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Herbert Eugene Bradley's death occurred at his summer home, Lakeview Cottage, May 25, 1916.
EDWARD LIVINGSTON PEASE. Not everyone has the natural qualifications to suc- ceed as a lawyer. Many enter the ranks only to fall out and take up some other line of endeavor, for to succeed in the law one must not only possess peculiar innate ability but must also be willing to closely and indefatigably apply himself throughout his career, for while the basic principles of jurisprudence are always the same, like the laws of mathematics, yet new decisions are being handed down constantly by superior judges and new laws are annually being added to the statutes.
One of the well known attorneys of Columbus is Edward Livingston Pease, junior mem- ber of the firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease. He was born at Hartford, Connecti- cut, January 30, 1874, but from his tenth year was reared in Columbus, Ohio. His father, the late Levi C. Pease, was a native of Connecticut. He was a widely known traveling salesman, and he removed his family to Columbus in 1884. He was the son of Dennis Pease, a native of Connecticut. Levi C. Pease was one of the organizers of the United Commercial Travelers Association, and at the time of his death, and for many years previous, was auditor of the association and one of its best known members. His death occurred in Columbus in April, 1914. His wife, who was a native of Franklin county, Ohio, and known in her maiden- hood as Lucy Marion, a daughter of Elijah Marion, also died in 1914, passing away in Jan- uary.
Edward L. Pease spent his boyhood in Hartford, Connecticut, where he attended the pub- lie sehools, later lived in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he also went to school, finishing his education after the family removed to Columbus. He was graduated from the literary department of Ohio State University in 1895, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and from the law department of that institution in 1899 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In that year he was admitted to the Ohio Bar, and thereupon began the practice of law in Columbus with Judge John E. Sater and Lowry F. Sater. Following Judge Sater's election to the federal bench, the firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease was formed, which firm is recognized as one of the strongest in Columbus.
Mr. Pease is regarded as one of the most promising of the younger members of the local Bar and is making steady strides in his chosen field of endeavor. He is a member of the Franklin County Bar Association, the Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Delta Phi college fraterni- ties. He also belongs to many of the Masonic bodies, the Junior Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Columbus Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Columbus Athletic and Scioto Clubs.
JOSEPH CHARLES NAILOR. In treating of men and characters, the biographer con- templates them as he finds them, and not according to conceptions of his own. He is not supposed to entertain any favoritism, to have any likes or dislikes or caprices of any kind to gratify, or not to have any special standards of excellence, "according to an exact scale" of Gunter or Aristotle. He finds the life record of a man like Joseph Charles Nailor, lawyer of Columbus, interesting because it shows what may be accomplished if one is willing to work hard and honestly in any line of legitimate endeavor.
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Mr. Nailor was born in the city where he still resides on June 6, 1878. He is a son of Joseph and Mary ( Finnerean) Nailor, deceased. Left an orphan when he was a year old, the subject of this review was placed in the Hare Orphans' Home, which at that time was on Woodland avenue, Columbus, and when he was about two years old he was transferred to the Franklin County Children's Home, when that institution was first opened and he was probably the first boy placed therein. When he was thirteen years old he was placed with a Columbus family with which he remained until he was seventeen. During these four years he attended Douglas city school. From his seventeenth to his twenty-first year he was in the employ of the Columbus Pharmaeal Company.
Mr. Nailor entered East High School in the fall of 1898 and graduated therefrom in 1903. Some years later he served two years as president of the Alumni Association of said school. Upon leaving high school he was employed by the Ohio State Journal and the old Press-Post until he entered the law school of the Ohio State University in 1906, from which he was graduated with the class of 1909 and was admitted to the Bar and began the praetiee of law in Columbus in 1909 where he has continued to the present time.
Mr. Nailor for a number of years has been active in eivie affairs of Columbus and has been a prominent member of the city council for the past seven years. His present term will expire January 1, 1920. In 1911 he was elected couneilman-at-large as a Republican and re-elected in 1913. In 1915, under the new eity charter, he was one of seven couneilmen elected, his term being for four years, and he is now a member of the committees on finance, judiciary and public utilities. In 1917 he introduced and championed the resolution to give the women of the city the right to vote, and the ladies of Columbus owe to him in a large measure, the fact that they are now legal voters.
Mr. Nailor is a member of Aladdin Temple, Aneient Arabie Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of the Valley of Columbus, 32 degree, of Achbar Grotto No. 31, Mystic Order Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm, of Magnolia Lodge No. 20, Free and Accepted Masons and of R. T. King Chapter No. 340 of the Order of Eastern Star.
He is a member of Columbus Lodge No. 37, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Bakoo Temple No. 28 Dramatie Order Knights of Khorassan, and of Champion Lodge No. 581 Order of Knights of Pythias, of which he is a Past Chancellor, and of Calanthe Temple of the Pythian Sisters.
He is a member of Columbus Lodge No. 11, Loyal Order of Moose, and has served as Dietator of his local Lodge and as representative to the Supreme Lodge of the Order. He is also a member of Capital City Camp No. 161, Woodmen of the World.
He is a member of the Buckeye Republican Club, an associate member of the Republican Glee Club, a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, and the Central Methodist Episcopal Church, and for some years has been secretary of the board of trustees of the last named body.
Mr. Nailor is regarded as one of the patriotie and public spirited citizens of Columbus where he is held in high esteem by his friends.
FERDINAND BAUMANN. The name of Ferdinand Baumann was well known to the people of Columbus during his latter years as a leader in industrial affairs. He was a resi- dent of the Capital City for thirty-eight years, during which period he was an interested and active spectator to the city's development along general lines, always having the interests of his adopted country at heart and abiding faith in the future of his home community. Through close attention to business and unswerving industry, he met with a large degree of material success, larger, in faet, than falls to the lot of most of our foreign-born citizens, and no finer example of a successful self-made man could have been found in Ohio than he, for without the aid of influential friends he forged to the front, from an humble beginning, by sheer force of energy, intelligence and honorable methods. Mr. Baumann was a represen- tative of an old German family on both sides of the house, his ancestors going far baek into the annals of Germany. There were in him many innate qualities that make for success in the battle of life, no matter where fought out. He was fortunate in coming to a country of unlimited opportunities where all have an equal chanee, yet no doubt, our subject would have succeeded in becoming well established in any country where he might have settled.
Mr. Baumann was born in Burkheim, Baden, Germany, November 12, 1859. He was
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a son of Ferdinand and Sophia (Troges) Baumann, who were parents of five children. He grew to manhood in his native land and there received his early education. Remaining an avid reader along miseellaneous lines and being a close observer he became a well informed man. He began his industrial career in Germany, dealing in lumber, that being his initial business.
In May, 1880, Mr. Baumann came to America with his mother and one brother, coming direct to Columbus, where they located. He at once began work at the earpenter's trade and in 1882 went into business for himself as building contractor and lumber dealer, starting without a eent, but with an excellent capital of health, courage and good judgment, which soon brought definite results. By diligent application and perseverance his business grew with advancing years to very large proportions. He never believed in leaning upon anyone for support or help in any way and was always in business alone, successfully direeting every enterprise to which he turned his attention. He remained at the head of the Ferdinand Baumann Milling and Lumber Company of Columbus until 1915, which he had built up to vast pro- portions, when he retired from active business. However, he held interests in the following enterprises, in which he was aetive up to the time of his death, being a director in each; The Mutual Building & Loan Association, the Produce Exchange Bank and the Central National Bank, also was vice-president of the last named institution. He built the Josephine College, St. Ann's Infant Asylum and the St. Vincent Orphan Asylum. He was very liberal, always giving freely of his money and time to worthy charitable and publie movements, but never gave to attract the attention and plaudits of his fellow men-always out of a sense of duty and gratitude. He was a liberal supporter of the church, having been an active member of St. Mary's Catholic Church. He was never active in polities, his preferenee being for the men best fitted for the offiees sought, regardless of politieal alignment. Being a great home man, delighting best to spend his time around his own fireside, he eared nothing for club life. However, he was a member of the Knights of St. John, the St. Paul Society, and the Badischer Society. One of his chief pleasures and means of recreation was fishing, and he belonged to the Buckeye Fishing Club and always looked forward with a great deal of antici- pation to its outings.
Mr. Baumann was twiee married, first to Mrs. Elizabeth Baumann, the widow of his brother; this marriage was in 1885. She died May 19, 1913. This union was without issue, His second marriage was celebrated on November 2, 1911, when he was united with Mary Josephine Noltemeyer, of Columbus. She is a daughter of Henry and Anna (Freekmann) Noltemeyer, both of whom are still living. Mr. Noltemeyer, who was one of the pioneer and best known florists in Columbus, is now living retired. Mrs. Baumann received good edu- cational advantages and is a woman of rare executive and general ability. She successfully looked after her husband's extensive business interests several years prior to his death and is still managing the estate in an admirable manner. She has always been popular with a large cirele of friends in Columbus. She is a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, in the work of which she is very active, also liberal in her support of the same. She is a member of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Knights of St. John. She has no children.
Ferdinand Baumann was summoned from earthly scenes on November 3, 1918. His parents and their four other children are all now deceased. lIe will long be remembered in Columbus where he was well known and held in highest esteem owing to his many admirable qualities.
WILLIAM HARVEY JONES. "Whatever is, is best," wrote the poet Pope. Evidently he did not believe in destiny or good fortune; rather, that any man who blames destiny blames himself. Good fortune simply means good opportunities which come to every man if he has the sagacity to see and accept what is offered. Providence rules, but not to the ad- vantage of the lazy and inefficient. William Harvey Jones, lawyer of Columbus, is a man who has always believed in winning his own laurels in this world and not in sitting idly by, wait- ing, Maeawber like, for something to turn up.
Mr. Jones was born at Granville, Ohio, June 3, 1872. He is a son of Hiram David and Elizabeth (Jones) Jones. Ile is of Welsh stoek on both sides of the house. His paternal grandfather was a native of Cardiganshire, Wales. He was a stone cutter by trade. Coming to America, he landed in Philadelphia in the year 1800, thence went to Oneida county, New York, and established the family home at Remsen. The grandmother of our subject was
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of the same family as Lloyd-George, the present English premier. David R. Jones was the father of T. D. Jones, the noted sculptor, whose sculptor work now stands in the corridor of the State House at Columbus. He was also the father of the mother of Henry J. Booth, the well known Columbus attorney. The maternal grandfather, a hatter by trade, came to Ameriea and settled in Oneida county, New York, in 1832.
The parents of William H. Jones were both natives of Oneida county, New York, but they came to Granville, Ohio, in 1837, where they were married. The father died in 1873, the mother surviving until 1896.
The subject of this sketch attended the public schools in his youth and later took a course in Denison University, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, with the class of 1895. He spent the following year in Ohio State Uni- versity. He was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1898 and soon thereafter began the practice of law, as an associate of the firm of Booth, Keating & Peters, but in 1911 became a member of the law firm of Webber, MeCoy, Jones & Schoedinger. Upon the death of Mr. Sehoedinger the firm name was changed on January 1, 1912, to that of Webber, McCoy & Jones. and has thus remained to the present time.
On June 4, 1902, Mr. Jones was united in marriage to Mayme Marsh, and to their union one son has been born, Kenneth M. Jones, who is at this writing a student at the Columbus Academy for Boys.
Mr. Jones is a member of the Franklin County Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Asso- ciation, the Columbus Athletic Club, the Masonic Order, and the B. P. O. E. He is known as a close student of the law and a painstaking, cautious attorney, and from the first, has met with excellent success in the local courts.
WALTER ENGLISH. In the death of the late Walter English, Columbus lost one of its representative citizens. His career was a busy and useful one, and although he devoted his attention primarily to his special business interests, he never allowed the pursuits of business to warp his kindly nature, but preserved his faculties and the warmth of his heart for the broadening and helpful influences of human life, being to the end a kindly, genial friend and gentleman whom it was an honor to know and a pleasure to meet. Through the years of his residence in this locality he was ever true to every trust reposed in him, whether of a public or private nature, and his reputation in a business way was unassailable He com- manded the respect of all by his upright life and enjoyed to a notable degree the absolute con- fidence and esteem of all who knew him.
Walter English was a native and lifelong resident of Columbus, his birth having oc- curred August 3, 1870, and his death January 3, 1920. His parents, Lorenzo and Mary (Keane) English, both of whom are deceased, represented old pioneer families of Columbus, the former having at one time served as mayor of this city. Walter English received his educational training in the public schools of Columbus, graduating from the Central High School with the class of 1889. Immediately thereafter he entered the employ of the Ohio National Bank as messenger hoy, and thus became identified with a business which com- manded his faithful service for thirty years, during which period he became a well-known and influential member of the banking coterie of this city, holding, at the time of his death, the responsible position of cashier of the Citizens Trust and Savings Bank. He had been con- nected with this bank for seventeen years, eleven years as cashier. He was devoted to the banking business, for he believed in it and loved it, and threw himself into his work with a wholehearted and conscientious devotion that impressed all who were acquainted with him and his work. He was held in high repute among business men, his advice and counsel being frequently sought in matters of great moment. He had a host of friends, for he possessed to a remarkable degree those qualities of character which bound men to him. And yet, he was not what is generally known as a publie man, for he was naturally of a retiring disposition, never putting himself into the limelight, but satisfied to simply do his work and do it well. A great lover of home life, there he found his keenest enjoyment, and his hospitality always included a large circle of warm and admiring friends.
Politieally, Mr. English was nominally a Republican, though he reserved the right to vote independently according to the dictatates of his judgment. Fraternally, he was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons and the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, as well as the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Socially, he was a member
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of the Columbus, Athletic and Country Clubs. In the welfare, prosperity and progress of Columbus Mr. English was deeply interested, and as an active member of the Chamber of Com- merce he was an efficient factor in many of the movements for the advancement of the city's welfare. His religious affiliation was with the first Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was a member of the board of trustees.
October 5, 1898, Mr. English was married to Ada L. Phaler, daughter of Charles and Hester (Clouser) Phaler, one of the prominent old families of Columbus. Mr. Phaler is still a resident of Columbus, his wife being deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. English were born the following children: Walter, jr., now a senior student in the East High School, Colum- bus; Hester, aged thirteen years, and Ada Louise, aged five.
In his relations with his fellow men Mr. English was conseientious, gentlemanly, eonsid- erate and courteous, and the qualities of keen discrimination, sound judgment and executive ability entered very largely into his make-up, being contributing elements to the sueeess which crowned his life work.
GEORGE KIRK FOSTER. The late George Kirk Foster was a citizen of Columbus for over half a century and for half of that period was identified with the business and civie life of the community, and, while by nature and disposition, a quiet and unostentatious man, never seeking publie office or undue prominence, he was possessed of the qualities that go to make up the good citizen, congenial friend, devoted husband, and fond father.
Mr. Foster was a native of Ohio, born at Lancaster, Fairfield county, February 14, 1853. His father, Samuel G. Foster, was a civil engineer by profession and became one of the large contractors of Central Ohio, having participated in the building of railroads, canals, bridges and other publie works. He died in 1861. The mother of our subject was Mary (Kirk) Foster, who lived to a ripe old age, dying in 1911.
George Kirk Foster was an infant when his parents removed to Columbus and it was in this eity that he acquired his education. Like many another boy, he preferred work to school, and so, after attending the public schools and taking a commercial college course, he began his aetive business eareer. But what he learned from school text books was but the founda- tion of the large fund of practical knowlege he acquired in the great school of experience. The active business career of George K. Foster was along the line of handling real estate, buying, selling, and renting, in all of which he was successful, and in more ways than one his devoted wife contributed to his success by her aid, wise counsel and adviec.
Mr. Foster was possessed of many rare traits of character. He was fond of out door life and games and had a keen love for animals, especially fine horses, of which he was a splendid judge. His recreation to a great extent, was found in driving his horses and in giving them his personal care and attention. He was an independent Republican, but never held or sought public office. Yet he was a good citizen and took an interest in public affairs and always stood ready and willing to discharge to the best of his ability the full duties of eiti- zenship, he being especially interested in the cause of education and in church affairs, being a consistent member of the Third Avenue M. E. Church, of which his wife was and is a mem- ber. His kind and genial nature won for him a wide circle of friends and his death, which occurred May 23, 1916, was sincerely mourned by all those who were fortunate to have held his friendship.
Mr. Foster was united in marriage February 4, 1878, with Emma Greul, who was born at Lancaster, Ohio, but was reared at Zanesville, Ohio, in which latter city they were mar- ried. Mrs. Foster's parents, J. F. and Eva Barbara (Wetzel) Greul, came to America when young and were married at Lancaster. Her father was a tanner by trade and built and operated a tannery at Zanesville, where he and his wife died.
Mr. and Mrs. Foster became the parents of one son, whose untimely death cut short a most promising career and left a void in the family home which was never again filled.
George Greul Foster, son of George K. and Emma (Greul) Foster, was born in Colum- bus July 1, 1879, and died October 12, 1900. He attended the city schools and after finish- ing the high school course, entered Ohio State University. His ambition and, indeed, his qualifications, were for the legal profession, but when he left the city schools he was under the required age for entrance into law school, so he took a two years' course in pharmacy in the Ohio State University and then enrolled as a student at the Law College, O. S. U., as a member of the class of 1902, but death overtook him before graduating. He was an apt,
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industrious and ambitions student and those in a position to know, predict that had he been spared for his career he would have become a brilliant lawyer and a very useful citizen, as he gave every evidence of possessing rare attainments and talent, together with a most charming personality. He was conspicuous in college for his zeal, not alone in his studies, but in the college life, of which he was a vital and popular force. He held the rank of first lieutenant in the cadets, the college military organization, was a prominent member of the Dramatic Club and his services were always in demand in committee work, in all of which activities he took a keen interest. His untimely death was sincerely mourned by the student body, espe- cially by his class mates and intimates and his funeral was attended by large numbers of the students and young friends outside the college. Beautiful floral offerings were sent by the cadets and Sigma Nu fraternity, the arrangements for the funeral having been in charge of the military organization.
At a meeting of the students of the second-year law class, of Ohio State University, called for the purpose of taking appropriate action on the death of their fellow student, George G. Foster, the following memorial was adopted:
"George G. Foster, our beloved class-mate, having been removed by death, we desire to express our deep sorrow and regret, our esteem for his staunch character and ability, our appreciation for his lovable disposition and our sympathy for his stricken family and rela- tives in their sudden and terrible affliction.
"We feel that we have lost one of our most valued, progressive and promising fellow- students, and we who have enjoyed his personal friendship and confidence are in his death truly bereaved; therefore be it
"Resolved, That a copy of the proceedings of this meeting he sent by the committee to the family of the deceased and that another copy thereof be published in the city news- papers."
We quote in part from an article in The Lantern, the Ohio State University Student Jour- nal, in the issue of October 17, 1900, as follows :
"The University is called upon to monrn the death of one of her brightest and most popular members. Just in the bright morning of a promising day he left us 'while yet in love with life and raptured with the world he passed into silence and pathetie dust.' He had not yet seen life's darker, fiercer side; but grown weary from the first flush which bright, complete, deserving victories bring, he took for a pillow the cool, white breast of hope and fell into that speechless reverie from which the mournful eries of all the aching hearts he left can never awake hin.
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