Toledo City (part 1 of 21)

Charles Harvey Scribner

Charles Harvey Scribner was born Oct. 20, 1826, near Norwalk, Conn., and is of English descent. During his early childhood his parents moved to Newark, N. J., and in that city he received the rudiments of his education. In 1838 the family removed to the village of Homer, in Licking county, Ohio, where, like most farm¬ ers' boys, he spent his time working on the farm in summer and going to school in winter. For a short time he worked on a news¬ paper for pay so small that a well-regulated boy of this generation would scorn to take it. When eighteen years of age he was apprenticed to learning the trade of saddler and harness maker, but while he worked at learning his trade during the day, earning three dollars a week, at night he put in his time studying law, and in October, 1848, he was admitted to the bar at Mt. Vernon.

In 1850 he entered into a professional partnership with H. B. Curtis, of Mt. Vernon, which continued for nineteen years, when Mr. Scribner removed to Toledo and became associated with the late Frank H. Hurd. Prior to this Mr. Scribner had been elected a member of the Ohio Senate from the district comprising Holmes, Wayne, Knox and Morrow counties, and while there he was chair¬ man of the Judiciary Committee. In the Senate he introduced the Criminal Code prepared by Frank H. Hurd, his predecessor in the Senate, and himself prepared the Municipal Code of the State.

In the spring of 1873 he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention. In the same year he was nominated for Supreme Judge on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated by a small majority.

In November, 1887, Mr. Scribner was elected one of the judges for the Sixth Circuit, in which position he continued until the time of his death, Feb. 23, 1897.

While still practicing at Mt. Vernon, Judge Scribner found time to write a two-volume work on The Law of Dower, which has taken a high rank among the legal text books.

Judge Scribner was married Oct. 20, 1847, to Miss Mary E. Morehouse, of Homer, Ohio, and was the father of four daughters and four sons, the eldest of whom became his business partner, in 1871, and is still a well known member of the Toledo bar.

It is fitting that Judge Scribner's associates and successors at the bar should testify to the high character he displayed in his intercourse with them and acknowledge the value of the tradition which he leaves behind. The innate gentleness of the man, com¬ bined with the impress he received from the unusually able and distinguished lawyers with whom he practiced in the little city of Mt. Vernon, rendered Judge Scribner's manners as a practitioner well nigh ideal. He has been known to say to a young lawyer: "The bar is composed of the best fellows in the world - strain a point to keep their friendship." In the trial of cases he was not only fair and courteous to rival attorneys, but his manners to wit¬ nesses were so far removed as possible from the insulting, intimi¬ dating style which, happily, we may now describe as a remnant of a past age. It was in consequence of this that one of the Com¬ mon Pleas judges was able to say that he did not recollect, during all his career at the bar, hearing a single word against Judge Scribner. The ethics of the profession he held in high esteem. He felt that their observance gave dignity and self-respect to the profession. He once lost an important case by refusing to permit a client to pay a man to tell the truth. In professional work he was extremely painstaking and laborious. The letter-press books of his office tell in this respect a surprising and pathetic story. In 1885 the Common Pleas made a vigorous attempt to dispose of an accumulation of cases, and as a result Judge Scribner, then attor¬ ney for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, was kept in court for several months at a time, trying one case after another. Yet the letter-press reveals the fact that even during this extreme strain Judge Scribner actively oversaw other cases in which his firm was interested, conducted a large correspondence with his own hand, and personally copied his letters - the mute witnesses of his indomitable industry. The lamentable result of all this was a nervous collapse from which he never fully recovered. Judge Scribner, like his illustrious predecessor, Chief Justice Waite, has left the bar a tradition and an influence for courtesy, for honor and for industry whose extent we easily overlook because we are accustomed to it.

The character which Judge Scribner displayed at the bar shone with equal luster on the bench. A former circuit judge, who once sat with Judge Scribner in another circuit, has described the tem¬ per in which Judge Scribner performed his duties. When they took up a batch of cases for decision he said he did not feel well, and asked the presiding judge to give him something easy. "Well," said guess we will all agree on that; the plaintiff's interpretation of the statute will not hold for a moment. Suppose you give the decision in that case." Judge Scribner assented and disappeared. An hour afterward he was found in the midst of a heap of books, laboriously tracing the origin and modifications of a statute through successive legislatures. "Why, Judge," said the president, "I thought you wanted something easy. What are you doing?" Judge Scribner smiled and said, "Well, I felt as if I would like to convince the man that we have got to beat that he was wrong." Regretting, no doubt, that he had to decide against anybody, he was anxious to reconcile the defeated to the result by convincing him of his error.

Judge Scribner's political ideas lent a romantic tinge to his personality. While very little of a partisan in the sense of being always for everybody on his party ticket, his democratic prin¬ ciples were so deep-seated, so ingrained, so much a part of him that it is impossible to overlook this side of his character. Liberal in all things else, on principle he was as firm as a rock. His political

It is pleasing to know that the life of a man so immersed in work, so self-restrained, and to whom so few relaxations came, was exceptionally happy in its domestic relations. Many of us have been witnesses of the extraordinary devotion of which he was at once the recipient and giver. Thus, if our friend's life, on the retrospect, seems a hard and grinding one, we may feel glad that he had the greatest of life's consolation.

After a life of intense and highly intelligent labor Judge Scribner died comparatively poor. He never held high political position, and his fame was circumscribed within comparatively narrow limits, both in time and space. He attained no conspicuous eminence in wealth, fame, or position. Yet must we not feel that his life will leave a larger inheritance than many who reach the highest rounds on the ladder of ambition? Must we not feel that his gentleness, his charity, his character, leave behind a larger immortality than most of the most distinguished careers? We feel, we know that he has attained the poet's aspiration - an immor¬ tality not made up of earthly renown, but living in the lives of other men:

Biographical Jessup Wakeman Scott

Jessup Wakeman Scott was a leading man among the pioneers of Lucas county, and he attained to such prominence that it is fitting that extended mention be made of him in a work intended to record and preserve the names and deeds of those who have achieved distinction in the years that have elapsed since the Mau¬ mee Valley passed through the transition epoch of red-man to pale-face domination. He was born at Ridgefield, Conn., Feb. 25, 1799, and died in Toledo, Jan. 22, 1874. His ancestors were of the old New Haven Colony stock. The literary bent of his mind was developed at an early age, he having with the advantages of the dis¬ trict schools of that date qualified himself at the early age of six¬ teen years to become a school teacher, commencing in Connecticut, and pursuing the profession in New Jersey, Georgia, and South Carolina, and meeting with success. At the age of eighteen he studied medicine, and a few years subsequently changed that pro¬ fession for the law, and was admitted to the bars of Georgia and South Carolina in 1822. Although devoting several years to the practice, it seems never to have proved fully adapted to his peculiar tastes and habits, and he soon turned his attention to the more con¬ genial pursuits of literature. While in the practice of the law he was the partner of Chief Justice O'Neal, subsequently a very prominent jurist of South Carolina. He was at one time a teacher in the State Female College at Columbia, S. C. The political ques¬ tions peculiar to that State becoming exciting and the lines between the State's Rights and National parties sharply drawn, Mr. Scott, as a Northern man and an Anti-Nullifier, soon found himself unpleasantly situated, and in 1830 he came North. Having in May, 1824, married Miss Susan Wakeman, daughter of Jessup Wakeman, of Southport, Conn., he determined to remove to Ohio, and in the spring of 1831, with his wife and three sons - William H., Frank J., and Maurice A. - he came to Florence, Huron county, where his father-in-law owmed a large tract of unimproved land.

Here he divided his time between farm labor and the conduct of a monthly periodical entitled the "Ohio and Michigan Register and Emigrant's Guide," printed at Norwalk, and devoted, as the title indicates, to intelligence desirable with those seeking information of the Western country. As early as 1828, and while yet in South Carolina, Mr. Scott's attention had been specially called by the map to the remarkable natural advantages of the vicinity of the head of Lake Erie as furnishing a future city of great importance, and in July of that year he addressed to Gen. John E. Hunt, then post¬ master at Maumee City and later a resident of Toledo, a letter in which he said: "I wish to obtain all the information in my power respecting your section of country, with the view of making it my future residence." The result of his inquiries was such that after remaining about one year at Florence he visited Maumee City, in 1832, and made a purchase of seventy acres of wild land, now in the center of Toledo and embracing the present location of the court house, making a payment of $300. He subsequently unsuccess¬ fully tried to sell this tract at twelve dollars per acre, and got lost in the woods in showing the land to his brother, J. Austin Scott, who thought the price too high. In 1833 Mr. Scott removed his family to Perrysburg, where he resumed the practice of the law, and was chosen prosecuting attorney. In 1834, still bent on liter¬ ary pursuits, in partnership with his brother-in-law, Henry Dar¬ ling, he started the first newspaper on the Maumee river, naming it the "Miami of the Lake," that being the legal appellation of the river. The tide of speculation was then rising in this region, and Mr. Scott invested freely in lands, which largely appreciated in value, and he soon found himself a man of great wealth; but the collapse of 1837 destroyed the bright vision of riches so exciting to his imagination and left him with hundreds of others in great embarrassment. About this time he wrote a series of articles on "Internal Trade," in which he advanced the theory that some¬ where in the Valley of the Mississippi, or about the Great Lakes was to be the future great city of the world. In 1836 he "retired on his fortune" to Bridgeport, Conn., but, upon the crash of 1837, he returned to Maumee City, which was his residence for about seven years. It was in 1844 that Mr. Scott first made Toledo his place of residence, and, once more turning to the press, he became the editor and co-proprietor of the "Blade," which he conducted for several years. In 1856, he removed to Castleton, on the Hud¬ son, a short distance below Albany, and there he devoted himself largely to literary pursuits, and wrote for different publications, chiefly on subjects of trade and population. After spending several years at Castleton, he returned to Toledo, which place was there¬ after his residence. In 1868, he prepared with great care and pub¬ lished a pamphlet setting forth his theory of the "Future Great City of the World," in which he claimed and sought to show that Toledo had the location most likely to become such metropolis. In October, 1872, sensible of the near approach of the end of life and anxious to give effect of his deep interest in the welfare of his fellow-citizens and their posterity, Mr. Scott devised and executed a scheme for the endowment of an institution of learning to be known as the "Toledo University of Arts and Trades." For this purpose he prepared a deed of trust for 160 acres of land, located near the city, to be platted and leased on favorable terms, the pro¬ ceeds to be used for the benefit of the institution named, under certain limitations. He did not live to participate in the inaugura¬ tion or the management of the enterprise, but his name is remem¬ bered with gratitude for his thoughtful consideration for the gen¬ erations to come after him. He was the originator of the idea of manual training schools in this country, as at that time most of the expert labor came from Europe. As a husband and parent he endeared himself to his family by ties of unusual tenderness and strength, as a citizen he was a model of propriety, and in precept and practice he was the supporter of public and private virtue. His Venerable partner in the struggles of his early manhood and middle life and the joys and peace of maturer years survived him more than eight years and died at her residence in Toledo, April 20, 1882. Mrs. Susan (Wakeman) Scott was born in Southport, Conn., March 7, 1797, and was the eldest of eight children of Jessup Wakeman and Esther Dimon. Her father gave her a thorough education, taking her in his own carriage, in 1809, from the home in Southport, Conn., to Bethlehem, in Pennsylvania, to place her in its noted Moravian school, where she became an accomplished musi- cian. On May 4, 1824, she was married to Jessup W. Scott. For the succeeding six years they made their home in South Carolina and Georgia, and the subsequent removals of the family already have been noted.

Edward Ford

Edward Ford, president of the Edward Ford Plate Glass Com¬ pany, of Rossford, Ohio, is a native of the Hoosier State, having been born in the little town of Greenville, Floyd county, Indiana, Jan. 21, 1843, the sixth in a family of seven children - five sons and two daughters - born to John Baptiste and Mary (Bower) Ford. The paternal grandfather was Jonathan Ford, who married Margaret Baptiste, and the father of the latter was John Bap¬ tiste, who was married, near Danville, Ky., to Margaret Schuck. He came from France, and was the first pioneer in Kentucky to introduce the domestic grape. The father was born near Danville, Ky., Nov. 17, 1811, and the mother was a native of Pennsyl¬ vania. In early life John B. Ford learned the trade of saddler and shipbuilding at New Albany, Ind., and followed that vocation for several years. He then became interested in glass manufacture and founded the Star Glass Company, at New Albany. Some fifteen years before his death he removed to Creighton, Pa., where he died at the age of ninety-one years. He is generally known as the father of the plate glass industry. The mother also died at Creighton. Edward Ford was educated in the New Albany public schools and the Bryant & Stratton Commercial College, at Indianapolis, Ind. After leaving school he began his business career as a clerk on a steamboat running between Louisville, Ky., and New Orleans, La. He followed the river for several years, when he engaged in the glass manufacturing business, in connec¬ tion with the Star Glass Company of New Albany. In 1873 he severed his connection with that concern and went to Columbus, Ohio, where he established the Columbus Window Glass Company, with which he remained for about three years. He then went to Jeffersonville, Ind., and engaged in the plate glass business exclu¬ sively, erecting there a plant for the Jeffersonville Plate Glass Com¬ pany. Five years later he went to Creighton, Pa., where his father was then living, and built a plate glass works, which at first was known as the New York Plate Glass Company and later as the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company. Mr. Ford remained with this establishment for thirteen years, as president and manager, but in 1897 he sold out his interest in the concern and went to Wyandotte, Mich., where he became connected with the alkali works owned by his father. In 1898 he came to Toledo and founded the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company, which is the largest plate glass works in the United States. The factory at Rossford covers thirty-five acres, all under roof, and is equipped with the most modern machin¬ ery and appliances for turning out large quantities of the finest plate glass. The officers of the company are: Edward Ford, president; J. B. Ford, first vice-president; Claud L. Lewis, general manager; George R. Ford, second vice-president and treasurer, and G. W. DeMaid, secretary and general sales agent. The company employs 600 men, and the works are in operation day and night, the product of the factory going to all parts of the country. The town of Ross¬ ford was put on the map of Ohio by the establishment of this great manufacturing concern, whose employes and their families alone constitute a town of considerable size. Mr. Ford erected the nine¬ teen-story office building known as the "Ford Building/' in Detroit, Mich., and which is built of white glazed brick. He is identified with other prominent institutions in Toledo. He is one of the directors of the Second National Bank and one of the trustees of the Chamber of Commerce. He is an enthusiastic member of the Toledo Yacht Club, in which he holds the rank of rear commodore, and in the spring of 1909 built for himself a fine steam yacht, concerning which the "Toledo Blade" of May 7, 1909, says: "Caro¬ line, the fine steam yacht built for Rear Commodore Edward Ford, of Toledo, and regarded by all local yachtsmen as one of the future flagships of the Toledo Yacht Club, was launched at Lawley's shipyards, in South Boston, Wednesday afternoon. The launching was accomplished without a hitch. The yacht was christened by Edward Ford MacNichol, a grandson of Edward Ford. The event was witnessed by Capt. Ed. Gruber and Engineer J. H. Cunning¬ ham, of Toledo, who went to Boston several weeks ago to super¬ intend the completion of the craft. * * * Caroline is 125 feet of a triple expansion engine of 750 horse power, and she is fit¬ ted with twin screws. Caroline is equipped with electric lights throughout and contains all the modern conveniences expected in such a craft. She will carry a crew of eight men, with Captain Gruber in command/' In his political convictions, Mr. Ford is a firm believer in the principles advocated by the Republican party, and his religious affiliations are with the Presbyterian church of Wyandotte, Mich. While residing in New Albany, Ind., he became a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and since coming to Toledo has identified himself with several of .the leading social organizations, including the Toledo, the Country, the Middle Bass and the Toledo Yacht clubs. Mr. Ford is universally recognized as one of Toledo's most pro¬ gressive and public-spirited men, always willing to lend a hand to any movement for the advancement of the city's material progress, or to aid any charitable enterprise for the relief of her poor and needy. Mr. Ford has been twice married. In 1861 he was united to Miss Evelyn C. Penn, who died in 1870, leaving two children - Mrs. M. R. Bacon, of Wyandotte, Mich., and John B. Ford, of Detroit, Mich. In 1872 Mr. Ford married Miss Carrie J. Ross, of Zanesville, Ohio, and this union has been blessed by two daughters and a son, viz.: Mrs. George P. MacNichol, Mrs. W. W. Knight and George Ross Ford, all of Toledo. Mr. Ford resides at 2205 Collingwood avenue.

William Henry Scott

William Henry Scott, deceased, was at the time of his death one of the oldest and most influential of Toledo's pioneer citizens, and in his demise the community lost a citizen who was a blessing in his spirit of loyalty to public interests and in his generosity to public objects - one whose leadership in good works was an inspira¬ tion to all and an occasion of progress in all helpful institutions. He was indentified with nearly every bit of progress made by the city from the time that he was old enough to think for himself, and many of the institutions in which Toledo takes pride are directly due to his agitation and intelligent influence. Mr. Scott was born in Columbia, S. C., in 1825, son of Jessup W. and Susan (Wakeman) Scott. The parents are given extended mention on another page of this volume, to which the reader is referred for the ances¬ tral record of the family. William H. Scott came with his parents to the Maumee Valley in 1833, and lived in the city of Toledo dur¬ ing the greater portion of his life, his residence being at Adrian, Mich., for a few years. In early manhood he engaged in the han¬ dling of real estate as a business, with which line of endeavor he was ever after identified, but he steadfastly pursued intellectual and literary studies during his entire life, and the result of his constant research and observation was of great value to the city in which he made his home. When Toledo emerged from its primi¬ tive condition and took to drainage, paving, and the creation of parks and fine buildings, he entered into the spirit of each improve¬ ment and with wise suggestions aided in the beautifying of the now handsome municipality. He devoted considerable effort to creating an adequate system of parks, and, while all of his sug¬ gestions were not carried out, many of his ideas were adopted by the city. One of his pet fancies was the establishment of a boule¬ vard along the line of the old canal bed through the city, and an¬ other was the extension of the court-house square to Orange street, thus transforming "Smoky Hollow," through the forbid- ding part of the city, into a thing of beauty that could have no rival. He served well and faithfully upon many public boards, and to him is due the establishment of the magnificent free library structure at the corner of Madison and Ontario streets. The bill creating the public library institution was drawn by Mr. Scott in 1873, and was introduced in the State legislature by T. P. Brown. With but one exception, this was the first free public library established in the West. For twenty years Mr. Scott served on the library board, the greater part of this time as its president, and when he resigned the position he left a valuable collection of books, well housed in a beautiful building. He resigned with considerable regret from an institution, the growth and perfection of which had been one of the objects of his fondest public desires. He was a zealous worker for education generally, and in the Manual Training School, con¬ ceived by his father, Jessup W. Scott, he had another object for his generous labor. After the death of the father, the three sons - William H., Frank J., and Maurice A. - gave $60,000 in city prop¬ erty to be devoted to the building and equipment of the Manual Training School building. And it was largely through the efforts of William H. Scott that this property was sold and the building erected and properly equipped. He was president of the board that had this matter in charge for many years, and he was actively interested in the progress of the school and its pupils until the time of his death. He was identified with several other educational institutions. During Governor Young's administration he served as trustee of the Ohio State University at Columbus, for seven years he was one of the board of directors of the Wesleyan College, and while a resident of Adrian, Mich., he served as a director of the schools of that city. In 1876-9, he was vice-president of the Toledo Woman's Suffrage Association. In addition to his activities in these institutions of a public nature, privately he was a director in a number of corporations and banks, and he was instrumental in the organization of the early street railway lines. But in the last three years of his life he paid little attention to active business affairs, his health failing to such a degree that he found it impos¬ sible to spend much of his time in his office. He died at his resi¬ dence, 2505 Monroe street, in Toledo, March 5, 1901. In 1851, Mr.

Scott was married to Miss Mary A. Winans, of Adrian, Mich., and of this union there were born four children - Mrs. Frances E. Waters, of Baltimore, Md.; Susan W., Jane, and Edward Jessup.

Harvey Scribner

Harvey Scribner inherited a logical turn of mind from his father, the distinguished lawyer and judge - Hon. Charles H. Scrib¬ ner, now deceased. It was in his father's office that Harvey Scrib¬ ner studied and afterward practiced law in Toledo, the firm after his accession bearing the title of Scribner, Hurd & Scribner. In 1871, Harvey Scribner was admitted to the partnership of this great firm, the illustrious Hon. Frank Hurd being a member and remaining as such until 1894, when the partnership was dissolved. Some years prior to this, Judge Charles H. Scribner was elected to the Circuit bench and retired from the firm. Harvey Scribner, after the demise of his father and the Hon. Frank Hurd, became a member of the law firm of Scribner, Waite & Wachenheimer. Mr. Wachenheimer recently withdrew, Lieut. Henry DeH. Waite remaining with Mr. Scribner. Their specialty is railroad cases. Mr. Scribner has been peculiarly successful in securing damages for his clients who were injured by railways. Associated with Frank H. Hurd, he recov¬ ered a verdict of $30,000 in the famous Shannon case against the Hocking Valley railroad; also a verdict of $20,000, and was sus¬ tained in the Supreme Court, for Edward Topliff, who was injured in the Lake Shore railway collision at Vermillion. Mrs. Eliza L. Topliff, whose husband was killed in the terrible railroad disaster at Kipton, got a judgment of $10,000, the full limit, against this company through Mr. Scribner's efforts. He was also counsel for a large number of the Toledo tunnel catastrophe cases brought before the courts, and collected by suits and settlements some $60,000 from the Lake Shore Railway Company. He caused to be broken the will of Charles B. Roff, which had been drawn up by the late Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite, and released a fund of $100,000 from a trust and secured it to the widow. Latterly, Mr. Scribner has taken to literature, and, though he is extremely modest about this attain¬ ment, he wields a clever pen in the telling of stories. His expe- rience in the law has been valuable to him and will no doubt furnish excellent material for numerous short stories in the future. Mr. Scribner was born at Mt. Vernon. Ohio, March 19, 1850. He was graduated from the schools of his native town and was but nine¬ teen years of age when he located in Toledo, with his parents, Charles H. and Mary E. (Morehouse) Scribner. There were ten children born to Judge and Mrs. Scribner. Those living are: Har¬ vey, Rollin H., Mrs. Charles Gates and Mrs. Joseph Spencer, of Toledo; Mrs. Louis Richardson, of Chicago; Mrs. Charles Cone, of New York; Edward M. Scribner, of Bridgeport, Conn.; and Charles E. Scribner, of Chicago. Judge Charles H. Scribner died in 1897; his wife survives him. Harvey Scribner married Jennie B. Bullard, Sept. 23, 1880. His wife had two children - Daisy and Fred - by a previous marriage. No attorney in Toledo is better liked than is Mr. Scribner. He is a thorough gentleman, of fine sensibilities, generous and public-spirited to a degree. He is one of the trustees of the Public Library, and is secretary of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.

Maurice A. Scott

Maurice A. Scott, deceased, was at the time of his death one of the oldest residents of Toledo, and in the business affairs of life he was considered a leader who had won his way to the top by sheer force of intelligent application and shrewdness. He was born in Ridgefield, Conn., in 1830, and was the son of Jessup W. and Susan (Wakeman) Scott, who are given appropriate mention on another page of this volume. He came with his parents to the Maumee Valley, in 1833, and lived in Toledo the greater part of his life. In 1870, he moved to Castleton on the Hudson, but took up his residence in Toledo again in 1888, when he built a handsome resi¬ dence on Monroe street. While his father was editor and part owner of the "Toledo Blade," in 1845-6, Mr. Scott learned the print¬ er's trade. In 1849, he acquired the art of telegraphing and for sev¬ eral years, from 1850, had charge of the telegraph office in this city. In 1859, in connection with his brother - Frank J. Scott - and William H. Raymond, he ran the Toledo Mills, which had been built by the last named gentleman, the location being at the corner of Jackson and Summit streets. The same year, Maurice A. and Frank J. Scott purchased the greater part of their father's interest in Toledo and Lucas county property and went into the realestate business. In 1865, the partnership was dissolved, Maurice A. remaining in the business, and he built many business blocks, flats, and residences. He dedicated several parks to the city. Mr. Scott was married, in 1855, to Mary J. Tallant, of Concord, N. H., and of this union one child, Mrs. E. D. Libbey, was born. Mrs. Scott died in Castleton, N. Y., in 1858, and, in 1861, Mr. Scott again married. His second wife was Mary B. Messinger, of Boston, and there were two children: Mrs. William H. Chapin, of Springfield, Mass.; and Mrs. H. A. Ten Eyck, who died in Albany, N. Y., in 1896. Mr. Scott's social life was somewhat peculiar. While in business he was from the first remarkable for extreme caution, and as he grew older for extreme shrewdness in his judgment of what would be surely remunerative, in his social relations he was in early life noted for wit and a singularly piquant faculty of repartee. At social gatherings, if there were those with him who could stir him to the exercise of that talent he was often most brilliant. Mr. Scott was a millionaire and owned more frontage of desirable down¬ town property than any other individual in Toledo.

Louis Montville

Louis Montville, deceased, was a pioneer resident of the East Side, Toledo, and throughout a long residence in that section of the city he won and held the respect of all with whom he came in con¬ tact. With perhaps one or two exceptions he was the largest individual holder of East Side property, and the Montville Block at First and Main streets and a quantity of other properties front¬ ing on First, Second and Platt streets were among his holdings. Mr. Montville was born in the state of New York, in 1837, and at the close of the Civil war he came to Toledo from his former home at Watertown, in that state. Soon after his arrival in To¬ ledo he located on the East Side, where he entered upon the con¬ tracting business, and he gained his first financial start in grading East Side streets. He continued in the contracting business until his death, but in later years his work was largely that of pile con¬ tracting and at the time of his death he was completing the work on the drydocks for the Toledo Shipbuilding Company. While of limited school training he had a remarkable ability in calculating the value of timber, and he could tell at a glance what would often require long and elaborate calculation by others. He was energetic and industrious, and was held in high esteem by all who knew him. His death occurred on May 27, 1907, and he left a widow, three sons - Fred, of Alger, Ohio; Louis, of Memphis, Tenn.; George, of Toledo - and two daughters - Mrs. Adeline Sutton and Mrs. Emma Barror, both of whom reside in Toledo.

Carl F. Braun

Carl F. Braun, the subject of this biography, was born at Gudensburg, Germany, Aug. 16, 1843. He received a technical education in the Fatherland, having been graduated at a polytechnic school at Cassel, Germany, and in 1862, at the age of nineteen years, determined to try his fortune in America. In that year he arrived in Toledo, and in 1866 he became a clerk in the hardware house of Roff & Company. As a young man he was alert and energetic, quick to grasp business opportunities, and strictly faith¬ ful to the discharge of his duties. His salary at the start was not princely, but he managed to save the greater part of it, with a view to engaging in business for himself; and, in 1868, he became a member of the firm of Roff & Company. Toledo was then growing rapidly, and in the years immediately following the Civil war the hardware business, as well as other lines, enjoyed a boom. By 1873 the firm's business had greatly expanded, and in that year was organized the Bostwick-Braun Company, composed of Carl F. and Geo. A. Braun and Oscar A. Bostwick, and this company became the successors of Roff & Company. The new concern opened a store at the foot of Monroe street, on part of the ground now occupied by the great concrete Bostwick-Braun Building, though the company occupied quarters at the corner of St. Clair and Monroe streets for a number of years, until they moved to their present quarters. Carl F. Braun was in the active manage¬ ment of this immense hardware house until 1904, when he retired. In addition to his interests in this house he was identified with a number of other enterprises, having been a director of the Home Savings Bank and the Citizens Deposit & Trust Company, and at one time he was vice-president of the Home Bank. In 1881 he purchased the old Swan Creek railroad, which had been projected in 1876, but the promoters had experienced some trouble in secur¬ ing a right of way. Mr. Braun, however, succeeded where his predecessors had failed. He re-organized the company, was elected president, and the road was soon extended from the intersection of Bismarck and Hamilton streets to the old Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis (now the Clover Leaf) track, thus saving considerable time and labor in operating in and out of the city. Mr. Braun was one of the business giants in Toledo in his day, a man of high ideals and unblemished reputation, and his friends were many. He died suddenly at his home, 1615 Monroe street, June 25, 1908, hon¬ ored and respected by all who knew him, the immediate cause of his death being a stroke of paralysis. On May 22, 1879, he married Miss Elise Lenk, and of this union were born three sons - Walter M., Arthur P., and Carl W., here named in the order of birth. Walter M. and Carl W. are residents of Toledo, where the former is a member of the firm of Stacy & Braun in the investment bond busi¬ ness, and Arthur P., who was a mining engineer in Mexico, died suddenly May 17, 1910. Mr. Braun was by nature intellectually fitted for a business career, and belonged to that class of citizens, who, while advancing their own interests, add materially to the valuation of those interests that surround them. While a success in business, he was better still, a good citizen. Believing in the future of Toledo, he gave both his time and influence in behalf of many measures for the common good. Unto this class of men, who have been the real factors in the development of Toledo's great¬ ness, is this volume dedicated.

Charles F. Curtis

Charles F. Curtis, deceased, was born at Victor, Ontario county, New York, Feb. 19, 1821. He was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Curtis, the former a native of New York State and the latter of Connecticut. The Curtis family is of English descent, but has been represented in America for a number of generations. Charles F. was the eldest of a family of five children, there having been two sons and three daughters born to his parents. He passed the years of boyhood upon his father's farm, and received such advantages as the district schools afforded, afterward attending an academy for two years. On leaving school, Mr. Curtis became a contractor on the New York & Erie railroad, and was thus en¬ gaged from 1849 to 1851. He then came to Toledo and soon after¬ ward engaged in the construction of the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana railroad, now known as the "old line" of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, on which he was engaged for the three ensuing years. In 1853, in connection with Benjamin Fol¬ som and August Thomas, he formed the firm of B. Folsom & Com¬ pany, being in charge of the construction of the road extending from Toledo to Butler, Ind., seventy-one miles in length, of what is now known as the Air Line division of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. His connection with railroad interests covered a period of about fifteen years, most of the time as contractor. On May 1, 1857, with August Thomas, he formed the firm of Curtis & Thomas and engaged in the lumber trade, continuing so associated until 1862, when Webster S. Brainard, former book-keeper, was admitted to the partnership, and the firm was changed to Curtis, Thomas & Company. Immediately after the death of Mr. Thomas, in 1868, the firm was again changed, taking the name of Curtis & Brainard, and real estate and vessel property business being added, the firm continued in active operation until the death of Mr. Curtis, Feb. 20, 1900. It did a large business and was recognized as one of the substantial firms of Toledo. At the time of his death, Mr.

Curtis was also president of the Toledo Savings Bank & Trust Company and a director of both the First National and the Hol¬ comb National banks. He was a man of large business affairs, and was successful in his financial operations. His business career was characterized by sterling integrity and sound judgment. Mr. Curtis affiliated with the Democratic party, but never sought the honors or emoluments of public office. He was a member of Trin¬ ity Church, and for a number of years held the offices of treasurer, junior warden and vestryman, all of which he resigned prior to his death. Mr. Curtis was first married to Miss Julia Moore, of Victor, N. Y. His wife died at Bryan, Ohio, in 1854, leaving a daughter, Miss Ella Moore Curtis, now living with Mrs. Curtis, and in 1894 he was married to Mrs. Mary A. A. Birckhead, of Toledo, who sur¬ vives him, and who resides at 2636 Cherry street, Toledo, Ohio.

James Melvin

James Melvin, deceased, was a native of the State of Massa¬ chusetts, having been born in the historic old town of Concord, Dec. 20, 1826. He was a direct descendant of the Melvins who came to New England soon after the Mayflower touched the rock-bound coast, laden with the Pilgrim Fathers. His ancestors were among the ardent supporters of the American colonies from the beginning of the Revolutionary struggle against England, and it is of historical interest that his grandfather, Amos Melvin, was one of the guards in Concord town on the night that Paul Revere made his famous ride from Boston - the night preceding the day upon which the embattled farmers "fired the shot heard 'round the world." He, whose name introduces this memoir served his country with the same loyalty as did his ancestors, and in the dark days of 1861, when the integrity of the Union was threatened, at the first call for troops, in April, he enlisted in the Sixth Massachusetts infantry and with it served a three months' enlistment. Later, he re-en¬ listed in the Thirty-third Massachusetts infantry, and performed his duty nobly in all the marches, campaigns and battles of that com¬ mand for a period of two years, at the end of which time his health became impaired and he was discharged from the service on account of disability. Returning then to his Massachusetts home, as soon as the condition of his health would permit he resumed the thread of a peaceful life. In 1870, he came to Toledo and imme¬ diately opened a men's and boys' clothing establishment, with quarters at what is now 231 Summit street, under the name of the Boston Square Dealing Store. By careful attention to the details of the business and strict integrity he soon secured a per¬ manent hold upon the clothing trade of Toledo and vicinity, and as the James Melvin Clothing Company the establishment has grown to be one of the most exclusive in its line in the city. Mr. Melvin served the city as a member of the board of aldermen for one term and as a member of the board of education for two terms. In his public, business and domestic life, his name stood for integrity and purity, and in these days of "high finance," when financial gain is placed before every other consideration, his life record, stainless on every page, stands out with peculiar significance. He was a mem¬ ber of Forsyth Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and of Anthony Wayne Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution. He had been a member of the Unitarian Church of Our Father from the time of its organization, and served as treasurer of the church board for many years. In his death, which occurred June 23, 1906, Mr. Mel¬ vin left a sorrowing wife and two daughters - Mrs. Clifford Taft Hanson, of Toledo, and Mrs. J. Alan Hamilton, of Buffalo, N. Y. Mrs. Mary Lacey, sister of Mr. Melvin, lives in the old home at Concord, Mass.

Peter Hoffman Birckhead

Peter Hoffman Birckhead, deceased, was a native son of the State of Maryland, though he contributed the major portion of his life's activity to business and social interests within the city of Toledo. He was born in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 13, 1827, and was the son of Dr. Lenox and Mary (Hoffman) Birckhead, who were both natives of the State of Maryland, where they lived out their allotted time. The father who was educated in medicine in Edinburg and Paris was a practicing physician in the city of Baltimore and its vicinity for many years, and then, later in life, divided his time between the practice of his profession and farm¬ ing. He took a loyal interest in public affairs but never sought the honors of public office. In the war of 1812 he served as a volun¬ teer in defense of Fort McHenry, the occasion being the one im¬ mortalized by Francis Scott Key's poetical production, "The Star- Spangled Banner." The Birckheads were professional and com¬ mercial men in and around Baltimore for a great many years. The progenitors of the family came originally from Basil, Swit¬ zerland, the migration being first to England and thence to Mary¬ land. The early ancestors left their European home on account of their religious views. Dr. Solomon Birckhead, the paternal grand¬ father of the subject of this memoir, was a practicing physician during his entire life in Baltimore, where he died at an advanced age. The maternal grandfather was Peter Hoffman, also of Balti¬ more, Md., and his occupation was what was known in those days as "merchant shipper," dealing in groceries, teas, and coffees, and doing an export and an import business. The Hoffman family is of Holland descent, with trading instincts, and for generations the members of the family were merchants. To Dr. Lenox Birckhead and wife there were born seven children, of whom Peter H. was the eldest, and the others were Jane, Louisa, John, James, Susan, and Mary, all deceased. Peter H. Birckhead received his educational training in Baltimore, where he was afforded the advantages of the schools of that period. At an early age he began his independent career by entering the employ of Hoffman & Sons (the senior mem¬ ber of which firm was a maternal uncle), grocery merchants and shippers, of Baltimore, and he remained so engaged until 1852. He then removed to Michigan, where, in company with a Mr. Ferris, he conducted a saw mill, cutting timber from a tract of land owned by his father. Two years later, in 1854, he came to Toledo and, in company with a Mr. Woolsey, engaged in the stave and coop¬ erage business, with an office and yard located at the foot of Lagrange street, the location now being a part of the site of the Vulcan Steam Shovel plant. The business was eventually merged into the Vulcan Iron Works, of which establishment Mr. Birckhead was the president at the time of his death. He was held in high esteem in the business community and was one of Toledo's most prominent citizens. On June 21, 1888, after having led a useful and industrious career, and after an illness of more than six months, which he bore patiently, Peter H. Birckhead passed to the life eternal, thus depriving the family of a loved member, for he was always attached to his home, and was a devoted and indulgent husband and father. Among his most intimate friends were Charles F. Curtis and Valentine H. Ketcham. He was a consistent and worthy member of Trinity Episcopal Church, and in politics he voted consistently with his convictions, giving his sup¬ port to the principles of the Democratic party. Mr. Birckhead was twice married, the first time to Harriet Steinbrenner, of Philadel¬ phia, Pa., and of this union there were born two children - Lenox Birckhead, who is located in Milwaukee and connected with the Bucyrus Steam Shovel Company, and Harriet Antoinette, who also lives in Milwaukee, with her brother. On Dec. 26, 1865, Mr. Birckhead was married to Miss Mary A. A. Titus, daughter of Israel and Adaline Titus, of Toledo.

Selah Reeve Maclaren

Selah Reeve Maclaren, deceased, was for many years one of the leading men of affairs of the city of Toledo, and his success in the business world was the natural sequence of industry, clearness of per¬ ception, fixedness of purpose and strength of will. And to the surviving members of his family he left the heritage of a good name, which he valued above riches. In the death of Mr. Maclaren, which occurred Jan. 29 , 1905 , Toledo lost one of her best citizens. Prominent in business and active in Christian fellowship, he had much to do with the building up of the city and advancing its in¬ terests in varied ways. Mr. Maclaren was born in New York City, June 11, 1846, the son of a Presbyterian minister, and when eight years of age was taken to Fall River, Mass., where he received his education. On April 14, 1865, although not nineteen years old, he left his boyhood home to come to Toledo, and upon arriving here entered the employ of N. Reeve & Company, lumber dealers, whose place of business was at the corner of Adams and Water streets. After faithful service as an employe for a period of six years, in 1871, at the age of twenty-five, he formed a partnership with H. C. Sprague and they engaged in the lumber business under the firm name of Maclaren & Sprague. Later, when the firm became in¬ corporated, Mr. Maclaren was made president. He was also presi¬ dent of the Franklin Printing & Engraving Company and of the Holcomb National Bank, having been re-elected to the presidency of the bank a short time before his death. Fraternally he was prominent in Masonic circles, and for years he was active in the Young Men's Christian Association movement, having for some time filled an official position in the association. His deeply religious nature found constant expression in good deeds and in active membership in the congregation of his choice. When he first came to Toledo he united with the First Presbyterian Church, and when the Westminster Church was founded he took his letter to that organization and for a number of years was one of its prom- inent members. Later he became a communicant of the Collingwood Avenue Presbyterian Church. Mr. Maclaren was twice married, first in 1874, to Miss Margaret Moore, of St. Clair, Mich., and of this union two daughters were born : Mrs. Joseph R. Bailey, of Fairmount, W. Va., and Mrs. Edward B. Yaryan, of Gulfport, Miss. The second marriage occurred in 1888, and was to Miss Anna C. Beach, sister of Mrs. Samuel M. Jones. Of this marriage was born a daughter, Christine, who died in 1901.

Ezra B. Kirk

Major Ezra B. Kirk, deceased, was one of Toledo's best known citizens, and although his duties as a Regular Army officer caused his absence for the greater part of the time, he always took a keen interest in the welfare of his home city and contributed in every way possible to its progress and prosperity. Major Kirk was born Aug. 8, 1830, in Lawrence township, Stark county, Ohio, on a farm. He left home at the age of fifteen years, being possessed of a common-school education, and went to Cleveland, where he learned the tinsmith trade. After several years in that business he took a position in a wholesale shoe house in the Forest City and in 1854 came to Toledo, where he opened a shoe house on Summit street. He left Toledo in 1858 and went to New York City, where he engaged in the same business, and on April 19, 1861, enlisted with the first call for troops in the Seventy-first New York National Guards, for three months. This regiment, also known as the Amer¬ ican Guard and Vosburgh Chasseurs, was a New York City organi¬ zation and was one of the eleven uniformed militia regiments sent to the relief of Washington upon the outbreak of the war. It left the State on April 21, 1861, reached the capital on the 27th, and was mustered into the United States service on May 3. It was first quartered in the inauguration ball room, whence it was ordered to barracks in the navy yard. It participated in the occupation of Alexandria, Va., May 24, and first came under fire in the attack on the batteries at Acquia Creek. It took part in the attack on Matthias Point and rendered excellent service at the first battle of Bull Run, where it served in the Second brigade (Burnside's), Second division (Hunter's), Army of Northeastern Virginia, being among the last to leave the field and retiring in good order. Mr. Kirk was mustered out with his regiment, July 30, 1861, at New York City, and immediately returned to Toledo, where he re-en¬ listed in the Fourteenth Ohio infantry for three years, and was elected first lieutenant of Company C. With this regiment he first saw service in Kentucky and in October, 1861, went into quarters at Camp Dick Robinson. About this time rumors were rife that the Federal forces stationed at or near Wild Cat were surrounded by the Confederates. The Fourteenth, with Barnet's First Ohio artillery, started at once for that place, making forced marches through the deep mud and driving rain, and reached there on the morning of Oct. 21, but the enemy shortly abandoned the field and retreated. In the charge which carried the works at Mill Springs the Fourteenth was the first regiment to enter, and push¬ ing on after the flying enemy it reached the bank of the river in time to fire into the rear of the retreating column as it was board¬ ing the steamer. With his regiment Lieutenant Kirk was with the army that shared in the slow advance upon Corinth. He was in the march from Nashville to Louisville, but on Oct. 9, the brigade with which the regiment was acting was detailed to guard headquarters and the ammunition train, and hence he did not participate in the battle of Perryville. The following winter he spent at Gallatin and other points in Middle Tennessee, and in June, 1863, his regiment formed a portion of Rosecrans' advance on Tullahoma and Chattanooga. At Hoover's Gap a brisk engage¬ ment ensued, in which he participated with his regiment. On Sept. 19 he marched upon the field at Chickamauga and his regiment was immediately deployed in line of battle. The regi¬ ment was engaged in hot and close contest with the enemy from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. Being then relieved, it replenished its ammunition boxes and again entered the fight, continuing until sunset. In the brilliant assault on Missionary Ridge the Fourteenth bore a gal¬ lant part, charging and capturing a Confederate battery of three guns, which General Hardee in person was superintending. In December, 1863, Lieutenant Kirk was appointed captain and as¬ sistant quartermaster of volunteers, and served as such until July 28, 1865, when he was appointed captain and assistant quarter¬ master in the regular army. He received the brevet of major and lieutenant-colonel of volunteers for faithful and meritorious service in the field in the quartermaster's department. He served as chief quartermaster of the Third division, Fourteenth corps; chief quartermaster First division in reserve corps, depot quartermaster

Chattanooga, Tenn.; chief quartermaster district of the Etowah; depot quartermaster Nashville, Tenn.; and after the close of the war, in 1865, quartermaster at Fort Lyon, Col.;.Fort Supply, In¬ dian Territory; Fort Dodge, Kan.; Forts Buford and Bismarck, N. D.; Omaha, Neb.; Jeffersonville, Ind.; Atlanta, Ga.; and Buffalo, N. Y., where he was retired, Aug. 8, 1894, having reached the age limit and having served over thirty-three years in the army. During the progress of the war - 1861-5 - he served on the staffs of the following general officers: Maj.-Gen. James B. Steedman, Maj.-Gen. John M. Schofield, Maj.-Gen. James M. Branan, and Brig.-Gen. John T. Croxton. After his retirement from the army, in 1894, he returned to his home in Toledo, and in 1896 was elected to the city council from the old Tenth ward, serving three terms, one year of which period he officiated as president of the body. Socially he was an active worker in the Lincoln Club. Major Kirk died May 27, 1903, and is survived by a widow and one daughter, Miss Maud Kirk.

John W. Fuller

General John W. Fuller, a brigadier-general of volunteers in the Union army during the great Civil war, and for many years a resident of Toledo, was born at Cambridge, England, July 28, 1826, and died at Toledo, March 12, 1891. In 1833, he was brought to the United States by his father, a Baptist minister and a graduate of Cambridge University, England, under whose personal super¬ vision the son was educated. The father settled at Utica, N. Y., where the boyhood and early manhood of General Fuller was passed. Upon arriving at the years of maturity, he embarked in the book-selling and publishing business, and became one of the lead¬ ing merchants of Utica. In 1859, he had the misfortune to lose his establishment by fire, and soon afterward removed to Toledo, where he again engaged in the book trade, both as dealer and publisher, his house soon taking a front rank in that line of business. At the breaking out of the war, he was prompt to espouse the cause of the Union, and when Governor Dennison, of Ohio, appointed Gen. Charles W. Hill as brigadier-general, the latter selected Mr. Fuller as his chief-of-stafif. His first service was in West Virginia, and while at Grafton, engaged in drilling raw recruits, Gen. T. J. Cram, of the regular army, wrote to Adjt.-Gen. C. P. Buckingham: "There is a young man at Grafton by the name of John W. Fuller who knows more about military matters, the drilling of men, etc., than any one I have yet met in the service, and I hope that you will recommend him to Governor Dennison as the colonel of the next Ohio regiment sent to the field." This recommendation was made without Mr. Fuller's knowledge, and he was somewhat surprised when he received a telegram from the adjutant-general of Ohio, ordering him to report at Columbus to assume the command of the Twenty-seventh Ohio infantry. Within two weeks, Colonel Fuller selected from a disorganized mass of 2,000 men the material for his regiment, which was mustered in, Aug. 18, 1861, for three years, and two days later left for St. Louis, Mo. He took part in the campaign of that year against the Confederate General Price and, in February, 1862, joined the Union forces under Gen. John Pope for the reduction of New Madrid and Island No. 10, where he received the commendations of his superior officers for the bravery he displayed and the magnificent manner in which he handled his men. Shortly after this, he was assigned to the com¬ mand of the ''Ohio Brigade," composed of the Twenty-seventh, Thirty-ninth, Forty-third and Sixty-third Ohio regiments, which he led in the hotly contested battle of Iuka, Miss., in September, 1862. The following month, he again distinguished himself at the battle of Corinth, where he checked the charge of the enemy and broke the Confederate line, for which he was personally thanked ^ by General Rosecrans, in the presence of the brigade. In Decem¬ ber, he defeated the redoubtable Forrest in the action at Parker's Cross-Roads, Tenn., after which he was in command of the post of Memphis until October, 1863. During the winter of 1863-64, his command guarded the Nashville & Decatur railroad, most of the men of the Twenty-seventh re-enlisting at this time and enjoying their veteran furlough. In the spring of 1864, the brigade was assigned to the Army of the Tennessee as the First brigade, Fourth division, Sixteenth corps, and, July 17, Colonel Fuller was pro¬ moted to the command of the division. Prior to that date, he had participated in the various engagements of the campaign leading up to the investment of Atlanta, particularly the actions at Dallas, Snake Creek Gap, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain and Nickajack Creek. On the morning of July 22, while the Sixteenth corps, General Dodge commanding, was moving to the extreme left to extend the lines still farther about the beleaguered city, it encountered General Hardee's Confederate corps, which had made a detour the night before with a view of attacking General McPherson in the rear, and it was Fuller's division that commenced the historic battle of Atlanta. In the engagement that followed the first attack, it be¬ came necessary for Fuller's division to change front while under fire, in order to repel a charge from the rear. In executing this movement the column gave way, when Fuller seized the flag of the Twenty-seventh and advanced toward the enemy, indicating with his sword where he wanted the new line formed. His example was contagious. With a cheer the Twenty-seventh swung into line, the other regiments of the brigade and division quickly fol¬ lowing, and the day was saved. For his valor and skill on this occasion, Colonel Fuller received his promotion to brigadier-gen¬ eral. After fighting at Ezra Church and Jonesboro, his brigade was transferred to the Seventeenth corps (General Blair), as the First brigade, First division, and started on the famous "March to the Sea." In the campaign of the Carolinas, which followed the fall of Savannah, General Fuller's command distinguished itself at the Salkehatchie River, Cheraw, and numerous other engagements, and was present at the surrender of General Johnston. He then marched with Sherman's victorious army through Richmond to Washington, D. C., where he participated in the grand review, after which the old regiment was mustered out. On March 13, 1865, General Fuller was brevetted major-general of volunteers "for gallant and meritorious services," but, Aug. 15, he resigned and returned to Toledo. In 1874, he was appointed collector of the port of Toledo by President Grant; was reappointed by Presi¬ dent Hayes, and held the office until 1881, but the greater part of his life after retiring from the army was passed in mercantile pur¬ suits, as the senior member of the wholesale boot and shoe house of Fuller, Childs & Co., on Summit street. At the time of his death, he was a director of the Merchants' National Bank and the Toledo Moulding Company, and was a stockholder in several other cor¬ porations. Before the war he was a Democrat, but after that he voted and acted with the Republican party. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Toledo and took an active interest in its welfare. He also belonged to Toledo Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and the Ohio Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion. On Sept. 2, 1851, General Fuller married, at Utica, N. Y., Miss Anna B. Rathbun, who was born in that city, June 20, 1826, the daughter of Josiah Rathbun, and of this union were born six children: viz., Edward C., who at the time of his father's death was manager of the Ohio Pipe Company, of Columbus; Jennie R., who lived with her parents; Rathbun Fuller, an attorney of Toledo;

Mrs. Thomas A. Taylor, of Toledo; Frederick C., of the firm of Furstenberg & Fuller, of Toledo; and Irene B. Rathbun, Frederick C., and Jennie R., still reside in Toledo. Mrs. Anna B. Fuller's death occurred June 4, 1901.

Edward Drummond Libbey

Edward Drummond Libbey is the official head of the Libbey Glass Company, the great factory of which, in North Toledo, gives employment to hundreds of men, and as a most progressive citizen he has shown an unusual civic spirit by his donations to charitable organizations and public institutions. Mr. Libbey was born at Chelsea, Mass., April 17, 1854, and is the son of William L. and Julia M. (Miller) Libbey. William L. Libbey (born 1827, died 1883) was the son of Israel and Mary Libbey, and, in 1850, became the confidential clerk of Jarvis & Commeraise, glass importers and manufacturers, whose factory was located in South Boston. The story of cut glass in the United States began with Deming Jarvis, the senior member of this firm, and the pioneer glass manufacturer of New England. In 1855, Mr. Jarvis sold his factory to his trusted clerk, Mr. Libbey, and the latter conducted the same for ten years, when he went into the manufacture of glassware, exclusively. He built up a very successful business, but he sold it in 1870, after having been appointed general manager of the New England Glass Company, of East Cambridge, Mass. He continued in that capacity until 1880, when he purchased the business entire, taking his son, Edward D., as partner. Edward Drummond Libbey received his early education in the public schools of Boston, and later attended lectures at the Boston University. In 1874, at the age of twenty years, he was given an interest in his father's glass business, but he began by performing the most trivial of office duties, assuming various clerical positions, in order to learn every detail of the work. Upon the death of his father, in 1883, he became the sole proprietor, and the business continued with the same successful stride under his leadership. The discovery of natural gas in Northwestern Ohio was Toledo's opportunity, as it afforded cheap fuel to the manu¬ facturer, and, in 1888, Mr. Libbey moved the business to this city and incorporated it as the Libbey Glass Company, of which he is president. Toledo has never regretted the invasion of Mr. Libbey, for he has done as much for the city as has any resident who ever lived here. Within the past eleven years he has been largely inter¬ ested in the manufacture of automatic machinery for the making of glassware and has introduced to the trade the Owens machine that blows glass automatically, doing away with the old hand-andlung method. Mr. Libbey was president of the Toledo Glass Com¬ pany, a corporation established by him, in 1894, and, in 1903, he organized the Owens Bottle Machine Company, an Ohio corpora¬ tion, which company secured an exclusive license from the Toledo Glass Company for the United States, for the manufacture of ma¬ chines and machine-made bottles. This company introduced the bottle machines into the United States, and has been very success¬ ful. He is also president of the Owens European Bottle Machine Company, which was organized in 1905, and which company pur¬ chased from the Toledo Glass Company all European rights for the Owens Bottle Machine, and which rights were in turn recently sold to the syndicate of European bottle manufacturers. Mr. Lib¬ bey is also president of the Northwestern Ohio Bottle Company and the Owens West Virginia Bottle Company. Besides the busi¬ ness connections mentioned, Mr. Libbey is vice president of the Macbeth-Evans Glass Company, of Pittsburg, Pa., and socially he is a member of the Union League Club, of Chicago, the Duquesne Club, of Pittsburg, and the Toledo Club, of Toledo. Always a lover of art, he has been the chief benefactor in establishing tire Toledo Museum of Art, which bids fair to become one of the great¬ est centers of attraction in the city of Toledo. 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, the place conveyed being the old homestead of the late Maurice A. Scott, father of Mrs. Libbey, in Scottwood addition to the city. The terms of this deed are that the trustees shall hold the same for fifty years, erect thereon a museum for the advancement and dis¬ play of works of art, and, after the lapse of the stated time, the trustees may do with the property as they may desire. In addi¬ tion to this gift, Mr. Libbey purchased 100 feet on the west side of the new museum property, on Monroe street, extending 400 feet to Grove Place, thus giving the museum a total frontage on Monroe street of 500 feet, and the same 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 Greek museum structure. In all, Mr. Libbey has donated to the cause of art, in Toledo, $150,000. An important addition to the sculpture gallery at the museum has been made by Mrs. Sarah C. Libbey (widow of the late William L. Libbey, father of Edward D. Lib¬ bey), of Brookline, Mass., the same being a beautiful cast of the statue of Joan of Arc, by Chapu, the original of which is in the Luxemburg gallery, Paris. This figure of the Maid of Orleans is lifesize, and by all critics it is acknowledged to be the finest ever conceived and executed of this notable and interesting figure in French history. The cast represents her as a peasant girl, before she donned her sword and armor and led the armies of victorious France. In closing this brief sketch of one of Toledo's leading citizens, it is fitting that further mention be made of one of the city's most important branches of manufacture. Toledo has the largest cut-glass factory in the world - the Libbey Glass Company - as well as the largest plate glass plant, and besides, it is the home of the Owens Bottle Machine, one of the greatest inventions in this line conceived by the genius of man. And for these distinc¬ tions the people of Toledo are greatly indebted to the Libbey Glass Company, because it is the city's pioneer glass industry and has done much to spread the fame of the city as a manufacturing center. Under normal business conditions, the company employs about 1,800 men, and, in addition to cut-glass, the concern makes bulbs for incandescent lights and supplies the factory of the General Electric Company, at Mulberry and Champlain streets, in this city. But the manufacture of glass bulbs is only incidental in the opera¬ tions of the company, which has gained fame throughout the world for its cut-glass. In the cutting of glass into intricate and beautiful designs this nation excels all others, and the Libbey Glass Com¬ pany is recognized as standing at the head of the cut-glass makers of this country. From the beginning down to the present, the com¬ pany has held fast to the highest ideals, until it is possible for the connoisseur to pick out the Libbey product almost immediately.

The triumphs of the Libbey Glass Company at the World's Fair at Chicago, in 1893, are still fresh in the public mind. It may be said that the magnificent enterprise which prompted the company to erect, at a cost of more than $100,000, a beautiful building, in which the art of making and cutting glass was carried on in all its branches, was the culminating effort of almost a century of steady progress. At the World's Fair at St. Louis, too, Libbey cut-glass was adequately in evidence, the interval that had elapsed from the time of the previous exposition showing an artistic advance, quite in keeping with the previous progress of the product.

Charles Granville Wilson

Charles Granville Wilson was born in Fremont, Sandusky county, Ohio, Saturday, June 27, 1846. His father was James William Wilson, and his mother was Nancy (Justice) Wilson. James William Wilson was born in New Berlin, Pa., Feb. 1, 1816, and died in Fremont, Ohio, July 21, 1904. He was educated in the schools of Pennsylvania and, in March, 1837, was graduated at the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, then, and still, one of the leading medical schools of the country. After practicing medicine for two years in Center county, Pennsylvania, he re¬ moved, in July, 1839, to Fremont, then Lower Sandusky, where he commenced the practice of medicine and where he continued to reside until his death. Dr. Wilson had an extensive medical prac¬ tice, to which he gave hard and faithful service. In May, 1865, he was one of the most prominent founders of the First Ntaional Bank, of Fremont, Ohio, which was the fifth national bank char¬ tered in the United States. He was the vice-president of this bank from its founding until Jan. 27, 1874, when he became its president and so continued until his death. In April, 1882, he was one of the founders of the Fremont Savings Bank, of Fremont, Ohio, and was its first president, and continued to be its president until his death. Dr. Wilson invested largely in real estate, in Sandusky, Wood and Lucas counties. He held many positions of trust in his city and county. Samuel Wilson, the grandfather of Charles G. Wilson, was a prominent merchant, banker and land owner of Central Pennsylvania, and resided in New Berlin, in that State. The great-grandfather of Charles G. Wilson was of New England stock. About 1791, he went to Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, where, in 1793, he married Rebecca Orwig, and the same year was murdered by the Indians, as he was passing through the forest. He had received a fine education and was a lawyer by profession. Charles G. Wilson's maternal grandfather was James Justice, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, Aug. 18,

1794, of English parentage. When a youth his parents moved to Chillicothe, Ohio. In 1820, he married Eliza Moore, who was of Scotch parentage, and whose grandfather, George Davis, the greatgreat-grandfather of Charles G. Wilson, was a soldier in the Revo¬ lutionary war. In 1822, he removed to Lower Sandusky, now Fremont, Ohio, where he died, in 1873. James Justice was a sol¬ dier in the war of 1812 and took part in the campaigns in North¬ western Ohio. In 1825, at the age of thirty-one years, he was elected as Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and was commissioned for seven years by Gov. Jeremiah Morrow. In 1832, he was re-elected and was commissioned for an additional seven years by Gov. Duncan McArthur. Judge Justice was largely interested in manufacturing and banking, and was frequently placed by his fellow citizens in positions of public trust. He was a man possessed of a wonderful amount of good, hard, common sense, and had with it an abundant fund of humor that sweetened life and made him always a welcome companion. Charles G. Wilson attended the public schools of Fremont, Ohio, until April, 1863, when he went to the Reverend Brayton's college preparatory school, at Painesville, Ohio, to commence his preparation for col¬ lege. At this school, among his schoolmates, were a number of Toledo boys - Edward T. Waite, son of Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite, being his room mate; Frank Smith, son of Dennison B. Smith, and Joe Brown, grandson of General Brown. He remained at this school for a little more than a year and, in September, 1863, he entered Milnor Hall, a college preparatory school, at Gambier, Ohio. In September, 1864, he entered the Freshman class, at Gambier, Ohio, took the four-year classical course, and graduated June 25, 1868, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. On June 28, 1871, Kenyon College conferred upon him the addi¬ tional degree of Master of Arts. In college, he was always promi¬ nent in athletics. He played on the first nine of the college base¬ ball team during all lvs college course, as short-stop and catcher, and, in his Junior and Senior years, was Captain of the nine, being known as the "home-run getter." In these years, he weighed between 130 and 140 pounds, was very active and strong, and made it a rule to practice in the gymnasium nearly every day.

During all his preparatory school and college course, he never encountered any one who could defeat him, either at running or at high or broad jump. In his Freshman year, he became a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity - the original and always one of the leading college fraternities of the United States. In college, he early became identified with the Nupi Kappa Literary and De¬ bating Society, and during his college course was an ardently active member of the same. In his Senior year, he was president of his class, and was also chosen one of the four editors of the "Kenyon Reveille," a publication then, and still, issued by the Senior class. In 1868, in his Senior year, with four other brother fraternity men of his class, he took the Master's and the two pre¬ ceding degrees at the Masonic lodge, in Mount Vernon, Ohio, thus perpetuating through life the fraternal relations so happily begun at college. After graduation, he entered the law office of Buckland, Everett & Fowler, at Fremont, Ohio, where he commenced the study of law, and where he continued such study until October, 1869, when he entered the Harvard Law School, at Cambridge, Mass. Here he took the full course of two years and, June 28, 1871, was graduated by that institution with the degree of Bach¬ elor of Law. On Sept. 4, 1871, he was admitted to the bar, at Elyria, Ohio, by the old District Court then sitting there. On Oct. 2, 1871, Mr. Wilson took up his residence at Toledo, Ohio, and connected himself with the law office of Pratt & Starr, which consisted of Charles Pratt and Charles C. Starr. In July, 1872, Mr. Starr withdrew from the firm and Mr. Pratt and Mr. Wilson formed a law partnership, as Pratt & Wilson, with offices in the Finlay Building, known as the Chamber of Commerce, at the corner of Summit and Madison streets. This building has since burned. In 1879, Erskine H. Potter was admitted to the- firm, which then became Pratt, Wilson & Potter. This partnership con¬ tinued until 1880, when Mr. Potter withdrew and the firm again became Pratt & Wilson. In 1884, Henry S. Pratt, the oldest son of Charles Pratt, was admitted to the firm, which then became Pratt, Wilson & Pratt. In 1890, Henry S. Pratt withdrew from this partnership, which again became Pratt & Wilson and so con¬ tinued until Feb. 1, 1895, when it was dissolved by reason of the election of Judge Pratt to a seat on the Common Pleas bench. Since that time, Mr. Wilson has not been associated with any one in the practice of law. The firm of Pratt & Wilson was among the leaders of the Lucas county bar, and had a large practice in Lucas county and in the other counties of Northwestern Ohio, especially in the adjoining counties of Wood and Ottawa. On Mr. Wilson fell the burden of the business in the outside coun¬ ties, so that he often wondered to the bar of which county he rightfully belonged. The offices of Pratt & Wilson were on the second floor of the Chamber of Commerce Building, above men¬ tioned, room numbers 24 and 25, until early in 1884, when, with Judge John H. Doyle, they rented, for a term of years, the old brick Gardner residence, at the corner of Madison and Superior streets. This building they arranged for offices, and it was called "Gardner Place." Judge Doyle occupied the first floor, and Pratt & Wilson all the rooms on the second floor, and they made most commodious and comfortable offices. This was then a "pioneer" movement, for before that time St. Clair street was the extreme western boundary for law offices. In 1892, Pratt & Wilson were compelled to vacate these offices, on account of the erection of the present Gardner Building. They then took offices on the fourth floor of the Produce Exchange, numbers 44 and 45. Mr. Wilson continued in these offices, after the dissolution of the firm of Pratt & Wilson, until February, 1897, when he took offices on the fifth floor of the new Gardner Building, numbers 515 and 516, where he has since remained. While engaged in the active practice of his profession, Mr. Wilson was thoroughly grounded in the fundamental principles and theory of the law, as well as in the decisions of the courts. He had a retentive and active memory, and when a legal question was presented to him, he could ordi¬ narily give the title of a decision in point, with the volume and page where it could be found. In 1884, the Republicans of Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Erie, and Huron counties, comprising the First sub-division of the Fourth Judicial District of Ohio, nominated Mr. Wilson as their candidate for Common Pleas Judge. This judicial sub-division was largely Democratic. Mr. Wilson ran ahead of his ticket in every county, especially in Lucas county, where he resided, and for a time after the election his election was conceded, but when the Democratic votes from the wilds of Ottawa county were all counted and returned, it was found that he was beaten by a small majority. This was the year in which Grover Cleveland was elected President of the United States. In 1888, Mr. Wilson was again nominated for Common Pleas Judge, by the Republicans of the same counties, but was again unable to overcome the Democratic majority against him. On Nov. 1, 1893, he was chosen a director of the First National Bank, of Fremont, Ohio, and has been re-elected each year since then. On Aug. 5, 1904, he was elected vice-president of that bank, which position he held until April 4, 1905, when he was elected its president, and has each year since been re-elected to that position. During the past six or seven years, he has been inter¬ ested in the production of crude petroleum oil from wells drilled by him on land owned by him in Sandusky county, Ohio. During the past number of years, he has devoted a great deal of time to the development of his farm property, of which he has a large amount in Lucas, Wood, and Sandusky counties. He is a stock¬ holder in a number of banking institutions, besides the First National Bank of Fremont, and also in industrial corporations. The above matters, together with the care of other property interests, has taken so much of his time of late years that he has substantially withdrawn from the active practice of law. In politics, Mr. Wilson has always been a Republican. When a young man, he took a very active part in politics and was always a delegate to con¬ ventions from the old Seventh ward, which then comprised all of the territory from Monroe to Cherry streets, and from Woodruff avenue to the western city line. He was Republican ward com¬ mitteeman for that ward for years, and he served for many years as a member of the city and county Central and Executive com¬ mittees. He served as chairman of the Republican City Committee, and was judicial committeeman for Lucas county. He was always among the campaign speakers, who awoke the echoes and stirred up the natives. He is a member of Sanford L. Collins Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons, of Toledo, Ohio; a member of the To¬ ledo Club and of the Country Club, and for many years was a member of the Burns Curling Club. Mr. Wilson's parents were staunch members of the Protestant Episcopal church, and he was baptized in that church, but never became a member of the same. On Sept. 6, 1876, Mr. Wilson was married to Cornelia L., daughter of Isaac E. and Cornelia B. Amsden, of Fremont, Ohio. Two children were born of this marriage - Cornelia A., who is married to William F. Johnson, of Pittsburg, Pa.; and Justice Wilson, who married Marion L., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Sneath, of Tiffin, Ohio. Justice Wilson is a member of the Lucas county bar. Mr. Wilson is about five feet nine inches in height and weighs 215 pounds. He has a dark complexion and grayish blue eyes. He has always been an omnivorous reader. He spent his evenings at home, and usually read from early evening until 12 o'clock, or later. He has a large and diversified library of books, which he accumulated as he read them. He has no books for show, and he can truly say that all the books on his shelves are old friends, with whom he has spent many a pleasant hour. He has a great fund of humor and a quick and ready wit, and a good story for every occasion. The "good things" he has said are without number. He has frequently been called upon to act as toast¬ master at banquets, and he has rarely escaped being down for a response to a toast at the bar and other banquets he has attended.

Orville Sanford Brumback

Orville Sanford Brumback, attorney-at-law, and one of the leaders in legal circles of the city and State, was born on a farm, near Delaware, Ohio, Dec. 2, 1855. He is the son of John San¬ ford and Ellen (Purmort) Brumback. The father was a direct descendant of an old Virginia family, the progenitor of which emigrated from Switzerland and settled in the Shenandoah val¬ ley, in 1760. The mother was of English-French descent, and of a line directly traceable to the eminent jurist, Chancellor Wal¬ worth. In 1860, the parents left the farm and removed to Van Wert, Ohio, where the father became established in the dry-goods business, but subsequently he became a banker, and, as president of the Van Wert National Bank, was for years one of the most influential and successful citizens of Van Wert; and when he died, in 1897, the whole community mourned a true friend of the people, and an honorable, upright gentleman. By his will, drawn by his son Orville, he requested that his heirs carry out his plans for building and donating a public library to the city of his adop¬ tion. The bequest was made optional with his heirs, but they all entered enthusiastically into the project and built a splendid fire¬ proof stone library, the pride of all its citizens, in one of the parks of Van Wert. This was done before the era of Mr. Carnegie's library benevolence, so that the "Brumback Library" of Van Wert is well regarded as one of the pioneers in this splendid form of philanthropy. The mother, who yet survives her husband, makes her home in Van Wert, where she is well known as a lady of culture and refinement, and is beloved by all who know her. It was largely through her intelligent help and industry that her husband was able to attain the financial success he did. Orville S. Brumback was thoroughly and carefully educated, his father sparing no ex¬ pense to afford him the opportunity to obtain the highest degree of culture to be attained by attendance upon great educational institutions. Finishing his preparatory work in the Van Wert schools when he was but sixteen years of age, he matriculated in the classical course at Wooster University. At the end of his Soohomore year, being desirous of availing himself of the larger advantages afforded by the Eastern colleges, he left Wooster to enter the Junior class in Princeton University. Throughout the two years of his work in that renowned institution he maintained the same high standard of scholarship he had accomplished at Wooster. His ability and scholastic attainments soon won him recognition in the minds of students and faculty alike, so that when the time came for the selection of speakers for the commencement exercises of his class he was one of ten chosen out of a class of 130 members, to deliver the commencement day orations. His gradua¬ tion at Princeton was in the class of 1877, and his selection for the honors of the class was the more marked by reason of his being a Westerner in an institution composed largely of Eastern men, and the fact that but two years of his collegiate work had been done there. The faculty of the institution granted him the degree of Bachelor of Arts upon the completion of his college course, and later, in recognition of his prominence in letters, gave him the honorary degree of Master of Arts. Upon his return to Van Wert, immediately after commencement, Mr. Brumback became a student of the law in the office of Col. I. N. Alexander, one of the promi¬ nent Ohio lawyers of the old school. After some experience in professional work he became convinced that he was fitted for the practice of law, and acting upon this determination entered the college of law of the University of Michigan in the fall of 1877. In June, two years later, he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, conferred by the regents of that institution, and the following winter was successful in passing the examina¬ tion necessary for admission to practice before the Ohio bar. Com¬ ing to Toledo the same year he secured a position as assistant in the office of Dodge & Raymond, one of the largest legal firms of this part of the State at that time. In 1880, he had so far pro¬ gressed in the acquaintance and esteem of his associates that he felt the time was ripe to open an office of his own, and, acting upon this decision, "hung out his shingle." Ever since then he has made his profession the chief concern of his life, and his success has demonstrated the wisdom of his choice. His practice has been court work in all kinds of cases, particularizing more especially in corporation litigation. On Jan. 1, 1894, Mr. Brumback, in partnership with Hon. Frank Hurd and Charles A. Thatcher, organized the firm of Hurd, Brumback & Thatcher, which remained intact until the death of Mr. Hurd, in 1896. Out of respect for the deceased member, the surviving partners continued the practice under the same name until the final dissolution of the firm, in November, 1901. Since then Mr. Brumback has had no law partner, and, since June 1, 1907, has had his offices in the Nicholas Building, Suite 530 to 535. Fraternally, socially and in a business way, Mr. Brumback has been identified with the Blue lodge of the Masonic order, the Chamber of Commerce, the Busi¬ ness Men's Club, and the Lincoln Republican Club. While a student at Wooster, he became a member of the collegiate Greek letter fraternity, Sigma Chi, and, having never lost his interest in the order, has made it the means of keeping in touch with colleges and college men. He has frequently remarked that these associa¬ tions with young men have amply repaid him for the time spent, by helping to keep him young. He has been honored with the office of Grand Consul in the National body of his fraternity, and at the present time is one of the Grand Trustees of the order. For several years he was trustee and president of the Board of Trustees of the Toledo Public Library. His religious ideas find expression in his membership in the First Congregational Church. In the matters of politics, Mr. Brumback has ever been a staunch and loyal adherent to the principles of the Republican party. In 1885, he became a candidate for Representative in the Ohio legislature. It was the year when John Sherman was being opposed by John R. McLean, of the "Cincinnati Enquirer," for the United States Senate, and the fight for the legislature was strenuous all over the State. For several years Lucas county had been going Demo¬ cratic, so that it was expected its members in the legislature would continue to be Democratic. Mr. Brumback entered into the cam¬ paign, with his characteristic energy, and when the election returns were counted, it was found that he had run far ahead of his ticket, and was elected, while the other Republican legislative can- didates were defeated. His election was most vital, for the Repub¬ licans only had a majority of one upon joint ballot, with which to re-elect Senator Sherman. If Mr. Brumback had not been elected, John R. McLean would have had one majority. Nor was Mr. Sherman's election without national importance, for it was during this term in the Senate, for which he was thus elected, that he secured the passage of the celebrated Sherman Anti-Trust Law. This was also the year when the Cincinnati election frauds were perpetrated, and Mr. Brumback was appointed on the special committee to investigate the frauds and thereby made quite a reputation over the State. He served two years (1885-1886) in the legislature, and then declined a renomination, believing it unwise to subordinate his law practice to a political career. On Aug. 26, 1881, was solemnized Mr. Brumback's marriage to Miss Jennie Carey, daughter of Simeon B. Carey, a wholesale hardware dealer of Indianapolis, Ind. Two daughters were the issue of this union. Blanche Carey, the elder, graduated at Miss Smead's School for Girls in Toledo, and then entered Vassar College, where she gradu¬ ated in the class of 1906. On Sept. 16, 1906, she was married to Lyman Spitzer, second son of Adelbert L. Spitzer, and has one daughter, Lydia Carey Spitzer, born Oct. 7, 1909. Mr. Brum¬ back's younger daughter, Lydia Ellen, also graduated at the Smead school, and then attended the Castle school at Tarrytown-on-the- Hudson. She was married, June 1, 1910, to Horace E. Allen, eldest son of Dr. Horace N. Allen, ex-Minister from the United States to Korea. Mr. Brumback has a beautiful home at 1603 Madison avenue, where he and his charming wife dispense a delightful hospitality.

David Robison, Jr

David Robison, Jr., was born at Wooster, Ohio, Jan. 22, 1830, in the family home on Buckeye street, where his father conducted a large tannery. His father, David Robison, Sr., came from old Scotch lineage, his ancestors coming to this country in the Seventeenth century. His mother was of Irish descent, her fore¬ parents coming from County Antrim, Ireland, to this country, also in the Seventeenth century. In their religious belief, the members of his mother's family were strong Presbyterians, while the father was a Scotch Covenanter. He afterward gravitated into the Pres¬ byterian Church, to which the members of the family have be¬ longed for more than 200 years. Both families settled in Penn¬ sylvania, locating in Cumberland county, which afterward became Franklin county by a sub-division. Mr. Robison's maternal great-grandfather was Robert McConnell, who was born about 1700. He was a man of very strong character and religious belief, and was quite an element in moulding sentiment in that part of the State; and he was a soldier in the Colonial wars. To show the character of the stock from which Mr. Robison came, it is our pleasure to quote from the will of Robert McConnell, as follows: "In the name of God Amen, this 27th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one, I, Robert McConnell, of Township Letterkenny, County of Cumberland and Provence of Pennsylvania, yoeman, being very sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory, in calling to mind the mor¬ tality of the body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament; that is to say, and first of all, I give and recommend my soul to God who gave it, and for my body I recommit it to the earth to be buried in a christianlike and decent manner as the discretion of my executors, and nothing doubting, but at the general reserection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God." Mr. Robison's grandfather on his mother's side was John Me-