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In all these years Mr. Daugherty has also continued as a member of the bar. Upon his admission he entered upon an active practice in Washington Courthouse, where he remained nutil 1894. when he came to Columbus and was joined by Judge David T. Worthington in a partnership under the firm style of Worthington & Daugherty. Judge Worthington retired in 1903 and Mr. Daugherty formed the firm of Daugherty & Todd, which firm now has an extensive clientele and handle some of the largest and most important litigated interests of the state. Mr. Dangherty possesses those qualities that peculiarly
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fit him for the trial of cases before court or jury and he is withal a most practical office lawyer, regarded as a safe and wise counselor.
On the 3d of September, 1883. Mr. Daugherty was united in marriage to Miss Incy Walker, a danghter of Anthony B. Walker, of Wellston, Ohio. They have two children. Emily B. and Draper M., aged respectively ten and seven years. Mrs. Daugherty is an active worker in the Methodist Episcopal church and her love of music and superior powers as a vocalist have made her a valued member of that organization, contributing much to the attractiveness of its musical service.
Mr. Daugherty has varions fraternal relations, being connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is also a member of the Columbus Club and has a wide and favorable acquaintance in this city. His combination of strong mental force and aptitude for exerting it effectively in his profession and in the practical affairs of life, with that certain gentleness of personal demeanor which attaches friends to him, is as rare as it is significant of gennine manhood.
EDWARD M. FULLINGTON.
Edward M. Fullington, state auditor and the promoter of the movement which resulted in the establishment of the Bureau of Accounting, has in all of his political work been guided by the most commendable desire to further public interests. and his labors have been effective, beneficial and far-reaching. He is honored throughout the state not only by the members of his own party but by those of the opposition as well and aside from his political connections he is well known as an able business man, identified with various important commercial and financial concerns.
One of Ohio's native sons, he was born in Union county, August 25. 1864. ITis father. James Fullingion. was likewie a native of that county, where he spent his entire life, being widely known there as a prominent farmer and stock-raiser and as one of the pioneer bankers of the county, having, in asso- ciation with partners, established the Bank of Marysville in 1854. For thirty- two years he was a kading factor in the control of that institution. remaining in active connection therewith until his death in 1886. The bank still stands as a monument to his enterprise and progressive spirit. He also served as county commissioner and as n member of the state hoard of public works and his official service was characterized by the utmost fidelity to duty. He was a representative of one of the oldest families of the state, his grandfather having come from New England during the pioneer epoch in the history of Ohio. James Fullington was united in marriage in early manhood to Miss Eliza Henry MeMullan, where people came from Connecticut among the early pio- neers and were members of the Colonel Kilburn colony at Worthington, Ohio. Mrs. Fullington still survives.
In the public schools of Union county Edward M. Fullington began his education, which was -applemented by sindy in Kenyon College. In 1888 he
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went to Marysville and accepted a position in the bank which had been estab- lished by his father. Ile was connected with that institution and with other business interests matil 1895, when he was elected county auditor of Union county and was reelected without opposition, the democratic party placing no candidate in the field. While county auditor his attention was called to the lack of system in public accounting and the vast loss to cities, counties and state through this evil. Being a thorough financier, methodical in all that he did. it appeared to him a folly that such conditions of affairs should be allowed to exist and he considered it his duty as a citizen to work for the reform. During his service as county anditor he was first secretary and later president of the County Auditor's Association of Ohio and in this body he earnestly agitated the subject of improvement in the methods of keeping publie accounts. The movement soon began to attract attention in other quarters and especially in the State Board of Commerce, Judge Stewart, one of the executive committee of that body and its attorney, being very enthusiastic in support of the project which Mr. Fullington furthered. In 1901 the State Board of Commerce ap- pointed a committee consisting of Judge Gilbert H. Stewart and Allan Ripley Foote on behalf of that body and Mr. Fullington on behalf of the state auditor, W. D. Gilbert. to investigate the subject und frame a bill. As a result a law was passed providing for a bureau of inspection and supervision of public of- fires, now known as the Burean of Accounting, and on the expiration of his second term as county auditor, Mr. Fullington was appointed chief of this burean and was retained in the office for a year and a half, at the end of which time he had decided to return to private business life, which offered greater remuneration and was far more to his taste. He had left his business affairs entirely to his partners while in office and he felt that his interests demanded his personal attention. He had proved his worth as a public official and, the office of deputy state auditor being just then created by legislature ou account of the increased duties of the state anditor since assuming supervision of the Bureau of Accounting, Mr. Fullington was appointed to that office by Mr. Gil- bert and thus served until January 11, 1909, when he succeeded Mr. Gilbert, having been elected state auditor in the fall of 1908. The plan of nuiform accounting which Ohio was the first to adopt, has proven n great success. Thereby the accounts of village, city and county officials have been straight- ened out throughout the state and enormous sums have been brought back into the treasuries, while undesirable conditions in public accounts will in future be prevented. The burcan, which at first had a chief and four deputies, has now n force of forty-five men and beginning in the year 1909 took charge of the accounts of state officials as well. The plan has now been adopted by other states, including Ilinois and Indiana, while Kentucky and still other states are now agitating the question.
Mr. Fullington has always been a substantial republican. active in the work of the party since his boyhood days, and during the past ten years has done especially effective service for its growth and upbuilding. In the conven- tion of 1908 he had about seven hundred out of the eight laidred and fifteen delegates and he is widely recognized as one of the foremost representatives of the party in Ohio. Aside from his official connections Mr. Fullington is a
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member of the E. M. Fullington Company, grain shippers of Milford Center. is a director of the Capital Trust Company of Columbus and is interested in various other enterprises which benefit by his sound judgment and keen dis- crimination. He belongs to the Columbus Board of Trade and has cooperated in its movement for the benefit of the city. He also belongs to the Ohio and Columbus Clubs, the Tippecanoe Chib of Cleveland and is an associate member of the Buckeye Republican Club of Columbus and numerous other political or- ganizations. His fraternal spirit is manifest in his membership in the Masonic order. He belongs to the Knight Templars, has attained the thirty-second de- gree of the Scottish Rite and is also a member of the Mystic Shrine. He like- wise holds membership relations with the Elks and the Knights of Pythias and his religions faith is indicated by his membership in Trinity Episcopal church.
There is another chapter in the life record of Mr. Fullington that is of in- terest and which concerns his service in the National Guard and Spanish- American war. For a period of seven years he served in the Ohio National Guard as battalion adjutant of the Fourth Regiment as major and quarter- master of the Second Brigade. In November. 1898, he was mustered into the Fourth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry a- battalion adjutant and in the following May was transferred to the staff of Major General James II. Wilson, of the First Division. First Army Corps. as aide-de-camp. He served throughout the Spanish-American war in Porto Rico and was recommended to the presi- dent by General Mile- for promotion for services in the Porto Rican campaign. Three years ago he resigned from the National Guard, at which time he was holding the rank of major. He had also been quartermaster in the Second Brigade after his return.
On the 25th of November. 1891, Mr. Fullington was married in Dayton. Ohio, to Miss Ida Irvin Matthews, a daughter of Irvin Matthews, and a grand- daughter of Judge Fitz James Matthews of the superior court of Ohio. She has been very active in musical circles and in church organization work. They now have two son -. James Fitz James, thirteen years of age; and Benjamin Warder, ten years of age. The family residence is at No. 289 Woodland ave- nue, the property which Mr. Fullington owns, Ile is devoted to his family and loyal in his friendships but never allows personal relations or considera- tions to interfere with the prompt and faithful performance of his duty and through years to come the Bureau of Accounting will remain as a monument to him.
ALBERT GREEN JOYCE.
Albert Green Joyce, director and secretary of the Green-Joyce Company, controlling one of the wholesale dry goods houses of the city, was born in Columbus in 1874. He was in a way fortunate in entering upon a business already established but he has proven the strength of his business capacity and forces in successful management and control of the important interests of the concern with which he is associated.
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In a private school of Columbus, Albert Green Joyce received his prelim- inary education and afterward attended the Ohio State University, while sub- sequently he spent three years in study in the Georgetown University in Wash- ington, D. C. In 1893 he returned to Columbus and entered the services of Green, Joyce & Company, wholesale dry goods merchants. Although his father was one of the partners in this enterprise, parental influence was not exercised to make business life an easy task for him. On the contrary he applied himn- self diligently to the mastery of the business in principle and detail, gaining a thorough knowledge of it and working his way steadily upward by indi- vidual merit. He is now secretary and one of the directors of the company and is thoroughly familiar with the trade and in closest touch with modern methods. He is also a director of the Columbus Transfer Company.
In January, 1901 Mr. Joyce was married to Miss Lucy Beatty of this city, a daughter of General Beatty, well known in Ohio. Their children are: John, born in 1901; Phillip, born in 1905; and Lucy, born in 1908. Mr. Joyce is well known in social circles and is a valued member of the Columbus Club, the Columbus Country Club and the Ohio Club of New York city.
RT. REV. BISHOP S. H. ROSECRANS.
Sylvester Horton Rosecrans was born in Homer, Licking County, Ohio, Feb. 5, 1827. As the orthography of the name indicates, he was descended from Dutch stock; from the house of Rosenkrantz-English, "garland of roses."
His father, Crandall Rosecrans, came to Ohio in 1808 and first located in Delaware County. He afterward removed to Lieking County. His wife was Jemima Hopkins, a kinswoman of Stephen Hopkins, a signer of the Declar- ation of Independence and a Revolutionary soldier.
General W. S. Rosecrans was the elder brother of the distinguished prelate Sylvester H. Both parents were originally Methodists but were converted to the Catholic faith, and their distinguished sons also entered the Catholic fold. W. S. Entered West Pont Academy and was one of the great figures of the Civil War, while Sylvester H. entered Gambier College, Knox County, Ohio.
General Rosecrans first embraced the Catholic faith. The younger brother followed his example, and when the latter graduated from Gambier, the future general placed him in the College of the Jesuit Fathers, at Fordham, N. Y. In 1852, at the end of a five years' course, he received the doctor's degree and was ordained priest. After a tour of Continental and insular Europe, he re- turned to this diocese (Cincinnati) and was appointed pastor of St. Thomas by Archbishop Purcell. For seven years he performed sacerdotal offices at the Cathedral. He was also an editorial writer for the Catholic Telegraph.
In 1859, the Archbishop opened a College in connection with the seminary and named Dr. Rosecrans as president, which office he held until the begin- ning of the Civil war, when the school was forced to suspend. Archbishop Purcell desiring a coadjutor, Pope Pius IX. at the request of the venerable
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Prelate and others, consecrated him Bishop of Pompeiopolis, in partibus in- fidelium, and he was consecrated in St. Peter's Cathedral, Cincinnati, March 25, 1862. Bishop Rosecrans succeeded Bishop Fitzgerald of St. Patrick's Church with the understanding that he was to be the first Bishop of Columbus. He came to Columbus Feb. 28, 1867. the day following the departure of Bishop Fitzgerald for Little Rock.
He continued simply as pastor of St. Patrick's until July 1868. At that time he received the papal letters and rescript of the date of March 3, 1868, naming him of Columbus. His life in Columbus was coeval with the building and finishing of the Cathedral, beginning with the laying of the cornerstone and ending with its consecration.
EDWARD M. VAN CLEVE.
Edward M. Van Cleve, superintendent of the Ohio State School for the Blind, was born in Urbana, Ohio, February 7, 1869. His father, Rev. Lafa- yette Van Cleve, was a Methodist Episcopal minister who, for forty-four years, labored earnestly for the upbuilding of the church in southwestern Ohio. He was a native of Hamilton county, Ohio, and was interested in all lines of ac- tivity tending to advance the spirit of humanitarianism and general useful- ness. He was a prominent Mason, serving as one of the officers of the Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter, while he was also grand prelate of the Knights Templar. He died in 1892 at the age of sixty-six years, while his wife, who bore the maiden name of Sarah Elizabeth Smith, was a native of Maysville, Kentucky, and died in 1907 at the age of eighty years. She represented a prominent pioneer family of Mason county, Ohio.
Because of the itinerant character of the Methodist ministry, during the period of his youth, necessitating the removal of the family to various places, Edward M. Van Cleve pursued his education in a number of different schools in southwestern Ohio, and eventually was graduated from a high school at Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1882. Reared in an atmosphere of culture and intellectual progress, his parents desired that he should have further educational privileges and after leaving the public schools he became a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, being graduated therefrom in 1886 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Soon afterward he began teaching in a small college at Germantown, Ohio, and after taking np public school work became superinten- dent of the school at South Charleston. Ohio, in 1888, at Barnesville in 1892, at Greenville in 1899 and at Steubenville in 1903. After four years spent in the last named place he was elected by the board of trustees to the position which he now fills, that of superintendent of the Ohio State School for the Blind. The work which he is doing in this connection is of a most important character and the success and development of the school is assured from the fact that he is a man of broad humanitarian principles as well as of marked ability as an educator. He has been active in the work of varions educational associations of the state and has several times been honored with office.
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and, wishing to locate in a growing city, he came to Columbus in the latter part of 1881. Being favorably impressed with the outlook here, he decided to locate and took up his residence in the capital early in 1882, at which time he entered as a law student the office of Judge Gilbert H. Stewart. In the spring of 1883 he was admitted to the bar but continued in Judge Stewart's office until the spring of 1884, his practical experience there proving an excellent prep- aration for later professional labors. On leaving the Judge's office he became first assistant city solicitor of Columbus, at which time the office was a newly created one. In that position he remained until April, 1885, when Captain C. T Clark, the chief under whom he served, was defeated for reelection. On retiring from office he formed a partnership with the late David T. MeNaugh- ton. This continued for about a year, at which time Mr. MeNaughton became assistant to the general counsel of the Columnbus. Hocking Valley & Toledo Railroad. Mr. Davis continued in active practice as a leading and prominent member of the profession fortwenty years, since which time he has devoted his attention to the affairs of the Scioto Valley Traction Company, of the Colum- bus Citizens Telephone Company and to private interests. About 1903 he organized the Scioto Valley Traction Company, of which he has since been the president. In 1899 he was largely instrumental in organizing the Columbus Citizens Telephone Company and on its organization he became its counsel and a member of its executive committee, continuing to serve the company in that capacity until 1898, when he was elected vice president to succeed the late John Joyce. At the last annual meeting of the company he was elected presi- dent to succeed Henry A. Lauman, who retired on account of ill health and a desire to conserve his energies for his private business interests.
Mr. Davis is interested in numerous other enterprises of the city and is the owner of much Columbus real estate, having been a heavy investor therein. He has been a director of the State Savings & Trust Company for many years, is the president of the Franklin Real Estate Company and has erected five business blocks here, three for himself and two for the Huffman estate, of which he is a trustee.
In 1892 Mr. Davis was married to Miss Carrie Johnson, a resident of Co- lumbus, who was born at New Albany, Ohio, a daughter of Thomas Johnson. a soldier of the Civil war who died while in the service. Her mother, Mrs. Marilda Johnson, was a member of the Williams family of the eastern part of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Davis had one child, Ruth, who died of scarlet fever in March, 1903, shortly before the seventh anniversary of her birth.
In politics Mr. Davis is a stalwart republican and in early life was for a number of years actively interested in local politics. He has always remained a liberal supporter of the party but has never been a candidate or applicant for appointment or nomination to office. He has been a member of the Board of Trade since its organization and at all times is interested in those measures and movements which tend to promote the interests of the city or of mankind. For a number of years he has acted as a trustee of the Home for the Aged and for several years he was a trustee of the Ohio Medical University. He has taken a kindly interest in charities of various kinds, and is very approachable on these subjects. In more strictly social lines he is connected with the Phi
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next step was to go into business for himself and in Lafayette, Indiana, he estab- lished the first factory for the manufacture of ingrain carpets west of the state of Pennsylvania. He continued the manufacture of carpets there, doing a large shipping business to various parts of the country, until the year 1894, when he came to Columbus, where he established himself as a rug manufac- turer, which enterprise he is at present following. Since coming here Mr. Ferguson has met with singular success and his business has steadily grown until it is now one of the best paying enterprises in the city.
Mr. Ferguson has two children, Raymond M. and Alvin W. He is in- fluential in the business cireles of the city, being a member of the Board of Trade, and is affiliated with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, in which order he is a Shriner. Mr. Ferguson is a strong character whose enterprising and aggressive spirit have not only effected his own prosperity, but also con- tributed toward the financial worth of the city.
WALTER A. JONES.
Among the young men who are largely controlling the business enter- prises and activities of Columbus, Walter A. Jones is prominent, being now sec- retary and general sales agent of the W. R. Jones Glass Company, Morgantown, West Virginia; secretary and treasurer of the Peerless Window Glass Company, operating in Clarksburg, West Virginia; and secretary and treasurer of the W. R. Jones Company of this city. His birth occurred in Kent, Portage county, Ohio, July 10, 1874.
His father, Walter R. Jones, was born in Clyde, New York, February 28, 1846, and was a son of Samuel C. Jones, who was prominent in connection with the window glass industry at Clyde. He was born in Wales and on com- ing to the United States settled at Clyde where his death occurred in 1859. Reared in the place of his nativity, Walter R. Jones carly learned the business of manufacturing window glass and advanced in his business career until he took up that work on his own account and is now widely known as an extensive window glass manufacturer. At the present time he owns a large plant in Morgantown, West Virginia, and has other interests. He is the pioneer window glass manufacturer of that state, the "Jones" interests being the largest produc- ers of hand made window glass in the United States. He is also a Mason, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He wedded Lydia Davidson, who was born at Bellevernon, Pennsylvania, March 21, 1847. Her father. the Rev. James Davidson, was the minister of the Methodist Episcopal church at that place and was appointed postmaster there by President Grant, while reap- pointment continued him in the position for twenty years. His death occurred in 1898. His father was an officer in the war of 1812. He was a pioneer resi- dent of Pennsylvania, settling at Bellevernon, Fayette county, at a very early date.
Walter A. Jones obtained his education in the schools of Kent and Toledo, Ohio, and in the Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he was graduated
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feature from the fact that the other two ordained bore the name of O'Reilly. one having come from Louvain, Belgium, while the other claimed Paris, France, as his place of residence.
In the discharge of his priestly office, Rev. O'Reilly came to Columbus during the administration of Bishop Watterson, and by him was appointed assistant pastor of the Cathedral, while in 1885 he was made chancellor and secretary of the Columbus diocese, being retained in this importam position for four years, or until September, 1889, when, extending the field of his labors and influence, he founded the parish of St. Dominic, which. under his guidance has developed into one of the largest and most important parishes in this city. The parish consists of one of the finest church structures. besides a school, parochial residence and the Sisters of St. Joseph Convent. Under his excellent management the parish has enjoyed a rapid growth and is in fine financial condition. Father O'Reilly is a man of earnest purpose and of scholarly attainments, and is extremely popular among his parishioners. The church work is being carried steadily forward along all its varied lines, and is proving a potent force in the moral development of the Catholic population of the section of the city in which the church is located.
HON. EDWARD LIVINGSTON TAYLOR, JR.
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