Toledo City (part 4 of 21)

Stimpson G. Harvey

Stimpson G. Harvey, one of the best known railroad men in the city of Toledo, was born on a "farm in the woods," at Palmyra, Lenawee county, Michigan, Oct. 20, 1836. His early life was spent there, working on the farm during* the crop seasons and attending the district schools for three months each winter. In the spring of 1857, he joined the tide of immigration to Kansas, then a terri¬ tory, but upon arriving there he failed to find employment to his liking, and he hired out to the United States government to assist in driving a herd of 600 cattle to the army in the Salt Lake valley, Utah. The party left Fort Leavenworth, Kan., April 16, and arrived at Salt Lake, Sept. 28, having been more than five months on the road. Not caring to remain among the Mormons, Mr. Harvey joined a party going to California and, Nov. 5, 1857, he reached Sacramento. He remained in California until June, 1859, driving a stage a portion of the time, and engaging in various other occupations, and then started on the homeward trip by way of the Isthmus of Panama. In September, he arrived home, was married in March, 1860, and continued on the farm until July 13, 1862, when he enlisted in Company I, Eighteenth Michigan infantry, for three years. With this regiment he left the State, Sept. 4, reported at Cincinnati, and was stationed at Lexington, Ky., from Nov. 1, 1862, until Feb. 21, 1863. It then moved to Danville and was with the forces that retreated from that place on the 24th, skirmishing with those of Pegram as they left. On the 28th the regiment joined in pursuit of Pegram, making a long, rough march to Buck creek. It returned to Stanford, then moved to Lebanon, and thence to Nashville, where it was employed as provost guard from Nov. 1, 1863, to June 11, 1864. During this time Mr. Harvey served as chief clerk in the provost-marshaks office, at Nashville. Ordered south, the regiment reached Decatur, Ala., in June, and was placed on garrison and scouting duty. It was a part of the force which surprised Patterson's brigade of cavalry at Pond Springs, capturing its camp equipage, wagons and commissary stores, and in July it assisted in routing the same brigade at Courtland, being the only infantry engaged at either time. It left Decatur in September to reinforce the garrison at Athens, reaching there just in time to repel Roddey's command. It joined in pursuit of Wheeler, overtaking and skirmishing with his rear guard at Shoal creek, and then returned to Decatur. It participated in the successful defense of Decatur against Hood's army, and remained at that place until Nov. 25, when it moved to Stevenson, where it was engaged in building fortifications until Dec. 19. It was then ordered back to Decatur, where it was on garrison duty until Jan. 11, 1865, when it proceeded to Huntsville for post duty. It was ordered to Nashville in June and was mustered out, June 26, 1865. After the close of the war, Mr. Harvey followed farming until October, 1870, when he entered the service of the United States postoffice department as a railway mail clerk, running between Buffalo and Chicago, on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. He had charge of the first "White Mail" train, which left New York, Sept. 17, 1875. In 1883, he resigned his position in the railway mail service to assist in organizing and putting in operation the Merchants' Delivery Company, of Cleveland, Ohio. Subsequently, he was with the Big Four railway for a year, in the car accounting department, and he was then with the Erie railroad in the claim department at Cleveland five years. In June, 1892, he accepted his present position with the passenger department of the Ohio Central lines, and since then has been a resident of Toledo. Mr. Harvey is an unswerving Republican in his political belief, having cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln, in 1860. He is a member of the Lincoln Republican Club, of Toledo; belongs to Forsyth Post, Grand Army of the Republic; is a member of Anthony Wayne Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, and is the treasurer of the Ohio State Society of that organization. In his Grand Army of the Republic relations, he has been commander of Forsyth Post three terms, and is now the chief of staff of the Department Commander of Ohio. As before stated, Mr. Harvey was married in March, 1860, and he selected as his helpmate, Miss Deborah F. Wilder, a native of Utica, N. Y. Of this union there was born a daughter, who is the wife of Frank T. Baldwin and the mother of three children - a son and two daughters. Mr. Harvey is never con¬ tented unless he is busy at something, and his efficiency as a railroad man is attested by the fact that he has held his present position for eighteen years. He is a man of genial and sociable disposition and has many warm friends in Ohio railroad circles. He resides at 650 Oakwood avenue, Toledo.

Elmer E. Davis

Elmer E. Davis, a well known attorney of Toledo, with offices in the Gardner Building, was born on a farm near New Straitsville, Perry county, Ohio, Oct. 31, 1865. He is a son of Robert and Alcinda Thorp Davis, being next to the oldest of six children, all of whom are living. His father is a native of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and his mother was born in the State of New York. Both his parents came to Ohio when they were small children, the father coming with his parents, in 1838, when but two years of age, and the mother with her parents, a year or so later, when she was about the same age. The parents were reared, educated and mar¬ ried in Perry county, Ohio, where the father was for many years actively engaged in farming. The father was a soldier in the Union army during the Civil Avar, and now resides on a farm near Newark, in Licking county, Ohio. His mother died about twenty years ago. Elmer E. Davis was reared in his native county, his early education being such as was afforded by the public schools in the vicinity of his boyhood home. He graduated in the New Straitsville High School when fifteen years of age. After leaving school, he engaged in various occupations for some years, during which time he saved up money enough to enable him to enter the Law Department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in which institution he graduated, in the year 1891, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. A few days prior to his graduation from law school, he successfully passed the examination for admission to the bar, at Columbus, Ohio. In the fall of 1891 he came to Toledo, occupying "desk room" in Captain Everett's office about two years, when he became established in his present suite of offices in the Gardner Building, he and the late John T. Greer being the first tenants of the suite of rooms which now constitute his offices. His practice at first was largely that of a commercial lawyer, but he has gradually drifted from that into a general prac¬ tice. In his profession he has achieved considerable success, hav- ing a large clientele, and is generally regarded as a capable and trustworthy lawyer. At the present time, he is the president of the Lucas County Bar Association. Fraternally, he is a member of several of the various Masonic bodies of Toledo, including St. Omer Commandery and Zenobia Shrine. He is a Republican in politics, and, though never an office seeker, was at one time a mem¬ ber of the Toledo council, representing that portion of the city which is now known as the Sixth ward. In 1904, he married Grace L. Richards, of Toledo, Ohio, and now resides at No. 2425 Scottwood avenue.

Cornelius Kendall

Cornelius Kendall, deceased, late vice-president . of the Shaw- Kendall Engineering Company, was for thirty-eight years promi¬ nently identified with the business interests of the city of Toledo, and in the course of his activities he took a leading part in the de¬ velopment of several of the most important industrial plants in the city. It is eminently fitting that in this volume he should be numbered among the leaders of progress and industry and that a brief review should be given of his singularly successful career. Cornelius Kendall was born May 21. 1839, in Quincy, Ill., and when nine years of age removed with his parents to Chicago, Ill., in which city he attended school and received his early training. His father and brothers were quite extensively engaged in the bakery business in that city, and the first engagement of Cornelius in a business way was with this concern, known as the Kendall Bakery. During the Civil war, this firm had a contract with the Government for furnishing bread to the army, but the patriotic endeavors of the subject of this memoir were not confined to his connection with this work. Upon the organization of the famous Chicago Board of Trade Battery of light artillery, he enlisted as a private therein and was mustered into the United States service, Aug. 1, 1862. With the battery he arrived in Louisville, Ky., Sept. 10, following, and was introduced to the stern realities of war in an engagement at Lawrenceburg, Ky., a short time afterward. Compared to subsequent experiences, this was a small affair, how¬ ever, as one well directed shot from the battery caused the enemy to retreat. At the battle of Stone's River the battery took a prominent part, and at Ringgold, Ga., it fired the first gun, which opened the battle of Chickamauga. On the second day of that fight, it moved through Steven's Gap and fought to the close of that sanguinary engagement. On Oct. 3, it encountered the Con¬ federates in a severe skirmish, and the following day passed through McMinnville and drove the rear guard of the enemy seven mile* beyond. At McMinnville and Farmington, the battery was par¬ ticularly distinguished for gallantry, and, in the spring of 1864, it moved from its winter quarters at Huntsville to Nashville, to refit and reorganize, after which it took part in the Atlanta cam¬ paign. When General Sherman cut loose from Atlanta, the bat¬ tery returned to Nashville, after which it went into a place called Gravelly Springs. In the spring of 1865, it took part in the suc¬ cesses of Selma, Montgomery, Columbus, and Macon, and, June 27, it arrived in Chicago, where it was mustered out. After his retire¬ ment from the military service, Mr. Kendall went into the employ of John Davis & Co., of Chicago, a concern that was engaged in the manufacture of steam heating apparatus. After the great fire that swept that city, in 1871, he formed a partnership with Daniel C. Shaw, in Toledo, Ohio, by buying out the interests of John Davis, in the firm of Davis & Shaw, and the firm became known as Shaw & Kendall. The firm of John Davis & Co., of Chicago, had, prior to 1871, established a branch store in Toledo, under the name of Davis & Shaw. Later, William Hardee purchased an interest in the concern and the name was changed to Shaw, Kendall & Co. Joseph L. Wolcott also became identified with the company, but the name remained the same. The firm eventually engaged in the oil well supply business, and in 1889 established the Buckeye Supply Company, W. C. Hillman taking an interest. The Shaw, Kendall & Co., the Buckeye Supply Company, and the National Supply Company, of Pittsburg, Pa., were merged into one con¬ cern in 1896, under the name of the National Supply Company, one of Toledo's greatest commercial enterprises at the present time. After that, in order to give employment to the old hands, the Shaw-Kendall Engineering Company was organized, of which Mr. Kendall was vice-president and manager until his death, which occurred Aug. 15, 1909. Mr. Kendall, while connected actively with his concerns in Toledo, traveled extensively through¬ out the United States, making contracts and looking after the interests of the business. After some years he gave up this labor and spent some time traveling in foreign countries, which was one of the pleasures of his later years. Besides being interested in the commercial development of the city, he was active in the promotion and the support of charitable institutions, to which he was a quiet and generous giver, and in his domestic relations his conduct was such as to stamp him of the highest rank of true manhood. In 1873 he was united in marriage to Miss Ida Knapp, and the sorrowing widow survives to mourn the loss of a true and generous husband. Mrs. Kendall resides at the home, 531 Lincoln avenue, Toledo, Ohio.

Joseph Lake Wolcott

Joseph Lake Wolcott, who died at his home in the city of Toledo, Dec. 1, 1900, was one of the honored citizens of Lucas county, and it is but consonant that in this compilation be incor¬ porated a tribute to his memory and to his worthy life and services. He was born in Walpole, N. H., Oct. 10, 1845, and was a scion of families founded in America in the Colonial era of our country's history. His parents were James and Caroline (Bellows) Wolcott. James Wolcott was one of the first settlers in Maumee, and in 1839 was appointed an associate judge of the Common Pleas Court, under the old Constitution. The old Wolcott homestead, still standing on the right bank of the Maumee river, between Miami and Maumee, was .the first house built by a white man in this end of the Maumee valley. It is a quaint old residence, clapboarded over solid walnut logs and finished throughout with walnut. It is still picturesquely furnished with ancient spinet and numerous relics of early days. Joseph L. Wolcott was a mere baby when he was brought to the western country by his parents, and soon thereafter his home was established in Toledo, where he grew up as a Toledo boy and a Toledo man, and where his business energy and integrity were manifest in the many successful business institu¬ tions with which he was connected. His education was secured in the Toledo public schools, and at an early age, imbued with the spirit of patriotism, he offered his services to the government in response to the call for troops to put down the Southern insur¬ rection. He went to battle with the famous Sixty-seventh Ohio infantry. Because of his youth he could not secure admittance into the earlier organized commands, but, filled with martial ardor, he persuaded Mavor Brigham, a well-known citizen of Toledo, to teach him how to drum, and was thus able to enter the service as a drummer boy, enlisting Oct. 22, 1861, in Company B, Sixtyseventh Ohio infantry, being then just past sixteen years of age. The regiment left Columbus for the field Jan. 19, 1862, going into Western Virginia. It was the first to engage the enemy at Win-

Chester on March 23. At Harrison's Landing it campaigned with the Army of the Potomac till the evacuation of the Peninsula, when it went to Suffolk, Va. Being then transferred to the Carolinas, for seven months it heroically endured all the hardships, privations and dangers of the siege of Charleston, taking part in the attack on Fort Wagner, and on Jan. 1, 1864, it reenlisted and returned home on furlough. After the expiration of his furlough, Mr. Wolcott, with his fellow soldiers, returned to the field, reach¬ ing Bermuda Hundred May 6, 1864. Then, with his command, he participated in all the battles and campaigns of the Army of the James until the surrender of Lee. During the spring, sum¬ mer and fall of 1864 the regiment confronted the enemy at all times within range of its guns, and it is said by officers competent to judge that in that time it was under fire 200 times. It was in the siege of Petersburg, witnessed the close at Appomattox, and then did guard and garrison duty at different points until Dec. 7, 1865, when it was finally mustered out. Mr. Wolcott was pro¬ moted to corporal May 1, 1862, in which rank he remained until he was made sergeant, Jan. 12, 1865. Afterward he was promoted to commissary sergeant, and then to second lieutenant of Com¬ pany F, in which position he served until he was honorably dis¬ charged. For four years, one month and eleven days of active campaigning he wore his country's uniform and fought under his flag, during most of which period he carried a musket in the ranks. He was wounded at Charles City Crossroads by a gunshot in the neck. At the close of the war Mr. Wolcott returned to Toledo and, after a brief period of farming, entered the employ of Olmstead, Jones & Lavelle, in their saddlery hardware business, located on Summit street. In 1870 he became a partner in the firm of Whitaker & French, under the name of Whitaker, French & Wol¬ cott, and remained there two years, retiring to engage in the brass business of Allen & Heath, on lower Summit street. After a year's work the firm consolidated with Umsted, Rowe & Co., under the name of Wolcott, Rowe & Co., and two years later Mr. Wolcott bought out Umsted, Rowe & Co. and formed a co-part¬ nership with Shaw, Kendall & Co. This was in 1877, and he was actively engaged with this firm until it went out of business.

Early in the oil development of Ohio the Buckeye Supply Com¬ pany was formed, with Mr. Wolcott as its president. In 1896 the National Supply Company of Pittsburg, the Shaw-Kendall Com¬ pany and the Buckeye Supply Company, in all of which organiza¬ tions Mr. Wolcott was a stockholder and director, were merged into one company and continued business as the National Supply Company, of which Mr. Wolcott became president, and the success of the company under his management was great, the mammoth factories and immense office being testimonials to his ability. He was actively engaged in oil operations and was the owner of much improved real estate in the city, the residences in all cases being up to a high standard of architectural beauty. Pie was a director in the Palmer Oil Company and was a director and vicepresident of the Ohio Savings Bank & Trust Company, besides being president of the Genoa & Rocky Ridge Lime Company. In 1870 Mr. Wolcott was married to Miss Mary Kassick, of Jackson, Mich., and she alone survives him, no children having been born of their union. Mr. Wolcott was a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of all the local Masonic bodies, of Lake Erie Consistory at Cleveland, the Ohio Commandery, Loyal Legion, and the Toledo Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was also a member of the Toledo and Country clubs. In closing a memorial, his comrades of Toledo Post paid the following beautiful tribute to his memory: "As a citizen he was as modest, as exemplary, as faithful and as devoted to his trusts as he was while a soldier. At the close of the war he was a poor young man, but by his industry, application and capacity he achieved splendid success, and was at the head of great business enterprises and institu¬ tions. And when at last he was forced to yield to the attacks of death, the great conqueror, he was yet in the prime of life and intellectual power. His character and disposition were such as always endeared him to his friends and all who knew him. A good soldier, a good citizen, an honorable and exemplary man of affairs, a kind neighbor, a loving and affectionate husband, the memory of Joseph L. Wolcott will long be a sweet and pre¬ cious remembrance among the people of this community and all who in his life knew of him. ,,

Lafayette Sylvester Sullivan

Lafayette Sylvester Sullivan. - A strong and noble character was that of him to whom this memoir is dedicated, and who exerted an emphatic influence in connection with industrial and civic affairs in the course of his significantly useful career as one of the honored citizens of Lucas county. A native-born son of the county, he gained success through his individual application and ability, the while he ever stood exemplar of that integrity of purpose which figures as the plumb of character and makes for objective valuation in connection with the varied affairs of life. Mr. Sullivan was born in Holland, Lucas county, Ohio, May 16, 1858, and was a son of Dennis and Hannah Divine (Ruynions) Sullivan, who were, so far as data at hand determine, natives, respectively, of Canada and the state of Pennsylvania, the for¬ mer born in 1825 and the latter Oct. 2 of the same year. Dennis Sullivan was a ship carpenter by trade, and before coming to Lucas county was located at Prescott, in the province of Ontario, Canada. Upon his removal to Lucas county he located at Hol¬ land, where he continued to reside until 1863, when he took up his residence in the city of Toledo, where he and his good wife maintained their home until death removed them from the scene of life's activities. His good wife died Jan. 8, 1876, and he passed away Jan. 17, 1880. They became the parents of five children, of whom only two are living, Nathaniel and Henry, who are con¬ nected with the river traffic in Toledo. Lafayette S. Sullivan, who is the subject of this memoir, gained his early educational discipline in the public schools of Toledo, the one he attended being known as the Bush Street School, located at the corner of Bush and Ontario streets. Later he attended the Jordan Business College, but, being largely dependent upon his own resources, he gave up his studies at an early age and started upon his inde¬ pendent career. Upon leaving school he first entered the Blade office, as a messenger and errand boy in the mail and editorial rooms, and this may be said to have been the beginning of an industrious and eminently successful period of business activity on his part. In 1870, at the tender age of twelve years, he shipped on a scow with his father, who at that time was engaged in the sand trade between Amherstburg, Canada, and Toledo, and he spent about two years in that kind of employment. In the spring of 1872 he entered the employ of John Stevens & Co., in the ship brokerage and vessel agency business, as errand boy, and so faith¬ ful was he in the performance of the duties assigned him that he eventually became bookkeeper for the concern and remained in the employ of the company for a period of nine years. The office of the company was located on Water street, in Toledo, and the nine years of Mr. Sullivan's employment was during the period when the business of grain shipping was at its height and was being conducted on a large scale. It was while thus employed that he gained a thorough knowledge of the shipping and vessel agency business. He was frugal and economical in his habits, and out of his wages for these nine years of employment he saved enough to enable him to engage in business for himself. In 1881 he established a ship brokerage business on his own account, and soon thereafter purchased an interest in the steam yacht ''Sally/' which was used as a ferry boat, and this, together with his tug business, was his first independent venture. In the tug business he gradually branched out until he had acquired an interest in the "William E. Rooney," the "Syracuse" and the "Roy," the last named of which was crushed by ice on Lake Erie, off the city of Monroe, Mich., Dec. 16, 1895. Later he acquired an interest in the "Doan," the "Birckhead," the "A. Andrews, Jr.," the "Ameri¬ can Eagle," and also the powerful tug "S. C. Schenck," a noted ice-breaker and one of the best tug boats that ever floated on Lake Erie and the Maumee river. Mr. Sullivan also owned inter¬ ests in other steamboats and schooners, such as the "David W. Rust," the "C. C. Barnes," the "John Schuette," the "Chicago Board of Trade" and the "H. H. Badger." He lost the "Pulaski" off Good Harbor, on Lake Michigan, in 1888. In 1882 he suc¬ ceeded to the management of the Toledo Harbor Tug Line, on the retirement of M. T. Huntley. This tug line was established in 1870, and in 1882, when Mr. Sullivan succeeded to the man¬ agement, it was composed of his own and outside tugs. He con¬ tinued as manager of the line until 1903, at which time he grad¬ ually began to dispose of his tugs and tug line interests. In the last named year he became the local manager of the Great Lakes Towing Company, a large corporation of Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to his interests in this connection he became a stock¬ holder in and promoter of the Vulcan Iron Works, now known as the Vulcan Steam Shovel Company, and he was a member of its board of directors for several years, finally selling his stock in the concern. He then purchased an interest in the Home Tele¬ phone Company, but later disposed of his holdings therein and again invested in the vessel business, each of these financial trans¬ actions having been profitable to him. He also became interested to a considerable extent in steel boats, being a stockholder in both the Adams and Monroe transportation companies, each having vessels plying the Great Lakes in the ore and coal trade. In 1906 he became interested in the Toledo Steamship Company, a new company, which built the steamer "Eugene Zimmerman" and was engaged in the ore and coal trade on the Great Lakes. Of this company he became the general manager and remained in that position until the time of his death. For many years he was the only vessel broker in Toledo, and he was well known on the Great Lakes in that capacity. In 1902 he was instrumental in getting the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company to purchase land in and adjacent to Toledo, with the end in view of having a manufacturing plant estab¬ lished here. The property is still owned by the company, and con¬ sists of several hundred acres, located on the Maumee river, below the city. As yet it has not been utilized for the purpose intended. Mr. Sullivan was a member of the board of directors of the Lum¬ ber Carriers' Association of the Great Lakes at the time of his death, and he also was a member of the Lake Carriers' Associa¬ tion. In 1896 he served as vice-president of the last named organ¬ ization and filled the same position at various other times. At the time of his death he was second vice-president of the Dime Savings Bank at Toledo. He was a man of broad mental ken, a citizen of utmost loyalty and public spirit, and his fraternal nature found expression in a valued membership in the Masonic order. He was a member of Rubicon Lodge, No. 237, Free and Accepted Masons; Ft. Meigs Chapter, No. 29, Royal Arch Masons; Toledo Council, No. 33, Royal and Select Masons; Toledo Commandery, No. 7, Knights Templars, and of Zenobia Temple, Ancient Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He never entered the arena of practical politics, though he took an intelligent interest in all pub¬ lic affairs, and in religious matters he was for years an earnest supporter of the First Baptist Church of Toledo, but in the later years of his life he also gave his support to other denominations as well. He took a commendable interest in all that tends to conserve the general welfare of the community, and his influence was ever given in support of worthy causes and enterprises. As a boy he was true and faithful to every trust and early exhibited those sterling characteristics that were so conspicuous in his after life - honesty, fine business ability and determination. Of a homeloving disposition, fond of children, his presence in the family circle was as a ray of sunshine to the members of his household. He enjoyed traveling very much, but the incessant demands of his varied business interests denied him much of that pleasure; and his untimely death, which occurred at his home in Toledo, April 19, 1909, brought to a close a life of marked industry and application. Mr. Sullivan was twice married. On Jan. 31, 1883, he was wedded to Miss Alice Pallister, daughter of William and Hannah (Porrett) Pallister, of Detroit. These parents were natives of England, who came direct to their Michigan home from the land of their nativity. The father was a sailor in his early life, but some time after locating at Detroit he purchased a farm near that city and spent the greater portion of his remaining years of activity in agricultural pursuits. He is now living at Big Beaver, Oakland county, Michigan, at the advanced age of eighty-four years, his helpmate and companion having died in August, 1901. Mrs. Alice (Pallister) Sullivan was born April 28, 1863, at Springfield, Mich., near Detroit, and died in Toledo, Feb. 2, 1901. Of her union with Mr. Sullivan there were born five children, of whom the following mention is appropriately made in this con¬ nection : LaFayette W., born July 14, 1886, is the successor of his father in business, with offices in the Neptune Building, on Water street, Toledo. Of the others, May Hannah was born Dec. 15, 1888; Alma Ruth, Oct. 25, 1892; Alice Pallister, April 29, 1898, and Martha, Jan. 18, 1901. On Dec. 31, 1908, Mr. Sulli¬ van was married to Mrs. Emma Remsberg, of Toledo, but a native of Swanton, Ohio, and the widow and children maintain the home at 1524 Huron street, Toledo, where the husband and father had resided for a period of thirty-five years, surrounded by a circle of loyal friends. Of him to whom this tribute is dedicated it may be said that he knew well the springs of human motive, so that he was kindly and tolerant in his judgment and ever ready to lend a helping hand to those "in any way afflicted in mind, body or estate/' His upright life, careful judgment and generous attributes made his name a synonym for character and worth.

Elias Fassett

Elias Fassett, a resident of Toledo for nearly three-quarters of a century, and for the greater part of that time closely identi¬ fied with the city's growth and development, was a native of the Green Mountain State, having been born at Cambridge, Vt., Jan. 15, 1827, the youngest of three children born to John and Martha (Thomas) Fassett. His ancestors came from Scotland and settled in Massachusetts in 1715, some of them later removing to Ver¬ mont. His great-grandfather lived at Bennington, Vt., and was a soldier in the French and Indian war. His grandfather was a captain under Gen. Richard Montgomery in the Revolution, and for his services in that historic conflict Congress granted him the entire township of Cambridge, in the state of Vermont. After the government of the United States was established he became associate judge of the Vermont Supreme Court, an office he filled with signal ability. John Fassett, the father of Elias, was born at Bennington, Vt., Dec. 17, 1769, but removed with his parents to Cambridge after the Revolution. He studied medicine, prac¬ ticed in Cambridge, served as a surgeon in the American army in the War of 1812, and in 1832 came to Port Lawrence (now a part of Toledo), where he bought a section of land on the East Side, now known as Fassett's first and second additions to the city of Toledo. He did not locate upon this land, however, until 1837, living meantime on Locust street, where the Westminster Presbyterian Church now stands. Elias lived with his parents until he was seventeen years of age, attending the district schools about three months every winter during his early boyhood, and finishing his education in a select school on Lagrange street, in 1836. To him belongs the distinction of having been the first newsboy in Toledo. On Oct. 16, 1834, James Irving Browne began the publication of the Toledo Gazette, which was printed on an old Franklin hand press, and Mr. Fassett, then in the eighth year of his age, was employed to deliver twenty-seven copies in the district bounded by Elm, Cherry and Huron streets and the Maumee river, receiving for his services the munificent sum of twenty-five cents a week. He began his business career as a clerk in the dry-goods store of Raymond & Fassett, an elder brother being one of the firm, but after three years in this position he returned to his father's farm, on the East Side, and remained there until his father's death, May 26, 1853. The following year he obtained a position as checking clerk in the Toledo office of the Cleveland & Toledo railroad (now a part of the Lake Shore system), where he remained for about a year. For the next five years he was in the employ of the Wabash railroad, in various capacities, and at the end of that time he took up his residence on his father's old farm, where he remained until about three years before his death, when he and his wife went to live with their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Riggs, at 3136 Collingwood avenue. Here Mr. Fassett passed away, Jan. 22, 1906, after an active and useful life of seventy-nine years. His widow is still living, and makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Riggs. On May 7, 1857, Mr. Fassett married Miss Mary Elizabeth Wales, daughter of Philander Wales, one of the pioneer settlers of the lower Maumee valley. Of this union were born three children. John Elias died in infancy, and two daughters are still living, viz., Mrs. M. J. Riggs and Mrs. C. C. Oswald, both residing on Collingwood avenue. When Mr. Fassett's father first located on the East Side there were but twenty-eight white families living in that section. There was an Indian village at Presque Isle, and between that point and Waterville there were some 2,500 Indians. Mr. Fassett lived to see the red men all removed to lands in the West and their places filled by an intelligent and energetic white population, of which he was a component part. In his later years he was fond of relating incidents that occurred during the pioneer days. One of these was his recollections of the first steamboat that ever navigated the Maumee. Upon its arrival at Toledo quite a crowd assembled on the bank to witness the strange sight. Mr. Fassett, then about six years old, accompanied by another boy, went down an Indian path, near where Adams and Summit streets now intersect, to watch the boat. So intent were they in listening to the band of music on the boat that they did not notice a party of Indians coming down the path on horseback. Upon seeing the two boys the Indians gave a yell that started the little fellows up the path at the utmost speed, in search of some place of safety. Not far from where the Trinity Episcopal Church now stands lay the trunk of a large elm tree, which had been uprooted by a storm, and behind this the boys found a hiding place until the Indians had passed. The savages meant no harm to the lads, merely intending to give them a fright, and in this they were emi¬ nently successful. The incident remained fresh in the mind of Mr. Fassett as long as he lived. During his long residence on the East Side, Mr. Fassett was a member of the Memorial Baptist Church, and for many years was active in promoting its good works. Despite the lack of facilities for acquiring an education in his youth, he managed to obtain a fund of information on various subjects through the exercise of his keen intellect and studious turn of mind. He was a man of spotless integrity, pos¬ sessed excellent judgment, was always willing and ready to lend his aid in any movement for the uplifting of the people, and com¬ manded the respect and esteem of all with whom he came in contact, the general expression being that he was an ideal citizen.

Frank Pierce Thomas

Frank Pierce Thomas, deceased, for many years a prominent figure in railroad circles in Toledo, more latterly as assistant trav¬ eling auditor of the Wheeling & Lake Erie road, was born in Cin¬ cinnati, Ohio, Jan. 24, 1853, and was a well known and influential member of the Oratorio Society of Toledo. He was the son of Zalman and Harriet (Valentine) Thomas. The father was a large dealer in lumber in Cincinnati, but later retired and came to Toledo to live, and died there. His wife also passed away while a resident of this city. Two children were born to the parents, of whom the elder was the subject of this sketch. The other is Lyda, the wife of Fred J. Buckwell, of Toledo. Frank Pierce Thomas took ad¬ vantage of all the educational opportunities afforded by the Toledo public schools, and completed the high school course. After his graduation, he accepted a position as bill clerk in the office of the Wabash railroad, under James Ritchie, doing the work acceptably and efficiently for a number of years. When he left the employ of the Wabash road it was to accept a position as bookkeeper for the Wheeling & Lake Erie company. His industry and energy, and his careful, business-like methods, soon won him promotion to the position of head clerk in the local office. Subsequently, he was again honored by the directors of the company with promotion to the position of assistant traveling auditor of the company, and for eight years served as deputy to Samuel Ayres. Believing that his long years of labor entitled him to a respite, he retired from the company's service and lived quietly until the time of his death, which occurred March 27, 1888. The funeral, which was held at his home, brought many sorrowing friends to pay their last re¬ spects to his memory, before all that was mortal of him was interred in Woodlawn cemetery. In politics, Mr. Thomas was a Democrat, but in local affairs he supported the men whom he considered best adapted to the position sought. Mr. Thomas' wife was formerly Miss Anna A. Allen, only daughter of James J. and Susan (Kling)

Allen, of Fort Wayne, Ind. Mr. Allen was a native of the Empire State and a direct descendant of Ethan Allen, famous in the history of this country as the captor of Fort Ticonderoga during the war of the Revolution. James J. Allen was one of the four children born to his parents and the third in order of birth, the others, now all deceased, being George W., a former resident of Rochester, N. Y.; John Frederick, of Louisville, Ky.; and Fannie, who was married and living in Lockwood, Cal., at the time of her death. James J. Allen came west when a young man and settled in Texas, Ohio, where for a number of years he did contracting work and operated a farm within a short distance of the village. His death occurred April 9, 1860. His widow afterward removed to Fort Wayne, Ind., but later came to Toledo, where she lived until death claimed her, July 28, 1898. Both Mr. and Mrs. Allen were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Allen was a Republican in his political views, but never sought any office of public trust. Fraternally, he was allied with the Blue Lodge of the Masonic order. Mrs. Thomas now lives quietly retired at 113 Indiana avenue, Toledo, Ohio.

Elijah Harper Norton

Elijah Harper Norton, deceased, was one of the brave defenders of the flag who, after the Southern uprising had been suppressed and peace restored, demonstrated in the peaceful walks of life that the patriotic and fearless soldier possesses all of the qualifications that make the honest and useful citizen. Mr. Norton was a nativeborn son of Ohio, having first beheld the light of day in the village of Clyde, Sept. 18, 1843. His parents were Washington Adams and Caroline (Harper) Norton, whose marriage took place at Harpersfield, Ashtabula county, Ohio, in October, 1839. The father followed farming at Clyde during the greater part of his active career, but later in life he removed to the city of Cleveland, where he lived in practical retirement until he passed from the scenes of life's activities. And there the mother also passed away. Of their marital union there were born six children, the names of whom in the order of birth are given as follows: Jonathan D., who is a resi¬ dent of Topeka, Kan.; Elijah H. was the second born; John Adams is deceased; Caroline T. is the wife of Robert Waterson, of Cleve¬ land; David Z. also resides in the Forest City; and Frank J. is deceased. Elijah Harper Norton, to whom this memoir is more particularly dedicated, received his education in the public schools of the city of Cleveland, but early began his independent career as an employe of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, accepting a position as clerk in the offices at Cleveland. He was thus employed when the call was made for men to defend the Union against the assaults of an armed insurrection, and at the organization of the Eighty-fourth Ohio infantry he enlisted as a private in Company E. This regiment was organized at Camp Chase, in May and June, 1862, to serve for three months, and on June 11 was ordered to Cumberland, Md., where it was employed in preventing transportation of supplies into the Confederate lines. Mr. Norton served valiantly with that regiment until his term of enlistment had expired, and then with it received an honorable dis- charge from the service. But the great internecine strife was still in progress and to him it seemed that he had not fully discharged the debt that he owed his country; therefore he evidenced a desire for further military service. To that end the colonel of his regi¬ ment, William Lawrence, wrote a letter to Governor Tod, under date of Sept. 4, 1862, from Cumberland, Md., strongly urging the appointment of Mr. Norton to a position in another regiment. Colonel Lawrence wrote as follows: "Corp. Elijah Norton, of Company E, Eighty-fourth regiment, desires a place as adjutant in one of the new Ohio regiments. He is a young man of excellent morals and habits, energetic, of decided military taste, and one of the best drilled men in his company. He is, in my opinion, com¬ petent for the place and worthy of it. I recommend him accord¬ ingly. His mother, as I understand, is a widow in Cleveland, with three young children to support, and is a most estimable lady. He was for a considerable time employed in a railroad office and is regarded by me and his captain as one of the most meritorious young men in his company. I hope he may succeed." Although Mr. Norton's aspirations were not realized in this particular, his military ardor was not dampened, and soon thereafter he joined, as a private, Company C of the Ohio National Guard. After the war was over, and the need for his services in a military capacity was no longer urgent, he came to Toledo and again entered the employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, ac¬ cepting employment in the freight offices. He later was promoted to ticket agent in the Union station at Toledo, and he served in this capacity until 1868, when he severed his connection with the rail¬ way business. He then became identified with banking pursuits, his first position in that connection being teller of the First Na¬ tional Bank of Toledo, in which position he served until 1871. He then became a member of the banking firm of Keeler, Holcomb & Company and remained so associated until the time of his death, Sept. 15, 1886. Aside from his banking interests, Mr. Norton was also connected with other business enterprises, among which was the Lenk Wine Company, in which he served as a member of the board of directors. In politics, he gave an unswerving allegiance to the men and measures of the Republican party, and, although he never essayed the role of an office-seeker, he served two terms as a member of the Board of Education, and was also for a time a trustee of the Toledo Public Library. His religious views were, as are those of his widow, expressed by an attendance at the First Congregational Church of Toledo, and he kept alive the memory of war times by association with his comrades in Toledo Post, No. 107, Grand Army of the Republic. In Masonic circles he was especially prominent, having taken the Thirty-second degree of that ancient order, and in 1879 he was the Grand Master of the State of Ohio. Socially, he was one of the founders and a charter member of both the Middle Bass and Toledo clubs, and his identi¬ fication as a member with any organization was always gladly wel¬ comed by his associates. On Aug. 18, 1869, Mr. Norton was mar¬ ried to Miss Mary A. Evans, daughter of John and Rachel (Evans) Evans, prominent citizens of Troy, N. Y., and of this union there were born three children: Richard Evans, of Ardmore, Pa., and Julia Page and Harold Harper, both of whom reside at home with their mother. The father of Mrs. Norton was a native of Scotland and her mother was born in Troy, N. Y.

Lincoln J. Hays. - A life of signal usefulness and honor was that of the subject of this memoir, who for twenty-five years was one of the leading grocers of the city of Toledo, to which place he came in his youth, and it was his to aid materially in the develop¬ ment and progress of the business interests of the city in which he elected to continue his residence until the time of his death, which occurred March 7, 1909. He was not only successful in the sense in which the world commonly views success, but was also able to attain to that greater reward which comes in the respect and con¬ fidence given to one whose life was ordered upon a lofty plane of integrity and honor. Lincoln J. Hays was born at Commerce, Oakland county, Michigan, June 14, 1864, and was reared to ma¬ turity in his native county, availing himself of the advantages of the Pontiac public schools. Throughout life he continued to be a dis¬ criminating reader and student, and he was a man of wide and exact information, a gentleman of culture and exceptionally gracious per¬ sonality. In 1881, he came to Toledo and formed an association with his brother-in-law, Alex Weber, and together they engaged in the grocery business, which partnership continued for several years. Later, he started in business alone, establishing himself at 509-511 Adams street, where he continued until the time of his death. He was a man of signal business ability and this was conjoined to energy and progressiveness in such a way as to gain to him definite success in the line of enterprise represented in his mercantile operations. He was one of the organizers of the Grocers' and Butchers' Association, and for a time served as its president. He was a Republican in politics, early aligning himself in the ranks of that party, and he ever afterward continued a staunch and intelli¬ gent supporter of its principles and policies. He was a man of broad mental grasp and took much interest in the issues and ques¬ tions of the hour, as well as in local affairs of a public nature, though he never consented to become a candidate for public office.

He was a Mason of high degree, having membership in Rubicon Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Fort Meigs Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Toledo Commandery, Knights Templars, and in the Scottish Rite body, Thirty-second degree. He was also affiliated with the Royal Arcanum and with Cherry Council of the National Union. On Nov. 26, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hays to Miss Rose O'Farrell, of Toledo, and of this union there were born two children - Clarence and Mabel.

John Hardy Doyle

John Hardy Doyle was born at Monday Creek township, Perry county, Ohio, April 23, 1844. His father and mother were married in Providence township, Lucas county, Ohio, in 1834, and were among the earliest settlers of the Maumee valley. After a residence of nine years in that valley they moved to Perry county, Ohio, where the subject of this sketch was born. In 1849 the family moved back to Lucas county and settled at Toledo, where they have since resided, recognized as one of the oldest and best families there. The parents trace their descent from the Irish heads of the family in the old country. The subject of our sketch was educated in the public schools of Toledo and at Dennison Uni¬ versity, Granville, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar on his twentyfirst birthday, and at once was admitted as a partner with Edward Bissell, his preceptor. That Mr. Doyle was a successful lawyer is shown by the fact that in 1879, at the early age of thirty-five, he was recommended by the unanimous vote of the Republican members of the bar of Lucas county for nomination as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, was unanimously nominated by the Judicial Con¬ vention and elected by the people, overcoming an adverse majority for the balance of the ticket of over 800. He held this office until 1883, when he was chosen as Judge of the Supreme Court of the state. After concluding his term as Supreme Court Judge he returned to Toledo and resumed the practice of the law, and is now engaged in the practice under the firm name of Doyle & Lewis. Judge Doyle is a member of the Ohio Society of New York, the Lawyers' Club, also of the Union Club of Cleveland, Ohio, the Toledo Club, the Business Men's Club, and the Country Club of Toledo, Ohio. On Oct. 6, 1868, he was married to Alice Fuller Skinner, a descendant of Gov. Roger Wolcott, of Connecticut, and Oliver Wolcott, one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde¬ pendence, and of this union are three beautiful daughters - Eliza¬ beth D. Scott, Grace D. Graves and Helen Genevieve Pratt (these being their after-marriage names). Mr. Doyle is a Republican in politics and was twice offered the federal judgeship of the Northern District of Ohio, but declined the appointment each time, an honor" which comes to very few citizens of any State in the Union. In religion he is a Congregationalism a member of the First Congrega¬ tional Church of Toledo for over forty years. He has always de¬ clined to run for public office, except the judgeships above men¬ tioned, although frequently urged to accept nominations for im¬ portant offices. In vigorous health, he is in full practice, a member of one of the leading firms in the State.

Daniel Dunscomb

Daniel Dunscomb, deceased, who for nearly thirty years was an active business man of Toledo, was born in Nuremberg, Ger¬ many, March 5, 1850. His paternal grandparents were English, his grandfather being the owner of many vessels, and at one time served as governor of Newfoundland. Edward Dunscomb, the father of Daniel, graduated at Columbia College and afterward studied medicine. He then went to Bermuda, where he was mar¬ ried. He afterward returned to New York, where he engaged in business as an importer of tea, sugar and molasses. Some years later he took his family to Germany, and while there, in the city of Nuremberg, the son Daniel was born, and there also the mother died. The subject of this memoir was the youngest of seven chil¬ dren - four boys and three girls - five of whom are now living, as follows: Mary is now Mrs. Ibbotson and resides at Richfield Springs, N. Y.; Frances is Mrs. Darling, of New York City; Kath¬ arine is Mrs. Colt, who also resides in New York City; John is a resident of the same metropolis, and Edward is a physician, engaged in the practice of his profession at Midas, Nev. After completing his education, Daniel Dunscomb began his independent career as a traveling representative for the Sawyer Blueing Company, of New York City, in which capacity he remained for about six years. He then embarked in business for himself, under the firm name of Dunscomb, Sheldon & Company, at New York City, where the members of the firm engaged as wholesalers of blueing and woodenware. This association continued until 1880, when Mr. Dunscomb came to Toledo and purchased the establishment of I. N. Poe & Company, dealers in woodenware and willowware, at 28 Summit street. The name of the firm was then changed to Dunscomb, Newell & Company, and that arrangement continued until 1884, when Mr. Dunscomb purchased the interest of Mr. Newell in the business, and the firm name became Dunscomb & Company, the establishment being removed to 516 Summit street. The line car- ried by the firm included toys and woodenware, but in 1890, the woodenware and willowware lines were dropped and Mr. Duns¬ comb then engaged extensively in sporting goods, stationery, and holiday novelties, and at about the same time he removed the establishment to 414-416-418 Summit street. On March 1, 1909, he sold the concern to Brown, Eager, Hull & Company, and retired from that line of business. His disposition was energetic, and in all the business he engaged in he was active and of the hustling class. In 1892, he became connected with the Toledo Baby Carriage Com¬ pany, and for three years was identified with its successful man¬ agement. His death occurred July 30, 1909. While never a mem¬ ber of any religious denomination, his attendance at the Presby¬ terian church was regular and he contributed to the support of all Christian causes. Politically, he was an ardent Republican, but he never held, nor aspired to hold, any public office - his time being taken up with his business interests - though he took a great in¬ terest in the public welfare. Mr. Dunscomb was married twice - first, on May 5, 1890, to Miss Mary T. Lamb, daughter of John and Josephine (Girard) Lamb, of Toledo, though originally natives of Belgium. The first wife died, Sept. 6, 1907, and the second mar¬ riage, which occurred May 14, 1908, was to Miss Madalene A. Lamb, daughter of John and Margaret (Arnold) Lamb, who reside near the city of Defiance, in Paulding county, Ohio, where the father is engaged in the line of agriculture. Of this union there was born a daughter, Mary Lamb Dunscomb, born Feb. 3, 1909. The widow and child reside in the Dunscomb Apartments, at 713 Supe¬ rior street, Toledo.

George W. Bills

George W. Bills, deceased, was one of Toledo's sturdy land¬ marks, who watched the city grow from a small village to quite pretentious proportions. He was born at Monroeville, Ohio, April 7, 1830. Deprived of both parents in early youth, he decided to be¬ come a sailor, and he followed that occupation continuously until the breaking out of the Civil war, when he enlisted in Battery G of the First Ohio light artillery, with which he served three years and six months. Battery G was mustered into service, Dec. 17, 1861, and soon thereafter became a part of the forces in Tennessee. It was the only volunteer battery of Buell's army engaged in the battle of Shiloh, and the official records of commanding officers show that it did good service. It served with General Crittenden's division through the siege of Corinth, at which time it was ordered into the artillery reserve and moved for Athens, Ala. In Sep¬ tember, it reported to General Negley, commanding the Eighth division of the Army of the Cumberland, and moved into camp on the Franklin pike, two miles from the city, taking part during the blockade. It took part in the engagement at Stone's River; was active in skirmishing while lying at Murfreesboro and on the march to Tullahoma; took part in the engagement at Dug Gap, where it covered the rear in retiring. It was also engaged at Chickamauga, whence it fell back with the army to Chattanooga, taking position on the Rossville road, where it was continually under fire until after the battle of Missionary Ridge. In October, 1864, it received orders to report to the chief of artillery of the Fourth corps, at Pulaski, Tenn., where for some two weeks it was employed in build¬ ing fortifications. It checked Hood's advance into Franklin, cov¬ ered the retreat of the Federal column moving out, and reached Nashville on the night of Dec. 1, the loss of the battery, in killed and wounded, at the battle of Franklin, being twenty-three. It also took part in the battle of Nashville. By his bravery and effi- ciency, Mr. Bills rose to the command of the battery. He was pro¬ moted from sergeant to second lieutenant, Nov. 2, 1862, and to first lieutenant, May 21, 1863, for brave and meritorious service. He was seriously wounded at Murfreesboro, Tenn., in the right side of the neck, and although the wound was a painful one, he refused to go to the hospital. He was constantly with his command, par¬ ticipated in all of its service as already outlined, and achieved an enviable record for bravery in action and soldierly bearing at all times, whether in camp, on the march, or on the field of battle. He re-enlisted with his battery, as a veteran, Jan. 4, 1864, and was mustered into the service as senior first lieutenant. At the battle of Franklin he was in command of the battery, and he fought his guns with a courage and persistent tenacity never excelled in battle. With shot and shell, at close range, dragging his guns back with prolongs (ropes), he battered and held back the lines of the enemy until Major-General Schofield, the Union commander, could place his men in position to meet and repulse the Confederate charge. Several years after the battle, General Schofield, in a public address descriptive of the battle, declared that he owed, in large measure, his success in meeting and repulsing Hood's veterans at Franklin to the gallantry and heroic courage of George W. Bills and his men. At the close of the war, Captain Bills came to Toledo and engaged in the mercantile business, in which he remained for some years. Later, he inaugurated a bill-posting agency, which grew to be a very sucessful enterprise, and he also became connected with the Wheeler Opera House, finally becoming the manager of Toledo's first playhouse of importance. He was intimately acquainted with Edwin Booth, Edwin Forrest, Mrs. Bowers, Joseph Jefferson, and other actors and actresses of note, and he remained connected with the theatre business for a period of thirty years. Captain Bills was entirely dependent upon his own resources for the definite success he achieved in life, having had no assistance except that of his helpful wife. He ever commanded the respect of all who knew him and lived up to the full powers of his accomplishment, making his life count for good in all its relations. He took the interest of a good citizen in questions of a public nature and served for a time as a member of the board of aldermen of Toledo. He was an appreciative and valued member of the Grand Army of the Republic, having been one of the charter members of Forsyth Post No. 15, and he also had membership in the Knights of Honor. His early experience as a sailor inculcated in him a love for the water, and he took great interest in the yachting sport, and he was the founder of the Ohio Yacht Club. On Jan. 31, 1852, at Newburg, Ohio, Mr. Bills was married to Miss Mary Ann Wilson, and this happy union extended over a period of fifty-three years. In 1902 was celebrated the golden anniversary of this wedding, upon which occa¬ sion the honored couple were signally honored by the attend¬ ance of a large number of their friends and well-wishers. Three daughters were born of this union, two - Amabell and Ella Isadore - being deceased, and the surviving daughter is Mrs. Adelaide Brooks, of Portsmouth, Ohio. Captain Bills died Dec. 12, 1905.

Frank Huber

Frank Huber, late of Toledo, where for thirty-four years he was actively engaged in the introduction and sale of native wines, was a product of Germany and her institutions, his birth having occurred in Warburg, Prussia, Jan. 14, 1844. The parents, Adolph and Regina (Gerling) Huber, were also natives of Prussia, and the father was for many years actively identified with the brewing busi¬ ness, in which he was engaged at the time of his death. His good wife departed this life in 1888. They were the parents of five chil¬ dren: Elizabeth, who became the wife of Casper Burman, of Cassel, Germany, and is now deceased; William, who distinguished himself in the Franco-Prussian war, and was honored with the cross of the Legion of Honor for his bravery throughout that war, was formerly a resident of Zeitz, Prussia, and is also deceased; Helena, who is the wife of a Mr. Batsche, of Paderborn, Prussia; Marie, deceased, formerly the wife of Peter Steines, of Hamburg, Germany; and Frank, to whom this memoir is dedicated. The last named acquired his educational training in the excellent public school system of his native land, and when twenty years of age immigrated to the United States, locating first in St. Louis, Mo., where he remained but a few months, and then removed to Toledo, where he maintained his residence the remainder of his life. He began his long and highly successful business career in Toledo by embarking in the wine business with Carl Lenk, with whom he was associated for twenty years, after which he became associated with A. Wehrle & Sons, who were engaged in the same line of busi¬ ness at Middle Bass Island, Ohio. This relationship was continued until the death of Mr. Huber, which occurred the day after Christ¬ mas, 1898, at the zenith of his success, and at a time when the pros¬ pects for still greater success and prestige were most promising He is at rest in beautiful Woodlawn Cemetery. In commercial circles his great value as a citizen and business man were known and appreciated, his abilities were recognized and his gentle¬ manly instincts admired by all with whom he came into con- tact. He was hospitable to an extreme degree, and thoroughly enjoyed the companionship of friends; and though death claimed him in the prime of life, it is a matter of some satisfaction to reflect that he left to posterity a record of good accomplished in which others were benefited even more than he himself. He was very fond of his home life, and cared little for lodges and clubs and other attractions outside of his family. In the matter of politics he was actuated by a desire to promote the public weal, and, though an adherent of the Republican party when national issues were at stake, in local elections he cast his ballot for the candidate whom his best judgment led him to believe was the best qualified for the office he sought. Consequently, in municipal and other local affairs he was not wedded to party idols and controlled by party affiliations, but exercised his elective franchise as a free man should - candidly, fearlessly and independently. He was for many years an honored member of Rubicon Lodge, Free & Accepted Masons. On Dec. 23, 1866, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Huber to Miss Mary Huber, daughter of Carl and Mary (Liickenhoff) Huber, of Jefferson City, Mo., and of this union were born five children: Jennie R., who lives with her mother at the old home; Mary, the wife of Arthur W. Kortheuer, of Toledo; Frank C., now a resident of Milwaukee, Wis.; and Elsa and Irma, deceased. Mrs. Pluber's parents were both natives of Prussia, and her father came to America in 1834, locating in Jefferson City, Mo., where he was actively engaged in the mercantile business up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1854, in the prime of life, his good wife passing to the Great Beyond two years later. The union of the parents was blessed by the birth of five children: Joseph, born Aug. 16, 1841, died in the Civil war in 1864; William, born May 8, 1844, is a large ranch owner and a resident in the vicinity of Jeffer¬ son City; Mrs. Huber, born Oct. 27, 1847, is the third in order of birth; Adolph, born Aug. 6, 1848, passed away in October, 1867; Regina, born March 27, 1850, is now the wife of G. A. Mueller, of Springfield, Ill., a wholesale dealer in wines and liquors. Shortly after the death of her husband, Mrs. Huber erected the Irma Huber apartments on Jefferson avenue, which were named in honor of her youngest daughter, and in which she now resides.

Henry Waite Bigelow

Henry Waite Bigelow was born at Colchester, Conn., Feb. 1, 1838, and passed away at his home in Toledo March 12, 1895, at the age of fifty-seven years. His ancestors were among the earliest settlers of New England, the first American progenitor coming from England early in the Seventeenth century. The family has given to Connecticut some of its most distinguished citizens. The paternal grandfather of Henry W. Bigelow served during the Revo¬ lutionary war as a clerk to the commissary-general, and Col. Guy Bigelow, born in 1785, and who was the father of Henry W., was a prominent officer of the state militia of Connecticut. He was a farmer by occupation and continued to reside at Colchester until his death. He was also an active member of the Masonic order. His wife, the mother of Henry W. Bigelow, and whose maiden name was Sarah A. Waite, was of a family especially distinguished in judicial affairs. Chief Justice Henry M. Waite, of the Connecti¬ cut Supreme Court, and who was the father of Chief Justice Mor¬ rison R. Waite, of the United States Supreme Court, was her brother. The boyhood of Henry W. Bigelow was not essentially different from that of the average New England farmer's son. He was educated at Bacon Academy, Colchester. At the age of six¬ teen he entered the store of Col. D. R. Noyes, at Lyme, Conn., as clerk, and remained there two years. In 1856 he came to Toledo and engaged in a like capacity in the wholesale grocery establish¬ ment of Secor, Berdan & Co. He remained with that firm until the first year of the Civil war, when, on Aug. 15, 1861, he enlisted for three years in the Fourteenth Ohio infantry and was with that regiment throughout its notable career - at Wild Cat, Chickamauga, the Atlanta campaign and the "march to the sea." In March, 1862, he was promoted from first sergeant in Company C to second lieu¬ tenant in Company I; in October, 1863, he was advanced to first lieutenant, and in December, 1864, to a captaincy. At the battle of Chickamauga he was seriously wounded in the thigh and, being in- capacitated for service, was granted a furlough, but rejoined his command at Chattanooga, Dec. 30, 1863. From that time until May, 1864, he served on court martial duty. Preceding the battle of Jonesboro he stood fourteenth in rank in his regiment. Two days thereafter, as a result of the loss of officers in that engagement and the muster of non-veteran organizations, he became second in rank, and thenceforward he acted as major, serving in that capacity on the "march to the sea" and in the Carolina campaign, and also in the grand review in Washington, in May, 1865. He was in com¬ mand of the regiment during its muster out at Louisville. While in the service Captain Bigelow several times declined staff appoint¬ ments, and throughout his connection with the army he bore the just character of a brave, faithful and useful officer, commanding the confidence and respect alike of superior officers and enlisted men. For six months after being mustered out he was detained in Connecticut by illness contracted in the service. In February, 1866, he returned to Toledo and, in May following, with George Worts, Albert Kirk and Henry S. Waite, organized the firm of Worts & Co., for the manufacture of crackers, at 311 (old number) St. Clair street. From that date until the death of Mr. Waite, in 1873, Captain Bigelow traveled for the house, and then he took charge of its financial affairs. The firm name was soon changed to Worts, Kirk & Bigelow, and to the exceptional success of the establish¬ ment Captain Bigelow largely contributed by his close attention and sound judgment. Captain Bigelow was for many years a mem¬ ber of Forsyth Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He was also a member of Ohio Commandery, Loyal Legion; of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland and of the Fourteenth regiment; and he was an honored member of the Sons of the American Revolution. In the Masonic order for many years he held high positions, join¬ ing Rubicon Lodge, No. 237, in February, 1859, and he afterward received all of the degrees of recognized Masonry, including the Thirty-third (the last) degree. In the days of Minot I. Wilcox's fame as captain of Relief Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, Cap¬ tain Bigelow was one of the most valuable members. It was a crack company and it was a difficult matter to gain membership therein. At the time of his death, Captain Bigelow was a director in the

Merchants & Clerks' bank. Politically, he was a Republican in principle, but directed his actions by considerations of public policy, as these would be suggested to his judgment. Of a retiring disposition, he sought a life of quiet in the same conscientious dis¬ charge of duty as the same was made known to him. He was a genial, kind-hearted gentleman, and in his death the business com¬ munity lost one of its ablest citizens.

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Edward Drummond Libbey

A history of Toledo would be incomplete without a sketch of Edward Drummond Libbey, one of its truly great business men and public-spirited citizens. One of the pioneers in the business world, he has helped make Toledo one of the important industrial centers of the United States. Through his public spirit he has established in Toledo the greatest art museum now existing in any American city of its size, making Toledo one of the great art centers of the United States. His career has been a constant and steadying influence in Toledo business and civic and artistic life for more than a third of a century. Primarily his name is associated with glass manufacture, particularly cut glass. Two generations of the family have been identified with the development of this industry.

It is said that the story of cut glass in the United States began with Deming Jarvis, the pioneer glass manufacturer of New England. Deming Jarvis was senior member of Jarvis & Commeraise, glass importers and manufacturers, with a factory located in South Boston. In 1850 this firm took into its employ as confidential clerk William L. Libbey. The latter was born in 1827 and died in 1883, a son of Israel and Mary Libbey. He remained with the firm of Jarvis & Commeraise only five years, or until 1855, when Mr. Jarvis sold the plant to the former clerk, and it was successfully conducted for ten years by William L. Libbey. At the end of that time he concentrated all of his attention upon the manufacture of glassware. A successful business was built up, but he sold in 1870 and took the position of general manager of the New England Glass Company at East Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1880 he bought the entire business and at that time took in his son Edward as a partner.

Edward Drummond Libbey was born at Chelsea, Massachusetts, April 17, 1854, a son of William L. and Julia M. (Miller) Libbey. He acquired his early education in the public schools of Boston and later attended lectures at Boston University. In 1874, at the age of twenty, he was given an interest in his father's glass business. It was by a most strenuous apprenticeship that he was fitted for executive responsibility. He performed the most trivial of office duties and filled nearly all the clerical positions in order to learn every detail. On the death of his father in 1883 he succeeded as sole proprietor of the business and it went forward in the same successful manner under his leadership.

It was the discovery of natural gas in northwestern Ohio, and eoreeqilent cheap fuel to manufacturers, that brought Mr. Libbey to Toledo. He moved his business to the city in 1888 and incorporated it as The Libbey Glass Company. This is now one of Toledo's most noted industries. This city has the largest cut glass factory in the world in the Libbey Glass Manufacturing Company, and for this distinction the city and its citizens are indebted to the enterprise of Mr. Libbey, who was the pioneer in this special industry. Under normal business conditions the company employs several hundred men. No other nation has excelled America in the cutting of glass into intricate and beautiful designs, and among cut glass manufacturers the Libbey Glass Manufacturing Company stands deservedly at the head. It is a business with a great record of success and of progressive ideals, and the

At the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 the Libbey Glass Company erected at a cost of more than one hundred thousand dollars a beautiful building in which the art of making and cutting glass was carried on in all its branches. That beautiful and practical exhibition probably did more than anything else to familiarize the world with this art and secure its just appreciation. What the Libbey company did then was the culminating effort of almost a century of steady progress in glass cutting, but the progress has continued uninterruptedly throughout the subsequent thirty years. Again, at the World's Fair in St. Louis, more than ten years later, the Libbey cut glass was prominent as an attraction and as a sharer in the awards.

Mr. Libbey became president of the Libbey Glass Company at the time of its incorporation and served as its chief executive officer until a few years ago, when the Libbey Glass Manufacturing Company succeeded to the name. A number of years ago he turned his attention to a problem and in helping forward its solution has practically revolutionized glass manufacture. This has been brought about by the manufacture of automatic machinery for the making of glassware, particularly the ware which must be "blown," and that for generations the only method was the old hand and lung practice. Mr. Libbey has done much to introduce to the trade the Owens machine, which blows glass automatically. He is president of the Toledo Glass Company, a corporation established by him in 1894, and in 1903 he organized the Owens Bottle Machine Company, an Ohio corporation. This company secured an exclusive license from the Toledo Glass Company for the United States for the manufacture of machines and machine-made bottles. Since then the company has introduced the bottle machines into many of the largest plants in the United States. The Owens machine has been one of America's most wonderful inventions and in its success has almost rivaled Standard Oil in the returns to the original investors.

Until recently Mr. Libbey was president of the Owens European Bottle Machine Company, which was organized in 1905. This company purchased from the Toledo Glass Company all European rights for the Owens Bottle Machine, but a few years ago these rights were sold to a syndicate of European bottle manufacturers. In 1911 Mr. Libbey and his associates began a series of experimentations toward the perfecting of a process of drawing window glass in flat, continuous sheets. The basic idea, conceived by the late Irving W. Colburn, was sold at a receiver's sale and was purchased by the Toledo Glass Company and at great expense was successfully developed, resulting in a machine quite as revolutionary in the manufacture of sheet glass as the bottle machine in its branch of the glass industry. In 1906 the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company was organized and purchased the sheet glass patent from the Toledo Glass Company, and Mr. Colburn was identified with these corporations until his death.

Mr. Libbey is president of the Owens Bottle Company and the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company, all of his various glass companies being leaders in their several fields. With this brief exposition of his business interests and achievements, it remains to state what Mr. Libbey has done for his home city apart from the stimulation and establishment of business and industrial well-being. There is no reason to doubt the assertion that has been made that he has done as much for Toledo as any resident who ever lived here. It is not merely a diversion but a sincere interest which has made him always a lover of art. That interest has taken its chief direction in his benefactions in establishing the Toledo Museum of Art. On May 29, 1909, he and his wife, Florence (Scott) Libbey, conveyed by deed to the trustees of the museum seven lots and all the buildings thereon. This place was the homestead of the late Maurice A. Scott, father of Mrs. Libbey, and situated in the Scottwood addition to the city. The terms of the deed are that the trustees hold the same for fifty years, erect thereon a museum for the advancement and display of works of art, and after the lapse of the stated time the trustees may do with the property as they may desire. In addition to this gift Mr. Libbey has purchased three hundred feet on the west side of the new museum property on Monroe street, thus giving the museum a total frontage on Monroe street of about eight hundred feet and about five hundred feet on Grove place. This acquisition was purchased for the purpose of protecting the museum from any future encroachment on the part of unsympathetic property owners who might erect unsightly buildings close to the beautiful museum structure. The Toledo Museum of Art was incorporated in 1901 and Mr. Libbey has always been the president and greatest patron of the institution. Upon the ground a magnificent structure has been erected through the benefactions of Mr. Libbey and thousands of other Toledo citizens, which is praised by critics everywhere. Mr. and Mrs. Libbey have presented many beautiful paintings and other works of art to the museum. One of the former's recent gifts is a collection of ancient glass, which with previous gifts in the same field makes the Toledo museum glass collection perhaps the foremost in America. In 1916 an endowment fund of six hundred thousand dollars was raised among Toledo citizens for the Museum of Art, even children contributing their pennies, and to this fund Mr. Libbey was the largest donor. He has also promised to almost double the size of the present building. Altogether, his benefactions to this institution will approximate more than one million dollars. He is vice president of the American Federation of Arts, the leading national art organization, and is a member of and a liberal contributor to the Egyptian Exploration Society. On July 26, 1922, Mr. Libbey was signally honored by King Albert of Belgium, who conferred upon him the Belgium Order of the Crown, with rank of commander, in recognition of his great accomplishments. The order is conferred upon those who have distinguished themselves in artistic, literary or scientific work, or in the sphere of commerce or industry. This order has been conferred upon only a few Americans. Mr. Libbey thus receives international honors in recognition of his preeminence in the encouragement of art and in commerce and industry. He has taken a prominent part in the upbuilding of Toledo, particularly with reference to the schools and the development of the civic center and city plan commission. He was elected to the board of education a few years ago by an almost unprecedented vote and to this work he gave his time unstintingly. He was honored with the presidency of the board but declined reelection. The new Edward Drummond Libbey high school in the south end of the city has been named in his honor in recognition of his efforts in behalf of the schools.

A worthy examplar of the Masonic fraternity, Mr. Libbey is a member of Sanford L. Collins Lodge, No. 396, F. & A. M.; Toledo Chapter, No. 161, R. A. M.; and Toledo Commandery, No. 7, K. T. Socially he has membership in the Toledo, Country, Inverness and Carranor Hunt and Polo clubs of Toledo, the Sylvania Golf Club of Sylvania, Ohio, the Metropolitan Club, the Lotus Club, the Salmagundi Club, the National Arts Club and the Bankers Club of New York and the Midwick Country Club of Los Angeles, California. He is also a member of the Institute of Social Sciences of New York. Mr. Libbey's residence is at 2008 Scott- wood avenue. His winter residence is in Ojai, Ventura county, California, where he spends several months. Here as well as in Toledo, in his characteristic manner he has remodeled the little village from the usual unsightly appearance of most of America's villages, into a beautiful little town with Spanish type of architecture, building a civic centre among the beautiful live oaks, a post office and acquiring a large tract of land in the center of the village which he has had improved and dedicated as a public park.

John Wharbauek

John W. Harbauer, deceased, founder of The Harbauer Company and its president from its incorporation in 1904 until his death, which occurred August 18, 1917, was numbered among Toledo's substantial business men and highly respected citizens. He was born in Maumee, Ohio, May 10, 1865, and more than thirty-five years ago came to Toledo, where for a number of years he was connected with the Leroux Cider & Vinegar Company. In 1902, however, he established business on a small scale, his enterprise constituting the origin of The Harbauer Company of today, manufacturers of table condiments. From a humble beginning the business has been steadily: developed until it is today one of the largest concerns of the kind in the country. It was incorporated in 1904 and John W. Harbauer remained its president to the time of his death, which occurred on the 18th of August, 1917. The Harbauer Company manufactures all kinds of tomato products, vinegars, pickles and a large line of table condiments. The sales are confined exclusively to the wholesale grocery and jobbing trade, being made in carload lots. Each year there are more than two thousand acres of tomatoes and fifteen hundred acres of cucumbers purchased by the company to be manufactured into the products which they send out. The Toledo plant and its numerous branches employ from six hundred to eight hundred people during the harvest season and theirs is one of the cleanest, most sanitary and most modern manufacturing plants of any kind to be found in the entire country. The plant seems to be the last word in building and equipment of this character. It is operated throughout the year and during the busy season there are two shifts in each twenty-four hours, while the output is over ten cars of one thousand cases each per day. The factory can turn out two hundred and forty thousand bottles per day, all labeled and packed ready for shipping, and this represents only the bottle ketchup, for great quantities are also put up in glass jugs and cans for hotel and restaurant trade. A notable feature of the plant is the comparatively few employes necessary, for the machinery is operated automatically. There are thirty or forty girls to each bottling line, turning out an average of ninety bottles per minute per line of ketchup ready for the cases. The machines which constitute the equipment of the factory are the first and. only ones of their kind in existence, the work being entirely automatic. Adjoining the Harbauer factory is a prominent glass factory in which are made the great number of bottles used for the packing of ketchup. In the Harbauer factory these bottles are conveyed to the bottling machines, which work on an endless chain or belt plan, and by this the bottles are carried along through a sterilizing process, being washed, cleaned, sterilized and dried, after which they pass through the filler, where they are automatically filled and capped and again washed on the outside, dried and packed. When the label is put on them, one movement of the machine places both label and neck-band uniformly and _perfectly on the bottle, and the whole operation requires an average of less than one second to each bottle. In order to operate the plant continuously there is put up great quantities of tomato puree in five-gallon tin containers. This puree is the product derived exclusively from whole, red, ripe tomatoes. There is a laboratory in which each run of ketchup is tested, and it must come up to a certain standard before it is bottled. Pickles are brought to the factory in great tanks of brine from the numerous pickle stations which the company maintains in Michigan and other points and there is a vast vinegar plant for making pure apple cider vinegar to the extent of thousands of barrels of this commodity a year, while the box-making, packing and shipping facilities constitute a business in themselves. Something of the immense volume of the business is indicated in the fact that the company uses thousands of dollars worth of spices each year from one importer alone, in addition to large sums that are paid to glass, case and can manufacturers. As an illustration not only of the magnitude of its business in one item of raw material but as well the value of the company to Toledo and surrounding country, it dispenses an average of two hundred thousand dollars in a season for tomatoes alone. This money goes to farmers and gardeners within a radius of twenty miles of Toledo. During the World war The Harbauer Company supplied great quantities of its product to the United States government. The success of this industry reflects great credit upon its management from its inception to the present time, and while John W. Harbauer passed away in 1917, the company has kept abreast with the most advanced and progressive methods known to the table condiment industry.

The present officers of The Harbauer Company are Arthur E. Harbauer, who succeeded his father as president and is also treasurer, and Moses Jacobs, who is vice president and secretary. Both of these gentlemen have had long experience in the business. Arthur E. Harbauer entered it after leaving school, while Mr. Jacobs has had a long and important connection with its growth and development. His activities have had to do largely with the sales management and have been no small factor in the company's success.

William Wells Campbell, one of the well known members of the Toledo bar, was born in Sandusky, Ohio, May 29, 1868, a son of William H. and Emmeline (Allen) Campbell. He was reared on a farm and acquired a public school education, afterward taught school for three seasons and then became a student in Oberlir College, which he attended in the years 1891-92-93. He subsequently read. law and was admitted to the bar in 1894. He engaged in the general practice of law at Fremont, Ohio, for a period of seven years and in 1902 he came to Toledo. Here he has since followed his profession with success and his ability has brought him to a creditable position in the ranks of the leading lawyers of the city. He belongs to the Lucas County Bar Association and to the Ohio State Bar Association and his colleagues and contemporaries in the profession entertain for him the highest respect because of his fidelity to the highest ethical standards of the profession. While he was well grounded in the principles of common law when admitted to the bar, he has continued through the whole of his professional life a diligent student of those elementary principles that constitute the basis of all legal science.

On the 24th of December, 1891, Mr. Campbell was married to Miss Mertie M. Laird of Sandusky, Ohio, and they became parents of three children: Claude Allen, who is now secretary of The Ohio Savings Banks & Trust Company of Toledo; Leota M., the wife of Frank A. Sullivan of Toledo; and Dorothy C. Fraternally Mr. Campbell is connected with the Masons and with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.

John Henry Berkebiee

John Henry Berkebile is the president of the J. H. Berkebile Company, general building contractors of Toledo, and has long figured prominently in connection with building operations in this city, as he was formerly president and general manager of the Henry J. Spieker Company. Actuated by a most progressive spirit, he has long since advanced beyond the ranks of the many and stands among the more successful few. A large percentage of the finest buildings of this city are monuments to his skill, enterprise and business ability. Mr. Berkebile was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, May 23, 1867, his parents being David and Sarah (Stutzman) Berkebile, who were also natives of the Keystone state, whence they removed to Delta, Ohio, in 1871. The father engaged in farming two miles west of Delta and spent his remaining days in that section of the state. His widow now resides at Wauseon, Ohio.

In his boyhood days John Henry Berkebile attended the country school near his father's home and also the Delta high school and in 1887 he came to Toledo, where he entered into active connection with Henry J. Spieker in the general contracting business. The company, which started in a small way, grew to be one of the largest general contracting concerns in the state. The company was organized in 1888 and fine buildings of all descriptions in Toledo were erected by it. These include the great administration building of the Willys- Overland Company, one of the finest business structures in the city; the Ohio building, which is the property of the Ohio Savings Bank & Trust Company; the Toledo Museum of Art, which is the most classic structure, the exterior being of white Italian marble and the roof of solid copper; the plant of the Urschel-Bates Valve Bag Company; the office and plant of the Tillotson Carburetor Company; the plant of the Mountain Varnish & Color Company; the entire plant of the Mather Spring Company; the building of the Simmons Hardware Company; the Toledo Public Library; the Toledo Club building; the Toledo Newsboys' Building theatre; the building of the Toledo Owens Glass Sand Company; various hotels, apartment blocks and schools, residences and notable business structures, all of which stand as monuments to the superior skill and ability of the Henry J. Spieker Company, of which Mr. Berkebile was formerly the president and general manager. He is no longer connected with this company but has organized a business of his own, with his sons as partners, under the name of the J. H. Berkebile Company. He occupied the presidency of the former corporation for seven years, from 1914 until 1921, and he is now president of the newly organized company, in which in connection with his sons he is now conducting a general building and contracting business. He is a man of the broadest possible experience and there is perhaps no other resident of Toledo who has been as closely and prominently associated with building operations in this city through the past third of a century or more.

In March, 1892, Mr. Berkebile was united in marriage to Miss Erepta Napier, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orris Napier, and they have become parents of three children: Betty B., born in Toledo in 1892, pursued her early education in the public schools of Toledo, afterward attended Wellesley College of Wellesley, Massachusetts, and took a course in dramatic art in the Leland Powers School of Boston, Massachusetts. She was also a student in Simmons College of Boston and is now a resident of Denver, Colorado; the second of the family, John Clifford Berkebile, was born in Toledo, December 10, 1896, and after attending the high school here continued his education in the Howe Military Schoot. He is now associated in business with his father. He married Gertrude Hughes of Port Clinton, Ohio, and they have become the parents of two children, John Clifford, Jr., and Betty. Orris N. Berkebile, the youngest of the family, was born in Toledo, June 27, 1898, also attended the Scott high school and then entered the University of Pennsylvania, in which he pursued a scientific course, being graduated in 1921. He is also with his father in business. He enlisted in the United States navy at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is now an ensign of the United States Naval Reserve.

Fraternally Mr. Berkebile is a Mason, having taken the degrees of both York and Scottish Rites up to and including the consistory degree, and he is a Shriner. He belongs to the Toledo Chamber of Commerce, to the Merchants & Manufacturers Association and to the Disciples church. His life has ever been characterized by high and honorable principles and actuated by a most commendable purpose. Starting out in life empty-handed, he has steadily worked his way upward. Not only has he been connected with many of the most important building projects of the city but as the architect of his own fortunes he has builded wisely and well. He may truly be called a self-made man, deserving all the praise which the term implies, for it has been through the development of his powers that he has reached the present high position which he occupies in the business circles of his adopted city. His residence is on River road.