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He had been born of poor parents in Canton Berne, Switzerland, March 17, 1863. A few years after his birth his father died, and at the age of five he was taken into the home of his mother's sister, Mrs. Jacob Knuth. His own mother died after he came to America. He had limited opportunities as a boy, and at the age of fifteen after finishing his schooling he began making his own way. For the next ten years he visited various European countries, learned the trade of cabinet maker, and during some months in 1888 was employed in Paris on the buildings and grounds where ' in the following year the Paris Exposition was held. It was after that work that he started for America.

Samuel Hildebraud arrived in Toledo in the spring of 1889. He was a good workman in spite of the handicap of lack of understanding of English language, and was soon employed as a journeyman carpenter. After working for various parties for two and a half years he entered the furniture factory of Valentine Ketchara. In the meantime he attended night school regularly in order to learn the English language.

It was coiirage and initiative which took him out of the ranks of wage earner and into a business of his own. He concluded that there was no profit in working for some one else, and having the skill and the experience he embarked as a contractor on I\Iarch 1, 1892, and since then, for almost a quarter of a century, has been steadily at work in the contracting business at Toledo. Many substantial buildings in the city attest his skill and thoroughness. Among those may be mentioned the Stamm Building, at the corner of Thirteenth and Jlissouri streets, the ]Mohler Block on the opposite corner of the same streets, Capf's Hall on "Western Avenue, and a number of the better residences. One of the first contracts he ever took was for the erection of the Miller Club House in Oregon Township of Lucas County. This Club House was destroyed by fire in 1909. Mr. Hildebrand also built iiis residence at 2456 Broadway.

Deserving of special mention is Hildebrand Terrace which he erected at the corner of Broadway and St. James Court. This building has the distinction of being the first in Toledo to be constructed by what is known as "the continuous hollow wall system," a process for which Mr. Hildebrand owns the exclusive right for Lucas. Wood and Ottawa counties. The characteristic feature is double walls of concrete with a dead air space between, and this feature eliminates the dampness which is so common in most concrete construction and also deadens noise, so that the hollow wall system is especially adapted to the construction of apartment houses and similar buildings.

Mr. Hildebrand has platted and added three additions to the City of Toledo and has dedicated three streets to the city, Hildebrand Avenue, St. James Court, Water Works Drive and a part of Foraker Avenue and Hoffman Street.

A bit of interesting mvmieipal history is revealed in his connection with St. James Court. Being the owner of all the abutting property on that street he was awarded a contract by the Board of Public Service to pave the street with metropolitail block pavement. This is probably the only case of its kind in Toledo where the owner of the adjacent property has paid himself as the contractor for the paving of a street, and it is a significant testimonial to the fact, that though a contractor who had to pay himself for his work, he in no wise slighted his performance, and the St. James Court is even now regarded as the best paved street in Toledo. Mr. and Jlrs. Hildebrand deeded the City of Toledo, Hildebrand Avenue. This avenue cost them $1,500, but they received nothing from the city for it.

Many years ago Mr. Hildebrand more out of the essential honesty of his nature than as a definite and practical policy, based his work upon the principles of giving prompt attention to every contract, using good material, high class workmanship, and making the job satisfy his own expert criticism as well as those for whom he performed the work. Thus he has long enjoyed a reputation for honest work and the fulfillment of all his promises. From individual contracts he has perhaps not derived as much profit as other men less conscientious, but on the whole he has been successful, and his success is built vipon the solid cornerstone of honesty and efficiency, and such a reputation is worth more than money.

Mr. Hildebrand has became a prominent citizen of Toledo, and has for years interested himself in local politics. He has served as precinct committeeman, and in 1908 was chosen as a delegate to the National Convention of the republican party that nominated William Taft for president. He has also represented the Tenth Ward republicans in the State Convention. He is a member of the Toledo Commerce Club, the Builders Ex- change, the Second German Reformed Church of Toledo, has a host of friends in his adopted city and his career is one that reflects honor on the community.

May 9, 1891, he married Miss Eva M. Seebeurger. Her father, Jacob Seebeurger, was one of the earliest German settlers of Riga, Lenawee County, Michigan, where he and his wife are buried. Mrs. Hildebrand was born, reared and educated there. Mr. and Mrs. Hildebrand 's four children, all of whom have been educated in the Toledo public schools are: Elmer, Raymond, Alice and Florence.

]\Iatthew Bartlett is one of the veteran merchants of Toledo. His has been a long and successful career, and he has been identified with this city through all its important developments and has witnessed its growth from a place of a few thousand into one of the metropolitan centers of the Middle West. Frequent honors have been paid him. but his real service could not be measured by such distinctions. He has been a substantial business man with the old fashioned type of integrity, served his adopted country at the time of the Civil war, has also held office under the city government, and is one of the best known Odd Fellows in the State of Ohio.

A native of England, he was born in the parish of Somerset in the City of Bath, April -19, 1841, a son of Matthew and Fannie (Baker) Bartlett. His father was born in Devonshire and was a cabinet maker and builder by trade. Third in a family of ten children, six sons and four daughters, ilatthew Bartlett early gave evidence of that venturesome spirit and enterprise which subsequently brought him to Toledo and made him a leading factor in its affairs. When five years of age he was sent to the Broad Street School, an institution that had been founded in 1744 and is still in existence. At that time it was conducted under the auspices of St. Michael's Church. He was a student there five years. Soon after his return home he ran away, led by his love of adventure and a desire to see more of the world. That was more than sixty years ago. and since then he has reaped a rich fund of experience. For a time he was employed as a messenger boy between Bristol and Clifton and then going to London took passage on an American ship seventy-two days later landed him in New York City. His westward journeying was continued on board the Francis Skiddy up

In that year he came to Toledo, accepting a position with Ralph Cross, a jeweler, and was in his employ three years. The next three years were spent in the office of Doctor Estill, a dentist, and he acquired a thorough knowledge of all departments of the profession as it was then practiced. He also had some experience as clerk in a dry goods store of S. Smiley. In 1861 ilr. Bartlett engaged in business for himself in partnership with James Moore under the firm name of Moore & Bartlett, and they conducted a jewelry store on Summit Street until 1864.

On New Year's Day of 1866 Mr. Bartlett married Miss Josephine Holmes, who had lived in Pittsburg prior to her marriage. Recently the Toledo papers gave considerable space to the event of Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett '.s celebration of their fiftieth or golden wedding anniversary. In an interview given a reporter of the Toledo Daily Blade at that time Mr. Bartlett described some of his early experiences in Toledo. Among other things lie is reported to have said : ' ' Toledo was known as Mud Town when I came here. It had about five thousand people. Huron street was out of town, the principal busines.s being on Summit and ]\Ionroe streets. The site of the building where I have been located for years in the furniture business at Jefferson and Erie streets was then under water, and beyond that was hazel brush. The largest part of the city's business was done on Summit street below Cherry. The best hotel in the city was the American hotel at Summit and Ehn streets. The most prominent man in the city then was Major Stickney, who owned a bank at Manhattan."

He then described his military service: "About this time a provisional regiment was raised in Toledo to prevent the burning of our elevators, which had been threatened. We remained on duty here until President Lincoln asked Governor Tod to furnish a well drilled and equipped regiment to guard Confederate prisoners at Johnson's Island. There were twenty-five hundred prisoners none below the rank of second lieutenant. We remained on guard until we went out as the 130th Ohio Volunteer Infantrj' and faced General Longstreet's Corps at Petersburg. The resriment continued in service until the close of the war." In command of the regiment was Colonel Henry Phillips, and Mr.

Bartlett was a member of Company B. He was in many engagements including the siege of Petersburg, and in September, 1864, was discharged and returned to Toledo. During his service on Johnson's Island he was one of the men who discovered the plot of the Confederates to escape. One of his duties was the reading of letters written by prisoners to their homes. Noticing one day that the letters looked wrinkled, he held them up before a fire until they were thoroiighly dried out when it was found that the prisoners had written in milk details about the island and telling friends in the South how to release them. The heat from the fire turned the milk black. Thus it was an extensive plot was foiled, and the story of how the plans were frustrated has often been told and it is a matter of special interest that a Toledo man was instrumental in preventing the escape of a larsre number of Confederates.

After the war Mr. Bartlett became head clerk for LaSalle & Epstein, now the firm of LaSalle & Koch, dry goods merchants, with whom he was associated until 1868. Then with S. Smiley he bought the furniture business previously owned by Rigby Brothers, and thus became established in the furniture trade, and is in point of continuous service the oldest merchant of that class in Toledo. Four months after the partnership was formed Mr. Smiley died, and the business has since been conducted through the organization built up by Mr. Bartlett. In 1890 he erected a fine business block, five stories high, of brick with stone front, and the entire space is now utilized by the business.

Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett have one son, Charles. Politicallv he is a republican. He is a member of the Board of ^Memorial Hall Trustees, and he served the city well as a member of the board of police commissioners under Mayor Guy Major and during the first term of Mayor Jones.

In Odd Fellowship Mr. Bartlett has had every honor that the state could bestow, and is now a member of the staff of Gen. John Reeves of the Patriarchs Militant with jurisdiction over Ohio and Virginia. He is the oldest member living of "Wai;pakoniea Lodge No. 38. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has filled all its chairs and has been grand master of the State of Ohio. He organized and drilled Canton Imperial, of the Patriarchs Militant, and has instituted or assisted in instituting every Odd Fellow Lodge in L\icas, "Wood, Ottawa, Williams and Fulton counties. He has the finest grand master's jewel in the state. He celebrated his fiftieth anniversary of service in the Odd Fellows Lodge in May, 1916, at the same time that he and his wife celebrated their golden wedding. He was one of the original members of the Patriarchal Circle, organized in Toledo, this subsequently being succeeded by the Patriarchs Militant. He is also one of the organizers of Concord Lodge No. 149, Knights of Pythias, and is a past chancellor. He is also a member of Forsyth Post No. 15, Grand Army of the Republic, at Toledo.

Willis J.vckson is one of those prosperous and contented men who live on some of the fine fai-ms of Henry County. The years have brought him a wealth of experience and of those comforts and material things that give a retrospect of j^ears a pleasing aspect to a man now past the prime of life.

This branch of the Jackson family is of Scotch-Irish stock and originated in Ireland. Members of it emigrated to the United States and settled in Pennsylvania before the Revolutionary war. The first generation of the family lived and died in Eastern Pennsylvania. Mr. Jackson's grandfather, Joseph Jackson, was born in Pennsylvania about 1794. He grew up there and married a Miss Watson. Later he removed to Eastern Ohio and still later brought his family to Seneca County, Ohio, and settled in the woods near Green Springs. He was a pioneer in that district, and got his land direct from the Government. Though quite well along in yeare at the time he proceeded vigorously with the clearing and development and in time had a substantial farm.

In the next generation is Noah Jackson, father of Willis Jackson. Noah was born in Pennsylvania in 1820 and grew up on the old farm in Seneca County. He was married there to Miss Mary Shively. About 1848 Noah Jackson came into what was then a perfect wilderness in Harrison Township of Henry County, and secured a tract of wild land in section thirty-six. There was not a single improvement worthy of mention, and the first home of the Jacksons was a typical log cabin, bare of comforts and conveniences, and life in such conditions were reduced to the bare and primitive necessities. Noah Jackson was a man of thrift and industrs' and in time cleared up and improved a fine farm and erected a substantial nine-room house which took the place of the primitive log cabin. Some years after he came to Heniy County his father also came and lived retired in Napoleon until his death at the age of ninety-seven. Grandfather Jackson after coming to Henry County took up the faith of the iMethodist Church though he had formerly been a Presbyterian, and served as a local preacher. The family have given their political allegiance to first the whig and then the rep iblican party. Noah Jackson lived on the old farm until his death in 1896. He was a stanch republican and a man of more than ordinary influence in his community. His wife, who was born in 1822, died in 1900.

The only one now living of six children, Willis Jackson, was born on his father's homestead in Henry County September 15, 1856. Early in life he became acquainted with toil, and industry has been the ke3'note to his success. He now has a fine farm of 200 acres in Harrison Township and has given it many of the substantial improvements that may now be seen there. One improvement is a substantial barn 40 by 70 feet. While most of his land is under cultivation, he has a wood lot of four acres of native timber. This is land formerly contained in what was known as the black swamp, and only by the exertions of several successive generations has it been redeemed, tiled, drained and made fit for regular cultivation. The land owned by Mr. Willis Jackson is now as fertile as any soil found in Henry County, and will produce every kind of crop, though corn is the most profitable product.

In his home township and count.y Mr. Jackson married Miss Jennie Hoppes. She was born in Seneca County, Ohio, April 29, 1858, and when nine years of age came to Henry County with her parents, August and Lydia (Gooding) Hoppes, who settled in Damascus Township. Her parents were born and married in Pennsylvania, and from that state settled in Seneca County, Ohio. In 1867 the Hoppes family settled in Damascus Township of Henry County, and Mrs. Jackson's father cleared and improved a farm there. He later retired to Liberty Center, and he and his wife are still living there at the respective ages of eighty-six and seventy-nine. The Hoppes family have always been Lutherans in religious belief, and Mr. Hoppes is of German stock, while his wife is of English lineage.

Wiley M., the. oldest, is now manager of the elevator at Holgate ; he married Virginia Underwood and has a son Willis E. Dick is still at home, unmarried, and assists his father in the management of the farm. Bessie died when nine years of age. Delia became the wife of Walter Warner, and the mother of two childi-en, Leota and Paul; her son Paul was drowned, and it was the shock of his death that killed Mrs. Delia Warner. Mary is the wife of Burk Richards, a farmer in Damascus Township, and they have two children. Atlee is a graduate of the school of electrical engineering at Washington and is now following his profession in Chicago; he married Margaret Smith. The beautiful estate of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson is known as "Maple Lodge."

Ir.v a. Richardson. Not only in business affairs but in the performance of the duties of good citizenship Ira A. Richardson has been one of the honored men of Toledo for the past half century. He represents some of the old pioneer stock in Northern Ohio, and is himself the product of a period when life in the Middle AVest was reduced to its simplest terms, and when young men faced the world seldom with anything better than an education acquired in th? fundamentals and in the primitve old time schools. The greater part of Mr. Richardson's active career was spent in the real estate and insi;rance business, and there is probably no man in Lucas County who has greater information as to the many changes in value effected by the passing of fifty years. One of Mr. Richardson's sons is now serving as county recorder of Lucas County.

His birthplace, where he first saw the light of day, February 14, 18.37, was a log house on a farm at Northfield, Summit County, Ohio. He still recalls some of the features of that old house and also of conditions then familiar and accepted by all residents in this part of the Middle West. The only means of artificial lighting were tallow candles and the light that came from the big fireplace which was found in every cabin and mansion of that day. One of the typical country schools that existed in Summit County diiring the decade of the '40s supplied his early training, and he also attended what were known as select schools and still later the high school at Cuyahoga Falls in Summit County.

He comes of some of the oldest New England stock. There were two Richardson brothers who emigrated from Sweden in 1622 and founded homes around Massachusetts Bay in the vicinity of Boston. One of these was the direct ancestor of Ira A. Richardson of Toledo. Mr. Richardson's father, grandfather and great-grandfather all bore the name Amos. Grandfather Amos Richardson emigrated from Boston in 1816, soon after the close of the War of 1812 and founded a home in the wilderness of the old Ohio Western Reserve at Northfield, in the same locality where Ira A. was born. Grandfather Richardson was a man of much enterprise, and at one time he took the contract for constructing an entire section of the old Ohio and Erie Canal, but was stricken down with a fatal illness and died before finishing the contract.

Amos Richardson, father of the Toledo business man, was born at Rowe, ^Massachusetts, December 14, 1810, and was brought to Ohio in 1817 at the age of seven. He spent all his active career as a farmer in the vicinity of Northfield in Summit County. He married Phoebe Wood, whose father, Henry Wood, served as an officer in the War of 1812, and in 181.3 removed from Schenectady, New York, and located in Northfield, Ohio, about sixteen miles out of Cleveland, and in that community Phoebe was born.

During the latter part of his early manhood, while still attending school during fallterms, Ira A. Richardson began teaching, and altogether taught fourteen terms of district school and for three terms was a teacher in the graded school at Peninsula, Summit County. In the meantime he had attained the years of majority, and in 1861 he was at Ashland, Wisconsin, when the Civil war broke out. He at once went down to Madison and volunteered in Colonel Daniel's First Wisconsin Cavalry and went into camp with the recruits. When the surgeon examined him it was found that an injuiy to his left knee, sustained when he was seventeen years of age, had caused a stiffness in the joint which disqualified him for military service. He then returned to Ohio, and in 1862 again volunteered to enter the army at Cleveland, but the same reason was assigned for his not being accepted in the service. However, during that critical period in the nation's affairs he managed to give some service to the Federal Government. At Madison, Wisconsin, in 1861 and again in 186.3 his services were accepted by the Government as bookkeeper in the telegraph department and he was assigned to a post at Nashville, Tennessee. While there in 1864 he was stricken with typhoid fever, and after recovering suflSciently to travel returned home to Ohio and resigned his position.

Mr. Richardson first went into the life aud fire insurance business in 1864 at Hudson, Ohio. In 1866, having moved to Toledo, he bought from John Lokey the agency of the Aetna Life Insurance Company covering several counties in Northwestern Ohio. He eonducted the business actively until 1871 and then expanded by adding real estate as another branch of his activities.

Ever since he east his vote for the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 Mr. Richardson has been a sturdy and loyal republican. His only important office came when he was elected by the members of the board secretary of the Board of Elections of Toledo under the new law. He served a year and a half, and then the law was changed and the secretary of the board instead of being elected by the board of elections as formerly was appointed by the governor of the state. The board members at once volunteered to recommend Mr. Richardson to the governor for appointment, but as his business took up so much of his time that he could hardly afford to sacrifice it for the honors of office, he declined gratefully this mark of regard shown by the members of the board.

Mr. Richardson is an active Mason, being affiliated with Toledo Lodge No. 144, Free and Accepted Masons; Fort Meigs Chapter No. 29, Royal Arch Masons ; and Toledo Council No. 33, Royal and Select IMasters, all at Toledo. He was a member of the Baptist Church.

Mr. Richardson was married twice during war times and has one son living, Judd Richardson, now in the real estate, loan and insurance business, having succeeded his father as active manager of the interests in April, 1910. Judd Richardson married Mary L. Rood of Toledo. Burge Richardson, the younger son, was for nearly twenty-five years traveling representative for The R. H. Lane Company of Toledo, a wholesale boot and shoe concern, but in the spring of 1915 was elected county recorder of Lucas County for the term of two years. He served in that position, for which he was exceptionally well qualified, until his death, which occurred August 12, 1916. Burge Richardson married Bertha L. Gunn of Toledo, who, with a daughter, Marcella, and a son, Ralph, survive him.

Washington C. Thorp. By his work as a farmer and gardener Washington C. Thorp is contributing something of value to the world and the people that live therein. He has a fine place on the Monroe Street road in Sylvania Township and in the course of thirty years has managed to accumulate not only a satisfying competence but also the regard and esteem of his community. He is now serving as township trustee.

His birth occurred near Norwalk in Huron County, Ohio, April 30, 1858. His parents, Jeremiah and Rebecca (Brown) Thorp, were early settlers of Huron County. In 1864 the family moved to Fulton County, and Washington C. Thorp grew up in that locality and acquired his early education.

In 1884 he moved to East Toledo, where lie remained two years, then located on a farm in Washington Township for seven years, and in 1893 came to the place in Sylvania where he still lives.

In 1884 in Fulton County Mr. Thorp married Mary Ann Knepper, a daughter of John and Rebecca Knepper, who were from Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Thorp have two children : Pearl May, a teacher who lives at home ; Orlo Rhodes, who is a farmer near his father in Sylvania Township and by his marriage to Isabelle Robinson has a son named Herbert.

Since starting out in life on his own account Mr. Thorp has put to vigorous use his own abilities and such opportunities as came in his way, and has well deserved all his success. For some six or seven years he served as a member of the school board, and was its president for a considerable part of that time. It was in 1915 that he was elected township trustee. He is a democrat, an active member of Sylvania Lodge No. 289, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, also a member of Sylvania Chapter of the Eastern Star, and belongs to the Grotto, a social organization of Blue Lodge Masons. He is also a member of the Protected Home Circle.

Charles R. Clapp. A member of the Toledo bar for twenty years, Charles R. Clapp contributed high personal character and ability to the local bar for a number of years, but is now best known as secretary and treasurer of The National Supply Company, manufacturers of and dealers in oil and gas well supplies, probably the largest corporation of its kind in the country.

distinguished since the early colonial period in New England, and the Clapp homestead at Ballston Spa in Saratoga County, New York, is one of those old estates which have passed regularly from one generation to another for more than a century.

(hiii-les R. Clapp was born at this home in Saratoga County, New York, March 5, 1867, was educated in the public schools and graduated from Colgate University in New York in 1891. In the town where he was born he took up the study of law and was admitted to the New York State bar in 1893 and to the Ohio bar in March, 1896. Mr. Clapp came to Toledo in January, 1896, having previously for three years, from 1893, practiced in his old home town, Ballston Spa, with Judge L'Amoraux, ex-county judge in Saratoga County. On moving to Toledo Mr. Clapp established law offices in the National Bank of Commerce Building, practiced alone for a time, and then joined U. G. Denman under the firm name of Clapp & Denman with ofHces at Mr. Clapp 's former location. They were associated until 1898, and in 1900 Mr. Clapp formed a partnership with Ira C. Taber, Mr. Denman having gone into the city solicitor's office as assistant city solicitor. The tirni of Taher ^ Clapp held a foremost position in the Toledo bar until 1908, when Mr. Clapp practically gave up general practice to accept election as secretary and treasurer of The National Supply Company of Toledo, his present place. He now gives all his attention to the affairs of this corporation whose relations are more than nation wide.

Mr. Clapp is also a director of the Guardian Trust & Savings Bank of Toledo, is a member of the Toledo Club, the Toledo Commerce Club, Toledo Yacht Club, Inverness Club, Country Club, Toledo Automobile Club, the Toledo Lodge of Masons, and belongs to the Ashland Avenue Baptist Church of Toledo. His chief recreations are golf and automobiling. W^hile in college he was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon and was also a Phi Beta Kappa, the scholarship fraternity. He won many of the honors during his course in college.

On October 23, 1901, Mr. Clapp married Miss Gertrude M. Hardee, daughter of William and Adelaide C. (Nessle) Hardee of Toledo. Mrs. Clapp was a graduate of Wells College. After a happy marriage of less than six years she died at Toledo September 5, 1907.

fied with Toledo and Northwest Ohio, something should be said concerning the members of the prominent family to which he belongs. His parents were Russell Palmer and Madelia (Hale) Clapp, both now deceased. His father was for years secretary of the People's Line Steamers running between New York City and Albany, and prior to that had been with the Citizens' Line running from Troy, New York. He was identified with these two steamship lines up the Hudson for more than forty years. Russell P. Clapp was born in Ballston Spa, Saratoga County, New York, July 31, 1820, and died in New York City in 1888. The old homestead where he and his son Charles R. were both born has been owned by the family more than a century and it is now owned by Charles R. Clapp of Toledo.

The ancestral record of the Clapps goes back to Roger Clapp, who was born in Salcombe Regis, Devonshire, England, April 6, 1609. On March 20, 1630, a little before his twenty-first birthday, he sailed from Plymouth for New England, and arrived at Nantasket on May 30, 1630. He came on the ship Mary and John, which was the second in a fleet of sixteen vessels which left England with passengers in 1630 under the patronage of the Massachusetts Bay Company. The passengers on the Mary and John were the first to settle at Dorchester, Massachusetts, where thev arrived about June 17, 1630. Concerning Roger Clapp 's father nothing definite is known beyond a few brief papers in Roger's "Memoirs," where he is referred to as "a man fearing God" and "whose outward estate was not great."

Roger Clapp was married November 6, 1633, to Johanna, a daughter of Thomas Ford of Dorchester, England, both of whom were passengers on the same vessel with Captain Roger. She was born June 8, 1617, and was sixteen years five months old when she was married. She survived her husband some four or five years, and died in Boston June 29, 1695, aged seventy-eight, being buried near her husband. Captain Clapp 's life was a busy and eventful one. He was noted for his works of benevolence, his ability and energy of character, and a far reaching influence and leadership in the colony and town. In 1637. at the age of twenty-eight, he was chosen selectman, and fourteen times afterwards was elected to the same position. In 1665 he took command of the Castle. In 1664 he was one of the committee of five to fi_x the rate of assessment for building a new meeting house. Several times he was chosen deputy from Dorchester to the general court. In 1673, on being again chosen deputy, the following record by Blake is found : ' ' Afterwards, in this year, ye court sent an order to choose another deputy in ye room of Captain Clapp, his presence being necessary at ye Castle, because ye times were troublesome." To most of the petitions and documents emanating from and relating to Dorchester his name was signed and carried with it a weight and influence probably greater than that of any other local citizen. He was one of the commissioners appointed to marry persons, an office of especial dignity and honor at that time. It is recorded that he had a horror of idleness and was himself remarkably industrious, being continuously engaged in some useful employment and his good .judgment and business ability called him frequently as overseer of wills and in other important business transactions. He was described as "of the very quiet and peaceable spirit, not apt to resent injury, but when he thought the honor of God was concerned or just and lawful authority opposed, he was forward enough to exert himself. ' ' At the first regular organization of the military of the colony in 1644 he was lieutenant of the Dorchester Company. At that time the military were obliged to parade eight days each year, and the penalty of five shillings was exacted for non-appearance and none were exempt except "timorous persons," of which there were exceedingly few in those days. He afterwards became captain of Dorchester Company, and on August 10, 1665, the general court appointed him captain of the Castle, which is now Fort Independence in Boston Harbor, to succeed Captain Richard Davenport, who had been killed in that place by lightning. He remained a captain of the Castle for twentyone years, until he was seventy-seven years of age and resigned in 1682 chiefly on account of political troubles which were coming to a climax under the administration of the unpopular Sir Edmund Andros. After he gave up the command of the Castle Captain Clapp lived in Boston until his death on February 2, 1691. He was one of the founders of the church in Dorchester, and a member thereof for sixty years. His prominence in the community is indicated by the fact that during a severe illness in 1672 the people of Dorchester held a fast "to beg his life of God," and on his recoverv thev held a special thanksgiving service. At his funeral his remains were followed by the governor and the general court, and

Beginning with this Captain Roger Clapp, the heads of the successive generation in direct line to Charles R. Clapp of Toledo, Ohio, are as follows: Captain Roger; Preserved; Roger; Charles; Israel; Chester; Russell P.; and Charles R. Thus Charles R. Clapp is in the eighth generation from the vigorous and eminent ancestor just mentioned.

Of the origin of the Clapp family the following account is supplied by a Massachusetts genealogist: "This surname had its origin in the proper or personal name of Osgod Clapa, a Danish noble in the court of King Canute (1017-36). The site of this country place was known afterward as Clapham, county Surrey. The spelling in the early records varies from Clapa to the present form, Clapp. The ancient seat of the family in England is at Salcombe, Devonshire, where important estates were held for centuries by this family. Their coat-of-arms : First and fourth three battle-axes, second sable a griffin passant argent ; third sable an eagle with two heafs displayed with a border engi-ailed argent. A common coat-of-anns in general use by the family in America as well as England : charged with the sun or, Crest : a pike naiant proper. Motto: 'Fais ce que Dois advienne que pourra.' The American branches of this family are descended from six immigrants, brothers and cousins, who settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts, whence they and their descendants have scattered to all parts of the country."

The mother of Charles R. Clapp died at Ballston Spa, New York, in 1904. She was of English ancestry. Mr. Clapp 's parents never came to Ohio. They were very religious people and Russell P. Clapp was especially so, Church. In their family were eight children, and long active as a member of the Baptist six sons and two daughters, four of whom reached maturity. William, the oldest, died at the age of fifteen. Grandfather Chester Clapp lived to be ninety-seven year's of age. Charles R. Clapp has one brother still living, George F., who lives on the old homestead at Ballston Spa in New York, and is connected with the People's Line Steamers of which his father was secretary for so many years.

Peter Watson Ge.\t is now serving his second term as sheriff of Henry County, and is one of the most popular and esteemed citizens of this section of Northwest Ohio. He was first elected sheriff in 1912, and for 8^2 years has been town marshal of the City of Deshler in the same county.

He has lived in Henry County for the past thirty years, but was born in Wood County, Ohio, in December, 1868. He attended the public schools and completed his education at Deshler, and has been a self reliant and vigorous type of citizen in that county for many years. Altogether he has served the public in some capacity for more than a dozen years. His parents, William and Susanna (Philo) 6ra3% were Pennsylvania people, his mother of Scranton. They were married at Perrysburg in Wood County, Ohio, December 25, 1864, lived on a farm in Webster Township of that county until early in 1868, when as a family they moved to Deshler in Henry County. At Deshler William Gray engaged in the mercantile business for about eighteen years, and then lived retired until his death on August 16, 1905. His widow passed away in September, 1909. In politics he was a democrat and they were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their children Peter W. was the oldest. William Gray, Jr., is in liusiness at Deshler operating a delivery system and also has a contract for sprinkling the streets; he has four daughters, Naomi, Frances, Grace and Nellie. The daughter Anna is the wife of Charles Post, a machinist and tool maker, and their two children are named Parrell and Lucile.

Peter W. Gray at the early age of fourteen began learning the baker 's trade and followed that line until elected to the office of city marshal. He was married in Paulding County, Ohio, November 26, 1889, to Miss Nellie J. -Straley. She was born in Belmore, Putnam County, Ohio, January 4, 1872, was reared and educated at Belmore, and is a daughter of Jerome T. and Agnes (Kushmaul) Straley, who were natives of Pennsylvania, were married in Ohio, and died in Putnam County, her father at the' age of fifty-nine and her mother at fifty-two. They were members of the Pres-, byterian Church, and her father was a republican. Mr. and Mrs. Gray have one child only by adoption, Harriet McNalley, a niece of Mrs. Gray. She was born May 4, 1907. Mr. and Mrs. Gray attend the Evangelical Church.

Toledo Lodge No. 5.3, Benevolent .\nd Protective Order of Elkp. IMembership in the Elks Club of Toledo has long been considered an honor and the hundreds of promi- nent business men and citizens who during the past thirty years have been connected with that organization have in turn reflected the highest credit upon the lodge. In order that some of the chief points in the history of the organization may be set down in permanent form the following sketch has been prepared.

A select number of Toledo citizens gathered together on Sunday afternoon, October 24, 1886, in a small room, and under the guiding hand of Grand Exalted Ruler Daniel Kelley, the Toledo Lodge of Elks was brought into existence. Some of those who attended that meeting declare that it was held on one of the most beautiful Indian summer days and that the inspiration of nature gave spirit to the movement for organization. The lodge -was instituted in what was then known as Grand Army Hall, with Daniel A. Kelley in charge of the ceremonies as grand exalted ruler. He was assisted by District Deputy Andrew Gilligan and Brothers Harry E. Block and R. Strauss of Cincinnati Lodge No. 5; Charles A. Chase of Detroit Lodge ; Randolph Landman of Saginaw, Michigan, Lodge; E. Anglin, P. F. Plummer, M. M. :\IcFarland, M. Knapp and E. S. Beach of Adrian, Michigan, Lodge.

The charter members of Toledo Lodge were : Henry J. Richmond, G. Herbert Cole, Frank E. Wright, Frank Lamkin, Louis G. Richardson, Prank E. Cole, Harry S. Dowling, David H. Commager, Charles A. Garwood, Andrew Farquharison, Charles A. Chase, E. S. Reeves, P. P. Murray, Frederick C. Hitchcock, John P. Bronson, Fred J. Blakely and Andrew Claypool. Of these seventeen charter members only a few still remain.

After the installation of the lodge it organized by the election of the following officers : ' Exalted ruler, James il. Hueston; esteemed leading knight, Frank E. Wright; esteemed loyal knight. C. H. Garwood ; esteemed lecturing knight. J. K. Ohl; secretary, G. Herbert Cole; treasurer, Andrew Claypool; tyler, Louis G.^ Richardson ; trustees, H. A. Chase, Frank Lamkin and E. S. Reeves. After the installation of officers Exalted Ruler Hueston made appointments as follows : Esquire, Harry S. Dowling; chaplain, Andrew Parquharson ; inner guard, W. J. Ellis; organist, Frederick C. Hitchcock.

A committee on constitution was appointed consisting of Brothers Frank E. Cole, Andrew Claypool and E. S. Reeves. The trustees were ordered to select a meeting place and a night for meeting, and the lodge then closed and.

although there is no record of the same in the minutes, it is recalled that the business session was followed by an impromptu social session which accorded with the best standards and traditions of Elkdom.

October 29, 1886, a special meeting was held for the purpose of adopting the constitution and by-laws of Cleveland Lodge, pending the report of the committee on constitutions. The following evening was held the regular communication of the lodge on Saturday night, the date temporarily fixed for the loclge session. The Grand Army Hall had been secured, and at the regular meeting it was decided to apply to the Grand Lodge for a charter. The next regular meeting, Saturday, November 6th, was adjourned by unanimous consent to the following day, Sunday. On that day the report of the committee on constitution was adopted. Under the constitution the date of election of officers was fixed and under a suspension of rules the following officers were elected for the first year: Exalted ruler, David H. Commager ; esteemed leading knight. Prank E. Wright ; esteemed loyal knight, C. H. Garwood; esteemed lecturing knight, C. H. Cole ; secretarj', Andrew Parquharson : treasurer, John P. Bronson; tyler, A. B. Brownlee ; trustees, H. A. Chase, Prank Lamkin and E. S. Reeves. These officers were installed on the meeting of November 13th, and the following appointments were made : Esquire, Harry S. Dowling; inner guard, W. J. Ellis; chaplain, Louis G. Richardson ; organist, Frederick C. Hitchcock.

With these officers Toledo Lodge No. 53 started on its first year. That was a year of mingled success and adversity. There was constant anxiety as to the financial cendition of the treasurj', but through a constant willingness of the members to make any reasonable sacrifice the lodge continued to live and the membership grew, though slowly at first. Later members came in more numerously, but throughout the personnel of membership remained on the high plane with which the lodge was inaugurated. During the first year the meeting night was definitely fixed on Sunday.

Before the first year was ended the trustees were instructed to secure a new location, and in 1887 quarters were furnished on Superior Street over what was then known as the Natural Gas Office. Here the lodge entered a new home, and that turned out to be an excellent move on the part of the trustees. A distinct.

Thursday, December 29, 1887, the nucleus of Findlay Lodge was formed for the admission to membership in Toledo Lodge of ten citizens of Findlay. They were active later in forming findlay Lodge. Toledo is thus the alma mater of Findlay Lodge. January 12, 1888, these members were initiated under a special dispensation granted for that purpose, and on March 15th the Findlay Lodge was instituted by Toledo Lodge.

In November, 1888, the lodge received its tirst visitation of the grand officer. Grand Exalted Ruler Leach having made it a point to be present. He was received in proper form and was entertained by a grand social session after the closing of the lodge.

Death at this time entered the lodge, laying its hands on Past Exalted Ruler James M. Ilucston, tlie first exalted ruler and the first to be called to the Grand Lodge above.

With varying fortunes Toledo Lodge passed its successive .years with all the vicissitudes of Elkdom, making a brave struggle for existence and at the same time steadily growing. During the trouble that threatened the grand organization, Toledo Lodge remained loyal to the faction that was eventually declared to be the Grand Lodge de facto. After the Detroit reunion and Grand Lodge meeting, when troublous times appeared for Elkdom, Toledo Lodge was loyal and refused to be drawn into the contention in any way, recognizing the grand officers that were elected in the regular manner and refusing to attend the peace conference called for Buffalo. The representatives of the Grand Lodge that year attended the meeting called at Atlantic City and witnessed the surrender of the recalcitrant faction.

It was along about this time that Toledo Lodge began its agitation for a new building. The building committee was appointed with instruction to prepai-e plans for a building and incidentally suggest a plan for financing it. committee was composed of Bros. C. F. Wall, J. J. Stone, Charles Stager, L. G. Richardson, and Violet J. Emmick. After the first report the committee was discharged and discussion then turned to the securing of new quarters. As a result a floor was secured in the Gates Building and fitted up for lodge

A short time before the session of the Grand Lodge at Cincinnati in 1896 some of the Toledo Elks advocated entering the competition for the street parade prize. A squad was hastily thrown together, and with cheap uniform they went into the parade and carried off the prize. Thus was the birth of the famous ' ' Cherry Pickers, ' ' the drill squad which afterwards became known from ocean to ocean. The Cherry Pickers were named by John S. White, on account of the color of their uniforms. The color of the imiform worn by the Cherry Pickers was also selected by John S. White, one of the local tailors. A peculiar shade of red was used, the identical color of uniforms worn by the First Regiment of Lancers in the British army, known as the Cherry Pickers Regiment. The Toledo Cherry Pickers in their new iiniforms made their first appearance at Minneapolis, ^Minnesota, where after an exciting contest they were awarded the first prize, a handsome silk banner. The first captain of the Cherry Pickers was Gen. W. V. McMaken, succeeded by W. H. Cook. Louisville Lodge was the only competitor of the Toledo squad in that event. Following that at St. Louis the Cherry Pickers and the Louisville squad had a downright contest, both drill teams being trained to the minute. Capt. William H. Cook was in command of the Toledo company with J. Harvey Wylie as first lieutenant and William H. Atwell as second lieutenant. The Louisville squad was under command of INIajor Leathers, one of the finest drill masters the South ever produced. Before the contest he announced in event of his defeat it would be his last appearance on the drill grounds. The teams drilled in the Coliseum on a tanbark floor and in a stifling du.st, and the Cherry Pickers won by two points. On the return of the Cherry Pickers a reception was given them and the streets were thronged with a shouting and cheering humanity. At Milwaukee the Cherry Pickers were defeated by Chicago by a margin of seven-eighths of one point. The Chicago squad was known as the Purple Guard, but was in reality the crack drill team of the Knights Templar, which had been initiated in a body two weeks prior to the Grand Lodge meeting. Toledo took second in street parade and second in drill at Milwaukee, took first in drill and second in street parade at St. Louis, first in drill at Jlinneapolis and first in street parade at Cincin- nati. First in competitive drill squad in Buffalo and first in drill squad in Philadelphia. All the money won in these contests was turned into the treasury of the lodge, and became the foundation of the building fund. To this money was added some $14,000 derived from two carnivals. With this fund the building committee bought a piece of property on Michigan Street opposite the Lucas County Courthouse for $13,000. That is the site of their handsome home which was erected in 1905 and dedicated June 15, 1905. Since the lodge entered its new quarters its membership has steadily grown until it now embraces 1,000 Elks.

It was estimated that fully 10,000 people accepted the invitations and formed the bulk of the great crowd participating in the dedication of the Elks Building on June 15, 1905. From morning until midnight this throng passed through the spacious structure. The dedication service itself was a simple ceremony, merely the turning over of the building to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks for its use and purposes. This was accomplished in a Grand Lodge session on Thursday night, June 15th. About 450 Elks participated. Charles Marshall, district deputy of Sidney, Ohio, conducted the Grand Lodge session. The following staff assisted him: Grand esteemed leading knight, C. J. Nolan; grand esteemed loyal knight, M. B. Daly ; grand esteemed lecturing knight, N. D. Cochran ; grand esquire, William M. Bellman ; grand chaplain, John Leppelman: inner guard, William Bartley; chairman building committee, P. M. Jacoby. Mr. Marshall's address was brief, consisting of a few well chosen words congratulating the Elks on their enterprise in building the magnificent home. Prior to the session the Elks formed a procession which marched to the lodge room where the services were conducted. All the furnishings and tapestries were in place when the building was turned over to the guests, and nothing was left undone to make the event memorable. Though it was strictly a home gathering. Elks were present from many states in the Union.

On this happy occasion which meant so much to the Toledo Lodge there should be given a record of the membership of the reception committee. They were: F. W. Ayling, J. W. Popp, A. H. Hessen, W. R. Davis, Joseph Galloway, S. M. Lavin, Frank Mohr, J. R. Greene, George E. Ryan, J. V. Newton, Jacob Weier, Holland C. Webster, A. J. Barsch, G. W. Dawley, Guy Cottington, A. L.

The Cherry Pickers organization which in 1898 gave the building its start by winning several big money prizes, claims credit for the final completion of the splendid home. From their effoi'ts were formed the arch which eventually sustained the building.

The exalted ruler of the lodge at the time of dedication was William J. Albrecht. The building committee consisted of the well known Toledo men named as follows: James H. Pheatt, P. H. Garrigan, F. H. Broer, P. M. Jacoby, William McFarland, W. H. Haskell, Can D. Donovan, W. M. Bellman, L. E. Flory.

The present secretary of the Elks Club is J. J. Crowe, who was elected and has served as secretary of the lodge since October, 1905. The other official members at this time are: Exalted ruler, Walter Rosengarden; esteemed leading knight, Lewis E. Mallow; esteemed loyal knight. David Swinton ; esteemed lecturing knight, George P. Hahn; secretary, J. J. Crowe; treasurer, L. E. Flory; tyler, Charles Seymour (he has served as tyler since the organization of the lodge) ; esquire, C. R. Rex; inner guard, Dr. B. E. Leatherman; organist, P. T. Germain; trustees, S. J. Pickett, Richard Kmid, J. C. A. Leppelman and E. E. Parks; chaplain, Louis Volk.

John Van Horn Hartman, M. D. Few men in the medical profession in Northwest Ohio have been more eager to attain all the advantages of study and observation in the great medical centers of the world than Dr. John Van Horn Hartman of Findlay. Doctor Hartman is still a young man, not yet forty, and yet is recognized in his home city and over Northwest Ohio as one of the leading surgical specialists. His special field of work is in gynecology, obstetrics and general surgery.

He was born March 10, 1877. in Allen Township of Hancock County, a son of Jasper Xewton and Mary Ellen (Skinner) Hartman.- He is of Pennsylvania German stock. Reared on a farm, he attended the Findlay public schools and spent two yeai's in Findlay College. During his early life he was a teacher in district schools in Hancock County for about six years, and it was his savings from

In 1900 he entered the Homeopathic Medical College of Cleveland, where he graduated M. D. in 1904. While an undergraduate he served as an interne for one year in the Cleveland Maternity Hospital, and after graduating spent six months in the Cleveland City Maternity Hospital. Even at the time he began practice in Findlaj' in 1904 he was unusually well equipped by training and by natural talents for successful work. Above all he is progressive, and is constantly accepting of every opportunity to improve his technique and gain wider experience by association with the great surgeons of this country and abroad. In 1907 he attended the New York Post-Graduate School, in 1910 was in the Harvard Medical College, and in 1914 went abroad and studied under the eminent Doctor Wertheim and other specialists at Vienna, Austria. He has also attended the Policlinic at Chicago and for the past ten years has made annual visits to the famous Mayo brothers' clinics in Rochester, Minnesota.

For two terms Doctor Hartman served on the Findlay Board of Health, and is an active member of all^ the medical societies and associations. Politically he is independent. In 1906 he married Mi.ss Zoe Codding, a daughter of John Quincy Codding of Findlay. They became the parents of two children, Mary Ellen, deceased, and Sarah Roe. Doctor Hartman is a member of the Findlay Country Club, the Court Club and is a member of the Masonic Order, including the Scottish Rite.

George E. Crabb is proprietor of one of the best farm homesteads west of Toledo in Washington Township. His farm is situated two miles north of West Toledo, and he has shown a great deal of enterprise in its management and in regulating its productiveness.

Mr. Crabb is now serving as town clerk of Washington Township. He is a son of Gershom and Sarah A. (Stevens) Crabb. His father died in 1898 and his mother in 1912. Their children were: Eliza Ann, widow of William Jackman of Toledo: Mary J., deceased ; Ada M., deceased wife of John Baldwin of Toledo; Alice, wife of Abraham Keagle; Susan Hannah, wife of Edrue Park of Coldwater, IMichigan ; and Laura L., wife of Arthur Ruple of Coldwater. Michigan.

Francis Weudel of Monroe County, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Crabb have a fine family of children named Helen, Gershom, Charlotte, Lois, Frances E., Myron J., Walter, Olive, Ada and George, Jr.

Politically Mr. Crabb is a republican. For some twelve or fourteen years he served as a member of the school board, and is now town clerk. Fraternally he is affiliated 'with the Lodge and Royal Arch Chapter of the Masons. He and his family attend the Congregational Church.

John A. Meheing. From a small inception Mr. Mehring has developed one of the important industrial and commercial enterprises centered at Napoleon, judicial seat of Henry County, and he may now consistently be said to be one of the oldest business men of this thriving little city, as he has here been identified with the manufacturing of brick and tile for more than thirty years. The large and prosperous business of which he is now the head had its initiation in 1884, when modest operations were instituted under the firm name of C. E. Mehring & Company, and with his brother, Charles E., as a member of the firm. The enterprise was represented solely in the manufacturing of brick during the first two years, and later the original firm was dissolved, John A. Mehring, of this review, then assuming control of the plant and business, which under his careful, straightforward and progressive administration have been developed to the present large proportions. He admitted his only son to partnership and since that time the enterprise has been conducted under the title of Mehring & Son. The firm has recently given a virtually entire new equipment to its plant, including the installation of the Brewer tile machinery and the Marin brick machinery, so that the facilities in both departments are of the best modern type and make possible the production of brick and tile of the highest grade. This impoi-tant manufacturing plant now has a capacity for the output of 19,000 4-inch tiles per annum, the while the facilities provide for the manufacturing of tile from 3 to 18 inches in diameter. The capacity of the brick plant is for the manufacturing of from 2.").000 to 3.5.000 a day, and the product is authoritatively pronounced to be of the very best style and quality, including tapestry brick in various shades. A large part of the output of this admirable establishment is used in this immediate section of the state, and it is worthy of note that from the Mehring plant was supplied the brick for the erection of the public library and ai-mory buildings of Napoleon, two of the most modern and attractive structures in Henry County, while similar service has been given in connection with the construction of other public buildings and many of the higher grade of residences in this section of Ohio. The beautiful home of Mr. Mehring himself, at 925 Woodlawn Avenue, was erected in 1914 and is a most effective exposition of the excellent quality and design of the brick manufactured in his establishment, great care having been taken in the selection of products that would insure most perfect harmony in all parts of the architectural scheme. This fine house, with the most substantial and artistic equipment and appointments throughout, is heated by hot water, is supplemented by a commodious garage of similar architectural order, and constitutes as a whole one of the most attractive residence properties in Northwestern Ohio.

John August Mehring was born on a farm in Defiance Township, Defiance County, Ohio, on the 7th of September, 1862, and there he was reared to adult age, in the meanwhile making good use of the advantages afforded him in the public schools and in his youth becoming associated with the contracting and building business, to which he continued to give his attention until he engaged in the manufacturing of brick, as noted in a preceding paragraph of this article. He is a son of Frederick and Dora (Schoekman) Moehring, both natives of ilagdeburg. Germany, where the former was born in October, 1822, and the latter in February, 1832. Frederick IMoehring immigrated to America within a short time after attaining to his legal majority, and the voyage across the Atlantic was made on one of the old-time sailing vessels. Soon after his arrival in the United States he made his way to Ohio and established his temporary residence at Napoleon. Henry County. He assisted in the construction of the old canal that extended through this place to the Wabash Railroad, and finally he became associated with his brother-in-law, John Reik, in the purchase of 120 acres of land in Defiance County. There they continued to maintain their residence for a number of years, and then they divided the property and each instituted independent farming operations, besides which each of them eventually added materially to the area of his landed estate. The marriage of Mr. Moehring, who retained the original German orthography of the family name, was solemnized in Defiance County, and on their fine old homestead farm he and his wife passed the remainder of their active lives, industrious, upright and .substantial citizens who commanded the high regard of all who knew them. Mrs. Moehring died on the old homestead on the 1st of January, 1909, at the age of seventy-three years, nine months and twenty-two days, and her venerable husband passed the gracious evening of his life in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary Beneke, of Ridgeville, Henry County, where he died. He was a staunch supporter of the cause of the democratic party and both he and his wife were lifelong and devout members of the Lutheran Church, in which connection it should be noted that they assi-sted in the organization of the first Lutheran Church in the City of Defiance, besides contributing liberally to the erection of the original and the second church edifices. This sterling pioneer couple became the parents of three sons and two daughters. Besides the subject of this sketch two others of the children are still living, Charles E. and ilary, who is the wife of Theodore Beneke, of Ridgeville, Henry County. The other sister, Annie, became the wife of Frederick Beneke, and her death occurred in July, 1913.

As a young man John A. Mehring married Miss IMinnie Dannerburg, who was born in Defiance County, on the 5th of ilarch, 1867, and who died in April, 1892, at the birth of her only child. She was but twenty-five years of age and her funeral was held on the second anniversary of her marriage. Left with an infant son,"Mr. ]\Iehring, in 1893, married Miss ]\Iary Dannerburg, a sister of his first wife. She "was born in Defiance County on the 25th of :\larch. 1863, and is a daughter of Frederick and Dorothy (Giihl) Dannerburg, both natives of Germany, the former having been born in Prussia, on the 28th of December, 1832, and the latter having been born in the Kingdom of Hanover, and both having come to America when young. Frederick Dannerburg came to this country in 1849 and his first wife, whose maiden name was Catherine Rodemuth, died when comparatively a young woman, her one surviving child being Frederick, Jr., being still a resident of Defiance County and being the father of one son and one daughter. After the death of his first wife, in Defiance County, Frederick Dannerburg, Sr., wedded Miss Dorothy Guhl, who was born in Hauover, Germany, on the 17th of April, 1836, and who came to the United States in 185-4, her marriage to Mr. Dannerburg having been solemnized July 27, 1857. Both continued to reside on their homestead farm in Defiance County until their death, he having passed to eternal rest on the 8th of February, 1903, and she having died January 30, 1912 ; both were devoted members of the Lutheran Church and he was a democrat in his political proclivities.

The only child of the first marriage of Jlr. Mehring is Richard A., who is now junior member of the firm of ]\Iehring & Son. He was afforded the advantages of the public schools of Napoleon and in 1911 was graduated in the International Business College, in the City of Fort Wayne. He has been since that time his father's effective coadjutor in the conducting of the extensive brick and tile business. He is still a bachelor. By his second marriage the subject of this sketch has one son. Otto, who availed himself of the advantages of the public schools and also of those of the celebrated International Correspondence School at Scranton, Pennsylvania. He is now associated actively with his father's business and is one of the vigorous young men of Henry County commercial and industrial life. He wedded Miss .Anna Zenz and they have one child, Delbert, who was born March 12, 1911.

John A. !Mehring is essentially liberal and progressive as a citizen and takes lively interest in all things pertaining to the welfare of his community. In 1916 he is serving his second term as a member of the city council of Napoleon, and his political support is given to the democratic party. He is a director of the Napoleon State Bank and is known and honored as one of the representative business men and influential citizens of Henry County. He and his wife and their sons are enrolled as active members of the Lutheran Church at Napoleon.

Cyrus Llewellyn Casterltne. The City of Findlay has long been proud of the achievements and the complicated part Cyrus L. Casterline played in business affairs. For all his success, wealth and influence he was at one time no better known than an ordinary country boy.

His birth occurred in Angelica. Allegany County. New York, April 8, 1851, and the first twenty-five years of his life were spent on a farm. He had onlv a country school education. When he left the farm he was attracted into the oil district of Western Pennsylvania and for one year worked as a teamster at Bradford. For ten years he was engaged' in the manufacture of nitro-glyeerine and the exceedingly hazardous occupation of shooting oil wells in Penn.sylvania, and was known as a moonlighter. He had the grit, the hard working ability which made it almost inevitable that he would rise from the circumstances of an employe to an independent bu.siness man.

Mr. Casterline came to Findlay in 1890. Here with C. S. Corthell he established a nitro-glycerine company, and became its superintendent and overseer. That was a successful business, but he disposed of this industry and established the Bradford Oil Company, which developed into a very succes.sful business. In addition to that ilr. Casterline has developed and extended his various interests until they now cover an exceedingly broad field.

It' would be i?upossible to mention all his varied relationships with business. A few of them are as follows: Vice president of the American National Bank of Findlay ; vice president Buckeye Traction Ditcher Company; vice pi'esident The Electric Construction Company; secretary and treasurer Belmont Oil Company; secretary, treasurer and manager Genesee Oil Company ; treasurer Independent Torpedo Company, which has branches at Findlay, Robin.son, Illinois, Independence, Kansas; Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is the largest manufacturer of niti'o-glycerine in the country; treasurer Goldie Oil and Gas Company of Oklahoma. In addition he owns at the present time sixty producing oil wells, and has four fine farms aggregating 550 acres, each one improved with fine buildings and operated to the limit of productiveness and eiSciency. These farms are all in the vicinity of Findlay, and he gives his personal attention to the management of all except one.

Mr. Casterline 's French and English ancestors came to America in 1690, and some of them subsequently helped to win American independence for the colonies. Mr. Casterline is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Elks, is a republican, a member and director of the Findlay Country Club, and a chairman of the Finance and a member of the Executive Committee of the Findlay Y. M. C. A. He is also interested in the Findlay Associated Charities. A man of large wealth, unmarried and therefore without a family of liis own. Mr. Casterline ha.s been a liberal giver and a co-operative factor with every movement for the good and advancement of his community and fellowcitizens. Those who are acquainted with his generosity say that he has given liberally to all worthy objects. He has served on the executive committee of the Ohio Commission for the Relief of European War Sufferers, as chairman of the finance committee for the Belgian Relief Commission for Hancock County, Ohio, and took an active part in .securing the carload of new clothing which was sent to the afflicted Belgians. Mr. Casterline owns a beautiful home in the country district near Findlay.

Rev. George Gunnell has been rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Toledo since 1909. " This is one of the largest and wealthiest Episcopal congregations in Northwest Ohio and Rev. Mr. Gunnell 's position is one of corresponding heavy responsibilities and importance.

For all its established position as one of the oldest strongholds of this denomination in Northwest Ohio, Doctor Gunnell has during his service as rector brought about a notable advance in church activities, in a strengthening of its tinancial resources and increased power to its activities. The membership since he became rector has increased more than 400, and in financial status Trinity Church has an almost unique distinction in being completely out of debt. In fact its property represents a value of over half a million dollars. During his rectorship he has presented 585 people for confirmation, and the Sunday school has increased in membership from 225 to 800. Among parish activities has been the creation of the Business Woman's Guild, which provides for luncheon facilities and rest rooms for 250 girls each day. The measure of good accomplished by this movement is not confined entirely to what the people of the guild accomplish, since several of the larger stores in Toledo have copied the plan and introduced lunch rooms for their working girls.

Born in Pittsburg. Pennsylvania, May 18, 1868, Rev. George Gunnell is a son of the late George and Sophia (Cowling) Gunnell. His father was a successful real estate dealer for many years at Beaver, Pennsylvania. George Gunnell, Sr., was born in Rumford, Essex County, England, while his wife was a native of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. In

Preparatory to his chosen work in life, Rev. i George Gunnell received liberal educational |] advantages. He attended the public schools ( in Beaver, Pennsylvania, and the Hobart College at Geneva, New York, where he was graduated A. B. in 1891. He then entered the senior class of Harvard University where he was given his A. B. degree by that institution with the class of 1892. In" 1894 his alma mater Hobart College conferred upon him the degree Master of Arts.

His studies preparatory to the priesthood were pursued in the General Theological Seminary, where he graduated, and on June 9, 1895, was ordained a deacon by Bishop Whitehead in St. Thomas Church at New York. His first work was as a missionary to the Church of Holy Innocents at Leechburg, Pennsylvania. He remained there until July 1, 1896, and on the 9th of June in the same year was ordained to the priesthood in St. John's Church in Franklin. Pennsylvania. This ceremony was also performed by Bishop Whitehead.

'Sir. Gunnell was assistant pastor of Calvars' Church at Pittsburg from August 1, 189*6, to November 1, 1897. He then became rector of the Church of the Ephiphany at Bellevue, a suburb of Pittsburg. On ]\Iarch 1. 1903, he was called to one of the largest churches of Philadelphia, St. Andrew's Church, and remained its pastor for six years. Since April 4, 1909, he has been rector of Trinity Episcopal Church at Toledo. His assistant pastor is Rev. Edwin W. Todd.

Old Trinity Church in Toledo is situated in the heart of the business district, just as the still older Trinity Church of New York City. The large and handsome structure of stone, exemplifying the best lines of ecclesiastical architecture, was erected in 1863. It stands at the corner of St. Clair and Adams streets. In the fifty years since it was built many improvements have been added from time to time, and the church has one of the finest pipe organs to be found in the city.

To his work Rev. Mr. Gunnell has brought the highest enthusiasm, and is also a man of great breadth of mind and of unselfish devotion to the cause. He considers no effort too great to be made in behalf of any individual member of his parish, however humble his station.

one of the deputies to the general convention of the Episcopal Church in New York City I in 1913. He has been a member of the Board of Missions since taking charge of Trinity Church at Toledo.

He is a member of Belleviie Lodge No. 530, Free and Accepted Masons of Bellevue, Pennsylvania, Fort Meigs Chapter No. 29, Royal Arch Masons, of Toledo, and all the Scottish Rite bodies of Toledo, including the thirtysecond degree. He also belongs to the Toledo Country Club and the Toledo Commerce Club. On September 12, 1900, he married Miss Caroline Hogg Sibbett, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Hogg) Sibbett of Brownsville, Pennsylvania. To their marriage were born three children : George Trevor who was born at Bellevue, Pennsylvania, and died at the age of four months; Mary Brunot, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; and Caroline Sibbett, born at Toledo. The daughters are now attending Miss Smead's School in Toledo. -

Geoege W. Woodward. An important distinction attaches to George W. Woodward of Richfield Township in Lucas County. This is his ability as a crop grower. It is doubtful if any other farmer in the county succeeds in getting larger and better yields per acre from his land than Mr. Woodward. He has a fine farm, all improved, known as Evendale, and has the satisfaction of knowing that much of the clearing and work of improvement was done by his own hands. His home is IVn niiles southeast of Bcrkey.

He is of English birth and ancestry, and was born in Warwickshire, England, November 18, 1867, a son of George and Sarah Ellen (Aldington) Woodward, both of whom were natives of the same shire. In 1873. when George Woodward was about five years of age, his mother died. A few years later, when George was nine years of age, his father left England on April"l9, 1877, and came to America. The boy remained behind in England and soon afterward left school and started to work out his own destiny. On coming to this country George Woodward, Sr., bought eighty acres in section 16 of Richfield Township, Lucas County. He bought this land from Peter Waterbury, who had acquired it direct from the State of Ohio. This is the land that George W. Woodward now owns and occupies.

entire journey to Ohio alone. When he arrived he found his father engaged in the work of clearing the land in Richfield Township. There was no barn on the place at the time and the son spent all the following winter hard at work in the woods, and went without overshoes or cap and without sufficient clothing to keep him warm. However, there was so much work to do that he experienced no special hardship from this lack of clothing, and his energies even at that age made him a very capable assistant. Much of the farm was still in the woods, since its former owner had done very little clearing. Since then Mr. Woodward has made a special study of farming, and through his own labors and those of his father this work continued until the latter 's death in 1898, practically every acre is under cultivation and the improvements constitute this one of the model farms of the county. Where at one time they felt satisfied to get ten bushels of wheat per acre, Mr. Woodward now gets an average yield of thirty-five bushels, and he produced fortyseven bushels per acre for the year 1915. He has similar results with other crops. His corn land has produced 150 baskets of corn to the acre and he is not satisfied with sixty bushels of oats and about fifty bushels of barley to the acre. Evendale also regularly produces large crops of alfalfa. Any one who knows farming and the growing of crops realizes that this yield is much above the general average. Besides the growing of extensive crops Mr. Woodward also engages in dairying and raising pure-bred Berkshire swine.

Mr. Woodward married Alice Brimacombe, daughter of Thomas Brimacombe, who was of English and Canadian ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Woodward have three children : Arthur, who is farming in Sylvania Township married Clara Fink of Ottawa Lake, Michigan, and is the father of three children; Ethel, wife of Hugh Riches, a farmer at Wauseon, who has one child Lorene, and Joyce, who married Ford Sanderson, and they are now farming in Richfield Township.

ilr. Woodward always takes an active interest in affairs affecting his home community. He is now serving as trustee of Richfield Township, was township clerk seven years and a member of the hoard of education four years. He is a republican and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Protected Home Circle.

R. Clint Cole. While he has not lived an extraordinary term of years, R. Clint Cole has earned some distinctions that give a man special prestige in American life. He is to begin with an able lawyer. He also has powers that make him a formidable debater and is a well known orator. In republican politics both in national and state campaigns he has figured largely, and has also been heard fi-om the public platform on various subjects which he adorns with his originality of thought and diction. Some of the topics of his discourses have been politics, religion, patriotism, philosophy, education, etc.

He is of Scotch-Irish stock. He was born on a farm in Big Lick Township of Hancock County, Ohio, in 1872. His father was a substantial farmer of Hancock County. Owing to this early environment he grew up in the country, attended the district schools, spent a year in Findlay College, and on getting a certificate started out to teach, a vocation he followed in the country schools for eight years. In the meantime he was studying law and employing his opportunities for learning men and many other subjects that cannot be dealt with in books.

In 1898 he entered the Ohio Northern University, where he spent a year, and in 1900 passed a successful examination for the bar. In 1901 Mr. Cole took up practice for himself at Findlay, and after several years joined his brothers Ralph and J. J. Cole under the name Cole, Cole & Cole. He is now in active practice with his brother Ralph Cole and with Elijah T. Dunn, under the firm name of Dunn & Cole. This firm does a large general practice, and is one of the ablest aggregations of legal talent in Hancock County. His brother, Ralph D. Cole, has long been a man of recognized prominence in republican circles in Ohio. He was head of the Republican Speakers' Bureau in the Hughes campaign with temporary headquarters in New York City.

Mr. Cole served as city solicitor of Findlay from 1912 to 1916, for two terms, and was not a candidate at the last election. He is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Gael F. Braun. In 1862 arrived in Toledo a young German, named Carl F. Braun, whose chief capital consisted of a sturdy heart, a willing spirit, and an unconquerable ambition. Not long afterward he became a hardware clerk, and in a few years was in business for himself. When he died at his Toledo home June 25, 1908, there was probably no, better known figure in business circles in the city. A man of remarkable business sagacity, with a wonderfully systematic mind and a great quickness of perception, his promotion to increasing responsibilities had been rapid; so that for years he was a controlling force and directing head of several large business affairs.

He was born at Gudensburg, Germany, August 16, 1843. He received a technical education in Germany, graduating from a polytechnic school at Cassel. At the age of nineteen in 1862 he came to the United States, found his way to Toledo, and in 1866 entered the hardware house of Roff & Company as a clerk. He was alert, energetic, quick to grasp business opportunities, and strictly faithful to the discharge of his duties. Though his salary was small, he managed to save a greater part of it, having constantly in view a business career for himself. In 1868 he was taken in as a member of the firm of Roff & Company. In the years immediately following the Civil war Toledo had a great and rapid growth, affecting not only the hardware business but other lines as well. Thus Roff & Company prospered and expanded its business from year to year, and in 1876 a new concern was organized to take over the old house of Roff & Company. The organizers of the Bostwick- Braun Company were Carl F. Braun, George A. Braun, a cousin, and Oscar A. Bostwick.

This new company opened a store at the foot of Monroe Street on a part of the ground now occupied hy the mammoth establislnnent of Bostwick-Braun Company, which today is one of the largest hardware houses in Northwestern Ohio or the ^Middle West. For a number of years the company also occupied quarters at the corner of St. Clair and Monroe streets.

The late Carl F. Braun continued an active participant in the management of this business until 1904. In his time he was recognized as one of the business giants of the city, and along with great capacity for work possessed high ideals and unblemished reputation. The Bostwick-Braun Company's establishment of modern times really stands as a monument to his industry.

It was not the only concern which benefited by his energy and judgment. He was a director and at one time vice president of The Home /Savings Bank and director of The

Citizens Deposit and Trust Company. In 1881 he bought the old Swan Creek Railroad. This had been projected in 1876, but the promoters encountered much trouble in securing a right of way. Mr. Braun succeeded where others failed, not only in this undertaking but in other matters to which he applied his attention. He reorganized the company, was elected president, and he soon was gratified by having the road extended from the intersection of Bismark and Hamilton streets to the tracks of the old Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis, now the Clover Leaf, thus saving considerable time and labor in operating in and out of the city.

On May 22, 1879, ]\Ir. Braun married Miss Elise Lenk. Mrs. Braun is still living and resides on Scottwood Avenue. There were three sons, "Walter M., Arthur P. and Carl W. Of these the only one living is Walter M., who is a member of the firm of Stacy & Braun, dealers in municipal and railroad bonds, with offices on the second floor of the Second National Bank Building. The son Arthur was a mining engineer in ^lexico and died suddenly May 17, 1910. The son Carl died at Toledo in June, 1912, at the age of twentysix.

The late Carl F. Braun was by nature well fitted for a business career, and was of that type of business leader who carries other enterprises and the interests of many individuals along with him in his success. He gave a tremendous energy to every undertaking, as well as splendid loyalty and enthusiasm and could be counted upon for co-operation in any movement which promised benefit to the community at large.

Thomas J. Geeenaway, now living retired at Sylvania, has during his active career of about forty years been closely identified with farming as a vocation in Lucas County. Besides doing what was required of him as a public spirited citizen and besides rearing and providing well for a family, he has made his efforts count toward a sufficiency for himself, and is now living on the fruits of his well spent years.

He was "born January 17. 1858, a son of Thomas and Harriet (Taylor) Greenaway. His father was born at Cornwall, England, and his mother in Devonshire, and from Devonshire they took ship in 1852 and came to America, settling in Sylvania Township of Lucas County about four miles west of Sylvania on their farm. In that locality Thomas

J. Greenaway was born, and a number of years later he inherited the old homestead and still owns it. Thomas Greenaway, Sr., was about twenty-five years of age when he came to the United States. For a short time he worked west of Toledo, and then bought the land in Sylvania Township which he developed as a farm and where he resided until his death in 1899. His widow passed away at the old home in 1912.

During the yeai's of his minority Thomas J. Greenaway lived at home attending the country schools, and assisting as his strength permitted in the farm duties. He then worked at the old home place for a year, afterwards rented the farm for another year, and the following year was spent at employment in Toledo. His next move was to buy a farm of his own, where he remained three years, and he then went to the farm owned by his wife's mother and conducted it until the death of his own father, Thomas Greenaway. He then took charge of the old home place, and conducted it as a first class farm for more than fifteen years. In 1916 he retired to a home in Sylvania and now rents his farm.

On February 18. 1879, ]Mr. Greenaway married Elizabeth Ironside, a daughter of John and Amelia (Watson) Ironside. Both her parents were born and reared in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, came before their marriage to Canada, where they lived about six months, and were married in Buffalo, New York. From there they came to Lucas County and settled at Holland in 1856. Mrs. Greenaway's father was a renter for several years and died in this county in 1864. Her mother then moved to Richfield Township, where she lived until her death in 1896.

Mr. and Mrs. Greenaway have three children. Bessie is the wife of Charles Sanderson, a farmer in Sylvania Township, and their five children are named Elnah, Dale, Melvin, Myron and Georgiette. Roscoe lives at Springfield, Ohio, where he is employed by the D. T. & I. R. R. Company, and by his marriage to Nora Brown has two children named Paul and Pauline. Glenn, the youngest child, is connected with the Overland Automobile Company of Toledo and married Nellie Keenan.

So far as politics is concerned Mr. Greenaway is independent though usually favoring the republican candidates on national issues. He has served as school director. For thirteen years he was township agent for the Lucas County Farmers Mutual Insurance Company.

John M. Mills, D. D. Though now practically retired from the work which engaged his attention for so many years and with such benefit to himself and humanity, Dr. Mills still has many interests to occupy his mind and is one of the prominent men of Lima.

He is not only a man of attainments himself, but represents a family that have furnished several generations of useful men and women to the world.

Doctor Mills was born in Hocking County, Ohio, November 5, 1850, a son of Robert and Rachel (Geiger) Mills. His grandfather, Andrew Mills, was a native of Scotland and came with his parents to the United States about 1796 and soon afterward settled in Ohio. He was one of the first settlers in Fairfield County. As a contractor he helped to construct the old Ohio and Erie canals. Andrew Mills married Maiy Register Mills Irwin, who attained tlve vmeralile age of ninety years. Doctor iliUs' mati'i-nal grandfather was Martin Geiger, who was born in Pennsylvania, and moved to Ohio in early days, following the life of a farmer in Hocking County until his death. He married Matilda McClaren, a native of Scotland, who lived to be ninetyeight years of age, her death occurring near TamaCity, Iowa, in 1870. Both the parents of Doctor Mills were born in Ohio. His father was born in Fairfield County in 1817, and his mother in Hocking County in 1826. They were married at Somerset, Ohio, in 1844. the ceremony being performed by James Mills, an uncle of" Robert Mills.

Robert ]Mills in an early day was a.ssociated with his father who was a contractor, but subsequently became a farmer in Hocking County, afterward moving to Fairfield, where he was living when the Civil war broke out. He enlisted on President Lincoln's first call for volunteers, but was soon returned home on account of disability. He died October 27, 1872, and his widow survived until December 15, 1902. Mrs. Mills in early life was an active member of the Baptist Church, but in later years she with her husband became members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Robert Mills was a democrat, a man of fair education and very courteous, kind and generous. He and his wife were the parents of twelve children, and the six now living are : Dr. J. M. Mills; Andrew Jackson Mills, of Lancaster, Ohio; Adam Mills, a retired stock dealer at Sugar Grove, Ohio; Nancy, wife of W. H. Shumaker, a farmer near Bremen, Fairfield Coiuity, Ohio ; Charity, wife of William Moler, cement contractor, Newark, Ohio ; and Rachel, wife of Abraham Miller, a farmer near Lancaster, Ohio.

Dr. J. M. Mills grew up on a farm, attended country schools, and at an early age attended a private school to prepare for college. At the age of si.xteen he entered Fairfield College. Before completing the course, owing to the failing health of his father, he turned aside to assist his father, took up teaching and other work to earn his own way and give him further advantages. After a few years he accepted a position with A. J. Johnson & Co. of New York, and traveled and sold books and school supplies for three years.

Mr. Mills united with the Methodist Episcopal Church at the age of sixteen, but while living in the home of Isaac Rinehart, whose niece he afterwards married, he at Mr. Rinehart's solicitation transferred his membership to the United Brethren Church and became the superintendent of the Olive Branch Sunday School near Bremen, Ohio. At the age of twenty-six Mr. Mills had qualified and entered the ministiy of the United Brethren Church, but soon thansferred to the Methodist Episcopal Church, which he always regarded as his church home. He continued to preach as pastor and presiding elder for thirty years. His first charge was a circuit of nine appointments in Hocking and Vinton counties. He was then pastor of the First United Brethren Church of Circleville, Ohio, for three years, was at Marion, Ohio, for two years, when he transferred to the Central Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and spent two years at Columbus Grove, Ohio, three years at Delta, and three years at Fremont.

While pastor at Fremont he was the officiating minister of the burial of Lucy Webb Hayes, wife of ex-President Hayes, and at the request of the ex-president, he delivered a memorial address in the church on the following Sabbath evening to perhaps as large an audience as ever a.ssembled in the city on a similar occasion. During his pastorate at Fremont the church and parsonage was destroyed by fire. Doctor Mills with the assistance of ex-president and Jlrs. Hayes, raised the funds and built the present fine church and parsonage. His next call was to St. Paul's Church at Defiance, where he remained five years. While there he erected a fine parwhieh still stands as a comfort- to ministers and their families, and the pride of Church and City. For three years he was at Bellefontaine, and in the fall of 1898, became the pastor of Trinity at Lima, and in the midst of a very successful pastorate he was appointed presiding elder of Defiance District, and later was transferred to Lima District, over which he exercised his supervision for five years.

Resuming the pastorate Doctor ]\Iills served St. John's Church at Toledo for one year, when he took a supernumerary relation for two years' travel. He then settled in his home on West Market Street, Lima, Ohio, retiring from the active ministry, though he has been annually appointed as associate pastor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church and preaches occasionally for Trinity and other churches of the city, where he is always welcomed by the people.

On November 10, 1870, Doctor Mills married Miss Mary M. Hufford. She was bom in Fairfield County, Ohio. She was a woman of great strength of character and always popular in the churches her husband served. She was especially active in the Sunday School and missionary work of the church. She passed to her reward August 7, 1902. Five children were the fruit of their union : William S. Mills, of the City of Chicago; Anetta E., the wife of Kimble Rakestraw, Lima, Ohio: Irene Estelle, wife of Walter H. Jackson, Lima, Ohio: Marie M., who married Gibson P. Dildine, the grandson of Gen. W. H. Gibson, and they also reside in Lima ; and Charles H. Mills, the youngest son, is a resident of Conushatta, Louisiana.

On December 14, 1905, Doctor Mills married Helen J. Innes. She was born at EUenville. New York, a daughter of Adam Innes. Adam Innes, who died in Pennsylvania, was a tanner, started life as a worker in that trade and rose to a position of conspicuous success, so that for a number of years he was called "The King of Tanners." He became the first president of the First National Bank of Canton, Pennsylvania, and before his death his son, Daniel Innes, succeeded him in that position and is still at the head of the bank. Adam Innes and his wife were both natives of Scotland.

Doctor ]\Iills has always taken an active interest in Masonic affairs. He is affiliated with the Free & Accepted ]\Iasons Lodge, the Royal Arch Chapter, the Knight Templar Commandery, Shawnee No. 14, Lima, Ohio, the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rit© Valley of

Toledo. He is also a member of the Mystic Shrine. He was a charter member of the Garrett Wycoff Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Lima, Ohio, and has been its chaplain from the time of its institution to the present. Doctor Mills served as Grand Prelate of the Grand Commandery Knights Templars of Ohio for nine years, and that was the second longest consecutive term ever enjoyed by any such official in the history of the Ohio Grand Commandery.

In politics Doctor Mills is a republican, but sufficiently independent to support men of any party who represent the principles for which he has contended during his entire public life.