Sandusky Township (part 40 of 57)

Doctor Stowe is a progressive republican, a member of the Congregational Church, and has been identified with the Fraternal Lodge of Masons at Hyannis, Massachusetts, since 1909. On September 5, 1907, at New Canaan, Connecticut, he married ilarjorie Henry, second daughter of William and Margaret (Waters) Henry. They have one son, David Henry Stowe, born at New Canaan, Connecticut, September 10, 1910.

Hon. Edward M. Fries. From a promising career as a civil engineer Edward M. Fries turned his attention to law, and for nearly a quarter of a century has been an active member of the Bowling Green bar. Among other interests of a widely diversified practice Mr. Fries is now president of the Wood County Savings Bank, having for a niimber of years been a director of that institution and in 1914 succeeding IMyron L. Case as directing head.

Mr. Fries was gi-aduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1893 and admitted to the bar the same year. He at once came to Bowling Green and in 1895 formed a partnership with Hon. Robert S. Parker. j\Ir. Parker was formerly a circuit judge. After two years' practice with Judge Parker IMr. Fries was alone for a couple of years and then formed a partnership with Hon. C. R. Painter, then a member of the State Legislature. This partnership existed until the fall of 1902. At tliat date Mr. Fries was elected judge of the Common Pleas Court in what was then the Tenth Judicial District. He had the distinction of being the youngest Common Pleas judge in the state. He brought to his office wide experience, a thorough knowledge of the law, and the qualifications that make the just and upright judge. He held the office six years. At that time the Tenth Judicial District included nine counties, but his Avork was largely confined to the subdistrict of four counties, Wood, Hancock, Hardin and Seneca. After retiring from the bench Judge Pries practiced law alone until 1915, when he became associated with Charles S. Hatfield, who had just completed his second term of office as prosecuting attorney for Wood County. The firm of Fries & Hatfield has a general practice and is one of the strongest and best known firms of lawyers in this section of the state.

Judge Fries is a native of Wood County and is a comparatively young man, onlj^ fifty years of age. He gi'ew up and received his education in the local schools and afterwards took a scientific and engineering course in the Ohio Nortliern University at Ada. He was graduated in 1886 and from that time until he entered the Cincinnati Law School was a civil and construction engineer. Part of the time he was with the Lake Erie and Western Railway, and subsequently was in the State of Washington. He was in Washington when that territory was admitted to the Union.

Judge Pries is of an old famih- of Eastern Pennsylvania. His forefathers lived there prior to the Revolutionary War. His gi'andfather, Abraham Fries, was born in Pennsylvania and spent all his life there, where he died at the age of seventy-five. He and his family were all Lutherans. Solomon Fries, father of Judge Pries, was one of quite a family of children, grew to manhood in Pennsylvania, and subsequently removed to Tiffin, Ohio, where he married Loiiisa A. Steckel. She was born in Pennsylvania and her German ancestors in that state located there in 1725. The fii-st member of the Steckel family bom in Pennsylvania was named William. The name of Louisa Steckel's father was also William, and he was born in Pennsylvania and married there ]Miss Leiseni'ing. They subsequently removed to Seneca County, Ohio, where William Steckel died when about seventy years of age. The Steekels were also a Lutheran family. William Steckel and wife had eight children, and two of them, Elias and Mrs. F'rances Rex, are still living, the former a resident of Atlanta, Indiana, and the latter of Tiffin, Ohio. Some years after the marriage of Solomon Pries and wife they removed in 1860 to Bloom Township of Wood County, and were prosperous farmers of that section for many years. Solomon Pries was born in 1824 and died at the age of seventy-nine. His wife was bom in 1835 and died at seventytwo. They were members of the Lutheran Church, and Solomon Pries was a very active and ardent republican. For two terms he served Wood Coimty as a commissioner.

Judge Pries was married in Wood County to IMiss Anna Davis, who was born here in 1874. Prior to her marriage she was a successful teacher in the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Pries have four children: Gertrude, aged twelve and a student in the Bowling Green High School; Edward, aged ten, and Robert, aged seven, both in the grade schools ; and Zenobia. Mrs. Fries is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Judge Fries has always been a republican and was elected on that ticket to the office of judge.

His young law partner, Charles S. Hatfield, was born in Wood County about thirty-five years ago, is a graduate of the Bowling Green High School and of an Indiana college, and took his law course in the Ohio State University at Columbus, where he was graduated in 1907 and admitted to the bar the same year. Since then he has been in active general practice at Bowling Green and his prestige and success as a laAvj^er seem completely assured.

James W. R.ve, M. D., obtained his medical degree from the Toledo Medical College with the class of 1910. He has since been in active practice both as a physician and surgeon at Bowling Green, and has won a comfortable practice and also a high standing in medical circles. He is a skillful surgeon, and is now registered as a member of the Toledo Hospital Corps for the American Red Cross Service and is likely at any day to be called to active service in Prance. Doctor Rae's office is at 1231/2 South Main Street in Bowling Green.

He was born in Pennsylvania August 10, 1880, Init since the age of nine years has lived in Ohio. He obtained most of his early education in Bowling Green, and in 1899 was graduated from the high school. In the meantime, in 1898, he had enlisted in a cavalry company for service in the Spanish-American war, and was with the organization for eight months, but was never called beyond the bor- ders of the country. After graduating from high school he enlisted in the First United States Cavalry and as first sergeant of Troop M went to the Philippines. He was in service in the far East for three years and the fall after his return took up the study of medicine. Doctor Rae is a member of the County and State iledical societies and the American Medical Association and for two years served as secretary of the Wood County society. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Modern Woodmen of America and of the Maccabees.

Doctor Rae is of Scotch parentage. His father is the venerable Dr. John B. Rae, whose career has been distingiiished for his devoted efforts in behalf of the trade union movement, especially among the mine workers of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Dr. John B. Rae is still living at Bowling Green. He and his wife, Helen (Brown) Rae, were both born near Edinburgh and were Scotch Highlanders. John B. Rae acquired his medical education in Edinburgh, and after his marriage he set out for America, establishing a home in Pennsylvania during the early '70s. He practiced in several different localities, and in 1889 removed to Ohio, and subsequently established a sanitarium and hospital in Bowling Green. He is now eighty years of age and is living retired. His wife was accidentally killed in a gas explosion in the bathroom of her home in September, 1906, at the age of sixty-four. Both were active members of the Christian Church.

Dr. John B. Rae, after coming to the United States, began practice among the Pennsylvania miners, where at the time those workmen were laboring under most distressful and often oppressive conditions, and hosts of them were in dire poverty. Thus his ^u-netice brought him into close contact \\ itii lie awful conditions that prevailed inilustiiall\ , and he not only gave countenance to Ijiit became a leader in the movement and promotion of mining unions as a means of raising the standards of American woi-kmen. He took up that cause when it was dangerovis to be recognized as one wlio favored a union, and he fearlessly pursued the end until he saw the American ]\Iine Workers Union established permanently. He was elected to the office of president and was sent to the headquarters of the union at Columbus, Ohio. It was the duties connected with that work which made him a resident of that state.

Dr. John B. Rae was orphaned at the age of nine years and from that time earned his living and paid for his education. Thus he grew up a poor man and acquired a thorough sympathy and understanding of those who had to struggle for their daily bread by the sweat of their brow. These early hardships proved only an incentive to his sturdy Scotch ambition and his life has been one continual service in behalf of those less fortunate and l)articularly in behalf of the great cause of trade unionism.

Dr. James W. Rae was married in Wood County to Grace L. Duffield, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1884. As a child she came with her parents to Bowling Green. She is a daughter of D. D. and Alice (Fo.ster) Duffield, who are still living in Bowling Green. Her father was a pioneer oil man in Wood County, and is now superintendent of the Sun Oil Pipe Line Company of ' Ohio. Doctor and Mrs. Rae have two children, Frances, aged nine, and Albert, aged three. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church and politically Doctor Rae is a republican.

Harry G. Potter is identified with the real estate business in Toledo and is one of Toledo's most loyal citizens. He was born in Corinth, New York, January 24, 1871, son of Frederick R. Potter, a native of the same state. The Potter ancestors came out of England and were earl.y settlers in America. Frederick R. Potter spent his active life as proprietor of a summer and resort hotel in New York, where he is still living. He is an active member of the Baptist Churcli and was formerly postmaster of his home village.

The older of two sons, Harry 6. Potter, liad a public school education. He first came to Toledo in 1883, and some years later lie again left New York and found a permanent location at Toledo. He came to the city with the intention of taking up tlie study of law and became a student with H. P. Piatt, one of the most prominent la\\yei-s of the city. Mr. Potter beeame interested in the real estate business and became a member of the firm of H. P. Piatt & Company. Mr. Potter has had an extensive experience in real estate lines both in and out of Toledo, and has bought and sold a vast amount of property. He was for fifteen years in business with Mr. Piatt and then entered the real estate business for himself. His offices are now in the Bank of Commerce Building and besides handling important coinmissions as a real estate broker he is iiciNnnally the owner of considerable valuable in'ojx-rty in and near the city.

Mr. Potter grew up in a republican atmosphere, all his family being republicans, though he is now laruely independent in his political actions, lb- is as public spirited in his relation to community undertakings as he is successful in the management of his private affairs.

NoEMAN C. Sherwood though a man of only sixty years is one of the oldest business men in point of continuous service at Fremont. This is due to the fact that he began business life at an age when most boys are still in school and under the care and direction of their parents. He has made success in keeping with his many years of experience and is now head of the Trommer Company of Fremont.

Mr. Sherwood was bom at Postoria, Ohio, I\Iay 17, 1857, a son of William D. and Frances (Harris) Sherwood. He represents some lineage of prominent families. His grandfather, William D. Sherwood, was born in New York State and was a pioneer settler at Tiffin, Ohio, about 1822. Although an attorney by profession, he wa-s for many years engaged in the edged tool business at Plainfield, New Jersej^ In 1825 he removed to Sandusky County, acquired a section of land, and lived to develop it as a fine farm. In the War of 1812 he had served as a captain in the American army and fought in the battle of Plattsburg. Before coming to Ohio he met and married Mis.s Allen, a daughter of John Allen and a niece of the Revolutionary hero, Ethan Allen.

Mr. Sherwood's maternal gi'audfather, Mark Anthony Harris, was born in Pennsylvania near the New York line and was a brother of that John Harris who laid out and founded the City of Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania. j\Iark A. Harris' mother was a Meade, of the family from which General Meade, the great Civil war soldier, was descended.

William D. Sherwood, Jr., father of Norman C, was born at Tiffin, Ohio, in 1822 and died in 1905. He had a long and active career. For his first wife he married a Miss Bixler, who died in 1849, both her children being also deceased. Soon after her death William D. Sherwood went out to California after the discovery of gold on the Pacific

Coast. He returned to Ohio in 1853 and in that year was married at Port Seneca to Frances Harris, who was born at Fort Seneca, Ohio, in 1836 and died in 1882. They had three children : Norman C. ; Eugene li., who is manager of the Postal Telegraph office at Fremont ; and AVilliam D., a retired railway man living at Beulah, Virginia. William D. Sherwood was a member of the Masonic order, a republican in politics, and at one time served as mayor of Postoria. Early in the Civil war he enlisted and became first lieutenant in Company A of the Fifty-fifth Ohio Regiment. He was soon disabled by illness and discharged. After doing some duty as a recruiting otificer he re-enlisted in the 100 days" service and spent that period as a guard at the Confederate prison on Johnson's Island. In 1865 he removed to Fremont and for a number of years was in the tanning business. In 1869 he was again attracted to the West and added considerably to his fortune in the gold mines of Montana. In 1872 he went out to California again, but his last venture was a losing one.

Norman C. Sherwood had only a district school education as a preparation for life. When twelve years of age he began clerking in a dry goods store at Fremont. He contracted to work at $75 a year. He showed quick apprehension and gave laborious attention to his duties, and was soon promoted. He became bookkeeper, subsequently worked as clerk in the Fremont Postoffice. and for a number of years was in the auditor's office of the Lake Erie & Louisville Railway Company.

Mr. Sherwood began his connection ^\itli the Trommer Company as bookkeeper. He did not allow the strict duties of that position to define his interest in the business, and in a few years had worked up to the post of manager. In 1906 he took over the active management of the business, which is incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000. The Trommer Company manufactures a malt extract for medical purposes, and the product is shipped all over the United States and a large foreign trade has been developed in England. The volume of business runs between $500,000 and $600,000 a year. Mr. Sherwood is treasurer and general manager, while Edmund Zurhorst of Sandusky is president, Charles L. Sherwood, a son of Norman C. is vice president, and W. S. Lewis is secretary.

bei-s of the ilethodist Episcopal Church. He is one of the prominent ilasons of Northwest Ohio. He has attained the thirty-second degree in Scottish Rite and has filled all the important chairs in the diiferent branches of the York Rite, being past master, past high priest, past thrice illustrious master, and past eminent commander of the lodge, chapter, council and commandery respectively. His sons are also past officers in each branch of the York Rite except the Knights Templar. Mr. Sherwood grew up in the atmosphere of republican politics, was a loyal worker in that party for a number of years, but more recently became committed to the progressive wing of the party. For two terms he served in the city council, and has been quite active in politics. Some years ago he helped organize an independent ticket in order to put an end to the corrupt politics in his home city. In local affairs it is the cause of good government which appeals to him more than the success of any one faction or party. He takes considerable interest in the dry question in Ohio. For a man who started in life with absolutely nothing except the latent capabilities of his mind and body Mr. Sherwood's success is a striking illustration of what may be accomplished by an individual.

On April 19, 1882, he married Miss Susan Lewis, who was born in Sandusky County, a daughter of Benjamin W. Lewis. Her father was a school teacher, a music teacher and farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood have four children: Charles L. and Norman D., and Jeannette and Norma, both at home.

Charles L. Sherwood was bom at Fremont November 11, 1883, and after leaving school he became identified with his father's business and is now vice president and superintendent of the Tromraer Company. He is also active in local affairs, being a trustee of the Fremont Board of Commerce, is clerk of the school board and has been a member of the board for four years. Like his father he is prominent in Masonry, being pa.st master, past high priest and past eminent commander, and now deputy illustrious master of the council. He is a progressive republican. He is also affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, United Commercial Travelers, has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in Masonry and he and his family are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. He was married March 31, 1909, to Flossie Reynolds. She was born in Lake Countv. Ohio, daughter of A. A. and

Elvina Reynolds, both of whom are now deceased. Charles L. Sherwood and wife have two children: Jeannette and ilary Eleanor, the first daughter being in school.

N. D. Sherwood, second son of Norman C. Sherwood, was born Jlarch 18, 1885, and is assistant superintendent of the Trommer Company. He is a York Rite Mason and has filled the chairs of master and high priest in the lodge and chapter. He married Ruby Gottron, who was born in Fremont, daughter of PJiilip Gottron. They have two children: Elizabeth Ann and Susan Ruth, the former being now in kindergarten.

Hon. Daniel Kiddee Hollenbeck is the oldest member of the Wood County bar. He has been continuously in practice at Perrysburg nearly sixty years. His father was a prominent early citizen in the Maumee Valley, and was also a lawj-er, and it is noteworthy that Mr. Hollenbeck now occupies the law office which his father occupied for that special purpose and here he himself read law and it is the oldest law office in that part of Northwest Ohio.

The Hollenbeck family has lived in Northwest Ohio seventy years. D. K. Hollenbeck was born in Mumford, IVIonroe County, New York, twenty miles from the City of Rochester, on January 15, 1834. His parents, Francis and Eliza (Jamison) Hollenbeck, were both natives of New York State. His father was born in the little town of Williamsburg, near Scoharie, and the mother near Gloversville. Francis Hollenbeck was a miller by trade. For many years he was employed by the Mumfords who owned a gi'eat many mills along the Genesee River, and that family also owned a large amount of wild land in Williams, Lucas and Henry counties of Northwest Ohio. To look after these lands and sell them the Mumfords sent Francis Hollenbeck west in 1844. His first headquarters were at Miami in Lucas County, and in 1846 his family followed him to Northwest Ohio. Long before his death Francis Hollenbeck had sold nearly all the iluraford lands in this section of Ohio. About 1850 he moved to the other side of the river and established his home at Perrysburg. Besides acting as land agent for the Mumfords he also looked after the warehouses of that firm on both sides of the river. He was a man of versatile gifts, highly educated, and with almost a genius for handling varied enterprises. He was prominently associated with the Perrysburg school, Imown as the Union school, and served as its principal aud superintendent. He was at the head of the schools in 1854 when the cholera was epidemic over all that region. "While in school work he took up the study of law with H. S. Commager, and was admitted to the bar Januai-y 10, 1856. Since that date for sixty years the name of Hollenbeck has been continuously identified with the legal profession. For many years Francis Hollenbeck was associated with D. ]M. ]\Iefford, under the firm name of Mefford & Hollenbeck. Francis HoUenbeck was in active practice until his death. He was survived a number of years by his widow. In pioneer times, when it was the custom to have three school examiners, Mr. Hollenbeck filled one of those posts of responsibility for a number of years. In his family were four sons, and the only survivor is D. K. Hollenbeck, the oldest. The sou George W. lived for many j'ears in Toledo and finally went with a company to Mexico to work some gold mines. After the company had broken up he went to Los Angeles, and there died, leaviilg a widow and two children. William Hemy, the third son, was a wagon maker by trade and died at Perrysburg. Francis E., the youngest, was for about fifteen years in the office with bis brother Daniel K. before his death. The sons Henry and George were members of the One Hundred and Forty-fourth Ohio Infantry during the war and were stationed on duty at Johnson's Island. George was a lieutenant and "William a private. D. K. Hollenbeck also had a brief experience as a soldier. He was a member of the famous Squirrel Hunters Brigade. He crossed the pontoon bridge at Cincinnati, walked to camp about five miles from that city, and after being away two weeks was returned home. About two years ago the State Legislatui'e gi'anted each member of this organization the .sum of $13 as pay for the time spent in the field.

D. K. Hollenbeck and all his brothers were boi-n in New York State. He was twelve years of age when his parents settled at Miami, Ohio, and was about sixteen when they moved to Perrysburg. The first union school ever organized in the State of Ohio was that organized at Perrysburg, and Francis Hollenbeck was among those most prominent in getting the school started. D. K. Hollenbeck completed his early education in this school, and the first twenty-three years of his life were spent in attending school and reading law in the office of his father. On September 19, 1857, he was admitted to the bar in "Wood County and that date establishes his claim as the oldest living attorney of the county. He has been in general practice for the past fifty-nine years, and still looks after a large office business, with special attention to collection and commercial litigation.

Mr. Hollenbeck has been on the official board of the Citizens Banking Company of Perrysburg, Ohio, since its organization. This is the oldest banking institution in Wood County.

ilr. Hollenbeck has always been an active republican since the organization of that party. At various times he has accepted a place on the local ticket and has been an unsuccessful candidate for clerk of courts and probate judge. He is now one of the five commissioners of the Fort Meigs Memorial, and is also a member of the Library Board of Perrysburg and a park trustee of the village. The Way Library at Perrysburg was donated to that city by the late W. Y. Way, a prominent old lawyer of forty j'cars ago. 'Mr. Way died in August, 1875, and his body now rests in the local cemetery, the site being marked by the finest monument in the grounds. Mr. Hollenbeck was one of the three executors of his will, and when the library was dedicated was selected to deliver the principal address. Mr. Hollenbeck is one of the old Masons of Northwest Ohio and is affiliated with Phoenix Lodge No. 123, Free and Accepted Masons, at Perrysburg, and with Fort Meigs Chapter Royal Arch Masons.

On March 4, 1863, he married Miss Frances Bruce, of Clinton, Michigan. Her parents, Phineas and Eliza (Hatch) Bruce, were early settlers in Michigan and her father was a cooper by trade. Mrs. Hollenbeck was born in Clinton, Michigan, completed ter education at Ypsilanti, and prior to her marriage was a teacher in her home .state. Five of her sisters were also teachers and are all now deceased. After their marriage Mr. and IMrs. Hollenbeck began housekeeping at Perrysburg and several years ago they quietly celebrated that important event known as a golden wedding anniversary. To their marriage were born four children. The only son, Fred, is a lawyer by profession, having been admitted to the Ohio bar, but has never practiced and instead has followed the real estate and loan business. For the last twenty-five years he has lived in Seattle, Washington, is unmarried, and in that time has never been back to Northwest Ohio, though his parents have visited him several times. The oldest daughter, Ella E., who died in December, 1913, was a teacher in the Mis- souri State Normal at Warrensbnrg, but was brought back to Perrysburg during her last illness. The daughter Grace A. is still at home. Jean K. has for the last eight years been a teacher in the Stickney School at Toledo. All the ehildi'en were born in Perrysburg, graduated from the Perrysburg schools, and all of them had college advantages. Ella and Grace graduated from Alma College at Toronto, Canada, Jean is a graduate of Winona College in Minnesota, and Fred is a graduate of the University of ^Michigan.

Harey p. Black. As a member of the Seneca County Bar for over twenty years none better upheld the prestige and dignity of the profession than Harry P. Black, whose death occurred on the 28th of August, 1917. Mr. Black took to his profession the training and experience of a self-made man. He had earned his own living and had contributed to the support of his family since an early age, and developed the qualities of self-reliance and enterprise which stood him in good stead when he was admitted to the bar. He enjoyed a large practice and gave faithful and able servive in every relationship.

Of Scotch-Irish ancestry, Harry Patrick Black was bom at Birkcaldy in Fifeshire, Scotland, April 4, 1870. He was a son of Michael and Elizabeth (Smythe) Black, both of whom were born in County Sligo in the North of Ireland. They were of Scottish origin. They were married in Ireland and Michael Black for many years followed his trade as a potter. He was an expert mechanic in that line. Prior to his marriage he had come to America and during the Civil war he enlisted at Brooklyn in the navy and served throughout that stimggle. He afterwards returned to Scotland and when Harry P. Black was aboiit three years of age he brought his family to America and located at Baltimore, where he was connected with different pottery establishments until his death in 1884. His widow survived him until 1895. Both were active members of the Catholic Church. Of their seven children three are still living: John, who is engaged in the automobile business, at Muncie, Indiana ; Thomas J., manager of pottery works at Crooksville, Ohio; and Mrs. John IMonroe, whose husband is a potter at East Liverpool, Ohio.

Hari-y P. Black was only fourteen years of age when his father died. In the meantime he had attended St. Patrick's Parochial School at Baltimore and also the Christian

Brothers School at Endicptt City, Maryland, not far from Baltimore. The death of his father threw upon him unusual responsibilities and at the age of sixteen he began earning his own living as a worker in the Maryland Pottery Works at Baltimore. He served an apprenticeship of five years, and continued two more years as a journeyman. While a skilled worker at his trade, his natural bent and his inclinations were for a professional life. The law was his choice, and having once begun to fit himself for its practice he never deviated from a rigid course of preparation, which he pursued with the obstacles and handicaps imposed by the necessity of earning his own way in the world.

In 1892 Mr. Black removed to Seneca County and located at Tiffin. While working during the day he studied law at nights, and had as his preceptor that able and honored member of the Seneca County Bar, James H. Piatt. Mr. Black began his law studies under Judge Piatt on St. Patrick's Day of 1893. The next month he waS elected township clerk of Clinton Township and filled that office while studying law. He was admitted to the bar June 7, 1895, and almost immediately was elected city solicitor and filled that office two successive terms. He began practice as a junior partner with his former preceptor. Judge Piatt, and that relationship continued until Judge Piatt was elevated to the bench. Mr. Piatt had previously served as prosecuting attorney and Mr. Black was elected as his successor in November, 1908. He was prosecuting attorney of Seneca County two terms and that gave him an opportunity not only to uphold the dignity arid respect of the law by a forceful administration, but also furnished unusual opportunities for experience. After leaving office Mr. Black gave his entire time and energy' to his private practice.

On June 18, "1901, he married Miss Ida G. Wagner, who was born in Tiffin, daughter of Joseph and Josephine Wagner. Her father was a pioneer brewer at Tiffin and for many years one of the influential business men of the city. Of the two children born to ilr. and I\Irs. Black one died in infane.y. Josephine Elizabeth was born February 20, 1909, and is now attending school. The family are membei"s of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Mr. Black was very prominent in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, was a past exalted ruler, past state president and for four years was district deputy of the order. He also held all the chairs in the Knights of Columbus.

Henky Newbegin was one of the veteran members of the Northwest Ohio bar at the time of his death, January 7, 1917. For more than half a century the bar of Defiance had known him as one of its strong and resourceful members, a valiant fighter for any cause which he believed to be just, and a citizen of power aud influence.

He was a native of the State of Maine, born in Pownal May 2, 1833, and had already passed the eighty-third milestone on the journey of life. His parents were John and Asenath (Knight) Newbegin, who were farming people of the Pine Tree state and spent all their lives there. Like many New England farmers they believed in giving their children the best of educational advantages, and Henry Newbegin after completing the common school course entered Bowdoin College, from which he received his Bachelor of Arts degi'ee in 1857 and his Master of Arts degree in 1860. He had always maintained close affiliations with his alnia mater and from 1887 had been a member of its board of overseers.

'Sh: Newbeo-in was an early educator in Northwest Ohio before he entered the law. From 1858 to 1861 inclusive he was superintendent of the Union schools at Bryan. Ohio. In the meantime he carried on his studies for the law and dating from 1862 had been a member of the Defiance bar. The history of the bench aud bar of that city might be written almost as a commentary on his individual career. He had always looked upon the law as a profession and not as an occupation, and liad given it his best energies and talents to the exclusion of all political or business affairs. However, at different times lie liad served as a director in the Merchants Natidiial Bank at Defiance, also as vi<'c president.

]\Ir. Newbegin was twice married. \\\ his children were by his second wife. On October 23, 1867, at Cumberland. Maine, he married Ellen T. Sturdivant, a daughter of Captain Ephraim Sturdivant. The three children of this marriage were all born in Defiance, Ohio. Parker C, the oldest, is a civil engineer by profession and now has charge of the maintenance of way department of the Bangor & Aroostook Railway, with headquarters at Houlton, Maine. He married Frances Burleigh and has two children, Ellen L. and Mildred. Rev. Edward H. became a clergyman of the Episcopal Church and died at the age of thirty-si.x. on October 14, 1906, He married Elizabeth King, of Boston, ilassachusetts, and left four children, Henry W.. Kdward K., Elizabeth K. and Rnliert. iJoliei-i, ilie youngest .son, still unmarrieil. is a siieeesslul lawyer with offices in Toledo and was in partnership with his father at the time of the elder's death.

S.VRA Ellen Burk. The opportunities of woman in the business field are limited chiefly in the same direction that they are limited for men. The woman of enterprise, who understands the details of bilsiness, and is able to profit by experience, has the same prospects of success as her brothers. A notable illustration of this is the career of Miss Sara Ellen Burk. who is now general manager of the United Underwear Company at Findlay and has made this business the first of its kind in importance in Hancock County.

She was born at fronton, Ohio, April 27, 1883, a daughter of James and Ella (Meek) Burk. She is of Irish and Catholic stock and her father was a rolling mill man. Her maternal grandmother, Bridget, came from County .Alayo. Ireland, at the age of eighteen and located lii'st at Cumberland, Maryland, where she married Michael Burk and together they went to fronton, Ohio.

]\Iiss Burk attended public school, later went with her parents to Birmingham, Alabama, where she was in St. Joseph's Convent, and she finished her school work at Rock Island and Moline, Illinois. When still a yoimg girl she began learning the millinery trade at St. Louis, ilissouri, where she worked as an apprentice with two different firms.

After a year at Toledo, she came to Findlay at the age of eighteen and took l;er place at the millinery table of the Beehive dry goods store. She was there three years, part of the time as clerk and then became saleswoman in the linen and ho.sierj^ department of Hoover Brothers store for two years. For six years- she was in the underwear and hosiery department of H. F. Wiudes & Sons store, and then, profiting by a wide experience and a thorough ability, she took the management of the Findlay branch of the A. C. Lane Specialty Company, handling hovsiery, underwear and fancy knit goods.

She opened the new store of the company in Findlay and at first worked both as a saleswoman and as local manager. She brought to the business thorough experience and also a large following of friends and customers, and the success of the store was immediate. She has since built up the business until it is the largest of the kind in Hancock County. ]Miss Burk keeps up the stock and looks after the advertising and window trimming-, and also supervises the work of seven people in the store.

A. V. Baumanx, Jr., is a lawyer of exceptional ability and enjoys an influential place as a member of the Fremont bar, aud_ is one of the youngest men to hold the office of prosecuting attorney in Northwest Ohio.

He represents a very old and prominent family of Sandusky County. He was born in Fremont January 13, 1891, a son of A. V. and Annie Rose (Greene) Baumann. His grandfather, Jacob Baumann, was a native of Switzerland, born in 1827, and settled at Fremont, Ohio, in 1854, where he was in the meat business for a number of years. He died in 1911. A. V. Baumann, Sr., was born in Fremont in 1859, filled the office of county auditor for six years, and since his term expired has been successfully engaged as an oil producer. He also owns interests in several manufacturing plants at Fremont. He was married at Fremont to Miss Annie Rose Greene, who was born there in 1869. Her grandfather, John L. Greene, was a prominent lawyer and at one time was a judge in Ohio. Her father, John L. Greene, was born in Ohio and for many years was one of the leading members of the' Fremont bar. He was a soldier four years during the Civil war, rose to the rank of captain, served on General Thomas' staff and was brevetted major at the close of the war. He afterwards filled the office of Common Pleas judge and during the flood of 1883 served as mayor of Fremont. Mrs. Annie Eose Baumann has long been prominent in the social life of Fremont, and was formerly a member of the state executive committee of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and is chairman of the conservation committee of the State Federation of Women's Clubs. She has given much time and study to affairs of .local history and as state president of the Daughters of 1812 was one of the speakers of the dedication of tlie Perry Monument at Putin-Bay. A. V. Baumann, Sr.. and wife have two children, the daughter, Elizabeth, being the wife of C. F. Holzhepfel, a merchant at Sandusky. A. V. Baumann, Sr., is a member of the Lvitheran Church and his wife is a

Presbyterian. He is a democrat, has always been interested in politics and has served as a delegate to state and national conventions and on a number of committees. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

A. V. Baumann. Jr., was graduated from the Fremont High School in 1907. After a year of expei-ience on a local newspaper he entered Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he finished the regular literary course in 1912. He studied law in the University of Michigan, was graduated in 1914, and in February, 1915, was admitted to the Ohio bar. Thus he became engaged in his chosen profession at the age of twenty-four and has alread.y gained a reputation as a safe and capable attorney. In 1916 he was elected prosecuting attornej' of Sanduskj' County. He is a democrat in politics, and he gives most of. his time to the duties of his present office. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is camp commander of the Sons of Veterans. He is a member of the college fraternities Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Phi.

William M. Gray and his brother Clarence Gray comprise the well known contracting firm of Gray Brothers at Bowling Green. As a result of long experience, beginning on a small scale, they have perfected an oi'ganization and service that enable them to handle the largest contracts in a reliable, prompt and efficient manner. They are builders of stone, cement and asphalt roads and street paving.

This firm was established at Bowling Green in 1912. While much of their construction work has been done in Wood County, their contracts really cover all Northwest Ohio and Southern Michigan. In fully half a dozen counties they have built about sixty miles of macadam roads, and they have for this work a complete equipment of machinery and tools and a force of trained workmen.

William ]\I. Gray, the senior member of the firm, has been doing public work since a young man. On July 17, 1899, he began driving a team on public work, and during the second year he was made an overseer under a eontractor. He studied his work, utilized every opportunity to improve his knowledge and skill, and being at the same time thrifty and saving of his money he was in a position within a few yeai'S to set up in business as an independent contractor. He has been doing eon-

At the present time this firm is building a section of the famous Dixie Higlaway. This is Division No. 282, between Bowling Green and Perrysburg, connecting those two cities. In 1915 they constructed two miles of the same highway in Hancock County.

Both the brothers were born and reared in Lucas County, Ohio. William was born in 1878 and his "brother in 1883. They grew up there on a farm, were educated in the public schools, and had commercial training in the business college at Valparaiso, Indiana. Their parents, Thomas and Sarah (Ryan) Gray, are still living on their old homestead in Lucas County, the father at the age of sixty-five and the mother at fifty-seven. Every one in Providence Township of Lucas Covmty knows this worthy couple, who have spent all their lives in Ohio and were married in Lucas County.

William M. Gray was married in Lucas County to Myrtle Brown. She was born in Millbury, Wood County, and reared in Providence Township, was educated in the local schools and at Toledo and for a short time prior to her marriage was a teacher. They have three children: Charles, now sixteen years of age, is a member of the class of 1919 in the high school at Bowling Green; Margaret, aged fourteen, also in high school; and Dorothy, aged seven, has begun her studies in the grade school.

Mr. Clarence Gray was married in Lucas County, in Providence Township, to Isabel Baldwin. They also have three children : Pearl, aged eleven ; Merle, aged ten ; and Mary E., aged two. The two older children are in the public schools.

Joseph F. Reed, present public safety director of the City of Bowling Green, has had a long and active connection with official affairs in that city.

He was born in Pauling, Ohio, September 15, 1855. He was reared in his native city, attended the public schools and was married in that county to Miss Jessie Ditto, of Delphos, Ohio. Mrs. Reed was born and reared at Delphos, became a teacher and followed her work in Paulding, Ohio, where she met and married Mr. Reed.

In 1886 they removed to Bowling Green and for seven years conducted a high class restaurant in the city. Mr. Reed then sold out and took the office of city marshal. Four years later he was appointed chief of police and kept the city in peace and order in that capacity for sixteen years. On January 1, 1914, he resigned his office as chief, but a year later was appointed safety director. Mr. Reed has served as chief of police or safety director under eight different mayoi's. These mayors were W. S. Haskell, now of Detroit; Aimer Campbell, a Bowling Green attorney; Joseph E. Baird, now director of public service in Bowling Green; James LaFarre, now deceased; I. M. Taylor, an oil producer; David C. Van Voorhis, present postmaster of Bowling Green; T. C. Conley, attorney and court stenographer; and S. W. Bowman, attorney and present mayor of the city.

Mr. Reed is affiliated with Centennial Lodge No. 626, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is also township trustee of Plain Township. Politically he is a republican and he and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

To him and his wife have been born five children. Ralph died at the age of twenty, just after finishing his high school studies, Norma died in infancy, Ethel M. is a graduate of the local high school at Bowling Green, and is a school teacher in this county. Joseph D. Reed is a rubber worker with the Goodyear Rubber Company at Akron and by his marriage to Cora Austin has a daughter, Josephine. Ned Shirley, who is employed as a draftsman with the Garford Truck Company, married Helen Hess, of Bowling Green, and has a daughter, Nedra, five years old.

Orio M. Knapp learned the printing trade from his father and printing has been his chief business connection at Tiffin. He has also interested himself in a number of other movements and institutions in that city, and has made his work and talents a source of usefulness and benefit to his community as well as to himself.

Mr. Knapp was born at Tiffin January 28, 1878, a son of Russell L. and Philippiua E. (Snyder) Knapp. His grandfather, Orson Knapp, was an early day tailor and merchant at Bellefontaine, Ohio. The maternal grandfather. Christopher Snyder, was a native of Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, and came to the United States about 1820. He was a pioneer in Tiffin and became a very successful man in that city. He had a crockery store, and afterwards built two business blocks on Washington Street. Russell L. Knapp was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, and is now deceased.

while his wife, Philippina Snyder, was born at TifSu, where they were married, and is still living in that city. Russell Knapp followed the trade of pi-inter nearly all his active career at Tiffin. At the age of sixteen he enlisted for service in the Union Army and was in the war for a brief period. He was one of the leading Masons of Tiffin, filled the office of secretary in the various bodies represented there, and also occupied the chairs of the Lodge, Chapter and Knight Templar Commandeiy. Politically he was a republican and served as councilman of Tiffin. He and his wife had three children : Orio M. Knapp ; Augusta R., at home with her mother; and Earl C, a draftsman with the National Machinery Company at Tiffin.

Orio i\I. Knapp gi-ew up at Tiffin, attended the Tifiin High School, and early learned a trade and became actively associated with his father in the printing business. His father died in June, 1905, and he took in as a partner Henry Brohl, and the business is now continued under the name Knapp & Brohl. The}' have a well equipped plant and all the facilities for turning out commercial printing of every class and stjde. Mr. Knapp is also art editor and cartoonist of the Goose Quill, a monthly magazine published in Tiffin.

Mr. Knapp has never married. He is independent in politics, is president of the Tiffin Board of Health, secretaiy of the Seneca County Humane Society, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and a director of the Seneca County Historical Society. He is also affiliated with TifBn Lodge No. 94 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

A. A. Slaybaugh, who recently completed a most creditable term of administration of the office of prosecuting attorney in Putnam County, has been in active practice as a lawyer in this count}' of his birth for over twenty years. As an attorney he has a vast range of experience, acquired partly in private practice and partly in public office, and long since attained a secure position as a member of the bar.

Mr. Slaybaugh was born September 2, 1874, at "West Leipsic, in Putnam County. He is a son of Thomas C. and Emma J. Slaybaugh. His parents were both natives of Pennsylvania. His mother was a school teacher in an early day, and his father, who is still living, was a carpenter and a veteran of the Civil war. "Sir. Slaybaugh was reared in West Leipsic. attended the Normal School at Leipsic, Ohio, when it was under the capable supervision of I. S. Harmon, and at the age of sixteen he acciuired his teacher's license. Like many successful men in the law and other professions he did his novitiate as a teacher. For two years he taught in Putnam County, his first school being at Miller City in 1891.

In June, 1893, Mr. Slaybaugh began the study of law with T. W. Prentiss at Leipsic. With such diligence did he apply himself to his work that in October, 1896, he was admitted to the Putnam County bar and at once began practice at Leipsic.

Mr. Slaybaugh has for many years been active in the councils of the democratic party. From 1900 to 1902 he was mayor of Leipsic, was solicitor of the village from 1902 to 1912, and on January 1, 1914, again took charge of the office. He was a member of the local board of education from January 1, 1910, to January 1, 1913, resigning to enter upon his duties as prosecuting attorney. He was elected prosecuting attorney in November, 1912, and during the four years of his service, until 1916, he made the office a source of protection and means of the upholding of law and order in a manner which reflected great credit upon his personal courage and ability.

On June 9, 1901. Mr. Slaybaugh married Emily Bradley. Mrs. Slaybaugh was born in Kalida, Putnam County, a daughter of Patterson and Emily (Turpenning) Bradley. Her father, now deceased, was a farmer in early life and later a dealer in horses. He also served with credit as a soldier in the Union army. He was of Irish parentage and he located at Kalida in Putnam County soon after the close of the war. ]Mr. and Mrs. Slaybaugh have two children : Gordon Maxwell and Helen Louise.

Frank William Day. It is a successful man who can capitalize a special ability and his experience so as to become proprietor of a business of his own. This is what Frank William Day has done at Findlay and though one of the younger business men of that city he is now sole proprietor of the successful establishment known a.s Day Cycle Company at 111 East Sandusky Street.

Mr. Day wa.s born at Viroqua in Vernon County, Wisconsin, on May 10, 1890, a son of William H. and Minnie (Mitchell) Day. His family is of English descent, and the Days were established in this country by three lirothers. .When Mr. Day was a year and a half old his parents removed to Carey,

Ohio, and a few years later to Fiiidlay. Mi-. Day was reared and educated at Fiudlay, attending the grammar and high schools. At the age of eighteen he lictiaii worldiig- as a clerk for Bickelhauj)!, tlic '^incci-y man, but after a year he went wilh 'riKniiiis «S; Company in their establishment on South Main Street. He made his services count until he soon was given charge of an entire department.

In December, 1911, Mr. Day left that firm to set up in business for himself at 110 West Front Street. He conducted a repair shop for bicycles and motorcycles, but si.K mouths later moved to his present location at 111 Ea.st Sandusky Stn'i't. ITci-e he has extended his business by puttiiiu- in a complete stock of bicyrhs, tires, motiu-eycle, automobile and electrical supplies. He has a patronage now not only in Findlay but also Hancock County, and an expert himself in his special line he has the executive ability to handle a prosperous and growing busi-

January 1, 1910, Mr. Day married Miss Maybelle Clare Ames of Findlay. They have two children : Frank William, Jr., born October 13, 1910, and Roger Rollin, born January 17, 1912. Mr. Day is independent in his polities and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. As a result of hard work and depending strictly upon himself he now owns his own home and some otlier real estate in Findlay.

Hon. a. H. J.vckson. While Mr. Jackson is entitled to the distinction of "Honorable" before his name by reason of his former service in Congress and also by the excellence of his four years as mayor of Fremont, his real achievements have been in business and industrial affairs. Many people will be found to say that A. H. Jackson has done more for the solid prosperity of Fremont than any other one man. His beginnings were humble enough. At one time he was selling goods from a wagon as a kind of high class peddler. He probably inherited .some Yankee genius in commercial affairs. jMr. .lackson has been a resident of Fremont iiKne iliaii lurty-five years. Quite early in his career lie entered the manufacturing field. He has been responsible for the upbuilding and maintenance of the two largest industries of Fremont. The product of these industries has made the name Fremont known over all America and even in foreign lands. Public service is important, but nothing comes so close to the vital welfare of the people as a wisely conducted and permanent industry, furnishing employment to many and creating work and opportunity of an enduring nature.

Mr. Jackson is a native of New York State, having been born in Delaware County May 10, 1846. HLs parents were George W. and Roxanna (Ripley) Jackson. His father w^as a native of New York State and his mother of the State of Massachusetts, and they lived to advanced years. The father was a farmer but in later life engaged in the lumber industry and was fairly successful. He and his wife had five children : Marian, George Herbert, Ellen, Clai'a and A. H. All the otlier children are now living in Michigan. Both parents were active in the Methodist Episcopal Church and the father was a republican.

A. H. .lacksdii had a connnon school education in Deiiiwarc ( 'ounty, New York. He also attended school for a time at i'oniing. New York. By the time he was seveiiii'eii years of age he had a moderate aimmiit of schooling and considerable knowledge of the carpenter's trade. But even then he recognized his true field as merchandising.

Some men .start as clerks and go through a long apprenticeship before they become independent merchants. Mr. Jackson took a short cut. With a capital of about $17 he invested in a stock of notions, and exercised such salesmanship and persistence as to turn over his capital in a short time. He made sufficient profit to buy a horse and wagon. The wagon he filled with a stock of goods readily saleable through the country districts. He started selling on the streets at auction, and was soon making good in his special role as a street salesman. There were several things that contributed to his success and raised him above the plane of the ordinary peddler. In the first i)lace lie refused to handle anything except reliable goods. He also recognized the value of aiivcrtising. He made his wagon attract i\-e. displayed his goods to advantage, ami in a short time he had several wagons ti'a\cliiii; about. His own special wagon was a ci'cation sufficient to attract the eye of the mo.st dilatory purchaser. It was drawn by four fine horses, and the caravan seldom stopped at town or city without effecting a sale, and always remaining three daj's in a town. With this fine outfit Mr. Jackson traveled through New England and through the states of Kansas, Iowa, Illinoi.s, Indiana, Michigan, New York. Pennsylvania and Ohio.

His reputation and the reputation and quality of his goods often preceded him by miles, and when he made a second round on any route his patronage increased almost by magic.

In 1872 Mr. Jackson had established his home at Fremont. He continued selling goods on the road for a number of years, but in 1884 gave up traveling and embarked in a local retail dry goods business.

Mr. Jackson was always alert and quick to realize the advantage of something new in the market. About that time the mode of woman 's dress prescribed the ' ' bustle " as indispensable to good form and Mr. Jackson invented and put on the market a superior type of this now obsolete article. He developed a large demand for the bustles, and they were manufactured on a large scale. It was from this that his vast enterprise as a manufacturer was developed.

He also began manufacturing underwear and making shears and razors. He is now head of two industries, and they are the largest institutions in Sandusky County and among the largest and most important in the State of Ohio. The A. H. Jackson Manufacturing Company, making a large line of women's and children's muslin and flannelette underwear, is incorporated with a capital of $400,000. The products are sold all over the United States and the annual volume of sales amount to over $900,000. Mr. Jackson is also president of the Fremont Suspender Company, manufacturing suspenders, hose supporters and similar articles. He is president of the Jackson Knife and Shear Company, manufacturing knives, shears and high class razors, and this company is capitalized at $200,000. The A. H. Jackson Manufacturing Company, besides the immense plant at Fremont, has branch factories in Sandusky, Tiffin, Clyde and Bellevue, Ohio.

These various companies are family corporations and practically all the stock is owned by Mr. Jackson and members of his own household. He was married in 1872 to Miss Mary Sharp, a native of the State of Delaware and a daughter of Abram Sharp, who was an early settler in Fremont and a carpenter and contractor there for many years. He lived beyond the age of ninety-nine. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have three children : Lula F., Nellie and Edith. Lula is the wife of F. H. Anderson, general manager of the underwear factory at Fremont, and they have two children, Marion and Dorothy. Nellie married Thomas A. Morrow, who is a successful New York business man and is general agent, advertising manager and has most of the responsibilities connected with tlie New York City branch of the "2 In 1 Stove Polish." Mr. and Mrs. Morrow have one child, George K. Edith is the wife of B. H. Swift, manager of the shears works at Fremont. Their two children are Jackson Bradford and Barbara Swift.

Besides the industries he has built up Mr. Jackson has done much other material development in Fremont. Several fine brick structures in different parts of the city bear his name, one of them being the Hotel Jackson. He built a nice home for each of his children, and at this writing he is constructing a beautiful home for himself at the corner of Birchard Avenue and Park Avenue, located in the most exclusive part of the city, and it is a home which would be a credit to any metropolis.

]\Ir. Jackson has always taken a leading part in republican politics and in public affairs in Fremont and in Sandusky County. From 1897 to 1901 he served as mayor of Fremont and that administration marked an era of general prosperity and improvement in his city. In 1902 he was elected a member of the Fifty-eighth Congress, and that election was a test and proof of his tremendous personal popularity, since he was chosen on the republican ticket in a district normally democratic by thousands of votes. It was one of the most interesting campaigns in Ohio politics, and his friends did not cease celebrating his victory for a number of days. After one term in Congress he declined to accept further nomination. I\Ir. and Mrs. Jackson are active members of the Presbyterian Church and Mrs. Jackson is a worker in the various church societies. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic order.

Hon. Earl D. Bloom, lieutenant-governor of the State of Ohio, has for many years been a successful lawyer in practice at Bowling Green and is a native of Wood County, where he was born on a farm in Liberty Township in 1862. He is a son of James and Lydia (Ackerman) Bloom. Both parents were bom in Wood County and both in the same year, 1840. They were married in Liberty Township, took up farming there, and when Governor Bloom was a small child they removed to Henry Township in the same county and resumed farming in that section. On the old homestead James Bloom passed away in 1883.

His widow died in 1916, aged seventy-six. Both were active members of the Christian Church for a number of years but later became affiliated with the United Brethi-en. James Bloom was a democrat and held several local offices. Their respective pai-euts had come to Wood County in pioneer days, when the entire country was almost an unbroken forest. The Blooms and Ackermans were of the substantial farming class and contributed their energies to the betterment and substantial improvement of this section of Ohio.

It is noteworthy that Governor Bloom's father and grandfather, both of whom bore the name James, were soldiers in the Union army during the Civil war. Both were members of the Eleventh Ohio Infantry. The grandfather served more than a year and James, Jr., was in the service forty-four months. The latter was twice wounded, once at ^Missionary Ridge. Both wounds were in the arm and he was not long disabled from active service. In later years he affiliated with Sill Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at North Baltimore.

James and Lydia Bloom had five children : Horace, a farmer in Henrj- Township, has two children. Earl and Gladys; Louis, also a farmer in Henry Township, is married and has a family of children, Lewis, Andrew, John and ]\Iildred ; Earl D., the third in age ; Harriet, wife of C. C. Swope, a farmer in Wood County, their children being ilaude, Beatrice and Pearl; Phoebe is the wife of Samuel George and they live in Cleveland.

Governor Bloom grew up and received his education cliiefly in Henry Township of Wood County and for five years was a successful teacher in that township. He then began the study of law and in 1895 was graduated from the Ohio Northern University at Ada and was admitted to the bar the same year. For ten years he practiced with offices at Bloomdale in Wood County and in 1905 removed to Bowling Green. He has practiced in all the courts of the state and has been a successful lawyer and for many years a leader in the democratic party. Since his admission to the bar he has been a delegate to nearly all the state, county and district conventions and was a member of the National Convention at St. Louis in 1916 which renominated President Wilson. He has also served on the local and county democratic committees. ]\Ir. Bloom is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, n member of the Toledo Talley Consistory and belongs to the Lodge at North Baltimore and the Chapter and Commandery at Fostoria. He is also affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge at Bloomdale.

At Weston, Wood County, July 24, 1895, Governor Bloom married Eleanor 6. Lathrop, n ilan'^Iiter of William C. and Maria E. (r)ul)lis) Lathrop. Mrs. Bloom was born in Wood County in 1875. She taught school and also did work as a tutor for several years before her marriage. They have one daughter, Alice G., a graduate of the Bowling Green High School with the class of 1917 and now attending Westei-n College for Women at Oxford, Ohio. Governor and Mrs. Bloom are active members of the ^lethodist Episcopal Church.

George N. Young. The responsibilities of managing the Tiffin postoffice could not have been better bestowed than upon George N. Young, who prior to his appointment had distinguished himself by his able and faithful performance as a teacher, public official and a hard working and earnest citizen. Mr. Young has the distinction of being the first postmaster to have his office in the new building at Tiffin.

Mr. Young knows what it is to be dependent upon his own resources. He began earning his living at the age of sixteen and has sought position and fortune bj- no other means than what his own efforts and work would justify.

^Ir. Young was born on a farm near Carey in Richland Township of Wyandot County October 11, 1879, a .son of Robert and Minerva (Epley) Young. His parents were both born in Wyandot County. The grandfatlier Louis Young was born in Holland and on coming to America located at Hagerstown. Maryland, later moved to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and from there to Wyandot County, Ohio, where he bought land direct from the Government. He improved a home in the wilderness and spent the rest of his years there. His first home in Wyandot County was a log cabin. His oldest son still owns and occupies that old farm. Mr. Young's maternal grandfather, George Epley, came from Ireland and was also an early settler in Wyandot County. Robert Young was born in "Wyandot County March 30, 1855, and is still living. His wife was born May 4, 1858, and died February 19, 1915. Robert Young is still living on his farm and looking after its management, having given to agriculture the devotion of his best years and energies. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is a democrat, and has filled with credit several township offices. In this family were seven sons. John H., the oldest, is a machinist at Tiffin. Emmett E. lives with his father on the farm. The next in age is George N. Colman C. is janitor of the postoffice building at Tiffin. Homer was formerly a.ssistant niaiiatici' of a five and ten cent store in Toledii and is now manager of a similar store at Ottumwa, Iowa. Orville P. is proprietor of a restaurant and bakery at Sycamore, Ohio. William F. is assistant manager of a five and ten cent store at Kokomo, Indiana, and recently enlisted for service in the United States Army.

Mr. George N. Young grew up on a farm and obtained his education as best he could by attending the winter terms of district school and three years at the Ohio Northern University at Ada. At the age of sixteen he began teaching, and that was his regular vocation for seven years. Three years of this time Mr. Young taught in the Crawfordsville, Ohio, schools. That town is on the site of the historic ground where Colonel Crawford, a Revolutionary hero, met a tragic death at the hands of western Indians. Mr. Young in the vacations between his school terms continued to live on a farm. He finally went into the dry goods and boot and shoe business at Bloomville in the fall of 1900, and was one of the progressive merchants of that little town until the fall of 1908.

Mr. Young gave up business at Bloomville on account of his election as county clerk of Seneca County. He entered upon the duties of his office on August 2, 1909, and continued as clerk for three terms. He left that office August 7, 1915, but remained with his successor until October 1. 1915, and on February 1, 1916, liecMiMc |i,isi master under appointment from Prcsiilcnl Wilson.

On February 'S-i. IS'JT, ilr. Young married Rosa A. Reiff. She was born and reared in Seneca County near Berwick. They are the parents of three children : Goldie Ruth, bom in September, 1898, and graduated from the Tiffin High School in 1917. Naomi B., born in November, 1901, and now a student in high school. Faye, born in May, 1906, and now in the sixth grade of the public schools. The family are members of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Young has always taken much interest in fraternal affairs. He is a member of Seneca Lodge No. 80, International Order of Odd Fellows, is past chancellor of Pickwick Lodge No. 175, Knights of Pythias, is a past councillor of Council No. 136, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and is now chaplain of the Fratei-nal Order of Eagles. He also belongs to the Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Young has done much to build up and hold together an efficient deAocratic organization in Seneca County. While living at Bloomville he was treasurer of the village corporation and at different times has been a member of the County Central and County Executive Committees.

Petek Wesley McRevnolds, A. M., D. D. An institution that is distinctive of the high ideals for which the small American college has always stood is Defiance College at Defiance, Ohio, which is now completing its fifteenth year of work and existence. Because it is based upon a fundamental need in the educational life of America Defiance College has made significant headway even in a century wlu're the great university and the technical and special institution have flourished.

The president of Defiance College from the beginning has been Peter Wesley McReynolds, who is not only an educator of high ideals, but is even more notable as an executive and organizer. Doctor McReynolds has given the best years of his life to educational work, and is still a .young man with years of usefiilness before him.

He was born in Kokomo, Indiana, March 16, 1872, a son of Raven and Nancy (Orem) ilcReynolds, the former a native of Kentucky and tlie latter of Tennessee. While his parents wei'e not people of wealth, they maintained a home for their children and exerted influences over their forming characters which no home of luxury could excel. Raven McReynolds was a faniii'i', and lioth In' and his wife exemplified some of the hest of llie Christian virtues. He died at Kokomo in 1911, at the age of sevent.v-seven, and his widow still resides in that city. Their kindly nature is perhaps best illustrated in the fact that they not only reared eleven children of their own, but also five orphans. All the eleven children are still living, and there are thirty-seven grandchildren. Raven ilcReynolds was an early settler in Northern Indiana, and by his industry cleared up a tract of 500 acres of land, making it a farm hardly excelled anywhere in the state for productivity and efficiency of management. On that farm Doctor McRe.v-

Holds and his brothers received their early training. They were taught to be self-respecting, tilt' vjihie of toil, and at the same time due eiii|ilui>is wns placed upon the practice of Chrisliiiiiily ami a broad and liberal acquaintance hIiIi litcfiitiire and the arts. It is not surprising thai scvoi-al of thr sons liav.' attained i.roiiiiiiciici". One of lliciii, T. ( '. .Mc- Reynold.s, is general manager of llu' Indiana Railways and Liglit Company, antl his constructive ability has been the chief factor m the success of this $5,000,000 corporation. Another son, C. W. McReynolds, is general manager of the Kokomo lee Plant. Still another son, J. R. ilcReynolds, is a bridge and road contractor. The rest of the sous are successful farmers.

Peter Wesley McReynolds grew up on his father's farm until he was fourteen. He attended the local schools, the Kokomo High School, the T'entral Indiana Xoriiial School, the Union Cliristian Collc-r, Hillsdale College, and in iS!!.") lii'adiiatcd A. 1'.. fi'oiii Hiram College in Oliio. That insiilmion subsequentlv conferred upon liini the (|i".^ree Master of" Arts. Doctor .M(diryiiol(ls also spent nearly a year in the rniver.sity of Chicago as a student.

For six years Doctor McReynolds was pastor of the Christian Church at ^Marshall, ^lichigan, and in the fall of 1901 accepted the call to Defiance to the office of dean of the Defiance Female Seminary. After one year he took an active part in the reorganization of this institution as Defiance College, and was elected the first and has served as the only iir.sidcn) to date.

Diliaiicr ( 'ollcge opened in 1902 with thirtythree sludcnls and the annual enrollment is now 600. The original building was Defiance Hall, a three-storv brick structure, costing about .$12,000. Since then other buildings have been added and the eaiiipus now eontains five structures. Trowbridge Hall, used li\ the women, was built in 1905, and the Carnegie Addition was completed in 1907. Weston Hall is a three-story brick structure and is used for recitation rooms and various other purposes, containing a large a*wtitorium. The most stately building on the campus is Sisson Hall, which was built in 1910-11, at an approximate cost of $50,000. It is the home for men. Another building is the Sutphen ilemorial Home for the president. Tlie Tenzer Science Hall is now under const nietion and is to be completed bv .Jul\- 1. IDlS. at a cost of $70,000. At the present time tlie assets of

Defiance College presents a course of study and instruction measuring up to the high standard college of liberal arts and sciences, and it also conducts a normal ti-aining school that is one of the best in Ohio, its diplomas iieing I'eadily recognized as equivalent to state in 1!)04 Doctor McReynolds was given the degree Doctor of Divinity by Elon College of North Carolina. In 1914 he married Bertha Kniffen, of Los Angeles, California. Mrs. .McReynolds is herself an educator, a woman of broad culture and of many qualifications as an artist. She was one of the first graduates of Defiance College, afterwards took post-graduate work in the University of Michigan, taught for several years in the Port Huron High School of that state, and for four years before her marriage was connected with the high schools of Los Angeles, California.

George Albert Gorsuch, M. D., has had active affiliations with the medical fraternity of Northwest Ohio for twenty years. His attainments and s])ecial skill have led him more and more into tlie field of specialization of practice, and lie stands in the front rank as a specialist in the treatment of eye, ear, nose and throat. Doctor (iorsiu'li practiced his specialty at Toledo for a imnil.er of years, but a couple of years ago came to Howling Green, where he is established in handsome and well equipped offices and has all the work he can attenci to in his particular line.

Doctor Gorsueh was graduated from the Toledo Medical College in 1896. and as a general practitioner he spent two years in Helena, Ohio, and from ISH!) to 1!H)1 was in practice at East Toledo. In IDOl-H'J lie was abi'oad pnrsuing advanced stmlies and attending hosi)ital clinics in the City of ISerlin, (iermany. On returning to America he located on the west side of Toledo, and in I'.lOl again took postgraduate work in Detroit. In 1905 Doctor Gorsueh concentrated his entire attention upon special lines, and for a number of mouths was in Chicago in the Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, the Chicago Policlinic and the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary. In 1907 he returned to Toledo and began practice as a specialist with offices on Michigan Street. From there he removed to Rowling Green in 1911. and has since been in practice at the AVood ('ouiitv seat, at tirsl with ot'tices on ]\Iain Street, and since -lanuarv 1, 1917, at

126 "West Wooster Street. Doctor Gorsueh has invested thousands of dollars in the elaborate and costly equipment which a specialist in his line requires. He is as much a student todaj' as ever, and takes every opportunity to keep abrea.st of the times by the reading of .standard literature and constant association with the leaders of his specialties.

Doctor Gor.such is a member in good standing of the Ohio State Medical Society, the Wood County Society, and the American Medical Association. Doctor Gorsueh is a native of Ottawa County, Ohio, born at Genoa fortythree years ago. He was educated in his native locality until seventeen, after which he removed to Toledo. His grandparents came to Fostoria, Ohio, from ^Maryland. His grandfather, L. L. Gorsueh, took up the profession of medicine after moving to Ohio and subsequently located in Toledo. From that city he practiced all over this .section of Ohio, being one of the pioneer physicians who went about the country on horseback, with medicines in saddlebags, and there was hardly a better known practitioner than he. His death occurred in 188.3, after a lifetime of service, and he was then eighty-five years old. Doctor Gorsueh's father was Russell B. Gorsueh, who wa^ born on a farm near West Millgrove, Ohio. In early life he was a teacher and when the Civil war broke out he entered a cavalry regiment and served to the end of the war, being in many of the noted campaigns and historic battles. He was never wounded, but while in service he contracted organic heart trouble, from which his death finally resulted in 1916. For many years after the war he was a stave and hoop manufacturer in Ottawa County. Russell B. Gorsueh was married at Maume'e, Ohio, to Harriet Champion, who was born near Maumee in Lucas County. She is now living in East Toledo at the age of sixty- -seven. She is a Methodist, as was her husband, and he was a republican in politics.

Doctor Gorsueh was formerly affiliated with Charles Sumner Lodge No. 137 of the Knights of Pythias at Toledo, which he served as chancellor commander, and is now a member of Kenneth Lodge No. 158 of that order in Bowling Green. He has been one of the leading members of the Bowling Green Lodge of Elks, and was especially active in the promotion and production of the club's dramatic performances. This club produced two fine comic operas, "The Captain of Phnnouth," and "The Kahn of Cathan," which were played

Augustus M.veshall Smith is sole proprietor of the "A. M. Smith Marble and Granite Works at Findlay. It is a business establisliment that for a great many years has lieen a recognized asset of the city. Mr. Smith is one of the older business men of Findlay, and lias had a career in which he has had few favors and has won out to a successful position by hard work and an unusual concentration of energy under the stimulus of an ambition for something more than average achievement.

He was born in the City of Cincinnati in 1854 and is of English stock. His parents were John and Sarah J. (Hopkins) Smith, and the family were early identified with Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Smith's parents were poor people, and he had few advantages either at home or in school. Altogether he attended country .sehools only four years, and those terms were often separated by wide intervals in which he was earning his own w^ay. At the age of thirteen he went to Indianapolis, Indiana, lived and worked on several farms near that city and finally was made a fireman on a switch engine in the yards of the Panhandle Railroad Company, now part of tlie Pennsylvania system. The locomotive he fired was one of the old-fashioned wood burners, ilr. Smith witnessed the change fi-om the wood to coal burning system, and he was the first man to fire in the new way on a switch engine. That was his work in the Indianapolis yards for three years, then for two years he had a freight run as a regulai* fireman, between Indianapolis and Piqua, Ohio, a distance of ll.j iniles.

Railroading seemed to have limited opportunities for the future and he gave up the occupation and learned the trade of marble cutter in an Indianapolis shop. After serving his apprenticeship he became a traveling journeyman marble cutter and worked for four years at different places in the Middle West. Going to Cle%Tland he was made a foreman in the Thomas Jones & Son ilarble Works, but in July, 1876, he came to Findlay and wa.s employed as foreman for the Moses Louthan & Son Marble Works. He remained with that firm four years and eight months. In that time he had managed to save $600. This was the capital with which he started in busi- uess for himself. At fix-st he had as a partner William White, aud the firm was Smith & White. They estahlished their yards and shop on January 1, 1881, on South Maiu Street. A year later Mr. Smith was able to buy out his partner aud he has now been at the head of the business for over thirty-five yeai's. In 1889 he purchased for his present location on West Crawford Street a lot 50 by 200 feet and built a shop and has since added to his facilities everything required for the handling of an immense business. Some of the finest carved monumental work done in Northern Ohio comes out of his shop and another product is cut building stone. Mr. Smith is a master of his trade in every technical process and does all his own designing. He has an expert organization and handles contracts all over Central and Northern Ohio.

Mr. Smith married Julia A. ileyer, daughter of Dr. John jMeyer of Wapakoneta, Ohio. Frank Eugeue, the oldest of his childi-en, lives in Bowling Green, Ohio, where he conducts a marble and monumental works, in which he is very successful. He married Anna Elizabeth, daughter of August and Elizabeth Gerouch. j\Ir. and Mrs. Frank E. Smith have been married twentj'-one years and they are the parents of four children: Corinue, Lettie, Arthur aud Elizabeth. The daughter, Coriune, is now studying vocal music with Professor Hall of Chicago, and piano and dramatic reading with other noted artists of that citj'. Mr. Smith's second son is Harry A., also of Findlay. He married Esther Hoppeuberg, daughter of Gustavus ill id Pauline Hoppeuberg. Chester Price, the third son, is now nineteen years of age and is living in Detroit.

]\Ir. Smith is a republican both in national and local politics. He is a member of the English Lutheran Church, and for twentyfive years has been a member in good standing of Lodge No. 73, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and also belongs to Rathbone Lodge No. 400, Knights of Pjthias, Lodge No. 75, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is afSliated with the Woodmen of the World and the Tribe of Ben Hur.

John J. Lehmann is one of the prominent members of the Fremont bar, where he has been in active practice for over twenty years. He has attended strictly to business, has gained the confidence of his clients and the pulilic generally, and has also done much to promote the success of his party in politics.

Mr. Lehmann represents one of the verj' earliest pioneer families of Scott Township, Sandusky County, where he was boru October 4, 1863. He is a son of Leodegar and Barbara (Staub) Lehmann.

His father was born in Baden, Germany, October 6, 1821, and died at his country home in Scott Township of Sandusky County, March 30, 1913, in his ninety-second ye'ar. When he was twelve years of age he came with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Lehmann, to America in 1833. The family lived at Columbus, Ohio, for a short time, where Mrs. Leopold Lehmann died of cholera. In the fall of 1833 the remainder of the family went to Lower Sandusky, now Fremont, and about a year later moved to a tract of land in Scott Township. That was nearly eightyfive years ago. Only two or three families of white people lived in the entire township and the country was still wild and rough, filled with wild game and numerous Indians. The Lehmanus lived iu a log hut, and at first their efforts at raising crops were rendered futile by the ravages of the squirrels, raccoons and birds. One of the oldest of the children, Harmon, had established a home in Cincinnati and he took two of his younger sisters with him to live until the family could pass the period of distress and poverty. Leopold Lehmann was a physician by profession and he finally engaged in practice at Fremont, but later returned to his country home and carried on farming as well as looking after his large country practice. Leodegar Lehmann in the absence of his father had to assume the heavier burdens and responsibilities of caring for the family. He worked in the woods and the fields, on the cauals and at whatever he could get in order to earn money to buy the provisions and clothing for the family. He was earnest and industrious, and not only did his part by his brothers and sisters but also iu time took a wife of his own and lived a long, prosperous, contented and honorable lifetime as a farmer and good citizen.

When the family removed to Seott Township the nearest Catholic Church was at Tiffin. Harmon, the oldest brother, sent Leodegar to Tiffin and paid his board while he was making his first communion. Ever afterward Leodegar Lelimann was constant in his devotions and his duties as a church member, and in the early days he went back aud forth over a route lilazed through the trees to the church at Tiffin.

while she was riding by the Lehmann home on horseback, either going after corn meal or going home with it. On November 9, 1851, he married iliss Barbara Staub. She was born while her parents, ^Iv. and Mrs. Adam Staub, were crossing the ocean to America. Her birth occurred in May, 1833, and she is still living on the old homestead in Seott Tdwuship. Mr. Leodegar Lehmann took great pains to bring up his children as good citizens and Christians, and although his home was seven miles from the church at Millersville he and his family traveled over the road and went to church every Sunday no matter what the weather. He and his wife had eleven children : ]\Irs. Peter BuUinger, Adam Lehmann, Mrs. John H. Miller, Andrew Lehmann, Mrs. Simon D. Goodman, John J. Lehmann, Mrs. Andrew Bach, Franklin Lehmann, "VYilliam E. Lehmann, Mrs. David K. Morrison, and Henry Lehmann. When Leodegar Lehmann died he was also survived by forty-two grandchildren and twenty-four great-grandchildren.

John J. Lehmann grew up in a home of worthy ideals and good Christian influences and besides the education he acquired in the public schools he attended college at Ada. He began his active career as a teacher and taught for ten years in country schools and at Rising Sun, Ohio. While at Rising Sun he took up the study of law ixnder O'Farrell & McSheehy at Fremont, Ohio, and later pursued a course in the law department of the university at Ada, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in 1894. Since then he has been in active practice at Fremont, and almost from the first he has made a good living from the clientage he has had in office and in court work. He now owns a good farm, and altogether is one of the very successful and influential men of Fremont.

Mr. Lehmann was married October 16, 1894, the same year of his admission to the bar, to Miss Lillian B. Frye. Mrs. Lehmann was born near Rising Sun, Ohio, daughter of Jacob and Eliza Frye. Her father was a farmer in that community. Four children have been born to their union, three sons and one daughter: Lester L., who is sergeant in Company K of the Sixth Ohio National Guard and has recently been in service on the Mexican border; Ruth E., still at home; and William Elbert, and John F., both attending school. The family are members of St. Ann's Catholic Church at Fremont, and Mr. Lehmann is active in the Catholic Mutual Benefit

As.sociation. He is also a member of the American Insurance Union, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Woodmen of the AVorld and the Maccabees. He has served as clerk in the camp of the ]\Iodern Woodmen since it was organized in 1895. Politically Mr. Lehmann is a democrat. He has done much campaigning and is an able speaker and a very logical and persua.sive debater. He served in the office of townshi|> clerk, and he represented Sandusky County in tlie State Legislature during the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh General assemblies.

N. R. Harrington has been a member of the Bowling Green bar thirty years. He has seldom allowed politics or outside interests to distract him from the strict lines of his profession, and he has enjoyed a high rank among the leaders of the Ohio bar.

Mr. Harrington was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, in 1860. He spent most of his youth in Trumbull County, where he was reared and educated, and where he studied law with Hon. W. T. Speer, of the State Supreme Court, and with his uncle, C. A. Harrington, a leading member of the Trumbull County bar. Wliile still a law student Mr. Harrington served as deputy county clerk.

He was admitted to the bar in 1886 and in May, 1887, located at Bowling Green, where throughout the years he has steadily devoted himself to an enlarging general practice. His first law partner was Robert Dunn, Sr., and in 1890 he became associated in practice with Judge F. A. Baldwin, a partnership that continued over a period of twenty years. It was dissolved when Judge Baldwin was elected to the Court of Common Pleas in 1910. In 1915 Mr. Harrington formed a partnership with Robert Dunn, Jr., son of his former law partner, who was graduated from Dennison College in 1910 and from the law department of the Ohio State University in 1914.

Much of the practice of this firm is now corporation work. They are local attorneys for the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway Company, the 0. E. Street Railway Company, the iMaumee Valley Railway Company, the City Waterworks, the Wood County Savings Bank, of which "Sir. Harrington is a director, and the Equitable Building and Loan Company, which ilr. Harrington organized and which he has since served as both director and president. JMr. Harrington has filled the office of city solicitor and was for twelve years a member of the board of education. He was for a number of years president of the city council and has always aligned himself helpfully with every movement for the local welfare. He is a republican in politics, has been president of the local Young Men's Christian Association, and he and his wife are active in the Presbyterian Church, where for many years he has served as an elder. He is a Knight Templar Mason, having affiliation with Commandery No. 7 at Toledo and belongs to Lodge No. 112 of the Knights of Pythias at Bowling Green.

Mr. Harrington married January 1, 1889, Miss Laura Belle Case, of Trumbull County, Ohio. They have three children, Edward A., a member of the firm that publishes the Black and White Record, the largest Holstein paper in the country. Helen M., the daughter, is the wife of Wilson M. Compton, who is connected with the Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D. C. Frank A. Harrington, the younger son, a former Dartmouth student, is now serving in the United States marines.

RoscoE Carle, of Fostoria. editor and publisher of the Daily Times, has been a newspaper man by active experience for twentyseven years. During the greater part of this time his home has been in Fostoria and while building up the circulation and prestige of one of the leading papers of Seneca County, lie has taken an active part in the public life of the community and is now ser\ing as Fostoria 's postmaster.

Mr. Carle was born at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, ^lay 20, 1863. His parents were Jonas H. and Priscilla (Egbert) Carle. His grandfather, James Carle, was a native of Knox County, Maine, and spent bis entire life there as a farmer. The Cai'b's arc of English stock. The maternal grandfatlicr. Ti-iah Egbert, also of an old English family, was born in New Jersey and was a pioneer settler in Fairfield, Ohio, moving from there to Seneca ( 'ounty, where he spent his last years. In liis family were thirteen children, Priscilla being the youngest dangliter. Jonas H. Carle was born at Camden, Maine, and was married at Tiffin, his wife being a native of Seneca Count.y. She is still living. Jonas Carle had a successful though brief career and died at the age of thirty-two. During the Civil war he enlisted in the 101st Ohio Infantry, and afterwards served two years as corporal in the First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery in Battery B. For a time he was engaged in manufacturing in Southern Illinois, and from there moved to

Roscoe Carle, who is tln' only survivor oi two children, receiv.,! his ,arly' education at Green Springs and in rdnnti'v schools near Tiffin. He attend.'d I IcidcllHT-- Academy and spent four years in the (Mii.i Stat(^ I'liiversity and in 1890 graduated IVinii Conirll University. While a eollegv man Jic was interested in newspaper work, and began liis active career as a reporter at Tiffin and Fostoria, and in 1902 he lionght tlie Daily Times at Fostoria. Mr. Carle had succeeded in building up a circulation of 2,500 copies, and has not only a very intlnential newspaper but does a large printing business in his well equipped plant.

He married September 11, 1906, Miss Dottie M. Hale. Mrs. Carle was born near Arcadia in Hancock County, Ohio. Her father, T. H. Hale, was a commission merchant. iMr. and Mrs. Carle have two children, Stanton and Constance.

Mr. Carle's first affiliation with a secret order was the college society. Alpha Tan Omega. He is a Knight Templar Mason, has served as master of his lodge, and also belongs to tlic licnrviilcnt and Protective Order of Elks, the KiiiLihts of Pythias and the Grange.

For tlirrr yi'ai's ^[r. Carlo served as captain of the .Xatioiiid (iiiard Coiniiain- at Tiffin. He was eh-rtrd ;ind s,-r\vd in thr siaic l.cuislature during the .seventy-fifth and scwutysixth sessions and for yeai-s has been one of the leading men in the democratic party in Seneca County. On ^lay 1, 1915, he was appointed postiiiasfcr of Fostoria. He is also president of the ( 'ity l.ilirai-\ Board and member of the Fostoria Cliauiljcr of Commerce, the Country Club and is active in the local Chautauqua Association.

Arthur Rosenblatt is a Tiffin business man with a record of ability and strictest honor and has built up a large business foi' the collection and handling of all kinds of junk, including wood and other materials.