Lorain City (part 58 of 77)

The early life of Orville Root was spent in Lorain County during the 40s and '50s, in which time he completed his education in the Elyria High School. Farming was his regular vocation for many years. and he has gradually acquired other extensive interests, chiefly as a banker, in which capacity his name is well known throughout the county. From 1878 to 1888 he filled the office of auditor of Lorain County, having gone into that office less than twenty years after his father's last service in the same position. He is a republican in his political affiliations. Mrs. Root is a member of the Congregational Church of Lorain, Ohio.

On April 3, 1878, at Sheffield, Ohio, he married Sarah Ann Howes, daughter of William E. and Elizabeth Howes, of Elyria, Ohio, but formerly from Northamptonshire, England. Mr. and Mrs. Root have two children, Frances Elizabeth, born at Elyria, October 27, 1880, a graduate of Wells College, and from the Western Reserve Library School. married Mr. Albert K. Hibbard, of Cleveland, Ohio. They have two children: Robert Root Hibbard and William Loomis Hibbard. Harriet Maria Root, born at Elyria August 27. 1885, is a graduate of Wellesley College.

Witulim HELDMYER. It is given to few men to impress their enterprise, their resources, more effectually upon a community than was true of the late William Heldmyer of Elyria. His was the familiar storv of the poor boy who makes his own opportunities, and who succeeds as a result of hard and persistent toil and intelligent management. For more than thirty years Mr. Heldmyer was one of the foremost merchants of Lorain County, was a business builder who built up a number of organizations which are still vital factors in the commercial life of the community, and for years exercised a controlling power in the business affairs of this section.

A native of Medina County, Ohio, where he was born April 13, 1850, the late William Heldmyer was a son of Jacob and Julia Heldmvyer, who in 1848 immigrated from Wuertemberg, Germany, establishing a home in Liverpool Township of Medina County, and in 1851 going to Ottawa County. Jacob Heldmyer was a harness maker by trade, but during his life in Ohio was chiefly a farmer. He died at Oak Harbor in 1856.

Partly owing to the early death of his father, the early lot of Willian Heldmyer was one of hard circumstance and limited opportunity. Te gained the rudiments of an education in the country schools. and as far back as his memory could recall he was employed in some of the duties of farm work. Coming to Elyria in 1867, he found employment as a carpenter with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. He was careful, economical, faithful to his obligations, and wisely laid the foundation for his permanent success. In 1880 he became associated with the firm of Wright & Semple, under the name of Heldmyer, Wright & Semple in the hardware business at Elyria. He bought the interests ot the other partners in 1883, and from that time until his death nearly thirty years later the hardware business was chief among his interests. In 1890 John Krantz became associated with him, and after that the style of the company was William Heldmyver & Company. In 1897 the business was incorporated as the Heldmyer Hardware Company, with Mr. Heldmyer as secretary and treasurer of the corporation. He was also a third owner and vice president of the Elyria Hardware Company.

For many years his activities in the business world covered a large field. He was president of the Elyria Savings & Bank Company and one of its organizers; assisted in organizing and became president of the Lorain County Building & Loan Association; was also president of the Andwur Hotel Company. At one time his interest also extended to the lake marine and he was part owner in several vessels. The large Heldmyer Block where his hardware store was conducted in Elyria was erected by Mr. Heldmyer and in 1897 he organized the Elyria Building Company and constructed the Elyria Block. The burning of this central feature of the business section in 1909 caused him heavy losses and the many worries connected with the rebuilding of the new Elyria Block, which was completed in 1910 did much to undermine his health. Soon after its organization Mr. Heldmyer became a director in the Elyria Chamber of Commerce, and was also a member at one time of the city council.

The immediate cause of Mr. Heldmyer's death was a fall from the fourth floor fire escape in the rear of the Elyria Building, and he was killed almost instantly. This sad loss to the business and civic community occurred July 2, 1912. In his will Mr. Heldmyer named his daughter Mrs. Hannaford as trustee of his entire estate, and for those large responsibilities she is eminently fitted, being one of the most capable business executives in Lorain County. In 1874 Mr. Heldmyer married Mary Beese, who was born at Elyria and died July 19, 1908, at the age of fifty-two. The children born to their marriage were: Florence J., Leona M., Alice C. and Harry M. The oldest daughter, Florence, had married Albert M. Hannaford just two weeks before her father's sudden death. She was married June 15, 1912, and she now has a son, John Roy Hannaford II, born June 16, 1913, and named for his grandfather Hannaford. Mrs. Hannaford has assumed active control of all the business and property interests of her father, succeeded to his place on the board of directors of the Elyria Savings & Banking Company, and is now the only woman in the State of Ohio to hold such a position. The daughter, Leona M., married James Garnett Tyler, and they now live in Los Angeles, California. Alice C. is the wife of Willard M. Taylor of Elyria. The son, Harry, also resides at Elyria.

Hon. Georce G. Wasusurn. <A rare character both in its public service and in its varied influences upon the men and institutions of Elyria and of Lorain County was that of the late George G. Washburn, for many years distinguished in this part of Ohio as a journalist and editor, as a business man, and as one of the founders and for a number of years one of the board of managers of the reformatory at Mansfield. His active career covered .a most vital period in the history of Lorain County and Ohio, beginning in the '40s and continuing until his death at his home in Elyria on June 8, 1898.

Though he was largely self-educated and depended upon his own efforts for self-advancement, he came of family and antecedents of such character, that much might be predicted of his life at its beginning. He was born November 24, 1821, at Orange, Grafton County, New Hampshire, a son of Azel Washburn, who was born at Lyme, New Hampshire, and is descended from an English family that settled near Boston very early in the history of that colony. Mr. Washburn's mother was Elizabeth N. Danforth. She was born at Londonderry, New Hampshire, and was closely related to the noted family of Greggs, members of which founded the Town of Londonderry. The Greggs are distinguished as having been the first to manufacture flax spinning wheels in America.

For a number of generations at least one male member of the Greggs family was taught the art of manufacturing that implement, and it is said that the last wheels of that kind were made in Elyria about 1858 by Col. William Greggs, now deceased.

As a boy both in New Hampshire and after the family came to Ohio George G. Washburn had many limitations interposed by circumstance between him and his ambitions for learning and attainment. There were no regular schools, and only for brief periods did his parents secure the services of a private instructor in their household for the training of their three sons. In 1832 the family removed from New Hampshire to Ohio, locating in Perry, now Lake County. For three years the sons attended the pioneer schools in that community. In 1835 the family came to Camden in Lorain County. This was then a wilderness country and the hard work involved in clearing up a new farm left little opportunity for growing boys to attend school. In that locality George G. Washburn spent seven years, and during the latter part of that period taught school during the winters.

In 1842 he removed to Brandenburg, Kentucky, where he conducted a private school, but soon returned to Ohio and for three years alternated between teaching in the winter months and in studying at Oberlin during the summer. In the spring of 1846 he removed to Elyria, where he became an articled student of law in the office of Hon. Philemon Bliss. Two years later he was admitted to the bar, and for a similar period practiced in partnership with Hon. Sylvester Bagg.

It was not in the law but in journalism that Mr. Washburn exercised his greatest influence in the life and affairs of Lorain County. His first introduction to that career came in 1850 when he was persuaded to edit the Elyria Courier. Most local newspapers of that time were organs of a political party, and the Courier was the mouthpiece for the whig party in Lorain County. In 1852, during the last presidential campaign in which the whig party was an entity, the office was destroyed by fire without insurance, and the entire investment was a total loss. However, Mr. Washburn had become thoroughly committed to journalism, had proved his ability as a trenchant and forceful writer, and the destruction of the plant proved no permanent bar to his continuance in the profession. He borrowed money enough to purchase a new outfit, gave up the practice of law, and was soon devoting all his time and energies to journalism. He was as successful in business management as he was as an editor. At that time it was hardly expected that a political organ would prove self-sustaining, and in fact such a newspaper proved usually a heavy tax upon the party. In a short time Mr. Washburn had brought his journal to independence financially, and in 1854 he merged it with the Independent Democrat. A number of years later he effected another consolidation, merging his enterprise with the Elyria Republiean, and for a long term of years Mr. Washburn was the editor and proprietor of this old and influential Lorain County paper.

Outside of journalism his services extended in many other directions. At the beginning of the war in 1861 Governor Dennison appointed him secretary of the County Military Committee, and he was a member of that hody until the close of the war, spending much time in visiting camps aud battlefields in the interests of the soldiers of Lorain County. Although he was for many years active in the field of political warfare, he never sought any political honors for himself, and such offices as he did hold were accepted entirely from a desire to perform particular service. For a number of vears he advocated a state institution as a reformatory for young men, and in order to carry out his plans effectively hecame a candidate for the Legislature, and served four years in that body. While in the Legislature he was author of the bill which passed and provided for the establishment of the reformatory at Mansfield. It should be explained in passing that the reformatory at Mansfield has a somewhat distinctive character, and the ideal was present in the mind of Mr. Washburn when he planned and worked for the establishment of the institution. It could not be described as the usual type of reform school for boys, since the Mansfield Reformatory takes young men between the ages of seventeen and thirty, after weaknesses and bad habits have hardened in many cases into permanent lines of criminality. However, they are not irredeemable criminals, and the purpose of the reformatory is not penal so much as corrective and educative and has done much to replace old lives and methods of action with new. Mr. Washburn's work in behalf of the institution was followed hy his appointment by Governor James G. Campbell on April 27, 1890, as a member of the board of managers for the reformatory, and he was reappointed April 27, 1895, by Governor William McKinley. During the last eleven years of his life the welfare of the Mansfield institution was the matter closest to his heart, and of all his services he perhaps found that the most satisfying.

In 1844 Mr. Washburn married Miss Luana M. Hill. She died in 1855, leaving two daughters. Celia Georgiana is now the wife of Henry Lee Lathrop of San Antonio, Texas. She has two children: Walter Washburn Lathrop, now a resident of Tacoma, Washington; and Alice Washburn Lathrop of San Antonio. The second daughter, Alice Mary, who married John M. Vincent of Fort Worth, Texas, died at Elyria August 12, 1888, leaving two daughters: Stella Louise, now living at Carmel, California; and Alice Vincent, who married Harry Court Coleman, of Dalhart, Texas.

In October, 1856, Mr. Washburn married at Buffalo, New York, Mrs. Sarah N. Oatman of that city. Mrs. Washburn is still living at the old residence on Washington Avenue which was built by Mr. Washburn forty-four years ago, and is one of the residential landmarks of many associations in the City of Elyria.

In 1858 Mr. Washburn became a stockholder in the Lorain Bank of Elyria, a branch of the old State Bank. This subsequently became the First National Bank. In addition to his service in the Legislature he was also a member of the city council and for six years was president of the school board. However, outside of his valuable work in behalf of the State Reformatory at Mansfield, he deserves to be best remembered for his strong influence and success as an editor and newspaper manager.

LEoN\RD M. Moore. The development of an industry in a community is no less than an epitome of the growth and development of the community itself, for a municipality is composed of but an aggregation of industries about which gather a large army of men with their families who are in some way connected with the conduct of these business enterprises. The City of Lorain, with its numerous industries and far-reaching commerce, owes its growth and prosperity to its position as a manufacturing center and to its location as a distributing point. In this connection a contributing factor to this development has been the Lorain Lumber and Manufacturing Company, in operation for fortyfour vears, for much of the success of which credit must be given to its secretary and treasurer, Leonard Miller Moore, whose more than ordinary enterprise and sagacity have given him a leading position among the business men of Lorain.

Mr. Moore is a native son of Lorain County, born on a farm, February 20, 1869. his parents being Leonard W. and Amanda (Miller) Moore. His father, who is deceased, was a farmer. He was one of the years, and after his removal to Lorain served as a member of the council for some time. Leonard Miller Moore was educated in the public schools, and when but a lad secured a position as office boy with the Lorain Lumber and Manufacturing Company. Later he was to become prominently identified with that business, but at that time he thought he saw better opportunities offered him elsewhere, and after a short time entered the office of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, in the capacity of bookkeeper. One year completed his experience in the field of journalism, he then going to Erie, Pennsylvania, which city he made his home for four years while he was gaining his training in planing mills and lumber yards and securing a knowledge of the business while employed as a bookkeeper.

In 1893 Mr. Moore returned to Lorain to accept the positions of secretary and treasurer of the Lorain Lumber and Manufacturing Company, the concern with which he had been connected at the outset of his career. This company was organized in 1881, being the outgrowth of the business operated under the style of Brown Brothers & Company, and which had been established in 1872. There are now fifty people employed in the lumber yards and planing mills. the plant covering five acres of land, and the present offivers are: Isaac Honecker. president; Charles F. Friend, vice president ; and Leonard M. Moore. secretary and treasurer. Wise in counsel, prudent in action. energetic in the discharge of his duties, and at all times displaying the highest order of integrity, Mr. Moore has won and retained the entire confidence and respect of his associates, and in business circles has an excellent reputation for ability and fidelity. In addition to the duties mentioned, he is serving as vice president of the Lorain Banking Company. For several years he served as a member of the council of Lorain. and during that time displayed an eagerness to further his city's interests that was commendable. At the fall election held in 1915 he was elected mayor of Lorain, taking the office January 1, 1916. The term of this office is two years. His fraternal connections are with the Masons. in which he has attained the Knight Templar degree. His political views are those of the republican party and his religious affiliation with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a trustee.

Mr. Moore was married March 15, 1895, to Miss Carrie Friend, daughter of Charles F. Friend, of Lorain, vice president of the Lorain Lumber and Manufacturing Company. Three children have been horn to this union: Helen, Ruth A. and Eleanor A.

JuDGE WasHINGTON W. Boynton. For a period longer than the average lifetime Judge Boynton has been a member of the Ohio bar. To the present generation his distinguished services are sufficiently familiar. To those who read these pages in the future it will suffice to indicate his prominence by saying that for years he stood second to none as a member of the Cleveland bar, and that for five vears he read his clear, logical and forceful opinions into the decisions of the Ohio Supreme Court. Lorain County will always regard him as one of its foremost citizens and one of its most distinguished native sons.

Born in Russia Township, Lorain County, January 27, 1833, Washington Wallace Boynton is the son of General Lewis D. and Ruth (Wellman) Boynton, both of whom were born and spent many years of their early lives in Belgrade, Maine, but in 1826 they removed to Ohio and established themselves as pioneers in Lorain County. Judge Boynton is directly descended from Sir Matthew Boynton, who was created a baronet May 25, 1618, and was a member of the English parliament during the reign of Charles I. His sympathies became enlisted on the side of the republican cause during the civil wars of England. His second son, named Matthew, married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Stapleton, and about 1632 emigrated to America and became identified with the New England Colony of Boyntons.

Gen. Lewis D. Boynton was born in Maine August 5, 1802, and his wife was born February 22, 1806. On coming to Lorain County General Boynton acquired a large tract of wild land in Russia Township. It is said that much of the land now included in that township was cleared under his superintendence and by men employed directly by him. He was a leader in thought and action in the early days, and at one time served as brigadier general of the State Militia. For the most part his years were spent in farming, and he died in September, 1871. His wife passed away, on the old homestead in Russia Township January 27, 1840.

Judge Boynton is a product of pioneer circumstances of the old fashioned common schools and into his character were instilled much of the fine spirit that went with the building of homes and the clearing up of the wilderness district. While the hard work of a farm was his portion as a boy he was naturally studious, and he brought a superior judgment to every task. He attended the common schools and select schools, but gained much of his liberal education by dint of hard work with no stimulus save his own ambition. When he was only a boy the people of the community frequently remarked that ''he was cut out for a lawyer.'' At the age of sixteen he taught his first term in a district school. From 1855 to 1857 he conducted a select school in Amherst Township. From 1857 to 1864 he served as county examiner of school teachers. In the meantime he had been industriously reading law. His director in those studies was his unele, Elbridge Gerry Boynton, then a leading lawyer at Elyria.

It was in 1856, fifty-nine vears ago, that Judge Boynton was admitted to the Ohio bar. However, his work as an educator continued for a year or so longer, and he did not begin active practice until 1858. His first partner was L. A. Sheldon, and they were together in practice at Elyria until 1861, when General Sheldon went out as lieutenant colonel of the Forty-second Ohio Regiment and subsequently gained distinction in the Union army. Judge Boynton was soon marked for official honor. Tle served as prosecuting attorney of Lorain County from 1859 to 1864, and in the meantime formed a partnership with John C. Hale. Owing to ill health Judge Boynton gave up his practice for one winter and lived in Minneapolis during that time, until he had sufficiently recuperated to resume his work in Lorain County.

His next partnership was with Laertes B. Smith, and their relationship continued for several years. It was interrupted when Governor Rutherford B. Hayes, afterwards President, appointed Mr. Boynton judge of the Common Pleas Court for the second subdivision for the Fourth Judicial District. His appointment came February 9, 1869, and he retired from the firm of Boynton & Smith and held his position on the Common Pleas Bench from 1869 to 1877. His district comprised the counties of Lorain, Medina and Summit. It was his splendid work as a common pleas judge that brought his qualifications to wider renown when on February 9, 1877, he took his seat on the Supreme Bench of Ohio. He had been elected to that office in October, 1876. For nearly five years he was one of the able members of that tribunal, and every well read lawyer in the state is familiar with some of his clear, crisp opinions delivered from that bench.

Tt was ill health that compelled Judge Boynton to retire from the Supreme Court in November, 1883, and small compensation for his work, and he soon afterwards located in the City of Cleveland. There he at once took rank with the ablest attorneys of a bar second to none in the county. His law business soon taxed all his powers and he called to his aid his former associate, Judge John C. Hale, who resigned from the Common Pleas Bench to accept a partnership in Cleveland. The law firm of Boynton & Hale had few peers during its existence at Cleveland. In 1888 Norton T. Horr was admitted to the firm, which then became Boynton, Hale & Horr. In 1892 Judge Hale retired to accept a place as judge of the Circuit Court. The firm of Boynton & Horr handled the extensive business of the firm until January 1, 1897. Since then Judge Boynton has given his services as a special counsel and trial attorney in a number of the most important law eases settled before the Ohio and Federal courts. However, he no longer considers himself an active lawyer and he may he well satisfied to enjoy that ''otium cum cignitate'' which the old Romans regarded as one of the best ends of a useful life.

Judge Boynton, in spite of his many years of public service, has been essentially a lawyer. But he has been even more, a great and a good man. He has exercised splendid power as a speaker and pleader, and knows not only the law but also the sciences and general literature. At all times and under all circumstances he has been an honest and fearless advocate of the right. His general reading has been very extensive, and his knowledge of the affairs of the world and of the human heart has enabled him to meet with calm efficiency all the exigencies of a long career. :

From the time it was founded Judge Boynton has been a loyal supporter of the republican party. During 1865-67 he represented Lorain County in the State Legslature. While in that body he offered the resolution providing for the elimination of the word ''white'' from the franchise qualification of the state constitution. This resolution was defeated in the House on the first vote, but a similar resolution was subsequently passed by the Senate. The similar resolution was adopted after a bitter contest by the Lower House, and was presented to the people for final action in the ensuing state election. It was on this issue essentially that the democratic party in Ohio was victorious over the republicans by more than 40,000 majority, and incidentally Allen G. Thurman went to the United States Senate from Ohio.

Of Judge Boynton's services as a local historian it is hardly necessary to speak here, since his direct and indirect contribution to this field have been acknowledged on other pages of this publication. In the publications of the Western Reserve Historical Society Tract No. 83 contains the historical address prepared and delivered by Judge Boynton on July 4, 1876, the American centennial anniversary. Much of his address pertains to local history in Lorain County. Judge Boynton has for over forty vears heen a director in the Savings Deposit Bank of Elyria and for five years served as vice president. He is well known all over the state, was for years a familiar figure in the City ef Cleveland, and is still a member of the Union Club of that city.

He was married December 20, 1859, at Ridgeville, Ohio, to Miss Betsey A. Terrell. She was born at North Ridgeville, Lorain County, a daughter of Ichabod and Sally Terrell. At the birthplace and home of Mrs. Boynton Judge Boynton some vears ago erected an attractive country home, and he lived there until 1906, when he removed to Elyria and

Rev. Bexsami~ Tompsetr NovKes, D. D. A thoroughly trained and capable English lawyer, practicing both in England and in America, the late Doctor Noakes was chiefly distinguished and is remembered in Lorain County for his prominence as a religious leader and as former

A son of William and Mary Noakes, Benjamin Tompsett Noakes was born at Ticehurst, Sussex, England, March 25, 1828. After leaving school at the age of fifteen he was articled to Thomas Baker, Esq., in _ the City of London for the study of law. He received a certificate as an attorney in the courts of Queens Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer, January 24, 1849, and on January 30, 1849, was made solicitor in the High Court of Chancery. He began the practice of law at Aylesbury in the County of Bucks, England, but in the early part of 1850 came to the United States and loeated in Rochester, New York.

After getting established in Rochester he returned to England and in St. Peter's Church, Walworth, London, on September 28, 1850, married Miss Sarah Piper. They returned to the United States and lived at Rochester until 1855. From childhood Doctor Noakes had been under the influence of strong religious convictions. He was a man who combined practicality and enthusiasm in everything he did. While at Rochester he helped to organize the first Young Men's Christian Association in America, became one of its charter members, and was thus a pioneer in the movement which has now spread to almost every city and town in the United States. On account of his religious convictions he finally gave up the practice of law altogether and entered the Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Gambier, Ohio. He was ordained at Massillon, Ohio, by Bishop McIlvaine, April 25, 1857.- in the same year he was called to his first pastorate at Elyria, becoming rector of what is now St. Andrew's Parish. Several years later in May, 1860, he was called to the Church of the Covenant at Philadelphia, but in 1870 again returned to St. Andrew's at Elyria. During his second pastorate he was largely instrumental in causing to be erected the stone church now occupied by St. Andrew's Parish.

In 1876 Doctor Noakes was called to a church in Cleveland, in which city he had his home until his death, which occurred on All Saints Day, November 1, 1904. His remains are interred in Lake View Cemetery at Cleveland.

Mrs. Noakes still lives in Cleveland. There were eight children born to their union, seven daughters and one son, and the four now living are: Mrs. T. L. Berry of Baltimore, Maryland; Mrs. J. S. Van Eps of Cleveland; Miss Grace Noakes of Cleveland; and Mrs. Henry J. Eady of Elyria.

Henry J. Eapy. For more than half a century Mr. Eady has been a resident of Elyria. Though now retired from active business, he still manifests a keen and intelligent interest in all that affects the welfare of his home city and county, and is widely and favorably known as a man of progress and public spirit. There is much that is stimulating and instructive in such a eareer as that of Henry J. Eady, who came to the United States without fame or fortune and through his own efforts lifted himself to the plane of prosperity and influence.

A native of England, born at Cottesbrooke, Northamptonshiré, April 28, 1846, he comes of an old and substantial family of that country. His parents were Thomas and Susan (Holt) Eady. His grandfather, Samuel Eady, kept an inn at Brixworth during that interesting period before the construction of railways and when the stage coaches rolled along the highways over England. .

In his native environment Henry J. Eady spent the first eighteen years of his life, and secured such education as the schools of his native county could bestow. In 1864 he set out for the United States, and his home has been in Elyria since the third day of December in that year.

The Civil war was almost at its close, and he began life in this country at the rising tide of industry and prosperity which started about that time. His first employment was in farm work, subsequently he was in the factory of Topliff, Sampsell & Ely, but in 1868 began his real career as clerk in the drug store of W. H. Park. As a young man he was ever alert for opportunity, was a hard and faithful worker, and in a few years was able to realize his ambition of becoming an independent business man. In 1873 he opened a drug store on Cheapside, and in that locality he made his business a landmark and the central point for a large and flourishing business. It is said that for thirty-two years, from 1873 to 1905, Myr. Eady's store was never closed for a full day and there was no time when it was not under his direct supervision. <A merchant who steadily pursues such a policy of industry and fair dealing as Mr. Eady necessarily prospers, and his prosperity has taken form in the construction of several prominent building improvements in Elyria. In 1885 he built a large three-story brick business block on the site of his first drng store at 106 Cheapside, and in 1892 put up a handsome brick block at 122 Cheapside, the latter being a combination store and apartment building and bearing the name Northampton, by which name he honored his native shire in England. Mr. Eady retired and sold his drug business in 1905, and has since been looking after his private investments.

In the past half century no citizen has manifested a finer public spirit and a more wholesome influence for the upbuilding and improvement of Elvria. Especially in later years, when he was able to relax somewhat his close attention to he he has given much service to the public in official positions. From 1899 to 1903 he was a member of the Elyria city council, and in January, 1908, became president of the board of public service and continued in that office two years. He is a life member of The Elyria Memorial Hospital Company, an institution which is one of the finest of its kind in Ohio, and has been a member of its board of managers since its organization. For many years he has been identified with the Elyria Chamber of Commerce, has beer prominent in fraternal circles, is a republican in politics, and for years has filled the office of warden in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. Fraternally his relations are with the Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Honor, and in the latter organization he was for more than a quarter of a century its treasurer.

On February 16, 1876, about eleven years after he came to Elyria, and when he was already known as a rising young business man, Mr. Eady married Miss Charlotte Ellen Noakes. Mrs. Eady is a daughter of Rey. B. T. Noakes, well remembered as an Episcopal clergyman of Elyria and of whom separate mention is made in this work. Mr. Eady lives in a modern residence on Sixth Street, which he built in 1915. Mr. and Mrs. Eady have lived over fifty-one years in almost one locality tied haeeey

Mr. Eady has crossed the Atlantic thirteen times. He returned the last time in November, 1914, leaving London Thanksgiving Day, 1914. He was in London when the present war broke out.

SAMUEL Davipson. The distinction of having been the most prosperous farmer of Lorain County might be properly claimed by Samuel Davidson of Camden Township. Something more than forty years ago, after a varied experience in some of the remote colonies of England. he came to Lorain County and started business as a farmer with a capital of $3,000. Since then his enterprise has rapidly grown and expanded, and he probably has as large a landed estate as any other farmer in Lorain County. For a great many years he carried on general farming and dairying in connection with the raising of hogs, cattle and other live stock. His home farm lies about five miles southwest of Oberlin, and the house and other buildings and grounds constitute one of the most beautiful estates in the county. Mr. Davidson has erected most of the buildings on his land, including a large barn, and a comfortable and commodious frame house.

Samuel Davidson was born in County Down, Ireland, February 1, 1845. a son of John and Mary Ann (Brown) Davidson. His grandfather was Andrew Davidson, who spent his life as a farmer in the old country. The maternal grandfather was Robert Brown, who for twentyone years was a regular soldier in the British army and who died in 1849. John Davidson, father of Samuel, was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1819 and died in July, 1895. His wife was born at Drogheda, Ireland, in 1825 and died in 1899. They were married in Ireland and some years later in 1869 came to Lorain County, where they bought a farm and spent the rest of their days. About a year after John Davidson had come to this country he was followed by his family in 1870. There were nine children, six daughters and three sons, and those now living are: Samuel Davidson; Andrew, who lives in Missouri; Eliza, whose home is in New Zealand; Emily, Jennie and Mattie, all of whom reside in Toledo; Joseph. who is a resident of Los Angeles, California; and Alice, also a resident of Toledo. The parents were active members of the Presbyterian Church. John Davidson learned the blacksmith's trade in Ireland, but after coming to Lorain County followed farming. He affiliated with the democratic party.

Samuel Davidson received his early education in Irish schools. When about seventeen years of age he left Ireland on February 19, 1862, and went to Melbourne. Australia, and a year later to New Zealand, where he lived for about nine years. In those uttermost parts of the earth he followed gold mining chiefly, and acquired a modest capital which served as the foundation of his prosperity and enterprise after he came to Camden Township of Lorain County in 1872. Here his first purchase was ninety-five acres of partly cleared land. He set himself steadily to work to clear up the balance and improve it and he soon started a small dairy farm. Many of his friends say that everything Samuel Davidson undertakes turns out successfully and it is a fact that from the nucleus of land which he first acquired he has extended his investments until he now owns about 760 acres, all cultivated and managed directly by him.

On June 2], 1875, Mr. Davidson married Margaret Stranaghan, a daughter of Andrew and Agnes (Cantley) Stranaghan, both of whom were born in County Down, Ireland, and died in the old country. Mrs. Davidson came to this country with a young woman friend, stopped at Pittsburgh a time, but came to Camden Township in 1875. To their marriage have been born seven children: Agnes, wife of Otto Huene, a Lorain County farmer; William D., who lives on one of his father's farms: Andrew S., who assists his father in the farm management; Anna Eliza. wife of Llovd Hudson, a Camden Township farmer; Emma G.. wife of Willard A. Brumby of Camden Township; John F. of Camden Township; and Robert J., a farmer of the same township.

Mrs. Davidson was reared in the faith of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Davidson while independent in political affiliation has been a very active citizen. and served Camden Township as trustee for three years and was a member of the school board for twelve years.

Parrick Hexry Boyntox. Many of the distinctions and services associated with the name Boynton in Lorain County were the product of the career of the late Patrick Henry Boynton, who as a member of the Elyria bar for over forty years was one of the most accomplished and successful attorneys of the county. He continued active in his protession to the last day of his life, and died suddenly while reading in his hbrary on April 28, 1911.

The Boynton family came from the State of Maine and established its home in the wilderness of Russia Township, Lorain County, as early as 1826. Patrick Henry Boynton was born in Russia Township, August 10, 1848, a son of John H. and Hulda (Heath) Boynton. His father, John Hancock Boynton, was long a familiar figure in business affairs of Elyria and died in that city in July, 1899.

It was in the City of Elyria that Patrick H. Boynton spent nearly all his life, since when he was a child his parents established their home there. As a boy he attended the public schools, was also a student in Oberlin College and gained part of his legal education in the University of Michigan. For some time he read law in the office of John C. Hale, and in 1869 stood the test of examination and was admitted to the bar. From that time forward until his death he enjoyed a large and growing practice. He possessed a broad and thorough knowledge of the law, and had more than a local reputation for accuracy and painstaking industry. He was frequently called one of the best read lawyers in this part of Ohio. He was devoted to his profession but his mind ranged among many other fields and interests, and probably to a degree equal to any of his contemporaries he was truly cultured both in mind and character. He had a broad knowledge of general literature, and the occupation of the last hours of his life was reading.

His life should also be remembered for his public services. In 1888 he was elected mayor of Elyria, and was three times re-elected, and gave the city an administration notable for its efficiency and vigor. On retiring from the office of mayor he was made a waterworks trustee, became president of the board of trustees, and worked in that capacity until the waterworks system was placed under the control of the board of public service in 1903. Up to his death he served as referee in bankruptcy in the United States Court in Lorain-County. He was active in Masonry, a member of King Solomon Lodge No. 56, Free and Accepted Masons, and his funeral was conducted under the auspices of the order.

An excellent estimate of what he was and what he stood for is contained in an editorial which appeared in the Elyria Democrat at the time of his death: ''The death of P. H. Boynton takes from the activities of this city's life a man who has stood high in everybody's estimation for many years. While he was a conservative man in many ways undemonstrative, yet he won the respect of all who knew him by his innate sense of fairness and honesty. His ability in his profession was acknowledged and he was referee in many a legal tangle. He was deliberate in his opinions and stood uncompromisingly by his judgment. As a man who took delight in the fine and noble things in literature he set a high standard for the community, and to his friends he was a constant source of inspiration to the acquirement of those things which bring happiness and content in this busy world.''

On December 30, 1875, Mr. Boynton married Miss Mary Townshend. Mrs. Boynton died at Elyria, March 7, 1915, and there are three sons and an adopted daughter who survive. <A. J. Boynton of Elyria: H. Perey Boynton, of Cleveland: Sidney H., of Elyria; and Olga. now a student in Oberlin College.

Mrs. Boynton was born in Elyria, December 21, 1849, a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Norton S. Townshend. The father was prominent in the affairs of the state, at various times was a member of the Legislature, was also a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1851-52. and filled a position in the faculty of the Ohio State University. He served during the Civil war as a medical inspector, and was professor of agriculture and was a pioneer in this field of technical education. Mrs. Boynton for many years stood for the highest things in the cultural activities of Elyria. She attended the public schools of Elyria as a girl, continued her education in the Lake Erie Seminary at Painesville, and it is said that her ambition to continue her education in the State University led that institution to adopt plans for coeducation. For the - last several years of her life Mrs. Boynton suffered bereavement and much personal illness through which she set an example of rare Christian fortitude and bravery. She was always devoted to her home, and made it not only a place of material comfort but gave it the atmosphere most stimulating to real culture. Through all her years she continued to store her mind with the results of the best thought and information and was accomplished and learned in a number of different fields. She was a charter member of the Fortnightly Club, the oldést woman's club in Ohio and the first purely literary club in the state. She belonged to that club until her death and several times filled the chair of president. She was also one of the directors of the Lorain County Historical Society and filled a similar position with the Young Women's Christian Association, was a member of the Kozy Klub, and for many years attended and subsequently became an active member of the First Congregational Church. At the time of her death she was serving as corresponding secretary of the Historical Society, and had been identified with the Young Women's Christian Association from its inception.

ArTHUR L. Garrorp. In that big world of people outside of Lorain County the name Garford during the last twenty years has had many familiar associations with a very high grade of manufactured products and business service. During the decade of the '90s when nearly everybody in the United States were riding bicycles, something like two or three million people knew the name because it was associated with the most popular and best saddle used on that popular vehicle. In later years the name has had a growing significance not only in the higher circles of manufacturing and general commerce but also in politics. The State of Ohio has no more capable personality in giving vitality to the modern ideals of social democracy and the progressive political movement than Arthur L. Garford of Elyria.

His influential relations with business affairs are well illustrated by a brief list of the large concerns with which he is officially identified. He is president of The Garford Manufacturing Company, president of The Cleveland Automatic Machine Company of Cleveland, president of the Republican Printing Company of Elyria, president of The Worthington Company of Elyria, treasurer of The Garford Engineering Company, chairman of the executive committee of The Elyria Lace Manufacturing Company, a director of The Savings Deposit Bank & Trust Company of Elyria, and a director of The Perry-Fay Manufacturing Company of Elyria. From the limits of Lorain County, in which he was born and which has been his home throughout his life. the influence of his work and varied activities have spread far and wide.

The farm on which he was born August 4, 1858, is now included within the city limits of Elyria. Arthur Lovett Garford is a son of Georgia and Hannah (Lovett) Garford, the former a native of Northamptonshire and the latter of Leicestershire, England. The paternal grandfather, William Garford, was for many years custodian and manager of a large English estate, upon which his ancestors had lived for generations. The maternal grandfather, Edward Lovett. was a silk and lace manufacturer in England, one of his sons was manager of the large factory and another son served many years in the British navy. George Garford, who was born in 1829, and was married in 1850 to Miss Hannah Lovett, in 1852 came to the United States and to Elyria.

In 1853 he sent for his young wife and their first child. The parents resided in Lorain County for more than sixty years and until the time of their death. George Garford was a famed landscape gardener when he came to Lorain County, but subsequently gained a national reputation as a breeder and raiser of live stock, exhibiting his sheep and cattle at state and county fairs throughout the Central West, and from 1863 until 1882 was proprietor of the Elywood Stock Farm in Elyria, Lorain County.

Arthur L. Garford grew up on his father's farm, and in 1875 graduated from the Elyria High School. Two years later, at the age of nineteen, he became cashier in the china importing house of Rice & Burnett at Cleveland, the following year was promoted to head bookkeeper, but in 1880 resigned to accept a position as bookkeeper in the Savings Deposit Bank of Elyria. He was promoted to teller in 1882 and in 1884 to assistant eashier, and in 1891 to cashier, from which office he resigned in 1892, having in the meantime organized the Garford Manufacturing Company.

Several years ago a special correspondent of the Cleveland Leader wrote an interesting article whose language will be used to describe Mr. Garford's entrance into the manufacturing field: ''The sedentary life told on him, however, and to get fresh air and exercise he took to the bieyele. High wheels were then the rage, and Mr. Garford had several falls, some of them rather serious. He wondered if something could not be done to prevent falling from the bicycle. He studied the matter, and the invention of the famous Garford bicycle saddle was the result. He patented the invention and offered to sell the patent to a Chicago manufacturer for a hundred dollars. The tender was refused and Mr. Garford made a contract with an Elyria factory for a large number of saddles. Before these could be marketed the low or safety wheels supplanted the high wheels in public favor. He had several thousand saddles on his hands and failure seemed to be staring him in the face. He didn't lose courage, but devised a plan by which his saddles could be remodeled for the low wheel.- For three vears the sales continued to increase. and then occurred the burning of the factory in which the saddles were made, destroving the entire stock. The success of his invention had been assured, however. and in 1892 Mr. Garford built a mill of his own for the manufacture of the saddles. The Garford saddle hecame the most popular in the country, and the inventor's concern, as it developed, picked up rival companies, until it controlled the hievcle-saddle industry of the United States. A million saddles a vear were made. The companies were consolidated. and Mr. Garford formed the American Saddle Company, a great success. The saddle company was in turn absorbed by the American Bicvele Company. of which Mr. Garford became treasurer. He subsequently withdrew from the concern and organized the Automobile & Cycle Parts Company, whose title was later changed to the Federal Manufacturing Company, which had nine mills, located in Cleveland. Chicago, Milwaukee. Indianapolis and other cities. The controlling interest was owned by the Pope Manufacturing Company, successor to the American Bicycle Company. Mr. Garford resigned as president of The Federal Manufacturing Company and purchased its automohile-parts plant in Cleveland and Elyria. forming the Garford Company in 1905. The Federal Company was organized in 1901 and was capitalized for five million dollars. In 1907 Mr. Garford built the large automobile factory in Elyria and the same is operated under the title of The Garford Company. The great Studebaker Company. manufacturers of vehicles, became interested. hut Mr. Garford retained contro] of the concern of which he is the executive head. and the plant constitutes one of the largest auto- mobile factories in the land. In 1902 Mr. Garford went to France and reorganized, with a commission for the Owners, The Cleveland Machine Serew Company, under the name of The Cleveland Automatic Machine Company. This corporation has an extensive plant in Cleveland and controls a large business throughout the United States and the European continent and England.''

In 1963 Mr. Garford organized The Columbia Steel Works of Elyria, where he built its fine plant, and also built the plant of The Worthington Company, of which he is president. In 1895 he organized the Fay Manufacturing Company, of which he became president, this being succeeded by The Worthington Manufacturing Company, and in 1905 he was a prine factor in organizing The Perry-Fay Manufacturing Company, of which he is still a director. He owns the controlling interest in The Cleveland Automatic Machine Company, a $1,000,000 corporation. He secured the controlling interest in The Republican Printing Company of Elyria in 1898, this company publishing The Elyria Evening Telegram, one of the leading dailies of Northern Ohio. In 1907 Mr. Garford assisted in organizing The American Lace Manufacturing Company of Elyria. If is apparent that he has not only the technical genius which underlies all successful manufacturing, but also has developed to a high degree the executive and organizing faculty, and has never touched an enterprise without making a success of it.

Of his character as a business man the article from which quotation has already been made speaks as follows: ''Mr. Garford is of the best type of the successful business man. He finds time not only to build up his material fortunes but also to build up his city and to do his duty as a citizen. The story of his career is an object lesson for ambitious, courageous voung men. It shows what may be accomplished by the man of energy in a comparatively few years by means of push and vigor and without deserting the hearthstone about which he played as a boy. The home in which he was born is within the city mits of Elyria. In his early vouth his parents removed to a farm, now also a part of Elyria. It was on this farm that young Garford was reared. The frame house in which he lived when first married stands upon it today, and on the same farm is the commodious and artistic modern stone residence which is now his home. Mr. Garford believes the secret of accomplishment is the economy of time and energy. He always finds time to do what he has in mind. He methodically divides his time, and thus manages to give necessary attention not only to his varied business enterprises but also to politics, to chureh and to various interests of the community. Mr. Garford is a long-distance thinker. He has a creative mind. When he looks into a proposition he analyzes it thoroughly and draws a logical deduction of what there is in the future for it. When he makes up his mind to go ahead with a venture, be it business or political, he puts common sense and industry behind it.''

Taking up his varied interests outside of manufacturing, Mr. Garford assisted in organizing and was the first president of The Elyria Chamber of Commerce, and also was the organizer of the old Elyria Board of Commerce and at one time was its president. He is now chairman of the board of trustees of the public library of Elyria, and is president of the Elyria Y. M. C. A. and a member of the board of trustees of the Y. W. C. A. He is a member of the National Civic Federation. a member of the Ohio Society of New York, member of the Engineers Society of New York, belongs to the Union Athletic Club of Cleveland. the Cleveland Athletic Club, is a charter member and was first president of the Elyria Country Club, is a life member of the Republican Western Reserve Club, and he and his wife are active in the First Congregational Church.

It was Mr. Garford who called the first meeting of local citizens to promote the movement to secure a pure water supply from Lake Erie, and was one of the leaders in the long campaign of seven years which was required to accomplish the result. This is a sample of his distinterested work and public spirit in local affairs, and he has carried the same ideals and practical honesty into the broader field of politics.

At three different times Mr. Garford was elected delegate to republican national conventions froin the Fourteenth Congressional District, and was a member of the State Central Committee nine years. Ile was a delegate to the convention of 1896 when McKinley was nominated, and in 1908 was in the convention at Chicago which nominated President Taft. He was already recognized at that time as one of the leaders in the Ohio movement for the securing of importaut reforms within the republican party organization, and this progressive stand led him naturally into the ranks of the national progressive party in 1912. He was chairman of the Ohio delegates at the republican convention in 1912, and was a candidate for governor before the Republican State Convention at Columbus a couple of weeks later as a progressive republican. For several ballots his name led all others, and his nomination was apparently assured, but on the next ballot he was defeated ly a combination of all other reactionary candidates, who concentrated on Judge Dillon of Columbus as a dark horse. Later he joined the progressive party and his name was placed on the Ohic State ticket as candidate for governor. He had already been prominently mentioned for several years as a possibility for that office, and had it not been for the break in the party alignment, as a result of which the original republican vote was divided between the republicans and progressives, he would undoubtedly have been elected governor of Ohio in that year. Mr. Garford still claims allegiance to the progressive party, and in 1914 was its candidate for the United States Senate.

December 14, 1881, Mr. Garford married Miss Mary Louise Nelson, daughter of the late Thomas L. Nelson of Elyria, a prominent citizen whose career is sketched on other pages of this work. Mr. and Mrs. Garford have two daughters: Mary Katherine, now Mrs. James B. Thomas of Elyria; and Louise Ely, now Mrs. E. Lavagnino of Pasadena, California.

CHRISTIAN Parscn. Something more than half a century ago the late Christian Parsech was known in Lorain County only as a very industrious and capable carpenter. He subsequently brought the scope of his ac¢tivities to work as a building contractor, and from that developed one of the largest establishments for the supplying of lumber and other building materials, and for work in building contracting lines in the entire county. Christian Parsch was a splendid type of the man who comes up from small things to large accomplishments. and his record whether in business, In private life, and in his attitude toward public concerns is one that should be remembered in this county.

When he died at his home in Elyria, July 17, 1905, he had reached the age of seventy-two. Though nearly all his life was spent in Lorain County, he was born at Lammersdorf on the River Rhine. near Cologne, Germany. January 17, 1833. When only ten vears of age he came with his family to the United States. and after a brief residence at Buffalo, New York, they came on to Cleveland. It was in Cleveland that Christian Parsch, who in the meantime had gained an education partly in the schools of Germany and partly in those of Ameriea. took up the carpenter's trade. From there he moved to Avon in Lorain County. was a journeyman worker in that section, and in 1857 removed to Elyria. Not long afterward he began taking independent contracts for building. and

The late Mr. Parsch was for many years one of the active members and liberal supporters of St. Mary's Catholic Church of Elvria, to which his family also belong. Ilis wife, Mrs. Catherine (Hurbert) Farsch, died at her'home on East Broad Street in Elyria, July 20, 1907. She was at 'that time seventy-one years of age, was a native of Ireland, but had lived continuously in Elyria for fully forty years. She became. the mother of nine children, six of whom survived her. There are now three sons and one daughter living: William T., president of the Parsch Lumber Company; Alexander P., vice president of the company; John C.; and Mrs. Joseph Tyler of Elyria. The daughter Marv, who married C. Esker of Elyria. died after her mother, and the other daughter, now deceased, was Lucy, Mrs. James McCarvel. The son William is also a director of the Machine Parts Company of Elyria.

For a great many years the lumber and building business was conducted under the simple name C. Parsch, but in 1900 it was incorporated as the Parsch Lumber Company, at which time Christian's sons, William, Alexander and John, took an active share in the business.

JOHN C, Parscow. A product of Elyria by birth, education and training. John C. Parsch has passed his entire career in this city, where he is not onlv known as a leading factor in business circles, but as a citizen who has contributed of his fine talents to the welfare of the community as the incumhent of official position. He was born August 16, 1870, and is a son of the late Christian and Catherine (Hurbert) Parsch, highly respected old-time citizens of Elyria, a sketch of whose careers will be found elsewhere in this work.

John C. Parsch was educated in the Elyria public schools and St. Mary's parochial school, following which he took a course at the Oberlin Business College. In 1900 he secured an interest in the business which had been founded by his father many years hefore, and at the same time his brothers, William T. and Alexander P., became members of the concern, the name of which was at that time changed from C. Parsch to the Parsch Lumber Company,.Inc., although the father retained an interest in the business until his death, in 1905. The present officers are W. T. Parsch, president: A. P. Parsch, vice president; and J. C. Parsch, secretary and treasurer. The Parsch Lumber Company deals in lumber, coal and builders' supplies and maintains a planing mill, the office and mill being located at Mill and Lodi streets, while the yards are at Cedar and Tremont streets. In addition to this concern, Mr. Parsch is a director of the Elyria Foundry Company. He is known as one of the progressive, enterprising business men of the city, with large and important interests, but has not allowed his private affairs to interfere with the performance of his duties as a good citizen. He entered politics in 1908, when he became the republican candidate for the office of councilman-at-large, and was elected and served two years, and in the following election ran for president of the council. He has been elected to that office three times, his present term expiring January 1, 1916. In regard to his candidacy for the mayoralty, the Elyria Chronicle of May 15, 1915, had this to say editorially: '*As announced in our columns the other day, John C. Parsch will be a candidate for the office of mayor of Elyria, subject to the republican primary. His candidacy is one upon which all classes of our citizens may well unite. He is the candidate of no clique, no faction, nor, in the broadest sense, will he be a mere party candidate. The citizens of Elyria are to be congratulated that he has been prevailed upon to allow the use of his name in connection with the mayoralty. We have said that he will not be a mere party candidate and this is true. The day of such has passed. Mr. Parsch's qualifications for the mayor's office are not on the political order. He is no politician. He is primarily a business man mainly concerned in the conduct of one of Elyria's principal enterprises. As his contribution to the civic spirit of our community life he has indeed held public office. He has for some vears occupied an honorable niche in our city government. At first as a member and then for several terms as president of the council, he has with conspicuous success discharged his obligations to our municipal government. Tis time and his trained business judgment have ever been unstintedly placed at the disposal of the city legislature and his wise counsel has ever been gladly availed of by his colleagues in that body. His course has preeminently been that of the business man applying the powers of his mind to the public business. In this he may have neglected-the arts of the politician, but we believe that the people will think none the less of him for that deficiency. Mr. Parsch was born in Elvria forty-five vears ago and has always lived here. His life is an open book. He is known to his neighbors, friends and associates as a man of kindly spirit and generous impulses. Upright and devout in his private life he is in public affairs a man of liberal and enlightened views; no narrow bigotry or sectarianism bounds his intellectual horizon. His place in the estimation of his fellow citizens is secure. Although the candidacy of Mr. Parsch is urged on the score of his business qualifications, he is and always has been a staunch republican. It is through the instrumentality of that party that he has been called to the public posts he has hitherto filled. He therefore naturally turns to his fellow republican electors to endorse his vandidacy, nor makes any apology in so doing. It will be as the republican candidate for mayor that he will make the run or not at all." At the primaries, held August 10, 1915, Mr. Parsch was nominated for mayor on the republican ticket by a comfortable majority, the vote standing 640 to 452. He defeated his opponent in every precinct of the city. as shown by the following figures: First Ward, Precinct A, Parsch 66, Boyden 37; First Ward, Precinct B, Parsch 36, Boyden 17; Second Ward. Precinct <A, Parsch 59, Boyden 37; Second Ward, Precinct B, Parsch 65. Boyden 52; Second Ward, Precinct C, Parsch 20, Boyden 15; Third Ward, Precinct A, Parsch 73, Boyden 46; Third Ward, Precinct B, Parsch 48, Boyden 25; Third Ward, Precinct C, Parsch 84, Bovden 75; Fourth Ward, Precinct A, Parsch 91, Boyden 73; Fourth Ward, Precinet B, Parsch 53. Boyden 48; Fourth Ward, Precinet C, Parsch 50, Boyden 27. But even with the above flattering majority Mr. Parsch was defeated at the election held November 2, 191d.

Mr. Parsch is a valued and popular member of Elyria Council No. 774, Knights of Columbus, in which he has occupied all the chairs; of Elyria Lodge No. 465, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks: of Elyria Lodge of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association, in which he has held a number of the offices; and of Elyria Lodge No. 431. Fraternal Order of Eagles, and also holds membership in the Elyria Chamier of Commerce and the Elyria Automobile Club. With Mrs. Parsch. he is affiliated with St. Mary's Catholic Church of Elyria. and has been a leading member of the church choir for twenty-eight years. or since he was seventeen years of age.

At Cleveland, Ohio, December 28, 1898, Mr. Parsch was united in marriage with Miss Lottie M. Greesheimer, who was born and reared at Elyria and here educated in the parochial schools. She is a daughter of the late Edward and Mary (Becker) Greesheimer, early residents of Elyria, both of whom are now deceased. Mrs. Parsch, like her husband, is a general favorite socially and actively interested in religious and club work.

Mrs. Emma 8. Oups. Believing firmly in woman's political, social and industrial freedom, Mrs. Emma 8. Olds for many years has labored effectively in support of her convictions. There is scarcely a body of representative women in Ohio in which she is unknown. and her unusual talents have been recognized, utilized and appreciated in many other 'states. Of most pleasing personality, endowed with versatile talents, possessed of remarkable executive ability and gifted both as a speaker and writer, Mrs. Olds has indelibly impressed herself upon the developing pages of the history of her times.

Mrs. Olds was born at Florence, Ohio. She is a great-granddaughter of Reuben and Pearl (Smith) Allen, and of Jasper Miles, all very early pioneers of Lorain and Erie counties. In 1817, Reuben Allen with wife and children left Vermont and journeyed by wagon to Lorain County, Ohio, selecting a site for a home in the forest that then covered Amherst Township. As the covered wagon had provided a shelter during the long journey it was further used as such until logs were hewed and a primitive dwelling was erected on what was then the frontier. On the original site was later built the comfortable farm-house which was one of the first if not the very first, frame houses in Amherst Township and is yet standing, the accompanying illustration showing its present condition, it being one of the old landmarks of the county.

In childhood Mrs. Olds attended the village school at Birmingham, Ohio, and afterward was prepared by' private tutors for college and at the age of fourteen years became a student in Berea College, Kentucky, where she spent a year and at the age of fifteen taught a mountain school. When sixteen years old she taught school at Birmingham and then returned to Berea College for two years, afterward continuing special studies with tutors and again teaching school for two more years.

Mrs. Olds was twenty years old when she married and for some time found her time sufficiently taken up in managing her home, but later her old ambitions asserted themselves and she returned to the educational field and continued to teach school until 1896, and so valuable were her services considered by the people of Birmingham that she was elected a member of the board of education and served two years as its president before coming to Elyria, in which latter city, in 1911, she was elected a member of its board of education and her efficient service in that capacity covered three years.

Although Mrs. Olds has been prominently identified with many forward movements for women, perhaps she is best known in her important connection with the order of the Ladies of the Maccabees of the World, with which organization she united in 1893. Her first official position was as record keeper of the local hive and when, in 1896, she was sent as a delegate to the order's state convention, at which she was elected state commander, she resigned her position in the public schools in order to take up this new work for women with which she was in full sympathy.

In 1898, when the great hive was organized in Ohio, Mrs. Olds was elected great commander and filled that office and managed the affairs of the Maccabees in Ohio continuously until June, 1915, when she was advanced to a position on the National Conference board and also was appointed deputy supreme commander. In consideration of her many years of successful and loyal service, at the Supreme Review of the order, held in New York at that time, she was given a year's vacation, after which she again resumed national work. Under Mrs. Olds' leadership the membership of the order in Ohio increased from 7,392 to 28,661. At the above named convention several important changes were made in the plans of work of the organization, including the abolishing of the independent state hives and the changing of the name to the Woman's Benefit

Association of the Maccabees. Mrs. Olds is a member-of the present advisory board of the association and formerly served one term as supreme heutenant commander of the Maccabees. Repeatedly, as a delegate from this organization, she has addressed the National Council of Women.

Few women of the present day have led busier or more fruitful lives than has Mrs. Olds almost from girlhood. In addition to the responsibilities which she carried so many years as the Ohio head of the organization above mentioned, she has been concerned and interested in many other forward movements of her sex and has been helpful and sustaining to a wonderful degree, very often giving herself unselfishly but always conscientiously. For several years Mrs. Olds was vice president of the Ohio Woman's Suffrage Association; for many years was chairman of the standing Resolution Committee of the National Council of Women; for some years was a member of the Finance Committee of the National Fraternal Congress and for two years was chairman of the Committee on Ethics; and is a member of the Ohio Federation of Clubs. On invitation she has made addresses before the Akron Council of Women; the Cuyahoga County Women's Christian Temperance Union; the Toledo Peace Association ; the Toledo Federation of Clubs; the National Council of Women; the National Fraternal Congress and other gatherings. She has appeared before committees from the State Legislature in the interests of shorter working hours for women, and also in the interests of adequate rates for fraternal organizations. She served two terms as a trustee of the Ohio Fraternal Congress and was a delegate from this congress to the National Fraternal Congress, representing all the Ohio fraternities at the national body. For one year she filled the office of president of the Political Study Club, which she founded and which is the largest woman's club at Elyria, devoted to civic and social improvement, and several times was sent as a delegate from Ohio to the National Suffrage Association.

The above recital by no means covers all Mrs. Olds' useful activities and notable achievements. Of a decided literary bent, had not circumstances led her into executive position with its many strenuous claims, she might have had leisure in which to cultivate her talent still farther than has been possible. As it is she has numerous stories and poems to her credit, which have appeared in the magazines and the newspapers. Mrs. Olds is the author of the ritual for children, called the ''Order of the Rose.'' which has been adopted for the use of the Junior Auxiliary Branch of the Maccabees, and she also wrote many of the songs and charges used in the ritualistic work of the order. After a year of rest and recreation, her friends and admirers hope that she will again be found among the workers for those helpful things to which her life has been dedicated.

Atiisoxn Hi. Bascock, president of the A. H. Babcock Company, is a native of Lorain and so much impressed with its business, residence and other advantages that, like thousands of others, he has never been able to see that he could better himself by making a change of location. A product of the public schools, his business career, which commenced when he was but a lad, has been one of constant and consistent advancement. and his present connection with some of Lorain's leading enterprises makes him a leader in business and realty circles.

Allison H. Babeock was born at Lorain, Ohio, January 21, 1874, and is a son of Allison H. and Mary (Hill) Babeock. His father, who came to Lorain in 1873. was originally a merchant and subsequently became a large owner of real estate. He was also one of the prominent men of ity of mayor. Allison H. Babcock, of this notice, attended the public schools until reaching his seventeenth year, at which time he entered the tobacco business, a line with which he was connected for seven years. In 1898 he became the organizer of the A. H. Babcock Company, a real estate and insurance concern, of which he has continued as president and manager to the present time and which, under his capable management and direction, has assumed large proportions. From time to time he has entered other lines of business endeavor, to which he has been called by reason of his fine organizing and executive abilities, and at the present time is president of the Hoffman Heater Company, of the Fidelity Realty Company, and of the Troike Muffler Company, all well known concerns of Lorain. While not a politician, he has discharged the duties of citizenship in a public spirited and conscientious manner, and during three terms was city treasurer of Lorain. He belongs fraternally to the Masons, in which he has reached high degrees, being a Knights Templar and a member of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland, and to the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His outside relations are eminently agreeable and helpful, and he is the sharer in many friend- . ships, as well as the general good will of a community of which he is accounted one of the leading and influential citizens.

Mr. Babeock was married October 15, 1894, to Miss Minnie Mead. of Lorain, daughter of James B. Mead, who was connected with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad for many years. Three children have been born to this union: Mildred Daisy, who graduated from the Lorain High School with the class of 1915; Floyd Ernest, who is still a student: and Leota Amanda.

ALBERT WILLIAM CINNIGER. Together with the other learned professions, the bench and bar is well represented in Lorain County, a large proportion of its members being men of ability, safe counsellors and eloquent and effective advocates. One of the most prominent engaged in general practice at the City of Lorain is Albert William Cinniger, who has an office in the Century Building.

A native. Ohioan, Mr. Cinniger was born near Medina. September 13, 1875, a son of John and Olive Ann (Eden) Cinniger, who were farming people in that locality.

Mr. Cinniger has a very interesting ancestry, and many of his family connections have been soldiers, not only in this country but in Europe. His name is of German origin, and the German spelling is Zinniger. His grandfather, Charles Cinniger, who was born at Emmindingen, near Karlsruhe. Province of Baden, Germany, came to America in 1834. During the Civil war he enlisted in the First Ohio Light Artillery in August, 1862, and served until the following vear. At the battle of Stone River he was wounded and was taken prisoner and confined at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and after being released was discharged on account of his wounds. Olive Eden, mother of the Lorain lawyer, was a daughter of George Eden, a native of England. who in 1840 married Clarissa Miller of New York. Her brother was a strong abolitionist and was commonly known as ''Negro'' Miller, owing to his connection with the underground railroad for assisting the escape of slaves. George Eden's brother was John Eden, who served in the English army, for twenty-one vears, much of the time under the Duke of Wellington, and was killed at the battle of Waterloo. Mr. Cinniger's great-great-uncle on his father's side fought in the Prussian army under the great Napoleon, and was killed during the invasion of Russia. Mr. Cinniger's great-grandfather, Hans Loefler, whose people were among the first settlers at Germantown, Pennsylvania, served in the colonial army as a minor officer under General Washington, and marched with that great American general from Bunker Hill to Yorktown, from the beginning to the close of the war for independence.

Reared on a farm and after graduating from high school, Albert William Cinniger in 1894 entered Hiram College, where he finished his _ literary education and graduated in 1899. He then took up the study of law in the office of Judge G. W. Lewis and Judge George Hayden and was later in the office of Judge A. R. Webber of Elyria, Ohio. Admitted to the bar December 7, 1901, he did his first practice in Elyria, where he remained about three and a half years. From January, 1902, to April, 1905, he was partner of C. A. Metcalf, under the firm name of Metcalf & Cinniger.

Removing to Lorain City in April, 1905, he was a member of the firm of Thompson, Glitsch & Cinniger until December 7, 1911, since which time he has practiced alone. Well versed in the principles of jurisprudence and possessing all the most necessary qualifications for success in his profession, he has gained a high place in the bar of this county and is both respected as an able lawyer and esteemed as a man and citizen. He is a member of the Lorain County Bar Association, the Masonic order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member and trustee of the Christian Church.

September 11, 1900, Mr. Cinniger married Clara L. Gibbs, daughter of Alexander and Paulina (Green) Gibbs of Brunswick, Medina County, Ohio. She is a descendant of Gen. Nathanael Greene of Revolutionary fame. Her father's uncle, Alexander Thayer, was at one time ambassador from the United States to Austria, while her great-great-uncle, Samuel Gibbs, served on Washington's staff in the Revolutionary war. Alexander Gibbs, her father, enlisted in the Union army July 31, 1861, and upon reorganization his regiment became the Second Ohio Cavalry. He remained in the army until the close of the war, being mustered out in September, 1865. While a soldier he participated in a number of famous battles and had many exciting experiences. While in the Shenandoah Valley he saw Gen. Phil Sheridan in his famous ride, when he arrived just in time to rally the broken troops at Winchester and drive back Early's almost victorious legions. For several months he served as General Grant's orderly and assisted in laying mines at Petersburg. He also witnessed the surrender at Appomattox, and took part in the grand review at Washington after the surrender of Lee and Johnston's armies. He was also with Custer in the service when the latter was but a simple colonel, and was with him subsequently in Indian Territory when Col. William Cody (Buffalo Bill) was scout for the command. During the war Mr. Gibbs had several narrow escapes from death, two horses being shot from under him, and one time a bullet passed through his hat.

ELBERT JULIAN Burretu. <A life that was an unusual record of accomplishment and influence came to a close with the death of Elbert Julian Burrell on December 28, 1905. While Mr. Burrell spent little of his time as a resident in Lorain County, he had many interests: there, had a home in Elyria, and his body now rests in the family vault at Ridgelawn Cemetery in that city. Mrs. Burrell, his widow, is living at 124 Harrison Street in Elyria, and is one of the notable women of Lorain County.

Born at Leroy, Medina County, Ohio, on May 30, 1845, Elbert Julian Burrell was a son of George and Marionett (Barnes) Burrell, who a few years after his birth moved to a farm in Ridgeville Township of Lorain

County. The late Mr. Burrell grew up in Lorain County, obtained his education in the district schools, and though the horizon of his early hfe was bounded by a country school and by the duties of a farm, he possessed that excellent combination of energy and ambition which creates opportunity for a career of signal usefulness and service. His early practical experience was gained in his father's mill at Ridgeville, and he made himself proficient in the handling of machinery and in various mechanical pursuits. In 1870 he engaged in the lumber industry in Michigan, but not long afterwards was severely injured by the explosion of a hoiler in the lumber mill. There was no handicap that could be permanently imposed upon so energetic and determined a character and he was not long in finding other opportunities. He possessed a peculiar genius in practical chemistry, became a manufacturer of chemicals and originated an improved process for the making of commercial alcohol, which was used by sixteen large companies in Michigan, Tennessee, Canada and Wisconsin. In these various companies Mr. Burrell had financial and business interests and was highly successful from a financial standpoint. His affairs called him to many parts of the country, so that he was never able to consider Elyria his permanent home. For several years prior to his death he suffered from ill health and he died at Manistique, Michigan. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and was a man of utmost integrity and known and honored in many business circles in diverse parts of the country.

Mrs. Burrell, who for a number of years has had her home at Elyria, since the death of her husband has been active as a philanthropist and social worker at Elyria, is a member of several woman's organizations. and served as one of the trustees of the Old Ladies Home at Elyria and belongs to the Universalist Church at her old home town, Mount Gilead, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Burrell had only one son, Orpheus, who died when two and a half vears of age. When she married Mr. Burrell in 1868 she was Mrs. Mahala Sharp. Her maiden name was Mahala Graves. and she was born in Morrow County, Ohio, a daughter of Wilham and Effie (Shafer) Graves, the former a native of New York and the latter of Ridgeville. Lorain County. MIs. Burrell's first husband was George S. Sharp. Mrs. Burrell is perhaps best known as the mother of two famous men in Ohio. Her twin sons by her first marriage are Hon. William G. Sharp and Hon. George W. Sharp. William Graves Sharp. who was born in Mount Gilead, Ohio, March 14, 1859, was graduated in law froin the University of Michigan in 1581, and for many years practiced at Elyria, and also became engaged in the manufacture of charcoal, pig iron and chemicals. However, he is best known for his public services. He was prosecuting attorney of Lorain County from 1885 to 1888, was a democratic presidential elector in 1892, was delegate to the National Convention of 1904, and in 1908 was elected to represent the Fourteenth Ohio District in Congress. He served during the sixty-first, sixty-second and sixty-third congresses, retiring in 1915, and was elevated by President Wilson to the important diplomatic post of ambassador from the United States to France, and he and his family now reside at Paris. William G. Sharp married in 1895 Hallie M. Clough of Elyria. Their children are Margaret, George, William G., Jr.. Effie and Baxter. His {win brother, George W.. has long been active in publ affairs in the State of Michigan. formerly represented the Thirty-first District of that state in the State Senate, and is also favorably known as an author. He marricd Nellie Tlitehcock, of Cleveland, Obio, and they are the parents of three children: Anibell, an author of considerable note; William G.: and Margueretha. The last named is a graduate of an art school in Clevejand. and is a talented artist.

WILLIAM HazLert Hamitton. A successful young business man of Lorain, Mr. Hamilton has been chiefly identified with this community in connection with the Wood Lumber Company, of which he is secretary. The present large business, which is both a mercantile and manufacturing concern, is the outgrowth of the old B. H. Wood & Company, which was started in 1892. In 1900 a reorganization occurred, 'at which time the name was changed to the Wood Lumber Company, with a capital stock of $100,000. H. O. Wood is president, D. H. Aiken is vice president, and W. H. Hamilton is secretary-treasurer. While the company deals extensively in lumber and building material, it also maintains a large plant for manufacturing purposes. The mill for the manufacture of sash, doors and other planed and milled materials is a two-story building. 54 by 106 feet. The yards occupy a total space of six acres and about forty men find regular employment in the different departments.

A resident of Lorain County only a few years, William Hazlett Hamilton was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, on a farm May 10, 1879, a son of L. C. and Rebecca (Hazlett) Hamilton. His father was a miller and grain merchant, and is now living at Barberton, Ohio. The son received his education in the country schools and in the high school at Barberton and in a business college at Warren, Ohio. For two years he was employed as a stenographer and bookkeeper and then for two years was cashier of the American Strawboard Company at Barberton. Following that for seven years he was bookkeeper and draftsman in the Jackson Lumber Company, and in that way gained a thorough knowledge of the lumber and woodworking industry in all its details. For a time he was at Akron connected with the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company, but in 1907 came to Lorain, first as clerk, later as bookkeeper, and since January 1, 1911, as secretary and treasurer of the Wood Lumber Company.

While practical business affairs have claimed his attention during most of his vears since boyhood, Mr. Hamilton is also a man of many interests. and is exceedingly popular at Lorain. He is a member and director of the board of commerce and in 1915 served as chairman of the industrial committee and is especially active in the Knights of Pythias order at Lorain. On October 21, 1903, he married Miss Elnora McFarlin of Barberton, Ohio. They have a daughter, Marian Elizabeth. born November 5, 1912.

Mr. Taylor was born in LaPorte, Carlisle Township, Lorain County, Ohio, July 3, 1872. and is a son of William G. and Emma (Haring) Tavlor. His father, a native of Tioga County, New York. removed as a young man to Lorain County, Ohio, and in August, 1862, enlisted as a private in Company H, One Hundred and Third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for service during the Civil war. After two vears and ten months of faithful and courageous service, he received his honorable discharge and returned to Lorain County, where he engaged in farming during the remainder of his life and became a leading and well known citizen of his community, serving for many vears as constable of Carlisle Township. He died at Elyria, February 20. 1910. Mrs. Taylor. who survives her husband and makes lier home with her son at Elyria, was born at Republic, Seneca County, Ohio, a daughter of Doctor Haring, one of the pioneer physicians of Lorain County. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor were the parents of two sons: A. Eugene; and George L., who died June 26, 1912, at the age of thirty-seven years.

A. Eugene Taylor was not granted exceptional advantages as a youth. He attended the district schools of LaPorte, but the greater part of his training has come in the school of experience. However, he always made the most of every opportunity, something that has been characteristic of him during his entire career. When.still a lad he was apprenticed to a machinist at Elyria, spending three years in the plant of the old Elyria Variety Works. Subsequently he was employed at his trade at the Garford Saddle Company, where he remained seven years, and then passed two years at Cleveland as an employe of the Cleveland Elevator Bucket Company... Returning to Elyria, Mr. Taylor became one of the promoters of the Elyria Engine Company, then known as the Elyria Gas Engine Company, with which he remained until 1906. In 1905, he organized the Elyria Foundry Company, of which he has been president and treasurer ever since, and to the management of which he has given his undivided attention since 1906. This concern handles light and heavy gray iron and semi-steel castings, making a specialty of machine tool castings, and under Mr. Taylor's efficient management is doing an excellent business. He is an active and working member of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce and enjoys the friendship and confidence of many of the leading business men of the city.

Mr. Taylor is a member of King Solomon Lodge No. 56, Free and Accepted Masons, and is president of the Elyria Automobile Club. With his family, he belongs to the First Baptist Church of Elyria. <A generous and liberal man, of charitable impulses, he was one of the leading contributors to the movement for the erection of the building of the Young Men's Christian Association, of which he is a member, and belongs to the Memorial Hospital Association of Elvria. In national politics Mr. Taylor is a consistent republican, and from the time of his first vote his sympathy and support have ever been given to the repubhean party. He believes, however, in a great measure of political independence.

On June 2, 1897, Mr. Taylor was married at Norwalk, Ohio, to Miss Sadie R. Miller, who was born, reared and educated there. 'To this union there have been born two sons and one daughter: Carl L.. who is attending the Elyria High School; Russell L., also a student at that school; and Lucille F.. the baby, who is only two years of age. All were born at Elyria.

Epwarp A. Doventas. After nearly fifteen years of service, marked by extreme fidelity and efficieney with one of the largest industrial concerns of Lorain County, Edward A. Douglas was promoted to one of the chief offices in the county government, county recorder, and has now filled that position with credit to himself and to the entire community for the past six years.

A native of Pennsylvania, Edward A. Douglas was born at Derry. Westmoreland County, February 1, 1870. His parents were James A. and Lydia A. (Blair) Douglas, both natives of Pennsylvania. His father served in the Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and also with the cavalry and artillery branches of the army, and after the war was with the Pennsylvania Railway Company until he met his death in an accident in 1872.

As a boy Edward A. Douglas had the responsibilities of mature life early thrust upon him. He attended the common schools, and at the age of twelve was sent to the Soldiers & Sailors Orphans Home and School at Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He came out of that institution at the age of sixteen, and had soon learned telegraphy and found his first work 'as an operator. Mr. Douglas has been a resident of Lorain

County for the past twenty years, having come to Lorain in 1895 and joined the Johnson Company, which subsequently became The National Tube Company. From one position to another he was promoted from time to time, and was chief clerk of the steel department when he resigned on July 31, 1909. Evidence of his popularity with the workingmen of the concern is found in a handsome gold watch, which Mr. _ Douglas constantly carries and cherishes, and which was given him by the null men on his retirement from the company. The company also showed its regard and appreciation for services by giving him a month's leave of absence at full pay at the close of his relations with the concern.

Mr. Douglas has been a factor in republican politics in Lorain County for a number of years. He was nominated and in November, 1908, elected county recorder, and has since been reelected' at the close of each two years. He is an active member of the chamber of commerce, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias, the Elks. the Loyal Order of Moose and the Sons of Veterans. He is past exalted ruler of the Elks and past president of the Eagles, and on December 3, 1915, was appointed deputy grand president under William L. Grayson, grand worthy president, Fraternal Order of Eagles, of the United States. On October 18, 1898, Mr. Douglas married Miss Elizabeth Grace Boyden, daughter of Henry T. Boyden of Elyria.

Rey. JOHN T. ScHAFFELD. By reason of his effective service as pastor for more than thirty years the memory of the late Father Schaffeld deserves to be lastingly cherished among his people in St. Mary's Parish at Elyria. In many ways he made that church strong and flourishing, increasing its membership more than sixfold, and upbuilding its institutions and varied philanthropies and benevolences in proportion.