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Mr. Bachman was married September 3, 1882, to Miss Sophia Mond- hank, who was born March 20, 1858, being born on the same day of the month as her husband. They have a son and daughter, Chester Vernon and Minnie Ethel. Both are graduates of the Canal Winchester high school, and the son is now preparing for the medical profession, having spent one year in Ohio Medical University of Columbus. The daughter is a talented musician and is also well educated, being at the present time a student in Westerville.
Mr. Bachman is a democrat and has always been active in public affairs. He served as township trustee for seven and a half years and as a member of the school board for more than twelve years, while for fifteen years he was trustee of the cemetery. For eight years he was judge of the election board and for the past four years has been presiding judge. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Lutheran church. While acquiring success in life he has also gained and retained the respect and honor of his fellowmen by his public service and private life, and all who know him feel honored by his friendship.
SIMEON NASH.
The name Nash has long figured conspicuously in connection with the history of jurisprudence in Ohio, and Simeon Nash of this review is a rep- resentative of the present generation at the bar of Columbus. His grand- father, in whose honor he was named, was one of the distinguished lawyers and jurists of Ohio, widely known as the author of "Code Pleadings" and other legal works, while on the bench he gained distinction as one of the ablest and most impartial jurists whose records have graced the Ohio courts. His son. Simeon Nash. father of the subject of this review, was born in Gal- lipolis, Ohio, and came of the same ancestry as the late Governor Nash. He
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married Minerva Tupper Nye, a native of Zanesville, Ohio, and a descendant of General Benjamin Tupper, one of the first settlers at Marietta, Ohio.
It was in the Putnam Military Academy at Zanesville that Simeon Nash, now of Columbus, pursued his education until he completed the course by graduation with the class of 1895. Ile afterward entered the Ohio State University and was graduated in 1901, at which time the Bachelor of Arts degree was conferred upon him, while in 1904 he received the Bachelor of Law degree from his Alma Mater. At his graduation he carried off the prize offered for the best thesis-a set of the American and English Cyclopedia- offered by the Edward Thompson Publishing House. While he is one of the younger members of the bar, he has proven that he possesses qualities which will lead to success and his friends predict for him a bright future. He was for a time associated with the firm of Merrick & Williams and is now connected with the law firm of Williams, Williams & Taylor, successor of the former firm.
Mr. Nash is widely known in military circles, as a member of Troop B of the Ohio National Guard and in 1908 spent two months in Brown county with a special detail of the guard to break up the outrages being perpetrated by the so-called "Night Riders," a band of lawless characters who pretended to be engaged in reforming alleged abnses in the tobacco trade but were probably more largely engaged in satiating a private and cowardly revenge.
Mr. Nash belongs to both the Ohio and the Franklin County Bar As- sociations. In fraternal relations he is connected with the Columbus Lodge. A. F. & A. M. and something of the nature of his recreation is indicated in his membership in the Columbus Riding Club. He also belongs to the Second Presbyterian church, in which he is serving as deacon.
J. A. MCCLURE, M. D.
Dr. J. A. McClure, a well known and successful practitioner of medi- cine in Columbus, was born at West Middletown, Pennsylvania, September 1, 1855, his parents being R. B. and Letitia (Templeton) McClure, also natives of that place. The father, who was a man of much inventive genius, made the first thresher and separator ever built and manufactured, and sold it for forty years, gradually improving it until it reached a high state of perfection. He was of Seotch-Irish descent, and his demise occurred in 1900 at the age of eighty-two years. He had long survived his wife, who was called to her final rest in 1873, when forty-six years of age.
Dr. J. A. McClure acquired his preliminary education in the public schools of the Keystone state, afterward attended Pleasant Hill Academy and then taught school for several years. Determining upon the practice of medicine as a life work. he entered the medical department of Wooster Uni- versity, from which he was graduated in 1881. Throughout the following twelve years he labored as a physician in Greene county, Ohio, enjoying an
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extensive patronage in recognition of his skill and ability. He pursued a post-graduate course in Philadelphia in 1893 and in that year located in Columbus, having since been successfully engaged in the line of his chosen vocation. Through his connection with the Columbus Academy of Medi- cine, the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association he keeps in close touch with the progress that is continually being made in the profe -- ion and is highly esteemed throughout this city as a worthy repre- sentative of his calling.
In 1880 Dr. McClure was joined in wedlock to Miss Ina H. Donaldson, a native of Pennsylvania, by whom he has six children: Roy D., who is a graduate of Johns Hopkins Medical College; Robert; Carl; James A., Jr .; Mary E .; and Erdine.
JOSEPH A. GODOWN.
Joseph A. Godown, attorney at law of Columbus, was born on a farm in Franklin county, Ohio, June 24, 1872, his parents being James and Mary (Roberts) Godown who were natives of Ohio. The father, devoting his attention to general agricultural pursuits throughout his entire life, still re- sides on the home farm. It was there that Joseph A. Godown was reared and the country schools afforded him his educational advantages. In early manhood he engaged in teaching for three years, but regarded this as the initial step to other professional labor, and as a preparation for the practice of law he later matriculated in the Ohio State University, being graduated therefront in 1899. Prior to this he took a course of preparatory law and journalism. Following his admission to the bar he has since engaged in practice in Columbus, and for three years was associated with the firm of Merrick & Thompkins. He has built up a lucrative law practice. Earnest effort, close application and the exercise of his native talents have won him prestige as a lawyer of Columbus and at the bar he is numbered among eminent and prominent men.
In 1903 Mr. Godown was married to Miss Rachael Linton, of Colum- bus and they have one son, Joseph L. Mr. Godown is a member of the Masonic fraternity, in hearty sympathy with its beneficent principles and purposes.
EUGENE A. REED, JR.
Eugene A. Reed, Jr., division superintendent of the Central Union Telephone Company, carly learned the valuable lesson of life that efficient service is a sure foundation upon which to build promotion and business advancement, and, throughout his entire career, by his faithfulness and capability, he has worked his way upward. A native of Boston, Massachu-
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setts, he was born February 9, 1871, a son of Eugene A. and Auna J. (Mathews) Reed, who were also natives of Massachusetts, the mother born in Boston, both of whom are still living, the father being a government em- ploye having been in the service half a century.
Eugene A. Reed, Jr. had the benefit of instruction in the public schools of his native city and the Boston Latin School, after which he entered Har- vard University and was graduated within it- classic walls with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1892. He also -pat one year as a student in Harvard Law School and then entered the service of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company at Boston, in March, 1894, being in charge of their long distance operating station in that city. He was promoted through successive posi- tions as he demonstrated his ability to handle the work entrusted to him and in 1899 was transferred to the New York office of the company, where he remained until 1903. In that year he left the employ of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company and came to Columbus in the service of the Central Union Telephone Company as division superintendent, in which position he has since continued, being in general charge of the company's business in this division with the supervision over all lines in Ohio except Cuyahoga, Hamilton, Clarmont and Butler counties and a few counties on the eastern border of the state. His entire business experience has been in this department of activity, wherein his efficiency has constantly increased as his experience extended, his present position being one of large responsi- bility.
On the 30th of November, 1897, Mr. Reed was married to Miss Addie M. Phillips, of Boston. He is a member of the Columbus and the Ohio Clubs and of the Harvard Club of Central Ohio. Friends find him a man of social. genial nature in whom learning and culture have vied in making an enter- taining and interesting gentleman.
SIDNEY ALLEN McMANIGAL.
Sidney Allen McManigal is one of the best known representatives of the coal trade in central Ohio, being now president of the W. J. Hamilton Coal Company, president of the Twentieth Century Coal Company, the Menker Run Coal Company, the Ximena Home Building Company, vice president and director of the General Zine & Lead Company of Joplin, Missouri, and secretary and treasurer of the Colima Export Timber Com- pany. Ile may aptly be termed a man of purpose, and the capable control which he has shown in formulating plans and managing extensive interests has gained him classification with the captains of industry of central Ohio. His birth occurred in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania. in August, 1857. His father. Robert MeManigal, a native of the same locality, devoted his attention to farming and was a prosperous and successful agriculturist in that section. He enme of Scotch and Irish lineage, possessing many of the sterling char- acteristies of an ancestry of that strong combination. At one time he served
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as sheriff of the county. His death occurred in May, 1857, when he was yet in middle life. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Bill, was a native of Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, and died in 1890, having survived him for about a third of a century.
Sidney Allen McManigal was reared on a farm in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, and attended the district schools of that locality to the age of fourteen years. He then left home and went to LaGrange, Tennessee, where he secured a clerkship in a general store, which was an adjunct of the LaGrange Iron Works. When, in the battle of life, the city boy crosses swords with the country lad, the odds are against him. The early rising, the daily tasks, the economical habits of the country boy all prepare him for the struggle that must precede ascendancy. Mr. MeManigal was fortunate in that his early environment was that of the farm, inculcating habits and principles that have constituted the basis of his later success. That his em- ployers found him both capable and reliable is indicated by the fact that he remained with the company for seven years, or until twenty-one years of age, during which time he was variously promoted, eventually becoming the secretary of the LaGrange Iron Company. On attaining his majority he turned his attention to the iron business, mining and shipping ore at Paynes Landing, Tennessee, on the Tennessee river, under the name of the S. A. MeManigal & Company. The firm also dealt in dry goods, groceries and provisions, and continned in business there until 1882. In that year Mr. McManigal removed to Moxahala, Ohio, and became assistant manager of the Moxahala Iron Company, manufacturers of pig iron. He continued in that connection until March, 1883, when he entered the employ of the Columbus & Hocking Coal & Iron Company, a consolidation of all coal and iron interests of the Hocking valley, organized by General Samuel Thomas. Mr. MeManigal became auditor in the headquarters at Columbus and there remained until 1903, or for a period of twenty years. During this time he was promoted through successive positions of trust and responsibility until he became vice president and treasurer of the company. Severing his con- nection therewith in 1903, he then organized the Maple Hill Coal Com- pany, miners and shippers of coal, and has continued as president to this time, 1909. He also organized the Keokee Oil Company, operating near Lima, Ohio, and was president of that concern until he sold his interest. He likewise organized the Perry Home & Building Company for the purpose of building houses for miners in Perry county, Ohio, and became president and director of the company. In 1905 he reorganized the W. J. Hamilton Coal Company with headquarters at Columbus, a community of interests in connection with the Twentieth Century Coal Company and the Maple Hill Company, Mr. MeManigal becoming president and director of the Hamilton Coal Company. Seeing opportunity for further extension of his interests in the development of the coal fields of Ohio, in 1907 he organized the Menker Run Coal Company, of which he is president and director. He likewise organized the Ximena Home Building Company, which operates in Columbus, building honses for rent or sale. Of this he is also director and chief executive, while he occupies the position of vice president and director
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in the General Zinc & Lead Company of Joplin, Missouri, operating zinc and lead mines. He is likewise the secretary and treasurer of the Colima Export Timber Company, operating in the state of Michercan, Mexico, and furnishing timber for the export trade. Each step in his career has brought him a broader outlook and wider opportunities and he has made continu- ous advance, utilizing the chances which have come to him for the extension of his business relations, until he now controls mammoth interests, bringing him a most satisfactory annual revenue.
In January, 1890, Mr. McManigal was married to Miss Xinena Prati, of Columbus, who died in July, 1906. They had one child, Allen P., born in September, 1896. He is a valued member of several leading social organi- zations, including the Columbus Club, the Arlington Country Club, the Ohio Club, the Columbus Country Club, and the Ohio Club of New York city. He has attained the thirty-second degree in Scottish Rite Masonry and is a member of Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine. In politics he is a republican and he attends the Presbyterian church. A lover of fine horses, his success has enabled him to indulge his taste in this respect and he always has in his stable some splendid specimen of the noble steed. While no complete or adequate estimate can be put upon his life work, from the fact that it is continually broadening in its scope, there are certain deductions to be drawn from what he has accomplished and the methods he has followed. Undoubtedly one of the strong factors in his success lies in the fact that he has continued largely in one line-the handling of coal and iron. Starting as auditor with the Hocking Coal & Iron Company, in less than twenty years he practically controlled this mammoth concern. He utilized every opportunity for purchasing stock therein and at all times studied the best methods for continuing the business and broadening and extending its trade relations. His life work is another illustration of the fact that "The man who wins is the man who works."
JAMES PERRY HAZELTON.
While the field of business is limitless and its prizes are many, it is also a well known fact that they are to be won only through persistency of pur- pose and unfaltering diligence, and in the cultivation of these qualities Mr. Hazelton has gained a foremost place in business circles, his investments now yielding him gratifying profit, while he enjoys in full measure the admiration and respect of his colleagues and associates. He was born in what is now Coal township, Perry county, Ohio, May 7, 1860.
The Hazelton family comes from the north of England and the south of Scotland and the name was originally spelled Hazeldean. Two brothers, John and Robert, came to this country in 1637, settling in Vermont, while later John went with the William Penn colony to Pennsylvania and became the founder of the branch of the family to which James P. Hazelton belongs. The great-grandfather of our subject received several grants of land from the
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United States and to manage and cultivate his property interests settled near Thornville in Perry county. Ohio. This was during the pioneer epoch in the history of the state and he became a famous hunter, having ample op- portunity to indulge his skill with the rifle, for the forests sheltered many wild animals as well as much wild game. Henry Hazelton, the grand- father. was a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1790. He participated in the war of 1812, remaining a member of the army from the beginning of hostilities until their cessation and at the close of the war he was elected a captain. In the year 1817 he removed westward to Ohio, settling in Perry county, and was identified with its pioncer development and farming inter- ests for many years. His death occurred in 1876.
Harrison Hazelton, the father was born in Perry county, June 17, 1821, and was reared amid the wild scenes of frontier life to the occupation of farming, which he always followed as a source of livelihood. As the years passed his work in the fields brought to him substantial returns, for he an- nually gathered good harvests that found a ready sale on the market. He married Miss Lovina Marlow, who was born near Maxville, Perry county, in [834. They long traveled life's journey together, but were separated by the death of the husband, who passed away on the 23d of November, 1899. Mrs. Hazelton is still living. Her people came from Londoun county, Vir- ginia, to Perry county, Ohio, as pioneer residents there. Her father was Hensen Marlow and her brother, well known in the public life of the con- munity. served for six years as county clerk.
James P. Hazelton was reared to the occupation of farming, working in the fields until he reached the age of twenty. When the farin labors were largely suspended, owing to the appronching winter season, he became a pupil in the district schols and later attended the high school at New Straitsville, Ohio. For two years in early manhood he engaged in teaching school and was later a book agent or canvasser. Subsequently he was given a position as district agent for the purpose of establishing agencies for dif- ferent book honses and he continued in that business until 1884. In Jan- uary, 1885, he formed a partnership with Henry Spencer under the firm style of Spencer & Hazelton for the purpose of operating in the coal fields. having a mine between Shawnee and New Straitsville, known as the Spencer & Hazelton mine. They also conducted a general mercantile store in New Straitsville and the partnership was continned with mutual pleasure and profit for twenty-two and a half years. Mr. Hazelton then withdrew but the business is still continued by Mr. Spencer. In 1890 Mr. Hazelton be- gan the manufacture of paving brick, conducting that business until 1895, when the company began the manufacture of building brick. In the winter of 1898 he organized the Columbus Face Brick Company, manufacturing what is known as the "ironclay brick." Mr. Hazelton was vice president of the company and manager of the plant until 1900, when he severed his con- nections with the busines .. which. however. is still conducted under the name of the Tron Clay Brick Company.
For many years Mr. Hazelton has maintained an office in Columbus. al- though retaining his residence in New Straitsville. In September. 1907.
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however, he removed his family to the capital city. Since withdrawing from the field of brick manufacture he has given his time and attention to the development of his roal properties and leases and carries on extensive opera- tions in this line. In 1903 he became vice president of the Dorr Run Coal Company, having properties located near Nelsonville, Ohio, covering an area of eight hundred and sixty-four acres. This coal field is all leased on royalties. In 1907 Mr. Hazelton organized the Starr Coal & Land Company, owning fifteen hundred acres of coal land near Starr in Hocking county, Ohio. Fle is also vice president and general manager of the company, which leases it- lands on royalty. In 1908 he organized the Reed Coal & Land Company, having properties in the Pocahontas coal fields in MeDowell county, West Virginia, along the Norfolk & Western Railroad. They have twelve hun- dred and seventy-one avres under contractor's lease yielding royalties and in this business Mr. Hazelton is also an active executive force, being vice president and general manager of the company. He. is also interested in several other projects which are good dividend paying concerns but is per- haps most widely known in connection with his operations as a represent- ative of the coal interests of the state.
On the 17th of June, 1886, Mr. Hazelton was married to Miss Emma M. MeKellar, of Wheeling, West Virginia. a daughter of George Me- Kellar, a florist, who was born in Paisley, Scotland and came to this country with his brothers in the early '40s. Prior to going to Wheeling, he lived for a time at Chillicothe, Ohio, and was engaged as a florist and gardener. The mother of Mrs. Hazelton was descended from the Churchills of New Hampshire. The children born to our subject and his wife are Cordelia L., Ernest E., Julia, Mary, Thelma, Lucille, Helen and Kirk.
Mr. Hazelton belongs to the various Masonic bodies, holding member- ship relations with the lodge at New Straitsville, the chapter at Nelsonville and with Mount Vernon Commandery. K. T .. at Columbus. His rise in the business world has been gradual and has been the logical sequence of well directed effort and fit utilization of opportunities.
W. J. GREEN, M.D.
The attractiveness of Ohio as a place of residence is perhaps best indi- cated in the fact that many of her citizens remain here from infancy to old age and enjoy the opportunities and advantages which she offers and at the same time contribute to her further npbuilding and development. To this class belongs Dr. W. J. Green, who was born near Hebron in Licking county, Ohio, December 28, 1851. His father, Jonathan S. Green, was a native of Knox county, Ohio, and the grandfather of Dr. Green in the paternal line belonged to the Hunt family, one of the prominent pioneer families of the state in whose honor Hunt Station was named. His father was a veteran of the war of 1812. Coming to Ohio when it was a frontier district he became a well known follower of Nimrod, po-e -- ing great skill as a huntsman. He
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had ample opportunity to indulge his love of that sport for the forests abounded in wild animals, deer and many kinds of wild game. He made friends with the Indians, always treated them justly and they entertained for him such trust and regard that when he was absent during the war of 1812 they did many acts of kindness for his wife, such as supplying her with game, etc.
Jonathan S. Green was a soldier of the Civil war, serving for four years or until after the close of hostilities, as a member of Company K, Twenty- fourth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered out as ser- geant and returned home with a most creditable military record for he had bravely faced the enemy on many a hotly contested battle field. He mar- ried Eliza Peer, a native of Virginia and a representative of one of the old families of that state. She came to Ohio during her girlhood days with her father, Jacob, who followed farming near Hebron. Her death occurred in 1570 and Jonathan S. Green survived for about twelve years, passing away in 1882.
Dr. Green was one of a family of four sons and two daughters of whom four are yet living. He pursued his education in the public schools of Lick- ing county and under private instruction. It was through self-denial, hard work and close application that he obtained his education for the death of his parents when he was comparatively young left him with many cares upon his shoulders. Taking up the study of medicine in 1876 at Homer, Ohio, he afterward matriculated in the Columbus Medical College from which he was graduated in 1881. He then located for practice at Woodstock, Ohio, where he remained for ten years while later he spent a short time in Delaware, Ohio, but hearing and heading the call of the city he came to Columbus in 1894 and has been in active practice here continuously since. He has served on the staff of Grant Hospital and has enjoyed a liberal private practice which has made his business a profitable one.
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