Dayton City (part 31 of 50)

In the year 1891, Mr. Starr became one of the organizers of the Bailey Soap company, of which corporation he is president. The others of the official corps comprise the following: John F. Baker, vice-president, and Charles A. Lucius, secretary and treasurer. The officers, together with C. W. Schaeffer, constitute the directory of the company. The concern has a plant which is finely equipped with the latest approved mechanical devices and other facilities requisite to the enterprise, and the output includes all kinds of soap, special attention being given to the manufacture of laundry soaps, in which line the products of the establishment have gained an enviable reputation throughout a very extended trade territory. The industry is one which has important bearing upon the industrial activities of the Gem City, and the success which has attended it has been conserved by the wise methods and unswerving business integrity of the interested principals, who are recognized as being among the representative citizens of Dayton.

Mr. Starr takes a broad-minded interest in public affairs, and, though in no sense a seeker of political office, he renders a firm allegiance to the republican party. In religion he clings to the faith of his fathers, having been for the past forty years a member of the Raper Methodist Episcopal church and one of the most active workers in the same. In both church and Sunday-school work he has had a most loyal and effective coadjutor in his estimable wife. In his fraternal relations our subject is identified with Wayne lodge, No. 10, I. O. O. F., of which he has been the treasurer for the past eighteen years and a member for full two

The marriage of Mr. Starr to Miss Emaline A. Smart, a native of Danbury, Conn., was solemnized October 24, 1855; she was born December 9, 1833. They became the parents of one child, who died in infancy.

a APT. ROBERT C. SNEAD, an official of the national soldiers' Home, was born in Heathsville, Northumberland county, Va., December 28, 1842, and is the son of Rev. James A. and Mary Snead, natives respectively of Georgia and Virginia.

James A. Snead was born in the year 1804, received a liberal education in Baltimore, Md., entered the university of Virginia, and while a young man entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he became a prominent and influential preacher. He was a typical southern gentleman of the old school, fearless in his denunciation of wrong whereever and whenever found and an uncompromising opponent of the institution of slavery, in consequence of which he was obliged to leave his native state and seek a field of labor in northern conferences. He served as chaplain of the Fortieth Kentucky mounted infantry in the late war and died in the year 1866. His wife was Mary Christopher, who was born of English parentage in Northumberland county, Va., about the year 1802. The family of Mrs. Snead were residents of the Old Dominion state during the war of 1812, in which struggle her father took an active part as an independent scout. She died at Ashland, Ky. , October 20, 1890. James A. and Mary Snead had a family of eight children, of whom there are living at this time one son and two daughters. Capt. Robert C. Snead was taken by his parents, when a child of four years, to Wellsville, Ohio, thence in 1856 to Ashland, Ky. , where he grew to maturity and where he received an academic education. He became a very proficient bookkeeper and was thus engaged until the breaking out of the Civil war, when he joined the home guards of Kentucky, a loyal organization, with which he served until 1863, in August of which year he enlisted in company E, Fortieth Kentucky mounted infantry. Three weeks after enlistment the captain was made regimental quartermaster-sergeant, and within a month thereafter was promoted to second lieutenant of company C, in which capacity he served until discharged December 30, 1864. His service with the Fortieth was principally in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, scouting and fighting the rebel guerrillas who overran portions of those states. Capt. Snead was in three engagements with John Morgan's band and took part in numerous skirmishes with rebel forces on the Cumberland near Fort Donelson, doing much desultory fighting with guerrillas and marauders throughout Kentucky and along its borders. He reentered the service in April, 1865, as a member of the Fifty-fifth Kentucky mounted infantry, and was discharged therefrom as adjutant on the 19th day of September following - the period of this enlistment being spent in the work of reconstructing the state of Kentucky, as the war was being practically ended about that time.

Severing his connection with the army, Capt. Snead resumed his vocation as bookkeeper, first with the Iron Valley Iron works in Stewart, Tenn. ; thence he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was similarly employed, going from the latter place to Saint Helena, Mich., where he became superintendent of a lumbering and manufacturing establishment. During the period between 1880 and 1886 the captain was more or less an invalid, being unable to engage in his usual vocations by reason of a partial paralysis of the left side, which induced him to enter the national soldiers' home at Dayton in June of the latter year. Four weeks after becoming an inmate of the home he was appointed clerk at the headquarters and continued in that capacity the greater part of the time until 1895, October of which year he was appointed captain of company thirty-three a position he held until October, 1896, when he was transferred to company Thirty-five.

Capt. Snead is a man whose record is without a stain, and his high character and upright conduct have made him an object of esteem, alike in public and private life. His religious creed is represented by the liberal faith of the Unitarian church and in politics he is and always has been a conservative republican. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, in the deliberations of which body he ever manifests an active interest.

HNDREW J. SMITH, of Dayton, is a native of Logan county, Ohio, and was born October 31, 1847, his parents being John and Maria (Weeks) Smith, both natives of this state. Mrs. Smith died when young Andrew was about eight years old, and his father died eight years later. After the death of his mother, he went to live with an uncle on a farm in Logan county, where he continued to make his home until he had reached his majority. He had the ordinary opportunity of Ohio farm lads, a good common-school education, but he profited by what was offered him, and possesses a wide and useful range of information. When he was a lad of only sixteen years, he enlisted, in 1864, in the 100 days' service as a member of company F, One Hundred and Thirty-second regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and the conclusion of his term of enlistment brought him well toward the termination of the Civil war. The solid character of his education was attested by his teaching school for two terms when he was only eighteen years old, but he had studied to learn and to know, and thus early manifested a strength of mind and a maturity of judgment that have enabled him to make that success in life which is recorded in this memoir.

At the age of twenty-two he married Miss Nancy E. Moore, who was born on the farm adjoining that of his birth, the wedding occurring September 7, 1869. The spring of the next year witnessed the removal of the young couple to Kansas, where they settled on a farm, and followed an agricultural life for the next three years. But Kansas farming did not promise a satisfactory career, and in 1873 they returned to Logan county, where Mr. Smith had charge of a grain warehouse for the next five years. He was then engaged for a time in a bakery and restaurant business. In 1883 he secured a lucrative position as city salesman for a Dayton milling firm, and removed to this city. This position he has held for the past thirteen years with satisfaction to his employers and credit to himself.

Mr. Smith is a republican in his political proclivities, is regarded as one of the prominent and reliable leaders and workers for the party, and now represents it in the Dayton board of education. He is much interested in fraternity matters and is actively interested in one of the patriotic orders of the veteran soldiery of the land, as well as in other bodies. He is now senior vice-commander of the Old Guard post, Grand Army of the Republic, recording secretary of Crown council, No. 35, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and also holds membership in Gem City lodge, 795, I. O. O. F., of which he has been treasurer for five years past. To Mr. and Mrs. Smith there have been born four children, of whom the eldest, Wilminnie, is the wife of Elliott S. Burns of this city; Eunettie is the widow of the late William F. Cain, and Howard D. and Paul R. are still children at home. Father and mother are members of St. Paul Methodist Episcopal church, and the family is highly respected in its social and religious relations.

ACKMAN A. SMITH, justice of the peace at Dayton, Ohio, was born in Phillipsburg, Montgomery county, Ohio, August 29, 1857. He is a son of Samuel R. and Lottie L. (Kolp) Smith, the former of whom was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, and the latter in Lancaster county, Pa. Samuel R. Smith was a Union soldier during the war of the Rebellion, and served in the Sixty-third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. His death occurred in 1886. His widow now resides at West Milton, Miami county, Ohio. The father of Samuel R. Smith was Peter Smith, who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania between sixty-five and seventy years ago. He was one of the pioneers of Montgomery county, settling about one mile south of Phillipsburg, in Clay township.

The education of Hackman A. Smith was received first in the common schools, later at the Euphemia, Preble county, Normal school, and completed at the Miami commercial college. For eight years during his earlier business life he was a school-teacher. He was assessor in Clay township in 1881-83, and was elected justice of the peace in Clay township in 1885, for three years. Mr. Smith located in Dayton in 1887, and has resided here ever since. He soon made many friends in the city, and in 1894 was elected justice of the peace as the candidate of the republican party, of which he has always been an active member. Fraternally he has reached the thirty-second de-

P. ; Carpenter's Union, No. 396; Young Men's Christian association; The Seniors; Tribe of Ben Hur: Garfield club and the O. S. C. A. His religion is that of the Christian church.

Hackman A. Smith was married December 24, 1879, to Mary E. Lees, of Phillipsburg, Ohio, and to this marriage there have been born three children, as follows: Edna D.,

LI NEWTON SNYDER, member of the firm of Snyder, Tejan & Co., dealers in hay and other feed in Dayton, was born in Alpha, Greene county, Ohio, September 27, 1855, is a son of John and Elizabeth (Kerschner) Snyder, natives of Hagerstown, Md., and lived in his native county until about thirty-one years of age.

The Snyder family is of German origin and was established in Maryland by Jonathan Snyder, grandfather of Eli N. John Snyder, father of Eli N., was born in 1821, and when a young man moved to Greene county, Ohio, married there, and passed the greater part of his mature life in farming in that county. His death took place in Dayton in his sixty-ninth year. His widow, who was born in 1823, is now a resident of Dayton, and has her home with her son, Owen K. They were the parents of two sons and one daughter, the eldest of whom, Emma, died at the age of eleven years; the elder son, Owen Kerschner, is employed as an assistant lumber buyer for the Barney & Smith car shops, which position he has held for eleven years. He is married to Miss Martha Barney, daughter of Benjamin Barney, of Greene county.

Eli N. Snyder <vas educated in the graded schools of Beaver Creek township, Greene county, and his first business step was the purchase and operation of a sawmill in Xenia, which he ran from 1850 until 1885, when he disposed of his business by sale, came to Dayton, and here secured a position as yard foreman with the Barney & Smith car company, holding this situation for six years, when he met with an accident which compelled his retirement. He was then variously employed for two or three years, principally in teaming, and November 16, 1894, engaged in his present business, under the style of Snyder, Tejan & Co., the firm being composed of E. N. Snyder, F. Tejan and E. Eckman. This firm deals extensively in hay and all kinds of grain and feed, and is well located for business, receiving a full share of public patronage.

The marriage of Mr. Snyder took place in Xenia, November 1, 1883, with Miss Lizzie Pettigrew, a native of that city and a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Medskerj Pettigrew, also natives of the Buckeye state. William Pettigrew 'was an undertaker by vocation, and is now deceased; his widow is still a resident of Xenia. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Snyder has been blessed by the birth of two sons and one daughter, named, irr order of birth: Fred P. , John and Elsie M. The parents are steadfast members of the German Reformed church, and in his political views Mr. Snyder is a strong republican, although he is not a partisan in the office-seeking sense of the word. The social relations of Mr. and Mrs. Snyder are very pleasant, the respect in which they are held by their friends and associates being sincere and well merited.

ENRY BENTON SORTMAN, contractor for all kinds of brick masonery, was born in Middleburg, Union county, Pa., January 12, 1840. He is a son of George and Maria C. (Bossier) Sortman, both natives of the same place in Pennsylvania. They were the parents of four children: Henry B., Jacob W., George A., and Charles C. George Sortman, the father, was by trade a chairmaker. He came to Dayton, December 10, 1853, and here lived until his death, which occurred November 2, 1861, when he was sixty-nine years old. His wife died at Kent, 111., July 10, 1875, aged fiftynine years. Both were members of the Reformed church. Upon locating in Dayton he for a time followed teaming for a .living, and .afterward worked in agricultural implement warehouses until his death. The paternal grandparents of Henry B. Sortman reared a family of seventeen children; the grandfather lived and died in Pennsylvania, and the maternal grandfather also died in that state.

Henry Benton Sortman was thirteen years old when he came with his parents to Dayton. When he was sixteen years old he began learning the brickmason's trade, which trade he continuously followed until recent years, and in these later years he has given his attention to contracting. He has built four or five large school houses, the high school building, and some of the buildings at the soldiers' home, besides hundreds of residences. His work all stands the test of time, and of the most scrutinizing criticism.

At Dayton, Ohio, April 18, 1861, Mr. Sortman enlisted in Capt. Calvin Child's company A, Eleventh regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, for three months' service, under the first call for 75,000 men, made by Abraham Lincoln, and was discharged at Camp Dayton, Ohio, August 26, 1861. He then re-enlisted October 5, 1861, in company F, Birge's sharpshooters, which was changed to company H, and to company G, western sharpshooters, April 20, 1862. His regiment was changed to the Fourteenth Missouri volunteer infantry, and from the Fourteenth Missouri to the Sixtysixth Illinois volunteer infantry, western sharpshooters, November 26, 1862, by order of

Henry B. Sortman, who was a brave and efficient soldier, participated in all the engagements enumerated in the biography of his brother, James W. Sortman, and with him was mustered out of the service. After the expiration of his term of service he returned to Dayton and began contracting. He has been a resident of Dayton for forty-three years, and it was he that offered the first resolution providing for the erection of the beautiful soldiers' monument at Dayton, near the Miami river on Main street.

On Febrauary 14, 1865, Mr. Sortman was married to Miss Sarah M. Lehman, daughter of David and Eliza (Brandenburg) Lehman, who were among the earliest settlers of Dayton, having located there when the place was but nine years old. Mr. and Mrs. Sortman are the parents of four children, three sons and one daughter, as follows: Nettie L.,

Mrs. H. B. Sortman is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. While Mr. Sortman's parents were members of the Reformed church, he has never identified himself with any denomination. Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias, and a member of Old Guard post, No. 23, G. A. R. Politically he is a republican, and as such has served one term as a member of the board of education. His home is at No. 208 Dutoit street, where he has lived for twenty-nine years, his house having been erected in 1 8C6. Where he now

On. William Edward Sparks

ON. WILLIAM EDWARD SPARKS, state senator from the third Ohio senatorial district, and a representative citizen of Dayton, was born near Springfield, Clarke county, Ohio, August 25, 1853, and is the son or Ephraim and Mary (Ellwell) Sparks.

Ephraim Sparks, the father, was a native of Ohio, born in 1809, near Bellbrook, Greene county, where he was engaged in the wagonmaking and blacksmith business as a member of the firm of Coon, Fryant & Sparks. Later in life he lived near Clifton, and thence removed to Springfield, dying in the latter city on March 12, 1880. The mother, Mary (Ellwell) Sparks, was born in New Jersey in 1809, and when a child was brought to Ohio, the family making the journey from Pittsburg down the Ohio river on a flat-boat. Her death occurred May 19, 1884. To these parents there were "born the following children: Simon, a resident of Dayton; Mrs. Abbie Aughe and Mrs. Hannah Littleton, both of Springfield; Mrs. Sallie A. Bachman, of Clear Water Harbor, Fla. ; Mrs. Ella Gifford, of Bloomington, Ills, (died July 30, 1896); Mrs. Lydia J. Slack, of Springfield, Ohio; Derostus F. L. , of Chicago, and William E.

Senator Sparks spent his boyhood days at work and in attending the common schools. Aside from the education thus secured he had the advantage of a thorough course at a commercial school at Springfield. Later he learned the trade of a machinist at Richmond, Ind., which trade he has since followed, sparing only such time away from it as has been required for his attendance upon the sessions of the state senate at Columbus in 1893-4 and

1895-6. He removed to Dayton in 1873, and has always been recognized as a representative of the workingmen of this city, and has for years been prominent in the councils of the republican party. In the spring of 1892, Mr. Sparks was elected to the city council of Dayton from the First ward, at a special election. In 1893 he was nominated by the republican party as its candidate for the state senate from the Third district, composed of the counties of Montgomery and Preble. At that time the normal democratic majority in this district was 1,200, yet so popular was Mr. Sparks that, against a strong opponent, he was elected by a majority of 2,411 votes. In 1895 he was again nominated and elected to the state senate, this time running ahead of his ticket in Montgomery county, and receiving a total majority, of 3,052 votes. He is the first republican who has been elected and re-elected to the state senate from Mohtgomery county since 1864, when a similar honor was conferred on the Hon. L. B. Gunckel, of Dayton. During the Seventy-first general assembly Mr. Sparks was chairman of the committee on sanitary laws and regulations, was second chairman of the committee on municipal corporations No. 2, and a member of the committees on the Soldiers' & Sailors' Home; manufactures and commerce; labor; mines and mining; fees and salaries, and public expenditures. In the Seventy-second general assembly he was chairman of the committee on municipal corporations No. 2, and a member of the committees on universities and colleges (of which he was secretary), manufacturers and commerce, labor, military affairs (of which also he was secretary), public expenditures, medical societies and colleges. Being a workingman himself, and well equipped for the duties of senator, Mr. Sparks has made a fine record in the highest legislative body of the state. He has never missed an opportunity to advance the cause of his constituents, and especially of the working class. His views on public and important questions have always been broad and practicable, and he has had the courage to make known his convictions.

For five years Senator Sparks was a member of the Champion City guards, O. N. G., and served during the strikes of 1877. He is at present a member of Linden division, uniformed rank, Knights of Pythias, and has served both as captain of the same and as colonel on the staff of Gen. Weidner; is a member of Wayne lodge, I. O. O. F. ; of Dayton encampment, No. 2 ; of Gem City lodge, United American Mechanics, and of Columbia lodge, Knights and Ladies of Honor.

On May 6, 1890, Mr. Sparks was married to Miss Minnie A. Kimes, a daughter of Frank and Melissa Kimes, of Dayton. During the presidential campaign of 1896, Senator Sparks organized the Workingmen's McKinley campaign club, which had a membership of over 3,000, was the largest laboring men's club in the United States, and of this club he was elected president.

QAURICE L. SPEAR, of the national military home, near Dayton, Ohio, was born in White Marsh, Montgomery county, Pa., December 25, 1843. His parents, Daniel and Barbara Spear, both died at the family home in White Marsh - the father in 1883, at the age of seventy-nine years, and the mother ten years later, at the age of eighty-five.

Maurice L. Spear, at the early age of fourteen years, ran away from his home and endeavored to enlist in the United States navy, but was rejected on account of his youth. He then bound himself to a blacksmith in Beverly, N. J., and with him he worked until the outbreak of the Rebellion, when he enlisted,

August 6, 1861, at Philadelphia, in company K, known as Birney's Zouaves, of the Twentythird Pennsylvania volunteer infantry. Remaining at Washington, D. C., until early in March, 1862, the regiment was assigned to the army of the Potomac; and was embarked on transports at Alexandria to steam to Fortress Monroe, Va. Mr. Spear then took part in the siege of Yorktown, the battle of Williamsburg, and under Gen. George B. McClellan, fought throughout the war of the peninsula; was under Gen. Pope at the second battle of Bull Run, again under McClellan at South Mountain and Antietam, and at Fredericksburg under Burnside, being in Gen. Franklin's division, which opened this disastrous battle. Gen. Burnside having been relieved of his command and Gen. " Fighting Joe" Hooker placed in his stead, and the Twenty-third Pennsylvania infantry having been merged with the Sixth army corps, Mr. Spear became a participant in the battle of Chancellorsville, in which Gen. Lee and " Stonewall " Jackson badly defeated Hooker. Here Jackson was accidently killed by one of his own men - the fight having lasted two days, May 2-3, 1863. Gen. Meade being now placed in command, the Sixth army corps made the longest march known to military history and reached Gettysburg, Pa., taking its place in the second day's fight of that famous battle as "fresh" troops, July 3, 1863. Here, while standing at the side of Mr. Spear, his brother lost his right hand. Meade followed the retreating Confederates for a time, then made the expedition against Mine Run, Va., and there went into winter quarters. In the winter of 1863 Mr. Spear re-enlisted, was given a veteran furlough home, and in May 1864, rejoined the army at North Anna river, Va. ; lie took part in the battle of Cold Harbor June 1, 1864, and there lost his left arm below the elbow, sustained a severe wound in his right leg, a wound in his side, and a second wound in his disabled arm - four wounds in one battle. His arm was amputated on the field June 3, and the day following he was conveyed to White House Landing; on the 10th he reached Alexandria, Va. , and was thence sent to David's island, in New York harbor, where he was treated in hospital until August, 1864, when he was allowed again to go home on furlough. September 1, 1864, he reported at McClellan's hospital, Philadelphia, did duty until September 6, 1865, when he was finally discharged from Moyer hospital, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. Mr. Spear then returned to his parental home in White Marsh, where for a time he was employed by the Reading railroad company, and later by the Union Street Car company of Philadelphia, until March, 1873, when he came to the soldiers' home in Dayton. Here he has been employed in various positions, part of the time as a guard and part of the time as commander of a company. For the past ten years he has had charge of the "order" department of the Home beer hall, which none but inmates are permitted to enter, and these only under rigid restrictions.

The parents of Lieut. Spear had a family of twelve children, of whom nine were living at the opening of the Civil war. David, the only brother, lost his hand at Gettysburg, as heretofore mentioned, and is now living in retirement at Gloucester, N. J, ; two of his sisters, Mrs. Amanda Woods and Miss Cecelia Spear, reside in Philadelphia; another, Mrs. Aletia Anderson, lives near Camden, N. J.; Mrs. Mary A. Jern is a resident of Cambridge, Washinton county, N. Y., and Mrs. Adeline McCauley died in Philadelphia. The family being of German descent, Mr. Spear took his religious vows in the German Reformed church on reaching his majority. In politics he is republican, but for several years past he has not been active in matters political.

EORGE W. HOUR, deceased, was born in Cumberland county, Pa., on September 25, 1825. His father, Adam Houk, was a native of the same county, to which his father, Adam Houk, Sr., had removed during the middle of the last century. In 1827 Adam Houk, Jr., removed to Dayton, Ohio, and in this city George W. Houk spent the remainder of his life. The education of George W. Houk was secured in the common schools and at the Dayton academy. He studied law in the office of Peter P. Lowe, and was admitted to the bar in 1847, following which he formed a partnership with his preceptor. A year or so later, however, he dissolved this relation and entered into a like one with the Hon. George B. Holt. In 1 860 he formed a partnership with the Hon. John A. McMahon, which lasted for twenty years, and from 1880 on Mr. Houk practiced on his sole account.

In 1852, though but twenty-seven years of age, Mr. Houk was sent to the Ohio legislature, and was distinguished by being made chairman of the judiciary committee. In i860 he was sent as a delegate to the national democratic convention at Charleston, S. C., at which Stephen A. Douglas was nominated for president. In 1876 he was a delegate to the democratic national convention at Saint Louis, when Samuel J. Tilden was nominated for the presidency. In 1884 he was nominated a district elector. In 1890 Mr. Houk was elected to congress from the Third Ohio district, and in 1892 was re-elected. His death occurred suddenly in Washington, on February 9, 1894, during his second congressional term.

On December 25, 1856, Mr. Houk was married to Eliza P. Thruston, daughter of Robert A. Thruston, a granddaughter of Horatio G. Phillips, and a sister to Gen. Gates P. Thruston, of Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Houk left a widow and three children, of whom Mrs.

Mr. Houk was possessed of strong intellectual powers and of literary tastes and ability, which manifested themselves in the writing of essays, philosophical treatises and public addresses upon subjects covering a wide range. Much of his best work of this character was done solely for the love of writing and in order to fix in his mind the result of his extensive reading. While, therefore, some of his most valuable literary productions remained in manuscript and without publication, his fine gift of expression and wealth of knowledge were known, outside his library, chiefly through his addresses upon public occasions. In this direction, his dignity, his fine presence, his rich fund of information upon public questions, and his thorough command of the best graces of oratory, combined to make George W. Houk one of the most prominent figures in the past fifty years of Dayton's history. Added to his equipment as a scholar and thinker were most delightful social qualities, humor, urbanity, unfailing courtesy and genuine hospitality. In both private and public life Mr. Houk was a fine type of the high-minded, upright, useful citizen. His sudden death came as a severe blow upon the community in which he had so long been loved and honored, bringing the sense of personal loss to a great circle of friends and acquaintances whom for many years he had charmed with his personality and impressed with his strength of mind and high moral character.

aHARLES ALBERT STAINROOK, brick contractor and president of the Dayton Pressed Brick company, of Dayton, Ohio, was born in Philadelphia October 16, 1852. He is a son of Will- iam and Anna (Housel) Stainrook, natives of Pennsylvania, are the parents of eleven children, of whom the following are still living: Emma, Virginia, Kate, Charles A., Lewis, Clara and Maggie. The father of these children is a bricklayer by trade and still lives in Philadelphia, with all the family except Charles A. Formerly he was a contractor, but has lived retired for several years. His wife is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

David Stainrook, the father of William Stainrook, was a native of Philadelphia, of German parents, who came to the United States and settled in Philadelphia, where David Stainrook, a blacksmith by trade, lived all his life, dying when eighty years of age. He and his wife were the parents of twelve children. The maternal grandfather of Charles A., was an Englishman by birth, came to the United States, and settled at York, Pa., where he was engaged in hotel keeping. He reared a family of eight children, and died at an advanced age.

Charles A. Stainrook was reared in Philadelphia, received a common-school education, and at the age of eighteen began learning the brickmason's trade. This trade he followed some four years, and in 1880 removed to Dayton, Ohio, where he became engaged in contract work. He has erected a large number of buildings in Dayton, among them the Deaconess hospital, the Davies building, the Barney building, and the Dayton Club building. He was one of the organizers of the Dayton Pressed Brick company in 1894, and is now its president. This company gives employment to an average of twenty- five men, and is carrying on a prosperous business.

On January 18, 1882, Mr. Stainrook was married to Miss Margaret Hagerman, daughter of Christopher and Eliza Jane (Breen) Hagerman. To this marriaga there have been born four children, as follows: Mildred, Mar- garet, Bessie and Clara. Politically Mr. Stainrook is a republican, but is not in any sense an office seeker. He lives at No. 149 High street, and is well known throughout the county as a reliable contractor and a straightforward, honest man, kind and generous in disposition and worthy of the confidence of the community in which he has earned an ample business success.

a APT. JACOB C. STALEY, one of the honored and prominent ex-soldiers of Dayton, Ohio, was born in this city, February 25, 1842. His parents, Solomon and Susan B. Staley, were natives of Frederick, Md., were born November 21, 1806, and March 7, 1814, respectively, were married in Frederick, September 21, 1831, and came to Dayton, Ohio, in 1832. The father was a cooper by trade, and died in Dayton, May 3, 1855; his widow survived until December 8, 1895, when she died in her eighty-second year. Of their ten children four only are living, and of these, three served with honor and credit in the late Civil war. The Staley family was of Dutch and Swiss descent, and for several generations was resident of Maryland, Solomon Staley, mention above, having been the founder of the family in Ohio.

Capt. Jacob C. Staley, the eldest of the four surviving children born to his parents, first enlisted for three months, April 16, 1861, in company C, First Ohio volunteer infantry, served at the battles of Vienna, Va., and of Bull Run, was honorably discharged August 16, of the same year, and immediately re-enlisted for three years, entering company F, Second Ohio volunteer infantry, as sergeant. He was assigned to the army of the Cumberland, took part in the skirmish at West Liberty, Ky. , and then in the battle of Ivy Mountain, November 8, 1861. His regiment then became part of Gen. Mitchell's division, and went to Huntsville, Ala., and was first in the skirmishes at Widow's Creek and at Bridgeport, then followed Bragg's army to Louisville, Ky., from the Tennessee river, and next participated in the battle of Perryville, Ky. , October 8, 1862. The battle of Stone River followed December 31, and here Mr. Staley had command of his company, having been commissioned second lieutenant; the regiment then lay at Murfreesboro until June, 1863, when it started on the Tullahoma campaign under Gen. Rosecrans, of Rousseau's division; Hoover's Gap battle followed, then Chickamauga, September 19 and 20, 1863. Remaining at Chattanooga until November 24, 1863, the regiment was in the battle of Lookout Mountain, followed by Missionary Ridge, November 25; and the enemy was next met at Ringgold, Ga. The regiment then started, May 7, 1863, on the Atlanta campaign under Sherman, and took part in the battles of Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost and Resaca. At the last-named place, May 15, 1864 (second day's fight), Capt. Staley received a wound across the crown of his head, fracturing his skull and leaving a depression so deep that even at the present time two fingers may easily be laid therein. He was placed in a field hospital for some time, was then furloughed home, and partially recovered; rejoined his regiment at Chattanooga, Tenn., in September, and on October 10, 1864, was mustered out at Camp Chase, Ohio, as first lieutenant, although he held a captain's commission, received too late for active service thereunder. Politically, an uncomproming republican, Capt. Staley, after returning to Dayton from the service, served as constable, deputy sheriff, etc., and for a few years was in the restaurant business, but of late has not been actively engaged in any oc-

The marriage of Capt. J. C. Staley took place October 31, 1866, with Miss Rachael McCafferty, a native of Dayton, who died in May, 1886, the mother of one child - Jacob G. Staley, a printer by occupation, living in Dayton, Ohio.

Henry J. Staley, brother of Capt. Jacob C., was a soldier in the Sixty-sixth Illinois volunteer infantry, served three years, and died in Dayton. Joseph P. Staley, another brother, was captain of company I, Eleventh Ohio volunteer infantry, incurred disability while in the service, which was the cause of his resignation and the eventual cause of his death, which also occurred in Dayton. The captain has two unmarried sisters, still living, and one married sister, Mrs. Mary C. Case, of Newport, Ky. , and these, with himself, comprise the survivors of the family born to his parents. Capt. J. C. Staley is at present lieutenant-colonel of encampment No. 145, Union Veteran Legion of Dayton.

OBERT STEIN, M. D., of No. no East Van Buren street, Dayton, and one of the city's most successful physicians, was born in Germany, October 18, 1861, and since July 3, 1873, has been a resident of Dayton, Ohio.

Louis and Johanna (Kuehne) Stein, his parents, came from Berlin, bringing their small family, in the year 1873, and the father, being a mechanic, upon reaching Dayton, found immediate employment as foreman for Zwick & Daniels, with whom he continued until his death in 1879, at the age of forty-four years. To his marriage were born five children, of whom Robert is the eldest; John is foreman for the Paper Novelty company of Dayton; George is spoke inspector for the Pinneo &

After coming to Dayton, Robert Stein was placed under private instruction and also attended night school, in order to improve himself in his knowledge of the English tongue, and when sufficiently -prepared entered the office of Dr. A. H. Iddings as a student of medicine. He then attended the Miami Medical college at Cincinnati, from which he was graduated with the class of 1886, and first located for practice in North Dayton, where he remained until the fall of 1889, when he went to Vienna, Austria. Here he studied at the renowned university of that city for one year; returning to Dayton, he was elected a member of the board of education, and after passing eleven months in the city made another trip to Europe, and for ten months was a student in the university of Berlin, devoting himself chiefly to acquiring a knowledge of surgery and of the treatment of diseases of women. On his return from Berlin he engaged in general practice in Dayton, and has met with gratifying success. He stands high in the esteem of his professional brethren, as well as that of the public, and is a member of the Montgomery county Medical association, and of the D. O. H. Since his return he has been re-elected a member of the board of education. On January 9, 1897, Dr. Stein was appointed United States pension examining surgeon for Dayton.

HOMAS L. STEWARD, agent of the Royal Insurance company at Dayton, Ohio, was born near Emmittsburg, Frederick count}', Md. , July 5, 1833, and is of Scotch-Irish descent paternally and of German descent maternaiiy. His grandfather, John Posey Steward, married Miss Mary Beam, and was flour inspector for the port of Baltimore for many years. John Beam Stew- ard, son of John Posey Steward and father of Thomas L. , was a miller by vocation, and August 30, 1 832, married Miss Ann Mary Link, Rev. David Schaeffer, of the Lutheran church, officiating. To this union were born six sons and one daughter, two in Frederick county, Md., the others in Ohio, and of this family the mother and four of the children are still living, the latter being Thomas and John, of Dayton, Ohio; D. Minor, of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Mrs. V. C. Gelwicks, of Delphi, Ohio. Thomas Link, the father of Mrs. John Beam Steward, married Miss Anna M. Fout. He was a wellto-do farmer of Maryland and a slave owner, but in his heart was opposed to holding human beings in bondage and eventually emancipated his living chattels. In politics the forefathers of Thomas L. Steward were all anti-slavery democrats, and all American patriots, some having served in the wars, and one aunt of our subject drew a pension as the result of her husband's services in the war of 1812. John B. Steward was thoroughly loyal to his native land and ever inculcated in his children the motto: "Your country, right or wrong.1' In the fall of 1837 he came to Ohio and settled in Lewisburg, Preble county, saying that a slave state was no place for a man who had to work with his hands. Schools in those days were taught only in winter, and the instruction given was of an elementary character; the schoolbuildings were far apart, and that which our subject attended was two miles from his home. In December, 1846, John B. Steward had the misfortune to fall through a hatchway in his mill, the accident resulting in his death on the fourth day of the same month.

Thomas L. Steward, being the eldest child in the family, was now called upon to aid in the support of his mother and the younger children, the estate of his father being lost through bad investments by the administrator. In 1847 a friend secured for him a situation as driver on the Miami & Erie canal at a compensation of $15 in gold per month. This proved of great aid to the mother and little ones, and later he was promoted to be steersman at $30 per month. In 1850 he began learning the trade of carriage blacksmith with a Mr. Woodmansee, on St. Clair street, Dayton, and this vocation he followed until the breaking out of the Civil war, in 1861.

August 10, 1856, Mr. Steward was married to Miss Frances A. Garber, the ceremony being performed by Rev. George W. Williard, of the First Reformed church, of Dayton. This union has resulted in the birth of two children - Carrie M., on March 11, 1858, and LeRoyT. , March 24, i860. The daughter is deceased, but the son, LeRoy T. , passed through the Dayton schools, and at the age of nineteen years went to Chicago, where he has risen to considerable distinction, having been president of the Marquette republican club, and being the present lieutenant-colonel and inspector of the First brigade, Illinois national guard; in fact, he has been identified with the state militia since he was sixteen years of age, and is well prepared to take part in the defense of his country should he ever be called upon for that purpose, as were his forefathers.

In politics Thomas L. Steward was at first an anti-slavery democrat, and voted for John C. Fremont, as the representative of the antislavery principles, for president of the United States, in 1856. In local politics he voted with the democrats, but in i860 cast his vote for Lincoln in the presidential election. He was a member of the Washington (Dayton) light artillery, and when the call to arms was sounded at the firing on Fort Sumter, his company, of which he had been elected second lieutenant, went to Columbus and was assigned, as company A, to the Ohio volunteer militia, served four months, and was then mustered out. After working at his trade, on his return to Dayton, until July, 1862, Mr. Steward, as second lieutenant of a company of thirty men, intended to enter the regular army, but this step was opposed by the county military committee and he was assigned as second lieutenant of company I, Eleventh Ohio volunteer infantry, to serve three years. He was mustered in at Camp Dennison, August 9, 1862, joined his regiment in West Virginia, was with his company at the battle of Hoover's Gap, Tenn., and was mustered out as first lieutenant June 24, 1863, although he had commanded his company at Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. After a leave of absence of twenty days he rejoined the army at Chattanooga, was appointed to the command of company K, and fought at Resaca, which was the last battle in which his regiment took part. After that battle Capt. Steward was taken sick and was brought, on his way home, as far as Cincinnati, flat on his back. The regiment was mustered out at Camp Dennison, June 20, 1864, and Capt. Steward was offered a lieutenant-colonelcy, but was refused the promotion by the examining surgeon, who decided him to be unfit for further active duty.

Light employment was difficult to procure, but in November, 1864, Capt. Steward secured a responsible position with the United States and American Express companies, with whom he served seven years, when he resigned on account of ill health. May 10, 1873, he was sworn in as chief of the Dayton Metropolitan police force, but resigned, and for two years was a traveling salesman for John Dodds & Co., then for ten and a half years acted in the same capacity for Greer & King, stove manufacturers. In 1887 he accepted his present position as agent for the Royal Insurance company, in which he has been very successful.

has filled the offices of quartermaster's sergeant and trustee for two years, quartermaster two years, post commander one year, and one year inspector on the state staff for two counties. In religion he has been a member of the First Reformed church since about 1858. The captain had two brothers who served in the Eleventh Ohio volunteer infantry, one cousin in the Ninety-third, two cousins in an Ohio cavalry regiment, and one in an Illinois regiment of infantry. In longevity, the span of life of the family is somewhat beyond the ordinary, the mother of the captain being now in her eighty-eighth year, and he and his wife in their sixty-fourth. In the respect of the community none stand higher.

a APT. JOHN R. STEWART, who holds an important official position at the national soldiers' home, is the son of Neil and Mary (Barker) Stewart, natives of Dublin, Ireland, and first saw the light of day on-the 29th of June, 1844, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The father, a silversmith by trade, died when his son John was a small child, and after the mother's re-marriage, her three sons, William, Robert and John R. , left the parental roof, seeking their fortunes in different parts of the country; William entered the regular army before the Civil war, and Robert went to California, where he still makes his home.

Capt. Stewart grew to manhood in his native city, where, on the 12th of April, 1861, he enlisted in what was known as the Guthrie Grays, afterward designated as the Sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, for the three months' service. He re-enlisted in the field prior to the expiration of his term of service, the regiment retaining its original organization, but his company being changed from E to A. Nicholas

S. Anderson was made colonel of this regiment, which shared the vicissitudes of war for three years under Gens. Nelson, Buell and Grant, and took part in many of the hardfought battles of the southwestern campaigns. In the battle of Murfreesboro, 152 of its men were reported killed, wounded and missing, out of 383 men and officers engaged; a heavy loss was also sustained at Chickamauga, where 125 brave men failed to respond at roll call after the battle, Col. Anderson being among the number severely wounded. The loss at Stone River aggregated seventy-seven, of whom fifty-one, or thirteen per cent, were killed - a greater loss than that sustained by any other regiment engaged in that battle, except the Twenty-first Illinois.

Capt. Stewart was mustered out of the service June 23, 1864, and shortly thereafter engaged in railroading, accepting the position of conductor, which he filled for a period of five years. During the twelve succeeding years he was connected with the fire department of Cincinnati, in which he filled every official station, and while thus employed met with a painful injury by falling from a ladder from the fourth story of a building. He was picked up for dead and resuscitated only after long and skillful treatment. After his recovery, he was promoted to the captaincy of another company with lighter duties, but finally, on account of his injuries, retired from the fire department, and, being unable by reason of his disabilities to engage in any active employment, he became an inmate of the national soldiers' home, where, with the exception of two years, he has held official positions of various kinds since 1886.

Capt. Stewart was a brave soldier and earned a reputation for gallantry upon fields made memorable by reason of fierce struggle and great effusion of blood. He is proud of his record, which is indeed without a stain, as

The captain takes great interest in Masonry, in which he holds high rank, having attained the thirty-second degree. He belongs to Mystic lodge, No. 405; Dayton Unity chapter, No. 16; Reese council, No. 9, royal and select Masons; Reed commandery, No. 6, K. T. , and A. A., Scottish-rite, No. 32, Cincinnati. In February, 1896, he was honored with the shriners' degree; he is a member of the Syrian temple, Cincinnati, and also belongs to the Union Veteran Legion, the G. A. R. , and encampment 82, W. V. S. In religion and politics the captain is most liberal, not being bound by creed or party.

BRANK A. STETSON, telegraph operator at the national military home, near Dayton, Ohio, was born in Mattawamkeag, Penobscot county, Me., May 1 7, 1848, and is a son of Charles W. and Margaret Stetson, the former of whom died when Frank A. was but six years of age and the latter while he was in the Civil war. Of the six sons born to these parents, four were soldiers in the Civil war and one a sutler, or military storekeeper; all five returned, but of these, two have since died; one brother, Charles W. , is a merchant in Boston, Mass., and one, Alfred, resides in Hodgedon, Me.; two sisters are still living - Mrs. George Elkins, in Chicago, 111., and Mrs. J. M. Hilton, in Cambridge, Mass.

Frank A. Stetson received his education in Lincoln, Me., and in Holton, Me., and at the early age of fourteen years and seven months enlisted in the Seventeenth United States infantry. Sixty of his boyhood associates - most of them his own age - enlisted at the same time, and of these but eight returned, of whom two or three were musicians and for that reason were not required to enter into the thickest of the fray. Mr. Stetson's regiment was assigned to the Fifth army corps, regular division, commanded by Gen. Sykes. He joined the army at Harrison's Landing, Va. , after its defeat in the Peninsular campaign. He fought at second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Antietam, Gettysburg, through the Wilderness, in the Petersburg campaign, and in the Weldon railroad campaign. In a battle fought by the First and Second divisions of the Fifth corps, at a place locally known as Squirrel Level road, young Stetson and fifteen comrades, with two officers, were captured from an aggregate of thirty-two men then in his regiment and detailed for duty. The sappers and miners had felled trees, forming an impenetrable obstruction to the advance of the enemy, but by some means the rebels managed to secrete in front of this abattis a body of infantry, who found it an easy matter to capture the Federals, who were deployed for skirmish duty - Mr. Stetson being among the number. This was the last battle in which he took part, as he was first sent to Libby prison, thence to Danville, and finally to Salisbury, N. C. He was held from October io, 1864, until February 22, 1865, when he was paroled and sent to Annapolis, Md., to await exchange. He was there discharged April 5, 1865, when he returned to his home in Lincoln, Me.

Mr. Stetson now began the study of telegraphy, and was for thirteen years employed as an operator on the European & North American railroad - the last nine years of this period being passed in his native town. He was then employed for one year in a machine shop in Boston, Mass., and for four years in the same business in New York city. In 1883 he entered the national military home at Hampton, Va., having been led to take this step from having lost his right leg above the knees, and finding in difficult to make a good living as a mechanic, in competition with ablebodied men. At the Hampton home he was employed in the manufacture of artificial limbs, and after passing three years in this manner, he came to the Central branch at Dayton, Ohio, where, for several years, he was employed in the same occupation. For the past three years, however, he has had charge of the Western Union telegraph office at the home and has performed -his duties in a most satisfactory manner.

Mr. Stetson has never married. He was reared in the religious faith of his parents - that of the Methodist church - and politically has been a life-long republican. Fraternally he is a member of the Union Veteran Union encampment of Dayton. He has been so long separated from his relatives, and was so young when bereft of his parents, that his genealogy has been lost. It may be added, in regard to Mr. Stetson, that his habits of life have been those of morality and industry, and that he enjoys the confidence and esteem of the officials of the home and of his comrades.

ENRY STODDARD, deceased, was among the prominent, and, by many, well-remembered pioneer citizens of Dayton, who contributed greatly toward the growth and development of the Gem City and her institutions, and who left their impress upon the history of the community, and for over half a century was closely identified with the interests and affairs of this growing city, and for almost that length of time ranked as one of the foremost and most successful members of the Montgomery county bar association.

Mr. Stoddard was born on the 1 8th day of March, 1788, at Woodbury, Conn., and was descended from prominent Pilgrim and Revolutionary ancestry. His father, Asa Stoddard, was a direct descendant from the Rev. Anthony Stoddard, of London, England, who settled in Boston, Mass., in 1670, and whose many descendants have for over two centuries occupied honorable and responsible positions in the New England, eastern and middle states. After attending the common schools and securing such education as was to be obtained from that source in that day, and after spending about five years clerking in a store, Mr. Stoddard began reading law, and in the year 1812 was admitted to the bar. Four years later, in company with the late Hon. George B. Holt, he came west on horseback, and in 1817 located permanently in Dayton. At that time Dayton was but a village of not over 600 people, situated in the center of avast and almost unbroken wilderness, and in the practice of his profession Mr. Stoddard made the circuit on horseback, attending court in the surrounding counties, in doing which he was compelled to undergo many hardships and often perils. Success attended his efforts, however, and for many years he ranked as one of the leading lawyers in this part of the state. During the years from 1840 until his retirement from practice, Mr. Stoddard was the law partner of the late Judge D. A. Haynes, and between the two there always existed terms of intimacy and cordiality. Having acquired a competency, and having reached an age when one who has lived an active life begins to seek rest, Mr. Stoddard retired from active practice of the law in 1846, and thereafter gave his time and attention to his private affairs. His death occurred at his home in this city on the 1st day of November, 1869. For many years Mr. Stoddard was quite active in church work, having been a ruling elder in the First Presbyterian church of Dayton. He was also for years vice-president and a life director of the American Colonization society.

wife having been Harriet L. Patterson, who died on the 1st day of October, 1822, leaving one son, Asa P. Stoddard, now a citizen of Saint Louis. His second wife was Susan Willliams, who died on the 5th day of April, 1861, leaving the following children: Mrs. Samuel

B. Smith, of Dayton; Henry Stoddard, now a resident of California; John W. Stoddard, president of the Stoddard Manufacturing company, of Dayton, and E. Fowler, deceased. Sketches of the two latter sons may be found elsewhere in this volume.

FOWLER STODDARD (deceased) was one of the most prominent and popular of the younger class of representative business men of Dayton. He was born in this city on July 16, 1845, and was the son of the late Henry Stoddard, of whom a sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. At the age of twenty-two years he was graduated from Yale college, in the class of 1867; and in 1868 was married to Miss Bessie W. Lowe, daughter of Col. John G. Lowe, of Dayton.

After a varied business experience in Dayton of several years, Mr. Stoddard became connected with his brother, John W., in the manufacturing business, where his superior business capabilities, mechanical aptitude, and excellent principles soon became of inestimable value, and led to his promotion to the position of vice-president and general manager of the concern.

Mr. Stoddard was an active participant in everything that tended to promote the general business interests of the city and was a highly esteemed and valuable member of the Dayton board of trade. He was in attendance at one of the regular meetings of the board on the evening of Tuesday, May 31, 1887, and after the adjournment, at about nine o'clock, pass- ing down the east stairway from the city building to Jefferson street, paused for a few minutes, under the shelter, in conversation with a fellow-member of the board before passing out upon the sidewalk, to await the cessation of a heavy shower of rain. He had been standing there but a few minutes when a flash was- suddenly reflected from the water on the pavement, accompanied by the report of a pistol. A young man at the same instant was seen running by in the rain, but who, a few minutes afterward, hurried back to pick up the pistol, which had accidentally fallen from his pocket, and upon striking the pavement had exploded. The ball, thus driven from its chamber, unaimed by any human hand or eye, struck Mr. Stoddard, some twenty feet distant, immediately below and in the rear of the left ear, and, ranging upward, lodged in the base of the brain. He was sufficiently conscious to realize the probable fatal character of the injury. His first thought was that his wife should be spared the shock, his next, that his brother should be called to his side. His last coherent words were that he had ' ' tried to live square with the world." He was quickly removed to his home and the most skillful surgical aid was at once in attendance. He gradually became unconscious, and before the morning of June I, 1887, breathed his last upon the same spot where, forty-two years before, he was ushered into existence. It would be impossible to exaggerate the deep and heart-felt sorrow that pervaded the community upon this most tragic occurrence, which had cut short a life and business career replete with every promise of happiness, usefulness and success.

Mr. Stoddard was always an active Christian, as enthusiastic in church work as he was in business. He was a man of marked versatility in church, in society and in business; and in the world of field sports, his excellencies of character was alike displayed, and their superior influence recognized. His mental faculties were well trained. He possessed a great power of concentration with a large degree of enthusiasm in whatever he undertook. He was remarkably quick in his perceptions, and rapid, though not unsafe, in arriving at conclusions.

As the general manager of the large manufacturing establishment of which he was also vice-president, Mr.- Stoddard was conspicuous for his intelligence, promptness and straightforward dealing with the men under his management. He always commanded their instant respect. With the innate instinct of a gentleman his intercourse with the employees was uniformly such as to inspire each of them with a sentiment of personal esteem - in many instances of affection. He was at once affable, kind and firm, and scores of these men, who were assembled at the manufactory on the morning when they learned the sad intelligence of his death, gave free vent to their sorrow in tears. No more touching tribute was ever paid to the memory of any man than was witnessed at his funeral, when several hundred of these plain, unpretentious laboring men, whom he had greeted daily with friendly words, and who had long been performing their daily tasks under his supervision, followed on foot his remains to the grave, and there stood with uncovered heads and tearful eyes to testify their appreciation of his worth and their sorrow for his untimely death.

OHN H. STOPPELMAN, one of the venerable and honored citizens of Dayton, Ohio, was born in the township of Dochren, parish of Riemsloh, amt Groenenberg, Osnabruck, Westphalia, kingdom of Hanover, on the 1 ith of August, 1826. His parents were Peter H. and Catherine Marion (Hazelhorst) Stoppelman, the father being a native of the same province where the son was born, the mother coming from West Kiloer, parish of Roedinghausen, amt Buende, Westphalia, kingdom of Prussia. The father died in his native land, on February 23, 1841, and his wife survived him until November 13, 1854. They were the parents of eight children, as follows : John Frederick died in

Germany, in 1857 ; Mary Elizabeth, who came with the family to America in 1858, met her death as the result of an accident, in Dayton, on the 28th of December, i860, having been the wife of C. H. Althoff, who also is deceased ; Catherine Mary died in the fatherland in 1857, having been the wife of John F. Pape ; Herman H. emigrated to America in 1853, but returned to Germany two years later and there died in 1868 ; Catherine, who died in her native land in 1873, was the wife of John F. Budde ; John H. was the next in order of birth; Flora became the wife of C. H. Kaeseman, and her death occurred in Germany in 1878 ; and Charles H. died November 10, 1892, on the old homestead.

John H. Stoppelman was reared on the parental farm in Westphalia, and received his educational discipline in the excellent schools of his native land, remaining upon the old homestead until the time of his emigration to America. He landed in New York on the 5th of May, 1849, being the first of the family to seek a home in the new world. He proceeded to Ulster county, N. Y., where he engaged in work on a canal boat. On December 6, 1849, he left New York for Cincinnati,

Ohio, arriving in the Queen City on the 1 8th of the same month, making the journey by canal, stage, railway and the Ohio river. He remained in Cincinnati until June, 1850, when he went to Middletown, this state, where he was for some time in the employ of Adam Foster, a popular hotel keeper. In August, 1851, Mr. Stoppelman made his advent in the city of Dayton, which has ever since been his home and the scene of his earnest and useful endeavors. He secured employment with Daniel Beckel, beginning his labors in the humble capacity of hostler ; but such was his intelligence and his manifest capacity for affairs of greater breadth that he was given a position in Mr. Beckel's bank, where he acted in a clerical capacity. After the failure of this enterprise our subject continued in the employ of Mr. Beckel, becoming a salesman in a drygoods establishment which his employer had opened. Mr. Stoppelman was faithful to his employer and for a period of two years, while Mr. Beckel was absent in Michigan, where he was building a railroad, his entire business in Dayton was committed to the charge of our subject, who handled the same to the entire satisfaction of his principal. He remained for nine years with Mr. Beckel, and was a trusted friend and confidant of the man who had thus given him an opportunity to secure a start in the world.

In i860 Mr. Stoppelman became, to a certain extent, actively concerned in local politics, and was elected a member of the school board of the city. He was next given a position in the office of the county auditor, in 1861, retaining this place for one year. In 1862 he was elected a justice of the peace, in which capacity he served for the full term of three years. He then engaged in the insurance business, being one of the projectors and organizers of the Teutonia Insurance company, of which he was the first secretary, holding that office for more than two years. Within this time he engaged in the brewing business, in company with William Sander, and they operated the City brewery for a period of five years. This venture proved unsuccessful, and through it Mr. Stoppelman lost considerable money. He next turned his attention to the life insurance business, in which he continued for four years.

In 1870 and 1872 Mr. Stoppelman again served as a member of the board of education, and was returned to this important department in the centennial year. In the same year (1876) he was also elected a member of the board of equalization, in which capacity he rendered service for one year. In 1881 he was elected to the city council, and was re-elected in 1883, while in 1886 he was again elected a member of the board of equalization, and, in 1891, to the decennial board of equalization. In the various official capacities in which he has served Mr. Stoppelman has been alert and conscientious, holding the interests of the public at heart and doing all in his power to further wise municipal government and general prosperity. His life has been one of unswerving integrity and honor, and within the long years of his residence in Dayton he has not failed to gain and retain the esteem and confidence of the community.

The marriage of Mr. Stoppelman was solemnized on the 4th of October, 1855, when he was united to Miss Margaret B. Schirmer, of Wapakoneta, Auglaize county, this state, she being a native of the county mentioned. To this union ten children have been born, and of the number six are living, namely: Susan, wife of Henry F. Logel, of Dayton; Margaret C. , a teacher in the Dayton public schools; John H., Jr., secretary of the Weston Paper company; Charles F., in the employ of W. L. Adamson & Co., wholesale grocers of this city; William S., assistant secretary of the Dayton water works, and Daniel W., at home. Three children died in infancy, and Flora A., who was born August 27, 1875, died September 10, 1886. The religious connections of the family are with Saint Paul's Lutheran church, on Wayne street.

OSEPH STRAUB, merchant, of Dayton, Ohio, is a native of the city, a son of parents who were among the early settlers here and of the most sturdy German stock. He conducts a successful retail grocery at the corner of Boltin and McLain streets, where he has been located for a term of years. He was born September 25, 1854, in that portion of Dayton then known as Frenchtown. His- father, Joseph Straub, Sr., who is still living and who is honored as one of the patriarchs of Dayton, which has been the scene of his honest and active endeavors for so many years, was born in Baden, Germany, whence, in the early '50s, he emigrated to America. Upon reaching the United States the young German made his way directly to Dayton, which has ever since been his home, his arrival here dating back to 1852. In the fatherland he had learned the trades of coopering and brewing, and soon after his arrival in Dayton he built the old brewery on Third street and operated the same for several years, after which he resumed work at the cooper's trade. In the war of the Rebellion he rendered loyal service in the Fifty-eighth Ohio volunteer infantry, being a member of Capt. Diston's company. The maiden name of his wife was Kunigunda Maier. By her marriage to Joseph Straub, Sr., she became the mother of five children, all of whom are still living.

Joseph Straub, Jr., the immediate subject of this review, passed his youthful days in Dayton, receiving his education in the public schools, after which he assumed the practical duties of life by securing a clerkship in the grocery of John Wenz, in whose employ he remained four years, after which he held a similar position in the dry-goods establishment of Bunstine, Moses & Boyer for a period of three years. His next employment was as a salesman in the clothing house of Chamberlain & Parker, with whom he remained only about nine months, when he became identified with the wholesale notion trade in the establishment of C. C. Moses, with whom he remained for two years. He then engaged, on his own account, in the confectionery business, and continued this enterprise with increasing success for a period of five years, after which he disposed of the same and accepted a position with William Focke & Sons, meat dealers, with whom he remained for three years. In October, 1886, he established his present successful business by opening a well-equipped and attractive grocery at the location already noted, and here he has since continued, hold-' ing a representative patronage and the best class of trade. He has other interests which demand a part of his time and attention, and among these it may be noted that for the past five years he has been a member of the directory of the Permanent Building & Savings association, of Dayton, and for the past two years has been vice-president of the same.

In his political faith Mr. Straub is a member of the democratic party. Fraternally, he is a member of the order known as the American Sons of Columbus and is also identified with the A. O. U. W. and the C. K. of O.

In the year 1876 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Straub to Miss Josephine Clemens, a daughter of Nicholas Clemens, of Dayton. They are the parents of four daughters, viz: Henrietta, Ida, Marie and Helen. He and his family are members of Holy Trinity Roman Catholic church.

Ayland P. Sunderland

AYLAND P. SUNDERLAND, treasurer of Montgomery county, Ohio, was born near Centerville, Washington township, Montgomery county, Ohio, on February 11, 1853. He is a son of Aaron and Minerva (Irwin) Sunderland, both of whom were born in the same locality, the father in the year 1809, and the mother in 1819. The father was a farmer by vocation, and died in 1872, at the age of sixty-three years. The mother is still living.

The paternal grandfather of Wayland P. was Peter Sunderland, who was born in Pennsylvania, of English descent, and was one of the earliest settlers in Montgomery county. The maternal grandfather was William Irwin, also an early settler of this county.

Wayland P. Sunderland was reared on the farm. He attended the district schools and finished his education at the college in Lebanon, Ohio. He followed farming exclusively for several years, and then turned his attention to stock-raising, and for about ten years was one of the leading stockmen of the county. In the fall of 1894 he was elected treasurer of Montgomery county as the candidate of the republican party, and in 1896 was re-elected. He is also city treasurer of Dayton. In 1873 Mr. Sunderland was married to Lucy Reichstetter, who was born and reared in Dayton. Mr. Sunderland is a member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity.

APT. CHARLES j. TERWILLIGER is descended from families of English and Scotch origin that have been represented for several generations in the state of New York. His father was Charles Terwilliger, who died when the son, Charles, was a mere child, and his mother, Keziah Shaw, who has since re-married, is still living at an advanced age in her native state. There were four sons and one daughter born to Charles and Keziah Terwilliger, eldest of whom, Col. William H., is connected with the U. S. custom house in New York city; he was colonel of the Sixty-third New York infantry during the Civil war and fought with the celebrated Irish brigade in the army of the

Potomac; Thomas Peter, the second son, died in January, 1895, his place of residence at the time being Makanda, Ills., where he was engaged in the manufacture of flour; Moses S. is station and express agent for the New York & Erie railroad at Susquehanna, Penn., and the only daughter, Sarah, wife of William Vedenberg, resides at Newark, N. J.

Charles J. Terwilliger, the third in order of birth, first saw the light of day in the town of Bloomingburg, Sullivan county, N. Y. , on the 1st day of November, 1840. His early life was spent very much like that of other boys of his time, working at different occupations and attending school during the years of his minority. He early learned the miller's trade and followed the same until the breaking out of the late Civil war, when he enlisted, in 1861, at Middletown, N. Y. in company C, Fourth New York cavalry, with which he served in the army of the Potomac under division commander, Gen. Blinker. He was first under fire at Rose Hill, Va., and in May, 1862, received a severe wound, which necessitated his removal to the U. S. general hospital at Grafton, Va., where he remained until the 22d of July following, when he was pronounced sufficiently cured to rejoin his command.

The same year he re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Sixty-eighth New York infantry for nine months, which time he served with Gen. Keyes, doing garrison duty principally at Yorktown; subsequently he went further south with the Eleventh and Twelfth army corps under Gen. O. O. Howard, and was in Sherman's army until the expiration of his term of enlistment, receiving his final discharge at Newburg, N. Y.

In the fall of 1863, the captain again entered the army, enlisting in company E, Sixtythird New York infantry; this regiment was attached to the celebrated Irish brigade which formed a part of the famous Second corps under Gen. Hancock. Capt. Terwilliger was with his command in all the maneuvers of the corps during the final campaigns of the war, and took part in a number of celebrated battles; he was present at the surrender of the Confederate forces of Gen. Lee at Appomattox, and took part in the grand review of the victorious armies of the Union at Washington, in May, 1865. It was during the period of his third enlistment that he was promoted from the ranks in January, 1864, first lieutenant of company E, and on the 2d day of April, 1865, was made captain, in which capacity he served until the close of the war. In the grand review at the national capital the captain commanded the "color company" of the right. He held every position in the Sixtythird from private to captain, and at one time, by reason of the absence of other officers, he filled the positions of quartermaster and of adjutant; toward the close of the war, the right being weakened by casualties, promotions were not made to fill vacancies, as had formerly been the custom, which accounts for the important places with which he was entrusted at different times. The captain received his final discharge July 8, 1865, at Hart's Island, N. Y., and shortly thereafter, turned his attention to railroading, finding employment with the New York & Erie company, with which he remained eighteen years, filling during that time various positions, from that of section foreman to that of conductor. Severing his connection with the road, the captain next entered the employ of the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Manufacturing company of Springfield, O., and for several years traveled over the greater part of the United States, as an expert machinist. He was finally compelled to relinquish this arduous employment on account of injuries received while in the service; these, intensified by advancing years, induced him in 1893 to become an in- mate of the National Home for Disabled Volunteers, where ever since his admission his worth has been recognized, and he has been entrusted with lucrative employment suited to his ability. In November, 1895, he was appointed captain of company Thirty-one, which position he now holds. The captain gave the best years of his life to the service of his country, and his military record covers' a period of over forty-two months of the most active period of the Rebellion; he proved true to every trust, was never known to flinch in time of danger, and now, in his declining years, while enjoying the comfort and protection of the government he so nobly defended, looks back to the stirring scenes through which he passed, as the most useful, if not the most agreeable, part of his life. He is a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity, an active worker in the G. A. R., and politically wields an influence for the democratic party. The captain was married, in his twenty-second year, to Miss Charlotte Wilson, who departed this life at Port Jervis, N. Y., in 1870, leaving a daughter, who at this time is a resident of Springfield, Ohio.

BRANK LEOPOLD SUTTER, architect of Dayton, Ohio, was born in this city August 22, 1866, and is one of the four children born to Leopold and Adeline (Nowak) Sutter.

Leopold Sutter, father of Frank L. Sutter, was born in the grand duchy of Baden, Germany, October 10, 1832, came to America in 1852, and for six months lived in Circleville, Ohio ; he then came to Dayton and at once entered the employ of Ladow & Winder, as a marble cutter, and was thus employed for fifteen years, when he was made foreman of the works of Webber & Lehman, cut-stone contractors. This firm sold out to William Huffman, who, in turn, sold to L. H. Webber; but Mr. Sutter was not disturbed in his position of foreman. In 1881, however, Mr. Sutter engaged in business on his own account, with his eldest son, Benjamin, as a partner; but the son died in 1890, when the father returned to Mr. Webber, by whom he is still employed as a cut-stone contractor.

Mrs. Adeline ( Nowak ) Sutter, also a native of Baden, Germany, was born July 4, 1832, came to America in 1852, and married Leopold Sutter in Dayton in 1855. Of the three children born to them, beside our subject, one died in infancy ; Benjamin Bernard, alluded to above as having been the business partner of his father, died at the age of thirty-one years, leaving his widow with one son - the latter also now deceased ; Mary is the widow of Anthony Kramer, who was a merchant of Dayton and died February 3, 1895, leaving, beside his widow, two children - Albert A. and Julia Marie - the former of whom is employed in the office of Mr. Sutter.

Frank L. Sutter, after receiving a solid common-school education, at the age of sixteen years entered the office of Matthew Burrowes, architect, as a student ; five months later he entered the office of C. I. Williams, where he continued his studies and remained until 1889, when he embarked in business on his own account. On January 1, 1893, he entered into a partnership with Joseph C. Peters, which continued until September 1, 1896, when it was dissolved by mutual consent.

The marriage of Mr. Sutter took place in Dayton April 30, 1889, to Miss Catherine Munger, a native of the city and a daughter of George and Mary Munger. The mother of Mrs. Sutter died in 1881, and the father, who was a brickmaker, died in 1889 - the year of his daughter's marriage. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Munger were born eight children, viz: Martin, John, Frank, Joseph, George (de- ceased), Mary, Magdalene and Katie (Mrs. Sutter). Of this family, Martin is engaged in the real-estate and insurance business; John served three terms as county commissioner of Montgomery county, and is now living in retirement; Frank and Joseph are manufacturers of brick; Mary is the wife of Matthias Kammer, a manufacturer, and Magdalene is the wife of John Uschold. To the felicitous marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Sutter have been born four children, of whom Helen Margaret died when six months old, the survivors being Horace Benjamin, Ruth and Naomi - all three beneath the parental roof.

Mr. Sutter is a member of the American Architects' association and of several of the secret fraternal societies of Dayton, and politically is democratic in his proclivities. As an architect he keeps well abreast of his profession, is a subscriber to all the standard journals published in the interest of his art, and possesses a well filled library of works on architecture and collateral sciences. Previous to forming his late partnership he had designed the plans, ground and elevation, of several fine church buildings and private residences in Dayton and elsewhere, and had achieved a fine reputation as a master of his art.

Allusion may also be made here to some of the stone work superintended or executed by Leopold Sutter, above named, which includes that in the Dayton public library building, the court house, the Huffman block, and Col. Mead's residence, in Dayton; the Warren county jail, as well as in many structures in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus. He personally laid the stone work of the Troy high school building, built the chapel at the national soldiers' home, and, indeed, was connected with the erection of nearly all the churches and public buildings of the Gem City, and is still actively engaged in the prosecution of his life-long occupation.

ICHOLAS THOMAS, prorpietor of the Hydraulic brewery, of Dayton, Ohio, was born in Germany in 1825, the son of John and Rickey (Machias) Thomas, both of whom died in Germany. In 1848, at the age of twenty-three years, N. Thomas landed in New Orleans, came up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers by boat as far as Cincinnati, walking from that city to Dayton, and thence to the home of an uncle in Decatur, Ind., with whom he remained one winter. He then worked on the Wabash canal until the close of the following summer, when he returned to Dayton and worked for three years in the Dickey stone quarry, from which has been taken the stone of which many of the fine business blocks and residences of the city are constructed. He then, in 1852, engaged with Daniel Beckel in his teaming business, and was one of those who assisted in the work of excavation for the cellar of the Beckel house.

In 1855 Mr. Thomas married Miss Margaret Higlerfoot, who was born in Oldenburg, Germany, in 1825, and to them have been born three children - John H., Katie and Henry A., the last named being the only one married. In 1855 Mr. Thomas, having saved a sufficient sum from his earnings, purchased a team and for fourteen years drove his own wagon. He was then for four years appointed watchman of the Dayton banks. In 1873 he established a grocery and saloon, corner of Front and Third streets, conducting a successful business for some years. Mr. Thomas then took an important step, and one which has exerted a favorable influence upon his later fortunes. In 1881 he embarked his hardearned capital in the present enterprise, the outcome of which might well have been considered doubtful, as the plant where he located had been controlled during the previous eight years by three distinct firms. Its present sound condition is owing to the ability of one

This business has been conducted without change of location since Mr. Thomas took it in 1881. The first firm name was N. Thomas & Co., the present title being adopted in 1892. George Weddle, who was long connected with Mr. Thomas in the brewery, withdrew in 1892. He was a conscientious businessman, of personal reliability, and secured his large knowledge of brewing wholly through his experience and training in this plant.

John H. Thomas, son of the proprietor, was born in Dayton in 1859. He was educated in this city at the public schools, finishing at the Miami Commercial college. When seventeen years of age he assisted his father in the grocery and afterward in the office of the brewery, manifesting from the first decided financial ability. All his business experience has been with his father, who has found in him an apt pupil, and one who may be relied upon in the future to take up the work of carrying an already large business to even greater magnitude. Undoubtedly the continued success of this brewery depends to a large extent upon John H. Thomas by reason of the age of his father. Henry A. Thomas, brother of John H., was born* in Dayton in 1864. Like his brother he has a public school education, attending also the Miami Commercial college. After acquiring a knowledge of business at the grocery and the brewery, being desirous to become an expert, he engaged in 1885 with the Herman Lackmann brewery, and afterward with J. G. Sohn & Co., being with these Cincinnati breweries four years. While manifesting great skill in the brewing department, he was so apt in mechanics that, in 1890, the machinery of the brewery of his father was placed under his contral. Conversant with all departments of the business, his skill and knowledge are invaluable in promoting the best interests of the concern.

In politics Mr. Thomas is a democrat, and in religion he, and all the members of his family, are members of the Catholic church. His residence is at No. 1732 East Third street, and he is recognized as one of the most solid business men of the Gem City.

AJ. MILTON McCOY, civilian and soldier, was born December 9, 1838, nearTarlton, Pickaway county, Ohio, and is descended from one of the earliest pioneer families of the county of Ross. His father, James McCoy, was a son of William and Drusilla (Browning) McCoy, who emigrated from near Gettysburg, Pa., to Flemingsburg, Ky. , in 1795, and in 1797 moved to the Northwest territory, settled north of Chillicothe, on the banks of Kinnikinnick creek, and there reared a family which has been identified with that part of the state for nearly if not quite a century. James McCoy married, in the county of Ross, Elizabeth Entrekin, whose father, also a prominent pioneer resident, served with distinction in the war of 1812 as lieutenant in what was known as the "Irish Gray" company. James McCoy and family emigrated about the year 1826 to Pickaway county, locating upon a farm not far from Tarlton, and in November, 1839, moved to the city of Circleville, where Mr. McCoy died January 10, 1881, his wife having departed life on the 23d of August, 1872.

Maj. McCoy attended, in youth, the public schools of Circleville, Ohio, and later completed a course at South Salem academy. From boyhood his predilection was for a military life, and as soon as age permitted, he be- came a member of the Ohio state militia organization, serving as second sergeant in the Pickaway guards until the breaking out of the late Civil war. When President Lincoln issued his first call for volunteers, Mr. McCoy at once responded, enlisting April 1 6, 1861, as a private, but upon the assembling of the company at Camp Jackson, Columbus, for the purpose of effecting an organization, he was chosen second lieutenant. The company designated as company G, was assigned to the Second Ohio regiment, which proceeded to Harrisburg, Pa., thence to Lancaster and Philadelphia, where some time was spent in company drill. From the latter city the regiment went to Washington city by way of Baltimore, Md., going into camp north of the capitol building and forming a part of the brigade commanded by Gen. Robert C. Schenck, the other regiments being the First Ohio and Second New York. This brigade was assigned to Gen. Tyler's division, which, on the same night that Col. Ellsworth was killed at Alexandria, crossed the Long bridge into Virginia. At daylight on the following morning the command went into camp near Alexandria, but soon afterward moved farther north along the railroad and established Camp Upton, Va., where the regiment remained doing picket duty until the advance upon the rebels at Bull Run. While in Camp Upton, Lieut. McCoy was made provost marshal of Gen. Schenck's brigade, having under his command thirty men, one from each company in the brigade. On the 2 1 st day of July, the provost guard being near the hospital, established on the Warrenton road, while having in charge a lot of prisoners, a charge was made by a company of Confederate cavalry, which he with the guard and quite a number of stragglers on the hunt for water, succeeded in repulsing after a sharp and sanguinary engagement.

Ohio proceeded to Columbus, Ohio, where it was mustered out of service several days after the expiration of its period of enlistment. Immediately thereafter Lieut. McCoy recruited a company for the three years' service, which was designated as company I, and formed a part of the Second Ohio, then being organized at Camp Dennison, and commanded by the late Col. L. A. Harris. This regiment moved into Kentucky as far as Paris, thence through the eastern part of the state under Gen. Nelson, participating in a number of engagements during that memorable campaign, and advancing to a point near Pound Gap, thence to the mouth of the Sandy river, where the troops took steamers and proceeded to Louisville, Ky., arriving there the morning of the 25th of November, 1861. After remaining for a short time at the latter place, the command proceeded to a point south of Elizabethtown, going into winter quarters at Bacon Creek, Ky. , and was assigned to a brigade commanded by Gen. Joshua Sill. In the early spring the troops took up their line of march for Bowling Green, Ky. , and Nashville, Tenn., under the command of Gen. O. M. Mitchell, commanding division, arriving at the latter place at the same time with the army which effected the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson; continuing the advance they succeeded in capturing Murfreesboro, Shelbyville, Fayetteville, Tenn., and Huntsville, Ala. At the last named place a large amount of rolling stock of the Memphis & Charleston railroad, consisting of seventeen locomotives and nearly 400 cars, fell into the hands of the Federals, resulting in the cutting of the lines, thus preventing the enemy from transporting troops from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Corinth, Miss.

Capt. McCoy served at the head of his company at the capture of Stephenson and the attack upon Bridgeport, Ala., and later was with Buell in the celebrated pursuit of the rebel forces under Gen. Bragg. He was detailed with his company to escort batteries over the mountains from Battle Creek to Murfreesboro, thence with his command to Louisville, where the regiment was placed in Gen. Rosecran's division, Gen. A. McD. McCook's corps. Proceeding in pursuit of the rebel Gen. Bragg, the two forces finally met October 8, 1862, on the bloody field of Perryville, Ky. , where Capt. McCoy received two painful wounds in the arm and hand; he also narrowly escaped being killed by a musket-ball which flattened itself against his scabbard, battering the latter so as to unfit it for further use. Capt. McCoy still has in his possession this old scabbard, which he carefully preserves as a memento of that bloody day of '62, and which he prizes more highly than any of his many relics of the war. On account of his injuries he asked for and was granted a furlough, which was spent in the vain effort to obtain relief from suffering. In the spring of 1863, he returned to the regiment, but, after a careful examination of his wounds by skillful surgeons, at Murfreesboro, Tenn., they were pronounced very obstinate and exceedingly difficult to heal, and Capt. McCoy resigned his command and returned to the peaceful vocations of civil life. For some years following the war, he was engaged in farming, stock raising and shipping grain, in all of which he met with encouraging success. He followed agriculture until 1888, at which time he was chosen to the position of treasurer of the Central Branch, which he now occupies in the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

Maj. McCoy has proved himself a capable and painstaking official, and since his connection with the national home has discharged his duties in such a manner as to win the confidence and esteem of those under his charge and to gain the approbation of his superiors. He is a great lover of books, and his library,

The major has given much time as well as considerable means in adding to his collection such books as have value on account of age, and a lover of books could desire no greater pleasure than to linger awhile among the old and rare volumes upon his shelves, some of which represent the earliest stage of the art preservative. Maj. McCoy was twice elected to the Ohio legislature from Ross county, serving continuously from 1871 to 1875, the second term as speaker pro tern, of the house. He was elected as a democrat and took an active part as a member, serving on a number of important committees and carrying through important legislation, the wisdom of which has been abundantly demonstrated by the years which have since intervened. He introduced the first "school book bill" in an Ohio legislature.

Maj. McCoy was married March 19, 1863, to Catherine Crouse, daughter of John and Lydia Crouse, and a native of the county of Ross, where the Crouse family settled as early as the year 1798. Major and Mrs. McCoy have three living children, namely: Alfred C., who married Mary Volmer and resides on the home farm in Ross county; Sarah M., wife of Dr. S. S. Wilcox, formerly first assistant surgeon in the Central Branch, and now of Columbus, Ohio; and Lincoln D., a student in the Cincinnati Academy of Music. The deceased members of the family are George W. and Catherine, both of whom died in childhood.