will strong enough to execute his well-formulated purpo ;es, and his great energy, keen discrimination and perseverance have resulted in his present position in the business life of Columbus.

Mr. Martin was born in Columbus, Ohio, February 13, 1861, and is descended from two old families of this city. His grandfather Thomas Martin, who was a native of Pennsylvania, came to Columbus in the year 1818, thus the na-ne Martin has been identified with tin- growth of the Capital City for an even one hundred years and during this century of time the various members of this old family have played well their parts in the material, civic and moral development of this section of the great Buckeye commonwealth. Benjamin Moore, the maternal grandfather of the gentleman whose name heads this biography, was a native of Connecticut, from which state he came to Blendon township, Franklin county, in 1S07, before the city of Columbus was laid out, and thus the name Moore has also been closely identified with the history of this county.

John H. Martin, father of Walter H, was born in Columbus and here he grew to manhood and for many years engaged in the saddlery and harness business. His death occurred in 1880. He married Amanda M. Moore, who was born in Franklin county, Ohio, not far from this city, and here she grew to womanhood and is still residing in Columbus.

Walter H. Martin grew to manhood in his native city and was educated in the public schools and at Ohio State University, and in 1880 he began his business carter as a clerk in the old Sessions Bank, now the Commercial National Bank, continuing with this institution until 1888, during which period he applied himself very assiduously to his tasks and was rewarded for his faithfulness and ability by being frequently promoted. He resigned his position to engage in the real estate business in 1888, as a member of the firm of Mahony & Martin, which firm name was later changed to Mahony, Martin & Cooke, in 1897, and in 1909 it became Martin & Cooke and has continued thus to the present time. This old, popular and well-established firm has continued to do a large and increasing business annually.

Mr. Martin is senior director of the Commercial National Bank, and he has been a member of its board of directors for over twenty years, and he has had much to do with shaping the policies and the pronounced success of this sound and popular institution. He is a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, the Columbus Real Estate Board, and the Ohio Real Estate Board; formerlj' he was president and now he is a member of the executive board, also a member of the National Real Estate Association. He is one of the best known real estate men in the country and perhaps no man in Columbus is more conversant with true real estate values in Columbus than he.

For a period of twenty-seven years Mr. Martin was treasurer of the First Congregational Church and an ex-official member of its board during that time. He has done much for the church in various ways, always active and influential in its affairs. He belongs to the Columbus Club, the Columbus Athletic Club, the Columbus Country Club, the Scioto Country Club and the Columbus Review Club.

Being straightforward in his intercourse with his fellowmen and a churchman and public-spirited citizen, Mr. Martin is held in high esteem by all who know him.

PRESTON WAYNE LUPHER. For many years Preston Wayne Lupher, widely known capitalist of Columbus, lias been one of the most progressive men of affairs of the Captital City, also one of the most influential in public life, although not a public man in the usual acceptation of the term. Strong mental endowment, coupled with an honesty of purpose that hesitates at no opposition, when he knows he is right, have so entered into his makeup as to render him a dominant factor in the business world and a leader of men in important enterprises.

Mr. Lupher is a representative of a sterling old family of the Keystone state, and he was born in Venango county, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1856. He is a son of James Wesley and Margaret ( Martin) Lupher. Members of both these families have been influential in the affairs of Pennsylvania since pioneer days. John Martin, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.

Preston W. Lupher began his education in the public schools, later was a student at the Campbell School for Boys at Grimsby, Ontario, Canada. His boyhood home was in the oil fields of Pennsylvania, so he began his business career early, having when but a boy given every evidence of strong natural talents along business lines. He and his elder brother, Cyrus A. Lupher, formed a partnership known as Lupher Brothers in 1877, and are in business together at the present time. In 1877 they drilled their first oil well in Clarion county, Pennsylvania. Until 1897 Lupher Brothers operated in the Pennsylvania oil fields exclusively. In July, 1897, Mr. P. W. Lupher came to Ohio to investigate gas properties and finally obtained an option on the Logan Natural Gas and Fuel Co. with offices in Lancaster at that time. He then interested the late Theodore X. Barnsdall and others and they purchased the above company's interests, which was the formation and beginning of what lias grown to be one of the largest gas companies in Ohio. This same company organized tin- Preston Oil Co., which is very prosperous and owns large oil properties in Ohio. Mr. Lupher is interested in many other oil and gas properties and probably lias had as wide experience in the oil and gas fields as any man in the business.

Mr. Lupher resides at 1700 East Broad strict, anil is a member of the Columbus Athletic (lull, tin Scioto Country Club and the Lancaster Country Club. He is a thirty-second degree .Mason and belongs to the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine.

In 1904 Mr. Lupher married Miss Grace Gertrude Lynch of Newark, Ohio, and they have one daughter, Anne Preston t.upher. Mr. I.upher lias a son, Morton S. Lupher, by a former marriage, who is associated with him in the oil business. He married Miss Zell Rising, of Lancaster, Ohio, where they reside with their two children: Elizabeth Rising Lupher and Jane Morion I.uplier.

Mr. I.uplier takes a ijood citizen's interest ill public affairs and is always ready to support any worthy movement looking toward the public good.

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JOHN J. STODDART. Lawyer and banker and one of the most prominent men of Columbus, is John J. Stoddart, a native of England, born at Wigton, Cumberland count}', that country, March 9th, 1850, the son of John and Jane (Hodgson) Stoddart.

John J. Stoddart graduated from the University of Michigan with the Ph. D. degree, class of '75, and the following fall (1875) he came to Columbus and taught in the High School for a period of three years. While teaching he read law and in 1877 was admitted to the Ohio Bar and has since been engaged in the practice in this city.

Mr. Stoddart has not only won success at his profession, but also in a business way, having been identified with the growth and development of the city and her institutions. He was one of the organizers and incorporators of the Ohio State Savings & Loan Company, one of the city's solid banking institutions a id has long been a director and is now president of same ; was one of the organizers and incorporators of the first electric railway from Worthington to Columbus, and for a number of years a member of the Columbus Board of Education and for a time president of that board. Mr. Stoddart is a member of the Franklin County and Ohio State Bar Associations an! of the Columbus Country Club. During the war period he gave freely of his time and means to the government and served as a member of the first draft board.

November 12th, 1879, Mr. Stoddart was united in marriage with Miss Minnie Cole, daughter of the late Nathan Cole, who, for over thirty years served as recorder of Franklin county. To them have been born the following children: John C, born January 22, 1883, a graduate of Harvard, and Mary, born June 28, 1884, a graduate of Wellesley College.

EDWARD CRAWFORD TURNER. Examples that impress force of character on all who study them are worthy of record in the annals of history wherever they are found. By a few general observations the biographer hopes to convey in the following paragraphs, succinctly and yet without fulsome encomium, some idea of the high standing of Edward Crawford Turner, former attorney general of the State of Ohio and one of the leading legal lights of the city of Columbus for many years, one of the representative citizens of his section of the State and a public benefactor.

The Turners are an old Virginia family and of Revolutionary War stock, hence one of the honored first families of America and for generations they have played well their several parts in the affairs of the localities where they have dispersed.

The paternal great-grandfather of Edward C. Turner was Walter G. Turner, who came from Virginia to Ohio in early days and settled at Chillieothe. He married Sophia Wilcox, the daughter of Robert Wilcox, of Hagerstown, Maryland, who was an officer in the Revolutionary War.

John G Turner, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Virginia, and was a boy when his parents brought him to Ohio. He married Sidnev Madden, a daughter of Peter Madden, of Lancaster, Ohio, which family is also of Revolutionary stock.

Robert Madden Turner, father of the gentleman whose name introduces this sketch, was born at Chillieothe, Ohio, removing to Columbus later in life and when the Civil War broke out he enlisted for service in the Union army at Camp Chase and served practically throughout the war, under three different enlistments, going to the front in ISfil and returning home in 1865. He took part in many important campaigns and notable battles and was known to his officers and comrades as an efficient soldier. After his military career he located in Columbus where he spent the rest of his life and died a number of years ago. He married Jennie L. Crawford, who is also deceased.

Edward C. Turner was born in Columbus March 2fi, 1872, and here he grew to manhood and received his preliminary education in the public schools. He then entered the Ohio State University from which he graduated with the class of 1901, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and later his alma mater conferred on him the degree of Master of Laws.

Mr. Turner was admitted to the Bar in 190] and soon thereafter took up the active practice of law in his native city and his subsequent career has been marked with signal success until today lie is recognized as one of the leaders of the local Bar. He has been retained in many important cases and is reg V- :1 . - is an authority in all phases of the legal

Some idea of his high standing as a lawyer and citizen may be gained from the fact that in 1910 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Franklin county and re-elected in 1912, discharging the duties of the office in a very acceptable manner. He was elected attorney general of Ohio in 1914, serving one term to the general satisfaction of all concerned, making a record of which his constituents and friends might well be proud.

Upon leaving the office of attorney general in 1917 he returned to the private practice of the law in Columbus, in which he is still engaged with ever-increasing success.

Fraternally, Mr. Turner is a thirty-second degree Mason, belonging to the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrii e, also the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the Sons of Veterans and the Columbus Club, also the Country Club

On December 11, 1902, Mr. Turner was united in marriage with Nan A. Jahn, daughter of Captain Carl Jahn, of Columbus, who served as an officer in the Civil War.

EDWARD K. STEWART. The history of the development of the street railway system of Columbus would be incomplete without extended notice of the career of Edward K. Stewart, former vice-president and general manager of the Columbus Street Railway Company, who for over fifty years has been intimately identified with street car systems in the Capital City and their allied interests. During this protracted period of active experience he became the most prominent active street railway official in Columbus and one of the conspicuous men in that particular in the Middle West. His pronounced success has been due to his habits of close observation, indefatigable energy, sound judgment and general executive ability.

Mr. Stewart was born in Columbus, Ohio, October 26, 1845, and is the son of the late Adams and Margaret (Peebles) Stewart, natives of Pennsylvania and early citizens of Columbus.

Mr. Stewart was educated in the common schools of his native city and he began his business career in the employ of the Franklin branch of the State Bank, which subsequently became the Franklin National Bank. Later he was teller for the Hayden-Huteheson Company, and still later he was cashier of the P. Hayden & Company, bankers, and also of the Hayden National Bank, which is today the Hayden-Clinton National Bank. In 1867 he entered the street railway field as secretary and treasurer of the East Park Street Railway Company, although he did not retire from the active banking business until over twenty years later. In 1892 he became vice-president and general manager of the Columbus Street Railway Company, which position le continued to hold through the various changes in the organization of that corporation. He has also served as vice-president, treasurer and general manager of the Columbus Railway Power & Light Company . the holdings of which company include the following subsidiary companies: The Columbus Railway Company, the Friend Street Railway Company, the East Park Place Street Railway Company, the State and Oak Street Railway Company, the Columbus Consolidated Street Railroad Company, the Indianola and fourth Street Railway Company, the Crosstown Street Railway Company, the Glenwood Street Railway Company, the Leonard Avenue Street Railway Company, the Columbus Central Railway Company, the Central Market Street Railway Company, the Columbus Traction Company, the Columbus Edison Company, and I he Columbus, Light, Heat & Power Conr>anv, all of which are owned and operated by tin Columbus Railway, Power & Light Company, of which Mr. Stewart was the guiding genius.

During the Civil War Mr. Stewart offered his services in defense of his country and served faithfully and gallantly for four months in Company I. 133rd Regiment, Ohio Vol- Unteer Infantry, a hundred day regiment organized for the nurpose of temporarily relieving the veterans on duly in forts and fortifications at the front, ton Country Club and the Scioto Country Club. Although a very busy man he takes a delight in outdoor recreation and is a lover of nature in her varied forms.

On May 26, 1869, Mr. Stewart married Imogene Jones, of London, Ohio, and to their union the following children have been born: Frank T., Hartford T., Margaret married H. S. Waite, Alice married F. C. Borger, and Edward K., jr.

FRANK LUCIUS PACKARD. Architecture has been called the primal expression of all art. In the history of every nation the first step upward has ever been manifested by architectural improvements. Time was when great cities in America were satisfied with plain and simple buildings of all kinds, the only requirement being utility, but that day has long since passed, and during the present century the most artistic conceptions and designs of the architect are demanded. America has produced many noted architects, among them Frank L. Packard, of this city, whose genius and work long since won him a high place among the architects of the entire country.

That branch of the Packard family to which Frank L. Packard belongs has been in America for eight generations. The American ancestor was Samuel Packard, a native of Norfolk, England, who came over in the year 1637 and settled in Massachusetts Colony. He was the direct ancestor, eight generations removed, of Frank L. The John Alden family of Bridgewater, Mass., and the Packard family are collaterally related.

Alvaro Harrison Packard, son of James and Sophronia (Clough) Packard, was born at Readfield, Maine, in 1836. Sophronia Clough was born in New Hampshire, the daughter of Charles and Betsey (Taylor) Clough. Alvaro H. spent his boyhood days in Maine where, after leaving school, he was apprenticed to the carpenters' trade. After he had completed his apprenticeship he came to Ohio and located at Delaware where he was engaged in carpentering and building for a time and then entered the service of the C. C. C. '& St. L. (Big Four) Railway Company, as foreman of bridge and depot construction and superintendent of repairs. Subsequently, in charge of a force of men, he built bridges in Tennessee. He located in Columbus in 1883 and from that time on until his death he was engaged in real estate and building operations in this city. In 1863 he was united in marriage with Miranda Black, who was born in Indiana, the daughter of John Black, who removed from Delaware county to Indiana. FoMowing the death of her parents Mrs. Packard returned to Ohio.

Frank L. Packard, son of Alvaro H. and Miranda (Black) Packard, was born in Delaware, Ohio, on June 11, 1866. He attended the Delaware public schools, and at the age of fifteen years he was chain carrier for the county surveyor. He began his "professional" career as office-boy for F. A. Gartner, an old-time architect and engineer of Delaware. He took special courses in architecture and engineering at Ohio State University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and studied in the offices of different leading architests of New York City. He came to Columbus in March, 1883, and three years later he secured, in competitive contest, his first big commission, which was architect for the Girls' State Industrial Home at Dalaware. Since then he has served as architect for over three thousand building operations, all over the country, and lias built up what is probably one of the largest architectural and engineering organizations in Ohio and lias won national fame in his profession. His practice has embraced many state, county and municipal buildings, and of recent years he has given special study to school, college and educational building designing. Lasting monuments to his genius can be found all over Ohio.

Out of the many buildings of which Mr. Packard is the architect the following have been selected with an idea of giving a fair conception of the scope of his professional work: Ohio Building at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago; Ohio Building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis; Capitol Annex at Charleston. West Virginia; Massillon State Hospital for the Insane; Ohio State Sanatorium for Treatment of Tubercular Patients, Mt. Vernon; Lima State Hospital for the Criminal Insane; a number of new buildings and other improvements at the Columbus State Hospital, Athens State Hospital, Cleveland State Hospital and the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics, Gallipolis, Ohio, and a number of municipal and private hospitals. The court houses at Bowling Green, Upper Sandusky, and Ottawa, Ohio; court house at Clay and Fairmont. W. Va. Franklin county and Clark county memorial buildings; office and bank buildings for the Columbus Savings & Trust Co., State Savings and Trust Co., and the Huntington National Bank, Columbus; served the Ohio Cities Gas Company and the Ohio Fuel Supply Co. and the Pennsylvania railroad; a number of hotels embracing the Chittenden and Seneca Hotel, in Columbus; served continuously for a number of years as architect for the Ohio University, Athens, and Miami University, Oxford. Served for other buildings at Ohio State University, Muskingum College and Ohio Northern University, as well as for more than two hundred public school structures; architect for the Elks Lodge in Columbus, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias Homes in Springfield, and other fraternal and social structures, including the Arlington and Columbus Country Clubs and the Licking Country Club at Newark, Ohio; many representative churches, among them being the St. Paul's Church, Columbus and at Akron; the Trinity M. E. Church, Lima; Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Ohio.

Mr. Packard is very active in his profession, but at the same time finds time to fully discharge his duties as a citizen, and takes a keen interest in civic and social affairs. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a member of the Columbus Club, Columbus Athletic Club, Columbus Country Club, Columbus Lodge of Elks, Knights of Pythias, and the Chi Phi Greek fraternity.

FRITZ ADOLPH LICHTENBERG. A man who believes in doing well whatever he undertakes and in extending aid and sympathy to others is Fritz Adolph Lichtenberg, manager of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company for central Ohio. As a result of his humanitarian attributes, his exemplary life and his public spirit he enjoys an excellent reputation among all classes.

Mr. Lichtenberg was born in London, England, February 10, 1876. He is a son of the late Dr. George Lichtenberg, for many years a surgeon in the city of London and a native of Germany. After coming to England he married Ellen Wyatt, a native of London, and she still resides in England.

Fritz A. Lichtenberg spent his boyhood in his native land and was educated at Cranbrook, Kent, England, and Heidelberg, Germany. After leaving college he spent five years with a wholesale Oriental mercantile house in London. He came to America in 1899 and was with a New York firm in the same line of business for one year. He came to Ohio in 1903 and was employed by the International Harvester Company at Springfield one year. In 1901 he entered the life insurance field as a general agent at Springfield for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, with which he lias since been connected, his long retention in tlie important positions he has held with this firm indicating that he lias given eminent satisfaction in every respect. He came to Columbus in 1909 to become manager of central Ohio for that company. His success and progress, both as general agent and manager, in the life insurance field has been rapid and consistent. In 1917 he was twelfth man with his company in the amount of personal business sold among all its agents and general agents. His duties as manager prevent his giving his undivided time to the selling end. otherwise it cannot lie doubted that his standing among the business getters would be much nearer the top.

The agents over whom Mr. Lichtenberg is manager secured over a million dollars worth of business in the year 1917, a very large per cent of which came from old policy holders, which shows satisfied policy holders.

Mr. Lichtenberg is active in civic affairs and finds time to fully discharge the duties incumbent upon him as a progressive and patriotic citizen. Since 1916 he has been a member of I lie board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Social Service Bureau, which organization was very active in local war work and was in a great measure responsible for the Columbus "Three Million Dollars War Chest" campaign, in which drive Mr. Lichtenberg was a leading worker. He was its first president, after ils it organization, of the Columbus Life Underwriters' Association. He is a member of the Columbus Athletic Club and of the Columbus Automobile Club.

On October 24, 1911, lie was united in marriage with Margaret Wilcox, a daughter of Charles E. Wilcox, of Columbus, and to this u lion one son has been born, Fritz Adolph, jr.

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JOSEPH STEVENSON RALSTON. Self-assertion is believed by many people to be absolutely necessary to success in life, and tbere are good reasons for the entertainment of such belief. The modest man very rarely gets what is due him. The selfish, aggressive man elbows his way to the front, takes all that is in sight with no seeming regard for the rights of others. And it would sometimes seem that modesty is a sin with self-denial the penalty. There are, however, exceptions to all rules, and it is a matter greatly to be regretted that the exceptions to the conditions referred to are not more numerous. One notable exception in Columbus is the case of Joseph Stevenson Ralston, well known manufacturer and founder of the Ralston Steel Car Company, who seems to possess just a sufficient amount of modesty to be a gentleman at all times and yet sufficient persistency to win in the business world and at the same time not appear overbold, selfish or indifferent to the welfare of others; and as a result of these well and happily blended qualities, Mr. Ralston is known to a wide acquaintance as a man of integrity, influence and business ability.

Mr. Ralston was born at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, August 27, 1863. He is a son of Robert and Sarah (Springer) Ralston, natives of Ireland and Canada, respectively. However, the Springer family was an old one in Delaware and Pennsylvania, prior to the Revolutionary War.

The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of Hamilton, Ontario, and at Rockwood Academy near Guelph, Ontario. When he was about fifteen years old he went to Scotland and in the city of Glasgow signed apprenticeship papers binding himself as sailor for four years on a sailing vessel in the Glasgow and Calcutta, India, trade. He gave up his seafaring life in 1882 and returned to Canada, and for the next several years was engaged in different lines of business in Hamilton, and then went to Chicago, where in 1900 he entered into arrangements with the Pullman Car Company whereby he engaged in the manufacture of a special freight car under patents that he had acquired. In 1905 he came to Columbus and established the Ralston Steel Car Manufacturing Company and began the manufacture of steel freight cars of all designs, which cars are now in general use on all the big railroads of the country.

The plant, located in East Columbus, is one of the largest and most important industries in central Ohio. Its buildings are substantial and equipped with modern machinery and devices for turning out steel cars promptly and of the best quality, and owing to their superior workmanship and design they are in great demand. A long list of expert mechanics and artisans are kept constantly on the payroll, and the business of the company, under Mr. Ralston's able and judicious management has grown rapidly and continuously from year to year. The plant has been of great benefit to the city of Columbus.

Beginning on a small scale, with limited capital, the corporation has grown steadily, the plant expanding from year to year and for the past several years its payroll has exceeded a million dollars a year. The wonderful development of this great concern has been due almost solely to the genius of its president and general manager - Joseph S. Ralston, a man of rare executive ability, keen discernment and acumen.

Mr. Ralston is a member of the Railroad Club, the India House Club, both of New York; the Columbus Club, the Scioto Club, the Athletic Club, and the Columbus Chamber of Commerce.

In 1889 he was united in marriage with Annie Mar, of Caledonia, Ontario, a descendant of the old Scottish Mar family. One daughter and two sons have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Ralston, namely: Florence A., Benjamin R., and Joseph V.

CHARLES LINDLEY KURTZ. The basis of the success that lias come to Charles Lindley Kurtz, president of numerous business corporations of Columbus, has been unremitting industry. He appears to have realized at the outset of his career, that it required grit and perseverance to win and this has had much to do in shaping his career as he learned to rely upon himself, observe closely those things which could be of service to him and therefore he has advanced to a position of prominence and influence in the capital city of the great Buckeye commonwealth.

Mr. Kurtz was born at Albany, Ohio, May 1, 1851. He is a son of William Wyland Kurtz and Isabella (McEllroy) Kurtz. The Kurtz family was established in America by four brothers who eame over from Germany in 1630. The McEllrov family came originally from Scotland into Ireland, and from there to America one hundred and twenty years ago.

George A. Kurtz, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Pennsylvania, from which state he removed to Clinton county, Ohio, but later returned to western Pennsylvania. While the family resided in Clinton county, this state, William \V. Kurtz, father of our subject, was born. He went with his parents upon their return to Pennsylvania, where, when lie had reached manhood, he married, then came back to Ohio, bringing his wife, in 1850, locating in Athens county, where he followed carpentering and contracting. His death occurred at the age of sixty-four years. His wife was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. Her death occurred at the advanced age of eighty-two years.

Charles L. Kurtz was educated in the public schools. He was first a newsboy, then kept a news-stand, later was a bookseller. He educated himself for the most part, and is an excellent example of a self-made man. Taking an active interest in public affairs he was elected to the legislature in 1880 and in 1882 was re-elected, making a creditable record which was satisfactory to his constituents. In 188(i Governor Foraker appointed him private secretary, which position he filled faithfully and ably until 185)0. He was state inspector of oils for Ohio from 1896 to 1900, the duties of which lie discharged to the satisfaction of all concerned.

Mr. Kurtz has been a commanding figure in the Republican party of Ohio for many years. He was a delegate to the national convention of his party in 1880, also in 1888 and 1896. He was a member of the Republican State Executive Committee of Ohio from 1885 to 1890 and its chairmen in 1895 and 1896. He was the Ohio member of the Republican National Committee from 1896 to 1900. He was the Ohio delegate to the National Irrigation Congresses in 1897, 1898 and 1899. From 1890 to 1895 he was engaged in public works. In 1903 he turned his attention to other enterprises and became associated with the organization of the Scioto Stone Company, the Keever Starch Company and the Guanajuato Reduction and Mines Company, of which companies he has been president from the time of their organization and their continuous and pronounced success has been largely due to his able and judicious management, his foresight and close application to business. He is also president of the Mingo Coal Company and the Columbus Railway, Power and Light Company. He is by nature an organizer and a man of rare executive ability.

Mr. Kurtz is a member of the Columbus Country Club, the Columbus Athletic Club, the Ohio Society of New York City, the Lotos Club of New York City, and he has been a member of the Blaine Club of Cincinnati since its organization.

On September 11, 1878, Mr. Kurtz was married to Anna Jewett of Athens, Ohio. Her death occurred on October 8, 1909, leaving behind her a host of warm personal friends among whom she had long been popular owing to her many commendable qualities of head and heart. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Kurtz, namely: lone, Eleanor, Florence is deceased, and Charles J. The latter is associated with his father in business. On November 27, 1915, Mr. Kurtz married Vivian Ebersole of Columbus, for his second wife.

CHARLES KIXNEY. One of the best known members of the Columbus bar, successful real estate man, prominent politician and a former Secretary of State of Ohio, was the late Charles Kinney, who was better known as an insurance man during his later career. In whatever lie undertook he met with pronounced success and kept well abreast of the times in his various vocations. Concerning the sincerity of purpose, the unquestioned probity and uprightness of conduct and character, the ability and honesty of Mr. Kinney it may be said, they were as well known as his name. It occurs occasionally that a peculiar accent accompanies the declaration, when it is said of anyone that he is honest, as if to impart a whisper of suggestion that the quality is rare or exotic. In its application to men in responsible public position it is not true; the reverse is true. In its application to lawyers, as a body, which is nol infrequently done, it is false, the reverse being true. The subject of this memoir was known tu lie an advocate of strict honesty in all relations of life, and this was one of the main secrets iif his success.

Mr. Kinney was born at Springfield, Kentucky, June 7, 1850. He was the son of Charles and Elizabeth (Cox) Kinney. He graduated from the public schools of Columbus, Indiana, in 1886, the family having removed to that town when he was a child. Beginning the struggle nl life for himself at a tender age he worked at the printer's trade until 1877, when, having previously removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, he was appointed deputy treasurer of Scioto county. Having performed his duties promptly ami faithfully he became count;/ treasurer in 188:{ and was re-elected in 1885, continuing to discharge his duties in an able and praiseworthy manner, enjoying the implicit confidence of his constituents. Subsequently he located in Columbus and became chief clerk to the secretary of state, and in 1896 was elected to that office. In 1898 he was re-elected. He proved to be one of the best men in this important office that the State ever had, discharging his duties to the eminent satisfaction of all concerned, irrespective of party.

As a lawyer Mr. Kinney was painstaking, persevering and well read, and he was enjoying a large business when blindness overtook him a number of years before his death and because of this disability he was forced to give up the practice of law, which, after his tenure of office as secretary of state, he abandoned for the insurance business which he followed until his deatli with very creditable results. He was a man of refined tastes and of aesthetic nature, a poet of pronounced ability, having published a volume of poems that showed marked talent. He belonged to the Masonic order and the Episcopal Church.

In 1889 Mr. Kinney married Letitia Yoakley, a daughter of John and Susan (St. John) Yoakley, both deceased. Her father was a native of Ireland and her grandfather a native of England, being of English and Scotch stock. Her mother was born in Kentucky. In an early day John Yoakley and wife located in Portsmouth, Ohio, and became influential among the pioneers of that locality, and there the father was a successful music dealer.

The death of Charles Kinney occurred at his home in Columbus on June 13, 1918, after an illness of many months. He was buried at Portsmouth. Besides his wife two brothers survive - Washington Kinney, of Portsmouth ; and Edward Kinney, who is a resident of Spokane, Washington.

WILLIAM J. MEANS. It is not always easy to discover and define the hidden forces that have moved a life of ceaseless activity and large professional success ; little more can be done than to note their manifestation in the career of the individual under consideration. In view of this fact the life of the distinguished physician and public spirited man of affairs whose name appears above affords a striking example of well defined purpose with the ability to make that purpose subserve not only his own ends but the good of his fellow men as well. Doctor Means has long held distinctive prestige in a calling which requires for its basis sound mentality and intellectual discipline of a high order, supplemented by rigid professional training and thorough mastery of technical knowledge. In his chosen field of endeavor Doctor Means has achieved success such as few attain and his eminent standing among the leading medical men of America has been duly recognized and appreciated.

William J. Means was born in Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, on February 11, 1853, the son of Joseph and Margaret (Sutter) Means. He received his elementary education in the public schools of his native community, following which he was a student in Covode Academy, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, and the National Normal College, at Lebanon, Ohio. He taught school for two years in Pennsylvania, after which he served four years as principal of schools at Christiansburg, Ohio. In the meantime he gave serious study to medicine and completed a course in that science, graduating from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery in 1874, though he continued as principal of schools for one year after graduation. In the spring of 1877 Doctor Means entered upon the active practice of his profession at Christiansburg, continuing there with success until 1888. He then spent a year in postgraduate work in New York City, and in the spring of 1889 came to Columbus, where he has since resided. In 1898 Doctor Means spent several months in the clinics of Europe. He was more than ordinarily successful in the practice of medicine and surgery and quickly gained a reputation which far transcended the limitations of his community.

In 1891 Doctor Means helped to organize the Protestant Hospital of Columbus and was chief of staff for fifteen years He also helped organize the Ohio Medical University in 1892 and was its registrar and treasurer and professor of surgery during its existence. In 1907 the college was merged with the Starling Medical College and named the Ohio-Starling Medical College, of which he was continued as treasurer and professor of surgery and in 1909 he was elected dean of the college. In 1913 the Ohio-Starling Medical College was transferred to the Ohio State University, becoming the College of Medicine of that institution, of which Doctor Means was dean two years. He resigned in 1915 and retired from college work.

From 1901 to 1918 Doctor Means was a member and chairman of the executive board of the Association of American Medical Colleges, when he was elected president of the

Association and .served one year. As chairman of the executive board lie inspected almost every medical college of note in the United States. He has been the medical director of the American Insurance Union since its organization in 189-1, and has been president of the Park Savings Company of Columbus for twenty-five years.

Doctor Means is a member of the Columbus Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and other medical organizations. Fraternally, he is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite, the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, as well as the Columbus Athletic Club and the Scioto Country Club.

In 1876 Doctor Means was married to Estella M. Thomas, who passed away in 1895, leaving two sons, Drs. Hugh J. and John W. Means. In 1897 he was married to Ida B. Huffman, of Columbus. They have no living children.

In addition to his long and creditable career in one of the most useful and exacting of professions, Doctor Means has also proved an honorable member of the body politic, rising in the confidence and esteem of the public, and in every relation of life he has never fallen below the dignity of true manhood nor in any way resorted to methods that have invited criticism. He is essentially a man among men, moving as one who commands respect by innate force as well as by superior ability. As a citizen he easily ranks with the most influential of his compeers in affairs looking toward the betterment of his chosen city and county. Those who know him well are unstinted in their praise of his superior ability and his genial disposition. Older men in the profession frequently rely on his judgment and younger ones frequently seek his counsel, all admitting his eminence. What he has done for his fellow men might, in a manner, be told in words, but in its far-reaching influence cannot be measured. He has ever held the unequivocal confidence and esteem of the people among whom he has labored, and his career could be very profitably studied by the ambitious youth standing at the parting of the ways.

THEODORE S. HUNTINGTON. It has always been understood by discriminating people that the quiet, active man has to be looked out for. The man who shows up in emergencies, and does not tell how it ought to be done or inquire why something had not been managed differently, but goes ahead and does it, is not at all to be discounted, though in innocuous times he may be overlooked. A personification of this idea is in Theodore S. Huntington, well known banker of Columbus.

Mr. Huntington, who is vice-president of the Huntington National Bank, one of the old and popular banking institutions of Columbus, was born in this city, September 2, 1873, the son of P. W. Huntington, a prominent banker and financier and founder of the above named bank. A fuller sketch of the Huntington family will be found on other pages of this work.

Theodore S. Huntington acquired his primary education in the grammar schools of Columbus, attended a preparatory school at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, then entered Princeton University, from which he was graduated with the class of 189.3, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Soon after leaving college he began his business career, and with the exception of the years 1898 and 1899, when he was engaged in the coal business, as treasurer of the Beaumont-Chauncy Coal Company, he has been actively connected with the Huntington banking interests in Columbus. He became a partner in the P. W. Huntington & Company Bank in 1900, and when that company was re-organized into the Huntington National Bank in 1905 he was elected its cashier, and in 1913 he was elected vice-president. He has done much to maintain the prestige and increase the annual volume of business of this sound and widely known banking institution. He was elected president of the Columbus Clearing House Association in January, 1919; is a director in the Erner & Hopkins Company, is secretary of the Troy Laundry Company, both of Columbus, and is a director of the Huber Manufacturing Company of Marion, Ohio, and of the Toledo & Ohio Central railroad.

Mr. Huntington is a member of the Columbus Club, the Columbus Athletic Club, the Columbus Country Club and tin Cap and Gown Club of Princeton, New Jersey, and of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce.

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HERMAN PLESENTON JEFFERS. The subject of this sketch is a member of the firm of Tice & Jeffers, whose business location is 122 East Broad street, Columbus, Ohio. Their business is the selling of life insurance. This firm is the general managers for southeastern Ohio of the Midland Mutual Life Insurance Company. The partnership has existed since June 21, 1909. Herman Plesenton Jeffers is a native of Ohio, born February 6, 1876, in a log house of one room, three miles south of the little town of Beallsville in Monroe county. He is the son of Andrew M. and Rachel (Resseger) Jeffers.

The father of Andrew Jeffers was William Jeffers, born near Dublin, Ireland, June 21, 1800. He came to America in 1804 with his father and mother. The family first settled in America near Bellaire in Belmont county, Ohio, where William Jeffers continued to live until grown to manhood. In 1831 he was united in marriage with Mary Burris, who was a native of Belmont county, born May 25th, 1818. Soon after this marriage they moved to Monroe county, near Beallsville, and took up land under deed issued directly to William Jeffers by President Andrew Jackson. The original deed issued by President Jackson is still held in the Jeffers' family. William Jeffers died December 11, 1867, and his wife, Mary Burris Jeffers, died April -!, 1886.

The maternal grandfather of Herman Jeffers was Peter Resseger. When Peter Resseger was twenty-three years of age he was married to Laura-Hema Powell, who was born in Belmont county near Powhatan, May 10, 1811. Soon after this marriage they moved to Switzerland township, not far from Clarington, Monroe county, Ohio, and took up land. They were pioneer settlers in this neighborhood where they spent the remainder of their lives Deed for this land was issued to Peter Resseger by President Andrew Jackson. Peter Resseger died in 1886. Laura-Hema Resseger died November 28, 1896.

Andrew McKeelyor Jeffers was born May 1, 1853, near Beallsville, Ohio. Rachel Resseger was born April 24th, 1852, near Clarington. They were united in marriage September 18th, 1873, and settled on a farm near Beallsville. They now live in Beallsville, Ohio. Of this union one child was born, namely, the subject of this sketch.

Herman Plesenton Jeffers got his early schooling in the rural schools of his neighborhood and when he was fourteen years of age, the family moved to another farm one and a half miles west of Beallsville, enabling him to attend the village school for the following two years. At the age of sixteen he began teaching school in the adjoining county of Belmont. After teaching in the rural schools for four years, at the age of twenty, he became principal of the village school of Glencoe, Belmont county, and the following year was made superintendent of schools for the township of Richland in Belmont county, and thus was one of the pioneer township supervisors of rural schools for this State, starting a system which was generally adopted throughout the State some fifteen years later. From 1900 to 190-1 he was superintendent of schools - one year at New Baltimore, Stark county, Ohio, and three years in Gnadenhutten, Ohio. During all this period from the time he began teaching until 1901, lie did work in Scio, Mt. Union, and Wooster Colleges, during the spring and summer terms, first as student and later as teacher.

In 1901 he entered the life insurance profession with the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York in Warren Ohio, and January 1st, 1906, became superintendent of agents under the J. C. Trask Agency of the Northwestern Life Insurance Company in northeastern Ohio.

In November, 1906, he associated himself witli the newly organized life insurance company, The Midland Mutual Life Insurance Company of Columbus, Ohio, as an assistant to Lot H. Brown in organizing the agency force for that company. This connection with The Midland Mutual Life Insurance Company resulted in the formation of the partnership of Tice & Jeffers in 1909, which has since that time handled the agency work for that company in southeastern Ohio.

On August 8th, 1901, Mr. Jeffers was united in marriage with Eva Hicks of Brookville, Pennsylvania. Of this marriage three children were born, namely, William Hicks, Charles Andrew and Margaret Jeffers. Eva Hicks Jeffers died in December, 1909, and on September 2, 1911, Mr. Jeffers was again united in marriage with Bertha Louise Petry, who was born in the Moravian settlement of Gnadenhutten, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, and who graduated from Ohio State University in June, 1911. To their union three children have been horn, namely, Herman Plesenton, jr., Walter Wilson and Elizabeth.