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During the first nine years of practice Doctor Campbell was lo- cated at Tedrow, Ohio. In 1905 he came to Wauseon, and during the next thirteen years firmly established himself in the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens. The coming of the great war, with its immediate demands for loyal service of every kind, found him ready to give up all personal ties and business expectations for the general good. In October, 1918, he passed the required examination for a medical commission and was ordered to Camp Greenleaf at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, where he served two months as cap- tain of the medical corps, then was transferred to New York City and assigned to Debarkation Hospital No. 1, Ellis Island, as chief
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eye, ear, nose and throat and plastic surgeon. He received his hon- orable discharge June 30, 1919.
Doctor Campbell was united in marriage to Miss Elsie Allen, of Fayette, Ohio, who is a daughter of Charles L. and Susan (Gamber) Allen, and they have one child, Charles Allen.
From early manhood Doctor Campbell has been in sympathy with the principles of the democratic party and has been active in local affairs for many years. In 1916 his friends urged his candidacy for Congress, and, while defeated, his personal popularity was shown by his running second in a field of six candidates. He belongs to num- erous medical bodies and scientific organizations, is a thirty-second degree Mason, and belongs also to the Modern Woodmen of America.
EDWARD GRIFFIN COLE, D. D. S. Every intelligent community has accepted the belief that sound teeth are essential to good health. Americans are more or less noted for their attractive siniles, whereby they display a very wholesome condition of the mouth, and it is not too much to say that much of this wholesomeness is due to Ameri- can dentistry. More than one crowned head, in days now past, has recognized this fact and has called an American dentist to his court so that he could be benefitted by his skill. While this is all true, it is only within a comparatively short time that dentistry has really come into its own and taken its place in the front rank of medical science. In this connection Wauseon is fortunate, for among its corps of dental surgeons are men of wide experience and great pro- fessional skill, one of these being Dr. Edward Griffin Cole, who in 1918 was elected president of the Miami Valley Dental Society.
Edward Griffin Cole was born on his father's farm in Fulton county, Ohio, December 17, 1877, and is a son of Edward and Ida (Hager) Cole.' The Cole family was established in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, by the great-grandfather of Doctor Cole, who came from England. The father was born in Tioga county and came from there to Fulton county, Ohio, in 1869, purchasing a farm situated six miles north of Wauseon, on which he lived until 1904, when he removed to Coldwater, Michigan, where he lives retired. On the maternal side Doctor. Cole preserves the Dewey ancestry in continuous line from 1532, his kinship with the late Admiral Dewey, the hero of Manila Bay, being close, as his maternal grandmother was a sister of Admiral Dewey's father.
Doctor Cole spent his boyhood days on the home farm and attended the country schools and later those at Wauseon, subse- quently entering the Tri-State College, where he passed two years and then became a student in the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, which is a part of the University of Cincinnati. He pursued his studies there from 1899 until his graduation in 1902, with his degree receiving honorable mention because of his skill in crown and bridge work. He established his practice at Wauscon, and this has been his home ever since. He is identified with the Maumee Valley Dental Society, the Ohio State Dental Association, and the National Dental Society, and with other scientific bodies, and his professional work has brought him into much prominence.
In 1903 Doctor Cole was united in marriage to Miss Grace Struble, who is a daughter of Charles and Evelyn Struble, of Delta, Ohio, and they have three children, namely: Robert Edward. Vir- ginia Evelyn and Julius William. A zealous republican at all times, Doctor Cole takes a deep interest in the permanency of his party's principles, but he has never consented to accept any political office
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except in relation to the schools. He has been a member of the school board seven years and is serving in his second term as presi- dent. He has membership in no fraternal organization except the Knights of Pythias, a strong body at Wauseon.
JAY H. MILLER, M. D. The medical profession at Wauseon is well represented by a body of intelligent, conscientious men, many of whom have devoted every energy to the faithful practice of medi- cal science since they completed the educational course that entitled them to their degree. A practitioner here who has been exception- ally successful in his profession and stands high in the confidence and esteem of co-workers and people alike is Dr. J. H. Miller.
Jay H. Miller was born at Bucyrus, Ohio, in October, 1862, and is a son of Isaac and Elizabeth (McBride) Miller. He is in the sixth generation from the Miller ancestor who came to the United States from Germany and became the founder of a long and honorable line that has included both agriculturists and professional men. The father of Doctor Miller afforded him educational opportunities and encouraged his professional ambitions. He attended the public schools through boyhood, later took a course in the Normal School at Ada, and then, in 1886, entered the Hospital College of Medicine connected with the Central University of Kentucky, from which he was graduated with his degree.
Doctor Miller entered into practice at Glasgow in Barren county, Kentucky, where he remained for two years, and then sought a wider field at Denton, Texas, where he had wide and varied experi- ence, all of it beneficial as experience, but with less monetary return than he felt his medical ability should command. After eleven years there, during which he formed friendships he will always cherish, circumstances called his attention to Wauseon, Ohio, and he returned to his native state and lolated in this city, invested in property, and his interests have been centered here ever since. He is in the enjoyment of a large and lucrative practice commensurate with his medical ability and surgical skill.
In 1866 Doctor Miller was united in marriage to Miss Lillie B. Adams, who is a daughter of W. T. and Amanda (Carpenter) Adams, residents of Glasgow, Kentucky, and to this marriage the following children have been born: Mina C., who is the wife of George Hallauner, and they have a son, John, who was born in 1918; Pauline, who is the wife of Stanley Knight, of Chicago, and they have two children, Jean and Joan; Carl A., now of Toledo, who served four years in the United States Navy, was an electrical worker in the marine department that went over to France; and Bessie Ruth, who is the wife of Paul Shaver, of Maurertown, Shenan- doah county, Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Shaver have two children, Paul and Janice J.
Doctor and Mrs. Miller are members of the First Christian Church at Wauseon. He is a member of the Ohio State Medical, the West- ern Ohio Medical and the Fulton County Medical Associations. In addition to these professional bodies he belongs to the Masonic frater- nity, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen. He is liberal in his political views and votes as his own good judgment suggests.
PHILEMON L. UPP. No one has ever denied the importance of the work done by the farmer, but recently these activities have assumed a position never before held, not only this country, but
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throughout the world. Much of the efficiency of the present day farmer comes from the fact that the land he is operating has been developed into a high state of cultivation so that all of his energies can be concentrated upon the production of the sorely-needed food- stuffs. One of the men of the older generation of farmers who is now living retired at Wauseon is Philemon L. Upp, owner and developer of 150 acres of very valuable land in Clinton township, Fulton county.
Philemon L. Upp was born in Huron county, Ohio, in 1848, a son of Philip and Hannah Upp. The Upp family is of Pennsylvania- Dutch extraction, and its members have been either farmers or local merchants, and most excellent, sturdy and honest people. After acquiring a country school education, as many country youthis, alter- nating working on the farm in the summers and going to school in the winter until he was twenty, Mr. Upp decided to strike out for himself.
He was married to Mary E. Nesbitt, of Huron county, in 1867, and they became the parents of the following children: Lewis Elmer, who was born in 1869, lives at Wauseon; Anna A., who died in 1918; Philip Henry, who was born in 1874; Jocelyn, who was born in 1877; William Clayton, who was born in 1882, and Clarence Raymond, who was born in 1885. After his marriage Mr. Upp con- ducted his father's farm for three years, and then bought eighty acres in ITuron county, and remained on it for three years. For the subsequent two years he was in a hardware business with his brother, under the firm name of Upp Brothers, at Plymouth, Ohio, and then was engaged in farming in the vicinity of Plymouth for a time. In 1880 he came to Fulton county and bought 154 acres of land in Clinton township that he still owns. He continued to improve and conduct this property until 1903, when he moved to Wauseon and turned the work of farming over to his son Philip. This farm is devoted to a general line of crops, and is one of the good ones of the county. In politics Mr. Upp is a demoerat. Inter- ested in the work of the Grange, he was a member of it until he retired from the farm, and believes every farmer ought to join it and learn through it how to make the most of his land. Although he has not cared for office, Mr. Upp takes, the interest of a public- spirited man in the affairs of his community and county, and is regarded as one of those citizens who have made the world the better and happier for his passing through it.
HARMON AUGUST KRAUSS. In these days of competition and government regulations the meat and grocery interests of the country are passing into the hands of thoroughly experienced and competent inen, for only such men can make a suecess in an industry beset with so many obstacles. One of the men who is recognized as a perfectly reliable merchant and honorable man is Harmon August Krauss of Wauseon, who has long been a resident of this part of the state. He was born at Stryker, Ohio, in 1884, a son of William and Augusta Krauss.
Growing up in his native town, Harmon A. Krauss attended its grammar and high schools and then went to Bryan, Ohio, where he was a salesman for Binn & Boothman in their dry goods business for five years. At the expiration of that period Mr. Krauss came to Wauseon and for six years was a clerk for C. E. Roseman & Com- pany, dry goods. He then went with the dry goods house of Spen- cer & Edgar for three years, following which he became proprietor
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of a meat and grocery business at West Unity, Ohio, and conducted it for 31% years. Selling that store, he returned to Wauseon and went into a meat business here, but at the close of two years the building he was occupying was condemned and Mr. Krauss arranged for the erection of a new building, specially equipped for his occu- pancy and which is thoroughly modern in every respect. When he opened up for business he put in a complete line of fancy and staple groceries and has built up a very desirable trade among the best people of Wauseon.
In 1915 Mr. Krauss was united in marriage with Fay Folk, a daughter of Samuel E. and Celia Folk of Bryan, Ohio. In politics Mr. Krauss is a republican, but aside from exercising his right of suffrage he has not taken much part in public affairs. His frater- nal connections are those he has formed as a member of the Knights of Pythias. Successful in business, he has won his way in the world by the exercise of natural ability and sound common sense, com- bined with a willingness to work. Since he has had a business of his own he has studied the wishes of his customers and seen to it that they found in his store what they wanted, and has given them a satisfactory service. Having centered his interests at Wauseon, he is naturally anxious to have it keep abreast of modern progress and can be counted upon to give his support to any movements hav- ing that end in view.
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WILLIAM WEBER. One of the old business houses of Wauseon, that if removed from the city's everyday business life would be greatly missed, is the jewelry establishment at No. 205 Fulton street that has borne the name of Weber for almost a half century. Its owner and proprietor is William Weber, jeweler and optician, who purchased the store his father had founded when Wauseon was a village.
William Weber was born at Wauseon in 1871. His parents were Henry and Mary (Schlatter) Weber. The latter was born February 2, 1844, in Canton Schaubhausen, Switzerland. Henry Weber was born December 23, 1827, in Zurich, Switzerland, and was twenty- four years old when he came to America. In Switzerland the busi- ness of watchmaking in all its delicate details has long been carried to the highest degree of perfection by expert workers, and today a real hand-made Swiss watch commands a high price. There Henry Weber was taught this trade. When he came to the United States he located at Maumee, Ohio, where he worked at watchmaking for a time and then came to Wauseon and opened a watch repair shop and jewelry store that has continued in the family ever since, his death occurring in 1904. He was twice married and was the father of eleven children, six of these still living. To his second marriage eight children were born, one of these being William Weber of Wauseon, whose mother died in 1919.
William Weber attended the public schools until he was fifteen years of age, then acecpted his father's practical suggestion that he should go to Toledo and learn the jewelry trade with a reliable firm. Hence, for five years Mr. Weber remained in the establishment of Maurice Judd, and left there prepared to work independently. He opened a shop at Archbold, which he conducted for two vears, when a fire destroyed his property, after which he went to Delta and for the next ten years worked for the firm of Pratt Brothers .. He then came back to Wauseon and worked for his father for a year, then went to Tipton, Indiana, as a journeyman for a year and a half,
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and then went back to Delta and for two years was with the Gehring Brothers, druggists and jewelers as a partner, having a half interest in the jewelry department of the business. The death of his father recalled him to Wauseon, and in 1906 he bought his father's old business and has continued ever since. He carries a well selected stock of modern goods in his line, together with some almost price- less jewels and is prepared to put the same in any style of setting desired and with the skill of an efficient workman. Mr. Weber is also a thoroughly competent optician.
In 1894 Mr. Weber was married to Miss Lillian Bolyard, and they have had two sons, namely : Harry, who is now twenty-five years old; and Lawrence, who died in 1896, when aged seven months. The building in which Mr. Weber and his family reside was erected by his father. He has always given his political support to the republican party but has never desired any public office. He has many friends who respect him highly, and his business integrity is universally acknowledged.
RANDALL ORSON BUCK, D. O., OPTH. D., a well-qualified osteo- pathic physician, now in practice in the City of Wauseon, Fulton county, Ohio, has many professional degrees, and although his medi- cal career was interrupted, temporarily, by patriotic service as a soldier during the recent World war, he will probably attain good success in his practice in Fulton county, for he begins well based in the science he has entered. He holds the degree of D. O., Doctor of Osteopathy, of the American School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Missouri; the degree of Opth. D., Doctor of Opthalmology, of the Wagoner School of Opthalmology, of Kirksville, and also the special degree of Osteopathic Technique. He was a lecturer in the latter special course at the college from which he graduated.
He was born at Bath, Summit county, Ohio, February 24, 1895, the son of Orson H. and Cora L. (Randall) Buck, well-regarded resi- dents of that place. His genealogy shows that he comes of Scotch- Irish families, and the generations that have had residence in America have followed agriculture for the most part. Randall, as a boy, attended the elementary public school nearest to his home, and eventually entered the high school at West Richfield, Ohio, graduating from that school with the class of 1913. He had not at that time quite decided whether to take up business affairs or to try to qualify for professional life, and after having graduated from the high school he for a while worked in a clerical capacity in the offices of the Goodrich Rubber Company at Akron, Ohio. The work, however, was too confining, and he was for some time in poor health. And in order to recuperate while still following some gain- ful occupation he formed connection with an automobile company, acting as demonstrator for Ford cars. After a while, his health hav- ing improved, he again took up clerical work, but eventually decided to take up professional studies. In September, 1914, he became a student at the American School of Osteopathy, a leading school in that science at Kirksville, Missouri. Then followed an earnest student- ship of three years, during which he assiduously followed the course which brought him into the graduating class of 1917, and gained him the degree of Doctor of Osteopathy. He also concurrently applied himself to the study of opthalmology at the Wagoner School of Opthalmology at Kirksville. He graduated from that school in the same year, gaining the degree of Opth. D., Doctor of Opthal- mology. His studies of osteopathy were extensive, and he attained
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much distinction as a student; he gained the degree of Osteopathic Technique, and was so skilled in that branch that the faculty event- ually gave him professorial duties at the college. For one semester he taught, in classes of his own, at Kirksville. For a short time after graduating he practiced osteopathy at Madison, Missouri, and after examination received license to practice in the State of Missouri. He returned, however, to his native state, and to his home town, West Richfield; took the Ohio state medical examination; and in July, 1917, received the license from the state examiners, thus being able to enter immediately into the practice of osteopathy in his home state. In August, 1917, he went to Wauseon, Fulton county, Ohio, and there opened office for practice. What little practice he devel- oped during the next six months or so convinced him that the city was a promising field for him, but at that time all was temporary and unsettled because the nation was at war, and he had registered for military duty and stood ready to close his private interests at very short notice and enter upon active miltiary service. In due course the call came, and he was enlisted in the grade of private and was ordered to Camp Taylor, Kentucky, for assignment. In that receiving camp he remained for twenty days, being tempora- rily assigned to the Fifty-first Company, Thirteenth Battalion, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Depot Brigade. After that time he was transferred with other troops to Camp Beauregard, Louisiana, where he remained until August, 1918, gaining promotion to the grade of private, first class, and subsequently to corporal. As a medical man he was assigned to an ambulance company, and eventually, in such connection, saw much active service in France. As a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Ambulance Company, of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Sanitary Train, of the Thirty-ninth Division, he left for the port of embarkation. He was at Camp Mills, Long Island, for five days, then embarking, at Hoboken, New Jersey, on the transport "Tola", which sailed on August 21, 1918. The ship was one of a large convoy of troopships, and the trip was an exciting one. Disaster almost overtook the ship in the submarine zone at the entrance to the English Channel, the ship narrowly escaping a submarine on September 7th, a sister ship being torpedoed and beached on the Scilly Isles. The voyage ended on Septem- ber 18th, when the convoy reached La Havre, France. His unit was for one day at the British rest camp at La Havre, and then was ordered to St. Florent, Department of Cher, where it was attached to the Camp Hospital No. 70. There he stayed until November 10, 1918, then going to the casual camp at St. Aignan, later going to the overflow camp at Thesee, where he was stationed until November 22, 1918. The Armistice, which was signed on November 11, 1918, of course put an end to the fighting, and the stress upon the medical branch of the service was not so great thereafter; and many of the recently-arrived units were not full employed. On November 22, 1918, Corporal Buck's junit was transferred to ,Cherbourg, and remained at that rest camp for four weeks, returning then to Thesee, where he remained until January 29, 1919. He was then transferred to the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Ambulance Company, of the One Hundred and Fifteenth Sanitary Train, of the Fortieth Divi- sion. He was placed in charge of an ambulance unit, and sent to camp at Grevillers, where his unit operated twelve Ford ambulances. With that outfit he left Grevillers on January 31, 1919, and crossed France to Mars-la-Tour, where for a short time it was stationed, doing evacuation work in the sector from Briey to Toul. He was a
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responsible, efficient non-commissioned officer, and later was sent on detached service, in charge of six ambulances, to the Seventh Division, stationed at Rogeville. On March 20, 1919, he took the examination at Mars-la-Tour for a sergeancy, and was approved ser- geant on March 25, 1919. He did considerable traveling while in France, and after service with the Seventh Division, at Rogeville, was assigned to duty with the Second Army Provisional Sanitary Train, going to Camp Covington, Marseilles. On June 7, 1919, he embarked on the French liner "Patrie", stopped at Oran, Algiers, a French possession in Northern Africa, for four days, and eventually arrived at New York on June 22, 1919. After four days spent at Camp Merrit, New Jersey, he was sent to Camp Sherman, and on June 30, 1919, received honorable discharge from the United States Army.
Returning eventually to Wanseon, he resumed his professional practice, and has every prospect of succeeding in that city, where he is already well-regarded.
Politically Doctor Buck is an independent republican ; fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to the West Richfield, Ohio, Bluc Lodge and to the Wauseon Eastern Star body, and Knights of Pythias. Professionally he is affiliated with many medical organizations, including membership in the Ohio Osteopathic Association and the American Osteopathic Association. He is unmarried.
MELVIN PORTER, with an older brother, Ira Porter, comprises the Wauseon and Tedrow firm of Porter Brothers, merchants. They have shown themselves to be good business men, energetic and enter- prising merchants and men of commendable steadiness and moral integrity since they have been in commercial life. The brothers have only recently, that is within recent years, become established in business in Wauscon, but they are gaining gratifying success in their city enterprise.
Melvin Porter was born in the ancestral homestead in Fulton county, Ohio, the son of Robert and Sarah ( Andrews) Porter, his birth date being July 25, 1892. He is therefore practically at the commencement of his business career, and probably will have many decades of active life in worth-while business and public effort, if one may take his first decade of work as a criterion. He comes of a well-known Fulton county family. in fact from one of the pioneer families of the county. His grandfather, Robert Porter, came from England and settled in Clinton township, Fulton county, and applied himself resolutely to the task of clearing a tract of wild land. His industry vielded to him eventually a good agricultural property, upon which he raised his family, his son Robert, father of Melvin, among them. Robert Porter took up the tillage of his father's land, which eventually became his property. There his children, four sons and two daughters, were born. Melvin Porter is the youngest child of Robert and Sarah (Andrews) Porter, and was raised on the home farm, attending the local schools with his brothers and sisters.
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