Yale University Library 39002006433198 W] m imnmm^m&m^ :to" YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Purchased from the income of the bequest of WILLIAM ROBERTSON COE Honorary M.A. 1949, for material in the field of American Studies. THE MEN BEHIND THE GUNS IN THE MAKING OF GREATER COLUMBUS. A BIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE WORK OF COLUMBUS MEN. GIVING THE LIVES OF PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS MEN WHOSE INTERESTS ARE CENTERED IN OHIO'S CAPITAL CITY. INCLUDING A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF EACH INDUSTRY REPRESENTED. OVER ONE HUNDRED PORTRAITS. Published under the co-operative system. COLUMBUS, OHIO, U. S. A. 1906 PRESS OF JOHN PFEIFER &. CO. COR. NOBLE AND PEARL COLUMBUS, OHIO. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. The portraits from which the engravings con tained herein were made, were furnished by Baker's Art Gallery, and much credit is due this Art Gallery for the assistance rendered, which greatly facilitated the progress of the book. I NDEX Page Joseph A. Jeffrey 4 S. B. Hartman 6 Robert E. Sheldon 8 James Kilbourne 10 E. F. Kinnear 13 A. S. Hammond 14 John H. Winder , 16 Louis G. Addison 17 Henry M. Neil 18 W. S. Courtwright 20 R. E. McCarty 22 Starling Loving 24 R. E. Jones 26 E. K. Stewart 28 Al. G. Field 30 John S. Jones 31 C. F. Evans 32 J. F. Firestone 34 John Joyce 36 E. W. Swisher 38 W. O. Thompson 40 Louis Ph. Hoster 42 Alfred Brenholts 43 Oliver Orr 44 George W. Lattimer 46 George W. Bright 48 E. L. Taylor, Jr 50 D. N. Kinsman 52 J. O. Johnston 54 J. J. Stoddart 55 INDEX. Page W. D. Guilbert 56 W. D. Brickell 58 W. J. Hamilton 60 J. G. Battelle 62 Harry Olmstead 64 Edwin R. Sharp 66 O. T. Snyder 67 D. W. McGrath fi8 Ulric Sloane 70 A. F. Emminger 72 J. E. Blackburn 74 George J. Karb 76 Gilbert H. Stewart 78 W. C. Cussins 79 C. W. Stuber 80 Fred J. Immel 82 L. L. Rankin 84 Charles L. Dickey 86 Claude Meeker 88 F. W. Schumacher 90 P. V. Burrington 91 Emery J. Smith 92 Johr H. Smith 94 C. Van Sickle 96 H. S. Waite 98 Isaac B. Cameron 100 Tingley Morris 102 Thos. Hammond 103 E. F. Shaffer 104 J. F. Angell 106 INDEX. Page J. S. M. Goodloe 108 R. Grosvenor Hutchins 110 James M. Butler 112 Robert H. Jeffrey 114 J. M. Roan 115 Fred Vercoe 116 Horace L. Chapman 118 H. J. Booth 120 Joseph C. Campbell 122 H. C. Godman 124 Samuel L. Black 126 L. E. Sturm 127 Thomas Hardesty 128 F. O. Schoedinger 130 C. E. Richards 132 Joseph Schonthal 134 Moses H. Neil 136 J. Nicholas Koerner 138 C. C. Green 139 C. Edw. Born 140 Fred Lazarus 142 John S. Morton 144 F. M. Hoover 146 John H. Mackie 148 Louis Lang 150 L. D. Lampman 151 George H. Bulford 152 W. E. Ewers 154 R. Stanley Rhoadea 156 W. V. Baker 158 INDEX. Page Caleb L, McKee 160 J. TJ. Barmhill 162 E. C. Morton 163 O. S. Marckworth 164 John Peil 166 Charles B. Wolfe 168 Fred Lied 170 John K. Sowers 172 W. K. Field 174 Perin B. Monypeny 175 J. T. Adams 176 Frank L. Griffith 178 Adolphus Felty 180 Allen W. Williams 1 82 Fred J. Herr 184 W. E. Meade 186 Wm. R. Lazenby 188 C. C. Aler 190 Charles H. Neil 192 Frank E. Avery 194 B. F. Murdock 196 Elmer E. Harr 197 Walter A. Jones 198 G. D. Curtis 200 C. Chris. Born 202 John M. Taylor 204 H. O. Pond 206 Thomas Johnson 208 A. A. Hershey 209 Charles A. Suydam 210 INDEX. Page Charles A. Thomas 212 Herbert E. Bradley 214 John R. Gobey 216 Albert E. Sartain 218 T. T. Swearingen 220 Wm. R. Powell 221 Emil Hoster 222 H. H. Hershey 224 T. G. Youmans 226 Robert L. Bruce 228 W. M. Scott 230 Crayton W. Black 232 Jewett T. Clark 233 H. M. Martin 234 Wm. Monypeny, Jr 236 F. W. Atcherson 238 G. D. Preston 240 Herman Hoster 242 W. T. McCIure 244 Lorenzo D. Haggerty 246 John G. Dun 248 George T. Macauley 250 W. F. Goodspeed 252 E. J. Farley 254 T. A Morton 256 W H. Kinsell 258 Carl Hoster 260 George H. Hopper 262 E. A. Reed 264 George D. Cross 265 GUNS AND THE MEN. It remained for the science of modern warfare to ascertain and demonstrate the fact that "the man behind the gun" is a more im portant factor in placing a well-delivered shot than the gun itself. True, each would be useless without the other, but experience has shown that a trained eye and steady nerve behind a poor gun will accomplish more execution than the opposite qualities behind a good gun. Relatively speaking, the same thing is true of all efforts toward great achievements. The opportunity is the first but not the most important consideration ; then comes the Man, who is the essential one. The gun is merely the opportunity. The ideal condition exists when the man and the opportunity meet. No person who studies the history of Central Ohio can fail to be struck with the fact that here the great problem of the fitness of men to do a certain great work under certain natural conditions imposed by an unwavering rule, has met with this ideal solution. The opportunity was found by the early pioneers in the original fertile valley of the Scioto, and from generation to generation it expanded by sheer force of the manner in which it was improved upon by "the man behind the guns in the making of greater Columbus." It may be conceded that almost any strain of human blood or degree of human intelligence would have gone forward rather than backward under the influence of natural conditions prevailing in this region. It is in the heart of a country providentially designated as one for the highest reward of agricultural pursuits — the first essential in the welfare of all enlightened nations. It has at its doors the wealth of the great Ohio coal fields, largely commanding the traffic of the great Lakes. It lies midway between the metropolitan centers of the East and West, and is therefore a gateway of transcontinental commerce. It is highly favored in climatic conditions — all of which, when taken into consideration, inevitably stamps the physical location of Columbus as among the most desirable on earth for a happy, indus trious, growing community of homes. It is natural that the all-conquering spirit of American Emigration should have looked with early favor on this Land of Promise. Hither came the rugged pioneers of the olden time, vet erans of the Revolution, many of them, and other I thousands representing the best blood of the East. . They were men and women physically and men tally endowed to found a new community under ; auspices certain to assure a happy and prosperous posterity. Decade followed decade, and still the tide of population drawn from outward sources continued to afford Columbus the nation's best material in citizenship, while the native-born descendants of the first settlers developed anew the characteristic traits of their ancestors and on this foundation built a superstructure of culture and education now represented in the social intercourse of a people second to none in enlightment and civic use- fullness. The result is a cosmopolitan population infinitely diversified in origin, but one in purpose. No city can boast more loyal sons and daughters than Columbus, and perhaps none so well illustrates the effectiveness of a common object. That object is to make the best of every natural advantage that is within and around us ; to subordi nate no feature of metropolitan developement to another, but to culti vate an equal growth in intellectual, material and moral progress ; to plant the oak, not the mushroom ; to erect a fortress, not a barricade. How notably these objects have been acomplished by "The Men Behind the Guns in the making of greater Columbus," it would be impossible to relate in a brief introductory essay like the present, but what some of them have accomplished for the general good may be judged by the following pages. WEBSTER P. HUNTINGTON. JOSEPH A. JEFFREY JOSEPH A. JEFFREY. Joseph A. Jeffrey is a native of Clarksville, Clinton county, Ohio, where he was born January 17, 1836. His school days were spent in St. Mary's, completing his education in the high school at that place, followed by a service of four years in a general store. Later he came to Columbus and obtained a position in the office of Rickley Bros., private bankers. He re mained in their employ until 1886, as bookkeeper, teller and cashier. In the same year he went to Cincinnati, engaging in the carpet and fur nishing business, and later became a member of the firm of Rickley, Howell & Co. He soon sold his interest in this firm and returned to Columbus, and with the late S. S. Rickley organized and established the Commercial Bank, now known as the Commercial National Bank. One year later he sold his interests in the bank and organized a g-eneral partnership under the name of the Commercial Bank and became its cashier. After a prosperous career in the banking business, Mr. Jeffrey retired and began operations in the manufac turing line, purchasing a controlling interest in the Lechner Mining Machine Company, of Columbus, incorporated in 1878 with a capital of $50,000, and later increased to $300,000, he later becoming its president. The corporation finally became known as the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company. This corpor ation has a big plant covering 13 acres of land, and employs more than 1,000 men. It manufactures electric machinery, dynamos, motors, undercutting coal mining machinery, electric and air-power drills, chain belting, elevators, etc. It is one of the largest concerns of the kind in the world, and finds a market for its goods in every quarter of civilization. Mr. Jeffrey is a stock holder in the Commercial National Bank, Ohio Trust Company, and many other Columbus enterprises. He is a member of Columbus Club, Arlington Country Club, and the Middle Bass Club of Lake Erie. SAMUEL B. HARTMAN SAMUEL B. HARTMAN. Dr. Samuel B. Hartman was born in Harrisburg, Pa., April 1, 1830. When but six years old his parents removed to Lancaster county, Pa. It was a hard struggle for existence, for the Hartman family was not greatly blessed with this world's goods. Young Hartman when but 14 years old came to Ohio with his brother, the late Jacob Hartman, and learned the carpenter trade, an occupation he followed until his 21st year. Up to that time he had enjoyed but six months schooling, but he had improved his spare moments, so that at the age of 21 he entered the Farmers' College in Cincinnati, Ohio. From there he removed to Midway, Ohio, where he studied medicine under Dr. Shacklford. He attended lectures at Ohio Wesleyan Reserve University, then practiced for two years in Tippecanoe City, afterward attending Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. After graduation he located at Millers- ville, Pa., having Dr. Alexander Cassidy, a celebrated physician, as his partner, continuing for 12 years, when Dr. Hartman retired. He had pros pered, but was caught in a number of unfortunate investments and became practically bankrupt. It was necessary for him to begin all over again. With $500 he had saved out of the wreck, and at 40 years of age, he went into itinerant practice as a specialist of the eye, ear, catarrh and cripples, visiting every large city in the country. He traveled for 23 years. His prescription for catarrh called Peruna, was doing wonders. The doctor found it difficult to get druggists in various cities to prepare the prescription in a uniform manner. This compelled him to put up Peruna himself at Osborne, Ohio, in a small way. The business grew beyond control. He came to Columbus in 1885 and the Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company was organized, which is one of the largest medicine laboratories in the country. Dr. Hartman has not forgotten the city where he achieved his great success and his money is freely given to every good object. ROBERT E. SHELDON ROBERT E. SHELDON. Robert E. Sheldon was born June 1, 1854, at Tiffin, Ohio. One year later he moved to Columbus, where he has since resided. In 1855, the State Legis lature sat for the first time in what was then the new state house, and young Mr. Sheldon was chosen one of the pages of the Senate. In 1856 he went to work for John Mclntire, the grocer, delivering goods in a wheelbarrow. When fourteen years of age, he entered the retail dry-goods store of Dwight, Stone & Co. Four years later he secured a position with the wholesale dry- goods house of Kelton, Bancroft & Co. In 1864 he responded to his country's call to arms, and enlisted in the 133d Regiment, doing support duty for the army in front of Petersburg. In 1869 he went with Miller, Green and Joyce, where he remained for seventeen years as employe and partner. In 1885 the firm of Miles, Bancroft and Sheldon was formed, with Mr. Sheldon as junior partner. Nine years later the firm became Bancroft, Sheldon & Co. and in 1901 Mr. Sheldon absorbed his deceased partner's interest, and incorporated the R. E. Sheldon Dry Goods Co. Two of Mr. Sheldon's sons are associated with him in business, Butler Sheldon as vice-president, and R. E. Sheldon, Jr., as secretary of the company. In 1884 Mr. Sheldon became interested in the Columbus Street Railway Co., first as member of the board of directors, then in 1893 as vice-president, and in 1898 he succeeded Mr. Emerson McMil- len as president, a position he holds today. He is also president of the Citizen's Savings Bank, and a director of the Ohio Trust Co. He is one of the most public-spirited citizens of Columbus, and everything tending to advance the interests of his home city enlists his most cordial encouragement and support. JAMES KILBOURNE JAMES KILBOURNE. Colonel James Kilbourne, one of the most distinguished citizens of Columbus in its business, social and political life, was born in this city October 9, 1841. He comes of a family noted for patriotism and good citizen ship, his grandfather, Col. James Kilbourne, having been one of Ohio's first pioneers and the first to represent his district in the United States Congress, while his father, Lincoln Kilbourne, was a leading merchant of Columbus. James Kilbourne graduated from Kenyon College in 1862, and two years later received the degree of Master of Arts. Within a few days after he passed his last examination he enlisted in the Eighty-fourth Regiment, O. V. I., and was transferred to the Ninety-fifth Regiment, serving with dis tinction through the entire war, having enjoyed the grade of captain, and been breveted major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel of United States Volunteers. At the close of the war Colonel Kilbourne entered the law school at Harvard, graduating in 1868, but he never practiced his profession, preferring to enter into business with his father. A few years later he founded the Kilbourne & Jacobs Manufacturing Company, the largest establishment of 10 the kind in the world. Colonel Kilbourne has enjoyed unusual distinction at the hands of his fellow-citizens. He has been a director and in 1895 president of the Columbus Board of Trade, vice-president of the Franklinton Centen nial Commission in 1897, director of the Columbus Club and four times its president, and one of the earliest presidents of the Arlington Country Club. He is a director in the First National and the Clinton National Banks ; of the Hocking Valley and the Columbus, Cincinnati and Midland Railways, and is identified with many private business corporations and political and social organizations. For years he has been president of the board of trustees of the Columbus Public Library ; president of the Kenyon College Association of Central Ohio ; president of the Central Ohio Harvard Club ; life member of the Ohio Archeological Society and vice-president of the Old Northwest Geneological Society. He was president of the Columbus Children's Hospital for years, president of the Columbus Neighborhood Guild Association, and member of the Board of Managers of the Associated Charities of Columbus. In politics Col. Kilbourne represented the Twelfth Ohio Congressional district at the Democratic National Conventions of 1892, 1896, 1900 and 11 1904. At the State Convention held in Zanesville in 1899 he received 237 votes for the nomination for governor, and in 1900 was a delegate at large to the Kansas City Convention and chairman of the Ohio delegation. Tn July, 1901, he was nominated by acclamation for governor by the Ohio Democratic convention, but was defeated by the late Governor Nash. Governor Campbell appointed him a member of the Commission to the Columbian Exposition at Chicago, but was compelled to decline the honor. In 1898 he was a member of the Ohio Centennial Commission and the presi dent of that body. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Union Veteran Legion and Loyal Legion, and was formerly vice-president of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. He belongs to the Sons of the American Revolution, and has been the president of the Columbus Cuban Legion since its formation. When the Spanish-American war broke out, Colonel Kilbourne tendered his services to the government, but they were not accepted. He also offered the services of three of his sons. On the 5th of October, 1869, Colonel Kilbourne married Miss Anna B. Wright, eldest daughter of the late General George B. Wright, and they have four children, three sons and one daughter. 12 EDGAR F. KINNEAR. As we whizz through a railroad tunnel we are perhaps, unconsciously reminded of the ingenuity of man in overcoming obstacles that at one time seemed insurmountable. And we may wonder what sort of personality is behind such stupendous construction. It is therefore fitting to mention here the name of Edgar F. Kinnear, of the big contracting firm of Hoover & Kinnear. Edgar F Kinnear was born in Columbus, Ohio, November 15, 1861. He graduated from the high school and studied civil engineering at the Ohio State University. His father having been county engineer for 30 years, it seemed but natural that the son should follow the same profession. In 1882 Mr. Kinnear became assistant engineer of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Midland division, continuing in that position for two years. He then entered his father's office as deputy county engineer till 1889. A co partnership was then formed between F. M. Hoover, E. F. Kinnear and Wm. M. Graham, engaging in heavy contract work. At the end of ten years Mr. Graham retired from the business. The present firm of Hoover & Kin near has to its credit some of the most important work done in the middle west, comprising tunnel construction, steam shovel work, heavy masonry, and grading and rock work. Branch offices are maintained in Pittsburg, Buffalo and Arcade, N. Y., Covington, O., and Jacksonville and Wheeling, W. Va. Mr. Kinnear is a Mason, a member of the Arlington, Ohio and Arlington Country Clubs of Columbus, and the Young Men's Republican Club of Baltimore, Md. He is popular in business and social circles, and is not only proud of the city of his birth but is a prime mover in any enterprise that helps to make a Greater Columbus. 13 ARCHIBALD S. HAMMOND. From shipping clerk to the post of general manager of one of the largest grocery houses in the middle west, such is the record of Archibald S. Ham mond. In the first post of duty he made a record for integrity and close attention to business, and his promotion came as a matter of course. Archi bald S. Hammond is a product of Morgan county, Ohio, born in McConnells- ville, July 19, 1860. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, but at the age of 14 years he began to do for himself. He came to Columbus from McConnellsville in 1880, when he was but 20 years of age, and entered the wholesale grocery firm of McDaniel & Johnson, in the Monypeny block, North High street, in the position of shipping clerk. But by industry and close attention to business he rose in the esteem of his employers and asso ciates, until January 1, 1883, when the grocery house of Monypeny-Hammond Company was organized, the subject of this biographical sketch being one of the large stockholders. The house is now a branch of the Midland Grocery Co., the latter being incorporated in 1903. In that year he was elected presi dent of the concern, a place that he still holds, to the satisfaction of all concerned. The house puts up many specialties known as the "American Beauty Brands" in the line of canned goods, coffee, tea, pickles, cereals, etc. Their trade extends all over Ohio and has invaded many adjoining states, with a constantly increasing patronage in every direction. Mr. Hammond takes a great deal of interest in secret society affairs, being a Knight Templar and member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel lows. In 1884 he was married to Miss Etta Benbow, of this city, and two children are the result of that union, a son and a daughter. The Hammond familv reside in a beautiful home at No. 153 AVoodland avenue. 14 JOHN H. WINDER 15 JOHN H. WINDER. John H. Winder is a North Carolinian by birth, being born in Raleigh, on August 23, 1862 He attended a private school until 15 years of age, when he entered the High school in Alexandria, Va., and later the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington. He began his railroad career immediately upon leaving the last named seat of learning, beginning as clerk with the Raleigh &Gaston Railway, which corporation was latterly merged with the Seaboard Air Line, with which he remained during a long time, occupying various posi tions as clerk, etc., in the transportation department. In 1890 he was made superintendent of the Northern Division, then transferred to Atlanta, Ga., as superintendent and general agent. In April, 1894, he was made general man ager of the system with headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., remaining there until 1896. In 1896 he came to Columbus at the instance of eastern owners to take charge of their coal interests along the Hocking Valley Railway, which pro duce 600,000 tons annually. Since then he has managed a consolidation of the Hocking Valley and Allied coal interests, whose combined capacity is ten million tons annually. John H. Winder believes in a square deal, and in his transactions has gained a reputation for integrity, broad views and liberality. His last great merger includes such corporations as the Sunday Creek Coal Company, the Buckeye Coal and Railway Company, Ohio Land and Railway Company, Con tinental Coal Company, Kanawha and Hocking Coal and Coke Company, St. Paul and Western Coal Company, and the Boston Coal, Dock and Wharf Com pany. He is the president and directing head, as a tribute to his great powers- of organization and as a mark of the confidence reposed in him by the stock holders. Mr. Winder is married and is the father of two beautiful boys. His wife is one of the moving spirits in the Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization in which she has for years taken a great deal of interest, as well as a social favorite in Columbus. 16 LOUIS G. ADDISON. The commonwealth of Ohio has ever been fruitful of men who have achieved national renown. She has also been productive of many loyal sons, who, but for their conservatism might reap great honors by the grace of the American people. One of the latter class is the subject of this writing, Louis G. Addison, of the law firm of Addison, Links and Babcock. Mr. Addison was born April 28, 1862, in P.erry county, Ohio, while his mother was a native of Franklin county. Addison, the youth , attended the country schools of Perry county and showed great aptitude in the assimilation of knowledge. While still young he taught school in the country and was accounted one of the most efficient in that part of the state. Judge Nash took an unusual interest in our subject and promised that after young Addi son has finished a course of study of law he should enter the judge's law office, and this promise was fulfilled. In 1887 Mr. Addison finished a course in philosophy at the Ohio State University, and in 1891 received a degree of bachelor of law, and in the same year was admitted to the practice of his profession. From the day Mr. Addison swung his shingle to the wind, his law practice has witnessed a phenomenal growth. As a corporation lawyer he has few equals in middle west, and is today the counsel for a number of the largest corporations in Columbus. He is a man of great affability combined with a magnetic per sonality. He is in love with his profession, and few men possess his indom itable energy. He is a member of the Ohio and Columbus Country Clubs, and is first, last and always an active exponent of the doctrine of Greater Columbus. He was married to Miss Liea Kinsell of Clermont county. They have a bright daughter three years old. 17 HENRY M. NEIL. Henry M. Neil was born in the city of Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 4, 1832. He attended Pliillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and two years at Concord, Mass. He graduated from Harvard and returned to Columbus and assisted his father in his business operations. In 1858 Mr. Neil opened a drug store at High and Gay streets. In 1861, he enlisted in the army in response to the call of President Lincoln for troops and recruited two companies. He was assigned to the staff of Governor Dennison as mustering officer. Mr. Neil's war record from this time was as follows : Jan. 7, 1862, first lieutenant, Eleventh Ohio Battery, Light Artillery ; was with Gen Halleck's army at the capture of Corinth, Miss. ; participatel in the battles of Corinth and Iuka, Miss; Oct. 27, sent home on account of wounds received; March 8, 1863, was detached from the Eleventh Battery and assigned by General Grant to the command of Battery F, Second United States Light Artillery ; was again detached and assigned to the duty of raising the Twenty-second Ohio Battery Light Artillery, and on April 28, 1863, was commissioned captain of this bat tery and assigned to Gen. Cox's command, district of Ohio; was in the expe dition against Gen. Imboden in West Virginia from April 28 to May 16, 1863, and against Gen. Morgan during his famous raid in Ohio from July 1 to 26th ; Aug. 12 was assigned to the artillery brigade of the Twenty-third Army Corps, Army of Ohio, and participated in the siege and capture of Cumber land Gap, afterward being assigned to command all the artillery at the Gap ; remained there till January 9, 1864, then sent home to recruit; resigned from the army February 13, 1864, owing to disability arising from wounds and ex posure. Mr. Neil is an honored member of the Loyal Legion of the Societies of the Army of Tennessee, Army of Cumberland, ex-Soldiers' and Naval Of ficers of Cincinnati, Grand Army of the Republic, the ex-Soldiers' and Sailors' Association of Franklin County and the Union Veteran Legion. Mr. Neil has a beautiful home at Indianola, filled with trophies of his career in the army. 18 W. S. COURTRIGHT 19 W. S. COURTRIGHT. W. S. Courtright was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, July 24, 1852. He received the usual country school education, attended the Fairfield Union Academy for two terms and the Reynoldsburg school two terms, after which he studied telegraphy. In 1872 he was appointed agent for the Hocking Valley Railway at Carroll, O., where he remained until 1881, when he was transferred to Buchtel, O. He secured a position with the Akron Iron Co. in 1882 at traveling coal salesman and continued with the Columbus Hocking Coal and Iron Co. until 1885, when he resigned to enter the coal business for himself. His first business venture was with William Job and J. S. Jones, under the title of the Brush Fork Coal Co., controlling the "Job plant" which was the largest mine ever operated in the Hocking district. In 1S86 this property was sold to the Babcock and Morris Coal Co. and Mr. Courtright remained with the latter company as vice-president until 1887 when he sold his interest and retired. He then organized the firm of C. Kestler & Cox, which developed the plant at Hollister, Athens county, Ohio. In 1899 he purchased Mr. Kestlers' interest in the firm and organized the Courtright Coal Co., which was sold to the Continental Coal Co. in 1902. He was director, secretary and treasurer of the Ohio Central from 1897 to 1899. This was one of the large firms of the state with a capacity of 1,300,000 tons of coal per annum. In September, 1892, the Chittenden Hotel Co. was organized and Mr. Courtright was elected a director and vice-president and in 1897 he was elected president, a position which he held until 1900, when he disposed of his interest in the company. From 1892 until 1896 he was interested in the Columbus Bicycle Co. and a 20 member of the board of directors. He was one of the incorporators of the Ohio Trust Co., which was organized in 1901, and served for several years as vice-president and a member of the board of directors. In 1901 he became interested in the Merchants and Manufacturers National Bank, then one of the leading banking houses of Columbus, and was elected to membership on the board of directors. In 1903 he was elected vice-president and on the retirement of Mr. Park in 1904 was chosen president of the bank. In 1905 the Union National Bank was organized with a capital stock of $750,000, and Mr. Courtright was elected president. In 1900 the West Side Dime Savings Bank was organized, of which Mr. Courtright has since been a director and president. He organized the Pleasantville, Ohio, Bank in 1903, and has since been president of this institution. Among the other successful business enterprises with which Mr. Courtright is identified are the Sun Manufacturing Co., of which he is ex-president; the Columbus Brick and Terra Cotta Co., a very successful concern having the enormous output of six million brick per year ; and the Washtanow Garden Co., located near Manchester, Mich., and vice-president and director of the Scioto Valley Traction Company. He is a member of the Columbus Board of Trade, the Columbus Club, the Arlington Country Club and the Columbus Country Club. During his residence in Columbuns Mr. Courtright has made a host of friends and has won the confidence and esteem of all who know him. 21 ROBERT ELMORE McCARTY. This is the story of a railroad man who started at the menial post of tele graph operator at a small station on the Pan-Handle, and to-day occupies the responsible position of general superintendent of the southwest system of lines west of Pittsburg, for that great corporation — Robert E. McCarty. Mr. McCarty is yet a young man, having been born in Leavittsburg, Ohio, April 25, 1862. He attended the common and grammar schools at Carrollton, and then went to Bowerstown to learn the art of telegraphing. In 1879 he joined the forces of the Pan-Handle, where he remained until 1881 as an operator, being in the latter year promoted to copying operator for the train dispatcher, continuing in that capacity until 1893, when he was assigned to special duties under the superintendent. In March, 1895, Mr. McCarty was made assistant trainmaster for the Pittsburg division of the Pan-Handle, and in July, 1896, became trainmaster, followed in January, 1902, by his further promotion to superintendent of the Pittsburg division. On April 10, 1905, he was' given his present position of general superintendent of the South-West system of lines west of Pittsburg. Thus from one post to another his advancement was rapid, indicating a faithful performance of duty wherever placed, for railway i tanagements, like others, are quick to discern and recognize true worth and excellence. Mr. McCarty is a great lover of athletic sports and has found time away from his multifarious duties to indulge in the healthful pastime. He belongs to a number of gun and bowling clubs, and has won many prizes as a mark of his prowess. In a social way, Mr. McCarty is a member of the Columbus and Arlington Country Clubs and the Duquesne Club of Pittsburg. He was married some years ago to Miss Adelaide Shaffer, of Pittsburg. Two daughters have been the result of this union, one married and one single. 22 STARLING LOVING 23 STARLING LOVING. Dr. Starling Loving sprang from Kentucky stock. He was born near Russellville, November 13, 1828, and his childhood and his boyhood were spent there. Fie attended French's Academy and except in school hours led a free, active out-door life. He came to Columbus in July, 1846, and studied medicine under Dr. Francis Carter, and attended the medical school con ducted by Drs. Howard, Lathrop and S. M. Smith. He then took a course of instruction at Willoughby Medical College. Starling Medical College was founded in 1847 and that winter he entered there as a student, taking his degree as doctor of medicine in 1849. After passing a competitive examin ation he entered Belleview Hospital, New York, as interne. A year later he was transferred to Charity Hospital, serving two years. He was then house physician, first at the Emigrant Hospital, and then at the Children's Hospital, for four months. In October, 1854, he returned to Columbus and went into partnership with Dr. Carter. The following year he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy at Starling College, and in 1875 succeeded Dr. Smith as teacher of practical medicine. In 1883 he was made dean of the college. He has been a physician at St. Francis Hospital since 1860, and is now consulting physician at Mt. Carmel and Lawrence Hospitals. During the war he was commissioned surgeon and remained until 1863, when his health failed. During his long years of service he has had a strong influence on the medical profession in Central Ohio, and his reputation is national. Year in and year out he has given diplomas to young physicians graduating from Starling, and the west is sprinkled with physicians who were given their last professional advice by Dr. Loving. He stands for all that is best whether in his profession or as a citizen, ever alert for whatever will accomplish most for the prestige of the municipality. 24 RICHARD ELLIS JONES 25 RICHARD ELLIS JONES. Richard E. Jones was born in Liverpool, England, August 10, 1853. He attended the schools of Liverpool until 16 years of age and there learned the carpenter trade and came to America at an early age. In 1874 he worked on the Dennison University at Granville and the Union Station in Columbus. Three years later he was engaged by the government in the construction of Fort Custer, Wyoming, returning to Columbus in 1878. Mr. Jones then went into the lumber trade at Corning, Ohio, and subdivided and laid out that city. He was a member of the Corning City Council and its first mayor. After six years he returned to Columbus, buying out the undertaking firm of J. M. Stuart, at 16 East Broad street, remaining there five years, then removing to his present magnificent quarters at 277 East Broad street. His is one of the most perfectly equipped undertaking establishments in the country, espe cially designed for the purpose, including chapel and a luxurious display of sample burial cases. Mr. Jones has every dollar of his possessions invested in Columbus enterprises, being vice president of the American Savings Bank and interested in the Ohio Trust Co. He has been an extensive traveler, having practically visited every country on the globe He has buried such prominent men as Peter Hayden, General Potter, U. S. A., General Haskell, Senator Thurman, Governor Bushnell, Governor Nash, Judge Harrison and Cotton Allen. Mr. Jones has served two terms as president of the Ohio Funeral Directors' Association and three years as president of the Ohio' State Board of Embalming Examiners. He was appointed by Governor Bushnell trustee of the Boys' Industrial School at Lancaster, Ohio, and reappointed by Governor Nash, serving as president of the board three years. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and Past Imperial Commander, an Elk, I O. O F., K. of P., member Board of Trade and Columbus Country Club. His son, Bertram, is now a partner in the business. Mr. Jones wedded Miss Nellie Jones, of Columbus, with whom he has been joined in happy wedlock. 26 EDWARD K. STEWART 27 EDWARD K. STEWART. This prominent business man is a native of the city of Columbus, O., where he was born October 26, 1845. His early education was secured in the public schools of the Capital City, and he early went into the banking business, his first service in that line being with the Franklin Branch Bank, which latterly became the Franklin National Bank. Then he engaged as teller with the Hayden, Hutchison Co., then acted for years as cashier of the Hayden & Co. Bank, now known as the Hayden-Clinton National Bank. Mr. Stewart retired from the banking business in 1892, being attracted to the street railway business six years previously, when he became interested in the East Park Place Street Railway Co., now the Long Street line of the Columbus Railway and Light Co. In 1880 this line became a part of the main and High Street consolidation. In 1892 Mr. Stewart became vice- president and general manager of the Columbus Street Railway Co. In 1899 the Columbus Central and the Crosstown lines were absorbed, forming the Columbus Railway Co. In 1903 the Columbus Railway and Light Co. was formed, leasing the property of the Columbus Railway Co. and the Columbus Editon Co. Mr. Stewart is now vice president and general manager of the Columbus Railway and Light Co., and during the years of his activity in railway extension, construction and promotion has been an active force in giving Columbus one of the finest plants of street railway transportation to be found anywhere in the country. Mr. Stewart is president of the Case Manufacturing Co., vice-president of the Union National Bank, member of the board of directors of the Columbus Gas Light and Heating Co., Scioto Valley Traction Co., the Ohio Trust Co., and the Lincoln Savings Bank. He is also connected with the Columbus Board of Trade, and a member of all the leading social organizations in the city. 28 AL. G. FIELD 29 AL G. FIELD. Few men have stood more prominently in the glare of publicity than the subject of this sketch, and none has ever turned its radiance to more unselfish ends. As a public entertainer Al G. Field has necessarily been a prominent public character, but he has never failed, whenever opportunity offered, to turn that fact to the advantage of the city and people of Columbus. No agency has more widely advertised the capital of Ohio than the veteran minstrel. He has perpetuated the best traditions of negro minstrelsy in an age when they seemed on the verge of dying out, and has added to its liter ature, its art and its history. His character is nowhere better illustrated than in the deep interest he manifested toward the aged Emmett, author of the historic song "Dixie." Meanwhile in his profession as an entertainer Mr. Field has upheld the moral atmosphere of the stage. His success is largely due to his genius for mingling the best to be found in the old and the new, into a perfect composition. Mr. Field's broad association in fraternal societies has been a natural outgrowth of a career whose chief interest has been based upon countless friendships covering all sections of the country. A man less loyal to his home city than Mr. Field might have turned all his opportunities of obtaining publicity to his own account, but with him the interests of Columbus have always been uppermost. He has been a veritable missionary to the people of other states in behalf of the capital of Ohio, and at home has manifested for years a devotion to the city which has endeared it to him quite as much as he has felt himself endeared to it. In simple justice it can be said of Al G. Field that his life has been a serious one, despite a profession which may not seem so, and that to his fellow-citizens it has always appeared as a life of eminent usefulness. 30 JOHN SUTPHIN JONES. From telegraph operator to the presidency of several great coal mining companies is the simple yet powerful story of the subject of this writing. John Sutphin Jones was born near Washington Court House, Ohio, January 4, 1849. His parents were Welsh and came to the United States from North Wales in 1831. John S. Jones, the boy, was .educated in the public schools at his birthplace. On leaving school he became telegraph operator but after one year in this work he was seized with an ambition to learn the railroad business He started in as freight brakeman, was promoted to freight con ductor, then to conductor of a passenger train, and again to trainmaster and assistant superintendent; then to superintendent in Ohio. His last railroad work was as division superintendent of the M. L. S. and W. in Wisconsin from which he resigned in 1899 to become western manager for the Columbus and Hocking Coal & Iron Co. For several years he has been the head of the Jones & Adams Company, operating coal docks at Ashland and West Super ior, Wis., and Duluth, Minn. This company also conducts a general jobbing business and owns and operates coal mines in Springfield and Danville, Ills., and the Hocking Valley District in Ohio. In addition to the Jones & Adams Co.'s interests, of which Mr. Jones is the principal owner, he is president of the National Hocking Coal Company, an organization owning over 40,000 acres of coal lands in Ohio. He is also connected with the Buckeye Steam ship Co. Mr. Jones is a member of the Union League Club, and the Mid-Day, Kenwood and AVashington Park clubs of Chicago. He is also a member of the Appollo Commandery, and Medinah Temple, Chicago, and the Columbus Club of Columbus. Mr. Jones was married in October, 1884, to Miss Sarah Follett, only daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Follett of Granville, Licking county, Ohio. His magnificent country place is at Granville, Ohio, while his permanent residence is in Chicago, 111. 31 CHARLES F. ElVANS. Charles F. Evans was born in Ravenna, Ohio, August 6, 1856, and re ceived his education in the public schools of that village, afterward graduat ing from the high school. His earliest operations were at Cleveland, where he began work in the office of the Merchants' Dispatch and Transportation Company, doing whatever there was for a boy to accomplish in the office. He remained there eight years, attaining the position of secretary to the general manager. His field of operations were then transferred to Toledo, where he acted as agent of the same company. In 1881 Mr. Evans removed to Columbus and became general agent of the Big Four Railway and looking after the terminal business of the company until 1891. Here he gave the best of satisfaction, and it was with the deepest regret on the part of the officials of the road that he severed his connection with the line. But Mr. Evans was ambitious to engage in business on his own account, and in about a year after he had quit the service of the railroad company, he entered the wholesale and retail coal business, purchasing mining properties in the famous Sunday Creek Valley. He organized and became president of the Franklin Fuel Company, operating two mines. He was president of the Riverdale Mining Company of West Virginia until 1900, when he disposed of his interests and also sold large blocks of coal lands. He is vice president of the Springfield (111.) Collieries Company, one of the largest mining plants in Illinois. Mr. Evans is a member of the Ohio, Country and Coal Clubs, and a leading spirit in each organization. He married Miss Ella B. Hopkins, of Toledo, and from this union three children were born — Charles H., a member of Battery H., who was killed while in active service in the Philippines in 1900, aged 25; Nelson, aged 16 years, and Mrs. J. Kell Brandon, aged 22 years. 32 JOSEPH F. FIRESTONE 33 JOSEPH FREDERICK FIRESTONE. Joseph Frederick Firestone was born in Middle Branch, Stark county, Ohio. His early education was secured in the country schools and Worley's private school at Canton. In 1882 he entered fehe preparatory class in Ohio State University, and continued his college work to the end of the sophomore year in the mechanical engineering course. In 1887 he graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, N. J., afterward entering the employ of the Columbus Buggy Company and the Peters Dash Company, taking charge of the machine shop departments, involving economic main tenance of plant and construction of special machinery. Later he was made assistant to the superintendent of the big plant. At the reorganization of the Columbus Buggy Company he was elected vice president and general super intendent. In 1901, he with his brother, C. D. Firestone, the latter being the originator of the Columbus Buggy Company, began the great task of planning, designing and building their new plant on Dublin avenue, which work re quired three years. During this time the business increased from month to month, $5,000 worth of vehicles of every description being shipped every day of the year, and this while moving and installing the machinery was going on. The present plant is the largest enterprise in the world engaged ex clusively in buggy and carriage building. The success of the business is largely due to the superb organization of the factory force. The Columbus Buggy Company has 600 men on its pay roll, and the wages aggregate $3,000,000 annually. Mr. Firestone is a member of the American Society of Mechanical En gineers, National Association of Carriage Builders, I. O. O. F., Columbus Board of Trade, Columbus Club, Columbus Credit Men's Association, Co lumbus Country Club, Buckeye Republican Club and the Engineers' Club of Columbus, being one of its organizers. He married Miss Josephine Leas November 14, 1888, and they have one daughter, Miss Anita Firestone. 34 JOHN JOYCE 35 JOHN JOYCE. From the position of bookkeeper to the presidency of one of the largest mercantile houses in the west is the career of John Joyce. Fifty-one years ago Mr. Joyce arrived in Columbus from Ireland with empty pockets and a big fund of ambition and grit. His very circumstances required that he start near the bottom rung of the ladder and he took a position as book keeper with a firm that afterward became known as the Kilbourne- Jones Company. In this capacity he remained 10 years, keeping his eyes and ears open and gaining valuable business experience. In the year following the close of the war, the firm of Miller, Green & Joyce was organized, wholesale dealers in dry goods. At the very outset the firm figured among the prom inent dry goods houses of Columbus and the business extended over Ohio and adjoining states. Both Mr. Miller and Mr. Green having passed away, the firm was incomporated in 1903 as the Green-Joyce Company, with John Joyce, president; John Joyce, Jr., vice-president and treasurer; and Albert G. Joyce as secretary. The firm occupies the magnificent new six-story structure on the corner of High and Chestnut streets, which is the second time it has been necessary to enlarge their quarters. This great house deals exclusively in wholesale dry goods, and their thirty traveling men sell in a territory covering Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Through all these years of the firm's continual development and progress John Joyce has been the moving spirit. He has seen many changes in the city of his adoption during his long residence of over half a century. There never has been a project that had for its object the hasten ing of a Greater Columbus that has not found an attentive ear and a helping hand in the person of John Joyce. 36 EDWARD W. SWISHER 37 EDWARD W. SWISHER. One of the leading business men of Columbus who have made their way in the world by merit, business acumen and enterprise, is Edward W. Swish er. Mr. Swisher is a native of Newark, Ohio, where he was born in 1852. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and at an early age began working stripping tobacco, afterward learning the cigar manufactur ing business. When he was but 16 years of age, Mr. Swisher went on the road, driving a four-horse wagon and selling cigars to the trade all over the state. In this business he made a great success, and in 1870 he started a cigar factory in Newark on his own account and prospered. He conducted the manufacturing line there for fourteen years, but in 1884 he removed to Columbus, as affording him a better opportunity for commercial expansion, and in 1890 he brought his factory to the Capital City. In- 1902, after twelve years of the greatest prosperity in Columbus on his own account, Mr. Swish er sold his holdings to the United States Cigar Company and he was elected treasurer of the big corporation with headquarters in Pittsburg. Afterward the United States Cigar Company sold out to the American Tobacco' Com pany and Mr. Swisher retired from business. He has always been actively allied with the business interests of Columbus. Is now a director of the First National Bank, vice president of the Guarantee Title and Trust Co., vice president of the Columbus Public Service Co., president of the Sugar Grove Sand Brick Company, president of the Gentlemen's Driving Club and director of the Columbus Driving Association. The record of Mr. Swisher since he has become a resident of Columbus will show, that he has taken an active interest in everything that has for its object the advancement of the city, and that he occupies a high position in the good will and respect of the com munity. He resides with his family in a handsome residence on East Gay street. 38 WILLIAM OXLEY THOMPSON 39 WILLIAM OXLEY THOMPSON. William Oxley Thompson was born in Cambridge, Guernsey county, Ohio, September 5, 1855. His initial education was in the village schools of New Concord, Ohio, and Brownsville. He worked on the farm in his youth until he was able to attend college. He entered Muskingum College where he completed the classical course and won the degree of bachelor of arts in 1878. In 1872 he went to Lawn Ridge, 111., where he worked as a farm hand during the summer months and in winter taught school. In this manner he secured enough funds to- continue his studies. He studied theology in the Western Theological Seminary in Allegheny City, Pa., graduating in 1882. The degree of master of arts was conferred upon him by his alma mater in 1881, and of D.D. in 1891, while the Western University of Pennsyl vania at Allegheny City conferred the honorary degree of doctor of laws in 1897. The theological course completed he went as a missionary to Odel- bolt, Iowa, remaining there until 1885. He was licensed by the presbytery of Zanesville, at Dresden, April 13, 1881, and ordained by the presbytery of Fort Dodge, Iowa, July 13, 1882. Three years later he removed to Longmont, Colorado, serving as pastor six years, and was president of Longmont College four years of this time. In 1899, the Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, extended him a call to its presidency and he served till 1899 at which time he was offered and accepted the presidency of the Ohio State University at Columbus, which office he still holds. The excellent record of William Oxley Thompson as man, pastor and instructor is secure. He is a member of the Board of Trade and in various ways has proven his eager interest in the betterment of the city and in the development of a still Greater Columbus. 40 LOUIS Ph. HOSTER 41 LOUIS PHILIP HOSTER. Louis Philip Hoster, one of the younger scions of the well-known name in Columbus business and enterprise, is rapidly taking his place among the builders of the Capital City. Active, energetic and enthusiastic, he takes the greatest interest in everything that has to do with the prosperity of his native town, and may be placed high on the roll of the younger generation that will soon be called upon to bear the heat and burden of the day. Mr. Hoster was born in Columbus, November 14, 1878, and here he has lived all his life, with the exception of the time he spent securing an education in the east. He attended the Columbus Public Schools, and supplemented this training with terms at the Columbus Latin School, afterward attending Williams College, that famous educational institution. Immediately after his graduation from Williams, Mr. Hoster took an active interest in the brewing establishment bearing the well-known name of Hoster, and when the brewing interests of the city were amalgamated several years ago, he was made superintendent of plants and purchasing agent of the Hoster-Columbus Associated Breweries Co, a responsible position that he occupies today to the credit of himself and all concerned. Mr. Hoster takes a great deal of interest in enterprises other than the one with which the family name is allied, and is president of the Columbus Structural Steel Company, one of the growing enterprises of this city. He is also prominent in social circles, and belongs to a number of such organizations, besides being a member of the Columbus Board of Trade. He has started out to become one of the leading business men of the city, and his career so far indicates that he will be successful in his high resolve. He stands for a Greater Columbus and all that the term implies. 42 ALFRED BRENHOLTS. Alfred Brenholts was born and raised in Zanesville, the son of George W. Brenholts, and received his only education in the public schools of that city. The date of his birth was February 25, 1858. Leaving school at an early age, he took up the profession of telegrapher, and learned it in the Zanesville city office under James D. Hoge. As soon as he was able to hold his own in the work he took charge of the office of the Hocking Valley Rail way at Sugar Grove, and in 1878 was made book-keeper for the J. H. Somers Coal Company at Carbon Hill. When the Somers firm sold out, Mr. Brenholts entered the employ of the Columbus, Hocking Coal and Iron Company at New Straitsville, in the posi tion of chief clerk. Here he saw the possibilities of the coal business and during the dull times immediately following the great strike in 1884 he, with the late Zephariah Williams, James O. Somers and Mrs. Myra A. Suydam, leased a coal bank and began business. It was but a little while until an era of wonderful business activity began in the Hocking Valley. In 1902 the company having enjoyed a splendid run of business and profits, sold out their belongings to the Continental Coal Company, now the Sunday Creek Coal Co. The three mines had a daily output of about 1,800 tons. With the sale of this property, Mr. Brenholts at once optioned a valuable piece of 500 acres of coal land at Doanville, Athens county, and he is now operating mines on it. He then organized the Imperial Coal Mining Company, and the General Hocking Fuel Company, the latter corporation handling exclusively the coal of the Imperial Coal Company. Mr. Brenholts is a Shriner and Knight Templar. He is actively allied with a number of business enterprises in Co lumbus, and vice president of the newly organized Union National Bank. In 1880 he married Miss Clara A. Bates, of Hocking county, and they reside in a fine home at 911 Franklin avenue. They have a son, Roy, 19 years of age. 43 OLIVER ORR. Columbus is fast becoming known as one of the noted seats of paint manufacture in the west, and among the men who have contributed much to that well-earned reputation, is Oliver Orr, of the firm of The Orr, Dean & Barry Co. He was one of the pioneers in the manufacture of paints in this city, and has reaped the reward of his far-seeing intelligence and enterprise. Oliver Orr is a native of Licking county, Ohio, where he was born on Decem ber 3, 1851. He received only a common school education, and remained in the county where he first saw the light until he was 21 years of age. In 1873 he came to Columbus, for it was then a city that was taking on metro politan features, and engaged in the lumber traffic, which was continued during 1877 and 1878. He then saw the possibilities of the paint manufac ture business, and with S. W. Hempsted engaged in the trade under the name of S W. Hempsted & Co., a partnership that continued until 1883. From 1883 to 1886 he was in the paint trade alone, then branching out as Oliver Orr & Co., from 1886 to 1888. Then he operated from 1888 to 1890 as R. Hanna & Abbott ; and from 1891 to 1902 as the Orr. Abbott Paint Co. From that time on he was the controlling factor in the firm of the Orr, Dean & Barry Co., Mr. Orr being president of the company. The firm is one of the largest dealers in paints in Columbus, and their trade extends over Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana. By the exercise of the highest type of business integrity and business activity the house has become recognized among the leaders in their particular branch of manufacture. Personally, Mr. Orr is a genial and public-spirited citizen, a member of the Columbus Board of Trade, and willing to do his share in everything that has to do with the increasing importance of the city as a commercial and financial emporium. 44 GEORGE W. LATTIMER 45 GEORGE W. LATTIMER. George W. Lattimer was born in Columbus, December 6, 1856. He re ceived his education in its public schools graduating in 1874. He spent a year in Cleveland, and then entered Amherst College, Mass., in September, 1875 ( graduating with the degree of A. B. in 1879. Returning to his native city, Mr. Lattimer took up the study of the law and pursued that profession for nine months under the tutelage of DeWitt C. and George D. Jones. The year 1880 he spent in mining enterprises in Colorado, and in the following year returned to Columbus, and engaged in the selling of mining stock. He then bought out H. C. Will, who was secretary and treasurer of the Nelson- ville Coal and Coke Company, and after a year, sold same to George Hardy. Mr. Lattimer next paid his attention to the wholesale drug business and be came a member of the firm of Kauffman, Lattimer & Rising. This was in 1881, and the firm was located in the Meek block on East Spring street. They afterward removed to High street, then to their present fine location on Front street, where they carry on one of the most extensive drug trades of any firm in Ohio. Mr. Lattimer was on the first board of directors of the Columbus Board of Trade, and has been chairman of every committee. He is now chair man of the Committee on Public Improvements, and had much to do with creating sentiment for the construction of the dam, water softening and sewage disposal plants, parks and play grounds. He is president of the Park Board. Mr. Lattimer is a member of the Columbus Club, vice president of the Ohio Club, member of Columbus Country Club, Phi Psi Frat of Amherst, Mass., and every organization in the city that looks toward public improve ment. He married Miss Belle Gardner of Columbus, now deceased, and they had one son, George Lattimer, now attending Amherst College. He then wedded Miss Minnie AVilliams, of Columbus, and they have one child, Jane Lattimer, now six arid a half years old. The Lattimers reside in a magnificent home at 1250 East Broad street. 46 GEORGE W. BRIGHT 47 GEORGE W BRIGHT. One of the solid, substantial citizens of Columbus is George W. Bright, who has contributed much to the prestige and growth of the city of his adoption through nearly a half century of business activity. George W. Bright is a native of Tiffin, Ohio, where he was born April 25, 1846. His father was a well-known United Brethren clergyman, who- came to Columbus in 1863. In 1851 the Bright family removed to< Westerville, where young George attended school, and from that historic little college town the family removed to Marion in 1860. Mr. Bright attended the Columbus High school, but in 1864 he responded to the call of his country and entered the army, serving until he was mustered out in 1866. Returning from the war, he entered Oberlin College, but was soon called home by the illness of his father, who died soon afterward. George W. Bright's entry into the com mercial life of Columbus occurred in April, 1868, when he accepted a position in a millinery establishment, and in 1868 became a partner in the business, the firm then being known as Souder & Bright Here he remained until 1891, when he was made vice president of the Sunday Creek Coal Company, in which capacity he was retained until 1899 He then began coal operations on his own account, purchasing some very valuable mining property in West Virginia, operating the mines there until April, 1904, when he disposed of his holdings. Since that time Mr. Bright has paid his undivided attention to his financial affairs, and since February, 1902, has been president of the Ohio Trust Company, one of the many strong institutions of Columbus. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has always been allied with every project involving an increase of the prosperity of Columbus. Mr. Bright is an honorary and regular member of the Columbus Board of Trade, and performed excellent service upon its principal committees. 48 EDWARD L. TAYLOR, Jr. 49 EDWARD L. TAYLOR, JR. The son of Hon. E. L. Taylor, Sr., the Nestor of the local bar, the subject of this sketch combines in his individuality excellent qualities both natural and acquired. Hon. Edward L. Taylor is a native son of Columbus, born in this city August 10, 1869. He received his education in the public schools and after graduation studied law with his father. He was admitted to the bar in 1891 and soon thereafter the law firm of Taylor, Taylor & Taylor was formed consisting of his father, Hon. E. L. Taylor, Sr., his uncle, Hon. Henry C. Taylor and himself. In the fall of 1899 Mr. Taylor was elected prosecut ing attorney of Franklin county, and three years later was elected for a second term. His conduct of the office was excellent, and during his six years many important cases were disposed of to the satisfaction of the tax payers of the city and county. While serving his second term (in November, 1904), he was elected to Congress from the Twelfth District, defeating Judge Dewitt C. Badger by over 5,000 majority. His term began on the 4th of March, 1905. As an attorney Mr. Taylor has been careful of the interests of his clients, as prosecuting attorney he was a terror to evil-doers, and it is not too much to hope that as the representative of the distict in the National Congress he will properly represent his constituents. Mr. Taylor was mar ried to Miss Marie Firestone, and they live in a beautiful home in the east end of the city, where they entertain their friends with a lavish hospitality that marks the good breeding and high-class of the happy couple. Since attaining his majority Mr. Taylor has been active in the support of any project that will contribute to the advancement of the city of Columbus, and is everywhere recognized as one of the live, progressive professional men of the city. 50 DAVID N. KINSMAN 51 DAVID N. KINSMAN. Dr. David N. Kinsman was born in Heath, Mass., in May, 1834, and when but a young man, after his removal to Ohio, he taught school in Circleville, where he continued seven years. Miss Isabella Stevens, a bright young woman of Utica, Ohio, whom the doctor had married in 1857, also had one of the rooms in what was known as the Everts Building, in that flourishing little village. Dr. Kinsman had a leaning toward the medical profession, and attended lectures at the Medical College of Ohio and graduated in 1863. He at once practiced his profession, after graduation, for three years holding the profes sorships of the Diseases of Women and Children in Starling Medical College, and since then has held the chair of Medical Practice in Columbus Medical College. He is now the chief of staff of the Protestant Hospital, and Profes sor of the Practice of Medicine in Ohio Medical University. Dr. Kinsman is a member of the Ohio State Live Stock Commission, and for five years was its secretary. This board did very important work toward protecting herds of fine cattle from the ravages of tuberculosis. Dr. Kinsman made a special study of the disorder and his opinion was sought by similar bodies in other states. In local Masonic circles he has received the degrees of the Blue Lodge in 1857, the Scottish Rite in 1877, and in 1885 the thirty-third degree of that order. He has been presiding officer of all these lodges, and stands in the front rank of Masonry in Columbus. He was one of the active spirits con nected with the recent erection of the famous Masonic Temple in this city. Dr. Kinsman married Miss Isabella Stevens of Utica, Ohio, in 1857, and three children, all daughters, were the fruit of the union. Mrs. Kinsman died some years ago, but her daughters, Mrs. Dr. G. M. Waters, Mrs. Langdon Hayden and Mrs. Hatton, still survive her. 52 J. O. JOHNSTON 53 J. O. JOHNSTON. Thedevelopme nt of the gas business in Columbus the past twenty years, for light and fuel purposes, has brought to the front and for favorable con sideration, that master hand of the leader in that great enterprise — J. O. John ston. To his management and far-seeing ability are due the great strides taken by the enterprise, for he was able to appreciate what natural gas would accomplish for the homes and manufacturing enterprises of the Capital City. J. O. Johnston was born in Allegheny county, N. Y., May 17, 1853. His early education was limited to the common schools of the country districts of Pennsylvania, but soon after leaving the walls of the people's college he embarked in a mercantile business on his own account, where he continued for eighteen years. In 1877 the production of oil in the Pennsylvania fields attracted his attention, and here he operated successfully for some time, afterward trans ferring his work to the Lima field in Ohio, thence to Columbus. He came to the Capital City in 1889, and has been here ever since, one of the great factors in the gas proposition, and one of its leading spirits. He was one of the dominant spirits in Pennsylvania, and held the same position in Lima, only to hold and retain that proud eminence in the local situation. He is at present president of the Columbus Gas Light and Fuel Co., and vice president and director of the Deschutes Irrigation and Power Co., a splendid enterprise now being developed in Oregon, having for its object the watering of the arid plains of that section. Mr. Johnston is a member of the Columbus Board of Trade, and the Columbus and Arlington Country Clubs. In the way of secret societies he is a member of all the Masonic bodies, in cluding the Shriners. He is a forceful man, accustomed to handling large enterprises, and that successfully. 54 JOHN JOSEPH STODDART. John Joseph Stoddart was born in Wighton, county Cumberland, Eng land, March 29, 1850. When but a child seven years old his parents removed to the wilderness of Canada and a year later came to Ohio. They made their stop in Guernsey county, Ohio, where the son attended the schools of the country districts. In 1865, Mr. Stoddart, then only 15 years of age, came to Columbus, and at that early age taught in the high schools of the city, so ripe was his scholarship. Later on he attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and in 1875, graduated in the law department. He at once returned to Columbus, swung his shingle to the Ohio breeze and has been here ever since. During these years he has been retained in a number of import ant cases, and his reputation as a careful attorney is well established in Columbus. For years he has been connected with the educational interests of this community, and in 1878 was appointed a member of the board of school examiners, a place that he still holds. He is also president and director of the Poste Abstract and Title Company, president of the Savings and Loan Association, and director and officer in the same since its organization, a member of the Ohio Club, was identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, but has been a member of the Masonic Order for over twenty-six years. Mr. Stoddard was married to Miss Minnie Cole, of Columbus, and they have two children, a son and a daughter, the former now taking a course at Harvard College. 55 WALTER D. GUILBERT. Hon. Walter D. Guilbert comes from French-Irish ancestors, and was born February 11, 1844, and reared on a farm in Guernsey county. His father came her from France, and when a boy settled in that county. His great-grandfather on his mother's side was a Marylander and a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Guilbert was educated in the public schools of his county and in Wenona Academy, 111., and at an early age was elected auditor of Noble county, serving two terms. He afterward became chief clerk in the office of the auditor of state under the late Hon. E. W. Poe. In 1895 at the Republican state convention held in the city of Zanesville, he was nomin ated for auditor of state and elected by a large majority for the full term of four years In 1899 he was again nominated and elected by an increased majority for a second term, upon which he entered in January, 1900. In 1903 he was renominated for a third term and re-elected and is now serving that term. He was chairman of the Noble county Republican committee, for a number of years, and member of the Republican State Executive Committee in many campaigns. He was a delegate to the convention that nominated the late President Harrison at Minneapolis, in 1888. On the 5th of February, 1868, Mr. Guilbert married Miss Mary L. Jordon, and they have had three children, two sons and one daughter. Mr. Guilbert is connected with a number of secret and social orders, being a Mason, Knight Templar and Mystic Shriner, an Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias and Red Man. He is also prominently connected with a number of local and foreign business enterprises, his most prominent Columbus alliance being as president of the Capitol Savings and Trust Company. 56 W. D. BRICKELL 57 WILLIAM D. BRICKELL. William D. Brickell, for years proprietor of the Columbus Dispatch, has been a mighty factor in the upbuilding of Greater Columbus. In all the time of his ownership he worked unremittingly to that end, and today has the gratification of seeing the fruition of his hopes in all that goes to make up a prosperous, progressive and growing municipality. Mr. Brickell was born in Steubenville, O., November 19, 1852. His school days were spent in Pitts burg, and he completed his education at Western University, in that city. He learned the trade of printer in the office of the Pittsburg Daily Post, working in the various departments of that paper and generally learning the business. He afterwards became a reporter on the St. Louis Democrat, coming to Columbus in 1876, when he became identified as a partner in the ownership of the Columbus Dispatch, afterward acquiring the entire property. He made a number of changes in the paper, including the Sunday edition, began in 1898, and placed at the head of afternoon dailies in the west. He disposed of the paper several years ago, and is now engaged in looking after his invest ments. While connected with the Columbus Dispatch he was a director of the Associated Press, being the only Columbus man so honored. He was re-elected for a second term, but only served three years. He is the owner of the Ruggery building and purchased the building that houses the Columbus Dispatch. He is a director in the State Savings Bank and Trust Co., and the City Deposit Bank ; President of the Iron Clay Blick Co., and of the Columbus, New Albany and Johnstown Traction Co. Mr. Brickell is also an active force in the Columbus Board of Trade, and his enthusiasm and work have for years been potent forces in whatever has for its object the advancement and increas ing importance of Columbus. 58 WILLIAM J. HAMILTON 59 WILLIAM J. HAMILTON. The life story of the subject of this sketch is one that contains the recipe for business success. The young man who is whining about his lack of opportunity will do well to note the ingredients of this recipe. It consists of doing what Hamilton, the youth did ; doing the thing that comes to hand first ; doing it willingly and well ; accepting the most humble work as a stepping stone to something higher ; making good use of every moment and every penny ; keeping the eyes and ears open. William J. Hamilton was born in Liverpool, England, March 14, 1878. At the age of six years his parents came to Columbus, and it was here that he received his first mental training, rising to the grammar school. At an early age young Hamilton sold newspapers and worked for F. Butcher & Co., in the coal and feed business, remaining one year. For the next three months he worked for his father in a retail coal office. In 1893 he entered the office of the Norfolk & Western Railway in Columbus as messenger. He held practically every position in the office up to that of rate clerk. In January, 1899, Mr. Hamilton left the railroad to become manager at Cincinnati for the Thacker Coal Co., where he was also traveling salesman and was eminently successful. In the latter part of 1899 he started his present business on frightfully small capital but a good deal of pluck. Two years later his father took a half interest in the business but has since sold his portion to other parties. Mr. Hamilton is now vice-president of the company which operates several of its own mines, besides doing a general jobbing business in high grade gas, steam and domestic coals. Mr. Hamilton is a member of the Ohio Club, Mt. Vernon Commandery No. 1, Columbus Lodge of Elks No. 37, K. of P. No. 581, and U. C. T. No. 144. 60 JOHN G. BATTELLE 61 JOHN G. BATTELLE. John G. Battelle is a native son of what at the time of his birth was old Virginia, but now West Virginia, born in Clarksburg, May 12, 1845 His education was meager in early life, but later on he entered the academy at Fairmount, and completed the curriculum of study. His first active business experience was in the Treasury Department at Washington, where he re mained six months, but resigned to enter the quartermaster's department, where he remained three years. Then he began his career in iron, becoming book-keeper and finally sec retary and general manager of a rolling mill at Wheeling, West Virginia, the company manufacturing a general line of rolled steel goods, including bolts, nuts, etc. He soon took a wider field and conducted a rolling mill at Mem phis, Tenn., for a number of years, then becoming connected with the Cincin nati Corrugated Company, at Cincinnati, which corporation removed to Piqua, Ohio, where he was its general manager, remaining in that position for more than ten years. Mr. Battelle then removed to New York City, where he could better handle his fast increasing business connections and at the same time hold a firm hand on his interests in Columbus. He is the president of the Columbus Iron and Steel Company, whose big plant is one of the indus trial features of the south side in this city. Mr. Battelle is connected with a number of orders, including the Royal Legion, and is a member of the Columbus Club, Arlington Country Club, Columbus Board of Trade, State Board of Commerce, Ohio Society in New York and the Sons of the American Revolution. During the administration of the late Governor Nash, he was an aide on his official staff with the rank of Colonel. Mr. Battelle has one son, now attending school in New York City. 62 HARRY OLMSTED 63 HARRY OLMSTED. The subject of this sketch was born and educated in Columbus. The date of his birth was May 21, 1867, and his commercial career began when he was but 16 years of age, when he entered the employ of the wholesale grocery firm of Isaac Eberly & Co., with which he remained thirteen years, or until 1896, when he embarked in business on his own account. He is now presi dent of the firm that gave him his first introduction into business, and the house today is credited with having sales of more than a million dollars a year. Mr. Olmsted's connection with the Isaac Eberly Co. early gave him an insight into the coal business, and he is now actively allied with several of the largest coal enterprises in the state. He is president of the Equitable Coal Co., with the great output of 150,000 tons annually, and occupies a similar position with the Middle States Coal Co., with extensive properties in Ohio and West Virginia, and a similar output. Of the latter corporation, Thomas Huntington is treasurer, and F. G. Hatton, secretary. The home life of Mr. Olmsted is particularly happy, and he occupies a magnificent place at No. 1415 East Broad street, one of the most pretentious residences in a city of splendid homes. His wife, formerly Miss Grace McDermith, is a leader in Columbus society. Mr. Olmsted is a prominent club man, connected with many of the social organizations of the city, and is always glad and willing to assist in any enterprise that tends to make a Greater Columbus. As a business man he occupies a high position, and as a citizen is always active in every movement that has for its object the advancement of the interests of the Capital City. . He is in the front rank of our young represen tative citizenship. 64 EDWIN R. SHARP 65 EDWIN R. SHARP. One of the comparatively young men who have made their impress upon the business life of Columbus is Edwin R. Sharp, who since reaching his majority has occupied one of the leading positions in the list of men who have added much to the prosperity and prestige of the Capital City. Mr. Sharp is a Franklin county man, born and bred. He first saw the light of day in the village of Groveport, on the 24th of October, 1858. His early education was confined to the common schools of that section, but when but 16 years of age he embarked in commercial pursuits, beginning at the lowest round of the ladder of success, by accepting the post of messenger of the Commercial Bank of Columbus. Here he remained, rising rapidly in the esteem of his em ployers until December, 1891, when he organized the State Savings Bank, now one of the recognized strong financial institutions of Columbus. He was cashier of this bank for eleven years, and for the past three years has been its president, contributing much by his popularity and thorough knowledge of the banking business to its growth. Mr. Sharp has been active in other business pursuits, and was one of the organizers of the Citizens' Telephone Co., having been secretary and treasurer since its organization. He was treas urer for the five trustees constituting the pool that built the Scioto Valley Traction Co., one of the great and substantial interurban lines running out of Columbus, and a director and secretary also of the organization. He is vice- president of the Seagrave Co., director and treasurer of the Columbus Machine Co., director of the Columbus and Arlington Clubs, member of the Ohio Club, ex-officio director of the Columbus Board of Trade, director of the Home Telephone Co. of Dayton, and has other interests in many directions. Mr. Sharp is happily married, and the father of a son aged 24, and a daughter aged 19. 66 OWEN T. SNYDER. Owen T. Snyder, of the firm of Snyder & Taylor, is a native of Knox county, Ohio, born near Mr. Vernon, May 28, 1867. His education was limited to the country schools. At 14 years of age he went to Indiana and learned the trade of stone mason. Shortly afterward he returned to Mt. Vernon for one year, and in 1889 came to Columbus. His first employment was with the Columbus Portland Cement Company, where he remained two years. Then he engaged with the firm of C. E. Morris & Co., manufacturers of structural iron, where he had charge of their elevator work, and perfected himself in all kinds of building transportation. He was here five years, and in 1897-'98 engaged in business on his own account at Wall and Hickory streets, for the manufacture of elevators and for repair work. Then followed his partnership with Kincaid & Liggitt, proprietors of the Columbus Archi tectural Iron Works, where he remained some time, but sold out, when the company became incorporated. Mr. Snyder was sales agent of the company, and here he remained until his present partnership with Mr. Taylor was effected in 1903 This firm manufactures all kinds of electric and hydraulic elevators, dumb waiters, etc., and are unable to keep up with the demand for work and in every instance their elevators have given perfect satisfaction. On the 19th of April, 1893, Mr. Snyder married Miss Minnie L. Harwood, of Columbus, and they have five children, three daughters and two sons. Mr. Snyder is one of the public-spirited citizens of Columbus, and takes great interest in everything that will add to the prominence and prestige of the Capital City. 67 DANIEL W. McGRATH. Daniel W. McGrath is a native of New York, born September 15, 1854. His father, Patrick McGrath, was born and raised in Ireland. Patrick McGrath located in Genesee county, New York, afterward removing to Lewistown, in the same state, whence he came to Ohio, settling on a farm in Madison county. After completing his meager education in the common schools, Daniel W. McGrath learned the trade of Mason, and worked at that business for a. long time. In 1874 he came to Columbus, working as a mason until 1884, when he began contracting and building on his own account. He is the father of the "sky-scraper" in this city, having built the Wyandotte, Spahr and Outlook buildings, the Schultz block, the First National Bank building, the American Savings Bank building, and the big department store at the corner of Spring and High streets. He did the masonry work on the National Steel Plant, also on the Marting Furnace plant, secured and executed the entire contract for the Glass Works and has since duplicated the same establishment. Mr. McGrath constructed the Madison county jail building at London, and has had contracts for large buildings in various parts of the state, all carried out in the most workmanlike and satisfactory style. He is today one of the leading builders and contractors in the city. In 1885 Mr. McGrath married Miss Mary Jane Hunter, of Sidney, O., daughter of a prom inent farmer of Shelby county. To this union have been born six children, three sons and three daughters, Edward, Frank, John, Marie, Lillian and Annie. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and of the Knights of Columbus. 68 ULRIC SLOANE 69 ULRIC SLOANE. This distinguished attorney, one of the leaders of the Franklin county bar, comes of a noble line of lineage, his father, Judge James Sloane, being of Irish extraction and equipped with all the wit and learning of that race. His mother was from a strain of blood but little less noted for poetic temper ament, education and the graces of a notable womanhood. Ulric Sloane was born in Hillsboro, Highland county, December 18, 1850. His father, Judge James Sloane, was a judge of the sub-division of which Highland county was a part in 1856. After receiving a smattering of schooling in his native town, young Sloane taught school, although but 17 years of age. In 1867 Mr. Sloane went to Decatur, 111., where he read law with a relative, Judge Emerson. So great was his progress in the study of law, that he was admit ted to the bar in 1868, when but 18 years of age. Under the Illinois law there was no age limit. A full fledged attorney, Mr. Sloane went to Chilli- cothe, Mo., and practiced his profession for the next six years. Upon the death of his father, Mr. Sloane returned to Hillsboro, and remained there until 1898, when he removed to Columbus. His ability as an attorney secured his retention in most of the notable cases tried in the Highland county and adjoining courts. In politics Mr. Sloane has always been an uncompromising Democrat, and in every campaign with the exception of the years between the election of Henry B. Payne to the United States Senate, up to the Bryan campaign in 1896, he has taken a leading part. In July, 1891, Mr. Sloane married Miss Sarah Buckingham, daughter of Hon. C. P Buckingham, of Zanesville, who was adjutant general of Ohio under both Governors Dennison and Tod, and a neice of Col. Trimble, of Highland county. 70 ALLEN F. EMMINGER 71 ALLEN F. EMMINGER. Dr. Allen F. Emminger, D. D. S., of Columbus, is among the highest dental authorities in the state, a position he has secured by continual practice and sincere study of his profession for a period of more than a third of a cen tury. His charming personality and constant advance in the practice of his art have made him one of the conspicuous figures in Central Ohio. Dr. Emminger is a native of Mansfield, Ohio, where he was born December 5, 1847, the son of Abraham and Sarah Emminger. He was educated in the rudiments of learning at the city schools of his native town, graduating there from when he was 18 years of age. Following his matriculation, he studied dentistry with Dr. Moses De Camp, in Mansfield, latterly attending the New York Dental College in New York City, and afterward graduating from Ohio Dental College in Cincinnati. He first began the practice of his profession in Columbus on the 10th of April, 1868, his office being at No. 18 East Broad street, where he remained twenty-five years. Then for a number of years he was in a fine residence at No. 100 on the same thoroughfare, but now has an elegant suite of offices in the Outlook Building, East Broad street. Dr. Emminger was a member of the board of trustees of Ohio Medical University, of Columbus, when it first opened its doors to the public, and dean of its department of dentistry. He has also< occupied the position of president of the Ohio State Dental Society and of the American Dental Association. In every place where he has officiated professionally in the education of the rising members of the profession, Dr. Emminger has taken and maintained a high standard of excellence, and he is today among the recognized author ities in dentistry in Ohio and the' country. Dr. Emminger is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar and member of the Odd Fellows. He was married to Miss Minnie E. Potter, of Delaware, Ohio. 72 JOSEPH E. BLACKBURN 73 JOSEPH E. BLACKBURN. Joseph Ellis Blackburn was born in a log cabin in the village of Farm- ington, Colerain township, Belmont county, in 1860. He attended the com mon school at Martin's Ferry and Bellaire until he was nearly twelve years old, when he was compelled to go to work in the Belmont glass works. In 1887 Mr. Blackburn embarked in the drug business, and after taking a course in pharmacy at the Ohio Medical University at Ada, received the degree of Ph. G. In 1895 he entered politics in Belmont county and was elected a member of the House on the Republican ticket. He had served but one term, when his name was presented to the Republican State Convention as a candidate for Dairy and Food Commissioner, and he was nominated and elected by a large majority in 1896, and elected to a second term in 1898, fol lowed by a third election in 1900. Up to that time but few state officials had been honored with a third term. In February, 1903, he began to enlist his energies in the promoting of business enterprises. His first venture terminated in the erection of the Harrison sky-scraper. This was followed by the organization of the Capitol Savings and Trust Company, of which he is a director. He has organized a savings and trust company in Louisville, Ky., and engaged generally in exploiting large propositions in other cities. He purchased the Rhoades acreage near Franklin Park, which he proposes to lay out in city lots. He is also president of the National Bond and Securities Company and also of the Theodore Land Co. Mr. Blackburn is actively allied with a number of business and social organizations, and may be reckoned among the architects of "Greater Columbus." He lives with his family in a beautiful home on Neil avenue. 74 GEORGE J. KARB 75 GEORGE J. KARB. George J. Karb, the present sheriff of Franklin county, is among the best known citizens of Franklin county, where he has a host of friends. He has always been an advocate of the people, and in all of his public service has performed his duties most creditably. Mr. Karb was born in Columbus in 1858, and received his education in the public schools of the city and one of the leading business colleges. When but a lad he entered the drug trade and passed an examination as a pharmacist, being engaged for ten years at the corner of Fifth and Main streets, and afterward at Fourth and Main streets, conducting the latter establishment with much success until 1898, when he disposed of it, and took charge of the Central Ohio Oil Company, as treasurer and manager His public service includes one term in the City Council from the old Fifth ward; a police commissioner; mayor of Columbus two terms, serving until 1893, and two terms as sheriff of Franklin county, which he still holds. As a business man, Mr. Karb has always been very active and prominent, being a member of the Columbus Board of Trade, a director in the Ohio Savings and Loan Association and a director of the Ohio National and Market Exchange Banks. In secret society circles, it may be said that the subject of this sketch occupies a unique position, as he is allied with nearly every such organization in the city. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, of the Scottish Rite, and belongs to the Mystic Shrine, Knights of Pythias, I. O. O. F., Red Men, Benevolent Order of Elks and a score of other organizations. In private and business life there is no more popular citizen than Mr. Karb, and he stands high in the estimation of his thousands of well-wishers. In every duty he has proven adequate and has never betrayed a trust. 76 GILBERT H. STEWART 77 GILBERT H. STEWART. One of the leading attorneys and men of affairs in Columbus is Judge Gilbert H. Stewart. Mr. Stewart was born in Boston, Mass., March 15, 1847, and received his early education in historic Cambridge, graduating from the high school in 1864. He pursued the regular studies of Harvard Uni versity until 1868, when the opportunity came to enter a law office in Gabon, Ohio, later renewing his connection with the University, and entered the Harvard law school, simultaneously reading law in the office of Lorenzo Merritt, Esq., in East Cambridge. Following this he continued his legal studies in Galion, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in 1869 and practiced in that city until 1873. He then came to Columbus, forming a partnership with Captain R. P. Woodruff, which continued six years. In 1884 he was elected Circuit Judge of the Second Circuit to serve six years, and in 1888 was re-elected to serve a six-year term. At the annual meeting of the circuit judges of Ohio in 1892 he was chosen chief justice of the circuit court of Ohio, and succeeded himself for another term. In 1894 he declined a third nomination for circuit judgeship, and retired from the bench in 1895 to resume the practice of law in Columbus. Judge Stewart has been a member of the board of education and the city council. He is professor of medical juris prudence in Starling Medical College and professor of law at the Ohio State University Law School. He is past-president of the Board of Trade and is a member of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. In and out of his profession he is very popular, and his social standing is of the highest order. The mantle of the Puritan fathers rests upon him with ease and grace, and it is but literal truth to say that he is a gentleman of refined tastes and culture. 78 WILLIAM C. CUSSINS. William C. Cussins was born near Rix Mills, Muskingum county, Ohio, Dec. 13, 1856, and at the early age of 13 years he entered the employ of a country store-keeper at his native village. Later on his father removed to Buchanan, Pike county, and the lad renewed his service in a dry goods store of that place. In 1876 he secured a working partnership, and two years later was sole proprietor of the store. In 1878 he was married to an estimable lady of that vicinity, but in 1884 she died, leaving Mr. Cussins with a young daughter, who yet survives, but who has since bloomed into young womanhood. Two years after the death of his wife, Mr. Cussins removed to Frankfort, Ross county, where he conducted a general store with great success, and three years later, or in 1889, he came to Columbus and began operations on the West Side, where the business has grown and expanded in keeping with the increased importance of that section of the city. Mr. Cussins entered the arena of politics in the spring of 1901, when at the invitation of mayor-elect the late Hon. John Hinkle, he became director of accounts. This place he filled successfully for the full term of two years, and in April, 1903, he was elected city treasurer, a place he still fills. In the summer of 1905, Mr. Cussins was nominated by the Democrats of Franklin county as their candidate for auditor, without a semblance of opposition, and in the following November election he was successful over his Republican opponent, William C. Wallace, by over 2,000 majority. He will take his new position in September, 1906. Mr. Cussins in addition to being a public-spirited citizen, is especially active in behalf of the West Side. He is one of the charter members of the West Side Board of Trade, and has been constant in his advocacy of anything that will contribute to the prosperity of that part of the city. 79 CHARLES W. STUBER. Historic Holmes county, Ohio, the scene of an exciting war episode was the birthplace of Charles W. Stuber, for the past five years treasurer of the great shoe manufacturing house, the C. & E. Company of Columbus. Over in the hills of Holmes county there was not much opportunity for the accu mulation of knowledge, and young Stuber had to absorb all he learned out of books in the country schools of his section. He afterward took a course along business lines and prepared himself for the career that he has since so successfully followed. In 1884 Mr. Stuber began the general merchandising business in Holmes county. Later he turned his attention to politics, and when 21 years old was elected a member of the village council and was chosen township treasurer, serving from 1892 to 1896 inclusive. Later he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for treasurer of Holmes county. He won the nomination and was elected. As county treasurer he was efficient and energetic and made a splendid official. With the conclusion of his term of office, Mr. Stuber was attracted to Columbus. His connection with the C. & E. Shoe Company followed after four years spent in the wholesale notion trade. With the organization of the shoe proposition the business acumen of Mr. Stuber was given full play, and much of the success attained by the C. & E. Company may be attributed to his connection with the firm. He has been treasurer of the corporation ever since its organization, and been a direct ing force in its affairs. Mr. Stuber is a member of the Ohio Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and York Lodge of Masons. 80 FRED J. IMMEL 81 FRED J. IMMEL. Fred J. Immel was born on the South Side, Columbus, July 13, 1859. His father, John Immel, was a pioneer German citizen of that section, who for the past forty years has been engaged in the wagon-making business. Young Fred was educated in the public schools of Columbus and afterward took a course in a business college in order to prepare himself to enetr his father's establishment. He began at first in the wood-working department, thence into the painting department, and soon afterward, when he had mastered the business, was admitted with his father as an equal partner, and the firm became known everywhere as Immel & Son, a business arrangement that still continues. As a mechanic, Fred J. Immel was among the best. He learned to do everything well, to slight nothing. Upon the election of the late John M. Hinkle to the mayoralty in April, 1901, the new executive selected Fred J. Immel as director of public improvements. During the full term of two years the duties of the onerous place were faithfully fulfilled to the credit of the city and all other interests involved. Mr. Immel instituted the water meter reform and was one of the staunchest friends of the municipal light project. In April, 1903, he was elected a member of the board of public service, and in November, 1905, was re-elected for a second term on that board. Here the same attention to detail that distinguished him in the cabinet of Mayor Hinkle has been in evidence, and the people showed their appreciation of such a public servant by giving him an unprecedented majority for his second term. Mr. Immel is connected with a number of secret and social organizations, and can always be counted on to lend his active assistance to any proposition that will advance the city of his birth. He is a true son of the South Side, but his loyalty is wide and broad enough to take in all of Greater Columbus. 82 LEWIS L. RANKIN 83 LEWIS L. RANKIN. A successful career that has been carved out of hard work and faithful attention to the details of life, is that enjoyed by Lewis L. Rankin, the at torney of Columbus, and organizer of the Buckeye State Building and Loan Company. He has been an active worker in Columbus for more than twenty years, and it can fairly be said that but few have excelled him in the standard of success achieved in his chosen line of activity. Mr. Rankin was born a farmer boy, in Mifflinville, Mifflin township, Franklin county, O., August 4, 1860. Here he remained until he was eleven years of age, when his parents removed to this city and young Rankin attended the public schools in pursuit of an education. Here he continued until 1879 when he graduated from the Columbus High School, supplementing this with service as teacher in the schools of Hamilton township. In 1880 so rapid was his progress in his chosen profession that he was elected president of the Franklin County Teachers' Association, and in 1882 was superintendent of the public schools at Canal Winchester. After a term of three years in this position, Mr. Rankin turned his attention to the law, and after a course of study under an excellent pre ceptor, was admitted to the practice in 1885. He at once took a high rank among his fellow practitioners, and enjoyed a splendid reputation as a strong and wise counsellor. This he still maintains and is considered one of the safest attorneys in the Capital City, his circle of clients growing year by year. In business circles Mr. Rankin has also played a large part since coming to Columbus, and his holdings are large and profitable. In 1895 he organized the Buckeye State Building and Loan Company, and three years later erected the block that the company now occupies in West Gay street. In religious circles Mr. Rankin is most active, and in all the things that go to make up the good citizen he is well equipped. He is ever wide awake as to the business interests of the city of his adoption. 84 CLAYTON L. DICKEY 85 CLAYTON L. DICKEY. Clayton L Dickey is a native son of Franklin county, born July 26, 1859. His father was a son of the soil, and among the leading farmers of his vicinity, and Clayton in his younger years labored on the farm. The elder Dickey was a charitable citizen, and at his death left a large amount of money to charitable objects, several Columbus institutions profiting by his noble gifts. Soon after receiving a common school education in the country schools of his district, Mr. Dickey went to Central College Academy where he com pleted his education. He afterward became principal of the Academy, but left that position thirteen years ago. He then officiated as superintendent of the school, just before coming to Columbus. In the line of his work as an educator he acted as township school supervisor in three counties. In 1901 Mr. Dickey organized the Columbus Oil Cloth Company, manufacturing oil cloth for the table and carriages only. The high quality of the goods has made friends in the buying trade, and today the product of the mill is sold in all parts of the United States. In church work Mr. Dickey is a loyal Presbyterian, and as an educator he has always taken a great deal of interest in the work of the public schools. For years he was a member of the National Teachers' Association, and treasurer of the organization. The ancestry of Mr. Dickey is one of which he may well be proud, going back as it does to the Phelps family that flourished in New England as far back as 1630. The connection have in their possession a famous punch bowl handed down through more than two centuries. 86 CLAUDE MEEKER 87 CLAUDE MEEKER. Within the past twenty years there has sprung up a score of firms, dealing in all kinds of stocks and securities, and in the list there is no operator better known than Claude Meeker, senior member of the firm of Meeker, Gray & Co. He has been in the trade about ten years, and holds a high position for fair and honorable dealing. Mr. Meeker is a Columbus man, born in this city in 1861. In early life he became devoted to the profession of engineering, but abandoned that for journalism, for which he showed great aptitude and talent. For some time he was connected with the local newspapers, afterward trans ferring his allegiance to the Cincinnati Enquirer, where he was engaged for about fifteen years as political and general reporter. He was also special correspondent for the New York World. During the campaign of 1889, resulting in the election of James E. Campbell to the governorship of Ohio, Mr. Meeker accompanied him over the state, and the friendship then formed caused the successful aspirant to tender to Mr Meeker the responsible post of private secretary, which he filled with credit to all concerned for two years. In 1893 he was appointed United States Consul to Bradford, England, by President Cleveland, and here he remained for four years, making an excellent record as an official. Bradford was a leading commercial consulate, and Mr. Meeker had nine assistants in the work of the office. In 1897 he was retired by the whirligigs of American politics. In the last named year he returned to Columbus arid formed a partnership as mentioned above. In 1890 Mr. Meeker wedded Miss Elizabeth Parks, of Hamilton, O. They have three children, Marjorie, Campbell and Marion, all born in England. Mr. Meeker is a member of the Elks, Knights of Pythias and Masonic fraternity. 88 FREDERICK WILLIAM SCHUMACHER 89 FREDERICK WILLIAM SCHUMACHER. Frederick William Schumacher was born on the island of Fehmarn, Hol- stein, Germany, September 13, 1863, and is therefore now in the very bloom and vigor of his life. His parents came to the United States in 1873 and settled in Waco, Texas. There the son attended the public schools until 1877, when he was sent abroad to perfect his education at a German govern ment school. He passed his examination of maturity in Lubeck, Germany, in 1882, when he was but nineteen years old, returned to Waco, and took up the profession of pharmacy and graduated from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy in 1884 with first honors, being awarded the only gold medals for the best grades in all the branches. The young man had then just reached his majority and entered upon his business career as the manager of a large retail dry goods store in Waco Five years later Mr. Schumacher became the secretary and treasurer of the Behren's Drug Company, engaged in the wholesale trade. He continued in that position from 1889 to 1897 when he joined Dr. Hartman and the Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company as the vice president and general director of advertising. Mr. Schumacher is happily married, his wife having been formerly Miss Mirabel Hartman, daughter of Dr. S. B. Hartman, and they have two interest ing children, Mirabel, aged eight years, and Cathleen, aged two years. They live in a beautiful home on East Broad street which the excellent taste of Mrs. Schumacher has marvelously adorned and beautified. Ina business and social way, Mr. Schumacher is prominent, being a Shriner and member of the Columbus, Country and the Arlington Clubs. He served one term as president of the Columbus Board of Trade and during his entire residence here has taken a lively interest in every movement that has for its object the advancement of the material interests of Columbus. In the roll of Columbus men who stand for all that makes a metropolitan city the name of Frederick William Schumacher must be placed in a high and com manding position. 90 P. V. BURINGTON. P. V. Burington was born in West Springfield, Pa., January 14, 1847. At the age of nine years his parents moved to- Illinois, but after four years of pioneer life in that new country his father decided that town life, with its educational advantages and other facilities was far more to be desired in the rearing of children, so in 1851 Mr. Burlington was placed in the city schools where he became a close student. He then decided to take up the printer's trade, and his labors were most varied — starting as an apprentice and rising step by step until he occupied the chair of editor. Some time in the '70's, when steam railroad development was being promoted with such energy in the West, Mr. Burington was offered an inducement to change his line of work, and from 1875 to 1891, he occupied various positions of trust and activity in the railroad world. In 1891 he accepted the position of auditor of the Columbus Consolidated Street Railroad Company, of this city, and a short time afterward was chosen secretary of the company as well. At this time the street railways of Columbus were a mere shadow of the com plete system which Columbus possesses to-day. The electric car was then in its infancy and electricity as a motive power was at a point where the room for improvement was great. But the improvements came and Mr. Burington has stood at the wheel through all the many changes, always retaining the same position, secretary and auditor, and is to-day one of the best known railway men in the country. Mr. Burington has been a member of the Columbus Board of Trade for many years and has been instrumental, as a member of various committees, in doing good work. He has assisted in the collection of many valuable statistics pertaining to the city, the most im portant of which being associated with the exploitation booklet, lately com piled under the auspices of the Board of Trade. 91 EMERY J. SMITH. In the town of Sunbury, Delaware county, Ohio, January 16, 1862, there was born to Marshal Smith and Elvira Thrall, a son, who is today known in social and business circles as Emery J. Smith. He received his first training of the mind in the common schools of his birthplace, and graduated from the high school of the same place. Later on he graduated from the Ohio Wes- leyan University at Delaware. Mr. Smith then entered the Farmer's Bank at Sunbury, Ohio, as assistant cashier, and was later made its cashier proper, and subsequently elected to its vice-presidency. He then organized the Bank of Westerville, and was its president for twelve consecutive yars. In that capacity he made his bank one of the strongfinancial institutions of this county. With his father, Marshal Smith, and his uncle, Levi R. Smith, he organized in 1895 The Smith Agricultural Chemical Company. Associated with him in this business are his brothers, Hugh E. Smith, William A. Smith, and Marshal A. Smith, Jr. The product of this company is sold in nine states and has a capacity of fifty thousand tons per year. The agents neces sary in the production of this fertilizer are sulphuric acid, phosphate rock, potash, etc. Of the former, the chambers of this company have a capacity of fifty tons per day. The Smith Agricultural Fertilizer Company controls five other Agricul tural Chemical Companies. Every J. Smith is the controlling factor of his own company, but is also president (since its organization), of the Security Savings Bank. He is a Thirty-second Degree Mason and Knight Templar, president of the Sumner Phosphate Company of Gallatin, Tennessee ; presi dent of the Buckeye Transfer & Storage Company, member of the Columbus Club, Ohio Club, and Board of Trade. Mr. Smith was married in June, 1886, to Miss Hanna Jane Hardy of Westerville, Ohio, and is the proud possessor of seven children. 92 JOHN H. SMITH 93 JOHN H. SMITH. Among the sturdy business men of Columbus may be mentioned the honored name of John H. Smith, of the Smith Brothers, wholesale hardware concern at Front and Chestnut streets. Mr. Smith was born in Knox county, Ohio, July 16, 1850. He received his high school training at Delaware, Ohio. His first entrance into the commercial world was as clerk in a grocery and queensware store in Delaware, remaining there two years. He then spent two years in the hardware store of Star & Pjerson at Delaware, Ohio, and later engaged with a wholesale hardware house in Toledo, traveling through Michigan. After two years he returned to Delaware, where he and his brother, T. F. Smith, bought Pierson's interest, the firm then becoming Star and Smith Bros. Later they bought out their partner's interest and the firm then became Smith Brothers. The firm moved to Columbus in 1891 continuing the wholesale hardware trade and located on East Spring street. Subsequently the business was moved to West Spring street, and was conducted there for 10 years, the trade increasing year by year. In February. 1905, the firm moved into their magnificent new building at Front and Chestnut streets, and represents one of the most extensive and complete hardware houses in the middle west. The stock comprises builder's and general hardware and the trade extends throughout Ohio, Eastern Indiana and West Virginia, and is increasing each year. Mr. Smith is a member of the Board of Trade (and newly elected director of that body) and a member of the Columbus Country Club and Ohio Club. Mr. Smith's first wife, now deceased, was Miss Katie Howard of Cuyahoga Falls. He was later married to Miss Bessie Howard, a sister of his first wife. In Mr. Smith, Columbus finds one of its truest citizens, a man of unimpeachable character, and one who is always ready to put his shoulder to the wheel when the final goal is the making of a Greater Columbus. 94 WILLIAM L. VAN SICKLE 95 WILLIAM L. VAN SICKLE. The superstructure of prosperity will be found to rest upon a foundation of earnest and indefatigable labor, of capable management and honorable dealing. It is thus that William L. Van Sickle has achieved success in Columbus, and has become so popular in the business and social world. The career of Mr. A^an Sickle will show that of a self-made man, and his example should be followed by the coming generation. AA^hen coming to Columbus July 13, 1891, his stock in trade consisted of a ten dollar bill, plenty of energy, and lots of determination to succeed in life. He decided to build himself up and how well he has succeeded is evidenced by the fact that he is at present secretary, attorney and general manager of the Columbian Building, Loan & Investment Co., president and attorney of the Miller-Lewis Tablet Co., presi dent, attorney and treasurer of the West Side Furniture Co., and director of the Buffalo Fertilizer Co. He is also largely interested in real estate, and especially is this true of property on the West Side. Mr. Van Sickle has always maintained the hobby that every man should own his own home, and with this in view he has built more modest homes and sold them on easy payments to men of small means than any other man in Columbus. He has great faith in the future of Greater Columbus, and has ever been active in promoting its welfare. He is a prominent member of the Columbus Board of Trade and has been quite helpful to officers and committees in sug gesting ways and means which tend to the advancement of the city's interests. He is also a prominent Thirty-Second Degree Mason and a member of the Ohio Club and the Country Club, taking a great interest in all of these organizations. He owns his own handsome residence at 37 North Monroe avenue, where he resides with his family. 96 HENRY SELDEN WAITE 97 HENRY SELDEN WAITE. Henrv Selclen AA'aite is a native of Zanesville, where he was born May 4. 11-174, and he attended a private school until he was 18 years of age. His father, the late C. C. AA'aite, was for years actively engaged in railroading and at the time of his death was at the head of the affairs of the Hocking Valley Railway. Young AA'aite canre to Columbus with his parents in 1889, and took a course in mechanical engineering at Yale College, graduating in 1895. His first employment was as assistant engineer for the AVellston & Jackson Belt Railway, where he remained eight months. In February, 1896, he entered the freight department of the Hocking Valley Railway. So rapid was his advancement that in June, 1896, he was made general clerk in the office of Maurice Connors ; in November, 1896, succeeded to the post of assistant yard-master of the same road, and in January, 1899, was made assistant train-master. On January 1, 1900, Air. AA'aite severed his con nection with the railroad business, and accepted the place of salesman for the Case Manufacturing Company. On May 20, 1902, he was made secretary and assistant manager of the same company ; on June 20, 1902, he was made secretary, treasurer and general manager; in April, 1904, was made vice- president and is still holding that office. The Case Manufacturing Company is one of the largest and best known manufacturers of cranes and all forms of hoisting machinery in the middle west. On September 27, 1898, Mr. AA'aite married a daughter of E. K. Stewart, and they live in a beautiful new home on East Broad street. Two children are the result of this union, Alice and Christopher Champlain. Mr. YVaite is a member of the Columbus Club, Arlington Country Club, Columbus Engin eering Club, Board of Trade and Ohio Club. 98 ISAAC B. CAMERON 99 ISAAC B. CAMERON. Isaac B. Cameron was born in Nairn, Scotland, and came to America when quite young, locating with his mother in Jefferson county, afterward removing to New Lisbon, Columbiana county. He attended the public schools and was afterward graduated from the Iron City Business College at Pittsburg, Pa. At an early age he accepted a position as book-keeper for a mercantile firm in Columbiana county, remaining until 1874, when he was given a partnership on account of his sterling integrity and rare business qualifications. In 1880 he became the sole owner, and his business grew and prospered until 1893, when he was elected treasurer of Columbiana county. He was re-elected in 1895 and during his two terms in office inaugurated a model business system, that has been followed by his successors ever since. In 1898 the First National Bank of Lisbon, was declared insolvent. Mr. Cameron had only a short time previously retired from office, he was the choice of the stockholders and creditors alike for receiver. It required only a little more than a year to bring order out of chaos. The books were found to have been outrageously falsified, yet he obtained judgments in every case in which suit was brought. In the summer of 1899 Mr. Cameron was nominated Republican candidate for State Treasurer. He was elected, and in 1901 was renominated and re-elected by an increased majority. While handling the funds of the people in this capacity Air. Cameron introduced improvements that facilitated the work greatly, and introduced innovations that not only added to the security of the funds but lightened the work. Mr. Cameron then became interested in the Columbus Savings and Trust Co., now safely housed in the magnificent new sky-scraper at the corner of High and Long streets, and he is now the efficient president of that big financial institution. Here he brings into play his splendid executive talents. 100 TINGLEY MORRIS 101 DR. TINGLEY MORRIS. It is a pleasure to place on record the fact that the sons of the Buckeye state have always forged to the front where the sciences have sought atten tion. The great Commonwealth of Ohio has been fertile soil for the develop ment of men who have been called to assume trying responsibilities in the conduct of the nation's affairs, and she has been equally generous of her sons who have achieved renown in the arts and sciences. In New Antioch, Clinton county, Ohio, and on the 6th day of February, 1861, Tingley Morris was born. His early education was received in the public schools of Ohio and Northern ATissouri. At the age of eighteen years he studied architecture and after ward became architect and builder up to the age of thirty-five, eleven years of this time being spent in Kirksville, Mo. There is something interestingly similar in the study of architecture and of the human body. The architect understands the anatomy of the most complex structure as the physician knows every tissue of the body. It was therefore most natural that our subject should take up the study of medicine, or more correctly, Osteopathy. Dr. Morris graduated from the American School of Osteopathy in Kirksville, Missouri, July 31, 1898, after a course of four full terms. After graduation he located in Springfield, and in 1902 came to Columbus, taking a magnificent suite of offices in the Harrison building. Dr. Morris is an expert diagnosti cian. It is an axiom among the profession that "a case correctly diagnosed is half cured." Dr. Morris has built up a lucrative practice and his patients comprise the discriminating people of the city. Dr. Morris is an ardent Theosophist, an exponent of the universal brotherhood of man. He is Past Chancellor Commander Columbus Lodge No. 3, Knights of Pythias, and member of Ohio Uniform Rank of K. of P. in Joe Dowell Commandery No. 1. 102 THOMAS HAMMOND. A progressive type of the best citizenship of Columbus passed away in the death of Thomas Hammond, that occurred on the 9th of August, 1905. Thomas Hammond was born in Morgan county, September 2, 1830, and was raised on a farm. His education was confined to the common schools of the county. At an early age Mr. Hammond took a leading part in the doings of his community and his worth was soon recognized. Always identified with the Republican party he was appointed postmaster at McConnellsville, Morgan county, a post he held for several terms until he came to Columbus in 1880. AYith his arrival here he accepted his first service as book-keeper for McKaniel & Johnson, wholesale grocers, a post he held until the dissolution of the firm in 1888. Then the wholesale grocery firm of Monypeny & Ham mond was organized and he became its general manager, the position now held by his son, Archibald S. Hammond. The elder Mr. Hammond was treasurer of the company for a number of years, and was recognized as one of the leading merchants of Columbus. In the the early days of the war Mr. Hammond had a great love for the military and in 1862 commanded a com pany of militia that performed some excellent service. The wife of Mr. Hammond died ten years ago. They had eight children, six of whom survive him — Arch S. Hammond, of the Monypeny-Hammond Co.; Mrs. Charles E. Chandler, of Chillicothe ; Miss Janes M. Hammond, Miss Rose L. Hammond, of Columbus; Mrs. Clarence Metters, of Madison avenue, Columbus, and Mrs. Carleton Y. Bridgeman, of Syracuse, Ohio. Mr. Hammond was one of the pioneer members of the order of Odd Fellows, having been connected with the organization since 1852. 103 EDWIN FORREST SHAFFER. In the matter of roofs as in other lines dealing with the construction of homes, there has been a constant and intelligent advance, and now a variety of materials is employed in the manufacture of roofs, each of them affording far better protection than under the old order of things. Edwin Forrest Shaffer, the directing head of the Shaffer Roofing Company, was born in Freeport, 111., in 1857. In 1872 his father removed to Chicago, 111., and engaged in the roofing business, his son then being associated with him. The business prospered, but the son wanted to be in business for himself and in 1895 came to Columbus as a city affording every facility for the establishment and advancement of the enterprise which he desired to establish. He began in a small way, but today his plant is one of the big things in Columbus and has grown to be one of the most important in its particular line, its operations extending all over the country and its product covering the roofs in a dozen states. Some time ago, Air. Shaffer associated his son James AA' Shaffer, in the business, and the two make a strong combination in the industrial growth of the Capital City. Edwin Forrest Shaffer is a member of the Masonic Order, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and of the United Commercial Travelers' Association. He is esteemed as a leader in the busi ness circles of Columbus, and the proud title of being one of "the men behind the gun" in the making of Greater Columbus, can fairly be bestowed upon him. 104 J. F. ANGELL 105 J. F. ANGELL. J. F. Angell was born in Monroeville, Huron county, Ohio, December 16, 1852. He graduated from the Monroeville Union School and at the age of 19 studied telegraphy and was operator at Port Clinton, O., for the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, and sixteen months later was trans ferred to the train dispatcher's office in Cleveland, O. Two years later (1876), he was appointed train dispatcher. After three years he resigned, and accepted a position as trainmaster and chief train dispatcher for the Chicago and Alton Railroad. He then went into the Lake Shore road again and later as superintendent of telegraph and trainmaster on the Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Rairoad. He resigned to look after personal interests in Bellevue, Ohio. The railroads again sought his services, and he was made train dispatcher of the Toledo and Ohio Central Ry., and later promoted to superintendent of the eastern and western divisions. He was later appointed superintendent of the Zanesville and Western Railroad. Mr. Angell became interested in the Winget Concrete Machine, resigned his posi tion and organized the Columbus Foundry and Machine Co., was elected its president and treasurer, and September 1, 1905, elected president and treasurer of The Winget Concrete Machine Co. In June, 1905, he was elected presi dent and treasurer of the Concrete Block Machine Manufacturers of the United States. The Winget 1906 model is the highest achievement in con crete block-machine making. It was given the only award at the Portland World's Fair for this class of machine. Its great sale in this and foreign countries has compelled the building of a new manufacturing plant at Plain City, Ohio. He is a member of Blue Lodge F. & A. M., Bucyrus Chapter R. A. M., and Gwynn Counsel of Bucyrus, Ohio, and Marion Commandery Knights Templar, Marion, Ohio, and of Al Koran Shrine of Cleveland, Ohio. He is also past master of the Blue Lodge and past high priest of the chapter at Bucyrus, Ohio. 106 J. S. M. GOODLOE 107 J. S. M. GOODLOE. J. S. M. Goodloe was born in Louisville, Ky., August 11, 1868. He attended the public schools in that city, but was compelled to quit at the age of 13 years, owing to a defect in his eyes. Some time later he entered the engineering and auditing departments respectively of the Louisville Railway, and while there learned telegraphing. He left this employment in 1888 and went with the Evansville & Terre Haute Railway as traveling auditor, where he remained four years. Then he was connected with the Ohio Valley Rail way as assistant auditor, putting in part of his time as assistant superintendent of the Western Division. At this time his health failed him and he returned to Kentucky to enter the insurance business, but gave this up to join Messrs. Patterson and Corwin, public accountants, remaining with them until the firm of Patterson, Teale & Dennison was organized in 1900. A year later he was made a member of the firm. In 1905 he organized the firm of Goodloe & Kennedy, surrounding himself with a staff of some of the most expert accountants in the country. He is conducting a most lucrative business, pleasing clients, and bringing about the best results in the solution of tangled business equations. Air. Goodloe is financially interested in the Columbus Lithograph Company, the Columbus Envelope Company, and many other local enterprises, always ready to assist any business that promises to add to the prestige of the Capital City. He is president of the Ohio State Society of Public Accountants, and a member and treasurer of the American Asso ciation of Public Accountants. Socially, Air. Goodloe is very prominent, being a member of the Knight Templars, the Masonic Order, and the Elks. He is also a member of the Columbus Club, the Columbus Country Club and manr other large clubs in leading American cities. 108 R. GROSVENOR HUTCHINS 109 R. GROSVENOR HUTCHINS. Mr. R. Grosvenor Hutchins was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1869, but his boyhood days were passed for the most part in Columbus, as the family removed here early in the seventies, his father, Rev. R. G. Hutchins, having preceded Dr. Gladden as pastor of the First Congregational Church. Mr. Hutchins spent several years in Minneapolis, Minn., completing his course in the public schools of that city. From there he went to Oberlin, O., where his college course was taken up, and where he remained until graduation. Returning to Columbus in 1888, he at once began his business career with the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, with which institution he has ever since been identified. He started in this great establishment at the bottom of the ladder, but his advancement has been continuous and rapid, as is shown by the fact that he has arisen from the menial post of office boy to the important post of vice president. Coupled with his business ability and experience, Mr. Hutchins possesses social gifts of the highest order ; his personality is strong and charming ; his views are broad and sympathetic, and trained by a close observation of men and affairs in many of the business centers of the world, having traveled extensively in Europe, Africa and Australia, as well as on this continent. His warm friends are legion. He is largely connected with the social organizations of the city, and active in the work of the Columbus Board of Trade, serving as president of that representative body of business-men during 1905. During his incum bency of that office he was constantly engaged in carrying out projects for the good of the city and its people, making a record that it will be an excellent thing for his successor to emulate. In all the relations of life R. Grosvenor Hutchins is a true man. 110 JAMES M. BUTLER 111 JAMES M. BUTLER. James M. Butler is a native of Highland county, Ohio, where he was born on a farm March 25, 1868. He attended the common country schools there, followed by a full course at Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, from whence he graduated in due course. He afterward attended the law department of Ohio State University, and graduated in 1894. Then he began the practice of his profession, and from May, 1901, to May, 1905, he was connected with the law firm of Booth, Keating & Peters. He made his debut in local politics, in 1901, when he accepted the place of assistant director of law under Director Ira Crum, during the Swartz ad ministration. So successful was he in the discharge of his duties here that in April, 1903, he was a candidate for city solicitor, and was elected. During his incumbency of the city solicitorship, many important cases were disposed of, including the Walcutt contention, the enigma concerning the pay of the firemen, the street assessment cases and the litigation connected with the dam, filter and electric light proposition. On the 30th of November, 1905, Mr. Butler resigned as city solicitor to become a member of the law firm of Butler & Carlile, and he was succeeded by George S. Marshal, first assistant city solicitor under Mr. Butler. Mr. Butler is a bundle of physical and mental energy, and works like a steam engine, and best of all he accomplishes great results. He is a sutdent and seeks constantly to improve his position in his profession. As an attorney he is faithful and painstaking, as a citizen progressive and up-to-date, and as a friend one whose good will is to be valued. It is not too much to say that in the immediate future he will be one of the leaders of the Columbus bar. His steps forward have been rapid and constant. 112 ROBERT H. JEFFREY 113 ROBERT H. JEFFREY. Robert H. Jeffrey, son of Mr. J. A. Jeffrey, the head of the big Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, was born in Columbus, December 21, 1873. He attended the Douglas School building, where the foundation of his education was laid. He was then prepared for the university school and spent two years in Dresden, Germany, in study. His college preparation was finished in the Columbus Latin School. At 17 years of age young Jeffrey entered Williams College and several months after his graduation he worked in the coal mines of Ohio and Illinois in order to learn the practical application of mining machinery. He then returned to the drafting department of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, attending law school at Ohio State Univer sity in the afternoons. He completed his full course of study at a Columbus business college. He first became order clerk of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, then purchasing agent, and in that position he visited Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, Australia and Tasmania, in the interest of the rapidly growing trade of his father's great establishment. Then followed his elevation to assistant manager of the works employ ing over one thousand men, and this he has held during his incumbency of the mayoralty. In the spring of 1903 he was nominated by the Republicans of Columbus as their candidate for mayor, and after a strenuous campaign, Mr. Jeffrey was elected over John M. Hinkle by over 3,500 majority. Mr. Jeffrey is an active member of the Columbus Board of Trade, served as its president in 1902, and previous to that was chairman of the committee on manufactures. He is a young man of wonderful capacity and energy. His education is complete along many lines, and at the early age of 32 years he made a record of which any man much older might well be proud. 114 J. M. ROAN. J. M. Roan was born at Little Kanawha Station, West Virginia, where only the development of coal properties have rescued it from absolute terra incognito. His parents were poor, and when but nine years of age was compelled to quit school and go to work in the mines. After doing his day's work he would spend some hours pursuing knowledge under most discourag ing circumstances. So great was his eagerness for education that even after his marriage he attended the night school in that section. With this smat tering of knowledge he soon reached a point where he was able to handle the pay-rolls, and was given this post of importance to look after. He proved his industry and ability, and when John H. Winder secured a merger of the coal properties in that part of the state, he found it necessary to secure a com petent manager of the mines. Mr. Roan was the man selected and he is in the place today. Here he finds an opportunity for the exercise of his good judgment and business ability. It is a high tribute to the integrity and honesty of Mr. Roan to say that he holds the unquestioned .confidence of his employer, and has achieved a great success in his chosen line of work. Mr. Roan is happily married, and he is the father of four sons, three of whom are learning the practical end of mining, and one is at Notre Dame College, Indiana, securing an education. The parent is pledged to the proposition that his boys shall have the benefits of more education than he was able to procure for himself. In the career of J. M. Roan is exemplified what can be accomplished by the exercise of patience, integrity and a determination to win in spite of surroundings. 115 FRED VERCOE. Columbus has a number of wide-awake brokers, but Fred Vercoe, of the firm of Stevenson & Vercoe, is firmly established in the confidence of the people. His knowledge of securities is universal, and his method of dealing is such as to more firmly entrench him in the good will of those who are seeking chances to put their money in a good investment. Mr. Vercoe was born in Columbus, June 22, 1876, and his education was limited to the com mon schools if his native city. His first business experience was with the Deshler National Bank, where he remained seven years in various capacities, and laid deep and wide his knowledge of the world of finance. He was next engaged with the Bank of Commerce, four years in the capacity of secretary and treasurer. He afterward became interested in the Twentieth Century Coal Company, but in a short time he sold out that business, and devoted his whole time to dealing in local stocks in partnership with J J. Stevenson, which still continues. They have sumptuous offices in the First National Bank building, and the extent of their business is growing year by year. Both are young men of the highest standing, and their integrity is unimpeachable. Mr. A^ercoe is interested in other Columbus business ventures, among others the Troy Laundering Co., of which he is vice-president. He also has investments throughout the state. Mr. Vercoe is constant in his loyalty and appreciation of Columbus, and can be depended on to do all in his power for its increased power among the municipalities of the country. 116 HORACE L. CHAPMAN 117 HORACE L. CHAPMAN. Horace L. Chapman is a native of New York State, having been born in Independence July 10, 1837. When but 17 years of age he came to Ohio, where he has been ever since an active quantity in the business equation, and made a great success of whatever he has undertaken. One of his earliest ven tures was going into the lumber business with his uncle, Horace Leet, a partnership that existed until 1861. He then read law and was admitted to the bar in 1865, but he never practiced his profession. In 1863 he entered the private banking business at Portsmouth, the name of the firm being Kinney & Chapman. In 1865 he removed to Jackson, O., and established a private bank, converting the same into a National Bank in 1870 and became its presi dent. The iron business then engaged his attention, and he is to-day largely engaged in that branch of operations. In a business way Mr. Chapman was connected with the building of the Detroit Southern Railway, and the Iron- ton branch of the C. H. & D. Railway. Mr. Chapman has always been an ardent Democrat. He was twice elected treasurer of Portsmouth, and was a member of the school board and city council of Jackson. He refused the Congressional nomination in his district, and in 1897 was nominated for Gov ernor by the Democratic State convention in Columbus. He was defeated by only 28,000 majority by Governor Bushnell, who, two years before, had won out by 92,000 majority. Mr. Chapman was one of the delegates at large to the National Democratic Convention in 1900. In that body he exerted a strong influence. In 1868 Mr. Chapman was married to Miss Francis E. Benton, of Port Alleghany, Pa. Two children have come from this union, Frank B. and Grace, both married. Mr. Chapman is president of the Chap man Coal Co. and First National Bank of Jackson, director of the Globe Iron Company of that city, and director in the Chapman Mining Company, of Moxahala. 118 HENRY J. BOOTH 119 HENRY J. BOOTH. Henry J. Booth was born March 14, 1849, in Lancaster, Ohio. Soon after his birth his parents moved to Licking county where he received his early education. After completing his course in the public schools, he spent five years at Denison University, and later entered Amherst College, Mass., where he graduated in June, 1873, taking the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Air. Booth came to Columbus in 1873 and entered the law office of the Hon. George L. Converse, where he completed his legal studies. He was admitted to the bar in 1874 and immediately commenced the practice of his profession as a member of the firm of Converse, AVoodbury and Booth. The present firm of Booth, Keating and Peters, of which Mr. Booth is the head, is one of the strongest and best known law firms in the state. Air. Booth is the author of "Law of Street Railways." For several years he lectured on Medico-Legal Jurisprudence in the Columbus Medical College and was a member of its Board of Trustees. He has served as president of the Ohio State Bar Association and of the Franklin County Bar Association. He was a delegate from Ohio to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and is now vice-president of the American Bar Association. For twenty-two years Air. Booth was active in politics and served as a member of the Democratic executive committees in the city, county and state. He served one term in the legislature from 1878 to 1880. In 1884 he was appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State University. He is an ex-president of the Columbus Board of Trade ; a member of the Columbus Club, the Arlington Country Club, the Columbus Country Club, is president of the Columbus Riding Club, and the Beta Theta Pi Alumni Asso ciation. 120 JOSEPH C. CAMPBELL 121 JOSEPH C. CAMPBELL. Mr. J. C. Campbell, the well-known insurance man of Columbus, is a native of Virginia, born at Edinburg, October 26, 1852. His early education was limited to the facilities offered by the common schools of his section, and at the early age of 14 years young Campbell went to work in a country store of the region. But the environment did not suit his ambitious mind and in 1871 he came to Columbus to make his own way in the world. His first employment was in a dry goods store, afterward securing a position in an insurance office, where he learned the business thoroughly. He then joined the forces of the John Hancock Life Insurance Company, and later became general agent for the states of Ohio and West Virginia. The agency was a small and unpretentious one in the beginning, but it is now of the first im portance, the collections now averaging five millions a year, and is the largest agency operated by the John Hancock Company. Mr. Campbell is connected with a number of business enterprises in Columbus, being president of the National Bank of Commerce since its organization. He is a member of the board of trustees of Toledo State Hospital by appointment of Governor Nash, and reappointment of Governor Herrick. He is a member of the Columbus Board of Trade, a Scottish Rite Mason, member of the Commandery, Columbus Club, Columbus Country Club and the Republican Glee Club. He married Miss Emma A. AVhite, and they have two children, Edna, aged 17 years, and Howard, aged 16. During a business career in Columbus of more than a third of a century Mr. Campbell has endeared himself to the business and general community, and his influence has always been for good and the improvement of the city of his adoption. Always concerned in every public enterprise, he has con tributed by his means to many worthy objects and is known as an enter prising citizen. 122 HENRY CLAY GODMAN 123 HENRY CLAY GODMAN. Mr. Godman was born in Marion, Ohio, June 14, 1832, and received the usual education afforded by a town that size at that time. He attended Ohio AVesleyan University but left the institution in 1852 and took a select course, afterward receiving the degree of A. M. He was admitted to the bar in August, 1853, and practiced his profession about 25 years in Marion and Delaware, and from the latter place he came to Columbus in 1881. While in Delaware he was interested in a small shoe business, and when he reached Columbus, in connection with a leather store of which he was proprietor, he began to develop the manufacture of shoes in a small way. The Godman Shoe Company was the outcome of the experiment, an establishment that is now turning out 20,000 pairs of shoes every working day of the year, the largest establishment of the kind in Columbus. The product of this estab lishment is sold practically all over the United States. In both the practice of the law and in business, Mr. Godman has always been recognized for the highest degree of honor and personal probity, and his benefactions to the unfortunate of Columbus have been numerous and munificent. The Godman Guild Home on West Goodale street, is an example of his charity. In politics he has always been a Republican, and although many times importuned to allow the use of his name as a candidate for Congress he has always refused the honor. Mr. Godman retired from business four years ago, and lives a quiet home life with his family in a palatial residence on East Broad street. Mr. Godman is a member of the Columbus Club, the Country Club and other 124 SAMUEL L. BLACK 125 SAMUEL L. BLACK. Judge Samuel L. Black was born in Kimbolton, Guernsey county, Ohio, December 22, 1859. His father was a practicing physician and one of the leading men of the community. Young Black attended the public schools at Cambridge, from which he graduated in 1878, followed by a full course at Ohio AVesleyan University at Delaware, where he matriculated in June, 1883. Following graduation he worked at the trade of jeweler, but he leaned toward a professional career, and was admitted to the bar in 1887, and became a member of the legal firm of Powell, Ricketts & Black in this city. From that time until February 9, 1903, when he took the oath of office as probate judge of Franklin county, he was engaged in the practice of his profession, with the exception of two years when he served as mayor of Columbus in 1897-'98. During his term of office many public improvements, including the big storage dam that was formally dedicated December 5, 1905, were projected. In 1898 as mayor of the city he delivered an address of welcome to President McKinley at the Goodale Street Auditorium, when the chief executive was returning from the exercises of the Chicago Peace Jubilee that has never been excelled for good taste and warm greeting. With the enact ment of the law providing for the juvenile courts in Franklin county, Judge Black at once evinced great interest in the establishment of this splendid means of caring for waifs of the city, and his course along this charitable line has won him many commendations. In November, 1905, Judge Black was elected to a second term, and the great majority of over 5,000 votes indicates how his efforts have been appre ciated. Judge Black is happily married, and with his wife and several children, lives in a fine home on Bryden Road. Mrs. Black is well-known for her great interest in the charitable work of the city. 126 LLOYD E. STURM. It was on a farm in Clarksburg, AV Va., that Lloyd E. Sturm first saw the light of day. The schools of his birthplace supplied his initial training, and he remained at home till he had reached his majority. During this time Mr. Sturm had made a study of the various forms of stone and concrete work as well as heavy masonry. Shortly after his 21st year he engaged in the general contracting business, accepting public contracts and railroad work. Mr. Sturm was married in 1891 and made his home in AAfaverly, Ohio, living there -up to within about a year ago, at which time he removed to Columbus, locating Jiis business office in the Wyandotte building. The firm name up to 1892 was L. E. Sturm & Co., but since that time Mr. Sturm has conducted his business alone. Mr. Sturm is able to point with justifiable pride to the results of his work in this and other states. Among the struc tures of stone, masonry and concrete to his credit may be mentioned a big bridge over the Ohio river built in 1886, and large construction work on the Big Four Railroad in Indiana and Illinois. He has also^ worked continuously on the Norfolk & Western Railroad, building a total of sixty bridges. Mr. Sturm is president of the firm of Sturm & Dillard Co., which was organized in AVest A^irginia. This company is now executing a big grading contract with the Southern Railway in North Carolina. AVhile Mr. Sturm has but lately made this city his home, he has manifested the true public spirit and is ready to give his support to any project that looks to a Greater Columbus. 127 THOMAS M. HARDESTY. Thomas M. Hardesty, one of the best known flouring mill men in Ohio, was born in Canal Dover, O., April 19, 1879. With his parents he came to Columbus when but three years of age, and young Hardesty secured his schooling in this city, where he remained until he was 16 years of age, a constant attendant. After quitting school he went to Lawrenceville, N. J., where he remained several years, returning to Columbus, where he engaged in the milling business with his father. The elder Hardesty built up a splendid trade, shipping flour to all parts of the world. The firm was engaged strictly in the merchant miller traffic. Several years the era of com bining struck the millers of Ohio, and the subject of this sketch was the prime factor in bringing about the merger of the following milling companies : J. F. Williams Co., at Columbus, and Roscoe, Ohio; Columbus Milling Co., and the Hardesty Brothers at Columbus, under the corporate name of Hardesty- Williams Milling Company. This made a powerful combination and one that absorbs the great bulk of the trade in Ohio and other states. It is a most successful venture, and that it is such is largely due to the business foresight and acumen of Thomas M Hardesty. Mr. Hardesty is vice president of the Hardesty-Williams Milling Co., and vice president of the Hardesty Milling Co., located at Canal Dover, O. He is also a director in the Hanna Paint Manufacturing Co., and interested in a number of Columbus enterprises. Mr. Hardesty is connected with many social organizations of Columbus, and he is a noted automobilist, being an enthusiastic lover of the sport. About a year ago he was married to Miss Florence Sells, daughter of the late Peter Sells. 128 FRANK O. SCHOEDINGER 129 FRANK OSCAR SCHOEDINGER. Frank Oscar Schoedinger was born in Columbus September 9, 1872, and his education was secured in the common schools of the city, and the Central High School. During vacation days and on Saturdays he worked for the late Andrew Schwartz, once a leading plumber here, until 1886, and remaining with Chas. A. Klie, who purchased the Schwartz business, until 1890. In that year Mr. Schoedinger bought out the business, added house furnishings, and located at No. 106 North High street. To this he added architectural roofing and sheet metal departments, and five years later he added general hardware, and the firm became known as Schoedinger, Fearn & Co., making the latter a separate company from the sheet metal business. In 1900 the sheet metal and roofing business was removed to No. 61 East Long street, where it expanded greatly. In 1901 the jobbing annex was added which increased so that he was compelled to move into the new and spacious building at Nos. 146-148 North Third street. The business in the manufac turing and jobbing line covers Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and West Virginia, with a large corps of traveling men. Mr. Schoedinger is president of the Columbus Aseptic Furniture Company, vice-president of the Columbus Dental Manufacturing Company, director of the National Bank of Commerce, trustee and chairman of the house committee of the Children's Hospital, member and trustee of Emmanuel Evangelical Church, member of the Columbus Club, the Arlington Country Club, the Columbus Country Club, director of the Ohio Club, Board of Trade and Builders' Exchange. He is past commander of Mt. Vernon Commandery No. 1, member of York and Scottish Rite bodies, Junior Lodge I. O. O. F., Champion Lodge Knights of Pythias, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was married in November, 1905, to Miss Alice Seibert, a popular young lady of this city. 130 CLARENCE M. RICHARDS 131 CLARENCE M. RICHARDS. Clarence M. Richards was born in Jackson, Mich., February 22, 1865. Young Richards attended school in his native city for five years, when his father moved to Kansas and established a homestead on government land. The lad attended school there until he was 18 years of age ; then taught country school for four years, in the meantime studying structural engineering and architecture. For some time he was engaged on the Missouri Pacific Railway, but came to Ohio later on and cast his lot in Cincinnati, where he entered the office of Edwin Anderson, the well-known architect, and began the work of his profession in earnest. This was in the spring of 1889. After a season of successful work in Cincinnati, Mr. Richards came to Columbus, as a place that offered improved opportunities to an ambitious young man, and he has resided here ever since. In 1892 he entered .the employ of Yost & Packard as superintendent of construction, continuing until 1898. Then be lieving that it would be to his interest to go into business on his own account he organized the firm of Richards, McCarty & Bulford. A great deal of the work executed by the firm has been outside of Columbus, and the whole state of Ohio has been its field. Among notable structures designed and built by Richards, McCarty & Bulford are the Institution for the Deaf, Columbus ; the Boys' Industrial School at Lancaster, and Grant Hospital Building, Columbus. Mr. Richards is a director in the Capital Office Building, the Ohio Dredg ing Co., and the Columbus Wire and Iron Works. He is interested in many other Columbus enterprises Socially he is a member of the Columbus Country Club, the Ohio Club and the Columbus Board of Trade. He is one of the strong men in this community and deserves all the success he has achieved. 132 JOSEPH SCHONTHAL 133 JOSEPH SCHONTHAL. The subject of this sketch was born in Austria, Hungary, August 15, 1854. At the age of 16 years he took charge of a farm of 6,000 acres. When 20 years old he served three years in the standing army of his country. In 1887 the revision of the army laws compelled him to -embark for America in very short order, his family following him over in about three months. From New York he went to Chillicothe, Ohio, where he had an uncle living, and started to make his way in the world, by carrying a pack of dry goods on his back. His good nature and his honesty and integrity won the hearts of the people, and his business grew until he was compelled to secure a wagon to carry his goods. Three years later he removed to Columbus to engage in the iron business. Starting on a very small lot on North Third street, and owning a one-horse wagon which he drove himself, he made his way into the hearts of his customers as he had before, when he first started out to do business in this country. Fifteen years have passed since he made his business debut in Columbus, and he today ranks as one of the largest and most progressive scrap iron men in the United States. In 1890 he purchased the Cumberland, Maryland, mill for the manufacture of light steel rails, and has successfully operated under the name of the Schonthal Iron and Steel Company, of which he is president The property is owned by him ex clusively. He is also president of the Joseph Schonthal Iron Co., operating his scrap iron business here, the Uneedme Tool Co., manufacture of automo bile tools, treasurer of the Columbus Structural Steel Co., and vice-president of the Piney Fork Oil and Gas Company, operating on leases in Harrison county, Ohio, and comprising 1,700 acres. 134 MOSES H. NEIL 135 MOSES H. NEIL. Col. Neil was born on the old Neil farm, now within the corporate limits of the city of Columbus, June 9, 1840. His father, Robert Neil, was a Clark county Kentuckian, and his grandparents were from Scotland. Col. Neil was educated in the public schools of Columbus, supplemented by courses at Kingston College and Capitol University. At the breaking out of the war, Col. Neil promptly enlisted and was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the First Ohio Cavalry. He was soon promoted and made adjutant of the regi ment, and fought valiantly with his command until the latter part of 1862, when he was compelled to resign on account of extreme bad health, and in fact did not re-embark in business until 1870, when he engaged in the hard ware trade. Here he remained two years, when ill health compelled him to abandon the enterprise, and he has since been engaged in the real estate business, aiding materially in the most of the city's activity along that line for 20 years. He has also been engaged in other lines of business. Col. Neil has always been prominent in county and state politics, his name having been frequently mentioned in connection with a number of important offices. With one exception these have all been declined. For four years he was com mander of McCoy Post G. A. R., taking the position when the post was small, running the membership up to the highest of any post in the United States. He was on the National Council of Administration for two years, and became the commander of the camps at the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Columbus, in 1888. He was afterward elected senior vice- commander-in-chief of the United States, serving with much credit. He obtained the rank of colonel by appointment as senior aide on the staff of Governor Foraker, serving both terms. 136 J. NICHOLAS KOERNER 137 J. NICHOLAS KOERNER. This well-known and popular business man was born in Franklin county, Ohio, February 14, 1862. He was educated in the public schools of his native city, graduating from the high school in 1881, and afterward taking a full course in a business college. His business career began when he accepted the place of messenger of the South End Bank of Columbus, thence rising to the post of bookkeeper. When that institution went out of business, Mr. Koerner was made assistant superintendent of the money order department in the Columbus postoffice, where he remained until 1890. He then engaged in politics and was elected a member of the Columbus City Council from the old Twelfth Ward, serving with credit for twenty-two months, when he resigned to become secretary to the board of police commissioners, where he remained eighteen months, then to employment in the pension office, where he remained until 1898. After this service he was engaged in expert bookkeeping, when he accepted his present post of cashier of the American Savings Bank, now one of the solid financial institutions of the Capital City, and occupying its own building at High and Town streets. Mr. Koerner's affable ways and accom modating disposition have made friends for this bank, as will be noted by the constantly increasing number of deposits. Mr. Koerner is engaged in a number of Columbus business enterprises, and among others is president of the Trauger Printing Company. He is most prominent in secret society circles, being foreman of the Grand Lodge, A. O. U. ; a thirty-second degree Mason, member of the Shrine, Knight Templar, Past Master Humboldt Lodge, P. T. I. M., Columbus Council, No. 8, R. A. M. ; member Columbus Maennerchor, Thurman Club, South Side Demo cratic Club, Board of Trade and officer in the State League of Democratic Clubs. 138 CHARLES C. GREEN. When Isaac B. Cameron of Columbiana county, assumed the place of State Treasurer in January, 1900, he offered to Mr Charles C. Green the cashiership, only to be repeated and accepted at the beginning of his second term, and to be followed in 1904 by the same tender by Mr. McKinnon, who succeeded Cameron as State Treasurer. The fact shows that a good man, honorable and true to every trust is not compelled to go about seeking his bread. Charles C. Green is a native of Columbiana county, Ohio, and was born at Salineville, April 6, 1873. He left school at the tender age of twelve years and had to work for a living. His first employment was in the role of mes senger for Knowles, Taylor and Knowles, the East Liverpool potters, and here he remained eight years. Then he took charge of the office of the Boyce Foundry and Machine Works, where he remained one year. During his incumbency of cashier of the State Treasury many reforms have been instituted, all operating for the improvement of the public service, while he has made thousands of friends by his administration of the delicate affairs of his position. It may not be out of place to say in this connection that no more popular official ever stood at the window in the office of the State Treasurer. Mr. Green is a member of the Ohio Club and the Masonic Order, Goodale Lodge of Elks of Salem, Ohio, and Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Lisbon, Ohio. He married Miss Florence J. Rose, of Canton, Ohio, and they have one child, a son four years of age. They live happily together on the North Side. 139 C. EDWARD BORN. The brewing interest in Columbus is a large and important one. Hun dreds of thousands of dollars are invested in the great enterprise, hundreds of men are given employment, and the product of the breweries in this city goes to nearly every land under the sun. One of the leading spirits in the Born establishment for years was Mr. C. Edward Born, who entered into the work when 21 years of age, and up to the time of the merger of the Columbus breweries, was assistant manager of the Born Breweries. Mr. Born is a Columbus boy, born in this city February 3, 1875, and is a graduate of the Columbus High Schools. With the merger of the brewery interests under the name of the Hoster-Columbus Associated Breweries Company, Mr. Born was made manager of the city sales and investment department, a responsible position that he has filled with satisfaction. The capacity of this plant is one million barrels of beer annually. The company is capitalized at six million dollars and bonded for the same amount. The specialties are : Hos- ter's Weiner, Born's Pale, Born's Brew, Schlee's Elk Brew, Columbus Select and many others. The beer of this establishment is considered among the best and purest manufactured anywhere and is especially recommended for the sick room. Mr. Born is a member of the Arlington Club, the Olentangy Club, the Ohio Club, Elks and the Eagles. . He is a very popular business man and numbers his friends by the wide circle of his acquaintances. He stands in the very van of the enterprising young business men of the city. He is recognized as one of the powers in the world of success and finance. 140 FRED LAZARUS 141 FRED LAZARUS. For more than a half century Fred Lazarus has been a citizen of Colum bus, and today is among the leading business men of the Capital City, ever eager to do what he can to advance its material interests. No man is better known. No man has more friends. But few have been more successful in the transaction of business. Fred Lazarus is a native of Gremany, born in 1850, but with his parents he came to this city when but one year old. So it may be said that he has lived in Columbus all his life. He attended the public schools of Columbus, reinforcing the education received here with a two years' course at the Capital University. Simon Lazarus, the father of the subject of this sketch, began the clothing business here in 1851, and when young Fred was but 16 years of age, he entered his father's store and began to work his way up from the lowest rounds of the ladder of success. The late Ralph Lazarus, who died in 1903, entered the store a year later. In 1877 Simon Lazarus, the head of the firm, died, and the brothers continued the business. Its growth has been one of the marvels of the commercial life of Columbus, for the Lazarus store is known wherever newspapers are read. With the death of Ralph, the entire ownership and responsibility of conduct ing the great business has devolved upon Fred Lazarus, but he is assisted by two of his sons, who are following in the footsteps of the father. Fred Lazarus is one of the most charitable of men, and is actively allied with a number of such institutions. He is a trustee of the Children's Hospital, the Humane Society, the Cleveland Orphan Asylum and president of the Old Folks' Home. He is a life member of the Columbus Lodge of Elks, and a member of the Columbus Country Club and the Columbus Board of Trade. He is a director of the Ohio National Bank, Ohio Trust Company, American Savings Bank and the Lincoln Savings Bank. 142 JOHN S. MORTON 143 JOHN SELBY MORTON. John S. Morton was born hrKikeimuir, England, January 4, 1842. His education was limited to that afforded by the country schools of his district. When but 15 years of age he entered the dry goods business and remained two years. Then great London attracted the boy and he entered a wholesale dry goods house, remaining there three years. Then to America in 1862, landing in New York City, where he went to work for James Meyers & Co., wholesale dealers in dry goods. Here he stayed one year in a small position, but soon became the hosiery buyer for the house, remaining five years. Then he embarked in business. in a small way on his own account. Mr. Morton came to Columbus in 1871, and entered the firm of Freeman, Staley & Morton, dry goods dealers, as a partner. This continued ten years, when he retired, having become interested in coal mining in the" meantime. He organized the Sunday Creek Coil Company, and was the president and directing head of that enterprise until 1900, when Mr. Morton and two others sold out their interests to J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Morton continued in the coal business in West \rirginia until March 1, 1903, with Julius F. Stone, when he sold out his interests here, and has since retired from all active business, and is attend ing now only to his private business interests. Mr. Morton was one of the Many Columbus men who saw the possibilities of the coal trade in the Hock ing A^alley, invested their money in the business, and then sold out to the big eastern syndicate at a figure that made them all independent. Mr. Morton is a member of the Columbus Club, the Arlington Country Club, the Columbus Country Club and the Columbus Board of Trade. 144 FRED M. HOOVER 145 FRED M. HOOVER. Fred M. Hoover is a native of Dennison, Ohio, where he was born October 31, 1868. AA'hen but a youth he was brought to this city by his father and educated in the public schools of Columbus, graduating from High School. This course of study he supplemented by a full term at the Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., graduating therefrom in 1889. Mr. Hoover at once entered into active business, his first venture being as a manufacturer of carriage lamps and hardware in general. This was continued for some time, and was very remunerative, but larger things attracted his attention, and he organized the Hoover & Kinnear Company in 1890, their specialty being large railroad contracting. The company is now incorporated and has done a great deal of important work since its organization, operating all over the country. A resume of some of its big contracts shows that it has executed 26 miles of work for the Buffalo & Susquehanna Railway, working six steam shovels in the tunnel construction. It has also built a tunnel extension into the city of Pittsburg for the Wabash Railway, and one on the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway. It had a big masonry contract for the Erie Railway, and also a large lot of similar work for the Pennsylvania Lines. One of its recent jobs was the construction of a tunnel at Wheeling, W. Va. In every instance the firm of Hoover & Kinnear did their work well and to the com plete satisfaction of the railway corporations. The father of Fred M. Hoover, the late Gilbert C. Hoover, was a railroad contractor, and the son followed in his footsteps, carrying on an extensive business. Mr. Hoover is largely connected with Columbus social and secret society organizations, being a member of the Arlington Country Club, the Columbus Club, a Thirty-second Degree Mason, a member of the Mystic Shrine and a Knight Templar. Some years ago he was married to Miss Eliza Kinnear of Columbus. 146 JOHN H. MACKIE 147 JOHN H. MACKIE. One of the solid substantial business men who has impressed his per sonality upon the active commercial life of Columbus is John H| Mackie, at the head of the Columbus Sporting Goods Company. Mr. Mackie, before he came to Columbus to enter the hive of progress and enterprise, was con nected with a similar establishment in Cincinnati for fifteen years, and it may therefore be said that he is fully equipped for carrying on this branch of trade. That he has made a great success is nothing more than might be expected as the record of a man who has the habit of winning in everything that he undertakes. John H. Mackie first saw the light of day in the city of Covington, Ky., December 8, 1871, but when a youth his parents removed to Madisonville, a suburb of Cincinnati, where he secured his education by at tending the public and the high schools of that village. Soon after he left school, he engaged in business pursuits, entering the employ of a sporting goods concern in Cincinnati, where he spent years pushing the business of the firm. His debut in Columbus occurred in 1903, when he bought into the Columbus Sporting Goods Co., with which corporation he is still connected, as one of the controlling factors. Mr. Mackie is. actively interested in every branch of sport, and is alive to everything along that line. The noble game of baseball is especially engaging to him, and he has for several seasons been one of the managers of the interests of the local amateurs in that branch of sport. Mr. Mackie is allied with the Masonic Order, and a member of the Ohio Club, and other social organizations. In 1893 he married a daughter of Hon. John K. Green, of Cincinnati. Energetic, enthusiastic and happy spoken, Mr. Mackie easily holds his friends. His record since becoming a resident of Columbus is an excellent one, and is an evidence of still more usefulness to come in the future. 148 LOUIS LANG 149 LOUIS LANG. We are living in an age of specialists. The day of the jack-of-all-trades has passed. The duties of life become so complicated that for each man to perform his work well he must have special training and experience in any particular line of industry. Louis Lang, the well-known dyer of 58 East Town street, is a splendid example of the great results that may be achieved by knowing how to do one thing well. Mr. Lang is a specialist in the art of dyeing. He has made it a life study and the work turned out at his establishment is easy proof of the assertion. During the fourteen years prior to 1900 Mr. Lang was located in Zanesville, where he built up a flourishing business in the cleaning and dyeing of clothes. AVith a view to creating an extended business in this line Mr. Lang came to Columbus in 1900 and started in to please the people. That he has done so is attested by the fact that he has a great and growing business and his customers number among the most fastidious members of Columbus society. His is the only dyeing establishment in Franklin county worthy of note. He owns his own build ing, a handsome and spaceous structure, where he has surrounded himself with a large number of experienced operators besides the most up-to-date machinery. Here the most delicate fabrics may be cleansed or dyed with the perfect assurance that there will be absolutely no injury to the materials. Many of the methods employed are entirely original with Mr. Lang-. He is a member of the new Board of Trade of his district, and is popular in German society and business circles. Mr. Lang has always been a supporter of any movement that tends toward the upbuilding of the city and may be truly designated as a public-spirited citizen. 150 LUELLEN D. LAMPMAN. Luellen D. Lampman was born in Cleveland, Le Seur county, Minn., December 8, 1859. He attended school at St. Peter, Minn., and the University at Minneapolis, Minn., taking a special business course later at Minneapolis. Leaving school he was employed for a year in a wholesale hardware store at Minneapolis, when his health failed and he went to the plains of Colorado for two years. With returning health he went back to Cleveland, Minn., where he spent a year and a half in charge of a general store at Cleveland. He went to Nelsonville, Athens county, Ohio, in the winter of 1883, and was employed as a book-keeper in a planing mill until 1884. Mr. Lampman saw an oppor tunity to embark in the coal business. He purchased a third interest in the firm of Juniper Brothers and Myers Brothers, coal operators at Nelsonville. For a long time trade was poor, and it required all the tact of Mr. Lampman to keep things going. He came to Columbus and laid his case before P. AY. Huntington and W. D. Park, the well-known bankers. These gentlemen joined with Mr. Lampman in the belief that there was a good future in the coal trade of the valley, and agreed to assist him. They advanced $15,000 a month to keep the mines working. During all the time that trade was stagnate at Nelsonville, this property was working full force. Mr. Lampman came to Columbus in 1902. He also has large holdings in other real estate and is a director in two of the leading Columbus banks. His interest in the oil country in West Virginia is large and remunerative. He is a member of the Columbus Riding Club, the Ohio Club, the Board of Trade and the Elks. He is happily married and is the father of two children, a son and a daughter, living in a beautiful home on Fifteenth avenue, Columbus. 151 GEORGE HENRY BULFORD. George H. Bulford is an Englishman by birth, having first saw the light of day in the city of AVorcester, England, January 19, 1870. He attended the common and the cathedral schools in his native city. Leaving school at an early age, he essayed to learn the printer's trade in Worcester, and was known as a "printer's devil" for more than a month, when the bent of his mind inclining toward architecture he entered the employ of a Worcester designer as ledger clerk. At the age of 17 he came to the United States in the hope of bettering his fortune, and came direct to Columbus, taking a position in the office of J. W. Yost, the well-known architect formerly of this city. This was in 1887, and here he remained until 1898, perfecting himself in the various branches of the profession. In the latter year he entered into partnership with Messrs. Richards and McCarty, under the firm name of Richards, McCarty & Bulford, an arrangement that still exists, and a firm that is known all over Ohio and the middle west for skill in architecture and straight-forward business methods. The work of this firm covers the entire state of Ohio. In 1904 in order to still further perfect himself in his chosen life work, Mr. Bulford made an extensive trip through England, France, Ger many and Italy, studying the architecture of those countries. In 1893 Mr. Bulford married Miss Florence A. Browning, of Marietta, Ohio, and they have two children, 'a son and daughter. He is a member of the Columbus Board of Trade, the American Institute of Architecture and the Engineer's Club. 152 WALTER E. EWERS 153 WALTER E. EWERS. In the early days when Columbus was first putting on its city clothes, the Ewers lumber firm was among the well-known establishments. It was among the earliest on the ground, right dealing has placed it among the most substantial to be found anywhere. Walter E. Ewers, whose name appears at the head of this sketch, is the managing head of the old house of Ewers Lumber Company. He is a born and raised Columbus boy, the date of his birth being November 3, 1875. He was educated in the public schools of the city and soon took a great interest in the business so successfully conducted by his father. Soon after leaving school he embarked in the lumber trade, and is now the general manager of the concern. Some years ago he went west in pursuit of fame and fortune but returned to the place of his nativity to settle down and become one of the industrial forces that have done so much for the city. He assumed a minor role in the management of the business at first, but grew up with the trade and by dint of perseverence and the exercise of the qualities of manhood for which he has always been noted, soon forged his way to the front. In 1901 Mr. Ewers married Miss McLean, and they have a happy and well-ordered home. Mr. Ewers has always taken a great deal of interest in the growth of Columbus and has contributed no little along various lines of municipal development. He is well thought of in business and social circles, and is a member of the Masonic Order and of the Knights of Pythias. 154 RALPH STANLEY RHOADES 155 RALPH STANLEY RHOADES. Ralph Stanley Rhoades was born in Columbus, September 11, 1871, and received his education in the schools of Columbus and Ohio State University, He left the latter institution in 1890, and went to Chicago, where he was in the sewer pipe business for about five years, but soon returned to Columbus and engaged in the same business, and in 1895 took charge of the Columbus Sewer Pipe Company, his father having practically retired, and he has been at that important post ever since. The plant is located in North Columbus, but the local yards and offices are on the Viaduct. They manufacture every thing in the line of -clay products, but their specialty is sewer pipe. They have furnished all of the sewer pipe for the city of Columbus, and executed contracts all over the world, Mexico absorbing a great amount of pipe. Ninety per cent, of the output goes out of Columbus. In a word the Rhoades sewer pipe has almost an international- reputation. Mr. Rhoades is an en thusiastic sportsman and has the honor of being one of the best wing shots in Ohio. For five years he has been champion amateur shot in this state. He is an active member of the Arlington Gun Club, and his prowess with the gun is known in sporting circles everywhere. He was married in 1891, and is the father of two children, boys. Mr. Rhoades is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Cordial, friendly and the soul of good cheer, Ralph Stanley Rhoades shines in all circles. As a business man he stands at the head of his particular branch, and in every relation of life is recognized as the salt of the earth. 156 WILLIAM V. BAKER 157 WILLIAM V. BAKER. AVhen Dr. Samuel B. Hartman, years ago, was looking for a man upon whom he could depend to do him faithful service he picked Mr. Wm. V. Baker and the present importance of the enterprise shows that he made a wise selection. There were a great many things to do in those days when Peruna was in its swaddling clothes, but AVilliam V. Baker was equal to the emergency, and perfected plans that have brought prosperity to an estab lishment that might have languished but for the master that assisted Dr. Hartman in steering the craft through the shoals of business success. From that day to this he has been one of the powers at the big Hartman establish ment. William V. Baker was born in Fairfield county, November 16, 1863. His father was a farmer, then an attorney, and afterward prominent in the politics of his county from 1870-'74. Young Baker had only a common school educa tion and when a lad engaged in the hard work of the farm. He attended Ohio State University two years, leaving there in 1879, then he taught school for a time, meanwhile reading law, and was admitted to the bar in 1885. For the ensuing two years he practiced law, entering the employ of the Peruna Drug Manufacturing Co. in 1886. He began his service by becoming busi ness manager of the concern, a post he has held ever since, and witnessed in these years the growth of the great corporation. Mr. Baker is a prominent member of quite a number of social organiza tions, being identified with the Shriners, the Elks, a member of the Columbus Board of Trade, the Columbus Club, the Arlington Country Club, the Colum bus Country Club and the Ohio Club. He is a lover of fast horses and the owner of a number of the stellar performers at the local matinee races at the Driving Park during the season, as well as several who have made records in the Grand Circuit. 158 CALEB L. McKEE 159 CALEB L. McKEE. Caleb L. McKee occupies a proud and honorable position in Columbus, and in fact he is always on the alert to accomplish something which will benefit the city. He was born and reared in the atmosphere of stocks and bonds, and his father was a contractor and builder. He received his early education in the public schools, after which he entered the Ohio State Uni versity. After finishing his education he began business for himself, and at once sprung into prominence, negotiating large mortgage loans, and dealing in improved real estate. At the present time he is a large holder of improved real estate in and about the city, and has a large clientage in this line of trade. He has always been a great believer in the advancement of the idea that improved property makes the best investment for idle capital. He has dealt in stocks and bonds for the past fifteen years, and five years ago the firm of Caleb McKee & Co. was started, with Mr. McKee as the senior member. Since its inception the firm has increased its prestige each year, until at the present time it is looked upon as one of the most reliable in the field of stocks and bonds. The firm is a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and the New York Stock exchange, so that it will be seen that they keep closely in touch with the markets at all times. Mr. McKee is also a member of the Columbus Stock Exchange, and his advice is sought by people all over the state. He is an enthusiastic yachtsman and owns a trim yacht on Buckeye Lake, and each year he follows his favorite pastime in Atlantic City and on Lake Erie. He is a genial gentleman and a splendid addition to the pro gressive people who have every confidence in Greater Columbus. 160 JAMES U. BARNHILL 161 JAMES U. BARNHILL. James U. Barnhill is a native of Wattsville, Carroll County, Ohio, where he was born October 22, 1853. The lad spent his boyhood on the farm near the village, attending the high school at Napoleon. His father died when young Barnhill was but 15 years of age. AA'hen 17 years old the boy taught school in Canaan, Wayne, county, preparing his way for college in the Canaan Academy. He is a graduate of the University at Wooster. For four years he was superintendent of the Holgate public schools, and resigned to enter the medical profession, where he has since attained a wide and well deserved prom inence. He read medicine under the direction of J. J. Stees, M. D., of Holgate, and graduated in 1883 from the Columbus Medical College. He at once began the practice of his chosen profession in this city, and has built up a large clientage. Two months after his graduation he was appointed assistant to the chair of Materia Medica in his alma mater, and has taught continuously in medical colleges to the present time, filling successively the chairs of nervous diseases, obstetrics and surgery in the Ohio Medical University. He has taken post-graduate courses in surgery and gynecology in Boston, New York and Johns Hopkins University. For a number of years he has been professor of the Principles of Surgery and Clinical Surgery and is Chancellor of the Ohio Medical University and Surgeon to the Protestant Hospital, having previously been surgeon to the Columbus Hospital for Women. Dr. Barnhill is president of the Academy of Medicine, member of the Ohio State Medical Society, American Medical Association, American Academy of Medicine, member and one of the organizers of the Ohio Association of Medical Teachers, and has been a voluminous and valued contributor to various medical publications, and is editor of the Columbus Medical Journal. He is a member of Benjamin Franklin Chapter Sons of the American Revo lution. Under the administrations of Presidents Harrison, McKinley and Roose velt Dr. Barnhill has served as one of the United States examining surgeons for pensions. Both as a physician and as a man, Dr. Barnhill stands among the lead ing citizens of Columbus, and his position in the community is assured. 162 ELBERT C. MORTON. Elbert C. Morton is a native of Harrison county, Ohio, where he was born August 22, 1866. He received his education in Cincinnati and read law in Dayton, being admitted to practice at the Ohio bar in 1889. He imme diately came to Columbus, and became private secretary of the late C. C, Waite, president of the Hocking A^alley Railway, a place he filled acceptably to his chief from 1889 to 1892. Educated for the law, Mr. Morton thought it time to begin his professional duties, and a partnership was formed under the firm name of Arnold, Morton & Irvine, which connection has continued fourteen years. During the existence of the business arrangement the firm has been connected with a number of the large business enterprises that have been given birth and has for years been recognized among the strong legal firms of Columbus. Mr. Morton has given his entire time and attention to the business of partnership, and occupies an enviable position as a safe coun selor, and the possessor of a legal knowledge able to cope with any situation. As a Columbus man Mr. Morton has always taken the greatest interest in municipal affairs, being a member of the Board of Trade and in 1903 the vice-president of that organization. He can always be counted on to lend his efficient aid to any movement intended to interest or assist the city in any way. In 1894 Mr. Morton married Miss Flora King Searles, and they have two children, a son and a daughter. They reside in a happy home at 709 Franklin avenue. Mr. Morton is a member of the Arlington and Columbus Clubs. 163 O. S. MARCKWORTH. With the exploitation that has lately been given to the methods of the meat packers, and the adulteration of general food products, the public has naturally looked to the chemist for enlightenment as to what article of food is embalmed and what is nature's own product. As an analytical chemist it has therefore been incumbent upon Mr. O. S. Marckworth, manager of the Ohio Testing Laboratory, to come forward and from his experiments label things either pure or impure. In the capacity of chemist to the state dairy and food commission he has done most valuable work, and has become one of the foremost men of the state in his line of endeavor. Mr. Marckworth is a native of Cincinnati, and a graduate of the Cincinnati and Ohio State Universities. His theoretical training is complete and he is fortified with ample experience as chemist for the Carnegie Steel AVorks at Homestead, Pa., and as chemical inspector for the New York Underground Railway. Besides his great range of bacteriological investigations, as well as the records of building materials, he has done important chemico-legal work in the detection of falsifications. Another important feature of his work which is growing each year, is the perfecting of chemical processes in manu facturing and the utilization, if possible, of waste products that are lost through less scientific methods. His offices in the Board of Trade Building bear testimony to the fact that he has a large clientele in the assaying of ore, and various mining products. His work for the state has been of most vital importance to the health of her citizens. Mr. Marckworth is a member of the Board of Trade and is popular in business and social circles. He is a staunch believer in a glorious future for the capital city of Ohio. 164 JOHN PEIL 165 JOHN PEIL. John Peil was born in Stromberg, Germany, August 23, 1860. He at tended the schools of his native land till fourteen years of age, and then took up the trade of enameler, a business in which the Germans excel. After working at this business for five years he came to the great country of America, settling in Cheboygan, Wisconsin, in 1879. After a while' he re moved to Chicago and was made superintendent of the Cribben, Sexton & Company plant, one of the largest enameling concerns in the country. He remained with this company 12 years. As an expert enameler his services were in demand all over the country and many tempting offers were made him, the last of which were fortunate in securing his acceptance. Accord ingly, in 1897, he accepted the position of general overseer of the enameling department of a large concern manufacturing bath tubs in Muncie, Ind. Here he remained until 1900 when the company sold out its interests to the combine that was formed at that time. After having worked industriously through all these years, without the loss of a single month, Mr. Peil believed he was entitled to a vacation. To the Fatherland was his first thought. He went abroad in 1900 and after visiting his relatives and friends in the place of his birth, he made a tour of Europe. In 1901 Mr. Peil returned from his European trip and cast his lot in Colum bus, and started an enameling plant at his present address, 191 East Naghten street. He has built up a large business, especially in the enameling of sinks and lining of refrigerators, and his trade extends over a large part of the country. Mr. Peil stands high in fraternal circles, being a prominent Mason, a member of the Elks and German Singing Society. He is ever ready to co-operate in any enterprise that has for its object the development of the Capital City. 166 CHARLES B. WOLFE 167 CHARLES B. WOLFE. The head of the great business enterprise, the C. & E. Shoe Company, guides the management of one of the largest shoe 'manufacturing plants in Ohio, and by dint of his enterprise and push has made the name of his estab lishment known from one end of the country to the other. This is all the work of recent growth, as the factory has been in existence but six years. The commercial importance of the concern is marked by the fact that about 7,000 pairs of shoes are made and marketed daily, which is the largest output of any establishment in Columbus. Twenty-four salesmen are employed to push the merits of the goods in every state in the Union, with the exception of New England. The-:.shoes of the C. & E. Company are sold as far north as Canada and as far south as Mexico, and everywhere their high quality recommends them. Mr. Charles B. Wolfe is a practical shoemaker, having spent 15 years of his life in the various departments of manufacture. He was born and raised in Zanesville, and when but a lad sold papers on the streets of that city. He then took to railroading in the Hocking Valley, after ward turning his attention to the shoe business. He organized the C. & E. Shoe Company in 1900, and has been its directing head ever since. The company are makers of the famous Buckeye line, women's misses', children's, boys', youths' and little gent's shoes, and this line easily leads all competitors, both in the size of the output, the number of working people employed and the high quality of the goods produced. There are twelve departments in the great factory on East Fulton street, Columbus, and six hundred skilled work men are engaged the year round. Aside from his business associations, Mr. Wolfe is a most enterprising and popular gentleman. Being one of the city's chief manufacturers, he be longs to the Columbus Board of Trade, and is actively allied with a number of social clubs and organizations, where he is among the leading spirits. 168 FRED LIED 169 FRED LIED. Fred Lied was born in Cleveland, Ohio, March 16, 1858. He received a common school education, and learned the trade of a watchmaker, where he worked at the bench for some time, and then engaged in business for himself. This he carried on in Cleveland for severalyears, when his sight failed, and he engaged in another line of work. So he engaged with the Valley Railway, as agent at Independence, Ohio, thence to Cleveland in the capacity of ticket agent and assistant to the train dispatcher. He was then transferred to Canton, Ohio, as passenger and ticket agent in 1887, and later as freight and passenger agent. In 1888 he was elected a member of the city council of Cleveland. While a member of that body he was instrumental in defeating several measures that were being railroaded through council in behalf of the Valley Railway. The railroad company felt that if he could do so much against them in council, he could do as much or more for them in their employ, hence his appointment as agent at Independence. In 1890 he came to Columbus as manager for Jones & Underhill, representing the Sun Vapor Street Light Co., of Canton, Ohio. In the fall of 1893 they failed, and sixty days later Mr. Lied bought out the plant and operated it until 1897, when the Welsbach Light people purchased his interest. He then went on the road for the Welsbach Street Light Company of America, continuing until 1902, when the loss of one of his legs compelled his resignation. Mr. Lied then went into the jewelry business on King avenue, Columbus, where he was engaged until he made the race for member of the Board of Public Service, in November, 1905, resulting in his election by a large majority. He took this office in January, 1906. Here he exhibited rare talent as a manager of great interests and made a most popular official. 170 JOHN K. SOWERS 171 JOHN K. SOWERS. Columbus owes much of its importance in every way to the energetic men who seek to improve upon the conditions of the fathers. This is the class that accomplishes most for all the things that go to make a great city; who are in the vanguard of those constantly on the lookout for what will most contribute to the growth and prosperity of the community in which they live, and where they hope to spend the remainder of their lives. In the list of men who have made their impress upon the business life of this city, who may fairly be termed among the "Men Behind the Guns in the Making of Greater Columbus," may be placed the name of John K. Sowers, at the head of the great lumber firm of John K. Sowers & Co., whose plant on West Broad street is among the recognized powers in the city's industries. Mr. Sowers is a native of Champaign county, and early knew what it was to labor for his daily bread. Raised in the country districts, his only education was received in the urban schools of his community; and, recognizing the inadequacy of this curriculum to prepare him for the duties of life, he came to Columbus and took a course in one of the commercial colleges. Completing his educa tion he went into the lumber business and soon mastered its details ; seven years ago going into business on his own account. By close application to his business he has built up a large trade which is constantly increasing. Socially, Mr. Sowers is well-known, being a member of the Columbus Club and the Ohio Club. He is of the class of citizens that reflect credit upon the community. 172 WILLIAM K. FIELD 173 WILLIAM K. FIELD. William Kersey Field is a born and raised Columbus man, the son of S. N. Field, well-known in this city, and he was born September 9, 1865. The only education he received was in the Columbus schools, and he had advanced only to the second grade of the High school when he started out to make a place for himself in the world, and accepted the menial post of office boy in the office of what was then known as the Scioto' Valley Railway. This posi tion he held under the various administrations, reaching the place of car accountant. In 1892 he was made manager of the city sales department of the Sunday Creek Coal Company. Here he remained until 1897, when he went to St. Paul, Minn., in a responsible position with the St. Paul & Western Coal Co. and continued here until October, 1902, when he returned to- Colum bus, and took service with the New Pittsburg Coal Company, as vice president and treasurer. Here he has shown conspicuous service as one of the direct ing heads of this big concern. The same industry and energy that he dis played when starting in business, he still manifests and the New Pittsburg Coal Co. is the gainer by having such a strong man at its head. The interests of the company are varied, their holdings valuable, their investments very large, and in the management of all these features Mr. Field has shown that he is the right man in the right place. In 1889 Mr. Field married Miss Wampler, of Mankato, Minn., and they have an interesting daughter 12 years of age, the family residing at 685 Bryden Road. He is a member of the Arlington Club, the Columbus Club, the Ohio Club and the Bolster Club, and is very popular not only in business but social circles. 174 PERRIN B. MONYPENY. The men living in Columbus today who can recall the days when the city was virtually a howling wilderness are few. These are in the winter of life, and a younger generation has grown up and is occupying places of trust and responsibility and giving forth energy and push in developing a Greater Columbus. The house of Monypeny is famous in Columbus. Throughout the steady growth of the city, where improvements have been made, buildings erected and commerce increased the name has been intimately connected therewith. There are the best of reasons to> believe that Perrin B. Monypeny, youngest son of William Monypeny will continue the progres sive spirit of the family. He is a product of Columbus, having been born here November 18, 1878. The public schools of Columbus afforded his initial training, followed by the Columbus Latin School. Later he attended the Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., and graduated in 1898. He then entered the wholesale grocery house of Monypeny-Hammond Company and familiarized himself with every department of the business. In recognition of his keen discernment and business acumen, he was made manager of the cigar depart ment, which position he still holds. In this capacity he has shown unusual efficiency and has made his company one of the largest distributors of cigars in the country. Mr. Monypeny married Miss Margaret Hickok of Columbus. He is a member of the Columbus, Arlington and Ohio Clubs. Mr. Monypeny is proud of the city of his birth. He believes that at no very distant future, the Capital City will take its place alongside the greatest cities of the country. To that end he is always glad to give his support. 175 JOHN T. ADAMS. In Coopersville, Ohio, February 9, 1858, John T. Adams was born. The same town gave him his common school education. After attending high school he made his first debut in the business world by engaging in the sale of general merchandise in the place of his birth. Honesty and fair dealing won for him a g6odly share of success in this venture as well as the respect and good will of the people. Mr. Adams continued in the merchandise busi ness until 1899 in which year he was elected auditor of Pike county, Ohio. After about ten years of success in Pike county, Mr. Adams came to Colum bus (1898), moving into his comfortable residence at Buttles and Dennison avenues. In 1896 he engaged in the general contracting business, especially railroad work, and has continued this line in Columbus. In 1897 and 1898 he built 64 miles of road for the Toledo & Ohio Central Railroad between Peoria and St. Marys, Ohio. From 1900 to 1902 he built four miles of heavy work for the West Virginia Central Railway ; roadbed, tracks and so forth, the entire line of 80 miles for the Scioto Valley Traction Co., besides a long list of jobs in the line of general railroad contracting. He maintains a large plant of contractor's equipment, such as steam shovels, locomotives, and standard gauge cars. Mr. Adams married Miss Sarah Noel of Coopersville, to whom have been born two boys and one girl, their ages being 9, 18 and 22 years respectively. The oldest son is now Mr. Adam's supervising con tractor. Mr. Adams has won his success by industry and fair-dealing. He has a pleasing personality and has a host of friends in the business and social world. 176 FRANK L. GRIFFITH 177 FRANK L. GRIFFITH. Mr. Frank L. Griffith was born in Taylorville, 111., October 15, 1873. When but a year old his parents removed to Indianapolis, Ind., where he attended school, matriculating from high school, and afterward attending Yale College, graduating from that great seat of learning in 1896. This com plete education young Griffith received by dint of his own exertions, and without aid from any one. After having left college Mr. Griffith was filled with an ambition to see the Old World, which he did during a trip of over two thousand miles on a bicycle, visiting many of the historic countries and mingled with the people in a way that added much to his experience. Fol lowing the journey through Europe, Mr. Griffith came to Columbus and began the publication of the The Daily Reporter, devoted to the interests of attorneys and litigants, a publication that he inaugurated and maintained most successfully for several years until he disposed of it to advantage. Later he became assistant secretary of the Ohio Trust Company, and in June, 1904, resigned to purchase a seat in the Columbus Stock Exchange, being elected president of the exchange in June, 1905. Mr. Griffith is manager of the local stock department of White, Wagner & Co., but he is also an independent operator on the Columbus Stock Ex change, and has had much to do with the handling of Columbus industrials and other local forms of investment, his judgment being excellent and his probity unchallenged. Mr. Griffith is an enthusiastic golf player, having made an excellent record in golf tournaments, winning several championship contests. He also stands high in the list of fine tennis players. He is a mem ber of the Columbus Board of Trade, Columbus Club, Columbus Country Club and the Ohio Club. Mr. Griffith married Miss Flora A. Schneider,' of Columbus, and they have one son, about a year and a half old. 178 ADOLPHUS FELTY 179 ADOLPHUS FELTY. Adolphus Felty was born in Eastern Maryland, June 17, 1866. He re ceived his common school education at Adrian, Mich., and at the age of 17 entered Adrian College of Michigan. After completing his studies he re turned to Maryland and became associated with a large flour mill and remained there several years. In his early life he was identified with one of the largest wholesale grocery firms in Parkersburg, W. Va., and remained with the company seven years. Through this business Mr. Felty established a large acquaintance throughout the coal and oil fields of West Virginia, spending several years in this territory and five years in the coal fields of Fairmont, AV. Va. It was while gaining valuable experience in this con nection that he became financially interested in the coal and grain business. At the height of the boom that occurred at that time Mr. Felty took advantage of the situation and sold his interests at a handsome profit. With a view to settling in some city possessing good shipping facilities he visited several places and finally settled upon Columbus as being the most central location. Having in the meantime purchased coal mines in the Steubenville disrtict together with a lumber business in West Virginia, he deemed it of great advantage to locate his offices in the Capital City, which he did in August, 1901. By close application, sterling integrity and business probity Mr. Felty has built up a trade of considerable magnitude. From his offices in the Union National Bank building he directs his business, shipping hay and grain only in car lots. He is a member of the Ohio and Columbus Country Clubs, and a director of the Capital Savings and Trust Company. Mr. Felty married Miss Caroline Alexander of Parkersburg, W. Va., who comes of one of the oldest southern families of Columbus, Georgia. They have one daughter, seven years old. 180 ALLEN W. WILLIAMS 181 ALLEN WINTHROP WILLIAMS. Allen Winthrop AVilliams was born in Columbus, August 22, 1866. The public schools of the city afforded him his only means of education, and he graduated from the high schools with honors. He at once plunged into active business, and began work for William A. Gill & Co. He then transferred his allegiance to the Buckeye Malleable Iron Co., where he was engaged for four years as book-keeper. But young Williams thought there was something better in life for him than keeping ledgers so he joined the company now known as the Lattimer-Williams Company. The works of this corporation are on West Spring street, and they employ more than 200 people in the manufacture of stoves. They make a full line of coal and wood heaters and ranges, and sell the product of the works all over the country. The Lattimer- Williams Company have been able to constantly extend their trade, and today their goods are known everywhere and the territory where sales are made is constantly growing. Their stoves are among the best manufactured and with the employment of energetic methods there is no trouble in adding to the annual sales. The officers of the corporation are : George W. Lattimer, president; George B. Kauffman, vice-president; R. R. Rickley, treasurer; Allen W. Williams, secretary and manager. A large extension of the works is contemplated in order to keep up with orders. Mr. Wlilaims is a member of all the Masonic bodies, the Columbus Club, the Columbus Country Club and the Columbus Board of Trade. He is happily married to Miss Kate Aston. 182 FRED J. HEER 183 FRED J. HEER. A citizen of the highest business and commercial standing, one who has spent his life in Columbus, and fought his way upward from a lowly station to one of importance in the opinion of his fellow-citizens — such is the record of Fred J. Heer. Mr. Heer was born in Columbus, October 14, 1858. His parents were Jacob and Caroline (Schweitzer) Heer. He began to secure an education in the public schools of his native city, but remained there but one year, when he began, at the age of 13 years to do for himself, entering the printing office of Glenn & Hyde, in 1871, where he remained eight years, finishing a course in the press and composing room. In 1878 he left that establishment to assume the foremanship of the newly established printing office of the Lutheran Book Concern. He continued in this capacity until 1893 when he was appointed assistant manager, and in 1899 was made man ager of the big plant. In 1895 he formed a partnership with John L. Trauger, which was dissolved in 1900, and is now in change of Mr. Heer. Fred J. Heer has always been an active force in the business world of Columbus. From 1887 to 1905 he was a member of the Board of Education ; 1890-'92 he was a member of the Board of Managers of Ohio Penitentiary, by appoint ment of Governor Campbell, and in 1903 he was named one of the Columbus Library Trustees by Mayor Jeffrey. Mr. Heer has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Ohio Medical University since 1893, and President of the Board for the past seven years ; a life member of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society ; an honorary member of Typographical Union No. 5 ; member of the Columbus Board of Trade and South Side Business Men's Association and member of the Olentangy Club. No man stands higher in the community than Fred J. Heer. He has been the architect of his own business career and he has builded well. 184 WILLIAM E. MEADE 185 WILLIAM E. MEADE. One of the rising young business men of Columbus who has attracted considerable attention by his record as a hustler and purveyor to the needs of the public in a practical way is AVilliam E. Meade, who for the past four years has been secretary and general manager of the Allen Manufacturing Company, a corporation that started in a small way in 1900 by Charles Allen and James Canfield, but whose sales have doubled every year since the estab lishment of the business, until it covers all the territory between Central Pennsylvania and Missouri, and from Kentucky to St. Paul, Minn. Their specialty is the manufacture of workingmen's shirts, and the quality of the goods has increased the demand most marvelously. William E. Meade is a native of Muskingum County, Ohio, where he was born February 7, 1873. His early education was secured in the common and high schools of that section. Coming to Columbus in 1900, he at once became identified with the firm of McCord & Kelly, grain brokers, going from there to the Hocking Valley Railway, where he secured employment in the freight department. He remained there until 1902, when he associated himself with the Allen Manufacturing Company, where he is still employed in the important capacity previously noted. Here his genius for organization and push were fully developed, and the increase in the company's business is largely attributable to his foresight and clever management, for the sales have practically doubled every year since he has had charge of the business. Mr. Meade is well known and popular in secret society circles, being a thiry-second degree Mason and a member of the Shrine. As a business man he has the respect and confidence of his associates, and as a citizen is never lax in the performance of any of his duties. Flis growth in the estimation of the community has been constant. 186 WILLIAM R. LAZENBY 187 WILLIAM R. LAZENBY. William R. Lazenby was born December 5, 1852, in Bellona, New York. He attended the country schools of his native township, and the more advanced studies were pursued in Pen Yan Academy. He finished his college course in Cornell University, graduating from that institution in 1874. Immediately following graduation he was appointed instructor of botany and horticulture in his alma mater, holding this position two years, being then made assistant professor of horticulture and served in that capacity until he resigned in 1881. In that year he was elected professor of botany and horticulture in the Ohio State University at Columbus with which he has since been connected, now holding professorship of horticulture and forestry. While in New York he was botanist to the New York State Hori- cultural Society, horicultural editor of the Husbandman, and lecturer for the New York State Grange. He was instrumental in securing the establishment of the Ohio Experimental Station of which he was the director six years. For five years he was secretary and for two years president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and eight years president of the Columbus Horicultural Society, one of the oldest associations of its kind in America. Prof. Lazenby is vice-president of the National Forestry of Con gress, president of the State Forestry Society and honorary member of many state and local societies. He is secretary of the board of trustees of the Ohio Medical University, secretary of the AVhite Cliff Soap Company, member of the Board of Trade, honorary member of the Columbus Country Club, and has the distinguished honor of being a 33d degree Mason. Verily, Prof. Lazenby's life has been a busy and a useful one. No man stands higher in the esteem of the citizens of the Capital City. He is liberal-minded and public-spirited and takes a vigorous interest in the development of Columbus. 188 CHARLES C. ALER 189 CHARLES C. ALER. Columbus can boast of at least one wholesale wall-paper house, one that is well and favorably known among the trade in this section of the state — that of Charles C. Aler, 55 and 57 East Naghten street. Mr. Aler is a product of Muskingum county, born in Adamsville, where he received a common school education in the common and high schools. For several years after graduation he taught school, and followed this with a course in a busi ness college, where he prepared himself for a commercial life. His first experience in the business he now so successfully conducts was secured with the firm of the Blake Brothers, of Zanesville, wholesale and retail dealers in wall paper and queensware, where he remained for fifteen years. Seeing the possibilities of the wall paper trade, Mr. Aler then embarked in business on his own account in 1887, in Zanesville, and that branch is still maintained there, but ten years later the growth of the trade was such that it was necessary to go somewhere with the wholesale department where the shipping facilities would be equal to the demand upon it, and Mr. Aler removed that part of the enterprise to Columbus. The specialties handled by the corporation not only include wall paper but all similar material for interior decoration, and the trade covers the entire country. Large stocks, fair prices and courteous treatment has brought the trade to Mr. Aler, extending for hundreds of miles in every direction from Columbus. Another line in which Mr. Aler is largely interested is that of manufacturing the famous Texadorna, or interior wall burlaps, made by the Texadorna Manufacturing Co., inaugurated about three years ago. This material is having quite a vogue and is already extensively sold all over the United States and Canada. 190 CHARLES H. NEIL 191 CHARLES H. NEIL. The name of Neil is one to conjure with in writing the story of the birth and growth of the city of Columbus. The family's earliest representatives were among those who a century -ago came here and began to carve a city Dut of the wilderness. Among the members of the Neil family who have done much for the city is Charles H. Neil, who was born in Columbus, October 28, 1844. He re ceived his schooling at Kenyon College, Gambier and Poughkeepsie, New York. As soon as he had matriculated he turned his attention to various manufacturing enterprises and real estate and has made a success of all. During the last fifteen years he has been actively identified with business in this city, but retains various interests in other places. In 1864 Mr. Neil enlisted in the army or, rather, he ran away from home to enlist and per formed excellent service in the ranks. He was with Grant around AVash- ington and saw the end of the rebellion with the grand review in AVashington in April, 1865. In a local business way Mr. Neil is president and treasurer of the Ironsides Oil Co., with a suite of offices in the Wheeler building. The company refines all kinds of machine oil and does a large and rapidly increas ing business all over the United States, as well as in England, France and Germany. Socially, Mr. Neil is quite prominent, being allied with McCoy Post, Grand Army of the Republic, the Columbus Country Club, the Ohio Club and the Board of Trade. He is the father of one child, a daughter ten years of age. As a business man or a social favorite, Charles H. Neil is well and favorably known. He is gifted with a rare combination of bon hommie and good fellowship, and is the center of a wire circle of friends. 192 FRANK E. AVERY 193 FRANK E. AVERY. Frank E. Avery is a native of Granville, Ohio, where he was born No vember 14, 1865, receiving his education in the district school of the village. He afterward attended Dennison University, and graduated from the Normal University at Ada, Ohio, in 1886. After spending some time on his father's farm, young Avery came to Columbus and worked in the Halm & Bellows furniture house, thence going to the Pennsylvania Railway in the capacity of clerk. At this time the bicycle business engaged his attention ; he began oper ations in a small room in the basement of the Columbus Dispatch building. He disposed of his holdings here, and embarked in the business of selling bicycles for the Tracey-AVells Company. Desiring to operate on his own account he quit this employment and began in a small way to repair and sell bicycles in the rear of 1197 Franklin avenue. In connection with the bicycle trade he sold automobiles at in tervals, meantime making a thorough study of the details of every make. So thorough did he become in this line that he is considered one of the most expert repairers of automobiles in the state, and has built up a great line of work of that character. Owing to his practicability and knowledge of the various point of advantage claimed by manufacturers, he has secured the agency of the leading and highest priced makes of autos, including the Packard, Peerless, Franklin, Cadillac, Thomas Fliers and the Winton. Whether he is doing business or not is answered in the fact that he is unable to secure machines from the makers fast enough to- fill his orders. His big garage and repair shop at 1197 Franklin avenue is one of the show places of the city for those who are interested in autos. Mr. Avery is an expert in the auto trade, the pioneer in his line in Columbus, and no man is better or more favorably known He is a member of the Board of Trade and the Ohio Club. 194 BLOOM F. MURDOCK 195 BLOOM F. MURDOCK. Mr. B. F. Murdock, who for the past twenty years has been engaged in the fruit and produce commission business in Columbus, was born in a log cabin, at Roxbury, Morgan county, March 9, 1859. Like many other men who have risen to positions of prominence in the commercial and political world, from surroundings that were of the lowliest description, Mr. Murdock has demonstrated that environment is not everything in the career of a young man. The district schools of Morgan county furnished the young man all the education he ever possessed, if we except a short time spent at what was then known as the Beverly College, an institution not well known even now in the scholastic world. But it was the best to be had in that country, at that time. After leaving school, Mr. Murdock began the career of a pedagogue and taught school in the villages of Barlow and AA^atertown for five years. But school teaching was not the thing that young Murdock craved for. So he embarked in the business of buying and selling farm and dairy products. This he made a great success, and in 1887 he removed to Columbus, and inaugurated the trade that he has pursued unremittingly ever since. His establishment is widely known for its fair dealing, the firm handling not only farm products but cheese, eggs, poultry and game in its season. He does one of the largest commission trades in the city, his territory covering a wide expanse. The life of Mr. Murdock testifies what can be accomplished by keeping everlastingly at it, for this has been the guide of his life from the time that he lived in the log-cabin in the wilds of Morgan county, until now, when he takes his place among the representative merchants of Columbus. 196 ELMER E. HARR. Elmer E. Harr was born in Troy, Ohio, August 1, 1861, and attended the schools at that place until he was 18 years of age. He entered the trade at Richmond, Ind., as soon as he had quitted school, and remained there five years, when he was called to the Elderado Steam Laundry, where he remained three years. Following that he was manager of the big Troy Laundry plant at Vicksburg, Miss. For the ten following years he was in the laundry business on his own account in St. Louis, where he made an exhaustive study of the work and introduced many improvements. Here he conducted a large and ever-increasing business. May 26, 1896, the cyclone that struck St. Louis demolished Mr. Harr's entire plant, as well as his residence. Mr. Harr lost everything that he had accumulated through years of the hardest labor, but he was not dismayed. Five years ago he came to Columbus to take charge of the Capital City Laundry. His high grade knowledge here came into full play. He afterward transferred his services to the Troy Laundry Company, and practically laid out the plans and superintended the construction of the big laundry plant on Third street, and has been its general superintendent for the past four years. Its operations compass about $8,000 worth of trade every week, and much of the growth of the business and the success of the enterprise can be fairly placed to the credit of Mr. Harr, who has been the power behind the throne and managed affairs with characteristic skill. As is well known the Troy Laundry building is one of the largest devoted exclu sively to laundering in the United States, and has all of the labor-saving machinery used in that branch of trade. 197 WALTER A. JONES. AA^ alter A. Jones is a son of the AVestern Reserve, having been born in Kent, Portage county, Ohio, July 10, 1874. He received his education in the public schools of Kent and Toledo, supplemented by a four years' course at Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, where he graduated with the honor of Bachelor of Science in 1897. While at this institution he took a high place in his studies and was identified with the various college fraternities, of which the average student is so proud. Immediately upon his graduation he plunged into the vortex of business, his father being one of the pioneer glass manufacturers of the state, and he is today secretary of the AV. R. Jones Glass Company, with glass works at Morgantown, West Virginia, and control plants at Clarksburg, West Vir ginia, and Utica, Ohio. The shops at Morgantown are the largest devoted to the making of window glass in the state, and the second largest independent concern in the United States, giving constant employment to more than 400 men. The W. R. Jones Glass Company is noted for the excellence of its window glass, and its trade extends all over the country, making its way against all competition on account of the high standard of goods and the business-like methods of the concern. And for both of these concomitants of success, Mr Walter A. Jones is largely responsible, for he is the directing head of the big corporation, and impresses his methods upon all departments of trade. On the 22d of March, 1898, Mr. Jones married Miss Emma M. Butler, art estimable young lady of Van West, Ohio, and they live in a commodious home, 35 Parkwood avenue, on the East Side. Mr. Jones is a member of the Columbus Board of Trade, the Columbus Club, the Country Club, and the Columbus Golf Club, and his wife and himself are leading members of the Madison Avenue M. E. Church. 198 G. D. CURTIS 199 G. D. CURTIS. G. D. Curtis was born in Martinsville, 111., in 1862. He commenced his active career by working in the store of a merchant of his home town, also acting as express agent. This was in 1877. He next took up telegraphy and in '81 entered the employ of the Adams Express Company at Newcomerstown, Ohio. His aptitude and willingness attracted the superintendent and he was promoted rapidly. From a clerkship he was made an agent of the company in 1883. In 1887 he ran as messenger, and the same year was assist ant route agent, and in 1890 was made route agent proper. In the latter capacity he served till 1894 when he was appointed assistant superintendent of the Central Division. As superintendent of the Central Division, Mr. Curtis has charge of all lines west of Pittsburg as far as Chicago on the Pennsylvania Railroad lines. This division comprises 4,952 miles of railroad, 950 offices and 1,803 employes. In this division the Adams Express Com pany operates in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and parts of Illinois, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Mr. Curtis directs eight route agents in the states named, and from the Columbus office looks after all taxes incurred in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan; directs the work of 128 exclusive messengers and 142 joint messengers within his jurisdiction. The payrolls for the entire division are made out in the Columbus office, besides all details pertaining to horses and delivery wagons. Alvin Adams started the business in a small structure at No. 9 Court street, Boston, in 1840. Today the Adams Express Company operates more miles of railroad than any other company, has 4,000 offices in the United States, and employs thousands of men. 200 C. CHRISTIAN BORN 201 C. CHRISTIAN BORN. A career that promises much good in the business world is that of C. Christian Born, vice president and director in the Hoster Columbus Asso ciated Breweries Company, one of the greatest Brewing corporations in the Middle West. Mr. Born is a son of Columbus, his birth occurring in this city May 1, 1870. Here he has lived all of his life. Here he is known as one of our most highly respected and enterprising fellow citizens. His education was received in the public schools of his native city, including graduation from the high schools with honors. With the completion of his education he engaged in the brewing business with his father, C. Born, and for years was general manager of the Born plant. AVhen the brewery merger took place Mr. Born assumed a responsible position in the new corporation, a place he occupies to-day, giving his associates the benefit of his extensive business experience. Mr. Born has varied interests in Columbus, is identified with the banking institutions of the city, a member of the Columbus Board of Trade, and carries his name on the roll of a number of the social clubs of the city. He is an earnest advocate of Greater Columbus, and contributes liberally to any enterprise that has for its object the increased growth and prosperity of the municipality, to whose benefit he has devoted the energies of his business and commercial life. In works of charity and good will the name of C. Christian Born can always be found, and his record is without a flaw and blemish of any description. He is a notable young man, who has fulfilled the ambition of his well-wishers, whether as a business man, a factor in the social world, or a friend and private citizen. Mr. Born is happily mar ried, his wife being Miss Mary Eckhardt, one of the best known musicians in Columbus. They have two children, daughters, and live happily in a mag nificent home in Bryden Road. 202 JOHN M. TAYLOR 203 JOHN M. TAYLOR. John M. Taylor, a leading business man of Columbus, is a native son of the city, having been born here February 13, 1867, and secured his educa tion in the public and high schools, supplemented by a course at Ohio< State University. In 1884, as soon as he had quitted college he took a position in the drug house of Kauffman & Lattimer, as an errand boy, where he remained one year, thence to the office of the chief engineer of the Pan-Handle Railway, where he remained two years. This was followed by Mr. Taylor taking a clerical position with the Sunday Creek Coal Company, and after a satisfactory service of one and a half years, he was made city manager. The coal traffic opened up fine possibilities to Air. Taylor and in 1890 he embarked in the coal business for himself with n partner, under the name of Taylor, AA^illiams & Co., afterward acquiring mining property under the same partnership. The company owns mines yielding one thousand tons of marketable coal every clay. They operate one of the largest coal yards in the city of Columbus. In 1895, the firm took an interest in the ice business, which grew into large pro portions until 1905, when the business was merged into the Citizens' Ice Co., of which Mr. Taylor is one of the directors. In December, 1903, he was chosen president of the Ice Co. Mr. Taylor is financially interested in many of the large enterprises of the city. He has made a success of everything to which he has laid his hand. Mr. Taylor is a Mason, a member of the Columbus, Ohio and Arlington Country Clubs, and was married in 1895 to a daughter of ex-Governor James E. Campbell. They have a son, born December 1. 1899. The Taylors are very popular in Columbus society where they hold a high position. 204 HIRAM O. POND 205 HIRAM OTIS POND. Hiram Otis Pond was born on a farm near Vincent, Washington county, Ohio, November 15, 1855. He attended the country, the public and select schools until 1871, when he entered the railway office at A^incent to learn telegraphy. He took his first office May 10, 1872, on the Marietta and Cin cinnati Railway. He acted as day operator at Blanchester, Ohio, from Sep tember 1872 to September 1873, and at Athens from that time until December 31, 1876. He was division operator at Columbus for the Columbus & Hocking Valley and the Columbus & Toledo Railway, then train dispatcher for both roads, and then chief train dispatcher on the Columbus & Toledo Railway now the Toledo Division of the Hocking Valley Railway. Then superintendent of the Columbus & Eastern Railway, to- be followed by purchasing agent of that line, which he held for seven years, and resigned to take the management of the Consolidated Sand & Stone Co. and the Ohio Sand & Clay Company. In 1896 he was elected promoter for the manufacturers' committee of the Columbus Board of Trade, serving also as assistant secretary. He resigned in September of that year to accept the office of agent and general yard-master of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway at Grafton, West Va., and afterward took the place of superintendent of shipments for the General Hocking Coal Com pany at Columbus, in 1902, and quit that to accept a similar position at the hands of the Sunday Creek Coal Co. He held that position until his election as a member of the Board of Public Service in April, 1903. Mr. Pond is an active, progressive citizen, and has many friends in all walks of life. 206 THOMAS JOHNSON 207 THOMAS JOHNSON. Thomas Johnson is an Englishman by birth, born in Birmingham, on December 6, 1853. He had but a meager education, such as a poor boy might pick up' in the small English schools before he was ten years of age, for at that period he came to the United States with his father, who was a worker in iron, and the family settled in Niles, O. The father and son secured their first employment in the nail mill at Niles, in 1862, and Thomas remained there one year. He soon drifted over into Mercer county, Pa., where he began the task of learning to dig coal. He believed there were great possibilities in the coal traffic, but that if the best results were to be secured it was necessary that an operator be a practical coal miner. Thomas worked in the mines a year, and then struck out on his own account, but in a very small way. On June 1, 1880, he entered the Hocking A^alley, and has ever since been engaged in the mining and sale of coal. Last June he cele brated the 26th anniversary of his entrance into the coal trade of the Hocking Valley. Today Thomas Johnson divides with his brother Edward, the honor of having within the past ten years become one of the largest operators in the Hocking Valley. Thomas Johnson is now president of the Johnson Coal Company, of the Lorain Dock Co., and the Arnold Coal Co. He is also a member of the Columbus Club, the Columbus Board of Trade, and of the Masonic fraternity. He is the father of eight children, all living. In the list of "The Men Behind the Guns in the Alaking of Greater Columbus" the name of Thomas Johnson must be placed high in the roll of honor. 208 CHARLES A. SUYDAM. A business career that exemplifies the power of a young man to make for himself a place in the business world is exemplified in the life story of Charles A. Suydam. He came up from the bottom, and by the exercise of the traits of industry, honesty and general worthiness has secured a position where his talents and experience are given full and complete play to the ad vantage of employers and himself. Charles A. Suydam is a Columbus boy, born in this city March 9, 1877. He took eagerly to an education and after a full course in all of the grades of the people's college, he graduated with high honors in 1894. He at once took to business, and his first service was as a clerk for the coal firm of Turney & Jones, of this city, where he remained from June to December, 1895. In the latter month he transferred his al legiance to the Hocking Valley Railway Company, taking a responsible post in the treasury department of that line. In September, 1902, he became paymaster of the Hocking Valley, Zanesville & Western Road, at the same time acting as secretary and treasurer of the Hocking Valley Mutual Benefit Association, both positions of honor and trust being filled to the entire satis faction of all concerned. In August, 1905, Mr. Suydam became connected with the Sunday Creek Coal Company as treasurer, where he still maintains that high standard of private duty well performed that marked his career in every place with which he has been connected. So successful has he been that he has fairly won the promotions that have come to him unsolicited, and he bids fair, before very long, to- be known as one of the leading young men in the commercial and business ranks of Columbus. He has always done his full duty — that is the secret of his success, and this is the talisman that hands the key of honor to every young man who similarly strives. 209 ABRAHAM HERSHEY. Abraham Hershey was born and raised for the most part in the country, having been born in the village of Midway, Ohio, on the 10th of January, 1870. He worked on the farm until he was 16 years of age, when he began clerking in a country store, holding this position for more than five years. Young Hershey then removed to Richmond, Ind., where merchandising still commanded his attention. From this business he entered the clothing trade and pursued it for twelve years, traveling the most of the time. His entry into the life of Columbus can be dated from 1896, when he engaged with the Capital Clothing Company, being one of the organizers of that large enter prise. Here he continued for six years. He then embarked in business on his own account, this move taking place four years ago, when he organized the Hershey-Rice Manufacturing Company, makers of men's clothes. Their spacious salesrooms are at No. 39 AVest Spring street. The company started in a very small way, having but three machines for the manufacture of their product, that has now grown to one hundred machines, shipping goods all over the United States, Canada and Alaska. The factory is located at Blan- chester, Ohio. Mr. Hershey is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Inde pendent Order of Odd Fellows, LTnited Commercial Travelers and the T. P. A. During his Columbus career he has forged constantly to the front, and is considered among the men who have done much for the financial prestige of Columbus, and placed it in the van of manufacturing cities of the middle west. 210 CHARLES A. THOMAS 211 CHARLES A. THOMAS. For eighteen years Charles A. Thomas has been a factor in the business life of Columbus, and he has accomplished much toward securing the location of manufacturing plants here, thus adding to the prosperity of the city. He is a native of Fairfield county, born in Rushville, and knew early in life what it was to hustle for a living. He was a clerk when but 16 years of age, and the proprietor of a mercantile business a year later. His capital stock in cash was $62.50 pension money left by his father, who was killed during the late civil war, and whose body reposes in the National Cemetery at Maysville, . Kentucky. Mr. Thomas came to Columbus eighteen years ago, this city in his opinion offering the best field for the exercise of the talents of a wide-awake, go-ahead young man. Before coming here he was for a while postmaster at the village of Rushville, Fairfield county. He was the first Republican ever elected treasurer of his township, and he was at that time but 21 years old. In his business of conducting large real estate transactions Mr. Thomas has made it possible for many poor families to own their homes, and in addition to that he has been identified with some of the most important residence and business deals ever consummated in this city. In whatever adds to the prosperity of the city of Columbus Mr. Thomas has always been a prominent factor. To the disinterested work of Mr. Thomas in every enterprise much of his success and popularity is no doubt due. For years he has been an active member of the Columbus Board of Trade, the Columbus Club, the Arlington Country Club and the Ohio Club. He is the prince of good fellows socially, and the circle of his friends is constantly expanding. 212 HERBERT E. BRADLEY 213 HERBERT E. BRADLEY. It is an unusual mark of honor for a young attorney to occupy a position of honor and trust in connection with the settlement of large estates. It indicates that confidence is reposed in him to an unusual extent. It is not too much to say that the subject of this sketch holds in a marked degree the absolute trust and good will of not only those interested pecuniarily in his accounting, but of the people in general. Herbert E. Bradley was born just over the Franklin county line, in Madison township, Pickaway county, August 21, 1863. He attended the common schools in the country district and latterly came to Columbus, where he read law in the office of that Nestor of the Franklin county bar, J. William Baldwin. He was admitted to the practice of his profession May 4, 1886. As soon as he began practice his attention was largely taken up with the settlement of estate, and he has been engaged in that practice ever since. Within the last twenty years he has been connected with the settlement of some of the largest properties left in Columbus, the Brown and Franklin estates, being among the most noteworthy. In this work he has not only filled the letter of the law, but has administered the property so well that the utmost satisfaction will only express the feelings of those interested in his methods. The confidence reposed in him has not been abused, and the records will show that within the time that he has been engaged in the pro fession, no man in Columbus has handled so much property, or distributed and disposed of it to better advantage. Mr. Bradley is a member of the Colum bus, the Arlington Country, the Wyandotte, the Marshalsea, and the Crab Lake Clubs. He is also a member of I. O. O. F. and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. 214 JOHN R. GOBEY 215 JOHN R. GOBEY. Within the past ten years Columbus has reached an enviable distinction v.s one of the leading lumber points in Ohio and the West. Its proximity to the source of supplies and the unsurpassed position it occupies in the dis tribution of the stock makes it a most desirable location for lumber dealers, especially those in the wholesale trade. Among the men who have won their way in the lumber trade of this city is John R. Gobey, to-day one of the recognized leaders in that branch of industry. Mr. Gobey is a Massachusetts pioduct, born in historic Methuen October 20, 1869. When but a child his parents removed to Columbus, and it may be fairly said that Mr. Gobey is almost to the manor born. He attended the public schools of this city, and ot an early age began life for himself, learning the watchmaking trade, in which he became an expert. For seven years he pursued this avocation, when the lumber business attracted his ambition and he embarked in the traffic, the firm being known as Powell & Gobey. The firm prospered on account of its up-to-date methods of doing business and its fair treatment of its patrons, but Mr. Gobey desired a wider field for his individual effort and the partnership was dissolved on the first of January, 1904, and he has since been conducting the business absolutely alone. His offices are in the AA^heeler Building, on West Broad street, and the operations extend over a wide ex panse of territory. So well established is the trade that Ohio alone does not offer the only field, but extends over a number of contiguous states, with the story of ever increasing scope and importance. Mr. Gobey married Miss Louise Lersch, of Elyria, whose father is a large dry goods merchant of that city, and the happy couple have one child, a son, aged five years. In every relation of life Mr. Gobey is a true man, and his example is one that his fellow citizens may emulate. 216 ALBERT E. SARTAIN 217 ALBERT EDWARD SARTAIN. Albert Edward Sartain was born in Harrisburg, Franklin county, De cember 5, 1869, and when a boy had but little education, all he secured being what the country schools afforded. He did not tarry long at the fountains of knowledge but came to Columbus where he began to do for himself, his first effort being to learn the meat business in all its detail, a business that he thoroughly mastered, and has since followed. In 1895 Mr. Sartain em barked in business on his own account, making a specialty of boiled, boneless ham. The reputation of the Sartain boneless boiled ham is known and recognized wherever good things to eat are sought for. But the meat trade is not the only thing demanding the attention of Mr. Sartain ; he is actively connected with a number of business enterprises. He was president of the Columbus Meter Seal Manufacturing Company for some time, but was com pelled to resign owing to the pressure of other duties. At the November election, Mr. Sartain was the Republican candidate for sheriff, and made a splendid race against the present incumbent of the office. So popular was he in the ranks of his party that the nomination was given him unsought and without the shade of any opposition. Mr. Sartain is connected with several organizations and secret societies, being a member of the Knights of Pythias, Woodmen of the World, and the Buckeye Fishing Club. Some years ago he married Miss Mary J. Bresnahan, an estimable young lady, and they live happily in a fine home on the AVest Side. Mr. Sartain is popular in the circle of his friends, and is one of the men upon which the community can depend. 218 THOMAS T. SWEARINGEN 219 THOMAS TOWNSLEY SWEARINGEN. Thomas T. Swearingen was born in Circleville, Ohio, January 15, 1868. He comes from the famous Swearingen family that years ago was among the leaders of the earlier settlers of Ross county, Ohio. They were a splendid race and the blood of the first fathers and mothers courses through the veins of their descendants. Mr. Swearingen was educated in the common schools of Pickaway county, and completed a classic course at Kenyon College, at Gambier. His first business venture was with the Livingston Seed Company in Columbus, in 1888, and later with the Door, Sash & Lumber Co., with whom he remained for about seven years, mastering the intricacies of the lumber business, a traffic that he actively engaged in upon his return to Columbus in 1899. His first employment was as a traveling salesman for the wholesale lumber house of Powell & Gobey. But he aspired to higher things than being simply an employe and soon became identified with the South Side Lumber Company, which has extensive yards at High street and the Hocking Valley tracks, and has since become its vice president and general manager. The firm does a big business with contractors, builders, and the manufacturing industries of South Columbus. It can fairly be said that he represents the highest type of the successful young business man in the commercial life of Columbus. 220 WILLIAM RYAN POWELL. Mr. Powell is a Franklin county product, born on a farm five miles east of the city, August 18, 1868. His early schooling was received in the village schools at Gahanna. He came to the Capital City when he was but 15 years old, to make his way in the world. That he has succeeded in this, the local story of the rise and growth of the men who have made Columbus eloquently testifies. His first employment was with the Columbus Transfer Company, where he remained several years, afterward going into the dairy business on his own account. Conducting this for some time, he entered the service of the Columbus Gas Company, first as bill clerk and teller. Since that time he has filled every position with the company, with the single exception of the presidency, is now secretary and treasurer of the big corporation, and practically its manager. He has been faithful in every relation and his con stant advance in the good will of the company shows that he has given excel lent satisfaction in all the various capacities in which he has been placed since joining the Columbus Gas Company. Mr. Powell takes the greatest interest in everything that has for its object the growth and success of Columbus, and has been identified with a number of movements that have accomplished much along that line. He is a member of the Columbus Board of Trade, Ohio Club, Columbus Engineers' Club, the Ohio Gas Light Association, and is a member of the Masonic Order of high standing. Prominent in business and social affairs he is of the class of public-spirited citizens who have brought this city to the front among the municipalities of Ohio. 221 EMIL W. HOSTER. Emil W. Hoster is another son of the famous family of brewers, and a young man who is making his way in the world by mere force of native talent. He is hewing his way to the front by dint of hard work and push, and will certainly be a success on account of the exercise of these manly qualities. Although less than 22 years of age, he is already in a position involving the exercise of good hard sense and capability to handle large propositions. Emil W. Hoster is a native of Columbuns, where he was born September 30, 1884. He attended the public schools of Columbus, then a private school, completing his education with a full course at the University School. As soon as he got out of school the lad went to work in the brewery, for the purpose of master ing1 all of the details of management and manufacture, soon becoming familiar with the work of the various departments. When the famous brewery merger was consummated, and they were associated under the name of the Hoster- Columbus Associated Breweries Company, Mr. Hoster was placed in charge of the company's properties in Columbus, particularly those along that splendid thoroughfare, High street. These are controlled by the Hoster Realty Company, and Mr. Hoster is secretary and treasurer of the corpor ation. Here, too, he has shown his breadth and power as a manager and could show many an older head how large things should be accomplished. Air. Hoster is a dog fancier and the owner of some of the finest Boston ter riers. He is a great lover of dogs and has satisfied his taste by the addition of some famous strains in his kennels. He is also an admirer of horses, and his premium animal took the first prize at the Columbus horse show. He is a member of the Columbus Country and Riding Clubs, and ready to take his place among the substantial young men of his native city. 222 HARRY H. HERSHEY 223 HARRY HARTMAN HERSHEY. Harry Hartman Hershey is an example of the specialized attorney. Soon after his admission to the bar in 1900, he became connected with the Peruna Drug Manufacturing firm, and has established for himself a great reputation in running down imitators of the goods of this great corporation, its labels, etc., and has prosecuted offenders in all parts of the country. He originated and put in operation a "contract and serial number system" for the prevention of imitations of the Peruna products and its labels by any individual or cor poration and this is a highly complex arrangement, but one that has clone the work most effectually. Mr. Plershey, as a specialist, was able to accomplish this to the satisfaction of all concerned. Harry Hershey is a native of Win chester, Virginia, where he was born August 5, 1870. He received his school ing at Massillon, Ohio, and at Mt. Union College, Lawrence, Ohio. He took the classical course at Ohio State University, and graduated in 1897, after ward engaged in teaching school. Then he embarked in the legal profession and read law, preparing for his first year's work at Ohio State University, and admitted to the practice the second year. In 1900 he graduated from Ohio State University as Bachelor of Law, and started into the active practice of his profession, opening an office in the Board of Trade Building. He had been thus engaged but a short time, when his strength and general equipment as an attorney attracted Dr. S. B. Hartman, of the Peruna Drug Manufac turing firm, and he was secured to act as general counsel of that corporation, a position he still holds with much success. Mr. Hershey is a member of the Columbus Club, Ohio Club, the various Masonic bodies, Elks, Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity and the Columbus Golf Club. Mr. Hershey is justly esteemed and regarded by all who know something of the men who are "Behind the Guns" in the making of Greater Columbus. .' 224 THOMAS G. YOUMANS 225 THOMAS GRANT YOUMANS. Among the younger physicians of Columbus, none stand higher in the estimation of the general public than Dr. Thomas Grant Youmans, who for nearly ten years has been building up a practice and entrenching himself in the good graces and good will of the people of the city. Dr. Youmans is a native of Licking county, Ohio, where he was born in July, 1868, the son of Colonel M. and Mary E. (Davis) Youmans. He spent the first fourteen years of his life in the place of his nativity, where he received his initial mental training, followed by a four years' course at Ohio State University. He then entered the medical profession, studying in the office of Dr. Rankin of Colum bus, and graduating from Starling Medical College in 1895. Later he went to New York City and took a post-graduate hospital course, spending four years in that work. Believing that his medical education was complete, Dr. You mans returned to Columbus and began the practice of his profession, which he has pursued ever since with wondeful success, at 112 East Broad street. He is Professor of Dermatology and Genito-Urinary Surgery in Ohio Medical University, Dermatologist and Genito-Urinary surgeon at Protestant Hos pital, and police and fire surgeon of Culumbus, and in all of these varied positions he has constantly grown in the confidence of the people. Socially and professionally he is connected with Goodale Lodge F. & A. M., Knights of Pythias, Columbus Club, Columbus Academy of Medicine, Ohio State Medical Society and American Medical Association. Dr. Youmans is a favorite in a wide circle of friends, and his professional standing has already taken a high position, where ability, intelligence and faithful service are appre ciated by those with whom he comes in contact. 226 ROBERT L. BRUCE 227 ROBERT L. BRUCE. Robert L. Bruce was born in Quebec, Canada, December 23, 1867. He had only a common school education, and left home at the early age of 14 years, the death of his father making it necessary for him to do for himself. His first work was to sell newspapers and act as bell-boy in a hotel. His first appearance in the United States was as an employe in a rolling mill at Youngstown, Ohio, whence he entered the electrical business, and was placed in charge of the electrical supply depot of the General Electric Company of New York at Montreal, Canada. He left this employment to travel for the Electric Company of Cleveland. With an ambition to start in the electrical supply business for himself, he came to Columbus, and opened up in a very small way five years ago. He worked hard and developed the business from practically nothing to its present scope, which today is able to furnish any thing from a single light to a power plant. The business occupies a fine building on North Front street, Columbus, Ohio, and is continually expand ing. In fact so fast did it grow that on the 12th of October, 1905, it was necessary to enlarge the physical and financial possibilities of the business. So a joint stock company was organized with a capital of $25,000. The officers are: Robert L. Bruce, president and general manager; F. H. Linden- berg, vice-president ; J. B. Addison, secretary and treasurer ; George C. McKeever, superintendent of construction. Mr. Bruce is happily married to Miss Lulu Remealay of Columbus. 228 WESLEY M. SCOTT 229 WESLEY MONROE SCOTT. AVesley Monroe Scott was born on a farm in Meigs county, Ohio, May 5, 1852. He attended the common schools of the county but left his books at an early age to help his father with the work of the farm. At the age of 19 years he left home to learn the trade of iron-molding with the Balti more & Ohio (S. W.) Railway, remaining there six years. Following this experience he worked as a coal miner in Ohio for three years, then took charge of a foundry in Nelsonville, Ohio, remaining in this position for eight years. This accumulation of foundry experience fitted Mr. Scott for larger responsibilities, and he was summoned to Columbus to become foreman for the Hayden-Haddlery Hardware Company, and subsequently made general superintendent of the foundry and machine departments. He has proven highly efficient in this position, which he still holds, as well as being manager of the Hayden Automatic Block Machine Company. Mr. Scott is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is interested in any movement that tends to a Greater Columbus. His fine home at No. 636 Carpenter street is a splendid example of the possibilities of concrete block as a building stone. Mr. Scott's one hobby is the further development of the Hayden Automatic Block Machine, which is now sold all over the United States, in South America, New Zealand, Scotland, Canada and Spain. This machine produces a building block that has proven to stand a more rigid test of time, atmos pheric changes and actual pressure than natural stone. The Hayden Block Machine is simplicity itself, yet produces any variety of stone imitations including the different colors. Users of this machine all over the world have declared that it produces the desired results, and after all is said, it is the result that tells the concrete story. It was awarded a gold medal at the St. Louis Exposition. 230 CRAYTON W. BLACK 231 CRAYTON W. BLACK. A rather unique manufacturing plant, that is the only one of its kind in Columbus and one of the largest in the country is the Seagrave Company, located in the southern section of the city. The moving spirit of this enter prise is the subject of this writing, Cray ton W Black. For many years Mr. Black was identified with the manufacture of pleasure vehicles in Columbus, which afforded him excellent experience that is needed in superintending the construction of fire-fighting apparatus. The Seagrave Company is a firm made up exclusively of ColuraJ^s men, and manufactures nearly every apparatus needed in the equipment of fire-departments, including trussed- ladders, trussed truck frames, hose reels, tenders, wagons, combination chem ical engines with hook and ladder trucks and hose wagons. This company makes an aerial ladder that is universally recognized as the best now pro duced. The great strain to which these apparatus are subjected requires the most perfect material in their construction. Most of the timber used is from the state of Washington, and the thorough seasoning of the wood and the great care in its selection is a matter for the expert only. From a small beginning Mr. Black has developed the business to a point where there are practically no competitors in the field and the sales of the company cover not only the United States but also the foreign countries. If Mr. Black has one hobby it is the perfecting of fire-fighting apparatus. Many improve ments and inventions in this line are his own, and being a practical man, he takes pleasure in keeping on familiar terms with every detail of the business and with the work of each employe. Mr. Black is a favorite in business and social circles. He finds time to interest himself in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the city, being a member of the Board of Trade, and is heart and hand with any movement that looks to a greater Columbus. 232 JEWETT T. CLARK. The presence of the young man is a potent force in the commercial life of Columbus. Upon their shoulders must soon fall the burden of the local commercial situation ; upon them will depend the success of the plans for the upbuilding of the Capital City, whose foundations have been laid deep and wide by their elders. In the list of young men who are making their mark in the progress of the city, none enjoys a higher distinction than Jewett T. Clark, secretary of the Invisible Suspender Company, a corporation organized several years ago and now one of the leading industries in its line. Mr. Clark is gifted with that splendid American talent known as push, and the success of his firm is largely due to the impetus that he has given it. Started originally in a small way it now contends with the largest establishments of the country for a share of the public trade, and the increasing sales from year to year indicates that it is winning its way into the hearts of consumers and dealers. Mr. Clark is a native of Columbus, born April 12, 1881. His early education was secured in the common and high school of his native city, supplemented by a full course of study at Ridley College, St. Catharines, Canada. This was followed by a complete business course in one of the institutions of Columbus. Thus equipped he began his business career, with the Invisible Suspender Co., a company with which he is still identified. His advent into the affairs of the company was marked by the inauguration of an efficient book-keeping and general office system, that has added to the growth of the establishment. Here he is doing his work satisfactorily and well, and constantly growing in the good will of the public. Mr. Clark is happily married, and he is a very popular young man. 233 HARRY M. MARTIN. Harry M. Martin is a Pennsylvanian, born at Bedford, March 3, 1835. His education was limited to the public schools of his native town. When he had reached manhood he entered the employ of the Pittsburg post-office, where he remained five years, reaching a point of efficiency that stood him well in the later operations of a busy life. From the postal service he went into the railroad business, being employed in various capacities on the old Scioto Valley now Norfolk & AVestern Railway, running between Columbus and Kenova, for many years. He was one of the most popular men on the line. He came to Columbus 37 years ago and took charge of the American House, the famous hostelry so well known in the history of the Capital city. Here have been entertained all of the state notables of the olden days, and here were the headquarters of many who had a share in making the history of the Buckeye commonwealth. During the sessions of the legislature the American House was the rendezvous for all the public men and politicians that came to the city, and within its walls have been played some of the most dramatic episodes in the history of Ohio. Mr. Martin made it a splendid hotel, and for years it has been one of the landmarks of Columbus. The subject of this sketch is charitable and public spirited and his name is on every subscription list that has for its object the upbuilding of Greater Columbus. Mr. Martin married Miss Mary Griswold of Circleville, and they have one daughter, now connected with the public schools at Middle- town, Ohio. In every relation of life he has played a kindly part and is greatly regarded, by those who have the pleasure of his acquaintance. 234 WILLIAM MONYPENY. Jr. 235 WILLIAM MONYPENY, JR. William Monypeny, Jr., was born in the village of Lockbourne, Ohio, May 9, 1861. In the following June the family removed to Columbus, and the boy was raised in the Capital City. He attended the public schools, graduating from the high school and Ohio -State University, also taking a full course of study at Racine College, Racine, AVis. He then went abroad one year, in order to better prepare himself for the active duties of life, and he visited a number of the leading countries of Europe, sight-seeing and in the pursuit of practical knowledge. Returning home he entered the employ of the First National Bank, assisting his father, who was the head of the institution. Two years later he joined the Monypeny-Hammond wholesale grocery house, just then organized, and has since been active in that line of work. Here he finds ample opportunity for the exercise of his abilities, and has done much to make the firm a success. It is one of the constituent companies of the Midland Grocery Company, with branches in various parts of the state, and with aggregate sales amounting to millions of dollars annually. Since the death of his father several years ago, Mr. Monypeny divides his time between the affairs of the Monypeny-Hammond Company and the interests of the Monypeny estate. He superintended and built for his father the Monypeny Block, Pprtland Block, Norrriandie Hotel, New Brunson sky scraper, and many other smaller buildings. Mr. Monypeny is an enthusiastic automobilist and a member of the Arlington Club. He. is always ready and willing to do his share in every public enterprise and very popular in all circles of society. 236 FRED W. ATCHERSON 237 FRED WAYLAND ATCHERSON. The leading exponent of the livery business in Columbus is Fred W. Atcherson, who has been established on East Gay street for thirteen years, first conducting a most modest and unpretentious stable, but gradually in creasing in size and importance with the expansion of trade, until today it is the largest establishment of its kind in Central Ohio. Fred W. Atcherson was born in Deerfield, Mass., August 19, 1856. The only education he received was in the schools of Grand Rapids, Mich., where his parents removed when young Fred was but three years of age. He left school at the age of 15, and began to do for himself. That he has been a success along that line the results amply show. He gave his first attention to the street car business, and entered the service of the Detroit Street Car Company, where he remained for five years, doing excellent service. In June, 1876, he came to Columbus, and for seven years was engaged with the Columbus Street Car Co., serving as assistant superintendent. Here he was found to be a most satisfactory official, accom plishing much for the benefit of the corporation and the comfort of the patrons of the lines. In 1893 Mr. Atcherson quit the service of the local transportation com pany, and began for himself, in the livery trade, establishing himself on East Gay street, where he has been ever since, constantly adding to the value of his plant and the volume of business transacted He is equipped with every kind of vehicle, including touring cars, and the finest carriage line for any kind of service. The stable of Mr. Atcherson occupies valuable property in the heart of the city, and he has been offered fancy prices for it at various times, but he has refused to sell owing to its great advantage to his trade. Mr. Atcherson is a member of the Odd Fellows, an Elk, a Thirty-second Degree Mason and a Knight of Pythias. 238 GILBERT D. PRESTON 239 GILBERT D. PRESTON. Gilbert D. Preston is a Columbus born and bred product, the date of his birth being July 29, 1866. His father, Lorenzo P. Preston, was for years engaged in the mercantile trade of Columbus. Young Preston had only the advantages of a common school education, received in the schools at Nelson ville and Mechanicsburg, where the family lived after leaving Columbus. In 1884 Mr. Preston, who then resided with his parents in Nelsonville, drifted into the mining business in the Hocking Valley. His first employment was as a clerk in the company mining store of Johnson Brothers & Patterson, and later was promoted to a position in the office of the company. Here he rose step by step, and in 1891 secured an interest in the corporation and was made its secretary. In 1892 the enterprise was removed to Columbus, and Air. Preston was made Treasurer. In 1902 the Johnson Bros. & Co. sold their holdings in the Hocking AAalley to the New Pittsburg Coal Company, and the owners of the old corporation organized the Johnson Brothers Coal Mining Company, and of this Mr. Preston is secretary and treasurer. For twenty years, it might be said, he has occupied a confidential position with the Johnson Brothers, Thomas and Edward, which is of itself a high tribute to his probity, intelligence and experience. Mr. Preston resides with his family, consisting of his wife and two children, a son and daughter, at the Lincoln Hotel, and they are among the most popular married couples of the city. Mr. Preston is a member of the Columbus Board of Trade and enlists his interest in any project that tends to a Greater Columbus. 240 HERMAN HOSTER 241 HERMAN HOSTER. A young man, Columbus born and bred, who is making his way in the business world, surely and in a highly commendable manner, is Herman Hoster, treasurer of the Hoster Columbus Associated Breweries and Secretary of the Columbus Lithographing Company, whose big plant on West First avenue, is already one of the thriving institutions of the city. Mr Hoster was born in Columbus, July 12, 1881, and received the rudi ments of his education in the schools of his native city. He afterward at tended Yale, and graduated from that famous seat of learning in 1903, as a mechanical engineer. In the fall of that year he became identified with the L. Hoster Brewing Co., and later was made assistant treasurer of the Hoster Columbus Associated Breweries and shortly afterward was promoted to the treasurership of the great corporation, a position he has since held with much credit. A new opportunity came to him in the Columbus Lithographing Co., where his peculiar training and skill could be used to an advantage and he was accordingly given the post of secretary of that company, which he now holds. Mr. Hoster is a member of the Columbus, Country, Arlington Country, and the Columbus Riding and Automobile Clubs, and is popular in the social and business circles of the city. He belongs to the increasing class of young business men in Columbus, whose tact and prestige are destined to work mightily for the prosperity, growth and prestige of their native city. In every position with which he has been identified, Mr. Hoster has shown his worth and strength, and is destined to be one the commercial phalanx of the Capital City, upon whom will depend all that goes to make up a prosperous, ambitious and growing municipality. 242 WILLIAM T. McCLURE 243 WILLIAM T. McCLURE. Twenty-one years ago, there came to this city from the country districts of Highland county, Ohio, a young man seeking to place himself some where in the great industrial and professional contest of Columbus. He espoused the law, and with his admission to the bar in 1887, three years after his initial appearance here, his advancement has been rapid and well de served. William T. McClure is a native of Highland county, born along the line of historic Paint Creek. His parents, Martin and Nancy McClure are still living in Hillsboro, Highland county, Ohio. The country school afforded the only educational facilities to the young man, and a course here was sup plemented with a term at South Salem Academy. Afterward he engaged for a few years in teaching and was successful. But William T. McClure was not satisfied with the career of a pedagogue, and in 1883 he came to Columbus, and began the study of the law in the office of Watson & Burr. So valuable were his services to the firm that he was placed on a salary immediately, making it necessary for him to do a great deal of his legal reading at odd times. After his admission to the bar he opened up business on his own account, and now occupies a suite of rooms in the Hayden building, where the steady growth of his clientage demon strates that he is a success in his chosen profession. Mr. McClure makes a specialty of handling estates as trustees, etc., and has an extensive practice in commercial litigation. Mr. McClure resides at No. 26 South Garfield avenue, with his family, consisting of his wife and two daughters, Margaret, aged 15, and Isabel, aged 8 years. His wife was nee Ada Bailey, and they were married in 1886. He is a member of the Columbus Board of Trade. 244 LORENZO D. HAGERTY 245 LORENZO D. HAGERTY. Judge Lorenzo D. Hagerty, who for six years was judge of the probate court of Franklin county, and who is today a leading member of the local bar, was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, but received his education in part in Licking county. His father was one of the leading cattle raisers in Ohio, and his sales of short-horns years ago were features of the cattle business in this state. The date of Judge Hagerty' s birth was November 11, 1853, and after attending the Licking county schools he came to Columbus in 1878. He studied the profession of the law in the University of Michigan, and was admitted to practice in 1877. It was but a short time before he was named United States Commissioner, a place he filled with credit for some years. He was also a member of the State Board of Pardons for several years, and disposed of some of the most celebrated cases in the history of Ohio. Two terms as probate judge of Franklin county followed, and the administration of his office was such as to command public approbation. It was clean, able and above reproach, and when the judge retired it was with the regret of the bar and Franklin county litigants. Since his retirement from public office Mr. Haggerty has re-entered the practice of his profession, and has a large clientage. He is president of the Crystal Ice Company and connected with a number of large local enterprises. Enthusiastic and wide-awake, every plan for the improvement of the city of his adoption finds a friend in Judge Hagerty. He is a member of the Columbus Club, the Country Club, Arling ton Country Club, the Board of Trade, an Elk, an Odd Fellow and Red Man. He was one of the original incorporators of the famous Olentangy Club and served on its official board several years. 246 JOHN G. DUN 247 JOHN G. DUN. Among the many bonifaces of Columbus none are better or more favor ably known that John G. Dun. For years he was behind the desk at the Neil, and made that hostelry one of the famous stopping places in Columbus, then he transferred his allegiance to the magnificent Hartman, the acknow ledged leader of places of entertainment in the middle west. John G. Dun was born in Columbus, October 31, 1854, his father being a farmer of Scotch descent, and a branch of the Dun family famous in the story of Franklin, Madison and Ross counties. Young Dun remained on the farm until he was 13 years of age, when he secured a common school education and studied architecture and law. He was principal of a school at Gambier, and grad uated in law from historic Kenyon College in 1874, being admitted to the bar in 1881. Until 1884 he was connected with a wholesale grocery and cigar business, but the next year he resigned to become cashier and book-keeper of the Neil House. He remained there until the opening of the Hartman Hotel in 1902, and has since been at the head of affairs at that house. The Hartman has 115 rooms and is one of the handsomest hotels in Ohio. It is equipped in a style that is approached by no other Columbus house. In 1886 Mr. Dun was married to Miss Annie L. Hoffman. He is a member of the Columbus Board of Trade and several other business and social organizations. Mr. Dun is actively allied with the organization of Columbus hotel men whose object is to secure public gatherings of every sort for this city, and they have been verv successful. 248 GEORGE T. MACAULEY 249 GEORGE T. MACAULEY. Within the past decade Columbus has rapidly forged to the front as a center for the manufacture of millinery for the wholesale trade, and the praise of Capital City handiwork in this line is now sounded in a dozen contiguous states. One of the men who is responsible for this happy condition of affairs is George T. Macauley, head of the firm of G. T. Macauley & Co., carrying on an ever increasing business in Wholesale Row, on West Spring street. Mr. Macauley has been engaged in the business for many years, and his judgment is excellent, while his experience and cleverness have all conspired to make him the main-spring of a house that is fast securing a place of prominence in the millinery trade of the Middle West. The firm of G. T. Macauley & Co. was organized in November, 1898, being composed of G. T. Macauley, who formerly resided in Detroit, Mich ; John H. Davis, and Harry M. Clark, who have been for many years residents of Columbus. Its list of customers comprises the best class of retail dealers in millinery goods, many of which are department and general stores in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia, but its trade is not confined to these States by any means. Any such dealers who desire the very latest hats and other material that are produced, in the United States, and in the best foreign markets, and who wish to be assured of securing the very latest novelties as fast as they appear, are accustomed to see what G. T. Macauley & Co| have to show. No goods are sold to the consumer, the trade being confined absolutely to the dealer. This firm also has a factory for the manufacture of hand-made hats and ready-to- trim hats. The master hand in this big establishment is G. T. Macauley. He is a strong factor in the business life of Columbus ; allied with the com mercial and social bodies of Columbus; he is well known and has a host of friends in every walk of life. 250 WILBUR F. GOODSPEED 251 WILBUR FITCH GOODSPEED. Suddenly and without warning, Major Wilbur Fitch Goodspeed, the well known soldier, banker, business man and friend, passed away at his home on Hamilton avenue, Columbus. Major Goodspeed was born at Mas- sillon, Ohio, July 31, 1836. AVhile he was quite young his parents removed to Haydenville, Mass., where the boy attended school. In 1850 the family returned to Massillon, and three years later, Goodspeed, now a young man, went to New York and was employed as a clerk in a wholesale shoe house. In 1854 he located in Cleveland and opened a similar establishment on his own account. When the war broke out he was one of the first to be mustered into service as a private August 1, 1861, as a member of Battery A, First Ohio Light Artillery. He was elected first lieutenant, and in January, 1862, suc ceeded to the command of the battery. On October 20, 1864, he was com missioned major. When the war ended he came to Columbus, purchased the interest of Charles Munson, in the Munson & Hayden Company. Later the firm was called the Buckeye Malleable Iron and Coupler Company, and now the Buckeye Steel Castings Company. At the time of his death Major Good- speed was president of the company. He was president of the Commercial National Bank and a director of the Hocking Valley Railroad. He was dis tinguished for his generous philanthrophy. Major Goodspeed's first wife was Marian Baird, to whom he was married December 24, 1865, died in 1881. On December 27, 1883, he was united in marriage to Miss Harriet Howe, of Toledo, who survives him. For eight years prior to coming to Columbus he served as United States marshal for the northern district of Ohio. A warm personal friend of President McKinley, Senator Hanna and Governor Herrick. He was a member of the Loyal Legion and president of the Ohio Missionary Ridge Monument Commission. 252 EDWARD J. FARLEY 253 EDWARD J. FARLEY. One of the men who have done much to give the hotels of Columbus their present national reputation as hostelries of the first class and fully abreast of the times in the accommodations for the public is Edward J. Far ley, who for the past sixteen years has been proprietor of the Davidson Hotel in this city. Mr. Farley has long been actively identified with the organiza tion of hotel men, serving as treasurer of the Ohio State Hotel Association for seven years, and at the last convention was unanimously chosen for an other term. Mr. Farley sprang from the farm, his father, residing at Mt. Sterling, Madison County, being a tiller of the soil. His only education was that which he could pick up in the country schools of the section, but it was sufficient to give an ambitious young man a start in the world. He came to Columbus in 1870 (his birth occurring March 20, 1859), and began work in the menial position of bell boy at the old United States Hctel at High and Town streets. Following this he attended the Columbus schools for two years, then serving the cigar stand in the hotel, shortly afterward being pro moted to a position behind the desk in the office. He made a popular hotel clerk, and filled, that post for six years, when he secured an interest in the notel, and was one of the factors of its financial success for more than six years. In 1890 he disposed of his interest in the United States Hotel, and took the Davidson on the 14th of December of that year, where he has since been actively engaged in catering to the public. As proprietor of one of our leading hotels he has been an active factor as a member of the Hotel Men's Association, formed for the purpose of securing conventions for Columbus, a task in which the organization has been signally successful. He can be counted on as one of the great army of workers eager to do the bidding of "Greater Columbus." 254 T. A. MORTON 255 T. A. MORTON. Among those who have become active in the mercantile and manufactur ing interests of the city is T. A. Morton, born in Wheeling, West Virginia, March 31, 1872. His early education was received in the public schools of that city, his father being one of the editors of the American Book Company in New York. Young Morton came to Columbus and took a course in mechanical engineering in 1891, entering the employ of E. A. Cole & Co. for a time, in the sale of coal throughout the local and western markets. He then went to New York and for three years was business manager of a trade paper in that city. He returned to Columbus in 1902, joining the Ohio Dredging Company, and later on operating the business. In March, 1903, he became secretary and treasurer of the Sun Manufacturing Company, on the West Side, upon its reorganization. The plant was originally at Greenfield, Ohio, but removed to Columbus as offering superior inducements from a manufacturing and shipping point of view. The new factory on the West Side is a model of convenience and equipment, located on a big tract of land at Lorain and McKinley avenues, permitting an enlargement of the plant as the occasion may require. Here is to be found every machine needed for the manufacture of show cases, coffee mills, money drawers and wood and metal specialties, and new lines are being constantly added. The trade covers all parts of the United States, Canada and foreign countries. In February, 1905, Mr. Morton was made business manager of the big corpor ation as a mark of appreciation of his splendid services. Mr. Morton married a Cincinnati lady some years ago and they have two children, a boy and a girl 256 WILLIAM H. KINSELL 257 WILLIAM H. KINSELL. There are but few citizens of Columbus who are not acquainted with William H. Kinsell, or "Billy" Kinsell, as he is popularly recognized oy thou sands of his friends. For nearly thirty years Mr. Kinsell has been identified with the transportation problem in Columbus, first with the old Columbus Omnibus Company that ran a stage coach to Reynoldsburg, but latterly with the Columbus Transfer Co., where he has been a dominant spirit in the role of assistant manager for the past four years. For eighteen years Mr. Kisnell was the agent of the Columbus Transfer Company at the Union Station, and here he became universally known. AVilliam H. Kinsell was born June 21, 1863, and his college was the country school in the vicinity of his old home. In 1878, when but fifteen years of age, he began work with the Columbus Omnibus Co., at No. 3, East State street, operating a system of stages. The company afterward sold out to the Columbus Transfer Co., and so popular was Mr. Kinsell with the traveling public that he went with the purchase, and has been with the corporation ever since. The business of the Transfer Company has increased ten times its original proportions, and it is only fair to say that the methods of Mr. Kinsell have had something to do with the present condition of prosperity. The Transfer Company now operates with 130 horses and 150 vehicles of all kinds, and it is one of the recognized institu tions of the city. In 1902 Mr. Kinsell was made assistant manager of the company, which is merely nominal in fact, for he is the directing head of the affairs. Mr. Kinsell was married to Miss Marion E. Bick, and they have a beautiful new home at Arlington, where they entertain their friends and but few couple can call the roll with a larger list.. "Billy" has come up from the bottom. And he has won for himself all the way. 258 CARL J. HOSTER 259 CARL J. HOSTER. Carl J. Hoster, president of the Hoster-Columbus Associated Breweries Company, is one of the best known and most popular of the rising young business men of the Capital City. He has already taken a leading position in the commercial ranks of Columbus, and gives evidence of possessing that sturdy manhood and splendid energy that goes to make up the ideal business man. Mr. Hoster is a native of Columbus, born here June 23, 1873, and re ceived his education in Columbus, supplemented by courses at Ohio State University and Cornell University, where he laid deep and wide the founda tions of a successful career. When the brewery interests merged several years ago, Mr. Hoster was made president of the great corporation, and that he has been the man for the place is attested by the growth of the business under his management. His record shows what can be accomplished by the young American business man, under the proper conditions, and gives guar antee of still more substantial triumphs. In a business way Mr. Hoster is allied with a number of financial institutions. He is a director in the Colum bus Railway and Light Company, vice president of the Ohio Trust Company and director in the Hayden-Clinton National Bank. He is also president o[ the Columbus Driving Association and director of the Columbus Club. In secret society circles Mr. Hoster is well known, being a thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is happly married and maintains a splendid home in the aristocratic suburb of Arlington. Mr. Hoster is one of the most earnest and energetic members of the Columbus Board of Trade, and takes a lively in terest in everything proposed by that substantial body of business men for the improvement of Columbus — his native city, of which he has so many reasons to be proud. 260 GEORGE H. HOPPER 261 GEORGE H. HOPPER. Though we see the evidences of the angel of death on every hand and almost day by day, the shock seems none the less severe when one whom we have known in warmest friendship is called into the great beyond. Through out business and social circles of Columbus on the 19th day of April, 1905, there came a pause, as word was passed that George H. Hopper, the genial manager of the Neil House, was no more. George H. Hopper came into life and being in the town of Antwerp, Jefferson county, New York, on May 12, 1838. He attended the common and select schools of that place, and in his youth learned the joiner's trade. He remained in the east until 1867 when he removed to Chicago, and there worked at his trade both before and after the great fire of that city. He then entered the railroad business, engaging with the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, remaining with this road five years. His first venture in business then followed, in which he opened an eating house in Elroy, Wisconsin, and after disposing of this at a handsome profit, went to Ashland, Wisconsin. Here he became manager of the Colby 262 House, remaining seven years, also the Chequanegon Hotel of the same place and the Burton Flotel at Hurley, Wisconsin. Mr. Hopper, by his indomitable energy and keen knowledge of the wants of the public placed these hotel properties on a liberal paying basis. He disposed of these hotels by 1892, and in 1895 took over the Hotel Racine, at Racine, Wisconsin, and four years later continued his hotel management in Richmond, Ind., and in 1891 became manager of the Neil House in Columbus. He was considered one of the best known and most capable hotel men of the country. He was married to Miss Martha Wentworth of AVisconsin, a woman of rare culture and refine ment and who has won distinction as a platform speaker and as a writer. He was a Royal Arch Mason and Knight Templar, and in 1895 was grand commander. He was also an honorary member of the Racine (AVis.) Lodge of Elks. His life was an open book. His kindly face and hearty cheer lightened the load of many a weary pilgrim, for those who came in contact with him could not but absorb some of the strength and courage which he abundantly possessed. 263 EUGENE A. REED. The growth of the telephone business in all parts of the country has brought to the front quite a number of forceful, capable men. It has been a splendid oportunity for those who can accomplish things and produce re sults, from a technical and commercial point of view, and in the list of those who are appreciated for what they are capable of doing, there is no man who stands higher than Eugene A. Reed. His career has been an example of what well-directed effort can accomplish. Mr. Reed was born in Boston, Mass., February 9, 1871. After preparation at the Boston Latin School, he took a regular course in Harvard, graduating from that celebrated institution of learning in 1892. He then took a two years' course in the Harvard Law School. The telephone early engaged his attention and in 1894 he became con nected with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. In 1899 his field of operations was transferred to New York City, where he operated with the same corporation, coming to Columbus in 1903, starting in with the Central Union Telephone Company, where he now holds the responsible post of division superintendent. So well has he managed the affairs of the company since coming to Columbus, that to-day the lines of the Central Union cover all the contiguous territory, and the service is of the very best, due to the management of Mr. Reed, who has proven himself to be the right man in the right place, and one thoroughly acquainted with the working of the telephone system in all of its departments. In a social way Mr. Reed is a member of the Columbus and Ohio Clubs, and, of course, is allied with the Harvard Club of Central Ohio, made up of the men who can boast of "Fair Harvard" being their alma mater. Mr. Reed was happily married to Miss Addie M. Phillips, of Boston, and both are the center of admiration and respect of a large circle of friends 264 GEORGE D. CROSS. For many years the George D. Cross Lumber Co., has been one of the institutions of Columbus. In 1885 it was started in a small way, but it has grown and prospered, and today it is in a position to say that it dominates largely the lumber business of this section. The leading spirit in that corpor ation is George D. Cross, a master in the lumber trade. George D. Cross is a Michigan man by birth, having been born in Lenawa county, in 1855. His education was limited to the common schools of the town, and when but a lad 14 years of age, young Cross went west, to Kansas, where he was engaged in business for some time, latterly going to Nebraska City, Neb., where he was identified with the Chicago Lumber Company. He soon became a partner in the concern and removed to Brownsville, Neb., where he assumed the management of the company's yards. Here he remained ten years, and got in touch with the lumber interests of the west generally. He afterward en gaged in the traffic in various parts of that section of the country, coming to Columbus in 1890, after spending twenty-two years in lumber handling in different parts of the west. In 1895 the George D. Cross Lumber Company^ was originated and in corporated with a capital stock of $25,000, and since that time it has become recognized as one of the powers in the lumber trade of Columbus and Central Ohio. It does not only a wholesale and retail lumber business, bvit handles all kinds of building wood-work. Mr. Cross is identified with the Columbus Board of Trade, is an active spirit in Masonic circles, and is known as public- spirited whenever the occasion demands. He has made his way among the business element of Columbus, and no man has a better record. 265 YALE UNIVERSITY / ¦ ; ' ' :. '