Springfield Township (part 62 of 69)

WiLLiam T. WADDLE is consistently given high rank as one of the vital and successful representatives of farm enterprise and the dairy industry in Clark County, and his progressive operations are staged on his well improved farm of approximately 164 acres, in section 35, Greene Township. He was born in this township on the 23d of April, 1876, and is a son of Joseph M. and Martha B. (Taylor) Waddle. Joseph M. Waddle was born near the present city of Wheeling, West Virginia, December 30, 1839, and was a son of William and Maria (McMackin) Waddle, who came to Ohio in 1865 and settled on the farm now owned and occupied by their grandson William T. Waddle, of this review. Here the grandparents passed the remainder of their lives, both having been devout members of the United Presbyterian Church, in which William Waddle was an elder. Of their seven children only one is living in 1922, Addison, who is a resident of the State of Kansas.

Joseph M. Waddle was reared in what is now the State of West Virginia, and was twenty-five years of age when he accompanied his parents to Clark County, Ohio. In Greene Township, this county, on the 23d of August, 1870, was solemnized his marriage with Miss Martha B. Taylor, and of the eight children of this union only one is deceased: Miss Nellie M. continues her residence in Clark County; William T., immediate subject of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Jessie is the wife of Albert Anderson, a farmer in Greene Township; John E. is engaged in the grocery business at Xenia; Forrest is a farmer in Cedarville Township, Greene County; Harry A. is a salesman for a wholesale lumber company in the City of Columbus; and Roy is a progressive farmer in Greene County.

The environment and activities of the home farm compassed the childhood and early youth of William T. Waddle, and in the local schools he gained his early education, which was supplemented by his attending the Clifton High School. He remained at the parental home until he had attained to his legal majority, and thereafter was employed at farm work until he was twenty-six years of age, when he married and soon afterward initiated his independent career as a farmer. He has the satisfaction of utilizing the old homestead farm of his paternal grandparents, and has been specially successful both as an agriculturist and stockgrower. He now gives special attention to the dairy department of his farm enterprise, is a successful breeder of Polled Jersey cattle and maintains on his farm a fine dairy herd of about fifty cattle of this splendid type. He is a stockholder in the Emery Farmers Grain Company at Springfield. Mr. Waddle is a stalwart republican, and while he has had no desire for public office he has shown his civic loyalty through eight years of effective service as a member of the School Board of his district. He and his wife are zealous and honored members of the United Presbyterian Church at Clifton, and he is serving as an elder of the same,

On the 20th of February, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Waddle and Miss Ethel M. Shaw, who was born in Greene Township, August 10, 1878, and who is a daughter of John A. Shaw. Mr. and Mrs. Waddle have three children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here recorded: Kenneth S., March 28, 1906; Wilber Jj March 3, 1912; and Lois, January 30, 1917.

JASPER W. OLINGER. The Olingers as a family have been identified with Clark County since pioneer days as farmers and developers of the land and the life of the rural district. Some of the choicest bodies of land in the county have been owned by them. A representative in the present generation is Jasper W. Olinger, who is proprietor of one of of the largest individually owned farms in the county, located at Brighton in Harmony Township.

He was born just a mile east of his present home on April 11, 1861, son of Joseph C. and Mary (Smith) Olinger. His father, who was born in old Virginia, May 25, 1815, and died May 18, 1894, was bound out when a boy to a man in Virginia and remained in his home and employ for eleven years and then continued to work for him ten years more. He came to Ohio in company with William Troxell on horseback. For a time he worked with his brother Peter in a blacksmith shop and subsequently, while working in the woods, he broke his right leg. He finally settled down to farming near Brooks Station and later he bought a place of 480 acres, all of which he improved by clearing, ditching and building. At the time of his death Joseph Olinger left a farm estate of 900 acres. He united with the Baptist Church in Virginia when he was ten years of age, but subsequently became a member of the Christian Church and for many years was an elder in his home church. He was a republican in politics. Joseph Olinger married Mary Smith, and six of their children are living: Jacob M., of Springfield; George W., a farmer in Harmony Township; William H., who occupies the old homestead; Jasper W.; C. S., an attorney at the Springfield bar; and Joseph C., of London, Ohio.

Jasper W. Olinger grew up on the home of his father, attended the common schools, and had a careful discipline in the tasks of farming. For over thirty years his efforts have been applied to farming as a business of his own. Mr. Olinger is the enviable possessor of a farm of 567 acres in one body, lying partly in Pleasant and partly in Harmony townships. This farm is noted for its good live stock, cattle, sheep, hogs and horses. ' , j )

Mr. Olinger remained at home with his parents until he was thirtytwo. November 29, 1893, he married Alta D. Wilson. They have two children: Ralph J., born August 14, 1897, who married Mary Frazier; and Raymond H., born February 2, 1904. The family are members of the Wilson Chapel Christian Church, in which he is a deacon. He is a member of the Grange and a republican in politics.

Epcar H. Long, M. D. A competent and well-trained physician and surgeon, Doctor Long has found his work and congenial environment at South Vienna.

He was born in Warren County, Ohio, September 22, 1897, son of Benjamin and Rosa (Cadwalder) Long. His parents are also natives of Warren County, where his father was born May 4, 1874, and his mother October 22, 1875. They were reared and educated there, and after their marriage located on a farm, where they are still residing. His father is now retired from the heavier duties of the farm. He is a republican in politics.

Only son of his parents, Dr. Edgar H. Long spent his youth on the farm, graduated from high school in 1915, and had further training at Cincinnati, where he subsequently entered the Eclectic Medical College and was graduated M. D. in 1920. Doctor Long was house physician at the Deaconess Hospital of Cincinnati for eight months, and received a diploma from that institution. From July, 1920, to July, 1921, he served as an interne in the City Hospital at Springfield and left there to take up private practice, associated with Dr. E. H. Smith of South Vienna. Doctor Long is a member of the Eclectic and State Medical societies. He is a republican and is affiliated with . the Junior Order United American Mechanics.

W. C. Ray, postmaster of South Vienna and a grocery merchant, has been a very active young business man in South Central Ohio for a number of years.

He was born in Vinton County, Ohio, January 30, 1877, son of Jesse and Josephine (Garrett) Ray. His father was born in Vinton County in June, 1842. He enlisted and served three years and three months as a soldier in the Civil war. After the war he followed farming in Vinton County, sold out his property there, and in 1888 moved to Fayette County, where he bought land, later lived for a time at Bloomingsburg in that county, and in 1892 moved to Madison County, where he lived on a rented farm until 1902. In that year he came to Springfield and from there moved to New Carlisle. His wife died at Canal Winchester in August, 1911, and he is now living retired at Columbus. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and is a republican in politics. There were eight children, five of whom are living: Effie, wife of Arthur Robbins, of South Charleston; W. C.; Maude, wife of Forrest Slyh, of Columbus; Grace, wife of Fred Wyant, of Maryland; and Mabel, wife of S. D. Latham of Hilliard, Ohio.

W. C. Ray acquired a common school education. He remained at home with his parents until he was twenty-four and on August 31, 1902, married Mabel Robbins. They have two children: Marjorie, a graduate of the Harmony Township High School; and Palmer, attending high school. Mrs. Ray is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Ray is affiliated with Vienna Lodge No. 660, Knights of Pythias, and is a republican.

Mr. Ray first engaged in the grocery business at New Carlisle, where he was located for two years, then moved his business headquarters to Hilliard for one year, and for two years was at Canal Winchester and another two years at Columbus. With this experience he

/ ARTHUR H. WALKER is a civil engineer by training, but for a quarter of a century has devoted his professional knowledge and other talent to the management of a high class farm in Clark County, a place that has been in the Walker family for three generations and is known as the Able Walker homestead, situated in Madison Township.

Mr. Walker was born in this township 'September 6, 1876, son of Phineas and Catherine L. (Harrison) Walker. His mother was a daughter of Seth and Sarah (Fawkes) Harrison. Phineas Walker was

"also born at the old homestead, son of Able and Hannah (Lupton) Walker. Arthur H. Walker represents the tenth generation in descent from Lewis Walker, who came from Wales in 1686. Able and Hannah Walker came to Clark County from the vicinity of Winchester, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley and secured the old homestead now occupied by their grandson.

Arthur H. Walker grew up on the farm, attended the public schools, graduated from high school, and in 1897 finished his course and received the Civil Engineer's degree at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. He served as a volunteer in the Spanish-American war, joining the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was with this regiment in the Porto Rico campaign. After his college and military experience Mr. Walker returned to the farm and has shown a high degree of efficiency in the management of the place. This farm comprises 144 acres.

September 29, 1906, he married Anna Leidigh Pringle, who is a high ` school graduate. They have one daughter, Catherine, born July 18, 1907. Both Mr. Walker and his wife are birthright members of the Friends Church. He is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a past master, is a member of the Royal Arch Chapter and Council at London, Ohio, Palestine Commandery No. 33 at Springfield, the Scottish Rite Consistory, and is a member of Lu-Lu Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In politics he is a republican.

WirLiam R. ThHorPE. The old Thorpe homestead farm, occupied and managed by William R. Thorpe, is located in Madison Township, on Rural Route No. 1 out of Selma. William R. Thorpe has been one of the energetic and prosperous men of this community for nearly forty years and is, in fact, a native of that vicinity.

He was born on the farm where he now lives August 22, 1865, son of Thomas and Maria (Reeder) Thorpe. His father was born in Belmont County, Ohio, February 23, 1829, and in 1835 the family removed to Morgan County, where he grew to manhood and had a ' share in the work of making a farm. After reaching the age of twenty-one he moved to Columbiana County, where he married Maria Reeder, a native of that county. She died April 20, 1878, her only child being William R. Thorpe. The father married again, but had no children by the second union. He and his wife were birthright members of the Hixite Friends Church, and he was a republican and gave service on the School Board in Madison Township.

William R. Thorpe grew up at the old farm, attended the common schools, and on November 18, 1890, married Anna H. Hallsteine. She was born in German Township of Clark County, November 16, 1869, and was educated in the public schools, in the Springfield High School and for two years was a teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Thorpe have one son, William D., born August 14, 1899. He had a liberal education, attending the common schools, spent two and one-half years in Miami Military Institute, also two years in the Oklahoma College of Agriculture and Mechanical Art. He then returned to Ohio, but in June, 1921, went back to Oklahoma. He married Almeda Childers.

William R. Thorpe is a birthright Friend, and his wife was reared a Lutheran, but both are now members of the Presbyterian Church of South Charleston. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and is a republican. Mr. Thorpe in addition to the responsibility of handling his farm of 108 acres was for one term township assessor, and "is a stockholder in the R. L. Dollings Service and in the South Charleston Lumber Company.

WILLIAM JOSEPH CORCORAN. Modern advancement develops certain capabilities in men and gives them avenues of expression not opened up a few generations ago. When the latter half of the last century was in its youth men of ability were restricted in a measure in their choice of a life work. If they felt no inclination toward the law, the pulpit or the clinic, they either had to enter the schoolroom, take up farming or engaged in the marts of trade. The thousand and one openings now offered to the ambitious youth had not been discovered. However, as the new possibilities brought about by discovery and invention dawned upon the skilled men of the country it was seen that they were eager to embrace every opportunity and to create new chances for advancement. In this connection one of Springfield's men of the younger generation who has come prominently to the forefront in recent years through his connection with a modern industry is William Joseph Corcoran, who was superintendent of the Steel Products Company until he organized the Corcoran Engineering Company.

Mr. Corcoran is a native of Lennox, Massachusetts, born May 13, 1890, a son of Michael C. and Mary (Dalton) Corcoran, natives of the same state and of Irish descent, as the names might indicate, and both now residing at Stockbridge, Massachusetts. For generations the Corcorans have been prominent in the medical profession and as mechanics. William Joseph Corcoran was reared at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where his parents had removed in 1897, and received his early education in the public schools there, graduating from the high school in 1910. He then entered Pratt Institute, a technological institution of Brooklyn, New York, and was graduated therefrom in 1912. At that time he went to work as a toolmaker for the Wells Brothers Tap and Die Company, of Greenfield, Massachusetts, and on leaving the employ of that concern associated himself with the Hendee Manufacturing Company, makers of the Indian motorcycle. Mr. Corcoran's next position was with the General Electric Company at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he continued to work as a toolmaker, and it was in the same capacity that he came to Springfield in 1914 and joined the plant of the Kelly-Springfield Motor Truck Company. He remained with that concern until 1915, when he joined the organization of the Steel Products Company as a toolmaker. Here his ability, fidelity and industry won ready recognition and he was soon promoted assistant foreman of the machine shop. From this position he rose to foreman of the tool room, and in 1919 he was made superintendent of the plant. He resigned from the Steel Products Company June 10, 1922. On June 27, 1922 W. J. and T. M. Corcoran, brothers, started a company of their own, known as the Corcoran Engineering Company, at 231-239 East Main Street. Mr. Corcoran is considered an expert in his line of work, is possessed of much executive ability, and has the confidence of his associates and the friendship and good will of the employes of the plant. He has worked his own way up the self-made road to accomplishment, and is appreciative of the efforts and ambitions of others. He is a member of the Springfield Engineers' Club, the Springfield Automobile Club, the Knights of Columbus and the Springfield Chamber of Commerce. His religious faith is that of the Catholic Church, he and Mrs. Corcoran being members of St. Raphael's Church of Springfield. While he has not sought public preferment of any kind, he takes an interest in civic affairs, and always supports all measures calculated to be for the city's advancement and welfare.

In 1915, at Springfield, Mr. Corcoran was united in marriage with Miss Gertrude J. Arnold, a daughter of John Arnold, of Holyoke, Massachusetts, and to this union there have been born two children: Gertrude A. and William J.

TimotHy WILSON, now eighty-two years of age, has spent the greater part of his industrious life in the rural sections of Clark County. He occupies a farm in Harmony Township that is a monument to his industry.

He was born at Walton, Yorkshire, England, April 1, 1840, son of Timothy and Sarah (Rhodes) Wilson. His parents spent all their lives in Yorkshire and of their ten children nine reached mature years. Timothy Wilson has a sister Harriet, now the wife of William Parker, living in Kansas.

Timothy Wilson-tived in England until he was eighteen. He attended school there, but at the age of twelve years he began working and for three years was employed in a dairy. After that he continued farm work until he came to the United States, landing at New York City. He joined his brother at Elyria, Loraine County, Ohio, and after a short time came to Springfield. He worked on farms and in the timber district around South Charleston. While here he married Nancy Smith, who was born on a farm in Harmony Township. After his marriage Timothy Wilson secured twenty acres of land, and by hard work has achieved the ownership of about eighty acres, well improved and highly developed. His wife died there in 1919. Of their six children, five are living: Miss Sara E.; Charles H., a sketch of whom follows; Arabella, wife of W. B. Hunt of Columbus, and they have two children, Barton L. and Charlotte M.; Anna M., wife of Charles F. Gilbert, of South Charleston; and Ault G., a farmer in Harmony Township. He married Ethel L. Morningstar and they have

Charles H. Wilson was born at the old Timothy Wilson homestead June 19, 1872, and is now a prosperous farmer in an adjoining place in Harmony Township. He grew up on a farm, had a common school education and he worked as a farm hand and for a time rented land. He now owns 137 acres. l

February 25, 1909, he married Nellie McDonald, who was born in Madison Township, February 18, 1886, daughter of Job and Elizabeth (Mort) McDonald, her father a native of Virginia and her mother of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilson have one son, Charles R., born September 25, 1910. They are members of the Baptist Churcn, in which he is a deacon, and in politics he votes as a republican.

CLARENCE E. LAYBOURNE has been a representative farmer in Greene and Harmony townships for the past twenty years. His home is in the Plattsburg community, and he is a native of Clark County and member of one of its old and substantial families.

He was born on a farm in Green Township of this county October 17, 1880, son of William and Anna (Madden) Laybourne. His father was born in the same locality on May 26, 1843, and grew up on the farm and acquired a public school education. The mother was born July 9, 1852, and at the age of seventeen qualified as a teacher and at the age of nineteen was granted a life certificate. She and her husband were married in 1876, and they then located on a farm in Greene Township, where the father continued his industrious career until his death in 1906. He was a republican and an active member of the Baptist Church, with which his widow is also affiliated. Of their five children four are living: Lawrence, Clarence, Stanley, Alice and Willie, who died aged six years.

Clarence E. Laybourne grew up on a farm, attended the local schools and was at home with his parents until he was twenty-one. Since then he has been farming for himself, and his management of his farm and his private interests have gained him the confidence of his fellow citizens to the extent of conferring upon him offices of trust and responsibility. He has been township trustee of Greene Township, is a republican, is a member of Fielding Lodge No. 192, F. and A. M., is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of Antioch Temple of the Shrine at Dayton. He is a Baptist, while Mrs. Laybourne is a member of the Christian Church.

October 29, 1903, he married Virginia Troxell, daughter of William and Dora (Shryack) )Troxell, and a member of one of the best known families in this section of Clark County. Mr. and Mrs. Laybourne have three children: Troxell, now in the third year of high school; Elizabeth, a first year high school girl; and Esther, attending the grade school.

Davip H. CAMPBELL is postmaster of Plattsburg, and is a member of the firm Campbell and Price, general merchants and dealers in grain, coal and seeds. He has been continuously in business in that rural town of Harmony Township for over thirty years, and is one of the very substantial citizens of that section of Clark County.

Mr. Campbell was born on a farm in Harmony Township, January 14, 1858. His father, Samuel D. Campbell, was also a native of Harmony Township, had a public school education there, and married Mary (Jones) "Foreman, who was born in Illinois and was married there, she and her husband then locating in Harmony Township of Clark County, where Mr. Foreman died. Samuel D. Campbell after his marriage followed farming, and at the time of the Civil war enlisted at Springfield in the Union Army, and died while in the service. He and his wife were members of the Christian Church. Of their four children two are now living, David H. and Melyne B., the latter of Cedarville, Ohio.

David H. Campbell was only a small boy when his father died. He spent several years in Springfield, but about 1865 his mother returned to Harmony Township, and he grew up there. He had a common school education, and as a boy began working for his own support. For a time he was in the employ of the man who owned the store now conducted by Campbell and Price. He was also in the grain business, was employed for a time by Hamilton and Brooks, and for four or five years he operated a tile factory. He then bought the store at Plattsburg owned by John Nicholson & Company, in 1890, and two years later John Price bought into the business and the firm of Campbell and Price has now been in existence for thirty years.

In 1879 Mr. Campbell married Jennie Hartman, who was born at South Vienna, Ohio. She died July 29, 1920, and was long a faithful member of the Christian Church. Their two children were Jessie, who died in 1901, and Freeman. Freeman is a graduate of High School and the Ohio Wesleyan University of Delaware, and by his marriage to Jessie Grube has two sons, David A. and Robert. Mr. Campbell is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, F. and A. M., and has filled the chairs in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. He is treasurer of the Home Telephone Company of Plattsburg, and he has been postmaster under the civil service rules for a number of years. He was formerly a democrat, but is now a republican in politics.

Epwin PEARL Deaton, the efficient superintendent of the Clark County Infirmary, is giving a most careful and effective administration and has brought this institution to high standard in all departments of its service, his regime having made it specially creditable to his native county.

Mr. Deaton was born on the old homestead farm of the family in Bethel Township, one mile distant from the county institution of which he is now superintendent, and the year of his birth was 1874. On the old home place his venerable father, N. E. Deaton, eighty years of age at the time of this writing, in 1922, still resides, and when it is stated that this honored citizen likewise is a native of Clark County it becomes evident that the family was here founded in the pioneer days. N. E. Deaton is a son of Andrew Deaton, who was born in Pennsylvania, and who came in an early day to Clark County, where he reclaimed and developed a farm in Bethel Township, and where he died at the age of eighty-five years. N. E. Deaton married Miss Catherine Confer, who was born at Yellow Springe, Greene County, this state, and whose death occurred in 1916, she and her husband having continued their devoted companionship until they were able to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary, and the gracious ties having been severed only when the loved wife and mother passed to the life eternal.

Edwin P. Deaton was reared on the old home farm, which only recently passed out of the possession of the family, through sale of the property, and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages of the local schools. He has been continuously associated with farm enterprise in his native county from his boyhood, and he had charge of the old home place until the same was sold. His secure place in popular confidence and esteem became especially evident when he was selected superintendent of the County Infirmary, after the former incumbent, Jesse Pence, had dropped dead while at his home. Mr. Deaton assumed the duties of this important office on the 1st of January, 1919, and his administration has fully justified his appointment to the office. l

The Clark County Infirmary and Farm are situated in Bethel Township, nine miles west of the City of Springfield. The main building, standing on a slight elevation, is constructed of brick and is three stories in height, as are also its two wings, each of which has a porch and balcony at the front. The county farm comprises 15612 acres, and was purchased about eight years ago, the place having been the old homestead farm of the late Martin 'Snyder. The infirmary buildings are of modern design and facilities, and the main building was erected at a cost of $100,- 000. The infirmary has accommodations for 175 inmates, and the average number is about one hundred, women being in the minority. The farm is maintained at a high standard, has fifteen dairy cows of the purebred Holstein type, and the fine orchard on the place gives ample crops of peaches, apples, etc. The institution is largely self-supporting, and each year records an advance toward making the place entirely independent of extraneous financial support on the part of the county. The superintendent believes that after the nation has maintained its prohibition laws twenty-five years there will not be need for institutions to care for the indigent. In politics Mr. Deaton is a republican, but in local affairs he supports men and measures meeting his approval rather than being constrained by strict partisan lines. -

Mr. Deaton married Miss Blanche Ione Snyder, who was born and reared in Bethel Township, she having been ten years old at the time of her mother's death and having then been taken into the home of her maternal grandparents. She is a daughter of John Snyder, who died at the age of sixty years, he having been for a number of years engaged in the grocery business at Donnelsville, this county. John Snyder was a son of Samuel Snyder and a nephew of Martin Snyder, the names of both of whom are honored in connection with civic and industrial development and progress in Clark County. Samuel Snyder died at the age of eighty-five years and his brother Martin at the age of eighty-eight. The Snyder family had owned a landed estate of 400 acres, extending from the National Road to the present county farm, which was a part of this original Snyder landed estate. Mr. Deaton has found his wife an able and popular coajutor in carrying on the affairs of the County Infirmary, of which she is matron. They have one daughter, Lucille, who is now the wife of Roy Free, of Springfield. She was educated in that city and is still numbered among the successful and popular teachers in the public schools of the county seat.

LemueL N. Doom is known and valued as one of the most loyal and progressive business men and influential' citizens of New Carlisle, where he is cashier of the New Carlisle Bank, a member of the firm of Doom Brothers, engaged in the undertaking business, and president of the Board of Education in a vital little city that has provided one of the most modern and attractive school buildings to be found in places of similar or even much greater population in the entire State of Ohio.

Mr. Doom was born in the picturesque little mountain City of Staunton, Virginia, in the year 1875, and is a son of John Doom. He was six years old at the time of the family removal to Kentucky, and two years later removal was made to Troy, Miami County, Ohio. He was sixteen years old when he came with his parents to Clark County, where the family home was established on a farm near New Carlisle. He remained on the farm nine years, and later gave effective service as clerk in hardware and drug stores at New Carlisle. In 1910 the former cashier of the New Carlisle Bank prevailed upon Mr. Doom to assume the position of bookkeeper in that institution, and eventually, in 1913, he was chosen cashier of this bank, in which executive office he has since continued his able and popular administration. The bank bases its operations on a capital stock of $30,000, has a surplus fund of $10,000, and the institution has paid regular dividends to its stockholders. Frank E. Thompson, of Miami County, is president of this strong and well ordered bank, which owns the building in which its business is conducted.

Mr. Doom received his early education in the public schools and has taken deep interest in the schools of New Carlisle during the period of his residence here. He has served eight years as a member of the Board of Education, of which he is now the president, and was a vigorous supporter of the progressive movement which resulted in giving to New Carlisle one of the finest school buildings in the state, the same having been erected in 1921. Mr. Doom is independent in politics and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. Mrs. Doom is a charter member and is a past worthy matron of the local chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, is an influential and popular member of the Progress Club and is a prominent figure in the representative social and cultural activities of her home community.

ROBERT STEVENSON PARSONS is giving specially effective and progressive administration of the office of superintendent of the public schools of the thriving little City of New Carlisle, and is doing much to advance the standard of educational work in Clark County.

Mr. Parsons was born in Greene County, this state, on the 28th of November, 1863, the place of his nativity having been the parental home farm near Fairfield. His father, James Parsons, was born in Virginia, was six years of age at the time of the family removal to Ohio in 1840, and was a resident of Miami County at the time of his death, in 1921, at the venerable age of eighty-seven years.

Robert S. Parsons continued his studies in the public schools of his native county until he had completed a course in the high school, and thereafter he devoted five years to successful work as a teacher in the schools of Greene County. In the furtherance of his higher education he entered Wittenberg College, at Springfield, and in this excellent institution he was graduated in 1894, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, his alma mater having conferred upon him, in 1897, the supplemental degree of Master of Arts, after he had taken an effective post-graduate course. Thereafter he was for two years a member of the faculty of Wartburg College at Waverly, Iowa, where he held the chair of mathematics. For the ensuing four years he was superintendent of the public schools of Bethel Township, Miami County, Ohio, and he next taught one year in the high school at Miamisburg. From 1900 to 1902 he was engaged in successful professional work in Porto Rico, where for the first year he was principal of the schools at Maricao and the second year was at the head of the high school in the seaport Town of Mayaquez. He then returned to the United States, and for eleven years he continued his able services as superintendent of the public schools of Beaver Creek Township, Greene County, Ohio. He was for the ensuing year principal of the High School at New Vienna, Clinton County, and the next three years found him giving characteristically effective administration as superintendent of the public schools of Jeffersonville, Fayette County, from which post he came in 1917 to that of superintendent of the schools at New Carlisle. Here he has brought to bear earnest work in systematizing the schools and introducing and carrying forward progressive executive and scholastic policies. Under his regime have been added the manual arts high school, the departments of drawing and home economics, and the establishing of junior and senior orchestras in the high school. His love of music has prompted him to develop its cultural work in this community, and in this and many other ways has he shown his fine sense of civic loyalty. He is an enthusiast in his profession and takes deep satisfaction in being helpful to aspiring youth. Thus he is found making the best of provisions for encouraging athletic sports in connection with the schools under his jurisdiction, the while his efforts are always bent to the adopting of the most modern and advanced methods and facilities in school work. Mr. Parsons is actively identified with the Ohio State Teachers Association, the Central Ohio Teachers Association and the National Teachers Association. He is affiliated with the Alpha Tau college fraternity.

The fine new public school building at New Carlisle was completed in 1921 at a cost of $170,000 and is attractively situated on a five-acre tract that was formerly the site of the old Snyder Hall Academy. In the schools are retained nine teachers, the total enrollment of pupils in 1922 was 254, fifty-four being in the high school and fifty-one in the junior high school. All departments are maintained in the modern building which is a credit and honor to the citizens of New Carlisle and in which they take justifiable pride.

_In the year 1901 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Parsons and Miss Emily J. Allen, of Miami County, and they have one son, James a who graduates from the senior high school, class of 1923, at New y Mr. Ervin was born in Madison County, Ohio, October 17, 1878, son of Alfred H. and Columbia (Perkins) Ervin. His father was born in Fayette County, Ohio, June 30, 1843, and his mother was born at Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, January 23, 1844. Alfred Ervin, when a boy, accompanied his parents to Madison County, where he grew up and acquired a common school education. In 1861, at the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the Seventy-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and gave three years of soldier's service to the cause of the Union. After his discharge he returned to the farm, soon afterward married, and took up farming as his regular vocation. Later he removed to Fayette County, and was a contractor there until his death. He was a member of the Baptist Church and a republican. Of his five children four are living: Mary, wife of Curtis Milburn; Charles, a farmer in Harmony Township of Clark County; L. M., and Harry, a farmer in Madison Township.

Leon M. Ervin spent the first sixteen years of his life in Fayette County, and acquired his public school education there. Later he completed a course in the commercial college at Springfield, and at the age of nineteen began keeping books and subsequently for five years was in the grocery business at Springfield. Then, following an experience in the southern states for about two years, he returned to Clark County and located at South Charleston, and for eleven years was associated in business with the Houstons of that vicinity. In 1917 Mr. Ervin located at South Vienna, and after conducting a store for three years, he engaged in his present business, operating the elevator and as a dealer in coal and implements.

On November 7, 1899, he married Sue Munsey, daughter of Rev. C. D. Munsey. They have one daughter, Alice M., born January 16, 1907, and now attending high school at Plattsburg. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Ervin is a past master of the Masonic Lodge and is keeper of records and seals in the Knights of Pythias. He is a republican, and while at South Charleston he served as mayor two years and six years on the Town Council.

CHARLES F. GILBERT for many years has been an active business man at South Charleston. His principal activities have been in the lumber business, and he is also connected with the financial life of Springfield and has been deeply interested in the civic welfare and advancement of his home community and the county at large.

He was born in Greene County, Ohio, March 20, 1872, son of Lewis and Anna (McClain) Gilbert. Lewis Gilbert was born in Harrison County, Ohio, January 1, 1838, had a common school education, and at the beginning of the Civil war enlisted in the Union Army and served with all the fidelity of a good soldier four years. He was in Sherman's Army, and after the war was deeply interested in the Grand Army of - the Republic. At Cedarville in Greene County he married Anna McClain, who was born August 31, 1842, in Ross County, Ohio. After their marriage they located at Cedarville. They were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their four children were: Miss Lena, who has

Charles F. Gilbert attended the common schools, and as a youth became interested in the lumber business. On locating at South Charleston he was associated with Joseph Van Horn, and at the death of Mr. Van Horn, took over the lumber business and gave his entire time to its management until 1919. The business was then discontinued, and Mr. Gilbert has since given his time to his farm properties.

He married Miss Anna Wilson, who was reared on a farm in Harmony Township of Clark County. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Gilbert is a thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner, being affiliated with Palestine Commandery at Springfield, and Antioch Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. of Dayton, Ohio, and is a past master of his lodge. He and his wife are both members of the Eastern Star, and he is a republican, and at present is serving on the Village Commission of South Charleston. He is financially interested in the Springfield Bond and Mortgage Company, the officers of which are: F. E. Hosterman, president; C. A. Young, vice president; Stanley S. Petticrew, second vice president; Hugh Hagan, secretary; A. H. Penfield, treasurer, and the directors are David F. Snyder, Paul E. Nollen, W. F. Tuttle, O. C. Clark, Joseph A. Poss, Charles F. Gilbert and A. C. Kaser.

Anna Wilson, wife of Mr. Gilbert, is a daughter of Timothy and Nancy (Smith) Wilson. Her father was born in Yorkshire, England, April 1, 1840, came to the United States at the age of eighteen, locating near South Charleston, was a successful farmer in that locality, and is now living retired. His wife, Nancy Smith, was born in Harmony Township, January 1, 1845. They are members of the Lisbon Baptist Church. Mr. Wilson served a hundred-day enlistment during the Civil war in the One Hundred and Fifty-third Ohio Infantry. Of the eight children in the Wilson family, five are living: Alva, unmarried; Arabelle, wife of W. B. Hunt, of Columbus, Ohio; C. H., a farmer in Harmony Township; Mrs. Anna Gilbert, and A. G., a farmer in Harmony Township.

WILLIAM GORDON is a native of Clark County, has had an experience of forty years in the saw mill industrv, and is proprietor of the South Charleston Saw Mill.

He was born in Greene Township of Clark County, May 12, 1861, son of William and Mary (Edwards) Gordon, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of West Virginia. Both were reared in 'Ohio, and the father for the greater part of his active life followed the trade of stationary engineer. He was a republican, and he and his wife were members of the Episcopal Church. Of their nine children three are now living: William; Andy, of Jamestown, Ohio; and Nettie, wife of Henry Edwards, living near Xenia.

the business side of the lumber industry, omitting hardly a single * detail. It was in 1916 that he bought the mill at South Charleston and has made that an important industry.

wife of Thomas Jones; Leona, wife of Joseph Smith; and Inez, wite of John Switzer. In 1904 Mr. Gordon married Josephine French. They are members of the Methodist Church and he is a republican,

MICHAEL Way HINKLE was one of the outstanding figures in the agricultural life and enterprise of Clark County for a long period of years. He was a successful farm owner and a thoroughly progressive citizen.

He was born in Springfield Township, May 29, 1834, and lived in that one community practically all his life. "His parents were John Mary (Way) Hinkle, who were born and married in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and soon afterward started West, driving overland to Columbus, Ohio. They remained in the capital city during the summer of 1833 and then moved to land acquired in Clark County. John Hinkle bought seven hundred acres just south of the City of Springfield. Nearly all of this at that time was dense timber, and his personal labors and management cleared up and developed most of it to farming purposes.

It was on his father's farm near Springfield that Michael Way Hinkle came to manhood, securing his education in the Congress School. In 1859, when a young man of twenty-five, he married Alice Dean. She was born at Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, August 29, 1835, daughter of Alexander and Margaret (Shotwell) Dean. Her parents moved to Springfield, Ohio, in 1846, when she was eleven years of age. Her father was a shoemaker and while he followed that trade all his active life, he also lived on and operated a farm in Springfield Township.

Michael Way Hinkle after his marriage lived on part of his father's farm for six years, and then moved to another place owned by his father in Springfield Township, a farm of 102 acres three miles south of the city. Mr. Hinkle also owned eighteen acres south of the city limits. The cultivation of the land, the management of his property interests, the performance of his duties as a good citizen made up the program of his life's activities. He was a republican voter. Mr. Hinkle died May 6, 1908, and was survived a little over a year by his wife, who passed away August 22, 1909.

Of the children of this good old couple the oldest is John M., of Springfield Township. The second, Elizabeth S., is now deceased. Mary is the wife of Joseph Crabill, of Locust Grove, Ohio. Alexander is a farmer in Springfield Township. Alice died at the age of two years. Sarah is the wife of Alva Graham, of Springfield.

Miss Susan and Miss Margaret Hinkle make their home together and reside on a six-acre suburban place, part of the original eighteen-acre tract owned by their father adjoining Springfield. They are active members of the Second Lutheran Church. Miss Margaret Hinkle is an accomplished and successful teacher. She acquired her early education in the Congress District School and in 1898 began teaching. The first year she taught at Hopewell in Greene Township and from 1899 until the fall of 1921 taught in the Cross Roads School of Springfield Township. While teaching she was also carrying her higher studies in Wittenberg College, and in 1922 was awarded the degree Bachelor

Omar W. STOLL when he retired from the road as a traveling salesman established a permanent business connection in the village of South Vienna, where he was born, and is now one of the prosperous general merchants in that section of Clark County.

Edith (Perkins) Stoll, also natives of Harmony Township. His father was reared on the farm, learned the carpenter's trade and for many years has been a carpenter contractor, living at South Vienna, They have lived in South Vienna since their marriage. The mother is an active member of the Christian Church. Jacob Stoll is a democrat, has filled the chairs in the Lodges of Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias and is a member of the Elks. He and his wife had five children: Omar W.; Chester W., a graduate of Springfield High School, now living at St. Louis, Missouri; Marie, wife of Paul E. Troxell; Border, a graduate of high school; and Foster, still attending the Harmony Township High School. - Omar W. Stoll as a boy at South Vienna attended the public schools and business college, and in April, 1909, went west to California, where he had an experience of six years as clerk in a wholesale hardware house. After returning to Clark County he went on the road as a traveling salesman for a Dayton house and traveled for four years and then engaged in business as a general merchant at South Vienna.

November 25, 1916, at Denver, Colorado, he married Mona Weldon. She was born at Denver, and was educated in the graded schools of that city. They have two children, Weldon, born in 1918, and William, born in 1921. Mrs. Stoll is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, Free and Accepted Masons.

Joun Eppy Furry, M. D. After fifteen years of successful practice as a physician and surgeon at Springfield, Doctor Furry responded to the urgings of his fellow citizens to become a candidate for the office of mayor, and was elected and is giving Springfield a thoroughly businesslike and satisfactory administration of its municipal affairs.

Doctor Furry was born on a farm in Fayette County, Ohio, April 18, 1869, son of Miller and Margaret Jane (Row) Furry, who were natives of the same county. His grandfather, Joseph Furry, came to Ohio from Pennsylvania, settled in Fayette County when it was almost an unbroken wilderness, and he started on a good work in that and neighboring counties, for many years being a pioneer minister of the Methodist Church. The maternal grandfather of Doctor Furry was Andrew Row, also an early settler in Fayette County, locating there about 1812. Both the Furry and Row families came from England originally, the Rows being of North English stock. i

Doctor Furry's early recollections center around the old farm in Fayette County. He attended public schools there, and completed his literary education by graduation with the Doctor of Science degree from the Ohio Northern University of Ada in 1891. Following his college career he spent several years on the farm, and then began his professional education in the Medical College of Ohio, now the Medical Department of the University of Cincinnati. He graduated M. D. in 1899, and in the same year began practice at Washington Court House. In 1906

'he moved to Springfield, and is one of the men of highest standing in the medical profession of this city. He belongs to the Association of Military and Normal Surgeons, U. S. A.

Doctor Furry was elected a member of the City Council and to the office of mayor in 1921. He is a member of Confidence Lodge No, 265, Knights of Pythias, at Washington Court House, has served as chancellor commander of the Lodge, took his Grand Lodge degrees in 1899, and is also a member of the Elks Club.

4 Doctor Furry married Frances Malinda Jamison, and they were born and reared in the same locality of Fayette County. Her father, William Jamison, was a native of Ohio, of Scotch Irish ancestry, and her great-grandfather was the first judge of Fayette County. Doctor and Mrs. Furry have two children, Reppa Leah and Eddy Francis, the latter at home. Reppa is the wife of Harry Crosly, now a resident of Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Crosly have three children, Harrison Thomas, Mary Frances and Martha Leah.

CHARLES O. Hays is one of the old and substantial citizens of Clark County, with a record of nearly half a century as a farmer, and is also well known in business and civic circles. Mr. Hays is owner and proprietor of the Hillside Park Farm comprising 160 acres located five miles east of Springfield, on the South Charleston and Springfield Pike. j

He was born in the City of Springfield April 30, 1857, son of Samuel and Emily (Ostot) Hays. His father was born in Pennsylvania, October 9, 1825, son of Andrew Hays, a native of Scotland. Samuel Hays was reared at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, had a public school education, and in 1855 located at Springfield, Ohio. He was married there in that year, followed several lines of work in the city, and in 1865 moved to the old homestead, where he continued his life of activity. He and his wife were members of the First Baptist Church of Springfield, and he was a republican and a past grand in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. There were two sons, Charles O., and Edward A. The latter was a well known farmer of Clark County, who died May 27, 1919.

Charles O. Hays was about eight years of age when his parents moved out to the farm. He began his education in the public schools of Springfield, and after completing his school work his energies were given to the home farm until he was twenty-six. On March 15, 1883, he married Sarah E. Tuttle, who was born in Clark County, February 21, 1855. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hays moved to the farm where they have lived for forty years and where they have reared their family. They were the parents of six children: Clarence E., who married Elizabeth Blue and his two children, Isabelle and Charles, and lives at Springfield; Grace J., wife of John H. Blue, and they have two children living, Doris and Grace M., and one Wilber, is deceased; Emma B. is the deceased wife of Baird Stickney, and they have five children, Dorothy, William, Robert, Henry and Helen Elizabeth; Fred married Isabelle J. Stickney and they have three children, Wilber, Frances Ellen and an infant; Miss Helen is at home; Martha E., who is a graduate of the Plattsburg High Schood and Normal School, is the wife of John W. Sharp, of Nashville, Tennessee.

Mr. Hays is affiliated with South Vienna Lodge No. 660, Knights of Pythias, with Uniform Rank No. 44 of that order, and is a republican. For eighteen years he was a member of the Harmony Township School Board and for many years has been associated with the Clark County Agricultural Society. He is a stockholder in the W. F. Tuttle Hardware Company of Springfield.

Mrs Avice MERRITT is proprietor of one of the fine country homes of Clark County, located on Rural Route No. 1 out of South Charleston in Madison Township. Mrs. Merritt is the widow of the late Charles H. Merritt.

She was born on a farm in Madison Township, October 4, 1859, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Buffenbarger. Her father was born in Madison Township May 29, 1839, son of Washington and Mary (Goudy) Buffenbarger and a grandson of George and Mary Hanna Buffenbarger. George Buffenbarger was a native of Virginia, brought his family west in a covered wagon to Madison Township, and was one of the pioneer settlers on the banks of the Little Miami River. He and his wife had children named Washington, Samuel Salmon, Judson, Simington, Eve and Elizabeth.

Washington Buffenbarger was the father of Peter, Hannah, Mahala, Priscilla and Marian. Of these, Peter was reared and educated in Madison Township and devoted his active lifetime to farming there. He married Mary E. Kiser, and of their twelve children nine are still living: N. B., a farmer in Harmony Township; Jennie B., of Wellington, Ohio, widow of Jacob Lewis; Alice; Jeannette, who was the wife of Jacob Morningstar, is now dead; Stacy, oí Springfield; Ella, wife of Thomas Thompson, of Los Angeles; Todd, of South Charleston ; Anna R., wife of Ed Rhoads, living in lowa; Miss Mamie; Harley, of South Charleston; and Sally and Jonah T., both deceased.

Alice Buffenbarger spent her early life on the farm on the banks of the Little Miami River, attended the public schools, and on January 20, 1886, became the wife of Charles H. Merritt. Mr. Merritt was born in Madison Township, October 11, 1849, and was liberally educated in Springfield Township and attended) Wittenberg College at Springfield and subsequently graduated from a college at Wilmington, Delaware. For some years he was a teacher.

Mrs. Merritt became the mother of five children. Beulah is a graduate of Nelson's Business College of Springfield and is now the wife of Glenn Littler. Thomas E. was graduated in the grammar and high schools, married Anna Engle and is now a butter maker by trade. Esther A. is a graduate of the South Charleston High School and the wife of Arthur Morningstar, of Carthage, Ohio. Mary E. is a high school graduate and wife of Homer Sessler, an engineer at a creamery at Dayton. Charles H., who also finished a high school course, married Esther A. Selspaugh and lives at South Vienna. Mrs. Merritt and her family are members of the Friends Church. She is active in the

W. C. T. U. at South Charleston and has been a strong prohibitionist. The farm where she lives comprised 108 acres and she also has property in South Charleston and has some valuable investments in Government railroad and other bonds and securities.

Epwarp H. Smiru, M. D. For a period of almost forty-five years DE Edward H. Smith has been at the service of the community of South Vienna as a physician and surgeon. He is one of the oldest members of the medical profession in Clark County and also one of the county's most highly respected and useful citizens.

He was born on a farm in Franklin County, Ohio, February 15, 1855, son of Josiah O. and Nancy (Lane) Smith, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Ohio. Josiah Smith was born near Baltimore, lived there until he was fourteen and then came to Ohio, acquiring his education in both states. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and for a number of years enjoyed a successful practice as an attorney. He was a leader in his locality in the democratic party, was a member of the Christian Church and the Masonic Order. The children of Josiah O. Smith and wife were: Mrs. Sarah A. Worthington, deceased; Dr. Edward H.; Mrs. Nevel, of West Jefferson, Ohio; Mrs. Louemma Weaver, of South Vienna; Mrs. Theodosia Brant, of Springfield; Wade H., of West Jefferson, veterinary surgeon; Frank H., an attorney at Columbus; and Alice, widow of James Redmand.

Dr. Edward H. Smith spent his early life on the farm in Franklin County, living there until he was seventeen. He acquired his educaation in the public schools and normal schools, took up the study of medicine privately and later entered the Starling Medical College of Columbus, in 1875, and graduated with the M. D. degree in 1878. Soon after his graduation he located at South Vienna and has practiced here continuously. He is a member in good standing of the Clark County and State Medical Association, and in a business way is vice president of the Farmers Deposit Bank of South Vienna.

June 4, 1879, Doctor Smith married Ida May Ellinger. She was educated in the public schools at South Vienna. They had one daughter, Alena Ruth, who was educated in Wittenberg College and Oxford College for Women, and is now the wife of H. M. Saylor, cashier of the Farmers Deposit Bank. Doctor and Mrs. Smith are members and liberal supporters of the Methodist Episcopal Church and he is a past grand of South Vienna Lodge No. 345, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, while Mrs. Smith is past grand of the Rebekah Lodge. In politics he is a republican. l

Osman C. Crary, M. D. The ideal physician is one who brings into the sickroom a cheerful presence, uplifting the patient from the slough of despair, so that in this manner he cures quite as much as he does by administering medicines. The modern physician understands and recognizes the value of a strong personality as well as the achievements in all of the branches of the profession that are commanding the admiration of modern civilization. Many of these discoveries have grown out of the fact that the man of science believes in giving much of himself as well as of the contents of his medicine case. All of the leading instructors teach that unless the physician is in harmony with the patient he cannot hope for the best results. These ideas as well as countless others are the outcome of years of study, and are freely accepted by the men who advocate progress in this most important of all of the learned professions. One of the physicians whose name is associated with some very able work in Clark County is Dr. Osman C. Clary of Selma.

Doctor Clary was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, June 75182388 son of George M. and Celesta (Ellsworth) Clary. George M. Clary was also born in Lawrence County, Ohio, July 13, 1847, and both he and his wife attended the common schools of that county, of which she, too, was a native. He supplemented the instruction he received by private study and reading, became a teacher and taught for thirty-two years, and then, leaving the educational field, went into the insurance business. At present he is retired, but his wife died January 13, 1894. Early uniting with the Methodist Episcopal Church, George M. Clary has continued one of its zealous members, and Mrs. Clary was also active in church work. She was a daughter of Dr. L. W. Ellsworth, a noted Methodist minister, and a member of the Ohio State Legislature from 1878 to 1880. He was a man who was always prominent in public affairs as well as church work, and when he died, July 25, 1905, he was mourned by a wide circle, who felt that one of the really desirable citizens had passed away. George M. Clary had three children, all sons, namely: Rev. Albert L. Clary, a Methodist minister now stationed at Ironton, Ohio; Roscoe M., who is a clothing merchant of Columbus, Ohio, and Dr. O. C. Clary, who was the youngest.

The boyhood and youth of Doctor Clary was spent at Ironton, Ohio, and he attended its public schools through the high school course, and then, entering the medical department of the University of Louisville, at Louisville, Kentucky, took the full medical training and was graduated therefrom with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Immediately thereafter he located at Coal Grove, Lawrence County, Ohio, and remained there in practice for a time, going thence to Waterloo, Ohio, and finally, in 1921, to Selma. Doctor Clary belongs to the Lawrence County Medical Society and was quite active in it while residing at Waterloo.

On September 24, 1904, Doctor Clary married Zola Dement, a graduate of the public schools of Ohio. They became the parents of the following children: Carl, who was born September 7, 1905, is attending the Selma High School; Irene, who was born June 29, 1908; Eloise, who was born May 9, 1910; Bertha, who was born April 15, 1915, and Clarence, who was born September 13, 1921. Doctor and Mrs. Clary belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. A Mason, he is a member of Ohio Valley Lodge No. 536, F. and A. M., and he also belongs to the Eastern Star, to Waterloo Lodge No. 937, I. ©. ©. F., to the Knights of the Golden Eagle and to Pomona Grange, his wife being a member of the latter order. A man of the highest ideals, Doctor Clary has always lived up to them both as a professional man and citizen, and in so doing has set a standard of excellence difficult of attainment.

Epwarp WILBER Baxter. One of the prominent citizens and successful business men of Springfield is Edward Wilber Baxter, who has been actively identified with the civic and social affairs of the city for a number of years. His birth took place on East High Street, September 4, 1879. His parents were James C. and Rebecca (Hesser) Baxter, both deceased.

/ Mr. Baxter was reared and educated at Springfield, attending the public schools and Nelson's Business College and graduated from the latter in 1901. He entered into business in the capacity of bookkeeper for the Snyder Milling Company of Springfield, and one year later, in 1902, was one of the organizers of the Union Plumbing Company, in partnership with his brother, C. P. Baxter, and J. C. Nafz. This later became the Baxter-Nafz Company, incorporated under this name in 1904, its officers being C. P. Baxter, president; J. C. Nafz, vice president, and

" E. W. Baxter, secretary and treasurer. This is the largest heating and plumbing company at Springfield. It built and owns the Elite Apartment house and the business block on North Fountain Avenue, on the ground floor of which the company has large and modernly equipped headquarters.

Although early immersed in business Mr. Baxter found time to still further his education, taking special work at Wittenberg College, in psychology, philosophy, geology, history and English literature, the wide scope of these studies indicating a versatile taste. From youth he has taken an active part in civic and welfare work, particularly emphasized by the Y. M. C. A., of which he has long been a deeply interested member. During the World war he volunteered for work with this organization overseas, and was serving, preparatory to sailing, as secretary of this body at Camp Sherman, but before necessary arrangements could be completed the armistice was signed with the enemy.

Mr. Baxter is prominent in Masonic circles. He was made a Mason by Anthony Lodge No. 445, F. and A. M., became a charter member and first senior deacon of St. Andrews Lodge No. 619, F. and A. M., later serving as master and trustee; a member of Palestine Commandery No. 33, Knights Templar, of which he is a past commander; Dayton Consistory, thirty-second degree, and belongs to Antioch Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is a trustee of the Springfield Masonic Club. Mr. Baxter belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is a charter member of the Rotary Club. He was reared in the Lutheran faith and is a member of the First Lutheran Church at Springfield, for four years serving the Sunday School attached as superintendent. He is held in the highest esteem by his fellow citizens as trustworthy in business and honorable in all other relations of life.

MARTIN THomas BURNHAM. The law as well as other learned professions, is well represented at Springfield, and few members of the bar in Clark County are better or more favorably known than Martin Thomas Burnham, who for twenty-nine years has been attorney for the Springfield Building & Loan Association. He opened his first law office in Springfield, in 1876, and this city has continued to be his home ever since.

Martin Thomas Burnham was born in Portage County, Ohio, January 15, 1854. His parents were Daniel and Mary (Carr) Burnham, and his grandfathers were Martin Burnham and Rev. Thomas Carr. Martin Burnham, the grandfather, was born in Connecticut and learned the blacksmith trade in his native village. Prior to the War of 1812, for business reasons, he moved with his family across the line into Canada, and was engaged at his trade when that conflict came on. As the war feeling grew better resentment developed against citizens of the United States, and Mr. Burnham found himself surrounded by impatient enemies among his heretofore friendly neighbors, and he was ordered to return immediately to his own country or suffer the consequences. Therefore he had to leave his family temporarily on Canadian soil and flee across the border. He lost all his property, but his family later joined him in the Western Reserve and Ohio became their permanent home. Mr. Burnham settled first on the old Poe farm, not far from Ravenna, the county seat of Portage County, but later removed to Rootstown, where he established a blacksmith shop and bought a small farm and spent the rest of his days there.

Daniel Burnham, father of Martin T. Burnham, was born in 1810, just across the line in Canada. He shared the family fortunes, grew up in Portage County, learned his father's trade and died in 1884. He married Mary Carr, who was born in Carroll County, Ohio, and died in Portage County in 1876. She was a daughter of Rev. Thomas Carr, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and was a son of John Carr, a native of Ireland, who settled in Pennsylvania at an early date and acquired extensive farm property in the western part of that state and in Eastern Ohio. Rev. Thomas Carr inherited a farm in Ashtabula County but did not settle there, trading it for one owned by his brother in Portage County, and there spent the rest of his life.

With such an ancestral background of solid qualities, Martin Thomas Burnham had an early environment that doubtless has had an influence on his subsequent life. He attended the public schools in Portage County, and then entered Mount Union College, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1874, with the Degree of Bachelor of Science. He then applied himself to the study of law at Ravenna, and in 1876 was admitted to the bar and in September of that year came to Springfield. Here he entered into a general practice, both civil and criminal, and soon became an important member of his profession here. He has not been as active in political life as some of his brother lawyers, but during 1881-1882 served as city solicitor of Springfield. In 1893 he retired from criminal practice when he became attorney for the Springfield Building Loan Association, in which relation he has continued ever since.

Mr. Burnham married, in 1910, Miss Mary Landfelt, who was born at Lancaster, Ohio, and is a daughter of Henry and Catherine Landfelt, of Lancaster, Ohio. They have one son, Martin Thomas Burnham, Jr., who was born May 4, 1913. Mr. Burnham is a member of several old and representative fraternities, including Red Star Lodge No. 205, Knights of Pythias, and Springfield Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

CHARLES EDGAR Perticrew. Prominent among the men who have been identified with the business affairs of Springfield during the past thirty years 1s Charles Edgar Petticrew, secretary and member of the Board of Directors of the Springfield Building and Loan Association. Mr. Petticrew is one who has followed consistently one line of activity, for from young manhood he has been associated with the organization with which he is now connected and in the successful development of which he has played an important part. As the active head of this con-

While he has been a resident of Springfield since 1871, Mr. Petticrew was born at Westville, Champaign County, Ohio, January 9, 1870, being a son of the late James A. and Rebecca Petticrew, both of whom were of Scotch ancestry. James A. Petticrew was born near Dayton, Ohio, May 30, 1835, a son of David and Mary (Lehman) Petticrew, early citizens of Springfield. David Petticrew settled at an early date in the vicinity of Dayton, but later moved to Westville and then to Springfield, where he became a pioneer wagonmaker. James A. Petticrew learned the wagonmaking trade in the shop of his father, and followed that business at Westville until 1871, at which time he became a resident of Springfield. Here he accepted a position with the Springfield Coffin and Casket Company, by whom he was employed until his death, September 28, 1894. He was a man of industrious habits and sound integrity, had several connections of a fraternal and civic character and was a good and publicspirited citizen. His wife, Rebecca Robbins, was born in Miami County, Ohio, January 8, 1840, and was a daughter of John and Maria (Phelps) Robbins. This worthy and estimable woman was called in death February 26, 1914. She and her husband were the parents of the following children: John, who is now deceased; Ambrose B., a resident of Springfield; Mary M., of Springfield; William A., also a resident of this city; Leslie R., now living at Des Moines, lowa; Charles Edgar, of this record; James Franklin, living in Clark County ; Viola May, who is deceased ; and David Elbert, of Springfield.

Charles Edgar Petticrew was but one year of age when brought by his parents to Springfield, and here he was reared and received a public school education. Following his graduation from the Springfield High School as a member of the class of 1887, when he was seventeen years of age, he entered Wittenberg College, which, however, he attended only a short time. He began his independent career as the incumbent of a clerkship in a Springfield grocery store, and continued to be thus employed until 1893, when he secured employment in the capacity of assistant secretary with the Springfield Building and Loan Association, with which organization he has been identified to the present. In 1910 he was made secretary of the enterprise, has since become a member of the Board of Directors thereof, and is now the active head of the concern, which under his management has attained to large proportions and is rated among the leading business industries of its kind in this section of the state. Mr. Petticrew, while a very busy man, engrossed in the duties of an important company, is not adverse to social pleasures and the companionship of his fellows, and has a number of social, fraternal and civic connections. His name is always found included on the lists of supporters of worthy movements, to which he invariably contributes of his energies, abilities and means.

Mr. Petticrew was united in marriage in 1898 with Miss Minnie Hendrickson, the daughter of Austin Hendrickson, of Carysville, Champaign County, Ohio.

Rusu Ropcers Ricuison, M. D. One of the leading members of the medical fraternity of Clark County, who is well and favorably known both because of his accomplishments in his general practice and because of his work as city health officer of Springfield and county health officer of Clark County, is Rush Rodgers Richison, M. D. During his professional career, which has extended over a period of eighteen years, he has been engaged in practice in several different communities, in all of which he has been accounted a skilled, careful and thoroughly trained physician and surgeon .

Doctor Richison was born at DeGraff, Logan County, Ohio, November 11, 1881, a son of Jasper N. and Anna (Carlos) Richison. His father, who was born in Bethel Township, Clark County, in 1842, and died in 1890, was a son of John Richison, the emigrant of the family into Clark County, who was of Scotch-Irish parentage. Jasper N. Richison moved from Clark County to Logan County, Ohio, and thence to the village of Yellow Springs, where he passed the remainder of his life. His worthy wife, who was born at St. Paris, Champaign County, Ohio, and now resides at Van Wert, Ohio, is a daughter of Dr. Frederick Carlos, a native of Spain, and of the noted family of that name which contended for the Spanish throne for so many years. Dr. Frederick Carlos attended Wittenberg University in Germany, and was in the active practice of medicine at Cincinnati for a number of years.

Rush Rodgers Richison graduated from Yellow Springs High School as a member of the class of 1899, following which he studied at Antioch College for two years and then pursued the full four-year course at the Ohio Medical University at Columbus, Ohio, being graduated therefrom with the class of 1904 and receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. Later he supplemented this with post-graduate work at Harvard Medical School in 1912, and at New York City in 1916. Doctor Richison entered upon the practice of his profession at Van Wert, Ohio, in 1904, and remained in that community until 1912. In that year he went to Carson County, Texas, where he served as health commissioner from 1912 to 1914, and from 1914 to 1916 followed his profession at Yellow Springs, Ohio. In the latter year he was made superintendent of the District Tuberculosis Hospital, near Springfield, a position which he retained until 1920, in April of which year he was made city and county health officer, the duties of which office have engrossed his attention to the present time. He has been energetic and conscientious in handling the responsibilities of his trust, and has gained and held the confidence and respect of the people. Doctor Richison is a member of the Clark County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society, and is president of the section of hygiene of the latter. As a fraternalist he holds membership in H. S. Kissell Lodge of the Masonic Order, and his religious affiliation is with Covenant Presbyterian Church of Springfield.

In 1903 Doctor Richison was united in marriage with Miss Nell B. McMillen, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Willmore) McMillen, of Van Wert, Ohio, and to this union there have been born two sons and three daughters: Pauline Marie, born in 1904; Alice Louise, born in 1907 ; Ruth Rosalie, born in 1909; Junior, born in 1911; and Joe, born in 1915.

sentative business men of his native city and county. His birth occurred at Springfield on the 25th of May, 1876. He is a son of Leo and Mary (Neidlinger) Braun, his father having been for many years successfully engaged in the jewelry business at Springfield.

Leo Braun was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1840, and in his native land he received his education and also learned the jeweler's trade. Shortly after the close of the Civil war in the United States he came to this country, and never afterward did he again visit his home. In 1865, the year of his arrival, he took charge of a jewelry store in New York City, but a few months later he engaged independently in the jewelry

at Parkersburg, West Virginia. In 1868 he came to Springfield, Ohio, and opened the jewelry establishment which he thereafter conducted until his death, December 12, 1917, at the age of seventy-seven years. He was held in high esteem as a business man and loyal and publicspirited citizen, served as police and fire commissioner of the city, and was for many years active in civic affairs. Mr. Braun was a man of fine intellectual ken, was a deep student and reader, and collected a large and select private library. He read and spoke with fluency several languages. His wife, who was born at Springfield, October 6, 1853, here passed her entire life, she having been sixty-five years of age at the time of her death, in April, 1918. Her father, George Neidlinger, was born in Germany, and was one of the honored pioneer citizens of Springfield at the time of his death.

To the public schools of Springfield Frank J. Braun is indebíed for his early education, and at the age of fifteen years he here found employment in a machine shop. Within a comparatively short time he met with an accident in the shop, and the injury he thus received was the means of changing his course in life. After recovering from the injury he took a course in a business college, and in 1892 he entered the office of Oates & Company, commission merchants. Thereafter he was bookkeeper and cashier for the insurance firm of Wallace Corry, and still later he had charge of the branch foundry of the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company.

In 1900 Mr. Braun initiated his association with banking enterprise by taking a position in the First National Bank, with which he continued his connection fifteen years and won advancement to responsible executive positions. In 1915 he assisted in the organization of the Springfield Morris Plan Bank, of which he is now the active executive head and in the administration of the affairs of which he has been most successful. Mr. Braun takes deep interest in all things touching the welfare and progress of his native city and county, is an active member of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis Club, the Sinking Fund Commission of Springfield, the Lagonda Club, and is affiliated with the local organizations of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He and his wife are communicants of the First Lutheran Church of Springfield.

The year 1900 recorded the marriage of Mr. Braun and Miss Alnora Hagerman, daughter of Louis B. and Frances (Zeller) Hagerman, of Springfield, and of the children of this union the names and respective birthdates are here recorded: Frank Louis, July 23, 1903; Karl Leo,

Puraortes E. BancrorT. The late Phraortes E. Bancroft had an exceptionally praiseworthy career during his long life at Springfield. He lived at a period when integrity of conduct was general and not as 1t seems today, and for this reason the fact that he was pointed out as an example of the virtues would indicate that he was a man of unusual character, who left his impress on the times and history of Springfield's middle era.

Mr. Bancroft was born at Springfield, January 28, 1822, and was a descendent of one of the three brothers who emigrated from England to the American Colonies in 1632. His grandfather, John Bancroft, was born in Massachusetts, and served the Colonies during the War of the Revolution, in which he held the rank of lieutenant. John Bancroft married Ann Waters, and their respective deaths occurred at Springfield, Ohio, in 1834 and 1842. Louis Bancroft, the father of Phraortes E., was born near Lake Champlain, Vermont, in 1796, and in his earlier years divided his time between farming and teaching school. He came to Springfield in 1812, traveling by boat to Upper Sandusky and then by horseback to his destination, and after his arrival volunteered for service during the War of 1812, but was rejected because of ill health. At Springfield he operated a store for many years, was deputy sheriff and Government inspector, and later embarked in the wholesale grocery business. He married Mary Christie, a daughter of Robert Christie, who was a pioneer of Clark County and a contractor and builder whose work is yet in evidence in the community. Louis Bancroft and his wife lived to celebrate their sixty-fifth wedding aniversary. Their children were: Leonidas, Phraortes E., LaFayette, Oscar, Amanda M. and Flavilla G.

Phraortes E. Bancroft secured the better part of his schooling under Milo G. Williams, a noted educator of that day, following which he served an apprenticeship at the hatter's trade with Coates Lathrop, a well-known firm of the early days. He worked at that trade as a journeyman for a time, but in March, 1851, embarked in the business on his own account when he established a modest store at 4 East Main Street. This was at a time when the hatters made their stock in trade by hand, and Mr. Bancroft, who was a thorough master of his craft, followed this rule Coupled with his skilled workmanship and scrupulous honesty, he possessed a keen business foresight, which aided him in making a success of his venture. In 1882 he built a four-story brick building, in which he located his hat store, and with the passing of time he added to his stock a line of furs. Eventually his business grew to such proportions that he found it necessary to occupy all four stories of his building. The business founded by him in 1851 has been continuously in existence ever since, and is now conducted by his son, Robert C.

Phraortes E. Bancroft was for years a director of the Lagonda National Bank. Originally a whig in politics, with the birth of the republican party he joined that organization and supported its principles and candidates faithfully during the remainder of his career. He was a Knight Templar Mason and for more than a half a century an Odd Fellow. In 1845 Mr. Bancroft married Miss Catherine Moody, who died in 1854, without issue. Mr. Bancroft married, July 12, 1859, Miss Louisa M. Mayhugh, and to this union there was born one son, Robert C. Mr. Bancroft was one of the builders of Springfield and lived long enough to. see the primitive frontier village develop into a modern city of the present period. His death occurred February 23, 1907.

RoBerT C. Bancrort, the only son of Phraortes E. Bancroft, was born at Springfield, Ohio, November 7, 1866, and has always made this city his home. His early education was obtained in private schools, following which he took the preparatory and collegiate courses at Wittenberg College, where he was a student for five and one-half years. He belonged to the class which eventually graduated in 1887, but Mr. Bancroft, in 1885, had left his studies to enter the store of his father, which was still situated at 4 East Main Street, its location for sixty years. In 1911 Rober C. Bancroft moved to his present location, at 25 East Main Street. This business, which was incorporated in 1913, is the oldest in continuous existence at Springfield. For thirty-six years Robert C. Bancroft has been engaged in business here, and during this time has established a splendid record and built up an enviable reputation. He was one of the eleven men of Clark County, and nine of Springfield, who handled all the local activities of the War Chest during the World war, and at all times has been one of the city's foremost men in public life. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1913, president of the Rotary Club in 1917, for years has been one of the active members of the Covenant Presbyterian Church and is a Knight Templar member of the Masonic fraternity. In 1916 he organized the Bancroft-Limbocker Company, which built the Bancroft Hotel, an ornament to the city and one of the leading hotels of the state. He is the sole owner .of this property. Mr. Bancroft has made no particular stir in local politics save to exercise the right of franchise

On October 7, 1891, he married Miss Esther B. Simpson, daughter of Joseph Simpson, of Springfield, and they have two children: Robert C., Jr., and Dorothy L. When the United States entered the great war Robert C. Bancroft, Jr., entered the training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, where he was made a second lieutenant in the motor truck division. He sailed for France in December, 1917, and was in the active zone during practically all of his service, which was terminated by his honorable discharge in June, 1919. While abroad he was given his first lieutenancy.

CHARLES BAUER. It is not too much to say that the late Charles Bauer was one of Springfield's most patriotic, unselfish and useful citizens, this being but a just tribute to one who for years was actively identified with its growth and progress, and one whose integrity of character and sense of personal responsibility won for him the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. ne Bauer was born at Springfield, Ohio, December 23, 1869, and died in his beautiful home in this city, the deplorable result of a railroad accident, on March 18, 1922. He was a son of Jacob and Margaret (Weimer) Bauer, the former of whom was born in Switzerland and the latter in Germany, and both are deceased. Jacob Bauer came to Springfield in early manhood, and for a number of years was engaged in the flour milling business, and in his later year was a feed merchant.

The public schools of Springheld prepared Charles Bauer for future usefulness. He was yet a boy when he went to work for the old firm of Ward, Bushnell & Glessner, now the International Harvester Company of Springfield, with which concern he remained for about fifteen years, when the death of his father left the latter's feed store as his inheritance and he assumed charge. The business transacted at that time was but a modest one, but Mr. Bauer had ambition, combined with good judgment, and gradually expanded and added other commodities, until within a few years he found himself at the head of one of the largest concerns in the coal, hay, grain, lime, sewer pipe, cement and builders" supplies in the city. The development of this business into one of such large importance was accomplished through his own industry and thrift, in combination with the confidence and patronage of his fellow citizens, who had learned to trust his word in business transactions and accept it as readily as another's bond.

Mr. Bauer was active and prominent in public affairs, and the city as a municipality was greatly benefited by his activities. He served as a member of the City Council for five years, two years of this time being president of the council, and his earnest efforts for the city's best interests are easily recalled. In 1912-13 he was a member of the charter committee and helped frame and have adopted the city charter of today. In so doing he gave evidence of his unselfish character, for at that time he was the logical candidate for the office of mayor, but he regarded the charter plan of government as the proper form, and willingly gave up his chance for political advancement so that he could put through the city charter. He always regretted that the necessity had arisen that forced him to leave school at an early age, and this may have stimulated his interest in the public schools with a view of widening their advantages in the interest of those who had need of help. For some years he was a member of the Board of Education and president of the same, his sound judgment and practical ideas making his services unusually valuable. As a member of the People's Municipal League his activities in this body earned for him the gratitude of his fellow citizens, for there was no welfare work in which he did not take part and many reforms were, in a measure, the result of his participation. He was earnest in calling attention to many of the menaces to life and health that, strangely enough, are permitted to exist in many modern and progressive cities, and in particular urged the elimination of the many dangerous grade erossings in the City of Springfield. Unfortunately these appeals met with but tardy response, and because of this Springfield, in tragic manner, lost one of her most worthy and helpful citizens, the accident which caused Mr. Bauer's death being the result of the demolishing of his automobile as he was crossing the tracks of the D. T. & I. Railroad on March 18, 1922.

In the domain of politics Mr. Bauer was an important factor in the councils of the democratic party in Clark County, where for ten years ne served continuously as chairman of the County Central Committee.

Mr. Bauer married, December 23, 1905, Mrs. Vinnie (Kite) Peden, 'who was born in Champaign County, Ohio, a daughter of Rev. James T. and Mary (Comer) Kite, the latter of whom survives. The father of Mrs. Bauer was a well known minister of the Baptist Church. Following the death of Mr. Bauer, Mrs. Bauer assumed charge of his business and has capably carried it on ever since. She is a member of the First Baptist Church at Springfield, of which Mr. Bauer was a trustee.

Social by nature and companionable in every circle, Mr. Bauer was identified with a number of the representative fraternal organizations. "He was a prominent Mason and Shriner, a member of Clark Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons, Dayton Consistory, S. R., and Antioch Temple, Mystic Shrine. He belonged also to Springfield Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Moncrieffe Lodge No. 205, Knights of Pythias; Lone Star Lodge No. 132, Odd Fellows; Champion Aerie No. 397, Fraternal Order of Eagles; and Ontario Tribe No. 207, Independent Order. of Red Men.

Jostam ELwoop Coorer, M. D. There is no profession or vocation to which men devote themselves more dignified in its ethics or more reasonably helpful to the world than that of medicine. Similar claims are made by the church and by the law, but they, while essentially true enough, are based on other foundations. The healing art demands of its real followers the natural reverence for the dignity of the human body that commands the exercise of all the skill that years of study and training have brought to them to cure its ills. Justly is this procession in the forefront. Methods may differ, systems may not be quite alike and personality counts for much, but the aim and principle remain the same. Among the members of the medical profession of Clark County one who was well known for many years at Springfield was the late Dr. Josiah Elwood Cooper, whose skill and faithfulness, together with his determined hopefulness and cheerfulness, made his presence valued in many households.

Doctor Cooper was born at Claysville, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1872, a son of Lewis W. and Lydia (McClung) Cooper, and was one of a family of nine children. Doctor Cooper, after attending the public school of his native locality, entered the State Normal School at Erie, Pennsylvania, and then the Eclectic Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine with the class of 1896. For a few months he was engaged in practice in Dishler, Ohio, but came to Springfield in 1897, where he succeeded to the practice of Doctor Nelson, on Lagonda Avenue. Later his practice increased to such an extent that he opened offices in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building. Doctor Cooper rose to a high place in his calling and had the respect and esteem not only of his patients, but of his professional brethren and those outside of the profession with whom he came into contact. He was an examining physician for many of the lodges, and belonged to the various organizations of his calling, of which he was a close and constant student. Called to his death, November 3, 1921, before he had reached his fif- tieth year, he had accomplished more than many physicians do in an entire lifetime of earnest effort. He was a republican in politics, and held membership in the Loyal Order of Moose, in which he was examining physician; the Protective Home Circle, the Knights of the Maccabees, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in all of which he had numerous friends. His religious faith was that of the United Presbyterian Church.

On April 27, 1915, at Springfield, Doctor Cooper was united in marriage with Edna Allison, who was born at Springfield, December 22, 1884, a daughter of Levi and Arabella (Neff) Allison, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Springfield, and a granddaughter of Benjamin Allison. They had no children. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Cooper has resided in the beautiful home at No. 1611 Lagonda Avenue. She is a member of the Lutheran Church and takes much interest in religious and charitable work.

GILMAN JoHN MOREAN, superintendent of preparatory work and advertising department of the Crowell Publishing Company of Springfield, is not only recognized as one of the experts of the country in his highly specialized field of endeavor, but has also been prominent in civic and welfare movements at Springfield for a number of years. Like a number of the well-known and successful business men of the city, he is a product of the farm, having been born on his father's homestead in Floyd County, Iowa, April 18, 1882, a son of Gilman S. and Mary A. (Ranche) Morean.