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In the meantime the Civil war came on and the young business man readily put the call of patriotic duty above private interests and raised Company E.of the One Hundred and Fifty-second Ohio Infantry. As captain of this company he was under the command of Gen. David Hunter in the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864. After the war he resumed his connection with the drug business, but a few years later rejoined his former employers, which firm in the meantime had become Warder, Mitchell & Company. Still later this became the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company, and as a Springfield industry it was one of the foundation stones upon which the city's industrial progress rested. Mr. Bushnell became president of the company in 1886, and the machinery manufactured by his company and bearing his name was distributed and used in every agricultural state of the Union, and was exported to practically every agricultural country in the world. 24

Among other important business interests that felt the guiding hand of Governor Bushnell were the First National Bank and the Springfield Gas Company, which he served as president, and he was a stockholder and director in a number of the city's prominent corporations. Governor Bushnell always generously shared his great success in material affairs with his home community and its institutions. He was one of the largest benefactors of the Ohio Masonic Home at Springfield, and donated generously of his wealth to many other oreanizations and causes in his home city. He was a member of Mitchell Post, No. 45, G. A. R. i

- Apart from the intimate association of his name with manufacturing, his reputation over the state at large is due to his long and distinguished service in the republican party and the efficient administration he gave as governor of the state. In 1885 Mr. Bushnell became chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee, and in this connection he aided materially in securing that most important party victory implied in the election of Governor Foraker by a handsome plurality and in the unprecedented result of securing a republican majority in the General Assemblv without the vote of Hamilton County, thus insuring the return of John Sherman to the United States Senate.

In 1886 he was appointed quartermaster-general of the state by Governor Foraker, and served in the capacity for a term of four years. In the State Republican Convention of 1887 Mr. Bushnell was nominated by acclamation as a candidate for lieutenant-governor on the ticket with Governor Foraker, but he declined the honor. In 1889 the leaders of Ohio republicanism insistently urged that he should head the party ticket, but he positively refused to have his name considered in the connection. Again, in 1891, he was most urgently importuned to accept the gubernatorial nomination, his party associates maintaining that he was the most logical and available man for the place, and the one who would most successfully uphold the standard of the organization; but owing to the intimate association of national politics in that campaign the nomination naturally went to Major McKinley, of whom Mr. Bushnell was a most ardent supporter. Mr. Bushnell was one of the four delegates at large from Ohio to the National Republican Convention at Minneapolis in 1892, and in every republican convention for many years he served as a delegate. He refused on several occasions to become a candidate for Congress from the Springfield District, and manifested at other times his preference for working in the cause aside from the position as a public official or candidate.

This high honor which was accorded Mr. Bushnell in his nomination for governor of the state came entirely without his solicitation. His services to the party and his particular eligibility for the office were so thoroughly recognized that at the Republican State Convention held at Zanesville in May, 1895, the demand for his nomination for governor was so unqualified that he could not but accept the candidacy. Throughout the ensuing campaign he made a canvass that was dignified and particularly gratifying to his constituents, gaining the good will of all classes, and in his utterance showing that practical judgment and effective policy which made his administration so thoroughly acceptable to the people of the state and so creditable to him as a man and as an official. The campaign was a vigorous one, and at the November election he was elected by the flattering majority of 92,622, a victory greater than any ever achieved by any other Ohio governors save John Brough, who was a candidate at the time of the late war and who received practically the entire vote of the state. Governor Bushnell was inaugurated on the 13th of January, 1896. As chief executive he conducted affairs with that mature wisdom and according to those practical business principles which his character naturally indicates. He was one of the delegates-at-large to the National Republican Convention held at St. Louis in June, 1896.

Governor Bushnell was a member of the Episcopal Church and was a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason. In September, 1857, he married Miss Ellen Ludlow, daughter of Dr. John Ludlow, of Springfield. The death of Governor Bushnell occurred in 1904, and three children survived him: Mrs. J. F. McGrew, Mrs. H. C. Diamond and John L. Bushnell. The son is president of the First National Bank of Springfield. i

_ Joun L. BusHNELL had the disadvantage of being a son of an illustrious father, but in spite of that handicap has achieved for himself a paroles and a very useful place in the commercial life of his native city.

The career of his distinguished father, Governor Bushnell, is the subject of the full and carefully written article preceding, and what follows is only a brief outline of the life and service of the son.

John L. Bushnell was born at Springfield, February 15, 1872. He was reared and received his early educational advantages in his home city and in 1894 graduated from Princeton University. He has given nearly thirty years of his life to the commercial affairs of Springfield. Mr. Bushnell is president of the First National Bank and president of the Morris Plan Bank. For many years he has been an ardent horseman and has owned some prize-winning animals. He married Miss Jessie M. Harwood, daughter of the late T. E. Harwood.

Burton J. Westcott, who in 1921-22 served as mayor of the City of Springfield, is distinctly an exponent of progress along both civic and business lines and has been prominently concerned 'with the commercial and industrial advancement of his home city.

Mr. Westcott was born at Richmond, Indiana, July 18, 1868, and is a son of John M. and Caroline (Mitchell) Westcott. John M. Westcott was born in Union County, Indiana, and was a son of Henry Westcott, the latter having been a boy at the time of the family removal from New Jersey to Indiana, about the year 1812. The family name became one of no little prominence in connection with the pioneer development and progress of the Hoosier State, and its prestige was fully upheld in constructive activities in later generations. Soon after the close of the Civil war John M. Westcott established his home at Richmond, Indiana, and he became one of the prominent manufacturers and influential citizens of that fine old city, long known as one of the leading American headquarters of the Society of Friends. Mr. Westcott became the sole owner of the important manufacturing business conducted under the title of the Hoosier Drill Company, and his civic liberality was manifested in his valuable contributions to the civic and material upbuilding of Richmond. There his death occurred in 1907, his wife having passed away in 1901. Of their seven children the present mayor of Springfield was the fifth in order of birth.

The public schools of his native city afforded Burton J. Wescott his preliminary education, which was supplemented by his attending Swarthmore College and DePauw University. He initiated his business career by becoming associated with the Hoosier Drill Company, of which his father was the president. In 1903 this concern, with numerous others of similar order, was merged into the American Seeding Company, and in March of that year Mr. Wescott came to Springfield, Ohio, as treasurer of the latter corporation, which here established its general offices. He has retained this executive position to the present time. In 1896, at Richmond, Indiana, was organized the Westcott Carriage Company, and in later years the same was reorganized as the Westcott Motor Car Company, the headquarters of the company being removed from Richmond to Springfield in 1916. Of this corporation Mr. Westcott is the president. He is a director of the Lagonda National Bank and is financially interested in other business enterprises of important order, including several of the representative industrial concerns of Springfield.

- - Springfield's mayor is a staunch republican, and in public affairs of a local order he has been significantly loyal and progressive. In 1913 he was elected a member of the city commission of Springfield, upon the adoption of the commission system of municipal government, and was later made president of that body, which makes him ex-officio mayor of the city. He has remained the incumbent through successive reelections that have attested popular appreciation of his vigorous and effective administration. He is a member of the Lagonda Club, the Springfield Country Club and the Dayton Club of Dayton, this state.

ALBERT HENRY KUNKLE, of Springfield, is now the presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of this, the Second Appellate District of Ohio. He has been an honored and representative member of the bar of this county for about thirty-five years, and his influence has been beneficial in public affairs in this section of the state.

Judge Kunkle was born at Vandalia, Montgomery County, Ohio, on the 15th day of February, 1860, and is a son of the late David and Susanna (Stouffer) Kunkle, both natives of that county and representatives of sterling pioneer families in that section of the Buckeye State. In 1878 his parents moved to Springfield, where they resided until their deaths.

Judge Kunkle secured his early education in the public schools of Vandalia. He graduated from Wittenberg College in the class of 1882, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His alma mater later conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. After his graduation he applied himself with diligence to the study of law, and was admitted to the bar of this state in 1885. He engaged in the practice of his profession in Springfield and served for a number of years as city solicitor of that city. He was judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Clark County from 1905 to 1913, where he made a splendid record. He resigned as common pleas judge to assume his duties as a member of the Court of Appeals of this district, to which he had been elected. The judge is an active member of the Clark County Bar Association and of the Ohio State Bar Association. He is prominently affiliated with different fraternal organizations and in 1922 was elected grand prelate of the Ohio Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He and his wife are communicants of the Fourth Lutheran Church of Springfield. Mrs. Kunkle, whose maiden name was Margaret P. McCulloch, is a daughter of the late William McCulloch, of Springfield.

Judge and Mrs. Kunkle have three children: Albert is a member of the Class of 1922 of Wittenberg College; Virginia is a member of the Class of 1925 in that institution; and Susanna is attending the Ridgewood Private School.

Hon. Thomas L. CaLverT. Clark County is located admirably for the successful prosecution of farming, for the soil is exceedingly fertile and productive, the climatic conditions are almost ideal and transportation facilities are practically unsurpassed. However, although the agriculturist here is possessed of these advantages, he cannot compete successfully with his fellows unless he carries on his operations according to modern ideas, including the use of highly improved equipment. That the majority of the farmers of this region are progressive is proven by the large number of finely-developed farms to be found all over Clark County, a fact that has raised very materially the standard of excellence here and placed Clark County among the leaders in agriculture in Ohio. One of the men who has assisted in bringing about this desirable consummation is Hon. Thomas L. Calvert, the owner of a fine property in Madison Township, on Selma Rural Route 1, and a member of the Ohio State Legislature.

Representative Calvert was born at Georgetown, Maryland, December 20, 1858, and is a son of Thomas L. and Elizabeth (Paist) Calvert. Thomas L. Calvert was born at Newtown, Pennsylvania, in 1824 and removed from his native state to Maryland, where he spent some years, returning to Pennsylvania in 1859. Mrs. Calvert was born at Media, Pennsylvania. Thomas L. Calvert of this review received his early education in Pennsylvania, and had just passed his twelfth year when he came to Clark County with a brother and settled on a farm. After three years he went to Newtown, Pennsylvania, where he entered a select school conducted by the Society of Friends, and remained as a students therein for three years. For two years thereafter he was employed in a general store at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, following which he again came to Ohio and became a clerk in the Hollingsworth general store at Selma and remained one year. Mr. Calvert and his brother then bought Mr. Hollingsworth's interests, which included a general store, grain elevator and coal yard, and were associated in business until 1892, in which year Mr. Calvert disposed of his holdings to his brother and purchased his present farm in Madison Township, on which he has carried on successful operations ever since. At this time he is the owner of 125 acres, but operates 330 acres, and is an up-to-date agriculturist in every respect. He has made a success of his business through good management and a thorough study of his vocation, backed by incessant industry, and may freely be said to be the architect of his fortunes, for what he owns he has achieved through the work of his own hands.

Mr. Calvert is a member of the Friends Church, and as a fraternalist is affiliated with the Masonic order. A stalwart republican in his political allegiance, he has been one of the wheel-horses of his party in Clark County for a number of years and has been called upon frequently to accept the responsibilities of public office. He was township trustee and a member of the Board of School Directors for some years, and when his agricultural knowledge was recognized was elected secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, a position which he held for four years. He was also chief of the State Dairy and Food Department for a period of three years. In 1920 Mr. Calvert was sent to the State House of Representatives as the representative of his district, and his record in that body has been an admirable one. He has been faithful in looking after the needs of his constituents, and has supported worthy legislation in all cases. : :

On June 14, 1888, Mr. Calvert was united in marriage with Miss Ella F. Warner, who was born in Madison Township, Clark County, a daughter of Simeon and Elizabeth Warner. Mrs. Calvert was given good educational advantages, and completed her schooling at Baltimore, Maryland. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Calvert: Leland S., a graduate of Earlham College, of Richmond, Indiana, who is now engaged in agricultural operations in Clark County; J. Donald, also a graduate of that institution, who also is farming in this part of Ohio: and Helen F., a graduate of Earlham, who is now teaching in the high school at Selma.

HonorABLE T. Apprson Bussey. The Busbey family of Clark County has furnished to the world a number of men of exceptional ability and achievements. Nearly all of them at one time or another were actively associated with school work, and from education they were drawn into journalism. As writers, editors and authors the name has national distinction. The father of the family was Thomas C. Busbey, a pioneer of Harmony Township and one of the first residents of Vienna. He devoted the greater part of his active life, thirty years, to the teaching profession. He married Anna Botkin, a daughter of Richard Botkin, an early settler of Pleasant Township, Clark County. After their marriage Thomas C. Busbey and wife lived in Vienna, and while they never accumulated wealth, they were thoroughly respectd for their fine ideals and their usefulness. They had eleven children, reared nine to maturity, and eight of them became teachers. Seven of the family are still living.

Two of the sons were soldiers in the Civil war. The late William H. Busbey was a soldier in Company C of the First Kentucky Regiment and after the war he taught school, served as city editor of the Ohio State Journal, was associate editor on the Toledo Blade and until his death in 1906 was managing editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, at that time one of America's greatest newspapers. Hamilton Busbey, who was born in 1840, was a member of the staff of the Louisville Journal under George D. Prentice from 1863 to 1865 and in the latter year became one of the founders of the Turf, Field and the Farm at New York and was editor of that paper until 1903. He was a judge in many of the racing and horse shows of the United States, was the first advocate of the Nationai Trotting Association and is author of several works on the horse and a recognized authority on light harness horses. He is now living at Vienna, Ohio. Another son, L. White Busbey, who was born in 1852, was on the local staff and later chief political writer on the Chicago Inter-Ocean until going to Washington as correspondent for that paper. He was connected with the Chicago Inter-Ocean from 1879 to 1905, was secretary to the Speaker of the House, Joseph G. Cannon, from 1904 to 1911, and served as secretary of the American section of the International Joint Commission with Great Britain in 1911-15. He is a resident of Washington. Another son, Charles S. Busbey, has lived in Chicago for twenty-seven years, and is a member of the Board of Local Improvement of that city. Among the daughters were Louisa, now deceased; Angelina, wife of James S. Rice, who died August 16, 1922; Miss Harriett, who was an educator for many years; and Mary, widow of Theodore Postle.

T. Addison Busbey, youngest of the eleven children, was born in the village of Vienna, in Harmony Township, June 11, 1858. He acquired his public school education, as a boy took upon himself the responsibilities for his higher education, and throughout his life has been a man imbued with an ambition to do for others as well as for himself. At the age of seventeen he was granted a teacher's certificate. He taught school until he was twenty-one. Seeking some of the broader opportunities in the world of journalism, where his brothers had distinguished themselves, he removed to Chicago in the spring of 1883 and for a quarter of a century, beginning in a minor capacity, he was associated with the Railway Age, probably the foremost publication in the United States representing the railroad and transportation interests in general. He served the Railway Age as reporter, assistant editor and managing editor, and he himself became a noted individual authority on transportation matters. His statistical articles commanded wide attention, being copied almost universally by the great dailies of he Country, and many were reproduced in leading journals of Europe.

Leaving Chicago in 1908, Mr. Busbey returned to the village of his birth, and while conducting a general insurance business and looking after his private affairs, he has received repeated honors indicative of the esteem and confidence reposed in him by his fellow citizens here. In 1909 he was elected mayor of South Vienna, was re-elected in 1911, 1913 and 1915, and throughout his successive terms he gave a municipal administration notable for law enforcement and also for progressive betterment in the civic and physical improvement of the village. In 1916 Mr. Busbey was nominated on the republican ticket as candidate for the State Senate, representing the Eleventh Senatorial District, composed of Clark, Madison and Champaign counties, and was elected and took his seat January 1, 1917. He was re-elected in 1918, and was one of the influential members of the State Senate until January 1, 1921. In the Eighty-second Session of the Legislature he was a member of thirteen committees and chairman of two of them, including the roads and highway committee, and was author of the highway bill enacted during that session. Senator Busbey while engaged in newspaper work in Chicago was editor and compiler of a biographical directory of railroad officials, which went through five editions.

Mr. Busbey married Emancipation Proclamation Coggeshall, daughter of Hon. William T. Coggeshall, one of Ohio's foremost newspaper men, at one time editor of the Ohio State Journal and who was private secretary to Governor Dennison during the Civil war and was state librarian of Ohio. He was author of many books, and was appointed United States minister to Ecuador, and died while in that office, in 1867. Mrs. Busbey was educated at Columbus and in Otterbein College at Westerville, Ohio. Senator and Mrs. Busbey were married June 28, 1888, and she died at her home in Vienna October 1, 1913.

The only son is Ralph C. Busbey, born at Chicago, May 12, 1890. He graduated from high school and in 1908 returned with his parents to Vienna. He was a reporter on the Springfield Daily News, in 1912 went to Columbus with the Citizen, again was associated with the Daily News at Springfield, served as chief deputy clerk of courts of Clark County, became managing editor of the Springfield Morning Sun, acted as special correspondent at Columbus for the Associated Press, for a time was connected with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and is now in charge of the Akron News Bureau of the Cleveland Plain

James Aspury Myers. Among the many prominent business men who have helped to build Springfield and establish its commercial supremacy, there are few who labored more earnestly or incessantly or who were held in higher esteem than the late James Asbury Myers. He was born in a log cabin on the Cedarville-Jamestown Pike, in Greene County, Ohio, September 1, 1852, and died at Springfield, May 27, 1904. Joseph Myers, his father, was an agriculturist, who migrated from Virginia to Ohio in the early days and settled in Greene County, where he rounded out his career as a man of upright character and a devout Methodist.

James Asbury Myers passed his youthful days at work on the home farm, and during the winter months attended the district schools. Later on he pursued a course at the old seminary at Xenia, and for a time after his graduation was engaged in teaching school. After this he came to Springfield, and here for a time was engaged in the retail grocery business, but in 1878 disposed of his interest in that enterprise, and with the late Chandler Robbins organized the Robbins & Myers Company, founders. The firm members could not foresee what this organization would eventuallv become. Each saw future possibilities of fair success, of course, otherwise they would not have embarked in the business, but that the venture would develop into one of the industries of Springfield was beyond this power of foresight. From that time until his death Mr. Myers labored energetically toward the building up and prosperity of his concern, and he lived to see it take front rank. He is entitled to a large share of the credit of inaugurating a new era among business men - that of honesty and good-fellowship among competitors. His entire life, both social and commercial, was based on honor, and that this was so thoroughly instilled in and so inseparable a part of his character is attested by his attitude toward his customers, and his success can, in a great measure, be attributed to his rugged honesty and strict adherence to the policy of allowing no misrepresentation to be made of the product of his plant. Recognized as an indefatigable worker, unceasingly laboring to make Springfield a center of which posterity would be proud, he came into close contact with other men of affairs and had their confidence and respect, while he was equally esteemed and even beloved by his associates for his sterling qualities. He took an exceedingly active part in the Central Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he was Sunday School superintendent for more than a score of years, and his outside life, aside from business, was largely devoted to church work. Although a strong advocate of the principles of the republican party, and while connected with a number of public movements and charitable enterprises, his naturally modest and unassuming disposition, and his devotion to his church, family and business, prevented him from accepting any office of public acknowledgments, although at one time he served as a member of the School Board.

Mr. Myers married Miss Emma Elizabeth Horner, who survives him, and their two sons, Wilbur J. and Warren A., are both identified with Springfield's business life, and particularly with the business of which their honored father was one of the founders.

WILBUR J. Myers is a son of the late James A. Myers, whose as a constructive business man and industrial founder in Springfield has been carefully sketched on other pages. Wilbur J. Myers is one of the two sons who has maintained the great business momentum set in motion by their father.

The son was born July 29, 1882, at Springfield, graduated from the high school of his native city in 1901, and received his Bachelor's Degree from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1905. Since his graduation his tasks and responsibilities have been with the industrial and financial life of Springfield.

In the fall of 1905 he became purchasing agent for the Robbins & Myers Company, and has been with that corporation, whose products have a world-wide reputation and use, and is now vice president. He is also a director of the First National Bank and the American Trust and Savings Bank.

Mr. Myers is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Lagonda, Rotary and Country Clubs, is a Beta Theta Pi and a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He is the master of H. S. Kissell Lodge No. 674, Free and Accepted Masons.

PIERSON T. SPINNING, M. D., who resides on the National Road in Springfield Township, three miles east of Springfield, was born at Findlay, Ohio, August 7, 1854, and is a son of Isaac Milton Spinning, who was born at Springfield, Clark County, in 1813, a son of Pierson Spinning. Pierson Spinning, the sterling pioneer founder of the family in Clark County, came here in the year 1812, from New Jersey, he having made the trip down the Ohio River to Cincinnati and thence overland to Clark County. He was one of the early merchants and prominent contractors at Springfield. He continued in mercantile business here for thirty years, and as a contractor he constructed a part of the Miami and Erie Canal, as well as a portion of the old National Road. He made judicious investments in Clark County land, and land owned by him is now a part of the City of Springfield. This honored pioneer died in 1856, at the age of seventy years, and his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Schooley and who likewise was born in New Jersey, attained to the venerable age of eighty-four years. Of their children the first, Hattie, died in young womanhood; Lizzie did not marry and was a resident of Dayton at the time of her death, when venerable in years; Emily married George McAlpin, founder of the important McAlpin mercantile establishment in the City of Cincinnati; Sally married David Stewart, and they established their home at Dayton; Isaac Milton, father of the Doctor, was the next in order of birth; and Charles and Pierson, Jr., became prominent wholesale merchants in the City of Cincinnati.

At Findlay, this state, was solemnized the marriage of Isaac Milton Spinning and Harriet Taylor. She was born in Vermont and came to Springfield, Ohio, in 1863. At Findlay, Mr. Spinning was engaged in the hardware business until 1860, when he removed to the City of Cleveland. There he continued his business activities until 1863, when he returned to Springfield, his death having here occurred when he was sixty-five years of age and his widow having here passed away at the age of seventy-four years. Of their children the eldest is John, now a prosperous farmer in Florida; Dr. Pierson T., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; William, a resident of Peru, Indiana, was for many years engaged in the drug business there, besides being interested in various other local enterprises; Milton died in childhood; Arthur is business manager of the Springfield Coffin Casket Company ; and Carrie is the wife of George Sylvester, an officer in the United States Army and now (1922) stationed at Los Angeles, California.

The early education of Dr. Spinning was acquired in the public schools, and he is now the only resident of Clark County that was a member of the class of sixteen graduated from Wittenberg College, at Springfield, in 1874, four other members of the class surviving in 1922. After thus receiving from this college the degree of Bachelor of Arts Dr. Spinning forthwith entered Miami Medical College, in the City of Cincinnati, and from this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1878 and with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For four years Dr. Spinning was engaged in the practice of his profession at Springfield. He made a record of admirable achievement also in the pedagogic profession, to which he gave his time and attention for a period of seventeen years, fourteen of which found him engaged in high school work as a teacher of natural sciences. Under his direction instruction was received by many men who later achieved prominence as lawyers, physicians and business men. For more than twenty years past Dr. Spinning has resided on and given his supervision to his fine farm, the old Anthony Bird homestead, in Springfield Township, property which he has owned more than a quarter of a century. He has specialized in the raising of registered Jersey cattle, and his herd varies from twentyfive to sixty head of these fine animals. On the farm he frequently holds public sales of Jersey cattle, and these draw breeders from far and wide, as the Doctor has gained high reputation for the superiority of his Jerseys. The Doctor, who gives little attention to his profession, is still a student and reader of marked enthusiasm, and is known as a talented classical scholar who specially enjoys the reading of classical Greek works. For thirty years he has been a valued and appreciative member of the Men's Literary Club at Springfield, which has but two who have been members for a longer period, besides which his is the distinction of being the only farmer represented on the membership roll. Dr. Spinning is a bachelor, but does not vaunt himself unduly on this score of immunity.

_ ARTHUR Riccs ALTICK is one of the active younger group of men in the commercial and civic life of Springfield. He served as secretary of the Chamber of Commerce until March, 1922, when he resigned. He is officially and personally interested in several of the movements and organizations to promote the best interest of the city and county and 1s now connected with the Francis J. Drolla Company, one of the leading investment houses in this section of Ohio.

1640 from Amsterdam, Holland, locating near what is now Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The great-grandfather of A. R. Altick, Daniel Altick, was one of the early settlers of Dayton, and operated the first brass foundry in that city. The father of Arthur R. Altick was Arthur ` Altick, who had one brother, Harry M. Altick, and one sister, Carrie (Coblentz) Altick. Arthur Altick married Shirley Blanche Riggs. Her father, Philip Denton Riggs, was a cavalry officer in the Union Army, and at the close of the Civil war was a revenue officer. Her mother, Celina Rachael Dobbins, was a daughter of T. C. Dobbins, a prominent wholesale and retail hardware merchant at Dayton. T. C. Dobbins married Martha Drake, a lineal descendant of Sir Francis Drake, the famous English navigator. The three children of Philip Denton Riggs and wife were: Marion Ella, born March 1, 1867; Shirley Blanche, born April 6, 1868; and Thomas Earle Riggs, born August 4, 1869. Shirley Blanche Riggs was married to Arthur Altick November 15, 1888, and their only child, Arthur R., was born just five months after his father's death. Two years after the death of her husband the mother married Doctor Richard L. Brown, and they have lived in Springfield since 1906.

April 20, 1921, at Cleveland, Arthur R. Altick married Ethel Courtney Rose, daughter of Mrs. Alice Rose, of that city. To this union a son, Richard Denton Altick, was born at Springfield, January 16, 1922.

Arthur R. Altick was educated in grammar schools at Dayton and Springfield, the high schools of Troy and Springfield, and is a graduate of the Springfield High School and of Willis Business University. After considerable experience in several different lines Mr. Altick in 1916 became connected with the Kelly-Springfield Motor Truck Company in the engineering department, under Lewis E. Kalb, chief engineer. At | the beginning of the World war he was called with Mr. Kalb, where he served in the Quartermaster Corps, Motors and Vehicles Division. Later he assisted in establishing the Cleveland Department, Motors and Vehicles Division, of the office of chief-of-staff, war department.

After the war, returning to Springfield, Mr. Altick in March, 1919, assumed the duties as secretary of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce. This is an.office obviously involving a great deal of administrative detail and responsibility, but Mr. Altick also found time to avail himself of other opportunities for public spirited service. During 1919 he assisted in organizing the Clark County Good Roads Council and is now serving as secretary of the council. In 1920 he was appointed secretary of District No. 7 of the Ohio Good Roads Federation, comprising the counties of Clark, Darke, Preble, Montgomery, Miami, Champaign, Greene and Fayette. Good roads for years has been a cause arousing in him the readiest cooperation, and he has rendered valuable assistance to the federation in helping to organize the counties of Montgomery and Champaign, with councils at Dayton and Urbana.

With his other secretarial duties he was prevailed upon to accept in January, 1920, the executive secretaryship of the Springfield Real Estate Board. He takes an active interest in real estate matters effecting his home city and county. Mr. Altick is a member of the First Congregational Church of Springfield, is a charter member and is serving as the first temporary president of the Springfield Exchange Club, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity.

Harvey M. Tirree, assistant postmaster of Springfield, has been in the local postal service for over twenty years and is one of Springfield's best known and most popular physicians.

He is a descendant of John Tittle, who emigrated from England to Northern Maryland about 1750. John Jacob Tittle, a son of the immi- ` grant, had a local reputation as an Indian fighter. The next generation was represented by Jonathan Tittle, who removed from Northern Maryland to the vicinity of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, about 1800. Tonathan was the father of Jacob Tittle, and the grandfather of Levi Tittle, Sr. Levi Tittle, Sr., married Sarah Lerch, whose father, Daniel Lerch, served as a cavalryman during the Mexican war, while her great-grandfather Lerch was a soldier under Gen. George Washington in the Revolutionary war.

Levi H. Tittle, a son of Levi Tittle, Sr., and father of Harvey M. Tittle, married Mary E. Buck, descendant of a line of Pennsylvania farmers living in that state since Colonial times. Levi H. Tittle and wife had six children: Scott M. and Harvey M., both of whom were born at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Franklin O., Sarah E., Walter E., and Blanche E., all natives of Springfield, Ohio.

- It was in 1875 that the family removed from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Springfield, Harvey M. Tittle being a child at the time. Levi H. Tittle is superintendent of the Welsbach Street Lighting Company at Springfield.

Harvey M. Tittle was reared and educated in Springfield. In 1899 he became a clerk in Springfield post office, and by experience he has a thorough knowledge of every detail of the postal service and has been an invaluable factor in the efficiency of the Springfield post office. He is an active member of the Masonic Order also belonging to the York and Scottish Rite bodies and is a member of Antioch Temple, A. A. O.N. M. S. He is also a member of the Kiwanis and Country clubs, is of a republican family in politics, and is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church.

February 5, 1895, Harvey M, Tittle married Miss Harriet A. Zimmerman, who is a direct descendant of a soldier of the Revolution. Her parents are Henry M. and Mary G. (Funk) Zimmerman, whose six children are Harriet A., Grace G., Lester M., Katherine L., Marie A. and Percy S. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Tittle: R. Eugene since completing his high school education has been engaged in construction work; Mildred L., who graduated from Ohio aN esleyan University with the class of 1920, is an employe of the Springfield post office; Robert H., a Civil engineer, graduated from the Ohio State University with the class of 1921; Betty Ann Tittle, a member of the family, is still attending school at Springfield.

DANIEL B. Hiser. In the enjoyment of the comforts and luxuries of modern life the ordinary individual may, perhaps, sometimes remember the debt owed to inventive genius. In older days, when many helpful arts had not yet been developed, the inventor had no such general encouragement as at present, and, however, patiently he worked out his ideas, often without proper tools or surroundings very often his com- pleted product would prove a failure, and indifference and even ridicule would be his only reward. This thought carries one backward many years, to the time when the late Daniel B. Hiser of Springfield as a little boy watched his father work out his inventive ideas in his little cabinetmaker's shop at West Jefferson, Ohio, the most interested of his children because he also possessed inventive genius.

Daniel B. Hiser was born at West Jefferson, in Wayne County, Ohio, July 4, 1836, and was a son of Henry and Martha (Burtnutt) Hiser. Henry Hiser worked at the cabinetmaker's trade as necessity demanded, but an inventive turn of mind led him to devote every spare moment to the development of his inventive ideas, many of which proved of great utility and brought him local fame and modest fortune. Among his inventions was a beehive, a clover huller and a plow, the latter, known as the Hiser plow, proving of considerable commercial value. His beehive also proved profitable, and his clover huller was in use throughout Ohio for many years. He invented many other things, but the above named were the only ones that proved entirely successful. an Hiser and his wife died at Wooster, Ohio, and their burial was there.

Daniel B. Hiser undoubtedly inherited mechanical skill. He had common school privileges, and then chose to learn patternmaking. He married at Wooster, Ohio, Sarah Fickes, and in 1883 removed with his family to Springfield. Here he worked as a pattern-maker under John H. Thomas in the Thomas Manufacturing Company's plant, but from youth had been experimenting and developing inventions of his own, some of more or less value. It was on this account that he was invited to assist in the organizing of the co-partnership known as the Springfield Metallic Casket Company, and after that he confined his efforts to this enterprise. This company was built around his invention, a sectional cast metal casket made to seal hermetically. Finally ill health caused him to sell his holdings in the above company, and he returned then to the Thomas Manufacturing Company, but during the last fifteen years of life he was an invalid. Of his family of six children all but one are living.

Charles Henry Hiser, the eldest born of the above family, bears the name of his two grandfathers. He was born at Wooster, Ohio, October 2, 1861, and attended the public schools there before accompanying his parents to Springfield. For the past thirty-seven years he has been superintendent of the Metallic Casket Company, and in point of service is the oldest employe of the corporation.

Mr. Hiser married, August 23, 1913, Katherine H. Rubsam, who was born at Springfield, and thev have two children: Charles Henry and Mary Hertzler. In political life Mr. Hiser is a republican. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar and a member of the Mystic Shrine, and is one of the trustees of the Masonic Temple Association. He has always been active in promoting the city's welfare and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary, Lagonda and Country clubs.

so definite and notable that no history of the place would be complete without extended and appreciative comment. Thus attention may be called to one of Springfield's useful and distinguished citizens. Dr. Samuel Elmer Greenawalt, professor of English Bible and Comparative Religion in Wittenberg College, who is one of the most versatile of men, being able to consider equally well questions involving abstruse learning and those calling for business sagacity along practical, normal lines. He has been a resident of Springfield since 1908, and during these fourteen years has been closely identified with the city's progress along religious, educational, cultural and business lines.

Dortor Greenawalt was born on a farm near Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, February 27, 1859. He is a son of Jesse and Susanna (Shimp) Greenawalt, and a grandson of John Greenawalt, who came with his family from Pennsylvania to Mahoning County, Ohio, and there passed the rest of his life. Jesse Greenawalt removed with his family to Allen County, Indiana, about 1855, and there spent the rest of his life engaged in agricultural pursuits. His wife was of German extraction, and they were the parents of five children and faithful members of the Lutheran Church.

Samuel Elmer Greenawalt spent his early years on his father's farm and attended the country schools, later the graded schools and subsequently the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, Indiana. He then turned his attention to educational work, and for some years taught in the country graded schools. In the fall of 1880 he entered Wittenberg College as a student, from which institution he was graduated in 1884, with the degree of A. B. and in the following year was granted his Master's Degree and in the spring of 1887 was given his degree of Bachelor of Divinity. He was ordained to the Lutheran ministry following his graduation. His first pastorate, of six years duration, was at Osborn, Ohio, where he had served the Lutheran congregation for one year prior to his ordination.

During the following sixteen years Doctor Greenawalt served but two pastorates before coming to Springfield, remaining at Findlay, Ohio, for eleven years and at Bellefontaine for five years. In 1908 he was called to the Fourth Lutheran Church of Springfield, where he labored for the succeeding eight years, building up a strong church organization most helpful to his synod and one that has had a marked moral influence in its home city. The fine stone church building was erected during his pastorate. In 1916 he accepted his present position on the faculty of Wittenberg College, where his erudition adds further weight to a very learned body of instructors. The chair of English Bible and comparative Religion was established by Dr. and Mrs. Greenawalt as a memorial to her father, the late Ross Mitchell. One of the many philanthropies which for years have particularly interested Dr. Greenawalt is the Oesterlin Orphans Home, with which he was concerned in founding and of which he has been president of the Board of Trustees and chairman of the Executive Committee.

_ Dr. Greenawalt married, May 2, 1889, Miss A. Mary Mitchell, who is a daughter of Ross Mitchell, one of the early business men of Springfield. They have four children: Catherine S., who is the wife of Charles G. Shatzer, dean of Wittenberg College; Ross Mitchell, who took a course in agriculture in the Ohio State University, is manager of his father's farms in Clark and Champaign counties; Elmer Paul, who is a graduate of the medical department of Johns Hopkins University, served in the Medical Reserve Corps in the World war; and Marguerite. All four of the children are graduates of Wittenberg College.

In 1916 Dr. Greenawalt razed the old buildings and erected the Greenawalt and the Greenawalt Industries Building, thereby greatly benefiting and improving the city. He is interested in several business corporations, and is vice president and treasurer of the James Carson Company, wholesale grocers. Doctor Greenawalt is widely known and is greatly appreciated as an instructor, his students leaving his classes with clear understanding and helpful inspiration.

FLoyp A. Jounston. A useful life crowded with honorable activity has been the choice of one of Springfield's leading professional men, Floyd A. Johnston, United States commissioner, who occupies a prominent place as a member of the Clark County bar. This place he has won through intelligent observation, persistent study and close application, supplementing a natural talent that led to his choice of a future career while still a youth following the plow on his father's farm.

Floyd A. Johnston was born in Madison County, Ohio, September, 15, 1875, and is the son of Henry B. and Emma (Trond) Johnston, whose family consisted of two children. Henry B. Johnston has followed farming practically all his life, and is yet engaged in that occupation in Madison County. It was on the home farm there that Floyd A. Johnston grew to manhood. In boyhood he attended the district schools and later became a student in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and from this institution received the degrees of B. S. and LL. B., and was admitted to the bar in December, 1901.

Mr. Johnston came to Springfield in April, 1902, and opened an office for the practice of his profession. He was practically unknown and had to begin at the bottom and depend upon his own efforts. Perhaps one of the earliest convictions forced upon young professional men, especially in the law, is that there are no "short cuts" to success, and for some years, despite his thorough knowledge of the law, professional opportunity and consequent rewards were discouragingly slow to Mr. Johnston. Gradually, however, he made solid progress and his interests widened, his legal successes in a general practice bringing him into the limelight, and today he occupies a position of definite importance in his profession. Mr. Johnston deprecates the possession of unusual legal ability, explaining that close study and conscientious application have been the elements in his success, but his many friends and admirers maintain that if, in the future, public honors absorb all of his time and attention, the Springfield bar will have lost one of its most gifted members. In January, 1920, Mr. Johnston was made a United States commissioner, and is serving as such at the present time. He is active in all that concerns the welfare of Springfield, and is a member of the board of sinking fund trustees for the city.

Johnston and his family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. In political life he is a democrat. Professionally he is a member of the American, state and county bar associations, and fraternally is a thirtysecond degree Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine.

James S. Wess. Many boast of Springfield as the place of their nativity, but there are others who are proud of the fact that they have had the discernment and good judgment to become adopted sons of Clark County, and this is the fact with regard to James S. Webb, one of the leading insurance brokers of this part of the state. While his permanent location in the city is of relatively recent date, he may be fairly accounted as one of the county's progressive, helpful and dependable business men, typical of his day and calling.

Born at Louisville, Kentucky, December 16, 1869, he is a son of John G. and Adelaide (Wardlaw) Webb. John G. Webb, a native of England, immigrated to Canada, and from there came to the United States and located in Clark County at a date prior to the war between the states. For some time he conducted a farm in Springfield Township. With the outbreak of the war between the two sections of the country he symbolized his loyalty by enlisting to help preserve the Union, and served as a military telegrapher. Mr. Webb was under the command of General Grant at Vicksburg and elsewhere, and his military career in behalf of his adopted country reflected much credit upon him and the cause in which he served. After the termination of the war he located at Louisville, Kentucky, there engaged in mercantile pursuits, and there died in 1884.

James S. Webb grew to years of maturity in his native city, and there received his educational training in its excellent public schools. He first came to Springfield in 1892 to become superintendent of the old Hastings Paper Mill. Later he moved to New York as eastern manager for the Victor Rubber Company. Ohio had its attractions for him, however, for in 1906 he became treasurer of the Webb Construction Company at Columbus, Ohio. In 1913 he came once more to Springfield, and established himself in business as an insurance broker, at which he has since continued with more than average success. In Springfield Mr. Webb has contributed time and money in furthering all laudable aims of the community. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Fire and Underwriters Casualty Association, and the Rotary, Lagonda and Country clubs, having served as president of the former. He is a communicant of the Episcopal Church, belongs to the Young Men's Christian Association, and is one of the executive committee of the republican party in Clark County. For years he has been active in local Masonic history. He served as master of Anthony Lodge No. 455, Free and Accepted Masons, and was the first master of St. Andrews Lodge No. 619, Free and Accepted Masons. To him has been accorded the rare honor of having conferred upon him the thirty-third degree of Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Masonry, and he also holds membership in the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. During the World war Mr. Webb took an extremely active part in local work. He served the Government in various local camps, urging upon the soldiers and sailors the importance of taking out insurance. He was chairman of the Fraternal Committee in

On October 13, 1903, Mr. Webb married Miss Lucy Harrison, of Louisville, Kentucky, a daughter of Col. William Harrison, one of the prominent men of Kentucky. Mr. Webb is a man of strong character and noble impulses, and lives up in his everyday life to what he believes to be his duty. Whenever responsibilities have come to him he has labored earnestly and effectively to discharge them, and has never shirked a personal or civic duty, but rendered full value for whatever has been demanded of him. Such men are rare, but when found are a valuable asset to their community.

" Wirrram Mitts. The Mills family has played a dominating part in the development of Springfield and Clark County, and the record of the accomplishments of the men bearing the name forms interesting reading for those understanding people who recognize the fact that no community can be greater than its representative citizens. The first of the name at Springfield was the late William Mills, a native of the North of Ireland. He reached early manhood in his native country, but having two sisters living in New York City and another, Rachel, the wife of John Clark, living at Springfield, Ohio, he, too, crossed the Atlantic, with his mother and his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Johnson, in 1847. After a short visit in New York City William Mills came on west to Springfield and established his home on Harrison Street. He followed the business of contracting and building, and was also a landscape gardener. In the course of time he was made a street -commissioner, being one of the first to hold that office, and as such did much to effect improvements in the streets of the city. He was a man of medium stature, and was very active and enterprising. As a communicant of the Episcopal Church and as a good citizen he upheld in his life and deeds all that obtained for the betterment of the community. His death occurred in July, 1877. He and his wife had six children, five of them reaching maturity, but only two survive, William Mills, of Springfield, and Mary J., wife of Alexander G. MacKenzie, of Springfield, Ohio.

William Mills, last of two surviving children of William Mills, the elder, and named after his honored father, was born at Springfield, Ohio, October 10, 1856. He has always made this city his home and the scene of his rather unusually successful business operations. His educational training was received in the public schools, and all of his interests center in and about Springfield. His father dying when he was nearing his twenty-first birthday, he succeeded to his father's occupation, and in 1881 was elected to the same office his father had held for so long, that of street commissioner, having for his assistant his brother Robert R. Mills. These two operated a stone quarry and lime kiln just west of the present site of the Masonic Home, and it is still known as the Mills Quarry. The brothers also bought the Cold Spring Quarry, and operated that for a time. They were progressive in their business methods and conducted the first large stone crusher ever brought to this neighborhood. Incidentally they opened a builders' supply house, and this business is now conducted under the name of The Mills Bros. Co. Robert R. Mills, who was one of the real men of Springfield, died January 12, 1920, his wife having preceded him, leaving a son, Ralph E., and a daughter, Rachel L., now Mrs. Richard Rodgers, the former a partner in the firm founded by his father and uncle.

The younger William Mills married Mary Carr, a daughter of Joseph and Jane (Courtney) Carr. They became the parents of six children, namely: Charlotte, who died in infancy; Mary C.; William C., who is the present auditor of Clark County; Agnes R.; Joseph A., who married Frances Todd and lives at Springfield; and Robert A., William C. and Joseph A. served in the World war, the latter in the heavy artillery, but did not get vverseas. Mr. Mills and his wife are members of the Episcopal Church. in which for years Mr. Mills has been senivr warden. He is a Knight Templar, member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the Mystic Shrine.

William C. Mills, one of the enterprising young men of Springfield, is auditor of Clark County, and a veteran of the World war. He was born at Springfield, August 13, 1895, and was graduated from the high school course with the class of 1915. He had been attending Wittenberg College for two years when this country entered the World war, and enlisted, September 17, 1917, in the United States naval service, and was first assigned to duty on the Schurz, then on the Wilmett, holding the official rank of quartermaster. After his honorable discharge, in December, 1918, he returned to Springfield and served as chief deputy county auditor until the resignation of his chief, Raymond W. McKinney. Since February, 1921 he has been auditor of the county by appointment of the Board of County Commissioners. Mr. Mills is the youngest man ever honored with this position. He is a Presbyterian in religious belief ; a republican in politics, and belongs to the Alpha Tau Omega college fraternity, and is a Knight Templar member of the Masonic order.

On October 19, 1920, William C. Mills married Miss Dorothy Willard Brain, and their son, Willard Carr Mills, is of the fourth generation of his family to have lived at Springfield, and the third generation to have been born in the city. This little fellow has back of him an honorable line of ancestry on both sides, and every reason to be proud of his name.

JOHN L. PLUMMER has been established in the practice of law at Springfield since 1886, and has long held secure vantage-place as one of the representative members of the bar of Clark County. A splendid achievement that stands to his enduring honor is that of having organized the Merchants Mechanics Savings Loan Association, of which he has been official attorney from its inception and of which he has been the president for the past several years. This organization, through its liberal and well ordered functioning, has done much to further the industrial advancement and general civic prosperity of Springfield.

Mr. Plummer was born on a farm near Kewanee, Illinois, September 27, 1857, and is a son of Levi M. and Cynthia Ann (Bayless) Plummer. Nathan Plummer, grandfather of the subject of this review, was a native of Maryland, and the family home was established in Fairfield County, Ohio, in the pioneer days, removal later being made to Adams County. Shortly after his marriage Levi M. Plummer removed to Illinois, but about eight years later he returned with his family to Ohio and re-established his home in Adams County. His entire active career was marked by close association with farm enterprise, of which his father had been a pioneer representative in the old Buckeye State. Both he and his wife continued to reside in Adams County until their deaths.

z The boyhood of John L. Plummer was passed in Logan and Adams counties, Ohio, and he early became inured to the sturdy discipline of farm life. After having profited by the advantages of the district schools he was for one year a student at Geneva College, Northwood. Later he graduated from the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, from which he received the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts. He largely defrayed the expenses of his higher education by teaching school, he having taught two years in the district schools amd one year in Warren County. While at Lebanon he began the study of law, in the office and under the effective preceptorship of James M. and John E. Smith. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1885, and in April of the following year he opened an office at Springfield, where he has since been engaged in active and successful practice and where he has been concerned in much important litigation, with enviable reputation as a resourceful trial lawyer and well fortified counselor. A stalwart advocate of the cause of the republican party, Mr. Plummer was elected in 1890 to the State Senate, in which he gave characteristically loyal and effective service during his term of two years. He declined to become a candidate for re-election and has preferred to confine his activities to the work of his profession and to his business interests rather than to hold public office. He was president of the Springfield Commercial Club, which was later reorganized as the Chamber of Commerce, and he has served also as president of the Clark County Bar Association. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church.

Harry S. KIsseLL is one of the leading exponents of the real estate business in his native city of Springfield, where he has to his distinction the platting and placing on the market of Ridgewood, the most important and attractive suburb of the city. He is president of the Fairbanks Building Company, of which he was one of the organizers, as was he also of the American Trust & Savings Bank, of which he has been a director from the time of its incorporation, besides which he is a director also of the First National Bank of Springfield. In the World war period Mr. Kissell was chairman of the War Savings Committee of Clark County, which raised $1,700,000, and he served also as a director of the Clark County Chapter of the Red Cross, as well as chairman of the publicity committee of the Clark County War Chest. He takes deep interest in all that touches the civic and material prosperity and advancement of his native city and county, and is distinctly a loyal and public-spirited citizen and representative business man of Springfield. Mr. Kissell is a republican, he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church, and he is prominently affiliated with the timehonored Masonic fraternity, in which he has received the maximum and honorary thirty-third degree of the Scottish Rite. He is a past master of Anthony Lodge No. 455, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and has passed the various official chairs in the Masonic Grand Lodge of Ohio, of which he was grand master in 1910-11. In 1921 H. S. Kissell Lodge No. 674, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, was organized and instituted at Springfield, and the same was named in his honor. His maximum York Rite affiliation is with the local Commandery of Knights Templars. He is a member of the Beta Theta Pi college fraternity. i

October 17, 1901, recorded the marriage of Mr. Kissell and Miss Olive Troupe, daughter of Theodore Troupe, of Springfield, and the two children of this union are Roger Troupe and Mary Lucretia.

Harry S. Kissell was born at Springfield on the 24th of September, 1875, and is a son of Cyrus B. and Lucretia C. (McEwen) Kissell, the former of whom was born at Litersburg, Maryland, and the latter at Hillsboro, Illinois. Cyrus B. Kissell established his residence in Springfield about the year 1855, and here he was long and actively engaged in the real estate business, through the medium of which he did much to further the development and progress of both the city and the county. The Kissell family has been established in America since 1732, the original progenitor in this country having been Nicholas Kissell, who came here as a member of a Moravian mission and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Emanuel M. Kissell, grandfather of the subject of this review, was the inventor of important improvements in Agricultural machinery, and was a son of George Kissell, the family having early settled in Maryland. Cyrus B. Kissell and his wife became earnest members of the Presbyterian Church in Springfield, where Mrs. Kissell still maintains her home, the honored husband and father having passed away on the 29th of October, 1903. Of the three children, one died in infancy ; Blanche is the wife of Ralph C. Busbey; and Harry S., of this sketch, is the oldest of the children.

I. Warp Frey. An old Colonial family in America that has been identifed with Springfield interests for seventy-five years bears the name of Frey. It was established on American soil by one Heinrich Frey, a native of Germany, and afterwards a man of great enterprise at Zurich, Switzerland. From that ancient city he is supposed to have come to this country in 1688, locating at Palatine Bridge on the Mohawk River, opposite the present town of Canajoharie, New York. It was there he built a durable stone dwelling house, prudently providing it with convenient loopholes through which those inside could use rifles in the event of an attack by hostile Indians. The old stone house still stands, in a remarkable state of preservation.

Henry Frey son of the founder, married a Miss Keyser, and their son, also named Henry, chose for his wife Elizabeth Herkimer, a sister of Gen. Nicholas Herkimer, a noted early family of the State of New York. Philip Rockel Frey, son of Henry and Elizabeth Frey, married Elizabeth Tyrell.

Samuel Challott Frey, son of Philip R. and Elizabeth Frey, was born at Johnsville, New York, February 7, 1799. He married Susan C. Calhoun, and they were the grandparents of I. Ward Frey, who has long been one of Springfield's business men. Samuel C. Frey was a watchmaker and jeweler, and additionally was a man of education. In 1830 he moved across the border to Brockville, Canada, where he liyed during the next seven years. The history of the Canadian revolution of that time is well known, and, as in all revolutions, innocent people often suffer with the guilty. Mr. Frey at heart was in sympathy with the reformers, but kept a neutral attitude as far as possible, but he became a suspect and when his arrest became imminent, closed up his affairs and returned to the United States. In 1838 he came to Ohio and embarked in the jewelry business at Canton in Stark County; going thence to Springfield, and later removing to Decatur, Alabama, where he died at a venerable age.

George H. Frey, son of Samuel C. and father of I. Ward Frey, was born in Philadelphia, Jefferson County, New York, December 19, 1825, and acquired his earlier education in the City of Brockville, Canada. In 1838 he accompanied his parents to Ohio, and remained in the family home at Canton until 1847, when, on being admitted to the bar, he came to Springfield, and became a leading factor in business and political life. Among a variety of business enterprises he had an interest in one of Springfield's banks; was a prime mover in the construction of the Delaware branch of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad; was instrumental in setting on foot the construction of the Ohio Southern Railway, which is of the greatest importance to Springfield, connecting, as it does, the city with the Jackson coal fields and ore producing regions, and for one year was president and for many a director of this company. In 1854 he became owner of an interest in the Republic newspaper, and was the able editor of this journal for eight years, during that time wielding an influence in political circles second to none in the state. In 1856 he was appointed one of the delegates to the convention held at Pittsburgh for the purpose of organizing the national republican party and to provide for the selection of delegates to the first National Republican Convention for nominating presidential candidates, which was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 19, 1856, and to which Mr. Frey was also a delegate. Among his many notable political friends was Horace Greeley. At Springfield Mr. Frey was a vigorous leader, as elsewhere. He served on the School Board and in the City Council, and presided over the construction of the city water works, and it was during his period of service as county commissioner that the new court house was built and other public improvements brought about.

In the old Ward home at Springfield, on July 8, 1851, George H. Frey was united in marriage with Jane Quigley Ward, who was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1831, and died at Springfield, April 12, 1881. Her parents, Isaac and Mary (Rodgers) Ward, came from Cumberland County in 1833. Isaac Ward was born October 2, 1796, and died at Springfield, April 3, 1863. In Cumberland County he had been a manufacturer of woolen goods, but his health failed and after coming to Springfield was never active in business. Isaac Ward was a son of William and Elizabeth (Harrison) Ward, who moved from Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, to Portsmouth, Ohio, with their son Isaac and their daughter Sarah. William Ward was accidentally drowned in the Ohio River, and following this domestic calamity the brother of his widow came to Ohio from Pennsylvania and escorted his sister and her children back to the old home, the journey being made on horseback. Subsequently she returned to Ohio, and she died at Springfield.

I. Ward Frey was born November 22, 1852, at Springfield, in the home of his maternal grandfather, which is now the Frey home. He attended the public schools and Wittenberg College, after which he spent three years at the Highland Military Academy, Worcester, Massachusetts. Soon after leaving school he was called upon to take over the management of his father's quarries, and soon proved himself a capable business man, for years afterward being actively identified with the construction of the Springfield, Jackson & Pomeroy Railway, a narrow gauge road which is now the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railway. His health failed, and for six years he was practically out of business, but subsequently he was associated with Governor Bushnell in the building of Springfield"s first interurban traction line. Since then Mr. Frey has mainly devoted his time and attention to the development of his own city real estate and the management of his valuable farm properties in Clark County and Indiana.

Mr. Frey married Miss Anna Wilson, who was born at Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of William W. Wilson, whose father, the Rev. Alexander Wilson, was born in Ireland and was a minister in the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Frey have one daughter, Helen Wilson, who is the wife of Clarence B. Schmidt, of Xenia, Ohio.

Mr. Frey has been more of a business man than politician, although never failing in vigilance as a citizen. He has been one of the most active members of the Chamber of Commerce. For many years he has been a trustee and member of the Oakland Presbyterian Church, has been a generous contributor to many charities, and is a highly esteemed member of the Country Club.

Emin WITHERSPOON HAWKINS. Among the important offices having to do with the conduct of Clark County's government is that of the county agricultural agent, the duties of which are of a character that necessitate the direction of a carefully-trained incumbent. The present county agricultural agent, Emin Witherspoon Hawkins, possesses the necessary qualifications and equipment for this position and is discharging its duties and responsibilities in a manner that is pleasing to the people and of great benefit to the community.

Mr. Hawkins was born at Fairmount, Illinois, March 23, 1894, a son of William C. and Mabel (Witherspoon) Hawkins. His paternal grandfather, Edmund Hawkins, a native of Ohio, migrated in young manhood to Edgar County, Illinois, where he settled among the pioneers and continued to be engaged in agricultural pursuits during the remainder of his life. His son William C. was born in that county, March 21, 1865, and was reared to agricultural operations, to which he devoted himself for many years. Removing to Fairmount, he became One of the prominent and influential men of his community, and served as mayor thereof for two terms, of two years each. He married Mabel Witherspoon, who was born May 10, 1866, near Fairmount, Illinois, a daughter of William Witherspoon, a native of the Prairie State and an early settler and farmer of Edgar County. She was a member of the old and distinguished Southern family of that name, the most noted member of which was John Witherspoon, the famous American educator, who was born at Yester, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, February 5, 1722. John Witherspoon became president of Princeton College in 1768, was a delegate for six years from New Jersey to the Continental Congress and was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He died near Princeton, New Jersey, September 15, 1794.

Emin Witherspoon Hawkins attended the public schools near Fair- following which he spent three years at Fairmount High School, and then competed the four-year course at Danville High School. In 1912 he enrolled as a student at the University of Illinois, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1916, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science, after having pursued a full course in agriculture. On the completion of his education he went to Chicago, where he became a sheep buyer for Swift & Company at the Union Stock Yards, but failed to find his work congenial and accordingly went to Mount Prospect, Illinois, where he began teaching agriculture in the high school. He was thus engaged until December 1, 1917, when he enlisted for service in the World war and entered the air service, having been commissioned second lieutenant. He remained in that service and held the same rank until he received his honorable discharge January 7, 1919. In May, 1919, Mr. Hawkins became county agricultural agent for Ritchie County, West Virginia, and February 1, 1920, accepted his present position as county agricultural agent for Clark County, Ohio. Mr. Hawkins is a member of the National Agricultural Association, the Clark County Agricultural Association and the Clark County Grange. He also belongs to the Masonic Order, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Alpha Gamma Rho college fraternity.

Mr. Hawkins married Miss Ethel Klophel, who was born at Stratford, Ontario, Canada, daughter of Edward Klophel. They have one child, Marjorie Louise.

CHARLES Henry Bacon. An old and honorable family name of Springfield, Ohio, is that of Bacon, where business enterprise, good citizenship and sterling personal character have always been associated with it. For many years its leading representative was the late Charles Henry Bacon, merchant, banker and prominent citizen, whose long and useful life was spent in this city.

Mr. Bacon was born at Springfield, Ohio, September 1, 1833, and died here December 19, 1902. He was of New England ancestry and Revolutionary stock. His parents were John and Mary (Cavileer) Bacon, the former of whom was born at Weathersfield, Connecticut, a son of Captain Richard and Anner (Fosdick) Bacon. Captain Richard Bacon served as an officer in a Connecticut Line regiment in the Revolutionary war. John Bacon came to Ohio in 1812 and located at first at Urbana, in Champaign County, but came to Springfield in 1818. He was a saddler by trade and for many years had his harness and saddle shop on the present site of the Mad River National Bank. He was one of the organizers of the old Mad River Bank, which was familiarly known as "Bacon's Bank" and which was the pioneer banking institution of Springfield. This bank was incorporated in 1847, under the name of the Mad River Bank of the State of Ohio. In 1865 it was reorganized and chartered as the Mad River National Bank, being one of the first national banks organized under the National Bank Act. Mr. Bacon became president, and continued to be identified with this bank until his death which occurred March 5, 1868. He married Mary Cavileer, who was born at Chestertown, Maryland, and died at Springfield, December 22, 1878. Of their family of children Charles Henry was the youngest son.

Charles Henry Bacon attended school at Springfield in boyhood and grew to manhood with practical business ideas, evolved while receiving early commercial training. For many years he was engaged here in the wholesale grocery business, first as a member of the firm of Wright, Horr & Bacon, and later of the Horr & Bacon Company. For an extended period he was a director in the Mad River National Bank, and at the time of his death was vice president. His business sagacity was marked, and his judgment was frequently consulted on important matters of business policy by others who were less well informed or did not possess his keen foresight.

Mr. Bacon married on September 22, 1858, Miss Jane D. Horr, a daughter of Dr. Obed and Catherine (Foley) Horr. Dr. Horr was born in Massachusetts, came very early to Ohio and for many years was a practicing physician at Mechanicsburg in Champaign County. He married Catherine Foley, who was born in Clark County, Ohio, and was a daughter of John Foley, a pioneer in Clark County from Virginia. These names are all familiar ones in Ohio, long having represented some of the best citizenship in the state. Two daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bacon: Fannie, who became the wife of Charles Rowley, of Springfield, and now resides in Michigan; and Catherine, whose death occurred shortly after her marriage to E. O. Bowman, a well known journalist of Columbus, Ohio.

Mr. Bacon was primarily a business man and political leadership never appealed to him. He was, however, a careful and observant citizen and deeply interested in all that related to the substantial wellbeing of Springfield, wielding a marked influence in the direction of education and morality, and was a generous but unostentatious contributor to local charities. Mrs. Bacon still occupies the spacious family residence on East High Street, which for many years has been one of the hospitable homes of the city. She has a wide circle of personal friends here, who admire and esteem her for her beautiful traits of character, and additionally has another circle of friends, the most of them personally unknown to her, who are continually enjoying the fruits of her benevolence. She is a member of the Episcopal Church.

RiLey SmiTH. The work of the real estate man is varied and the responsibilities resting upon him are frequently important, for it often lies within his province to foster a local spirit of civic pride. This accomplished, the successful realtor reaches out for broader fields and endeavors to attract to his city new blood and capital. He in a measure develops the resources of his community, popularizes it and directs the Investment of its revenues and management of many of its affairs, and much of this is done through individual effort. Among the younger fealtors of Springfield who have gained positions of importance through their activities in these directions is Riley Smith, a real estate dealer and builder of homes, and vice president of the Avondale Realty Company.

Mr. Smith was born in Ross County, Ohio, near the Gillespieville Post Office in Liberty Township, September 3, 1883, a son of Simon Watson and Sarah (Tracy) Smith, natives of the same county. Simon W. Smith was born on the above farm, September 15, 1858, and was in the building and contracting business at Chillicothe, Ohio, until coming "to Springfield in 1916, since which time he has been identified with his son's building operations. His wife, Sarah, was a daughter of William Tracy, who was a native of Pennsylvania and came to Ross County, Ohio, with his parents when he was a boy. In additions to being a contractor at Gillespieville he was a local minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Smith died at Chillicothe in May, 1910, aged forty-nine years.

The pioneer of this branch of the Smith family was Michael Smith, who was born in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1810, one of twelve children who were orphaned by the death of both parents during an early epidemic of cholera. He was bound out to a man named Van Gundy, with whom he came to Ross County, and eventually became well-to-do, buying what was then the Taylor farm in Liberty Township, which land had been obtained by Taylor direct from the Government. This farm still remains in the possession of Mr. Smith's descendants. Michael Smitb was twice married, and had he been living in 1915 would have been 105 years old, with the following descendants: Eleven children, fortythree grandchildren, seventy-three great-grandchildren and one greatgreat-grandchild. During these 105 years there have been only thirteen deaths in Michael Smith's descendants' families. Four of his sons served in the Union Army during the Civil war, and came through "without a scratch."

Riley Smith was reared on the old homestead in Ross County and attended the Glade District School. He left the farm when he was twenty years old, and, going to Chillicothe, learned the building business in all its details, doing manual labor in the different building trades and using his powers of observation to give him all the information that he could secure. When he was twenty-three years of age he was a fullfledged building contractor at Chillicothe, due to the care he had taken in preparation, which included correspondence school courses and the study of English under a tutor. In 1911 he came to Springfield and began building and selling homes. In 1915 he became secretary and general manager of the Avondale Realty Company, and in 1920 became vice president of that concern. In addition to his own building operations and his connection with the company mentioned he has other important business interests, some of which are now only in the development stage. Energetic and progressive, he has always made his mark in the business world, and is steadily making advancement. Mr. Smith is a valued member of the Springfield Real Estate Board and the Springfield Chamber of Commerce. Fraternally he is affiliated with St. Andrews Lodge No. 619, Free and Accepted Masons. Mr. Smith is an active member of Story-Hypes Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he 1s financial secretary to the Board of Trustees, and has charge of the stewardship department of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Springfield District of the West Ohio Conference.

Mr. Smith married Miss Edna Ault, daughter of Reason and Elizabeth Ault, of Gillespieville, Liberty Township, Ross County, who died in May, 1919, leaving two sons: Hobart R. and Lloyd S. In June, 1921, he married Joyce E. Trombley, daughter of DeWayne D. and Mary P. Trombley, of Springfield, Ohio.

"WARREN W. DIEHL. In the mind of every resident of Springfield the name Diehl at once suggests the attainment of prestige in the hardware business, owing to the intimate connection of three generations of the Diehl family with this line of trade, as well as with its inception and development in the city. The present representative of the family in the business is Warren W. Diehl, president of the Diehl Hardware Company and one of Springfield's most forceful and capable business men.

William Diehl, the grandfather of Warren W. Diehl, was born in Germany, and in his native land learned and followed the trade of coppersmith. On immigrating to the United States, many years ago, he located at Springfield, where he opened a small shop for the following of his vocation on East Main Street, a few doors east of where the Hotel Shawnee now stands. In 1870 he entered the hardware business under his own name, establishing the industry which is still in existence. He married Catherine Frankenberg, who was also a native of Germany.

William Wallace Diehl, son of William Diehl, and father of the present generation, was born at Springfield, March 8, 1846. He was reared and educated at Springfield, where he learned the trade of furniture finisher, at which vocation he worked for a time, spending a few years at Philadelphia. He was also in the feed store industry for a time at Springfield, but finally entered his father's hardware business and in 1885 purchased the elder man's interest. From that time forward he conducted the enterprise until in January, 1920, when he sold out to his sons, Warren W. and Carl H. Diehl, and H. B. Nelson. He then lived retired from active business until his death, which occurred December 8, 1920. During the Civil war Mr. Diehl served with Company F, 152nd Regiment, Ohio National Guard, and saw active service at the front. He was a member of Mitchell Post No. 45, Grand Army of the Republic, and as a fraternalist held membership in Springfield Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Diehl belonged to the First Congregational Church and lived his faith daily, being a man of the highest integrity and probity of character. - In 1883 he married Miss Henrietta Zammert, who was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Albert Zammert, a native of Germany, for some years a resident of Cincinnati, and later an early merchant tailor of Springfield. To Mr. and Mrs. Diehl there were born five children: Warren W., Carl H., Howard F., Helen Catherine and Glenna Lucille.

Warren W. Diehl, son of William Wallace Diehl, was born at Springfield, December 9, 1886. After completing his course at Wittenberg Academy he attended Yale University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1910. He then entered the Cincinnati Law School, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1913, although he had been admitted to the bar in the previous December. Mr. Diehl embarked upon the practice of his profession at Springfield at the time. of his graduation, and continued to follow his calling until he entered the service of his country during the World war. On March 4, 1918, he entered the service as sergeant of the first class in the Medical Corps, and July 10 of the same year sailed for France, where he was detailed to Base Hospital No. 53 at Langres, France. There he remained until March, 1919, when he returned to this country and was mustered out and honorably discharged at Garden City, Long Island, New York. After his return from the war Mr. Diehl gave up the profession and entered his father's business, and subsequently, in 1920, with his brother Carl H. and H. B. Nelson, bought the business. He is now president of the concern, which was incorporated in 1902 as the Diehl Hardware Company, and which is a large and growing concern.

Mr. Diehl is a member of George Cultice Post No. 6, American Legion, of which he served as commander from June 1, 1921, to June 1, 1922. He is also a member of St. Anthony Lodge No. 455, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Springfield Chapter and Council. He is also a member of the Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Delta Phi college fraternities. >

EDWARD ALLEN TEHAN is secretary and treasurer of the Fahien- Tehan Company, owners of the splendid store at Springfield that is -the chief headquarters for dry goods merchandise in Clark County. He and H. J. Fahien have been associated for many years. They were together as fellow employes in an old dry goods house of which their present business is in an important sense the successor. They later became small stockholders in that business, then withdrew and organized a company of their own, and by the unique combination of their special talents in different lines they have made one of the most prosperous mercantile organizations in the State. The full story of the business is contained in the regular history of the president of the company, Mr. 'Fahien, on other pages of this publication.

Mr. Tehan was born on a farm in Champaign County, Ohio, August 26, 1876, son of Morris and Jennie (Sullivan) Tehan. His mother was born at Springfield. Morris Tehan was four years of age when his parents came to the United States and settled in Champaign County. In -1878 the family moved from Champaign County to Springfield, and Morris Tehan and wife both died in this city. `

Edward A. Tehan was two years Of age when he came to Springfield, «and he has spent practically all his life in this city. He was educated 'in the parochial schools and in the Nelson Business College. At the age of seventeen, in 1893, he entered the service of the old Kannain -Brothers Dry Goods store at Springfield. Years of experience brought him steady promotion until he was a stockholder, and it was in 1907 that

Mr. Tehan is a member of the Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce, Knights of Columbus and St. Raphael's Catholic Church. He married Florence Kelley, daughter of John R. and Ellen (Fitzgerald) Kelley, of Springfield. Their family consists of five daughters and one son: Marion, Edward Allen, Jr., Helen, Florence, Margaret and Eleanor.

StanLey RicHarp Hutcuincs, M. D., one of the successful and prominent members of the Clark County medical profession and a progressive citizen of Springfield, was born in the city of Chicago, Illinois, October 28, 1869, the son of Samuel and Demaris (Richardson) Hutchings, the Hutchings being of English stock and the Richardsons of Irish and Scotch origin.

The paternal grandfather of Doctor Hutchings, Benjamin Hutchings, was a pioneer of the Western Reserve of Ohio, he having come out from Connecticut in the early days and settled in the City of Cleveland, where his son Samuel was born in 1842. The maternal grandfather, Jonas Richardson, a native of New York State, became a pioneer of Western New York. Both the Hutchings and Richardson families furnished soldiers to the Revolutionary war. From Cleveland Samuel Hutchings went to Chicago as a young man, and after a few years transferred his activities to a farm in Jefferson County, New York, on account of the ill state of his health. There he died in 1890. When the second call was made for troops during the Civil war he enlisted at Cleveland, but ill health incapacitated him for service and he was honorably discharged before he saw active duty. His widow is still residing on the © home place in Jefferson County, New York, in which county she was orn.

York, where he attended the public schools and the Watertown High School, and then became a student at the Adams (New York) Collegiate Institute. He passed the regents' examination at the last-named college and on the points, or merits, he thus received, entered the University of Vermont, from the medical department of which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1896. He entered the practice of medicine and surgery at Springfield, January 1, 1897, and has since continued therein with deserved success. He is a member of the Clark County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and as a fraternalist holds membership in the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Junior Order United American Mechanics. _ On October 19, 1918, Doctor Hutchings was commissioned a first lieutenant in the United States Medical Corps, but was not called for duty until a short time before the signing of the armistice. After active service at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, he was honorably discharged the same year. Doctor Hutchings has been a member of the Springfield Board of Education for several years, first by appointment and then by election, and is giving the cause of education his earnest support.

Dr. W. H. H. and Melissa (Tifft) Sias. Her grandmother, Luzina H. Tifft, was the daughter of Thomas Worden, a soldier of the American Revolution and his daughter Luzina was presented with a gold spoon by-the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, at the time the society so honored all of its living "real daughters of the Revolution," this spoon being cherished by Mrs. Hutchings as an heirloom to be handed down to her children. To Dr. and Mrs. Hutchings there have been born two daughters and a son: Florence Christiana, born September 23, 1899, who graduated from the high school at Springfield in 1917, married Hilliard Mulford, of Port Chester, New York; Richard Stanley, born November 21, 1906, in high scool; and Roxana Luzina, botn November 4, 1911.

GEORGE WASHINGTON NETTS, first vice president of the Merchants and Mechanics Savings and Loan Association, and one of the best-known men of Springfield, where he has lived all his life, was born in this city, January 27, 1847, a son of the late Louis and Elizabeth (Hehr) Netts, natives of Prussia.

Louis Netts was born in 1802 and often told how, as a boy, he watched the army of Napoleon I. as it marched past his father's place. The parents were married in the old country, and in 1834 the family, including two children, sailed for America. While they stopped for a time at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and also in Monroe County, Ohio, they settled permanently at Springfield a few months after landing. Louis Netts was a weaver by trade, but there was no employment to be found at that vocation at Springfield at the time of his arrival, so he turned his hand to any honorable work that presented itself, including the digging of ditches. About that time the First Lutheran Church and Wittenberg College were in the course of construction, and public subscriptions were being taken in behalf of both institutions. Mr. Nettes' subscription was two days' work for each, work which would have netted him fifty cents a day for other parties, and considering the conditions of his finances at the time, with a growing family on his hands, it may be said that his subscription was a generous one. Soon after his arrival at Springfield he hit upon the idea of making oak baskets, going to the woods and getting out his strips, from which he fashioned the baskets in his small shop at his home. His product soon attracted attention and found a ready market, and for many years he continued in this line of endeavor and made a good livelihood. He was a public-spirited man, a democrat in politics until the Fremont campaign, a Lutheran in religion and an ardent Abolitionist. He died, greatly respected and esteemed, in 1879, his worthy and estimable wife surviving him until 1890.

George W. Netts attended the Springfield Public School, and after working in a printing office for a time, learned the wood-working trade and secured employment with the Mass-Foos Company, a concern with which he was connected for twenty-nine years. He was foreman of the shops during a long period of that time, during which he traveled all over the country for his concern, erecting windmills. In 1906 Mr. Netts was elected superintendent of the City Hospital, and was in charge of that institution for three years. He served as a member of the