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During his long life he exemplified the success that goes with industry and intelligent management. He became one of the most extensive land owners in Penfield Township. Of old Pennsylvania stock, he was born in that state in Cumberland County, February 27, 1823, and was eighty-five years of age when called to his final rest. His grandfather, Jacob Naylor, was a farmer and distiller and made whiskey when that was one of the principal industries of the mountain regions of Pennsylvania. Samuel Naylor, Sr., father of the late citizen of Lorain County, was born in Little York, Pennsylvania, grew up on a farm, and for several years of his early manhood spent much of his time in hauling whiskey from his father's and other distilleries to Baltimore, where the principal market was for their product. It took six horses to haul a load of thirty barrels of whiskey over the mountain highways. Samuel Naylor, Sr., was married in Cumberland County to Elizabeth Uhler, a native of that county and of German ancestry. After their marriage they located on a small farm in Cumberland County, renting the land, and from there in the fall of 1829 they set out in a covered two-horse wagon for Ohio. It took them two weeks to make the journey. Samuel Naylor had previously visited Ohio and had bought land in Guilford Township of Medina County. This land he bought from an immense tract of country which was sold under the supervision of Judge Heman Ely. the founder of Elyria. Samuel Naylor hired a man to build him a log house. but when he and his family arrived the house was found to be of such poor construction that they had to rent another cabin to live in. Samuel Naylor and wife had the following children while living in Pennsylvania: Mary, who married Amos Fritz; Samuel; Benjamin K., who lived in Lucas County, Ohio; Jacob, who became a farmer at Spencer; Rebecca, who married W. W. Hutchisson. While the familv were en route to Ohio the daughter Eliza was born at Lancaster, Pennsy]- vania. In Medina County four other children came to the parental circle: John, who died at the age of twenty-one; William, who was a soldier in the Civil war; Sarah; and Henry. The mother of these children died on a farm in Medina County, and Samuel Naylor, Sr., subsequently moved to Seville, buying a small farm and residence in the village. He married for his second wife, Harriet Sheldon, by which union there was one child, Harriet, who married James Ross. Samuel Naylor. Sr.. died at the age of seventy-three. He was a whig and abolitionist in the early days, and afterwards a strong republican. Having traveled much over the South. he was thoroughly convinced that the practice of slavery would never be decided except by war.

Samuel Navlor. Jr.. was six years old when the family moved to Guilford Township in Medina County. His education came from the pioneer schools of that county, and he early put his strength to test by helping clear up his father's land. Besides working at home he also hired out to other parties and hecame a skillful shingle maker.

a daughter of: John Long, who subsequently settled on a farm in Medina County. After his marriage Samuel Naylor rented land in Litchfield Township for several years, and from there moved to Penfield Township in Lorain County, where he bought a tract of 107 acres of wild land, paying $6 an acre. At that time there was no highway by which his land was accessible and he had to cut a way through the woods. He bought the land on eredit, and after a few years, by hard work, paid for it and converted a piece of the wilderness into a fertile farm. Samuel Naylor by his first marriage had the following children: Jacob, who enlisted for service in the Civil war before he was seventeen years of age and who died while still in the army at Camp Denison; Henry, who died young; Elizabeth, who married Stewart Long of Penfield Township; Rebecca. now deceased, who married Andrew Sigourney ; Harriet A.; Laney E., who died at the age of seven years; Emma, married William Bradstock; Mary, who died at the age of seventeen ; Harvey G., a farmer at Spencer, Ohio; and Dora, who married Lemuel Hower. The mother of these children passed away January 7, 1874. She was a member of the United Brethren Church.

In 1894 Mr. Naylor married Sarah Elizabeth Arbaugh, who still survives and resides at Wellington. Mrs. Naylor was born May 28, 1862, in Knox County, Ohio, where she was married. Her parents were Elias and Sarah (Capper) Arbaugh, both natives of Carroll County, Ohio. Her maternal grandfather, David Capper, was an early settler in Carroll County, was a miller and was killed while at work in his mill. Mrs. Naylor's father died in 1869. Of seven children, five are living, namely: Mary Jane, wife of Scott Blair of Mansfield, Ohio; David James of Mansfield; Louisa, wife of David Frazier of Butler, Ohio; Mrs. Naylor; and John C., a farmer at Mansfield. Mrs. Naylor's parents were members of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Her father was a very successful farmer. Mrs. Naylor received her education in the district schools and is a woman of intelligence and refinement, and has carefully looked after the various business interests entrusted to her charge since her husband's death. She owns 108 acres in Penfield Township and fifty acres in Medina County, besides her home at Penfield Center. Mr. Naylor acquired a large estate of 400 acres and in 1892 erected one of the finest country homes in that section of Lorain County. He was not only a successful business man, but was a leader in educational matters, and donated the land for the erection of a district school. He was an active member of the United Brethren Church and a republican in politics, while Mrs. Naylor and her sons belong to the Congregational Church. Mr. and Mrs. Naylor had two children: Charles William Naylor, who is now twenty years of age and graduated from the Penfield schools and is now on a farm at Strongsville, Ohio; and Samuel Hobart, who was born in 1898 and lives at home.

W. H. Scurisuey has for a number of years been cashier and one of the executive officers of the Amherst German Bank Company, is connected as an officer or stock holder with a number of other Lorain County business institutions, and altogether his position as a husiness man and citizen is one of the most substantial in his ecommunity. He has hardly yet reached the meridian of life's activities. With no capital to start with, he has depended on industry, sound intelligence, and a strict probity in all his relations to carry him forward to the goal of success. .

1907. This is a bank which deserves some mention in a history of Lorain County finance. The officers and directors are all well known business men, including E. H. Nicholl, president; George Hollstein, vice president; William H. Schibley, cashier; Joseph Wesbecher, Jacob Baus and M. C. Kendeigh, directors. The management of the bank has been thoroughly conservative and yet so far as is consistent with sound hanking has endeavored to furnish a courteous, helpful and prompt service to its widely extended patronage. A recent statement shows how the bank has prospered under such a régime. The capital stock is $50,000. and the total resources aggregate approximately $600,000. The best index of a bank's popularity is shown in its deposits, and the Amherst German Bank Company in the spring of 1916 had upwards of $600,000 in its deposit account.

Mr. W. H. Schibley was born at Amherst, Ohio, April 3, 1867. Tis people on both sides were from the German fatherland, and both his grandfathers fought with the army of Napoleon and participated in that ill-fated campaign into Russia. His paternal grandfather died in 1839 and his maternal grandfather in 1840. Michael Schibley, father of the Amherst banker, was born in Wuertemberg, Germany, in 1826 and died in 1907. He came alone to Pennsylvania when a young man in 1853 and from there went to Huron, Ohio, where he met and married Miss Catherine Brandau, who was born in Hesse, Germany. in 1836 and died in 1914. For several years Michael Schibley paid his way by day labor, and was employed in the construction forces building some of the New York Central lines through Northern Ohio. Afterwards he took up farming and lived on his farm until a few years before his death, which occurred in Amherst. His wife also died there. They were members of the Evangelical Association and he was a democrat in politics. There were five children: George is a farmer in Amherst Township; Christian is also a farmer there; Anna Goll lives at Lorain, Ohio; the fourth in age is W. H. Schibley; and J. H. is manager of the Amherst Supply Company.

Starting life with a common school education, supplemented with a course in the State Normal School at Ada, Oln0, W. H. Sehibley found his first serious occupation in teaching. While following that occupation he attended summer sessions at Oberlin College. Altogether he taught six years in the district schools and had charge of the school svstem at Anuherst for eight years, finally resigning in 1900 after a most creditable record whether as an individual teacher or as a school executive. On leaving school work he engaged in the grain business with his brother Jacob. This grew into a flourishing enterprise under the direction of the two brothers, and in 1908 their firm was incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000. W. H. Schibley was the first president of the company and he is still a large stock holder. He has stock in a number of different enterprises, and is president of the U. S. Automatic Company of Amherst, and is a director of the local waterworks. For recreation he looks after a small farm and conducts it on scientific principles.

In 1891 Mr. Schibley married Dorothea Ludwig. Her father. Charles Ludwig, was in the stone business at Amherst for a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Schibley are meibers of the Evangelical Association. in which he has been trustee for a long time and also active in Sunday School work. Politically he is independent. However, he was elected on the democratic ticket to the office of township treasurer.

L. S. Boise. "For nearly a century members of the Boise family have materially influenced the progress and development of various localities in Northern Ohio. The chief center of the family activities has been in Penfield Township and there L. S. Boise has constructed out of his individual labors, persistent work and ambition a fine farm home and is enjoying a well deserved success and rendering an adequate service to the community both in a business way and by his public spirited citizenship.

He was born at Litchfield in Medina County, Ohio, December 2, 1847, a son of William and Lydia (Severcool) Boise. His paternal grandfather, Chester Boise, was born in one of the New England states and settled in Huron County, Ohio, about 1821, and as a pioneer helped to influence early development. William Boise was born in New York State in 1814, came to Oxford in Huron County when seven years of age, and from there moved to Medina County and in 1882 went to Wellington, where he died in 1902. He was a whig and afterwards a republican in politics and held several local offices. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Church. He was married in Medina County. and his wife was born in New York State in 1820 and died in 1901. Of their eight children, seven are living: George, an ex-soldier of the Civil war and a retired lumberman in Northern Michigan; James, who served a little more than a year in the Civil war, afterwards was a druggist at Seville, Ohio, and died at the age of fifty-one largely as a result of illness contracted in the army; Charles, who lives at Chattanooga, Tennessee; L. S. Boise; Alvarado, who was at first engaged in the lumber business in Northern Michigan and from there went to Chattanooga. Tennessee, with $1,600 capital, and in sixteen years made a fortune of $100,000, being still a leading factor in the cement business in that southern city; Benjamin, engaged in the real estate business at Lorain and Elyria; Frances, wife of Friend Starr, a farmer at Litchfield; and William, in the grocery business at Lorain.

L. S. Boise grew up in Medina County on a farm, attended the district and select schools, and made farming his regular work in life. In 1873 he married Josephine Pierce, a daughter of James and Marietta (Hoyt) Pierce. The Pierce is an old and well known family of Lorain County. Mrs. Boise's mother was born at Marcellus, New York, in 1824, and died in 1861. Mrs. Boise was born in New York State, August 9, 1854. To their marriage have been born three children: El Ray, born September 29, 1873, homesteaded a farm in Oklahoma, where he now lives, and he married Hattie DeLay and has three children, Leonard, Gladys and Irene. Byron Fay, born August 3, 1876, is a farmer in Penfield Township. He married Miss Marabah Bartlett, and their two children are Myron and Ruth. Lydia Loring was liberally educated at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and in Oberlin College and is now teaching music in Elyria.

Mrs. Boise is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and both she and her husband are active in the Grange and he is also affiliated with the Maccabees. Politically he is a republican and has served as trustee, assessor and in all the various township positions. He had charge of the improvement of the local cemetery, and has done much to make that a place of beauty.

It was in 1898 that Mr. Boise bought his farm of fifty-six acres in Penfield Township. He had also lived for five years in Kansas, and for eight vears was a farm renter. Starting life with little capital he has succeeded by the exercise of much good management and constant hard work. He does general farming and dairying, and has a herd of thirty registered Holstein cattle.

'Others.. Measured by this standard, one of the successful men of Lorain County is Edward H. West, who has spent most of his life in the county and now has an attractive and valuable farm in the vicinity of Spencer. Hard working, thrifty, genial and progressive, Mr. West has a host of friends in this part of the county and is a valuable factor in community enterprise.

He was born in Huntington Township of Lorain County. October 17, 1859, a son of Turner and Lorena (Dimock) West. His paternal grandparents spent all their lives in the East. The maternal grandfather, William Dimock, moved to Medina County, Ohio, and thence to Cuyahoga County, where he spent his last years. He was a Baptist minister. Turner West was born in Connecticut, March 5, 1821. and died September 26, 1875. His wife was born in 1826 and died May 5, 1910. They

. were married in Medina County, Ohio. Soon after marriage they settled in Huntington Township, where for two years Turner West rented a farm, then bought some land, cleared it up, and though he started life at the bottom of the ladder he succeeded in acquiring a handsome competence represented by 266 acres of well improved farm lands. He attended the Baptist Church, of which his wife was an active member, and he actively supported the church and was a good Christian man, well read and well educated, and doing a useful part in lite's affairs. He was a republican, though inclined to independence in voting. At one time he served as assessor and as township trustee. Edward H. West has two brothers: John, a retired farmer of Wellington Township; and J. O. West, also a retired farmer of the same township.

Mr. West received his early education in the district schools and started life on a farm. When quite young he went west to Colorado and invested all his savings in a gold mine. He lost the investment, and after that experience he decided that farming was the surest road to wealth. He spent four years in Kansas and his father died in that state, where at one time he owned over 200 acres of land. After his disastrous experience in mining, Mr. West worked for his brother hy the month on the old homestead, and then bought the farm he now owns, comprising 154 acres of land. He has effected many improvements on his farm, has rebuilt his barn, repaired the residence. and now has one of the best rural homes in Huntington Township.

In 1882 he married Miss Edith Stroup, who was born in Spencer, Ohio, a daughter of John and Christina (Wood) Stroup, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Medina County. Ohio. Her father was an early settler at Spencer, where he conducted a hotel and also had a farm. Mr. and Mrs. West have two children. Florence is the wife of Perrins Brenenstul of New London, Ohio, a printer by trade. Blake is a conductor on the street railway lines in Elyria, married Treva Boice and has a daughter Constance, born June 1, 1912.

The family are members of the Baptist Church. Mr. West is affiliated with the Maccabees, and both he and his wife belong to the Grange. Politically he acts with the democratic party. In the way of public service he was for nine years a trustee of Huntington Township and filled the office of assessor for two years. He is now enjoying a well earned prosperity, and manages his good farm and conducts a small dairy.

Fioyp M. Petron. One of the oldest families of Lorain County is represented by Floyd M. Pelton, whose name and personal activities as a farmer and cattle breeder are well known to stockmen throughout Ohio. Mr. Pelton many years ago turned his attention to stock farming, at which he has made such a success as few men in the country might ever attain. He has demonstrated that his peculiar fitness among the world's workers has been for the development of farming and stock enterprise and through this avenue he has done his greatest service, not only to himself but to the world.

His is one of the fine country homesteads in La Grange Township. The 160 acres comprised in his farm is the southwest quarter of Lot 24, Range 17 West, Township 4 North. It is particularly noted as the home and breeding place of some of the finest thoroughbred Holstein Fresian stock in Ohio.

It was on this farm that Mr. Pelton was born June 18, 1860, a son of David C. and Mary (Tippin) Pelton. David C. Pelton was born in Jefferson County, New York, a son of James K. Pelton, who first came - to Lorain County about 1824, and his family followed in 1833. They located in the eastern part of LaGrange Township, where James K. Pelton acquired about a hundred acres of land. David C. Pelton later bought sixty-six acres in the woods and the family lived for a number of years in a log cabin. This was subsequently replaced with a substantial frame building and another twelve acres was added to the homestead. David C. Pelton was the father of twenty children, only three of whom grew up, and Floyd M. is the only one still living. His sister Clarisa married A. E. Van Linder and left five daughters. The son Sylvester died when about seventeen years of age. David C. Pelton was about ninety years of age when he died, and his wife passed away at the age of seventy-three. He was a republican in polities.

Floyd M. Pelton grew up on the home farm, and gained his education in the country schools. Early in life he took a companion and helpmate whom he has always considered an essential factor in his substantial success. On June 18, 1879, he married Miss Charlotte Johnson, who was born in LaGrange Township September 15, 1864, a daughter of Elijah and Lydia (Haynes) Johnson. Her father was born in LaGrange Township, a son of Nathaniel and Rhoda (Crowner) Johnson. The Johnson family came to Ohio from New York State and located in LaGrange Township. Mrs. Pelton's father died when about seventy-six and her mother passed away at the age of sixty-five. Of the six Johnson children five grew up and four are still living. The son Bird died leaving a wife who before marriage bore the name of Lillie Woodmansee, and two children, Ford and Luella. The second in age is Mrs. Pelton. Lizzie, who married Merton Perkins, lives in Wellington and has three children, Flossie, Frank and Howard. Carrie is the wife of John White, and they live in Akron and have six children, Grace, Lydia, Archie, Herbert, Bessie and Lincoln. John, who lives in LaGrange Township, married Gertie Richards and has three children, Marion, Marjorie and Charlotte; and a son, Kenneth, who died aged about one year.

About thirteen years after his marriage Mr. Pelton bought eighty acres adjoining his father's farm, and that is included in his present estate. He took care of his parents during the last fourteen years of their lives, and then succeeded to the ownership of the farm where he was born and on which he spent his boyhood days.

Everything indicates the progressive nature of Mr. Pelton. There has never been a year in which he has not accomplished some improvement on his fine farm. It is one of the features of the landscape in Lorain County. One of the splendid buildings is the large barn covering a foundation 37 by 110 feet and with 20-foot posts. This barn has cement floors, a slate roof, and all facilities and equipments for handling of stock, for expeditious feeding, and it is one of the model barns of the county. In 1908 Mr. Pelton built a fine home. Another feature of the farm that deserves mention is a 160-ton silo, constructed in 1911.

Holstein cattle. In fact he was the man who introduced this class of eattle into Lorain County, bringing two imported cows from Pennsylvania, and he was the first man to sell a bull in Ohio that brought more than a thousand dollars. A number of years ago he exhibited his stock at the county fairs, and won many prizes and trophies. On his farm is a splendid young bull from King of the Pontiacs for which he paid $750. In recent years Mr. Pelton has had three notable sales of stock. The first one, in which he sold forty-nine head, he received an average of $200 a head. The second sale comprised fifty-three head and brought an average of $180. In the spring of 1915 he sold thirty-eight head of cattle, and the average price was $165.

Through farm husbandry and stock raising Mr. Pelton has performed his best service to mankind. He has never heen a seeker for official honors, though he is a steadfast and loyal republican. He and his wife and four of their daughters are active members of the Baptist Church.

There are six children. Cora, who graduated from the LaGrange High School, is the wife of Alonzo Jones of Penfield, Ohio, and they have a daughter named Dorothy. Mary, who also graduated from the LaGrange High School, married Mark Kelner of LaGrange, and their two sons are Aubrey and Malcolm. The daughter Clara is the wife of George Dague of LaGrange, and their three children are Byron, Celia and Maurice. Charles, who lives at home, has completed a technical education fitting him especially for the work of dairying, an industry which has reached considerable proportions on Mr. Pelton's farm, and he took a course in the Ohio State University where he specialized in the milk testing department. He married Treva Pierce and they now reside in Akron. The two younger children are Esther and David. the latter a freshman in the local high school.

David C. Pelton was married three times and was the father of twenty-one children. For his first wife he married Lydia Dodge and they had six children, four of whom lived to be named as follows: Maria, Martha. Mary and Charles, the last named coming to Ohio with his father and is now living in I]linois. The mother of these died, and in 1832 Mr. Pelton married, in New York, for his second wife Hannah Smith. By his second wife David Pelton had ten children: Lydia, Mrs. Charles Crowner, of La Grange, Ohio (now deceased) ; Mary, married to Manford Ripley, of Eaton County, Michigan (deceased) ; Clark. of Portland. Oregon (deceased); James K., of Waukesha, Wisconsin; John, of Rising Sun. Ohio (deceased) : Grovener, enlisted in Company H. One Hundred and Third Regiment. and died in hospital at Hickmans Bridge and was buried there; Adeline, Mrs. Edward Beaver, of La Grange. Ohio: Hannah, Mrs. Thomas Cornell, of Eaton County, Michigan: Elizabeth. Mrs. Laurence Van Wormer, of Elsie, Michigan (deceased) ; Winfield, a farmer of Eaton County. Michigan. The mother of these died June 30, 1852. and was buried in La Grange. For his third wife Mr. Pelton married Mrs. Mary (Tippin) Burns, widow of Thomas Burns. By this union there were five children, as follows: One who died in infancy unnamed; Clarisa. who married A. E. Vanlinder, and died in New York in 1885, leaving five children; Sylvester. who died young in 1864: Fredric. died of spotted fever when seven years old, and Floyd M.. of this memoir.

GEORGE SIMONSON is one of the native sons of Lorain County who has found in farming a congenial and profitable vocation, and for a number of years he has carried on operations as a farmer and dairvman and at the same time has borne his share of responsibilities as a citizen of the community.

_ He was born in Rochester Township of Lorain County, October 1G 1874, a son of Asa and Eliza (Shubers) Simonson. His father was born in New Jersey and his mother in Ashland County, Ohio, and they were married in Rochester Township of Lorain County. There were two children, and the daughter Emma is the wife of Charles Leach of Huntington Township. Asa Simonson was a democrat in politics, followed farming all his active career and was a member of the Presbyterian Church. In Rochester Township he owned a good farm of 160 acres.

Mr. George Simonson grew up in Rochester Township and gained his education in the publie schools. In 1895 he married Clara Jones of Huntington Township, daughter of Albert J ones, who was a carpenter by trade. To their marriage have been born five children: Claude, Harry, Donald, Pauline and George, all of whom are living at home. Mrs. Simonson is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Maccabees and the Grange and is a democrat in politics.

Most of the people in Wellington Township are familiar with the activities of his farm, which comprises 142 acres, and where he carries on general farming and a dairy business. He keeps some thoroughbred cattle of the Holstein breed, and he also raises some first class Percheron horses.

GEORGE N. Snyper, M. D. In 1868 a young man arrived in the community of LaGrange and after being engaged in the practice of medicine for a year and a half he taught school. He made a favorable impression whenever his services were requested in a professional line, and in the course of about a year and a half his practice had reached such proportions that it required all his time and he gave up teaching as a vocation. Since then for forty-eight years Doctor Snyder has been one of the leading physicians and surgeons in his section of Lorain County, and is also founder and proprietor of the principal drug store at LaGrange. He is a type of the kindly family physician, is a friend to all his patrons, and there is no citizen in that community who stands higher in popular regard and esteem.

He was born in Vermont July 8, 1845, a son of Hiram and Sophronia (White) Snyder, but about a year after his birth his parents moved to Ohio, lived in Medina County a time, and then went to Wood County, where the father acquired a farm. When Doctor Snyder was about ten years of age he returned to Medina County, and somewhat later went to Lorain County, where he attended country schools during the winter terms. Returning to Medina County he worked on a farm until he was about twenty years of age. At the age of eighteen, however, he had begun teaching country schools, and the earnings of his teachings during the winter he employed to pay his way as a student in summer sessions.

While teaching he took up the study of anatomy and physiology, and later entered the medical department of what is now the Western Reserve University, where he was graduated M. D. with the class of 1868. He was at that time twenty-two years of age, and he soon after located in LaGrange. There he taught school and practiced his profession until he had established a good practice.

On April 30, 1868, at Spencer, Medina County, Doctor Snyder married Miss Mary J. Welcher, who was born at Spencer November 21, 1847, a daughter of Jacob H. and Elizabeth (Wood) Welcher. Her father was born on a farm at Phelps, near Rochester, New York, June 29, 1803. After growing to manhood and marrying he came to Ohio about 1845, locating on a farm at Spencer in Medina County. Mr. Welcher served also postmaster, and was a vigorous exponent of the temperance cause in his locality and did much temperance lecture work. Mrs. Snyder's mother died at Spencer in 1881, and in the same year her father moved to Hillsdale County, Michigan, where he died at the age of eighty-six, January 2, 1889.

Mrs. Snyder grew up in Medina County and had a common school education, also attended a select school for three or four years. Doctor and Mrs. Snyder have one son, Mark A. Snyder, who was born January 28, 1873. He has distinguished himself as a musician. He was graduated from the Union School at LaGrange, took up the study of music at home, and when hardly more than a boy in years became a teacher of that art. He studied music in the conservatory at Oberlin for five vears. and then went abroad and continued his studies under some of the best masters of Europe at Berlin, Germany, for three years. Returning to America in 1897 he became an instructor of music at a conservatory in Springfield, Ohio, with which he remained six or seven years, and at the same time he was one of the members of the noted Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, a membership which in itself is a high distinction for any musician. Later he established a school of his own at Springfield, and is regarded as one of the leading music teachers in his section of the state. Mark A. Snyder was married at LaGrange June 11. 1898, to Miss Gertrude Schultz. They had met at Berlin, Germany, where Miss Schultz was born and reared. Mark A. Snyder and wife have three children: Mary Emilie, who was born in LaGrange May 18. 1899, and was graduated from the Wittenburg Academy in 1916; George W., born at Springfield, March 9, 1903; and Gertrude Amy, born at Springfield, March 29, 1906.

In 1875 Doctor Snyder established a drug store at LaGrange. The store was opened in a building which he had constructed and which is still standing. It is a two-story frame building 24 feet in front and 47 feet depth, and is a combination store and resident property. and it served as the home of Doctor Snyder and wife until February 10, 1899, when they moved into a commodious residence and store building which he also built.. Doctor Snyder is a registered pharmacist, while his wife is a registered assistant pharmacist.

A republican in politics, Doctor Snyder east his first presidential ballot in 1868 for General Grant. While not an office seeker, he has twice served as postmaster of LaGrange, first to fill an unexpired term. and then by regular appointment for several years. He took his first degree in Masonry at LaGrange and has served as junior warden of LaGr ange Lodge No. 399. He is a charter member of the Maccabees, and has been examining physician for that order since its organization. \Mrs. Snyder's_ name was proposed as a charter member for the Chapter of the Eastern Star, but on account of ill health she was unable to take part in the initiation, and she never became a member of the order. Doctor Snyder at one time was a leader in the choir of the Baptist Church, and his wife also sang there, although neither has membership in the church. Mark A. Snyder also took his first degree in Masonry at LaGrange, and is now a Knight Templar in Springfield, and before going abroad took his chapter degrees at Elyria.

GrEorGE C. CasseLL. The record of George C. Cassell of Huntington Township, includes a service of upwards of twenty years as a teacher, but in recent years he has applied his energy with much success to the business of farming, and he is one of the substantial men in his part of Lorain County.

Michael Cassell and Catherine (Marks) Cassell. His paternal grandparents were John and Margaret Cassell, who came from Pennsylvania and settled in Ashland County, being originally of German stock. The maternal grandparents were George and Sophia (Hartman) Marks, who were early settlers in Ashland County, Ohio. George Marks died quite young, when his daughter Catherine was three years old. Of the five children in the Marks family the three now living are: Mary Binehour of Wellington; Mrs. Catherine Cassell; and Hannah, wife of Christian Zahnley, formerly of Ashland County, but now living on a farm in Kansas.

The late Michael Cassell, who was born in Orange Township, Ashland County, May 12, 1848, passed away January 26, 1916, aged sixtyseven years nine months fourteen days. He was the youngest of the ten children of his parents. Three of these children died very young. Three of his brothers, John, George and Frederick served in the Civil war. John went through the war and was one of the victims of the ill-fated steamer Sultana, which was sunk in the Mississippi River in 1865, while carrying home a large number of discharged soldiers from the South. George is still living in Ashland County, and Frederick is a resident of Sandusky. Of the daughters in the family Sophia, Lanah and Barbara died several years before Michael. When his brothers went to the war Michael remained with his mother and assumed many of the responsibilities connected with the farm. At the age of fourteen he went to Mansfield and enlisted as a soldier, but his brother George at once wrote home and secured his release. Michael Cassell made a success as a farmer, and about 1899 bought a farm in Huntington Township, and at the time of his death owned an estate of 312 acres. He was a democrat and for a number of years served as trustee and assessor. When only a boy he joined the United Brethren Church and remained steadfast in that faith until his death. He was a man of many commendable qualities, faithful to duty whether private or public, was devoted to his home and family, and performed all the numerous responsibilities which come to a good citizen with credit to himself. In Ashland County on April 2, 1868, he married Miss Catherine Marks, who was born in Ashland County, December 16, 1849, and is still living. She became the mother of twelve children, and the oldest child, Clara, died in 1887, and the daughter Mary passed away in 1891. Those still living are: John, who is assistant postmaster at New London, Ohio; George C.; Richard Addison, who conducts the home farm. in Huntington Township for his mother; Charles, who also lives at home with his mother; Clyde, a farmer at Homerville in Medina County; Mort, at home: Mrs. L. B. Crittenden, wife of the foreman for the General Electric Company in Shelby, Ohio; Mrs. W. H. Linderman, of Akron, Ohio; Mrs. Lyle Wolfe, whose husband is connected with the Goodyear Rubber Company at Akron; and Mrs. Lee White, wife of a farmer in Sullivan, Gees C. Cassell grew up in Ashland County, and largely by his own efforts acquired a liberal education. He attended the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware and also the college at Wooster, but on account of illness did not remain to graduate. When quite young he was qualified and began teaching and continued that profession in Ashland and Lorain counties for about twenty years. Since then he has been farming and he also owns a saw and grist mill.

In 1899 he married Lucy May Nimocks, a daughter of Edgar Nimocks, a well known farmer in Huntington Township. Mr. and Mrs. Cassell are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and are very active in church affairs. He is now superintendent of the Sunday school.

Fraternally he is record keeper for the Knights of the Maccabees, belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which his father was at one time a member, and is also a member of the Grange. Politically he is a democrat, and exercises considerable influence in local affairs. He has served as clerk and treasurer and health officer of the township.

ANpDREW J. Jickson. Much attention is paid to that type of business man who makes a specialty of reorganizing run down plants and rehabilitating industrial enterprises that have been mismanaged. A place of equal usefulness is that of the practical agriculturist who finds his'province and sphere of activity in reorganizing old farms and putting into effect a system of efficiency which restores the fertility and value of the land.

In this class one of the best examples in Lorain County is Andrew J. Jackson, who is proprietor of Riverside Villa, a ninety-six acre farm about two and a half miles south of Elyria on the Grafton and Elyria Pike at Stop No. 12 on the Interurban Railway. Mr. Jackson has made somewhat of a specialty of giving vitality to misused acres and is well known in several communities in this section of Ohio.

He was born on a farm in Elyria Township three miles north of Elyria March 9, 1854, a son of James W. and Samantha (Cheney) Jackson. Both his parents were natives of New York State, where they grew up and married, and later came from Buffalo to Cleveland by boat and secured a small farm in Elyria Township, where the father spent the rest of his days. It was on that farm that Andrew J. Jackson grew to manhood, had a fair common school education, and was with bis father until the age of twenty-one. He had strength, self-reliance, industry and with experience he soon became very competent in handling all kinds of matters connected with farm industry. He started out on his own account as a farm laborer, and did different lines of work. During one summer of his early manhood he was in Minnesota, and another summer he spent in the copper regions of northern Michigan.

On December 15, 1885, at Elvria, Mr. Jackson married Miss Lucy E. Ives of Columbia Township, Lorain County, daughter of Ambrose and Mary J. (Lapham) Ives. Mrs. Jackson was reared and given a good common school education.

For five vears after his marriage Mr. Jackson worked by the year in Eaton Township, and then took a farm on the shares, looking after one place for two years, and then following that was on another farm for ten years. In the meantime he had bought 109 acres in Eaton Township. though he never oceupied it as his home. In the fall of 1902 Mr. Jackson bought his present place. Here in particular his work as a farm manager has been exemplified. Both the land and the buildings had heen badly neglected, and in the past fifteen years he has remodeled practically every feature of the farm and has introduced improvements so as to make it one of the most valuable and attractive estates in Lorain County. In 1905 he sunk a gas well and now has heat and light for all his buildings while his residence includes such modern comforts and facilities as bathroom, running water. electric power system for pumping water and all his buildings are wired for electricity. He has also laid more than three carloads of tile on his land. : ae)

An important feature of his farm industry is dairying, and he has also been successful in raising grain. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have two sons: Jay C., who was born in Eaton Township August 12, 1887, was given a good education. and is now living in Youngstown, Ohio. This son has been twice married. He first married in Lorain County

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Miss Frances Prindle and by her has one son named Theodore. His second wife was Blanche Pickard of Youngstown. Mr, Jackson's second son is Ray, who had two years in high school and is a successful young farmer in Eaton Township. He married Miss Fern Sayles and they have two children, named Lawrence and Doris Lillian.

Mr. Jackson is a republican, having cast his first vote for Hayes in 1876. He has never sought any office and has done his duty most thoroughly by looking after his own interests. His wife is a member of the Disciples Church,

G. A. Hart is one of the men who are carrying out the farm enterprise of Wellington Township. He is now one of the prosperous and successful citizens of that locality, but gained his prosperity by hard work beginning in early boyhood, and has seldom failed to improve an opportunity.

He was born in Union City, Ohio, January 28, 1860. a son of John and Sarah (Stull) Hart. His paternal grandfather, Elijah Hart, with six brothers, served in the War of 1812. Not long after the close of that struggle and when Northern Ohio was still a wilderness he came to Mansfield when that now thriving city had only three houses. His permanent location was made at Petersburg near Mansfield. where for many years he was the principal shoemaker. He followed that trade when it was the custom for the shoemakers to travel about the country from house to house, stopping long enough at each place to make up all the footwear required by the family. He lived a long and useful life and passed away at the age of ninety-seven. John and Sarah Hart took up a farm where Union City now stands, but finally moved to Ashland County, Ohio, and from there to Mansfield, where John Hart died. He was a plumber by trade, and followed it for a number of years, He enjoyed a good deal of prosperity, but for some years before his death was an invalid and spent. most of his means in an effort to recover his health. He was an active democrat in polities. His widow died in April, 1916, at Mansfield, at the age of ninety-one vears three months and eleven days. She was a member of the United Brethren Church. There were seven children: Tillie, wife of Henry Brinkman, a well to do retired citizen at Sandusky; Samantha, widow of Charles Fiddler; G, A. Hart; Ida. wife of Charles Beaver of Mansfield: Anna. wife of Mr. O'Connor, a fur cutter at Detroit; Agnes, who is living at Detroit, a widow; and William, a blacksmith at Mansfield.

G. A. Hart received most of his education in the district schools of Ashland County. He lived five miles from the schoolhouse. and walked back and forth nearly every night and morning. While he was still a boy his father suffered an injury which made it necessary for the son to leave school and begin work for his own living. For some vears he worked on a farm and took any job which would enable him to earn an honest two bits. For a time he drove a dray in Mansfield, By keeping everlastingly at it he was able to aequire a modest capital, and for a number of years has been on a solid plane of prosperity. Tn 1900 he bought his fine farm in Huntington Township, where he now owns fifty-two acres and also forty-two acres of land in another place. His chief business is general farming. For a number of vears he has also conducted a contracting business in teaming in this county. He hauled a large quantity of the stone for the making of the improved roads in this county. At the same time he has invested much in improvements on his farm, and among other up to date features he has a fine silo.

Her father was born near Doylestown, Ohio, was a carpenter and brick mason in early life, and is now retired and living at Spencer, Ohio. Mrs. Hart received her early education in Penfield Township of Lorain County. They have one son, William, who is now thirty-three vears of age and is single and lives at home with his parents. Mrs. Hart is an active member of the Methodist Church, while he is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and in polities is a republican.

C. C. FINKEL. One of the best known families of Huntington Township is represented by C. C. Finkel, a young business man of that section. actively associated with his father, Peter Finkel. Their operations as threshermen, machinists and farmers have long been thoroughly appreciated in that section.

C. C. Finkel was born in Huntington Township of Lorain County, June 7, 1885. His father, Peter Finkel, was born in Washington County, Ohio, February 19, 1852, a son of Peter and Lena Finkel. Both the grandparents were natives of Germany, and they lived in Marietta, Ohio. for a number of years. Peter Finkel, Sr., and wife were members of the Catholic Church, and in politics he was a democrat. He was a carpenter by trade and followed that for a number of years, but he aiso conducted a small farm in Washington Township. Peter Finkel, Sr., was born in 1801 and died in 1868. Before leaving the old country he served a time in the German army. His wife was born in 1827 and died in 1886. Their seven children were: 'Henry, who is connected with the timber industry in the State of Washington; Peter Finkel; Frank, a rancher in the State of Washington; Charles, a farmer at Beverly, Ohio; Adam, a farmer and carpenter in Huntington Township; Joseph, a brick mason and builder at Marietta, Ohio; Tracy, wife of George Lawrence, a farmer.

Peter Finkel, Jr.. who was born February 19, 1852, received his early education in the district schools of his native county and started out as a farmer. He removed to Huntington Township in 1883, and for a time was employed on a farm. . For a number of years he has operated a hay press and threshing machine, and he also owns two houses and lots and a small tract of land in Huntington Township. He is a demoerat. and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1877 he married Clara Miller, daughter of George W. Miller. Mrs. Finkel was born in Washington County, Ohio. Her seven children are: Dudley, who was born July 28, 1878, and is a farmer in Huntington Township ; Lillian, born March 24, 1880, and the wife of E. A. Wheeler; Helena, born May 14, 1882, wife of J. B. Berry, who follows concrete construction work; C. C. Finkel; Stella, who was born March 31, 1887, and is the wife of William Sharp, employed in the hoop mills at Columbus; Cora, born September 9, 1889, and the wife of Alfred Fuller, a farmer at Spencer. Ohio; and Edward R., born August 20, 1892.

C. C. Finkel received his early education in Huntington Township, where he was born, and for a number of years followed farming as a regular occupation. He is now associated with his father in the season when threshing and hay pressing are done, and he also owns a good farm. As a citizen he is now serving his second term as township trustee. He is an active democrat, a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. in which order he has filled the various chairs, and also belongs to the Grange.

In 1909 he married Ethel Bliss, who was born in Huntington Township. Their two children are Eunice and Kenneth, the former six and the latter three years of age.

CONRAD ZILcH. One of the younger business men of Amherst who has distinguished himself by a remarkable amount of progressiveness and enterprise is Conrad Zilch, who is an expert undertaker and embalmer and is manager of the principal undertaking and furniture house of the city.

He has reached an independent position in business affairs when only a little more than thirty years of age. He was born in Brownhelm Township of Lorain County February 18, 1885, a son of Henry C. and Mary (Hilderbrand) Zilch. Both parents were natives of Germany and his grandparents all died in that country. His grandfather, George Zilch, reached the venerable age of ninety-two years. The maternal grandparents both died at the age of forty-nine from typhoid' fever. Henry C. Zilch was born in 1850 and died January 29, 1899. His wife was born May 4, 1852, and is still living, They came to this country when young people and were married in Brownhelm Township. Henry C. Zilch was a very industrious man and for a number of years worked aS a quarryman and. died from stonecutter's consumption. By hard work he established a home, provided for his large family of children, and had a good thirty-acre farm all paid for before his death. He was a democrat and he and his wife members of the Methodist Episcopal Chureh. Of their nine children eight are still living: Werner, in the grocery business at Brownhelm; Anna, wife of E. C. Waugh, in the transfer business at Lorain; George J., a farmer in Brownhelm; Conrad; Rose E., who was deaf and dumb and was graduated from the Deaf and Dumb Institute, and a few years ago was killed in an automobile and street car accident; Marie is the wife of Elmer Fulmer, a farmer in Eaton Township; Benjamin, in the automobile business at Lorain; Katie, wife of William Grobe of Amherst; and Amelia, who has a clerical position in Elyria. Mrs. Henry Zilch married for her first husband John Miller, and their two sons, Carl and William J. Miller, are successful farmers in Brownhelm Township.

After his early education, acquired in the district and high schools of Brownhelm Township, Conrad Zilch found employment on a farm, and then laid the foundation of his business career by experience in the furniture business with the Wickens Company at Lorain. He also studied embalming at Cleveland under P. A. Hayden. After three years of work in his profession and in the business at Lorain, he estab- - lished the Amherst Furniture Company on May 1, 1913. He is secretary and manager of this concern, and has been the mainspring of its very prosperous career since establishment.

April 19, 1908, Mr. Zileh married Louisa Bouis. She was born at Lorain, a daughter of Charles Bouis, a carpenter. To their union has been born one daughter, Mildred, on November 23, 1911. The family attend the Methodist Episcopal Church at Amherst and Mr. Zilch is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Tribe of Ben Hur, the Knights and Ladies of Security, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, in which he is a trustee, and the Knights of Pythias. Politically he is a republican.

Epwarp F. Wesster. For many years a successful business man of Lorain County, Edward F. Webster represents the pioneer Webster stock at Wellington, and there is hardly a family in Lorain County whose work and influence have been more valuable in the upbuilding of that section of the county during the past 100 years.

He is in the eighth generation in the direct line from Governor John Webster of Connecticut and Massachusetts. John and Agnes Webster eame from Warwickshire, England, to Massachusetts Bay in 1633.- He was made a freeman in 1634, and in 1636 moved with Rey. Mr. Hooker's party to Hartford, Connecticut, where he was among the first settlers. He was prominent .in official affairs at Hartford, serving as magistrate or judge, as lieutenant governor and in 1656 as governor of the colony, being the fifth incumbent of that office. On account of a chureh controversy at Hartford, he and fifty-eight other members of the society withdrew, and in 1659 most of them settled at Hadley on the Connecticut River. John Webster in 1660 was appointed one of the judges or coimmissioners of the courts, but died there April 5, 1661. One of his descendants was the great lexicographer, Noah Webster, who. erected a monument to the memory of Governor Webster.

Thomas Webster, a son of Governor John, married Abigail Alexander, and their fourth child and second son was John, whose first wife was named Elizabeth and whose second wife was Grace Loomis. In 1699 he became one of the first settlers at Lebanon, Connecticut. His fourth ehild and third son by his first marriage was Thomas Webster of the fourth generation. Thomas married Lydia Lyman and moved to Bolton, Connecticut, in 1751. Their seventh child and fifth son was David of the fifth generation, who married Mary Wileox. Their third child and first son was David of the sixth generation. David married Hannah Post. The second child and first son of David and Hannah was Russel Bidwell Webster, who represented the seventh generation and was the father of Edward F. Webster. He was born April 25, 1799, at Otis, Massachusetts, had an education in the common schools and the acadeiny at Lennox, Massachusetts, and in 1820 started west for Ohio. carrving a fifty-pound pack on his back all the way from Otis to Wellington. He was a man of remarkable physical endurance. During the last days of his journey he walked forty miles in a snowstorm with snow nearly a foot deep at the close of day. Arriving in Wellington Township he bought 100 acres, cleared it and erected a log building. But before performing any other duties connected with the making of a pioneer home he interested himself in the establishment of regular or stated religious meetings in the neighborhood. Though not a church man himself, he was thoroughly imbued with the religious training of his youth and believed that one of the first essentials in the settlement of a new country was a religious organization and suitable observance of the Sabbath. While his instant zeal in behalf of religious institutions was perhaps somewhat unusual, he was on the whole only a type of that class of citizens who as pioneers laid the foundation for civilization in Lorain County. He had come to this country not only to make himself a home but also to blaze the way for his father and the family. The first to join him was his sister Betsey, the wife of Josiah B. Manley. and about . 1822 they joined him in Wellington, and Mr. Manley's was the first death to occur in the neighborhood. In 1823 his parents, David and Hannah Webster, and their sons Oliver and William and their daughter Mary arrived in the Wellington neighborhood. David Webster was an active church member in Massachusetts, but it was not until the family came into the woods of Ohio that his wife and children joined the church. In 1824 Russel B. Webster returned to Massachusetts and married Orpha Hunter. She was born at Otis, Massachusetts. Novemher 26. 1799. In the spring of 1825 the young bride accompanied her husband to Wellington, their household goods being on a wagon drawn by oxen. FE. F. Webster has in his possession two old mirrors brought hy his father and grandfather from Massachusetts, and also the Webster bible which was printed in 1712. David Webster died at the age of ninety-six and his wife Hannah at the age of eighty-four.

Village of Wellington, and spent the rest of their days with their son Edward. Russel died January 31, 1881, and his wife Orpha on April 2, 1882. The first frame house in Wellington was constructed by Russel B. Webster. He was one of the most active citizens of that community in the early days, and was as strong in character as he was in physical ability and endurance. He and his wife had nine children. Samuel EH; born September 15, 1825, afterwards became a very prominent merchant and influential citizen at Shelbyville, Illinois, and died July 10, 1905; he married, January 21, 1856, Lucy A. Jagger, who died September 12, 1898, the mother of five children. E. Bidwell Webster, born April 21, 1827, was a civil engineer and died at Wellington, September 7, 1856. He married, January 21, 1854, Lucy Billings, who died September 7, 1857. M. Leander Webster, born January 27, 1829, also moved to Shelbyville, Illinois, served three years as captain of a company in the Seventh Regiment of Illinois Cavalry, afterwards moved to Iowa, and died there May 4, 1900, a wound received during his military service having contributed to his death. He married, May 31, 1882, Emma J. Windell. David Philander Webster, born November 5, 1830, died May 9, 1832. Philander R. Webster, born February 10, 1833, also served as captain of an Illinois Company during the war, and died April 14, 1884, as a result of injuries received during his service; he married. April 15, 1862, Eleanor M. Bryant. William W. Webster, born November 26, 1835, went to Colorado in 1859, became president of the Upper House of the first Territorial Legislature and afterwards was chairman of the committee for statehood, and it was at his suggestion that Colorado was admitted in 1876 instead of January, 1877, and thus its electoral vote was given to R. B. Hayes. He spent his last years in Pasadena, California, and by his marriage, on February 4, 1873, to Mary I. Bryan, had three children. Elvira Loret. born January 4, 1838, died accidentally December 16, 1840. Edward F. Webster, the eighth child of his parents, was born April 24, 1840. Leveret F. Webster, the youngest of the children, was born December 3, 1842, and died as the result of an accident, January 29, 1861.

Edward F. Webster spent his early youth in Lorain County, and August 26, 1861, enlisted as a private in Company H of the Second Regiment of Ohio Cavalry. He was made a corporal, and a vear later was transferred to the Twenty-fifth Independent Ohio Battery, made up of details of the Second Regiment, and became fifth corporal of the battery, subsequently first sergeant, first lieutenant, and during the last year of the war was on the staff of Maj. Gen. J. J. Reynolds as chief ordnance officer of the department of Arkansas. He veteranized at Little Rock, January 4, 1864, previous to his last promotion, and was discharged December 12, 1865, after having been at the front over four years. He served successively under the command of Generals Schofield, Blount, Herron, Davidson, Steele and Reynolds.

-On returning to Lorain County after the war, Captain Webster, in the spring of 1868, became associated with Starr & Horr, cheese manufacturers. One year later the firm was reorganized as Horr, Warner & Company and Captain Webster was made a partner in the business. For many years this was the largest cheese manufacturing concern in the West, operating as many as twenty-five factories. The firm also acquired a number of vegetable farms, the farm department being conducted by Wean, Horr, Warner & Company and the cheese department under the title of Horr, Warner & Company. In 1897 both departments were consolidated as Horr-Warner Company, with Mr. Webster as president of the corporation.

influential citizens, served twenty-four years continuously as a member of its board of education, and president of the board for fifteen years, and has been a trustee of the Wellington Public Library since 1896, and much of the time as president. He joined the First Congregational Church in 1868. He is also a member of the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion.

On December 3, 1870, Captain Webster married Flora Ladd, who was born at Danville, Vermont, May 18, 1846, a daughter of Edward and Sophia (Gooking) Ladd. Of their three children, Florence, who was born April 24, 1873, died February 10, 1887. The son Leveret F. was born January 8, 1875. Edward F., Jr., born January 1, 1877, died September 16, 1906, a few months after his marriage to Ora Mae Foote.

A. E. StrwaLp. For half a century A. E. Stiwald has been one of the sterling and useful citizens of Lorain County, and his activities and service have covered a varied field. When a boy his public spirit was manifested by his service in the Union army during the Civil war, and more or less ever since he has shared his time with the public welfare.

At the present time Mr. Stiwald gives all his time and energies to the administration of the Amherst postoffice. He was appointed postmaster October 21, 1915, and has filled the office with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of the patronage of the local office.

He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, August 15, 1842. His parents, Michael George and Marie (Fox) Stiwald, were both born in Bavaria, Germany. His father died in 1846. His mother, who was born in 1798, died in 1883. They were married in Germany, but in 1836 emigrated to America and settled in Cleveland. The father, a miller by trade, followed that line in Cleveland until his death. He came to the United States with nothing, and made excellent use of his opportunities and provided well for his family before he died. He was the son of a prominent German land owner, miller and hotel proprietor, who also served as mayor or burgomaster of his home town. Though he accumulated considerable wealth, he lost it all by the dishonesty of a son-in-law, and thus it was that his son, Michael George, had to come to America to build up his individual fortune without any capital to start with. The family were members of the Catholic Church. <A. E. Stiwald was one of six children and the only other one still living is his brother Conrad, who lives on a farm in Lorain County.

Owing to the fact that his father died when A. E. Stiwald was four years of age, he had limited advantages in the way of schooling and early contributed his labors to the support of his widowed mother and the household. He was just twenty years of age when, on August 15, 1862, he enlisted in Company G of the One Hundred and Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry and later with the Fourteenth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps. He was with that regiment in all its campaigns, marches and engagements. until honorably discharged at Washington, D. C., July. 1865, with the rank of first duty sergeant. Most of his service was in the East in the army of the Potomac, and a complete record of his military service would include many of the notable engagements of that army. He was slightly wounded in the battle of Chancellorsville, and he also participated in the great and decisive three days' battle at Gettysburg. Mr. Stiwald has always been a popular member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and served as commander of his local post for six vears. ; 7

After the war he returned to Ohio and went on a little farm with his mother near Avon for four years. He then moved to Amherst, and in January, 1870, with his brother, Conrad. engaged in the cigar and tobacco business both as retailers and as cigar manufacturers. He continued in that line until 1880, when desiring a business less confining he sold his interests and took a more active outdoor life. Mr. Stiwald now owns some land within the city corporation of Amherst.

Few men in that part of the county have been more frequently honored with public offices of trust and responsibility. He served as township trustee fourteen years, was assessor three years, was village clerk fourteen years, justice of the peace ten years, clerk of the school board and for almost nineteen years filled the post of mayor in Amherst. He has held chairs in the lodges of Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a democrat in politics and he and his family attend the local churches, though they are not regular members.

_In 1865 Mr. Stiwald married Sarah Ann Jaycox. She was born in Lorain County. and died in 1869. In August, 1878, Mr. Stiwald married Maria White. who was born in England. To their union were born six children, all of whom are living but one: Florence E., who died in 1910; Earl C., a painter at Amherst; Maria G., wife of M. B. Schaffer, who lives at Amherst, but is employed in the steel plant at Lorain; Grace E., wife of Harry Nicholl, with the Guardian Savings & Trust Company of Cleveland, Ohio; Allen G., a contractor at Amherst; and A. J. Stiwald, who is connected with an industry at Elyria but resides in Amherst.

Frank D. Warren. It was in pioneer times that the Warren family established its home within the wilds of the present County of Lorain. They were of the finest class of people, God-fearing, industrious, independent, and well fitted for the trials and privations of frontier life. Of such an ancestry honorable in all things is descended Frank D. Warren, long one of the prominent citizens of Wellington Township and for some years living retired in the village of that name.. He made his success as a farmer and still has a share in the landed possessions of this county.

He was born on a farm in Wellington Township, November 28, 1848, a son of Luther D. and Laura (Wait) Warren. His father was born in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, March 2, 1813, a son of Benjamin Warren, Jr., who was born April 19, 1772, just four years before the first battle of the Revolutionary war. Benjamin Warren, Jr., married Lucy Burr of Norfolk, Connecticut. It was in 1831 that he brought his family out to Wellington Township, at a time when only thirteen families resided in the entire town. Benjamin Warren was an industrious farmer, and spent the rest of his days in Lorain County. The Warrens are old American stock and the first ancestor came to America as early as 1650. Luther D. Warren was eighteen years of age when he came to Lorain County, and being strong and vigorous he took his full share in those tasks and responsibilities which confronted the early settlers. He acquired and developed a good farm in Wellington Township, and died there in 1886. In matters of political interest he affiliated with the whigs in early life and afterwards as a republican. His wife, Laura Wait. was born in Fredonia, New York, February 6, 1814, and she also died in 1886. Of three children the two living are Frank D. and

Frank D. Warren as a boy attended school district No. 4 in Wellington Township, and for one winter was a student in a business college at Oberlin. After his marriage he spent thirty-three years on one farm, and in 1904 retired and has since lived in the Village of Wellington. However, he still owns a farm of 136 acres, and it is one of the leading

In December, 1870, Mr. Warren married Metta Sage. 2 daugliter of Samuel Lewis and Elizabeth (Wolcott) Sage. Her father was bern in Milford, Connecticut, April 20, 1827, and died in 1890, while her mother was born in New York State in 1830 and died in 1890. Her parents were married in Huntington Township. Mrs. Warren is a granddaughter of Rev. H. P. Sage, a minister of the Universalist faith and prominent in the early history of Lorain County. She is a great-granddaughter of Joseph Sage, who at one time owned half of Huntington Township, but he lived only a short time in the county, returning to the East to spend his later years. Mr. and Mrs. Warren have one daughter, Ella E., now the wife of R. H. Clifford, a mechanical engineer at Tiffin, Ohio. Mrs. Warren is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. and is also identified with the work of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Mr. Warren is a member of the Grange and held all the offices in that order. Politically he is a republican. served as township trustee for a number of years, was secretary and treasurer of the Agricultural Society, and has been a member of the city council at Wellington.

Wiuuiim Lovetanp. A Lorain County farm that represents many of the ideals in the way of cultivation, productiveness. arrangement and equipment is that of William Loveland of Wellington.

His farm contains seventy acres, and it exemplifies diversified agriculture. He grows the standard crops of this section. and has always followed the plan of feeding his crops on his own land. In the fifteen years he has lived there Mr. Loveland has effected many improvements, both in the buildings and in the management of his fields. and he has found a great deal of profit in dairying. He keeps a herd of twenty, and twelve of them are thoroughbred Holsteins.

He was born in Brighton Township of Lorain County, September 25, 1861, a son of Linas and Martha (Hogal) Loveland. Wis grandfather, Lorin Loveland, came to Lorain County in pioneer times. and spent his life in Brighton Township. The Lovelands in America are all descended from three brothers, Thomas, William and John, who came from England and located in the eastern states. Mr. Loveland's maternal grandfather, Henry Hogal. was born in New York State. where he married Eleanor Ann Woodward, and then came to Lorain County and spent the rest of his days in Brighton Township.

Linas Loveland was born in Watertown, New York. while his wife was born in Freedom, Ohio, and they were married at Ravenna. this state. Linas Loveland was brought to Lorain County when a hoy of nine years, and during his youth he helped clear up a farm out of the wilder. ness. At the time of his death he was the oldest resident of Brighton Township. He was a democrat in polities. served as a trustee a number of terms, and he and his wife were active members of the Methodist Church. At the time of his death he left an estate of ninety acres. Of the ten children, seven are now living: Charles. a mechani¢ living in Columbus, Ohio; Jay. of Columbus. Mississippi: William: Welby, whose home is on a farm in Wellington Township; Addie, who is unmarried and lives at Wellington: Leon, of Wellington; and Alda. who is a trained nurse.

William Loveland grew up on a farm. gained his education in the district schools, and has always applied his energies and labors to the voeation for which he was trained as a boy. He remained at home with his father until he was twenty-one, and then worked out hy the month and afterwards rented land, and thus by degrees and by much self-denial and hard work put himself in a position to own and enjoy a place of his

On March 14, 1891, Mr. Loveland married Grace H. West, daughter of Frank West. who is still living at Wellington, and has followed the trades of shoemaker and cheesemaker. Mr. and Mrs. Loveland have a daughter, Alice, who is now in school. Both are members of the Methodist Church and very active in its affairs, and Mr. Loveland is a republican. :

Terry C. Witney. A scion of the third generation of the Whitney family in Lorain County, he whose name initiates this article is one of the substantial farmers of his native county, and as a citizen is well upholding the prestige of a name that has been closely and worthily linked with the history of this section of the Buckeye State for nearly eighty years. His well improved farm, comprising 150 acres, is an intregal portion of the valuable landed estate left by his father and is most eligibly situated in Pittsfield Township, about four miles from the eity of Oberlin.

Mr. Whitney was born in Pittsfield Township, this county, on the 12th of October, 1864, and is a son of Augustine and Nancy (West) Whitney, the former of whom was born at Peru, Vermont, in 1820, and the latter of whom was born in Wellington Township, Lorain County, Ohio, in 1833, her father, Oliver West, having been a native of Massachusetts and having become one of the pioneer settlers of Lorain County, Ohio, where he continued to hold place as an honored and influential citizen until the time of his death. Augustine Whitney gained his early education in the old Green Mountain State and was about seventeen years of age when, in 1837, he accompanied his parents on their removal to Lorain County, Ohio. He was a son of Joseph Whitney, who was born in Massachusetts and who was a sterling pioneer of Lorain County, where he purchased a tract of land and reclaimed a productive farm; he continued his residence in this county until his death, at the patriarchal age of ninety-two years, and his name merits enduring place on the historical records which mark with due approbation the lives and labors of those who assisted greatly in the development and upbuilding of Lorain County in the formative period of its civic and industrial progress. Augustine Whitney was about eighty-three years of age at the time of his death, which occurred in 1903, his devoted wife having passed away in 1896. Of their three children the eldest is Ada, who is the wife of Arthur M. Sherburne, a substantial farmer of Lorain County ; Terry C., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; and Mrs. Luna True, who is a widow, maintains her home in the city of Massillon, Stark County, Ohio. Augustine Whitney was a man of broad mental ken, of high principles and of exceptional business acumen. He became one of the leading agriculturists and stock-growers of Lorain County, and at the time of his death was the owner of a valuable landed estate of about 400 acres in this county, besides which he had become the owner of land in various western states. He was a stalwart advocate of the principles of the republican party, was liberal] and publicspirited as a citizen and was called upon to serve in various township offices, besides being otherwise influential in community affairs. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the Congregational Church at Pittsfield. and their memory is revered by all who came within the sphere of their kindly influence. ;

Terry C. Whitney early gained familiarity with the various details of work incidental to the cultivation and other operations of the home farm and his preliminary education, acquired in the district schools of his native township, was supplemented by his attending the public schools of Oberlin and a commercial college in that city. He continued to be associated with the work and management of his father's farm until _ 1886, when, within a short time after attaining to his legal majority, he became associated with the milling business in Oberlin, where he remained thus engaged for tive years. For fifteen years thereafter he was identified with business activities in the city of Cleveland and at the time of his father's death, in 1903, he returned to Lorain County, where he has since been the owner of 150 acres of his father's estate, in Pittsfield Township. This homestead is one of the fine farms of the county, is improved with excellent buildings and is devoted to diversified agriculture, to the dairy business and to the raising of excellent grades of live stock.

Mr. Whitney is one of the active and influential members of the local Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, and both he and his wife are members of its auxiliary organization. He has served as a member of the school board but has manifested no predilection for public office and is independent in his political proclivities, giving his support to the men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment. irrespective of partisan dictates. He is prominently affiliated with the Royal Arcanum, and while a resident of Cleveland he was a repyresentative to the Ohio Grand Council of that order. He and his wife hold membership in the Congregational Church, and Mr. Whitney has been clerk of the Congregational Society in Pittsfield Township for the past six years. This is one of the oldest church societies in the county. The family is prominent and popular in connection with the representative social life of the community.

In September, 1894, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Whitney to Miss Margaret Turton, daughter of Joseph and Margaret Turton. of Cleveland. Her parents were born in England and her father became a leading painter and contractor in Cleveland, where he continued to reside until his death. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney have two sons and two daughters, all of whom remain at the parental home and all of whom were born in Cleveland except the youngest, who is a native of Lorain County, their names being here entered in respective order of birth: Lois, Clarence, Marion and Russell.

Lewis FisuHer has occupied his present fine farm home near Wellington since 1907, and in that time has brought to a fine state of perfection his homestead. He has proved himself upright and honorable in citizenship and business dealings, and is one of the vigorous men who are now carrying the burdens of agricultural management in Lorain County.

A native of Michigan, he was born in Barry County, September 27, 1866, a son of O. L. and Sarali (Ledyard) Fisher. Both parents were natives of Lorain County. the father born in Brighton Township in 1841 and the mother in 1847, and both are still living. Of their two children, the daughter is Mrs. Erva Barnes of Norwalk, Ohio. Mrs. Sarah Fisher is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and her husband is a republican. He served in the First Ohio Light Artillery for three vears during the Civil war, but without exception has spent practically all his life as a farmer and now owns and oceupies a fine place of 127 acres in Huntington Township. His father. Danford Fisher. was a native of New England and came to Lorain County in the early days. The maternal grandfather, Hiram Ledyard, was a native of Pennsylvania, moved first to Portage County, Ohio, and afterwards to Lorain County,

Lewis Fisher grew up on a farm, had a practical education, and at an early day identified himself with farming pursuits. On November 4. 1899, he married Miss Mary Fay, who was born in Rochester Township of Lorain County, a daughter of John and Ann (Meach) Fay. The Fays were early settlers in Rochester Township, Lorain County, as were also the Meach family. One member of the Meach family, Jarvis Meach, gained considerable note by his heroic action by killing two robbers who tried to get his money. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher have three children: Ruth, Herbert and Marjorie, all of whom are in school. Mrs. Fisher is an active member of the Congregational Church.

Politically Mr. Fisher is a republican. Since leaving school he has gone continuously ahead working out his own salvation, and in 1907 he bought his present farm in order to settle up an estate. He has 142 acres, a fine brick house, does considerable dairying, and is enjoying the prosperity which he so richly deserves.

OrsEMuS L. FISHER is one of the oldest living native sons of Lorain County. His life career covers more than three-quarters of a century, and among the distinctive parts of his record which shed honor upon his own name and distinction to his family was three years in the service of the army that defended the integrity of the Union.

He was born in Brighton Township of Lorain County, June 11, 1839, a son of Danforth and Lucinda A. (Wilcox) Fisher. His grandfather, Eleazar Fisher, was born in Massachusetts, and was one of the pioneer settlers in Brighton Township, where he acquired a farm and spent the rest of his life. He was the father of fourteen children. The maternal grandfather was William Wilcox, a farmer, who died at Toledo. Danforth Fisher was born at Burlington, Otsego County, New York, July 9, 1807. He was married at Henderson, Jefferson County, New York, January 1, 1832, to Lucinda Wilcox, who was born in that county April 14, 1812. In 1836 they came West and located in Brighton Township, which was then comparatively a wilderness. After some years of pioneer farming they moved, in 1863, to Michigan, and made their permanent home at Johnstown in Barry County. There the mother died May 12, 1888, and the father on April 16, 1889. The mother was a member of the Disciples Church and politically he was a strong republican. They were the parents of eleven children. Those now living are: O. I. Fisher; Alma, widow of Hiram Wilson and living in California; George F., who is connected with the Lehigh Valley Coal Company in Chicago; Oren D., who was educated in Oberlin College, Olivet College in Michigan and Yale University and is a minister of the Congregational Church now living in Massachusetts; Peter A., a farmer in Michigan; and Wilbur, who is in the lumber business in Lorain County.

O. L. Fisher gained his early training in the district schools of Wellington Township, along with a practical discipline in farming on his father's place. On August 29, 1862, he answered the call of patriotism and enlisted in Company I of the First Ohio Light Artillery, and served three years. He was sent to Eastern Virginia, participating in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and later the battery was sent to Eastern Tennessee, fought at Lookout Mountain and all the engagements from Chattanooga to the fall of Atlanta, including Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek and other historic battles. After being in the hospital for five months he received his honorable discharge on June 13, 1865.

Michigan, where he bought a small farm and lived on it for six 'years. In 1872 he came to Huntington Township and bought the 127-acre place which has been his home now for forty-five years and where he has carried on a profitable business as a farmer and dairyman. He has made most of the improvements on the farm, has a good residence, and has earned the prosperity and comfort which he now enjoys. As a young man he worked out at wages, and he bought his present farm on credit, paying for it as a result of much self-denial and constant hard work. :

On December 27, 1865, Mr. Fisher married Sarah A. Ledyard, who was born in Huntington Township July 11, 1846, a daughter of Hiram Ledyard, one of the early settlers of that township. To their marriage have been born two children: Lewis, now a farmer in Wellington Township; and Erva, wife of George W. Barnes, a music teacher at Norwalk. Mrs. Fisher is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Fisher has been loyal to the principles for which he fought as a soldier and has always been an active republican. He has done his part in public affairs, has served as road supervisor and school director and has lived a straightforward, honest career, useful alike to his own family and to the entire community.

W. T. Twrnixnc. The Twining family has been represented in Lorain County for nearly sixty-five years. W. T. Twining is now living practically retired in Henrietta Township but for many years was engaged in the vigorous prosecution of his business as a general farmer, dairvman and stockman. The name is one that has always been associated with honorable citizenship and a substantial influence in behalf of community welfare.

A native of New York State, W. T. Twining was born September 4, 1847. a son of Charles A. and Nellie (Schermerhorn) Twining. The Twining family is of old American ancestry, and the first of the name was William Twining who came from England and settled on the Atlantic coast soon after 1630. Grandfather Samuel Twining was born February 22, 1796, and followed the business of farmer and miller, making his home in Broome County, New York. In that county he was married in 1813 to Elizabeth Stout.

Charles A. Twining was born in New York State April 23. 1821, and died December 21, 1903. His wife was born in the same state October 8, 1824, and died in 1907. Charles A. Twining, so long known as one of the most successful men of Lorain County, started life with absolutely nothing, and for a number of years had to support not only his sisters but his mother and stepfather. At the time of his death his estate ineluded over 500 acres of land. He first came to Ohio in 1849, but it was in 1852 that he made permanent settlement in Lorain County. He brought to this county $500 and with that as capital purchased his first land in Pittsfield Township. Later he bought a farm in Camden Township and still later in Henrietta Township, in which locality he lived until his death. He became a prominent stock raiser and also dealt extensively in lands, and at one time owned eight different farms. Charles A. and Nellie Twining were married in 1842, and of their eight children seven are still living: Sarah Ann, widow of LeGrand Gibson. and living at Clarksfield, Ohio; W. T.; Gertrude Elizabeth. now deceased; Alvah F. of Henrietta Township; Flovd Odell of Henrietta Township; Virgil Leroy. who has gained success in the hotel business and is now owner of four different hotels and lives at Maumee. Ohio: Perry Eugene, a farmer in Maryland; and Fred A.. who is a minister of the Regular Baptist Church at Coshocton, Ohio. The parents

Mr. Axd Mrs. W. T. Twining

Ses Twining gained his early education in the public schools. He worked for his father on the farm until gaining his majority, and was then married to Miss Drucilla Ann Bulkley. They have lived together and worked out their destinies for almost a half a century. Mrs. Twining was a daughter of Jeremiah and Mary Ann (Vincent) Bulkley. Her father was born in New York State September 12, 1824, and died October 20, 1908, and her mother was born in Canada August 8, 1825, and died December 7, 1905. The Bulkley family came to Lorain County in pioneer times and the grandfather and father of Mrs. Twining cleared up a large acreage of land in this section. The Vincents were also early settlers in Henrietta Township. Mr. and Mrs. Twining have three children: Estella Jane, wife of Lewis F. Peabody, a farmer in Camden Township, and they have one child living, Juva; George E., who occupies a farm adjoining that of his father, married Jessie Hales and their three children are Clarence, Harold and Edna; and Minnie Ethel married Robert Wyler, a farmer in Henrietta Township, and their seven children are Earl, Elsie, Harley, Ila, Florence, Doris and Mildred. Besides these three living children one son, Charles Tracy. is now deceased. ;

Mr. and Mrs. Twining are members of the Regular Baptist Church, and while a democrat he is inclined to independence in his political activities. When he started in life he inherited some land from his father. but subsequently bought more land, and his farm now comprises eighty-three acres. At one time he conducted a large dairy, but has abandoned that feature of his business, and for a number of years he also raised and dealt extensively in live stock. He is now practically retired, and finds plenty to do in supervising his well improved farm.

FRANK ZIEGLER. Of that sturdy stock of Germans who have so numerously peopled Lorain County, perhaps none has won a better earned success and represents more of the thrifty, industrious virtues of the Fatherland than Frank Ziegler of Brighton Township. Beginning as a renter, he has steadily pursued his calling as a farmer and his lot has been one of steady improvement until he is now recognized as one of the best established and most prosperous citizens of his community.

He was born at Weingarten Baden, Germany, December 8, 1862, a 'son of Frank and Caroline (Langendorfer) Ziegler. Both parents spent all their lives in that section of Germany. His father was born in 1828 and died in 1904 and the mother was born in 1832 and died in 1892. Thev were married in 1857. His parents were members of the Lutheran Church, and they were thrifty farming people of Germany. Their seven children were: Frank; Henry, who lives in Germany on a farm; John, a farmer in Germany; Frederick, a farmer in Huron County, Ohio; Louis. a retired and well-to-do citizen of Cleveland; Catherine, wife of Carl Habel, a farmer in Germany; and Karl, who came to the United States, but went back to his native land, served in the army, and is now in the German army in the European war.

Frank Ziegler acquired the regular German training in schools and by practical experience, and was eighteen years old when in 1880 he came to America and reached Erie County, Ohio. The first eight years he worked for other farmers. In 1883 he returned to Germanv for a short visit.

In 1886 Mr. Ziegler married Caroline Langendorfer, who was also born in Germany. Their five children are: Christine, born in January, 1888: Emma, born in September, 1889; William, born in July, 1892; Louisa. born in September, 1894; and Berta, born December 10, 1898.

After eight years of experience as a farm tenant Mr. Ziegler moved out to the State of Washington in 1890, but after several years returned to Ohio and in 1895 bought his first farm of sixty acres in Erie County, Ohio. With characteristic energy he improved and developed this place, and sold out at a considerable advance in 1898. He then bought a place of 166 acres in Huron County, and owned it five years. After selling his interests there he came to Brighton Township in 1904, and bought 354 acres of land. On his establishment in Lorain County Mr. Ziegler was over ten thousand dollars in debt. He paid it all in four years, and has made all his prosperity by his own labor and good management. He uses his land for general farming purposes and also runs a dairy and raises considerable livestock. He is a republican in polities and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Church.

CuarLes D. Murray. In the person of Charles D. Murray is found a sample of that material which has brought Lorain County to the forefront in the field of agricultural enterprise. Endowed with more than average ability, backed with true business judgment. he has prospered in the affairs of life, and is now enjoying the comforts of one of the attractive farm homes of Brighton Township.

Born in Lorain County February 28, 1877, he is a son of James and Isabelle (Monroe) Murray, both of whom were natives of Scotland. His grandfather James Murray was born in Scotland and came to the United States but afterwards returned to his native land hefore he died. The maternal grandfather, James Monroe, spent all his life on a farm in Scotland. James Murray was born in 1822 and died in 1900, and his wife was born in 1846 and died in 1910. They were married in Scotland, and some years later, in 1871, came to Lorain County. buying a farm in Rochester Township. They sold that place and moved to another farm in Rochester Township, where they were renting, and then bought the farm on which they spent the rest of their years. Both were members of the Baptist Church, and James Murray was a republican and a man of considerable influence in his locality. There were eight children: Janies, a farmer in Rochester Township; Mary, wife of Ernest Butson of Brighton Township; William, a farmer in Rochester Township: Isabelle, wife of Walter Jewett, a farmer in Rochester Township: Jessie, twin sister of Isabelle and wife of Bert Rawson, a retired farmer in Elyria; Charles D.; John, a farmer in Rochester Township; and Nellie, wife of Dow Miller, a carpenter at Elyria.

Charles D. Murray acquired his early training in district schools of Lorain County and has been a farmer all his active life. His operations are distributed over a fine place of 250 acres, and in addition to general farming he has a small dairy of from ten to fifteen cows, and is also making a success in the raising of full blood Percheron horses. Mr. Murray has for the past ten years served in the office of trustee of his home township, and has always given his aid to movements for progress and development. Politically he is a republican, is a member of the Maccabees, and he and his family attend the Congregational Church.