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Successful in his profession he has given liberally of his time and means to local affairs. He served a time on the board of education, was also, clerk of the board of education, and has also taken an active part in fraternal affairs. He has served as exalted ruler of his home lodge of Elks and as chancellor commander of Lodge No. 400, Knights of Pythias.

Mr. Dwiggins married iliss j\Iary B. Shepherd. They are the parents of two sons and a daughter." Their son Clare Victor Dwiggins has attained an enviable fame as a cartoonist and is the author of many popular comics which have illustrated some of the foremost metropolitan papers. Some of the originals of his cartoons are prized possessions of Mr. Charles B. Dwiggins. He married Bessie Kinsey of Piedmont, ^Missouri, and they have daughter is Claudia, now Mrs. C. E. Holopeter of Portland, Oregon, and the mother of one child, Charles. Verne, the younger son, is an electrician with the Municipal Light & Power Company of Cleveland. Ohio. He

John D. Snvder. Both as a lawyer and business man John D. Snyder has been a prominent factor in Hancock County business affairs during the last quarter of a century. He is now actively associated in practice at Findlay with Hiram Van Campen, and without question the firm of John D. Snyder and Hiram Van Campen stands in the front rank of corporation and business lawyers in Northwestern Ohio.

A native of Ohio, John D. Snyder was born in 1859, and spent his early life on a farm. His parents were William and Mary A. (^wander) Snyder. Both families were of Swiss origin, the first American ancestors coming from Canton Berne as early as 1732. In later generations they served as soldiers in the American Revolution and in the War of 1812.

John D. Snyder attended country schools, and in 1875 entered Heidelberg College at Tiffin, Ohio. For two years he was out of school earning means for the continuance of his education, but he eventually completed the course and was graduated A. B. with the class of 1882. On leaving college ilr. Snyder went to Fargo, North Dakota, and organized with others the Fargo Evening Post. Selling his interest in 1883, he spent the following year reading law in the State of Michigan. He was admitted to the Michigan bar in the spring of 1884, but in 1887 located at Fostoria, Ohio. In January, 1897, he resigned his office as city solicitor of Fostoria and entered upon his duties as .judge of the Probate Court of Hancock County. Since then he has lived at Findlay and for six years he gave an exceedingly careful and thorough administration to the varied responsibilities that came to him as probate judge. He was elected on the republican ticket.

After retiring from the office of probate judge Mr. Snyder practiced alone until 1906, when he formed his partnership with Mr. Van Campen. This firm besides much other corporation work acts as general counsel of the Central Railway Signal Company. In 1903 Judge Snyder initiated the movement which resulted in the organization of the Findlay Publishing Company, the company taking over the properties of the Morning Republican and the Evening Jeffersonian. He is now a stockholder in the company and he was one of the ten men who promoted and

While living in Fostoria Judge Snyder was elected a member of the board of education in 1891. He is active in the First Presbyterian Church of Findlay, being chairman of the church board for six years. He served fifteen years as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Y. M. C. A., six years of that time as president. In 1885 he married Miss Rose E. Mussetter of Fostoria, daughter of Levi D. and Eunice Mussetter. Judge and Mrs. Snyder have two children, Evelyn and Marguerite. Evelyn is liow Mrs. Oliver Zoll of Detroit, Michigan, and has a daughter Rosemary. Marguerite is Mrs. Rodney Van Fleet and lives in Toledo, Ohio.

Scott William Mascho. The Independent Torpedo Company, of which Scott W. Mascho is secretary, is the largest independent industry of its kind in America. Much of its rapid growth and the expansion of its business, wliich is in the supplying of nitroglycerin products all over the country', and particularly to the oil districts, has been due to the business aggressiveness of Mr. Mascho.

He was born at Brookfield in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1870, a son of John J. and Frances (Kizer) Mascho. His father was a Pennsylvania farmer. The son began his schooling in the district school and when nine years of age the family removed to McKean County, Penns>dvauia, and later he was a student in the high school at Bolivar, New York. Mr. Mascho first came to Findlay, Ohio, in 1887. Here 'he was engaged in the nitro-glycerin business with his father and brother-inlaw under the name McCoy & Mascho. Then for three years he was with the firm of Yoll & Hecock, for one year was with W. T. Weed and then for a year conducted a building supply business. After that he was local manager for the National Supply Company at St. Marys, Ohio, establishing the bra:nch in that city.

llr. Mascho at Warren, Indiana, entered the oil business for himself, being part owner in the firm of Parker & Mascho. From there he returned to Findlay and took charge of the office of the Bradford Glycerin Company. In 1905 he and the late E. Wanamaker organized the Independent Torpedo Company. In less than a dozen years this business has been built up until it surpasses every 'other competitive firm. The company now has branches at Findlav, Robinson. Illinois: IndeDendencc,

Kansas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mr. Mascho married Catherine Lamb, daughter of Jacob and Catherine Lamb, who wei"e a pioneer family of Hancock Comity, Ohio, and of Scotch ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Mascho lost their only child, a daughter, Anna Catherine, who died in infancy. They attend the First Presbyterian Church and Mr. Mascho in political matters is independent. He was recently candidate for president of the Findlay City Council, and was defeated by only eighty -seven votes. Fraternally he is a _Seottish Rite Mason and is a past eminent commander of the Knights Templar. He also belongs to the Findlay Country Club.

Justin Brewer has for many years been prominently identified with banking and business life in Hardin County, and his range of interests is not confined to Hardin County.

He was the first president of the Ada Savings Bank when it was organized on October 3, 1893, with a capital of $25,000. The other officers were Henry Young, vice president; and James Bastable, cashier. This bank was continued under the first organization and name until July 1, 1900, when it was reorganized with a national charter under the name The First National Bank of Ada. It began with a capital stock of $25,000, but in 1910 the capital was increased to $50,000. A statement in 1917 shows that the capital is $50,000, surplus $10,000, and undivided profits about $7,000, while the deposits aggregate approximately $288,000. Mr. Justin Brewer continued as president of the First National and has held that office to the present time. The other officers are: Ben R. Connor, vice president ; J. S. McKee, cashier ; and Howard Bentley, assistant cashier. These and the other directors are all men of known business ability, and the bank is one of the most prosperous institutions of the kind in Hai'din County.

Mr. Justin Brewer beside his position as president of the First National Bank of Ada is a director of the Vinton County National Bank at McArthur, Ohio; director of the Alger Savings Bank at Alger, Ohio; ti-easurer of the Ada Telephone Company; a former trea.surer of the Ada Water, Heat & Light Company; and was formei-ly a trustee of the Ohio Northern University. He is a charter member of the Masonic order and of the Knights of Pythias, and from 1904 until 1910 he filled the office of county auditor of

He is also one of the men most prominent in that section of Northwest Ohio as fanners and stock raisers. He has a fine 300 acre farm in Hardin County, and he also owns a 5,200 acre ranch known as V-4 ranch in South Dakota, from which he ships cattle to Hai'din County to be fattened for the market. At Ada he erected and owns the Brewer Block, a two story brick building on a foundation 87 by 90 feet and has a number of other business houses and owns the finest residence in the City of Ada.

Eli.jah T. Dunn. Few members of the bar or any other profession in Northwestern ' Ohio who began their active careers more than half a century ago are still recognized as forceful figures in their chosen field. An exception is the case of Elijah T. Dunn, of Findlay, who earned his first fees while the Civil war was still in progress, and who many years ago built up a reputation as one of the ablest criminal attorneys in Northwest Ohio and still has a practice in business which indicates that he has lost little of his skill and proficiency through the weight of years.

A native of Knox County, Ohio, where he was born June 20, 1840, he has lived to pass the three-quarter century mark and has crowded that long lifetime to the full with worthy activities. His parents were John and Elizabeth D. Dunn. ThLs is a prominent old family of Ohio. From the north of Ireland where the Dunns had their original seat three brothers came to America in colonial days, and from each descended a family that can now be found in many states of the Union. Mr. Dunn's direct ancestor was Rev. George Dunn, a pioneer Baptist minister, wliose home and work were in Marjdand. A grandson of this pioneer clergyman , was John Dunn, father of the Findlay lawyer. John Dunn. who was born in Maryland December 1, 1799, and died in Wood County, Ohio, March 9, 1851, came with his wife and three children and his father. George Dunn, in 1826, to Ohio, locating first in Fairfield County, then in Knox County, and in 1844 in Wood County. He was a practical farmer and a man of no little influence in the early communities where he made his home. His wife, Elizabeth Dorothea Bowlman, who was born in Maryland January 1, 1808. was the daughter of Nicholas and Magdalene (Troxel) Bowlman and was descended from a number of German families who were noted for their .solid and thrifty virtues in the states of Mai-yland and

Pennsylvania. One line of her ancestry was the Hager family that gave its name to the old town of Hagerstown, Maryland. Mrs. John Dunn died in 1883 at the age of seventyfive. Her children were: Ann, who married Adam Cosner; Jacob, who married Angeline Gulp; Joseph, who married Mary Niebel ; George, who died unman-ied in 1855; Maria, who became the wife of William Stretcher; Aaron, who died single ; Samuel, who married Margaret Bishop; Phebe, who became the wife of Joseph Hoot; Nathaniel, who died in 1846; Elijah T. ; Mary Magdalene, who died in 1846; John, who never married; and Thomas Corwin, who married Emma T. Lewis.

The old home of the Dunn family in Wood County was in the district knowm as the Black Swamp. It was in that pioneer locality with its many primitive facilities and institutions that Elijah T. Dunn was reared from the age of four to thirteen. Public schools in the modern sense did not then exist anywhere within the State of Ohio, and the efficiency of instruction in the subscription schools dependent entirely upon the character and ability of the individual teacher who happened to be employed. Therefore Elijah T. Dunn received little of the training that modern boys receive almost as a natural right, but he was a splendid example of that initiative and original impulse which make opportunities regardless of obstacles or environment. From boyhood he was an eager reader and learner. The opportunity for a practical education came when he was about thirteen or fourteen years of age in an apprenticeship at a printing office in Wilmington. He learned the trade according to the old principles, but of even greater importance was the knowledge of people and things which came as part of his training. It has been well said that one of the besi: universities in the world is a printing office. Through his education thus acquired he taught school and employed all his vacation hours and leisure in the study of law. He did not pursue his law studies continuously, since the necessities of self-support interrupted them frequently, and eventually he completed his course to the satisfaction of the examiners and was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-two on August 2, 1862.

Ever since that year, while the Civil war was raging, he has been identified with the Findlay bar, and distinguished himself almost from the first as a resourceful trial lawyer and one of the most competent who ever handled a criminal case in Northwest Ohio. The reputation thus built up on careful and skillful work has persisted to the present time. In later years his interests became extended to business aff'airs. He has been one of the factors in the oil and gas development of Northwestern Ohio, and served as president of the Wood & Hancock Oil and Gas Company' and a director in some of the principal industries of recent times at Findlay and also a director in several banks. His recreation has largely been found on his fine farm situated a short distance from Findlay. He has used this farm for the breeding and raising of fine stock, and has made it a source of profit as well as pleasure.

Mr. Dunn is a member of Stoker Post of Grand Army of the Republic, having served his country during the dark days of the Civil war. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and a life member of Findlay Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is one of the first members of that Order in Findlay. He and his wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. His home is at 302 East Hardin Street in Findlay.

In January, 1865, Mr. Dunn married Miss Martha I. Strother. Her father, Anthony Strother, was one of the early settlers of Findlay. Three sons were born to their union: Bernard L., John A. (deceased) and James C. At the present time Bernard L. Dunn is actively associated with his father in law practice at Findlay and thus the prestige of the senior partner is being continued through a son of very able attainments. James C. is also on the official staff".

Marion G. Foster. Some men, on account of unusual natural ability, get a very early start in life and are successful when many of their contemporaries are merely laying the foundations of success. That is true of Marion G. Foster, who has been a practicing lawyer at Findlay for -many years and was well launched in his career both in the profession and in public affairs by the time he reached his legal majority.

He was born near the City of Cleveland in Cuyahoga County April 25, 1868, a son of L. L. and Marcia (Clark) Foster. He attended coimtry schools and the Berea High School for two years, and was little more than a boy when he was qualified and given charge of a country school in Brooklyn Township of

Cuyahoga County. He remained a teacher there three years and in 1885 came to Findlay and put in two years teaching in Allen Township of Hancock County. In 1887 Mr. Foster entered the office of Henry Brown at Findlay and began the study of law. He was admitted to the bar at Columbus in 1899. In the spring of 1890 he was elected clerk of the City of Findlay and in 1898 was elected its city solicitor. In 1905 he was elected a member of the State Legislature. He served as a capable icprcst'iitative of his constituency in the b-ishiti\c sessions of 1906 and 1908, and was a iin'iiiliiM' of the cities and the public buildings and land committees. He has always practiced alone, and a large clientage reposes the utmost confidence in his ability and counsel. He ha.s his offices in the Karst Block.

Mr. Foster is a democrat and has served as chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 400 of Findlay, Ohio, and as exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the same city.

In lineage he is of old Yankee stock. Mr. Foster married Mary M. Duffield of Hancock County February 6, 1909. They have two children, Mary Margaret and William Clark.

John D. Irving. Though he died at Toledo June 1, 1896, more than twenty years ago, the late John D. Irving was that type of citizen whose memory is not forgotten. He was long prominent in insurance circles, and the business which he founded and which he conducted for a number of years was continued through the dynamic abilit.v of his wife, Elizal)eth Mansfield Im'ing, and the Elizabeth Mansfield Irving & Company is- ikju' one of the leading insurance firms nf tlir rity.

There was an inheritance of ru.uurd New England virtues in the late John 1). Irving. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Irving. .«pent their lives at Hampstead, New Hampshire, where for many years his father served as postmaster. Jacob Irving was a very active member of the Congregational Church.

In a home of substantial comfort though of no luxury, and of high ideals and with every encouragement to make the best of his time' and talents, John D. Irving spent his early years. He was born at Hampstead June 10, 1839. One of his schoolmates in the public schools of his native town was the late Fred Eaton of Toledo, who also came from that section of New Hampshire. John D. Irving was a resident of Toledo the last twenty years of his life. For a time he was with the late T. P. Brown in the fire insurance business, but the year before his marriage he bought the business of Mr. Brown and he conducted it under his own name, John D. Irving. Later he took a i)artncr and the firm became Irving & Russell. Still later it was known as John D. Irving & ('(imi)aiiy. with Mrs. Irving as his associate. This old firm name was continued for many years after his death, but in 1909 a change was made to Elizabeth Mansfield Irving & Ciimpany. Mrs. Irving's son and daughter i-i)mi)rise the company, though neither is imw active in the business.

The late Mr. Irving at the time of his death and for a number of years before had lieen secretar.y of the Industry Savings & Building Company of Toledo, and it was due to him that that was built up as a very profitable business. Though best known in insurance and building and loan circles, he was always ready to do his part in behalf of civic advancement. In 1877 he was chosen secretar}' of the Monroe Street Railroad Company. He served as treasurer of the local board of underwriters from its organization until his death.

Mr. Irving had membership in many fraternal societies and was honored with both state and national offices. He was grand commander of the State of Ohio for the Ancient Order of United Workmen; was supreme commander of the Knights and Ladies of the Golden Rule, and he also held offices in the Royal Arcanum and the Independent Order of Foresters. He was long identified with the First Congregational Church of Toledo.

On December 24. 1877. John D. Irving and Miss Elizabeth Mansfield \\eri> united in marriage at Hillsdale. Miehiuaii. the late President Durgin of Hillsdale College officiating at the ceremony. Two children were born, and after the early death of the father the mother became both mother and father to them, encouraging them in every way, and her pride in their achievements is well .iustified. The son is John Man^eld Irving, who was born in Toledo, graduated from the Central High School with the class of 1904, then spent two years assisting his mother in the insurance business, and followed that with a four year literary course in the University of Michigan, where he was graduated Bachelor of Arts with the class of 1910. For a time he resumed the insurance business with his mother at Toledo, but for the past four years

The daughter, Margaret Elizabeth Irving, was also born in Toledo. After graduating from the Central High School in 1910, she entered the University of Michigan, taking the same course as her brother and graduating from university in 1914, and is a teacher of public speaking in the Iowa State College at Ames, Iowa. She is treasurer of the National Speech Arts Association, of which she has been a member for several years. She is a member of the First Congregational Church, of the Woman's Relief Corps and of the Kappa Alpha Theta college sorority.

Elizabeth Mansfield Irving, one of the few really successful women in the field of insurance in Northwest Ohio, and head of the Elizabeth Mansfield Irving & Company of Toledo, was born near the village of Westmoreland, then called Hampton, about eleven miles west of Utica, New York. Her parents were Joseph Lafayette and Maria Louise (Weaver) Mansfield, who subsequently removed to Hillsdale, Michigan. Mrs. Irving received her education in the common schools of New York State, later attended Hillsdale College at Hillsdale, Michigan, and then entered the National School of Oratory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which awarded her the degree of Master of Elocution.

Mrs. Irving is one of the most widely known women of Ohio. She has talents and abilities that have distinguished her in several fields, not alone in the business which she has so successfully carried on in Toledo since her husband's death. She is an accomplished speaker and elocutioni.st. Since its organization in 1908 she has been a member and on the board of the Toledo Woman's Association. She belongs to the Sorosis Club, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Woman's Relief Corps, the Ladies Literary League, and has held vai-ious otBces. including that of president in 1915, in the Toledo Underwriters Association.

For a number of years she has been recognized as one of the foremost teachers of elocution, oratory and dramatic art. Her services as an entertainer have been recognized and appreciated not alone in Northwestern Ohio but all over the country. She has recited at many of the national and state meetings of the Grand Army and Woman's Relief Corps. Many times have the old soldiers been entertained by her. She has been on the program at the national reunions of the Army of the Cumberland, the Army of the Potomac, and the Army of the Tennessee, has appeared many times in the state reunions of the Grand Army of the Republic, and also in the national reunions of that organization. She is one of the charter members of the National Speech Arts Association, and has held every office except that of president. Mrs. Irving is a member of the First Congregational Church of Toledo.

Louis Frese, president of the First National Bank of Elmore, is an exemplification of the predominance of the self-made man and of the truth of the adage that it is not tliose who have, but those who gain, a competence that attain distinction in life. During a period of half a century he has been connected with the business and financial affairs of Elmore and his name has been identified wdth many of the enterprises which have brought prestige and prominence to this thriving and prosperous little city of Ottawa County. In the meantime he has been generous in contributing his labors and abilities to the public welfare and in a number of public offices has displayed his ideals of citizen.ship as well as his capacity for executive duties.

Mr. Frese was born in Hanover, Germany, June 13, 1838, and is a son of John Henry and Louisa (Heilbrun) Frese. He was three years of age when brought to the United States, his father settling on a farm in Sanduskj' County, Ohio, in which vicinity Louis Frese received hi.s early education. Later he attended the public schools of Toledo, and in that city his career was started in a furniture factory, in which he worked for six years. Mr. Frese came to Elmore in 1865 and here joined C. H. Damschroeder in founding a general mei-chandise business, which was eonducted for many years under the style of C. H. Damschroeder & Co. As his holdings increased, he turned his attention to other enterprises and branched out into other fields of endeavor. In 1888 he became the proprietor of a sawmill business, which he conducted successfully for fifteen yeai-s, and March 5, 1903, became the founder and organizer of the First National Bank of Elmore, which began business June 7th of that year. He has continued to be president of this institution since its inception, the vice president being J. G. Steinkamp and the cashier H. W. Nieman. The capital of the bank at this time is $25,000, its surplus $12,500, and its deposits $355,000, and the concern owns its own banking: house, a two-story brick structure, 20 by 60 feet, with offices on the second floor. The officers remain the same as at the organization, with the exception that E. H. Meyer has become assistant rasliici'. Mr. Frese is a director of the Multiplex Concrete Machinery Company of Elmore. Fertile in resource, every undertaking with which he has been connected has been prosecuted with a zeal and energy which have merited and attained success. During the twelve years that Mr. Frese served as a member of the Elmore City Council he had a hand in the numerous civic improvements which have added to the city's growth and prosperity. He served also as a member of the school board for two terms and as township treasurer for a like period, and his public record is one that reflects credit upon his name and his abilities.

ilrs. Frese was before her marriage Miss Eliza A. Luckey, of Elmore, daughter of Dr. George W. Luckey, an early physician of this city. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Frese: Harry, of Casey, Illinois, engaged in the oil business, married Miss Hattie Caris and has one son, Louis; Miss Jennie, who resides with her parents ; Frank, who is a traveling salesman with headquarters at Dayton. Ohio; George L., a veterinary surgeon of Toledo, who married Anna Koehrman ; Ida L., who resides in New York; Charles, assistant cashier of the Ohio Savings & Trust Company of Toledo, and Louis C, who is engaged in the real estate busine.ss at Denver, Colorado. For twenty years Louis Frese has been a member of the Odd Fellows, both lodge and encampment, and is past noble grand in that order.

W. A: Norton. For more than half a century a resident of Kenton, where he grew up from early youth, where he was the first male graduate of the Kenton public schools, W. A. Norton has had a notable career in banking and in larger business affairs.

He was born at Marseilles in "Wyandot County, Ohio, December 17, 1852, the only son of Anson and Rachel (Hooker) Norton. His first American ancestor was Thomas Norton of Guilford, England, who brought his family to America in 1639. Mr. Norton's great-grandfather was Joel Norton, while the grandfather, Anson Norton. Sr., married Lucretia Woodruff, a daughter of David Woodruff and descended from Matthew

Anson Norton, father of the Kenton banker, was born at Sharon in Litchfield County, Connecticut, in May, 1828. When nine years of age he was taken to Livingston County, New York, and in 1847 he located at Marseilles, Ohio. Daring the gi-eater part of his active career he was a merchant, and in 1864 brought his family to Kenton where he conducted a store for a time, but was finally in the business of buying wool and in handling insurance. The death of this honored old citizen oocurred February 14, 1903. On February 5, 1852, at Marseilles he married Rachel Hooker. Her parents were Henson and Susanah (Young) Hooker, and her maternal great-grandfather, George Young, served in the Revolutionary anmy from his native state of Maryland, and lived to be one hundred and six years of age, his body being laid to rest at Marseilles, Ohio. Mr. W. A. Norton had four sisters: Emma C, who married Henry J. Miller of Kenton ; Mary A., wife of B.'F. Schultz of Kenton; Louie" Beli, who died in Febriiary, 1891, as the wife of Elmer E. Gear, leaving a son Anson William Gear, who is employed in the Kenton Savings Bank; and Maud, who died when two years of age.

Mr. W. A. Norton first began attending school at his native village of Marseilles and continued his education in the Kenton public schools until gi-aduating in 1871. During the next seven years he gained valuable business experience as clerk and assistant to his father in the dry goods store, and then on July 15, 1878, nearly forty years ago. entered banking, the field in which his abilities have had such wide scope and usefulness. His first service was' as as.sistant cashier of the Kenton Savings Bank. In 1886 he was promoted to cashier and since 1905 has been president of this old and solid institution.

In the meantime his judgment and energies have entered in as vital factors with the organization and development of many of Hardin County's principal business affairs. He was one of the organizers and since organization has been trea.surer of the Home Savings and Loan Company. He is a former president of the Kenton Gas and Electric Company, which is now the Hardin and Wyandot Counties Gas and Electric Company. He was one of the organizers and is president of the Kenton Telephone Company. In 1912 he became activelv concerned in the establishment of the Keuton Hardware Company, of which he is a director, vice president and* treasurer, and this is an extensive concern employing a capital of $100,000. Mr. Norton is a trustee of the Kenton Public Library, and in the way of public service was for nine years a trustee of the waterworks board, and has also served ou the boai'd of public service.

He is an active republican, though not a politician, and is both a York and Scottish Rite Mason. On December 5, 1905, at Columbus he married Mrs. Lula Carpenter, widow of Eugene G. Carpenter, formerly of Columbus, Ohio, and a daughter of Joseph McCormiek of Mount Vernon, Ohio.

Kenton Savings Bank. The Kenton Savings Bank is the oldest banking institution of Hardin County, and has had a prosperous existence of more than forty years. It was incorporated September 23, 1875, under the laws of Ohio with a capital stock of $50,000. In 1886 the capital was increased to $100,000, and later increased to $150,000. An interesting part of the record is that it has paid a dividend to stockholders every year since its incorporation, and besides accumulated a surplus fund of $75,000.

The incorporators of the bank were Lewis Merriman, W. M. Chesney, John Saylor, J. S. Robinson, William Moore, Asher Letson, Edmund Carey, Clemens Lopker, Sr., and Samuel Haynes. The first officers were: Lewis Merriman, president; J. S. Robinson, vice president; Solomon Kraner, cashier; W. S. Robinson, assistant cashier. Mr. Merriman soon resigned the presidency, and W. M. Chesney was his successor until January, 1882, when Mr. Merriman again became president and held that position until his death November 23, 1905. Since that time the president has been W. A. Norton. Mr. Norton had entered the sei-viee of the bank as assistant cashier succeeding W. S. Robinson on July 15, 1878. and in 1886 became cashier. He was succeeded in the post of cashier by C. L. Merriman. A number of the best known business men and citizens of Kenton and Hardin County has at various times been closely connected with this institution as stockholders, directors and officers.

The Kenton Savings Bank has had one location .since January 1, 1877, a period of more than forty years. At that date the bank removed to the northeast corner of Detroit and Columbus streets, occupying the

Frank Miller. As superintendent of the State Fish Hatchery at Put-in-Bay, Frank Miller has a place of special prominence in Ohio and through his connection with this institution and in other ways has done much to build up and maintain the great tish industry along the shores of Lake Erie. He has lived practically all his life on Put-in-Bay, has followed farming on the island, was also connected with the fishing industry for a number of years, in a private capacity, and his career reflects high honor upon his attainments.

He was born on East Point, South Bass Island, September 1, 1862. Frank Miller, grew upon his father's farm on South Bass Island, and was a practical farmer until he entered the fishing industry, which he followed along the shores of Lake Erie for ten yeans. He has also had experience in the hotel business, and was manager of the Put-in Bay House up to 1901. a period of eleven years. He then entered the employ of the state government as foreman in the State Fish Hatchery, then located at Sandusky. A few years later this was removed to Lakeside, and Mr. Miller became its superintendent. In 1907 the hatchery was removed to its present site on Put-in-Bay. The first structure erected for the fish hatchery at Put-in-Bay was a frame building, which was burned May 30, 1914. It has been replaced by a substantial and permanent brick .structure.

Elmer E. Tompkins, M. D., was born in Seneca County, Ohio, in 1851. His father, John Tompkins, was of Yankee stock and a native of Canandaigua County, New York.

In 1877 he came to Fulton County, Ohio, and during the next year farmed and also pursued his medical studies. He attended medical lectures in Cincinnati, Ohio, and

In 1879 he located in Richfield Center and began the general practice of medicine. He built up a large clientage which he maintained until he retired from active practice several .years ago.

Doctor Tompkins married Miss Mary Wilson of Fulton County, Ohio, in 1879. Four children were born to their union : Jessie is the wife of John Bartholomew of Riga, Michigan, and the mother of four children: Oren, Carl, Ruth and Emily; Frank, who is engaged- in farming near Metamora in Fulton County, married for his first wife Vanessa Tucker of Berkey, Ohio, and after her death he married Ruby Dings of Riga, Michigan. They have a daughter, Vanes.sa. Opal was the third of the doctor's family and died at the age of four years. Carroll is the youngest of the family and is engaged upon his father's farm, having taken a two years course in agi'iculture at Ohio State University. The mother of these children died in 1904.

In Adrian, Michigan, Doctor Tompkins married for his .second wife Mrs. Mary E. Rowe of Sylvania, Ohio. Mrs. Rowe was born in Mercer, Pennsylvania. Her father. Rev. Joseph W. Torrence, was a minister of the Presbyterian faith, spent seven years in a pastorate in Toledo, later having charge at Ripley and Seven Mile in Ohio, and other places. He finally retired at Sylvania, Ohio, where he died.

Mrs. Rowe had two sons, Lewis William Rowe and Charles Laird Rowe. Both are graduates of Purdue University. The former is connected with Parke, Davis & Company of Detroit, Michigan, while the latter is with the firm of Libby, McNeill & Libby of Chicago, Illinois.

Having retired from active practice in 1908, Doctor Tompkins and family moved to a farm of eighty acres one-half mile east from Richfield Center. He had bought that place many years previously. At the present writing they are engaged in general agriculture, though .some special attention is paid to dairying and the feeding of livestock. Doctor Tompkins was probably tlw first to advocate the growing of alfalfa in this section of Ohio. For many years it was sui)p<).sc(l that alfalfa was not an Ohio crop. But with the soil abounding in fertility, together with thorough underdrainage, they have succeeded in getting splendid stands of this western forage

Doctor Tompkins believes that farmers' sons should receive a thorough preparation for farm work. Wlien they have completed their course or have served their apprenticeship he believes the sons sliould be given a chance to demonstrate in a practical way the value of their ideas and methods. This he thinks will largely solve the problem of keeping the country boys on the farm. While a number of farmers have sent their boys away to scientific and technical schools, only a few of them are willing to entrust the management of the farm to the agricultural college graduate. Hence the boy either has to surrender his newly acquired fund of ideas and adapt himself to the old routine of his father, or else leave home and seek emploj'ment elsewhere.

Alexander Johnson. In the few years he has been identified with the bar of Port Clinton Alexander Johnson has shown qualifications and capabilities which are the earnest of a highly successful career. He already has a promising and profitable practice in the city where he has spent all his life.

Born in Port Clinton August 13, 1890, he is a son of Peter C. and Anna (JeiLsen) Johnson. His father was a contractor and builder, and came to Ottawa County shortly after the close of the Civil war. Beginning at the bottom, as a workman rather than as an artisan, he gradually made his way to a position of as.sured prosperity. He was an expert in concrete and stone masonry, and did much of the brick and general foundation construction on many of the buildings in this part of the county. ' He also served for many years as a member of the city council of Port Clinton.

Alexander Johnson graduated from the Port Clinton High School, and then entered the University oi" Ohio at Columbus, where he completed his course in the law department and was graduated LL. B. in 1912. He has since been one of the busy young lawyers at Port Clinton.

Fred W. Burggr.\f. Of those families that have been most closely identified with the development of the Bass Island around the bay shore of Put-in-Bay the Burggrafs have been very prominent, both in point of time of settlement there and also because of their

South Bass Island has been the home of Fred W. Burggraf since infancy. He is now living retired at Put-in-Bay, and that thriving little resort village knows him in many capacities as a useful citizen and trusted oflScial.

He was born near Sandusky, Ohio, November 21, 1856. He possesses a very old name in Germany, and the Burggraf ancestry has been traced back authentically to the year 1350. In the earlier generations the famUy was connected by relationship with the Hohenzollerns, the present ruling house of the German Empire.

Mr. Burggraf 's parents were Mathias and Maiy (Kueckle) Burggraf, both of whom came from Freiburg, Baden, Germany. Mathias Burggraf was a participant in the revolutionary uprising in 18-18, and like many of the best class of German citizens who were factors in that revolution he had to exile himself from his native land and about 1849 he arrived in the United States. From his earnings as a laborer on the Erie Canal he saved enough to pay for the passage of his family, who had remained behind, and they joined him about two years after his coming. From New York State the family came on to Sandusky, and for a time lived on the farm of General Lindsay, about seven miles west of that city in Erie County. They also spent a couple of years on Kelley's Island, and in 1857, when Fred Burggraf was eight months of age, they located on South Bass Island.

That was a very early date in the development of these islands for any other purpose beyond serving as headquarters for fishermen. Only three or four prominent houses stood on the island when the Burggraf family came. They located on a tract of wild land at East Point. This land had to be cleared, and as the family were poor they had no horses or oxen at first, and they eked out a very slender living. Later the father bought an ox team and these patient animals responded to the names ' ' Buck ' ' and ' ' Bright. ' ' Fred Burggraf would never forget those names as long as he lived, since as a boy he trudged many weary days alongside the oxen as they drew the plow through the furrows of the landscape.

While growing up on the island he attended the common schools, but only four months each winter, and altogether for about four years. At the end of his schooling he took an examination and secured a certificate wliich enabled him to take charge of a school room, and for seven years he was engaged in that vocation, and is pleasantly remembered by a number of his old pupils. Since then he has given his time and energies to farming and to the management of various other properties, and he now receives a sufficient income for all his needs from some property he owns in the Town of Put-in-Bay.

Mr. Burggraf "s brothers and sisters, two of whom were older than himself, were : Carolina, ]\Irs. Fred Bretz, of Middle Bass Island ; Mathias, who owns a vineyard at East Point on South Bass Island; Henry, a vineyardist at East Point.

In 1884 Mr. Burggraf married Miss Hermine Marf, a native of Switzerland. Politically Mr. Burggraf is a republican and has been quite active in local politics and local affairs. For nine years he held the office of .iustice of the peace, was mayor of Put-in-Bay for two terms, and for the past sixteen years has capably administered the duties of town clerk, an office he still holds. He is affiliated fraternallv with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Louis Deisler. Any community would be the better for the presence of such a live, public spirited and aggressive citizen as Louis Deisler, who has been identified with Put-in- Bay for more than forty years. Mr. Deisler is a man of positive convictions, puts his sentiments into unmistakable language, and his words are usually followed bj' actions. On that account it is not difficult to trace his influence in this part of Ohio. His individual enterprise has counted for much, and his generous contributions and influence even more for the upbuilding of that locality.

He was bom at Columbus, Ohio, April 22, 1858, a son of Michael Deisler. He had very little education so far as schools were concerned, and when ten or twelve years of age began earning his own way as a newsboy and bootblack in Columbus. From that unpropitious start he has made a steady advance to larger success in business affairs, and at the same time has gained a variety of experience .siich as to constitute one of the satisfactions of life.

At the age of eighteen Mr. Deisler joined the Fells Brothers circus, and for years he was identified with traveling circuses, carnival companies and other entertainment enterprises, and in the course of such work has traveled over practieallv everv state of the

His first acquaintance with Put-in-Bay began in 1884. In 1888 Mr. Deisler established the first bathhouse in that resort. More than any other individual he has been responsible for the improvement of this feature of the summei' resort privileges at Put-in-Bay. For upwards of thirty years Mr. Deisler has spent his summers at Put-in-Bay, though he continued actively traveling with circus companies and other organizations until 1901. For the past fifteen years he has traveled for pleasure during the winter time.

His first bathhouse in Put-in-Bay contained only six rooms, and it was located on a leased beach. Later he bought his present beach, and built an improved house and replaced tlxat later with the magnificent bathhouse; that is now associated with his name. This contains 350 rooms, and many of its improvements and facilities are the direct product of Mr. Deisler 's studious- mind and experience. He worked out many ideas, particularly those relating to fitting suits and arrangement of bathhouse interior, and a number of these ideas have since been copied and introduced into modern bathhouses in prominent resorts of the country. One feature of his record is unique as a bathhouse proprietor. In all the twenty-nine seasons he has been in business there has never been a serious accident, no drowning, and no robbery.

Mr. Deisler has branched out into various other enterprises at Put-in-Bay. Adjoining his bathhouse is a large pavilion with facilities for bowling and refreshment stand. He owns a large amount of property both at Putin-Bay and in the City of Columbus. With one exception Mr. Deisler now ranks as the oldest business man in continuous relationship with Put-in-Bay.

In 1884 he married Miss Emma Bookmiller of Chillicothe, Ohio. Mrs. Deisler died in California, January 16, 1916. In polities Mr. Deisler is a democrat. He has served as judge and clerk of elections at Put-in-Bay and in the same capacity at Columbus. He has been an active member of the local board of trade. Many thousands of dollars have been spent by Mr. Deisler in private and public enterprise for the promotion of Put-in-Bay interests. He has always been a booster, and was by far the largest contributor to the Perry Memorial Fund among the residents of the island, giving $1,750 to that cause. In the course of his long business experience Mr.

Deisler has conducted saloons. Now he is aligned with the active workers for the abolition of the liquoi- traffic. That is not due so much to personal temperance principles as to the fact that he has been convinced from experience in this and other resorts that the patronage most valuable in the long run and most productive of iDcrmanent benefit to any locality that sets up as a resort is that dra\\Ti to places where bars are prohibited. In religion Mr. Deisler is a Catholic.

David W. Steiner, M. D. For thirty years the name Steiner has stood for the best in civic ideals and the highest attainments in the field of medicine in Lima and from that city the professional reputation of the Steiner brothers has extended widely over Northwest Ohio.

Especially do the people of this community remember with gratitude the unselfish life and service of the late Dr. David W. Steiner, who was the oldest of the Steiner brothers and the first to locate in practice at Lima. His was an ideal combination of professional skill with those qualities of the heart and mind which in every age have been pronounced as the first and foremost characteristics of the true gentleman.

David W. Steiner was born near Bluifton, Ohio, a son of Rev. Isaac and Mary Paulina (Rothen) Steiner. He came of a family of ministers. His maternal grandfather was Rev. David Rothen. His father. Rev. Isaac Steiner, spent the best years of his life as a minister of the Church of God. He also owned a fann in Putnam County, having provided that as a suitable environment for his growing children.

As a boy Dr. David W. Steiner had the advantages of the district schools. Entering the Ohio Northern University, he took the degree Master of Arts in 1880. Seldom has a young man inade a better choice of a profession than when David W. Steiner determined to become a physician. He pursued his .studies in the medical department of the Univei"sity of Michigan, where he was graduated in 1883. He remained with that institution until 1886 as assistant professor of physiology and also as an interne in the University Hospital. Thus when he began practice it M^as with an experience and training such as few doctors of that time had.

In 1897 his younger brother, Dr. Isaac Franklin Steiner, became associated with him and in 1901 the firm was given another addition in the person of Dr. Oliver S. Steiner, of whom mention is found elsewhere in this work. In 1903 the brothers put up the tine four-story office building at 123 North Elizabeth Street, and the offices of Doctoi-s Steiner have ever since occupied the first door.

Dr. David W. Steiner sei-ved for a number of years as consulting physician at the Lima Hospital. He was medical examiner for a number of the old line life insurance companies and was long active in the Allen County, Ohio State and Northwestern Medical societies and the American Medical Association.

At the time of his death on December 27, 1913, he stood without a question at the head of the profession in Lima, whether considered as a physician or .surgeon. He never married, devoted himself heart and soul to his profession, was a lover of children, and expressed that affection which most men show to their own family by doing good to a host of people, whether patients or merely in the relationship of neighbors in one community. It is doubtful if the community at Lima has ever felt a sense of greater loss in the death of any one citizen than when Dr. David W. Steiner passed from among the living. His chief diversion was horsemanship. He always took a great delight in horses and drove a beautiful pair. The automobile apparently had no power to win him from his love of good horseflesh.

Olivee S. Stkiner, M. D. Junior member of the firm of Doctors Steiner at Lima, Oliver S. Steiner was born near Bluffton, Ohio, January 21, 1874, and is a brother of the late Dr. David W. Steiner, whose life and work have been briefly sketched on other pages. In that article will be found reference to the parentage and family of Dr. Oliver Steiner.

Dr. Oliver Steiner attended public schools, Findlay College, and the University of Wooster, where he was graduated in 1897 with the degree Bachelor of Philosophy. Entering the medical department of the University of Michigan he completed his course there and received the degree Doctor of Medicine in 1901. Since then he has been steadily in practice at Lima.

Allen County, served three years, and has the distinction of being the only republican who ever was chosen by popular vote to that office in the county. Doctor Steiner is examiner for a number of life insurance companies, is a member of the board of trustees of the District Tuberculosis Ho.spital located at Lima, is consulting surgeon to Lima Hospital, and is a member of Allen County, Northwestern Ohio, Ohio State, Northern Tri-State societies; the Amei'ican Medical Association, and the Association of American Railway Surgeons. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias.

Doctor Steiner was married December 11, 1907, to Miss Belle Crew Folsom, who was born, reared and educated at Lima. They have two children, Mai*y Jane and Helen Pauline.

C.\RL E. RuH. Some of the finest wines ever made from Ba?s Island gi-apes have been manufactured by members of the Ruh family. A great many people in that section of Ottawa County recall the late Anton Ruh, who came from Baden, Germany, about 1873. In the old country he had lived on a small farm but was a brewer by trade. On arriving at Put-in-Bay he entered the service of the Pixtin-Bay Wine Company, and for ten years superintended their wine cellar and their vineyards.

Leaving their service he bought fourteen acres on the east shore of the island, and set up in business for himself. He planted liis land in grapes, and began manufacture of wine on a small scale. For several years most of his crop was sold as surplus grapes. He knew to an eminent degree the art of extracting the flavor of the grapes and converting it into the choice&'t vintage, and his pure wines soon had a reputation that brought him a continued increase of business from year to year. He never catered to the regular market, but had his private customers, who were willing to take all the wines he could make. About 1891 Anton Ruh bought an additional thirteen acres of land and had that set out in vineyard. Anton Ruh died at the age of sixty-eight.

Carl E. Ruh, who far a number of years has likewise figured a.s a vineyardist and wine maker at Put-in-Bay, was born in Baden, Germany, in 1872, and is a stepson of the late Anton Ruh. His own father died in Germany soon after his birth, and the widowed mother, Marv Catlierine Fister, lirought her family to the United States, locating on the Bass Island, where she subsequently married Anton Ruh. She survived her second husband eight years, and was also sixty-eight when she died. Her children by the second marriage were: Hermann H., who lives in California; Emil, who is growing grapes on the original homestead of Anton Ruh, and by his marriage to the daughter of Rudolph JPiefield of North Bass Island has a son, Howard Rudolph.

As soon as Carl E. Ruh had sufificient strength he began helping his stepfather in the vineyard antl in the wine cellar, but afterwards he left home and learned the plasterer's trade at Columbus. He followed that trade for several years. After the death of Anton Ruh he returned home and aided in the work of the vineyard and the wine cellar. He had acquired the art of wine making from Anton Ruh, and has always kept up the same high .standards of the product familiarly known to a select trade under the Ruh name. After the death of his mother he acquired the ownership of the second vineyard planted by Anton Ruh, and has since made that his home. Most of this land is within the corporate limits of Put-in-Bay, his own house being just on the town line. In years past Mr. Ruh has also engaged to some extent in fishing, but he now confines his work to the care of his vineyard and his wine cellar. He is a republican voter and a member of both the subordinate and encampment dc<:;rcos of Odd Fellnw.ship.

He marri.'d .Miss Kal^ Oross. Sh.. is of old French stork, the name beiiii;- spell. -(! Le Gross in France. Her father, Joseph (iross, came to Put-in-Bay during the '80s from Alsace. Mr. and Mrs. Ruh have three children : Rupert AValter, Eloise and Ru.ssell Erie.

William Tell Agerter. For more than thirty years one of the most prominent industries of Lima has been the locomotive works, now conducted under the name Lima Locomotive Corporation, but formerly known, at the beginning, as the Lima Machine Company, and later as the Lima Locomotive and Machine Company.

This business was established about 1869, with a plant on East Market Street, for the manufacture of general sawmill machinery. Up to that time the work of logging had been largely carried on by the old familiar processes which had prevailed in the lumber woods for a generation or more. After being cut the logs were carried to the mills over ice and snow-covered runways, and down the streams during the freshet period in the early spring. The founders of the Lima Machine Company undertook to develop a type of logging locomotive, one that would work on a cheap tram-road, to haul logs from the woods and obviate the many disadvantages of. the prevailing method. The first locomotive of this type constructed at Lima was built and shipped in 1879 and sent to a lumberman in Northern Michigan. It was what is known as "direct acting locomotive," but about 1880 the company brought out the Shay geared locomotive, named after its inventor. This has been one of the principal types of locomotives manufactured at Lima since then, and it is still the only all-around successful geared locomotive on the market, and a number of the type are employed by some of the large railway systems on their mountain divisions.

In 1902 the plant of the locomotive works was moved to a site between the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, the Lake Erie & Western and the Erie railroads, with switching facilities connecting all three lines. As developed during the past thirty years the Lima Locomotive Corporation is a complete locomotive plant, and comprises very extensive grounds and buildings, including power house, engine room, foundry, machine shop and erecting shop, boiler shop, blacksmith shop, mill building, pattern storage building and a large, seven-story office building of reinforced concrete and brick.

The plant is equipped with the most modern and up-to-date locomotive building tools and appliances and is designed with a view of competing with the largest locomotive builders in the country. It has a capacity of from seven to eight locomotives a week, and it is one of the very largest independent locomotive plants in the United States. It is an industry with a world-wide market, and the company's locomotives can be found in Australia, England, Soufli America, Central America, China, British Columbia, Japan, Alaska, all parts of Canada and Mexico, and many of the larger islands of the sea as well as in practically all the states in the Union. The annvial sales of the company have for several years aggregated more than $.3,000,000.

The company has manufactured some of the largest locomotive engines employed for switching and regular service by the railway systems of the South, the West and Bast. In fact, the company manufacturers all classes of locomotives, from the smallest mining and plaatation engine to the largest freight and passenger locomotives. It also manufactures the Lima steam-storage locomotive, adapted for use around industrial plants and mills where absolute safety as to fire is desired, and also the special Shay geared locomotive which long ago demonstrated its adaptability as a mountain climber and for steep grades and sharp curves. The company has the distinction of having brought out the first practical American design of the fireless engine, knowTi as the steam-storage locomotive, which has no firebox, but has its tank charged with steam from a central generating station, operating under low pressure, and capable of working one charge from two to ten hours.

William Tell Agerter was one of the oldest officials connected with this conspicuous industrial organization of Northern Ohio, but disposed of his interest in the company in December, 191.5. He was born October 16, 1859, in Wyandotte County, Ohio, a son of John and Dorothy E. (Hottle) Agerter. His father was a ci\al engineer and the son probably inherited some of his mechanical talent. He acquired a public school education at Upper Sandusky and from a business college and in January, 1881, came to Lima and became a bookkeeper with the Lima Machine Works, a corporation which at that time was building the original type of logging locomotives. In 1884 he became secretary and treasurer of the Lima Locomotive Works, as then reorganized, and was made secretary and treasurer when the company's name was changed to the Lima Locomotive Corporation.

Mr. Agerter is also a director of the old National Bank, is president of the Woodland Cemetery, is a director in the Citizens Loan & Building Association, and is president of the A-C-W Realty Company. For a number of years he served as a member of the Lima Board of Education, and was one of the original members of the old Lima Progressive Association, now the Chamber of Commerce. He also belongs to the Lima and Shawnee clubs, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Mr. Agerter married Carlotta Disman. Her father, George W. Disman, was one of Lima's pioneers in the iron and machinery industr\-, and was prominently identified with the original Lima Machine W^orks. To their marriage have been born two children: Rose E. and William Tell, Jr.

John Wilbur Roby is not only a man of high social standing and literary attainments but a lawyer of sound judgment and breadth of view. Since 1895 he has practiced at the Lima bar with much success and honor to himself and his profession and his high standing in the estimation of his fellow-practitioners is indicated by the fact that for the past ten years he has been president of the Allen County Bar Association.

Mr. Roby was born at Delphos, Allen County, Ohio, January 8, 1868, and is a son of John and Martha M. (Searing) Roby. His father, also a native of this state, was for many years engaged in the hotel business and conducted a hostelr\' for some years at Delphos. In the public schools of that city John W. Roby laid the foundation for liis education, and subsequently entered Ohio Wesleyan Universit.y, where he was graduated in 1890. He next became a student in the law department of Yale University, and when graduated, in 1894, had earned the reputation of being what students are pleased to admiringly call a typical "all-around university man." In 1895 Mr. Roby established himself in practice at Lima, and here has become known as an attorney of pronounced character, whether considered from the standpoint of his professional attainments or from tlie viewpoint of progressive citizenship. Having won the confidence and esteem of his professional brethren, in 1905 he was elected president of the Allen County Bar Association, an office in which he has since continued to serve to the great good of that organization. He has always been ready to give full measure of his strength to public and charitable movements which his good judgment approves. Since its organization, in 1902, he has been chairman of the board of trustees of the Lima Public Library. A thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner, he is past eminent commander of Shawnee Commandery, Knights Templar, and is widely and favorably known in ilasonie circles, while his connection with club life is extensive and inchides membership in Shawnee Country Club and the Lima Club, of which latter he is a member of the board of trustees. He is also senior warden of Christ Episcopal Church at Lima. Mr. Roby has always been a close student and lover of literature and is the possessor of a large and valuable library.

(Gavitt) Curran, Captain Curran being widely known in insurance circles. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Roby : Mary Katheriue, who is attending Ohio Wesleyan College; IMartha Curran, who is a student at the Lima High School; and Annette Elizabeth.

Warren John McL.\ughlin. During his ten or twelve years membership in the Allen County Bar, Warren J. McLaughlin has been known not only for his solid ability as an attorney, but also for his active participation in important business atfairs and in public life. He is also a prominent athlete, and is well known particularly for being the holder of the Ohio State tennis championship for five years.

He was born at Oil City, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1879, a son of Thomas A. and Ellen (Gray) McLaughlin. His father has been a prominent oil man and had tlie distinction of being the tirst president of the first Oil Exchange in the United States. He came to Lima in 1886 as representative of the Standard Oil interests in that city.-

Mr. ilcLaughlin was liberally educated. His alma mater is Hamilton College in New York, from which he received the degrees A. B. and A. M., and in 1904 he graduated in law from Columbia University. Since then he has been in active practice at Lima and is a member of the Allen County Bar Association.

He is also secretary and treasurer of the R. L. Graham Company. A democrat in politics, he has taken much part and is ex-chief deputy of the Democratic Party County Board. During 1909-1911 he served as city solicitor, is now chairman of the Democratic Central Committee, and in January, 1917, was appointed special council and attorney general with offices at Lima, Ohio.

Fraternally he is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, with the Masonic Lodge, Council and Chapter, with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Tribe of Ben Hur, is a member of the Lima Club, the Shawnee Country Club, the Chamber of Commerce, is a director in the Young Men's Christian Association, and is a trustee of the First Presbyterian Church.

Cloyd J.\cobs Brotheeton. Among the professions there is none perhaps which requires a greater volume of study along frequently monotonous lines than that of the law. The physician has the opportunity to become absorbed in scientific discovery and research at the very outset of his reading; the minister starts his work with mind illuminated and heart fired with zeal ; but the stern facts of the law that have to be learned by themselves and so assimilated that the understanding is quickened into the comprehension that may later be drawn upon, have very often discouraged the student even before he is well settled in his work, and resulted in turning to some easier calling. This, however, has not been the experience of Hon. Cloyd Jacobs Brotherton, a member of the Lima Bar for twenty-two years. Possessed of zeal and devotion, every phase and department of his profession has interested him, and his strong, clear intellect has enabled him to readily grasp the principles, precedents and complexities of litigation and jurisprudence. His eminent place in the confidence of his fellowcitizens was recently demonstrated by his election to the Ohio Legislature.

Mr. Brotherton was born at Lima, Ohio, May 22, 1869, and is a son of John Finley and Clara (Jacobs) Brotherton. his father having been for many yeai-s a well known attorney of this city. Cloyd J. Brotherton received his early education in the public schools, following which he attended Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, and was graduated in 1891, and was then sent to Harvard, where he pursued a classical course for one year, and in 1892 received the A. B. degree at Harvard. In 1892 he was enrolled as a student at the Cincinnati College of Law, being given his degree of Bachelor of Laws from that institution in 1893, and at once opened an office at Lima, where he has carried on a general practice. This has been of a very importantcharacter, for large litigated interests are never placed in unskilled hands. His marked ability is recognized by the public and the profession, and is the outcome of close study, thorough preparation of his cases, keen analysis of the facts and a logical application of the law that bears upon them. He is a member of the Allen County Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association and the Allen County Law Library Association and in the last-named holds a life membei-ship. Fraternally he is identified with the Lima lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias. In 1914 .Mr. Brotherton was elected to the Eighty-First General Assembly of Ohio, in which bcdy he

Mr. Brothertou was married to Miss Bertha G. Paden, of Lima, and both are well and favorably known in social circles of the city. Mr. Brotherton is also a member of the Harvard Club, of Toledo.

Davis J. Cable, born August 11, 1859, in Willshire Township, Van Wert County, Ohio. Graduated from Van Wert High School in 1878. Taught school and prepared for college. Entered the University of ]\Iichigan Law Department in the fall of 1879, and from which he received his degree as Bachelor of Law. Was admitted to the bar of Ohio October 4, 1881, and began the practice of law in the City of Lima, Ohio, where he has continued ever since. He is considered a successful lawyer and has not allowed other matters in which he became interested to interfere with the activities in this profession. He resides upon a farm about three miles from the courthouse and has been interested in the improvement of agriculture and live stock in his community.

Mr. Cable's father, John I. Cable, and his mother, Angle R. (Johnson) Cable, are still living. His father is a Civil war veteran, and was formerly a newspaper man and the son of Joseph Cable, who was born in Ohio prior to its admission to the Union and was prominent in his day as lawyer, judge and member of Congress, and while there introduced the first homestead bill. He was editor of the first newspaper published at New Lisbon, Columbiana County. On the maternal side, Mr. Cable's grandfather, Davis Johnson, was one of the first pioneers of Van Wert County, who, as a young civil engineer, settled in the county when it was a wilderness and made original survey of most of the land in that county, also held offices, such as county surveyor, auditor and treasurer.

Davis J. Cable was, soon after his admission to the bar, elected city solicitor of Lima. His practice has covered a wide range, both in the state and federal courts in Ohio and in other states and has taken him to Europe and a number of times to the City of IMexico. He has an excellent record as a trial lawyer.

Outside of his practice he has engaged in the development of the local telephone plant at Lima, of which he was one of the organizers and of which he is president. The telephone company has grown from a small beginning into a large company and in 1912 purchased the plant of the Bell Company. It is considered the last word in telephone development, the company having adopted automanual equipment and has in operation more than 8,500 telephones, fireproof building, conduit svstem and capital between $900,000 and $1,000,000.

He was one of the organizers of The Lima Trust Company and the first president of the' company and this is now one of the largest banking institutions in Northwestern Ohio.

Mr. Cable entered actively into the plan of making Lima a center for interurban railroads and started the building of the lines between Lima and Port Wayne and Lima and Toledo, which w-ere afterwards constructed, leased or sold to the present company operating the same. The Ohio Electric Railway Company, and Mr. Cable has continued of counsel for said company.

Mr. Cable was one of the organizers of the Masonic Hall Company and its president for four years, during which time the company erected the beautiful Masonic Building at the southwest corner of High and Elizabeth streets. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, Shriuer, belongs to the Lima Club, the Rotary Club, Lima Chamber of Commerce, the Athletic Club of Columbus and The Toledo Club, also is a member of The Allen County Bar A.ssociation, Ohio State Bar Association and The American Bar Association. He is a republican in politics, but has never held any office except that of city solicitor, soon after his admission to the bar.

In 1882 he married Miss Mary A. Harnly. To their marriage were born six children, John L., of whom mention is found on another page of this work, is an attorney. He is associated with his father in the practice of law and in 1916 was elected prosecuting attorney of Allen County. Davis A. Cable, a mechanical engineer, is a graduate of_the Case Polytechnic School at Cleveland, from which he received also, three years after his gi-aduation, the master's degree. He is general superintendent of The United States Tile Company, with plants located at East Sparta, Ohio, and Parkersburg, West Virginia. Chester Morse Cable, an attorney, is .iunior member of the firm of Cable & Cable. Jo Harnly Cable is a student at Cornell University, Miss Ethel R. is engaged in Young Women's Christian Association work in New York and Miss Marion Ruth is still at home attending the Lima High School.

John L. Cable, member of the law firm of Cable & Cable, was born April 15, 1884, a son of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Cable. He is a graduate of Kenyon College and the George Washington University Law School and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1908. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Allen County on November 7, 1916. Mr. Cable is a thirtysecond degree Mason and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

John G. Neubauer. One of the oldest industrial institutions, the direct outgrowth of the discovery of oil in the Lima district, is the Solar Refining Company of Lima. Eighteen months after the first wells were brought in the Lima district, the company was incorporated, in December, 1886, with a capitalization of $500,000. If all the details were covered, a long history might be written of this establishment. At first it covered only a few acres of ground, while now fully 278 acres are used for the great refineries, storage facilities and the yards and buildings required by the intricate process of refining petroleum. There are now from 600 to 650 men employed in the business, and the business has a capacity for refining 6,000 barrels a day. In the meantime the capital has grown to $2,000,000. The company has storage capacity for 500,000 barrels, and its principal products of manufacture are illuminating oil, gasoline, lubricating oil, and fuel and gas oil. The principal officers of the Solar Refining Company, which is easily one of the foremost industries of Northwestern Ohio, are J. G. Neubauer, president; F. T. Cuthbert, first vice president; F. G. Borges, second vice president and treasurer; and N. D. Keys, secretary.

From the very first, since September, 1886, John G. Neubauer has been identified with this monumental concern, having gone into the company as cashier. From that he was made auditor, then assistant manager, was promoted to general manage:-, and on December 21, 1911, was made president of the company.

He was born in Schenectady, New York, had a grammar and high school education, and for four years was an art student in New York City. ,He then became connected with the Standard Oil Company as mechanical engineer, served four years in the clerical department, and soon after the discovery of oil at Lima he came to the new district and assisted

Mr. Neubauer married Miss Elizabeth A. Woodill of New Y'ork. He is an active member of the Lima Chamber of Commerce, and belongs to the Lima Club and the Shawnee Country Club. He is a republican and both he and his wife are members of the Episcopal Church.

William Edgar Hover, M. D. One of the oldest physicians in continuous practice at Lima is Doctor Hover, who is a native of that city. His father was a farmer. For more than thirty years Doctor Hover has devoted himself unremittingly and unselfishly to the interests of a large private practice, and is a man highly esteemed by his professional brethren.

He was bom in Lima September 15, 1857, a son of Dr. William U. and Mary Jane Hover, and grew up in his native town and acquired an education in the grammar and high schools. He then entered Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, where he was graduated in 1884, and he took his M. D. degree at the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati in 1888. He at once returned to Lima and has been engaged in general practice ever since.

Doctor Hover is a member of the Allen County and Ohio State ]\Iedical societies, the Northwest Ohio Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In 1900 he married Miss Evelyn Myers of Cincinnati, Ohio.

W.VLTER Raymond Tot, county highway superintendent and surveyor of Allen County, has had a long and varied experience in engineering and construction work, for several years he was in the service of the City of Lima, as draftsman, assistant and city engineer, and has been connected with a number of large corporations and industrial organizations both in Ohio and elsewhere. He educated himself for the profession, and his success has largely been due to the energy with which he has prosecuted every undertaking.

He was born near Groveport, in Franklin County, Ohio, August 18, 1874, a son of Nathan P. and Rosa M. (Champe) Toy. Both parents were natives of Franklin County, Ohio, and his father was a farmer.

Reared on a farm, Mr. Toy attended the public schools, and afterwards completed a course in engineering through the Interna-' tional Correspondence School. He has been a resident of Allen County since 1877, and moved with his parents from the Allen County Children's Home to Lima in 1888, aud worked during the summer vacations for the Lima Paper Mills, Hefner Box Factory, Banta's Candy Factory, Metropolitan Block elevator boy, Republican Gazette, Dr. A. Jones and Dr. J. M. Chase, Dentists. In 1892 through the friendship of E. L. Andrews and Wm. DeWeese, he was selected from a number of applicants for the position of tracer and blue printer for J. A. Chapin, architect, who was located on the third floor of the Thompson Building, in the northwest corner of the public square.

Having taken up the study of music he became a member of the Lima City Band, under the direction of H. E. Snow. He was active at this time in organizing the Second Regiment Bugle and Drum Corps, also with the help of Dr. S. A. Baxter and others he organized the Kid Band of Lima, Ohio.

In 1893 he secured a position as draftsman with the Solar Refining Company, and in 1894-95 with J. A. Chapin agaiu; in 1895-96 with the Lima Locomotive and Machine Company; in 1897 he started as draftsman and material tester for the city engineer, L. F. Prevost; in 1899 he was appointed assistant engineer under R. H. Gamble ; in 1902 he was appointed city engineer by the council to fill the unexpired term of L. F. Prevost deceased. In 1903 Mr Toy was elected city engineer and served until the new municipal code went into effect and made the office of city engineer appointive.

In 1904 Mr. Toy had cjiarge of a party that surveyed the Licking Reservoir (Buckeye Lake) for the State of Ohio. In 1905 he was employed by J. D. S. Neely to survey and plat the Sugar Grove Gas Field and Pipe Line, from Union Station to Lima, a distance of 120 miles. In 1905-06 he was engaged in contract work under Clinton Cowen at Cheviot and AVyoming near Cincinnati and Melrose, Ohio. In 1907-08 Mr. Toy was employed as field and constructing engineer for the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway Company at Birmingham, Alabama, erecting open hearth furnaces, gas producei-s, building foundations, stacks, tunnel and sewer construction. In 1909 he prepared a large detail tax map in book form of Lima and vicinity, on a large scale for Allen County and the City of Lima. In 1910-11 was appointed assistant city engineer by Mayor George Dyer and service director by J. W. Rowlands. In 1912-13 was associated with Geo.

Champe, consulting engineer of Toledo, on street improvements in Maumee and Perrysburg, Ohio. In 1913 associated with Walter S. Sherman, consulting engineer of Toledo, Ohio, on the Ottawa River Flood Improvement Survey for Lima. In 1913-14 was selected by the town council of Speneerville, Ohio, to prepare plans and specifications and superintend the construction of one mile of brick paving through the village on Broadway. In 1914-15 engaged on sti-eet improvement contract work in Lima.

Elected county surveyor on the republican ticket in November, 1914, and assumed the duties of the office September 6, 1915, being the first Allen County highway superintendent under the Cass Highway Act for the State of Ohio.

Sir. Toy while actively engaged in engineering and construction work, has given much time and attention to Oil and Gas Field Map Publishing Business. He was instrumental in organizing the Lima Mei'chants Band in 1904- 05, under the direction of 0. R. Farrar, and the Lima Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1905- 06 under the direction of 0. F. Shultz, these organizations were too large and not properly financed to live long, but contributed to putting Lima on the map. Mr. Toy was a member of the Faurot Opera House Orchestra for several years and played cornet under the leadership of Frank Griffin and E. K. Frey.

Mr. Toy is a member of the Ohio Engineering Society, Northwestern Ohio Surveyor's Association, Ohio Good Roads Federation, Local No. 320 American Federation of ilusicians, which was organized through his efforts in 1910, Lima Lodge No. 91 of the Knights of Pythias, also Lima Lodge No. 54 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Young Men's Christian A.ssociation, and the First Presbyterian Church of Lima.

John Beecher Sawmiller. Representing one of the oldest and most substantial families of German Township of Allen County, John B. Sawmiller has for a number of years been a factor in business affairs at Elida.

In partnership with Dr. G. L. Brunk ilr. Sawmiller is now proprietor of the Elida Elevator Company. This business was established in 1910, and under the present organization it is supplying a splendid service to the village and surrounding communit.v. The company is a partnership affair. It operates a feed mill with large capacity and the company also handles and deals in flour, feed, tile, wire and cement.

John Beecher Sawmiller was born in Amanda Township of Allen County, Ohio, March 8, 1873,, a son of Isaac and Margaret (Herring) Sawmiller. Gi'andfather Jacob Sawmiller established his home in Allen County when it was practically a wilderness and bore his share in the heavy work of pioneering. The Herrings were also early settlers. Isaac Sawmiller was born in Allen County and spent his active career as a farmer.

Mr. J. B. Sawmiller received a public school education and took up farming as his active pursuit. During 1895-96 he was in the oil fields, and for three years he was engaged in the dairy business at Lima. Following that he resumed farming, and in 1910 with others he bought the Elida Elevator Company and is now giving most of his time to the management and operation of that business institution. Mr. Sawmiller also operates a farm of sixty-two acres near Elida.

For two terms he served as a member of the Council of Elida, and for four years tilled the office of township trustee. He is a democrat, and is a past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

On February 14, 1893, he married Miss Emma Davidson of Amanda Township, Allen County. They have two children, Frederick Jennings and ^Margaret Adaline.

Judge Willis W. Bowers. A resident of Hardin County for more than twenty-two years, Judge Bowers made a business record which commended him to the confidence of the public, and in 1908 he had the distinction of being elected to the office of probate judge, and was the youngest man at the time ever to hold the office. He has been continued in the office by subsequent re-election, and has given a very careful and conscientious administration of the many delicate and important duties involved in his jurisdiction. While not a lawyer by profession he has the judicial temperament, and that, with a broad knowledge of humanity and a thorough business experience, is the essential qualifications for such an office as probate judge. He was appointed juvenile judge by the Common Pleas Judges of the district, and opened this court for the young juveniles. He tried to assist the young offenders in making good.

and gave them every opportunity possible to grow up in good home surroundings under the supervision of the probation officers, rather than commit them to some institution. In this he was very successful, and received the approval of several clul>s and citizens interested in children's welfare.

He was elected probate judge in 1908 as the democratic nominee, and overcame a normal republican majority. He took his seat on the probate bench February 9, 1909, and in 1912 had the honor of being re-elected, on a non-partisan ballot, receiving the highest number of votes received by any of the candidates in the cdunty, and began his second term, on February 9, 1913, which terminated February 8, 1917.

Judge Bowers was born in Fayette County, Penns>ivania, February 22, 1874, a son of George D. and Caroline (Hertzog) Bowers. His maternal grandparents were Andrew and Susan Hertzog of Pennsylvania. George D. Bowers for a number of years has been a resident of Missouri.

Willis W. Bowers was fourteen years of age when his mother died in 1887 and he grew up on the home of his paternal grandparents Joseph and Julia Bowers. Besides the advantages of the public schools he attended the State Normal School at California, Pennsylvania, and that noted Ohio institution, Hiram College in Portage County. He was twenty-one years of age when he came to Hardin County, and his first enterprise here was as an onion grower. He gradually developed that business and became an extensive buyer and .shipper. His shipments of onions out of Hardin County have aggregated as high as 300 carloads in a single year.

Judge Bowers is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and is also a member of the Royal Arch Chapter, the Council and the Knight Templar Commandery, and belongs to the Toledo Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is vice president and a director of the Hardin County Athletic Association, is an elder in the Church of Christ, and is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Modem Woodmen of America, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the United Commercial Travelers.

On July 8, 1896, Judge Bowers married Miss B. Hazel Hogan, a daughter of John and Sarah (Clark) Hogan former residents of Hardin County. To their union have been bom four children. John Furman, Oliver

Emmett W. Mumaugh. As a building contractor probably no individual in Allen County has a better reputation nor a longer list of important achievements in construction work than Emmett W. Mumaugh of Lima. He is a practical carpenter and mechanic and has been identified with one line of constructive enterprise or another for more than thirty years. To a man who is proud of his work and aims to do the highest type of building service, there are few lines of material efforts more satisfying than that *of the building trade, since the accomplishments stand out for years in evidence of the thoroughness and care taken in performing the contract.

Some of the monuments to Mr. Mumaugh 's constructive entei^prise may be mentioned in the Majestic Block and the Rhody Building, the Smith and Kyle Block, and many prrvate residences and other structures in Lima.

Emmett W. Mumaugh was born in Bath Township of Allen County, Ohio, February 18, 1863, a son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Chenoweth) Mumaugh. His father was bom in Fairfield County, and his mother in Allen County, and his father was a substantial farmer in the vicinity of Lima. The son acquired a public school education, and after reaching manhood he learned the carpenter's trade, and developed that eventually into the contracting business. For two years he was connected with the Lima Construction Works and for three years was a worker in the oil fields. He then became connected with the Lima Planing Mill and remained with that business for seventeen years, most of the time as superintendent. In 1912, Mr. Mumaugh set up as a general contractor, and has had all the business he could well attend to and one that has made it necessary for him to maintain a large eqiiipment and force of workmen and involving a considerable capital. He is a director of the Lima Builders Exchange.

At the age of eighteen Mr. Mumaugh married Dora Reese of Allen County. Mrs Mumaugh is a director in the EfQnger Electric Company. They are the parents of nine children: Flora, now Mrs. Otto McClain of Chicago ; Zoe, Mrs. Frank Parker of Tulsa, Oklahoma ; Minnie, Mrs. Ralph Heffner of Lima ; and Grace, Mrs. Rollie Blaine of Alliance, Ohio; Hobart, an architect at Lima; Mildred, Mable, Evan and Donald.

chief patriarch in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and served as representative to the Grand Lodge three terms. He has been a loyal and public spirited citizen and for three years he served as a member of the board of trustees for the sinking fund of the city.

Hiram A. Holdridge. Lima has long been one of the important industrial centers of Northwestern Ohio. During the past fifteen or sixteen years an important factor in this gi'owing reputation of the city has been the Model Flouring Mills, operated by the Hiram A. Holdridge Company. In equipment and quality of output these mills rank witli the best to be found anywhere in the state. They are located on Central Avenue at the east end of Spring Street, with ample railroad connections from the Lake Erie & Western and the C. H. & D. roads. The flour manufactured by the ilodel Mills under several well known brands has become a standard household supply, not only in Lima but all over Northwestern Ohio. The original capacity of the mills was 200 barrels per day and it has since been increased to 250 barrels.

The business took its beginning on November 7, 1899, with the organization of the Hall & Woods Company at a capitalization of $30,000. The incorporators were J. H. Woods, J. B. Kerr, William Roberts, F. W. Holmes, I. W. Sattherwaite. J. 0. Hover. Thomas Duffield, H. A. Holdridge. H. A. Hpldridge was the firet president and S. B. Douglas the first secretaiy and treasurer, while the first board of directors comprised J. B. Kerr, J. 0. Hover, William Roberts, Thomas Duffield, H. A. Holdridge, I. W. Sattherwaite and F. W. Holmes.

On April 1, 1901, the capital was increased to $60,000, at which figure it has remained. On July 19, 1907, W. E. EuUer, formerly manager of the Bluffton Milling Company, was elected to succeed S. B. Douglas as secretary and treasurer. On January 25, 1909, the name was changed to the Hiram A. Holdridge Company. The next important change was on January 20. 1911, when W. H. Euller resigned as secretary and treasurer and was succeeded by W. R. Holdridge, who is also manager of the mills. The present board of directors are J. B. Kerr, F. W. Holmes, J. 0. Hover, T. H. Duffield. Mrs. K. L. Hall of Wapakoneta, H. A. Holdridge as president and W. R. Holdridge secretary and treasurer.

and spent most of his youth in his father's home at Sandusky Plains. At the age of eighteen he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware and was a student there when the war broke out. He left school to enlist and became a member of the Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was afterwards appointed to a place in the provost marshal's office of the Fifth Congressional District located at Lima, but after one year re-enlisted, becoming first lieutenant of Company I, One Hundred and Ninety-second Regiment of Ohio Infantry. He was on detached duty, serving as aide de camp to the general commanding the brigade, and afterwards as inspector-general and still later as ad.iutantgeneral of the brigade. When he was mustered out at Winchester, Virginia, it was with the rank of acting assistant adjUtant-general of his brigade.

After the war he became associated with his father in the mercantile business, then removed to Pittsburg where for two years he was a livestock commission merchant, and still later conducted a commission business and also a hotel in Philadelphia, having been in the hotel business there during the Centennial Exposition of 1876. Mr. Holdridge came to Lima in 1880, and for three years was a wholesale merchant. He was one of the local capitalists who became identified with the oil industry in this section of the state, but for many years has been identified with milling and varied business affairs. He is a former president of the Northwest Ohio Millers Association, and a director of the Old National Bank. He is also a member of the Rotary Club, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and belongs to the Military Order of the Loyal Leg:ion.

W. Robert Holdridge, one of these four children, was born at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, but has lived in Lima since 1880. He acquired a public school education and for a time had some interesting experience in the mining industry at Johannesburg in South Africa. Since 1908 he has been identified with the Model Mills and since 1911 as secretary, treasurer and manager. He is a great traveler and has made extensive tours in various parts of the world, particularly in South Africa and Australia. On September 25, 1915, W. R.

Carl Feed Kellerman. Since 1907 Mr. Kellerman has been building up a business at Lima which has come more and more to the favorable attention of the public, and is one of the progressive young commercial leaders of that city. His business is chiefly in the selling of iarm land and the negotiating of farm loans, and the annual increase of the volume of business done through his office is a substantial evidence of his individual character and energy in business affairs.

Born near St. Mary's in Auglaize County, Ohio, April 17, 1880, Carl Fred Kellerman is a son of Henry W. and Elizabeth (Boyd) Kellerman. His father has for a number of years been a contractor in the drilling of oil wells. The son received an education in the public schools, and spent his early life as a farmer. In 1905 he engaged in the insurance business, which he followed for two years, and then branched out i?ito liis larger field in the farm land and farm loan business. Mr. Kellerman is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks in Lodge No. 1170 at Wapakoneta, Ohio, is a member of the Lima Club and of the Lima Chamber of Commerce.

Rev. E. a. Trabert. One of the largest and most prosperous congregations at Lima is St. Paul's English Lutheran Church, of which Rev. Mr. Trabert has been pastor since 1915. "Sir. Trabert comes of a long line of Lutheran luinisters, his father was distinguished as an organizer of the English Lutheran churches all over the West, and his own experience has covered a wide field both East and West.

He was born at Ephrata in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1872, a son of Rev. George H. and Elizabeth M. (Minnich) Trabert. The paternal grandfather Christian F. Trabert was a native of Germany, came to the United States in 1820, and followed the trade of shoemaker. Mr. Trabert 's maternal grandfather Henry M. ]\Iinnich was a native of Pennsylvania and lived in Adams County that state. Through his maternal great-grandmother Mr. Trabert is lineally connected with the Hartman family, which furnished gallant soldiers to the Revolutionary struggle. The Hartmans came to the United States during the seventeenth century.