Fulton Township (part 15 of 34)

~ He was born on a farm in LaGrange county, Indiana, in 1875, the son of Christian 8. and Mary S. (Miller) Yoder. The family is of German origin, but has been long resident in the United States. As a boy Samuel B. attended the county school nearest to the family homestead, and during vacations did much to assist his father in the operations of the home farm. After leaving school he became ap- prenticed to the trade of carpentry and followed that trade in his native county for eight years, assisting his father in farming operations during the winters. He married in 1899, and for \five years thereafter appears to have given his whole time to the management of his father's farm of one hundred twenty acres. In 1904 he moved to Pettisville, Ohio, where for two years he remained on the farm of one hundred seventeen acres belonging to his father-in-law. About that time a personal <a caused him to become interested in the science of magnetic healing, and he gave much time to the study. He received private tuition from an eminent physician of chiropractic in Akron, Ohio, and after a comprehensive course which lasted one year he began to practice the profession in the Pettisville district. for three years he successfully followed such practice in Pettisville, and then was called to Topeka, Indiana, because of the death of his father. After closing the decedent's affairs he took up the practice of his profession in Topeka, and did well in that place for three years, then disposing of his practice and going to Pharr, - Texas, where for about one year he gave his time mainly to farming. He was, however, too much interested in his profession to long remain out of practice. He came northward, to Davenport, Iowa, and attended the well-known College of Chiropractic at that place, eraduating on June 1, 1912, with the degree of D. C., Doctor of Chiropractic. He came to Wauseon, Ohio, to enter into practice. Since that time Doctor Yoder has taken many specialist or postgraduate courses; in 1914, at Davenport, he graduated in Naturapathy; in 1915 he studied at the Cleveland, Ohio, College of Naturapathy; and in 1917 he graduated from the National School of Chiropractic of Chicago, taking two courses and gaining the degree of Ph. C. in that professional school. He passed the Ohio state medical examination in 1917, and has had notable success in his practice in Wauseon, and is widely known within a radius of twenty-five miles of that city.

He of course gives his time mainly to professional matters. He is a good churchman, and has shown a worthy public spirit since he came to Wauseon, contributing generously to community projects.

In 1899 Doctor Yoder married Kate Nofiger, daughter of Christian R. and Magdalena (Yoder) Nofiger, of Pettisville, Ohio. Two children were born to them: Wilmer and Christian Louis.

Harry H. Hoven, a partner in the Fleming & Hough Auto Sales Company of Wauseon, is an energetic young business man who is making rapid progress in Wauseon. The company has the ageney for the Buick and Oakland ears, and for the Samson Tractors and Trucks, and their opening season, 1919, gives them promise of substantial success in future years. Mr. Hough has also taken some part in public affairs, and has manifested distinct organization ability. He was supervisor of District No. 1, Fulton county, when only twenty-one years old, and during the last decade has been prominent in the affairs of the Ancient Order of Gleaners, being Supreme Vice Chief Gleaner of that order. For three years he was manager for the Northwestern Ohio district, and for one year was state manager of the order.

He is of English-Irish ancestry, born in Wauseon, Ohio, August 11, 1880, the son of Frank and Hattie (Mitchell) Hough. After the death of his mother, which occurred when he was only seven years old, Harry's home was in that of John Garman, a well-regarded farmer of Fulton county, his farm being situated about three miles northeast of Wauseon. Harry was educated in the country school, No. 1 district, attending school during the winter months and working on the Garman farm during the summer vacations. After leaving school he continued to work for Mr. Garman until he reached the age of twenty-one years, when he took over the whole operation of the 105-acre farm, continuing to work it, on shares, until the death of Mr. Garman seven years later. In fact, he worked the property for two years more, until he was thirty years old. For some time prior to that Mr. Hough had interested himself actively in the affairs of the Ancient Order of Gleaners, a fraternal organization, its members being mainly agriculturalists. When he was thirty years old Mr. Hough gave up the farm management in order to take up the official connection, that of district manager for Northwestern Ohio, with the order. He went into Wauseon to live, and for three vears thereafter was district manager, and one year served the order as state manager. He resigned in February, 1919, in order to form a partnership with Fred Fleming of Wauseon, to trade in automobiles and auto supplies in Wauseon and the district. The partners opened a place of business in Wauseon on February 15, 1919, trading as the Fleming & Hough Auto Soles Company, and, having some very good agencies, were soon able to develop a promising business. Two months later the partners, with commendable enterprise, opened a branch establishment at Delta, Ohio, with good results. They have the Fulton county agency for the Oakland cars and good territory for the Buick car, and represent the Samson Tractor Company for the sale of farm tractors throughout Fulton county. And they have good understandings with tire manufacturers. Therefore, there is every probability that their business venture will bring the partners good returns. They are both energetic men of good business abilitv and wide acquaintance throughout the county, and both have good personal reputations.

Mr. Hough owns a good truck farm of ten acres east of Wauseon, which has added to his resources. Politically he is a republican, and he has to some extent been in public life in his home district. Fraternally he belongs to the Knights of Pythias, in addition to his affiliation with the Ancient Order of Gleaners.

He married, in 1906, Elsie, daughter of Frank and Alice (Taylor) Larned, of Ottokee, Fulton county. They have one child, a son, Rollin Delmar, who was born in 1908.

Frep L. Fremine, partner with Harry H. Hough in the Fleming & Hough Auto Sales Company of Wauseon, Ohio, has since he entered. into partnership with Mr. Hough been very successful, the business showing promising development. They have the county agency for the Oakland and Buick cars, and the Samson tractors and trucks, and do a substantial and growing business in auto accessories and tires.

He was born in Pike township, Fulton county, Ohio, on July 18, 1882, the son of Frank L. and Carrie (Mercer) Fleming. The Fleming family is of Puritan ancestry, and Frank L. Fleming, father of Fred L., owned a good farm in Pike township. Fred was reared on that farm, and attended the country schools of the township. He gave his father assistance in the farm work for some years before he left school, and when that time came he gave his father his whole time until he had reached the age of twenty years. He married at that early age, and with a wish to have a home of his own he took a farm of eighty acres situated about two miles north of Delta, Fulton county. That, the Cowan farm, he worked for three years; then for one season he farmed the Biddle farm of 120 acres, and the following season operated the George Fleming farm. He, however, came to Wauseon to live in 1907, and for eighteen months thereafter worked for W. H. Mercer. Then followed a period of three years during which he operated a farm of sixty acres he had purchased. It was situated six miles to the westward of Wauseon. At the end of the third season, however, he traded the farm for another of thirty acres and a market business in Wauseon. Some time later he took to commercial pursuits, traveling throughout the district, selling farming implements for Heist Hall, of Wauseon. After he had been at such work for two years he became interested in the automobile business, acting as salesman of Ford and Buick cars for David Morningstar, the local agent. After two years with Mr. Morningstar he traveled again for about eighteen months, as the representative of the Moline Plow Company, throughout Northwestern Ohio. He did very well in this connection, and was able then to form business partnership with Mr. Hough for the purpose of acquiring from David Morningstar one of the two businesses that energetic Wauseon man conducted. The partners also brought to the business the optimism and enterprise of two able and experienced young business men, and soon had a splendidly developing business. More regarding the affairs of the company has been written in the biography of Harry H. Hough, for this edition, and it is therefore not necessary to further recount it here, at least not more than to say that the partners have good auguries of substantial success in the results of their first year of trading.

Mr. Fleming has been a republican in politics since he first became entitled to a vote, and when he lived in Dover township was a member of the school board. Fraternally, he is a member of the Wauseon Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, of the local branch of the Knights of Pythias order, and also of the Ancient Order of Gleaners, of which his partner has held so prominent a connection.

Rozsert DRENNAN, who owns a successful agricultural implement business in Wauseon, Ohio, and also other property, and has a good reputation for moral and material integrity throughout Fulton county, is a man of much versatility. At the outset of his career it appeared that his life would be given chiefly to educational occupations, for he attended the State Normal School and gained a teacher's certificate; in fact, for some years he followed that profession. Then he took to farming, and later came to .Wauseon and conducted a smithy and implement agency, the lastnamed occupation bringing him good return.

He is a native of Fulton county, born in Clinton township, where his father owned a farm of eighty acres, a little more than three miles to the westward of Wauseon. Robert's parents were William and Margaret (Dowd) Drennan, both of Irish birth, the father coming to America from Londonderry when he was only fifteen years old. He settled in Toledo, where he worked as a railroad grading contractor. He had the distinetion of driving the first stake when the Middle Railroad vards at Toledo were surveved for the Lake Shore freight yards. He did well by his years of railroad contracting. And it was in Toledo that he met and married Mrs. Margaret Cahoe, who came to America when she was only thirteen years old.

With his wife he moved to Clinton township, Fulton county, Ohio, having purchased about eighty acres of land in that locality. This removal took place in 1861, about twelve months after their marriage, and on this farm he lived for the remainder of his life, clearing the land and bringing it into good cultivation. He was a man of untiring energy, and with an ox team seemed to be incessantly working. As a result of good farming, and perhaps more because of his persistent and consistent application to farming, he became possessed ultimately of a very large acreage, owning 429 acres in the last years of his life. He died in 1897, his widow, however, living for a further twenty years, her death not occurring until October, 1917. They were the parents of five children, of whom Robert was the voungest. He was educated in the country school at Clinton, attending school during the winter months, and, as was the custom in farming districts at that time, assisting his father in the farming operations during the growing season. So he passed his years of elementary study. However, he seems to have had the intention of entering the teaching profession, for during 1889 and 1890 he was a student at the State Normal School, and at the termination of the course was awarded a teacher's certificate. For four years thereafter he taught in the Clinton Township School Dictrict No. 6. Then, until 1903, he helped farm the home estate for his mother, coming in that year to Wauseon, where he took charge of the smithy and' implement business owned by D. W. Kimerer, his brother-in-law. Mr. Drennan bought the stock, and from that time he conducted the blacksmith's shop and the implement agency with success. His establishment is located on the corner of North Fulton and Oak streets, Wauseon. In 1907 he built a new building on the site of the old, and has since expended his scope of business considerably. He has the agency for all the lines of the Moline Plow Company, for good territory, and is agent for the Moline tractor for four townships, Clinton, German, York and Dover, in Fulton county. Also, he owns a farming property of eighty acres near Wauseon.

Politically, Mr. Drennan is a democrat, that is in national pollitics; in local affairs he is an independent, although he has not followed public affairs very closely, not so closely as to evince any desire to seek public office. But he is a man of enviable repute locally, and is generally sincerely interested in the progress of the city.

"He married, in 1907, Nellie, daughter of W. H. and Minerva (Turney) Gaiman, of Wauseon. Three children were born to them: William, who was born in 1908, and died at the age of five months; Harry George, born February 22, 1910, and Donald Eugene, born August 10, 1917. :

Harry Crype WEseEr, partner of the firm of Weber & Butter- 'more, wholesale and retail bakers of Wauseon, Ohio, is a native of the county, and although only eight years have passed since he graduated from the Wauseon High School, his business record shows that he possesses in good measure business acumen, ingenuity, enterprise and determination. There have been more failures than successes in the following of poultry rearing as a vocation, but voung Weber, who ventured into that business soon after leaving school, had suecess from the outset. and continued success through the years to that of the war, when he entered the military forces of the nation. And since his return from military service he has shown

He was born in Delta, Fulton county, Ohio, in 1894, and in due course attended and passed through the elementary school of that place, afterward taking the high school course at Wauseon, from which school he graduated in the class of 1912. He was of selfreliant, independent mind, and had resolved to make his own way in life, so, having given the business much preliminary study, he ven- 'tured into the occupation of poultry farming on the five-acre property he had in Wauseon. He specialized in Rhode Island Reds and Orpington fowls, and raised some prize stock. With his poultry he gained notable success in the shows of that part of Ohio, and was able to demand good prices for his eggs and baby chicks. During the first year he made a profit of $500; the second year yielded him $600 profit, and his profits in succeeding years increased. Altogether it was creditable work for young Weber, for it proved him to be possessed of the grit necessary to come successfully through the arduous and dull routine of the building process. The coming of the World war, with its demands upon the young men of the nation, caused him to temporarily transfer his poultry business. He enlisted in July, 1918, at Wauseon, in the United States Army, and was sent to Camp Jackson, South Carolina, where he remained for five months as a member of the Headquarters Company of the Twelfth Regiment of Field Artillery, rising to the grade of corporal. He received honorable discharge on December 22, 1918, and returned soon afterward to Wauseon. He then joined Eugene Buttermore, who also had just been mustered out of the United States naval forces, in purchasing a bakery business in Wauseon, which they have since continued, under the firm name of Weber & Buttermore, doing quite a substantial wholesale and retail city and country trade. Young Weber also still conducts his poultry farm and to some extent has gone into the hog-raising business. It will therefore be recognized that he is a young man of energy and enterprise. Politically he is a republican; he is a Mason, member of the Wauseon Lodge No. 49, and he is a popular young man in the city, showing the stability of purpose that makes for good citizenship and success. He is unmarried.

Ben Lestiz, who is creditably taking his place among the responsible young business men of Wauseon, Ohio, is the sole owner of the Wauseon Specialty Company, general grocers of that city. He has a good business reputation, and has shown himself to be an energetic, up-to-date merchant since he has conducted a store in Wauseon.

He is a native of Fulton county, born in 1887, the son of Elijah Benton and Clara A. (Palmer) Leslie. He is of English-Seotch ancestry, although the Leslie family has had many (generations of American residence, the family being among the old families of Pennsylvania. Ben, as a boy, attended' Wauseon schools, and at the age of sixteen years entered the employ of H. F. Dimke, proprietor of a general store at Wauseon, staying there for eight months as a clerk. Then for more than three years he was a salesman in the dry goods store of the Mercer Co-Operative Company, Wauseon. He was a boy of strong characteristics, and when he began to earn money was not disposed to waste it in needless luxuries. He manifested commendable thrift, and also much capability in many other directions, especially as a salesman. He was also of an optimistic turn of mind, and did not hesitate to enter independently into business as a grocer when he saw what seemed to be a good opportunity, even though he was at the time still a minor. For two years he conducted a grocery at the corner of Fulton and Oak streets, Wauseon, closing that business to enter another that promised greater return for time given. Jor six years he traveled as a representative for the Curtis Publishing Company and other publishing houses. During that period he proved his ability as a salesman, and accumulated some capital which later stood him in good stead. After six months spent in Toledo as stock clerk for a firm of wholesale grocers of that city he returned to Wauseon, and for more than three vears was a clerk in the Wauseon Postoffice, under Postmaster Emil Weber. In August, 1917, Mr. Leslie purchased from Mr. H. Kennedy the Pioneer Grocery, situated at 182 North Fulton street, Wauseon, and has since conducted it. Mr. Leslie has some other business interests, but these are his main enterprises, and take most of his time. He employs four people, and up to the present he has shown a good capacity for consequential business.

In politics Mr. Leslie is independent; fraternally he belongs to local branches of the Independent Order of Odd Felows and the Knights of the Maccabees order. He is an earnest Christian, a member of the Evangelical Church.

In 1908 Mr. Leslie married Alta Mae, daughter of George W. and Ella (Oldfield) Ledyard, of Wauseon. They have three children: George Benton, who was born in 1910; Eleanore Mae, born in 1912, and Wayne Delos, born in 1919.

Francis Cart SMALLMAN, grocer and seedsman of Wauseon, continuing in successful operation one of the oldest of such businesses in the city, has shown distinct capability for business affairs, and an equally marked capability for the administration of public affairs. He is one of the rising young business men of the county; was nominated for the office of mayor; has been president of the deat: City Council, and has been trustee of the Board of Public

He was born in Wauseon, Ohio, in 1880, the son of Francis R. and Consuela (Acorn) Smallman, the former for forty years one of the leading business men of the city. Francis C. was educated in elementary and high school grades in the local schools. After he had completed two vears in the Wauseon High School he took a preparatory course at the Kenyon Military Academy, Gambier, Ohio. After two years there he entered Kenyon College, where he took the Arts course for three years. Returning to Wauseon in 1901, he entered energetically into business association with his father, who conducted the store he now owns, and had conducted it since early manhood; in fact, the Smallman store at Wauseon has been widely -known throughout Fulton county for almost half a century. It was established by Mr. Smallman, Sr., in 1873, and father and son have had a good share of the city and county trade during that period. Since 1909, the business has been entirely conducted by the son, the father then retiring; and during the last ten years of trading abundant evidence has been seen of the business enterprises of the son, who has expanded the business in many directions.

He has for many years been prominent in the social and public affairs of the city and, generally, is of enviable repute in Wauseon. Politically he gives allegiance to the republican party, and has interested himself actively in national campaigns. His activities of public bearing, however, have been more, concerned with local affairs than national; in fact, he has taken quite prominent part in civic matters. He sat in the City Council for two terms, and was the president of that body, and for two years was one of the trustees of the Board of Public Affairs. His place among the people of the city may be gauged by his nomination for election to the office of chief magistrate. He, however, declined that honor, which would draw him almost entirely from his business affairs. He has been somewhat prominently identified with local lodges of fraternal organizations, being a thirty-second degree Mason, Scottish Rite, and a member of the Knights of Pythias. His college fraternity is Delta Tau Delta.

Mr. Smallman, in 1909, married Elsie, daughter of John F. Dimke, a well known Wauseon resident. They have one child, a daughter, Jane Alcorn.

Frank R. Gurtrorp, president of the well-known Wauseon, Ohio, firm of Brigham, Guilford & Company, department store owners, and one of the leading business men of this city; has achieved substantial success as a merchant during the last decade. He has also come prominently to the fore as a public worker, has held more than one public office, has been a member of the Wauseon City Council for three terms, and has in very many ways proved himself to be,a good citizen and an able man of marked public spirit.

He is a native of Wauseon, born in the city in 1882, the son of Conley E. and Florence (McConnell) Guilford. The Guilford family is of English origin, but for many generations has been resident in America, the progenitor of the American branch of the old English family having settled near Cuba, in New York State. Conley E. Guilford, father of Frank R., was for many years a prominent merchant in Wauseon, a pioneer druggist, and he was much esteemed in the city and county. A man of strong character and definite capability, he took good part in the public affairs of the district, was for two terms county treasurer, and was a factor of much influence with the people of the city.

Frank R. Guilford attended the public schools of Wauseon and graduated from the Wauseon High School in 1900. He then proceeded to Columbus, and took the course at the Ohio State University, graduating in arts and science, and thus gaining the Bachelor of Arts degree, with the class of 1905. For a year thereafter he was in Louisville, Kentucky, where he was employed as an accountant. He returned to Wauseon so that he might take the office of deputy county treasurer under his father, who had been elected to the office of county treasurer. As a matter of fact his father was county treasurer for two terms, but it was only for his father's second term, 1905-06, that he acted as deputy. In 1906 Frank R. Guildford became accountant for C. E. Rossman & Company, department store owners of Wauseon: and it was in all probability this connection that shaped materially his future business activities. For three years he remained with that company. In 1909, he took part in the organization of another company, the object of which was to establish a department store business in Wauseon, and this new organization took over the business of C. E. Rossman & Company. The new company took the trading name of Brigham, Guilford & Company, the partners being Messrs. Guilford, Brigham, Scott, Dalrymple and Palmer, all good business men, favorably known in Wauseon and within a radius of twenty-five miles of that place, so that they started in business with good prospects of succeeding. Mr. Guilford was appointed general manager and elected secretary and treasurer of the corporate body, which had been capitalized at $60,000. He continued in such capacities until the death of Mr. Brigham in 1917, soon after which occurrence he was elected president of the company, which office, as well as that of general manager, he has since held. The trading of the company has been very satisfactorily expanded, and today it holds an enviable place among the business institutions of Wauseon, and draws trade over a wide area. The store is the largest retail establishment in Northwest Ohio outside of Toledo.

Mr. Guilford is now a man of substance, has a very good reputation, and his standing in the city has brought him into connection with the direction of other corporate concerns of public trust. He is a director of the Fulton County Building, Loan and Savings Company, and is himself the owner of an agricultural property one hundred acres in extent.

He has for many years taken active interest in the public administration of the citv and county, and his popularity in the city may be gauged by the fact that for three terms he was elected to the City Council, and for a like period sat on the Board of Public Affairs. He has shown commendable sincerity in public work and much ability as an administrator, and while the war was in progress was indefatigable in his efforts to further the national cause in his home territory. Politically he has been staunch in his allegiance to the republican party, and has been an active worker for the cause. Traternally he is identified with the Masonic Order and the Knights of Pythias. Of the branches of the former he belongs to the lodge . of F. and A. M., Wauseon, to the Wauseon Chapter, and to Defiance Commandery. By religious conviction he is a Congregationalist, and a member and good supporter of the Wauseon Congregational Church. His success in life is all the more commendable in that it has been attained entirely by his own efforts. It of course had a very solid base in the superior education he was able to get, but education is not the only essential to success.

Frank R. Guilford married Dolly, daughter of William S. and Flora (Stuller) Boone, of Wauseon. The marriage took place in 1907, and two children have been born to them: Hortense Ruth and Conley Boone.

Lucius Parmer Taytor. It is not given to many men to pass the century milestone, but Fulton county has a citizen who gives the census enumerator 102 years old as his last birthday. This magnificent specimen of honorable old age is Lucius Palmer Taylor of Pike Township, a man who holds the affectionate esteem of all who have the distinct honor of his acquaintance. He was born in Bucklin Township, Franklin county, Massachusetts on August 15, 1817, a son of Orrin and Ann Street (Hall) Taylor. Orrin Taylor was born in Bucklin Township, Franklin county, Massachusetts, on September 5, 1789, a son of William and Abigail (Miles) Taylor, natives of Massachusetts; grandson of Othnel and Martha (Arms) Taylor. Othnel Taylor was born in 1719 and served as captain of a company during the American Revolution. He was a son of Capt. Samuel Taylor, who was born at Northfield, Massachusetts, in 1688, and served as captain in the regular British Army stationed at Norwalk, Connecticut. Samuel Taylor was a son of

John Taylor, who was born June 14, 1614, and settled at Northfield, Massachusetts, but was killed while commanding a company pursuing Seuer de Montgomery during the troubles with the French. He had come from his birthplace, Windsor, England, to the American Colonies with a band of Puritans in 1630, to escape persecution. The wife of Samuel Taylor was Sarah Munn, and she was born on December 2, 1716. The maternal grandfather of Lucius Palmer Taylor was Joel Hall, and he was born at Wallingford, Connecticut.

After their marriage Orrin Taylor and his wife came to Ohio, traveling as far as the Erie Canal by wagon, and then came by canalboat to Buffalo, New York. There they secured passage on a steamer to Cleveland, Ohio. The Ohio Canal afforded them passage as far as Boston Bridge, and from that point the little party traveled again by wagon to the destination, Northfield, Ohio. For the first couple of years Orrin Taylor and his brother engaged in fishing in Lake Huron at Thunder Bay Island. In order to make the payment on his land Mr. Taylor had to go to Detroit, Michigan, the nearest land office, and walked the entire distance there and back. He was accompanied by his brother William O. It was his intention to place the currency about his waist in a money belt, but found the belt too heavy to carry in that fashion, so slung it about his shoulders. It is very evident that people were more honest in those days, as Mr. Taylor met with no accident and delivered his money safely. Few men would like to undertake a similar trip today. Indeed it would not be safe for anyone to attempt to carry such a belt a block on a crowded city street, to say nothing of journeying over trackless wastes for a matter of days. He and his brother paid for 380 acres adjoining, the land lying east of the farm of Lucius P. Taylor.

Lucius Palmer Taylor has a vivid recollection of some of the hardships of the early days in Ohio. For some years the family lived in a little twelve foot square cabin, with benches along the side for beds. The door opening was so low that they had to bend their heads in order to keep from bumping themselves. In 1843 he came to Pike Township and bought 240 acres in the wild timber.

This land was not only covered with timber, but parts of it were swampy, and the brush was very heavy. He cleared off about thirty acres, and built a log cabin, and then decided to secure some assistance. It was not as difficult to get men as it was to buy the requisite amount of whisky these men regarded as a necessary adjunct to their daily labor. Mr. Taylor kept on improving his property, among other things setting out an orchard of peaches and other fruits. He says he many times sold peaches from this orchard for 12% cents per bushel, and was glad to get that price, for in some seasons there were no purchasers for them and he fed them to his hogs. As the country settled up he became associated with its development, and among other enterprises with which he was connected was the Fulton County Fair Association, which he assisted in organizing.

On February 13, 1840, Mr. Taylor was married to Susannah Ozmun, born in Liverpool Township, Medina county, Ohio, in March, 1815, a daughter of Israel and Susan (Mallard) Ozmun, natives of New York state and Medina county, Ohio, respectively. Mr. Taylor walked a distance of thirty miles to the county seat and back for the license, and at the time thought nothing in particular about the trip, such journeys being the ordinary thing. He and his wife became the parents of the following children: Lucy A., who was born April 4, 1841, died in January, 1915; Orrin O., who: was born on November 17, 1842, died at Allentown, Virginia, on April 9, 1865; Jesse, who was born on September 10, 1844, served as a soldier during the war between the states, and died at Washington, District of Columbia, on November 12, 1903; Charlotte, who was born March 2, 1847, died in July, 1853; Emeline, who was born on February 20, 1849, married Milo Hart Barnum, and he died on June 24, 1919, and she is now a resident of Newburg, Ohio; Ida 1h who was born February 4, 1851, is Mrs. Edward Herriott; Susanetta, who was born November 9, 1858, is Mrs. John Luke; Olive L., who was born December 29, 1855, is connected with the Toledo, Ohio, Hospital; and Henry L., who was born November 8, 1858. The grandchildren of Mr. Taylor are as follows: Rosa Barnum, who was born January 2, 1872, is Mrs. Edward Alonzo Lund, of Bedford, Ohio; Benjamin Nelson Doyle Barnum, who was born on August 4, 1878, resides with Mr. Taylor; Orrin Ozmun Barnum, born September 4, 1875, has lived at the old home since he was born; and George Milo Barnum, who was born March 10, 1886, lives at Bedford, Ohio; Elwin Herriott, who lives at Toledo, Ohio; Ollie Herriott, who is Mrs. Mike Whalen, who lives in Lucas county, Ohio; Pearl Luke, who is Mrs. Isaac Everett, of Fulton Township; and Vern Luke, who is a resident of Fulton Township.

On the anniversary of his 100th birthday Mr. Taylor had a photograph taken of himself, his daughter, granddaughter, greatgranddaughter, and great-great-grandson, and this very unusual picture is cherished by the members of.his family. Since the organization of the republican party Mr. Taylor has given it his hearty support, and he has served as township trustee. When the war broke out between the North and the South Mr. Taylor was regarded as being a little past the age for active service at the front, although he was a member of the home guards during the period of the war. He has lived to see practically all of the "young" men who were taken into active service buried, and is todav more active and mentally alert than many who were not born until the time he was relegated to local service. During the late war Mr. Tavlor was active in his expression of his interest, and it was remarkable how he followed the various campaigns and kept abreast of current events.

Although Mr. Taylor was not permitted to enter the army during the early '60s, his sons were, and one of them, Orrin, gave up his life in defense of his country. He had left $600 with his father for the purpose of applying it on the erection of a new home for his parents, and this was built in 1867, of bricks made from clay produced on the homestead. At.that time Mr. Taylor, then over fifty years old, worked at pitching clay into the grinder to make the bricks. It was in this home that Mrs. Taylor passed away on January, 30, 1892.

Mr. Taylor has lived during the greatest period of American history. James Monroe had only been in office as president of the United States a few months when Mr. Taylor was born. The Missouri Compromise was not enacted until he was three years of age, which piece of legislation opened the great Northwest for settlement. _ During his lifetime he has witnessed the outbreak and close of the Black Hawk, Mexican, Civil, Spanish-American, Philippine, Mexican Border and World conflicts, and in all of them he has seen the United States emerge a victor.

During the more than one hundred years that Mr. Taylor has lived he has seen two very remarkable changes made in the Constitution. One occurred when the colored race was declared to have the same constitutional rights as the white race, and the other when the liquor traffic was made illegal. '

Mr. Taylor has followed the growth of practically all of the territory west of the Mississippi River; he passed through the great gold excitement of 1849, when gold was discovered in California, and then witnessed much the same action on the part of the people over the Klondyke gold fields. Railroads have sprung up; automobiles been invented and perfected, and of late years the air has been conquered.

Locating on the land he bought, Mr. Taylor painfully and laboriously cleared off and developed his farm, taking weeks and months for operations that his great-great-granchildren can perform in a few hours with their improved machinery and appliances. Nearly every kind of work performed by hand in his youth and young manhood is now done by machinery. He has seen the various development in the grade of stock; the remarkable changes in business systems; the development of the banking houses; the establishment of mighty trusts; the organization of capitalistic interests, and of trades unions. ~ When Mr. Taylor was a young man Japan and China were hidebound despotisms; the monarchies of Europe were regarded as unchanging as time itself, and yet he has been spared to witness the introduction of Occidental interests in the Orient; and the overthrowing of thrones and the rise of republics on the ruins.

Looking backward over the nearly one hundred years within his recollection, Mr. Taylor can calmly make his own deductions, and it may surprise some that he is not at all inclined to award all the praise to conditions and methods of today. He misses the genial interest, the generous hospitality, the kindly sympathy, and the friendly relations between employer and employe. Having experienced life under varying conditions and in different periods, he is qualified to judge, and speaks in all sincerity when he urges the present generation to learn from the past and to look forward to the future, knowing that when his youngest descendant reaches his present age he, too, will look back over just as many and important changes and marvel that the people of 1920 were able to accomplish as much as they did considering the way they were hampered by lack of the facilities which the twenty-first century has provided.

Frank Barnum Reyno.3ps, a well-known and successful merchant of Wauseon, Ohio, first became responsibly identified with Wauseon business twenty-eight years ago, when he was part owner of the hardware business he latterly has owned. And during the period he has taken an interested part in the responsibilities of the community, supporting its institutions and endeavoring as far as he was able to further its prosperity. He has an enviable reputation in the city and county both as a business man and as a citizen.

He was born in Ridgeville township, Henry county, Ohio, in 1867, the son of John E. and Elizabeth (Mosher) Reynolds, of that place. He attended the public school nearest his father's farm during the winter term, and each summer gave his vacation to duties upon the homé farm. From the elementary school he graduated to the Wauseon Normal School, eventually entering business life well grounded in general academic knowledge. He elected to follow commercial pursuits, and his first experience was in a clerical capacity, in the hardware store of Vernier & McLoughlin at Archbold, this connection influencing his later life, for he has throughout his active career of trading held almost exclusively to the hardware line. After three vears with the Archbold firm he went to Wauseon and purchased an interest in the hardware business of Moyer & Biddle, taking over the interest of Mr. F. W. Moyer. The store, which was then (1892) situated where Mr. Reynolds still conducts the business, was a good one, and the business substantial. Under the reorganization the company name changed from that of Mover & Biddle to that of the Biddell & Reynolds. The company continued thus constituted for three years, when Mr. Biddle sold his interest to Mr. F. B. Ufer, the firm name with the change becoming Reynolds & Ufer. Another change of trading name occurred when Mr. Ufer disposed of his interest to Mr. J. S. Rychener, the name then becoming Reynolds & Rvchener, under which partnership it was conducted for five vears, when Mr. Reynolds acquired the whole business, the store then becoming known as the Reynolds Hardware Store. Two years later, in 1904, he sold the business to Mr. H. J. Gelzer. He soon afterward became interested in a hardware business at Gibsonburg, Sandusky county, Ohio, and for several years he successfully conducted a store at that place. Having decided to retire, he disposed of that business and spent some time without active business connection. Returning to Wauseon in 1914, he bought his old business from the then owner, John A. Cron, and from that time until the present Mr. Reynolds has been its sole owner. As a hardware merchant he is known throughout the county, and is known to trade in products of reliable grade. Consequently the business is a steady and satisfactory one, the trading being both with city people and country folk.

Politically Mr. Reynolds is a republican: religiously he is a Methodist, a member of Wauseon Methodist Episcopal Church; and he and his wife have many friends. in Wauseon.

Mr. Revnolds has been married for twenty-eight years, since 1892, his wife having been Ida Stotzer, daughter of Fred and Elizabeth (Snyder) Stotzer, of Archbold, Ohio.

Cuaries E. Marrison, a native of Wauseon and an enterprising, energetic business man of that city. has had very promising success since establishing the Central Garage of Wauseon, with Ralph Merrill and G. Scott Roos as partners. They operate the Willard Service Station, and specialize in storage batteries and do general garage work, vulcanizing, and trade in tires and auto accessories generally.

Mr. Charles E. Mattison was born in Wauseon, Ohio, on December 24, 1880. the son of Joseph and Sarah (Frazier) Mattison, respected residents of that place. He attended the local public schools until he had reached the age of seventeen years, thus gaining a good fundamental academic knowledge. He was more inclined to occupations connected with mechanics than with commercial affairs, and when he entered upon the serious occupation of Ife it was in the capacity of telephone repairer for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Thus he became connected with electrical work, and in course of time became an expert electrician. During the five vears of his connection with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company he traveled to many widely-separated parts of the

Politically Mr. Mattison is an inclpan can republican, and fraternally belongs to the Masonic order, being a member of the Wauseon Blue Lodge and Chapter. He takes a lively interest in the progress of his native place, and is well regarded in the city.

Grorce Witt1am Harrmann, M. D. The work that any busy, conscientious physician and surgeon performs during an average lifetime fills an important chapter in the history of the medical profession, whether it becomes public or not. In his own experience every such practitioner at some time or another comes upon emergencies for which no rule of practice has prepared him, when he must depend entirely upon his own judgment and medical skill, and from such conditions more than once have come discoveries that have had wide-reaching beneficial results. One of the eminent medical men of Fulton county, who has devoted a long and busy life to the alleviation of the bodily ills that afflict humanity, is Dr. George William Hartmann, who 1s one of Wauseon's most highly valued citizens.

Doctor Hartmann was born in Clinton township, Fulton county, Ohio, January 9, 1852, and is a son of John Conrad and Charlotte (Houghtby) Hartmann, who were early settlers and farming people of Fulton county. He grew up on his father's farm, attended the district schools, and still later had advantages in the Wauseon High School and a normal school at Bryan, Ohio. He then became a medical student under Dr. Philo E. Jones at Wauseon, with whom he remained one and a half years. In the fall of 1878 he entered the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, from which great institution he was graduated as one of the ten best men at the head of his class, on July 1, 1881, with his coveted degree.

eanon ee Hartmann entered into practice at Archbold, Ohio, where for seven years he had the advantage of working with the noted practitioner, Dr. A. J. Murbach. In 1892 he came to Wauseon, and this city has been his home and his main field of practice ever since. He is a valued member of numerous medical bodies, including the American Medical, the Ohio State, the Fulton County and the Northwestern Ohio Medical Associations.

At Archbold, Ohio, in 1881, Doctor Hartmann was united in marriage to Miss Emma E. Stotzer, who is a daughter of. Frederick and Elizabeth (Miller) Stotzer. Of six children born to Doctor and Mrs. Hartmann three survive, namely, Carl Floyd, Florence Edna and Helen Elizabeth. Carl Floyd Hartman was graduated with the degree of A. B. from the University of Michigan in 1907, from Rush Medical College in 1909, with the degree of M. D., and afterward served as an interne in St. Vincent's Hospital. When the United States became involved in the great war he entered the National Army as lieutenant in the medical corps, and in 1917 at Camp Grant was promoted to a captaincy, on May 18, 1918, being made major, and was placed in charge of the medical detachment of the Three Hundred and Forty-third United States Infantry. On August 27, 1918, he sailed for France, later was placed in command of the Medical Department of Air Service for the armies at Colombey-Les Belles, France. In February, 1919, he became acting lieutenant-colonel in charge of the Medical Department of the American Air Forces connected with hospitals in the entire war zone in France, and continued so to serve until he was mustered out of the service May 29, 1919, with a marvelous record for executive efficiency. In 1910 he was married to Miss Pearl Reynolds, who is a daughter of William Reynolds, a well known resident of Fulton county, and they have two children, Floyd Wellington and Ruth. Florence Edna, the older daughter, is a graduate of the Wauseon High School and the Toledo Business College. Helen Elizabeth, the youngest of the family, is a graduate of the Wauseon High School and the University of Michigan, also of the Detroit School of Music and Art, and teaches these sciences in the public schools at Wauseon and Delta.

Both as physician and public-spirited citizen Doctor Hartmann has many times proved his deep interest in the welfare of Wauseon and this section, always being ready to lend his influence to practical welfare movements. In politics he has been a republican voter since early manhood. Twice he has served as coroner of Fulton county, and for a number of vears has been a member of the school board. He is a Knight Templar Mason, and belongs also to the order of Modern Woodmen. With his family he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

FrepERIcK B. Fowier. There is no vocation that commands greater respect and few which offer better opportunity for the display of character and ability than does that of the legal profession. Wauseon's bar has long ranked with the most distinguished of Ohio, and the profession here represented has numbered among its members many men of high standing and statewide reputation. In pre paring a review of the careers of men whose names stand out prominently in the legal profession of this city, who, by character and achievements, have attained notable distinction, the record of Frederick B. Fowler is found to be one that compels more than passing attention.

Frederick B. Fowler was born in York township, Fulton county, Ohio, in 1870, a son of William and Catherine (Heuricle) Fowler, and grandson of William Fowler. The Fowler family was founded in this country by the great-grandfather of F. B. Fowler, who came from England to Massachusetts, and was there occupied with farming. During the war of 1812 he served his adopted country as a soldier. His son, William Fowler, went to Fairfield county, Pennsylvania, and later came to Ohio, he and his son, William Fowler, securing government land in Fulton county, which they cleared and improved. The original deeds to this property are in the hands of F. B. Fowler, and the latter was born on the property his father secured in York township.

Growing up in his native country, Frederick B. Fowler attended its schools. and then for nine terms he was a student of the North- . western Ohio Collegiate Institute at Wauseon, taking the scientific and literary courses. He studied law in the offices of Fuller & Hardy, attorneys of Wauseon, and was admitted to the bar in 1900. Immediately thereafter Mr. Fowler located at Wauseon, where he is engaged in the practice of his profession, specializing in criminal law, and being noted for his ability as a trial lawyer. Some of his important cases have been the following: J. R. Linthcomb case at Wanseon. the J. Roscoe Carter case in the Federal Court at Toledo, Ohio, in both of which he secured acquittals, and many of minor importance. He lost his case when he defended Fred Lehman, charged with murdering his wife, which lasted six weeks and cost $10,000. His associate in this case was Judge John W. Winn, of Defiance, Ohio. Mr. Fowler has been connected with important jurisprudence in the Federal and State courts of other states, and is recognized as a man of unusual ability and powerful eloquence.

In 1907 Mr. Fowler was married to Clara Vocke, a daughter of Joseph and Genevieve (Keihn) Vocke, of Napoleon, Ohio, there being no children. Mr. Fowler is a democrat and was nominated by his party for prosecuting attorney in 1911, and although running in a strongly republican district was only defeated by 100 votes. In 1918 he was again his party's nominee for the same office, but was defeated in the great republican landslide of that year. He was a candidate for judge of the Court of Pleas in 1915 and ran third. At present he is secretary of the Democratic County Central Committee, and is recognized as one of the leaders in his party.

Mr. Fowler is an attorney who by reason of his eloquence and address, dignified deportment, reasoning powers, and persuasive address is so effective in his addresses to juries. He fully understands how to present facts so clearly and forcibly as to convince his hearers of his sincerity and his own belief in the innocence of his client, and it is seldom that he fails to secure an acquittal.

Wiriram R. Crark, V. S. Of so much value have become the scientific knowledge and skill of the veterinarian that governments make provision for their services, competing to secure the most efficient, for in a way, the commercial interests of a country depend, in large measure, on the production of stock and its wholesomeness as food for the world's teeming millions. Humanity's dumb brethren of farm, field and forest are subject to ills that, unattended, decimate herds and flocks, and the stockman and dairyman find no better friend than the skilled veterinary surgeon. Equally is he indispensable to the horseman, to the owners and trainers of wild animals, and to the possessors of priceless household pets. A recognized authority in this line of medical science in Fulton county is Dr. Willpe Ae Clark of Wauseon, where he operates a modern animal hospital.

William R. Clark was born in Clinton township, Fulton county, Ohio, in 1862. He can trace ancestry back to the Mayflower, has proofs of Revolutionary stock and is very proud of this unquestionable American genealogy. His grandfather, Ebenezer Clark, was born in Ohio in 1801, and his parents, John A. and Elizabeth (Krantz) Clark, were born in the same state. Mr. Clark was born on his father's farm and very early took an interest in the line of work in which he has met with so much success. After completing the common school course in Fulton county he determined on his future career, and to make himself thoroughly proficient in 1895 entered the Ontario Veterinary College at Toronto, Canada, from which he was graduated with honors and with the degree of veterinary surgeon, authorized and made legal in 1898. He returned then to Fulton county and located at Pettisville, which he made his headquarters until the fall of 1899, when he came to Wauseon, which city has been his home ever since. THe has established an animal hospital here. and at different times has had pedigreed horses in charge, together with many other examples of the animal kingdom, notably animals for exhibition purposes. His practice extends over many adjacent counties to Fulton, and in his professional capacity his advice is often asked (and paid for) by owners of stock interests much farther away. He is a prominent member of the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Association, and belongs also to the American Veterinarian Society.

In 1889 Doctor Clark was united in marriage to Miss Leah Hind, who is a daughter of Joseph and Cordelia Jane (Boyer) Hind, residents of Wauseon. Doctor and Mrs. Clark have two children, namely: Mazola, who is the wife of Clarence Bates, has two children; and Harold H., who was born in 1904. Although too busy to serve in any public office, Doctor Clark does not feel that he is thereby relieved entirely from the responsibilities of citizenship. He gives political support to the principles of the independent wing of the democratic party in national matters, locally looking out for the welfare of

Crain SCHOFIELD CAMPBELL, M. D. The call of duty has ever been a clarion summons to the true physician. In recent days this country has had occasion to note the quick responses that brought unselfishly to the front in the service of their country the ablest men of scientific attainment in this line, men who proved their love of humanity, as well as their professional skill, in as dangerous situations as has brought to their hands the shattered soldier comrades they strove to rebuild. Wauseon can lay claim to medical heroes of this kind, and will long remember the patriotism and the professional ability of Dr. Clair 8. Campbell, who, fortunately, was spared to return from such duty to his former field of effort at Wauseon.

Clair Schofield Campbell was born in Ohio, January 2, 1872. His parents were Dr. G. P. and Sarah (Huldy) Campbell. His great-grandfather Campbell immigrated from Scotland to the United States and established himself near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, securing land and rearing his family there. The father of Doctor Campbell was born in Pennsylvania, later moved to Ohio, and completed his medical education in New York, from there coming to Fulton county, where he engaged in medical practice until his death, which occurred in 1904. Of his family of children, Doctor Campbell of Wauseon was the first born.

From the public schools Doctor Campbell entered the Northern Ohio University at Ada, from which he was graduated in the scientific course. Ie then spent one vear in the Davis Military Academy at LaGrange, North Carolina, which was followed by two years of study at Bethany College, West Virginia. In 1890 he entered the Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery, and from this institution was graduated in 1894, since when, as time and opportunity has offered, he has taken post graduate work in Chicago colleges, during almost his entire practice having specialized in the eye, ear and throat, becoming an authority on the same.

During the first nine years of practice Doctor Campbell was located at Tedrow, Ohio. In 1905 he came to Wauseon,'and during the next thirteen vears firmly established himself in the confidence and esteém of his fellow citizens. The coming of the great war, with its immediate demands for loyal service of every kind, found him ready to give up all personal ties and business expectations for the general good. In October, 1918, he passed the required examination for a medical commission and was ordered to Camp Greenleaf at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, where he served two months as captain of the medical corps, then was transferred to New York Citv and assigned to Debarkation Hospital No. 1, Ellis Island, as chief

Doctor Campbell was united in marriage to Miss Elsie Allen, of Fayette, Ohio, who is a daughter of Charles L. and Susan (Gamber) Allen, and they have one child, Charles Allen. _ '

From early manhood Doctor Campbell has been in sympathy with the principles of the democratic party and has been active in local affairs for many years. In 1916 his friends urged his candidacy for Congress, and, while defeated, his personal popularity was shown by his running second in a field of six candidates. He belongs to numerous medical bodies and scientific organizations, is a thirty-second - degree Mason, and belongs also to the Modern Woodmen of America.

Epwarp Grirrin Cons, D. D. S. Every intelligent community has accepted the belief that sound teeth are essential to good health. Americans are more or less noted for their attractive smiles, whereby they display a very wholesome condition of the mouth, and it is not too much to say that much of this wholesomeness is due to American dentistry. More than one crowned head, in days now past, has recognized this fact and has called an American dentist to his court so that he could be benefitted by his skill. While this is all true, it is only within a comparatively short time that dentistry has really come into its own and taken its place in the front rank of medical science. In this connection Wauseon is fortunate, for among its corps of dental surgeons are men of wide experience and great professional skill, one of these being Dr. Edward Griffin Cole, who in 1918 was elected president of the Miami Valley Dental Society.

Edward Griffin Cole was born on his father's farm in Fulton county, Ohio, December 17, 1877, and is a son of Edward and Ida (Hager) Cole. The Cole family was established in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, by the great-grandfather of Doctor Cole, who came from England. The father was born in Tioga county and came from there to Fulton county, Ohio, in 1869, purchasing a farm situated six miles north of Wauseon, on which he lived until 1904, when he removed to Coldwater, Michigan, where he lives retired. On the maternal side Doctor Cole preserves the Dewey ancestry in continuous line from 1532, his kinship with the late Admiral Dewey, the hero of Manila Bay, being close, as his maternal grandmother was a sister of Admiral Dewey's father.

Doctor Cole spent his boyhood days on the home farm and attended the country schools and later those at Wauseon, subsequently entering the Tri-State College, where he passed two years and then became a student in the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, which is a part of the University of Cincinnati. He pursued his studies there from 1899 until his graduation in 1902, with his degree receiving honorable mention because of his skill in crown and bridge work. He established his practice at Wauseon, and this has been his home ever since. He is identified with the Maumee Valley Dental Society, the Ohio State Dental Association, and the National Dental Society, and with other scientific bodies, and his professional work has brought him into much prominence.

In 1903 Doctor Cole was united in marriage to Miss Grace Struble, who is a daughter of Charles and Evelyn Struble, of Delta, Ohio, and they have three children, namely: Robert Edward. Virginia Evelyn and Julius William. A zealous republican at all times, Doctor Cole takes a deep interest in the permanency of his party's principles, but he has never consented to accept any political office except in relation to the schools. He has been a member of the school board seven years and is serving in his second term as president. He has membership in no fraternal organization except the Knights of Pythias, a strong body at Wauseon.

well represented by a body of intelligent, conscientious men, many of whom have devoted every energy to the faithful practice of medical science since they completed the educational course that entitled them to their degree. A practitioner here who has been exceptionally successful in his profession and stands high in the confidence and esteem of co-workers and people alike is Dr. J. H. Miller. _ Jay H. Miller was born at Bucyrus, Ohio, in October, 1862, and is a son of Isaac and Elizabeth (McBride) Miller. "He is in the sixth generation from the Miller ancestor who came to the United States from Germany and became the founder of a long and honorable line that has included both agriculturists and professional men. The father of Doctor Miller afforded him educational opportunities and encouraged his professional ambitions. He attended the public schools through boyhood, later took a course in the Normal School at Ada, and then, in 1886, entered the Hospital College of Medicine connected with the Central University of Kentucky, from which he was graduated with his degree.

Doctor Miller entered into practice at Glasgow in Barren county, Kentucky, where he remained for two years, and then sought a wider field at Denton, Téxas, where he had wide and varied experience, all of it beneficial as experience, but with less monetary return than he felt his medical ability should command. After eleven vears there, during which he formed friendships he will always cherish, circumstances called his attention to Wauseon, Ohio, and he returned to his native state and lolated in this city, invested in property, and his interests have been centered here ever since. He is in the enjoyment of a large and lucrative practice commensurate with his medical ability and surgical skill.

Adams, who is a daughter of W. T. and Amanda (Carpenter) Adams, residents of Glasgow, Kentucky, and to this marriage the following children have been born: Mina C., who is the wife of George Hallauner, and they have a son, John,,who was born in 1918; Pauline, who is the wife of Stanley Knight, of Chicago, and they have two children, Jean and Joan; Carl A., now of Toledo, who served four years in the United States Navy, was an electrical worker in the marine department that went over to France; and Bessie Ruth, who is the wife of Paul Shaver, of Maurertown, Shenandoah county, Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Shaver have two children, Paul and Janice J. . Toctor and Mrs. Miller are members of the First Christian Church at Wauseon. He is a member of the Ohio State Medical, the Western Ohio Medical and the Fulton County Medical Associations. In "addition to these professional bodies he belongs to the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen. He is liberal in his political views and votes as his own good judgment suggests.

throughout the world. Much of the efficiency of the present day farmer comes from the fact that the land he is operating has been developed into a high state of cultivation so that all of his energies can be concentrated upon the production of the sorely-needed foodstuffs. One of the men of the older generation of farmers who 1s now living retired at Wauseon is Philemon L. Upp, owner and developer of 150 acres of very valuable land in Clinton township, Fulton county. Py:

Philemon L. Upp was born in Huron county, Ohio, in 1848, a son of Philip and Hannah Upp. The Upp family is of Pennsylvania- Dutch extraction, and its members have been either farmers or local merchants, and most excellent, sturdy and honest people. After acquiring a country school education, as many country youths, alternating working on the farm in the summers and going to school in the winter until he was twenty, Mr. Upp decided to strike out for himself.

He was married to Mary E. Nesbitt, of Huron county, in 1867, and they became the parents of the following children: Lewis Elmer, who was born in 1869, lives at Wauseon; Anna A., who died in 1918; Philip Henry, who was born in 1874; Jocelyn, who was born in 1877; William Clayton, who was born in 1882, and Clarence Raymond, who was born in 1885. After his marriage Mr. Upp conducted his father's farm for three years, and then bought eighty acres in Huron county, and remained on it for three years. For the subsequent two years he was in a hardware business with his brother, under the firm name of Upp Brothers, at Plymouth, Ohio, and then was engaged in farming in the vicinity of Plymouth for atime. In 1880 he came to Fulton county and bought 154 acres of land in Clinton township that he still owns. He continued to ' improve and conduct this property until 1903, when he moved to Wauseon and turned the work of farming over to his son Philip. This farm is devoted to a general line of crops, and is one of the good ones of the county. In polities Mr. Upp is a democrat. Interested in the work of the Grange, he was a member of it until he retired from the farm, and believes every farmer ought to join it and learn through it how to make the most of his land. Although he has not cared for office, Mr. Upp takes the interest of a publicspirited man in the affairs of his community and county, and is regarded as one of those citizens who have made the world the better and happier for his passing through it.

Harmon Avaust Krauss. In these days of competition and government regulations the meat and grocery interests of the country are passing into the hands of thoroughly experienced and competent inen, for only such men can make a success in an industry beset with so many obstacles. One of the men who is recognized as a perfectly reliable merchant and honorable man is Harmon August Krauss of Wauseon, who has long been a resident of this part of the state. He was born at Stryker, Ohio, in 1884, a son of William and Augusta Krauss.

Growing up in his native town, Harmon A. Krauss attended its grammar and high schools and then went to Brvan, Ohio, where he was a salesman for Binn & Boothman in their dry goods business for five years. At the expiration of that period Mr. Krauss came to Wauseon and for six years was.a clerk for C. E. Roseman & Company, dry goods. He then went with the dry goods house of Spencer & Edgar for three years, following which he became proprietor of a meat and grocery business at West Un'ty, Ohio, and conducted it for 3% years. Selling that store, he returned to Wauseon and went into a meat business here. but at the close of two vears the building he was occupying was condemned and Mr. Krauss arranged for the erection of a new building, specially equipped for his occupaney and which is thoroughly modern in every respect. When he opened up for business he put in a complete line of fancy and staple groceries and has built up a very desirable trade among the best people of Wauseon.

In 1915 Mr. Krauss was united in marriage with Fay Folk, a daughter of Samuel E. and Celia Folk of Brvan, Ohio. In polities Mr. Krauss is a republican, but aside from exercising his right of suffrage he has not taken much part in public affairs. His fraternal connections are those he has formed as a member of the Knights of Pythias. Successful in business, he has won his way in the world by the exercise of natural ability and sound common sense, combined with a willingness to work. Since he has had a business of his own he has studied the wishes of his customers and seen to it that they found in his store what they wanted, and has given them a satisfactory service. Having centered his interests at Wauseon, he is naturally anxious to have it keep abreast of modern progress and ean be counted upon to give his support to any movements having that end in view.

WitittAmM Weser. One of the old business houses of Wauseon, that if removed from the city's everyday business life would be greatly missed, is the jewelrv establishment at No. 205 Fulton street that has borne the name of Weber for almost a half century. Its owner and proprietor is William Weber, jeweler and optician, who reer the store his father had founded when Wauseon was a village.

William Weber was born at Wauseon in 1871. His parents were Henrv and Mary (Schlatter) Weber. The latter was born February 2, 1844, in Canton Schaubhausen. Switzerland. Henry Weber was born December 23, 1827, in Zurich, Switzerland, and was twentyfour vears old when he came to America. In Switzerland the business of watchmaking in all its delicate details has long been carried to the highest degree of perfection bv expert workers, and today a real hand-made Swiss watch commands a high price. There Henry Weher was taught this trade. When he came to the United States he located at Maumee, Ohio, where he worked at watchmaking for a time and then came to Wauseon and opened a watch reparr shop and jewelry store that has continued in the familv ever since, his death occurring in 1904. He was twice married and was the father of eleven children, six of these still living. To his second marriage eight children were born. one of these being William Weber of Wauseon, whose mother died in 1919.

William Weber attended the public schools until he was fifteen vears of age, then acecnted his father's practical suggestion that he should go to Toledo and learn the jewelry trade with a reliable firm. Hence. for five vears Mr. Weber remained in the establishment of Maurice Judd, and left there prepared to work independently. He opened a shop at Archbold, which he conducted for two vears, when a fire destroved his property, after which he went to Delta and for the next ten years worked for the firm of Pratt Brothers. He then came back to Wauseon and worked for his father for a year, then went. to Tipton, Indiana, as a journeyman for a year and a half, and then went back to Delta and for two years was with the Gehring Brothers, druggists and jewelers as a partner, having a half interest in the jewelry department of the business, The death of his father recalled him to Wauseon, and in 1906 he bought his father's old business and has continued ever since. He carries a well selected stock of modern goods in his line, together with some almost priceless jewels and is prepared to put the same in any style of setting desired and with the skill of an efficient workman. Mr. Weber is also a thoroughly competent optician. rw

In 1894 Mr. Weber was married to Miss Lillian Bolyard, and they have had two sons, namely: Harry, who is now twenty-five years old; and Lawrence, who died in 1896, when aged seven months. The building in which Mr. Weber and his family reside was erected by his father. He has always given his political support_to the republican party but has never desired any public office. He has many friends who respect him highly, and his business integrity 1s universally acknowledged.

RanDaLu Orson Buck, D. O., Opru. D., a well-qualified osteopathic physician, now in practice in the City of Wauseon, Fulton county, Ohio, has many professional degrees, and although his medical career was interrupted, temporarily, by patriotic service as a soldier during the recent World war, he will probably attain good success in his practice in Fulton county, for he begins well based in the science he has entered. He holds the degree of D. O., Doctor of Osteopathy, of the American School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Missouri; the degree of Opth. D., Doctor of Opthalmology, of the Wagoner School of Opthalmology, of Kirksville, and also the special degree of Osteopathic Technique. He was a lecturer in the latter special course at the college from which he graduated.

He was born at Bath, Summit-county, Ohio, February 24, 1895, the son of Orson H. and Cora L. (Randall) Buck, well-regarded residents of that place. His genealogy shows that he comes of Scotch- Irish families, and the generations that have had residence in America have followed agriculture for the most part. Randall, as a boy, attended the elementary public school nearest to his home, and eventually entered the high school at West Richfield, Ohio, graduating from that school with the class of 1913. He had not at that time quite decided whether to take up business affairs or to try to qualify for professional life, and after having graduated from the high school he for a while worked in a clerical capacity in the offices of the Goodrich Rubber Company at Akron, Ohio. The work, however, was too confining, and he was for some time in poor health. And in order to recuperate while still following some gainful occupation he formed connection with an automobile company, acting as demonstrator for Ford cars. After a while, his health having improved, he again took up clerical work, but eventually decided to take up professional studies. In September, 1914, he became a student at the American School of Osteopathy, a leading school in that science at Kirksville, Missouri. Then Followed an earnest studentship of three years, during which he assiduously followed the course which brought him into the graduating class of 1917, and gained him the degree of Doctor of Osteopathy. He also concurrently applied himself to the study of opthalmology at the Wagoner School of Opthalmology at Kirksville. He graduated from that school in the sare year, gaining the degree of Opth. D., Doctor of Opthalmology. His studies of osteopathy were extensive, and he attained much distinction as a student; he gained the degree of Osteopathic Technique, and was so skilled in that branch that the faculty eventually gave him professorial duties at the college. For one semester he taught, in classes of his own, at Kirksville. For a short time after graduating he practiced osteopathy at Madison, Missouri, and after examination received license to practice in the State of Missouri. Iie returned, however, to his native state, and to his home town, West Richfield; took the Ohio state medical examination; and in July, 1917, received the license from the state examiners, thus being able to enter immediately into the practice of osteopathy in his home state. In August, 1917, he went to Wauseon, Fulton county, Ohio, and there opened office for practice. What little practice he developed during the next six months or so convinced him that the city was a promising field for him, but at that time all was temporary and unsettled because the nation was at war, and he had registered for military duty and stood ready to close his private interests at very short notice and enter upon active miltiary service. In due course the call came, and he was enlisted in the grade of private and was ordered to Camp Taylor, Kentucky, for assignment. In that receiving camp he remained for twenty days, being temporarily assigned to the Fifty-first Company, Thirteenth Battalion, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Depot Brigade. After that time he was transferred with other troops to Camp Beauregard, Louisiana, where he remained until August, 1918, gaining promotion to the grade of private, first. class, and subsequently to corporal. As a medical man he was assigned to an ambulance company, and eventually, in such connection, saw much active service in France. As a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Ambulance Company, of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Sanitary Train, of the Thirty-ninth Division, he left for the port of embarkation. He was at Camp Mills, Long Island, for five days, then embarking, at Hoboken, New Jersey, on the transport '"'Tola", which sailed on August 21, 1918. The ship was one of a large convoy of troopships, and the trip was an exciting one. Disaster almost overtook the ship in the submarine zone at the entrance to the English Channel, the ship narrowly escaping a submarine on September 7th, a sister ship being torpedoed and beached on the Scilly Isles. The voyage ended on September 18th, when the convoy reached La Havre, France. His unit was for one day at the British rest camp at La Havre, and then was ordered to St. Florent, Department of Cher, where it was attached to the Camp Hospital No. 70. There he stayed until November 10, 1918, then going to the casual camp at St. Aignan, later going to the overflow camp at Thesee, where he was stationed until November 22, 1918. The Armistice, which was signed on November 11, 1918, of course put an end to the fighting, and the stress upon the medical branch of the service was not so great thereafter; and many of the recently-arrived units were not full employed. On November 22, 1918, Corporal Ruck's unit was transferred to Cherbourg, and) remained at that rest camp for four weeks, returning then to Thesee, where he remained until January 29, 1919. He was then transferred to the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Ambulance Company, of the One Hundred and Fifteenth Sanitary Train, of the Fortieth Division. He was placed in charge of an ambulance unit, and sent to camp at Grevillers, where his unit operated twelve Ford ambulances. With that outfit he left Grevillers on January 31, 1919, and crossed France to Mars-la-Tour, where for a short time it was stationed, doing evacuation work in the sector from Briey to Toul. He was a responsible. efficient non-commissioned officer, and later was sent Pa aotanat service, in charge of six ambulances, to the Seventh Division, stationed at Rogeville. On March 20, 1919, he took the examination at Mars-la-Tour for a sergeancy, and was approved sergeant on March 25, 1919. He did considerable traveling while in France, and after service with the Seventh Division, at Rogeville, was assigned to duty with the Second Army Provisional Sanitary Train, going to Camp Covington, Marseilles. On June 7, 1919, he embarked on the French liner "Patrie"', stopped at Oran, Algiers, a French possession in Northern Africa, for four days, and eventually arrived at New York on June 22, 1919. After four days spent at Camp Merrit. New Jersey, he was sent to Camp Sherman, and on June 30, 1919, received honorable discharge from the United States Army.

Returning eventually to Wauseon, he resumed his professional practice, and has every prospect of succeeding in that city, where he is already well-regarded.

Politically Doctor Buck is an independent republican ; fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to the West Richfield, Ohio, Blue Lodge and to the Wauseon Eastern Star body, and Knights of Pythias. Professionally he is affiliated with many medical organizations, including membership in the Ohio Osteopathic Association and the American Osteopathic Association. He is unmarried.

Mervin Porter, with an older brother, Ira Porter, comprises the Wauseon and Tedrow firm of Porter Brothers, merchants. They have shown themselves to be good business men, energetic and enterprising merchants and men of commendable steadiness and moral integrity since they have been in commercial life. The brothers have only recently, that is within recent years, become established in business in Wauseon, but they are gaining gratifying success in their city enterprise.

Melvin Porter was born in the ancestral homestead in Fulton county, Ohio, the son of Robert and Sarah (Andrews) Porter, his birth date being July 25, 1892. He is therefore practically at the commencement of his business career, and probably will have many decades of active life in worth-while business and public effort, if one may take his first decade of work as a criterion. He comes of a well-known Fulton county family, in fact from one of the pioneer families of the county. His grandfather, Robert Porter, came from England and settled in Clinton township, Fulton county, and applied himself resolutely to the task of clearing a tract of wild land. His industry yielded to him eventually a good agricultural property, upon which he raised his family, his son Robert, father of Melvin, among them. Robert Porter took up the tillage of his father's land, which eventually became his property. There his children. four sons and two daughters, were born. Melvin Porter is the youngest child of Robert and Sarah (Andrews) Porter, and was raised on is home farm, attending the local schools with his brothers and sisters.

He remained in school until he was about seventeen years old, thus acquiring a good academic education upon which to base a commercial career. After leaving school he entered the dry goods store of the Mercer Co-operative Company, Wauseon, with which company he remained as clerk for five years, in that time gaining a comprehensive understanding of the business. For the next four years he was a salesman in the store of Spencer and Edgar. His home training had instilled in him commendable habits, and during his years of salaried employment he showed much strength of character, avoiding expenditures in unnecessaries, his thriftiness ultimately bringing him into the position of being able to join his brother in purchasing an established grocery business at Tedrow, Fulton county, in 1915, that store thereafter taking the trading name of Porter Brothers. During the five years of their joint operation of the Tedrow store they have substantially increased the volume of business and widened the scope so that now it is an up-to-date, wellstocked general store. In December, 1918, the brothers ventured into business in the City of Wauseon, purchasing the grocery business of H. J. Gelzer and Son. In that enterprise also the brothers have had good success, and are placed among the responsible merchants of the city and county.

Melvin Porter is a member of the Christian Church, Wauseon, and he and his wife take interested part in church and community affairs. Politically he is a republican. In 1914 he married Gladeus, © daughter of Frank and Mary Elizabeth (Gabriel) Donovan, of Heeb Fulton county. They have one child, a daughter, Wandamerle.

JAMES GrisiER. The proprietor of "The Fountain Farm," adjoining Fayette in Gorham, is a French immigrant, James Grisier, having been born July 30, 1837, at Batztenia, France. He is a son of Jacob and Catharine (Vanier) Grisier, who in 1844 migrated to America, coming directly to territory now included in Fulton county. They invested in land 114 miles northwest of Archbold, which was ell in timber, and James Grisier, who relates the story, helped his father to clear it.

Mr. Grisier remembers when his father hauled wheat - twentyfive and thirty bushels being a load, to Maumee and sold it for fifty cents. At that time there was no government guarantee, and the law of supply and demand controlled the markets. Notwithstanding the price' it required three days to make the trip and return from Fayette to Maumee with an ox team, and the settlers earned their money.

In June, 1864, Mr. Grisier married Catharine Miller, who came from France to the new country. She was born in 1848, near Bellford, France. She is a daughter of Peter and Catharine (Miller) Miller, and she came with her parents to Defiance by water. They arrived just before the first train was run into Archbold.

In 1873 Mr. Grisier, associated with his brother Henry, became the local repersentatives of the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company, their territory being Fulton county. The brother died and Mr. Grisier has continued the business, and is the oldest continuous insurance agent living today of the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company.

Soon after his marriage Mr. Grisier located on an eighty acre tract of land in Gorham, adjoining Fayette. There was only one store and one blacksmith shop in Fayette when the Grisiers came into'the community. They have watched the growth of the town. In the beginning the town was called Gorham Center. The farm was in the brush and much of it under water when Mr. Grisier located on it. He later acquired forty acres more land adjoining his eighty acre farm.

"The Fountain Farm" presents a different aspect today from the ' time when Mr. Grisier purchased it. He has everything up-to-date, with modern buildings, ornamental shrubbery and native shade, and the passerby is attracted by the beauty of the surroundings. While Mr. Grisier still lives at the old homestead, since 19V4 he has rented the land to others. He lives there where he has so much pleasure in the surroundings, and looks back over a lifetime of industry that nade his present environment a possibility.

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. GUrisier are: Henry, who died at the age of fourteen; Eliza, wife of Frank Farnsworth, of Hillsdale, Michigan; Charles, of Wauseon; Clara, wife of Cyrus Harnsworth, of Koswell, New Mexico; Ella, wife of C. D. Haues, of Fayette, and she had a twin brother, idward, who died July 3, 1873. Henry, the oldest son, died January 26, 1551.

Mr. Grisier had his education in the days of the log schoolhouses in Fulton county. He is a republican, and has served the community as a school director. He is a charter member of the Fayette Masonic Lodge, and he belongs to the Lutheran Church.

CHARLES JEROME Ives, the well-known and well-regarded senior partner of the Ives Furniture and Undertaking Company of Wauseon, has had a noteworthy career in business and public life. As a business man he has succeeded well, giving sympathetic and thorough service. And some of his public endeavors have been particularly meritorious. Especially worthy of note have been his years of active interest in the welfare and guidance into manly brotherhood of the boys of the city. He was the organizer of the Ives Boys Brotherhood, which was an active organization before the }aden-Powell Boy Scout movement had developed much strength in this country. He has also to some extent entered into public affairs, having undertook the responsibilities of clerk for Gorham township for seven years, and for two terms he was county auditor. And since he has been in the undertaking profession he has given close thought to the excellence of the company's service, taking the course and graduating from the Barnes School of Anatomy, Sanitary Science and Embalming at Chicago, and also taking the state examination, so that he is bringing to his practice good qualifications.

He was born in Wyandotte, Kansas, in 1873, the son of Jerome and Elizabeth (Bradley) Ives. The Ives family is of French origin, but in the maternal line Charles J. Ives is in descent from a family which for many generations has been resident in America, pioneers of Adrian, Michigan.

The family came to Fulton county not long after the birth of Charles Jerome, settling at Fayette, where the boy attended public school, and eventually took the course at the Fayette Normal School, gaining a teacher's certificate in due course. He did not, however, take up that profession, and soon after leaving normal school he entered the employ of F. L. Farnsworth, general store dealer at Fayette, Fulton county. Young Ives remained as salesman in that store for six years and after that he was for a while in Oklahoma, but returned to Fayette and resumed his old. connection with the store, which, however, was then conducted by C. M. Farnsworth, a brother of his former employer. For two years he was an employe, and for a further five years was a partner, having purchased 'an interest in the business. He was fairly well-known throughout the county, and was a man of distinct capability and enviable personal reputation so that when he sought election to the office of county auditor he had little difficulty in securing the office and was re-elected at the end of his first term in office. All the while he continued to hold an interest in the Favette store. In 1914 he with other wellknown local people established the firm of Ives, Edgar, Knight

Company, furniture dealers and embalmers. In the following year he graduated from the Barnes School of Anatomy, Sanitary Science and Embalming at Chicago, and assumed the responsibility for the embalming part of the company's service. Soon afterwards Mr. Roy Pike acquired the interest of Mr. B. 8S. Knight, and the firm under the reorganization became known as the Ives, Pike Company, contunuing as such for two years, when, because of the failing health of Mr. Pike, and of his desire to retire from the business, Mr. Ives purchased the Pike interest in January, 1918, thus becoming the principal owner. Much confidence is placed in the-company, and in the quality of their service by the people of the city and county, and they have probably as much work as they can handle. And their furnishing business is also substantial so that Mr. Ives has not good reason to regret coming to Wauseon and entering into business relations with the people of Fulton county. He is today a man with many financial interests, including real estate. And he has always been more or less in public life, although his main public work has been centred in his interest in the training of boys for worthy manhood and citizenship. In 1910 he organized the Ives Boys' Brotherhood at Wauseon, gave unstintingly of, his time and thought to the project, and at one time had a strong brotherhood of more than one hundred boy members. Of course the object was somewhat similar to that of the, in this day, more generally known Boy Scout organization, and it eventually, in 1914, was merged in the Bov Scouts of America organization, but to Mr. Ives is due the credit of pioneering the work of banding the bovs together in loyal manly brotherhood at a time when the general public was more or less apathetic to the movement. It has been stated that Mr. Ives conceived the idea long before the Baden-Powell movement had ga*ned strength in America, and that he had accompanied his boys on long hikes and at encampments at a time before it was to any great degree generally known. These circumstances point to the sincerity of his interest in the welfare of the rising generation, and of his desire to influence for good as many boys as he could reach. He had the pleasure of seeing twenty-six stalwart young men, members of his original bovs' brotherhood, step forward at the national call to arms, readv to take the nart of men in the defense of the nation. And during the decade of his association with the bovs of Wauseon Mr. Ives has seen many boys step into the sterner walks of life well equipped morally and perhaps better fitted physically because of their healthv activities as members of the brotherhood:in the growing years. Mr. Ives has rendered a distinct service to the boys of Wauseon. Politically he is a republican, and. as before stated herein, has to some extent taken part in administrative work. Fraternally he is identified with many orders. He is a Mason, a member of the Wauseon Blue Lodge. Defiance Commandery. the local Chapter and Council, and also to the Eastern Star bodv. He is a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and he belongs to the Maccabees. He is also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic auxiliary organization. Religiously he is a Methodist. a consistent member and supporter of the local Methodist Church. Generallv his life has been a creditable one, well worthy of notice in this historical work of Fulton county.

In 1899 he married Ola A., daughter of Eugene and Melissa (Sweetland) Belding. of Fayette. Fulton county, Ohio. To them have been born two children, Arline Lois and Irene Lucille.

Ernest C. Reynotps, owner of the Wauseon Monumental Works, is one of the substantial young business men of that city. His product is of high grade workmanship, and he is painstaking and reliable in the execution of the contracts placed with him. He is an enterprising, public-spirited citizen, a conscientious churchman, and takes much interest in the affairs of the community. A man of superior education and of wide experience in executive matters, he is bringing to his business an ability such as enables him to keep closely in touch with the best markets of supply, and to obtain such supplies at advantageous prices, thus insuring his patrons high grade and economical service. L