Lorain City (part 69 of 77)

The late Frederick S. Reefy was born in the little Village of Boetzingen at the foot of the Jura Mountains in Switzerland, September 1, 1883. He was of Swiss Huguenot ancestry, and true to his inheritance always showed an unconquerable love of freedom, an indomitable courage and ideals as lofty as the mountain peaks of his native land. A few months after his birth, his parents, Johan Heinrich and Marie (Gnaegi) Ryffe, started for America to realize in their own career the abundant opportunities of the New World. The father disposed of his land, gathered the household effects together, purchased wagons and some instruments of agriculture, and leaving the little village among the vineyards on March 28, 1834. transported their family to Havre de Grace, and thence came by a sailing vessel, which after thirty-five days on a stormy sea landed them safely in an American harbor. Going west to Cleveland, they found that city stricken with cholera, and hastened on by way of the Ohio Canal to Massillon and ended their long journey at Mount Eaton in Wayne County. They secured a tract of land which had been previously cleared, but which had only an unfinished log cabin upon it, and the father lived there as a pioneer farmer and homesteader for a number of years. When the late Frederick S. Reefy was fifteen years old the family moved to Tuscarawas County to a farm of seventy-five acres near the Town of Wilmot.

Frederick S. Reefy was a fine type of the self-made man of the last century. Living in a time and under conditions which denied him the opportunities which are now so lavishly bestowed upon growing youth, he kept himself at the white heat of enthusiasm regardless of limitations and the obligations bestowed upon a simple country lad who from early youth had to bear his share of the strenuous toil needed to improve and develop a farm. He attended school during the winter months, and the few books which came into his possession he mastered with a consuming thirst for knowledge. It was in those years, in close touch with the wilderness, that he laid the lasting love and eagerness for his pursuits as a naturalist. In this way he continued to help his father on the home farm and store his mind with useful knowledge from every available source until the age of nineteen, when he was given a certificate and taught his first term of district school.

In the spring of 1860 he went to Roanoke, Indiana, and brought about the organization of the Roanoke Seminary, a co-educational institution. The building for the school was erected under his direction. and with his customary thoughtfulness for other generations set out a grove of young trees around it. For eight years he remained the honored and beloved head of the school and worked with self-sacrifiving zeal and earnestness in behalf of its welfare. While always a deep student of books, his gifts as a teacher were not those of a mere book man. He was successful in developing enthusiasm and love of learning in his pupils, and in arousing in them those motives and desires which bring about well rounded and seasoned character. It is impossible to understand the far reaching influences of such a life as that of the late Frederick S. Reefy. The impress of his enthusiasm and lofty character was deeply laid in the lives of hundreds of young men and women who went out from his school to carry the message of his life to many diverse quarters and spheres of activity. While at Roanoke, in addition to his duties as head of the seminary, he also became superintendent of the sub-district schools of Huntington County. Hard and constant work finally undermined his health so that at the end of eight years he was obliged to give up the seminary and other duties, and in 1868 he moved to Bluffton. There, after recuperating. he organized the graded schools and was superintendent for four years. His services in that community were highly appreciated as they had been in Roanoke, and it was with general regret that he was finally obliged to leave that section of Indiana, on account of the malarial conditions of the country.

Thus in October, 1872, Professor Reefy became a resident of Elyria, where his brother, the late Dr. Philip D. Reefy, had established himself in practice about three years previously. In Elyria Professor Reefy bought the Lorain Constitution, a paper that had been established some seven or eight years, but whose fortunes had been one of many vicissitudes. He soon afterward introduced two changes in the name of the paper. The little Town of Black River had become Lorain, and thus he substituted Elyria for Lorain in the newspaper title, and subsequently in accordance with his political belief changed the word Constitution to Democrat, and since then the Elyria Democrat has been under the management and editorial direction of the Reefy family. As an editor Professor Reefy made his paper more than a mere party organ. He was an independent thinker and writer, and its opinions could never be influenced by any consideration, monetary or partisan. He always kept its rudder true to

In his individual allegiance to the democratic party he showed all the courage and persistence of a real pioneer. For some ten or fifteen years after he'took control of the Democrat, the party in Lorain County was in a hopeless minority, but in spite of this condition he never faltered in advocating the doctrines in which he believed, was the acknowledged leader of the party for many years, and in almost every campaign delivered speeches so that he became familiarly known in every school district in the county. Asa party honor there was never one more worthily bestowed than when Mr. Reefy was appointed postmaster at Elyria under both the Cleveland administrations. He was a district delegate to the national convention in Chicago in 1896, and in many ways served the party well.

Outside of journalism and politics there were many other services which he rendered and for which he should be remembered. He was one of the prime movers in getting a supply of lake water for Elyria, and felt something of a personal triumph when that improvement became a realty. For years, in season and out, he fought strenuously for temperance, and was fearless and independent in his war against the saloon. In October, 1888, he was elected first president of the Elyria Board of Health upon its organization, and served continuously in that capacity until the close of his life. He was an active leader in the public health movement when comparatively little attention was given to those matters of public sanitation and general health which are now almost axiomatic in any community. He was also president of the Lorain County Humane Society, and was largely responsible for the organization of the Lorain County Historical Society. Fraternally he was identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, with the Knights of Honor and the National Union, and exemplified the best teachings of fraternalism in his own ready sympathy with need and distress. Though always a busy man, his studious pursuits gave him more than a casual knowledge of many branches of learning, and he was particularly interested in geology and archeology, and at the same time endeavored to make himself useful in such practical movements as farmers' institutes and in anything which would broaden and better country life. It was through his writings and descriptions and his personal leadership that the beautiful Cascade Park came to be appreciated by the people of the community. It is said that as a nature lover he knew the note and plumage of every native bird and knew the names and characteristics of all the trees and the varied flora of his section of Northern Ohio.

in the management of the Democrat, and by four daughters: Eva L. Reefy, Ada H. Reefy, Alta M. Reefy and Mrs. P. H. Arnold. Ii was in the words of an editorial written by the editor of the Elyria Telegram that the best appreciation of Professor Reefy's real life and service was expressed. The language of this editorial should be read as a proper conclusion to a prief sketch of one of Elyria's grand old men. '(On a bright sunny morning some fifteen years ago a gray haired man with a basket on his arm followed the winding river north of town. The basket was filled with butternuts, and inquiry revealed the purpose of the bearer to sow them along the river flats, so that butternut trees might be more abundant in this vicinity for the next generation. The gray bearded man who carried the basket was the late Professor. F'. S. Reefy. It is not important whether the trees grew or not. The spirit which in- spired the planting was the spirit of unselfish service. The act was symbolical of the hfe and character of this generous hearted man, who sowed that others might reap. Of such disinterested usefulness, his days were full.

'Professor Reefy belonged to an old school and an earlier era in Elyria. The 'flood of years' which bears all before it has been sweeping old time figures from the field of action in the last few months - men who knew Elyria when it was hardly dreamt of as the present bustling, manufacturing community ; when its prosperity was the thrifty activity of a rural business center, its charm the charm of simple suburban life, and its greatest asset the scenic beauty with which nature endowed it. Coming at this period and for nearly two.score years serving as the veteran commentator and chronicler of his time, Professor Reefy belonged in this setting as much as the trees and other natural fixtures he loved so well. His pen, ever directed in behalf of any righteous cause, was made especially active in urging the conservation of the shrubs and trees and flowers and birds of this section. To Nature he was a devoted editor and an ever faithful lover.

'"The grind of present day business life, even in towns so fortunate in natural environment as Elyria, tends to deaden and choke out the love of the beautiful, but the temperament and early associations of Professor Reefy had imbued him with admiration for the graces of nature that no stress or artificiality could eliminate. He realized the paucity of the grandest auditorium on earth as compared with the blue dome of heaven; the finest pictures of the great masters to him could not compare with the sylvan retreats by the riverside, made by the Creator with real rocks and trees and water and green grown banks; the sweetest music in the world to him was the song of a bird, the rustling of leaves and the sighing of restless branches in the treetops. And all the beneficence and sweet philosophy which Nature teaches was woven into his kindly soul.

'* Although the Professor sought truth and beauty at first hand, he did not neglect the intellectual heritages of the past. He was as well a reader and student of the best prose and poetry, and many a pleasant call is treasured in our memory of occasions when 'this good neighbor slipped over with a bit of verse, perhaps clipped from some distant exchange, some rhythmic derelict of the journalistic sea, which he would divide and enjoy with another, before it floated into oblivion. By those who knew him best he will ever be remembered in his prime as an able and scholarly writer, a lover of good literature, a public spirited citizen and an editor who was true to his ideals and to his constituency. A more wholesome, useful life than this was never lived in this community, nor a purer soul never departed from it, but it has been truly said 'To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.' ''

AppisoN WELLS. Representing one of the fine older families of Lorain County. the late Addison Wells, though his life was not spared beyond his prime, should be remembered as one of the old soldiers who went out from this county during the critical period of the Civil war and who in all his relations bore himself honorably and faithfully.

Born in Lorain County in 1838. the late Addison Wells was a son of Harlow and Elmira (Kelsey) Wells. His parents came trom Connecticut and settled in Lorain County in pioneer times, and established one of the early farms here. Addison Wells was educated in the district schools. learned farming and was already beginning an independent career when the war came on. He served with a creditable record in one of the Union regiments. and after the war returned to Lorain County and hecame identified with railroad work, being boss cf a track

In 1859 he married Miss Cynthia Lord, of Elyria Township. Their children were: George, who grew up and married; Clara, who died after her marriage; Charles, who died in childhood; Jessie, who died at the age of nineteen; Eugene, who is a mechanic living on the west side of Elyria, is a member of the Sons of Veterans, of the Loyal Order of Moose and other fraternities, and by his marriage has one child, Loree, now ten years of age. Mrs. Addison Wells now lives on Lake Avenue in Elyria Township, has a comfortable little homestead of 414 acres, and is one of the highly esteemed women of that community. .

Harry James Hecock, one of the older residents of Elyria Township, which has been his home since birth, is one of the best known and most highly respected citizens of Lorain County and his family have so identified themselves with this community as to deserve a permanent record on the pages of this publication.

Born in Elyria Township, June 4, 1836, Harry James Hecock is a son of Erastus and Eunice (Burrell) Hecock. His father came to Lorain County in 1817, almost a century ago, from Herkimer County, New York, and located on a farm in Sheffield Township. The Hecocks were among the prominent early settlers of old Sheffield, the centennial anniversary of whose founding was celebrated only recently. Erastus Hecock established his home where the tube mills now stand at Lorain. Five years later he removed from his first farm and engaged in the milling business, operating both a flour and sawmill at about the center of Sheffield Township. He supplied a service as miller to the community for some six or seven years, and then bought another farm in the southwest corner of Sheffield Township. There he erected a home, lived for ten years, and after a brief interval of two years during which he resumed milling, he spent the rest of his life on the old farm. He was killed while crossing the Lake Shore track between LaGrange and Carlisle townships, August 23, 1866. He was at that time seventy-three years of age. His widow survived him about thirty years, passing away at the age of ninety-four. Their seven children were: Permelia, born in 1828; Isaac, born in 1830; Hannah, born June 3, 1832; Harry J.; Celia. horn in 1839; Hiram, born in 1841; and Silas. Of these children, Hannah, Harry and Silas are still living and are all residents of Elyria Township.

Harry James Hecock was educated in the district schools, and spent his hoyhood and early youth on the homestead farm. He was brought up to agricultural pursuits, and has made that his main occupation throughout his career. On March 13, 1860, he married Miss Ellen Weeks, who was born in Dorchester, New Hampshire, but came as a girl to Elyria Township. The young couple began their housekeeping on Mr. Hecock's farm on Lake Avenue, and their first home was a few rods north of the present place. About thirty years ago Mr. Hecock moved to his present home, a neat and attractive residence, most eligibly located, since a few minutes ride takes him into the City of Elyria. When he bought the property it contained about one hundred and one and one-half acres. and he operated it as a general farming proposition for many years. About ten years ago he sold 921% acres, and that tract is now cut up into town lots. Mr. Hecock has a comfortable little estate of about six acres, and that furnishes him all the employment which his energetic nature demands. He also owns an interest in a large greenhouse located near his home, a little east of Lake Avenue.

Arthur, born in 1861, died at the age of twenty-seven, after his marriage to Harriet Woodruff, who is now living in California; Stella died at the age of twenty-eight; Brackett is now in the lumber and coal business in Elyria. Mrs. Hecock died March 27, 1918, aged seventy-two vears.

Henry M. ANpDREsS. One of the most influential figures in the business community of Elyria for nearly forty years has been Henry M. Andress. He was one of the builders and is still owner of a third interest in the Andwur Hotel, the largest and finest hotel in Elyria and one of the best in Northern Ohio. His associate in establishing this hostelry was Henry W. Wurst, and when it came to selecting a name they combined the first three letters in each of their individual names and thus evolved the present title by which the hotel is known all over Lorain County and to hosts of traveling men. Mr. Wurst finally sold his third interest in the hotel to Charles E. Wilson. Mr. Andress has for many years been one of the leading authorities on local real estate and has done much to improve a large amount of property in and about the city.

His interests are of wide variety and extent. He is now serving as treasurer of the Lorain County Agricultural Society. For a number of years he has been one of the principal automobile dealers and agents in Elyria. Up to November, 1913, he handled the Studebaker car. but since that date his son George H. has assumed the individual management of the Studebaker agency. As automobile dealers the business was formerly carried on under the name of H. M. Andress & Son, but Mr. Andress is now a dealer under his individual name, and is handling the agency exclusively for the Cadillac cars in Lorain and Medina counties. It is a matter of interest to automobile circles that Mr. Andress sold at Elyria one of the first hundred cars ever turned out by the Studebaker plant. Since 1909 he has handled the Cadillac and has been very successful in promoting the sale of that popular car. In 1914 he built the new garage on Broad Street, a two-story building on a foundation 27x110 feet, the type of construction being what is known as steel girder. Two weeks from the time the first brick was laid, the roof was on complete, and this made a record job in Lorain County. Mr. Andress continued business in the old building while the new was being constructed, and this one location has been his headquarters for more than twenty-five years. A slogan by which his business is well advertised throughout Lorain County and which is singularly appropriate is ''H. M. A. Here to Stay.''

Born on a farm in Henrietta Township of Lorain County June 19, 1855, Henry M. Andress is a son of Carlo and Welthy (Smith) Andress. His father was born in Essex County, New York, November 6, 1804, and was one of the early settlers of Ohio, going to that state at the age of fourteen. He was one of the early farmers in Henrietta Township, cleared and improved the land, and lived there until 1868, when he removed to Oberlin College to educate his children. He died in that old college town November 8, 1870. His wife was born August 16, 1815, in Poughkeepsie, New York.

As a boy Henry M. Andress attended local schools, completed his education in Oberlin College, and after some experience as a teacher himself took up a mercantile career. He ran a meat market at Birmingham, but in 1876 was appointed bookkeeper in the store of Hannan & Obitts, grocers and hardware merchants at Elyria. Not long afterwards he became associated with Henry W. Wurst, who had also been an employe of Hannan & Obitts. Mr. Andress laid the foundation for his present enterprise as an automobile dealer a great many years before the automobiles were thought of. In 1877 he and John T. Houghton entered the livery business, but he bought out his partner in a year, and for twenty-five years con- ducted one of the best equipped barns in Northern Ohio. He also began dealing in horse vehicles of all kinds, keeping a large stock of carriages, and from that naturally turned to dealing in automobiles. For a number of years he has also been one of the leading dealers in local real estate. Ile is a director in the Elyria Savings & Banking Company, was formerly a member of the Elyria Public Service Board, and for two years its president, and his authoritative knowledge of real estate values caused _him in 1910 to be appointed a member of the board of appraisers of real property for its quadrennial session in Elyria.

Mr. Andress' only fraternal relations are with Elyria Lodge No. 465, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is also a member of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce and of the Elyria Automobile Club. Mr. Andress has three children: Maude M., who completed her education in the Maryland College at Lutherville, Maryland, married Kenneth Duryea, of El Paso, Texas; Jean, wife of J. V. Dillman of Cleveland, and they have two children, Harriet and John; and George H., who for a number of years has been his father's right hand man in business affairs, married Laura Waite, and has one child, Maude.

Frep L. Hauu. In the last half dozen years the name Fred L. Hall has become very familiarly associated with the larger business affairs at Oberlin, and he is known as the man chiefly responsible for the introduction of natural gas into this little city. Myr. Hall is an old and experienced operator in gas fields, having been identified with the fields of Western Virginia, and he spent practically all his career in West Virginia until his removal to Oberlin in 1909. :

He was born at Wellsburg in the extreme northern end of the West Virginia panhandle above Wheeling on December 21, 1864, a son of Augustus C. and Mary Elizabeth (Morton) Hall. His paternal grandfather was Francis P. Hall, and both father and grandfather were natives of Germany. Augustus C. Hall was born in Germany in 1836 and died in August, 1904. His wife was born in Pennsylvania in 1840 and is still living. He came over to America with his parents when seven vears of age, and after landing at New Orleans came north to Cincinnati and finally located at Wellsburg, West Virginia. Augustus C. Hall spent his active career as a merchant, and was in one store for fifty-three years. During the Civil war he served in Company K of the West Virginia Regiment and continued active until illness compelled him to leave the army. He was a democrat in politics, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and of the Episcopal faith. Grandfather Hall was noted as a restless traveler, and in 1849 went out to the California gold fields and secured some modest fortune by his ventures in that district. Augustus C. Hall and wife are the parents of nine children. The six now living are: Clara McElroy, whose husband is a contractor at Wellsburg; William A., interested in the glass business at Wellsburg, West Virginia; John M., connected with glass manufacturing at Wellsburg; Leonard J., a merchant tailor at Wellsburg; and Mrs. Earl Mahon, a widow living at Wellsburg.

Fred L. Hall grew up in his native city, obtained his education in the local schools, and when only fourteen years of age began as a boy helper in a glass house. After a year and a half there he learned the tailor's trade, and that was his regular vocation in Wellsburg for thirty: years. During the '80s, when the oil and gas fields were developed in Southwestern Pennsylvania and West Virginia, Mr. Hall made some investments along that line and has kept it up ever since, and has made most of his modest fortune in gas and real estate. In September, 1909, he

On coming to Oberlin he leased and formed the Pittsfield Gas Company of Oberlin, and this company began active drilling operations in Erie and Lorain counties. Prior to that time Oberlin was burning artificial gas at a price of more than a dollar a thousand. It is estimated that the introduction of natural gas through the company headed by Mr. Hall has effected a saving of fully seven thousand dollars per month during the winter season. The company is incorporated at $60,000 with Mr. Hall as president and general manager. More than any other person he has been responsible for the development of gas in Lorain County, and his company has invested fully two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in pipes and apparatus for supplying of gas and fuel.

In 1914 Mr. Hall leased over six thousand acres of ground in and about Vermilion, Ohio, and in 1916 a very strong company was organized and incorporated under the style of the Ajax Gas & Oil Company. It is incorporated under the laws of Ohio and with a capital stock of $30,000. The officers are: T. B. Grant, of Oberlin, president; F. L. Hall, vice president, treasurer and general manager; W.S. Hall, secretarv: and directors, E. M. Grant, F. L. Hall, J. H. McDermott, A. M. Snyder and J. H. MeGrew.

At different times Mr. Hall has had some prominent financiers of the East associated with him, among them the late H. Clark Ford, who died in 1915. Another associate is Mr. Alonzo Snyder, of Cleveland.

On September 17, 1884, Mr. Hall married Mary E. Little, who was born in Newport, Ohio. daughter of Nathaniel Little of that town, who was a manufacturer at Wellsburg, West Virginia. To Mr. and Mrs. Hall were born six children: Carl N., associated with his father: William S., a merchant tailor of Cleveland, and also interested in the gas industry ; Fred L.. now in South Dakota; Lucey V., who is teaching in Florida and has attended the Conservatory of Music at Oberlin: Gertrude B.. in college in Florida; and Mary E., living at home.

JouN BLAINE JOHNSON is general manager of the Lorain County Electric Company, which as the result of concentration and consolidation now has an immense plant supplying electrical energy for lighting and power purposes to all quarters of Lorain County and even beyond the county lhinits.

He is one of a staff of expert electrical engineers who have grown up in the service of the extensive public utility corporation known as Henry L. Doherty and Company of New York City. In his work Mr. Johnson has heen associated with the Denver Gas and Electric Light Company at Denver. Colorado; the Fremont Gas, Electric Light and Power Company of Fremont, Nebraska: the Massillon Electric and Gas Company of Massillon, Ohio. and the Lorain County Electric Company, all of which are subsidiaries of the Cities Service Company, operated by the Doherty corporation.

Mr. Johnson was horn at Marathon, Iowa, December 17, 1884, a son of Charles X. and Hulda A. Johnson. He received his preliminary training in the grade and high schools at Hot Springs, South Dakota. where his parents still reside. In 1909 he graduated bachelor of science in the electrical engineering course from the University of Nebraska, and starting at the hottom in his profession has rapidly advanced to his present place of responsibility.

duties with the Denver Gas and Electric Company. He began there in July, 1909, and in December, 1910, was transferred 'to Fremont, Nebraska, as distribution superintendent in charge of the rebuilding of gas and electric distribution system. In May, 1912, Mr. Johnson was transferred from Fremont to Massillon, Ohio, as superintendent of the Massillon Electric and Gas Company. In March, 1914, the company sent him to Elyria as superintendent of the property now included in the Lorain County Electrie Company, and he was made general manager of this extensive business in September, 1915.

Mr. Johnson is a republican, a member of the Masonic Order and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and while in college belonged to the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta Club of New York City.

Henry W. Worst. One of the most easily identified citizens of Lorain County is Henry W. Wurst, whose name is associated with a number of the most familiar and important. business enterprises and industries of the cities of Elyria and Lorain, and who for many years has helped to supply the capital, the energy and the enthusiasm required in the upbuilding of a prosperous city. Mr. Wurst has not been numbered among the wealthy and fortunate all his life, and truly began his career at the bottom of the ladder, climbing slowly up by industry, faithfulness and integrity.

Born in Hesse Cassel, Germany, November 7, 1849, he is a son of Eckert and Elizabeth (May) Wurst. His father was born and reared in Germany, and before leaving that country became an expert stone cutter. In 1859 he brought his family to the United States, and from Amherst, his first location in Lorain County, he moved in about a year to Elyria, where his death oceurred in 1855 at the age of thirty-three. His widow subsequently married John Brell, and lived in Elyria until her death at the age of eighty-three December 11, 1908. Henry W. was the oldest of the three children born to his father, while his brother Samuel E. is a poultry breeder of Elyria and Mary is the wife of John Daney of that city. i

From the age of eleven Henry W. Wurst became dependent upon his own efforts. He was only six when his father died, and when his mother married about five years later he determined to shift for himself and make his own way in the world. His education in the meantime had consisted of a few months of district schooling each winter. In 1861 he entered upon his first stage in business, working for Charles A. Parks, an Elyria grocer, for only board and clothes. The agreement was that at the end of four years he was also to have $5 in cash, but in lieu of this payment he took a swarm of bees. After the close of the war he worked on a farm in Ridgeville and attended school in the winter, and was also employed by Mrs. Charles Arthur Ely for a time. At the age of seventeen Mr. Wurst made arrangements with Daniel M. Fisher by which he was to get wages of $15 per month and board during the summer, and in the winter was to get board and the privilege of attending school. As a result of all this work and self denial he finally acquired the equivalent of a common school education.

His most important start as a business man came when he entered the employ of Baldwin, Laundon & Nelson, one of the leading mercantile firms of Lorain County at the time, his wages being $75 for the first vear and board. For the second year the firm raised his salary to $150, and continued to promote him financially and in responsibilities each succeeding year. Mr. Wurst continued four years as the firm's successors, Hannan & Obitts. His career as an independent business man began October 2, 1875, when he and Henry M. Andress bought out the grocery and crockery department of Hannan & Obitts. The firm of Andress & Wurst continued about six months, when Mr. Wurst bought his partner's interest and continued as a crockery and grocery merchant for five years. He bought the frame building on West Broad Street which occupied the site on which the Wurst Block now stands, and moving his store to that locality continued his business five years, until the building was destroyed by fire in 1885. At that time he replaced the frame structure with the substantial Wurst Block, and continued 'merchandising until 1892.

A large part of Mr. Wurst's success has been in handling and improving real estate. His record as a builder includes the construction of something more than 150 residences, many of which are still under his ownership. The largest and best hotel of Elyria is the Andwur Hotel, in which Mr. Wurst owned a third interest for a number of years, and in that time he twice remodeled and enlarged the building. He finally sold his interest to Charles E, Wilson. This hotel gets its name by a combination of the first three letters in the names of both Mr. Wurst and Mr. Andress. Mr. Wurst was also one of the incorporators of the old Elyria Block, but sold his interests before that structure was burned in 1909. In the City of Lorain his enterprise has been equally important, and he was one of the builders of the Lorain Block, the largest store and office building in that city, was also one of the builders of the Kent Block and owned part of the Chapman Block in that city. He is one of the proprietors of the tract of 155 acres known as the Lorain Realty Company's Addition to Lorain. As a banker Mr. Wurst is treasurer of the Elyria Savings & Loan Company, a director in the Elyria Savings Deposit Bank & Trust Company, and a stock holder in the Penfield Avenue Savings Bank of Lorain. He was one of the incorporators of The Perry-Fay Manufacturing Company of Elyria, and is vice president and director of The Fay Stocking Company, being one of the leading men in this organization, and is sole owner of the Ohio Nursery & Supply Company. He is a director of the Elyria Telephone Company and works actively with the Elyria Chamber of Commerce. In November, 1909, he was made a member of the Board of Appraisers of real property, which early in the following year began the revision of the valuation of real property for taxation purposes at Elyria, with Mr. Wurst as chairman of the board. In politics he is a republican.

November 27, 1873, he married Miss Ella J. Robson. She is a native of Ridgeville, and a daughter of John and Sarah (Tong) Robson, who came from England. Earl H. Wurst, the oldest son of Mr. Wurst, is a successful voung business man of Elyria, Ohio, and by his marriage to Ella M. Hirsching of Elyria has two children named Gertrude V. and Nellie L. Charles J. Wurst, the younger son, a jeweler, married Mabel L. Quavle of Elyria, and they have one child, John H.

STEPHEN M. CoLe. One of the veteran citizens and business men of Oberlin is Stephen M. Cole, president of the S. M. Cole & Sons Lumber Company. The Cole family has lived in Oberlin practically seventy years. Mr. Cole himself has been in business there the greater part of his active career. He is one of the survivors of the great Civil war and has also manifested a sterling patrotism and public spirit in all his civic relations. He was born in Delaware County, Ohic, September 29, 1839, a son of Stephen W. and Elizabeth (Cockran) Cole. The grandfather was also Stephen Cole, a native of Connecticut, whence he moved to Fredericktown, Ohio, in the early days, and acquired a large tract of land there. The Coles came to America from England during the colonial period of settlement. Mr. Cole's maternal grandfather, Samuel Cockran, was a native of Pennsylvania, but afterwards settled on a farm and died near Fredericktown, Ohio. He was of Scotch-Irish descent. Five of his children attended Oberlin College, four of them graduating, and two sons, Samuel and William Cockran, became ministers, one of them died young while the other lived to be ninety-three. Stephen W. Cole was born in Connecticut in 1802 and died in 1879. His wife was born in Pennsylvania in 1805 and died in 1900. They were married at Fredericktown, Ohio, where they had been reared from early youth. Stephen W. Cole brought his family to Oberlin in 1845, and his name was associated with that section of Lorain County for many years. He helped build the First Congregational Church of Oberlin, of which he was an active member for many years. He was a farmer by occupation and owned a good farm in this county. First a whig and later a republican, he was a very strong abolitionist before the war and he did much to elevate the standards of schools, and of all institutions in his locality. He and his wife were the parents of seven children, and three now living are: Stephen M.; Frances, wife of Chambers D. Reamer, a well to do retired clothing merchant of Oberlin; and Samuel Cole, a real estate man at Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Stephen M. Cole grew up in Lorain County and was a student in Oberlin College, but, to quote his own words, graduated while in the army. In 1861 he enlisted in Company C, Seventh Ohio Infantry, and saw an active service covering three years, three months. He was in a great many campaigns and important battles. At Cross Lane, West Virginia, he was captured and was held in Confederate prisons for ten months, at Richmond, New Orleans and Salisbury, North Carolina. After being exchanged he rejoined his regiment, in time to fight at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and was in many other well known conflicts of the war. He was several times slightly wounded, and at Chanceellorsville sustained quite severe wounds.

After the war he returned to Oberlin and entered college with the intention of completing his course. However, after his army experience had rapidly matured him, he changed his mind and instead of getting a - complete education went to Gibralter, Michigan, and took up a new farm, to which he gave his work for three years. He then went to Northwest Missouri, spent some time at Kidder and then bought a farm at Hamilton. After three years of this experience he then went to Oberlin and has since been engaged in the lumber and building material business. He has furnished supplies for a great many of the homes constructed in Oberlin.

In the way of public service Mr. Cole served six years as street commissioner at Oberlin, has been a member of the council, and is in many ways a booster for his home town. In politics he is a republican, is an active member of the Grand Army Post, and he and his wife and daughter are members of the First Congregational Church of Oberlin.

In 1864 Mr. Cole married Rose A. Kelley, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Their family consists of three children: Edith M., who graduated from Oberlin College and was principal of the Academy for several years, but is now the wife of H. C. Shattuck, a Cincinnati attorney ; Percy C., who is actively associated in business with his father at Oberlin; and George, who is engaged in the lumber business in the West.

AuBert Monroe is a Lorain County citizen well known for his activities in different cities and towns, and for the past six years has been one of the enterprising factors in the village of Grafton, where he is now serving as mayor. By trade he is a baker, an occupation he

Born in the City of Boston, England, February 16, 1863, he is a son of Henry and Mary (Wingad) Monroe. With a common school education, at the age of fifteen he began learning his trade, and for three years worked hard as an apprentice without wages. Ar. Monroe was seventeen years of age when he came to America in 1880. Arriving at Lakeside, Ohio, where an aunt lived at the time, he was emploved during the following summer by the Lakeside Company, and then moved to Elyria, where for six years he was a journeyman baker.

On June 30, 1884, Mr. Monroe was married in Elyria to Miss Cora Trask. She was born at Ripon, Wisconsin, but at the time of her marriage was living at Elyria. Her parents were Lowell and Marietta (Demming) Trask.

In 1887 Myr. Monroe moved to Oberlin, and there began business for himself and for a time was a partner with G. W. Preston. In 1893, on account of his wife's poor health, he moved his family out to California and located at San Bernardino, where he was in business for two years. Returning to Oberlin, he resumed the baking business there but at the end of twelve years found his health greatly depleted, and for that reason he gave up the confining work of his trade and bought a grocery store. Afterwards he sold out and purchased a farm in Troy Township of Portage County, where he remained an active agriculturist for two years. By outdoor work he completely recovered his health, and then sold out and moved to Grafton in 1910. Here he bought the wellestablished bakery of J. H. Andrews. :

Mr. and Mrs. Monroe are the parents of six children, four of them still living: Myrta, born in Elyria, married J. H. Andrews, and they have a child, Helen, and the family reside at Colton, California. Clara. who was born at Lima, Ohio, married Harlan Cordrey, and they live at Garrett, Indiana, and have two children Cyril and Albert. Edmond. who was born in Oberlin, is a graduate of the Grafton High School and is now learning his father's business. Mary, born at Oberlin, is a member of the 1916 class in the Grafton High School.

A republican voter since he cast his first ballot for James G. Blaine, Mr. Monroe has always been a loyal and public spirited citizen in every community where he lived. Since coming to Grafton he has served as a member of the city council, was president of that body for more than a year, and when Mayor Finlayson resigned to become postinaster he accepted the vacancy, and in 1915 was elected for the regular term of two years as chief executive of this little city. Mr. Monroe is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as are also his wife and children. He has a prominent part in church affairs, has served in church offices and also as superintendent of Sunday School. Besides his property interests at Grafton he owns a residence in Cleveland.

Maurice E, Henpricxs. Elyria since becoming an industrial city has attracted to its citizenship many capable technical men from all over the country. Among these is Maurice E,. Hendricks, who has since lived at Elyria since 1902, has been identified with several of the Garford enterprises here, and since 1908 has been superintendent of The Machine Parts Company. He began his career as a watchmaker in Elgin. Illinois, and for fully a quarter of a century has filled responsible positions in various industries in different parts of the country.

Born at Elgin, Illinois. December 23, 1868, he is a son of Albert R. and Anna Elizabeth (Russell) Hendricks. His father was born in the old Baltic seaport of Danzig, Prussia, and when twelve years of age came to the United States with his parents, who settled at Palestine, Illinois. However, he grew to manhood in the home of an uncle, who took him to New Orleans, Louisiana, and there he learned the machinist's trade. He was a particularly competent tool maker and mechanical engineer, and is now living retired at Monrovia, California. After finishing his apprenticeship, he became a journeyman, and as is not infrequently the rule in the ranks of that profession he lived in many different localities during his active career. He was working at his trade in Philadelphia when he met and married Miss Russell, who was born in Philadelphia, of an old Dutch family. She diéd in July, 1896, while they were living at Erie, Pennsylvania. There were five sons and one daughter, Maurice being the third in age, and all are still living.

The only one of these children now living in Ohio, Maurice E. Hendricks as a boy attended the public schools of Elgin, Illinois, and from school entered the Elgin watch factory as an apprentice. He learned a trade there and remained in that city for about six years. Having become an expert watch tool maker, he finally left Elgin and went to Canton, Ohio, where he spent about three years in making watch cases and watches in the great Dueber-Hampden Watch Factory in that city. From Canton he returned to Elgin, later entered a watch factory at Aurora, Illinois, moving from there to Chicago, and finally to Erie, Pennsylvania, from which city he came to Elyria in 1902. His early employment was altogether in watch factories, but at Erie, Pennsylvania, he became connected with the Black Manufacturing Company, builders of the Tribune bicycles. On coming to Elyria in 1902 Mr. Hendricks entered The Federal Manufacturing Company's plant, manufacturers of bicycle saddles and pedals. The Federal Manufacturing Company was the big corporation which for a time largely controlled the output of bicycle saddles and had plants at different cities in the country, and the enterprise at Elyria was largely the outgrowth of the business of A. L. Garford and subsequently the concern was incorporated in the Garford Company, and its product largely changed to the manufacture of automobile parts. In this plant Mr. Hendricks became foreman tool maker. Later he went with The Machine Parts Company when that firm was organized in 1907, and has been with it continuously for eight years as superintendent. The Machine Parts Company manufactures wheel goods, screw machine products and fine reed furniture.

During his residence in Elyria Mr. Hendricks has also identified himself closely with the civie and social life of the city. He is a member of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce, and of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. On January 3, 1890, at Elgin, Illinois, he married Miss Jennie I. Ellmore, daughter of William C. and Elmira (Dedrich) Ellmore, both of whom are now living at South Bend, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks became the parents of two sons. Albert Ellwood, who was born at Elgin, is a mechanical engineer and lives in Chicago, Illinois. William Ellmore, the younger son, was born in Canton, and died at the age of twenty-three in Elyria January 20, 1913. He was also a mechanical engineer, and both sons were educated in the public schools of Erie, Pennsylvania, and Elyria, Ohio. William E. Hendricks at his death left a widow, whose maiden name was Miss Hazel Salisbury of Elyria, and two children, named Maurice Charles and Maxine Eleanor.

He was born in Russia Township of Lorain County October 11, 1851, a son of Nathan and Jane (Davis) Kelly. Nathan Kelly was born in Vermont in 1830 and died in September, 1914, being a son of Richard Kelly, a native of the same state, who in the early "40s brought his family to Lorain County and located in Henrietta Township. The grandfather cleared up a small farm and lived there until his death. Nathan Kelly was married in Lorain County to Miss Jane Davis who was born in Michigan in 1835.

James M. Kelly was one of six children and as a boy he spent his time on the farm and attended country school. His first regular occupation as already noted was in running an engine at Amherst, an employment he followed four or five years. He then managed to buy a small tract of land in Henrietta Township, and he made that the scene of his farming industry and his home until twenty-four years ago. He then rented his farm and bought another place in Russia Township. Mr. Kelly still owns both of these farms, but in 1903 moved to a comfortable town home at Oberlin and from that point has directed the management of his farms.

In January, 1878, he married Mary Bell, daughter of Henry Bell. Her father was a native of West Virginia and came to Ohio before the Civil war and in 1864 bought a farm in Lorain County, which he occupied until his death. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly have two children: Eura is the wife of Paul Wood, foreman of the Dean Electric Company at Elyria, Ohio: and Otta, a druggist at Oberlin, who completed a course in pharmacy at the Ohio Northern University at Ada.

Mr. Kelly is well known both in business and social affairs, is a republican in polities, was elected township trustee in 1907 and has held that office ever since, and is also a director in the Oberlin Banking Company. Fraternally he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

D. S. Hustep. One of the cldest active members in the dental profession in Lorain County is Dr. D. 8. Husted of Oberlin. He was graduated in dentistry thirty years ago and for fully a quarter of a century has been continuously at work in his profession at Oberlin.

Born at Clarksfield, Huron County, Ohio, March 17, 1861, he represents some early pioneer stock in Ohio. His parents were Hoyt and Anna C. (Stone) Husted. His grandfather Samuel Husted came to Ohio from Connecticut and was an early farmer. The maternal grandfather Daniel Stone was born at Danbury, Connecticut. and followed the trade by which Danbury has become famous as an industrial center, being a hatter. but in 1829 he came west to Ohio, making the journey by the Erie canal, which had been in operation then only about four years. After coming to Ohio he followed farming. Hoyt Husted was born in Connecticut in 1813 and died in 1866. By his first marriage to Sarah (ray he had four children, and two of his sons, Henry and Evelyn, were both soldiers in the Civil war. Henry was reported missing at Goldsboro, North Carolina. while Evelyn was wounded at Gettysburg and died soon afterward. Hoyt Husted was married at Clarksville, Ohio, after the death of his first wife to Anna Stone, who was born at Danbury, Connecticut, November 6, 1823, was brought to Northern Ohio by her parents when about six vears of age and she died September 23, 1909. After the death of her first husband she married Samuel Gray. Hoyt Husted and wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and in polities he was a republican. He was a miller and carpenter by trade.

which he entered the dental department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and was graduated D. D. 8S. in 1885. Returning to Oberlin, he was for two years engaged in practice with a half-brother, and then practiced for three years at Troy, Ohio. He permanently located at Oberlin in 1890 and has made his profession his chief interest and has always enjoyed a large and profitable practice.

- On April 25, 1889, Dr. Husted married Elizabeth Hurlburt. She was born in Decorah, Iowa, but was reared in Amherst, Lorain County. Her father, Elijah Hurlburt, was an attorney by profession, but died when Mrs. Husted was only a few weeks old. To their marriage have been born three children: Howard, who was graduated from Oberlin College in 1914, and is now teacher of physical training in the Public Schools in Cincinnnati; Edith, who graduated from Oberlin in 1915, is teacher of German and Latin in an Academy in South Dakota, and will sail August 26, 1916, for Kobe, Japan, where she is to take up work as a missionary ; Anna is still attending school. Doctor and Mrs. Husted take a very active part in the First Congregational Church of Oberlin, and in politics he is a republican.

SAMUEL S. LEonarpD. The spirit of twentieth century enterprise which has stimulated and produced in such an important degree the development of many industrial centers has one of its conspicuous illustrations at Elyria in The Western Automatic Machine Screw Company. This concern, which was established in 1873, has done not a little to increase the prominence of Elyria industrially and make the city known for its'products far beyond the boundaries of .the home state. While the main office and factory are located in Elyria, the company maintains a branch office and warehouse at Cleveland and a branch sales office at Detroit. This company manufactures practically any type of screw machine product, including set and cap screws, plain and castellated nuts, automobile, gas and gasoline engine parts, besides a large amount of special work in iron, steel or brass.

As vice president and manager of The Western Automatic Machine Screw Company. Samuel-S. Leonard is one of the forceful men of the industrial community, and has shown no less public spirit in connection with all the important movements and undertakings that have helped to make Elyria a city during recent years. Mr. Leonard, who comes of a family of industrial workers, was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, February 20, 1854, a son of Thomas W. and Sarah E. (Schenck) Leonard, who were also natives of Massachusetts. Some generations back three brothers named Leonard came from England and settled in the vicinity of Taunton, Massachusetts. They were among the first to engage in the iron business in New England, operating a large plant near Taunton, and the iron industry which they established and built up continued as a flourishing enterprise until about 1912. Thomas W. Leonard had hecome identified with manufacturing with his father many years ago in New England, but later became an oil merchant in New York City, and that was his business until his death in 1890, when about ~ fifty-eight vears of age. His widow is still living, a resident of Montclair, New Jersey, and at the time of this writing (1915) is eighty-four years of age. Of the seven children in the family, three daughters and four sons, one died in infancy, and the four now living are S. S. Leonard ; Charles H.. a resident of New York; Louise Cuyler, wife of George G. Gleason of Montclair, New Jersey; and Carrie W., a school teacher in Bayonne, New Jersey. J been identified with a number of the larger cities in the Middle West. He obtained his early education in the public schools of Brooklyn, attended a military school at Stamford, Cofnnecticut, and his tirst training in a business way was acquired by three years of work in a broker's oftice on Wall Street in New York City, and with a facetious reference to this time Mr. Leonard sometimes says that if he had hung around Wall Street until the present time there might have been a firm known as '"Morgan & Leonard.'' However, he seems to have followed his better destiny, and from the broker's office went into the firm of Howard Sanger & Company, extensive importers of notions and hosiery. He was with them-two years, and then went West to Mount Sterling, [linois, and for eight years was a clerk in the general store of E. F. Crane. _ About that time Mr. Crane organized and established the First National Bank of Mount Sterling, and Myr. Leonard was active as an assistant to the banker. He also started his own home while at Mount Sterling. In that town on November 18, 1875, he married Miss. Priscilla D. Adams, daughter of Thomas 8S. and Sarah (Birdsall) Adams. of an old family in that. Illnois locality, where her father was an extensive cattle dealer and had also served as county treasurer. Mrs. Leonard was born at Mount Sterling, educated in the public schools, and also at the seminary for young women located at Jacksonville, Illinois.

His employment in the First National Bank at Mount Sterling Mr. Leonard continued until about 1880. He then removed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was located in that metropolis of the Northwest for eight years, four years of which time were spent as manager for the Brush Electric Light Company. From Minneapolis he moved to Chicago where he had his headquarters for about a year, and then located at Cleveland, where he engaged in manufacturing as secretary of The Hill Clutch Company. Mr. Leonard's name as a manufacturer is also as well known in Cleveland as in Elyria, since he was one of the active men of that city for about sixteen years. In February, 1906, he came to Elyria, and has since been one of the live men in the building of The Western Automatic Machine Serew Company and is now its vice president and manager. This company employs a large number of skilled workers, aud at the present time its business is so large that the plant is operated night and day.

During 1913 Mr. Leonard was president of the Elvria Chamber of Commerce, and is now on its advisory board, an office to which each outgoing president automatically succeeds. He is also a director of The National Bank of Elyria, is vice president of the Young Men's Christian Association and one of those most active in the campaign for raising money to construct the splendid Young Men's Christian Association Building, which is an object of pride to all Elyria citizens. He is also a member of the Elyria Memorial Hospital Association. In politics he is a republican, and is both a York and Scottish Rite Mason. He is affiliated with Haleyon Lodge No. 498, Free and Accepted Masons at Cleveland; Thatcher Chapter No. 101, Roval Arch Masons of Cleveland; Elvria Council No. 86, Royal and Select Masters; Forest City Commandery No. 40, Knights Templar at Cleveland; Lake Erie Consistory of the thirtv-second degree Scottish Rite and Al Koran Temple of the Mystie Shrine, both of Cleveland. He is a past commander of Forest City Commandery of the Knights Templar. His church home is the First Congregational at Elyria, in which his wife is one of the most active workers and is now a deaconess. Mr. Leonard finds his chief recreation in golf and gardening, and is one of the directors of the Elvria Country Club.

at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is now the wife of J. H. Black of Mason City, Iowa, manager there for the Lehigh Portland Cement Company. They have one child, Richard Leonard Black. Mrs. Black was educated in Cleveland, is a graduate of the West High School of that city with the class of 1905, and in 1907 completed the course in the Kindergarten School of Oberlin College.

_ ALFRED E. Hare. One of the most competent citizens and business men in the district surrounding Oberlin is Alfred E. Hale, recognition of which fact has recently been made in his election to the office of county commissioner in 1914. He is now giving an excellent administration of that office. Mr. Hale has kept his career closely identified with the country life of Lorain County for many years, has been a factor in the cheese and butter industry and for a number of years has operated a high class dairy near Oberlin.

He was born in Henrietta township, Lorain County, March 23, 1864, a son of George and Margaret (Smith) Hale. His father was born in Hertfordshire, England, in 1815 and died in 1899. The mother was born in 1818 and died in February, 1893. The father came to Lorain County about 1855, at which time. his entire capital amounted to not more than $2.50. He worked as a farm laborer, and in 1856 he married near Birmingham in Lorain County, and a little later bought a small farm. His first wages on coming to Lorain County were only $15.00 a month. He finally sold his first farm and moved into Carlisle Township, where he bought another place and pursued agriculture there until his death. He was reared a member of the Episcopal Church, but for thirtysix years was identified with the First Congregational Society at Oberlin. In politics he was a republican. There were three children: Rosena, a widow living in Lorain County; George, who is living retired at Lorain; and Alfred E. Alfred E. Hale attended the schools in the country and at Elvria, and when quite a youth got an experience which led him into the cheese and butter business, which he followed for about twelve years. He finally sold his factory in 1904. In 1896 Mr. Hale bought his father's old homestead. and now has a well improved farm of 145 acres. He has put up several excellent barns, especially equipped for the dairy business, and has about twenty cows which supply a product that gives him a steady and regular revenue.

In January, 1886, Mr. Hale married Beulah B. Peabody. Her father, M. B. Peabody, was an early settler in Henrietta Township of Lorain County, where he is still living. Mr. and Mrs. Hale have two children: Cassie finished the high school at Elyria, also took the training school course and three years in Oberlin College, and is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Elyria. The son, Gilbert Neil, was graduated from the Elyria public schools, the Oberlin Business College, and spent one year in Oberlin College, and is now in charge of stock in the great Ford automobile plant at Detroit. Mr. Hale is affiliated with Oberlin Lodge of Masons and with Elyria Lodge No. 465, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

R. D. A. Gunn, M.D. A physician of fully thirty years' experience, Dr. Gunn was for tyenty years of that time located at Cleveland, but since 1906 his home has been in Oberlin, where he owns a comfortable home and has a large professional business.

He comes of that old Scotch stock that so freely settled Washington County in Southwestern Pennsylvania during the early days. He was horn in that county March 10, 1859, a son of Alexander A. and Mary (Burns) Gunn. His grandfather, John Gunn, was born near Aberdeen,

Scotland, and coming to America when a young man settled in Washington County Pennsylvania. The maternal grandfather, John Burns, born in 1797 in Pennsylvania, was related to the same family as the poet, Robert Burns. Dr. Gunn's parents were -both natives of Washington County, where his father was born in 1822 and his mother in 1824. They were married in that state and spent their active careers on a farm in the rugged and picturesque district which has figured so conspicuously in American history since the whiskey rebellion. The father died there in 1900 and the mother in 1907 at a good old age. They were members of the United Presbyterian Church, and in politics Alexander Gunn was republican. During the Civil war he entered Company Kk of the Pennsylvania Cavalry, served as second heutenant, but was severely wounded and was sent home and was never able to re-enter the service. He was a man of many excellent qualities, was well read, was strictly honest, and though he made a great deal of money in his active lifetime, he was too liberal with it to accumulate a fortune.

Doctor Gunn was the fourth in a family of ten children. eight of whom are still living. He acquired his early education in the Washington County common schools, graduated from Waynesburg College in 1884, and then entered the medical department of Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where he took his M. D. degree in 1887. Almost imme-- diately he set up in practice in Cleveland, and remained there for twenty years, ten years of that time serving as medical examiner for the Pennsy]- vania Railway Company, a work which took a great deal of his time. In 1906 he moved to Oberlin and is one of the capable general practitioners of Lorain County.

John Burns, was graduated from Oberlin College in 1913 and is now connected with the Goodyear Rubber Company at Akron. Helen, who still hves at home attended high school and also was a student in Oberlin College for a time. Ross, is a freshman in Oberlin College. Nolan Conner is still attending school. The family are members of the First Congregational Church, and in' politics Doctor Gunn is an independent republican. Professionally he is associated with the county and state medical societies and the American Medical Association.

ADOLPH GLATTSTEIN. In June, 1915, the Cleveland Plain Dealer had an article describing the rapid growth of the Hungarian population in Elyria. During the last ten or fifteen years the rapid growth of industrialism in that city has attracted a number of foreign peoples, and not least among them in number and in influence are the Hungarians, who are now found to the number of about 600. Their names are identified in a business, professional and social relation with the life of the city, and by character. activities and ideals they are a most wholesome group of American citizens.

One of the pioneers among the Hungarians to locate in Elyria is Adolph Glattstein, who came to America more than thirty years ago and for a number of years has been well established as a local business man. Mr. Glattstein has not only been a leader among his own people but ail classes recognize his ability and true worth. He was horn in Hungary May 15, 1865, a son of Bernard and Julia Glattstein. His grandfather Glattstein, was a Jewish minister in Hungary, while his maternal grandfather Zaltzman owns a tannery. Bernard Glattstein was a teacher of languages in the old country and the mother was also a college graduate. Adolph has four brothers named William, Leo, Morris and Isadore. and a sister Catherine.

Reared in a home of culture and of comfort, Adolph Glattstein obtained his early education at Kashau, Hungary, and attended the Kashau College Gymnasium. In 1882 he set out for America, and soon afterwards located in Cleveland. Learning the cigar trade, he engaged in business for himself in 1885 as a general merchant. He finally left Cleveland and took his family to Kansas City, and after living there twelve years his wife died, and he then returned to Cleveland to lay her to rest in that city. From Cleveland Mr. Glattstein moved to Elyria, where he was among the first of his nationality and soon afterward established his place of business where he has since remained, at 146 Woodford Avenue.

Mr. Glattstein is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Elyria Lodge No. 465, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Elyria Lodge No. 431, and is a member of the Jewish Church. On March 1, 1887, he was married at Cleveland to Theresa Havre, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louie Havre. She also had sisters named Margaret, Rosella and Sadie, and two brothers named Anthony and Edwin. Mr. Glattstein has a daughter Hermina Glattstein, now the wife of Louie E. Fischman, and they have one child, Theresa Louise.

In the article in the Plain Dealer already mentioned Mr. Glattstein is referred to as one of the leaders among the Hungarian people, and he fathered the movement by which an aid society was established, which later merged with the Elyria Branch No. 107 of the Verhovay Aid Society, which has now been in existence for six years. Its membership has grown to about 130. Later a branch of the Court Batthanyi Hungarian Aid Society was organized, and through this organization public entertainments have been given, many of which feature picturesque Magyar costumes and customs, and furnish interesting glimpses of typical Hungarian social life to native Americans. Of Mr. Glattstein's personal influence the article in the Plain Dealer said: ''Mr. Glattstein, who was among the first Hungarians to come to Elyria has personally assisted many of his countrymen in familiarizing themselves with English, American customs, and in generally preparing them for American , citizenship.'' He speaks four different languages.

L. T. Davis is proprietor of the North Eaton Lumber and Coal Company at North Eaton. While a native of Lorain County, Mr. Davis was a farmer and business man in Missouri, but some years ago returned to this county and has since occupied a fine country home in Eaton Township and has also built up a large business in lumber and builders supplies. He is regarded as one of the substantial citizens in that section of the county.

His birth occurred December 24, 1861, on what is now known as the Fauver Farm in Eaton Township. Mr. Davis takes much interest in local history and it was at his suggestion that a paragraph was inserted in this history regarding the old Revolutionary soldier, George Fauver, who is buried in the Butternut Ridge Cemetery in Eaton Township. Mr. Davis is a son of Thomas Jefferson and Mary (Brooks) Davis, both of whom were natives of St. Lawrence County, New York. Mary Brooks was brought to Lorain County by her parents in 1831, when she was about one year old. Thomas J. Davis grew up in New York State, married his first wife there, and after her death and when he was about thirty-five years of age he came to Lorain county, and established a wagon shop at Eaton Center. Here he met and married Miss Brooks. He was an expert mechanic, and continued his wagon business until he removed to Hodgman County, Kansas, where he secured quite a tract of land and spent a number of years in developing it. From Kansas he removed to Carroll County, Missouri, where he remained until his death on February 11, 1903, at the age of about eighty years. His widow died about fifty days later in Chicago, Illinois.

Mr. Davis' mother was a daughter of Alva Brooks, who was one of the early settlers of Lorain County. He gave her a farm of about eightyfour acres at the center of Eaton Township, and it is still owned in her name and belongs to the estate. It was on this farm that L. T. Davis spent his boyhood. He attended country schools, also took one year in Baldwin University at Berea, and at the age of seventeen went to live with an uncle in Carroll County, Missouri. While in Missouri he attended a college at Avalon. His uncle was administrator of the property left him by his grandfather Brooks, and after a time he bought 200 acres of farming land in Carroll County and applied himself with characteristic industry to its cultivation and management.

While in Carroll County, Missouri, Mr. Davis was married September 1, 1886, to Miss Mida Roberts of Livingston County, Missouri. By this marriage he has two daughters: Jessie, wife of Newton Hoskin of Eaton Township and the mother of four children; and Freda, wife of Don Cook, also of Eaton Township, and the mother of three children.

During his residence in Missouri Mr. Davis acquired about 360 acres of fertile farming land and was also interested in a planing mill at Carrollton. His wife died at Carrollton and on January 23, 18%, he was married in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to Miss Elizabeth Shearer. Mrs. Davis was born on a farm in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Hiram and Frances (Garrard) Shearer. She grew to womanhood in Pennsylvania, received a common school education, and met her husband during a visit with a friend in Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have two children, both of whom were born in Carroll County. Frances is a graduate of the Elyria High School and also took a course in the Kent Normal, has taught one term, and is still at home. The son James Garfield is a graduate of the Elyria High School and is also at home.

In 1903 Mr. Davis sold out his interests in Missouri and moved to North Eaton, where he now occupies the farm which his mother forinerly owned and in which he has a half interest. After a vear or so as a practical farmer, in 1905 he established his present business as a coal and lumber merchant at North Eaton and has sueceeded in building up a very profitable trade in that section of the county. Mr. Davis is also the heaviest stockholder in the North Eaton Telephone Company, which was organized in 1908 and of which he has since heen secretary. As a republican he east his first presidential ballot for James G. Blaine in 1884, and claims that he has always remained true to the essential principles of the party. In 1914 the progressives nominated him for the office of county commissioner, and while he was not elected he had the satisfaction of leading his ticket. He is a member and elder in the Disciples Church. while Mrs. Davis is a Methodist. He also belongs to the Grange in Columbia Township.

H. B. Woop. One of the most attractive points on the rural landscape of Lorain County, is the H. B. Wood farm, four miles northeast of Oberlin, in section 11 and township 5 north, range 17 west, and on rural route No. 2 out of Oberlin. It has been the home and center of activities for the Wood family for two generations, and the site of the old homestead and a considerable body of the land comprised in the original estate is now owned by Marshall A. Woed, whose father's name is still familiarly associated with the place.

1852, a son of Harrison Burchard and Gracia C. (Pember) Wood. Harrison B. Wood, who was born near Albany, New York, was a son of Jeremiah Wood, who married a Miss Dimick, and came to Lorain County when: his son Harrison was about fourteen years of age. It was the grandfather who first acquired the tract of land now included in the H. B. Wood Farm.

After growing to manhood and after his father's death, H. B. Wood acquired from the other heirs the old farm and added to it as a nucleus until he was the owner of about 500 acres. Three hundred acres of this estate are still owned by the family and Marshall A. Wood's individual farm comprises about 102 acres. Harrison B. Wood was a man of many excellent qualities and one of the leading citizens of his time in Carlisle Township. He was not a seeker after official honors, though a loyal democrat, and did his best work in preparing intelligently for his business interests, in providing for his family, and in fulfilling his obligations as a neighbor and friend. He lived to be seventy-eight years of age, and his death caused a profound shock since he was killed on the Lake Shore Railway. He died September 13, 1897.

Of his eight children only two are now living. A brief record of the family is as follows: Prudence, who died in Michigan, married Rev. Allen Gridley, and she left a daughter, Grace, who was graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and now lives in Boston as Mrs. Wim, and conducts a music studio in that city, being the mother of three children. Harrison Delos, the second child, was an implement salesman at Oberlin and died there in January, 1908, and by his marriage to Elizabeth Gleason, was the father of the following children: Dr. Walter A., now of Philadelphia, John of Oberlin, James, a manufacturer of concrete at Barry, Texas, Grace, wife of M. A. Houghton, Oberlin's postmaster, Harold, who died at the age of fourteen, and Dudley, who is a graduate of Oberlin College and lives in that town. Malcolm H., the third child, died September 29, 1915, having been a farmer in this county, and by his marriage to Mary Reamer had seven children: Mabel C., who died July 19, 1911, was a teacher in Elyria schools; Harrison B., married Edith B. Brenner, of Cleveland and they have one child, Brenner R., and reside in Oakland, California; Ollie M., married T. C. Metzger of Lorain, Ohio, a clothing merchant; Robert L., a member of the firm of Wood Construction Company, Oberlin, Ohio, married Gertrude Stough; Wesley R., died September 19, 1900, and two who died in infancy. The fourth in order of age is Marshall A. Della M. is living in Carlisle Township, the wife of Frank Prindle, and has three children, Hazel, Frances and Harold. Effie M., who died September 6, 1897, was a graduate of Oberlin College. Rov, died when about fourteen years of age. Frank, who died January 3, 1900, married Jennie Talley and left one child, Goldie.

Marshall A. Wood spent his boyhood on the old homestead, and began life with a common school education. Farming has been his regular career, and he has prospered and has exemplified many of the excellent qualities for which the Wood family have always been noted.

On October 12, 1893, he married Correlia A. Reamer who was born and reared at Smithville in Wayne County, Ohio, a daughter of Jacob and Sophia (Fitger) Reamer. Her father was born at Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, but when a small lad came to Ohio with his parents Daniel and Mary (Krill) Reamer. Jacob Reamer served as a soldier in the Eighty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and about four weeks after he went to the front was killed in the battle of Chancellorsville and is buried on that battlefield. Mrs. Wood's mother was born in Wayne County, Ohio, near Wooster August 21, 1832, was reared there, and daughter, Helen C., who was born on the old farm June 1, 1896. and in 1910 at the age of fourteen entered Elyria High School after an examination, and was graduated with the Class of 1914.

Mr. Wood inherited eighty-two acres of the old H. B. Wood farm, and subsequently bought twenty acres more from the estate. Since then he has made a great many improvements. He has placed a basement under the barn, and after tearing down the old residence he constructed the present modern home. In 1907 he put down a gas well 935 feet under the surface, and since then has had a good supply of gas to be used for heating and lighting. His house is one of the best equipped with modern conveniences and comforts in the rural district of Lorain County. He has a complete waterworks plant and has hot and cold water for all purposes. The house is a two story structure built on a basement 26x84 feet, the first story being of cement walls, and containing eight rooms and bath. Mr. Wood has never participated in politics, though he was reared a democrat and east his first presidential ballot for Cleveland in 1884.

JAMES C. SmitH. No small share of technical skill and ability to lead and direct the work of a large factory organization has been furnished to the Elyria industrial community by James C. Smith, who is factory manager of The Machine Parts Company and has been closely identified with this and some of the other large enterprises in Elyria for more than twenty years. Mr. Smith, who probably inherits his taste for things mechanical from his father, began his career as a machinist's apprentice and has filled a number of positions in a rising grad2 of responsibility in factories and industries both in Lorain County and elsewhere.

Born at New Hartford, Oneida County, New York, November 16, 1861, James C. Smith is a son of Edward B. and Helen (Cunningham) Smith. His father, Edward B. Smith, was born in England, a son of Jonathan Smith, who spent all his life in that country. Helen Cunningham was born at New Hartford, New York, and her father, James Cunningham, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and being a radical and expressing his views too freely, was thrown into prison, but by the aid of influential friends was released and came to Canada, and lived for many years in the United States. Edward B. Smith as a tool maker was in the employ of the Remington Arms Company at Ilion, New York, during the Civil war. When peace brought about a slackening of that industry, he moved to Meadville, Pennsylvania, was employed for a time by the Atlantic & Great Western, now the Erie Railroad, and in 1867 moved to Cleveland, Ohio. About twelve years later he took up his residence at Elyria, but after a year and a half returned to Cleveland, where he died in 1884. His wife passed away in 1880,

On reaching the second year of the high school at Cleveland. James C. Smith left school to gain a vocational training as apprentice to the machinist's trade. He was with the White Sewing Machine Company in Cleveland for a time, and during the year and a half his parents lived in Elyria he was employed by the firm of Topliff & Ely. He afterwards worked for I. N. Topliff and for a time was in the employ of the Cleveland Telegraph Supply Company, which later became the Brush Electric Company, and also with the Chapin Nut Bolt Company.

On returning to Elyria Mr. Smith was for a time with Mead & Wallace, manufacturers of carriage hardware, and later with James Hollis, who conducted a machine shop on the site now occupied by The Machine Parts Company. For 314 years he had charge of the iron valve department in the brass works at Lorain, and then returned to the machine works formerly conducted by Mr. Hollis, but at that time under the proprietorship of H. K. Day. The forming of his next connection in industrial affairs is one of interest and importance to his personal career. He returned to the employ of the Topliff & Ely Company, which at that time was making some of the first of the famous Garford bicycle saddles. On December 1, 1892, Mr. Smith was made superintendent of the manufacture of these saddles for The Garford Company, and continued in charge of this department of a large and growing industry until May, 1905. He resigned to take the management of the Rochester Valve Company, which in about a year later was reorganized as The Machine Parts Company, an Ohio corporation, in which Mr. Smith became vice president. When he left the Garford Company's plant as superintendent the esteem in which he was held by his many employes was well shown when the men as a token of their regard presented him with a handsome gold watch and chain and a Masonic charm. Mr. Smith is now a director and factory manager of The Machine Parts Company and is also a director in The Worthington Company.

He is a director in the Masonic Temple Company, and for many years has been closely identified with Masonic affairs. He is affiliated with King Solomon Lodge No. 56, Free and Accepted Masons; with Marshall Chapter No. 47, Royal Arch Masons, in which he is past high priest; with Elyria Council No. 86, Royal and Select Masters, in which he is past thrice illustrious master; and with Elyria Commandery No. 60, Knights Templar, of which he is past commander. He is also a member of the United Commercial Travelers and the Elyria Chamber of Commerce. As a local citizen he has not neglected his duties, and for about five years up to January, 1908, was a member of the board of public service and its president during the last year.

Mr. Smith married Miss Elizabeth Howells, who was born in Baltimore, Maryland, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Howells, who as children were brought from Wales, their native country, to the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have three children: Brenton Arthur, who graduated from the Elyria High School in 1911, is a draftsman by trade, and is now connected with The Willys-Overland Co., Elyria, Ohio ; Helen Elizabeth, who graduated from the Elyria High School in the class of 1913 and is now a stenographer; and Theodore Howells, who is still a student in the high school. All three children were born at Elyria.

Cauvin Jackson. When a man has lived a life of usefulness and honor in one community for many years, his fellow citizens recognize in him a man deserving of respect and his name and some narrative of his activities have an appropriate place in the local annals of his township and county. Such has been the role of Calvin Jackson of Eaton Township, who now past seventy years of age is retired and enjoying the comforts and pleasures of a fine rural home on Center Road half a mile west of Eaton Center.

He was three years old when his parents, James W. and Samantha (Cheney) Jackson came to Lorain County. He was born in Cattaraugus County, New York, January 20, 1845. On coming to Lorain County his father bought a small farm three miles north of Elyria, paying $12.50 an acre, and spent the rest of his days there. He was a republican, and was a very active worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church. In fact, he was a local preacher, and filled the pulpit when the regular minister was absent. In the family were seven children, one of whom died in childhood. Of the others Calvin was the oldest. Mary Jane still lives on the old homestead; Melissa is the wife of Samuel Cox. by whom she has two children, and they live in Eaton Township; Andrew J. is elsewhere referred to in this publication; Arthur also lives in Union Township: Frank is a bachelor and occupies the old homestead with his sister. The father of these children died in 1899 and the mother on November 19, 1905, and both are buried in the Sheffield Cemetery.

Calvin Jackson while growing up on the farm in Lorain County acquired a common school education, and at the early age of sixteen began working by the month at wages of $8. He soon afterwards went to Cleveland and enlisted for service in the Union army, but hefore he was mustered in his father interposed and took him home. Later he became a member of the Home Guard and received considerable military training. Then in May, 1864, he regularly enlisted in Company K of the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was mustered into service at Columbus, and after spending a few days at Camp Chase was sent with his command to Opequan Creek in West Virginia and was first under fire at Martinsburg in that state. He also was in the fight at Harpers Ferry. After serving out his regular enlistinent of four months he returned to Lorain County and soon had a place as a farm laborer at wages of $22 a month.

Thus it was by hard work that he laid the foundation for his prosperity. On September 17, 1868, Mr. Jackson married Miss Louisa Reisinger. whose home was at Liverpool. Medina County. Ter parents Jaco} and Elizabeth (Kellar) Reisinger were both natives of Germany, where they grew up, and the mother was the first to come to America, and they were married in Liverpool. They settled there where Mrs. Jackson's father followed his trade as shoemaker, which he had learned according to the thorough methods of a German cobbler. As was the practice in those times, he went from home to home making up shoes for the family at each place. Later he bought a farm near Liverpool on the county line.

After his marriage Mr. Jackson for several vears rented land and by much self denial and by the loyal cooperation of his wife saved sufficient to buy his present home. Here he has effected many improvements and is now in a position to take his remainitig years somewhat at leisure.

To Mr. and Mrs. Jackson were born seven children, all but one of them still living. Perry married Elizabeth Stang and has two children, Lucile and Clifford. Lillia is the wife of Asa Hance and lives in Eaton. Charles married Nettie Keasey and they have four children, Herman. Chester, Ruth and Samuel. Arthur married Bernice Strickland and has three children, Claude. Leo and Garnet. Roy married Verne Strickland and has one child Marian. Pearl is clerk in a store at Alliance, Ohio.

Tn politics Mr. Jackson is a republican and east his first presidential ballot for Grant. He and his wife are members of the Disciples Chureh at Eaton and they are also members of the Grange.

FraANK E. Scuwartz. Among Carlisle Township's men of enterprise and progressive spirit special mention should be made of Frank E. Schwartz. who is one of the members of the Board of the Lorain Agricultural Society and in the course of his active career has done a great deal of constructive work both on his own land and toward raising the general standards of agriculture, stock raising and rural life in his part of the county.

Ilis tine homestead of 125 acres, where he does extensive farming and dairying and also breeds high grade Poland China hogs and Oxford Down sheep, is located ahout 445 miles south and 11% miles east of Elyria on the LaGrange Road, and he is served by rural route No. 1 ont from LaGrange.

A native of Lorain County, he was born in Russia Township July 24, 1856, a son of David and Christine (Baker) Schwartz. His father, who is still living at the venerable age of eighty-three, at the home of a daughter in Elyria, was born in Germany. His father died in the old country and when David was about sixteen years of age the widowed mother, with other children, set out for the land of liberty and soon afterward arrived in Lorain County and established themselves in Russia Township. David Schwartz was married in that township and by much self denial, hard work and good judgment accumulated a fine farm and made emple provisions for his own declining years and did well by his children.

It was on the home farm in Russia Township that Frank E. Schwartz spent his youth, and his education came from the local schools. However, he left school at the age of fourteen, and has been hard at work ever since. He helped manage the home farm until he was about twenty-four, and on April 28, 1880, was married in Carlisle Township to Miss Lucy Shauver. Mrs. Schwartz was born in Amherst Township, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Repp) Shauver.

A short time before his marriage and in preparation for that event, Mr. Schwartz purchased twenty-eight acres of land in Carlisle Township. The only improvements were a log house and a log barn. He and his young wife made the best of difficulties, and by heroic economy and effort soon had their affairs moving in the direction of prosperity. While there Mr. Schwartz built a new house and barn and gave a great deal of value to the land above what it represented when he first took possession.

From that home in 1895 he moved to his present place. and here again he has carried on extensive remodeling and improvement. In the summer of 1908 he put down a gas well 700 feet, and that furnishes a supply of gas sufficient for home consumption. For the past twenty years Mr. Schwartz has been breeding thoroughbred hogs, and he is a master of that branch of farm husbandry. About seven years ago he took up sheep husbandry, and has found considerable profit in that. Mr, Schwartz has won his full share of prizes upon his thoroughbreds when exhibited at county fairs. ;

Mr. and Mrs. Schwartz have one daughter, Lilah May, who was born in Carlisle Township, and has finished her education in the common schools. While Mr. Schwartz was reared.a democrat and cast his first presidential ballot for a democratic candidate, he has since joined the republican ranks and is a firm believer in the basic principles of that party. For three years he served as township trustee and has also been a director of his locai schools. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias at LaGrange and of the Modern Woodmen of America at Elyria. It was in 1913 that he was chosen to an official place on the board of the Lorain County Agricultural Society and was reelected for another term. He is one of the progressive men who have kept the affairs of the society moving to higher and better attainments. Recently the board constructed some new buildings and now has one of the best grand stands for a county to be found anywhere in Ohio.

CHARLES WILLIAM SmitH. Among the veteran retired merchants of Lorain County perhaps none is better known through long association with one line of business than Charles W. Smith, who for fully half a century had been in the jewelry and watch making trade and business at Elyria. For the greater part of this time his store was not only represented as an important landmark in the shopping district, but was regarded as the largest and most important establishment of its kind in that city. Throughout all his career Mr. Smith has manifested a high degree

A resident of America since he was twelve years of age, Charles William Smith was born February 6, 1842, in Tuebingen, in the Kingdom of Wuertemberg, Germany, a son of Christian Gottlieb and Agnes (Waiblinger) Schmid, as his father wrote his name. Both parents died in Elyria. The father came to America in 1853 with two other members of his family, and the mother followed with the other children in 1854. Charles W. Smith made the voyage with his mother in 1854. He had already had some benefit of instruction in the schools of Germany, and after coming to Elyria spent three months as a pupil in the old stone schoolhouse on East Avenue, and another three months at an old schoolhouse now torn down which stood on Middle avenue.

In 1862, at the age of twenty, Mr. Smith took up the trade of watchmaker and jeweler and engaged in that business in the store on Broad Street at the corner of Mill Street, a corner now occupied by Robinson and Hancock, clothiers. In 1865 he moved to the Beebe House, and occupied the corner store on Broad Street now occupied by the Lorain County Banking Company, in the Andwur Hotel. In 1874, having prospered as a merchant, Mr. Smith built and moved into his own store, the Smith Block, at 541 Broad Street. His business prosperity is represented by some important building and real estate interests. Besides the Smith Block at 541 Broad Street, he is also owner of the Smith Block at 538-542 Broadway in the City of Lorain, and he owns a substantial residence at 651 Broad Street in Elyria. Mr. Smith has been a witness to most of Elvria's development since it was a very small town. The family on coming to America spent about a year and a half in Cleveland, and arrived in Elyria about 1855. It was then a small town, and the locality on Broad Street where Mr. Smith now has his home was at that time mainly a cow pasture, though now located nearly in the center of the business district. With a few more years of rapid development such as Elvria has had during the past decade his home will necessarily have to be moved or torn down to make way for the advance of business development in that section of the city.