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Politically Mr. Rager is a democrat, while his religious faith is indicated by his membership in the United Brethren church. He is also identified with the Grange, and enjoys the warm regard and esteem of an extensive circle of friends throughout the county in which he has spent his entire life.
FRED MATHES HAMMOND.
There is no manifestation of marked spontaneity in the business world but rather the slow accretion of gradual development resulting from persist- ent and diligent effort day by day. Thereby is built a substantial structure able to endure financial storms and gain strength by its very resistance. Such has been the record of Fred Mathes Hammond of the well known real estate firm of Hammond, Hammond & Baker of Columbus. Their business is now of an extensive and important character, a large amount of property being handled annually by this firin, their efforts constituting also an element in the business development und material growth of the city.
Mr. Hammond of this review is a native of Smithfield, Jefferson county, Ohio, born February 14, 1878. His father, William Hammond, also a na- tive of that locality, devoted his life to agricultural pursuits and met success in his undertaking, becoming one of the leading farmers of the community. He is still living at the age of fifty-three years. The paternal grandfather, Na- than Hammond, was likewise born in Jefferson county, Ohio, and was un- usually prosperous in his agricultural pursuits. His birth occurred in 1812 and his life history covered the sneceeding seventy-eight years. Though he started in business with a limited capital, he carefully controlled his interests. made judicious investments and died a wealthy man. He was a Quaker in religious faith and his life was in harmony with the kindly spirit and un- faltering integrity characteristic of people of that sect. The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Mary Ong and was a native of Jefferson
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county, Ohio. She, too, belonged to a prominent and highly respected fam- ily of that locality and her death occurred in 1881.
Fred M. Hammond has a twin brother, Frank Nathan Hammond. and in all of their interests and experiences, save that of marriage and home life, they have been inseparable in the fullest sense of the term. Everything that they have undertaken has been done together and at times, even since attaining man's estate, they have lived in the same house. Theirs is a striking likeness in every particular, in mental characteristics, in features, size, business meth- ods, tastes and interests. Their personal appearance is so similar that few people can distinguish one from the other and their close identifiention in all things constitutes perhaps the strongest cause of their success and enterprise. Frank N. Hammond was married October 28, 1901, to Miss Verna Fowler, of Columbus, and they have two children, Charles Nathan and Helen Frances.
Fred M. Hammond was reared to farm life, early becoming familiar with the work of the fields from the time of early spring planting until crops were harvested in the late autumn. He attended the district schools and subse- quently entered the Smithfield high school, where he remained as a student be- tween the ages of thirteen and seventeen years. He pursued a business course in Iron City College at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and afterward. in connection with his brother, Frank M. Hammond, engaged in the produce business for three years. This constituted an important epoch in their lives. They started with very meager capital but soon obtained valable business experience and a little money. In 1898 they disposed of their business there and came to Columbus, entering the law department of the Ohio State University, pursu- ing the regular course until admitted to the bar in 1901. They then opened an office in this city. During their college course they had made all of their own expenses, having the agency for the Columbus Building & Loan Asso- ciation. In this connection they established branch offices in various towns throughout the state and not only founded the business at Dillonvale and Portland, Jefferson county, but also erected there about sixty houses and handled two different coal properties. After completing their work there the Hammond brothers established a real-estate agency in Columbus in April, 1903, under the firm style of Hammond & Hammond. They have since handled large amounts of property, conducting throughout the first two years a regular commission business. In 1905 with other parties they purchased the Indianola Forest addition. They have since purchased and disposed of four other additions including the East Indianola, the Fourteenth, the Indi- anola University addition and the old Neil homestead. Thus they have con- tributed in substantial measure to the growth and progress of the city, using their influence to advance its interests along lines of modern city building and improvement. Their legal knowledge has proven of marked benefit to them in business and the firm is today one of the most prosperous. prominent and progressive in the field of real-estate operations in the capital. On the 1st of December, 1908, they admitted a new member, John L. Baker, so that the style of the firm is now Hammond, Hammond & Baker. In November the Hammonds succeeded in organizing the Columbus Isle of Pines Company and purchased a five thousand acre tract of land in the Isle of Pines, just
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south of Cuba. This tract was known as the "balance of the San Pedro tract," situated in the southwestern part of the island, between the Las Tunas tract and the San Pedro river, near the Signanea bay. This they have named the Ohio tract and are now colonizing, having laid out a town site, built a hotel, subdivided the other land into twenty and forty acre lots and are building roads. They are the sole agents and sole promoters of this and are working this tract ont after the same plan they have employed heretofore, their pur- pose being to make it the leading place on the island-the home of the most prominent people that shall settle on the Isle of Pines. They are planning im- provements never before dreamed of by other companies on the island, where they are both living at the present time with their families. It seems hardly necessary to add that they have revolutionized the manner of handling and developing property on the island and have done more in that direction in the few months of their occupancy than any other man or company in the whole nine years that Americans have been on the island.
On the 5th of January, 1905, Mr. Hammond was married to Miss Clara Jessie Rood of Pasadena, California, and they have one daughter, Mary Imo- gene. Mr. Hammond belongs to Junia Lodge, I. O. O. F., and to the Cen- tral Presbyterian church. He is fond of horse-back riding and is interested in much that pertains to individual and community progress. His own record is a most ereditable one. In no instance has he ever misrepresented a piece of property and his promptness, honesty and hard work have constituted the foundation upon which he has built his success. The elemental strength of character, which he displayed in providing for his own education, gave prom- ise of what he has since accomplished and the position to which he has now attained seems to point to still greater achievement in the future.
CHARLES E. CARTER.
Charles E. Carter, a prominent attorney, now acting as third assistant city solicitor, belongs to that excellent coterie of men who on the strength of their own resources have worked their way in the world, obtaining their professional education at night. He was born in De Kalb county, Illinois, September 27, 1863, and is a son of James and Katie S. (Densmore) Carter, his father having been a native of Massachusetts, where his birth occurred December 25, 1832, and his mother of New York state, where she was born May 14, 1836. The couple were united in marriage in 1862 and departed this life in 1902 and 1908 respectively. The elder Mr. Carter crossed the plains to California with the 49ers in search of gold and there remained for a few years. He then settled in Illinois where he engaged in general agriculture, making a specialty of buying and shipping horses for a number of years but at the time of his death was engaged in general agricultural pur- suits. He was well known, not only throughont the state of Illinois, but also throughout many eastern states, as a horse dealer, his long experience in that line of trade having made him a recognized authority.
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After acquiring his preliminary education in the public schools of his native county, Charles E. Carter was matriculated as a student in the Ohio State University, which institution he left in 1889 and was then employed in the wholesale grocery business, at the same time continuing his studies at night. He remained in that business for about one year and then became associated with the Capital Coffee & Spice Mill, upon leaving which, after one year's service, he worked in the factory and mines of the Mining Ma- chine Company, for one year. He next entered the law office of H. M. Butler, with whom he pursued the study of law until 1892, when he was admitted to the bar and has since engaged in legal practice, being for several years in partnership with D. B. Ulrey. Mr. Carter is one of the most successful attorneys in this city and too much cannot be said in his praise, considering the fact that every inch of the ground along the way to his present position of prominence was hard fought, and won by his perseverance and patience, together with his stern resolve to become a legal practitioner. All the while he was employed by the several business firms with which he was affiliated his purpose was to become a member of the bar, and to this end he bent every energy. Realizing that it was beyond him to take advantage of a course of study in the schools, he knew that the only way by which he could succeed in accomplishing his purpose was to study, and instead of idly spending his evenings he devoted his time to his books and is now not only enjoying the fruits of his many nights of application, but is also a powerful evidence of what one can do if he only sets his mind upon a fixed purpose and determines to accomplish it.
Mr. Carter was united in marriage to Miss Nora Robbins on the 29th of June, 1904. In politics he gives his support to the republican party and is affiliated with the Free Masons and also the Buckeye Club. He is well known throughout the city and since entering the practice of law his pres- tige has been greatly enhanced and he is now counted among the city's most prominent attorneys and worthy citizens.
DEMAS B. ULREY.
Demas B. Ulrey, a member of the Columbus bar, whose ability and success entitle him to mention with the more prominent among the younger members of the profession in Franklin county, was born in Morrow county, Ohio, June 11, 1870, and is a son of David and Melinda (Bennett) Ulrey. His father, who was a farmer, numbered among the prominent and pub- lic spirited citizens of Morrow county, became the owner of landed interests in Tennessee and for some years resided in Cleveland, that state, his death occurring in the year 1907 while his wife still survives.
Demas B. Ulrey pursued his early education in the public schools of his native county and was for a time a student in the high school at Marengo, continuing his studies in the schools of Cleveland, Tennessee, after the removal of his parents to the south, while his literary education was completed in
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Lebanon University. Determining upon the practice of law as a life work, he entered the Cincinnati Law School in 1893 and was graduated with the Bachelor of Law degree. Admitted to practice in the same year, he was for a time associated with William M. Thompson, but for the past seven years has been a partner of the Hon. D. C. Badger, under the firm style of Badger and Ulrey. They have a large and growing practice and much litigation of importance comes to them. With the thoroughness that characterizes him in every relation, Mr. Ulrey gives much time and thought to the prepar- ation of his cases and enters court ready for defense as well as attack. His utterances are logical, his points always strongly presented and he is seldom, if ever, at error in the application of a legal principle. These qualities have made him a strong and forceful member of the Columbus bar.
On the 28th of March, 1893, Mr. Ulrey was married to Miss Alice Rogers, one of the widely known and popular young ladies of Cleveland, Tennessee, whose acquaintance he formed during the residence of the Ulrey family in the south, and unto this marriage have been born two daughters, Esther and Camee. Mrs. Ulrey is quite prominent in social circles, is con- nected with many of the leading ladies' clubs of the city and was elected president of the Robert E. Lee Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy. Mr. Ulrey belongs to Joseph Dowdall Lodge, No. 144, K. P. aud is connected with other social, political and business organizations. He served as a member of the civil service commission under Mayor John N. Hinkle, and at all times has been a stalwart advocate of the principles, political and other- wise, in which he believes. He is particularly active in support of various measures for the city's development and progress and in his chosen life work he holds to a high professional standard.
MARION CLARK CRANE.
Marion Clark Crane has for twelve years been identified with commer- cial interests in Columbus, conducting a wholesale tobacco and confectionery business under the name of E. J. Crane's & Son. He was born September 10, 1852, in Salem township, Muskingum county, Ohio, a son of Evan J. and Casandra (Geyer) Crane, both of whom represented pioneer families of that county. The mother was born in Muskingum county, a daughter of Henry Geyer, who there followed the occupation of farming from pioneer times. Evan J. Crane was a merchant and was engaged in business from 1852 until his death in 1893. In his family were five children: Marion C., Rosetta C., George W., Flora M. and Della V., all born in Muskingum county.
Marion C. Crane supplemented his early education, acquired in the district schools by study in Iberia College in Iberia, Ohio, and when his literary course was completed he prepared for a commercial career as a student in Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. Thus qualified for the onerous duties of business life, he turned his attention to general merchandising in a country store at Martel, Marion county, Ohio,
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where he conducted business until 1896, when he removed to Columbus. At that time he engaged in the wholesale cigar, tobacco and confectionery bus- iness, which he is still carrying on. He has built up a large trade in this connection, making extensive shipments to various parts of the country and his reliability in commercial circles stands as an unquestioned fact in his career. Aside from his mercantile interests, of which he is sole proprietor, he is a director of the Security Savings Bank and also a director of the Monarch Manufacturing Company.
Mr. Crane is well known in fraternal circles, being a Knight Templar Mason and also a member of the Knights of Pythias. He has a wide and favorable acquaintance, his fellow citizens esteeming him as a progressive and reliable business man and one who at the same time is loyal to the best interests and progress of the community.
MAURICE P. HUNT, M. D.
Maurice P. Hunt, concentrating his energies upon the onerous duties which devolve upon him in a professional capacity, has gained more than local distinction as a practitioner of medicine and surgery, while his ability is attested by the liberal practice accorded him. He was born in Delaware county, Ohio, February 28, 1853, and is a son of John B. Hunt, who was born in Morgan county, Ohio. The family was founded in this state at an early period in its development by representatives of the name who came from Pennsylvania, where early ancestors of Dr. Hunt had located on com- ing to the new world from England. The father, John B. Hunt, was also a well known physician, who was graduated from the Cleveland Medical School about the year 1860, and after several years devoted to professional work in Newark and Wellington removed, in 1868, to Columbus, where he continued in active practice for three years. Failing health then cansed his retirement from the profession, and establishing his home upon a farm he lived amid rural surroundings until March 20, 1901, when he passed away at the age of seventy-seven years. He had been greatly benefited by his removal to the country, and thus lived to a ripe old age. He had for several years survived his wife, who passed away in 1894. She bore the maiden name of Angeline Patterson, and was a native of Delaware county, Ohio.
While spending his youthful days under the paternal roof, Dr. Maurice P. Hunt acquired his education in the schools of Delaware county, Columbus, and Indianapolis, Indiana. Interested from early youth in the science and practice of medicine and surgery, he resolved to follow in his father's pro- fessional footsteps, and entered upon his professional training in 1875, being graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic College with the class of 1879. Thus well equipped for his chosen vocation. he commenced practice in Selma, Park county, and in 1883 removed to Delaware, Ohio, where he practiced for ten years. On the expiration of that period he went to Ann Harbor, Michigan, and accepted the professorship of diseases of women and
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obstetrics in the Homeopathic College, of the University of Michigan. He also held the professorship of the same branches in the Cleveland Medical College during a part of the year 1892, making trips between Delaware and Cleveland for the purpose of delivering his lectures before the classes in that institution. Following his removal to Columbus he has here enjoyed marked distinction by reason of his success in surgery, giving his attention exclusively to this branch of professional service for a number of years. His labors have largely set the standard for surgical work in Columbus, and from his pro- fessional brethren he has received cordial evidences of respect and apprecia- tion. His researches have been broad, his study most thorough. Wise in the laws of general science, he is recognized as a master of the construction and functions of the component parts of the human body, of the changes in- duced by the onslaughts of disease, of the defects cast upon them as a legacy by progenitors, and of the vital capacity remaining in them throughout all the vicissitudes of existence. Added to this knowledge he has that remark- able mechanical skill that is an essential element in the success of the sur- geon, and moreover his work is permeated at all times by a ready and broad sympathy. Since 1896 he has been at the head of the Sixth Avenue Private Hospital, which he established in that year, and his work in this connection has been extended, varied and important.
Dr. Hunt has perhaps the most valuable medical library of any private practitioner of the city, and has been a frequent contributor on surgical sub- jects to the medical publications of the country. He is, moreover, a member of the board of directors and of the executive committee of the new Grant Hospital is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, and a mem- ber and ex-president of the Ohio State Homeopathic Society.
In 1881 occurred the marriage of Dr. Hunt and Miss Luella J. Kitchen, a native of Clark county. They occupy an enviable position in social cir- cles and are members of the Broad Street Presbyterian church. Dr. Hunt is interested in all that pertains to the welfare and upbuilding of the city, and as a member of the Board of Trade champions various measures for the expansion of the city in lines of trade and commerce. Prominent in Masonry, he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. All interests, however, are secondary with him to his professional service and his unfaltering devotion to his daily duties, and his constant reading and investigations have enabled him to fully meet the highest standard of re- quirement in the field of his chosen vocation.
EDWARD JAMES WILSON, M.D.
Dr. Edward James Wilson, standing for all that is highest, best and most progressive in the profession which he has chosen as a life work, has thus inscribed his name high on the roll of eminent physicians and surgeons. He was born August 9, 1855, in Licking county, Ohio, and in the paternal line is of English lineage. His father, Philip Wilson, was a native of Eng-
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land and came to America in 1833. In 1833 he located at Newark, New Jersey, where he engaged in business until his removal to Ohio a short time prior to the Civil war, when he took up his residence in Licking county making it his home until his death, which occurred in 1884 when he was seventy-two years of age. He married Jane Duncan, of Scottish birth and parentage, a representative of the old Duncan clan of the highlands. The marriage was celebrated in England and for many years they traveled life's journey together, being separated by the death of the husband in 1884. Mrs. Wilson survived until 1889 and passed away at the age of seventy years.
Dr. Wilson spent his boyhood days in his native county and after mastering the elementary branches of learning taught in the common schools, attended Dennison University at Granville. He devoted four years of his early manhood to the profession of teaching and then took up the study of medicine at Mount Vernon, Ohio, under the direction of Dr. F. C. Lari- more in 1875. Ifis collegiate work was done in the Long Island College Hospital at Brooklyn, New York, from which he was graduated with the M. D. degree in 1879. He then entered the hospital as house surgeon mmtil 1881 and thus added to his theoretical training the broad and varied practical experience of hospital work. Returning to Mount Vernon, he was for more than a year associated in practice with Dr. John W. Russell. after which he came to Columbus and entered the state hospital as assistant physician. A year later he resigned to enter private practice and has since devoted his energies to the profession of medicine. He was elected to the faculty of Starling Medical College in 1892 as professor of obstetrics and served until 1900, when he retired. In 1902 he was made a member of the state medical board, which position he still fills and he is medical director of the Midland Mutual Life Insurance Company. He has been an occasional contributor to the current literature of the profession and is a member of varions medi- cal organizations which were formed for the promulgation of knowledge among the profession through the interchange of thought and experience. While his professional duties have made constant and strenuous demands upon his time and energies, Dr. Wilson has nevertheless found opportunity for important and effective public service. About 1882 he was elected a member of the board of education at Mount Vernon, Ohio, and so con. tinued until he resigned preparatory to removing to Columbus. Ile was for six years a member of the board of education of this city and during the last year-1892-was president of the board. In politics he is a repub: lican where national issues are involved bnt local elections find him casting an independent ballot, prompted by his public-spirited citizenship and his desire for clean polities. He takes keen interest in municipal affairs. opposes everything that partakes of the nature of maladministration and is equally stalwart in his support of those measures which constitute matters of civic virtue and civic pride.
On the 22d of June, 1882, at Mount Vernon. Ohio. Dr. Wilson was married to Miss Sarah J. Tudor, a daughter of John Tudor. Esq., of that city. She is very active in the work of St. Paul's Episcopal church and also widely and prominently known in social circles. There are three sons
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of this marriage: Tudor, who is engaged in business in Columbus; Philip Duncan, now a student in Harvard; and Edward Harlan. The family resi- dence is at No. 594 East Town street, Dr. Wilson having purchased the old Fay property some years ago. He is optimistic, looking always for the best and brightest and these qualities of his nature are valuable elements in his profes- sional service. He is one of the leading physicians of the city but in all non- professional relations is found to be singularly modest and to those who are admitted to share the intimacy of his friendship he often exhibits qualities which others scarcely suspect. He is faithful in his friendships. fixed in an honest hatred of all shams and pretenders and exhibits in every judgment of his mind a strong common sense that illumines every dark corner into which he looks.
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