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The loss to a community of such a citizen as Doctor Clark is difficult to estimate. His influence as a potential factor in the civic and commercial life of the community was far-reaching. His long and useful life was so inti- mately intermingled with all the vital forces of good that to place a finger upon this or that particular achievement were merely random acknowledg- ment of a career singularly fruitful of just and honorable deeds. Memory lingers with loving tenderness over his personality.
WILSON SHANNON HEADE.
Few citizens of a past generation figured more prominently in the affairs of Guernsey county than Wilson Shannon Heade, now a "pilgrim to that bourne from which no traveler returns." Broad-minded, active, kind-hearted and public-spirited, he was a man of the people and was accorded the highest esteem, living, and now that he has passed from among us. his memory is greatly revered.
Mr. Heade was born May 4. 1842, on a farm near Fairview, in Oxford township. the son of James and Sarah (Dillon) Heade. The father was born in Culpeper county, Maryland, and the mother was from New England. Both father and mother came as young people with their parents to Guern- sey county. The Dillons were Quakers. James Heade was a farmer, a man of prominence and worth, was of upright character and active in the affairs of the early settlers and highly honored by all.
The son. Wilson Shannon Heade, grew up on the farm and attended the district schools and began teaching school at the age of sixteen, his first school being at Yankee Point. Guernsey county. He taught for a number of years and. his father dying young, he assisted his mother in the care of the
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family. Being a studious youth while teaching, he studied law and in 1870 was admitted to the practice of law. He opened an office in Quaker City the same year and maintained an office in Quaker City for three years, coming to Cambridge in 1873, and opened an office there. In 1875 he formed a partner- ship with Judge Edward W. Matthews and grew in activity and influence at the bar. This fortunately continued until June, 1903, when Mr. Heade with- drew from the firm and formed a partnership with his son, Stephen R. Heade, in the brokerage and loan business, Mr. Heade continuing the practice of law up to his death, August 16, 1905. He devoted his life to the practice of the law and was recognized as an able counselor and advocate. During the Civil war he enlisted in the army and served from his enlistment until the close of the war, serving as a clerk at headquarters most of the time, being an expert accountant and fine writer.
Mr. Heade was married February 8, 1877, to Margaret Henderson Clark, daughter of Dr. Stephen B. and Jane ( McCracken) Clark, mention of whom is inade elsewhere in this work. To Mr. and Mrs. Heade have been born two children: Mary, now the widow of Rev. Thomas C. Pollock, of Mon- month, Illinois, and Stephen R., of Cambridge.
Mr. Heade was a Democrat in politics and was an active man in public life, a public-spirited citizen in all lines and was prominent in all movements looking to the uplift and advancenient of the community. He was a member of the First United Presbyterian church and was an elder in this church for many years. Upon the organization of the Second United Presbyterian church, he went with that congregation and was an elder of that church until his death in 1905. He was a member of the County Children's Home board for twelve years and always interested in philanthropic work. He was a member of the trustees of Muskingum College at New Concord, Ohio, for some years and chairman of the finance committee. His wife and family are also United Presbyterians. Mr. Heade was a very methodical man in all things, and a great lover of books. In the home is a fine private library of fully eight hundred volumes of reference, history, biography, standard authors and the poets, also miscellaneous volumes, and the best current literature. Mrs. Heade is a most excellent woman, closely identified with church work and a member of the different organizations of the church. She is a member of the Mcclellan-Brown Sorosis, a prominent woman's club of the city, a devoted wife and mother whose chief thought has always been. her husband, her family and her home. The home is on the corner of Eleventh and Wheel- ing avenue, a pretentious home with every comfort and convenience.
The family has always been prominent in the social life of the city.
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HENRY L. WILLIAMS.
The present sketch is concerned with a well known and successful jeweler and optician of Cambridge. Henry L. Williams, who has so well qualified himself for his business by experience and education that success in it is the natural result of his training. He was born on July 29, 1850, in Adamsville. Muskingum county, Ohio, a son of Asher and Jeanette ( Hubbell ) Williams. His father was a native of Meadville, Pennsylvania, his mother of New York state, and they were married at Meadville. Both the Williams and the Hub- bell families came to Ohio at the same time, making the trip down the Ohio and up the Muskingum to Zanesville in a flatboat. The Hubbells remained in Zanesville, and Jedediah Hubbell, the father of Mrs. Williams, engaged in the manufacture of paper and from his factory in Zanesville came the first straw paper made in the United States. The Williams family moved to Adams- ville, where Asher Williams was employed as a foreman in a cabinetmaking establishment. He remained in Adamsville only for a few years, then moved to Cambridge in the spring of 1857, where he engaged at the corner of Eighth street and Turner avenue in the business of cabinetmaking. He was a skilled workman, and continued in cabinetmaking during his business life. Asher Williams was a Republican, and a man well informed in politics but not active. He was a member of the Methodist church and a devout Christian, a class leader and active church worker.
The family of Asher Williams consisted of five sons and two daughters : Mary A. is single and resides in Cambridge ; Charles H. is in Holton, Kansas ; Margaret married William Wenner, of Holton, Kansas; Jedediah is in Cam- bridge; Asher in Kansas City, Missouri; Fred is deceased ; Henry L. is the subject of this sketch.
Asher Williams, Sr., was born in 1810, and died in 1883. His wife was born on July 4, 1810, and died in 1893. Both are buried in the cemetery at Cambridge.
Their son, Henry L. Williams, was educated in the public schools of Cambridge, and as a lad learned the trade of a signwriter, and later learned the jewelry business with J. F. Salmon of Cambridge. After a few years he has a desire to become an expert optician and took a course in optics with Julius King of Cleveland, later a course with the Globe Optical Company of Boston, and then studied under A. J. Cross, a recognized optical authority, of New York, with whom he took a special course in retinascopy. Still later he studied with the South Bend College of Optics, at South Bend, Indiana, from which he obtained the degree of Doctor of Optics.
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Mr. Williams first established himself in the optical and jewelry business in Cambridge in 1891, and has continued here ever since, constantly enjoying a larger business and meeting with wonderful success in the optical line. His location is at No. 743 Wheeling avenue, and he is a recognized optical expert. On July 29, 1897, Mr. Williams was married to Martha Pickering, of Cambridge, who was educated in the public schools of Guernsey county and Cambridge, and is an intelligent, refined and cultivated woman. She is a member of the Sorosis Woman's Club. She and her husband are members of the Methodist church, and Mrs. Williams is a great church and Sunday school worker and a member of the different church organizations and societies. Mr. Williams is also a teacher in the Sunday school. He is a Republican in politics, not active, but always interested and is an intelligent voter and up- right citizen in every respect, of spotless integrity in all business and private affairs.
WILLIAM M. LAWYER, M. D.
The present sketch is the record of a man who has in his life overcome many difficulties in the way of entrance into his chosen profession, but whose success after entrance has fully justified his choice. William M. Lawyer was horn on July 12, 1869, on a farm in Knox township, Guernsey county, Ohio, the son of James P. and Johanna ( Moss ) Lawyer.
James P. Lawyer was born in Guernsey county, his ancestry coming to this county about 1809 from the state of Pennsylvania. For many years he was prominent in the county as a school teacher, and is now living a retired life in Wheeling township near Guernsey station. His wife is also living. They were the parents of ten children, one of whom died in infancy, and nine of whom are yet living. The living are : Charles E .. of Cambridge ; Amanda, now Mrs. Joseph Lowry, of Knox township; Hannah, unmarried, a teacher of elocution in Los Angeles, California: William M .; Emma, who married James Glenn, of Coshocton : John M., of Isletta, Ohio : James P., of Guernsey, Wheeling township: Anna, now Mrs. James Thomas, of Los Angeles, Cali- fornia : and Elsie C., of Guernsey station.
William M. Lawyer was reared on a farm and attended the Knox town- ship country schools. At the age of twenty he began teaching, and for three years taught in Guernsey county, where he was popular, and was considered a progressive teacher. He then entered the Valparaiso (Indiana) Normal School, and took a scientific course, obtaining the degree of Bachelor of
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Science in the class of 1894. He then went to Waubay, South Dakota, and engaged as principal of the town schools, where he remained three years, and during which time he was married. He then went to Ellendale, South Dakota, where he was superintendent of schools for five years. While there he entered as a non-resident student of Add-Rania Christian University, at Waco, Texas, and completed their course of study, and while teaching grad- uated in 1898 with the degree of Master of Arts. On leaving Ellendale he went to Chicago and entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Medical College of the University of Illinois, and in 1905 received his medi- cal degree. He first located in the practice of medicine at Kimbolton, near the scenes of his youth, and has built up a large and profitable practice, being successful both as a physician and surgeon, and in a financial way.
Doctor Lawyer was married in 1896, to Effie I. Billings, the daughter of William Billings, of Paoli, Kansas. Mrs. Lawyer is a graduate of the Val- paraiso Normal, and was for several years a high school teacher at Webster, South Dakota, prior to her marriage. To this union have been born four children : Ruskin B., born on February 27, 1897, a student in the Cambridge high school; the second child was born on January 9, 1900, and died in in- fancy ; Frank Gordon was born on December 30, 1902, and Helen May, on March 7, 1908.
Fraternally, Doctor Lawyer is a member of the Masonic order and of the Odd Fellows, and the auxiliary societies of both these orders, in the latter of which his wife is a member. He is a Scottish-rite Mason. In politics he is a Republican, and for some time was active in politics, but now, though not active, is interested in public matters, and is a member of the village council of Kimbolton. During the Spanish-American war Doctor Lawyer took a prominent part in raising and organizing a company for service, and was made its second lieutenant, the company being Company M, First Infantry of North Dakota, but the war was over before the regiment was mustered in and they never saw active service. However the organization was continued as a militia regiment, and for three years the Doctor held the post of second lieutenant. As an evidence of his high standing in educational work in the state of North Dakota, Doctor Lawyer holds a life high school teacher's certificate.
Mrs. Lawyer is a refined and cultivated woman, devoted to her home and family. Doctor Lawyer is a large man physically, and intellectually as well, and a most agreeable companion. He is very busy in his profession, but finds time for social duties, and both he and his wife are prominent in the social life of the community.
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JOSEPH WORTHINGTON DYSON.
In one of the most exacting of all callings the subject of this sketch has attained distinction, being recognized as one of the most successful teachers in the county of Guernsey. He is a well educated, symmetrically developed min, his work as an educator having brought him prominently to the notice of the public, the result of which is a demand for his services where a high standard of professional excellence is required. He is a gentleman of scholar- ly tastes and studious habits, keeps abreast the times in advanced educational methods and his general knowledge is broad and comprehensive.
Mr. Dyson is a native of the county in which he now lives, having been born in Pleasant City on June 24, 1875. He is the son of Joseph and Martha (Albin ) Dyson, both of whom were born and reared in Valley township, this county. Joseph Dyson in his early life was one of the progressive and suc- cessful teachers of Guernsey county, but subsequently, on account of his health, he relinquished pedagogy for the more healthful employment of farm- ing, to which he devoted himself until his death. His widow survives and now lives on the home farm, a half mile north of Pleasant City. To these par- ents were born four children, three sons and a daughter, namely : Rosetta. deceased ; Orloff, who operates the home farm in Valley township; one son who died in infancy, and Joseph W., the immediate subject of this sketch.
Joseph W. Dyson spent his childhood and early youth on the paternal homestead and received his early education in the Pleasant City schools. He later attended Wooster University and, still later, became a student in Scio College, where he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. At the age of nineteen years he had begun teaching school and has ever since followed this vocation, in which he has met with most gratifying success, his work in- variably meeting the approbation of officials and patrons of the schools over which he has presided. It speaks well for his ability and energy, that he has been able to take his college work while at the same time discharging the multi- tudinous duties which fall to the successful teacher. His pedagogical career has been confined to the schools of Guernsey county. In 1903 he was elected principal of the Pleasant Valley schools, having been connected with the schools there prior to that time. In 1906 he became superintendent of the schools at Kimbolton, his retention in this important position being a sufficient evidence of the satisfactory character of his services. While superintendent at Pleasant City he founded the high school and since taking charge of the Kimbolton schools he has succeeded in greatly increasing their efficiency and raising the standard of studies and discipline, so that today these schools are
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among the most successful in the county, many students from the surrounding country attending there. Mr. Dyson possesses a common and high school state life teacher's certificate, attesting his efficiency and thoroughness in his profession. He has been a county school examiner since 1907, now serving his second term in this capacity. He was also elected president of the County Teachers' Association, and is now serving his second year in that capacity. He takes the keenest interest in his profession, to which he is absolutely de- voted, and among those who are conversant with his methods and the results obtained by him, he is held in the highest esteem.
Politically, Professor Dyson is a Republican and in the success of his party he takes an active interest. He has frequently been a delegate to county and district conventions of his party and in the political councils his judgment is valued highly by his associates. He clings to the religious faith of his par- ents, who were devoted members of the Evangelical Lutheran church.
On September 5, 1906, Professor Dyson was married to Mary C. Nelson, a daughter of Edwin M. and Margaret (Work) Nelson, who are mentioned elsewhere in this work. To Mr. and Mrs. Dyson has been born one child, Worthy Edwin, born March 5, 1908. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Dyson was a successful public school teacher. She was a student in Wooster Uni- versity, at Wooster, Ohio, and in the State Normal School at Dillon, Montana, and in that latter state she engaged in teaching for four years. She also taught in the schools of East Palestine, Ohio, and was considered a very suc- cessful primary teacher, having taken special preparatory work in that depart- ment. She is a refined and cultured woman and she'and her husband have a host of warm and loyal friends, who esteem them for their genuine worth.
ROSS MOORE.
The subject of this sketch was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, July 25, 1863. His parents, John and Martha ( Ross) Moore, came from Wash- ington county, Pennsylvania, and located in Muskingum county, Ohio, where the father bought a farm and established their home. Ross grew up on the farm, but when eighteen or nineteen years old he went to Norwich and learned the carpenter's trade, then, after two years spent in Norwich, he went to New Concord and acquired the barber's trade. Three years later he came to Cambridge, and after working one year as a journeyman barber he bought a shop of his own, and there, since the fall of 1886, he has been continuously in
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business. The Ist of August, 1904, he established his present shop in the Central National Bank building. It is easily the best-equipped and the best- patronized barber shop in Guernsey county, and as such deserves especial mention here.
Mr. Moore was married September 22, 1887, to Mary Wall, daughter of Dr. Andrew Wall. Doctor Wall, a sketch of whom appears herein, was the most eminent physician that ever lived in Guernsey county.
Mr. and Mrs. Moore have two children, Fred and Doris, both of whom are at home with their parents. Fred has just completed a most unusual record in high school, having passed a grade of above ninety-eight for the year's work and in his examination he led a class of forty-four. Although only nineteen years of age, he was immediately given a place as teacher in the Cambridge schools.
Mr. and Mrs. Moore both belong to the United Presbyterian church. They have a pleasant home, and they are people whom it is a pleasure to meet. Mr. Moore is a steady, substantial citizen.
WILLIAM E. HEAUME.
Among the substantial citizens of Cambridge, Guernsey county, who have built up a comfortable home and surrounded themselves with valuable landed estates and personal property, few have attained a higher degree of success than William E. Heaume, whose career, though strenuous, has been fraught with good to his fellow men and his example is cordially commended to the youth of the land whose life work is yet a matter of the future.
Mr. Heaume was born June 17, 1850, in Valley township, Guernsey county, and he is the son of John and Rachel ( Priaulx) Heaume, both natives of the island of Guernsey, off the northeast coast of France, and they came to America when young and located in this county and were married after locating here. The father was a farmer and for a time engaged in the tobacco business. He was a public-spirited citizen and took considerable interest in local political matters, and he filled a number of township offices. He and his wife are now both deceased, his death occurring on November 17. 1894, and she died on January 31, 1892. The mother is buried in the Hart- ford cemetery and the father in the old home cemetery on the island of Guernsey, whither he had gone on a visit when he was seized with illness and died.
John Heaume
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William E. Heaume was educated in the common schools of Hartford; he grew up on the farm and assisted his father while in the tobacco business. He continued farming with a large degree of success until 1907, when he moved to Cambridge, where he has since resided. He has an excellent farm, which is kept well improved, and it is underlaid with a rich vein of coal, which has been operated by a company for some time, and Mr. Heaume has received large royalties from this which has enabled him to live retired. He is a public spirited citizen and has filled the offices of township trustee and school director. He is a Republican in politics and, with his family, is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church, being active in church affairs and a liberal supporter of the church.
Mr. Heaume was married on December 18, 1873, to Amanda C. Salla- day. daughter of George and Mary (Spaid) Salladay, of Valley township, this county. The father was born in Noble county and the mother in Guern- sey county, this state. Mr. Salladay is a farmer and a prominent citizen of Valley township. filling various township offices. He and his wife are both living.
Mr. and Mrs. Heaume are the parents of four children, namely: Minola M., now Mrs. Rev. Charles U. Larrick, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran church of Lewisburg, Ohio; John S., of Springfield, Ohio, who married Julia D. Moler, of Springfield, Ohio; Oella J. married Prof. O. B. Drake, of Arvada, Colorado; Amy Alberta married Dr. James A. Secrest, of Cam- bridge, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Heaume are active in all progressive movements calcu- lated to advance the public morals and educational interests of the town and county of their residence. They are charitable toward all worthy objects.
The Heaume farm and country home was perhaps the best improved and cultivated in the county. The dwelling had all modern conveniences, the lawns well kept, the buildings modern and always in splendid repair.
HERBERT H. BOWN, M. D.
One of the best known and most successful physicians of Guernsey county and one of her most representative citizens is Dr. Herbert H. Bown, of Pleasant City, who is an American by adoption only, his birth having oc- curred at Lymington, England, July 16, 1865, but he has. nevertheless, been loyal to our institutions and has become thoroughly Americanized. He is the
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scion of an excellent and noteworthy ancestry, being the son of Charles and Catherine (Burgiss) Bown. Through his mother's family, Doctor Bown can trace his ancestry back to Lawrence Burgiss, who was bailiff of Reading in 1204. This branch of the family was one of prominence in England, and bore a coat-of-arms. In 1645, Roger Burgiss was lieutenant-colonel in the army of Charles I. and deputy governor of Faringdon Castle, the castle being as- saulted by Oliver Cromwell, the former stoutly defended it and repulsed "Old Tronsides" and his forces. Eliseus Burgiss succeeded Joseph Dudly as gov- ernor of New England early in the eighteenth century and in 1715 was ap- pointed captain-general of Massachusetts Bay colony, to succeed Sir Edmund Andros. He was later his Majesty's resident at Venice when that post was one of prominence, Venice being then a great commercial center. Another noted ancestor of this family was Capt. George Burgiss, a captain in General Bland's regiment of dragoons under George II. He fought against the Pretender in Scotland in 1745, becoming aid-de-camp to General Bland, and was afterwards made secretary and receiver general of the British garrison at Gibraltar. In 1873 Charles Bown and family emigrated to America, Dr. Herbert H. Bown then being a lad of eight years. The family located five miles north of Marysville, Ohio, and that remained the family home during the father's lifetime. This family consisted of ten children, of whom the Doctor was the fourth in order of birth. The others were: Charles S., a prominent teacher in the public schools of the state of Washington; Fred S. is now in Charleston, West Virginia, being in a life insurance office there ; Frank A. is a Congregational minister at Spokane, Washington ; Dr. S. J. is at Richwood, Ohio, where he is practicing medicine ; Arthur L. is engaged in the lumber trade at Selma, Alabama, being secretary and treasurer of the Selma Spoke Company; N. C. and E. S. Bown, the two youngest sons, are partners in the real estate, loan and fire insurance business at Marysville, Ohio, and the mother of this family makes her home with them, the father having died in 1906.
Doctor Bown, of this review, grew to manhood on the home farm near Marysville, where he assisted with the general work about the place when old enough, attending the common schools in the meantime, later teaching a few years. Deciding to study medicine, he turned his attention in that direction and attended Columbus Medical College, where he made a splendid record and from which he was graduated in 1892, receiving the highest "honorable mention" for proficiency and high standing in his examinations. In the fall of that year, he came to Pleasant City, Guernsey county, where he began the practice of medicine and surgery, enjoying a very liberal patronage from the
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