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Frank Bradford was born in Columbus, Ohio, on December 23, 1862, and died in this city on the first day of the year 1920. He was the fourth in the order of birth of the eight children who blessed the union of Samuel and Melissa Bradford, both of whom are deceased. The surviving children are, Henry S., vice-president of the Bradford Shoe Company; Emery, secretarv of the same company ; Samuel, of Boston, Massachusetts ; Mrs. Belle B. Berry, of Columbus, and Mrs. Nellie M. Pumphrey, also of Columbus. Frank Bradford received his educational training in the public schools of Columbus, but when he was ready for high school, he decided to go to work on his own account. His first employment was the same as that of manv other successful men in America, he becoming a paper carrier for the Columbus Dispatch. Later he became an employee of the Samuel Claypool Shoe Jobbing House, of Columbus, in a minor capacity, and in this modest position he began to form the habits of faithfulness to duty which characterized his future business career. The shoe business appealed to him and lie determined to stick to it and make a success of it. When seventeen years of age he went to Chicago and secured a position as salesman with the Brooks Brothers Shoe Jobbing House. In this work he was a distinct success and it was during even this early period in his career that he formed the determination to eventuallv own a shoe factory of his own. Subsequently he became connected with the Lewis A. Crossett Shoe Manufacturing Company, of Boston, Massachusetts, and, still later, with the Bay State Shoe & Leather Company, of New York, always as a salesman, in which lie had won a splendid reputation. He then came to Columbus and accepted a position as salesman with the C. & E. Shoe Company, also becoming a stockholder in that concern. In August, 190S, Mr. Bradford saw the way clear to a realization of his lifelong ambition, and he organized the Bradford Shoe Company, of which he became president and remained as such until the time of his death. His experience thus far in the shoe business was invaluable to him now and he threw every ounce of his energy into the building up of the business of the new companv. In this lie was successful to an eminent degree, the Bradford Shoe Company becoming one of the most prosperous industries in Columbus. His energy, determination, sound business judgment and knowledge of the details of the business made him a man of peculiar qualifications for his business and he came to be recognized as a business man of more than ordinary ability. Democratic and unassuming in his make-up, he knew all his employees personally and treated them as equals, while it was not an uncommon thing for him to work among them when he felt so inclined. In the Bradford Shoe Company he erected a monument to the family and took a justifiable pride in his achievement.

Besides the Bradford Shoe Company, Mr. Bradford was also interested in other enterprises, holding extensive interests in the Tracy- Wells Company, of Columbus, and the M. J. Rynan Company of Duquesne, Iowa. He was always interested in the welfare of his home city, being active in a number of organizations for the public welfare, notably the Chamber of Commerce, of which he was an active member.

Politically, Mr. Bradford gave his support to the Democratic party, though his intense devotion to his business interests prevented him from taking an active part in political affairs. Socially, he belonged to the Columbus Athletic Club, the old Governor's Guards, and he was an appreciative member of the Goodale Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons.

On March 2, 1891, Mr. Bradford was married to Olive Jane Loeffler, of Columbus, daughter of William G. and Lavina (Mauger) Loeffler, both of whom are deceased. To them was born a daughter, who died in infancy. Mrs. Bradford makes her home at The Seneca, Columbus.

Mr. Bradford was a man of broad sympathies and generous impulses, which was evidenced in his will, whereby he gave very liberally of his estate to his brother and a number of nephews and nieces, the bulk of the estate being left to his widow. Strong and forceful in his relations with his fellow men, he not only made his presence felt, but also gained the good will and commendation of his associates and the general public, ever retaining his reputation among men for integrity and high character, no matter how trying the circumstances, and never losing that dignity which is the birthright of the true gentleman. His career was characterized by duty faithfully performed and by industry, thrift and wisely directed effort. His life was exemplary and his memory will long be cherished by a wide circle of friends and acquaintances throughout this community.

GEORGE ALBAN ARCHER. In every life of honor and usefulness there is no dearth of incident and yet in summing up the career of any man the biographer needs touch only those salient points which give the keynote to his character. Thus in setting forth the life record of George Alban Archer, president of The Commercial National Bank of Columbus, sufficient will be said to show what all who know him will freely acquiesce, that he is one of the representative men of his home city and a man whose life has improved the general welfare of central Ohio.

Mr. Archer was born in the city where he still maintains his home on July 27, 1872. He is the son of John J. and Harriet E. (Alban) Archer, both natives of Ohio, in which state they grew up, received their educational training, married and established their future home. The Archer family came to this state from New York, and the Alban family has been in Ohio for several generations. Members of each have been known from the first as industrious and honorable citizens.

John J. Archer located in Columbus in 1868 and here he and his wife still make their home. They have lived to see and take part in the wonderful development of the city during its growth of the past half century and they are well and favorably known here.

(ieorge A. Archer grew to manhood in his native city and he received his early education in the grammar and high schools. Being ambitious to begin his business career he left high school at the end of his second year. In 1888 when he was only sixteen years old he became a messenger in the bank of which he is now president - the Commercial National Bank, having practically grown up with this old, popular, sound and safe institution, with which In has been identified as boy and man and to whose gradual growth and prestige he has contributed so much, having spent over thirty years in the work of the same. Being wideawake, callable, honest, reliable and persevering his rise with this institution was gradual and constant from I In- first. He has filled about every position, at some stage of his career, and in 1!>I0 was elected cashier, a position he held until the death of Mr. Hoffman, in 1911, when he was elected In succeed that gentleman as president. He has discharged his duties in all positions with rare ability, fidelity and foresight - to the eminent satisfaction of the stockholders and patrons of the bank, and its phenomenal growth the past few years has been due almost solely to his able and judicious management. He is regarded as an expert in all phases of the banking business and has kept fully abreast of the times in the same.

Mr. Archer is a director in the City Service Company, one of the city's most important corporations. He is also a director of the Federal Gas Company. He has long been active in Chamber of Commerce work and was a director of the Chamber of Commerce for several years, and in 1917 was elected its treasurer, a position he is still holding. He is a director in the Columbus Athletic Club, and he belongs to the Columbus Club and the Columbus Country Club, also the Scioto Country Club.

Mr. Archer married Helen W. McCabe, daughter of D. T. McCabe, vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. They have three children, namely: George Alban, jr., Hu°-h M., and Ethel Frances.

SMITH W. BENNETT is one of the well-known attorneys of Columbus. He came to Columbus from Bucyrus, May 1st, 1898, to fill the position of special counsel in the Department of the Attorney General of Ohio under Honorable F. S. Monnett, Attorney General. He remained through the second term of Attorney General Monnett, and through the administrations of that Department under Attorney General Sheets and Attorney General Ellis. He left the same January 8, 1909, and engaged in the general practice of the law at No. 8 East Long street where his offices are still located.

He is a member of the Franklin County Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association and the American Bar Association, and belongs to the Columbus Club, the Columbus Country Club, the Athletic Club, and is identified with the Scottish Rite, Thirty-second degree Mason in the city of Columbus.

GENERAL JOHN BEATTY. Not too often can be repeated the life history of one who lived so honorable and useful a life and who attained to such notable distinction as did the late General John Beatty, soldier, banker, politician, author and representative citizen of the great state of Ohio during an unusually long and varied career. He was easily one of the leadingmen of his day and generation - a national figure for many years. His character was one of signal exaltation and purity of purpose, who unselfishly labored for the general good, whether as a gallant general of the Union army fighting for the perpetuity of the nation, as a member of Congress where he helped make the laws of the country, or as an active captain of industry in the commercial and civic life of Columbus. Well disciplined in mind, maintaining a vantage point from which life presented itself in correct proportions, judicial in his attitude toward both men and measures, guided and guarded by the most inviolable principles of integrity and honor, simple and unostentatious in his self respecting, tolerant individuality, such a man could not prove other than a force for good in whatever relation of life he may have been placed. His character was the positive expression of a strong nature and his strength was as the number of his days. In view of the fact that the life of this great man is destined to occupv a place in the generic history of his state and that of the nation it is only necessary in this compilation to note briefly the salient points in his life history, which would require a volume to give in detail.

General Beatty was born near Sandusky, Ohio, December 16, 1828. He was a son of James and Elizabeth (Williams) Beatty, a pioneer family of that section of the state. He died in 1911 at the advanced age of eighty-six years, his death resulting from an accident.

Although our subject received a good common school education, such as the early-day schools afforded, he was primarily a self-educated man. Being a close observer of men and events and a diligent student of the world's best literature, he became an exceptionally well informed man along general lines. He began his business career as a banker at Cardington, Ohio, and he also began when quite young to take an active interest in public matters in which he was destined to wield a powerful influence. He actively supported John P. Hale for the Presidency in 1852, and General John C. Fremont in 1856, and in I860, he was a Presidential elector on the Republican ticket.

When the Civil War broke out he and his brother, the late W. G. Beatty, were successfully operating their bank at Cardington, but their patriotism led them to sacrifice private ini42 HISTORY OF COLUMBUS, OHIO terests and enlist in defense of the Union, eaeli rising to distinction. By sheer force of character and innate military genius John attained the rank of brigadier general and \V. G. Beatty that of major. The former raised a company of which he was unanimously chosen captain and reported with his men to the adjutant general on April 19, 1861, only a few days after the opening gun had been fired at Fort Sumter. Later he was elected lieutenantcolonel of the Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the duties of which he so successfully performed that he was re-elected when the regiment reorganized for the three years' service. He saw service under Generals McClellan and Rosicrans in their campaign in West Virginia, and in the winter of 1861-62 was transferred to Kentucky and assigned to General O. M. Mitchel's division. In the spring of 1862 he was commissioned a colonel and assisted Mitchel in his invasion of Alabama, leading his regiment in the engagement at Bridgeport and at Huntsville, that state. Returning with the army to the Ohio river, Colonel Beatty fought with his regiment in the battle of Perry ville, Kentucky in 1862. He commanded a brigade at the great battle of Stone's River, Tennessee, on the first day of which, his command in conjunction with Sheppard's and Schribner's and the pioneer brigades saved the center of the army. On the night of the last day of the battle he attacked a portion of the Confederate works near the Murfreesboro pike, which he carried at the point of the bayonet. Soon after this daring feat he was commissioned a brigadier general to rank from November 29, 1862. He next took part in the Tullahoma campaign, dislodging the enemy from his position on the Elk river. He afterwards served, by appointment of General George H. Thomas, as president of a board to examine applicants for commissions in colored regiments. He was with the army in the Chattanooga campaign, led the advance into Georgia and attacked the Confederates at Johnson's creek and Cooper's gap and with Generals Baird and Xegley took part in the engagement at Dug's Gap. He distinguished himself at Chickamauga, one of the greatest battles of the war, opening the fighting of the first day on the extreme right of the line, and on the extreme left of the line on the second day and continued on the field until the battle ended. On the day following he repulsed a heavy reconnoitering column of the enemy at Rossville. Later at Mission Ridge he was with General Sherman, his command forming the reserve on the left wing. On the following day he led in the pursuit of the enemy, overtaking and defeating General Maury at Graysville, driving him from his position by a charge. He then accompanied Sherman on his march to Knoxville for the relief of Burnside. After a brilliant career at the front he resigned from the army in 1861 for personal reasons.

At the close of the war General Beatty and his brother resumed business as bankers, organizing banks in Mt. Gilead and Galion, in addition to the one at Cardington. In 1873, seeking a wider field for the exercise of his business talents, he came to Columbus and organized the Citizens Savings Bank. Later he was active in the organization of the Columbus Savings Bank and the Central Building and Loan Association, being the first president of the latter. He remained president of the Citizens' Savings Bank until it was consolidated with the present Citizens' Trust and Savings Bank. He was a man of rare business acumen and foresight and his close application and sound judgment, together with habits of unswerving honesty and loyalty to right principles resulted in gratifying financial success. He became one of the financial leaders and well known bankers of central Ohio. He retired from active business affairs in 1903.

As Presidential elector in 1860, General Beatty supported Lincoln. He remained a staunch Republican the balance of his life, although he was opposed to a high tariff. As an argument against the McKinley tariff of the early nineties he wrote "High Tariff or Low Tariff, Which?" and "An Answer to Coin's Financial School." Other works of his prolific and entertaining pen were "The Citizen Soldier," a history of the Civil War, published in 1876; "Belle o' Becket's Lane," 1882; "The Acoluans," 1902; and "McLean," a romance of the war, 1901.

After the close of the war General Beatty was appointed president of the Ohio. Chickamauga and Chattanooga Military Park Commission. He served in Congress from 1868 to 1873 as representative from the Eighth Ohio District and served as a member of the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Having made such a commendable record during his first term in Congress he was re elected and during his second term served as chairman of the Committee an Public Buildings and Grounds. Again re-elected he served as chairman of the House Joint Committee on Printing in the forty-second Congress. His record at Washington was as brilliant as a lawmaker as it had been as an army officer and he did much for the general good of the nation, en- joying the confidence and admiration of his constituents and colleagues. At the close of his last term he was strongly urged to accept the candidacy again, but declined.

General Beatty was again the Presidential elector in 1881. He was formerly a member of the Ohio State Board of Charities, a member of several Grand Army of the Republic organizations, also prominent as a member of the Loyal Legion. He belonged to the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity.

CHARLES RICHARDSON MARTENS. It was once remarked by a celebrated moralist and biographer that "There has scarcely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not have been useful." Believing in the truth of this opinion, expressed by one of the greatest and best men, the writer of this memoir takes pleasure in presenting a few of the leading facts in the commendable career of a gentleman who, by industry, perseverance, temperance and integrity, worked himself from an humble station to a successful business man and won an honorable position among the well-known and highly esteemed men in the city of Columbus. For it is always pleasant as well as profitable to contemplate the career of a man who has won a definite goal in life, whose career has been such as to command the honor and respect of his fellow citizens. Such, in brief, was the record of the late Charles R. Martens, than whom a more whole-souled or popular man it would have been difficult to have found within the borders of Franklin county, where he long maintained his home and where he labored not only for his own individual advancement, but also for the improvement of the entire community whose interests he ever had at heart.

Charles Richardson Martens was born in the Lutheran parsonage near Amanda, Fairfield county, Ohio, on April 4>, 1860, and died at his home in Columbus, Ohio, on January 1, 1920. He was the second in order of birth of four children horn to Rev. David Miller and Alice (Richardson) Martens, the only surviving members of this family being Rev. Herbert Martens, of Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, and Mrs. C. C. Eshelman, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, both parents also being deceased.

Charles R. Martens received his educational training in the country schools of Pennsylvania, whither the family had moved, but at the age of fourteen years he was compelled to go to work to assist in the support of the family, thus precluding any opportunity for further scholastic education. His first employment was in a general store near Amanda, and it was noticeable that the dry goods department of the store seemed to appeal to him stronger than any other part of the store. The training he received here was invaluable to him, for he was keenly alive to learn every phase of business life. In 1881 Mr. Martens came to Columbus and entered the employ of Weisman & Martens, who ran a dry goods store, the junior partner in the business being his brother, Herbert Martens. He remained connected with this store for eleven years, or until 1892, when he formed a partnership with Willis Bowland and .1. J. Vonarx and established the Home Store. This enterprise proved a successful one and its growth was steady and permanent; the firm being now known as the Morehouse-Martens Company, of which Mr. Martens was vice-president up to the time of his death. The store was founded witli a force of twenty-one employees and from this modest beginning the business grew to the point which necessitated a force of over three hundred employees. Mr. Martens always took an active part in the management and direction of the business, the remarkable success of which has been credited largely to his personal efforts. Twenty-five days after the death of Mr. Martens, the store was totally destroyed by fire, it being one of the most disastrous fires in recent years in Columbus.

In the commercial, civic, musical and religious life of Columbus Mr. Martens was an active and prominent factor for years. He was an active member of the Chamber of Commerce, of which he served as a director for two terms, and he was one of four members of that body who wore honor badges for having secured the greatest number of members in one year. He was one of the founders and a charter member of the Retail Merchants' Association. He was a member of the Business Men's Club of the Young Men's Christian Association and in the Young Men's Christian Association, of which he was a director, he took an especially active interest, having attended all the conventions of that organization both at home and abroad. In musical circles Mr. Martens was one of the best known men in Columbus, having been director of music at the Grace Methodist Episcopal church, and a member of the Orpheus and Arion clubs, which musical organizations were influential and active in bringing to Columbus all of its great music events. As an active member of the War Camp Community Service, he led over one hundred community sings at the Auditorium and in recognition of his invaluable service in this line he was presented with an honor badge. In a military way, he was a member of the Old Governor's Guards.

Religiously, Mr. Martens was a member of Grace Lutheran church, of whose official board he was a member, and he was very" active in the Sunday school work of that church. Socially, he belonged to the Kiwanis Club, of which he was a charter member and a director, of the Columbus Automobile Club and the Columbus Country Club. In the Masonic order, he had attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, being a member of Goodale Blue Lodge, Scioto Consistory and Aladdin Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He also belonged to the Columbus lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Politically, he gave his support to the Republican party, though he never took an active part in political affairs.

June 3, 1891, Mr. Martens was married to Emma Wirth, the daughter of Dr. R. and Sophia Wirth, of Columbus, both of whom are deceased. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Martens, Rose Helen Martens and Don David Martens, both of whom are now attending college. Although Mr. Martens' life was a busy one, his every-day affairs making heavy demands upon his time, he never shrank from his duties as a citizen and his obligations to his neighbors and his friends. Always calm and dignified, never demonstrative, his life was, nevertheless, a persistent plea, more by precept and example than by public action or spoken word, for the purity and grandeur of right principles and the beauty and elevation of wholesome character. He had the greatest sympathy for his fellow men and was ever willing to aid and encourage those who were struggling to aid themselves against adverse fate, yet in this, as in everything else, he was entirely unostentatious. To him home life was a sacred trust, friendship was inviolable and nothing could swerve him from the path of rectitude and honor.

EDWIN REES SHARP. Edwin Rees Sharp, banker and financier and President of the State Savings & Trust Company, has been closely identified with the business history of Columbus for over forty years, during which time he has won recognition as one of the city's notable men.

Mr. Sharp is the grandson of John Sharp, the pioneer surveyor and engineer of Franklin county, who came to Ohio in 1809 and assisted in the survey of the old National road, and he is the son of Abram and Harriet (Rees) Sharp, both of whom were natives of Franklin county.

Edwin Rees Sharp was born at Groveport, this county, October 21, 1858. He began his business life in 1874, when, as a boy of sixteen years, he entered the Commercial Bank of Columbus as a messenger. In 1892 he resigned as Teller of the Commercial to become Cashier of the State Savings & Trust Company, of which he was one of the incorporators, and of which he was elected President in 1902. He was one of the promoters and organizers of the Scioto Valley Traction Company, has been one of its Board of Directors since its incorporation and is now its vice-president and treasurer. He was also one of the organizers of the Columbus Citizens' (now the Ohio State) Telephone Company, of which he is a director.

As man and boy, Mr. Sharp has witnessed the growth of Columbus from a small city into the third one of the state and he has contributed to and has been and is a part of that growth.

He is a member of the following clubs: Columbus, Athletic, Columbus Country, Scioto Country, Wyandotte, the Ohio Society of New York, the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society of Columbus, tlie American Academy of Political and Social Science of Philadelphia.

Mr. Sharp married Flora Field November 22, 1881, daughter of Silas N. and Sarah J. (Kclsrv) Field, of Columbus. Her grandfather William Kelsey was one of the pioneers of Columbus and for a number of years was proprietor of the old American House at the corner of High and State streets, finally going to St. Louis as proprietor of the famous old Planters Hotel. Her grandfather Field was also one of the pioneers of Columbus. They have two children: Edwin Rees Sharp, jr., now Major in the National Army. He was married in 1917 to Marian Brooks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tlios. S. Brooks, of Columbus. Esther Davidson Sharp who married in 1909, George T. Johnston, of Columbus, their three children being George T., Albert T., and Sarah Jane.

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GEORGE SILAS PETERS. The career of George Silas Peters, who is now living in honorable retirement in his attractive home in Columbus, is an interesting and varied one, the major portion of which has been devoted to the practice of law. He has been a resident of the capital city for nearly a half century and was one time mayor and he has long been well known and influential in civic affairs, doing much for the general welfare of the city and county, whose interests he has had at heart ever since taking up his residence here.

Mr. Peters was born on the home farm in Pickaway county, Ohio, October 11, 18-16, and is descended from two sterling pioneer Buckeye families. He is of Scotch-Irish descent on his paternal side, and the Peters family has been in America for at least four generations. The Ohio pioneer of the family was John Peters, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, who was born near Petersburg, Virginia. William L. Peters, father of George S. Peters, was a native of Pickaway county, Ohio. He married Susan Hoffhines, who was born at Hagerstown, Maryland, the daughter of George Hoffhines, who removed from Hagerstown to Pickaway county, Ohio, in the year 1810, bringing his family and household goods in wagons overland, his wife riding behind the outfit on horseback, and carrying her young daughter in her lap. The Hoffhines were of German stock.

George S. Peters was reared on his father's farm in Pickaway county, and there he assisted with the general work when a boy, attending the common schools during the winter months. He began his active life by teaching school, which profession he followed several years. Although he was making a most creditable record as an educator, he decided to abandon the school room and turn his attention to legal affairs, and with this end in view he came to Columbus in May, 1S72, and entered the law office of Chauncy N. Olds as a law student. Being ambitious and applying himself assiduously to his Blaekstone and Kent, he made rapid progress and was admitted to the bar in December, 1873, and soon thereafter began the practice of his profession in Columbus as a partner of Luke G. Byrne, under the firm name of Byrne & Peters. This partnership terminated in 1881, in which year Mr. Peters was elected mayor of the city of Columbus, the duties of which office he discharged to the eminent satisfaction of all concerned.

After leaving the office of mayor Mr. Peters practiced law alone until 1887 in which year he was appointed United States attorny for the Territory of Utah, a position he held, with credit to himself and satisfaction to the authorities at Washington, D. G, until 1889, during which period he was ex-officio attorney general of that territory. His successful handling of these important offices indicated that he was not only a man well versed in the law, but that he had courage, tact and indomitable energy. He did much to bring about a better order of things in that country in those early days of lawlessness.

Returning to Columbus in 1889, Mr. Peters resumed the practice of law, in partnership with William J. Clarke, under the firm name of Peters & Clarke. In the early nineties he became a member of the law firm of Booth, Keating & Peters and continued with the same until he retired from active life, January 1, 1917. During this long period of active practice at the local bar he ranked as one of the leading legal lights in central Ohio and built up a large and lucrative practice. He figured in many of the big cases in the Columbus courts for some four decades and he met with great success, both as an advocate and a trial lawyer.

Governor Hoadly appointed Mr. Peters a member of the board of managers of the Ohio penitentiary, and as head of the board he had much to do with putting the parole law in operation which had just been passed when he assumed his duties on the board. He wrote the rules and regulations for the granting of paroles to the prisoners. This was the first real step taken towards prison reform in the entire country.

Mr. Peters is a director of the Scioto Valley Traction Company. He is a member of the Columbus Club, the Columbus Country Club, Magnolia Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons.

On November 27, 1877, Mr. Peters was united in marriage with Flora E. Rarey, a daughter of Laypol E. Rarey, of Groveport, Franklin county, Ohio. To this union three daughters have been born, namely: Grace R., Florence May, who married Ferdinand P. Schoedinger of Columbus, and Mary Louise. Mrs. Peters died July 24th, 1918.

THE MILES FAMILY. The Miles family of Ohio is an old one in this state and in America. The family was established in America in colonial days and in Ohio in the first quarter of the nineteenth century.

John B. Miles came to Ohio when he was a young man, making the last stage of the lono- journey from Vermont in a flat-boat down the Ohio river from Pittsburgh to Meigs county where he settled and established a home by hard work and perseverance. He took up government land and founded the town of Rutland, which he named in honor of the Vermont town of that name, where he lived before leaving New England for the West.

John B. Miles married Mary Johnson, who was born in Meigs county, Ohio. Their oldest child was Columbus Jarvis Miles, who was born at Rutland, Ohio, September 18, 1829. He devoted his attention to general farming and stock raising in Meigs county, later removing to Mason countv, Virginia, now embraced in the boundary of West Virginia, and there he continued agricultural pursuits. Later in life he engaged in merchandising at Gallipolis, Ohio in which city he passed his last years. He married Elizabeth Hopkins, who was born in Mei°"s county, April 10, 1829. She was a daughter of Thomas Drake and Elizabeth (Sargeant) Hopkins, and through her the Miles family is descended of the old Hopkins family of Revolutionary^ War fame, also of the Drake family of England, the latter including the famous admiral, Sir Francis Drake. The children of Columbus J. Miles and wife were named as follows: Adelia Gertrude, born at Rutland, Ohio, February 27, 1854, and resides in Columbus; Violet Luella, born at Racine, Ohio, May 24, 1854, died in 1859; Mary Augusta, born in Mason county, West Virginia, August 1, 1859, married B. C. McCullough of Cabell county, where they settled, now residing in Columbus ; Hattie Arvilla, born at Racine, Ohio, August 31, 1862, died in November, 1914; Charles Ellsworth, born at Gallipolis, Ohio, December 19, 1865, resides in Columbus; Oscar Elmer, mentioned in the latter part of this sketch, was born in Gallipolis, Ohio, and resides in Columbus ; John Battelle, Born at Gallipolis, this state, June 9, 1870, also resides in Columbus.

Oscar Elmer Miles, a well known life insurance man of Columbus, and a son of Columbus J. and Elizabeth Miles, mentioned above, was born at Gallipolis, Ohio, February 22, 1868. He attended the public schools until 1886, when at the age of 18 he entered the business world and has steadily advanced since that time. His first employment was at a salary of $3.50 a week in a grocery store at Gallipolis. Latei he was employed in a wholesale dry goods house at Catlettsburg, Kentucky. From there he went to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, as salesman for a dry goods concern. In 1889 he came to Columbus and took a position with Dunn, Taft Company, merchants, having charge of the silk department, with which firm he remained until March, 1892, when failing health compelled him to give up business, and he went to California to recuperate. Regaining his health in 1894 Mr. Miles entered the life insurance business with the John Hancock Mutual Life Inusrance Company, with which lie is still connected. He has met with unusual success in this line of work, so much so that he is today the Columbus agent for the great John Hancock Company, and for many years has been one of the largest producers with the company.

Mr. Miles is a member of the Masonic Order, a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Knight Templar and a member of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the Franklin Park Methodist Episcopal church, (a Methodist since the age of 16) is a member of the Columbus Athletic Club and the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. He was one of the active members of the old Arion Club, which was the pioneer musical organization of Columbus, which revolutionized organized music in this city, and which laid the plans for a building devoted to musical affairs, which was the beginning of the movement resulting in the splendid Memorial building of today.

On April 20, 1908, Mr. Miles married Helen R. Powell, daughter of Jerome and Lucy Powell, <>f Columbus, and to them twins have been born, August 29, 1910, a son and daugther, Monford Powell Miles and Elizabeth Adair Miles.

WILLIAM CHARLES WII.LARD. William Charles Millard was born in Columbus, May 22, 1872, son of Charles Douglas and Mary E (Davis) Willard, both natives of Columbus and each representing honored pioneer families. The paternal grandfather, John Willard, was one of the early business nun here, owning and operating a line of canal boats and was a merchant and warehouse man, widely known in this section of the state. For many years he was prominent in the affairs of his city and country.

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as messenger tor the Commercial National Bank. In 1891 he went to Colorado and there spent two years in the banking business, returning to Columbus in 1893 to take a position with the Clinton National Bank. When the Clinton National Bank and the Hayden National Bank were consolidated into the Havden-Clinton National Bank, lie was made teller. In 1904 he was promoted to assistant cashier and in 1913 he was elected president and is still serving in that capacity. Mr. Millard is also vice-president and treasurer of the Columbus Savings Bank; and is identified with the following concerns: The Columbus Railway, Power & Light Company; Toledo & Ohio Central R. R. Co.; Kanawha & West Virginia R. R. Co.; Cincinnati Northern Ry. Co.; Kanawha & Michigan Ry. Co.; Zanesville & Western Ry. Co.; Toledo Terminal R. R. Co.; Lake Erie, Alliance & Wheeling R. R. Co.; Cincinnati, Sandusky, & Cleveland R. R. Co.; Ashland Steel Company, Ashland, Ky.; the Kelly Nail & Iron Company, Ironton, Ohio; the Smith Agricultural Chemical Co. He is a trustee of Grant Hospital, is a member of the Columbus, Athletic, Rotary, and East End Tennis Clubs and is a thirty-second degree Mason, belonging to the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

On June -1, 189-1, Mr. Willard was united in marriage witli Anna Lilley, of Columbus, daughter of the late M. C. Lilley. To this union three children have been born as follows: Catherine, who married J. Stanton Mossgrove, of Columbus; Elizabeth, a student in Smith College, and Ann, who is studying at the Columbus School for Girls.

SAMUEL GROENENUYKE McMEEN. One of the well known and influential business men of Columbus is Samuel Groenendyke McMeen, a man who has been willing to work hard for his advancement, having started at the foot of the ladder of success, reaching a position of responsibility and distinction in the world's affairs without the aid of anyone.

Mr. McMeen, consulting engineer and public utility executive, and vice-president of the E. W. Clark & Company Management Corporation, is a native of Indiana, born in the village of Eugene, November 28, 1861. He is a son of James and Ann (Groenendyke) McMeen. After attending the public schools he entered Purdue University at Lafayette, Indiana, where he spent two years, 1883 and 1881. He began his business career in 1885 in the telephone service with the Central Union Telephone Company and, diligently applying himself to his duties, his promotion was rapid. He became assistant engineer in 1893 and chief engineer of that company in 1896, remaining in the latter position until 1904, in which year he became a member of the firm of McMeen & Miller of Chicago. In 1911 he became vice-president of the E. W. Clark & Company Management Corporation, a Philadelphia concern, with headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, also maintaining an office in Columbus, Ohio.

Mr. McMeen is a fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, a member of the Western Society of Engineers, also of the National Electric Light Association, the American Electric Railway Association, the Telephone Pioneers of America and other similar organizations. He is also a member of the Union League Club of Chicago, the Columbus Athletic Club, the Columbus Club and the Scioto Club.

Mr. McMeen is married, Mrs. McMeen having been Miss Auta Judith Proctor, of Ashtabula, Ohio. They have one son and one daughter, the latter being the wife of Dr. Ivor Gordon Clark, of Columbus.

He keeps well abreast of the times of all that pertains to electrical matters, on which he is regarded as an authority and his talents as an engineer and manager of electrical plants are recognized by all who have come in contact with him. Morover, he is a man of fine personal characteristics which make him popular with a wide circle of acquaintances.

MITCHELL C. LILLEY, JR. That the career of such a man as the late Mitchell C. Lilley, jr.. for many years a prominent man of affairs of Columbus, Chicago and Florida, besides being treasured in the hearts of relatives and friends, should have its public record also, is peculiarly proper because a knowledge of men whose substantial reputation rests upon their attainments and character must exert a wholesome influence upon the rising generation. While transmitting to future generations the chronicle of such a life, through the medium of local history, it is with the hope of instilling into the minds of those who come after the important lesson that honor and station are sure rewards of honest, persistent individual effort. He was one of the most representative citizens of the capital city of the great Buckeye commonwealth and in every respect a worthy son of a worthy sire, being a member of one of the oldest and most highly esteemed families of this locality, members of which have been prominent in various walks of life here for considerably over a century.

The subject of this memoir was born at the old homestead in Columbus, Ohio, November 2G, 1869. He was a son of Mitchell C. Lilley, sr., a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. The younger Lilley grew to manhood in his native community and he received his early education in the public schools of Columbus, then attended preparatory school at Lawrenceville, N. J., after which he entered Yale University, where he made a splendid record for scholarship and from which institution he was graduated with the class of 189-1. He continued a student the rest of his life and became an exceptionally well informed man along general lines, which academic and scientific information was greatly augmented by habits of close observation and by contact with the world. Upon leaving the university he. returned to Columbus and engaged in the lumber business in which he made a very auspicious start, but in 1903, seeking a wider field for the exercise of his business talents, Mr. Lilley removed to Chicago where he engaged in manufacturing, finally locating at Fort Meyers, Florida, where he was engaged in the wholesale fish business on a very large scale, which he continued with increasing success until his death. He was regarded by all in that section of the South as a young man of exceptional business qualifications and a man of splendid personal attributes, who won and retained the good will and admiration of all with whom he came in contact.

Mr. Lilley was a member of the Board of Trade of Okechobee, Florida, which is a great fishing center. During his college days he was a noted athlete and was a member of the football teams of both Yale and the school at Lawrenceville, N. J. He was a verv busy man but found time for recreation, being very fond of hunting. He delighted in life in the open and was a lover of the beauties of nature in their varied manifestations. He belonged to the Arlington Country Club of Columbus, the Columbus Club and the Columbus East End Tennis Club, also the Glenview and Edgewater Golf Clubs, both of Chicago. He was a member of the Broad Street Presbyterian church of Columbus and a liberal supporter of the same. Politically, he was a Republican and was active and influential in party affairs. He served for some time as a member of the Okechobee City Council and was a candidate for mayor of that city at the time of his death. He was chairman of the committee in charge of the deepening of the smaller streams in the locality of Okechobee, a very large and important undertaking by the Government, so as to make possible the navigation of larger boats. He was a man of vision and entertained broad and comprehensive views for the future development of the locality of his adopted home.

On January 3, 1895, Mr. Lilley was united in marriage with Fanny Clark White, of Columbus, an only child of the late Dr. G. M. White and Sarah (Jackson) White, both now deceased. Her father was for many years one of the prominent physicians of Columbus. To Mr. and Mrs. Lilley these children were born: Elise Campbell Lilley, now living in Boston, Mitchell C. Lilley, the third, who resides with his mother in Columbus; Emily Doak Lilley, who makes her home in Los Angeles, California, and Frances Lilley, deceased.

The death of Mitchell C. Lilley, jr., occurred at his home in Okechobee, Florida, November 21, 1915, when in the prime of life and usefulness, leaving behind him a host of warm friends and admirers wherever he was known.

JOHN BATTELLE MILES. One of the well known business men of Columbus and a former county official is John Battelle Miles, president of the Commercial Paste Company. During his residence in the capital city his prestige as a straightforward and conscientious business man and substantial citizen has constantly increased, owing to his honesty, public spirit and his willingness to devote his time and attention to such movements as make for the public good.

Mr. Miles was born at Gallipolis, Ohio, June 9, 1870. For a history of his ancestry the reader is referred to the sketch of his brother, Oscar E. Miles, appearing on another page of this volume. He grew to manhood in his native city and was graduated from the high school there in 1888. He began his business career as clerk in a drug store in that city, later went lo Chicago where he continued in the drug business. Finally he took a position as storekeeper lor Hi. Chesepeake & Ohio Railroad Company at Huntington, West Virginia, for a period of four years.

Mr. Miles came to Columbus in 1892 and was engaged in business pursuits until he was appointed deputy director of public improvements of Columbus. Later he was appointed deputy clerk of courts of Franklin county, in 1905, in which position he served until 1910, being then elected clerk of courts of the county. He was re-elected in 1912 and again in 1914, thus serving three full terms. Upon leaving the office of county clerk in 1917 he again engaged in business as president of the Commercial Paste Company, which business he and his associates purchased and re-organized, and under his able management it is rapidly growing to large proportions, the products of the company finding a very ready market owing to their superior quality.

Mr. Miles is a member of the Columbus Athletic Club. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and belongs to the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, also the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

On November 19, 1903, Mr. Miles married Imogene Ingram of Columbus, a daughter of the late William H. Ingram, a well known business man who came to this city from Cincinnati. To our subject and wife two children have been born, namely: Howard B., now (1919) sixteen years old; and Geraldine, eleven years old.

Mr. Miles gave eminent satisfaction as a public servant, as was indicated by the fact that he was retained so long in the offices entrusted to him. He was always prompt, courteous and faithful as well as scrupulously honest in the discharge of his duties, and he richly deserves the good will and high esteem in which he is still held by all who know him, and that embraces a large proportion of the people of Columbus and Franklin county.

WILDEN ELWOOD JOSEPH. There are few more inspiring aphorisms in our language than Emerson's famous "Hitch your wagon to a star." Posterity is indebted to the Sage of Concord for this noble counsel so universally needed. The privilege belongs to us all of gearing our lives up to lofty motives, of glorifying our commonplace and prosaic days with ideal sentiments and aspirations. There is happy suggestion likewise in reversing the good advice, to sense its truth from a slightly different angle. It is just as good philosophy, and in many ways perhaps more helpful, to read the words "Hitch the stars to your wagon." In other words, let the infinite forces help you, join with you in tugging your particular load up the hill, harness the mightiest power in the world to your human necessities. The life of Wilden Elwood Joseph, secretary of the Masonic Temple Association, and one of the prominent Masons of the state of Ohio, would indicate that he has ever striven to live up to high ideals and direct his efforts along well regulated lines, and therefore success has attended his efforts and at the same time he has established a reputation for right thinking and wholesome living, and what necessarily follows - good citizenship.

Mr. Joseph was born in Royalton, Ohio, August 10, 18.51, the son of Joseph A. and Martha V. (Foreman) Joseph, both natives of Ohio, in which state their parents located in an early day.

When he was seven years old, the parents of the subject of this sketch, removed to Pataska, Ticking county, this state, and there he grew to manhood and attended the public schools. He came to Columbus in 1874 and from that time until 1898 he was engaged in the manufacturing business, in which he met with a fair measure of success all along the line owing to his close application to business, his foresight and honest dealings.

In 1879 Mr. Joseph became a member of the Pataska Lodge, No. 401, Free and Accepted Masons, and he is still a member of the same. He at once became intensely interested in the sublime precepts of that time honored order and since then, now nearly forty years ago, he has passed through all the degrees in Scottish Rite and Knights Templar Masonry, and he is a Past Commander of Mt. Vernon Commandery, Knights Templar. He has been for many years secretary of the following bodies: Ohio Chapter. No. 12, Royal Arch Masons; Enoch Lodge of Perfection, in which lie has reached the fourteenth degree; Franklin Council Princes of Jerusalem, in which he has attained the sixteenth degree: Columbus Chapter, Rose of Croix, in which he has reached the eighteenth degree, and Scioto Commandery. in which he is a thirty-third degree Mason. He is also secretary of the Masonic Temple Association and the Masonic Fraternal Association. He is also recorder of the following orders: Columbus Council, No. 8, Royal and Select Masters; Mt. Vernon Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar; Aladdin Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Order of Royal Jesters and Red Cross of Constantine. He has been a member of the board of trustees and secretary of the Masonic Temple Association since its organization, and is the first and

Mr. Joseph is also a member of the Junior Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Columbus Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He belongs to the Columbus Club. In all the positions enumerated above he has discharged his duties most ably and faithfully and to the eminent satisfaction of his fraternal brethren. He is one of the best informed men on Masonry in the state, and one of the most active in the work of the various Masonic lodges. What is more, one would judge from his daily life among his fellow men that he tries to live up to the sublime teachings of Masonry, and he is therefore highly esteemed and respected by a very wide acquaintance.

Mr. Joseph married Sarah E. Broom, who was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, the daughter of the Hon. Hugh Broom, of that county. To this union one daughter has been born - Ledra Joseph.

JONAS M. McCUNE. It has been said by those in the habit of superficial thinking that the dead are soon forgotten and, according to one of America's great poets, "All that breathe will share thy destiny ; the gay will laugh when thou are gone, and each one as before will chase his favorite phantom." Whether this be a universal truth or not, it is safe to say that few men of a past generation in Columbus will linger longer in the memory of the citizens of Franklin county, who were contemporaneous with him, than the late Jonas M. McCune. This is due to the fact that he had the qualities that impress men. Prominent and prosperous in business, he established a character for integrity, public spirit and the social amenities of life.

Mr. McCune was a native of Vermont, and was descended from two old families of that state. William McCune, his grandfather, who lived at Brattleboro, Vermont, commanded a company in the Revolutionary War, while his father, John McCune, who was born in the town of Brattleboro, was for many years a man of prominence in his home community and he held at different times the offices of selectman and a member of the school board. John McCune married Sarah Harris of Brattleboro, a descendant of one of the Pilgrim families that came to America on the historic "Mayflower" in 1620.

Jonas McCune was born at Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1822, and there he spent his earlier years and attended school. In 1811 he came to Columbus, Ohio, and began his business career here as a clerk in a hardware store, owned by Grear & Abbott. He applied himself diligently and, being honest and courteous, his rise was rapid, and in 1818 lie became a silent partner of the firm. He mastered all the ins and outs of the hardware business, and in 1856 he organized the wholesale and retail hardware firm of J. M. McCune & Company, which subsequently was changed to that of McCune, Lonnis & Griswold, and lie continued as senior member of that company until 1895, the large success and rapid growth of which was due very largely to his able management and judicious counsel. He was also a director in the Columbus Rolling Mills, the Columbus Gas Company and was president of the Columbus and Eastern Railway Company, which is now a branch of the Hocking Valley Railway System. He had a genius for organization and whatever he turned his attention to resulted in success. He insisted on punctuality, honesty and fair dealing among all his employes and his integrity in the business world was never questioned. And he died in 1907 at an advanced age, loved and respected by all who knew him. He was regarded as one of the leading men of affairs of the earlier period of Columbus' material development.

Jonas McCune was married in 1810 to Catherine Lumley, of Columbus. She was a native of Rochester, N. Y., and came, with her parents, to Granville, Ohio, in 18.32. Her death occurred in 1859, and in 1889, Mr. McCune married Mrs. Evaline M. Mills, a daughter of Edward Garcs, of Groveport, Ohio.

Edward Lumley McCune, son of the subject of this memoir, by his first wife, was born in Columbus, March 27, 1855, and here he grew to manhood and received his early education in the public schools, later attended the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee. He read law and was admitted to the bar in this state in 1877. He served as claim ngent for the Columbus, Sandusky & Hocking Valley Railroad Company, and also for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was a member of the Columbus Board of Education for two terms, and the last year of his second term was president of the board. He was also president of the Columbus City Board of Real Estate Appraisers, and during the administration of Mayor

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George S. Marshall he served as director of public safety for the city. In all these positions of public trust he discharged his duties in a faithful, able and highly satisfactory manner.

Fraternally, Mr. McCune belongs to the Masonic Order in which he is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, also belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is a member of its military committee. During the period that America was in the world war he was very active in the work of the Red Cross and other relief movements, and since the organization of the Columbus Chapter, American Red Cross, he has been its secretary, purchasing agent and chairman of the military relief committee, also a member of the executive committee. In fact, he has been giving his entire time and attention to this laudable work.

On July 12, 1876, Mr. McCune married Eva E. Black, and to this union the following children have been born: Sarah C, who married William E. Rex, of Columbus; John, deceased; Edward L., who is engaged in the insurance business in Seattle, Washington; Lillian, deceased; Margaret, deceased, and Robert, deceased.

HENRY SMITH BALLARD. Another of the talented young lawyers of Columbus who is rapidly forging to a place in the front ranks of the local bar is Henry Smith Ballard, senior member of the law firm of Ballard, Jones & Price. The secret of his success in his chosen field of endeavor is due to his persistency and honesty.

Mr. Ballard was born at Coal Grove, Lawrence county, Ohio, November 15, 1880. He is a son of John and Jane (Sparling) Ballard. The father was also born in the same county and state as was the subject of this sketch. He was a descendant of Captain Bland Ballard, an old Indian fighter and associate of Daniel Boone. John Ballard, father of the Captain, was a native of Virginia, and was the founder of the now numerous family of Ballard in Ohio. The members of this sterling old family have done much toward the active upbuilding of the Buckeye state in a general way.

John Ballard, father of our subject, devoted his life to general agricultural pursuits in Lawrence county, also was known as a successful business man. His death occurred when his son, Henry S., was but a boy. His wife, Jane Sparling, was also a native of Lawrence county, and a daughter of George W. Sparling, a Virginian and a pioneer of Lawrence county, Ohio. Her death occurred in 1915.

Henry S. Ballard was reared in Lawrence county, this state, and attended the public schools of Coal Grove. At the early age of fifteen years he began his career by teaching school in his native county, continuing in educational work for seven years, during which period he read law. He was a successful instructor but believed a larger field awaited him in the legal world. He was admitted to the bar in 1903 and soon thereafter began the practice of his profession in the city of Columbus where he has since remained and has built up a large and lucrative practice as a result of his splendid record in the local courts.

Mr. Ballard began taking an active interest in public affairs early in life and in 1911 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Franklin county, the duties of which office he continued to discharge in an able and highly acceptable manner until 1915, in which year he became first assistant attorney general of Ohio, continuing in this responsible position with success until 1917 when he returned to private practice, forming the law firm of Ballard, Jones & Price in that year.

Since the United States entered the European conflict, Mr. Ballard has shown his patriotism by taking a very active part in war work, and as chairman of the Soldiers' Advisory Board of the Young Men's Christian Association he lias held meetings all over central Ohio and organized many movements.

Fraternally, he is a member of the Masonic Order, Knights of Pythias, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member of the Republican Glee Club, the Business Men's Gymnasium Club, the Lawrence County Society of Columbus and an associate member of Wells Post, Grand Army of the Republic.

On June 30, 1909, Mr. Ballard was united in marriage to Grace E. Forney, a daughter of David and Abigail Forney, of New Philadelphia, Ohio, and they have one son, Henry Sparling Ballard.

EDWARD PERRY TICE. No matter what line of work one is engaged in he should strive to become an expert in it, which will not only result in better remuneration, hut a greater degree of satisfaction and pleasure all around. If one goes at his work in a half-hearted, slip-shod manner very little good will be accomplished and little satisfaction gotten out of it. In fact, it is not too much to say that poor work should never be done, for it is very often worse than nothing - detrimental. Realizing this fact at the outset of his career Edward Perry Tice, member of the firm of Tice & Jeffers, general managers of the Midland Mutual Life Insurance Company of Columbus, has always tried to do well whatever he deemed was worth doing at all. Therefore he has succeeded in his life work.

Mr. Tice is a native of Ohio, born at Buford, Highland county. His grandfather, John William Tice, a native of Holland, emigrated to America about the year 1810 and settled first in New Jersey, coming on to Ohio in 1838 and located first in Clermont county, later removing to Monroe county where he spent the balance of his life.

Daniel L. Tice, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Clermont county, Ohio, in 1837. He has devoted his life to general agricultural pursuits and is still living on a farm in Highland county. His wife, Mahala Dunham, was born in Clermont county, this state, in 1843 and her death occurred March 7, 1916. Her father, Robert Dunham, a Scotchman, came to America in young manhood and was a pioneer of Clermont county, devoting his life to farming.

Edward P. Tice was reared on the home farm where he assisted with the work in the fields during bis boyhood, attending the district rural schools in the winter time, later attending Ohio Northern University, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1900. He then went to Yale University and was graduated with the class of 1906, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He made an excellent record for scholarship in both these universities.

When seventeen years of age Mr. Tiee began teaching school and when he was twentvfive he was appointed school examiner of Highland county, which position he held for a period of nine years, from 1898 to 1907. He was very successful as an educator and did much to build up the schools of Highland county, making them equal to the best common schools in the state. He was progressive in his ideas and introduced many of the best and most approved modern methods in the schools of that county.

Mr. Tice finally decided to give up educational work and turn his attention to the life insurance business, which he did in the year 1906, taking a position with the Midland Mutual Life Insurance Company of Columbus, being the first man to sell insurance for that companv. His success and progress in the life insurance field has been rapid though consistent, and today he is senior member of the well known insurance firm of Tiee & Jeffers, general managers of the Midland Mutual Life.

Just how much credit is due Mr. Tice for the growth of the field work of this company must be left for others to estimate, but it is a conservative statement to say that he and Mr. Jeffers have proved to be vital forces in the development of the Midland, which has grown rapidly in prestige and importance since they began devoting their energies and attention to its affairs.

Mr. Tice is a member of the Columbus Athletic Club and the Scioto Country Club. He also belongs to the Masonic Order and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

On June 15, 1907, Mr. Tice was united in marriage with Kathryn L. Boring, of Columbus, and to their union the following children have been born: Ruth Elinor. Virginia, and Edward Perry, jr.

Mr. Tice is a man who keeps in touch with educational and public affairs and lends his support to all worthy movements having for their object the general public welfare and he is a man of excellent personal characteristics which make him popular with all classes.

EDWARD REINERT, M. D. There is generally a wide diversity of opinion among the people outside the medical profession in their estimate of the skill and ability of a particular physician. A family is likely to pin its faith to some practitioner and distrust .-11 the rest. If there is a member of the profession in Columbus and Franklin county who h.-s successfully fought down this prejudice, and now stands secure in the confidence of the f neral public, that man is Dr. Edward Reinert, a man whose research in the fields of science has produced Buch pronounced results as to leave no question of his knowledge of his profession.

Dr. Reinert, who is now a member of the Ohio State Board of Administration, is a native of this state, born at Ripley, Brown county, November 18, 1873, the son of Louis and Fred- ricka Reinert. Louis Reinert was a native of Germany, from which country he came to America when a young man. He learned the baker's trade at which lie worked during the first years of his life in this country in Cincinnati, Ohio. He finally located in Ripley, this state, where he established a bakery which he operated for some time or until his death, some twentyfive years ago. His wife, Fredricka, was also a native of Germany, and was brought to America when a child by her parents. She is now making her home with her son, the subject of this sketch, and is at this writing in her eighty-third year.

Dr. Reinert's early education was secured in the public schools of Ripley. In 1890 he became a clerk in a retail drug store in Cincinnati, later attended the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, from which he was graduated in 1893, with the degree of Ph. G. He decided to take up the medical profession instead of devoting his life to the drug business, and with this end in view he entered the medical department of Ohio State. University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine with the class of 1897, and in that year he entered practice in Columbus, and he had soon built up a large and satisfactory patronage among the best families here. He has held a very high rank among his professional brethren for twenty years and has been very successful as a general practitioner and surgeon.

In 189S Dr. Reinert was appointed night physician at Ohio State Penitentiary, which position he later resigned to accept the appointment of surgeon to the Columbus City Police Department. Later he was made assistant superintendent of the City Health Department. He gave eminent satisfaction in these various positions of trust, and during all this time he continued in the general practice.

On April 27, 1918, Governor Cox appointed him a member of the State Board of Administration, the duties of which position he assumed on May 1st of the same year and which he is very ably and faithfully discharging.

Dr. Reinert, together with Dr. R. R. Kahle, recently purchased the old Keeley Cure Home on Dennison Avenue, and after remodeling will open it as a Radium Hospital, the only one between New York and Chicago and the fifth one in all the United States.

Dr. Reinert is a member of Magnolia Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, also belongs to the Franklin County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society.

The Doctor married Mary Sebold of Middletown, Ohio, and to their union one son has been born - Raymond S. Reinert, who is now at Culver Military Institute, in Indiana.

Dr. Reinert is a public-spirited man and interested in whatever makes for the general welfare of the people of the capital city, and he is in every way deserving of the high esteem in which he is universally held.

JAMES M. LOREN. The record of James M. Loren, lawyer and well known citizen of Columbus, contains valuable lessons for the youth starting out in his serious life work, for it shows what may be accomplished, even in the face of obstacles, if one has the right mettle in him and follows the right ideals.

Mr. Loren was born on the farm in Plain township, Franklin county, Ohio, November 30, 1849. He is a son of the late Jeremiah and Charity (Montgomery) Loren, natives of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, respectively. The father came to Franklin county at a very early date, and in 1831 settled in Plain township. In 1852 he removed his family to Delaware county, Ohio, bought land in Harlem township, and passed the remainder of his life in that part of the county, dying on his farm near Sunbury in 188(5 in his eighty-first year. His wife also died on the home farm in Delaware county a few years later. They were known to their neighbors as honest, hard-working, hospitable people.

James M. Loren was reared on the home farm, where during nine months of the year, he assisted with the general work, which included rail splitting, wood chopping, sheep shearing, milking of cows, etc., etc. The other three months, in the winter time, he attended the schools of that vicinity, often walking two miles through the snow to get there. Later he attended the graded schools of Sunbury, Ohio, (the late Colonel Frambes, of Columbus, having been the principal of the Sunbury schools at that time.)

Mr. Loren began teaching country schools when lie was nineteen years old, and taught geography and writing school of evenings. He began his teaching in Monroe township, Licking county, Ohio, boarding with Mr. Hanover, one of the school directors, to whom he paid his board by "ditching" in the fields evenings, mornings and Saturdays. He also taught one

In 1873 Mr. Loren came to Columbus and was employed in the sale of pianos and organs, and was finally taken into partnership by his employer, C. H. Walker, under the firm name of C. H. Walker & Company, afterwards Walker & Loren, dealers in pianos and organs. In 1877 he traded his interest in that business for city .real estate. He then began the study of law in the office of Judge J. W. Baldwin in Columbus, and in 1880 was admitted to the bar by the Ohio Supreme court. He formed a partnership with W. T. Colville, of Knox county, Ohio, formerly professor of modern languages at Kenvon College, under the firm name of Loren & Colville; and later he formed a partnership with D. E. Williams, of Columbus, under the firm name of Barger & Loren, and still later with J. H. Vercoe, as Loren & Vercoe.

During all this period Mr. Loren was more or less interested in the real estate business, especially in the development of the North side, where he built his present home, at the corner of King avenue and High street, into which he moved at the time of his marriage, in 1878, and where he has resided ever since.

In 1890 Mr. Loren was appointed by Mayor Bruck as the Republican member of Columbus' first board of public works, of which board he was chosen president. In 1891 he was elected to succeed himself on the board of public works for a term of four years, and was largely responsible for the building of the High street viaduct and the Union station, giving that public improvement special attention; and at the end of his second year on the board, when contract for that work with the various railway companies and the Union Depot Company was signed, he resigned from the board, although he had three years to serve and the salary was three thousand dollars per year, but his private business was such as to require all his time and attention.

Mr. Loren served as chairman of the Franklin County Republican Committee in 1890 and chairman of the City Republican Committee in 1891. He was twice elected a director and once first vice-president of the Columbus Board of Trade.

He was closely identified with the family of the late Governor Dennison, and handled the large real estate interests of the Dennisons. He was also associated with the late Herman G. Dennison, with whom he occupied a suite of offices for many years. He laid out, platted and sold Dennison's Place, Dennison Park, Dennison Summit, North Broadway and other additions and subdivisions between Columbus and Worthington.

He also bought the land, which he platted and on which was built the club house at Columbus Beach, Michigan, the summer home of many leading families of Columbus, at Indian River, Cheyboygan county, Michigan, and for a number of years was president of the Columbus Beach Club. He was a charter member of the Columbus Club, and of the Columbus Board of Trade, now Chamber of Commerce. Fraternally, he is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason.

Mr. Loren married Miss Annabel McMillen, of Sunbury, Ohio, in 1878, two children were born to them, namely : Mary, who married Walter Jeffery, died, leaving a daughter, Mary, now ten years old; James, jr., who was graduated from the law department of Ohio State University, was admitted to the bar and engaged in business with his father until he enlisted in the United States Naval Training School at Pelham Bay, New York, in July, 1918.

Mr. Loren has always had the welfare of Columbus at heart and lias given freely of his time and means to promote her interests along legitimate lines and is deserving in every way of the esteem in which lie is held in Franklin county.

FREDERICK NICHOLAS SINKS. One of the well known lawyers of Columbus, Frederick Nicholas Sinks, has behind him a sterling Ohio ancestry, being of the fourth generation of his family in Ohio on his parental side and of the third generation on his maternal side. His great grandfather, Nicholas Sinks, sr., who was a native of Pennsylvania, settled at Williamsburg, Clermont county, this state, in 1802, and in that county his son, Nicholas, jr., grandfather of Frederick N. Sinks, was born in 1 803. Nicholas Sinks, jr., was a merchant at Williamsburg for a number of years and there his death occurred in 1845. He married Martha Ann Posey. The maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch was Samuel D. Preston, who was a pioneer merchant of Columbus, he and his brother Louis P., conducting for many years a successful dry goods and general store in this city.

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moved to Columbus in 1856 to accept the position of teller in the old Clinton Bank, and in 1861, when that bank liquidated he became identified witli the National Exchange Bank of this city. He filled different positions with the National Exchange Bank until 1879, in which year he became president of the Deshler Bank. When the latter was reorganized into the Deshler National Bank he continued as president until 1904, at which time he retired from active business life. He was one of the organizers of the Gas & Fuel Company in 1888 and was a member of its board of directors and its executive board. He was also a director in the Columbus Railway & Light Company, one of the organizers and president of the Peoples Buildino- & Loan Association, and lie laid out the Deshler, Sinks & Hoover and the Garrison Park Place additions to Columbus. He was one of the original members of the Columbus Board of Trade and for many years he was in charge of the financial affairs of the Columbus Female Benevolent Society, and of the Hannah Neil Mission and Home of the Friendless. He served as treasurer of the Republican State Central Committee from the close of Governor McKinley's first term until the close of Governor Bushnell's second term. He was identified with the civic affairs of Columbus and took an active part in all movements for the welfare of his home community, in which he was popular and influential, in fact, for many years he was regarded as one of the leading citizens of Columbus, honored and esteemed by all who knew him. He was a business man of unusual acumen and foresight and his genial disposition and exceptional personal qualities attracted to him a host of friends.

George W. Sinks was married on December 1, 1861, to Eloise Preston, a daughter of the late Samuel D. Preston. She was born in 1815, and her death occurred on July 5, 1906, leaving the following children: Clinton Preston, Frederick Nicholas, and Ann Eliza; the latter married Richard Jones, jr., of Columbus. The death of George W. Sinks occurred in 1915.

Frederick N. Sinks was born in Columbus, Ohio, August 2-1, 1872, and here grew to manhood and received his early education in the public schools, then took a course in Yale University, from which lie was graduated with the class of 1891, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. He then entered Ohio State University, from which he was graduated in 1898, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bar in that year and soon after began the practice of his profession in his home city. In due course of time he has built up a very satisfactory practice and become a well known figure in the local courts. He has maintained a high standing at the bar to the present time.

Mr. Sinks served as secretary to Governor Nash from 1902 to 1904, and in 1907 he was appointed referee in bankruptcy, United States court, for Franklin and Madison counties. He served as a member of the Franklin County Draft Board in 1917 and 1918, and was otherwise active in all work relating to the war. He is identified with several corporations and a director in the Columbus Gas & Fuel Company, also a director in the Columbus Club of which he has long been a member. He is a member of the Scioto Country Club and Elks.

Mr. Sinks was married in 1899 to Katharine DeFord Thurman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen \V. Thurman of Columbus and a granddaughter of the "Old Roman." They have one child, Allen Thurman Sinks, who was born in 1907.

AUGUSTUS THEODORE SEYMOUR, one of the prominent lawyers of Columbus, is a native of Nebraska, but is a descendant of an old Ohio Family. His paternal grandfather, John W. Seymour, was a native of Connecticut and came to Ohio from Stamford, that state, in the early canal boat days. He was one of the pioneer settlers of Licking county. Later he invested in Nebraska lands, went to Nebraska City and built the "Seymour House," which was one of the leading hotels of the city for a number of years.

Theodore Holly Seymour, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Licking county, Ohio. He married Elizabeth Barribal, a native of Knox county, this state. Early in the seventies he went to Nebraska City and for a time had charge of the "Seymour House." In 1875 the family returned to Ohio, locating at Mt. Vernon, where they established their future home.

Augustus T. Seymour was born in Nebraska City, Nebraska, August 22, 1873, but was reared in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, being two years old when his family brought him there from the West. He attended the Mt. Vernon public schools and was graduated from the high school there later was a student at Oberlin College for two years. When a young man he begin studying law and in order to fully equip himself for this profession he entered the law department of Ohio State University, from which he was graduated in 1891. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in December, 1895, and the following year began the practice of law in Columbus in the office of John J. Chester.

Taking an active interest in public affairs, Mr. Seymour was appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Franklin county in 1900, whch position lie continued to rill until 1905 when he was appointed prosecuting attorney to fill the unexpired term of Edward L. Taylor, jr., who was elected to Congress. Upon leaving the prosecuting attorney's office he formed a partnership with J. E. and L. F. Sater under the firm name of Sater, Seymour & Sater, which firm continued until the senior member went on the federal bench, and then became Sater & Seymour. In 1908 the present firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease was formed. In November, 1917, he was elected a member of the Columbus Board of Education and when the new board was organized in January, 1918, he was chosen vice-president. He is deeply interested in modern educational problems.

He is a member of the Franklin County Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Columbus Club, the Columbus Country Club and the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

SAMUEL S. WYER. Samuel S. Wyer was born on a farm in Wayne county, Ohio, February 18, 1879, and is the son of David and Catherine (Eicher) Wyer. This branch of the Wyer family has been in America for several generations, as is evidenced by the fact that one of that name is buried in Boston Commons, where no burials have taken place for over a century. Joseph Wyer, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Pennsylvania, from which state he came to Ohio and settled in Waj'ne county, where his son David was born and is still living.

The mother of our subject was also born in Wayne county, the daughter of Daniel Eicher, who married a Steiner. The Eichers were from France, having originally lived near the Swiss border, and the Steiner family came from Switzerland, near the border of France. The mother of the subject of this sketch is deceased.

Samuel S. Wyer spent his early life on a farm in Wayne county. He attended the rural schools until lie was fifteen years old, then began his practical education in a machine shop at Barberton, Ohio, continuing at this for two years. He was ambitious to obtain a higher education, and during these two years he studied mechanical drawing and engineering, taking a correspondence school course. From 1896 to 1899 he was draftsman in a machine shop at Barberton, and also advanced his education during those years by diligent night study, whereby he prepared himself for college. In 1899 he entered Engineering College of the Ohio State University, working his way until he finished the prescribed course, and was graduated with the degree of Mechanical Engineer with the class of 1903. In that year he worked as an engineer, and in 1901 entered professional work independently, opening an office in Columbus, Ohio.

For many years Mr. Wyer has been deeply interested in and has made a study of public utility problems in general, and natural gas problems in particular, with special attention to and investigation of the economic features of production, transmission and distribution of natural gas, natural gas service problems, valuation of the properties of natural gas companies, and to many other questions effecting the production, transmission, distribution and sale of natural gas.

Mr. Wyer is the author of a treatise on "Producer Gas and Gas Producers," and treatise on "Regulation, Valuation, and Depreciation of Public Utilities." These two volumes are standard works and have been received with flattering and laudatory notices by the professional press all over the country. Mr. Wyer has also w.ritten more than twenty-five professional papers dealing witli various phases of public utility problems. The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C, recently published a paper written by Mr. Wyer on "Natural Gas, its Production, Service and Conservation."

Mr. Wyer is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Gas Institute; also of the American Electrolysis Committee, made up of twenty-one engineers making a nation-wide study of the electrolysis problem, and until re- cently was a member of the National Committee on Gas and Electric Service, which was one of the cooperating committees on the National Defense Council. Mr. Wyer resigned from this committee to act as Chief of Natural Gas Conservation for the United States Fuel Administration. He is also a member of the Columbus Athletic Club.

FRANK A. DAVIS. Not all of us can succeed in more than one line of endeavor. As a rule it requires years of preparation, study and practical experience to reap more than mediocre success. It seems that Frank A. Davis, lawyer and man of affairs of Columbus, is a man endowed with a versatility of talents, for he has succeeded in various lines of endeavor. He has always applied himself very assiduously to whatever task he set himself to perform and, being courageous when he knew he was on the right track, has never permitted the ordinary obstacles that lie in the pathway of every one to deflect him from his course.

Mr. Davis is a native of the great Empire state and is descended from an old Long Island family. His paternal grandfather, Benjamin Davis, and his maternal grandfather, James Smith, were sea captains and in their regular line of duty visited all parts of the world both being skilled mariners of the early seafaring days of this country. Benjamin F. Davis, father of the subject of this sketch, also followed the sea, commanding a merchant vessel for forty years. And thus his immediate ancestors being men who "went down to the sea in ships," it is not surprising that Frank A. Davis himself should spend four years at sea in his earlier life.

Mr. Davis was born at Sag Harbor, Long Island, on November 13, 1858. He is a son of Captain Benjamin F. and Ruth (Smith) Davis, both born on the eastern end of Long Island, and there they grew to maturity, attended the common schools, married and established the family home. They finally came to Columbus where they spent the rest of their lives, the mother dying in 1893 and Captain Davis twenty-one years later, in 1911.

After graduating from the high school at Sag Harbor and attending Bridgeport (New York) Academy for two years, Mr. Davis, then in his seventeenth year, signed on in the merchant marine and spent four years in the West Indias, Mexico and South America trade, sailing out of New York City. But not desiring to follow the sea and believing that his talents lay in another direction, he returned to his old home at Sag Harbor and took up the study of law, later entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he completed the law course, graduating from that institution in 1881, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the Michigan bar at Detroit in 1881 and in 1883 wTas admitted to the Ohio bar at Columbus, in which city he immediately began practicing his profession, and here lie has since remained. Mr. Davis built up a large and satisfactory practice and attained a high rank at the local bar. In 1884 he was appointed first city solicitor, in which office he served one year. This is the only public office he ever held. In 1905 he retired from the practice of the law to devote his time to corporate affairs in which he was largely interested.

In 1903 Mr. Davis was one of the organizers and incorporators of the Scioto Valley Traction Company, and when that road went into operation in 1901, he was elected president and general manager, which position he has since held continuously. Under his able management the road has proven to be a very successful enterprise.

In 1898 lie was one of the organizers and incorporators of the Columbus Citizens Telephone Company, and lie was instrumental in the merging of that company with the Ohio State Telephone Company in 1914, since which time he has been chairman of the board, and this company too, has been very successful under his direction.

Mr. Davis is a member of the New York Yacht Club, the Sag Harbor Yacht Club, the Columbus Club, the Columbus Country Club, the Scioto Country Club and the Columbus Athletic Club. He is also identified with a number of local charities as trustee, particularly the Home for the Aged, and the Children's Hospital.

In 1892 Mr. Davis was united in marriage with Carrie Johnson, a daughter of Thomas and Marilda (Williams) Johnson, of Franklin county, Ohio. To this union one child was born, Ruth Davis, who died in 1903 in her seventh year. The wife and mother passed away in 191 1. and in 1915, Mr. Davis married Margaret Tewksbury Johnson, widow of Albert Johnson. Mrs. Davis was born at Portsmouth, Ohio.

Mr. Davis is a man who takes an active interest in whatever tends to promote tin- general good of his home city, and, being public-spirited, obliging, charitable and honorable in all his relations with his fellow men he is held in high esteem by all who know him.

IRVIN WILLIAM SHERWOOD, M. D. Belonging to Franklin county's enterprising class of professional men, Dr. Irvin William Sherwood, of the West Side, Columbus, is deserving of specific mention in these pages. To the active practice of medicine he has given not only the gravity of his thought and the truest exercise of his abilities, but the strength of his personality and the momentum of his character.

Dr. Sherwood was born on the home farm near Newark, Ohio, June 24, 1869. He is a son of Benjamin Franklin Sherwood and Sarah (Haslop) Sherwood, both natives of Maryland. They removed to Ohio at the close of the Civil War, locating on a farm near Newark, subsequently removing to Delaware, this state, where the father is still living, the mother having passed away in 1902.

Dr. Sherwood spent his early boyhood on the farm where he made himself useful with the usual chores that fall to the lot of the rural youngster the world over. After attending the public schools he entered high school at Galena, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the class of 1891. In that year he took up teaching, securing the necessary certificate at the county institute where he made excellent grades. He continued teaching school for twentyseven terms, becoming one of the popular and efficient educators of that section of the state. During this protracted period his services were in great demand as a teacher and he was popular with both pupils and patrons. He did much to better the public school system in the locality where he taught, introducing many modern methods. Having an insatiable desire for higher learning he always attended school during the summer months during the vacation period, instead of idling the time away or employing it unprofitably, as do so many teachers. In this way he worked through college, and was graduated from Ohio Northern University with the degree of Bachelor of Science.

Finally deciding that the medical profession held greater laurels for him than he could obtain in educational work, Dr. Sherwood gave up teaching and entered Starling Medical College at Columbus, and making an excellent record, was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1901. Not long thereafter he began the practice of his profession at his present location, 1001-1003 Sullivant avenue, Columbus. During this period of seventeen years he has built up a large and satisfactory practice among the best families of the West Side.

Dr. Sherwood is a member of the Columbus Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. Fraternally, he holds membership in Humbolt Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Franklin Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and the Modern Woodmen of the World. He is also a member of West Park Methodist Episcopal church. He is president of the West Side Board of Trade and is a booster for his section of the capital city, whose every interest he has at heart.

Dr. Sherwood married Mabel Carpenter, of Olive Green, Ohio, and to their union two daughters have been born, namely: Hazel, who married Roy Ferguson, of Columbus, and Ethel, who married Herbert Waterman, also of Columbus.

The Doctor has remained a profound student and has therefore kept up with modern medical research work. He is one of the best known and respected citizens of the West Side.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BOWFN. Change is constant and general, generations rise and pass unmarked away, and it is the duty of posterity as well as a present gratification to place upon the printed page a true record of the lives of those who have preceded us on the stage of action and left to their descendants the memory of the struggles and achievements. The years of the honored subject of this memoir are a part of the indissoluble chain which links the annals of the past to those of the latter-day progress and prosperity, and the history ot Columbus would not be complete without due reference to the long, useful and honorable life Mr. Bowen lived and the success he achieved as an earnest, courageous laborer in one of tin- most important fields of endeavor.

Benjamin Franklin Bowen was born near Wooster, Wayne county, Ohio, on February 12, 1827, and was Hie son of Lot and Rebecca (Whittaker) Bowen, both of whom were probably natives of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On the paternal line, he was descended from sterling old Welsh stock, while on the maternal line he was of Scotch ancestry. His father. Lot Bowen, was fur some years master of a sailing vessel owned by Stephen Girard and used in the river and coast trade. He married Rebecca Whittaker early in the year 1800 and in 1808 came to Ohio, where they spent the remainder of their lives as farmers. Their first location was in Wayne enmity, but subsequently they located in Clark county. The subject of this sketch was about six years of age when the family located in Clark county and there his boyhood days were spent. His educational opportunities were limited, but he attended the local schools, where he soon assimilated all there was to be learned there. An older brother, who was a student in the University at Springfield, gave him assistance in the way of personal instruction and the loan of books, so that he got a fair start in his search for knowledge.