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G. A. R., of Ohio Commandery Loyal Legion and belongs to the different degrees of the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and other fraternal societies.
Mr. Lindenberg married Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Robins, of Columbus, a native of New York state, and to them have been born the following five sons: Carl, vice-president of The M. C. Lilley & Company, Frank, a mechanical engineer; Paul, president of the Lin- denberg Piano Company; Robert, in the office of The M. C. Lilley & Company, and Lco.
GUS B. BARLOW. That "man liveth not to himself alone" is an assurance that is amply verified in all the affairs of life but its pertinance is the more patent in those instances where per- sons have so employed their inherent talents, so improved their opportunities and so marshaled their forces as to gain prestige which finds its angle of influence ever broadening in practical beneficence and human helpfulness. One of the well known and influential citizens of Columbus who, while laboring for the legitimate advancement of his own affairs, has not neglected his larger duties as a citizen is Gus B. Barlow, prominent life insurance man.
Mr. Barlow was born at Jackson, Ohio, December 27, 1859. He is a son of Henry and Rosone (Marshall) Barlow, both natives of England. They came to the United States in early life and were married in Ross county, Ohio. For a number of years the father was engaged in the mercantile business in Jackson, later moved to Portsmouth, Ohio, where his death occurred in 1900, when past seventy-eight years of age. The mother of our subject died in Columbus in 1912, when past her eighty-second birthday.
Gus B. Barlow received a common school education and when a boy served an appren- ticeship at the printer's trade in Portsmouth, and continued to work at the same for some time, then became an editor, manager and finally owner of newspapers. During the time the Hon. James W. Newman was filling the office of secretary of state of Ohio, Mr. Barlow had charge of the Portsmouth Times, of which Mr. Newman was the owner. He organized the Portsmouth Press early in 1897 and published that paper until late in the same year when he sold out and organized the Portsmouth News, a morning daily paper. This prop- erty he disposed of in 1898 on account of failing health and the following year entered the life insurance field as local agent at Portsmouth, of the Washington Life Insurance Com- pany, of which he later became district manager and special worker.
In the fall of 1908 Mr. Barlow became manager of the Ohio department of the Federal Life Insurance Company and in 1909 he established his home in Columbus. In 1917 he was made manager of the Ohio department of the Federal Accident and Health Insurance Company, which department he organized, and is now manager of both branches of this company for Ohio. As a life insurance man he has been very successful from the beginning. possessing the various attributes that go to make up the successful worker in this field. He has unusual energy, perseverance, foresight and diplomacy, besides being serupulously hon- est. One year he had an individual production of business with the Federal Life Insurance Company which had not been equaled by any other agent connected with this company up until the year 1918, when it was exceeded. He has been a member of the Federal's "One Hundred Thousand Dollar Life Club" for every year of its existence, and at the meeting of the club in San Francisco in 1914 he was elected president of the club, serving one year. Mr. Barlow is prominent in Masonic and Pythian circles, belonging to all the different bodies of these two organizations. He served for three years as worshipful master of Portsmouth Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. He is a member of Goodale Lodge, No. 372, Free and Accepted Masons of Columbus, of Mt. Vernon Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, No. 23, of Portsmouth; also of Solomon Council, No. 79, Royal and Select Masters of Portsmouth; Calvary Commanderv. No. 13, Knights Templar of Portsmouth: A. A. Scottish Rite, Valley of Cincinnati, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree; he belongs to Syrian Temple, Ancient Arabie Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Cincinnati. He has held every office in the Knights of Pythiias order, including membership in Massie Lodge, No. 115. Knights of Pythias; he is a retired member of the Uniform Rank, was for ten years adjutant and signal officer of the Tenth Regiment, Uniform Rank, in which office he was sneceeded by Hon. Carmi Thompson, ex-secretary of state. He has held member- shin in all the above named bodies, except the Mystic Shrine, for the requisite time in which to give him life membership. He was one of three supreme delegates to the first Supreme Lodoe meeting of the D. O. K. K. of Chicago in 1895, which delegates made the first supreme laws for this order. He was given a medal by Franklin Ellis for personally
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organizing the greatest number of Knights of Pythias lodges in any county in Ohio for that year than any other one man. He has served as a member of the board of trustees of the Third Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, and is active in all lines of endeavor relat- ing to the civic life of Columbus. He sent to the Federal Government suggestions for man- less aeronautics, which idea provides for controlling war-planes from the starting point, also provides for the discharge of explosives at the proper time, which plans he suggested be turned over to an Edison, a Maxim, or other inventor for them to work out in detail. He is in receipt of letters from the national war board thanking him for his patriotic action.
Mr. Barlow is a type of the broad-minded, patriotic, far-seeing citizen, always alert to the best interests of his country, ready to discharge his obligations to the community, State and nation as he sees it, and always ready to bear his full share of the civic burden. He is a Republican in politics, but is not a biased partisan, preferring to vote for the best man, irrespective of party alignment.
On December 27, 1881, Mr. Barlow was united in marriage with Agnes E. Brouse, at Portsmouth, Ohio, and to their union one son was born, Gus H. Barlow, whose birth occurred at Portsmouth, October 23, 1884; he received good educational advantages, and since De- cember, 1908, the son has held the position of cashier of the Ohio Department of the Fed- eral Life Insurance Company at Columbus; he is a member of Goodale Lodge, No. 372, Free and Accepted Masons, also of Scioto Commandery and has attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite Order; he is also a member of Aladdin Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He was employed during the latter part of the war at the hardest work in the Lorain, Ohio, shipyard, which he preferred to any clerical work. He remained two months after the war closed. He is a young man of much business ability and in every way a worthy son of a worthy sire.
THOMAS J. KEATING. Born in Philadelphia, Pa. Reared and educated in Ohio. Admitted to practice law in the State and Federal Courts of Ohio and in the Supreme Court of the United States. Has served as president of the Franklin County Bar Associa- tion and of the Ohio State Bar Association, and is a member of the American Bar Association Residence for the last thirty years, 1317 East Broad street, Columbus, Ohio.
RALPH REAMER RICKLY, son of Samuel S. and Maria M. Rickly, who succeeded his father in the banking business in Columbus, was the last representative of the family. He was born at Taralton, Pickaway county, Ohio, January 20, 1851, and died at his home in Columbus, January 16, 1919. He received his preliminary education in the public schools, graduating from the old Central High School in 1868. He then entered Yale University from which he was graduated in 1872 with the degrec of Bachelor of Arts. Upon leaving the University Mr. Rickly returned to Columbus and worked in his father's bank as Teller. He had assisted in the bank at intervals previous to going to college. In 1875 when the bank was reorganized and incorporated as the Capital City Bank he became Cashier and after the death of his father succeeded to the presidency, which responsible position he held up to the time of his death.
Mr. Rickly was one of the organizers and incorporators of the Bank of Corning at Corning, Ohio, of which he was President. It was incorporated in 1892. He also helped organize the Bank of Basil, Basil, Ohio, which was incorporated in 1895. and of which he was also President. He was the oldest active banker in Columbus in point of years of service: was vice-president of both the Columbus Transfer Company and the Kauffman & Lattimer Company, and a trustee of Heidelberg University. Mr. Rickly was very snc- cessful in business affairs and was in every respect a worthy son of a worthy sire. He was one of the most widely known Masons in the state; was the oldest thirty-third degree Scottish Rite Mason, also the oldest member of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in Columbus: was Past Master of Goodale Lodge No. 372; Past High Priest of the Ohio Chapter No. 12; Past Thrice Illustrious Master of Columbus Council No. 8; Past Eminent Commander of Mt. Vernon Commandery No. 1. Knights Templar; was Most Wise Master of Columbus Chapter, Rose Croix. A. A. S. R. for a number of years; was treasurer of the Scottish Rite bodies of Columbus, Aladdin Temple, Goodale Lodge, Ohio Chapter, Columbus Council, Mt. Vernon Commanderv. Masonic Temple Association and Maconic Mutual Benefit Association; was Past Grand Commander of the Grand Com-
Palthe R. Richly.
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mandery of Ohio Knights Templar and at the time of his death was Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge, F. & A. M. and of the Grand Chapter, R. A. M. of Ohio.
Mr. Rickly was married on December 1, 1909, to Miss Ida Virginia Harrison, of Chambersburg, Penn., who survives.
WILLIAM GREEN DESHLER. The late William Green Deshler, pioneer business man and banker of Columbus, was for many years one of the city's most conspicuous and notable figures-known by all and by all respected. He was born in Columbus May 24, 1827, the son of David and Betsy (Green) Deshler, the old family residence then being on the site of the present Hotel Deshler, named in honor of the family who built it. His father, David Deshler, was the owner of the Clinton Bank, a pioneer financial institution.
William Green Deshler was educated in the private schools of Columbus and eastern Pennsylvania, and at the age of seventeen entered his father's bank and for years was a leader in the banking circles of Columbus. Becoming the guiding genius of the old Clinton Bank, he developed it into what became the Deshler National Bank and he con- tinued at the head of the new bank until he wound up its affairs and surrendered its charter in 1911.
During the Civil War Mr. Deshler was one of the chief advisers of Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, under President Lincoln, and he did great good to the cause of the Government during that struggle, a participation in which he was denied on account of ill health. In 1882 he created the Betsy Green Deshler Fund of $100,000 and placed it in the hands of the Columbus Female Benevolent Society as a Memorial to his mother and to help widows and orphans. This fund now amounts to over a half million dollars. Later, upon the death of his daughter, Mrs. C. O. Hunter, he established a similar fund with like disposition in her memory, to be known as the Kate Deshler Fund of $33,000- a thousand dollars for each year of her life. Later he gave $60,000 additional to that fund. When the only child of Mrs. Hunter died he created a memorial fund of $13,000 for crippled and deformed children.
Mr. Deshler died February 16, 1916. He was twice married. His first marriage was to Ann Eliza Sinks, and to that union one son and two daughters were born as follows: John G. Deshler, Kate Deshler Hunter, deceased; and Mary Deshler Warner, deceased.
His second wife was Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Dr. I. J. Jones, of Columbus, and to that marriage three daughters were born as follows: Elizabeth Deshler Sowers, deccased ; Louise Deshler Cox and Helen Deshler Brown.
FLORUS FREMONT LAWRENCE, M. D. It was not until the thinking Greeks, in many respects the wisest people the world has ever known, proved that the medical cure was the practical way of overcoming the multiform ills of the flesh to which humanity everywhere are supposed to be heir, and that these ills were not due to the presence of evil spirits or to the anger of the heathen gods. Thus was placed upon a scientific basis the study of the human organism with its various ailments. However, the time it has taken to develop the present system of healing and surgery has, indeed been a long one-some four thousand years.
One of the successful physicians of Columbus, who keeps well abreast of modern materia medica, is Dr. Florus Fremont Lawrence, who was born at Wadsworth, Medina county, Ohio, March 16, 1863. He is a son of the Rev. Oman and Camilla (Liggett) Lawrence, both natives of Ohio and both of Scotch parentage.
The Doctor's father was a prominent pioneer minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church and for many years was active and influential in church work in northern Ohio-one of the leading men of his conference. It is probable that he built more new churches and par- sonages, repaired more church property and raised more money with which to pay off in- debtedness on small churches in Ohio than any one other man in the history of the State.
Dr. Florus F. Lawrence received his primary education in the public schools of Holmes county, the Jeromeville High School and Savannah Academy. He completed his lit- crarv education at Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio. He was prepared for the medical profession at Wooster University, Wooster, Ohio, and Columbus Medical College. He took post-graduate work under Dr. Joseph Price of Philadelphia; also went abroad and took post- graduate work, in 1884 and 1885, under Dr. Lawson Faite, whose assistant he was for six
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months, Dr. Jordon Lloyd and Dr. Borling of the Birmingham City Hospital, all of Birmingham, England, and he also studied under Dr. Heart of Edinburgh and Dr. MeEwan of Glasgow; also Dr. John B. Murphy, the eminent Chicago surgeon. Previous to complet- ing his medical education and before he had entered practice, Dr. Lawrence taught school in Holmes and Cuyahoga counties, and did special newspaper work for the Cleveland Herald.
Dr. Lawrence began the practice of medicine in 1885 in Columbus, and two years later he performed the first successful operation upon the gall bladder ever performed in eentral Ohio. Ile was professor of surgical anatomy and clinical surgery at Ohio Medieal Univer- sity in 1892 and 1893, resigning to go abroad. He was clinical lecturer in abdominal surgery and diseases of women at Starling Medical College from 1900 until that institution merged with the Ohio Medical College, and he continued in the same professorships with Ohio- Starling until 1912, at which time he became clinical lecturer on surgery at the College of Medicine, Ohio State University, until the reorganization of the same in the spring of 1916. In all the positions of trust and responsibility he discharged his duties most ably and faith- fully, to the satisfaction of all concerned, proving that he possessed superior knowledge along the lines he taught, and his reputation in the same became widespread, far transcend- ing the boundaries of the Buekeye state.
Dr. Lawrence is a member of the Columbus Acadaemy of Medicine, of which he was president in 1905. He also belongs to the Ohio State Medical Society, of which he was first vice-president in 1908, and in that year he was also first vice-president of the Missis- sippi Valley Medical Association. He is a member of the American Medical Association, of which he was secretary of the section on diseases of women and obstetries in 1900, and vice-chairman of the same section in 1905. He belongs to the American Academy of Medicine, and he is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is a member of the American Geographical Society and the American Academy for the Advancement of Seience, which admits to membership only college men or men of noted ability. Baldwin University con- ferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Science, and Wooster University gave him the degree of Doctor of Laws.
In 1899 a group of Columbus business men organized a hospital not for profit and in spite of any persuasion from Dr. Lawrence, they named it The Lawrence Hospital. During the twenty years of its existence, The Lawrence Hospital has done more than 35% charity work.
Now, as evidence of their good faith in Dr. Lawrence, a group of business and pro- fessional men have organized the new MeKinley Hospital Company, and have named Dr Lawrence Chief of Staff of this half million dollar hospital. Dr. Lawrence's ambition in life now is to have this new Mckinley Hospital completed.
Dr. Lawrence is a thirty-third degree Mason. He belongs to Columbus Lodge, No. 30, Free and Accepted Masons; Ohio Chapter, No. 12, Royal Arch Masons; Columbus Council, Enoch Lodge of Perfection, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite; Franklin Council, Princes of Jerusalem, of which he was presiding officer for nine years; Columbus Chapter, Rose Croix and Scioto Consistory, Scottish Rites; Aladdin Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; and Mt. Vernon Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar. Dr. Lawrence was active on the old Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce.
On January 11, 1885, Dr. Lawrence was married to Cora Estelle Pierce of Berea, Ohio, and to their union two sons and one daughter have been born, namely: Gerald Pierce Lawrence, M. D., of Columbus, who is at this writing captain in command of the Fourth Ambulance Company, Federalized Ohio National Guard ; James Cooper Lawrence, who helped Ohio State University win two out of three intercollegiate debates, and was editor of the Makio magazine at Ohio State University. A year after he graduated he was placed at the head of the department of English at Westminster College, New Wilmington, Penna., and is at the present time assistant treasurer of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, he being in charge of all their foreign offices, and Elizabeth Camilla Lawrence.
Notwithstanding his eminence in the field of medicine and surgery, Dr. Lawrence is a plain, unassuming gentleman, who takes an interest in advaneing the welfare of his fellow men and his home, city and state, and he is in every way deserving of the high esteem which is universally accorded him.
chris Byparur
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FRED LAZARUS, Deceased. In writing this history of the city of Columbus especial mention will be made of the lives of those men who, having served notably, have gone to their reward; for it is important that the names and achievements of those sterling men shall be preserved to future generations. And one of the men of this eity who, during a long and useful life, gave freely of himself for the good of his day and the days that are to follow, was the late Fred Lazarus, merchant, banker, and philanthropist.
Fred Lazarus was born in Germany on May 5, 1850, and he was but one year old when his parents came to Columbus. His father, Simon Lazarus, one of the old time merchants of Columbus, came over from Germany in 1851, and in the same year established in this city the business out of which has grown the great mercantile house of The F. & R. Lazarus & Company of today. He was educated in the public schools and commercial college, while his practical business training began in his father's store when he was but a boy. He was but little more than a youth when he entered the store permanently, and he de- veloped into a merchant far above the ordinary while he was still a young man.
In 1877, following the death of his father, Fred and his brother Ralph succeeded to the business, and upon the death of Ralph in 1903, Fred became sole owner. Three years later he incorporated the business as The F. & R. Lazarus & Company, of which he was president and the guiding genius until the time of his death. Since his death the business has been continued by his sons, and it has continued, as might be expected, to prosper and grow and continue as the leading establishment in its line in eentral Ohio, and the house of The F. & R. Lazarus & Company bids fair to long continue as one of the "land marks" of our city.
Aside from his mercantile interest,s Mr. Lazarus was identified with other important enterprises, among which was the Ohio National Bank, of which he was one of the founders and a member of the board of directors and of its executive board at the time of his death.
While Mr. Lazarus was very active in business affairs, he was at the same time one of the most active men of the city in civic, social and philanthropic affairs, to all of which he gave generous support. He was for many years a trustee and treasurer of Temple Israel; he was for many years interested in the work of the Humane Society and a member of its board of directors for nearly fifteen years; he was a trustee of Green Lawn Cemetery Association; a trustee and at one time president of Children's Hospital; a trustee of the Associated Charities; president of Montefiore Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites; a trustee and treasurer of the Jewish Orphan Asylum (both latter of Cleveland ) ; a trustee of the Jewish Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., and a director of the Jewish Chautauqua of America. He was at one time vice-president of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, and for a number of years served as a trustec of the sinking fund of the city of Columbus. He was an honorary member of Columbus Lodge of Elks, a 32 degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Knights of Pythias, and a member of the Athletic Club.
Mr. Lazarus was the ideal business man and citizen. He represented all that was best in commercial life and in progressive anl patriotic citizenship. But it was the man himself that will live longest in the memory of his associates and of all who knew him-his personality and characteristics, his keen sympathy for humanity and his broad philan- thropy; his little aets of charity, helps and kindness which he performed every day of his life, and the great pleasure and satisfaction he found in his benefactions. Nor did he ever consider his charity as a burden or tax upon his resources, but regarded himself as most fortunate to be able to give, and felt himself honored when called on to do so.
Mr. Lazarus died on March 23, 1917, and in his death the city and community sus- tained an irreparable loss, for men of his character are not born every day. The entire city testified its bereavement, and many organizations paid tribute to his life and memory by the adoption of resolutions extolling his high character and noble achievements.
Mr. Lazarus married Rose Eichberg, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Frederick Eichberg, merchant of that eity, and to that marriage four sons were born. (1) Simon Lazarus, president of the F. & R. Lazarus & Company, was born in Columbus on August 19, 1882. He was educated in the public schools, at St. John's Mili- tary School at Manlius, N. Y., and entered his father's business in 1901, and following the death of his father he became president of the F. & R. Lazarus & Company. Hc is trustee of the Green Lawn Cemetery Association and treasurer of Temple Israel, and a member of the Athletic and Progress Clubs and of Columbus Lodge of Elks. He married Miss
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Edna Yondorf of Chicago, and to them have been born two sons and a daughter, Simon, jr., Charles Yondorf and Rose.
(2) Fred Lazarus, jr., secretary and treasurer of the F. & R. Lazarus & Company, was born in Columbus on October 29, 1884. He was educated in the public schools and at Ohio State University, and entered his father's business in 1903, becoming secretary and treasurer of the company when it was incorporated. He is a direetor and member of the execu- tive board of the Ohio National Bank, director of the Montefiore Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites at Cleveland, trustee of the Jewish Orphan Asylum at Cleveland, treasurer of the sinking fund of that institution, and a member of the Columbus Lodge of Elks and the Athletie and Progress Clubs. He married Miss Meta Marx of Marion, Ohio, and to them have been born three sons, Fred (III), Ralph and Maurice.
(3) Robert Lazarus, vice-president of the F. & R. Lazarus & Company, was born in Columbus on September 20, 1890. He was educated in the public schools and Ohio State University, graduating with the class of 1912, B. A. degree. He became a member of the F. & R. Lazarus & Company in 1914 and viee-president in 1917, and in June, 1918, en- tered the U. S. Army service. He is a member of the Athletic and Progress Clubs and of Phi Beta Kappa college fraternity. He married Miss Hattie Weiler of Pittsburg, Pa.
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