Toledo City (part 12 of 21)

Lee David Moon

The steps in the orderly progression of Lee David Moon are easily discernible and indicate his faithfulness to duty, his diligence in the performance of every task assigned him and his ready recognition and utilization of the opportunities which have come to him for advancement. Mr. Moon is now general agent for northwestern Ohio for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was born in Jeffersonville, this state, October 4, 1874, a son of Asbery and Lydia Margaret (Mock) Moon, the former a farmer by occupation. Lee David Moon obtained a country school education and continued his studies in a town high school, after which he took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for a year. He later attended a business college at Cleveland, Ohio, and subsequently organized a business college, which he conducted for three years. On the expiration of that period he went on the road as a traveling salesman and manager for a typewriter company, devoting the succeeding four years of his life to that business. He then turned his attention to insurance, entering the employ of the New York Life Insurance Company, which he represented as agent for fourteen years and also as instructor of agents. He found this a congenial field, closely studied and thoroughly mastered the various phases and questions of the business, and is today recognized as one of the foremost insurance men of his section of the state. In March, 1915, there came to him the well merited appointment of general agent for

On the 8th of October, 1901, Mr. Moon was united in marriage to Miss Lou Wilson of Cleveland, Ohio, and they have one son, Wilson Millen, born November 2, 1914. Mr. Moon is well known in connection with public interests of Toledo and as a factor in its social circles. He belongs to the Masons, the Chamber of Commerce, is a member of the Sylvania Golf Club and was one of the organizers of the luncheon club known as the Optimist, of which he has served as vice president from the beginning. He is likewise a trustee of the Collingwood Avenue Presbyterian church and his further interest in those forces which make for the uplift of the individual and the benefit of mankind is indicated by his service as vice president and one of the trustees of the North Toledo Community House. He studies closely all those problems which are of vital concern to the general welfare and in civic matters his influence is always on the side of right and progress.

Wilson N. Hoot, secretary, manager and founder of the Florists & Gardeners Insurance Association, one of the most successful enterprises of the kind in Toledo, has devoted his life to the business in which he is now engaged, gaining that specialized knowledge which makes him an authority in his line of work. He was born in Findlay, Ohio, April 5, 1870, a son of Joseph and Phoebe (Dunn) Hoot, the former a native of Pennsylvania, while the latter was born in Wood county, Ohio, in 1843. In early life the father came to Ohio with his parents, who made the journey from Pennsylvania with a team and wagon, settling on a farm in Hancock county. On starting out in life for himself Joseph Hoot also took up the occupation of farming, but subsequently sold his land and turned his attention to the mason's trade. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hoot have passed away. They were the parents of nine children ; Benjamin F., a resident of Findlay, Ohio; Elias, of Toledo; Albert, whose home is in Waterloo, Iowa; John D.,a resident of Bowling Green, Ohio; M. J., of Deshler, this state; and Wilson N., Ira E., Alvin J. and A. H., all of whom are living in Toledo.

In the acquirement of an education Wilson N. Hoot attended the district schools of Wood county, Ohio, and for a year he was a student in the law school of the University of Michigan. He then entered the law office of E. H. Westenhaver, a well known attorney of North Baltimore, Ohio, with whom he remained for three years. When sixteen years of age he began selling insurance for the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company of Brooklyn, New York, and was at first located at Hoytville, Ohio, later going to Muncie, Indiana, as general manager for the Hoosier Insurance Company, with which he was identified until 1917. In July of that year he organized the Florists & Gardeners Insurance Association, of which he is secretary and manager. His keen sagacity, executive force and expert knowledge of the work have materially promoted the success of the enterprise, which has rapidly developed since its inception, and the business has already assumed large proportions. Mr. Hoot is also a director and secretary of the Fort Meigs Mutual Insurance Association and his influence is one of widening activity and strength in the field in which i rating. os cOnrihe 2d of June, 1894, at Hoytville, Ohio, Mr. Hoot was married to Miss Frances M. Dye, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simpson Dye, well known farming people of that section, and to this union three children have been born: Harry, the eldest, was born in Wood county, Ohio, May 8, 1896, and obtained his education at Muncie, Indiana. He is now master electrician for the Milburn Electric Company of Toledo; Elsie B. was born in Hoytville, Ohio, October 21, 1897, and also attended the schools of Muncie, Indiana; Rex D., the youngest in the family, was born at Hoytville in December, 1898. He likewise acquired his education at Muncie and is now engaged in farming in Lucas county, Ohio. He married Miss Ethel Ennis of Muncie.

When national issues are at stake Mr. Hoot casts his ballot in favor of the candidates of the republican party, but at local elections he supports the man whom he deems best fitted for the office to which he aspires, regardless of party affiliations. Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias. The word fail has never found a place in his vocabulary. Starting out in the business world at an early age, he has steadily worked his way upward, achieving that success which is the merited reward of industry, perseverance, capability and integrity. He is a man of resolute purpose and marked strength of character and his individual qualities are such as have gained for him warm and enduring regard.

Mrs. Harriet May Barlow

Mrs. Harriet May Barlow, founder and promoter of the Old Ladies Home of Toledo, active in the organization of the Educational Club and of several other societies for cultural and intellectual advancement, is perhaps best known through her efforts in behalf of art and is a charter member of the Art Study Club, which constituted a part of the nucleus of the present Toledo Museum of Art.

Mrs. Barlow is a native of Monroe, Michigan, and a daughter of John W. and Lucretia (Comstock) May, the former a native of Hartford, Connecticut, and the latter of the state of New York and a descendant of an old family of New Canaan, Connecticut, representatives of old Puritan New England stock. Mrs. Barlow through her paternal line, is a descendant of Governor Robert Treat of the Con-. necticut Colony, and of Captain Hezekiah May of Wethersfield, Connecticut, of Revolutionary fame. She is also a lineal descendant of Captain Seymour Nichols of the American navy during the Revolution, and a great-granddaughter of Peter Comstock of New Canaan, Connecticut, who saw service in the Continental army. The parents settled in Monroe Michigan, and removed to Toledo during the early girlhood of their daughter Harriet, who was reared in one of the finest homes of the city, with all the advantages of wealth and social position. She became the wife of Anthony W. Barlow, who owned a large crockery business on Summit street, between Madison and Jefferson avenues. In 1887 Mrs. Barlow went to Europe and spent a year and a half abroad in the study of art. Her studies were carried on from the standpoint of a connoisseur, as she studied the history and technique of art, while still later she carried on the same line of study in New York, where it was said of her by a prominent art critic that "she knew more of art and pictures than any woman in America." Ts

Returning to Toledo, Mrs. Barlow became one of the founders of the Art Club of this city and was its leader for three years. It was an organization of men and women formed for the study of art and to this end Mrs. Barlow was of the greatest assistance, for she had brought from Europe more than four hundred photographs, eight by ten inches, of the art treasures of the old world, including the finest specimens of architecture, sculpture and painting. She gave lectures before the Study Club on the art treasures which she had personally seen and her vivid descriptions were such as to bring the object strongly before her hearers.

Mrs. Barlow has spent a very busy life in a large and constructive way. Having a natural gift for leadership, a cultured mind and great executive ability, she very naturally became a force not only in connection with the cultural movements and intellectual progress of the city but also in its philanthropies. Her home on Madison avenue was the center of much of the social and club life of Toledo at an earlier period and wherever possible she rendered effective aid to those who needed assistance. She early became interested, while she was president of the Woman's Christian Association, in the cause of helpless women, as she found so many who needed aid. At her own expense she went to Cincinnati and to Cleveland to study plans in those cities of homes for friendless women, and having made a thorough survey, she returned to Toledo and called the advisory board and members of the Woman's Christian Association together and proposed the establishment of a home. While there was much opposition by those who said it could not be done, there were enough farseeing members to support the measure and a beginning was made. The upper floor of a house on Locust street was rented and furniture was donated for the different rooms by the churches of the city. Mrs. Barlow took many of the women into her own home at first, and the second day after arrangements were made for the home and before it was really in readiness, it had three inmates. This was the beginning of the present Old Ladies Home of Toledo and full credit is due to Mrs. Barlow for her unselfish pioneer work in this connection. The place was first called the Home for Friendless Women. During a campaign for funds for the project Mrs. Barlow and a companion met William J. Finlay and solicited a donation from him. His answer was "Not today," but he promised that they would hear from him later. Following this Mrs. Barlow made a trip to Europe and while there she learned that Mr. Finlay had donated the present Old Ladies Home. Mrs. Barlow immediately wrote Mr. Finlay a letter of thanks for his magnificent gift. Not long afterward, when Mr. Finlay was stricken and on his deathbed, only a few moments before he passed away he requested a friend to read this letter to him. Her interest in the project has never ceased and for a number of years from its beginning she was one of its guiding spirits, while her labors made her the founder of this noble institution.

Mrs. Barlow, associated with Mrs. W. W. Boles, Dr. Mary Law, Mrs. Lucy Harmon and Madam Burridge, became one of the founders of the Educational Club, one of the splendid organizations of the city. Mrs. Barlow was vice president thereof, served as chairman of the art department for four years and for two years held the office of president. This was first started as a neighborhood club with twenty-nine members, holding its meetings in Collingwood Hall. Mrs. Barlow also became one of the charter members of the Sorosis Club and served as its vice president. She has always made her home the center of attractive and ennobling social activity. She has entertained at some of the most beautiful social functions held in Toledo and every winter for years her beautiful residence at No. 1606 Madison avenue was opened to entertain the young people of the city at a dance.

There are indeed few of the important social and uplift interests in Toledo with which Mrs. Barlow has not been associated. She is a member of the Toledo Colony of New England Women, having become one of the charter members. This was founded by Miss Temperance Reed, who was elected the first president, while Mrs. Barlow was chosen vice president. Miss Reed leaving the city, Mrs. Barlow did the work of the presiding officer and served as president two different terms and has held office during nearly all the period of her membership. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a member of the Historical Society and of the Woman's Club of Toledo. She was invited by the noted Sorosis Club of New York to become a member thereof but declined. Her religious faith 1s indicated in her connection with the First Congregational church, of which she has been an active member of church and Sunday school, since her childhood. Perhaps her greatest interest, or that which has brought her most actively before the public, has been art, on which she has delivered talks and lectures at schools, churches and clubs, graduating exercises and on many occasions both in and out of Toledo. The Art Study Club, which she was so active in organizing and which awakened widespread interest in the city, culminated in the establishment of the Art Museum.

Mrs. Barlow had two very talented daughters. Mrs. Florence Ruthrauff of New York was considered one of the finest art critics in the eastern metropolis, as well as one of its most beautiful women. She passed away in 1916. Her two children are Wilbur Barlow Ruthrauff and Mrs. Harriet May Cassebeer, both of New York. The other daughter, Mrs. May Barlow Stearns, was a pupil of Marchesi of Paris, the only resident of Toledo who ever studied under the great master. She sang in opera under the name of Marie De Laneaux for many years and for three years was in concert work in Europe. At present she is devoting much time to writing on musical subjects. and is also well known as an instructor and coach, as well as a translator of the French language. She has been an ardent worker for suffrage and also in the League of Women Voters. Thus the daughters, like the mother, have taken active part in furthering those interests and forces which have been most effective in promoting intellectual and cultural progress in Toledo and other sections of the country and in this busy, workaday world the value of such an influence cannot be overestimated.

As the executive head of the W. G. Nichols Auditing Company of Toledo, W. G. Nichols is not only widely known in the commercial and financial circles of this city, but he is generally recognized as one of the most expert accountants in the state of Ohio. It is to his work as its chief that his present organization has reached its high standard and won a merited reputation for reliability. This firm and its organization is the fruit of twenty-five years of experience in the fields of auditing and accounting on which Mr. Nichols is an undisputed authority of first rank.

W. G. Nichols was born in Lima, Ohio, on the 22d of May, 1868, and is one of the five children in the family of W. G. and Mary C. (Watt) Nichols. He received his general education in the public and high schools of Lima and Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio. His first experience in the business world was obtained in his father's book and stationery store. It has been over twenty-five years now since he entered upon the work in which he was destined to achieve noteworthy success - that of accountancy. In this field of endeavor he has had a wide experience that has well qualified him for his present work as the head of an auditing company.

For many years he was chief auditor of the National Supply Company, having been with the Buckeye Supply Company prior to its merger with the National company. For the five years immediately preceding the formation of his present concern, he had charge of a chain of oil well supply stores for the Jarecki Manufacturing Company. In 1907 Mr. Nichols established the W. G. Nichols Auditing Company, with offices in the Nasby building. The success of his venture was immediate. Before long he was forced to seek larger quarters in order to care for his rapidly increasing business, moving to offices in the Ohio building, in which offices The Fifty Associates Company was started and systematized, while in 1916 he brought his staff to . the present offices at 324-325 Nicholas building. While the firm does work in all the branches of business accounting and consultation, it has an unique feature in the installation of cost systems that are Mr. Nichols own creations and are applicable to any type of business institution with which he has come into contact in his long experience as an auditor and accountant. Another interesting phase of the work is that in connection with the income tax computations. Mr. Nichols' practice includes the interpretation of the income tax law and regulations and their applications to concrete instances, the assembling of tax data and the compilation of the reports to the government. Special audits, financial investigations, general business accounting and consultation work are all included in the activities of the company, which has the highest possible reputation for the excellence of its work. Some of the clients of the firm have placed Mr. Nichols on a retaining fee basis, by virtue of which agreement he furnishes them with consultation advice and analysis work at stipulated intervals during each fiscal year. These clients are included in the group of dominant commercial interests in Ohio and are concerns which have a volume of business that fully justifies the retention of an expert along these lines.

On the 14th of October, 1890, Mr. Nichols was united in marriage to Miss Nellie May Huss, and they maintain a home in Burnley Wood on River road in Toledo. In addition to his membership in numerous accounting societies, Mr. Nichols belongs to the Toledo Chamber of Commerce and the Exchange and Inverness clubs of this city. His religious preferences are indicated in his attendance at St. Paul's Methodist church.

Joseph George Gluck

Joseph George Gluck, lawyer and educator, connected with St. John's University as an instructor in law, has practiced in Toledo since 1918, continuously proving his capability in crossing swords in forensic combat with the able representatives of the profession here. Mr. Gluck is a native of New York city, born February 10, 1889, of the marriage of Samuel and Pauline (Burger) Gluck. Reared in the eastern metropolis, he was graduated from the public schools there and afterward attended the College of New York City. His review of the broad field of business, with its limitless opportunities along many lines, led him to the determination to prepare for the bar and he became a student in the New York Law School, in which he completed the regular course of study in 1908, winning the LL. B. degree, at which time he was but nineteen years of age. On attaining his majority he removed to Indianapolis, Indiana, and in 1912 was admitted to the bar of that state. He then practiced at Indianapolis and South Bend, Indiana, for several years and in 1918 won admission to the Ohio bar, after which he located at Toledo. He was licensed to practice in the United States district court in 1919 and through the intervening period has occupied a creditable position as a lawyer in the state and federal courts, gaining a good clientage and displaying marked ability in handling the litigation entrusted to his care. He was an instructor on partnership law, domestic relations and evidence in St. John's University of Toledo and he belongs to both the Lucas County and Ohio State Bar associations.

Mr. Gluck is identified with the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, with the Young Men's Christian Association and with the Commerce Club. Ina word, he is in full sympathy with every project which is looking to advancement and progress along permanent lines and he ranks as a public-spirited citizen of Toledo.

J. Harold Ryan

J. Harold Ryan is the president and treasurer of the Arbuckle-Ryan Company, dealers in farm implements and conducting one of the largest business enterprises of this kind in northwestern Ohio. Mr. Ryan was born in Toledo, September 8, 1885, and is a son of Charles W. and Emma (Ford) Ryan who were natives of [rie, Pennsylvania, and of Ohio, respectively. The father arrived in Toledo in 1871 and became one of the organizers of the present Arbuckle-Ryan Company. Charles W. Ryan was first in partnership with John M. Arbuckle, under the name Arbuckle and Ryan. Later J. W. Ryan was admitted and the name changed to Arbuckle, Ryan & Company. In 1896 the business was incorporated as The Arbuckle-Ryan Company, under which style it has been known since that time. The enterprise has developed from a small business to one of vast importance and today is exceeded in volume by no undertaking of similar character in Toledo. The father remained an active factor in the control and management of the business until his death, which occurred on the 13th of February, 1912. He had long survived his wife, who passed away in Toledo, February 13, 1887.

J. Harold Ryan, their only child, spent his boyhood largely as a pupil in the graded schools of Toledo, and mastering the preliminary branches, was advanced to the Central high school. He afterward attended Yale University, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1908, on the completion of an academic course, and in that year he returned to Toledo, where he became associated with his father in business. He started at the beginning. Parental influence was not exerted to give him an easy berth. He thoroughly qualified by training and experience for his promotions and gradually worked his way upward, becoming eventually the president and treasurer of the company, filling the dual office since 1919. The company distributes threshing machinery of all kinds, together with road rollers, kerosene tractors, huskers, ensilage cutters, boilers and engines, machine supplies, belting and oils, gasoline engines and feed mills. Their business thus covers a broad scope and the house sustains a splendid reputation, by reason of the line of goods carried and the reliable business methods followed. :

On the 15th of June, 1921, Mr. Ryan was married to Miss Frances Storer of Toledo, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Storer, representing a well known and prominent family of the city. Mr. Ryan votes with the republican party, having given his support thereto since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He attends the First Congregational church and is interested in all those forces which make for uplift and progress. In all community affairs he displays a marked public spirit, while in his business connections he manifests those qualities which indicate that he is ready for any emergency and for any opportunity. Today at the head of a large business he is recognized as one of the forceful factors in the trade circles of Toledo and at all times he sustains the high and merited reputation which has ever been enjoyed by the Arbuckle-Ryan Company since its establishment.

Edward W. kelsey, Jr., a member of the law firm of Tracy, Chapman & Welles, was born in Toledo, Ohio, September 29, 1885. He is a son of Edward W. and Elizabeth (Hall) Kelsey. His education was obtained in the public and high schools of Toledo, after which he studied law in Ohio State University, and was admitted to the bar in December, 1912. Since that time he has engaged in general practice in the state and federal courts. He belongs to the Lucas County and Ohio State Bar Associations.

On the 9th of September, 1914, Mr. Kelsey was married to Miss Charlotte Dwight of Toledo and they have two children, Dwight Edward and Edward (III). Fraternally Mr. Kelsey is a Mason and he belongs to several Greek letter societies, including Phi Delta Theta, Phi Delta Phi and Delta Sigma Rho. He has a wide acquaintance in Toledo, where his social qualities have gained for him many friends and he is popular in the circles in which he moves.

Pred H Rroehlich

Among those who are active in furthering Toledo's upbuilding and development is numbered Fred H. Froehlich, who as president of the Froehlich & Emery Engineering Company is controlling one of the leading construction enterprises of the city, and in the conduct of his business affairs he has displayed that spirit of initiative and progress which works for individual success and also constitutes a factor in public prosperity and advancement. He was born in Waterloo, Indiana, May 6, 1875, and his parents, Herman and Eva (Eckhart) Froehlich, were of European birth, coming to the United States in early life. The father devoted his attention to the manufacture of monuments, conducting a business of that character in Indiana and also in Toledo. His demise occurred in this city in 1919. The mother still makes her home in Toledo. In their family were two children: Edward C., a prominent attorney of this city; and Fred H.

In the acquirement of an education Fred H. Froehlich attended the grammar schools of Waterloo, Indiana, and a high school of Toledo, afterward becoming a student at the Rose Polytechnic School of Terre Haute, Indiana, from which he was graduated in 1899, on the completion of a course in electrical engineering. Ete at once entered upon the work of his profession, being employed by various firms until 1906, when he opened an office of his own in Toledo as an electrical and mechanical engineer. Ata later period he organized the Froehlich & Emery Engineering Company, of which he is serving as president and treasurer, and they have been awarded many large contracts, their business now being one of extensive pro- portions. Mr. Froehlich has a thorough knowledge of the scientific principles which underlie his profession and brings to his work untiring energy and marked skill.

At Terre Haute, Indiana, on the 22d of June, 1903, Mr. Froehlich was married to Miss Bertha Kern, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kern, well known residents of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Froehlich have become the parents of two sons: Frederick Kern, who was born in 1907 and is now attending school; and Joseph Kern, whose birth occurred in 1917. In all matters of citizenship Mr. Froehlich is loyal, patriotic and public-spirited and during the World war he assisted the government by building plants for compressing hay. His political support is given to the republican party and as a member of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce he does all in his power'to promote the industrial development of the city. He is a member of the American Association of Engineers, the American Association of Mechanical Engineers, and the local chapter of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and is a member of the Toledo Club, the Rotary Club, the Toledo Yacht Club and the Sylvania Golf Club, being also identified with the Masonic order. His life has been an active and useful one, crowned with successful achievement, and industry and ability have brought him to his present position of professional prominence.

Death called Louis H. Matthes when he was in the midst of a most active business career and one in which he had demonstrated his force of character, his ability, his determination and indefatigable industry. Whatever success he achieved or enjoyed was attributable entirely to his own labor and he started out in the business world when but thirteen years of age. He was born in Toledo, May 25, 1857, his parents being John and Catherine (Krauss) Matthes, the former one of the early turnkeys at the police station.

Louis H. Matthes attended the public schools of Toledo for a time but acquired the greater part of his education in the school of experience. Though the training was hard and the lessons difficult, he made steady advancement in that school and throughout his life he remained of studious nature, reading widely and thinking deeply. He was a subscriber to the best magazines and papers and thus he kept in touch with the trend of modern thought and progress.

When a lad of but thirteen years he began work by helping to distribute handbills for different firms, including G. W. Bills, who said he would make a bill poster of the boy and started him out to do work of that character, so that he was soon in the business full-fledged. Thinking he would like to travel as poster for a circus, he joined the Forepaugh shows but soon learned that he was too much of a home boy for life on the road, and returned to Toledo. For twenty-four years he remained with Mr. Bills, working steadily upward and having charge of the business in the absence of his employer. In 1890 he was married and for a time engaged in the hotel business, but preferring the advertising business, soon returned to it. Steadily he progressed, finding at all times an able assistant in his wife, who was indeed a faithful helpmate to him, and to her cooperation he always attributed much of his success. In course of time he came to receive large contracts in the nature of his business and was recognized as one of the foremost in his line in Ohio. He became a member of The Exclusive

Louis H. Matthe

On the 6th of January, 1890, Mr. Matthes was married to Mrs. Jennie M. (Braddock) Ricard of Toledo, a daughter of Middleton and Mary Magdalene Braddock. Her father was a soldier of the Civil war, serving with Company B, One Hundred and Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. By trade he was a silversmith and watchmaker. His daughter, Mrs. Matthes, was born at Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, August 7, 1860.

In his political views Mr. Matthes was a republican and fraternally he was an Odd Fellow, prominent in the order, belonging to Northern Star Lodge, to Reed Encampment and to Canton Imperial, No. 22. He was also a member of the First Baptist church and his religious faith guided him in ail the relations of life. He certainly deserved much credit for what he accomplished, as-he started out in the business world empty-handed and worked his way upward through earnest purpose and persistency, making the best possible use of his opportunities and ever recognizing the fact that honesty is the best policy.

Mrs. Matthes became active in the distributing part of the work immediately after her husband embarked in the business independently. Her training and experience proved of great value to her at the time of the sudden death of Mr. Matthes, when she found herself with a large amount of work on hand. This was completed so entirely to the satisfaction of the advertisers that they have continued to renew contracts with her from year to year and many new customers are constantly being added to her long list of regular patrons. The business is conducted under the name of Matthes Company, Mrs. L. H. Matthes proprietor.

Mrs. Matthes, as was her husband, is a member of The Exclusive Distributors Association and is the only accredited member in Toledo. She is likewise one of the stockholders of the company. She belongs to the First Baptist church and she is a member of Central Grove Rebekah Lodge No. 660, in which she is a past Noble Grand and past deputy president. She is also a member of the Militant Ladies, No. 7, a member of the Protected Home Circle, No. 180, and of the ladies' auxiliary, Circle 70, of the Grand Army of the Republic. In October, 1922, she received the decoration of chivalry, the highest- honor conferred upon a Rebekah. She is a member of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Toledo. While a most capable business woman, she also has deep interest in those activities which are of cultural worth and value to the community and which prove uplifting elements in the lives of many. Louis H. Matthas was called to his final rest on the 25th of January, 1916.

Joseph O. Eppstein, attorney at law and one of the faculty of St. John's College of Law at Toledo, was born in this city May 31, 1889, his parents being Julius and Charlotte (Pulvermacher) Eppstein. At the usual age he became a pupil in the public schools and the passing years chronicled his steady advancement until he was graduated from the high school. His desire to become a member of the bar led him to matriculate as a law student in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and there on the completion of the regular course he won his LL. B. degree as a member of the class of 1912. He entered alone upon general practice, and though advancement at the bar is proverbially slow, no dreary novitiate awaited him. He has made a creditable name and place for himself in legal circles and has been connected with much important litigation heard in the courts of this district, while his capability is shown in the many favorable verdicts which he has won as the result of his clear and comprehensive presentation of his cause. For two years he served as special counsel with the attorney general for northwestern Ohio. Since 1920 he has been a representative of the law faculty of St. John's University and is now lecturer on muni corps in that institution.

Mr. Eppstein attended the Plattsburg (N. Y.) Military Training Camp in 1918 and was preparing for active service when the armistice was signed. His political allegiance has always been given to the democratic party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise and he is now the treasurer of the Lucas county democratic central committee. Elected to the state legislature, he served during the term of 1914-15 and in 1916 was renominated for the office but did not care to continue in the general assembly and declined again to become a candidate. He then resumed the private practice of law, which he has since followed in Toledo, concentrating his efforts and attention upon his professional duties, recognizing the fact that the sources of our power lie within ourselves, so that his close application and determined purpose have become salient features in winning promotion. At the outset of his career he recognized the fact that application is what counts and that every man has it in him to work if he wants to do so. He is ever faithful to his clients, fair to his adversaries and candid to the court and he enjoys the respect of his fellow members of the Lucas County and Ohio State Bar associations.

Clarence James Mason

Clarence James Mason is the Toledo manager for the nationally known public accounting firm of Ernst & Ernst and is recognized by the commercial world as one of the leading accountants in this part of the state. He was born in Bellevue, Ohio, on the 23d of July, 1886, the son of James H. and Iona E. (Latham) Mason. After completing his elementary and preparatory education in the public and high schools of his birthplace, Mr. Mason entered Oberlin College at Oberlin, Ohio. At the close of his college days he went out to the Pacific coast, where from 1905 to 1909 he worked in Spokane, Portland and Seattle, gaining his first experience in bookkeeping and industrial accounting. Returning east in 1909 he became associated with the auditing department of the General Motors Corporation, then under the direction of Controller Alfred, where he gained an experience that has since proved very valuable to him in his work, for it gave him an understanding of the methods of accounting employed by one of the largest business organizations in existence. In the spring of 1913 he entered the employ of the firm of Ernst & Ernst in their Cleveland office, where his natural aptitude and diligence soon won for him the confidence of his superiors and he was promoted to the position of assistant manager. He was transferred to the Toledo office in December, 1918, as manager and has since developed the local branch into one of the best in the entire organization.

A pioneer in the field of accountancy, the firm of Ernst & Ernst was an important factor in establishing the high standards that characterize that profession througha | out the country today. Through the main office in Cleveland and the branch offices in ali the leading cities of the United States, the organization has its hand on the pulse of the industrial life of the nation, being connected intimately with more large business enterprises than any other one firm engaged ina similar line of work. To be employed by the firm in an important capacity is significant in itself, for it is the policy of the company to give its positions of trust only to men who have proven themselves worthy of such promotions. In fact, this policy has been so closely adhered to that no expansion has been undertaken at any time unless the right man for the new office or department was already in the organization and available for the new duties. Once a man has established his ability and won recognition from the heads of the firm, he is given every aid and assistance in carrying on the work assigned to him. The remarkable success of this company is explained by its policy, for it never undertakes a task that it cannot perform well and fapidly and is recognized by corporations and individual business men as being thoroughly competent and reliable. The business of the Toledo office is largely concerned with the affairs of large corporations such as the Willys-Overlard Company, the Owens Bottle Company, the Paragon Refining Company, and the Bostwick-Braun Com- - pany. There are now twenty-eight people on the staff under Mr. Mason's direction, all of whom are members of Ernst & Ernst organization. They handle the various departments of the business, which include audits, cost systems, income tax and business refinancing and organization.

February, 1914, and have become the parents of two children, James H. and Mary Ellen. . Since coming to Toledo Mr. Mason has become identified with the work of the Chamber of Commerce. He belongs to the Toledo Club and the Inverness Club, and is a Mason of high rank, being a Knight Templar and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine.

The Champion Spark Plug Company was incorporated in Massachusetts early in the year of 1910 by Robert A. Stranahan, Frank D. Stranahan, and their mother, Elizabeth W. Stranahan, for the purpose of manufacturing and marketing Champion spark plugs. Although started in Boston, Massachusetts, the company moved almost immediately to Toledo, Ohio, where it located on the second floor of the Holmes Snow Flake Laundry building, occupying just half the one floor, or about two thousand square feet of space, and employing about forty people.

successful from the beginning and within a year's time had developed to such an extent that it justified Frank Stranahan in giving up his other connections in Boston and joining his brother in Toledo, to devote his entire time to the Champion Spark Plug Company. These two brothers divided all operations between them and forged ahead at such a rapid pace that the second year made necessary the construction of their own factory building, which is today a small unit in the large Champion manufacturing plant located on the New York Central tracks, near Dorr street at Avondale and Upton avenues.

An idea of the growth of this concern can be gained from the fact that the first year's output ran from a beginning of just a few hundred plugs a day up to a thousand plugs a day in 1910. The business doubled practically every year, and in 1917 a production had been reached of over one hundred thousand spark plugs per day, and today the plant is turning out in the neighborhood of thirty million spark plugs per year to meet the tremendous popular demand for this article. Champion spark plugs represent nearly two-thirds of the spark plug market of not only the United States but of the whole world. They outsell all other makes combined and this holds good also in most every foreign country as well as in our own. There is an average consumption of two Champion spark plugs per year for every car owned throughout the United States, England, France, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Portugal, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan, and practically everywhere. The export business of this concern runs close to a million dollars a year.

The Toledo plant today represents an investment of over six million dollars, occupies about two hundred and fifty thousand feet of floor space and employs in the neighborhood of one thousand people in the manufacture of Champion spark plugs exclusively.

'he Champion insulators used in all of these plugs are made in Detroit by the Champion Porcelain Company, a Michigan corporation, which occupies about two hundred thousand feet of floor space, employs eight hundred people and is owned outright by the Champion Spark Plug Company.

In Canada there is a separate corporation, namely: The Champion Spark Plug Company of Canada, Limited, employing approximately two hundred people in the exclusive manufacture of Champion spark plugs, which supplies Canada, England and the English possessions.

The product today represents the very highest quality that has been attained in this industry, and yet is sold at the lowest price at which a spark plug can be purchased, due to the tremendous production and the fact that every single operation on a Champion spark plug is performed in its own plant, absolutely nothing being purchased by the company except the raw materials, such as bar steel, brass, copper. asbestos and clays. 'he company even owns mines which produce the basic material from which the Champion insulator core is made.

The Champion spark plug is the most widely sold automotive equipment or accessory made. It is widely advertised not only throughout the United States, but newspapers, magazines and sign-boards are used in every market throughout the civilized world.

Champion spark plugs are well protected with registered trade marks and numerous patents, Robert A. Stranahan being the original inventor, designer and patentee. Today the company, while doing business as a corporation is in effect a partnership, the two brothers, Robert A. Stranahan and Frank D. Stranahan, and their mother Elizabeth W. Stranahan, being the real owners. The complete personnel of ee company is: Robert A. Stranahan, president; M. C. Dewitt, vice president; Frank D. Stranahan, treasurer; W. W. Hoffman, secretary; F. B. Caswell, sales manager, jobbing division; H. E. Butcher, sales manager, manufacturing division; C. E, Dewar, superintendent; O. C. Rohde, chief engineer; G. B. Nason, advertising manager; J. F. Barr, purchasing agent; H. C. Wildesen, foreign sales manager ; I. F. Bush, assistant, sales department. These latter Toledoans are also stockholders in the Champion Spark Plug Company today.

During the European war this company furnished for the United States government a great amount of material, including thirty-seven millimeter shells and fuses of both the high and low explosive types, together with several million Champion spark plugs for equipment of aeroplanes, tanks, tractors, trucks, submarine chasers, motorcycles, ete.

Perca-E Parrow

Percy F. Parrott, who is concentrating his attention upon the practice of law, is most skilful in handling his cases and has won a prominent position at the Toledo bar. He was born in Defiance county, Ohio, September 8, 1886, and his parents were John O. and Laura (Hutchinson) Parrott, also natives of the Buckeye state. For many years the father followed the occupation of farming in Defiance county and later he established his home in Toledo, passing away in this city in 1907, while the mother's demise occurred in 1918. In their family were four children: Dale O., who met death on the battle fields of France during the World war; Guy, a resident of Sylvania, Ohio; Arthur, who is living in Los Angeles, California; and Percy F.

Percy F. Parrott obtained his education in the public schools of Defiance county, Ohio, and in this city, completing an academic course in Toledo University, which conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1911, while two years later he was graduated from the law department of the Ohio State University. He had previously taken up the study of stenography, in which he acquired expert ability, and for five years was engaged in that work, doing court reporting, while later he was secretary to the service director for the city of Toledo. He is now successfully following his profession and has been accorded a liberal clientele. He is a strong and able lawyer, clear and concise in his presentation of a case, logical in his deductions and sound in his reasoning, and his standing before the court is an enviable one.

On the 22d of February, 1919, Mr. Parrott was married to Miss Loretta E. Becker, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Becker of this city, and they have a daughter, Jeanne, who was born in 1920. Mr. Parrott isa member of the National Shorthand Association and fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias and the Masonic order, belonging to the lodge and chapter. Possessing an analytical, well trained mind and being a thorough and conscientious student, he is fully alive to the important duties of his profession and is deserving of the high esteem in which he is held by his fellowmen.

George Samuel Moss

During a period of nineteen years George Samuel Moss has engaged in law practice as a representative of the Ohio bar. He came to Toledo in 1904 and since that time has followed his profession here. He was born in Williams county, Ohio, June 8, 1881, his parents being William and Malinda (Clay ) Moss. His youthful lays were largely devoted to the acquirement of a public school education in his native county, supplemented by a course of study in the Fayette Normal University, from which he was graduated in 1899. In his broad literary course, therefore, he laid the foundation upon which to build the superstructure of professional knowl- edge. Determining upon a professional career, and narrowing his choice down to the law, he then began preparation for practice as a student in the Ohio Northern University, in which he completed the regular course and won his LL. B. degree as a member of the class of 1903. He then located for practice in Toledo, Ohio, and his analytical mind, his quick perception, his stability of purpose and his energetic and persistent action, have been dominant factors in his steady climb to success. He has membership with the Lucas County and Ohio State Bar associations.

George P. King

George P. King, proprietor of a letter shop, in which connection he is now conducting a large and growing multigraphing and mailing business, has spent his life in Toledo, his birth having occurred in this city on the 24th of July, 1874. Heisa son of Jabez Wood and Elizabeth (Phillips) King. At the usual age he entered the public schools and passed through consecutive grades to the Toledo high school, from which he was graduated with the class of 1893. This constituted his training for life's practical and responsible duties and upon the broad foundation of his liberal public school education he has built the structure of success. Improving his opportunities as the years have gone by, in 1907 he established a letter shop for the conduct of a multigraphing and mailing business, which he has thoroughly systematized and developed along substantial lines until it is now one of the important concerns of the kind in the city, his patronage being most gratifying.

Mr. King belongs to the Pilgrim Congregational church, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and also of the Rotary Club. In these connections are indicated the principles that govern his life and the activities which claim his efforts and energies outside of business. He is actuated by a most progressive spirit and his devotion to the general welfare is one of the paramount qualities in his nature. Mr. King's hobby is music. He was baritone soloist at several large Toledo churches before the demands of his business made it necessary for him to relinquish this activity. His voice, however, is now often keard in the Rotary Club and other organizations with which he is associated.

Addison Q. Thacher

Addison Q. Thacher, president of the A. Q. Thacher Company, contractors and marine divers of Toledo, is a representative of one of the old and well known families of this city. He was here born January 3, 1876, and is a son of Horace Coleman and Arabella Amy (Dando) Thacher, both of whom were natives of Ohio and spent their lives in this state. For many years they resided in Toledo, where Mr. Thacher was for thirteen years city engineer. Later he became well known in the diving contracting business as senior partner in the Thacher & Breyman Company. He built up a business of extensive proportions in this connection, conducting it for an extended period, but both he and his wife have passed away. They

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The early boyhood of Addison Q. Thacher was largely devoted to the acquirement of a public school education in Toledo and later he enjoyed the benefit of a course in the University of Michigan. There he devoted his attention to civil engineering and thoroughly qualified for work of that character. Following his return to Toledo he became identified with various engineering projects of more or less importance, gradually working his way to the front in the field of his chosen calling, and at the time of his father's death he took over the diving contracting business, organizing the A. QO. Thacher Company, of which he has since been the president. This company does most important work of the nature indicated and has solved many important problems of contract work, carrying forward to successful completion at all times whatevery they undertake.

On the 15th of May, 1919, Mr. Thacher was married to Miss Emma Brunner of Defiance, Ohio, and in Toledo they have an extensive circle of warm friends, the hospitality of many attractive homes being cordially extended to them. They are members of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church and the rules that further guide Mr. Thacher in his relations with his fellowmen are indicated in his membership in the Masonic fraternity, in which he has taken the degrees of both York and Scottish rites. He belongs also to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and he is well known as a devotee of outdoor sports, being now president of the Toledo Athletic Club and a member of the Maumee River Yacht Club. His political endorsement is given to the republican party, but he never seeks or desires office, preferring to concentrate his energies and attention upon his business affairs, which have constantly grown in volume until heavy demands are now made upon him in connection with the contracting and diving business. He has thrown mediocrity into the discard, prompted by a laudable ambition that seeks the attainment of the best. He has therefore reached a high point of efficiency and his business is today one of gratifying proportions.

Oscar Weber

During the twenty-two years of his residence in Toledo, Uscar Weber has devoted his attention to the fire insurance business and is now president of the Ohio Agency Company, which has many clients and is doing a business of gratifying proportions. Mr. Weber comes to the Buckeye state from New York city, where his birth occurred July 3, 1867, his parents being Edwin and Augusta Weber. The father was an importer in men's furnishing goods in the east.

In New York, while spending his youthful days under the parental roof, Oscar Weber pursued a public school education, while later he entered Harvard University and within the classic walls of that institution was graduated in 1892. For five years after the completion of his college course he was engaged in bookkeeping and then went on the road as a traveling salesman, being thus employed until he came to Toledo in 1900. Here he has since engaged in the insurance business and is now representative of several of the old and thoroughly reliable fire insurance companies. He conducts his interests under the name of the Ohio Agency Company and has gained a large clientele. He is the president of this company and his

In November, 1898, Mr. Weber was married to Miss Nettie Andrews of Fulton county, Ohio. He finds his recreation in fishing and automobiling and his endorsement of the high principles of Masonry is indicated by his membership in the lodge and the various Scottish Rite bodies up to and including the consistory. He is also a member of the Mystic Shrine and he takes a very active part in Masonic work, exemplifying in his life the beneficent spirit of the craft. He possesses a social, genial nature and many qualities which make for popularity and have won him many friends during the period of his residence in Toledo.

Warren Joseph Dufpey

Warren J. Duffey, one of Toledo's native sons, possesses all the requisites of an able lawyer and has established his position among the successful and representative members of the bar of this city. He was born January 24, 1886, and is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Duffey, who reside at No. 2384 Fulton street, Toledo. Since March 17, 1890, his father has been associated with the New York Life Insurance Company and in business circles of the city he is well known and highly esteemed.

Mr. Duffey attended the Toledo public schools and later became a student at St. John's College of this city, which conferred upon him the B. A. degree in 1907, while in the following year he received the M. A. degree from that institution. He next entered the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and was graduated from that institution of learning in June, 1911, with the LL. B. degree. In the same month he was admitted to the bar of both Ohio and Michigan ; and coming to Toledo, he began practice with O. S. Brumback, later forming a partnership with Henry A. Conlin. This relationship was continued until Mr. Conlin's death on December 22, 1913, and since that time Mr. Duffey has been alone in practice. Like all men who have achieved success in the best sense of the term, he has been an indefatigable worker, and notwithstanding the breadth and exactness of his legal learning and his facility in applying the same, he has never been known to present a case before court or jury without preparation as thorough as time and means rendered possible. This has been one of the secrets of his success and his clientele has steadily increased, his law business now being of a most important character. He is attorney for the Mutual Savings Association, one of Toledo's oldest building and loan organizations, and is also serving on its board of directors.

Mr. Duffey was married August 28, 1913, to Miss Marie L. Sawkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Sawkins of Toledo. Mr. and Mrs. Duffey have four children: Marie Ruth, Warren Francis, Natalie Grace and Richard Comerford Mr. Duffey's residence is at No. 401 Rockingham street. Mr. Duffey is a Catholic in religious faith and has membership with the St. Francis de Sales cathedral. He is also a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Toledo Club, the Toledo Commerce Club and the Inverness Club. His professional relations are with the Lucas County and Ohio State Bar associations and he is also a member of the University of Michigan Alumni Association.

Mr. Duffey served as a member of the general assembly of Ohio from Lucas county during the year 1913-14, having been elected as a democrat. Asa legislator he was author of the new mechanic's lien law, and he has frequently discussed and explained the general features of this important statute. He also did important work in securing the regulation of the sale and traffic in cocaine, morphine and other habit-forming drugs, and thus brought Ohio legislation upon the subject into harmony with more recent federal enactments. This legislation was of particular interest to Toledo, and it may be stated that the so-called "dope" law was fought through to the supreme court and has finally been declared valid. Representative Duffey also earnestly supported the passage of the reform judiciary bill, and while in the legislature was chairman of the committee on ways and means, and a member of the committees on codes, courts and procedure, manufactures and commerce, and public utilities. During 1917 and 1918 he ably represented the fourth ward in the city council of Toledo. Mr. Duffey is always ready to give his support to measures for the promotion of the public welfare and is loyal to all those interests which make for honorable manhood and progressive citizenship. Prompted by a laudable ambition, he has made continuous progress in his profession, and his fellow practitioners unite in bearing testimony to his high character and superior mind.

No student of history can carry his investigations far into the annals of Toledo without learning how closely and prominently associated has been the Segur family with the development and upbuilding of this city. Daniel Segur, Jr., was born in Toledo, on Western avenue, at the present site of the new high school, January 17, 1859, his parents being Daniel and Rosa L. Segur, to whom extended reference is made elsewhere in this work. He acquired his early education here, being tutored at home in early life, while later he became a high school pupil. At this time the family was living on his father's farm, devoted to tobacco culture. After the rather sudden death of his father, his mother became an editorial contributor to the Toledo Blade and throughout the years since Daniel Segur, Sr., first came to Toledo, representatives of the name have been closely associated with all that has marked the city's progress and development.

In the year 1876 Daniel Segur, Jr., began working in his father's drug store and closely devoted himself to the mastery of the business in principle and detail. He did with thoroughness everything that he undertook and thus his labors were always a contributing factor to the success of any enterprise with which he was associated. After leaving the drug store he became secretary of the old Summit and Broadway street car line, with offices on Broadway, and when he left that position he was called to the secretaryship of the board of waterworks, with which he was thus connected for some time. Subsequently he became secretary of the National Milling Company and later occupied a similar official position with the firm of Bostwick & Braun. On severing the latter connection he was made secretary and treasurer of the Simmons Hardware Company and became one of its stockholders.

On the 3d of August, 1880, Mr. Segur was married in Toledo to Miss Carrie M. Sawyer, a daughter of B. F. and Caroline (Weaver) Sawyer. Their home was blessed with the presence of two children: Frank Daniel, who married Myrtle Baker; and Daniel K., who wedded Catherine C. Cresswell, by whom he has two children, Robert Daniel and Constance Virginia.

In his religious views Mr. Segur was liberal but gave his support to all those agencies which he deemed of essential value in promoting the moral development of the community. His political allegiance was given to the democratic party and he was a member of Anthony Wayne Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. Locally he was connected with the Board of Commerce and with the Credit Men's Association and thus he became actively associated with organized movements for the advancement of trade, for the extension of Toledo's commercial relations and for the upholding of its civic standards. Like his father, he was keenly interested in everything that pertained to the city's welfare and his name was long synonymous with movements for the general good. Mr. Segur passed away June 11, 1917.

John W. Rupp

For over forty years John W. Rupp has devoted his attention to the drug business, in which he has won a gratifying measure of success, and he has gained a position of leadership in this field of activity, being president of The Rupp-Bowman Company of Toledo, in which connection he is controlling extensive interests. He was born in Whitehouse, Ohio, September 8, 1852, a son of Jacob and Barbara (Kuebler) Rupp, who were natives of Germany. In early life they came to the United States, settling in Lucas county, Ohio, where the father successfully followed the occupation of farming for many years. He later became a resident of Toledo. His demise occurred in this city in 1888. The mother passed away in 1896. They became the parents of six children: David, who is living at Haskins, Ohio; Jacob, whose home is at Whitehouse, this state; Mrs. Lena Fells and Mrs. Libby Schultz, both of Toledo; Mrs. Rosella Collie, who is now residing in China; and John W.

John W. Rupp acquired his education in the public schools of Whitehouse, Ohio, and in 1870 he came to Toledo, securing work in the old Bee Hive store. From this city he went to Waterville, Ohio, and was there employed in a general store for seven years, working his way up to a position of responsibility. In 1877 he resigned and with the capital which he had accumulated from his earnings, entered the drug business in Waterville, later opening a chain of stores in Toledo. He continued to operate all of these establishments until 1910, when he sold the Magnolia avenue and Bancroft street stores in Toledo and in the following year he also disposed of his original store in Waterville. In 1899 he had removed with his family to Toledo and in 1910 he organized the Rupp-Bowman Company, of which he has since been president, the store being located at No. 319 Superior street, where the firm is conducting one of the leading drug houses in the city. In addition to a complete line of drugs and chemicals they also handle surgical instruments, physicians', nurses' and hospital supplies, laboratory equipment and optical goods. The firm has ever adhered to the master formula of honor, integrity and trustworthiness and the name has become recognized as a full guarantee for purity and reliability in connection with pharmaceutical supplies. Mr. Rupp has an expert knowledge of the drug business, gained through long experience and close study, and his progressive spirit and executive ability have enabled him to develop an enterprise of large proportions.

At Waterville, Ohio, in April, 1887, Mr. Rupp was married to Miss Mildred Utz, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Utz, prominent residents of that city, and place and also in Toledo. She is now a resident of Windsor, Canada, and has become the mother of three children, Jean, Margaret and Lois; Walding G., born at Waterville in 1895, attended the Toledo public schools and the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and is now a director of The Rupp-Bowman Company; Paul F., who was born in Waterville, March 28, 1899, also completed a course in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and is connected with The Rupp-Bowman Company.

In his political views John W. Rupp is an independent republican and he is a valued member of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce, whose carefully formulated plans tor the development of the business interests of the city receive his hearty support. He is identified with the Wakeman Lodge of Masons at Waterville and has been connected with the order since 1879, when he joined Northern Light Lodge at Maumee, Ohio, being one of its oldest members. Energy, perserverance and thrift are recognized the world over as the foundation of success and these three qualities are possessed by Mr. Rupp, who fully deserves the honor that is accorded the fortunate individual who has fought and won in the great battle of life. His labors have aided materially in promoting the commercial prestige of Toledo and in business circles of the city his standing is of the highest.

Paul Gettum is probably the best known man in his line of business in Toledo. His merchant tailoring establishment, at No. 715 Madison avenue, caters to the highest class of trade, and the large and exclusive business he has developed is a tribute to his skill and correct methods.

Mr. Gettum enjoys the distinction of having for fifteen years been the tailor for Hon. Warren G. Harding and of making his outfit after he was elected to the presidency. This alone would indicate the high character of the work turned out under his direction and from the beginning of his residence in Toledo he has enjoyed substantial success that places him with the representative business men of this city.

Jerome Earle Carr

Jerome Earle Carr, engaged in the brokerage business in Toledo, is a native of Mount Lookout, Ohio, born May 10, 1880, his parents being Jerome Samuel and Martha (Lightfoot) Carr. The father devoted his life to the work of the ministry as a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and was an influential factor in building up the moral stamina of the communities in which he lived. oo Fae ;

Jerome E. Carr of this review obtained a public school education in Cincinnati and at Orrville, Ohio, and when his textbooks were put aside obtained a clerkship with a railroad company, spending four years in that connection. He was afterward with the Cable Piano Company at Toledo for three and a half years and then organized the J. E. Carr Brokerage Company, under which name he has since engaged in handling stocks, bonds and real estate. He has also been engaged in colonization work in connection with lands owned by the Santa Fe Railroad and his business

Mr. Carr was married to Miss Hattie M. Clark of Toledo on the 4th of April, 1904, and they have become parents of a daughter and a son: Evelyn Mary; and Corwin Clark, born August 29, 1912, in Toledo. Mr. Carr has membership with the Chamber of Commerce and manifests active interest in those organized efforts which are looking to the development and upbuilding of the city and the maintenance of high civic standards. He-belongs to Sanford L. Collins Lodge, No. 396, AG F. & A. M., and he is also a member of the Toledo Automobile Club - connections that indicate much of the nature of his interests and the rules that govern his activities. His residence is at No. 2502 Foraker avenue.

Thomas W. Reeves

Thomas W. Reeves, a representative of a family that has long figured prominently in connection with the industrial development of Toledo, is well known in business circles of the city as general superintendent of the boiler plant of the Skeldon Engineering Company and his broad experience along mechanical lines well qualifies him for the duties of this responsible position. He was born in Peterboro, Canada, September 26, 1886, a son of Richard and Maria (Woodsend) Reeves, the father a native of Toronto, Canada, and the mother a native of England. In early life she emigrated to Canada, where her marriage occurred, and about 1891 Mr. and Mrs. Reeves established their home in Toledo. He had previously established the Marine Boiler Works at Ann Arbor, Michigan, but decided that this city offered a better field for his operations and conducted his business on Water street until 1901, when he built the Marine Boiler Works, which is now a part of the Toledo Ship Building Company. Later he disposed of the plant and became connected with the McNaull Boiler Manufacturing Company, with which he continued until 1921, since which time he has lived retired in this city. The mother also survives and they have become the parents of three children: William G., Thomas W. and Richard G., all of whom are residents of Toledo.

Following his graduation from the Central high school of this city Thomas W. Reeves started to work in his father's boiler shop, where he was employed until 1906, during which period he acquired a thorough knowledge of the boiler manufacturing business. He then became connected with the engineering department of the Vulcan Steam Shovel Company and when the interests of that firm were taken over by the Bucyrus Company his services were retained by the latter organization, with which he was identified until 1912. The next year was spent at Marion, Ohio, in the engineering department of the Marion Steam Shovel Company, and after returning to Toledo he entered the employ of the McNaull Boiler Company. This has since been merged with the Skeldon Engineering Company and Mr. Reeves is now acting as general superintendent of their boiler plant. He has an expert knowledge of the work of which he has charge and has succeeded in maintaining a high degree of efficiency in the operation of his department, which is a most important one.

At Windsor, Canada, on the 24th of August, 1910, Mr. Reeves was married to Miss Esther A. Fitzgerald, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fitzgerald of Toledo, and they have four children: Thomas E., who was born in June, 1911, and is attending the Central school on the east side; Richard G., who was born in Febru-

Mr. Reeves is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and his political support is given to the men and measures of the republican party. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and fraternally is identified with the Masonic order, belonging to Rubicon Lodge, F. & A. M.; Fort Meigs Chapter, R. A. M., of which he is a past high priest ; and also to Toledo Council, R. and S. M. Throughout his career he has closely applied himself to the work in hand and has steadily advanced as he has proven his worth and ability, each forward step bringing him a broader outlook and wider opportunities. He is highly regarded in business circles of the city and has many friends whose esteem he has won and retained b reason of his high principles and fine personal qualities. ;

Herman Bamberger, M.D.

Dr. Herman Bamberger, arriving in America when a youth in his teens, started out in the business world in Cincinnati, Ohio, as clerk in a drug store and this constituted his initial step toward preparation for the practice of medicine and surgery, . in which he has now long been successfully engaged. Born in Germany on the Ist of June, 1867, he is a son of Barnard and Lena (Karn) Bamberger, who spent their lives in that country, where both passed away. They had a family of three children and the daughters, Mrs. Amelia Soloman and Mrs. Gertrude Silverman, remain in Germany.

Herman Bamberger first attended the schools of his native country to the age of seventeen years, when he determined to try his fortune in the new world and came alone to America. He made his way to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he secured employment in a drug store, continuing his work there until he had saved enough money to enable him to attend school. He then entered the Columbus (Ohio) Medical College, now the Ohio State Medical College, and still later he attended the University of Louisville at Louisville, Kentucky, from which he was graduated with the M. D. degree is a member of the class of 1889.

Dr. Bamberger then went to the Northwest and began practice among the mining camps of northwestern Montana, where he continued to follow his profession until 1895. He then returned to Louisville, Kentucky, where he opened an office and engaged in practice for three years, while in 1898 he removed to Toledo, where he has now successfully practiced for a period of almost a quarter of a century, giving his attention to general medical practice and to office work. He has at all times kept abreast with the trend of modern professional thought and advancement and is thoroughly familiar with the latest researches and discoveries of the profession. He belongs to the Lucas County Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Association and the American Medical Association.

On the 12th of July, 1898, Dr. Bamberger was married to Miss Fannie Silverman of Gallipolis, Ohio, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Silverman, representing one of the pioneer families of that place. Dr. and Mrs. Bamberger had two children: Esther, born in Toledo in 1899 and educated in the Scott high school and Toledo University ; and Samuel J.,; who died at the age of seventeen years and three months, becoming a victim of influenza and passing away after an illness of three days. Since becoming an America citizen Dr. Bamberger has exercised his right of franchise in support of the republican party and fraternally he is connected with the Woodmen of the World. He has worked his way upward entirely through his own efforts and is truly a self-made man, nor has he ever had occasion to regret his determination to leave Germany to become an American citizen.

George E. Lorenz

To a notable position in manufacturing and mercantile circles did George E. Lorenz attain and then in the last few years of his life he lived retired, enjoying in well earned rest the fruits of his former business activity. While commercial interests took him ofttimes and for long periods to the east, he always regarded Toledo as his home. He was born in Germantown, Montgomery county, Ohio, January 1, 1845, his parents being Peter and Sophia (Billmire) Lorenz. In the paternal line he was descended from Huguenot ancestry, his father being a native of Strasburg, then as now a part of the French republic. He was a designer and pattern maker in his native country and by reason of his skill and ability was able to command good prices for his service. He was also for a time a member of the French cavalry and his father was a brigade commander in the French army for a term, with headquarters at Strasburg. After crossing the Atlantic to the new world Peter Lorenz was married at Harpers Ferry to Sophia Billmire, who was there born. He did not reenter business circles in America but lived retired from active participation in commercial interests. He died in the year 1876, while the mother, long surviving him, passed away at Germantown, Ohio, in 1907, having reached the advanced age of ninety-seven years. They were the parents of seven children.

George E. Lorenz completed his preliminary education in the schools of Germantown and afterward attended the State Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio, from which institution he was in due time graduated. He next entered the University of Michigan as a member of the class of 1867 but did not complete his course there, owing to his anxiety to enter the business world. He made the manufacture of perfumes his life work, although for a time he was interested in the development of the oil industry and he was also one of the organizers of the Crystal Refinery, now the plant of the Sun Oil Company of Toledo. In 1864, however, he began the manufacture of perfumes in Toledo, establishing the business in a small way but gradually developing and enlarging it until his position was one of leadership among the perfume manufacturers of America and the world. He continued to carry on business in Toledo until 1908, when he removed his plant to New York in order to be in closer touch with the large foreign and eastern trade which had been developed by the company. For many years Mr. Lorenz continued as active manager of the business, but later a corporation was formed under the name of the George Lorenz Company, of which he became president and so continued until he retired from active connection with the enterprise. During the years 1903 and 1904 he was also president of the Manufacturing Per- 'fumers' Association of the United States and an active member of the American Society of Microscopists. With the development of the business he always maintained the same high standards as to manufacture and at the Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia in 1876 the company was awarded the Universal Medal. Two years later, at the Paris Exposition, in competition with the best foreign and

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American products, Mr. Lorenz was granted the first and only medal that had ever been awarded an American perfumer by a foreign government. Eleven years later, at the Paris Exposition of 1889, the company again succeeded in winning the highest award and in recognition of his standing among perfume manufacturers Mr. Lorenz, in 1893, was chosen as the expert to judge of the perfumes exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1900 he was appointed by the French government to serve on the international jury and his perfumes were placed 'Hors Concours," or beyond competition, probably the highest honor that could be awarded. His was a nature that could never be content with mediocrity. He must move steadily forward, actuated by the spirit of progress and imbued with the determination that never stopped short of the successful accomplishment of his purpose. Thus it was that he gained not only a national but an international leadership in his line of manufacturing.

On the 20th of September, 1866, Mr. Lorenz was united in marriage to Miss Martha Jane Phillips of Lebanon, Ohio, in which city she was born and reared. They became the parents of a daughter, Daisy B., now the wife of Arthur E. Baker of Toledo. She is a graduate of the Toledo high school and of Vassar College at Poughkeepsie, New York, and by her marriage she has become the mother oi four children: William; Martha B., who married Webb C. Hayes, Jr., and is the mother of a son, Webb C. Hayes (III); Arthur Lorenz; and Gerald V. C. Baker.

In his political views Mr. Lorenz was always a stalwart supporter of democratic principles and was at one time a member of the city council of Toledo from the seventh ward, his service covering two terms, or four years. He later received the democratic nomination for the state legislature, but on account of the pressing demands of his business interests he declined to become a candidate. During the presidency of Grover Cleveland, Mr. Lorenz was appointed postmaster of Toledo and continued to fill the office for four years. While he lived in a republican neighborhood, he always received a very flattering majority, indicative of the confidence reposed in him and kindly regard felt for him by his fellow townsmen. He was at one time a trustee of the Miami Children's Home and was treasurer of the Toledo branch of the Chicago University Extension. He took deep and helpful interest in everything that pertained to intellectual as well as material progress and his life was a valuable asset to the community in which he lived. He passed away May 13, 1916, his death being the occasion of deep regret to his business associates and his many friends. He had always occupied his time wisely and well and reaped the rewards of labor and attained to high position in the regard of all.

Dr. John Jay Welker, president of the Northern Ohio Dental Society for the year 1922, has been engaged in the active practice of his profession for more than nineteen years, his course being marked by that steady progress which is the visible indication of constantly expanding powers and a mastery of the problems that continually present themselves for solution in any profession or line of business. Moreover, Dr. Welker has always held to high professional ideals and closely followed the ethical teachings having to do with his chosen life work. His story had its beginning on the 15th of January, 1875, when he first opend his eyes to the light of day in Bryan, Ohio, his parents being John M. and Julia Ann (Myers) Welker, the former a merchant of that place.

At the usual age John Jay Welker became a pupil in the public schools of his native city and afterward attended the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, where he matriculated as a dental student and was there graduated with the class of 1903. In the same year he returned to Ohio, settling at Toledo, where he has practiced to the present time, winning substantial success with the passing years. His high standing among his brethren of the profession is indicated in the fact that he was chosen secretary and treasurer of the Toledo Dental Society for the year 1907 and in 1918 served as president; was made a member of the board of directors of the Ohio State Dental Society and continued in that position for twelve years; and was also elected to the directorate of the Northern Ohio Dental Society for a period of three years, while in 1922 he was chosen to the presidency of the last named organization. He has ever maintained a splendidly equipped dental office and has shown marked skill and scientific efficiency in the performance of the multitudinous delicate duties that devolve upon the dentist.

On the 15th of June, 1898, Dr. Welker was married to Miss Grace Boothman of Bryan, Ohio, and they are parents of a son, Richard Maxwell, who was born April 11, 1901, and is now a student in the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. Dr. Welker largely finds his recreation in golf and is vice president of the Sylvania Golf Club. He is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce, interested in all those activities which feature in the city's welfare and improvement, in the development of its business connections and the maintenance of all those interests which are a matter of civic virtue and of civic pride.

Ned L. Baumgardner

Ned L. Baumgardner, member of the wholesale firm of Baumgardner & Company of Toledo, is recognized as one of the leading younger business men of this city. He was born in Toledo, on the 27th of October, 1880, the son of Edson W. and Frances Mary (Langan) Baumgardner of whom extensive mention is made elsewhere in this work, and has two brothers, Frank L. and Carleton Morey Baumgardner. An account of the latter also appears in this volume. Ned L. Baumgardner received his early education in the public schools of his birthplace, later attending the Michigan Military Academy where he prepared for entrance to Cornell University at Ithaca, New York. At the university he was made a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. Upon leaving college Mr. Baumgardner returned to Toledo, where he has since been associated with the firm of Baumgardner & Company in which his two brothers are also interested. This company, which was founded shortly after the Civil war, does a wholesale business in dry goods and notions and is one of the largest of its kind in the state. As one of the active managers of the concern Mr. Baumgardner has been responsible for much of the growth of the business in recent years, displaying in the conduct of his business a capacity for financial administration and constructive organizing work.

On the 2d of June, 1906, occurred the marriage of Ned L. Baumgardner and Miss Kate R. Annin. They have one child, a son, named Edson W. (IT), in honor of his grandfather.

Like the other members of his family Mr. Baumgardner holds republican views on political matters. He belongs to the Toledo Chamber of Commerce and numerous social and recreational organizations of the city, among them the Toledo Club, the Carranor Hunt and Polo Club and the Toledo Riding Club. Something of his recreational interests is indicated by his membership in the two latter clubs. He is also affiliated with the Transportation Club of New York city.

Dr. Clarence Davey Selby is not only an eminent physician from the standpoint of knowledge of the science of medicine and ability in the practice of the profession but also by reason of his comprehensive study of his chosen calling as effecting sociological and economic conditions of the country. His breadth of vision has enabled him to aid in solving many intricate and complex problems which have to do with health conditions and his labors have been of the greatest benefit and service to mankind.

Clarence Davey Selby was born in Des Moines, Iowa, July 21, 1878, his parents being Sanford Perry and Lizzie Foster (Davey) Selby. The removal of the family to Ohio enabled him to complete a high school course at Portsmouth, where 'he was graduated with the class of 1898. He afterward became a student in the medical department of the Western Reserve University and there won his professional degree in 1902. Since that ume he has gained a position of distinction in the educational field as well as in active practice. He was made demonstrator of histology in the medical department of the Western Reserve University in 1901 and in 1902 he became assistant to the city bacteriologist of Cleveland. In the same year he was made interne at the Lakeside Hospital of Cleveland, occupying the position until 1903. He served as resident pathologist at St. Alexis Hospital in 1903-4 and was assistant to Dr. George Crile from 1904 until 1906.

In the year 1905 Dr. Selby came to Toledo and the following year was appointed visiting surgeon to St. Vincent's Hospital, acting in that capacity until 1915, while at the present time he is chief of staff. He has been identified with the Flower Hospital since 1911 and he was commissioner of health of Toledo from 1916 until 1918. For a period of ten years, from 1908 until 1918, he was managing editor of the Ohio State Medical Journal and he was consulting hygienist to the United States public health service in 1918 and 1919. In the latter year he was made a surgeon on the reserve list of the United States health service and so continues. He has been chief of staff of St. Vincent's Hospital since 1919 and was president of the hospital council of Toledo in 1921. Since 1920 he has been a director of the Toledo Council of Social Agencies, was a director of the American Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons in 1920-21 and a director of the Ohio Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons in 1919-20.

Naturally Dr. Selby is connected with the leading medical societies of the country. He served as the secretary of the section on preventive medicine and public health of the American Medical Association in 1920 and was made vice chairman of the same in 1921. In 1919 he was secretary of the health service section of the National Safety Council. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, belongs to the Ohio State Medical Association, of which he was secretary and treasurer from 1908 until 1918, to the Academy of Medicine at Cleveland, to the Academy of Medicine of Toledo and Lucas county and is now president of the Ohio Public Health Association for 1922 and also of the Toledo Public Health Association.

On the 18th of October, 1905, Dr. Selby was united in marriage to Miss Olivia Roberts of Stratford, Ontario, Canada, and they make their home at No. 332 Boston place. They have a son, Robert Vincent Selby, born in Toledo, August 17, 1907. Dr. Selby belongs to the Sons of the American Revolution, to the Chamber of Commerce, to the Toledo Club and to the Toledo Yacht Club. He also has membership with the Nu Sigma Nu. His political allegiance has ever been given to the republican party and his religious faith is that of the Methodist church. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons as a Knight Templar, as a member of the Consistory and also of the Mystic Shrine. His life has been one of extreme usefulness and value to his fellowmen by reason of the breadth of his professional activities and the progressive spirit which he has ever manifested in connection with his chosen calling.

Elt Elkingion Culver

Eli Elkington Culver is owner and president of the business which is now conducted under the name of the Culver Motor Company and as such he has reached a place among the representative merchants and business men of Toledo. He was born in the vicinity of this city September 24, 1875, and is a son of Horace and Sarah (Rathbone) Culver. The father was a farmer, devoting his life to agricultural pursuits, and the youthful experiences of Eli E. Culver were those of the farm bred boy who early becomes familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops, his work in the fields being alternated by periods of attendance at the country schools.

Eli Elkington Culver supplemented his early educational training by a course in a business college and then, thinking to find commercial pursuits more congenial than farming, he secured a clerkship in a grocery store. Steadily he acquired knowledge and experience in this business and later he owned and conducted a grocery business for himself. He was also proprietor of a general store at Ironville, Ohio, for a period of eighteen years and ere the expiration of that period he began handling the Ford automobiles, taking up the business in 1914. In 1917 he removed to Toledo, where he organized the Culver Motor Company, of which he has since been president and owner. He is now doing an annual business of seven hundred thousand dollars and has sixty people in his employ. The firm has one of the best equipped plants in the state of Ohio, and its service department is surpassed by none. Judged by what Mr. Culver has accomplished, he seems to have advanced by leaps and bounds in his business career and yet an analyzation of his methods shows that it has been through steady progression and the wise use of opportunity that he has reached the creditable and enviable place which he today occupies in connection with the sale of automobiles in this city. He is also a trustee of the Ohio Savings Association.

Mr. Culver was united in marriage to Miss Freda Miller of Toledo and they became parents of two daughters, Geraldine and Mildred. Having lost his first wife, Mr. Culver was married to Miss Jessie Custin of Dunkirk, Ohio, and their children are three in number, Marion, Rhonda and Phyllis Jean. In addition to his attractive home in Toledo, Mr. Culver owns a fifty-acre farm which is operated entirely by tractor work, no horses being used on the place. The most advanced and scientific methods are employed in the cultivation and care of the fields and success in large measure is attending the enterprise.

Mr. Culver greatly enjoys hunting and fishing and each fall goes to the northern woods for big game hunting, while in the winter he enjoys a period of fishing in the south. He is the president of the East Side Luncheon Club and is a member of the East Side Chamber of Commerce, the Toledo Commerce Club, the Bay Shore Commerce Club, the Izaak Walton League of America, and the Young Men's Christian Association. Fraternally he is a Mason and also belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and to the Foresters, and he never withholds his cooperation from any well devised plan for the city's improvement or upbuilding, for the advancement of its trade relations or the promotion of civic interests which lead to municipal adornment or improvement. He is always alert, ready for any emergency and any opportunity, and has proven himself a dynamic force in connection with commercial interests in his native state.

Anthony -C. Bay

Among the varied lines of activity which are factors in Toledo's commercial development is the real estate and insurance business conducted by the Wright, Russell & Bay Company, of which Anthony C. Bay is the vice president, their offices being located at Nos. 313-15 Huron street. Mr. Bay is a native of Ohio, his birth having occurred in Wood county on the 7th of March, 1865, and his parents were Charles and Rosina (Fisher) Bay, both of whom were of European birth and came to the United States at an early period in their lives. They first located at Cleveland, Ohio, and later removed to Wood county, this state, where the father successfully followed the occupation of farming until his demise, which occurred when he had reached the venerable age of ninety-two years. He was an honored veteran of the Civil war, serving throughout the period of hostilities as a private of the Seventh Ohio Infantry, under General John B. Steadman. The mother has also passed away.

In the grammar and high schools of Toledo, Anthony C. Bay acquired his education and his initial business experience was obtained in the employ of the L. S. Baumgardner Company, wholesale dealers in dry goods and notions. He remained with that house for several years and then became a special agent for the Aetna Fire Insurance Company, his connection with that organization lasting a little over a year. Subsequent to that he became associated with the Toledo Fire Underwriters Association as assistant secretary, which office he filled for fifteen years, resigning to purchase a half interest in the firm of Wright & Russell, becoming an active partner in the enterprise, which has since been known as the Wright, Russell & Bay Company. They also handle real estate and their business is one of large proportions. Mr. Bay has been identified with the company for nineteen years and is now serving as vice president. Broad experience and close study have given him a comprehensive knowledge of the business and much of the present prosperity enjoyed by the firm is attributable to his well-directed efforts and earnest application.

On the 31st of December, 1913, Mr. Bay married Miss Daisy Washburn of Toledo, whose parents are residents of Port Clinton, Ohio. He is ever ready to give his support to measures for the promotion of the public welfare and for one term served as a member of the city council. He is a member of the Toledo Club, the Toledo Yacht Club and the Exchange Club and is a thirty-second degree Mason, belonging to both the York and Scottish Rites. He possesses keen perception and keen insight into business affairs and situations and has the power of concentration, which enables him to give his entire thought to the matter in hand. In the parlance of the day he has "made good" and is recognized as a successful business man and public-spirited citizen.