Sandusky Township (part 14 of 57)

Doctor Mills received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the American Temperance University of Tennessee. He was one of the original members of the Ohio Aiiti- Saloon League, and the only member now living of its first board of trustees. He was one of the organizers of the American Anti-Saloon League at Washington, D. C. in 1895, and is at the present time a member of its board of directors from Ohio.

He was for six years a member of the board of trustees of Christ's Hospital of Cincinnati, Ohio, and chairman of the committee at the organization of the Methodist Home for the Aged of Ohio. He is a member of the Methodist Children's Home Association of Ohio, and a member of its board of trustees. He is First Vice President of the Board and member of its executive and finance committees. Doctor Mills has prospered in a business way, owns a beautiful farm just outside the corporation of Lima, and is a stockholder in the old National Bank. He is also the owner of a good home on West Market Street, where he resides, and other Lima properties. Doctor Mills leads a quiet but useful life and is held in very high esteem not only in the City of Lima, where he has long resided, but through the state by reason of his connection with reformatory and philanthropic work.

Leander Solomon Baumgardner. Manjinteresting memorials of the commercial abil ity and public spirit of the late Leander Solomon Baumgardner stand in Northwest Ohio. But one that is unusual in many ways is the great wholesale dry goods house at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and St. Clair Street in Toledo, which bears the name L. S. Baumgardner & Company, the same name under which it was established just half a century ago. It is the ouly firm which throughovit half a century of time has endured in Toledo without a change of name, and the policy of its founder is still the directing spirit of those entrusted with its management.

His was a lifetime of splendid achievement. He was born in East Union Township of Wayne County, Ohio, February 10, 1832. His death occurred March 3, 1909, at Bradentown, Florida, where he has been iu the habit of spending his winters for about nineteen years. His parents were Peter and Catherine (Heller) Baumgai'duer. His father was born in Baden, Germany, and came to the United States in 1812 at the age of fourteen. The mother, also of German descent, was a native of Hellertown, Pennsj'lvania. In 1830 these parents came to W^ayue County, Ohio, and were pioneer settlers.

When the late L. S. Baumgardner was ten years of age he was bound out to a farmer, "following- a familiar custom of that time. One of the provisions of the contract was that the boy should be allowed to attend school during the winter months. Unfortunately that provision was not observed by the master. However, in spite of this the youth improved so wisely his limited opportunities that before reaching his majority he was qualified to teach in the common schools, and that was his occupation for two .seasons in the early part of his life. He had, however, a special genius for practical affairs, and fi-om his twenty-second year, when he left the farm, he was almost continuously identified with some form of commercial endeavor.

On leaving the farm he formed a partnership with hrs older brothers, J. H. and T. P. Baumgardner, and opened a store at Wooster in 1854 for the sale of drugs, stationery, musical instruments, etc. This firm of J. H. Baumgardner & Company was unusually successful and three years later they erected a building of their own called the Arcadome Building, on the top floor of which was a public hall, the first of its kind in Wooster. After occupying the new building the firm began the publication of a newspaper chiefly as a medium for advertising, and Leander S. and his brother J. H. had its editorial management.

In 186.5, having sold his mercantile interests in Wooster. Tslv. Baumgardner moved to a farm he had bought at Cuyahoga Falls in Summit County. A year of experience in rural life satisfied him that he was not

In that year he established the house of L. S. Baumgardner & Company, wholesale dry goods, notions, men's furnishings, etc. That firm is still in existence, and one of the largest wholesale establishments in Northwest Ohio.

Throughout his long and useful life, wherever he lived, Mr. Baumgardner was deeply interested in every movement for the advancement of the community. WTiile at Wooster he was one of the organizers of the Wooster Library Association. This in time became a splendid and useful institution. He was also one of the leaders in the establishment of the Tri-State Fair Association, was its first president, and though the association began without woi'king capital Mr. Baumgardner displayed such executive ability in its management that during the seven yeare he was president the receipts of the association amounted to over $260,000 and permanent improvements were accumulated valued at at least $60,000, without ajiy incumbrance.

An early Toledo institution with whose organization he was actively identified was The Merchants and IManufacturers Exchange, which in its time pei-formed the functions of such later organizations as the board of trade in promoting the commercial and industrial pro.sperity of the city. Mi'. Baumgardnet was at one time president of The Continental Bank and Trust Company, was a director of The Northeni National Bank, was president of The Freemont Furniture Company, and owned a large amount of Toledo real estate. Much of his real estate comprised residence property, but he also built and still owned at the time of his death the Collingwood Hall. By the terms of his will the Hall remains the property of Mrs. Baumgardner until her death, and then passes to the Old Ladies' Home of Toledo.

Despite his active associations with commercial affairs he was not without considerable interest in and influence in republican polities. In 1879 he was his party's candidate for mayor of Toledo. The entire republican ticket was defeated that year. Mr. Baumgardner received a large number of democratic votes and at the same time lost many supporters in his own party because of his open and courageous opposition to the saloon or liquor element in the city. In 1880 he was considered as a candidate for Congress, but the choice of the convention fell

His public spirit and business ability were splendidly exemplified in connection with Ihe Citizens Electric Light Company. When that concern became sei-iously involved iinancially, he was called as president to reorganize its atfairs. As a result of his tact and energy he elfected a consolidation of the United States, the Brush and the Thompson- Houston companies with a capital stock of !j)150,000. As president of the new company he soon had it on a paying basis and at the same time gave the people better facilities for lighting than thej' had ever enjoyed before.

On March 11, "l909, the directors of The Northern National Bank adopted memorial resolutions which paid a just and generous tribute to Mr. Baumgardner 's talents and energy as a business man and citizen, and these resolutions are to be found in the permanent minutes of the meeting and as part of the permanent records of the bank. Mr. Baumgardner "s ' remains were brought to Toledo for burial. On the day of his funeral the late David S. Robinson, Jr. (elsewhere referred to), spoke in memoriam of his departed friend as follows: "It pained me greatly to learn of the death of my old friend, Leander S. Baumgardner. We were children, boys and men together, both having been born in Wayne County, Ohio, and there is no person living whom I have known so long and so intimately as him. I do not remember ever having known any person who was so uniformly the same, whether in his social or business life ; he had excesses, no extremes, he was of unusual equipoise. In all his business life he was fair and honorable, and I believe would have preferred to suffer loss himself than make an error whereby anyone should lose through him in any transaction. He has always the interests of the City of Toledo at heart and manifested it in every way when opportunity presented itself; and if opportunity did not offer, he would create the opportunitj\ He was always active in public enterprises and a leader among leaders. It cannot be otherwise than that he will be greatly missed, not only by his family and his immediate friends, but also by all who knew him in his business and every-day life. He has left too many monuments among us of his perseverance, beneficence and industry-, to city, church and state, to summarize them and they cannot be forgotten. As we stand today in the presence of his taking off and in the passing cortege, the whole city acclaims with one accord: 'Thou hast gone from among us for ever! And 1 can say, Go sainted friend, farewell, hail and farewell.' " On April 25, 1858, Mr. Baumgardner married iliss Matilda E. Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Miller of Akron, Ohio. Mrs. Baumgardner, who is still living, walked lifes highways with her husband for more than fifty years.

Rev. Alfred Edward Manning has for twenty-three yeai's been pastor of St. Rose's Catholic Church at Lima. Here he has labored with the coJisecrated zeal and devotion that has characterized him during his entire career in his high calling. He has done much to twenty-three years been pastor of St. Rose's further the spiritual and temporal prosperity of his present parish, and, in an unassuming and modest way, he goes about doing good and laboring for the uplifting of his fellow man.

Beginning with 1830 the Catholic people of Allen County were visited occasionally by a missionary priest and there is a record concerning the first celebration of mass in Lima at a private residence in 1846. Many Catholic people came to that city during the building of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway, and from 1850 to 1855 Lima was attended by priests from Westminster and Tiffin. In 1858 a brick church was constructed on North West Street, and was given the name of St. Rose in honor of America's first canonized saint. This church was constructed by contributions from Catholics and Protestants alike, and two of the first members who were especially generous in their work for the establishment of the church were Nicholas Gunkel and John Goebel. The first resident pastor at St. Rose's was Rev. Edward J. Murpliy, appointed October 19, 1861. He remained until 1869. and his successors in the parish have been : Rev. James 0 'Reilly, who selected the present site of the St. Rose Church ; Rev. A. R. Sidley, who sang the first mass in the new church on New Year's Day, in 1872; Rev. Francis J. Henry, who took charge in 1876; Rev. James O'Leary, who came in 1886; and Rev. Alfred E. Manning, who came to his work as pastor of St. Rose's parish. November 1, 1893.

During the administration of Father Sidley a handsome church was constructed at a cost of $30,000, and improvements were also made in the parish .school. The church debt was cleared off during the administration of Father Henry, in 1882. He also built the Sisters' residence. Other improvements were added to the church in 1887 by Father O'Leary, and in 1888 a new schoolhouse was erected. As a result of the great development at Lima after the discovery of oil St. Rose's parish came to include a very populous Catholic community. As a result, in 1891, about $12,000 was spent in enlarging and improving St. Rose's, and in the following year more than $3,000 was expended in installing a fine pipe organ.

Rev. Alfred Edward Manning was bom September 1, 1856, in St. Patrick's parish at Cleveland, Ohio, a son of Thomas and Jane E. (Murray) Manning. His father left Ireland at the age of fourteen and entered the great machine shops at Glasgow, Scotland, where he was trained to be a skilled engineer, and subsequently was the engineer who handled the engines of one of the first steamers that crossed the Atlantic Ocean. On coming to America he lived for a time at Boston, later at Cleveland, and was a well-known manufacturer in that city.

One of a family of thirteen children. Father Manning was educated in the parochial schools, of St. John's Cathedral at Cleveland and in St. Mary's Seminary of the "West at Cincinnati. He entered the seminary of Our Lady of Angels at Niagara Falls in September, 1874, and on finishing the classical course entered, in September, 1876, St. Mary's Seminary at Cleveland. He was ordained a priest at Cleveland by Rt. Rev. R. Gilmour on July 2, 1881. Five days later he was appointed pastor of St. Marj-'s Church at Antwerp, Ohio, a pastorate that included attendance at a number of missions. In 1883 he went to St. Mary's at Clyde, leaving behind him a record of splendid constructive accomplishment as a pastor. This work was continued at Clyde, where in two or three years he had paid off a heavy debt, and in 1886 the cornerstone was laid for the church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Clyde. In February, 1890, after having completed the construction of the new church at Clyde, he was called to be pastor of St. Ann at Fremont.

Father Manning said his first mass in the church of St. Rose at Lima, November 19, 1893. Here he found a large and prosperous congregation, and applied himself with all characteristic energ>^ to further improvement, and in many beneficent ways has extended the power and influence of this old Catholic community at Lima. During his first five years he served the entire Catholic population of Lima, but the parish was divided in 1910, resulting in the establishment' of St. John's Catholic Church and in 1916 the north end was formed into St. Gerard's parish by the Redeniptorist Fathers. St. Rose's has a high school to which was built an addition in 1916, at a cost of about $50,000.

Rev. Robert L. Harris. Unless a man were moved by the power and spirit of true Christianity he would never be able to accomplish so much in behalf of his church and humanity as Rev. Robert L. Harris has done in his career as clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is a great constructive worker for righteousness, and nowhere has that -Work been more manifest than during his rectorship of St. Mark's Church in Toledo.

Some of the zeal and other good qualities of his character have doubtless come from his worthy ancestry. His Harris ancestors came originally from England and were colonial settlers in New England. Members of the family fought for American freedom during the War of the Revolution. With the spirit of the pioneer strong in them one branch of the family later moved to Canada, settling near Toronto, which was then a wilderness. Some of this branch of the family live in Toronto today, and the grandfather of Doctor Harris founded the Massy-Harris Harvester Company at Brantford, Canada.

Lansing Harris, a son of the founder and an uncle of Rev. Robert L. Harris, was at the head of this -large biisiness for many years, which business has now passed into the hands of a younger generation of the family.

On the maternal side Doctor Harris is descended from the Shaw family, an old Colonial family which early settled in New York, where many still reside. In the Colonial period several members of this family were killed in the Cherry Valley Massacre. Three escaped from the Indians by night on Indian ponies while the guards were asleep.

Through his Colonial ancestry Doctor Harris is related to General Herkimer, General Putnam and Captain Shaw, notable figures in Colonial and Revolutionary days. He is also descended from a line of clerg\-men, as both his grandfather and great-grandfather were clergymen.

was organized while he was rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church at Cheyenne, Wyoming. Like his ancestors, Mr. Harris is a great lover of out door life. He has hunted big game in the Rockies and on the western plains, and spends part of every summer in the wilds of Canada.

Robert L. Harris was born near Cleveland, Ohio, February 12, 1874, a son of the late E. C. and Susan (Shaw) Harris, both now deceased. His father was actively engaged in the insurance business for many years. Doctor Harris' gifts for public life he inherited from his mother, Susan Shaw Harris. She was a woman of brilliant intellectual gifts and was a pioneer in the suffrage movement, temperance reform, and served on some of the first boards of charities and correction for the amelioration of the condition of prisoners ever appointed in Ohio. Her rare literary ability caused her to write extensively for the press, and her charming personality and keen wit made her sought for as a speaker on woman's work. With all her gifts she was essentially a home maker and first of all a mother.

In preparation for his chosen career Doctor Harris was given a liberal education. He graduated valedictorian of his high school and afterwards attended 'Kenyon Military Academy of Gambler, Ohio, and continued his higher studies in the Episcopal institution founded by Bishop Chase, Kenyon College, where he graduated with degree of Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1896. Later Kenyon College conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts, for his post graduate work in psychology. Doctor Harris was a graduate of Bexley Hall Theological Seminary of the class of 1899.

In 1899 he was ordained in the college chapel at Gambier by Bishop William A. Leonard as a deacon, and later was ordained to the priesthood in Trinity Episcopal Church, Toledo, in 1900, by Bishop Leonard. For several months before graduation he was .sent, while still a student, to take charge of Calvary Episcopal Church, Toledo. After his ordination he came to Calvary Church as rector, and filled that post two years. A few weeks after his ordination to the priesthood he was called to the rectorship of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Newport, Kentucky, the second largest church of the Lexington Diocese. He remained there 2Vn years, where he built up a large institutional work and founded St. Paul's Industrial School for the poor children of the city.

Episcopal Church, Avondale, Cincinnati, a very wealthy and aristocratic parish, where his ability was immediately recognized and he began a successful work that promised much for the future.

It was on account of his wife 's ill health that Doctor Harris resigned the rectorship of Grace Church and went West. St. Mark 's Episcopal Church at Cheyenne, Wyoming, soon after welcomed him as its rector, and from 1906 to 1909 he had cHarge of St. Mark's, the largest Episcopal Church in Wyoming. Among its members were prominent federal and state officials, including Governor Brooks and Governor Carey, both of whom were active in the parish and close friends of Dr. Harris.

Not only as the administrative and spiritual head of his parish but as a leader in every reform movement was Doctor Harris an important figure during his residence in Wyoming. His life there meant much as a factor in the moral uplift of the entire state. He led a movement that resulted in new divorce and temperance legislation, and he was elected leader of the moral forces of the city to conduct a crusade against gambling, as a result of which, the gambling houses of Cheyenne were closed, and the leading gambler of the state as a pledge of good faith and as an object lesson to others burned five thousand dollars' worth of gambling furniture and paraphernalia on the public square. This gambler is today, it should be noted, a prominent and respected business man of Wyoming.

Doctor Harris has long been a trustee of his alma mater, Kenyon College, having filled such position as trustee from Kentucky and southern Ohio, and in June, 1916, was again elected by the alumni of Kenyon College. Doctor Harris was one of the four deputies elected in Ohio to the general convention of the Episcopal Church held in St. Louis in October, 1916. He was president of the bishop's council of advice in the new diocese of Wyoming, and while there was endorsed for bishop oi^ Wyoming. Many personal letters from the most prominent people of Wyoming endorsing and urging his promotion to that high .station in the church, were sent to the house of bishops. More recently he was nominated for bishop coadjutor of Ohio, but withdrew his name and nominated another » man for that office.

From Cheyenne, Wyoming, Doctor Harris came to St. Mai-k's Episcopal Church, Toledo, and took charge as rector February 21, 1909. While St. Mark's Church is now one of the most prosperous parishes of Toledo, that condition is due to the businesslike administration of Doctor Harris more than to any other individual. Seven years ago St. Mark's Episcopal Church was virtually bankrupt. The congregation had pa.ssed through five years of constant struggle against a heavy burden of debt. That struggle continued for some time, but in 1912, after a decisive campaign lasting sixty days there came a triumph and victory such as no member of the cliurch will ever forget. On Easter Day of that year the congregation placed on tlie altar of God $41,300, and by that act lifted the load of debt that had so long threatened the prosperity and effectiveness, if not the very life, of the parish.

The story of this campaign is an inspiring one. When the church was built in 1904 a number of short time notes were issued to the architect and builder aggregating over $36,- 000. Interest had been paid regularly to the aggregate of nearly $20,000, but nothing had ever been done to reduce the principal, and it was under the burden of the principal that the members of the church were staggering. ]\Iany had become discouraged, and at the beginning of 1912 it was apparent that difficulty would be found in raising the interest on the debt in addition to the heavy operating expenses of the parish. It was at this gloomy time that a meeting of the vestry was called. Doctor Harris in opening that meeting said: "Gentlemen, we are face to face with a crisis. If we cannot longer pay the interest it is time to pay the principal. ' ' Those words contained a simple solution of the problem. The people had been discouraged as a result of paying year after year money in interest, without any promise of relief from the principal. But they were inspired by the idea of actually clearing away the debt, and were quite willing to make sacrifices to that end. The rector's earnestness moved the vestry to new hopes and enthusiasm. The parish was divided into seven districts, and two vestrymen assigned to each district.

A house to house visitation was inaugurated, the plan of campaign covering .sixty days. All pledges were to be in ca.sh. Forthwith the rector began a series of powerful sermons calling for the people to work and to pray and to .sacrifice for the sake of God's Temple. The keynote was struck in the words of Nehemiah - "We biiilt the wall, for the people had a mind to work." "Let the people have a mind to work and a mind to pray. "' Every member was pledged to work and pray every day for the success of the undertaking. As the campaign progressed the enthusiasm of the rector and vestrymen spread throughout the parish. The sum of $36,000 had to be pledged and paid within sixty days. Every man, woman and child was to have a part. One nine-year-old boy brought the rector three pennies to help pay the $36,000 debt, and by Palm Sunday he brought $5.50, every cent of which he had earned by shoveling snow and running errands. Two little girls brought in over .$40 as a result of making and selling candy. Wives of prominent men went out as sewing women, working by the day. Others sacrificed new hats and gowns that they might giVe to God's church, while others sold their jewels. Men borrowed money at the bank on their notes that they might pay in cash. The spirit of the days of the ancient crusades had seized the people of St. Mark's Church. The children of the Sunday School pledged $500 and paid over $600. Two ladies' guilds gave $2,- 500. The volunteer choir contributed over $250. Friends rose up on every side and asked to help raise the fund. Donations from three cents to $5,000 were received. Over .500 sub- .scribers were pledged, and on Easter, 1912, every single subscription was paid in full, and scores of them were increased.

On Easter Day the result of this wonderful campaign was known throughout the City of Toledo. The church was crowded to the doors. After the sermon by the rector expressing joy and gratitude of all to God for this great achievement, the fifteen wardens and vestrymen marched slowly up the middle aisle bearing the result of the prayers, the self sacrifices and the labors of the people of St. Mark's parish and their generous friends. The rector presented the offering of $41,300 amid absolute silence. Tears of gratitude and joy fell silently on every side. Then there rang out like one mighty shout of triumph the Doxology, the notes of which .shook the great building as they ascended from the lips of the throng of happy worshipers. It was a memorable service, the culmination of a great undertaking, and as a result St. Mark's Church stands today on the financial rock of prosperity.

Doctor Harris is widely known as a preacher and public speaker. He was special lecturer at the University of Wyoming, and the Masonic bodies have published a number of his ^Masonic addresses which have had wide circulation. He has labored to build up the Diocese of Ohio and was recently elected the cleri-

Doctor Harris is a firm believer in the value of fraternalism and has been especially active in Masonry. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, also a Knights Templar, and Shriner. He is affiliated with Sanford L. College Lodge No. 396 Free and Accepted Masons at Toledo, Toledo Commandery Knights Templar, Toledo Council No. 33 Royal and Select Masters. Toledo Chapter No. 161 Royal Arch Masons, the Valley of Wyoming Consistory at Cheyenne, and Korein Temple of the Shrine at Rawlings, Wyoming, on the western side of the Rocky Mountains. While in Cheyenne he was elected chaplain and life member of Lodge No. 606 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Doctor Harris is a member of the Delta Tau Delta college fraternity. He has served on the Arch Chapter and has twice been president of the Northern Division.

On August 25, 1897,' Mr. Harris married Miss Katheryn Brandon of Chicago, who at the time of her marriage was professor of music at Albion College, Albion, ^Michigan. Her beautiful voice and charming personality made her a favorite soloist on Chautauqua programs, but she was happy to rplincfuish her professional career and musical ambitions for her home and the church. She died in Cheyenne, Wyoming, August 12, 1908, being siirvived by two children : Katheryn Brandon and Robert Brandon. The daughter was born in Toledo and the son in Newport. Kentucky, and both are living with their father. In Toledo, on' January 2, 1911, Doctor Harris married Mrs. Annie Reynolds Macomber. Her father, C. L. Reynolds, is a prominent banker of Toledo, and reference to his career is found on other pages. Her son, Charles Reynolds Macomber, was born in Toledo and makes his home with Mr. and Mrs. Harris. His father was the late brilliant young reformer and service director, Franklin S. Macomber, to whom Toledo owes much.

Mrs. Harris is very prominent socially in Toledo, and has done much since her marriage to hold up the hands of her husband in his work in St. Mark's parish. Mr. and Mrs. Harris have a daughter Rosalind Susanne, who was born in Toledo. The family reside at 2268 Parkwood Avenue.

Forrest L. Gunn has spent many years of successful work as a farmer in Liicas County. He is now living partially retired from agricultural activities, his home being in Monclova Township, a mile north and Vvvo miles west of Monclova Village.

His is one of the very oldest families in Northwestern Ohio. His great-grandfather Martin Gunn arrived in the Maumee Valley as early as 1818. There was still an earlier settler of the family. This was Elijah Gunn, cousin of Martin Gunn. Elijah came to the vicinity of the present town of Waterville in 1815, about the close of the War of 1812, and was the first white man to make a permanent abode in that locality. Some years later he sold his claim and left the country and settled on Maumee River about forty miles farther up the river. Martin Gunn came from Buffalo to the Maumee River on the famous pioneer steamer, "W^alk on the Water," the first steamboat on the Great Lakes. This boat, which has received a great deal of attention in historical works, was a very small vessel and very crude in its operation and appointments.

Martin Gunu's son Willard G. Gunn was the grandfather of Forrest. Forrest is the son of Alfred Gunn, who was about a year or so old when the family came to this section. Alfred was born in ^Montague, Massachusetts, and grew up on Maumee River. He married Emeline Shaw, who was born in Prescott, Massachusetts, and was brought by her relatives to Watei-ville. Alfred and his wife lived for many years at Waterville. An engineer by profession, he was employed in that capacity during the construction of the Maumee canal. He also conducted a sawmill just below Waterville on the race that came out of the river there. He sawed the lumber which entered into the construction of the first Methodist church in Waterville. About 1840 Alfred Gunn moved to Fulton County, Ohio, locating south of Delta. His death occurrecl in 1880. He and his wife were the parents of two children, Eugene, born in 1844 and died in Topeka, Kansas, in i;il4, and Forrest, who spent nineteen years in Missouri.

Forrest Gunn was liorn August 20, 1850, and in Fulton County was married in 1872 to Ellen Elton, daugliter of John Elton, who became a Fulton County resident in 1864.

In 1873. the year following his marriage, Mr. Gunn moved to ilis.souri, locating in Andrew County, northwest of St. Joseph. That was his home for twelve years, and he spent the next seven years in the Ozark country in the southern part of Missouri. Returning to Northwest Ohio, he bought his present farm

Mr. and Mrs. Gunn have the following children : Lavesta, who married Orel Wilcox, a farmer in Michigan; Royl, who was married in Denver, Colorado, and is now living in Arizona ; Ethel, wife of Jesse Trapp, a farmer at Whitehouse in Lucas County ; Annie, who lives in Columbus ; Mattie, wife of Cha Coder, a farmer at Whitehouse, Lucas County ; Jesse, living in Kansas; Benjamin, who is employed as a pipe fitter by the Clover Leaf railway; Floyd, who is employed on the Great Lakes; and Gladys, still at home.

Politically Mr. Gunn is a republican. He has made himself a public spirited factor in local att'airs and has served on the township board ami the school board. His church is the Free Methodist.

Clark Leonard Parker, a native of Hancock County, came off a farm several years ago and began learning the dairy business, as an employe of the Findlay Dairy Company. That was in 1909. He put in a year of hard woi'k chiefly for the purpose of mastering every detail of the business.

He and his brother, L. 0. Parker, then leased the plant from its owner, H. R. Portman, of Cleveland. They had the business under lease for two years and were successful with its management from the start. They then bought from Mr. Portman, and in 1916 L. 0. Parker sold his intere.st to others and the firm was then incorporated as The Findlay Dairy Company. Clark L. Parker owns fifty-one per cent of the stock and is secretary and manager. It is the largest dairy company in Hancock County and every year has witnessed a large net increase in the business. At the present writing the company plans to move from its present location on North Main Street to larger quarters. The company is incorporated with a capital stock of .$30i000.

Clark Leonard Parker was born on a farm in Marion Township of Hancock County in 1886, son of H. L. and Sarah J. (Graham) Parker. He grew up in the country environment, attended the country schools, and also *ook four years of work in the Findlay High School, though he did not graduate. He pursued the Latin and English and also the business courses. After leaving school he farmed for several years, but he had the talent and the energy for a business career, and has made his success in the line already indicated. He has the reputation in Findlay of being one of the most enterprising young business men in the city. He owns considerable real estate.- He and his family are members of the Howard Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics he is independent. In 1907 he married Miss Florence Bigley, daughter of J. R. Bigley of Findlay. They are the parents of four children : Alton, aged eight years ; Lucile, six years old ; HoUis, aged four ; and Lloyd, who was born in 1916.

The son of John and Louis (Tingling) Groenewold, who came to Toledo in the early '60s, he was born here June 30, 1876. Mr. Groenewold attended the Toledo Public Schools, and, later, learned the trade of plumber, following the footsteps of his father in this regard.

In 1898 Groenewold enlisted as a private in a Toledo regiment for the Spanish-American war. W^hen he saw that there was to be no fighting for his regiment, he withdrew, returned to Toledo and engaged in the plumbing contract business. The firm name is The Groenewold & Lang. Company, Mr. Groenewold being the president, with a record of .seventeen consecutive years in business. The firm has handled some of the largest plumbing contracts ever let in Toledo and the surrounding country, much of his work in many of the buildings of the Willys-Overland plant showing the careful planning an'd supervision of the firm.

Because of the growth in the business the firm has recently removed to its own plant, 300 South St. Clair Street, where there is the opportunity for development that the business required.

Mr. Groenewold was married, June 27, 1901, to Miss Emma Hoffman of Toledo, and thev reside, with their son, Edward Bernard, born May 31, 1903, at 527 Winthrop Street.

Bernard Groenewold has twice served the city of Toledo in a public way. He was elected and served as coimcilman at large in 1903, and in a much wider sphere made his presence felt when appointed Director of Public Safety by Mayor Carl S. Keller on

In this time, however, Safety Director Groeuewold placed the police and tire departments of the city upon a plane that had never been approached previously. There were over 400 men in these departments when Groeuewold took hold. Internal dissension, petty jealousies and bickerings had marked some of their activities. Safety Director Groeuewold stopped that. He let it be known that neither politics nor religion had anytlMng to do with the making of a good policeman or a good fireman. Efficiency was all that was necessary to insure the place of either policeman or fireman upon the payroll. The organized and individual efficiency was so marked and so noticeable that the public press was moved to comment upon the good work performed.

Safety Director Groenewold did much to better the service outside of the work he did in the personnel of the department. His business training stood him in good stead in such larger activities as the contracts for motorizing the Toledo Fire Department. It was his business acumen that resulted in the saving to the city of $10,000 on one motorization contract.

His social and fraternal connections include membership in the Toledo Lodge of Elks, Tondota Lodge F. & A. M., Fort Lawrence Chapter, R. A. M.; St. Omar Commandery, Knights Templars; Knights of Pj'thias. The Toledo Club, Old Sod Club, Maumee River Yacht Club, Toledo Yacht Club, Svlvania Golf Club, the Overland Club, the Toledo Automobile Club, the Two Hundred Club, the Folger Club and the Spanish-American War Veterans.

Charles William Shoemaker, now retired, represents that fine and substantial stock of people who settled Waterville in the pioneer times of Lucas County. He has made his own life count for good in all its relations, and has been a farmer, school teacher, land surveyor and civil engineer and a practical business man and is now, in his seventysecond year, enjoying the fruits of his earlier years of industry.

He was bom in the Township of Waterville, Lucas County, Ohio, August 3, 1845. His parents, Thomas and Catherine (Van Fleet) Shoemaker, were married February 21, 1833. Thomas Shoemaker, who was bom at Muncie, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, July 29,

1802, arrived in Lucas County in the spring of 1829 ; settling in Waterville he became one of the earlier pioneers of that neighborhood. He assisted Ambrose Rice in making the Government land surveys in Providence Township and probably also in Oregon and Jerusalem Townships in Lucas County. We find his name among those who at various times served the community as township trustee, member of the board of education, roacl supervisor and various other positions of trust. He purchased state canal land, soon after his marriage, about a mile west of Waterville, where he built a log cabin in the woods and there he and his wife raised a family, cleared up a fai-m and lived until the spring of 1869. He then rented the farm to William E.sworthy and spent his last years in peaceful and comfortable surroundings in the Village of Waterville.

His wife 's father, John Van Fleet, who was of Holland descent and was best known as Esquire Van Fleet, and his wife, Mary (Henderson) Van Fleet, were among the earlier settlers in the Waterville community. They also came from Muncie, Penn.sylvania, and in the same party with which Thomas Shoemaker came; they came in covered wagons, drawn by horses and were three weeks on the way. The Van Fleets stopped at Pei-rysburg, Ohio, but in the fall of the same year they moved onto a farm about a mile north of the Village of Waterville. Thomas Shoemaker died April 28, 1873, in the seventy-first year of his age, survived by his wife until December 21, 1903, when she was past eightyeight years of age.

Their children were: Isabelle, who died in 1838 when nearly four years of age ; James, who died in 1896 in his sixtieth year ; Francis Marion, who died at his home in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1906, when nearly sixty-seven years old ; William, who died in 1844 in his second year; Charles W., and John Van Fleet, who died in March, 1905, in his fifty-sixth year. Of these six children, James and Francis M. served as volunteers in the Union army in the War of the Rebellion from 1861 to 1865; their military record will be found elsewhere in this work.

Charles W. Shoemaker was reared in a good home, under infiuences that made for a sturdy and honorable manhood. He worked for his father on the farm until the spring of 1869, when he moved with his parents to a home in the Village of Waterville. In the meantime he had received an education in the

Waterville and Maumee high schools. After leaving the farm he taught the Waterville High School for three years, and then took up the profession of land surveying and civil engineering which he has followed more or less to the present time. In 1877 he was elected to fill the position of County Surveyor of Lucas County. At the same time his efforts have been directed toward farming, and hie now owns the old homestead farm in the present corporate limits of the Village of Waterville, but occupies a fine residence in that town.

In September, 1871, he married Susan Huether. Mrs. Shoemaker was born in Nuenschweiler. Canton Zweibrueken, Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany. She came to America with her parents, who settled in Grand Rapids, Ohio, when but six years of age, it taking them twenty-one days to cross the ocean. When about ten years of age she went to Waterville, where she had a home in the family of L. L. ]\Iorehouse and received an education in the Waterville High School. Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker have two children : Jennie C, wife of James L. Cook, treasurer of the Ohio Oil Company at Findlay, Ohio; and Alice L., who lives at home.

Politically Mr. Shoemaker is an independent republican. He was reared in that political faith, and as a boy, in the stirring days before the Civil war, he was found an enthusiastic member of processions, rallies, and other gatherings that marked the political life of that period. He was frequently among those who carried lights for the music with the "Wide-Awakes" organizations at the beginning of the republican party. In his more mature years he has filled various local ofifices in addition to that of county surveyor. He has been mayor and member of the council of his home town and also has served 0!i the school board.

His wife and daughter Alice are members of the Methodist Church. Fraternally he has been active in the Masonic Lodge at Waterville. He is a past master of that lodge and for ten years was its secretary.

He has always been interested in the preservation of local historical memorials and associations. He was one of the incorporators of the ]\Iaumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association and has been a director of that association since its organization. He was one of the three commissioners appointed by the governor of Ohio to erect the Fort Meigs memorial on Fort ]\Ieigs in Wood County,

Ohio, and he is now a member of the Fort Meigs Commission charged with the maintenance and care of this monument and the grounds on which it stands.

Gus Levy, manager of the Findlay branch of the G. R. Hopkins Company of Toledo, was apparently a born salesman. He had a better grasp of the fundamentals of selling goods when he was a boy and a stranger in a strange land than many men ever attain after* the rigorous training of long experience. He is a master mind in his particular line, and for twenty years has been known to the people of Findlay as the manager of one of the most complete establishments of its kind in that city. The Hopkins Company, through Mr. Levy, has built up a splendid establishment, dealing in a varied a.ssortment of men's and women's suitings.

A son of B. S. and Sarah (Herz) Levy. Gus Levy was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1860. He grew up in that great free city and port of Germany, attended the public schools, and came alone to America at the age of sixteen. He made his start as an American citizen by selling goods in New York City from door to door. He peddled clothes wringers, clocks and other articles of merchandise. He sold goods where others less determined would have failed miserably, and he not only made money but saved it. After that he transferred his activities to the ]\Iiddle West, and sold goods in various localities for seven years.

Going" to Toledo, Mr. Levy engaged in the jewelry business, and continued in that line until 1893. Mr. Levy has always felt a degree of satisfaction in forming a connection with the G. R. Hopkins Company, but doubtless the heads of that company have felt even more satisfaction in their acquisition of his ability and experience. He started out as salesman and traveling manager for the company, and for them established several branch stores. In 1896 he opened the Findlay branch and was made local manager. In that capacity he has conducted the store ever since, and it has long since become recognized as the center of reliable merchandise for all Hancock County. Mr. Levy has added hard work and progressive-mindedness to his talents as a business getter, and his present enviable position is by no means a matter of chance. Politically he is a democrat, and is affiliated with the Tril)e of Ben Hur.

Adam "W. Bick. Long established as one of the leading fai-mers of Richtield Township, with his home on the Central Avenue road, Adam W. Bick is also widely known for his participation in public aft'airs and is now serving as one of the county commissioners of Lucas County.

He was born in Richfield Township May 22, 1857, a son of Jacob and Anna Mary (Bettinger) Bick. His father was a native of Prussia, Germany, and after coming to this county located in 1855 in Richfield Township. He was a sturdy farmer and died in that locality September 18, 1886. His wife, Anna M. Bettinger, was bom in Bavaria, Germany, daughter of John Bettinger, who came to this country in 1849, living for a time in Seneca County, Ohio, and afterwards moving to Lucas County, where he died. Mrs. Jacob Bick died November 24, 1915, when past eighty-three years of age. Their children were : John, who lives in Kansas ; Adam W. : Jacob N., who married Margaret Langenderfer; IMary S., widow of James Hogau; Elizabeth A., living at Lansing, Michigan; Barbara A., a resident of Toledo.

Adam W. Bick is married and has a family of seven children : Joseph L., who lives in Toledo; Frank J., a resident of Richfield Center, and by his marriage to Florence Cloutchure has two children. Merlin L. and Elizabeth M. Nora L. married Don Tonson of Richfield township, and their four children are Ramona, William, Norbit and Hai-vey; William W. is a resident of .Richfield Center: Harvey E. lives in Toledo ; Arthur P. is connected with the Goodrich Tire Company at Akron; Beatrice A. at home.

Mr. Bick is a democrat in politics. He served on the local school board eleven years, has been treasurer of Richfield township, and is now filling the office of county commissioner with great credit to himself and to those who supported him in his election. Mr. Bick is a member of the Catholic Church.

Harry W. Cummings, a son of that old and honored business man of Toledo, Robert Cummings, referred to on other pages of this publication, was a capable business man of Toledo and until his death was engaged in handling municipal bonds and other investment securities. The history of the family has been told elsewhere, but it seems fitting that a fine tribute paid to Harry Cumminffs by his friend, W. B. Geroe, should be published here. The tribute is as follows :

"Asa man of afi'airs he stood in the front ranks of the young business men of Toledo. He was successful. He was clean in his dealings. His word was a bond to be paid in full.

"Harry Cummings was an outdoor man. He loved the fields, the wide expanse of marshlands. He loved the mountain streams and the quiet shadows of the forests. His greatest joy was the woodman's camp, the fisherman's cabin and the hunter's lodge. He was a man among the multitudes of men - as a companion there was none better, as a friend he was pure gold. Everyone who knew him was a friend - he made no enemies. Gtentle of speech, generous, kindly of manner, he was beloved by all classes.

"While the shadows were just beginning to fall toward the east, the crowning age of man, while life held every charm, while the sun shone and the langorous September days shortened, he grew wearj- - and lay down his burden beside the long white trail.

"In the death of Harry Cummings Toledo loses a good citizen, his host of friends a most charming companion, and those most dear to him a beloved brother. Upon his tomb I laj' this green wreath of love and respect."

George Scheets is a veteran business man and one of the pioneer residents of the east side at Toledo, where he located in 1865, soon after returning from the war in which he served gallantly and faithfully nearly four years.

The east side was a village when he located there, and he has since seen it grow and prosper until now it would be a city with a population of more than forty thousand and almost a metropolis in itself. Out of his personal recollections and his experience Mr. Scheets could write almost a detailed history of his section of Toledo.

Some of the physical conditions of the east side as he describes them in 1865 serve as a basis from which to compute the remarkable progress in that section during the past half century. The population in that year was about five hundred. Mr. Scheets says that the only bridge across the river was the Lake Shore railroad bridge, though the Cherry Street toll bridge was then under construction. The main thoroughfares were Oak, Woodville and the River Road, while Main Street, Starr Avenue and East Broadway had not yet been opened. There was an utter absence of any of those improvements which are now considered fundamental even in Ohio villages. There were no sewers, no sidewalks, no street liglits, and in the absence of any established grades the entire area of the east side was made up of hills and hollows, and naturally enough under these conditions there an utter absence of observance of sanitary laws, and in fact no such laws were in existence at the time.

If the physical conditions were bad, there was no lack of sterling citizenship, and some of the men whom Mr. Scheets recalls as his neighbors and fellow citizens at the time had in them and subsequently exhibited that progressiveuess and energy which are more important in a civic community than material advantages. Some of these old time east siders mentioned by Mr. Scheets as his neighbors fifty years ago were James Raymer, Alonzo Rogers, Joseph Garner, Dan and Stillman Brown, Captain Sylvester Brown, William Mack, Dr. Squire, Dr. Wilson, John B. Russell, S. Plumey, Louis A. Metzger, William T. Ryan, the Howlands and others who were as good citizens as ever blessed any new and struggling community. All of them were untiring in their zeal for the common good and in a large and important respect the east side is a monument to their efforts.

One of the worst calamities that befell Northwest Ohio was the terrible cholera scourge of 1854. One of the victims of this dread disease was George Scheets Sr., who died June 19, 1854. That event and tragedy in the Scheets family had a very important bearing upon the subsequent fortunes and career of George Scheets Jr., who as a result of his father's death had to leave school and at the early age of thirteen became a wage earner and contribute something to the support of his family.

The Scheets family had arrived in America only about two years prior to this cholera epidemic. George Scheets Jr. was born November 19, 1842, at the Village of Kirchehrenbach near Forchheim in Bavaria. His father, George Scheets, had married Barbara Scheets. and though of the same name thev were not blood relatives. On April 21, 1852, they left the old country and crossed the Atlantic on the American brig Onward, arriving in New York City after a voyage of thirty-nine days. Soon afterward they established their home on a small farm in Middleton Township of Wood County, three miles south of Perrysburg. They were living there when the father died.

After coming to this eoiuitry George Scheets had the advantages of the public schools at Perrysburg for two years, but left school with his education unfinished in order to bear his part in maintaining the household. His first employment was in the bookstore of John Powers at Perrysburg. Later he worked in the drygoods store of Powers & Blinn, and for Major Hall and W. J. Hitchcock.

From the routine business of handling drygoods and satisfying the desires of the patrons of a country store, George Scheets was called into the sterner activities of warfare. On September 19. 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company C of the Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry under Capt. Arnold Mc- Mahau, with whom he was subsequentlj' a business partner. After six months in the ranks he was promoted to regimental quartermaster's sergeant, then to first lieutenant, then to adjutant, and finally to captain. His regimental officers were Col. Jesse S. Norton, Lieut. Col. James M. Neibling, Maj. Samuel A. Strong and Col. Arnold McJIahan. His division and department commanders, with nearly all of whom he gained some personal acquaintance during his militarv experience, were William Nelson, 0. M. Mitchell, D. C. Buell, W. S. Rosecrans, George H. Thomas, William T. Sherman and U. S. Grant. Though he has some recollection of these men who were among, the foremost leaders produced by the Civil war, Mr. Scheets never had the fortune to meet Mr. Lincoln.

His service in the army was largely in the West and with the Army of the Cumberland. He took part in the Big Sandy campaign in Kentucky in 1861 ; the Northern Alabama campaign resulting in the capture of Huntsville April, 1862; the battles of Stone River and Nashville, Tennessee, in 1862-63 ; the TuUahoma campaign; the Battle of Chickamauga September 20, 1863, and the battle of Missionary Ridge ; the long service of forward movements and constant battling during the Atlanta campaign of 1864, including the siege and various assaults upon that city ; the battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, September 1, 1864, and in the fall of that year the march to the sea under Shennan, terminating with the capture of Savannah on Christmas Day. Then followed the campaigns up through the Carolinas ending with the battle of Bentonville. North Carolina, the capture of Raleigh, and the final surrender of Johnston's army in April, 1865. The regiment then proceeded to the North and in the mouth of May was one of the units in the magnificent army which marched in the grand review through the streets of Washington.

Mr. Scheets had a very unusual record as a soldier. Though he was gone nearly four years, the only absence from his command was a thirty days' veteran furlough when he returned home and married. He was never wounded and never sick in the hospital. He was finally mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, July 29, 1865.

Only a few weeks after he returned from the army he was established in business at East Toledo. The date of the beginning of his business career there was August 29, 1865. He had formed a partnership with his old colonel, Arnold McMahan, and they opened a stock of drygoods, groceries, clothing, boots and shoes and other general merchandise. At the expiration of their contract Mr. Scheets bought out his partner, who then engaged in the real estate and insurance business. Between these two men and old soldiers a very close and intimate friendship existed until the death of Colonel McMahan in 1891. Mr. Scheets was in active business on the east side until 1900, when he retired, and since that date has largely concerned himself with duties at the Courthouse. In 1902 he entered the office of the county treasurer of Lucas county, and has remained in that department of thg county government to the present time. For eleven years he was cashier, serving through three different administrations, and in that time he handled funds amounting to about forty million dollars. Since leaving tlie post of cashier he has been chief accountant in the treasurer's office. Mr. Scheets is well known in many business and social organizations and is a member of the Catholic Church. In 1872 he was elected a member of the cit.y council, and while he was on that body the Cherry Street toll bridge was purchased by the city. The council elected him mayor of Toledo in 1885 to fill out the unexpired term of Jacob Romeis. who had been elected to Congress. In 1886 he was elected police commissioner, a position he filled four years. The first vote Mr. Scheets east was for Abraham Lincoln in 1864, when he wa.s in the army. Since then for more than half a century he has voted for every republican presidential candidate. He is a charter member of Ford Post G. A. R. of

Toledo, served as its commander in 1896, as quartermaster for about thirty-five years, and was quartermaster general to General Steadman while the latter was department commander. Mr. Scheets is a life member of the Toledo Memorial Association, a member of the East Side Commercial Club, and he feels a special sense of loyalty to that district of the city in which his business successes and bis home life have been spent.

In December, 1863, during his furlough from the army. Captain Scheets married Miss Mary Glennon of Maumee, Ohio. The children of their marriage were : Josephine Alice, who became the wife of John J. Kirby of Toledo ; Ida Clara, who married Michael Sullivan of Toledo ; George Jr., who lives in Toledo and married Mary Maynes. The mother of these children died at Toledo September 13, 1873. On June 10, 1877, Captain Scheets married Miss Ann Gleunon, a sister of his first wife. Two children were born to this union, Gertrude and Ford, both of whom are unmarried and live at home. Mr. Scheets also has four grandchildren and one greatgrandson, all of whom live in Toledo.

W. P. HuBBS, who had some of his first experience as a world's worker in the role of a farm hand, has as a result of many years of close attention to business built up a .strong position as one of the leading jobbers and wholesalers of coal in Northwest Ohio. Mr. Hubbs now does business over .several states and handles hundreds of carloads every year of anthracite and soft coal and eoke. His home office is in the Spitzer Building at Toledo.

He was bom March 18, 1862, a son of Solomon and Elizabeth (Elrod) Hubbs. His father, a native of Pennsylvania, came to Ohio in 1850 and for the rest of his active career was a merchant in Antioch this state.

The second in a family of three children, W. P. Hubbs received his education in the district and high schools of Antioch, and at the age of nineteen began work as a farm hand. He sought a wider field than that, and at twenty-one he was a telegraph operator in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway. He remained at the telegraph key, performing the duties assigned to him by his superiors, seven years. In 1894 Mr. Hubbs came to Toledo, and from that year his time and energies have been continuously identified with the coal business. He was at first a traveling salesman for one of the leading eoal merchants of the city. During 1908-09 he was associated with Mr. Copeland in the coal trade, and since then has been in business for himself. Starting on a small scale and handling only a few contracts a month, he has extended his business eveiy year until he now employs three or four salesmen and ships coal by the carload over Ohio, Indiana, and ilichigan. For some time he also operated one of the large coal mines in the Hocking Valley.

Mr. Hubbs is one of the public-spirited citizens of Toledo and is always ready to assist in making that not only a greater but a better city. He is a member of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Hubbs married Miss Charlotte M. Willhauck of Toledo. Mrs. Hubbs is of Germany ancestry.

William Backus Guitteau, Ph. D. Executive ability of high order and broad and mature scholarship are the qualifieations which Etoetor Guitteau brought to his post as superintendent of instruction in the Toledo public schools. Doctor Guitteau takes rank among leading American scholars in the tield of political science, and has been a constructive force at Toledo not only through his work in the schools but in behalf of a more efficient municipal government. He has been identified with the local school system for nearly twenty years, and has been superintendent for the past seven years.

Born in Toledo November 27, 1877, a son of Edward and Clara (Wilson) Guitteau, his father a traveling salesman and his mother a daughter of Hon. Joel W. Wilson of Tiffin, Ohio, Doctor Guitteau as a schoolboy showed those mental talents which have brought him prominence as a scholar. In 1894 he graduated from the Toledo High School, completing the four years" course in three years. After spending the years 1894-95 at Ohio State Univei-sity he was for one year a special student of history and economics iu the T'niversity of Michigan. Returning to Ohio State University in the fall of 1896, he was graduated Bachelor of Philosophy there in 1897, having again completed a four yeai's' course in three years. He represented the State University in the first annual debate of the State Debating League, carried off second honors in the fourteenth annual oratorical contest, and was class orator at the commencement banquet. Doctor Guitteau also completed two years of the course in the law department of the State University in one year, and

In 1899 he was awarded the Emerson Mc- Millin Fellowship iu Economics over several competitors, but relinquished the scholarship to accept a place as teacher of English iu the Toledo Central High School. In June, 1900, about the time he passed the State bar examination, he was awarded the President White fellowship in political science iu Cornell University. Entering Cornell in the fall of 1900, and pursuing courses in advanced polities and economics under Prof. J. W. Jenks, he received the degree Master of Arts iu 1901. During the summer of the latter year he was clerk of the United States Industrial Commission at Washington, D. C, and the following year was awarded the Hai-rison fellowship iu political science by the University of Pennsylvania, from which institution he took his doctor's degi'ee in 1904. The subject of his thesis was "Constitutional Limitations Upon Si^ecial Municipal Legislation."

Then returning to his position as instructor in the Toledo Central High School, he resigned in the spring of 1905 to become secretary of the Detroit ilunicipal League. The principalship of the Toledo Central High School was offered him in the fall of 1905, and there he gained his first important experience in executive work. He acquitted himself with credit as principal until the death of Superintendent C. L. Van Cleve on September 26, 1909, when he became acting superintendent. A few weeks later, on the 18th of October, the board of education bj^ a unanimous vote elected him superintendent of instruction iu the Toledo schools, and in 1914 he was re-elected superintendent for the full term of five years. His administrative ability is largely reflected in the advancement and progress of the Toledo school system during the last six years. There has been a notable advancement in the general efficiency of the teaching staff, and his influence is also reflected in the many material improvements. There are now two high schools - Waite and Scott - nearly fifty ward schools, while a third high school is soon to be added. The entire school system, in all its departments, has been vigorously overhauled, modified, and strengthened by Doctor Guitteau.

An earnest student of municipal affairs. Doctor Guitteau is not the typical scholar but rather suggests the alert and progressive business man. From college and university days he has been a ready public speaker, and his ability is recognized pretty well over the nation as a tvriter on municipal and educational topics. He was elected a member of the board of thirteen to draw up the new city charter under which Toledo is now operatiniar. This charter has been pronounced by many authorities as a model for city government.

Doctor Guitteau is author of "Government and Politics in the United States," a work on civil government which has been adopted by a large percentage of city and country schools in many states. A special edition adapted to the particular state has been issued in several instances. It is recognized as an authoritative work, based upon a new method of treatment and plan of instruction. "Preparing for Citizenship" is another book more recentl.y issued for younger students, but along the same lines as the preceding work.

Politicall.v Doctor Guitteau is a republican, and is affiliated with Sanford Collins Lodge, Free and Accepted ]\Iasons, and with the Beta Theta Pi and the Phi Delta Phi college fraternities, the latter being a fraternity of law students. He is also an active member of the Toledo Commerce Club.

The Toledo Club. Probably no social connection in Toledo is more eagerly prized than memliership in The Toledo Club. Like many other important institutions of the kind it started as a more or less impromptu meeting of a small group of congenial spirits and the dominating purpose of the organization throughout has been to afford a place where men of common interests as citizens of Toledo could foregather and enjoy themselves socially.

At tlie present time the club has n memliership of 600, and necessarily with such growth there has been introduced a .system of business management, an organization on a business basis, and the club, while essentially social, has played a varied and useful part in the life of the city, and many important movements havTe at least had their birth in the club quarters even if the club has not been formally sponsor for the plan.

The origin of The Toledo Club is traced back over a period of forty years to some informal social gatherings held by prominent Toledoans of that time, including such men as D. R. Locke, C. A. King, George E. Pomeroy Jr., Alf W. Gleason. Louis Wachenheimer, Frank I. Young, Ed McNally and Will L. Hoyt. Their place of assemblv was a small room in a refectory on Jefferson Avenue near Summit Street. These informal meetings went on for some time until Mr. D. R. Locke finally suggested that a regular club should be organized. The plan was put into execution at once and Mr. Locke was elected first president and Ralph Osborne secretary. After various names had been suggested the name Draconian Club, offered by Mr. Locke, was accepted as most applicable to an organization of just men and true, animated by loyalty to each other and to their fair city.

The Draconian Club became exceedingly popular and its membership rapidly increased. Ralph Osborne eventually resigned as secretary, and was succeeded by Will L. Hoyt. The first club headquarters were on Summit Street near Madison. These quarters were soon outgrown and the next home of the club was the former residence of A. W. Gleason on Superior Street near Jefferson. While there the club entertained many prominent visitors.

On May 15, 1882, the Draconian Club was formall}' incorporated by D. R. Locke, Frank R. Young, William L." Hoyt, C. A. King, George E. Pomeroy Jr. and John M. Fiske. The membership grew until the role inchided the names of nearly all the leading business and professional men of the city.

Some of the older members having died, and a wider field of activity being desired, some of the Draconians organized and incorporated in 1889 The Toledo Club. The incorporators were John B. Ketcham second, William A. Gosline, Walter N. Conant, William T. Carrington. Dean V. R. Manley and William L. Hoyt. Thus the history of the old Draconian Club was merged with and became the first chapter in the annals of The Toledo Club.

The first officers of The Toledo Club were : John B. Ketcham second, president; W. N. Conant, vice president ; W. L. Hoyt, secretary ; D. V. R. Manlev. treasurer. The first trustees were John B. Ketcham second, W. T. Carrington, Walter A. Woodford. I. D. Smead, A. L. Spitzer. C. L. Revnolds, W. N. Conant, D. V. R. Manley. George W. Davis, M. W. Young, Fred J. Reynolds and W. L. Hoyt. The first home of The Toledo Club was the Stevens' property at the corner of Madison and Huron streets. On that site a handsome brown stone building was erected and it served as the comfortable and for many years the commodious quarters of the organization. The club had its home there for practically a quarter of a century.

club and the importance of the city, elaborate plans were begun for the erection of a new club home, and on June 19, 1915, its doors were first opened and the magnificent building on Madison Avenue and Fourteenth Street, costing $500,000, became the permanent home of this forty-year-old institution. The new club house is a notable addition to the architectural beauty of Toledo. It is designed in the style of the English renaissance, with walls of Harvard brick and stonework of Indiana limestone, and with all the elaboration of exterior and interior there has been preserved the simple and dignified beauty of the earlier English periods of architecture and finishing. The building is five stories high, and has a frontage of ninety feet on Madison avenue and 150 feet on Fourteenth Street. To the main rooms, the great living room and the main dining room, run two full stories in height. There are also billiard rooms, lounging rooms, women's reception rooms, private dining rooms, and the fourth and fifth floors are divided into guest rooms, forty-two in number.

The building committee who carried out the plans for this new home were Walter Stewart, H. L. Thompson, M. J. Riggs, E. H. Close and T. W. Warner. At the opening of the new home the officers of the club were: John N. Willys, president, whose generous public spirit has made it possible for the club house to be built; Isaac Kinsey, vice president; Bernard Brough, secretary; and Walter Stewart, treasurer.

The present officers and trustees of The Toledo Club are : President, John N. Willys ; \nee president, Isaac Kinsey; secretary, Bernard Brough ; treasurer, Walter Stewart.

Henry DeGr.\ff. One of the oldest men engaged in active business in Toledo is Mr. Henry DeGraflf, general agent of The New Amsterdam Casualty Company, with offices in the Spitzer Building. Mr. DeGraff is eighty-four years of age. He has had a long and active business career, is a veteran of the Civil war, has been a merchant in different localities, and for twenty-five years was in the wholesale boot and shoe business at Toledo before he entered the insurance field.

He was born in Ulster County, New York, December 8, 1832, a son of Cornelius and Marv- Caroline (Van Why) DeGraff. His father was a native of New York State and the remote ancestors were French Huguenots. Cornelius DeGraff came from New York to

Palmyra, Michigan, in the early '40s, and for many years followed his trade as a carriagemaker. He died in Palmyra in 1872. He was an active member of the Presbyterian Church, was a stanch republican, and filled the office of postmaster at Palmyra for several years.

Mr. Henry DeGraff was the oldest of five children, only two of whom are still living. He finished his education in the public schools of Palmyra, Michigan, and in 1848 began an apprenticeship at the cabinetmaker's trade. The first year he was paid $35 and his board. For a time he was a bank clerk at Detroit, also was employed as clerk on one of the lake steamers running from Detroit to Buffalo, and at Detroit, he married and made a home of his own.

Mr. DeGraff was married in 1853 to Miss Martha A. Lord, a daughter of Ralph Lord, who came to Michigan from Hartford, Connecticut, after her mother's death, settling in Detroit, Michigan, with her uncle, a Mr. Garrison. Mr. and Mrs. DeGraff had two children, the only one now living being Flora, who was educated in the Ursuline Convent of Toledo, and is an active member of the Episcopal Church.

After his marriage Mr. DeGraff went west to Davenport, Iowa, and in that city he followed mercantile pursuits from 1856 to 1858. Returning to his former home at Palmyra, Michigan, he continued merchandising until 1861. In that year he left his store and in 1862 enlisted in the Seventh Michigan Cavalry. He was promoted to commissai-y sergeant, and later became second lieutenant. He remained in active service until mustered out in 1865, then returned to Palmyra, Michigan, but in March, 1866, came to Toledo. Mr. DeGraff for twenty-five years was in tlie M'holesale boot and shoe business at Toledo, and in 1902 he became general agent for the New Amsterdam Casualty Company. He is an active member of Toledo Post No. 107, Grand Army of the Republic, and for the past eighteen years has been quartermaster of the Post. On January 13, 1917, he was installed for the nineteenth time to that position.

William Lewis Rhonehouse. A Toledo specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat, Dr. William Lewis Rhonehouse brought to his profession unusual equipment and training, and

He is the son of one of the oldest and best known homeopathic phj'sicians and surgeons of Northwest Ohio, Dr. George W. Rhonehouse of Maumee. William Lewis Rhonehouse was born at Maumee October 9, 1886, son of Dr. George W. and Tamerzon Waite (Lewis) Rhonehouse.

His early education was acquired partly in the public schools of Maumee and at the Toledo High School. He continued his preparatory and literary education in Doane Academy at Granville, Ohio, where he was graduated in June, 1905. then spent a time in Dennison University in the literary department, and one year in the literary department of the University of Michigan. He then pursued the full four years' course in the HomecJpathic Medical Department of the LTniversity of Michigan, where he was graduated in June, 1910. The two years following his graduation were spent as an assistant to Dr. Dean W. Myers in the Homeopathic Medical College at Ann Arbor. He specialized in the diseases of eye, ear, nose and throat at the LTniversity of Michigan, and had unusual opportunities for a thorough preparation. He served as interne and house physician at Toledo City Hospital, was chief of the staff of internes in the Homeopathic Hospital at Ann Arbor, and was senior assistant to the chair of ophthalmology, otology, rhinology and laryngology, in the homeopathic medical department of the University of Michigan during 1911-1912. While in university he was president of the Alpha Chapter of the Mu Sigma Alpha in 1909-1910, and in 1909 was delegate to the Grand Council at Cincinnati.

Doctor Rhonehouse is a member of the Ophthalmological, Rhinological and Laryngological Society, and of the Northwestern Ohio Homeopathic Medical Society, and the Ohio State Homeopathic Medical Society. He is not only a man of very thorough and expert knowledge of his profession, but has social traits which make him a congenial companion. He is a member of the Toledo Commerce Club, of Northern Light Lodge No. 40, Free and Accepted Masons, Maumee, Fort Miami Chapter No. 194 Royal Arch ]\Iasons, and belongs to the Improvement Association of Maiimee, where he has his home. Politically a republican, he was elected in November, 1915. for a term of two years in the council of the Village of Maumee.

Doctor Rhonehouse was married to Miss Edna M. Black on October 28, 1915, at Maumee, where she was born and educated. Mrs. Rhonehouse is a graduate of the Maumee High School, and takes a very active part in the Presbyterian Church, being a member of the choir.

LovELL Bellknap Rhonehouse, son of Dr. George W. and Tamerzon Waite (Lewis) Rhonehouse, his father a prominent old time physician of Maumee, has followed a business career since he completed his education. He was born at ilaumee February 7, 1884, was educated in the public schools there and the Toledo High School, and from high school he entered at once upon his practical preparation for a business career.

Since July. 1908, he has been cashier of the State Savings Bank of Maumee and is one of the well known younger bankers of Lucas County. He has shown a very decided interest in affairs of local improvement and advancement in his county, is a member and secretary of the Improvement Association of Maumee, and is secretary of the Maumee Board of Education. Politically he is an active republican and was one of the county central committeemen from Jlaumee in 1915. He also belongs to the Toledo Commerce Club, and is a master of the Northern Light Lodge No. 40, Free and Accepted Masons at Maumee.

Nelson M. Messer represents one of the old and prominent families of Oregon Township in Lucas County. His fine farm estate is in the southwest part of that township.

His father, James Curtis Messer, was a man of special distinction in Lucas County. He was born at Greenfield. Erie County, Pennsylvania, February 1, 1834. Ten years later he came with his parents to a farm that is now within the limits of East Toledo. In 1858 he started oiit for himself as a farmer, buying land on section nine of Oregon Township. There he spent his active years and on September 21, 1903, death claimed him. Though a man of meager education, he gained wide information and solid .judgment from his extensive experience with men and affairs. During the war he was not only a warm supporter of the Federal cause but active in the organization of the First Regiment of the Ohio National Guard in 1863. On May 12, 1864, he. was mustered in as second lieutenant in the One Hundred and Thirtieth Ohio Infantry, and was in active service until his honorable discharge in September, 1864. He then resumed his place in the state militia, was promoted to captain, and was identified with the organization until it was disbanded in 1868. In his home town.ship he was equally a man of prominence, serving as trustee, assessor, clerk, treasurer, and in 1887 and again in 1889 was elected a member of the state legislature. He first filled the vacancy caused by the death of Rus.sell C. Thompson. For many years he was vice president of the Lucas County Agricultural Society.

James C. Messer married Marion Lillelund, who survives him. She is the daughter of Nelson Lillelund, who was an early settler in Toledo and for many years was immigration agent at the Union Station. Nelson Lillelund followed the sea for about forty years, and came to Toledo from New Orleans. The children of James C. Messer and wife were : Nelson il., Anna, wife of Clarence A. Tracy, a farmer in Oregon Township : Jennie, deceased wife of Ernest Tracy, an Oregon Township farmer; and Mattie, wife of Ruby Kent, a farmer in Oregon Township.

Nelson M. Messer grew up on the old farm in Oregon Township, and married ]Mary Klag, daughter of Rev. John Klag, who for twentytwo years was pastor of the Martin Luther Church in Toledo. Mr. and Mrs. Messer have the following children: John J., who lives at Ludington, Michigan, and has one son; Mildred, wife of Fred Kester of East Toledo, and mother of one son and one daughter ; Carl and Loretta, both at home. Mr. Nelson Messer is a republican in politics, and has filled most of the local offices. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and attends the Methodist Church.

S. E. Clark. A notable number of prominent railway men, officials carrying heavy responsibility, made their debut in railroading as telegraph operators.

At the age of twenty-one S. E. Clark was a telegraph operator in a railroad station at Sparta, Wisconsin. He went through various grades of responsibility, and is now district passenger agent of the Hocking Valley Railway at Toledo, with offices in the Ohio Buildins.

Mr. Clark was born in the State of Maine, at East Sumner, Oxford County, December ,30. 1857, but wa.s reared from infancy in Wisconsin, where his parents were pioneer settlers. He is a son of J. A. and Arraia (Billings) Clark, his mother of a prominent old New England family. His father was born in Maine, and was descended from a stock of original Puritans. In 1858 J. A. Clark came West and settled on a farm in Monroe County, Wisconsin, near Sparta, and he reclaimed the land from the brush and heavy timber in good old pioneer style. He made it available for cultivation, he harvested many successive crops, and gained a competence sufficient for all the needs of his declining years. He was one of the most highly esteemed citizens of ilonroe Coimty. He was a Christian in eveiy sense of the word, and was a strong advocate of temperance at a time when advocacy of such doctrines was not popular as at the present time. He was known as a ready worker for the benefit of his many friends, and as he passed through the world he did all the good he could eveiywhere. Politically he was a rock-ribbed republican, and enjoyed the complete confidence of his fellow citizens who elected him county assessor for many years. He and his wife had three children, one daughter now deceased, and two sons, still living.

Mr. S. E. Clark, the youngest of the family, was educated in the grammar and high schools of Sparta, Wisconsin, and afterwards graduated from Valentine's Commercial College at Chicago. As above stated he was given a post as telegraph operator at Sparta at the age of twenty-one, having mastered telegraphy as a result of a boyhood enthusiasm. He remained at Sparta several years, and was then assigned to different positions at different places. For a number of years he was a railway station agent, and in 1900 first came to Ohio, becoming city pa.ssenger agent at Columbus for the Hocking Valley Railway. In 1902 he accepted the place of di.striet passenger agent of the Zanesville & Western Railway, at Zanesville, Ohio, but in 1904 resigned and became northern passenger agent for the Hocking Valley Railway at Detroit. In 1911 ^Mr. Clark was promoted to his present responsibilities as district passenger agent at Toledo.

He is a man of wide acquaintance and of the highest social standing. He is a thirtysecond degree Scottish Rite !Mason, a Knight Templar and a member of Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a republican and a member of the Congregational Church.

On August 12, 1892, at Sparta, Wisconsin, Mr. Clark married Miss Carrie Nott. daughter of Dr. William Nott of Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Clark had three children, and two are now living. Ruth A. is Mrs. C. W. Ribble. E. N. Clark has shown talent and proficiency for work as a cartoonist and is now training himself for that profession, in a technical school in London, England.

James D. Coy. One of the old families of Oregon Township in Lucas County is represented by James D. Coy, who is himself the owner of a fine farm on Jerusalem Road in Oregiin Township and has made himself a prominent factor both in business and civic affairs. For several years ^Ir. Coy has served as secretary of Lucas County Farmei-s Mutual Aid and Insurance Company, and has done much to extend the usefulness of that important organization as a financial bulwark of the farmers of that county.

He was born in Oregon Township February 13, 1874, a son of Horace and Mary (Whitson) Coy. His grandfather was Daniel Coy, an early settler in Lucas County. Daniel Coy died in 1854, during a cholera epidemic. Horace Coy was born in Oregon Township November 21, 1852, and he and his wife still occupy their old home in that township. He has also taken an active part in local affairs, having served both as school director and township trustee. James D. Coy is the oldest of his parents' children. The others are : ]\Iilton H., in the contracting business at East Toledo; George B., who lives at East Toledo and is employed by the Overland Automobile Company; Earl W., a resident of Oregon Township and superintendent of the Willow and North Oregon cemeteries; Willis I., at home; Jennie, wife of John L. Buesehen, a coal dealer at East Toledo; Frank H., a resident of East Toledo and an employe of the Overland Automobile Company.

Mr. James D. Coy married Anna Joehlin, daugrhter of Gottlieb and Caroline (Fischer) Joehlin. Her father came from Germany and her mother from Switzerland. IMr. and Mrs. Coy have four children: Mabel J., Mary C, Beatrice A. and Wilma J.

In addition to the management of his farm and his work as secretary of the County Farmers' Mutual Aid and Insurance Company, Mr. Coy served fourteen years as township clerk, and was formerly a member of the township board of education, and is now one of the Lucas County Board of Education. Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow. His family attend worship in St. Mark's Lutheran Cluirch.

Henry Lalendorff. One of the most prominent citizens of Oregon Township in Lucas County is Henry Lalendorff, whose home is three miles east of Ironville. Mr. Lalendorff' has lived in this section sixty years - in fact, nearh' all his life - and by well ordered industry and honorable dealings has already acquired an ample competency, though he is not yet ready to retire and still retains the active management of his farm and various other business interests.

A native of Germany, born in Mecklenburg August 16, 1851, he was brought to this country at the age of three years in 1854. His parents, John and Sophia (Sahoon) Lalendorff', arrived -in Toledo during a year when that commimity was stricken with a cholera epidemic. They lived in Toledo three yeare and in 1857 moved to Oregon Township, establishing their home on the farm now owaied and occupied by Henry Lalendorff. It should be recalled that when the Lalendorff family came to Toledo there were not more than half a dozen small houses in East Toledo. Communication existed between East Toledo and Toledo by means of a ferry boat which could carry three wagons and teams. Another incident that serves to show the march of improvements was that Summit Street in Toledo was just being paved. When the family moved out to Oregon Township fifty years ago their land was in the midst of the woods and swamps. There were no roads, and it required actual courage as well as faith to embark on such an undertaking as the improvement of such land. The progress of years has completely changed conditions, and now the Lalendorff farm is one of the best in point of improvements and also in the fertility of its soil to be found in the entire township. John Lalendorff and wife both died in 1901.

Henry Lalendorff, the only child of his parents, grew up on the old homestead in Oregon Township, and many of its most notable improvements are to be directly credited to his individual work and management. Mr. Lalendorff married Minnie Koch. She was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, daughter of Heniy Koch, who was also numbered among the early settlers of Oregon Township. The Koch children were : Charles Koch, a farmer in Oregon Township ; Mrs. Lalendorff ; Elizabeth, widow of Henry Mathews of Oregon Township : John, who was an Oregon Town.ship farmer until his death.

which children bring, and have carefully reared a large family. The first born to their union were Edward, June 3, 1875 ; Charles, February 23, 1877 ; Ida, September 14, 1878, and Rudolph. March 13, 1880, all of whom died during a diphtheria epidemic in 1882. Since that tragic fatality overtook the family all the children have lived except one. Louis, born September 1, 1881, is still at home. Rudolph, bom December 16, 1883, is a farmer on the home place and is now serving as towaiship clerk of Oregon Township, and by his marriage to Norma Sehmidlin has two children named Edgar and Luther. Ida, born August 19, 1885, married William Bruggeman, an employe of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad at Ironville, and their children are Richard, Wilma, Lora and Elda. Charles, born October 1,- 1887, is a farmer in Oregon Township, and by his marriage to Sophia Joehliu has two children. Otto and Walter. Edward, born March 15, 1889, is living in Ironville and married Iva Nopper and has one child, Bertha Thelma. George, born November 12, 1890, died at the age of twentyfour. Bertha, born August 18, 1892, married ^Christopher Johnson.

As a republican Henry Lalendorff has given freely and generously of his time and influence, not only to promote party .success l)ut also to render substantial service to his community. He has serVed continuously on the local school board for thirty years or more, was trustee of his township for nine years, and in every position has rendered conscientious and careful work.

For twenty years or more Mr. Lalendorff has been a director of the Lucas County Earmers Mutual Aid and Insurance Society. For a number of years he was also one of the directors of the Commercial Savings Bank of Toledo. This position required so much of his time that he finally resigned. As a farmer he looks after the management of 120 acres. He is an honorary member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and he and his familv attend worship in the Lutheran

Eur,ENE Carl Snyder, D. C, was the first practitioner of chiropractic in Hancock County. Before he could settle down to the quiet routine of his work he had to overcome mountains of prejudice and even endure the active hostility of legal processes and restraint. A less determined man would never have remained, but many people had faith

Doctor Snyder was living in Michigan when his wife was cured by a chiropractor. That naturally aroused much interest in the new school of healing and he attended the Michigan College of Chiropractic, from which he was graduated D. C, in 1911. In the same year he came to Findlay. Few people in Hancock County up to that time had ever heard of chiropractic. Almost from the first every difficulty was laid in the way of Doctor Snyder's career. In October, 1912, he was arrested for practicing chiropractic without a license from the State Medical Society. He was acquitted after a jury trial, but soon afterwards was again arrested and fined $50 in money and given a sentence of sixty days in jail if he would not agree to cease practicing. He declined to be intimidated and accepted the alternative jail sentence. After serving thirty days he was again offered freedom if he would cease practice and again he refused. After serving his sixty-day sentence he was released and resumed his practice the day after leaving jail. In the meantime a large number of people in Hancock County had employed him and had come to set a high value upon his services. For the past several years he has practiced without opposition, and he now holds a license from the state medical board. Since beginning practice Doctor Snyder has taken two courses of post-graduate work in the institution at Davenport, Iowa.

Eugene Carl Snyder was born in Michigan, in March, 1881, a son of John and Marj' (Schwartz) Snyder of Baton County, Michigan. His father was a farmer and Doctor Snyder received his early education in the country schools near Charlotte, ilichigan. For eight years he followed the business of clerk in a hardware .store in Michigan, married and settled down, and only the remarkable cure of his wife by a chiropractor turned him from that business to his present profession.

In 1903 he married Teresa E. Corr, daughter of Bernard and Rebecca Corr. They have two children, Russell B., eleven years of age, and a daughter, Eugena, eight years old. The family are members of the St. Michael's Catholic Church and Doctor Snyder is a member of the Elks order and in politics is independent.

Maumee was the birthplace of Henry N. Perriu, and he is a son of David Henry and Mary (Deshanaway) Perrin. His mother was born and reared in Maumee, a daughter of Louis and ilaria (Mountler) Deshanaway. ilaria Mountler came from Germany, while Luuis 1 )c'sluina\vay was born on the Maumee Kiver lictwccn the present town of Maumee and Toledo at a settlement then known as Marengo. His birth occurred there in the year 1818, a date which establishes the extremely early settlement of this branch of the Peri'in family in Northwest Ohio.

David H. Perrin was born near Pictou in Nova Scotia in 1836, a son of David and Elizabeth (Perrin) Perrin. The Perrin family ti-aces its ancestry back to a French count named Perrine, who became a Huguenot and who suffered the persecution of that sect during the .sixteenth and seventeenth century. He or his descendants emigrated to America and settled in Nova Scotia. David Perrin Sr., having heard reports of the opportunities around Lake Erie, set out for this counti-y in 1836, when his son David H. was a few months old. He brought his family excepting one son to the United States, and landed at Perrysburg, but soon removed to Maumee. The senior David Perrin was a ship carpenter, and followed that trade for some years, later was a farmer, and died in 1869. His wife passed away in 1844.

Growing up on the old home near Maumee, David H. Perrin worked a year or two on tlie canal, spent the next three years at Logansport, Indiana, and on returning to Lucas County was again employed on the canal and finally took up carpentry, a trade he had learned as a young man. Though he made that his regular occupation thereafter, he was also in the hardware business five years and for nine years was postmaster of Maumee. He is now eighty years of age and for some years has lived retired. He was the youngest in a family of three daughters and five sons, all of whom were born in Nova Scotia except two, both of whom died in infancy. Four of the boys went to the war. James M. lost his life at Jonesboro, Georgia, and Benjamin at Millikins Bend. "William returned after the war and died in 1905.