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John Newhouse married Mary McCune, who was a native of Delaware county, Ohio.
Richard Hoskins, the first, the paternal great-great-grandfather of Samuel A. Hoskins, one of the present day lawyers of Columbus, brought his family over from Wales at the elose of the American Revolution, landing at Baltimore, Maryland, September 21, 1884, after seventeen weeks at sca. He settled near Lynchburg, Virginia. His son, William Hoskins, great-grandfather of Samuel A. Hoskins, was born in Wales. He married Jane Perry, and in 1799 removed to Ohio and settled on the banks of the Seioto at Franklinton (now the city of Columbus). In 1807 he removed to Scioto township, Delaware county, where his death occurred on March 29, 1834. His son, Richard Hoskins, the second, and grand- father of Samuel A. Hoskins, was born at Franklinton, Ohio, in 1802, and went with his parents to Delaware county in 1807, and there he grew to manhood and married Ann H. Martin, and they later removed to Leesburg township, Union county, this state, where he died in 1867. His old homestead is still in possession of the family, owned by his grandson, Samuel A. Hoskins.
Samuel A. Hoskins, who is thus a descendant of two carly Buckeye families, was born in a log house on the old Hoskins aeres in Leesburg township. Union county, Ohio, March 5, 1863, the son of Rev. Jacob W. and Martha (Newhouse) Hoskins. He grew to man- hood on the home farm, where he worked hard when a boy, and he received his early educa- tion in the common schools, later taking the course at Ohio Northern University, from which institution he was gradnated with the class of 1887. receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Hc then took a course in the Cincinnati Law School, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1890. He worked his way through college, teaching school six winters in order to get funds to defray his expenses. He was admitted to the bar in 1890, and soon thereafter began the praetiee of law at Wapakoneta, Auglaize county, and he soon was enjoying a very satisfactory practice, which has increased with advancing years until he is now one of the best known lawyers of Central Ohio. He has lived in Columbus since 1912.
Mr. Hoskins was clected prosecuting attorney of Auglaize county, and served to the sat- isfaction of his constituents and all concerned from 1901 to 1907. He was further honored
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while living there by being elected to the State Constitutional Convention in 1912. In 1904 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, Missouri. He served as president of the Ohio State Civil Service Commission in 1913 and 1914, and since 1911 has been treasurer of the Columbus Municipal Life Insurance Company. In 1900 he was a member of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was president of the commission which built the State Hospital at Lima, from 1906 to 1914. In all these important positions of trust and responsibility, he discharged his duties with ability and fidelity and to the satisfaction of all concerned.
Mr. Hoskins is a member of the Masonic order, including the Knights Templar and the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic S rine; he also belongs to the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias. He is a former Grand Chancellor of the Ohio Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the Columbus Athletic Club.
Mr. Hoskins was married to Clara Hamilton, of the old Ohio family of that name. She was born in Richwood, Ohio, on April 6, 1861, and her death occurred April 18, 1918. She was a woman of many commendable personal characteristics and popular with a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. She was a daughter of George B. and Marion (Ham- ilton) Hamilton. Her father devoted his life to agricultural pursuits and he served in the Ohio State Legislature as a member of the Senate. Both her paternal and maternal grand- fathers were named William Hamilton, but were not related, and in both families there were sons named William, John and Joseph.
To Mr. and Mrs. Hoskins were born the following children: George O., a graduate of Ohio State University, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, class of 1913, was graduated from the medical department of that institution in 1917, and is now a first lieutenant in the medical department of the United States army; Allen H., who was graduated from Ohio State University with the class of 1918, was secretary of the College Young Men's Christian Association; Donald J., enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Field Hospital, United States Army; Geo. O. and Donald J. are now serving with the United States Army in France (March, 1919) ; and Helen is a student in North High School, Columbus.
ALBERT GREEN JOYCE. A splendid example of the progressive twentieth century business man and patriotic citizen was the late Albert Green Joyce, president of the widely known Green-Joyce Company of Columbus. Although a young man he was one of the potent factors in the Capital City of the great commonwealth of Ohio during the decade and a half that has just passed, a period which marked the greatest industrial growth since it was founded. As in the performance of his commercial and civic duties, he left the strong im- pression of his rare personality and individuality on his work, in like manner and degree he impressed his associates. Mr. Joyce delighted in good companionship, and his greetings were uniform and friendly. In his ordinary relations and contacts with his fellow men he was quiet and modest ; with his intimate friends he was frank, genial and confiding. Mr. Joyce's character was strong, deliberate, candid, truthful, and he was always punctilious in his ad- herence to obligations. He was a kind and generous hearted man, an inheritance of his sterling father, who never turned the unhearing ear to those who should be heard, and, also like the elder Joyce. his acts of benevolence were not performed in an ostentatious manner, but with quiet and kindness, following the Divine injunction "not to let the left hand know what the right hand doeth."
The subject of this memoir was born in Columbus, November 14, 1871. He was a son of John and Eliza (Miller) Joyce, both deceased. He was the seventh child in a family of ten children, those surviving are, William Joyce, Mrs. William J. Byrne and Mrs. James E. Haggerty, all of Columbus. The Joyce family is one of the best known and esteemed pioncer families of Columbus, having played an important part in the history of the city for three generations.
Albert Green Joyce grew to manhood in his native city and here he received his early education in St. Joseph's Academy, then took a preparatory course at Ohio State University. after which he attended the University of Georgetown, Washington, D. C. After spend- ing three years in college, during which he made a splendid record as a student, he returned to his native city and engaged in business with his father in a wholesale dry goods store- The Green-Joyce Company, with which concern he was connected until his death. Having a splendid preceptor in his father and being ambitious and well adapted by nature for a
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business career, his rise was rapid and he was soon classed among the most brilliant and successful young business men of his day. During the last seven years of his life he was at the head of this mammoth mercantile establishment, performing most acceptably and faithfully the duties of president, and during that time the business experieneed a steady and splendid growth, due to his energy, wise foresight and indomitable industry. The store of which he was president was established by his father many years ago and has long been one of the best known in Columbus. While our subjeet was interested in many other lines of business most of his time was devoted to the one eoneern.
Mr. Joyce was an active and influential member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. He always gave unstintingly of his time and money to any eause that he deemed would assist in the upbuilding of his home eity. Although needed at home to manage his large affairs, he did not hesitate to offer his services to the Government during the war with Germany enlisting in the quartermaster's department of the army and was in training at Camp Meigs, near Washington City, making rapid progress at the Officers' Training Camp, when disease suddenly assailed him and, after a very brief illness, he passed away on November 7, 1918, in Washington City, when only forty-three years old in the very prime of life and usefulness, his untimely death eausing mueh sorrow and regret in his native eity.
Fraternally, Mr. Joyee was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Columbus. He belonged to St. Joseph's Cathedral, Columbus, and socially held membership in the Athletic Club, Seioto Country Club, Columbus Club and Columbus Automobile Club. His hobby was books and he collected a large and valuable library. Being widely read and well informed on general topies he was an entertaining and instructive conversationalist. Although primarily a business man, he loved the arts, poetry and seienee-the higher and better things of life.
On January 9, 1901, occurred the marriage of Mr. Joyee and Lucy Beatty, a daughter of General Jolin and Luey (Tupper) Beatty, one of the prominent and influential families of Columbus. General Beatty and wife are deceased. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Joyee, namely: John B., Philip and Luey B. Joyce, all of whom survive.
JOHN GREEN DESHLER. John Green Deshler, banker and prominent man of affairs, was born December 9, 1852, in the Cathedral residenee on Broad street (then the Deshler home), and is the son of the late William Green and Ann Eliza (Sinks) Deshler. He attended the public schools and Kenyon College, but left college in 1871 before graduat- ing, to go to work as messenger in the Exchange National Bank. He was one of the or- ganizers of the Deshler National Bank in 1879 and was its president when it was eonsol- idated with the Hayden-Clinton Bank in 1910, and of which latter bank he is a direetor and member of the executive committee at the present time. Mr. Deshler is a director of the Buekeye Steel Castings Company, with which big industry he has been identified almost from its incorporation and in the development of which he has been active. He was presi- dent and the guiding force of the old Central Ohio Natural Gas & Fuel Company, which found the gas in the Laneaster field and piped it to Columbus in 1890. In 1894 he built the Wyandotte office building, which was the first sky seraper built in this part of Ohio, and which he sold in 1916 to the State of Ohio. As trustee of the Deshler estate he built the great Hotel Deshler, for which his grandfather acquired the land one hundred years ago, his father acquired the money, and the son, subjeet of this review, did the work.
Twenty years ago Mr. Deshler was actively interested in additions to the east and south ends of the city and built many houses.
He is a member of the following elubs: Columbus, Seioto Country, Columbus Country, Athletic, Union League of New York and the Columbus Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Deshler was united in marriage with Minnie Greene, daughter of the late M. M. Greene, who built the Hoeking Valley and Columbus & Toledo railroads.
C. CHRISTIAN BORN. Mr. C. Christian Born was a member of one of the most substantial of the older families of Columbus. His paternal grandfather, Conrad Born, sr., came to Columbus in 1840, when the eity boasted a population of 6000. For some years he was engaged in other lines of business, but in 1859 he started the brewing business, which was destined to become one of the greatest industries of Columbus.
Conrad Born, jr., the father of C. Christian Born, who was born in this eity on the
Girury Clay ArClelland
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21st of September, 1844, was educated in his father's business and took an active part in its management. This business grew to be very large and important and was very remunerative. In June, 1869, he married Miss Lena Moerlein of Cincinnati, daughter of Christian Moer- lein, an extensive and wealthy brewer of that city, and on May 1, 1870, the subject of this sketeh was born at the family homestead on South Front street in this city. Here he grew up and was educated and entered into business with his father. He died on the 7th day of July, 1918, having become one of the most important business men of the city.
Although still a young man, he was aetive and prominent in a number of the largest business enterprises of the city. He was vice-president of the Hoster-Columbus Company, vice-president of the Columbus Malleable Iron Company, a director in two of our largest banks-the Hayden-Clinton and Ohio National banks. He was also a direetor in the Midland Mutual Insurance Company, the Columbus Academy, and the Moerlein Brewing Company of Cineinnati, a trustee of the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, a member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, and vice-president of the Children's Hospital. For some years he was a member of the board of Sinking Fund Commissioners, serving part of the time as its president. He was prominent in Masonry and had reached the 32d degree of the Scottish Rite. He was also a member of the Shrine, and held memberships in most of the elub organizations of the city, including the Columbus Club, the Olentangy Club, the Bismarck Club, the Columbus Country Club, the Athletic Club, the Wyandotte Club, and the Arlington Club. He was also an Elk, a member of the Maennerchor and of Humboldt Lodge F. & A. M.
With the exception of some time spent in schools away from home and several years abroad, his whole life was passed in his native city. He was devoted to her interests and his loyalty to his country and home was of a deep and earnest character. Almost his whole education was obtained in our public schools and he graduated from the High School with honor.
Mr. Born was a man of unusual natural gifts and these, with his winning personality, had placed him in the ranks of those to whom the people of his native city looked up to as the hope of the city's future. His talents covered a wide field. A good musician. A thor- ough and diseriminating reader, a careful investigator of all public questions, he was so well qualified to lead as to have, thus early in life, taken a commanding position in her business activities. He had "troops of friends" and in that particular was one of our most popular men. Aside from this, his fine personal presence and delightful manners endeared him to all. Mr. Born married Mary Eekhardt, daughter of Herman and Elizabeth (Butcher) Eck- hardt, and to this union three children were born, namely: Elizabeth, Louise and Christian Eckhardt.
Fortunate in his worldly affairs, his generous hand could always be relied on for its full share of aid in any worthy projeet. At his home, he lived ideally, surrounded by works of art, a fine library and an interesting family. Supplemented by his wife's leader- ship in her art, it was one of the musical centers of the city, where his friends and those who loved the best things in life were always welcome and royally entertained.
To what heights he might have risen, had his life been spared, it is hard to predict, for he was looked upon as one of the coming men of a great and important city. But, having at so early an age reached such advaneed ground, it is fair to say that in the natural course of events, a few years more would have seen him at the very forefront of more than one of our greatest enterprises.
HENRY CLAY MCCLELLAND. Time, that ruthless obliterator, before whose de- stroying fingers even the stubborn granite must, in the end succumb, is ever at his work of disintegration. Beneath his blighting touch even memory fails, and too often a life of splen- did achievement is forgotten in a day. Lest we forget then, as Kipling admonishes us in his superb "Recessional," regarding a number of important things that should not be forgotten, this tribute to the memory of the late Henry Clay MeClelland is penned. Pioneer mer- chant, a publie-spirited, fearless, kindly generous man, it is the desire of the biographer, as it must be of all who knew him, that his deeds and his character be recorded for the bene- fit of those who follow him.
Mr. MeClelland was born February 7, 1810, in Columbus, and he was contented to spend his long and active life in his home city where the name McClelland was both a business and
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a social asset, his family being one of the most prominent of the pioneer settlers in the capital city, and its members have been leaders in all walks of life from the early days to the present time. Our subject was the fourth of nine children born to Samuel and Emeline (Mc Kee) McClelland, those surviving being Emma, Clara and Isabel, all living in Columbus. The parents came here from Farmington, Connecticut, in 1832, each representing sterling old New England stock.
Samuel McClelland was one of the pioneer business men of Columbus, and he was very successful in his life work. He played an important role in the early development of the city, and was noted for his honesty, intelligence and business ability.
Henry Clay MeClelland grew to manhood in his native city and here received his edu- cation, graduating from the High School when but fifteen years of age. He remained a close student and was a well informed man along general lines. Two sons survive him- Harry McClelland, who makes his home in San Francisco, California; and Bronson McClel- land, a resident of Des Moines, Iowa. They both received good educational advantages and are successful men of affairs. Their lineage dates back to ancient Scotch families.
During the Civil War Mr. McClelland proved his loyalty to his country by enlisting in the Union Army. However, he was destined to serve only one hundred days. After leaving high school he began his long business career by becoming a clerk in the book store of Burr, Randall & Long, which was established in the early forties. He liked this line and took a great deal of interest in it from the start and made it his life work, soon mastering its various phases. A few years later the firm was changed to Randall & Aston, and so continued until 1878, in which year D. A. Randall, always an inactive partner, retired and the business passed to his son, the firm being known as E. O. Randall & Company. During all this time, including the changes noted, Mr. McClelland remained with the firm as chief clerk and manager of the book department. In 1878 he severed his relationship with the concern he had served so faithfully for a period of twenty-two years and formed a partnership in the book business with H. W. Derby, known as H. W. Derby & Company. A year or two later Mr. Derby retired, transferring his interests to Fred W. Flowers, and the business was continued as H. C. McClelland & Company, this partnership lasting until 1912 when Mr. Flowers suc- ceeded to the entire interest, however, the firm title remained unchanged. Mr. McClelland being retained as manager for one of its departments up to the time failing health overtook him a few months prior to his death. He had pursued his vocation as clerk, manager and proprietor in the book business for sixty-two years. He was one of the best informed men in his line in the State, possessing unerring judgment of both the intrinsic and commercial value of a new work. He attained a very wide acquaintance among the book clientele of his city and State. He was wedded to his wares, books being not only his constant environ- ment but his cherished companions. He had a remarkable memory and became familiar with the names of publishers, titles of books and personalities of authors and more or less with the subject matter of books until he was a veritable walking encyclopedia. He was there- fore an entertaining, instructive and brilliant conversationalist. An interesting phase of our subject's experience was his contact with the school children who, year after year and genera- tion after generation, bought their books of him. He was highly estcemed by all, for to know him was to love him. Ile was familiarly known to the children as "Mister Mack."
Mr. MeClelland's life was an unmixed devotion to his business. Faithful to a fault, ever patient, courteous and obliging-never other than a gentleman. he was the ideal sales- man. Modest and retiring in disposition, he sought no praise or publicity, and had no desire for social or official position. While he was friendly with all. yet he selected his intimate com- panions with discretion, but the few admitted to his confidences, who enjoyed the privilege of close acquaintanceship, found him a delightful companion and a true friend and high- minded gentleman, never stooping to the paltry or base, keeping in sight high ideals all the while-a man of rare candor, simple habits and tastes, sympathetic toward all unfortu- nates, direct in thought and action, crowned with a keen sense of honor and integrity. For recreation he enjoyed whist, being a charter member of the Whist Club, but he was no club man in the usual sense, preferring to give his undivided attention to his business and his home. He was summoned to his eternal rest on October 11, 1918, in his seventy-ninth year.
HON. ORLA £. HARRISON. The name of Orla E. Harrison, lawyer and man of affairs, has long been a prominent one in Columbus and Franklin county, for although only
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in the zenith of his life labors he has stood in the front ranks of the local Bar for many years.
Mr. Harrison was born in the old homestead in German township, Darke county, Ohio, February 8, 1873. He is a son of George W. and Mary (Rupe) Harrison. The Harrison family was established in Darke county in 1832 by James Harrison, a native of Kentucky, who married Hannah Bowen, who was born in Greene county, Ohio. Their son, George W. Harrison was born on the old homestead in Darke county, August 31, 1842, and there he grew up and helped his father develop a farm from the wilderness. In 1861 he enlisted in Company G, Forty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He took part in the battle of Lewisburg, Kentucky, and was in a number of engagements in Virginia, but he was honorably discharged from the service owing to ill health. Returning home he engaged in mercantile pursnits at Palentine, German township, Darke county, Ohio, and still later at Union City, Indiana. He finally bought land near Centralia, Illinois, but spent only a few years in that state, returning to Darke county. He served as mayor of IIollansburg, Ohio, and also as postmaster at that place. Just before entering the army, in 1861, he married Mary Rupe, of Darke county. Her death occurred in 1908.
Orla E. Harrison attended the village schools of Hollansburg and was graduated from the Greenville High School in 1892, and from the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, in 1893, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He taught school five years, first in the village schools, then for two years was principal of the High School at Franklin, Warren county.
Mr. Harrison read law in the office of Judge James I. Allread, at Greenville, and in 1897, while still teaching school, he was admitted to the bar, and two years later began to practice with his preceptors, Judge Allread and Judge Teegarden, under the firm name of Allread, Tecgarden & Harrison. He became well known and prominent while serving as secretary of the Darke County Agricultural Society, and while his father was a Democrat, when he cast his first vote in 1896, it was in support of the Republican party. In 1901 he was elected State Senator from the Twelfth District, a strong Democratic district, composed of the counties of Darke. Shelby and Miami, and he made such a commendable record that he was re-elected in 1903. At the time he entered the Senate he was the youngest member of that body, but nevertheless, he made his influence felt for the good of his district and the State in general, and he enjoys the distinction of being the only Republican ever elected from Darke county. He served on important committees and was chairman of the committee on schools during his second term and introduced what is known as the "Harrison School Code," and the "Harrison Library Codc."
In 1906 Mr. Harrison was appointed by Wade H. Ellis, attorney general of Ohio, as special counsel in that department and at that time he took up his residence in Columbus. He served very faithfully and ably during the administration of Mr. Ellis and of his suc- cessor U. G. Denman, and gained much prominence for his splendid work. The Supreme Court appointed him a member of the committee to examine students for admission to the Bar, and of that committee he was secretary for seven years.
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