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Mr. Jeffers is a thirty-second degree Mason, is a member of the Columbus Athletic Club, Scioto Country Club, the Kiwanis Club, the Columbus Auto Club, and a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. He has been twice president of the Alumni Association of the Sigma Nus of Columbus and was second president of the local Kiwanis Club.

WILLIAM NEIL KING. William Neil King, for many years one of the sterling figures in Columbus financial and commercial life, was born in Cincinnati April 1st, 1819, the second son of Thomas Worthington King and Elizabeth Jane Neil King. The mother was the second daughter of William and Hannah Neil - William Neil, distinguished by his exceptional service in the development of the infant capital and its transportation facilities, and Hannah Neil revered for her progressive philanthropy, marked today by the Home of the I?riendless which bears her name. The father, Thomas Worthington King, was a grandson of Rufus King, a member of the Continental Congress, one of the framers of the United States Constitution, first United States Senator from New York, Minister to England under Washington and John Quincy Adams, and also a grandson of Thomas Worthington, Governor and first LTnited States Senator from Ohio.

William Neil King received his early education in Canterbury, England, in the Columbus public schools, the Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H., and Harvard University from which he graduated in 1871. He was a member of the Harvard Hasty Pudding Club, the A. D. Club, the Institute of 1770 and the D. K. E. fraternity. He was a fine French scholar, speaking the language fluently, the old French as well as the modern, also had a useful knowledge of Spanish and was a persistent student of business, social and political problems.

In September, 1872, he entered the banking house of Andrews & Co., Place Vendome, Paris, France, and later was sent by the firm to manage a branch house in Boston. At the dissolution of the firm Mr. King went to Cincinnati and entered the banking business, first with the First National Bank and in 1879 with the Commercial National Bank, of which he was cashier.

In 1885, owing to ill health, Mr. King resigned his post and went to San Diego, California, where, as he somewhat regained bis health, he conducted a banking business. He was a director of the First National Bank of San Diego, and was associated with the syndicate building the Mexican Central railroad from El Paso to the City of Mexico. He also participated in the building of branch lines of the Sante Fe system in southern California.

It was in 1887 that Mr. King married Mary Horton, daughter of Thayer and Elizabeth R. Horton, of Pomerov, and together they went back into the wonderful west, where for a time they made their home. Business and other interests recalled them to Columbus, where Mr. King became interested in many business enterprises. He was a director of the Scioto Valley Traction Co., a director of the State Savings Bank and Trust Company, president of the board of trustees of the Hannah Neil Mission of Columbus, a member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, a life member of the Young Men's Mercantile Library Association, of Cincinnati, a member of the Columbus Club, the Scioto Country Club, the State Street School Association of Columbus, a charter member of the Harvard Club of Central Ohio, a member of the University Club, of New York, and had been for many years a member of the Queen City, University and Literary Clubs of Cincinnati.

Before the facilities of travel were what they now are Mr. King went to Alaska and through the Yosemite and Yellowstone parks, later visited the Grand Canyon, explored New Mexico and California and travelled in Old Mexico, Cuba and Canada, thus supplementing the travel that he had begun in his youth in Europe. Wherever he made his home he identified himself with the social and educational societies and the list of them in the several places of his residence would be long. He was an Episcopalian by inheritance and choice, and a few years before his death, erected a window in Trinity Episcopal Church, Columbus, in memory of his mother and his brother's family. The window is a beautiful work of art designed by Maitland Armstrong, of New York.

Mr. King died at his residence, 52 Jefferson avenue, Columbus, Monday, July 2, 1917, and is survived by his wife and two daughters, Mrs. Thayer B. Farrington and Marv Alsop King.

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William Neil King was an illustration O. the man who is not spoiled by wealth and social position. Friends of his boyhood remember him as a manly, high thinking, courageous fellow who was devoted to natural history, forestry and all kinds of athletics and manly sports, but who never allowed his love for these things to interfere with his work in hand, whether it happened to be his school or his business. He was a man who could always give a reason for the faith that was in him and, all in all, was a fine example of American manhood.

FOSTER COPELAND. It is a pleasure to review the lives of those who have at once been successful in their business undertakings and, as citizens and neighbors, have won the lasting regard of all. Such a man ii Poster Copeland, banker and man of affairs and an honored citizen of Columbus.

Mr. Copeland is a native of Indiana, but descended from a pioneer Ohio family. His paternal grandfather, Josiah Copeland, settle! in Zanesville in 1810 and was the first mayor of that city. He was also elected a member of the Ohio Legislature from Muskingum county. His ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War, and he was a soldier in the war of 1812. His son, Guild Copeland, began business as a merchant and banker in Kenton, this State, and afterwards was a banker in Evansville, Indiana, and New York City. He married Eliza Jane Foster, who was a native of Indiana, a daughter of Judge Mathew Watson Foster, an Indiana pioneer, and a sister to the late Colonel John W. Foster, diplomatist, who was at different times United States minister to Mexico, Russia and Spain, and Secretary of State during President Benjamin Harrison's administration, and whose daughter is the wife of Robert Lansing, late Secretary of State in President Wilson's cabinet.

Foster Copeland, son of Guild and Eliza J. (Foster) Copeland, was born March 9, 1858, at Evansville, Indiana. He attended ths public schools and the Polytechnic Institute at Brooklyn, X. Y., also studied at Mt. Pleasant, Amherst, Massachusetts. He began his business career as an errand boy in his father's office in 1876. He came to Columbus in 1882 and entered the office of H. C. Godman & Company, as bookkeeper. When that company was re-organized into a stock company in 1889 he was elected its treasurer and so continued for a period of ten years, giving his employers high-grade service in every particular and enjoying their confidence and trust from the first.

Mr. Copeland entered the field of banking in 1898 as president of the old City Deposit Bank of Columbus, which in 1905 became Fie City National Bank. He has continued as president to the present time, the rapid growth of this popular and sound institution being due in great measure to his able and judicious management. He is regarded as one of the best informed men in central Ohio on all phases of the banking business and is far-seeing and conservative. His activities as a banker and general business man have contributed to the growth of Columbus, whose interests he has eve" sought to promote in legitimate ways. He is president of the Columbus Forge & Iron Company, vice-president of the Forest Realty Company and a director of the Columbus & Xenia Railway Company, the Columbus Pharmacal Company, the Midland Mutual Life Insurance Company, and of the Columbus Varnish Company. His timely counsel and sound judgment have contributed to the success of all these concerns.

In civic affairs Mr. Copeland has long been active and influential. For a period of five years he served as president of the Franklin county jury commission. He has been for ten years a trustee of the Columbus Teachers' Pension Fund, president of the Columbus Academy, president of the Columbus School for Girls, treasurer of the Anti-Saloon League of America, treasurer of the Columbus Home for the Aged, and president of the Columbus Children's Hospital. He was for ten years president of the Columbus Young Men's Christian Association, and is a member of the Ohio State Young Men's Christian Association Committee. He is a member of the official board of the Broad Street Presbyterian Church. He belongs to the National Service Commission and to the Young Men's Christian Association War Work Committee, and was treasurer of Columbus Chapter of the Fatherless Children of France. At the present writing he is treasurer for the joint Y. M. C. A.-Y. W. C. A. $300,000 fund, the Victory reconstruction fund of the Ohio Sunday schools, the New Era fund for the Synod of Ohio and for the Salvation Army collections in Ohio.

These multifarious services speak the character of Mr. Copeland better than the words of anv biographer. Although otherwise a verv busy man, he has year after year taken upon himself at the solicitation of others, these ext -a duties, cheerfully doing what he could in aid of church, charitable and worthy public causes. To many of them he has given largely, not only of his time, but also of his means. In his church (the Broad street Presbyterian) his services have been, and are, of an exceptional character. No good enterprise has lacked his active support or, where it was needed, his financial aid. For forty-five years he has been a Sunday school worker and for years he has taught a large class of men from various walks of life.

On January 26, 1893, Mr. Copeland married Martha H. Thomas, of Columbus, and thev have the following children: Alfred Thomas, Eleanor Foster, Martha Hoge and Foster, ]r. Mr. Copeland is a thirty-third degree Mason and belongs to the Columbus Country Club.

JOHN PROUTY McCUNE. For many years John Prouty McCune, a retired manufacturer of Columbus, has been one of the active men of affairs of the Capital City. He did not beo-in his career with the get-rich-quick idea, but sought to advance himself along steady and legitimate lines, so shaping his course that each succeeding year found him further advanced and with a wider circle of friends.

Mr. McCune was born in Columbus, January 1, 1857. He is a son of the late Jonas McCune, for many years one of the leading merchants and best known citizens of Columbus in her earlier history.

John P. McCune grew to manhood in his native city and here he has been contented to spend his life. He received his education in the public schools and high school, later entered Yale University, from which he was graduated witli the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1878. In August of that year he entered his father's business house in Columbus, with which he was identified until December, 1894. However, in the meantime he engaged in the manufacture of agricultural implements here, the factory being later removed to Newark, Ohio, where it was known as the Newark Machine Company, of which Mr. McCune was president, and which, under his able and judicious management it grew by leaps and bounds, its products continuing to find a very ready market owing to their superior quality. Expert machinists and artisans were employed and only high grade work turned out. It was in 1911 that the Newark Machine Company began to manufacture motor trucks. Mr. McCune continued as president of the company until August, 1917, when he resigned and disposed of his interests in the same. In 1920 he was appointed by Mayor Thomas as Director of Public Safety, where he is serving at this writing.

Mr. McCune is a member of Goodale Lodge No. 372, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he was master in 1889. He also belongs to Temple Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of which he wras high priest in 1890; also belongs to Mt. Vernon Commanderv, Knights Templar, of which he was eminent commander in 1888. He was grand commander of the Ohio Grand Commanderv K. T. in 1895. He belongs to Scioto Consistory, Scottish Rite, of which he has been commander since 1900. He received the honorary Scottish Rite thirtythird degree in 1897, and the active Scottish Rite thirty-third degree for Ohio in 1911. He belongs to Aladdin Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of which lie was potentate from 1893 to 1903. He is one of the most active and best known Masons in the State and has been for twenty years, and is influential in Masonic affairs throughout the State. His exemplary life among his fellow men indicates that lie has always tried to live up to the sublime precepts taught by this time-honored order.

On September 25, 1879, Mr. McCune married Fannie Stokes, a daughter of Horace M. and Ann ( Partial) Stokes of Lebanon, Ohio. Mrs. McCune passed to her eternal rest in 1909, leaving the following children; Louise, a graduate of Rhyeon-Hudson Seminary, New York : William Prouty, a graduate of Yale University, Bachelor of Arts, 1906, and also a post-graduate of that university, with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1909, taught Yale until 1915, then entered the General Theological Seminary in New York City, where hr was ordained to the Episcopal ministry, and is now pastor of St. Ignatius Church of that city; John Stokes, third of our subject's children, was graduated from Yale University with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1907, and was chemist in the United States government general laboratory, then in the food laboratory, later accepting a position as chemist for the Oh'O Stat' board of health; he entered the officers' training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis. Indiana, at the time of America's entrance in the world war, and was commissioned second lieutenant of infantry, then promoted to first lieutenant and transferred to the chemical warfare corps and put in charge of gas instruction at Camp Taylor, Ky., as chief gas officer; Dorothy, fourth child of Mr. and Mrs. McCune, was graduated from Engleside Seminary for Girls in Connecticut, in 1912, then married Reginald O'Dunhill of Toronto, Canada, in which city they now reside; Donald Lumley, youngest of our subject's children, was educated in the public schools of Columbus and a private school in Wisconsin, and he is now (1919) in the United States army as a member of the Fourth regiment, motor mechanics, stationed in France. These children have all been given excellent educational advantages, which they have made the most of and are all well started out in life.

JOHN JONAS CHESTER. It is a fine thing to be able to say that we are descended from one of the sterling first families of America, especially if in the annals of the family there is nothing of which one might be ashamed. The record of the Chesters in this country is that of a people who have led useful and honorable lives, the various members of which have done much to further the interests of their fellow men in various ways.

One of the descendants of this excellent old family in Columbus is John Jonas Chester, who is of the third generation of this name in Ohio and of the seventh generation of his branch of the Chesters in America.

The Chester family was established in the new world prior to the year 1663 by Captain Samuel Chester, an Englishman, who commanded the brigantine 'Adventure," and was captured by the French. He settled in the east parish of New London, Connecticut, (now called Groton), where he owned large tracts of land. He was the direct ancestor of six generations removed of John J. Chester. John Chester, son of Captain Samuel Chester, married Mary Starr, a daughter of Thomas Starr, who was the second son of Hannah Brewster, the youngest daughter of Jonathan Brewster, the eldest son of Elder William Brewster, "Chief of the Pilgrims," and one of the passengers on the "Mayflower/' which landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Simeon Chester, the first, who was the second son of John and Mary (Starr) Chester, removed to Truro, Nova Scotia, at the out break of the Revolutionary War. His loyalty to the colonies caused him to sacrifice his valuable property in Nova Scotia and to return to Connecticut. However, his loyalty was recognized by Congessional acts in 1789 and in 1801, which acts accorded him nine hundred and sixty acres of land in three separate tracts, situated in Ohio, one of which was located in Franklin county, the other two in Licking county. His eldest son, Elias Chester, the Ohio pioneer, settled on the Franklin county tract, in Truro township, which township he named in honor of his father's Nova Scotia home. The Licking county tracts were settled by Simeon Chester, the second, and the second son of Simeon Chester, sr., who was born March 20. 1717, and who married Anna Higby.

Austin Eaton Chester, son of Simeon Chester, the second, and Anna (Higby) Chester, was born at Groton, Connecticut, July 16, 1821, and was five years old when he came with his parents to Ohio. Here he grew to manhood and attended school, being graduated from Granville College. He subsequently became a successful merchant and manufacturer at Newark, Ohio, where his death occurred January 10, 1891. In 1851 he married Cordelia McCune, of Battleboro, Vermont, who died in 1881. She was a sister of the late Jonas M. McCune of Columbus, and a cousin by marriage of William C. Whitney of Ohio, secretary of the navy in President Cleveland's cabinet. Her grandfather, Captain William McCune, raised a company in Battleboro, Vt., in 1776 and served throughout the Revolutionary War.

John Jonas Chester, son of Austin Eaton Chester and Cordelia (McCune) Chester, was born at Newark, Ohio, June 18, 1860. After attending the common schools he was a student at Wootser (Ohio) University, later studied at Lafayette College at Eastern, Pennsylvania, from which institution he was graduated in 1882, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His Alma Mater conferred the degree of Master of Arts on him in 1885.

Deciding upon a legal career he read law with the law firm of Converse, Booth & Keating of Columbus, and was admitted to the Bar in 1884, and in that year entered the practice of Lis profession in Columbus. He began as a general lawyer, but gradually drifted into corporation law and for a number of years lie lias confined his practice to this branch, in which he is now regarded as an authority and in which he has built up a large and lucrative practice.

Mr. Cluster is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, also Belongs to the Benjamin Franklin Chapter of Sons of the American Revolution, of which he was at one time president, He belongs to the Columbus Athletic Club, the Columbus Country Club, the Masonic order, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree, belonging to the Scottish Rite, Knights Templar, and the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

On August 10, 1894, Mr. Chester was united in marriage with Harriet E. Lisle, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To their union three children have been born, named as follows: John, the sixth, born August 10, 1898. He attended college at Kenyon and Amherst, and in the summer of 1917 enlisted in the headquarters troop of the 37th (Ohio) Division, U. S. A., and is at this writing, February, 1919, a sergeant serving with his division in France.

Mr. Chester is one of the progressive citizens of Columbus in civic affairs, always ready to lend a helping hand to movements having as their object the general public welfare.

CLARENCE DEWEY LAYEIN. One of the most successful young lawyers of Columbus is Clarence Dewey Laylin. At the outset of his career he realized that there was no roval road to success in the legal profession, so he went to work earnestly and diligently to advance himself and has continued to apply himself closely and honestly, therefore he is mounting the ladder of achievement gradually and surely.

Mr. Laylin was born at Norwalk, Ohio, August 29, 1882 and is a descendant of one of the pioneers of Huron county, this State, his grandfather, John Laylin, having settled there in the spring of 1811. He was a native of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where his birth occurred on May 22, 1791. He came to Ohio just prior to the War of 1812, with a group of pioneers whose efforts to establish a settlement were frustrated by the hostility of the Indians during that war. After the war, in which he served as a soldier, he returned to Huron county.

He married Olive Clark, in 1818, after which they settled on a farm near Norwalk. His wife and two children dying in 1811, he was married a second time, in 18 17, his last wife being Mrs. Mary (Weyburn) Slates. Her death occurred on April 2(5, 1877, and ten days later, April 26th, he followed her to the grave at an advanced age.

The parents of the subject of this sketch, Lewis C. and Frances Lattimer (Dewey) Laylin, were natives of Norwalk, Ohio, where they spent their childhood and attended the common schools. The father is now a prominent attorney and citizen of Columbus, where he is regarded as a leader in civic and political life. As secretary of state for the commonwealth of Ohio for three terms he made a brilliant record. He was also chairman of the codifying commission of 1910, and assistant secretary of the interior of United States.

Clarence D. Laylin attended the public schools of Norwalk, in which city he spent his boyhood, and lie was graduated from the high school there in 1899. He then took the course in Ohio State University and was graduated there with the class of 1901, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Deciding to follow in the footsteps of his father in a professional way, In- began reading law while taking his classical course, and after completing his literary studies he entered the law department of Ohio State University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1906. In that year he was admitted to the Par, and in a short time after his admission he was appointed chief clerk in the office of the attorney general of Ohio, Wade H. Ellis, and he has been identified with the attorney general's office in some capacity ever since, at one time as second assistant attorney general. Since 1915 In- lias been what is termed special counsel in thai office. He has also been professor of law in the College of Law, Ohio State University, a chair which he has filled most faithfully and acceptably.

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Kappa, Kappa Sigma, Phi Delta Phi and the Order of the Coif. Religiously, he belongs to the Indianola Methodist Episcopal Church, and is superintendent of the Sunday school there. Formerly he was superintendent of the Sunday school of King Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. He has long been active in church and Sunday school work.

Personally, Mr. Laylin is a gentleman of refinement and obliging and helpful in his intercourse with his fellow men, always interested in the welfare of others, and he is therefore held in high esteem, like his distinguished father. He is in every respect a worthy son of a worthy sire.

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MILLER. Among the young men of Columbus who are playing an important part in the industrial, financial and civic history of the city is Frederick Augustus Miller, manufacturer, banker and progressive and patriotic citizen.

Mr. Miller is of the third generation of his family in Ohio to win success in the manufacture of shoes. His grandfather, Gotlieb Miller, came over from Germany in 1835 and opened a shoe shop at Lancaster. This modest beginning soon grew into a bench made custom shoe business of considerable proportion. William A. Miller, father of Frederick A., was born at Lancaster and learned the shoe business under his father. He came to Columbus in 1876 and entered the employ of Hodder & Godman, leather merchants, as a clerk. Later he became a member of the firm of J. H. Godman & Co. and still later, with H. C. Godman, he organized the H. C. Godman Co., of which he has been President for a number of years. Mr. Miller's mother, whose maiden name was Anne Maria Halbedal, was born in Marion, Ohio, and came to Columbus with her family in the early seventies.

Frederick A. Miller was born in this city October 14, 1879. He was graduated from the Columbus High School in 1897 and from Ohio State University with the class of '01, Ph. B. degree. As a boy he worked with the H. C. Godman Co. without wages, on Saturdays and during vacations. After completing the literary course at the University, he entered, at his father's request, the law department; but after six months as a student of law, he decided that he did not want to become a lawyer. So he left college for good and entered the Godman Co. factory under the agreement to work two years without pay, at the end of which time he was either to be paid wages or discharged. So, in the latter part of the year 1901, he went to work in factory No. 1, beginning on what is now termed "efficiency" studies. His progress was rapid and by the end of the first year he had demonstrated that he had the making of a first-class shoe manufacturer and was promoted superintendent of factory No. 1 with a salary. In 1901 he was promoted general manager of the company's five plants (now eight) which position, in addition to the First Vice-Presidency, he continues to hold.

In 1904 he was one of the organizers of the Guarantee Title & Trust Company and in 1914 was made Vice-President of the Company, and in 1917 was elected President. He is also President of the Lancaster Tire & Rubber Co. and is identified with the following enterprises: Ohio Steel Castings Co.; Clay-Craft Brick Co.; Clay-Craft Brick & Mining Co.; Clay- Craft Builders' Supply Company; Marble Cliff Quarries Co.; Columbus Forge & Iron Co.; Yeager Mfg. Co.; Jones Heel Co.; Columbus Union Oil Cloth Co.; Lancaster Leather Co., and the City National Bank.

Mr. Miller holds membership in the following clubs and societies: Columbus; Columbus Country; Scioto Country; Columbus Athletic; Columbus Automobile; Order of Elks; Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Horton Literary; Political Science ; Chamber of Commerce and Columbus Conventions and Publicity Bureau.

During the war period Mr. Miller was very active and was identified with all movements for the support and relief of our soldier boys. He was one of the promoters and Vice-President of the Columbus "$3,000,000 and over War Chest," which successful movement gained for our city the applause of every other American city. Later, upon the resignation of Mr. Bush, Mr. Miller was elected to the Presidency of the War Chest. During the war he was also Chairman of the District Manufacturers' Commission for Central Ohio, which had to do with the production of supplies for the government and operated in a supplementary way with the War Industrial Board. He was also a meubcr of the Shoe Manufacturers' War Service

Committee and a member of the executive committee of the National Investigation Bureau whose duty it was to investigate all organizations soliciting funds from the public for war relief.

On April 28, 1909, Mr. Miller was united in marriage with Roberta B. Miller, who was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, the daughter of William H. Miller, of the Mill & Mine Supply Company, of this city. To Mr. and Mrs. Miller have been born a son and a daughter: Edmond William and France Anne.

FRANKLIN OSCAR SCHOEDINGER. The office of biography is not to give voice to a man's modest estimate of himself and his accomplishments, but rather to leave upon the record the verdict establishing his character by the concensus of opinion on the part of his neighbors and fellow citizens. The life of Franklin Oscar Schoedinger, manufacturer, business man and representative citizen of Columbus, has been such as to elicit just praise from those who know him best. He has been faithful in the discharge of his duties in all relations of life.

Mr. Schoedinger was born in the city where he still maintains his home, on September 7, 1872, a son of Philip J. and Caroline (Heverly) Schoedinger. The father was born in Germany in 1825 and the mother in Pennsylvania in 1833. Philip Schoedinger was rive years old when his parents brought him to America in 1830, the family locating in Columbus, where he grew to manhood, attended the early schools and learned the cabinet maker's trade, later engaged in the manufacture of furniture, finally adding undertaking to his business, and still later he gave all of his attention to the undertaking business. He was one of the well known business men in the earlier years of the city's development. His death occurred in 1880. His widow survived to a ripe old age, passing away in 1914, at the age of 81 years.

F. Oscar Schoedinger grew to manhood in his native city and here he received a good practical education in the public schools, but left high school before graduating, being ambitious to begin his business career, deciding not to wait for a diploma. In 1890 he established a small store, handling stoves and house furnishing goods, later branching out into different lines of manufacturing enterprise, gradually building up a large business with advancing years, until today he is one of the most successful business men in Columbus. He established and is sole proprietor of the F. O. Schoedinger Company, manufacturers of sheet metal builders' material, metal window-frames and sash, steel ceilings, roofing, architectural sheet metal works, and distributors of tin plate and metals and everything pertaining to sheet metal workers' requirements. They have built up a vast trade which has been growing rapidly from year to year, under our subject's able management, industry and perseverance. He was also one of the organizers of the Schoedinger-Marr Company. Inc.. in 1890, of which he is treasurer and president, and which he has built up to a large and important industry. He is a director in the National Bank of Commerce, director in the Iroquois Hotel Company, which operates the Hotel Chittenden; trustee, vice-president and chairman of the house committee of the Children's Hospital: vice-president of the Society for the Prevent inn and Cure of Tuberculosis; vestryman of St. Paul's Episcopal Church: director of the Columbus Athletic Club, member of the Columbus Club, the Columbus Country Club, and the Scioto Country Club: was president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1908, and is still very active in its work.

Mr. Schoedinger lias taken a most active part in the raising of all war funds in Columbus, his patriotism and loyalty to the government and her institutions being unquestioned. In all the above named positions of trust he has discharged his duty promptly, ably and in a manner that lias reflected much credit upon himself and to the satisfaction of all concerned. He takes as deep interest in public affairs as in bis private business and whatever he has turned his attention to has resulted in favorable returns. He has done as much, if not more, for tin general welfare of the Capital City during the past quarter of a century than any other one man. and the city owes him a debt of gratitude which it cannot renay.

Fraternally Mr. Schoedinger is Past Commander of Mt. Vernon Command ry, No. 1. Knights Templar, and is now an officer in the Grand Commander? of Ohio. He married Alice G. Seibert. daughter of John Seibert, a well known and highly respected citizen of Columbus.

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B. GWYNNE HUNTINGTON. Believing with the poet Longfellow that "Within ourselves are triumph and defeat," B. Gwynne Huntington, one of the well known young bankers of Columbus, determined at the outset of his career to so shape his course that when life's goal was reached he could look backward along the winding highway without compunction or regret, and so far he has left no stone unturned whereby he might honorably advance himself.

Mr. Huntington was born in Columbus, January 13, 1879. He is a son of P. W. and Frances (Sollaee) Huntington. He spent his boyhood in his native city and attended the preparatory school at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, from which he was graduated with the class of 1896, then entered Princeton University, taking the four years' course and was graduated with the class of 1900. Returning home after leaving the University he began his business career in Columbus with the Franklin Insurance Company, but in 1902 entered the Huntington National Bank and was promoted to assistant cashier in 1905. He was elected cashier in 1911. He applied himself very closely to the affairs of the bank and its steady and substantial growth has been due in no small measure to his influence.

Mr. Huntington took an active interest in war work and in 1917 was appointed treasurer of the Columbus Chapter, American Red Cross, also became treasurer of the Instructive District Nursing Association of Columbus. He is a member of the Colonial Club of Princeton, New Jersey ; also belongs to the Columbus Athletic Club, the Columbus Club, the Scioto Country Club and the Columbus Chamber of Commerce.

In January, 190-1, Mr. Huntington was united in marriage with Maybel M. Monypeny, of Columbus, and to their union three children have been born, namely: Ann, Frances Sollace, and John Webster Perit.

WILLIAM DARLING INGLIS, M. D. One of the well known physicians and surgeons of Columbus is Dr. William Darling Inglis, who has been engaged in the practice here successfully for many years. He is one of those estimable characters whose integrity and strong personality necessarily force them into an admirable notoriety, which their modesty never seeks, who command the respect of their contemporaries and their posterity and leave the impress of their individuality upon the age in which they live.

Dr. Inglis was born in Claysville, Pennsylvania, October 21, 1871. His parents, the late Dr. George and Janet (Scott) Inglis, were natives of Scotland, where they spent their earlier years, immigrating to America in 1852, locating first in Canada. During the sixties they removed to Pennsylvania. The father studied medicine and took the course in Philadelphia Medical College and after his graduation practiced medicine at Claysville the remainder of his life, building up a large practice, and there he and his wife both died.

Dr. William D. Inglis received his early education in the public schools, and when but a boy, decided to follow in the footsteps of his father in a professional way and began reading medicine under his direction. He was graduated from Washington and Jefferson College with the class of 1897, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and he received from that college the Master of Arts degree in 1902. He made an excellent record for scholarship, and in Jefferson Academy, Canonsburg, Pa., he taught mathematics from 1897 to 1899. He then attended the medical department of Ohio State University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1902, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and in 1903 he went abroad and took post-graduate work in obstetrics at Rotunda Hospital College, Dublin, Ireland.

Thus exceptionally well equipped for his life work, Dr. Inglis returned to America and began the practice of his profession in Columbus in 1903, and in that year he became professor of obstetrics in the medical department of the Ohio State University, which position he retained until 1916, discharging his duties in a manner that reflected much credit upon himself and to the satisfaction of those in charge of the institution. He resigned his position in order to resume active private practice.

In 1905 Dr. Inglis again went abroad and studied in his specialty - obstetrics, at Charite Hospital, Berlin, Germany. He is now obstetrician to the Protestant Hospital, Columbus. He is a member of the Columbus Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He belongs to the Columbus Athletic Club, the Scioto Country Club, the Business Men's Club, the Young Men's Christian Association, the Broad Street Presbyterian Church, and is a thirty-second degree Mason, and belongs to the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

On May 15, 1902, he was married to Alice M. Cockins, of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, and to their union three children have been born, namely: John C, William D., jr., and Robert M.

CHANNING WEBSTER BRANDON. One of the prominent insurance men of Ohio is Charming Webster Brandon, founder and president of the Columbus Mutual Life Insurance Company. His well directed efforts in the practical affairs of life, his capable management of his business interests and the judicious exercise of his sound judgment have brought him large rewards for the labor he lias expended, and his career forciably demonstrates what may be accomplished in this free land of ours by the man who goes out from an early environment none too promising, if he is willing to work honestly and persistently in any legitimate line of established endeavor.

Mr. Brandon was born at Marion, Grant county, Indiana, December 11, 185S. He is a son of the Rev. Thomas A. and Susanna (McCullough) Brandon, both natives of Ohio, each representing sterling pioneer stock. The father of our subject was in the ministry of the Christian Church for over half a century, occupying at different times during that long period pulpits at Lebanon, Troy, Yellow Springs, Williamsport, Bellefontaine, Dayton and Jamestown, Ohio, and at Union City, Indiana. He was popular with his congregations, being a pulpit orator of no mean ability, profoundly versed in the Bible and sympathetic and helpful in his daily intercourse with those with whom he came in contact. His power and influence for good cannot be estimated.

Charming W. Brandon w7as educated in the public schools of the different towns where his father held charges as a minister. He entered the mercantile business in 1880 at Bellefontaine, Ohio, and continued in that line for four years. In 1881 he entered the insurance field at that town as agent for the Union Central Life Insurance Company and later he represented the Phoenix Mutual Life, and other companies. He came to Columbus in January, 1903, and four years thereafter began the organization of the Columbus Mutual Life. He came well equipped for such work, as by his former life insurance experience he had mastered the various details of the business, for which he seemed to be well suited by nature as well as training. However, like the beginning of all great enterprises, it was a man size job which he had undertaken and the promotion of the undertaking was made much more difficult than it otherwise would have been in normal times, by the money panic of 1907 and 1908. He had his required capital stock practically subscribed and about forty thousand dollars of it paid in before the panic came on, but he needed one hundred thousand dollars paid in before he could incorporate. What Mr. Brandon passed through in those dark days of endeavor and the masterly way in which he handled the situation successfully, getting money when there was but little available, stamped him far above the ordinary as a man and organizer.

The company was incorporated in November, 1907, and began business in April. 1908, with Mr. Brandon as president and guiding genius, and he has continued in this capacity to the present time, the gradual and substantial growth of the company being due for the most part to his ability, close application, keen discernment and perseverance, until today the Columbus Mutual Life ranks with the best and most popular life insurance companies in the country, and its prestige is rapidly extending into new fields. In 1914 the company purchased the old Firestone residence at 580 East Broad street, and this has since been its headquarters. The building was remodeled and modernly equipped to suit the company's needs.

On September 18, 1877, Mr. Brandon was married to Josephine S. Archard, and to their union tin- following children have been born: William T., Harry P., Mary Josephine, and Archard.

Mr. Brandon has taken an active interest in the affairs of Columbus since coming here and lie is entitled to the (rood will and respect which is universally accorded him,

WILLIAM DAVID BRICKELL The history of the press of Columbus can not be proDerlv written without giving extended mention of the careers of the men to whom great credit is due for the development of our newspapers and the placing of them in the high position they hold in tlie world of journalism of today. One of these men is William 1). Brickell, who, for

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Mr. Brickell is a native of Ohio, though he spent his boy-hood and early man-hood at Pittsburg. His paternal grandfather was Captain John Brickell, a pioneer owner and captain of steam boats in the Ohio and Mississippi river trade. Among other boats, he built and commanded the "Boston," which was one of the very first large, fast boats in these waters. She was in the Pittsburg and New Orleans trade, and mounted a bow-gun for protection against the Indians. Captain John married Catherine Zillhart, who was of the old family of that name of Pittsburg. She was quite a character of her day and was familiarly known among Pittsburg people and river men as "Aunt Kitty."

The father of William D. was Captain David Zillhart Brickell, son of Captain John. He was born in Pittsburg. Following in the footsteps of his father, he became a captain of -steamboats, but in 1866, after his discharge from the Government service as Captain of a hospital ship he retired from the river and with Henry W. Oliver and W. W. Martin, formed the partnership of Martin, Oliver & Brickell, owners of the Kittaning, Penna., Steel and Iron Plant, and was engaged in business in that city during the balance of his life. He married Mary Ann McCarty, who died when her son, William D., was a boy of three years.

William D. Brickell was born in Steubenville, November 19, 1852. He attended the public schools and then entered the Western University (now the University of Pennsylvania). Before graduating, however, lie decided to leave college and go to work, selecting the newspaper business as his future field of work, and determining to learn that business thoroughly from the ground up, he entered the Pittsburg Post job printing shop where he served an apprenticeship. He next went to the old "Pittsburg Post," and for the next few years worked in both the composing and press rooms of that paper, and was then given a position on the staff. Leaving Pittsburg he went to St. Louis and became a member of the staff of the St. Louis Democrat (now the Globe-Democrat) and later was promoted night editor of that paper. He was next on the staff of the Indianapolis Sentinel.

In 1876 Mr. Brickell started to return to Pittsburg to accept the position of assistant managing editor of the Pittsburg Leader. At that time the Columbus Evening Dispatch was on the market, and Mr. Brickell determined to stop off between trains while enroute to Pittsburg and investigate both that property and the city as a newspaper field. And he never got to Pittsburg - not at that time, at least, for finding the Dispatch a promising property and the field up to his expectations, he took an option on the paper and later, in association with Captain L. D. Myers, purchased it outright. Five years later Mr. Myers was appointed postmaster and his interests in the paper were taken over by Mr. Brickell. At that time the Dispatch was a daily and weekly, with no Sunday edition, and was without any great amount of prestige or prosperity. Mr. Brickell, as sole owner and publisher, added the Sunday edition, practically revolutionized the paper and plant, and when he sold it in 1910 it was not only the leading newspaper of Columbus but of all of Central Ohio, and Mr. Brickell had become one of the best known newspaper men in the Middle West. For ten years he was a director of the Associated Press and during that period Columbus enjoyed the honor and benefit of having a resident director of that great news-gathering organization.

Upon retiring from the newspaper field in 1910 Mr. Brickell devoted himself to his financial and industrial interests, which by that time had become important. He is president of the Iron-Clay Brick Company, and is a member of the boards of directors of the Central National Bank, The State Savings and Trust Company, and lias other large business interests in Columbus and other cities.

He is a member of the Columbus Club, the Columbus Country Club, the Columbus Athletic Club, the Scioto Country Club and Columbus Lodge of Elks.

On July 15, 1885, Mr. Brickell was united in marriage with Cora M. Ross, who was born on the site of the Hotel Deshler, and is the daughter of Samuel Ross, early railroad man, who built the Pennsylvania railroad from Columbus to Richmond, Ind., and is now known as the Pickaway Division of the Pennsylvania Lines.

REV. JACOB W. HOSKINS. When the Rev. Jacob W. Hoskins, for many years a well known minister of the Christian Church, passed away, there was added to the list of lamented dead whose earthly records closed like the "good and faithful servant" spoken of in Holv Writ, and as long as memory remains to those who knew him the influence of his noble life will continue as a source of encouragement and inspiration. "Our echoes roll from soul to soul and grow forever and forever," according to the poet Tennyson, and the o-ood we do lives after us through all the ages, handed down from generation to generation. Who, then, can measure the results of a life work? Not to condemn, but to aid, the subject of this memoir made the practice of his life, and many are better and happier for having known him, for though the voice has long been stilled in death, the spirit of his work remains as the deep undercurrent of a mighty stream, noiseless but irresistible. His influence was as the delicate fragrance of a flower to those who had the pleasure of his friendship. His svmpathies were broad and ennobling and his life was beautiful in every phase.

Rev. Hoskins was a son of Richard Hoskins, the second, and Ann (Martin) Hoskins. and he was born on the old homestead in Leesburg township, Union county, Ohio, July 22 1830. He grew to manhood on the home farm and received his education in the common schools, but was principally self-taught. He was a very well educated man for his day and o-eneration and was exceptionally well versed in the Bible. He was one of the well known ministers of the Christian Church during the major portion of his life and filled the pulpits in various places in Ohio. He was called to his eternal rest in 1881. His wife, Martha Newhouse, was born in Scioto township, Delaware county, Ohio, in 1832, and she survived him nearly a score of years, passing away in 1902 at an advanced age. She was a daughter of John Newhouse, who was a native of Pickaway county, this State, the son of Anthony Newhouse, the second, who was born in Virginia, a son of Anthony Newhouse, sr., a native of England, who served with General Washington at Valley Forge during the Revolutionarv War, and died of camp fever. When Anthony Newhouse, the second, grew to manhood, he served under Washington in what Mas known as the "Whiskey Rebellion" in Western Pennsylvania. After returning home he married Nancy Coons and moved to Ohio, locating in Salt Creek township, Pickaway county, in 1800. He split the slabs for the coffin in which to bury the first white person to die in Pickaway county. Later he moved to Delaware county in 1814, and on the way thither he undertook to ford the Scioto river with a four-horse team and the family narrowly escaped drowning.

Richard Hoskins, the first, the paternal great-great-grandfather of Samuel A. Hoskins, one of the present day lawyers of Columbus, brought his family over from Wales at the close of the American Revolution, landing at Baltimore, Maryland, September 24, 1881, after seventeen weeks at sea. He settled near Lynchburg, Virginia. His son, William Hoskins, great-grandfather of Samuel A. Hoskins, was born in Wales. He married Jane Perry, and in 1799 removed to Ohio and settled on the banks of the Scioto at Franklinton (now the city of Columbus). In 1807 he removed to Scioto township, Delaware county, where his death occurred on March 29, 1834. His son, Richard Hoskins, the second, and grandfather of Samuel A. Hoskins, was born at Franklinton, Ohio, in 1802, and went with his parents to Delaware county in 1807, and there he grew to manhood and married Ann H. Martin, and they later removed to Leesburg township, Union county, this state, where he died in 18(57. His old homestead is still in possession of the family, owned by his grandson, Samuel A. Hoskins.

Samuel A. Hoskins, who is thus a descendant of two early Buckeye families, was born in a log house on the old Hoskins acres in Leesburg township, Union county, Ohio, March 5, 1863, the son of Rev. Jacob W. and Martha (Newhouse) Hoskins. He grew to manhood on the home farm, where he worked bard when a boy, and he received his early education in tin common schools, later taking the course at Ohio Northern University, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1887, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then took a course in the Cincinnati T.aw School, from which he received the degree of Baehc -lor of Laws in 1890. He worked his way through college, teaching school six winters in order to get funds to defray his expenses. He was admitted to the bar in 1890, and soon thereafter began the practice of law at Wapakoneta, Auglaize county, and lie soon was enjoying a very satisfactory practice, which has increased with advancing years until he is now one of the best known lawyers of Central Ohio. He has lived in Columbus since 1912.

Mr. Hoskins was elected prosecuting attorney of Auglaize county, and served to the satisfaction of his constituents and all concerned from 1901 to 1907. He was further honored while living there by being elected to the State Constitutional Convention in 1912. In 1904 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, Missouri. He served as president of the Ohio State Civil Service Commission in 1913 and 1914, and since 1914 has been treasurer of the Columbus Municipal Life Insurance Company. In 1900 he was a member of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was president of the commission which built the State Hospital at Lima, from 1906 to 1914. In all these important positions of trust and responsibility, he discharged his duties with ability and fidelity and to the satisfaction of all concerned.

Mr. Hoskins is a member of the Masonic order, including the Knights Templar and the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic S rine; he also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias. He is a former Grand Chancellor of the Ohio Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the Columbus Athletic Club.

Mr. Hoskins was married to Clara Hamilton, of the old Ohio family of that name. She was born in Richwood, Ohio, on April 6, 1864, and her death occurred April IS, 1918. She was a woman of many commendable personal characteristics and popular with a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. She was a daughter of George B. and Marion (Hamilton) Hamilton. Her father devoted his life to agricultural pursuits and he served in the Ohio State Legislature as a member of the Senate. Both her paternal and maternal grandfathers were named William Hamilton, but were not related, and in both families there were sons named William, John and Joseph.

To Mr. and Mrs. Hoskins were born the following children: George O., a graduate of Ohio State University, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, class of 1913, was graduated from the medical department of that institution in 1917, and is now a first lieutenant in the medical department of the United States army; Allen H., who was graduated from Ohio State University with the class of 1918, was secretary of the College Young Men's Christian Association; Donald J., enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Field Hospital, United States Army ; Geo. O. and Donald J. are no«* serving with the United States Armv in France (March, 1919); and Helen is a student in North Higli School. Columbus.

ALBERT GREEN JOYCE. A splendid example of the progressive twentieth century business man and patriotic citizen was the late Albert Green Joyce, president of the widelv known Green-Joyce Company of Columbus. Although a young man he was one of the potent factors in the Capital City of the great commonwealth of Ohio during the decade and a half that has just passed, a period which marked the greatest industrial growth since it was founded. As in the performance of his commercial and civic duties, he left the strong impression of his rare personality and individuality on Lis work, in like manner and degree he impressed his associates. Mr. Joyce delighted in good companionship, and his greetings were uniform and friendly. In his ordinary relations and contacts witli his fellow men he was quiet and modest ; with his intimate friends he was frank, genial and confiding. Mr. Joyce's character was strong, deliberate, candid, truthful, and he was always punctilious in his adherence to obligations. He was a kind and generous hearted man, an inheritance of his sterling father, who never turned the unhearing ear to those who should be heard, and, also like the elder Joyce, his acts of benevolence were not performed in an ostentatious manner, but with quiet and kindness, following the Divine injunction "not to let the left hand know what the right hand doeth."

The subject of this memoir was born in Columbus, November 14, 1 S 7 1 . He was a son of John and Eliza (Miller) Joyce, both deceased. He was the seventh child in a family of ten children, those surviving are, William Joyce, Mrs. William J. Byrne and Mrs. James E. Haggerty, all of Columbus. The Joyce family is one of the best known and esteemed pioneer families of Columbus, having played an important part in the history of the city for three generations.

Albert Green Joyce grew to manhood in his native city ami lure he received his early education in St. Joseph's Academy, then took a preparatory course at Ohio State University, after which he attended the University of Georgetown, Washington, D. C. After spending three years in college, during which he made a splendid record as a student, he returned to his native city and engaged in business with his father in a wholesale dry sroods store - The Green-Joyce Company, with which concern he was connected until his death. Having a splendid preceptor in his father and being ambitious and well adapted by nature for a business career, his rise was rapid and he was soon classed among the most brilliant and successful young business men of his day. During the last seven years of his life he was at the head of this mammoth mercantile establishment, performing most acceptably and faithfully the duties of president, and during that time the business experienced a steady and splendid growth, due to his energy, wise foresight and indomitable industry. The store of which he was president was established by his father many years ago and has long been one of the best known in Columbus. Wliile our subject was interested in man}- other lines of business most of his time was devotd to the one concern.

Mr. Joyce was an active and influential member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. He always gave unstintingly of his time anJ money to any cause that he deemed would assist in the upbuilding of his home city. Although needed at home to manage his large affairs, he did not hesitate to offer his services to the Government during the war with Germany enlisting in the quartermaster's department of the army and was in training at Camp Meigs, near Washington City, making rapid progress at the Officers' Training Camp, when disease suddenly assailed him and, after a very brief illness, he passed away on November 7, 1918, in Washington City, when only forty-three years old in the very prime of life and usefulness, his untimely death causing much sorrow and regret in his native city.

Fraternallv, Mr. Jovce was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Columbus. He belonged to St. Joseph's Cathedral, Columbus, and socially held membership in the Athletic Club, Scioto Country Club, Columbus Club and Columbus Automobile Club. His hobby was books and he collected a large and valuable library. Being widely read and well informed on general topics he was an entertaining and instructive conversationalist. Although primarily a business man, he loved the arts, poetry and science - the higher and better things of life.

On January 9, 1901, occurred th; marriage of Mr. Joyce and Lucy Beatty, a daughter of General John and Lucy (Tupper) Beatty, one of the prominent and influential families of Columbus. General Beatty and wife are deceased. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Joyce, namely: John B., Philip and Lucy B. Joyce, all of whom survive.

JOHN GREEN DESHLER. John Green Deshler, banker and prominent man of affairs, was born December 9, 1852, in the Cathedral residence on Broad street (then the Deshler home), and is the son of the late William Green and Ann Eliza (Sinks) Deshler. He attended the public schools and Kenyon College, but left college in 1871 before graduating, to go to work as messenger in the Exchange National Bank. He was one of the organizers of the Deshler National Bank in 1879 and was its president when it was consolidated with the Hayden-Clinton Bank in 1910, and of which latter bank he is a director and member of the executive committee at the present time. Mr. Deshler is a director of the Buckeye Steel Castings Company, with which big industry he has been identified almost from its incorporation and in the development of which he has been active. He was president and the guiding force of the old Central Ohio Natural Gas & Fuel Company, which found the gas in the Lancaster field and piped it to Columbus in 1890. In 1891 he built tin Wyandotte office building, which was the first sky scraper built in this part of Ohio, and which he sold in 1916 to the State of Ohio. As trustee of the Deshler estate he built the great Hotel Deshler, for which his grandfather acquired the land one hundred years ago, his father acquired the money, and the son, subject of this review, did the work.

He is a member of the following clubs: Columbus, Scioto Country, Columbus Country, Athletic, Union League of New York and the Columbus Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Deshler was united in marriage with Minnie Greene, daughter of the late M. M. Greene, who built the Hocking Valley and Columbus & Toledo railroads.

C. CHRISTIAN BORN. Mr. C. Christian Born was a member of one of the most substantial of the older families of Columbus. His paternal grandfather, Conrad Born, sr., came to Columbus in 1840, when the city boasted a population of 6000. For some years he was engaged in other lines of business, but in 1859 he started the brewing business, which was destined to become one of the greatest industries of Columbus.

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21st of September, 1811, was educated in his father's business and took an active part in its management. This business grew to be very large and important and was very remunerative. In June, 1869, he married Miss Lena Moerlein of Cincinnati, daughter of Christian Moerlein, an extensive and wealthy brewer of that city, and on May 1, 1870, the subject of this sketch was born at the family homestead on South Front street in this city. Here he grew up and was educated and entered into business with his father. He died on the 7th day of July, 1918, having become one of the most important business men of the city.

Although still a young man, he was active and prominent in a number of the largest business enterprises of the city. He was vice-president of the Hoster-Columbus Company, vice-president of the Columbus Malleable Iron Company, a director in two of our largest banks - the Hayden-Clinton and Ohio National banks. He was also a director in the Midland Mutual Insurance Company, the Columbus Academy, and the Moerlein Brewing Company of Cincinnati, a trustee of the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, a member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, and vice-president of the Children's Hospital. For some years he was a member of the board of Sinking Fund Commissioners, serving part of the time as its president. He was prominent in Masonry and had reached the 32d degree of the Scottish Rite. He was also a member of the Shrine, and held memberships in most of the club organizations of the city, including the Columbus Club, the Olentangy Club, the Bismarck Club, the Columbus Country Club, the Athletic Club, the Wyandotte Club, and the Arlington Club. He was also an Elk, a member of the Maennerchor and of Humboldt Lodge F. & A. M.

With the exception of some time spent in schools away from home and several years abroad, his whole life was passed in his native city. He was devoted to her interests and his loyalty to his country and home was of a deep and earnest character. Almost his whole education was obtained in our public schools and lie graduated from the High School with honor.

Mr. Born was a man of unusual natural gifts and these, with his winning personality, had placed him in the ranks of those to whom the people of his native city looked up to as the hope of the city's future. His talents covered a wide field. A good musician. A thorough and discriminating reader, a careful investigator of all public questions, he was so well qualified to lead as to have, thus early in life, taken a commanding position in her business activities. He had "troops of friends" and in that particular was one of our most popular men. Aside from this, his fine personal presence and delightful manners endeared him to all.

Mr. Born married Mary Eckhardt, daughter of Herman and Elizabeth (Butcher) Eckhardt, and to this union three children were born, namely: Elizabeth, Louise and Christian Eckhardt.

Fortunate in his worldly affairs, his generous hand could always be relied on for its full share of aid in any worthy project. At his home, he lived ideally, surrounded by works of art, a fine library and an interesting family. Supplemented by his wife's leadership in her art, it was one of the musical centers of the city, where his friends and those who loved the best things in life were always welcome and royally entertained.

To what heights he might have risen, had his life been spared, it is hard to predict, for he was looked upon as one of the coming men of a great and important city. But, having at so early an age reached such advanced ground, it is fair to say that in the natural course of events, a few years more would have seen him at the very forefront of more than one of our greatest enterprises.

HENRY CLAY McCLELLAND. Time, that ruthless obliterator, before whose destroying fingers even the stubborn granite must, in the end succumb, is ever at his work of disintegration. Beneath his blighting touch even memory fails, and too often a life of splendid achievement is forgotten in a day. Lest we forget then, as Kipling admonishes us in his superb "Recessional," regarding a number of important things that should not be forgotten, this tribute to the memory of the late Henry Clay McClelland is penned. Pioneer merchant, a public-spirited, fearless, kindly generous man, it is the desire of the biographer, as it must be of all who knew him, that his deeds and his character be recorded for the benefit of those who follow him.

Mr. McClelland was horn February 7, 18 10, in Columbus, and he was contented to spend his long and active life in his home city where the name McClelland was both a business and a social asset, his family being one of the most prominent of the pioneer settlers in the capital city, and its members have been leaders in all walks of life from the early days to the present time. Our subject was the fourth of nine children born to Samuel and Emeline (McKee) McClelland, those surviving being Emma, Clara and Isabel, all living in Columbus. The parents came here from Farmington, Connecticut, in 1832, each representing sterling did New England stock.

Samuel McClelland was one of the pioneer business men of Columbus, and he was very successful in his life work. He played an important role in the early development of the city, and was noted for his honesty, intelligence and business ability.

Henry Clay McClelland grew to manhood in his native city and here received his education, graduating from the High School when but fifteen years of age. He remained a close student and was a well informed man along general lines. Two sons survive him - Harry McClelland, who makes his home in San Francisco, California; and Bronson McClelland, a resident of Des Moines, Iowa. They both received good educational advantages and are successful men of affairs. Their lineage dates back to ancient Scotch families.

During the Civil War Mr. McClelland proved his loyalty to his country by enlisting in the Union Army. However, he was destined to serve only one hundred days. After leaving high school he began his long business career by becoming a clerk in the book store of Burr, Randall & Long, which was established in the early forties. He liked this line and took a great deal of interest in it from the start and made it his life work, soon mastering its various phases. A few years later the firm was changed to Randall & Aston, and so continued until 1878, in which year D. A. Randall, always an inactive partner, retired and the business passed to his son, the firm being known as E. O. Randall & Company. During all this time, including the changes noted, Mr. McClelland remained with the firm as chief clerk and manager of the book department. In 1S78 he severed his relationship with the concern he had served so faithfully for a period of twenty-two years and formed a partnership in the book business with H. W. Derby, known as H. W. Derby & Company. A year or two later Mr. Derby retired, transferring his interests to Fred W. Flowers, and the business was continued as H. C. McClelland & Company, this partnership lasting until 1912 when Mr. Flowers succeeded to the entire interest, however, the firm title remained unchanged. Mr. McClelland being retained as manager for one of its departments up to the time failing health overtook him a few months prior to his death. He had pursued his vocation as clerk, manager and proprietor in the book business for sixty-two years. He was one of the best informed men in his line in the State, possessing unerring judgment of both the intrinsic and commercial value of a new work. He attained a very wide acquaintance among the book clientele of his city and State. He was wedded to his wares, books being not only his constant environment but his cherished companions. He had a remarkable memory and became familiar with the names of publishers, titles of books and personalities of authors and more or less with the subject matter of books until he was a veritable walking encyclopedia. He was there- Ion an entertaining, instructive and brilliant conversationalist. An interesting phase of our subject's experience was his contact with the school children who, year after year and generation after generation, bought their books of him. He was highly esteemed by all. for to know him was to love him. He was familiarly known to the children as "Mister Mack."

Mr. McClelland's life was an unmixed devotion to his business. Faithful to a fault, ever patient, courteous and obliging - never other than a gentleman, lie was the ideal salesman. Modest and retiring in disposition, he Sought no praise or publicity, and had no desire for social or official position. While he was friendly with all, yet he selected his intimate companions with discretion, but the few admitted to his confidences, who enjoyed the privilege of close acquaintanceship, found him a delightful companion and a true friend and highminded gentleman, never stooping to (lie paltry or base, keeping in sight high ideals all the while a man of rare candor, simple habits and tastes, sympathetic toward all unfortunates, direct in thought and action, crowned with a keen sense of honor and integrity. For recreation he enjoyed whist, being a charter member of the Whist Club, but he was no club man in the usual sense, preferring to give his undivided attention to bis business and his home. He was summoned to his eternal rest on October 11. Ml 18, in his seventy-ninth year.

HON. ORLA E. HARRISON. The name of Orla E. Harrison, lawver and man of affairs, has Ion;;' been a prominent one in Columbus and Franklin county, for although only

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Mr. Harrison was born in the old homestead in German township, Darke county, Ohio, February 8, 1873. He is a son of George W. and Mary (Rupe) Harrison. The Harrison family was established in Darke county in 1832 by James Harrison, a native of Kentucky, who married Hannah Bowen, who was born in Greene county, Ohio. Their son, George W. Harrison was born on the old homestead in Darke county, August 31, 1812, and there he grew up and helped his father develop a farm from the wilderness. In 1861 he enlisted in Company G, Forty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He took part in the battle of Lewisburg, Kentucky, and was in a number of engagements in Virginia, but he was honorably discharged from the service owing to ill health. Returning home he engaged in mercantile pursuits at Palentine, German township, Darke county, Ohio, and still later at Union City, Indiana. He finally bought land near Centralia, Illinois, but spent only a few years in that state, returning to Darke county. He served as mayor of Hollansburg, Ohio, and also as postmaster at that place. Just before entering the army, in 1861, he married Mary Rupe, of Darke county. Her death occurred in 1908.

Orla E. Harrison attended the village schools of Hollansburg and was graduated from the Greenville High School in 1892, and from the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, in 1893, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He taught school five years, first in the village schools, then for two years was principal of the High School at Franklin, Warren county.

Mr. Harrison read law in the office of Judge James I. Allread, at Greenville, and in 1897, while still teaching school, he was admitted to the bar, and two years later began to practice with his preceptors, Judge Allread and Judge Teegarden, under the firm name of Allread, Teegarden & Harrison. He became well known and prominent while serving as secretary of the Darke County Agricultural Society, and while his father was a Democrat, when he cast his first vote in 1896, it was in support of the Republican party. In 1901 he was elected State Senator from the Twelfth District, a strong Democratic district, composed of the counties of Darke, Shelby and Miami, and he made such a commendable record that he was re-elected in 1903. At the time he entered the Senate he was the youngest member of that body, but nevertheless, he made his influence felt for the good of his district and the State in general, and he enjoys the distinction of being the only Republican ever elected from Darke county. He served on important committees and was chairman of the committee on schools during his second term and introduced what is known as the "Harrison School Code," and the "Harrison Library Code."

In 1906 Mr. Harrison was appointed by Wade H. Ellis, attorney general of Ohio, as special counsel in that department and at that time he took up his residence in Columbus. He served very faithfully and ably during the administration of Mr. Ellis and of his successor U. G. Denman, and gained much prominence for his splendid work. The Supreme Court appointed him a member of the committee to examine students for admission to the Bar, and of that committee he was secretary for seven years.

In April, 1909, Mr. Harrison was appointed special assistant to the United States attorney general in the Taft administration, and resigning his state position he removed to Washington, D. C. In 1911 he was detailed to take charge of litigation which necessitated his removal to Cleveland, but in June, 1912, he returned to Columbus, while still in the service of the Federal Government. He resigned this position, which lie bail so acceptably and admirably filled, in March, 1913, leaving the office on January 1, 1911, thus having also served under the Wilson administration. He has since been engaged in private practice of the law in Columbus, and has built up a large practice and is now one of the leading legal lights in the State.

Mr. Harrison is identified with many corporations of a public service nature and otherwise. He has for several years been general counsel of tin- following companies: The Athens Electric Company, The Central Electric Producing Company. The Hocking Power Co.. The Mutual Electric Company, The Hocking, Sunday Creek Traction Co., and others.

Mr. Harrison took an active part in war activities, and was chairman of the Franklin county food administration until the close of the war, receiving commendation from state and national officials on account of the efficient organization of the work.

On December 28, 1898, Mr. Harrison was united in marriage with Virginia Eidson, a native of Greenville, Ohio, and a daughter of Frank M. and Lucetta (Kiester) Eidson. To this union three children have been born : Eidson Ellsworth, whose birth occurred in Franklin, Ohio, in October, 1899; Ellis Bowen, born in Greenville, Ohio, August 1, 1905; Barbara Lou, born in Cleveland, Ohio, November 5, 1911.

WILLARD BRYANT CARPENTER, B. A., M. A., M. D. There is no class of citizens to whom a community owes a greater degree of gratitude than to the self-denying, self-sacrificing members of the medical profession, and the words of the ancient philosopher, "He serves God best who serves humanity most," certainly apply to the physician. Among the members of the profession of Columbus to whom scores and scores of people owe a debt of gratitude is that successful physician and worthy citizen, Dr. Willard Bryant Carpenter, who for fort}' years has been a prominent practitioner of the city.

Dr. Carpenter is a native son of Ohio and is descended from two pioneer families of the State - the Carpenters and Gilruths, - both of which have been in America since colonial days, and botli of which furnished soldiers to our early wars. The Carpenters are of English stock and trace their ancestry to the thirteenth century in England. The family was founded in America in 1638 by William Carpenter, the progenitor of the Ohio branch of the family. Nathan Carpenter, lineal descendant of William and great-grandfather of Dr. Willard B., served in a volunteer company in the war of the Revolution from May 5th to December 17, 1775, and in the Continental line in Captain Parker's company. Third Battalion, Colonel Sage commanding, from March 7, 1777, to March 17, 1780, and was mustered out with a rank of Captain in recognition of his services; he was at the battle of Bunker Hill and at the capture of General Burgoyns at Saratoga. Dr. Carpenter's maternal greatgrandfather, Nathan Bracee, was also a soldier of the Revolution and served with General Washington at White Plains and New York, while Dr. Carpenter's grandfather, on his mother's side, the Rev. James Gilruth, served as a soldier in the War of 1812.

A few years following the close of the Revolutionary War, Captain Carpenter purchased part of what was known as "military land," in what was then Liberty township, Ross county, Ohio - (subsequently, when Delaware county was formed, Liberty township, that county), and removed his family, consisting of his wife and six children, to the new home in the west towards the close of that century. His son, Nathan, grandfather of Dr. Willard B., was born on March 1, 1790, and was but a boy when he came with the family to Ohio. He owned a farm on the east side of Olentangy river, Liberty township, Delaware county, and later owned a farm and mill on the west side of the Olentangy. In 1837 he moved to near Worthington, Franklin county, Ohio, and built his home on what is now the site of the Methodist Children's Home. There he and lis wife, Electa, passed their declining years.

Rev. George Carpenter, D. D., father of Dr. Willard B.. was born in his father's log house on the east side of the Olentangy, in Liberty township, Delaware county, on May 9, 182<i. He was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University witli tin- degree of A. B.. class of '51, and is one of the three oldest living members of the alumni of that University. He studied theology at Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, completing the course and receiving his license to preach. Wrooster University gave him the Hon. D. D. degree. He was pastor of Kingston, (Ross county) Presbyterian Church from 185 1 to 1867 and pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Washington C. IT., from 1867 to 1885. After that his labors wrri' as a Synodical minister and evangelist until he retired from all active work in lit! I. remaining on his Ross county farm until October, 1916, when he removed to Columbus, where he now resides. He married Matilda Gilruth, daughter of Rev. James Gilruth. a soldier in I lie War of 1812, who served as quartermaster of a regiment stationed at Fort Gratiot, and was later well known as one of the strongest, mentally and physically, of the pioneer ministers of the Methodist Church in Central and Northern Ohio.

Mrs. George Carpenter is a lady of unusual mental attainments, and is a pioneer in the Cause of temperance in Ohio. She was captain of the first band of women in Ohio to enter the organized crusade against whisky, and she is the author of "The Crusade. Its Origin on the shelves of public and many private libraries. She is still living, and like her husband, in the enjoyment of health and all of her faculties.

Dr. Willard Bryant Carpenter was born at Kingston, Ross county, on February 19, 1856. He attended Mt. Pleasant Academy, at Kingston, and was graduated from Washington Court House High School, and then sought employment in order to earn money with which to assist in obtaining his higher education. He worked in the postoffice, the county offices and a bank in Washington Court House, and then entered Wooster University, where he was graduated with the A. B. degree, class of '76. Wooster gave him the A. M. in 1879, after three years continuous study in advanced and professional institutions.

He read medicine in the office of Dr. S. S. Salisbury at Washington Court House, then entered Hahnemann Medical College at Philadelphia, from which college he received his M. D. degree with the class of '79. He then spent some time in the office of Dr. J. H. Salisbury, of Cleveland, in the study of the micro scope and its relation to diagnosis, and in July, 1879 he began the practice of medicine in Columbus. And after forty years is still active and successful, he being now the dean of Homeopathic physicians of the city, his service having been longer than any other physician of that school of medicine in Columbus.

Aside from his practice Dr. Carpenter is active in other and kindred lines of endeavor. He was one of the founders and associate owners of the Sixth Avenue Private Hospital ; he is a lecturer on diseases of the nervous system at Homeopathic College of Ohio State University, and is a member of the staff of University Hospital ; he was one of the organizers of the Columbus Mutual Life Insurance Company and is now medical director, vice-president and member of the executive board of same ; is chairman of the executive council of the Ohio Public Health Federation; is a member of the Columbus Homeopathic Medical Society; member of the Ohio State Homeopathic Medical Society (president one year), and of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He is also a member of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, of Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, of Old Northwest Genealogical Society, and is one of the original founders of the National Historical Society (N. Y.) He is a member of Central Presbyterian Church, of the Columbus Athletic Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and is vice-president of the Park Savings Co.

On September 29, 1880, Dr. Carpenter was united in marriage with Carrie L. May, of Kingston, Ohio. She died in 1895, and on June 24, 1897, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Ida F. Lindsey, of Columbus.

Dr. Carpenter is the ideal physician: skilled, patient, untiring, kind and genial and magnetic in personality. As a citizen he is progressive and patriotic - a combination and blending of talent and worth, - which long since won for him a high place in his profession and recognition as a leading citizen and a man of high ideals.

FRANCIS ROPES HUNTINGTON. It is a well authenticated fact that success comes as a result of legitimate and well-applied energy, unflagging determination and perseverance in a course of action when once decided upon. She is never known to bestow her gifts upon the indolent and ambitionless, and only those who seek her untiringly are recipients of her blessings. In tracing the history of Francis Ropes Huntington, president of the Huntington National Bank of Columbus, it is plainly seen that the prosperity which he now enjoys has been won by commendable qualities, and it is also his personal worth that has gained for him the good will of all who know him.

Mr. Huntington was born in the city where he still resides, September :!. 1876. He is a son of P. W. Huntington, a pioneer banker, man of affairs and founder of the Huntington banking institutions in Columbus. He was educated in the schools of this city and prepared for college at a preparatory school at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, but did not enter college, preferring to get into business life, which he did in his seventeenth year. He began as messenger in his father's bank in 189:3 and in 1898 he was taken into the firm as a partner, having made rapid progress in mastering the various phases of the banking business and from that time on he has been a vital force in the bank.

When the Huntington National Bank was organized he became its vice-president and upon the retirement from active business of his father in 1913 he succeeded him as president. the duties of which responsible position he has continued to fill very ably and satisfactorily. He was one of the organizers of the Midland Mutual Fife Insurance Company of Colum- bus and is now its treasurer. He is a director of the Hocking Valley Railroad Company, a director of the Columbus Railway, Light & Power Company, also of the Ohio State Telephone Company, the Indianapolis Telephone Company, the Commonwealth Railway, Light and Rower Company, and many others.

Mr. Huntington is a member of the board of trustees of the Children's Hospital and of the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. He is vice-president of the Columbus Club, a life member of the Columbus Athletic Club and also of the Scioto Country Club, and a member of the Castalia Club.

NORMAN EWING SHAW. It is now becoming generally understood that the life of the man who lives closest to nature is the best life, and no class of men are in better position to receive the benefits which are thus to be derived than farmers. We study the merchant, the professional man, the artist, preacher, statesman and inventor and find their lives no more excellent than the lives of the agriculturist. While the farmer stands at the head of art as found in nature, the others get but glimpses of the delights of nature in her various elements and moods. Norman Ewing Shaw, the able and popular State Secretary of Agriculture of Ohio, has ever taken a delight in nature and existence, because he has kept in touch with the springs of life, having spent most of his life in some branch of agriculture.

Mr. Shaw was born at New Richmond, Clermont county, Ohio, July 29, 1876. He is a son of John C. and Sarah (Goble) Shaw. The father was also a native of Clermont county and was a son of John Shaw, who came to Ohio from Kentucky. He became one of the leading men of his locality and served in the Ohio Legislature, also in the Constitutional Convention in 1876. His wife was also a native of Clermont county, this State, and was a daughter of Stephen Goble, an early settler of Richmond.

Norman E. Shaw was educated in the New Richmond common and high schools, Doan Academy at Granville and Ohio State University, graduating from the last named institution with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1906.

He very early manifested a decided bent for things agricultural and horticultural, and while a student at the University lie had charge of the gardens and greenhouses of the institution, and in this manner he made enough money with which to defray his expenses while a student. During his senior year he was an instructor in the horticultural department.

After leaving college he was for two years commercial gardner near the city of Columbus. He was then appointed a deputy inspector in the State Bureau of Horticulture and Agriculture, and his work in this connection was so well done that he was promoted to chief of the bureau in 1908. On May 1, 1917, he was appointed Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, and under the new law creating the office of Secretary of Agriculture, an executive official, he was appointed to that position on July 1, 1917. He has discharged the duties of these important positions of trust in a prompt, able, faithful and eminently satisfactory manner, doing much to better the conditions of the Ohio farmer in a general way, and proving that lie is profoundly versed in all phasesof modern agricultural and horticultural work. He has remained a close student and a diligent investigator of all that pertains to these great sciences and be has therefore kept fully abreast of the times in each. He has contributed frequent learned articles to the press on vital questions in his department, which have always found an appreciative audience, and lie is regarded as an authority in bis line. He has made the state vast sums of money by advocating improved methods of agriculture, also saved the farmers large sums by giving timely warnings and advice regarding the natural enemies of crops oi various kinds. It is the consensus of opinion that the state never had a more capable man at the bead of its agricultural department.

Mr. Shaw is a member of the executive committee of the National Association of Commissioners of Agriculture. He is a member of the Ohio State Horticultural Association, of which lie was president for two years. He is also a member of the National Association of Apiary Inspectors, of which he served as secretary for some time.

As Slate Secretary of Agriculture Mr. Shaw has charge of the annual Ohio State Fair, which is now regarded as one of the very best of its kind in the Union. The pronounced success of the fair for 1917 was due in very large measure to his untiring efforts.

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Mr. Shaw married Julia Irene Snyder, a daughter of E. P. Snyder of Norwalk, Ohio. To this union four children have been born, namely: Cornelia, Mildred Irene, Norman Ewing, jr., and David Perry.

JOHN VINCENT SEES. One of the ablest exponents of the Ohio Bar is John Vincent Sees, National Counsellor of the American Insurance Union, with headquarters in Columbus, who, while yet young in years, has attained a brilliant reputation in his special line - insurance law, in which he is a widely recognized authority. His habits of study, industry and critical research, his. ability to grasp and understand the law, to sift it, segregate it, weigh, deduce, and apply it, make him an informed, forceful and certain lawyer, and, necessarily, a successful lawyer. He is characterized by fairness in stating the position of an adversary, and is strong enough and broad enough to seek or desire no undue advantage. His utterances are expressive of a calm dignity, a tolerant spirit, but a fixed purpose. In his discussion of the law he is terse, clear, precise, incisive, and to the jury and court he is cautious, deliberate, impressive and a reasoning advocate.

Mr. Sees was born in Huntington, Indiana, January 11, 1875. He is a son of P. A. and Mary J. (Cummins) Sees, the latter still living at the old homestead in Huntington, the father having died there in 1909. The father was a native of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The mother was born in Perry county, Ohio. P. A. Sees was two years old when his parents removed from the Keystone state to Perry county, Ohio. He finally established his future home at Huntington, Indiana, where he became a prominent citizen and for many years engaged successfully in the grain elevator business. He lived retired several years prior to his death.

John V. Sees grew to manhood at Huntington and there received his early education, graduating from the grammar and high schools. He then entered Indiana State University at Bloomington, where he took a general course, laying a broad and firm foundation for an after superstructure of universal and legal knowledge. Having remained a close student he has become a highly educated man. After leaving the University he studied law at the Indiana Law School at Indianapolis, where he made rapid progress and from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1901. He immediately began the practice of law in his home city, Huntington, practicing alone, and met witli encouraging success from the start. He later formed a partnership with Judge Eberhart, now judge of the Circuit Court of the Huntington district. This partnership proved to be mutually advantageous. After the dissolution of this firm Mr. Sees again practiced alone in Huntington until 1913, having built up a very extensive clientele and being regarded as a leader of the Bar in that section of the Hoosier state.

Having specialized for some time on insurance law the talents of our subject became generally recognized and in 1913 he was made National Counsellor of the American Insurance Union, with headquarters in Columbus, where the head offices are located. This is one of the largest and best known insurance concerns in the LTnited States. He has continued to discharge the duties of this responsible and exacting position to the present time in a manner that has reflected much credit upon himself and to the eminent satisfaction of the company. He is universally regarded as one of the leading authorities and best posted men on insurance law in America. He officiated in 1917 as president of the Fraternal Society Law Association, a national organization which meets in Chicago annually. This society is composed of the general counsels of fraternal insurance societies and other lawyers interested in insurance law. Its membership comprises members from California to Maine. The fact that Mr. Sees was chosen president of this great organization is sufficient criterion of his high standing in this special field of legal science and of bhe confidence reposed in him by his professional brethren. He has done much for the upbuilding of the association and has long been a potent factor in its affairs.

Politically, Mr. Sees is a Republican, and while he lias never been active in local politics, he was chairman of the Republican organization in Huntington county, Indiana, several years before coming to Columbus, and while living there repeatedly refused political honors which were tendered him. In those days lie took a very active interest in political and public affairs. However, since taking up his present work he has had neither the time nor inclination to devote to matters outside of his strenuous duties with the great American Insurance Union. Religiously, he is a member of the Christian Church. He is a thirtysecond degree Mason, also belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Brotherhood of Elks. He belongs to the Columbus Athletic Club. He has been deeply interested in all movements having for their object the general welfare of Columbus and is regarded as one of the progressive men of his adopted city.

On December 20, 1905, Mr. Sees was united in marriage with Olive M. Royston, of Huntington, Indiana. She is a daughter of John W. and Jane (Eller) Royston. Three children have blessed the union of our subject and wife, namely: May, Mary Elizabeth and John Sees, jr.