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Mr. Killarne was connected with other business companies and institu- tions ns stockholder or through some special interest. and it is said, and truly said. that no firm with which he was connected ever failed to meet its obliga- tions when presented. He was one of the few honorary members of the
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Columbus Board of Trade. He was a stockholder of the Kilbourne & Jacobs Manufacturing Company, and one of its directors up to the time of his demise. He was one of the directors of the extensive Dr. Goodale estate, and for many years was the sole trustee of it.
Mr. Kilbourne was a whig during the existence of that party and with its extinction became a republican. He never songht, nor did he hold. a political office or belong to any fraternal organization or society, not that he was oppo-ed to them but because he had no inclination in that direction. but found comfort and companionship first in the family circle and after that with his fellow human beings, as circumstances brought them in contact. It was a matter of great regret with him that, because of his age, he could not enter the military service in the Civil war but he did the next best thing under the circumstances, contributed at all times for the care of the families of soldiers and toward the comfort of the soldiers themselves through the sanitary commission with which he actively cooperated.
Mr. Kilbourne, on the 13th of June. 1837. was married to Miss Jane Evans, of Gambier. There were five children born to them: Alice Grant. the wife of Major General Joseph IT. Potter, U. S. A., one of the distin- gnished general officers of the Civil war; Colonel James Kilbourne, of Column- bus; Major Charles Evans Kilbourne, U. S. A., a graduate of the West Point Military Academy; Fay Kilbourne, who died in early life; and Lincoln G. Kilbourne, a prominent citizen of Columbus. Taken from youth to four- score, Lincoln Kilbourne's life and deeds show him to have been not only a model citizen but as nearly the perfect type of mankind as one is likely to meet. His distinguishing trait was devotion to duty at whatever cost to him- self.
EDGAR A. COPE.
Edgar A. Cope, secretary of the Columbus Malleable Casting Company. was born in Columbiana county, Ohio. November 10. 1872, a son of William T. and Sarah V. (Robbins) Cope, also natives of this state. The father was among the prominent men of northeastern Ohio, and had done mmich im- portant public service, er ditably filling a position in the state legislature dur- ing the two terms of Hon. Joseph B. Foraker as governor of Ohio. Subse- quently he filled the position of state treasurer for two terms when Major William Mckinley was governor of the state. He was widely known among the statesmen and distinguished citizens of Ohio, his ability carrying him into important public relations, while his official service reflected credit and honor upon the state which honored him. In business affairs he also attained prominence, being for a member of years president of the Commercial Na- tioual Bank of Columbus. His death occurred in 1903, while his widow. who still survives him, is a resident of Columbus, Ohio.
Edgar A. Cope acquired his education in the public schools of Columbi- ana and Franklin counties, pormning his course to the age of seventeen years, after which he took a full course in a busines college. He made his initial
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step in the business world by entering the banking, bond and investment business at Cleveland, Ohio, and continued therein until the fiancial panic of 1893. In that year he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he conducted a bond brokerage business until January, 1907. In May of the same year he returned to Columbus, and has since occupied the position of secretary with the Columbus Malleable Casting Company. He is proving thoroughly competent in a position of executive control and administrative direction, his labors constituting an element in the successful conduct of the business.
Mr. Cope was united in marriage to Miss Bessie Boyce, of Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 25th of October, 1899, and a daughter, Alice Boyce, gladdens their pleasant home. Mr. Cope is a member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained high rank, being now a member of the commandery and of the Mystic Shrine. In all social relations he is popular because of a genial and attractive manner, while in business circles he is making sub- stantial progress through his wise utilization of the opportunities that are offered.
ERASTUS G. LLOYD.
Erastus G. Lloyd is among the younger representatives of the Franklin county bar but his success is such as many an older practitioner might well envy and today he is associated in a partnership practice with Judge Sloane. who is widely recognized as one of the leading lawyers of the state. Mr. Lloyd was born November 12, 1876, in the city of Portsmouth, Ohio, situ- ated at the junction of the Scioto and Ohio rivers. His parents. George W. and Sarah M. (Stiversion) Lloyd. are also natives of this city and for many years the father was a prominent merchant in Hocking county, Ohio. who is now living retired. His grandfather, James II. Lloyd, participated in the Civil war. being attached to the commissary department.
To the public-school system of Ohio Erastus G. Lloyd is indebted for the early educational privileges which he enjoyed. Later he benefited by instruction in Otterbein College at Westerville, from which he was graduated in 1898 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He supplemented his literary course by study in the law department of the Ohio State University. desir- ing to enter upon active practice before the courts. He was gradnated in 1901 with the Bachelor of Law degree and in June of the same year was ad- mitted to practice by the supreme court. The following year he entered upon the active work of his profession in Columbus and is now junior partner of the law firm of Sloane & Lloyd, having entered into business connections with Judge Sloane, whose ability places him in the front rank among the leading practitioners of the capital city. Mr. Lloyd is also rapidly forging to the front. stinmlated by a laudable ambition that prompts him to put forth most earnest effort in the preparation and conduct of his cases. He has confined his attention to general practice and his mental training and discipline qualify him for the solution of complex and intricate legal prob- loms.
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On the 18th of May, 1903, Mr. Lloyd was married to Miss Evadne Ranck, of Westerville, Ohio, and they have many friends in the city of their residence. Mr. Lloyd is known as an exemplary representative of the Knights of Pythias. Odd Fellows and Elks Lodges and is also connected with the Phi Delta Phi fraternity, while in more strictly professional lines he is identified with the Ohio State and Franklin County Bar Associations.
P. V. BURINGTON.
P. V. Burington is numbered among the representative business men of Columbus by reason of his position as secretary and auditor of the Column- bus Railway & Light Company, and is in close touch with the business men and business interests of the capital city. His birth occurred in Erie county. Pennsylvania, the date of his nativity being January 14, 1847. His parent- were Rensalear S. V. and Lucy (Pike) Burington, who removed westward to Illinois when the subject of this review was a lad of nine years. He contin- ued his education in the public schools at Amboy, Illinois, and after putting aside his text-books learned the printer's trade, at which he worked until 1871. In the beginning he received a salary of only a dollar and a half per week. Later he was foreman of the Mar-halltown (lowa) Daily Times for six years, for he had developed ability that carried him into important rela- tions with newspaper interests. On the expiration of that period he became paymaster for the Central Railway Company of Iowa, in which position he continned for four years, and then came to Columbus in 1881, being con- nected with the Seioto Valley Railway as private secretary to the manager for eight years, while for two years he was connected with the passenger de- partment. His identification with the Cohunbus Railway & Light Company dates from 1891, when he became auditor of the corporation then known as the Columbus Consolidated Street Railroad Company. In 1892 he was elected secretary, and has continued in the dual position to the present time, capably meeting the responsibilities that devolve upon him. When he became con- nected with the service the electric system was in its infancy, and electricity as the motive power was at a point where room for improvement was great. Mr. Burington has always stood for progress in business and other lines, has favored the adoption of improvements in the system, and his efforts as secre- tary and anditor have been an essential factor in giving to the city the excel- lent service offered by the company.
On the 29th of September. 1868, Mr. Burington was married to Miss Viola O. Morse, of Amboy, Illinois, and they have three children : Leora I ... the wife of Professor Charles L. Arnold, of the Ohio State University: Alfred V .. accountant for the Columbus Railway & Light Company; and Herbert M., assistant to the secretary of the same company.
While Mr. Burington is known as a successful business man, in his official relations with the Columbus Railway & Light Company, he is also known as a progressive citizen, being especially active in the promotion of
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those movements for the public good instituted by the Columbus Board of Trade. He has served on various committees and for a time was a member of the directorate, in which connections he has been instrumental in doing especially good work. He has assisted in the collection of many valuable statistics pertaining to the city, most important of which are found in the exploitation booklet lately compiled under the auspices of the Board of Trade.
AMOS S. ALSPAUGH.
Amos S. Alspangh, deceased, was for many years identified with agri- cultural pursuits in Franklin county and spent his later years in honorable retirement from labor, making his home in Columbus. He was born in Madison township, this county, in 1862, and died on the 1st of May, 1904, at the age of forty-two years. His father, John Ml-pangh, was a native of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and became one of the early settlers of Frank- lin county. He east in his lot with its pioneer residents and aided in the development and improvement of the county as the years passed by. From the government he secured one hundred and sixty acres of land, upon which not a furrow had been turned or an improvement made but with character- istic energy he cleared away the timber, grubbed up the stumps, plowed the land and planted his fields. In course of time he gathered good harvests and year after year he continued the cultivation of his place until he made it a valuable farm property. He married Hannah Rush and they reared their family upon the old homestead.
Amos S. Alspaugh, spending his boyhood days under the parental roof, worked in the fields through the summer seasons and in the winter months acquired his education in the country schools. The occupation to which he was reared he determined to make his life work and in the neighborhood of his parents' home he began farming on his own account and continued a resi- dent of that locality until he put aside further business cares. He was dili- gent and energetic in his work, kept abreast with modern methods of farming and used the latest improved machinery to till his fields. In his farm work he was quite successful and from his crops derived a substantial annual in- come which enabled him, as the years went by, to add to his capital until it became sufficient to permit of his putting aside business cares and -pending nis remaining days in the enjoyment of well earned rest. Accordingly about 1890 he removed to Columbus, where he resided until his demise. the fruits of his former toil supplying him with all life's comforts and many of its luxuries.
In 1873, in Madison township, Mr. Alspaugh was married to Miss Annie Codner, a daughter of Mark Codner, who at an early day came from Mont- pelier, Vermont, and followed farming at Groveport, in this state, where he died about fourteen years ago. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Mar- garet Plum, was a native of Pennsylvania. They were the parents of ten. children, of whom four are living in Franklin county. Unto Mr. and Mrs.
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Alspaugh were born three daughters and a son, all of whom still survive, namely : Lucy Ada, now the wife of C. Thomas Evans, of Portland, Oregon; Louetta Minerva, the wife of James W. Beckett, of Columbus; Myrtle Blanche, the wife of Charles Colber, of Rochester, New York; and Hugh A., of New Castle, Pennsylvania, an overseer in a large steel plant.
In his political views Mr. Alspaugh was an earnest republican and always kept well informed on the questions and issues of the day. He likewise be- longed to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was a faithful and consistent member of the German Reform church. He assisted in building a mminber of churches and was a most earnest and active worker in behalf of his denomination and the spread of the Christian religion. His religious belief proved the guiding factor in his life and throughout his entire career he endeavored to closely follow the Golden Rule, doing to others as he would have them do to him. His life of uprightness and honor and of Christian work constitutes an example well worthy of emulation. Mrs. Alspangh, who still survives her husband, has been, like him, an active worker in the church and her influence is always given on the side of righteousness and truth.
COLONEL EDWARD L. TAYLOR.
If the American Indian, collectively speaking, could revisit not only "the pale glimpers of the moon" his heaven hung calendar, but his ancient hunt- ing grounds in the Upper Scioto valley, he would intuitively stop at 331 East Town street, ascend the broad and white limestone steps, wondering at the glittering brass bannisters and pay obeisance to his nineteenth and twentieth century friend, Edward Livingston Taylor, lawyer, soldier. his- torian, litterateur and bon vivant.
Colonel Taylor was born in Franklin county, March 20, 1839, and was the second son of David and Margaret Livingston Taylor, the children of the earliest pioneers in this section of Ohio, and themselves entitled to be enrolled among Buckeye pioneers.
The ancestors of Edward Livingston Taylor were refugees from Canada, where they were settled when the war of the Revolution came on-the Living- ston branch at Montreal and the Taylor branch at Truro, Nova Scotia, which is at the head of the bay of Fundy. Their estates were confiscated because of their sympathy with struggling colonists.
Taylor, the progenitor of this branch of the Taylor family in America, came from Londonderry, Ireland, and settled in New Hampshire in 1721. They were what is commonly called Scotch-Irish but were originally from Scotland. Robert Livingston, Jr .. came from Scotland and settled at Albany, New York, in 1696. In 1802 what is known in law and history a tract of land four and one-half miles wide from north to south and about forty-eight from east to west was set apart by congress for the benefit of refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia, designated in the act as the "Refugee Tract." The north line of this tract is what is now Fifth
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avene and the south line is Steelton, in the city of Columbus. On the west the tract begins at the east bank of the Scioto river and extend- east to the Muskingum river. On this tract both the Taylor and Livingston fam- ilies settled ; the Taylors in 1807 and the Livingstons in 1804, the former on Walnut creek and the latter on Alum creek. Their descendants still own and occupy these lands after more than a hundred years.
This partienlar brauch of the Taylor family emne into recorded history in Argylehire, Scotland, between two and three centuries ago. They were noted for their great physical stature, and the present generation here in Ohio keep up to the standard, Colonel Taylor being a little over six feet and exactly proportioned, while his sons come up to the ancient Scotch standard. and the same physical characteristic mark- nearly all the members of the other branches of the Ohio family.
After pa -- ing through the public schools of Columbus he graduated from Miami University in 1860, and began the study of law with Hon. Chauncey N. Olds, being admitted to the bar in 1862, while at home on leave of absence from the military lines. The Civil war intervening ere he had yet com- pleted his studies, he recruited a company of volunteers of which he was made captain and which was assigned to the Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer In- fantry. He was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Richmond. Kentucky, August 30, 1862, but was shortly afterward exchanged. and re- joined his command and served to the end of the siege of Vicksburg. July 4. 1863. Then with broken health and- an enfeebled physical system, with but slight hope of regaining his former robust condition, he resigned his commission and came home.
Ilis recovery was tedions, but in the end was complete and continued so until some six or eight years ago, when his carriage was run down by a trace- tion car, and he received severe and dangerous injuries, which at time has interfered with his former active life. Entering upon the practice of law in 1864. his progress was so rapid that in a few years he was recognized as one of the leading lawyers in central Ohio and enjoyed a very large and lucrative practice in all our state and federal courts. He prepared his cases with great care and presented them to both courts and juries with great force and abil- ity. During his active professional life there was hardly an important case tried in our local courts in which he was not one of the leading attorneys on one side or the other. He was never a case lawyer, but like all great lawyers of this -tate he was thoroughly versed in the fundamental principles of law, and he applied those principles to the facts of cach case as they arose, and thus in time he became recognized as a very able and profound lawyer, and while he remained in practice his services were solicited by litigants in nearly all the important cases arising in Franklin county during that period as well a- many celebrated cases tried in our federal courts.
Colonel Taylor is a most facile and graceful writer, and the subjects he has written of cover a wide field. His brochure and articles placing the American Indian on his proper plane and analyzing his character. will at- tract and enlighten the historians of the next two or three centurie -. His contribution to the study of Ohio's archaeology. he being an honorary mem-
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ber of the society, are of great scientific as well as ethnological value. They are to be found in the quarterly volumes of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society's publications.
Being a man of great physical proportions, he was none the less endowed with physical activity, and took infinite delight in outdoor sports and espe- cially outdoor exercises in search of nature's inspiration, and the native con- ditions by which he sought to trace the processes of the ages. Geology has bern his favorite study, and he knows every ravine on the Scioto and other streams in Franklin county and their geological formations.
His favorite club is the Wyandot, and to him the great spring in Wyan- dot Grove was the American edition of the Perian fountain. Colonel Taylor and Miss Catherine N. Myers, the granddaughter of Colonel John Nobel, were married July 14, 1864. Five children were born to them, four of whom are living.
No sketch of our subject would be complete without some reference to his social life. For years he has been known throughout his home city as the "Prince of Entertainers," and during his whole life he has made it a practice to entertain many of the distinguished people who have visited Columbus on business or pleasure during that time. Some of our most learned and elo- quent men have been pleased to pass their entire time in our city as guests under his hospitable roof, and have found the greatest pleasure and profit in his company and society. Since his retirement from the active practice, Colonel Taylor has been leading an ideal life. His time is given up to his books and writing articles upon his favorite subjects for magazines, period- icals and papers, and they have been received with such favor that his repu- tation has become national on several historical subjects. Whatever time Colonel Taylor now gives to relaxation from his studies and writings he spend- in entertaining his numerous friends. It is said that an invitation to the White House is always regarded as a command, but an invitation to dine with Colonel Taylor carries such pleasure to the recipient that they are always accepted. To those who are thus favored there is no greater pleasure in life than to dine at Colonel Taylor's home and pass a few hours listening to his delightful conversation upon all subjects, and especially upon the carly his- tory and traditions of their state, with which no man is more familiar. So surrounded by the members of a mimerous and influential family and by a still larger number of devoted friends, his days of retirement are perhaps the most pleasant and profitable of a long and useful life.
PROFESSOR EDMUND A. JONES.
Professor Edmund A. Jones, school commissioner of Ohio, whose high rank in educational circles is indicated by his membership in the National Council of Education-an honor conferred only in recognition of superior worth,-was born in Rockville, Massachusetts, February 11, 1842. That state was the ancestral home of the family for several generations and his great-
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grandfather, a native of Medway, Massachusetts, was born about the middle of the eighteenth century. Both his grandfather and his father were teachers of that state and the three successive generations taught in the same distriet.
Professor Jones acquired his early education in the country schools of Massachusetts and after thorough preparation at Mount Hollis Academy, en- tered Amherst College in 1860. When he had completed the work of the sophomore year he offered his services in defense of his country and was assigned to duty with Company B. Forty-second Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry. This command was sent down to join General Banks at New Orleans and in the first battle in which he was engaged, at Bayou La Fousche, in June, 1863, he was seriously wounded. At the expiration of his term of enlistment and after his colonel had recommended him for promotion because of meritorious service, Professor Jones reentered Amherst College, from which institution he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1865 and the Master of Arts degree in 1868, while in 1903 the Ohio University conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Both before and after his military service he was president of his class in college, holding this honor at the time of his graduation
In the year 1858 Professor Jones entered upon his career as an educator, becoming teacher in a district school in Massachusetts. After his graduation in 1865 he accepted a position in Lake Forest Academy, Illinois, where he served for four years as teacher, associate principal and principal. In Octo- ber, 1869, he accepted the superintendency of the schools at Massillon where he remained for four years, after which he was superintendent of the schools at Marietta, Ohio, for two years. His work in the former place was so satis- factory to the people and his labor so beneficial to the schools that he was induced to return. Faithfully and efficiently for thirty-three years he served that city in an educational capacity, and his fellow townsmen there were only willing to release him that he might accept the honors of the office to which he had been elected by the people of the state. In 1889 the city of Cleveland offered him an increased salary but Massillon promptly met the offer and retained him in the position he had filled so long and satisfactorily to the patrons of her schools. In all of his educational work Professor Jones has been imbued with high ideals and his efforts have been at once practical, beneficial and far-reaching. Recognizing the fact that what is needed is con- tinuous education which lasts all through life, he ever endeavored to give to the pupils under his care the foundation for that continuous education which would enable them to develop capacity equal to any emergency or demand. The efficiency of his work finds incontrovertible proof in the lives of many of his students who have gone out into the world and are today filling posi- tions of trust and responsibility. Under his direction the work of the schools of Massillon constantly broadened in scope while the demand for thorough- ness was by no means abated. Believing in the need of an understanding of each individual pupil, Professor Jones through his long connection with the Massillon schools came into close touch with his pupils in their mental development and his strong personality, the expression of high and domi- nant principles, left its impress upon the lives of many with whom he
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