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In 1899 the managers of the Columbus Carriage Manufacturing Company abandoned their former policy of marketing their output through retail dealers and adopted the mail order system which was then being widely used in this country. However, this policy did not meet the approval of the Poste brothers and they withdrew from the company, and on October 1 of that year formed the Poste Buggy Company, which was successful from the start. This company was pioneer in a number of methods of operating the buggy business. one of which was to confine its output to a single line- that of manufacturing "piano box" buggies only, which policy was never deviated from during the entire existenec of the firm. The Poste brothers also established a precedent in adopting for the conduct of their business net cash terms in thirty days from shipment, whereas prior to that time, terms in the bugey business had universally been net cash in four months or five per cent cash discount for cash in thirty days. The new system proved to be successful. An outout of three thousand vehicles a vear was maintained by the Poste Buggy Company until the business was sold on September 1. 1918, to the Ahlbrand Carriage Company of Seymour. Indiana.
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Beale Edward Poste was president of the Poste Bros. Buggy Company, viee-president of the Neil Hotel Company of Columbus. a director in the Columbus Bolt Works Company, also a direetor in the company operating the Majestie Theater of Columbus.
Politieally, he was an ardent Republican and was influential in the affairs of his party although he had no desire for party leadership or publie offiee. His advice was often songht by candidates as it was also in business circles. He was regarded as a strong and dominant factor in both eivie and commercial life, although he was quiet in disposition and never obtrusive or ostentatious. He was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, also belonged to the Columbus Club, the Wyandot Club and the Marshal- sea Club. He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, but was never active in church affairs, being liberal in his religious views, his ideal more nearly that of the Words- worthian type-the religion of nature, he being very fond of the fields, plants and wild life of the earth. He delighted to work in his gardens, cultivating ehoiee flowers and plants, surrounded by an atmosphere of growing nature, as the beautiful surroundings of his exquisite country home would indieate to any observer. He had the natural appreciation and the eye to beauty of a poet, and enjoyed the solitudes "where nothing polished dared pollute man's path." He was a man of patriotie impulses and one of the keen disappoint- ments of his life was that he could not take an active part in the world war. He would gladly have volunteered for service at the front had men of his age been permitted to do so.
On December 26, 1912, Mr. Poste was united in marriage with Margaret Adair Brown- ell, daughter of J. T. and Mary (Toomy) Adair. The mother resides in Lexington, Ken- tucky. The father is deeeased. The Adair family has long been highly respected and influential in the capital of the Blue Grass state, where Mrs. Poste was reared and edueated. Mrs. Poste resides at the beautiful new country home, "By Dews," which is located in a picturesque environment on the Seioto river about ten miles north of Columbus.
On December 28, 1918, Mr. Poste sustained an injury to his right arm while alighting from his motor ear which resulted in his death at Grant Hospital, Columbus, on January 9, 1919.
WALTER HENRY MARTIN. One of the energetie and far-seeing business men of Columbus is Walter Henry Martin, senior member of the well known real estate firm of Martin & Cooke. He started out in life practically unaided and has mounted the industrial ladder without assistance. With a mind eapable of planning he combines a will strong enough to execute his well-formulated purposes, and his great energy, keen diserimination and perseveranee have resulted in his present position in the business life of Columbus.
Mr. Martin was born in Columbus, Ohio, February 13, 1861, and is descended from two old families of this city. His grandfather Thomas Martin, who was a native of Pennsylvania, eame to Columbus in the year 1818, thus the name Martin has been identified with the growth of the Capital City for an even one hundred years and during this eentury of time the various members of this old family have played well their parts in the material, eivie and moral devel- opment of this seetion of the great Buekeye commonwealth. Benjamin Moore, the maternal grandfather of the gentleman whose name heads this biography, was a native of Connecticut, from which state he came to Blendon township, Franklin county, in 1807, before the eity of Columbus was laid out, and thus the name Moore has also been elosely identified with the his- tory of this county.
John H. Martin, father of Walter H., was born in Columbus and here he grew to man- hood and for many years engaged in the saddlery and harness business. His death oc- eurred in 1880. He married Amanda M. Moore, who was born in Franklin county, Ohio, not far from this city, and here she grew to womanhood and is still residing in Columbus.
Walter H. Martin grew to manhood in his native city and was edueated in the public schools and at Ohio State University, and in 1880 he began his business career as a elerk in the old Sessions Bank, now the Commercial National Bank, continuing with this institu- tion until 1888, during which period he applied himself very assiduously to his tasks and was rewarded for his faithfulness and ability by being frequently promoted. He resigned his position to engage in the real estate business in 1888, as a member of the firm of Mahony & Martin, which firm name was later changed to Mahony, Martin & Cooke, in 1897, and in 1909 it became Martin & Cooke and has continued thus to the present time. This old, popular and well-established firm has continued to do a large and inereasing business annually.
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Mr. Martin is senior director of the Commercial National Bank, and he has been a member of its board of directors for over twenty years, and he has had much to do with shaping the policies and the pronounced suceess of this sound and popular institution. He is a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, the Columbus Real Estate Board, and the Ohio Real Estate Board; formerly he was president and now he is a member of the executive board, also a member of the National Real Estate Association. He is one of the best known real estate men in the country and perhaps no man in Columbus is more eon- versant with true real estate values in Columbus than he.
For a period of twenty-seven years Mr. Martin was treasurer of the First Congrega- tional Church and an ex-official member of its board during that time. He has done much for the church in various ways, always active and influential in its affairs. He belongs to the Columbus Club, the Columbus Athletic Club, the Columbus Country Club, the Scioto Country Club and the Columbus Review Club.
Mr. Martin was married to Alice M. Robbins, a daughter of Daniel M. and Delia (Barton) Robbins, of St. Paul, Minnesota.
Being straightforward in his intereourse with his fellowmen and a churehman and pub- lie-spirited citizen, Mr. Martin is held in high esteem by all who know him.
PRESTON WAYNE LUPHER. For many years Preston Wayne Lupher, widely known capitalist of Columbus, has been one of the most progressive men of affairs of the Captital City, also one of the most influential in public life, although not a publie man in the usual acceptation of the term. Strong mental endowment, coupled with an honesty of pur- pose that hesitates at no opposition, when he knows he is right, have so entered into his make- up as to render him a dominant factor in the business world and a leader of men in important enterprises.
Mr. Lupher is a representative of a sterling old family of the Keystone state, and he was born in Venango county, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1856. He is a son of James Wesley and Margaret ( Martin) Lupher. Members of both these families have been influential in the affairs of Pennsylvania sinee pioneer days. John Martin, grandfather of the subject of this sketeh, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
Preston W. Lupher began his education in the public schools, later was a student at the Campbell School for Boys at Grimsby, Ontario, Canada. His boyhood home was in the oil fields of Pennsylvania, so he began his business career early, having when but a boy given every evidence of strong natural talents along business lines. lIe and his elder brother, Cyrus A. Lupher, formed a partnership known as Lupher Brothers in 1877, and are in business together at the present time. In 1877 they drilled their first oil well in Clarion county, Pennsylvania. Until 1897 Lupher Brothers operated in the Pennsylvania oil fields exclusively. In July, 1897, Mr. P. W. Lupher came to Ohio to investigate gas properties and finally obtained an option on the Logan Natural Gas and Fuel Co. with offices in Lancaster at that time. He then interested the late Theodore N. Barnsdall and others and they purchased the above company's interests, which was the formation and beginning of what has grown to be one of the largest gas companies in Ohio. This same company organized the Preston Oil Co., which is very prosperous and owns large oil properties in Ohio. Mr. Lupher is interested in many other oil and gas properties and probably has had as wide experience in the oil and gas fields as any man in the business.
Mr. Lupher is vice president and general manager of the above companies and has been since their formation in 1898.
Mr. Lupher resides at 1700 East Broad street, and is a member of the Columbus Athletic Club, the Scioto Country Club and the Lancaster Country Club. He is a thirty-sceond degree Mason and belongs to the Ancient Arabie Order of the Mystie Shrine.
In 1901 Mr. Lupher married Miss Grace Gertrude Lynch of Newark, Ohio, and they have one daughter, Anne Preston Lupher. Mr. Lupher has a son, Morton S. Lupher, by a former marriage, who is associated with him in the oil business. He married Miss Zell Rising, of Lancaster, Ohio, where they reside with their two children: Elizabeth Rising Lupher and Jane Morton Lupher.
Mr. Lupher takes a good citizen's interest in public affairs and is always ready to sup- port any worthy movement looking toward the publie good.
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JOHN J. STODDART. Lawyer and banker and one of the most prominent men of Columbus, is John J. Stoddart, a native of England, born at Wigton, Cumberland county, that country, March 9th, 1850, the son of John and Jane ( Hodgson) Stoddart.
The family came to America in 1857 and loeated first in Ontario, Canada, later remov- ing to Ohio and settling in Guernsey county.
John J. Stoddart graduated from the University of Michigan with the Ph. D. degree, elass of '75, and the following fall (1875) he came to Columbus and taught in the High School for a period of three years. While teaching he read law and in 1877 was admitted to the Ohio Bar and has since been engaged in the practice in this eity.
Mr. Stoddart has not only won sneeess at his profession, but also in a business way, having been identified with the growth and development of the eity and her institutions. He was one of the organizers and incorporators of the Ohio State Savings & Loan Company, one of the city's solid banking institutions and has long been a director and is now presi- dent of same; was one of the organizers and incorporators of the first electric railway from Worthington to Columbus, and for a number of years a member of the Columbus Board of Education and for a time president of that board. Mr. Stoddart is a member of the Frank- lin County and Ohio State Bar Associations an 1 of the Columbus Country Club. During the war period he gave freely of his time and means to the government and served as a member of the first draft board.
November 12th, 1879, Mr. Stoddart was united in marriage with Miss Minnie Cole, daughter of the late Nathan Cole, who, for over thirty years served as reeorder of Franklin county. To them have been born the following children: John C., born January 22, 1883, a graduate of Harvard, and Mary, born June 28, 1884, a graduate of Wellesley College.
EDWARD CRAWFORD TURNER. Examples that impress force of character on all who study them are worthy of record in the annals of history wherever they are found. By a few general observations the biographer hopes to convey in the following paragraphs. snecinetly and yet without fulsome eneomium, some idea of the high standing of Edward Crawford Turner, former attorney general of the State of Ohio and one of the leading legal lights of the city of Columbus for many years, one of the representative citizens of his section of the State and a publie benefactor.
The Turners are an old Virginia family and of Revolutionary War stock, henee one of the honored first families of America and for generations they have played well their several parts in the affairs of the localities where they have dispersed.
The paternal great-grandfather of Edward C. Turner was Walter G. Turner, who came from Virginia to Ohio in early days and settled at Chillicothe. He married Sophia Wil- cox, the daughter of Robert Wilcox, of Hagerstown, Maryland, who was an offieer in the Revolutionary War.
John G. Turner, grandfather of the subject of this sketeh, was a native of Virginia, and was a boy when his parents brought him to Ohio. He married Sidney Madden, a daugh- ter of Peter Madden, of Laneaster, Ohio, which family is also of Revolutionary stoek.
Robert Madden Turner, father of the gentleman whose name introduces this sketch, was born at Chillicothe, Ohio, removing to Columbus later in life and when the Civil War broke out he enlisted for service in the Union army at Camp Chase and served practically through- ont the war, under three different enlistments, going to the front in 1861 and returning home in 1865. He took part in many important campaigns and notable battles and was known to his officers and comrades as an efficient soldier. After his military career he located in Columbus where he spent the rest of his life and died a number of years ago. He married Jennie I .. Crawford, who is also deceased.
Edward C. Turner was born in Columbus March 26, 1872, and here he grew to man- hood and received his preliminary education in the public schools. He then entered the Ohio State University from which he graduated with the class of 1901, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and later his alma mater conferred on him the degree of Master of Laws.
Mr. Turner was admitted to the Bar in 1901 and soon thereafter took up the active practice of law in his native city and his subsequent career has been marked with signal success until today he is recognized as one of the leaders of the local Bar. He has been retained in many important eases and is reg -ded as an authority in all phases of the legal
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practice. Being a profound and diligent student he has kept well abreast of the times in his profession.
Some idea of his high standing as a lawyer and citizen may be gained from the fact that in 1910 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Franklin county and re-elected in 1912. discharging the duties of the office in a very acceptable manner. He was elected attorney general of Ohio in 1914, serving one term to the general satisfaction of all concerned, making a record of which his constituents and friends might well be proud.
Upon leaving the office of attorney general in 1917 he returned to the private practice of the law in Columbus, in which he is still engaged with ever-increasing success.
Fraternally, Mr. Turner is a thirty-second degree Mason, belonging to the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrire, also the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the Sons of Veterans and the Columbus Club, also the Country Club.
On December 11, 1902, Mr. Turner was united in marriage with Nan A. Jahn, daughter of Captain Carl Jahn, of Columbus, who served as an officer in the Civil War.
To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Turner onc son has been born, Carl R. Turner.
Personally Mr. Turner is a man of pleasing presence and his reputation has never been assailed either in public or private life.
EDWARD K. STEWART. The history of the development of the street railway system of Columbus would be incomplete without extended notice of the career of Edward K. Stewart, former vice-president and general manager of the Columbus Street Railway Company, who for over fifty years has been intimately identified with street car systems in the Capital City and their allied interests. During this protracted period of active experience he became the most prominent active street railway official in Columbus and one of the con- spicuous men in that particular in the Middle West. His pronounced success has been due to his habits of close observation, indefatigable energy, sound judgment and general executive ability.
Mr. Stewart was born in Columbus, Ohio, October 26, 1815, and is the son of the late Adams and Margaret (Peebles) Stewart, natives of Pennsylvania and early citizens of Columbus.
Mr. Stewart was educated in the common schools of his native eity and he began his business career in the employ of the Franklin branch of the State Bank, which subse- quently became the Franklin National Bank. Later he was teller for the Hayden-Hutch- cson Company, and still later he was cashier of the P. Hayden & Company, bankers, and also of the Hayden National Bank, which is today the Hayden-Clinton National Bank. In 1867 he entered the street railway field as secretary and treasurer of the East Park Street Railway Company, although he did not retire from the active banking business until over twenty years later. In 1892 he became vice-president and general manager of the Columbus Street Railway Company, which position le continued to hold through the various changes in the organization of that corporation. He has also served as vice-presi- dent, treasurer and general manager of the Columbus Railway Power & Light Company, the holdings of which company include the following subsidiary companies: The Columbus Railway Company, the Friend Street Railway Company, the East Park Place Street Rail- way Company, the State and Oak Street Railway Company, the Columbus Consolidated Street Railroad Company, the Indianola and Fourth Street Railway Company, the Cross- town Street Railway Company, the Glenwood Street Railway Company, the Leonard Avc- me Street Railway Company, the Columbus Central Railway Company, the Central Market Street Railway Company, the Columbus Traction Company, the Columbus Edison Company, and the Columbus, Light, Heat & Power Company, all of which are owned and operated by the Columbus Railway, Power & Light Company, of which Mr. Stewart was the guiding genius.
During the Civil War Mr. Stewart offered his services in defense of his country and served faithfully and gallantly for four months in Company 1. 133rd Regiment, Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry, a hundred day regiment organized for the purpose of temporarily reliev- ing the veterans on duty in forts and fortifications at the front.
Mr. Stewart is a member of the Columbus Club, the Columbus Country Club, the Arling-
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ton Country Club and the Seioto Country Club. Although a very busy man he takes a delight in outdoor recreation and is a lover of nature in her varied forms.
On May 26, 1869, Mr. Stewart married Imogene Jones, of London, Ohio, and to their union the following children have been born: Frank T., Hartford T., Margaret married H. S. Waite, Aliee married F. C. Borger, and Edward K., jr.
Personally Mr. Stewart is a gentleman of many commendable eharaeteristies which have rendered him popular with a very wide acquaintance.
FRANK LUCIUS PACKARD. Architecture has been ealled the primal expression of all art. In the history of every nation the first step upward has ever been manifested by arehiteetural improvements. Time was when great eities in America were satisfied with plain and simple buildings of all kinds, the only requirement being utility, but that day has long sinee passed, and during the present eentury the most artistie eoneeptions and designs of the arehiteet are demanded. America has produced many noted arehiteets, among them Frank L. Packard, of this eity, whose genius and work long sinee won him a high place among the arehiteets of the entire country.
That branch of the Paekard family to which Frank L. Paekard belongs has been in America for eight generations. The American ancestor was Samuel Packard, a native of Norfolk, England, who came over in the year 1637 and settled in Massachusetts Colony. He was the direet aneestor, eight generations removed, of Frank L. The John Alden family of Bridgewater, Mass., and the Paekard family are collaterally related.
Alvaro Harrison Packard, son of James and Sophronia (Clough) Packard, was born at Readfield, Maine, in 1836. Sophronia Clough was born in New Hampshire, the daughter of Charles and Betsey (Taylor) Clough. Alvaro H. spent his boyhood days in Maine where, after leaving school, he was apprentieed to the carpenters' trade. After he had completed his apprenticeship he came to Ohio and located at Delaware where he was engaged in earpentering and building for a time and then entered the service of the C. C. C. "& St. L. ( Big Four) Railway Company, as foreman of bridge and depot construction and superintendent of repairs. Subsequently, in charge of a foree of men, he built bridges in Tennessee. He located in Columbus in 1883 and from that time on until his death he was engaged in real estate and building operations in this eity. In 1863 he was united in mar- riage with Miranda Black, who was born in Indiana, the daughter of John Black, who re- moved from Delaware county to Indiana. Following the death of her parents Mrs. Paekard returned to Ohio.
Frank L. Paekard, son of Alvaro H. and Miranda (Black) Paekard, was born in Dela- ware, Ohio, on June 11, 1866. He attended the Delaware publie sehools, and at the age of fifteen years he was chain carrier for the county surveyor. He began his "professional" career as offiec-boy for F. A. Gartner, an obl-time architect and engineer of Delaware. He took special courses in areliteeture and engineering at Ohio State University and Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, and studied in the offices of different leading arehitests of New York City. He came to Columbus in March, 1883, and three years later he seeured, in competitive contest, his first big commission, which was architeet for the Girls' State Industrial Home at Dalaware. Since then he has served as architect for over three thousand building operations, all over the country, and has built up what is probably one of the largest arehitectural and engineering organizations in Ohio and has won national fame in his profession. His praetiee has embraced many state, county and municipal buildings, and of recent years he has given special study to school, college and educational building de- signing. Lasting monuments to his genius ean be found all over Ohio.
Out of the many buildings of which Mr. Packard is the architect the following have been selected with an idea of giving a fair emeeption of the scope of his professional work: Ohio Building at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago; Ohio Building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis: Capitol Annex at Charleston, West Virginia; Massillon State Hospital for the Insane: Ohio State Sanatorium for Treatment of Tubereu- lar Patients, Mt. Vernon: Lima State Hospital for the Criminal Insane; a number of new buildings and other improvements at the Columbus State Hospital, Athens State Hospital, Cleveland State Hospital and the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics, Gallipolis, Ohio, and a number of municipal and private hospitals. The court houses at Bowling Green, Upper Sandusky, and Ottawa, Ohio; court house at Clay and Fairmont. W. Va. Franklin county
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and Clark county memorial buildings; office and bank buildings for the Columbus Savings & Trust Co., State Savings and Trust Co., and the Huntington National Bank, Columbus; served the Ohio Cities Gas Company and the Ohio Fuel Supply Co. and the Pennsylvania railroad; a number of hotels embracing the Chittenden and Seneca Hotel, in Columbus; served continuously for a number of years as architect for the Ohio University, Athens, and Miami University, Oxford. Served for other buildings at Ohio State University, Mus- kingum College and Ohio Northern University, as well as for more than two hundred public school structures; architect for the Elks Lodge in Columbus, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias Homes in Springfield, and other fraternal and social structures, including the Arlington and Columbus Country Clubs and the Licking Country Club at Newark, Ohio; many representative churches, among them being the St. Paul's Church, Columbus and at Akron; the Trinity M. E. Church. Lima; Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Ohio.
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