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At the same time Mr., Dobbie was interested with his father in the manufacture of blankets and yarns at the Cheney Mill at Canal Winchester, Ohio. Owing to his father's illness at one time he walked to Canal Win- chester, leaving at 8 o'clock Saturday evening and returning Monday morn. ing so as to be ready for duty when the store opened. His association with Bain & Sons continued until 1867, and after being with that concern for five years he entered the employ of their successors, Gilchrist, Gray & Company, the silent partners being Mr. Dobbie and Mr. Sohl. This con- cern became Gilchrist & Dobbie in 1875, and so continued for a few years, after which the business was purchased by Mr. Dobbie, continuing under his own name. In 1902 he removed to his present location at No. 130-132 South High street. He has a large and well selected line of dry goods, and the house shows each year an increase in business marked by a growth of a steady and healthful character. The enterprise has the reputation of being a most reliable and conservative house, where everything is brought up to a standard of value, the enitre business being conducted along lines that conform to the strictest commercial ethics. The house maintains an unassailable reputation for reliability, and if ever mistakes occur it is known that they will be a matter of speedy and satisfactory adjustment. Mr. Dobbie has always recognized the fact that satisfied customers are the best advertisement and he has studied closely and met the demands of the general public, at all times following principles in his trade relations that neither seek nor require disguise. He is today one of the oldest and most honored merchants of this city and has been a director in numerous banks and corporations, but he has now retired from those lines. He does all of the buying for his store and is as active as ever in its management, reach-
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ing in the office at 7:30 in the morning and remaining until 5:30 in the afternoon. In all of the years of his connection with the business the days of his absence would not aggregate more than a month.
In 1886 Mr. Dobbie was united in marriage to Miss Hattie Knox, of Columbus. They attend the First Presbyterian church and Mr. Dobbie is a generous contributor to its support. During the past quarter of a cen- tury he has made biennial trips to Europe in the interests of his business and has also made them sources of pleasure and information. Ile is fond of travel and is also noted as a pedestrian. He keeps himself in good physi- cal trim at all times, recognizing the fact that this constitutes the basis of a keen, scintillating brain and alert, enterprising spirit. Over the record of his entire career there falls no shadow of wrong doing or suspicion of evil and on the contrary his example is one worthy of emulation, showing as it does the force of hard work, close application and unfaltering integrity in the acquirement of notable and gratifying success. Columbus numbers him among its most progressive and honored business men, and his sterling qualities are such as to make his friend-hip prized by all who know him.
SHERMAN D. BROWN.
Sherman D. Brown, one of the substantial and prominent business men of the city, is a partner in the Fletcher, Brown & Company, funeral directors, with which concern he has been practically connected all his life, and has worked his way to the position of financial worth he now holds. He is a native of Fairfield county, this state, where his birth occurred May 29, 1866, and a son of Rev. William and Catherine ( Ruble) Brown, natives of Hocking coun- ty, where they were born in the years 1821 and 1827 respectively, both fami- lies having been pioneers of that section of the state and owners of large to- bacco plantations in the days when that commodity was hauled by mule teams, once a year, to the city of Boston, where the product was sold. The elder Mr. Brown was a minister of the gospel, taking up that profession when twenty- one years of age and continuing it throughout this state until he departed this life in 1895, leaving his widow, who still survives. He was one of the old- school preachers and was of the day when one minister was given a circuit of many churches, and consequently he spent his life moving from one place to another, encountering many hardships on his journeys, which of necessity were made in all sorts of weather, in order that he might serve his Master in carrying the glad tidings to the members of the small congregations dispersed throughout the state. His life was in the highest degree useful and his bene- ficial career will long be remembered in the community where he rendered ministerial services.
At the usual age Sherman D. Brown was enrolled as a pupil at the pub- lic schools, where he acquired his preliminary education, and, as it was his father's desire that he should prepare himself for the ministry of the gospel, he was prepared to enter college and was matriculated as a student in Otter-
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bein University, where he remained for a brief period when, giving up the notion of entering the ministry, he severed his relations with the institution and went to work for an undertaker at Westerville, With him he remained for two years, at the termination of which he came to this city, where he entered the employ of the firm with which he is now affiliated. In this service he continued until 1899, during which period he acquired a thorough knowl- edge of the business, when, owing to his excellent business judgment and in- tegrity, he was made a partner in the enterprise in which he has since been engaged. The firm, which is now known as Fletcher, Brown & Company, condnets one of the largest nudertaking concerns in the city and since Mr. Brown has become affiliated with it, as a partner, he has done much in bring- ing it before the public.
On May 16, 1889. he was united in marriage in this city to Miss Jennie N. Madison, the conple having one child, Robert E., who is in his ninth year. Among the fraternal organizations with which Mr. Brown is affiliated are the Knights of Pythias, Lodge No. 144, of which he is treasurer, being also a member of the military department of the same order; Columbus Lodge No. 37, B. P. O. E .; the Home Guards of America; Cohimbus Lodge, No. 203, K. O. T. M .; Lodge No. 44, W. of W .; Lodge No. 3735, M. W. A; Lodge No. 237, F. O. E .; Lodge No. 102. and Patriot Sons of America. In addition to belonging to the Columbus Board of Trade he is also associated with the Ohio Mail Order Supply Company as president. Mr. Brown is a man possessing noble traits and qualities of character, is a member of the Fifth Avenue United Brethren church, and in every sense is a worthy citizen and figures among the most prosperons and influential business men of the city.
HERMAN HOSTER.
Herman Hoster, who is now secretary and treasurer of the Columbus Lithograph Company, was born in the city which is still his home, July 12, 1881, his parents being George J. and Mary A. Hoster. The mother and father, who are natives of Columbus, are still living. In the public schools of this city, Herman Hoster began his education and continued his course through successive grades until he became a high-school student and was graduated with the class of 1897. He next attended the Ohio State Univer- sity for two years and then entered Yale University, completing his course in 1903 and winning the degree of Bachelor of Science. While at the Ohio State University he became a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
In starting out in life as a factor in the business world, Mr. Hoster be- came assistant cashier at the Hoster breweries, and after the organization of the associated brewing interests in this city, he was made assistant treasurer of the company and so continued until the 9th of January, 1906. At that date he turned his attention to other interests and became connected with the Columbus Lithograph Company as its secretary and treasurer. He has filled the dual position to the present time and has been very active in the manage-
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ment of the affairs of the house, the success of which is largely due to his ef- forts. This company has a well equipped plant. They started out on a com- paratively small scale but they have increased their facilities and while they formerly manufactured one million envelopes per day they now have a capacity for three million. They have also developed their lithographing de- partment and largely increased their printing department. It was in October, 1908, that they removed to their new plant, which is located on Fifth avenue and the Big Four tracks. Mr. Hoster devotes his entire time to the develop- ment and upbuilding of this business which, although one of the newest con- cerns of the city, is already an important productive industry. He likewise is director of the Capitol Trust Company.
On the 12th of February, 1907, Mr. Hoster was married to Miss Martha Welle, of St. Louis, and they have one daughter, Elise, born January 29th, 1908. Mr. Hoster is a member of the Columbus Club, the Arlington Country Club and the Columbus Country Club, and treasurer of the Columbus Auto Club. Altogether these associations indicate much of the nature of his inter- ests. He is an automobile enthusiast and was also a pioneer in the support of the aero interests of this eity. He is a young man of social nature, of genial disposition and excellent business ability, and has won for himself a favorable place in the public regard, having many friends in this city, where he is now widely known.
JAMES A. MILES.
James A. Miles, legist and jurist, his record reflecting credit and honor upon the history of the Columbus bar, was born in Eden township, Licking county, Ohio, September 21, 1844. and represents one of the pioneer families founded in Ohio by his grandfather, Stephen Miles, who was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and came to this state when the Indian population outnumbered the white settlers, and when the greater part of its lands were unclaimed and uncultivated. He married Miss Dush and their son, John Dush Miles, was born in Licking county March 1, 1823. There through his youth he experienced the hardships and privations of pioneer life, and also assisted in the arduous task of developing a new farm. In early manhood he married Miss Sarah Games, a daughter of Robert and Sarah (Evans) Games. Her father, of American birth, served in the war of 1812 and when Ohio first became the abode of white men he established his home within its borders and took an active part in its development. He wedded Miss Sarah Evans, whose mother was an adopted daughter of Lord Bradley, of England. Coming to America she became the wife of Mr. Evans, in Vir- ginia, and she and her descendants were undoubtedly the rightful heirs to a large estate which was left by the Bradleys in England but has never been claimed.
Jolin Dush Miles, father of Judge Miles, made farming his life work, and from Licking county moved to Delaware county, Ohio, about 1851.
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For a long period he carried on farming there and his wife died there ruary, 1900, at the age of eighty years. His death occurred in 1905
Their son, Judge James A. Miles, was a pupil in the public sc Delaware county and later spent one year in the university at We Franklin county. He then devoted several years to the profession . ing, after which he began preparation for the bar, becoming a studer law office of Jackson & Beer, well known attorneys of Crawford count His preliminary reading was thorough and comprehensive and sec admission to the bar on the 4th of September, 1868, since which has practiced in Franklin county, winning for himself very favorable by reason of his wide erudition, his correct application of legal princi the thorough and systematic manner in which he prepares his cases
Judge Miles' family relations are particularly attractive. He was to Miss Mary Esther Longwell, a daughter of James and Edith (' Longwell, of Johnstown, Licking county, Ohio. Unto Judge and M were born two sons and a daughter. The elder son, Frank A., after gr from the high school in Sunbury, Ohio, was for some time connec farming interests in Licking county and on the 5th of August, 1900 for the Philippine Islands to fill a position as clerk on the transport on which his brother, Captain Perry L. Miles, was quartermaster. Miles is the second son and is now a captain in the reglar army. appointed to West Point from Franklin county in 1891 and was grad 1895. He was then commissioned second lieutenant of the Fourte fantry, after which he was stationed at Vancouver barracks in Wa until the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, when he went to S. cisco and on the 28th of May, 1898, sailed for the Philippines as see tenant. However, he was in command of Company I, for the first li and the captain were left behind on special duty. He participated in t of Malata and was under fire and was present at the capture of Mani the Fourteenth Regiment lost forty-seven in killed and wounded. He in the first engagements with the insurgents and did gallant duty. capture of Manila he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant 1898, and has since been promoted to the captaincy. His personal and daring in the capture of the historical blockhouse was perhaps notable act of purely personal bravery and cool-headedness, with the ‹ of that of Captain Hobson, in all the history of the Spanish-Ameri It was the capture of this blockhouse that led to his promotion to tainey on the 10th of October, 1899. The event has been given specit nence through a poem entitled, "The Ballad of Lieutenant Miles," v peared in Harpers' Weekly. The daughter of the family, Bertha, i. uate of the Johnstown high school and resides with her grandm Licking county. Having lost his first wife, Judge Miles wedded Miss Witter, of Columbus, a native of Germany, whose father was a disti linguist of his native country, speaking seven different languages. He : throughout his entire life a resident of his native land.
In his political views Judge Miles has always been a stalwart ¿ interested in the growth and success of his party and laboring, as op]
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has offered, for its success. Upon its ticket he was twice elected to serve as mayor of Westerville, and in 1906 became acting police judge of Columbus. His record on the bench and in the private practice of law shows him to be a man of marked ability and mental grasp, who readily discovers the salient points of a legal problemi and shows marked discernment in relating them to the principles of law.
JAMES U. BARNHILL, PH.D., M. D.
Dr. James U. Barnhill, one of the most eminent surgeons practicing in Columbus, was born near Wattsville, Carroll county, Ohio, October 22, 1855, a son of the Rev. Williamson and Catherine (Demis) Barnhill. The family is of Scotch-Trish extraction, the first representatives of the name in Amer- ica coming to the new world abont 1750. The founder of the family was a printer and publisher in Baltimore, Maryland. His five sons left descend- ants who are now dispersed throughout Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois. Tennessee and many other states. Some of them served in the American Revolution, and the grandfather of the subject of this sketch was a soldier in the war of 1812. His maternal great and great- great-grandfather- served in the Revolutionary war. The Barnhills have been represented in Ohio since 1808, at which time' Robert and Elizabeth (Carter) Barnhill, the grandparents, established their home in Jefferson county in that portion which later became Carroll county. It was there that Williamson Barnhill was born, received his early education. married and entered upon his life work.
Dr. Barnhill, the fifth in a family of eight children, passed through the consecutive grades of the public schools, and completed collegiate courses, leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Science (1876) and Master of Arts, later gaining the Doctor of Philosophy degree in the University of Wooster. With broad classical knowledge to serve as the foundation upon which to rear the superstructure of professional learning, and on the advice of Dr. Leander Firestone of Wouter, who gave him a letter to Dr. J. W. Hamilton of this city, he entered Columbus Medical College, completing the full course with the class of 1883. He also studied surgery and gynecology in Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore and in Harvard Medical School in Boston and has carried his researches far into the realms of science, becoming recog- nized as a man of eminent ability in his chosen profession and specialty. In addition to his private and consultation practice he has done valuable work as a medical edneator, holding a prominent teaching position in local med- ical colleges ever since his graduation. He also served within this time in varion- official capacities: cretary, trustee, vice chancellor and chancellor. holding the latter position in the Ohio Medical University at the time of the merging of that institution with the Starling Medical College to form the Starling-Ohio Medical College. In the latter he holds a professorship in surgery, and is one of the surgeons to the Protestant Hospital of this city.
DR. J. C. BARNHILL
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He was surgeon and chief of staff of the Christian Home Hospital until 1896 and was connected in the same capacity with the Colui pital for Women from 1898 until 1902: for several years was a 1 the staff of Hawkes Hospital of Mt. Carmel, and has served on t the Protestant Hospital since the founding of that institution (18!
His contributions to medical literature have been extensive and He is the author of the Outlines of the Principles of Surgery and a. of articles on Eminent Surgeons. He has made various contributio ical journals and is the author of a History on the Public Schools bus. He was for nine years the editor of the Columbus Medica and is identified with the leading organizations which are formed scientifie knowledge and promote the efficiency of the professior He holds membership with the Academy of Medicine of Columbus body he has served as president; the State Medical Association, the Medical Association, the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, iean Academy of Medicine and the National Association of Pensi ining Surgeons. He has served the city as a member and as presic local Board of Health and Columbus Board of Education, and is of the Benjamin Franklin Chapter of the Sons of the American I
Dr. Barnhill was married to Miss Bianca Jane Reese, daughtc and Matilda (Feeman) Reese, of Wooster, Ohio, and their ho center of a cultured society circle." They have two daughters, Ev and Helen Bianca. Dr. Barnhill and his family are members of Congregational church. Association with him means expansion tion. Those who know him in his own home find him a most genial and companionable gentleman, while in his profession 1 that honor and respect which the world instinctively pays to him ' ity has placed him in the foremost rank of the representatives of , calling.
JOSEPH EDWARD STRADER.
Joseph Edward Strader, engaged in the real estate business, v at No. 502 Columbus Trust building, is classed with Ohio's native birth having occurred at Fronton, June 14, 1885. His father, Jam was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1858, and was a son of Dr. Jam who emigrated to America in 1850, and settled in Buffalo, where his family. After arriving at years of maturity, James Strader, Jr .. in marriage to Miss Margaret MeDugin, who was born in Ironton 1862, and was a daughter of Joseph MeDugin, one of the pionee of Lawrence county, who, throughont his entire business career nected with hardware interests. He was a representative of a family lineage that was founded in America during the period of early ( here.
Joseph Edward Strader, whose name introduces this record, w to Columbus by his parents in his early boyhood, and was educa
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public schools until he had completed the course in the East High School by graduation. Later he attended the Ohio State University until 1904, when he left that institution to enter real estate circles in connection with his father. He has since been engaged in the real estate business and the firm has ob- tained a large clientage that has made them prominent in the field of real estate operations in the capital city. Joseph E. Strader is a young man of undaunted enterprise, alert determination, and is rapidly advancing in the business world. He is prominent and popular socially, and is a member of the Jefferson-Jackson-Lincoln League.
EDMOND BOTHWELL DILLON.
Edmond Bothwell Dillon, judge of the court of common pleas at Colum- bus, was born in Ironton, Ohio, February 9. 1869. His father, the Rev. J. W. Dillon, was also a native of this state and for many years was a member of the Ohio conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. His ministerial labors connected him with almost every county seat of that conference and, as he has sown the seed of truth broadcast, it has brought forth rich fruit. He is still living at the age of seventy-five years, although now retired, his home being in Portsmouth, Ohio, to which place he went after fifty years de- voted to active service in the ministry of the church. He wedded Mary Cath- erine Cox, also a native of Ohio, who is still living at the age of seventy-four years. The Rev. J. W. Dillon was a grandson of Micajah Dillon, who came from Rockbridge county, Virginia, in 1844 and located in Lawrence county, Ohio, with his son Henry, who became the father of the Rev. J. W. Dillon. Both spent their last days on a farm in Lawrence county. Micajah Dillon was descended from ancestors who came from County Galway, Ireland, and settled in Virginia prior to the Revolutionary war, in which representatives of the family participated. The father of Micajah Dillon gave the sum of five hundred pounds to the United States government to help bear the expenses of the war when General Lafayette emme to aid the colonists in their struggle for liberty. The ancestors of Mrs. Dillon were of the Whitaker family of Philadelphia, presenting an unbroken line for eight generations of children by the name of Mary Catherine down to the daughter of Judge Dillon. At an early day the ancestors of Mrs. Dillon, mother of .Indge Dillon, settled in Adams county, Mary Catharine Newkirk, one of the granddaughters of David Whitaker having married Recompense Murphy. He was a soldier of the war of 1812 and was the grandfather of Mrs. Dillon.
In the public schools of the state Judge Dillon pursued his early educa- tion, which was continned in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and in 1897 that institution conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. After leaving college he studied law in London, Ohio, with the Hon. S. W. Durflinger, now on the common pleas bench. and later with the Hon. George E. Martin. of Lancaster. Ohio, also on the bench of the common pleas. In October. 1891, he was admitted to the bar and at once began practice at Co-
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lumbus, later forming a partnership with Ex-Probate Judge II. ] which continued until Judge Dillon's election to the bench. App the supreme court of Ohio as a member of the law examining con held that position five years until 1903. In 1898 he was appointe special law for the city of Columbus as a civil service commissione tinued to aet also in that capacity until his elevation to the bene 1897 until he became judge of court of common pleas he was also al the dairy and food department of the state of Ohio. In 1904 he professor of law, with the chair of evidence, of Ohio State Univers position he still fills.
While an extensive and important clientage and active and effi ice in office brought him prominently before the people, Judge I also well known for his active work as a representative of the republi He served as chairman of the republican county and congressiona tees in the campaign of 1900, when William Mckinley was elected the second time. In 1902 he was elected judge of the court of com and was reelected in 1908, so that he is now serving. His decisions ly fair and impartial, bringing him into close touch with those men always stood for order and a clear and adequate exposition of the la
On the 8th of May. 1895, at Norwalk, Ohio, Mr. Dillon was 1 Miss Marian Daisy Whitney, a daughter of the Hon. Calvin Whitn city, a widely known philanthropist and president of the A. B. Cl Company. Mrs. Dillon, a graduate of Delaware University of th 1891, is well known in musical, church and social circles. The fa denee is at No. 83 Wilson avenue. Judge Dillon owning that proper are three children: Edmond Whitney, born September 14, 1897; ) arine, born December 27, 1900; and Marian Elizabeth, born Februar Judge Dillon is a member of Phi Kappa Psi college fraternity and law fraternity, has been a member of the Ohio State Bar Associa 1892. He also belongs to Champion Lodge, K. P., Columbus Lo A. M .. and the Columbus lodge of Elks. He is also a member of th Avenne Methodist Episcopal church and is serving on its official b finds his chief recreation in pedestrian exercise, often walking to su towns. a distance of twenty or twenty-five miles. He is a man si: inches tall. of athletic build. courteous and approachable and manner.
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