Fulton Township (part 16 of 34)

He was born in the Wauseon district on October 29, 1885, on the Reynolds family homestead, which is about three miles to the eastward of the city. He comes of Dutch-Irish ancestry, although the family has long been resident in America. He is the son of W. H. and Charlotte (Parks) Reynolds, the former a farmer wellknown in Fulton county. As a bov Ernest C. attended the elementary school nearest to his home until he was fourteen years old, when he became a student at the Wauseon High School. He was an energetic lad, and was not yet in his teens when he was of much assistance to his father in the operation of the home farm of 100 acres. During the long summer vacations he gave practically all his time to his father, so that long before he entered high school he knew most of the main farming operations, and undertook those for which he had the strength. His high school education was obtained under difficulties, as the school was more than three miles away from his home. He drove to and from school daily for the whole of the four years he was a student thereat. He was cighteen years old when he graduated with the class of 1904. Soon afterward he took employment with Clarence Brigham, tinsmith and hardware dealer. for whom he worked for about one year. Then he went to Toledo to take the business course at the Davis Business College of that city. Eventually he graduated, and after some experience as a bookkeeper returned to Wauseon and associated with his brother, who owned the monumental works of which he, himself, is now the sole proprietor. He became conversant with the business during the vear he spent with his brother, and left him to proceed to Poughkeepsie, New York, there to continue his technical schooling at the well-known Eastman Business College. After completing the business course at that college he was well fitted for most general phases of commercial management. For three years he was employed as bookkeeper by the Anchor Bolt and Nut Company, Poughkeepsie. He left the employ of that firm in 1911 and returned to Wauseon in order to join his brother in business partnership. They became equal partners in the monument works, and thereafter traded as Reynolds Brothers, Ernest taking charge of the commercial affairs of the partnership. The brothers extended their operations, opened branches at Leipsic, Ohio, and Paulding Centre, Ohio, to good advantage. Eventually ernest sold his interest in the Paulding establishment to his brother, and purchased the interest of his brother in the Wauseon works. The partnership was thus dissolved, and Ernest C. Reynolds has since been sole owner of the Wauseon business. !

He is a man of distinct business ability, and has entered interestedly into some of the public movements in Wauseon, which might almost be considered to be his home town, and has, unostentatiously, given support to many local charities. He is a man of independent politics, is a staunch Methodist member of the local Methodist

GrorcE Davis GREEN, retired merchant and for more than fifty years a responsible citizen of Wauseon, Ohio, has for many years been prominent in business and financial circles of that place. He was successful in business, and was mainly instrumental in founding the Peoples State Bank of Wauseon, of which he has been a director since its establishment. He is well-regarded in the city and vicinity, having lived an estimable life, in which has been much unostentatious public work.

He was born in 1842, in Medina, Lenawee county, Michigan, the son of Noah and Eliza (Baldwin) Green. The Green family is of Massachusetts American descent, and of English origin. Many generations of the family lived in Massachusetts, but Noah Green, with the sturdy spirit of the typical American pioneer, took his few belongings with him in 1834 and drove his wagon into the wilderness, settling in that part of Michigan now cleared and valuable land, but at that time wild and undeveloped property. He experienced the privations of the average pioneer, but eventually cleared a tract of land in Medina, where he settled his family and where his son George D. was born seven years later. In the healthy but rigorous conditions of that part of the country in that early day the boy was reared, and, as he grew, George D. took good part in the laborious work of development. Eventually the family possessed a good holding, and conditions were more comfortable. In December, 1865, George D. came to Wauseon, and for four years thereafter was a clerk in the general store of Eager and Green. In 1869 he went into independent business in Wauseon, and continued successfully in general merchandising business for many years. In 1889 he was the prime mover in the organization of the People's Bank, of which he has been a director since its foundation, and which after a successful period of private banking was made a state bank in 1906. Much of the success the bank has gained has been due to the careful and conservative administration of its affairs by levelheaded, reliable business men such as is Mr. Green. He gave much of his time to the affairs of the bank, and has been steadfastly continued as a director year by year. Excepting for his banking connection Mr. Green has practically retired from business associations.

He has been a loyal republican practically throughout his voting years. His first presidential vote was cast in the election which gave President Lincoln his second term and in the subsequent political campaigns Mr. Green is able to recall many interesting experiences and incidents. He has been prominent in the functioning of local branches of the Masonic Order, being a Mason of the thirtysecond degree. He belongs to the Warren Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons and to No. 7 Commandery. Religiously he is a Congregationalist, for very many years having been a member of the Wauseon Congregational Church.

In 1880 he married Maria Louise Sheldon. of Litchfield, Hillsdale county, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Green have very many sincere friends in Wauseon, in which they have lived for so many

Warp A. Rostyson is a native of Wauseon, Ohio, born in 1890, the son of J. CG. and Mathilda (Smith) Robinson, who owned a farm near Wauseon. He was educated in the country school nearest to his home, after passing through the grades of which he for two years attended the high school at Wauseon. He of course had long before that time taken some part in the minor tasks of his father's farm, and after leaving school he remained at farming occupations until he had reached the age of eighteen years, when he entered the Wauseon plant of the Van Camp Packing Company, with which company he remained for eighteen months. Then, in 1910, notwithstanding that he was still a minor, he with commendable enterprise ventured into the business in which he has since continued, which means that he has shown himself to be a man of good business ability, for he has succeeded well in that business. His ten years of independent business have been marked by praiseworthy steadiness and stability of purpose, and by a persistent application to the labors, physical and mental, demanded by such business responsibility. That he was a man of optimism and pluck is also evident, when one knows that at the time he resolved to enter independent business he had as business capital only forty dollars. Under the circumstances his success has been quite commendable. and he may safely be classed among the worth-while citizens of Wauseon.

Politically he has been independently inclined. At least he was during the progress of the war and he has more than once shown sincere public spirit, contributing freely to what he has considered to be worthy local undertakings.

In 1916 he married Libbie L., daughter of Jacob B. Lee, of Wauseon. They have two children, Elizabeth Ellen, and Robert L., the latter born on January 23, 1919.

Frank S. Ham, attorney-at-law at Wauseon, is a member of a family long distinguished for the number of professional men it gave to the country, and he is a son of Judge Thomas F. and Charlotta A. (Seudder) Ham. The stock is of English and Welsh extraction, and originated when four brothers came to this country from England and located at Bethany, Pennsylvania, the grandfather of Frank S. Ham, John C. Ham, being one of them. Frank S. Ham has two brothers and one sister.

After attending the public and normal schools at Wauseon, Frank S. Ham studied law by himself, and, passing his examinations was admitted to the bar in 1905, having an incentive in his work in his father's example. After being admitted to practice in the State and Federal Courts Mr. Ham began specializing in corporation law, and is now the attornev for five railroads, the New York Central, the Wabash, the Detroit, Toledo & Tronton, Toledo & Indiana, and the Toledo & Western. While he is considered an authority on corporation and railroad law, Mr. Ham is equally qualified for criminal practice and became famous for his work as special attorney for the state in the celebrated first degree murder case of Fred Leyman. Mr. Ham prepared the case. the trial of which consumed five weeks, and secured a conviction. 'Tt is safe to declare that Mr. Ham is easily the leading attorney of Fulton county, and his services are often reauested in cases of state and national importance. As a relaxation from his professional duties Mr. Ham owns and supervises a magnificent farm of 320 acres in Swan Creek township.

In polities Mr. Ham is a republican, but in 1915 he was selected as the independent, non-partisan candidate for the office of judge, and ran a close second against the organization candidate. Having alwavs been a close student of English literature, Mr. Ham has developed into a pleasing writer of both prose and poetry, and a forceful speaker, and is in great demand as an orator on occasions of moment. During the late war he rendered very effective service as one of the speakers on the Liberty Loan and war work contributions, and belonged to the National Bureau of Speakers for Ohio and Pennsylvania. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows and Maccabees of Wauseon.

Mr. Ham never makes any argument in court without displaying his habits of thinking, resorting at once to some well founded principles of law, and drawing his deductions logically from his premises. aw is alwavs treated by him as a science, founded on established principles. He has risen to his present height in his profession by his profound penetration, his power of analysis, the comprehensive grasp and strength of his understanding, and the firmness, frankness and integrity of his character. Mr. Ham has an overwhelming share of the corporation law business of this part of the state, and deservedly so. No one who has ever heard him present his case can fail to be impressed with the reasoning powers, the intensity and sagacitv with which he pursued his investigations, his piercing criticisms, his masterly analysis, and the energy and fervor of his appeals to the judgment and conscience of the tribunal he was addressing.

His studies and researches have made Mr. Ham a profound believer in the liberties of the people being steadfastly upheld, and he has always shown himself to be one of the most enlightened, intrepid and preserving friends to the commercial prosperity of the country. His interests are many and varied, his enthusiasms unbounded, and he is a man who always carries out successfully anything he undertakes. His connection with any movement insures its ultimate satisfactory termniation, and he is recognized as one of the strongest factors in public affairs in this part of Ohio.

Tt is an axiom of his that nature is man's best and most indulgent friend; and, for what little may be, even grudgingly, given her, she in return gives lavishly of rare gifts of beauty and splendor - pleasing to the eye - restful to the soul - and lulling into peaceful repose the tired mind.

He is an ardent lover of both rod and gun, and his home (shown on an adjoining page) is occupying a site on one of Wauseon's principal streets, yet is surrounded by spacious grounds abounding with fruits, berries and flowering plants and shrubs. He speaks of shrubs, peonies, roses, etc., in terms of hundreds, and of bulbous plants (tulips, etc.), in thousands. His peony garden is one of the largest private plantings in this section.

He was poet in Waterloo, Indiana, January 22, 1885, the son of Darwin and Margaret (Hodge) Soule. He comes of an ancient English family, although three generations of the branch to which he belongs have had American residence, his ndfather, George Soule, being among the pioneer settlers in Michigan. Darwin Soule, father of Glenn V., was born in Michigan, and eventually went into Indiana, settling on a farm near Waterloo in that state. There the family lived, and there Glenn V. was born. The latter as a boy attended the local public schools, but at the age of fifteen years began to work, taking minor capacity in the office of a Waterloo, Indiana, produce dealer. He remained so employed for seven years, acting as buyer for some time. After a period as foreman of a plant he came to Wauseon. That was in 1907. For the next five years he was in the employ of Jones Brothers, local produce dealers, as assistant manager. In 1912 he entered into independent business, at 115 West Elm street, Wauseon, and in a short time developed a substantial business, buying eggs, poultry and butter from producers within a radius of ten miles, and shipping to markets in New York City and elsewhere. During his years of trading in Wauseon he has steadily prospered and is today a man of assured business stability. He has several other financial interests, and is a stockholder in a well-known Detroit commission house, the L. R. Jones Company of that city. His two plants in Wauseon give indication of the extent of his trading. His storage house on the railroad siding has capacity for 10,000 pounds, and his shipments of recent years have been exceptionally heavy.

During the war he manifested worthy qualities as a citizen, supporting the various tvar loans to the limit of his resources, and in many wavs he has proved his interest in the city wherein he has centered his business. Politically he is a republican; fraternally he is a Mason, a member of the Wauseon Blue Lodge and the local Chapter. He is generally recognized as one of Wauseon's responsible and representative citizens. He married into a Wauseon family, his wife, Otha, being the daughter of E. C. and Ellen (Benner) Sullinger. The marriage took place in Wauseon in 1914.

SamureL Ruppert, successor to the business of Christopher Domitio, and, more recently, Domitio and Ruppert, well-known Wauseon, Ohio, firm of clothiers, haberdashers and custom tailors, comes of one of the oldest families of Fulton county, and has lived almost all his life in Wauseon and its environs. :

He was born April 6, 1862, in the old Ruppert homestead near Wauseon, the son of John Adam and Elizabeth (Lilich) Ruppert, and grandson of Henry Ruppert, one of the pioneers of Fulton county. The family is of German origin, but for four generations has been resident in the United States, Samuel Ruppert's great-crandfather, who was born in Germany, having settled in Pennsvlvania. His son Henry, grandfather of Samuel, was a man of superior education, and to some extent followed an academic life. He was for some years a school teacher, but for the greater part of his life was a farmer and pioneer. He came with his ox team across the country and settled upon a tract of wild land on Turkey Fort Creek, about three miles southeast of Wanseon. There he spent the rest of his life, and raised a family of five children, among them John A. father of Samuel. John A. Ruppert farmed the family land for the greater part of his life, and raised his family of eight children thereon. Samuel was the fourth born. He attended the public school nearest to his home, helping his father in the working of the farm during the summer vacations and attending school regularly during the winter months. He also attended school near Blissfield, Michigan, for one year, living with his cousin, Mrs. Daniel Palmer, at that place during the period. After closing his schooling he returned home and steadily assisted his father in the operation of the farm until he had reached the age of nineteen years, when, in 1881, he came to Wauseon, resolved to learn the tailoring trade. He entered the shop of Christopher Domitio, in whose employ he remained for fourteen years, becoming an expert tailor. For ten years he worked for Charles Yeager, a tailor of Wauseon, and then, his wife having died without issue, he went to Toledo and there for one year worked for Cornelius Vermass, a tailor of that city. Returning to Wauseon in July, 1907, he and William C. Domitio, nephew of Christopher Domitio, formed a business partnership and acquired the business of Christopher, who was desirous of retiring from business. The partners had substantial success in business, materially expanding it until it conducted a most satisfactory volume within a radius of fifteen miles of Wauseon. In February, 1920, Samuel Ruppert purchased the interest of his partner and he is now sole owner of the business. He today has a good place among the substantial business men of Wauseon, and is widely known throughout the countv.

Samuel Ruppert is a member of the Methodist Eniscopal Church, and politicallv is a republican. He has been somewhat prominently identified with the functioning of the local lodge of the order of Knights of Pythias, having been vice chancellor of that organization. He has applied himself steadily to business in Wauseon for the greater part of his business life. and during the period has upon manv occasions shown a generous interest in the affairs of the community, and has always been a responsible citizen. He was one of the first members of the organization which became the Booster Club and more recently the Commercial Club of Wauseon.

Fe has been twice married, first, in 1888.'to Agnes D., daughter of John B. and Christianna (Lautenslager) Segrist of Wauseon. She died in 1904. He was subsequently married to Carrie, daughter of Frank and Anna E. (Wolverton) Houseman, of Swanton, Fulton county, the second marriage taking place October 14, 1907, three vears after the demise of his first wife. Frank Houseman was born in Erie county.and served in the Civil war. He located in Swanton, Fulton county, and in July, 1870, was emploved bv the S. Railroad Company. Four years later he entered business for himself as a grocer, and continued in that line until his demise in 1888. Mrs. Houseman was born in 1844 in Lodi, Seneca county, _ New York, of English parentage. They came to Sandusky, Ohio, in 1846.

Ep Scorr. vice president, director and one of the stockholders of Brigham. Guilford & Company, owners of a large denartment store business in Wauseon, Ohio, is a well-known man of that place. He has had good part in the business and public activities of that place, is well-regarded in the distriet, and was twice elected to the office of county clerk.

connecting with families of Scottish and Scotch-Irish ancestry, although the branch to which he belongs has been resident in America for many generations, and his forebears are among the pioneer settlers in Eastern Ohio, where they generally took to the customary pioneering and later agricultural pursuits. Ed Scott has spent practically the whole of his life in Wauseon, for he was not much more than three years old when his parents moved to the city from Richland county. Ed received all his academic education in the public schools of Wauseon, and during his later years of schooling worked on Saturdays and during vacations as grocer-boy for W. A. Wilson, his services commanding a daily pay of twenty-five cents. When he finally left school he worked for two years as delivery boy for Charles Schwartz, successor to W. A. Wilson, afterward, for two years, associating with his father in the sale of agricultural implements. Then, with commendable confidence and selfreliance, he ventured into independent business in partnership with Harry Downs, of Wauseon, the partners trading as Scott and Downs. He was then scarcely twenty vears old, and although the partnership was dissolved within a year, it gives an indication of the aggressive, optimistic trend of the boy's character. From 1887 until 1892 young Scott was in California, where he worked for commission houses, and for some time ranched in San Diego county, eventually managing a hay and fruit farm in that section. In July, 1892, he returned to Wauseon, and for a while effectively sold insurance. . Later he entered the employ of the Lake Shore Railway Company, but eventually he became a salesman in the hardware store of C. E. Brigham. In 1904 he was elected county clerk for a three-year term, in the republican interest, and his standing in the district, as well as his efficienev in public office, may be geuged by the fact that he was re-elected in 1907. In the following vear he aided in the organization of the firm of Brigham, Guilford & Company, a corporate concern capitalized at $60,000, to conduct a department store business in Wauseon. Mr. Scott was one of the stockholders, was elected vice president, and when the company became established in business he had completed his term in office, so he at once devoted his whole time to the management of the shoe department of the new store, which responsibility he still holds in connection with that business. The partners, Messrs. Brigham, Guilford, Palmer, Scott, and Dalrymple, were all men of sound business ability and extensive experience, and were thus able to guide the business into an enviable condition of stability.

Mr. Scott considers Wauseon to be, to all intents and purposes, his native place, and has always keenlv followed its progress. He has throughout his life taken pride in the city, and during his more responsible later years has co-operated effectively in public work. He is among the business leaders of the place, and has held staunchly to the republican party in national polities. Fraternally he is a Mason, a member of the Wauseon Blue Lodge. ,

He married Jessie, daughter of Mrs. Addie (Hough) Demeritt. of Wauseon, the marriage taking place in 1893. They have no children, but gave parental affection to four children, Mavina, Nelsie, Pauline and Sally Stone, whom, when orphaned, Mr. and Mrs. Scott took into their home and reared as though thev were their own daughters. Bereavement came to them when Pauline died in February, 1919. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have many life-long friends in Wauseon, are generally well-liked, and esteemed as good neighbors and charitably-disposed citizens. 5

EvuGrene BurrerMorg, senior partner of the firm of Weber and Buttermore, wholesale and retail bakers of Wauseon, Ohio, is a young and enterprising business man of that city, and good business success has come to him and his partner, Harry Clyde Weber, a wellknown Wauseon young man. Both partners were in the federal service during the war, Buttermore in the naval forces and Weber in the army.

Eugene Buttermore was born in Miller City, Putnam county, Ohio, in 1894, the son of John and Rebecca (Laffever) Buttermore. He attended the public school at Leipsic, Ohio, until he had passed the eighth grade, and then, being at that time about fifteen years old he was apprenticed to his brother, a baker of Leipsic, Eugene having worked for him during prior vacations. As a journeyman baker, Eugene spent short periods with many bakers during the next few years, and was seventeen years old when he came to Wauseon to work as baker for Gorsuch and Clark, with whith firm he remained for six years. He was a young man of strong character, industrious and steady, and during the twelve years or so of service had steadily . saved some of his earning, so that when in 1919 an opportunity came to enter into independent business he was financially able to grasp it. He formed a partnership with a friend, Harry C. Weber, and soon became well established in business at their present location as wholesale and retail bakers, trading under their joint names and developing a good city and country trade. Before reaching that degree of business stability, however, some other events of importance to himself had happened to him. He had married in 1914, but the trend of the war into which the country entered in 1917 had its influence upon him, and he had to temporarily leave home and take service in the national fighting forces. He enlisted on June 27, 1918, in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the United States Navy. He was sent to the Great Lakes Training Station, where he served until the end of the war, being honorably discharged in December, 1918, soon after which release he returned to Wauseon and joined Harry Weber in purchasing the bakery business they now own. The energetic young partners have steadily gone forward, giving good service and manifesting commendable enterprise and industry.

Eugene Buttermore married in 1914 Ilo Yarnell, daughter of Grant and Charlotte (Hartman) Yarnell, of Wauseon. Mr. and Mrs. Buttermore enter to some extent into the social life of the community, having many friends. Politically he is a republican. He is a member with his wife of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Wauseon, and has been identified with the functioning of the local - branch of the Knights of Pythias order. It may be said generally of him that he has been applying himself to his business affairs with such steadiness as to warrant the belief that he will succeed well in life.

Srmon RycueEner is one of the largest dealers in wool, seed and live stock in the State of Ohio, and is widely known throughout his home county, Fulton county. He is a native of Pettisville, has made Pettisville the headquarters for his extensive trading for twentyseven years, and has an enviable reputation in that place. He is identified with the Pettisville Grain Company, the elevator belonging to which company has a capacity for 18,000. bushels, and he is a stockholder and director of the Pettisville Savings Bank.

pioneer families of that section of the state. Christian Rychener, the pioneer, crossed from Wayne county through the wilderness to German township, Fulton county, and was one of the first to settle and begin to clear land in that township. His marriage has historic interest, in the fact that it was the first to be solemnized in German township, that is, the first in which white people were the principals. Since that time the Rychener family, in its many descendants, has had prominent part in the industrial and public life of many Fulton county communities. Mas

Simon Rychener was born in Pettisville, Ohio, in 1873, the son of John and Anna Rychener. He was unfortunate in losing his father early in his life, Simon being only four years old when his father died, which misfortune much altered the boy's prospects. He was only able to obtain a country school education, and that amounted to practically only the winters spent in school, for during the growing season he helped his uncle, who had adopted him, in the operation of the latter's farm. Thus he passed his life until he had reached his sixteenth year, when his schooling ended altogether, and for the next two or three years he stayed on the farm, giving his labor in exchange of board and clothing. When he was eighteen years old he returned to his native place, Pettisville, where he made his home with his mother and found good work as section man on the New York Central Railroad. He remained so employed for two vears, being very provident, and accumulating as much of his earnings as he possibly could. And at the end of the two years of railroad work he found himself possessed of sufficient capital to venture into independent business as a butcher. His beginning was inauspicious, but he was a man of good poise, and went to the extent of trading his limited capital would nermit him to undertake, but during the next ten years his little butchering business in Pettiswille grew to such dimensions that he had to close his connection with retail butchering and devote his time to the larger affairs of his wholesale trade in live stock. He had been in partnership with Fred Bennett, a well-known local man, and their trading in cattle and hogs had been extensive, but in 1903 the firm of Rychener and Bennett ceased to operate the retail butchering business in Pettisville, the partners selling that business and dissolving partnership. From that time Mr. Rychener has been alone in business, which with the years has assumed very substantial proportions and wide scope. He trades in wool, seed and live stock, buying extensively and shipping all over the country under his own name. Needless to say, the trading has been materially to his advantage, the volume of business bringing him substantial return, so that as the years have passed and his capital has increased he has seen fit to enter into other enterprises of industrial and financial character. He is closely identified with the Pettisville Grain Company, which does an extensive elevator business, and he was one of the organizers of the Pettisville Savings Bank, of which he is a stockholder and director. And among his other interests is''a good farming property. Altogether he has had notable success in business.

Personally he is respected in his home district. He has lived a steady, honorable life; and has shown a readiness to support any project that has for its object the welfare of the community. Politically he is an independent republican, but has not manifested any desire for political office. a In 1894 he married Mary, daughter of Samuel and Anna (Roth)

WiLt1aM JoHN Wepre, cashier of the Pettisville Savings Bank, Pettisville Ohio, is one of the consequential men of affairs of that community. His life record stamps him as a man of wide knowledge, of unblemished character, of commendable public spirit, and of definite and pronounced executive, organizing and administrative ability. He has been an educator, an agricultural and industrial company organizer and manager, and a financier and banker of enviable repute. - He is part owner of the Pettisville Grain Company, was one of the founders of the Pettisville Savings Bank, has membership in two Ohio State Bankers' Associations, was the organizer and is sole owner of the Pettisville Electric Light Company, and among his other interests has a good farming property. So that he is a man of consequential business and financial affairs. And his public record has been equally notable, especially in educational activities. He is president of the Fulton county Board of Education, and ee similar office in the deliberations of the Pettisville School

He was born on the family homestead in Clinton township, Fulton county, in 1873, the son of John and Margaret (Fink) Weber. The family has long had residence in Ohio, and for many decades has been in Fulton county. William J. was educated in the Pettisville public school, after passing through which he went to the Fayette Normal School in order to qualify for entry into the teaching profession. For five years he taught in schools of Clinton and German townships, teaching during the school period and farming for himself during the long summer vacations. The latter occupation was not a strange one to him, as having been born and raised on a farm he had necessarily became conversant with most operations of agricultural life. He was also a man of good business instinct, as was shown by his enterprise in joining with G. D. Wyse and J. S. Rychener, two well-known Pettisville young men, in the organization of the Pettisville Grain Company. Of that prosperous concern Mr. Weber acted for twelve years as manager, and still holds a onethird interest in the company, the property of which includes a grain elevator with capacity of 15,000 bushels. As an organizer, however, Mr. Weber perhaps came most prominently before the people of the county when he, with nine other substantial business people of Pettisville and Wauseon, founded the Pettisville Savings Bank, of which he has been vice-president or cashier since its establishment. The bank is one of the strong finacial institutions of the county, and of course much of its stability must be attributed to Mr. Weber's skill as a banker, and*to his comprehensive understanding of finance. The bank owns a fine building, has deposits of $230,000, and resources of $200,000. By reason of this banking connection Mr. Weber is a member of the Ohio Bankers' Association, and also belongs to the Ohio Private Bankers' Association.

In 1917 he ventured into the automobile business, establishing a service station, garage and a general business in auto supplies and accessories in Pettisville, and later he sold that business to some advantage. Then another of his business enterprises was the organization in 1915 of the Pettisville Electric Light Company. That company, of which Mr. Weber is sole owner, furnishes light and power to Pettisville and vicinity.

Mr. Weber has taken proper and creditable part in the administrative responsibilities of the community. As a former educator it was but proper that he should lean more closely in his public endeavor to matters connected with the educational welfare of the community than to other phases of the public administration. He is especially honored among the educational administrators in Fulton county, eine president of the County Board of Education. He is also president of the Pettisville School Board. - Personally, he is a man of strong personality and praiseworthy private life, and in his home community 'is generally well regarded. Le

In 1898 Mr. Weber married Mary, daughter of Christian and Elizabeth (Freyenberger) Rupp, of Clinton township, Fulton county. They have two children, sons, Aurelius Christian, who was born in 1900, graduated from the Wauseon High School, and entered the Ohio State University Training Camp. He took the engineering course at the university, and is now taking the same course at Defiance College, Defiance, Ohio. Maurice Eugene was born in 1912.

Harvey Henry Rycuener, owner of a substantial business in automobile supplies and repairing at Pettisville, Ohio, is a native of Fulton county, and comes of a family well known in that part of Ohio. He does a consequential business in tires and other automobile accessories, as well as in auto repairs.

He was born in German township, Fulton county, on June 1, 1881, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Stutzman) Rychener. His early life was spent on the home farm, and in due course he went to school, attending the public school of District No. 1 of Fulton county. He continued attendance at school until he was nineteen years old, and concurrently, or rather during the long summer vacations, did much work upon his father's farm. After leaving school he settled down industriously to the affairs of the home farm, and did not leave home until 1916, being then thirty-five years old. For the greater part of his young manhood he had taken upon himself the greater part of the burdensome work of the family property, and eventually bought the farm from his father, thus permitting the latter to pass his declining years in comfort. Harvey H. prospered well by his farming, and in 1916 formed business association with William Weber, the partners building and organizing an auto sales room and garage on Main street, Pettisville, and entering energetically. into the automobile business. They secured some good agencies, and being good salesmen, energetic, enterprising and of good repute, they were not long in establishing a satisfactory business. The partnership continued to mutual advantage for three vears, when, on January 1, 1919, Mr. Weber sold his interest to Mr. Ervin Lantz, the firm name changing from that of Weber & Rvchener to that of Rychener & Lantz. Some months later Mr. Rychener purchased the interest of his partner and has since conducted the business as the sole proprietor. With the agencies for the Nash and Dort cars, with a good repair service station, and with a comprehensive line of automobile supplies he is equipped to do a substantial business.

; _ Personally Mr. Rychener is a man of strong, steadv characteristics, of fine moral and material integrity, of commendable industry and of praiseworthy private life. He has the characteristics of so many other men of that section of Fulton county, sons of pioneers and with much of the strength of purpose of the pioneers. He is a good churchman, has always endeavored to act honestly by his neighbor, and has always been ready to give support to church and community undertakings.

In 1907 he married Sarah, daughter of J. Nafziger, of Hickory county, Missouri, and to them have been born three children: Dorothy F., Elden Erwin, and Glen. Politcally Mr. Rychener is an independent.

Frep H. Wo tr, judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Fulton county, was born at Bluffton, Indiana, on March 28, 1870, a son of William B. and Martha (Hawker) Wolf. The Wolf family has been located in the United States for many generations.

Fred H. Wolf attended the common schools of Shelby county, Ohio, and a commercial college at Gilboa, Putnam county, Ohio, and then studied law in the office of Bailey & Bailey at Ottawa, Ohio. He was then appointed court stenographer for the district embracing Putnam, Henry and Fulton counties, and held that position for six years, and following that became stenographer for Attorney-General Sheets at Columbus, Ohio. His record in these positons attracted the attention of those in authority and he was appointed official stenographer to the Supreme Court of Ohio at Columbus, Ohio, and held that office for two years. In the meanwhile, during 1900, he had been admitted to the bar, and in 1904 he came to Fulton county and embarked in a general law practice with C. C. Handy under the name of Handy & Wolf, which connection was maintained for seven years. In November, 1905, Mr. Wolf was elected prosecuting attorney on ' the republican ticket, and was re-elected to the office, holding one three and one two-vear term. With the dissolution of the firm of Handy & Wolf, Mr. Wolf continued in practice alone until 1915, when he was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and is still ocupying this office.

During the late war Judge Wolf was exceedingly active and was chairman of the Red Cross campaign in 1917, and was chairman of ' the executive committee of the War Chest drive. He belongs to Wauseon Lodge No. 349, A. F. and A. M., and is a past master of it, and he is a thirty-second degree Mason, Scottish Rite. Judge Wolf is also a member of Wauseon Lodge, K. of P. In his religious connections he affiliates with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he has long been a member.

Judge Wolf was married to Lillian A. Eastman, a daughter of E. R. and Ellen (Parrett) Eastman, of Ottawa, Ohio, on June 28, 1900. Judge and Mrs. Wolf have two children, namely: Eleanor E. and Frederick E.

The record of Judge Wolf is one that proves that real merit and conscientious performance of the duty that lies at hand meet with commensurate reward. While learning the fundamentals of law he discharged the exhausting tasks of a court stenographer and through them gained an intimate knowledge of jurisprudence which has the better fitted him to preside on the bench. As a prosecuting attorney he exhibited an unusual fearlessness in handling the problems of his office, and in every way he has risen to each increasing responsibility and justified the faith others have always placed in him and his capabilities.

CrypE LAWRENCE CANFIELD. It is a laudable ambition that induces sincere workers in any profession to seek honorable advancement in the same. Not every one succeeds equally, for all are not willing to make the necessary strenuous effort or undergo the selfdenial that so often the price of PEOETSaS demands. One of the prominent men of Fulton county, who has won distinction in the law, is Clyde Lawrence Canfield, who early made choice of his future career and by determined personal effort reached the goal of his ambition.

Clyde L. Canfield was born in Fulton county, Ohio, August 19, 1879, and is a son of Edward T. and Mary (Bryarly) Canfield. On both sides of the family his ancestry is English, and his forefathers settled in the American colonies before the Revolutionary war, in which has great-great-grandfather, Daniel Canfield, took part as a soldier in the Continental Army. The family in the main, however, has been one of peaceful pursuits, each succeeding generation producing its full quota of both professional and business men, all of whom have been definitely and distinctively loyal and patriotic upholders of American principles. For many years the father of Mr. Canfield owned and operated lumber mills in Fulton county, and 1s still active in business affairs at Pettisville, Ohio. i

Mr. Canfield's early educational advantages were those obtainable in the country school of Dover township. He applied himself assiduously and before he reached manhood was deemed proficient enough to be aceptable as a teacher in the country schools. He was anxious to teach because he had a college career in prospect and knew that funds for the same would have to be provided by himself. It was to the law he was looking forward, and with this goal in view he spent several years in the country schools in Franklin and Clinton townships, very often numbering among his pupils young men older than himself. Such also was the experience of other self-dependent young men, an example being Governor Lowden, of Illinois, who has declared the discipline of those years was invaluable. In 1900 he entered the Ohio Northern University, from which he was graduated in 1904, with the degree of B. S., when he resumed teaching, spending one year in the schools of Clinton township and two years as principal of the Tedrow village school.

In the meanwhile Mr. Canfield had devoted all his leisure to the private study of law, and in the summer schools of 1905-6-7 he was a student at Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, during 1908 taking the regular law course. and in that vear was graduated with his well won degree of LL. B. To enter upon the practice of his profession he went to Toledo, where he became junior partner in the law firm of Smith, Myers & Canfield, three vears later the firm becoming Neilson & Canfield. Failing health caused Mr. Canfield to withdraw, and he then spent two years recuperating in the genial climate of Louisiana, spending two years on a plantation in LaFourche Parish. He returned then to the old home at Pettisville, and in January, 1917, formed a law partnership with Charles T. Stahl, under the style of Stahl & Canfield, which continued until Julv, 1918, when Mr. Canfield became a member of the firm of Paxson & Canfield. In 1918 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Fulton county, his democratic opponent being Fred B. Fowler. Mr. Canfield was elected by a handsome majority, carrying all but two of the precincts, and in the administration of his office has justified the confidence reposed in him, in a number of esnecially notable cases proving so admirable a prosecutor that the ends of justice were entirely served.

During the continuance of the great war Mr. Canfield's interest never flagged, and both time and resources were expended in behalf of the Red Cross and other patriotic movements. He served as secretary of the Civilian Relief Committee of the Red Cross, better known as the Home Service Committee, and was a member of the Legal Advisory Board of the selective draft. He has been extremely active in republican politics in Fulton county and wields wide influence. He belongs to Wauseon Lodge, F. and A. M., Tedrow Lodge of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias. Of proved sterling character, exceptional talent in his profession, vigorous American citizenship and genial personality, Mr. Canfield is held in high esteem in his native county and state.

the responsible office of county treasurer without having a background of business ability and personal integrity. The far-sighted people of Fulton county had this background in view when they elected Carl F. Orth to this position. _ Carl F. Orth was born at Wauseon, Ohio, in October, 1881, and is a son of Adam and Mattie (Kellar) Orth. The paternal grandfather, Rev. William Orth, was born in Hesse-Cassel, Germany. When he came to the United States he located first in Coshocton county, Ohio, where he was a minister of the United Bretheren faith, and later came with his son Adam to Wauseon. Here Adam Orth was a dry goods merchant for many years, an honorable and respected man. His death occurred May 2, 1899. The mother of Carl F. Orth survives and resides at Toledo, Ohio.

Primarily educated in the common schools, Carl F. Orth spent three years in the Wauseon High School and three more in Kenyon Military Academy at Gambier. He then turned his attention to the study of law, spent one year in the Western Reserve Law School at Cleveland, then went to Seattle, Washington, where he embarked in the real estate business and in 1901 was admitted to the bar. He engaged there in the practice of law for two years, but in 1903 returned to Wauseon, where he found an encouraging opening in the insurance business. Purchasing the business of A. R. Townelle, he developed a large business in both life and fire insurance, becoming representative of such old line companies as the following: National Liberty Fire, Milwaukee Mechanics Fire, W. W. National Fire, United States Fire, Northern Insurance of New York, Globe Insurance of Pittsburgh, Superior Fire of Pittsburgh, Allemania Fire and Travelers Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut. In all business relations, covering many years, Mr. Orth has proved just and trustworthy.

On January 2, 1911, Mr. Orth was united in marriage to Miss Edna Cochran, who is a daughter of F. W. and Anna (Fox) Cochran, of Wauseon. Mr. and Mrs. Orth have two children, namely: Car] Frederick, who was born in 1918, and William Marvin, who was born in 1918.

For a number of years Mr. Orth has been quite active in public affairs at Wauseon and a leader in republican political circles. In 1914 he was elected city clerk, serving two years, and in 1916 became a member for two years of the Board of Trustees of Public Affairs, and in 1918 was made secretary of the Fulton County Fair Board. He has been a member of the School Board since 1917. To the duties of*these offices he applies himself with the same scrupulous care that he gave to his private business matters, the same careful attitude marking lis administration as county treasurer, to which office he was elected in 1918. He is ever ready to encourage business enterprises of worth and is a stockholder in the Home Telephone Company at Wauseon. Personally he is genial and hearty in manner and is a valued member of the Knights of Pythias at Wauseon.

Epwarp Harvey Jorpan. During an extended and diversified career Edward Harvey Jordan's activities have invaded several fields of endeavor, in all of which he has displayed ability and enterprise. He has been successful as a merchant, has always been rated high as a public-spirited citizen, and in his present position as assistant postmaster of Wauseon has rendered excellent and efficient public service to the people of this thriving and growing city. bees

Mr. Jordan was born on a farm in Lenawee county, Michigan, July 31, 1871, a son of George W. and Sarah (Aldrich) Jordan. He comes of an old New England family which was known and honored for a number of generations in Vermont, from which state George W. Jordan migrated to Michigan, where he spent the remainder of his active career as a Lenawee county farmer. Edward H. Jordan secured his education in the public schools of that county and in Fulton county, Ohio, and at the age of twenty-one started to learn the baker's business at Wauseon. This he followed with a gratifying degree of success for nine years, at end of which period he turned his attention to the trade of carpenter, and this he followed for two years. While thus employed he came into connection with the lumber and supply business, and he finally became associated with the Wauseon Lumber and Supply Company for four years. In 1908 he accepted his present position as assistant postmaster of Wauseon, a post which he has since filled with marked efficiency and fidelity.

auseon, and they are the parents of two sons: Clarence T. and Arthur H., both of Toledo, the former born in 1900 and the latter in 1992. Mr. Jordan is a republican in bis political allegiance, and is affiliated fraternally with the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias, the Knights of the Maccabees, and the F. and A. M., in all of which he has numerous friends. He is public-spirited and progressive, and a staunch supporter of constructive measures having for their object the betterment of the community. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan are members of the Christian Church.

CuarLes H. Jorpan. One of the lines of. activity which combines business and art is that connected with the production and handling of plants and flowers, and one of the men of Wauseon who has attained to considerable success in it is Charles H. Jordan, sole proprietor of the Wauseon Floral Company. Mr. Jordan was born at Oakharbor, Ohio, on April 26, 1872, ason of Frederick and Rachael (Lopp) Jordan, and grandson of Christopher Jordan. His parents now make their home at Port Clinton and they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary there on April 27, 1920.

Christopher Jordan was born at Baden, Germany, and came to the United States at an early day, settling in Erie county, Ohio. In about 1860 he moved to Oakharbor, Ottawa county, Ohio, which continued to be his home until his death in 1895. "There were six children in his family of whom Frederick Jordan was the third in order of birth.

Charles H. Jordan attended the public schools of his native place and was graduated from its high school in 1890, and in 1893 he matriculated in the dental department of the Northwestern University, from which he was graduated in 1896. For the subsequent two years he was engaged in the practice of dentistry at Oakharbor, but finding it too confining, branched out into his present business and for-seven years conducted extensive greenhouses at Oakharbor. In 1907 he came to Wauseon and built his present greenhouses, which require 15,000 square feet of glass. Here he raises his own flowers and ships them all over the county, having built up a large and paying business.

Mr. Jordan was married to Sue Harrison, a daughter of Henry and Lydia Marion Harrison, of Oakharbor, Ohio, in 1899. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan have two children, namely: Marietta W. and Raymond Harrison, both now attending the Ohio Wesleyan University. Politically Mr. Jordan is a republican and served for four years, from 1911 to 1915, as a member of the City Council of Wauseon. The First Methodist Episcopal Church holds his membership and affords him expression for his religious life. Mr. Jordan is a Mason, belonging to Wauseon Lodge No. 348, F. and A. M., and in 1917 was - master of his lodge. He is one of the most representative and publicspirited men of Fulton county, and in addition to the recognition accorded to his ability he has won appreciation for his admirable personal characteristics.

Joun B. McQuiLiin. With the coming of David McQuillin to Fulton county in 1835 an element of strength and purpose was added to the upbuilding forces of a promising and prosperous community. That the ideals of work and citizenship cherished by this early settler have been transmitted to those succeeding him in the - race is not questioned by those familiar with the history of the family for the past three-quarters of a century. One of the worthy descendants of this pioneer is found in John B. McQuillin, deputy sheriff of Fulton county, who served for a long period in the capacity of sheriff and has also been a successful farmer of this locality.

John B. McQuillin was born in Pike township, Fulton county, Ohio, March 30, 1863, a son of John W. and Elizabeth (Dunbar) McQuillin, and is of Scotch-Irish descent. His paternal grandfather, David MeQuillin, was born in Pennsylvania, but in 1835 moved to Pike township, where he cleared a farm and spent the rest of his life in agricultural pursuits, dying in 1870. He was the father of six sons and four daughters. Of these, John W. McQuillin was born the year following the arrival of the family in Fulton county and spent his life as a farmer on his property near Delta until his retirement, his death occurring in April, 1911, while his wife passed away in January of the same year.

John B. McQuillin secured a country school education in the Hoxie school in Pike township, attending to his studies during the . winter terms and assisting his father on the home farm during the summer months. He was married in 1884 to Miss Clara B. Simpson, a daughter of William and Margaret (Taylor) Simpson, of Pike township. and to this union there were born children as follows: Everett W., born in 1887, a ranchman of the State of Oregon, who is ' married and has two children; Donald and Jeannette, Pearl T., the wife of Flovd Watkins, of Fulton township, this county, where he is engaged in farming and has one child; Ronald, Bessie, the wife of Clarence Saeger, a Fulton county farmer, has two children; Hazel, and Tlarold, and Donald, who was born in 1898 and died in 1911.

Following his marriage in 1884, Mr. McQuillin purchased forty acres of land in Pike township and there continued to follow agricultural pursuits until 1912. He is still interested in agricultural matters as the owner of fiftv acres of good land, and maintains his reputation as a skilled and well-informed tiller of the soil and breeder of a good grade of cattle. In 1912 Mr. McQuillin was elected on the republican ticket as sheriff of Fulton county, over the democratic candidate Bailey, and after serving two years was re-elected by the largest vote secured by any man in the county. Mr. McQuillin CS tinued in that office until 1917, when his term expired, and he was then appointed deputy sheriff under Sheriff Boone. During his official career Mr. McQuillin has been a participant 1n some lmportant cases, among others being the rounding up, with Sheriff Boone, of the notorious wife murderer, Fred Leyman. :

Mr. McQuillin is a staunch republican and has long been an influential member of his party in Fulton county, where he has served in a number of public positons, his record in office being an excellent one. For a period of fourteen years he acted as constable of Pike township, for nine years was justice of the peace and for sixteen years was a member of the Pike township school board. His fraternal connection is with the Knights of Pythias, in which lodge he has numerous friends.

Juttus TRoNDLE. One of the old and honorable business names of Wauseon is that of Trondle, the Trondle Brothers, General Iron Works, of this city, having been developed from the general blacksmith business, the founder of which was their honored father. The present firm consists of John and Julius Trondle, both of whom gtew up in the business.

Julius Trondle was born at Wauseon in 1879 and received his education in the public schools. He began early to help his father, and began to learn the blacksmith trade when fifteen years old, and has been identified with the same ever since except a short time when he was in a dry goods store. The parents of Mr. Trondle were Matthew and Lena (Goutz) Trondle. The mother is living but the father died in 1895. In 1896 the two sons, John and Julius, took over the business and have continued together ever since, in 1909 establishing themselves at No. 208 North Fulton street.

Mr. Trondle was married to Miss Emma Bonnugh, who is a daughter of Jacob and Sophia (Destel) Bonnugh, and they have two children, Helen and Virginia. Mr. Trondle and family belong to the Lutheran Church.

John Trondle, senior member of the firm of Trondle Brothers, was born in 1871, at Toledo, Ohio, and is a son of Matthew and Lena (Goetz) Trondle, who came to Wauseon when he was a child. He attended the public schools until sixteen years old, then helped his father in the blacksmith shop and also on the home farm. He continued with his father until he was twenty-five years old, serving an apprenticeship. After his father's death he and his brother Julius took over the business as partners, continuing at the old stand, where they had sixteen acres of land, until 1909, when they moved to their present location at No. 208 Fulton street. The firm has prospered through good service and honest business methods, and their trade territory extends over a radius of fifteen miles from the city. In addition to owning farm land the firm has some valuable pieces of city realty.

Tn 1898 Mr. Trondle was married to Miss Ella Sigg, who died in 1917, the mother of seven children, two of whom are deceased. Mr. Trondle is a thoughtful, well-read man and is a member of the Spiritualist Society. He is much interested in public questions and for ten years has given his political support to the Socialist party.

_ _WittiAM S. Boonr. There always have been, even in the most civilized communities, certain elements that produce discord that interferes with the safe and peaceful pursuits of the great majority. To curb, control and, if possible, banish such elements has been the duty of certain carefully chosen officials in a county, a duty that can only be performed efliciently by a man of great personal courage, of sound judgment and of stable, reliable character. In William S. Boone, sheriff, Fulton county has had such an official.

William S. Boone was born in Florence township, Williams county, Ohio, January 21, 1863. His parents were William and Catherine (Johnson) Boone, of German ancestry but of Pennsylvania birth. J'rom that state they drove into Ohio and stopped in Wayne county, driving through the forests from there to Williams county and locating in Florence township. The father of Sheriff Boone died when this son was an infant, and as soon as he grew old enough he assumed the care of his mother and five sisters, having no brothers.

Until he was sixteen years old William S.-Boone performed such tasks as came within his field of opportunity during the summer seasons and attended school during the winters. He continued work as a farm hand until he was nineteen years old, in the meanwhile learning the barber's trade at Edon, to which place he moved after his marriage in 1883, where he operated his own shop until 1887, when he moved to Bryan, in Williams county, and from there to Cleveland in 1889. In-that city he worked at his trade for twentyone months. Mr. Boone then came to Wauseon and went into business, conducting his own shop here until 1916, when he was nominated on the republican ticket for the office of sheriff of Fulton county. He was elected with a fine majority and assumed the duties of his office in January, 1917, general approval being shown of Sheriff Boone's administration by his subsequent re-election. As conservator of the peace in the county, he has effectively handled some very Important cases, the capture of Fred Leyman for murder being one of wide notoriety.

In 1883 Mr. Boone was married to Miss Florence E. Stuller, and they have two children, namely: Dolly May, who is the wife of Francis Guilford, of Wauseon, and Inez Pearl, who resides with her parents. Sheriff Boone and his family are members of the Christian (Disciples) Church. He is a Blue Lodge Mason and belongs also to the Knights of Pythias. As a business man, public official and private citizen Sheriff Boone stands deservedly high. He has always been a republican in his political preference, but has not been an office seeker: on the other hand, appreciative friends have often urged him to accept position because of his sterling honesty and thorough good citizenship.

Rosert I. Bernatu. president of the Northwestern Veterinary Medical Association, and secretary of the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Association, to which he-was re-elected in 1919, is one of the leading men of his calling in Wauseon. He was born on the family homestead in Fulton county on October 7, 1883, a son of John H. and Mary Bernath, and grandson of John Bernath. ;

John Bernath came to the United States from Switzerland and located three miles east of Elmira in Fulton county, Ohio, in 1840, and was engaged in agricultural pursuits the remainder of his life. He married Susan. Kibler, whose parents had brought her to Fulton county in 1832. They had a large family and all of the children grew up to be a credit to their parents. John H. Bernath inherited this farm from his father and spent his life upon it until his retirement about ten years ago, when he moved to Wauseon.

Robert I. Bernath attended the public schools of Wauseon, 1ncluding the High School course, and then became a student of the Fayette Normal School at Fayette, Ohio. In 1904 he matriculated in the veterinary department of the Ohio State University, from which he was graduated in 1907, and immediately thereafter located in Wauseon and embarked in the practice of his profession. Having a natural inclination for his work, as well as being trained, Doctor Bernath has been very successful and has built up a large connection. In addition to his professional duties he is serving as secretary and manager of the Wauseon Holstein Breeders' Company, and in conjunction with his brother, George Bernath, is interested in the breeding of pure bred Holstein cattle. He belongs to the American Veterinary Medical Association, the United States Live Stock Sanitary Association, and other organizations connected with his calling, in all of which he is an active factor. On September 1, 1919, Doctor Bernath assumed the duties of the office of county surveyor, to which he was elected at the previous election on the republican ticket. He is also the owner of some valuable real estate in the city of Wauseon, and is enthusiastic about the future of the county seat.

In 1908 Doctor Bernath was united in marriage with Ida F. Bucher, a daughter of John C. and Mary Bucher, of Whitehouse, Ohio. Dr. and Mrs. Bernath have three children, namely: Margaret A., Robert I., Jr., and Irene Mary. When Doctor Bernath located at Wauseon the city gained a constructive citizen of merit, and his record since coming here is of such a character as to reflect credit upon him, his profession and his community, and he has the confidence of a wide circle of personal friends as well as of his constituents.

Davis B. Jonnson, the eldest of a family of seven children and the son of Arby D. Johnson and Effie Sellers Johnson, was born one-half mile south and one mile west of the village of Metamora, Amboy township, Fulton county, Ohio, in a neighborhood known to the old settlers of Amboy township as Duncan Town, on the 30th day of December, 1880.

Sullivan Johnson, grandfather of Davis, was a Vermonter by birth and of Scotch descent. he being the son of Abel Johnson and Roby Thomas Johnson. Sullivan Johnson came to the State of Ohio and settled with his father near Geneva, Lake county, Ohio. He afterward came to Toledo, Ohio, where he met and married Phidelia Worden, at a time when that city could boast of only two or three little log houses. Sullivan Johnson settled in Amboy township about the year 1835, and played an important part in the early settlement of Amboy township and what is now Fulton county. He served two terms as sheriff of Fulton county. receiving his election by he republican party, to which he was a faithful and ardent memer.

Flias Sellers, grandfather on the mother's side, was of Pennsylvania Dutch descent, an earlv settler of Dover township, Fulton county, Ohio, and a veteran of the Civil war.

_ During the winter months Davis attended the public schools of his native township and assisted his father on the farm in the summer time. He attended the public school in the village of Tedrow, Dover township, for a number of winters while the school was under the supervision of Professor C. G. Miller, to whom he is indebted greatly for the education he has received. While attending the school at Tedrow he was nicknamed "Jeff Davis."

After leaving the Tedrow school he spent one winter in the Fayette Normal and received a teacher's certificate the following spring. His first term of school was taught in the little brick school house east of Seward, Ohio, about one-half mile, the same building and same school district in which he was first enrolled as a scholar. At first he was not very successful as a schoolmaster, and quit the profession for about two years.

Thinking the matter over one day he came to the conclusion that he had been a quitter and decided to take another try at the business, and applied for a school in Amboy, his native township. After teaching the year in this district he was employed in the village school at Metamora, where he taught for about twelve years. During that time the school grew from a two-room school to the first grade high school, with one of the most modern buildings in the county. During this period he attended summer school in vacation time and studied.

He spent two winters in the Chattanooga Law School of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was admitted to the bar in the state of Ohio on the first day of July, 1916.

In politics Mr. Johnson has always been a strong and active republican. He served six years as a member of the Village Council of Metamora, Ohio. and has held many important positions on the County Central and Executive Committees of his party. In the fall election of 1914 he was elected clerk of courts of the county, and re-elected in the fall of 1916. Retiring from that office on the first Monday of August, 1919, he opened an office for the practice of law in Wauseon, Ohio, in which practice he is now engaged.

Mr. Johnson was married December 30, 1915, at Wauseon, Ohio, to Lillian Tressler, an adopted daughter of John and Louisa (Smith) Strong, of Wauseon. Mr. Johnson has one daughter, Louisa Elizabeth Johnson, born September 27, 1919.

Mr. Johnson is well known in the Masonry of his county, being a member of Wauseon Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Wauseon Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Wauseon Council, Royal and Select Masons, and Defiance Commandery, Knights Templar.

Mr. Johnson is of an active and progressive nature, always for public improvement, good roads, good schools, good citizenship. He is one of the most dependable citizens of the county and is always ready and willing to contribute his services both in a private and professional capacity for civic betterment. His advancement has been steady, and each step has been gained through earnest and painstaking effort. He has many friends throughout the county, and his further progress is watched with interest by all who know him.

THomas W. Smiru has spent over fifty vears of his life on the borders of Fulton county, and his friends and neighbors recognize in him a man of substantial industry and thrift, one who has improved his opportunities and achieved a comfortable home and farm, and altogether proved worthy of his American citizenship.

Mr. Smith was born at Elyria, Ohio, on June 4, 1860, son of Chapman and Mary Jane (Haden) Smith, the former a native of . Massachusetts and the latter of New York. The maternal grandparents, Thomas Jefferson and Hannah (Russell) Haden, moved from New York state to Lorain county, Ohio. Chapman Smith also went to Lorain county, was married there, and in 1865 moved to Fulton county and located in Pike township. He lived in that community about twenty years and then moved to Fulton township. He died February 3, 1901. His widow made her home with her son, Thomas, until her death May 15, 1918. Each of his parents had been twice married. Thomas W. was the only son of his parents.

He grew up on a farm, acquired a district school education, and at the age of eighteen began earning monthly wages from neighboring farmers. He continued in that way until April 29, 1883, when he married Flora Alma Eldred. Mrs. Smith was born in Pike township, a daughter of Ambrose S. and Cynthia O. (Hall) Eldred, her father a native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and her mother of Ashland county, Ohio. Her maternal grandfather was named Ambrose S. Eldred, while her maternal grandparents were Charles and Ruth (Weeks) Hall, the former a native of England and the latter of New York state. .

Mr. Smith after his marriage rented a farm in Fulton township for six years, then bought twenty acres in the northwest corner of that township, and his parents lived with him there for thirteen years. He then rented another farm in the same locality, and in the meantime sold his place and bought sixty-four acres of partly improved land in section 30 of Amboy township. The Amboy township farm has been the scene of his best work as a farmer. He has remodeled the house and other buildings, kept the improvements up to the standard of the times, and has conducted its operations as a general farmer and also operates a small dairy of six cows. Mr. Smith is a republican voter and is affiliated with Lodge No. 555 of Masons.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one son, Emira Willard, who was born March 1, 1884. He is now a resident of Detroit, Michigan. He has been twice married, his present wife having borne the maiden name of May Smith. By his first marriage he has three children, Sidney Max, Marjory Fern and Hazel May.

Myron E. Doane. The gentleman to a brief review of whose life and characteristics the reader's attention is herewith directed is among the favorably known and representative citizens of this section of Ohio, in which he has spent his life. He has by his indomitable enterprise and progressive methods contributed in a material way the advancement of his locality, and during the course of an honorable career has met with success as a general farmer, being a man of energy, sound judgment and honesty of purpose.

Myron E. Doane, who operates a fine farm of 168 acres in Clinton township, Fulton county, was born in Hartland township, Huron county, Ohio, on April 2, 1855, and is the son of Eliphalet Joshua and Selina (Dunn) Doane. He is descended from a long line of honorable ancestry, his antecedents being traced in a direct line to some of the prominent families of the earliest colonial period in New England history, On the paternal side the family is of English stock, while the maternal line is of English-Scotch-Dutch blood. The Doane family was established in England in a very early day, it having been mentioned in English records as early as 1199, and a little later the home of the Doanes in England was at Utkinton, north of Tarperley. . Deacon John Doane was one of the historic band of Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, and is prominently mentioned in connection with the

Plymouth Colony in 1630. Later the family was established at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Deacon John Doane became a deacon of the Plymouth Church, and later of the Eastham Church, at Eastham, Massachusetts, and it is noteworthy that five successive generations of Doanes served as deacon of the last named church. The family remained identified with New England for many generations and becarne prominent as educators and merchants. On the maternal side the ancestors owned a block and ran a tavern in Glasgow. The grandfather came as an English soldier to Canada in the war of 1812, on remained and came to the new country in the northwest terriory.

The subject's father, Eliphalet Joshua Doane, was born in Wayne county, New York, April 7, 1816, and followed agricultural pursuits mainly throughout his life. He came to Fulton county August 14, 1863. He died April 24, 1886, at the age of seventy years, and was survived a number of years by his widow, who died February 11, 1894, at the age of eighty-four years. She was born in Genesee, Lexington county, New York.

When the family came to Fulton county the farm was in heavy woods, only a few acres having been cleared. Myron E. and his father cleared the remainder, as well as built roads and performed the other tasks of pioneering farmers. This section was then wet and ieee and even the main highways had not been cleared of trees and logs.

Myron E. Doane secured his educational training in the old Markley School in District No. 3, later known as the Olive Branch School. His summers were spent on his father's farm of 160 acres, the greater part of which is still in the estate. He now farms this in connection with his own property, and has given intelligent direction to its operation, in which he has met with abundant success.

Mr. Doane has never married, but lives on the old homestead with two of his sisters, Mary Selina and Jane Ann. The former is the widow of Charles H. Kline, who died on April 14, 1904.

Politically Mr. Doane is a supporter of the republican party, while his church affiliation is with the United Brethren in Christ (Old Constitution). He is a member of the board of trustees of the United Brethren Church, a trustee of the parsonage, a member of the annual conference board of trustees of the United Brethren Church, and has for twenty-six years been secretary of the quarterly conference of the Wauseon Circuit of the United Brethren Church. Such, in brief, is the record of Mr. Doane, than whom a more wholesouled or popular man it would be difficult to find within the borders of Fulton county, where he has long maintained his home and where he has labored not only for his own individual advancement, but also for the improvement of the entire community, whose interests he ever has at heart.

Grorce Wasutneton Twiss, of Amboy, is only two generations away from the British Isles, and there is both English and Irish blood in his veins. He was born June 24, 1850, in Seneca county. He is a son of Russell and Sally Ann (Hall) Twiss. While the parents were born in Holmes county and afterward lived in Seneca county, the grandfather, Abial Twiss, came from England, and the grandmother, Mary (Mullit) Twiss, was born in Ireland. The Twiss family first lived in Philadelphia, and came from there to Ohio. The maternal grandparents were Reuben and Almira (Wheaton) Hall.

Abial Twiss was a, cooper, and he also operated a water power saw mill. At one time when he was along the stream there was a panther lying in the sun, and without disturbing it he returned to the house for his trusty flintlock gun. He hurried back and shot the panther, breaking its shoulder. The gunshot aroused the bull dog and it attacked the panther, which was so.crippled it could not climb a tree in making its escape from the place. While the dog and panther were fighting they both got into the stream, and Mr. Twiss waded in and clubbed the panther to death. The settlers frequently had adventures with wild animals of the forest.

When Russell Twiss came to northern Ohio he lived for four years in Spencer and then moved to a farm in Richfield township, of Lucas county. The place was under water and he cleared and drained it. His wife died there June 16, 1900, and he died January 3, 1903, in Swanton. Their children are: Caroline, widow of Walter Stinson, of Casanovia, Michigan; Reuben, of Niagara Falls, New York; Eliza Jane, wife of Joseph Corth, of Toledo; G. W. Twiss, who relates the family history; Mary, wife of Eugene Crissey, died May 30, 1900, and Arletta, who died in infancy.

On April 20, 1879, G. W. Twiss married Clarinda J. Sloan, of Seneca county. She is a daughter of Horatio and Rebecca (Hall) Sloan. The parental grandfather was Alonzo Sloan and the maternal grandfather was Reuben Hall. When they were married they located on a forty acre tract of timber in Amboy. It was under water and he cleared and drained it. While reclaiming this land Mr. Twiss frequently shot wild turkeys, and it was no trouble to supply wild meats for his dinner table. While Amboy is now fine farming .and, it was wild country when Mr. Twiss first located in it. While he only had frame buildings in 1899, Mr. Twiss bought and hauled brick from Toledo and built a fine ten-room brick house.

From time to time Mr. Twiss has bought more land, paying $16 to $20 an acre for it, but now the price of land is a different story. Some of the young men would like to have such opportunities of securing farmsteads in Fulton county. Mr. Twiss planted an orchard of more than 100 trees, and he was always an active man until 1909, since which time he has rented the farm. A man who always has worked always will find something to do as long as he remains in the country.

The children are: Bertha, a graduate of the Toledo Conservatory : Frank J..»of Richfield, who married Verna Gillette, and they have one son, Harold; Burton A., of Tivons, married Helen LL. Stebbins, and thev have one son. George Frederick: Arthur Lee Twiss, married October 29, 1919, Vena Hackett, and lives on a sixty acre farm adjoining his father. The family are Methodists. Mr. Twiss is a republican and for twelve years he has served as a school director. He is a member of the F. and A. M., No. 555, of Swanton. The cathe) has social and business interests in both Fulton and Lucas counties,

_ Norman P. Tripp has been closely identified with agricultural interests in Ambov township for a number of years. In voung manhood he had an interesting experience and service as a soldier in the Spanish-American war, and he comes of military stock. His oreaterandfather, Cyrus Tripp, was a soldier in the War of 1812. while Mr.Tripp's grandfather earned a patriotic record as a Union man during the Civil war.

September 18, 1878, son of Henry D. and Alice M. (Forrester) Tripp. His parents were also born in Fulton county, his father in Amboy and his mother in Pike township. The paternal grandparents were Norman M. and Julia Ann (Bartlett) Tripp, the former a native of New York and the latter of Toledo. The maternal grandfather was Patrick Forrester, a native of Ireland, who came to this country at an early day, and was one of the workmen who built the canal across the state to Cincinnati. Later he acquired extensive tracts of land in Pike township of Fulton county. The paternal grandparents were likewise early settlers and developed a farm from the woods in Amboy township. Henry D. Tripp after his marriage settled in Amboy township, but later moved to Holgate, Ohio, but he died in Amboy in March, 1916, and his wife on January 29, 1919. They had three children: Frank, of Holgate; Norman P., and Muriel, who is a principal in the public schools at Holgate.

Norman P. Tripp was twenty years of age when in April, 1898, he was an enthusiastic volunteer for the service of his country during the Spanish-American war. He was with the Sixth Ohio Infantry and served with that command in Cuba with the Army of Occupation, receiving his honorable discharge May 26, 1899, and for several years thereafter was a member of the Ohio National Guard. For three vears after his army service Mr. Tripp lived at Toledo, where he worked at his trade as painter and also as conductor on a street ear. He then returned to Amboy township and took charge of the home farm of eighty acres. He has lived there ever since and in 1913 bought the farm. He has all of it in cultivation except about ten acres of timber pasture.

Mr. Tripp is a member of the Spanish War Veterans at Toledo, is a democrat, a Catholic and a member of the Catholic Knights of Ohio. May 5, 1903, he married Miss Catherine Rondy, who was born at Crestline, Ohio, a daughter of Jacob and Catherine (Sutter) Rondy. Her father was a native of Germany and her mother of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Tripp have five children: Alton, Alice, Paul, John and Norman.

DANIEL Forp. While he owns farm land in Amboy, Daniel Ford now lives on a small tract of land at Caraghar. He is a Catholic and a member of the Catholic church there that is attended by so many families in the northeastern part of Fulton county. Mr. Ford was born November 8, 1856, in Toledo. Heisason of William and Elizabeth (Lineham) Ford, the mother a Toledo woman, but - the father came from Ireland.

When William Ford came to Toledo he worked for thirty years at the Wabash Grain Elevator. For ten years he was foreman there. His wife died in 1864, leaving the following children: Daniel, who enrolls the family; Alice, deceased; Catherine, wife of John Dowling, of Toledo, and Elizabeth, wife of Robert Savage, of Swanton. Mr. Ford later married Anna McKinley, and their children are: Patrick, William and Mamie, deceased, leaving one son, Michael, of: Toledo.

After his mother died, Daniel Ford lived with her parents, who reared him on a farm in Lucas county. He remained with them until September 11, 1878, when he married Mary A. Savage, a native of Ohio, and a daughter of Hugh and Bridget (Gallagher) Savage. They came from Ireland to Canada. Mr. Ford and his wife lived one year with his grandparents, where he had lived, and then rented

Mr. Ford bought twenty acres in the timber and with an ax and spade set about making a home on it. For seventeen years he lived there, when he sold the place and bought 120 acres of land, where he lived until 1910, when he bought a five-acre tract at Caraghar, Amboy township, where he lives and rents the farm. Industry and economy explain the changed conditions in the life of Daniel Ford.

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Ford are: Frank, on the home farm in Amboy; John, of Amboy; Alice, wife of Gamaliel Marvin, of Amboy; William, of Toledo, and Ella, wife of Louis Simons, of Amboy. Mr. Ford is a democrat. All the family are members of St. Mary's Catholic Church at Caraghar. wf

His fellow citizens appreciate the many substantial qualities of the character of Daniel Ford. The example he set when with no capital and with few implements he began making a home for himself in the timber should prove an encouragement to those who complain of the hardships of the present post-war period. He earned his prosperity by the hardest kind of work, and before persistent industry all the obstacles of life give way.

Epwin J. Smiru. It was in 1842 that John Smith, founder of the American branch of the Smith family represented by Edwin J. Smith of "The Walnut Grove Farm" in Royalton, came from Scotland directly to the community since developed into Royalton. Walter, the father of Edwin J. Smith, came with his father, John Smith, to the United States. However, they were not the only Smiths in Royalton. He married Eleanor Smith, who was already living there. Her parents, Charles D. and Jane B. (Helms) Smith, had come in an early day from New York to Ohio. They entered 180 acres of timber and developed it into one of the best farms in Fulton county.

Charles D. Smith, the maternal grandfather of Edwin J. Smith, was the second sheriff of Fulton county. He held the office two terms, and died when he was forty-eight years of age. Walter Smith. after his marriage with Eleanor Smith, settled on an eighty acre tract which he secured from the government. It was all in timber and he cleared a space for the cabin, and cleared and added to the land until he had a farm of 200 acres in Royalton. He died in July, 1910, while his wife died in October, two years later. '

Edwin J. Smith, of "The Walnut Grove Farm," was the oldest, and he relates the family story. His brothers are Charles, William and Scott, William having met with an accidental death in 1888.

On February 28, 1891, Edwin J. Smith married Mrs. Rachael Cole, widow of Lemuel Cole. She had two children: Addie, wife of Kzra Burkey, of Fulton, and Donna, who lives at the Smith homestead. Mrs. Smith is a daughter of Reuben S. and Katie Ann (Watkins) Woodring, and she was born in Fulton township, Fulton county, May 22, 1853. For eleven years after his marriage Mr. Smith lived at the old family homestead, when he bought a farm of eighty acres with few improvements, and now it has everything modern and convenient upon it. He also owns a small farm in Seneca township, Lenawee county, Michigan, which is all under cultivation, and he rents it to others. He lives on the farm in Roypare, he operates a Holstein dairy along with other farm activities.

D., who died at the age of sixteen, and Reuben E., who lives at the homestead. Mr. Smith is active in local politics, and is a member of the township democratic committee. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, and has served the order as its treasurer for several years.

Edwin J. Smith was born in Royalton township, September 13, 1857, and has therefore had an active career of nearly half a century. He is one of the honored members of a real pioneer family of Fulton county, and what he has done in developing the Walnut Grove Farm is of itself an important contribution to the life and welfare of the county. Only a few families can claim a continuous residence of nearly eighty years in this section of Ohio, and the fortunes of a family are in safe keeping when the present generation is so well represented as in the person of the proprietor of The Walnut Grove Farm.

Van Emmons. Since he was thirteen years old Van Emmons has been the farmer at the old homestead of his father in Royalton. He was born there September 26, 1881, and has always lived there. His father, Stephen Emmons, came from New Jersey. His mother, Ellen (Deyo) Emmons, has always lived in Royalton.

Stephen Emmons was a Union soldier in the Civil war, having enlisted from New Jersey, but after the war he located in Fulton county. He married and settled in Royalton. He died in 1891, and Mrs. Emmons and her son Van continue their residence at the family homestead. There are 110 acres in the farmstead.

he Emmons children are: William, of Royalton; Hattie, wife of W. R. Wyant, of Royalton, and Van, who enrolls the family. Since the death of his father he has assumed the responsibilities of the farm, and has a home there with his mother.

JoHN Roserts. The late John Roberts of Royalton lived in Cincinnati in his early years, although his native place was New York. He was born November 9, 1831, a son of Thomas and Polly Roberts. When he was a young man the family moved from Cincinnati to Allen county, Ohio.

Mr. Roberts married twice, the first wife being Mary Chloe Clevenger, of Allen county, Ohio. For some years they lived in Allen county, then he removed to Adrian, Michigan, where he conducted a livery barn for some years. Mr. Roberts later became a cheesemaker. He was one of the first cheese-makers in Fulton county.

When Mr. Roberts engaged in farming he rented a place in Chesterfield, then later he bought an eighty acre tract in Royalton. It was swampy land, but he drained and improved it. He built a fourteen-room brick house on the farm in Royalton. While he engaged in farming, he gave special attention to dairying, and he had a cheese factory on the farm.

Mrs. Roberts died in 1879. The children of the first marriage are: Anna, deceased, was the wife of Charles Stutesman; Thomas, deceased; Benjamin, of California; Henry, deceased; Ida, wife of Chase Ragan, of California, and Nora Belle, widow of Marshall Munn, of Sycamore, Illinois. i 5

On December 14, 1881, Mr. Roberts married Mathilda Grimm, who survives him. Her home was at Whitehouse, Lucas county. She is a daughter of Frederick and Harriet (Brainer) Grimm. Her parents came from Germany. The children of this marriage are: Carrie, wife of Richard Cook, of Royalton; Frances, wife of Eu- ene Blaine, of Royalton; Mary, widow of Bert Thrydouble, lives with her mother at ie family Porieelandh and Belva, wife of Harvey Disbrow, of Toledo.

Mr. Roberts was a democrat and served the community many years as justice of the peace. He died July 7, 1918, and Mrs. Roberts remains on the farm, although she rents the land to others. They are members of the Universalist Church and of the Grange.

Death came to him in the eighty-seventh year of his life. He had lived long and usefully, and there are many who can testify not only to his industry, but also to his high character and the good influence he steadily radiated in his community.

Cyrus Downer, who died March 18, 1919, at the family home in Lyons, was born April 11, 1833, in Branch county, Michigan. He was a son of Ormil and Amanda Downer, of Branch county. At the age of eighty-seven years, Mrs. Downer resides in Lyons.

Cyrus Downer married Martha A. Green on August 21, 1857, and soon afterward he located in Royalton. He was a farmer there until 1903, when on account of the infirmities of age he was forced to relinquish it. He was a man who always had a smile and a pleasant greeting for every one. He owned a good deal of land and always loaned considerable money. As a creditor he was always lenient with persons unable to promptly meet their obligations.

Of the Downer children, Minnie A. died in infaney. F. O., of Indianapolis, owns burial casket factories in Indianapolis and Albion, Michigan. He married Harriett Stowe, and has one son, Paul. Mary, who lives at the home of her mother, is the wife of Emery Elsworth Johnson. He is a stationary engineer and has always resided with the Downers. He came from Williams county. The Johnson children are: Burt Leo, of Wauseon, and Tony, who operates the farm in Royalton. Burt L. married Goldie Sharp, and they have one daughter, Laone Margaret.

The Downer family belong to the Radical United Bretheren, and Cyrus Downer always held some official capacity in it. He was a democrat and frequently served the township in different offices. When he was a boy of ten years Mr. Downer moved with his parents from Michigan to Dover township, Fulton county, Ohio. They

-settled on a timber claim and only managed to clear and plant one acre to corn that year, and they had to get up early in the morning to keep the birds from taking the corn before it could sprout and come through the ground in the field.

In those days there were Indians in Fulton county, and Cyrus Downer's companions were the young Indians roaming about the forests. Because the country was undrained the family had to cut wild grass and stack it on the higher points of ground in order to have feed for their livestock. Young Downer never had shoes or boots in winter until he was fourteen years old. He wore his father's old ones or wrapped rags about his feet to keep them from freezing in the cold weather. He knew all of the hardships of the pioneers.

Mrs. Downer was the widow of Josiah Green when Cyrus Downer married her. Her first husband died soon after their marriage. She was a daughter of James T. and Almira Shaw, and her home was in Allegheny county, New York. In her time she was school teacher, milliner and dressmaker. In the wilderness days her home was a social and business center in the frontier community.

Eimer Epear. Ireland has given another family to the history of Fulton county. While Elmer Edgar, of Royalton, was born December 9, 1866, in Clinton township, his father came from the Emerald Isle. William Samuel Edgar was an Irish immigrant, while his wife, Susannah (Pontious) Edgar, was a native of Ohio, born in Pickaway county.

When William Samuel Edgar was but eighteen years old he came with an older brother to Henry county. They were six weeks on the Atlantic, and when he reached Buffalo, N. Y., he only had twenty-five cents in money. He reached Toledo by working his way and he was fortunate in securing work immediately in a saw mill at Durain, Ohio, which is on the Maumee river, and he worked there three years, saving his money for something better. The young man had never been quite out of money, and he had the habit of economy.

At the end of three years the Edgar brothers rented a farm - the Stebbins farm, and before long they bought land and farmed for themselves. His parents joined them while living there, and in 1865 William Samuel Edgar bought a place in Clinton, and here is where Elmer Edgar's life story had its beginning. The family lived in Clinton until 1869, when the farm was sold and they bought another in Royalton. It was 200 acres of prairie and timber, and they added to and improved it, until in 1902, when the parents moved to Delta, they had a farm of 480 acres in Royalton. The father died in Delta in 1918, and the mother died six years later.