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The family are members of the German Reformed Church. Mr. Latteman is a member and takes considerable interest in the work of the Grange and in politics is a democrat. For the past ten years he has been a member of the board of education in his home township, and has also served as a township trustee. While his business is that of general farmer, his son now performs most of the practical work of the farm, operating on the shares, and also operating a small dairy. Mr. Latteman got his start in life through his own exertions. When his father's estate was divided he received the value of about $800, but that was the only important assistance he ever had. A number of years ago he built a beautiful farm home, and has also improved the land by other buildings and equipment and has a splendid place in which to spend his declining years.

GEORGE DELLIFIELD. The career of a man who starts with nothing and attains a definite success is always encouraging and is worthy of some permanent record in the annals of his home county. Such a case is illustrated by George Dellifield, who by self reliance and industry has found prosperity and owns one of the fine farms in the vicinity of Kipton.

Mr. Dellifield was born in Amherst Township of Lorain County March 9, 1860, a son of John and Anna (Neiding) Dellifield. Both parents were natives of Germany. The father was born in that country October 25, 1825, and was the son of Henry Dellifield, who was a veterinary surgeon. John Dellifield came to America when a young man and was married in Lorain County to Miss Neiding, who was born in Germany in 1836. She died in 1866, and the father survived until February 6, 1893. Of their four children two are living, and Mr. Dellitield's sister is Mrs. Leimbach, wife of a farmer at Clarksfield, Huron County. The parents were both members of the German Reformed Church and in politics the father was a democrat. By trade he was a shoemaker and was employed in that line at North Amherst for some years, but subsequently bought a small farm and resided there until his death.

George Dellifield grew up in Lorain County, attended the common schools, and was twenty-seven years of age when he was married, on December 8, 1887, to Emma Weidmann. The Weidmanns are a well known family of Lorain County and further information will be found concerning them under the name Jacob Weidmann on other pages. Mr. and Mrs. Dellifield have three children: Bertha, wife of P. H. Latteman. a farmer in this county; Martha and Louis, both at home. The family attend worship at the German Reformed Church and all of them, both parents and children, are members of the Grange.

My. Dellifield as a democrat in politics has served on the school board and has been trustee of his township for four years and was re-clected for a third term in 1915.

As a young man he started his independent career as a farmer on his father's place and also worked out at day and monthly wages for other people. He continued in that way until he married, and then bought his present farm paying only a small amount down and assuming a heavy obligation for the future. He and his wife co-operated in their enjoy a fine farm of 143 acres. Mr. Dellifield has from time to time installed some improvements which have brought his farm up to the best standards of Lorain County agriculture. He carries on general farming, also operating a small dairy. Numerous improvements and repairs have gone into his residence, and he recently completed a large barn and silo.

Tuomas B. BENNINGTON. Since he was born January 31, 1537, in a log house standing in the midst of the woods in Eaton Township in Lorain County, Thomas B. Bennington has been a witness of many remarkable transformations and changes in this section of Ohio. He is regarded as one of the largest land owners and most prosperous cit}- zens of the county, and a number of years ago retired from active farming and has since made his home on South Main Street in Grafton.

At the time of his birth Lorain County did not have a single railroad, nor was there a mile of railroad line in the entire State of Ohio. It was the era of canal building, and practically all traffie was either overland or by lakes and canals. In his boyhood he many times helped to thresh out the grain with an old fashioned flail or by treading it out with horses on the barn floor. In such an environment and under such sturdy discipline as was afforded him he grew up strong and vigorous. and much of his success can be traced to the fact that along with constant industry he possessed the. ability of doing more real work in a day than most men could accomplish in two days. He is still strong and vigorous both in mind and body, in spite of his nearly eighty vears, and much of his health is no doubt due to the fact that he never contracted any bad habits, never used tobacco nor intoxicating liquors in any form, and there is an interesting piece of evidence as to his personal integrity and his fair dealing in that he was never sued at law throughout the many years he has had varied and extensive business transactions.

Both his parents, Thomas and Jane (Webster) Bennington, were born in Yorkshire, England, where they were reared and married as country people. Thomas Bennington came to America before his marriage, and for about one year lived at Cleveland or that vicinity, finding whatever employment he could. He then returned to his native country, married, and brought his bride to America and settled in the comparatively new country of Northern Ohio. From Cleveland they moved to Vermilion, where they had a farm, but in 1886 he came to Eaton Township in Lorain County and acquired 108 acres from the Government. This land was covered with heavy timber, and on a small clearing he put up the log cabin in which Thomas B. Bennington first saw the light of day. The elder Bennington was also characterized by remarkable vigor and industry, and besides clearing up the first tract of land he added to it until his estate comprised about two hundred and fifty acres. He also made some excellent improvements, and that old homestead is now part of his son, Thomas Bennington's possession. The father was about sixty-six years of age when he died, and is buried in the cemetery at Butternut Ridge. After acquiring American citizenship he voted as a democrat, and filled such local offices as township trustee and school director. In his family were ten children, three sons and seven daughters, but Thomas B. was the only son to reach maturity aid he is the only survivor of all the children.

When he was a boy he attended one of the country schools then so typical in this section of the Middle West. It was held in a log building, and he sat on a bench made of a spht slab supported from the floor hy wooden pins. Across one side of the room was a broad fireplace, and the larger boys rustled the wood used as fuel during the winter season.

The curriculum was confined to the three R's and as soon as a boy's services were needed at home he had little opportunity to attend school, except two or three months each winter. At the age of fifteen Mr. Bennington entered a select school at Grafton, and the two terms he attended, walking each night and morning three miles across swamps and through the woods to complete his education.

On December 24, 1869, he married in Wakeman, Huron County, Miss Atalanta Peck, who died on the 6th of April, 1916. She was born on her father's farm in Wakeman Township, September 18, 1839, a daughter of Henry Tuttle and Abigail (Haskins) Peck. Her father was born in Vermont and her mother in Massachusetts but both had come as young people with their respective parents to Ohio and located in Wakeman Township. Mrs. Bennington acquired a common school education in very much the same kind of institutions as Mr. Bennington attended.

Before his marriage Mr. Bennington had bought a tract of land in Eaton Township and was already fairly started in that career which he has pursued with such handsome results. He owned two farms, making his home on the one adjoining his father's place. From time to time he has added to his farm holdings, and after his father's death he bought out the interests of the other heirs. His landed possessions now include about thirteen hundred acres in Lorain County and his last investment was made in 1915 when he bought 171 acres in Erie County, Pennsylvania.

As a citizen he has always been generous and public spirited. In 1912 he donated a piece of land at the corner of South Main and Vine streets in Oberlin for park purposes and that is now being developed and will always be known as Bennington Park. He also owns sixteen or seventeen residence properties in Elyria and is also owner of the Elyria Cement and Coal Yards, and he has several business buildings in Grafton. In 1895 he built his attractive home in Grafton, and in that year moved his family from the farm to the village.

His only son Edward died when about fourteen years of age. Though the son of a democrat, Mr. Bennington became a republican in time to east his first ballot for Lincoln in 1860 and has never wavered from that early choice of political party. His public service has been that of a thoroughly loyal and disinterested citizen, and he has filled such offices as school director and trustee of Eaton Township and was president of the Board of Education in Grafton for several terms. He has especially favored good schools and has done all he could to promote the cause of public education.

JoHn D. Born. Something over twenty years ago John D. Born came to America, a poor emigrant German youth, and since then his activities have been identified with Lorain County. He was almost unknown and practically penniless when he came to Lorain County and he deserves'much credit for the way in which he has utilized his opportunities and has made opportunities for himself. He is now one of the ° leading farmers and most prosperous citizens of Henrietta Township.

Born in Germany April 2, 1876, he is a son of Daniel and Dorothy (Zuck) Born. His parents spent all their lives in Germany, where his father was a farmer. The father was born in 1827 and died in 1890 and the mother was born in 1828 and died in 1914. Of their eight children four are still living: John, a farmer and wagon maker in Germany; Alexander, who is a prosperous farmer in Iowa; John D.; and Mrs. Catherine Pippin, wife of a farmer and living in Germany. The parents were members of the German Lutheran Church. Grandfather John Born was a farmer and a government employe and an

John D. Born acquired a common school education in Germany and also attended school for two years after coming to Lorain County. It was in 1892 at the age of sixteen that he came to this country with his brother, and he soon found work for his hands as a farm laborer. Four years later he engaged in the meat and butcher business and for some time peddled meat through the country and in the City of Oberlin. For two years he was in the wholesale meat business at Lorain and for two years in the retail meat business at Amherst. Coming then to Henrietta Township Mr. Born spent two years assisting Jacob Weidmann in the management of his farm, and he recently bought a farm of seventy-five acres from Mr. Weidmann. He is associated in business with Mr. Weidmann as butcher, and he also operates the Hale farm on the shares.- In addition to general farming he raises considerable stock and has several fullblood Holstein cattle.

On April 11, 1907, Mr. Born married Miss Louise Bechstein. She was born at Amherst, Ohio, a daughter of John Bechstein, a native of Germany, and an old settler in Lorain County. Mr. and Mrs. Born's four children are Harvey, aged eight, Arthur, aged six, Howard, aged four, and Dorothy, aged two. The family are members of the German Methodist Episcopal Church and he is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Grange. In polities he is a republican, and in the fall of 1914 was elected township assessor. Thus he enjoys not only a substantial prosperity but also the confidence and esteem of his entire community.

FRANK JosEPpH Kinc. Few men have had more to do with the civic government of Lorain than has Frank Joseph King, a resident of this city for forty years. and during a large part of that time the incumbent of one or another public positions of importance. He started his life with no advantages save those of the public school, but was ambitious and persevering, educated himself in the higher branches and finally entered business, after which he established-a record that should prove worthy of emulation by the younger generation.

Mr. King was born in Lorain County, Ohio. July 19, 1843. and is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Simmonds) King, natives of England. His father. a salt water sailor in his youth, left the sea at the age of twentyfive years and came to the United States, settling finally in Avon Township, Lorain County, where the remaining years of his life were devoted to the pursuits of agriculture. He died in 1857, at the age of fifty-one years, while Mrs. King survived him for a long period and passed away at the home of her son at Lorain, in 1890, aged seventy-seven vears.

Frank Joseph King passed his boyhood on the home farm and eagerly accepted such opportunities in the way of education as were offered by the country school in Avon Township. but was not satisfied with this learning and decided to gain a more thorough training. Securing a teacher's certificate, for eight years he taught in the district schools during the winter months while working as a farmer in the summer seasons, and thus gained the means wherewith to attend college. In 1876 Mr. King came to Lorain, where he established himself in business as the proprietor of a modest grocery venture, an enterprise which during the sixteen years of its life grew to large and important proportions.

Equalization Board, having had some experience in the realty line. Later he was made an appraiser on the real estate commission. His services as a member of these bodies brought him favorably before the public, and in 1902 he was elected mayor of Lorain, subsequently succeeding himself two terms of two years each. He met defeat in the next campaign, owing to political conditions, but in 1909 was again elected and served until 1912. At the present writing Mr. King is again a candidate for the mayoralty. He has always been a friend of education, and has served three terms as a member of the board of education, once by appointment and twice by election. His entire public service is one marked by faithful and efficient discharge of duty and of constant endeavor to contribute to his city's welfare and advancement.

On October 9, 1879, Mr. King was married to Miss Ellen Lee Conklin, of Connecticut, and to this union there has been born one daughter: Mary Elizabeth, born in November, 1880, at Lorain, married in February, 1900, Rev. Francis W. Crowe, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Reverend and Mrs. Crowe have one daughter. Margaret Ellen, born June 19, 1906.

Louis ZimMERMAN. A farmer and dairyman whose enterprise has been a useful factor in Lorain County's development for many years, Louis Zimmerman has his home in Grafton Township. While an unfortunate illness handicapped him in the matter of an education when he was a boy, he has made use of his opportunities in life bevond the average man and has acquired that material prosperity as well as the esteem of his fellow citizens which are among the best rewards of existence.

He was born in the City of Cleveland, May 8, 1856, a son of Frederick and Hannah (Hahn) Zimmerman. Both parents were born, reared and married in Germany and soon after their marriage they emigrated to America, being two months in making the passage on a sailing vessel, a severe storm having dismasted the vessel and having greatly delayed the progress. For a few years the parents lived in Cleveland, where Frederick Zimmerman, who came to this country with a very thorough training such as is given to young men in Germany preparing for a trade, worked as a carpenter and while there he built himself a house. When Louis Zimmerman was three years of age his father traded the house toward the purchase of a farm of seventy acres near Oberlin. While living on that farm a daughter Carrie was born. who is now the wife of E. M. Sheldon and lives in Carlisle Township and is the mother of five children. On the farm near Oberlin the father placed many improvements during his residence there of fourteen years and then sold out and returned to Cleveland. A year later he bought a farm of sixty-five acres in LaGrange Township of Lorain County. He was a worthy and upright citizen and lived to be about ninety vears of age.

Thus until he was about seventeen years of age Louis Zimmerman lived on the home place near Oberlin. He had the advantages of the common schools, and the plans made for him contemplated his further education in Oberlin Academy and College. As these could not he carried out hecause of an unfortunate illness which kept him at home and as a result of which he partially lost his hearing, after regaining his strength he quickly adapted himself to the vocation of a farmer and after reaching manhood he continued to live with his father and finally bought eighty acres known as the Golden farm.

a daughter of Major E. and Mary C. (Bailey) Clark. Her father was of Scotch ancestry, a native of Vermont and lived to be about ninety-two years of age. After reaching manhood he came to Ohio and was married in LaGrange Township. Subsequently he enlisted and served' during the Civil war in the One Hundred and Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was severely wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, and that ended his field service, and afterwards he was detailed to assist in the army hospitals until the close of his term of enlistment. Mrs. Zimmerman was the youngest of three children. Her brother James died unmarried and her brother Joseph W., who was a railway man and killed while on duty, married Sarah Obetts and left two children.

Mr. and, Mrs. Zimmerman continued to live in LaGrange Township until 1910, when they moved to their present fine home of 150 acres, formerly known as the Fowler farm. This is one of the high class farms of Lorain County and Mr. Zimmerman has improved it in many ways, carries on general farm husbandry and makes a specialty of dairying.

He and his wife have two children. Edna Veve, after graduating from the Grafton High School, entered Baldwin University at Berea, from which she graduated and then taught five years, three years as principal of the high school at Grafton. In October, 1915, she entered Leland Powers School of Expression at Boston, Massachusetts, and is continuing a student of a special course. Lloyd C. Zimmerman, the son, is now about eighteen years of age and has completed his education in the local schools. Mr. Zimmerman and son are both members of the Grange and in politics he is an independent republican, without aspirations for office. He and his wife attend the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mrs. Zimmerman is a member of the Ladies of the Maccabees.

CuarLes R. Ketity. Gratifying to record is the success that has been won through individual effort and ability, and such achievement has been that of Mr. Kelly, the results of whose well ordered endeavors are represented in his fine homestead farm in Russia Township, about one mile distant from the City of Oberlin. Special interest pertains to his career by reason of the fact that he is a native of Lorain County and a scion of one of the sterling pioneer families of this county.

Mr. Kelly was born in Henrietta Township, Lorain County, Ohio, on the 4th of May, 1851, and is the only child of Albert and Elizabeth (Eldridge) Kelly, whose marriage was solemnized in this county, though both were natives of the State of Vermont. Albert Kelly was born in the old Green Mountain State, in the year 1818, and was a hoy at the time of the family removal to Ohio, where his father, Richard Kelly, became one of the pioneer farmers of Lorain County, success having attended his well ordered labors and his having been a place of prominence and influence in community affairs. Albert Kelly was reared to manhood in this county, where his early educational advantages were those afforded in the pioneer schools. and where his entire active career was one of close and effective association with the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing. He continued to be one of the well known and highly esteemed citizens of Lorain County until his death, which occurred in 1890, and his wife survived him by a number of vears. His political support was given to the republican party and he took a lively interest in all that concerned the progress and wellbeing of the county in which nearly his entire life was passed.

Charles R. Kelly found the period of his childhood compassed by the influences of the home farm and he is indebted to the district schools of Henrietta Township for his early educational discipline, which has been effectively supplemented by the lessons gained in the practical school of experience. At the age of thirteen years he found employment in a neighboring stone quarry, and from the position of derrick attendant he won advancement to that of foreman, of which latter he continued the valued incumbent for a number of years. For six years thereafter he was engaged in the general merchandise business in the Village of Amherst, this county, and after leaving the store opened a quarry for Marshall Sherben in Henrietta Township, and was foreman of this enterprise four years. He then purchased and established his home on his present farm in Russia Township, the same comprising sixty-two acres. He is the owner also of fifty acres in another section of Russia Township, and his farm property is notable for its evidences of thrift and prosperity, his beautiful residence having been erected by him and being one of the fine rural homes of the county, the while its attractions and advantages are enhanced by reason of its being situated only one mile distant from the beautiful little City of Oberlin, which is his postoffice address. In addition to giving his attention to diversified agriculture Mr. Kelly has developed a splendid dairy business on his farm, with a select herd of high-grade milch cows. From his land he receives large yields of wheat, oats and corn, and in the season of 1915 he obtained from five acres the noteworthy product of 702 bushels of corn. Mr. Kelly is loyal and public-spirited in his civie attitude and while he has had no desire for political preferment he accords unqualified allegiance to the republican party. Both he and his wife hold membership in the First Congregational Church at Oberlin.

In the year 1872 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Kelly to Miss Mary Curtis, who was born in Erie County, Ohio, and who is a daughter of the late Hezekiah and Elizabeth (Mercer) Curtis, who were early settlers of that county, to which they removed from their native State of Vermont, Mr. Curtis having been for a number of years foreman of © one of the prominent iron furnaces in Erie County. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly have two children: Mott Richard, who is a skilled horse trainer, with residence and business headquarters in the City of Oberlin; and Mae Luella, who is a successful and popular instructor in the physical culture department of Oberlin College, in which institution she was graduated as a member of the class of 1913.

CHARLES J. HASENFLUE. He whose name introduces this review has so directed his energies as to attain secure prestige as one of the representative agriculturists of Lorain County, and his well improved farm is one of the model homesteads of Russia Township. Aside from his status as a progressive and honored citizen further interest attaches to his career by reason of his being a native son of the Buckeye State, his loyalty and allegiance to which have never faltered.

" Mr. Hasenflue was born in Erie County, Ohio, on the 19th of July, 1863. and is a son of Henry and Emma (Roth) Hasenflue, both natives of Germany, where the former was born in 1841 and the latter in 1833, her death having occurred in June, 1915. Henry Hasenfliue was reared and educated in his German fatherland and as a young man he served the home tie and set forth to seek his fortunes in America. He came to Ohio and established his home in Erie County, where his marriage was solemnized and where he engaged in the conducting of a meat market in the village of Vermilion. He had learned the butcher's trade in his native land and continued in business at Vermilion until 1869, when he removed with his family to Blissfield, Lenawee County, Michigan, where he engaged in the same line of enterprise and gained substantial success. He has lived retired from active business since 1893 and maintains his home at Blissfield. He celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday anniversary in 1915 and his earnest and upright character has won to him the confidence of those with whom he has come in contact during the years of a signally long and useful life. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also his devoted wife, and he has never faltered in his allegiance to the principles of the democratic party. Of the four children three are living: Eliza is the wife of George Fix and they maintain their home in the City of Cleveland; Charles J., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Frederick, who resides at Vermilion, Erie County, has been identified with navigation interests on the Great Lakes for many years, and is now captain of a vessel engaged in the fishing business.

Charles J. Hasenflue gained his rudimentary education in the village schools of Vermilion, Erie County, and later attended the district schools. When but eleven years of age he began his independent career and assisted in the support of the other members of the family. his life having been marked by consecutive and well directed industry and his being the worthy honor of being one of the world's productive workers, the while his success represents the direct result of his own efforts along normal lines of enterprise. He has been identified with agricultural pursuits since early youth and is now one of the progressive farmers and stock-growers of Lorain County, where he has owned and operated his present farm, of ninety acres, since 1894. He has hrought the farm up to the highest standard in all respects and gives his attention to diversified agriculture and stock-growing. the while he is known as one of the vigorous, progressive and substantial exponents of these lines of enterprise in Lorain County and as a citizen imbued with marked civic loyalty and public spirit. On his farm he erected. in 1995, his present attractive and modern residence, and-all other of the excellent buildings on the place likewise stand in evidence of his progressiveness and enterprise. He is a staunch advocate of the cause of the democratic party and though he has not been imbued with aught of ambition for public office he served many years and with marked efficiency as a member of the school board of Russia Township. He is one of the appreciative and valued members of the Russia Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and has been active and influential in its affairs.

On the 19th of December, 1883, Mr. Hasenflue wedded Miss Minerva Fowl, who was born and reared in Lorain County and who is a representative of sterling pioneer families of this section of the Buckeye State. She is a daughter of Jacob and Catherine (Lapp) Fowl. both natives of Ohio and of German ancestry. John Henry Lapp. maternal grandfather of Mrs. Hasenfiue, was one of the early settlers of Lorain County, and when he arrived within its borders his cash capital was reduced to the portentous minimum of 5 cents. He settled on a small farm and while giving his attention to its reclamation he provided for the needs of his family by working at his trade, that of tailor. in Cleveland and other places in which he could find demand for his services. On one oceasion his wife went on foot to Cleveland to carry his washing to him, and she made the return trip to the home in Lorain County in the same way, thus traversing a total distance of thirty-three miles. Mr. and Mrs. Hasenflue have two children: Robert, who married Elizabeth Smith, and they have one child, Nelson C.; Frank married Christina Smith, a sister of his brother's wife. but they have no children.

CommoporE W. R. Huntineton. For fifty vears or more the name Huntington has been prominent in connection with the industrial. oil and gas development and marine interests of Northern Ohio, particularly in Cleveland and in Elyria, where Commodore W. R. Huntington has his home. Commodore Huntington is a son of the late John Huntington, who was one of a group of Cleveland capitalists in the early days of the petroleum development. Commodore Huntington has long been a factor in business affairs not only in Lorain County but in other cities, and is especially well known in the world of sports as a yachtsman.

He was born September 3, 1857, a son of John and Jane Huntington, who were natives of Preston, Lancashire, England. John Huntington eame to America in 18538. By trade he was a roofer and was one of the pioneers in the slate and gravel roofing industry. He was also one of the organizers with John D. Rockefeller and others of the Standard Oil Company and became very prominent and influential in civic matters and financial affairs. He died in London, England, in 1893, at the age of sixty-one. His wife passed away in 1882 at the age of fifty-one. Five of their children lived to maturity, namely: Hannah B., who married A. C. Hord and lives in Cleveland; William R.; Margaret J., wife of Francis Perry Smith of Cleveland; Matilda, wife of Edward A. Merritt, of Cleveland; Arthur G., who was a graduate of Yale University with the class of 1889, was killed when about twenty-five years of age by being run down by a locomotive at North Amherst, where he was assistant superintendent of the Cleveland Stone Company. John Huntington, the father of these children, was a republican in politics and for fourteen years served as a member of the city council of Cleveland. Among other financial connections he was one of the chief stockholders in the Cleveland Stone Company and was also financially interested in lake marine affairs. He belonged to all the bodied Masonry, including the thirtysecond degree of Scottish Rite, and was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. His family were members of the Episcopal Church.

Commodore Huntington grew up in Cleveland, attended the public schools of that city and the Cleveland Spencerian Business College. His first work after leaving school was in the oil fields of Pennsylvania and Ohio as a prospector and contracting driller. His operations in this line were partly independent and partly in connection with his father's extensive holdings. At that time he was a very young man, and after his experience in the oil fields from 1875 to 1878 he was appointed deputy county treasurer of Cuyahoga County, an office he filled until February 1, 1882. In February, 1882, he entered the firm of McIntosh, Good and Huntington, one of the leading hardware establishments in the City of Cleveland. He was one of the active men in the direction of this concern until 1891, when he retired.

Commodore Huntington has extensive real estate interests both in Ohio and in Florida, and is financially connected with several business enterprises, including the Elyria Telephone Company of which he is a director.

As a yachtsman he has been prominent on the Great Lakes for a number of years. He owns one of the'swiftest yachts on Lake Erie, and has been owner of several of the noted boats which at various times and in contests with the finest pliers on the lake waters have captured a number of silver cups and other trophies. Besides yachting he is also fond of hunting and fishing. He is a member of the Cleveland Yacht Club, Sandusky Yacht Club, of which he was commodore ten years, of the Toledo Yacht Club, Maumee River Yacht Club, and the Put-In-Bay Yacht Club, of which he has been commodore for the past four years. He was also commodore of the Inter-State Yachting Association in 1901 and again in 1912. He also belongs to the Cleveland Athletic and Union elubs, the Cleveland Gun Club, the Ottawa Shooting Club. and is a life member of the Masonic fraternity, having attained the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite, and is also a life member of Holywood Commandery No. 32, Knights Templar, and Al Koran Temple Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a past exalted ruler of Elyria Lodge Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and a member of the Knights of the Maccabees, the Knights of Pythias, the United Commercial Travelers, and is a member and was one of the founders of the Elyria Country Club.

In January, 1884, Commodore Huntington married Miss Mary E. Baldwin, a granddaughter of the late Judge Horace Foote, of Cleveland, and a daughter of Jonas C. and Ann Eliza (Foote) Baldwin. Commodore Huntington has a daughter, Lillian Elizabeth, now the wife of Edward E, Bishop of Elyria. Mrs. Bishop, like her father, is an enthusiastic yachtswoman and is probably the most skillful woman navigator on the Great Lakes.

Henry Hacker. Even as the kindly earth and its natural resources must ever figure as the basis of all human prosperity, even so the able and enterprising representatives of the basic industry of agriculture must always play an important part in connection with the presentation of the productive activities of every community, for back to the land must the great metropolitan centers revert for the very necessities of life. It is always pleasing to find a locality in which the dignity and precedence of agriculture are maintained at a high standard and Lorain County is remarkably favored in the personnel of its leading exponents of this great fundamental art, and one of the substantial farmers and progressive citizens who can claim the farther distinction of being native sons of Lorain County is he whose name initiates this paragraph and whose well improved farmstead is eligibly situated in Russia Township. two miles northwest of the City of Oberlin.

Mr. Hacker was born in Russia Township, this county, on the 24th of May, 1878, and is a son of Henry and Sophia (Kruse) Hacker, both natives of Germany. where the former was born in 1824 and the latter in 1834, their marriage having been solemnized in 1854, after each had become a resident of Lorain County, Ohio, where they passed the residue of their long and earnest lives, secure in the high regard of all who knew them. Mr. Hacker was called to eternal rest in 1910 and his loved wife passed away in the following year, both having been zealous communicants of the Evangelical Church.

Henry Hacker. Sr., came to the United States as a youth and while he had no financial resources he was amply endowed with energy, selfreliance and a determination to make his way to the goal of independence and prosperity. For nine years after he came to America he was emploved as a farm worker, and by the careful saving of his earnings and the gaining of high reputation for industry and sterling character, he was finally enabled to purchase a little farm of thirty acres in Lorain County, which became the stage of his first independent operations as one of the enterprising agriculturists of the county. With increasing prosperity, he eventually purchased another and larger farm. and at the time of his death he was the owner of one of the well improved and valuable places of the county, the same having comprised 100 acres of fertile land which he had brought to a high state of productiveness. He was deeply appreciative of the county in which he had thus found opportunity for the winning of worthy success and was always ready to lend his support to progressive measures and enterprises projected for the general good of the community, his political allegiance having been given to:the republican party. Of his six children all but one are living, the eldest being John, who is one of the prosperous farmers of Brighton Township, this county; Frank is a skilled machinist and as such is employed in the City of Elyria, judicial center of his native county; Polly is the wife of Henry Horning, another of the successful farmers of this county: Eliza is the wife of Louis Behnke, a substantial farmer of Amherst Township; and Henry, Jr., of this review, is the youngest of the number.

Henry Hacker. Jr., passed the period of his boyhood and youth on the homestead farm of his father and early began to contribute his quota to its work, the while he expanded his mental ken by availing himself effectually of the advantages afforded in the public schools of his native township. He has never severed his allegiance to agriculture and his independent operations have been successfully carried forward on his present fine farm of 125 acres, which he purchased when he was about thirty years of age. He has not been content merely to follow along in the beaten path but has brought to bear much discrimination in utilizing scientific methods and progressive policies in the work and management of his farm, besides which he has made excellent improvements, including the remodeling of his house and the erection of a large and well equipped barn and minor farm buildings. He has two large silos and other modern accessories for the facilitating of the work of the farm, and in addition to his diversified operations as an agriculturist he has been very successful in the raising of high-grade live stock, his dairy herd of more than twenty cows proving one of the valuable adjuncts to his farm. He is a republican in his political proclivities and though emphatically progressive and public spirited in his civic attitude he has not been diverted from his course by any ambition for political prominence or public office. He is one of the appreciative and popular members of the local Grange and takes a lively interest in its affairs, as does also his wife, who has been his able helpmeet and coadjutor in his earnest activities as a farmer and stock-grower.

In 1903 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hacker to Miss Mary M. Lauer, a daughter of Martin Lauer, who was born and reared in Germany and who has been for many years one of the substantial agriculturists and representative citizen of Carlisle Township, Lorain County. where he is the owner of a valuable landed estate of more than 900 acres. Mr. and Mrs. Hacker have three children: Florence, Martin and Evangeline, and the two older children are attending the local

Apert Tuomas Grints, M.D. In the ten years of his work as a physician and surgeon in Lorain County, Doctor Grills has enjoyed many of the better distinctions and successes of professional activity. While representing the new and modern methods and learning in the science of medicine. Doctor Grills also has that fine character and conscientious devotion to duty which were so signally exemplified in the old time practitioner and family doctor.

His vouth and early manhood were spent in Lorain County, though - he was born in Ashawa. Canada, June 9, 1877. His parents, Samuel and Elizabeth (Grant) Grills, natives of England, came from Canada to Ohio in 1882. and established their home on a farm in Carlisle Township of Lorain County, where they continued to reside until 1915, in which year they moved to Lorain and are now making their home with their son. Doctor Grills. The father and mother are now old people, and for many years have been worthy and esteemed citizens of the county.

The first seventeen years of his life Doctor Grills spent on the old homestead, and has much of the strength and vigor which are a product of rural environment. He attended the district schools. went to school in Elyria, and in 1900 graduated from high school. He soon afterwards entered the Western Reserve Medical College in Cleveland, where he was graduated M. D. in 1904. The following two years were spent as resident physician at the Charity Hospital in Cleveland.

Doctor Grills' professional work has been in the City of Lorain. During the first year and a half of his residence there he was resident physician in St. Joseph's Hospital, and is still a member of the hospital staff, and also has served as medical director of the Devonian Mineral Spring Company of Lorain. His private practice makes very extensive demands on all his time and energy and he is regarded as one of the Jeaders in Lorain County's medical circles today.

He is. a member of the Lorain County Medical Society. the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is also active in the Lorain Chamber of Commerce. A prominent Mason. he has affiliations with Lorain Lodge No. 552, Free & Accepted Masons; Mystic Chapter No. 170, Royal Arch Masons; Lorain Council, Roval & Select Masters; Lorain Commandery No. 65, Knights Templar: and Lake Erie Consistory of the thirty-second degree and Al Koran Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. of Cleveland. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and ot Lorain Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

In July, 1905, Doctor Grills married Miss Olive A. Mahany. of Cleveland. Mrs. Grills, who before her marriage was a trained nurse, passed away October 5, 1915.

GrorGeE A. Hann. The great Empire of Germany early gave valuable contribution to the civic makeup of Lorain County, and he whose name initiates this article is a scion of sterling pioneer families of this county, where both his paternal and maternal grandfathers settled at a time when this section of the Buckeye State was little more than a semiwilderness. As a scion of the third generation of the Hahn family in Lorain County George A. Hahn is well upholding the prestige of the name which he bears and is known as one of the progressive farmers and loyal and public-spirited citizens of this beautiful and opulent section of his native state.

Mr. Hahn was born on the homestead farm of his parents. in Black River Township, Lorain County, on the 13th of April. 1873. and is a son of Charles and Catherine (Baumhardt) Hahn, both likewise natives of Lorain County, where the former was born on the 10th of June. 1847, and the latter on the 17th of March, 1851. The parents of Mr. Hahn were reared and educated in this county, where they still maintain their residence on their fine landed estate. and of their children six are living: Louis E. is one of the prosperous farmers of Erie County ; George A.. of this review, was the next in order of birth: Martha A. is the wife of Charles Schibley, a farmer in Elyria Township: Minnie K. is the wife of Arthur Wangerien, a farmer of this county: Bertha E. is the wife of Henry Smithkons, another representative agriculturist of the county, as is also Walter Holstein, husband of Amelia. the youngest daughter.

Charles Hahn and his wife are zealous members of the Evangelical Church and in politics he is found aligned as a staunch supporter of the cause of the democratic party. He is serving, in 1915-16, as trustee of Black River Township. and is one of the prominent and influential citizens of that part of the county, where he is the owner of a well improved and valuable landed estate of 390 acres, the same being recognized as one of the best farms in the county. Charles Hahn is a son of George and Elizabeth (Pretz) Hahn, both natives of Germany, where the former was born in 1822 and the latter in 1821. George Hahn came to the United States in 1838 and became one of the first settlers in Lorain County, Ohio, where he reclaimed a farm from the wilderness and where he gained prosperity and independence through his well ordered labors. He had virtually no financial resources when he came to this county as a youth, and at the time of his death he was | the owner of one of the large and valuable estates of this section of Ohio. Adam Baunhardt, maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, likewise came from Germany and numbered himself among the early pioneer settlers of Lorain County, where he became a substantial farmer and where he continued to reside until his death. It will thus be seen that both the Hahn and Baumhardt families have contributed much toward the development and progress of Lorain County along both civic and industrial nes, and the names of both merit enduring place in the recorded history of this now opulent section of the Buckeye State.

George A. Hahn found the period of his childhood and youth compassed by the invigorating and benignant influences and discipline of the home farm, and in the meanwhile he did not fail to profit fully by the advantages afforded in the public schools of his native township, besides which he completed a four months' course in the commercial college at Oberlin. He continued to be associated with the work and management of the home farm until he had attained to the age of twentyfour years, and he initiated his independent enterprise as a farmer on a tract of 126 acres presented to him by his father. With characteristic energy and good judgment he bent his energies to the development and improving of his farm, which he made a valuable property. In 1906 he purchased his present fine landed estate of 234 acres, situated in Russia Township, 314 miles distant from the City of Oberlin. Here he has found ample scope for his progressive and specially successful operations as an agriculturist and stock-grower, and his homestead is one of the valuable and admirably improved landed estates of his native county. Mr. Hahn is a vigorous and public-spirited representative of the agricultural interests of the county, is always ready to give his influence and co-operation in the furtherance or undertakings tending to advance the general welfare of the community, and in his political giance is independent. rae the 2d of Sinne 1892, Mr. Hahn wedded Miss Carrie Schaible, who was born and reared in Elyria Township, this county, and who is a daughter of Jacob and Caroline (Eppley ) Schaible, the. former of whom was born in Germany and the latter in the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Schaible still reside on their homestead farm in Elyria Township. Mr. and Mrs. Hahn have four children: Catherine, who was born March 29, 1900, is a member of the class of 1918 in the Oberlin High School; Harold. who was born in 1903, is an eighth-grade student in the public schools; Marian, who was born in 1907, is in the fourth grade of the local school; and Charles was born February 28, 1911.

Hexry Hosart Hitcucock. For the greater part of half a century Henry Hobart Hitchcock has been one of the leading farmer eitizens of Grafton Township. About forty-six years ago he located on his present home place, which is situated on the Grafton Pike, one mile south of the village of that name. With a farm of 245 acres he carries on an extengive husiness in general agriculture, dairying and stock husbandry.

He came to Lorain County after his marriage. He was born on a farm in Montville Township of Medina County, Ohio, December 14, 1843, a son of Daniel Bristol and Sarah E. (Welton) Hitcheock. The father was born near Amboy, New York, where he grew to manhood and where he became a skilled workman in the fabrication of such articles as spinning wheels, rakes, ete. When he was about twenty-one years of age he came to Ohio with his parents Daniel and Martha (Thayer) Hiteheock, who located in Medina County in 1836. Daniel Hitchcock was born in Connecticut while his wife was a native of Massachusetts. In Medina County Daniel Hitcheock acquired a fifty-eight acre farm and his only son, Daniel B., inherited that place and spent his days there as a successful farmer until his death when about fifty-one vears of age.

Henry Hobart Hitchcock spent his early life on his father's farm and had such advantages as the local schools could bestow. Aftér his father's death he bought from his sister Mary her interest in the homestead. His sister is now the wife of Samuel Rosenberry and lives on a farm in Fulton Township of Kalamazoo County, Michigan.

After reaching manhood Mr. Hitchcock made a visit to his grandfather who was then living on the farm where Henry H. Hitchcock now lives, and there became acquainted with Miss Eleanor S. Breckenridge. Their acquaintance ripened into love and on August 17, 1867, they were united in marriage. Mrs. Hitchcock was born on the farm where she and her husband now reside, and is a daughter of Justin Breckenridge, while her mother was a Miss Pohlman. Both were natives of New York State and early settlers in Lorain County.

About two years after his marriage Mr. Hitchcock sold his farm in Medina County and bought the place where he now lives, paying #40 an acre for land that is now worth several times as much. His wife's father Mr. Breckenridge built the home residence in 1851. Its walls were substantially constructed of brick and they still stand solid, and the house is almost as good as new. The outside buildings Mr. Hitchcock has remodeled since taking possession and has always kept his own farm apace with the advancement in agricultural methods.

To him and his wife were born four children. Clarence Pohlnan, born August 30, 1868, and now a successful insurance man at Lorain, married and has two children, Marie and Ralph. Willis Nelson, the second child, was born October 14, 1870, and is his father's capable assistant on the home farm; he married Miss Mary Benzing and has two children Eleanor S. and Nelson G. Howard Hobart. the third son, was born June 18, 1879, is a farmer in Brunswick Township of Medina County and married Della Stearns. Dwight Bristol, the youngest child, was born April 19, 1880, and still lives at home.

Since early manhood Henry Hobart Hitcheock has heen a devoted adherent of republican principles in politics. He cast his first presidential ballot in 1868 for President Grant. He served as trustee of the township two terms and was land appraiser one term. He was reared in the Episcopal Church, and his middle name was given in honor of Bishop Hobart of New York, whose name is also preserved by Hobart College at Geneva, New York. When Mr. Hitchcock removed to Grafton, in the absence of any Episcopal Chureh, he put in his membership with the Congregational society at Grafton, and has always been one of its active members and is serving as a trustee and deacon. His son Willis was at one time superintendent of the Sunday School.

Davip Decker. Out on the Murray Ridge Road in Elyria Township one of the best improved and most attractive farms passed by the traveler on that highway is the Decker place of 101 aeres. Mr.

Decker is a native of Lorain County, was born not far from where he now lives, and has made an ample success in his chosen line of endeavor and also stands for the good things in the life of his -community.

The farm on which he was born June 2, 1853, was also located on the Murray Ridge Road, and was at that time owned by his parents, Frederick and Catherine (Cook) Decker. They both come from Germany as young people, his mother with her parents when sixteen years of age. The father was a tailor by trade, and after landing in Boston worked there for several years and was married in that city to a Miss Cook when the latter was nineteen years old. They finally came West and settled in Lorain County, locating in Amherst Township, but after a short time moved to Elyria Township, where they occupied the farm on Murray Ridge Road about half a mile from the old Telegraph Road. That was their home for nearly thirty years. They then moved to the City of Elyria where Frederick Decker died January 21, 1880, at the age of about seventy-two. His widow for several years kept house for her youngest sons, Frank and George, in Amherst Township, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lenz, in Greytown, Ottawa County, February 4, 1901, at the advanced age of eighty-five. There were twelve children in the family, all of whom grew up except Peter, who was accidentally drowned when four or five years of age in a well. The names of the children were: William, Jacob, Catherine, Frederick, Elizabeth, Peter, Phillipine, Adam, Carry, David, Frank and George. The son, William, early in life went to Michigan, where he was engaged in lumbering, served with a Michigan regiment all through the Civil war, and was afterwards identified with lumber mills in that state until his death; he was twice married, and by the first wife had two children, Kittie and Willie, and by the second marriage there is a son, Fred, who still lives in Michigan. Jacob Decker, the second son, also lives in Lorain County. Catherine, the third child, married Abraham Halter, lived in Elyria Township a number of years, from there moved to Hancock County, and she died there about five years ago when seventy years of age; she was the mother of four children: Edward, Susie, Arthur and Clarence. The next in the family is Frederick, who was a farmer in Elyria Township up to the age of twenty-two, then went to the war and died while fighting for the Union cause. Elizabeth lived in Elyria Township until her marriage to Jacob Lenz, which occurred in 1863, and she is now living at Greytown in ie County, a widow and the mother of nine children: Fred, decease a Alice; Henry; Julia; Edward; Frank, and three others now ate ; Phillipine was married at the age of seventeen in Elyria rele Pp to George Hansman, a blacksmith, and they are now living in a a their children are: Allie, deceased; Fred; Elmer; Kittie; an ae ; Adam, who now lives at Elyria, vee a spel aye : a ees se work and is now an engineer in the s eel 5. DS se ea Margaret Lea ie ee Dates he Le a ee named Mamie and Clarence. arry is the wi Py e .f deg ss McQueen, who for a number of years was captai a acre Pence as es rh ee ee ane Ee Catherine, Lillian pee eet caren now deceased, was a farmer, later a teaming con- Pera ox Amherst, and died about fifteen vents ago i He oy mek

Mr. David Decker grew up in Lorain County, attended the schools near his boyhood home, and was well trained for the business which he has made the basis of his career. He lived with his parents until twenty years of age, after which he followed the carpenter trade several years. He did his first farming for himself for one year in Elyria Township, and in 1878 moved to Sheffield Township, where for eighteen years he operated a farm of 13614 aeres. Returning to Elyria Township in March, 1896, he has since prospered as the proprietor and 'manager of the old Michael Eppley farm.

On April 24. 1879, he married Angeline May Botamer. She was born in Elyria Township, a daughter of Christopher Frederick and Chassie (Fessler) Botamer. Her father was born in Germany, but was married in Sandusky, and his wife was of English stock. Mrs. Decker was one of a family of twelve children, two of whom died in infancy. Her brothers and sisters were named: Emma, deceased; Sarah, deceased ; William, who lives in Elyria; Mamie, who died after her marriage; Catherine (Botamer) Beese, who lives in Elyria; John: Frank and Adam, both residents of Elyria; George, deceased; and Leon.

To Mr. and Mrs. Decker have been born three children. Ruby is the wife of Samuel A. Beal. Edward C., who is foreman for John Halpin, a contractor. married Mabel Gibson. Harley, who lives on the farm with his father, married Myrna Hughes; their first child, a son, died at the age of five months, and the two living children are Nina Belle and Wanda Veda. Mrs. Decker is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Decker's father was a very liberal supporter and constant attendant of the same church. Mr. and Mrs. David Decker are both members of the local Grange in the Patrons of Husbandry, and Mr. Decker at one time filled the office of township assessor. He was elected to that position on the democratic ticket and that has been his brand of polities.

Hien L. Hatt, M. D. One of the busiest physicians of Lorain County is Dr. Hugh L. Hall of Amherst, where he has been serving his clientage faithfully for a period of more than thirty vears. He is a conscientious. high minded and skillful physician, and his professional work and civic prominence have brought him an enviable position in this county.

He was born in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, May 17, 1860, a son of Ozias L. and Laura (Hyde) Hall. Both the Hyde and the Hall families were Connecticut people who came to Northern Ohio in the early days. Ilis paternal grandparents, Daniel and Sallie (VanWormer) Hall. emierated from their native State of Connecticut to Ashtabula County, Ohio, and had their first home in a log eabin. They spent the remainder of their useful vears in that county. The maternal grandfather, Gates IIvde, was also an early farmer in Ashtabula County. Doctor Hall's father was born jn 1831 and died in 1885. He was a child when brought to Ashtabula County and at the age of sixteen he suffered a serious impairment of health and being unable to continue on the farm took up teaching. and followed that profession for a number of vears. Always under the handicap of ill health. he prospered and heeame a man of considerable material influence. Te died suddenly at Macon, Georgia. and was buried there, though his old friends and neighbors held a funeral service at his home in Ashtabula County. He was a repubhean in polities. and both he and his wife were active members of the Congregational Church et Rock Creek. He was married at Lenox. Ohio, to Miss Laura

Hyde. who was born in 1839 and died in 1895. Their three children were: Dr. Hugh L.; Flovd M., who is a farmer at Cherry Valley; and Laverie. wife of Frank Beck, a successful laundryman at Atlanta, Georgia, and at one time the owner of several laundries in different cities.

Doctor Hall had the advantages of a good home and received a good education as a boy, and when old enough to take up life on his own responsibilities he followed out his ambition to become a professional man. He completed his literary training in Grand River Institute at Austinburg, Ohio, and in 1884 graduated M. D. from the Western Reserve Medical College. He also had two years of training in a hospital in Cleveland, and in 1885 he located permanently at Amherst, buying the practice of Doctor Maynard, a physician whom many recall in that section of Lorain County. Almost from the start Doctor Hall had a large following and his ability has kept him secure in the confidence of a large and profitable practice. He is a member of the Lorain County and Ohio State Medical Societies.

In June, 1885, Doctor Hall married Harriet Tinker. She was born at Rome in Ashtabula County, a daughter of Daniel and Alathea (Ackley ) Tinker, who were an early family in Ashtabula County. Doctor and Mrs. Hall have one son, Howard L., who was born December 26, 1898. Throughout his four years in high school he maintained the highest average in his studies and graduated with the class of 1916 as valedictorian. His education will be continued in Oberlin College. Doctor and Mrs. Hall and son are members of the Congregational church, and Mrs. Hall served as president of the Ladies Aid Society during 1915, and under her administration the society raised $1,100 for carrying out its purposes. In politics Doctor Hall is independent. He has served on the village council and is now a member of the school board. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, has filled all the chairs in the subordinate lodges, and in Masonry is also a member of the Royal Arch Chapter, the Council and the Knights Templar degrees.

Witu1iM H. SprecELBERG. Undoubtedly one of the finest farms to be found in all Lorain County is that of William H. Spiegelberg in Elyria Township. As an agriculturist he is a man of progressive ideals and while his efforts have always brought him an abundant degree of material prosperity he is constantly going ahead and looking ahead for further improvements and better methods of utilizing his opportunities. The Spiegelberg home is a place of great attractiveness. In 1908 he erected a residence of thirteen rooms with all the modern conveniences, including a complete lighting and heating system. Following this came another substantial improvement, an immense barn erected in 1909. and one of the more recent additions to his farm enterprise has been the erection of a large silo. While classified as a general farmer, Mr. Spiegelberg gives much attention to special crops and to live stock, and operates a large dairy.

Born in Amherst Township January 23, 1863, William H. Spiegelberg is of sterling German ancestry, and his family has been identified with Lorain County more than eighty years. His grandparents were John and Barbara (Heiser) Spiegelberg, who were married in Germany. In 1833 as young people they came to the United States, and during the first winter, spent at Norwich, Connecticut, twin children were born to them, George W. and Olive, the latter being later Mrs. Adam Stang of Elyria Township. In 1834 the family started West, intending to locate at Fort Wayne, Indiana. The vessel on which they were coming up the lake encountered a severe storm and was taken into Lorain Vol. M - -26 harbor, where all the passengers were landed. John Spiccclbere. hunted up an old friend from Germany at Lorain, secured his assistance in getting employment, and thus became a permanent resident. He was a man of industry, a money maker, and for many years lived on a good farm in Amherst Township.

_ The late George W. Spiegelberg, whose birth has already been: recorded and who died April 14, 1902, spent practically all his life in Lorain County. After his marriage he succeeded to the ownership of the old homestead in Amherst Township, and continued its operation successfully until the close of his career. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Kolbe, was born in Germany in 1840, a daughter of N. W. and Elizabeth (Heisner) Kolbe, who settled in Ohio in 1856, and for many years lived on a farm near Lorain Village. George W. Spiegelberg and wife had ten children: Barbara Elizabeth, who married Jacob Eschtruth ; George, a twin brother of Elizabeth, lived only about a year; William H.; Mary, who married Moses Eppley; Olive, who became the wife of John Bechtell; Louisa, wife of William Beal; Carrie; Elizabeth, who married J. F. Fowle; Amelia, wife of Frank Rahl; and Louis, who married Odelia Smith.

William H. Spiegelberg spent his early years on the old homestead, gained an education in the local schools, and was with his parents until his marriage on March 28, 1889. The maiden name of his wife was Lydia A. Eppley. She was born in Morgan County. Ohio, a daughter of Michael and Rosa (Harch) Eppley, both natives of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Spiegelberg have six children: Elmer William, who died at the age of ten weeks; Edna Catherine; Earl William; Lydia Alberta Elizabeth; Ruth Marian and Marian Elizabeth.

During the ten years following his marriage Mr. Spiegelberg, with the co-operation of his thrifty wife, followed farming as a renter in Amherst Township, and proved his energy and successful ability by making enough out of his operations as a renter to finally buy a home for himself. He finally located on the old John M. Vineent farm of 1281% acres, and after renting that estate for ten years hought it. Under his own proprietorship improvements have gone forward at a rapid pace, until there is now nothing lacking to make it an ideal country home. Mrs. Spiegelberg attends the Zion Ev angelical Chureh. In politics he is an independent voter.

GrorceE H. Anpress. Among the energetic young business men of Elyria, one who has won. prominence -although a comparative newcomer to commercial circles is George H. Andress, ''The Studebaker Man,"' representative here for the famous Studebaker automobile. He was born in this city, September 28, 1892, and is.a son of Henry M. and Medora G. (Boynton) Andress. His father, a business man of Elvria for forty years, for half of this time conducted an establishment within twenty rods of the location of the son's store and garage, which is situated on the property on which the old home stood for a long period. A review of the career of Henry M. Andress will be found elsewhere in this work.

George H. Andress received a public school education and when ready to enter upon his commercial career associated himself with his father, under whom he received his business training. From 1910 until 1913 he remained with the elder man in the handling of automobiles, and in the latter year, with this experience, took over the agency of the Studebaker automobile and has built up a Jarge and important business. Mr. Andress is a member of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce, the Elyria Automobile Club and Lodge No. 465, Benevolent and Protective

Mr. Andress was married January 21, 1913, to Miss Lora J. Waite, who was born at Lorain, Ohio, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Waite, who are living at Lorain. One daughter has come to this union: Maude Augusta, born at Elyria. Mr. Andress owns his own home and place of business, the latter being located in a desirable part of the business section of the city, at No. 635 Broad Street.

Lester C. Cook, whose death on April 12, 1909, was a cause for general regret in Lorain County, was one of the factors in agricultural and civic progress in Eaton Township for many years. Mrs. Cook, his widow, is still living on the old homestead at North Eaton, and his work as a farmer is continued through his son. This is one of the best known and most prominent families of Eaton Township.

Born on a farm in Medina County, Ohio. December 6, 1841, a son of Erastus and Lemira (Ayer) Cook, Lester C. Cook grew to manhood on the Medina County farm, received a good education, and for several years was a school teacher. He also took a business course in Oberlin, and for a couple of years was interested in a furniture store at Hillsdale, Michigan.

On January 19, 1875, he married Miss Minnie Streeter of Eaton Township in Lorain County, where she was born October 21, 1848. Mrs. Cook is a daughter of Sheldon and Mary (Cutts) Streeter. Her father was born on a farm in Shalersville Township of Portage County, Ohio, August 7, 1824, while her mother was born on a farm in Paris Township of Portage County February 25, 1828. They were married January 19, 1848, and in the following March they moved to Lorain County, where Sheldon Streeter bought fifty acres in Eaton Township. Only a part of this had been cleared, and its chief improvements were a log house and a small barn. It was in that one community that he concenirated his efforts and made his home the rest of his days. From time to time he invested his surplus in other lands and finally had 238 acres under his individual ownership. In 1867 Mr. Streeter built the large commodious residence which is now occupied by Mrs. Cook and her family. Besides this residence Sheldon Streeter put up good barns and other buildings and his was a career of useful effort and of substantial citizenship. Mrs. Cook was the only child of her parents, and she was eight years old when her mother died, and though her father married again there were no children by the second marriage. Sheldon Streeter was a republican in early life and later a prohibitionist. He became an ardent admirer of William J. Bryan. Though interested in polities he was never a seeker for official honor. He was a member and served as an elder forty-three years in the Christian Church at Eaton Center and was also a Sunday School worker. His death occurred September 11, 1902, as a result of being struck by the railway cars at North Eaton.

To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Cook were born seven children. All of them were born on the old home farm in Eaton township, and four of them died in early childhood. The oldest is Grace B., born November 21, 1876, a graduate of the Academy at Oberlin, following which she took a course in a nurses' training school and is now a nurse in the Brownell & Eagle Schools in Cleveland. The second daughter, Harriet, born September 29, 1884, attended high schoo] at Oberlin, took courses in music and elocution at a college in Berea, is a Chiropodist and now lives at Cleveland with her sister. Don Sheldon Cook, the only living son, was born January 16, 1888, attended the Elyria High School until within three months of graduating, and is now the active manager of the old home farm for his mother. He is conducting a successful business as a dairyman and a breeder of high grade Holstein cattle and Duroe Jersey hogs. In 1912 he built his second silo with a capacity of 135 tons. He is a republican in polities, as was his father, but has no aspirations for official honors. He and the other members of the family are communicants of the Disciples Church. His father served as a deacon in that church. On January 19, 1909, Don Sheldon Cook married Miss Freda Davis, daughter of L. T. and Mida (Roberts) Davis. They have three children: Russell Kenneth born March 12, 1910; Lester D., born November 26, 1912; and Jean Elizabeth, born March 11, 1914. ze

Etmer A. Ricumonp. One of the old and prominent families of Lorain County is represented by Elmer A. Richmond, whose farm enterprise and good citizenship have made him well known in that section of the county around Wellington. The Richmonds have lived in this county for three successive generations, and a great deal of development and improvement can he traced to their energy and effective citizenship.

Born in Lorain County, September 20, 1867, Elmer A. Richmond is a son of Lester J. and Mary (Dalgliesh) Richmond. Lester J. Richmond. who was born November 22, 1842, at Akron, Ohio, is still living retired. His parents were Charles B. and Matilda (Welton) Richmond. Charles B. Richmond was born in New England and came to Lorain County in a very early day, clearing up a farm from the wilderness. Lester J. Richmond received most of his education before he was sixteen years of age, and found employment at work on his father's place and for other farmers. In 1862 he enlisted at Penfield in Company B of the First Ohio Light Artillery, and his command first went to the front at Louisville, Kentucky. He took part in the battles and campaigns heginning in the fall of 1862, participating at Perrysville, at Wild Cat. at Murfreesboro, at Chickamauga, and was subjected to the hardest kind of campaigning. He was never wounded nor captured, though for three months he lay sick in the hospital at Nashville. After the war and his honorable discharge he lived with his parents a time, then went to Ashtabula County, where he worked on a farm, and on November 13, 1866. married Mary A. Dalglish. She was born December 10, 1843, a daughter of Robert Dalglish. who came from Scotland and was a millwright by trade. although after locating in Lorain County he followed farming. After their marriage Lester J. Richmond and wife rented a farm in LaGrange Township, but a year later moved to Penfield, where he worked in a sawmill eight years and then superintended the Edwin Hinsdale farm. From there he moved to Huron County and by contract furnished wood for the locomotives on the Lake Shore Railroad. Wis next purchase was sixty acres of land in Ross Township of Wood County, and after clearing this and improving it for seven vears he rented a place and moved to Penfield Township, and from there to Wellington. Later he returned to Penfield Township and located on a farm of 198 acres which he occupied until about ten years ago when he retired and moved to Wellington. Elmer A. Richmond was one of six children, five of whom are living. The others are: Frank, in the hay business at Wellington: Nora, wife of Walter Hull. a motorman at Elyria; Mamie, who died when about four vears old; Victoria. wife of V. L. Banning of Wellington: and Robert. in a grocery store at Elyria. }

Elmer A. Richmond spent his early life chiefly in Penfield Township. and attended the Wellington public schools. He has followed farming ever since reaching his majority and has made a success of the business.

Penfield Township, and received her education in the local schools. Mr. and Mrs. Richmond have three children: Mary, aged twenty-one and still at home; Glen, aged eighteen; and Arthur, aged nine. Mr. Richmond is a member of the Congregational Church and his wife belongs to the Methodist denomination. The family are all members of the Grange, and he affiliates with the Maccabees.

Mr. Richmond has taken considerable part in local affairs, and is a republican in politics. He has served as trustee of Penfield Township, having been elected to that office in November, 1915, and was a member of the school board for seven years. As a farmer he looks after the operation of 161 acres of land, which he devotes to the general crops and to dairying purposes. He has a herd of eight thoroughbred Holsteins besides a herd of grade Holsteins and he is making that a very profitable feature of his general business. His farm is without doubt one of the very best in Penfield Township. It is also a fact worth recording that it was one of the very first to be cleared from the wilderness. Its first owner was a Mr. Penfield, whose family were honored by having the township named for them. Mr. Richmond and his family reside in one of the most attractive rural residences in that section of the county.

C. J. BeEunxe, Among Penfield Township farms that are deserving of mention as places of value in the material sense and as homes of thrifty and energetic citizens, there is the Behnke place, known as the Elm Grove Farm, which for nearly twenty years has been modified and increased in value by the energy of C. J. Behnke, one of the ablest farmers in that locality.

A native of Lorain County, Mr. Behnke was born in Russia Township, September 21, 1863, a son of Ernest and Wilhelmina (Mohrman) Behnke. Both his parents were natives of Germany. His father was born in 1829 and died in 1884 and his mother in 1831 and died in 1891. They were married in Cleveland, Ohio. Ernest Behnke came to Lorain County about 1861. He was a blacksmith and carriage maker by trade, and started to work at his trade in America at $7 a month, eventually set up a shop of his own, and by rendering a service that brought him increased patronage he laid the foundation for his substantial success. Out of his earnings at his trade he paid for 192 acres of land, and was very well off when he died, though he had started almost penniless. He was a democrat in politics and he and his wife were members of the Lutheran Church. Of their seven children the four now living are: C. J. Behnke; Minnie, wife of William Fowles of LaGrange Township ; William, a farmer in Elyria Township ; and Lewis, a farmer in Amherst eee Behnke acquired his early education in the district schools, grew up and learned the business of farming, and after his father's death inherited a share of the homestead. Later he sold his land in Amherst Township and in 1897 bought his present place of a little more than 100 acres in Penfield Township. This at the time was uncleared land and he has since improved it into a wonderful farm, erecting a good home and a large barn, and making other improvements in keeping with the best standards of agriculture in this vicinity. Mr. Behnke has succeeded by general farming and dairying, and in the way of livestock keeps Jersey and Holstein cattle and Percheron horses. : arents of three children: Wallace has become a successful railway vMicial and for the past five years has been division superintendent on the Frisco lines at Fort Worth, Texas; Nellie is a trained nurse, located at Chicago; Julia is the wife of Lesley Preston, a farmer in Wellington Township. Mrs. Behnke, the mother of these children, died in 1903. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On December 2, 1906, Mr. Behnke married Allie (Newton) Bernt, a widow. Mrs. Behnke is a member of the Adventist Church. Fraternally Mr. Behnke belongs to the Odd Fellows and the Maccabees, and is also a member of the Grange, holds the certificate for sixth degree and has filled various chairs of these orders. Politically he is a republican, and was trustee of his home township for eight years.

WinuiaM TyLer WiuLuIAMS. To find farm improvement and efficiency at its best it is only necessary to visit the Riverside Farm owned by William Tyler Williams in Carlisle Township, two miles from the public square of Elyria. This was formerly known as the W. E. Miller Farm, and comprises 7034 acres and is remarkable not so much for its size and for the intensive cultivation of the land and for the many splendid improvements which make it not only a farm in the ordinary sense but a splendid home. Every building is of most thorough construction and the barns have cement floors, cement feed troughs, and the stock have running water without leaving their stalls. The specialty of the farm is graded and registered Holstein and Jersey cattle. A great deal of credit has been given to the equipment of this farm, and one of the prominent features are two large silos built of hollow tile. Water is piped not only throughout the barn but to other buildings and there is both hot and cold water throughout the house. <A gas well on the farm supplies ample fuel and light.

Mr. Williams came to this place September 1, 1912, from Cuyahoga County, in Mayfield Township, where he had spent the greater part of his life and where he was born February 15, 1841. His parents were Daniel and Alice (Blish) Williams, both of whom were born and reared on farms near Colchester, Connecticut. His father was a carpenter and joiner by occupation in early days, used his trade to become a contractor, and was a quite successful man. He was not married until forty-one years of age, and soon after that event he moved out to Northern Ohio and located in Mayfield Township of Cuyahoga County. He came there in order to make a sale of some Western Reserve land, and he was engaged very extensively in the selling of such land for several years. He bought on his own account 257 acres, and thut was the old homestead where William T. Williams spent his early boyhood. There were four sons in the family, William T. being the voungest. The oldest, Daniel B., moved out to California on account of his health and died there at the age of seventyseven leaving three children. Abram F., the second son, lived on the old home farm in Mayfield Township until his death at the age of sixty-seven and was survived by two children. The other living son, Ilenry C., is a farmer in Van Wert County, Ohio, and has three children.

When William T. Williams was about a year and a half old his father died, and he was reared by his mother on the old Mayfield township farm. During his childhood and early youth he attended the common schools. and every morning and night walked a distance of three miles between the home and school. He managed to secure the equivalent of a high school edueation, and when he was about twenty years of age the old farm was divided and he and a brother became owners of ninety acres. About that time he also took wp work as a teamster for the government in the Civil war, having enlisted for that service. Exposure and hardship brought in train a serious illness on account of which he was honorably discharged, but after recuperating he again enlisted and this time

On February 22, 1866, Mr. Williams married Miss Cornelia Smith of Cleveland Township, where she was born May 3, 1841, a daughter of Horatio N. and Rebecca (Mattox) Smith. Her father was a native of Vermont, came to Ohio when still single, and met and married his wife in Cleveland.

For nine years after his marriage Mr. Williams and wife lived in Mayfield Township, but in 1874 he bought fifty acres of land in Olmsted Township, and that was his home for thirty-nine years. It was in that community that he developed his extensive business as a stockman and farmer, and his farm was known for miles around as the home of thoroughbred Jersey cattle. He was also one of the founders of the village of North Olmsted, which is now incorporated and a flourishing community center.

Mr. Williams' father had been an active whig in the early days of Northern Ohio, and in 1860 the son first took an active part in a political campaign, supporting the republican party, and in 1864 he had the inestimable privilege of casting a vote for Abraham Lincoln. Throughout his residence in North Olmsted he was again and again honored by places of public trust. He served as trustee of the township three times and was twice a candidate for county commissioner, being defeated by a very narrow margin. He was also urged at one time to become a candidate for state senator. Some years ago he was a delegate to the State Republican Convention at Toledo and was one of the men who supported and endorsed the candidacy of Mark Hanna for United States senator.

Mr. and Mrs. Williams became the parents of five children, two of whom died in childhood. Their son Howard O., born in Mayfield Township, is a graduate of the high school at North Olmsted and is now the practical assistant of Mr. Williams on the home farm and is looking after the dairying end of the business. The daughter, Stella A., married Frederick B. Nelson and lives in New York City. The daughter, Mable A., graduated from the high school at North Olmsted, attended school at Elyria and was also in the Woman's College at Wooster, and for a number of years has been a very successful and popular teacher, being now connected with the South School in Cleveland.

J. W. Barruotomew of Penfield Township, is a man who has carved his own success in life. As a young man he worked as a clerk and in other occupations, but finally invested his small accumulations in land in Lorain County, and for many years has been one of the prosperous agriculturists in Penfield Township.

He was born in Chautauqua County, New York, March 6, 1854, and was adopted by Samuel and Hulda (Cummings) Bartholomew. His father was a New York State farmer, but afterwards came to Ohio and was in the hotel business at' Berlin Heights.

Educated in the public sthools at Mayville and Portland, New York, J. W. Bartholomew did his first work as clerk in a store at Portland, and on March 4, 1874, arrived in Ohio, where he supported himself several years by clerking in a store at Vermillion. -

On August 20, 1874, he married Samantha Daniels, who was born in Pennsylvania, where her parents died. Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew have two children: Alice Hulda, wife of Alexander McCoy, a farmer in Penfield Township. and they have one child, Robert ; and Ray Elsworth, in the grocery business at Lakewood, near Cleveland, Ohio. He married Fern Smith, and they have one child, Richard Kent.

In 1887 he came to Penfield Township and bought his present farm of seventy acres. With the exception of $600 which he received from his father's estate, he has made his prosperity by his own labors, and has been able to provide a good home and all the comforts and advantages for his family.

Ernest L. Pierce. Representing the good old American stock that first peopled and settled this section of Northern Ohio, Ernest L. Pierce has for many years applied himself successfully to his chosen work as a farmer in the vicinity of Wellington. With farming he has combined dairying and has one of the finest herds of Holstein cattle in the county. His work, thrift and industry has heen well rewarded. His name is always spoken with due respect in the community where he has spent most of his life, and his accomplishments and those of other members of the family well justify that such record should be printed in permanent form.

He was born in Penfield Township, June 12. 1868, and is a son of James Madison and Malinda (Starr) Pierce. His paternal grandfather Pierce, a native of New York State, came to Lorain County when it was largely an unsettled wilderness, and lived on a farm there until his death at the age of seventy-seven. The maternal grandfather, Orin Starr, was also young when he came to Lorain County. and was a man of great business judgment and energy, acquiring a great landed estate. He had eleven children, and three of them are still living. James M. Pierce was born in New York State in 1823 and died in March. 1887. Both he and the mother of Ernest Pierce were twice married. and hy their first marriages had each three children. James M. Pierce married for his first wife, Marietta Hoyt, while Miss Starr married for her first husband, Lewis Hart. There were also three children by their second marriage, and the two now living are Ernest L. and Lena, the wife of J. B. Murray, who is in the grocery business at Wellington. James M. Pierce was an active republican. in politics and his wife was a member of the Methodist Church. He owned a farm of ninety-six acres in Penfield Township, but sold it before he died and moved to Elyria and died at the home of a daughter in Penfield.

Ernest L. Pierce grew up on the farm in Penfield Township. attended public schools there and also those of Elyria and Wellington. and for ten years worked out at monthly wages and by his careful savings laid the foundation for his present prosperity. The only money he ever inherited was $461 from his grandfather's estate, and all the rest he has acquired for himself. In 1894 he bought his farm and assumed a debt of $2,400 on it. He now owns a fine place of 103 acres. while his wife has a farm of seventy-one acres. He has put up buildings. and in many ways has developed the value of his property. As a dairyinan he has a herd of registered Holstein cattle, and the care.and management of this herd is the most important department of his farm enterprise.

In 1891 Mr. Pierce married Theresa P. Starr, daughter of Lemuel Starr, who was an early settler in Penfield Township. They have three children: J. Blair Pierce, born in 1893; Treva, who was born in 1895 and is the wife of Charles Pelton; and Louise, born in 1900 and still at home. Mrs. Pierce is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. and both she and her husband are members of the Grange. He is active in the Maccabees and for four or five years was record keeper. Politically a republican, he served as township trustee six years, as a member of

GEorGE Roy WisrMan, M. D. To a profession than which there is 'hohe greater in its opportunities for rendering service to humanity, Dr. George R. Wiseman has given himself with a devotion appropriate to his high calling and in ability and attainment ranks as one of the first physicians and surgeons of Lorain County.

He is president of the Amherst Hospital, which he promoted and organized, and which at this writing is being constructed at Amherst under his supervision. This institution means a great deal to the community, and it represents the culmination of ten years of successful practice there.

Doctor Wiseman was born in Licking County, Ohio, March 8, 1878, a son of William H. and Anna K. (Fickel) Wiseman. His father came to Licking County when a boy with the grandfather, who attained the remarkable age of 100 years, dying in Delaware County, Ohio. The maternal grandfather Fickel was a veteran of the Civil war, and one of the very prosperous men of Muskingum County, where he spent many years in comfortable retirement. William H. Wiseman, father of Doctor Wiseman, was born in Pennsylvania in 1840 and is now living in Columbus, Ohio, being connected with the pension department. During the Civil war as a young man he served in Company K of the 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry from 1861 until the close of the war in 1865. His regiment saw some of the hardest fighting of the war, and he was with it at Shiloh, during the siege of Vicksburg, in the Atlanta campaign and in the march to the sea. For many years he was a general merchant at Jacksontown, Ohio. He was married in Muskingum County to Miss Fickel, who was born in that county in 1852 and died in 1897. They Were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which William H. Wiseman still has a leading part. He is a democrat in polities and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Their three children are: Dr. George R.; Blanche, wife of E. E. Binder, assistant superintendent of the Telephone Company at Columbus, and they have two children, Mary Katheryne and Marie: and Katheryne, wife of George Strain, a bookkeeper at Columbus.

When Doctor Wiseman began practice he had behind him a fair training in schools and universities. In May, 1895, he graduated from the Jacksontown High School, and continued one year in high school taking special studies. For one year he was a student in the Starling Medical College and then for three years in the Ohio Medical University at Columbus, where he graduated M. D. in 1900. For several years he practiced in Morrow County, but in December, 1905, moved to Amherst. Doctor Wiseman is a member of the Lorain County and Ohio State Medical societies, and keeps closely in touch with all the progress of his profession. He is Surgeon for the American Dynalyte Co., the New York Central R. R. Co., the U. S. Automatie Co. and for several life insurance companies.

In 1899 he married Ruth Reid, who was born at Cardington, Ohio, a daughter of Charles F. Reid, who was a cabinet maker. Doctor and Mrs. Wiseman have two sons: Clovis Reid, now in high school; and George Roy, Jr., who is also attending the public schools. Mrs. Wiseman is a member of the Baptist Church and her son Clovis belongs to the Congregational Church. Fraternally Doctor Wiseman is a Knight Templar Mason, is past worthy president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, is past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias, and belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America and Brotherhood of American Yeomen.

His politics is republican. For two years he served on the city council, and where not conflicting with his professional work he has been diligent and ever ready to serve the interests of his community,

SAMUEL NAYLoR. When Samuel Naylor died on July 19, 1908, it was the general expression of community esteem in the locality where he had lived for many years that a successful farmer, a public spirited citizen, a kind husband and father, and a man of irreproachable character and fine integrity had been removed from his position in Lorain County. ;