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JOSEPH C. CAMPBELL. It is not everyone that can make a success of the life insurance business. Some men fail at it no matter how long and hard they may try. Those who enter this line of endeavor should study themselves carefully, weigh their good and bad qualities accurately and be influenced rather by sound reason than by impulse. He should be a good judge of human nature, must have tact, be quick in figures, be honest, truthful and persevering, and, as in most other lines of endeavor, he must like the work better than anything else. These and other necessary qualities seem to be possessed by Joseph C. Campbell, for many years one of the well known life insurance men of Columbus, where he has also engaged in the banking business with equal success.

Mr. Campbell is regarded as one of the leading citizens of the capital city, having been influential in public affairs of his city and State for many years. He is a Virginian by birth, having been born near the village of Edinburgh, on October 26, 1852. He received his education in his native rural school in Virginia, augmented by persistent private studies. He came to Columbus, Ohio, in 1871, a total stranger and without means, and has made his home here ever since. His career in this city, covering a period of nearly a half century, has been one of progress, success and honor, both to himself and to the community. Beginning as a clerk in a Columbus dry goods store before he had attained his majority, he has, by close application, perseverance, and honorable dealings with his fellow men, advanced himself to a position of honor and influence in the city of his adoption, the substantial growth of which he has aided in every way possible.

After his brief experience as a dry goods clerk, young Campbell was offered a minor position in an insurance office, which he accepted. It was not long before his employers and himself recognized the fact that he was peculiarly fitted for the insurance field, and being ambitious to start out for himself and test his ability as an independent life insurance man, and to work out his own destiny, he secured the Columbus agency of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Boston, Mass. While an agency of this company had been a short time before established in Columbus, but with little business at that date as a nucleus, Mr. Campbell's influence and hard work, soon brought rapid progress in Central Ohio, until his success as local agent made him the logical selection for State Agent for Ohio and West Virginia of the company, to which position he was appointed in 1879, and which lie lias since held in a manner that has reflected much credit upon himself and to the entire satisfaction of his company, he having gradually increased the company's business until the agency became, and is still, the largest agency, and the largest producing agency I lie company has in the United States, and today ranks among the leading companies doing business in Ohio.

In 1900 Mr. Campbell was one of the organizers and incorporators of what is now the National Hank of Commerce, of Columbus, and became its first president, and has since continued to hold lli.it position, the rapid growth of this popular institution being largely due to his able and judicious management.

Iii civil and educational affairs Mr. Campbell has also been prominent for many years. lie served as a member of I lie Board of Trustees of the Toledo State Hospital, receiving ln's appointment from Governor Nash, and remained on the board through the administrations of Governors Herrick and Harris, and a portion of Governor Harmon's term, when he resigned. His interest in education led him to finance lectures at Ohio State University for several years, and has taken a deep interest in musical affairs, being somewhat talented along tliis line himself. His charities have b?cn bountiful, although never given in an osten- tatious manner. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, and as a member of the City Council; is president of Board of Trustees City Sinking Fund. He is a Scottish Rite and Knights Templar Mason, and belongs to the Columbus Club, the Columbus Country Club, the Athletic Club, and Exchange Club.

In 1883 Mr. Campbell married Emma A. White, and to them have been born two children, namely: Edna C, and Samuel Howard. His family residence being one of the beautiful homes of the Capital City, occupying his country home, "Bryn-Mawr," near Denison University in summer.

Mr. Campbell is a man who has always guarded well his personal conduct in all the relations which he has sustained to the world, aud while advancing his individual interests, has not neglected his general duties as a neighbor and citizen, and "while living in a house by the side of the road, has been a friend to all mankind."

SAMUEL GALLOWAY OSBORN. A well known and successful lawyer of Columbus is Samuel Galloway Osborn, judge of the Municipal Court. As an advocate he enjoys rare, peculiar and praiseworthy gifts, and is thoroughly intrenched in the underlying basic principles of jurisprudence. In argument he is clear, concise, analytical and convincing. "Persuasion hangs upon his lips and sly insinuation's softer arts, in ambush lie about his flowing tongue."

Judge Osborn is a native of the city where he still resides, and he is descended from two excellent pioneer families, members of which have figured prominently in the affairs of Central Ohio for three generations. His paternal great-great grandfather, Ralph Osborn, came to Columbus in 1807 and in 1812 was Auditor of State. James D. Osborn, the grandfather, was born in Columbus and became prominent in business circles. He founded the old dry goods house that long bore his name - Osborn & Company. Charles F. Osborn, father of the subject of this sketch, was also born in the Capital City, and here lie was educated and succeeded his father in the firm of Osborn & Company, dry goods merchants. Samuel Galloway, the judge's maternal grandfather, was a native of Pennsylvania, from which state he came to Ohio in 1828, settling first in Highland county. He was a graduate of Miami University, studied theology at Princeton College, and in 1836 was professor of Greek at Miami University. He subsequently taught classical languages at Wittenburg College, Springfield, Ohio, and at South Hanover College, Urbana. He read law and was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1842 and began practice at Chillicothe, this state. In 1844 the Legislature elected him Secretary of State, and he came to Columbus to reside. He was a delegate to the Presidential Convention of 1848, and in 1854 he was elected to Congress. He was one of the prominent and influential public men of his day and generation in his section of the State. His daughter, Mary Galloway, was the mother of the subject of this sketch.

Judge Osborn was born February 27, 1871. He attended the public schools and was graduated from the law department of Ohio State University in 1897 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the Bar in 1897, and in that year began practice in Columbus. He soon attained a high rank at the local Bar and enjoyed a good practice. He was elected judge of Police Court in 1907 and in 1911 was again elected to this position. He was elected judge of the Municipal Court in 1915, and is still on that bench. In both these positions of trust with which the public has honored him, Judge Osborn has acquitted himself in an able, faithful and conscientious manner, eminently satisfactory to his constituents. His decisions are marked by a clear interpretation of the law and by fairness and sound common sense.

Judge Osborn is a member of the Franklin Count v Bar Association, the Columbus Country Club, Columbus Athletic Club and St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Fraternally, lie is a thirty-second degree Mason, and holds membership with the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

THEODORE RHOADS. The career of the late Theodore Rhoads, capitalist, extensive holder of real estate and well known man of affairs, indicates the clear-cut, sane and distinct character, and in reviewing the same from an unbiased and unprejudiced standpoint, interpretation follows fact in a straight line of derivation. In this publication it is consistent that such a review be entered, and without the adulation of ornate phrases. The city of Columbus naturally takes pride in the work performed by Mr. Rhoads, who stamped the mark of definite accomplishment on the highest plane of industrial activity, and consistency demands that he be given due relative precedence in a work which has to do with those who have lived and labored to good purpose in the great commonwealth of Ohio in times that are past, and thence permeated the great industrial and civic life of the nation, in which he stood well to the forefront in representative citizenship. His history and that of the latterday progress of the Capital City of the Buckeye State are so indissolubly interwoven that they are pretty much one and the same, for he lived to see and take a conspicuous part in the upbuilding of his home city as well as other communities where he had large investments, and during the years in which he honored this locality with his residence no man stood higher in public esteem.

The subject of this memoir was born in Waterloo, New York, October 22, 1817, an only son of Peter and Anne (Wright) Rhoads, botli natives of the state of New York, where they grew up, married and established their home. They were a fine type of sterling old American stock - industrious, honest and obliging. They have both long since passed away. Theodore Rhoads received his early education in Elmira, New York, and there attended college until he was seventeen years of age when he came to Columbus, Ohio, with his parents and here the family established their future home, the father becoming the head of the firm of P. Rhoads & Company, one of the pioneers in the oil business, the firm later being taken over by the Standard Oil Company. It was here that the foundations of the family fortune were laid. Our subject engaged in the oil business with his father, and after the business was sold he became president of the Columbus Sewer Pipe Company. The Rhoads holdings soon became scattered and included properties in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Boston, and other places. He became a dominant factor in the various enterprises with which he was connected and whatever he turned his attention to thrived as a result of his directing genius and perseverance. Although during the latter years of his life he had retired from active control of properties he retained his interest in business to the last. He was a director in the Hayden-Clinton National Bank and the Scioto Valley Traction Comparand formerly was a director of the Columbus Street Railway Company and the Chamber of Commerce.

Although Mr. Rhoads was a member of the Columbus Club, the Arlington Country Club and various other social organizations he was not an enthusiastic club man, preferring to devote most of his time to his home and family circle. The one diversion he allowed himself was camping and fishing, and for many years lie passed his summers at a place he maintained at Amahic Lake, Ontario. He was a member of the Castalia Trout Club near Sandusky, and was a frequent visitor there. He had also camped and fished at many of the most inaccessible places in the far West and North. He was fond of nature and the outdoors and loved flowers especially ; they were always conspicuous about his several homes. Ever since his retirement from active business in 1901 he passed a large portion of his time in Fiorida, accompanied by his family, where, at "Seminola Park" he maintained a beautiful winter home, Ins estate there embracing one hundred acres, pleasantly located between Halifax river and the ocean, one of the most wonderfully attractive estates in that land of flowers, and the family still spend their winters there.

Politically, Mr. Rhoads was a Republican, but never active nor a biased partisan, preferring to east his vote for the candidates he deemed best qualified for the offices sought. He never made an attempt to be a leader in public affairs although well qualified to hold office. He was a worthy member of the Central Presbyterian Church, and was very liberal in his contributions to the church and other laudable movements for the general good of his fellow men, in fact, he was ever liberal witli the fortune he had amassed, but gave out of a sense of duly and a love for those in need and never in an ostentatious manner to attract public applause. He was a close observer and a wide reader and thus became a cultured gentleman who was universally popular with all with whom he came in contact.

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of J. W. and Phoebe A. (Warther) Kinsell, natives of Virginia, each representing fine old Southern families. They were parents of four daughters and one son, Mrs. Rhoads being the only survivor. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Rhoads was blessed by the birth of two sons: Fred E. Rhoads, died ten years ago, leaving a daughter, Margaret Maxine Rhoads, who makes her home with her grandmother, the widow of the subject of this memoir. The other son, R. Stanley Rhoads, lives in St. Louis, Missouri, and is at the head of one of the largest pipe concerns in the United States. He has four children, namely: Edwin T., who at this writing, 1919, is serving with the aviation corps in France with Pershing's army; Ralph Stanley, Doris, and Theodore Rhoads, the latter a namesake for his grandfather, our subject. After a lingering illness of months' duration, Theodore Rhoads was summoned to close his eyes on earthly scenes at the family residence in Columbus, on June 5, 1916. The spacious and picturesque old homestead at 1081 North High street, which has been occupied by the Rhoads family for nearly fifty years, was a fitting place for his declining days, which had been replete with success, happiness and honor.

MAURICE SUPPLE CONNORS. Among the successful self-made men of Columbus, whose efforts and influence have contributed to the material upbuilding of their respective communities, Maurice Supple Connors, well known railroad official, occupies a conspicuous place. Being ambitious from the first, but surrounded with none too favorable environment, his early youth was not especially promising, but lie accepted the discouraging situation without a murmur and, resolutely facing the future, gradually surmounted the difficulties in his way and in due course of time rose to a prominent position in railroad circles.

Mr. Connors was born in the city of Toronto, Canada, June 7, 1858. He is a son of Michael and Catherine (Supple) Connors. The Connors family came to America in 1851, locating at Toronto and in 1865 they removed to North East, Pennsylvania. Michael Connors, father of our subject, was long an employe of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company. His death occurred at the town of Nortli East, Pennsylvania, in 1910, at the advanced age of ninety years, and there the death of his wife occurred in 1887 at the age of sixty-three years.

Maurice S. Connors had little opportunity to obtain an education, but lie has made up for this lack in later life by contact witli the world, habits of close observation and wide miscellaneous reading, so that today he is a well informed man along general lines. He began his railroad career when but a a lad of twelve years, at North East, Pennsylvania, as water boy to the construction force, then laving the second track of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. He learned telegraphy during those early days and in 1872 and 1873 he was an extra operator for the above named road. From 1873 to 1879 lie was telegraph operator on the Philadelphia & Eric Railroad, now known as the Pennsylvania Railroad System, and from 1879 to 1880 he was telegraph operator for the Standard Oil Company at Bradford, Pennsylvania. In 1880 and 1881 he was paymaster in the construction department of the Standard Oil Company and in 1881 he returned to railroading as train dispatcher of the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad, at Evansville, Indiana, where he worked two years. From 1883 to 1887 he was train dispatcher of the Indianapolis division of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, and Master of Transportation of the same division from 1887 to 1889, and Superintendent of the same division from December, 1889, to May, 1890. From May to December of the latter year he served as General Superintendent of the Peoria & Pekin Union Railway, Peoria, Ills. From December, 1890, to December, 1891, he was Superintendent of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad. He came to the Hocking Valley Railroad in December, 1891, and has been identified with that company ever since, a period covering over twenty-eight years. He was Superintendent of the Hocking Valley & Ohio River division and of the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo Railroad from December, 1891, to May 25, 1896, when he was made Superintendent of the same, continuing in this position until in March, 1899, when he was appointed General Superintendent of The Hocking Valley Railroad, successor of the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo Railroad, and so continued until May 23, 1910, on which date he was appointed General Manager. Upon the taking over of the railroads by the Federal Government he was appointed Federal Manager, which position lie still holds. From September, 1901, to January 1, 1909, he was, in addition to his duties with the Hocking Valley Railway, appointed General Superintendent of the Toledo & Ohio Central and the Kanawha & Michigan railroads, and from

November 1902, to July 1, 1909, he was also General Superintendent of the Zanesville & Western Railway. In all the ahove mentioned positions, Mr. Connors discharged his duties ably, faithfully and in a highly satisfactory manner to his employers, and at the same time lie had occasion during those long years of railroad service to become exceptionally well informed in all phases of railroad work, and being conscientious, honest and ambitious it is no wonder that he has mounted the ladder to the topmost rung, although entirely through his unaided efforts and indomitable courage.

Mr. Connors has been a member of the committee of tarnsportation of the American Railway Association for the last fifteen years, being now one of the senior members of the committee. He is also a member of the Eastern Wage Conference Committee of that association. He has been identified with the Ohio State Savings Association since the year following its incorporation, and for years its first vice-president.

On June 22, 1881, Mr. Connors married Mary E. Kane, of Kane, Pennsylvania, and they1 have one son and five daughters, named as follows: John, who is engaged in business in Columbus; Agatha, Eileen, Gertrude, Mildred and Martha.

JOHN SELBY MORTON. The late John Selby Morton was one of the foremost business men and citizens of Columbus. His career in this city, covering a period of nearly forty years, was one of activity and successful achievement, and he left his impress upon the business and civic history of his time. His success was that of a man whose climb to a high place in the business world was accomplished step by step; a solid and lasting success and not a sudden jump from comparative obscurity. He won his way by close application to his business interest and by sound judgment and rare genius for organization and rare executive ability, all backed up by the strictest integrity.

Mr. Morton was born in Scotland and was descended from the old Morton family of England, where his grandfather and father were born. Cardinal John Morton, who was Chancellor to King Henry VIII, was a member of an earlier generation of the family, and of a later generation was Hon. Levi P. Morton, who was vice-president of the United States (1897-'01). The Morton family coat-of-arms was "Quarterly ermine and gules, in the second and third quarter, a goat's head erased argent, attired or."

The American ancestor was George Morton, whose English family-seat was in Yorkshire. He was a member of the party of Pilgrim Fathers who sought sanctuary in Leyden, Holland, in 1602. In the summer of 1012 he married Juliana Carpenter, whose father, Alexander, was one of the band of Pilgrims who left England for Holland. With his wife, George Morton returned to England in 1620 as agent for the Pilgrims, and in 1623 he came to America on the "good ship Ann" and became one of the founders of the Colony of Plymouth. From this George is descended the different branches of the Morton family in America.

The paternal grandfather of John S. Morton removed with bis family from England to Scotland and settled at Kirriemuir, Forfarshire, where he was in commercial business. Mr. Morton's father, who was a weaver by trade, married a Scotch woman and resided at Kirriemuir, Scotland, where their son, John S., was born January 2 1. IS 12.

John S. Morton began his business career when be was fourteen years of age as a clerk in a local drapery and haberdashery (dry goods store). Three years later be went to the city of London to become a clerk in one of the largest wholesale and manufacturing houses in that city, where lie continued for three years. Having by that time gained a thorough knowledge of that business, and having an ambition for bigger things, be came to the United Stales in the tall of 1862, before he had reached his twenty-first birthday. In New York City he found a position as entry clerk in a wholesale dry goods house. The following fall lie accepted a position with a larger house iii the same line of business, where he was later promoted buyer for one of the departments. Five years later he resinned his position to take the management of a retail store in which lie had previously become interested.

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he purchased an interest in the firm of Freeman, Staley & Company, dnT goods merchants, which firm then became that of Freeman, Staley & Morton.

In 1879 he organized the Baird Coal Company with a capital of $25,000. The following year lie purchased that business and changed the name to that of the Sunday Creek Coal Company. In 1884 the capital stock of the Sunday Creek Coal Company was increased to $250,000, the company having b_y that time acquired a large business and greatly increased its holding in real estate and personal property. In 1887 the Sunday Creek Coal Company purchased the entire property of the Ohio Central Coal and Mining Company and increased its capital stock to $4,000,000, making the Sunday Creek Coal Company one of the largest corporations in Ohio at that time. Mr. Morton was the guiding spirit and president of that great company from the time of its organization until the Sunday Creek Coal Company was acquired by the J. P. Morgan interests of New York City. He was also president of the Boomer Coal Company, president of the Ohio Buggy Company, a director of the Capital City National Bank and was also identified financially with important concerns away from home, among which were the Old Dominion Realty Company of Norfolk, Va., the Krupp Gun Mfg. Company of New York and a large Massachusetts life insurance company.

Mr. Morton was also prominent in civic and public affairs. Friends solicited him to make the race for Governor, but he never cared for public office or political honor. His interest in such matters was that of the good citizen, desirous of seeing the city, State and Nation well-governed, to which end he was willing to give of his time and advice and means.

Mr. Morton was twice married. In 1863 he married Mary A. Morris, an English lady, who died in 1868, leaving a son and daughter, the latter surviving. His second marriage, which took place May 12, 1872, was with Emma Hendren, who was born in Vicksburg, Miss., who survives him. Mrs. Morton is of the old Hendren and Whiting families of Virginia, one of the ancestors having been General Whiting of Hampton. Her mother, Elizabeth Mallory, was of another old Virginia family and James Barron Hope, poet laureate of Virginia, was a full cousin to Mrs. Morton.

WILLIAM LINCOLN VAN SICKLE. \'o people that go to make up our cosmopolitan civilization have better habits of life than those of Dutch extraction. The men and women who have come to our shores from Holland, and their descendants, have ever been distinguished for their thrift and honesty, and these two qualities in the inhabitants of any country will in the end alone make that country great. When with these admirable attributes is coupled the quality of sound sense, which all the Dutch race seems to possess, there are afforded such characteristics as will enrich any land and place it at the top of the countries of the world in the scale of elevated humanity. One of this number is William Lincoln Van Sickle, well known lawyer and man of affairs of Columbus.

Mr. Van Sickle is descended from Ohio pioneers. The Van Sickles are of original Dutch stock and the family was founded in America in colonial days and in the Buckeye State in pioneer times. John Van Sickle was the first of the name to cast his lot with the people of this State. He was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He came here from New Jersey, where he was born, and settled in Delaware county in the first part of the nineteenth century.

William W. Van Sickle, father of our subject, was a son of John, the pioneer, who was born in the Van Sickle homestead in Delaware county and there he grew to manhood and worked hard assisting his father clear and develop a farm from the wilderness. He received a limited education in the early rural schools of his vicinity, and upon reaching manhood married Mary Crane, a native of New Jersey.

William L. Van Sickle was born on the old home farm in Delaware county, Ohio. August 20, 1867. He attended the public schools of Delaware, Ohio, and entered Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1889. He then took the course at the Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1891. In that year lie was admitted to the Ohio Bar and immediately entered practice in Columbus, and his advancement to a place in the front ranks of the local Bar was rapid. During all these years he has enjoyed a large and growing practice.

and secretary and general manager of it in 1901, and today he is one of the best known building and loan men in Ohio, if not in the entire Middle West. His operations in this line have met with pronounced success from the first, owing to his peculiar adaptability for the work, his sound judgment, wise foresight and perseverance.

Mr. Van Sickle is one of the most active and influential Masons in Ohio. He has attained the honorary thirty-third degree in the Scottish Rite Order. In 1901 he was made Master of Ceremonies in Enoch Lodge of Perfection, and on November 19, 1910, following the death of Dr. David N. Kinsman, who for twenty-seven years had been thrice potent master of Enoch Lodge of Perfection, Mr. Van Sickle was made his successor in this office, and has since continued to hold this exalted position. On September 21, 1909, he received the thirty-third degree, Scottish Rite, in Boston, Massachusetts. He belongs to all bodies of Scottish Rite Masonry and takes part in all the various degrees. He is a charter member of Champion Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and has held every chair in the same, and has been representative to the Grand Lodge.

On Xovember 12, 1906, Mr. Van Sickle was married to Celesta Bland, a daughter of Hamlet Bland and a granddaughter of Silas Bland, an early pioneer of Ohio, who was one of the first settlers of Licking county. She is a native of Delaware, this State. To our subject and wife one son has been born - William Bland Van Sickle.

ANDREW TIMBERMAN, M. D. There was a time when every practicing physician was called upon to look after the ailments of all the myriad classes in the various phases of medicine and surgery, and up to comparatively recent times this custom was continued, but now we have departments in medical science and specialists in all departments. The field is so vast that the man who now attempts to master all brandies of this great science gets only a scattering knowledge and is never capable of effective work in any. One of the best known oculists and aurists of Columbus is Dr. Andrew Timberman, who is regarded as a very scientific and capable man in his line.

Dr. Timberman is descended from two pioneer families of Butler county, Ohio. His paternal grandfather, Mathew Timberman, a native of Pennsylvania, settled in Butler countv in 1811. Jacob Flickinger, the maternal grandfather, settled there a few years later. Andrew Timberman, sr., father of our subject, was born in Tennessee in 1806, but he spent practically all his life in Butler county, Ohio, dying there in 1889. His wife, Elizabeth Flickinger, was born in that county in 1826 and her death occurred in 1908.

Andrew Timberman, jr., was born in Hamilton, Ohio, May 10, 1861. He was graduated from Otterbein LTniversitv with the class of 1887, and he attended the University of Michigan in 1890 and 1891, then entered Miami Medical College from which he graduated in 1891. being valedictorian of his class. He was resident physician and surgeon of the Cincinnati General Hospital in 1891 and 1895, and in the latter year he went abroad and studied in the Universities at Halle, Leipsic, and Vienna, also in the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital in London. He took a special course in ophthalmic surgery in India in 1910. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1894, and Bachelor of Arts in 190.'3.

Dr. Timberman located in Columbus in 1896 and has since confined bis practice to that of an oculist and aurist, in which lines lie has been very successful and built up a large and lucrative patronage, being one of the best known men in these branches in central Ohio. In 1900 he was appointed professor of ophthalmology at Ohio Medical University, and in 1906 when that institution was amalgamated with Starling-Ohio Medical College, he continued his professorship with the combined institution. Starling-Ohio Medical College became the medical department of Ohio State University, and Dr. Timberman was professor of ophthalmology of the latter until 1913 when the entire faculty resigned by request in order that the dean of the department might reorganize the same, and in 1915 Dr. Timberman was re-appointed to bis old position. He has discharged his duties as a professor in a manner that has brought just praise from the board, the rest of the faculty and the students, being regarded by .ill as an expert in his line and a man who lias the ability to inculcate his ideas in others. His students, who arc to be found all over the country, are proving to be very successful in their work.

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pital. He is a member of the consulting staff of the Sailors' and Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Xenia. For years he was oculist to the Pennsylvania and Norfolk and Western Railways, having resigned that position only recently. He was elected president of Columbus Academy of Medicine in 1900. He belongs to the American Medical Association, the American Ophthalmological Society, the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolarygology, the American Otological Society, the Mississippi Valley Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society. He was a member of the Columbus Board of Education from 1906 to 1911. He is an elder in the Broad Street Presbyterian Church. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, belongs to the Columbus Athletic Club and the Columbus Country Club.

WALTER ADELBERT JONES. "Earn thy reward; the gods give naught to sloth," said the old Greek sage, Epicharmus, and the truth of the admonition has been verified in human affairs in all the ages which have rolled their course since that day. Walter Adelbert Jones, manufacturer and banker of Columbus, and a scion of a sterling old Buckeye family, has, by ceaseless toil and endeavor, attained a large degree of success, while yet young in years, in his chosen life work, and at the same time has gained and retained the confidence and respect of those with whom he has come in contact.

Mr. Jones was born at Kent, Portage county, Ohio, July 10, 1878. He is a son of Walter R. and Lydia (Davidson) Jones. The father was born at Clyde, New York, the son of Samuel C. Jones, a native of Wales, who was a pioneer window glass manufacturer of this country and for many years identified with that industry at Clyde, New York. Walter R. Jones learned the business under his father and became one of the earliest manufacturers of window glass in Ohio, conducting a large establishment at Toledo for many years. His wife, Lydia Davidson, was born at Bellevernon, Pennsylvania, March 21, 1847, a daughter of the Rev. James Davidson, a Methodist minister, who served as postmaster at Bellevernon, under appointment from President Grant. He was the son of a soldier of the War of 1812,

Walter A. Jones received his early education in the public schools of Kent and the Toledo High School, then entered Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1897, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Soon after leaving college he became associated with his father in the manufacture of window glass and as a manufacturer and inventor of glass-making machinery has continued to be identified with that industry to the present time, although by no means limiting himself to that line, for he is a man of broad and comprehensive business ideas, with varied and distinct talents. He has many important interests aside from the manufacture of glass. He was one of the organizers of the United States Window Glass Company of which he is president. He is also a partner in the firm of W. R. Jones & Co., which company does a very extensive business in the sale of both domestic and export glass, handling the output of factories located in Ohio and West Virginia. The pronounced success of these important enterprises has been due in a great measure to his able and judicious management and foresight. His plants are modern as to equipment and system, and an increasing annual business is carried on, the products of each plant finding a very ready market over a vast field. A large number of skilled artisans and employes are on his payrolls.

In civic affairs, Mr. Jones is very active and influential. He has done much for the general upbuilding of the capital city during its later years of rapid growth. He is vice-president of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce and member of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, and lias long been an official of different boards and commissions which have done such commendable work in local war work since the United States entered the European conflict. He has been one of the active leaders of the local campaigns and is a member of the U. S. War Board for the Glass Industry.

He is President of the Columbus Country Club, a member of the Columbus Club, the Columbus Athletic Club, the Scioto Club, the Society of Sons of the American Revolution, the Phi Gamma Delta, and is a member of the board of trustees of the Ohio Wesleyan University, and President of the Trustees of the Franklin Park Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is a member. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and belongs to the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

CLAUDE MEEKER. In placing the name of Claude Meeker in the front rank of the men of affairs in Columbus, justice is rendered a biographical fact recognized by all who know him well. Although a quiet and unassuming man with no ambition for public position or leadership, he has contributed and still contributes much to the general welfare of his home city, while his admirable qualities of head and heart and the straightforward, upright course of his daily life have tended greatly to the substantial standing of the circles in which he moves and have given him a reputation for integrity and correct conduct such as few achieve.

Mr. Meeker, who is a stock broker and dealer in investments and securities, was born in Columbus, December 20, 1861, the son of George W. and Harriet (Hatch) Meeker, both natives of Ohio. The father was a prominent citizen and public man of Columbus for many years, at one time mayor and also served as secretary of the Democratic State Central Committee, which position he held at the time of his death.

Claude Meeker was reared in his native city and was educated in the public schools, the College of Nebraska and at E. K. Bryan's Business College. He began life for himself in newspaper work, and for several years was a member of the staff of the Cincinnati Enquirer. In 1889 he was appointed private secretary to Governor James E. Campbell, and in 1893 President Cleveland appointed him United States consul at Bradford, England. After his term of office expired he returned to Columbus and entered his present business.

Some of the early members of the Meeker family were among the very first colonists from England to arrive in America, two brothers crossing the Atlantic to our shores in 1639. They located on the site of what is now New Haven, Connecticut. One of them, William Meeker, removed to New Jersey in 1661, where he purchased land from the Indians and founded the town of Elizabeth, where very soon was gathered a colony known as the "Associates." These men and women were refugees from the injustice and tyrrany of Governor Carteret. The old home near Newark, New Jersey, built by William Meeker, who died in 1690, still stands and is in the possession of his descendants. During the Revolutionary War. the house was occupied by Josiah Meeker, who, with his eighteen sons, gained fame in the Colonial Army.

There are many descendants of these early members of the Meeker family now scattered throughout the country, many of whom have achieved fame or distinction in various fields of endeavor.

Claude Meeker seems to have inherited from his forebears a strong literary bent and he was only eighteen years old when he began his career as a journalist in which he met with signal success. At twenty-one he bad become the editor and part owner of a sprightly and successful weekly, soon thereafter becoming a regular contributor, mainly of trenchent political articles to many of the most influential newspapers in America, including the New York World, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, St. Louis Republic, Washington Post and other well known moulders of public opinion. However, it was in Cincinnati that Mr. Meeker rose to prominence as a newspaper writer and had the broadest and most valuable newspaper experience, for he was at various times on tin- staffs of the Enquirer, Post, and Times-Star, all metropolitan dailies of that city. He was for some time chief political writer for the Enquirer, and it was through this influential position that he was made secretary to the Governor of Ohio, in 1890 and 1891. And it was owing to his widely known influence as a writer in support of Democratic principles that President Grover Cleveland appointed him to the important post in the (-(insular service at Bradford, England in 1893, which city was at that time the greatest woolen in the world and the largest commercial consulate under the United States government. He discharged his duties there in a manner that reflected much credit upon himself and to tin- satisfaction of the administration.

Mr. Meeker has been very successful as an investment banker and broker since turning his attention to business in 1897. He makes a specialty of investment securities, high grade slocks anil liniiils.

Miami Valley. To Mr. and Mrs. Meeker one son and two daughters have been born - all in Yorkshire, England, namely: Marjorie, Campbell and Marion.

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Living in the heart of the Bronte country, close to those famous sisters' birthplace, it is only natural that Mr. Meeker, while consul at Bradford, should have visited that interesting literary shrine, where so many famous books were written. As a result of his visit there Mr. Meeker wrote for the Cincinnati Times-Star some very interesting papers on "Haworth, the Home of the Brontes." These, in 1895, by order of the Bronte Society, were published in book form at Bradford, England, and are regarded by literary people everywhere as being valuable for their historical and geographical accuracy as well as for their literary grace and charm. Among other notable articles, written from time to time by Mr. Meeker, might be mentioned a chapter, contributed in 1913 to T. E. Powell's work entitled, "The Democratic Party of the State of Ohio."

Mr. Meeker is an amateur gardener and poultry fancier, these being his chief hobbies. His tine country residence, "Melrose," where he is able to indulge his horticultural tastes, is at Bexley, a charming Columbus suburb. He has a large and carefully selected library and, being familiar with the world's best literature and having traveled extensively, is a most entertaining conversationalist. Moreover, he is a gentleman whom it is a pleasure to meet, being genial, companionable and of splendid culture.

HENRY ARCHER WILLIAMS. One of the prominent men in the affairs of Columbus and Ohio is Henry Archer Williams, for many years a leading legal light of his native commonwealth. Rectitude, moral force, integrity, innate love of justice, exalted sense of honor, and unflinching advocacy of that which is effective and right, are well defined elements of his personal character. Add to these industry and mental equipment and we have the key to his success as a lawyer and public servant.

Mr. Williams was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 1, 1864. He is a son of the Rev. Charles H. and Harriet (Langdon) Williams. He attended the Springfield public schools and was graduated with first honors, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts, from Wittenberg College, at Springfield, witli the class of 1885. His alma mater conferred on him the degree of Master of Arts in 1890. He read law but before he was admitted to practice Governor Joseph B. Foraker appointed him commission clerk in the executive office and while serving in that capacity he was admitted to the bar, in October, 1887. Later he was admitted to practice in the federal courts and the United States Supreme Court. In May, 1890, he. began the practice of law in Columbus, first in the office of Judge Nash, where he remained for about five years, then, from 1898 to 1907 he was a member of the firm of Dyer, Williams & Stouffer. In 1907 he became a member of the firm of Williams, Williams, Taylor & Nash, which firm continued until 1915, when he became second member of the firm of Taylor. Williams, Cole & Harvey.

On March 1, 1895, Mr. Williams was appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Franklin county, serving one term. In 1900 President McKinlev appointed him supervisor of United States census of Franklin, Fairfield and Licking counties. In 1909 President Taft appointed him national bank examiner for the Pittsburgh-Cleveland district, in which capacity he served until 1913. He was secretary of the Taft National Bureau, which organization was largely instrumental in bringing about the nomination for President of William H. Taft in 1908, and he served as chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee of that campaign.

Mr. Williams served as a member of the board of directors of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce for two years, as first vice-president in 1916 and in 1917. In the latter year he was elected president of that body, and in 1918 was re-elected president, the first time in the history of the organization that a president was honored witli a second term. He is an active member of the Beta Theta Pi College Fraternity and lias served as a member of the national board of trustees of that organization. He is a charter member of Ohio Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, and has served as secretary, treasurer and vice-president of the same. He is also a charter member of the Benjamin Franklin Chapter of the same society, which he has served both as vice-president and president. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and belongs to Aladdin Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the Broad Street Presbyterian church and is a member of the official board of the same; is a member of tin- Columbus Athletic Club, the Columbus Country Club and the Kit Kat Club.

Thomas, a daughter of John Wesley and Sarali (Morris) Thomas. They have the following children, namely : Morris Holliday, Langdon Thomas, and Gordon Early, two of whom were in the service of the United States in the recent war, the eldest being Lieutenant in Field Artillery and the second in training for naval aviation when hostilities ceased.

JOHN* FRANKLIN FERGUS. It is no invasion of the province of propriety to narrate or chronicle the achievements, character or the lesser or larger deeds of a man who is yet a living personality. The public likes to know the main facts in the lives of its leading men of affairs. Hence this biographical compendium.

John Franklin Fergus, lawyer, leading citizen, and executive head of The Park Savings Company, has been a member of the bar of Columbus for over a quarter of a century and has been closely identified with the Building and Loan interests of the city for almost the same length of time. He has therefore done much toward the latter day progress and prosperity of the Buckeye Capital.

The Fergus family is of Scotch-Irish stock and has been established in America since colonial days, when Francis Fergus took up his abode in Virginia, where he reared a large family, and helped to establish the Independence of the colonies by serving as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. The Ohio pioneer of the family, General James Fergus, married Raeheal Marr of North Carolina, also of Scotch-Irish stock and with her, penetrated the wilderness of Ohio, and selected a farm in Miami county and settled down to carve out a home from the primeval forest, experiencing the usual hardships of a frontiersman. He took an active interest in public affairs. He organized and commanded the militia of Miami county during the war of 1812 and there acquired the title of General. He later served as County Commissioner and was a member of the General Assembly of Ohio and of the Senate.

John Shannon Fergus, son of the Ohio pioneer, was born in Miami county and there he grew to manhood on the home farm and was married to Susan Black, and to their union was born John Franklin Fergus, the immediate subject of this sketch, on the old homestead in Miami county, March 8, 1863.

Mr. Fergus grew up on the farm where he assisted with the general farm work, and where in the winter seasons he attended the district school. Later lie entered Ohio State University, where he spent four years, but left before graduating to teach school and study law. After two years in this work he returned to the University and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, from the law department, in the class of 1892, which was the first class graduated from that department of the University. An interesting coincident is the fact that his son, Corwin A. Fergus was graduated from the same department twenty-five years after his father, being the first son of a law graduate of the University to graduate from that department.

Mr. Fergus was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1892 and in that year began the practice in Columbus. Two years later he was made the attorney of The Park Savings Company and in 1898 he was elected as its secretary and lias held that position ever since. Then the Company had assets of one hundred thousand dollars, under his management it has grown to two millions.

Mr. Fergus married Ella May Addison, a daughter of Edward and Clara (Wcis'.'.art) Addison and a sister of the Addison Bi others, attorneys of Columbus. She was born in Perry county, Ohio. Mrs. Fergus died on December 7, 1915, leaving the following children: Sue, who married Wallace H. Cumberland of Columbus, Ohio; Corwin A., who was graduated from the Ohio State University in 1915 with the degree of Master of Arts, and with degree of Bachelor of Laws two years later. He enlisted in the National army, May 14, 1917; and was called to the colors July 1st following. On September 17th of that year his regiment was ordered to Camp Sheridan, Alabama; where they became a part of the 37th Division and remained in training until July, 1918 when they shipped for France, where he actively engaged in the World War. He enlisted as a private, and was promoted to the ranks of Sergeant, Sergeant Major, Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant. He served with distinction in the Baccarat sector, in the great battle of the Argonne and in the final drive through Belgium in the closing weeks of the war.

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Mr. Fergus was re-married in July, 1918, to Mary Frances Black of New Carlisle, Ohio. He is a member of the Masonic O-der in which he has attained the thirty-second degree, being also a member of the Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, the North End Improvement Association and for many years has been a member of the official board of King Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. Fergus has taken an active interest in civic affairs and is always ready to give his time and skill to promote the welfare of the community.

His long experience in making real estate loans has made him an expert on real estate titles and values, and in methods of conducting real estate transactions and his advice is largely sought for sucli services.

As a lawyer he is painstaking, earnest, persevering and honest in advising his clients, and in all walks of life he has shown himself to be a man of strict probity of character.

DR. GEORGE W. HOGLAN. It is a pleasure to write the biography of a man of unusual personal merit - the possessor of a combination of gifts so comprehensive that happiness and success in any enterprise is bound to follow the application of his qualities to the solution of almost any reasonable problem in life. The career of Dr. George W. Hoglan, who formerly ranked as one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Columbus, and who is now one of the most successful and widely known insurance men in Ohio, would indicate that he is the possessor of those characteristics that make for success in almost any walk of life, and it also shows that he has not used these traits entirely for self aggrandizement, but that he has been a useful and public-spirited citizen, always doing what he could to promote the general welfare of the various communities in which he has resided. He is essentially a man of affairs, sound of judgment and thorough in what he undertakes. He has forged his way to the front over obstacles that would have discouraged many another, representing that type of progressive workers in the world's important fields of endeavor who believe in going ahead when they know they are right, disregarding all that would hinder or divert them in their chosen course. Moreover he has always enjoyed a reputation for honor and integrity of the highest order.

Dr. Hoglan was born in Newcomerstown, Ohio, February 11, 1861, the son of William and Mary (Viall) Hoglan, an excellent pioneer family of that section of the Bucke3?e state. Both parents are now deceased. Of their family of fourteen children - an equal number of sons and daughters - George W. was the twelfth in order of birth. He spent his boyhood and youth in his native community and attended the public schools at Newcornerstown. He was ambitious and applied himself ardently to his text-books and equipped himself to teach school when but a boy. While engaged in teaching he studied medicine during his spare moments, having manifested a decided natural innate ability in this line very early in life. Later he studied at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, where he made a brilliant record and was graduated with the class of 1885, taking the highest honors ever granted in that institution, and higher honors than have been granted since that time. His grade was ninety-eight and one-half per cent, and he was the recipient of several medals as a result of his attainments in scholarship. These he prizes highly, as is most natural and right. In the opinion of his preceptors, no one not a genius in his line could have made the record he made in the study of medicine and surgery, nature having evidently set her seal upon him for big things as a man of medical science. This he proved in his years of practical application, lie having been unusually successful in the practice of his profession, which he began in Columbus in 188.5, immediately following his graduation, and continued with unabated success until 1901, his patrons being among the best people of the Capital City. He was frequently called into consultation in baffling cases in which his advice was always followed witli gratifying results. He ranked very high among his professional brethren and was regarded as an authority by the medical journals on modern methods of practice.

In 1904. Dr. Hoglan turned his attention to another field of activity, abandoning his profession to become national secretary of the American Insurance Union, with which he had been connected since January 21, 1895, at which time he became a member of the Columbus Chapter. His election by the National Congress of this association as national secre- tary followed at the next regular convention of that body, and his re-election at each subsequent regular convention has followed as a natural sequence, which fact indicates that he has performed his duties in a highly acceptable manner to all concerned and has been eminently worthy of the high trust reposed in him. He was elected president of the secretary's section of the National Fraternal Congress of America in August, 1916, and president of the Ohio Fraternal Congress in January, 1917. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the American Insurance Union. In all these important positions he has maintained his record for high-grade service and efficiency. It has been said of him by high officials of the Union that no officer of an institution, be it national or local, is in closer contact with, or has more to do with its success than the present secretary, our subject. Upon him even the president relies for that information so essential to the successful conduct of the meetings. He must be an encyclopedia of knowledge, a recorder of events, an interpreter of law and a general epitome of usefulness. The fact that Dr. Hoglan has been elected repeatedly to succeed himself in office is perhaps the best evidence of his qualifications for the position he holds. Successful secretaries must first go through a thorough course of training and be fitted to properly discharge the duties of the office to which they are called. The chronology of events in the history of the American Insurance Union, reveals the best evidence of what part the national secretary has had in shaping, promoting and executing the various transactions which have had much to do with its wonderful success.

Politically, Dr. Hoglan is a loyal Democrat, but has never sought political leadership. In a military way he was a member of the old Seventeenth Ohio Regiment of the National Guard. He is a member of the Columbus Academy of Medicine and the Ohio State Medical Association. He belongs to the Columbus Athletic Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Columbus, also the Protected Home Circle, the Modern Woodmen of America and the American Insurance Union.

On June 2.5, 1902, Dr. Hoglan was united in marriage with Miss Grace McMillen, of Columbus, the talented daughter of James and Mary (Holt) McMillen. They have one son, Harlan Hoglan, a young man of unusual promise and possessing rare esthetic characteristics. He attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York prior to participation in the World War by the United States. He proved his patriotism by volunteering his services. He was sent overseas and took part in the great Allied drives in the Argonne and Belgium which brought victory, he having been with the famous Thirty-seventh Division which took a prominent part in these offensives. Since his discharge from the army he has been actively engaged in dramatic work, taking the leading juvenile roles. He married Miss Maude Delaplane, of Columbus.

CHARLES EDWARD BLANCHARD. One of the prominent younger lawyers of the Franklin County Bar is Charles Edward Blanchard, whose legal career in Columbus has been comparatively brief, but most commendable. As secretary of the Ohio State Bar Association he has proven himself worthy of the trust of his professional brethren in high positions. Coming up from unfavorable early environments, battling his way alone and mi. tided up the ladder of professional success, he is entitled to the respect and admiration thai all should accord the successful self-made man.

.Mr. Blanchard. junior member of the law firm of Morton, Irvine, Turner & Blanchard, was born at Galesburg, Michigan, January 17, 1876. He is a son of Samuel E. and Lucretia (Judson) Blanchard. The father was born at Scodic Landing, on the Erie canal, between Rochester and Syracuse. New York, and was descended from a French and Huguenot family, which was founded in America by five brothers in colonial days and from that remote period to the present time the Blanchards have been well known and influential in many states of the American Union. The parents of Samuel E. Blanchard died when he was but a boy and he was reared by relatives. He learned the shoemaker's trade, which lie followed for some time, then became a locomotive engineer, running on the New York Central out of Buffalo. While making a run on the Michigan division of this road he was injured in an accident, following which he quit railroad work and started a shoe shop at Galesburg, Michigan, manufacturing boots and shoes, also conducted a retail store in that city, and in Galesburg he met and married Lucretia Judson. Later he traded his business for a farm in Hillsdale county, Michigan, and devoted the rest of his life to general farming, dying at Blissfield, that state, in 1907, in his seventy-first year. His wife was born on a farm near Galesburg, Kalamazoo county, Michigan, and was descended from the Judsons of New England, her parents having been pioneers of Kalamazoo county. She is living at this writing, being now advanced in years.

Charles E. Blanchard practically worked his way through high school and college. He graduated from the Blissfield High School in 1891, also from the high school at Adrian, Michigan, in 1895, and in that year he entered the literary department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he spent two years, during which time he did almost three years' work, and while a student there he supported himself by doing odd jobs, earning his board by waiting on table. But hard study, often until very late at night, affected his eyes, and in 1897 he left the University for the school room and for the next six years he taught in the high school at Wauseon, Ohio, first as assistant and then as principal, becoming one of the popular educators of that section of the state and doing much to give the people of that city a better school system.

While at Wauseon Mr. Blanchard met and married Katherine M. Resh, June 28, 1899. She had previously been engaged in teaching. In 1903 he, resigned as principal of the Wauseon High School and returned to the University of Michigan, entering the law department, from which he was graduated with the class of 1906, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He took an active part in college debating and was a member of the debating team which defeated the Northwestern University team, also the Chicago University team, and won the Middle West Championship for the University of Michigan in 1905. While attending law school he sold books during vacation periods to support himself and family.

Soon after his graduation in 1906 Mr. Blanchard was admitted to the Bar in Michigan, but had previously registered for admittance to the Ohio Bar. After leaving college he sold books in Illinois to get money with which to take care of his family and to enable him to enter the practice of law. While in Illinois he learned of an opening at Ohio State University, where a man was wanted to teach debating, and he accordingly came to Columbus and applied for the position. He made arrangements to teach two half days each week. It was through his coaching of the debating team of the University and his efforts that the present department of argumentative English was established and developed to a high state of efficiencv in this institution. He was also a member of the law faculty of Ohio State University for a period of two years. He finally took desk room in the office of Arnold, Morton & Irvine of Columbus, having been admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1906, and six years later was admitted as junior member of the law firm of Morton, Irvine & Blanchard, now Morton, Irvine, Turner & Blanchard. He has been very successful in the practice and stands well among his professional brethren at the local Bar.

Mr. Blanchard has been secretary of the Ohio State Bar Association since 1916. He is a member of the Columbus Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Phi Delta Phi and the Delta Sigma Rho. He has been active in all war relief work since America entered the European conflict, and has been a speaker in the Liberty Loan campaigns, the Columbus War Chest campaign and the War- Savings and Thrift Stamp campaign.

To Mr. and Mrs. Blanchard the following children have been born: Curtis R., Charles Clifford, James Bruce, Jeannette L., Louis J., and Rosemary.

SCOTT ANDERSON WEBB. In writing this volume one fact, among many other interesting ones, has been revealed - a very large percentage of the men who are now performing the business of the various avenues of endeavor, whether in the industrial field or the professions, are natives of Ohio. It shows that these men have found the opportunities at home were good enough and that it was not necessary to follow the wanderlust spirit to foreign fields, which has seemed to be the universal custom.

One of this class is Scott Anderson Webb, a well known and successful lawyer and business man of Columbus, who was born at Austinburg, Ashtabula county, Ohio, February 12, 1861. He is a son of Henry C. and Medora (Webber) Webb. The father was also born in the town of Austinburg, and was a son of Henry Webb, jr., a native of Stamford, Connecticut, where his birth occurred on January 11, 1797. He was the son of Captain Henry Webb, a seafaring man of Stamford, Connecticut, who took part in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and who finally came West and settled in Austinburg, Ohio, in 1815. Captain Henry Webb was born July 11, 1771, and his death occurred February 21, 1858. He was descended from Richard Webb of Dorchestershire, England, from which country he came to America in 1629. Henry Webb, jr., grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was captured bv the British on one of his father's vessels during the War of 1812, and was impressed into the service, but later managed to escape. The mother of our subject was born in Senate, New York, a daughter of George Webber. Her ancestors came to America from Somersetshire, England, in 1833. Her death occurred in 1861 at an early age, while the father of our subject survived until 1917.

Scott A. Webb received his early education in the high school at Jefferson, Ohio, and later entered Ohio State University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1888, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. He read law in Columbus under former Attorney General Watson and W. O. Henderson, and was admitted to the Bar in 1891, and in that year began the practice of law in Columbus. He was successful from the first and in due course of time built up a large clientele and ranked among the leaders of the local Bar.

Mr. Webb, aside from his law practice, has many important business interests. His connection with these interests has been most satisfactory and his counsel and close personal interest in the affairs of each has had much to do with their success.

Mr. Webb is a thirty-second degree Mason, belonging to the Scottish Rite and Knights Templar, also the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He holds membership with the Scioto Country Club, the Columbus Aathletic Club, of which he is a life member, and the Phi Gamma Delta, a college fraternity.

WILLIAM CORLISS MILLS. The character of a community is determined in a large measure by the lives of a comparatively few of its members. If its moral and intellectual status be good, if in a social way it is a desirable place in which to reside, if its reputation for the integrity of its citizens has extended into other localities, it will be found that the standards set by the leading men have been high and their influence such as to mold their characters and shape the lives of those with whom they mingle. In placing William Corliss Mills in the front rank of such men, justice is rendered a biographical fact recognized by all classes in Columbus by those who know him, either personally or by reputation. Although a quiet and unassuming man, with no ambition for public position or leadership, lie has contributed much to the general welfare of his home city and the welfare of the general public.

Mr. Mills, who is a noted archeological explorer, author and curator, is descended from two sterling old Ohio families - the Mills and Mundhenk. The former is of English extraction, and for generations were connected with the British army. Members of the Mills family immigrated to America in Colonial days, and located in Ohio in the early part of the nineteenth century. The pioneer settler of the family in this State was Joshua Mills, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, who was born at Mt. Holly, New Jersey, and settled at Pyrmont, Montgomery county, Ohio, in 1818. He was an educated man and taught school in his early life, but later devoted his attention to general farming for many years. He married Lucy Corliss. Their son, John Mills, grandfather of our subject, was born in New Jersey, and when a young man he accompanied the family to Ohio, but becoming homesick for the old homestead in the East, he obtained the consent of his father and returned to his native state, walking the entire distance; but eventually he longed to return to his parents in Ohio and set out on foot for the return journey, accompanied by a youngfriend. He married Mary A. Singer, a native of Ohio.

Joshua Mills, jr., son of John and grandson of Joshua Mills, sr., and father of William C. Mills of this sketch, was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, in 1831, and is still living, lb was a farmer until twenty-five years ago, when he retired from active life. He married Mary Mundhenk, who was born at Pyrmont, Ohio, in 1838, and she is living at this writing. She is tin- daughter of Augustus Mundhenk, who was brought by his parents to America from Germany when he was three years old. His father, Daniel Mundhenk, first settled in Philadelphia, and later came to Montgomery county, Ohio, and founded Pyrmont village, giving it (he name of his home town in Germany.

William ('. Mills was born at Pyrmont, Ohio, January 2, 1860. He was reared on his father's farm, where he assisted with the general work. When but a lad he became interested in Indian arrow heads found on the farm and in his vicinity, and early in life he evinced a fondness for archaeology. He attended the district schools and taught for a few years, and in 1881 entered Ohio State University, being a member of its first class. He left that institution in his junior year to take a course in the Cincinnati School of Pharmacy, from which he was graduated. He returned to Ohio State University in 1897 for his Bachelor of Science degree, which he received in 1898, and in 1902 he received the degree of Master of Science from that University.

Mr. Mills was appointed curator of the Archaeological Museum of Ohio State University in 1898, and at the same time was appointed curator and librarian of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, which position he has continued to hold. He is also librarian of the Ohio Academy of Science and president of the Wheaton Ornithological Society. He belongs to the American Ornithological Union, a fellow of the American Ethnological Society, fellow of the American Society for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the American Anthropological Society, and he was one of the organizers of and became a charter member of the American Association of Museums. He was for a number of years assistant editor of The Ohio Naturalist.

Mr. Mills is a writer of unquestioned ability, having a clear, forceful and entertaining style and, being a profound scholar along the lines in which lie is interested, his literary productions are regarded as masterpieces in the particular branches of science on which he writes. He is author of the following well known works, which have had a wide circulation: "Certain Mounds and Village Sites," "Ohio Archaeological Reports," and many scientific papers and contributions. He was in charge of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society's exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, New York, in 1901. He was honorary superintendent of archaeology at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904, and superintendent of archaeology at the Jamestown Exposition in 1907. He was one of the men most active and influential in securing from the Ohio Legislature in 1911 an appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars for a building for the State Archaeological and Historical Society on the grounds of the Ohio State University at Columbus, which splendid building was planned and erected under his supervision.

For a period of six years Mr. Mills was president of the Ohio State University Athletic Association and later was its treasurer, and he retains his active interest in all athletic and outdoor sports. He is easily the best known man in his archaeological explorations in Ohio and enjoys an international reputation.

Mr. Mills was married on October 7, 1885, to Olive Buxton, a daughter of N. W. Buxton, of Walhonding, Coshocton county, Ohio. They have one daughter - Helen Marie Mills.

Mr. Mills is a man of ripe scholarly attainments and a scientist of recognized ability, and he has done a great work for posterity in his specific field.

JOHN* SIEBERT. The names of men who have distinguished themselves in their day and generation for the possession of those qualities of character which mainly contribute to the success of private life and to the public stability - of men who have been exemplary in all their personal and social relations, and enjoyed the respect, esteem and confidence of those around them - ought not to be allowed to perish, for all are benefited by the delineation of those traits of character which find scope and exercise in the common walks of life. The life history of the subject of this sketch has been distinguished by the most substantial qualities of character and exhibited a long and virtuous career of private industry and commerce, performed witli moderation and crowned with success.

John Siebert was born in Perry county, Ohio, June 24, 1834, and is the son of Henry L. and Susannah (Dallinger) Siebert. Of the eight children born to these parents, the survivors are the subject of this sketch, Henry and Susannah Lindenberg, all of Columbus. In his boyhood days, school facilities were exceedingly meager, but he availed himself of such as there was. When he was but two weeks old the family moved to Columbus, which at that time was but a village, without many improvements or facilities of any sort. At the age of twelve years he went to work as a messenger in the hook bindery owned by his brother. Later he went into a printing office and learned that trade. About that time the Civil War came on and he enlisted under the first call for troops, as a member of the Thirteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was appointed first sergeant, was later commissioned a first lieutenant and still later was promoted to a captaincy. He took part in two of the most important battles of the war, those at Sliiloh and Stone's river, Tennessee, besides a number of lesser battles and skirmishes. He was mustered out in 1864. He is now a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Loyal Legion.

After returning home Mr. Siebert started a book bindery, under the name of the M. C. Lilley & Company, but later lie was one of the organizers of another company under the same name, but which was more pretentious in its objects. The original stockholders were M. C. Lilley, John Siebert, Henry Lindenberg, and Charles H. Lindenberg. The history of this concern lias been a most creditable one in every respect and its growth through the years lias been steady and constant, so that today it is considered the largest of its kind in the world. Mr. Siebert is still a stockholder in this concern, though he no longer takes an active part in its management. In 1886 Mr. Siebert was mainly instrumental in organizing the Ohio Savings Bank, a State institution, and was its president up to the time (1897) when it was changed to the Ohio National Bank. He was retained at the head of the new institution and so continued for a number of years, or until his resignation in 1917, on account of his advancing age and consequent desire to lay aside the responsibilities of active business affairs. To a large extent the success of this strong and influential financial institution was due to the sound judgment and safe, conservative policy of its president. Mr. Siebert was also one of the originators of the Children's Hospital, of which he served as president several times and is at present a trustee. He was elected and is still serving as president of the Greenlawn Cemetery Association. He was also one of the first trustees of Memorial Hall, at the time of its construction, and it is worthy of note that the building was erected at a cost within the fund which was originally set aside for the project, $260,000, thirty cents being turned back into the treasury.

On November 7, 1861; Mr. Siebert was married to Mary J. Morris, of Cincinnati, who died on January 26, 1892. To this union were born the following children: Henrietta, who became the wife of Frank DePuy, of Wabash, Indiana, and they have a son, John; Alice, who is the wife of F. O. Schoedinger, of Columbus ; Anne and May are at home ; Susan C, who became the wife of Orlando C. Miller, of Columbus, and they have two children, David S. and George. In April, 1897, Mr. Siebert was married to Marie Gemuender, of Columbus.

Politically, Mr. Siebert has been a lifelong supporter of the Republican party. He is a liberal contributor to St. Paul's Episcopal church, to which his family belong.

In the truest sense of the word Mr. Siebert is a self-made man, having readied his present position entirely by his own efforts. He has been a witness to and to a large extent a participant in the wonderful development of Columbus from a small village to one of the most prosperous inland cities in the Middle West. He distinctly remembers when the northern boundary of the city was at about Gay street and when Fourth street was the eastern limit. He is proud of the city and is justifiably proud of the part he has been permitted to play in the great drama of civilization and progress which has been enacted here. Because of his earnest life, high attainments, well rounded character and large influence, be is eminently entitled to representation in a work of the character of the one in hand.

JOHN FRANK SEIDEL. A man's life work is the measure of his success and he is truly the most successful man who, turning his powers into the channel of an honorable purpose, accomplishes the object of his endeavor. In the study of every man's life we find some mainspring of action, something that he lives for, and in John Frank Seidel, presiding judge of the Municipal Court of Columbus, it seems to have been an ambition to make the best use of his native and acquired powers and develop in himself a true manhood.

Judge Seidel is a native of Pennsylvania and is descended from six old American families, which had been in the Keystone state for not less than fifty years prior to the Revolutionary War. They were, tin' Seidels, Kutzes, Klines, Dreibelbises, Mantiliases and Sells. Ancestors of the Judge on both sides of the house were with Washington at Valley Forge and contributed grain and food for the support of the army. Charles Kutz, the Judge's greatgreal grandfather,, gave one hundred acres of land for the site of the present village of Kutztown immediately after the Revolution, and the original transcript tor that land is on record in the first town council book of (hat village, which book was in use up to three years ago.

The parents of Judge Seidel, William J', and Barbara (Kline) Seidel, are both natives of Berks county, Pennsylvania. The Seidels have been farmers, merchants and manufacturers, while the Klines have been professional and public men, members of the mother's family hav- ing served on the bench, in legislative and other public offices. The Dreibelbis family was of Jewish descent, but came into Pennsylvania in pre-Revolutionary days and long since lost their Jewish identity. Thus, it will be seen that Judge Seidel is of very old English, Scotch, French, German and Jewish extraction, all of these families having always been strong advocates of patriotism and lovers of liberty in civic life, the church and the school.

Judge Seidel is a Pennsylvania German, as known in America; the Pennsylvania Germans being about sixty per cent German, twenty per cent French-Huguenot and twenty per cent English, Scotch, Jewish, Irish, and Welsh; a mixed people since before the Revolutionary days.

Judge Seidel was born at Bowers, Pennsylvania, November 26, 1886. He was graduated from the public schools of Pennsylvania, also from the Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown, that state, class of 1904. He then entered Ohio State University, from which he was graduated in 1908 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and two years later he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the law department of that institution. He was admitted to the Ohio Bar in June, 1910, and not long thereafter he entered the practice of law in Columbus, first in partnership with Lewis A. Alcott, then with Herbert Sherman, continuing with the latter until January, 1917, when he took his present position.

Although one of the youngest members of the local Bar he met with exceptional success, both as a trial lawyer and an advocate and ranked high among Ins professional brethren at the Columbus Bar.

On January 1, 1917, Governor Willis appointed Mr. Seidel presiding judge of the Municipal Court of Columbus, and in November of that year he was elected to that position, the duties of which he continues to discharge in a manner that reflects much credit upon himself and to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. His decisions are marked by a profound knowledge of the law and by fairness and common sense.

Judge Seidel is a member of the Franklin County Bar Association, the Acacia Fraternity of the Ohio State University, the Masons, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Woodmen of the World, the Buckeye Republican Club and St. John's Evangelical Church.

On December 19, 1910, Judge Seidel was united in marriage witli Mrs. Marguerite (Mauley) Johnson. She is the mother of two children, namely : Eleanor Cecil and Frederick Emerson Johnson. Judge and Mrs. Seidel have one child, John Manley Seidel.

Judge Seidel has won a high position in the legal world of Columbus and in the estimation of the public while yet young in years, and his accomplishments of the past but augur well for a future replete witli further honors and successes.

CHARLES BERTRAM WOLFE. In placing the name of the late Charles Bertram Wolfe in the front rank of Columbus business men of a past generation, simple justice is done to a biographical fact, universally recognized throughout central Ohio by those at all familiar with his history, for he was one of the founders of the well known mercantile house which bears his name and was the most potent factor in its upbuilding. He was distinctively the architect of his own fortune, in fact, no finer specimen of a successful self-made man could have been found in the Capital City in his day and generation. A man of rare soundness of judgment, wise discretion and business ability of a high order, he managed with tactful success important enterprises and so impressed his individuality upon the community as to gain recognition among its leading citizens and public-spirited men of affairs. What of the man and what of his work? This is the dual query which represents the interrogation at least nominally entertained whenever that discriminating factor, the public, would pronounce on the true worth of the individual. The career of Mr. Wolfe indicates the clearcut, sane and distinct character, and in reviewing the same from an unbiased and unprejudiced standpoint, interpretation follows fact in a straight line of derivation.

The subject of this memoir was born April 9, 1867, in Cumberland, Ohio. He was a son of Andrew Jackson Wolfe and Nancy (Barton) Wolfe. They removed from Cumberland to Zanesville when their son Charles was ten years old, and finally established the permanent home of the family in Columbus where the last thirty years of their lives were spent. Charles B. Wolfe was the third son in a family of six children, those surviving being Robert F., Harry P., Ida May, who married David Beverly, and Katherine, who married Henrv Houstle ; they all reside in Columbus.

Born of parents of moderate means, Charles B. Wolfe did not have the present day advantages in an educational way, but being ambitious and a close observer, he became an apt student to business, a graduate of his own observations and exertions. He remained a wide reader and became a well informed man along general lines. He attended the public schools a short time at Zanesville. Like many another successful man of affairs in this country he began his career as a newsboy, which work he followed until he was fourteen years old, then entered a coal mine as a "trapper." At the age of seventeen he came to Columbus where he found employment at the Toledo & Ohio Central railroad shops. At the age of twenty he entered the employ of the H. C. Godman Shoe Company, as traveling salesman. He took great interest in the shoe business and made a pronounced success as a salesman, and about three years later, in partnership with his three brothers, he formed the Wolfe Brothers' Shoe Company, which was successful from the first and eventually grew to vast proportions, principally as a result of the able management of our subject. After twelve years this firm was dissolved and Charles B., in partnership with his brother Edward, formed what is now the C. & E. Shoe Company, manufacturers of shoes. Our subject remained president of this concern until his death. The plant was once destroyed by fire. Undaunted by the loss the firm carried its manufacturing interests to Delaware, Ohio, where the business was continued until recently, when the plant was removed to Columbus.

Politically, Mr. Wolfe -was a Democrat, but was never active in party affairs. He was of the Presbyterian faith. Fraternally, he was a member of Champion Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias. He cared but little for the social life of the clubs, being fond of his home and of nature and enjoyed a great deal of time at his beautiful summer place, "Mount Air," located about fifteen miles northwest of Columbus, until it was destroyed by fire in 1913. He was an active and enthusiastic member of the Buckeye Lake Fishing Club, the Olentangy Club and the old Bismarck Club, also belonged to the Columbus Country Club and the Athletic Club, also the Columbus Automobile Club.

He was charitably inclined and gave freely of his time and means to all laudable charitable movements, but never courted publicity in his giving, or in fact, in anything, being quiet and unassuming. He was for many years president of the News Boys' Association of Ohio, an organization with charity as its main mission. Having been a news boy he knew how to sympathize with them and help them. He took an active part each year in their charity work, selling papers on charity day and directing the work of distribution of relief for the poor who appealed to that organization. He spent much time during the cold winter months looking up poor families and providing for them, especially during the holiday season.

On September 19, 1891, Mr. Wolfe married Minnie Chappelear, of Columbus. She is the daughter of Jasper and Julia A. (Bullock)Chappelear, both of Columbus, where the family has long been well and favorably known. To Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe three children were born, namely: Frederick D., Charles Bertram, jr., and Clara Barton Wolfe.

The death of Charles B. Wolfe occurred on February 8, 1918, at the age of fifty-one years. Though the stone of life's pathway which marks ambition's end had not yet been reached, "being weary of the battle he sought to lie down and fell into that dreamless sleep that waketh not at the dawn." The "Reaper whose name is Death" claimed him for his harvest. Only a pleasant memory remains.

EDWARD STANSBURY WILSON. When Colonel Edward S. Wilson passed away one more name was added to the list of honored dead whose earthly records closed with the words, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant," but so long as memory remains to those who knew him the influence of his noble life will remain as a source of encouragement and inspiration. For many years editor of the Ohio State Journal, he was especially fitted in many ways for that position, and he made splendid use of the opportunity to do what he could to make life better and more desirable. He recognized "the spark of divinity" in each individual with unerring judgment and endeavored to fan it into the flame of righteousness. Not to condemn, but to aid, he made the practice of his life, and the world is better and brighter for his having lived. But though the voice, gentle and kindly, is stilled, the spirit of his worth remains as the deep undercurrent of a mighty stream, noiseless but irresistible.

Edward Stansbury Wilson was born at Newark, Ohio, on October (5, 1841, the son of Henry and Eliza (Bramble) Wilson. Henry Wilson was a saddler by trade, a plain, God- fearing man and an earnest worker in the church, who lost no opportunity to instill in the heart of his son the principles of morality and religion. When the subject was but a small boy, the family moved to Ironton, Ohio, where Edward attended the public schools, this being the limit of his scholastic training. However he had an intense ambition to learn and from his youth up he was an eager and retentive reader of the great historians, essayists and psychologists. It is a notable fact that, though not a college graduate, the honorary degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him in 1899 by Ohio State University and in 1910, after his editorial work had made him a notable figure in intellectual circles in Ohio, he was made a Doctor of Laws by Ohio Weslevan University.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, young Wilson enlisted in the Ninety-first Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served to the end of the war, participating in many engagements and being wounded in the battle of Stephenson's Depot. He rose to the rank of first lieutenant in the service and was later given the brevet rank of captain. Because of his military service, he maintained active membership to the time of his death in the Grand Army of the Republic, the Loyal Legion and Union Veterans League.

Prior to his enlistment, and while in the army, Colonel Wilson had diligently studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1864, though he never entered upon the active practice. He had a natural leaning towards journalism and in 1865 he became sole owner of the Ironton Register, a struggling weekly, but which in a short time, as a result of his indefatigable efforts, became a prosperous enterprise, the Register being recognized as probably the most ably edited small newspaper in Ohio. He took an active interest in local public affairs, having an especial interest in education, for the elevation of the standard of which he preached editorially all his life. He served for thirty-one consecutive years as county school examiner of Lawrence county. For thirty years Colonel Wilson was a power in politics in southern Ohio, and was once nominated for Congress, but declined the honor. He served as a presidential elector in 1884 and was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1888. He was a member of the board of trustees of the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics, in Gallipolis, from 1890 to 1900. Early in 1900 Colonel Wilson sold the Ironton Register, of which he had been owner and editor for thirty-four years, and soon afterwards we was appointed receiver for the Ironton & Ashland Electric Railway Company, which he soon put on a paying basis and within a few months the receivership was lifted. Later in the year 1900 President McKinley appointed Colonel Wilson United States marshal of Porto Rico, the appointment coming as a surprise. In his new work the Colonel made a notable record and he was reappointed to that position by President Roosevelt in 1905, but in the latter year he resigned and, returning to his native state, became editor of the Ohio State Journal, a position he filled with brilliant success up to the time of his death, which occurred on December 18, 1919. Colonel Wilson was the author of several works, of which "The Political Development of Porto Rico" attracted considerable attention. His other volumes are, "An Oriental Outing" (1891.), "Keynotes of Education" (1898), and "The Poetry of Eating" (1908).

On October 18, 1871, Edward S. Wilson was married to George Anna Gibson, the daughter of Alexander and Mary Ann Gibson, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Wilson is one of five children, those surviving besides herself being, William Norton Gibson, of Ashland, Kentuckv, and Margaret Gibson Lawton, of Chattanooga, Tennessee. To Colonel and Mrs. Wilson were born the following children: Bertha, who became the wife of Dr. Robert E. Ruedy, of Cleveland, Ohio, and they have two children, Wilson and John Edward; Florence, who became the wife of Robert O. Ryder, managing editor of the Ohio State Journal, and Gertrude, the wife of Charles Clark Hammond, vice-president of the Columbia National Bank, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Probably the best epitome of the work and character of Colonel Wilson appeared in the editorial columns of the Ohio State Journal as follows:

The community scarcely could have suffered a greater loss than it sustains in the death of Colonel Wilson. As a force for righteousness his value was inestimable indeed. Day after day, year in and year out, he preached to his wide congregation the true things of life, the things which make the man or the city truly great. Justice and honor, virtue and spirituality, kindness and tolerance and brotherly love - these were his daily themes and through all the noble words he wrote his own noble character came shining. No preacher ever had a finer audience and no audience a finer preacher. He was truly good himself and his one great aim in life was to do good, and he did a vast deal of it.