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In July, 1876, Mr. Booth was married to Miss Madge I. Coney, a native of Virginia. They have four children living, Florence, wife of Charles D. Young, in the Columbus office of the Pittsburg, St. Lonis & Chicago Rail- road Company as assistant to the superintendent of motive power; George H. Booth, admitted to the bar in 1906, now associated with the firm of Booth, Keating. Peters & Pomerene: Majorie, a student at the Cosmopoli- tan School of Music and Dramatic Art, in Chicago; and Herbert Barton, a student in the Ohio State University.
HENRY A. LANMAN.
Henry A. Lanman, born at Norwich Town, Connecticut, son of Peter Lanman (1807-1886, third of that name in direct line) and Catherine Cook Lanman. Peter Lanman (3d), was a great-great-grandson of Thomas Lan- man of London; and was a great-grandson of James Lanman, the immi- grant ancestor, who came to America between 1692 and 1714. married Joanna. daughter of Dr. Thomas Boylston, in 1714, and settled in Plymouth about 1724. James's son, Peter Lauman (1725-1804) first of that name in that line, came from Plymouth to Norwich about 1750. He was a prom- inent member of the Presbyterian church, which he helped to organize, and with which he united in 1786. He was a stanch patriot, a strong religious character, a profound thinker, and a courtly gentleman. He was actively engaged in shipping and mercantile business. The names of Peter Lanman (1st) and Peter Lanman (2d). father and son, were conspicuous in mer- cantile line for nearly seventy years .* The Hon. James Lanman (1769-
*See Mrs. M. P. Ferris In S. V. Talcott's Genealogical Notes of N. Y. and N. E. fami- lies: Albany 1853. page 572.
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1841), brother of Peter Lanman (2d), was United States senator for Con- necticut (1819-1825), and judge of the supreme court of that state (1826- 1829), and fifth mayor of Norwich (1831-1834).
Abigail Trumbull (1781-1861), wife of Peter Lanman (2d), and mother of Peter Lanman (3d), was a granddaughter of Jonathan Trumbull (1710-1785), governor of Connecticut from 1769-1783, most distinguished among colonial governors by his active support of the patriot cause in the war of the Revolution. He was a friend and adviser of Washington. Tradi- tion has it that from Washington's phrase "Let us see what Brother Jonathan says," originated the term "Brother Jonathan," as a sobriquet for the United States. Upon invitation of congress the state of Connecticut placed his statue in the rotunda of the capitol at Washington as a memorial of her most distinguished citizen. He was a great-grandson of John Trumbull, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, who came to America in 1637. Henry Laminan is, therefore, in the eight generation from his immigrant Trumbull ancestor.
Faith Robinson (1718-1780). the wife of Jonathan Trumbull, was a daughter of Rev. John Robinson ( 1671-1745) of Duxbury, Massachusetts, who was the first of that name to graduate at Harvard College (in 1695). . She was a great-great-granddaughter of John Alden of Plymouth (1599- 1686). Mr. Lanman thus stands in the ninth generation from that famous Puritan, and his wife, Priscilla.
Catherine Cook Lanman (1814-1854) descends directly from Francis Cook ( 1580-1663), who came to Plymouth (See Bradford's History. Boston, 1901. page 532) in the "Mayflower," December, 1620. His wife. Esther, was a Netherlandish woman of the Walloon church and came over in 1623 in the ship "Ann." Thus in this line of descent also, Mr. Lanman is in the ninth generation from his immigrant ancestor.
Henry A. Lamman was born February 1, 1845. He was the sixth of nine children (eight sons and one daughter), and all of them lived to ma- turity. His mother died when he was a little under nine years of age, and this fact doubtless tended notably to mature his thought and self-reliance. He attended the common schools of his native village until he was fourteen, when he was able to enter (upon examination) the Norwich Free Academy, one of the best preparatory schools of New England. Here he obtained an insight into the higher mathematics, English literature, French, and Latin. At the breaking out of the Civil war, he was rejected as too young for a volunteer. This was in the middle of his academic course. The business of the country was stagnant, and the pressing financial needs of his father led him to seek and obtain a position in the office of the Ohio Tool Com- pany of Columbus, at four and five and six dollars a week for the first three years respectively. War prices soon made this income inadequate, and the deficiency had to be earned by work done between between six and twelve o'clock at night. Mr. Lanman regards the fulfillment of this obligation as one of the severest tests of business integrity that he ever experienced.
When under twenty-one years of age, be became associated with James Ohlen. a practical saw-manufacturer and continued with him for seven years. the last four as partner. under the firm name of Ohlen & Lanman.
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In 1870 he was invited to become treasurer of The Columbus Rolling Mill Company. With General Samuel Thomas, he built and equipped a mill for rolling rails, and disbursed for that work over three hundred thousand dol- lars. During this year he became principal owner and an officer of the Columbus Bolt Works, which for more than thirty years has prospered under his management and now gives employment to over three hundred persons, and ships its products to nearly all parts of the world.
In 1896 he became president of the Columbus Machine Company. which during the Spanish-American war built for our government a considerable number of gun carriages for coast defense and is now one of the largest and most successful producers of gas engines. In 1898 he became president of the Columbus Citizens Telephone Company, which after reaching the limit of it- capacity of six thousand telephones, was the first to install and equip a large plant with automatic switches. This plant has a capacity of twenty thousand instruments, and has upwards of fourteen thousand telephones now installed in the city and county. He has been a director of the Hayden- Clinton National Bank and the State Savings Bank and Trust Company since their organization.
As Chairman of the Building Committee of the Broad Street Presby- terian church, Mr. Lanman purchased the site and cooperated with others in the erection of the Chapel, and later of the church edifice, and recently in the enlargement of the latter-the whole now forming one of the most attractive church edifices in the city. He was also Chairman of the Build- ing Committee of the Columbus Board of Trade, who were the first to erect a strictly fire-proof building in Columbus.
When, in 1863, John Morgan led a band of riders into the Southern border of Ohio, and the then governor of Ohio called for volunteers, Mr. Lanman was one of them. Honorable discharges were granted to the "Squirrel Hunters," as they were called. and lately a small pension was voted by the legislature in recognition of their services.
Mr. Lanman was one of the charter members of the Columbus Club and of the Arlington Country Club, and is a member of Magnolia Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons.
Mr. Lanman was married in 1870 to Esther A .. daughter of William and Esther D. Kelsey. Their children are: William Kelsey Lanman, mar- ried to Harriet R. Sharp; Cornelia Trumbull Lanman ; and Catherine Cook Lanman. married to Captain Roy T. Taylor of the United States Army.
REV. ALPHONSE M. LEYDEN.
Rev. Alphonse M. Leyden, pastor of the church of St. Francis of Assisi. at Columbus, was born in Allumettes, Pontiac county, province of Quebec. Canada, in 1856. His father, Patrick George Leyden, whose birth occurred in county Clare. Ireland, in 1811, emigrated to America in 1846. He was an accountant and for many years an official of the Canadian government. and
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his demise occurred in 1893. His wife, who bore the maiden name Ann Fitzpatrick, was born in Canada in 1835. She celebrated her in that country and passed away in 1887. The Rev. Leyden of t is the eldest in a family of fifteen children, five of whom still survive Margaret, who is first clerk in the copyright department of the Cant ernment at Ottawa; Helen, a graduate of the General Hospital Traini at Ottawa; William T., who is general foreman of the Minneapolis ‹ Railway at Albert Lea, Minnesota; and George P., sporting editor of nipeg Telegranr at Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Rev. Alphonse M. Leyden, the other surviving member of tl was educated in the Catholic schools of Ottawa and in a public school. Having won his degree at the Catholic University of Ottawa, mathematics in that institution for ten years and subsequently re Master of Arts degree. In 1886 he was incorporated in the Cathol of Columbus and was given charge of all the Catholic missions of county with the exception of Steubenville, making his residence a Ohio. He was afterward transferred by the late Bishop Watters diocese of Columbus and was assigned the task of establishing the £ parish. The property at Buttles and Harrison avenues was then er improved but he immediately began its development, erecting school, church, pastoral residence and also a house for the religiou teachers. The parish now comprises about two thousand persons, or three hundred and twenty-five families, and there are three hund in attendance at the school. In July, 1908, the Rev. Leyden was assistant by the Rt. Rev. Bishop in the person of Rev. Philip F. Cl latter, who is a native of Newark, New Jersey, and a graduate of University of New York. was ordained from St. Mary's of the West, nati. A man of splendid personality, Rev. Leyden is extremely po his parishioners and has done much for the spread of Catholicism secrated zeal and energy having resulted in the establishment of ( strongest religious institutions of Columbus.
JOHN UNVERZAGT.
John Unverzagt, well known as a representative of the brewin of Columbus, being now president of the Franklin Brewery Com born in Ross county, Ohio, June 1, 1860. His father, Gottlieb was born in Germany in 1841 and was but six years of age whe he was brought to America. Here he learned the trade of a stone 1 eventually became a contractor, continuing in business until his de: occurred when he was sixty-seven years of age. He wedded Mar who was born in Ross county, Ohio, and passed away at the age of years.
John Unverzagt was a little lad of seven summers when the moved from Ross county, Ohio, to Columbus, and here he obtaine
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cation in the public schools. He was engaged in the cigar business for some time and afterward spent two years in prospecting in the west. He then returned to the city and was interested in the hotel business through the suc- eeeding quarter of a century, being connected with the Neil and American Hotels. He then turned his attention to manufacturing interests as one of the founders of the Franklin Brewery Company and was elected its presi- dent at the time of its organization. He is still in that position and as chief excentive officer of the enterprise has contributed in substantial measure to its success. The plant is well equipped and the product is of excellent quality, so that it finds a ready sale on the market, the brewery becoming one of the leading and substantial enterprises of this character in the city. In addi- tion to this business Mr. Unverzagt is a director of the Produce Exchange Bank and has other investments.
On the 4th of November, 1880, Mr. Unverzagt was married to Miss Mary Bendert, a daughter of Alexander and Louisa Bendert, and a repre- sentative of one of the old families of the city. Her father was one of the early business men here, engaging in the dry goods business in the '60s. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Unverzagt have been born four children: Lanra. the wife of Charles Glass, of Hamilton, Canada; Romey, who is engaged in the shoe business in Columbus: Alexander, who is associated with his father in the Franklin Brewery Company; Nora, a graduate of the Columbus high school : and Agnes.
Fraternally Mr. Unverzagt is connected with the Eagles and with the Knights of Pythias and the chief source of recreation to him is indicated in his membership in the Buckeye Fishing Club. He is a thorough going busi- ness man, improving his opportunities for the attainment of financial success and his diligence has been the source of his prosperity.
JOSEPH A. JEFFREY.
The manufacturing interests of this country have no more worthy rep- resentatives than Joseph A. Jeffrey, president of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, of Columbus, and a man who has been actively connected with various other business enterprises to the benefit of all. There is no man in Communbus who ocenpies a more enviable position than does Mr. Jeffrey in industrial and financial circles, not alone on account of the brilliant suc- cess lie has achieved, but also on account of the honorable, straightforward business policy he has ever followed. He possesses untiring energy, is quick of perception, forms his plans readily and is determined in their execution, and his close application to business and his excellent management have brought to him the highest degree of prosperity which is today his.
Mr. Jeffrey was born at Clarksville, Clinton county, Ohio, January 17, 1836. His father, James Jeffrey, was a native of Monmouth county, New Jersey, und was a farmer and trader. He married Angeline Robinson, a daughter of David Robinson, one of the early settlers of Warren county.
J. A. JEFFREY
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Ohio, who was well known at Lebanon. Joseph A. Jeffrey passed his school days at St. Mary's, Ohio, where he completed his education in the high school, after which he spent four years as a clerk in a genefal store. Later in life he removed to Columbus, where on the 21st of August, 1858, he seeured a position in the office of Rickley & Brother, private bankers. There he re- mained until 1863 in the various positions of bookkeeper, teller and cashier, and in the year mentioned he left the capital city and removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he engaged in the wholesale and retail carpet and furnishing business until 1869, as a member of the firm of Rickley, Howell & Company, having a fourth interest in the concern. He disposed of his interest in the carpet business to J. J. Rickley and returned to Columbus, where, in con- nection with S. S. Rickley, then of the firm of Rickley & Brother, bankers, he organized and ostal,lished the Commercial Bank at High and Long streets, now the Commercial National Bank.
A year later Mr. Riekley sold his interest in the Commercial Bank to Orange Johnson and F. C. Sessions, these gentlemen, with Mr. Jeffrey form- ing a general partnership under the name of the Commercial Bank, with Mr. Sessions acting as the president, while Mr. Jeffrey became enshier. He held that position until 1883, when he disposed of his interest to Mr. Ses- sions and acquired a controlling interest in the Lechner Mining Machine Company of Columbus. Thi- enterprise was incorporated in 1878 with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars, which has since been inerased sue- cossively to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to three hundred thou- sand dollars and to three million dollars: and Mr. Sessions, who was pre- viously connected with Mr. Jeffrey in the banking business, became the first president but was succeeded by Mr. Jeffrey, who has since been the president and general manager of the enterprise. The company has been known sue- ce-sively as the Lechner Mining Machine Company, the Lechner Manufac- tuning Company and the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company.
The scope of its operations has been broadened a good deal in successive stages of its history and it now mannfactures all kinds of heavy mining and electrical machinery, which is -hipped throughout the United States and to foreign countries. The company has an extensive manufacturing plant housed in large -tone, brick and steel buildings and employs from twenty- five hundred to three thousand men. a large majority of whom of necessity aro skilled workmen, as some of the machinery turned out requires the highest possible finish. The plant covers about thirty acres of ground and is located on the tracks of the Big Four Railway system, which affords first- elas shipping facilities. The company mannfactures electrical machinery. dynamo4, motors, under-cutting coal-mining machinery, electric and air- power drills. chain belting. elevators, conveyors, rope transmissions and coal washing and crushing machinery.
The effort- of Mr. Jeffrey have not been confined alone to one line, for his opinions carry weight in business circles generally, where he is known as a man of sound judgment and unquestioned ability. He is president of the Ohio Malleable Iron Company of Columbus, Ohio: he is a stockholder. vice president and director in the Commercial National Bank of Columbus;
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is also a stockholder and director in the Ohio Trust Company; and is con nected directly and indirectly with many other business enterprises of Columbus.
Mr. Jeffrey was united in marriage to Miss Celia C. Harris, a daughter of Joseph and Deborah (Clark) Harris, the wedding being celebrated on the 2d of October, 1866. They now have six children: Minnie G., Florence. Robert II., Agnes, Joseph Walter and Malcolm Douglas. The eldest son, Robert H., is vice president and assistant general manager of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company. Joseph Walter is vice president and manager of the Ohio Malleable Iron Company, and the youngest son is assistant man- ager of the advertising department of the Jeffrey Company. The eldest daughter, Minnie G., is a graduate of Gannett Institute, of Boston, Massa- chusetts, and is the wife of R. G. Hutchins, vice president of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company. Florence was graduated in the Smith College of Northampton, Massachusetts, and is now the wife of William Wilson Carlile, a lawyer of Columbus, Ohio. Agnes is a graduate of Smith College and is now the wife of Frederick Shedd of Comnibus.
Mr. Jeffrey served for five years as a trustee of the Protestant Hospital of Columbus, the Godman Guild House of Columbus, the Humane Society of Columbus, the Children's Hospital of Columbus, and also of the Woman's Hospital of this city. Ile is a director and truster in the First Congrega- tional church, of which he and his wife and children are members. He likewise holds membership in the Cohunbus Club, the Ohio Chib of Colum- bus, the Arlington Country Club, the Columbus Country Club and the Middle Bass Chib of Lake Erie. In politics he is an out-poken republican. His busi- ness career has been indeed very creditable, having e-tabli-hed hi- present Lusi- ness, the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company and mainly through his efforts and direction having seen it grow from a very small beginning, the employ- ment of a half dozen men, to its present large proportions with a capital and surphis of over four million dollars, employing when running full over- three thousand men, demonstrating the truth of the saying that success is not the result of genius but the outcome of a clear judgment and experience.
EDGAR B. KINKEAD.
Ohio has ever been distinguished by reason of the eminence of her bench and bar and among the prominent lawyers of the capital city are numbered Edgar B. Kinkead whey contributions to legal literatur, as well as his prae- tice as emmiselor and advocate have gained him preeminence as a representa- tive of the legal profession. While he has a broad knowledge of the principles of jurisprudence, he possesses too a keenly analytical mind that has ever en- abled him to discriminate between the essential and the non-essential and to place in due relative proportion all of the points bearing upon his cases.
Mr. Kinkead was born near Beverly, Washington county, Ohio, March 14. 1863. He is descended in the paternal line from Scotch-Trish ancestry,
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the founder of the family in America being David Kinkead, his g father, who came from Dungarvan, Ireland, immediately after tl tionary war. He enlisted on board a man-of-war during the period ties, expecting in that way to reach the new world but. being disar this, sailed from Belfast to the United States on the first ship this after the conclusion of peace, landing at Philadelphia in 1783. I were Isaac Benton and Hannah (Thornburg) Kinkead, and the active business life, devoted his attention to the lumber trade.
That Edgar B. Kinkead was endowed by nature with keen force is indicated by the fact that when but a boy of twelve yea ducted a school amid the forests of Washington county, to whi. his father's lumber business had called him. Edgar B. Kinkead h school, his pupils being the children of the neighborhood whose had been inferior to his own. Later he resumed his education as a Marietta College and later he spent a few months in taking subscrip book, but his desire was to become a member of the bar and to t began to study law in September, 1881, spending a year's time in For six years he filled the position of deputy clerk in the office of 1 judge of Washington county and in 1887 he was appointed a dep office of the clerk of the supreme court of Ohio. Not long afterw tered upon five years' service as assistant state law librarian, and engaged le devoted the hours usually designated as "leisure" to tl: law and prepared and published his first contribution to legal litera volume, entitled "Self Preparation for Final Examination," was 1893. The previous year he had assisted in the preparation of a v "Booth on Street Railways," and he is also the author of "Kink Pleading," which is in two volumes and was first published in 1894. edition being issued in 1898. In 1897 he brought out "Kinkead tions and Entries" and in 1900, "Kinkead's Practice" and "Kink tions, which have been received by the bench and the bar as volume: authoritatively upon the subjects discussed therein.
In 1890 Mr. Kinkead served for a time as editor of the Ohio La and in 1895 he became a member of the faculty of the law departr Ohio State University, being regarded as one of the able law educa state, addressing his classes with clearness and perspicuity upon t that come in his department. Almost from the beginning of his tion with the bar he has enjoyed a large clientage and his work in has been of a most important character. He was associated as zpec for the state in the celebrated Standard Oil litigation and other c tional importance, in which he attracted widespread attention by h and masterly manipulation of the cause and facts. His oratory. the sound logic of truth, carries conviction to the minds of judge While prompted by a laudable ambition to attain success that is istic of every great lawyer and while his devotion to his clients' proverbial, he never forgets that he owes a still higher allegiance t esty of the law. He is an able, efficient and conscientious mini: temple of justice, having always conformed his practice to a high $
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professional ethics, making it always his purpose to aid the court in the admin- istration of justice.
Mr. Kinkead was married January 20, 1883, to Miss Nellie M. Snyder, a native of Canada, and they have one daughter, Mabel, born October 16, 1883. Mr. Kinkead is recognized as a vahied member of various organizations. He belongs to the Delta Upsilon, a college fraternity, and to the Phi Delta Phi, a law fraternity. In 1888 he joined the Knights of Pythias Lodge of Colum- bus, has filled all of its chairs, and in 1895 he was appointed by the grand chancellor of the domain of Ohio as a member of the grand tribunal of Ohio for a terin of four years, while in May, 1899, he was reappointed for another term of five years. He holds membership with the Universalist church but his religion is too broad for ereed or dogma, as he believes in living the Christ life, in doing all the good one can and in living as nearly right as possible. His political allegianee is given to the republican party and his support of its principles is unfaltering, for he believes that they contain the best elements of good government. In his boyhood he cherished the ambition of having a large library and fine horses and in the course of years he has come to have both of these ambitions realized. Much more has come to him, for in life he learned to seek only that which is worth while, never choosing the second best, and all times uses his native talents and forces so that he seems to realize at any one point of his career the possibilities for successful accomplishment at that point.
JOHN G. BATTELLE.
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