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ilr. Lowry married for his first wife iliss Augusta Gunn, a daughter of Elliot and Eliza (Cover) Gunn, who were pioneer settlers of Henry County. Mrs. Lowry died at the old home in 1893, when in the prime of life at the age of thirty-five. The children of that union are: Jennie, who was born May 11, 1884, and is the wife of Dr. J. R. Bolls of Holgate, Ohio; Joseph Elliot, born August 29, 1886, is a resident of Florida Village and by his marriage to Lola ]\Iiller' has a son Wendell ; Helen, born ^May 4, 1889, was a teacher before her marriage to Neal ^Mootz of Holgate, and she now has a daughter Virginia : Georgia, born July 4, 1892, was well educated and is the wife of Lloyd Baughman, of Florida Village.

In Athens County, Ohio, in 1899, ilr. Lowrv' married for his present wife Miss Rosamond Light. She was born in Athens County and was reared and educated there and for ten years was a successful teacher in that locality. Her grandfather, John Light, who was born in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, came from Virginia in the early days to Athens County and was one of the early millers of that section. He died there at tlie age of .sixty-three. He married Jane Fulton of Ohio, and she died in Athens County at the age of seventy-two. The Light family were active members of the Presbyterian Church. William Light, father of Mrs. Lowry, was born in Athens County in 1839, and was also trained to the vocation of miller. He was married in Athens County to Matilda Breyfogle, a native of Pennsylvania, though her early life was spent principally in Athens County, Ohio. William Light and wife are now living at Guysville in Athens County, their home being located on the Hocking River. For a long time he owned and operated the old mill near his present home. William Light is now seventy-seven years of age and his wife somewhat younger. He was a soldier of the Union army, being in the Third Ohio Infantry and was in service throughout the war. He had one narrow escape, being shot through the left breast at Murphysboro, and one of his brothers, Charles, who was a color bearer, died at Bacon Creek, Kentucky, and James and David, were killed in battle of Miirphysboro. His brothers, David and James, were lost on the field of battle and were never brought home for burial.

'Sir. and Mrs. Lowry are the parents of one son, Richard Light Lowry, born November 4, 1902. and now in the eighth grade of the public schools. The family are membei-s of the Presbyterian Church.

Thomas Reed Dunlap. ]\Iuch of the business enterprise of the Town of Alger in Hardin Coiuity is supplied by Thomas Reed Dunlap, well known banker, grain dealer, and farmer. It has always been his ambition, while acrjuiring a success for himself, to serve the public well and efficiently and he has done much in that direction both through his business and through his interests in local affairs.

He wa.s born in Marion Township of Hardin County, Ohio, Aiigust 6. 1875, a son of James R. and Viola Belle (Roberts) Dunlap. His father was a farmer and moved to Hardin County in 1847. For two terms, six,years, he served as a county commissioner, held a number of minor offices, and Governor McKinley during his administration appointed him a state highway commi.ssioner.

the local schools, and also attended the Ohio Northern University at Ada. For more than ten years his career has been a factor in the life and commercial activities of the Town of Alger. Under the name T. Reed Dunlap he conducts a grain elevator and is the chief merchant in that locality, dealing in hay, grain, onions and potatoes. He also has an elevator at McGutfey. His interests are not eontined to the town since he owns 200 acres of farming land, and each year raises about 100 acres of onions.

He is also a banker, being a director of the First National Bank of Ada and president of the Alger Savings Bank. The latter bank was organized October 2.3, 1906, with a capital of $25,000. Its fir.st officers were : Alexander Carman, president ; E. G. Harriman, vice pre.sident ; and il. D. McCoubrey, cashier. In 1917 the president was T. Reed Dunlap, the vice president Allen Edwards, and the cashier Fred Ankerman. The capital is still .$25,000, but surplus and undivided profits? amount to $11,000 and deposits aggregate $120,000. The bank occupies a substantial one-story pressed brick building 22 by 65 feet.

Mr. Dunlap served as a director of the village schools of Alger from the organization of the board in 1905 until 1914. He is treasurer of Marion Township, and fraternally is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Masonic Lodge. On December 1. 1903, he married Vaud Randall. Tliey have one daughter, Mary Randall.

RuNDLE Palmer spent the best years of his life in Henry County. He was a useful member of his community and his years contained many interests and activities. What he did. useful though it was, was not more important than the manner of his life and the fulfillment of his ideals and purposes.

He was born in Huron County near Fitchville October 14, 1844. Nearly seventy years later his death occurred at his home, 312 East Clinton Street, in Napoleon May 24, 1914. His parents were Isaac and Samantha (Palmer) Palmer, of the same name but not related. Both were born in the Ea.st and were married in Huron County. A short time after the birth of their son Rundle they located on a wild farm in the northwest quarter of section 16 of Harrison Town.ship in Henry County. Thus the Palmer family has been identified with this section of Northwest Ohio for fully three-quarters of a century. The parents improved a farm of 160 acres in Harrison

Township, and among other features they put out one of the early orchards. The old home at that time as now was located well back from the main road, and it is one of the landmarks betraying the well ordered industry of the family and the silent accomplishment of many years. At that home Samantha Palmer died at the age of twenty-nine. She was survived by two children, Rundle and Julia. Julia is now the wife of Frank B. Bonawell, a wholesale hardware merchant at Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Bonawell have three daughters, all of whom are married but none of whom have children. Isaac Palmer married a second wife and late in life moved to Huron County, where he died when quite old. His widow subsequently lived with her daughter Samantha. Samantha was a verywell known artist, and one of her paintings is now hanging in the White House at Washington. Samantha married Mortimer Zigg and now lives in Nebraska. Her mother died in Huron County.

Rundle Palmer grew up on the old farm in Harrison Township, and received his education there in the country schools and also in Chicago, Illinois. After the death of his mother and his father's second marriage, the home was not very congenial, since his stepmother exercised a rigid restraint upon all his activities. Thus at the age of seventeen he quite eagerly accepted the opportunity to go to the front and fight his country 's battles. He eillisted in Company F of the Sixty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was with that regiment in all its campaigns for nearly three years. He was once slightly wounded by the bursting of a shell. While in the army he exercised a great deal of thrift and sent practically all his earnings back to his father, who invested it in eighty acres of land. After coming home from the army Rundle Palmer paid out the balance due on this land, and began its improvement as a substantial home. He erected a large two-story twelve room brick house, and in every detail of its construction this home showed his handiwork. He burnt the brick on his own farm, and he also made many thousands of tile for the draining of his land. In a few years he had purchased an ad.joining eighty acres on the east, and improved that thoroughly. With the passing years he acquired a position as one of the substantial men of Henry County, and in 1901 he and his wife retired from the farm and entered their new home on East Clinton Street in Napoleon, where Mrs. Palmer now lives.

The late Mr. Palmer was a republican. A man of substantial character and of excellent judgment, he was widely known and respected, and all that he had was the result of hard work and honorable dealings.

In 1874 in Wood County, Ohio, he married Miss Lottie Reed. Mrs. Palmer was boi-n near Tiffin in Seneca County, Ohio, December 27, 1849, and was taken to Wood County at the age of five years by her parents, John and Henrietta (Reiter) Reed. Her father was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, of Scotch-Irish stock, and her mother in Pennsylvania, of Germany ancestry in the paternal line and English on her mother's side. John Reed and wife lived on a farm in Montgomery Township of Wood County until he was elected on the republican ticket to the office of probate judge. He then moved to Bowling Green, where he filled out two terms as probate judge, declining a re-election. He continued to reside in Bowling Green, superintending his farm interests from that point, and died there May 5, 1899, at the age of sixty-six. Judge Reed was a prominent character in Wood County. In the early days he had done raucli to assist the pioneer farmers and new comers to that county, and his individual success was only part of the large amount of good he accomplished. His widow survived him four years, passing away November 27, 1903. She "was a member of the Christian Church, while he was a Methodist._ Mrs. Palmer is the second of three living children. Her brother. Rev. Frank M. Reed, now seventy-one years of age. lives in California, is a superannuated minister of the Christian Church, and has one son Ray. Addie Reed is still unmarried and lives part of the time in Bowling Green and part of the time at Napoleon.

Mrs. Palmer has two children. Alva S. is forty years of age, was born and reared on the old Palmer farm in Harrison Township, and by his marriage to Goldie Snyder has a son, Sumner Rundle Palmer. Nellie D. is the wife of Glenn Jennings, a successful farmer of Harrison Township, and they have a son, Marcus Palmer Jennings.

RiCH.\RD Nelson is now serving his first term as a member of the board of commissioners of Henr^' County in the first exclusive republican board of commis-sioners that county has ever had. j\Ir. Nelson's home is in Harrison Township of Henry County. He laid the foundation of his success as a farmer in Illinois, but a few years ago moved to Henry County and has since acquired some very extensive holdings in the fine farming section of that locality. He is a practical business man and is much esteemed for his excellent judgment on all the issues and problems connected with farm and community affairs.

About forty-five years ago he came a poor boy from the old country to America, and has accomplished his splendid success entirely through his own exertions. He was born October 22, 1852, in Schleswig-Holstein, then a province in Denmark but now a part of the German Empire. He is of Scandinavian aucestrj'. His father, Martin Nelson, or Nielsen as the name was spelled in the old country, married Catherine Maria Frodden. She was born in Oeyenum Island Fohr, Sehleswig, and grew up there. Martin Nelson a short time after his marriage, and when his only son, Richard, was twenty-two weeks of age, took passage on a sailing vessel bound for Australia, where he went to seek his fortunes in the gold mines. While working in the mines he was accidentally killed, and was then in the prime of life. Mr. Richard Nelson was four years of age when the father died and the mother never married again and spent her life in her native country, where she died when past threescore.

Reared and educated in Schleswig-Holstein, and living under the German Government from 1864 to 1870, Richard Nelson had such training and educational influences as were bestowed upon most boys in that vicinity. His birthplace was the Village of Oevenum Auf Fohr in Sehleswig. At the age of seventeen in 1870, together with a neighbor boy, Nicholas Petersen, who was yet younger than himself, he set off from Hamburg, Germany, on a steamship and landed in New York City. From there he went out to the State of Illinois, and found steady employment near Dwigbt in Livingston County. That was his home for thirty-seven years. By hard work he acquired a modest capital and then used it to the best advantage in buying land, improving and cultivating, and gradually extending the scope of his operations until he was owner of 520 acres of the high class and high Tiriced land of Livingston and Grundy counties.

A few years ago he sold out his extensive Illinois holdings and came to Henry County, Ohio, to take advantage of the equally good but lower priced land in this section. Here he bought 240 acres with a fine barn, resi- denee and other equipments in Harrison Township, and he also owns two other well improved farms, one of 200 acres and the other 120 acres, both in Richfield Township of Henry County. Each of these farms have a complete set of building improvements and other facilities and all the land is under cultivation except twenty acres of stump ground. At his home place Mr. Nelson has a very complete establishment for farming and for comfortable country life. His main barn is on a foundation 40 by 80 feet, and there are several smaller buildings in the farm group. His home is a very attractive country residence, built of brick and comprising twelve rooms. The same qualities which made him successful in Illinois have been exemplified in the management of his Henry County farms. His fields produce abundant crops including the great staples of corn, wheat and oats and he earns his profits through the products of his fine farms.

During his residence in Livingston County, Illinois, Mr. Nelson married Miss Anna M. Lauritzen. She was bom in Denmark May 28, 1854. and was still young when she came to the United States alone, and she lived in Illinois until her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson have some very capable sons and daughtei-s, most of whom are established in homes of their own. Martin C, who finished his education in the schools of Henry County, is now conducting one of his father's places in Harrison Township, and is still unmarried. Carl R. lives on one of his father's farms in Richfield Township, and by his marriage to Bodel Olsen, who was born in Illinois of Danish parents, has two children, Clifford and a daughter. Albert T., who is a progressive farmer in Livingston County. Illinois, married Mary Bundessen, who was born and reared in Illinois, and they have two children, Irena and a son. C. j\Iary is the wife of Karl P. Kline, who was born and reared in Ohio, and occupies one of Mr. Nelson's farms in Richfield Township. Emma is the wife of F. Bert Brilhart, and they occupy one of the Nelson farms in Harrison Township. Nora married Vernon Brilhart, of Napoleon, Mr. Brilhart for the past nine years having been one of the successful schoolteachers in Henry County, and they have a son named Gale Nelson.

-T. Fred Veigel. In 1915 for the first time in the history of that county the business administration of the county government in Heni*v County was entrusted to a board of county commissioners entirely republican in politics. The president of this board is J. Fred Veigel, one of the honored residents of the county, where he has spent his life, and where he has made a success as a farmer and

Ml-. Veigel is now serving his first term, having been elected in September, 1915, for two years. In the way of public service he had some experience as assessor of his home township of Napoleon and also as a member of the school board. His associates in the office of county coimnissioner are George Wolf of Pleasant Township and Richard Nelson of Harrison Township. Henry County is normally democratic and it is almost a jphenomenon in local politics that all these men are republicans and were elected on that ticket.

J. Fred Veigel was born in Napcih-Dii Tdwiisliip February 12, 1867, was reared on a farm, acquired his education in the local schools and for the past twenty-seven years has occupied and managed his fine place known as ;\Iaple Drive Farm, comprising eiglity acres of land. Farming with him is not simply an occupation but a profession. Consequently he has made a success of it. Besides raisinu- tlic general crops, he has found profit in ^mw iim> Jersey dairy cattle. His farm c(|iiiiiiiiciit is of the highest standard. He and liis family live in a good home and among other farm buildings are a barn 36 by 60 feet, and a cattle barn 30 by 30.

Mr. Veigel is of German parentage and a son of Christian and Christine (Gogel) Veigel, both of whom were born in AVurrtemburg, Germany, not far from the City of Sti'assburg. They were of Lutheran f.uiiilii's and they themselves were identified with tliat cliurcii from childhood. They came to the United States singly and both about the year 1850. Christian Veigel was sixty-five days in crossing the ocean. The sailing vessel which brought him to this country encountered severe storms and the main mast was three times broken and all the passengers had given up hope of seeing land agai)i. They arrived nearly starved and almost famisjifd from thirst. The mother had a iiioiv foi'luiiate crossing. The destination of both was II. -my County, Ohio, and tliey arrived in this vicinity after proceeding by way of the Hudson River, the Erie Canal, the Great Lakes as far as Toledo and thence up the local canal to Napoleon. It was in Henry County that they became acquainted and were married in the City of Napoleon. Christian Veigel was a wagonmaker by trade, having learned that vocation back in Germany. He worked at it most of his active career, but late in life purchased a small farm in Napoleon Township and died there in 1895 at the age of sixtyeight years six months and a few days. His widow died just four years later and was within five months of the same age as her husband at his death. Christian Veigel was one of the organizers of St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Napoleon.

Mr. Fred Veigel was married in Toledo to Miss Ida Scliumacher. She was born in Fulton County, Ohio, January 23, 1869, and was reared and educated there. Her parents were William and Catherine (Ki-ause) Schumacher. Her father was born in Germany and met his wife in Fulton County, Ohio. Her mother was born in Ohio of German parentage. Mr. and Mrs. Schumacher lived in Archibold for a good many years, but her father died at the home of ilrs. Veigel in June, 1910, when about sixty-five years of age and her mother is still living. The Schumachers were also members of the Lutheran Church and her father was very much of a church worker. He was a vigorous advocate of the republican party.

IMr. and Mrs. Veigel have five living children. Grace has completed her education in the Napoleon High School and is still at home. Helen, who also is a graduate of the Napoleon High School, is a very successful teacher and now has charge of District No. 2 in Napoleon Township. Clarence, having completed the high school course is now manager of his father's farm. Fred finished the course of the eighth grade and is at home. Thomas is still attending school. ]\lr. and Mi-s. Veigel and children are all members of St. Paul's Lutheran Church.

George Wolf is one of the three republicans elected as county commissioners of Henry County in November, 1916. Mr. Wolf was reelected. Not only is Henry County normally democratic, but 1916 was a presidential year, and the state democratic tickets were thrust into office by a very heavy vote. Only one reasonable interpretation can be placed upon the action of the people in returning Mr. W^olf and his colleagues to office. It meant a thorough approval of their straightforward and efficient administration and it indicates that individual character and popularity is a stronger factor than mere partisanship.

been a well known farmer and business man. While his interests are still centered around New Bavaria, he noW' lives in a pleasant home at 1106 Oakwood Avenue in the City of Napoleon. His two successful colleagues on the board of commissioners are Mr. Veigel and Mr. Richard Nelson, both republicans.

George Wolf was born at Defiance, Ohio, March 10, 1860. When he was three and a half years of age the family came to Pleasant Bend in Pleasant Township of Henry County, and Mr. Wolf grew up in that community. He is a son of George N. and Elizabeth (Wolf) Wolf, both of whom were natives of Bavaria, Germany. George N. Wolf was born November 1, 1827, a son of Lewis and Elizabeth (Baker) Wolf. All but three of the children of Lewis and wife wei'e born in Bavaria. These people in the old country belonged to the substantial farming class. In 1831, when George N. Wolf was four years of age, his family emigrated to the United States, being seven weeks on the ocean, and being nearly starved when they landed at New York City. Lewis Wolf brought his family to Utica, New York, where he sojourned SVb years, then went to Detroit for a few months, and finally located at Maumee along the canal in Lucas County, Ohio. The family lived there several years, but in 1839 removed to Pleasant Township of Henry County, where Lewis Wolf secured a tract of wild land and cleared up a farm, living for some yeai"s in a log cabin. He surrounded himself with many improvements and comforts and died there at the venerable age of eighty-four years. His wife passed away at sixty-six. In Germany they had been members of the German Reformed Church, but became affiliated with the I\lethodist Church in this country. Lewis Wolf took up and supported the republican party.

George N. Wolf was twelve .years of age when his parents located in Henry Countj', and when he was twelve years old he secured work on the canal. He became "jigger boss" for the canal workmen, subsequently was a mule driver, and still later a bowsman and steersman. Thus he became an expert in all branches of canal boating and that was his business for twelve years. At the age of twenty-two he married in Pleasant Township Elizabeth Wolf. She was born in Bavaria, Germany, April 26, 1833, and was six years of age when her parents came in 1839 to America. This branch of the Wolf family also spent seven weeks in cro.ssing the ocean. Her parents were Daniel and Caroline (Saltz- man) Wolf, who settled as close neighbor to the Lewis Wolf family in Pleasant Township. Her parents developed a farm f i-om the wilderness, and both died there, her father at the age of eighty-three and her mother at ninetyone. They were of the Geinuan Reformed Church in Germany and became members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in this country. After his mai-riage George N. Wolf settled on a farm which was entirely uncleared. He and his bride lived in a log cai)in, endured all the hardships and privations of the time, hut eventually attained success and prosperity. Their old home farm was in section 30 of Pleasant Township. With the exception of 3% years spent at Defiance they made that farm their home the rest of their days. George N. Wolf died in 1901 at the age of seventy-four and his wife in 1896 aged sixty-four. He was a republican and they were active members of the local Methodist Church. In their family were twelve children, six of whom died young. The other six ai'e still living, all of them married and have families, and all reside in Pleasant Township.

Mr. George Wolf was the fourtli son and sixth child of his parents' children. He grew up on the old farm, attended the public schools and on i-eaehing his majority started out to make his own way in the world. At the age of eighteen he had begun to handle his father 's half interest in a saw mill and followed that business for three yeai*s. At twenty-one he became a farmer, and he made more than a mediocre success in that occupation. He acquired two places, each of eighty acres, one in section 20 and the other in section 29, his home was in section 29. These two farms he improved from almost a wilderness condition, and his home place was thoroughly equipped not only for diversified farming but for the liandling of livestock. Mr. Wolf erected a barn 40 by 60 feet, and then built a "Tshaped" addition 34 by 64 feet, giving ample facilities for the storage of grain and the care of his live stock. His country home was a substantial eleven room house with all the modem improvements. This farm home is near Pleasant Bend.

Before his election to the office of county commissioner he was a member of his local seliool board. Mr. Wolf married for his first wife a neighbor girl, Fannie Gertrude Fenter. She was born in Pleasant Township December 22, 1864, and died May 28, 1911. He was a daughter of Peter and Margaret (Rettig) Fenter. who came from Germany and were early Vol. ni - IS settlers in Pleasant Township, where they spent their lives as farmers. They were members of the German Reformed Church. At her death Mrs. Wolf was survived by five children. Alma H. is the wife of Mr. Ricker, a farmer near Holgate. Their children are Donald E., Vivian G. and Margaret. Nora M. is the wife of Orval Young of Pleasant Township, and has a son Merle. Fannie G. married Andrew Hornung, who is manager of the elevator at New Bavaria, and their one child is Paul. Earl N. is now a student in Defiance College. Ruth E. completed her education in the Holgate High School and is still at home. For his present wife Mr. Wolf married at New Bavaria Mrs. Margaret Hornung, whose maiden name was Ross. She was born at New Bavaria of German parents, and her people were among the early farmers in that section. Her father George Ro.ss is now living at Dundee, Michigan, at the age of seventy-two. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Rotore, a native of Bavaria, Germany, where she grew up and married, died at Dundee, Michigan, in 1913, at the age of seventy. Mrs. Wolf also owned a fine farm property of 116 acres near New Bavaria. By her first marriage to Mr. Hornung she is the mother of the following children : Charles A., mail carrier at New Bavaria and still unmarried ; Earl, who is a bookkeeper at Toledo and by his marriage to Goldie Osborn has a son Melvin ; Mabel L. E. is unmarried and at home-, Esther M. is a graduate of the Holgate High School with the class of 1914 and is also at home; Harold is employed at Toledo and is still unmarried ; Irene C. E. is thirteen years of age and is in the .seventh grade of the public schools at Napoleon. All the family are active members of the German Reformed Church. Mr. Wolf is one of the chief officials of the church and a liberal supporter. Fraternally he is a member of Knights of Pythias Lodge at Pleasant Bend, Ohio.

Julius W. Ash. The successful breeding and raising of high grade stock is a profession, not merely an occupation. It requires experience, natural adaptability and a steadfast care and enthusiasm carried through from one year to the next.

One of the most successful stock men in Harrison Township of Henry County is Julius W. Ash. He takes a great deal of pride in his fine Jersey cattle and his thoroughbred hogs, and that pride is well .iustified. Mr. Ash has lived on his farm of eighty acres in section 25 of

Harrison Township since 1887. Under Ijis care and management these thirty years have proved fruitful in many improvements and the introduction of systematic methods in every department. Since taking possession he has added thirty-five acres to his original holding. The land is all well drained, fenced and thoroughly cultivated, and he has large barns and a comfortable home. He has a herd of well selected Jersey milkers headed by a thoroughbred bull and his dairy is one of the best appointed in Henry County. His specialty as a hog raiser are the Chester White hogs. Some of the finest specimens of this breed to be found an,ywhere in Northwest Ohio are on his farm. The stock have been exhibited in many of the fairs and stock shows in Northwest Ohio, in Indiana and Michigan, and he has any number of blue ribbons awarded his prize stock.

Mr. Ash comes of Pennsylvania German lineage. His grandfather Jacob Ash was a native of Pennsylvania and married a Miss Putnam, who was also of Pennsylvania parentage. Both the Putnam and Ash families went in. Pioneer times to Stark County, Ohio, where Jacob and his wife grew up and married. They were practical farmers and soon after their marriage' they left Stark County and moved out to the Wilderness of Wood County, Ohio. Jacob Ash secured a tract of government laud. Under the early conditions tliat then ]>revailed he and his wife made a Imiiic. They lived in the wootls, with Indians as lrtM|ii(.)it visitors at their cabin, endured many privations, ate wild game meat, and only after years of toil and self sacrifice did they see the real results of their labors. Jacob A.sh improved 160 acres of land. He lost his first wife in Wood County when about of middle age. He afterwards married Miss Sarah Miller. By that marriage there were two daughters, Edith and Jessie, the former dying when young and the latter still living on the old homestead in Wood. County. Jacob Ash passed away when in his eightieth year and his second wife survived him ten years and was about seventy years old. They were very active members of the Evangelical Church and he was cla.ss leader for sixty years. His political allegiance was given to the republican party after its organization.

By his marriage to Miss Putnam Jacob Ash had five .sons and four daughters: Gabriel; Elizabeth ; Benjamin F. : Susan ; Monroe, who died of typhoid fever at the same time that disease carried away his mother; Rev. Josiali, who is an elder and preacher of the Evangelical Church living in Nebraska; Mary, who died in California as the result of an accident caused by a runaway team; Henry, who died young; and Harriet, who is married and lives in Knox County, Ohio.

Benjamin F. Ash, father of Julius W., was born in Milton Township of Wood County, Ohio, September 5, 1845. The first primitive school in that locality was a log cabin building erected on the Ash farm, and Benjamin F. learned his first lessons in that temple of learning. When only sixteen years of age and with the outbreak of the war, he enlisted in the army to serve ninety days, but was captured and was thrown into Libby Prison, where he remained until almost the close of the war when all the prisoners were set free. After the war he married Sarah J. Maeklin. Her family name was also spelled Michland. She was liorn in Wood County in 1847, a dau'jliti r (if Jeremiah Maeklin, who was accidentally drowned in the Maumee River while fishing, being then in the prime of his years. Jeremiah Maeklin married a Miss Wick, who lived to be quite old. After his marriage Benjamin Ash started farming a place of his own, and had a well improved farm of eighty acres. His wife died there May 28, 1878, at the age of twenty-eight years. She was a devout member of the Evangelical Church, and her loss was a heavy blow to the husband and family. After her death Benjamin Ash married Catherine Oebner, who was born and reared in Hardin County, Ohio. Benjamin Ash and his second wife are still living in Wood County, and are now well advanced in years but enjoy good health. They are members of the Evangelical Church and more or less continuously for thirty years he has served as Sunday School superintendent. In politics he is a republican. By his second wife he has a daughter Marj' 0., who is the wife of Oliver Ginder and lives in Weston. Wood County, Ohio, and has one child.

Julius W. Ash was the oldest of three children. He was born on the old homestead in Wood County, first owned by his grandfather, on December 16, 1866. His brother Elwood F. is a farmer and proprietor of a summer resort at Bear Lake, ^lichigan ; married Cora Swan and has a daughter Bessie. The only sister, Lottie Bell, died in 1906, survived by her husband James Watkins, who is a farmer and saw mill man in Trumbull County, Ohio, and a son Franklin.

Wood County and liad a public school education. He was married on the farm he now owns to iiiss Olive A. Swander. She was born on this place in Henry County March 9, 1870, and has spent practically all her life there. Her parents were Joseph and Abby (Packer) Swander. both natives of Ohio, and married in Stark County. Joseph Swander served for a brief period in the Union army during the Civil war, enlisting from Shelby County. After the war he came to Henry County and bought eighty acres of wild land in section 25, Harrison Township. He and his wife lived there in a log cabin for several years and under his hand he saw the land gradually improve and develop into a good farm. His wife died there in February, 1891, at the age of fifty-seven. Mr. Swander is still living with Jlr. and Mrs. Ash and is now seventy-eight years of age. He is an active member of the Evangelical Church as was his wife, and he has taken a pioneer part in the promotion of prohibition sentiment in his locality and has always been very decided on that subject.

Mr. and Mrs. Ash have a fine family of children about them. Their oldest child. Dr. Harle.v, is a graduate of the Ontario College of Veterinary Surgery . and also of the State University at Columbus, and is now practising very successfully at Weston. He is still unmarried. The other chilcLren, all at home, are Fay, Elwood E., Walter Atlay, Katie M., Nina Viola, and Helen E. The two younger children are still students in the Grelton High School. Mr. Ash and his older son are republican voters.

John Woodruff. That a community should be what it is largely as a result of one man's life and activities is perhaps the highest tribute possible to pay to human individuality. None would dispute that the flourishing town of Dunkirk bears in its present connnercial organization and energy' the impress of the character and influence of the late John Woodruff, who will long be remembered as a business builder, a civic leader and a man of splendid personal character.

At his death in his home at Dunkirk, November .30, 1910. John Woodruff was past eighty-four years of age. He had been a resident of Dunkirk since 1869, Init his reputation as a business man and his interests extended all over Northern Ohio and he was not unknown as a commercial factor in other .states. Though he started life without education, and by practical experience developed an exceptional business judgment and capacity, he was at the time of his death reputed to he the wealthiest man in Hardin County. Of Holland Dutch and Irish ancestry, John Woodruff was born at Walnut Creek in Franklin County, Ohio, October 29, 1826, and lived a month and one day past his eightj-- fourtli birtlulay. When he was three years of age his parents removed to Hancock County, Ohio, following the Scioto River and blazing their way through the forests with five other families, all of whom settled in Hancock and Hardin counties. The family acquired about 150 acres of land in that county, and John Woodruff grew up in the midst of pioneer conditions and limitations. When he was ten years of age his father died, and that threw upon him active responsibilities w'hich in any case would have precluded further education. There were no schools in Hancock County prior to that time, and so far as literaiy culture was concerned he had none except that gained by practical observation and acquaintance with men and affairs. In spite of this he became one of the. most successful bu.siness men who ever did business in Hardin County.

The basis of his fortune was laid as a livestock dealer in Northern Ohio, and he continued that line actively all his life. As early as 1845 he is said to have taken a drove of horses into Wisconsin. At Chicago he had a chance to triidr Ikhscs for land located near the heart of that urt-at inetropolLs, but he did not accept the opportunity. Later he traded horses for land at Holland, Michigan. For a time he was also engaged in the mercantile business at Williamstown.

In 1869 "Sir. Woodruff located at Dunkirk and engaged in the general mercantile business. During the rest of his life his personal enterprise and his influence were primary factors in the growth and development of that town. Among other things he put down six oil w-ells in the vicinity and he also owned a number of properties in the town, and he held on to them and improved them in spite of the fact that some showed a decreasing value after he had made a purchase. He also invested heavily in lands in Hardin. Hancock and Wyandotte counties of this state and in Ottawa County, ^Michigan, and for a number of years before his death had been the heaviest taxpayer of Hardin County. With all his other business interests he never neglected the livestock industn*. It is said that at times as many as fifteen carloads of his stock were on the road to market at one time. At his death his pastures contained some 500 head of cattle and 1,400 head of sheep. An interesting story is told of him during the early '80s. He went to Pittsburg and for some time bought livestock as a broker in that city, shipping to the eastern markets. The old experienced livestock men of Pittsburg endeavored several times to thwart his competition, but he was always too shrewd for them and came away from Pittsburg with a large amount of money to his credit.

On October 1, 1846, John Woodruff married Cordelia Hurd, who died in 1906, four years before her husband. She was born August 24, 1829. A record of birth in their family is as follows: Mary Elizabeth, born November 7, 1847 ; Adam BjTon, bom December 3, 1848; Anson, born March 15, 1851; Ada C, boni October 3. 1852 ; Brook H., born Febi-uarv 28, 1855; Ella, born October 10, 1857: Robert A., Iwrn September 10, 1859; Dora E., bom October 19, 1861; Anson B., born February 15, 1864; Irvin H., born Februai-v 14, 1865; Oliver H., born Mav 18, 1867; Leafie M., Iwm July 14, 1869: John, Jr., born July 29, 1871. Of these thirteen children the greater number grew up, and five sons and one daughter survive their honored father. The earlier deaths in the family were: Mary Elizabeth, who died in childhood: Anson, who died April 15, 1851, at the age of one month : Dora E., died January 19, 1864: Ella, died February 20. 1864; Anson who died in February, 1864, in infancy; and Ada C, who died October 3, 1873.

The son Oliver H. Woodruff, who was bom May 18, 1867, was educated in the public schools of Dunkirk and for a niimber of years was associated with his father in the mercantile business. He died July 15, 1912.

The only daughter to sui-vive her father wa.s Leafie M.. who was born July 14, 1869, and was married April 17, 1889, to Judson Mahon. Mr. and Mrs. Mahon have two daughters: Mayme Naomi and Isabel Woodruff.

John Woodruff. Jr. Bearing the honored name of his father, John Woodruff. Jr., was born at Dunkirk. Ohio, July 29. 1871, and has spent practically all his life in that

He had a public school education and learned business by practical experience as clerk in his father's store. Mr. Woodruff is a director in the Woodruff' National Bank and employs much of his time in looking after his fine farm of 434 acres. On September 18, 1910, he married Miss Blanch Cotner of Dunkirk.

David H. Edgar. Among the early settlers of Northwest Ohio whose careei-s reflect much local histoiy a place of special prominence was occupied by David H. Edgar, one of the pioneers in the vicinity of Dunkirk.

He was bom in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1800, and died at advanced age at the home of a daughter in Dunkirk May 15, 1889. In 1814 his father, Joseph Edgar, moved to Holmes County, Ohio, and there David grew up on a pioneer farm. He also learned the saddler's trade and followed it in Kentucky and Southern Ohio until 1830.

In June of the latter year he started from Chillicothe by stage coach for Upper Sandusky, then an Indian village. On the way he became acquainted with Harvey Buckminster, a stage driver and a noted pioneer of Northwestern Ohio. The friendship which began during that journey existed between these pioneers all their lives. Arriving at Upper Sandusky Mr. Edgar sold his trunk, put his simple clothing in a knapsack which he strapped on his back, and made his way on foot through a dense forest and by an Indian trail to the home of Joseph Bates, in what is now Hardin County. After working on the farm a few months he engaged to teach a subscription school, that being the first school ever held in what is now Jackson Township of Hardin County. The schoolhouse was a cabin on the Hueston place.

In the spring of the following year ilr. Edgar bought eighty acres of land near the site of the present Village of Dunkirk, and soon after was married to Miss Azuba Hamblin, who had been one of his pupils. What is now Hardin County was then a part of Logan County, and to obtain his marriage license he made a journey on foot a distance of thirty-five miles to Beilefontaine. He was married in March. 1831. worked on the farm of his father-in-law for a few months, and in the spring of 1831 built a cabin on his own land. That was the first cabin built in the present limits of Blanchard Township in Hardin County. It was in the vicinity of that first cabin that he spent the rest of his life. In Jauuaiy, 1834, in this simple home with only three women present, the only women then residing in the pres-eut townships of Washington, Blanchard and Jackson, his first child was born, Kissiah, who was the first white child a native of Blanchard Township. She afterwards married Adam Dupes of Dunkirk.

The cabin of Mr. Edgar was- also the scene in Jiuie, 1835, of the organization of the first Methodist Episcopal society in that part of the state, and besides himself and wife the constituent members were John Davis and wife. Mr. Davis was class leader. In politics he was a whig until the organization of the republican party and was a loyal devotee of its principles until his death. W^hen Hardin county was organized in 1833 it consisted of only two towTiships. The first election held for township officers in Blanchard Township was on April 10, 1833, at the old Houser Mill on the Scioto River east of Kenton. Thirty votes were cast, and David H. Edgar was elected clei'k. In the course of his lifetime he filled all the important township offices, and for more than a quarter of a century was justice of the peace.

He was a worthy pioneer and well fitted for all the responsibilities that fall upon such a citizen, including the task of rearing a family. He became the father of eleven children, and at the time of his death he was survived by three sons and four daughters, all of whom are married except one, twentyfive grandchildren, and eleven great-gi-andchildren. The mother of this family died June 17, 1867. and IMr. fidgar after that lived among his children. To the last his intellect and memory remained unimpaii'ed, and he was regarded as an oracle on all questions relating to pioneer life in Hardin County.

The following incident is related to show tlie courage of pioneer wives and mothers. Soon after he settled in his cabin he procured some sheep, and to protect them from the ravages of the wolves at night he built a rail pen clo.se by his cabin. On one occasion being unavoidably absent over night, he left his young wife alone in the lioTise. She was aroused from her slumber some time late in the night by the noise of wolves about the sheep pen. She sprang from her bed and opening the door yelled at the top of her voice, at the same time running out in the dark toward the pen and frightening the wolves away. Upon examination she found one of the sheep so seriously injured that she decided to make mutton of it, and cutting its throat dragged it into the cabin and skinned and dressed it, thus saving it for food.

James G. Watson owns and occupies the farm in Harrison Township of Henry County to which he was brought as an infant some sis weeks after his birth late in the year, 1865. While he has been very successful and progressive as a farmer, his farm means more to him than a place of business. It is endeared by all the associations of his early boyhood and by the fact that his parents spent their last years there, and it is also the happy and comfortable home where he has reared his own family.

His proprietorship extends to 120 acres of land, located partly in section 25, where his home stands, and also in section 26. Turkey Foot Creek crosses the land and adds both. to its value and beauty. The farm shows good management in every direction. The fields are well tended, and practically every season yield an abundance of the staple crops. There are strong and substantial buildings and Mr. Watson is not the type of man to neglect anything that will make for a better farm and will provide additional comforts and conveniences to his home.

His birth occurred in Seneca County, Ohio, October 7, 1865. He comes of some "fine old pioneer stock, representing the Scotch-Irish lineage, mainl_y Presbyterians in religion, and the first Watson in this branch of the family arrived in America before the Revolution and some of Mr. Watson's mother's descendants bore a gallant part as soldiers in that war. His grandparents were James and Mary (Glenn) Watson, both natives of Pennsylvania. James Watson was born in 1801. He was married in the later '20s, and he came in pioneer style, with ox teams and wagons, and established a home in the wilderness of Seneca County, Ohio. His location was near Melmore. He secured his land direct from the Government. Indians still lived there, though they were not inclined to be hostile. The woods were filled with wild game, and that was an important resource to the early pioneer settlers, since provisions brought from a distance were very costly and hard to get and the larder of those early homes was largely siipplied by wild meat and the fruits and grains grown on the land. James and Mary Watson lived out their lives in Seneca County and death came to them when they were a little past the meridian of their years. They were very active as Presbyterians and a.ssisted in organizing one of the first churches in Seneca County.

William A. Watson was the oldest child of James and Mary Watson. He was born in Pennsylvania about 1827. He had three brothers and one sister, but he was the only one who established a home in Henry County. He was married in Seneca County to Miss Eliza Welch, who was born in that county about 1833, and represented one of the oldest and most prominent families of that section of Ohio. Her parents were Hugh and Polly (Gibson) Welch. Hugh Welch came to Seneca County in 1816, being one of the first to establish a home there. He was the first settler on the east side of the river Miami. He found Indians in large numbers but he readily made friends with them and he could speak the Indian language. He enjoyed their complete trust and confidence as long as they remained in the country. Subsequently Hugh Welch moved into Wyandotte Count}', Ohio. and though his education consisted of such instruction as he had been able to impart to himself by reading and observation, he was an influential and useful factor in public affairs and politics. He served as associate judge in Wyandotte and Crawford counties for a period of twenty-one consecutive years, and in consequence was widely known as Judge Welch. His wife, Polly Gibson, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1805, and was one of a large family of sons and daughters. She was descended from revolutionary stock and her kinsman, Gen. AVilliam II. Gibsnn. raised the Forty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry for service during the Civil war and with him in the same regiment were nine of his nephews. The father of Hugh Welch had served as a soldier in the War of 1812, and was buried at ]\Iexico Village, Ohio. Hugh Welch cleared up a good farm in Seneea County. He was an earnest ^Methodist, while his wife was a member of the Presbyterian Cluireh. Their two daughters were their only children, one of them being Mrs. William A. Watson.

When Henry County was still an almost unbroken wilderness, William A. Watson and wife, accompanied by their four small children, started out from Seneca County and traveled the rough trails and roads in search of a new home. Mrs. Watson and her infant son rode in a buggy drawn by a horse. Arriving in Henry County they spent several years in a typical log cabin, but eventually they surrounded themselves with the prosperity and comforts that their industry and selfdenial merited, and William A. Watson died on the old farm in 1882 at the age of fifty-two. His widow survived him until 1873 and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Dr. James H. Fiser, at Malinta, Ohio. She had been reared in the Methodist Church, while William Watson was a Presbyterian. Besides James G. Watson thft-e are two sons still living, William V. of Colorado, and David G. of Malinta, Ohio, and also one daughter, Mrs. Dr. J. H. Fiser.

In Harrison Township of Henry County Mr. James G. Watson married Miss Bessie Randall. She was born in this township February 1, 1871, and was reared in her native locality and also in Toledo. Her parents were William and Mary A. ( Wilford) Randall. Her father was born in the State of Maine and was eighteen years of age when he came with his father, Thomas Randall, to Harrison Township in Henry County, where the Randalls cleared up a first class farm situated near the south bank of the Maumee River. Later Thomas Randall moved out to Kansas where he died. William Randall was married in Henry County and his wife was a native of Seneca County. They spent most of their active lives in Henry County, and died in Harrison Township, William Randall at the age of seventynine and his wife at sixty-eight. The Randalls are of stanch New England stock.

Mr. and ilrs. Watson have four children. Wendell E., now twent.v-four vears of age, had the advantages of the Grelton High School and is now wprking on the home farm. William R., after graduating from high school entered the Ohio State TJniver.sity, where he pursues hi.^ studies. Gale, born July 1, 1896. graduated from high school in 1914 and is now doing his share of the duties on the home farm. Norma is twelve years of age and still in the grade schools. Mr. Watson is affiliated with Grelton Lodge No. 339 of the Knights of Pythias and in politics is a republican.

Louis Gemelch. Whether in the staple industry of grape growing or in public affairs Louis Gemelch has exercised a very large and valuable influence on Middle Bass Island for many years. He is serving as township assessor and has held that office steadily for twenty-two years except for two years when the office was filled by appoiutment. He is in fact one of the sti'ong and able leaders of the democratic party in this section of Ottawa County. He filled a place on the local school board for 71/2 years, and it was his level headed sense and business experience that brought about the straightening out of the school records and affairs. He also served as trustee of Island Hall for three years.

When he first came to Middle Bass Island he spent six months working in the Werhle Vineyards. After that he was in Springfield, Ohio, for a couple of years, but then returned to jMiddle Bass Island and has been identified with this general locality ever since. Mr. Gemeleh was born at Sandusky, Ohio, June 1, 1859, his father being an early settler there. Both parents died in Sandusky.

After returning from Springfield to Middle Bass Mr. Gemeleh was employed on some of tlie Wherle boats for five years, and then found work in the Put-in-Bay Wine Company. For two years he was in the service of Jay Cooke, taking care of Gibraltar Island. . After his marriage Mr. Gemeleh settled down on Middle Bass Island, and has successfully operated a fine vineyard there for many years. He has twenty-one acres, of which sixteen acres are in grapes.

His wife before her marriage was Catherine Fisher. Her father, Anton Fisher, was one of the early settlers on ^Middle Bass Island, and his homestead was on the North Shore, where he erected a very beautiful big residence. Louis Gemeleh subsequently bought the old Fisher place from the other heirs, and is now its proprietor. Mr. and Mrs. Gemeleh have one son, Albert E., who spends part of the year fishing but is always at home during the grape season. He is at present trustee of Island Hall.

Mr. Gemeleh has been through all the chairs and is past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, holding membership in Commodore Perry Lodge, No. 730, of Put-in- Bav, Ottawa County.

Richard Tilliotson took up seventy-seven acres of Government land .just above the EUithorpe place. From that time to the present these names have been intimately asoeiated with the history of the island and there has hardly been a public enterprise with which one or both of these names have not been intimately connected.

Henry EUithorpe had the following children, all of whom spent their lives at Catawba Island. George, Cyrus, Russell and Emily, the last the wife of Clark Neal.

Russell EUithorpe married the daughter of Richard Tilliotson, and he subsequently became owner of the old Tilliotson homestead, where he followed agriculture until his death in September, 1897. His wife passed awav in 1898.

ilr. James EUithorpe, the only child of Russell EUithorpe, and a grandson of both Henry EUithorpe and Richard Tilliotson, was born on Catawba Island March 10, 1857, and has always lived on the old homestead of his father and of his grandfather Tilliotson. After his father died he kept up the active operation and cultivation of the land, and he is now recognized as one of the largest peach growers on the entire island, having fort.y-six acres in that fruit. He is now ably assisted by his son, Vernon, born October 30, 1890, who married Mabel Welch, born June 3, 1893, a daughter of James Welch of Catawba Island. His two daughters are Muriel, born January 28, 1893, who is now traveling with a theatrical company; and Eola, born July 21, 1894, who married June Kline, a farmer in Danbury Township and is the mother of two children. Earnest, born March 23, 1914, and a baby daughter, named Millicent, born July 7, 191.5.

For many years the late Russell EUithorpe served as trustee of Catawba Island, and James EUithorpe has followed the political leanings of the family and is a stanch republican. He was one of the charter members of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Port Clinton.

James Ellithorpe. Two of the first families to be represented in the citizenship of Catawba Island were the Ellithorpes and Tilliotsons. These early pioneers were Henry Ellithorpe and Richard Tilliotson, who were nf English and Scotch ancestry and came from Kelleys Island to Catawba Island. When they arrived only three or four other families were living there. Henry Ellithorpe acquired over 300 acres of land known as Lot No. 1, while

Edw.\rd Keimer. While struggling for a foothold in the New World after he came to this country from his native German.y, Edward Keimer fortunately became identified with the little islands along the north shore of Ottawa County close to the historic scene of Perry's Lake Erie victory, and since then the community of Put-in-Bay has had reason to consider itself fortunate that so capable a man came into its midst.

Born in Prussia, Germany, in 1850, Mr. Keimer learned the trade of carpentry according to the thorough German fashion. At the age of eighteen in 1868 he emigrated to the United States, and was first located at Sanduskj-. He followed his trade there for two years, but found it difficult to secure pay for his work. Then came an opportunity to start out for himself by taking a contract for the erection of a house at Put-in-Bay. He arrived there September 10, 1870, and put in the following winter in completing his contract. When it was finished it was his intention to go on to Chicago, but again he found it difficult to realize the money from his eontract, and before getting the matter straightened out he was again at work on the Put-in- Bay House for Montgomery and Gascoyne. Thus it was that one thing after another led to his remaining there and becoming a permanent settler.

For two years Mr. Keimer followed his trade, but in 1872 bought a vineyard of ten acres from Louis Harms, who was one of the pioneer grape growers on the Bass Island. Thus for more than forty-six years Mr. Keimer has been closely identified with what may be called the primary industry of these islands, and is known as one of the most successful in that line. In 1901 he removed to his present place of ten acres, and now operates both tracts of land as vineyards. He sells none of his grapes, using it all for the manufacture of grape juice and wine, for which there is a very steady demand. His annual output of grape product amounts to from 2,500 to 4,000 gallons.

As an old time resident of the island Mr. Keimer has not failed to identify himself in a public spirited manner with local affairs. For twenty-two years he was a member of the school board, and during Cleveland's second administration was deputy collector of customs. He is a democrat and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Sandusky. Mr. Keimer married ]\Iiss Minnie Van Dohren, daughter of Max Van Dohren, one of the early settlers on South Bass Island. Mr. and Mrs. Keimer had born in their home twelve children. His beloved wife died September 11, 1906. After remaining a widower for five years, he married Miss Anna Boehler, of Columbus, Ohio, on November 10, 1911.

summer resort is Smith's Cottage, which has been built up under the proprietorship and management of Benjamin L. Smith, one of the most competent and successful landlords on the island.

Mr. Smith was born near Bellevue, Ohio, March 20, 1870, and was reared on the home farm of his father Jacob Smith. He was associated with his father in farming and he and his brother, E. J. Smith, also built up a large hay business in that locality.

Benjamin L. Smith came to Put-in-Bay in 1897. The first j'ear he was in the employment of V. Doller, and the following year he had charge of the Williams place south of town. The first year after his arrival he started the Island Restaurant, which he conducted for three years, and this gave him the foundation of his experience as a successful hotel man. Since then he has been in the hotel business continuouslj', though for several years his place was not large enough to require all his time, and he continued his interests in other lines. Since 1911 he has given the best of his time and ability to the management of his hotel, and his success is no doubt due to the fact that he is in close touch with every detail. At the beginning his hotel had sleeping accommodations for only twelve persons; in the second year it was enlarged to forty, and in the third year he built Smith's Cottage as at present, with accommodations for 150 individuals.

Mr. Smith has also acquired other valuable interests in and around Put-in-Bay, including a vineyard of eleven acres near the city and some property near Bellevue. He is an active republican and for several years was a member of the town council. Mr. Smith is a Catholic and a member of the Knights of Columbus at Sandusky.

He married Miss Elizabeth Miller, who was born and reared on the island, a daughter of Chris Miller. They are the parents of four children: Walter, Edwin, Margaret and Evelyn.

George E. Crane. During his active practice as a lawyer for the past thirty years at Kenton, the reputation of the late George E. Crane as an able lawyer and a man of many qualities of leadership extended beyond the bounds of his home county and he was a familiar figure in the life of the state.

His parents were Samuel Ingham and Sophia Charlotte (Buck) Crane. His father was born at Florence, Erie County, Ohio, December 20, 1832, and the mother was born in New York City April 26, 1834. One of the tirst of the name in America was Jasper Crane, who lived at New Haven, Connecticut, after which some of his descendants located at Newark, New Jersey. Joel Crane, greatgrandfather of George E. Crane, moved from that section of New Jersey to Southbury, Connecticut, where in 1804 he married Olive Mitchell. Her gi-andfather, Eleazar Mitchell, was a member of the committee of safety during the War of the Revolution, also held a captain's commission in General Wasliington's army, and still earlier had command of a militia company at Fort Ticonderoga in the French and Indian war. Eleazar Mitchell was in the fifth generation from Matthew Jlitchell. who was born at Halifax, Yorkshire, England, in 1590, and who came to America and located at Boston in 1635. Rev. Jonathan ;\Iitphell, n son of Matthew was the third miiiistiT at ( 'iiiiiiiridge, Massachusetts, during i64!»-l()77, and was a graduate of Harvard College in 1647. Joel Crane and wife some rears after their marriage, in 1817, became pioneers in Northern Ohio and located in Erie County. Thus the Crane family has been identified with Ohio for almost a century.

George E. Crane was reared in New York and New Jersey, and also spent some of his early years at Norwalk, Ohio. After finishing a course in the public schools he entered Oberlin College, where he was graduated Bachelor of Arts with the class of 1877. For a number of years he was a successful teacher and was first known in Hardin County in that capacity. From 1878 to 1885 he was principal of the high school at Kenton. In the meantime he was pursuing hLs law studies and in 1885 was admitted to the bar and from that time on was continuously in practice at Kenton for more than thirty years. For many years he was recognized among that small group of attorneys who in every county and city stand in the forefront of their profession. He handled some of the most important cases before the local and di.striet courts, and in 1898 was appointed referee in bankruptcy. He was prominent in the ranks of the republican party and in 1898 and in 1908 was his party candidate for the office of judge of the Circuit Court.

and at the time of his death was chairman of the board of the public librarj'. He traveled extensively and went abroad while still teaching school in 1879 and again in 1881, and during 1899 he and his wife were in Europe for rest, instruction and pleasure. Mr. Crane was a Kniglit Templar ilason, a member of the Bene\-oleut and Protective Order of Elks and he and his wife were members of the First Presbyterian Church of Kenton. Mr. Crane was a member of the Laymen's Missionary Society and took an active part in the afi'airs of that body.

On June 12, 1889, he married Miss Kate Rachel Rhodes, daughter of Oregon E. and Xiria C. (Ensign) Rhodes of Kenton. To their marriage have been born three children : Esther, born at Kenton March 10, 1890, and graduated from Smith College in 1910, and took post graduate work in the University of Chicago, and received from that in.stitution the degree of Doctor of Philosophy ; Herbert Crane, born in Kenton May" 4, 1892, graduated from the Kenton High School in 1908, also graduated from Oberlin College, where he received the degre of Bachelor of Arts, and is now a student in the law department of Chicago University ; Katheriue Elizabeth, born at Kenton January 15, 1895, graduated from Kenton High School in 1910, and from Smith's College with the class of 1916.

Kenton Public Library. One of the institutions of Northwest Ohio very closely a.ssociated with the higher life of "the citi"zens is the Kenton Public Library. For the past ten years it has occupied a handsome building of its own, erected from a fund supplied by Andrew Carnegie, but the early history of the library movement has special interest as respecting some of the pioneer effort.? toward the establishment of such a cultural center many years before gifts for public benevolence on a large scale became common.

As early as 1853 an organization existed in Kenton known as the Kenton Library Association, which was formed with a view toward establishing a public library and also for the purpose of bringing noted iuen to the town to lecture. The first lecture was given on Februarv' 21, 1855, by the afterwards celebrated Horace Jlann of whom Ohio is justly proud. On February 11, 1856, Sunset Co'x gave the second lecture, and later such men

A list of the officers chosen in February, 1857, is: Judge Bain, president; Hugh Letson, vice president ; G. A. Stewart, secretary ; William Cary, treasurer; and A. S. Ramsey, J. A. Rogers, Daniel Barron, W. W. Nixon and W. L. Walker, directors. The association continued to prosper until the period of the Civil war, when the organization died out because all people were absorbed in the critical conflict in which the country was then engaged.

The next step in the movement toward a public library was a meeting in February, 1886, of which E. P. Dean wa.s chainnan and William M. Beckman, secretary. The plans made at that meeting were carried out so effectually by the public spirited citizens that in August, 1886, a room was opened in the Pfeiffer Block and the shelves were stocked with some good fiction, biography and history. A charter for the Kenton Library Association was secured from Gen. James S. Robinson, then secretary of the State of Ohio, the incorporators of the association being F. D. Bain, G. J. Carter, H. C. Koller, E. P. Dean, F. 0. Hanson and Robert S. Innes. New books were purchased from time to time from private subscriptions and the proceeds of public entertainment, and several well known citizens contributed individual collections. In this way the library was supported until the .state law was passed allowing a one mill tax to be levied for the support of libraries.

The principal local benefactor of the library was Lewis Merriman, who a short time before his death donated ground on North Detroit Street valued at $10,000 for the erection of a suitable building. The site having been secured, a donation of $20,000 from Andrew Carnegie was used for the construction of the present building. Architecturally the Libraiy Building is severely classic in .style, and the main floor is divided into sections for book racks, reading rooms and rooms for library officials, while the basement contains an assembly room. The present building was dedicated February 17, 1905.

For many years the late George E. Crane had been at the head of the book purchasing committee, and to his wide knowledge and excellent judgment is due much of the credit for the high standard that has always been maintained in selecting books for the library. The first regular librarian was Miss Frances

Rev. Benjamin Kelso Ormond, D. D., is especially well remembered in Toledo because of his long and valuable service as a minister of the Presbyterian Church. His life was one continuous record of unstinted effort in behalf of humanity and the following paragraphs find an appropriate place in the history of Northwestern Ohio.

He was born at Cecil, Washington County, Pennsylvania, the son of Alexander Poe Ormond and Jane Kelso Ormond, native Pennsylvanians and sturdy leaders in their community. His father was a descendant of a prominent ruling family of the North of Ireland and his mother was a descendant of the Kelso family of Kelso, Scotland, and a daughter of an officer in Washington's army.

Doctor Ormond spent much of his early life in Pittsburg and vicinity. By his own untiring efforts and perseverance he acquired a sound education at the academies of Indiana and Eldersridge, Pennsylvania, and at Washington and Jefferson College, where, after a four years' course he graduated. Later, he graduated at the United Presbvterian Theological Seminary of Allegheny, supplementing this with an advanced cour.se in Hebrew, which was the foundation of his thorough knowledge of the Bible.

He was licensed to preach in 1859, his first pastorate being the United Presbyterian Church of Sharon, IMercer County, Pa., where for twenty-three years, he was a power for good. Here, and during his two subsequent charges, under the inspiration of his enthusiasm, new churches were erected and congregations built up. After leaving Sharon, he entered the Presbyterian Church ; and at this time, while on a tour of the West, he organized a church in Pueblo, Colorado, which has since developed into a prosperous body.

Declining several calls, on account of university advantages he located in Wooster, Ohio, becoming a trustee of the university and taking an active interest in that institution; and, while there, served successfully as pastor of the Creston and Jackson churches, finally accepting a call to the Third Presbyterian

During the Civil war he rendered a valuable service in recruiting soldiers, in visiting the front and administering to the needs and comforts of the Pennsylvania volunteers. He was a consistent and active republican from the inception of that party and a firm believer in the cardinal principles as exemplified by Lincoln, McKinley and Roosevelt.

His interest in public affairs never waned, his faith in God never faltered, his devotion to his Master never ceased even to the last day of his advanced years.

September 7, 1909, he quietly passed away without warning, leaving his wife, Mary Mc- Farland Ormond, and four children, John M. Ormond, Mr.?. John R. Calder, Mrs. Frank Willard Thomas and Miss M. Georgia Ormond, all of whom live in Toledo.

He was a genial gentleman of the old school, kind and courteous to all and ever ready to lend a helping hand. His love for children and ready sympathy for his fellow-men endeared him to many from whose sorrowing hearts - when he fell asleep - came this message : "I have lost my best friend. ' '

John M. Ormond is one of the old established members of the Toledo bar, where he has been in active practice for more than a quarter of a century. During the last ten years his time and attention have been more and more taken up with the handling of important corporation interests, and he is regarded as one of the most competent civil lawyers in the northwestern section of Ohio. , He is a man of many and varied interests, and deserve special credit for his efforts toward preserving some of the precious monuments of history still found in the vicinity of Toledo. Elsewhere in this work will be found an ilhistration of the old Lucas County Courthouse at Maumee, and the photograph from which this illustration was made was taken by Mr. Ormond and was loaned to the editor of this work. For several years Mr. Ormond has been striving to interest the citizens and secure money enough to preserve the old courthouse and make it a treasure house and shrine of history in the Maumee Valley.

at Sharon, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, a son of the late Rev. B. K. Ormond and Mary (McFarland) Ormond. His mother is still a resident of Toledo. Rev. B. K. Ormond was for thirteen years the beloved pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church of Toledo, and reference to his career is found on other pages.

John M. Ormond graduated from the Sharon High School with the class of 1882 and later entered the University of Wooster at Wooster, Ohio, where he was graduated in 1887. He then entered the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he graduated in 1889 not only with the degree LL. B. but also as Bachelor of Philosophy. Admitted to the bar in the fall of 1890 he soon came to Toledo and in the following year opened his office in the old Law Building, where he remained about two years and then removed to the Nasby Building, which was his location for three years, but for the past twenty years his office has continuously been in the Spitzer Building, and he was one of the first tenants of that imposing structure in the business district. While a general practitioner he has never figured in the criminal law and for many years has had no connection with any ease involving his presence before a criminal court. Since 1905 he lias given a large share of his time and attention to corporation law and numbers among his clients some of the leading corporate concerns of Toledo and elsewhere. Mr. Ormond also owns considerable real estate, both city and farm property.

He is one of Toledo's successful business men who have established beautiful country homes away from the city's noise and dirt at Maumee and Perrysburg. His own home is in the village of Maumee, and is situated on historic ground and the residence is a fine old colonial mansion. While improving his grounds Mr. Ormond unearthed a number of relics such as old coins of ancient date, together with mementos of aboriginal occupation. He is a well informed student of history, particularly that pertaining to the Jlaumee Valley. He has recently given much time to the campaign for raising money to establish a public library at Maumee and at the time of this writing has secured a donation from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to the amount of ."filO.OOO to be expended for that purpose. The village of Maumee has already donated a site, and a beautiful library building is now situated next to the old Lucas

Mr. Ormond is a member of the Toledo Commerce Club and for a number of years has been active in every movement for political progress. In politics he is a republican, and is a member of the Third Presbyterian Church of which his father was for a long time pastor.

On October 1, 1890, Mr. Ormond married Miss Lucy Jameson of "Warren, Ohio. Her father was the late Biven Jameson, one of the old and honored citizens of Warren. Her mother, whose maiden name was Sarah Blair, came of old Massachusetts stock. Mrs. Ormond was born and educated at Warren, and in 1887 graduated from the Lake Erie Seminary at Painesville, Ohio. She is a charter member of the Sorosis Club of Toledo. Mr. and Mrs. Ormond have their city home at 2238 Scottwood Avenue. Among other associations Mr. Ormond is a member of the Lucas County Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association and the American Bar Association, and is also associated with the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and the Northern Light Lodge, No. 40, Free and Accepted Masons.

Walter Snider. One of the best qualified bankers in Ohio is now cashier of the First National Bank of Oak Harbor. Walter Snider has spent all his business years in banking, was formerly connected with banks in Indiana and also on the Pacific coast, and is a thoroughly trained and skillful financier.

The First National Bank of Oak Harbor was organized in 1903, and its first officers were : Jacob Kuebeler, president ; Charles H. Graves, vice president; George L. Wells, cashier, and William Timmennann, a.ssistant cashier. The capital stock has been $25,000 since organization, and in 1915 the surplus account showed also $25,000. It is one of the most flourishing institutions in Northwest Ohio as is shown by the aggregate deposits of about $525,000. "The bank pays 3i.<- per cent interest on time certificates and sa^4ngs. It occupies a modern banking house, and has proved a valuable asset to the business community. The present executive officers are: August Kuebeler Jr., president; Frank C. Michel and William Lipstraw, vice presidents; Walter Snider, cashier, and William Timmermann, assistant cashier.

Samuel G. and Fannie (Bond) Snider of Lafayette, Indiana. Since the early days the Sniders have been extensive laud holders in Indiana. The original farm of over 600 acres in Indiana which was originally purchased by his grandfather, Frederick V. Snidei", is still in the family.

Educatea in the public schools and Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, Walter Snider immediately after graduation took up banking. He was first cashier in a private bank owned by Snider & Snider, then cashier of the Farmers & Traders Bank, Lafayette, Indiana, and then vice president of the Peoples National Bank at Muncie, Indiana. The next five years I\Ir. Snider spent on the Pacific coast as president of the State Bank of Long Beach. In 1910 he came into the First National Bank of Oak Harbor as cashier, and for the past five years has done much to increase the resources and general stability of the institution.

As a loyal and public spirited citizen of Oak Harbor his name has been associated wita mucli of good accomplished in the village during recent years. He has helped in making the Business Men's Association a vital factor in local improvement and progress. The Business Men's Association has brought about the construction of the new electric light plant and the waterworks for Oak Harbor, and those improvements more than anything else have opened up a new era of progress in the city.

In politics Mr. Snider is a republican. He is affiliated with the lodge, chapter and council of the Masonic Order, with the lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Fremont, Ohio, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

Walter S. Clark is proprietor of the" oldest and best known undertaking establishment in Hancock County. In American life it is unusual to find one line of business descend from father to son through several generations, but the name Clark has been in that way identified with the undertaking and funeral direction business in Hancock County.

The parents of Walter S. Clark were J. K. and Mary (Devine) Clark, originally from Cumberland County, Pennsjdvania. The grandfather was a native of Ireland. From Pennsylvania J. R. Clark moved from Findlay, Ohio, in 1848. He was first engaged in the furniture business on a small scale. Responding to the urging and solicitation of his neighbors he finally became a funeral director, and his popularity was such that his clientele included praw-tically all of Hancock County. He was as progressive in his time as his son Walter is today. J. R, Clark war, the first undertaker in Hancock County to build outside boxes for the coffins used in those days. He also introduced into his business a funeral car or hearse, which in its time was regarded as a model of equipment and style. This old vehicle which carried the bodies of many well known citizens to the grave of an earlier generation is still carefully preserved by Walter S. Clark, and is one of the few survivals of a bygone age in funeral fasliions Mr. Clark has consented to this old funeral car being brought out for exhibition at the annual state convention of the undertakers, and in many ways it is a most iiiteresting relic. J. R. Clai'k, after a long and honorable career, died at Findlav in 1906.

His wife died in 1898. Of their four children, the only one now living is Walter S. Clark. He was born January 5, 1857, at Findlay, received his education in the common schools, and after learning the art of embalming from a Mr. Sullivan he entered business with his father and eventually became owner of the establishment founded by his honored sire.

Mr. Clark was married in 1884 to Miss Sarah Hartman, daughter of William Hartman of Eagle Township in Hancock County. Their only son, James Frank, born May 19, 1886, has also taken up the embalming and undertaking business and is now his father's active assistant. Mr. Clark has a $5,000 Winton funeral car which is the finest in Hancock County.

He and his family occupy one of the beautiful homes at Findlay. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is an independent republican and a member of the First Lutheran Church. For twenty years Mi-. Clark served as cemetery trustee.

John Meeks Firmin, M. D. For almost three ciuarters of a century the name Firmin lias been prominently identified with the medical profession in Findlay. The first of the family to practice there was the lat*^ Dr. Lorenzo Firmin, who opened his office in 1842, and was in many ways a useful and prominent man in that community. The oldest practicing member of the medical profession at present in Hancock County is Dr. Francis W. Firmin, who is now practically retired from professional work. He began practice in Findlay almost fifty years ago. Carrying the heavy responsibilities of a large practice and actively representing the family name in a profession which so many members of this family have honored is Dr. John Meeks Firmin, a son of Dr. Francis W. and a nephew of Dr. Lorenzo Firmin.

The Firmin family is of old English ancestrj^ and is traced even further back to the time of the Norman conquerors. The first of the family to come to America was Giles Firmin, who came over with Governor Winthrop of Massachusetts. Giles Firmin was also a physician, and is mentioned by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes in his History of Medicine. One branch of the family came to Summit County, Ohio, in the early years of the last century, and at Richfield in Summit County was born Dr. Francis W. Firmin on July 15, 1842. He spent most of his early youth in the New England states. In 1862 he arrived at Findlay, and in the fall of the same year entered Oberlin College. In 1863 he enlisted with other students in Company E of the Hundred and Twenty-ninth Ohio Infantry, and served with that command until honorably discharged March 10. 1864. He returned to Findlay and began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Lorenzo Firmin, and completed his education in the Western Reserve College at Cleveland, from which institution he received the degree M. D. on February 18. 1867. He immediately opened an office in Findlay and for many vears has been recoornized as the dean of tlie local profession. He also served four years on the city council and seven years on the board of education, and has been prominent in the IMasonic Order siiir-o 1868. In 1872 he was appointed examining surgeon for pensions in Hancock County, and held that office for many years except during democratic administrations. On May 6, 1869. Dr. Francis W. Firmin married Mary L. D. Meeks, daughter of Rev. John A. Meeks. To their marriase were born four children : Scott, Dr. John M., Frank B. and Carl G.

Dr. John Meoks Firmin was born at Findlay October 31, 1872, and secured his early education in the grammar and hisrh schools, graduating from the latter in 1890. In the same year he entered Oberlin College, where his father at one time was a student, and re- ceived his A. B. degree in 1894, and iu 1897 Oberlin conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree. From Oberlin after his graduation he entered the medical department of the Ohio Wesleyan University, and was graduated :M. D. with "the class of 1897. For a year and a half he was interne in the Cleveland City Hospital, and with that excellent training and preparation he l)egan practice in Findlay in 1899. Though enjoying a large practice and noted for his skill both as a physician and surgeon, he is still a student and close observer, and whenever possible takes the opportunity of associating with the eminent men in his profession. In 1900 and again in 1907 he attended the Po.st-graduate School of New York city.

Politically Doctor Firmin is an independent republican. He served as master of his Masonic Lodge in 1905-07, is past high priest of the Royal Arch Chapter, and has been thrice illustrious master of the council. He also belongs to the Findlay Country Club and is a great lover of the game of golf. He also belongs to the Court Literary Society and the First Presbyterian Church. In 1916 he was elected vice president of his alumni association.

Doctor Firmin married for his tirst wife Miss Bess Andrews, a daughter of H. H. Andrews, a well known real estate man of Findlay. Mrs. Firmin died in 1912 leaving one son, Richard Andrews, who was born September 11, 1906. In April, 1914, Doctor Firmin married Blanche Crites, daughter of William and Ida (Gunsaulus) Crites, of Findlay, Ohio, and by this union there is one child, John Crites Firmin, born January 2, 1917.

Donald Franklin Melhorn. For thirtyfive years the name Melhorn has represented solid ability and high attainments in the profession of law in Hardin County.

The late Charles M. Melhorn was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1881, and for several years was a partner in pi-actice with Judge A. B. Johnson. From 1885 to 1891 he served as prosecuting attorney for two terras, and from 1895 until his death in 1902 was judge of the Common Pleas Court. He died while still serving on the bench, and is remembered as a sound lawyer and just judge. His death occurred November 1, 1902, and his widow is still living at Kenton.

28, 1889, was educated in the public schools and at Oberlin College, and in 1911 graduated from the literary department of the University of Michigan and iu 1914 obtained his degree Jurium Doctor from the same institution. Ju.st thirty years after his father had been elected to the same office he was chosen prosecuting attorney of Hardin County in the election of November, 1914, and is still serving in that position. He is a member of the Hardin County and the Ohio State Bar Association, is a director in the Hardin County Athletic As.sociation, is a member of the Masonic order and in politics a republican.

Edward Vance Boi'e in the course of twenty-si.x years of active law practice at Findlay has found his talents more and more engaged in corporation work, and his resoureefulne.ss as a corporation lawyer has been put to te.sts in hundreds of important cases in which he has appeared as one of the leading counsel. Besides a large geno-al cliciitai'f' Mr. Bope is general counsel of 1lic 'i'diciln, Mowling CTreen & Southern Trai'timi (omiiany, and his time is taken up with the legal affairs of various business organizations.

He was born at Findlay in 1868, .and is of (ierman stock on his father's side and Scotch- Irish through his mother. His ancestors came to America and settled in Virginia in colonial days and several of his family belonged to the patriot organizations of the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution.

Mr. Bope is a son of tlie late Col. James A. Bope, who mari-icil :Martha J. Meeks. His father made a brilliant record as a soldier during the Civil war. In 1861 he went to the front as captain of Company D of the Ninety ninth Ohio Infantry and was in active service for four years. After the war he practiced law at Findlay.

Edward V. Bope attended the public schools at Findlay and in 1881 entered Kenyon College, where he was graduated A. B. in 1885. The following two years were spent in the law department of the University of Michigan, where he was graduated with the class of 1887. He was soon afterward admitted to the Ohio bar and then joined Col. J. A. Bope, establishing the firm of Bope & Bope in 1890. J. A. Bope died in 1908. and since tlii'ii Kilward V. Bope has carried on an iiHli\ idiial pi-actice. He is a director in the First National Bank of Findlay. Politically he is a conservative republican. He is a past exalted ruler in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Findlay, is a member of the Findlay Country Club, belongs to the Beta Theta Society of the University of Michigan, and the Beta Alpha of Kenyon College, the Court Literary Sofioty and the Hancock Bar Associatio]), iln' Sdiis nt' V-eterans, is a thirtysecond degnr Sciitii^li l\ite Mason and a member of the Firs' Presbyterian Church.

Alice E. Fiser. Specialization is the order of the age in all occupations and industries, and notably so in the work which for so many years has been handled on broad and generous lines liy tlio physician or doctor. Some of the .sprrial hi-aiii-li('s have been developed as distinrtivc silumls of healing, and none of these has .^itooil the test of experience and criticism better tlian chiropractic and mechano-therapy.

It has been as a practitioner along these lines that Doctor Fiser has been successfully engaged at Findlay during the past seven years. Doctor Fi.ser was born on a farm in Darke County, Ohio, a daughter of Miles and Harriet (Sutton) Mofford. Her family is of Welsh and Irish descent. Doctor Fiser attended the common schools in the country, the Attica High School in Seneca County, and in 1906 graduated from the American College of Mechano-Therapy at Chicago. She has since taken post-graduate work in Cleveland and is also a graduate of the Ohio Institute of Naturo-Practice.

She opened an office in Findlay, Ohio, and ha.s since built up a very large practice all over Hancock County. She is a member of the State and National Associations of Chiropractic and was appointed to the board of censors of the Ohio College of Chiropractic. Doctor Fiser is a student in every sense of the word and has accomplished a great deal of good in her chosen field and Ls a credit to the profession she so ably represents. She has a host of warm friends in Findlay and vicinity. She is past matron of the Order of Eastern Star and also belongs to the Rebekah Lodge. She i.s a member of the First Presbyterian Chui-ch of Findlay.

Cn.VRLES B. D WIGGINS. Once a farmer boy and countrv school teacher. Charles B. Dwiggins for many years has found success and fame in the practice of law and is one of the widely known attorneys of Northwest Ohio. For nearly thirty years he has been identified with the Findlaj' bar and he is still practicing there, entrusted with a large and influential clientele. His offices are in the Karst Building.

He was born on a farm in Clinton County, Ohio, a son of Zimri and Phoebe (Frazer) Dwiggins. When his services could be spared from the home farm he attended country school and at the age of sixteen began teaching. He followed that occuxiation in various country districts for four years. His higher literary education was attained during three years of attendance at Franklin College in Wilmington, Ohio. At Wilmington also he began the study of law under Judge A. W. Doan, and remained with him a year and a half. He was then admitted to the bar by the District Court in Clinton County and gained his first successes as a lawyer at Wilmington. He practiced three years there with Judge F. G. Sloan and T. 0. Hildebrandt, with Melville Hayes one year, and three years with Telfair Creighton.

Mr. Dwiggins came to Findlay in 1887 during the oil boom, and soon had a gratifying share of local practice there. He was alone until 1902, when he formed his partnership with Tom McConnica, and their relationship continued until five years ano. siiu-f which time Mr. Dwiggins has again iiranic'd alone.