Columbus City (part 56 of 57)

When about fifteen years of age Mr. Bowen obtained a position with a master builder at Springfield, who had a large and well selected library, to which he gave the young man free access, which was a wonderful opportunity. His employer died two years later, how- . ever, and thereafter for several years he was engagd in teaching school. Mr. Bowen's entrance into active business was as follows. A new school house was to be built and the trustees needed plans and estimates. These were made and presented to the trustees by Mr. Bowen. After inspecting them, the trustees asked, "Young man, will you build it for your estimate?" "Yes," was the answer, and a contract was entered into. The building was completed, accepted and paid for, and that ended Air. Bowen's school teaching days.

Mr. Bowen had now determined to engage in the building and contracting business and, in order to obtain a larger field for his labors he, in 1852, moved to Columbus. In 1861 he became associated witli W. W. Pollard, land surveyor, and two years later he was appointed assistant city civil engineer. Two vears later he was made chief city engineer, which position he held until 1873, when lie received the appointment as surveyor and engineer of Franklin county. He remained in this office for thirteen years and during that period he had charge of all the bridge work in the countv. Among the public works completed during his term of office were the Broad street and State street bridges, the state storage dam, the Green Lawn annex bridge and the Hocking Valley railroad bridge. The latter was the first iron bridge of any importance in Franklin countv and in designing it Mr. Bowen introduced some novel features, the half deck and graded roadway.

In 1876 Mr. Bowen was made chairman of a legislative commission which made a personal examination of the conditions surrounding the terrible railroad disaster near Ashtabula. In 1882 the Secretary of State was instructed by the Legislature to publish a code of rules for county surveyors, and engaged Mr. Bowen to compose the text of the code, which he did, with the exception of the law points. For twenty-five years following, he maintained a private office, doing engineering and general contracting work, up to about 1907, since when he had been retired from active labors. His death occurred on October 30, 1919.

In 1858 Mr. Bowen was married to Theodosia Newbold, who died in 1863, without issue. On July 2, 1868, he was married to Carrie H. Flood, daughter of Charles and Mary Ann (Dean) Flood. Mr. Flood Mas for many vears editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, and later was connected with the newspaper business in Columbus. To Mr. and Mrs. Bowen were born the following children: Frank, of Columbus; Josephine, who lives at home with her mother; William, who married Florence McNamier; Charles F., a physician and X-ray specialist, who married Miss Ghee, of Wheeling, West Virginia; Bruce, who married Florence Young, of Columbus.

Politically, Mr. Bowen was a lifelong supporter of the Democratic party and in religion he and the family affiliated with the Congregational church. By a straightforward and commendable course, Mr. Bowen had made his way to a respectable position in the business world, winning the hearty admiration of the people and earning a reputation as an enterprising, progressive man of affairs and a broad-minded, charitable and upright citizen, which the public was not slow to recognize and appreciate, for he ever enjoyed the confidence and esteem of the entire community.

FELIX A. JACOBS. In connection with industrial interests in Columbus, the reputation of Felix A. Jacobs has been pronounced for over half a century. In studying the lives and characters of prominent men in any walk of life we are naturally led to inquire into the secret of their success and the motives that prompted their action. Success is oftener a matter of experience and sound judgment and thorough preparation for a life-work than it is of genius, however bright. It has been by his well directed efforts and close application, honesty and the adherance to proper ideals that has led to the material success and high standing of Mr. Jacobs in public and private life.

taken a most active part in the development of the capital city during the past half century, seeing it grow from a mere village to its present importance a.s a center of trade, government and culture. Mr. Jacobs was born in the city in which he still resides, being content to spend his life in his native locality, believing that as great or greater opportunities existed for him here as anywhere in the country. He is descended from one of the old Buckeye families. His father, the late Cornelius Jacobs, was a native of Germany, although his family were originally of English stock. Cornelius Jacobs came to America in early manhood and to Columbus in the early days. He was a gunsmith by trade, which he followed in this city for some time, operating a shop of his own in connection with a general store. Later he manufactured scales. He took an active part in the public affairs of the town and was a member of the city council and the volunteer fire department. He organized a company of artillery of which he was elected captain, and finally he was commissioned major of artillery. He was one of the men who built the first Catholic church in Columbus, known as the "little stone church," and later he drew the plans and superintended the building of Holy Cross church.

In 1817, being imbued with the idea that the city was not a proper place in which to bring up his boys, Cornelius Jacobs bought a farm in Prairie township, Franklin county, Ohio, and in that year moved his family to the country, where he remained, engaged in general agricultural pursuits until 1871, when he returned to the city and here his death occurred in 1883. After coming to America he married Christenia Gangloff, a native of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time a province of France. She was a descendant of a Major Gangloff, a Russian army officer, who settled near Pfalsburg, Alsace-Lorraine. She came to America in her young womanhood. Her death occurred in Columbus in 1900 at an advanced age.

Felix A. Jacobs spent his boyhood days on his father's farm, where he assisted with the general work during the summer months and in the winter time he attended the rural schools in his vicinity. He returned to Columbus in 1866, and in that year he and his brothers, Henry and William, formed the firm of Jacobs Brothers, and they engaged in the manufacture and sale of agricultural implements. The venture proved to be successful and a large business was built up, the products of their plant found a ready market owing to their superior workmanship and excellent points. In 1872 the brothers secured an interest in what was known at that time as the Revolving Scraper Company, which has since been developed into the great Kilbourne & Jacobs Manufacturing Company, of which the subject of this sketch is first vice-president. They operate a large plant, modernly equipped and employ a large force of skilled mechanics and workmen. Their business is rapidly growing and their products finding a very readv market wherever offered for sale. Mr. Jacobs is also president of the Tallmadge Hardware Company, one of the best known and most extensive hardware concerns in Columbus.

In civic life Mr. Jacobs has also long been prominent, taking an active interest in the affairs of his home city. He served a term in the city council and as director of public improvements during the administration of Mayor Samuel L. Black. During his term and under his direction as director of public improvements, plans were completed for the storage dam, which was finally built after legal delays, during which delays, in order to relieve the city of threatened water famine he constructed an iron conduit with numerous artesian wells drilled into the rock along the side of the conduit, which supplied abundant water. The West Side levee Mas constructed during Mr. Jacob's administration as director of public improvements, and the first municipal electric light plant was put in operation by him and plans for a sewer and sewage disposal plant, also the plans for illuminating the West Side grade crossings were drawn under his direction. The city owes Mr. Jacobs a great debt of gratitude for what he has done for its general and permanent welfare.

F. EWING MARTIN was born in the city where he still resides, and he is a descendant of pioneers of the capital citv. His grandfather, William T. Martin, the Columbus pioneer, was a native of Pennsylvania, born in Bedford county, April 6, 1788. His ancestors came to America in Colonial times and settled in the old Keystone state. In 1811 he married in Bedford county, Amelia Ashcome, a native of that county, and in 1815 they removed to Columbus, Ohio. He was one of the very earliest school teachers in central Ohio, teaching school in Columbus in 18 I (i and 1817, and he was also a carpenter and builder in those days. He was prominent in I Ik- affairs of the community and was called on to serve in different official positions of honor and trust. He served as justice of the peace for eighteen years, from 1829 to 18-18, during which time he studied law and was admitted to the bar. In 1851 he was elected associate judge of the common pleas court of Franklin county, but a year later that office was abolished by the legislature. He was mayor of Columbus for three years, from 1821 to 1827, inclusive. For a number of years he was trustee of Green Lawn Cemetery, and was secretary of the board at the time of his death in 1863. He wrote a history of Franklin county, which work is regarded as an authority on early times and events in this county. He was a man of unusual education, energy and ability for those days and wielded a potent influence for good in the city and county for half a century. He was noted for his sterling honest}', public-spirit and hospitality and was highly esteemed by his wide circle of acquaintances. His widow survived until January 16, 1885, dying in Cincinnati.

Benjamin Franklin Martin, son of William T. and father of F. Fwing Martin, was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1819. He grew to manhood in his native city and received his education in the common schools and Blenden Academy. He served as clerk of the city council for seventeen years, from 1840 to 1857. During that period he read law and was admitted to the bar in 18-17, and engaged in the practice of his profession for many years, with much success. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Franklin county in 1852, and was appointed by President Johnson collector of internal revenue for the Seventh Ohio District in 1865, serving four years. He also served as a member of the board of trustees of Ohio Asylum for the Blind and as a member of the Franklin County Sinking Fund Commission. He was a director of the Columbus & Xenia Railroad company at the time of his death on April 18, 190-t. He was a charter member of the Franklin County Bar Association, also a charter member of Magnolia Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, which he helped organize. He married Cecelia Workman. who was born in Athens county, Ohio, a niece of Thomas Ewing and a cousin to the Sherman family of Ohio. She is still living at this writing, 1918.

F. Ewing Martin was born January 13, 1883. He grew to manhood in Columbus and received his early education in the common schools. He was graduated from the Columbus Latin School in 1899, then entered the Ohio State LJniversitv from which he was graduated in 1905 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Soon thereafter he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of his profession. He is now junior member of the firm of Clark & Martin. He belongs to the Franklin County Bar Association and the Columbus Club.

HON. JOHN. H. ARNOLD. One of the most conspicuous legal lights of central Ohio is Hon. John H. Arnold, ex-lieutenant governor and one of the recognized leaders of the Republican party in the Buckeye state. He realized early that there is a high purpose in life and that there is no honor not founded on wortli and no respect not based on accomplishment. His life and labors have been worthy because they have contributed to a proper understanding of life and its problems. The strongest characters in our national history have come from the rank of the self-made man to whom adversity acts as a stimulus for unfaltering effort and from this class came the gentleman whose name initiates this sketch.

Mr. Arnold was born at Freeport, Pennsylvania, December 11, 1862, the son of Richard V. and Araminta J. (Holmes) Arnold. The father was born at Manchester, England, in 1836. He was a son of John and Charlotte (Denison) Arnold. John Arnold was a native of Scotland, and his wife of Donegal, Ireland. She was the daughter of William Denison, who was an officer in the English army and was a younger son of Sir James Denison, Irish peer. Governor Denison, of Ohio, was of this family. John Arnold immigrated witli his family to America in 1838, locating in Pennsylvania. He became a contractor, building court houses and other public and semi-public buildings in western Pennsylvania and other states.

Richard V. Arnold was an extensive manufacturer of lumber in Pennsylvania and Maryland. He was head of the Lochiel Lumber Company, owners and operators of a large saw mill at Blooming-ton, Maryland, was also part owner and operator of a large planing mill near Pittsburgh. His death occurred in that city in 1881 at the age of forty-eight years. His wife was born on a farm about seven miles from Freeport, Pennsylvania. She was of Scotch- Irish-Pennsvlvania Dutch stock, and a daughter of John and Sarah (Brinker) Holmes, two old Pennsvlvania families. Isaac Brinker. her maternal ancestor, was an Indian scout in Pennsylvania in pioneer days. She is now making her home in Columbus, and is in her eighty-third year.

John H. Arnold was educated in the public schools of Freeport and Pittsburgh. After leaving school he worked for his father in Maryland and Pittsburgh for six years. He came to Columbus in October, 1885. His first employment in tins city was as a mechanic with the old Door, Sash & Lumber Company. He was later a machinist with the Newark Machine Company and then worked in the Panhandle Railroad shops for a year; was then time keeper for Gibbony & Company, who laid the gas mains through Columbus ; then became a foreman with the Case Manufacturing Company. While thus employed he began, in 1891, to read law of nights in the office of Henry F. Guerin, and in October, 1894, he was admitted to the bar, and in that year began practicing in association with Mr. Guerin. Later he was in partnership with John J. Crosby, and was in the loan department of the Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Company, for a number of years, as attorney.

Mr. Arnold has been active and influential in Republican politics since 1888, in which year he began taking an active part in the Ninth and Eleventh Wards of Columbus. He was secretary of the Republican City Central Committee in 1889. From year to year he extended his particular activities to county and state affairs until he is today one of the best known leaders in the Republican party in Ohio. In 1914 he was elected lieutenant-governor and proved to be one of the most efficient and popular men ever elevated to this important office, discharging his duties in a manner that reflected much credit upon himself and to the eminent satisfaction of his constituents. During the entire session of the state senate not a single ruling of the chair was reversed. He is at this writing, 1918, a strong contender for the nomination for governor before the primaries, and owing to his past commendable record and his widespread popularity, his friends predict for him an easy victory should he secure the nomination. His selection for the state's chief executive would no doubt prove to be a fortunate one and in every way justify the wisdom of his party in his selection.

For many years Mr. Arnold has been more or less interested in real estate, mining and oil production operations, and he is one of the incorporators and president of the Loyal Oil & Gas Company in southeastern Ohio, which owns valuable producing oil properties.

Mr. Arnold is a member of the Franklin County Bar Association. He belongs to the Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World, the Loyal Order of Moose, Junior Order of American Mechanics, Loyal Order of Oaks, the Patriotic Order of Sons of America, the Columbus Caledonia Society, the Buckeye Republican Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the Presbyterian church.

On August 17, 1901, Mr. Arnold married Eleanor A. Moore, of Columbus, a daughter of Jonathan and Yictorine (Kirts) Moore. Her mother was the daughter of the late Judge Kirts of this city.

Mr. Arnold is a genial, companionable and broad-minded gentleman whom it is a pleasure to meet, and during the years in which he has honored the capital city with his residence no man has stood higher in public esteem.

SAMUEL D. HUTCHINS. The record of Samuel D. Hutchins, one of the well known citizens of Columbus, who has been for a number of years closely identified with the business and civic lift- of the city, is one that is deserving of our admiration for it shows the possibilities here in free America of a young man of ambition, fortitude, grit and perseverance, although springing from an humble environment. But he was fortunate in having behind him progenitors of the right sort, what we in this country would call the best Anglo-Saxon strain, and so it is not surprising that lie lias made a success in life, despite obstacles.

Mr. Hutchins was born in Cleveland, Obi'), May 25, 1855, the son of William and Ann (O'Brien) Hutchins. The father was a native of Devonshire, England, from which country he came with his parents to America when he was ten years old. the family locating in Boston, Massachusetts, and there he spent his young manhood. Ann O'Brien, mother of our subject, was born in County Clare, Ireland, and she immigrated to America with her parents when a young girl, anil grew to womanhood in Boston, in which city she married William Hutchins. Scon afterwards they came west to establish their future home, settling in Cleveland. The father was a locomotive engineer on the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati railroad, now the Big Four, until lie met his death bv the explosion of a locomotive boiler at Delaware, this state in December, 187t. his son William Hutchins, also meeting death in the same accident, being at the lime fireman lor his father. The family removed to Delaware in 1869 and the death of the mother occurred in that city in 1895.

Samuel I). Hutchins stient his bovhood in Cleveland where he remained until 1869, then moved with tin- family to Delaware, Ohio. He received his education in the Cathedral school of Cleveland. In February , 1870, when fifteen years old he began his career as railroader by firing an engine on the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati railroad, and was promoted to the position of engineer in October, 1872. In 1895 he quit railroading to accept a position with the engineering department of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, with which he has since been connected, and is now the commercial and engineering representative in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Kentucky, with headquarters in Columbus. His long retention with this firm would indicate that his work has been ably and faithfully as well as honestly done. As a result of his activities for his firm he has become widely known in the above named states and has greatly increased the business and prestige of the Westinghou.se concern in all these states.

Mr. Hutchins is second vice-president of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, and has been very active in that body since 191-1; when he was chosen a director. He was also very active and influential in all war relief campaigns, giving freely of his time and means in this laudable work. He was a member of the executive committee selected to manage the great three million "war chest" campaign in Columbus, and to handle and administer this huge sum during the year 1918 and 1919. He is a prominent member of St. Joseph Cathedral parish and has also been active and prominent in the Knights of Columbus during the past fifteen years. He served as Grand Knight for two years, was a member of the building committee which erected the new home and has for several j^ears been a trustee of the order.

Mr. Hutchins first married Sarah A. Meara, a daughter of Stephen Meara, a Columbus pioneer. Her death occurred in 1895. She left four sons and one daughter. All the sons resigned good business positions to enlist in the army within sixty days after America entered the European war. William A. left a position with the National Refining Company of Cleveland; Joseph J. resigned from the staff of the Ohio State Journal; Leo F. quit as bookkeeper for Frank D. Rutherford, dealer in stocks and bonds; and Aloysius F. gave up his work as cashier of the Ford Motor Car Company's Columbus office. The daughter, Helen M., married D. W. Gray, of Columbus.

Mr. Hutchins has worked hard for his success and it has been richly deserved in every respect, for he has not only been industrious but honest and an upright citizen, always looking out for the general welfare of his fellow citizens.

LESLIE MAC LISLE, M. D. Parents should carefully consider the inclinations of their children. The great mistakes of life are owing in a large measure to the fact that young people adopt professions or enter business for which they have no natural ability. It is easy to see that if young men could start out early in life in the pursuit for which nature has best adapted them, and if they should persist in that line industriously and energetically, success would be assured in every instance, no matter if they were not possessed with brilliant or unusual ability; persistence in this one line will bring success. Dr. Leslie Mac Lisle, one of the successful young physicians of Columbus was fortunate in selecting the vocation for whch he seems to have been well qualified by nature.

Dr. Lisle is a native of Franklin county, Ohio, and is of the fourth generation of his family in this county, which was settled here in 1792 by the Doctor's great grandfather, who came to central Ohio in that year from his native state, Kentucky. He found a vast wilderness through which roamed wild beasts and savages, but he was a man of courage and went to work carving out a home for his family from the primeval forests. His son, William Lisle, grandfather of the Doctor, was born in Franklin county, Ohio, and here he grew to manhood on the home farm and married Sarah Mac Williams. These two generations were farmers. John M Lisle, son of William and Sarah (Mac Williams) Lisle, and father of the subject of this sketch, grew to manhood on the home farm and attended the common schools and Hiram College from which he graduated. He served in the Civil War and later in life studied medicine and was graduated from Starling Medical College in 1875 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and he practiced his profession at Roseville, Celi-ia, Pataskala and Marysville, Ohio. II. spent the latter days of his life in retirement, living quietly in his home at Columbus, where his death occurred in May, 1916. He married Eva Gates, who was born in Perry county, Ohio. the daughter of Horatio Gates, she passing away in 188.'?.

early education in the public schools and graduated from the Columbus High School. He entered the Ohio State University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts with the class of 1899. He then decided to follow in the footsteps of his father in a professional way and completed the prescribed course in Starling Medical College, and was graduated from that institution with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1902. After serving eighteen months as intern at Mt. Carmel hospital in Columbus and taking a six months' postgraduate course in New York City, he began the practice of his profession in Columbus, where he has since continued, taking a high rank among his professional brethren and meeting with success from the start.

Dr. Lisle has been on the medical staff of the Mt. Carmel Hospital continuously since 1902, and he was assistant professor of medicine at Ohio State University from 1902 until he resigned in 1917 in order to give his undivided attention to his large and rapidly growing private practice.

Dr. Lisle is a member of the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society and the Columbus Academy of Medicine. He also belongs to Kappa Sigma, a Greek letter fraternity, and to the Columbus Athletic Club.

In the year 1906, Dr. Lisle was united in marriage with Ellen Brown, who was born, reared and educated in Columbus. She is a daughter of the late George W. Brown, who at the time of his death was vice-president of the Case Manufacturing Company.

Dr. Lisle takes an interest in the general welfare of his city and he is in every way deserving of the respect and good will which is accorded him by all who know him.

JAMES HENRY BURNS. There is an habitual tendency in human nature to live in and for that which is perishing, hence the necessity for something that shall remind us of what is abiding, something that shall enable us to realize our larger duties and higher destiny. The life of the masses of the people tends to become commonplace, and the only way to give color and zest, interest and beauty to the things around us is to be able to view them from the inside of a rich, splendidly furnished intellectual home. This is possible no matter in what line of work we are engaged. James Henry Burns is one of the citizens of Columbus, where he has been well known and influential in business and civic circles for over thirty-seven years, who realized at the outset of his career that a man's mental attitude toward his fellow men, the business world and life in general had much to do with his success and happiness, and he has sought to develop his mind along general lines while engaged in his routine of daily tasks.

Mr. Burns, for thirty-seven years has been at the head of one of the oldest and most prosperous tailoring establishments of Columbus. His father, the late Michael Burns, was a native of Ireland, in which country he grew to manhood and learned the tailor's trade. He came to America in 1853, landing at Baltimore, where he worked at his trade until 1861, and in that year removed to Zanesville, Ohio. After working in Zanesville as a journeyman tailor for a number of years in 1867 he entered the merchant tailoring business as a member of the firm of Dennis & Burns. He removed to Columbus in 1873 and established his business on North High street, where he continued with his usual success until his death on February 9, 1892. He became prominent in the affairs of the city, and from 1878 to 1882 he served as police commissioner of Columbus. He was prominent in the affairs of St. Patrick's parish and was one of the active and well known Catholics of this section of the state.

While living in Baltimore, Maryland, Michael Burns married Bridget Treahy, also a native of Ireland, from which country she came to America in early life. Her death occurred in 1895. One of their sons is William J. Burns, the distinguished detective and secret service man, now of New York City, who is known professionally all over the globe, a veritable Slierlock Holmes.

.f.inics II. Burns of this review was born at Zanesville, Ohio, October 18, 1862, and was educated in the public and parochial schools and at Notre Dame University, in Indiana. Upon leaving college he became associated in business with his father and his brother, William J. Burns, and following the deatli of his father he succeeded to the business, which he still conducts under flic firm name of "Burns." Under his able management the business has continued to grow and today it stands as one of the most popular establishments of its kind in Columbus. Mr. Burns is a member of the National Association of Merchant Tailors of Amer- ica. Perhaps the most notable recognition of the "Burns" standard for correct tailoring was made by the late President MeKinley, who, at the event of his inauguration, complimented Mr. Burns by wearing a suit made by this shop.

Mr. Burns was one of the organizers and incorporators of the Buckeye State Building & Loan Company, one of the leading banking institutions of Columbus, and he has been a member of its board of directors and its vice-president since its incorporation.

Like his father before him, Mr. Burns has long been one of the leading Catholics of Columbus. As a boy he traveled over the diocese with Bishop Rosecrans and served on the altar when the bishop was giving the children confirmation. He is a member of the Cathedral congregation and served on the building committee when the beautiful church edifice was remodeled. He is also an active and prominent worker in Knights of Columbus circles.

In 1896 Mr. Burns was united in marriage with Lottie M. Tyler, of Columbus, who was born at Fremont, Ohio, and to this union four daughters have been born, namely : Mar}' Gwendolyn, Eleanor Elizabeth, Alice Anne and Mildred, the latter deceased.

ALBERT ELBRIDGE GRIFFIN, M. D. The student of the early history of the human race finds that ignorance and superstition surrounded the anatomy of the human organism, which resulted in the belief that disease was of supernatural and mysterious origin. For ages it was believed that the sick and afflicted were possessed of devils ; and weird chants, incantations and so-called religious rites and ceremonies were commonly resorted to rather than the application of drugs or other means of modern healing. It was from such a benighted state of the human mind that our present systems of healing were developed. One of the prominent physicians and citizens of Columbus is Dr. Albert Elbridge Griffin, who has been identified with the professional and civic life of the capital city for many years. He was born in Muscatine county, Iowa, July 1, 1853.

Thomas F. Griffin, father of our subject, was a native of New York state. He came to Ohio in early manhood and learned the cabine maker's trade at Newark. There he met and married Elnora Woods, who was a native of Virginia. Her father owned and operated a mill in Newark, Oho, for many years. The family later moved to Muscatine county, Iowa, thence to Sigourney, Keokuk county, that state, where Thomas G Griffin opened a cabinet making factory. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in an Iowa regiment and served gallantly for four full years with the northern amies', taking part in many important engagements. After he was honorably discharged and mustered out he returned to Iowa but soon thereafter removed his family to Columbus, Ohio, where he and his wife spent the balance of their lives.

Dr. Griffin acquired his early education in the Columbus public schools, then learned telegraphy and for a period of eighteen years he was an operator. During that time he read medicine. He was graduated from Columbus Medical College, then known as Hamilton Medical College, in 1881, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Soon thereafter he began the practice of his profession at Reynoldsville, but a year later located in Columbus where he lias since remained, and during this period of thirty-four years his name has become a househohi word to a large number of the older fami'ies of the capital city, .among whom he has enjoyed a large patronage.

Dr. Griffin was physician to the Franklin County Infirmary for about five years. He is a member of the Columbus Academy of Medicine. Taking an active interest in public affairs !>.. elected a member of the city council, then elected a second time, serving in all nearly three full terms when he resigned on account of serious illness, which continued for five years, durins; which time his office was locked. After regaining his health lie was appointed to fill out an unexpired term in the city council and then he was elected and reelected, and during his second term lie was chosen President of the council, and since 1916 he has held this position, also that of vice-mayor of the city. P -evious to his first election to the city council he served two terms as a member of the citv school hoard. During his years ot service in the council he has done much for the genenl good of Columbus, whose cverv interest he has very much at heart and seeks to forward in every legitimate wav. His voice lias always been on the side of good clean government. In and out of the council he has supported all measures inauamrated for the betterment of the citv and her institutions.

second degree Scottish Rite Mason, also belongs to the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Dr. Griffin married Catherine Woodruff of Blacklick, Ohio. Her father, who was a volunteer during the Civil War in an Ohio regiment, was killed at the first volley at the battle of Shiloli. To the Doctor and wife a son and a daughter have been born, namely: Frank O., a graduate from the department of veterinary, Ohio State University, and is now an inspector of meat for the city of Columbus ; and Beulah, who married Mortimer Hayes of Columbus.

PRESTON ELMER THOMAS. Under the teachings of intelligent and religious parents Preston Elmer Thomas, warden of the Ohio State Penitentiary at Columbus early acquired those habits of industry and self reliance, which, linked with upright principles, have uniformly characterized his manhood life. He is deserving of the confidence which is reposed in him by those who know him, for his private and public life have alike been exemplary during his long residence in the capital city and central Ohio.

Mr. Thomas is a native Buckeye and belongs to one of the old families of the state. His paternal great grandfather came to America from Wales and located in the wilds of Putnam county, Ohio. There, over eighty years ago, he established a machine shop. Before leaving the old country lie engaged in the manufacturing business, and he accumulated a considerable fortune for those days, but he desired to try his fortunes in the new western world, where he believed great opportunities existed, so crossed the Atlantic in an old-fashioned sailing vessel. However, lie found that Putnam county was not ready for machine shops and other similar evidences of civilization, and thus being far ahead of the times, he lost most of the money he put into his machine shop there. In 1841 his wife and three sons joined him in this country. The sons are still living, all advanced in age, John, who resides in Putnam county, is eighty-seven years old; Evans, who makes his home in West Cairo, is eighty-five and David D., father of the subject of this sketch, has passed his eighty-third birthday. All these venerable brothers have devoted their lives to general agricultural pursuits and became substantial farmers.

David Dallas Thomas was born in Wales in 1836 and was five years old when he came with his mother to Putnam county, Ohio, from the lands beyond the sea. Here he grew to manhood amid primitive surroundings and worked hard when a boy. Upon reaching manhood he married Sarah Jane Ward, who was born in Pickawav county, Ohio, in 1843. Her death occurred in 1916.

Preston E. Thomas was born at West Cairo, Allen county, Ohio, November 30, 1871. He grew up on the home farm where he assisted with the general work when a boy, and he received his education in the rural schools of his community and those of West Cairo, later taking a course in Ohio Northern University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1892. Three of his brothers were also graduated from this institution, namely: Eli W., with the class of 1885, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science; Charles H. was given the same degree in 1887; and Alvin L. graduated witli the class of 1890, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science also.

Upon leaving college Preston E. Thomas took up school teaching as a profession, having carefully prepared himself for this line of work, and continued teaching with unusual success for a period of thirteen years, during which his services were in great demand, for he was regarded as a man of progressive ideas and methods and he did much to place the schools in his locality on a higher level, inaugurating more advanced systems, and, being a student himself always he kept well to the fore in all that pertained to educational affairs. The last five years of that period he taught at Wapakoneta, Ohio. From 1904 to 1908 he was a teacher in the Ohio Reformatory, and in 1908 was appointed parole officer, the duties of which position Ik- discharged to the satisfaction of all concerned until May 1, 1913, when he resigned to accept the appointment of warden of the Ohio State Penitentiary, which post he still fills, his long retention in I his responsible position indicating that he lias discharged his duties most faithfully and acceptably.

Many commendable reforms have been inaugurated at the penitentiary by Warden Thomas and his work there has attracted attention all over the country. He has eliminated politics from the management of the institution, the indeterminate sentence law was fathered by him, and the "trusty system" has been extended by him until Ohio penitentiary has a greater number of that class of convicts than any other prison in the United States, and the ratio of "walkaways" men who abuse the privilege of trust is less than one in fifty. The use of "dope" among prisoners has been practically eliminated, and general discipline has been improved in such a manner that the inmates are better satisfied and better results are being obtained all around.

Mr. Thomas is a member of the Broad Street Methodist Episcopal church, belongs to Columbus Lodge, No. 3, Knights of Pythias, and of Humboldt Lodge, No. 476, Free and Accepted Masons; also Scioto Commandery and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason; he is a member of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and is one of the active and prominent Masons of central Ohio.

On January 1, 189-1, Mr. Thomas was united in marriage with Mary Elizabeth Blume, who was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, the daughter of P. C. Blume. To this union two children have been born, namely : Amanda A., who was graduated from the Ohio State University with the class of 1918; and Don A., who is now a student of Ohio State University, a member of the class of 1920.

CAPT. ALEXIS COPE. An enumeration of the representative citizens of Columbus, and indeed of the state of Ohio, who wTon recognition and success for themselves and at the same time conferred honor on their community and the commonwealth, would be incomplete were there failure to make specific mention of the gentleman whose name introduces this memoir. He was distinctively a man of affairs, wielding a wide influence among those with whom he was associated, ever having the welfare of his state at heart and doing what he could to aid in its progress and development. He firmly believed the old Buckeye state to be one of the most attractive, progressive and prosperous of any in the Union and it has alwavs been due to such men as Captain Cope that she could justly claim a high order of citizenship and a spirit of enterprise which marked advancement along all legitimate lines. The state of Ohio has been signally favored in the class of men who have had to do with the administering of its affairs in official capacity, and this was one of the connections in which Captain Cope's career demands recognition, serving; his community and the commonwealth faithfully and ably in positions of responsibility. He also achieved a splendid reputation as a lawyer, having been from the beginning intensely methodical and unswervingly persistent in search of the true light and of the essentials of the legal foundations and in sources of legal conception and thought. As a writer lie achieved a high reputation and as a man he stood "four square to every wind that blows."

Capt. Alexis Cope was a native son of the state which he honored by his lifelong citizenship, having been born at Colerain, Belmont county, Ohio, June 27, 1841, and his death occurred suddenly in Columbus, September 3, 1918. He was the third in order of birth of the ten children born to Dr. Caleb and Mildred (Fowler) Cope, who were pioneer settlers in Belmont county. They were of Quaker faith and were of English extraction, the familv having been established in America in 1692. Of the ten children referred to, the only survivors now are, Orlando Cope, of Belmont county, and Dr. Charles Cope, of Detroit, Michigan. Alexis Cope attended the common schools and Hopedale college, where he studied law. His studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the Southern Rebellion, and lie at once enlisted as a private in the Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for three months service, and took part in the Rosecrans campaign in West Virginia. In the fall of 1861 he enlisted for three vears, joining the Fifteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and it was with the Army of the Cumberland that he won the rank of Captain. When the war ended he had served as regimental adjutant, adjutant general of General Wood's staff, and division inspector general.

After the war Captain Cope went to St. Clairsville and renewed his legal studies, being admitted to the bar in 1866. He was engaged in the active practice of his profession there until 1873, when he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the sixteenth Ohio district. He served in that position until January, 1877, when he took up his residence in Columbus, this move being prompted by his appointment as chief clerk in the office of the secretary of state. He was the incumbent of that position six years, four under Colonel Barnes and two under Major Townsend, and in this capacity he edited the year books and Ohio statistics for the years of 1877 to 1883. A year after lie retired from the office of the secretary of state. Captain Cope was appointed secretary of the board of trustees of the Ohio State University, and so thoroughly did his qualifications and talents lit into the requirements of this office that lie was retained for twenty-one years. During that time he wrote a history of the University, and his services for that institution and for education generally included the securing and locating of the Emerson McMillen observatory. Then for twelve years and up to the time of his death he had charge of the Virginia military lands concerning their relation to the University and served as a member of the committee appraising the funds for the College of Agriculture. In the latter years of his life Captain Cope practiced law, and at the time of his death he was a member of the law firm of Ricketts & Cope, his partner being T. H. Ricketts.

Politically, Captain Cope was an ardent supporter of the Republican party, and ever took a keen interest in its campaigns. Though reared a Quaker, he eventually united with the Methodist Episcopal church and became a member of the Broad Street church in Columbus, to the various activities of which he gave his earnest support. Fraternally and socially, he was a member of the Loyal Legion and the Grand Army of the Republic, in both of which he was very deeply interested, and was also a member of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland and the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society. He was a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce and for a number of years was identified with the Columbus Club. He was very active in his support of everything which in any way promised to benefit the city of Columbus and his advice and counsel were frequently sought in matters of importance affecting the public welfare.

Captain Cope numbered among his personal friends many men of political, educational and literary prominence, among whom were President McKinley, William Dean Howells, Whitelaw Reid and Professor Mendenhall. He was himself the wielder of a facile pen and had he adopted literature instead of law as a life vocation he would have been eminently successful. During the period of his connection with the Ohio State University, he wrote a onevolume book on the Civil War entitled "The Fifteenth Ohio Volunteers and Its Campaigns, 1861-1865," which is recognized as an authentic and well-written work, dealing with the western phase of the war and settling many issues that the usual history leaves unsettled. Captain Cope was an especial admirer of Abraham Lincoln and read everything that was ever written about him. Before his death he had planned notes on President Lincoln's references to the constitutional aspects of the Union, intending a little later to write a book on the subject.

On October 22, 1868, Captain Cope was married to lone Lewis, of St. Clairsville, Belmont county, Ohio, the daughter of Elisha and Katherine (Dean) Lewis. On the maternal side, Mrs. Cope is descended from Holland ancestry, and her mother Mas an aunt of William Dean Howells, the noted author. Mrs. Cope is the third in order of birth of the five children born to her parents and of this family she is now the only survivor. To Captain and Mrs. Cope were born the following children: Frank A., deceased; Alex, deceased; Florence, who became tin- wife of Allan J. Seney and the mother of two children, Henry and Mary; she is now the wife of Samuel J. Maurice; Mary, who became the wife of F. B. Hatcher, of Columbus, and their two children are John and Elizabeth Dean. Mrs. Maurice inherited from her father decided literary talents and has done much appreciated work along this line. Mrs. Cope, though now in her seventy-seventh year, is remarkably well preserved and her physical and mental activity would be creditable to one many years her junior. During the recent World War she took -i die]) interest in all the activities in which women were engaged, especially in the providing ol clothing and supplies for the boys overseas and in camp. During the war period she knitted thirty-five sweaters, nine helmets, four pairs of sox and nine pairs of mittens, and she also has the enviable record of having knit a sleeveless sweater in eleven hours and twenty-five minutes. Mrs. Cope lias hem a member of the Broad Street Methodist Episcopal church for the remarkable period of sixty years, is a member of all the church societies and for eight yfc-ars has been in charge of supplies. Honored and respected by all, there is today no woman in this locality "I ccupies a more enviable position in the circles in which she moves.

In the death of Captain Cope, the community suffered a distinct loss, for he had acted well his part in life's drama and had given generously of his superb powers in furthering the Upbuilding of the city honored by his citizenship. He was a man among men. He viewed the world through optimistic eves. lie bound himself to his friends with bonds of steel. He was clean of habit and mind and conscientious and p-;nstaking in his every endeavor. All in all, he served well his day and his memorv is indelib'v enshrined in the hearts of all who knew him

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"Captain Cope was a fine personality; a man of noble ideals and fine life. He was the most lovable man one ever met. His conversation was uplifting and his manners kindly and graceful. He never intruded himself anywhere. His modesty was as sweet as a woman's. But back of his quiet attitude there was a feeling and a sentiment that built up a very attractive manhood. . . . He was a strong Republican, but never let that fact outrun his personal conviction. . . . During the last years of the past century he was one of the promotors of public opinion and of political action. This was largely because he was closely connected with all the leaders of public sentiment and through them impressed his convictions upon the times."

COL. DANIEL MUNSON HALL. The Union soldier during the great Civil War between the states builded wiser than he knew. Through four years of suffering and wasting hardships, through the horrors of prison pens and amid the shadows of death, he laid the superstructure of the greatest temple ever erected and dedicated to human freedom. The world looked on and called those soldiers sublime, for it was theirs to reach out the mighty arm of power and strike the chains from off the slave, preserve the country from dissolution, and to keep furled to the breeze the only flag that ever made tyrants tremble and whose majestic stripes and scintillating stars are still waving universal liberty to all the earth. For all these unmeasured deeds the living present will never repay them. Pension and political power may be thrown at their feet ; art and sculpture may preserve upon canvas and in granite and bronze their unselfish deeds ; history may commit to books and cold type may give to the future the tale of their sufferings and triumphs ; but to the children of the generations yet unborn will it remain to accord the full measure of appreciation and undying remembrance of the immortal character carved out by the American soldiers in the dark days in the early sixties, numbered among whom was Col. Daniel Munson Hall, of Columbus, who occupies the exalted position of commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic.

Daniel M. Hall is a Yankee by nativity, having been born in New Haven, Connecticut, on October 20, 1813, and is the eldest son of nine children born to Avery and Elizabeth (Northrup) Hall, both of whom are now deceased. Of these children three sons, besides the subject, survive, namely: Howard H, of Fargo, North Dakota; George W., of Chicago Heights, Illinois, and Newton A., of Wichita. Kansas. Avery Hall was a farmer by vocation, served as a Union soldier during the Civil War, and lie and his father became pioneer settlers of Lorain county, Ohio, the grandfather being one of the first three settlers in Brighton township, that county, he naming the town of Brighton.

Daniel M. Hall was about two years of age when the family came to Ohio and he received his early education in the common schools of Lorain county. He was reared on the parental farmstead and was about seventeen years of age when the tocsin of the war sounded and. without waiting to unhitch the team with which he was plowing, lie hastened to the nearest recruiting point, enlisting in Company H of the Second Ohio Cavalry, with which he went to the front. In 18(52 a horse fell upon him and broke his hip and, as it was thought he would never be able to ride again, he was discharged. However, in the summer of 18(i.'i he was so far recovered that he again enlisted, this time in the Twelfth Ohio Cavalry in compliance with his mother's request because of the fact that his younger brother was in that regiment. He served with that command over two years, or until the close of the war, being mustered out at Nashville, Tennessee, on November 11, 1 S 0> .5 . He saw much hard service and had many narrow escapes, participating in all the battles, skirmishes and raids in which liis regiment had a part, and earning a high reputation as a brave intrepid soldier.

After his discharge from the army, the subject clerked in a general store at Brighton. Ohio, for six years, when he formed a partnership with C. H. Richmond and bought the store. which they operated for six years. At the end of that period Colonel Hall sold out to his partner and became a traveling salesman for the Santley Lumber Company, of Wellington, Ohio. He became an expert judge of timber and eventually entered the employ of the Kirk Christy Lumber Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, buying and selling for them and finally assuming the management of their five mills in Pike countv. Ohio. In 1900 Colonel Hall moved to Columbus, with which eitv he has been identified ever since. He continued traveling in the lumber business until 1909, when he was made superintendent of the Memorial Hall building in Columbus, in which capacity he is still serving.

On May 15, 1870, Colonel Hall was married to Martha M. Burr, of Brighton, Lorain county, Ohio, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Burr. To their union has been born one son, Clarence B. Hall, who has been associated with the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, at Columbus, for fifteen years. Clarence B. Hall married Nora B. Bradley, of Spencer, Ohio, and they have three children, Ralph Gordon, Marion Margaret and Elizabeth.

Colonel Hall first became a member of the Grand Army of the Republic in Wellington, Ohio, in 1884, becoming affiliated with Hamlin Post, of which he became a past commander. In 1905 he transferred his membership to J. M. Wells Post, at Columbus, of which he has been a member ever since. He served from officer of the guard to commander of Wells Post, later on was elected department commander of Ohio, and in September, 1919, he was elected senior vice commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at the meeting held at Columbus. On the 1st day of the following November he became commander-in-chief of that organization, because of the death of Col. James D. Bell, commander-in-chief. He thus holds a rank which entitles him to four stars, a rank held by only one other person in the United States, General Pershing. The national headquarters of the Grand Army have been moved to Columbus and Colonel Hall is giving his time and energies to the welfare of the organization. Colonel Hall is also a member of the Sons of Veterans.

Colonel Hall is also a member of the Columbus Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and formerly held membership in the Lodges of Free and Accepted Masons and Knights of Pythias at Wellington. He is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce of Columbus. Politically, he has been a lifelong supporter of the Republican party, and at one time was elected infirmary director of Lorain county and, later, declined the nomination for sheriff of that county. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Although a quiet and unassuming man, Colonel Hall lias contributed much to the material, moral and civic advancement of his community, while his admirable qualities of head and heart have won for him the esteem and confidence of the circles in which he moves. In the truest sense of the phrase he is a self-made man, for, though his education was cut short by his army service, he has become a well informed man and has succeeded in everything to which he has applied his energies.

JOHN JAY MORGAN. Those who belong to the respectable middle classes of society, being early taught the necessity of relying upon their own exertions, will be more apt to acquire that information and those business habits which alone can fit them for the discharge of life's duties, and indeed it has long been a noticeable fact that our leading men in nearly all walks of life in America sprang from this class. One of the many representatives of this worthy element in the city1 of Columbus of the present generation is John Jay Morgan, consulting engineer.

Mr. Morgan is a native of Indiana, born at Frankfort, April 13, 1884, although he is a descendant of two old Ohio families. His parents, John F. and Laura (Warner) Morgan, were natives of the central part of this state. His paternal grandparents were Newton and Martha (Foster) Morgan, both Ohio pioneers. John F. Morgan engaged in the lumber business in Ohio and Indiana, but later in life he bought a farm in the latter state, where he passed the remainder of his life. He is deceased as is also his wife.

John Jay Morgan was educated in the public schools of Frankfort and Lafayette, Indiana, and at Purdue University, from which institution he was graduated in 1904 in civil engineering, receiving the degree of Bachlor of Science.

He began his professional work in 1904 in the engineering corps of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, with which company he remained until 1907, then was employed by the Kansas City Southern Railroad for a few months. He was assistant city engineer of Grand Rapids, Michigan, from March, 1907 until November, 1908, and in that year he located in Columbus, and was assistant city engineer from 1909 to 1911 and engineer of construction in the department of buildings from 1911 to January, 1912, since which time he has been engaged in private work. He was engaged as consulting engineer on the design and construction of remodeling the city's municipal sewerage reduction plant, which work was completed in 1917. He has handled the construction work of numerous reinforced concrete buildings of

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In all the positions mentioned above Mr. Morgan discharged his duties most ably and faithfully, to the satisfaction of all concerned. His work is always characterized by fidelity, promptness and a very high grade of workmanship. He has remained a close student of all that pertains to his special line of endeavor and his special talents in this line have been regarded as quite unusual from the first, by those who are at all familiar with his work.

Mr. Morgan is a member of the Engineer's Club of Columbus, the Columbus Athletic Club, the Columbus Automobile Club, the Kiwanis Club, the Business Men's Gymnasium Club, the Young Business Men's Club and the Chamber of Commerce. He is deeply interested in everything that is helpful in making a better Columbus.

Since the entrance of America in the World War, Mr. Morgan was very active in the work of raising war funds, in the work of the Red Cross, War Chest, Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps sales.

On April 8, 1908, Mr. Morgan was united in marriage with Elizabeth Martin, a native of London, England, but who at that time lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Mr. Morgan is one of the popular and prominent young men of affairs in Columbus and his friends are limited only by the circle of his acquaintance.

CHARLES CALLOWAY PAVEY. Charles Calloway Pavey was born August 26, 1857, in Greenfield, Highland county, Ohio, the son of Madison Pavey, of pure English stock, and Mary L. Dunlap Pavey of Scotch-Irish ancestry. In 1859 he removed, with his parents, to Washington C. H., Ohio, where he was educated in the public schools, graduating from the Washington C. H. high school, in June, 1877. In June, 1882, he graduated in the Arts course from the University of Wooster, at Wooster, Ohio, and in June, 1884, in law, from the Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut. Returning to Washington C. H., Ohio, he was admitted to the bar of Ohio, in December, 1881, and at once entered upon the practice of his profession, in partnership with his father, in his home town, and there continued to practice law until September 2, 1899, when he located in Columbus, Ohio, where he opened an office and has ever since continued the practice of law, and is now so engaged with Senator Lloyd and Bert Wolnian, under the firm name of Pavey, Lloyd & Wolman.

On October 6, 1887, at Washington C. H., Ohio, Mr. Pavey was married to Miss Eva M. Grove, the daughter of Martin Grove, a farmer, and his wife, Sarah Jane Coffman Grove. To Mr. and Mrs. Pavey, two sons were born, Ralph Madison Pavey, April 2, 1890, and Carl Callowav Pavey, December 3, 1891, both of whom are living; both of whom were educated in the public schools of Columbus, and are graduates of the Ohio State University, and both of whom entered the army and served in the World War. Ralph M. Pavey is foreman of the William Hanley ranch in Oregon, and Carl C. Pavey is one of the Electrical Engineers of the Bell Telephone Company in Columbus, Ohio.

Mr. Pavey is a member of Goodale Lodge, F. & A. M. ; of Confidence Lodge, K. of P., and of Temple Lodge, I. O. O. F. In 1903-1904., he was Grand Master of the I. O. O. F. of Ohio. He is also a member of the Athletic and Kit-Kat Clubs of Columbus, but not a member or affiliated with any sectarian organization. In religious belief he is not an atheist, but he does not believe in Divine revelation nor in the Divinity of Christ. As nearly as he can define his religious belief he is a Deist, but nothing more, and so little confidence does he put in this belief that he may possibly be an Agnostic. But his toleration for every kind of religion is as broad as his own beliefs are wide. Mr. Pavey is an ardent student of the Greek and Hebrew civilizations and in his leisure time has written and published much of his reaction in these fields, as well as on the themes of modern life.

HERBERT BROOKS. Descended from a family which was the first to establish its home on the "high banks of the Scioto opposite Franklinton," and the members of which bore an active part in the social and business life of the. community, Herbert Brooks is playing his part in full keeping with the record. His grandmother on his father's side was Keziah Hamlin, the first white child born in what is now Columbus. As related elsewhere, she was a favorite with the Indians hereabout, and was once playfully carried off that a pair of moccasins they were making might be fitted to her feet. Keziah. grown up, married David Brooks, and to them were born eight children, the eldest of whom David W. Brooks, born in 1828, married

Anna Maria Simpkins in 1850. He was Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court, County Clerk and a member of the Board of Police Commissioners when the City Prison was erected. For many cears lie was in the grocery business with Nathaniel Merion and later was president of the ( . 1 1 1 k of Brooks, Butler & Company. Nine children were born to him and his wife, the second of whom was Herbert Brooks, born December 16, 1853.

Herbert was educated in the public schools of Columbus and at l(i entered his father's bank as messenger. He worked his way up through various positions and, at the death of the last of tin- partners, successfully liquidated the business of the bank. Mr. Brooks then turned his attention to structural steel work, one of his tasks being the superintendence of the steel construction of the judiciary addition to the State House. In 1898 on the organization of the Ohio Building & Loan Company, he became its treasurer and one of its directors - positions which he still holds. He has also been, and still is, identified with numerous other business enterprises.

To Mr. Brooks and his wife (Clara Belle Tate, daughter of John H. Tate, a banker of Rockville, Indiana), there have been born four children: Louise B., Clara, Phillips, deceased, and Herbert, jr.

Mr. Brooks has written much for newspapers and magazines, his favorite theme being the great out-doors, whose beauty and majesty he has often admirably interpreted. Another of his traits is shown in his membership in the Sons of the American Revolution and of the Old Northwest Genealogical and Historical Society. He is also a thirty-third degree Mason.

JOHN JONES PUGH. For nearly forty years now John Jones Pugh has been connected with the Columbus Public Library. Naturally, therefore, when the Library service is mentioned, the name and figure of Mr. Pugli come into the field of vision. What the service and equipment are is largely due to him.

Born February 29, 1864, the son of Richard and Elizabeth Jones Pugh, both of whom had come to this city from Wales, he was allied with some of the pioneer Welsh families of Columbus. His father was care-taker for a number of years of the Starling Medical College building on East State street and it was while the family was living in that building, associated with some of the literary, as well as medical, traditions of Columbus, that he was born. When he was nine or ten, he was carrying a Journal route and selling the Dispatch on the streets. He was educated in the Columbus public schools and after his graduation in 1881, for a time attended the normal school. In the same year, however, he entered the Public Library as assistant to the venerable librarian. Rev. J. L. Grover, and in 189(5, when the latter became incapacitated through age, succeeded him as librarian, a position which he has held continuously since.

The library was then housed in the City Hall and was crying for room. An annex to tin- City Hall was built for its accommodation, but that, too, was soon filled to overflowing. When Andrew Carnegie was giving of his millions for city library buildings, Mr. Pugh entered into negotiations with him, and with the approval and cooperation of the Library Board, secured an offer of .+ 150,000 for a building, under the usual conditions of municipal support. The amount was subsequently increased to +200,000, and the present imposing library was built on a site purchased by the city.

During the World War, Mr. Pugh was supervisor of the American Library Association war work and an active member of the American Protective League. He supervised the gathering and transmission of books and magazines for the soldiers in camps and on transports and helped to suppress seditious and anti-American literature.

In 1888 Mr. Pugh married Kathcrine Fornoff, who had been his classmate in the public schools; iikI lo them three children were born :Elizabeth, now married to Herbert J. Long; (Catherine and Mary Helen. He is Past Grand of Junia Lodge, I. O. O. F.; was State Supreme Dictator of the I. oval Order of Moose: is a member of the Scottish Rite, 32nd degree, and of Aladdin Temple of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He has also been prominent in musical circles, having been a member of the old Arion Club, executive chairman of the Eisteddfod and president of the Columbus Opera Club.

JOHN ADRIAN KKI.I.EV. One of the active and energetic younger men of Columbus is John Adrian Kelley, who was born in New Lexington, Ohio, August 7, 1886, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Kellev. Two years later the family moved to Columbus where John was educated in the parochial and public high schools. The death of his father at that time prevented him from going to college, and to aid his mother in providing for her live younger children, he became a reporter for the Dispatch, where he served till 1909, when he became secretary of the Columbus Builders' Exchange, increasing its membership and moving it into larger quarters. From 1913 to 1917 lie was manager of the Industrial Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce which in that period brought nineteen factories to the city and aided many already here. He was one of the founders and secretary of the Export Club of Columbus, one of the founders and secretary-treasurer of the Franklin County Co-operative Farm Bureau and was for a time secretary of the Manufacturers and Jobbers' Association, executing the plans for the first Columbus Industrial Exposition in the State House square. While thus serving he wrote a number of brochures showing the advantages of Columbus industrially and commercially.

When the United States entered the World War, Mr. Kelley assisted in organizing Columbus manufacturers into the Columbus War Industries Board, which sent a representative to Washington to secure war business, and which later developed into the District War Industries Board, a part of a national organization. He presented the brief to the War Department which resulted in the location of the great storage warehouses, on the precise site recommended. He was secretary-manager of the Libert}- Loan Committee for the Columbus area, consisting of Franklin and fifteen adjoining counties, and continued as such to the end of the second campaign for the sale of bonds. Before the third campaign he was called to serve as secretary to H. P. Wolfe, Ohio State Director of the War Savings Stamp Campaign, and at this writing he is still serving in that capacity. He also did much of the publicity work for the Knights of Columbus financial campaign and the Boy Scouts associate membership campaign.

In 1910 Mr. Kelley was married to Miss Josephine Nash, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Nash, of Columbus, and they have four children. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and belongs to the Athletic Club.

MAURICE STEWART HAGUE. Representative of that sterling line of artists who have found their inspiration and subjects in the scenery of central Ohio and have reproduced its beauties for the adornment of homes far and near is Maurice Stewart Hague. He was born at Richmond, Ohio, the son of James Russel and Susan (Stewart) Hague. The family soon moved to Columbus and here the son was educated in the public schools. For three years thereafter he studied medicine, but his sensitive nature revolted against the scenes attendant upon that profession and directed him instead to art in which he educated himself, building upon a natural aptitude for drawing and color. He followed portrait painting and modeling until 1895 when he took up landscape painting where he lias achieved his greatest successes. He has exhibited at Boston, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Buffalo, Cleveland and Columbus and is represented in private collections in New York, Buffalo, Pittsburg]), Baltimore, Cleveland, Columbus and other cities. He is a member of the American Federation of Art.

In music also, Mr. Hague has been prominent, having been one of the charter members of the famous Orpheus Club and a member throughout the existence of that male chorus; also of the Scottish Rite Quartet (1888-1903). He is a Mason, 32nd degree, and a member of the Kit-Kat Club. In 1917 he was appointed a member of the Ohio Board of Motion Picture Censors.

DENNIS AUGUSTINE CLARKE. One of the most faithful and efficient religious workers in Columbus was Father Dennis Augustine Clarke, of the Holy Family Catholic Church, West Side. He was born in Columbus, December 15, 1850, his father's family having come to Columbus as early as 1832, from Virginia, while his mother's family came from Ireland where she was born. He attended the parish school of St. Patrick's Church and later entered the University of Notre Dame, graduating with honors in 1870 as a Bachelor of Science and later taking Master's degrees in both science and arts. He taught for a time in bis Alma Mater and, returning to Columbus in 1871, established the Catholic Columbian which was at first under the management and control of Bishop Rosecrans. On the death of the latter, the entire responsibility for the paper fell on Mr. Clarke, and he continued at the task until he had the satisfaction of knowing that lie had placed that means of Catholic publicity upon a sound basis. He then sold the paper and, after a year in Colorado and Utah regaining his health which had been undermined by his severe ordeal, returned to Columbus and. having completed his theological training, was in 1879 ordained a priest. His first assignment was as Catholic Chaplain in the Ohio Penitentiary where he served till 1883. In 1881 he assumed charge of the Holy Family congregation, where until his sudden death, May 17, 1920, he remained a zealous religious worker, an ardent advocate of temperance, a contributor to newspapers and periodicals and a sterling factor in the civic life.

JOHN HENRY VERCOE was a lawyer of intense energy and application and won a position in the front ranks of men of his profession in which he was what might be denominated a student lawyer. He was born in Columbus, August 23, 1855, the son of John Cunningham Vercoe and Jemima (Martin) Vercoe, both natives of England, where they spent their earlier vears. The father came to America in the early fifties, landing at a Canadian port, then direct to Columbus, making the trip by a boat on the lake to Sandusky, and from there to the capital city by canal boat. He will be remembered as one of the best known stone mason contractors in this city. His death occurred in 1911.

John H. Vercoe received his education in the Columbus schools. He began life for himself as a telegraph messenger boy in 1871 and by his own efforts he learned telegraphy. Saving his earnings and being ambitious to secure a higher education, he entered Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, but did not complete the full course. Upon leaving college he returned to Columbus and resumed work as a telegraph operator and while thus engaged he read law and was admitted to the bar in the year 1880, but it was not until five years later that he began the practice of law, ranking as one of the able members of the local bar for over three decades. He died in 1919.

Oil June 29, 1880, he was united in marriage with Mary L. Price, daughter of Israel N. Price. Two daughters were born to this union, namely: Helen V., who married Albert E. Jonejj of Columbus; and Hester V., who is the wife of Frank C. Huling, also of Columbus.

EDGAR B. KINKEAD. Napoleon said to Marshal Ney: "Perhaps the world be just as w-ll off, if neither of us had ever lived." That might be truly said of a great man}' other men, and of many others it should not be predicated. The lives of selfish men are hardly worth while; nor are they remembeied very long, as a rule. It is not always the most popular man whose life has been of the greatest value to his fellowmen. He may not have had his name written on the pages of history. He may have been a man who has had a modest estimate of himself and who has simply performed his duties faithfully and unostentatiously.

Strong lives do not come by chance, or magic. Nor do they come suddenly into being. It is interesting not only to know the deeds of the adult years of such a person, but also the elements that enter into his character and the forces and qualities that combine to make him what he has become.

These preliminary observations are pertinent to this sketch of Judge Edgar B. Kinkead. We are not vitally concerned whether he has a long lineage, but his immediate parents are of interest because of their dominant force upon their son. His remote paternal ancestors came from the Emerald Isle, coming originally from Scotland. His mother was of English-Scotch origin. These make a mixture of bloods that begets enthusiasm, love, energy, sturdiness, courage, character.

Patriotic blood courses in his veins, for his father was first a captain in the Civil War and in the 77th O. V. V. I., and afterwards a colonel of the 118th O. V. I. As a member of the former regiment he participated in many battles, great and small.

.fudge Kinkead belongs to Lincoln's common people. He was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He was educated in the common schools, the Marietta Academy and the Marietta College, receiving from the latter the degrees of Master of Arts and LL! D. His scholarship was of high grade; he never wasted any time; he was always striving to enlarge his stock of knowledge and to increase the breadth and depth of his mind.

He started in active life with the disadvantage of narrow circumstances, against which he had to strive. But in his ease, as has occurred in others, while the discipline of necessity was hard to bear, it was a sun- guarantee of the making of a great lawyer and of gaining great fame as an author.

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Court of Ohio and Assistant State Law Librarian were accepted as means of helping him to become a lawyer. Without wealth, these were necessities.

He became a lawyer in 1889. For a while he was special attorney for the Attorney General of the State, in special charge of cases against the Standard Oil Company, or of all Anti-Trust litigation. Early in his career as a lawyer he had the impulse that he should perfrom the duty which Lord Coke said every lawyer who had the necessary brains, owed to his profession, namely, to write a law book. Judge Kinkead has written, not only one law book, but numerous books. Excepting one, they are on cognate subjects - pleading, practice and procedure, of the law. Their titles are: "Code Pleading and Practice," "Instructions to Juries," "Common Law Pleading," "Probate Court Law and Practice," "Trial Procedure," "Error and Instructions to Juries," "Libel and Slander in the Cyclopedia of Law," "Ohio Civil Trial - Appeals and Errors, and Torts." They are all useful books; they occupy a fair place among standard books on the same subjects, in all of the law libraries and colleges of the country. The bench and bar and litigants owe him a debt of gratitude for his efforts to make the practice and administration of the law easier, a task which he has performed with distinguished ability.

In 1908 lie was elected Common Pleas Judge, and in 191-4 re-elected for a second term, which he is now serving. For twenty years he was professor of law in several branches of the law college of the Ohio State University. There is a multitude of lawyers in Ohio and in other states who studied the law under him witli profit to themselves and to their clients ; and undoubtedly he contributed much by his work there to give the just fame and name which the law college enjoys.

It is not easy to make a perfect estimate of a judge while he is still on the bench. He may become better after the estimate has been made, or possibly he may deteriorate. But of Judge Kinkead, up to this time, it can be conservatively said that he knows the anatomy and physiology of law. As an author and as a judge he has been indefatigable in his labors. He has a wonderful capacity for work, and never fails to be prompt in the decision of cases submitted to him. He is accomplished in the learning of his profession. He is "familiar with the currents, streams and tides of authority." He is above the average in working knowledge of the cases. One of his distinguishing traits is his affability on the bench. He is not one of those judicious holy terrors, who try to overawe and intimidate litigants and their lawyers by austere or autocratic manners. He does not become mad when a lawyer argues with or against him. He patiently hears those with whom lie disagrees, and he is sometimes persuaded that his first impressions were wrong, in which cases he is not ashamed to change his opinions. He does not often render decisions that do not satisfy either party to the suit; generally he decides in favor of one party and against the other.

When he is called upon to decide cases in unexplored fields of litigation, he determines what he thinks the law should be upon the undecided questions. He has the courage that makes him always ready to assume responsibility and to act when required. If misdirected popular sentiment or public clamor should attempt to influence or control the administration of law and justice, in cases coming before him, he would doubtless be ready to do his duty, whatever might be the personal consequences to himself.

While he has always been a diligent and industrious student, burning a great deal of midnight oil, still he has spent some of his life in the open, keeping in touch with his contemporaries and studying their human nature. If a judge is not easily duped, deceived by crafty persons, who try to use him for their own aggrandizement, this is a valuable quality in a nisi prius judge. Without that quality, he is handicapped in his work.

While Judge Kinkead generally knows the authorities, he never makes fetish of precedents. He has the courage to point out the mistakes of other courts, even those that are his superiors in authority. For this reason, he has sometimes been called by his critics an iconoclastic, a revolutionary judge. But that is not a true criticism. His aim, in such instances, is to be original and independent, and to help other courts, even those that can affirm or reverse him, to correct their errors. Socially and personally Judge Kinkead is genial; he has a vigorous and breezy, and yet sufficiently, dignified personality; his tastes are simple; he is democratic in his disposition; he is charitable in his judgment of others; and he is human in his foibles and virtues. He is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias, a member of the Delta Epsilon and Delta Phi college fraternities and of the Elks.

one know-, what kind of a wife (who was Nellie M. Snyder) he has, he does not wonder that the judge has been in favor of woman suffrage. He has but one child, Mrs. W. W. Alexander .it Atlanta, Georgia, and two grandsons.

ALEXANDER CHALMERS BRYCE. It cannot be other than interesting to note in the series of personal sketches appearing in this work the varying conditions that have compassed those whose careers are outlined, and the effort has been made in each case to throw well-focused light onto the individuality and to bring into proper perspective the scheme of each respective character. Each man who strives to fulfill his part in connection with human life and human activities is deserving of recognition, whatever may be or have been his field of endeavor, and it is the function of works of this nature to perpetuate an authentic record concerning those worthy of preservation. The beginning of the career of Alexander C. Bryce, for many years one of the well-known business men of Columbus, was characterized by hard work and conscientious endeavor, and he owed his rise to no train of fortunate incidents or fortuitous circumstances. It was the reward of application of mental qualifications of a high order to the affairs of business, the combining with keen perceptions mental activity that enabled him to grasp the opportunities that presented themselves. This he did with success and, what is more important, with honor. His integrity was ever unassailable, his honor unimpeachable, and he stood high with all who knew him.

Alexander Chalmers Bryce was born on March 16, 1852, in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, and his death occurred March 15, 1920, in Columbus, Ohio. He was the second son among seven children who blessed the union of William and Mary (Chalmers) Bryce. The only survivors of these children now are, Mrs. J. H. Weldon, of Clark county, Illinois, and Mrs. John S. Mcnzier, of San Diego, California. The subject's parents were both of Scottish birth, the father having been born in Edinburgh and the mother in Glasgow, and both are now deceased. On the paternal side, the subject is descended from the same stock as James Bryce, ambassador from England to the United States, 1906-12. Alexander C. Bryce received his educational training in the public schools of his native town. After he had completed his studies, the family moved to Louisville, Kentucky, and soon afterwards Mr. Bryce became a traveling salesman out of Cincinnati, for a hat concern. A short time later he accepted a similar position with a large wholesale clothing firm, making his headquarters in New York City. Intensely ambitious to get into business on his own account, as soon as possible he established a clothing store in northern Indiana, and so successful was he in this enterprise that he was soon enabled to establish other stores at Terre Haute, Muncie and Logansport, Indiana, and Louisville, Kentucky. In addition to these, about twenty-five years ago Mr. Bryce came to Columbus and, in partnership with his brother, Thomas J. Bryce, established a store which was known as Bryce Brothers & Company. After the death of the brother, the name of the Columbus business was changed to the Bryce Company, under which name it has been conducted. Some years ago, the subject disposed of all his stores excepting the one in Columbus.

Mr. Bryce was a man of much more than ordinary force of character, a fact universally recognized by all who had opportunity to form his acquaintance. For some years prior to his decease, he was handicapped by very poor health, yet, despite this, he courageously bore his part of the burdens of life and set a splendid example of the ability to subordinate personal feelings to the demands of business, home and community. Naturally of a retiring and quiet disposition, he cared nothing for club life or the excitement of political activities, yet in his quiet and effectual way he performed his whole duty to the community in which he lived. He was a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, where he was held in high regard, and in business circles in New York and Indiana he was held in great esteem. He was a standi Republican in his political views, but never sought office, though several times importuned to allow his name to he used. His membership in the Columbus Athletic Club was more in the nature of a support than any sportive inclination on his part. His religious membership was with tin- Broad Street Presbyterian Church of Columbus.

September II. 1878, Mr. Bryce was married to Helen Prevo, of Clark county, Illinois, daughter of Henry and Amy (Lindley) Prevo. To their union two daughters were horn, Mahli Bryce Dunn, deceased, and Ethel, who became the wife of J. J. Stevenson and is the mother of two children, Justin, jr., and Helen Jane. Mrs. Bryce has two brothers living, Samuel J. Prevo, of Terre Haute, Indiana, and Charles Prevo, of Clark county, Illinois. Her paternal grandfather was Samuel Prevo, who was of French extraction and who was one of the pioneer settlers of Illinois. His wife, Jane (Lee) Prevo, was descended from the Lee family which figured so prominently in the Colonial history of this country and which has had many honored representatives in the public life of the nation during the subsequent years. Alexander C. Bryee possessed many of the sterling characteristics of his Scotch ancestry, his success having been based upon the substantial qualities of unfaltering industry, perseverance and integrity in motive and action. He was a public-spirited citizen and a whole-souled gentleman, whom to know was to respect and admire. Beginning his business career at the bottom of the ladder, he forged ahead steadily and the prosperity which finally crowned his labors was richly earned, for he had been dominated throughout his career by the highest principles of integrity and honor. His benevolences and charities were large, but were given unostentatiously and without thought of praise. He knew the spring of human motive and action, so that he was kindly and tolerant in his judgment and ever readv to lend a helping hand to any worthy movement. His admirable qualities of head and heart and the straightforward, upright course of his daily life won for him the esteem and confidence of the circles in which he moved.

CHARLES HENRY BROWN. The record of a life well spent, of triumphs over obstacles, of perseverance under difficulties and steady advancement from a modest beginning to a place of honor and distinction in the commercial and civic worlds, when imprinted on the pages of history present to the youth of the rising generation an example worthy of emulation. Dominated by the highest principles of integrity and honor was the course of the late Charles H. Brown, who for a long lapse of years was among the leading men of affairs of Columbus. He placed true values on men and events, so that he was essentially democratic and unassuming and showed the intrinsic strength and loyalty of his character. His benevolence and charities were ever unostentatious and admirably placed. He knew the spring of human motive and action, so that he was kindly and tolerant in his judgment and ever ready to lend a helping hand to any worthy movement. His long residence in Columbus, his upright life and mature judgment, and the many services he rendered have made his name a synonym for character and worth. He was imbued with the deepest and most helpful public spirit, and was well fortified in his opinions as to matters of public policy, giving of his best to the furthering of good government, as he was neglectful of no civic duty. It is scarcely necessary to say that in the inviolable precincts of an ideal home life the true nobilitv of Mr. Brown found perfect expression, but there is no desire in this connection to lift the sacred veil of the fireside circle. In dealing with mankind his word was his bond; deceit never entered into any transactions he had with his fellow men. His plain, rugged honesty, his open-hearted manner, undisguised and unaffected, is to his family and friends a sweet lasting memory.

Charles Henry Brown was born in Zanesville, Ohio, February 28, 18G2, and his death occurred in Columbus^ September 17, 1919. He was next to the youngest of five children born to Robert and Sarah (Gregg) Brown, the surviving children being Harry, of Conneaut, Ohio; Asa, of Columbus; Smith T., of Zanesville, and Anna B., of Columbus. The subject's early mental training was received in the public schools of Zanesville and Newark, but when he was still quite young his father died and it became necessary for him to leave school and go to work, though he continued his studies assiduously at such times as opportunity offered - indeed, he never forsook his habits of close reading and was possessed of unusually varied and accurate information on a wide range of subjects, being an excellent conversationalist in any company where he might be found. His first employment was as a newspaper carrier in Newark, and when about sixteen years of age he came to Columbus and accepted a position as clerk at the State Blind Institution. Subsequently he was appointed clerk at the State Insane Asylum, later being advanced to the position of storekeeper in th.it institution. His next employment was as a traveling salesman in the Columbus district for the Heinz Pickle Company, of Pittsburgh. About 1891 Mr. Brown became secretary of the Central Building, Loan and Savings Company, of Columbus, and remained identified with that institution up to the time of his death. The company at that time was but a small concern, but under his management it soon began to grow and eventually became one of the largest and most important companies of the kind in central Ohio, the greater part of this splendid achievement being directly traceable to the energetic efforts, sound business ability and personal influence of the subject. Mr. Brown took an active part iu state building and loan affairs and was secretary of the State League of Building and Loan Associations and a member of the national association. Of his own company he was a member of the board of directors and .also served on tin real estate board, lie being an unusually competent judge of real estate values. He was also a director of the New Nu Ex Fire Extinguisher Company, of Columbus.

"Charley" Brown, as he was most generally known among his friends and associates, was one of the biggest boosters for his own city and in many ways contributed to the development, growth and prosperity of Columbus. He not only had an effective part in furthering commercial enterprises, but in his capacity as secretary of the building and loan association lie assisted many to acquire homes of their own. He was a director of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, active in all phases of its work, and was an efficient member and past president of the Columbus Rotary Club. In 1918-19 he served as district governor of the Rotary Clubs of this district, among whom he held an exalted position in their esteem and good will. In evidence of this fact is the following extract from a letter sent to Mrs. Brown from the Rotary Club at Toledo: "The Rotarians of the Tenth district in session in Toledo instructed me to write you and tell you how greatly we missed your presence and that of your genial husband. It would have made you proud indeed if you could have heard the beautiful tributes spoken of him on the floor of the convention and how it was said that everyone had been made brighter and happier on account of him."