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"I have yours of November 22d, and I am very glad to learn that you have settled down and that you find your work enjoyable. I have heard from a number of sources that what you are doing is very satisfactory to those who ought to be able to judge. Your description of the river in the case of the Island of Palawan, which I never visited, is most interesting. I hope you may go again."

"Tell William H. Phipps pleased with his letter to me December 4th and with knowledge that you and he are in entire accord. Congratulate him on his good work. - Edwards."

"Before severing my connection with the Philippine Government I am glad to be able to express to you my appreciation of your recent accomplishments, particularly in the matter of settling up many old accounts and straightening out of Government balances. We have thus been able to show the true condition of our accounts, which in view of unfavorable conditions is a very satisfactorjone. I also am pleased to note the promptness with which the present financial statement has come out, which indicates real progress toward good accounting."

Since returning to this country in 1914 Mr. Phipps has resumed his private practice at Paulding and is now one of the leading lawyers of Northwest Ohio. Mr. Phipps was city solicitor of Paulding from 1892 to 1894, and in 1908 was appointed state oil inspector, serving two years until 1910. He has been president of the Paulding County Bar Association fifteen years, and for a similar period served as a member of the Republican State Central Committee. He has become identified with many of the business organizations of Paulding County. Mr. Phipps is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and is a member of the Buckeye Republican Club of Columbus, Tippecanoe Republican Club of Cleveland, National League of Republican Clubs, Commercial Club of Paidding, and belongs to the Elks and Sons of Veterans. August 14, 1890, he married Miss Nora Cooper. Tliey have one child, Estella Helen, at home.

William E. Martin, who has just completed two terms of efficient service for Wyandot County as county surveyor, has made much of the years and opportunities that have been vouchsafed to him. In whatever capacity of relationship he has performed his duties well, and is a man of broad experience and exceptional ability. Most of his life has been spent in Wyandot County.

25, 1881, a son of John and Lydia Elizabeth (Brobst) Martin. He is of Irish and German stock. His father, born in Ireland, came to this country alone at the age of seventeen and arrived in Ohio in 1861. For a time he worked on the construction of the Baltimore & Ohio Railwa.y at Oiieago Junction. Like many other enthusiastic young Irishmen he soon volunteered for service in the Union army as a member of Company D of the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Ohio Infantry. He was in tlie nrmy until mustered out in 1865. Retiiniiiii;' |i> Tpper Sandusky he continued railriiadiiiu' until his death on September 30, 1906. His wife pjissed away in February, 190-1. He was honored as an old soldier and as a substantial and public spirited citizen.

William E. Martin received his education in Upper Sandusky and at the age of seventeen started out to make his own way in the world. He became a railway telegrapher for the Hocking Valley Railroad Comi^any, and rapidl.y mastered his duties until he was promoted to train dispatcher at Columbus, where he remained in the seiwice from 1904 to 1909. On resigning he returned to Upper Sandusky and entered the courthouse as assistant county surveyor. He filled that position about four years and in 1912 was elected county surveyor on the democratic ticket and re-elected in 1914. His present term of office expires September 1, 1917.

Mr. Martin married in 1904 Miss Nellie Trautwein, daughter of John and Henrietta Elizabeth (Young) Trautwein of Upper Sanduslrs'. They are the parents of three children : Pauline, bora in 1905 ; Maurice, born in 1907 ; and Henrietta, born in 1914.

Mr. iNlartiu enjoys a large acquaintance and the esteem of the best people of Wyandot County. His life has been one of hard work and of proficiency in everything he has undertaken. He is a member of the Upper Sandusky Chamber of Commerce, is affiliated with Walpole Lodge of Masons and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a democrat in politics and with his wife is a member of the English Lutheran Church.

AuGUSTE Rhu, M. D., F. a. C. S. One of Ohio's oldest and most distingruished physicians and surgeons is Dr. Auguste Rhu, still in active practice with his son, H. S. Rhu, at Marion. Dr. Auguste Rhu was born in Seneca County, Ohio, April 5, 1849. He attended the Franklin High School at Dayton and the Notre Dame University at South Bend, Indiana. He began the study of medicine at Marion under Dr. Robert L. Sweney, later studied under Dr. Jefferson Wilson at Beaver, Peiuisylvania, and finished his medical training at the Western Reserve University at Cleveland, and graduated February 25, 1885. He also received a diploma September 25, 1887, from the Chicago Ophthalmic College and has done post-graduate work in both Chicago and New York. He is a member of the American College of Surgeons, 1913.

Doctor Rhu began practice at Marion February 26, 1885. In 1883 he was elected professor of surgical pathology in the Ohio iledical University at Columbus. Besides a large practice, particularly in surgery, he has been surgeon for several railroad companies, for the Marion Steam Shovel Company, and at one time was president of the LTnited States Pension Board. His attainments have ))eeome widely recognized and he is one of the leading members of the various medical societies and associations. In 1892-93 he was assistant secretary of the Ohio State jMedical Society, and is a member of the Mississippi Valley j\iedieal Society. He was president of the .Alarion County Medical Society in three different years and has long been active in the American Association of Railway Surgeons.

Among the profession he is probably most widely known through his contributions to medical literature. His paper on Tubercular Laryngitis was read before the ]\Iarioii County Medical Society in 1885. The Western Medical Reporter awarded him its $100 IH-ize for the best surgical report pulilished December 5, 1888, by Doctor Rhu under the title "Strangulated I'mbilical Hernia, Laparotomy Recovery." In the American Gynecological Journal of February, 1892. will be found his article on "The "inflam raatory Troubles of the Right Iliac Fossa;" "Treatment of Surgical Shock," in Fort Wayne Journal of Medical Science April. 1887 ; Treatment of Acute Oedema of Larynx in the Philadelphia International Medical ilagazine, in 1892 ; the after treatment of amputated wounds, in Transactions of the Ohio State Medical Society in 1893 ; Rupture of the Urinary Bladder, with fracture of the Symphysis Pubes. in International Surgical Journal of 1892 ; the Surgical Treatment of Rectal Abscess, read before the Crawford County Medical Society of Ohio in 1895. Doctor Rhu performed the first successful laparotomy in Marion County April 19, 1888, and up to the present wiiting (1917) has per- formed 2,500 abdominal operations with a death rate less than 1 per cent. He also performed 150 erauial operations and 5 laminectomies with recovery. In June, 1S89, he performed successfully a triple operation, for amputating both legs and arm. The same year he removed a cancerous uterus, made a pan-hysterectomy, the patient living today, October 12, 1917.

Doctor Rhu is past exalted ruler of Lodge No. 32, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is president of the Marion Carnegie Public Library and a member of the United States Federal District Draft Board No. 3. On September 17, 1917, he was notified by the surgeon-general, F. C. Gorgas, that he was accepted as surgeon in the United States Medical Reserve Corps.

Dr. Auguste Rhu married Miss Helen S. Swenej'. She was born in Marion County in 1853 and died March 29, 1908. They were married July 7, 1875. She was a daughter of Marion's pioneer physician. Dr. Robert L. Sweney. Doctor Sweney was born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, May 18, 1822, of Scotch- Irish ancestry. In 1828 the family removed to Crawford County, Ohio, and after leaving the public schools at Bucyrus he took up the study of medicine under Doctors Douglas and Swingley. He remained with them four years and in 1849 completed his course in the Cleveland Medical College. Returning to Bucyrus, he practiced until 1851 with his former preceptor, Doctor Swingley, and then located at JIariou. Doctor Sweney was recognized as probably the most skillful and successful surgeon and gynecologist in Central Ohio. The publication known as Physicians and Surgeons of the United States gives him the distinction of being the first physician in the State of Ohio to successfully revert a chronic inversion of the uterus. Doctor Sweney was called the founder of the Marion County Medical Society organized June 5, 1877, and served as president of that body during its first two years. Dui-ing the Civil war he was commissioned surgeon and assigned to the Fortythird Ohio Infantry and on June 8, 1865, Governor Brough commissioned him with the rank of major as military examining surgeon for Marion County. He stood high in medical circles and also as a citizen. Doctor Sweney died at Marion January 12, 1902. He married September 2, 1852, Miss Elizabeth C. Concklin, oldest daughter of Col. W. W. Concklin.

Dr. H. S. Rhu, who thus inherits the traditions and accomplishments of two highly successful men in the surgical field, was born at Marion, Ohio, November 17, 1876. He was educated in the Marion j^ublic schools, Kenyou Military Academy, in the Western Resei-ve Academy and took his medical course in the Western Reserve University where he graduated June 15, 1899. Doctor Rhu has had a wide experience in handling tuberculosis. For two years he was an interne in the Lakeside Hospital at Cleveland and after his graduation returned to practice with his father. In 1905-07 he was a member of the staff of the Texas Sanitarium and resident physician of the Tubercjulosis Hospital at Llano, Texas, and in 1907 was a resident physician in the Cragmor Sanitarium at Colorado Springs, later medical director of Dr. Boyd Cormic, St. Angelo, Texas. He is a member of the Society for Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis and belongs to the County and State Medical societies and the American Medical Association and served as president of the Marion County Medical Society. He is a Kniglit Templar Mason. He is a Presbyterian. Doctors Rhu, father and son, give most of their time to the surgical branch of their practice.

In June, 1913, Dr. H. S. Rhu married Miss Lucy A. White of Buffalo, New York. Her father, J. Herbert White, has a wholesale and retail book and stationery business on Pearl Street in Buffalo. Doctor and Mrs. Rhu have two children: H. Sweetser Rhu, born August 6, 1914; and Roger William Rhu, born June 17, 1916.

John T. C.veey. Through father and son the name Carey has had a continuous association with the bench and bar of Wyandot County for over thirty-five years. It is a name significant of the best ability and talent of the able lawyer. John T. Carey, who for a number of years was associated with his honored father and is now head of the firm Carey & Hall, is in many respects the ablest member of the local bar.

IMr. Carey was born on a farm in Marseilles Township of Wyandot County August 24, 1878. He is a son of Robert and Emily A. (Terry) Carey. His grandfather and greatgrandfather were Scotchmen but lived in County Antrim, Ireland. The grandfather came to Canada and located at Picton, Ontario. The family were Scotch Presbyterians. Robert Carey came from Canada to Wyandot County, Ohio, in 1872. He was a graduate of the Toronto Normal School, and did his first teaching in this country at Marseilles, Ohio. For several years he served as superintendent of schools at Upper Sandusky. While teaching he took up the study of law, was admitted to the bar in 1881, and forthwith began a vigorous practice at Upper Sandusky, which he continued until 1913. Though now retired from the law he is serving as president of the Commercial National Bank of Upper Sandusky. Of his family of four sons and two daughters the only ones now living are John T. and Annabel, the latter Mi-s. Joseph G. Kanan, of Yalparaiso, Indiana.

The family have lived in Upper Sandusky since about 1879. John T. Carey grew up in that town, attended the public schools, for a year and a half was a student in the Ohio Northern University at Ada and in 1898 entered the Ohio State University, from which he was graduated in the College of Law in 1901. During the following school year he took special work in history and political science. After his admission to the bar he practiced a short time in Toledo and then returned to Upper Sandusky, where he was associated with his father in a general practice for about ten years. After the retirement of his father in 1913 he formed his present partnership with A. K. Hall, under the firm name Carey & Hall.

Mr. Carey was elected mayor of Upper Sandusky in 1905 and was re-elected in 1907. His father in earlier years had held the same office. Mr. Carey is one of the influential republicans of Wyandot County, and did a vei-y helpful part during the campaign of 1904 as chairman of the County Committee. He is a stockholder in the Commercial National Bank, is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with Lodge No. 176, Free and Accepted Masons, and also with the Royal Arch Chapter and Council. In 1912 Mr. Carey married Alice M. Stevenson, daughter of J. M. and Alice L. (Vanderburg) Stevenson of Upper Sandusky.

Thomas A. DeVilbiss is vice president and general manager of the DeVilbiss Manufacturing Company of Toledo. He has shown himself a constructive factor in business affairs and is recognized as one of the successful men -of the city. Not less is he interested in the welfare and improvement of Toledo.

at Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, July 29, 1878. His father was Dr. Allen DeVilbiss, founder and now president of the DeVilbiss Manufacturing Company. His mother is l^ydia A. (Lipes) DeVilbiss.

The family moved from Indiana to Toledo when Thomas A. DeVilbiss was nine years of age, and he was reared in that city, finishing his education in the public schools. On leaving school his real work in life commenced in the employ of the Toledo Computing Scale Company, with which he I'emained for a year, and then accepted a position with the Harlin Cash Register Company at Columbus, Ohio, remaining there about a year. On his return to Toledo he purchased a half interest in the DeVilbiss Manufacturing Company, with which he has since been associated, becoming vice president and general manager at the time of its incorporation in June, 1905.

His interest in the commercial life of the city is signalized by his membership in the Toledo Commerce Club and the Rotary Club, in both of which he is very active and has filled the higher offices. In politics he exercises his elective franchise entirely independent of all political organizations, keeping well informed in regard to questions of public policy and casting his ballot in accordance with the dictates of his own judgment.

Without any opposition whatever Mr. De- Vilbiss in 1915 was elected a member of the board of education of Toledo. Great improvements are now being made in buildings, equipment and standardization of local school facilities, in all of which Mr. DeVilbiss is mnch interested and is performing a large individual part.

Fi-aternally he is a member of the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council and Commandery in York Rite Masonry. December 12, 1906, he married Miss Edna Parker, one of Toledo's accomplished young women, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Parker. Mr. and Mrs. De- Vilbiss have one child, Howard Parker. They reside on one of the principal residential streets of the city.

George Donnenwirth has been a prominent factor in banking and business affaii-s at Bucyrus for upwards of forty years. He began his business career in humble circumstances, and his own character and energjwere the assets which counted most in his success.

Mr. Donueuwirth was boru iu Columbus, Ohio, January 28, 1835, a son of George and Sophia (Anthony) Donueuwirth. His father was born in Alsace, France, aud his mother in the Province of Lorraine. They came to America in 1827. When George Donnenwirth, Jr., was three years old his parents removed from Columbus to New Washington, Ohio, and he grew up in that community and received only a meager equipment of book leai-ning. He learned the blacksmith's trade and followed it steadily for five years. For about a year and a half he clerked in the store of William G. Aleyers, aud then moved to Bucyrus, where his first experience was as a hotel clerk for six months. After eleven months in Burlington, Iowa, he returned to Bucyrus and became associated in a partnership with his cousin in the brewery business. Mr. Donueuwirth had a capital of only $190, and he furnished this as the principal asset to the firm. They developed a good business and Mr. Dounenwirth was actively connected with it until 1889.

Mr. DonneuwirtE assisted in organizing the Bucyrus City Bank in 1881. He has always been officially identified with that institution and is now its president. He has been head of the bank since 1893. He also organized the Bucyrus Brick & Terra Cotta Company, and was president of that companj'.

Besides his business associations he has always .shown an apt willingness to work for the community welfare. For eighteen years he was a member of the city council and for twenty-five years was member and for twentythree years treasurer of the school board. Politically he is a democrat, and has been a quite active figure in the democratic party of Crawford County for many years. His ehurch membership is in the Lutheran. Mr. Dounenwirth was married at Bucyrus in 1865 to Mary Fuhrman. They have no children.

Orville T. Castor is widely known over Hancock County, partly on account of his long experieuee as a teacher and latterly as a merchant in Arlington.

Mr. Castor was born in Madison Township of Hancock County, August 22, 1877, on the Greenfield Farm leased by his parents, John D. and Crissie Ellen (Harris) Castor. His parents are still living. ]\Ir. Castor is of Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His grandparents coming to this country in early childhood, about 1840. When he was two years of age his parents moved to Van Buren

County, Michigan, locating on their own farm, where Orville grew up. He has one sister, ^vho was boru iu 1880. He obtained his early education from counti-y schools, attending iu the winter season and developing his phjsique by work on the farm during the summer. At the age of nineteen he returned to Hancock County and located in Delaware Township. After a normal school training he taught one year in Pleasant Township in a country school, and then returned to Arlington in Madison Township aud taught continuously iu the public schools until he lost his health and was compelled to give up this profession after teu years' successful teaching. In the meantime he had been thrifty and saving and had accumulated enough capital to embark in his present business as a confectionery and restaurant proprietor. He conducts a model establishment and trade has been constantly growing since he opened for business in May, 1909.

In 1898 Mr. Castor married Polly Prudence Pratt, daughter of Charles F. and Teena (Myers) Pratt. Mrs. Castor died in March, 1902, leaving three children. The oldest is Charles Dwight, born in Januai-y, 1899. The twin daughters Lulu May and Lola Fay were born in September, 1900. In September, 1904, Mr. Castor married Vera Gertrude Hughes, daughter of Joseph B. and Dora (Stump) Hughes, of Delaware Township, Hancock County. They have one child, Harold Hughes, born iu February, 1906. ^Ir. Castor is an educational worker and has at present three children in high school and one in the grades.

He was elected on the democratic ticket as town clerk and served in that office three terms, six years, from 1902 to 1912. He has always been a very efficient democratic worker and in 1915 he was appointed town assessor for a two-year term, completing his official work very successfully. Thus along with the successful management of his business affairs Mr. Castor has proved a factor in the life of his community in various ways. He is a member of the Business Men's League of Arlington, is affiliated with Arlington Lodge No. 756 of the Knights of Pythias and religiously is affiliated with the Methodist Protestant Church.

Ralph G. Spencer was born at Kalida, Putnam County, Ohio, October 1, 1875. a son of Ralph Gilbert and Predericka (Fuhrmann) Spencer. His father was a pioneer merchant. His grandfather, Jabez Selden

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Spencer, was of revolutiouary stock and came West from East Hartford, Connecticut, to establish an academy. His ^-andfather, William Fuhrmann, was born in Holland where he was' educated for the ministry in the Lutheran Church, which profession he followed in this country until his death.

Ralph G. Spencer Jr. secured his early education at Kalida and iinislied in the Ohio State University. At the age of twenty-one he was working as bookkeeper and later as assistant cashier of the i\Iatthews and Rice Bank at Ottawa, Ohio, where he remained for three years. He then spent one year in the hxmber business in Central Tennessee, and in the spring of 1900 became identified with the Buckeye Stave Company as manager of one of its plants at Carey, Wyandot County. After about two years the timber supply became exhausted and j\lr. Spencer organized and established the First National Bank of Carey in February, 1902, becoming its cashier.

The following- year he est-ablished at Care.v The National Lime and Stone Company and later sold his banking interest to give all his time to the lime and stone industry. From a small beginning. The National Lime and Stone Company has become one of the largest and best known concei'ns of its kind in the country. The company manufactures hydrated lime, which is sliipped all over the United States, and great quantities of crushed stone which is used for road building, railroad ballast, and fluxing stone in the manufacture of steel. In addition to its plants at Carey it also owns and operates plants at Lima and Bascom. ilr. Spencer also organized The Federal Porcelain Company of Carey of which he is a director and general manager.'

In 1901 he married Miss Jlartha Venn, daughter of Frank H. Venn of Memphis, Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer have three children : Jane, born in 1907 ; Martha, liorn in 1909; and Fredericka, born in 1911. ;\Ir. and Mrs. Spencer are members of the English Lutheran Churcli.

Milton Mtirdock Woodward has been a resident of Findlay since 1912, and in point of experience, attainments and skill is one of the ablest practitioners of dental surgery in Hancock County. His offices are in the Marvin Building on South Main Street in Findlay.

Doctor Woodward was born at Ligonier in Westmoreland County, Pennsvlvania, December 8, 1879, a son of H. E. and Mollie (Murdock) Woodward. He is of English and Pennsylvania German stock. His father was a lumber merchant at Ligonier and when Doctor Woodward was six years of age his parents removed to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where he grew up and where he attended the public schools and also graduated from the Rowe Business College. Resolving upon a professional career he spent six months of apprenticeship under his uncle Dr. J. C. Duncan, a dentist, and then in 1897 entered the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery from M^hich he was graduated with honors in the class of 1901. Following his graduation Doctor Woodward located at Derry in Westmoreland County and practiced there for eleven years, building up a most promising and valuable clientage. In 1912 he removed to Findlay and has found this larger city an even more satisfactory field for his profession. Doctor Woodward has patients from all the towns of Hancock County and the country districts. Besides his thorough preparation before beginning practice he has taken postgraduate work in anesthesia and other branches in his profession in Chicago.

Doctor Woodward was married in 1904 to Nannie E. Sweeney, daughter of James and Belle Sweeney of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Her father was a farmer. To tlieir marriage have been born two children : John Murdock, bom in 1905; and Margaret Elizabeth, born in 1915. Doctor and Mrs. Woodward are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Findlay. Politically he is a republican, and while in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, he served nine years a.s borough auditor. He has not concerned himself with politics since locating in Findlay. Doctor Woodward is a Knight Templar Mason, has filled all the chairs in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a member of the Protected Home Circle and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Rev. Charles V. Chevraux. Until liis death at the pastoral residence, Broadwa.y and Eastern Avenue in Toledo, July 5, 1916, Father Chevraux was for many years pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Maumee and Eastern avenues. His was preeminently a life of service. It was devoted to the high calling and duties of the priesthood and for more than forty years he had been active in his devotion to the church and was one of the most widely known members of tlie Catholic clergj' in Northern Ohio.

A native of France, lie was born at Mandeure in 1848. When he was six years of age in 1854 his parents came to America, settling in Stark County, Ohio, where they joined a number of French colonists around the Village of Louisville in that county. Father Chevraux grew up in Stark County, attended the local schools and also the college at Louisville, and completed his theological and philosophical courses at Cleveland in St. Maiy 's Seminary.

Fortj^-two years before his death Father Chevraux was ordained in 1874 by Bishop Gilmour in St. Mary's Academy at South Bend, Indiana. Thenceforward until disabled by the illness from which he finally died. Father Chevraux gave all his best energies, his splendid talents and his zeal to the duties of the various parishes in which he labored.

From the time of his ordination until 1885 he was assistant in St. John's Cathedral in Cleveland. For a number of years he was noted as one of the best singers among the priests of the old Cleveland diocese. At aU the larger religious celebrations he led the chants.

For twelve years, from 1885 to 1897, Father Chevraux was pastor of St. IMary's Church at Norwalk, and then for three years was pastor of St. Anne's in Fremont. Succeeding Rev. J. P. McCloskey, who had charge temporarily, Father Chevraux caiiie to Toledo in 1900 and the next fifteen years his ministrations were preeminent in the upbuilding and prosperity of the parish of the Immaculate Conception. At one time he was honored with 'the office of dean of the Toledo district.

Following an operation in June, 1915, Father Che^Taux was an invalid until his death, and was seldom able to preside at any of the church services. His assistant was the Rev. Thomas Quinlan, who has carried on the work of the church since the death of the regular pastor. Father Che\Taux is survived bj'' a brother, August Chevi'aux, of Canton, Oliio, and for several years his sisters, IMrs. Marj' Menegay a widow, and Miss Felicie Chevraux, resided with him at the pastor 's home in Toledo. - jACbB FoLGER. While the business which he created and developed follows him, the death of Jacob Folger at Toledo on April 13, 1916, was none the less a great loss to the sterling citizenship of that community. He was a pioneer in Toledo business affairs, and had developed a great meat packery, which is one of the distinctive features of the city's industrial life. While he did not touch public affairs at as many points as some men, he was extremely liberal of his time and means, and within its distinctive sphere his life represented a fine and purposeful service.

His death occurred three days before his seventy-second birthday. Of that lifetime he had lived in America nearly sixty years. He was born in Bavaria, Germany, April 16, 1844, a son of John and Catherine Folger, being the youngest of the seven children who reached maturity. From the age of six until thirteen he attended the German schools. Several yeai-s previously an older brother h^d emigrated to the United States and had become successful in the butchering trade in New York City. It was this brother 's example that inspired young Jacob Folger to leave school at thirteen and set out alone for the New World After seven weeks on the ocean he arrived in New York City and lived there three years with his brother. Those three years were in fact an apprenticeship at the butcher's trade. Stimulated by an ambition to make a success of himself, he was studious and careful as well as industrious, and mastered every phase of the business.

In 1860, at the age of sixteen. Jacob Folger came to Toledo. Here his experience rapidly broadened. For three yeara he worked at wages ranging from $8 to $16 a month, in the mai-ket of Gottlieb Stahl. Possessed of an overflowing vitality, he was able to stand the heavy working hours, which usually continued from 3 o'clock in the morning until 10 o'clock at night, and sometimes even later. He not only worked hard but was thrifty in caring for his earnings. Out of his meager wages was accumulated by degrees a small capital which in 1864 enabled him to start in business for himself. In that year he married the daughter of Benjamin Emch. and also joined Mr. Emch under the firm name of Folger and Emch in establishing a market, which was in effect the cornerstone of the great business built up diiring the next half century at West Toledo. At the close of the first year Mr. Emch retired from the firm and Mr. Folger, then just an-ived at manhood, continued the business under his own responsibility. He began the manufacture of sausage and gradiially enlarged his packing facilities, and after .some years abandoned the retail meat trade and conducted his establishment entirely as a wholesale enterprise, with a trade territoiy covering a lai-ge circumference of countrv around Toledo. Fx-om 1863 to 1883 the slaugli- tei" house conducted by Mr. Polger was located on Central Avenue where the street railway barns now stand. In 1883 he moved the establishment to West Toledo, and the plant there now covei's several acres. The capacity of the plant is over a hundred hogs and a large number of cattle for beef. Mr. Folger made a specialty of pork and sausage, and the Folger products in that line had a deservedly liigh reputation throughout the State of Ohio. The three-stoiy building at 9^4-11 South St. Clair Street is the wholesale store from whieli the Folger products are distributed to retail merchants in and around Toledo. This building is owned by the Folger estate. For some years ]\Ir. Folger has turned the active responsibilities of the business over to his three sons, Charles A., Frederick J. and Frank B. Frederick J. is manager of the slaughter house, while the other two brothers attend to the management of the wholesale house on South St. Clair Street.

Outside of his business if there was one institution more than another which I\Ir. Folger gave most readily of his time and means and upon which he conferred his greatest service of helpfulness, it was the Forest Cemetery, the municipal burj-ing ground. For years he was president of the cemetery board of trustees, when the management of the cemetery was separate from the present service department of Toledo. It is said that before he took active executive management of the cemetery its financial report always slioweil an annual deficit, and it was due to his able management that the institution was placed on a self-supporting basis. In national jiolitics he was a republican but was strictly independent in local affairs, and rendered his cliii'i" siMvice in wise council to many of the yiiiiiiL!vr jidlitical leaders. At one time he reprfsenieil the Fourth Ward in the city council, and proved such a leader in that body that he was urged by his many friends to become a candidate for mayor, but declined such an honor. He was a member of the German Pioneer Association of Toledo and of the Druid Society.

The late Jacob Folger had a great faculty for making and retaining friends. He had those qualities which drew men to him, and there were hundreds who enjoyed the hospitality of his home and town and also his large summer residence on Ottawa River, which was a center of so much entertainment during the months that the house was open that it became familiarly known as " Folger 's Countrv Club."

In 1864, nearly fifty -two years before his death, Jacob Folger married Miss Mary Emch, daughter of Benjamin Emch. Mrs. Folger was born in Wood County, Ohio, was reared there, and is still living among her children and grandchildren in Toledo. The three sons have already been mentioned. There were also four daughters, and the oldest, Amelia, died in 1907. The other three daughters are : Mrs. Charles J. Sanzenbacher, wife of a former county auditor of Lucas County, and Misses Julia and Lena, still at the old Toledo home. All the living children reside in Toledo.

Samuel Charles Black, D. D., now pastor of the leading Presbyterian church of Toledo, is a man who has carried his influence and service to men of all cla.sses, and back of his career as a minister was a thorough experience in earlier days as a working man and also in larger business affairs. He is a scholar, an original thinker, and a man of true religious leadership.

He was born in Monticello, Iowa, September 6, 1869, a son of William Irvin and Flora A. (Johnson) Black. Receiving an education in the common schools he made his first work in life that of a telegraph operator, which he followed from 1884''to 1888. Then at the age of nineteen he sought a higher education in Parsons College of Iowa and was graduated A. B. in 1892. On December 6, 1892, he engaged in the banking business at Fairfield and later at Des Moines, and was a banker from 1892 to 1895. He then began his studies in preparation for the ministry, entering Mc- Cormick Theological Seminary at Chicago, where he was graduated in 1898. and in the same year received his Master of Arts degree from Parsons College in Iowa. In 1907 Blackburn University conferred upon him the degree Doctor of Divinity.

Doctor Black was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1897, and in the meantime had preached at Kewanee, Illinois. He was pastor of South Chicago. Illinois, from 1897 to 1900 : at Clinton, Illinois, from 1900 to 1908, and at Boulder, Colorado, from 1908 to 1910. While there he served as instructor of Hebrew in the University of Colorado. Since 1910 Doctor Black has been pastor of the Collingwood Avenue Presbyterian Church of Toledo and is serving that large congregation very acceptably. Some of the distinctive features of his per.sonal and ministerial character are worthy of note. He never secludes him- self, but is always approachable by any one seeking help or anything- for the public welfare. There are many heavy demands upon his time, but he none the less cheerfully accedes to any call that promises good for the individual or public in any way. It is this willingness to serve that has given him such a high position among the clergymen of Toledo.

Doctor Black is also a well known lecturer and author. He is the author of "Plain Answers to Religious Questions Modern Men Are Asking," published in 1907 and 1910 ; "Building a Working- Church," 1911; "Progress in Clu-istian Culture," 1912. He is also a frequent contributor to the religious press.

Tbueman W. Childs, second vice president of the Second National Bank of Toledo, is one of the oldest active business men of the city. Coming here nearly half a century ago, he "built up a wholesale boot and shoe house that was not only highly sueeessfid itself but was an important factor in making Toledo a wholesale center. Since retiring from the active responsibilities of business Mr. Childs has continued to be associated -with banking and a number of other important interests.

He comes of an old American family of English descent. A member of the Childs family one time owned the famous Tellers Bank in London, the predecessor of the Bank of England. Charles Dickens in his "Tale of Two Cities" has made the Tellers Bank familiar to several generations of readers. Mr. Childs is a grandson of William Childs, who was a native of Massachusetts and a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Trueman W. Childs was born in Paris, Oxford County, Maine, March 19, 1830, a son of Joseph and Olive (Woodsum) Childs, both natives of Maine. His father spent his life in Maine as a farmer and hotel keeper, and at one time was sheriff of Oxford County.

Reared on his father's farm, Trueman W. Childs lived there to the age of nineteen. He was then sent to Worcester, Massachusetts, to learn the leather business. At the end of five years his rapid mastery of the trade and his native business talents enabled him to purchase the interests of his employers. The next three years the business was continued under the name of Childs and MeClure. On the dissolution of the partnership Mr. Childs continued the enterprise for three years alone, and it was ill health which compelled his eventual retirement from that line of industry.

WHien Jlr. Childs came to Toledo in 1867 he found a small city. It was his good fortune and the good fortune of the city that he became one of the active group of commercial leaders who rapidly made this a great center of trade. In Toledo Mr. Childs established the well known whole.sale boot and shoe house which under the name Childs, Lee & Company became a recognized institution in the business center. The late Gen. John W. Fuller (mentioned on other pages) was Mr. Child's first partner, and for twenty years the firm was known as Fuller, Childs & Company. In 1887 Mr. Childs bought the interest of General Fuller and then took Robert R. Lee into partnership. ]\Ir. Childs was actively identified with the management of this large wholesale firm for a number of years and in that time the house had extended its trade to all the adjoining states, and had gained a reputation for absolute reliability.

For a number of years Mr. Childs has served as a director and vice president of The Second National Bank, and he is also a director of The Milburn Wagon Works. A successful l)usiness man, he has likewise the courtesy of the true gentleman and well deserves the many warm friendships he has acquired among Toledo's leading citizens.

Col. Joseph Claybaugh Bonner. There has been no better known figure in Ohio republican politics and official life or in Toledo commercial affairs during the past generation than Colonel Bonner. For over thirty years he was actively identified with one of Toledo's greatest manufacturing organizations, and at the same time has can-ied heav.y public responsibilities.

Colonel Bonuer is of Scotch-Irish parentage, has the strong characteristics of that race, and is also of a loyal American family. His ancestry entitled him to membei-ship in the .society of the Sons of the Revolution and the War of 1812.

Bom on a farm near Chillicothe, Ohio, July 13, 1855, he obtained his early education in a log school house. He graduated from the old Cliillicothe Academy and was .still a young man when he identified himself with the City of Toledo. In 1882 he organized The Ames- Bonuer Company, becomiiig its heaviest stockholder. This great corporation developed to a paid up capital of $400,000, and since beginning operated on a large scale, furnishing employment to 300 persons. In many ways the success of this corporation reflects the business energy of Colonel Bonner. He retired from the company in 1913, in favor of his son-in-law, William Bolles. The ability of the organizer and executive which enabled him to make a success of this concern has been manifested in many ways, in politics as well as in business. Colonel Bonner has been an active figure in the great preparedness campaign which has swept over the nation since the beginning of the European war, doing service in the Department of Provostilartial General in connection with appeals to District Exemption Board, and also in Speakers Bureau of Mayors' Committee on National Defense at New York City. He recently spent some time in Washington and interested the officials of the War Department, having the approval report of the U. S. Naval Consulting Board and carbuilders in a system he had worked out and patented for the rapid handling of army supplies and equipment. It may be explained that his system provides for the loading or the unloading of an entire trainload of general freight, field guns, amnranition or other supplies upon motor trucks in less than one minute from the arrival of a train at field headquarters. The transportation system being also equally adapted to general freight haulage - the vehicles of haulage are well known as the Bonner Rail Wagon System.

Apparently Colonel Bonner was born under a political star. The day he was born marked the assembling of the first republican state convention in Ohio. It is said that .just forty years later to the day Colonel Bonner as chairman of the State Central Committee opened the republican state convention at Zauesville, Ohio, and introduced to the assembly the Hon. John Sherman as its chairman, Mr. Sherman liaving been presiding officer of that first convention. Colonel Bonner has been very prominent during the jiast tliirty years in republican organizations and has again and again received distinctive honors. For two years he was a member of the Central Committee of Toledo and one year its chairman, for six years was on the Central Committee of Lucas County, and three years its chairman, and from 1893 to 1895 was chairman of the Republican State Central Committee. In 1888 he was altei'nate delegate to the Republican National Convention, and gave his loyal support to Hon. John Sherman for the presidential nomination. He was secretary of the executive committee of the republican clubs that received President Benjamin Harrison on his visit to Toledo. He pro.iected the imdertaking and was chairman of the arrangement committee which had charge of the first McKinley train ever run, on October 27, 1891, conducting McKinley, then candidate for governor, from Sandusky to Toledo. In 1896 he was a member of the Presidential Electoral College. Throughout Mr. McKinley 's term as governor he was a colonel on the governor's staff. He was assistant adjutant general of the McKinley Club's demonstration and parade at the St. Louis National Convention, and later organized the McKinley Campaign Republican clubs of Toledo with a membership of over eight thousand. As grand marshal of these organizations he was largely responsible for the largest parade and political demonstration ever witnessed in Northwestern Ohio. Colonel Bonner was the originator and most active in the McKinley Monument Association which built by popular subscription, voluntarily contributed by 26,000 people in one day, a monument to the martyred president in the Courthouse Park at Toledo. For meritorious service as brigade marshal at President Roosevelt's inaugural and as division marshal at inaugural of President Taft at Washington, he received honorary commissions at hands of General Bell of F. S. Army as a brigadier general and later as a major general and was colonel of a provisional regiment in Spanish- American war.

Colonel Bonner held the position Collector of Customs at Toledo from 1900 to 1910. For the past fourteen years he has been president of the Toledo Stock Exchange, and is chairman of the Toledo Civic Federation. His chief business association at present is a§ a member of the banking firm Bonner & Com- ])any, dealers in bonds. In 1892 he organized the Ohio State Naval Reserve Association, of which he has since been a life member and president. It was this association which brought about the legislative enactment providing for the establishment of the Ohio Naval Reserve Militia. Out of this was formed in July, 1896. the First Battalion of Ohio Naval Reserves at Toledo, and Colonel Bonner's name headed the first list of applicants to the governor for mustei-.

family have owned this place. Part of the farm is withiu the city limits of Chillicothe. Colonel Bonner is a member of the Toledo Club, the Toledo Commerce Club, and of the Ohio Society of New York. He is an active member and former tiiistee of the Collingwood Presbyterian Church, and an honorary member of the Toledo Press Club.

In 1878 he married Miss Nellie Turney Bell, daughter of Hugh Bell, a prominent stockman and land owner of Chillicothe. Mrs. Bonner also represents a patriotic family. She is descended from Jonathan Sloeum, who suffered death at the hands of the Indians in the Wyoming Valley massacre during the Revolutionary war. Jonathan Sloeum 's daughter, Frances, endured . long captivity among the Indians following that massacre. These sacrifices on the part of the Sloeum family were made tlie subject of special mention in a memorial by Congress in 1837. Mrs. Bonner is also a granddaughter of George Renick, who was one of the founders of the city of Chillicothe and was a personal friend of Henry Clay. To Mrs. Bonner is the credit of giving the name "Clean-up Day"^a day inaugurated by the Toledo Civic Federation ^lay 1, 1910, and which today throughout the United States is celebrated, annually, in substantially all municipalities and hamlets in this country as a general house cleaning occasion. Colonel and Mrs. Bonner liave one daughter, Dorothy, now Mrs. William Bolles of Toledo. To Mrs.Bolles belongs the honor of having unveiled the memorial to William IMcKinley.

John C. A. Leppelman. It is as the founder of one of West Toledo's most important industries that John C. A. Leppelman has special distinctin in the industrial affairs of Nortliwestern Ohio. He is secretary and treasurer of the Consolidated Pump" Company of West Toledo, and this business, which he practically owns and controls, has been developed through various stages, beginning exclusively as a pump manufacturing concern, ]mt now producing a line of apparatus, particularly ladders, which are used and have a standard reputation in the trade throughout the United States.

The Consolidated Pump Company. Incorporated, is located at tlie corner of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway track and Sylvania Avenue in West Toledo." The company was incorporated in 1908 and operates with a capital of $25,000. While Mr. Leppelman owns nearly all the stock and is secretary and treasurer, the president is Edward Tibbetts.

Mr. Leppelman has been engaged in the Ijump manufacturing business in Toledo for more than a quarter of a century. Several years ago the company established a branch for the manufacture of ladders, and the plant is today the largest concern for that output in Ohio, and one of the largest in the country. The trade name by which the products of this company are so widely known and distributed is "Red Head," and those familiar particularly with the various tj^pes of extension ladder recognize this name as a standard of mechanical excellence and durability.

Mr. Leppelman was born at ilaumee in Lucas County, Ohio, April 24, 1870, a son of Emil and Olive K. (Allen) Leppelman. Both parents are now deceased. His mother was a daughter of the late John Church Allen, one of the mast prominent early pioneers of Maumee, whose career is sketched on other pages. John C. A. Leppelman, who was named for his paternal grandfather, a pioneer of Fi-emont, had as his father one of the early manufacturers of sewing machines in Ohio. His father conducted a plant at Fremont, Ohio, for many yeans. From Fremont he removed to Atlanta, Kansas, where he died in 1905. Mi'. Leppelman's mother died at Washington, D. C, March 9, 1886. The parents were married in ^laumee in 1867.

The only child of his parents John C. A. Leppelman grew up in Toledo, attended the public schools there, and then spent a few years in the West at various locations and at different lines of employment. For the last twenty-five years his home has been in Toledo and throughout that time he has been engaged in the line of business already noted. He organized the Consolidated Pump Company of West Toledo in 1890. The output for several years was hand pumps, and the Consolidated piimps have been distributed and are in use in all pai-ts of the United States. About fifty persons are employed in the plant.

In politics 5Ir. Leppelman is a republican, has been a trustee of Toledo Lodare No. 53 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks since 1908, is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and is a member of the West Toledo Commerce Club.

On February 20, 1895, he married Mi.ss Anne F. Schrink of Toledo, whei-e she was born and educated. Her father, Ferdinand Schrink, died in Toledo a number of yeai's ago, and her mother, Frances (Krciter) Schrink, is still living in that city. Mrs. Leppelinan graduated from the Central High School at Toledo in 1892, and is an active member of the Woman's Club of Toledo and other organizations of women, and belongs to the Cathedral Chapel parish. Mr. and JMrs. Leppelman reside at 662 West Delaware Avenue. For recreation he finds his home and business the chief staudbys, and outside of those he particularly enjoys the social fellowship of the Elks Club. Mr. Leppelman and wife are the parents of three children : Olive F., who graduated from the Ursuline Convent of Toledo in the class of 1914 ; Helen Aileen, now a student in the Scott High School; and- Catherine M.

Hon. John P. jManton. Now serving his second term as Judge of the Court of Coiiimon Pleas of Lucas County, in the careful and conscientious administration of the otKee Judge Manton has realized an importaut goal of life's ambition. He began doing for himself at the age of fifteen, gained most of his education by hard study while earning a living, and for years his career was one of undaunted struggle toward a higher aim.

His record as a .iudge has been of the highest quality of service. In 1914 he was elected to a second term of six years by a large majority over several candidates. This was a convincing proof that his constituents are well pleased with his record. /

He represents good family stock, and his maternal grandparents were numbered among the early settlers of Toledo. Judge Manton's mother, Jane (Reilly) Manton, who was brought to Toledo when one year old, is still living and resides ou Rockingham Street in that city. Judge Manton's grandfather came from Ireland, was a stone mason by trade, and before coming to Ohio was employed in the construction of the Erie Canal. Thomas Manton, father of Judge Manton, was a native of Ireland, was a contracting mason, and died in Toledo in 1892. Of their sixteen children only four reached maturity : Judge Manton; Mrs. T. J. Bradley of Toledo: Mrs. Mary J. Printy; and Edward H., who died at the age of twenty-one.

At the age of fifteen Judge jMautou finished his education so far as formal schooling went. He had attended the parochial schools and St. Patrick's Academy. For about a year after that he was a clerk in the grocery store of Eagan Brothers in Toledo, afterwards he was for eighteen months a bookkeeper for Herman Severance, was next shipping clerk with the Toledo Pump Company, and then successively yard clerk in Toledo for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and bill clerk in the office, remaining with the Pennsylvania company three years. He then became bill clerk with the Wheeling & Lake Erie, and was in the accounting department of the Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw. Always seeking better opportunities, he spent two years as assistant secretary of the Toledo City Natural Gas Company, and for 41/0 years during President Cleveland's administration was in the internal revenue collector's office.

It was while in the revenue collector's office that Judge i\Ianton finally succeeded in securing to himself those opportunities for preparation for the law which he had long coveted. After office hours he bent his mind with characteristic persistence and energy to the study of law, and after several years of hard work qualified himself for admission to the bar. He was admitted to practice in March, 1898, and in the following June became associated with Joseph P. Hanley under the firm name of Hanley & Manton, which continued two years. During this time he did his premier work as a lawyer and acquired a recognized standing in the Lucas Couuty bar.

Beginning in 1900 he was for two years in the city solicitor 's office under Moses Bradley, and in January, 1906, became second assistant city solicitor "under Charles H. Northrup., While still in that office in the fall of 1908 he was nominated on the democratic ticket for judge of the Court of Common Pleas and received a gratifying majority at the election. It was a tribute to his personal qualities and his recognized qualifications for the ofiQce, since visually the opposition party polled a plurality such as few democratic candidates were able to overcome. Judge Manton began his service as Common Pleas Judge January 1, 1909, and at the same date in 1915 began his second term.

While a democrat in national affairs. Judge ^Manton has usually been aligned with the progi-essive and independent element in local politics and represents the ideals and practice of that modern brand of politics which has as its ideal a thorough seiwice to the people rather than the personal benefit of the officeholder. Judge Manton succeeded the late Judge Harmon as dean of the law department of St. John's Univei-sity. He is a member of

Mav 10, 1885, Judge Manton married Miss Matilda M. Goulden of Toledo. They are the parents of eight children, four sons and four daughters: James P., Mary Lucile, Thomas R,, iMonica, Virginia, John Paul, Joseph E. and Jane. The son Thomas has followed in the footsteps of his father and is now practicing law in Toledo. Judge Manton and family reside at 2476 Lawrence Avenue.

Edwabd Huber. That Marion is now one of Ohio's chief manufacturing and industrial centei-s is due on the whole to many circumstances and individuals but perhaps no one man could have claimed a greater share for all these activities and the prosperity that followed them than the late Edward Huber, founder of the gi-eat Huber Manufacturing Company and some half dozen other local industries.

In many ways his career is tjrpieal of American genius. He was born of poor but honest parents, lived the plain and simple annals of the poor during his youth, and perfected his genius by constant i-ubljing against adversit.y.

He was born in Dearborn County, Indiana, September 1, 1837, and died in his sixtyeighth year at IMarion, August 26, 1904. His parents were Philip and Mary (Hurm) Huber, both natives of Germany. The father came to the United States with three brothers when a young man. He was a cabinet maker by trade and his skill at tools was undoubtedly inherited by his son. He followed his trade in Philadelphia and later settled on a farm in Dearborn County, Indiana. His wife Marj' Humi came to the United States in 1834.

Dearborn County. Indiana, is in the southem part of that state, and dui-ing the youth of Edward Huber was a remote and somewhat backwoods locality. He had little opportunity to attend school and his education was more technical and industrial than bookish. He learned to handle all the tools found in his father's blacksmith and cabinet shop on the farm and he early determined to become a blacksmith by trade. For ei^ht years he worked at this vocation, and he put in many hours that would not be included in the union schedule of today. He used his spare time in giving bent to his genius for designing and inventing things. Many de^'^ees were hammered out on his anvil, and while many of them had no practical value, the entire' experience was at least as valuable as a source

The first important achievement of his career as an inventor was the perfection of a hay rake. This implement had decided merits in advance of anything on the market at that time, and being convinced of its superiority he left no stone unturned to secure capital for its manufacture.

Mr. Huber located at Marion in 1865, and in a short time had secured enough men and capital to organize a company. This company at first manufactured only the hay rake. They began under the name of Kowalke, Hammerle & Company, Mr. Huber being the junior partner. In 1870 the firm was changed to Huber, Gunn & Company, and that continued until the organization of the Huber Manufacturing Company, with a capital stock of $75,000.

The Hulj^r JIanufacturing Company made not only the hay rake but many other agricultural implements and machinery that were the direct outgrowth and invention of Mr. Huber. By many years of constant use world wide fame has come to the Huber Threshing Machine and engines, and today the name of Huber is best known in connection with agricultural machinery.

Having seen his primary industry grow to great proportions and success Mr. Huber lent his influence and enterprise to many other local industries, among the most notable of which was The Marion Steam Shovel Company. He was one of the founders of this company and its first president, serving for twenty years. During this period of service, foundations were laid and policies established which since have made this Marion's largest industry, and the world's largest producer of heavy excavating machinery. He was founder and president of the Marion Malleable Iron Works, was one of the founders and president of the Automatic Boiler Feeder Company, was president of the Marion Steam Shovel Company, president of the Marion Implement Company, president of the IMarion National Bank and vice president of the IMarion Milling and Grain Company. With all his success he remained to the last a man of plain and simple tastes and was generous of his means in behalf of charity of a practical nature, especially in the nature of assisting worthy men to acquire homes of their own. He was interested in the first building and loan association at Marion and very frequently used his influence to help men to acquire homes of their

On October 30, 1865, Mr. Edward Huber married Miss Elizabeth Hammerle, who with two children survive him. These children are Frank A. and Catherine.

Frank A. Huber, the only son, is today one of Marion's foremost business executives, being vice president and treasurer of the Marion Steam Shovel Companj', a director in a number of tlie city's banks and industrial institutions, and prominent in many other organizations.

Olivee' B. Snider. The part taken by Oliver B. Snider in the affairs of Northwest Ohio has been that of an able and conscientious lawyer, whose affiliations have always been straightforwai-d and honorable, and who for more than thirty years has enjoyed a position among the leaders of the Toledo bar.

He came into his profession through the avenue of hard work, and industry- as well as ability has accounted for his rising reputation in legal circles throughout Northwest Ohio. He was born on a farm near Chalmers, Indiana, November 22, 1858, a son of Samuel G. and Fannie (Bond) Snider. His parents were both born in Wayne County, Indiana, and though they celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary, his mother is still in good health. His father died in December, 1916.

As a boy Oliver B. Snider attended the Battle Ground Academy and the Stoekwell Academy in Indiana, and in 1879 entered with the class of 1883 DePauw University at Greencastle, Indiana. However, he left college before graduating and has since made his home in Toledo. Studying law, he was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of Ohio in 1883, and he has now given thirty-four years of his life to his professional interests. His law offices are in the Nicholas Building. In his wide range of general practice one case is especially noteworthy. He was counsel together with Harry E. King and Clayton W. Everett for ^lessinger in the somewhat famous cases of Anderson v. Messinger and Anderson V. United Realty Company. The litigation was prolonged eight years. It involved the construction of a will and other features of title to a block of valuable real estate in Toledo. It finally passed to the Supreme Court of the United States at Washington, and resulted in a victory for Messinger.

As somewhat out of the ordinary, Mr. Snider has recently negotiated and helped prepare two lengthy ninety-nine year leases for real estate in the heart of the city, one being

For three years prior to Februaiy 1, 1916, IMr. Snider was president of the Toledo Alunuii Chapter of the Sigma Chi college fraternity. He has been president for the last five years of the Toledo Tennis Club, a game in which he finds his chief recreation aside from business. Though a Presbyterian he attends the Trinity Episcopal Church at Toledo, his wife being a member there. Politically he has always been a strong republican, and believes today as always in the protection of American industries.

On April 25, 1908, at Toledo, he married May Allison Bullard, daughter of Ernest JI. and Janet Bullard. After the death of her father her mother married the late Harvey Scribner, a well known lawyer and writer of Toledo.

V. M. RiEGEL, now county superintendent of schools of Marion County, has been identified with school work for twenty years or more, and bj' education is also a well trained and qualified lawyer, though his preferences so far have been exercised in the field of teaching.

"Slv. Riegel was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, May 20, 1876, a son of J. M. and Mary (Norris) Riegel. His grandfather, George Riegel, was a native of Berks Count.y, Pennsylvania, and subsequently moved to Fairfield County, Ohio, where he became a well to do farmer. The maternal grandfather, William Norris, was a native of ^laryland and is also an early settler in Fairfield County, Ohio. Professor Riegel's parents were both born in Fairfield County, his father in 1847 and his mother in 1848. They were substantial farming people, were married in Fairfield County, and since retiring have lived in CridersviUe. They are members of the Reformed Church and the father is a> democrat in polities. Of their four children, three are now living : V. ^I. ; Ralph, a teacher at CridersviUe ; and Purril, who is teaching at Allentown, Ohio.

V. M. Riegel spent his early life on his father's farm. He attended the country schools and the Pleasantville Academy, and then at intervals for three years he taught district school while attending the National Normal University at Lebanon, Oliio, from which he graduated in 1897. After that Mr. Riegel completed a course in law in the Ohio State University and was admitted to the bar in 1899. His work as a teacher was done in

Fairfield County, at Dunbridge and Haskins in Wood County, and in 1910 he took charge of the schools at Prospect. He was soon recognized as one of the leading school men of Marion County and in 1914 was promoted from the Prospect schools to his present position as county superintendent. He was reelected in 1916.

In 1902 Mr. Riegel married Miss Blanche Mears. She was born in Putnam Coimty, Ohio. Their three children are named Ormington, Alice and Paul. Both are members of the Presbyterian Church, and ]Mr. Riegel is affiliated with the Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In politics he is a democrat.

Hon. John A. Key of Marion, present congressman from the Eighth Ohio District, is a man of exceptional qualifications for the post of honor he now enjoys and for the responsibilities devolving upon every member of Congress.

He was born at Marion December 30, 1871, a son of George and Margaret (Davidson) Key. He is of pure Scotch ancestry. His grandfather, Henry Key, spent all his life in Scotland. George Key was born in Forfarshire, Scotland, December 30, 1838, and died December 8, 1898. He came to Ohio in 1866, locating at Akron, Ohio, where he followed his trade as a blacksmith for some years. While living in Summit County he married Miss Davidson, who was born in Dundee, Scotland, June 18, 1844, and is still living. In 1871 they removed to Marion, Ohio, where the father conducted a blacksmith shop until his death. He and his wife were Scotch Presbyterians and fraternally he was affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Oi'der of Elks, and a charter member of Lodge No. 32 Knights of Pythias, and a member of the Royal Arcanum. In politics he was a democrat. He was a man of substantial character and made comfortable provision for his family through his industrious work. Of his six children three are living : John A. ; George F., a horseshoer who lived in Marion for some years; and Amy V., wife of J. C. Turner, a hardware merchant at Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.

Jolin A. Kev graduated from the jMarion High School with the class of 1889. He then began a practical journeyman experience in newspaper work and was employed on the Star, the old Jlarion Mirror, now the Tribune, and the Marion Independent. He left newspaper work to become city letter carrier in Clarion, which position he held from 1897 to 1903, and then went into the office of county recorder, to which he was elected two terms. Mr. Key's first experience in Washington was as private secretary to the late Congressman Carl C. Anderson of Fostoria. In 1912 Mr. Key was elected member of Congress from the old Thirteenth Congressional District. After the redistricting of Ohio he was re-elected this time from the Eighth District in 1914, and 1916 again received a handsome endoi-sement for a third term. Mr. Key is foreman of the committee on pensions and has served on a number of important committees in Congress.

He has long been a force and power in the democratic party in the county and was formerly chairman of the county committee. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, having served as chancellor of the latter, and also belong to Lodge 864, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

July 10, 1906, Mr. Key married Cora M. Edwards, daughter of William and Mary Edwards, who formerly lived at Columbus, where Mrs. Key was born, but who now reside in Clarion. IMr. and Mrs. Key have two children, John C. and 'Mary il., both of whom are attending school.

Dana 0. Weeks, M. D. For a quarter of a century Doctor Weeks has enjoyed a high position as a physician and surgeon at Marion. Every influence and circumstance of his early life contrived to make Doctor Weeks a physician. His father was a distinguished member of that profession, as was also his maternal grandfather.

The late Dr. Oliver W. Weeks, father of Dr. Dana 0., died at his home in Marion January 11, 1903, at the age of sixty-one. He was born in Delaware County, Ohio, May 22, 1841, a son of Samuel C. and Jane (Cunningham) Weeks. Samuel Weeks was a native of Maryland and his wife of Pennsylvania. In 1830 the family came to Ohio, living in Licking County, and after 1838 in Delaware . County. In 1867 Samuel Weeks and wife retired to Caledonia in Marion County, where both of them died.

Dr. Oliver W. Weeks, one of a family of seven children, had only the limited advantages of the schools in his community during his youth. At the age of sixteen he was given a license as a teacher and taught school until the war. On August 13, 1862, he enlisted in Company A of the One Hundred and Twentyfirst Ohio Infantry. A few weeks later he particijjated with his i-egiment in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, and received a severe wound in that engagement. The wound and subsequent exposure brought on severe illness, and he never afterwards enjoyed normal health, though he was permitted many years of useful service. He was for many months in a hospital and finall.y was made chief clerk in the medical director's oifice at Columbus, where he remained until honorably discharged January 19, 1864.

He had become interested in medicine about the time he reached manhood. On leaving the army he located at Richwood, where he engaged in the drug business. He took his iirst course of medical lectures in Starling Medical College at Columbus, and his second course at Cincinnati, where he was graduated in 1865. On February 29, 1876, he was granted the Ad Eundem degree by the Columbus Medical College. In 1872 he received the honorary degree Master of Science from Bethany College, West Virginia.

On November 22, 1866, Doctor Weeks was appointed assistant a.ssessor of District No. 12 of the Eighth Internal Revenue Collection District of Ohio. In the meantime he practiced in Delaware County, later in Caledonia, Marion County, and in 1878 moved to the City of Marion, where he was active in his profession until his death. He served as president of the Marion County Medical Society, was a member of the Ohio State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and in 1893 was a representative to the Pan-American Medical Congress. For several years he was a member of the Marion City Council and was a stanch republican in his political activities. His church home was the First Christian Church at Marion. Fraternally he was a member of the Ohio Lodge No. 447, Free and Accepted Masons of Caledonia, the Chapter and Commandery at Marion ; a member of Canby Lodge No. 51, Knights of Pythias, the Royal Arcanum and was especially prominent in the Grand Army of the Republic, having been elected medical director of the Department of Ohio, and afterward was elected surgeon general of the Grand Army of the Republic. Much credit is due him for the erection of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Chapel in the Marion Cemetery. He was also surgeon of the Fifth Regiment,

Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias, past brigadier surgeon of the Uniform Rank. The Masonic Lodge at Caledonia was named after this capable and distinguished physician. He was at one time member of the Board of Examiners for application to the United States Military Academy and the Annapolis Naval Academy for the eighteenth and thirteenth Ohio Congressional districts. He also served as pension examiner during the administrations of Harrison, McKinley and Roosevelt and during part of Cleveland's administration.

On September 4, 1865, Dr. Oliver W. Weeks married at Tiffin, Ohio, Flora S. Dana, who survived her late husband and is still living in Marion. Her father Dr. Marcus Dana was graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1848, and for many years occupied a place of enviable promineiice in the medical profession in Ohio.

Dr. Dana 0. Weeks, only child of the late Dr. Oliver W. AVeeks and wife, was born at Caledonia in Marion County, Ohio, December 16, 1866. Doctor Weeks attended Wooster University 1887-8-9, and was a member of the cla.ss of 1891 and graduatni in 1S!I-J from the Ohio State Medical Collej'c -M ( '(ilumlms, there known as the Columbus ilcdical College. He was awarded the prize thesis on the Feeding of Infants. Much of his practice in later years has been in the specialty of diseases of women and children, and is medical examiner for a large number of life insurance companies. Doctor AVecks heoran prnftife at AFarion in 1892. Tie lias al\vavsk..pt in dn.,. f,,,,,.], with the prdf.'ssion, has atlcnJr,! tlio Cliinii^,, l',,st- Graduate Medical Sdiuul and Hospital and the New York Post-Graduate School and Hospital, has been presiclent of the Northw'est Ohio Jledical Association and for two terms was councillor of the Third District of the Ohio State Medical Association. He is a member of the Marion County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Mississippi Valley IMedical Association, the American Medical Association and the American Public Health Association. He belongs to the Phi Kappa Psi Library College fraternity.

In 1893 Doctor Weeks married Miss Gertnide Douglas, a native of Ohio and daughter of James J. Douglas, who was a locomotive engineer and pulled the first train over the Chicago and Erie Railway, now the main line of the Erie Railway System. Doctor and Mrs. Weeks have two children: Oliver Douglas, now a member of the senior class of the Ohio

Wesleyan University at Delaware and also affiliated with Phi Kappa Psi fraternity ; and Frank D., aged fourteen, and now attending the Marion High School.

In politics Doctor Weeks is a: stanch republican. He has served a few years as health officer of llarion, and after the expiration of his term, was appointed a member of the Board of Health having served continuously during both republican and democratic administrations, to the present time (1917).

Frank P. Riegle. A lawyer by profession, a former member of the State Legislature, Frank P. Riegle's chief responsibilities at present are as active head of the Commercial Bank and Savings Company of Bowling Green.

Mr. Riegle has been connected with this institution for a dozen years. He was at first member of the board of directors, and afterwards vice president until the death of Mr. A. E. Royce in November, 1914. The board soon afterward elected him as Mr. Royce 's successor. Since he became president the bank has had a notable increase of business and prestige. The capital stock has been increased a third, and now stands at $100,000, all paid in. The deposits aggregate over $1,000,000. The bank home is still in the same building where it was started about a quarter of a century ago. The Commercial Bank and Savings Company according to a recent statement has total resources of approximately $1,200,000. It is one of the strongest and best conducted financial institutions in Wood county.

Mr. Riegle has been a resident of Bowling Green for the past sixteen years. He came to the city as a lawyer, and for a number of years practiced with J. 0. Troup and subsequently as a partner with Ray D. Avery. In 1899 Uv. Riegle was elected to the StateLegislature on the republican ticket and served two successive terms. He was a member of the school committee through both sessions and in the last term was chairman of the judiciary committee.

Mr. Riegle was bom in Jackson Township Wood County, Ohio, May 14, 1870. His early education in the public schools was supplemented by a course in Kenyori College, subsequently in the Ohio Northern University and then the law department of the Ohio State University, where he was graduated in 1899. The following year he was admitted to the bar and quickly established his reputation as an able counselor and advocate after coming to Bowling Green.

Mr. Riegle is of German ancestry on his father's side and of Scotch in the maternal line. He is a son of Jefferson and Sarah A. (Gilmer) Riegle, the former a native of Wyandot County, Ohio, and the latter of Pennsylvania. Their respective families were pioneers in Delaware Township of Hancock County, where they built themselves log cabin homes in the woods and improved a considerable area of the farming section in that county. The grandparents lived out their lives in Hancock County. Jefferson Riegle and his wife met and married in Hancock County and for several years lived as farmers there. At the first call for troops in 1861 Jefferson Riegle volunteered his services and was in the war practically from the very beginning until the close. He was first a member of Company H of the Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantrj- and during the last two .years was detailed as a sharpshooter of the Seventh Company, Twenty-first Regiment. His honorable discharge was granted in the spring of 1865. He was with General Sherman's army in the famous march to the sea and participated in every engagement in which his regiment was present. He liad a slight gunshot wound but otherwise escaped unhurt. His record as a soldier is one that his descendants will always cherish. He was not the only soldier of his family. He had four brothers who were in the war, Martin, in the Twenty-ninth Ohio Infantiy, Philip in the Fifty-second Ohio, Elias in' the Fiftyseventh, and Washington, who died of illness while in the service. The other brothers were all wounded, some of them severely, but lived to come home.

After the war was over Jefferson Riegle returned to his wife and two children in Hancock County. His wife was born in Allegany County, Pennsylvania. Her grandfather, William Gilmer, Sr., was of Scotch stock, and lived for many years on a farm in Allegany County. Pennsylvania. Both he and his wife died there when past a hundred years of age. William Gilmer, Jr., father of Mrs. Jefferson Riegle, was born in Allegany County, and married there Miss Sarah or Sally Ballard. In 1852 the Gilmer familj' made the overland .journey with wagons and teams to Ohio, locating as pioneers in Hancock County. Thev improved a body of land from the forest, their first home was a log cabin, and by hard work they made

Jefferson Riegle for many years carried on an active business as a farmer and sawmill man in Hancock County. Later he went to Arkansas and bought some extensive tracts of timber. There he and his wife and their son established homes in the lumber camps of Arkansas and lived there until the death of Jefferson Riegle, his wife having passed away in 1899. Their bodies were brought back home to Hancock County and they were laid to rest side by side in the old Gilmer Cemetery or in what is known as Gilmer and Riegle Cemetery. Both were active Methodists and he was a democrat. Jefferson Riegle and wife had three sons and two daughters. W^illiam, who now lives near the old homestead in Hancock County, is married and has one son, Hal H. John, a resident of Bowling Green, has four children: Stella, Walter, Lillie and Theodore, all of whom are attending school. The third in age is Frank P. Riegle. Lavina is the wife of John Werts a farmer in Hancock County, and of their four daughters three are now married. Ruth is the wife of John Williams, a machinist at ilarion, Ohio, and they have a daughter married and one son still at home. Lillie is the wife of Frank Feathsorth, a Wood County farmer, and has a son, Guy.

Frank P. Riegle was married in Wood County to Miss ^laggie Dunn, daughter of Samuel and Maggie (Bishop) Dunn. Both parents were natives of Ohio and of Scotch ancestry. The Dunns were a family of educated people and Samuel Dunn, who grew up in Wood County was well known both as a teacher and as an extensive land owner and farmer. He died in Jackson Township March 9, 1907, and his widow passed awa\' two years later. They were members of the ^Methodist Church and were true Christian people. Mrs. Riegle was graduated from the Deshler public schools and the Ohio Northem University at Ada, and prior to her marriage was a teacher in the Deshler High School. Mr. and Mrs. Riegle have five children. Vivian E. was graduated valedictorian of the class of 1917 in the Bowling Green High School, and is now a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. Margaret

S., aged sixteen, is a junior in the Bowling Green High School. Horace D., aged fifteen, is a sophomore in the high school. Florence L., aged twelve, is in the seventh grade, and Robert G., aged ten, is in the fifth gi-ade. The older children have distinguished themselves as students, and have taken some of the first honors in the competitive contests of the city schools. All the family are active members of the Methodist Church. Mr. Riegle is a republican and in 1916 was? candidate of that party for Congi-ess from this district, being defeated by a very small majority.

Hon. Warren G. H.\rding. While long a distinguished figure in his own state, it was not until the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1916 that Senator Warren G. Harding really became nationally known in the full sense of the term. In that convention he was on the program to deliver the "Keynote Address" and while that was only one of his many influential activities in the convention and the subsequent campaign it definitely fixed his name in the minds and imagination of the American people.

Senator Harding was born at Corsica, Morrow County, Ohio, November 2, 1865, a son of George Tryon and Phebe Elizabeth (Dickerson) Harding. His father was a successful physician, and in 1871 located at Caledonia in Marion County, where he engaged in the practice of his profession and finally removed to the City of Marion.

Senator Harding was educated in the public schools of Caledonia and from 1879 to 1882 was a student of the old Ohio Central College at Iberia. He received the degree Bachelor of Science from that institution and while in college was editor of the Spectator, a college paper. His success in the management of this journal had much to do with fostering and encouragiiig his natural inclination in the direction of newspaper work. He taught school for a time, also read law, but abandoned the idea of that profession and thus the law lost a most promising disciple.

Senator Harding is a veteran newspaper man and has long been regarded as one of the ablest writers, most logical thinkers and orators in Ohio. He actively entered the field of journalism at Marion in 1884 as local editor of the Marion ]Mirror. In November of the same year he bought the Clarion Daily Star, and in 1885 btgan the pul)lication of a weekly edition. For a number of years he has been president of the Harding Publishing Company, the compan.y that publishes the Marion Star. The Star is a great newspaper, one of the best in Northwest Ohio, and has long been regarded as one of the chief organs of the republican party.

During his younger j'ears as a newspaper man Mr. Harding became increasingly identified with the affairs of his political party but never sought honors for himself until his newspaper business was firmly established. In the summer of 1899 he was nominated for state senator from the Thirteenth District, including the counties of Logan, Union, IMarion and Hardin. He wa.s elected and reelected in 1901. and was the first person in the district to break the one term rule. He served through two full terms, from 1900 to 1904. In June, 1903, at the Republican State Convention at Columbus he was nominated by acclamation for the office of lieutenant governor, and was elected and proved a most capable and dignified presiding officer over the Senate during the Seventy-sixth General Assembly. In 1910 Mr. Harding was the republican nominee for governor of Ohio, but was defeated that year by Mr. Harmon. As a culmination of his political career came his election to the United States Senate from Ohio for the term beginning in 1915 and ending in 1921. "While one of the younger members of the Senate he is today easily one of the leaders in effective intluence and work in the solution of the grave national problems before our Government and Nation.

Senator Harding is a member of the Baptist Church and lielongs to the Clarion Club at Marion. He married July 8. 1891. Florence Kling of Marion, only daughter of Amos H. Kling.

Phillip "Wiltox Ewing during a long and honorable participation in local business affairs at Findlay has promoted himself from the ranks of a worker until he is now a controlling factor in several of that city's institutions, being president of the First National Bank and president of the Ohio Bank and Savings Company.

Of Pennsylvania German stock, he was born in Pleasant Township of Hancock County, December 29, 1863, and spent his early life on a farm, where he attended country schools and the Findlay High School and oil leaving school was granted a .certificate to teach, a vocation he followed two years. His real inclination and talent were for business and he gained his first experience as clerk in a dry goods store at Findlay. Several years later he started in business for himself under the name of Dillinger & Ewing at Findlay, and was a member of that firm for eight or nine years.

He was also a figure in local politics, being a democrat, and in 1899 was elected clerk of the court and re-elected to the office in 1902. Mr. Ewing now has upwards of a hundred oil wells under his management and was very active in the oil business from 1902 to 1912. He then reorganized the City Bank of Findlay as the Ohio Bank and Savings Company, and has since been its president. In October, 1915, he and associates bought a controlling interest in the First National Bank, and he was elected president. Thus he is at the head of two of the leading financial concerns of Hancock County, and is a strong and conser\'ative force in local business affairs. He is now an independent in politics, is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and belongs to several clubs. Unlike many successful men, Mr. E\^ing credits a gi-eat deal of his prosperity to luck, though others would probably say that hard work and a steadfast purpose have been controlling factors in his destiny as in the career of even' human life.

In 1885 he married Miss Annette Poe, daughter of Nelson Poe, a farmer of Liberty Township, Hancock County. ]\Irs. Ewing now owns 103 acres of laud which was originally a tract of Government land and was acquired by her grandfather in the very early days. Mr. and ]Mrs. Ewing have two children : Mrs. David Kirk of Findlay; and Edgar P., now assistant cashier of the Ohio Bank and Savings Company.

Philander C. Beard. At his death in Toledo. April 21, 1910, Philander C. Beard was the oldest member of the Lucas County bar, and for a great many years, in fact iintil a short time before his death, was senior member of the law firm of Beard and Beard.

Eighty-one years of age at the time of his death, he had spent a long and useful career in Ohio. He was of a pioneer family, and his life had run concurrently with many of the most interesting epochs in the state's history. In earlier years he was noted as an abolitionist, and later equally known for his ardent advocacy of the cause of temperance. He was a fine lawyer, but was most widely esteemed and is most deserving of memory for his nobility and depth of character.

A native of Morrow County, Ohio, where he was bom March 4, 1829, his parents, Reuben and Eliza Beard, came from the East and established a home in Ohio not long after the opening of the Northwest Territory to settlement. They represented the best type of American citizenship and were people of culture and high ideals in spite of the circumscribed life which they lived on the frontier.

Born in a log cabin Philander C. Beard spent all his early years in a home of simple comforts but in an atmosphere conducive to the formation of right pui-poses and high character. His parents were able to afford him such advantages as was given by the district schools, and it was largely his perseverance and determination that opened up a larger career to him. He qualified as a teacher, taught for several years in Morrow County and ad.iacent districts, and with his earnings had one year of training in Oberlin College. He went out from the college walls and resumed his work as a teacher and in 1850 was elected justice of the peace for Bennington Township. In the meantime he had assiduously pursued the study of law as opportunity oifered and in 1852 wa.s admitted to the bar. Thus he had been a member of the Ohio bar for more than fifty years.

After successfully practicing his profession for more than a quarter of a century in MorroTV, Knox and Delaware counties, Mr. Beard in 1878 moved to Toledo and engaged in practice with his son, Ellsworth M. Beard.

He entered upon the stage of active life about the time the old whig party was dissolving and events were rapidly bringing about a crystalization of opinion and a realignment of political forces which resulted in the republican party. By birth and training Mr. Beard became identified with the anti-slavery movement, and this sympathy was re-enforced by the year spent at Oberlin College, which was one of the most important strongholds of abolitionists. The history of the underground railway through Ohio could not well be written without reference to this vigorous young lieutenant in the service and it is .said that he himself was instrumental in taking many fugitive .slaves to freedom. After the slavery question was definitely settled by the war I\Ir. Beard espoused with the same ardor and earnestness the cause of temperance. When he came to Toledo and began the practice of law he was warned by his friends that his professional practice would suffer if he persisted in his advocacy of temperance, but he nevertheless remitted not one whit of his zeal and he canvassed Toledo and all Northwestern Ohio making speeches for temperance and condemning the liquor traffic. The predictions of his friends proved true at the beginning, but eventually his firm stand brought about a reaction to his benefit and he enjoyed a large and select clientage from the best class of citizens.

The late Mr. Beard was one of the most active members of the Washington Street Congregational Church after 1884, and the society had no stronger member, one more devoted to the e.ssentials of Christianity or who lived according to his ideals and lights more strictly every day and every hour.

Mrs. Lucette Beard, widow of the late Philander C. Beard, died at the home of her son, Ellsworth M., in Toledo January 28, 1914, at the age of seventy-three. They had enjoyed a long companionship and together they built up a home and trained to worthy careers their sons and daughters. Mrs. Beard before her marriage was Lucette Manville. She was also an active worker in the Washington Street Congregational Church. To their marriage were born seven children, one of whom died in infancy, while the others are : Rev. Reuben A., now pastor of the First Congregational Church at Fargo, North Dakota; Mrs. Loma McCune, a widow living in Toledo ; Ellsworth M., a prominent Toledo attorney; Vernon V., who for some years has been in the tourist business with the firm of Kinfort, Gelespi & Bond with offices on Broadway, New Yoi-k City; Charles who lives at Toledo but travels for a wholesale drug firm of Chicago ; Roland A., who is connected with one of the large ice companies at Cleveland. All the children were bom in Morrow County, except Roland, the youngest, who is a native of Toledo.

Ellsworth il. Be.\rd. A son of the late veteran lawyer of Toledo, Philander C. Beard, Ellsworth il. Beard has been for more than a quarter of a century actively engaged in practice in that city, was long associated with his father under the firm name of Beard & Beard and as a tribute to that association still conducts his business under the name Beard & Beard. Mr. Beard has for the past twenty years had his offices in the Spitzer Building, and only recently he removed from the fifth to the ninth floor of that building,

Born in Bloomfield Township, Morrow County, Ohio, February 17, 1862, he is the third of the seven children of the late Philander C. and Lucette (Manville) Beard. While he was reared in a home of many comforts he also experienced some of the vicissitudes which harden determination and re-enforce the sinews of character when he was still a young man. He attended the public schools of Morrow County and of Toledo and was about seventeen when the family came to Toledo. Diiring the unprecedented financial panic of 1873 his father lost everything, and the son, then twenty-one years of age, had to face life on his own account and co-operate in the rehabilitation of the family fortune. For two years he was a teacher in the public schools of Wood County, Ohio, then applied himself industriously to the study of law under his father, ancl in 1887 was admitted to the bar at Toledo and at once formed a partnership with his father under the name of Beard & Beard. For many years he has enjoyed a large and high grade general practice as a lawyer.

In politics he is independent, and has sturdily worked for the best interests of his home city and for the cause of clean and wholesome municipal government. He is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, the National Union and the Toledo Automobile Club. His favorite recreations are horseback riding and golf.