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Mr. and Mrs. Starr have one daughter. Frances B.. who was born in Penfield September 30, 1893. She graduated from the LaGrange public schools and is a member of the class of 1916 in Oberlin College.

R. H. Kinnison. After a long and useful career as a schoolman R. H. Kinnison retired in 1915, having spent fully half a century in the profession and for more than thirty years had been connected with the Wellington schools as superintendent. He is now taking life somewhat at ease and enjoys the comforts of a fine home at Wellington.

Mr. Kinnison's ancestors were English who settled in New England in the Colonial times and it is interesting to recall that his great-yreatgrandunele, David Kinnison, who lived to be one hundred fourteen years of age, served through both the Revolution and the War of 1812 and was the last surviving member ot the famous Boston tea party. Professor Kinnison's grandfather, Charles Kinnison, a native ot Virginia. was an early settler in Jackson County, Ohio.

R. H. Kinnison was born at Middleton, Jackson County. Ohio, February 8, 1846, a son of Charles S. and Hulda (Smith) Kinnison. His maternal grandfather, Francis Smith, served in the Civil war, and was killed in the battle of Pittsburg Landing when sixty-three years of age. He had enlisted first in the three months service and then reenlisted for three years. Charles S. Kinnison was born in Jackson County. Ohio, December 16. 1815, and died December 15. 1892. He was also a teacher, was educated in academic grades and continued active in the schoolroom for fifteen vears., after which he followed farming. He was a republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Charles S. Kinnison married for his first wife on September 6. 1841, at Middleton, Ohio, Miss Hulda Smith, who was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, April 22, 1821, and died in 1850: Of-his three children Professor Kinnison is the only one now living. The father married for his second wife Margaret Jane Carrick, who was born April 7, 1821. By this union there were four children, and the two now living are: James E. Kinnison, who is a graduate of Ohio University of which he is now a trustee and for thirty-four years has been superintendent of the publie schools of Jackson, Ohio; and Lola, wife of William V. Wells, a coal dealer at Columbus, Ohio.

Professor Kinnison began teaching when little more than a_ boy. He first attended the Jackson County public schools, spending one vear in the high school at Jackson and two terms in the Ewington Academy in Gallia County. He paid his way through college by teaching. and in 1873 was graduated from the Ohio University at Athens in the classical course, received his Master's degree in 1876, and he was recently honored by his university with the degree Doctor of Pedagogy. At his graduation he represented his class in oratory.

After leaving college Professor Kinnison was superintendent of the schools at Willoughby, Ohio, for two years, and filled several other places with credit and ability. In 1879 he came to Wellington to take charge of the schools as superintendent and almost the entire history of the local school system might be written as a pertinent part of his individual history. He finally retired from his active duties in 1915 as superintendent emeritus, an honor conferred by the board of education.

On December 30, 1874, Professor Kinnison married Lida C. Woodworth, a daughter of Lysander and Emily (Cumings) Woodworth. Mrs. Kinnison was born in Lake County, Ohio, in 1851, and her father was a farmer and spent most of his life in Madison, Ohio. Professor and Mrs. Kinnison have three children. Charles W., who was born at Norwalk, Ohio, is now office manager and secretary of the Samuel Austin Construction Company of Cleveland, Ohio. Paul F., the second son, is assistant manager of the varnish department for the Sherwin Wilhams Company at Cleveland. The daughter, Ruth, is the wife of Roy F. Cope, a successful commission merchant at Topeka, Kansas. These children were educated at the college at Delaware, Ohio.

Mr. Kinnison and wife have for many years been leading members of the Methodist Church at Wellington, and both have taught in the Sunday school for thirty-six years and he is a member of the official board of the church. He is a Master Mason, and a republican in politics. In 1883 he built his beautiful home at Wellington. and having given most of his life to publie service in the capacity of teacher is now prepared to spend his declining years in comfort and well-earned ease.

Frank B. Grecc, M. D. In the practice of medicine at Wellington for over twenty years, Dr. Frank B. Gregg is now one of the oldest established physicians in that part of Lorain County. He has an excellent general practice, has won a worthy place in professional affairs, and while not a specialist he has become well known through increasing years for his ability in handling diseases of the eye and ear. Wellington counts him as one of its most capable and useful citizens.

Born at Springboro, Ohio, September 27, 1865, Doctor Gregg is a son of Jonah R. and Ella S. (Gregg) Gregg. His grandfather, William Gregg, was born near Deerfield, Ohio, and spent all his active career on a farm in that locality. He was active in church affairs, being first a Quaker and later a Univeralist. Several of his sons were soldiers in the Civil war, and one of them, Harrison Gregg, was killed during the Atlanta campaign, while George, another soldier, died at Fayetteville, West Virginia. Dr. Gregg's maternal grandfather was Aaron Gregg, who was born in Loudon County, Virginia, moved to Kentucky and from there to Ohio. He served in the State Senate of Kentucky, and was prominent in republican politics at a time when that party was very unpopular, and it was largely on account of political persecution that he left Kentucky and moved to Ohio.

Jonah R. Gregg was born in Springboro, Ohio, in 1836 and died in 1893. His wife was born in Kentucky in 1844 and died in February, 1915. They were married at Springboro and Jonah Grege followed farming for many years in Warren County, Ohio. He was a member of the Universalist Church and in politics a republican. Of the four children the two now living are Dr. Frank B. Gregg and Earl L., who is Eastern representative in New York City for the Clark Teachers Agency of Chicago.

Doctor Gregg as a boy attended the district school, was reared on a farm, afterwards continued his literary education in Buchtel College at Akron, and in 1889 graduated from the Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio, and in 1892 completed his course in the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati.

For three years Doctor Gregg had exceptional apnarannitics by his service as assistant surgeon in the Dayton Soldiers Home. With this mature experience and thorough equipment he moved to Wellington in 1895, and in 4 few vears was comfortably established in a large practice. He is surgeon for the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Company, and is a member of both the County and State Medical societies.

In April, 1895, he married Miss Carrie Danforth, who was born near Maineville in Warren County, Ohio. Her father was Horace Danforth, and her mother's maiden name was Emma Butterworth, of a prominent old Ohio family and a cousin of Benjamin Butterworth. Doctor and Mrs. Gregg have one child, Robert, who is now in the first year of the high school. Mrs. Gregg is a member of the Friends Church, Fraternally Doctor Gregg is a Maccabee and in polities a republican.

Ray D. Jouxson. To no one class does Lorain County owe more of its wealth and strength and prosperity than to the agriculturist. While the county as a whole has a well diversified development, many industries and productive resources, it is the farms taken in the aggregate which furnish the great bulk of material for the well being of its inhabitants. One of the present generation of progressive farmers is Ray D. Johnson whose home is about a mile and a half east of LaGrange postoffice in LaGrange Township.

The energy and enterprise which he has furnished as a propelling force in his own career and by which he has rendered his best service to the community are well indicated by the fact that when he was about sixteen 'vears of age he and his brother contracted for the purchase of eighty acres of land. He worked steadily, denied himself all luxuries, and he did not finish paying out his share on that land until he was twenty-nine vears of age. He kept his interest in this farm for a number of vears. .

He represents pioneer stock in Lorain County, and was born on the Johnson homestead a mile and three-quarters south of LaGrange May 10, 1867, a son of George D. and Adaline (Luce) Johnson. His father was also born on the Johnson homestead in LaGrange Township October 4, 1836. The grandparents were Nathaniel and Rhoda (Crowner) Johnson. Nathaniel Johnson was born at Watertown, New York, and came from that locality at a very early day, long before railroads were built into Ohio. With a team of oxen and a wagon he made the journey to Lorain County. being six weeks en route, and located in the midst of the woods a mile and three-quarters south of LaGrange Village. He paid about #3 an acre for 160 acres, and at one time owned 178 acres in that vicinity. At the time of his settlement there were only three or four other families in the entire township. His energy enabled him to clear up much of his land, and he died there when about sixty-four years of age, while his wife lived to be almost eighty-eight.

George D. Johnson, father of Ray D., grew to manhood on the old farm, had a common school edueation to start with, and lived to enjoy contentment and prosperity in his later years. He was a republican and a member of the Baptist Church. Of six children, five grew up. and the three now living are: Flora, wife of Durell Battles of Wellington; Rav D.: and Luey, wife of Gideon Leiby of LaGrange.

LaGrange, and made his first independent venture in the manner already related. He spent most of his years at home until nineteen, earning considerable money working for others. After becoming established as a result of his hard and persistent labor he was married on October 28, 1896, to Miss Cora Swartz.

Mrs. Johnson was born on the home where she and her husband now reside October 23, 1871, a daughter of Jacob and Hannah (Purdy) Swartz. Her father was a native of Wuertemberg, Germany, coming to America at the age of two years with his parents, Frederick and Catherine (Metzgar) Swartz, who settled on a farm near Liverpool in Medina County. Jacob Swartz grew up in Medina County and when about thirty-five years of age married Miss Purdy, who was born at Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, and had come to Medina Ceunty at the age of eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Swartz after their marriage moved to their farm near LaGrange, where Mr. Swartz acquired 112 acres of land, and where he spent the rest of his years. There were five children in the Swartz family, and the two now living are Mrs. Johnson and her brother Don A., who also lives in LaGrange Township.

For two years after his marriage Mr. Johnson worked for Mr. Swartz on the farm, and then for one year worked by the day wherever needed. He then bought eighty-five acres of land one mile south of LaGrange, the purchase price being $3,280. He went in debt for it, paid off all his obligations, and at the end of ten years left the farm with a number of improvements including a new barn. Much of his prosperity as a farmer has come from the dairy business. Since 1910 he has lived on his present place east of LaGrange.

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have nine children: Walter, born March 18, 1898; Lola L., born September 6, 1899, and now in the freshman class of the LaGrange High School; Erwin L., born September 28, 1900; Everett Leland, born December 17, 1901; Harvey W., born February 22, 1903; Harland, born Deceinber 11, 1905; Letha, born January 25, 1907; Russell F., born January 28, 1911; and Flora I., born January 5, 1916. In politics Mr. Johnson is an independent.

NormAin M. Ponp of Wellington has recently completed fifteen years of successful practice as a member of the bar. He began practice in Cleveland and he still appears frequently in the interests of his clients in Cleveland courts, and from the first has enjoyed a steadily increasing and promising business as a lawyer. His legal home has been in Lorain County for more than thirty-five years.

He was born at New London, Ohio, April 25, 1861, a son of Asahel A. and Mary M. (Crandall) Pond. His ancestry goes back to the early days of New England. His great-great-grandfather, Abel Pond, was born at Lenox. Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and was a soldier on the American side of the Revolutionary war. The maternal grandfather, Merton Crandall, a native of New York State, was descended from Rev. John Crandall, who was a prominent Colonial minister and one of the founders of Newport, Rhode Island. Grandfather Daniel S. Pond was born in Poultney, Vermont, June 29, 1805; and was an early settler in Northeastern Ohio, settling in Portage County in 1826. He walked the entire distance from Vermont to Ohio, became a pioneer farmer, and afterwards from 1865 to 1875 served as a station agent on the Big Four Railroad.

Asahel A. Pond. father of the Wellington lawyer, was born in Knox County, Ohio, May 28, 1829, and gave practically his entire active eareer to farming. His death occurred October 10, 1913, and he had lived retired for a number of years. In 1867 he moved to Lorain County, but his last years were spent at Norwalk. He was active in Grand Army circles and had enlisted in 1864 in Company C One Hundred and Ninetyfirst Ohio Volunteer Infantry, held the rank of corporal aud took part in the Shenandoah Valley campaign in Virginia and in the pursuit of General Mosby's Confederate raiders. He held various township offices, was well known in republican circles and at one time was director of the County Infirmary. He was a member of the First Universalist Church at Norwalk. Mary M. Crandall, his wife, was born near Oberlin, Ohio, May 18, 1832, and is still living at the advanced age of vightyfour. Before her marriage she was a school teacher.

Norman M. Pond was about six vears old when the family came to Lorain County, and he grew up on a farm here, attended the pubhe schools of Lorain County, Ohio, and the Ohio Northern University at Ada. It was as a teacher that he became well known in a number of districts in this section of Ohio and by his able work in that profession gained a strong hold on the confidence of many people who have since employed his services to equal advantage as a lawyer. For four vears he was superintendent of schools at Ridgeville. While studying law he taught in a business college at Cleveland. and after his admission to the Ohio bar in 1900 he took up practice in that city. Ile confined bis practice to Cleveland for nine years, but since 1910 has had an office and has had his home at Wellington. He is now serving as justice of the peace and city attorney of Wellington. and enjoys a high standing among the members of the Lorain County and Cleveland bars.

On August 3, 1887, Mr. Pond married Lotta H. Howard. a daughter of Wiliam H. and Charlotte (Laboree) Howard. Mrs. Pond is an accomplished musician and teacher, is a certified teacher of the Cleveland School of Music, and conducts a studio and music classes both in Wellington and at Cleveland. She is also choir director in the Wellington Methodist Episcopal Church, and both she and her husband are active in that church. Mr. Pond is affiliated with Ellsworth Lodge of Masons at Cleveland, and in polities is a republican.

JoHN Jacop Haiac. The claim of John Jacoh Haag upon. the good will and consideration of his townsmen in Elyria Township is based upon many years of effective work as an agriculturist. upon his reeord as a self-made man, and upon his activity in promoting the welfare of his community. <A life of industry and thrift has resulted in the acenmulation of a fine property of ninety acres, located on the South Ridge Road. formerly known as the Telegraph Road, where he carries on general farming and also raises some stock. Mr. Haag was horn August 4, 1853, on a farm located one mile west of his present place. on the Old Township Line Road, between Elyria and Amherst townships, and is a son of Daniel and Catherine (Heger) Haag.

Daniel Haag was born in Germany and came to the United States during the '40s with his parents, being then a young man. The mother's parents, also of Germany. settled at a point in Lorain County known as Whiskyville, probably owing to the fact that a tavern had been located there in early days. Her father was George Heger. who was well known among the pioneers of this locality. The parents of Johu J. Ilaag were married in Lorain County and took up their residence on the township line, where Daniel Haag was for many vears the operator of a successful sawmill. He died in 1872. His first wife had died when the son. John J., was eight vears of age and he had married again, wedding a Mrs. Colhb, a widow of Cleveland, who had three children by her former marriage. Daniel and Catherine Haag had eight children, of whom two died in infancy, the others being: John Jacob: George D.. a druggist of Cleveland,

Ohio; Daniel C., a farmer residing on the same road as his brother John J., but a little farther to the west; Leonard, a resident of Salt Lake City, Utah, where he went thirty-four years ago to join the Mormons; John, unmarried, a resident of Cleveland, and engaged in carpentry ; Margaret, who married Herman Diner, and resides alternately at Elyria and North Amherst.

John Jacob Haag was reared on the homestead farm and attended the district school, a Lutheran school and the high school for one year. After his father's second marriage he found home conditions not as pleasant as they had been formerly, and accordingly decided to start out for himself. He worked at various occupations for several years, carefully saving his earnings, until he was finally able to buy the sawmill business from his brothers who had come into possession of the property. This mill, which was located on his present property close to his home, he conducted with success for fifteen or twenty years, then turning his attention to farming, in which he has continued to be engaged to the present time. He is one of the progressive and enterprising men of the community, a stanch supporter of good men and beneficial movements, and an agriculturist who believes in the use of the most modern machinery and methods in his work. He has erected good buildings on his land and has other improvements which have not only enhanced the value of his farm but has contributed to the upbuilding of the community. He maintains an independent attitude in regard to public affairs, has held no offices nor has cared for any, and is not a lodge man, preferring his home to fraternal orders.

When twenty-two years of age Mr. Haag was married to Miss Anna M. Diner, of Barea, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, daughter of Fred and Caroline Diner, now deceased, who operated a farm of ninety acres, as well as a stone quarry at Berea, where Mr. Diner was born. Mrs. Haag died in 1907, the mother of six children: Theodore, a baker in the employ of the R. B. Biseuit Company, at Elyria, who married Miss Albertina Barbknecht and has three children, Leona, Ruth and Theodore, Jr.; Charlotta, who is the wife of Henry Coath, a policeman of Cleveland ; Christiana, who married John Silberhorn, a clothing merchant of Cleveland, and has three sons, Harold, Howard and Arthur; Louisa, who married Emil Pohl, a teacher in a Lutheran school at Cleveland, and has three children, Margaret, Caroline and Edward; Florence, who marrier, in 1914, William Bechstein, a farmer of South Amherst and also the operator of a threshing machine, sawmill, ete.; and Henry, who resides on the farm with his father and conducts the operations, married Christina Born, and has four children, Henry, Ernest, Walter and Anna. Henry Haag is a member of the English Lutheran Church.

L. V. Banninc. It is said that opportunity soon or late comes to every man. It is the ability to recognize and improve opportunity which is the keynote of success. For a number of years L. V. Banning was in the retail grocery business at Wellington. He also developed the wholesale feature of the business, and there came a time a few years ago when he recognized the possibilities of concentrating his entire attention along one line. and as a result he has developed a wholesale brokerage business in the handling of sugar and during 1915 he sold $200,000 worth of that commodity. which was distributed through his agency at Wellington to retail firms all over this section of Northern Ohio. He now buys from fifteen to twenty carloads of sugar in a single purchase, and at the age of forty finds himself at the head of a very prosperous and promising business.

uary 12, 1876, a son of A. H. and Mary Jane (Anderson) Banning. His grandfather was one of the early settlers of Lorain County and the father was born in this county in 1836 and is still living at the age of eighty. The mother was born in Albion, Ohio, in 1840, and died in June, 1913. The parents were married in Rochester, and the father spent most of his active career in laboring pursuits. He is a republican in politics, and both he and his wife were members of the Congregational Church. Of their two children the daughter, Cora, also lives at Wellington.

L. V. Banning finished his education in the high school at Wellington in 1893, and soon became a elerk in a grocery store. On January 1, 1900, profiting by his experience and by the accumulation of a modest capital, he started in business for himself, was for two years associated with F. W. Renouard as a partner, and after that was alone until 1912, when he sold the grocery trade and has since concentrated all his time on the wholesale sugar business. He has a plant comprising a 300-barrel warehouse at Wellington, and his accomplishments are the more noteworthy since he started in life on only a clerk's salary.

In October, 1911, he married Miss Victoria Richmond who was born in Penfield Tuwnship of Lorain County. Her father, Lester J. Richmond, also a native of Lorain County, was a soldier in the Civil war from 1862 until the close of hostilities.

Mr. Banning is a Knight Templar Mason and is also affiliated with the Scottish Rite, is past master of his lodge and past high priest of the chapter, and is also past patron of the Order of Eastern Star. His wife is also a member of the Eastern Star. In politics he is independent, and wields considerable influence in his section of the county. He is now serving as township treasurer and formerly filled the office of village treasurer.

JoHN B. Dupuey. A native of Lorain County John B. Dudley is identified with this county by many ties of family, work and civie loyalty. He is perhaps the chief stock breeder, particularly in the department of Holstein cattle,-in the county..and has a_ splendidly equipped farm and fine home in the vicinity of Oberlin.

He was born in Henrietta Township of Lorain County September 17, 1861, a son of Stowell B. and Sarah (Gillman) Dudley. His father was born in Vermont and died in 1904, and the mother was a native of England and is living at the age of eighty. They were inarried in Lorain County, and Stowell B. Dudley likewise followed farming all his active career. He became prosperous though he was a poor boy when he came to Lorain County. For six years he held the office of county commissioner. He was quite active in republican politics, his father's name was Jonathan Dudley. Mrs. Sarah Dudley was a member of the Episcopal Church. There were five children in the family. and John B. Dudley is the oldest of the three now hving. Tis sister, Mary Duross, is the wife of a Cleveland manufacturer of brass fixtures. The other sister is Mrs. Winifred Darby, whose husband _ is a physician in Cleveland.

John B. Dudley grew up on a farm, and completed his education during the freshmen year at Oberlin College. He had all the early influences conducive to a life of honest industry, and after remaining with his father until twenty-two he bought a farm of 240 acres. which he subsequently sold in order to acquire his present fine farm near Oberlin. comprising 215 acres of well cultivated and well improved land. He specializes in thoroughbred Holstein eattle, and has about fifty head all the time, and recently he had the largest sale of cattle ever held in

Ohio. He also keeps a large number of hogs, horses and other stock, and pursues general farming and crop raising almost sufficient to feed all his own stock.

' Mr. Dudley married Mary A. Whitney of Oberlin, daughter of G. W. Whitney, who was an early settler in Lorain County, and first followed farming and afterwards became identified with the gas industry. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley have six children: Howard, who finished his education at Oberlin, was for several years in the candy business and is now located in Spokane, Washington; George S., who was educated at Oberlin, is employed to test cattle under the state government; Ben B. - lives at home and has finished his education; Florence also attended schools at Oberlin and lives at home; Daniel P. is a vigorous and enterprising young chicken farmer at his father's place; and Robert is thirteen years of age. Mrs. Dudley and three of her children, George, Florence and Dantel, are all active members of the First Congregational Church of Oberlin. Mr. Dudley is a republiean in polities, but gives practically all his time and attention to his business as a stock raiser and general farmer.

Henry W. Geuxkes. A self-made man, who merits admiration for his fine sucecss in life, is Henry W. Geukes, a grower and dealer in celery in Elyria Township, this county. Mr. Geukes is a large property owner in Lorain and he receives a goodly income from houses he has rented out in that city. He was born at Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1861, and is a son of Derk and Johanna (Bemer) Geukes, both of whom were born and reared in Holland, whence they immigrated to the United States in 1857, locating in Grand Rapids, where the father was engaged in the dairy business for many years. There were seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Geukes, two of whom died in infancy. Concerning the others the following brief facts are here inserted: Aaron D. is a resident of Kalamazoo, Michigan; Mary is the wife of Joseph Washburn, of Kala- 'mazoo; Minnie married W. F. Landen and they live in Los Angeles, California; Anna is the wife of John Miller, of Kalamazoo: and Henry W. is the subject of this sketch.

As a boy Henry W. Geukes attended the common schools of Kalamazoo and when ready to start life in real earnest he engaged in the celery business at Kalamazoo, Michigan, right in the famous celery belt. He remained in that city for two years and then went to Greentown, Ohio. One year later he located in Canton, Ohio, and there was engaged in the same line of enterprise for a period of twenty years. In 1901 he came to Lorain County and rented his present place in Elyria Township. This little estate consists of a little less than three acres and he purchased the place in 1907. On his arrival here he engaged in buying and selling celery and continued as a dealer only until 1910, when he began to grow that plant on a small scale. In recent years he has raised from 80,000 to 100,000 plants per season but in 1915 he rented additional land and raised over 200,000 plants. He finds his market chiefly in Lorain and Elyria, Lorain County, and also in Vermilion, Erie County, Ohio. He is the owner of some splendid residence property in Lorain, including a double house at No. 2071 E. Twenty-ninth Street, a private house on the corner of Thirty-fourth Street and Broadway, and two other houses on Thirty-third Street. All of the above houses are rented and net him a nice income every year. Mr. Geukes' success in life is the result of his own ambitious endeavors and for that reason is most gratifying to contemplate.

While not an active politician Mr. Genkes usually votes the straight republican ticket. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the following organizations: Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, luproved Order of Red Men, the Knights of Pythias, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

Mr. Geukes has been twice married. In 1881 he wed Miss Rosa Glorr, a native of Switzerland. To this union were born three children: William D. is employed by the Santa Fe Railroad Company and maintains his home at Seattle, Washington; May is the wife of John Maurer, of Gratton, Ohio, they have two sons, Raymond and Herbert; and Florence is the wife of Peter Phillips, of Stege, California. For his second wife Mr. Geukes married Emma (Meier) Meyers, a daughter of Jacob and Mary Magdalene (Hofstetter) Meier. Mrs. Geukes was born in Switzerland, in1868, and her marriage to Mr. Geukes occurred April 16, 1901. By a former marriage, to Louis J. Meyers in 1889, she had a daughter, Mabelle Louise, born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, January 29, 1893, and now the wife of Paul M. Taylor, of Elyria. Mr. Taylor is a son of J. M. Taylor, of Sheffield Township, Lorain County, Ohio, the Taylor family being one of old standing in this state. Myr. and Mrs. Paul M. Taylor reside in Sheffield Township, Lorain County, Ohio.

FREDERICK Haist. Coming from his German fatherland to the United States when a young man of about twenty-three years, Mr. Haist has been in the most significant sense the architect of his own fortunes and has made the passing years count in worthy achievement that has been crowned with definite success. He has been a resident of Ohio since 1867 and has maintained his residence on his present farm, in Russia Township, Lorain County, for nearly forty years. Energy, circumspection and good business judgment have enabled him to win distinctive prosperity in connection with the basic industry of agriculture, and he stands as one of the substantial farmers and highly esteemed citizens of Lorain County, within whose borders he has found ample scope for the directing of his earnest efforts during the years of a signally industrious and useful career. As a sterling citizen of worth and unalloyed popularity he is well entitled to definite recognition in this history of his home county, which he has honored by his character and his accomplishment.

Myr. Haist was born in Germany on the 7th of August. 1844, and is a son of Frederick and Helen (Gelst) IHaist, of whose two children he is the younger, his sister. Mrs. Joos, having been a resident of the city of Cleveland for many years prior to her death. Frederick Haist, Sr., passed his entire life in Germany. where he was for many years employed in a steel manufactory. His widow came to the United States in 1871 and passed the closing vears of her life in the home of her daughter, in the city of Cleveland, Ohio.

He whose name introduces this article acquired his early education in the schools of his native land and there also he acquired in his youth practical experience as a workman in a foundry. THe carefully conserved his earnings and in 1867 he came to America and made Cleveland. Ohio, his destination. There he was employed for eleven vears as a skilled artisan in a foundry, and at the expiration of this period he came to Lorain County and purchased a farm of forty-five acres, this constituting his present fine homestead. The place was much run down when it came into his possession and the original dwelling was a small house of most unpretentious order. With characteristic energy he set himself to the task of improving his farm, which he soon brought under effective cultivation, and with increasing prosperity he made the same evident in the erection of good buildings, including his present attractive residence. which was completed in 1894. and which is one of the many attractive rural homes of the county. Mr. Haist has long been recognized as one of the representative farmers and stock-raisers of Russia Township, and he has reason to view with pride and satisfaction the gracious prosperity that is his after many years of earnest. toil and endeavor.

While giving due attention to the advancement of his personal interests Mr. Haist has not been self-centered or in the least negligent of the duties of citizenship. He has co-operated in the furtherance of measures and enterprises tending to advance the communal welfare and while never in the least ambitious for political office he has given loyal support to the cause of the democratic party. He is affiliated with the local Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry and with the Knights and Ladies of Security.

In 1877 Mr. Haist wedded Miss Augusta Wangerine, daughter of Carl Wangerine, who was one of the early settlers of Lorain County. Mrs. Haist was called to the life eternal in March, 1879, and of their three children two are living - Henrietta, who is the wife of Charles Gibson. a prosperous farmer of Russia Township; and Carl, who is employed as a street car conductor in the city of Cleveland. On the 4th of October, 1882, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Haist to Miss Rosa Menz, a daughter of Peter and Matilda (Holtenrite) Menz, both natives of Germany, Mr. Menz having established his home in Lorain County, Ohio, upon his immigration to America and having been foreman of a'stone quarry at Amherst for a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Haist have five children, concerning whom brief record is given in conclusion of this sketch: Matilda is the wife of James Curtis, who is engaged in the drug business in the City of Cleveland; Rose is the wife of William Baker, who is engaged in the grocery and meat business at Lorain; Albert is a representative grocer and meat dealer at Lorain, in which line of enterprise he is associated with his younger brother; Alice is the wife of Arthur Lang, who with his brother-in-law, Clarence Haist. conducts the Meadow Brook Dairy and Creamery business at Lorain, Ohio.

E.ru N. Gipss. Few citizens of Lorain County have had a busier and more effective career in various lines than Earl N. Gibbs, banker, merchant, farmer and former member of the State Legislature, whose home is at Kipton in Camden Township. A little more than forty years of age, he has filled his years with energetic activities and has always been a leader, one of his chief characteristics being his initiative and enterprise.

He coines of fine old American stock. Mr. Gibbs was born in Medina County, Ohio, March 12, 1874, a son of Farnum M. and Calista (Garlock) Gibbs. Back in the early years of the eighteenth century three brothers named Gibbs came to this country from England. They were shipwrecked and separated and did not meet for a number of years after they reached this country. Two of the brothers went to Virginia, while Joseph Gibbs, who was born in 1727, located in one of the New England states. This Joseph Gibbs was a man of note, and was long known as Lieutenant Gibbs. He served with that rank on the staff of Gen. George Washington during the Revolutionary war. His death occurred in 1805. On September 11, 1749, he married Elizabeth Palmer. A son of Lieutenant Gibbs was Benjamin, who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Decemher 25, 1783, and when quite an old man came with younger members of the family to Ohio in 1842. Farnum Gibbs was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 1, 1835, and died February 28, 1909.

but was educated as a minister and for some years served as a pastor. During the war he was a member of the Second Ohio Cavalry, a regiment that did more riding and went through more diverse parts of the country than probably any other regiment in the Union army. Two times he rode horseback west of the Mississippi, and took part in one of the campaigns in Indian Territory. After two years of active service he was injured when his horse threw him, and spent a number of months in the hospital. After the war he bought a farm in Medina County, and reared his family on the farm. He retired a number of years before his death, which occurred at Brunswick. He was a republican in politics, served as justice of the peace a number of years, and was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was also noted for his progressiveness and his sterling integrity and was a valuable neighbor and friend. Farnum Gibbs was married at Parma, Ohio, to Miss Garlock, who was born at Parma in 1834 and died February 5, 1912. Her father, George Garlock, was a native of New York State and came to Ohio about 1842, locating on a farm at Parma, where he spent the rest of his days.

Earl N. Gibbs had a liberal education as a preparation for his active career. He attended the Oberlin Academy and for four years was a student in Hiram College. On leaving college he gained a liberal training in merchandising by serving five years as clerk in a store at Kipton, and in 1901 he bought the business and has since developed a large and flourishing general store, controlling a trade over a radius of a number of miles about Kipton.

In 1895 Mr. Gibbs married Georgia Breckinridge. a daughter of B. F. Breckinridge, who for a number of years was a merchant at Kipton and is now living with Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs. The latter have one daughter, Margaret, who is now in the junior class of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

The family are active members of the Christian Chureh, and in politics Mr. Gibbs is a republican and 1s affiliated with the Masonic Order. His service in the Legislature was during the Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth sessions, and he. proved himself an able conservator of the interests and welfare of the state and of his own constituency. He served as a member of committees on common schools. railroads and telegraph, banks and banking.

After becoming securely established as a merchant, Mr. Gibbs turned his energies toward other lines, and in 1905 organized the Kipton Banking Company of which he has been president. This is a very substantial institution and commands and deserves the support of a large community. It has a capital stock of $25,000 with surplus of $4.500, and the average deposits are $200,000. Mr. Gibbs for a great many years has been interested in general farming and not only makes a success of the business for himself but wherever possible lends his efforts toward improving and raising the agricultural standards in his township. In fact, farming is his recreation as well as a vocation.

Westey B. Puipps was for many years a leading and influential citizen of Elyria Township and his activity in agricultural affairs. his co-operation in public interests and his zealous support of all objects that he believed would contribute to the material or moral improvement of the community kept him in the foremost rank of those to whom this honorable principles and it also exemplified the truth of the Emersonian philosophy that ''the way to win a friend is to be one.'' His genial, kindly manner won him the high regard and good will of all with whom he came in contact and thus his death, December 23, 1914, was wuni-

May 18, 1852, on the parental homestead in Elyria Township, Lorain County, Ohio, occurred the birth of Wesley Bird Phipps, who was a son of John Jackson and Chloe A. (Garrett) Phipps. The father was born at Messina, on the St. Lawrence. River in the State of New York, and there he passed his boyhood and youth. As a young man he accompanied his parents to Ohio and located in the vicinity of Elyria, where he acquired a large parcel of farm land. He also engaged in buying timber and staves which he sold to a Mr. Harbeck, who manufactured barrels for the Standard Oil Company, then in its infancy. About this time, 1840, he was married and after continuing in the above business for thirty-five years he gave it up and then turned his attention to the cultivation of a farm of 120 acres, which he had purchased in Elyria Township. He was the landlord of the first hotel in Elyria, the Franklin House, which burned down just after the insurance had expired and he thereby lost $3,000. His great spirit of optimism, however, did not allow him to worry as he cooly remarked that he had earned the money once and could do so again. He was summoned to the life eternal July 28, 1886, and his cherished and devoted wife, who survived him for several years, died January 9, 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Phipps became the parents of seven children, concerning whom the following brief data are here incorporated: George, born February 24, 1841, married Maria Ely on December 5, 1859. He enlisted for service in the Civil war, was attacked with typhoid fever and died shortly after being brought home, October 24, 1862. He had two children: Early, born August 31, 1860, and John A., born January 2, 1862. Owen, born February 18, 1848, died October 2, 1907. He married Eunice Brown, September 13, 1862, and to this union were born two sons, Frankie and Archie, both now deceased. Heman, born October 11, 1845, died in 1904. He married Margaret Higgins, June 26, 1872; no children. Louisa Sarah, born February 16, 1848, is deceased. She married Lyman Kemp, October 16, 1866, and to them were born four children: Clarence, born in 1868, died in 1890; Wallie, born October 17, 1869, died in 1893; Edith, born July 10, 1875; and Harry, born June 27, 1883, is married and resides in Cleveland, Ohio. Wesley Bird is the immediate subject of this review. Elnora, born September 11, 1855, died May 31, 1867, aged eleven years. Levilla, born January 28, 1863, died in 1911. She married Frank Andrews, December 15, 1881.

Under the sturdy and invigorating descipline of the parental homestead Wesley Bird Phipps was reared to maturity. His early schooling consisted of such advantages as were afforded in the district schools of Elyria Township. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits during the entire period of his active career and he became the owner of his father's farm on Lake Avenue. He was a shrewd and intelligent farmer and kept his estate in splendid condition. He was a man of forceful character and strong common sense and while not highly educated - a fact he always regretted - still he possessed a marked influence for good in the community and his judgment in town affairs was held in high esteem by his fellow citizens. His demise, December 23, 1914, caused widespread sorrow and deprived Elyria Township of one of its most industrious and useful citizens. Although not physically a strong man, he labored hard to place his family in good circumstances and to provide the means for educating his children. He will long be remembered for his upright life and sterling character.

Walton. of Elyria Township. Mrs. Phipps' ancestors on the maternal side came from the' Isle of Man, where the Christians were people of great prominence and large means. To Mr. and Mrs. Phipps were born two children: Elnora Anna, whose birth occurred December 20, 1878, married Frederick E. Baker, December 5, 1900, and they reside in Klyria, Ohio; they have two children, Wesley Edward: and Dorothy Evelyn; and Stella May, born February 6, 1881, married Earl Smith, February 10, 1910; they reside on Lake Avenue in Elyria Township.

In political allegiance Mr. Phipps gave his support to the democratic party. Mrs. Phipps survives her honored husband and maintains her home in the old residence on Lake Avenue. She attends the Disciples Church in Elvria and is a woman of kindly personality and her charm and innate goodness make her a favorite with her many neighbors.

NORMAN LEE is one of Lorain County's citizens who volunteered their services during the dark days of the Civil war and is one of that sinall army of surviving veterans of the great war. For many years he has been one of the leading and successful farmers of Camden Township, and in that community has lived respected and has surrounded himself with material comforts as well as the esteem which goes with honorable citizenship.

His family has been identified with Camden Township since the earliest pioneer times, for more than eighty vears. Mr. Lee was born in Camden, May 22, 1843, a son of Thomas T. and Lucinda (Waugh) Lee. Both parents were natives of New York State. his father born June 30, 1799. and died September 5, 1877, and his mother horn July 10, 1811, and died February 5, 1894. After their marriage in New York they came to Ohio in 1833, and were the first family to settle in Camden Township, where Thomas Lee bought a tract of ninety acres. He cleared up all his land and was quite successful, leaving an estate of 140 acres at the time of his death. He was a whig and afterwards a republican in politics, holding several town offices and was a member of the Baptist Church,

Norman Lee is the only survivor of a family of six sons and one daughter. He grew up on the old homestead in Camden Township. attended the public schools there, and was a valuable helper to his father until past the age of twenty-one. On August 4, 1864, he enlisted in Company G of the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Ohio Regiment and was with the army eleven months. Most of the time he spent on Johnston's Island in Lake Erie as a guard for the Confederate prisoners.

On December 16, 1873, Mr. Lee married Frances L. Hurd. Her father, Harrison Hurd. was born July 11, 1805. and died July 11; 1896. on his ninetv-first birthday, was the fourth of the family to locate in Camden Township, and was a very influential man in that community from pioneer times. He took much part in chureh affairs and served as deacon. In the Hurd family were twelve children, and the five now living are: Ann Eliza, widow of John Weeks and living with Mr. and Mrs. Norman Lee; Elizabeth, wife of G. R. Parker. a retired citizen of Lorain, Ohio: Mrs. Lee: Albert Hurd. who lives with his daughter in Cleveland; and J. N. Hurd, who oceupies the old Hurd homestead in Camden Township.

Mv. and Mrs. Lee became the parents of four children and the three now living are: Lucinda, wife of Herman Hach, an upholsterer at Cleveland; Thomas Lee, at home with his parents; and Andrew H., who is a farmer in Wakeman Township of Huron County.

been a general farmer for half a century or more, and has given much of his attention to cattle and other stock. His fine rural place comprises 125 acres of land and all its buildings and important improvements are the result of his management and supervision.

C. B. IncEersoLt. The Ingersolls were among the families that established pioneer homes in the vicinity of Grafton upwards of a century ago. C. B. Ingersoll is a native son of Lorain County and for nearly fifty years has been closely identified with its farming and stock raising interests. He has one of the fine rural homes in the neighborhood of Kipton.

He was born at Grafton, January 21, 1847, a son of William and Elizabeth A. (Welburn) Ingersoll. His paternal grandfather, William Ingersoll, was born in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and located in Lorain County not long after the close of the War of 1812. He married Catherine Houk. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Ingersoll was Jesse Welburn, who was a native of England, and settled in Lorain County in 1825, spending the balance of his days here. William Ingersoll, father of C. B. Ingersoll, was born at Grafton, Ohio, September 30, 1820, and died January 25, 1879. His wife was born in the State of Massachusetts, August 17, 1825, and died November 22, 1909. They were married at Grafton. William Ingersoll in 1853 sold his farm of fifty acres in Grafton Township and moved to Camden in the spring of 1854, buying a farm of 275 acres, to the cultivation of which he devoted the remainder of his years. He was a republican in politics, and a man who enjoyed the full esteem of his fellow citizens. He and his wife had eight children, three sons and five daughters, and the four now living are: C. B. Ingersoll, who was the first born; Mary, widow of George Brooks; Kate, wife of George Bois, a mail carrier at Warren, Ohio; and Frank, who is the youngest, and was born January 22, 1870, being a farmer at Kipton.

C. B. Ingersoll grew up on his father's farm, attended district schools, and when still young became a practical farmer. He now owns a fine place of 275 acres and besides general crops gives much attention to stock. He keeps about 125 sheep. His farm is well improved, has all the tile necessary to thorough drainage, and the building equipment comprises two very commodious barns and a comfortable residence. Mr. Ingersoll is still active and giving all his time to his business, though his prosperity is such that he might be justified in retiring and spending the rest of his life in comfort and ease.

In 1887 he married Miss Anna Watson, who was born in Ireland, a daughter of William and Martha (McNeilly) Watson. Her mother is still living and resides in Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Ingersoll are the parents of ten children, named as follows: William, a farmer at Brighton, Ohio; Emma, wife of Allen E. Hayes, a farmer at Clarksfield ; Mary, now deceased; Gracie, at home; Seth, Charles, Walter, Mabel, F. A., and Blanche, all of whom are living at home. Mr. Ingersoll is a republican in politics.

Water Hickman Warts, official stenographer of the courts of Lorain County, Ohio, was born in the City of London, England, December 31, 1865, being the third in a family of eleven children born to William Andrews and Louisa (Hickman) Watts. His forbears on his father's side were principally engaged in farming and stock raising in the fertile valleys of the West of England, although in different generations the family has given to the world men who have distinguished themselves as soldiers, artists, writers and preachers, among the last named being the immortal hymnologist, Dr. Isaac Watts. The family has also furnished to the American continent a fair share of pioneers. On his mother's side, Mr. Watts is descended from a family that has produced statesmen, lawyers and physicians, some of whom were distinguished in their day. His maternal grandfather, John Hickman, of Old Smithfield, London, was a famous character in the social life of London, in the early Victorian days.

When Walter Hickman Watts was two years of age, his parents settled at Blackley, a suburb of Manchester, noted as a Saxon settlement and rich alike in its historic lore and romantic scenery. He received his education in the famous Allsop Foundation School, at Blackléy, and at the Albert Memorial School, Manchester. His parents were prominent church and Sunday school workers and enjoyed in common the study of Biblical literature, on which subject they were regarded as authorities. The father of Mr. Watts was also a deep student of English literature, and numbered among his close friends, writers and literary critics. In addition to the care of a large family, he and the mother found time to engage in various lines of altruistic labor and left the impress of their high character upon the community in which they lived.

The male members of the Watts family were all engaged in newspaper work, the father and three sons being identified at the same time with one newspaper, the Manchester Evening News. For the past fortyfive years some one or more members of the family have been at work with this publication in various departments, and at the present time representatives of the second and third generations are engaged in the production of this paper, which is one of the greatest of English journals. It was on this paper that Walter H. Watts received his early training aS a hewspaper man, beginning as an amanuensis to the editor and eventually working into the reporting department. Then for a few years he was engaged with a firm of law reporters, at the head of which was R. R. Dodds, known to literary fame as ''Rab Robinson.'' Subsequently Mr. Watts joined the staff of the Bolton Guardian, where he rose to the position of chief reporter, being reputed to be the youngest man in the North of England to occupy such a responsible position. In his newspaper work he specialized in court work and municipal affairs and achieved distinction as a free lance. In his English newspaper experience \Ir. Watts reported many of the famous trials of the day, ineluding the case at Liverpool of Florence Maybrick. the American woman who was convicted of poisoning her husband by means of arsenic extracted from fly papers. He also followed the leading statesmen of the country on the ''stump'' and figured as a descriptive writer on the occasion of some of the great mining disasters of his time.

In the summer of 1892, on the verge of a breakdown from overwork. Myr. Watts came to visit the United States, and was so much impressed with what he saw that he soon decided to stay. It was while visiting in Cleveland that he was offered a position with a Cleveland paper, which he accepted, and went to Sandusky, where he later became city editor of the Sandusky Register. His newspaper work at Sandusky brought him into contact with Governor McKinley, who became much interested in his labors and who was friendly with the Englishman until his death. Having shown his familiarity with court procedure, Mr. Watts was offered the position of official stenographer of Erie County, in April, 1894, which office he held until April, 1907, when he resigned to accept a similar position in Lorain County. He recently (1916) rounded out twenty-two years of service in court work in Ohio, and in that time has been engaged in many famous cases, his services heing called into requisition in surrounding counties when cases of more than usual importance have been on trial. The Billow murder trial, at Fremont. the famous

Hayes dog case there, the Hoyt will case, at Tiffin, and the more recent Rasor murder trial at Medina are among the big cases in which he has figured. When the municipal code was being considered by a special committee in the House of Representatives at Columbus (of which Mr. A. G. Comings, of Oberlin, was chairman), Mr. Watts was one of two expert stenographers who were called in to report the proceedings.

Mr. Watts is deeply interested in the cause of public education and has given largely of his time to the interests of the public schools of Elyria. He was first elected to the Elyria Board of Education in the spring of 1909, to fill a vacancy, and was elected at the general election in 1911 for a term of four years. At the time of the death of W. N. Gates, in the spring of 1913, he held the office of vice.president and was then elevated to the office of president, which position he held until his retirement in January, 1916. Mr. Watts is known as a progressive school man and takes great pride in the new school buildings erected during the past few years from funds raised by a bond issue of $300,000 authorized by a vote of the people in 1912, particularly in the large manual training building connected with the high school, which he believes will accomplish much in the training of the high class of artizans which the industries of Elyria require. Among Mr. Watts' many activities are his connection with the Elyria Social Settlement Association, which devotes its energies to uplift work among the foreigners of the city, and of which he is a trustee and a former chairman of the council of workers. He is also a director of the Elyria Associated Charities, a member of the Elyria Memorial Hospital Association, of which he was formerly chairman, and a member of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce.

For many years Mr. Watts has been active in republican politics, although never seeking an elective office of profit. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, having been a member of Science Lodge No. 50, Free & Accepted Masons, since 1894, and is a member of Sandusky City Chapter. Roval Arch Masons, of Sandusky City Council, Royal and Select Masters, of Elyria Commandery No. 60, Knights Templar, of Lake Erie Consistory, Valley of Cleveland, and of El Koran Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He occupied the office of prelate of Elyria Commandery from 1910 to 1915. He is also a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, in which body he held the office of worthy patron in the years 1911-12. Mr. Watts was connected with Company B, Sixth Ohio National Guard from 1902 until 1905, first as first lieutenant and later as captain.

Although he was reared in the faith of the English Established Church, Mr. Watts and his family worship at the First Congregational Church of Elyria. Despite the fact that his many activities make heavy demands upon his time, Mr. Watts indulges an inherited taste for good literature and finds his greatest recreation in his well-chosen library, une of the largest private collections at Elyria, to which he is constantly adding.

Mr. Watts was married July 30, 1888, at Ashton-on-Ribble, England, to Clara Reed, only daughter of Capt. William Reed, a retired salt-water mariner, and Maria Reed, who now reside at Sandusky, Ohio, where in 1915 they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Watts reside at the family home on Furnace Street, Elyria, their family consisting of two charming daughters, Alice Reed and Dorothy Louisa.

Jupson N. Hurp has been one of the live factors in the country around Kipton for a long period of years. The old homestead on which he grew up in Camden Township is the place where he still resides. He acquired the interest of the other heirs in the property but ill health compelled him some years ago to sell off most of his land, and he now keeps only forty-five acres, with which he does a business as a general farmer.

Mr. Hurd has a fine family, and has always taken much interest in local affairs. He has held the principal township offices and tor a number of years was road supervisor and much of the constructive road work in his community is due to his capable leadership and encouragement. He and his family are especially active in the affairs of the Baptist Church. He and his wife and children are all musicians, especially talented in singing, and for years he has been a choir leader and prominent in other branches of such work. He is still called upon to sing on many occasions, and for years has sung at most of the funerals in his community.

He was born in Camden Township of Lorain County, December 21, 1849, a son of Harrison and Rebecca (Stillson) Hurd. His grandfather. was Norman Hurd, who died in New York, and the maternal grandfather, Phineas Stillson, came to Camden Township, where he spent the rest of his days with his daughter, Mrs. Hurd. Mr. Hurd's parents were both natives of Jetferson County, New York, where his father was born in 1804 and his mother in 1807. The father passed away in 1895 and the mother in 1885. After their marriage in New York State they came to Ohio and located in Camden Township in 1834. In the previous year Harrison Hurd had bought some land and after making a_ permanent settlement he applied himself vigorously to clearing it up. The first home of the Hurds in the county was a log cabin, but in 1854 this was replaced by the substantial home where Judge N. Hurd now resides. Harrison Hurd took a very prominent part in the early affairs of Canden Township, particularly in church matters. He was one of the six members who organized the Camden Church, was the first chorister and for years led the choir and was widely known as Deacon Hurd. In his private business affairs he was likewise prosperous. and at the time of his death owned a good estate of 153 acres. He served as township trustee and as a member of the school board, and while living in New York was a member of the state militia. In politics he was a democrat. Of the twelve children of the parents those now living are: Mrs. Weeks of Lorain County; Mrs. G. R. Parker of Lorain; Albert, a retired citizen at Elyria; Judson N.; and Mrs. Norman Lee.

Judson N. Hurd grew up in Camden Township when most of the eountry was still wild and from the district schools of his community he later attended school at Oberlin. After his school days were over he took up work as a farmer and has spent practically all his life on the old homestead.

On October 12, 1871, he married Miss Nanev Bartlett. daughter of Nelson D. and Jane (Rankin) Bartlett, the former a native of New Hampshire and the latter of Massachusetts. Her parents came to Lorain County when voung people. and both died in Oberlin. Her father was a farmer until he retired late in life. Of the six children in the Bartlett family, four are living: Horace G., a farmer in Pittsfield Township; Maro L., who is a musician and for a number of vears was head of a musical conservatory at Des Moines. Iowa; Mrs. Hurd; and Harry M., of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Mr. and Mrs. Hurd have four children. Maurice Hurd was formerly a machinist and now doing work as a janitor at Warren. Ohio: Roy D. is in the grocery business at Elyria; Mabel J. is the wife of Clayton Whitney, an insurance man at Springfield, Ohio; Myrtle L. still lives at home.

ANDREW Davipson has traveled along the highway of mortal experience for more than ninety-three years and is now dwelling in the shadows of au old age after a lifetime of usefulness. He arrived in Lorain Couuty in' time to participate in some phases of its early development and the labors of his vigorous young manhood helped to convert some of the unshorn wilderness into a productive and fertile landscape. Many years ago he was able to retire with a satisfying competence for all the needs of later years, and besides his material prosperity he is able to take a satisfying retrospect over the past. Mr. Davidson still owns 152 acres, constituting an excellent farm in the vicinity of Oberlin, and all this prosperity has been the direct result of his own hard work.

He was born at Rathfryland, County Down, Ireland, November 19, 1822, a son of Andrew and Jane (McGaw) Davidson. Both pareuts spent all their lives in County Down, and the father was born there in 1795 and died in 1860. He was a farmer and also did an extensive business in the buying of horses and cattle, and was quite well to do. In the family were five sons and two daughters, and the three still living, all of them quite old, are Andrew; Joseph, a farmer in Ireland; and Jane, wife of Robert Martin, an Irish farmer. The family were members of the Presbyterian Church.

Andrew Davidson received his early education in Ireland and first came to America in 1855, when he was about thirty-three years of age. After spending about nine years in this country and having good prospects for the future he returned to his native land and on March 1, 1864, married Miss Martha Edgar, who returned with him to the United States as his bride. Mrs. Davidson died March 2, 1914. The day before her death they had completed fifty years of married companionship.

Mr. Davidson on first coming to Lorain County farmed on the shares and bought his first place in 1868. The. land could hardly be considered a farm, since it was almost completely covered by woods and brush, and a less vigorous man would have become discouraged at the prospect of so much hard labor necessary to convert it into a profitable place. He cleared it up, and every year marked an advance in success. In the meantime he erected an attractive home for himself and family and also improved the land with substantial outbuildings.

To Mr. Davidson and wife were born nine children, and the seven still living are: John Edgar, who is a well known farmer and stock buyer at Kipton; Andrew William, also a Lorain County farmer: Joseph Henry, an engineer with the New York Central Lines and with headquarters at Toledo; Frank E., a farmer living at home with his father; Herbert H., a farmer; Lona, wife of C. A. Glass, a traveling salesman with home at Elyria; and James G., at home. Mayme Vera, who died March 13, 1916, was a graduate of the Oberlin High School and was housekeeper for her father, to whom she was greatly devoted.

CuarLes Francis Park, M.D. For more than forty years Doctor Park has been in the active practice of medicine in Lorain County. His service has been commensurate with the length of years in practice, and among the wide circle of his patients he has been both a friend and a physician. Doctor Park is a man of gentle manner in all his dealings, and this quality, together with an expert knowledge and skill in medicine, combined to win him the strong affections of hundreds of families, particularly in the vicinity of Grafton, where he has had his home for so many years.

He is a native of Massachusetts, born at Chelsea, November 16, 1846, a son of Richard and Sarah Turner (Cushing) Park. His father was a contractor. With his early boyhood spent in Massachusetts and with a public school education, Doctor Park was graduated from high school at an early age and at fifteen came to Elyria, Ohio, where he lived with his maternal uncle, Dr. Charles F. Cushing. In 1868 Doctor Park went to the Northwest and lived along the frontier in Montana and was in the service of the quartermaster's department of the United States Army stationed at Fort Shaw. He enjoyed the exciting and novel life of the Northwest until 1870, and then returning to St. Louis took his first course in the Medical College at St. Louis. He then came to Elyria, Ohio, where he was granted a certificate to practice his profession by the Lorain County Medical Society. He had also read medicine to some extent while living in Montana. Doctor Park paid all the expenses of his higher education, and did his first work at Chatham in Medina County. He practiced there from the spring of 1871 until the fall of 1872, and then entered the Homeopathic Medical College, where he was graduated in the spring of 1873. From that year until 1875 he was associated with his uncle Doctor Cushing in practice at Elyria. In October, 1875, Doctor Park located at LaGrange, Ohio. and remained in active practice there until October, 1888, when he came to Grafton, where he has since resided.

On May 3, 1876, at the home of Dr. C. F. Cushing at Elyria, Doctor Park and Miss Helen Isabelle Gamble of Elyria were united in marriage. Mrs. Park was born at Toronto, Canada, daughter of Robert and Mary A. (Colby) Gamble. Of the five children born to Dr. and Mrs. Park three died in childhood. The two now living are Dr. William Cushing Park, a sketch of whose career is given in following paragraphs, and Olive Park. The daughter is a graduate of the Grafton High School, and later of Baldwin University at Berea. After several years of teaching she continued her studies in the Columbia University at New York City, from which she graduated in June, 1914, and is now engaged in chureh extension work and physical education in the City of Cleveland, Ohio.

Dr. Charles F. Park has been a lifelong republican though not an office seeker, and has served only in local affairs, spending two years in the Grafton City Council. He is a member of the Knights of Maccabees and the Knights of Pythias, and was at one time examining physician for several life insurance companies. He twelve times represented his local as a delegate to the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias. He is well known in his profession, and is one of the oldest members of the Lorain County Medical Society.

WILLIAM CusHING Park, M.D. With a career which has exemplified its thorough usefulness in the field of medicine and surgery, Dr. William (. Park is a worthy successor of his honored father, one of the veteran physicians of Lorain County, and has been in practice at Grafton for the past ten or fifteen vears.

He was born in the Village of LaGrange, Lorain County, October 7, 1877, and was eleven vears of age when his parents removed in 1888 to Grafton. He was fourteen years of age when he graduated from the Grafton High School in the class of 1892 and was the first to receive a diploma from the high school of that town. He then spent three years in Baldwin University at Berea, and as a practical experience and as a means of paying his way through higher schools he taught for several years in Lorain County. Entering the medical department of Western Reserve University at Cleveland, he continued his studies there four years and during vacations read medicine with Dr. C. H. Cushing of Elyria. He was graduated M.D. in 1902 and at once became associated

On January 14, 1903, Dr. Park married Miss Grace Angie Bruce, ef Elyria. 'She was born in Carlisle Township of Lorain County, daughter of Isaac and Julia (Pangborn) Bruce. Mrs. Park graduated from the high school at Ionia, Michigan. To their marriage have been born two children: Marian B. and Jean Frances.

Dr. Park is a republican and was for five years a member of the Grafton School Board. He has filled all the chairs in the Knights of Pythias Lodge, is a member of the Knights of the Maceabees, and belongs to the Lorain County Medical Society.

R. HatHiaway, M. D. One of the oldest medical practitioners in Lorain County is Dr. R. Hathaway of Wellington, where he has looked after the welfare of his patients and has been both a physician and friend to many of the leading families in that section for a period of nearly forty years. He is held in high esteem, and has performed a service which entitled him to the respect and admiration of his fellow men.

His birth occurred in Sandusky, Ohio, July 21, 1847, and he is of English ancestry, the first of the name having come from England and settled at Deposit. New York. Robert Hathaway, father of Doctor | Hathaway, was a native of New York State and in early manhood moved to Sandusky, Ohio, where for thirty years he was in the grocery business. Considering his opportunities, he was a very successful man, and late in life he retired from business and spent his last years with his son, Doctor Hathaway, in Wellington. He was a republican in politics and a member of the Sons of Malta. Robert Hathaway married Sarah Porter, a native of Ohio. They were married in Sandusky. Her father, Thomas Porter, was born in Ireland and was the oldest of fourteen children, not a girl in the entire family. Thomas Porter was an early settler near Sandusky, and followed the occupation of farming.

Doctor Hathaway is the only one living of two children. As a boy he lived in Sandusky, graduated from the high school there, and in 1876 completed the course of the medical college at Cleveland. Soon after finishing his medical course he moved to Wellington, and has been continuously in practice. When he first located there his was almost entirely a country practice, and it was long before the introduction of telephones and automobiles, and he frequently rode horseback over the bottomless roads and in all kinds of weather to attend his patients. It was by such rugged service that he endeared himself to all the older people of that section.

In 1875 he married Miss Mollie Gordon of Sandusky. Mrs. Hathaway died leaving three children, and the two now living are: George, who resides in Cleveland; and Roselle, widow of H. M. Horr and living at Wellington. Doctor Hathaway married for his present wife Emily Waite of Ravenna, Ohio. Mrs. Hathaway is a member of the Congregational Church.

Rev. RosweE_t Cuapixn. The honored citizen whose name initiates this review was for thirty years actively engaged in effective service as a clergyman of the Congregational Church, and since his retirement from this high calling he has resided upon his fine farm in Russia Township. Lorain County. - a man of broad intellectuality and one whose gracious life and noble services have gained to him impregnable place in the confidence and affectionate esteem of all who have come within the sphere of his benignant influence. Mr. Chapin is a native son of Ohio and a scion of one of the sterling pioneer families of the Buckeye State, both his paternal and maternal ancestors having settled in New England in the early colonial era of our national history.

Mr. Chapin was born on a pioneer farm near the V illage of Sev ille, Medina County, Ohio, and the date of his nativity was October 18, 1844. He is a son of Calvin and Susanna (Stiles) Chapin, the former of whom was born at Enfield, Hartford County, Connecticut. in 1805, and the latter of whom was born near Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, in 1812, their marriage having heen solemnized.in Ohio in 1831. Calvin Chapin was reared to years of maturity in his native state and received in his youth excellent educational advantages. as indicated by the fact that he became a successful and popular school teacher. In 1830 he came to Ohio and numbered himself among the pioncers of Medina County, where he obtained a tract of heavily timbered land and set to himself the arduous task of reclaiming a farm from the virgin wilderness. He became one of the prosperous farmers of Medina Vounty, where he marked the passing years with large and worthy achievement and where he became a prominent and influential citizen. Through his own ability and well ordered endeavors he aceunulated a valuable landed estate of three hundred acres, and he was one of the organizers of the Ohio Farmers' Insurance Company. of which he served as the second president. He commanded unqualified popular confidence and respect and was called upon to become administrator of numerous estates in his home county. His political allegiance was given to the republican party, with which he united at the time of its organization, and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church in the Village of Seville, to which place he had removed from his farm about six months prior to his demise, his death having oceurred in 1873, and his widow having survived him by a quarter of a century. as she was summoned to the life eternal in 1899. a gracious. kindly woman who had been loved by all who knew her. Mr. Chapin's father. Ebenezer Chapin, passed his entire life in Connecticut. where his vocation was that of farming and where he was a representative of one of the Cotonial families of that part of New England, the cradle of much of onr national history. The father of Mrs. Susanna (Stiles) Chapin was a native of Massachusetts, and when venerable in vears came to Ohio. where he passed the residue of his life with his children. Of the eight children of Calvin and Susanna Chapin only two are now living, - Eben &.. who is a retired farmer and well-to-do citizen of Appleton City. St. Clair County. Missouri; and Rev. Roswell Chapin. to whom this sketeh is dedicated.

He whose name initiates this article fonnd his childhood conmpassed by the conditions and influences of the pioneer farm and was signally favored in being reared in a home of distinctive culture and refinement. His early education was acquired in the common sehools and in Seville Academy, and in 1870 he was graduated in Oberlin College. from whieh he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In preparation for the work of the ministry he thereafter completed a course in Yale Theological Seminary, at New Haven, Connecticut. in which -he was graduated in 1873, and in 1874 was ordained a clergyman of the Congregational Church. For the long period of thirty vears Mr. Chapin labored with consecrated zeal and devotion and with distinctive success in the ministry. and he held various pastoral charges in Ohio. One of his early pastorates was at Atwater, Portage County ; for four vears he was pastor of the church at Lodi, Medina County, and for ten vears established in a pastorate at Litchfield, that county: and for one vear he held a charge at North Fairfield, Huron County. Upon his retirement from the active work of the ministry he purchased his present attractive and well improved farm of forty-seven acres, near the City of Oberlin, and he has sincé given to the same his general supervision. He finds pleasure and' satisfaction in his home, his library and in the association with his wide circle of friends in the community.

When the Civil war was precipitated upon the nation Mr. Chapin manifested his patriotism by tendering his services in defense of the Union. May 2. 1864, he enlisted as a private in Company F,, One Hundred and Sixty-six Ohio National Guards, with which he continued in active service until he received his honorable discharge, September 10, 1864. He was sent to Washington, D. C., on guard duty.

The political allegiance of Mr. Chapin is given to the republican party and he and his wife are numbered among the most earnest and valued members of the Second Congregational Church of Oberlin, all of their children, except the youngest being likewise active members of the Congregational Church.

On the 25th of June, 1873, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Chapin to Mary Emma Turner, who was born at Oxford, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and who was a girl at the time of the family removal to Seville, Medina County, Ohio, in 1853. She is a daughter of William and Margaret (Riffett) Turner, who were born in Pennsylvania and who were residents of Medina County, Ohio, for many years prior to their death. Mr. and Mrs. Chapin have five children, concerning whom brief record is given, in the cqneluding paragraph of this article.

Edward A., who is now identified with the telephone business in the city of Cleveland. was graduated in the high school at Medina and in 1899 was graduated in Berea College, at Berea, Kentucky, after which he devoted a nunber of years to teaching school. John C. likewise was graduated in the Medina High School and in Berea College, and he supplemented this discipline by a course in historic old Harvard University, in which he was graduated. He is now superintendent of the public schools of (lendale, Hamilton County, Ohio. William W. remains at the parental home. Mary T. is head of the department of domestic science in the Ohio State Normal School at Bowling Green. Sidney S. holds the position of assistant purchasing agent for the American Fork & Iloe Company, in the City of Cleveland.

Perer Bucus. <A stimulating example of industry has been furnished hy Peter Buchs of Henrietta Township. Something more than thirty years ago he came to this country with his parents from Switzerland. was a strong and vigorous youth but without capital and with no knowledge of American language or customs. By honest industry and thrift he has found the way to success and enjoys all the comforts of material prosperity and the esteem paid to a good citizen.

He was born in Switzerland August 4, 1862, a son of Peter and Elizabeth (Siegfried) Buchs. His father was born in Switzerland February 28. 1828, and died July 20, 1889. The mother was born in September, 1834, and died some years after her husband. They were married in Switzerland, where the father was a quite successful man, but having lost all his property he brought his family to the United States in 1882 and located in Henrietta Township, living on a small farm there until his death. He and his wife were members of the German Methodist Episcopal Church and in politics he was a republican. Of eight children six are still living: Elizabeth, unmarried; Peter; Mrs. Jacob Weidmann, of Lorain County; Jacob, a resident of Henrietta Township ; Gottlieb, who lives north of Oberlin; and Rose, who is unmarried and lives in Oberlin.

Peter Buchs acquired his education in Switzerland and was twenty years of age when he came to America. For a time he earned wages by the heaviest work of a quarryman in the stone quarry at Amherst, and in that way got the start which has enabled him to provide not only for his own livelihood but for his family.

In March, 1888, Mr. Buchs married Louisa Weidmann, a member of a well known German family of Lorain County, reference to which is made on other pages of this publication. Of the three children born to their union the two now living are twins, Jacob Leonard and Paulina Marie, both at home. The daughter spent two years in the high: school at Oberlin. ;

Mr. Buchs and family attend the Methodist Episcopal Church, he is a member of the Grange and in polities is a republican. For one term he served as town trustee.

In 1889, the year following his marriage, Mr. Buchs hought a home in Henrietta Township and now has 106 acres of well improved land. His special business is dairying, and he ships large quantities of milk to Cleveland. He also grazes a number of cattle and hogs. has a fine barn, and in many ways has improved his home and land.

JacoB WEIDMANN. Nothing less than hard working industry has brought Jacob Weidmann to a position among the most substantial and prosperous farmers in the Kipton community. As a boy he had only the ordinary advantages of a Lorain County farmer hoy. and started life with only his hands and a determination to succeed.

By hard work and economy he had saved $500 before he was twentyone years of age. Some years later his accumulations amounted to $800 and he then made his first purchase in farming land. Since then he has continued his progress, and now has one of the most productive and valuable farms in his section of the county.

Though born in Germany, December 6, 1860, Jacob Weidmann was brought to America in infancy, and is a thorough American by training and spirit, though he was reared and trained in the German language, which he speaks and reads fluently. His parents were George Henry and Eliza (Smith) Weidmann. The father was born December 20, 1831, and died in 1905, and the mother was born in July. 1827. and died in 1886. They were married in Germany in 1856, and a few vears later they emigrated to America and located in Vermilion Township of Lorain County. Subsequently the father bought a farm in Henrietta Township, comprising sixty acres, and lived there until his death. He and his wife were members of the German Reformed Church and in politics he was a democrat. The paternal grandfather was George Weidmann, who died in Germany, and the maternal grandfather. Adam Smith, also died in that country. Of the five children of George H. Weidmann and wife, the four now living are: Mrs. George Dellefield, wife of a well known farmer of Henrietta Township: Mrs. Buchs. wife of a farmer in Henrietta Township: Mrs. John Unger of Henrietta Township: and Jacob.

Jacob Weidmann acquired his early training in the district schools of Lorain County. For fourteen vears he worked out as a farm hand, and with the $800 which his thrift enabled him to aceumulate he purchased his father's farm. In 1887 he married Miss Katie Buchs. daughter of Peter Buchs. The Buchs family came from Switzerland and scttled in: Lorain County thirty vears ago. Mr. and Mrs. Weidmann, without children of their own. have adonted three: Lillie. now the wife of Carl Krieg, a farmer in Henrietta Townshin: Eda. wife of Albert Snyder of Henrietta Township; and Twila. who is six years of age. The family attend worship at the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. Weidmann is a member of the Grange and a republican in politics. Besides his general farm industry he furnishes a large quantity of meat to the trade at Oberlin, going with supplies into that town three or four times each week. His tarm comprises 168 acres of land, and besides the general crops he raises considerable stock, principally hogs and horses. He built a substantial farm residence, has an excellent farm eyulpment of buildings and other improvements, and until recently he owned another farm which he had improved with a large barn. One of the most profitable features of his farm is a large apple orchard, and in 1915 he sold a crop of $600 worth of apples. His nephew, Harold Buchs, lives with him and assists in the management of the farm. Mr. and Mrs. Weidmann are excellent Christian people, both take an active interest in the church, and have always done their part or more in the philanthropic and benevolent work of their community.

SamvueL E. Wurst. Lorain County has been and is signally favored in the class of men who have contributed to its development along commercial and agricultural lines and in the latter connection the subject of this review demands recognition as he has been actively engaged in farming operations and the raising of fancy poultry during the greater part of his active career. He has long been known as a prosperous and enterprising citizen and one whose business methods demonstrate the power of activity and honesty in the business world.

Samuel E. Wurst was born at Brownhelm, Lorain County. Ohio, June 29, 1853, and he is a son of Echhart and Elizabeth (May) Wurst, the former of whom was born at Hesse-Cassel, Germany, where he spent his boyhood and youth and whence he immigrated to the United States in 1849. On arriving in this country Mr. Wurst located first in Rochester, New York, remaining there but a short time and going thence to Brownhelm, Ohio, where he spent one year. He then came to Elyria and located on East River Street on the east side of the city, where he owned two acres of land. . He did not live long after arriving in America, however, as he was summoned to the life eternal in 1855. His widow, who survived him for many years, passed away in 1909, at the age of eighty-four years. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Wurst, as follows: Henry is a retired merchant in Elyria; Samuel E. is the subject of this sketch; and Mary, who is the wife of John Daney, lives at Elyria, Ohio. They have one son, Norman.

When Samuel E. Wurst was but one year of age his parents located in Elyria and here he attended the common school and also high school for a time. He began business life as a clerk in the grocery store of Hannan & Obitts and remained in their employ for three years. He then bought the publication known as The Poultry Nation, and he conducted that journal with great success for the ensuing six years. In the meantime his brother Henry had purchased the store of Hannan & Obitts, mentioned above, and Mr. Wurst began to work for him, devoting a part of his time to the raising of fancy poultry. He was unusually successful with his poultry and gained a great reputation throughout this section of the state as a chicken fancier. Every fall he would exhibit poultry in the county and state fairs of Ohio and neighboring states. It is interesting to note that he had exhibits at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, at the St. Louis Centennial Exhibition and at the Ohio Centennial Exhibition. So great was his success in this line that he received prize ribbons enough to more than fill two bushel measures and he also received money prizes and other trophies. In May, 1891, he located on his present estate on Lake Avenue, just outside the corporate limits of Elyria. Originally he owned sixty acres in this vicinity but recently he disposed of ten acres as town lots. On the remaining land he carries on farming and still raises poultry. He also has a herd of seventeen head of registered Jersey cattle. His principal crops are hay, wheat and corn. Every fall he is called upon to act as judge of poultry at various fairs in Ohio and adjoining states. He owns eleven houses on the west side of Elyria, just inside the city limits, and is known as a man of considerable means.

April 20. 1887, Mr. Wurst was united in marriage to Miss Laura Standen, a daughter of George and Keziah (Smith) Standen. Alrs. Wurst was born in Dover, Ohio, August 22, 1861, and she lived on her parents' farm until her thirteenth year. In 1875 the Standen family located in Elyria, where Mr. Standen conducted a bottling works for eleven years. In 1886 he returned to his farm and the bottling works was conducted by his son, for whom Laura kept house until her marriage to Mr. Wurst. There were three children born to Mr. and Mrs. Wurst, concerning whom the following data are here inserted: Sherman St. Standen, born February 21, 1888, and a resident of Elyria, married, in 1911, Marie Sippel; Eunice Mabel, born April 19, 1892, died in 1907; and a daughter, born in 1897, died at the age of eleven days. Mr. and Mrs. Wurst are among the best known and most popular residents of Elyria Township, where they are held in high esteem by all who know them. Although fairly well advanced in years they enjoy the best of health. They manifest a warm and intelligent interest in local affairs and do all in their power to advance the prosperity of their community.

JOHN A. LATTEMAN. Still active and vigorous at the age of sixtythree, John A. Latteman has had an unusually active and worthy career. For nearly forty years he emploved his energies at the carpenter trade and at the same time has developed a substantial home and farm, and is one of the men in the vicinity of Birmingham whose success is assured beyond all question.

He is a native of Lorain County, having been born in Brownhelm Township July 5, 1853, a son of Adam and Mary (Englebry) Latteman. The father was born October 4, 1827. and died August 26, 1906, and the mother was born September 1, 1829, and died September 27, 1886. Both parents were natives of Germany, and are now deceased. They came to Lorain County in 1851, and were married in Brownhelm Township, where the father bought a farm. After eleven vears he left that place and moved to Vermilion Township and afterwards to Henrietta Township. His last place comprised eighty-two acres. Of the seven children six are living: J. A.; Mary. wife of George Dute. a farmer in Russia Township; Conrad, a farmer in Camden Township; Charles. a farmer in Florence Township; Ann, wife of Ira Kiplinger, a Lorain County farmer; Fred, a farmer in Lorain County. The parents were members of the German Reformed Church and the father was a democrat in politics.

John A. Latteman acquired his early education in the public schools of Brownhelm and Henrietta townships. When little more than a boy he acquired a practical knowledge of the carpenter's trade, and followed that as his principal work in the proper seasons of the year for forty vears. At the same time he looked after his farming interests which gradually developed. He owns two farms. one of forty-seven acres and another well improved farm of seventy acres.

Tn 1878 he married Miss Mary Heidrich, daughter of Henry and Christine (Deice) Heidrich. Her parents were also natives of Germany and came to Lorain County and spent the rest of their days on a farm. Mr. and Mrs. Latteman have six children: Amelia, wife of W. H. Was-