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DR. WILLIAM D. CARLIN.
Dr. William D. Carlin was born at Maumee City, April 27, 1822. His parents had settled here previous to the war of 1812. Dr. Carlin was the son of Squire Carlin, a pioneer of Hancock county of the year 1826. Our subject was but four years of age when his parents settled in Findlay. Here he grew to manhood. He obtained such education as the limited facilities of a frontier village could furnish. Before he was twenty years old he began the study of medicine with Dr. Bass Rawson, the pioneer physician of the county. In March, 1843, one month before he was twenty-one years of age, he graduated with honors from the Cincinnati Medical college. After his graduation Dr. Carlin began the practice of his profession in Findlay and continued actively until 1846, when he was made surgeon of the Fifteenth United States regular infantry and went with his command to Mexico as that country and the United States were at war. He was the youngest surgeon in the American army. He served with distinction during the struggle and achieved a high reputation both as a soldier and surgeon .. After his return from the war Dr. Carlin resumed the practice of his profession in Findlay. March 6, 1845, he was married to Harriet E. H. Rawson, daughter of Dr. Bass Rawson, his medical preceptor. Three children were the fruits of this union ; Dr. Cass. R. Carlin, ex-Senator William L. Carlin and Mrs. Sarah A. Dondore. Of the three, only one, William L., is now living. In 1849, on the discovery of gold in California, Dr. Carlin made a trip to the new gold fields in company with his father, brother and others. The party crossed the great plains and the Rocky mountains. On his return to Ohio he made a second trip to the gold region, going and returning by sea and the isthmus of Panama. In the spring of 1862 he was appointed chief surgeon of the Fifty seventh regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, in the civil war. His experience in the Mexican war had given him a reputation as an army surgeon, and this fact was recognized by the government in making the appointment. Dr. Carlin did splendid service in his regiment and was the means of preventing much suffering and many hard- ships. He died in the service of his country at Milliken's Bend, Tennessee, De- cember 26, 1862, four months before reaching his forty-first year. He led an active and useful life. Dr. Carlin was a man of kind and generous impulses and was held in high esteem by his fellow citizens. He was enterprising and public- spirited and ever ready to do what he could to advance the interests of the town and county. He was held in great respect by the members of the medical pro- fession, who depended largely upon him for advice and counsel. At the time he entered the service of the civil war he had a large and lucrative practice in the town and county. He was grandfather of Rawson K. Carlin, present police judge of Findlay.
ANSON HURD.
Anson Hurd, M. D., was born in Twinsburg, Summit county, Ohio, De- cember 27, 1824. His parents, Robert and Mary (Brainerd) Hurd, hailed from Connecticut, and came from families whose names were connected with the early
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settlement of that state. In 1839 Robert removed from Twinsburg, Ohio, to this county, and for many years was a prominent leader in the development of Hancock county, laying out and platting the town of Arlington in 1844. He died in 1860, at the age of seventy-six. leaving a large family, who at present is scattered considerably over the country. Our subject came with his brother, Jared, to this county, and at Arlington cleared the land and built the cabin oc- cupied by their father on his arrival. At the age of twenty he returned to Twinsburg, where he remained for three years under the instruction of the Rev. Samuel Bissell, D. D., president of Twinsburg institute. He then taught school in Pike county, where, becoming acquainted with the Hon. J. I. Van Meter, of that county, he obtained a scholarship in Delaware college. After spending three years in that institution he engaged in the study of medicine with Dr. William Blackstone, of Athens, and after a year repaired to Columbus and read in the office of Professor Samuel M. Smith, graduating from Starling Med- ical college in March, 1852. He then located in Oxford, Indiana, where he practiced his profession for many years. In 1861 he represented the counties of White and Benton in the legislature of that state. Soon after the attack on Fort Sumter he was invited by Governor Morton, of Indiana, to accept the post of assistant surgeon of the Twentieth Indiana volunteer infantry, which he ac- cepted, serving through the first campaign to Hatteras. Returning to Fortress Monroe, he resigned his commission in the Twentieth and accepted that of surgeon of the Fourteenth, and served in all the battles of the campaign of 1862. In January, 1863, he resigned his commission, and in April moved to Findlay. where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. Dr. Hurd has contributed to various medical journals in the way of some very fine articles, and has held offices of trust in the medical world. He is a liberal supporter. of measures tending toward the growth of the community.
LORENZO FIRMIN.
Dr. Lorenzo Firmin was born March 31. 1808, in South Wilbraham, Massa- chusetts, son of John Firmin. When quite young he learned the trade of shoe- making with his father, with whom he was connected in the east till 1834, when he came west to Richfield, Summit county, Ohio, and entered into partnership with Dr. Secretary Rawson, in a tannery, which he continued in until 1841, when he sold out to O. M. Oviatt, of Richfield. In 1841 he came to Findlay, Ohio, read medicine with Dr. Bass Rawson and graduated in the profession. He prac- ticed at Benton, this county, till 1847, when he returned to Findlay, where ne thought an opening existed, owing to the fact that several physicians. from Find- lay were holding positions in the Mexican war. He was married June 28. 1838, to Clara H., daughter of Dr. Secretary Rawson. They had no children. Dr. Firmin continued his profession in this place until his retirement in 1877. After retirement from medical practice our subject gave his attention to his private business matters, which were many and important.
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His first wife having died in 1891, Dr. Firmin was again married in 1894, his second union being with Miss Mary B. Humphrey, a native of Findlay. He was congratulated on his matrimonial event by many old citizens of this city. His death, which occurred October 12 ,1901, was received with profound grief by the community, where he so long had been a resident and a very efficient promoter of the interests of the city and county.
WILLIAM M. DETWILER.
Dr. William M. Detwiler was born in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, August 23, 1832. He learned the trade of plastering with his father and in 1851 came west and located in Findlay, where he carried on his trade for some time. He subsequently moved to Illinois, and, on returning from there in 1859, entered the office of Dr. Oesterlin, where he prosecuted the study of medicine. On the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion our subject left his worthy preceptor's office and enlisted his services in defense of the Union ; three years of his time. however, were devoted to service as hospital steward, and upon the close of the war he returned to his medical studies, graduating from the Homeopathic Hos- pital college of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1867. Dr. Detwiler located in Findlay, and for ten years was prominently identified with the profession of medicine in this portion of the state.
The doctor's death occurred April 30, 1877. He was at that time president of the Ohio State Homeopathic Medical society and also president of the Alumni Association of Cleveland college. The Masonic, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias societies, the Findlay Guards and the ex-soldiers all took part in the funeral ceremonies in his memory. Dr. Detwiler was an ardent Sabbath school and church worker, and was an acknowledged leader in all interests he sought to serve.
TOBIAS G. BARNHILL.
Tobias G. Barnhill, physician, Findlay, was born in Wayne county, Ohio, May 5, 1851 ; son of Joseph and Sarah (Frankhauser) Barnhill, the former a na- tive of that county and of Pennsylvania pioneer ancestry, the latter born in Pick- way county, Ohio. In 1853 they removed to this county and settled in Liberty town- ship, where they reared four sons and three daughters. Our subject, who is the third child, received a good common school education, and at seventeen engaged in teaching ; at eighteen he began the study of medicine in the office of Drs. Oes- terlin & Detwiler, and in his twenty second year graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital college, class of 1873. He immediately began the practice of his profession in Findlay, and has been successfully connected with it since, introducing in 1880 his valuable medicated baths. He married in 1874 Mary J., daughter of Conrad and Christiana Renninger, pioneers of Liberty town- ship, this county, and they have one son, Joseph C. The doctor is a public- spirited citizen and contributes liberally to the advancement of Hancock coun- ty's interests. He is a worthy Odd Fellow, a member of the Legion of Honor,
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has served as coroner of the county three terms and has been an active member of the board of education of Findlay. He owns and operates a large sanitarium where patients can go and receive the best of care and treatment on very liberal terms.
FRANKLIN WAYNE ENTRIKIN.
Franklin W. Entrikin, M. D., was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1830; he was the son of Emmor and Susannah (Bennett) Entrikin, of pioneer English Quaker ancestry in that state. In 1832 Emmor Entrikin moved to Columbiana county, Ohio, where he reared a family of five sons and one daughter in the Quaker faith. Franklin W. received a good literary training and at seventeen entered the Quaker academy at Salen, being a class-mate of Byron Shariton, M. D., professor of diseases of women, Miami Medical college, Cincin- nati, Ohio. After completing a thorough literary and scientific course there he engaged in the study of dentistry, in which profession he spent a few years. He, however, continued reading medicine and graduated from the Ohio Medical col- lege of Cincinnati. In 1855 he came to Findlay, where he spent most of his time since in professional practice, until his death. He, however, had spent some considerable time in public lecturing on his profession, and for three years held the chair of gynecology in Ft. Wayne. Indi- ana, Medical college. He has also contributed writings to many leading medical journals. He was a member of the Northwestern Ohio Medical association and the Cleveland Microscopical society. He has had charge of the sanitariums in Cleveland and Green Springs. He served in the capacity of professor of gynecol- ogy in the Toledo Medical college in 1885, and delivered a full course of lectures in that institution in 1885 and 1886. The doctor was married in October, 1851, to Sarah Ann, daughter of Thomas Lyon, of Deerfield, Portage county, Ohio, and by her he had three sons : Emmor L., a leading jeweler in this city : Leonidas A., also a jeweler, and Franklin B., a prominent young physician, who is rapidly following in his father's footsteps in his chosen profession. Our subject was a hard-working, painstaking physician and was as much a student in his later days, even up to his death, as he was when young.
FRANCIS W. FIRMIN.
Francis W. Firmin, M. D., was born in Richfield, Summit county, Ohio, July 15, 1842, and is a descendant of pioneers of that name in Massachusetts, who came to our shores in 1630, in the fleet with Governor Winthrop. Our sub- ject is a son of Francis B. and Mary (Chapin) Firmin. He received a good ed- ucation in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, and at Oberlin, Ohio, in 1862-63. In 1862 he came to Ohio and engaged in the study of medicine with his uncle, Dr. Lorenzo Firmin, and in 1867 graduated from the Cleveland Medical college. He- located in Findlay, this county, and has been in very creditable professional work here ever since. He married here in 1869 Mary, L. D., daughter of the Rev. John A. Meeks, a pioneer minister of the Presbyterian church. The doctor is a
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member of the American Medical association, the Ohio State Medical association, and of the Northwestern Ohio Medical association. July 15, 1863, he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Ohio volunteer infantry, and after serving his country for eight months was honorably discharged. He holds high rank in his profession, is a liberal contributor to all measures tending to the development of the social and industrial life of this locality.
JACOB A. KIMMEL.
Jacob A. Kimmel, physician, was born in Carroll county, Ohio, September 17, 1844, son of David and Christiana (Oakes) Kimmel. In 1851 David Kimmel settled in Marion township, this county, where four sons and three daughters . grew up. Our subject received a good common school education and attended Findlay High school. In February, 1863, he enlisted in defense of the Union, in company A, Twenty-first Ohio volunteer Infantry, and did active service until the end of the war, when he received an honorable discharge. After the close of the war he read medicine in the office of Drs. Entrikin & Ballard, at this place, and graduated from Cleveland Medical college in 1867. He then located in Cannonsburg, where he carried on an active practice till 1872, when he came to Findlay. In 1875 he took a post-graduate course at Bellevue Hospital Medical college of New York City, from which he received a creditable diploma. He married here in 1869, Eliza Ellen, daughter of the venerable citizen, now deceased, Robert Bonham. She passed away this life May 28, 1873, and was laid to rest in Maple Grove cemetery. In 1875 he married Rosa E., daughter of Ambrose Graber, and by her had one son, Alfred Graber. Dr. Kimmel is a worthy member of the G. A. R. ' He is a clever professional man, an energetic citizen, and a promoter of any public measure which has for its object the betterment of this community.
There may have been other physicians here in the early days of our history as a county, but the names above mentioned were permanent ones and are en- titled to their share of credit in assisting to develop the resources of our county. In the days when disease was more prevalent, owing to the dense forests, marshes and low, swampy ground, the smiling countenance of a doctor, when called to allay some unruly fever or other diseases common to those days, was truly a relief to the family, and became their friend in deed as well as a friend in need.
We have not the time nor space to mention the good and bad qualities, the privations and hardships that the younger doctors have passed through, but nevertheless we have some young physicians who will, in the near future, make their names famous in the medical world. Among these are: N. L. McLachlan, H. V. Beardsley, Don. C. Hughes, J. P. Baker, W. S. Vanhorn, Ralph W. Van- horn, J. M. Guise, P. O. Guise, I. N. Treece, W. M. Johnston, R. E. Brake, Al- fred W. Balsley, O. H. Saunders, Don Biggs, Theron S. Wilson, J. C. Tritch, M. J. Ewing. W. C. Neibling, F. W. Rodgers, J. E. Powell, J. M. Firmin, H. L.
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Babcock, J. M. Shepard, C. W. Benedict, M. M. Carrothers. W. W. Drake, F. B. Entrikin, W. B. Keator, R. B. Keeran, A. H. Linaweaver, J. R. McLeod, J. C. Martin, H. A. Vickers, T. E. Woods, W. N. Yost, Mrs. Nelia B. Kennedy and Alice K. Koogle.
CHAPTER XX.
THE BANKS.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
Findlay is noted as a city of progressive and safe institutions, but of all these none stand more high in the regard of the community at large throughout this section of Ohio, than "the old bank" the First National. No other bank in Northwestern Ohio outside of the city of Toledo has ever exceeded the million mark in total assets. This is a record with which no other financial institution in the city can compare.
The costly improvements recently made in the banking room and still in course of construction, are a source of universal comment, and once again brings the bank to the fore as having the finest bank furniture of any bank in North- western Ohio, excepting none. This new furniture is complete throughout. It is of the most modern design, made of golden oak, quarter-sawed, and solid brass, together with plate glass and marble. The business transactions of the in- stitution are transacted in what is really a very elaborate cage, there being a woven brass roof to the department of the cashier. An innovation in Findlay banks, is a special room, luxuriously appointed, for the use of ladies, separating them from the regular run of customers.
The First National was founded in June, 1863, with E. P. Jones as pres- ident and Charles E. Niles, cashier. The directors have been James A. Bope, Jacob F. Burket, R. B. Hurd, Henry Brown, H. P. Gage, James H. Wilson, George W. Kimmell, G. P. Jones, Anson Hurd, W. H. Wheeler, M. E. Jones, C. F. M. Niles, C. F. Jones and James A. Blair, the latter now a millionaire banker in New York city.
Mr. Jones was formerly clerk in the postoffice at Sandusky, and later was appointed agent of the Mad River railroad in Findlay, a position which he filled for many years, and at the same time engaged extensively in the grain business. He was a natural financier and his keen business ability brought him rapidly to the front.
Mr. Niles received his first banking education in 1852 in the State bank of Ohio at Ashtabula, commencing at the ground floor, at the foot of the ladder. He has worked his way up until he is considered one of the solid and level-headed bankers of Ohio. He has filled the positions of vice-president and president of the Ohio Bankers' association, and has held many responsible fiduciary offices during the past forty years.
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Mr. E. P. Jones' death in 1894 caused the first change in the officers of the bank since it had been founded thirty years before. Mr. Niles succeeded to the presidency, and George P. Jones, son of the bank's first president, became its cashier, a place that he has ably filled. Mr. Jones received his education primarily at Eastman's business college in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., but for over ten years be- fore assuming the position of cashier he rubbed elbows with his father and Mr. Niles, two of the finest financiers in Ohio, and from them gained an invaluable knowledge of the banking business. Both Mr. Niles and Mr. Jones continue in active service in the bank, none of the employes of the institution putting in more arduous hours than they.
The first furniture was that just recently succeeded by the handsome new equipment. It was of massive black walnut and plate glass, and was one of the sights of the town for many years.
The bank is just beginning the third period of its long career. From 1863 to 1892, the first period, the bank issued no higher than $5 bills; in the second period, to 1902, $5s, $Ios and $20s were issued ; and now at the beginning of its third period, the bank is issuing its banknotes for $50 and $100. One of the interesting relics of the institution is the old ledger, with which business was first opened in 1863. The capital stock of this bank, paid up, is $150,000. Sur- plus and undivided profits, $31,100, and individual deposits, $874,500.
The same course that has been pursued for forty years is still the guiding star of the bank, and is bearing it ever upward and onward. The First Na- tional is always safe, always conservative, and is the largest and strongest bank not only in Findlay, but, with the single exception of Toledo, in all this part of Ohio.
THE FARMER'S NATIONAL BANK.
The Farmer's National bank of Findlay, Ohio, No. 3477, was organized in 1886, its charter being granted March 30 of that year. It had for its first pres- ident Milton Gray, now deceased; then William Marvin, one of our present prominent business men, and now Judson Palmer, one of the most prominent business men of the county. This bank has succeeded wonderfully well, and under the present officials, Judson Palmer, president ; John A. Scott, vice-presi- dent, and Ralph W. Moore, cashier, bids fair to be as firm and staple as the men who have charge of the management. It has a capital stock of $100,000 paid up, a large amount of undivided profits, and individual deposits of $517,000. It deals in foreign and domestic exchange, receives deposits, has a savings de- partment system, a safe lock combination for the benefit of depositors, and to all intents and purposes is all that the name implies, a farmers' bank.
THE AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK.
The American National bank, organized June 29, 1887, is among the finan- cial institutions of Findlay and occupies a high rank among the business world in this community. This institution withstood the financial panic of 1893, and
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paid all demands made on it, whether due or not, and established for itself a rep- utation that older banks might well be proud of. The business of the bank cov- ers every line that properly belongs to banking; deposits are received, money loaned at low rates, drafts issued on Europe and other foreign countries, and letters of credit procured for travelers. Merchants, manufacturers, farmers and oil producers in large numbers do their business with this institution, where, an account once opened, is rarely changed. The officers who so magnificently en- gineer this financial institution are : Jacob F. Burket, president ; Harlan F. Burket, vice-president ; Louis W. Eoff, cashier, and Arthur E. Eoff, assistant cashier. This institution has paid up stock of $100.000, undivided profits of $13,871.73. and deposits to the amount of $812 899.60.
THE CITY BANKING COMPANY.
The City Banking company, was incorporated November 6, 1897, and com- menced business December 4, 1897, succeeded to the business of The City Bank of Findlay a, private bank organized by Peter Hosler and associates on May I, 1887, which bank has held an honorable position in the financial affairs of Find- lay during the entire term of its existence. Mr. N. M. Adams, the president, and also treasurer of the Adams Bros.' company, is a man of large experience in business and thoroughly in touch with the business world. Mr. D. H. Heistand, vice-president, is a man of large means, a successful oil producer and a progressive business man. W. F. Hosler, the cashier, has been identified with the banking interest of Findlay for the past twenty years, and by diligence, prudence and square dealing, has built up an enviable reputation. The paid up capital stock of this bank is $55,000, and the individual deposits amount to $468,000.
THE COMMERCIAL BANK AND SAVINGS COMPANY.
The Commercial Bank and Savings company, organized and incorporated November 10, 1900, and commenced business February 20, 1901, has made a remarkable stride towards breaking the record as a bank progressing and ad- vancing in the financial world as a meteor sails through the skies, passing all other bodies in velocity. This bank, within two years, under the able manage- ment of Mr. E. C. Taylor, president ; John B. Heimhofer, vice president ; C. J. Oller, cashier, and W. J. Creighton, secretary-treasurer, has built up such a vast trade that on a capital stock paid in of $40,000, they have increased their de- posits in this short time to the vast amount of $437,000, although the authorized capital of $80,000 was only one-half paid up. Surely this bank will in the course of a few years, at the pace already traveled, lead the banking business in this city.
Beside the banks already mentioned we have the People's Bank of McComb and the Mechanics' Bank of Arlington, which have been established as private banks, but which are a great benefit to the farmers, merchants and other business interests in their locality.
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CHAPTER XXI.
LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.
Labor day was celebrated first in New York city. The celebration took place there Monday, September 4, 1882. That day had been chosen by the Central Labor Union of the metropolis as a voluntary labor holiday, on which organized workingmen were requested to drop their employments, and after dis- playing their organized strength in a public parade, to make of the day a festival time. The New York Central Labor Union, the first of its kind, had been but recently formed and the Labor Day experiment was of doubtful promise up to the very hour set for the parade; but in the end the experience proved so suc- cessful that the first Monday of September has since been observed in a similar manner by the labor organizations of New York every year. The custom thus begun, speedily spread, until it is now general throughout the United States. Though voluntarily at first, the holiday was soon legalized in the state where it originated, and it is now a legal holiday in thirty-five states and the District of Columbia.
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