Seneca Township (part 48 of 60)

Dr. John B. Rust attended the public schools in Cincinnati and Tiflfin, Ohio, and entered Heidelberg College before completing the course in the Tiflfin high school. He was graduated with the class of 1877, in the classical course, and three years later his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. In the year 1879 he was graduated in the Heidelberg. Theological Seminary, located in Tiflfin for more than fifty years. Rev. J. J. Gruber was the only member of the class. The graduating exercises were the first of the kind in the history of the seminary, and were held in the First Reformed church. The subject of this sketch became pastor of the Waynesburg charge, in Stark county, Ohio, in the winter of 1879-80, making his home in the village of Waynesburg, twelve miles southeast of Canton, on the Steubenville road. In May, 1880, at the annual meeting of St. John's Classis, in Apple Creek, Wayne county, Ohio, he was licensed to preach the gospel, and a few weeks later he was ordained by a committee of that Classis in Salem's Reformed church, near Mapleton. Stark county, Ohio. The Waynesburg charge consisted of three churches - Salem's church, situated in the country, about six miles from Waynesburg ; St. Paul 's church, in Waynesburg ; and the Reformed church at Mineral Point, Tuscarawas county, Ohio. In the spring of 1886, he received and accepted a call from Jerusalem's German Reformed congregation in Canton, Ohio, numbering eight hundred commimicants. In the autumn of 1890 he became pastor of the Reformed church in New Philadelphia, Ohio, numbering nearly four hundred communicants. During his pastorate there a new edifice was built, at a total cost of twenty thousand dollars, and a fresh impetus for further growth was given the congregation. After a pastorate of nearly seven years in New Philadelphia, in response to a call from the Robertsville charge in Stark county, he moved to Malvern, Ohio, into the territory in which he had begun his ministry. Here he completed the post-graduate course in philosophy, which he had pursued for six years in connection with his pastoral labors in New Philadelphia, and in June, 1897, he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Wooster University. The Robertsville pastorate continued for only one year and a half. The increasing age of his parents made it necessary for him to return to Tiflfin that he might aid his sister. Miss Mary C. Rust, in caring for and waiting upon them in their declining years. Soon after locating in Tiflfin he became pastor of the Bascom charge, which he served for nearly nine years. During this time the charge was strengthened by the addition of a third congregation, which was organized with over one hundred charter members, and built a beautiful brick church, at a cost of ten thousand dollars, in the village of McCutcheonville. He was the first pastor of this congregation and served in that capacity for three years - until the close of his pastoral relations with the Bascom charge, to which Trinity Reformed church of McCutcheonville is attached. For a year or more, at this writing, he has had the pastoral care of the Reformed church in Pindlay, Ohio, under the auspices of Heidelberg Classis. Throughout his ministry, save in the Bascom charge, he has served German-English charges^and churches.

Dr. John B. Rust, like his father before him, has been and still is a frequent contributor to church periodicals and papers. He has been almost a lifelong student of music, and not only in bygone years played the pipe organ in church but has also written upon musical subjects, in the manner of review and criticism, in addition to essays and papers upon theological, philosophical and ethical subjects. Though burdened to some extent with the responsibility of business interests, and devoted to books and music, especially to the playing of the piano and violin, he nevertheless, in his own thought and purposes, subordinates every other pursuit and enjoyment to that supreme calling and mission of his life, namely, the preaching of the gospel and the extension, in company with others, of the kingdom of Christ.

Oscar H. Shriver. - Seneca county enjoys high prestige among the counties of the Buckeye state, and nothing contributes more materially to this than the agricultural element. Among the most progressive of the county's farmers and stock raisers is Oscar H. Shriver, who resides on what is known as the old Myers homestead, his residence being situated on the line between Seneca county and Sandusky county. Bom 'November 3, 1866, in Pleasant township, he is the son of James and Mary (Cramer) Shriver, natives of Pennsylvania and Fredericktown, Maryland, respectively. The father came to the state in youth and located with his parents on the above mentioned homestead, this being in the early *30s. The father's birth date was March 7, 1832, and his parents were Christ and Elizabeth Shriver. The mother of the subject whose maiden name was Mary Cramer, was bom in July, 1830, and came here with her parents, Christ and Catherine (Criger) Cramer, of Maryland, when still in infancy. They took up their residence here on the farm now owned by John Holtz, on the Portland road, and it was there that the birth of Mr. Shriver occurred. Mr. Shriver was one of six children, he being the fourth in order of birth, and the other members of the family being: Catherine, Luther, Asa, Annie and Mary.

The subject was reared upon his father's farm, receiving his education in the district school and finding much for his hands to do in assisting in the manifold tasks to be encountered upon the farm. Under the tutelage of his father he was introduced to the various departments of agriculture and even arrived at a suffi- eiently early date to assist in clearing and developing some of his father's land. After his marriage, April 10, 1890, at the Presbyterian parsonage in Tiffin, Ohio, Mr. Shriver worked by the day for John Holtz, continuing thus engaged for three years. Later they moved to the Huss farm, where they remained for two years and then took up their abode upon the Scott Holtz farm, which they operated for eight years. After these several changes they located upon eighty acres west of Greenspring, where they have ever since resided and where Mr. Shriver conducts operations in mixed farming and stock raising.

Although of Democratic inclinations in every sense of the word he is sufficiently independent to believe that the best man and the best measure should receive the support of the voter, irrespective of party arid partisanship. He and his family are connected with the Methodist Episcopal church.

The subject was married, April 10, 1890, to Catherine A. White, bom December 3, 1869, in Scipio township, her parents being Jacob R. and Adda M. (Shadier) White, natives of the Keystone state. The removal of the White family to Ohio occurred when the father was a youth about eighteen years of age. The date of the mother's birth was January 28, 1848, and that of the father May 23, 1847. The wife of the subject at seven years of age went to live with Jacob and Susan Holtz, parents of John Holtz, and she remained with them for about eleven years. Later she went to keep house for Mrs. John Holtz, remaining in this household for about five years and it was in the meantime that she married. After their union, as previously mentioned, Mr. Shriver for three years worked for Mr. Holtz.

Mrs. Shriver 's mother was a sister of Mrs. Sam Westerhouse of Adams township, one of Seneca county's worthy citizens, whose maiden name was Emma R. Shadier. She was bom March 13. 1852, and was married July 2. 1871. Mr. and Mrs. Westhouse became the parents of seven children, some of whom have played a prominent and estimable part in the life of the community. Nora, bom September 3, 1872. became the wife of Charles H. Riffel, the son of Samuel and Mary (Mayhew) Riflfel, his birth date being March 20, 1874. Bom in Maryland, he came to Ohio with his parents, locating first in Dayton and then in Xenia, where the father conducted a tinshop in the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans Home. The family removed to Greenspring about the year 1893. the father engaging in the same occupation, although in a private capacity. Following their marriage on July 2, 1896. Mr. and Mrs. Riflfel went to Gibsonburg, where they resided for one year, then going to Republic, where for one year the husband was employed in the hardware store of Wyant & Hillsinger. He was strif'ken with cerebro-spinal meningitis and was cut oflT by the hand of death in the prime of his manhood. Left a widow with a little son, Clarence S., born July 23, 1898, Mrs. Riflfel took up the career of a professional nurse, r^ontinuing this for several, years. For the past few years she and her son have resided with her parents. She is one of Seneca c»ounty's brave and devoted women, her relations as mother and daughter being unselfish and jrracious.

She is a member of the Evangelical church and acts as choir director in the Sunday School. She has a beautiful sunny nature and is beloved by all who know her. Charles H. Riflfel was a most estimable citizen, father and neighbor. He stood very high in his community.

Jeremiah O'Connor, who owns and occupies a modem frame residence at 53 Clay street, TiflSn, Ohio, has been a resident of this city from his childhood and is as popular here as he is well known.

Mr. O'Connor was born in Ireland, April 10, 1850, a son of Thomas and Mary (McGraw) O'Connor, but he has never known any other home than an American one, as at the age of nine months he was brought by his parents from the ** Emerald Isle" to the United States. They settled at Tiffin, Ohio, in the spring of 1851, which was henceforth the family home. Thomas O'Connor was an educated man, and for years held a responsible position here in railroad construction work, having under his charge a number of men. As a boy Jeremiah O'Connor's educational advantages were limited to the country schools, but after he attained his majority he attended night school and further equipped himself to be able to cope with the problems and emergencies that confront the man of varied interests and constant contact with the business world. At the age of twenty-two, in 1877, he accepted a position as traveling salesman, and in this line of work soon proved himself a success. A man of fine personal appearance, pleasing manner, keen insight into human nature, quick and shrewd, he possesses the qualities of the first class salesman. These qualities developed as he went out on the road. He has represented various lines of goods, chiefly patents, and with the passing years has made numerous personal investments that have netted him handsome returns. He has large western interests, including lands, mining and banking stocks.

Mr. O'Coiinor married Miss Helen Gosling of Wellington, Ohio, and while they have never had any children of their own they have reared two children. He and his wife are members of St. Mary's Catholic church. Politically he has alwa\'« voted with the Democratic party, but has never been active in politics.

Andrew S. Baker. - A man of sterling worth and integrity, Andrew S. Baker, late of Tiffin. Ohio, was for many years associated with the best interests of the city, his high principles and manly virtues rendering him an esteemed and valued citizen. He was bom, January 4, 1841, in Sandusky, Erie county, and died November 21, 1907, his body being laid to rest in the Castalia Cemetery. His parents. Shepard and Elizabeth (Linebaugh) Baker, were pioneer settlers of Erie county, and there spent the greater part of their lives, living in comfort on the farm which they improved.

Brought up on the homestead, Andrew S. Baker acquired his education in the common schools, in the meantime becoming familiar with farm work. On November 29, 1861, inspired by patriotic ardor, he enlisted in Company H, Pif ty-fif th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served several months, being discharged August 5, 1862, on account of physical disability. Soon after his return to the parental roof, Mr. Baker began life as a sailor on the Qreat Lakes, continuing before the mast for a while. Subsequently forming a partnership with William Robinson, he was engaged in the wholesale and retail grocery business in Sandusky, and for a number of years conducted a successful mercantile trade. He afterwards became one of the founders of the Nost Spice Company, of Toledo, Ohio, and was salesman for the company until it was sold to Arbuckle & Company, the transfer of business being made in 1898.

The home of Mr. Baker was for three years after his marriage in Castalia, Erie county, but in 1867 he removed to Sandusky, where he lived until 1882, when he became a resident of Tifi&n. He Tvas here employed as an agent for various products on the mai^et, building up an extensive and substantial business, which he conducted until his death.

Mr. Baker married, January 14, 1864, Martha E. Wilson, who was bom in Castalia, Ohio, January 19, 1846, a daughter of John A. Wilson, who was bom in New York state and came to Ohio when young with his parents, John and Mary Wilson. Her father married Elizabeth Young, a daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Baugh) Young, and granddaughter of Oovernor Baugh, one of the early governors of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Baker became the parents of one child, Minnie J., bom September 6, 1870, and who now lives with her widowed moUier in their handsome residence on Monumental Square. Mr. Baker was a member of Uie Church of Christ, towards its support being a liberal contributor. He was a Republican in politics and a member of Leander Post, No. 80, G. A. R. of Tiffin.

WnjJAM L. Hertzer. - A man of pronounced business acumen, earnest in his endeavors and strong in his convictions, William L. Hertzer is intimately associated with the development and advancement of the financial prosperity of Seneca county, and as cashier of the Tiffin National Bank he is widely known and highly respected. Studious, persevering and ambitious as a youth, he was a keen observer of men and events, letting no oppor* tunity for advancement escape his notice, making in early life such good use of his advantages that he made steady progress along the pathway of achievements, and through his own earnest efforts has risen from a poor boy to a position of note among the best business men and citizens of Tiffin. A son of 0. F. Hertzer, he was born October 27, 1860, at Greenspring, Seneca county, coming of excellent Qerman lineage.

Born, bred and educated in Germany, G. P. Hertzer emigrated to the United States in 1856, hoping in this land of bright promise to attain a competency. Coming directly to Ohio, he located in Greenspring, where* he followed his trade of a merchant tailor, building up a good patronage. He is now living on South Green field street, Tiffin. He is well known as a member of the Ancient

Free and Accepted Order of Masons; is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and as a member of the Ancient United Order of Druids. To him and his wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Ranch, seven children were born, six of whom are now, in 1910, living.

Coming with his parents to TiflSn when young, William L. Hertzer attended first the graded schools, afterwards studying for a year in the Tiffin high school. Working afterwards with his father, he learned th.e tfade of a tailor, but not finding the occupation congenial to his tastes he entered the post office as an employee and served in various capacities under Levi Werick, remaining in the office six years, the last four years serving as assistant postmaster. In 1882 Mr. Hertzer became collector for the Tiffin National Bank, and subsequently served the institution in diflferent grades until 1902, when he accepted his present position as cashier of the bank. Careful and conservative in his business methods, he has gained the confidence not only of his employers but of his fellow associates and of the general public.

This banking institution was organized in March, 1865, as the National Exchange Bank, and continued under its original charter for twenty years, when, in March, 1885, it was reorganized under the name of the Tiffin National Bank. It has a capital stock of $250,000, and a surplus of $150,000, being in point of capital, deposits and surplus the largest and strongest of any similar institution in Seneca county or in adjoining counties. The bank officers for 1910 include John M. Naylor, president ; W. L. Hertzer, cashier; E. B. Naylor, assistant cashier; and L. H. Smith, auditor; while the directors are J. M. Naylor, George D. Loomis, E. Carpenter, B. W. Crobaugh, and W. L. Hertzer. The Bank's statement for March 29, 1910, is as follows:

Mr. Hertzer is also financially interested in other enterprises of note, being the treasurer, a stockholder, a director and a member of the board of managers of the National Machinery Company ; a director and the treasurer of the Citizens' Building and Loan Association; and secretary of the Green Lawn Cemetery Association. In politics he is a stanch Republican, and has represented his ward in the City Council and has served as a member of the Tiffin Board of Education. He is a member and a past noble grand of Seneca Lodge, No. 35, I. 0. 0. F., and a member and a trustee of the National Union. Religiously he and his family are worthy members of the Lutheran church.

Mr. Hertzer married, April 25, 1889, Emma Geyer, a daughter of Charles and Ida (Kaessman) Geyer, of Tiffin, and to them four children have been born, namely*: Carl G., born February 15, 1890, completed his studies in the Tiffin high school, and is now in the employ of the Webster Electric Company as a machinist; Robert W., born May 14, 1894, is attending the high school ; John S., born November 27, 1901, and Lucille Cornelia, bom July 5, 1906.

George J. Ring. - An honored citizen of Republic, Seneca comity, Ohio, is George J. Ring, who has gained prestige as an able business man and whose loyalty and public spirit have been of the most insistent order. He was born in Springfield, Illinois, on the 11th of February, 1851, and is a son of James M. and Eliza (Armstrong) Ring, the former of whom was born in Ireland and the latter at Canada. James M. Ring emigrated to America about the year 1821, and after a short sojourn in Canada he removed to Springfield, Illinois, where he was engaged in railroad construction work. His marriage to Miss Eliza Armstrong was solemnized at Ottawa, Canada, and when George J. was a mere infant the family moved to New York, where Mr. Ring was identified with the general merchandise business in the capacity of a commercial merchant. Mr. and Mrs. Ring became the parents of six children, and of this number four are now living. The father was summoned to the life eternal in 1871 and the mother passed away in 1876.

George J. Ring was educated in the public schools of Illinois and New York and in 1873 he came to Ohio, where he entered the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, that road being then in process of construction. He continued to be identified with railroad work for about one year, at the expiration of which he turned his attention to saw milling, in which line of enterprise he was successfully engaged for fifteen years. Since his marriage, in 1906, to Mrs. Rogers, Mr. Ring has been running a boarding house in Republic. This establishment is finely equipped with all modern conveniences, is immaculately clean and the quality of food set before the guests would please the most exacting of epicures. In politics Mr. Ring accords a stanch allegiance to the principles and policies of the Republican party and though he does not take an active interest in political aflfairs he is ever alert and enthusiastically in sympathy with all measures projected for the good of the community. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Junior Order of American Mechanics.

On the 5th of August, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Ring to Mrs. Elsie M. (Way) Rogers, who was born on the 17th of February, 1864, the place of her birth being Republic. She is a daughter of Charles A. and Mary E. (Piatt) Way, the former of whom was born in New York and the latter of whom was a native of Scipio township. Mr. Way was born on Uie 2l8t of April, 1833. and Mrs. Way, on tHe 21st of April, 1839. Asa Way, father of Charles A. Way, was a loyal and faithful soldier in the Civil war. He was captain of Company G, Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he served from 1863 until the close of the war. Prior to enlisting in the Union army Captain Way was an attorney, residing on a farm near Republic. For a number of years he was engaged in the active practice of his profession at Republic and he succeeded in building up a large and lucrative clientage. Charles A. Way resided at the parental home until his marriage, April 11, 1858, after which he was engaged in agricultural pursuits for a time on his father's farm. He then engaged in saw milling and in engineering, following the same with marked success until the outbreak of the Civil war. He enlisted under his father in Company G, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in August, 1863. He was a gallant soldier and was promoted to the rank of sergeant. After the war he located on a farm in South Dakota, the same being a claim given him by the government in return for military service. He continued to reside in South Dakota for a period of eight years, at the expiration of which he returned to Ohio and established his home in Republic. He and his wife became the parents of six children, Carlotta, born July 3, 1859, became the wife of Warren Hajl, of Chicago Junction, and she died in 1898; Charles A., Jr., born March 13, 1861, resides in Pensacola, Florida; Elsie is the wife of him whose name initiates this review; Gertrude, born March 21, 1875, is the wife of D. Mc- Mahon, of Tiffin; Edson P., bom November 21, 1877, resides in Florida; and Prank, born on the 20th of December, 1879, maintains his home in Tiffin. Elsie Way first married Aldin Rogers, who was born on the 4th of August, 1841, a son of 0. Perry and Sallie (Shaw) Rogers, natives of New York. Aldin Rogers was summoned to the life eternal in January, 1900, being survived by four children, Helen, the wife of Mat Freedman, of Tiffin, Ohio; Pearl, married Christ Diller, of Wakersville, Michigan; Lloyd L., resides in Tiffin ; and Florence remains with her mother. Another child, Roy, was accidentally drowned in September, 1900. All the children have received good educational advantages, all but the youngest being graduated in the Republic high school. After the death of her first husband Mrs. Ring supported her family, with the aid of her son, until her marriage, in 1906, to Mr. Ring, as already noted. Mrs. Ring was educated in the Republic high school. She is a member of the Daughters of Rebekah. in which order she has served as secretary for two terms; and she is also affiliated with the Women's Relief Corps and the Gk)od Templars. She is a woman of most gracious personality and she and her husband have a host of loyal friends in Republic. Mrs. Mary E. Way is still living and she makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Ring. She has in her possession a very old book, a **New Testament," printed in 1808, and she has a table, which purports to be of Divine authority and which is supposed to govern marriage relations. It reads: **A table of kindred and affinity, wherein whosoever are related are forbidden in scripture to marry together." Among the many prohibitions are the following, A man cannot marry his brother's wife, or his wife's sister, or his step-daughter, etc.

Alexander McCartan has been identified with the business activities of Tiffin, Ohio, ever since he became a resident of this country, and has worked his way upward from a clerk to a partnership in one of the leading establishments in the city.

Mr. McCartan was born in Sunderland, England, a son of Dennis and Mary A. (Qiiinn) McCartan, both natives of county Down, Ireland. At the age of twenty, ambitious to have the benefit of advantages enjoyed in America, where some of his relatives had already established themselves, young McCartan left the old home and its associations and joined his uncle at Tiffin, Ohio. He clerked in his uncle's store here until after his uncle's death, and early acquired a knowledge of American methods of doing business which made him of value to his aunt after her husband's death. He continued to clerk for her until finally, in connection with his brother Bearnard and Cornnell Haughey, he was a partner in the purchase of the stock and building. Subsequently they bought the adjoining building, in which they have a meat market, he having charge of the grocery and his partners of the market. And they have since opened up and are now conducting a branch meat market on Six's corner.

Mr. McCartan has a wife and two sons, Alexander Joseph and Daniel B. Mrs. McCartan, formerly Miss Anna Donahoe, is a native of Missouri and a woman of many excellent qualities which make her popular with her large circle of friends. She and Mr. McCartan are members of St. Mary's Catholic church, and he is also a member of the Knights of Columbus, having taken the fourth degree. His time and attention are wholly devoted to his own personal business affairs.

Henry J. Weller. - For the high rank of its bench and bar Ohio has ever been distinguished, and it is gratifying to note that in no section of the commonwealth has the standard been lowered in any epoch in its history. To Mr. Weller, who is junior member of the firm of McCauley & Weller, of Tiffin, reference may be made with utmost propriety by reason of his being one of the able and representative members of the bar of the state and that he is a native son of Seneca county lends significance to the prestige which he has here attained. He has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession in Tiffin for nearly thirty years, has been concerned in much important litigation and is known to be thoroughly informed in the science of jurisprudence - an able attorney and a safe and duly conservative counselor - while his personal integrity and honesty of purpose have begotten objective confidence and esteem of no equivocal order.

Henry J. Weller was born in Thompson township, Seneca county, Ohio, on the 21st of January, 1856, and is a son of John and Christina (Omer) Weller, both of whom were natives of

Pennsylvania and of stanch German lineage. John Weller was born in Snyder county, Pennsylvania, and was reared to maturity in his native state, where he continued to maintain his home until 1843, when he came to Ohio. He became one of the successful representatives of the agricultural industry in Seneca county and here he continued to reside until his death, as did also his wife, who was a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Orner and who was a child at the time of her parents removal from Pennsylvania to Seneca county. John and Christina (Orner) Weller became the parents of five sons and three daughters, all of whom are living and of the number Henry J. is the oldest.

Henry J.- Weller was reared on the old home farm which was the place of his birth and he continued to attend the district schools until he had attained the age of fourteen years. Thereafter he continued to be associated with his father in the work of the home farm until he was seventeen years of age, when he supplemented his earlier discipline by attending a normal school at Republic, this county, for one term. He then put his scholastic attainments to practical test by turning his attention to the pedagogic profession. For five winter terms he taught in the district schools of Seneca county and though he was successful in his work he realized the limitations of this vocation and determined to prepare himself for the law. Accordingly, on the 2nd of April, 1878, he entered the law oflSce of the firm of Noble & Adams, in Tiffin, the senior member of which was the late Warren P. Noble, one of the most distinguished members of the Seneca county bar. Under such able preceptorship Mr. Weller made rapid advancement in his absorption and assimilation of the science of jurisprudence and he was admitted to practice before the supreme court of Ohio on the 2nd of June, 1880. He was the first law student from Seneca county to be admitted to the bar under the provisions of the new law requiring examination of candidates before the supreme court. Prior to January 1, 1880, students had been admitted by the district courts. On the 1st of March, 1881, Mr. Weller opened an office in Tiffin, where he conducted an individual practice until June 10, 1885, when he formed a partnership alliance with Judge John McCauley, with whom he has since been associated, imder the firm name of Mc- Cauley & Weller, and with offices in the Commercial Bank Block, at the corner of Washington and Court streets. These offices have been occupied by the firm since the 1st of March, 1885, and Mr. Weller has maintained his home in Tiffin since the 2nd of April, 1878. He was admitted to the supreme court of the United States in April, 1897. He has proved an able coadjutor to his honored partner, of whom more specific mention is made on other pages of this work. Mr. Weller 's close application, reliability and unmistakable ability in the various branches of professional work have brought to him a definite and worthy success, giving him prestige as one of the leading members of the bar of his native county, where he has a strong hold upon popular confidence and esteem. He has shown a lively interest in public affairs and is a stanch adherent of the Democratic party, under whose banner he has been aligned since the time of attaining to his legal majority. He has had no predilection for public ofiSce and has served in none except that of member of the city council, of which he was president during one year of his two year term. He has been unflagging to the work of his profession and has been retained in connection with a large amount of important litigation in both state and federal courts. The firm of which he is a member has served as legal attorneys for the Cleveland, Cincinnati Chicago & St. Louis Railroad since 1890 and for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad since 1895. Mr. Weller is a stockholder and director of the National Machinery Company, of Tiflftn, and is counsel for the same. He is the owner of considerable amount of valuable real estate in his home city, is a stockholder in the local telephone company and is also the owner of National Bank stock. He is affiliated with Tiffin Lodge, No. 77, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he has been a member since 1878, and in 1877 he became a member of Tiffin Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is past noble grand but from which he secured a withdrawal card in 1895.

On the 30th of December, 1884, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Weller to Miss Julia M. Paynter, a daughter of Martin S. and Sarah L. Paynter, the father a native of Maryland and the mother of Pennsylvania. They came to Ohio in the pioneer days, here passing the remainder of their lives. Mr. and Mrs. Weller have no children. They have maintained their home at 216 South Washington street since the time of their marriage and Mrs. Weller has been a popular figure in connection with the best social activities of the community.

Dr. Howard K. Shumaker is one of the well known and greatly respected citizens of Seneca county. A former medical missionary whose ministrations to submerged humanity took him to the Orient, he has been restored to his native county for the reason that his health could not withstand the rigors of the foreign climate, and his gifts are now being devoted to the upbuilding of the Orphans* Home of Flat Rock. Always inclined to philanthropy, he finds his present field most congenial and his services to the above mentioned institution are of the highest possible character.

Dr. Shumaker was bom August 26, 1871, the son of Reverend Joseph B. and Susan (Keller) Shumaker, the father a native of this state and the mother of Pennsylvania. The education of both of these worthy people was finished in Heidelberg College in Tiffin. After entering the ministry of the German Reformed church, the father began his labors as a clergyman in Ohio, and later moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where for fourteen years he filled the pastorate of St. Paul's Reformed church. The parents of the subject were married in 1869, and three children were bom to them,, the other members of the family being Claude H. Shumaker, Paynesville, Ohio, and Miss Anna M. Shumaker, Bellevue, Ohio.

year he inaugurated his career as a practicing physician. Having graduated from Heidelberg College in 1891, with the degree of A. B., he entered Starling Medical College in Columbus, Ohio, and completed his course in this well known institution of the capital city in 1894, after which he took post graduate work in the Chicago Post Graduate Medical College of Chicago. He hung up his shingle in that year at Old Port, Ohio, and after three years of practice he went to Canton, China, as a medical missionary for the United Brethren church. He gave his best abilities in faithful service to the cause for the space of six years and a half. At the end of that time the climate and nervous strain incident to the Boxer uprising and Kumg Si famine had undermined his constitution and necessitated his return. Upon his return to Ohio he took up his residence at Plat Rock as a physician, and some what later the affairs of the Orphans' Home engaged his attention and proved work to which he could give all his energy and enthusiasm. This engages his attention almost to the exclusion of general practice, particularly as he also engages in the instruction of the minds of the young citizens who have been bereft of natural protectors, as well as attending to their bodily ailments.

On the 25th day of January, 1902, Dr. Shumaker was united in marriage to Miss Austia Patterson, an instructor in the Ho Nam School for Girls at Canton, China, these two young people having been brought together through their missionary work.

Dr. Shumaker 's maternal ancestors, the Kellers, are extremely well known and prominent in their part of Ohio. His grandfather, Judge John H. Keller, of Bucyrus, was born in the year 1786, in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, and served as judge of the common pleas court and for years was brigade inspector of state militia. Six uncles of the subject served during the war of the rebellion, one of them, Aaron Keller, being captain of Company C, Porty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and it is for this valiant soldier that Keller Post of Bucyrus, Ohio, is named. Amos Keller was Pirst Lieutenant in the same Company, and both gave up their lives at the battle of Stone River. Thus on both sides of his family does Dr. Shumaker have reason to be proud of those who have preceded him.

Dennis P. Derr, a well known citizen of Tiffin, Ohio, belongs to one of the early pioneer families of Seneca county, with which they became identified early in the last century. Ezra Derr, the father of Dennis P., was born in Prederick county, Maryland, in 1806, and in young manhood came to Ohio. He came on horseback and remained during that winter. On his return he informed his father that he was going to come here to live, and the entire family then also came to Ohio, their settlement being in Seneca county, where he was reared and married. His wife, Rosanna (Cramer) Derr, like himself was a native of Prederick county, Maryland, and was brought by her parents when a child to Seneca county. After their marriage they settled in Clinton township, where he cleared and improved a farm, and where they passed the rest of their lives and died. At the time of his death he was the owner of three hundred and twenty acres of land northeast of TiflSn. In their family were four sons and three daughters, of whom at this writing, 1910, three are living: John, William and Dennis P., all residents of Seneca county.

Dennis P. Derr was bom on his father's farm, above referred to, May 17, 1836, and was reared and educated in his native township, receiving his education in the common schools near his home. He remained a member of the home circle until he was twentyseven, when he married. Panning has been his life occupation. He owns two farms, comprising one hundred and fifty-two acres, both in Seneca county, and personally still superintends their operation but makes his home in Tiffin, at 61 Clay street.

In 1863 Mr. Derr married Miss Mary Dudrow, who had come to Tiffin, Ohio, with her parents in 1846 and settled on a farm near the town. The Dudrows were also natives of Frederick county, Maryland, where Mrs. Derr was born December 23, 1839. Three children are the fruits of this union : Charles E., attorney at law, Tiffin, Anna, wife of Samuel Horn, and Mary, wife of Charles Weller.

When Civil war was inaugurated Mr. Derr was among the first to show his patriotic loyalty to the Union by enlisting his service to help put down the rebellion, and went out as a member of Company A, Eighth Ohio Regiment, with which he remained one hundred days. At the end of that time he was sent home on account of sickness. As soon as he had sufficiently recovered, however, he again joined the ranks, and in I8t)2 went to the fi*ont with the Eighty-sixth Ohio. But after four months more of army life he was again overtaken by illness and was discharged on account of disability.

While Mr. Derr has never been a public man or aspired to public office he has maintained a firm faith in the Republican party and has always given it his vote and his best support. He is a member of Sandusky Jjodge, No. 77, P. and A. M., and he and his family are identified with the Pirst Reformed churcli of Tiffin.

Wade H. Rule. - The name of Rule is one which is widely and favorably known in this section of Ohio, and one of the most prominent and promising of those who bear it at the present day is Wade H. Rule, who is engaged in the flour, feed and coal business in Greenspring and whose unusual executive gifts have made this one of the most important business interests in this section of the county, Mr. Rule enjoying an exceptionally large trade. He has made rapid progress for his years and has succeeded in establishing himself substantially when under twenty-five, for his birth occurred May 2, 1886, in the present scene of his activities. His parents were Sidney and Anna (McHenry) Rule. The father was bom March 22, 1861, the son of Jefferson and Eliza (Patterson) Rule, their ancestors being natives respectively of the empire state and of Ohio. The grandparents on the Rule side were both bom in the year 1820. In the year 1844 they located upon land in Adams township, Seneca county, and here their children were bom and reared and the elders remained throughout the residue of their lives, the mother passing on to her reward in 1879 and the father in 1902. Although not one of the first to set about reclaiming Ohio from the wilderness, the founder of the family in the state cleared his farm from timber and improved it in an exceptionally fine manner, among other things building a commodious brick house.

They reared a family of typical pioneer size, for there were twelve children, and seven of them are living at the present day. Jennie, the eldest, married Anthony Von Scoter, of St. John's Michigan; Lucy A. became the wife of Edward Sherman of the same place; Adda E became the wife of Charles E. Coflfman, of Tiffin ; Albert J., bom June 30, 1859, married Delia D. Hoeltzel ; Sidney P., resides upon the old family homestead of the Rules ; Delia v., is the wife of J. J. Henneger and resides on a farm not far distant from Morris. The head of the family was public spirited and a man who studied the issues of the day. He voted the Democratic ticket and gave his support to all those causes likely to result in the attainment of the greatest amount of good to the greatest number.

Sidney Rule, father of him whose name initiates this review, was educated in the district schools, adjacent to his home, became well grounded in the agricultural science, and resided at home until his marriage. The lady to become his wife was Anna D. IMcHenry, who was bom March 19, 1864, her parents being John and Anna D. McHenry, native Ohioans, who located in Adams township. After the death of the father his wddow lived at Tiffin, Ohio, and she remained with Mrs. Rule until her marriage, October 10, 1883. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Rule have been bom five children, four sons and a daughter, as follows: Wade H., born May 2, 1886; Cletus B., bora Pebraary 22, 1889, married Meda Parker, June 16, 1910, and is the owner and cultivator of his own farm ; Floyd W., born May 8, 1895, now attending school at Greenspring, after having victoriously passed the Boxwell examinations at the age of thirteen years; John M., born March 18, 1898, and living at home ; and Helen L., born November 18, 1905. In the matter of politics Sidney Rule is favorably inclined toward the policies and principles promulgated by the Democratic party, but he is not one of those who fear to sacrific^e their partisanship to a good cause. He purchased his present farm of two hundred and fifty-five acres of the fertile surface of Seneca countv with his own earnings and he is one of the progressive agriculturists.

Wade H. Rule spent his boyhood and youth upon hii? father's farm, and like his brothers assisted in its cultivation, so that although he is enrolled in the ranks of commerce, still he is not unlearned in the calling of which so many of his relatives have be^n exponents. He received his preliminary education in the schools of Adams township and afterward matriculated in Heidelberg College at Tiffin, for the space of several terms taking advantage of the excellent educational opportunities afforded by that institution. In the year 1909 Mr. Rule established himself independently in the world of affairs in Greenspring, purchasing the business conducted by J. L. Stoner (deceased) for twenty-three years previously. His line is flour, feed and coal and he furnishes these necessary commodities to a great number of people. He is one of those whose social side is not undeveloped and he finds pleasure and profit in his lodge relations, which extend to the great Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in the latter of which he is at present vice grand. He holds the office of secretary in the business association for the encouragement of commerce in Greenspring and the surrounding country, and is also a member of the corporation council. Mr. Rule is a stanch Republican

On the 10th day of June, 1906, the subject was united in marriage to Miss Dorothy King, of Greenspring, Ohio, she being a daughter of George and Flora (Kunan) King, natives of Ohio. Mrs. Rule was born in the year 1884 and was educated in the public schools. Their union has been blessed by the birth of one child, a daughter named Florence, born May 22, 1909.

Herbert S. Fry. - One of Pleasant township's enterprising and successful young citizens is Herbert S. Fry, a man of versatile ability, formerly engaged in the hardware business, then an agriculturist and now a prosperous manufacturer of that labor-saving device, the corn husking peg. This is winning wide distinction and is greatly esteemed by the agriculturists. Mr. Fry is a native son, his birth having occurred April 1, 1877, his parents being Orvin J. and Melissa (Decker) Fry, the father a native of this township and the mother of Bellville, Sandusky county, Ohio. In the veins of the subject there flows the blood of the plucky Hollander, which has proved its virtues to be among the most excellent of all the nations. His grandfather Phillip Fry, was a native of the land of dykes, who at an early age bade farewell to old friends and familiar associations and came to America to claim his share of the wealth and opportunity so brightly painted by tradition. He arrived in troublous times, however, for it is said by his descendants that he came some time near the year 1812. The mother was a native Pennsylvanian. This worthy pioneer couple located on a farm consisting of. three hundred and fortyfive acres, and there they maintained thejr home, being people of influence and earnest members of the German Reformed church.

Nearly all of the people of Mr. Fry's mother were Pennsylvanians, who cast their fortunes with the newer state of Ohio at about the same time as the Frys. The elder Decker settled in this township and cultivated a farm consisting of about three hmidred and twenty acres. The names are both well and favorably known in this section.

Mr. Fry remained beneath the home roof until the attainment of his twenty-second birthday, when he pulled up stakes and went to North Dakota to satisfy a desire to see new lands and try his fling at independence. He took a claim in that state and after he had proved up on the same, like most good Ohioans, he returned to the state of his birth, this being in 1904. Two years later he forsook the ranks of the young bachelors and became a benedict by his marriage to Miss Zula Share, who was bom September 12, 1881, her parents being William and Dora (Brickman) Share. Both of them were natives of Pleasant township, being located near Port Seneea. They have one child, a little son, named Ned Monroe, born December 10, 1909.

Mr. Pry gives stalwart support to the Democratic party and he has already seen public service, having been elected township clerk. He takes an intelligent view of the issues of the day and no doubt has a political as well as a business career before him. He and his wife are members of the Reformed church and his fraternal affiliations extend to the Knighted Order of Tented Maccabees. He received his higher education at Heidelberg, but left that institution of learning previous to completing his course.

As before suggested he has had a varied career for a man of his years, having been first engaged in the hardware business in Old Port. He owns a farm in Bridgefield toi^nship, Huron county, Ohio, and also conducts the plant for the manufacture of the Standard Corn Husking Pegs at Old Port.

Pred Petzer, proprietor of the Home Restaurant, No. 47 South Washington street. Tiffin, Ohio, is a native of the ** Buckeye state." He was bom at Pindlay, Hancock county, Ohio, March 23, 1879, and was reared and received his business training there At the age of twenty he began to learn the first principles of tht restaurant business by starting out as a cook. He served several years in that capacity before engaging in business for himself, which he did in Pindlay, and remained there until 1906. That year he came to Tiffin and opened a restaurant at 47 South Washington street, which he named the Home Restaurant. So successful was he that the following year he was able to purchase a half interest in the building he occupied, and later he purchased the other half. He has made extensive improvements in the premises and has personally supervised every detail of the business, the result being that today he is the owner of **the best place to eat" in Tiffin.

Mr. Petzer is a member of the K. of C, and both he and his wife are identified with St. Joseph Catholic church. Mrs. Petzer, formerly Miss Plorence Gibson, is also a native of Pindlay, Ohio.

George B. Wortman, D. D. S. - Possessing acknowledged skill and giving close attention to his professional duties, George B. Wortman, D. D. S.. is fast building up a large and lucrative practice in Tiffin, and although he has been here a comparatively brief time is already one of the leading representatives of the dental profession in this city. A native of Ohio, born at Cadiz, Harrison county, he is a son of J. D. Wortman, M. D., of Wheeling, West Virginia.

After his graduation from the Cadiz High School George B. Wortman completed the banking and bookkeeping course of study in Scio College, at Scio, Ohio, after which he attended Pranklin College at New Athens, Ohio. Then, in order to fit himself for a position in his father's drug store, he continued his studies at the Pittsburg College of Pharmacy. Having, however, from youth up a predilection for a professional career, he subsequently entered the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in Cincinnati, and was there graduated in 1884, with the degree of D. D. S. Dr. Wortman began the practice of his profession in (5adiz, his home town, remaining there nine or ten years. Keeping pace with the discoveries and improvements made in dentistry from year to year, the doctor has taken post graduate courses both at Cincinnati and at Chicago, Illinois. From Cadiz he removed to Massillon, Ohio, where he built up a substantial business. Selling out on account of ill health, he spent a year recuperating, and having recovered his former physical vigor he came, August 1, 1909, to Tiffin, locating at No. 1421-2 South Washington street, over Hayden's drug store, his present office, and has since been busily employed.

Dr. Wortman married Nancy Holliday, and they are the parents of three children, two sons and a daughter. The Doctor and Mrs. Wortman are members of the Presbyterian church. Politically the Doctor is a sound Republican. He has gained high standing in the community as a citizen, and has also gained the esteem of a wide circle of friends and the respect of men of all classes with whom he has come in contact.

J. Edward Newhouse. - It is most pleasing to the publishers of this compilation to incorporate within its pages a history of the career of J. Edward Newhouse, who is a native son of Seneca county, which has represented his home during practically his entire life thus far and- who is a scion of a fine old German family, his paternal grandparents having emigrated to America about the year 1869. .

Mr. Newhouse was bom in Sciopo township, this county, on the 26th of January, 1879, and is a son of Fred and Mary A. (Miller) Newhouse, the former of whom was bom in Germany in 1854, and the latter of whom is a native of Seneca county, Ohio. Fred Newhouse received his preliminary educational training in the excellent schools of his fatherland and he was a lad of fifteen years of age at the time of his parents emigration to America. The family first located in the city of Pittsburg, Pe'nnsylvania, and here the father of the subject of this review obtained employment in a glass factory. Later he resolved to seek his fortunes further west and he journeyed to Ohio, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits in Seneca county. Here was solemnized his marriage to ^Tiss Mary A. Miller, whose maternal grandfather was a gallant soldier in the Union ranks in the Civil war. Both Mr. and Mrs. Miller are living.

J. Edward Newhouse was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm, in whose work he early began to assist his father, and he has continued on as an agriculturist. He availed himself of the advantages afforded in the district schools and remained at the parental home until he had attained to his legal majority, at which time he hired out as a farm hand for a period of three years.

sponsor in matters of national import, but in local affairs he maintains an independent attitude, giving his support to men and measures meeting with the approval of his judgment. He is affiliated with various fraternal and social organizations of representative character and both he* and his wife hold membership in the United Brethren church.

On the 29th of September, 1903, at Attica, Ohio, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Newhouse to Miss Addie Rader, who is a native of Van Wert county, Ohio, and who is a daughter of J. P. and Kate Rader, representative citizens of that county, where the father is a retired farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Newhouse have two children, Gladys, who was born on the 16th of March, 1905; and Joel F., who was born September 24, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Newhouse are prominent and popular figures in connection with the best social activities of the community and their attractive home is recognized as a center of gracious and generous hospitality.

R. T. ScHAAP. - Few citizens of years as few as those of R. T. Schaaf have been engaged in as many pursuits or have achieved as signal success in their permanent life work. One of the progressive and honored young exponents of the great basic industry of agriculture, he has splendid prospects and is the owner of two hundred and ten acres of fine land situated near Attica, and is also engaged in the raising of fine cattle.

R. T. Schaaf was born in Attica, Ohio, on the first day of April, 1884. His father, Henry Schaaf, was born in Seneca county and, as the name indicates, the family is of- German origin. The paternal grandparents, in fact, were natives of the German Empire and followed the example set by so many of their friends and neighbors, breaking old ties and crossing the seas to claim their share of American freedom and prosperity. Henry Schaaf married Caroline Lebold, who was born in Attica, Ohio. Both parents reside in Attica, where they are recognized as estimable people, and where their church membership is with the Evangelical Lutheran church. Besides him whose name initiates this article they have another son, Charles, who makes his home in Bryan, Ohio.

Mr. Schaaf received his education in the public schools of Attica, graduating from the high school in that place in 1900. His first adventure as a factor in the world of affairs was as a clerk in a drug store, which position he continued to hold for five years, his services being of marked ability. Upon leaving the drug store Mr. Schaaf made a radical change in business, purchasing a transfer line in Attica, which he operated for four years and a half. He sold out subsequently and engaged in farming, the most entire success having attended his efforts. In addition to general agriculture he deals extensively in stock, developing cattle of the Durham breed. His very desirable farming property is adorned by one of the prettiest homes in Reed township.

Mr. Schaaf has but recently joined the ranks of the benedicts, his union with Lillie M. Cook having been solemnized March 16, 1910. She was also bom in Seneca county, and her parents, Harman and Mahala Cook, are both deceased. Mr. Schaaf is

Albert F. Black. - ^A man of sterling: inteorrity and worth ener^tic and enterprisinsr, Albert F. Black, residing at 119 West Market street, Tiflfin, holds a substantial position among the active and valued citizens of the place. A son of Jacob Black, Jr., he was bom September 28. 1862. in Wyandot county, Ohio. His ^andparents, Jacob Sr., and Sarah Black, came from Maryland, their native state, to Clinton township, Seneca county, Ohio, in pioneer days and on the homestead they reclaimed from its primitive wildneps spent the remainder of their lives.

Jacob Black Jr., was born May 3, 1828, in Clinton township, Seneca county, and was there reared to manhood. Soon after be^nning life for himself he located in Wyandot county, and was there enpraped in tilling the soil for many years. Returning to Seneca county in 1867, he bought a farm near Adrian and there followed his chosen occupation until near his death, in October, 1896. He married, November 11. 1852, Elizabeth Miley, who was bom March 8, 1833, in Seneca county, Ohio, where her parents. John and Magdalena (Beaver) Miley, located in 1828, coming t^ this state from Virginia, their native home. She preceded him to the life beyond, passing away June 19, 1895. Four children blessed their union, as follows: John H., bom September 1, 1853. a retired farmer now living at Carey, Ohio ; Emma, deceased, wife of Frank Johnson, of Adrian; a child who died in infancy; and Albert F. The father was a successful farmer, owning two wellimproved farms of fertile land which he brought to a good state of cultivation. The mother was a member of the United Brethren church and both were held in high estimation throughout the community in which they lived.

Acquiring a snbstiintial knowledge of the common branches of learning in the Adrian special schools, Albert F. Black received a practical training in agriculture under the supervision of his father, with whom he remained until twenty-six years of age. Soon after his marriage he located in TifBn, where he has since resided. He owns an extensive tract of fine farming land in Big Spring township and personally superintends its management. The farm is highly improved and is devoted to general farming and stock raising. He has other interests of value and is a director and a stockholder in the Citizens' Building Association of TiflRn.

On February 28, 1889, Mr. Black was united in marriage with Electa M. Walton, who was born in Seneca countv, Ohio, July 28, 1866, and was educated in the district schools and at the Fostoria and Greenspring Academies. Her father, Levi Walton, an extensive live stock dealer and farmer, was born January 25, 1833. and died January 23, 1878, while his wife, whose maiden name was Huldah Wood, was bora Mav 2, 1836, and died Febmary 19, 1895. Besides Mrs. Black they had two other children. Edith Emma, who died at the age of thirteen months, and a son who died in infancy.

Black, bom November 3, 1894, who is a student in the Tiffin high school, a member of the class of 1912. Besides the land interests of Mr. Black, his wife is also an extensive land holder, and both of them can ever be counted upon to give their support to all causes likely to prove of benefit to the whole community. The family attend the First Presbyterian church of TiflSn.

Michael L. Scannbll. - A resident of Tiffin since 1863, Michael L. Scannell, a man of unquestioned executive and business ability, has gained a foremost position among the worthy and respected citizens of this part of Seneca county. Coming here when the city was in its infancy, he has watched with pride and gratification its rapid growth and continually increasing prosperity, and has been conspicuously identified with its best interests, generously using his time and influence to promote the public welfare.

As president and treasurer of the Tiffin Water Works, he has been eminently successful in furnishing the people with an ample supply of pure water for domestic use and a sufficient quantity for protection from fire. Under his efficient superintendency the city water works, established in 1879, have met all the requirements demanded by an up-to-date city, modern improvements being added whenever required. Under the management of Mr. Scannell a direct pumping system has been installed, the pumping station being situated up the Sandusky river, south of Tiffin, and as adequate provisions are made for all emergencies a shortage of water has never been known and is not anticipated, the pumping capacity being eight million gallons of water a day.

The office of the Tiffin Water Works is located at the corner of East Market and Monroe streets, and is under the supervision of Mr. Scannell, who has an efficient and obliging corps of assistants, who vie with him in attending to the needs of the patrons of the department. Mr. Scannell holds a noteworthy position in social and business circles, being in every respect a man of honor and a perfect gentleman.

WOiLiAM Hart Taber. - For a quarter of a century W. H. Taber has lived upon and operated his valuable and attractive farm in Reed township and has proved an effective factor in the attainment of that high degree of prosperity and enlightenment which Seneca county enjoys. He is entitled to honor not only as a good citizen, but also as a veteran of the Civil war, and his family, of which he has record for many generations, is one of the oldest in the land, his maternal ancestors, the Alvords, having set foot on American soil only a few years after the Pilgrims.

Mr. Taber is a native son of the county, his birth having occurred in Venice township. October 13, 1845. His father. Record Taber, and his mother, whose maiden name was Nancy Alvord, were bom in Cayuga county. New York. They emigrated to Ohio in the year 1842 and located in Venice township, where the father soon won recognition as a worthy citizen. He was a hard working man and one of modest means, but he assisted in every way he could to advance the schools and the churches, contributing liberally from his small store. He was first a Whi^ in political faith, and upon the organization of the llepublican party became identified with it.

Mr. Taber received his education in the Seneca county schools and although he was scarcely seventeen years of age at the breaking out of the Civil war, he joined the one hundred day service. He was a member of Company G, One Hundred and Sixty-fourth Ohio, and was under Colonel John C. Lee, who was later elected lieutenant governor of Ohio. He has by no means lost interest; in the comrades of other days, and his remembered experiences of the days of the conflict between the states are interesting. Although Mr. Taber is a successful farmer, his interests are not limited to his vocation and he finds time for the cultivation of the more aesthetic wde of life. He has a good collection of books and is a great reader and he enjoys taking his violin and playing the old tunes. He is a stanch adherent of the policies and principles of the Republican party and he has several times served as trustee and justice of the peace. Although a good soldier in other days he has never been a recruit to the ranks of the Benedicts. He resided with his parents for many years, taking care of them until their demise, that of the father occurring February 27, 1876, and that of the mother on July 4, 1893.

As previously mentioned Mr. Taber can trace his ancestry on the maternal side through many generations, or from 1632 to the present day. In tracing it back through the years the name Alvord is found to be spelled in many different ways, such as Alvorwrd, etc. In the genealogical record an interesting incident having to do with the then current belief in witchcraft is related. One of the Alvords was collecting taxes in his locality in the state of Massachusetts and he called upon one Barnard Bartlet, whose wife protested against paying them. Finally convinced of the impossibility of avoiding payment the Bartlet woman declared that although Alvord might get the money his wife would be sorry. Upon returning home Alvord found his wife insane and she subsequently committed suicide by drowning. It was held that Mrs. Bartlet had bewitched Mrs. Alvord. The first Alvord in America was Alex, who came from London, England, in 1632 and located in Salem, Massachusetts.

David J. Auble. - Among the prominent citizens of Reed township, Seneca county, David J. Auble has given efficient service in various offices of public trust and he is successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits on his fine farm of eighty acres, one mile distant from West Lodi, where he has resided since 1863. He was born at West Lodi, Seneca county, Ohio, on the 8th of August, 1863. His father, Peter Auble, was born in the state of New York and he emigrated to Seneca county, Ohio, about the year 1837. His parents homesteaded in Thompson township and he received his education in the district schools and in the Seneca County Academy at Republic. Leaving the academy at about twenty he returned to his father's farm and at the time of the inception of the Civil war he served in the Union army for a period of ninety days. There- after he was constable of Reed township, and he now resides in the village of Republic. He married Miss Lyda Stout, who was bom in Sandusky, Ohio, of parents who were originally from Pennsylvania. The children bom to this union were : Clara, who married Charles Unser, resides in Green Springs, this county; Emory, is deceased; Harley, resides in Reed township; Myrtle is deceased; and David J., is the immediate subject of this review.

David J. Auble was reared to the sturdy discipline of the homo farm, in whose work he assisted during the summers, attending the district schools during the winter terms. Besides diversified agriculture he is deeply interested in the raising of high grade stock, including Poland China swine. He is treasurer and was one of the promoters of the West Lodi Creamery Association, which is capitalized at $5,700. In politics he is a stanch advocate of the cause of the Democratic party and he has served as constable of Reed township for a period of twelve years. For two years he was personal property assessor and he has also served two terms as township trustee. In the fall of 1910 he was elected county infirmary director by a majority of one thousand six hundred and nintyone votes. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has passed the various official chairs in the same. He attends and gives his suppart to the German Reformed church, in which his wife is a devout member, and he is essentially progressive and public spirited in his civic attitude, giving his aid in support of all worthy measures projected for the good of the general public.

On the 24th of December, 1884, Mr. Auble was united in marriage to Miss Kate Hensinger, who was bom in Adams township, this county, and whose parents were natives of Pennsylvania. Her father is deceased and her mother is now residing at Tiffin, Ohio, at the venerable age of seventy years. Mr. and Mrs. Auble are the parents of the following children : Maudie Elora, Perry Blane, John Harley, Mabel Elmira and Noble D., the latter of whom is the wife of Andy Powers and resides in Scipio township.

Milton Van Voorhees - The history of the Van Voorhees family of which the immediate subject of this article is a member is interesting. The following details of Elijah Van Voorhees and his family may be depended upon as of authority. They are drawn from the ** Genealogy of the Van Voorhees family in America" by the late Elias W. Van Voorhees, of New York. Van Voorhees is the anglicised surname form of the HoUandic words **van voor Hees," meaning from before, or in front of, the town of ITees. The earliest ascertained ancestor of the American family was Albert Van Voor ITees, whose name signified one Albert who lived near ITees. Few Dutch colonists of America came to this side of the Atlantic with surnames of established usage after the English fashion, and when, in conformity with English custom, they began to adopt fixed family names they usually took parental or other Christian names or names of localities in Holland. The town of Hees, the native place of this family, is a small community in the province of Drentha. Albert Van Voorhees, first of the name, had nine children, the eldest of whom was Coert Albert Van Voorhees who lived in Holland. Of his seven children the eldest, Steven Coerte Van Voorhees, was bom in or near Hecb, province of Drentha, Holland, April, 1660. He came to America with his wife and eight children, on the ship Borelekre (Spotted Cone), and settled on Long Island. He bought from Cornelius Dircksen Hoogland, November 29, 1660, for three thousand guelders, certain landed property, a house and house plot and a brewery and apparatus in what is now Flatlands. In 1664 he was one of the magistrates of that place and his name appears under date 1667 on a patent, and under dates 1675 and 1683 on assessment rolls. He and his second wife were members of the Dutch Reformed church of Flatlands in 1667. Steven Coerte Van. Voorhees' will is dated August 25, 1677, and he diedl in Flatlands, February 16, 1684. His first wife's name is lost. She bore him five sons and five daughters, all in Holland. The two of them who did not come to America with him came later. All of them ' married, creating numerous lines of descent from him in the Van Voorhees and other families. His third child, Coerte Steven Van Voorhees of Flatlands, Long Island, born 1637, died after 1702. He married before 1664 Gersstre Van Voorhees and had nine children, the seventh of whom was Cornelius Coerte, bom January 23, 1678, who was an ensign of militia in 1700 and who bought a farm in Flatlands May 14, 1702. He had five children. Coerte was born in 1698 and his will was filed February 11, 1775. He signed his name **Koert Voorhees." He had six children, of whom the fifth born was Coerte, August 21, 1735, and who died September 11, 1817. He married first Ealy Van Pelt, then Helen Hoogland, and lived at Dutch Neck, Mercer county, New Jersey. He had eight children, the eldest of whom was Coerte, born February 28, 1756, who died March 9, 1821. He married, May 27, 1779, Ann Updike, bom March 27, 1760, who died July 13, 1845. They had nine children, Catherine, William, Cornelius, Ann, Elizabeth, Mary, John, Major and Elijah. Major was bom May 12, 1796, and died December 16, 1880. He married, January 6, 1820, Athalia Cubberly, born August 7, 1799,. and had no children. Catherine married William H. Conover, February 20, 1801, and had seven children: Mary A., Phoebe, Elijah, Voorhees, Caroline, William and Cornelius. She settled in New Jersey.

Elijah, bom in New Jersey, June 5, 1802, married Jane Rozelle December 21, 1825, and in 1835 they moved to New York and in 1836 to Sandusky county, Ohio, traveling by canal to Buffalo, thence by lake to Port Huron, Michigan, where they got ox teams with which to continue their journey to Fremont, then a mere village. Until they could build a log cabin for their occupancy they lived with Mr. Van Voorhees' brother-in-law, Charles Rozelle, south of Fremont. Their first domicile was windowless, doorless, floorless and otherwise primitive. The family consisted then of the father, mother and four children. Mr. Van Voorhees cleared five acres and sowed some of it to wheat. He cut his wheat with a cradle and threshed with a flail.

Voorhees homestead, owned by Oliver, son of Elisha Van Voorhees, and occupied by the latter 's son George. His surroundingsr were truly primitive. His white neighbors were few and far between, Indians often crossed his land going to and coming from Upper Sandusky and the woods were full of game, the streams alive with fishes. Mr. Van Voorhees died February 11, 1863, his wife, June 24 following. They had ten children. Ann was born May 18, 1827 ; Alexander, July 24, 1828, died August 2 of that year ; Mary E., October 5, 1829 ; John M., February 29, 1833 ; William H., February 16, 1834; Andrew, July 19, 1836; George, March 28, 1839, died December 8, that year; Amanda Jane, October 23, 1840; Oliver D., July 12, 1842 ; Ezra E., September 2, 1846. Ann married Amos Mull and had six children, of whom the following account can be given: Cordelia is the wife of Thomas Jackson, of Sandusky county, Ohio ; Enos, married Irene Sager, of Michigan ; Edwin, married Mary Sachs, of the state of Washington ; William, married and is living in Colorado ; Vienna, is the wife of Brough Maul, postmaster at Greenspring, Ohio; Sylvester, is living in Orleans, Nebraska, with his mother ; Amos Mull, died there, having gone there from Ohio some years ago; Mary E., married Samuel Mull, of Sandusky county, Ohio, and had six children; Ermina Jane, is the wife of J. K. Huttle, of Spartansburg, South Carolina ; Ellen, became Mrs. Pitman and died in 1897 ; Henry P., bom April

26, 1857, died May 26, 1900; Alice, married William Forshay, of Detroit, Michigan. The Rev. Charles V. Mull is a minister of the United Brethren church at South Bend, Indiana. Mary E. (Voorhees) Mull died December 27, 1888; Samuel Mull died at Ligonier, Indiana, April 26, 1896. John M. Voorhees married Sarah J. Winters and they had children : Major Jerome, married Ann Havens and is living in Sandusky county, Ohio; Amanda, is the wife of J. H. Michaels, of Kansas, Ohio. William H. Voorhees married Catharine Mowery and they had two children : Milton, the immediate subject of this article, and Milo, now of Scottsville, Michigan, who married Lena Gamertsfelter. William's first wife died and he married Rebecca Stoner, who bore him two children : Elijah Van Voorhees, of Bettsville, Ohio, married to Lorena Kenan, and Anna, who married Charles Baker, of Bettsville. William died February 8, 1894. Andrew Van Vorhees married Mary Mowery. Their only child, Frank Van Voorhees of Gibsonburg, Ohio, married Orpha Fry. Mary (Mowery) Van Voorhees died February 9, 1859, and Andrew married Margaret Jackson and they had three daughters : Clara, wife of R. H. Chapman ; Florence, wife of James Wichert; and Nina, wife of Chester Edgerton. Margaret (Jackson) Van Voorhees died and Andrew married Fannie Hailey, who survives him, he having died March 24, 1896. Amanda Jane Van Voorhees married Jeremiah Winters and bore him three children: Arilda Jane, wife of Frank Havens of Sandusky county, Ohio; Chauncey, who married Sarah Myers; and Herman, who married Stella Hughes, of Fremont, Ohio. Anna died February 6, 1905. Oliver D. Van Voorhees married Lucina Schock, of Bettsville. Their only child, Mary Jane, married Frank Brokaw, of

Eagle, Michigan. Lucina died and he married Sophia B. Stahls, of Fremont, Ohio, who has bore him children: Verna B., wife of Russell Shannon, of TiflSn; Benjamin W., of Bettsville; Irena (Mrs. Heiser) of Tiffin ; George H., who married Dora Dundore ; Fred 0., who married Dora Soloman; Karl S., who married Lulu Kenan; Sherman 0., of Rye Valley, Oregon. Ezra E. Van Voorhees married Katharine Stiger, and they had six children : Jennie, wife of Mark Day, of Bettsville; Ella, wife of A. A. Rider, of Bettsville; Carrie, wife of (Jeorge Shearer, of Fremont; Edith, wife of Welby Stahl, of Bloomville, Ohio; Minnie, wife of William Mitchell, of Burgoon, Sandusky county, Ohio ; Hazel, wife of Robert Emmons, of Bettsville.

There is still another generation of - the descendants of Elijah Van Voorhees' branch of the Van Voorhees family. The grand-, children of Ann (Voorhees) Mull are Inez (Jackson) Brubaker, Charles Maule, Zella Maule, Howard Maule, Harry Maule, Fay Mabel, Orville Mull, Grace Mull, Florence Russell, Bert Mull. The grandchildren of Mary Van Voorhees Mull are Frank, Alice, Olive, Edward, Jane and Charles Hottell, Maud Pitman, Charles Forshay, Dot Forshay, Irma (Forshay) McLane, Margaret Mull. The grandchildren of John M. Van Voorhees are John M. Van Voorhees, Jr., Quest Michael Ash. The grandchildren of Andrew Van Voorhees are Harry Chapman, Russell Wichert, Ada Wichert, Raymond Milchler. The grandchildren of William H. Van Voorhees are Edna Esther (Van Voorhees) Hull, Leon Milton Van Voorhees, Florence, Mildred and Helen Van Voorhees, Clarence Baker, Sylvester, Clara, Orpha, Jennie, Miirtie, Fannie, Howard, Elma and John Van Voorhees. The grandchildren of Amanda Jane (Van Voorhees) Winters are Flavel Havens, Robert, Esther (Havens) Smith, Oliver Winters, Ed Winters, Ada Winters and Clarence Winters, Ray Havens and Willis Havens. The grandchildren of Oliver D. Van Voorhees are Voorhees Russell, Nathan Vaughan, Phyllis Van Voorhees, Oliver, Winnie and Mark Brokaw. The grandchildren of Ezra E. (Enos) Van Vorhees are Carrol, Enos and Don Stahl, Grace and Olive Day, Merle and Blake Rider, (adopted), Thelma Rider, Gamit Shearer, Ray and Doratha Mitchell. Still another generation has taken its place - great-great-grandchildren of Elijah Van Voorhees: Esther Cecilia Hull and Thelma Marie Baker, great-grandchildren of William H. Van Voorhees; Carlos Wichert, great-grandchild of Andrew Van Voorhees.

Milton Van Vorhees was born in Jackson township, Sandusky county, Ohio, March 25, 1856, a son of William H. and Catharine (Mowery) Van Voorhees. William H., came with his father, Elijah Van Voorhees, from New York. The elder Van Voorhees entered land on Wolf creek, where he made a farm and lived out his days. Catharine Mowery was a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Strayer) Mowery, who came to the United States from Oermany about 1810, and she was bom in 1829. The Van Voorhees and Mowery families were prominent in their vicinity and leaders in public affairs, and most of them became well to do, if not wealthy. The original Van Voorhees land purchase of eighty acres was expanded by subsequent acquisitions into a fine estate of seven hun- dred acres. The Van Voorhees were United Brethren and active and efficient in church work. They were origipally Republicans and as such were elected to important township and county offices.

Mlton Van Voorhees was educated in public schools and reared a practical farmer. He remained with his parents, assisting in the management of the homestead till his first marriage, October 18, 1878, to Miss Sylvesta Mitchell, daughter of William and Jane (Stewart) Mitchell, and a native of Sandusky county, Ohio. Her parents were natives of New York. She died February 17, 1880, having one child, bom January 27, 1880, Sylvester, now a resident of Enderlin, South Dakota, train despatcher on the Great Northern Railroad. He served three years in the Philippine war under Captain Betts. He was honorably discharged as a corporal. He married and has two children, Edna and Cora ; great-grandchildren of William Van Voorhees. Milton Van Voorhees married Esther Floraines Blue October 19, 1882. She was born June 18, 1864, a daughter of Dennis and Mary (Qood) Blue, he a native oi Virginia, she a native of Pennsylvania. Dennis Blue was a son of Dennis and Rebecca (Hayes) Blue, who came to America from Ireland. The elder Dennis Blue located in Liberty township, being a pioneer there, and Dennis Jr., was born in a log cabin which stood on land not long taken from the government.

After his marriage Mr. Van Voorhees engaged in farming on his own account, and he has become one of the leading farmers and stock raisers in his part of the county. Politically he is a Republican, a man of public spirit who has been called to important township oflSces, particularly in connection with the schools, in which he takes much interest. He is a member of the order of Knights of Honor. Mr. and Mrs. Van Voorhees have two children. Their son, Leon M. Van Voorhees, born March 25, 1890, gained his primary education in public schools and took a course in the department of agriculture in the University of Ohio at Columbus, a member of the the class of 1909. Their daughter, Edna E., born August 29, 1883 is a graduate in music from the Adrian Conservatory of music and is an accomplished artist in pastel. She married Howard A. Hull and bore him one child, Esther C, born July 9, 1908. Mr. Hull died October 18 of the same year. In 1909 Mr. Van Voorhees built a modem residence with up-to-date appointments, including a heating and lighting plant. Leon M. Van Voorhees has been called to the important duties of crop reporter for Seneca county and is performing them with signal ability.

Elmer E. Parker. - The Parker family has been identified with the history of Pleasant township ever since the year 1826, when Ephriam and Sarah (More) Parker, parents of him whose name initiates this paragraph, came here with their parents, who were people of New Jersey on the paternal side and of Pennsylvania on thel maternal. Elmer E. Parker is a native son not onlv of Seneca county but of Pleasant township, his birth having occurred here on March 17, 1685, on the farm on which he now resides on the Sandusky river, known as the Saddle Back farm, on which his grandparents had located a good many years before. When his grandparents, Henry and Charlotte Parker, of New Jersey, who were Quakers in religious conviction, settled in Ohio there were many Indians in the locality and they cleared their farm, made a home and reared a family in surroundings which were by no means the safest in the world. In fact his brother, Banagia Parker, who conducted a tavern at Fort Seneca was killed by an Indian named Peter Poark. Henry Parker was a progressive as well as a God fearing man, and he played a prominent and praiseworthy part in the upbuilding of the new county. He was of a Quaker family and his wife was connected with the Baptist church.

Mr. Parker's mother's family, the Mores, came here in 1836, about ten years later than the Parkers. They located on a farm near Hedgetown, where the head of the house ran a grist and saw mill. He ultimately became a large land holder, owning some three hundred and twenty acres. John and Elizabeth (Cupp) More were natives of Pennsylvania and they came to be among the foremost people in the township, being identified with all public works for the advancement of the community in which they made their home. John More was born ip 1803 and lived within a few years of the dawn of the twentieth century, being ninety-two years of age at the time of his death.

Elmer E. Parker was educated in the public schools and remained under the parental roof until his marriage. With his father as his guide and model he received a practical training in the various phases of the calling to which the family for numerous generations had devoted their energies. When he desired to assume a more independent station in life he removed with his wife to seventy-eight acres located in Pleasant township, where he has ever since resided. Like all good citizens he keeps informed upon the issues of the hour and his political loyalty is given to the Republican party. An evidence of the trust in which he is held by his fellows is the fact that he has served for five years as township trustee and also as a member of the school board. He and his family are members of the Evangelical church and take an active part in supporting and furthering all the good causes advanced and fathered by it. Mr. Parker has been steward of the church ^or some years and has served ten years as superintendent of the Sunday school.

On May 13, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Mr: Parker to Miss Clara E. Myers. She was bom October 21, 1867, and is the daughter of Constantine and Barbara (Shriner) Myers, natives of Germany, who severed home associations and came to seek new fortunes in the land of the stars and stripes in the year 1858. Their union was fruitful of children, of whom Mrs. Parker is the fourth in order of birth. Mr. and Mrs. Parker became the parents of three children : Meda, became the wife of Cletus Rule of Adams township, and Allen E., born March 9, 1891, is at home with his parents. He was educated in the schools of Old Fort and Greenspring and the past terms has been teaching school in Pleasant township. He is a member of the Evangelical church. The youngest child, Paul, was born November 27, 1896.

Henry Kuhn Spooner, M. D. - Among the names of the departed revered by Republic that of the late Dr. Henry Kuhn Spooner is eminent, he having been a man whose citizenship was of the highest character and whose memory in the community which knew him best is an enviable legacy. He was born March 21, 1837, the son of William and Caroline P. Spooner, the place of his birth being Wolf creek, and on the 19th day- of December. 1907,

The Spooner family is one which has long been known in America, it having been foiinded in the United States by one William Spooner who was gathered to his fathers in the month of March, 1684. He served an apprenticeship under John Holmes and on April 28, 1648, he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Partridge, who bore him the following eight children: Sarah, Samuel, Martha, William, Isaac, Hannah, Ebenezer and Mercy. The next in line died in the year 1734. He lived in New England and served as a juror in the court which superintended the laying out of a road from Middleboro, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, to the city of Boston. His sound judgment and resourcefulness in this matter gained the esteem and attention of the whole court, and was largely instrumental in the success of the enterprise. The name of his wife is not recorded, but he was the father of ten children, of whom Samuel was the direct ancestor of Dr. Spooner. He was prominent in his community, frequently holding public office. He married Experience Wing, born August 14, 1668, and was the father of eight children. His son William was next in line and was a lieutenant of militia. He took as his wife Alice Blackwell, and of their eight children, Daniel, forefather of Dr. Spooner, was born Pebruary 28, 1699. He married, October 10, 1728, Elizabeth Ruggles and ten children were the issue of their union. His son Wing B., was a carpenter. He married Deborah Church, and became the father of seven children. His son Benjamin married Johanna Toby and had eleven children, Jed, a farmer, being the forbear of the subject. Jed married Sarah Wait and of their two children William was next in line, he serving as a soldier in the Revolution. He married in the year 1797 and his son Henry Kuhn is the subject of this brief biographical review.

Dr. Spooner was reared in his native state of Ohio, and secured his education in Seneca County Academy under Professor Aaron Schuyler, and prepared for his profession at Cleveland, Ohio. The serenity of his youth was marred by the breaking out of the Civil war. He had moved with his parents to the Buckeye state, and he enlisted in the Pederal service as assistant surgeon of the Pifty-fifth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in August, 1861, and served until December, 1863. He was promoted surgeon of the Sixty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served as surgeon of the Twelfth Division in hospital service until April 1, 1865, when by reason of the consolidation of the Sixty-first and Eighty- second Regiments, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he was made a member of that division, and was mustered out of service. He was appointed pension commissioner upon his own merits and without the aid of friends. He was also appointed a member of the board of surgeons.

Upon the restoration of peace between the north and south Dr. Spooner returned and took up his practice. On October 12, 1875, he was married, the lady to become his wife being Louisa P. Jencks, a native of Rhode Island and the daughter of Alfred and Phoebe (Wilcox) Jencks, Mrs. Spooner being the youngest of their six children. Alfred Jencks was bom near Syracuse, New York, and upon coming to Ohio was associated with a railroad promotion company.

Dr. Spooner was a man deeply interested in the progress of the times, and when his attainments are taken into consideration it is by no means a matter of surprise that he found himself in time prominent in politics. He filled numerous offices with distinction, being public spirited and ever holding in View the interests of the whole community. In 1894 he represented his county in the state legislature, and guarded zealously the interests of his constituents.

Both Dr. and Mrs. Spooner were prominent and popular in Masonic circles, the former holding the title of Sir Knight and being a charter member of the local lodge, while the latter was a charter member of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Spooner is likewise one of the valued members of the Women 's Relief Corps. She enjoys much esteem in the community, representing the best in American womanhood. She has had exceptional educational advantages, and being a great reader, has kept herself in touch with the progress of events and has at her command a wide fund of information. Wherever she resides is the center of culture and refinement and her influence is ever directed to good ends. Accompanied by her nieces she spends the winter months in Washington D. C, and in travel through the southern states. Republic enjoying her presence during the other seasons.

George N. Young. - The native born citizens of Seneca county have no finer representative than George N. Young, of Tifiin, who is actively identified with public affairs and is now serving with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of all concerned as county clerk of Seneca county. He was bom on a farm in Seneca township, October 11, 1878, a son of Robert and Minerva (Epiey) Young, who are now living in Wyandot county.

Brought up on the home farm, George N. Young early became familiar with many of its branches of labor, assisting in its care during the summer seasons and attending the winter terms of the district school until sixteen years old. He subsequently attended the Ohio Normal University at Ada for two years, after which he taught school in Crawfordsville, Ohio, three years, and in Seneca county, near Adrian, for two years. Abandoning teaching as an occupation, Mr. Young in the fall of 1900 embarked in the dry goods business at Bloomville, there continuing in mercantile pursuits for about eight years. Public spirited and progressive, he became a leading member of the Democratic party and served for some time as corporation treasurer of Bloomville. In 1908 he was elected to his present position as county clerk of Seneca county, and is filling the ofiice with characteristic ability and fidelity.

Fraternally Mr. Young is identified with various prominent orders, being a member of Seneca Lodge, No. 80, I. 0. 0. F., a member and past chancellor of Pickwick Lodge, No. 175, K. of P.. a member of Young America Council, No. 136, Junior Order United American Mechanics; and of Honey Creek Camp, No. 7396, M. W. A., of Bloomville. Religiously he is a member and a steward of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Mr. Young married, February 23, 1897, Rosa A. Reiff, who was born and brought up in Seneca county, near Berwick, and into their home three daughters have made their advent, namely: Goldie R., bom in September, 1898; Naomi, born in Novembei. 1901 ; and Fay, bom in May. 1906.

Mr. Young is an excellent man of business, enterprising and careful, and he devotes his time and attention to his official duties. He is highly esteemed and very popular in social circles, being what is complimentarily termed a **good mixer."