Sandusky Township (part 49 of 57)

One of the leading editors of Sandusk;v-. County is E. L. TrifSt, editor and proprietor of the Derrick of Gibsonburg. But Mr. Triffit's big part and influence in the world has been played not only as an editor but as a lecturer and he has used his voice and pen for political uplift and the spread of civic ideas which eventually must leaven the lump of American political life.

Mr. Triffit wa.s born in Lodi, Medina County, Ohio, June 26, 1880. He acquired a liberal education, graduating Bachelor of Arts from Wooster College in Ohio in 190i. He subsequently pursued his studies in the Western Reserve Law School, but has never practiced law, having found newspaper work more congenial.

Mr. Triffit had his first experience as a journalist with the Akron Times-Democrat and subsequently was with the Cleveland Press. For one year he was advei'tising manager of the Roderick Lean Agricultural Company at Mansfield and then became advertising manager of Frank B. Wilson's papers at Kenton, Ohio. In 1908 he removed to Gibsonburg, bought the Derrick and has successfully managed that influential paper, which now has a circulation of 1,400.

Soon after he graduated from college Mr. Triffit took part in a political campaign, and that was the experience which when developed made him a regular platform lecturer. He has been a eon.stant student of affairs, books and men, and has brought into his lectures a great variety of his individual experience and observations and has been able to vitalize the old as well as introduce much that is new in the topics he discu.sses. His subjects are chiefly of civic and political problems. The lecture in which he has been chiefly heard is entitled "The Broken Sword," and is an elaboration of an idea he conceived a number of years ago as a means to the solution 6f the obstacles which prevent the free and perfect working of a democratic foi-m of government.

The essential purpose of his lecture is the awakening of people to a sense of their own responsibility in shaping the affairs of their times, no matter how limited the scope of their individual activities. Mr. Triffit as a lecturer has been widely heard and his services have been much sought after. The principal field of his lecture work is in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and West Virginia. Politically Mr. Triffit is a democrat and has done much campaigning in Ohio.

Mr. Triffit is a son of James Merton and Cyrena (Lewis) Triffit. His paternal grandfather, Richard Triffit, was born in England and after coming to Ohio followed farming. The maternal gi-andfather, Newell Lewis, was one of the early day circuit riders of the United Brethren Church in the Ohio Western Reserve, and his father before him had also been a minister. James ]\I. Triifit was born near Akron, Ohio, in 1849 and died March 28, 1913. His wife was born near Lodi, Ohio, in 1850 and is now living at New London, Ohio. James M. Triffit was for twenty-five years an able minister of the Congregational Church and at one time served as chaplain of the Ohio penitentiary. His death occurred at Chattanooga. Tennessee, in the course of a long trip including Cuba and Panama. He was a republican in politics and was affiliated with the JIasons and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. E. L. TrifiSt has one sister, Mrs. A. White of New London, Ohio.

In 1907 E. L. Triffit married Eleanor Wright, who was born at Perth. Ontario, Canada. Mr. Triffit is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta college fraternity.

Budge B. Bower was a well known and successful business man of North Baltimore, and though his life was cut short before his prime he accomplished those things which it is the ambition of every worthy man to achieve. He left an honored name, and one that will long be spoken with respect in this section of Ohio.

Mr. Bower was born at North Baltimore October 9, 1876, and died at his home in that city October 26, 1914. His family were substantial people and early identified with Wood County. His parents were Samuel JL and Mary A. (Schaffer) Bower. .His father was bom in Ohio June 12, 1837, and died Ma>' 30, 1900. His mother was born in this state August 13, 1847, and died in 1907. They were married March 11, 1875, in West Millgrove. ,

Samuel M. Bower was a son of Jolm David and Susanna Bower, both of whom were natives of Germany. The former was born January 24, 1792, and the latter November 28, 1799. After their man-iage they came to America in 1828, being three months on board the sailing vessel which broiight them to the New World. They soon identified themselves with pioneer localities in Northwest Ohio, and lived to develop a farm from the wilderness. John D. Bower died July 19, 1864, and his wife on October 30, 1868. Both were active members of the Lutheran Church. Seven sons and five daiighters were born to them, nine in the old country, one on the boat while crossing, and two, Samuel M. and his younger brother, in this country.

Samuel M. Bower after his marriage located in North Baltimore and became a prominent and successful business man. He was chiefly employed as an attoimey at law, also handled real estate, and later in life had much property of his own. He was a leader in improving land for agricultural purposes, and he converted several large tracts of waste land into productive farms. Much of this land was subsequently developed for oil purposes, and its value consequently increased. At the time of his death he owaied six farms not far from North Baltimore, and throughout his life he made ample provision for his family and long stood as one of the leading citizens of North Baltimore. His wife had much to do with the Presbj'terian Church, in which she was an active member. In politics he was a republican. They had just two children, Budge B. and Lulu Leota. The latter was educated in the North Baltimore High School, took a college course at Cincinnati, and is now the wife of A. H. Emerson, of Toledo. Mr. Emerson is secretary of the Samuel Jones Company of Toledo. Their four sons are named Eric, Alan, Roger and Richard.

Budge B. Bower grew up in his native city, attended the high school, and at his father's death he took over the active management of the business and can-ied it on with the same degi'ee of skill which marked his father 's operations. Hewas in the full tide of a successful business career when he died. In politics he was an independent republican and was a popular and esteemed member of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Findlay.

was born at Hammansburg in Wood County, a village named for her father. Mrs. Bower is still a j'oung woman and has spent most of her life in Wood County. She completed her education in Toledo. Her parents were William and Mary (Henning) Hamman. Her father was bom in Pennsylvania of Pennsylvania parents and was quite young when the family went to Mahoning County, Ohio, where his parents died. He grew up and married there for his first wife Rose A. Dustman. She was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1826 of German ancestry. They were married in 1846 and she died after the birth of six children. Of these children one son and one (laughter are still living, are married and luive families of their own.

William Hamman married for his second wife in Wood County Mary Henning. She comes of a true pioneer family of this section of Ohio. She was born in a log cabin on the pioneer homestead near North Baltimore in 1840. There she grew up with an environment of the woods and wilderness, and when much of the land was still an unreclaimed swamp. She lived a long and useful life and died July 18, 1914, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bower, in North Baltimore, at the age of seventy-four. She had survived her husband twenty-one years, who died at the old homestead in Henry Township of Wood County, leaving his widow with five children. Of these children four daughters are still living, all of them married.

Mrs. Bower's mother was the daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth Henning. The former was born in North Germany and the latter in South Germany, and they met while on a boat crossing the ocean to America. Immediately after landing they married and then as bride and groom they journeyed into the wilderness of Wood County and in Henr>' Township built a log cabin and cleared up the land which for so many years was their homestead. Frederick Henning was also a blacksmith and he had a shop on his farm, resorted to by many of the farmers of the community for the repair of their implements. Frederick Henning and wife lived to be past eighty years of age, and were very substantial factors in their community and devout church people.

Mrs. Bower is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which her husband was also affiliated. Mrs. Bower has one daughter, Mary, born Api-il 13, 1910. and now in the public schools at North Baltimore.

LoREN Peters is one of the very substantial business men of Findlay, has extensive interests in farm lands and other real estate, and is junior partner with Mr. J. G. Kimmell in the City Roller Mills. The City Roller Mils is one of the leading industries of Findlay, manufactures a product which is recognized as standard in quality over a large part of Northwest Ohio, and the demand for the flours turned out by the City Roller Mills of Findlay has been all that the plant could produce.

Mr. Peters is a native of Northwest Ohio and was born in Henry Township of Wood County September 9, 1872. His parents were J. C. and Frances A. (Wilson) Peters. His father was a man who combined industry with business judgment in such a degree that he acquired an immense estate and at his death owned 1,300 acres of land. He had retired from farming and his death occurred at Findlay. As a boy Loren Peters attended country schools in Wood County. He went to school during term times and in the vacations, as his strength permitted, he found employment for his rugged health and strength at logging and ditching. At the age of seventeen he took entire charge of his father's farm and managed it until he was twenty-seven years of age. Since then he has been occupied with various business interests, and in 1911 bought the interest in the City Roller Mills formerly owned by William Gorrell.

Jlr. Peters' first wife was Amanda Bartz. dauerhter of John and Slary (Shankle) Bartz of Wood County. They were married when Mr. Peters was twenty-one years of age, in 1893. There were two children: Loren Gree, born in 1894 and died in 1903; and J. Dail, born in 1896. In 1913 Mr. Peters married Emma MuUenberg, daughter of Fred and Rose (Riffer) MuUenberg of Portage, Ohio. By this marriage there is one child, Lotis Emma, born in 1914.

Mr. Peters is of German ancestry. His great-grandfather, Ephraim Peters, came from Germany and was a colonial settler of America. Mr. Peters is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, votes the democratic ticket in national affairs and gives his support to the best man in local politics.

Charles S. Baron is manager of the Ohio Lantern Works of Tiffin. This is one of the largest industries of the city and was founded by his father, the late Alfred Lewis Baron. Besides lanterns the company manufactures

Mr. Baron was born in Belmont County, Ohio, May 21, 1873, a son of Alfred Lewis and Agnes (Tolmie) Baron. He comes of a family of manufacturers and mechanical artisans. His grandfather, Thomas G. Baron, spent most of his life in Belmont County, Ohio, where he conducted a tin shop and store. His maternal grandfather, Andrew Tolmie, a native of Scotland, lived for three years in Prance and was married at the home of the French ambassador. From France he went to Canada, became a manufacturer, and later removed to Bellaire in Belmont County, Ohio. He also took up a claim in Kansas, but finally returned to Ohio and died in this state.

Alfred L. Baron was born at Moundsville on the Ohio River in West Virginia, then Virginia, September 10, 1842, and died March 4, 1904. His wife was born in Canada December 16, 1851, and is still living. They were married at Bellaire, Ohio. Of their four children three are living. Elizabeth, the oldest, is the wife of Howard V. Nicolai, a dry goods merchant at Tiffin. The second in age is Charles S. Alice is deceased. Wilhelmina married John H. Wells, of Port Clinton, Ohio. Mr. Wells Avas formerly secretary of the Mathews Boat Company and left that position to accept an appointment as a lieutenant in the United States Navy. Mrs. Nicolai and Mrs. Wells are members of the Christian Science Ciiurch. Alfred L. Baron was a Presbyterian and for many years had been identified with the Masonic order and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He voted the democratic ticket many years but finally became a socialist. Practically his entire career was spent in some phase of manufacturing. He was interested in several different companies, including the Baron JIanufaeturing Company and the Buckeye Lantern Company. He removed to Tiffin in 1889 and established the Ohio Lantern Works, which he conducted until his death. This company's exclusive output for years was lanterns, but they now manufacture a number of specialties stamped out of tinplate and aluminum. The industry is one requiring the services of about fifty people.

Charles S. Baron received his earl.y education at Bellaire, Findlay and Tiffin, Ohio, and has always been a keen student of books and is well read in literature and as well versed in affairs. He began work with his father and in 1893 was made seeretarv of the com- pany and filled that office until his father's death, since which time he has been manager. He gives all his time to the factory, though so far as possible he identified himself with every public sj^irited movement for the welfare of the city.

On January 15, 1913, he married Prances E. Clauss, a native of Tiffin and a daughter of Benjamin Clauss, who was a farmer. Mrs. Baron is a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, while Mr. Baron is an Episcopalian. He is a Knight Templar I\Iason and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and in politics is inclined to the socialist party.

George H. V.\n Fleet, managing editor of the Marion Star and vice president of the Harding Publi-shing Company, was born at Marion, Ohio, April 20, 1864. His wife is Carrie P. Van Fleet.

Mr. Johnson had the distinction of erecting the third house in Gibsonburg. One morning he arose at 3 :.30 o'clock, cut the logs, sawed them, and had the bmiM' Imilt and he had moved into it all in tin' same day.

Mr. Johnson was l)orH in Holmes County, Ohio. Decemlicr 11, 1S4S, and bis litV has ]ieen one in wliich tlie value of dctcriiiiiiatidn and energy has cduiitcd moi-e than any privileges and oi)]iui'tuiiilii's conferred from the outside. He aciiuircd his education almost entirety from study cai-ried on in the intervals of hard worlv. Ili' is a son of Prelate and Phoebe (CntltT> -lohiison. His father was born in Connecticut in 1808, was married in that state, and coming to Ohio he followed tlie trade of carpenter until his death at the age of fifty-five. His widow after his, death returned east with her children and lived in the home of her father. Jonathan Cutler, in Ma.ssachusetts until her death at the age of fifty-four. Jonathan Cutler, who was born in 1786, was a silversmith by trade and followed that occupation at Brimfield, ]\tassachusetts, until liis deatli at the age of eightyfive. I'rrlatc -Tohnson was a member of the Baptist Church, was a Henry Clay whig, and an equally strong supporter of Abi-aliam Lincoln. Of the family of eight cliildrcr. three sons and five daughters. A. P. Johnson is the only surviving son. His only living sister is Martha, wife of J. B. Tice. They live in Michigan, where Mr. Tice is a farmer, thresherman and contractor.

When A. P. Johnson was fifteen years of age he went to Massai-hnsotts with his widowed mother. Eighteen iiKintlis later he returned to Ohio, lie atleinled school very little, and reached the age of eighteen before he was able to read and write. His book learning was acquired by the purchase of books and other material and study in the intervals of hard work. After returning to Ohio he worked tlii-ee nidiiths on a farm in Madison Township of Sandusky County, and then began his career as a sawmiller, which he followed most of his active career. He also became superintendent of the Zorn and Horni)ig Company's heading and stave mill.

On April 17, 1870, Mr. Johnson married Mi.ss Elizabeth Tice, wlio Avas born in Pennsylvania April 24, is.'i:;. and died at Gibsonlatrg March 13, IDl.'i. .Mrs. Johnson's father, A. il. Tice, was born in i'einisylvania in 1821 and in 1844 inariie,! Catheiine Noggle, who was born in l'~22. Thex ieiiio\'ed to Ohio in 18.53, locating ni Sandusky County, which was their home until 1884, when they went to Michigan. Mrs. Tice died in that state in 1888 and he then returned to Gibsonburg and died in 1890. He was survived by nine children, twenty-three grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. A. H. Tice had served eighteen years as a .iustice of the peace and was an active member of the ludependent Order of Odd Fellows.

i\Ir. Johnson is the father of four children. The oldest. Effie, born Aprd 15, 1871, has one child by her first marriage to Lester J. Hoblis of Tole.l,,. and sin- is now the wife of Oliver Yonnt of ( ;il.soidini'g. Horatio, the second child, was born June 21, 1878, and is proprietor of a restaurant and bakery in Gibsonburg. He married at Bluffton, Ohio, Nettie Howser and their three children are Willa, Ralph and Romaine. Delbert, the third child, was boni October 21, 1876, and is a iiiotorman in Toledo. He married Hattie Ovei-niyer, a native of Sandu.skv County, and of the eiglit children born to their union the seven still living are named : Kenneth,

Herschel, Dale, Gladys, Richard, Iva Rose and Ruby Rebecca. Vema, the youngest of Mr. Johnson's cliildren, was born June 12, 1888, and is now the wife of Earl Reinick of Gibsonburg. They have one son, Le Roy.

In politics Mr. Johnson has always been a stanch democrat. In 1893 he was a candidate for county commissioner but in that year the entire county ticket except the coroner was defeated. In 1887 he was elected a justice of the peace and filled the office six consecutive years. In Gibsonburg he has filled all the town and township offices, including school trustee, ju.stice of the peace, mayor and has been justice of the peace here for twentyeight years. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias and has filled the various chairs in both orders.

Joseph Ris Tracy, who died at Toledo in February, 1905, at the advanced age of eightyfive, was one of the later pioneers of Wood County, and his name and career are especially identified with this section of Northwest Ohio.

He was born September 21, 1820, at Smyrna, New York. His parents Thomas Rix Tracy and Lydia Bell Tracy were married February 20, 1817. His father was born at Lenox, Massachusetts, moved from there to Central New York and in 1837 followed the rush toward Northwest Ohio, which was then just opening up and beginning development, and located in the newly established town of Bowling Green, "Wood County. His death occurred there December 31, 1841. His wife, Lydia Bell Tracy, died at Bowling Green October 28, 18.55.

Joseph Rix Tracy was seventeen years of age when the death of his mother left him an orphan. He had to content himself with a common school education. The schools both of New York and Ohio of that time were very primitive, and the extent of their curriculum was usually the three R's. He was one of the men who secured a real education in spite of such early limitations. He always read extensively books of history and biography and became unusually well grounded in important historic facts.

His life in a business way was devoted to farming. He acquired a competence in that occupation, and was actively identified with the county until 1881, when he retired and moved to Toledo, where he spent the last twenty-four years of his life.

From the date of his removal from New York State to Bowling Green in 1837 until his retirement and removal to Toledo in 1881 he was a continuous resident of Wood Cotinty, active in political, church and all public matters, was wise in his counsel, fearless in maintaining the right, and his practical wisdom and judgment were much sought and highly prized by the pioneers of his community. He saw Wood County develop from a swamp into one of the richest counties of Northwest Ohio. He was an effectual leader in everything pertaining to its material and its ethical upbuilding. IMany local offices were thrust upon him, he was a member of the school board, and a justice of the peace. Such offices do not indicate points in progress to material prosperity but were merely opportunities for unremunerated service to the public and evidences of the confidences reposed in him by his fellow citizens. In mattei's of politics he was a republican and was a sincere and active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church from early manhood until his death. All his children followed his example in that particular.

A very complete account of his ancestry is found in the Tracy genealogy compiled by Mattie Liston GLriswold and published in 1900. From the data found in that work it is evidenced that the late Mr. Tracy inherited many of the splendid qualities that marked his career.

On September 23, 1843, he married Hanna Salina Burdick. Her people were pioneers of Central New York State, where many of the descendants still remain. Joseph R. Tracy and wife had five children. Philinda P., the oldest, born February 13, 1845, married Charles F. Chapman, who died in 1914. Dr. James L. Tracy, second in age, was born September 1, 1850, and is a well known practicing physician of Toledo. Mareena Rix Tracy, born October 26, 1854, is living in Toledo. Thomas H. Tracy, born July 13, 1859, is head of the la^ firm of Tracy, Chapman & Welles. Joseph B. Newton Tracy, the youngest child, was born [May 28, 1864, and died in infancy.

IMiss Matme Kehler is a highly efficient business woman of Bowling Green. Through her own resourcefulness she has built up a large business in Wood County as an abstractor and in real estate and loans, and has brought to this the thorough and exact knowledge acquired by long experience and thorough study.

in 1912. Her offices are in the Reed & Merry Block on North Main Street. The scope of her operations is confined to Wood County. For eight years prior to taking np business for herself Miss Kehler was deputy county recorder imder S. W. Bowman, now mayor of Bowling Green, and also under F. P. Clark, a retired resident of North Baltimore, Ohio. While in the recorder's office she learned all phases of abstract work and was special assistant to Mr. Bowman when he compiled a thorough index and set of abstracts for the entire County of Wood. Miss Kehler took a great interest and delight in this work, and from it acquired the experience which has proved invaluable to her in her present line. She is a hard worker, and the prosperity that has attended her efforts has been well merited.

Miss Kehler is still a j'oung woman, about thirty years of age, and was born in Toledo. She was a child when her parents, Jacob and Mary J. (Egley) Kehler, came to Bowling Green. Both her parents were born in Northwest Ohio, her father about sixty years ago, her mother being several years younger. Her father is of German and Swiss parentage and her mother of German stock. Their respective families were early settlers in Northwestern Ohio. Grandfather Kehler was an early day farmer, while Miss Kehler 's maternal grandfather was a cabinet-maker and in tlie early days made the coffins required by the community. Both the Kehlers and Egleys were members of the Lutheran Church. Miss Kehler's father was onlj' a child when his father died and he early became dependent vipon his o^vu efforts.

Her parents were married in Toledo and her father became a custom shoemaker and also worked in a shoe factory where machinery was employed. He subsequently conducted a shoe store and shoe making shop at Tiffin and at Elmore, and from there removed to Bowling Green, where he still conducts a shop of his own. Miss Kehler 's parents still live at Bowling Green and her mother and the children are all members of the Methodist Chiirch. Her father was one of the early members of Toledo Lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and belongs to the Woodmen of the World at Bowling Green. Politically he is an independent democrat.

Miss Kehler has a brother, Henry A. Kehler, who after getting a good education entered banking and is now cashier of one of tlie leading banks of Los Angeles, California. Pie married Maude Meyers, of Delaware, Ohio, and has a son, Henry A., Jr. Her sister Laura is a graduate of the Bowling Green High School and of a business college in Toledo, was a clerical worker several years and is now the wife of Gerald Q. Farwell, a successful dentist practicing at Los Angeles.

Miss Kehler was graduated from the Bowling Green High School in 1902 and in 1903 finished a course in the Metropolitan Business College at Toledo. She is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

John P. Locke. No name in the history of Northwest Ohio journalism stands quite so high as that of Locke. While one branch of the family produced the late David Ross Locke, whose writings under the name "Petroleum V. Nasby" were a tremendous influence in preserving the integritj' of the Union during the stormy times of secession, and who was the founder and for many years publisher of the Toledo Blade, still carried on by his son, Robinson Locke, another branch of the family has for practically half a century been identified with .journalism in Seneca Countv at Tiffin. The Daily Tribune and Herald and the Weekly Tribune of Tiffin have for many years been published by 0. T. Locke & Son. The late 0. T. Locke was a brother of David R. Locke of Toledo and his son, John P. Locke, who now has the active management and control of the newspapers at Tiffin, is a cousin of Robinson Locke of the Toledo Blade.

The late Otis T. Locke, who died at Tiffin October 1, 1916, 'was born in Lisle, Broome County, New York, February 27, 1842. His great-gi-andfather served as a colonel in the British Army in colonial times. His grandfather, John L. Locke, was a member of the historic "Boston Tea Party" of December, 1773, and was subsequently fighting in the Continental line in the struggle for independence. Nathanial Reed Locke, father of Otis T., was born in Vermont, lived in that state as a soldier in the War of 1812 and subsequently settled in Cortland County, New York. He was a tanner and shoemaker by trade and also followed farming. In 1882 he came to Ohio, where he died in Toledo. He lived to be ninety-seven. His wife's maiden name was Taft.

Otis T. Locke was reared in his native state, had a common school education, and at the age of eighteen came to Ohio and served an apprenticeship at the printer's trade in the office of the Bucyrus Journal at Bucyrus. The publisher of this paper at that time was his brother, David R. Locke. Later David R.

Locke purchased the Findlay Jeffersonian and during his publication of this paper (1861 to 1863) wrote the famous Nasby letters. In 1863 Otis T. Locke formed a partnership with his brother, Charles N. Locke, and they bought the Findlay Jeffersonian at Findlay in Hancock County. This paper was published under their control until 1868, when in company with the late William G. Blymer they bought the Tiffin Tribune. With that old and influential journal Otis T. Locke was closely connected in both the business and editorial management throughout the rest of his life. He and his brother finally bought the interest of Mr. Blymer and the paper was continued under the name Locke & Brother until 1893. In that year Otis Locke and his son John bought the interest of the widow of Charles N. Locke and established the firm name of 0. T. Locke & Son, which is still continued, though the senior partner is deceased. Otis T. Locke was an active exponent of the republican party, was a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Ro.yal Arcanum, the Junior Order of United American ]\Ieehanics and for over twenty yeai-s he filled the office of postmaster at Tiffin. He was first appointed to that office under President Arthur. His last commission was issued by President Taft, and he served through almost three years of President Wilson's term.

Otis T. Locke was married at Findlay, Ohio, in 1866 to Miss Maria C. Porch, a daughter of Henry and Sallie (Clark) Porch. Henry Porch was born in Pennsylvania and moved to Findlay in 184.5 and was an early cabinet maker and undertaker in that city. Mrs. Otis T. Locke, who was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in August, 1842, is still living at Tiffin. She was the mother of three sons and two daughters. Harry David and Burton Parker died in infancy. The living children are: Carrie M., still at home; Sallie P., wife of A. J. Hazlett, an oil man living at Houston, Texas ; and John P.

John P. Locke was born at Tiffin, Ohio, August 24, 1869. He was educated in the Tiffin public schools and since the age of eighteen has been identified in some capacity with the Tiffin Tribune. He worked as clerk in the business office, as reporter and in every other capacity, and in 1893 became a partner under the name Locke & Son. He has a large printing plant, handles a large amount of commercial printing, and has built up the circulation of the Tribune and Herald and

Mr. Locke was married December 19, 1894, to Eleta H. Kaup, who was born at Tiffin, daughter of John T. Kaup. Her father was a cabinet maker by trade and subsequently for twenty years was in the railway mail service and for five years was in the ocean mail service. Mr. and Mrs. Locke have one son, Charles Otis, who is now in Yale College. The family are members of Trinity Episcopal Church. Mr. Locke is a member of the Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Council and Knight Templar Commandery in Masonry and served as master of Tiffin Lodge in 1913. For fifteen years he has been a member of the vestry and is senior warden of Trinity Church. Politically he is a republican.

P. E. GuTHERY, one of the leading lawyers of ilarion County, has been in active practice in the city of that name for over a quarter of a century.

He is a native of Marion County, bom January 13, 1868, a son of John D. and Susan (Frederick) Gutherj-. The family have been identified with this section of Northwest Ohio for nearly ninety years.- Grandfather Joseph Guthery was a native of Pennsylvania, was a pioneer settler in Pike County, Ohio, and in 1828 located in Marion County, where he bought land from the Government and spent a long and active career as a farmer. Mr. Guthery 's maternal grandfather was John Frederick, a native of Virginia, and also an early settler in IMarion County. He was both a farmer and miller, and owned and operated an old water power mill in this county. John D. Guthery was born in Pennsylvania in 1819, and spent his active career on a farm in Marion County. He contented himself with a common school education, but became a man of considerable success and influence. He served two terms in the State Legislature and was an active democrat, a member of the Masons and Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and his wife was a very zealous member of the Baptist Church. They were married in Marion County. She was born in Virginia in 1824 and died in 1903. Of their ten children seven are living, F. E. Guthery being the youngest. The others are : Joseph D., a retired farmer at Marion; James B., a farmer and stock dealer at Marion; Anna, wife of C. N. Barnes, an attorney at Peoria, Illinois; William L., a retired farmer at Marion;

John H., who lives on the old homestead neai" LaRue in Marion County; and Isaac S., a farmer and at present a member of the State Board of Administration.

F. E. Guthei-y spent his early life on his father 's farm. He completed his literary education in the Ohio Northern University at Ada in ISSS, and in 1891 received his lawdegree from the Cincinnati Law School. He was admitted to the bar the same year, and at once began practice at Marion. He was alone until July, 1900, when he became associated with D. R. Crissinger. This is one of tlie prominent firms of Northwest Ohio, and handles considerable corporation work. Mr. Guthei'y was prosecuting attorney of Marion Countjf eight years. He has always been active in politics as a democrat, and while his chief interest' has been in the law and its practice he has become identified with various business organizations, being a director of the local telephone company and owning a large amount of stock in local banks, being iiiterested in three of the banks at Marion, one at LaRue and one at Caledonia. He is a director in three banks. He also has interests in coal mines in West Vii-ginia.

The first ease Mr. Guthery ever tried was before a justice of the peace, and was to secure a decision on the matter of quality of a consignment of cheese, as to whether it was good or bad. Mr. Guthery won this case. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Marion Club and is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason, having passed all the chairs in the Lodge and Chapter He also belongs to the Mystic Shrine, is past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks No. 32. In 1898 he married Miss Mildred Howard. She was born in Kansas and when about seven years of age was taken by her parents to Chicago. They liave three children : Howard P., who has completed the course of the local high school and has recently entered Pomona College in California; Philip E.. a student in the grade schools; and Esther.

Joseph Fo"wt:l Wonder, a veteran of the Union army, has played a very active part in public affairs at Carey and in Wyandot County for a long period of years.

Mr. Wonder belongs to the pioneer element of Northwest Ohio, and his paternal ancestry goes back to the early days in the province of Pennsylvania, when that district was filled with bears, panthers, wild cats and wild boars, and most of the people supplied their meat from the venison of the wild deer and from wild poultry. It was a time when the gun was the only sure defense, and though the settlers were exposed more or less to constant danger they also had that inestimable advantage of owning an unlimited country in common and enjoying the liberty and opportunities that go with the virgin wilderness.

ilr. Wonder's first American ancestor was Lewis Nieuton Wonder, who was born in VV LU-temberg, Germany, in 1706. He )>elonged to a noble family, and was himself a wealthy man. He came to America and died in 1746, at the age of forty.

His son, Andrew Wonder, was only five years of age when he crossed the ocean with his parents and landed at Philadelphia in 1729. He married Catarine Swartz. He was by trade a wheelwright. During the war for independence he served as a revolutionary soldier, and afterwards drew a pension from the United States government. In religious faith he was a Presbyterian. He died in 1795, the father of twelve children.

The next ancestor in line was Daniel Wonder, grandfather of Joseph F. Daniel was born on Chestnut Ridge near Little Tork, Pennsylvania, in 1791. Later he lived in Lost Creek Valley, Pennsylvania. He married Catarine Harpster and in 1814 moved to Wa.vne Coimty, Ohio. He died in 1887, at the' advanced age of ninetj^-six. Lie was a licensed preacher of the Evangelical Association and was a pioneer circuit rider, traveling his rounds over a circuit of 100 miles in Central Ohio. He was the father of nine children.

^Matliias Wonder, father of Joseph F., was born in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, in 1S13. He was only an infant when his parents removed to Wayne County, Ohio, and he afterwards lived in Seneca and Wyandot counties and acquired the ownership of a large amount of land. He died in 1888, at the age of seventy-four. He married Catherine Fowel and the.v were the parents of eleven children.

Joseph Fowel Wonder, who represents the fifth generation of the family in America, was born in Seneca County. Ohio, in 1842, at Flat Rock. His birthplace was a brick house that had been built by his grandfather, Daniel Wonder. His grandfather made the brick that entered into this old homestead. When Joseph F. Wonder was a year old his parents moved from Seneca County to a farm of 176 acres iu Wyandot County. This farm was two miles north of Carey and when the family occupied it the brush and timber had not been cleared away. Mathias Wonder did that heavy work with his own hands and in the course of tiuie had a thoroughly cultivated homestead. The Spring Grove Cemetery now occupies part of the old farm. The first person buried in that cemetery was Joseph F. Wonder's cousin, Henry Wonder.

At the age of twenty-one Joseph F. Wonder, who had acquired his early education in the public schools of Wyandot County, enlisted in Company D of the 144th Ohio Infantry. He was in active service until mustered out in November, 1865. He participated in the battles of Gettysburg, Winchester, Wilderness and others and was once taken prisoner by the famous ilosby guerrillas. He endured the hardships and tortures of confinement in Libby Prison three months before he was exchanged.

After the war Mr. Wonder worked on the farm until 1868, when he married j\Iiss Margaret Malinda Miller, daughter of Henry and Mary (Gracely) Miller, of Hancock County. To this marriage was born one son, Arthur Eugene, in 1869. This son was born in Richland County, graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and died in 1891, at the a^'e of twenty-two, at the entrance upon a promising young manhood.

After liis uianiage Mr. Wonder became a travel i 1 1, u ministrr of the Evangelical Association ami lor' live years preached in Richland, Seneca and Hancock counties. On giving up ministerial work he became propi'ietor of a sawmill at Benton Ridge in Hancock County. Tin's he conducted as a very profitable business for six years but at the end of that time he sold out and moved to Carey, where he has had his home ever since.

Practically all his time has been taken up with some official duty or other. He was elected marshal and constable of Crawford Township of Wyandot County for six years, was elected justice of the peace in 1901, held that office continuously for four consecutive terras, fifteen years. In 1907 he was appointed city health officer and has done much to safeguard the health and improve the sanitary conditions of the community for the past ten years. In 1912 he was elected as mayor of Carey for a term of two years. He has also held the position of street commissioner. Mr. Wonder is a democrat in politics, though formerly a republican. He became a democrat under the infiuence of William J. Bryan. Through all his life he has been religiously inclined, and has an unshaken confidence in the rule of an almighty Providence both in this world and in the next.

Judge Wonder's first wife died in 1890. In 1893 he married Mary Elizabeth Hibbins, daughter of James and Sarah (James) Hibbins. Mr. and Mrs. Wonder are members of the Evangelical Church and he is active in the Knights of Pythias at Carey, in which lodge he has filled all the chairs, including that of chancellor commander.

Charles H. B.\rb is one of the substantial business men of Bowling Green. His has been an active career, engaged in different lines, and he is now head of the firm of Barr & MeStay, real estate and loans. They deal in all kinds of city and farm property and have influential connections in this part of Noi-thwest Ohio. Mr. Barr besides being personal owner of considerable city property' has a fine farm of eighty acres with modern buildings and improvements, situated in section 8 of Center Town.ship near Bowling Green.

His business associate for the past year has been Mr. James McStay. Prior to that for two years he was a partner with Mr. E. J. Snyder, now a resident of Detroit. The firm make a specialty of farm lands.

Mr. Barr came to Bowling Green from Paulding, Paulding County, Ohio, where he handled large tracts of farming land in that section for ten years. However, he is a native of Wood County and was born at Bowling Green February 22, 1868. He grew up and received his education in Bowling Green, and from there removed to Paulding, where he took a course in commercial law under J. C. Heaton. He studied this department of jurisprudence for business purposes and has never set up as a practicing lawyer. The knowledge has proved invaluable to him as a real estate dealer.

Mr. Barr comes of an old American family and through his mother is of Protestant Irish lineage. His grandfather, Robert Barr. was a Pennsylvanian, and his son Samuel, father of Charles H., was born in that state early in the last century. In 1822 the family came to what is now Bowling Green, then merely a hamlet, and grandfather Robert Barr was one of the first pioneers of the county. All this section was then a wilderness, with abundance of wild game and not a few wild Indians roaming the woods. Robert Barr and wife spent the rest of their years in this section and died when past eighty years old. They were among the early members of the Methodist Church and did much to support the church and other philanthropies and early movements for general benefit.

Samuel Barr grew up on a. farm in Wood County and married for his first wife a Miss Harris. She died in the primp of life, leaving five sons and one daughter. Those still living are Daniel, Clarence and Libby, all of whom are married and all have their homes in Ohio. Samuel Barr married for his second wife at Bowling Green Harriet Porter. She was born in Cambridge, England, in July, 1838, and is now seventy-nine years of age. When she was five years of age she came to the United States with her parents, Christophei* and Rebecca (Grummage) Porter, who identified themselves with the early settlement of Wood County and in time cleared up and drained two good farms. Tliey were industrious and worthy people, and lived here the rest of their lives. Christopher died at the age of seventyfive and his wife at seventy-seven. They were active members of the United Brethren Church. In the Porter family were three sons and two daughters, four of whom are still living. Mrs. Harriet Barr has a sister, Mrs. Rebecca Barr, living at Toledo, and her two brothers, George and James, are prosperous farmers in Michigan.

Samuel Barr died at his old homestead farm in section 8 of Center Township in 1869. His widow survived him and is still active and lielies her seventy-nine years, though recently she siistained an accident and has suffered much from a broken hip. She is a member of tlie jMethodist Church and has always been devout in her religious attendance. Samuel Barr was a republican. They had four children : Ida, who died at the age of twenty- four ; Edward, who owns and occupies a farm of forty acres in Center Township of Wood County, is married and has a daughter, Mary ; Charles H.; and William, who is unmarried and lives at Sugar Ridge in this county.

Mr. Charles H. Barr was married in Wood County to Miss Jessie Zimmerman. She was born in Webster Township of Wood County in 1870, and was reared and educated there. Slie is a daughter of Daniel and Emma Jane (Pox) Zimmerman. Mrs. Zimmerman is still living at Bowling Green at the age of eighty. Her father was the fir.st white child born in Webster Township. His birth occurred in 1837. He grew up and married there, and his wife came from New England and was a teacher in the early days before her marriage. Mrs. Barr's grandparents came from Pennsylvania and were among the first settlers in Wood County, where they spent the rest of their days. Mrs. Barr's father died about nine years ago. Her parents were active members of the United Brethren Church.

Of the family of children born to Mr. and Mrs. Barr two, Donald and Bernice, died in infancy. The seven still living are : Hazel L., who was educated in the local high school ancl in a business college at Toledo ; Myrtle B., who is a graduate of the High School and the State Normal at Bowling Green, is a teacher but now clerk in a local mercantile store. Winifred M., who has completed the course of the Bowling Green High School and also a musical course in the State Normal College ; Dorothy, now in the second year of the high school; Charles Z. and Jolin S., both in the grade schools ; and Richard, the youngest. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Barr is a republican and while living in Paulding served as a member of the City Council. He is affiliated with tlie Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he was noble grand in the lodge at Paulding, and also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Knights of Pythias of Bowling Green, Ohio.

Rev. a. a. Weber has been pastor of St. Wendelin 's Catholic Church at Fostoria since May 4, 1894. That long pastorate has been filled with work and with a constantly growing responsibility as head of a large and flourishing parish. Father Weber has the spiritual leadership of a parish of 2,000 souls and has developed a splendid school, with about 325 scholars enrolled and with seven teachers.

Fatlier Weber began his active ministry as a priest over thirty years ago. He was born in the Archdiocese of Freiburg, Germany, March 25, 1854, a son of Aloysius and Ursula (Wetter) Weber. His parents were born in the vicinity of Freiburg. The grandfather was Joseph Weber, a tailor, who spent his life in Germany, and the maternal grandfather, Anthony Wetter, came to the United States in 1854, settling in Wisconsin, where he spent the rest of his years. He was a saddler by trade. Aloysius Weber was a man of affairs, a manufacturer and produce merchant, and acquired considerable property. He and his wife spent all their lives in Germany and were the parents of ten children. Four of these are still living. Father

Weber being the j'oungest. SaviUa is still living in Germany. Mrs. Victoria Brown resides at Detroit, a widow. Louis is a njeichant at Appleton, Wisconsin, but was formerly a draftsman.

Father Weber began his instruction in the parochial schools of Germany and in 1S71, at the age of seventeen, came to the United States. He took his classical course in the college at Sandwich, Canada, where he gi'aduated in 1881, and subsequently studied at Cincinnati, and took his classical course in the seminary at Cleveland. He was ordained in 1886, and his first work was at Warren, Ohio, where he remained as pastor for fifteen j-ears. The next two years were spent in Ashtabula, and then one year with one of the churches of Cleveland, and from there he came to his present duties at Fostoria. Father Weber has gone in and out among the people of his parish and of Fostoria for fourteen jears and has gained the respect and admiration of all classes by his fidelity and his devotion to the interests of the community. He is assisted at this writing (1917) by Rev. Charles Comte, who was appointed in November, 1915. Father Weber is a member of the Knights of Columbus and in politics maintains an independent attitude.

F. G. BiTTiKOFER. It may be stated as a fact that the educational field in the United States is not crowded with capable instructoi-s. In intelligent communities like Crawford County, Ohio, the value of educatiofi'is accepted and fortunately, through compelling laws, in no section is illiteracy now recognized as an excuse for lack of progress. Everywhere people are interested and yeai-ly vast sums are expended in the erection of school buildings that are moi'e ornate and comfortable and far more sanitary than the old-time castles of kings, and boards of education vie with each other in providing essentials and non-essentials for the school training of the young of the land. However, -without the careful choice of real instructors, these many efforts fall far short of possible efficiency. No easy task is that of the best-intentioned teacher, for not knowledge alone makes him capable. There are so many qualities that must be combined that perhaps, after all, it is fortunate that so many do come up to standard. No one understands and laments this deficiency more than the conscientious county superintendent of schools, especially when so able and experienced a teacher fills the office as does F. G. Bittikofer, couutv

F. G. Bittikofer is a native of Crawford County, bom May 24, 1876, and is a son of Jacob and Christina (Ackerman) Bittikofer, and a grandson of John Bittikofer and ilathias Ackerman. The paternal grandfather was born in Switzerland and emigrated early to the United States and located in Crawford County in the '20s, securing Government land on which he continued to live during the rest of his life. The maternal grandfather located first in Stark County, Ohio, but later came to Crawford and he, too, was one of the sturdy and representative early settlers. Jacob Bittikofer was born in Crawford County, Ohio, in 1845 and died on his farm in this count}-, in July, 1917. All his active life was spent in agricultural pursuits and he became a man of substance. In politics he was a democrat and many times was elected to local offices and served as township trustee and as school director. He belonged to the German Reformed Church. He was married in 1875 in Crawford County to Christina Ackerman, who was born here in 1848 and died in June, 1915. The mention of these names brings memories of sterling virtues, neighborly kindness and family devotion.

F. G. Bittikofer attended the local schools and afterward the Ohio Northern University, where he remained until he completed the scientific course, subsequently taking postgraduate work in the Ohio State University and a course in Heidelberg University, from which well known institution he was graduated in 1913. Before and after and at intervals, Mr. Bittikofer taught school, in fact the gi'eater part of his life has been spent in the school room, and his choice of vocation has been fortunate. He has every reason to look back over his work as a teacher, with a large measure of contentment. He has loved his task, that of developing the inborn powei-s of the intellects placed in his charge, having a natural understanding sympathy that has been rewarded by the tinusual progress his pupils have made and the respect and affection with which they have regarded him. His election to the superintendency of the schools of the county was a gratifying token of public approval and Crawford County is still benefiting by his thorough methods and his wise discrimination in educational affairs.

Mr. Bittikofer was married in March, 1906, to Miss Catherine Geneva Norton, who was born at Reedsburg, Ohio, and is a daughter of Benjamin Lincoln Norton. Mi\ and Mrs. Bittikofer have had four children, two of whom survive : Justine and Myrou Richard.

In politics j\Ir. Bittikofer is a democrat and is loyal to party and friends. He belongs to the Presbyterian Church and fraternally is a Royal Arch Mason, is past chancellor in the order of Knights of Pythias, and is a member also of tJie Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He is well known in educational bodies all through this part of the state and his teaching methods have met with the approval of his co-workers in the same field. Personally he is agreeable but dignified in manner and he enjoys the respect and esteem of his teachers.

Jacob N. Easlet. When IMr. Easley was a very young man he entered an office at Bowling Green and learned the abstracting business in all its details. He is now one of the two prominent business men comprising the firm of the Wood County Abstract and Loan Company. This is the chief business of its kind in Wood County, and besides abstracting it loans large amounts of money on real estate and also buys and sells city and farm property. The company was first organized in 1891 by C. W. Lenhart and Ira C. Taber. Mr. Benjamin P. James later became an interested party. The business was then reorganized and in time Mr. Easley succeeded Mr. James. In 1897 C. C. Griffith succeeded Mr. Taber. In 1906 another change was made when Mr. Lenhart and Mr. Easley bought the Taber interest and these two business men have since conducted the firm in all its branches.

Mr. Easley is an expert in the abstract field and looks after that branch of the business while Mr. Lenhart gives most of his attention to the Wood County Insurance Agency, which is a part of the business organization, and the two concerns share the same offices at 110 West Wooster Street. This has been the home of the firm for the past ten years, and they have a very complete office with records available for all their work.

Mr. Easley has been an active factor in this business since he was twenty-three years of age. He was bom in Crawford County, Ohio, May 6, 1867. When a boy his parents removed to Wood County and he received most of his education at Bloomdale in that county. For a short time before entering the abstract business he was a teacher, ilr. Easley is one of the leading democrats of Wood County. Since 1891 he has been a factor in the local party and served continuously as one of the executive committee until a few years ago. He has represented his party in numerous conventions, but has never sought any official position himself.

Mr. Easley is of old Swiss ancestry on both sides. His father, Daniel N. Easley, was born in Canton Berne in 1831. When he was three years of age, in 1834, the family, consisting of his father, mother, Mr. and ilrs. Jacob Easley, and nine other children came to the United States. They made the voyage on an old fashioned sailing vessel and were weeks between ports. For two years they lived in New York State and from there removed to Cranberry Township of Crawford County, Ohio. They were early settlers in that new and swampy section and Jacob Easley and wife spent their last years there, he dying in 1856 and his widow in 1868. They were active members of the Reformed Church. Other children were born to them in Crawford County and most of them grew up and married. Two are still living: Frances, wife of M. M. Springer, of Toledo, and they have a large family ; and Mrs. Anna Peters, a widow, now living with her daughter in the State of Idaho.

Daniel N. Easley grew up in Cranberry Township, of Crawford County, and there learned the trade of carpenter. From working as a journeyman he developed a business as a contractor and combined that successfully with farming. In 1874 he removed to a farm near Bloomdale in Wood County and subsequently retired to the Village of Bloomdale, where he died in August, 1893. He was married in Cranberry Township of Crawford County to Rosana Bittikofer. Mrs. Daniel Easley, who is still living, was born in Stark County, Ohio, December 4, 1846, and still enjoys the best of health. When she was a small girl her parent.s removed to Chatfield ToATOship of Crawford County and she is a daughter of Jacob and Mrs. (Frank) Bittikofer both natives of Switzerland and of old Swiss ancestry. Mrs. Daniel Easley has in her possession an old Swiss Bible which was printed over 200 years ago and has been handed down through the line of Bittikofers for several generations. It is a rare old vol- ume, betraying by its verj^ form and shape its antiquity. It is some seven or eight inches thick, and the covers are boards covered with leather, all bound together with heavy clasps. Jacob Bittikofer came to the United States soon after his marriage, and his father, Jacob, Sr., also came to this country. For some years the family lived in Stark County and then moved to the newer section of Chatiield Township in Crawford County, where they improved a farm. Both Jacob Sr. and Jr. and their wives spent their days in Crawford County and all of them are buried in the same plot in Chatfield Cemetery. They were devout members of the Reformed Church, and in politics the Bittikofers supplied many voters to the democratic party. Mrs. Daniel Easley was one of ten children. The two now living are herself and her brother Christopher. Christopher resides at Tiffin, Ohio. She has her home at Bloomdale in Wood County. Soon after her marriage she and her husband joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a democrat iu politics. Jacob N. Easley was one of a family of eight childreu, six sons and two daughters. Five of them are still living : Justin L., who is a carpenter and contractor at Bloomdale, and lias six sons and one daughter ; Jacob N., the second in age; John C, a contractor and builder at Rushsylvania in Logan County, is married and has three daughters; Ida is the wife of Eugene C. Stay, of Tiffin, Ohio, a manufacturer of stock food, and their family consists of two sons; Edna R., who is unmarried and living with her mother for many years has been a successful educator in Wood County, having seiwed as principal of the public schools at Bloomdale ; and Jacob N. Jacob N. Easley was married in Bowling Green to Miss Helen I. Comstock. She was born in Plain Township of Wood County, and completed her education in the Bowling Green High School and in Oberlin College, where she pursued musical instruction. For some years before her marriage she was a talented teacher of music. Mr. and "Sirs. Easley are active members of the Presbyterian Church. He is a democrat, is affiliated with Bowling Green Lodge No. 818 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is a past grand of Bloomdale Lodge No. 416 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a director of the Wood County Savings Bank Company.

his active career in the manufacture of gi-inding wheels and in the past twenty years has built up the Tiffin concern to a grade of importance where it ranks among the first of similar enterprises throughout the United States and Europe.

The company has a capital stock of a $100,- 000, and the product is shipped all over the world. Mr. Tillotson through this industry has become a very successful business man and he is also a director in the City National Bank of Tiffin and has long been an active factor iu local affairs.

He is a Jlassachusetts man by birth and ancestry. He was born in that state April 5, 1863, son of George W. and Mary L. (Palmer) Tillotson. His parents were born at Otis, Massachusetts, and his father spent his life as a farmer and contractor. They were members of the Congregational Church and he is a republican in politics. Of their four children, three are now living, George S. being the oldest of the children.

He was reared on a Massachusetts farm, attended the local schools, and at the age of seventeen left school to begin work in a rake factory and sawmill. He worked in the lumber bu.siness until he was twenty-one and then associated himself with the Grant Corundum Wheel Company of Chester, Massachusetts. His work in that line has advanced from a small company until he is now practically head of a company that makes a large and complicated assortment of grinding wheels of aU types. He came to Tiffitu in the fall of 1897 and has had active charge of the Sterling plant since January 1, 1898.

Mr. Tillotson first married Minnie Mixer, of Massachusetts, who died in February. 1903. The one daughter of that marriage is Vera, now the wife of Ralph Sugrue, a Tiffin attorney. After the death of his first wife Mr. Tillotson married ]Mabel Chandler, of Tiffin. They have two eliildren : George C., now in the fifth grade of the public schools, and Fred W., in the third grade. Mr. Tillotson and wife are membei-s of the Methodist Protestant Church. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows since he was twenty-one years of age and is past noble grand. Politically he is a republican. Mr. Tillotson was one of the first safety directors appointed in any of the cities of Northwest Ohio and filled that office in Tiffin for a number of years. He is now president of the Board of Education of this city. He was pres-

A. J. Sautter, present mayor of Marion, has been actively identified with the business att'airs of that city for a long period of years and the popularity that followed him into his present office has been deserved by every circumstance of his character and activities.

Mr. Sautter was born at Delaware, Ohio, November 22, 1868, a son of Frederick and Sarah E. (Yoakam) Sautter. His grandfather, John Sautter, was born in Germany and on coming to America located at New Orleans and from there moved to Delaware, Ohio. He was a carpenter by trade. The maternal grandfather,' James Yoakam, was numbered among the pioneer settlers of Allen County, Ohio. He went there in a time when lands could be obtained very cheaply and he cleared up a portion of the wilderness, built a log house, and died in comfortable circumstances on the land which he had redeemed from the wilderness.

Frederick Sautter was born at New Orleans, Louisiana, in IS-l-l and is now living at Marion at the age of seventy -three. His wife was born in Auglaize County, Ohio, in 1847 and died in 1915. They married at Lima, Ohio. Frederick Sautter followed the trade of carpenter for a number of years in Allen County and at Marion, and is now living retired, a successful self-made man. He has been quite active in democi-atic politics and he served as a member of the Marion City Council in 1896. He and his wife are members of the Alethodist Episcopal Church and both very active in church affairs. Fraternally he is a Knight of Pythias. They had four children : A. J. Sautter ; Charles -E., a farmer near Mount Gilead, Ohio ; Lewis Delbert, a tinsmith at Marion ; and Cloyd W., a mail carrier at Marion.

A. J. Sautter attended the Marion public schools and learned the trade of carpenter, so that that trade has been in the family for three successive generations. The distinguishing fact of his business and industrial career was the thirty years he put in with the Huber Company at Marion and for many years he was one of their competent foremen.

Mr. Sautter married Jennie A. Walter, a native of Virginia. Her father, A. C. Walter, was a shoemaker by trade and is now living retired with Mr. and Mrs. Sautter. Three children have been bom to their marriage : Edna Ruth, at home; Ilene, wife of Clarence

The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Sautter is a Chapter and Council Mason, an Elk, is past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in politics a democrat. Mr. Sautter served as a member of the City Council of Marion in 1912-13 and was elected to his present ofiice as mayor in 1915. He is now giving his entire time and attention to his duties as head of the municipal administration of Marion.

WiLLi^vM R. Hopper. A large amount of the fine farm lands of Wood County have been developed and at different times have been under the owner.ship of the Hopper family. William R. Hopper did his part in the work of agrii-ulfnral iiiiprnvenient in the county and is now li\iiii; I'l'tiiNHl at l^>owling Green. This is one of tlie oldest and best known families of Wood County.

Mr. Hopper was born in Huron County, Ohio, Jlay 3, 1851. He is of English parentage and ancestry, a son of Richard and Jane (Pruden) Hopper. His parents were from Cambridgeshire, England, where they gi-ew up and married. One child was born to them in the old country, Mary. Then in 1850 the little family embarked on a sailing vessel at Liverpool, and encountering rough seas and storms were thirty-six days in crossing the oceau to New York. From there they went to Monroeville in Huron County, Ohio, located on a small farm, and while living there William R. Hopper and his sister Lydia Ann were born. The older daughter, Mary, married William Fletcher, and they live retii-ed in Bowling Green. By a former marriage she has' one son, Chai-les Wilson. Lydia Ann is the wife of Gideon J. Thomas, also a retired farmer of Bowling Green.

In 1863 the Hopper family removed to Wood County and located on a new farm in Plain Township, where the parents spent the rest of their worthy and useful lives. The father died in 1890, at the age of seventy-six, and his wife seven years later at the age of seventy-five. Both were active members of the Congregational Church, and Richard Hopper was a democrat.

Reared and educated in Wood County, William R. Hopper was married in Plain Township to Miss Rachel Coen. She was born on her father's farm in Plain Township January 9, 1856, and was reared and educated there. Her parents, Abram and Sarah (Hall) Coen, were natives of Pennsylvania, in which state they were married, and they then became early residents of Wood County. They improved a farm from an absolute wilderness condition in section 2 of Plain Township, and had a well developed place of eighty acres in which to spend their last years. They finally retired to Bowling Green, where the father died at the age of seventy-five. The Coens were active members of the Presbyterian Church and Mr. Coen was a republican. Mrs. Hopper is one of a family of five daughters and one son. Her brother was a soldier in the Civil war in the Twenty-first Ohio Infantry, was taken ill while in the army, and died a few months after coming home, unmarried. The daughters all married and all are now deceased except Mrs. Hopper and her sister Mrs. N. E. Adams, a widow.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hopper located on a farm in Plain Township. Later he acquired 284 acres in three separate farms in that township. Each farm had its own building equipment, and in time they also acquired a total of 600 acres in Center Township. Here too their land was divided into three farms, each with a distinct set of building improvements. These farms are among the best in the county and show what thrifty management will do. Fifteen years ago, after developing all this property, Mr. Hopper retired to Bowling Green and bought a fine home where he now resides at 403 South Main Street.

He and his good wife have three living children. George 0. Hopper has made a good showing as a merchant and is owner of a large general hardware store on North Main Street in Bowling Green. He married Myrtle Ketzenbarger, of Center Township, Wood County, and their children are Rachel M., George 0., Eleanor M. and Graham A. Rev. Perry C. Hopper, the second son, was graduated from the high school and from Oberlin College, where he took his A. B. degree, and subsequently graduated from the McCormiek Theological Seminary at Chicago. After his ordination as a Presbyterian minister he was given his first pastorate at Winchester, Indiana. Rev. Mr. Hopper was married in 1915 to iliss Grace McConnihe, of Cleveland, who is well educated and taught school before her marriage; they have a son, Robert N. Jane V., the only daughter, graduated from the Bowling Green High School and also studied in Deti'oit. She is now the wife of Dr. Lloyd H. Mercer, a graduate of the medical department of the State University and now in practice at Toledo. All the members of the Hopper family are active in the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Hopper is affiliated with Centennial Lodge No. 626, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and politically he and his sons are democrats.

John A. Gosling. M. D., has distinguished his residence at Tifiin since 1908 by unusually capable work in his profession as a physician and surgeon. He was well qualified to practice medicine and has brought to his work intellectual power and s.\Tnpathy as well as technical ability and understanding.

Dr. Gosling was born at Ottawa, Ohio, January 21, 1874, a son of Herman and Mary (Gerdeman) Gosling. His grandfather, Christopher Gosling, died in Germany, but his widow subsequently came to Ohio with her family. The maternal grandfather, John D. Gerdeman, was a pioneer settler in Putnam County, Ohio. Herman Gosling was born in Germany in 1841 and his wife was born in Glandorf in Putnam County, Ohio, in 1847. Both are still living. They were married at Glandorf. Herman Gosling was a harness maker and carriage trimmer by trade and followed that business at Ottawa for over forty years. He came to Ohio in 1850 when a small boy. Six yeai"S ago he disposed of his business interest at Ottawa, and has since made his abode with his son, Dr. John A. Mr. Gosling and his wife are members of the Catholic Church. They had three children : Elizabeth, a sister in a convent ; Dr. John A. ; and Joseph, who is an attorney and real estate man at Los Angeles, California.

Doctor Gosling grew up in Ottawa, attended the high school there from which he was graduated in 1893. For four years he worked with his father at a trade, but then looking to a broader horizon of accomplishment and one better fitted to his abilities he entered the Starling Medical College at Columbus where he remained one year and completed his course at Rush Medical College, Chicago, from which school he graduated in 1901. Dr. Gosling practiced medieiue six years at Louisville, Ohio, and from there removed to Tiffin in 1908. He has held the position of health officer of Tiffin, Ohio, for over four years, and for three years that of physician and surgeon for the Big Four Railroad. To his public duties and his private practice he gives all his time and attention.

In 1902 he married Mary A. Yeager, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Yeager of Centerville, Michigan. Doctor and Mrs. Gosling have two children, Helen and Blanche, both students in the Ursuline Catholic Academy. The family are members of St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Doctor Gosling besides his affiliation with various medical societies is member of the Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Knights of Ohio and Lodge No. 94 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Politically he is a democrat.

Iea Norman Zeis, M. D. For twenty-three years Doctor Zeis has been the leader in his profession of medicine and surgery at Carey, Ohio. His reputation is widely extended over that part of the state and his name is synonymous with skill and a most capable and kindly professional service.

Doctor Zeis was born on a farm in Liberty Township of Seneca County October 9, 1867, a son of William H. and Margaret Ellen (Cromer) Zeis. His birthplace was five miles from Tiffin, near Cromer's Station, a hamlet named after his maternal gi-andfather. The Zeis family came out of Baden Baden, Germany, over ninety years ago and located in Maryland, and in 1833 migrated to Seneca County. Both the Zeis and the Ci'omer families were pioneers of Seneca County and cleared up land from the wilderness, getting their homestead dii'ect from the Government. The older generation lived and died on the farm and were all capable and industrious people. The father of Doctor Zeis had an uncle who served as a soldier under the famous General Blucher in the Napoleonic wars.

Doctor Zeis grew up on his father's farm, attended the district schools near McCutchenville in the winter, and found plenty to do on the farm in the summer seasons. This was his way of life until he was sixteen years of age, when he was given a license and taught several terms of district school in Seneca Township and afterwards in Jackson Township of Seneca County. Altogether he put in seven terms of teaching. He spent the school year. 1888-89 in Heidelberg University at Tiffin, and while there paid his own way by work on the outside. In 1891 Doctor Zeis entered the Toledo Medical College and was graduated ilarch 12, 1894, at the head of his class. On April 3 of the same year he came to Carey and opened an office at the corner of Findlay and Vance streets. He was in that location ten months and then came to his present office quarters at 109^^ Findlay Street. Thus his office is looked upon as one of the landmarks of the town. He has conducted a general practice, and besides his experience has at all times kept abreast of the advance in medical and surgical knowledge by reading and study and by several courses in medical schools. In 1903 he attended the Chicago Post-Graduate School and Hospital, taking a course in Gyiiecology, and in 1907 was in the New York I'dst ( ii-jHliiatc School.

In 1895 Doctor Zeis niairi.'.l i.la \'iola Garn, daughter of Jeremiah and Catherine ( Over) Garn. Her parents lived near Jeromeville in Ashland County, Ohio. Doctor and Mrs. Zeis have two children. Gladys is the wife of Carl Mitchell, of Carey. William Russell was born at Carey in 1898.

Doctor Zeis is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, has filled all the chairs in the local lodge of Knights of Pythias and is a member of the Uniformed Rank, belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically he supports the republican party. He has served as a member of the Carey School Board for fourteen years and twelve yeai's of that time as president, taking a deep interest in the welfare of the local schools. Doctor Zeis is a stockholder and director in the National Electric Porcelain Company and also a stockholder in the Carey Mill and Elevator Company of Carey, Ohio..

Sheridan W. Mattox, M. D. During the many years of his residence at Marion Doctor Mattox has become widely known over this section of Northwest Ohio as a .specialist in the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and the demands upon his ability in that special branch now consume most of his time.

Doctor Mattox is of an old and notable family in this section of Ohio. In fact the Mattox family was one of the very first to establish homes in Marion County. His gi'catgrandfather, Christopher Mattox, was born in Kentuckj' in 1769, a date which shows that his people were close followers of Daniel Boone to the dark and bloody gi'ound of Kentucky. Christopher Mattox married Christina Hinds, who died in 1834. Christopher Mattox, who died in 1832, came to Delaware County and took up a section of military laud from the Government in that portion of the county that is now Marion County. He received deeds to this land from President James Monroe and President Andrew Jackson. The ilattox family originated in Wales. Christopher JMattox had nine children as follows : Jacob, Reubiu, Isaiah, Christopher Jr., Benjamin, Nancy, Hannah, Ruannah and Betsey.

Doctor ^Mattox is a grandson of Jacob and Lydia (Lewis) ilattox. Both of them were natives of Marion County, Jacob having been born in 1805 and his wife in 1809. Lydia Lewis ' brother, Chauneey Lewis, a great-uncle of Doctor Mattox, was the pioneer doctor of Marion County and assisted in establishing the original Marion County Medical Societ}', thereby becoming a charter member. He was regarded as one of the finest types of the old school physician, and for a long period of j^ears gave the best of his character and his energies to the practice. Jacob Mattox followed farming during his active life and died in 1868, while his wife passed away in 1864. They had seven children as follows : Chauucy, Eben, Henry, Cyrus, Mary Jane, Lois Delilah and Nancy Elizabeth.

Eben Mattox, father of Doctor Mattox, was born in Marion County in 1839, and had a brief but very successful career. His death occurred in 1874. He had little opportunity to attend school as a youth but was well read and a man of fine character. As a farmer he was greatly prospered and in the course of his brief career he owned three different farms in Marion County. He was a democrat in politics and both he and his wife were very active in the work of the Christian Church. He married in Marion County and his wife's maiden name was Sarah Priscilla Clark. She was born in Marion County in 1845 and died in 1870. Her father, Samuel P. Clark, was of Scotch descent and son of John Clark, a very early pioneer in Ohio. Samuel P. Clark was born in Ohio in 1819, spent his active career as a farmer in IMarion County, and died in 1887. He married Hannah Williams, a native of Ohio, and they were the parents of Aseha, Sarah P. and Henry N., and one son who died in young manhood. Eben Mattox and wife had four children, two sons and two daughters, three of them are still living: Mattie, wife of Charles Roux, a farmer in J\lariou County ; Sarah Elvida, wife of L. F. Dickson, a farmer in Saline County, Illinois; and Dr. Sheridan W.

Doctor Mattox grew up on his father's farm, attended country schools, the high school at Agosta in Marion County, the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and took a course in the commercial department of the University of Kentucky at Lexington. Doc-- tor Mattox taught school four years and in 1893 he began the study of medicine in the Eclectic iledical Institute at Cincinnati, where he was gi-aduated in 1896. Soon after qualifying for the profession he began practice in Marion County, and from the first was ambitious for the best possible attainments in his chosen work. In 1901 he took advanced courses at Chicago, in 1903 was a student in the Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Infirmary, and also pursued special work in Knapp 's School in New York City. After this he returned to Marion on January 1, 1904, and began the practice which has more and more diverted him into his special lines as an eye, ear, nose and throat physician. However, he is engaged in an extensive general practice as well. He is a member of the Marion County and State Medical societies, and the State and National Eclectic Medical societies.

Doctor Mattox married October 27, 1897, Florence lona Smith. She wa.s born at Marion, daughter of James K. Smith, a farmer of Marion County. They have one daughter, Lillian Genevieve, born January 23, 1899, and since graduating from the Marion High School in 1917 has continued her education in the Ohio University at Athens. Doctor and Mrs. jMattox are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a democrat in politics and has fraternal affiliatious with the Masons and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Daniel W. Young, of Bowling Green, has given almost a lifetime to that important service involved in undertaking and embalming. In recent years he has had a son, Carl, associated with him. and both of them are licensed embalmers. Mr. Young has been practicing his profession for the past thirty years and at Bowling Green he and his son have built up an establishment not to be surpassed in point of equipment and facilities for service.

to Bowling Green in 1897, and for the past twenty years has been in business either in North or South Main Street. In 1915 he built at No. 180 South Main Street a building especially equipped and fitted for his purposes. The building is 40 by 125 feet and is arranged for the especial convenience of his work. There is a funeral chapel, and besides a complete line of caskets he has two funeral ears.

Mr. Young practically grew up in this work, having worked as boy with an older brother who was an undertaker at Green Spring. Mr. Young was born in Seneca County, near Green Spring, December 10, 1856. He received his early education in that locality. He is of German parentage. His father, Charles Young, was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1817, and when a boy accompanied his parents to America. The family located near Green Spring in Seneca County and the grandfather was a pioneer farmer in that section. Charles Young was married in the state of Maryland to Mary Spangler, who was born in Germany, and when twelve years of age came with her parents to the Ignited States. The Spangler family were a month in crossing the ocean. They located in Maryland and her parents afterwards followed Charles Young to Seneca County, where they spent their last years. A few years after his marriage Charles Young brought his wife back to Seneca County and followed farming near Green Spring. He and his wife died there, he when a little past sixty and she somewhat earlier and not quite so old. They were members of the Lutheran Church and in politics he followed the fortunes of the democratic party. Daniel W. Young was the eighth in a family of ten children. Five of them are still living and all married and residents of Ohio.

Mr. Young himself was married in Sanduskj' County, Ohio, to ]\Iiss Jennie Lott. She was born in Sandusky County and is a few years younger than her husband. Her parents came from Pennsylvania and spent their lives in Sandusky County. Mr. and Jlrs. Young are the parents of three children. Bessie is a graduate of the Bowling Green High School. Carl graduated from the Bowling Green High School and the Ohio State University and since getting a license as an embalmer has been his father's active assistant. He has done much. to build up the present fine concern at Bowling Green. The youngest child, Harold, is a graduate of the Bowling Green High School and finished his course in the "Western Reserve

College at Cleveland in 1917. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Young is affiliated with Centennial Lodge No. 626 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Lodge No. 158 of the Knights of Pythias, and his son Carl is also a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

George W. Munshovfer has been a resident of Bowling Green for over forty years. He was long active in a business way, chiefly as a furniture merchant, but for the past eighteen years has lived retired in the town home which he built for himself and by a plan of which he is the author. He was handicapped by ill health and other circumstances, and his modest fortune and achievements stand as the record of a self-made man.

It was in September, 1875, that Mr. Munshower became a resident of Bowling Green. He came to the city from Wooster, Ohio, and for a time followed his trade as a housebuilder and contractor. After two years he accepted an opportunity to get into the furniture business. He opened a store and though handicapped by lack of capital he more than made up for it by the energy of his work and a rapidly developing trade brought him to a position among the leading merchants of "Wood County. He engaged in business as a furniture dealer for sixteen years. Failing health caused him to sell out his store, and since then be has lived retired and has fully regained the vigor of his constitution. Mr. Munshower has at all times exemplified a public spirit in his relations to the community and is one of the most loyal citizens Bowling Green possesses. "Wherever possible he has worked for the betterment of the community and his infliience has often counted for good and substantial benefit.

Mr. Munshower was born March 3, 1849, on a farm in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, near the city of that name. His parents were Nicholas and Fannie (Howard) Munshower, both natives of Pennsylvania. They were married in Indiana Count.v and made their home on a farm. "Wliile they were still struggling to secure a home a cyclone came along and destroyed their barn and much of their stock, but they refused to be discouraged and in time had provided for their future and reared a family of three sons and seven daughters. George "W. was next to the youngest in this rather large family. His brothers are now deceased and he has five sisters still living. The father of the family died in 1856, when still in middle life. The widowed mother was ninetyfive when she passed away in 1907. The youngest of the children died at the age of eighteen. The others all married with the exception of a son and a daughter. Mr. Munshower's parents were members of the Lutheran Church.

At the age of fifteen George "W. Munshower started to learn the carpenter 's trade. He served a thorough apprenticeship and during the first year was paid only four dollars a month and six dollars a month in the second year. As a journeyman he worked at his trade ten years, chiefly at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He not only possessed the skill of an expert workman hut also that larger ability which is the chief requirement for success of the architect. In the years since he retired from the furniture business Mr. Munshower has occupied his time in his home shop turning out many beautiful pieces of furniture and some of these are not excelled in design and workmanship by the very best makers. Many of these parlor pieces Mr. Munshower has given to his friends and relatives.

He was still a single man when he came to Bowling Green, and in this city he married Miss Gertrude Foote. She was born in Ohio, and was liberally educated. After leaving school she became a teacher and had been principal of the city schools just before her marriage. She taught her first school when only fifteen years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Munshower had one son, Carl, who died at the age of one j'ear. They are active members of the Presbyterian Church of Bowling Green.

Cliiv-ton W. F.\wcett. An accomplished lawyer, with high professional training and a large practice at Ottawa, Clinton AY. Faweett has done a good deal to deserve his family traditions and lineage. His people were among the pioneers of Putnam County and the name is one that has long been spoken with respect in this part of Northwest Ohio.

Mr. Fawcett is seventh in direct line from the first member of the Fawcett family who came to this countrv from Ireland about 1740. This ancestor was Thomas Fawcett, who immigrated from Lisburn, Ireland, and settled in Frederick County, Virginia. The lineage is traced through Thomas (1), John (2), John, Jr. (3), Jesse (4), Robert B. (5), James L. (6) and Clinton W. (7).

Robert B. Fawcett, the grandfather, was born in Frederick County, Virginia, December 10, 1819. As a young man he accompanied his parents to Clinton County, Ohio, and later to Logan County, Ohio. In Logan County in 1841 he married Catharine Monroe, who was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, February 1.5, 1821. Her grandfather, John Monroe, was of Scotch descent and fought with a Virginia regiment in the American Revolution. He married Jane Shackelford. Nathaniel ilonroe, father of Catharine Monroe, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, April 11, 1791, served as a soldier in the War of 1812, and was a millwright by trade. In old Virginia he owned slaves, obtained from the estate of John Brannin, his father-in-law.

Nathaniel Monroe came to Ohio in 1833. He married Catharine Brannin. Her grandfather, Richard Brannin was an Irish baron, and being implicated in one of the many unsuccessful insurrections for the purpose of freeing Ireland from English rule, forfeited all his estate and was compelled to flee to Virginia. Upon his arrival in that colony he became steward of the estate of Governor Spottswood. Richard Brannin for many years lived on the Rappahannock River in Culpeper County, Virginia, and died there at the remarkable age of 116 years. Catharine Monroe's maternal grandfather was John Brannin. Catharine Monroe died March 15, 1904.

James L. Fawcett, father of the Ottawa lawyer, was born in Logan County, Ohio, March 21, 1847. When a small child he went with his parents to Putnam County, Ohio, locating at Vaughnsville in Sugar Creek Township. His father afterwards bovight a farm in section 36, and lived there yntil his death on May 17, 1867. James L. Fawcett grew up on the farm in Sugar Creek Township, and taught school for a short time after I'caching his maturity. Though only fourteen years of age when the Civil war broke out. he later became a soldier and a member of Company E of the 197th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. For a number of j-ears James L. Fawcett was engaged in the manufacture of drain tile at Dupont. Ohio. After retiring from that business he was appointed postmaster at Dupont in 1893 and served during Cleveland's second administration. Still later he was elected to several township offices in Periy Township and is now retii-ed and divides his time between the liomes of his son Clinton W. at Ottawa and Ralph D. at St. Paul, Minnesota.

She was born in Richland County, Ohio, May 29, 1840, and died March 30, 1913. Her parents were Benjamin and Fannie (Stiner) Hershey. The ancestors of this branch of the Hershey family came from Switzerland and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1709. The lineage of the Hersheys is- traced back as far as the year 1535. Benjamin Hershey was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, July 3, 1802, and in 1835 he and his parents and brothers and sisters moved to Richland County, Ohio, and subsequently he took his family to Franklin County, where they resided until about the year 1857, when they came to Jackson Township, Putnam County. Fannie Stiner, Avife of Benjamin Hershey, was born near Frankfoi't, Germany, March 25, 1807. Benjamin Hershey died in Jackson Township, Putnam County, April 12, 1863, and his widow subsequently married again and removed to Riley To\'stiship. Elizabeth C. Allgire and her first husband, Alpheus A. Allgire, came to Putnam County with her parents. In 1862 Mv. Allgire enlisted in Company A of the Ninety-ninth Ohio Infantry, was captured near Dalton, Georgia, in 1864, and was confined at Andersonville prison until the close of the war. He died at Annapolis, Maryland, in the spring of 1865. Seven years later his widow became the wife of James L. Faweett.

Mr. Clinton W. Faweett was born at Kalida in Putnam County, Ohio, February 21, 1875. From his parents he received a good home and encouragement to make the best of his talents, but for the most i:>art his career is an achievement expressive of his own determined purpose and effort. He attended the common schools in Putnam County and before reaching his majority became a teacher. He taught several years in the schools of Putnam County and in the meantime had enrolled as a student in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he specialized in science and in law. He completed the scientific course in 1896, and in 1904 graduated in law. In December, 1904, he was admitted to practice at Columbus.

As a lawyer he began his professional career at Continental, Ohio, in 1905, but on January 1, 1908, removed to Ottawa, which has since been his home and professional headquarters. Mr. Faweett is a man of broad education and in a few years had earned a rank among the leaders of the county bar. He has been quite active in democratic politics and formerly served as clerk of tlie board of deputy state supervisors' of elections in Putnam County. While teaching school in Perry