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During the years 1919 and 1920 Mr. Lavlin served as one of counsel for a joint legislative committee appointed to make reeormendations for legislation on the subject of taxation, which was then the most pressing problem confronting the State. In this capacity, he participated in the preparation of sove->] very important laws of the State.
Mr. Laylin is a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, the Columbus Athletic Club, the Sons of the American Revolution, th. You're Business Men's Club, the Phi Beta
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Kappa, Kappa Sigma, Phi Delta Phi and the Order of the Coif. Religiously, he belongs to the Indianola Methodist Episcopal Church, and is superintendent of the Sunday school there. Formerly he was superintendent of the Sunday school of King Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. He has long been active in church and Sunday school work.
Mr. Laylin married Fanny Ward Hagerman, a daughter of Rev. Dr. Edward Hager- man, D. D., a noted divine of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The union of Mr. and Mrs. Laylin has been blessed by the birth of two children, namely: Edward Hagerman and Anne Elizabeth.
Personally, Mr. Laylin is a gentleman of refinement and obliging and helpful in his inter- course with his fellow men, always interested in the welfare of others, and he is therefore held in high esteem, like his distinguished father. He is in every respect a worthy son of a worthy sire.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MILLER. Among the young men of Columbus who are playing an important part in the industrial, financial and civic history of the city is Frederick Augustus Miller, manufacturer, banker and progressive and patriotic citizen.
Mr. Miller is of the third generation of his family in Ohio to win success in the manufacture of shoes. His grandfather, Gotlieb Miller, came over from Germany in 1835 and opened a shoe shop at Lancaster. This modest beginning soon grew into a bench made custom shoe business of considerable proportion. William A. Miller, father of Frederick A., was born at Lancaster and learned the shoe business under his father. He came to Columbus in 1876 and entered the employ of Hodder & Godman, leather merchants, as a clerk. Later he became a member of the firm of J. H. Godman & Co. and still later, with H. C. Godman, he organized the H. C. Godman Co., of which he has been President for a number of years. Mr. Miller's mother, whose maiden name was Anne Maria Halbedal, was born in Marion, Ohio, and came to Columbus with her family in the early seventies.
Frederick A. Miller was born in this city October 14, 1879. He was graduated from the Columbus High School in 1897 and from Ohio State University with the class of '01, Ph. B. degree. As a boy he worked with the H. C. Godman Co. without wages, on Saturday's and during vacations. After completing the literary course at the University, he entered, at his father's request, the law department; but after six months as a student of law, he decided that he did not want to become a lawyer. So he left college for good and entered the Godman Co. factory under the agreement to work two years without pay, at the end of which time he was either to be paid wages or discharged. So, in the latter part of the year 1901, he went to work in factory No. 1, beginning on what is now termed "efficiency" studies. His progress was rapid and by the end of the first year he had demonstrated that he had the making of a first-class shoe manufacturer and was promoted superintendent of factory No. 1 with a salary. In 1904 he was promoted general manager of the company's five plants (now eight) which position, in addition to the First Vice-Presidency, he continues to hold.
In 1904 he was one of the organizers of the Guarantee Title & Trust Company and in 1914 was made Vice-President of the Company, and in 1917 was elected President. He is also President of the Lancaster Tire & Rubber Co. and is identified with the following enter- prises: Ohio Steel Castings Co .; Clay-Craft Brick Co .; Clay-Craft Brick & Mining Co .; Clay- Craft Builders' Supply Company; Marble Cliff Quarries Co .; Columbus Forge & Iron Co .; Yeager Mfg. Co .; Jones Heel Co .; Columbus Union Oil Cloth Co .; Lancaster Leather Co., and the City National Bank.
Mr. Miller holds membership in the following clubs and societies: Columbus; Columbus Country ; Seioto Country; Columbus Athletic; Columbus Automobile; Order of Elks; Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Horton Literary; Political Science; Chamber of Com- merce and Columbus Conventions and Publicity Bureau.
During the war period Mr. Miller was very active and was identified with all movements for the support and relief of our soldier boys. He was one of the promoters and Vice-Presi- dent of the Columbus "$3,000,000 and over War Chest," which successful movement gained for our city the applause of every other American city. Later, upon the resignation of Mr. Bush, Mr. Miller was elected to the Presidency of the War Chest. During the war he was also Chairman of the District Manufacturers' Commission for Central Ohio, which had to do with the production of supplies for the government and operated in a supplementary way with the War Industrial Board. He was also a member of the Shoe Manufacturers' War Service
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Committee and a member of the executive committee of the National Investigation Bureau whose duty it was to investigate all organizations soliciting funds from the public for war relief.
On April 28, 1909, Mr. Miller was united in marriage with Roberta B. Miller, who was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, the daughter of William H. Miller, of the Mill & Mine Sup- ply Company, of this city. To Mr. and Mrs. Miller have been born a son and a daughter: Edmond William and France Anne.
FRANKLIN OSCAR SCHOEDINGER. The office of biography is not to give voice to a man's modest estimate of himself and his accomplishments, but rather to leave upon the record the verdict establishing his character by the concensus of opinion on the part of his neighbors and fellow citizens. The life of Franklin Oscar Schoedinger, manufac- turer, business man and representative citizen of Columbus, has been such as to elicit just praise from those who know him best. He has been faithful in the discharge of his duties in all relations of life.
Mr. Schoedinger was born in the city where he still maintains his home, on September 7, 1872, a son of Philip J. and Caroline (Heverly) Schoedinger. The father was born in Germany in 1825 and the mother in Pennsylvania in 1833. Philip Schoedinger was five years old when his parents brought him to America in 1830, the family locating in Columbus, where he grew to manhood, attended the early schools and learned the cabinet maker's trade, later engaged in the manufacture of furniture, finally adding undertaking to his business, and still later he gave all of his attention to the undertaking business. He was one of the well known business men in the earlier years of the city's' development. His death occurred in 1880. His widow survived to a ripe old age, passing away in 1914, at the age of 81 years.
F. Oscar Schoedinger grew to manhood in his native city and here he received a good practical education in the public schools, but left high school before graduating, being am- bitious to begin his business career, deciding not to wait for a diploma. In 1890 he estab- lished a small store, handling stoves and house furnishing goods, later branching out into different lines of manufacturing enterprise, gradually building up a large business with ad- vancing years, until today he is one of the most successful business men in Columbus. He established and is sole proprietor of the F. O. Schoedinger Company, manufacturers of sheet metal builders' material, metal window-frames and sash, steel ceilings, roofing, architectural sheet metal works, and distributors of tin plate and metals and everything pertaining to sheet metal workers' requirements. They have built up a vast trade which has been growing rapidly from year to year, under our subject's able management, industry and persever- ance. He was also one of the organizers of the Schoedinger-Marr Company, Inc .. in 1890, of which he is treasurer and president, and which he has built up to a large and important industry. He is a director in the National Bank of Commerce. director in the Iroquois Hotel Company, which operates the Hotel Chittenden; trustce, vice-president and chairman of the house committee of the Children's Hospital; vice-president of the Society for the Pre- vention and Cure of Tuberculosis; vestryman of St. Paul's Episcopal Church; director of the Columbus Athletic Club. member of the Columbus Club. the Columbus Country Club, and the Scioto Country Club; was president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1908, and is still very active in its work.
Mr. Schocdinger has taken a most active part in the raising of all war funds in Colum- bus, his patriotism and loyalty to the government and her institutions being unquestioned. In all the above named positions of trust he has discharged his duty promptly, ably and in a manner that has reflected much credit upon himself and to the satisfaction of all concerned. He takes as deep interest in public affairs as in his private business and whatever he has turned his attention to has resulted in favorable returns. He has done as much, if not more, for the general welfare of the Capital City during the past quarter of a century than any other one man, and the city owes him a debt of gratitude which it cannot renay.
Fraternally Mr. Schoedinger is Past Commander of Mt. Vernon Command ry, No. 1. Knights Templar, and is now an officer in the Grand Commandery of Ohio. He married Alice G. Seibert, daughter of John Seibert, a well known and highly respected citizen of Columbus.
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B. GWYNNE HUNTINGTON. Believing with the poet Longfellow that "Within our- selves are triumph and defeat," B. Gwynne Huntington, one of the well known young bankers of Columbus, determined at the outset of his career to so shape his course that when life's goal was reached he could look backward along the winding highway without compunction or regret, and so far he has left no stone unturned whereby he might honorably advance himself.
Mr. Huntington was born in Columbus, January 13, 1879. He is a son of P. W. and Frances (Sollace) Huntington. He spent his boyhood in his native city and attended the preparatory school at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, from which he was graduated with the class of 1896, then entered Princeton University, taking the four years' course and was grad- uated with the class of 1900. Returning home after leaving the University he began his business career in Columbus with the Franklin Insurance Company, but in 1902 entered the Huntington National Bank and was promoted to assistant cashier in 1905. He was elected cashier in 1911. He applied himself very closely to the affairs of the bank and its steady and substantial growth has been due in no small measure to his influence.
Mr. Huntington took an active interest in war work and in 1917 was appointed treasurer of the Columbus Chapter, American Red Cross, also became treasurer of the Instructive District Nursing Association of Columbus. He is a member of the Colonial Club of Prince- ton, New Jersey ; also belongs to the Columbus Athletic Club, the Columbus Club, the Scioto Country Club and the Columbus Chamber of Commerce.
In January, 1904, Mr. Huntington was united in marriage with Maybel M. Monypeny, of Columbus, and to their union three children have been born, namely: Ann, Frances Sollace, and Jolin Webster Perit.
WILLIAM DARLING INGLIS, M. D. One of the well known physicians and sur- geons of Columbus is Dr. William Darling Inglis, who has been engaged in the practice here successfully for many years. He is one of those estimable characters whose integrity and strong personality necessarily force them into an admirable notoriety, which their modesty never seeks, who command the respect of their contemporaries and their posterity and leave the impress of their individuality upon the age in which they live.
Dr. Inglis was born in Claysville, Pennsylvania, October 21, 1874. His parents, the late Dr. George and Janet (Scott) Inglis, were natives of Scotland, where they spent their earlier years, immigrating to America in 1852, locating first in Canada. During the sixties they removed to Pennsylvania. The father studied medicine and took the course in Phila- delphia Medical College and after his graduation practiced medicine at Claysville the re- mainder of his life, building up a large practice, and there he and his wife both died.
Dr. William D. Inglis received his early education in the public schools, and when but a boy, decided to follow in the footsteps of his father in a professional way and began read- ing medicine under his direction. He was graduated from Washington and Jefferson College with the class of 1897, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and he received from that college the Master of Arts degree in 1902. He made an excellent record for scholarship, and in Jefferson Academy, Canonsburg, Pa., he taught mathematics from 1897 to 1899. He then attended the medical department of Ohio State University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1902, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and in 1903 he went abroad and took post-graduate work in obstetrics at Rotunda Hospital College, Dublin, Ireland.
Thus exceptionally well equipped for his life work, Dr. Inglis returned to America and began the practice of his profession in Columbus in 1903, and in that year he became professor of obstetrics in the medical department of the Ohio State University, which posi- tion he retained until 1916, discharging his duties in a manner that reflected much credit upon himself and to the satisfaction of those in charge of the institution. Ile resigned his position in order to resume active private practice.
In 1905 Dr. Inglis again went abroad and studied in his specialty-obstetrics, at Charite Hospital, Berlin, Germany. He is now obstetrician to the Protestant Hospital, Columbus. He is a member of the Columbus Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Med- ical Society and the American Medical Association. He belongs to the Columbus Athletic Club, the Scioto Country Club, the Business Men's Club, the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion, the Broad Street Presbyterian Church, and is a thirty-second degree Mason, and belongs to the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystie Shrine.
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Dr. Inglis is a director in the Northwest Boulevard Company.
On May 15, 1902, he was married to Alice M. Cockins, of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, and to their union three children have been born, namely: John C., William D., jr., and Robert M.
CHANNING WEBSTER BRANDON. One of the prominent insurance men of Ohio is Channing Webster Brandon, founder and president of the Columbus Mutual Life Insur- ance Company. Ilis well directed efforts in the practical affairs of life, his capable manage- ment of his business interests and the judicious exercise of his sound judgment have brought him large rewards for the labor he has expended, and his career forciably demonstrates what may be accomplished in this free land of ours by the man who goes out from an early environment none too promising, if he is willing to work honestly and persistently in any legitimate linc of established endeavor.
Mr. Brandon was born at Marion, Grant county, Indiana, December 11, 1858. He is a son of the Rev. Thomas A. and Susanna ( Mccullough) Brandon, both natives of Ohio, each representing sterling pioncer stock. The father of our subject was in the ministry of the Christian Church for over half a century, occupying at different times during that long period pulpits at Lebanon, Troy, Yellow Springs, Williamsport, Bellefontaine, Dayton and Jamestown, Ohio, and at Union City, Indiana. He was popular with his congregations, being a pulpit orator of no mean ability, profoundly versed in the Bible and sympathetic and helpful in his daily intercourse with those with whom he came in contact. His power and influence for good cannot be estimated ..
Channing W. Brandon was educated in the public schools of the different towns where his father held charges as a minister. He entered the mercantile business in 1880 at Belle- fontaine, Ohio, and continued in that line for four years. In 1884 he entered the insurance field at that town as agent for the Union Central Life Insurance Company and later he rep- resented the Phoenix Mutual Life, and other companies. Fle came to Columbus in January, 1903, and four years thereafter began the organization of the Columbus Mutual Life. He came well equipped for such work, as by his former life insurance experience he had mas- tered the various details of the business, for which he seemed to be well suited by nature as well as training. However, like the beginning of all great enterprises, it was a man size job which he had undertaken and the promotion of the undertaking was made much more difficult than it otherwise would have been in normal times, by the money panic of 1907 and 1908. He had his required capital stock practically subscribed and about forty thousand dollars of it paid in before the panic came on, but he needed one hundred thousand dollars paid in before he could incorporate. What Mr. Brandon passed through in those dark days of endeavor and the masterly way in which he handled the situation successfully, getting money when there was but little available, stamped him far above the ordinary as a man and organizer.
The company was incorporated in November, 1907, and began business in April, 1908, with Mr. Brandon as president and guiding genius, and he has continued in this capacity to the present time, the gradual and substantial growth of the company being due for the most part to his ability, close application, keen discernment and perseverance, until today the Columbus Mutual Life ranks with the best and most popular life insurance companies in the country, and its prestige is rapidly extending into new fields. In 1914 the company purchased the old Firestone residence at 580 East Broad street, and this has since been its headquarters. The building was remodeled and modernly equipped to suit the company's needs.
On September 18, 1877, Mr. Brandon was married to Josephine S. Archard, and to their union the following children have been born: William T., Harry P., Mary Josephine, and Archard.
Mr. Brandon has taken an active interest in the affairs of Columbus since coming here and he is entitled to the good will and respect which is universally accorded him.
WILLIAM DAVID BRICKELL. The history of the press of Columbus can not be prop- erly written without giving extended mention of the careers of the men to whom great credit is due for the development of our newspapers and the placing of them in the high position they hold in the world of journalism of today. One of these men is William D. Brickell, who, for
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over forty years as owner, publisher and guiding genius of "The Evening Dispatch," gave to Columbus its first metropolitan daily paper.
Mr. Briekell is a native of Ohio, though he spent his boy-hood and early man-hood at Pittsburg. His paternal grandfather was Captain John Briekell, a pioneer owner and eap- tain of steam boats in the Ohio and Mississippi river trade. Among other boats, he built and commanded the "Boston," which was one of the very first large, fast boats in these waters. She was in the Pittsburg and New Orleans trade, and mounted a bow-gun for protection against the Indians. Captain John married Catherine Zillhart, who was of the old family of that name of Pittsburg. She was quite a character of her day and was familiarly known among Pittsburg people and river men as "Aunt Kitty."
The father of William D. was Captain David Zillhart Briekell, son of Captain John. He was born in Pittsburg. Following in the footsteps of his father, he became a eaptain of steamboats, but in 1866, after his discharge from the Government service as Captain of a hos- pital ship he retired from the river and with Henry W. Oliver and W. W. Martin, formed the partnership of Martin, Oliver & Briekell, owners of the Kittaning, Penna., Steel and Iron Plant, and was engaged in business in that eity during the balance of his life. He married Mary Ann MeCarty, who died when her son, William D., was a boy of three years.
William D. Briekell was born in Steubenville, November 19, 1852. He attended the publie sehools and then entered the Western University (now the University of Pennsyl- vania). Before graduating, however, he decided to leave college and go to work, seleeting the newspaper business as his future field of work, and determining to learn that business thoroughly from the ground up, he entered the Pittsburg Post job printing shop where he served an apprenticeship. He next went to the old "Pittsburg Post," and for the next few years worked in both the composing and press rooms of that paper, and was then given a position on the staff. Leaving Pittsburg he went to St. Louis and became a member of the staff of the St. Louis Demoerat (now the Globe-Demoerat) and later was promoted night editor of that paper. He was next on the staff of the Indianapolis Sentinel.
In 1876 Mr. Briekell started to return to Pittsburg to aeeept the position of assistant managing editor of the Pittsburg Leader. At that time the Columbus Evening Dispatch was on the market, and Mr. Briekell determined to stop off between trains while enroute to Pitts- burg and investigate both that property and the city as a newspaper field. And he never got to Pittsburg-not at that time, at least, for finding the Dispateh a promising property and the field up to his expectations, he took an option on the paper and later, in association with Captain L. D. Myers, purchased it ontright. Five years later Mr. Myers was ap- pointed postmaster and his interests in the paper were taken over by Mr. Briekell. At that time the Dispateh was a daily and weekly, with no Sunday edition, and was without any great amount of prestige or prosperity. Mr. Briekell, as sole owner and publisher, added the Sunday edition, praetieally revolutionized the paper and plant, and when he sold it in 1910 it was not only the leading newspaper of Columbus but of all of Central Ohio, and Mr. Briekell had beeome one of the best known newspaper men in the Middle West. For ten years he was a director of the Associated Press and during that period Columbus enjoyed the honor and benefit of having a resident director of that great news-gathering organiza- tion.
Upon retiring from the newspaper field in 1910 Mr. Brickell devoted himself to his finaneial and industrial interests, which by that time had become important. He is president of the Iron-Clay Briek Company, and is a member of the boards of directors of the Central National Bank, The State Savings and Trust Company, and has other large business inter- ests in Columbus and other cities.
He is a member of the Columbus Club, the Columbus Country Club, the Columbus Athletic Club, the Seioto Country Club and Columbus Lodge of Elks.
On July 15, 1885, Mr. Briekell was united in marriage with Cora M. Ross, who was born on the site of the Hotel Deshler, and is the daughter of Samuel Ross, early railroad man, who built the Pennsylvania railroad from Columbus to Richmond, Ind., and is now known as the Pickaway Division of the Pennsylvania Lines.
REV. JACOB W. HOSKINS. When the Rev. Jaeob W. Hoskins, for many years a well known minister of the Christian Church, passed away, there was added to the list of lamented dead whose earthly reeords elosed like the "good and faithful servant" spoken of
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in Holy Writ, and as long as memory remains to those who knew him the influence of his noble life will continue as a source of encouragement and inspiration. "Our echoes roll from soul to soul and grow forever and forever," according to the poet Tennyson, and the good we do lives after us through all the ages, handed down from generation to generation. Who, then, ean measure the results of a life work? Not to condemn, but to aid, the subject of this memoir made the practice of his life, and many are better and happier for having known him, for though the voice has long been stilled in death, the spirit of his work re- mains as the deep undereurrent of a mighty stream, noiseless but irresistible. His influence was as the delicate fragrance of a flower to those who had the pleasure of his friendship. His sympathies were broad and ennobling and his life was beautiful in every phase.
Rev. Hoskins was a son of Richard Hoskins, the second, and Ann (Martin) Hoskins, and he was born on the old homestead in Leesburg township, Union county, Ohio, July 22, 1830. He grew to manhood on the home farm and received his education in the common schools, but was principally self-taught. He was a very well educated man for his day and generation and was exceptionally well versed in the Bible. He was one of the well known ministers of the Christian Church during the major portion of his life and filled the pul- pits in various places in Ohio. He was called to his eternal rest in 1881. His wife, Martha Newhouse. was born in Seioto township, Delaware county, Ohio, in 1832, and she survived him nearly a score of years, passing away in 1902 at an advanced age. She was a daughter of John Newhouse, who was a native of Pickaway county, this State, the son of Anthony Newhouse, the second, who was born in Virginia, a son of Anthony Newhouse, sr., a native of England, who served with General Washington at Valley Forge during the Revolutionary War, and died of eamp fever. When Anthony Newhouse, the second, grew to manhood, he served nnder Washington in what was known as the "Whiskey Rebellion" in Western Pennsylvania. After returning home he married Nancy Coons and moved to Ohio, loeating in Salt Creek township, Pickaway county, in 1800. He split the slabs for the coffin in which to bury the first white person to die in Pickaway county. Later he moved to Delaware county in 1814, and on the way thither he undertook to ford the Scioto river with a four-horse team and the family narrowly eseaped drowning.
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