Lorain City (part 59 of 77)

John T. Schaffeld, though a thorough American in spirit and spending most of his life in this country, was born in Germany, at Isselberg, October 16, 1837. When he was ten years of age his parents brought him to America and settled in Baltimore, Maryland, where he continued his education in a college conducted by the Redemptorist Fathers. In 1863 the family removed to Cleveland, where Father Schaffeld entered old St. John's College and took his divinity course in St. Mary's Seminary. His ordination occurred July 17, 1870, and his first appointment as pastor was at St. Patrick's in Hubbard. He served not only that church but nearby communities, both parishes and missions. Father Schaffeld was not only a spiritual leader but an unusually capable executive and organizer. He enlarged the church at Hubbard, built school and parochial residence, and also erected St. Joseph's Church at Vienna.

He came to St. Mary's Parish, Elyria, at the time that Father Molon became stricken with paralysis and continued in the pastorate of the parish and after the death of Father Molon Father Schaffeld succeeded him as pastor of St. Mary's Church in Elyria, on May 13, 1880. At that time the congregation numbered about 400 souls, and in the next thirty vears the membership increased to more than 2,500, and the prosperity of the church increased even more rapidly than the growth of the city. The varied institutions of St. Mary's Parish were largely a material monument to the fruitful labors of Father Schaffeld. He left the parish with a beautiful church edifice, substantial school building, modern parochial residence, and a large home for the Sisters of Notre Dame.

Members of the parish and citizens at large recall the simple dignity and happy associations connected with the celebration in July, 1910, of Father Schaffeld's fortieth anniversary in the priesthood. Many tributes were paid to the worthy priest at this jubilee and it was a fitting climax to a life of service that had continued uninterruptedly for four decades. Among his congregation he was esteemed for his zeal, his kindness, and his fatherly interest in every member of his flock. While most of his work was done within St. Mary's Parish, he also during his pastorate constructed the Chapel of the Sacred Heart at Oberlin.

Early on the morning of June 7, 1911, the tolling of the bell of St. Mary's announced the passing of this devoted priest, who had ministered to the congregation gathered within its walls for more than thirty vears. Father Schaffeld was survived by three sisters: Muzs. John Schnitzler and Mrs. T. Kasinsky of Lorain, and Sister Mary Louise. in a convent at New Orleans. He also left a brother, of San Francisco, California. and three nephews: Rev. John Schaffeld of St. Michael's Church in Cleveland, and Rev. Joseph Schaffeld and Rev. John Kasinsky. The high position Father Schaffeld had earned in his work was shown in the honors paid him at his funeral in St. Mary's. Bishop Farrelly of Cleveland, was present at the service, and many priests attended from surrounding parishes, besides a host of those whom he had so loyally aud unselfishly served in Elyria.

GeEoRGE A. MosuHeEr, superintendent of the Children's Home of Lorain County, is a native of Ashtabula County, Ohio, where he was born January 19, 1851.

His parents were William H. and Margaret E. (Thayer) Mosher. His father was born in Troy, New York. January 18, 1821, and died December 8, 1853. The mother was born August 28, 1833. and died in February, 1914. William H. Mosher saw active service in the war with Mexico and contracted disease in that war which brought his life to a close when only thirty-three years of age. He was married at Lenox, Ohio, on December 24, 1849, to Miss Thaver, and of their union were born two children, George A. and Charles H., the latter a resident of Richmond, Virginia. William H. Mosher was a harness maker by trade, and in his brief life had been an extensive traveler, having gone practically around the world. He was a member of the Congregational Church. William H. Mosher was a son of Alfred Mosher, who was born in Vermont. and settled in Ohio during the '30s, where he became a farmer and merchant, and died in Ashtabula County. George A. Mosher's maternal grandfather was Calvin Thayer, a carpenter by trade, who died in Cleveland, Ohio. George A. Mosher is a member of the Sons ot the American Revolution by virtue of the fact that his great-grandfather, Anthony Morse, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.

George A. Mosher acquired his early education in the public schools of Syracuse, New York. For forty-two vears he was a clerk and otherwise identified with the book business and spent all that time in Svracuse, New York. He returned to Ohio in 1900, locating at Oberlin in that year, but for five years was connected with the Borrows Bros. store in Cleveland.

In 1905 Mr. Mosher was made superintendent of the Lorain County Children's Home, and has filled that office for the past ten vears. No better selection could have been made for this delicate and important responsibility, since he has been all but a father in fact to the children under his charge. In the Home proper he now has forty-three young people, and has fifty children outside under his direct supervision. For ten years he has been superintendent of the Home; 500 children have been at different times under his care and superintendence.

On September 17, 1874. Mr. Mosher married Laura Coleman. Her father, Christopher C. Coleman. lived at Seneca Falls. New York. was a harness maker by trade, and also owned a plantation in Virginia. from which he was driven when the Civil war broke out. Mr. and Mrs. Mosher are the parents of eight children: Alfred R., who graduated from Oberlin College in 1898 and lives on a plantation in Texas; William E., referred to on other pages; Clifford C., who was a soldier in the Spanish-American war and is now superintendent and manager of the East Machine Co. of Lima, Ohio; Bessie B., who is private secretary in a Wholesale chair company at Chicago; Margaret Eleanor, who graduated from Oberlin College in 1906 and is now the wife of Charles A. Capron, an attorney of Upper Montclair, New Jersey; Charles A., who is now representing the Goodrich Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, at Aberdeen, South Dakota; Gladys Elizabeth, who completed a domestic science course in Rochester, New York, and now teaches at Morenci, Arizona; Marion, who is in the Conservatory of Music at Oberlin.

My. and Mrs. Mosher are members of the Second Congregational Church and in politics he is a progressive republican, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Foresters.

WILLIAM EUGENE Mosuer for the past ten vears has filled the chair of German Language and Literature at Oberlin College. Professor Mosher is an American born, and is a son of George A. Mosher, one of the best known citizens of Lorain County, where for a number of years he has been superintendent of the Children's Home.

Born in Syracuse. New York, November 26, 1877, William Eugene Mosher was graduated from the high school of that citv in 1893. He took one year of preparatory training at Oberlin and was graduated from Oberlin College in 1899. For three years he was an instructor in the academy, and followed that with two years of study abroad in the universities at Berlin and Halle. He was given the degree Ph.D at Halle in 1904. Returning to the United States. he became Associate Professor of German Language in Oberlin College, but after a year again went abroad and continued his studies in Berlin.

On his return to Oberlin he was given the chair of German Laneuage and Literature in the college and has since devoted his entire time to his professional duties. Besides the time spent abroad in study he has traveled extensively during the vacations of his college work. Mr. Mosher is author of three books. One of these is a German text book, which has been adopted and which has had an extensive sale, known as ''Lern- und Lesebuch.'' ''Wilkommen in Deutschland'' is a second year text book. He is also author of ''The Promise of the Christ Age in Recent Literature.'"'

In June, 1905, Professor Mosher married Laura M. Camp of Akron, Ohio. Their four children are: Horace Camp, aged eight; William E., Jr., aged six; Richard Thayer, aged four; and Frederick, aged two. The family reside in a beautiful home on Forest Street, one of the most attractive places in Oberlin Village. This house was built under the direct supervision of Mr. Mosher. He is a member of the First Congregational Church and in politics is independent.

CHARLES R. Summers. For at least seventeen years Charles R. Summers has been enrolled among the lawyers of Northern Ohio. and since 1904 has been well established in practice at Oberlin. He is known as an industrious and careful attorney, a man who gives all his energies to his profession, and has attained a position of commendable success. His character is further illustrated by the fact that he paid his way through school for his higher education, and completed the regular three years law course in two years.

of Roland M. aud Anna (Strawn) Summers. His paternal grandfather was Horace Summers, who was of West Pennsylvania ancestry, and he himself was a carpenter by trade and in the early days moved to Indiana. The maternal grandfather was Charles W. Strawn, a native of Ohio and a farmer. Roland M. Summers was born in Indiana in 1851 and his wife was born in Ohio in the same year. They are now living at Elyria, Ohio, which has been their home since 1897. After their marriage in Ohio they drove across the country to lowa, and the father bought land in that state and worked it as a farmer for ten or eleven years: He then moved to Norwalk, Ohio, and for a number of years was traveling salesman for the Chase Piano Company. Retiring from the road in 1897, he established a retail piano business in Elyria and has since developed a large trade all over Lorain County. He is an active republican, member of the Elyria Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and his wife belongs to the Christian Church. There were four children, and the three now living are: Myrtle, wife of William H. Wildman, who is a manufacturer of flavoring extracts and spices at Norwalk; Horace W., who is associated with his father in the music store at Elyria; and Charles R.

Charles R. Summers acquired most of his early education in the Norwalk public schools. He was a student in Oberlin College for two years and then entered the law department of Baldwin University at Cleveland. where, after making the three years course in two years, he graduated LL. B.in 1899. Mr. Summers practiced four years at Norwalk before coming to Lorain County, and then for one year was editor and manager of the Elyria Chronicle. After this brief experience in the newspaper business he came to Oberlin and has since been looking after his law practice. He has served as justice of the peace since January, 1907, and is also teacher of commercial law in the Oberlin Business College.

In 1904 Mr. Summers married Miss Nettie J. Smith, daughter of William M. Smith. Her father is a real estate and insurance man at Elyria. They are the parents of four children: Thelma May, in school; Roland M., also in school: and Stella Anna and Elsie Frances. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Mr. Summers takes much interest in fraternal matters, particularly in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He has passed all the chairs, is past district deputy in that order, and is a retired captain of the Independent Order Odd Fellows of Canton. In politics he is a republican.

Miss Excie M. JoHxnston. Not so many years ago it was considered the proper attitude to assume that women had, as a sex, not been generously endowed with what is termed, a ''business'' sense. Idealists were ready to acknowledge their many other admirable qualities, their beauty, grace and charm, their helpful sympathy and their natural virtues, but neither they nor the whole body of mankind could believe that behind all these qualities and attributes, existed the talent. and the good. hard, practical commonsense that, in more recent days, has been shown in womanly achievement. No better nor more eonvineing example may be cited than that afforded by the suecess which has been won by Miss Elcic M. Johnston, the president, owner and director of the Elyria Business College, at Elyria, Ohio. The original undertaking was one of magnitude, requiring courage, diplomacy and foresight, and with the keenest of business intelligence she has conducted the enterprise to its present prosperous condition.

Miss Johnston was born near Detroit, Michigan. That she was an unusually apt pupil in the public schools may be inferred because of her early completion of the course, being creditably graduated when only sixteen years of age. In making plans for her future, Miss Johnston considered one useful career after another, hesitating for a time between that of a trained nurse and a teacher. Finally, deciding to become an educator, she accepted, shortly afterward, a position in the county schools. She proved entirely acceptable to the school board, but ker observation soon inclined her to the belief that commercial teaching offered better opportunities for advancement, and, being frankly ambitious, in the following year she entered a commercial college and completed the business course and afterward became a teacher in the college from which she was graduated.

After experience as a commercial teacher, Miss Johnston realized that a course in business experience would be one of the most helpful assistants in the line of work to which she had committed herself, therefore she accepted an office position in which she rendered service as a stenographer for two and one-half years for one of the largest manufacturing firms in the state. During this time not only her days but her evenings were busy for she taught night classes in the Y. M. C. A. and in a business college, additionally having private pupils. After resigning the above mentioned office position, she still further advanced her own education, taking a special teacher's course in the Gem City Business College. which school has probably the largest annual attendance of any business college in the world. Upon the completion of this special course of study, Miss Johnston was offered a responsible position as private secretary to the manager of a large electrical corporation. She continued with that corporation for two years, when, through the death of the president of the company the Boston and New York offices were consolidated and Miss Johnston returned to her native city. During this business connection she had learned much concerning the methods of conducting a large business enterprise and had inevitably, because of her natural quickness of mind, added largely to her general knowledge.

Upon her return to Detroit, Miss Johnston accepted a position which gave her charge of the Actual Business Section of the Shorthand department in the largest. business college in the city, and her previous business and teaching experience made her services very valuable. From this college she subsequently went to a still more responsible position, becoming teacher, storekeeper and private secretary to the superintendent of the state industrial school. While the arduous duties and close confinement of this position somewhat impaired her health and caused her subsequently to resign, she has always felt that the experience was a very valuable one because of the opportunity it gave her of studying human nature, as every nationality and type came under her personal observation. Later she was identified with a company manufacturing special machinery for all purposes, and here, again, her time was not lost, for, possessing a natural interest in the wonderful devices that go under the name of machinery, she studied machines at first hand. In later years many of her graduate students have expressed their gratitude on account of the unusual information she has been competent to give on many other than that pertaining to business methods and acquirements.

For many years prior to 1901, when Miss Johnston 'came to Elyria, she had cherished the hope of eventually owning her own school. This ambition she satisfied when she became the owner of the Elyria Business College, which was incorporated in 1900 and of which Miss Johnston is president. This institution stands for all that is most helpful and progressive in this line of endeavor. While she has been marvelously successful, she has met with some serious discouragements, one of these being a confiagration in which the Elyria Block was burned, in which the entire equipment belonging to the college was destroved. Informing and interesting is the following quotation from a letter to Miss Johnston, from Albert R. Green, secretary of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce about this time.

''It is my pleasure, on behalf of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce, to commend your college and its management for their energy as manifested by the manner in which your college was rehabilitated after the total loss you sustained by the recent destruction of the Elyria Block by fire. To have secured new quarters and refitted them with even temporary facilities in such a short time (one day) and to have restored the classes to their usual studies under such trying circumstances, speaks volumes for the efficiency of your college and can not help but energize the working spirit of your recruits into the ranks of business.' <As indicated, Miss Johnston found a new location before the fire was extinguished, picnic tables, pine boards and boxes, with new typewriters making up the equipment. These rooms being inadequate were occupied by The Elyria Business College but two months when the classes moved to the present building which had been purchased. remodeled and enlarged immediately after the fire. The new college building is situated on Second Street, Elyria, and is unique in that it is the only private school in Ohio housed in a building belonging to the school owner. unoccupied by other tenants and the only business college and building in the United States owned and managed by a woman. Miss Johnston is well known among private school owners as the one woman in the profession who owns and manages her own building and also a fully accredited business school, this college being a member of the National Accredited Schools Association.

On many occasions Miss Johnston has been signally honored. <As a member of the National Commercial Teachers Federation, admiration, confidence and esteem was shown her by election to office. serving three successive years as a member of the executive cominittee: as vice president of the School Managers' Section, and at the convention of the federation held at the Sherman Hotel, in Chicago, in December, 1914. she was not only reelected a member of the executive committee from the Managers' Section, but was elected also second vice president of the entire association, and during the convention held in Chicago during Christmas week, 1915, was elected first vice president. As the federation is composed of the best schools in the United States and as more than 700 members were present, this distinction was creditable to Elyria and a recognition of the standards maintained by Miss Johnston in her college. An exceedingly interesting feature of the above convention was the fine address made by Miss Johnston, who took for her subject. **The Woman in Business.'' The 1914 convention was reported as being the most successful in the history of the association in that recognition was secured from the Edueational Bureau at Washington and a committee appointed to secure an appropriation for the establishment of a Bureau of Commercial Education.

It would be unjust to close this too brief sketch of this able woman's success in business, without giving a glimpse of the womanly side of her character in which she is seen to possess all the admirable attributes of her sex. In each student who comes under her care, she sees a potential future and, with perceptions quickened by experience. she is able to judge of capacity, earnestness and probable success along one or another line of study. Her helpfulness, her interest and sympathy have been appreciated and by the vearly increasing body of successful graduates of her school, she is universally held in high esteem. While she has become a factor to be counted on in the business world. she is still

THE Etyri Business CoLLEGE. With the motto, ''Trains for Success,'' this institution offers encouragement at the outset very welcome to the ordinary student as he enrolls his name on a roster which shows that this claim is not an idle one but has meant prosperity and contentment to many before him. The first school in Northern Ohio to teach stenotypy (machine shorthand), it is equally progressive in other departments and thorough in every one.

The Elyria Business College is located at Elyria, Ohio, a city with beautiful and healthful surroundings and with an intelligent and educated citizenship that insures peace and order and civie and cultural advantages. It has large industrial plants, well managed business houses in which the graduates readily secure employment, and many fine residences and hospitable homes, a public library and an advanced public school system, churches of all denominations and a wholesome social life, so that students who come from all parts of the United States, to this Ohio city to enter the Elyria Business College find not only a complete school with highly trained experienced business men and women as teachers, but a most desirable place of residence.

This college. which is a commodious two-story pressed brick buildirg, beautifully finished and decorated, is situated on Second Street. It is equipped with everything that modern art has provided or educational science has evolved for the instruction and convenience of students in every one of its many departments, including penmanship, bookkeeping, stenotypy, shorthand and typewriting, each department covering every detail, manner and method accepted by the business world.

The Elvria Business College was established in 1896 and was incorporated in 1900, In 1901 it was purchased by its present able president, Miss Eleie M. Johnston, whose previous business training and experience admirably qualified her for the responsible duties she assumed. She entered upon these with enthusiasm and no one questions her unusual capacity. For fifteen years she has directed the affairs of the college with wisdom and efficiency and has the satisfaction of knowing that she has established its standing on a stable foundation. Not only may the graduates of this institution be found occupying important positions at Elyria, but all over the United States are efficient, thoroughly equipped young men and women who owe their prosperity to the training received in this college and sound the praises of their alma mater together with their expressions of sincere regard for Miss Johnston, and her corps of efficient teachers, whose help and encouragement they feel to have been of inestimable value.

The aim of this college as announced in its handsomely bound fifteenth annual catalog is: to prepare men and women for the work which the business man wants done; to train all students to become efficient in the shortest possible time consistent with good work; by environment to create a desire for moral living and high ideals in business; and to assist all students. at all times. old graduates as well as beginners, in securing better positions and better opportunities for advancement. | Once a student, personal interest is never discontinued. There is little show cr assumption about this school for it does precisely what it offers to do, each student standing in the same relation to president and teacher and each one required to live up to the established standard. Advice is given students when they desire it as to what branch of study would enable them to excel, but there is no compulsion, every pupil being permitted to make his own choice and individual instruction being given him. Social features are offered the students for their entertainment, and the college provides a reading room with musical instruments, a well selected library, current magazines and daily and weekly papers.

The Elyria Business College is the only school in this part of Ohio employing a teacher whose entire time is devoted to teaching touch typewriting and correct office forms. The college supplies all the leading makes of machines, including the Wahl Adding Machine, filing devices and card systems, in the use of which the student is carefully instructed, and that excellent work is done by the graduates is shown by the important positions they are holding in the business world. Special attention is given to training teachers for business colleges and the commercial department of high schools. The diploma from this school has been accepted, without further examination, by schools in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Always alert to any advance in business methods, the college showed its progressive spirit by being the first school in Northern Ohio to install the stenotype, the fastest writing machine in the world as a part of the equipment in the shorthand department. A number of voung students who had mastered its mechanism, at a shorthand contest held in Cleveland on October 22, 1914, astonished all who attended by their speed records. The Elyria Business College is justly proud of the achievements of several of these students, Wiliam Henke, whose remarkable record was a net speed of 138 words a minute, carrying away state honors, and Edward Feron, who won second place with a net speed of 121 words a minute.

The Graham System of Shorthand is also taught in the shorthand department, and the fact that every graduate from this department is employed should convince all who are interested that it pays to attend a school where the teachers have had actual office experience. This department is under the direct supervision of Miss Johnston. who by writing and teaching shorthand, has become thoroughly familiar with the demands of business men who want first-class stenographers, This department is also equipped with every modern device, including a complete multigraph outfit, upon which instructions are given and most of the school literature is printed. This part of the work includes actual office practice, where outside work is taken and prepared by the students who are about ready for positions. This not only gives the student experience in doing real work before he leaves school, but it enables many of the students to earn considerable sums with which to pay their expenses while in school.

In the bookkeeping department, is taught the famous Rowe Bookkeeping and Accountancy, which system is approved by leading accountants through the United States, and includes a course in banking, according to the lines preseribed by the American National Bankers Association. The Burroughs Adding Machine and other office devices used in the large business offices are found in this department and the student is given thorough instruction not only in bookkeeping, but in arithmetic, penmanship, commercial law, business English, banking, and all forms of actual office practice.

The Accredited Schools Association, of which the Elyria Business College is a member, is a national body of high standing among edueators. President Johnston was elected second vice president of the National Commercial Teachers Federation in 1914 and first vice president at the annual convention held in Chicago in 1915, and is one of the hest known commercial educators in the country. The high standard she has ever maintained and the wisdom and good judgment with which she has managed her business have brought her universal respect and have proved valuable assets for her enterprise. She occupies a somewhat unique position in that she owns the only private school in Ohio housed in the owner's building unoccupied by other tenants and additionally is a only woman in the United States who owns and manages a business college. _

It is the proud boast of the faculty of the Elyria Business College that every graduate is employed, and one of its slogans is, '* A position the day you complete the course.''

THoMAS HENRY ARTRESS. Among the men who have been most closely identified with the business life of the City of Lorain during the last thirty or forty years a place of special prominence belongs to Thomas H. Artress, who now has many active relations with business affairs and has held a number of civic responsibilities. The success of his career is accentuated by the fact that as a boy he endured many privations, and depended upon hard work and honest efficiency to win him a place in the world.

A native of England, he was born in Gloucestershire, April 21, 1859, a son of William and Mary Artress. In 1868, when he was nine years of age, the family emigrated to the United States and located on a farin in Lorain County, where the parents spent the rest of their days.

It was a limited education that was assigned to Thomas Henry Artress as a preparation for life. When only thirteen years of age he was regularly employed at farm labor, and four years later began an apprenticeship at the blacksmith's trade. Having completed this apprenticeship at the age of twenty, he set up a shop in the little town of Grafton, and from there in 1880 moved to Lorain, where he was a workman in the shops of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and also in the Brass Works. Thus by means of a mechanical trade Mr. Artress laid the foundation for his present substantial means and influence.

In 1893 he engaged in the hardware business at Lorain, and made that the object of his principal endeavors for ten years. At the same time his investments had been more widely directed. In 1912 he built at 2147 Broadway a large concrete block garage and automobile sales barn, 30 by 75 feet in dimensions. He is the owner of this garage, and acts as agent for the Paige car. He is also a director of the Wood Lumber Company and a director of the Central Bank of Lorain. He has a number of other interests in real estate and business affairs.

In a public way he has been closely identified with the life of Lorain for the past quarter of a century. For three years he was on the board of trustees for public works in Lorain and in 1903 was appointed trustee of Black River Township and held that office for a number of years by election. Fraternally he is identified with the Masonie order in the lodge and council and Royal Arch Chapter, and is also a Knight of Pythias. He is a member of the Lorain Board of Commerce and also has membership in the Elks Club. He married Miss Ida Ackley, who was born at Grafton, Lorain County, daughter of Henry and Mary Ackley.

Rev. CuHauncey N. Ponp. Among the citizens of Oberlin whose activities have lent additional dignity to that college town and whose careers may well be represented in this publication is Rev. Mr. Pond, a retired minister, member of a prominent family and a man whose life has done much to enrich the influence of the church and many charitable organizations.

of Connecticut, where he was married and not long afterward settled in Medina County, Ohio, The maternal grandfather, Samuel L. Castle, was a music teacher and composer and was a prominent factor in church singing circles in the early days. Henry N. Pond was born in Medina, Ohio, in 1819, and died in 1846, at the age of twenty-eight. He was a prosperous farmer, having bought the interests of the other heirs in the old farm, and his death was the result of an accident from a falling tree. He was a member of the Congregational Church, and a whig in polities. His wife, Miss Castle, was born near Cazenovia, New York, in 1821, and died in January, 1906. They were married in Medina County in 1840. Rey. May. Pond was the oldest of their three children. His brother, Chester Pond. served with the rank of colonel in the Union army during the Civil war, but for the most part was employed as a Government telegrapher. After the war he located in the South, started a large plantation, a school and other activities which made up the Town of Moorhead, Mississippi. For a number of years he served as a trustee of Oberlin College, and gave about twenty thousand dollars worth of property to that institution. His death occurred in 1912. He was also distinguished as the inventor of the self-winding electric clock. After the death of her first husband Mrs. Mary Pond married Caleb A. Bowen. and the one son of that marriage. William A. Bowen. lived at Honolulu for a number of vears and was a generous giver to the college and other public institutions. Mrs. Bowen married for her third husband Uriah Thompson. who also served as a trustee of Oberlin College nearly forty years.

Chauncey N. Pond spent his early life in Medina. and was graduated from Oberlin College in 1864. He graduated from the Theological Seminary in 1868, He did his first work as a preacher in 1864, was licensed to preach in April, 1865, and was regularly ordained in October, 1866. His first work as a minister was done in the country districts in Medina County. in the same chureh which he had joined when twelve vears of age. Not long ago he celebrated his sixtieth anniversary as a communicant of the church. For upwards of_a half a century Rev. Mr. Pond kept up the active work of the ministry and filled many pulpits until two vears ago. For several years now he has emploved his time chiefly in organizing Sunday schools. He is also secretary for the State of Ohio of the extension work carried on by the organized charities. and has for fifteen vears been identified with this work. It is said that no one in Ohio has done more for organized charity and Christian service than Rev. Mr. Pond.

On August 24. 1864. he married ITarriet Permelia Perkins. She was horn August 3. 1837, and they have lived together in the quiet harmony of spirit and work for more than half a century. To their union were hern three children. Jennie Evelyn, who died in 1896. married E. R. Atwater. by whom she had four children. Mr, Atwater married a second wife. and the entire family were murdered during the Boxer rebellion in China in 1900, Mr, Atwater having been a Chinese missionary. The son Henry T. died when three years of age. Perey M. has for a number of vears heen a very suceessful business man in the Hawaiian Islands and for a number of vears furnished high grade milk to the City of Honolulu, his dairy herd and outfit but recently sold for ¥32.500, TIe has also developed some large Jand interests in those islands.

Rev. Mr. Pond. while by the very nature of his calling he has never acquired or aspired to great wealth, has been sufficiently prospered. He started life with only '380 as capital. and in spite of his own generosity in giving to church and charity. has managed to acquire a competence out of his long service for the church and other employment. He owns a beautiful home in Oberlin avd has two others residential properties.

In politics he is a republican, and for many vears has been quite active in affairs and has written many articles during campaigns. For a number cf years he served in the office of school examiner in Medina County.

- . Georce I. Cerise, The record of a sterling citizen, a soldier, business man, pubhe administrator, and one who played all the varied parts in his life worthily and faithfully, came to a close in the death of George E. Crisp at Amherst, Lorain County, Ohio, July 27, 1912. He had been a resident of Lorain County nearly all of the sixty-eight years of his life. Probably the work for which he most deserved the gratitude of his fellow vitizens was his long service in connection with the Elyria Water Works. Upon him devolved the responsibility of superintending the construction of that magnificent plant by which the city is now supplied with pure water from Lake Erie. Perhaps the characteristic by which he was best known among his fellow men was his quiet efficiency, and Wherever the path of duty led him, in war or in peace, in business or in public office, at home or in those varied relations which exist between man and man. he was guided by a firm sense of responsibility and proved himself faithful in all those manifold small duties which make up the sum of a life's achievement.

A native of England, he was born in the City of Northampton, May 25, 1544, being one of seven children. His brother William died in Elvria only a short time before the death of George E. Crisp, and the latter was survived by his sister. Mrs. William Henson of Elyria, and his brether. J. A. Crisp of Jefferson. A short time after his birth, his parents considering well their own circumstances and the needs of their rising family. set out from England to get the better opportunities of America. They engaged passage on a vessel, but their mother, on coming to the docks, refused to embark. considering that the ship was unseaworthy. and her judgment was well founded since the boat was never heard of after it left England. The following day the little family went on board another vessel, which was buffeted by adverse winds so that the voyage required nearly twice the usual time for making such a trip. They finally landed at New York three months after leaving England. From New York City they came to Lorain County, setthng in Avon Township, where the father engaged in farming. Six years later he dicd of typhoid fever, leaving his widow to face the world alone with her young children. She succeeded in keeping her family together and reared them to lives of usefulness and high ideals.

From these circumstances it can be understood that the early life of George E. Crisp was one of considerable hardship. He worked as soon as his young strength permitted and gained his education by somewhat irregular attendance at the country schools. At the age of seventeen he moved to Elyria and became an apprentice in the firm of John Topliff. and after completing his term was given credentials as an efficient blacksmith. He subsequently had to leave that line of work since it affected his eyesight.

During the Civil war Mr. Crisp enlisted May 2, 1864, in Company K of the One Hhindred and Thirty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and continued in service with his regiment until mustered out with the rank of corporal at Camp Chase, Columbus, September 1, 1864. He was with his regiment in the engagements at Bolivar, Marye Heights, Harpers Ferry aud under General Sigel against General Early on July 4-7, 1864; was one of those who charged the enemy at John Brown's Schoolhouse ; was in the skirmishes at Opequan Creek Bridge, at Harpers Ferry and

Railroad. While on the latter duty a portion of his regiment was surrounded at North Mountain and 250 men were captured, half of whom subsequently died in Confederate prisons. Mr. Crisp was with his company every day during the term of service, which, though brief, was characterized by that fidelity which was a mark of his every undertaking in public life.

In May, 1868, at Montezuma, Iowa, Mr. Crisp married Miss Mary L. Wyman and three months later they returned to Elyria. and thereafter that city was continuously his home until his death. From this union four children were born: Albert B., Harry E.. Herbert G., and Ernest /J.

After his marriage and permanent settlement at Elyria, Mr. Crisp engaged in the wholesale notion business. He dealt with merchants in the territory south and east of Cleveland and his route even extended into Western Pennsylvania. He called on his trade, carrying his stock with him in a large wagon, known as a ''Peddling Wagon.'' He kept up the stock in the wagon by having goods shipped to him, in advance, along the route. He was then known as a ''Yankee Notion Peddler'' but soon this method became too slow, the wagon was discarded, and selling was done entirely by samples carried in a case. Thus Mr. Crisp was one of the pioneer traveling salesmen of this section. This business gave him a wide acquaintance and then as always he relied upon those solid, old time-tried commercial rules which have ever heen the foundation of true success, and thus he developed an important jobbing business ior himself, and continued traveling in its interest until 1899.

In the latter year Mr. Crisp succeeded Mr. D. M. Clark as superintendent of the Elyria Gas & Water Company, the plant being then owned by the Berry Brothers of Detroit. For fourteen -vears he filled that position, and during the last four vears was in the employ of the city.

An indication of his thorough public spirit is found in the fact that, while in the employ of private interests, he was one of the strong advocates of the city-owned plant, and was always a firm heliever in municipally owned public utilities: During the construction of the lake water system, he was superintendent and gave constant and careful supervision to the work which has made Elyria's waterworks one of the best in the country. Those who are most familiar with his work in that position realize that every user and patron of the local water system is a debtor to the man who exercised such vigilance during the constructive period of that important utility. On retiring from the office of superintendent of the waterworks in 1904, Mr. Crisp gave his time to the interests of the Crisp Paper Company, the jobbing business developed by him prior to 1889 and was its business representative until his death.

The late Mr. Crisp was held in high regard for his excellent judgment and the studious care which he gave to every duty, and these qualities, combined with his absolute integrity, enabled him to render important service to his community. He served four years as a member of the city council and two years on the board of public service, and was also for sixteen years a member of the board of education, being chairman of its building committee. Through his efforts the extensive grounds of the Fifteenth Street and Jefferson Street buildings were purchased. Aside from his business and public duties, Mr. Crisp was devoted to his church and home. He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church at Elyria in 1574, and from 1882 until his death, gave faithful service as one of its trustees. He was also a member of Richard Allen Post, G. A. R., which had charge of a part of the funeral services following his death. Mr. Crisp was survived by his wife and two sons, Albert B., and Ernest J. Crisp, his sons Herbert G. and Harry E. Crisp, having died in 1910.

Ernest J. Crisp, C. E. Until Mr. Crisp took the active management and presidency of the Peerless Laundry and Dry Cleaning Company at Elyria, he was a recognized authority as a civil engineer in the construction of waterworks plants, sewerage systems and sewage disposal plants in many localities of Ohio and adjoining states. His first - important work in the profession was as engineer in charge during the construction of the splendid system by which the City of Elyria draws its water supply from Lake Erie.

Born at Elyria, Ohio, December 18, 1877, his home has been in that city ever since, except from 1904 to 1910, during which time he made his home in Canton, Ohio. His father was the late George E. Crisp, whose career aS a progressive citizen and business man of Elyria has been told on other pages. His mother is Mary (Wyman) Crisp, daughter of John Wyman and still occupying the old home on West Avenue.

The early experiences of Ernest J. Crisp were chiefly found in home and school. After graduating from the Elyria High School in June, 1897, he spent a year in Oberlin College and then four years in Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, where he specialized in civil engineering. He was graduated Bachelor of Sciences in June, 1902. In May, 1910, having presented to Case School a thesis entitled '' A Sewage Disposal Plant for Jefferson, Ohic,'' he was awarded the degree Civil Engineer.

About the time of his graduation in 1902 he became assistant engineer to L. E. Chapin, C. E., of Canton, and it was as Mr. Chapin's representative that he served from 1902 to 1904 as engineer in charge of the construction of the Elyria Waterworks pumping station on Lake Erie and the pipe line connecting the station with the distribution mains of the city. Among public improvements the citizens of Elyria probably take more pride and satisfaction in this than any other.

During the next six years he was almost constantly employed in connection with waterworks surveys and construction in different parts of the country. [le assisted in making a report on the valuation of Tiffin Waterworks in 1904, and constructed the Vermillion Waterworks in the sane year; he had charge of construction of waterworks at Barnesville, Ohio, in 1904-05; was in charge of construction of Beach City, Ohio, Waterworks and of filtration plant at Benwood, West Virginia, in 1906; for the General Water Company he built at Republic and Aaronsburg, Pennsylvania, the high pressure pumping station, pipe line and reservoir; constructed the waterworks at Jefferson, Ohio, in 1908, and at Huron, Ohio, in 1909. During 1909 and up to April, 1910, he made the preliminary surveys for the Commercial Water Company reservoir at Youngstown, Ohio; and from April to August, 1910, was Lorain County bridge engineer.

After the death of his brother, Harry E. Crisp, in August, 1910, he assumed the duties of manager of The Peerless Laundry and Dry Cleaning Company, then located at 117-119 West Avenue in Elyria. During the past five years he has greatly expanded the business which is the leading one of its kind in Lorain County, his experience and skill as an engineer have been instrumental in giving the company a model plant for its work. He designed and had charge of the construction of the building now occupied by the company at 336 Second Street, and also did all the engineering and designing for the Peerless Plant at the same location. Besides the active management of the business, Mr. Crisp is also director and president of The Peerless Laundry & Dry Cleaning Company, is a director of The Elyria Savings and Banking Company, and a director of the Retail Merchants Association. He was a director of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce in 1913, was a director and member of The American Society of Civil Engineers from 1904 to 1912.

In 1904 he was raised to Master Mason in King Solomon Lodge No. 56, Free and Accepted Masons, and in 1914 became affiliated with Marshall Chapter No. 47, Royal Arch Masons. He also belongs to the Ohio Rho Chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon, is a member of H. P. Chapman Camp No. 6, Sons of Veterans, and a meinber of the official board of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Elyria. At Barnesville, Ohio, June 12. 1907, Mr. Crisp married Miss Laura M. Dobbins. daughter of Charles P. and Amanda (Blakemore) Dobbins.

D. W. Davies. The record of vears well lived. with a creditable performance of all those duties which come to a man of high principles and integrity of character, belongs to Mr. D. W. Davies of Wellington. My, Davies has earned his success by application to varied activities, At one time he operated a sawmill, has been in the lumber business and mercantile affairs but his chief success is founded on farming, and he now resides on a splendidly equipped dairy farm near the Village of Wellington.

This birth occurred in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, March 50, 1545. and he is a son of David and Marilla L. (Smith) Davies. ILis father was born in Pana, Wales. in 1807, came to America from that country in 1535, and landed at Cleveland with 25 cents in his pocket. He had the faculty of a Welshman for hard and thorough work. and he was not long in getting started in the New World. Ife worked at different lines until 1850, when he moved to Pittsfield Township in Lorain County. and lived on his farin there until his death in 1864. Tle was married at North Amherst. Olio, to Marilla L. Smith, who was born at Sehuvlkill. New York, in 1823. and survived him mapy vears, passing away in January. 1901.) There were three children. James F.. one of the sons, died during the Civil war. Those living are D. W. Davies and John E.. the latter a prospering farmer in South Alberta, Canada. David Davies was a member of the Episcopal Chureh and in politics a republican. and was honored with several town offices.

D. W. Davies grew up in the country districts of Northern Ohio. attended country school in Pittsfield. and after graduating from Oberlin Business College teok up serious pursuits as a farmer. He has been owner of a farm since he was fourteen vears of age. For fifteen vears he was in the lumber business and spent three vears in Indiana where he managed a sawimill and hoop factory. In 1890 Mr. Davies moved to. Wellington and bought his present place near that village in 1901.) The farm had heen allowed to deteriorate through bad management. but he has restored its fertility and has placed many improvements which now make it a model place of cighty-five acres, aud he and his family now enjoy the comforts of a beautiful home. Mr. Davies makes a specialty of dairying, and he also does considerable contracting and building. For fifteen vears he operated quite extensively in breeding and handling thoroughbred cattle, the Hereford. and a large part of lis stock was shipped to Chicago markets.

In 1870 he married Miss Phoebe A. West. a meiber of an old family of Lorain County. To their marriage were born five children, and those living ave: Charles H.. who is associated in business with his father: James Monroe. who is doing well as a fruit farmer in Southern Celorado: and Dell AMI., who finished the high school and the Oberlin Business College. was a teacher for several vears, and is now manager of the retail credit department for George H. Bowman Company. The two deceased children are Frank W. and Cora M. The mother of these elildren passed away. April 2. 1910, about forty vears after her marriage. She was an active member of the Congregational Church. On August

Mr. Davies is affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees. In polities he is a republican and in past years has acquitted himself creditably in the performance of various public positions. He was town clerk of Pittstield Township five years, and served as justice of the peace there. In 1890 he was real estate appraiser of Pittsfield Township. For two years he was on the Wellington Council, and in 1900 was made city appraiser of Wellington and also of Wellington Township. In 1910 he was elected real estate appraiser for the Village of Wellington.

Dennis W. Sewarp. When Dennis W. Seward was elevated from his position as a city mail carrier to postmaster at Elyria, the incident Was so nearly unprecedented that it attracted great attention among postal circles all over the country. While the organization of the postal departinent does not permit of the highest opportunities in the service as a profession, it is true that no other department of government work offers the same possibilities of a career with regular promotion for merit and efficiency. Mr. Seward began when a boy as a special delivery man, and has earned his advancement hy the qualities of thoroughness, accuracy and reliability. He is one of the very few men who have been taken out of the ranks of delivery men and made heads of postoffices.

Dennis W. Seward was born in Elyria. Lorain County, Ohio, August 16, 1872. a son of Thomas and Etta (Colgan) Seward. Both parents were natives of Ireland, but grew up in that country with no knowledge of each other. The father came to the United States when about twenty years of age and the mother when about sixteen. Both located in Cleve- Jand, Ohio, where destiny brought them together and where their affection was ripened and matured in the bonds of wedlock. About 1851, a year or so after their marriage, they came to Elyria, when that was a small town. Thomas Seward was a railway workman, and was employed in laving the tracks through Elyria for the-Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Road. He was identified with the service of that company for more than half a century and was esteemed for his hard working qualities, his faithfulness, and his value as a member of the community. Ile only retired from railroad work after much persuasion from his sons, who were all established in business and were eager for him to spend his last days in comfort and leisure. Thomas Seward died at Elvria. March 25. 1910. at the age of eighty-two, and his wife is still living at the age of seventy -eight. They became the parents of eleven children, five sons and six daughters, and this circle remained unbroken until the death of Frank E., the fourth in the family, on November 17, 1914. In order of age the children are: Catherine, who married J. M. MeVey, was born in Cleveland, while all the other children were born in Lorain County. The McVey children are Florence, Fannie, John and Esther. Mary married Robert Gamble of Elyria, and their four children are Thomas, Madeline. William and Walter. Thomas, Jr., of Elyria, married Anna Donahue, and they have one child living, Albert. Frank E., deceased, snarried Mary McDermott, of Brownhelm, Ohio, and left four children, Thomas, Mildred, Vivian and Helen. Anna is at home: William H. married Agnes Myers. of Monroeville, Ohio, and they have one child, Stanley; Etta is also at home; James B., cashier of the Savings Deposit Bank & Trust Company of Elyria, married Mollie Farrell, of Elyria, Ohio. and their four children are Mary, Frank, Edward and Catherine: Dennis W.: Helen married Robert B. Lersch, a prominent merchant of Elvria, and they have two children, Dorothy

Dennis W. Seward after getting his education at Elyria was employed in carrying special delivery letters for the Elyria postoffice. This was when he was sixteen years of age, and he was later engaged in transferring the mail to the trains. For the last twenty-two years of his subordinate service in the postoffice he was a city letter carrier, delivering mail through the business district of Elyria. On April 1, 1915, his appointment as postmaster of Elyria by President Woodrow Wilson was confirmed by the Senate, and seldom does an appointive political honor come more justly to one who has already been long identified with and thoroughly familiar with the details of the service.

Mr. Seward is a democrat. He has taken a prominent part in the Knights of Columbus, has been through all the chairs of Elyria Lodge No. 774 of that order, and for three years was district deputy with jurisdiction over the counties of Lorain, Huron, Erie and Cuyahoga. He is also affiliated with Elyria Lodge No. 465 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is a member of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce. His church is St. Mary's Catholic, where he was married November 7, 1899, to Miss Helen Shafer, daughter of Mrs. Pauline Shafer of Elvria. Mrs. Seward was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and comes of a German family. She was educated in the Elyria parochial and high schools. To their marriage have been boru four children, two sons and two daughters: Robert Arthur, Theodore Edward, Winifred Pauline and Margaret Gertrude. Mr. Seward has all his life been a busy man and his forms of recreation have been largely in the direction of outdoor sports, both tennis and baseball being among his favorite diversions.

JOHN JOHNSON PoLLock. Among the greatest benefactors of mankind are those public officials who realize in full their duty to the people and do it faithfully and unflinchingly. To this class belongs John J. Pollock, a former mayor of the City of Lorain, who, after assuming the chair as presiding officer of the city government, did some most useful work greatly benefitting the community. Mr. Pollock was born in Stark County, Ohio, June 14, 1868, a son of John and Catherine (Maine) Pollock. The father. for some time a coal miner and merchant at North Lawrence, Ohio, is now living retired at Canton, this state.

John J. Pollock was educated in the public schools and in the high school at Canal Fulton, Ohio, then under the charge of Prof. I. M. Taggart, later taking the preparatory course at Mount Union College. He began industrial life as traveling salesman for a wholesale house. after which he entered the railroad service and was thus oceupied until 1899, during this time residing at Alliance, Ohio. On December 3, 1890. Mr. Pollock married Rachel 'Fisher, of North Lawrence, Ohio, and for the next three vears he and his brother-in-law. John Fisher, were engaged in Operating coal mines in Ohio. In 1899 he came to Lorain and until 1908 was in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. In June of the latter vear he went to work as yard master for the National Tube Company, remaining thus engaged until November, 1913, when he was elected mayor of Lorain, taking office in the following January. He had previously served an apprenticeship to polities, having heen councilman for two vears from the Third (now the Fourth) Ward, and his public and private record were such as to inspire confidence in his fellow citizens and create for him a strong following. After assuming office Mayor Pollock gave the people a progressive administration and effected some important reforms. The control of the public highway on Twenty- eighth Street has been taken from the street railway company and at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks a subway has been built costing $150,000. Also the Sixth Ward has been connected with the city by continuous pavements and a street railway, and the five former grade crossings. which were a great source of danger and cause of accidents, eliminated. It was also the policy of the administration to create parks ~ and breathing places for children and other inhabitants, and in those existing various improvements were made. The streets were not forgotten, but were kept in good condition and improved whenever feasible ; and during the business depression of 1914 and 1915 the poor were aided by an appropriation of $5,000 for charitable purposes. These, and many other things. marked Mayor Pollock's administration - a record that more than justified the choice of the people in elevating him to the chief place in the city government. Mr. Pollock is affiliated with a number of social organizations. including that of Railway Conductors; the Knights of Pythias. in which he is past chancellor and representative of the grand lodge ; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; the Fraternal Order of Eagles, of which he is worthy president and was chosen delegate to the national conclave to be held at Spokane, Washington, in 1915, but did not attend, and the Loyal Order of Moose. He and his wife have had three children, one of whom, Bessie, died at the age of three and a half years. The two survivors are Adelbert McKinley and Jennie.

Catvt~ Witcox. In the pioneer history of Lorain County, a name that stands forth prominently is that of Calvin Wilcox, who came here in 1825, was for a long period of years engaged in agricultural pursuits, had charge of the railroad station of LaGrange, a position in which he was subsequently succeeded by his sons, and was probably the first postmaster at that place. His was the first frame house erected in the township. and his marriage was the first to be performed here. Throughout his life he was known as a solid, substantial citizen, who encouraged progress and contributed materially to the public welfare.

Calvin Wileox was born at Charleston, New York, October 4, 1796, a son of Gen. Silvanus and Sarah (Johnson) Wilcox, - The family is of English extraction and of Welsh origin. The date of its first emigration to America was 1636, when William and Margaret Wilcox and son came on the ship Pianter and settled first at Windsor and later at Stratford. Connecticut. Seventen hundred and eight marked the birth of Ephraim Wilcox, a descendant of the above, who resided at Simsbury, Connecticut, and died in 1773. Silvanus Wilcox joined the Revolutionary Army in 1776 and went to New Haven under General Wood in the same vear. Enlisting for three months at Ninscaunee, in 1777 he went to Albany and joined the Continental Army for six months, serving under General Washington, and subsequently was present at the hanging of Major Andre below West Point on the Hudson River. He served under Colonel Willett in Tryon County and was at Canada Creek when 3utler was killed, and, having come through the war safely, in 1831 was granted a pension of $55 per year, which he received until his death. Two tumbstones mark the resting-place of Silvanus Wilcox and his wife, on the west hank of the Schoharie Creek, on the old homestead in Montgomery County, New York, each bearing an urn and willow. The inscriptions follow : ''In memory of Sarah, consort of Gen. Silvanus Wilcox and daughter of the late Robert Johnson of West Stockbridge, who departed this life July 1, 1830, aged sixty-five years, three months and twenty-four days.'' This would make her birthday March 6, 1765. "Gen. Silvanus Wilcox, died July 10, 1846, aged eighty-four years, one month and fourteen days.'' From the foregoing his birthday must have been May 26, 1762.

In 1825 Calvin Wilcox, then a young man twenty-nine years of age, left his home at Charleston, Montgomery County, New York, and struck out across the almost unbroken forests for the West. walking the entire distance to the new country of the Western Reserve, his travels coming to an end at LaGrange, Lorain County, Ohio. There he took up a large tract of land and began the life of the hardy pioneer. There were but few people in the southern part of the county at that time and neighbors were far apart, but he had not been long here when he fell a victim to the black eves and bewitching smiles of a charming young frontier maiden, Harriet Hubbard, and they were married March 8, 1827, this being the first marriage ceremony solemnized in LaGrange Township. They at once took up their abode in the typical backwoods log cabin, but soon became ambitious for a more pretentious and cvomfortable home, and with much labor drew logs to a water-power sawmill with oxen, this being located on the Black River. near the present site of Grafton Village. With the lumber thus made was erected the old Wilcox homestead, the first frame house in LaGrange Township. which stood until about the year 1910 in the Village of LaGrange. and a cut of which will be found in this work. While Calvin Wilcox carried on farming as his chief vocation, he also engaged in other pursuits. being probably the first postmaster of LaGrange, and, like others of the earlyday type, was accustomed to wear a shawl] and to carry the letters around in lus high hat and collect the postage and perform numerous other duties. His son, Hubbard A., who has separate mention in this work, carried the mail on horseback when a boy between LaGrange and Wooster. Calvin Wilcox was station agent of the old Bee Line. now the Big Four Railroad, from the day the station was opened at LaGrange. and was succeeded in that position by his son. George. and later by another son, Hubbard A. Calvin Wilcox died January 30, 1871. respected and esteemed by the entire community. He had lved a long and useful life and had taken an active and helpful part in the activities which formed the foundation for the present-day structure of prosperity. Mrs. Wilcox, who was born at Champlain, New York, August 11. 1802. died at LaGrange, August 31, 1865. They were the parents of ten children, of whom three survive: William, of LaGrange; Mrs. Addie Gott. of California; and Mrs. Phoebe Taylor. of Indiana. Those dead.are: Charles A.; George; Edward F.: Hubbard A.: Sylvanus; Sarah A.. who was the wife of the late I. A. Paddock; and Maria L., who was the wif» of the late William L. Gott. All were born at LaGrange with the exception of Charles A., who was born at Wellington, Ohio.

Htusparp Avery Witcox. In the death of Hubbard Avery Wilrox, there passed away one of the best known figures in railroad circles in Northern Ohio. He had started te work for the old Bee Line in 1853, when LaGrange was little more than a siding, grew up with the road, saw all its changes, and after fifty-one vears of continucus service, resigned from the Big Four Railroad when aging vears had sapped his energy and streneth. Few inen have had a longer service: none have given to that service more conscientious or able effort: certamiy none bore better reputations or held in greater measure the contidence of their employers and the regard and affection of their fellow-emploves. When he died, February 23. 1906. the entire community mourned.

Itubbard Avery Wilcox was born at LaGrange. Lorain County, Ohio. March 29. 1834, a son of Calvin and Uarriet (Hubbard) Wilcox, old pioneers of this county, a sketch of whese long and useful carvers will be found elsewhere in this work. The lad had the benefits of a home training that early instilled in him a love for honesty and fidelity. and his industry was demonstrated when he was still a lad, when he en- gaged in carrying the mail horseback from LaGrange to Wooster. He succeeded his brother, George Wilcox, who in turn had succeeded their father, Calvin Wilcox, in the agency of the railroad at LaGrange, the father having been the incumbent from the opening of the office. It was a local tradition that the position would always remain in the family, but subsequent developments have allowed it to go to other hands. . From the start of the railroad here Mr. Wilcox watched with interest and the eye of a proprietor its history, remaining stanchly with it during its various changes of organization, through the days of the old Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis, to its present stvle of Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis, or, as it is probably more familiarly known, the Big Four. The savings from his salary were judiciously invested in farm land in the vicinity of the village. and around the division office at Cleveland Mr. Wileox was a familiar and welcome figure. Mr. Wilcox was about seventy vears of age at the time of his retirement, in 1904, when the road lost one of its most faithful servants. Popular with all, efficient and prompt in his duties, courteous in their discharge, he had won hosts of friends and well-wishers. During the hours of his funeral business was suspended at LaGrange, the business men attending in a body, while the cortege to the cemetery was very long and included many friends from a long distance. Three sons and three grandsons, E. F., A. H., H. C., George, Carl and Albert Wilcox. were the pall-bearers. At the funeral services *'Refuge'' and ''Lead, Kindly Light."' which had been chosen by Mr, Wilcox, were sung.

On July 3. 1856, Mr. Wilcox was married to Miss Elizabeth Powers, who was born at Ashland, Ohio, May 3, 1837, and died at the family home at LaGrange, November 24, 1907. For almost a half a century, or until the death of the husband, February 23, 1906. they were the principals in one of the most ideal homes of the community. The beauty of Mis. Wilcox's life was.in its simplicity. She was utterly devoid of ostentation, and rather retired to the privaey of her home. where she found her greatest pleasure, and even aiter her husband's death, when left alone and broken in health, she refused to leave its shelter, preferring that it might not be broken up. She was a Christian woman who lived her Christianity every day of her life, and from her girlhood was a devout and active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of the children born to Ma. and Mrs. Wilcox, two are living: Avery H., of Pittsfield, Ohio, and Hon. Harvey Clyde, of Elyria, judge of probate cf Lorain County, the latter of whom has separate mention in another part of this work. A son, Calvin P. Wileox, and a daughter, Murs. Elizabeth (*'Birdie'') Van-Benschoten, have been deceased for several years, and another son. Edward F., died at LaGrange, in March, 1915.

Ilox, Harvey Ciype Witcox. Among the members ot the Lorain County bench, none are more highly esteemed than Hon. Harvey Clyde Wilcox, judge of the Probate and Juvenile Courts of Lorain County. Endorsed by civie and professional bodies when he appeared as a candidate for this office. since taking his seat upon the bench he has vindicated the faith and trust reposed in him, and is proving a most dignified, impartial and capable jurist.

Judge Wilcox was born at LaGrange. Lorain County. Ohio. September 27, 1872, and belongs to an old 'and honored pioneer family of the county, being a son of the late Hubbard A. and Elizaheth (Powers) Wilcox. a complete sketch of whose career appears elsewhere in this work. There were four sons and one daughter in the family, all of whom lived to maturity. although Judge Wilcox and a brother, A. II. Wileox, of Pittsfield. Ohio, are the only survivors. The early education of Judge Wilcox was secured in the public schools of LaGrange, where he gradu- ated from the high school, and this was supplemented by attendance at the Ohio State University and Baldwin University. From the latter institution he received first the degree of B. Ph. and later the degree of A. M., and received the degree of LL. B. at the Cleveland Law School. Thus ably equipped he began the practice of his profession, and followed it until elected county clerk of Lorain County in 1902 for a three-year term. While serving thus he took a post-graduate course at Baldwin University, but that he did not allow his studies to interfere with the performance of his duties is shown in that he was re-elected to succeed himself in the elections of 1905 and made a record in that office for integrity and efficiency that has been excelled by none. Judge Wilcox had been admitted to the bar by examination, and when he retired from the county clerk's office he resumed the practice of his profession at Elyria. In the fall elections of 1912 he appeared as candidate for the office of judge of probate of Lorain County, on the republican ticket, and was immediately endorsed by the attorneys of the county as a man who had had ample experience in matters of law as well as in court cases to justify his request at the hands of the people. By reason of his ability, character and experience, he is splendidly equipped for judicial position. He was also recommended for nomination and election in the report of the Oberlin College Civic Club, in its pamphlet issued in the fall of 1912. Securing the election, Judge Wilcox took his seat upon the bench February 9, 1913, for a term of four years, and has continued to distinguish himself in the performance of his duties in a wise and eminently fair manner. He is also judge of the Lorain County Juvenile Court, which court was established in 1913, he becoming judge of the court at that time.

Judge Wilcox is an ardent republican and for several years was secretary of the Republican County Committee, but since assuming his judicial duties has retired somewhat from political life. He is a member of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce. His fraternal connection is with Lodge No. 465, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he was exalted ruler for two terms, and Premier Lodge No. 500 of the Knights of Pythias. With his family, he attends the Methodist Episcopal Church of Elyria, Ohio, in which he is superintendent of the Sunday school. He has always been a close devotee of out-of-door sports and athletics.

Judge Wilcox was married at LaGrange, Ohio, to Miss Grace L. Freeman, daughter of D. C. and Harriet (Turner) Freeman, of that citv, where the former still resides, the latter being deceased. Four children have been born to Judge and Mrs. Wileox: Elizabeth, Josephine, Hubbard and Evangeline.

Epwarp J. StaNkarp. <A record for physical efficiency and courage, united with capable judgment, were the basis for the promotion of Edward J. Stankard from a long career in the interurban railway servive to the office of chief of the police department at Elyria. Prior to his election as clief Mir. Stankard had no experience as a guardian of the peace. but the capable manner in which he has handled the office, the effective discipline which has been maintained among his subordinates, have so completely justified his original appointment that he has now served under three different mayors of the city.

A native of Erie County, Ohio, Edward J. Stankard was born ten miles south of Sandusky on a farm, June 22, 1876. His parents were John and Jane (McQue) Stankard. His father was a native of France and his mother of Ireland. The latter, after the death of her parents in the old country, came to America with her two sisters, and located in New York State, where she met and married John Stankard. The latter, whose father was a Frenchman and his mother an Irish woman, was taken in early childhood from France to England; where Grandfather Stankard died when his son John was about three years of age. Grandfather Stankard was a shepherd by occupation and had the responsibility of looking after the sheep of a large estate. When John Stankard had reached:the age of thirteen he and his mother started across the ocean for the United States. She died while the vessel was in mid-ocean and was buried at sea. and the son soon afterwards landed alone in New York City. Though a boy of but thirteen he had that same independence of purpose and energy which have been the characteristics of Chief Stankard, and was soon working on a farm just outside the City of New York. From there he went to St. Louis, Missouri, and found employment as a cabin boy on a Mississippi River cotton packet. The vessel was engaged inf transporting cotton up and down the Mississippi and across the gulf, and this was during the war with Mexico, and at one time the boat came so close to a Mexican battery that it was fired upon and shells set fire to the cargo. The crew managed to throw overboard a large part of the burning cotton and finally got the vessel to shore. Later John Stankard found similar employment on another boat which was hauling steel for railroad construction. One day he was a witness to the tragic death of the captain of the vessel. The captain in tipping his chair back on the upper deck fell to the lower deck, and striking against a part of the cargo of steel rails was killed. The cabin boy was so much affected by this tragic incident that he immediately gave up his employment. After this boating experience he returned to New York State, where some brothers were working at the time on farms. While living there he met and married Miss McQue, and from there they moved out to Ohio, locating in Bellevue. There he found employment in a distillery, and remained about two years. His employment was terminated by the bursting of a big vat and while two other men were scalded to death, John Stankard received injuries which laid him up for about eighteen months, and he carried to his grave the scars from his burns on the side and right arm. This occurred during the Civil war period, and while he was recuperating from his injuries he was drafted for service in the army, but his condition was such that he was unable to respond. After the war he moved to Erie County, bought a small tract of thirty-five acres of land, cleared it up, and continued in agricultural lines the rest of his life. He added fifteen acres to the homestead. making fifty acres in all, and subsequently bought 100 acres half a mile from the first home, and this place of 100 acres is still owned by his estate, being the joint property of Chief Stankard and his brothers and sisters. The old homestead of fifty acres was willed to a crippled son, John C., before the death of the mother. John Stankard died at the old home July 16, 1913, and his wife passed away there June 9, 1898. In the family were ten children, five sons and five daughters, and two of the sons are now deceased. John C., the oldest, and the occupant of the old homestead, for more than twenty-five years served as assessor of Oxford Township in Erie County. The daughter Margaret is now Mrs. George E. Homan, living near Canton, Ohio. The third in order of age was Michael, who was an engineer on the Baltimore & Ohio Railway and died in 1890 at the age of thirty-six. Mary is the wife of J. A. Chay, a railroad man living at Youngstown, Ohio. James is a resident of Newark, Ohio, and is a stationary engineer in the Newark Glass Works. The daughters Jane and Lillian both reside at home, and following them in age is Edward J. Robert H., the youngest, was drowned near Huron, Ohio, while fishing, on June 20, 1897, at the age of eighteen. All these children were born at the old home in Erie County, were educated in that locality, and the daughter Mary also attended the normal school at Milan, a village otherwise noted' as the birthplace of Thomas Edison, and for several vears she taught school in the district around her old home in Erie County.

The early associations of Chief Stankard were with the farm and the locality of his birth in Erie County. He attended the local schools and for one winter was in the Milan Normal. He engaged in farming until the age of twenty-one and then began his career in railroad service at Sandusky. For about two years he was with the old Sandusky & Interurban, now a part of the Lake Shore Electric Railroad. He was first employed in construction work, and when the road was taken over hy the Lake Shore he was put on as a motorman on the Sandusky, Milan & Norwalk branch. Ile continued in faithful and efficient service as a motorman for fifteen months, making the run between Sandusky and Norwalk, and was then transferred to the Cleveland & Toledo Division, being a motorman for about two years between Cleveland and Sandusky. Leaving the Lake Shore he came to the Cleveland & Southwestern Fleetric Railway, and was in its service about seven vears. operating a construction train for four vears, aud the rest of the time as motorman on a run between Cleveland and Wellington.

It was on January 1, 1910, that Mr. Stankard came to Elvria to take the post of chief of police. At that time, as already stated. he knew nothing about police work, but his capabilities and qualifications in other ways made up for his lack of experiencé in this particulary line. Mr. Stankard succeeded in the office of chief of poliee, William Whitney, who, in 1914, was clected sheriff of Lorain County and mention of whom will be found on other pages. Mr. Stankard took the office under Mayor Thomas A. Conway. and has since been continued in the ottice by Mayor David 8S. Troxel and now under Mavor Tucker.

Politically Chief Stankard is a democrat and has affihations with the Woodinen of the World. the Knights of Columbus. the Elyria Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church,

Mr. Stankard and Miss Helen G. Swindell of Cleveland. were married in the St. Ignatius Catholic Church of Cleveland, April 2s. 190s, Her mother is Mrs. Sarah Reynolds. still living in Cleveland. Mus. Stankard's father died when she was a child. and her mother later married Mr. Revnolds. who is also deceased. Mis. Stankard was horn in Grafton, Lorain County, and received her education in the Cleveland public schools. To their marriage have been born two children: Edward GS who was. born in Elyria, Aprib-26: 1909: and) Alarion VY... horn November 7, 1911.

Aly. Stankard finds his chief dehght in his home and in his associations with his small children. IIe is devoted to the interests and responsibilities of his office and is also a lover of the great national pastime of baschali. At the meeting in Mansfield. Ohio. August &. 1914. Chief Stankard was elected vice president of the Ohio Police Assoviation, a large organization composed of the chiefs of polive. detectives and constables in the state. and with a membership of over 200, This fitting honor which came to "*Big Ed."* as he is known amoue nis assoclates, was followed in Avgust. 1915. by his promotion to president of the same assoviation. The meeting of the association in 1914 was held at Cedar Point, and My. Stankard was elected by a vote of sixteen to fourteen, the choice being subsequently made unanimous. As president he succeeds Jake Mintz of Cleveland. As a local paper said in comment on his election. 'the honor that has come to Chief Stankard is worthily disposed, and we are sure he will wear it in the same quiet way hi which he gocs about his daily duties in this city."

Joun ADAMS TopLirF was born April 11, 1827, in Mansfield, Connecticut. the tenth child of Horatio and Sally (Sargeant) Topliff. The father. who was born August 31, 1785, married November 12, 1806, and died April 16, 1857, Horatio Topliff was the fifteenth child of Calvin and Jerusha (Bicknell) Toplitf. Calvin Topliff was born in Milton, Connecticut, August 24, 1729, married on January 9, 1758, and died LDeceuber 23. 1809. He was the seventh child of Capt. Samuel and Hannah (Prescott) Topliff of Dorchester, Massachusetts. Captain Topliff was horn May 30, 1695; married February 8, 1715, and died November 1, 1754. THe was made captain after the birth of his second child and moved with his family to Connecticut. He was the tenth child of Samuel and Patience Topliff. Samuel Topliff was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, May 7. 1646, and died December 10, 1722. Ue was ordained deacon August 1, 1692, and ruling elder February 3, 1701. He was the fourth child of Clement and Sarah Topliff. Clement was born in England November 17, 1603. and came to America in 1635. ILe was one of the early settlers of Dorchester, Massachusetts. He died December 24, 1672.

John A. Topliff was one of twelve children and his father was a New England farmer, John was twenty years younger than his eldest brother. lis father found it a severe tax to edueate his large family. and John worked as an apprentice and later for wages until he earned #LNO. which he paid to Ins father for the purchase of the minor years of lis life. He then earned enough to educate himself, first at Wilbraham Academy. at Wilbrahain, Connecticut, and later at Union College, Schenectady. New York. After leaving Union College he studied law, and only gave up entering the profession on the advice of Lewis Beers whose daughter. Caroline. he wished to marry, Mr. Beers advoeating that the professions were crowded with men who could not even obtain recognition. although they might have merit, but that good business men were scaree. and in the business world there was a place for every man of ability.

John Toplitf went to Lexington, Kentucky, in 1852 and engaged in the manufacture of carriages. A vear later he moved to Elyria, Ohio. thinking that the opportunities for advancement greater in Ohio than in Kentucky.

On September 9. 1854, he was married in Stratford, Connecticut, to Caroline Beers. who was born July 14, 1827, and died March 2, 1895. She was a daughter of Deacon Lewis Beers, born August 18, 1799, and died July 15, 1870. He was married April 19, 1826 to Rehecca Curtis, who was born December 14, 1801, and died November 21, 1836. Lewis Beers was the son of Matthew Beers (born October, 1759, and died November 25,.-1837) and Sarah (Curtis) Beers (born April 23, 1769, and died January 6, 1823). Matthew Beers was a Revolutionary soldier who received a grant of land for ''distinguished service.'? He was wounded in hattle and carried the marks to his grave. He was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Beers.

Joseph 3rd, born October 13, 1727, was the son of Joseph 2nd (married March 6. 1721) and Sarah Clarke. Joseph 2nd was the son of Joseph and Abigail. This Joseph was the son of James and Martha (Barlow) Beers. James 2nd was the son of James Ist of Kent, England, who was a descendent of Anthony Bere, 1486.

John A. Topliff was a mayor of Elyria in the vear 1856, and took a prominent part in the civic life of the city, and always aided in its upbuilding. IIe was public spirited and generous. There are men of mark in the United States today who were helped to receive their edu- cation by him. His motto was ''Help others to help themselves."'? A motto that he lived up to in a way that even his best friends little realized.

He was the senior partner of the firm of Toplitf and Ely whose business was the manufacture of carriage hardware. They made a specialty of the tubular ecarriage-bow, which John Topliff invented and patented.

John and Caroline Topliff were members of the First Presbyterian Church of Elyria, which later changed its name to the First Congregational Church. They had five children: Fanny Maria, born August 20, 1855, was a student of Oberlin College. She married August 8, 1877, Walter Egerton Brooks, of Elyria, and she died December 5, 1893. There were three children hy this marriage: Harold Topliff, born December 19, 1882, deceased; Margaret Egerton, a graduate of Vassar, class 1906, married Theodore E. Faxon, a graduate of Cornell, who died in 1914, and they had one child, Theodore Brooks Faxon, born September 20, 1908; and John Prentice, a graduate of Cornell, Frank, born January 1, 1857, died in 1860. Edmund Lewis, born September 2, 1860, was drowned while skating on December 8, 1877. Susan Caroline, born December 14, 1862, class of '86 Smith College, married September 3, 1889, Archibald Hunt Davis. a graduate of the University of Virginia and a resident of Atlanta Georgia, and they have three children - Archibald Hunt, Jr., born July 13, 1890, a graduate, class 1910, of Georgia Technological School, awarded a Silver Carnegie Medal in 1909. and settled in Schenectady, New York; John Topliff, born June 15. 1893; Noah Knowles, born February 20, 1904. Harry, born in 1864. died in 1866.

John A. Topliff was a man of broad culture, with a keen appreciation of art and letters. He traveled extensively both in Europe and America, and gave the privileges of travel to the others of his family. He lived in Elyria until the time of the death of his wife. in 1895, when he went to Atlanta, Georgia, and made his home with his daughter Susan until his death, on March 27, 1899. ©

StanLtey G. Suaw. Of that prominent and well known Lorain County family of Shaw, one of the younger generation now has a conspicuous place in local affairs as county treasurer.

Born at Ridgeville in Lorain County, June 23. 1881, Stanley G. Shaw was educated in the public schools, graduated from the Elvria High School in 1898, and for three years was a student in Oberlin College. On leaving college he became bookkeeper with the old Lorain Machine & Forge Company for two vears, and then entered the county treasurer's office as deputy in 1904. In 1912 he was elected county treasurer, and reelected in 1914, and has held that office and given it a most capable administration since 1913. In politics he is a republican.

Mr. Shaw is a director in the Elvria Savings & Banking Company, is treasurer of the Associated Charities, and has interests as a stockholder in a number of enterprises both at Elyria and elsewhere. He is affiliated with King Solomon Lodge No. 56, Free and Accepted Masons, with Marshall Chapter, Roval Arch Masons, and belongs to the chamber of commerce.

At Nashville, Tennessee, June 27, 1904, he married Miss Ellen E. Wright, a daughter of Herbert H. and Frances (Bosworth) Wright. Her parents formerly lived at Oberlin, and Professor Wright held a position as dean in Fisk University at Nashville, Tennessee. In 1914 the Wright family moved to Elyria, and Professor Wright is now retired. M2rs. Shaw was born at Defiance, Ohio, and completed her education in the Oberlin Academy and Oberlin College, graduating in 1902. She represents a very old American family, her first ancestor in direct line having been Thomas Wright, who was born in England in 1610 and died in Massachusettts in 1670. The Wrights were also connected with several well known families who came over in the Mayflower in 1620. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw have three children, all born in Elyria, and named Marguerite F., Ralph H. and John F.

The ancestry and family relationship of the county treasurer is one of note. His grandparents, Samuel Horatio and Juliaett (Wiley) Shaw established their home in Ridgeville Township in 1851, and they are still living, venerable people, who celebrated their sixty-fourth wedding anniversary in January, 1915. Their home is still at Ridgeville. The first ancestor of the Shaw family was Abraham Shaw, who was married in Halifax, England, in 1616, and died at Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1638. He came to America during the decade of the '30s, and the family was numerously represented in Massachusetts until 1800 or later. Beginning with Abraham Shaw there are eleven successive generations down to and including Stanley G. Shaw. In a later generation was Constant Shaw, who was born in 1778, and died in Summit County, Ohio, December 27, 1863. His wife, Mercy Pitts, was born in 1781 and also died at Bath. Samuel Shaw, a son of Constant, was born at Bristol, New York, in 1804, was married in 1827 to Charlotte Hale, and he died at Bath, Ohio, January 24, 1836, while his wife, who was born in Bristol, February 28, 1809, died December 24, 1894.

Horatio Shaw, the venerable Ridgeville citizen already mentioned, was a son of Samuel and Charlotte, and was born in Bristol, New York, April 9, 1829. On January 14, 1851, he married Juliaett Wiley, who was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania, September 5, 1830. Her father, Joseph B. Wiley, who was born at Schenectady, New York, June 22, 1800, and died in Erie County, Pennsylvania, in 1837, was married in 1821 to Anna Shaw, who was born in Massachusetts in April, 1801, and died at North Ridgeville, Ohio, December 28, 1867. This Anna Shaw was a daughter of Abraham Shaw, who was born in 1770 and died at North Ridgeville, Ohio, in April, 1861. Samuel H. Shaw on coming to Lorain County in 1851 located on a small farm in Ridgeville Township, and in time cleared up and improved an excellent farmstead. He also filled the offices of trustee and school director, and his name and influence have long been closely identified with that community. He and his wife had the following children: Zimri A.; Arthur B.; Diana B., who married Lafayette C. Phillips; Dora D., who died at the age of two years; Oscar H.; Alfaretta, who married Morris K. Bills, and Lola M.

Zimri A. Shaw, father of the present county treasurer of Lorain County, was born at North Ridgeville, May 2, 1852, and is now living retired, after more than forty-five years of constant service with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company. He resigned his position in 1914. As a boy of fifteen he had entered the employ of the railway company as an assistant at Shawville Station, then known as Ridgeville Station. He learned telegraphy, became night operator, resigned to complete his education at Oberlin Academy, and then became agent at Shawville, a position which he held continuously until recently. Zimri A. Shaw was married March 9, 1875, to Lizzie Lucinda Ramsdell. Their older son is Archer H. Shaw, who graduated from the Elyria High School in 1893, from Oberlin College in 1897, and has since been identified with the editorial staff of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Archer

HI. Shaw married Clara Annis Terrell, daughter of Orson J. Terrell of Ridgeville Township. Mus. Z. A. Shaw, who is also still living. was born in New York State October 6, 1856, and is descended from Abednego Ramsdell, who was killed as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. In the next generation was Moses Ramsdell, who was born in Rhode Isiaud in 1761. aud ched in New York State May 16. 1834. and married Nancy Lapham, who was born June 16. 1770, and died April 3. 1844. In the next generation was Abner L. Ramsdell, who was boru in New York State February 10. 1805, and died there September 8, 1872. Te mar- Ned Lucinda [ealey, who was born January 25. 1807, and died May 19, 1886. A son of Abner L. was Olney Ramsdell. father of Mrs. Z. A. Shaw. He was born in New York February 10, 1829, and was married at Bast Cleveland, Ohio, April 8, 1853, to Mary Jayred. who was born in New Jersey May 19, 1833, and the relationship ot the Javred family is traced hack for several generations in New Jersey.