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He is a member of Magnolia Lodge F. & A. M. No. 20 of Columbus, of Mt. Vernon Commandery, of Scioto Consistory, Aladdin Shrine, and of all the intervening Masonic bodies. He is also a member of Excelsior Lodge of Odd Fellows, Franklin Lodge K. of P., Columbus Lodge of Elks, The Columbus Club, the Scioto Country Club, Columbus Country Club, the Athletic Club, and he is affiliated with many other organizations in the city and State.
Mr. Huling was married in 1875 to Miss Rosa Marguerite Hack, a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University. They have three children, Mary Wyckoff, now Mrs. William B. Wood- bury, Helen, now the wife of Dr. Arthur W. Newell, and Frank C. Huling, who was admitted to the bar and who was until recently a partner with his father in the law business, but now manager of the Seneca Hotel.
Mr. Huling is not a church member, but served on the building committee of the First Baptist Church in 1898, contributing largely to the erection of the Broad street edifice and aeted as treasurer of the organization during that period.
HON. JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL. Hon. James Edwin Campbell was born at Mid- dletown, Butler county, Ohio, July 7th, 1843, and is descended from two old American families. His paternal grandfather served as a soldier in the American Revolution for six years, while both his grandfathers were soldiers of the War of 1812. His father, Dr. Andrew Campbell, a physician and surgeon of note in Ohio, was born at Middletown, Ohio, June 22, 1807, of Scotch parents. He spent his youth at Franklin, Ohio, where he secured an excellent english and elassical education, graduating from the Medical College of Ohio in 1830, making a special study of surgery and in 1831 began the practice of medicine and sur-
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gery at Middletown, removing to Hamilton in 1848. His death occurred at the old Campbell home at Franklin September 5, 1851. His skill in surgery and his advanced ideas in both branches of the profession gained for him more than usual prominence and he was regarded as one of the medieal leaders of his time in the west. In March, 1835, Dr. Campbell mar- ried Laura P. Reynolds, daughter of John P. Reynolds, sr., pioneer merchant of Middle- town, Ohio, and a former publisher in the east. Mrs. Campbell was descended from an old English family which was established in Massachusetts prior to 1636, the family later remov- ing to Wetherfield, Conn., and from there to Ohio in pioneer days. Mrs. Campbell was a collateral descendant of Captain John Parker, who commanded the American forees at Lex- ington.
James Edwin Campbell beeame a school teacher at the age of eighteen years and while teaching he read law. For a period of over a year he served in the Mississippi Squadron of the United States navy during the Civil War, being dicharged for disability, his health having been impaired by service in a malarious climate. After his recovery he completed his law studies and was admitted to the bar in 1865, and two years later entered the practice at Hamilton. In 1876 he was elceted Prosecuting Attorney of Butler county and re-elected in 1878. During early manhood Mr. Campbell was a Republican, but in 1872 he supported Greeley for the presidency and since then has been a member of the Democratic party. In 1882 he was elected to Congress from the Butler county district and re-elected in 1884 and 1886. In 1889 he was elected Governor of Ohio by a majority of over ten thousand votes over the late Governor J. B. Foraker. The late President McKinley de- feated Mr. Campbell for Governor in 1891, and in 1895 he was defeated for election to the same office by Governor A. S. Bushnell. In 1906 he was defeated for Congress and in 1908 for the United States Senate. In 1907 Governor Harris appointed him a member of the Commission to revise and consolidate the general statute laws of Ohio. Mr. Campbell prae- ticed his profession in Hamilton until 1907, in which year he located in Columbus, where he practices law and attends to his many other interests. He holds membership in the G. A. R. and the Masonic and B. P. O. E. Lodges.
January 4, 1870, Mr. Campbell was united in marriage with Maude Elizabeth Owens, daughter of J. E. Owens, a leading manufacturer of Hamilton. Mr. Owens was a native of Wales and his wife was of Welsh descent. Mr. Campbell's wife died July 10th, 1913, leaving four children and a grandchild. The children are Elizabeth Campbell Taylor, wife of John M. Taylor of Columbus, Jessie Campbell Coons, wife of Dr. J. J. Coons of Columbus, Andrew O. Campbell, a manufacturer of Columbus, and Captain James E. Campbell. jr .. now with his regiment in France. The grandehild is Campbell Taylor, a sophomore at Harvard.
JUDGE FRANK RATHMELL. Proper intellectual discipline, thorough professional knowledge and the possession and utilization of the qualities and attributes essential to success have made Judge Frank Rathmell of Columbus, at present on the Common Pleas bench, eminent in his chosen calling-the legal profession, and for many years he has stood among the scholarly and enterprising lawyers in a community long distinguished for the high order of its legal talent.
Judge Rathmell, who has proved himself to be worthy of the people's trust in high posi- tions, has come up from the soil, battling his way alone and unaided up the ladder of pro- fessional success. He is a native of Franklin county, Ohio, and is of the third generation of his family in the Buckeye State, his progenitors having cast their lot in this country in carly pioneer days and from that time to the present members of this family have been important factors in the development of Franklin county and the city of Columbus.
The Rathmells are of Yorkshire, England, stock. The first member of the family to emigrate to America was Jonas Rathmell, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, who came over at about the close of the eighteenth century or the beginning of the nine- teenth and settled in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. His son, Thomas Rathmell, grandfather of the Judge, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and became the pioncer of the family in Ohio. He learned the blacksmith's trade in Pennsylvania and prior to 1820 he came to Ohio and established a shop on the Big Walnut, between Columbus and Groveport. Later he turned his attention to farming, buying a farm in the neighborhood of his shop, and there he comtinued to reside until his death in 1855.
John Rathmell, son of Thomas and father of the Judge, was born at the old Rathmell
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homestead in Franklin county in 1820, and he grew to manhood amid pioneer conditions. He devoted his entire life to farming. He took an active interest in the public schools of his locality and for many years served as school director in his township. On January 16, 1845, he was united in marriage with Susan Frank, a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Her father Jacob Frank was a miller by trade, who dying at an early age, left his widow Julia Ann Frank with a family of small children of which Susan was the youngest. Her mother Julia was later married to Amor Rees who removed his family, in 1831, to Fairfield county, Ohio, and nine years later to Franklin county. The trip from Lancaster county to the west was made in a covered wagon of the prairie schooner type.
The death of John Rathmell occurred on October 24, 1885, his widow surviving until July 26, 1906. They were honest, industrious and hospitable people, devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Frank Rathmell was born on the home farm on October 15, 1855, and there he grew to manhood, assisting his father with the general work about the place during the summer months, and in the winter time he attended the rural sehools in his distriet. He was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1882, with the degree of Bachelor of Science, then entered Cineinnati Law School, from which he was graduated with the class of 1885, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Soon thereafter he was admitted to the Ohio bar and began the practice of his profession in Columbus in 1886, as a member of the firm of Rankin & Rath- mell. In 1887 he became senior member of the firm of Rathmell, Dyer & Webb, which partnership was terminated by the elevation of Mr. Dyer to the office of prosecuting attorney, and from that time on Mr. Rathmell practiced alone until he went on the beneh. He built up a large and important clientele and took a position in the front ranks of the local bar.
Judge Rathmell served on the board of education of the City of Columbus for three years, one year as president of the board. He served as a member of the City Council one full term of two years and was re-elected but resigned after serving one year of his second term to go upon the bench. During this period he did much to give Columbus a better school sys- tem and in many ways helped the city along material and eivic lines.
In 1902 he was elected judge of the Common Pleas Court and took his seat on the bench in 1903, and by sueeessive re-elections he has continued on the bench to the present time, his long retention in office being sufficient evidence of his popularity and ability. He has ever displayed a proper sense of dignity while on the bench and that research which is due to his court. His decisions are marked by a profound knowledge of the law and a sense of fairness to all concerned.
Judge Rathmell is a member of the Franklin County Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association, also the Phi Beta Kappa He is a thirty-second degree Mason, belonging to the Ancient Arabie Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Seioto Country Club.
On December 27, 1893, Judge Rathmell was united in marriage with Emily P. Felch of Columbus. She was born at Salem, Ohio, and is a daughter of Allen S. and Phoebe B. (Ward) Feleh, natives of Connecticut and New Jersey respectively. From Salem the family removed to Reynoldsburg, thenee to Columbus.
To the Judge and wife a daughter has been born, Margaret H. Rathmell, who was grad- uated from Ohio State University with honors in 1918, and in the same year was married to Edward Speneer Myers.
The record of Judge Rathmell in all relations of life has been most exemplary and he is in every way deserving of the high publie esteem in which he is held.
JUDGE SAMUEL L. BLACK. Judgee Samuel L. Blaek, during his residence in Columbus, has served the public as Attorney, Mayor, Probate Judge and Judge of the Juven- ile Court, the latter two offices being held for several terms concurrently. In each capacity he has well acquitted himself. but it is as Judge of Juvenile Court that he is best and will always be most favorably known. The iniquity of dealing with juvenile offenders in the regular eourt room and of imprisoning them with hardened criminals early claimed his atten- tion. While he was sitting on the Probate Court bench he inveighed against this social injustice, assisted materially in the framing of the present juvenile court law of Ohio and. by the natural selection of his associates on the bench of Franklin county, became the first juvenile court judge of Franklin county. He entered zealously into this work of saving
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dependent children, homeless children and children who were being abused by adults, from degradation and crime. As far as it was possible, he fearlessly administered the discipline of the law to negligent parents, runaway fathers and dissolute adults who were leading boys and girls astray, and in every way set new and high standards of protecting child life. It was a difficult and trying service in which any man of the sympathies of Judge Black was bound to suffer. But, with the exception of a few weeks when the work was temporarily transferred to another, Judge Black maintained the service until the end of his fourth term as Probate Judge.
Judge Black is a native of Ohio and is descended in the third generation of two of the pioneer families of the state. His grandfather, Samuel Black, was a native of Ireland, from which country he brought his family to America by stecrage passage in the year 1826. He ultimately took up eighty acres of government land in Guernsey county, Ohio, and when he went to take possession of his land he walked from Wheeling, West Virginia, then a part of the Old Dominion, to Zanesville in Muskingum county, Ohio, for his patent from the Gov- ernment for eighty acres of land in eastern Guernsey county, Ohio, where he began carving out a home from the primeval forest, and by perseverance and close application, he succeeded, himself and family undergoing the usual hardships to life on the frontier.
The Judge's maternal grandfather, Naphtali Luccock, was a native of Kimbolton, Eng- land, and spent his early life in his native land. He finally emigrated to America and was a pioneer in Guernsey county, Ohio. The village of Kimbolton in that county was named in honor of his birthplace in England.
Judge Black's father, the late Dr. William Black, came over from Ireland with his parents, and with them went to Guernsey county, where he was reared and educated. He studied medicine and was graduated from a medical college in Cincinnati and for many years followed his profession at Kimbolton and later at Cambridge, Ohio, becoming one of the successful and popular early physicians of that section of the state. After retiring from active practice he located in Columbus, in 1890, and here his death occurred in 1894, at the age of seventy-six years, after a life of honor and usefulness. His wife, Maria Luccock, was born in Guernsey county. this State, and there grew to womanhood and attended school. Her death occurred in Columbus in 1903 at the age of seventy years.
Judge Black was born at Kimbolton, Ohio, December 22, 1859, and he spent his boy- hood in Guernsey county and received his early education in the public schools. He was graduated from Cambridge high school in 1878, and from Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, this State, in 1883, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science.
Coming to Columbus, January 14th. 1881, he became a law student in the offices of Powell & Ricketts, and, making rapid progress, he was admitted to the bar in 1887, and soon thereafter entered practice in this city as junior partner in the firm of Powell, Ricketts & Black, the senior members of the firm having been his preceptors. He rose to a prominent position at the local bar and he has maintained this position for more than three decades.
Taking an active interest in civic affairs from the first, Judge Black has continued to be a potent factor in the city's affairs to the present time. Ile served one term as Mayor, and during those two years did much for the permanent welfare of the city, making a record highly pleasing to his constituents and all concerned. In 1902 he was elected judge of the Probate Court of Franklin county, which office he held by successive re-election until 1917, his long retention in the same being sufficient evidence that he discharged his duties in an able, faithful and eminently satisfactory manner.
Upon retiring from the bench he returned to private practice of the law in which he is still snecessfully engaged. Ile is a member of the Franklin County Bar Association, the Co- lumbus Country Club and the Columbus Athletic Club.
Judge Black married Carrie Nelson, daughter of the late James Nelson, of Columbus. Mrs. Black's service in the cause of the unfortunate, has paralleled that of her husband. She was a prime mover in the organization of the District Nursing Association and later of the So- ciety for the Prevention and cure of Tuberculosis. Of this latter organization she has been the enthusiastic president from the first. During the war with Germany, Mrs. Black was the head of the Junior Red Cross and successfully dirceted its large and useful activities. Thus Judge and Mrs. Black have been an unusual power for the making of better citizenship and the amelioration of social conditions.
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JUDGE D. C. BADGER. D. C. Badger, lawyer, was born in Madison county, Ohio, in 1858. Taught school when 17 years of age; attended Mt. Union college and was admitted to practice law by the Supreme Court in 1881 and in 1882 was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Madison county, Ohio, and served three years, and continued in practice of law at London, Ohio, until elected Judge of Common Please Court in 1893 for the counties of Madison, Franklin and Pickaway; in the same year he removed to Columbus, Ohio, where he has since resided con- tinuously ; in 1897 he was re-elected Judge of Common Pleas Court and served until 1903, when he resigned to serve the Twelfth Ohio District in Congress, where he served from 1903 to 1905, and in 1905 was elected Mayor of Columbus and refused the nomination for another term, and since the expiration of his term has engaged in the practice of law at No. 8 East Broad street, Columbus, Ohio, where his office has been located since 1907.
In 1899 he was the candidate of his party for Supreme Judge of Ohio and led the Demo- cratic ticket by nearly 50,000 votes. In the last several years Judge Badger has devoted his time exclusively to the practice of law. He is the owner of some fine farm lands, and is also an authority on farming as well as law.
Judge Badger is a positive character, a fast friend and a good fighter, and has the repu- tation of always doing his duty, either in office or in law.
GEORGE BEECHER KAUFFMAN. Strongly in contrast with the humble surroundings of his youth is the brilliant position which George Beecher Kauffman now fills in the busi- ness circles of Columbus, principally as president of the Kauffman-Lattimer Company. He has won for himself a place of prominence and honor as one of the world's army of strenu- ous and efficient workers and in his earlier years made his way over obstacles seemingly insuperable and which would have, no doubt, thwarted the man of less courageous spirit meeting to the full the test of fire to which a far-seeing Providence subjects those who are destined to succeed.
Mr. Kauffman is a native of Ohio and is descended from early pioneers of this State. His father. George Kauffman, was one of the first druggists of Lancaster, establishing the second drug store ever opened in that town. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, May 11, 1797. and his death occurred at Lancaster, Ohio, November 6, 1866. He was in his twenty-first year when, in 1818, he migrated to this State and entered the retail drug business at Lancaster. There, on December 3, 1833, he married Henrietta Parnell Beecher, who was born in Connecticut, June 30, 1817. She was a cousin of Henry Ward Beecher, the eminent divine. She died in Columbus, March 27, 1909.
George B. Kanffman was born in Lancaster, Ohio, September 19, 1855. He attended the public schools and began his business career as clerk in his father's drug store. He later clerked in a drug store in Zanesville, but thirsting for more education he finally entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1875. The following year he came to Columbus and purchased what was then known as the "City Hall Drug Store," on State street, across the alley from the present City Hall. In 1882 he and his brother, Linus B. Kauffman and George W. Lattimer organized the Kauffman & Lattimer Company and engaged in the wholesale drug business. Both Linus B. Kauffman and Mr. Lattimer had graduated from Amherst College only a few years previous to that time and had continued fast friends, and the business association of the three men formed at that time continued uninterruptedly and most satisfactorily during a period of over thirty-five years. The business was incorporated in 1888 as The Kauffman-Lattimer Company, with George B. Kauffman as president, which position he has filled ever since, and the continued and pronounced success of this well known and important company has been due for the most part to his able and judicious management, his elose application and perseverance. He has built up a vast annual business, the trade of the company extending over a wide territory.
Mr. Kauffman has been interested at different times in other Columbus enterprises, was one of the main incorporators of The American Druggists' Fire Insurance Company, of which he is treasurer; was for many years a member of the board of directors of the Capital City Bank ; has successfully filled the chair of professor of pharmacy at Ohio State University since the organization of the College of Pharmacy at that institution. For many years he has been a member of the Broad Street Methodist Episcopal Church and a liberal
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supporter of same; belongs to the Columbus Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Phi Gami Delta and an honorary Sigma Xi.
Mr. Kauffman was married at Delaware, Ohio, September 5, 1877, to Eunice Hughes, who was a school teacher prior to her marriage, and she has continued to be interested in educational affairs. She was the promoter of the first open air schools of Columbus and an instructor in them for some time. She is a lady of culture and high mental attainments.
To Mr. and Mrs. Kauffman two daughters and three sons have been born, namely: Margaret, who married John M. Barringer, who is now general manager of the Franklin Axle Works of Canton, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan; Henrietta married Charles Cunning- ham, who was an attorney in Toledo, Ohio, until his death some time ago; Myron Beecher is connected with the Kauffman-Lattimer Company: George Hughes is also with the Kauff- man-Lattimer Company; Lineus is engaged extensively in farming at Chester, not far from Richmond, Virginia.
During his long residence in Columbus, Mr. Kauffman has proven to be a publie- spirited and useful citizen, always ready to assist in all laudable movements for the welfare of his fellow men, by whom he is held in the highest esteem.
JUDGE DAVID F. PUGH. One of the prominent members of the Franklin county bar and a leading citizen of Columbus is Judge David F. Pugh, who knows enough to know, and he knows it by both intuition and experience, that to be a good lawyer, a successful one, means hard study and devotion to the profession. Hence we refer to him as a student, or a student lawyer, as a man among his books, not as a reeluse, or a book-worm, but as a lawyer who busies himself with those things in which success depends upon the symmetrical judg- ment and practical grasp that come from reading and reflection.
Judge Pugh is a descendant from one of the oldest families of central Ohio his paternal grandfather, David Pugh, having settled in Truro township, Franklin county, in the year 1814, while this section was still in the domain of the red men, and white settlers were few and far between.
David Pugh, sr., was a native of Radnorshire, Wales, from which country he emigrated to America in 1803, coming on to Ohio a short time thereafter, settling first in Delaware county, where he formed the Welsh settlement of Radnor, which he named in honor of his native shire in Wales. In 1811 he removed to Franklin county and settled in Truro township, where he cleared and developed a farm, literally earving a home from the wilderness. There he engaged in farming and kept a country tavern, abont eight miles east of the present eity of Columbus, on what is now Broad street. He married Jane Murphy, who was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. David Pugh, jr., son of David and Jane ( Murphy ) Pugh, was born on the old Pugh homestead east of Columbus in 1814, the year his family settled in Truro township. There he grew to manhood amid primitive conditions and worked hard when a boy. He married Elizabeth Witsell, who was also born in that township, the daughter of Daniel Witsell, a native of Pennsylvania, who settled in Truro township in 1820.
Judge David F. Pugh, of this sketch, is the son of David and Elizabeth Pugh, and was born in a one-room log house on his father's farm in Truro township, Franklin county. Ohio, August 21, 1815. There he grew to manhood and worked on the home farm during the summer months, attending the district schools of that community in the winter time. He also spent two terms at a selcet school at Reynoldsburg. In October, 1861, at the age of sixteen years, he ran away from school, and at Worthington, Franklin county, enlisted in Com- pany C, Forty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Despite his youth he proved to be a faithful and efficient soldier for the Union and was promoted to orderly sergeant. He took part in a number of important campaigns and battles and was wounded at Shiloh and in front of Atlanta during Sherman's siege of that southern stronghold. He was mustered out and honorably discharged on July 28, 1865, thus having served throughout the Civil War.
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