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Mr. Daugherty was elected to the Ohio General Assembly from Fayette county in 1889 and he made such a splendid record that his constituents re-elected him in 1891. He was chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, also was chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee in 1898 and again in 1912. In the latter year he was second in the primary election for the nomination for United States Senator. In 1893 he was chairman of the Republican State Convention when William Mckinley was nominated for governor of Ohio. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1904, 1908 and 1912, and was a member of the committee on rules in 1904 on credentials at the convention of 1908 and in 1912, being a delegate-at-large, was elected Chairman of the Taft delegates to the con- vention. In the pre-convention campaign of 1920, Mr. Daugherty was an ardent supporter of Warren G. Harding for the Presidency and was the successful manager of the canvass in Ohio.
Mr. Daugherty is a member of the Ohio Society of New York, the Scioto Club, the Colum- bus Club and the Columbus Athletic Club.
On September 3, 1883, he was united in marriage with Luey Walker, a daughter of Anthony B. and Emily ( Miller) Walker, of Wellston, Ohio. To this union two children were born, namely: Emily B., who married R. F. Rarey of Columbus, a member of the law firm of Daugherty, Todd & Rarey; and Draper M., who is now a captain and a part of the Occu- pational army in Germany.
As a public servant Mr. Daugherty has been faithful to every trust reposed in him and he has the confidence and esteem of all classes, being a publie spirited, broad-minded, schol- arly and genteel gentleman who makes and retains friends without effort. He is one of the leading men in the Republican party in Ohio and has done much to shape its policies in this State. His advice is frequently sought by candidates and he is frequently called into counsel by national leaders of the party.
JAMES TURRELL MILLER. The success of men depends upon character as well as upon knowledge. In every community some men are known for their upright lives, strong common sense and moral worth. Their neighbors and acquaintances respect them, the young generations heed their example, and when they "wrap the drapery of their couches about them and lie down to pleasant dreams" posterity listens with reverence to the story of their quiet and useful lives. Among such men of recent period in Columbus was the late James Turrell Miller, who passed from earth's activities on January 13, 1920. He was of modest and unassuming demeanor, a fine type of reliable, energetic American, a man of exemplary character who in every respect merited the high esteem in which he was universally held.
James Turrell Miller was born on Rich sstreet, Columbus, August 14, 18.46, and was the son of Henry and Almeda (Warner) Miller, pioneer residents of this city, and well known throughout the community. The subject received his educational training in the public schools of Columbus, from which he was graduated. Shortly afterwards he was stricken with typhoid fever, the outcome of which was continued ill health, because of which his father bought him a farm, believing the change from city to rural life would be physically beneficial to him, which it proved to be. This farm, which lies along the Scioto river, on the Dublin road, was the nucleus from which Mr. Miller began to acquire the splendid tract of land which is now Upper Arlington. His parents erected the old homestead in 1862 and made their home there until Mr. Miller's marriage, in 1869, when they removed into Colum- bus, where Henry Miller was closely identified with various business interests. The young man then took possession of the old home and there lived up to the time of his death. He added to his original farm from time to time until his landed possessions here amounted to about 1000 acres, which, in 1913, was sold by him to the Upper Arlington Company, the family retaining the old homestead. Upper Arlington is now one of the very substantial suburbs of the city of Columbus, and a very desirable residence district, the former Miller property including the present site of the Scioto Country Club and the old Columbus Gun Club. While his extensive land interests required much of his time, he was alive to the interests of the community and was one of the originators and directors of the Miller & Huston Shoe Company, of Columbus, and, together with his father and Samuel Huston, owned and operated one of the first street railways in Columbus. His activities in a material way added to his individual prosperity and to the welfare of the city and community honored by his citizenship. However, he never allowed the pursuit of wealth to warp his kindly
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nature, but preserved his faeulties and the warmth of his heart for the broadening and helpful influence of human life, being to the end a kindly, genial friend and gentleman whom it was a pleasure to meet.
Politically, Mr. Miller was an earnest supporter of the Republican party and took a deep interest in publie affairs. He was the first mayor of Upper Arlington, serving as chief magistrate of the village for a year before it adopted the commission form of government, in 1918. While he was a member of the Scioto Country Club, the Columbus Automobile Club, and the State Street Schoolboys' Association, he was not a society or elub man in the ordinary aeeeptanee of the term, though he delighted in the companionship of men. But he was essentially a home man and his happiest hours were spent in the family eirele. A lover of nature, he was very fond of flowers and in many ways gave evidence of an inborn love of the esthetic. His donations to benevolent and charitable objeets were made entirely without ostentation or display.
On December 8, 1869, James T. Miller was married to Esther E. Everitt, the daughter of Zephaniah and Naney (Smiley) Everitt, both of whom were pioneer residents of Franklin county, and of whose five children she was the third in order of birth, the survivors being Mrs. E. W. Tuller, of Dublin, Ohio, and Mrs. J. C. Richards, of Columbus. Mrs. Miller died on May 19, 1909. Surviving Mr. and Mrs. Miller are six daughters and two sons, namely: Jessie Evelyn, Ella Huston, Nancy, Almeda, Grace, Eliza, who became the wife of Edward D. Howard, their children being Eliza Miller Howard and Edward Davenport Howard; Henry, who was married to Helen Barton, of Cadillae, Michigan, their present home being in Upper Arlington, their children are James Barton Miller and Esther Miller; Lieu- tenant Samuel Huston Miller is a member of the medieal corps of the United States army, being located at Camp Dix, New Jersey. He married Evelyn Blake, of Camden, New Jer- sey, and they have one child, Margaret Blake Miller.
Mr. Miller's career was complete and rounded in its beautiful simplicity; he did his full duty in all the relations of life, and he died beloved by those near to him, and respected and esteemed by his fellow citizens.
DAVID TOD GILLIAM, M. D. David Tod Gilliam, M. D., distinguished physician and surgeon, instructor and eitizen and dean of the Columbus medieal profession, was born at Hebron, Ohio, April 3, 1844, and is deseended from two old Virginia families, the Gilliams and Bryans. The Gilliam family traee their aneestry direct to Count de Guillaum, who was given his coat-of-arms at Hastings, A. D. 1066, by William the Conqueror. After the family got into England the name was changed to Gilliam. William, Devereux and John, sons of Sir Richard Devereux Gilliam, eame to America in 1635 aboard the good ship "Constanee," with the royal commission to survey and map the Dominion of Virginia. From there the Gilliams of America are descended. They were prominent during the colonial and revolu- tionary periods. Ensign James Gilliam, of Lunenburg, was killed during the Revolution of 1758; Lieutenant John Gilliam served with great valor in Captain Nathaniel Mason's com- pany of the Fourteenth Virginia Regiment, 1776; Hineha and John Gilliam and Captain James Gilliam served in 1669. Sir Richard Devereux Gilliam married Lady Dorothy, daughter of the Earl of Pembroke, who was beheaded by the Lancastrians July 27. 1469. Sir Richard was the eldest son of Walter, Viscount of Hereford and the aneestor of Robert Jarratt, who married Sarah Bradley. Their children were: Robert, Joseph, Devereux and Mary Jarrat, who married William Gilliam. The children of William and Mary (Jarratt) Gilliam were: Devereux, who married Edith Ellis; Sarah, who married Mieajah Williamson; Elizabeth, who married George Raulstone, a direet deseendant of Lord Elgan and his wife, Lady Margaret Creighton.
William Gilliam, of Orange county, Virginia, married Ann Poythress and had among others, a son, Robert, who married Luey Sketton, and a daughter, Ann P., who married Nathaniel Harrison, of Berkley. Other intermarriages connected the Gilliams with many of the notable families not only of the old Dominion, but of other Southern states, and the Gilliam family of the present generation may well be proud of their direct and collateral line- age, for they deseend in a clear and unbroken line to those who built up the foundation of our country and are united by blood to the first families of the land.
The Gilliam family was founded in Ohio during the early thirties by William Gilliam (father of David Tod Gilliam, M. D.,) who was born on the family estate "Bellefield," near
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Yorktown, Va. He was the son of William and grandson of Jacob Gilliam, who deseended from John Gilliam, one of the three brothers who came to Virginia in 1635. William Gilliam, the Ohio settler, married, first, Lucy Servent Wills, by whom he had five children. His second wife was Mary Elizabeth Bryan, of "The Vinyards," near Williamsburg, Va., of an old Vir- ginia family. Her mother, Martha Lee, was second cousin of General Robert E. Lee. The children born of the marriage of William and Martha Elizabeth (Bryan) Gilliam were: Edward Lee, Martha Ann, David Tod, Harriet Linsley, John Apperson, Mary California, Charles Frederick, Letitia Virginia and Florence Adelade.
William Gilliam, father of Dr. David Tod, was of a nomadic disposition all through life, and even after coming to Ohio, he was not content to remain long in any one loeality and frequently moved his family from one point to another. As a young man he learned shoe- making and followed that trade to some extent, not as a necessary means of livelihood, as his family were wealthy, but from disposition. After coming to Ohio he was engaged in the mereantile business, first at Newark, where he owned two stores at one time. His last place of residence was Nelsonville, where his death occurred. His wife died at Middleport.
Dr. David Tod Gilliam (better known as D. Tod) attended the common schools. He was but a boy of sixteen years when the Civil War came on; he volunteered and in August, 1861, was mustered into Company 1, Seeond West Virginia Loyal Cavalry. The regiment for which he enlisted was an Ohio one, but the State's quota of cavalry having already been filled the regiment was offered to West Virginia and was gladly accepted. At the organization Young Gilliam was elected corporal and drill master of his company. Thirteen months after the regiment began campaigning Dr. Gilliam was wounded and captured at Gauley River, Va., where he was campaigning under General Crook. Five weeks later, however, he made his escape from prison and succeeded in reaching his home then at Middleport, Ohio. From there he was sent to parole camp at Columbus but while there was taken violently and dangerously ill and was sent home to dic.
After recovering his health he attended Commercial College at Cincinnati, intending to prepare for a mercantile business. A few years later, however, he abandoned business, read medicine and entered Ohio Medical College, graduating with the degree of M. D., elass of 1871. He began practice at Nelsonville, Ohio, but was soon thereafter called to the Chair of Path- ology at Columbus Medical College, and he opened an office in this city. Later he accepted the Chair of Physiology in Starling Medical College, Columbus, and in addition to that Chair he later became professor of obstetrics and discase of women. He still later filled the Chair of Gynecology at Starling, which he held for many years when he resigned, and was imme- diately cleeted emeritus professor of Gynecology of that college. After the merging of Starling Medieal College and the Ohio Medical University under the name of Starling- Ohio Medical College, Dr. Gilliam was elected emeritus professor of gynecology at that insti- tution. Dr. Gilliam has made Gynecology a study and his practice and writings along that line of his professional work have won him recognition in the highest professional circles in America and abroad and he has been highly honored both as physician and surgeon and as a man by the leading medical societies of both the United States and England and has been made an honorary member of many bodies He is a member of all the leading medical asso- ciations, including the American Medical Association, the American Association of Obstet- ricians and Gynecologists, Ohio Medieal Society, the Columbus Academy of Medicine, and is an honorary member of the Columbus Practitioners' Club. His contributions to medieal literature have been valuable and include many papers of great scientifie value and "A Pocket Book of Medicine," published in 1882, "The Essentials of Pathology," published in 1883, and "Practical Gynecology," published in 1903. He has kept in touch with the profession at home and abroad and has many times been the guest of honor at banquets given at the meetings of the profession in different cities.
On October 7, 1866, Dr. Gilliam married Lucinda E. Minturn, daughter of Judge Thomas I. Minturn, of Nelsonville, Ohio, and to them have been born these children: Dr. Earl M., physician and surgeon of Columbus; Robert Lee and Myrtle G.
HORACE LEET CHAPMAN. The late Horace Leet Chapman was a conspicuous figure in the industrial, financial and political history of this State for over half a century. He was a native of western New York but spent all of his mature life in Ohio. His parents were Samuel and Betsey ( Ecet) Chapman His father's mother was a sister of Colonel Com-
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fort Tyler, of the Revolutionary War and his mother was a direet descendant of Sir Edwin Leet, first colonial governor of Connecticut. His uncle, Ralph Leet, was one of the first trustees of the Ohio State University.
Horace L. Chapman was born in Allegheney county, New York, on July 10, 1837. His death occurred in Columbus June 28, 1917. He received a common school and academic educa- tion in his native county and when he was seventeen years of age he came to Ohio and entered the employ of his uncle, Horace Leet, a lumber merchant of Portsmouth, later becoming his uncle's partner in the firm of Leet & Chapman. In 1863 he engaged in bank- ing as a member of the firm of Kinney & Chapman, private bankers at Portsmouth, and so continued for two years, during which time he also read law and was admitted to the bar but never entered the practice. In 1865 he removed to Jackson and founded the private bank of Chapman, Clair & Company, which bank was, in 1871, converted into the First National Bank of Jackson, and of which Mr. Chapman became president, and so continued until his death. The subject of this memoir was one of the pioneer coal operators of Jackson and it was due to him, more than to any other one man, that the attention of the world was brought to the valuable coal deposits of that county. He explored and assisted in the devel- opment of that field and as the founder and president of the Chapman Coal Company, he became the largest operator and dominant person in that section. He was also identified with the manufacture of iron in that district. He was one of the builders and first vice- president of the Detroit Southern railroad, which, with the C., H. & D. railways were out- lets for the products of his industries. He removed to Columbus in 1892, but continued his business interests at Jackson, in which city he was regarded as the "foremost citizen" long after he had ceased to reside there.
Mr. Chapman was also prominent in the domain of politics, though never a seeker for public office, although his party frequently honored him. He declined a nomination for Congress at a time when the Democratic tieket was certain of election and in 1897 the Democratic State Convention nominated him for Governor, and, although it was understood both by the party and himself that the Republican party would in all human probability win. owing to conditions prevailing at that time, Mr. Chapman accepted the nomination, and, so popular was he with the voters of the State that he reduced Governor Bushnell's 1895 majority from 90,000 to 28,000 in 1907. He was frequently a delegate to the different con- ventions of his party and in 1900 was delegate-at-large for Ohio to the National Convention at Kansas City.
Fraternally Mr. Chapman was a Knights Templar Mason and socially a member of the Columbus and the Columbus Country Clubs. He was a notable man in many respects, of great executive ability, with a genius for organization, and his success in business was due en- tirely to his own efforts. His judgment in business matters was wonderfully keen and accu- rate and he made but few mistakes. His integrity was of the strictest and his reliability was proverbial. He was one of the kindest and most tender hearted of men, with a person- ality that won and held the friendship of men.
Mr. Chapman was united in marriage with Franees E. Benton, who was born at Port Allegheney, Penn., the daughter of the late Hon. A. M. and Beulah G. (Hill) Benton, and to their nnion were born a son, Frank Benton Chapman, and a daughter, Grace, now Mrs. Henry Nelson Rose, both of whom, with their mother, survive.
GEORGE TALLMAN SPAHR. Practical industry, wisely and vigorously applied. never fails of success. It carries a man onward and upward, brings out his individual char- acter and acts as a powerful stimulous to the efforts of others. It is the motive force back of all legitimate action that makes for higher levels in the industrial world and those who do not recognize its importance in the general scheme of things must not expect to get very far up the heights. Recognizing this fact at the outset of his career George Tallman Spahr has governed his life accordingly.
Mr. Spahr was born in Ironton, Ohio, November 6, 1856, and is descended from two sterling old Buckeye families. His paternal grandfather was of Swiss extraction and was a native of Virginia, from which state he removed to Ohio in the early part of the nineteenth century, settling near Xenia. The maternal grandfather was a pioneer of Pickaway county, Ohio, where for a number of years he served as Probate Judge.
Rev. Barzellai N. Spahr, father of our subject, was for many years a distinguished
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minister of the Methodist Church of Ohio and one of the leading men of that denomination, occupying many important pulpits throughout the State. He was born and grew up on his father's farm, near Xenia, attended the distriet schools and Miami University and entered the ministry when a young man. He served as presiding elder of the Marietta, Laneaster, Columbus and London distriets of the Ohio Conference. In 1858 he was appointed to the pulpit of Old Town Street Church, Columbus, and oeeupied the pulpit two years, and in 1870 he was again appointed to that charge, serving one year, then became presiding elder of the Columbus district. He was profoundly versed in the Bible and was a forceful, earnest, logi- cal and eloquent pulpit orator. He retired from the ministry in 1880, and spent his last years in Columbus, where his death occurred June 4, 1890. His wife, Elizabeth Tallman, was born in Piekaway county, Ohio, the daughter of Judge Tallman. She died in Columbus, June 28, 1900.
George T. Spahr was graduated from the Columbus High School in 1874, then entered Amherst College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1878. He read law in Columbus and was admitted to the bar in 1881. However, soon thereafter and before he had entered practice, he became manager of the Gazette Printing House and later sceured an interest in that business, which was destroyed by fire on January 26, 1892. Following this the firm of Spahr & Glenn was organized and the entire job printing business of the Ohio State Journal was taken over by them. This firm has continued to the present time, growing with advancing years.
Mr. Spahr may well be classed as one of the builders of Columbus of the present gen- eration, for he has long been active in promoting the growth and development of the city in a very substantial way. In 1897 he built the Spahr building and in 1901 erected the Out- look building, both on Broad street, in the heart of the business section, and both notable offiee buildings. He has also figured prominently in the financial history of the eity. He was one of the original directors of the Mutual Savings Association, over thirty years ago, and has ever sinee been a member of that board. He was a director of the Ohio Trust Company, and has been a dircetor of the National Bank of Commerce from its organization twenty years ago. He was a dircetor of the Chamber of Commerce from 1897 to 1903 and president of same in 1903 and 1904. He has been a member of the board of trustees of Broad Street Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church sinee 1885.
Mr. Spahr belongs to the Columbus Club, the Columbus Country Club, the Columbus Athletic Club and the Seioto Country Club. He is a member of the Masonie order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
October 28, 1886, Mr. Spahr was married to Harriet C. Marple, daughter of Nathan B. and Harriet (Clark) Marple. Mrs. Spahr died November 23, 1919. The following children were born to them: Marie, who was graduated from the Columbus High School in 1904, also was graduated from Wellesley College with the class of 1909; she served as field secretary of the College Settlement Association for two years, and was married on June 15, 1915. to Stanley C. Colburn of Duluth, Minnesota; Elizabeth was graduated from Walnut Hills Sehool, at Natick, Massachusetts, with the class of 1908, and she studied music at Dresden, Germany; on November 15, 1910, she was married to Frank Austin MeElroy of Columbus ; Dorothy, died at the age of two years and four months; Eleanor was graduated from Wal- nut Hills School in Massachusetts, with the elass of 1915, and she married Rutherford H. Platt. jr., of Columbus, on August 18, 1917; Katherine, the youngest of the children, is at home with her father.
Personally, Mr. Spahr is a gentleman of many commendable qualities of head and heart which have made him popular with a wide eircle of friends and acquantances, and he has long been regarded as one of the foremost citizens of the capital eity.
RUTHERFORD HAYES PLATT. For many years Rutherford Hayes Platt has been an able and respceted member of the Franklin county bar. Mr. Platt was born in Columbus September 6, 1853. His father, the late William Augustus Platt, was a eonspieuous figure in the affairs of Columbus a generation ago and his achievements carned for him a place among those men of the past who are termed the builders of the capital city. He was a native of Massachusetts, born in Lanesboro, that state, March 7. 1809, and was a direct deseendant of Richard Platt, the American ancestor of this branch of the family who came over from Hertfordshire, England, in 1638, settling in the Connecticut colony. His mother dying when
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he was but four years old, William Augustus Platt was reared by the family of Benjamin Platt, his grandfather, and with his grandparents he came to Columbus in 1817. While educational facilities at that early period were limited in the middle west, he nevertheless acquired a good English education. He was ambitious and possessed an unusually bright and receptive mind. In early manhood he learned the watchmaker's trade, opened a jewelry store in the Neil House block and became one of the successful business men of his time. As the years passed he became interested in other business affairs and in 1846 he was chosen president of the Columbus Gas Company, which he had helped organize. In 1850 he retired from the jewelry business in order that he might devote more of his time to other interests. He was one of the founders of the Ohio Tool Company, took a leading part in organizing and conducting other successful undertakings and became one of the leading business men of that period.
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